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By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 10:33:22 AM EST
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Donald Trump was not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral.

He did, however, sign the Epstein bill.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

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    Not surprised (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by Ga6thDem on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 11:31:54 AM EST
    that Trump wasn't invited to Cheney's funeral. IIRC he wasn't invited to Bush Sr. or Barbara's funeral either. And honestly I would be surprised if he is invited to the funerals of any other former president or VP.

    In honor of Dick "Dick" Cheney's ... (5.00 / 2) (#2)
    by desertswine on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 12:09:34 PM EST
    funeral I left on the TV but muted the audio, and played a cd called Rachel's The Sea and the Bells.  The music reminds me of the voyage of the ship Demeter that took Dracula from Varna to England.

    Then I trimmed my toenails, which I find is MUCH easier having lost 25 pounds.  Everything is easier.  Here's to losing more weight!

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    Tomorrow I'm getting (5.00 / 2) (#5)
    by fishcamp on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 02:07:03 PM EST
    the first pedicure in my life.  My ancient bones and joints won't allow me to reach my toes.  Weight is not my problem fortunately.

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    Revlon's (none / 0) (#6)
    by KeysDan on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 02:15:30 PM EST
    most popular polish color is "Cherries in the Snow".  FYI

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    Apparently it's also a desert (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by jondee on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 02:25:04 PM EST
    I thought it sounded like something from the Kama Sutra.

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    Thanks KeysDan but (5.00 / 2) (#16)
    by fishcamp on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 05:30:54 PM EST
    I was thinking something in blue to match my eyes....🕶

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    Congratulations (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by Zorba on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 03:46:09 PM EST
    On your weight loss, and best wishes for more to come!

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    Ditto (none / 0) (#14)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 03:49:18 PM EST


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    Thanks, I'm hoping to lose more... (5.00 / 1) (#17)
    by desertswine on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 09:35:40 PM EST
    I'm taking Mounjaro (sp). It seems to work by killing your appetite.  But I don't want to give the drug all the credit.  It turns out that a little exercise goes a long way.

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    It's cool (5.00 / 1) (#24)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 03:49:50 PM EST
    seeing parts of yourself you haven't seen in a while.

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    Have you seen the movie (none / 0) (#8)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 02:25:43 PM EST
    The Last Voyage of the Demeter

    mixed reviews but I love it.

    One of my favorite Dracula movies and too few have seen it.

    On toenails I've found a good time to trim them is if your feet are up and you can see the light of the tv through one or more.

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    I've seen it and I liked it. (none / 0) (#9)
    by desertswine on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 02:41:43 PM EST
    But I did not like that Nosferatu remake from I guess it was last year.  I saw it at Brewflix and it was worse than the queso.

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    I agree that was disappointing (5.00 / 1) (#12)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 03:30:45 PM EST
    That guy Robert Eggers has a new one I have hopes for


    Werwulf

    I love his movies.  Witch is a favorite Northman is odd but amazing the Lighthouse is just, you have to see it.

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    A couple of those shots (5.00 / 1) (#19)
    by jondee on Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 12:44:47 PM EST
    were very Frank Frazetta looking.

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    I kind of feel that way (none / 0) (#10)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 03:06:15 PM EST
    about the new Frankenstein. It's gorgeous and wonderful like everything he does but it's not, you know, Frankenstein.


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    It's more (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 03:08:27 PM EST
    Frankensteen.

    In a good way.

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    Vice President Vance (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by KeysDan on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 12:36:24 PM EST
    also was not invited.

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    Happy turkey (5.00 / 2) (#20)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 01:56:48 PM EST
    some seriously great caricature art

    I think this Mamdani guy (5.00 / 1) (#22)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 03:44:53 PM EST
    might have a future in politics.  

    I guess Trump needed some positive press but the  Mayor handled it perfectly,

    The son he never had. (5.00 / 1) (#25)
    by KeysDan on Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 03:50:49 PM EST
    In their White House meeting, Trump attempted to glom on to, and bask in, Mamdani's popularity. He, as a feral politician,  recognized and  acknowledged, the different character and charisma with which he needed to reckon.

      Trump deferred to Mamdani on many issues, while Mamdani remained focused on areas to which they purported to agree--safety and affordability,.  Mamdani would not deny having called Trump a fascist, but Trump denied that Mamdani was a Jihadist--thereby throwing Republican candidate for NY governor under the bus --that being her mantra. No accusation of being a lunatic communist or socialist.  Indeed, he pledged to help the  Mayor-elect succeed.    Of course, Trump being Trump, all of this may change if the polls change.

    It was a thing tho (none / 0) (#26)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 04:09:31 PM EST
    wasn't it?

    I was sitting here paying bills and watched the whole thing.

    Loser, winner.

    Mamdani did what Trump always dreamed of, conquering NYC.  

    It was like a feral submission


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    it (none / 0) (#27)
    by FlJoe on Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 04:40:44 PM EST
    was not what I expected, more 'fan boy meets rock star" than feral submission.

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    Really tho (none / 0) (#29)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 05:22:01 PM EST
    for Trump that is a feral submission

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    Well (none / 0) (#37)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Nov 22, 2025 at 11:55:01 AM EST
    there goes the Mamdani as boogie man strategy for 2026.

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    Go Ducks... (5.00 / 1) (#36)
    by fishcamp on Sat Nov 22, 2025 at 11:50:09 AM EST


    In accord with (none / 0) (#4)
    by KeysDan on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 01:56:28 PM EST
    a new policy. the U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses, and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has reworked its policy to align with the Trump Administration's changing tolerance for hazing and harassment in the U.S. Military.

    The Coast Guard (5.00 / 2) (#18)
    by KeysDan on Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 09:57:32 AM EST
    reversed itself and issued a new policy on Thursday, November 20, indicating that swastikas and nooses are still  hate symbols.  

    These hate symbols are , once again, bad. Although,  the Coast Guard claims that reporting was  fake news.  Hope no Coast Guard member got a swastika tattoo early this week.  Or was put in a  noose.

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    Maybe someone asked (none / 0) (#23)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 03:48:10 PM EST
    about a Pride Flag.  

    I mean, if I can put up a swastika ...

    Oh sh!t, forget it.

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    If a member of the military displays (none / 0) (#28)
    by Peter G on Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 05:05:29 PM EST
    a pride flag, they get disciplined for engaging in "political" speech. Apparently a swastika is not "political." Or something.

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    I believe the new term the USCG proposed ... (none / 0) (#32)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sat Nov 22, 2025 at 05:36:56 AM EST
    "We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write 'f*ck' on their airplanes because it's obscene!"
    - Col. Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), "Apocalypse Now!" (1979)

    ... to use in reclassification of swastikas, nooses and Confederate flags is "potentially controversial - emphasis on "potentially."

    These people make my head hurt.

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    Well. (none / 0) (#30)
    by KeysDan on Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 05:36:39 PM EST
    if you got a swastika tattoo, you could run for U.S. Senator in Maine.

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    Good headline. Bad news (none / 0) (#15)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Nov 20, 2025 at 04:46:41 PM EST

    Kristi Noem takes aim at FEMA like one of her poor dogs

    Keystone Homeland Security (none / 0) (#21)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 03:20:37 PM EST
    From AXIOS

    Businesses and bureaucrats found a workaround for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's order to personally review every contract over $100,000:

    Since August, DHS has awarded 11 new contracts between $99,999 and $99,999.99.

    Burt Meyer, 99, Dies; (none / 0) (#31)
    by desertswine on Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 09:36:34 PM EST
    The inventor of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots

    Thanks for the toys.

    To usher in (none / 0) (#33)
    by KeysDan on Sat Nov 22, 2025 at 11:25:42 AM EST
    Mayor-elect Mamdani to the Oval Office for a meeting with Trump, the Republican House of Representatives passed, with the help of 86 Democrats (including the Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries),  H. con. res.58, a resolution condemning the horrors of socialism.

    The resolution starts with a whereas, socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has, time and time again, collapsed into communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships; whereas, socialism has repeatedly led to famine, mass murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 people worldwide.........(naming  despots such as Stalin).......ending with: Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), that Congress denounces socialism in all its forms, opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the USA.  Passed. November 21, 2025.

    Of course, as has been widely noted, Trump pantsed the Republicans and  revealed 86 weak kneed Democrats too timid to support Mamdani or too obtuse to better time their idiocy.

    Beyond those 86 Democrats buckling in the face
    the Republican conjuring of a socialist bogeyman, have they lost resolve for programs such Social Security or public education by opposing implementation of socialist policies?

    It was glaringly apparent that the Republicans planned to make Mamdani a bogeyman (as they had for Hillary, AOC, and Mrs. Pelosi)---just before the White House meeting, the spokesperson claimed a "communist" was coming to meet Trump, and the MAGAts were full throttle on creating what they hoped would be an albatross to hang on Democrats neck.

    yeah, my cowardly congresswoman (5.00 / 1) (#34)
    by leap2 on Sat Nov 22, 2025 at 11:40:14 AM EST
    voted for that stupid "resolution." And I wrote her my thoughts.

    Ha, I can always count on you to make the really dumb votes in the House. Once again. [She also voted for the Resolution to Honor Charlie Kirk.!!¿?!] I didn't even have to look, although I did, just to make sure....that you did, indeed, vote for the stupid, time-wasting "Resolution to Condemn Socialism." What does that even mean? What is the point of this useless "resolution"? Are you so scared of Republicans yelling at you?

    By the way, THIS is American socialism (a partial list):
    Social Security
    Medicare/Medicaid
    Public libraries
    Public infrastructure-- roads, bridges, sewer, electricity, water
    Fire protection
    Public transportation
    Police Departments
    Public Parks
    Public schools (universities, community colleges)
    Head Start
    US Postal Service
    Agricultural policies, including SNAP
    US Military
    Insulin production     (THIS one should be near and dear to you, no?)

    Did you just vote against all of this?

    I will assume you are/were a better pediatrician than the ignorant, frightened, cowardly politician you have become. Maybe you should go back to doctoring full-time.



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    PS: Needless to say, she is a Democrat (none / 0) (#35)
    by leap2 on Sat Nov 22, 2025 at 11:41:21 AM EST
    n/t

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    People (none / 0) (#38)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Nov 22, 2025 at 11:57:48 AM EST
    don't even know what socialism is nor do they know what communism is. That's the problem. And when you say do you like the fire department their eyes glaze over.

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    Honestly (none / 0) (#39)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Nov 22, 2025 at 12:02:41 PM EST
    Mamdani's problems have nothing to do with any of this. He appears to have empowered the antisemites in NYC and he needs to clamp down on that. His statement on what happened at the synagogue was severely lacking.

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