Leslie Jones

KA-BOOM: Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Section 18 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. Guess what their example of an illegal order is? Wait for it ... It's "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked”…

Hegseth is totally SCREWED.

They don't want to lose their press credentials.

She was correct. I don't think he gets how ridiculous he looks.

Senate barrels toward failure on health care A bipartisan breakthrough appears unlikely ahead of next week's scheduled votes.

Senators have about a week before they’re set to vote on soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act subsidies. Most of them already believe the chances for a bipartisan breakthrough by then are roughly zero.

I can only imagine how that affected her especially at such a young age.

From Trump on down, there is no empathy in this administration. We see it time and again as there is no bottom to their cruelty.

The list of, Can you imagine if any other politician said......is very long. The 25th would be invoked faster than I can type this sentence.

All of the above however, his detachment from reality is genuinely dangerous.

He doesn't care what is legal or immoral because he is too smug and arrogant to think that he could ever be wrong about any decision that he makes.

That would be awesome!

Those who said that they were just following orders when they abused & tortured Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib were dishonorably discharged & sent to prison. Hegseth should receive no less for blowing up those boats, saying, "Kill them all." HIs arrogance & incompetence might have caught up with him.

And to you, Jim! Thank you for the much-needed laugh. 😂

We get to start off the week with Paula! "Hello? Hello??" 😉I'm sure Rude will have some thoughts re: recent events. Where to start; Hegseth committing war crimes? Student headed to see her family for Thanksgiving but deported to Honduras? Or maybe this compare & contrast. Paging Jake Tapper!

Just spin out my drink. Thanks, Jim. 😉

Christianity and country music? What the hell does that have to do with policy?

Awesome group. Thanks, Sass! :)

The Nobel prize for word salads goes to....

If only the Nobel prize included an award for word salads, he could finally win!

Apparently not. Trump and Hegseth are just trying to appear tough when in fact, they just look weak.

I hope that he is vigorously pressed to provide evidence that they were actually drug boats because so far, we've seen nothing. The only thing we have heard from Trump was that they didn't have "fishing poles" which proves nothing.

This is the America that Trump wants which is just sad.

The latest installment of Noel's Notes:
"Trump needs fealty and praise like most people need oxygen."
Never has a weaker, more insecure man held office in this country & we are all the unfortunate benefactors of a severely damaged person.

I agree however, we all know that he kept dirt on everyone, safe to say those in law enforcement & positions of power so I think they all just looked the other way which is unfortunate. If he had ever been held to account years ago, we might not be in this mess today.

Yes, we did. Elon has gotten $38B from the US taxpayers since 2003, $6.3B just last year. He was under investigation by 5 inspectors general, so Trump fired them & put Elon in charge of the pretend dept of gov't efficiency which was nothing but yet another huge waste of our money.

2/ blew the budget surplus within his first year and by the time he left office, we had lost 4.4 million jobs. 533,000 of these jobs loses were in his last month in office. While it was 17 years ago, it seems like yesterday.

Pres. Clinton passed on a $236B surplus to GW Bush w/a 10-year projected surplus of $5.6T. Had we just stayed with that tax structure, we would be decades ahead of where we are now w/regard to infrastructure, energy, healthcare, etc. but the rich weren't rich enough, so Bush cut taxes 1/

He wasn't raised to believe that rules of law applied to him. Fast forward to Roy Cohn, he was the perfect mentor for Trump because the law was just something for which neither of them had any regard unless they could twist it to their advantage.

This might finally be an something from which not even Trump can save him.

We are seeing this playout in real-time.

Exactly. Matthew Perry was a national treasure whereas Musk is an unvetted So. African, no disrespect to SA, who was allowed to parachute into our gov't, given access to all of our data & most highly classified info. Who knows what he has done with all of the information that he now has.