Do you have any words? I am mute.

Trump Will Not Attend 25th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks Because He Can't Make Speech, Has Golf Date Sept. 12 in Ireland, Security Concerns

President Trump originally intended to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 with remarks at ground zero, but the memorial’s organizers do not allow speeches. Mr. Trump changed his plans.

At the Pentagon, Mr. Trump will be allowed to speak...

There are other considerations that led to Mr. Trump honoring the day in Washington, including that he will depart the next day for his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland...

...he has faced an uptick in threats since he began a war against Iran on Feb. 28.

Mr. Trump’s advisers have discussed possibly taking federal control of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, including as recently as last year. 

Mr. Trump, a native New Yorker who talked often about the Sept. 11 attacks during his 2016 presidential campaign

Mr. Trump, who was in New York on the day of the attacks, spoke to a New Jersey television station in the aftermath, saying that a building he owned had gained in stature because the twin towers had fallen. That building, 40 Wall Street, “actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually — before the World Trade Center — was the tallest.”

He went on, “And then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest. And now it’s the tallest.” (The statement was not correct; 70 Pine Street, nearby, was taller than Mr. Trump’s building.)

Haberman et al nytimes

 When I was on Twitter, this man was my hero.

Public Occurrences August 31, 2026

There are 950+ dead in Nepal with an astounding 4,400 missing. The flood hit on August 26, five days ago. Miracles happen, but after five days...You can do the sickening math. 

8:45 am:

Over 900 Now Dead in Flooding in Nepal, Thousands Still Missing

So far, President Donald Trump has not followed through on threats of an “economic D-Day” for Iran...

 American officials have asked allies to join their “Operation Economic Outcast” initiative...

AP

 I had three micro-bursts of sleep, with dreams and everything, after day-break and I feel great.

I think that Eleven thinks that I stand at the toilet with purpose for her to jump on my shoulders and then onto the shower stall railing. I don't know where my pants being down fits into the invitation that she thinks I am extending.

Trump is serious...

Ia...about bankrupting Canadian industry in order to get the country's oil, natural gas, and timber resources.

He only thinks of the bottom line, in that term's original sense only, dollars and cents. And to him there is no such thing as mutually beneficial transactions. The are zero-sum to him. One dollar that the other guy, or nation makes, is one dollar less for him and his nation. Trump's foreign adventures will here by judged only on his terms.

Ib. Trump was serious about decapitating Venezuela to get its abundant oil reserves.

Ic. Trump is serious about taking Greenland by force, in order to get its critical minerals, rare earth metals, and energy resources. He has the attention span of a gnat but that does not detract from his seriosness.

Id.  Trump's Iran war aims have devolved to one: keeping the Strait of Hormuz ("a New American Territory") open to keep the oil flowing. 

IIa. Trump will fail with Canada but will do catastrophic damage to Canada if his Jan. 1, 2027 50% tariffs on Canadian steel take effect.

IIb. Trump succeeded in decapitating the Maduro regime in Venezuela and has signed some sort of agreement with lap dog Delcy Rodriguez. 

IIc. On paper Trump could take Greenland relatively easily. It is a sparsely populated territory of Denmark. Neither Greenlanders nor Danes have the ability to withstand a tenth of the onslaught the U.S. could unleash. But Denmark, and by extension Greenland, is a NATO ally. A military effort by Trump would be unprecedented and would unravel all of Europe and Eurasia.

IId. Trump will get the Strait of Hormuz opened--in time. Trump has got twenty-eight months' time. I bet that is time enough.

IIIa. Trump has hurt American consumers with his tariffs generally. He has hurt them in miniscule degree with his tariffs on, and reciprocals by, Canada (Canada's latest go into effect Sept. 8). He will hurt American consumers more if the Jan. 1 tariffs go into effect. 

IIIb. U.S. consumers will not see the benefits, if they acceue, from Trump's taking of Venezuela's oil for years, beyond Trump's term in office.

IIIc. The U.S. would benefit greatly, in economics and power projection only, by taking Greenland. But NATO...

IIId. Trump has hurt American consumers with his Iran "excursion", now at six months plus. Opening the Strait, and keeping it open, will (I believe he will) take American consumers only back to the status quo antebellum.

IV. All of Trump's adventures, excursions, ambitions and consequence thereof will be undone by events foreseeable but unforeseen by him, and by the next American administration, Republican, or more likely Democratic. If he lives that long, he will leave public life as a failed, dissipated 82-year old still defiantly shouting that he "WON!" and watching enraged as his monuments to himself are dismantled. He is the greatest failure of all presidents and proof of the failure of Democracy in America.

Public Occurrences August 30, 2026

First Shooting Since July: U.S. Kills Several IRGC Preparing to Lay Mines in Strait; IRGC Fires at Jordan in Response

This cat's gonna sprout feathers she eats so much chicken

 

Those were some of the reactions last night to the Israeli attacks on NBC journalists. I agree/or am sympathetic with all of them. Sixty percent of American adults now have an unfavorable view of Israel; 30% believe that Israel has committed genocide; Israel has nuclear weapons; $3.8B of U.S. taxpayer money goes, and has gone, to Israel every single year; For ten years Trump repeatedly has called on U.S. NATO allies, with whom we have a mutual defense treaty, to pay more for collective security; Israel Firsters in Congress, with Netanyahoo approval, have now included continued Israeli aid in the U.S. defense budget, rather than have it be specifically approved each year: this is a double standard; "Everyone hates Israel now, everyone hates you", "Israeli wouldn't exist if it wasn't for me" Trump has said in rare statements of truth about Israel and Netanyahoo; Trump has made the U.S. principal to all of his war partner's war crimes. 

"American Zionist" Israel Firster Alan Dershowitz told fellow Israel Firsters in New York "Our enemy now is Canada" (for pledging to arrest 'Witz' hero Benjamin Netanyahoo on his ICJ war crimes warrant should said Netanyahoo ever set foot agayne in the True North). 'Witz told Canadian daily National Post that he is “in favour of Trump putting tariffs on Canada for its statements regarding Israel and Netanyahu, and even sanctions perhaps.”

Netanyahoo has made New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani his enemy, graphically the most prominent of four international enemies, one of whom is the leader of a NATO allied nation.

The case for Israel as an "enemy" of the United States is by powers of ten stronger than that for Canada as an enemy. Yet, Trump has tariffed Canada 50% with an additional 50% due on January 1, 2027 and has repeatedly declared the U.S.-Canadian border "artificial", has repeatedly referred to Canada as "the 51st state", to Canadian Prime Ministers as "governors", and issued existential threat directly to current Prime Minister Mark Carney that "Canada only lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark."; and has renamed Lake Ontario "Lake America". By contrast, Trump's tariffs on Israel are a much lower 27%, he has never said that Israel's borders are "artificial" (when they are), and has never threatened Israel's existence.

Officially, China is a "strategic competitor", not an enemy, of the U.S. Russia is classified as a "major strategic adversary", not an enemy. "Enemy" apparently is a term reserved for a war-time adversary. Israel is not a "strategic" anything to the U.S. It exists, as Trump said, on sufferance of America. Israel is not an "enemy" of the U.S., but neither is 'Witz' Canada--by orders of magnitude. These are all double standards of the highest degree. 

This Israel is not in America's national interest; This Israel is not in America's national security interest. This Israel is counter to America's national interests and to American national security. America should disengage from Israel; should end all economic and military aid to Israel; should economically strangle Israeli citizens until they change leaders; America should never, EVER, permit Israel to be destroyed as a homeland for the Jewish people. Only in an existential threat should the United States come to Israel's defense.

Public Occurrences August 29, 2026

The Israel Poison

Palestinian woman and NBC News team attacked by masked Israeli settlers in West Bank

The woman and crew were treated for injuries. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he condemned the violence committed “by a handful of rioters.”

NBC

4:22 pm:

Trump's evolving endgame for the Iran war, in 6 quotes

March 2:

"Our objectives are clear. First, we're destroying Iran's missile capabilities ... and their capacity to produce brand new ones. .... Second, we're annihilating their navy. ... Third, we're ensuring that the world's No. 1 sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon. .... And finally, we're ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.

April 7:

"We have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran." 

June 17;

"We reached an agreement with Iran that achieves everything we set out to accomplish. Everything and much more." 

July 8:

"I don't want to deal with them anymore. ... As far as I'm concerned, it's over." 

July 24:

"There's a military exit where we just keep going just the way we are ... or there's a smarter strategy and that's you make a deal."

Aug 19:

"I am announcing the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY! This will be Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale." 

The bottom line: Trump's four- to five-week war has become a half-year conflict whose path to an end keeps changing.

Axios

Russian strike near Kyiv kills 37, in one of the year's deadliest attacks

npr headline

11:58 am:

Trump Seizes Control of Venezuelan Oil for Toilet Nation

Flagellation

Put up yous dukes

 

Tottenham Notspur

This is a big, London, club. Got their own stadium, got money out the ass, spent big this summer after avoiding relegation on the last matchday of the 2025/26 season...

And have lost their first two matches this, stung 3-0 by the Bees at Brentford, 2-0 today at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to Saudi Sovereign Wealth. Shut out in both and outscored by five in tyoo matches. Bottom of the Premier League. 

But wait. Three players, three, want to be Notspurs. And manager Roberto De Zerbi said after the loss to the Saudis that they are free to go.

Gonna be sippin' Coca-Cola next season, these Notspurs are.

I need hard work. Without it I become an old man, not living in the present with purpose, not in the future with a goal, but, as old folks do, in the past with nostalgia. That is what study with Dr. Ana gives me.

Yet, I am old. When we worked with constancy four hours a day (a limit imposed on me and on she by me) five days a week, I was often, the words are mine whenever I thought of it and whenever I spoke of it to others, "bone tired." The feeling was literal. My very bones felt tired.

Yesterday, since we had not been working with constancy four hours a day, five days a week, I pushed Ana and myself, and set the goal at the old four hours. We didn't meet our goal, Ana could do no more after three hours twenty minutes. And today I slept until 11:42. I was bone tired.

Putting aside dollars and cents, the story of Mr. Trump’s war in its first six months can be told in five numbers: Sixty-three, 12, 1.10, 18 and 759. 

63: percent public opposition to Iran War.

...reminiscent of the darkest days of the Vietnam War.

12: ... the number of ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz each day...compared with 130 before the war. 

1.10: ...average price of gas increase since in the United States the start of fighting.

18: ...American military personnel killed so far in the war. 

759: ...the estimated number of Patriot interceptors left in U.S. arsenal, down from 2,330...

Peter Baker, New York Times

Since this is a joint U.S.-Israeli war, I would add another number:

62: Percentage of American adults who hold an unfavorable view of the Israeli government, up from 43% in 2022.

This was March 11. The Iran War was eleven (my favorite number) days old:

Now look at this. Look at the date.

Two days ago. Two days later, today, August 28, the Iran War was at six months and still going and going and going...

Now look at the composition

I believe that that is the work of Natalie Harp. Approved by Trump but I think Harp is the original artist. It's very similar to others. Does she know, does he know, that Dubya gave that "Mission Accomplished" speech aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, the same ship that is now headed to port in a mental health crisis? Are you kidding me? No. No way Harp-Trump know that. How about invoking the most embarrassing foreign policy boner of Dubya's presidency--when she knows, when Trumpie knows, that the Iran mission is NOT accomplished, was at post time two days shy of six months. Does she know, does Trumpie know, that Dubya's boner was over IRAQ, not Iran? I give that one 50-50 odds.

Did you hear that Trumpie plans on campaigning for the mid-terms on his record? "Pretend I'm on the ballot" he has said in speeches to MAGATs. "Affordability is a hoax" he has said repeatedly.

Now, there are a few reasonable explanations to consider here. I'll lead with my choice. Trump's default is to lie. It's just what he does. He has gotten away with it too. 47% (average) of Toilet Nation voters have voted for the con man three straight elections! You can full 47% of the people all of the time. I think that he is counting on his ability to fool voters in November.

To be sure, Trump has backups: redistricting, voter suppression, declaring a national emergency to get federal troops into local polling places, $500M in political lie advertisements. But he is going to go on lying: that the consumer is not hurting, that he "WON!" the Iran War, that the Toilet Nation is not a plate of hot shit but "the hottest nation" out there. His lies and his distractions have pushed the reality of 1) Trump-Epstein 2) the Israel poison 3) Iran 3a) running out of missiles 4) a Gaza Mediterranean resort 5) annexing Greenland 6) annexing Canada, 7) Russia's war on Ukraine 8) China's no-better-time-than-now! coming invasion of Taiwan--Have I forgotten anything? Probably.--he has pushed all of those out of peoples' consciousness.

But...he's not on the ballot in November; the Iran War is not over, Toilet Nation consumers know the prices of gas and eggs, and only 33% of them approve of his job performance. There are limits to lying and those are beyond lying's reach. 

Now, the alternatives: He doesn't care about the midterms. He doesn't care about elections unless he's on the ballot. Hmm, I don't know about that one. There are people who hold that and Trump himself said he didn't care about how Iran affected Grand Old Phascist phortunes in November. But he says contradictory shit all the time. Seventy percent of his mind share is on monuments to himself. He is looking at his legacy, not the short-term. I get it. I still don't think this is near sufficient explanation even if true.

He and the Human Poster are just dumb. 

That is HIM. That is not Harp, that is President iDJiT. Well, of course they are dumb. This is the question: are they dumber than Toilet Nation people? They are not. He doesn't care how stupid that air-headed "Mission Accomplished" post is any more than he cares about his spelling. What matters to Harp because it matters to Trump, is that he be seen as the "Guardian of the World (that was the other use of that same imagery).

He's going to lie. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! And he can't help it. Of course "Mission Accomplished" was dumb, but it was also a knowingly flagrant lie. Image is everything to them. What are you going to believe, that the Iran War is a shit puddle inside a quagmire wrapped in dezinformatsiya waged by an 80-year old who wears diapers, or that that manly He-man in that the graphic "WON!"?

It's Key Lime Friday

 

Ooh boy, Man City Routes Child Porn 4-1 in London

Erling Haaland started it and ended it, garlanding Rayan Cherki's two.

Public Occurrences August 28, 2026

Trump's ("four to six weeks") War of Choice Now at Six Months, Goals Unachieved, Iran Emboldened but Vulnerable, U.S. Weaker

Iran was on the ropes before the attack

In the runup to the war, the Islamic Republic appeared more vulnerable than at any point since Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded in 1980.

Iran’s currency had cratered, setting off some of the biggest anti-government protests in its history, which were brutally suppressed in January, with thousands killed. Israel and the U.S. had pounded its military and nuclear sites during a 12-day war the previous summer, and its militant allies had been throttled in the wars that followed Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack out of Gaza.

But the tide changed shortly after the initial U.S. and Israeli strikes, as Iran’s leaders were quickly replaced and its people — sheltering from the war — ignored exhortations from the attackers to rise up again.

Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz...

Iran is now determined to exert permanent control over the strait, to use it to ward off future attacks and secure other concessions, while giving no ground on its disputed nuclear program. It’s a risky gamble, especially as the U.S. tightens its blockade and vows new sanctions on Iran’s already battered economy.

“Tehran’s danger is confusing its ability to survive with victory and demanding more than its leverage can deliver"...

AP

How's your day going so far?

 

Eleven heat started, spewed her bodily essence on me twice during EWW Esse Em Elle Ee test.

I went to Publix tonight in my new Artssus black cat shirt. 

I wasn't in the store TYOO minutes before a woman came up from behind me and said, "I love your shirt, where did you get it?" It really is art. It's also so, so light. Artssus makes art.

Model Shoot on Rug

 

Public Occurrences August 27, 2026

Trump to Axios: I'm not worried Russia will attack NATO

"I am not concerned ... at all. There is no problem."

Speaking with reporters two hours later, Trump was asked again whether the U.S. delivered a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin about potential attacks on NATO countries.

Trump said he didn't want to comment, but added, "They are not going to attack NATO territory."

What "warning"? What could he threaten them with, marshmallow bombs?

US Patriot missile stocks in Europe are ‘beyond critical’ due to Iran war, officials say

In the event of a Russian ballistic missile assault on, for example, a military headquarters or power plant, NATO could be in a similar position to Patriot-starved Ukraine and be forced “to take punch after punch in the mouth,” the U.S. defense official said.

In Europe, the American military “definitely” does not have enough Patriots to stop any possible sustained ballistic missile attack and would have “very limited” capability to defend against a single ballistic missile strike or a stray Russian missile that goes off course, the U.S. official said.

AP

Trump's CIA guy went to Moscow this week unexpectedly, probably to plead with Poot-Poot not to attack.😂

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OH, I WAS RIGHT! I was joking but...

CIA Chief’s Surprise Moscow Trip Was to Warn Russia Not to Attack NATO

Warning comes after new U.S. intelligence assessments indicated Russian president could launch a limited assault

Wally

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Trumpie Says Poot-Poot Won't Attack

CIA Director John Ratcliffe went to Moscow this week to warn Russia not to attack, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Asked by reporters Thursday whether Ratcliffe delivered that message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump offered a roundabout response.

“I don’t want to comment on that, but they’re not going to attack,” Trump said.

AP above

WHEW! That's a load off, right? I wonder if Ratcliffe made it a two-stop tour and dropped by Xi Jinping's place to ask him PUHLEAZE don't invade Taiwan right now.😂

Trumpie could win the Nobel Peace Prize for Losing Wars. This could be a record year! Losing to Iran, Russia, and China! 

Meanwhile,

Since 70% of His Thoughts Are on Monuments 

😂

Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario 'Lake America' amid Canada trade war

cnbc

EW ESSE EM ELLE EE TODAY*

PE-EW! I STUNK today. 15%, less than a random walk down Medicine Street. I knew it, too! As I was doing the test with Ana I knew I was bombing. I MISSED THE FIRST 16 IN A ROW! Embarrassing. BUT...Ana's is the only important score and she got 55%. 

*I was wrong. I ONLY GOT TEN PERCENT RIGHT!

Only Ukraine

Ukraine’s Ground Drones and "the future of war"

Ukraine marked its 35th Independence Day with a military display unlike any it had staged before: robots on the streets of Kyiv, naval drones on the Dnipro river and UAVs in the skies above the capital, showcasing technologies that have transformed the battlefield since Russia’s full-scale invasion.

euronews

And so, the comparative Lilliputians in Ukraine and Iran are doing with five- and six-figure weapons what Gullivers Russia and the Toilet Nation cannot do with eight-figure weapons, of which the Toilet Nation is running out.

Good morninga beautiful chickens.

Iran War Updates: Trump says U.S. "achieving a very big victory," war "will continue for as long as necessary"

CBS, today