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[TheEncogitationer]

PopeBeanie:

I’m wondering it behavior like this is just not interesting to enough people any more? About 9 minutes:

It’s not that it’s not interesting, it’s just that every other fiasco from Trump and MAGA and the ineffectual opposition is also interesting. Everything is a distraction from everything else.

It’s like MAGA muse and Washington Town Drunk Steve Bannon* put it: “Flood the Zone with shit.”

* (Parenthetically, I thought it was a hilarious Freudian slip that Glenn Beck mistook Steve Bannon for Bruce Banner, alter ego of The Incredible Hulk.)

[jakelafort]

OH MY GOD.

They found fossils of the original Palestinians. The genocidal Zionists in their diabolical ways formerly known as Australopithekike were trying to eradicate our cherished paradigms of goodness.

As it was in the beginning..

https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260515234644.htm

[TheEncogitationer]

Jake:

OH MY GOD.

They found fossils of the original Palestinians. The genocidal Zionists in their diabolical ways formerly known as Australopithekike were trying to eradicate our cherished paradigms of goodness.

As it was in the beginning..

Just a bit of pedant punnery to add here for added annoyance, but ackshuyally, all of Ethiopia is Afar from either the Levant or New York City.

The Nakba crowd doesn’t know their Anthropology from Adam er, Lucy.

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[PopeBeanie]

OK, fine. I can flood the zone with off-topic, distracting shit too. USA F-22 Raptor, the most capable fighter jet (with SEAD) in the world at the moment, up against two different kinds of fighter jets, basically guns-only. These dog fights would be rare in the real world because the F-22 is also the stealthiest fighter in the world, so it would be winning the fights with long range missiles long before even getting close enough to dog fight. Enjoy.

Against the French Rafale-M:

Against the Chinese J-10:

[TheEncogitationer]

PopeBeanie:

Nothing distracting meant here. It all revolves around Trump in some way or another, since it is his world. /Sarcasm

And they say we hold nothing sacred:

‘Looks bored’: Onlookers crack up as Trump appears to be asleep at event for dead soldiers
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-sleeping-2676938699/

[PopeBeanie]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

It all revolves around Trump in some way or another, since it is his world. /Sarcasm

Maybe that’s what Sleepy Don is dreaming about. /smh

I don’t take the closed eyes as a problem as seriously as many do. The poor guy stays up until the wee hours on social media for us.

I am still trolling for fighter jet video companions. I’ve learned A LOT ever since air power would potentially be an issue during the Ukraine invasion. Air Force veteran here who did not even know the difference between any fighter jets, just radar jammers.

[TheEncogitationer]

PopeBeanie:

I am still trolling for fighter jet video companions. I’ve learned A LOT ever since air power would potentially be an issue during the Ukraine invasion. Air Force veteran here who did not even know the difference between any fighter jets, just radar jammers.

Oh, had you served?

[TheEncogitationer]

PopeBeanie:

Fear not. My question was not a “Gotcha”. If you served, I salute your service in whatever capacity.

Members of the Armed Forces deserve our respect, regardless of the ridiculousness of foreign policies set by Congress and the Presidency.

[PopeBeanie]

Short:

[TheEncogitationer]

PopeBeanie:

I kinda wished that Lionel Ritchie and The Commodores had stayed and sang some reworded versions of their songs to riff Trump:

“I wanna be HIGH…like Elon!”
*ZZZZAAAAAPPP!*
“I wanna be free to know the things I do are FCC-approved!”
“I wanna be free! Just me…without tarrifs paying for slush funds and vanity!”

“‘Cause I’m EASY! *WHOO!*. Easy like a Sunday Morning!…without Christian Nationalism!”

Then Lionel Ritchie could do a remastered version of his solo number from the movie White Nights:

“Say you, say me,
Say it without fearing Putin and Xi!
Say you, say me,
Say it without Covfefe,
That’s the way it should be!
Say you, say me,
Say it like Trump wouldn’t,
Naturally…without Truth Social!”

[TheEncogitationer]

PopeBeanie:

Faith No More also did their cover of “Easy” that would be sure to outrage both MAGA and the ex-MAGA Nick Fuentes/Tucker Carlson/Candace Owens/Megyn Kelly audience:

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers:

I just recognized something: Where is the latest Sunday School?

Did Israel have a day without bomb shelter drills?

Did Christian Nationalists start considering Crusades to be forbidden work?

Did Mullahs now issue a Fatwa stating that Jihad after Eid al-Adha was forbidden?

Are Hindus still resting from overendulging at the Memorial Day Barbeques?

Did all the content producers of Podcast-istan issue mass apologies for wasting our time and space inside our minds?

Did patients of dangerous diseases finally mass-boycott all Woo-peddlers?

Did health influencers all suddenly have a mass malfunction of video cameras?

Did consumers finally realize that if it eats and doesn’t eat you back in some way, it’s all good?

Inquiring minds want to know?

[PopeBeanie]

Here’s one of the best summaries I’ve seen in a while, of relatively current news, and without a lot of hype (IMO). About 12-1/4 minutes:

(Maybe mentioning “Mush Brain” came close to hype, but that’s just me thinking of Trump as a mentally defective, parentally abused victim, but which the world would have been better off without.)

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[PopeBeanie]

I’ve been expecting American politics and authoritarinist success to keep getting worse, and they have. I don’t get why others here don’t seem to be as worried or bothered by it. So I hope it’s because I’m wrong. In any case, I ran into a more optimistic view that includes a more optimistic prediction, and it reminds me that we’ve survived similar kinds of challenges in the past.

[TheEncogitationer]

PopeBeanie:

I’ve been expecting American politics and authoritarinist success to keep getting worse, and they have. I don’t get why others here don’t seem to be as worried or bothered by it. So I hope it’s because I’m wrong.

We’re all concerned. It’s just that Authoritarianism comes in many flavors and from many directions and nowadays everything is a distraction from everything else.

In any case, I ran into a more optimistic view that includes a more optimistic prediction, and it reminds me that we’ve survived similar kinds of challenges in the past.

I don’t see what’s rationally optimistic in what Anthony Scary Mook was going on about. He was waxing nostalgic on the days of the Mafia (which, ackshuyally, was originally Sicilian, not Italian,) and then he’s looking forward to the Mamdani Mafia, as well as AOC and J.D. Vance.

If Mamdani and AOC had their way, every one of those great establishments Anthony and Gary chowed down at would be State Collective Stores with chronic shortages and bread lines around the block. And, of course, ordered to be Halal and/or Vegan.

And those tenements with the nostalgic fire escape views would be turned into flop houses and the passing free buses would be rolling flop houses.

And the formally bustling streets of vendors would be devoted to “struggle sessions” for “Counter-Revolutionaries” and other “Unwoke” folk.

And J.D. Vance wants America ran according to a the Grand Inquisitor meets “Liberation Theology”, so basically a more European Mideaval version of Mamdani’s vision.

JD Vance: Satan wants Christians to separate faith from politics
By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter
Monday, July 20, 2026
https://www.christianpost.com/news/jd-vance-satan-wants-christians-to-separate-faith-from-politics.html

Anthony Scaramucci must have taken one too many soccer balls to the head and his brain is still bouncing around in his skull.

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