Tea and Vitriol

King Charles III of the Disunited Kingdom and his current wife, Queen Camilla, began their state visit to the US on Monday. Yawn. It is lacking the tumultuous fanfare state visits usually produce because of the media circus produced by the supposed assassination attempt of the president and/or high-ranking government officials at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday Night. THAT incident has raised a lot more questions than the government has provided logical or believable explanations, which is giving the media plenty to concern itself with, to the exclusion of all else. Yet less than twelve hours after the incident, it was announced the King Charles III and his wife would make a four-day state visit to the US starting on Monday! While King Charles III had been invited to the US to celebrate our 250th "birthday," nobody was sure when or if he would come, given the health concerns over his ongoing treatment for cancer. The idea of that visit seems ironic, anyway. ...

It is no secret that the increasingly erratic behavior of The Donald has caused the world to question his mental state. Frankly, it looks as though he has gone off the deep end. Yes, we all knew he was a megalomaniac and a narcissist. And we all excused his regular outbursts and vulgarity with "That's just The Donald being The Donald," But his behavior has gone way past that now. He has become an embarrassment to all but the most rabid MAGA cultists. The sad fact is that The Donald's election in 2024 offered so many of us the hope that he would keep his campaign promises and reverse the national humiliation caused by the corrupt Biden regime. And for one brief, gaudy hour it looked as though he would. But that never came to pass, and he breached faith with most Americans who trusted him and voted for him. He pissed off our allies, engaged in two wars against Iran at Israel's request, engaged in activities against Venezuela in violation of international law and cau...

  Let me clear about one thing: I voted for The Donald in 2016, 2020 and 2024. In 2024, the majority of Americans were fed up with the international and domestic embarrassment of the Biden regime and the Biden Crime Family. Americans have long been accustomed to corruption in politics, but the Biden Crime Family was a case of "just too much," and blatantly so. One can excuse Sloppy Joe because of his obvious senility, which is why the Democratic National Committee kept him out of sight for most of the 2020 campaign. As for his running mate? Kamala Harris was a DEI hire, based on her sex, bi-racial ancestry and the color of her skin. The fact that she was a blithering idiot meant nothing to the DNC. In fact, it was the DNC that ruled the Biden regime. Sloppy Joe and Kamelhead merely reigned. Then came 2024, and The Donald beat the DNC by a healthy margin, both in the popular vote and the Electoral College. It was NOT the landslide that The Donald would later claim. But for one...

Let me state for the record that I am a lapsed Catholic. I survived the ordeal of a Catholic education and walking through the penguin compound at zoos still makes me nervous. However, I will argue to my dying day that people have the right to practice their religion even if I do not subscribe to them. It is a right enshrined in our own Bill of Rights in the Constitution. This, however, does not give practitioners of various religions the right to harangue people in order to proselytize them or to preach politics from the pulpit, which I have seen only too often during political campaigns in Rochester, New York and I can safely assume it occurs elsewhere as well. This violates the principal of separation of church and state. Violators and their churches can lose their tax-free status if caught. But I do not consider talking about peace, ending the violence and bloodshed of wars or constraining elected political leaders to behave with more modesty, humility, humanity, decency and approp...

At the start of the insincere ceasefire in The Donald and Benny's war against Iran, Melania Trump has chosen to speak yesterday. And what did The Donald's third wife have to say to the press? Nothing about The Donald's arrogance that has shattered old international alliances. Nothing about the disruptions to global trade and the global economy caused by The Donald and Benny's unilateral war against Iran. Nothing about the bloodshed, death, destruction and violations of international law that The Donald and Benny have wrought upon the world. No. Melania spoke about herself and how she has been maligned by social media and the liberal press regarding her association with deceased convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his procuress-in-chief Ghislaine Maxwell. Wearing an exquisite, tailored suit and her standard Joan Crawford "come fuck me" pumps with four-inch heels, Melania strode forcefully across the room to a podium where her prepared speech was already lai...

The whole world has seen that The Donald and Benny's war against Iran hasn't gone to plan. Despite their tortured efforts to destroy Iran and remake it to suit their own egos and agendas, that hasn't happened and the war, with its death and destruction still goes on. This has infuriated The Donald, who supposedly penned "The Art of the Deal." He expected Iran to capitulate on Day One of his and Benny's war against them, and gratefully accept any deal that he might offer, no matter how humiliating. Only Iran has repeatedly said "No deal!" The Donald knows only how to insult, threaten and intimidate. Those are his methods and they are not working here. His latest bullying tactic was to threaten Iran with "Hell on earth" if they did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, specifically the shipping of oil, which the world economy depends upon and 20% of it passes through the Strait of Hormuz. The Donald gave Iran 48 hours to comply. Then h...