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Trump: I know a lot of stupid people that went to a good college. My uncle was the longest serving professor at MIT. That means I have much better blood. But I went to the hardest college of all to get into, the Wharton school of finance, that means I'm real smart. pic.twitter.com/kYIWksn5Up

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 11, 2026

BREAKING: Trump, (In a Kermit The Frog voice) tells a crowd in Hebron, Kentucky how great our military is doing, before bragging about bringing energy prices down.

Note that as I write this:

– Gas prices are 45 CENTS HIGHER than when Biden left office
– Electricity prices are… pic.twitter.com/lqt38FHOnq

— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) March 11, 2026

 

BREAKING: Trump tells his followers that he’s slashing drug prices by 500, 600, and 700 percent.

That’s mathematically impossible.
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— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) March 11, 2026

 

Trump at the WH as he was leaving to go to Kentucky rally:
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Trump: “We took out all of their mine ships in one night. The Strait of Hormuz is open.”

The facts as of right now:

Iran struck a Thai civilian vessel attempting to transit the Strait this afternoon.

Lloyd’s of London has not restored war risk insurance for Gulf shipping.

No major shipping company has resumed transits.
Marine Traffic shows vessels at anchor, not moving.
Iran’s foreign policy advisor said this morning: we decide when it ends.

Trump said the Iranian navy was destroyed. We kept finding ships to bomb.

Trump said ships were safely transiting. The Energy Secretary deleted the tweet. Karoline Leavitt corrected the record.

Now Trump says the Strait is open.

A Thai ship was struck today trying to find out.

You mean, like this one showing his Nazi tattoos?

This one of him shit-faced drunk?

 

 

They are going back to South Africa — the US is too violent for them.

The Trump administration’s crusade to “save” white South Africans from supposed persecution is backfiring. Instead of embracing his invitation to America, growing numbers of those same expatriates are buying one-way tickets home—disillusioned by the violence, fear, and brutality in Trump’s United States.

Andrew Veitch, who left South Africa for California two decades ago after being carjacked, told Reuters he no longer feels safe in Trump’s America. “People are being shot in broad daylight. American citizens are being shot and killed,” said the 53-year-old.

He plans to return to South Africa this year, joining a wave of repatriations driven by disillusionment with the country that once promised security. “I don’t want to live in a place like this,” Veitch told the outlet.

Trump’s officials have defended Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who killed two U.S. citizens in January, claiming self-defense—though video evidence disputes that. South Africa, which Trump once accused of persecuting whites, now finds itself welcoming thousands back. South Africa’s government says there is “no evidence” of racial discrimination against whites, and newly relaxed laws have prompted an online rush: 12,000 expatriates have checked their eligibility to reclaim citizenship since November.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-south-african-refugees-choose-to-head-home-instead-of-living-under-trump/

Oooopsss!!

Kennedy is undergoing outpatient rotator cuff surgery today.

Kennedy is undergoing outpatient rotator cuff surgery today. www.medpagetoday.com/surgery/orth…

Three points I have gleaned from the bullshit coming out of the White House and the Pentagon.

First: There are far more American wounded casualties than the 140 DoD has admitted to. The number could be as high as 150. Of course if they are lying about wounded, they are almost certainly lying about killed as well. They are lying to us again as usual. No surprise there.

Second: Trump’s flunky son-in-law negotiator Kushner approached the Iranians about some sort cease fire or deescalation. They told him no (or maybe HELL NO). Why would they agree? They are winning militarily and psychologically. This will end on their terms, not Trump’s. This will become the greatest humiliation ever to befall any American President.

Three: The Iranians have announced that they are going to focus their retaliation entirely on Israel. I think for the most part Israeli air defenses have been depleted. The Israelis are doing their best to cover it up, but it looks like Iranian missiles and drones are hitting Tel Aviv and the rest of the country at will. The Israeli people aren’t stupid. They do know that Bibi is responsible for this fiasco. I would guess his and his governments days in office are numbered. Unless he makes a run for it he will be in a jail cell soon.

Trump will have to do one of two things. He will have to (1) unilaterally back down or (2) go full scorched earth on the Iranians. If he ops for alternative two, the Iranians will go full scorched earth on the entire middle east. They could essentially shut down oil production for a very extended period of time. The implications for the world economy would be nothing less than a major disaster. We are talking about a world wide super depression. We, U.S.A., will pay an extremely heavy price for electing a lunatic President.

 

A basic distinction in the world of medical diagnosis is between subclinical and clinical versions of a disease. The concept of a disease being in a subclinical state doesn’t really have a rigorous formal definition: it’s more of an informal judgment that the disease’s symptoms aren’t yet obvious enough to produce a formal clinical diagnosis. But naturally what will count as “obvious enough” will in turn be highly context dependent. Someone whose condition is being monitored closely by their loved or at least liked ones, and is getting regular medical examinations, is going to be formally diagnosed earlier in the course of the disease than someone who isn’t getting as much attention from family and/or medical personnel.

This is particularly true of the various forms of dementia, since these tend to have slow-developing histories that can leave a person in the subclinical stage of the disease for many years, before a formal clinical diagnosis is finally made. Which brings us to this:

Recently Trump has made it increasingly obvious that he’s confusing political asylum with insane asylums:

But the one thing that I can’t do anything about is that he allowed 25 million people, many of these murderers, drug lords, criminals, people from mental institutions — they emptied their mental institutions, Tom, is that right, all over the world, not just in South America. . . .how could you have an open border, all the countries are going to be dropping their prisoners into us, and that’s exactly what happened, and mental patients and others.

Many other examples of obvious cognitive confusion/incoherence are becoming available on a practically daily basis now.

Trump has always been a liar, a bullshitter, and an all-around moron, but the signs are increasing that he may have what I’m going to call “politically subclinical dementia.” This is a form of dementia that has gotten frank enough in its symptoms that it would be clinically diagnosed but for the presence of strictly political factors, rather than as a consequence of familial denial or indifference, and the related lack of medical attention that results from those sorts of characteristically personal factors. In this case, needless to say, the political is the personal, as everyone in this country is now stuck in a relationship with a increasingly demented abuser. Of course a lot of the family are in some sort of co-dependent relationship, or are just trying to steal the inheritance.

As for the rest of us, we’re trying to figure out how to take away the car keys, except in this case the car keys are the nuclear launch codes carried around in the football.

I normally do not post weird, crazy, delusional crap here, but from time to time something pops up that is so asinine it’s just unavidable.

Like Kristi Noem’s last tweet as DHS Secretary. The one where she thanked Donald Trump for appointing her to be “the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas.” Some folks would have been upset to be fired while they were in the middle of speaking publicly about their future plans in the position. But not Kristi. She’s apparently made her peace with becoming an underling to Rubio and Hegseth.

But that’s not the funny part.

The Tweet goes on for a really long time and convinces me Twitter needs to restore character limits, even for fancy Blue Check Cabinet Secretaries—maybe especially them. Before she’s done, we learn that she has learned that the Western Hemisphere is absolutely critical for U.S. security. Kudos to her for figuring that out.

 

Noem also advises that “we have located 145,000 children. I need to know more about this. Where did she find these kids? Were they missing? Who are they? 145,000 is a lot of kids.

Maybe these are kids like Liam Ramos up in Minnesota, who her agents took into custody with his Spider-Man backpack on and his blue bunny ears hat? Maybe that’s what “located” means? That she took kids away from their schools and their friends and their families and stuck them into her people-warehouses with concentration camp-like conditions, where many kids, we read, are getting seriously ill and even requiring emergency care. Maybe “located” means traumatized for the rest of their lives? That’s definitely not the funny part.

My favorite part of the tweet is the claim that Noem “revitalized the Coast Guard.”

I’m not sure what all Kristi Noem did for the Coast Guard. I do know that she bought a new training facility for them. Oh, and as DHS Secretary, she insisted she needed more secure housing, so she booted the Commandant of the Coast Guard out of their residence and took it over for herself. It’s described as a “spacious waterfront residence” in Washington, D.C., on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling. Because the Coast Guard, of course, operates on the nation’s and international waterways. As for the new training facility Noem purchased, I’m sure you can see it in your mind’s eye, a beautiful property on the water with plenty of opportunity to train sailors.

But nope, that’s not it. Kristi Noem‘s new Coast Guard facility is in Birmingham, Alabama. I have family in Birmingham so I can tell you with authority that it’s landlocked. The ocean is five hours away on Mobile Bay. There are some lovely rivers and lakes in Alabama. The new training facility isn’t located on them, either.

So why put the Coast Guard here? It doesn’t really make a lot of sense. The facility Noem purchased was a small private college, Birmingham Southern, that went bankrupt about two years ago and has been vacant since May of 2024. The campus has been on the market since then.

It was Alabama Senator Katie Britt who announced that Birmingham Southern had been selected as the site for the Coast Guard’s new training center. Britt chairs the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, which funds DHS and the Coast Guard. “This is a huge day for Birmingham, our great state, and the U.S. Coast Guard,” said Britt. “This move will save the American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars,” added Alabama’s other Senator, Tommy Tuberville.

Al.Com reported that “ the purchase price was undisclosed.” The school, which has been empty for two years, was characterized as being in Turnkey condition.

Explaining the unusual location of the facility, Master Chief Petty Officer Phillip N. Waldron said the Coast Guard had urgent need of a new facility and that the inland location wouldn’t be a problem. “That’s one of the things that I think we had to kind of get out of the mindset of, ourselves,” he said. “When we look at the whole purpose of a training center, we didn’t necessarily need it to be on the water. What we needed [for] it was to be a place that had the adequate facilities that we can train folks to be able to go do that out on the water.”

Maybe it will work out okay when new Coast Guardsmen “do that out on the water.” After all, this is the agency that spent $2.25 million to buy 25 Chevrolet Tahoes emblazoned with the ICE logo, which someone figured out after they arrived couldn’t be used by an agency that’s so concerned about publicizing its work that agents wear masks.

Semper Paratus, as the Coast Guard’s motto says. Always ready.

Noem said in a statement after the location of the facility was announced, “This next generation of heroes deserves training centers and support facilities worthy of their mission, and that is exactly what they are going to have in Alabama.”

Go get ‘em, Shield of America

This will mean something to a few people — James “Bo” Gritz died March 9 at age 87.

You can read more about this charlatan, con artist, and all-around liar here

and here

and here

I guess somewhere someone will mourn for him but not here.