That Human Suit Must Be Getting Very Uncomfortable
When was the last time it was sent up to the mothership for a cleaning anyway?
Fasten Your Seat Belts. It's Gonna Be A Bumpy However-Long-This-Nightmare-Lasts
Right Out Of The Gate
We CANNOT Stop.
Wish I Could've Been There…
A Dark Day In America
From Jeff Tiedrich:
There is no reason for anyone to torment themselves today by doom-scrolling—and there is not one goddamned reason on Earth to give this asshole one second of your attention.
Instead, be like AOC.
"All these journalists are like, 'Congresswoman, are you going to the inauguration? Are you going to the inauguration?' — Let me make myself clear. I don't celebrate rapists. so no, I'm not going to the inauguration."
There are so many better ways we can be spending our time.
Today is Martin Luther King Day. Let's honor his memory, and let's dishonor a certain spiteful man-baby.
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Here's a quote from Dr. King that's never been more relevant than it is right now.
"We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity."
hHw prescient was that?
America is about to go through some things. Yhis hurts a lot. I know. Remember, we're all in this together. let's be here for each other.
Today, we rest. Tomorrow, we put our shoulder to the wheel, and deal with the shitfuckery ahead of us.
Let me leave you with one piece of very good news. This morning, during his final hours in office, President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to General Milley, Dr. Fauci, and the January 6 Committee members.
"These are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good conscience do nothing," Biden wrote in a statement. "Baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety and financial security of targeted individuals and their families."
Thank you, Joe. We're going to miss you.
Maybe They'll Give Us A Group Rate?
Vomiting It All Up
Thank You, Captain Obvious
That Stink Will Never Wash Off
Submitted Without Comment
Their Arrogance Is Only Surpassed By Their Incompetence
I Will Not Be Watching
A Reminder…
DO SOMETHING
And it is doubly insulting to Michelle Obama that the same MAGA folks who were okay with Trump and Melania refusing to attend Biden's inauguration are the ones who are outraged at Michelle's decision.
Let's not forget, Trump attempted a coup, and in any other developed democratic republic would not have been allowed to run for office again–and most likely would be doing jail time or be in exile.
Given that–ALL of the former presidents and first ladies should have refused to attend the traitor Trump's inauguration in protest.
Explain It To Me Like I'm Five Years Old
The Week In STOOPID
From Jeff Tiedrich:
As another stupid week comes to a close here in America, let's look back at some of the highlights.
monday: who would Jesus infect
it's been a hot minute, so let's check in on America's new christofascist overlords. here's newly-elected Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita.
"with your help, together, we will make Indiana a truly free state … where we can raise our children as God intended, without interference by woke schools, doctors or courts … where we are no longer vaxxed or masked."
sure, absolutely. it's a well-known fact that Jesus was all about spreading preventable diseases. it's right there in the Sermon on the Mount: blessed are the science-deniers, for they will choke to death on their own infectious mucus.
I'm no scholar, but I'm pretty sure that there's nothing in the Bible about vaccinations — but as long as we're going to adhere to "God's intentions," here's one he's pretty specific about.
if you wear linen and wool at the same time, you should be fucking slaughtered.
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
that's good old Leviticus 19:19. now here's Leviticus 19:27.
Ye shall not round off the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
what do you have to say for yourself, Todd, you infidel? because it looks to me like you're definitely marring the corners of thy beard.
that's what I love about these cristofascist hypocrites. they cherry-pick the Bible to prove whatever oppressive notion they want to inflict on the rest of us — but when it comes to actually adhering to the laws that are right there in the Bible, it's fucking crickets.
tuesday: hly fcking sht, lern hw to fcking spel
Tuesday was Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing, and Senate Republicans brought all the props out in support of his candidacy — because nothing says I'm a serious legislator whose issues should be taken seriously more than misspelling the word military.
in their own defense, Senate Republicans had been out all night getting hammered with Piss-Drunk Pete, and were too hung over the next morning to notice.
wednesday: I download Supreme Court decisions for the idiocy
during oral arguments regarding a Texas law requiring age verification in order to access porn sites, Fishin' Trip Sammy Alito raised a cogent question.
"Justice Alito is asking if websites like Pornhub have 'essays, modern day Gore Vidal, stuff like that' like the old Playboy."
um, who wants to tell him?
I suppose on the one hand, it's admirable that Steal Stoppin' Sammy should be so ignorant of the online porn experience that he'd ask such a ludicrous question — but on the other hand: why the fuck are ancient white men allowed to rule on technologies they're too out-of-touch to understand?
remember the old "the internet is a series of tubes" meme? here's where it came from: an old white man who had no clue what he was gibbering about.
back in 2006, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was railing against streaming services. he wanted to shut them down. he was convinced they were going to break the internet — because, as he explained it, the internet is "a series of tubes." here is exactly what Senator Stevens said.
"And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."
these people should not be setting policy affecting millions of Americans. they should be enjoying a nice, hot cup of shut the fuck up in a managed care facility.
oh, and for the record, "I download porn for the articles" is a joke I made twelve years ago.
you're welcome.
thursday: mirth of an abomination
oh frabjous day, the toxic incels are at it again.
pro tip: posting shit like this is proof you've failed as a human being.
also, can you fucking idiots get your stories straight?
just two weeks ago, the Space Nazi was extolling the virtues of c-sections — promising that if women would opt out of giving birth the old-fashioned way, all of us could have brains as big as his.
"There are certainly other factors at play, but heavy use of c-sections allows for a larger brain, as brain size has historically been limited by birth canal diameter."
so which is it, incels?
friday: stand back, Rand Paul's about to say something stupid
while writing these daily posts, there's a line find myself I using over and over: "it's so easy to solve all the world's problems when you have no fucking clue what you're talking about." the reason I keep repeating it, is because Republicans keep proving it's true.
here's failed wig model Rand Paul, explaining how he knows more about water management than all the water managers.
"I see these homes burning and I'm like wow, if they just had a generator and a hose, you start sucking the water out of the The Pacific Ocean. but you can do more than that. you can pump it and put it in cisterns up in the hills a mile or two in. why don't they take the ocean water and put it in cisterns have a bunch of water ready when a wildfire shows up? once again, bad local government."
hey everybody, Rand Paul just invented reservoirs. that's some Nobel Prizewinning stuff right there.
this fucking arrogant asshole, lecturing Los Angeles on why don't you just have reservoirs?
you nincompoop, Los Angeles has reservoirs. plenty of them. and they were all full when the fires started. that's not the issue. Rand Paul is conveniently forgetting about the part where LA was dealing with literal hurricanes made out of fire that were too massive and fast-moving to control or contain — by any fire department, anywhere.
talking out of your ass from the floor of the Senate is easy. actually dealing with problems is hard — and Republicans are proving it every day.
saturday: ?
hey, it's still morning as I sit here writing this. but give it time, I guarantee you that some dipshit wingnut is going to do something stupid before the day is over. you can set your watch to it.
Marching Orders For Democrats
First: Do not help Republicans. Not in any way. On any issue. Republicans can't pass a budget, or raise the debt ceiling? Tough luck. Do not provide them any bailout votes on any issue. Period, the end.¹
Second: Make Donald Trump own every bad outcome that happens, anywhere in the world while paying special attention to areas where Republicans are particularly vulnerable. Like housing and Ukraine.
BUT WILL THEY DO IT?
A Big Fuck You To 45
"He'll Be A Felon Forever"
A Disgrace To This Country
The French Had The Right Idea
Into The Cornfield
From Palmer Report:
There's a particularly chilling episode of the old Twilight Zone TV series called "It's a Good Life," a Rod Serling teleplay of a Jerome Bixby short story. It goes like this: A monster lives in a small Ohio village. He is an ordinary-appearing six year old boy named Anthony with extraordinary abilities. His every whim has absolute power. Anthony has caused everyone in the United States to "go away" because they displease him. Everyone else still alive in the village must be nice to him or he will "send them into the cornfield," a euphemism for making them disappear. Anthony can read everyone's thoughts, so everyone must always be thinking exaggeratedly happy thoughts.
The story is a metaphor for a very real existential question that was new to the world when it was first broadcast. What do we do when a madman, a child, a person of no conscience and complete indifference to human suffering, gains total control of the world? How do we behave? How do we keep him from sending us into the cornfield?
Those are questions that are relevant to Americans and citizens of the world today. For the second time in human history, a vindictive monster with hypersensitive feelings is about to be handed the nuclear codes of the most powerful nation on earth, the only true superpower. This monster isn't a six year old boy, he's a stupid, vindictive, hateful old man who will enter his 80th year in six months. The existential question we have is, how is America and the rest of the world supposed to behave? What is going to happen to any one of us if we incur his capricious and arbitrary and easily-triggered wrath?
We are about to learn the answer. Filled with hubris and stupidity, Donald Trump's recent campaign of sabre-rattling at America's allies has elicited some expected responses. While appeasing and flattering and accommodating America's enemies, the man who ran on a promise of no more wars suddenly wants war with Mexico, Canada, Greenland (and its possessor Denmark) and Panama. So far those nations will have none of it. But what harm will America's "Anthony" do to them for their failure to kowtow to him? Will he send them into the cornfield? If so, what form will that take?
Canada's soon-to-exit prime minister Pierre Trudeau says there's not a "snowball's chance in hell" that his country will join America as its fifty-first state. Denmark avers that Greenland is once again not for sale. In response to Trump's claim that the Gulf of Mexico should be rebranded the "Gulf of America," Claudia Sheinbaum, the forthright president of Mexico, jokingly suggested that the US territory that was once part of Mexico should be renamed "Mexican America."
But all joking aside, there could be real world consequences for defying Trump. We already know that the harm he promises to inflict on others is more than theoretical. In his criminal mishandling of the Covid pandemic, Trump withheld PPEs and breathalysers from blue states. In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria Trump denied millions of dollars of aid to Puerto Rico simply because he disliked the mayor of San Juan and because many of the people of the country were brown. Trump deprived his former fixer Michael Cohen of his Constitutional rights and locked him away in the cornfield of solitary confinement merely because he planned to write a book.
This time around, with no voices of sanity to restrain him and no law to answer to, what harm will Trump inflict and on whom? Who is he going to hurt? What lives will he ruin, merely because he can't handle an insult? Who or what nations will get thrown into the proverbial cornfield? We'll learn the answer soon enough.
It's not the job of the president of the United States to hurt people. It's his sworn duty to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" by faithfully executing his office. Donald Trump has already announced that he plans to fail at his job. He prefers to hurt people instead.
Of course, a man who is constitutionally disallowed from taking office is by definition disqualified from preserving, protecting or defending that Constitution. But a man as hateful and vindictive as Trump can and will do a lot of damage to a lot of people. MAGA is about to find out that damage will extend to many of them. I hope he throws the whole bloody lot of them into the goddamn cornfield.
When Do "We The People" Bring Out The Guillotines?
FUCK MUSK. FUCK TRUMP.
And then there's 45…
From Palmer Report:
In the week that my city of Los Angeles has been burning, good people of all stripes have come out of the woodwork to help out. Firefighters have arrived here from places as far away as Canada, Mexico, and Oregon. People are lining up around the block to donate food, necessities, and even pet supplies. It's a reminder that there are a lot of good people out there with good hearts.
Then there's Donald Trump, who has spent the entire crisis doing nothing but lying about the crisis. He's dishonestly attacked the Governor of California and Mayor of Los Angeles, who have both been doing a fantastic job. He's spread lies about the water situation here. Trump has, as usual, done nothing but make things worse.
Now Trump is adding insult to injury by posting an image of the Hollywood Hills burning, with the "HOLLYWOOD" sign changed to "TRUMP WAS RIGHT." I don't know what to say about this, other than shut up, you stupid asshole. No one here wants your input, Donald. Remember when you threatened awhile back to let California burn because no one here voted for you? And now all you can offer is a fake picture of the fire with one of our cherished landmarks defaced with your name? I'll stop writing before I curse anymore, but Donald Trump needs to SHUT UP.
Yesterday I saw fire trucks roll by from the Albany Fire Department and the Harrisburg Fire Department. These folks drove their trucks thousands of miles to come to our city of Los Angeles and help fight our fires. The response from all around the nation (and the world) has been nothing short of wonderful. That is, of course, with the exception of Trump and his fellow slime balls.
We've got Donald Trump making up nonsensical lies about our Governor and our Mayor, while spewing childlike gibberish about how water supposedly works. We've also got Trump posting fake imagery of the Hollywood sign on fire with the words changed to "TRUMP WAS RIGHT."
We've also got "Speaker" Mike Johnson publicly threatening to withhold federal aid from Los Angeles for political reasons. This is even as Elon Musk posts an endless manic stream of rubber room level insane tweets about the entire situation. These people are simply disgusting.
Simply put, there's a time for decency. We've got all these firefighters from around the nation pouring into Los Angeles, and none of them are making their assistance conditional on any political leanings. Nor does anyone in Los Angeles care about the personal political leanings of these firefighters. These are simply decent people offering to help us, and we're unconditionally grateful to them. That goes the same for all the people around the nation who have been donating to the Red Cross in Los Angeles and so on. Americans are simply helping Americans, the same way we California liberals spring into gear to help whenever there's a disaster in a red state. It's simply about decency.
It's the precise opposite of what we're seeing from Trump and his Republican allies. They're reading the room very, very wrong. The American people do not want to see anyone playing politics right now. As usual, Trump is blowing it. And as usual, his Republican Party is going right along with his mistake. If that's how they want to play it, fine. We'll use it as fuel for destroying them in the midterms.
Did You Know…
In Case You Needed Anymore Of A Reason To Drink Tonight
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- Mazie Hirono Takes Pete Hegseth Through Lightning Round of Sex and Booze Questions: 'Will You Resign' If You 'Drink on the Job?'
- Senate Republican Blows Up at His Democratic Colleagues for Grilling Hegseth: 'How Many Senators Have Shown Up Drunk To Vote At Night?'
- 'You WILL Shoot Protestors!' Senator Grills Hegseth on Whether He'd Refuse Trump Orders As Predecessor Did
- 'A Change Agent': Pete Hegseth Admits He Doesn't Have 'The Right Credentials' in Confirmation Hearing Opener
- Steve Bannon Declares MAGA Victory Over Elon Musk on Immigration: 'We Are Winning This Round'
- Texas governor orders state's flags raised to full-staff for Trump's inauguration
- Johnson says flags will be flown at full-staff at Capitol on Trump's Inauguration Day
- Trump Snubs Elon With Decision on White House Digs