An Assortment

What if they threw a war and nobody came?

No really. How about everyone just sat the fuck down and said NO, I’m not going. 

It’s a damn shame logic isn’t as infectious as COVID, chicken pox or measles.

Recent footage shared on social media has shown individuals dressed in plainclothes trying to force fighting-age men into vehicles to take them to the recruitment centre, while weeping women try to intervene – echoing similar scenes in Ukraine. 
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The Washington, DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies puts the number of deaths among Russian forces since the invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 at nearly 450,000. (source) 

Meanwhile, here in the U.S., military recruitment had been on an upswing after years of decline and then Pedo and his astoundingly stupid Secretary of Warcrimes took the wheel. I googled “is enlistment in the armed forces down since the Iran war started?” All the usual military related sites were headlined, All Branches Meeting Targets, Reversal of Slump, Early Goal Completion, and yada, yada, yada.  

Can you say "amateur hour propaganda" kids? Of course you can! It's totally unsurprising that they're spewing happy horseshit. What else can be expected from the Lies, Grifts, and Cons Administration?

NPR had a story from back in April. 

"It's been very, very busy," he says. Galvin is the counseling director at the Center on Conscience and War, which helps run the 24-hour GI Rights Hotline, set up to inform service members of their options for military discharge.
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Military members are citing myriad reasons for wanting to leave, but the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has been a powerful motivator. (source)

I doubt things have improved since April. 
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Jen and Oni are on a wee holiday up in Maine. She’s  sent a few pics. Me? I’ve been sending harassing texts, begging for more pics or, failing that, other assorted entertainments Shockingly, she doesn’t always answer. I suppose I can’t fault her on that. I can be rather annoying. See below.

• Any more pictures? Huh? How ‘bout now, hmmmmm?

• Or a grizzly bear? I’ll take a black bear if you’ve got one. Do they have those in Maine?

• Maybe a squad of Martians in cerulean tutus instead?

• A portrait of 6 dead republicans wearing moldy ferret carcasses on their heads?

• A video of Ron Jeremy and John Holmes doing a duet of I Got You Babe while juggling a trio of beglttered blowup dolls?

• A line of dancing robot skunks wearing lettered hot pink top hats. When they stop twirling (and these skunks stop on a dime — the Rockettes got nothin’ on them) their hats spell out “FUCK TRUMP.” Then, in unison, they lift their tails and fart sparkle dust.

• What about this – karaoke night on a D5 Klingon cruiser. Worf is on board, a little tipsy and climbing up on stage. Will he do it? Does he dare? YES he does. Worf belts out Dancing Queen and the crowd goes wild! You, of course, were able to catch that on your phone video thingie … right?

• I KNOW! You and Oni have befriended a crack team of killer whales. They’re teaching you the ways of their pod but FIRST, martinis and nachos — a pod’s gotta eat ya know. After snacks you’re all off on your mission to take down the next billionaire boat. GO TEAM!

• You’re having ultra secret, closed door (wait … that’s probably redundant or something) meetings with Susan Collins. You’re informing her that trying to distance herself only now from JDouche and Prez Pedo is too little too late and no one buys this act anyway. You told her she’s old, rich, and doesn’t have a lot of life left so she should just follow her lifelong dream and become lead singer in an all nude Starland Vocal Band cover band. Tour the country. GO FOR IT BABE!
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Found on Threads last night:

The year is 2030. I pull my spear from the sparking wreck of the Flock Droid. 
We shall have water tonight. 
My wife is harvesting Twinkie’s from the ruins. 
A blueberry killed my father. 

It’s 98 degrees in December. 
The wind smells like batteries.

From a golden megaphone, Trump's voice shouts that climate change is a hoax and thermometers are now illegal.
The aliens came in 2029.
They looked at us, looked at the mess, then left.  

They just fucking left. 
~ Ryan Stygar