Another spot-on wardrobe choice for Peoni, Roy. Although she probably had to hold her nose at the Jackie O. designation.
We have arrived where a lot of us feared we would, at Trump violating a court order because "who's gonna check me?" This looks like a job for the Marshal of the Supreme Court, lol. Yes, my humor has become more and more fatalistic, what of it?
The most damning indictment of Schumer I've seen was a wag on Bluesky saying Schumer was now so effectively aligned with the Right he'd received an invitation to come on Gavin Newsome's podcast.
I totally want that jumpsuit, even if I don't have any place or occasion to wear it. Does it come in a dark olive green? (The bright blue is hideous, though.) And it needs some chic Paloma Picasso jewelry, rather than that tacky and unoriginal Van Cleef & Arpels pendant.
This is so much fun: more than half the things in my closet came from the Salvation Army.
I know! It's great fun, and I'm a fan of Poshmark and consignment shops myself. I agree the pendant is wrong for the neckline, but we can't expect Roy to know everything, lol. And it *IS* a great jumpsuit
I thought "Back Halo" was a reference to some kind of back cut-out like an inverted boob window but it's actually BLΛCK HΛLO and it reminds me too much of those idiotic "RETVRN" comments.
I’m still mad enough to spit nails, and I would have sworn there was nothing the Democrats could do to piss me off anymore because I don’t expect anything from them. But this?
It makes no sense. None of the people who were pleased by this are going to vote for Democrats. They’re going to vote for Republicans. Not a single one is going to think, “You know, Chuck Schumer impressed me so much with his maturity and restraint that I’m going to switch my party affiliation and vote for Democrats!”
But some people ARE going to think “Why bother?” next time Election Day rolls around. Apparently the 6,000,000+ voters who showed up in 2020 but sat home in 2024 taught the Democrats absolutely nothing, because they still seem to believe they can peel off enough GOP voters to make up the difference by being Republican-lite. Meanwhile the number of people voting for Trump increases every time, as one would expect just from population growth.
There’s a message there for Democrats. Are they smart enough to listen? Only time will tell.
Not a single mention of Tubby's victory -- again! -- at the Trump International Golf Course at Palm Beach annual tournament? He's still got it! In other news, North Korea thinks we should dial it down.
Giving the finger: official communication of the US government.
Get another thug to take plane loads of people who've been in essence kidnapped. Follow that with the finger of internet trolling. ("Note here: a foreign head of state mocking and assisting defying the order of a US federal judge and then the Secretary of State amplifying the mockery.") https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3lkjap7gcz22t
Given the clusterfuck they're making of both air traffic control and our immigration system, what are the odds on "Plane full of deportees lands safely"?
The numbers are in, Trump deported about 11,000 people in February. Compared to Biden's numbers on Feb. 2024 of... [checks notes] 12,000. See, it's a big deportin' machine, all you need to do is turn the crank, as Barack Obama demonstrated so ably. Why break the law when the law has never been an impediment to deporting big, big numbers? I dunno, maybe because it's more fun? Because he's broken the law his whole life and has always gotten away* with it?
Take the case of of these Venezuelan deportees (please!). They're in your custody, if they really are undocumented, give 'em a 15 minute hearing and out they go, in a day or two they're all gone. But where's the fun in that?
*"gotten away with" means "never suffered any personal consequences", not necessarily "achieved the goal." Jan. 6 was law-breaking, it didn't overturn the election and make him President.
I would never use the word "theater", because real people are really being hurt and it's no joke when the President thinks he can openly defy a federal judge, but it is a production, for an audience that doesn't include me.
But what about the words "Reality TV"? Clips of knuckle draggers Homan and "Dr" Phil in Chicago and such.
The gruesome video via the BBC is in the reality mode, though made to serve as a slick ad for Bukele's sale of concentration camp space. (We didn't use to get live footage of "renditions," did we?) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9yv1gnzyvo
If Trump wanted to simply cut the size of the federal workforce, he'd follow Bill Clinton's lead (Clinton cut federal employees by nearly 400,000) and go to Congress for authorization when he needs it. If he simply wanted to deport lots of people, he'd follow Obama's lead (Obama deported more than 3 million people) and follow the law, which provides plenty of authority already for mass deportations. If he wanted to expand oil drilling, he'd follow Biden's lead (Biden issued 50% more oil and gas permits in his first 3 years than Trump in a similar period) and follow the law, which has been specifically designed by the oil companies and their pals in Congress to facilitate drilling.
So why doesn't he? I think it's because - even if he really does want these things - he wants something else more: To create an appearance of Big Success, of the Big Man doing Big Things without being held back by any sissy rules. And that appearance is being created for a very specific audience. Elon musk cuts tens of thousands of jobs, illegally, and this is then overturned by a federal court. His intended audience sees the first thing, but never sees the second thing, because they've chosen to self-isolate in a right-wing info-bubble. I see what he does and the setbacks, because I'm not in the info-bubble, but he doesn't care, I'm not the intended audience.
It's an idiots conception of power. Because real power is being able to act within the law because you write the laws. Look at the most powerful people on our planet, the corporate CEO's, if they ever find the law is an impediment to money-making, they Phone a Friend in Congress and get the law changed. Now THAT'S power. But it's done quietly, and doesn't create the kind of show Trump wants to create. To very, very stupid people, what Trump is doing is what power looks like. They wouldn't be able to understand any other kind.
You are so correct about the court losses. He’s laying the path to breaking the courts by simply ignoring them, and explaining to his base that those judges have gone rogue and are no longer legit.
What does he want? He wants attention, he wants money (he'd like a blowjob, while you're at it.) He wants to break things and hurt people, because breaking things and hurting people is fun and makes him feel powerful. He wants to break the law for the same reasons. Does he want anything more? I don't know, everything he's ever done can be explained by this list.
Apparently Hegseth's tats are exempt from being used as a 'gang member' identification. It's more that the gang that they are for is the *approved* gang, a.k.a. the white power/'christian' nationalist gang.
Nice analog horror ending to that particular episode. Though I see from that CNN article that the actual Reich is getting better in its "neener-neener" skills, further limiting the satire potential.
From CNN: "Bukele has admitted that some innocent people have been detained by mistake and that several thousand of them have already been released. He and many of his supporters argue that such collateral damage is part of the difficult process of transforming the country from being the “murder capital of the world” to one of the safest."
Eggs, omelettes, you know the drill. Used to call that kind of thing "Stalinist", but what if Joe had just been thinking out of the box, innovating, not letting a bunch of activist "judges" restrict what the liberated forward-thinking State was capable of?
Also, KKKAroline Leavitt apparently wrote "an aircraft carrier full of foreign alien terrorists", which is hilarious.
“and Keds” lmao perfect!
Another spot-on wardrobe choice for Peoni, Roy. Although she probably had to hold her nose at the Jackie O. designation.
We have arrived where a lot of us feared we would, at Trump violating a court order because "who's gonna check me?" This looks like a job for the Marshal of the Supreme Court, lol. Yes, my humor has become more and more fatalistic, what of it?
The most damning indictment of Schumer I've seen was a wag on Bluesky saying Schumer was now so effectively aligned with the Right he'd received an invitation to come on Gavin Newsome's podcast.
She would kill to be compared to Jackie O.
Secretly, privately, in her deepest heart of hearts...yes.
I totally want that jumpsuit, even if I don't have any place or occasion to wear it. Does it come in a dark olive green? (The bright blue is hideous, though.) And it needs some chic Paloma Picasso jewelry, rather than that tacky and unoriginal Van Cleef & Arpels pendant.
This is so much fun: more than half the things in my closet came from the Salvation Army.
I know! It's great fun, and I'm a fan of Poshmark and consignment shops myself. I agree the pendant is wrong for the neckline, but we can't expect Roy to know everything, lol. And it *IS* a great jumpsuit
"Jackie O. Jumpsuit!" is being added to my list of exclamations, I may use it the next time I slam my finger in a car door.
And doesn't it have a fine Irish sound to it?
I don't know if I'll have the presence of mind - in that moment - to throw in an attempt at a brogue, but I'll try to remember.
'Irish Spring for long-lasting deodorant protection"!
You'll need it.
Germans Leap
Americans Pine
Brits Cheer
Italians Shrug
I could do this all day, but life awaits...
That's why I chose the pendant (though some commenters said it's wrong the outfit -- looks like a four-leaf clover, for St. Paddy's Day!
If this isn't a cue to report what my mother once said to me, I don't know what is:
"Payola Picasso is designing jewelry for Van Cleef and Arpege!"
(True story: I told this to Norman Mailer at a dinner, once, and he laffed. Well who wouldn't?)
I thought "Back Halo" was a reference to some kind of back cut-out like an inverted boob window but it's actually BLΛCK HΛLO and it reminds me too much of those idiotic "RETVRN" comments.
"Even the liberal Gavin Newsome" GAAAAAHHHHHHH
"Fucked Kimberly Guilfoyle" should have been a warning.
I’m still mad enough to spit nails, and I would have sworn there was nothing the Democrats could do to piss me off anymore because I don’t expect anything from them. But this?
It makes no sense. None of the people who were pleased by this are going to vote for Democrats. They’re going to vote for Republicans. Not a single one is going to think, “You know, Chuck Schumer impressed me so much with his maturity and restraint that I’m going to switch my party affiliation and vote for Democrats!”
But some people ARE going to think “Why bother?” next time Election Day rolls around. Apparently the 6,000,000+ voters who showed up in 2020 but sat home in 2024 taught the Democrats absolutely nothing, because they still seem to believe they can peel off enough GOP voters to make up the difference by being Republican-lite. Meanwhile the number of people voting for Trump increases every time, as one would expect just from population growth.
There’s a message there for Democrats. Are they smart enough to listen? Only time will tell.
Message for Organization Dems:
www.sfgate.com/politics/article/hey-democrats-wake-up-20219559.php
"Are they smart enough to listen?"
Sadly, No
Well, for most of our history, "virulent racist" has proven to be a successful career track. Especially for weird looking half wits.
This has me concerned.
https://substack.com/@brawlatthepoetscafe/note/c-101069714?r=insr
See no evil, smell no evil, eat no evil.
Just in the last century we reelected virulent racists twice: Wilson and Reagan.
One from each party!
I just realized "Ronald Wilson Reagan" can be read as "Ronald Racist Racist."
Arrrrrooooo! Mighta left one out there.
For expansive meanings of 'one'.
Is being a full with what kept me from being a virulent racist?
Maybe not but couldn’t hurt.
"Illegal immigration expert Jose Rodriguez" snort
Two NY Times reporters and a WaPo reporter got in a fistfight when they heard "Hispanic for Trump" and rushed to interview him. "I saw him first!"
Fistfight, hell. Slap fight. Joe Besser could take these mugs. "Quuuuit it, you crazy you!"
"Two NY Times reporters and a WaPo reporter"
3 of them, you can fill in the rest.
I’ll give you SUCH a pinch!
Ahhhh, a man after my own heart.
Soitenly as good in the oiginal Yiddish?
Not a single mention of Tubby's victory -- again! -- at the Trump International Golf Course at Palm Beach annual tournament? He's still got it! In other news, North Korea thinks we should dial it down.
Giving the finger: official communication of the US government.
Get another thug to take plane loads of people who've been in essence kidnapped. Follow that with the finger of internet trolling. ("Note here: a foreign head of state mocking and assisting defying the order of a US federal judge and then the Secretary of State amplifying the mockery.") https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3lkjap7gcz22t
“All they will call you will be deportee.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu-duTWccyI
Given the clusterfuck they're making of both air traffic control and our immigration system, what are the odds on "Plane full of deportees lands safely"?
The numbers are in, Trump deported about 11,000 people in February. Compared to Biden's numbers on Feb. 2024 of... [checks notes] 12,000. See, it's a big deportin' machine, all you need to do is turn the crank, as Barack Obama demonstrated so ably. Why break the law when the law has never been an impediment to deporting big, big numbers? I dunno, maybe because it's more fun? Because he's broken the law his whole life and has always gotten away* with it?
Take the case of of these Venezuelan deportees (please!). They're in your custody, if they really are undocumented, give 'em a 15 minute hearing and out they go, in a day or two they're all gone. But where's the fun in that?
*"gotten away with" means "never suffered any personal consequences", not necessarily "achieved the goal." Jan. 6 was law-breaking, it didn't overturn the election and make him President.
I would never use the word "theater", because real people are really being hurt and it's no joke when the President thinks he can openly defy a federal judge, but it is a production, for an audience that doesn't include me.
But what about the words "Reality TV"? Clips of knuckle draggers Homan and "Dr" Phil in Chicago and such.
The gruesome video via the BBC is in the reality mode, though made to serve as a slick ad for Bukele's sale of concentration camp space. (We didn't use to get live footage of "renditions," did we?) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9yv1gnzyvo
Yes, his fans want to see dark-skinned men being shoved into vans. If you can't count past ten, what do you care how many?
You are the intended audience as well. Don’t kid yourself.
If Trump wanted to simply cut the size of the federal workforce, he'd follow Bill Clinton's lead (Clinton cut federal employees by nearly 400,000) and go to Congress for authorization when he needs it. If he simply wanted to deport lots of people, he'd follow Obama's lead (Obama deported more than 3 million people) and follow the law, which provides plenty of authority already for mass deportations. If he wanted to expand oil drilling, he'd follow Biden's lead (Biden issued 50% more oil and gas permits in his first 3 years than Trump in a similar period) and follow the law, which has been specifically designed by the oil companies and their pals in Congress to facilitate drilling.
So why doesn't he? I think it's because - even if he really does want these things - he wants something else more: To create an appearance of Big Success, of the Big Man doing Big Things without being held back by any sissy rules. And that appearance is being created for a very specific audience. Elon musk cuts tens of thousands of jobs, illegally, and this is then overturned by a federal court. His intended audience sees the first thing, but never sees the second thing, because they've chosen to self-isolate in a right-wing info-bubble. I see what he does and the setbacks, because I'm not in the info-bubble, but he doesn't care, I'm not the intended audience.
It's an idiots conception of power. Because real power is being able to act within the law because you write the laws. Look at the most powerful people on our planet, the corporate CEO's, if they ever find the law is an impediment to money-making, they Phone a Friend in Congress and get the law changed. Now THAT'S power. But it's done quietly, and doesn't create the kind of show Trump wants to create. To very, very stupid people, what Trump is doing is what power looks like. They wouldn't be able to understand any other kind.
If he must be spoken of at all, it simplifies things to just apply your formula "an idiot's conception of ___." Works for absolutely any topic.
I've heard "A stupid man's idea of a smart man" before.
You are so correct about the court losses. He’s laying the path to breaking the courts by simply ignoring them, and explaining to his base that those judges have gone rogue and are no longer legit.
That’s incorrect
Flailing fingers.
Wait, you were incorrect when you wrote "correct"? Were you correct when you wrote "incorrect"?
"because - even if he really does want these things..." No. He wants to destroy them.
What does he want? He wants attention, he wants money (he'd like a blowjob, while you're at it.) He wants to break things and hurt people, because breaking things and hurting people is fun and makes him feel powerful. He wants to break the law for the same reasons. Does he want anything more? I don't know, everything he's ever done can be explained by this list.
Still Losing After All These Years
Calling Georgia Sec State, sayin ‘all’s I need is another 1001 deport-ready gang bangers!’
‘Doesn’t matter if they did anything - long’s they speak valenzuelan!’
Apparently tattoos now mean "gang-banger." Good luck getting your morning coffee when they've deported every barista in the country.
Apparently Hegseth's tats are exempt from being used as a 'gang member' identification. It's more that the gang that they are for is the *approved* gang, a.k.a. the white power/'christian' nationalist gang.
The cops, the best-funded gang of all.
Exactly. And the one most likely to cause you harm.
That is exceptionally good, Boss. Terrifying as hell, but good.
Gestapo meets the Keystone Cops. Film at 11. (have Yakety Sax cued up)
Nice analog horror ending to that particular episode. Though I see from that CNN article that the actual Reich is getting better in its "neener-neener" skills, further limiting the satire potential.
From CNN: "Bukele has admitted that some innocent people have been detained by mistake and that several thousand of them have already been released. He and many of his supporters argue that such collateral damage is part of the difficult process of transforming the country from being the “murder capital of the world” to one of the safest."
Eggs, omelettes, you know the drill. Used to call that kind of thing "Stalinist", but what if Joe had just been thinking out of the box, innovating, not letting a bunch of activist "judges" restrict what the liberated forward-thinking State was capable of?
Also, KKKAroline Leavitt apparently wrote "an aircraft carrier full of foreign alien terrorists", which is hilarious.
I'll add "Well, at least we're not El Salvador" to the list of things I say to myself at the end of a hard day.
I am "US out of El Salvador" old.
CISPES! I think I have a poster somewhere.
(Wonder how many School of the Americas alumni are involved?)