One Down Three To Go!

 One down and three to go. Viktor Orban, the 16-year leader of Hungary and CPAC hero, has gone down hard in Hungarian elections. The Hungarian people had enough of his fascist shit, racism, tax cuts for wealthy Hungarians, and general douchebaggery and not only sent him on his way but have the opposition a super majority in the Hungarian Parliament to undo all the garbage he's done like control of the media, universities and repression of protest. Sound familiar? The Hungarians have said no more. Will Americans do the same and cut Trump's nuts off in November? 

Eric Swalwell. Congressman from California and candidate for Governor of California.....oh wait, not anymore. Swalwell was on his way to being the Democratic nominee and probable successor to Gavin Newsom when all of a sudden, out of the blue, he was accused of all sorts of crimes against women. Sexual harassment, rape and sending dick pics. Jesus H Christ, the timing is weird and right out of the Roger Stone playbook but as they say, where's there's smoke there's fire, unless of course you are a Maga Republican then they make you President. But this isn't about what about Tony Gonzales (R-Tx), Cory Mills (R-Fl) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fl) allegedly did. It's about Swalwell. If these charges are true, get rid of him. He's already dropped his bid for Governor and if ex stripper Rep Anna Luna or Meyerhoffer or whatever her name is has her way, they'll thrown him out of Congress. If he did this shit, by all means get rid of him. And also Mills and Gonzales. I'm not holding my breath on those two.

 

JD Vance is such a kiss of death. He "killed" Pope Francis, he failed to keep the thumb breaker Orban in power and totally shit the bed on the Iranian "negotiations. Thus, we have a new Pope, same as the last Pope, a brand-new EU to deal with and a blockaded Strait Of Hormuz causing market turmoil and oil companies rolling in dough. This guy is a human natural disaster. Like his master, everything he touches dies. Vance should go to Israel in October and take Netanyahu out also. In fact, send him to my state of Nebraska to take out Governor Jimbo Pillen, Senator Pete Ricketts and dullard congressional candidate from Nebraska 02, Brinker Harding, Send J D everyplace and assure Hungary happens here and a super majority passes acts to blow up the ballroom and that stupid Arc D Trump not to mention taking his filthy name off the Kennedy Center and the Peace Council. 

Finally, Jesus Christ posted on Truth Social (which is neither by the way) ....wait what, it was Trump who portrayed himself as Jesus healing a guy who looks like George W Bush or perhaps Epstein. Who knows with this whacko? Trump deleted it after questions were asked and he claimed to be a RedCross doctor......Excuse me while I guffaw loudly.

Pope Leo V Donald Trump!

 I grew up Catholic. I did my time. But sometime after reaching the age of reason, I put in my retirement papers. I grew up with Popes like Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict the Hitler youth and that first John Paul the first, who God only knows what happened to him when after smiling too much and saying the word "reform" suddenly died of a heart attack after a month in office. But then came Francis the educated Jesuit and I was thrilled that a real Catholic was in charge. Now we have Leo, the Chicago native and Sox fan, who seems to be a common-sense tough Chicago guy.

The Midwest, rural America, has a different kind of Catholic. A conservative Catholic with an excuse to be anti-poor, pro-life, anti-woman, pro death penalty, pro wealth and generally a person who'd have hollered that Jesus was a libtard. These types drove me out, and with Popes who seemed to be more about protecting pedophiles and maintaining the church's wealth, I was even more out. Some of the best people I've known have been priests, and also some of the worst people I've known have been priests. I admire them, I really do. But in protecting the bad apples, like cops do, the organization was kind of a racketeering wet dream. Christ there were times when I wanted the church indicted under RICO statutes. 

But now there's Pope Leo. And Pope Leo is in a bum fight with the worst bum America has ever seen, Donald Trump. Trump, thru his crusader Sec of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and his so-called diplomatic corps, a band of bullies intent on world domination, allegedly called in the Vatican diplomats, told them to get onboard with the Iran War or there was military action they could take. Ya know the old "It'd be a shame if anything happened to your business' threat. The Avignon Papacy was mentioned, a 14th century event that included the French monarchy taking control of the Vatican because they didn't like what they were saying. Just another veiled threat from Trump's goons.

Pope Leo turned down the invitation to attend the USA's 250th birthday due to foreign policy disagreements and the fact Trump is a terrible human being. The Pope, again from Chicago, isn't afraid of Trump and his thugs. In fact, Leo could take Trump down in about 5 seconds (but then who couldn't), Leo instead will hang out with African refugees on July 4th. Cuz he's the Pope and not some charlatan like Paula White or Franklin Graham equating Trump to Jesus.

The Pentagon and other Trump sycophants deny the Mafia type threats to the Pope and the Vatican. Of course they do, but who believes them since this putrid regime hasn't told the truth like ever. Now they've threatened to send J D Vance into battle, like the Pope likes that guy. Unconfirmed reports say the Pope has no problem excommunicating the phony Vance (which would really screw up his upcoming book about converting). Vance is one of those convert Catholics who think because they took a class, know more than the Pope. These types are the worst. Converts are generally unhappy Protestants who think the Protestants acceptance of gays and trans and other liberal issues is a deal killer and want to join an organization rooted in the past. They want order and the way it was 500 years ago. No broads, no minorities, just wealthy white men dominating society like "Gawd" intended.

So go ahead JD. Talk your talk. Walk your walk. Take time out from endorsing Hungarian thumb breakers and take on the Pope. You will lose. 

I have thought of returning to the church because of Francis and Leo. But being in the Midwest where the Catholics are still awful, that's not happening. Cultural Catholic yes. Church attending Catholic absolutely not.

Go Pope Go! And I'm sorry to use that antiquated Cubs chant but in this case it's justified. This fight is lopsided both intellectually and morally. Trump and his kiss asses are psychotics, the Pope is the Pope. I'd rather hang with African refugees on July 4th than a gang of jingoistic jag offs like Trump too.

In the words of Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"In the end, only the truth will survive"

Goddam right

Sleepy Don!

Just let Gramps sleep. He cannot fuck up the world when the Adderall wears off and he falls asleep.

Donnie went to the Supreme Court yesterday to listen to arguments about birthright citizenship. Donnie doesn't like birthright citizenship because even though 4 of his 5 children (that we know of) are birthright citizens, he doesn't like blacks or browns or Asians coming here and fucking up his white supremacist views on what a country should look like. White. But after about 90 minutes of Trump sitting in the front row listening to oral arguments, which must have bored the shit out of him since there were no pictures, he got up and left. Probably much to the relief of the rest of the room smelling filthy diapers. Trump left not only because of his attention deficit disorder and the fact people saw his eyes close numerous times, but because the conservative judges were ripping his arguments apart. I'm surprised John Roberts didn't bang his gavel and say Get the Fuck Out with That Shit.

Pam Bondi is gone. Trump fired her today because she wasn't corrupt enough for him. She did everything he told her to do, got into Mean Girls fights with Congress, famously screamed that the Dow being over "50,000 dollars" and that excuses anything she did. Covering up the Epstein Files, going from they're all on my desk to saying they were all released to we are not releasing any more, Bondi was self-destructing by the day. She reportedly refused to indict California Congressman Eric Swalwell on charges that were debunked years ago by a Republican Congress about an alleged Chinese spy and sleeping together. We know Trump doesn't care about making his legal appointees look foolish with his stupid vendettas and bogus indictments. So, Bondi is history. Good riddance.

That Trump speech last night. Holy shit but what the fuck was that? Trump rambled on about everything and bragging about things that anybody not blind and stupid would laugh at. No inflation, no unemployment, low gas prices, record stock markets, grocery prices way down, you know all the greatest hits. Things couldn't be more 180 than what this delusional dunce thinks. But Trump continues to say it. He also threatened to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age, which has been a dumb thing to say by tough guys for 100 years. I know they show Trump a condensed view of the Iran War where they entertain him daily with ,shots of shit blowing up. He, like a child, thinks its cool because he's dumb.

Finally, Pete Hegseth, a truly stupid drunk. With his frat boy exuberance, his twisting of religion into a sadistic cult, his tough guy talk, his racism and his inability to grow the fuck up, Hegseth is everything the world hates about Americans. An Obnoxious blowhard with a drinking problem and a tendency to treat women like his personal "comfort woman". Hegseth is a true scumbag of a human.

Jesus H Christ were so fucked. 

Ballroom Blitz!

 Theres so much going on on a daily basis it is exhausting to keep up. But let's try.

The War on Iran. Killing schoolgirls, killing innocents, blowing shit up to the delight of Secretary of Bro Pete Hegseth and our toddler President. Killing 14 Americans so far with hundreds in the infirmary fighting for their lives, an aircraft carrier worth billions of your dollars being disabled for 2 years because of dryer lint (yeah sure), a President who so easily gets distracted when asked about the war he starts babbling about a fucking ballroom. A President who seems willing to lose a war he started just to get his ballroom. The "war" is just that. A fucking WAR where a Christian tatted toxic scumbag like Hegseth gets off on showing people dying with a big explosion. Woo Hoo he blowed that shit up Woo hoo!

The Donald J Trump Presidential Lyebaree will be in Miami. Of course, Trump will never live to see the groundbreaking, but he wants it to be less books and more hotel rooms where he can further grift off of the Maga dunces. Hey, why not a casino and a strip club as long as you are going there. It's well-known Trump's interest in books is even less than his interest in dismantling the Constitution so this libarry will be a joke. A giant gold statue of the man himself for Magas to kneel in front of. The Trump equivalent of the wailing wall. This grifter will never stop.

Today the soothing RFK like voice of John Sauer is arguing in front of SCOTUS regarding the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th amendment. He doesn't like that. Rather, his mob boss doesn't like it. To attempt to intimidate his appointed justices, Trump has gone to the court to sit there like Michael Corleone with Frank Pentangeli's brother. But the only hope there is a zero percent change Trump stays awake cuz there's no pictures shown the entire hearing. The justices, so far, seem to be not a fan of this case but with this bunch who knows. Anything short of a 9-0 GTFO decision would be problematic.

Finally, in memory of Cricket, we can all say to Kristi Noem, watch Too Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar! This will explain your husband, that you never ever knew was dressing up as a woman, The fact that the hacked emails of Dancing Kash Patel were part of the reason we found this out would suggest that Noems partner's lifestyle was an inside joke among Trump appointees all along. It would suggest that Noem was fired because this was about to come out so to speak. I don't care if Bryon Noem likes fetishes and employs sex workers online (including the undocumented sex worker who blew this open) but up until now, MAGAts hate that shit. Now all of a sudden, it's just a tactic to destroy Noem, who has already done that on her own. The hypocrisy is flaming here. Perhaps Cricket saw this happening and Noem took him and the goat out to the gravel pit to keep em quiet.

For Cricket and the Goat, karma bitch.

Oscar Time!

 It's Oscar time again. Movies Movies Movies. The awards will be given out to people who will blather on about shit nobody cares about, to people like the guy or gal who snipped the film together and a whole new category copying the SAG awards where the entire cast of said movie gets one. Now I see lots of movies every year either in theaters or on the streaming services, but this year for the first time I will be short in seeing all 10 nominees. The Secret Agent has eluded me but here are my favorite 10 for 2025.

10) Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

It was a fitting goodbye to the tremendous series about a family of rich eccentrics living in a castle in England. It was like saying bye bye to family.

9) A House of Dynamite

Kathryn Bigelow is a master of directing white knuckle thrillers like Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty. This thriller involves a rogue nuke heading for Chicago and how various characters in government react to stop it or deal with 10 million deaths. Please dont wait 7 more years for another movie, Kathryn.

8) The Life of Chuck

A story told in reverse. The world is ending and we back up to learn why. A guy named Chuck has the whole world's fate in his hands and when he dies so do we. It sounds depressing but it is not. The story gets more positive as it goes backwards. This isn't for everybody but it was for me.

7) Frankenstein

Guillermo Del Toro is one weird dude. But so am I. His movies are bizarre, thought provoking and great storytelling. This interpretation of Frankenstein is unique and fascinating. It is basically a story of fathers and sons.

6) Train Dreams

The story of a man's life in the early to mid 1900's. It's about a kind of loner who busts his ass through working the railroad and the lumber industry. The man finds happiness with a wife and family and then it goes wrong. The movie is heartbreaking yet inspiring. It shows hope keeps us alive.

5) Hamnet

This movie about Shakespeare and how he came up with Hamlet probably made me feel emotions more than any movie of the year. Jessie Buckley will win the award in maybe the only slam dunk of the night. Her portrayal of a grieving mother is top notch. Hamnet is an exercise in emotions.

4) Weapons

An entire classroom of kids has disappeared. Director Zach Cregger made the fantastic Barbarian, a very unique horror picture. Weapons is even better. Led by Josh Brolin as a father bent on finding out what happened to his son, Julia Garner as the teacher everyone blames for the disappearance and the Oscar worthy Amy Madigan as the creepy Aunt Gladys. I won't spoil it, but the last 5 minutes of this movie are the best 5 minutes of any movie this year. Funny AND horrifying.

3) Sentimental Value

The story of a neglectful father and his two estranged daughters. Stellan Skarsgard as the famous director Gustav, Renate Reinsve as daughter Nora, and Inga Lilleas as Agnes, the less pissed off daughter. When Gustav wants to make a swan song film about his mother who was tortured by the Nazis. Nora is an actress and refuses to do the movie out of spite. Bring in Elle Fanning as an American actress willing to do the movie. She's not right for it and leaves leaving Nora as the only possibility. This flick has an Oscar nomination for every actor in this. I found it moving and yet a joy.

2) Sinners

Michael B Jordan and Ryan Coogler have teamed up before. Fruitvale Station is a must see, But Sinners is a whole new level. Jordan plays twins, Smoke and Stack. They are opening a juke joint in 1932 Mississippi after being Al Capone mobsters for years in Chicago. The joint is hoppin. They will make lots of cash. But then, along comes a vampire and all hell breaks loose. The movie is about black entrepreneurs for an hour, black joy in 1932, and then the last hour is pure horror when the blood suckers show up (the fact the main vampire is white and exploitive is not lost on the audience). This film is one unique experience.

1) One Battle After Another

It can be argued that Paul Thomas Anderson is the best director out there. From Boogie Nights to There Will Be Blood to One Battle this guy produces quality regularly. Leonardo Di Caprio is a washed-up revolutionary named Bob. Hiding out for years, being pursued by Sean Penn as Col Lockjaw, who needs to know if Bob's daughter is actually his so he can then kill her to keep his secret romance with Teyana Taylor (Bobs wife) from disturbing his entrance into a white supremacist exclusive club. This thing is all over the board with side stories about freeing immigrants from detention centers, robbing banks and Lockjaw's obsession with finding Willa, his mixed-race child (maybe). Chase Infiniti as Willa stands out in an acting debut. Benicio Del Toro shines for the 10 minutes he is in it and Teyona Taylor as the angry black revolutionary also shines. Meanwhile, Leonardo Di Caprio, like a great point guard, is the glue. This is the best movie I saw in 2025.

Other flicks I liked include

Nonnas is the Vince Vaughn Love letter to grandmothers and their cooking

All The Empty Rooms is a documentary about school shooting victims

Nuremberg is a warning about what should never happen again yet does

My Mom Jayne is Mariska Hargitay's attempt to understand her mother, Jayne Mansfield  

Good Boy is a horror flick from a dog's perspective. Trust me it works. The dog Indy deserves an Oscar

Alto Knights, Thunderbolts, Sovereign, The Tank and Blue Moon also were great experiences.

Now the worst movies of 2025

Love Hurts may be the worst movie EVER with two Oscar winners. It is terrible.

 Megyn 2.0 is trash much like Exorcist 2. A terrible sequel to a good movie.

Final Destination Bloodlines sucks your life out of you more so than the story itself.

Honey Don't is horrible. The attempt to be a Coen Bros movie fails miserably.

And finally, a praised movie that I hated.

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You had good performances, but the goddamned story was boring and pointless. It couldn't end fast enough.

That's it. Onward to the awards.

The Iran War!

 Holy shit, this is bad. Under the orders of Trump's handlers, Bibi Netanyahu, Mike Huckabee, Pete Hegseth and the rest of the nuts who advise him, the attack on Iran, aka Operation Epstein Files, was launched. Now the vast majority of these warmongering Christian Nationalists, all trying to bring about Jack and the Beanstalk, no I mean the Rapture or Armageddon are all in on death and destruction. Jebus, please come back. This insanity is what troubles the United States since about 1783 when the first "Christian" decided killing all the folks already here was a spiffy idea by jove! Since those dark days it's only gotten worse since about 1981 when the "amiable dunce" Ronnie Reagan embraced the likes of Jerry Falwell and the rest of the "Christian" right. The anti-Jesus crowd. The ones who think Jesus was a white man with blue eyes who wanted white supremacy and fuck the poor as policy. Insanity spreads quickly as we have all found out.

Trump, fresh off Epstein videos allegedly showing him with minors, listened to the neo cons who convinced him that Iran was going to kill him and to get them first. Now the neo cons knew damn well this was bullshit but appealing to the Narcissist In Chief about it being about HIM allowed them to get their way. Much as the previous Dimwit in Chief kowtowed to the Cheney Bot and attacked Iraq the neo cons knew who to manipulate. Boom Boom!! How cool to middle aged adolescents like Pete Hegseth and the Bros. Hegseth, who seems like he's about to bust a nut every time he talks about war and booms and death from above, is about as bad a cabinet member as has ever existed. The weekend third banana with the Crusader tats is a danger to humanity. He may actually believe that Rapture shit. But to be fair, he's usually drunk.

The war seems like it's going great per our current state run TV that decries the MSM even mentioning American deaths as "making Trump look bad'. Well excuse me, dead Americans may be inconvenient to the "all is fine" crap, but it's reality. But we know, reality doesn't exist in this rogue regime. Reality is the opposite of reality. Alternative facts. Nah, it's just lies.

Whoops! The Americans bombed a school, a girl's school in Tehran to be precise, and killed 170 plus. Now it may have been an error, but the "error" was made worse when 40 minutes later, with first responders and parents present looking for their children, Hegseth sent in the old double tap. Another missile hit the school, killing more. Then came the propaganda. It was Iran, it was Israel, it was Martians not us. We the good guys, fellas! Israel immediately threw Trump under the tank saying hey not us dude. Yeah we know. We have the typical right-wing crazies out there. John Bolton sez hey its the kids fault for going to a school next to a military base. The very handsy closet case, Matt Schlapp, actually suggested the girls were better off dead rather than wearing a burka. Well shit Matt, I think you'd be better off not grabbing other men's junk. These people are insufferable.

Sinking an Iranian ship? Participating with India in some sort of ceremony that included the United States. In India. Then sailing back to Iran, an American sub sank it. It was unarmed. Ok that's not cool. The sub followed protocol and rescued as many sailors as they could, right? Oh hell no. They took off and let them drown. Christ, that's two war crimes at once. Why did we do that? Per the Maniac in Chief, it was more "fun" to sink it than capture it. Himmler got nuthin on this guy.

So that's what we have. War crimes, burning oil fields, raining oil, environmental disasters, bombing freshwater facilities, dead Americans, stranded Americans, dead Iranian children, dead Iranian sailors, a raging Sec of Defense, a dimbulb President, a soulless Sec of State, a Joint Chiefs head with a penchant for just following orders, double taps, and an oil crisis costing Americans a fortune. Sounds great. This what you voted for? Yeah of course it is because you voted for this criminal pedo because you didn't like a black woman's laugh (or just the black part). 

What's it all mean? It means after this horrid regime is gone, the Hague awaits. And it waits for anyone participating in this monstrosity. Iranian mullahs or POTUSES. You are all on notice. You cannot avoid what's coming. 

What it also means is this. The Epstein files aren't going away. Trump is not only a pedo, but he's also a war criminal. And that's fine by MAGA, who worship at the feet of this scumbag.

Sorry, but the rapture and Armageddon are fantasy. It's as real as The Eye of Sauron, which is Israel and us. 

Mr. Frodo, save us.

Cricket's Revenge!!

Cricket's revenge is 75% complete. Kristi Noem, who took Cricket, at 14 months, to a gravel pit and shot him in the face and then shot a goat in the face, has been on thin ice as DHS commandant for a long time is gone. The Fuehrer had enough of her grandstanding, cosplay, her funneling of money into her friend's bank accounts along with her own and screwing an underling. That's HIS fucking job. Don't take attention away from Fat Nixon. 

Noem has been a disaster from Day One. Her unleashing of untrained thugs into cities to beat up and even kill Americans who dared question their lack of skills was bad enough but the constant ads to promote her own ego was the straw. There's only one ego that matters here, Icarus Noem. 

Noem bought airplanes with bedrooms, claimed the planes were for deportations, spent $220 million on herself in ads with huge cowboy hats, flak jackets, camel riding, horse riding on the beach, plumbers' overalls, Top Gun outfits, and hair extensions. She also lived on a military base free of charge, in a general's house after he was thrown out, and was allegedly canoodling with a pardoned convict named Corey Lewandowski, a married pardoned felon. Noem is married also (it was nice for the House and Senate committees to provide Mr. Noem with a cuck chair). 

Noem brought this on herself with her absolute lack of self-awareness. She thought she WAS the DHS, After a mediocre stint as Governor of South Dakota, that R after her name ya know, Noem was considered a real Veep candidate because Der Fuehrer only hires the worst people. But then Noem wrote a book and actually thought shooting Cricket and the goat was worthy of telling because she thought that made her "tough". No Guv Extensions, that makes you a psycho puppy killer in 90% of Americans minds. The one thing about Magats everyone can like is they like dogs too. That's about it.

So, Kristi not only blew up her Veep chances (she lost out to a dullard named J D Vance) but she's now blown up her DHS reign of error because she can't stop lying under oath and taking attention away from the Orange Mussolini. Good luck with that Shield of American Bullshit or whatever she's going to be doing in between indictments.

Her successor? One Markwayne Mullin, a Senator from Oklahoma (What the fuck Okies?). Mullin is a tough guy wannabe. He has cauliflower ears from rolling around in a ring with other guys and sold a plumbing business for millions freeing up his time to con the people of Oklahoma into electing him to the House and then the Senate. Mulin was famously hiding from his constituents on Jan 6, and on one occasion threatened to fight a witness at a committee hearing. His appointment does not include any kind of hope for the better. Mullin was always in contention for Dumbest Man in the US Senate with Tommy Tuberville. Tuberville always won but it was close. Mullin moves on to run ICE. 

Wonderful, now ICE will be MMAing American citizens in a cosplay to be Greg Bovino. Mullin is just another short man being pissed at his Creator for making him that way and by gawd he's going to exact his revenge. The only good thing about Mullin is at least, as far as we know, never shot a puppy.

"Only the best people" is still funny as hell.