Friday Freak Out

In The Winchell's Donut® Midnite

Meta, Faacebook, Instagram: Criminal Fraud & Revenue

Are There No Laws?

Meta faces calls for Congress to probe scam ads targeting seniors

Retirement groups said seniors have lost millions of dollars while Meta profits from the ads.

The letter’s demands follow a report published last month by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit advocacy group, which alleged that Meta has profited by leaving up fraudulent ads, many of which target Medicare recipients.

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It’s not the first time Meta has faced scrutiny over the scams: Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) urged the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities Exchange Commission to open an investigation into the company in November after Reuters reported that Meta in internal documents projected 10 percent of its 2024 revenue would come from fraudulent ads. And in February, a group of bipartisan lawmakers pressed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over its plans to prevent and combat fraud on its platforms.

Reps. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) and Lou Correa (D-Calif.) also introduced bipartisan legislation earlier this year to combat predatory scam ads.

Any damn day now, Congress. Don't let me stop you. Or do the millionaire jerks "representing" us just want us all to die immediately?

In conclusion, Zuckerberg & his cronies are criminal scum. Lock 'em up, throw away the key, & give all of Meta's filthy money back to the people!

[POLITICO]

"Sauerkraut!"

Only number I can think of w/ "sauerkraut".I have got to stop paying attention to the outside world & its inane droning bullshit, lies & stupidity. Unfortunately, it surrounds me & I'm drowning in it.

Wall Street Journal:
Everyone in Trump's Cabinet Is Eating Sauerkraut  —  JD Vance, RFK Jr. and other officials swear by a diet of grass-fed meat and fermented foods, even when the sulfurous odors cause friction at home
Solange Reyner / NewsMax.com:   WSJ: Trump Officials Embrace Sauerkraut Diet

Nikki Schwab / Daily Mail:   Pungent sauerkraut diet fad is sweeping Trump's Cabinet - and one man is resisting it

Cate Martel / The Hill:   Vance defends Trump's controversial Iran deal

Travis Gettys / Raw Story:   ‘Bet it smell crazy in there’: White House's sauerkraut fad triggers revulsion

Rhian Lubin / The Independent:   Trump's cabinet has a new secret weapon - a sauerkraut diet

Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:   Sure, the Trump Cabinet's Weight-Loss Secret Is Definitely ‘Sauerkraut’

Trinity Gentry / The Daily Wire:   RFK Sparks Diet Craze In The President's Cabinet

Reda Wigle / New York Post:   RFK Jr., JD Vance and others in Trump's Cabinet are all doing the same diet — and it stinks

Max Grinstein / Washington Examiner:   Trump officials are eating all the sauerkraut they can get

Yes, "a diet of grass-fed meat and fermented foods". Where do people even get ideas like this? The mind boggles.

Not Every E-Mail

Watch The Nazis Run Your Town

Repent, or the demons will get you!!

Hicks Residents of rural areas are hereby warned:

The New Right Has a Blueprint for Building a Christian America

Inside the conservative plan to chart a new political future, one town at a time.

The Dominionist Plan to Create Theocratic ‘Confessional Counties’ in Rural U.S.

Rooting out pluralism is central to the plan for colonizing sparsely populated rural counties.

The project, he suggested, is part of the New Right’s broader effort to revitalize America by beating back the forces of progressivism, globalism and secular liberalism that they believe have led the country to the brink of destruction. The only difference is tactical. If the New Right’s approach at the national level is top-down — to remake the country by seizing (and, when necessary, abolishing) the primary institutions of political and cultural power — then RidgeRunner’s is the inverse: building local communities that seed a conservative transformation of the country from the bottom up. “If we want national renewal, one of the things we’re going to need is a renewal of the kind of hyper-local, self-governing virtues that were here at our founding,” Abbotoy said.

The bulk of the land, he explained, will be parceled out and sold for single-family development, the aesthetic continuity of which will be ensured by a homeowner’s association and an architectural control committee. (“English farming village-in-Appalachia feel,” Abbotoy said of his desired look.) In each neighborhood, the company will hold some land to operate as communal farmland or shared amenities like parks or playgrounds. Other parcels will be rented out or sold to “aligned” businesses.

So much for the First Amendment & the "free market".

Sounds like the usual Jesus affinity fraud grift covering a real estate scam. The next one is explicit in his disturbed demon paranoia & further fascist fantasies.

Here’s the basic idea behind Simmons’ plan: The U.S. is under a “land curse” from God because it has allowed abortion, sexual immorality, sabbath-breaking, and idolatry to go unpunished. The nation as a whole is not going to make sufficient repentance to get out from under the curse, but Christians can receive God’s blessing by carving out smaller societies that officially repent and commit themselves to living in accordance with God’s law.

“Spiritual warfare can be leveraged geographically,” Simmons writes. "Demons are not omnipresent and can be forced out of geographical areas through spiritual warfare.”

Well, that's a relief. I suspect most of the demons are in Washington now. As good an explanation as any.

This reporter is too lazy to excerpt & paste anything more; aficionados of these demon-haunted weirdoes will want to read it all.

Las Cartas

Obligatory daily item & reminder of your mortality.

The one card that always pans out:

Electricity!

Copyright 1876 by Currier & Ives, New York

Today is National Electricity Day, commemorating Ben Franklin connecting electricity & lightning on this date (or 10 June) 1752.I'm thinking this electricity stuff is overrated, or worse.

Look at that. First there is juice, then there is no juice, then there is.

Some of that intermittency is due to the searchlight car itself, so I s'pose now I'll have to blow 20 or so bones on a voltimeter. Battery makers: Please make an inexpensive battery small enough that it doesn't require a permanently coupled box car & will last four or five hrs. Thank you for your attention to this matter.If I have to buy a soldering iron & solder the damn rails together I will not be a happy camper. Unfortunately, there's really no one to blame but myself.

Cry-Baby

Aw, Mr. Conservative Muslim finds out what the "conservative" party really is: Nazis for Jesus.

Renzo Downey / The Texas Tribune:
A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention.  He left in tears.  —  Muslim delegates and attendees hoping to participate in the state Republican convention were shunned and rejected by members as they espoused themes of party unity ahead of the November election.

Dallas Express:   Cornyn Draws GOP Fire Over ‘Anti-Islam’ Frisco Election Post

Not that Mohammed-worshippers aren't brain-dead fools like the Judeo-Xians. You Moses fans think the Jesus/Paul the Apostle-worshippers won't kill you after they're in charge? The hell w/ Abraham & his bullshit Killer Fairy in the Sky, & all the crap started in its name.

And just how dense are Texas's turkeys that they're swallowing the "Sharia Law" load of codswallop? An entire state of scared little monkeys flinging poop. Are there no actual problems in Texas they could solve?

Death From Above

That's "Stratofortress", not "Stratoforce", you ignernt young person. Get a clue & a grip!

The B-52, in many variations, has been operated by the United States Air Force since 1955.

As of 2024, the US Air Force has 75 B-52s (of 744 built): 58 operated by active forces (2nd Bomb Wing and 5th Bomb Wing) 18 by reserve forces (307th Bomb Wing), and about 12 in long-term storage at the Davis-Monthan AFB Boneyard. The operational aircraft received upgrades between 2013 and 2015 and are expected to serve into the 2050s. The B-52H is the only operational variant, scheduled to be upgraded as the B-52J by 2030.

Oops. Make that 74.

TRUMP 2028!

He's The Peace Surrender President!

Sissified fucking idiots of YouTube won't let me embed Jim Morrison saying, "You're all a bunch of fucking idiots!!";
YouTube's bullshit has confirmed it. As have 77 million sucker-ass chumps & Nazis.

Piss In Our Time

The World's Biggest Loser Bends Over & Takes It

The deal Trump announced amid the roar, glitz, and ignominy of his UFC spectacle was an American surrender in a war that leaves us with less than we had when it started. This is what defeat looks, feels, and tastes like

Accelerated Vietnam.

[To the Contrary]

The Ancestral Home

Also where Johnny Manziel played high school football.

How the Kerrville Folk Festival became a hub for recovery — and hope

Much as I despise the word "hope" & hints of positivity, this could be worse. Of course it takes tragedy before anyone ever does something about the world's misery, so it really is all bullshit when you look at it honestly. Doing anything about flood control yet, Abbot?

[Via Off The Kuff]

Birdbrains

Hey you stupid seagulls: You're about 10 miles from the ocean.

Screw You, Jerk!

Here's a new one denying you something:

Video unavailableYou've found a private video made just for the artist's top fans.

Well la-di-fuckin' dah! Here's something you are allowed to listen to, the first good number that YouTube recommended after denying me "Dhafer Youssef - Bal d'âme (Street of Minarets) Live at Dougga International Festival - 2023." Eff you, Dhafer. How you think you're going to get "top fans" if no one can hear your stuff? Idiot!P.S.: Bal d'âme trsnslates as "Dance of the Soul", not "(Street of Minarets)".

I Will Have Justice!!

In a world of squealing rats, there is only vigilante justice!

Not one of you shallow pieces of lying cheating crap is capable of the justified anger & bitterness I have boiling w/in. 

But I'll not stew in my own juices much longer; I am coming for anyone who lied to or cheated me. 

Still spying on me, informer bastard? Why don't you squeal to the filthy coppers again, you piece of shit? I still can't fucking believe you did that twice. (Not to mention the time 12 or so yrs. ago. Should've beaten you to death then, you rat!!) Don't think you're getting away w/ long-distance kidnapping by 'phone call, you literal-minded chickenshit asshole moron. No one steals a wk. of my life & lives. There will be fucking justice!!

Wknd. Reading: A Nation Divided

From 2018, the geographically divided nation.

From two different sources, both of whom got it from the WaPo (must be a big deal) Pew Research did a survey.

Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology

Nine groups show the conflicting values underlying today’s polarized politics

Back to the old days, when it was fascists vs. socialists, w/o bullshit gradations & w/ plenty of street fighting!

Yes, I took the survey. My "best fit"? I'm part of the Leftward Progressives who are 7% of those surveyed. As far as I'm concerned, the remainder of you pukes are either Nazis or Quislings. Example: "Order & Opportunity" is a fascist slogan if I've ever heard one. Sickening.

[OTB/Digby]

Trouble At The Islamic Center?

An ambulance had already left w/ siren & lights going. Police SUV at Code 3 didn't seem related.