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And So It Goes

Today is Wednesday, December 3, 2025. That special election in Tennessee sadly did not end with a victory for Democrats in the form of Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn, but the Republican who did win, Matt Van Epps, won by a very narrow margin, with Democrats now viewing this loss as more evidence that repugnicans are in deep doo-doo for the midterms. The race is covered in an online The Hill article written by the news outlet’s staff entitled “Live results: Republican wins Tennessee special election.”

This district was a deep-red one in which the Orange Turd won by more than 20 points last November. This time around, the repugnican won by roughly nine points, a slim margin for such a GOP-friendly district, which does not bode well for Chump’s party next November.

If you ask for my humble opinion, I still cannot understand why any damn repugnican can win any race during this time in a second Grump era.

In the meantime, MS Now anchor Lawrence O’Donnell has shredded the fascist in chief in his “Last Word” show last night which was covered in a HuffPost article by Marco Margaritoff entitled “Lawrence O’Donnell Shred Trump Over Latest ‘Distraction’ That Has Failed Miserably.”

The seasoned host of the late-night MS Now show excoriated the president over the ongoing U.S. military strikes off Venezuela and Defense Department Secretary Pete Hegseth for his reported orders to “kill everybody” on an alleged drug boat in September.

The “Last Word” host suggested during his monologue that these strikes were nothing more than a distraction – a distraction from releasing the Epstein files.

“There is no war in Venezuela,” O’Donnell said. “There will never be a war in Venezuela. Donald Trump foolishly decided to publicly play with the idea of war in Venezuela to distract from the Epstein files, a distraction that has failed miserably.”

The second strike on that defenseless boat has been met with controversy ever since the attack was conducted in September. Instead of sticking to the story that the unfit Hegseth delivered that order, White House press secretary bimbo Karoline Leavitt now said during a press conference that an Admiral Bradley issued the order for a second strike on his own without consulting Hegseth.

O’Donnell shredded the Orange Turd for lying about the incident, when he said,
“And Donald Trump’s first instinct, as we know, is always to lie about everything. And so, when asked about this, the very first words out of his mouth were, ‘I don’t know anything about it.’ That’s a classic Trump statement. He always says that.”

The liar in chief did claim ignorance on Sunday when asked about the incident, telling reporters he “wouldn’t have wanted” a second strike. The seasoned host then went on to quote Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), who received a classified briefing on the mater in October.

According to the Washington Post, Moulton said, “Mark my words: it may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.” I can’t wait for that day when this consummate nitwit, Pete Hegseth, is brought up on charges of war crimes or, even, murder.

I won’t go into the absurdity of that Cabinet meeting in which the Alzheimer’s president was seen dozing while being advised by the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, but the asshole known as Grump alienated more of his downtrodden supporters when he stupidly reversed his position on the issue of “affordability.” He now falsely claimed that “The word affordability is a con job by the Democrats.” He grossly continued, “The word affordability is a Democrat scam.”

It is this very issue that Democrats swept statewide elections last month in New Jersey and Virginia and used the issue to make a reliably red Tennessee Congressional district competitive in an election the same day as Grump’s remarks were uttered by the old fool.

The only saving grace at this ridiculous meeting was the acknowledgment by the old fool that he will not be the nominee in the 2028 presidential race. After absurdly floating a possible unconstitutional third term for much of his first year back in office., he finally acknowledged the truth: he can’t run again! This is the only true comment this nut job has made his entire life, I bet.

Well, at least the American people were delivered a scrap of good news during that Cabinet meeting that featured a snoozing president, which should alarm all of us.

Have a good Thursday.

And so it went!

And So It Goes

Today is Sunday, November 30, 2025. Finally, lawmakers are finding their spine in the wake of this regime’s firing on alleged drug traffickers at sea in which 80 people have been killed in military strikes against the vessels carrying them. In an Associated Press online article by Kevin Freking entitled “Lawmakers voice support for congressional reviews of Trump’s military strikes on boats,” the situation is reported on where lawmakers have initially voiced concern about these unlawful strikes.

Thus lawmakers from both parties said today that they support congressional review of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, citing a published report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order for all crew members to be killed as part of a September 2 attack.

The lawmakers said they did not know whether last week’s Washington Post report was true. Though there are still some repugnicans who are skeptical of this report, but they did say that attacking survivors of an initial missile strike poses serious legal concerns.

Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) said, “This rises to the level of a war crime if it’s true.”

One skeptical repugnican, Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), when asked about a follow-up strike aimed at people no longer able to fight, said that Congress does not have information that happened. However, if Hegseth is found to have issued orders to kill defenseless individuals, Turner said, “Obviously, if that occurred, that would be very serious and I agree that that would be an illegal act.” At lest this putz did agree that this action could constitute an illegal act.

In the meantime, this murderous regime says the strikes in the Caribbean were warranted since they were aimed at cartels, some of which it claims are controlled by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Now this so-called “peace” president is weighing whether to carry out strikes on the Venezuelan mainland, thus possibly dragging us into another armed conflict that is totally unnecessary.

Rep. Turner said there are concerns in Congress about the attacks on vessels that the Grump administration says are transporting drugs, but the allegation regarding the September 2 assault “is completely outside anything that has been discussed with Congress and there is an ongoing investigation.”

Now that Grump has made comments saying that the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela should be considered as “closed in its entirety,” an assertion that raised more questions about the U.S. pressure on Maduro, Venezuelan’s government is accusing this country of making a “colonial threat” and seeking to undermine the South American country’s sovereignty.

As would be expected, the unfit Hegseth defends his organization’s actions during this conflict. He averred, “Our current operations in the Caribbean are lawful under both U.S. and international law, with all actions in compliance with the law of armed conflict – and approved by the best military and civilian lawmakers, up and down the chain of command.” Let’s hope this beast would comply then with a subpoena to testify before the Armed Services Committee if it ever came to that.

So far, repugnican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and its top Democrat, Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, said in a joint statement late Friday that the committee “will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to these circumstances.”

Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama and the ranking Democratic member, Washington Rep. Adam Smith, issued a joint statement saying the panel was committed to “providing rigorous oversight of the Department of Defense’s military operations in the Caribbean.”

Another repugnican, Don Bacon (R-NE), asked about the September 2 attack, said Hegseth deserves a chance to present his side. So subpoena the bum, Rep. Bacon, and get him to offer his objective perspective on what happened on September 2. Bacon did say, “We should get to the truth. I don’t think he would be foolish enough to make this decision to say, kill everybody, kill the survivors because that’s a clear violation of the law of war.” No one said this jerk even knows what the law is in that regard. He should never have been confirmed by Congress. Everyone knows that by now!

Let’s hope then that this article signifies now that there is some tentative opposition to what this horrible administration is doing at the present moment.

Now it’s getting late since Elliot and I watched a great true-crime documentary called Girl in the Picture from 2022. It’s an hour, forty-eight-minute depiction of sexual assault, violence, and murder of innocence in the guise of one convicted felon known by several aliases who kidnapped a young woman and brutalized her over a period of decades forcing her into working as an exotic dancer, eventually kidnapping her son, and was later convicted of murdering another woman years earlier. The tale was very long but fascinating. Only toward the very end does the viewer know who this woman really was. Her identity had not been known for about 35 years. She was known for many years as Sharon Marshall, but that was not her real name. I wholeheartedly recommend viewing this even though it’s quite difficult to watch at times.

I also spent some time with my son earlier when Elliot and I picked him up at his mother’s house in Hollis Hills and took him out to dinner at a Greek restaurant on Northern Boulevard called Mythos. We had a very delicious dinner consisting of Greek salad and avgolemono soup for me, and my sharing souvlaki skaras with Elliot, while “Joshua” ordered the same entree. We asked Joshua to drive our car which is a year old today back to his mother’s house since Elliot forgot to bring his driver’s license in his wallet. Of course, I drove home.

It’s another week and the first week of December. Wow! Have a good week then.

And so it went!