WHO doesn't love tacos?

We had tacos for dinner last night. You?

In case you missed it, some clever folks on Wall Street came up with a term for our idiot president’s tariff batshittery. They’re calling it TACO trade. That stands for ‘Trump Always Chickens Out’.

“Trump’s style in negotiating deals is he huffs and he puffs, but he doesn’t blow the house down,” Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, told CNBC. (source)  

He’s all bluster, bullshit, and ham-handed, halfassed artifice and the whole world’s got his number now. He’s fooling no one but his cult of morons

The overemotional clown freaked out at a journalist yesterday who dared to ask for his response to financial analysts new term for his trade style. 

"Oh, I chicken out. Isn't that nice? I've never heard that," Trump said during the exchange, before defending his recent decisions to slash his tariffs on China for the next 90 days and extend his deadline for a 50% tariff on goods from the European Union until July 9. (source) 

He hasn’t heard that because he only watches “news” shows that fellate him 24/7.

He then said to the reporter "Don't ever say what you said because that's a nasty question.” Christ almighty, he sounds like a four year old and I’m being generous. A guy on Threads suggested that every time Cheato says a journalist’s question is “nasty,” the next thing that should be asked is, “President Obama took tough questions like this. Why won’t you?”

Ooooooo, that would just cause him to explode, wouldn’t it?! Man-o-man, that’s an interview with this slug from Hell (not to diss Hellion slugs mind you) that I’d actually watch. Fer fuck’s sake, I’d make popcorn and root for myocardial infarctions, cerebrovascular oopsies, and other miscellaneous excitement.

Make no mistake, it’s not just the old, incontinent, second rate, WAY-off-the-Vegas-Strip Jabba the Hutt impersonator and White House resident who’s making grand declarations and then collapsing like a deck chair under…well…the weight of president Jabba the Hutt.

Look at Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri, Susan Collins of Maine, Rick Scott of Florida, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Utah’s Mike Lee. They’re saying they won’t vote for Dipshit Donnie’s ‘Big, Beautiful, Bill’ (OH spare me!) Why? Because, essentially, it doesn’t rob and rape us regular, non-filthy rich citizens nearly enough. For all the wrong reasons, these trash brained weasels could save us. Will they? Fuck no. Republicans always cave to their big Daddy. They’re a bunch of spineless, bullying, perpetually on-the-take frauds. 

THEY always chicken out too. It’s the Republican way.

Backing down can become a way of life.
~ Oliver James

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
~ Werner Herzog 

I know a few people who raise chickens (the birds, not republicans). They would vociferously disagree with Herr Herzog but, well, gotta sich in die Lage des anderen versetzen.

I'm not counting any chickens.
~ Jeff Bridges

Is this the right room for an argument?

Let’s rename Twitter “Fight Club.”

The whole purpose of the app seems to be about contrariness and/or throwing grade school taunts. Note: I did not say debate or discussion. Why exchange ideas when you can throw deranged fiction bombs?

Seriously, the joint’s riddled with meth addled trolls. Maybe the name should be changed to The Troll Farm?

There are the:

• ridiculous Fox “news” fueled, fecal spewings of the MAGAt crowd in response to any factual tweets made by respected intelligent individuals.
• the mini dicked (and brained) who are just looking for a fight over ANYTHING. You say the sky is blue and someone’s bound to show up telling you it’s orange. OR you say it's blue and the arguer pipes up with "NO it's not. The sky is blue!" Reading comprehension seems to be unimportant to a lot of Twitters.
  
• Mansplainers
• Well actually-ers
• misogynoir asswipes from both the left and the right.
• people who pop into comments just to tell you that X, Y or Z heinousosity wouldn’t have occurred if everyone was worshipping THEIR brand of GOD (invariably it’s the white, prosperity bullshit, anti-equality “christian” god).

There’s someone on their this morning who’s piously and stridently going off about how they eat half a dozen or more eggs a day and it’s perfectly safe because the brain is “almost all cholesterol.” Ah…no. This one was in response to a benign tweet about loving eggs but needing to cut down on them.

One of my favorite follows was permanently suspended for calling a male MAGA congressman a “hoe."

And yet Eric Greitens, who’s running for a Senate seat in Missouri, can post his video/ad where he’s flashing a shotgun, is flanked by camo-clad men carrying assault weapons and is inviting everyone to join him in "RINO hunting." (Republicans in Name Only)

Yeah, totally cool to advocate mass murder and assassinations but Bast forbid you call someone (who totally deserved it) a slutty gardening tool.

Then there are the folks who post beautiful art, hilarious quips, trenchant rants and/or pet pics. That's why I stay. Not today though. I got my fill yesterday of parrot dropping brained rage addicts.

Why can't everyone argue civilly like Monty Python's crew?

Not So Wonder Boys

Cake with his favorite pillow—my purse

I imagine you may’ve heard or read about the micro dicked, cretinous, neo-Nazi, violent boys club Patriot Front, yes? They split off from Vanguard America after the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia where one of their wonder boys murdered anti-fascism demonstrator Heather Heyer.

Patriot Front is Vanguard America but with better optics (if not production values). For more laughs, check out Unicorn Riot’s Guide To Patriot Front’s Leaked Media Files

The Patriot Front leak shows members engaging in combat training, vandalizing racial justice murals, burning stolen LGBTQ+ pride flags, and making nazi salutes. The extensive photos and video annotated below also offers a fine grain level of detail about the group’s chapters operating locally in states across the USA.

In any case, this crowd of delicate douchenozzles had intended to terrorize a family Pride event in Idaho on Saturday but their hopes and deviant dreams were shockingly, given the state’s voting history and reputation, foiled.

Busted were:

• Thomas R. Rousseau, the group’s founder, 23, of Grapevine, Texas
• Jared M. Boyce, 27, Soringville, Utah
• Nathan D. Brenner, 26, Lewisville, Colorado
• Colton M. Brown,23, Ravensdale, Washington
• Josiah D. Buster24, Watauga, Texas
• Mishael J. Buster, 22, Spokane, Washington
• Devin W. Center, 22, Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Dylan C. Corio, 21, of Cheyenne, Wyoming

• 

  Our new neighbor (taken by Ten)
  

  Winston W. Durham, , 21, Genesee, Idaho
• Garret J. Garland, 23, Freeburg, Illinois
• Branden M. Haney, 35, Kaysville, Utah
• Richard J. Jessop, 21, Idaho Falls, Idaho
• James M. Johnson, 40, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
• James J. Johnson, 36, Concrete, Washington
• Connor P. Moran, 23, Watauga, Texas
• Kieran P. Morris, 27, Haslet, Texas
• Lawrence A. Norman, 32, Prospect, Oregon
• Justin M. Oleary, 27, Des Moines, Washington
• Cameron K. Pruitt, 23, Midway, Utah
• Forrest C. Rankin, 28, Wheat Ridge, Colorado
• Conor J. Ryan, 23, Thornton, Colorado
• Spencer T. Simpson, 20, Ellensburg, Washington
• Alexander N. Sisenstein, 27, Midvale, Utah
• Derek J. Smith, 24, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
• Dakota R. Tabler, 29, West Valley City, Utah
• Steven D. Tucker, 30, Haslet, Texas
• Wesley E. Van Horn, 34, Lexington, Alabama
• Mitchell F. Wagner, 24, Florissant, Missouri
• Nathaniel T. Whitfield, 24, Elk Ridge, Utah
• Graham J. Whitson, 29, Grapevine, Texas
• Robert B. Whitted, 22, Conroe, Texas
  

Seven Texans, seven from Utah, five from the state of Washington, three from Colorado, two from South Dakota, one asshole each from Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama, Wyoming, Oregon, Illinois and Idaho.

26 of these fuckwadian hurlstains are under the age of 30, four are in their 30s and one of the incels is 40. 

DUDES, you wanna play war? Feel like an underdog? You wanna play like you've got a big swinging shvantz? Take your weapons, insecurity and aggression and go to Ukraine. Do some fucking good, grow the fuck up, stop being such full-diapered babies!

They were charged with conspiracy to riot, which is a misdemeanor, and released from lock up. Their court dates have not yet been set. They may just get slaps on the wrist (paying their lawyer's bill will undoubtedly be more painful) OR win as much as five years in prison. I'll be surprised if any of them do time but I'd be thrilled to bits if, at least, their leader feels more than a little pinch.

Rant and Beauty

I’m just so goddamned overwhelmed by the daily insanity of this country. So far this year 651 children (511 teens {12-17} and 141 under 12) have been shot and killed. 579 police officers have been killed. Overall, there have been 17, 315 deaths by gun THIS YEAR ALONE and it's not even June.

There have been 244 mass shootings in Texas since 2014 (and 11,807 total gun deaths, 888 of whom were children). Yet, on September 1, 2021, Texans’ elected assholes passed House Bill 1927 which allows residents to carry handguns in public without training or having to get permits.

Hells bells, Texas (and similar idiot, pro-violent death states) officials are the drunk, stupid, beserker marketing and PR departments of the NRA.

Governor Abbottoir has said:

“We need to erect a complete barrier against any government official anywhere from treading on gun rights in Texas” 

In essence—our guns are more important to us than our children’s lives. Possibly the reason for the abortion near-ban is that the Texas government views their spawn as good for target practice.

ENOUGH!

Here, have some beauty. 

I read the news today, oh boy

I need Coco. She was my beautiful, furry Valium. She had a supremely calming, comforting effect and I miss her horribly.

Especially now.

A teenage gunman murdered at least 19 children and two teachers after storming into a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, the latest bout of gun-fueled mass killing in the United States and the nation's worst school shooting in nearly a decade. (source)

How many children in Texas need to be slaughtered before Governor Abbottoir and Cancun Cruz give up the lie that they give a fuck about the people of their state? 

In the 2018 election cycle Cruz took $311,151 buckos from gun rights assholes. ALSO, in that same time, the NRA gave him $9,900. That ain’t chump change, mes amis. I can’t find how much gun pay-off moolah Abbott rakes in but I imagine it’s significant. Why would he be such a weapons cheerleader if he wasn’t on the payroll?

By the by, Abbottoir and Cruz are due on stage (along with the twice impeached incompetent orange con) at the NRA annual meeting (AKA Gun Fetish Fest) in Houston on Friday, just 72 hours after the latest carnage. Is this their victory lap?

The Buffalo bloodbath (also committed by an 18 year old man) JUST WENT DOWN TEN DAYS AGO. 

And, It’s been 3,449 days since the Sandy Hook butchery (the killer was a 20 year old man).

Maybe U.S. men under the age of 80 shouldn’t be allowed to own guns. Hmmm? Maybe that'd make a dent in the insanity.

In other villainous news—you knew all along that it was never just the Catholic clergy who were abusing the kiddles. Right?

Southern Baptist leaders will publish secret list of sexual abusers in response to scathing report

I only mention it but they’re not doing this out of any desire for transparency or love for their parishioners. No, fuck that shit, they’re coming forward in a decades late and million buckos short attempt to get out in front of the coming storm.

The 288-page report by Guidepost Solutions, which was released Sunday after a seven-month investigation, contained several explosive revelations. Among those were details of how D. August Boto, the Executive Committee's former vice president and general counsel, and former SBC spokesman Roger Oldham kept their own private list of abusive pastors. Both retired in 2019. The existence of the list was not widely known within the committee and its staff.

"Despite collecting these reports for more than 10 years, there is no indication that (Oldham and Boto) or anyone else, took any action to ensure that the accused ministers were no longer in positions of power at SBC churches," the report said. (source)

They knew that children were being diddled and raped and did fuck-all to stop it. THIS is the sanctimonious “pro-life” Republi/Fascist Party. The lot of them are treacherous, slime-soaked, disgusting hypocrites…and I’m being understated and nice here.

VOTE! VOTE all these death dealing, life shattering piles of used jet trash OUT!

I Remember

“No man, there’s no such thing as defeat. When they start kicking you around, you just gotta learn to bandage up the bruises and stand up again.”
~ John Trudell

Words to live by.

Trudell was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes during their occupation of Alcatraz, the prison abandoned by the feds in 1963. During the 19 month protest (November 20, 1969 – June 11, 1971), Trudell hosted the radio station Radio Free Alcatraz.

What was the occupation all about? Basically, the 1868 broken Treaty of Fort Laramie, which stated that all retired, abandoned, or out-of-use federal land was to be returned to the Indians who once occupied it. It acted, though, as a giant spotlight on the past and continuing lies, crimes and horrors perpetuated by the the invading U.S. government on the original people of this land.

I remember this.

After the occupation, Trudell became involved with the American Indian Movement, serving as its chairman from 1973 to 1979. In 1979, Trudell's wife and three children died in a suspicious house fire while Trudell was protesting in Washington, D.C. (source)

Who murdered Trudell’s wife and children? What are their names? Who are their descendants?

'Christians' ripped Indian children from their parents arms and sent them to boarding schools, worse than prisons. The ‘teachers’ and ‘preachers’ were known to drive needles through the children’s tongues if they dared to speak their own language.

… in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson told Congress in a confidential meeting that he wanted to create policies to separate Indian tribes from their land. The main strategy was forcing their children to be Christian Americans, and the government tapped and paid churches to help run the system. Children were "coerced, induced, or compelled" to enter the schools, many without their parents' consent. (source)

It was not until 1978 with the passing of the Indian Child Welfare Act that Native American parents gained the legal right to deny their children's placement in off-reservation schools. (source)

I was a college sophomore. I remember. This shit isn't ancient history.

How many unmarked mass graves have yet to be found?

Who else gets the death penalty for the apparent crime of not being a Caucasian ‘Christian’ Penis American?

11 year old Denise McNair and Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae Collins—each 14 years old. These four girls were killed in 1963 when the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Birmingham Alabama church.

Civil rights workers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner murdered by the Klan in 1964.

The ten dead Tops grocery shoppers in Buffalo, NY.

Every person dead for the crimes of sleeping at home in their own bed, holding a cell phone, walking home from a convenience store or eating ice cream while sitting on the couch in their own home, while Black. Know their names.

In February a survey by the American Enterprise Institute found that 39% of Republicans thought that “if elected leaders will not protect America, the people must do it themselves, even if it requires violent actions”. (source)

“Protect America?” Let me translate that for ya. “Protect” means, keep all brown, black or otherwise insufficiently pale, English speaking people of both genders, subservient, poor and bootlicking. Also, all women (YES, even us extra special white women) are obligated to raw dog, otherwise blindly adore and make sandwiches for any white man on demand.

It seems the strongest tradition in America is the dehumanization and subjugation of the original people of this beautiful land AND those brought here as slaves. Yeah, seems the micro dicked Fascist (previously known as Republi/Fascist) Party’s grand goal is to overturn the 13th Amendment.

You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.
~ John Trudell

As a Bird app friend has said “it's a luxury to have hope.”

Word for the Day

Kakistocracy
   noun
a system of government that is run by the worst, least qualified, and/or most unscrupulous citizens.

The administration of Bozo, the cretinous, grifting and despotic Russian asset, was, top to bottom, a kakistocracy.

Kakistocratically
   adverb

The Supreme Court is set to kakistocratically outlaw my right to decide what happens to my own body. In fact, this won’t be MY body anymore—I will be an object, a tool, owned by the government.

A kakistocrat is a person who participates in a kakistocracy.
Samuel ‘Witch Trial’ Alito, Seditionist Thomas, Beer Kavenaugh, Amy Coathanger Barrett

and None-Too-Bright Gorsuch are all extreme kakistocrats.

Today's word was coined by combining Greek kakistos "worst" + cratia "rule". Kakistos is the superlative of kakos "bad", which Greek derived from PIE (Proto-Indo-European language) kaka- "to defecate". 

Shitty Rule—yep, that about covers it. ALSO:

Kaka- went into the making of poppycock, which English may have borrowed from American Dutch poppekak "doll's poop" from poppe "doll" + kak "poop".  (source)

Doll Shit— I LOVE it! This, naturally, brings me to the senior senator from Maine. You know, the one with the perpetually furrowed brow. Susan ‘Concerned’ Collins claims to be a moderate Republican (FYI, like unicorns, those don’t actually exist), and pro-choice. She lies.

“I do not believe that Brett Kavanaugh will overturn Roe v. Wade,” Collins said in 2018. And of Gorsuch: “I had a very long discussion with Justice Gorsuch in my office, and he pointed out to me that he is a co-author of a whole book on precedent.” (source)

I don’t believe for one red hot second that Collins was naive enough to believe either of these lying sacks of judicial Rottweiler shit. No, it was all a big fucking act with everyone carefully speaking their Federalist Society scripted lines. Bad actress Collins is, once again, acting concerned but not so convincingly that she'll vote for the Women's Health Protection Act.

At least there’s a scintilla of good news out of Michigan this week. You remember the Republi/Fascist candidate for the state’s House of Representatives who proudly stated that he’s told his own daughters that if they’re about to be raped they “should just lie back and enjoy it.” (seriously—he said this. I’m NOT being all hyperbolic and shit) Well, this weasel brained, heartless, wannabe kakistocrat LOST his bid to represent Michigan's 74th district. 

I believe I'll take the rest of the day off from reading the news. Instead, I'll look at funny cat memes and read stories about magic and spaceships.

Fetus Incubators

After I was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis type 2 (what a mouthful), the good docs told me, do NOT get preggers. Why not? The hormonal surges that come with being up the spout, spark big fat growth spurts in the assorted tumors which make their home in yurs truly.

Pregnancy could/would, at the least, hasten my loss of hearing, balance, vision and then death (not necessarily in that order). You may be thinking  but your mother had four kids, had hearing well into her late 50s and died at the ripe age of 84. Yeah well…every NF2 case is different. My cousin Carmel, who had two kids, lost her hearing while in her early 30s and died in her 50s.

A friend, who also had NF2 AND an excellent employer provided insurance plan, got her tubes tied thus eliminating the rabbit killing risks. Me? I had crap insurance which considered a tubal ligation, elective surgery. They wouldn’t cover it and I couldn't afford to pay for it.

I’ve never needed an abortion. I wasn’t always as careful as I should have been—no one is—but I’ve been spectacularly lucky. 

I’m DAMN glad that, if I’d ever found myself with a bun in the oven, abortion would have been a safe, available choice.

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
~ Joycelyn Elders 

I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.
~ Sister Jean Chittister

I'll believe the American Taliban gives a good goddamn about children when they begin acting, not just spewing their worthless thoughts and prayers, on mass shootings. I'll believe when they take action on affordable healthcare for ALL, comprehensive REAL education (versus cherry picked, fairy-tale indoctrination) for ALL, masks FFS (!) and so much more. Then and only then will I believe that Republi/Fascists are pro-life.

One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e. the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.
~ Ayn Rand  (Yes, THAT Ayn Rand. Stopped clocks and all that.)

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.
~ Margaret Sanger

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
~ Hillary Clinton

If you are against abortion, don't have one. Don’t legislate me or any other woman on this planet into being nothing more than a two legged fetus incubator and sex-on-demand bot. 

Think you don't know anyone personally who's had an abortion? None of your friends or family? WRONG-O mes amis—they just haven't felt they could trust you with this delicate, painful, personal info.

Don’t force your religion, your pathological need for control, your deep, dark insecurities on me or any other sentient being.