In Search of...

...the perfect cookie.

This is today's breakfast cookie. I don’t know what the ingredients are. Honestly, I don’t need to know. It’s vaguely shortbread-ish and there’s a hint of pistachio. It’s magnificent.

Where did Jen get it? Whole Foods. I know we should be boycotting them. We don’t normally shop there but sometimes the call of the cookie bar is irresistible.

Why boycott Whole Foods?

For starters, they’re painfully expensive. Next, they were bought by mega billionaire Jeff Bezos who’s a big supporter of Trump. Bezos also owns the Washington Post—a once great newspaper that he neutered and shanked in service of the man who would be king. Also, Bezos’s Amazon is renowned for their mistreatment of employees, low pay, and union busting.

Whole Foods? They, unsurprisingly, commit similar sins as Bezos’s other companies, including:

• The outrageous overcharge bust
• The 'Responsibly Grown' farmer revolt
• The heartless employee benefits package
• The scorecard system nightmare
• The prison labor pipeline
• The Philip K. Dickian employee biometrics violation
• The CEO's noninclusive healthcare stance
• The allegations of racial insensitivity
• The GMO sweet corn slip
• The secret sugar in the yogurt scam
• The toxic packaging fiasco
• The arsenic-laced bottled water recall
• The rabbit meat boycott
• The $6 asparagus water rip-off (source)
  

Go to the link for details.

What does this all mean for me and my cookie obsession? Next time I have an undeniable craving, I gotta hit up locally owned and run bakeries like Fratelli’s, Ginger Betty’s or Sweet Piglet.

In any case, here, have some comics and memes.

People Power

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi 

 Ya know the theory about the orcas who are taking out the rich people boats? That they’re just playing—they see the yachts as toys? Well, on that note, let’s all be the orcas we wish to see in the world.

At a Musk/TeslaTakedown protest in Berkeley (where the majority of the protesters were white and over 60 years of age) a 33 year old, taser wielding, pro-MusKKKer got into the crowd and attempted to fuck shit up. It wasn’t his first stab at trolling the regular Fourth Street demonstrations either.

Assbrain, Ricardo Ruiz, pulled a stun gun on one of the protesters who had verbally confronted him. He flashed it in her face and grabbed her. She then pulled him off his bike and slammed him up against a car. Another protester helped restrain Ruiz until he was rescued by a cop.

Check out the vid. Susan’s my new hero.
 
How else we can put pressure on Ketamine Clyde? Tesla was his largest revenue generator. With continued protest pressure his stake will no longer be his most valuable asset.

SpaceX is next up. Starlink is part of SpaceX. What’s that? A satellite internet service provider.

My understanding is that satellite internet is not the preferred way to go. It's generally more expensive and slower than traditional wired connections and has more potential weather related disruptions. It’s good for rural areas where getting a decent connection requires sacrifices to ancient gods, remembering all the words to your 6th grade history class report and figuring out which potion makes you shrink and which one makes you grow.

 Why do governments, like Ukraine, use satellite communication? It provides the ability to reach remote areas anywhere. You can maintain a connection that’s not affected by disasters or emergencies. It works a treat in battlefield situations.

Starlink, is used extensively by Kyiv's troops. It would be…ahhh…dreadfully inconvenient for them to need to find a new provider in the midst of this fight for their lives and freedom.

After February 28th’s disastrous meeting with Mango Mussolini and the cranky couchfucker, Musk waffled over continuing to provide services to Ukraine. It took protest and public shaming to get him to do the right thing.

Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year. The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
~ Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski

Leon is not giving away SATCOM for free. Poland’s paying for it. ALSO, the rat bastard is no fucking hero for, just barely, doing the right thing. He’s only slightly less disgustingly evil. You don't get cookies for being a tiny bit less of an obscene greedhead.

Christ, Space Karen is such a vile, regrettable thing. Mommy Maye really should have just swallowed.

Starlink is NOT a monopoly.

We can do to Starlink what we’re doing to Tesla. As individual consumers, we can choose other service providers. If your government uses it, lobby, petition, blackmail and beg your leaders to use someone else. There ARE other options out there.

Competitors include: ViaSat, NBN Sky Muster, TeleSat, SES S. A., OneWeb, Telstra, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, EchoStar Mobile, Hughes Network System, and Inmarsat.

Do it—starve Starlink.

New In Boycotting

The Tesla boycott is working Shares dropped again this morning after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s Wednesday night cheerleading.

The stock is down 5% in the last five days, 35% in the last month and 42% so far this year. (source) 

Boycotts work! Let's spread the misery to other soulless corporations.

In a ridiculously misguided and utterly tone deaf attempt to comply in advance, Ben & Jerry’s parent company, Unilever, has canned B&J’s CEO for not putting the kibosh on the company’s social activism.

In a Tuesday night filing in Manhattan federal court, Ben & Jerry's said Unilever advised on March 3 it was "removing and replacing" Stever without the required approval from its board, after repeatedly threatening personnel if they did not comply with the parent's "efforts to silence the social mission."
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Stever became chief executive in May 2023, and has been with the Vermont-based maker of Cherry Garcia since starting as a tour guide in 1988.

Ben & Jerry's sued Unilever in November to stop alleged efforts to dismantle its board and end its progressive social activism, which has included protesting the war in Gaza, supporting a movement to defund police, and attempting to criticize U.S. President Donald Trump. (source)

I only mention it but, not only does Ben & Jerry’s make the MOST excellent dairy treats, they have ALWAYS been raging lefties. That’s part of their appeal.  

When Unilever bought Ben & Jerry's they agreed to let B&J maintain an independent board to oversee the brand. The board is now suing the surrender-money parent company. GOOD!

Anuradha Mittal, the chair of Ben & Jerry’s independent board, said: “Dave has courageously advanced the company’s social mission and values, has continued to drive innovation in its super premium product range, and has delivered strong financial results, far outpacing the rest of Unilever’s ice-cream business.
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The court filing said: “Unilever has repeatedly threatened Ben & Jerry’s personnel, including CEO David Stever, should they fail to comply with Unilever’s efforts to silence the social mission. (source)

If Unilever wanted a profits-before-people ice cream maker they could have picked Bronx born Häagen-Daz. Oh, *whoopsie* no they can’t. Häagen-Daz is owned by General Mills. They could TRY to pick up Boxford, Massachusett’s Benson’s Ice Cream and turn it into a bazillion selling Trump approved product but I doubt the family would be interested.

I only mention it but Unilever already owns Breyer’s, Good Humor, Klondike, Magnum, Popsicle, Fudgesicle, Heartbrand, and 34 other ice cream makers around the world. Are they aiming to become THE pro-Trump frozen dessert empire?

Here are some of Unilever’s other subsidiaries for boycotting purposes:

• Hellmann's (mayonnaise, ketchups, mustard, sauces, salad dressings)
• Knorr (sauces, stock cubes, ready-meals, meal kits, ready-soups, frozen food)
• Brylcreem
• Brut (it still exists? Who uses that shit—80 year old dudes who never got the memo that it’s the cologne of laughable losers?)
  

• Close-Up (toothpaste)
• Dove (skin care, soap, hair care, and deodorant)
• Lever 2000 soap
• Lifebuoy
• Caress (soap)

That’s just a small sampling of companies they own here in the U.S. You can hit up Unilever’s site OR Wikipedia to see more.

Unilever is a British-Dutch megacorporation. The CEO, as of March first of this year, is Fernando Fernandez.

I love Ben & Jerry's. They make non-dairy versions too. I hope they win the suit against evil Unilever so's I can still enjoy a cup now and then.

BOYCOTT COLLABORATORS!

The Ides of March

Thousands rallied  on the National Mall and at capitals
around the country to protest obscene cuts by
Trump/Musk to veterans’ jobs, services and benefits.

Today is the Ides of March. It’s a day that oughta make even the least self aware heads of state a little twitchy.

I only mention it…

One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let’s talk about civil disobedience.

What is it?
Civil disobedience is a public, non-violent and conscientious breach of law undertaken with the aim of bringing about a change in laws or government policies.

Civil disobedience can raise awareness and bring in more supporters to a cause. Violence is scary, risky, and can be wicked off-putting. Me? I’m more apt to take part in a revolution if I can be more or less sure of not getting my head bashed in.

Of course, all bets are off if the current rat fuckers eliminate Social Security and Medicare. If my death date is gonna be wickedly premature anyway, what have I got to lose? May as well go out in a blaze of glory.

From the Boston Tea Party to Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March, and from suffragists’ illegally casting their ballots to whites-only lunch counter sit-ins, civil disobedience has often played a crucial role in bending the proverbial arc of the moral universe toward justice. (source)

Examples of civil disobedience?

Leaking sensitive documents: people who have access to sensitive information, like human rights violations and the scoop on politicians and corporations committing crimes, may *oopsie* decide to leak it to the press. Such as:

The Pentagon Papers

In June 1971, The New York Times published a series of excerpts from a top-secret Department of Defense report about U.S. involvement in Vietnam between 1945 and 1967. Part of a study commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the so-called “Pentagon Papers” revealed that four successive presidential administrations had deliberately misled Congress and the American public about the scope, objectives and progress of the Vietnam War. Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who opposed the war and had surreptitiously photocopied and leaked the documents, was prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act, but the judge later dismissed the charges. (source)

Iraq War Logs

In October 2010, WikiLeaks posted nearly 400,000 classified military documents concerning the Iraq War, a massive info dump that dwarfed its release of some 77,000 documents on the war in Afghanistan several months earlier.
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Among the revelations in the so-called Iraq War Logs was evidence that the U.S. military deliberately ignored abuse of detainees by its Iraqi allies, and that there were actually 15,000 more civilian casualties than previously acknowledged (source)

Unauthorized demonstrations:

Demonstration, peaceful protest, and freedom of expression of one's beliefs, is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The First Amendment also applies to international visitors who are welcome to participate in lawful public demonstrations and protests. (source)

What makes a protest illegal? If or when it becomes violent, becomes unsafe, involves trespassing or violates other laws such as health or noise ordinances. Do it anyway.

Sit-ins and roadblocks: this tactic is used to create chaos and raise awareness for a specific cause.

This week’s example? The Trump Tower sit-in by Jewish Voice for Peace to denounce the ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil.

Other sit-ins?

The Greensboro Four

On February 1, 1960, the four students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, where the official policy was to refuse service to anyone but whites. Denied service, the four young men refused to give up their seats.

Police arrived on the scene but were unable to take action due to the lack of provocation. By that time, Johns (a helpful local, white businessman) had already alerted the local media, who had arrived in full force to cover the events on television. The Greensboro Four stayed put until the store closed, then returned the next day with more students from local colleges. (source)

The 2016 United States House of Representatives sit-in

The House Democratic Caucus, led by Georgia Rep John Lewis, Massachusetts Rep Katherine Clark, and Illinois Representative Robin Kelly (along with 60 other House  Reps) declared their intention to remain on the floor until skank-ass Republican Speaker, Paul Ryan, allowed votes on gun control legislation in the aftermath of the Orlando nightclub shooting.

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., ended the daylong protest surrounded by his Democratic colleagues. The civil rights leader proclaimed that this "is a struggle, but we're going to win this struggle.” (source)

Occupations: another way to create chaos and raise awareness.

The Occupation of Alcatraz

In 1969, six years after the infamous prison closed, 80 young protesters, led by Native American activists, Richard Oakes and LaNada War Jack, occupied the island for 19 months.

Thousands of Native people from across the country joined the original group of 80 occupiers. The Indians of All Tribes demanded that the federal government recognize treaties with Indian tribes, they demanded a Native American cultural center, and they demanded that land be returned. (source)

Occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota

On Feb. 27, 1973, some 200 members of the Oglala Lakota tribe, led by members of American Indian Movement (AIM), occupied the Pine Ridge Reservation village — which was also the site of the 1890 massacre in which federal troops killed as many as 300 Lakota men, women and children.

The activists set out to protest corruption in tribal leadership (BIA puppets) and highlight the U.S. government's failure to honor Native treaties. They went on to hold the town for 71 days, in what the U.S. Marshals Service calls the "longest civil disorder" in its history. (source)

Other options?

Boycotts, which I’ve talked about here and here. Marches, non-cooperation, fasting and strikes. Us creative types have to be able to come up with other attention-catching, dramatic ways to grab the spotlight and increase our numbers and voice. There must be more.

Be inventive and audacious!

Dismissed!

Burning Teslas in the state of Washington

A thought on boycotting—it’s ineffective to abstain from buying from morally compromised companies for a day, a week or a month. For major corporations that’s just a drop in their big ass bucket. Let’s make these greedheaded corporations REALLY feel some pain. Abstain from them until they change. Make 'em cry!

Look at Little Lord Avarice for instance. Tesla is around 75% of his enormous wealth.

Tesla loses $127 billion in one-day market bloodbath…
The EV maker’s shares sank over 15% on Monday, bringing its total 2025 losses to over 40%. Monday’s plunge erased about $127 billion from the carmaker’s market value. Tesla has now lost all its gains since November’s election of Donald Trump to the presidency. (source)

GOOD! Let’s bankrupt this smug, dimwitted, and cruel motherfucker.

These warthog sphincter headed people and corporations need to be renounced until/unless they have a come-to-humanity epiphany and change their people and planet destroying ways.

Newsweek posted this yesterday:
List of American Companies That Support President Donald Trump
Here are a few from their much longer list:

• Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse Treatment & Research: $106 million
• Uline: $10 million
• Chevron: $2 million
• OpenAI: $1 million
• ExxonMobil: $1 million
• Amazon: $1 million
• Meta: $1 million
• Uber: $1 million
• Crypto.com: $1 million
• Bayer: $1 million
• Johnson & Johnson: $1 million
• AT&T: $1 million
  
• Comcast: $1 million
• Verizon: $1 million
• PayPal: $250,000
• HCA Healthcare: $250,000
• Coca Cola: $250,000
• Airbnb: $100,000

Do a search on the companies to see what they make/sell. For instance, Johnson & Johnson does medtech BUT they also make Band-Aids, Clean & Clear acne care crap for teens, Johnson's baby powder, pantyliners, wipes and more. Maybe, when you go to get your COVID or MMR vaccine, you don’t have a choice—it’s J&J or nothing. You DO have a choice in which baby powder or pantyliner you buy though.

Yesterday, there was some dustup on Threads about Leon’s 76 year old mommy dearest being a spokesmodel for Covergirl makeup. Apparently she’s just uttered some new inane horseshit about the boycott of her precious, robot-penised baby boy’s swastikkkars.

There’s now a hue and cry to boycott Covergirl. Do it. I don’t wear makeup but if I did, I damn well wouldn’t want to support a company who platforms this non-too-bright producer and cheerleader of a Nazi.

Cover Girl is owned by Coty Inc. which, according to Open Secrets, as a corporation, doesn’t appear to donate much if anything at all. Instead, political party/candidate donations appear to be from individuals and those seem roughly split between Democrats and Republicans. Still, in employing such a clueless, obtuse cheerleader of hate and misinformation, they’re contributing to the end of America.
Other makeup companies who support Trump?

Estee Lauder Companies which includes:

• Estee Lauder
• Clinique
• Dr Jart+
• Glam Glow
• La Mer
• Origins
• Bumble and Bumble
• Aveda 


Revlon hedges their bets and donates equally to Dems and Repubs. Their lines include:

• Revlon
• Elizabeth Arden
• Almay

You can find more boycott-worthy, problematic brands here.

Cosmetic companies who do NOT support Republicans?

• Sephora (despite what you may have seen on TikTok)
• E.L.F Cosmetics
• Mac Cosmetics
• Skylar Beauty

I imagine there are others but, as I’m not a cosmetics or perfume patron, I’m not in the know (apart from internet searches).

You can make a change, even if you’re old, disabled, and more or less housebound like me. Boycott the destroyers of democracy and all those who assist them—not for a day or a week either. Banish them from your wallet for good.

Hit these fuckers where it really hurts—their bank account. Be part of the change for the better.

Epic Backfiring

Times Square

How dunderheadedly dimwitted do you have to be, particularly after Friday’s White House Asshole Fest, to take a vacation in Bernie Sanders’ backyard?

On Saturday Captain Eyeliner took his wife and “her kids” on another getaway thus hitting a new low for clueless motherfuckers everywhere. While his boss, President Musk, dismantles all the agencies charged with protecting U.S. citizens from natural and unnatural disasters (disingenuously, in the name of eliminating fraud and waste) Couchfuck Boy goes on a ski weekend, costing U.S. taxpayers millions of buckos.

While Vance, who admitted Friday he has never been to Ukraine, fled to an undisclosed location to evade protesters, some commentators noted that Zelenskyy, who stayed in Ukraine during Russia’s invasion, was returning to a Kyiv still under attack.

The protest followed a contentious confrontation in the Oval Office, where the US president told the Ukrainian leader to make a deal with Russia “or we’re out”.  (source)

For baby Bast’s sake, the cosplaying tough-guy twins bullshit performance has been protested from Boston and New York to LA. Anyone with half a brain would know enough to lay low after such a heinously evil performance. It looks like that’s too much to expect from this administration.

Vance and family JUST got back from a tour of churches in Europe. He took a break from his OH-so-busy sightseeing schedule to give an utterly tone deaf, condescending speech devoid of an understanding of history or even a whisper of self awareness.

HOW did this hate-filled, banjaxed brain goon get into Yale? (NOT to diss goons in general, by the way)

This motherfucker hasn’t done a lick of work in his first month and a half as VP and he’s already on his second vaca? On the taxpayer’s dime? Vance, mes amis, is a solid welfare queen.

Over a thousand Vermonters lined both sides of Route 100 in Waitsfield, Vermont, Saturday morning protesting Vice President JD Vance, who was visiting nearby Sugarbush Resort this weekend with his family. (source)

Protesters were also out in front of the resort itself AND by a lift where Vance was rumored to be skiing.

Among the Waitsfield protesters was former Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, who carried a handmade sign that read “efficiency, sure, but not carnage, hate and lies.” Zuckerman said the current administration’s stated goal of efficiency has negatively affected farmers’ loan programs and people’s health care and food access. (source)

International blowback is already happening and will increase—deservedly so. European leaders are rallying behind Zelenskyy, as well they should. Boycotts of U.S. goods are already happening in Canada, Mexico, Scotland, Denmark and the rest of Europe. NO one likes a bully.

Fox News reported that Vance was forced to flee to an undisclosed location after protesters met him at the ski resort, “ More protesters met the Vance family outside of the resort, and the family ultimately had to move to an undisclosed location.”
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Vermont Public radio and television spoke to some of the protesters who made it clear that yesterday’s ambush of Zelenskyy at the White House added to their numbers. (source)

I'm curious—was Couchfuck unaware that Idaho and Utah (both ultra red, Mango Mussolini supporting states) have ski resorts? Did he choose Vermont because he wanted to flaunt his flagrant assholery in a very blue state? Was this a dick power move or is he so thick that he didn't anticipate consequences? I'm voting for the latter.

We are a pariah (and we deserve to be) because of these micro schwanzed, stupefyingly warped and inept, social incompetents. 

A new era of wickedness has begun.
~ German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock 

Flying Pigs

When pigs fly
     idiom
This is used as a way of saying that you think something will never happen.

Yeah, I’ll agree with Piers Morgan when pigs fly!

Oh look! Is that Wilbur with wings?

Zelenskyy was set up. It was an ambush. It was theater.

This was:

• A video op so the psychotic Tangerine Twat could preen and cosplay big, strong, in-control dictator.

• A chance for that socially banjaxed, couchfucking quisling Vance (or whatever name he’s going by this week) to play tough big boy Vice President for an hour.

but mostly

• A gaslighting performance art piece to support Putin’s continued bombing and destruction of Ukraine.

Did you see this bit?

“I think we’ve seen enough. This is going to be great television, I will say that,” Trump said, telling reporters to leave the room. (source)

That absolutely insane, fuckwitted bastard said “This is going to be great television.” Holy fucking smelly mountains of tyrannosaurus shit! This is real fucking life, you horror show zit! This isn’t some reality TV show or Hollywood movie. There are real people dying. What would these turd snarfing, ball gargling, horrifically-unresolved-daddy-issues excuses for human beings do if Putin started bombing the fuck outta the US.?

I know, I know. Without so much as an eye blink, they’d hand him the keys to Fort Knox, the CIA intel headquarters, and all the nuclear weapons military bases. Already done.

• Drunk Fox ‘news’ host and fellow rapist Hegseth, as head of defense?

• Putin employee, Gabbard, as Director of National Intelligence?

• Bessent at the Treasury? Like a dog, he’s already rolled over, shown Musk his belly, and is letting the unelected, bloated oligarch rob us all blind.

The Republican Party supported and continues to support all this. Every last one of those motherfuckers are responsible for destroying this country that they vociferously CLAIM to love. They should all be shipped off to Russia—exiled, stripped of their citizenship and all the ill-gotten gains. They’re nothing but slavering renfields.

As for the three cheaply bought, human-shaped rectal polyps—Crabby Couchfuck and his two bosses, Stinky and the Ketamine Nazi—please see my post from this past Monday, February 24.

While those assholes were working on handing us over to their lord and master, Putin, the rest of us were doing step one of the boycott boogie.

Will yesterday’s 24 hour Buy Nothing boycott make a difference?

The People’s Union USA calls the 24 hours of spending abstinence set to start at midnight an “economic blackout,”…The activist movement said it also plans to promote weeklong consumer boycotts of particular companies, including Walmart and Amazon.

Other activists, faith-based leaders and consumers already are organizing boycotts to protest companies that have scaled back their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and to oppose President Donald Trump’s moves to abolish all federal DEI programs and policies. Some faith leaders are encouraging their congregations to refrain from shopping at Target, one of the companies backing off DEI efforts, during the 40 days of Lent that begin Wednesday. (source) 

It’s likely the big box retailers, Walmart, Target, Amazon, etc., won’t notice a one day dip in sales. What they may well feel is the longer blackouts.

The McDonald's boycott? (June 24-30)  For Bast’s sake, NO ONE should be eating that grease soaked, fat expanding garbage.

Ya know, I get it—it’s cheap and filling. Let’s say you’re a single parent working a couple of jobs. You’re exhausted and just can’t manage to put together a healthy casserole or even some mac and cheese for the kiddles. You stop at Trump’s favorite restaurant to pick up a quick, ultra easy, inexpensive dinner for your hungry children. I mean, there’s probably a little protein in that Big Mac and those deep fried chicken nuggets—no green veg but one meal without won’t kill em, right?

Okay fine, but McDonald's meals should be a rarity. Look at the poster boy for Quarter Pounders and fries—is that really what you want to look like? Is this the future you envision for little Angie or Phil junior?

Back to the upcoming and ongoing boycotts. Try to find other, local, non-mega-corp alternatives to Walmart, Target, Amazon, Home Depot, etc. Not just as a temporary boycott either—do it to rebuild and invest in your community. We don't need more power mad, greedheaded robber barons (who pay their employees in chicken shit and stale circus peanuts while they live like kings).