Jan 2, 2026

Overheard


Try not to worry about all those giant AI data centers being built in depressed rural communities.

We can count on the locals to fight back by breaking into them and stealing all the copper.

Today's Belle

If Trump has made America great and powerful and respected, then Putin wouldn't be putting nukes in Belarus.


Guilty AF

I guess my question has to do with Ex Post Facto. Is Trump "covered" by the SCOTUS Immunity Decision for actions he took before the decision was handed down?

On July 1, 2024, the Court ruled in a 6–3 decision that presidents have absolute immunity for acts committed as president within their core constitutional purview, at least presumptive immunity for official acts within the outer perimeter of their official responsibility, and no immunity for unofficial acts.

Unfortunately, I think the default on that one is "yes".

So we'll be heading back to SmarmSpace® to argue it out all over again - ie: when Trump incited the Jan6 mob, was he acting as President Trump, or as Candidate Trump?


Jan 1, 2026

Today's Belle

Those cities were never in danger, except in the manipulative brain of Donald Trump, and the totally propaganda-addled brains of the MAGA rubes who love to fantasize about the greatness of their cult hero.


Trivia


The guy who fucked up Trump's star in 2016 ...


... showed up to bail out the guy
who fucked up Trump's star in 2020

Transparently Corrupt

Billionaires and Centimillionaires are parasites. They are the only reason they exist in the first place. And there's no way for any sentient being to justify any of it.

if we tax the shit out of them now,
we won't have to eat them later


Today's Hopium

My default position is that I don't wish for, or celebrate, the destruction of anyone. That said, I've been known to make exceptions.

And I'm not a praying man, but -
Oh, fake lord, we beseech thee.  Hear us now in the hour of our most desperate need. Please let this be the year of The Big Beautiful Obituary.
Amen


Dec 31, 2025

Mr Smith Goes To The Hill


Read: Jack Smith deposition transcript

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Wednesday released the transcript of the panel’s deposition with former special counsel Jack Smith concerning his team’s investigations and prosecutions of President Trump.

Earlier this month, Smith’s attorneys sent a letter to Jordan requesting that his closed-door deposition be made public. In the testimony, Smith defended his decision to bring charges against Trump for attempting to overturn the 2020 election.




A Thought


Names and places and uniforms change,
but the story of cruelty and abuse doesn't.

Today's Belle

The holiday season is supposed to bring out the charitability in us - when the better angels of our nature tug at our hearts - that kinda stuff.

So what does Trump do? He tells the world the US is canceling its membership in the Good Neighbor Club.

The economies of Saudi Arabia and UAE are about 3% the size of ours, but their contribution to the UN's humanitarian effort is about 75% of ours.

Trump is telling the world that we're going to cede our role as a world leader to countries led by the kind of guy who suckers a journalist into a death trap, murders him, and then cuts him into small pieces to hide the crime.

Donald Trump is a surrender monkey.