"I'm not too much of a believer, but I sat in the Oval Office, first term and a little bit second term, meeting with Air Force pilots that are really good, solid people. These are not people that you would say are conspiracy theorists. They don't even know what it means. But they're great, great pilots. Young, handsome. They have beautiful, nice flat tops. I'd like to have a haircut just like them. They look perfect, like Tom Cruise. … They're thin, you know, very thin and very everything. And… they're the real deal. And they've told me things that are very strange."
I just want to know if the aliens are good-looking. And which A-list celebrity they most resemble. I'm on a Nicolas Cage kick this month, so I hope they look like Nicolas Cage....
Trump’s loose and crazy talk was always his weakness. And it gets worse every day.
He just needs to bomb Pick Axe MT. Go back and bomb that other mountain for good measure and then declare the war over. Keep all the sanctions in place and hope the Iranian people can act on their own.
Rush Limbaugh used to put off kind of a gay vibe, having fresh flowers delivered to his house every day, stuff like that, but, and not that there's anything wrong with that, Trump seems like he is heading somewhere with this.
I love the Nicholas Cage month on Criterion too, BTW.
To do what? Re-install the Shah and sign their old back over to the West? Iran had a secular democratically elected gove in 1953, before "Project Ajax" [google it] just like Afghanistan had a secular government which respected the rights of women before we armed, trained, and funded to Islamists to take the country over in 1979. Another good google search is to search for images life and of women in Afghanistan in the 1970s.
Jeez, I almost wish you hadn't mentioned that Criterion was having a Nicholas Cage month. I might almost consider resubscribing. As for our President. He seems to be heading toward a Supernova. Not sure he'll make it through two more years. It's been so long since we had anyone resembling 'normal' as President, I'm wondering what it would be like if it ever happened again.
While Trump is in a confessional mood, perhaps he could tell us how many billions he and his sons have pocketed from their business dealings during his two years in office.
Are we talking double digits or triple digits? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-reports-over-14-billion-income-crypto-ventures-2026-06-30/
“ The strait of Hormuz will remain closed until Europe falls”
Same logic applies to Europe as it does to Russia, China, and Iran. The people there know it, but their leadership has been pried away from them and bought off. What do you care if your country has been sold out and its people relegated to poverty and a brutal government if you are cashing the checks? viz: The Shah.
I would expect someone in his circle to whisper in his ear that his strange meanderings into vapid subject matter only help the very people who want to shoot at him from a roof top. So far - no.
Cage's flamboyant performance in DePalma's "Snake Eyes" (the screenshot shown in this post) ruins the movie. He's unbelievable as an Atlantic City cop.
As for photos of women in 1970s Iran and Afghanistan wearing western clothes, they represented a tiny percent of the total population and were the children of wealthy urban elites.
We all know that communist governments are notorious for suppressing the rights of women… Not.
Still Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor has publicly admitted that the purpose of sending jihadis into Afghanistan was to provoke a Soviet invasion. Search terms: Afghanistan, Khyber Pass, 1979, and Brzezinski. So even if your claim is true, it’s not why the Afghanistan war happened, and it was none of our business anyway.
Peachy, ask Chat about Mossad, the Shah, and SAVAK, and if you approve, kindly stop pretending that we are doing anything in the region to “help” the people there.
People forget that Trump is 1.5- generation American. His mother was an immigrant, and his father was 1st gen. His Karlstadt-born grandmother was probably his greatest influence. So he did not have standard US English idioms in the house. Also, he is a boomer who wanted to grow up to be like his Greatest Gen parents and other role models. So his idiom is a mix of foreignisms and nearly 100-year-old ways of expressing oneself.
Really he mostly speaks Rat Pack. Take some of his statements admiring male beauty and put them in the voice of Dino or Sammy or Joey or even the other Don: Rickles. Would fit right in. CC, JSM
Why not quote the rest of his answer in the post? He was rather forthcoming about the best planes we have being totally outclassed by strange objects that can't currently be explained.
Oh jeez! Enough with the inveterate ruminations on physique and other physical appearance aspects. Male or female. It’s just getting gross. Grotesque, even.
"declare the war over. Keep all the sanctions in place and hope the Iranian people can act on their own."
The war consists of a US Navy blockade, protected by occasional airstrikes, enforcing the sanctions. If you remove the blockade you remove the sanctions.
I overhear women talking about other women like this all the time. Do they all have repressed Lesbian fantasies? If they're elderly and spontaneously say such things, are they losing it?
Based on their voting trends, maybe they are. Thanks, Althouse, for giving us this insight, in your own clever way.
Does anybody really believe that this “Election” was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting “dumps” were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote. It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter! President DJT https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117587105833579030
I find Trump's quirks hilarious. Ah, those young pilots and those crew-cuts (or top-tops or whatever). Its part of not being a politician.
Trump is affected by how people and things look. That's why he has beautiful wives. And buys golf courses, and tries to make buildings and the white house more beautiful. I think part of his disgust with Rosie O Donnell comes from the fact that she's such an ugly fat cow with a shrew mouth.
Of course, Establishment republicans hate that. But then they're losers who don't accomplish anything. Even when you give them power.
I like Nicholas cage as an actor, but don't find him "handsome". Robert Redford was handsome. Young Trump was handsome. James Garner (when young) was handsome.
But then, I"m not Trump. I rarely watch movies and go "Wow, that actor sure is handsome, and his hair..."
Jaq said... Peachy, ask Chat about Mossad, the Shah, and SAVAK, and if you approve, kindly stop pretending that we are doing anything in the region to “help” the people there.
Mullah supporters like you just want different people to meddle in Iran.
Europe backs the Mullahs because they allow Lloyds of London to monopolize global shipping and the mullahs allow the globalists in Europe to make cheap goods in SE Asia with a structural energy cost advantage. The Mullahs were happy to give China Oil for weapons they could use to suppress their people and hold shipping in the region hostage.
Trump is just ending Europe's meddling with our own meddling. The strait of Hormuz will remain closed until Europe falls.
Pretending you are some noble crusader is a joke. Everyone in the world meddles. You are a coward that needs to go somewhere else where you can bleat your self righteous bullshit.
Jaq said... “ The strait of Hormuz will remain closed until Europe falls”
Same logic applies to Europe as it does to Russia, China, and Iran. The people there know it, but their leadership has been pried away from them and bought off. What do you care if your country has been sold out and its people relegated to poverty and a brutal government if you are cashing the checks? viz: The Shah.
China and Russia are on our side in this but you are too blind to notice.
Ukraine blowing up Russian refineries was just a Eurotrash catspaw to get retards like you to blame diesel prices on Trump.
Democrats have been shutting down refineries for years and Europe is shutting them down and blowing them up but you voted for them because you have an 80 IQ.
I hadn't seen my friend Ed (he played the slave in Aguirre Wrath Of God) in over 10 years when I spotted him riding his bicycle. I stopped and said "Hey Ed, how ya doing?" He looked at me very seriously and replied "I went up in the ship, but I'm not saying I was probed." Then he got on his recumbent bike and rode off. True story.
When the first Top Gun came out, a bunch of NASA and Marine pilots I know saw it. They all laughed at the buff physiques of the crews. Then one went to Miramar to work on a new G-suit. He came back and said "I was in the briefing room when the crews came in. They all looked just like in the movie, men and women! I don't remember US looking like that! "
Oh my God, okay, I hate the purple. Call us gay if you want to, but don't put our words in purple. Pink and purple. Holy shit. Now call me an interior decorator. I'm immune to this shit, more or less, but by God. Pink and purple. That is just too much.
I would also like to thank Hamas and badly spelled Muslim organizations for never calling me gay. People would believe it if y'all said that shit. I say it, and nobody says shit about my sexuality. Baptists and the rest of the mean Christian police are terrified to take on the Saint Croix, the wordsmith smack down artist of North Carolina. You think Ivy League pussies want a shot at the champ? Bring it! And maybe some of these punks in the South can out.insult my ass. Just between you and me, I'm a little worried that some of these black fuckers can insult me into the dirt. I'll be like, "Who taught you to read?" and they're all "ghetto fuck in the nimrod" and all the kids are laughing at "ghetto fuck in the nimrod" and I'm screaming what the fuck does ghetto fuck in the nimrod mean and nobody's laughing at my shit. And I'm like, "I could have been a lawyer."
I'm an Assistant DA. I'm having beers with two other Assistant DAs. I'm an Assistant DA in Salisbury, which is allegedly the most Republican county in North Carolina. And thus, allegedly, the most racist county in North Carolina. And also the richest county in North Carolina.
Let me tell you something about Salisbury. It's actually poor as shit. Like Mayberry poor. We're neck and neck with Mayberry, North Carolina. If you've never heard of Mayberry North Carolina, well, I don't have time to educate you ignorant motherfuckers. Get out of your stupid libraries and watch some TV, all right? Anyway, fuckers around the world will no doubt say that Salisbury was the richest, most evil city in the North Carolina, because they looked at the data. And the average income in Salisbury was through the roof. So many rich people in Salisbury! What the fucking social scientists forgot to mention is that this particular data point is based on averages. So, for instance, if a couple of people in Salisbury managed to pull off the miracle of holding on to their damn Food Town stock, we might have a secret, terrified billionaire hanging out in Salisbury. My parents bought our house from some relative of so-and-so at Tiger Management. Julian Robertson, maybe? I can't slow down to check. And if you fucking socialists have never heard of Food Town stock, motherfucker, Food Town was started in Salisbury North Carolina. Do you get it now? Do you get it? No? All right. Food Town became Food Lion. Heard of me now? Groceries! The fucking grocery chain! Still haven't heard of it? Motherfucker. Okay. Holy shit. Never mind then. Anyway, Salisbury was this little dirt town in North Carolina, filled with happy poor people (more or less) and a couple of secretive billionaires who didn't feel any guilt at all. The Robertsons, might have been Julian, they sound like an ultra-rich bad guy, amirite? They would invite our family over to have drinks. And they would serve Tab. Tab, motherfucker! That's what the rich people drink!
What do you mean, you don't know what Tab is? How the fuck do you not know what Tab is? Am I losing my mind? Are they pretending to be ignorant? What is real and what is not real? Sometimes I feel like I might be solipsistic. Other times I feel like smart people make up mental illnesses just to scare my ass quiet. You can't scare me, motherfucker! I'm fearless! I'm Saint Croix from the South! Just don't handcuff me to a hospital bed. Which actually happened. I'll tell that story if anybody wants to hear it.
Before I tell my next story, which has an N bomb in it, skip it if you don't want to hear the N bomb, I want to confess something. This is true. I'm trying to stop lying in my life because Satan is the Father of Lies. And what I have discovered is that truth will fuck you up in life. You say true things and people are ready to shoot you. That's why lying caught on! People wanted to avoid all the pain.
Maybe you noticed that black people say the N bomb all the time. And nobody cares. And white people say the N bomb and people are ready to lose their minds with hatred. So it's not the word that gets you, it's the skin color. Or the skin color and the word.
"If you're racist, you get away with shit," Satan whispers. "Just be racist. Life is so easy if you're racist. Just think your racist thoughts and keep your mouth shut. Easy as pie. You can do it. Listen to Satan. Would Satan lie to you? Satan doesn't even exist."
I know the N bomb is very stressful for some of you. I want to give you some time to get mentally prepared. I'm about to drop an N bomb. Hello. N bomb coming. Get ready. People lose their jobs over this shit. All right. Don't freak out, America. In the next post, I will drop, an N bomb. More than one. It has to be done. (Joke)
If you were probed you probably can't remember it, but if you find yourself suddenly mooning over fighter pilots it's a good sign you were probably probed and implanted.
Nicolar Cage is an alien so there's that. You won't fing Nick wearing any flat top, though.
One of my grandsons accidentally got a glimpse on my iPhone of Cage in his Dracula makeup. The poor kid wouldn't go to the bathroom in our house alone for a couple of months. https://wallpapercave.com/wp/wp11837398.jpg
All right. So I'm at a bar with two Assistant D.A.s from Charlotte. It's a true story, but also comic. I think. Although, if you think something is funny, and very serious people do not think it's funny, all of a sudden your comic defense system is totally fucked and you're in trouble anyway. Guess how many times that has happened to me? More than once.
So I'm at this bar, drinking beers with this incredibly hot, gorgeous, blonde DA. I wanted to have sex with her so bad. And the other person in our little threesome was this black guy. I forget his name. I forget her name, too, actually. The only name I remember from this story is my own.
All right. I'm not a racist. Racism is stupid. Remember? It's the dumbest fucking ideology ever invented by anybody. Skin color, by God. Imagine you're in a parallel universe and right-handed people oppressed the shit out of left-handed people. Right-handed people are 90% of the republic, and left-handed people are 10% of the republic. And back in the 19th century, left-handed people were slaves. And a few right-handed people bought them and sold them and raped them and murdered them. So, in 2026, nobody said the word "southpaw." If you said the word "southpaw," bad shit could happen to you. Particularly if you weren't a southpaw.
So anyway, I was telling a story about Quentin Tarantino at the bar. And I said, "Have you seen the movie Pulp Fiction"? And he said, "Oh, I love Tarantino." And I said, "You do? He's always using the word nigger. Doesn't that bother you?"
"What?"
"White people are always saying nigger in his movies. Like Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs and other movies. And white people would say nigger in his movies."
And the black guy said, "I didn't notice."
And I said, "You didn't notice?"
I was genuinely confused. How could he not notice? In my world, white people did not say "nigger" to black people, because you could easily get punched in the mouth. And who needs that shit? As a matter of fact, back in high school I had a white buddy, good guy, he was the only damn white man to say "nigger" when only white people were in the room. None of us said anything to him. But in our minds, we were going "white trash," you are white trash, motherfucker.
I'm not even looking at the hot girl. Not flirting with her. I had zero game with the ladies. My dating move was to get drunk with them and hope "I got lucky." I thought I was having a nice conversation about movies with the black guy. He's a little confused. And the hot beautiful white girl next to us is about to lose her mind.
Very everything… I still hold to this idea; there’s not enough room on a bagel to be an ‘everything’ bagel. I say ‘still’ because I haven’t had a bagel in years, maybe over a decade.
Was this from the recent 60 minutes interview? Because I could absolutely swear that Trump said the exact same thing about the handsome pilots seeing strange things sometime around a year ago.
I believe he started saying this in response to questions about UFO's shortly after he had strongly hinted that the big alien drone panic in New Jersey was just the military testing new weapons.
I suspect that it was explained to him why it is necessary for the general public to maintain a widespread belief in the possibility of alien UFO's. So this is the schtick that he came up with.
"HOW MUCH SHOULD I CHARGE FOR A JENSEN HUANG PARDON?" Get back to me when Swalwell and Pelosi have been appropriately sanctioned for THEIR chinese spy relationships.
Bob Boyd: "The war consists of a US Navy blockade, protected by occasional airstrikes, enforcing the sanctions. If you remove the blockade you remove the sanctions."
You are absolutely correct.
"But it's a WAR, and it's Trump's war, and we want it over right now!"
Neither the people who want the sanctions lifted and the blockade removed, nor the people who want to invade/bomb Iran are thinking rationally or strategically. It's a blockade, it takes time, and it's working.
Okay, I want to make some commentary about 10:43. It confuses the shit out of me now. Let me see if I can break it down and figure out what the hell I was saying.
First, In my brain, when I'm writing it, I'm going, "this is funny!" And now I'm looking at it and going, it's funny? I don't even understand it. And I wrote it.
So what the hell happened to me?
Possibly I was normal at 10:33, and then insane at 10:43, and then back to normal at 11:09.
Is that a thing? Normal, insane, normal, in the span of 30 minutes?
Maybe I got some wacky version of Tourette syndrome, where it pops in and pops out.
Another possibility is that the devil got inside me, and I wrote that shit. And then, I don't know, angels dragged the devil out of me and I'm back to normal. Nobody can see that, and I find it hard to believe myself.
Anyway, I'm fine now. Normally I would just delete the crazy post that makes no sense at 10:43. And keep going with my life. But I'm leaving it up. Evidence of something, I guess.
I would also like to thank Hamas and badly spelled Muslim organizations for never calling me gay. People would believe it if y'all said that shit. I say it, and nobody says shit about my sexuality.
I suspect that some at my church might think I'm gay because I'm single and unmarried and I go out to dinner with my Mom all the time. My life is kind of like Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk. Which is a great movie. I'm not gay. Nobody's accused me of being gay. People in church try to be Christian. That's why we're in church!
Also, I've got the homophobia, and I keep that shit secret. Because if you admit you've got the homophobia, people point their fingers at you and shout, "You're gay! Ha ha ha ha." And the more you deny that you are gay, the gayer you are. You've fallen down a gay rathole. And who wants to do that? Gay people and that's about it.
I cried three times in Bible study. Just bawled in public. Very awkward and uncool. I think subconsciously I wanted people to know that I was upset about all the dead babies under Roe v. Wade. 60 million and counting. Many of those are not homicides. But the longer you wait, the more homicidal it looks. That's why the photographs are suppressed and hidden. And nobody wants to pay attention.
My first girlfriend (Jewish) once asked me, "What do you care what people think?" And I said, "I don't!" But sometimes I do. Especially if they are wrong about me or don't know me at all.
Baptists and the rest of the mean Christian police are terrified to take on the Saint Croix, the wordsmith smack down artist of North Carolina.
I think that's some attempt at humor. I'm being silly. Right wing Christians are afraid to mock me because I mock them right back? Maybe?
You think Ivy League pussies want a shot at the champ? Bring it! And maybe some of these punks in the South can out.insult my ass.
There are people who are smarter than I am. Most of them went to the Ivy League. I probably could have gone. I had the intelligence. But I did poorly in school. So I have this resentment of people in the Ivy League who think they ought to rule the world. Like the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. I love individuals from the Ivy League. That's where smart people go! But I take shots at the elites because they run our society and they've really screwed the pooch. My head priest went to Yale and I love him. But he's not upset about all the homicides under Roe and doesn't want to talk about them or look at them. He asked me one time what I wanted. And I told him I'm just trying to move the needle.
Just between you and me, I'm a little worried that some of these black fuckers can insult me into the dirt. I'll be like, "Who taught you to read?" and they're all "ghetto fuck in the nimrod" and all the kids are laughing at "ghetto fuck in the nimrod" and I'm screaming what the fuck does ghetto fuck in the nimrod mean and nobody's laughing at my shit. And I'm like, "I could have been a lawyer."
I'm not the best comic in the world. That's probably a black guy. They are seriously funny people. Some of them. Dave Chappelle is a comic genius. I'm not going to pile on top of him. Y'all don't need me for that.
"I could have been a lawyer" is a play on Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront.
I can tell a funny story about the gay club in Birmingham Alabama and my friends are taking us there. And I'm drunk in the backseat going "Why are we going to a gay club?" And they're like, "It's straight night."
OK, I wrote a long response to you, Achilles, and at the end of it, i realized I was just sort of making your point, what you proposes is a good idea, but I am not a big fan of complicated explanations that assume that everything is going perfectly according to some secret plan.
Never assign to superior genius that which could better be explained by a series of fuck ups.
We don't need to be in Europe, we don't need to be in the Middle East, or Asia for that matter. These adventures are on behalf of the bankers who have a vision of making an entire planet of debt slaves. We don't need to use our treasure and the blood of our youth to protect Israel. We have everything we need and two oceans to protect us, and BTW, 5,000 nuclear weapons, nobody is going to cross those oceans to fuck with us, just like George Washington said.
The Democrats are going to fuck up with Russia and get spanked just as hard. If you are mad that the Republicans lost the opportunity that they had, blame Donald Trump.
I love hot lesbians. They are terrified of me. Like, hot lesbians will not take a public shower with me. I've tried to create a new word heterophobia, to describe this fear that hot lesbians have of taking a shower with me. It has not caught on.
I think in the future I will just delete anything that makes me look bad. I've had multiple people suggest to me I ought to repress more. Okay. I've heard that messes you up, though.
“I looked at his ass. And then I looked at his legs. I said, ‘His ass, shit, it’s like a pile of muscle.’ Then I looked at his legs and I said, ‘Man, his feet are big.’
“When he took the showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable.’”
In a parallel universe Donald Trump is the world’s most fabulous elderly drag queen.
But alas, Nicholas Cage was not handsome enough for the generically, good looking, aliens in the movie, Knowing.
Also, it's kind of a running gag in sci-fi when non-humans comment about humans being so ugly.
In Star Trek they liked to play around with the idea that sometimes the more beautiful the alien life form, the more evil it was. (and vice versa) For example, the Crystal Entity was very beautiful , but malevolent; and the Medusans were good but so ugly that just looking at them could drive a human insane.
I have forgotten things and other people forget things and maybe that happens to protect us?
I have heard that people don't remember what you do or say. They remember how you made them feel.
I sincerely wish that I make people feel good. That we all have good vibes together. That is an amazing feeling. And collaboration is betten than being a solo artist. And sex is way more fun than masturbation. And orgy is way too many people. I have an orgy joke. This is from my novel Whodidit with a Clone?
“Okay,” he said. “Orgies are stressful if you are a straight man. Orgies are way more fun if you’re bisexual. If you’re straight, you got to guard your asshole. And you get a little paranoid. Who’s behind me? Who’s behind me? Or you keep your ass on the floor. That’s my orgy plan. Orgies are also hard on the lesbians, let me tell you. And the drummer would go, ba-dum-bum.”
“You had a drummer?”
“Well, they had a jazz band. And we would rotate. A little jazz, a little comedy. And sometimes the drummer would help me out a little.”
FredSays said... "Sorry. I don’t watch 60 Minutes and, increasingly, don’t listen to Trump."
The thing about Trump is that it's important to actually listen to what he says, unfiltered. After the media gets ahold of what he said, it's impossible to actually understand what he was trying to say.
I don't think Donald Trump plays "3-D chess." I think he's very open and says what's on his mind. Sometimes he's not honest. In fact, he can be so dishonest it's hysterical. He's not guarded in his speech, or in his actions. He's open. And emotional. His emotions go up and down. And sometimes he says things that scare people. Liberals are responding to his emotions, not to his words or his deeds. Republicans are the thinkers and Democrats are the feelers. More or less.
RCOCEAN II said... "I rarely watch movies and go "Wow, that actor sure is handsome, and his hair...""
Obviously, you've never seen any of the fine cinema that I was in. I had fantastic hair. In fact, I think that my wavy locks are even more impressive now with their stunning gray highlights.
The thing about Trump is that it's important to actually listen to what he says, unfiltered.
Trump is an outstanding thinker, in my opinion. SNL used to do a skit where Reagan was nice and dumb in public and a sharp axe in private. Similar with Trump. He plays a funny guy in public. In private he's incredibly smart. He brags about being smart. And it's such a stupid thing to do, people suspect he's dumb. And he's really smart and normal in private. (That's why normal Republicans like Rubio and Vance are working with him). That's the 3-D chess, I guess.
If Althouse is on a Nic Cage kick this month, I recommend Spider Noir You can choose to watch it in B&W or in color. We chose the former and were happy with that. It's on Amazon Prime.
"HOW MUCH SHOULD I CHARGE FOR A JENSEN HUANG PARDON?" Get back to me when Swalwell and Pelosi have been appropriately sanctioned for THEIR chinese spy relationships.
Speaking of Swalwell: did you know he used to fuck Stephen Miller's wife? Supposedly, he used his relationship with Katie Miller to help keep his Chinese spy files secret. So that's fun.
St Croix are you OK? No slurring your words or limb weakness or double vision?
Your stream of consciousness is not yet Proustian, let alone Joycean, but you might be able to give Woolf or Faulkner a run for their money in quantity if not in quality.
I think that it is true that Trump says exactly what he means and if you interpret his words from a partisan lens, you will likely not get it right. For instance, everything he says about Iran right now boils down to "We are not negotiating in goof faith, whatever we say, and if they don't simply "surrender pronto, we will nuke Toronto!"
OK, I couldn't resist the Canadian Bacon reference, but what he is saying that if Iran doesn't simply surrender, we will find a way to destroy it or choke it to death. Same with Russia. When he said he could end the Ukraine war immediately, he was really saying he could get Russia to capitulate.
It will be so nice when we have a president again who doesn't have to come with a deciphering manual. magas ad nauseum "what he really meant to say" The dude is glitchin more everyday and now has a fascination with men with big butts and nice haircuts and muscles like you never seen. No wonder Melody has been MIA forever.. What a pair
***** And he's really smart and normal in private. *****
I've read of people who say that he is charming, witty, sincere, and magnetically engaging in private conversations, including lefties who have known him a long time but now hate his guts and have nothing to gain by building him up.
I think it's also implausible that anyone of subnormal or even minimally above normal intelligence would be able to complete the construction of hundreds of large buildings in Manhattan and around the world...
Just as it's clear that Reagan was no dunce from his erudite commentary of the late 50's and early 60's that propelled him into politics. The book "Reagan, In His Own Hand", taken from some 600 articles, speeches, and radio addresses he wrote out longhand on yellow legal pads, is worth a read-- Especially for midwit lefties who fancy themselves to be intellectuals because they have a toilet-paper degree in a gut major from a third tier college.
Your stream of consciousness is not yet Proustian, let alone Joycean, but you might be able to give Woolf or Faulkner a run for their money in quantity if not in quality.
Maybe Jack Kerouac? I'm calling him straight, by the way. I got the straight-dar. James Dean? Straight! Cary Grant? Straight. Although he was an LSD fiend, or so I've been told.
'...Who has had a flat top since the early 1960s?....'
My barber has a few regular clients and she still does the flat-top. I asked her about it one day as one of these clients was finishing up before my turn, as I waited. She has about ½ dozen - 10 or so regulars that request it.
By the way, the movie Guess Who is an outanding movie about interracial dating. Way, way better than the original (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner). I like Poitier a lot, but he disappears in that movie. Spencer Tracy is bad, Hepburn is bad. Stanley Kramer is an over-rated director. His best film is It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Comics don't need his direction, that's why.
What shocked me about Guess Who is that I'm not the audience. Black people are the audience. Ashton Kutcher is a revelation. I hate him in everything he's done. Except this movie. His comedy is on fire. Bernie Mac is funny, too. This movie is way cooler than the original. Spencer Tracy buying ice cream is a major plot point in that snore-fest. I need to watch Guess Who again. It's criminally underrated. It came out in 2005. Very well done.
I don't think they used the N word once in Guess Who. That was a shock. I was like, holy fuck, this movie is less racist than I am. I've never seen that before. I was expecting N bombs. At least one N bomb. You got the pass, man! And they're like, "We don't need an N bomb. We can communicate without an N bomb." I was impressed. And no dick jokes! If I was writing, there would have to be a dick joke. No dick jokes? What? This movie was schooling me on actual anti-racism. This is anti-racism if anti-racism actually meant anti-racism. This is the way! This is the way! Three years later we had Obama and riots and shit. Not the way! Not the way! I mean, he could have been worse. He could have been Joe Biden. I seriously think Joe Biden was assassination insurance. Tell me I'm wrong. Donald Trump is too arrogant to to sign up for assassination insurance. "Nobody's going to shoot me," Trump says, on his own, with no help from Satan. He literally picked J.D. Vance because he thought he would be on his side when the shit went down. He judged his character not the color of his skin! Wrap your mind around that. Meanwhile Obama is all "I need a dumb white fucker who makes me look good." And he found one!
J.D. Vance is the anti-Race Bannon. "I need somebody who is not Race Bannon." If you don't know who Race Bannon is, I can't help you. You're going to have to deal with your own damn ignorance.
This is probably some wacky coincidence, but there is a conspiracy theory that Race Bannon is really gay. I don't know how you investigate that one. You know he's not human, right? He's a cartoon. I don't like false gay allegations but damn if I'm going to put my neck on the line for Race Bannon.
My Dad wore a dress to a party one time. That's back when Bob Hope was doing that shit. Alfred Hitchcock. And don't forget J. Edgar Hoover. My view on this is I don't stick my neck out for dead people.
Stand-up comedians are on the front lines in the war on comedy. Which one of you dumb fuckers decided to start war on comedy? I'll bet it was somebody in the Ivy League.
Cage will do any job, anywhere, anytime. The hardest working actor today. The man must have a lot of ex-wives.
He's a lot of fun in The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, revelling in taking the piss out of himself. Also, Spider Noir is better than it has any right to be, mainly because of him and Gleeson.
I, for one, know from personal experience that wearing a dress in public is not a sure indicator of sexual preference or gender identity. Don't ask how I know, the 1970s was a strange decade and the tale dies with me.
Cage is great when the director is good and terrible when the director is not good. But he's always worth watching because he will always give you something. There are far too many actors today who give you nothing.
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Trump’s loose and crazy talk was always his weakness. And it gets worse every day.
He just needs to bomb Pick Axe MT. Go back and bomb that other mountain for good measure and then declare the war over. Keep all the sanctions in place and hope the Iranian people can act on their own.
Rush Limbaugh used to put off kind of a gay vibe, having fresh flowers delivered to his house every day, stuff like that, but, and not that there's anything wrong with that, Trump seems like he is heading somewhere with this.
I love the Nicholas Cage month on Criterion too, BTW.
Um, ... it's good that men are finally getting in touch with their feminine side?
OK. This was weird.
"Hope the Iranian people can act on their own."
To do what? Re-install the Shah and sign their old back over to the West? Iran had a secular democratically elected gove in 1953, before "Project Ajax" [google it] just like Afghanistan had a secular government which respected the rights of women before we armed, trained, and funded to Islamists to take the country over in 1979. Another good google search is to search for images life and of women in Afghanistan in the 1970s.
Althouse, have you seen Vampire's Kiss? Nic Cage gets a hickey from a girl and becomes convinced he's turning into a vampire. Hilarious.
Jeez, I almost wish you hadn't mentioned that Criterion was having a Nicholas Cage month. I might almost consider resubscribing.
As for our President. He seems to be heading toward a Supernova. Not sure he'll make it through two more years.
It's been so long since we had anyone resembling 'normal' as President, I'm wondering what it would be like if it ever happened again.
Trump's obsession with appearances is... not a winning message.
Sorry. I don’t watch 60 Minutes and, increasingly, don’t listen to Trump.
The war has nothing to do with mullahs or the shah.
The strait of Hormuz will remain closed until Europe falls.
While Trump is in a confessional mood, perhaps he could tell us how many billions he and his sons have pocketed from their business dealings during his two years in office.
Are we talking double digits or triple digits?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-reports-over-14-billion-income-crypto-ventures-2026-06-30/
I think Trump fatigue has set in.
We need new inspiring leaders, like Kamala Harris and Gavin Newscum. Well, maybe not.
The Fuentes hive-brain will deliver for the left.
“ The strait of Hormuz will remain closed until Europe falls”
Same logic applies to Europe as it does to Russia, China, and Iran. The people there know it, but their leadership has been pried away from them and bought off. What do you care if your country has been sold out and its people relegated to poverty and a brutal government if you are cashing the checks? viz: The Shah.
I would expect someone in his circle to whisper in his ear that his strange meanderings into vapid subject matter only help the very people who want to shoot at him from a roof top.
So far - no.
oh no - The Shah!
Impossible to rule out Trump casually divulging an interest in sleeping with men at this point.
Cage's flamboyant performance in DePalma's "Snake Eyes" (the screenshot shown in this post) ruins the movie. He's unbelievable as an Atlantic City cop.
As for photos of women in 1970s Iran and Afghanistan wearing western clothes, they represented a tiny percent of the total population and were the children of wealthy urban elites.
We all know that communist governments are notorious for suppressing the rights of women… Not.
Still Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor has publicly admitted that the purpose of sending jihadis into Afghanistan was to provoke a Soviet invasion. Search terms: Afghanistan, Khyber Pass, 1979, and Brzezinski. So even if your claim is true, it’s not why the Afghanistan war happened, and it was none of our business anyway.
Peachy, ask Chat about Mossad, the Shah, and SAVAK, and if you approve, kindly stop pretending that we are doing anything in the region to “help” the people there.
People forget that Trump is 1.5- generation American. His mother was an immigrant, and his father was 1st gen. His Karlstadt-born grandmother was probably his greatest influence. So he did not have standard US English idioms in the house. Also, he is a boomer who wanted to grow up to be like his Greatest Gen parents and other role models. So his idiom is a mix of foreignisms and nearly 100-year-old ways of expressing oneself.
Really he mostly speaks Rat Pack. Take some of his statements admiring male beauty and put them in the voice of Dino or Sammy or Joey or even the other Don: Rickles. Would fit right in. CC, JSM
Why not quote the rest of his answer in the post? He was rather forthcoming about the best planes we have being totally outclassed by strange objects that can't currently be explained.
Bottom line: Trump is strange; let's vote communist.
Oh jeez! Enough with the inveterate ruminations on physique and other physical appearance aspects. Male or female. It’s just getting gross. Grotesque, even.
"declare the war over. Keep all the sanctions in place and hope the Iranian people can act on their own."
The war consists of a US Navy blockade, protected by occasional airstrikes, enforcing the sanctions.
If you remove the blockade you remove the sanctions.
I overhear women talking about other women like this all the time. Do they all have repressed Lesbian fantasies? If they're elderly and spontaneously say such things, are they losing it?
Based on their voting trends, maybe they are. Thanks, Althouse, for giving us this insight, in your own clever way.
Has anyone in here been probed yet?
Sit down. I mean by aliens.
Pavlovian
Does anybody really believe that this “Election” was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting “dumps” were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote. It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter! President DJT
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117587105833579030
"Has anyone in here been probed yet?"
I can't remember.
Has Trump been probed? Implanted?
The nonbinary, pansexual, post-gender future says hi. Trump shouldn't have been so hard on "Talafreako," a fellow gender pioneer.
"Has anyone in here been probed yet?... I mean by aliens."
Yes. Once by Margarita, and a second time by Consuela. That's why I voted Democrat this time - so they can stay.
I find Trump's quirks hilarious. Ah, those young pilots and those crew-cuts (or top-tops or whatever). Its part of not being a politician.
Trump is affected by how people and things look. That's why he has beautiful wives. And buys golf courses, and tries to make buildings and the white house more beautiful. I think part of his disgust with Rosie O Donnell comes from the fact that she's such an ugly fat cow with a shrew mouth.
Of course, Establishment republicans hate that. But then they're losers who don't accomplish anything. Even when you give them power.
Of course, Trump can embrace the ugly when he has to. He seems to have really wanted bill maher, the ugly dwarf, to be his friend.
Timmah @ 8:21
Please. Read another book.
I like Nicholas cage as an actor, but don't find him "handsome". Robert Redford was handsome. Young Trump was handsome. James Garner (when young) was handsome.
But then, I"m not Trump. I rarely watch movies and go "Wow, that actor sure is handsome, and his hair..."
Jaq said...
Peachy, ask Chat about Mossad, the Shah, and SAVAK, and if you approve, kindly stop pretending that we are doing anything in the region to “help” the people there.
Mullah supporters like you just want different people to meddle in Iran.
Europe backs the Mullahs because they allow Lloyds of London to monopolize global shipping and the mullahs allow the globalists in Europe to make cheap goods in SE Asia with a structural energy cost advantage. The Mullahs were happy to give China Oil for weapons they could use to suppress their people and hold shipping in the region hostage.
Trump is just ending Europe's meddling with our own meddling. The strait of Hormuz will remain closed until Europe falls.
Pretending you are some noble crusader is a joke. Everyone in the world meddles. You are a coward that needs to go somewhere else where you can bleat your self righteous bullshit.
Jaq said...
“ The strait of Hormuz will remain closed until Europe falls”
Same logic applies to Europe as it does to Russia, China, and Iran. The people there know it, but their leadership has been pried away from them and bought off. What do you care if your country has been sold out and its people relegated to poverty and a brutal government if you are cashing the checks? viz: The Shah.
China and Russia are on our side in this but you are too blind to notice.
Ukraine blowing up Russian refineries was just a Eurotrash catspaw to get retards like you to blame diesel prices on Trump.
Democrats have been shutting down refineries for years and Europe is shutting them down and blowing them up but you voted for them because you have an 80 IQ.
I hadn't seen my friend Ed (he played the slave in Aguirre Wrath Of God) in over 10 years when I spotted him riding his bicycle. I stopped and said "Hey Ed, how ya doing?" He looked at me very seriously and replied "I went up in the ship, but I'm not saying I was probed." Then he got on his recumbent bike and rode off. True story.
When the first Top Gun came out, a bunch of NASA and Marine pilots I know saw it. They all laughed at the buff physiques of the crews.
Then one went to Miramar to work on a new G-suit. He came back and said "I was in the briefing room when the crews came in. They all looked just like in the movie, men and women! I don't remember US looking like that! "
Oh my God, okay, I hate the purple. Call us gay if you want to, but don't put our words in purple. Pink and purple. Holy shit. Now call me an interior decorator. I'm immune to this shit, more or less, but by God. Pink and purple. That is just too much.
I would also like to thank Hamas and badly spelled Muslim organizations for never calling me gay. People would believe it if y'all said that shit. I say it, and nobody says shit about my sexuality. Baptists and the rest of the mean Christian police are terrified to take on the Saint Croix, the wordsmith smack down artist of North Carolina. You think Ivy League pussies want a shot at the champ? Bring it! And maybe some of these punks in the South can out.insult my ass. Just between you and me, I'm a little worried that some of these black fuckers can insult me into the dirt. I'll be like, "Who taught you to read?" and they're all "ghetto fuck in the nimrod" and all the kids are laughing at "ghetto fuck in the nimrod" and I'm screaming what the fuck does ghetto fuck in the nimrod mean and nobody's laughing at my shit. And I'm like, "I could have been a lawyer."
They don't wear those haircuts cause of Tom Cruise.. Tom Cruise wears that haircut cause the pilots were them...
This is another true story.
I'm an Assistant DA. I'm having beers with two other Assistant DAs. I'm an Assistant DA in Salisbury, which is allegedly the most Republican county in North Carolina. And thus, allegedly, the most racist county in North Carolina. And also the richest county in North Carolina.
Let me tell you something about Salisbury. It's actually poor as shit. Like Mayberry poor. We're neck and neck with Mayberry, North Carolina. If you've never heard of Mayberry North Carolina, well, I don't have time to educate you ignorant motherfuckers. Get out of your stupid libraries and watch some TV, all right? Anyway, fuckers around the world will no doubt say that Salisbury was the richest, most evil city in the North Carolina, because they looked at the data. And the average income in Salisbury was through the roof. So many rich people in Salisbury! What the fucking social scientists forgot to mention is that this particular data point is based on averages. So, for instance, if a couple of people in Salisbury managed to pull off the miracle of holding on to their damn Food Town stock, we might have a secret, terrified billionaire hanging out in Salisbury. My parents bought our house from some relative of so-and-so at Tiger Management. Julian Robertson, maybe? I can't slow down to check. And if you fucking socialists have never heard of Food Town stock, motherfucker, Food Town was started in Salisbury North Carolina. Do you get it now? Do you get it? No? All right. Food Town became Food Lion. Heard of me now? Groceries! The fucking grocery chain! Still haven't heard of it? Motherfucker. Okay. Holy shit. Never mind then. Anyway, Salisbury was this little dirt town in North Carolina, filled with happy poor people (more or less) and a couple of secretive billionaires who didn't feel any guilt at all. The Robertsons, might have been Julian, they sound like an ultra-rich bad guy, amirite? They would invite our family over to have drinks. And they would serve Tab. Tab, motherfucker! That's what the rich people drink!
What do you mean, you don't know what Tab is? How the fuck do you not know what Tab is? Am I losing my mind? Are they pretending to be ignorant? What is real and what is not real? Sometimes I feel like I might be solipsistic. Other times I feel like smart people make up mental illnesses just to scare my ass quiet. You can't scare me, motherfucker! I'm fearless! I'm Saint Croix from the South! Just don't handcuff me to a hospital bed. Which actually happened. I'll tell that story if anybody wants to hear it.
Nobody puts Nicolas Cage, aka the alien, in a corner.
Before I tell my next story, which has an N bomb in it, skip it if you don't want to hear the N bomb, I want to confess something. This is true. I'm trying to stop lying in my life because Satan is the Father of Lies. And what I have discovered is that truth will fuck you up in life. You say true things and people are ready to shoot you. That's why lying caught on! People wanted to avoid all the pain.
Maybe you noticed that black people say the N bomb all the time. And nobody cares. And white people say the N bomb and people are ready to lose their minds with hatred. So it's not the word that gets you, it's the skin color. Or the skin color and the word.
"If you're racist, you get away with shit," Satan whispers. "Just be racist. Life is so easy if you're racist. Just think your racist thoughts and keep your mouth shut. Easy as pie. You can do it. Listen to Satan. Would Satan lie to you? Satan doesn't even exist."
I know the N bomb is very stressful for some of you. I want to give you some time to get mentally prepared. I'm about to drop an N bomb. Hello. N bomb coming. Get ready. People lose their jobs over this shit. All right. Don't freak out, America. In the next post, I will drop, an N bomb. More than one. It has to be done. (Joke)
If you were probed you probably can't remember it, but if you find yourself suddenly mooning over fighter pilots it's a good sign you were probably probed and implanted.
Nicolar Cage is an alien so there's that. You won't fing Nick wearing any flat top, though.
One of my grandsons accidentally got a glimpse on my iPhone of Cage in his Dracula makeup. The poor kid wouldn't go to the bathroom in our house alone for a couple of months. https://wallpapercave.com/wp/wp11837398.jpg
We’re going to miss this guy when he’s gone. Trump is endlessly entertaining. And, he’ll talk to anybody who will stand there and listen.
All right. So I'm at a bar with two Assistant D.A.s from Charlotte. It's a true story, but also comic. I think. Although, if you think something is funny, and very serious people do not think it's funny, all of a sudden your comic defense system is totally fucked and you're in trouble anyway. Guess how many times that has happened to me? More than once.
So I'm at this bar, drinking beers with this incredibly hot, gorgeous, blonde DA. I wanted to have sex with her so bad. And the other person in our little threesome was this black guy. I forget his name. I forget her name, too, actually. The only name I remember from this story is my own.
All right. I'm not a racist. Racism is stupid. Remember? It's the dumbest fucking ideology ever invented by anybody. Skin color, by God. Imagine you're in a parallel universe and right-handed people oppressed the shit out of left-handed people. Right-handed people are 90% of the republic, and left-handed people are 10% of the republic. And back in the 19th century, left-handed people were slaves. And a few right-handed people bought them and sold them and raped them and murdered them. So, in 2026, nobody said the word "southpaw." If you said the word "southpaw," bad shit could happen to you. Particularly if you weren't a southpaw.
So anyway, I was telling a story about Quentin Tarantino at the bar. And I said, "Have you seen the movie Pulp Fiction"? And he said, "Oh, I love Tarantino." And I said, "You do? He's always using the word nigger. Doesn't that bother you?"
"What?"
"White people are always saying nigger in his movies. Like Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs and other movies. And white people would say nigger in his movies."
And the black guy said, "I didn't notice."
And I said, "You didn't notice?"
I was genuinely confused. How could he not notice? In my world, white people did not say "nigger" to black people, because you could easily get punched in the mouth. And who needs that shit? As a matter of fact, back in high school I had a white buddy, good guy, he was the only damn white man to say "nigger" when only white people were in the room. None of us said anything to him. But in our minds, we were going "white trash," you are white trash, motherfucker.
I'm not even looking at the hot girl. Not flirting with her. I had zero game with the ladies. My dating move was to get drunk with them and hope "I got lucky." I thought I was having a nice conversation about movies with the black guy. He's a little confused. And the hot beautiful white girl next to us is about to lose her mind.
"Achilles said...
The war has nothing to do with mullahs or the shah.
The strait of Hormuz will remain closed until Europe falls.
11/9/26, 8:49 AM "
You'd think Europe could be aroused enough to actually do something. China too. They're the ones dependent on Iranian energy. We have plenty.
Just yesterday I argued the only way to explain Trump’s behavior is to assume he plays for the other team, but I meant it politically, not sexually.
HOW MUCH SHOULD I CHARGE FOR A JENSEN HUANG PARDON?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Any money left over from all the crooks and cheats Biden's autopen pardoned? Dinky?
Very everything… I still hold to this idea; there’s not enough room on a bagel to be an ‘everything’ bagel. I say ‘still’ because I haven’t had a bagel in years, maybe over a decade.
Was this from the recent 60 minutes interview? Because I could absolutely swear that Trump said the exact same thing about the handsome pilots seeing strange things sometime around a year ago.
I believe he started saying this in response to questions about UFO's shortly after he had strongly hinted that the big alien drone panic in New Jersey was just the military testing new weapons.
I suspect that it was explained to him why it is necessary for the general public to maintain a widespread belief in the possibility of alien UFO's. So this is the schtick that he came up with.
"HOW MUCH SHOULD I CHARGE FOR A JENSEN HUANG PARDON?"
Get back to me when Swalwell and Pelosi have been appropriately sanctioned for THEIR chinese spy relationships.
Bob Boyd:
"The war consists of a US Navy blockade, protected by occasional airstrikes, enforcing the sanctions.
If you remove the blockade you remove the sanctions."
You are absolutely correct.
"But it's a WAR, and it's Trump's war, and we want it over right now!"
Neither the people who want the sanctions lifted and the blockade removed, nor the people who want to invade/bomb Iran are thinking rationally or strategically. It's a blockade, it takes time, and it's working.
Okay, I want to make some commentary about 10:43. It confuses the shit out of me now. Let me see if I can break it down and figure out what the hell I was saying.
First, In my brain, when I'm writing it, I'm going, "this is funny!" And now I'm looking at it and going, it's funny? I don't even understand it. And I wrote it.
So what the hell happened to me?
Possibly I was normal at 10:33, and then insane at 10:43, and then back to normal at 11:09.
Is that a thing? Normal, insane, normal, in the span of 30 minutes?
Maybe I got some wacky version of Tourette syndrome, where it pops in and pops out.
Another possibility is that the devil got inside me, and I wrote that shit. And then, I don't know, angels dragged the devil out of me and I'm back to normal. Nobody can see that, and I find it hard to believe myself.
Anyway, I'm fine now. Normally I would just delete the crazy post that makes no sense at 10:43. And keep going with my life. But I'm leaving it up. Evidence of something, I guess.
Okay, I'm going to try to retrace my footsteps.
I would also like to thank Hamas and badly spelled Muslim organizations for never calling me gay. People would believe it if y'all said that shit. I say it, and nobody says shit about my sexuality.
I hate Hamas.
I suspect that some at my church might think I'm gay because I'm single and unmarried and I go out to dinner with my Mom all the time. My life is kind of like Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk. Which is a great movie. I'm not gay. Nobody's accused me of being gay. People in church try to be Christian. That's why we're in church!
Also, I've got the homophobia, and I keep that shit secret. Because if you admit you've got the homophobia, people point their fingers at you and shout, "You're gay! Ha ha ha ha." And the more you deny that you are gay, the gayer you are. You've fallen down a gay rathole. And who wants to do that? Gay people and that's about it.
I cried three times in Bible study. Just bawled in public. Very awkward and uncool. I think subconsciously I wanted people to know that I was upset about all the dead babies under Roe v. Wade. 60 million and counting. Many of those are not homicides. But the longer you wait, the more homicidal it looks. That's why the photographs are suppressed and hidden. And nobody wants to pay attention.
My first girlfriend (Jewish) once asked me, "What do you care what people think?" And I said, "I don't!" But sometimes I do. Especially if they are wrong about me or don't know me at all.
Baptists and the rest of the mean Christian police are terrified to take on the Saint Croix, the wordsmith smack down artist of North Carolina.
I think that's some attempt at humor. I'm being silly. Right wing Christians are afraid to mock me because I mock them right back? Maybe?
You think Ivy League pussies want a shot at the champ? Bring it! And maybe some of these punks in the South can out.insult my ass.
There are people who are smarter than I am. Most of them went to the Ivy League. I probably could have gone. I had the intelligence. But I did poorly in school. So I have this resentment of people in the Ivy League who think they ought to rule the world. Like the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. I love individuals from the Ivy League. That's where smart people go! But I take shots at the elites because they run our society and they've really screwed the pooch. My head priest went to Yale and I love him. But he's not upset about all the homicides under Roe and doesn't want to talk about them or look at them. He asked me one time what I wanted. And I told him I'm just trying to move the needle.
Just between you and me, I'm a little worried that some of these black fuckers can insult me into the dirt. I'll be like, "Who taught you to read?" and they're all "ghetto fuck in the nimrod" and all the kids are laughing at "ghetto fuck in the nimrod" and I'm screaming what the fuck does ghetto fuck in the nimrod mean and nobody's laughing at my shit. And I'm like, "I could have been a lawyer."
I'm not the best comic in the world. That's probably a black guy. They are seriously funny people. Some of them. Dave Chappelle is a comic genius. I'm not going to pile on top of him. Y'all don't need me for that.
"I could have been a lawyer" is a play on Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront.
I can tell a funny story about the gay club in Birmingham Alabama and my friends are taking us there. And I'm drunk in the backseat going "Why are we going to a gay club?" And they're like, "It's straight night."
I haven't had sex in 30 years. I really miss it.
OK, I wrote a long response to you, Achilles, and at the end of it, i realized I was just sort of making your point, what you proposes is a good idea, but I am not a big fan of complicated explanations that assume that everything is going perfectly according to some secret plan.
Never assign to superior genius that which could better be explained by a series of fuck ups.
We don't need to be in Europe, we don't need to be in the Middle East, or Asia for that matter. These adventures are on behalf of the bankers who have a vision of making an entire planet of debt slaves. We don't need to use our treasure and the blood of our youth to protect Israel. We have everything we need and two oceans to protect us, and BTW, 5,000 nuclear weapons, nobody is going to cross those oceans to fuck with us, just like George Washington said.
The Democrats are going to fuck up with Russia and get spanked just as hard. If you are mad that the Republicans lost the opportunity that they had, blame Donald Trump.
Sarah Palin is the spirit animal of the Democrat Party.
I love hot lesbians. They are terrified of me. Like, hot lesbians will not take a public shower with me. I've tried to create a new word heterophobia, to describe this fear that hot lesbians have of taking a shower with me. It has not caught on.
I think in the future I will just delete anything that makes me look bad. I've had multiple people suggest to me I ought to repress more. Okay. I've heard that messes you up, though.
“I looked at his ass. And then I looked at his legs. I said, ‘His ass, shit, it’s like a pile of muscle.’ Then I looked at his legs and I said, ‘Man, his feet are big.’
“When he took the showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable.’”
In a parallel universe Donald Trump is the world’s most fabulous elderly drag queen.
But alas, Nicholas Cage was not handsome enough for the generically, good looking, aliens in the movie, Knowing.
Also, it's kind of a running gag in sci-fi when non-humans comment about humans being so ugly.
In Star Trek they liked to play around with the idea that sometimes the more beautiful the alien life form, the more evil it was. (and vice versa) For example, the Crystal Entity was very beautiful , but malevolent; and the Medusans were good but so ugly that just looking at them could drive a human insane.
When his term ends, I will miss the stream-of-Donaldness.
Dave Begley said...
"Trump’s loose and crazy talk was always his weakness. And it gets worse every day."
Trump doesn't need to watch what he says anymore because he's never running for office again. A lot of his filters are definitely turned off.
I thought we were talking about ALIENS. 👽
The Democrats were on to something keeping Biden in the basement.
I have forgotten things and other people forget things and maybe that happens to protect us?
I have heard that people don't remember what you do or say. They remember how you made them feel.
I sincerely wish that I make people feel good. That we all have good vibes together. That is an amazing feeling. And collaboration is betten than being a solo artist. And sex is way more fun than masturbation. And orgy is way too many people. I have an orgy joke. This is from my novel Whodidit with a Clone?
“Okay,” he said. “Orgies are stressful if you are a straight man. Orgies are way more fun if you’re bisexual. If you’re straight, you got to guard your asshole. And you get a little paranoid. Who’s behind me? Who’s behind me? Or you keep your ass on the floor. That’s my orgy plan. Orgies are also hard on the lesbians, let me tell you. And the drummer would go, ba-dum-bum.”
“You had a drummer?”
“Well, they had a jazz band. And we would rotate. A little jazz, a little comedy. And sometimes the drummer would help me out a little.”
FredSays said...
"Sorry. I don’t watch 60 Minutes and, increasingly, don’t listen to Trump."
The thing about Trump is that it's important to actually listen to what he says, unfiltered. After the media gets ahold of what he said, it's impossible to actually understand what he was trying to say.
I don't think Donald Trump plays "3-D chess." I think he's very open and says what's on his mind. Sometimes he's not honest. In fact, he can be so dishonest it's hysterical. He's not guarded in his speech, or in his actions. He's open. And emotional. His emotions go up and down. And sometimes he says things that scare people. Liberals are responding to his emotions, not to his words or his deeds. Republicans are the thinkers and Democrats are the feelers. More or less.
RCOCEAN II said...
"I rarely watch movies and go "Wow, that actor sure is handsome, and his hair...""
Obviously, you've never seen any of the fine cinema that I was in. I had fantastic hair. In fact, I think that my wavy locks are even more impressive now with their stunning gray highlights.
The thing about Trump is that it's important to actually listen to what he says, unfiltered.
Trump is an outstanding thinker, in my opinion. SNL used to do a skit where Reagan was nice and dumb in public and a sharp axe in private. Similar with Trump. He plays a funny guy in public. In private he's incredibly smart. He brags about being smart. And it's such a stupid thing to do, people suspect he's dumb. And he's really smart and normal in private. (That's why normal Republicans like Rubio and Vance are working with him). That's the 3-D chess, I guess.
If Althouse is on a Nic Cage kick this month, I recommend Spider Noir You can choose to watch it in B&W or in color. We chose the former and were happy with that. It's on Amazon Prime.
"HOW MUCH SHOULD I CHARGE FOR A JENSEN HUANG PARDON?"
Get back to me when Swalwell and Pelosi have been appropriately sanctioned for THEIR chinese spy relationships.
Speaking of Swalwell: did you know he used to fuck Stephen Miller's wife? Supposedly, he used his relationship with Katie Miller to help keep his Chinese spy files secret. So that's fun.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/07/us-news/eric-swalwell-leveraged-past-relationship-with-katie-miller-to-hide-embarrassing-files-on-honeypot-chinese-spy-report/
St Croix are you OK? No slurring your words or limb weakness or double vision?
Your stream of consciousness is not yet Proustian, let alone Joycean, but you might be able to give Woolf or Faulkner a run for their money in quantity if not in quality.
I think that it is true that Trump says exactly what he means and if you interpret his words from a partisan lens, you will likely not get it right. For instance, everything he says about Iran right now boils down to "We are not negotiating in goof faith, whatever we say, and if they don't simply "surrender pronto, we will nuke Toronto!"
OK, I couldn't resist the Canadian Bacon reference, but what he is saying that if Iran doesn't simply surrender, we will find a way to destroy it or choke it to death. Same with Russia. When he said he could end the Ukraine war immediately, he was really saying he could get Russia to capitulate.
Latest unsurprising news: Trump now says “Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest."
Timmah is capable of learning.
It will be so nice when we have a president again who doesn't have to come with a deciphering manual. magas ad nauseum "what he really meant to say" The dude is glitchin more everyday and now has a fascination with men with big butts and nice haircuts and muscles like you never seen. No wonder Melody has been MIA forever.. What a pair
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And he's really smart and normal in private.
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I've read of people who say that he is charming, witty, sincere, and magnetically engaging in private conversations, including lefties who have known him a long time but now hate his guts and have nothing to gain by building him up.
I think it's also implausible that anyone of subnormal or even minimally above normal intelligence would be able to complete the construction of hundreds of large buildings in Manhattan and around the world...
Just as it's clear that Reagan was no dunce from his erudite commentary of the late 50's and early 60's that propelled him into politics. The book "Reagan, In His Own Hand", taken from some 600 articles, speeches, and radio addresses he wrote out longhand on yellow legal pads, is worth a read-- Especially for midwit lefties who fancy themselves to be intellectuals because they have a toilet-paper degree in a gut major from a third tier college.
Saint Croix, thanks for reminding us of the SNL skit "President Reagan, Mastermind". I'd forgotten how funny Phil Hartman was as Reagan.
A crew cut isn’t a flat top. Who has had a flat top since the early 1960s?
you are welcome, PW!
St Croix are you OK? No slurring your words or limb weakness or double vision?
I am fine. Thanks for the health check. I appreciate it.
Your stream of consciousness is not yet Proustian, let alone Joycean, but you might be able to give Woolf or Faulkner a run for their money in quantity if not in quality.
Maybe Jack Kerouac? I'm calling him straight, by the way. I got the straight-dar. James Dean? Straight! Cary Grant? Straight. Although he was an LSD fiend, or so I've been told.
dbp, agree 100%. I'm a big fan of Spider-Noir. Fans of The Maltese Falcon need to check it out.
'...Who has had a flat top since the early 1960s?....'
My barber has a few regular clients and she still does the flat-top. I asked her about it one day as one of these clients was finishing up before my turn, as I waited. She has about ½ dozen - 10 or so regulars that request it.
By the way, the movie Guess Who is an outanding movie about interracial dating. Way, way better than the original (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner). I like Poitier a lot, but he disappears in that movie. Spencer Tracy is bad, Hepburn is bad. Stanley Kramer is an over-rated director. His best film is It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Comics don't need his direction, that's why.
What shocked me about Guess Who is that I'm not the audience. Black people are the audience. Ashton Kutcher is a revelation. I hate him in everything he's done. Except this movie. His comedy is on fire. Bernie Mac is funny, too. This movie is way cooler than the original. Spencer Tracy buying ice cream is a major plot point in that snore-fest. I need to watch Guess Who again. It's criminally underrated. It came out in 2005. Very well done.
DD45 @ 4:23
Did you ever consider that it may not be Trump, but that you may not be very bright.
I don't think they used the N word once in Guess Who. That was a shock. I was like, holy fuck, this movie is less racist than I am. I've never seen that before. I was expecting N bombs. At least one N bomb. You got the pass, man! And they're like, "We don't need an N bomb. We can communicate without an N bomb." I was impressed. And no dick jokes! If I was writing, there would have to be a dick joke. No dick jokes? What? This movie was schooling me on actual anti-racism. This is anti-racism if anti-racism actually meant anti-racism. This is the way! This is the way! Three years later we had Obama and riots and shit. Not the way! Not the way! I mean, he could have been worse. He could have been Joe Biden. I seriously think Joe Biden was assassination insurance. Tell me I'm wrong. Donald Trump is too arrogant to to sign up for assassination insurance. "Nobody's going to shoot me," Trump says, on his own, with no help from Satan. He literally picked J.D. Vance because he thought he would be on his side when the shit went down. He judged his character not the color of his skin! Wrap your mind around that. Meanwhile Obama is all "I need a dumb white fucker who makes me look good." And he found one!
J.D. Vance is the anti-Race Bannon. "I need somebody who is not Race Bannon." If you don't know who Race Bannon is, I can't help you. You're going to have to deal with your own damn ignorance.
This is probably some wacky coincidence, but there is a conspiracy theory that Race Bannon is really gay. I don't know how you investigate that one. You know he's not human, right? He's a cartoon. I don't like false gay allegations but damn if I'm going to put my neck on the line for Race Bannon.
My Dad wore a dress to a party one time. That's back when Bob Hope was doing that shit. Alfred Hitchcock. And don't forget J. Edgar Hoover. My view on this is I don't stick my neck out for dead people.
(My Dad's still alive so watch it).
Straight night is how they recruit at the gay clubs. They don't breed so they got to recruit. Jews are like, we don't recruit, so we got to breed.
Stand-up comedians are on the front lines in the war on comedy. Which one of you dumb fuckers decided to start war on comedy? I'll bet it was somebody in the Ivy League.
Republicans: War on Terror
Democrats: War on Comedy
“Get back to me when Swalwell and Pelosi have been appropriately sanctioned for THEIR chinese spy relationships.”
Unless Pelosi did this and I didn’t hear or read of it, I think that was Swallowswell and Diane Feinstein who had the Chinese spy scandals, Fred.
Cage will do any job, anywhere, anytime. The hardest working actor today. The man must have a lot of ex-wives.
He's a lot of fun in The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, revelling in taking the piss out of himself. Also, Spider Noir is better than it has any right to be, mainly because of him and Gleeson.
Aliens won't look like Nic Cage. Recall ET, and think Danny Devito, at best.
I, for one, know from personal experience that wearing a dress in public is not a sure indicator of sexual preference or gender identity. Don't ask how I know, the 1970s was a strange decade and the tale dies with me.
Cage is great when the director is good and terrible when the director is not good. But he's always worth watching because he will always give you something. There are far too many actors today who give you nothing.
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