This Man Has His Finger On The Nuke Button

For a person who control the nuclear arsenal is very, very scary!

Trump on Iran: ‘My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up?’
The Hill

by Ryan Mancini 

09/20/26

 

 

 President Trump on Sunday speculated on the future of the Iran war, asking “if and when do I blow the entire nation up?”

Fox News’s Trey Yingst reported that Trump is in a “deciding mode” and “that very big things are going to be happening in the not-so-distant future.”

 

 “The president described the current choices on the table as ‘wiping Iran out, letting them rot economically or making a deal,'” Yingst said. “He added, ‘My question is if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They better behave.'”

Trump said Thursday that he’s weighing the decision to “go in and annihilate them [the Iranian regime] or do I not,” he told Axios, adding that anything “could happen with me.”

For that talk to be coming out of the President of the United States is wrong! It so very wrong!

 

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They Forget It Is A Spectrum.

Age is a spectrum... it is not just the young who need help but also at the other end of the age spectrum that also need help, but a different type of help.

 'People forget we exist': Why older LGBTQ+ people fear losing identity

BBC News

Josh Parry

Sept. 19, 2026

As a 75-year-old lesbian, Mindy Meleyal has lived through every major milestone in the modern LGBT rights movement, from the start of decriminalisation in 1967 to the first same-sex marriages in 2014.

But now she says this important part of her identity is frequently overlooked due to her age.

She's part of England's older LGBTQ+ community, which a new report suggests often experiences poorer health, more limited finances and greater social isolation than the wider older population.

The report, from the Centre for Ageing Better, says without specialist support, this growing demographic could be forced "back into the closet" when accessing care, warning they may even delay getting the care they need because of concerns about homophobia.

What I have found is that my circle of friends is getting smaller and smaller. A friend passed away last week. She was a friend who I used to go out to lunch once a month with our senior trans group.

"It's very common for people to hide things if they have a carer visiting their home, for example hiding their wedding photos or taking down a trans flag," he says.

I used to call it "Sanitizing" when my parents came over, but in a Long Term Care facility we have to hide.

The Kindred House scheme is what's known as extra-care housing, which means residents live independently, but there is a 24/7 care team available for those who need extra help, and all staff will receive specialist training around LGBTQ+ inclusion.

Porter says he hopes the scheme will "trigger some conversations" about how to best support older LGBTQ+ people in the challenges they face.

It is not the staff! They were beautiful in helping us, but... It is the residents that is the problem. Shunning. I have heard from trans people that no one sits at their table or get up and leave when they sit down at a table,

I believe we need to start off simply... just a drop in centers at Pride centers during the daylight hours. Board games, movies, book groups, just stuff to get us out of our residencies and in and around others LGBTQ+ people. Even intergenerational drop-in centers should be tried. The goal is to get the Stonewall Generation out of their homes and with others.

What Is It With Him?

He has a loose screw... he is so fixed on seeing his name plastered everywhere!

Urgent motion filed to stop carving of Trump’s name into US Institute of Peace building

Ousted board members say a contractor has already been selected for the project.

Politico

By Ashley Ahn

09/17/2026

Ousted board members of the U.S. Institute of Peace are asking a federal court to block the imminent carving of President Donald Trump’s name on the headquarters of the nonpartisan institution he sought to dismantle shortly after taking office.

Members of the board who were removed by the administration filed an emergency motion Thursday in Washington in a dispute that has echoes of Trump’s effort to place his name on the Kennedy Center.

What is it with him... does he have Walter Mitty fantasies?

The Hill writes,

“The United States Institute of Peace was once a bloated, useless entity that blew $50 million per year while delivering no peace,” spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a statement.

“Now, the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, which is both beautifully and aptly named after a President who ended eight wars in less than a year, will stand as a powerful reminder of what strong leadership can accomplish for global stability,” she continued. “Frivolous litigation to stymie these efforts should be rejected.”

So by gutting the agency Trump thinks he deservers his name on the building?

What has Trump stuck his brand on? Here is a partial list:

• Trump Tower — New York
• Trump National Golf Club — multiple locations
• Trump International Golf Club — multiple locations
• Trump National Doral — Miami
• Trump Turnberry — Scotland
• Trump International Golf Links — Ireland and Scotland
• Trump International Hotel & Tower — Chicago
• Trump International Hotel — Washington, D.C.
• Trump International Hotel — Las Vegas
• Trump Winery — Virginia
• Trump International Oman
• Trump International Vietnam
• Trump International Golf Club Dubai
• Trump International Hotel & Tower Dubai
• Trump Tower at Century City in Manila
• Trump Towers Istanbul
• Trump Tower Bucharest

And now:

• Trump Ballroom
• Trump Arch
• Trump Kennedy Center
• Trump U.S. Institute of Peace

Tell me with a straight face that Trump doesn't have a Caesar complex.

You're Over Reacting!

How many times have I heard that when I write about Trump and the Republican Party, and how it is mirroring Nazi Germany in the 1930s? “Oh, you are overreacting! It can never happen here!”

In July on "X" 

Rep. Nancy Mace

House Republicans

@RepNancyMace

Just because you're mentally ill doesn't mean the rest of America has to play along. 

A man is a man. A woman is a woman.

6:30 PM · Jul 29, 2026

But that is not the first time she has made comments about us. Last September, she said...

Trans People Need To Be Taken ‘Off The Streets’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting

TPM

by Hunter Walker

09.17.25

The killing of right wing activist and influencer Charlie Kirk has prompted disturbing and questionably legal calls for a crackdown on the left from President Trump and his allies. In an appearance on the cable network Newsmax on Tuesday evening, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) took things further — way further. 

After latching on to the fact the man being charged with the shooting allegedly had a transgender romantic partner, Jackson called gender non-conforming people a “virus” as he argued they need to be placed in institutions and barred from the internet. 

“We have to do something about this,” Jackson said after railing against doctors who aid with “gender transition. “We have to treat these people. We have to get them off the streets and we have to get them off the internet. We can’t let them communicate with each other. I’m all about free speech, but this is a virus, this is a cancer that’s spreading across this country that’s going to do great damage to normal, hard working, law abiding people.”

What are we going to do—laugh it off? “Oh, she didn't mean it that way!” Our “community trauma” with the Holocaust, with the attacks in Turkey and Senegal... it raises our hackles when we see that happening here.

And then there is the language coming from the Trump administration itself with him labeling us terrorists

With Trump’s administration incorporating “gender” into its domestic-terrorism framework, it becomes even harder for many of us to simply laugh it off.

Political Notebook: Book examines intersection of the Holocaust and US LGBTQ movement

by Matthew S. Bajko, Assistant Editor  Wednesday, October 8, 2025

From the start of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals in 1933, the atrocities Adolph Hitler and his regime waged against LGBTQ Germans and others has impacted the LGBTQ community in America. Long before the Stonewall riots in New York City of 1969, the horrors unleashed by the Nazis were central to the fight for LGBTQ rights in the U.S.

So argues Thomas R. Dunn, founder and director of the Queer Memory Project of Northern Colorado, in his new book “The Pink Scar: How Nazi Persecution Shaped the Struggle for LGBTQ+ Rights.” It will be released October 21 by Penn State University Press as the first book in its Troubling Democracy series.

[...]

Practically from the start of the war, LGBTQ Americans had access to news reports about how German homosexuals were being rounded up. The coverage spoke about the pink triangles they were made to wear in the concentration camps to denote their being gay.

Our collective memories remember the Lavender Scare. We survived Anita Bryant and “Save Our Children,” and now we hear it all again!

Republican lawmakers Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson call for transgender people to be institutionalized

GOP U.S. Reps. Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson both called for the institutionalization of transgender people on Tuesday.

The Advocate

Erin Reed

Sep 17, 2025

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing—committed by a suspect who notably was not transgender—conservative leaders have seized the moment to escalate their war on LGBTQ+ people. Vice President JD Vance and Stephen Miller used the death to demand the dismantling of NGOs critical of Kirk. Far-right influencer Matt Walsh openly called for executions of those he branded “LGBTQ+ terrorists.” And now, two sitting members of Congress have crossed a new threshold, explicitly calling for the institutionalization of transgender people—an escalation even by today’s standards.

First, South Carolina representative Nancy Mace, who has a history of vehement opposition to transgender people in Congress, called for the institutionalization of transgender people in a street interview where she hurled slurs at the community. She first stated of the shooter’s partner, “It was a transgender… It was a [tr*nny].” When she was asked how she would feel if she were called names the way she calls transgender people, she said “these people are violently ill and should be in a straitjacket with a hard steel lock on it.”

I am sure that back in the ’30s their neighbors said, “You worry too much.” I worry about a coup and a crackdown on dissidents. And when the government begins using the language of domestic terrorism and dissidents in connection with “gender” and “gender extremism,” it is understandable that we and LGBTQ+ communities pay close attention.

Legacy

[Editorial]

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

Legacy

1.

something (such as personal property or money) that is willed to someone by a person who has died: bequest

2.

something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past

3.

a candidate for membership in an organization (such as a school or fraternal order) who is given special status because of a familial relationship to a member

What I want to write about is number 2.

Upstairs, I have old photos of my mother and her sisters. The black-and-white photos of family from the 1920s are still... well, not quite like new, but only slightly faded. But the color photos and slides? Their colors have faded and taken on a red shift.

And yet, what do the new generations leave behind? Vaporware.

You know all those huge data centers you are fighting against? Well, my photos are in there, and your photos are in there, along with all of that stuff you have in the cloud. Your wedding photos, the pictures of your first baby, that first vacation that the two of you took, that photo of the "double dare" to go on the roller coaster at the amusement park—they are all in the cloud! No, wait, they are not in your attic. They can go "POOF" at the press of a key, or the moment you stop paying. They are in your social media posts, but what happens after you are no longer here? Yes, they are up on Facebook and all of your friends can see them, but what about your future generations?

What happens to our future generations?

I burned discs of the old family photos, but they can’t just be picked up and looked through—you now need a "device."

What will our legacy be?

{/Editorial] 

Saturday 9: Everybody Loves a Clown (1965)

Saturday 9: Everybody Loves a Clown (1965)

On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun… 

 

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) Not everyone loves clowns. "Coulrophobia" is the irrational fear of clowns. Do you have any fears or phobias?

I never did but it seems like the older I get the more acrophobia until I walked out on the French King Bridge to take some fall foliage photos. I froze.

2) This week's featured artist, Gary Lewis, sings that he jokes a lot at parties. In social settings, are you more a talker or a listener?

Listener.

3) He's dreaming of a special girl. Do you often daydream?

All the time… I’m the modern day Walter Mitty dreaming of heroine winning space battles.

 

4) Gary named his band The Playboys because they were always late to rehearsals and Gary joked that they would rather play than work. Do you tend to be early, late, or exactly on time?

Late… in rebellion! My father was a colonel and if we had to be somewhere @ 5PM we would get there around 4:30 and wait so we could be there at 5!

5) Gary Lewis had first-hand knowledge of clowns. His father was famous funny man Jerry Lewis. Who always makes you laugh?

There hasn’t been a lot of laughter later since Jan 20th

6) In 2017, Gary was in the news when it became known that Jerry disinherited all six of his sons from his will. Have you ever attended the reading of a will?

Nope.

7) This past summer found Gary Lewis on The My Generation Tour, performing with other acts from the mid-1960s, like The Lovin' Spoonful, The Hollies, and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. Do you enjoy listening to "the oldies?"

Well I have a theory… you mainly like the music you grew up with.

The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt. The Beatles, The Stones… etc.

 

8) In 1965, when this song was popular, Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston to become the heavyweight champion of the world. Have you ever attended a boxing match?

Yes… boring! When I was a Cub Scout we went to a PAL boxing match that was televised. That was what save the day for me the TV cameras!

9) Random question: What color is your toothbrush?

It’s the one that the dentist gave me… for a child… all multi-colored.