It’s Thursday…
Thursday is shaping up to be a full-blown cluster of dumbness. Not quite news, not quite silence… just a steady drip of nonsense pretending to be important.
You know the kind of day. Lots of noise, zero substance, and at least one thing that makes you stop and go, “this can’t be real,” only to realize it very much is.
So let’s sort through the mess.
Executive Time…
Fighting with Friedrich Merz the Chancellor of Germany…
Why is the most insecure man in the world fighting with the Chancellor of Germany?
AP (Associated Press) YouTube: Friedrich Merz says the US ‘is being humiliated’ by Iran leadership (04/27/2026):
The Americans obviously have no strategy. And the problem with conflicts like this is always that it’s not enough just to get in–you also have to get out.
We saw this very painfully in Afghanistan for 20 years. We saw it in Iraq.
[there is a question asked here that’s not translated to English]
At the moment, I can’t tell what strategic exit the Americans are pursuing.
Especially since the Iranians are obviously negotiating very skillfully–or perhaps very skillfully refusing to negotiate.
And then letting the Americans travel to Islamabad, only to send them back without any results. An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards.
AP (Associated Press) translation. YouTube. 04/27/2026.
On troop removal from Germany, the coverage is basically copy-paste from Puddle’s social media. Reminder: he tried this in 2020, it went nowhere, and Joe Biden pulled the plug shortly after taking office in 2021.
He can’t shut the fuck up:
Kaitlan Collins: We were talking about how busy you were this morning. James Comey was in court. He self-surrendered and he’s now in charge a second time. This time over a social media post with seashells that said 86 47. Do you really think that he was endangering your life or threatening your life with that?
Can’t Shut the Fuck Up: Well, if anybody knows anything about crime, they know 86. You know what 86? It’s a mob term for kill him. You know, you ever see the movies? 86 the mobster says to one of his wonderful associates. 86 him. That means kill him. It’s — I think of it as a mob term. People think of it as something having to do with disappearing, but the mob uses that term to say when they want to kill somebody, they say, 86 the son of a gun.
I’m trying to keep the language nice and clear. They don’t use that term son of a gun, they use another term, but that’s a mob term for killing.
RollCall.com. 04/29/2026.
He doubled down on not shutting the fuck up…
FYI:
The list of exhibits for Comey’s selective or vindictive prosecution motion just got a little longer pic.twitter.com/uMZa8Jbwdw
— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) April 30, 2026
Speaking of doubling down…
Because Obsessed with Ratings only cares about the numbers…
TV Insider said in March: ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! held the second spot at the 11:35 pm hour with 2.17 million viewers (down 5 percent) and 228,000 demo viewers (down 13 percent).
US TVDB: Jimmy Kimmel Live! is a U.S. television program aired on ABC since Sunday, January 26, 2003. Jimmy Kimmel Live is currently the 13th most popular show on ABC and 54th overall on TV, watched by a total number of 2,122,000 people (0.66% rating, up +66% from last week) per episode, as of the average weekly audience measurement for the period ending April 12, 2026. Jimmy Kimmel Live! is hosted by James Christian Kimmel (58).
This is an Open Thread
PS.
I totally had tech issues today. It’s been so long, I almost lost my shit. It’s fine now, obviously. I was concerned there for a minute my computer keyboard had busted.
