News Nibbles

Jonathan Brown

Dangerous Delusional Diapered Despot

Several ex-military and ex-intelligence Members of Congress released a poignant video message, reminding service members that they should not follow illegal orders.

The video moved me to tears. Not only is it heart-felt and patriotic, but it shouldn't have to be said. What is happening in this country? 

Here it is.

Don't Give Up the Ship.

Piggy went ballistic. In a shocking tirade, he called for their deaths. 

Think of it. The president of the United States of America, calling for the deaths of members of congress.

Here are his messages.

 

What do you think his followers will do? Hmmmm.... do we have any evidence of past behavior? What did they do on January 6, 2021?

Since his first unhinged nontweets, he's been retweeting his minions' unhinged tweets. For example, one that read, "HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD !!"

And this weird thing:

It's not a surprise that the six lawmakers in the video have begun to receive death threats. They have beefed up security and are under 24/7 watch by the Capitol Police.

Pete Kegstand called for Sen. John Kelly, a retired Navy Captain and astronaut, to be investigated over the video. (allegedly) Drunken Pete suggested that Kelly be called back to duty for the sole purpose of court-martialing him. 

What the actual eff is happening?!

Kelly is not backing down. Nor should he. No court in any dimension would convict him. 

Why could Demented Don be so upset? Because he plans to issue illegal orders! 

The right is all crazed because they think service members swore an oath to the Commander-in-Cheat. NO! They swore an oath to the U.S. Constitution. Period. 

Bill Bramhall

Marchin' Margie

Don't let the House screen door hit you on the way out, Marge. 

This awful human being has decided that her boot-licking days are over. After finding a spine and standing up for sex trafficking survivors for a minute, MTG is booking it. Her resignation is effective January 5, 2026. She's retiring just after she is eligible for her congressional pension. 

If you bought any of her b.s. "change of heart," I'll let Jeff Tiedrich remind you of what a despicable person she has been for the last five years. He's on the mark, and funny too. 

If Marge is truly repentant and seeking redemption, then she will need to act on behalf of the people she has harmed along the way. And it is a lot. Our trust in her will take a long time, and I doubt that this Neanderthal has it in her. My bet is that her face will be all over the cable news. No doubt her next gig will be spouting her toxicity on Faux News for big bucks. 

Melting MAGA 

There's chatter that in the wake of MTG's resignation, a slew of resignations are to come. Wouldn't it be loverly if the GOP finally imploded? 

Commendable Courts

The courts are still holding. Here are a few good rulings.

• Big news! The cases against James Comey and Letitia James were thrown out. It was for the reason we all expected: that the Barbie prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, was not legally appointed. May she ride off into the disgraced traitor sunset.

• A judge is acting on the question of whether the regime violated his order to turn back the flights that were carrying Venezuelan immigrants (including Kilmar Abrego Garcia) to El Salvador in March. He has opened a contempt inquiry.

• The Georgia case against The Felon and his co-conspirators lives. Fanni Willis had been removed from the case but a special prosecutor will carry on.

• A federal judge ordered schools in Texas to remove the 10 Commandments displays in classrooms. Score one for the U.S. Constitution.

And one mixed one. 

• SCOTUS put an administrative stay on two federal judges' ruling that blocked Texas's redistricting. Galveston District Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Piggy appointee,  joined by Obama appointee David C. Guaderrama, ruled last week that the redistricting could not happen before the 2026 election. It was appealed, of course, and SCOTUS put a stay on the order until they can look at it.  

The question they will have to decide (and quickly; the deadline for candidates to file is Monday, December 8) is if the redistricting has to do with race, which would violate the Voting Rights Act, or politics. 

Exactly how are they going to figure out that question? 🙄

At least we still have California.

Nick Anderson

Always with the Oopsies

Oopsies! We we did it all wrong!

Before the case was tossed, there were mistakes upon mistakes in the indictment against James Comey. The DOJ had admitted to a judge that they had made a mistake and that the grand jury had not seen the full indictment. Lead prosecutor Lindsey Halligan admitted that after the grand jury indicted on only two of three counts, she had signed two additional indictments with two counts each and presented one of them to the foreman of the grand jury, not the whole jury. 

This was on top of misconduct that the judge had already disliked.

There were so many mistakes in the case that David French of The New York Times called it A Comedy of Errors.

Law is hard!

Oopsies! MAGA accounts are actually foreign agitators!

Not-twitter has a new location feature, and it's showing that many MAGAt accounts, some with hundreds of thousands of followers, originate from other countries. "MAGA NATION" originates in Eastern Europe; "America First" is from Bangladesh. Other MAGAt accounts originate in Chile, Nigeria, Thailand, Morocco, Indonesia.... on and on. 

uhhhh.....duh. 

Oopsies! Swastikas and nooses are bad after all!

The Coast Guard recently declared that swastikas and nooses don't count as hate symbols. There was, of course, an uproar. They dug in for a bit and then reversed course. Oh yeah, I guess they are bad.

Morals are hard!

Oopsies! We accidentally invaded Mexico! 

Can you believe this shit? Hegseth's idiots went to a Mexican beach and pounded signs in the sand, declaring it DOD property. 

It didn't take long for Mexican officials to come and dig out the signs. They know where they are!

GPS is so hard!

Why do we have to endure such stupidity?

Brainless Bureaucrats

More of the completely wild decisions made by federal and state authorities that defy logic and reason.

The CDC has endorsed the idea that vaccines cause autism.

NO NO NO. 

I am so mad that one debunked and retracted study (and the author disgraced and stripped of his ability to practice medicine) has wreaked such havoc on our collective consciousness. VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. 

Let me say it again. Vaccines 👏 do 👏 not 👏 cause 👏 autism 👏

We do not know what causes autism, except that there is a strong familial correlation.

And guess what? Autistic people are just people! Get over your ableist selves. 

Here's the stupid official CDC page. 

The Border Patrol is monitoring drivers

The Associated Press found that Border Patrol is using a network of license plate readers from coast to coast to monitor where drivers go. They use algorithms to analyze patterns, ostensibly to track illegal activities such as trafficking drugs and human beings.

This should concern all of us. Why are we suddenly living in a Black Mirror episode?

Hey you! You with the Master's Degree! You are not a professional!

Under the Big Bloated Bill, the Department of Education, for student loan purposes, has deemed a slew of professionals as no longer professionals. They include nurses, architects, social workers, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and audiologists and speech-language pathologists.

Excuse me? A two-year master's degree for audiologists and speech-language pathologists is mandatory!

PAs go to school for two years only after their undergraduate degree and after having a year's worth of work in a medical profession. 

All of those in the list need higher education and licenses. We are professionals, and it takes a lot of schoolin' to become so.

These Brainless Barbies

Dementia Don

Ah, those Ocean Drugs. Da best!

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The physicality of dementia/stroke. 

Look for: the slight stumble when pointing to a portrait, the slight pigeon-toes, the wide gait when going up the ramp, which indicates poor balance and needing a wider base of support. 

Trump looks like he’s having a hard time walking… pic.twitter.com/yk7XOUOmQf

— @MysterySolvent (@MysterySolvents) November 23, 2025

SNL

One from last week....

.....and one from 2016.

More Mamdani

MAGAt morons are having conniptions about a rumor that Mamdani will require schools to teach *gasp* Arabic numerals. 

I tell ya, there must be at least MI reasons to hate this guy!

Here's some of the meltdown and some of the mocking.

Here's more Mamdani/Trump crush memes.

Nick Anderson

Who misses Barack Obama?

Your Moments of Beauty

Keep the hope, Resisters! We got this! 

The courts are holding.

Resistance is growing.

MAGA is disintegrating. 

The Regime is incompetent.

The midterms are less than a year away.

Moon-eyes Over Mamdani

 

The Orange One had a meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani the other day.

Oh my! It's looooove.

He's positively giddy!

As he flirtingly pats his arm.

Then the outfit change!

Everyone, left and right, is puzzled by this crush. There was this analysis going around the internet. There are many good thoughts in there, but I'm thinking the author is overthinking things. I think it is something more basic. 

It's the dementia.

It's two-fold: forgetfulness and friendliness. 

The Alzheimer-in-Chief, with his failing brain, may simply not have remembered that he was supposed to hate this Democratic Socialist.

We know that there are many people behind the scenes propping this guy up. He has always been ill-informed on the issues, and he can't absorb new information now with his increasingly-feeble brain. I bet he doesn't even write many of his own non-tweets anymore. He may not have remembered, going in to the meeting, that Mamdani was supposed to be his sworn enemy.

There is maybe an even more powerful explanation: I bet dollars to donuts that during their closed-door meeting that Mamdani tapped into something very meaningful to Donnie: New York City. 

Li'l Donny adores the city. He was born in Queens and lived all of his life in NYC, until he had to leave in disgrace and felonies to the land of lower taxes. He fashioned himself into a Big Apple developer, hella crooked, yes, but if there is anything that Grumpf is able to love – and there's not much; love is not part of this person – it's the City of New York. 

Mamdani also loves New York City. He was able to reach into this part of Baby Hands, and like a good cognitive therapist, was able to play upon that shared love. Add that to Mamdani's genuine niceness, charisma, ability to connect with people, and a smidge of flattery, and Gramps couldn't help but be charmed. 

Again, I tap into my own experiences. I cannot count the number of grumpy old men I've turned around with just some kind words and genuine connection. Mamdani is good at connection. He's gracious, well-spoken, and intelligent. I think he just let DonOld be DonOld. And the president fell under his spell. 

Let's see if it lasts, or if his non-tweets go back to the usual "100% Communist Lunatic," "JEW HATER," "Kwame," and "Liddle’ Communist."

Now for a more outfit commentary:

 

LSR will be back with more from the news cycle. Stay tuned.

Quiet Piggy!

Today we look at disinhibition, a hallmark behavior of dementia.

Disinhibition is the diminishing ability to control one's actions, whether it is a verbal or physical action, or an emotional outburst. Simply put, the person acts on impulse.  

Disinhibition can take many forms. It can be blurting out a thought that you would never say in a certain situation, acting out sexually, or even gobbling your food in huge bites when the speech therapist is sitting with you and has just told you to "go slow - take one spoonful at a time - chew well before you swallow!" 

Not that I would know anything about that. 😉

Verbally, it's most often the absence of that little voice inside your head that tells you that now might not be the best time to say that thing. 

I've been on the receiving end of some colorful disinhibited discourse from my dementia patients over the years. Some of the most memorable include:

• "Quit smiling at me with those big horse teeth!"

• "You really should have that mole on your face removed. It's really ugly."

• and, the worst, very early in my career. When doing some nostalgia therapy, I brought up the 20th anniversary of Woodstock, which was in the news at the time (yes, I've been in the field for quite a while!):

"Ugh, I don't like that hippie n****r Jew music!"

Oh my!

Subject changed pronto.

We are seeing more instances of disinhibition by Dear Leader. 

Of course, he lies as often as he takes a breath, his disdain for women has never been a secret, and he has always had difficulty with emotional regulation and inhibition of odious discourse, but it seems that his disinhibition has gotten worse lately.

The "Quiet Piggy!" is one instance. He panicked at the question about the Epstein files and lashed out at a woman with an intensity and a nastiness that shook us. People are not forgetting this one. 

Here it is again. The reporter is Catherine Lucey from Bloomburg. 

Another instance of disinhibition with the press was this exchange when Mary Bruce of ABC asked some pointed questions while he sat with the murderer Mohammed bin Salman. She had asked some hard questions moments before. This time, he pivoted from his usual "fake news" to lobbing personal insults, saying, "you're a terrible person and a terrible reporter."

The whole scene with Mohammad bin Salman was alarming. Not only did he rail on Mary Bruce, but he defended the murderer in the room and horsed around with him, laughing and joking about fist-bumps, calling him "one of the most respected people in the world." 🤮

When asked about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Kumquat Pol Pot painted the murdered man as "extremely controversial;" that the murder was simply, "things happen;" and that bin Salman "knew nothing about it."

Watch here:

Outrageous!

Firstly, Dickhead, no, Khashoggi was not "controversial." He was an esteemed Washington Post journalist working hard in a dangerous country. Secondly, being controversial does not justify being hacked up with a bone saw! Thirdly, murder by bone saw is not something that "just happens." That is when they get your order wrong in the drive-through. Lastly, the CIA determined that bin Salman ordered the murder. Period.

You are both despicable!!

But I digress. Back to disinhibition....

There was a moment of disinhibition during the Oval Office meeting when he announced new pricing on weight-management medications (or "fat drug" as he calls them). 

Here he is, breaking all kinds of decorum and HIPAA regulations by naming his staff one by one, revealing their medial status:

He obviously was unable to inhibit some ferocious and uncontrolled lashings Monday, to the point that he developed a hoarse voice. How hard to do you have to yell before your voice becomes hoarse and stays that way? Hard.

Here he is with the hoarse voice explaining how he developed it:

The timing, though. I wonder if the stack-blowing was directed at Mike "Little" Johnson about the crumbling support for blocking the release of the Epstein Files. Johnson obviously had to tell him that the votes were not there. Drumpf reversed course and ok'd the vote on the same day that his voice became hoarse. I'm convinced that he only supported the yes vote after he had been told plainly that he didn't have the votes. 

I digress again.

The yelling until he was hoarse? Clearly unable to control his emotions and inhibit his behavior. Not at all befitting a president.

Other Signs of Brain Disease

There were a couple moments during the Veteran's Day ceremony that were concerning. One was when he had difficulty raising his arm to salute. He was finally able to complete the salute and hold it. The hesitation was unusual, though.

I start the clip at that moment:

The other moment at the same ceremony is when he felt up the wreath he had just placed. Was this another disinhibition? Did the flowers look like boobs?

I had missed this tidbit but it was recently brought to my attention. Dementia, ignorance, stupidity? Or all of the above? 

He conflates the Declaration of Independence with the Civil War. 

Just one note on The Big News. 

Today The Pedo signed the bill that releases the Epstein files. It was a remarkable, quick journey through Congress for the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The house passed the bill 427 – 1, and it passed the Senate by unanimous consent. No vote was even needed!

The fact that it passed the Senate within hours shook Speaker Johnson. He had counted on debate and amendments by the Senate, which would have sent it back to the House, delaying passage even longer.

But no. 

The DOJ has 30 days to comply. There are some loopholes within the bill that may yet protect the bad actors, and the "ongoing investigation" may still be used as an excuse to keep them hidden, but the shit has officially hit the fan, and our country may be on the way to ridding ourselves of this disgusting virus. He is backed into a corner. Let's see what happens next. 

And now, your Piggy Memes (and a few others)!

Clay Jones. This is his first cartoon after suffering a stroke! I wish the best for this brilliant cartoonist!

Jesse Duquette

Bill Bramhall

Lalo Alcaraz

Lastly, if we don't meet again before Thanksgiving, have a wonderful one, Resisters!

Quiet, Turkey!