A Couple Thoughts

Does it really make sense to have 80 and 90 year olds making laws for a country? Should an 80 year old man, especially one who’s never been in the military, let alone seen combat, be able to send our sons and daughters into his war of choice?

I believe term limits and quite possibly age limits MUST be instituted in order to avoid disasters like the ones we're currently experiencing.

The ultimate example:

Prez Dementia Don — yes, it can certainly be argued that he’s always been this astoundingly stupid and insane. I would never dispute that. Possibly it’s just more obvious now because he’s on the world’s stage all the damn time. Still, dementia can remove a person's social filter by damaging the brain’s frontal lobe — this manages self-control. Not that old DD ever had decent social filters or self-control to begin with. He does appear to be much worse this second term. Maybe that's just me?

Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was clearly fading long before he became Zombie McConnell.
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) died in office at the age of 90 after a long decline in her health. I guess she was Mitch’s role model. 
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is 93 and contemplating running for another term in 2029. If he’s still alive in ’29, he’ll be 96-years-old. Does a wealthy 96-years-old white man understand the needs, struggles, the daily lives of the average Iowan? I think the fuck not.

Also, two people can be in their 80s and have wildly different levels of physical and cognitive function.

Fer instance, Bernie Sanders is 85. He’s around six months older than Glitch McConnell, who’s cruelly being Weekend-at-Mitch’s for reasons that only makes sense if you’re a lockstep member of the Republican cult. Bernie is still all there mentally and he’s physically fit for an old guy. People age at different rates. Should Sanders retire? Is he standing in the way of fresh, charismatic, dynamic Democratic Socialists or other progressives? Is the fresh blood growing old, wasting away in the wings or no?

We had sort of the same issue here in Massachusetts with the recent primary. Incumbent Senator Ed Markey is 80. He’s a progressive, co-authored the Green New Deal, co-authored the American Clean Energy and Security Act, was the principal author of the 2007 energy independence law that raised vehicle fuel economy standards, etc. His opponent, Seth Moulton, is young, wealthy, a center-right Democrat, and ran a campaign that was 85% “Markey’s old!” Yeah Dude, he’s old but he’s got more on the ball than you and he represents Massachusetts’ citizen's interests a whole fuckton better." Markey won by an overwhelming amount.

Obviously you can be older, or in a wheelchair, needing a seeing eye dog, require voice to text tech or other communication assistance and still be a brilliant senator, representative, judge, president, whatever. It’s what’s upstairs that counts. How’s your brain functioning?

There should be a team of completely independent medical experts to determine the functional standards necessary to do these jobs. Elected officials deserve some medical privacy, but we deserve to know that these people, making big fat decisions on our behalf, are or are NOT fully capable of doing their damn jobs.

Testing needs to be done and NOT just the simple-ass cognitive testing where you identify which animal is the lion and which one's the camel. How about a citizenship test — same one that immigrants have to take — and a thorough test on the Constitution and all the Amendments? Ya know, for starters.

Term limits and medical guardrails address different problems. A younger member can become seriously ill, while an older member can remain capable. Medical standards shouldn’t be based completely on age. I mean, look at Fetterman. He’s young but his stroke clearly tipped him totally over the edge.

And, fer fuck’s sake, this isn’t even considering the Supreme Court. TERM LIMITS!!!!

Criminal Clarence Thomas is 78 
Always-On-The-Take Alito is 76  
Constitution Violator John Roberts needs to GO 
Brett Gang Rapist Kavanaugh
Horrifically Callous Gorsuch
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was 87 when she died of cancer while still on the Supreme Court. Had she retired in 2010 when she was 77, President Obama could have replaced her. Instead, Trump replaced her with the very young, unqualified, religious cult belonging whack job handmaiden.

Another thought ...

Maybe universities don’t need to have rape factories. Sorry, I meant to say fraternities.

Here’s an interesting commentary/comparison of Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes versus Artemisia Gentileschi’s version found on Threads. I wouldn’t find the author’s real name but here’s a link to her page.

The first is Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes.… Look at Judith. Delicate arms. Mild expression. She almost looks inconvenienced or bored. Her maidservant, an aged afterthought.

Now look at the second, Artemisia Gentileschi’s version.

Artemisia was a woman painting in the 1600s who had been raped by her father’s colleague, Agostino Tassi.
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When she testified against him, she was tortured during the trial to “verify” that she was telling the truth.

Now look at HER Judith.

Knitted brow. Forearm muscles engaged. Body weight behind the sword. Her maid is helping restrain him. These women aren’t decorative witnesses to violence. They are physically, furiously acting.

Same biblical woman. Same act.

But one was painted by a man imagining female existence. The other was painted by a woman who understood female rage. 

Not all men but enough so that women would be total fools to trust any dude until he’s been seriously vetted.

Bear With Me

A winner has been declared in Katmai National Park and Preserve’s Fat Bear Week. I hear you asking, ’the fuck is Fat Bear week? It’s an annual online tournament-style competition where people vote for the brown bear from Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve that has packed on the most poundage to prep for winter hibernation.

The winner, at right, is the handsome gent, Backpack. His boring-ass government name is no. 89.

Why are fat bears important?

Mother bears need ample body fat to survive hibernation, but they also must feed, nurture, and protect their cubs. Single adult females get fat in preparation to give birth to cubs in mid winter and nurse them without eating until they exit the den in spring. Older bears get fat while trying to compete with younger bears for preferred fishing spots. Large adult male bears maintain their high rank in the hierarchy by challenging competitors. Cubs and subadult (teenage) bears grow proportionally more each year than even the biggest adults, while they learn the skills to survive.

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Katmai’s brown bears are fattest in late summer and early fall. It is the result of a summer-long effort to satisfy their profound hunger and prepare for winter hibernation. During hibernation, bears do not eat or drink and lose one-third of their body weight. Their winter survival depends on accumulating ample fat reserves before entering the den. 

To get fat, bears gorge on the richest and most accessible foods they can find. In Katmai National Park that often means salmon. (mmmmm, salmon) Dozens of bears gather at Brooks River to feast on salmon from late June until mid October. Perhaps no other river on Earth offers bears the chance to feed on salmon at one place for so long. (source) 

Backpack’s name comes from his habit, as a cub, of climbing onto his mother's back when the pair swam in the river. His mother, Holly, was the 2019 Fat Bear winner.

"After nearly two decades at Brooks River, Backpack's journey from an injured cub riding on his mother's back to a formidable adult male has made him one of the river's most recognizable bears," Fat Bear Week organizers said in a Sept. 29 news release. (source) 

Some brown bear facts:

• Brown bears once lived all over the damn place, including Morocco, Algeria and Mexico. Today they mostly hang in North America, Asia and Europe. They’re the national animal of Finland. In addition to Katmai National Park in Alaska, brown bears can be found in Yellowstone Park.

• They’re fast – they can outrun a horse! 

• Brown bears communicate by scratching and rubbing on trees to say “HEY, this is my place” and highlight their willingness to make whoopee. 

• Hibernation lasts from October/December to March/May. If I could hibernate? It’d definitely be December through April. 

• Amazing true fact — brown bear mums give birth in their sleep! Cubs born during hibernation make their way to the mother’s chest and nurse until she is ready to wake up. Imagine that! Too bad humans don’t have this option.

• The biggest threat to brown bears (any bears for that matter) is habitat loss caused/created by humans. It’s our reckless expansion into the bears’ homes with logging, mining, road construction, and other bullshit development. Our insanely selfish, entitled inability to share the damn planet is killing all that makes this planet heaven.

Cheers to all the fat bears and their cubs! May they have a peaceful, undisturbed hibernation.

Always the Bride

Guess who's in the news again — it's Alina Habba the wholly incompetent parking garage lawyer who served as Trump's personal lawyer and ornament. Her signature move is publicly embarrassing herself — her one true talent. Just a few recent examples include:

• In an effort to diss Kamala Harris, Habba showed that she wasn't aware that civil rights icon, the Reverend Jesse Jackson and baseball player Reggie Jackson weren't/aren't the same person. 
• Alina went on some podcast and stated that she’s a "big fan" of pedophile, rapist, human trafficker Andrew Tate.
• ALL the frivolous amateur hour lawsuits!

Our girl has clocked through two marriages between 2011 and 2026 and just started her third. Turkish billionaire Turhan Mildon is her new patsy and is only 29-years-old. I hope he has a prenup. Habba, by the by, is 42. I’m certainly not one to throw stones at big age differences but this one does seem a bit whiffy.

Here’s an interesting potential reason for the smell of three day dead cod. Word is, Mildon has various political connections and only just met Alina a few months ago. Apparently he’s been love bombing her with $30G pink ostrich Hermes Birkins and 23 carat diamond rings. Why do you think that is?

Mildon comes from a prominent Turkish business family and has reportedly developed connections with political leaders in countries including the Democratic Republic of Congo and Venezuela through his business interests. His family has also been reported to have ties to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. (source) 

Attending the wedding were always-up-for-a-party Patel (no word on the species of his date), Todd Blanche (his Hair Trigger Temper couldn’t make it but I understand his Equivocations were there wearing some off the rack schmatta), and Margo Martin, a special assistant and communications adviser to Trump (good luck getting a job outside of Newsmax and OANN once Pedo’s gone) amongst other administration dimwits and losers.

The groom, naturally, rejected the very idea that their marriage had anything to do with politics, saying: “This marriage has no political purpose.” 

Yeah sure Babe, you sound real convincing. Habba might have bought it but then, she’s a radish brained Trump acolyte.

Back to the stink of cod left out on the counter over a hot July weekend, there’s some dispute over young Mildon’s age. He says he’s 29 but this certificate of incorporation, gives his birth month and year as December 2000 — that makes him 25. He’ll be 26 in three months. Where there’s one lie, you can damn well bet there’s a whole fucking infestation of 'em.

Alina claims to be a devout Catholic. Yup and I’m Santa Maria del Pozzo. You can meet me down the basilica any day but Thursday. I’m there around 11 for my usual caffè latte and biscotti.

The serial bride, by the by, has two kids from her first marriage. They can’t be more than 13-years-old, at most, now. I wonder if they ever see dear old mummsie. I don’t imagine she has actual custody. Seems she’s a bit busy collecting husbands, exes, plastic surgeries, and unflattering headlines to bother herself with pesky adolescents — even if she did give birth to them. Honesty, for their sake, it’s best if she just sends them a nice fruit basket — maybe one of those fancy ones with chocolates, crackers, and nuts. She should probably check with their father or nanny to see if they have any food allergies. Ah, who am I kidding — her assistant will do that.

I have questions (not that it’s any of my business):

• The Church allows divorced Catholics who have not remarried to receive Holy Communion. Habba’s divorced and remarried twice — is she receiving the sacrament?
• A valid sacramental marriage is permanent and can’t be dissolved by a civil divorce. So, were Habba’s first two marriages non-sacramental or, in the eyes of the Church, are they still in effect and she’s a three time bigamist?
• Did she get her first two marriages annulled? If so, what were the grounds? Which partner was found to have committed fraud, bigamy, or found to  be lacking sufficient brain power (okay, we know the answer to the last bit)?

Habba’s benefactor, the felon and adjudicated rapist responsible for putting her on the world stage, couldn’t be at her latest wedding because he was supposedly attending a football game in Knoxville, Tennessee. Ummmmm. Sure. Just like he couldn’t be at his own son’s second (third?) wedding because … was that a football game too? Whatever. The weddings aren’t all about him so why would he make an effort?

She sez she’s open to being Pedo’s new press secretary now that Karolyn' Leavitt’s resigned. Funny how the pants shitting orange old man hasn’t snapped Habba up on that yet. Maybe she’s not young and blonde enough? Doesn’t look enough like Ivanka? Maybe Donnie's still pissed about all the money she cost him? 

Was Turhan Mildon counting on her getting the press secretary gig, on him having a big in to the White House? Is that why he love bombed and married a woman 17 years his senior just 4-5 months after meeting her? 

Young Turhan, in his 25 short years, has a history of dating and marrying women from powerful families. He dated the daughter of Remigio Ceballos, a well-connected Venezuelan admiral who is now Venezuela’s ambassador to China. Turhan married Betul Gursoy, daughter of the late owner of Gursoy Group, which built Istanbul's Camlica Mosque. This was a BIG pet project, commissioned by Pres Erdoğan himself. Going after Habba, thinking it would give him entrée to the White House (politically or financially) seems to be pretty obviously on brand. 

Dude needs to buy himself a metric fuckton of subtlety and artfulness with healthy side of smooth. Only a moron wouldn’t see through his moves. We’re talking about Alina Habba, Trump's idiot parking garage lawyer, though. She can start shopping around for husband #4 any time now. This one’s over the second Turhan realizes Habba can’t do anything for him.

I Can’t Stand the Rain

Woke up with Ms. Ann Peebles singing in my head.

I’m starting to think that it has always been raining here in Valhalla. Sure, the winds have calmed down but it’s still wet and nasty cold outside.

Whine, snivel, kvetch.

It’s a fine day to hunt up some flickers of hope, some light, some motherfucking good news. NO doomscrolling today!

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Have you heard about the High Seas Alliance? It is a coalition of more than 70 non-governmental organizations and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) working to protect the global ocean areas beyond national jurisdiction. 

BBNJ stands for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction — more commonly and succinctly known as the High Seas Treaty. 100 nations have now signed on to this legally binding international agreement. Australia, Brunei, Canada, Germany, Papua New Guinea and Zimbabwe are the latest to ratify the treaty. 

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There’s a new test in town.

Current tests for endometrial cancer (AKA womb cancer) often rely on procedures like transvaginal ultrasounds and tissue biopsies in order to evaluate the uterine lining. These are invasive (yeah, no shit!) and no goddamn fun to say the extreme least. 

The new test just takes a swab of cells from your vag (if you, ya know, happen to have one). No uncomfortable, painful speculum (AKA hooha umbrella) needed! 

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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su, and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Samuel A.A. Levine scored an historic win for regular working folk last week. They announced a $131.5 million enforcement action against DoorDash for systematic violations of New York City's Delivery Worker Laws.   

HOLY SHIT! 💩

The settlement will deliver more than $115 million directly to delivery workers and more than $16 million in civil penalties and costs. It will provide relief to more than 260,000 workers who were underpaid by DoorDash, including workers who were not paid at all or were paid late for work they had already performed.   

This is the largest worker settlement in New York City history and the largest settlement involving food delivery workers in the United States.  

“When a worker earns a wage, they deserve to be paid that wage —  not tomorrow, not after a lawsuit, but on time and in full,” said Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani. “DoorDash underpaid more than 260,000 workers, and today we are getting that money back. This is what it looks like when City government stands with working people: We find the violations, we enforce the law and we make sure workers get what they’re owed. No corporation is above the law, and this administration will keep fighting until every worker gets the pay and protections they deserve.”  (source) 

Yeah Baby! Is Mamdani the greatest OR WHAT!!!

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For as awesome as my electric MINI is, I wish the battery was more Earth friendly. It uses a lithium-ion battery.

Lithium mining is environmentally damaging because it consumes huge amounts of water, pollutes local ecosystems, and generates high carbon emissions. Still better than coal, oil, and gas but not wonderful.

Well waddyaknow, according to a study by the Fraunhofer Institute and the University of Münster in Germany, sodium-ion batteries are on the verge of market readiness. That’s sodium as in salt as in what you shake onto your mashed potatoes and brussels sprouts. 

Compared with lithium, sodium can be extracted in a much more environmentally happy friendly way. Cool!

I think I’m gonna keep on looking for more good news today. It’s still raining here and I don’t need to read any more of Pedo’s fecal mouthed spewings, Cornell’s protections of gang rapist frat barbarians or Fetterman’s admission that he’s been a lifelong Republican (Hey mainstream media, theat wasn’t a “gaffe” on his part. He just, maybe accidentally, let us all know his plans to switch parties — his intention to join his home team). 

Maybe I’ll have a snack and then take a nap first though.

I Can’t Stand the Rain, Tina Turner 

I get the news I need on the weather report

I *think* we’re past the worst of the nor’easter here in coastal Massachusetts. The storm’s not wholly done with us BUT wind gusts have climbed down from their peak of 65 mph in our relatively calm neighborhood. We’re down to about 30 mph now. No trees have toppled but a couple branches came down. No damage to house or cars though. YEA us. AND we haven’t lost power! More yea.

Apart from dashing next door to watch teevee last night, I haven’t been outside. My balance is already banjaxed to Hell and back. I don’t need to give Mother Nature a shot at toppling me. As much as I’ve absolutely LOVED watching the bodacious breakers in the past, just standing in awe of them, I’m now just fine looking at pictures, thenkyouverymuch.

I gotta ask WHY, during these big storms, does the news always focus on Scituate, a town about 17 miles down the coast from us? Wouldn’t it be more dramatic to get shots from P-town or the Vineyard? Ya know, farther out into the ocean? Jen’s sister and fam, by the by, live in Scituate but, wisely, NOT on the coast. 

Yesterday on the coast in Scituate

Just so ya know, Scituate is pronounced "SITCH-oo-it" (or Sih-chew-itt). It’s the anglicized version of the Wampanoag word for "cold brook.”

As you may remember, Valhalla is located one house back from the seawall. We’re on a bay so we don’t often get the crazy kind of mini tsunami action that they see in Scituate.

The worst that happened yesterday was, weirdly, our water pressure was low so I didn’t get a shower. Yes, I could have just gone outside BUT I’m not insane – it was cold out there!

Paul Simon’s song Only Living Boy In New York came into my head for obvious nor’easter-y reasons this morning. When I looked up the lyrics I found the meaning, the inspiration. It’s about Garfunkel breaking up the duo to become an actor (which didn’t ultimately work out for him). It’s about Simon's loneliness, maybe feeling abandoned, and wishing your ex well. Can you say POIGNANT!

Tom, get your plane right on time
I know your part’ll go fine
Fly down to Mexico
Da-n-da-da-n-da-n-da-da and here I am,
The only living boy in New York

I get the news I need on the weather report
Oh, I can gather all the news I need on the weather report
Hey, I’ve got nothing to do today but smile
Da-n-do-da-n-do-da-n-do here I am
The only living boy in New York

Half of the time we’re gone but we don’t know where
And we don’t know where
Here I am
Half of the time we’re gone, but we don’t know where
And we don’t know where

What a great song. I can hear it in my head. 'Scuse me now, I gotta grab that long overdue rain room time.

Badly Behaving Toddlers

WHAT an unmitigated, complete moron! The name Huckabee should, if it isn’t already, synonymous with total idiocy.

Huckabee blames ‘biblical illiteracy’ for waning support for Israel in US

NO, you absolute radish brained toad, it’s because Israel’s government is committing genocide! Get your fucking head OUT of Trump’s capacious ass!

A Pew Research poll conducted in mid-May showed that indicated 62% of US adults had an unfavorable view of the Israeli government. I wonder how high that unfavorable rating would be if they took the poll today. Gotta say, people like multi-billionaire and anti-free speech asshole Bob Kraft and his pal, the tyrannical war criming Netanyahu don’t do themselves any favors PR-wise.

I mean, how ridiculous is it that the Prime Minister of a big swinging dick nation like Israel is on the podium at the United Nations attacking the mayor of New York? He sounds more like Trump every day. Maybe he always sounded this small, desperately insecure, incredibly spoiled – like a badly behaving toddler at the start of an epic tantrum.

Like Pedo, Bibi seems to be pathologically allergic to reality. Apparently Netanyahu doesn’t have the sense to understand that aligning himself with Trump is like strapping himself to a rabid buffalo and leaping off El Capitan in Yosemite. Not a bright move.

Now that I’ve thought on it, Huckabee seems to have dual residency. He spends half his time wedged up the pedophile’s butt and the rest of it up the genocider’s ass. Maybe he has some kind of timeshare arrangement going on?

In an interview with NewsNation on Thursday, the ambassador suggested there were three sources of declining support for Israel.

He cited disinformation and foreign propaganda, a hatred of those who believe “there is a God and that he’s made up the rules for life”, and not knowing the Bible.

“You add all that together, I guess you just want to be mad at Israel and blame them for everything,” he said. (source) 

SUCH a backwoods, cretinous imbecile!

Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran, the sellout to his billionaire bestie Bob Kraft, has cancelled his shows at Gillette Stadium. Supposedly it’s due to the nor’easter we’re having here in New England this weekend. Funny thing is, before now Gillette Stadium had never canceled a concert due to weather. 

Before the weather forecast, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell had pressed Ticketmaster to refund ticket buckos.

“After hearing from nearly 200 consumers who were struggling to obtain refunds from Ticketmaster for Ed Sheeran’s shows at Gillette Stadium this weekend, my office jumped into action to demand that consumers be provided a clear path to get their money back if they no longer want to attend due to significant changes to the lineup,” said AG Campbell. “I encourage anyone who wants a refund to act quickly and submit their request at least 24 hours before showtime.” (source) 

I wonder how many people requested refunds. I wonder how many folks would’ve shown up in Foxborough to protest Kraft’s genocide supporting ass. I wonder how much his insurance company will reimburse Ed, his touring company (Messina Touring Group), and Kraft for their loss due to “acts of nature.” Seems they’re all saving themselves a ton of money and bad press by canceling the shows.

But what do I know?

Lies and Weird Rightwing Obsessions

Prez Pedo met with China’s President Xi Jinping yesterday. It was the second day of their three day summit. Frankly, I’m surprised Xi hasn’t yet dropped dead from Trump’s stench and that Commander Coma hasn’t slept through all the damn meetings. Maybe he has? Perhaps his makeup artists painted open, alert eyes on his closed lids.

Apparently not a lot has been accomplished at Xi and Pedo’s big meet-ups. It’s just been 99 kinds of pomp and circumstance which is all Trump really understands. Remember, Diaper Don is an incredibly dim old man whose only talents are self-delusion, bullying those he regards as lesser beings (which is everyone), making ridiculous scowling faces, and shitting his pants. He’s no more than a sleazy, hick carnival barker in a bad suit, and amateur hour clown makeup.

 Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen said of the Idiot King’s big foofaraw:

Trump “always deludes himself into thinking that, by ingratiating himself with authoritarians, he’s somehow going to get his way.” 

 Eh, like I said, he's dim and delusional.

The airport welcome pics are … emmm … interesting. There are the originals and then there’s the janky AI version that Prez Desperately Insecure Asshole put out. You know, the one where:

• U.S. Chief of Protocol Monica Crowley has been completely swapped out for his Stalker in Chief and diaper nurse, Natalie Harp. Nappie Nat was not actually there at all (unless she was squirreled away in a food cart or a car's trunk somewhere).
• Melania, the First Lady who doesn't actually live at the White House or do any First Lady type work, was there but was edited out Trump’s special pic. She wasn’t completely removed though – there’s a weird bump in his suit. I imagine this vestige of her is sullenly glaring at him ... you know, as usual.
• The soldiers in the back have all turned into rattletrap mechanical slop.
• Pedo’s only wearing one glove (pulling a Michael Jackson?) Whereas in the original shot he’s wearing gloves on both hands.   
• A fighter jet flying overhead has been added in. 

And then there’s the title – Only Trump. WHAT is this? Some sort of twisted take on Only Fans? That’s just sick – truly perverse.                                                                                         

AND speaking or perverted people 

If you thought Krazy Kash’s cross-species dating (AKA bestiality) kink was twisted, get a load of Alabama Senator (who lives in Florida) Tommy Tuberville. He’s now got some weird obsession with the furry community and is trying to drive up some big-ass fear mongering culture war bullshit about it. Why? Tommy’s running for governor of Alabama and, as a Pedo supporting Republican, he doesn’t exactly have a lot of successes to point to. When all you’ve got is failure, make up weird lies. Just ask JDouche!

"Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community," Tuberville said sternly. "Lord help us."

“I know the deranged Democrats don’t like the fact that I called out the insane FURRY CULTURE this week. But the truth is, there is an ALARMING number of these DERANGED people working in our airline industry,” the Alabama Republican wrote on X. (source)

"It's terrifying when you think about this," he continued. "When you walk on to a commercial flight, it's possible that the pilot flying your plane could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal." (source) 

What are furries anyway?

The term furry describes a diverse community of fans, artists, writers, gamers, and role players. 

Most furries create for themselves an anthropomorphized animal character (fursona) with whom they identify and can function as an avatar within the community. Some furries wear elaborate costumes (called fursuits) or paraphernalia such as animal ears or tails, or represent themselves as anthropomorphic animals in online communities such as Second Life. (source) 

75% of furries are under the age of 25. Meanwhile, the average age of commercial airline pilots is generally mid-late 40s.

Tommy Tuberville seems to  think all his Alabama constituents are barefoot, backwoods, six toothed yokels with the intellectual capacity of a moldy radish.

Old Tubes played football in high school and college. He should have worn a helmet.

This & That

Daniel Boris

Clay Jones

Manatees *can’t* turn their heads left or right because they don’t have enough neck bones. They have 6 neck vertebrae while most animals (even giraffes!!) have 7. 
To look left or right, manatees have to turn their ENTIRE body!
~ Ocean Generation

Jack Ohman