The Bob (aka AFNIman)

Exactly. The correct assumption is that anything they say is a lie. Or if you are being charitable, lies mixed with truths in a high speed blender.

From Trump's viewpoint, loyalty is the ONLY competence a Cabinet official needs.

The US is now ignoring reality, but reality will not ignore the US. Climate change, the increased energy being stored in the atmosphere and oceans, will keep on accelerating, keep on creating chaos. Nations that ignore the future find out the hard way that the future gets here anyway.

Fishing boat in Ha Long bay Vietnam 🇻🇳

In non-Trump news, we are touring Ha Long bay in Vietnam.

I used to be a centrist. Now I see there is no going back. AOC for Prez!

To be fair, they're spending all their time raising campaign money. That's their primary job function. Grab it while you can!

The grim visage of Skull Arch in Arches National Park. Actually a nice place to eat lunch as hardly anyone goes there.

It is true in one limited way. ICE does not (yet) have legal authority to murder anyone they want without any hearing or trial, which the Gestapo did. Instead, ICE has to gin up some legal-nonsense reason for their killings:
"Suicide".
"Fear of being killed by a 2 mph SUV."
"She looked at me funny."

Maybe Lamarck can help this leaf out?

Black and white image of human head as scanned by MRI.

This classical visage is ME, as rendered by MRI and AFNI. Obviously, I could have been a Roman Senator back in the Olden Days of which Gibbon wrote.

That would be a big and fireproof scale. And what provides the gravity to "weigh" these things? Physics is hard!

Don't bother. The tax withholding rate for "agitators" is ruinous.

Woke Nazis. Now we've seen everything.

It didn't have that many miles on it. Practically like new!

"gunpoint" == "gunboat" ... oopsie

Some people disagree. To them, "freedom" includes their (supposed) God-given right to demean and dominate those from disfavored ("inferior") groups. That's exactly what the word "liberty" meant to Southerners in the slavery and Jim Crow eras. (And to some Northerners as well.)

How many people is DJT willing to kill for Greenland? He killed about 100 just to snatch Maduro and wife.

He might not think in those terms, but that's the calculus of saber/gunpoint rattling. Some goals are worth killing for. But a big old hunk of ice?

I believe that's a quote from Fetterman, actually.

But the uber rich don't care.

And when they let you out, they steal your valuables.

"Proof" that the government won't supply for free, but requires? Does KN carry proof of citizenship at all times? In the swimming pool, for example?

You know, this whole "sex assigned at birth" thing makes little sense. What if the doctor/midwife/... makes a mistake? For example, a CAIS boy (XY chromosomes) assigned as a girl, due to lack of male genitalia? Or the doctor is just drunk?Is the answer "that's just too bad"?

All I've got now is a quiet retirement and the freedom to do just about whatever I want. Who needs THAT?

Damn. I should have clung to the power I had as the AFNIman. Think of the bennies! Cheese and wine receptions. A sofa in my office. The adulation of ... okay, not so much adulation but at least a little respect.

Although this looks like it might a brain fresco from olden days ... it was actually a water spot on the floor of a tunnel at the NIH. Overhead was a very slowly dripping pipe.

The second and third shots are clearly criminal. The first shot is obscured and will be argued over endlessly.

Kidnapping. Assault and Battery.

30+% of adult Americans are solidly for violent dictatorship. They don't every want to "lose" again. This is the hard-to-eradicate root of Trumpism.

Gee, what makes you think that Trump is an egomaniac?

He means we should be as civil as Donald Trump? That's a hard reach - downwards.