"Глупота сьогодні здобула всесвітню повагу, і з неї вже не можна насміхатися. Та й, виглядає, сміятися вже нікому." ~ Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
Translation from Ukranian: "Stupidity has gained universal respect today, and it can no longer be mocked. And, it looks like, no one laughs anymore."
As I've stated many times before, satire is dead. The situations we face are absurd, nonsensical, and in the truest sense, maddening.
Here is the latest in our American stupidity.
Clowns, Corruption, Conniptions, and Cortex Decay
Cortex Decay
The decay keeps on decaying.
He continues to fall asleep whenever he can. Sitting, standing, at a taxpayer-paid-$10million basketball game for which he closed down Manhattan.
There's Dozy Don, snoozing' away, always right out there in front of cameras.
He has been experiencing increased word finding difficulties. His pet project, the repainting of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, has been front and center on his mind, and yet he has difficulty recalling the names of the D.C. monuments and the Pool itself. Here is Polichick, reciting his words, showing his word-finding difficulties and the larger scrambled brain. I share her so you don't have to hear his mouth fart sounds.
While he is perseverating on the Reflecting Pool project, he is learning fun facts, such as that the Pool is quite long.
In his latest third-grade show and tell, he had this graphic made up, and he has pulled it out multiple times.
"Our Pool is Bigger than Skyscrapers"
Good job, Donnie, but points off for what the fuck are you talking about?
The Reflecting Pool perseveration shite is a great example of his demented brain. He is reverting back to what he knows best: construction. It has been his life's work, and even though the country is falling apart, inflation is surging, public health crises such as the screwworm are on the horizon, and there is a failing war raging that he started while attached to Bibi's strings, he cannot process any of that stuff. He can process building and "beautifying" and gilding everything in sight.
This is typical of dementia patients. They can and will talk about what has been most important in their life.
Speaking of the Reflecting Pool. The project is completed, at a cost of $14 million of our money, but the pool is quickly filling with algae. Yay.
And speaking of gilding, he is getting out that gold paintbrush and golding up everything in sight. You are aware of his gaudy-izing the Whitesupremacy House, but may not have noticed the latest outside.
Horse statues.
He is spending $5.1 million of your and my money to regild ....errrr rather, auramax, the 75-year-old horses. Right on! Thank gawd he's not wasting that dough on health insurance or childcare!
Next project:
Believe none of what they say and half of what they do.
He keeps bothering about "beautifying" D.C. and that it was in squalor before he rolled into town. And then he does this.
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| The White Trashing of America |
Every aspect of that stoopid UFC event was disheartening. The egotistical birthday party for a decaying man-baby, the money spent, the disgusting spectacle of men beating each other to pulp, and most of all, the cheapening of the White House.
Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times said it well:
Trump sat ringside beside his wife, Melania Trump, as fighters whaled on one another inches away inside an eight-sided cage wrapped in cryptocurrency advertisements....
It was all such an astonishing sight for so many reasons: The use of the trappings of the White House for violent cage fighting. The corporate sponsorships. The eruptions of casual cruelty. At one point, a fighter took the mic and made a nasty joke about Michelle Obama while standing in front of the house she once lived in with her husband, daughters and mother.
DUMB
He also recently learned that dumb is spelled with a b.
It begs the question, didn't he learn this fact when he was taping "Kick me – I'm dumb" signs to the backs of his schoolmates?
Who's gonna tell him? ⬇️
"Shooting in a moderate manner"
He keeps on making up new definitions of words to suit his needs. Now, apparently, ceasefire means, "shooting in a moderate manner."
Inflation also has entered into the Upside Down.
Guess what, friends? Inflation is very good!
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
I love the inflation!
Clowns
Did you see that clown Whiskey Pete trying to work out with Real Men from the United States Army?
Yikes.
Kinda sorta flies in the face of his "the only real man is a big muscle man" philosophy, don't it?
The clown Greg Bovino has floated running for president. What alternate universe does he live in? If he drags us into that universe, the good lordt help us all.
The enabling clown Dr. bOZo made light of TRUMP's numerous trips to Walter Reed as "he likes it."
Remember the clown (called so by his very own boss, btw) Marco Rubio, who has been shaking in his oversized Florshiems at the very thought of pushing back against the Donfather?
Rubio doubled down on the clown shoes debacle when he was called out by Rep. Sara Jacobs (D - Calif.) on his fear to cross Dear Leader.
Conniptions
OOoooh what a conniption!
Another confession/accusation (shall we call them accufessions? confusations?) when he spat, "You're either crooked or you're stupid."
He blew his top during an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker. She pressed him on the fact that he keeps harping on "rigged elections" without evidence. He couldn't stand that another strong woman was standing up to him, and the toddler did what toddlers do.
Here's the clip. Disgusting behavior.
Earlier this month we were treated to a week's absence of appearances by the Orange Head, but yet he continues to lie that he is in perfect shape and his third "annual" checkup in a year was "extremely good" and his cognitive exam "perfect."
My ass.
Corruption
So much corruption
CBS: another MAGAt mouthpiece
CBS, under murdurous guidance from Beri Weiss, killed the storied news magazine show 60 Minutes, which has kept us informed with hard-hitting journalism for 58 years.
I'll let esteemed veteran 60 Minutes journalist Scott Pelley give you the low-down. This is one of the most chilling things I have ever heard.
Here is more from that interview.
and one more segment:
Find the whole interview with the New York Times's Lulu Garcia-Navarro here.
The war with Iran keeps on warring
It's so tiring to hear him say in one breath, "Iran better behave or it will be obliterated," and in the next, "We'll have a deal in a couple days," only to have Iran correct the record, saying, "Nope. We're behaving how we want, and we're not close to a deal."
Check this chyron from CNN:
Late breaking news as I hit "publish." It was announced that there is apparently a deal to end the war. Details are sparse but it appears that the Strait of Hormuz will fully open, Iran will discontinue its enrichment program, and they will get their seized assets back.
In other words, back to where we were before, with the added bonus of Iran getting their money and the U.S. depleting its stock of missiles.
Inflation keeps inflating
With the war spiking fuel prices, and therefore spiking prices on goods and services that rely on fuel (think everything we buy), the last inflation report showed that prices are up 4.2% over last year.
Ouch.
Headline:
Elon Musk is the planet's first trillionaire
With the recent IPO of SpaceX, Elong got the Most Money on the Planet Award.
It is just gross. One pasty white racist hoarding an ungodly trillion dollars. What is wrong with the world?
It's hard to fathom how much a trillion is. It's a thousand billions, friends. It is a million millions.
According to TheCalculatorSite.com:
- If Elon Musk started today and spent $1,000,000 each and every single day, it would take him just about 2,740 years to spend it all.
- If you were able to count one number per second, it would take you 31,688 years to count to one trillion.
- If Elon Musk took one million of his $100 bills and stacked them up, it would be about 40 inches tall. $1 billion in $100 bills would stack 40,000 inches (about 0.63 miles high). If Elmo stacked $1 trillion in $100 dollar bills, it would soar for 631 miles. Gee that's even taller than the
ReflectionReflectingLakePoolPondPool.
Seriously. How much does one person need? Wouldn't a steady million be quite enough to make a person fairly comfortable through life? Why would anyone need a million millions?
Speaking of dough...
Baby Hands wants to put his face on a $250 bill in commemoration of the United States's 250th birthday.
Nevermind that it takes years and years of design and planning to create new currency.
Print this out and use it:
ICEtrocities
The larger ICE crisis seems to have melted a bit, but in reality it has simply refocused from citywide atrocities to concentration camp and personal-level atrocities.
For example, the Delaney Detention Center.
Truthfully, my mental health has not wanted me to delve too deeply into the crisis at Delaney, located near Newark, New Jersey.
The conditions there are horrendous and inhumane. The agents running the place are refusing to allow inspections, refusing to allow family visits, refusing to improve conditions.
There have been widespread and growing hunger strikes and violent protests in reaction to the inhumane conditions.
Congress is trying to get answers, but current Secretary of Homeland Insecurity Markwayneleebillybobroy Mullin has been stonewalling. See him being questioned by Rep. Anatolia Mejia (D - N.J.) and Sen. Chris Murphy (D - N.Y.).
Светлые пятна (Bright Spots)
Judicial Wins
The visa is designed for highly-paid foreign workers who have specialized skills. The court deemed the outrageous fee as an unlawful tax that Congress did not approve. The fee will now return to its usual, which is between $2000 and $5000.
History at National Parks must be restored
The Whitesupremacy House's attempts at whitewashing our complex history will not fly. A federal judge ordered the return of all the exhibits and interpretive signs that supposedly cast the United States in a bad light. These include exhibits about slavery, Japanese interment camps, atrocities against Natives, Pride, and other pieces of our dark history, all of it important to know as we work toward a more perfect union.
Dumpy's name was removed from the Kennedy Center
U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper ordered The Felon's name be removed, writing, "The Kennedy Center's organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board's unilateral say-so. Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it."
Boo-yah!
The work was done under cover this past weekend. Workers kept it from public view, but it didn't stop the public from coming out in the middle of the night to watch and celebrate.
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| Done and done. |
Trolls
Someone tried to dead-grass "86 47" in the National Mall's lawn.
The "8" started appearing fairly strongly, and you can make out faint "6," "4," and "7."
The U.S. Park Police is investigating.
Hunter Biden has come out from beneath the bridge to reveal himself as one hilarious troll.
The New York Times is not Ignoring the Epstein Files
A bombshell article was published a week or so ago. It uncovers more about the disturbing actions of rich, powerful men and the attempts to cover up awful acts, including strategy sessions that took place in the White House's Situation Room, a place that has been reserved for war planning.
Read what Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan uncovered here: Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files (gift article)
Here's more: NYT's summary of all of what we know so far: The Big Questions About Jeffrey Epstein: What The Times Has Learned (gift article)
This is not going away. We will keep pushing and digging and the truth will be set bare. Remember, the entire collection of documents were ordered to be released many months ago, and yet only half of the 6 million files have been released (and heavily redacted, at that).
Positive or Negative? We will see.
SCOTUS is finishing up their work before summer vacation, and they are going to publish their decisions on matters that may work to move the country farther into the bowels of authoritarianism.
The cases include birthright citizenship, trans athletes, mail-in ballots, and much more. Big decisions. Huge decisions.
Read up on what is coming on the docket here: NPR, The Supreme Court is in its final stretch this term. Here are the major cases left
Memes n' Such
It was his 80th birthday today and Gov. Gavin Newsom helped him celebrate:
Your Moment of Beauty
Enjoy these amazing musicians playing this smooth, sexy funkalicious song.
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