2025 archive
Republican Thought Police 0
- A diller, a dollar,
No funding for scholars.
A Show of Farce 0
David points out that Donald Trump’s narcissistic personality disorder birthday treating America’s military as a blow-up doll for his own personal gratification bash did not go so well. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)
Alternative Realities 0
As I was driving home from the nuptial ceremony I attended over the weekend, I found myself behind a car sporting a bumper sticker that read
Guns Save Lives.
Yeah.
I have no idea whether the person who placed that sticker on that car actually believed that or was simply proffering an offering at the feet of the idol of the portable phallus, but it indicates the extent to which persons are willing to live in alternative realities because, well, actual factual reality conflicts with their lusts and desires.
Speaking of alternative realities, Fox News is running an ad (no, I won’t link to it) about how Fox News unites the country.
Perhaps persons who watch Fox News (and its imitators) will fall for it.
I suspect that no one else will.
Courting Disaster 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports that the American public is getting wise to the Supreme Supremacist Court.
Not that it matters so long as the party of the New Secesh today’s Republican Party controls all three branches of government . . . .
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
An oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” chooses to celebrate a marital union by performing random acts of politeness.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Mild language.)
From the Youtube page:
Here’s a bit of (rude) fun to mark Donald’s birthday, with thanks to two people on social media who recommended the song to us, and we were amused. It’s derived from the Frozen movie and originally titled “Fixer Upper” (and sung by cute trolls, about a hoped-for marriage). Since it may be a niche reference unless you have kids/grandkids or are pretty young yourself, you can find the original here: • Maia Wilson, Cast of Frozen – Fixer Upper … .
In case this critique of Trump and his administration’s actions be conflated, this is also a chance to wish the US Army and all its veterans a happy 250th birthday! We couldn’t fit the graphic into the full-on montage, but found this cautionary phrase telling from the first Commander-in-Chief, George Washington, in his 1796 Farewell Address:
“ … disorders and miseries gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.”
The Pettiest Officers 0
Andreas Kluth examines the maliciousness of what he calls “the petty purges of Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio” and concluces that
Follow the link for his path to that conclusion.
All the News that Fits 0
David comments on ABC’s decision to fire Terry Moran and how it amounts to knuckling under to Trump self-censorship. A quote:
You don’t need to shut down the press when the press is too scared to speak . . . .
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
If you wish to take issue with peaceful demonstrators with whose views you disagree, be sure to conduct your counter-demonstration with politeness.
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A Matter of Priorities 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Lauren Necochea looks at Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and follows the money. A snippet:
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
(This post was inspired by a clue in a NYT crossword puzzle from a collection that I’m working my way through. I like crossword puzzles. The NYT has the best. Unlike its reportage.)
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Seth notes that Donald Trump’s pogrom against immigrants appears to be less popular than he might have expected.
