FUCK MUSK

In any other reality, this guy would be at Gitmo—or worse—and not just as a visitor.

FUCK TRUMP

Trump's mother Mary Anne was emotionally distant and uninterested in her children.

He didn't get the hugs and the emotional stability an invested mother would gave given him; probably because Fred sold her to Satan to be fucked by the horned one himself in exchange for worldly success. (see: Rosemary's Baby) Just sayin'…

His insecure attachment and the resultant anger he has towards all women in general is now fucking all women over.

Don't be a Mary Trump.

Hug your Fucking kids.

Today Was Raffi's Birthday

And it also happened to be Dog Day at the Desert Botanical Gardens. As promised, some photos taken with my old DSLR that I got out of storage a few days ago…

Afterward we went to our usual dog park so he could play with some other dogs since they were all on their best behavior at the DBG.

I'm Just Passing This Whole Thing On

From All Hat No Cattle:

…The Wall Street Journal published a story on Thursday about Marko Elez, a "key DOGE staff member who gained access to the Treasury Department's central-payments system" and resigned "after he was linked to a deleted social-media account that advocated racism and eugenics."

Even if they stopped—full stop, right now,—the damage is already done and it will take years and years to fix.

I guess we know why Musk was so angry about his team's identity being shared. – Alex Cole
Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force – the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. 
Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form. ~Angry Staffer

Trump Cancels News Subscriptions For Executive Branch

Ironic how Marco Rubio's parents fled a fascist dictator in Cuba – only to have little Marco serve a fascist dictator in America. ~ anyonewantchips

 

The first stage of Trump's Gaza plan should be him personally clearing the place of unexploded munitions. – Andy Borowitz

 

I want to live in boring times. Give me mundane. Give me trivial. – John Collins

They're Trying To Kill Us, Plain & Simple

There isn't anti-Christian bias in America, there's anti-Jesus bias in American Evangelical Christianity. – John Pavlovich

 

Schatz Takes Direct Shots At Derelict Democrats
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) had some pointed remarks for Democratic strategists who have been advising the party's elected officials to pick their battles carefully against President Donald Trump…"I'm not going to let some pundit dictate whether or not I exercise my obligations as a member of the Article I branch," Schatz said. "David Axelrod, James Carville. I mean, those guys have not been in the trenches legislatively or electorally in a full generation. And there's a cottage industry out there of Democratic strategists. But in order to be a Democratic strategist, you actually have to do politics currently and not just podcast about it."

Hearing nonsense that Ds are threatening a shutdown. False. Entire matter is in GOP hands. What's happening is that Rs are coming hat in hand to Ds for help because they can't agree among themselves. Ds shld have a simple demand. No help until the criminal conduct stops. – Josh Marshall

USAID purchases over $2b of American soy and grain products annually.
Red State farmers are deep into FAFO.

Business/Tech News

Musk says he's spending $40M of his own money on five, 30 second Super Bowl ads, revealing government waste that his DOGE hackers have supposedly found. ~ Molly Ploofkins

The Richest Man and the Most Powerful Man In The World Join Hands To Hurt The Most Vulnerable In The World

 

I hope they boo the s**t out of Trump at the superbowl. – Dave Matt

Sorry for the formatting nightmare on this one – I don't have the patience today to try and correct it.

This Place Could Be Dangerous

The Hard●Off chain of stores (including Book●Off) are a well known brand in Japan. (Something I learned while researching MiniDisc on YouTube.) They're expanding into the US market with a handful of stores, the most recent being the one in Phoenix that just opened a few weeks ago.

How The British Got Trump Right

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I've ever read:

"Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."

-Nate White