What a fucking disgrace. Just when it looked like CBS had no lower to go. Under the fascist-friendly leadership of the incompetent Bari Weiss and nepo baby David Ellison, CBS News has devolved into a far-right propaganda arm of the authoritarian Trump regime.

Trump's AI-generated video on Truth Social, showing Kharg Island being blown apart, is the kind of crude, juvenile spectacle a child would produce. It is not strategy, not deterrence, and not even competent propaganda. It is the digital equivalent of a tantrum: loud, cartoonish, and detached from consequence. There is something seriously wrong with a mind that would proudly post this. A functioning adult with real power does not treat the destruction of a major oil facility as content. The impulsiveness, the theatrical cruelty, the total absence of filter or proportion — these are not normal political instincts. This is not just age or eccentricity. It looks like an 80-year-old man losing his grip on reality and descending into madness. How much more of this does it take before Republicans in Congress accept that Trump is not merely unfit for office, but a genuine threat to the world? They have watched the pattern for years. At some point the refusal to see it stops looking like loyalty and starts looking like complicity.

Trump Hits Larak Island: Putin May Test NATO Next — and Xi May Take Taiwan This is not another Gulf strike. It is a signal that a war America cannot finish may now invite the wars it cannot afford. David Sanger of The New York Times has argued that the Iran campaign already damaged the one asset deterrence requires: the belief that the United States can start a fight, end it, and still have force left for China and Russia. Sunday's attack on Larak Island does not reverse that. It confirms it. Two launchers. Mines aimed at Hormuz. The first acknowledged U.S. hits inside Iran in a month. Small on the map. Loud in Moscow and Beijing. The read is obvious: Washington is still trapped in a theater it cannot close. Sanger's warning is the part that should scare the hell out of every American. That overstretch "could tempt Vladimir Putin to try to go take a small NATO country, or at least some territory in it. It could tempt Xi Jinping to go after Taiwan." A Russian slice of NATO territory is Article 5 under a nuclear shadow. A Chinese move on Taiwan is the world's chip supply, sea lanes, and industrial core put at risk while U.S. magazines are already thinner from months in the Gulf. The danger is not Larak itself. It is the precedent: a war sold as quick, now a drain — strait still contested, no political end-state, forces and interceptors burned far from Europe and the Pacific. Deterrence is timing. If rivals believe America is pinned, the next test only has to be simultaneous. That is the live risk now: Putin probing NATO's weakest edge while Xi squeezes Taiwan, forcing a choice over which alliance and which economy the United States can actually defend.

Trump's latest Truth Social meltdown at Meet the Press host Kristen Welker wasn't an attack. It was a confession. Trump is so hollowed out by grievance that he can no longer distinguish power from a tantrum. Every time he does this, he isn't owning anyone. He's handing the country another clip of an aging wannabe strongman who can't survive five minutes of questions without coming unglued. The world already wrote him off as a grotesque, self-pitying spectacle. Now a growing number of Americans are catching up: this isn't toughness. It's decay with a microphone. An unfit, psychologically damaged fool who cannot stop humiliating himself and then demanding the country treat the humiliation as strength.

With Service Members Already Mutineering, Generals and Admirals Are Now Turning on Incompetent Pete Hegseth Over a Force Stretched to the Breaking Point The rank and file have been grinding under an open-ended alert. Now the generals and admirals have joined them. The Army, Navy, and Air Force chiefs and the four-star commanders for Europe, the Pacific, and Latin America just told Pete Hegseth they disagree with his orders — in the Secretary of Defense Orders Book. They non-concurred. Keeping 50,000 troops on hair-trigger alert so Trump can keep waving "all options" at Iran is too much for too long. Some units stay through September. Others into 2027. Ships and aircraft that should be in Asia, Europe, or covering the homeland have been vacuumed into the Gulf. The Navy's ready destroyer fleet is down to about a quarter of prewar levels. Homeland defense is already taking hits. This is the same secretary who announced Iran had no air defenses, no air force, no navy, and promised the war was not endless. Officials later said he was not speaking truth to the president. Six months on, there is still no end state except hoping Iran folds. Iran has not folded. It is watching U.S. stocks shrink and American patience thin. Hegseth treated professional military advice as optional color commentary. Now the people whose job is to say when the force is breaking have put it on paper: uncertain trajectory, unsustainable demand, they do not agree. Combatant commanders lose platforms and training time so CENTCOM can stay on wartime footing for a moving political objective. Readiness craters. The homeland takes the hit. The man in charge still talks like he is hosting a panel. A television major was never going to out-think the Joint Staff on campaign sustainability. He performed. The force is paying in delayed maintenance, diverted ships, exhausted units, and written dissent from people who cannot afford to be wrong. Too much. Too long. Hegseth can fire the next general who writes it down. He cannot fire the math.

Unlike Google Maps, which immediately rolled over, Apple Maps is still refusing to play along with the psychotic shitstain's latest act of national self-parody by renaming Lake Ontario to the universally mocked, dumb-as-fuck "Lake America."

Relaxed and completely at home in hostile territory, Abdul El-Sayed took on Jesse Watters like he owned the hour. That ease was Mamdani-esque. I'm impressed by this new generation of Democrats. Somewhere in the ether, FDR is smiling.

The Copycat Dictator: Trump Echoes Hitler's Tactics This is not a deal. It is a stickup with letterhead. Trump did not negotiate 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil. He bagged a president, propped up the next available strongman, and announced that the ground under other people's feet now answers to Washington. Delcy Rodríguez did not sit down as an equal. She sat down as a hostage who still had a pen. The United States pointed a gun at a country, then invoiced it for the privilege. That is the old dictator's sequence, not some American innovation. Invent the emergency. Hit the neighbor. Install the local who will sign. Seize the asset. Call it destiny. Hitler wrapped conquest in grievance and "restoration." Trump used drugs as the cover story and crude as the payoff. If Maduro were the point, the story ends in a courtroom. It didn't. Rodríguez is not a partner. She is a quisling with stationery. Majority control. Oil at cost. A hundred-year claim. A press release screaming HISTORY while a shattered country is told to be grateful for the occupation's investment. McFaul called it theft dressed as policy. He was being polite. It is a colonial concession signed after a midnight kidnapping. Kaine was right: this pads the family firm and Big Oil and kicks any clean-energy future further down a burning road. Van Hollen was right: troops in harm's way so billionaire friends can book reserves is not statecraft. It is a fiduciary crime with a flag pin. Spare the gasoline fairy tale. Prices will not collapse because he typed in all caps. What lasts is uglier: Washington owning a slice of another nation's geology, carbon locked in for generations, Venezuelans watching their inheritance sold by a regime that exists because the raid allowed it to exist. After a year of government equity stakes, even a Cato economist gagged: a majority-state oil vehicle branded as private enterprise. That is not capitalism. That is the state as holding company for its donors. If this were about Venezuelans, there would be an election before a concession. First the force. Then the asset. Then the lie that it was always ours. Trump is not Hitler. He is the copy: same method, cheaper suit, commodities desk attached. A dictator-wannabe who looked at a broken country and saw a warehouse. The people calling it a win are the people expecting to cash the receipt.

Apparently, Trump's 'Eva Braun,' Natalie Harp, is now estranged from many of her family members. Harp's brother describes her Fatal Attraction-type infatuation with the dementia-addled psychopath as "very unhealthy."