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@tengrain.bsky.social

Fully caffeinated with 2X the sugar, unabashedly liberal. An OG, award-winning blogger (Americans United’s First Freedom First). You can find me on the web at MockPaperScissors.com and sometimes at crooksandliars.com. * Social Media Cult Failure ‘06

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Some Fries With Your Stupid? Mars. Needs. Women. Seriously, Dude is about an inch away from the whole eating the cats thing (again).

Some Fries With Your Stupid?

Mars. Needs. Women. Seriously, Dude is about an inch away from the whole eating the cats thing (again).

10.12.2025 20:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Midday Palate Cleanser Total respect. (Direct Link To Instagram Here) (Hat tip: Scissorhead Purplehead)

Midday Palate Cleanser

Total respect. (Direct Link To Instagram Here) (Hat tip: Scissorhead Purplehead)

10.12.2025 20:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Whooo-hooo! My blog post got linked!

Thanks @crooksandliars.bsky.social !
H/T @bluegal.bsky.social @karoli.bsky.social

10.12.2025 17:37 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Recent political history has shown that you need to keep an eye on the antics of your "allies" at least as diligently as you monitor the atrocities of the Trump regime.

10.12.2025 16:53 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 0
From Beyond The Grave, A Voice Rings Out! Epstein: "TOLD YA!” Vulgarmort: Dumbo really doesn’t think, does he? The second he said “miners" I heard minors.

From Beyond The Grave, A Voice Rings Out!

Epstein: "TOLD YA!” Vulgarmort: Dumbo really doesn’t think, does he? The second he said “miners" I heard minors.

10.12.2025 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Case Study: In Your Guts, You Know He’s Nuts ”Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter!” Remember my premise: the context of Grandpa Sundowner’s rants should be that he’s on the couch talking to a therapist, So this caught my attention: On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump produced what can only be described as a presidential self-diagnostic: a sprawling, grievance-fueled communiqué that reads like someone tried to co-author the DSM-5 with a megaphone.

Case Study: In Your Guts, You Know He’s Nuts

”Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter!” Remember my premise: the context of Grandpa Sundowner’s rants should be that he’s on the couch talking to a therapist, So this caught my attention: On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump produced what can…

10.12.2025 16:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
About Last Night… Ride the wave! The mayoral election is not-partisan, but "come-on, man,” as President Handsome Joe Biden would say, everyone knows to which party mayoral candidates belong. Our pals at Electoral-Vote: "Beyond the partisan flip, and the extent of the Higgins' victory, there are two things here that should have Republicans very nervous. The first has to do with the fact that, as we have pointed out many times, "Latinos" is not a homogeneous voting bloc.

About Last Night…

Ride the wave! The mayoral election is not-partisan, but "come-on, man,” as President Handsome Joe Biden would say, everyone knows to which party mayoral candidates belong. Our pals at Electoral-Vote: "Beyond the partisan flip, and the extent of the Higgins' victory, there are…

10.12.2025 16:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Here’s Some Stupid To Start Your Day The War on Woke Has a New Front, er, Font!! Secretary of State Marco Rubio waded into the surprisingly fraught politics of typefaces on Tuesday with an order halting the State Department’s official use of Calibri, reversing a 2023 Biden-era directive that Mr. Rubio called a “wasteful” sop to diversity. While mostly framed as a matter of clarity and formality in presentation, Mr.

Here’s Some Stupid To Start Your Day

The War on Woke Has a New Front, er, Font!! Secretary of State Marco Rubio waded into the surprisingly fraught politics of typefaces on Tuesday with an order halting the State Department’s official use of Calibri, reversing a 2023 Biden-era directive that Mr.…

10.12.2025 15:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Great Signs, Cont. I hope he has this set to recur every year.

Great Signs, Cont.

I hope he has this set to recur every year.

10.12.2025 02:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
I Want To See Hair Füror Drink A Glass Of Water While… ... "Kevin Hassett Says He Wouldn’t Bow to Pressure Over Cutting Interest Rates" "But favorite to be next Fed chairman agrees with Trump there is ‘plenty of room’ for cuts in coming months" "National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett says he would rely on his own judgment and not bow to political pressure to decide whether to cut interest rates if he becomes the next chairman of the Federal Reserve."

I Want To See Hair Füror Drink A Glass Of Water While…

... "Kevin Hassett Says He Wouldn’t Bow to Pressure Over Cutting Interest Rates" "But favorite to be next Fed chairman agrees with Trump there is ‘plenty of room’ for cuts in coming months" "National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett…

10.12.2025 01:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
As Not For Whom The Death Panels Toll “I’m sorry Dave." OK guys, get ready to argue with an AI when you are denied care even from traditional Medicare (Medicare Advantage already requires pre-approval): A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it. In January, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will launch the Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction (WISeR) Model to test AI-powered prior authorizations on certain health services for Medicare patients in six states: Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington.

As Not For Whom The Death Panels Toll

“I’m sorry Dave." OK guys, get ready to argue with an AI when you are denied care even from traditional Medicare (Medicare Advantage already requires pre-approval): A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review…

09.12.2025 20:30 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Midday Palate Cleanser “None shall pass." (Hat tip: Scissorhead M Davis)

Midday Palate Cleanser

“None shall pass." (Hat tip: Scissorhead M Davis)

09.12.2025 20:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Medicare’s new AI experiment sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers • Stateline A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.

stateline.org/2025/12/04/m...

09.12.2025 18:15 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Quote of the Day "NATO calls me ‘Daddy.'" —Grandpa Sundowner I was talking with a friend about why I find it so difficult to satirize The Orange 🤡: it’s because no matter how hard you try to exaggerate him for comedic effect, within days he will say (or do) whatever you said (as a joke); it takes the impact away and makes you feel like…

Quote of the Day

"NATO calls me ‘Daddy.'" —Grandpa Sundowner I was talking with a friend about why I find it so difficult to satirize The Orange 🤡: it’s because no matter how hard you try to exaggerate him for comedic effect, within days he will say (or do) whatever you said (as a joke); it takes…

09.12.2025 17:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here’s Some Stupid To Start Your Day Fat Nixon signed mortgages on two houses next to Merde-a-Lardo in the 1990s, swearing that both would be his principal residence. As a reminder, this is the exact “crime” that the 4th R…

Via @tengrain.bsky.social Here’s Some Stupid To Start Your Day mockpaperscissors.com/2025/12/09/h...

09.12.2025 16:32 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
No Intelligence v. Artificial Intelligence As has been widely reported, the only thing propping up The Miracle of The Orange 🤡 ’s Economy is the build-out boom in the tech sector around the Fancy Autocomplete bubble. And while the internet truism ETTD is undefeated, he plans on touching —if not fondling— AI: "President Donald Trump confirmed on Monday he plans to sign an executive order preempting artificial intelligence regulations at the state level with his more hands-off federal policy."

No Intelligence v. Artificial Intelligence

As has been widely reported, the only thing propping up The Miracle of The Orange 🤡 ’s Economy is the build-out boom in the tech sector around the Fancy Autocomplete bubble. And while the internet truism ETTD is undefeated, he plans on touching —if not…

09.12.2025 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Make America Gullible Again! ‘I Don’t Feel Your Pain!’ Hold onto your wallets: Lord Damp Nut has decided that he needs to gaslight America again. "President Donald Trump will take his economic message on the road Tuesday to a swing district in eastern Pennsylvania, the first of many planned domestic trips the White House is organizing on an issue it believes will be the key decider in next year’s midterms."

Make America Gullible Again!

‘I Don’t Feel Your Pain!’ Hold onto your wallets: Lord Damp Nut has decided that he needs to gaslight America again. "President Donald Trump will take his economic message on the road Tuesday to a swing district in eastern Pennsylvania, the first of many planned…

09.12.2025 16:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Here’s Some Stupid To Start Your Day Fat Nixon signed mortgages on two houses next to Merde-a-Lardo in the 1990s, swearing that both would be his principal residence. As a reminder, this is the exact "crime" that the 4th Reich tried to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, and is trying to indict Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff for doing. Imagine my shock to learn that…

Here’s Some Stupid To Start Your Day

Fat Nixon signed mortgages on two houses next to Merde-a-Lardo in the 1990s, swearing that both would be his principal residence. As a reminder, this is the exact "crime" that the 4th Reich tried to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, and is trying to…

09.12.2025 15:30 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Bad Signs, Cont. I promise I will Keer Cleap of this place. You don’t have to tell me twice, or even once.

Bad Signs, Cont.

I promise I will Keer Cleap of this place. You don’t have to tell me twice, or even once.

09.12.2025 02:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jasmine Crockett didn’t just launch a #Senate run — she lit a match under Trump’s fragile ego. The ad is sharp, fearless, and pure Texas energy. If the GOP wants to play insult politics, she’s showing up bilingual in that language. Texas hasn’t felt this electric in years. Sen. Crocket? Yeah!

09.12.2025 01:06 — 👍 618    🔁 173    💬 36    📌 18
🎶 Old McStupid Lost The Farm… ...Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow-oh! 🎶 And we’re already at the bailing-out-the-farmers stage of the 4th Reich, way ahead of schedule; last time I think it was in the third year he eff’ed the farmers. "President Donald Trump on Monday announced a $12 billion aid package for American farmers, who have been hit hard by his administration’s tariffs” "Trump said at a roundtable meeting with administration officials and farmers that the aid would help farmers lower food prices and fight inflation, blaming Democrats for those problems.

🎶 Old McStupid Lost The Farm…

...Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow-oh! 🎶 And we’re already at the bailing-out-the-farmers stage of the 4th Reich, way ahead of schedule; last time I think it was in the third year he eff’ed the farmers. "President Donald Trump on Monday announced a $12 billion aid package for American…

09.12.2025 01:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Midday Palate Cleanser Sniff. Jerks grow up so fast. Sniff. (Hat tip: Scissorhead Purplehead)

Midday Palate Cleanser

Sniff. Jerks grow up so fast. Sniff. (Hat tip: Scissorhead Purplehead)

08.12.2025 20:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Don’t Blow It, Texas! I love Rep. Jasmine Crockett maybe more than I should; it’s not just that she’s a great messenger (and she really is), it’s also that she knows how to deliver a spitball with speed and accuracy, too. Never, ever underestimate Rep. Crockett. She’s a boss and she totally rules. I suspect we all love Jasmine Crockett, so this news that…

Don’t Blow It, Texas!

I love Rep. Jasmine Crockett maybe more than I should; it’s not just that she’s a great messenger (and she really is), it’s also that she knows how to deliver a spitball with speed and accuracy, too. Never, ever underestimate Rep. Crockett. She’s a boss and she totally rules.…

08.12.2025 17:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Republicans: ‘Turn Your Head And Cough’ For background, Gallup says 57% of Americans approve of the Affordable Care Act, three points higher than last year and a record high since Gallup started asking the question in 2012. The Republican Healthcare Plan comes into focus: Die Quickly. “Republicans have yet to coalesce around a healthcare strategy just days before an expected vote on extending enhanced Obamacare subsidies, triggering concerns from some GOP lawmakers about a voter backlash.”

Republicans: ‘Turn Your Head And Cough’

For background, Gallup says 57% of Americans approve of the Affordable Care Act, three points higher than last year and a record high since Gallup started asking the question in 2012. The Republican Healthcare Plan comes into focus: Die Quickly. “Republicans…

08.12.2025 16:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Nice Work If You Can Get It What are the odds? "Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders’ superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills.

Nice Work If You Can Get It

What are the odds? "Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension.…

08.12.2025 16:00 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2
Shorter Lord Damp Nut… “...moisten my beak." The longer version: Gums got the message:

Shorter Lord Damp Nut…

“...moisten my beak." The longer version: Gums got the message:

08.12.2025 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bad Signs, Cont. Will someone please confirm that this is at the RNC HQ?

Bad Signs, Cont.

Will someone please confirm that this is at the RNC HQ?

08.12.2025 01:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Overheard at Publix checkout:

Shopper1: these prices are killing me. Fucking Biden.

Shopper2: Turn off Fox and within hours you’ll be saying ‘fucking Trump.’

Shopper1: I don’t just watch Fox. Ever heard of Newsmax?

07.12.2025 22:32 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Midday Palate Cleanser Maybe  Muffin saw Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? (Also: one of those cats has a forked tail? Is this AI?) (Hat tip: Scissorhead calcurmudgeon)

Midday Palate Cleanser

Maybe  Muffin saw Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? (Also: one of those cats has a forked tail? Is this AI?) (Hat tip: Scissorhead calcurmudgeon)

07.12.2025 20:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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