Coupla Things

Lebanese conservationist Mona Khalil, 76, died two weeks ago Friday after an Israeli airstrike hit her home near Tyre. She created a conservation movement in southern Lebanon that protected sea turtle nesting grounds. Her assistant was also injured in the attack but survived. They were the only people in the house when it was bombed.

Brocken Inaglory

The Israeli military said last week in response to an NPR query that it had no indication it had hit the house but was reviewing its records. It did not respond to a query about when the review might be completed. 

Israel has invaded southern Lebanon and is attacking what it says are Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters and infrastructure. (source) 

Sea turtle conservationists/Hezbollah fighters? Sure, I get them confused all the time too. Sure. Absolutely. Also, I won’t be holding my breath waiting for the Israeli military to get back to NPR journos about the *oopsie* murder of an innocent turtle conservationist.

“They knew exactly who Mona Khalil was,” Lebanese journalist and professor Marwa Osman said on social media following Khalil’s death. “They knew the bright orange house... They knew it was not a military site, not a command center, not a battlefield position. It was one of the most recognizable symbols of environmental conservation on Lebanon’s southern coast; a sanctuary dedicated to protecting endangered sea turtles and preserving life.” (source) 

Taking her out was a targeted power/domination/big swing dick statement not a mistake, not a war oopsie.
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You’ve probably heard about Prez Carnival Barker’s next assuredly doomed attempt at making us all forget his myriad obscene crimes against the United States, the world, and all of humanity (individually and collectively). Yes, it’s the “Great American State Fair.” I believe this is the event that all the musical acts pulled out of as soon as they understood it was a rah, rah Trump-fest versus an actual bipartisan celebration.

“On July 4th, at The Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, in beautiful and safe Washington D.C., we are going to host the most spectacular TRUMP RALLY of them all, a ‘TRIBUTE TO AMERICA,’” Trump wrote on Truth Social last week (source) 

Yep, the curtain’s been pulled back – this is a taxpayer funded Trump rally (AKA Weaselshit Wankfest).

There’s going to be a Ferris wheel.

First off – do you really want to get on a Ferris wheel that’s been put together, maintained and operated by a company that Trump would hire? I mean, HELLO, Reflecting Pool disaster. Hello Hegseth hire – the idiot who included a journalist in an encrypted group chat about ultra specific war plans. It’s no fucking wonder we not only made war on Iran we’ve now lost that war. Hell-fucking-o CoreCivic and Geo, two for-profit prison corporations who were handed no-bid ICE detainee contracts. We all know how well that’s going (*cough* concentration camps that’d make Nazi’s blush *cough*). In the dictionary under "incompetent" and "on-the-take" there’s a picture of Trump. 

I’m figuring there’s at least an 85% chance someone dies on the ride because a company with zero Ferris wheel knowledge or experience was hired because they’re big Trump donors or have an in with a wealthy Pedo donor. That company in turn hired inexperienced methed up, half-wit ride jocks to put the wheel together. The ride jocks, in their drugged up state, figure two bolts will hold a seat in just as well as four – “Hey, no worries. We're saving the company money! Pass the pipe, man.”

Second Off – imagine you take your life in your hands and take a ride of that wheel of death. You get to the top. The wheel stops and you’re taking in the view. What do you see?

• The rubble of the destroyed East Wing 
• The half assed, not really obscured “8647” lawn
• The banjaxed algae filled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
• The dead White House lawn, what’s left from the stupid white trash UFC Pedo birthday party extravaganza
• Jackie Kennedy’s former Rose Garden, now paved over and turned into a fourth rate mall food court.
• The tarp covered Kennedy Center – apparently put up so no one sees that Trump’s name has been removed. Hilariously, he doesn’t seem to understand that the tarp puts a giant spotlight on the magnificent failure of his grotesque inflated ego.

Trumpfest is free (courtesy of our tax bucks … so, not really free at all) but you have to register for tickets. Wouldn’t it be funny if we all signed up for tickets (maximum of six per person) and, darn it, came down with a cold or stomach bug or had a flat tire or three at the very last minute and couldn’t go? Yep, that’d put a smile on my face ... oh, no, no, no, that was a frowny face! Sorry, I'm old and, don'cha know, I get confused sometimes.

 Not that you or I would ever get up to such mild mischief BUT if you did, here’s the link. 

Just in case.