Tommy Tuberville is a worthless turd.

Three days ago, in response to Ghazala Hashmi being sworn in (on a Quran) as Virginia’s Lt. Governor – the first Muslim woman to be elected statewide in U.S. history – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) posted an unhinged, virulently Islamophobic comment (see screenshot, below) on Twitter (“The enemy is inside the gates”). So obviously, it should go without saying that this type of blatant anti-Muslim bigotry is disgusting, unacceptable and unAmerican.

As Sen. Tim Kaine writes, in response:

“Ghazala Hashmi is my friend, was my state Senator and now is my Lieutenant Governor. (Also a scholar of American poetry.) Tommy has never met her. But he brands her an ‘enemy.’ Because she’s an immigrant? A Muslim? A woman? A poet? Or more likely . . . because he thinks trashing this accomplished and patriotic American will make Alabamians rally to his campaign for Governor. Wow—he really thinks poorly of his voters . . .”

Sad to say, though, Tuberville knows his voters VERY well – I mean, these are the same voters who ousted the superb Doug Jones and replaced him with this mouth-breathing troglodyte, with 60% of the vote (ovewhelmingly white people, btw) no less. So, this is the thing; those voters could have rebuked Tuberville by NOT ELECTING HIM, but apparently they liked (and still like?) what they saw in him. Same thing with the tens of millions of Americans who voted once, twice, or even three times for Trump. And yes, we can blame the political media for sucking, which it overwhelming does, but in the end, if these far-right-extremist bigots, imbeciles, lunatics, etc. had nobody willing to buy what they’re selling, they’d just be some random old man ranting on the street corner, without any power to do anything, as opposed to being a U.S. Senator – or even president – with TREMENDOUS power to do harm. Ugh.

By the way, as of Tuesday morning – three days after Tuberville’s noxious tweet – has a SINGLE Virginia Republican condemned Tuberville’s ugly rhetoric and/or defended Ghazala Hashmi? If not, can we assume that those Virginia Republicans agree with Tuberville’s appalling anti-Muslim bigotry and/or that they’re too afraid of their own voters to speak up? Either way, it’s really, really not good…

P.S. Of course, during the 2025 LG campaign, Hashmi’s far-right-Republican opponent, John Reid, repeatedly demonized her based on her religion, and basically there was “crickets” from Virginia Republicans…

If so, remember:

Asked on Anderson Cooper 360 whether there was any hope for European leaders to “de-escalate” and “reason with the president” over his repeated threats to annex Greenland, Senator Rueben Gallego (D, AZ) said, “No, and I’ve been very clear. He is a madman. He is insane. He’s only thinking about himself.”

“You really think he’s insane?” pressed Cooper.

“Yes! I’m sorry, where are we at this moment where we don’t understand what’s happening in this country?” Gallego responded. “The man is threatening war against a NATO ally and we’re all thinking this is rational. Let’s accept what’s happening here. He is not rational right now. He is destroying our world reputation, potentially our economic opportunity, economic mighty power around the world because he is being petty.”

He argued, “None of this is rational. Everyone needs to stop pretending this is rational.”

We need to support Democrats who are willing to take the risk to become direct in trying to remove Trump from office.

But first we need more Democrats like Gallego who are willing to take the risk.

Why?  Because they are just like him — ignorant of the rest of the world; ignorant of their own history; selfish; bigoted; mean; phony “Christians;” gullible.

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What was certain was that, by the end of 2025, Trump did not seem to be acting crazy like a fox: he just, by that point, seemed crazy, period.  Or more precisely, he seemed in the grip of a kind of demented megalomania, which inspired him to do things such as demand that Washington D.C.’s NFL team name its soon to be constructed $3.5 billion stadium after him, or risk losing the federal subsidies helping to finance the project (“Imagine if Obama . . . “).  Nor did any of this seem to be part of some sort of kayfabe or schtick: he simply appeared to have become even more stupid than formerly, as creeping dementia merged with a lifetime of ignorance and laziness, and a coterie of Rasputin-like courtiers swept into the White House to take advantage of their boss’s deteriorating state.

Indeed, by the concluding days of the first year of his second term, Trump’s speech and behavior had become so consistently bizarre that numerous observers began to wonder publicly if the regular bruising that appeared on his hands, which he often tried to disguise with makeup, might indicate that he was being given the new generation of intravenous drugs, that slow the progress of the Alzheimer’s disease he may well have inherited from his father.   (In his final years, as he slid further and further into dementia, Fred Trump was sometimes given fake contracts to sign, to distract him from the terrible fate that had befallen him.)

As 2026 began, it was evident that similar measures might have to be taken with the president of the United States, before the expiration of his second, and hopefully final, term — although already some especially shameless enablers, such as Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, were busily concocting purported legal workarounds, to allow Trump to remain in office beyond 2029.

Trump’s boasting that he had “aced” yet another dementia test – at least the third such test his doctors had given him during his first year in office – only added to the surreal atmosphere surrounding his obviously deteriorating cognitive condition.  That atmosphere took an even more surreal turn the very next day, when Trump announced he had ordered an invasion of Venezuela to kidnap the country’s president and his wife, because the president wasn’t really the president, but rather the head of a drug cartel.  (This action took place just a few weeks after Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras, who had been sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for moving tons of cocaine into the US).  He then announced that the United States was going to occupy the country indefinitely, while US oil companies extracted what his advisor Stephen Miller characterized as oil that had been “stolen” from America.

A few days later, in the midst of threatening to annex Greenland by military force, Trump hosted Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, and humbly accepted her purported transfer of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to him, as she handed him a medal symbolizing the prize.  Nobel winners are given several gold-plated replica medals to go along with the “real,” solid gold medal they are awarded, and it was unclear which medal Machado gave Trump.  What was clear was that Trump had ordered the invasion of Venezuela in large part to extort the Nobel Peace Prize from Machado, and for a moment it seemed he was both sufficiently childish and demented that he believed this pathetic farce did in fact magically transform him into the Nobel Peace Prize winner he so desperately longed to be.

That illusion was shattered a few days later when, on the eve of the first anniversary of his second presidency, Trump sent the following letter to the prime minster of Norway:

Dear Jonas:  Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize [Nobel prizes are awarded by an independent committee that has no connection to the Norwegian government] for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.   Denmark [Denmark and Norway are different countries] cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway?  There are no written documents, [the United States signed multiple treaties many decades ago recognizing Denmark’s sovereignty over Greenland] it’s only a boat that landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there also.  I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States.  The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.  Thank you! President DTJ.

The theme that ties together this year-long adventure in various forms of deranged absurdity and flagrant criminality is this:  We who are horrified witnesses to Trump and Trumpism have come to understand exactly why his most fanatical supporters love him – because he’s just like them. 

Batshit Crazy Psychopath Trump “no longer feels an obligation to think purely of Peace” after Nobel statement

“Dear Jonas,” the president wrote to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre.

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT.”

Even by Trump’s standards, this letter is so delusional and dangerous that there is no longer any question that the president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” as laid out in the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.

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The authenticity of the message was confirmed to the AFP news agency by a source close to the matter and by Støre to Norwegian newspaper VG. It is unclear why Trump decided to send a message to Støre as the peace prize is decided by the Norwegian Nobel Committee and not the government.

In a written comment, Støre underlined that the Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded by the Norwegian government. “I have clearly explained, including to president Trump what is well known, the prize is awarded by an independent Nobel Committee,” Store said.

Read more: https://www.euronews.com/2026/01/19/trump-tells-norways-pm-he-has-no-obligation-to-think-purely-of-peace-after-nobel-snub

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COMMENT: ” It is unclear why Trump decided to send a message to Støre as the peace prize is decided by the Norwegian Nobel Committee and not the government. “

No, it is not “unclear.”  It is clear that Trump is demented.  Worse than that, Trump has NEVER understood that laws, rules, regulations, procedures apply to him.  Trump insists on being the bride at every wedding, the infant at every christening, the victor at every event — and let’s hope that he is soon the corpse at at least one funeral.

MEANWHILE:  TRUMP WROTE TO THE NORWEGIAN PRIME MINISTER ABOUT GREENLAND.  GREENLAND BELONGS TO DENMARK, NOT NORWAY.  TRUMP IS AN IGNORANT FOOL.

 

 

Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’

Source: The Sunday Times (UK)

Yesterday [Friday], for the first time, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, admitted that “several thousands” have been killed since the protests began three weeks ago.

In a broadcast to the nation on state TV, he blamed protesters themselves, describing them as “foot-soldiers of the United States” and claiming that “rioters were armed with live ammunition that was imported from abroad”.

But The Sunday Times has obtained a new report from doctors on the ground, which says at least 16,500 protesters have died and 330,000 have been injured, most of them in two days of utter slaughter in the most brutal crackdown by the clerical regime in its 47-year existence.

Most of the victims are thought to have been younger than 30. Heartbreaking Instagram posts record deaths of a female fashion designer of 23, three young footballers — including one who was just 17 years old and captained a youth team in Tehran — a champion basketball player of 21, a fledgling movie director and a student hoping to study for a doctorate at Bristol University, whose first protest was his last.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/iran-young-protesters-news-nsdztp5t2

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Don’t be surprised if Trump uses this as an example of what he will do in the US.

Kristi Noem: “When we did these operations in other cities across the country, we didn’t see this kind of violence. We didn’t see organized, funded protesters come in to conduct acts of violence against our law enforcement officers like we’re seeing in Minneapolis.”

When did you ever see “outside, funded protesters come in” wearing bathrobes?

Does anyone associated with Trump ever tell the truth?

Simple:  A lot of very wealthy people used their money.

 

Speaking of Rush Limbaugh.  He died in February 2021 — 5 years ago.  When was the last time you heard anyone say a word about him?

On January 15, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House, saying it was a recognition of his commitment to her country’s freedom.

“I think today is a historic day for us Venezuelans,” she said after meeting Trump in person for the first time, weeks after US forces seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas and charged him in a drug-trafficking case.

Trump said on social media that the move was “a wonderful gesture of mutual respect”, but the Nobel committee has said the prize itself was not transferable.

Now — in recognition of Trump’s overall wonderfulness — other recipients of coveted prizes are falling in line.