Wimpy MAGA Candidate for Michigan's Governor Seat Walks a Tightrope of Lies and Sleaze

Apples don't fall too far from their tree. So, all MAGA candidates for this November's midterms are in such a tizzy at having to defend the moron who endorsed them while not alienating their own MAGA voters.

MAGA congressman John James - what a vapid name; Yeah, my name is Peter Bob - is running for the governor's office of the state of Michigan which borders on, and has critical economic ties with, its Canadian neighbor. Because the dumb uncivilized bully running the Outhouse is constantly nagging and picking fights with the civilized Canadians, those ass-kissing MAGA loser candidates like John James, who has been endorsed by the demented old geezer, are having a hard time walking the tightrope of making rational arguments to defend their craziness to their voters. 

A Trump endorsement has in fact become the kiss of death. Most Trump-endorsed MAGA candidates have lost their republican primaries to equally moronic GOP candidates who were not endorsed by Trump. Evidently, the criminal waterbrain felon Trump could not endorse all of these imbecile assholes. How can two Trump sycophants, one endorsed and the other not endorsed, keep a straight face before their voters? They can't, and this is why they are performing a burlesque mental acrobatics show during their campaigns. Though endorsed by the Great Moron, James John has actually dared to call Trump "childish" for his self-instigated feud with Canada. Now that might cost him the endorsement AND less votes from the MAGA herd of morons.

Incidentally, Donald Dumb learned the nag trade from his Nagging Wall custodian friends, his Zionist handlers. The more you nag, the more you convince idiots that you are a victim of one thing or another. In Palestine, for example, the Zionist rapists of Palestine continuously claim to be the victims of their own Palestinian victims!! And the dumb Americans largely believe them.

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MAGA Candidate Blasts Trump’s ‘Childish’ Global Feud
Erkki Forster
Mon, August 31, 2026




MAGA congressman John James has pleaded for an end to Donald Trump's bonkers—and escalating—feud with Canada as the president's latest crusade becomes another headache for Republicans on the ballot.

James, a MAGA warrior who Trump, 80, has endorsed for governor in Michigan, likened Trump's trade war to a childish squabble while taking care not to directly knock the president during his appearance Sunday on CBS News' Face the Nation.

Trump, 80, dragged the U.S. into a spiraling trade war with the country's second-largest trading partner after negotiations collapsed earlier this month. He signed an executive order last week renaming Lake Ontario as "Lake America in an attempt to land a petty dig."

Asked about the trade war by Margaret Brennan, James stressed the "crucial" partnership between the U.S. and Canada and urged both sides to stop trading shots.

"We need the negotiators to go back to the table, stop acting like children, and negotiate a fair, mutually beneficial, reciprocal deal that will benefit the United States of America and the state of Michigan," the 45-year-old Michigan congressman said, before making his pitch: "As a governor, I will be able to work with the president, be able to work with the prime minister to make sure that we can do this."

James continued walking a fine line between criticizing the tariff tit-for-tat and staying on Trump's good side, claiming that "the status quo isn't working" and at one point taking a swipe at Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

[Obviously annoyed by the dumb asshole sitting next to him, or sniffing foul odors coming from the dumb asshole's diapers] Carney has declared that Canada will start hitting back with “dollar for dollar” counter-tariffs next month. / Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

"He should not be bullying Michigan because the negotiators can't come to a deal. We need to stop the bickering—" he said, before Brennan noted that Trump had initiated the tariff fight.

After a brief pause, James replied: "Well... well, you know what? I have kids, and I recognize that when you have people who are fighting, you just want people to fix it. And these are adults. The negotiators need to get back in the room and negotiate, and not leave until they have a deal."

Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on approximately $20 billion in Canadian goods after negotiations collapsed, prompting Canada to respond with tariffs on more than 700 American products.

Canada's counter-tariffs appear to target products made in hotly contested Republican-held congressional districts that will help determine which party controls Congress after November's midterm elections, The Wall Street Journal reported.

James, who is [thankfully] trailing his Democratic opponent Jocelyn Benson in polls, came under fire in April after he was caught lounging in Turks and Caicos as Washington remained locked in the partial government shutdown.

James' attempt to contain the fallout from the vacation backfired when a photo he posted to prove he had returned to Michigan turned out to be old. [James learned to lie from his veteran liar boss Trump]

Israeli Zionist Palantir is Big Brother Watching You Right Here in America

America Watch out. Your Zionist prison in America is growing with Zionist-Israeli-tied company, Palantir, turning its hundreds of thousands of Flock cameras on every aspect of your lives and your moves - streets, parks, playgrounds, highways, pools, etc.

Like all Zionist-led entities in the US, Palantir blends well into the American fabric such that its insidious foreign identity goes unknown to most Americans. While Palantir is on the surface an "American" technology firm headquartered in Denver, Colorado, its Board of Directors consist of Zionist individuals who have publicly affirmed they are operating on behalf of Israel.

Karp, Thiel, Schiff, Cohen, Friedman, Woersching... are the last names of the members of Board of Directors of the company. They are all Zionists, and they have placed their Flock cameras on every nook and cranny of your daily lives. Look at the map below: Palantir's cameras are literally everywhere collecting personal data on average Americans and, given the company's Zionist ideology and subservience to Israel, sharing these data with Netanyahu's barbaric regime in the Zionist colony in Palestine. And there are still people who reject the notion that Zionists steer US policy in favor of Israel.

The company has not shied away from publicly revealing its deep operational and ideological ties to Israel. In January 2024, Palantir entered into a strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense to provide Artificial Intelligence platforms for war-related missions, including the genocide and ethnic cleansing war on Palestine in Gaza and the West Bank.

Palantir's leadership, CEO Alex Karp and co-founder Peter Thiel, has publicly expressed its strong support for Israel, with Karp stating the company is "proud" to support Israel "in every way we can." And this is evidenced in the company's provision of advanced analytical and AI tools to Israeli military and intelligence agencies. The relationship of Palantir with the Zionist regime is so incestuous that the company often holds its board meetings in Tel Aviv. 

Not only are Americans incensed at having this Zionist organization monitoring and spying their everyday lives, they are also demanding that investors divest their interests in Palantir because it is an accomplice to, and is enabling, war crimes and genocide in Palestine.

Americans made a huge fuss about Tik Tok's allegiance to the Chinese Communist regime, with Trump threatening to ban it in the US if the company does not sell its US subsidiary to an American entity. The threat consisted in the fact that Tik Tok could share the data it collects on Americans with the Chinese government.

Shouldn't both the US government and people reject Palantir because of its servitude to the barbarian Zionist regime in Palestine? 

For more on Palantir's threat to American liberties, see:

https://www.aclu.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out
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40,000 Flock cameras tied to Palantir went up in the US in 3 months, some near playgrounds and pools
Vivian Tran
Sun, August 30, 2026


Photo Credit: Reddit

The spread of street-side surveillance technology is striking a nerve across the U.S., especially when cameras show up near places where families expect to feel safe and relaxed, such as playgrounds and public pools, [and especially when the company making those cameras is a right-wing Zionist surveillance company disguised as an American company]. 

A Reddit discussion brought that frustration into focus, centered on claims that tens of thousands of Flock cameras were added over a three-month period and tied to Palantir data centers.

Here's what to know

In a widely shared Reddit thread, the original poster wrote, "40k/131k new Flock cameras in 3 months, they connect to Palantir data centers some are pointed at playgrounds or public pools they advise police on how to react to flagged incidents & log every person ever recorded into a facial recognition database with files of who was ever detected anytime."


Photo Credit: Reddit



Photo Credit: Reddit

One commenter wrote, "It's actually impressive, in a disgusting sort of way, that Flock et al managed to get so many government contracts for surveillance cameras with so few actual votes."

A recurring theme in the responses was not just the hardware itself, but the way surveillance systems can slip into ordinary surroundings with little notice.

When devices are placed near parks, pools, and neighborhood streets, the feeling of being watched can follow people through even the most ordinary routines.

More background

Flock Safety is best known for automated license plate reader cameras used by law enforcement and local governments.

In the thread, much of the unease centered on plate-reader technology being installed in shared community areas without residents feeling meaningfully consulted.

Another major worry involved what happens once information is collected. Because the original post alleged links to Palantir data centers and broader tracking systems, commenters feared that routine movements — a trip to the store, a stop near a school, or a visit to a public gathering place — could become part of a lasting record.

Some commenters pointed to the possible real-world consequences of mistakes.

To show how errors can play out in real life, one commenter cited a MotorBiscuit report about an innocent family being held at gunpoint after a Flock camera allegedly misread a plate, while another said the alert concerned a stolen motorcycle rather than the family's vehicle.

What can be done?

Local oversight may be the most realistic first step.

Surveillance programs are often approved by city councils, police budgets, neighborhood partnerships, or pilot programs, which can be easy to miss unless people are actively tracking them.

Public records requests and attending city meetings can help turn vague unease into concrete accountability.

One commenter offered a blunt version of that advice: "I didn't vote to have these creep cams all over my city. And they didn't give us the option because that sh** wouldn't pass. I urge you all to go to city meeting and ask your reps if they took money and signed NDA's with Flock and data centers."

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Iceland Out of EU Could Mean a Trump Seizure: The Moron Can't Tell Iceland from Greenland

Watch the people of Iceland come back begging the Europeans to take them into the EU once Donald Dumb, encouraged by this vote, makes a move to turn the island into an American Empire territory. Even the mighty UK and its crooked English are regretting their Brexit. 

Icelanders came rushing to the EU for help during the 2009 financial crisis. They are likely to do it again when Donald Dumb threatens them. Iceland is in the NATO alliance, but so is Greenland and this did not deter Donald Dumb from seeking to annex it. Why would Iceland be any different?

Trump already did it with Venezuela and Hormuz, and continues to threaten Greenland and Canada.

Inbred as they have been for centuries, Icelanders do not seem to understand the stakes.

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Icelanders vote 'No' to restarting EU accession talks
DPA
Sun, August 30, 2026


FILE PHOTO - Kristrún Frostadóttir, prime minister of Iceland, speaks to the press ahead of the NATO Summit and the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Ankara. (is associated with: «Icelanders vote 'No' to restarting EU accession talks») Michael Kappeler/dpa

Iceland has narrowly rejected restarting talks on joining the European Union in a referendum, with 52.8% voting against and 47.2% in favour, according to official results on Sunday.

Despite the small margin - about 118,000 people voted against, and about 105,000 in favour of restarting EU talks - the result marks a blow for the pro-EU, Social Democrat-led government.

The government had pledged to hold a referendum on reopening accession talks after coming to power in the 2024 election, and the vote was announced in March.

Social Democratic Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir had said that the government would abide by the decision.

Frostadóttir had campaigned for a "Yes" vote. Even as the counting of votes was still under way she expressed hope that the referendum would not divide the country.

"I know that emotions have been running high among some people but I have now spent time with a large group of people from all over the country and people are quite open to different outcomes," she said on Icelandic television.

The country of around 400,000 inhabitants submitted an application for EU membership during the 2009 financial crisis. However, the subsequent Eurosceptic government put accession plans on ice after the 2013 parliamentary election.

Pros and cons

Saturday's referendum was held after geopolitical tensions thrust the question of EU membership back to the top of the agenda.

A Nordic nation of just under 400,000 people and a NATO member, Iceland has been facing growing pressure to strengthen ties with the European mainland.

Doubts over the US commitment to European and Icelandic security, rising geopolitical rivalry in the Arctic and Washington's threats to take control of Greenland, an Arctic island west of Iceland, have contributed to the shift.

However, the security argument apparently failed to sway enough voters.

Opponents of EU membership have argued that joining the bloc would undermine Iceland's sovereignty, with fishing rights a particular concern. The fishing industry is a cornerstone of the Icelandic economy, and many opponents feared having to cede control over the country's waters.

Those opposed to reopening EU talks also said that NATO membership and a bilateral defence agreement concluded with the US in 1951 would suffice to keep the country safe. Mistrust of US President Donald Trump did not appear to prove a decisive factor.

Reykjavík already works closely with Brussels in the European Economic Area (EEA) and participation in the Schengen visa-free travel area.

Brussels initially made no comment on the referendum result. At a time when eurosceptical [sic] forces are gaining ground in several EU member states, a positive signal from Reykjavík would have been welcome for EU leaders.

Hegseth is Drowning his Sorrow in Alcohol and Women: His Generals Don't Like His War

Oh, but he is so happy warmongering and looking like a warrior...

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Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations
Alex Horton and Tara Copp, (c) 2026 , The Washington Post
Sun, August 30, 2026 


The Secretary of Defen-Offensive War, Pete Hegseth, clenching his jaws and straining to appear warrior-like as he listens attentively to every word salad Donald Trump was regurgitating during a meeting of military families in the Oval Office on Monday August 3, 2026 in Washington. (AP Foto/Alex Brandon)

Several U.S. military leaders have advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening their ability to confront threats elsewhere, including the U.S. homeland, according to people familiar with a recent assessment prepared for the Pentagon chief.

The warnings - detailed for Hegseth by the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force and the four-star commanders overseeing U.S. operations throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America - appear in the Aug. 14 edition of the Secretary of Defense Orders Book (SDOB) - to be renamed SWOB (Secretary of War Orders Book) - these people said. They described the assessment to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because the document is classified.

The SWOB, typically produced twice monthly, outlines the worldwide availability of U.S. warships, aircraft, personnel and weapons systems. It reflects the president's priorities for the force, which are carried out by the defense secretary, and includes insights from the military's top generals and admirals that inform the directives the Pentagon issues.

As President Donald Trump has pressured Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and accept several U.S. provisions for ending the stalemated conflict, he has been adamant that all options remain available to him - including further military action. Consequently, U.S. Central Command, the headquarters responsible for prosecuting the Iran war, has kept a force of more than 50,000 troops on alert for months in case the president orders additional attacks.

The Aug. 14 orders book directs some troops deployed in the Middle East to remain there through September and some others into 2027, said those familiar with the document. The prospect of extending those forces further compelled military leaders to voice their concern, these people said.

Leaders of the U.S. European Command, the U.S. Pacific Command and the U.S. Southern Command, along with the Navy's top admiral, responded with what is characterized in the SWOB as a "non-concur," those familiar with the assessment said - meaning they disagree with the secretary's order to extend their forces but will execute it nevertheless.

The geographic combatant commands overseeing U.S. operations in Europe, Asia and Latin America have had their ships, aircraft and other equipment pulled away to support the Iran conflict. This has limited their ability to conduct missions and ensure proper training, those familiar with the assessment said. The Navy, in particular, has had to stretch its capacity to keep up with wartime demands.

Army and Air Force leadership concurred with Hegseth's desire to extend their deployed forces, but each emphasized that doing so would come with significant risk, these people said.

Overall, the tenor from the military leadership is that the ongoing Iran operation, having reached the six-month mark, has been "too much for too long," said one person familiar with the assessment.

The military's warning to Hegseth, which has not been previously reported, offers new insight into the administration's dilemma as Trump seeks to end the conflict on terms favorable to the United States while Iran, cognizant of the war's unpopularity with most Americans and its mounting toll on the U.S. arsenal, refuses to capitulate.

"Decisions regarding the scope and duration of specific force commitments to any Combatant Command are made based on the current threat assessment, strategic priorities established by the President, and the advice of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Combatant Commanders," Sean Parnell, a spokesman for Hegseth, said in a statement to The Post.

The Pentagon "does not discuss internal operational processes," including the Secretary of War Orders Book, "or specific concurrences, non-concurrences, or risk assessments provided by the Services or Combatant Commands during force allocation deliberations," he added.

The Secretary of Defense Orders Book also is reviewed by Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A spokesman for the chairman declined to comment and referred questions to Hegseth's office.

The orders book is one avenue for senior military leaders to surface resource concerns and provide Hegseth with assessments on how gaining or losing assets will impact their objectives.

It's common for commanders to discuss risk, said the one person familiar with the recent assessment. But the outlook now is "more dire" overall, this person explained, adding that certain generals and admirals were more expansive and frank than is usual in telling Hegseth they disagreed with orders to keep providing equipment and personnel when the operation's trajectory remains uncertain.

The top military officials at European Command and Southern Command each cautioned Hegseth that lending their ships and surveillance aircraft to Central Command has degraded their ability to fulfill homeland-defense obligations, said those familiar with the assessment.

Adm. Samuel Paparo, the chief of Pacific Command, disagreed with the level of support he was ordered to continually provide, including an aircraft carrier strike group and naval destroyers, those familiar with the assessment said.

A spokesperson for European Command declined to comment. Spokespeople for Southern Command and Pacific Command did not respond to requests for comment.

Adm. Daryl Caudle, the chief of Naval Operations, provided Hegseth with the dimmest picture, saying in the SWOB that the Navy cannot sustain its current level of support for the Iran conflict because there is no anticipated end date, those familiar with the assessment said.

The Navy has shouldered an extraordinary burden. It has been asked to supply dozens of vessels for the Iran campaign - first to take part in the U.S. assault and defend against Iranian counterattacks and, for several months since, to enforce Trump's blockade of Iranian ports as he attempts to force-open the Strait of Hormuz. Deployments for some vessels and crews have been extended by months.

Caudle conveyed to Hegseth that barely one-fourth of the Navy's destroyer fleet is ready to deploy, a sharp decline from prewar levels, said those familiar with the assessment.

More broadly, the document says that the impact on ship maintenance, if demands imposed by the Iran operation continue unchanged, jeopardizes the fleet's availability should other conflicts arise, people familiar with the assessment said.

A spokesperson for Caudle did not respond to a request for comment.

At a recent event in Norfolk, he talked about the deployment extensions, calling them "very challenging for our sailors."

"I typically am not a big fan of extensions, and I push back hard on that, but the enemy gets a vote," Caudle said, according to a transcript of his remarks provided by the Navy.

Although Army and Air Force leadership concurred with Hegseth's current path for the Iran conflict, they conceded the challenges it has imposed, said those familiar with the assessment.

The Army's 82nd Airborne Division, which in March mobilized 2,000 soldiers in response to the Iran war, will remain in the Middle East at least through September, said those familiar with the assessment. Some military officials anticipate that the unit - which would be central to any ground invasion of Iran - will be extended beyond that time frame, these people said.

Deployments for units operating the Army's Patriot air defense systems, which shoot down missiles and drones targeting U.S. bases, also are expected to be extended, said those familiar with the assessment.

A spokesperson for the Army did not respond to a request for comment.

The depletion of Patriot interceptors - as a result of the Iran war and previous donations to Ukraine - has limited the Trump administration's ability to re-escalate the war, as Tehran retains the ability to successfully target U.S. facilities throughout the Middle East.

As The Post and others have reported previously, the Iran war also has drained U.S. supplies of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors - vital not only to the protection of American assets in the Middle East but to regional allies as well - and long-range Tomahawk missiles. About 25 percent of the Pentagon's Reaper drone fleet has been lost, and U.S. bases there have sustained billions of dollars in damage.

The Trump administration has maintained that reports of munitions shortages are inaccurate.

Many of the Air Force units sent to the Middle East to conduct bombing runs and other around-the-clock operations also are slated to stay in the region into 2027, those familiar with the assessment said.

The Air Force declined to comment, citing the classification of the orders book.

A spokesman for Central Command declined to comment and referred questions to Hegseth's office.

The recent "non-concurs" from some uniformed leaders mark the latest warning from military leaders about the war.

As The Post and others reported previously, Caine advised the White House before hostilities began that the U.S. lacked sufficient munitions - and support from allies - to conduct an extended large-scale campaign.

More recently, Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, the head of European Command, privately warned the Pentagon that he lacked adequate naval forces to shield Israel and the U.S. homeland from missile attacks, as The Post reported this month.

In the Pacific, key U.S. allies have raised alarm that the Pentagon's depletion of missiles and air defense interceptors leave them vulnerable to China. The Navy's only dedicated aircraft carrier in the Pacific, a linchpin of the military's plan to deter Beijing, was sent to the Middle East to relieve another carrier that has been deployed for more than 300 days.

Dan Lamothe, Noah Robertson and John Hudson contributed to this report.

Maybe Florida is the Answer to the Palestine Rape Question

Modern American Armageddon would blend biblical garbage with Hollywood trash. 

"BRING HIM BACK" urge the Christian Zionist Evangelicals of Florida. They want Yair here in Florida because he might draw the Messiah and the end of the world - Armageddon, without specifying which Messiah it is: The brand new Zionist one who's never showed up in some 5,000 years? or the old but improved Judeo-Christian one who showed up some 2,000 years, died, resurrected and said he'll be back? 

The extremist radical right-wing Zio-Nazi son of Ben-Yamin Netanyahu, Yair (in Arabic, Yair means "What a Dick!"), has been living for years the high life in Florida, away from the parasitic Zionist colony in Palestine. But now that there have been threats against his life in Florida, he has been whisked back to the Palestinian hellhole known as Israel. It's a mistake, don't you think? Is the Zionist colony in Palestine more secure than Florida? Ron De Santis begs to differ!

If life in the Colony has become unbearable - some 5% of Israel's Zionist population has apparently left the colony since 2023, all holding second passports from their original homelands - perhaps Florida could serve as an alternative "Homeland" for its settlers. In the US, unlike in Palestine, the Zionist settlers, particularly the rabid ultra-religious barbarian extremists from the Bronze Age, would enjoy a warm and welcoming sojourn among their Christian Evangelical neanderthal brethren and associates in crime.

Granted, they'd lose the Mediterranean, but the Atlantic and the Gulf of Amerexico will do just as well. Hurricanes, swamps, alligators and traditional Christian mass shootings in Florida would compensate by far their loss of the Palestinian Shooting Range back in the deserts of Palestine. They also could continue to procreate like rabbits in order not to have to face the Demographic Timebomb that is ticking on them back in Palestine.

Who knows? Maybe Yahweh has chosen a new Promised Land for His people in Florida. Could an Evangelical preacher please predict the future for us and tell us when Armageddon is slated to take place? Since Creationism claims to be a science, fortune-telling could also adopt the Scientific Method and Reason to divine the future, especially since the Evangelical macaques have God's ear (or is it ears?). In any case, let us hope that the Zionist settlers would take full advantage of the American welcome without resorting to the violence they have inflicted on the equally welcoming Palestinians some 100 years ago.

Remember the Balfour pledge of "....nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine"? That would apply also in Florida, assuming the savage cavemen settlers abide by this provision this time around. Donald Dumb would issue a new Balfour Declaration to be known as "The Rubio Declaration" in which he envisions the creation of a Jewish homeland in Florida.
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Israel says Netanyahu’s son ‘urgently evacuated’ from the US after threat
Mariamne Everett and DPA
Sun, August 30, 2026


Yair Netanyahu at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Hungary, May 29, 2025 [Zsolt Szigetvary/EPA]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest son was flown back to Israel from the United States after a threat to his life, according to Israel's domestic intelligence agency.

The Shin Bet said in a statement on Saturday evening that, "there was a significant threat to harm Yair Netanyahu, and in light of this and after an assessment, a decision was made to urgently evacuate him along with his security team and return him to Israel".

The agency did not specify the source of the threat.

US broadcaster Newsmax reported earlier this week that Yair Netanyahu was the target of an alleged Iranian assassination plot last December, while he was living in Florida.

Israeli intelligence informed US authorities after it had learned of the alleged plot, the broadcaster reported, citing a US law enforcement official.

The report surfaced after Benjamin Netanyahu told Israel's Channel 14 that "Iran targeted one of my sons. Iran tried to kill, to murder one of my sons".

Yair Netanyahu, who was constantly accompanied by an Israeli security team, was ordered to leave the area immediately, Newsmax reported. He left without taking his personal belongings and returned directly to Israel.

Netanyahu's eldest son has lived in Florida for several years, where his "reportedly luxurious lifestyle and the state-funded security provided to him repeatedly drew public attention in Israel", reported The Times of Israel.

His continued residency in the US after the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel provoked criticism from many Israelis. They questioned the double standard of Netanyahu's son remaining overseas while hundreds of thousands of Israeli reservists were called up, the Israeli newspaper reported.

The right-wing activist and podcaster is active on social media, frequently commenting on Israeli politics and attacking his father's political opponents, government critics and journalists.

Trump Gets it Upside Down: Marketing and Branding Don't Improve the Product

The "Strait of America" between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula

The Idiot-in-Chief renames lakes, oceans, buildings.... as if changing something's name also changes its substance.

For example, instead of making significant and substantive contributions to the performing arts in the US, and thus "earning" his name on a building or monument, the ignorant imbecile puts his name on someone else's existing building (named after that someone who actually made such contributions), and thinks that by putting his name on the building (which is stealing someone else's legacy), he himself acquires the legacy. Unlike this moron president of ours, really "great" people recognized by history usually have impacted humankind in ways no one else has.

When the moron decides to build a ballroom or an triumphal arch bearing his name, he stupidly believes that people decades or centuries from now will think of his legacy as one of greatness, even though he has done nothing in substance to fill that otherwise empty legacy.

This is either infantile logic or a deliberate parasitic leeching off other people's achievements. As an American "businessman", Trump follows standard American business practices known as marketing and branding. Make a shitty product, but give it a catchy name, surround it with slogans, false advertisement and fancy imagery, and the product will "sell". Compounding that sleazy way of selling bullshit, people in America a captive audience that has been dumbed down by decades of filthy corporate conditioning. So much so that a Stockholm Syndrome-like relationship has gradually formed, in which the victims (the so-called consumers) lose any sense of critical thinking and live in a bubble that reinforces their submissive attachment to their kidnappers, the filthy corporations.

Unfortunately, many people around the world have fallen victim to American marketing deceptions.

Everything American is like that. Unhealthy sugary soda drinks, chips fried in some chemical, meat and processed foods colored with chemicals to make them look fresh.... The list is endless. I once worked at a company that sold a scientific product that worked poorly compared to its competitors; yet you wouldn't believe the millions they spent on fancy marketing literature... which initially works because the consumer first tries the product, so there is an initial spike in sales. But within months, sales drop because consumers realize the product doesn't work as claimed by the company.

False advertisement is what Trump is good at, like most businesses in the US are. If things look great ON THE SURFACE, then the goal is achieved without any consideration for the substance or the long term. The goal is instantaneous gratification and profit.

Trump thinks that by declaring every day that the economy is great, then the economy becomes great in the eyes of his dumb voters. If he declares that gasoline prices will fall because he is stealing Venezuela's oil, there will be a spike in his dumb voters' perception that gasoline prices will fall. But saying one thing and making it real are very different things.

PERCEPTION IS EVERYTHING is a slogan that should be inscribed in the US constitution.

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Trump Promises His Venezuela Oil Deal Will Lower Gas Prices. But When?
T. Michelle Murphy
Sun, August 30, 2026 


The Punta Cardon refinery in Venezuela is shown on Jan. 23, 2026, nearly three weeks after the U.S. raided Caracas and extracted President Nicolas Maduro. —Jesus Vargas—Picture Alliance/Getty Images

President Donald Trump announced Friday that the United States has entered a "historic" deal with Venezuela, saying that it gives the U.S. majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves. Calling it the "BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY" in a post on Truth Social, he said that the agreement would "substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans."

The Trump Administration has long expressed an interest in Venezuela, which boasts the world's largest proven crude-oil reserves as of 2023—approximately 303 billion barrels, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

But the President did not outline how soon, exactly, Americans can expect to feel relief at the pumps. TIME has reached out to the White House for comment on the expected timeline.

The answer is especially relevant amid the ongoing war with Iran. One of the linchpins of the conflict is a Tehran-imposed blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of the world's oil had previously passed. The move has been consequential for the global economy. In the United States, the national average cost for a gallon of gas is $4.08 as of Saturday, according to the AAA, as compared to $3.20 one year ago.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the deal a "huge win" for America in a social media post on Friday, saying that it means "lowering gas prices here at home."

Any eventual decline in gas prices could provide relief at a time when Americans are already contending with persistent inflation, which was the focus of remarks made by Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium in Wyoming on Friday.

However, it could be a while before the impact of the new deal with Venezuela is directly felt.

What we know about Trump's Venezuela oil deal

Much of what is known about the deal comes from a statement released on Telegram by acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez late Friday.

"It provides for the development of 17 strategic fields, with a proven potential of 65 billion barrels of oil, more than $100 billion in investment and more than $209 billion in tax revenue for the state," the statement said. "These investments will contribute not only to the recovery and modernization of our industry, but also to our country's economic growth, the energy security of our hemisphere and greater stability in international markets."

Despite its vast oil reserves, the country only produced about 1.1 million barrels per day in July, according to a secondary-source estimate from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.

The EIA has attributed Venezuela's long-term production decline largely to "government mismanagement, international sanctions, and the country's economic crisis," which contributed to "a lack of investment and maintenance in the energy sector and a deteriorating infrastructure." The agency found that Venezuela's total energy production declined by an average of 8.2% annually between 2011 and 2021.

"The U.S. deal with Venezuela is very important strategically," says Claudio Galimberti, the chief economist at Rystad Energy. "The new wave of investments that is about to come to Venezuela as a result of this deal will be crucial to turn around the country's aging oil infrastructure. Venezuela will be able to increase its production at a faster rate and unlock barrels that would otherwise have stayed underground."

The agreement envisions private operators playing a central role in that effort. Rodríguez's post explained that the agreement allows Venezuela to increase its oil production "through the participation of private operators," without further elaboration.

A State Department official tells TIME that Rodríguez has granted a private company, which is "a joint project of the U.S. government and an experienced private operator in Venezuela," 100-year rights to develop the fields, adding: "This new entity will be the second largest corporate holder of proven reserves after Saudi Aramco."

The deal would give the U.S. 55% of the new company's effective output, "split between equity ownership and guaranteed at-cost off-take," the official says.

Although they declined to comment on the expected timeline for these steps, the official adds: "As the company scales production, the resulting stable supply of at-cost oil in our Hemisphere will go toward filling the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve and fulfilling the supply needs of our Great U.S. Military."

Other key factors also remain unknown—including how the deal will be financed and whether it includes any target dates for achieving various outcomes.

Why gas prices won't lower immediately

One of the main reasons that Americans are unlikely to see immediate relief from high gas prices is that the deal is linked to 17 oil fields in Venezuela, not access to 65 billion barrels of already-produced crude oil.

While those fields contain proven reserves, Venezuela does not have the infrastructure in place currently to produce the oil at a rate that would significantly and rapidly affect the wallets of everyday Americans.

Such concerns arose after former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was ousted by the United States in January, when oil executives and analysts assessed the viability of developing the country's reserves.

Speaking at the White House on Jan. 9, ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Darren Woods called it "uninvestable," given his assessment of the "legal and commercial constructs—frameworks—in place today in Venezuela."

"There's an opportunity in Venezuela with all the resources there," he said. "We don't have that challenge of finding; we have the challenge of developing those resources."

Patrick De Haan, the head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy/PDI, provides a similar assessment. He tells TIME, "While the hope of lower gas prices sounds promising, it still will take billions of investment to get that oil."

In her statement, Rodríguez said the initiative is expected to "facilitate a significant flow of investment aimed at the recovery and reconstruction of strategic infrastructure for the development of our hydrocarbons industry."

But it remains unclear where that investment will come from, including whether the private operator will provide the financing and how the project will proceed "at no cost to the American Taxpayer," as Trump said.

De Haan also questioned whether the agreement's unusual structure could discourage investment. "How can the U.S. lay claim to a sovereign country's natural resources?" he says, adding that even with approval from Venezuela's acting president, a 100-year contract could face legal challenges or prove difficult to enforce.

"That may slow down oil companies from wanting to invest in Venezuela," he explains.

And financing is only one hurdle; the physical work required also shapes the timeline.

"Drilling and pumping that oil will take a very long time. Changes to fuel prices won't happen overnight or even in months," De Haan says, adding that global refining capacity is currently constrained, further limiting the speed at which additional crude supply could affect the market.

Galimberti says that consumers should expect a long road between the initial investment and the ultimate production and distribution of oil.

"You will need to factor in several quarters and, in quite a few cases, years," he says. "Therefore, it is a deal whose benefits will be seen mostly in the medium-long term."

"To lower gasoline and diesel prices in the short term, the most effective way by far is by increasing the flows from the Middle East," Galimberti says. He points to recent successes in bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, including pipelines and ports being developed across the Gulf.

Even without potential legal hurdles from within Venezuela, executing on the promise of the reserves could take years, which means that Americans may be in for a wait before they see the impact at gas stations across the U.S.

Exposing the Bigotry of Trump's Allies as Elections Loom

Mike Pence's looking at Trump makes it obvious he hates the criminal felon, but he is terrified of him and prioritizes his party over his country. 

Radical Right, so-called "Christian" morons and Trump-wimp lackeys, both former and current, are trying to position themselves closer to the center. 

Just like Trump did when he lied his way through the last election by making empty promises he knew he will break. Once in office, he turned around and enacted policies given to him by the extremist right-wing Project 2025. Mike Pence and JD Vance are following in Trump's footsteps, hoping to get elected and then betray their voters. 

Mike Pence who, as Trump's Vice president during his first term and often described as a "Christian", cowered like a frightened turtle before the Great Moron. Pence was almost lynched by Trump's seditious mob on January 6, 2021, yet he stood against Trump's impeachments, time after time.

The hillbilly moron JD Vance (not his real name), also a Christian turncoat who has been wandering aimlessly from one cult to another - Protestant, then atheist, then Catholic, and at one point gay!! There are rumors he might end up Hindu. He was admitted into Yale University one a DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) program aiming at recruiting students from inbred Appalachian hillbilly communities. He is now positioning himself as someone who counseled Trump against the Iran war, but he seemed to have been silenced by the Zionists who bamboozled the Great Moron into the war.

Elections are in sight - November 2026 for the midterms and 2028 for the Presidentials. So, the two morons above want to ascend to the throne once the old senile imbecile neanderthal is out. Hence, these Trump lapdogs are changing their tunes to appeal to the disgusted Americans who voted for the criminal felon last time.

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Mike Pence pretends to be decent. JD Vance pretends to be masculine
John Casey
Sat, August 29, 2026 


JD vance

I spent the better part of Trump's first term rolling my eyes, sometimes with rage, at Mike Pence. If you'd asked me then what a nightmare vice president looked like, I'd have pointed to the awkward and strange Pence and his mysterious animosity toward the LGBTQ+ community.

As a variation on Shakespeare's old saying goes, "Thou dost protest too much, methinks."

And why wouldn't we snicker at a spineless man who calls his wife "Mother" and won't eat a meal alone with a woman who isn't her? I did not think, at the time, that having a boring, weaselly, goody-two-shoes, pious homophobe as vice president could get any worse.

Well, just like everything else with Trump 2.0, his vice president this time is much worse. And that is saying oh so much compared to the reprehensible Pence. Yes, it's a gruesomely tough call, but you can't get more reprehensible than JD Vance.

Unless, of course, there's a Trump 3.0 with Vice President Mike Johnson.

Pence and Vance might give off different vibes, but underneath all their oddities are two men with an unwavering opposition to LGBTQ+ rights.

Pence has spent his entire career hammering away at the rights and freedoms of LGBTQ+ individuals; however, we're not here today to regurgitate all of his vomit-inducing vileness.

Coming in like a wrecking ball to the East Wing of the White House was Vance, who is even more proficient in the uglier side of anti-LGBTQ+ and transphobic venom. Similarly, not worth repeating here.

In Vance, we didn't just get a Pence 2.0; we got bonus points for his arrogant, bellicose narcissism. At least Pence seemed like a nice guy. I mean, he isn't, but when contrasting him with Vance, he's a pussycat — apologies to childless cat ladies.

Pence portrayed himself as a sober Midwesterner while deviously doing considerable damage. That paradox popped up last week when Julia Curlee, the transgender former CIA officer who briefed him daily during the first Trump administration, went public with warm memories of how he treated her, even recalling him telling her mother she should be proud of her daughter.

Uh oh! I am sure "Mother" Pence was none too pleased to hear that Mike might have a passing interest in Curlee. Can you imagine that confrontation between Mother and Mikey? Heaven help him!

So Pence jumped into damage control. Asked about it on CNN, Pence visibly fumbled his way toward a gracious answer, saying he was "heartened" by her words. It's genuinely strange to watch a heathen who has been vilifying people like Curlee get flummoxed when one of them speaks kindly of him.

Pence's grudging glimpse of kindness doesn't even begin to erase his contemptible attitude.

Then there's Vance, who is not just awkward but downright weird, one of the most cringeworthy human beings walking the planet today. In Maine this week, in the middle of a speech, he stopped to compliment a maintenance worker's beard onstage.

"Now, they didn't tell me that Jamie was a good-looking guy with a beard," Vance said while recognizing Jamie Beers, a maintenance manager at Compotech in Brewer. "Jamie, I hate good-looking guys with beards because they make me feel jealous."

And just like we imagined Mother having a fit about a trans woman, can you imagine what Usha had to say to JD about his jealous rage over a hottie man with a beard?

There's a now-infamous clip of Vance greeting his own wife, Usha, on her podcast by patting her knee twice like a creepy great-uncle used to do to me. It just shows that JD has the warmth of an ice cube tray and the strangeness of — well, a JD Vance.

Pence and Vance have at least one thing in common: Both are subjects of the social media pastime of turning their personal weirdness and odd relationships with their wives into closet-case conspiracy theories. Well, JD did think he was gay when he was younger, so there is that.

Personally, I hope neither one of them has any secrets about their sexualities because, well, I don't want them playing on my team.

God only knows what kind of weird secrets they might be hiding behind their devout and hypocritical shared Christianity.

Which brings us to beards, and how they can mean entirely different things to different men.

For Vance, the beard is literal. But what really seems to bother him is that someone else might wear one better than he does. This is a man so narcissistic and egomaniacal that he can't stand the possibility that someone else might be better-looking, more macho and, apparently, better bearded. Vance always has to be the biggest guy in every room.

For Pence, the "beard" is metaphorical, a God-fearing normalcy that hides unadulterated hate. And Julia Curlee offers a fascinating example of just how effective that beard can be. When asked about Curlee's praise, Pence's diabolical two-facedness was revealed, and he had to backpedal.

Pence's beard isn't that he is secretly a nice guy. It's that he can project decency and civility while supporting policies and a political movement that have inflicted enormous damage on the very people he can personally treat with kindness. His beard is supposed to make you forget about the treachery that lies underneath.

Oh, and Mother, don't worry, I wasn't going to imply something untoward as they do on Reddit.

So who's worse for the LGBTQ+ community? Vance, and it isn't especially close. Pence's opposition was consistent and damaging; Vance's opposition comes with a willingness to lean into dehumanizing rhetoric as Trump's more vicious MAGA lapdog.

Finally, four years ago, most of us would have doubled over in hysterical laughter if you'd told us JD Vance would one day be vice president, so don't laugh at me when I suggest that Johnson might inherit JD's job, since nothing with Trump is off the table.

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ADL Survey: Zionist Educators Persist in Claiming the Stale Status of Antisemitism "Victims"

From the outset, let it be known that Zionist propaganda has imposed the immutable formula of Jew=Zionist=Israeli, which is used as a shield against ANY criticism of genocidal Israel, corrupt AIPAC and other Zio-Nazi entities.

While millions of Palestinians languish in refugee camps, while hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been mass-murdered in Palestine's Gaza district, and millions of indigenous Palestinians are being ethnically cleansed in Palestine's West Bank by hordes of foreign settlers with mob killings, invasions and raids on villages, torching olive orchards, and stealing private property and land, Zionist agents in the US and elsewhere are trying to "balance" the horror they are inflicting in the Palestinians with the same stale accusation of vapid and empty "antisemitism".

According to the Zionist mouthpiece, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which Wikipedia deems a biased and unreliable source of information, a survey it says it carried out of 307 Zionist members of teachers unions shows that some teachers admitted to censoring themselves and being disappointed that unions have abandoned the red herring of "antisemitism", long used by Zionist organizations to blackmail the unions into providing preferential treatment for their Zionist members. 

ADL CEO, the Zionist Jonathan Greenblatt, regurgitated the false claim as follows: "Jewish educators deserve to feel safe and protected in their union spaces. And instead of that, they are self-censoring and fearing backlash for raising concerns." Meanwhile, the Zionist lackey president of the US, Donald Dumb, continues to persecute universities and colleges, harass and threaten professors and researchers with severe penalties, including deportations, if they bring up the issue of the otherwise well-documented Rape of Palestine now closing on its first century of a barbaric history. 

Sydney Altfield, CEO of Teach Coalition, a Zionist organization that advocates for Zionist-run schools in the US, said the report was concerning because teachers unions were meant to represent and protect all educators. Yet, these same bleeding-heart concerns for Zionist educators were never extended to those American educators who wished to study and teach younger Americans about the Rape of Palestine. 

Apparently, the survey claims that Jewish educators were self-censoring out of fear of retaliation. Like their counterparts who express opinions critical of genocidal and apartheid Israel, many respondents "somewhat or strongly agreed" that speaking up their opinions could lead to "reputational or professional consequences." 

In the case of those educators who wished to express some balance in their coverage of the Zionist colonial rape of Palestine by including in their curriculum testimonials and research that question the legitimacy of the Zionist rapists of Palestine, they not only fear reputational or professional consequences, they also fear arrests, deportations and public crucifixion in a US that is entirely beholden to the Zionist decision-makers.

To prove the inconsistency and internal incoherence of the Zionist narrative equating every Jew with a Zionist or an Israeli, half the Zionist respondents said they reduced their participation in union activities due to "harmful rhetoric or behavior targeting Jews, Zionists/Zionism or Israel." 

Indeed, this blanket lumping of Judaism with Zionism and the Israeli Zionist colony in Palestine comes through this survey, never allowing a space where reasonable objective teachers and academics can critique Israel as a colonial racist enterprise that essentially carried out the largest and most violent Great Replacement episode in modern human history, whereby millions of European (and later American) Zionists descended illegally on Palestine after World War I, and proceeded to kill, rape, displace and terrorize the indigenous Palestinian villagers and townspeople, with the shamelessly stated objective of replacing them. That Great Replacement is in fact ongoing right now, right before our eyes, with the foreign Zionist settlers rampaging, pillaging and plundering, burning and killing, throughout Palestine's West Bank.

Many respondents also reported pervasive anti-Jewish, anti-Israel and anti-Zionist conduct. More than 70% of respondents "somewhat or strongly agreed" that union statements about the Israel-Hamas war failed to condemn the terror organization or the atrocities committed during the October 7 massacre. 

That being the case (keeping in mind that ADL is a Zionist-biased organization without integrity and objectivity according to many human rights organizations ), has the ADL survey offered the respondents the opportunity to condemn the savagery and barbarity of the Israeli-Jewish-Zionist murderous and genocidal onslaught on millions of innocent Palestinian civilians? Has the ADL survey asked its respondents whether the ongoing retributory genocide of indigenous Palestinians by foreign Zionist settlers is morally justified against the natural, reflexive human right of indigenous peoples to resist their colonial rapists? Does ADL at least dare ask the question in public? 

Has the ADL survey asked the respondents about rampant anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic practices across the United States under Donald Dumb's administration?

The ADL report comes at a time of rising levels of antisemitism by white supremacists and skyrocketing Islamophobia by Zionist Americans across the U.S. 

NYC Mayor Mamdani's War on Drugs is a Success Story

Mamdani's NYC police score largest cocaine bust in decades, worth $10 million on the streets.

Contrary to what Trump's islamophobic and antisemitic FUCKS NEWS says, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is keeping his pledge to combat drug trafficking in a two-pronged strategy of going after the criminals AND helping addicts out of their addiction.

The Great Moron Donald Dumb on the other hand kills innocent fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Pacific then claims they are drug traffickers without providing any evidence. At the same time, Trump encourages American gun manufacturers to keep smuggling dangerous weapons to the drug cartels in Latin America, which the cartels use not only to supply Trump's affluent white Americans with their cocaine and other entertainment drugs, but to also undermine their countries' governments, which in turn is used by Trump as an excuse to intervene in those countries. 

Yesterday Friday, New York City police, under guidance from Mayor Mamdani, seized 580 pounds of cocaine worth $10 million, the largest cocaine seizure in the city in decades. 

"This was a massive shipment of narcotics, tied to an interstate trafficking network with connections across the country, including in New York and New Jersey," NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

"And because of the work of the investigators standing with me today, those drugs will never make it into the streets of New York City."

Police and Drug Enforcement Administration agents recovered 230 bricks containing 580 pounds of cocaine.

"This appears to be the largest single cache of cocaine my office has seized in 20 years," Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said.

"Think about the scale of what was intercepted here," Tisch said. "More than a quarter of a metric ton of cocaine, sitting in boxes and ready to move through an illegal distribution network. That is an enormous quantity of narcotics that will never be broken down, that will never be packaged, sold, or distributed in our neighborhoods."

Mamdani's two-pronged balanced approach to combating drug trafficking AND drug addiction is the only reasonable strategy. 

Allowing American-made guns to go to the drug cartels AND allowing white-collar affluent Americans to continue their abuse of drugs smuggled by the cartels into the US, while assassinating poor fishermen to falsely claim he is combating drugs, Donald Dumb is lying to the American people. He wants to protect his affluent white friends who are the largest consumers of illicit drugs in the US, just as he did everything he could to protect his pedophile friends.

Trump is a veteran criminal. Hie entire life has been based on cheating, and on elaborate and sordid affairs and links with the mob, particularly the Russian mafia in New York City. Mayor Mamdani is cleaning the city of that filth.

Louisiana Catholic Church post-Child-Abuse Bankruptcy "Was All About Protecting the Church"

"Let the Children Come to Me" has been broadly interpreted by the coercively celibate Catholic clergy.

Not unlike interpretations of Talmudic and Hadith passages about sex with three-year-olds and six-year-olds.

Naturally, the holders of religious psychoterror power (eternal hell etc.) over the dumb faithful have to defend themselves, even though during the Stone and Bronze Ages, sex was a very different matter for these primitive nomadic Semitic tribes wandering the deserts of Arabia. Yes, today we frown on child sex abuse, just as we frown on kidnapping and rape. But these were common practices among these ignorant primitive Semitic camel herders.

BUT: for a man of the cloth in this 21st century to still find it acceptable to defile a child is an unbearable notion. Yet the Catholic Church, as well as fundamentalist Jews, Muslims and other Christians, seem less focused on defending the children and more focused on defending the power they have over the multitudes of credulous imbeciles who love the magical superstitions and myths of the three monotheistic cults.

Religions are just like political parties, with the difference that religious ideology is based on magic rather than on reality.

Has anyone ever wondered why Yahweh-Alaha-Allah (later known as Dieu, God, Dios, Gott... by westerners) was adamant at spreading His sublime messages within a very limited geography of the earth, namely in the Near East? Mecca and Jerusalem are only 760 miles apart, and Cairo and Jerusalem are only 263–266 miles apart. 

In his omnipotence and omniscience, he ought to have known all other human settlements, nations, tribes, countries...just as he knows (He made them) all the billions and billions of galaxies in the universe, each containing billions and billions of stars and planets. Why then did he choose these primitive nomadic camel-herding tribes, all related to one another as Semites descended from a proto-Semitic ancestor? Did He think they were smarter? Did He think they were more sinners than others? Did He think they were stupid enough to believe His divine crap? I mean, the Big Zombie up in the Clouds chose to have a Semitic son for God's sake. Couldn't He have chosen Africans, Asians, European Neanderthals, or American Indians?

I'll let you ponder a possible answer, because you probably can guess what my own is.

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‘This whole thing’s a farce’: New Orleans Catholic church sex abuse settlement brings anger and shock
Ramon Antonio Vargas and David Hammer of WWL Louisiana in New Orleans
Fri, August 28, 2026 


Settlement disclosure documents that disgusted victims virtually from the outset detail how points would be assigned based on the nature of the abuse. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

Survivors of child rape and other sexual abuse within New Orleans's Roman Catholic archdiocese learned that $641,000 or so is the most they can individually get under a settlement approved in December to resolve a years-long bankruptcy protection case.

Those amounts were communicated in letters that hundreds of clergy abuse survivors participating in the New Orleans archdiocese's bankruptcy began quietly receiving on Tuesday. The figures are well below a $2.4m jury verdict awarded to an unrelated Louisiana religious sexual abuse claimant in June 2025 after the state's legislature temporarily eliminated filing deadlines for such cases.

The amounts cited in the recent letters were also substantially below out-of-court settlements that a handful of clergy abuse survivors in the New Orleans area have reached in the verdict's aftermath with Catholic institutions not affected by the bankruptcy, which evidently have been more or less comparable to the jury award.

Survivors say the amounts in the letters aren't just insulting – but also the latest evidence of the disproportionate advantage enjoyed by the more than 40 Catholic institutions that have gone to federal court to declare amid the financial fallout of the church's worldwide clergy molestation scandal, including nearly 30 such groups that have settled.

"This whole thing's a farce," Aaron Hebert, who was abused by Lawrence Hecker, a late, convicted child rapist and longtime archdiocesan priest, said on Thursday. Richard Coon, who has testified to being molested by three men with links to the archdiocese, added: "There's a lot of survivors that are hurting right now."

Driving the despair which Coon and Hebert described are two elements: the $305m settlement that the archdiocese as well as its insurers on 8 December agreed to pay to clergy abuse survivors to resolve a bankruptcy protection case opened in 2020; and a zero- to 100-point system determining each individual victim's payment.

Settlement disclosure documents that disgusted victims virtually from the outset detail how points would be assigned based on the nature of the abuse, among other elements. Rape, for instance, equated to 75 points within the system; oral or digital abuse was 56 units; and grooming behavior was 5 points.

Additionally, the archdiocese and others made comments in open court promising payments by the end of spring 2026. The process instead dragged, with settlement trustee Don Massey filing motions in court to get the church to turn over records needed to make payment determinations.

"Any promises made by the debtor (the archdiocese and its affiliates) were not made by the settlement trust," Massey said when asked about payments not yet having been doled out. "The settlement trust was not consulted by the debtor prior to making this uninformed promise."

By Thursday, days after the abuse claims valuations concluded, the Guardian and reporting partner WWL Louisiana had confirmed the maximum 100-point payout equated to an "estimated distribution" from the settlement of $641,425.64. That meant each allocated point was worth $6,414.26.

Hebert shared his letter with the outlets. He had been awarded 56 points – or an estimated settlement distribution of $359,198.

Meanwhile, having endured rape and oral sexual abuse by multiple clergy predators, Coon was allocated 98 points. He said it was "shocking" that he did not get maximum points given the circumstances surrounding his claim.

Coon, Hebert and bankruptcy claimant Brian Manix all expressed disbelief that allocation letters given to survivors failed to break down precisely how the claims evaluator, personal injury attorney Richard Arsenault, arrived at their points total. The missives just contained the final sum, the estimated settlement distribution, and an acknowledgment that the bankruptcy may have required them "to revisit deeply personal and difficult experience".

Survivors have 30 days to ask for reconsideration, but without the basis for the points total, they're left to guess why they didn't receive what they expected.

"We asked … for that," Manix said on Thursday. While he declined to publicly disclose his allocation, he confirmed he was not awarded maximum points, saying, "I was raped. I was made to give oral sex, and I was groomed … I need somebody to tell me … what's missing."

Arsenault did not respond on Thursday to a request for comment.

Sources familiar with the process say more than 800 abuse claims were given points allocations. Among them were more than 100 which got scores of zero – such as for claiming abuse by a predator or entity not affiliated with the archdiocese.

Furthermore, the sources said that about $56m from the settlement was being held back for a time to account for successful appeals. And any remaining money held back would then be redistributed to survivors based off their points allocations.

Still, that provided little comfort to Coon, Hebert, Manix and other survivors with whom they said they spoke in recent days. Perhaps most frustratingly for them, survivors who challenge their allocations must pay $1,000 out of pocket, according to a protocol established in December and which the vast majority of claimants approved.

Attorney Richard Trahant, who is part of a legal team representing Coon, Hebert, Manix and roughly 80 other abuse claimants in the New Orleans archdiocese's bankruptcy, said a number of his clients would appeal their points and dollar amounts.

"The $1,000 fee for reconsideration of the point total is obnoxious," Trahant also said. "And we will figure out how to address that in the coming days."

Coon, Hebert and Manix said such factors combined to convince them that bankruptcy court was the wrong venue to be fairly compensated for their abuse – despite assertions by the archdiocese that it was the venue providing the most equitable solution.

As Coon put it: "The bankruptcy was all about protecting the church."

American Anatomical Terminology Association to Replace the Word "Anus" with "Trump"

The senile Great American Moron, Donald Trump, has changed the name of Lake Ontario into Lake America, after changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America, and the Strait of Hormuz into the Strait of America.

To honor the greatest inbred moron that America has ever produced, the American Anatomical Terminology Association (AATA) has decreed that all medical textbooks, publications, charts, dictionaries and literature shall henceforth use the word TRUMP instead of the word ANUS to refer to the caudal orifice of all animals. 

The rationale behind the change is that Trump's mouth bears an uncanny resemblance to an anus, particularly since most of what exudes from his mouth is waste and nasty hot gas. Also, the word ANUS derives from Old French for "ring", which Donald Dumb finds highly unpatriotic. 

In our desire to meet our president's quest to Americanize anything of foreign origin, the AATA believes it is the patriotic thing to officially replace the word ANUS with the word TRUMP. As a corollary, the adjective ANAL shall be replaced with the word TRUMPAL. 

Meanwhile, the Iranian government has decreed that the word "America" be replaced by the word "Persia" in all official literature. The United States of America thus shall henceforth be referred to as the United States of Persia (USP). 

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Canadian council considers changing street named after Trump to Taco Avenue
Alessandra Freitas, CNN
Fri, August 28, 2026

A Canadian city council is considering renaming a street named after US President Donald Trump – and among the contenders for a replacement are "Obama Avenue" and "Taco Avenue."

In a unanimous vote on Wednesday, Ottawa City Council took a first step toward renaming Trump Avenue, a residential street in the Central Park neighborhood of Ottawa that has carried the president's name for roughly 25 years. It is just one of the references to New York City in the neighborhood, which also has a Staten Way, Madison Park and even a Gotham Private.

But amid the escalating trade fight between the two countries and Trump's repeated jabs at Canada, some local councilors say they see the name as an embarrassment and do not want anything in Ottawa named after him.

The council's vote came just a day before Trump signed an executive order directing the US government to refer to Lake Ontario as "Lake America" – a move that echoes his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America."

Ottawa City Councilor Tim Tierney told CNN that suggestions for the new name have included: Obama Avenue, Ontario Avenue, Canada Avenue, Beaver Avenue, Gulf of Mexico Avenue, Canada Goose Avenue, Pelosi Avenue and even Taco Avenue – a reference to the acronym Trump Always Chickens Out. Another suggestion: Rosie O'Donnell Avenue — a reference to the comedian and longtime Trump antagonist who moved to Ireland after his reelection.

CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.

Canada has plenty of other places bearing the Trump name, from lakes — including a Trump Lake in northern Ontario, which some online have already suggested renaming — to islands and a creek. But Trump Avenue is the only one actually named after Donald Trump, according to Tierney.

Tierney said changing the street name wouldn't happen overnight. More than half of the residents would need to support a name change, and a new name would then go through its own public engagement process. None of this is expected to happen until after municipal elections, scheduled for the end of October.

And this is not the first time the Ottawa community has tried to change Trump Avenue's name.

In 2021, the 62 households on the street were asked whether they wanted to rename it: 21 voted yes, 21 voted no, and 20 didn't vote at all.

Those opposed weren't necessarily Trump supporters, according to Tierney. Some simply didn't want the hassle of changing their addresses, he said.

While the issue had seemed closed following the 2021 vote, Tierney told CNN that the controversy over Trump renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America had put the issue back on the "front burner."

Still, he cautioned against letting the battle over names overshadow the much bigger tensions between the two countries.

"The semantics of names, we can save that for another day in the future," Tierney said. "Right now, I think our focus has to remain on trade and tariffs, something that this is just nothing more than a distraction from."

"We see the president doing something the same and it's tired," Tierney said. "Stop with the lame name game and let's get back to the table."

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The question is why did Ottawa choose to name a street after the senile American moron in the first place. Apparently, the anglophoneys of Canada, particularly the racist God-fearing neo-Nazi white supremacist backwoods-dwelling White trash teabaggers who are even dumber than their American cousins, had always had a love affair with the American morons south of their border, and always dreamed of joining the Union. 

The only obstacle to realizing that dream are those goddam French in Eastern Canada who would immediately secede if anglophoney Canada joins the American Union. This perhaps explains why Ottawa decided one day to honor the Great American Moron by naming a street after him.

But now that their livelihoods are being threatened by the very idiot they used to love, they have turned on him. 

I suggest to all Canadians to change the name of their entire country of Canada into Québec to spite the hell out of the idiot squatting in the Outhouse down in DC.