Rob Wittman needs to go.  

Wittman was elected to Congress from Virginia’s First District in a 2007 special election following the death of the incumbent.  He has been re-elected ever since — as of mid-2026 he has been in Congress for 19 years.  In those 19 years, he has introduced no significant legislation.  He is essentially a minor back-bencher who slavishly follows the Republican Party line.

Wittman is a Trump supporter.  In 2020, after Trump lost the election and disputed the result, Wittman joined 145 other Republicans in supporting a suit against five states, claiming voting irregularities in those states led to a Biden win and a Trump loss.  No such thing happened, yet Wittman jumped onto the Trump bandwagon.

Later, he voted for a Republican resolution challenging the results of the 2020 election.

He supported Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” which took medical insurance coverage away from around 30,000 people in his district.  The bill’s attack on Medicare and the Affordable Care Act also threatens the survival of at least one rural hospital in his district — Rappahannock General Hospital, Kilmarnock.

Wittman simply needs to get out of Congress and make way for someone who will truly represent the people of the First District.

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The Navy’s top leadership believed that Rear Adm. Stephen D. Barnett was by far the best choice to lead the command that oversees the Navy’s bases at home and abroad.

He had more experience than the other candidates and had successfully managed the aftermath of one of the Navy’s biggest messes, a fuel spill that contaminated an aquifer on a base in Hawaii, sickening thousands.

The final decision this spring fell to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

To many in the Navy, Admiral Barnett’s promotion seemed like a foregone conclusion.

The officer, however, had a big strike against him. Like other Black military leaders, he had been encouraged by his superiors to help the Navy recruit and retain minority officers, who remain significantly underrepresented in the force. His years-old remarks on the importance of diversity had been flagged in a secret vetting process designed to weed out senior leaders whom Mr. Hegseth and his team pegged as a problem.

Instead of Admiral Barnett, Mr. Hegseth selected a white officer who was the Navy leadership’s third choice.

So far this year, Mr. Hegseth has blocked the promotions of at least 40 senior officers to general and admiral ranks. About half of those are women or members of minority groups.

Here is the front page of the Libero, a right-wing Italian newspaper published in Rome.

The front-page article was published in response to Trump’s nasty attack on the Italian Primer Minister after the G-7 summit in Europe — she stood up to Trump and embarrassed him in front of the cameras by correcting his bullshit, so, Trump responded on social media by calling her names and belittling her.

The headline reads:  “Trump Is A Coglione”

“Coglione” is an Italian word that can be translated as:

•  Asshole;
• prick;
• dick;
• jerk;
• moron;
• ass;
• jackass.

Any one of which describes Trump perfectly.

Today we live in a country where our military is under the control of an alcoholic, skirt-chasing former Fox host; out health systems are controlled by a cocaine addict; and they report to a convicted felon pedophile.

Are we great or what????????????????

Trump attended the G7 economic summit recently where, according to him, all the other heads of states “begged to have a picture with me.”  Here’s that picture.

The person in the blue suit is a moron.  He is an alcoholic.  He has seven children by three different women, two of whom were pregnant by him at the same time.  He “wrote” three books about war, none of them has anything useful to say.  He was a National Guard infantry officer who was tossed out of the Guard because his fitness reports all stated that he was not competent for promotion.  He was a part-time weekend Fox host when Donald Trump found him and made him Secretary of Defense.

He’s a moron, a failure, and an all-around piece of shit.

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The practically universal reaction to the MOU across the political spectrum is that it represents something between a serious and catastrophic defeat for American foreign policy and global influence. Despite the farcical and frantic efforts of administration lickspittles like JD Vance and Pete Hegseth to deny the obvious, there’s little doubt that even someone as delusional and demented as Donald Trump realizes that he has suffered an utter humiliation on the world stage.

Which raises the question of what this malignant narcissist with increasingly poor impulse control is going to do, in an attempt to deal with such a severe instance of narcissistic injury.

Options include:

(1) Launch another war in a desperate attempt to put this calamity in the rearview mirror. This would most likely mean attacking Cuba, which would please Marco Rubio immensely of course (Rubio is the one person in the administration who seems to have done the most adept job of steering as far clear as possible of the Iran fiasco, despite his job title).

(2) Relaunch the war with Iran after the 60-day negotiation period inevitably fails.

(3) Engage in occasional episodic bombings and the like of Iranian targets, without any kind of full re-engagement, as a kind of symbolic flex.

(4) Just forget about it, and count on the very short attention span of the American public to largely forget about this fiasco between now and November, while talking a lot about how this tremendous victory has lowered gas prices to the lowest level ever, and eliminated Iran’s nuclear ambitions permanently, thus requiring the Nobel committee to finally recognize him as the greatest peacemaker in history.