Guardians of Pedophiles

Deputy attorney general (and our felonious orange president's former personal shyster), Todd Blanche had two full days worth of meetings with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. GEE, wonder what that was all about.

Blanche had announced earlier in the week that he had contacted Maxwell’s lawyers to see if she might have “information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims”. (source) 

You can imagine the conversation, can’t you?

Hey babe, just give us some dirt on Dems and we’ll send you to Club Fed. Donnie will even pardon you once the heat’s off. This’ll all blow over in another month. Just give us some names.

You can see it can’t you? These fuckers couldn’t be more obvious in their mad attempts to cover up Trump’s rape of children. Hell’s bells, a big old Newfie, who’s just rolled in mud and sheep shit in a blinding downpour, shaking out the water and filth in a pristine white living room is more careful and tactical. 

Maxwell’s lawyer, David Markus, said the meetings were “very productive." OH, no doubt!

In response to a reporter asking whether he was going to grant Maxwell clemency, Stinky replied  “A lot of people have been asking me about pardons. Obviously, this is no time to be talking about pardons.” A COMPLETE non-answer which means that OF FUCKING COURSE he’s going to cut her loose! She just needs to hang the right people out to dry first. After that she better run fast because, as with her boy Jeff, Stinky’s not going to risk her talking.

The only problem with hanging Trump’s enemies out to dry is time. How far back does he have to go before he finds a juicy morsel that’ll throw the shade off himself? If Stinky’s crew claims that Hillary, the Obamas, the Bidens or Harris were on Epstein Island – well, that’s just not at all believable. That team’s squeaky clean. The GOP (Guardians of Pedophiles) have been digging for dirt on them for decades and haven’t come up with more than tan suits, loud laughs and a stutter.

Trump would have to go back 56 years to 1969 and Chappaquiddick to find a big enough exploitable Dem scandal. Problems. Chappaquiddick was 56 years ago and Ted’s been dead since 2006. That’s 16 years now. 

As for Bill Clinton:

Angel Urena, a spokesperson for Bill Clinton, issued a statement on Tuesday that said: “President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some time ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York.” 

Urena also confirmed that the former president took “a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane” between 2002 and 2003, reporting that one was to Europe, one to Asia and two to Africa, all on behalf of the Clinton Foundation.

“Staff, supporters of the foundation, and his Secret Service detail traveled on every leg of every trip,” he added. 

The spokesperson further said that Clinton had visited Epstein’s New York office and apartment in 2002, again with a member of staff and his security detail present, and that his employer had not spoken to Epstein in “well over a decade” and had never visited his private island of Little St James, nor his New Mexico ranch or Florida mansion. (source) 

If Bill or Ted raped kids they TOTALLY deserve ALL the consequences of their crimes. As do Trump, Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, Jes Staley – a former Barclays CEO, French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, Hedge fund manager and billionaire Glenn Dubin, Computer scientist and former MIT professor Marvin Minsky and anyone else who preys on children.

Everything about this current administration is simply beyond peak white trash skeevy.  At this point it's totally fair to assume that if you vote for Republicans, you're fine with children being sexually, physically and emotionally abused. If you voted for these twisted fucks you're complicit.

Glitz and Garbage

Proposed White House ballroom/East Wing replacement

As you know, the only White House business that Stinky’s truly focused on is the Mar-a-Lago-ization of the White House (everything else can be left to Stephen Miller and the Project 2025 authors). Failure Fart’s in the process of transforming the people’s house into a cheesy, gold painted filigree covered, gaudy-to-the-point-of-vulgarity, overcooked mess. Except, of course, for the occasions when he’s paving over gardens and lawns and making American flag sewer grates. Classy. That's right up there with stars and stripes jock straps and bikinis.

Ballroom at Mar-a-Lago

 

I have naming ideas for the $200mil, 900 square foot grossly ostentatious, utterly inelegant ballroom that Stinky is set to have built in place of the White House’s east wing (supposedly paid for out of his own pocket... HAH!...with other buckos coming from “donors” – i.e., bribers and people looking to launder some filthy lucre). He’s allegedly going after Louis XIV details with a Hall of Mirrors at Versailles look. At his tacky Florida golf motel, he managed to nail a total Temu version or maybe he’s just hit a cheap gold painted Victorian bordello vibe instead.

Names though – I found a couple of these on Threads (credit to Anna Zarves).

• Epstein Memorial Ballroom 

• Don & Jeff’s Ghizzateria

• Epstein $$$$ Laundromat and Y – This is the place where the Village People are always on tap with Dancin’ Donny center stage doing his infamous double jerk-off dance.

• Bribery Ballroom 

• Marie Antoinette Hall

• The Ingénue Room

• The Perv Pavilion – What?! 

• Pedo Palace – Too obvious?

• Sellout Salon

• MAGA Manor

• Gamine Grove

• Wood Hall

• White Power Lyceum

• The Laundry Room 

Also, a new name for the January 6 insurrection? The Pedo Putsch. Appropriate, no?

Ballroom Blitz – Sweet
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You’ve doubtless read about the Texas Democratic House Reps who left the state in order to prevent the Trump ordered gerrymandering of five Democratic held seats. Yep, those Texas Trump renfields are determined to yeet the will of voters they don't like clean out of existence. The Dems left to fight for, to preserve, democracy.

What does Pervy Mikey Johnson leave DC to prevent voting for? He called an early summer recess to avoid a vote on releasing the details of the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his island's visitors.  

So, House Dems are standing up for democracy and Republicans are standing up to protect pedophiles – got it.

Jesse Duquette

Governor Abbott, the man who razor wired the Rio Grande – maiming and killing people (including children), has puffed himself up and threatened to arrest the Texas patriots. Attorney Gerald A. Griggs Sr, of Atlanta, Georgia, explains why Abbottoir actually can’t do that:

Greg Abbott does NOT have the authority to jail Texas state reps for leaving the state. Here's why:

Let’s be clear: breaking quorum is not a crime. It’s a civil legislative violation, not a criminal offense. No one can be jailed simply for leaving the state to deny a quorum in the Texas House.

Texas House rules allow for fines and civil penalties—like the $500-per-day fine Republicans have imposed. But jail? That’s a different story. The Governor can’t just lock up legislators.

Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening removal from office or using law enforcement to compel lawmakers back. But the Texas Constitution does NOT give him unilateral power to arrest duly elected members for political protest.

Attorney General Ken Paxton has talked tough about “arresting absentees,” but similar threats were made during the 2021 walkout—and Texas courts refused to enforce them. History is repeating itself. (source) 

Blowhards gotta blow though. 

Today's Distraction

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Francis Bacon

Am I in a Francis Bacon kind of a mood this morning or a Jean-Michel Basquiat frame of mind? Hard to say but I believe I’ll be taking the day off from reading the news.

Do I have a good book to distract me from this hellhole timeline we’re currently wedged in? No, I do not. Having said that, Mr. Scalzi’s next installment in the Old Man’s War series is due out next month. Can I last that long? 

From review at Kirkus: 

Just like it says on the tin: Powerful and disgustingly condescending aliens threaten a fragile peace in the seventh installment of the Old Man’s War series.

Ten years have passed since the publication of Book 6, The End of All Things (2015), and the same amount of time has passed in the storyline, when the humans of Earth, the humans of the Colonial Union, and the aliens of the Conclave signed a treaty that halted colonization of new planets. So Colonial Union diplomatic analyst Gretchen Trujillo is fairly surprised to learn that the three political entities have jointly founded a secret colony called Unity on a remote asteroid space station in an attempt to determine if citizens from all three governments could manage to get along. What’s more surprising is that the space station and its 50,000 inhabitants have apparently vanished without a trace.
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Classic Scalzi space opera at its wisecracking, politically pointed, and, somehow, fiercely optimistic finest.

I NEED some fierce optimism right now. Also, I LOVE the way Scalzi writes women characters. He writes them like regular humans, just like we fucking well are!

     An aside, happy birthday to President Barack Obama!

In other distractionization ... as you may (or may not) remember, I’m not much of a teevee watcher. That is, while I have regular teevee and movie watching days (AKA “Tea Times”) with Jen and Oni, I rarely, if ever watch on my own. Why? Cable or whatever it’s called – the thing where you pay to have television reception but then each channel costs additional mone ... yeah, that. Thanks, I’ll just read a book – it’s less complicated and the library is free.

The point of my story? Jen, Oni and I just attempted to watch Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (the 2010 version with Stephen Mangan) and it’s REALLY fun. Here’s the problem – despite J&O subscribing to and paying for whatever plan this is carried on, the show STILL costs extra. They gave us the first two eps for free but after that ya gotta pay. 

That’s a total hardcore drug dealer marketing plan – get the customer hooked and jack the price. Capitalism 101 really. OF COURSE we’re not gonna pay for more.

I’m gonna go hit up my library app now. I’ll read the damn books instead! 

ANYway, here are some nice pics from Jen and one that Ten’s son Jaxon took on his way to work this morning.

I hope you have good luck with keeping your morale up and flying today. I believe, in addition to a new book, I’ll be needing some dark chocolate. Maybe a cookie too.

Sun just beginning to rise in the Columbia River Gorge

View of Boston (in the far distance) from Nut Island

Monitors, Montana, and Madness

Goose, a five foot long water monitor lizard who was illegally owned, escaped on July 18th (YEA Goose!) and went on the run along the Massachusetts/Connecticut line. 
He's been rescued and will be going to live in Beverly, Massachusetts at RRS Oasis a non-profit animal sanctuary for abused and confiscated animals. His habitat will be designed and created just for him.

…Oasis was created to address a growing crisis, exotic reptiles being mistreated, abandoned, or illegally kept. Through fundraising, donations, and community support, we provide medical care, proper habitats, and, when possible, rehabilitation and release back into the wild.

I only mention it but water monitor lizards home environments are forests, swamps, wetlands, and mangrove swamps. They’re native to Southeast Asia – New England weather and temps are a LOT different. Keeping a monitor lizard as a house pet in chilly, NOT swampy Massachusetts (cranberry bogs don’t count) so you look cool and creepy-hip to your buds is just egotistical animal cruelty. 

Also, monitor lizards are meat eaters and WILL have your beloved puppy, Spot and/or cat, Fluffy for dinner or an afternoon snack. Hell's, bells, they'll even eat dead humans. Granted, that’s terribly convenient if you have the need to get rid of a body (and who hasn't?).

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The hunt is still on for the Montana bar shooter who allegedly murdered four people in a bar next to his home in the small town of Anaconda, Montana on Friday morning. A bit more is now known about Michael Brown, aside from the fact that he’s a 45-year-old white man, not trans, not a drag queen, not an immigrant, not a raging feminist or any of the other right wing bogeymen du jour.

Brown was an Iraq Army veteran though and we all know what President Bonespurs and his crew think of military veterans. 

Image of Brown captured as he fled

Brown's niece, Clare Boyle, told the AP that her uncle struggled with mental health issues. 

"This isn’t just a drunk/high man going wild," she wrote in a Facebook post cited by the AP. 

"It’s a sick man who doesn’t know who he is sometimes and frequently doesn’t know where or when he is either."

Shane Charles knows the suspect from growing up together in Anaconda. He's the owner of Carmel’s Sports Bar and Grill, one block away from the Owl Bar. 

"Mike was a great guy when he was on his meds. He did have some mental health problems," Charles said in an interview with NBC News. When Brown isn’t taking medication, Charles said, he struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, and this fact is common knowledge in their small town. 

Brown served in the Army from 2001 to 2005 and was in the Montana National Guard from 2006 to 2009, U.S. Army spokesperson Steve Warren said. He was deployed in Iraq from 2004 to 2005, Warren said. (source) 

Everyone knew about his mental health issues and PTSD – it was obvious – but he was able to buy a gun. Someone sold him that gun. This is the American mentality.

Now imagine, you’ve just had some sort of horrible break from sanity – you’re back, aware, and panicked. You steal a truck to get away – away from the reality of your awful, bloody crime. Only then do you realize you’re wearing nothing but your boxer shorts and, while it’s August, you’re in Montana. How long will you survive, especially at night in the mountains, in just your underpants?

War, huh (good God y'all)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, say it again

War (whoa), huh (oh Lord)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me
Edwin Starr – War 
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It seems there’s some debate between the two wackaloon Kentucky Senators over hemp and THC and THC in Doritos or something. I honestly can’t follow it. Also, I thought Mitch McConnell had relieved this planet of his plague-ish existence already. I guess not. This comes as a surprise. I guess, like Freddy Krueger, he just keeps coming back.

Best I can tell, Moscow Mitch is trying to say that there’s devil's lettuce atoms (AKA THC) in our Doritos or in the  Doritos packaging and this is BAD (the get-you-mellow atoms in the bag material leach into the chips? Dunno – this is all too much Reefer Madness for me). 

At the same time the old man yelling at clouds is trying to be a hero to hemp farmers.

“Hemp is used in food, clothing, paper, plastic and many of our consumer products. Its versatility gave farmers hope for a new and profitable cash crop,” he said. “Unfortunately, some companies looking to make a quick buck have been exploiting a loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill by taking legal amounts of THC from hemp and turning it into intoxicating substances.” (source) 

And weed is demonic and worse than alcohol…how? Have we not already done these arguments and discussions to death? 

Mitch, take your worn out clown shoes and go home. You’re irrelevant.

Shoot, Pave, Jail

Oh lookie here, another mass murder. It must be a day ending in “y” in the ultra violent, lawless US of A!

A 45-year-old white guy with a gun in a state with some of the most lenient gun laws – what could go wrong?

One dead bartender and three dead patrons at 10:30 in the morning on Friday at at The Owl Bar in Anaconda, Montana. That’s what can go wrong.

Killer's name is Michael Paul Brown and he’s on the run. According to an ABC News post, Brown lived next door to the bar and knew all his victims. The bar owner said "He didn't have any running dispute with any of them. I just think he snapped."

Stupidest line from AP's report? Brown was believed to be armed, the Montana Highway Patrol said in a statement. 

 Gee, ya think?

Meanwhile, Stinky is thinking he’s gonna live (and be President) forever. He’s talking about a $200 million, 90,000-square-foot White House State Ballroom to replace the East Wing of the White House. Construction will supposedly begin next month. What’s in the East Wing now? The First lady's office and other government offices. Given that Melania doesn’t actually live in DC or do any First Lady type work, losing her space is no big. The other folks? Where are they gonna go? Work from home? That’d actually be ideal for them. Not be around Trump's renfields and other assorted, soulless criminals? Yeah, NO problem!

Then

Now

The old fraud, whose unattained dream job was, clearly, interior decorator for Liberace, needed a new project after paving over the Rose Garden. I guess. IF his gaudy ballroom really gets built, I don’t think he’ll have long to enjoy it. 

Either the Grim Reaper’s gonna make a long overdue house call or Jimmy Don Vance, with the machinations of Peter Thiel and the Heritage Foundation crew, is gonna 25th amendment his arse. 

Why 25th the demented old fuck? Stinky was just the hook to call in the rubes, to get the low info, easily bamboozled, minor wattage cultists’ votes. That's done – he's served his purpose. He’s now become too much of a liability – too stupid and sloppy, doesn’t stick to the script, and is nowhere near as malleable as Vance. The orange clown’s just too much of a wild card. He’s not a good little puppet like Reagan was.

The Epstein Files are a godsend for Thiel and Heritage. Trump is clearly in the files BIG time. I don’t think the billionaires who run the US are going to let him fully skate. No, Stinky will never see the inside of a prison BUT, I’m figuring that, in exchange for stepping down, they’ll paper over his problems. Lots of payoffs to silence Stinky’s rape victims. The billionaires can painlessly, easily afford it. Looks like they're already working it.

Back in March, Kash Patel had FBI folks sifting through more than 100,000 Epstein docs. They worked 24-hour shifts and were told to “flag” records mentioning Trump. This pumped Dick Durbin, (the Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member) to ask the DOJ: “What happened to the records mentioning President Trump once they were flagged?”

Leopold (Bloomberg reporter Jason Leopold Jason Leopold - Bloomberg  ) reveals that Trump’s name was blacked out—as were the names of dozens of other public figures.
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The bottom line here, Leopold writes, is that the chances of Trump’s name being unredacted anytime soon are slim to none. We can wait for all the people mentioned in the files to die. Or Trump could decide to voluntarily waive his privacy rights, allowing his name to be unredacted, which at present seems very unlikely. (source) 

Meanwhile, in an obvious attempt to buy her “discretion,” Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred from prison in Florida to a country club joint in Texas – the place is known as known as Club Fed. Even her Florida prison was pretty chill though – she had access to yoga and pilates classes.

Trump’s working very hard to keep his dead ex-bestie’s partner in sex crimes happy and quiet. 

☢️ NOPE ☢️

I believe we’re blundering our way into a real life Marvel Universe superhero origin story but, unlike the comics, I don’t think our version’s gonna be one of humanity’s champions. I don’t think our storyline’s gonna play out so neatly.

A radioactive wasp nest was found in South Carolina.

…testing confirmed radiation levels “greater than 10 times the total contamination values” that federal regulations allow.

“While no wasps were found on the nest, the individual insects would have significantly lower levels of contamination,” it said. (source)

Where did the wasps go? “individual insects would have significantly lower levels of contaminaaztion” you say? And when did it become a smart bet to believe ANYTHING coming out of this anti-science, hunches, and cover-stories administration? 

I mean…
Bobby Brainworns , the fucking Health and Human Services Secretary, balls out stated that COVID-19 was a “bioweapon” made by China. He preaches racist pseudoscience and anti-vaccine conspiracies (and that’s just a light sampling of his spewed weasel shit). Does he really believe the pack of idiocies he's carnival barking?

Pete Kegstand lied about the woman he sexually assaulted (repeatedly saying he was "completely cleared” when he actually paid a settlement). He lies about his drinking. He lied about sharing classified info on Signal Chat. He lied about his massive financial fuck ups at not one but two veterans non-profit orgs. Pete’s a liar.

Cosplay Kristi Noem? Fer fuck’s sake, she’s right up there with Stinky. They’re both going for the gold in the lying Olympics. She didn’t have a meeting scheduled with French President Macron that she could cancel but flounced about that she did. She never had a meeting with Kim Jong-un much less one where she fiercely stared him down. She lied about having her goons tackle and cuff Senator Alex Padilla at her press conference.

What DON’T these fuckers lie about?!
 
Given that every single nitwit grifter in this white trash twatzilla administration does nothing but spin the most absurd and unbelievable steaming piles of putrid warthog diarrhea, all while tripping drunkenly over their individual and collective incompetence, it would be unwise to believe that South Carolina’s safe from radioactive wasps. These wee stinging insects are more than likely bringers of nuclear fueled death. 

But first? A zombie apocalypse.

Maybe we’re already in that stage though? How else can the MAGAt hordes be explained? They all put pantyliners on their ears to show solidarity with their orange god when he claimed (i.e. lied) that he was grazed by a deadly assassin’s bullet. They all proudly wore adult diapers OUTSIDE their regular pants when it came out that Stinky’s incontinent. He breaks every promise and they STILL decorate their trucks and homes with a zillion pro-Trump flags. 

The only logical explanation is that they’ve been turned into zombies. This IS braindead zombie behavior!

Now then, it’s common knowledge that people are turned into the walking dead via parasitic infection or exposure to radiation. So, here’s my thought – the nuked wasp stings a person, injecting radiated venom. That person becomes a zombie; they then need to eat another human’s flesh and brain to stay “alive.” The people who get bit but manage to escape, eventually turn into zombies themselves. Between the wasps in the hive and the zombies they create…well, it’s just a matter of time before we’re in I Am Legend land.

How many wasps were living in that nest? How many zombies have they created? Let’s do the math. How much time do we have left?

Okay, now I’m curious, whatever happened to the murder hornets? What would be more lethal – murder hornets or atomic wasps? Summer B horror movie anyone?

NOT OK

You’ve undoubtedly seen some of the fuss over the clown in Oklahoma — the Superintendent of Public Instruction (sometimes called the Oklahoma State School Superintendent) who’s a book ban pushing, right wing Christian nationalist, and extreme MAGAt (AKA a spectacularly malicious moron who should def be kept away from children and any other vulnerable, sentient beings).

Ryan Walters is the horse's ass (not to dis equine butts, mind you) trying to make Bibles (Trump’s brand of course) mandatory in every classroom. Hey, I guess that whole church-state separation thingie doesn’t apply to Oklahoma, eh?

About those Trump brand Bibles – the compilation of docs (King James Bible, Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Pledge of Allegiance) that’ll never be read by his cult (and have assuredly never been read by ol' illiterate Stinky himself) were put together by some country music creep as a tie-in scam to his one hit wonder. The Bible plus Americana (together known as God Bless the U.S.A. Bible) were printed in China (so much for the USA, huh?) for less than three bucks per but sold for, at minimum, $60 each. (I just saw one going for $1,445 on Ebay) As of June of this year Stinky has taken in $1,306,035 in royalty payments for doing nothing but endorsing the product.

Superintendent Walters has threatened the teaching licenses of all instructors who refused to teach Bible lessons. IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL!  

He’s called Oklahoma teachers' unions a “terrorist organization.”  

He campaigned for the superintendent gig claiming that Oklahoma classrooms were filled with porn and HE would get rid of it (by taking it all back to his own office for “review?”). Walters went on to call teachers perverts. (I guess, assuming he has self-awareness, he would know?)

He mandated that pro-Trump conspiracy theories be taught in social studies classes. 

Walters was once a candidate on Trump’s shortlist for education secretary. Given the rest of Stinky’s loser filled, junk drawer Cabinet, it boggles the mind as to how our boy Ryan missed the cut.

So then, last Thursday during a closed-door meeting focused on teaching credentials and student attendance, ol’ Ry-Ry was streaming porn. How utterly professional and on brand of him!  //snort//

I guess the wank addicted, bible pushing, christian bigot who’s in charge of all of Oklahoma’s children’s education just couldn’t make it through a couple hour biz meeting without viewing his emotional support porn stars’ ta-tas and tunnels of love, eh?

Is it any surprise Oklahoma is rated 50th in education?

He’s done himself no favors with his response to getting caught with his, only barely metaphorical, dick in his hand. Hell, he’s even blamed the state’s governor and is clearly just two minutes away from suing Coldplay, blaming Biden, importing Mexican Coke, and threatening to arrest Obama.

Hell’s bells, the state’s Republican governor, Kevin Stitt, isn’t covering for Frat Boy Walters’ asininity. I'm guessing only the most sewer dwelling of Oklahoma Republicans are gonna risk their reelection chances on this sloppy loser. On the other hand...this IS Oklahoma and it's most def NOT okay.

Walters is STILL lying his ass off about everything. How much more money is the state of Oklahoma gonna spend on Porn Boy before they put him out to pasture where he can choke his chicken to images of Misty, Cherry, and Princess in private?

Again I ask ya, does it surprise ANYONE that Oklahoma is rated 50th in the US for education?

Assorted Stuff

ICE is abducting cops in Maine now. 
 
Okay, just one cop but still, isn’t one enough? I mean, even if you’re in the ACAB camp, this isn’t good. It’s like dueling Tyrannosaurus rexes isn’t it? No matter what, the end result isn’t gonna be pretty or bloodless.

Also ICE has zero credibility. In a mash up with cops, ICE will always be the bad guys. They’re all about collecting those bounty payments – fuck the Constitution, human rights, and the rule of law – gimme that sweet paycheck and lemme bash some heads to prove what an “alpha male” I am.

ICE dudes – nothing but micro dicked, unevolved, violent head cases.
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Best part about being old and deaf?

I have no idea who Azalea Banks, Drake, Jojo Siwa, Amber Heard or Chris Pratt are. Nor do I have an impulse or so much as a wispy whim to google them. I do understand they’re all considered to be this year’s most annoying celebrities (or some of). Maybe it was last year’s crop? //shrugs// 

I’m an adult. I don’t have to keep up with what the rich attention whores are up to. 

On the deaf front – I’m happy as all hell that I don’t know what Trump (and spawn), RFK jr., Marge Greene, Lauren Boebert, Tom Homan, Jimmy Don Vance, and Laura Loomer sound like. And I never will know. It’s ALMOST enough to make me consider the actual existence of a god or gods. 

Then I look at Palestine, Ukraine, the civil war in Sudan, and the state of the US and I snap right out of it.
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Kvetch of the day:

Entrepreneur 
     noun
: one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise

I’ve most often heard this word thrown around as a description for people like Steve Jobs, Musk, Zuckerberg. Ya know, people with money and a knack for intellectual theft. 

So, when a regular non-millionaire type person tells me they’re an entrepreneur, it just means they’re unemployed but have enough money to get by until they land in their next money patch OR Daddy makes another deposit. It’s pretentious as all fuck and gives major insecurity vibes.

It could also be someone who MIGHT have a few good business ideas but lack the skills and/or resources to make the big pie in the sky happen. They’re constantly on the make for investors and free labor. Annoying.

I suppose, if you say you’re an entrepreneur when you’re out of work, it might come off as posh, hopeful, and dynamic versus depressing. 

An aside: Over the years, Jen and I have had a lot of killer-diller ideas for businesses. Our latest was a llama and alpaca farm. We'd make yarn from the fur, sell it to knitters and have high tea with the camelids events. What's stopping us? We, somehow, failed to be born to emerald mine owning parents and health insurance is stupid expensive.

Paraphrasing John Steinbeck, socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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The lab results are in on my latest bean MRI. Doc Plotkin and crew will be meeting to discuss them next week. I hate waiting. I read through the MRI tech’s report and, OF FUCKING COURSE, most of it’s WAY over my head. Still, it appears that there’s no new growth in the area which would be effecting my wonky left calf, ankle, and foot.

I’ll have to wait until next week for anything definitive BUT at least, for now, it doesn’t look like I’ll be headed in for immediate, urgent brain surgery.

That’s good news!