Thumbs up on the duck! So I hear that Steven Miller’s lying about the SCOTUS ruling, along with the Trump-Bukkake confab got attached to the DOJ’s court filing responding to the SCOTUS demand that the administration keep the courts abreast of their facilitation efforts. I’d love to be in John Roberts’ study when he reads that. His humiliation won’t stop until he gets the Court to rescind Trump’s get out of jail free card.
And yet, after twenty years while the little people pretty much have sufficient disrespect for SCOTUS, they've yet to suss out what and why the problem is. Of course, they famously haven't sussed out why they feel they're getting screwed let alone that the... things they keep electing are the cause.
George Monbiot had a piece in the Guardian about how The People are all angry about the economic inequality and the billionaires, and that's why they keep electing right-wing populists like Donald Trump. No, I couldn't understand it either.
The trick is once you get to "People are really REALLY angry", all logic and explanation can be dispensed with. "Why did they vote for Trump? Well, didn't I tell you they were ANGRY?"
Personally I think it's that the failures of unrestrained capital are becoming more and more obvious to everyone, but, after decades of intense anti-Left indoctrination, the only populism is right-wing.
Things that seem obvious to you and me ain't so obvious to lotsa people. "Clearly, the reason my rent keeps going up is because they let that dude compete in women's swimming."
The illogic of voting Trump in 2024 specifically and for Republicans generally is at the core of my marveling that Donny’s actions and stuff just starting with Covid were maybe slightly repellant at best. That it wasn’t sufficiently repellant right there still hasn’t ceased to amaze me.
Again, there shouldn’t be a need to be well informed like us two. Vague awareness of reality and a basic bullshit detector should have been enough but that it wasn’t… 😳😬
Fun that folks who yap so goddamn loud lately about "common sense" are nevertheless determined to act as if they're that stereotype of primitive man running around afraid of everything and thus religion is born. You've got to be really DEVOTED to the ignorance to do that in 21st Century America.
Common sense: Wearing a Bulls jersey gets you tagged by the local cops as a likely gang member, five years later that local stop-and-question gets you deported to an El Salvadorean torture prison, because now you're a "terrorist". Any questions?
Bourbon is a waste of perfectly good moonshine, as bad a waste as stretching gasoline with it. Gee, we have this wonderful moonshine, so let's take an oak (nastiest wood there is this side of a suicide tree) barrel, char the inside so additional vile hydrocarbons are catalyzed, and put the lovely moonshine in it to leach out all the horrid bitter undertones that demonic wood has to offer.
No. No sir. A sin against God, man and corn. The appeal is beyond my comprehension.
Then prithee tell me, why do they cut the sumbitches down, make barrels of them, and burn the hell out of the insides? Huh? Huh?
Sore point: I got a dead oak in the front yard. Been there 40 years, died of drought stress. City told me today I got 7 days to cut that huge sumbitch down, the whole nine yards. I can I haz 3 grand please?
Guy was nice, I will say that. "I know, I'm the White trash of the neighborhood". "hey man, you said that, I didn't" "Oh, I know that" *fistbump* He gets it.
The Mission Style furniture makers knew how to make the most of the noble oak. As to other trees, consider the venerable yew, and its suitability for longbows. If one needs that sort of thing.
I have nothing against the trees themselves, I have 3 more in the backyard that are hale and hearty, along with a lovely sweetgum, all 40-50 feet high. It is the use of the wood for flavoring that I object to, either for bourbon or wood smoking (for which it is completely unsuitable, unlike hickory, apple and cherry).
"beyond the reach of what we now humorously call 'the law'" LMAO!
I absolutely want Bolt to clean Chafe's clock. I make no apologies for this desire. Roy, please don't decide Bolt will descend into full-on alcoholism before giving him an opportunity to throw hands.
Fatima was the sponsor of Dragnet, Jack Webb used to plug 'em. Parodied as "Fat Emma" in the Porky Pig classic "Wholly Smoke", they have gone by the way-side.
These days the Army swears they didn't put cigs in 'C' rations. We used them as standard issue for camping, and every one had a 5-cigarette pack: Chesterfields or Winstons. Not a Camel in the lot that we ever found. I think once, only once, we got Lucky Strikes. We never smoked the damn things, needless to say.
Bill Maher is still making the left pay for all the asses he had to kiss to get his career back after intemperate comments post 9/11. What did he say? He said you can’t really call people who are willing to die to strike their enemies “cowards” when you did most of your own fighting remotely with bombs and drones. It apparently struck a nerve. His show was immediately canceled and he had to crawl on his belly and abase himself for years to earn forgiveness.
While Fox News et. al. led the charge against him, he seems to blame the left more, I guess because we didn’t jump to his defense. He’s still pissed about it from the look of things.
Journalist: M. Ben M'Hidi, don't you think it's a bit cowardly to use women's baskets and handbags to carry explosive devices that kill so many innocent people?
Ben M'Hidi: And doesn't it seem to you even more cowardly to drop napalm bombs on defenseless villages, so that there are a thousand times more innocent victims? Of course, if we had your airplanes it would be a lot easier for us. Give us your bombers, and you can have our baskets.
Timing is everything in showbiz. Maher chose to flex his contrairian schtick at the exact moment the entire country was united in believing we had been unfairly ATTACKED on our native soil and INNOCENT AMERICANS DIED!!! Our right wing has been chasing that high of "finally, everyone agrees with us" ever since. I forget Tom Snyder's sin around the same time but vaguely recall it was similar. Nobody defended him either.
Not everyone was united in believing that. He was just the only one dumb enough to say anything publicly. Nothing pisses off Americans quite like someone telling them the truth right to their faces.
Don't get me wrong, that bravery joke was one of the few times he ever made me laugh. I didn't think he had it in him, turns out he didn't.
Not every single American was united in that belief, but the vast ajority were. But for 2 very different reasons. Some of us were appalled by the senseless death and stunned by the scope of the attack, even if we believed America was far from innocent. This was a crime and those responsible must be punished. The rest were PI-II-ISSED OFF that a bunch of towel heads dared attack US! In our OWN HOUSE! And all they wanted was to open a can a' whoop-ass on some, any of those camel jockeys, Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue as Toby Keith put it.
I trust you see a difference even if the responses look similar. But that similarity was enough for Bush to implement PNAC and fuck over America and the world for the indefinite future. All the terrorist crap they're spouting about the people they've kidnapped is directly from Bush's Bottomless Cup of Global War on Terror, a "war" deliberately designed to be unwinnable and unkillable.
Dammit, you're correct, sir. All those late night hosts start blurring together when you're as old as me. It all started going downhill when Jack Parr was replaced by that kid Johnny Carson.
It's quite a fucking thing, all these Nazis running around ferreting out antisemites.
And it's hard to deny, their transparency is truly admirable!
That Bill Maher, hoo- boy. I think of Bill when I hear the phrase," that's lower than whale shit and that's on the bottom of the ocean. Was he a classmate.of yours? I hope he was and you beat his ass one day.
You a Cornell man? He was always an asshole by all accounts. If you matriculated high above Cayuga's waters, you have my respect and my sincere sympathy.
“Orchestrated howls of the damned.” Isn’t that just rock, especially metal? It can be quite beautiful. This gives me hope that RecOp’s music may be a scosh listenable.
It would be an aural wonder if some talented modern composer would take Roy’s descriptions of Received Opinion’s bumper music and write “music”, or just sounds, that comport with those descriptions. An RO music fest. Something to distract us from the county’s rapid, horrific descent into whatever future historians will call this madness.
"NEW WEIRD ORDER!" To think, Tim Walz tried warning the viewers.
Captain Spaulding and the duck are exactly what's called for! Otherwise, the proceedings would need to be all "orchestrated howls of the damned" alternating with "Curb" theme.
And speaking of transparency: Chafe getting on the horn with Kash.
Peoni may have hit on something (and I don't mean her head on the edge of the coffee table as she collapses to the floor in an alcoholic stupor.) We can't deport all the immigrants because we NEED these people to do our scut-work (like cleaning Peoni's vomit off the couch). But what we can do is ensure that the ones who remain live in a state of abject terror, and watch their step, and especially watch their mouths and don't go talking to the other maids about the things they've seen. Oh, the things they've seen.
Thumbs up on the duck! So I hear that Steven Miller’s lying about the SCOTUS ruling, along with the Trump-Bukkake confab got attached to the DOJ’s court filing responding to the SCOTUS demand that the administration keep the courts abreast of their facilitation efforts. I’d love to be in John Roberts’ study when he reads that. His humiliation won’t stop until he gets the Court to rescind Trump’s get out of jail free card.
And yet, after twenty years while the little people pretty much have sufficient disrespect for SCOTUS, they've yet to suss out what and why the problem is. Of course, they famously haven't sussed out why they feel they're getting screwed let alone that the... things they keep electing are the cause.
George Monbiot had a piece in the Guardian about how The People are all angry about the economic inequality and the billionaires, and that's why they keep electing right-wing populists like Donald Trump. No, I couldn't understand it either.
So Monbiot notes two points, doesn’t explain how one point *leads* to the second.
And given that the movement is insane and/or simply flows from knowing, there’s not much to explain.
The trick is once you get to "People are really REALLY angry", all logic and explanation can be dispensed with. "Why did they vote for Trump? Well, didn't I tell you they were ANGRY?"
Personally I think it's that the failures of unrestrained capital are becoming more and more obvious to everyone, but, after decades of intense anti-Left indoctrination, the only populism is right-wing.
Things that seem obvious to you and me ain't so obvious to lotsa people. "Clearly, the reason my rent keeps going up is because they let that dude compete in women's swimming."
The illogic of voting Trump in 2024 specifically and for Republicans generally is at the core of my marveling that Donny’s actions and stuff just starting with Covid were maybe slightly repellant at best. That it wasn’t sufficiently repellant right there still hasn’t ceased to amaze me.
Again, there shouldn’t be a need to be well informed like us two. Vague awareness of reality and a basic bullshit detector should have been enough but that it wasn’t… 😳😬
Fun that folks who yap so goddamn loud lately about "common sense" are nevertheless determined to act as if they're that stereotype of primitive man running around afraid of everything and thus religion is born. You've got to be really DEVOTED to the ignorance to do that in 21st Century America.
Common sense: Wearing a Bulls jersey gets you tagged by the local cops as a likely gang member, five years later that local stop-and-question gets you deported to an El Salvadorean torture prison, because now you're a "terrorist". Any questions?
Someone say bourbon?
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/04/bourbon-update
Sorry, Bolt!
Bourbon is a waste of perfectly good moonshine, as bad a waste as stretching gasoline with it. Gee, we have this wonderful moonshine, so let's take an oak (nastiest wood there is this side of a suicide tree) barrel, char the inside so additional vile hydrocarbons are catalyzed, and put the lovely moonshine in it to leach out all the horrid bitter undertones that demonic wood has to offer.
No. No sir. A sin against God, man and corn. The appeal is beyond my comprehension.
Counterpoint: oaks are often* the apex tree in an ecosystem, keepin' the whole durn thing from fallin' plum apart.
*When it comes to nature, 2 rules: Never say 'never', and never say 'always'.
Then prithee tell me, why do they cut the sumbitches down, make barrels of them, and burn the hell out of the insides? Huh? Huh?
Sore point: I got a dead oak in the front yard. Been there 40 years, died of drought stress. City told me today I got 7 days to cut that huge sumbitch down, the whole nine yards. I can I haz 3 grand please?
Guy was nice, I will say that. "I know, I'm the White trash of the neighborhood". "hey man, you said that, I didn't" "Oh, I know that" *fistbump* He gets it.
Carve your initials into it and call it an "art installation."
The Mission Style furniture makers knew how to make the most of the noble oak. As to other trees, consider the venerable yew, and its suitability for longbows. If one needs that sort of thing.
Not to mention treating cancer...
I have nothing against the trees themselves, I have 3 more in the backyard that are hale and hearty, along with a lovely sweetgum, all 40-50 feet high. It is the use of the wood for flavoring that I object to, either for bourbon or wood smoking (for which it is completely unsuitable, unlike hickory, apple and cherry).
Tannins are not our friend.
"beyond the reach of what we now humorously call 'the law'" LMAO!
I absolutely want Bolt to clean Chafe's clock. I make no apologies for this desire. Roy, please don't decide Bolt will descend into full-on alcoholism before giving him an opportunity to throw hands.
What better thing to break a bourbon bottle upon?
"Musical squeegee on a shit-smeared windshield" was a defining ... uhm ... feature of the midafternoon set at Coachella.
But yes to the duck.
Also, too: "trench gown"...I mean, what're ya doin' in the trench in the first place??!!
And here I thought that that's what trans tommies wore —
Just another indignity thrust upon poor Tommy.
Is “trench gown” what the debutantes got in the Ardennes in WWI?
My brain went here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJRe7niAxdU
You gots a weird mind brother man.
I counter with https://youtu.be/zTMbDwsA86E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzLjkIKWH6c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8kNpGTPbvk
Ahhh, a song after my own heart.
Fatima was the sponsor of Dragnet, Jack Webb used to plug 'em. Parodied as "Fat Emma" in the Porky Pig classic "Wholly Smoke", they have gone by the way-side.
These days the Army swears they didn't put cigs in 'C' rations. We used them as standard issue for camping, and every one had a 5-cigarette pack: Chesterfields or Winstons. Not a Camel in the lot that we ever found. I think once, only once, we got Lucky Strikes. We never smoked the damn things, needless to say.
Aw damn man, that is absolutely first rate. Well played.
Needles* to say – 2 marks.
*Knit gowns.
Also, too: "trench gown"...I mean, what're ya doin' in the trench in the first place??!!
Trying to stay out of the machine gun and artillery fire
Bill Maher is still making the left pay for all the asses he had to kiss to get his career back after intemperate comments post 9/11. What did he say? He said you can’t really call people who are willing to die to strike their enemies “cowards” when you did most of your own fighting remotely with bombs and drones. It apparently struck a nerve. His show was immediately canceled and he had to crawl on his belly and abase himself for years to earn forgiveness.
While Fox News et. al. led the charge against him, he seems to blame the left more, I guess because we didn’t jump to his defense. He’s still pissed about it from the look of things.
C'mon, The Left is ALWAYS to blame.
To the side with the cruise missiles in its inventory, “asymmetric warfare” will always be regarded as an unsportsmanlike proposition.
c.f. the film The Battle of Algiers.
Journalist: M. Ben M'Hidi, don't you think it's a bit cowardly to use women's baskets and handbags to carry explosive devices that kill so many innocent people?
Ben M'Hidi: And doesn't it seem to you even more cowardly to drop napalm bombs on defenseless villages, so that there are a thousand times more innocent victims? Of course, if we had your airplanes it would be a lot easier for us. Give us your bombers, and you can have our baskets.
https://archive.org/details/TheBattleOfAlgiers1966
Forgot that line, thanks.
I think RFK Jr. loaned him his brain worm.
Timing is everything in showbiz. Maher chose to flex his contrairian schtick at the exact moment the entire country was united in believing we had been unfairly ATTACKED on our native soil and INNOCENT AMERICANS DIED!!! Our right wing has been chasing that high of "finally, everyone agrees with us" ever since. I forget Tom Snyder's sin around the same time but vaguely recall it was similar. Nobody defended him either.
Not everyone was united in believing that. He was just the only one dumb enough to say anything publicly. Nothing pisses off Americans quite like someone telling them the truth right to their faces.
Don't get me wrong, that bravery joke was one of the few times he ever made me laugh. I didn't think he had it in him, turns out he didn't.
Not every single American was united in that belief, but the vast ajority were. But for 2 very different reasons. Some of us were appalled by the senseless death and stunned by the scope of the attack, even if we believed America was far from innocent. This was a crime and those responsible must be punished. The rest were PI-II-ISSED OFF that a bunch of towel heads dared attack US! In our OWN HOUSE! And all they wanted was to open a can a' whoop-ass on some, any of those camel jockeys, Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue as Toby Keith put it.
I trust you see a difference even if the responses look similar. But that similarity was enough for Bush to implement PNAC and fuck over America and the world for the indefinite future. All the terrorist crap they're spouting about the people they've kidnapped is directly from Bush's Bottomless Cup of Global War on Terror, a "war" deliberately designed to be unwinnable and unkillable.
I had completely forgotten about PNAC until you reminded me. Are we in it now? I'm not feeling the Newness, nor the Americanness.
It feels like a Century so far.
Since late January.
I don't recall Tom Snyder having any problems, but Phil Donahue definitely got the axe for not being "U!S!A! U!S!A!" enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program
As for Maher, well, stopped clock, etc.
Dammit, you're correct, sir. All those late night hosts start blurring together when you're as old as me. It all started going downhill when Jack Parr was replaced by that kid Johnny Carson.
Maher got off easy compared to Phil Donahue
It's quite a fucking thing, all these Nazis running around ferreting out antisemites.
And it's hard to deny, their transparency is truly admirable!
That Bill Maher, hoo- boy. I think of Bill when I hear the phrase," that's lower than whale shit and that's on the bottom of the ocean. Was he a classmate.of yours? I hope he was and you beat his ass one day.
You a Cornell man? He was always an asshole by all accounts. If you matriculated high above Cayuga's waters, you have my respect and my sincere sympathy.
Roy, I thought.Olbermann too.
Comrade!
I'm not forgetting how for years the Right was *demanding* antisemites be allowed to speak on campus before they suddenly reversed position.
Righties be goin' "hmmm...tricky..."
“Orchestrated howls of the damned.” Isn’t that just rock, especially metal? It can be quite beautiful. This gives me hope that RecOp’s music may be a scosh listenable.
It would be an aural wonder if some talented modern composer would take Roy’s descriptions of Received Opinion’s bumper music and write “music”, or just sounds, that comport with those descriptions. An RO music fest. Something to distract us from the county’s rapid, horrific descent into whatever future historians will call this madness.
Your suggested piece might be composed around the aural motif, "musical squeegee on a shit-smeared windshield."
A *scheißmotif,” if you will.
Ooh, nice one —
Eine Kleine scheißmusik.
Look at you guys, with your German orthography. And on Substack!
Oy...
I just cut n' pasted, without Snarki, I'd be nothing.
Great idea!
Contact Trevor Horn and Anne Dudley of the Art of Noise!
I think Alarm Will Sound would also fit the bill.
Negativland or The Rudy Schwartz Project might be other options.
"NEW WEIRD ORDER!" To think, Tim Walz tried warning the viewers.
Captain Spaulding and the duck are exactly what's called for! Otherwise, the proceedings would need to be all "orchestrated howls of the damned" alternating with "Curb" theme.
And speaking of transparency: Chafe getting on the horn with Kash.
Elsewhere:
"What can we reasonably say about the lady who's Nellie Bowles spouse?"
"That's no lady: it's Bari Weiss..."
Peoni may have hit on something (and I don't mean her head on the edge of the coffee table as she collapses to the floor in an alcoholic stupor.) We can't deport all the immigrants because we NEED these people to do our scut-work (like cleaning Peoni's vomit off the couch). But what we can do is ensure that the ones who remain live in a state of abject terror, and watch their step, and especially watch their mouths and don't go talking to the other maids about the things they've seen. Oh, the things they've seen.
Uninterruped supply of room cleaners for Mar-a-Lardo, and similar servitude throughout the business empire.
"And To Think That I Saw It In Peoni's Place"
I'm always touched by Bolt's efforts to be fair. Can we get him to replace Kristin Welker?
UPRIGHT: Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?
DOYENNE: (hiccups) Democracy? (giggles)
Rhetorical question: is Buff Toehold no longer available because he's second assistant director of the FBI?
Buff Toehold, Ambassador to the Court of St. James.
I thought he got sent to a farm upstate
You know the real painful part of this is that it is so real, while also being so funny.
We're at the point of Tomorrow's News Today here. Be 1 up on your friends, read REBID!
My question is how can I get behind on the news, specifically about six months behind?
You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if I was.
I think so Bernain, but if Donald Trump is President and not King, how can he break so many laws