Tea and Vitriol

What a world, what a world, what a world! Let's face it, America's presidential throne has been occupied by a yutz  parade of morons, sex pigs, criminals and con artists since it was vacated by George Bush pere  in 1992. Each has been worse than the last, allowing for the American people to become desensitized to the peccadillos of each occupant, polarizing and dividing the electorate to the point of hysteria. This is one of the reasons that the Clinton, Biden and Trump crime families have been allowed to exist and thrive. People accuse previous administrations of having been bad to justify currents ones for being arguably worse. It's politics, baby, and to the victors belong the spoils, which is true enough for both Democrat and Republican politicians from the local to the national level. It accounts for the existence of multi-millionaire Congressmen, Senators and their toadies who infest the swamp known as Washington DC. The ultimate and inevitable expression of this has ...

  Larry the Cat, Mouser in chief at Number 10 Downing Street, has just welcomed his seventh Prime Minister in his 15 years in residence there. That is no mean feat. Far more popular than any of the official political residents at Number 10, Larry the Cat has seen it all. From the yutz  parade of Conservative Prime Ministers to the black comedy of "Sir" Keir Starmer's quick rise and fall, despite the historic victory of the Labour Party in 2024, Larry the Cat has endured and survived them all. So, what does he make of it? Probably not much. The Disunited Kingdom has been a state of political, social and economic crisis even before Larry's residence there, but it really only came to a head with the asininity of Brexit from the European Union and the ineptitude of the Conservatives' handling of COVID. Their inability to provide any real solutions to the resultant cost of living crisis cost the Conservatives control of the British Government in the 2024 general electi...

July 4, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of the Second Continental Congress adopting the Declaration of Independence, which broke with the United Kingdom and ended its dominion over the 13 American colonies. It is, therefore, America's 250th birthday. Yet, as an American, I cannot get worked up about it. I am old enough to remember the Bicentennial. We had just survived the nightmares of the Vietnam War and President Nixon's Watergate scandal, which almost destroyed America and brought the Nixon regime crashing down in ruins. However, the Bicentennial helped put that behind us. It was a celebration of America and Americans, with festivities across our nation celebrating that fact, televised so that people who could not be present would be able to witness them, both here and abroad. The Bicentennial reaffirmed our national pride, illustrating to the world that we had stood on the brink of utter chaos and destruction, only to come back stronger and more united than ever. Even the p...

Let's face it, Larry the Cat has been the only dependable personality at Number 10 Downing Street for the last fifteen years. As "Mouser in Chief," Larry has been more popular than most British politicians and has lasted at Number 10 longer than any of them, He has seen five prime ministers come and go in that time. Today, that number rose to six! "Sir" Keir Starmer announced his resignation as British Prime Minister today, although he will stay on until the Labour Party chooses another leader, who will then become Prime Minister in Starmer's place. That person will probably be Andy Burnham, formerly mayor of Greater Manchester whose election as an MP for Makerfield last week put the final nail in Starmer's political coffin, as Burnham stated that if elected to Parliament he would challenge Starmer for leadership of the Labour Party. Starmer, the most unpopular Prime Minister in British history, finally saw the writing on the wall and resigned. One might...

Let's face it. The Donald is a rude, crude boor. He has become just as much an embarrassment as Sloppy Joe Biden and Kamelhead Harris ever were. Even worse are The Donald's delusions that he is lord god king of the universe and a messiah that was personally sent by God. The Donald has offended friends and foes alike, ignoring the facts that our foes are NOT frightened by him and that our friends are slowly but surely disengaging themselves from the US. Yet while such disengagement is ongoing and under full sail, our erstwhile friends and allies have found it necessary to put up with The Donald's crassness and kiss his ass until the process is complete. Such was the case at the recent G7 gathering in France, where The Donald showed up an hour late to a meeting with no apologies but state that HE was the boss. The attendees nervously laughed it off. Worse came later when The Donald claimed that Italy's prime minister, Conservative Giorgia Meloni, "begged" him to...

Let's face it, The Donald's second administration has been an utter failure both domestically and globally. He has been unable to fulfill any of the campaign promises he made. That is NOT unusual among politicians seeking election to public office. However, the promises he made were so exorbitant that his inability to realize them make them even more glaring. So, he lies and tells everyone that his agenda has been successful when everyone can see that he hasn't been. Apart from pissing off friend and foe alike, The Donald's only successes have been to bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean Sea, kidnap Venezuela's Maduro and bully his successor there into submission. He and the Trump Crime Family have also used his position as president to enrich themselves in largely unethical practices of influence peddling, with his son-in-law Jared Kushner as the prime example of this brand of corruption in his administration. With the exception of MAGA extremists, most Americans ar...

  Let's face it, The Donald has become a tiresome boor. While he has always been a boor, and an egotistical one at that, the boor has become a bore. And a lying one at that, with delusions of grandeur and a God complex that is supported by his equally ignorant and arrogant Cabinet and MAGA radicals. Ethically, morally and spiritually bankrupt the lot of them, they are caught in the trap of having to give all to a bloodthirsty, war mongering "Messiah" or be thrust back into the social and political darkness from whence they crawled out of. So they repeat and embroider upon the lies The Donald always tells, because he, himself has stated that the truth is whatever he says it is. Therefore, there is no reason for him to provide evidence when he shoots off his mouth to the press or anyone else for that matter. When pressed to do so, The Donald retaliates by calling them "corrupt." Or "communists." Or "RINOs." As for tossing the word "corrupt...

Translation: The Donald is saying that he holds all the cards! Hsi replies by saying that the cards were made in China! And so they were. And are.  The Donald's recent two-day semi-state trip to China can only be realistically described as underwhelming, disappointing and unsuccessful. NOT according to The Donald, though. He originally touted his trip to China as an opportunity to make new trade deals with President Hsi, especially in the areas of agriculture, investment in American industrial redevelopment and the purchase of 500 Boeing jets. The Donald kept stating that China wanted to "make a deal," and he considers himself to be the master of the deal. He was about to get his comeuppance. The Donald also planned to discuss Taiwan and China's relationship to Iran, vis a vis his and Netanyahu's unprovoked attack and ensuing (and continuing) war with that country and its closing of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's oil passes. Or passed. ...

 Isn't it rich? Are we a pair? Me here at last on the ground, you in midair. Where are the clowns? Isn't it bliss? Don't you approve? One who keeps tearing around one who can't move. But where are the clowns? Send in the clowns. Just when I stopped opening doors, finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours. Making my entrance again with my usual flair. Sure of my lines, but no one is there. Don't you love farce? My fault, I fear. I thought that you wanted what I want. Sorry, my dear. But where are the clowns? Quick, send in the clowns. Don't bother, they're here. Isn't it rich? Isn't it queer? Losing my timing this late in my career. But where are the clowns? There ought to be clowns. Well, maybe next year. "Send in the Clowns" was the most famous song in the musical "A Little Night Music." It was about numerous people of the demimonde whose timing was off throughout their lives. Sort of like The Donald's second presidenti...

I will be the first to admit it: I voted for Donald Trump in 2024. And in 2016 and 2020. Between the evil Billary Clinton, senile horse's ass Sloppy Joe Biden and braying jackass Kamala Harris, I feel as though there was no other choice than The Donald. And there really wasn't. Because as bad choices as they all were, they are NOT the disease destroying America. They were merely the ugly red rash that indicated the presence of the disease, like with syphilis. America was hopelessly polarized long before these characters came along, puked up on the US electorate courtesy of both the Democratic and Republican parties, promoting their agendas through the use of demagoguery. It was successful, but it boosted totally unsuitable corrupt characters to the highest office in our land, some might even say of the whole world. Under these circumstances, it would only been a matter of time before a power-mad megalomaniac would achieve the presidency. And that has happened now. Yes, I have ...

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...

Yesterday there were numerous "No Kings" protests across America. According to the liberal news media, three million people participated, exercising their constitutional right to assembly and free speech. That sounds like quite a lot, until you remember that number is far less than one percent of the population of the United States. The remaining 99.9% of Americans couldn't be bothered with them. They went about their lives, either mildly amused by the protests, or disgusted by them, or apathetic to them. The protesters were congratulated by aged actress Jane Fonda, who has forever placed herself at the forefront of any anti-establishment movement, which just goes to show you the delusion prevalent among celebrities that they are very influential. Woke progressive liberals needed no encouragement from her to protest the government. So, what was the result? Apart from shouting themselves hoarse and leaving trails of litter in their wake? Why, nothing. The sun rose again th...