That front handle is sho' nuff for a reason. Kicks up and to the left (now, now) like a mule. Saw one demo'ed at the FBI, all the guy could do hang on to the thing (Yeah, demo, that's the ticket!). Big burly agent still acting like he's breaking a horse, bullets spraying in a general direction.
But then, like horseshoes and thermonuclear weapons, close is all you need.
Ah, there’s nothing like the bucolic squalor of the rural gentleman’s club during hunting season. (Usually full of out-of-state hunters replacing their blood with Jim Beam)
Everything Trump touches, dies. Let's see of the RNC can survive the tsunami of stupid that's about to drown it. From what I've seen, Lara Trump couldn't organize a two-car funeral if you spotted her the hearse and the flower car. So even though the aim is to completely loot the organization, that's probably going to fail as nobody is going to be able to keep anything straight. Oh, the RNC will end up bankrupt, but most of that money is just going to evaporate in no-show jobs for friends and family of the lower-layer Trumps instead of flowing directly into Donnie Dollhands' pockets.
The criticism of Ronna McDaniel was lackluster fundraising, let's see how well that goes once it gets out that every dollar raised goes straight to Trump.
Everything these people touch turns to s***. I am hopeful they fire everyone at the RNC that knows how to organize anything. It can only lose the Republicans more down ballot seats they can't afford.
WTF?... I see, advocating for. Which, it is fair to assume, means money.
The potential for misuse of user data goes lightyears beyond Tik Tok, but there's no reason to directly enable Chinese intelligence gathering.
Who knows what's already being done with all that info, let alone its potential. The Chinese government uses facial recognition for social control. It will use AI to weaponize personal data. Many entities will, but they stand out - the surface, at least, of their dystopian evolution is in the open.
Facebook was made to harvest data for profit, with the social network as a lure; if we interpret profit more broadly, things get scary.
(I'm not well-informed. This stuff is just in the news as I know it.)
I tend to blurt out sensitive personal information and shall we say interesting opinions. Less so now that I'm sober.
I don't share images or videos, however, as is the norm these days.
Consider also the alternate accounts that people make. I'm tempted to say more here, because I have poor boundaries and no shame. But many people have vulnerabilities, especially if they're unbalanced.
Mostly steam trains, but I'm also diesel-curious. If we're doin' a cold-start on a diesel that's been sitting neglected in a train yard for thirty years, I am SO there.
Gosh, they might look at my data and learn about socialism! Or dry humor, absurdist religion, or roleplaying games. I'm sure that'll all shake the towers of heaven, it will.
Til yesterday, the standard Republican line on Tik Tok was that it was The Most Evil Thing Ever, it even got a shout-out in Katie Britt's SOTU response for wanting to "control the minds of our children" or some such shit.
Then Trump comes out and says nah, they're OK and suddenly it's "We've always been at war with Eastasia" time.
That Stepford of the Union response was wild. Like a mashup of Marsha Blackburn, Glenn Close from Fatal Attraction, and every character ever played by Molly Shannon.
This is my thought, too. You wanna purge the professionals and replace them with cronies? Have at it. Just be sure to film the ensuing farce, because it's going to be hilarious. Next, let's (try to) imagine what would happen if Trump won, and they fired 50,000 civil servants (as they say they will), and replaced them with...what? Why, 50,000 morons, of course. The mind, or what's left of it, reels.
Isn't there some kind of law about not being able to fire federal employees without due process? I know he wouldn't respect the law, but maybe our friends at the ACLU could tie his ass up in federal court (the only thing federal court seems good for anyway) for a couple years til we get the impeachment done? Remember, failing to plan is planning to fail!
It sounds sexy to be able to say he can just fire 50 or 100 thousand people, but it will no longer be sexy when planes crash, power and water shut down, and Social Security checks stop coming.
"TRUMP is wearing his Jackie-Gleason-in-Miami-Beach outfit, but with the additional of a red ceremonial sash with the Mar-a-Lago emblem on it."
Dunno why, but that sash 😂
Ditto "...celebrity murderer KYLE RITTENHOUSE..."
Anyway, an update re yesterday's post.
The only thing I cared about Oscars-wise was that last I knew, Lemmi, the true star of "Anaomy of a Fall" was being cancelled from the Oscars because he was a foreign dog.
Apparently, while I wasn't paying attention, he was allowed to enter the country and attend. OTOH, whoever made him look like he was clapping should be, I dunno, hung or something for the disrespect.
Best not fuck with Steve Bannon. He looks like a schlub.( I bet he's one of the few people who doesn't mind or even notice the Trunp-stank everybody talks about.)
Steve Bannon had a rental in Florida between 2014 and 2016. When he left the landlord claimed over $14,000 in damage had been done to the place. Of particular interest is the hot tub filled with acid. Hot tub. Filled. With acid. Jesus Christ eh? Steve Bannon just doesn't seem like the kind of guy who refinishes vintage car parts. I mean," hot tub filled with acid" must be at least three or four on the top 10 list of how to tell if someone you know is a serial killer.
Peter Navarro is going to jail this week, the fuckin' loser. He asked his judge for the same deal Bannon got (stay out of jail while your appeal wends its way through the federal court system or until the sun runs out of hydrogen, whichever comes first) and the judge told him to pound sand. Bet if he was REAL gangsta with a hot tub full of acid the judge woulda let him off.
Just look at his skin, what kind of chemical reactions might take place if it ever came in contact with water, nobody knows. I'm guessing some kind of Wicked Witch of the West thing.
Now they're claiming this is just removing needless duplication, the Trump campaign already has people doing communications, for example, so why would the RNC need a communications staff? Which makes sense if the RNC's only job is to elect Donald Trump. Let's hope this means the RNC forgets to do anything with the 435 House seats up for election since none of the candidates in those races is named Donald Trump.
Even if they don't forget, they won't have much (or any) money to help those 435. It's all going to Trump's lawyers. Which raises the v. amusing possibility of the GOP losing bigly the House, all so Trump could loot its coffers.
Don't mean to get overly optimistic here, but this does have me doubting whether Trump really, seriously intends to be a dictator, or just wants to get into office one more time so he can order the DOJ to dismiss all his federal cases and then spend the four years griftin' full-time.
His buddy Orban could have told him you can't really do the dictator thing right without control of the legislature.
DOJ and federal law enforcement are where the President has maximum flexibility and power (even more so than the military, I think, which still seems to have some internalized respect for the Constitution, a thing all cops would laugh at.) So yes, serious harm to millions of vulnerable people even under this "best case" scenario.
Yes--well, that, and maybe using "Day One" to wreak vengeance on his enemies, which is the other thing he lives for. And if the same holds true for the Senate, and the Dems solidify their control of that, then it would be child's play to impeach him again. Thus, it will be interesting to see whom he picks for VP, and his idea of who would represent his insurance against that. How about that "feral" (Josh Marshall's word) candidate for governor of North Carolina?
Even after mandatory charity re-education, Junior doesn’t know what a comptroller is? The retired judge overseeing Trumpco must be having a field day sorting the fraudulent materials from the merely incompetent. Meanwhile, ADHGTV is the brain disorder that makes you think you can remodel and flip a house in Salinas, Kansas, like they do in LA.
[taking notes furiously and checking home equity trends on Zillow]
"Sorry, what? Oh, I'm just thinking about some real estate options I might work on - you know, affordable housing, starter homes, getting folks in on the ground floor, maybe work that all up into a little political capital somehow, take the show on the road, maybe topple the federal system and skim the profits..."
So we're already up to the Night Of Long Knives?
Nah. One straight jab from Dibs is worth half a dozen knives with these mugs.
Afternoon Of Large Knuckles.
Whoops, should have framed that better. That was about the Politico article and the RNC purge. Lara Trump is wasting no time.
Talking about the current meatspace shenanigans. I would never critique the Boss' writing,. The very idea. Sheesh.
Night of the Steak Knives. It's like Glengarry Glen Ross, where third place is YOU'RE FIRED.
And it’s all in good fun til the dessert cart comes and the big cake reveals some mug with a machine gun.
I would give my besuited goons Thompson submachine guns. The drum magazines are cool and nostalgic.
Something something 'drum machines instead, kidsthesedays'.
Idea for bad 'Nineties rap video: Tommy-guns with the drums replaced with turntables, somehow the tonearms stay in place.
When the barrel's pointed straight up, the record is parallel to the floor.
Rendering the gun ceremonial, which is fine for a video.
That front handle is sho' nuff for a reason. Kicks up and to the left (now, now) like a mule. Saw one demo'ed at the FBI, all the guy could do hang on to the thing (Yeah, demo, that's the ticket!). Big burly agent still acting like he's breaking a horse, bullets spraying in a general direction.
But then, like horseshoes and thermonuclear weapons, close is all you need.
Hearted for that "now, now" 'cause I was gonna say somethin'. Good catch.
Guy knows his audience.
And nobody leaves til I get the recipe.
Night of the Short Fingers (wait, that's every night)
Dawn of the Nerf-bats.
And the Short Guns. Whistleblower for Boeing found in a motel room due to, a-hem :Suicide with a Firearm.
Sheesh.
Very suspicious. If the guy wanted to kill himself, why didn't he just sit by the emergency exit?
Oof, you dog.
Youths? Vote? Not if they are devotees of Kyle.
Dibs is always cleanin' up the messes. Give him a raise. Or maybe Chancellor of the Exbag-checker.
"Chancellor of the Exbag-checker" ha! No complaints at Danceteria when Dibs was running coat check
Pristine suit throughout the night, and not a drop of sweat dare shade his brow!
Never a wrong move from that one
Relocate your polling place inside a strip club, and the Kyles of America will turn out.
Pole-ing place, Shirley.
Oh, you.
Ah, there’s nothing like the bucolic squalor of the rural gentleman’s club during hunting season. (Usually full of out-of-state hunters replacing their blood with Jim Beam)
What you got against rural economic development? Farmer's daughters are an important natural resource.
Renewable, too!
You don't say. Anyhow, you two are welcome to stay for dinner, and spend the night if need be. Just don't touch my daughters.
I will be sorely disappointed if Junior Samples doesn’t make an appearance.
Everything Trump touches, dies. Let's see of the RNC can survive the tsunami of stupid that's about to drown it. From what I've seen, Lara Trump couldn't organize a two-car funeral if you spotted her the hearse and the flower car. So even though the aim is to completely loot the organization, that's probably going to fail as nobody is going to be able to keep anything straight. Oh, the RNC will end up bankrupt, but most of that money is just going to evaporate in no-show jobs for friends and family of the lower-layer Trumps instead of flowing directly into Donnie Dollhands' pockets.
It's a money laundering operation courtesy of Citizens United.
I suspect the upcoming disarray will benefit us all at State and national levels.
The criticism of Ronna McDaniel was lackluster fundraising, let's see how well that goes once it gets out that every dollar raised goes straight to Trump.
Everything these people touch turns to s***. I am hopeful they fire everyone at the RNC that knows how to organize anything. It can only lose the Republicans more down ballot seats they can't afford.
My only fear is that it's 60 more Republicans who get hired as panelists on MSNBC.
LOL!
Alla them bills scurryin' 'round in a panic as the Chief Bill cries "Every dollar for itself!"
Anthromorphic bill says, "I feel so... DIRTY"
See: laundry bill
She has that severe, brittle mein of all high-profile MAGA broads.
I saw yesterday that Kelly Anne Conway is now working for Tik-Tok.
WTF?... I see, advocating for. Which, it is fair to assume, means money.
The potential for misuse of user data goes lightyears beyond Tik Tok, but there's no reason to directly enable Chinese intelligence gathering.
Who knows what's already being done with all that info, let alone its potential. The Chinese government uses facial recognition for social control. It will use AI to weaponize personal data. Many entities will, but they stand out - the surface, at least, of their dystopian evolution is in the open.
Facebook was made to harvest data for profit, with the social network as a lure; if we interpret profit more broadly, things get scary.
(I'm not well-informed. This stuff is just in the news as I know it.)
Well, there need to be protections for user data throughout the industry, instead of anti-China hysteria focused on just one company.
Maybe someone else knows: What's this "data" that they're collecting on us? That I like videos about old trains?
I tend to blurt out sensitive personal information and shall we say interesting opinions. Less so now that I'm sober.
I don't share images or videos, however, as is the norm these days.
Consider also the alternate accounts that people make. I'm tempted to say more here, because I have poor boundaries and no shame. But many people have vulnerabilities, especially if they're unbalanced.
Steam or coal? Makes a big difference to the Chinese, you know.
Mostly steam trains, but I'm also diesel-curious. If we're doin' a cold-start on a diesel that's been sitting neglected in a train yard for thirty years, I am SO there.
The two genders: steam and diesel.
Gosh, they might look at my data and learn about socialism! Or dry humor, absurdist religion, or roleplaying games. I'm sure that'll all shake the towers of heaven, it will.
"So you see, comrade, the true weakness of the American capitalists is the TWERKING."
they might also work out your passwords, setup credit card accounts in your name or post misinformation to X
Til yesterday, the standard Republican line on Tik Tok was that it was The Most Evil Thing Ever, it even got a shout-out in Katie Britt's SOTU response for wanting to "control the minds of our children" or some such shit.
Then Trump comes out and says nah, they're OK and suddenly it's "We've always been at war with Eastasia" time.
That Stepford of the Union response was wild. Like a mashup of Marsha Blackburn, Glenn Close from Fatal Attraction, and every character ever played by Molly Shannon.
Also, the fact she was lying about, well, EVERYTHING, and SNL "reported" on her lies before the NYTimes got around to it.
This is my thought, too. You wanna purge the professionals and replace them with cronies? Have at it. Just be sure to film the ensuing farce, because it's going to be hilarious. Next, let's (try to) imagine what would happen if Trump won, and they fired 50,000 civil servants (as they say they will), and replaced them with...what? Why, 50,000 morons, of course. The mind, or what's left of it, reels.
Periodic reminder that Charles Guiteau is why there was a Pendleton Act of 1883.
Isn't there some kind of law about not being able to fire federal employees without due process? I know he wouldn't respect the law, but maybe our friends at the ACLU could tie his ass up in federal court (the only thing federal court seems good for anyway) for a couple years til we get the impeachment done? Remember, failing to plan is planning to fail!
I don't know, but it would be hilarious if it were true.
There very much is (see Title 5 of the United States Code: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5).
It sounds sexy to be able to say he can just fire 50 or 100 thousand people, but it will no longer be sexy when planes crash, power and water shut down, and Social Security checks stop coming.
(I'm a retired Fed. I laugh to keep from crying.)
I'm retired fed-adjacent. The missus is happy to be retired but she can't completely disengage. Too much at stake, an' all 'at.
"TRUMP is wearing his Jackie-Gleason-in-Miami-Beach outfit, but with the additional of a red ceremonial sash with the Mar-a-Lago emblem on it."
Dunno why, but that sash 😂
Ditto "...celebrity murderer KYLE RITTENHOUSE..."
Anyway, an update re yesterday's post.
The only thing I cared about Oscars-wise was that last I knew, Lemmi, the true star of "Anaomy of a Fall" was being cancelled from the Oscars because he was a foreign dog.
Apparently, while I wasn't paying attention, he was allowed to enter the country and attend. OTOH, whoever made him look like he was clapping should be, I dunno, hung or something for the disrespect.
Goddamn foreign dogs stealin' our DOG JOBS
Puppy Dreamers! Just you wait!
Some of them, I assume, are good boys.
The way it works, they’re all correctly presumed to be good. The only bad ones are the mad dog killers.
And for the record: Biden’s dogs were framed by MAGAt SS agents.
😂😂😂
Manqueman laughs!
Must not be Monday anymore...
Maybe so but, in my eyes, he’s a star. Respect.
O Sweet Jesus -
"ADHGTV'
Is that ever funny.!
Best not fuck with Steve Bannon. He looks like a schlub.( I bet he's one of the few people who doesn't mind or even notice the Trunp-stank everybody talks about.)
Steve Bannon had a rental in Florida between 2014 and 2016. When he left the landlord claimed over $14,000 in damage had been done to the place. Of particular interest is the hot tub filled with acid. Hot tub. Filled. With acid. Jesus Christ eh? Steve Bannon just doesn't seem like the kind of guy who refinishes vintage car parts. I mean," hot tub filled with acid" must be at least three or four on the top 10 list of how to tell if someone you know is a serial killer.
Wrong kinda acid there, chum. Hip landlord knows his stuff when he sees/tastes it.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a53807/bannon-acid/
Acid Hot Tub Time Machine
Peter Navarro is going to jail this week, the fuckin' loser. He asked his judge for the same deal Bannon got (stay out of jail while your appeal wends its way through the federal court system or until the sun runs out of hydrogen, whichever comes first) and the judge told him to pound sand. Bet if he was REAL gangsta with a hot tub full of acid the judge woulda let him off.
Maybe Bannon mails people pictures of his hot tub
That can be pretty effective, especially if you rig up a skeletal hand trailing over the side.
On the back of the card it says, "Thinking of you..."
Just look at his skin, what kind of chemical reactions might take place if it ever came in contact with water, nobody knows. I'm guessing some kind of Wicked Witch of the West thing.
“Yeah, the waitresses! You make ‘em sick. Only the illegals let you fuck them ‘cause they’re scared we’ll send ‘em back to Guatemala.”
Basically the same mindset of certain buildings contractors I know: abuse undocumented workers and then threaten to deport them.
The pratfalls are Stooge-worthy.
He was bangin' cocktail waitresses two at a time! The customers couldn't get a drink!
The Trump family: It's all Fredos, all the way down.
And Trump himself is Sonny. That's all they got.
Not a Michael in the whole lot.
Let alone Vito.
Would that be Fred? Or Fred's dad? Or the guy who first set up the best little whorehouse in Alaska?
The Waitresses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsneH0mOq-0
nicely done.
Ryle Kittenhouse
What's the fuckin' RNC need staff for, anyway? Somethin' important happenin' this year I didn't hear about?
Now they're claiming this is just removing needless duplication, the Trump campaign already has people doing communications, for example, so why would the RNC need a communications staff? Which makes sense if the RNC's only job is to elect Donald Trump. Let's hope this means the RNC forgets to do anything with the 435 House seats up for election since none of the candidates in those races is named Donald Trump.
Like what they're going do to Social Security. Just get rid of the waste and give all the jobs to your minions. What could go wrong?
The man has a record of proven success in the private sector to point to.
Even if they don't forget, they won't have much (or any) money to help those 435. It's all going to Trump's lawyers. Which raises the v. amusing possibility of the GOP losing bigly the House, all so Trump could loot its coffers.
Don't mean to get overly optimistic here, but this does have me doubting whether Trump really, seriously intends to be a dictator, or just wants to get into office one more time so he can order the DOJ to dismiss all his federal cases and then spend the four years griftin' full-time.
His buddy Orban could have told him you can't really do the dictator thing right without control of the legislature.
The self-pardons and grifting are the purpose, the dictating and cruelty are left to Steven Miller, et al - too much work for too little reward.
DOJ and federal law enforcement are where the President has maximum flexibility and power (even more so than the military, I think, which still seems to have some internalized respect for the Constitution, a thing all cops would laugh at.) So yes, serious harm to millions of vulnerable people even under this "best case" scenario.
Yes--well, that, and maybe using "Day One" to wreak vengeance on his enemies, which is the other thing he lives for. And if the same holds true for the Senate, and the Dems solidify their control of that, then it would be child's play to impeach him again. Thus, it will be interesting to see whom he picks for VP, and his idea of who would represent his insurance against that. How about that "feral" (Josh Marshall's word) candidate for governor of North Carolina?
Byron Donalds. A prick *and* a crook!
They still have the NRCCC and the NSCCC to try and elect people to Congress. At least until the Trumps figure out a way to tap that money, too
Fuck. Every time I get to feelin' good, reality comes along to harsh my mellow.
Uncanny channeling, as always. This is extra awe-inspiring, the groupie-fuhrers and ADHGTV.
😆😆😆😂😂
“on which is lain a purple cloth”
I haven’t even made it to the dialog and already I’ve swooned. Yes, I said it, and I’d say it again if I had to: I (figuratively) swooned.
No swooner said than done!
In re. Junior: 'Two at a time'?
Be fair; it's as high as he can count.
Two? What would I do with two?
The same as you do with one!
Truly, Fiddler on the Roof has a quote for every occasion.
ADHGTV! Lord High Executioner! There are riches here.
Put a forty year old episode of This Old House up against any modern home-remodeling show and you'll see the name actually fits.
Even after mandatory charity re-education, Junior doesn’t know what a comptroller is? The retired judge overseeing Trumpco must be having a field day sorting the fraudulent materials from the merely incompetent. Meanwhile, ADHGTV is the brain disorder that makes you think you can remodel and flip a house in Salinas, Kansas, like they do in LA.
[taking notes furiously and checking home equity trends on Zillow]
"Sorry, what? Oh, I'm just thinking about some real estate options I might work on - you know, affordable housing, starter homes, getting folks in on the ground floor, maybe work that all up into a little political capital somehow, take the show on the road, maybe topple the federal system and skim the profits..."