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!

Walk it, don't talk it.

11 major religious groups – including Lutherans, Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, and Evangelical churches – are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Krazy Killer Noem. 

Why? Because those bounty hunting ICE thugs have begun raiding churches...with guns. 

“We come to church to experience God’s love proclaimed in Jesus Christ and not to experience a raid by armed members of the government,” Bishop Nathan Pipho of the New England Synod said in a written statement. (source) 

Democracy Forward, a Washington, D.C.-based legal org., and the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs are suing DHS on behalf of the church groups. They’re asking a judge to declare Homeland Security’s policy unconstitutional and to issue a preliminary injunction against raids at places of worship, at these places which are meant to be sanctuaries.

A snippet from the full complaint (found here):

1.   For over 30 years, the federal government restricted immigration enforcement at houses of worship and other “sensitive locations,” recognizing that it could enforce immigration laws without, in its words, “denying . . . people of faith access to their places of worship.”
2.   Under that policy, the government barred immigration enforcement in or near
sensitive locations “to the fullest extent possible.” ...
3.   Soon after taking office, the new administration abruptly reversed course and abandoned these longstanding protections.
4.   In a memorandum issued on January 20, 2025, then-Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Benjamine Huffman, rescinded the prior sensitive locations policy. In place of the guardrails that policy provided, Acting Secretary Huffman determined that the decision whether to carry out enforcement actions at or near houses of worship should be left to agents’ individual discretion, guided only by “common sense.”

"Common sense" //snort// As if! ICE bounty hunters do NOT have common sense. All they care about is subjugation and all the jackpots they'll reap from al the brown skinned people they turn in.

It’s happening in California. Two churches were targeted in Montclair within San Bernardino County. Also, masked ICE bounty thugs had a pastor at the end of a loaded rifle while they stole a man outside of a church near Los Angeles. It’s happened in Massachusetts and in Georgia. I’m sure it’s happening in a lot of other places too but the news just isn’t getting out. What’s happening in the parking lots and vestibules of all those big box prosperity gospel bullshit churches? Surely Joel Osteen’s Lakewood church has a few brown hued congregants that’d appeal to ICE. Is Joel or Gov. Abbottoir payin off ICE to stay away, to not cause an unsightly, payday effecting fuss? 

One Florida pastor is combating ICE’s intimidation tactics in an amusing way. He’s billing them. What for? Use of church property without permission. Who knows where this will go but tying ICE up in red tape is a creative, out-of-the-box potential solution.

Christians, you of the orange idol worshiping stripe that is, here’s the persecution you’ve long been claiming. It’s coming from within your MAGA house but only happening to your brown skinned brothers and sisters. Do you care?

Some congregations have pivoted to meet secretly, holding baptisms — occasions previously seen as something to celebrate in community — in private, according to the complaint. “The open joy and spiritual restoration of communal worship has been replaced by isolation, concealment, and fear,” the complaint states.
(source) 

 Don't tell me you're a Christian – show me. Walk it, don't talk it. Start by protecting and shielding immigrants. 

The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
~ Leviticus 19:34

You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens who reside among you and have begotten children among you. They shall be to you as citizens of Israel; with you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
~ Ezekiel 47:22

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.
~ Zechariah 7:9-10

I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.
~ Matthew 25:35 

Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of my brethren you did it to me.
~ Matthew 25:40 

Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.
~ Romans 12:13 

Touchdown Brings Me 'Round Again

Do not, and I really gotta stress this, DO NOT attempt to prep/chill/peace out for your 2 PM Sunday MRI ahead of time by taking half a calm-me-down pill at 9:30 AM, chased with a weed gummy (pineapple habanero, thenkyouveddymuch) and then another what-the-hell-let’s-be-sure-I’m-REALLY-chill-in-the-machine gummy as our hero, Jen, is driving us in to MRIville at 11:30.

Why not? Shit kicks in slow…like the tide. The tide totally sneaks up on you. It's not there and then... *WHAM*

I was feeling alright, relaxed, until I was conveyor belted into the machine. I had a black sleep mask over my eyes and my hearing aid was out (which only picks up louder, concussive sounds anyway – no language, music, tone or sound direction). My head was bolstered into its cage – I  couldn’t move. This was sensory deprivation city.

And then my mind exploded. No, not in a blood and guts kind of a way – nope. This was a late ’60s/early ‘70s sound and vision, inspired by Owsley Stanley Purple Haze, kind of explosion. Oh yeah babies, I was eight miles high and not touching down anytime soon.

The inside of my head was like one of those iMax theaters and I was sitting front row/center. I was watching my smoking skull (someone else’s smoking skull?) rise high and fast into a dark, star spotted night. I was zooming over the surface of the ocean, greeting orcas and other whales. I visited octopuses – I think they were having tea.

Yep, I was quite unexpectedly tripping my fat ta-tas off. 

Once I realized what was happening, I just tried to go with it, enjoy the ride. It was certainly a distraction from being stuck in the small, tight place, unable to move.

Still, HOW could this have been possible? Maybe the very small amount of pharmaceutical calm-me-down med ignited those two weed gummies into a medicinal kaleidoscope joyride? Could I, in my pre-MRI claustrophobia nervousness, accidentally dropped an additional calm-me-down or a third gummy?

I don’t remember doing so but it’s possible.

When the techs pulled me out of the machine I was still pretty disoriented but I could, with my rollator and Jen’s assistance, walk. I told her that “I’m trippin’ my balls off here. I don’t actually have balls but I guess you know that. I gotta pee now.”

Yep, I guess I’m a talky little day tripper. 

She took me to the large disabled persons loo where I’d have more room to spaz around while I changed out of my ever so stylish johnny pants and gown. Jesus, Jen’s a saint.

Amazingly, I succeeded in getting back into my shorts and T (with Saint Jen’s help, of course) AND was able to walk to the car (using the rollator) all by myself (well, Jen spotted me but there was no need for the wheelchair). The entire time though, I was waffling between “I think I’m just pleasantly high now” and “nope, I am definitely still tripping with the roadies.” It seemed to change by the moment.

Once in the car, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I turned to Jen and announced, “I have the munchies – BAD!” Luckily, Jen had a bag of small dark chocolate dipped pretzels RIGHT THERE, opened and at the ready.

Have I mentioned Jen’s obvious celestial beinghoodedness yet? Yes, I think I might have. It’s quite true, you know. With the biggest smile pasted on my gob, I ate all her pretzels while grinning like a madwoman and cloud-watching on the way home.

Then, on getting to Valhalla, Ten and Jen helped me up the stairs and into my comfy chair where I had some veggie chips and continued to enjoy being high and done with my MRI.

When do I get the results? When do I find out whether the slight swelling and interior sense of numbness in my left calf, ankle and foot is due to a growth spurt in the tumors over my motor cortex OR is caused by something else entirely?

Dunno. I’ll drop Doc Plotkin and his nurse practitioner a note this morning. Good news – I would really like some good news today. Thank you!

Emmmm, in conclusion, don’t trip during your MRIs. Being chilled out is cool – unexpectedly having front row seats to a show of my smoking skull rising into the stratosphere on its way to Europa or some nice bodega on Proxima Centauri b is, well, fascinating if a tad unnerving

WHY?

Who is Candace Owens? She’s an extreme right-wing nutball podcaster. She’s big on conspiracy theories (especially those related to LGBTQ+ folks) and thinks slavery and racism had a piffling impact on the Black community. She’s not real keen on Jews either. Candy claimed that Judaism was a “pedophile-centric religion that believes in demons...[and] child sacrifice …” 

My understanding is that she’s in the same vein as Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, and Charlie Kirk – people who take reality, shred it, then weave it into a tapestry of right-wing fears, fantasies, fetishes, fault-finding, rage, and shame.

Candace Owens is now being sued by the President of France and his wife because she’s been running around spewing that Mrs. Macron’s a man or was one.

In fact, Candy’s been broadcasting that Brigitte Macron was a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux. Ya know who actually IS Jean-Michel Trogneux? Brigitte Macron’s still very much alive and taking nourishment older brother. In fact, he stood at her side at Emmanuel Macron’s two presidential inaugurations in 2017 and 2022.

First – ‘the hell? Did Candy dear run out of Democrats to make up Bizarro World fairy tales about so she had to jump over to Europe? Why’s she picking on the French President’s wife?

Second – even if Mrs. Macron HAD been born male (she’s wasn’t nor has she ever been male), who the fuck cares? How is Brigitte's gender Candy or anyone else’s business?

Ya know, Crazy Candy doesn’t care. All this is just to get attention, to get the spotlight focused on her. She’s not a bright or gifted person so behaving like a complete low rent carnival clown twatzilla was her only path to fame and fortune.

In a YouTube video, Owens called the suit an “obvious and desperate public relations strategy,” and said the first lady is “a very goofy man.” (source) 

I just looked over her Wikipedia page. HOLY space cakes, this woman’s truly out there where the magic dragons fly free and HIGH.

Why do these right-wing lunatics care so damn much about the reproductive equipment of people whose politics differ from their own. Did Candy make up some elaborate fantasy where Brigitte Macron, pre-transition, was Candy’s betrothed, her soulmate? Now that she’s Brigitte, not Jean-Michel, Candy feels horribly betrayed, cheated, and humiliated and is out for revenge?

Another thought, given the whole right-wing crazy-pants schtick of accusing others of the secrets they’re shamefully hiding, I’m thinking Candy’s accusations MUST mean that she herself is a man.

Based on repeated Republican actions, this is just simple logic.

I mean, look at Lauren Boebert’s sordid little life. She claims the Christian family values myth and ran on a law and order platform BUT gives out hand-jobs in theaters in front of kids, married and had four children by a dick flashing violent pedo, raised a son, Tyler, who knocked up his 15 year old girlfriend, broke into cars to steal credit cards, driver’s licenses, and passports, AND has just been busted for child abuse. 

On a scale from "not at all" to "not even the tiniest bit" how surprised are you that Lauren Boebert raised a child abuser? Plus, she has quite the arrest record herself.

Then there’s Nancy LOOK AT ME-LOOK AT ME Mace who, minutes after voting against releasing Epstein files, hopped on Twitter to scream that "All child rapists should get the death penalty.” 

WHY do I know who these people are? They should be less relevant and impactful than those pesky door to door god sellers. HOW do some of these these nimrods get into government?! 

Critical thinking skills need to be taught in schools since they’re sure are hell not being taught at home.

Words and Whales

Stinky is in Scotland today, the birthplace of his mother, for the opening of his brand new golf course in Aberdeenshire. How is he able to so brazenly flout the emoluments clauses? 

Loopholes. While visiting (and presumably playing at) his new course and looking in on his other Scotland properties, he’ll meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for “trade talks.” This will consist of his usual trash talking, whining, general airing of grievances, threats, grandstanding, and preening like a toddler who’s just taken a huge shit on the white dining room rug and is SO proud of himself. 

The White House is now just another division of the ultra tacky Trump Organization.

In general, the Scots have an open and robustly healthy disdain for our felonious, racist, rapist, pedophile, skeevebagian president. Of course they do and they have a beautifully poetic way of describing him too.

• Bawbag-eyed fuck bumper
• Cock juggling thundercunt
• Custard-flavored jobbie (jobbie = piece of shit)
• Degenerate corned beef faced, syrup-wearing wankstain
• Glaikit heidbanger (an irritating and aggressive idiot)
• Huffy wee fucking bampot (easily offended, obnoxious person)
• Knuckle-brained fart lozenge
• Leather-faced piss jar
• Mangled apricot hellbeast
• Onion-eyed flap dragon* 
• Rotten orange fucknugget
• Rotting bloated flesh bag
• Rug wearing thundercunt
• Toupéed fucktrumpet
• Utter cockwomble
• Weasel-headed fucknugget
• Wee orange rodent

*  I’ve found a few meanings for “flap dragon.”

• A tiny sweetmeat, small cake. 
• An old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.  
• A venereal disease a harlot is rumored to suffer 

I’m betting the Scots who use the phrase flap dragon are intending that third meaning.

Too bad the late great Scottish comedian Janey Godley isn’t here today to harass the old orange fucknugget and get high fived by the constabulary. She died of ovarian cancer last year at the age of 63. 
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In other news, our orca buddies are back. 

On Monday a pod targeted a French yacht off the coast of northern Spain. As in past occurrences, the whaley boys go after the stern and then move in to break the rudders.

Volker Deecke, professor of wildlife conservation at the University of Cumbria said that “during interactions, the animals remain cool, calm and collected without any of the behavioural signs of aggression such as splashing, or vocalisations.”  Maybe the orca think the yachts have kidnapped the humans and, by disabling the go mechanism, they’re giving the humans a chance to escape? COULD BE!

In other orcas-feel-sorry-for-us-because-we’re-clearly-inferior news, they’re bringing us food.

Perhaps, they hypothesized, the killer whales are curious and exploring how humans will react to a gift. Maybe they are playing, though they largely discount this theory because whales of all ages, rather than just juveniles, provisioned food. Or, perhaps it is something more sinister – killer whales have been known to use prey to attract other species and then kill them, but there is no record of orcas ever killing humans in the wild. 

“I don’t think it’s easy to suggest there is one reason for this behavior because there are underlying mechanisms and proximate causes,” Towers said. 

“The main underlying mechanism is simply that they can afford to offer us food and the main proximate cause may be that they are doing so as a way to explore and subsequently learn more about us.” 

In all but one of the cases documented, the killer whales initially waited for a response from the humans before most of them retrieved the food, though some simply abandoned it and some even tried to gift it again. (source) 

Possibly the orcas see us as not too terribly bright (they’re not wrong) and are trying to feed us, bring us into the pod so we can be properly raised and cared for?    

Our Taxes Pay For This

Andry Hernández Romero is a makeup artist who came to the US legally. He had NO criminal record but was snatched by ICE and shipped to CECOT in El Salvador. While imprisoned (for four months!) he was sexually assaulted by guards, tortured, and denied food.

Though he entered the United States legally at the San Diego border, appeared for an appointment the U.S. government gave him, and passed an initial credible fear interview, federal agents cited his tattoos—crowns reading “mom” and “dad”—as alleged proof of membership in the Tren de Aragua gang, something his lawyers continue to deny. (source) 

More on the ridiculously wholesome origin of his tattoos and more about Andry here. 

Naturally, lying sack of shit and Homeland Security LARP-hag Kristi Noem has poo-pooed his abuse claims. All the human trafficked men, including Hernández Romero, were called “criminal, illegal gang members.” Of course they were. And Cricket was an evil, viciously wild, demon possessed horror show dog. KKKristi had no choice but to shoot the puppy dead in a gravel pit. And the goat? Well, he was guilty of being a goat ! Case closed, right? WRONG!

About that gang, Tren de Aragua (Train of Aragua), according to InSight Crime a non-profit think tank and media org specializing in organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: 

   1. Gang members do not use tattoos to identify themselves 

…Tren de Aragua does not use tattoos or other symbols like colors or clothing to identify its members. 
In fact, many gangs in the region that once used tattoos to identify themselves, such as the MS13, have moved away from them precisely because they help law enforcement identify them.

This makes a obvious amounts of sense, does it not? 

   2. The gang is not controlled by the Venezuelan government 
Stinky claimed that Venezuelan Prez Nicolás Maduro directed Tren de Aragua to invade the US. There’s no evidence to support this. In fact, Maduro’s been coming down on the gang HARD. Unsurprisingly, the orange idiot's lying. I mean, his mouth opened so of course he was.

    3. The gang is getting weaker, not more powerful
They’re in law enforcement’s big shiny spotlight and have been for a while now. Tren de Aragua get a LOT of press but there have also been a shitload of busts of their leaders (part of the reason for all the press? I’m betting on it). This has fragmented the group.

Hernández Romero is back in Venezuela now but still in danger. Remember, he left Venezuela for asylum in the US because he feared persecution for being gay and because of his opposition to Venezuela’s authoritarian government.

Maybe, in the short term, he’s safer in Venezuela than the US though. Trump and his crew of vile humanity haters ensured that Andry was stolen, imprisoned, beaten, shot with rubber bullets, sexually assaulted and locked in a dark cell. They didn’t pull the triggers, deliver the blows, rape his abused, weakened body but they enabled all that and more to happen. So did every single immoral, merciless, violent ICE bounty hunter.

Gee, ain’t America great!

Venezuela’s attorney general, Tarek Saab, has said his office will investigate Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele regarding the CECOT torture reports. Yeah sure. I’m not holding my breath here. That’s like Tag el-Sir el-Hibi, Attorney General of South Sudan, investigating Trump, Netanyahu or Putin for gross inhumanity and obscene abuses of power.

FYI, South Sudan is currently listed as the most corrupt country on the planet. I know, shocks me too. I was sure the U.S. was a lock for the weaseliest! 

Fat lot of good Saab sitting down with Bukele will do. They’ll just have a night of expensive brandy, steaks, pliant serfs and compare dictator notes – maybe a photo op for the papers too.

Stinky will be devastated that he wasn’t invited!

“Many of our fellows have wounds from the nightsticks; they have fractured ribs, fractured fingers and toes, marks from the handcuffs,” he said, according to Reuters. “Others have marks on their chests, on their face ... from the projectiles.” (source) 

Our tax dollars are funding this. 

Greetings From Bizarro World

Tulsi, pre TrumpWorld villain makeover

Tulsi Gabbard was at the White House yesterday lying her ass off about President Obama. Basically, Tricky Tulsi claims that the Obama administration created fake intelligence to hype the concept that Russia worked to put Stinky in the White House in 2016. That Obama played that Putin stole the election for her boy ShitzInPantz. Gabbard says that Obama "led the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment”

Obama’s office responded: 

“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response,” Obama spokesperson Patrick Rodenbush said in a statement. “But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”

Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes. These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chair Marco Rubio, who now serves as Trump’s secretary of State. (source)

Unsurprisingly, Tulsi and White House press liar Leavitt both kept dancing around questions of what particular crime Obama could possibly be charged with or if/why he should go to jail.

Why? Because this is all just so much fucking theater to distract the masses, especially his cult of complete rubes and the lapdog press, from the Epstein files. I suspect it's maybe not gonna work this time around.

Bondi, Patel, Gabbard, Mike Johnson, and Bongino have made themselves stone accomplices to the crimes Trump committed with his best bud Jeff. Trump will likely croak before justice can reach him (thanks Merrick!) but the rest of them are relatively young and healthy. MAYBE, one day, they'll pay for the pain they're facilitating. An old broad, such as yurs truly, can dream can't she?

I don’t think Bleach Bondi and Porn-Pal Mikey will look good in orange jumpsuits (too pale but maybe when Bondi’s natural hair color finally comes back she won’t look quite so washed out). Gabbard, Bongino and Patel will totally rock that tangerine tone though. May they never take it off. 

“When justice department officials reviewed what attorney general Pam Bondi called a ‘truckload’ of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, they discovered that Donald Trump’s name appeared multiple times,” the Wall Street Journal is reporting, citing senior administration officials. (source) 

This came out in the unfortunately paywalled Wall Street Journal. What alternate universe are we living in where a monster creating Rupert Murdoch paper is actually on the right side of history? 

In other news, Jimmy Don Vance (or whatever name he's going by this week) was on Nantucket Tuesday for a fundraiser. Though Nantucket is small and über wealthy, protesters still came out to let the Fascist Doughboy know that he’s not well liked (understatement!!!). I only mention it but I believe security for Jimmy Don was so intense because his Heritage Foundation puppet masters aren't planning on Stinky seeing out his term and NO ONE wants little Mikey as president.

If/when Old Stinky gets 25th Amendmented what will we call Vance, the man who makes enemies around the globe every time he opens his mouth? 

I think I'm going with I’m going with Prez Cockwomble.

Cockwomble
     noun
:   a person, usually male, prone to making outrageously stupid statements and/or engaging in ridiculously inappropriate behaviour while generally having a very high opinion of their own wisdom and importance.

OR, howz 'bout this: Prez Popekiller Cockwomble? Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?

Detention – Oh, Rilly?!

As of July 13th 56,816 people are being held in immigration “detention.” 

“Detention” makes it sound like they’re being kept after school, isolated from their playmates, having to write “I will not be Brown or Black in America” 1,000 times on a chalkboard before they can go home.

No, the US version of “detention” is where people are regularly ignored or put in solitary confinement for asking for medical help (which, naturally, has led to deaths which should be classified as murder). It’s where your hands are tied and you eat from your worm riddled food bowls like a dog. You sleep on concrete floors floors in cells meant to hold half or a third as many people. It’s where you’re denied showers and use the toilet, often just a bucket, in full view of other prisoners. 30 to 40 people are crowded into rooms meant for six.

Lying fucks like Stephanie Hartman of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, which built the Florida concentration camp, say: “The reporting on the conditions in the facility is completely false. The facility meets all required standards and is in good working order.”

 Sure, you disgusting embarrassment to deceitful twats everywhere. I believe you about as much as I believe that Stinky and his BFF Epstein didn’t rape children. Oh and the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny really, truly exist too! You can fuck ALL the way off on a busted hang glider to Hell and stay there.

Too bad I don’t actually believe Hell exists. Maybe Stephie and her ilk can fuck off to a not so nice, basement level room in CECOT. Her, Hamfaced Homan, Cosplay Kristi, Goebbels Miller can all be bunk buddies. What fun!

People in immigration detention are being treated as less than human,” said Belkis Wille, associate crisis and conflict director at Human Rights Watch.
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In one particularly degrading incident, detainees at FDC were forced to eat while shackled with their hands behind their backs. “We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,” said Harpinder Chauhan, a British entrepreneur who had been detained by ICE at a regular immigration appointment. Chauhan, who suffers from diabetes and heart disease, said he was denied insulin at various points during his detention at Krome, FDC, and BTC, including at BTC for nearly a week, after which he collapsed and was taken to a hospital. (source)  

71.5% of detainees (AKA concentration camp prisoners) have NO criminal convictions. That’s 40,643 of the 56,816 people currently imprisoned. Of those convicted, many are only guilty of minor offenses, including traffic violations.

Unsurprisingly, Texas has the most concentration camp prisoners followed by Florida and Louisiana. 

On Saturday, The Wall Street Journal reported the Trump administration is seeking to quickly scale up its detention capacity from 40,000 to 100,000 beds by year end, largely by prioritising quick-build tent facilities on military bases and ICE properties. (source) 

Home of the brave, land off the free AMIRITE?!?

“They have no way to bathe, no way to wash their mouths, the toilet overflows and the floor is flooded with pee and poop,” the woman said. “They eat once a day and have two minutes to eat. The meals have worms,” she added.

No meetings with attorneys

Lawyers say the detainees' due process rights are among numerous constitutional protections being denied. (source) 

How long before Trump/Vance/Miller has the showers hooked up with zyklon b? 

Think Too Much

When people say “don’t take it personally,” I think "Sure, I can do this" when:

• Frieda is always late for our lunch dates. That’s just her. If we agree to meet at one o’clock, I’m fully aware and prepared (armed with book and/or pad and pen) that she won’t show until 1:15 or 1:30.

• Greg’s a busy, busy guy and lives, in best traffic, a couple hours away. Now that I don’t drive anymore, we rarely get together since I can’t travel to meet him halfway. I miss seeing him but //shrugs// I understand. Driving the whole way down here is a LOT.

• A former employer – mostly a wonderful and caring person BUT, when stressed or taking heat from a client, would pass that fire down to employees whether it was deserved or not. Often enough, it was not. There was a distinct lack of poise under pressure. I chose not to work there anymore but remain friendly, if not terribly close. We just have different workplace styles.

In other circumstance not taking it personally is much harder to do.

A friend’s spouse was unfailingly condescending, critical, and otherwise rude to me – often in a spectacularly childish manner. This was right from first meeting too – no getting-to-know-and-dislike-you period. Just straight off Dis City.

I absolutely took my friend’s spouse’s behavior personally. There was and is something(s) about me that they DO NOT like and that was made quite clear.

I’m, of fucking course, not without fault here. I complained bitterly to a mutual friend about the spouse. This person later, in a drunken state, conveyed my complaints to the couple. Naturally, this didn’t endear me to the couple. UNDERSTATEMENT!

The (non-drunk) friend and I are still in touch but now distant. We exchange memes or pics via text message on occasion but that’s about it.

The Amazing Bob used to tell me that this person (the spouse) was just a brawler. He’d known a million assholes like this in his life – folks who were perma-angry, always looking for/hoping for a fight. Given my own shoddy grasp on people skills, I should have totally recognized this and kept a polite distance. Hah! Have I met me?! I'm not so dispassionate. 

Instead of just taking TAB and Jen’s word, that this person’s just an ass, I kept/keep looking for ways to blame myself for the their awful behavior toward me. WHY? Because if I’m at fault, I can fix the problem. I can somehow make things allllll better. The closeness with my once very dear friend can be restored.

Yeah, yeah, that’s mighty damned presumptuous of me, eh? I not only don’t have the super powers to fix everything, it’s rather bold and selfish of me to hog all the blame. There’s plenty to go around.

So, in this particular case, perhaps half of this person’s jabs and slights are pointed and intentional and the other half are just their normal personality? I’ve spent an enormous amount of time puzzling this out over the years primarily because I miss the closeness my friend and I once shared.

Paul Simon’s songs Think Too Much (a) and Think Too Much (b) come to mind.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
~ Helen Keller

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.
~ Carrie Fisher

I find it hard to understand how certain people can be such an essential component of someone's life one day and then just disappear the next. Shouldn't it be able to endure forever?
~ Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia 

Movie Time

Let’s talk about John Wick. Yes, yez, yezzzz, I’m only now seeing this HUGE ass blockbuster movie that has, to date, kicked off a four flick franchise. What can I say? I’m not exactly hip to trends current or otherwise.

When the first John Wick came out in 2014, Obama was president. The US had not yet to become both an global laughingstock (due to the deranged clownshit president and his equally ridiculous, loser veep) nor had we turned into a total horror show (credit goes to Stinky’s boy Stephen Goebbels Miller and the Heritage Foundation).

A brief summary of John Wick Chapter One from Rotten Tomatoes: 

Legendary assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) retired from his violent career after marrying the love of his life. Her sudden death leaves John in deep mourning. When sadistic mobster Iosef Tarasov (Alfie Allen) and his thugs steal John's prized car and kill the puppy that was a last gift from his wife, John unleashes the remorseless killing machine within and seeks vengeance. Meanwhile, Iosef's father (Michael Nyqvist) -- John's former colleague -- puts a huge bounty on John's head. 

A little clarification for those of you unfamiliar : 

• It looked to me like Wick’s wife died of cancer. It wasn’t a long, drawn out part of the story.

• Sadistic mobster Iosef Tarasov is more spoiled rotten, tremendously stupid nepo baby. Like Dumb-shit Donnie and Loser Leon, Iosef wouldn’t even be holding up liquor stores without his daddy’s big money and connections.

• What snaps Wick into revenge mode isn’t the loss of the car – it’s that they murdered the puppy that his wife SO thoughtfully set up to be delivered to him after her death. Why’d she do it? So he wouldn’t be alone.

NEVER KILL THE DOG!

This seems like a simple, obvious piece of common sense. Like something that doesn’t need to be taught. It’s automatic – like breathing, right? Apparently not for Iosef  (who MUST be related to Cricket-Killer Noem).

So, the movie…it’s fun. I definitely enjoyed it. Yes, I’m def not a gun fan AND, for as much as I enjoyed The Matrix, the big Neo/Trinity shootout with the baddies scene skeeved me right out. It just seemed like a masturbation aid for boys and men in deep need of intensive therapy and, possibly, some Tai Chi and judo classes. Having said that, the shoot-em-up fight scenes in The Matrix were more creative, better lit, and more interesting to watch than those in John Wick.

According to the Wikipedia entry, Keanu Reeves, in prepping for the Wick role, went through training in judo, Japanese jujutsu, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and arnis (Filipino martial art), as well as tactical-gun training with the Los Angeles SWAT. The focus, what ended up in the final cut, was definitely the gun action though.

This brings me to the TV show Leverage where the character Eliot (a former US Black Ops soldier turned retrieval specialist – whatever that is) is the “hitter” of the team. He’s the fighter and an ultra-skilled marksman but he avoids using guns, dislikes them intensely for unnamed reasons. This makes the shows fight scenes a LOT more interesting. Eliot’s style is a mix of martial arts and hand-to-hand combat.

What’s my point? Guns are boring. I’m glad Wick got revenge for Daisy though. NEVER KILL THE DOGS!