Talos_XLIV

The lengthy Congressional record of this might be honestly called the "Iliad" (or maybe the "Beowulf") of crime and corruption.

What was the original "price tag" from the G.W. Bush administration for the cost of the Iraq War. Wasn't it something like $700 million?

Final costs for major armed conflict (W-A-R-S) are always at least a factor of 4x to 5x the initial rosy estimates.

Unless he TACOs, Iran's going to be $$$$$.

Good one. Excellent shot, sir.

This is a very, very cool LQA. I'm tempted . . . sorely tempted.

Nitpicky, I know, but I'd like to point out to the artist that this cat doesn't need to carry a wakizashi in its mouth. He comes equipped with 10 shorter, OEM versions up front.

Perambulatory sociopathy wearing a stupid red trucker cap, orange pancake makeup, and squatting in the WH with access to the nuclear codes.

What a time to be alive!

Except elephants don’t take their iPhones with them

I guess the mummified corpse of stare decisis must be kept somewhere inside a janitor's closet within the bowels of the Arkansas Justice Building.

Stare decisis must not be carved-in-stone inviolate (or else we'd still be operating under Plessy v. Ferguson) but seems like a good idea in general.

I am sorry to read that you've been sick, Ms. Bower. It hadn't crossed my TL.

Get well soon and enjoy your movie rec list.

Worrying a lot less about what tomorrow, or the next week, or the next month is going to bring.

BREAKING:

The Justice Department just posted online three FBI interviews that had been missing from the massive trove of Epstein files initially released.

They're related to unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump.

DOC 1: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Look, I'm sure that we are prepared to counter any domestic terror threat, as long as it involves something in the general vicinity of whatever tractor pull Kash Patel's girlfriend is singing at.

Asawin Suebsaeng, 11:46 AM - Mar 5, 2026 "It'll still be the Stephen Miller DHS, who cares who the sock puppet is." ‪Talos_XLIV‬, 1:04 PM, Mar 5, 2026 "True, for now. But . . . "The defenestration of a thousand criminal minions begins with the first body out the window—regardless of how it happens."* –(Future) American Proverb *I'll take anything I can get, even if done for self-preservation purposes by the CIC (Criminal-in-Chief) himself."

"...incapable of processing any good news"

Not by a long shot. Don't get fooled by the replies you get or get tripped up by a recency/availability bias. I'm certain you don't get a statistically representative sample for any given post (much like the nonrepresentative nature of Amazon reviews).

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I'm glad I get this ;-)

BRING IT! Professor.

(Vin Scully voice): "Kerr winds up . . . and delivers a high 90s fastball up and in on the light-hitting SCOTUS batter who hits the dirt. He gets back up, dusts off, and attempts to dig back in. Not quite so close to the plate this time. Shades of Don Drysdale; message sent."

That's what I'm beginning to read now on his bio(s). Sounds like he suffered from a bit of "Conspiracy Brain", but IDK.

Seriously, I just cannot keep up with the firehose of sewage that keeps blasting out of the Epstein Files and Trump World in general.

Gotta love the routine redaction fails coming out of DOJ. Sometimes it's incompetence, but other times it seems intentional. In this case? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

WTF is Ed Epstein? (Now I've got to waste time going down a Google search rat hole.)

Wondering if they’re trying to cure leprosy.

Uh . . . WOOF! I guess? ;-)

Who writes the Bulwark article headlines? Give them a raise or at least a nice one-off bonus for this gem; it's gonna leave a mark.

Best wishes for a successful procedure, Nick. I hope to see a photo of that tattoo posted here someday in the near future.

William T., I see your ability to do a "good burn" has not diminished with time or lack of corporeal form. Keep up the good work making life hell for the (neo-)Confederates.

Disingenuously deployed "capable of" by Ticktin.

Discredited Texas bullshit artist and math illiterate Russell Ramsland, Jr. is still influencing the minds of likeminded idiots and math illiterates.

I wish someone would publicly shove this up Pete Ticktin's ass.
www.michigan.gov/sos/-/media/...

"Credulous commentators" is letting them off far too easily.

Fetterman is basically a reactionary now: there is no real effort to explain why Mullin - a buffoon who spent the week insisting we are not at war with Iran - is qualified. Trump nominated Mullin, and that’s good enough for him.

Largely irrelevant, but I wish there was a way to know/quantify how much his near-miss stroke impacted his thinking/personality/behavior. Maybe not much. Maybe a lot. Maybe in-between. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Regardless, the "reactionary" label certainly fits him at this point; it's a huge disappointment.

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This would be spectacular.

"Contempt"🎯

Thanks for posting this (I came here to do just that but see my effort would have been superfluous.)

@quoteinvestigator.com is just the bee's knees on this stuff. I refer to him regularly as an indispensable source on proper quote attribution. An Internet treasure.

I feel:
(1) good that I get this post, and
(2) bad that I get this post.