Image of the day

Captured by
Craig Bobchin

Coathanger CR 399

My Account

New to Astromart?

Register an account...

Need Help?

Posts Made By: James Lacey

April 14, 2026 02:57 PM Forum: Politics

Orban out in Hungary! 80% voter turnout!

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

First, concur on the outing of Orban as a repudiation of Putin & Trump.
That said, it seems James got it all wrong:

"President Trump told reporters Monday that the AI image appearing to depict him as Jesus Christ was actually an image of Trump as a doctor healing people."

“I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor, and had to do with the Red Cross, as a Red Cross worker there, which we support,” Trump told reporters outside of the Oval Office.

“Only the fake news could come up with that one,” he continued. “I just heard about it, and I said how did they come up with that? It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better and I do make people better.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5829046-trump-doctor-red-cross/

Next,   "President Trump on Monday received a McDonald’s delivery to the Oval Office to promote his “no tax on tips” law.

"He received two bags of McDonald’s, a longtime fast-food favorite of the president’s, from a delivery person in a “DoorDash Grandma” shirt."

“The reason for this is the fact that I heard you picked up an extra $11,000 … because the tax bill was so big, the refund was the biggest you’ve ever had,” Trump said as he received the order, in a video shared by the White House."

A comment at the bottom of the link:   "Here, Mr. President...have some more McDonalds. Have it every day, three times a day. PLEASE."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5829060-trump-mcdonalds-delivery-no-tax/

More than ample evidence that this guy is batshit crazy...

Trump is so obviously severely narcissistic. He never admits wrongdoing for anything. Even if he admits to something, like posting the image in question, he has to lie about who posted it (the coffee boy), what he thought the image actually depicted, or blame the whole controversy on someone else, like the "fake news." What's really amazing, too, is if you look at his Truth Social account, he spends a good portion of his day, especially from around midnight until 4 AM, just shit posting. The image he posted recently, showing a Trump Tower on the moon, was pretty bizarre.

April 17, 2026 08:12 PM Forum: Politics

Executive Order: Banks Must Collect Citizenship Information!

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by Maurice Clark
As I understand it, an executive order it just an instruction to government agencies and not a law. So banks would not have to follow it.

If the EO changes the federal agencies that regulate banks, the banks have to comply.

Still, there are multiple reasons Trump has been creating so many EOs. One reason is to bypass Congress. Another is so he can claim he's keeping campaign promises and throw political red meat to his base. And of course, challenge existing legal precedents by forcing judicial review that can result in the reinterpretation of executive authority. As I've said before, Republicans in Texas are masters at passing questionable legislation to achieve all these ends, and even if the law is eventually struck down, usually years later, it has a chilling effect that may never be reversed, or at least take many, many years to reverse.

April 20, 2026 02:58 PM Forum: Politics

WSJ: White House Leak Reveals Trump Booted From Briefing After Hours-Long Freakout

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-leak-reveals-trump-booted-from-briefing-after-hours-long-freakout/

"Donald Trump, 79, reportedly threw such a tantrum during a fraught rescue operation in Iran that his aides banished him from the room as they were briefed.

Senior administration officials told Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal that the commander-in-chief went into a frenzied state upon learning two airmen were missing when their fighter jet was downed in Iran.

His hours-long tirade became such a hindrance that aides barred him from the room handling the crisis, opting instead to brief him at intervals, officials revealed to the Journal.

Before the airmen went missing, the president was already fixated on avoiding a repeat of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis—and the failed rescue mission under former President Jimmy Carter that helped sink his reelection bid.

“If you look at what happened with Jimmy Carter…with the helicopters and the hostages, it cost them the election,” Trump said in March, according to the Journal. “What a mess.”

A frantic Trump feared the two missing airmen from the downed F-15E Strike Eagle—both eventually rescued after a high-risk recovery mission—could define his presidency, too.


The panicked president demanded the U.S. military rescue the crewmen immediately, while aides warned that the military needed time to assess terrain they hadn’t had boots on the ground in since the 1970s.

The pilot of the fallen aircraft was recovered later that day. But a two-day race against the Iranians for the second crew member ensued, with U.S. troops eventually emerging victorious.

While he waited, Trump reportedly wailed throughout a nearly empty West Wing over gas prices—which had surged to an average of $4.09—and the U.S.’s European allies, whom he has repeatedly raged at for not joining the surprise war he and Israel launched on Iran on Feb. 28."


He's a stable genius, but the military leaders didn't want the crazy old man to interfere with the operation.

There have recently been several high-level leaks from the White House that are not flattering. A recent leak regarding the Iran conflict suggests that President Trump's decision to consider military action against Iran was primarily influenced by his personal gut instinct and a desire to settle a score with the Iranians, since they had plans to kill him, rather than a strategic or national security goal. The leaks indicate the decision was also heavily influenced by presentations from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, which described regime change as achievable. However, Trump's intelligence officials reportedly called the goal "farcical." Trump even ignored warnings from Gen. Dan Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whom he had appointed, that Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz indefinitely through asymmetric warfare. The stable genius indeed.

April 21, 2026 12:16 AM Forum: Politics

WSJ: White House Leak Reveals Trump Booted From Briefing After Hours-Long Freakout

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

What's next from you leftists iiars.  A WEEKLY WORLD tabloid story that you are going to pass off as factual?

Says the guy with the critical-thinking skills of a tadpole, and who believes everything he reads in tabloids like the NY Post. A lack of self-awareness is a hallmark of narcissism, and honestly, it's hard to tell who is less self-aware, you or Trump. And you are so worried about "leftist [sic] iiars," but don't seem to care a whit about the near constant stream of lies and mistruths that come from Trump every day. I'm sorry, but journalists like Maggie Haberman are highly credible reporters with deep, well-placed sources within political circles, whom I'll trust far more than I'll ever trust the liar-in-chief.

April 21, 2026 12:20 AM Forum: Politics

WSJ: White House Leak Reveals Trump Booted From Briefing After Hours-Long Freakout

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Oh, wait, he was posting as a doctor, my bad...

What Rich sees when he watches "The Pitt," on HBO...

April 28, 2026 04:05 PM Forum: Politics

The King Of England Has To Come To the US To Defend "Democratic Values"

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman
Anybody else seeing the irony in this?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d4dzwdp53o

Hahaha, Trump said his Mother mentioned she had a crush on "young Charles." It's worth mentioning that Trump and Charles are about the same age. I watched the whole speech on live TV, and it was so ridiculously awkward. The joke about how he and Melania would not make it to 63 years of marriage as his parents did was also cringeworthy.

May 3, 2026 01:18 PM Forum: Politics

Reuters: "US Supreme Court under Roberts takes 'wrecking ball' to Voting Rights Act"

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

I saw this post after submitting mine so we crossed at about the same time.

As has been discussed in prior cases in regards to racial gerrymandering, the bar to prove it exists to the cons on SCOTUS in general and Alito in particular is so high that the case on it might as well not exist. They simply will not accept that it occurs.

On edit: An attempt to present both sides from an article in TheHill:    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5859899-voting-rights-act-supreme-court/

In most states, the state legislature controls redistricting, and, as we all know, that often leads to partisan redistricting. Until redistricting is taken out of the hands of state legislatures and replaced with an independent or bipartisan method universally employed, redistricting political battles are inevitable. I guess that, over time, redistricting will once again reach a steady state that is not too different from what we have now. Let the redistricting wars commence! And I hope that both parties play hardball, which is the only way to level the playing field currently.

May 21, 2026 02:15 PM Forum: Politics

Reuters: "US Supreme Court under Roberts takes 'wrecking ball' to Voting Rights Act"

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

So I guess now he'll release his tax returns for everyone to see? LOL.

This is a horseshit move by the DOJ. We don't have a real Attorney General, we have a Trump consigliere running the show.

All of this is just bullshit political machinations on the part of Trump. From what I can tell, absolutely none of this is part of a legally recognized settlement of a lawsuit. The judge who accepted Trump's withdrawal of the lawsuit even said that neither the IRS nor the DOJ had filed documents to ensure that the settlement was appropriate, given the fundamental question of whether genuine litigation even existed. Basically, Trump withdrew from the suit, and then the DOJ illegally and unconstitutionally and unilaterally created this slush fund, and the make-believe "immunity" out of thin air. There is nothing legally binding about any of it, and the next AG can rip it up, and almost certainly will if a Democrat is elected in 2028, and even if the AG doesn't, the Secretary of the Treasury can ignore it.

I guess what chaps me the most about this kind of stuff is how much money we waste on this crap. Trump and his AG both probably know there is no way any of this will ever survive real legal challenges, and it's really all about creating political red meat for his followers, and making sure that the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name are still available and loyal. Yet fighting and preventing them from acting on this pipe dream of theirs will needlessly cost us, the taxpayers, millions upon millions of dollars.

May 25, 2026 03:02 PM Forum: Politics

Reuters: "US Supreme Court under Roberts takes 'wrecking ball' to Voting Rights Act"

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman
1. $26 billion for Iran
2. Iran keeps Hormuz
3. Iran keeps the nuclear material
The Fart of the Deal.


Operation Epic Folly


I suspect that things are at the point where Trump and team know they have to reopen the Strait, since our ability to absorb the shock of the closure will diminish rapidly as the world's emergency stockpiles are depleted, and other coping adaptations are strained to their limits. It will still take who knows how many months to untangle all the mess, and let's hope in the meantime a hurricane doesn't hit one of our refineries.

May 26, 2026 07:08 PM Forum: Politics

Reuters: "US Supreme Court under Roberts takes 'wrecking ball' to Voting Rights Act"

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by Richard Davis
Here, let me just sum it up for the unhinged Loons here, Rod, Lacey, Moscheck, Carroll, James Brown, and any other leftist fool reading and writing their threads these days:  

The Socialist Democrat party for the last several decades has manipulated their states' redistricting maps so they can win elections by any means necessary, including their unconstitutional district mapping by race.  

Now, the Socialist Democrat party is whining that the Supreme court has reversed and thrown a monkey wrench into the Socialist Democrats' SCHEMEs for the last 40 years or more.

It is not a "wrecking ball" to the Voting Rights act, it has simply stopped the corrupt Socialist Democrat party from any further bastardization of the laws and the US Constitution.

The intention of the Voting Rights act was not created to simply Let Socialist Democrats win by any corrupt means necessary, it was intended to do what the name says, secure voting rights for all American citizens, the key word there being "citizens".

Now, let the whining, moaning, and crying  by the corrupt Socialist Democrats continue. 



I will check back next week to see just how the unhinged Brain Trust here has reacted to the facts.  I'll bring my popcorn!  smile

There are many problems with your "facts," but the most glaring one is that both parties gerrymander, even by race, when they get the chance, so acting like this is only a Democrat issue ignores reality.

I have never commented on the Voting Rights Act in this thread, but your characterization that it was a "Socialist Democrat Party bastardization of the laws and the US Constitution, whose only purpose was to allow the Socialist Democrat Party to draw district maps based only on race" is clearly little more than a one-sided, emotionally charged, political diatribe. The real argument here is where the fine line should be between protecting minority representation and using race too heavily in politics. And you acting like only Democrats have ever pushed the limits on where that line is, for political gain, is a ridiculously ill-informed view of history.