Sunday, March 30, 2025

"Values"? Is There No Second Amendment?

Hard to believe they're the whiniest jerks in this world of lying, cheating jerkwads, but here's some pathetic whining from the right:
Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
Republican Party of New Mexico says headquarters was targeted in “deliberate act of arson”  —  The Republican Party of New Mexico said its Albuquerque headquarters was targeted Sunday in what it called a “deliberate act of arson.”  —  The entryway to the party's headquarters … 
"Direct assault on our building" would be a more accurate description. The actual values of the right should be attacked.

Say, what's an attack on the United States Capitol building during election certification but an assault on "our values"? The ones Republicans & other Nazis don't share?

And how is arson against tyranny not a Constitutionally-approved Second Amendment remedy & right?

"Arson", of course, is a deliberate act, so the creeps are redundant as well as whiny. Just shut up, already.

Ugly World, Stupid People

There's no excuse for the ugliness & stupidity of this world & the species that made it.
Damn fires couldn't finish the job. Useless.

Saturday, March 29, 2025

More Of The Same

Never has "I have suffered for my art, now it's your turn" been more thoroughly expressed.
Smoke during the 2025 L.A. fires.
Smoke during the 2025 L.A. fires.

Musk To America's Retirees:
I Want A Tax Cut, So Please Die

Makena Kelly / Wired:
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse  —  Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language.  Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months. 
I've a sneaking suspicion that most older wretches will not do a damned thing to stop any of this, but will just bend over & take it, the same way they bent over & took it from their bosses for the yrs. it took to pay into Social Security. Apparently it's no longer our money & we can go fuck ourselves.

Friday, March 28, 2025

Evolution

Or devolution. Who can differentiate? It's all entropy.

Friday Freak Out (Free Form)

Pink Smoke

Pension arrived. I'll be able to afford something more than noodles over the wknd. Or should I continue economising on the assumption there won't be Social Security, this month or the next? But why bother then, won't be enough for rent no matter how much I save. Not to mention that w/ Trumpflation the pension may not be enough for a month's food anyway. Human existence really is a completely pathetic joke, isn't it?

Other option is saving to afford a gun or two & plenty of ammunition. If the choice is eat or defend oneself, I know which side I'm on.

Inertia Continues

Inertia

Taken during the fires, 10 Jan.

Thursday, March 27, 2025

January Moon(s)

700 S Western Ave

And Now, The Rest Of The Story

First parts of the story here & here. Better late than never.

Sunset (Classic)

Spider Filler

"The first thing we do,
let's kill all the lawyers"

There'll be no need for wasteful, fraudulent & abusive anti-Trump courtrooms when America's great again.
Walter Olson / The UnPopulist:
Trump Is Going After the Independence of the Entire Legal Profession, Not Just Big Law  —  A new presidential memo is meant to instill fear in any firm that dares to represent his political adversaries  —  The Trump administration's assault on lawyers who represent its perceived adversaries …
New York Times:
Rivals Pounce on Paul Weiss, a Top Law Firm, After Trump's Order 
It may not be necessary if the lawyers all cave, & there's little indication most of them won't. To the camps or the psychiatric institutions, Soviet style, w/ the rest. 

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

"Chemtrails" In The News

How Stupid Are These Cretins?

About this stupid. And ignorant.

I s'pose when this happened during & after WWII w/ B-17s, B-24s, B-29s & B-36s it was all a plot of the Roosevelt, Truman & Eisenhower Admins.?
[Raw Story]

Assault On The Constitution

Remember "A Government Of Laws, Not Men"?
Quaint, Innit?

Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges  —  Republican lawmakers are setting their sights on the judiciary following court rulings that have halted Trump's agenda.  —  WASHINGTON — Facing pressure from his right flank to take on judges … 
Carl Gibson / Raw Story:   ‘Desperate measures’: Johnson seeks to ‘eliminate an entire district court’ to help Trump
Some call it "Anti-Trump", some call it "Pro-The Law/Constitution".

Two Similar Objects

Nothing

Don't Bother

Everything Is A Lie

The brainwashing begins at an early age. Batman (Volume One, 1940) No. 66, Aug.-Sept. 1951:
No, you Nazi fucking mouse, "keeping each other in line" is not real democracy, it's internalized fascism.

Monday, March 24, 2025

Evil is Going On

Reckoning with the evil in power right now

Further read it & weep, this from Horizons. Also

Into the toilet we go! Seems right that the Yankee pig-dog empire should collapse when I do. Certainly none of you should outlast me!!

Domestic Terrorists

The First Amendment At Work

Attorney General Pam Bondi warned Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) to “tread very carefully” following the lawmaker’s recent remarks voicing support for Elon Musk to be “taken down,” Politico reports.

Said Bondi: “She is an elected public official, so she needs to tread very carefully because nothing will happen to Elon Musk, and we’re going to fight to protect all of the Tesla owners throughout this country.”

Shorter Attorney General of these United Snakes: "Don't get uppity, you swarthy witch."

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Killed By The Kennedys

Does Brainworm Bobby Kennedy hate Americans because they murderred his father & uncle?
Melody Schreiber / The Guardian:
Nation-wide, baby!! Note the line "I knocked 'em dead in Dallas".
Hope all the Trump cultists get measles; think how strong the survivors will be!!

Read, Listen & Weep

The Rude Pundit:

Two Months into the Enshittification of America:

Some of you reading this will say that that's ridiculous, that there's this or that law that will protect citizens, that I'm being hyperbolic for the sake of being hyperbolic. To which I can only say, calmly, without malice, "Then you haven't been paying attention, you poor, naive motherfucker. Look at how far we've fallen in just two months. Now ask yourself where we'll be in six months. Or a year."

Oh, and spare me the cries of "That's our government, not us. Don't blame us." Until we are out there shutting shit down and using our bodies to block this government from doing such fuckery, it is us. That's the burden we all need to bear. It's all being done in our name. Every act by the government is done in our name. And that's why this shit is eating away at me.

What gets that acid churning even more intensely is that so many of us warned the leaders on our side: You have to punish motherfuckers for fucking mothers or they'll just fuck more mothers and fuck them harder. They didn't arrest the bastards who created the torture regime and the habeas-free zone at Gitmo in the Bush administration. They slow-walked the prosecution of Donald Trump because of fear of seeming vengeful. Now that the bad guys got away with so very much, fuck it, they believe they're gonna get away with it again. And it's hard to blame them.

"I really Don't Care. Do U?"

Bring on the barbarism! I have lists longer than both my arms of people on whom I'd love to perform barbarous acts. Why should I care about people who don't care about me? 

Hey, a listenable Guns N'Roses cover!

Where's Your G-d Now, Moses?

None Dare Call It Murder When It's Genocide

Their Blood Is On Trump's Hands Too

Maybe 1,000 gentrifying slumlord types had their hair mussed 7 October. Is 50 times the Biblical eye-for-an-eye, toof-for-a-toof deal enough for you, Nazi thug Israelis? Haven't you found & killed Hamas yet? If you can't do your job, resign!

How is it that these pieces of shit can murder w/ impunity on the world stage, yet this reporter isn't even allowed to threaten the scum that make his life miserable? Mostly landlords, from Trump on down. Let's try killing the landlords rather than murdering innocent civilians. (Not that anyone is actually innocent, of course.)

Musk/Trump To America:
Eat Shit & Die, Old Poor Losers

In The Grand Republican Tradition

Leah Willingham / Associated Press:
In West Virginia coal country, new Social Security barriers present challenges to the most vulnerable  —  Veronica Taylor doesn't know how to turn on a computer, let alone use the internet. The 73-year-old can't drive and is mostly housebound in her mountainous and remote West Virginia community, where a simple trip to the grocery store can take an hour by car.

New requirements that Social Security recipients access key benefits online or in person at a field office, rather than on the phone, would be nearly impossible to meet without help.

“If that’s the only way I had to do it, how would I do it?” Taylor said, talking about the changes while eating a plate of green beans, mac and cheese and fried fish with a group of retirees at the McDowell County Senior Center. “I would never get nothing done.”

[...]

Mary Weaver, 72, said she doesn’t approve of Trump giving Elon Musk so much leeway to cut and change services, and she doesn’t see those measures helping McDowell County.

“He gone run for president, and he’s going to get the presidency, but he’s going to let someone else tell him how to run the country?” she asked, criticizing Trump’s relationship with Musk.

Other residents aren’t concerned. Barbara Lester, 64, said she wishes she could sit down with Trump and Musk and tell them they’re doing a fantastic job.

“And with all the money they’re saving from the fraud, they could afford to give their senior citizens an increase,” said Lester, who is retired from construction work.
Indeed. Why don't you hold your breath until you're given an increase from all the "savings from the fraud". Funny, this reporter sure as hell doesn't remember any actual fraud being exposed. Ms. Lester might be a bit surprised to realize that she's the fraud they're talking about. After all, it's Elon's & Don's money too!

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Gold Cloud

Psychedelic Saturday

A list: The 25 best psychedelic Classic Rock albums. Oh yeah? First, what is "Classic Rock"? (And why is it capitalized in the title?) Far as I can tell, it's simply music made in the 1960s by people mostly under 40. (There are no more classics*. Never were, really.)

Secondly, I understand it's a Limey list, but not listing Country Joe & The Fish's Electric Music for the Mind and Body (released 11 May 1967) is unforgivable idiocy, & possibly criminal.
Most psychedelic moments: "Section 43", "Bass Strings" or "Death Sound Blues".

This reporter's prescription is to dose the entire world w/ some very strong acid & hope most of the humanoids see themselves for the empty vessels they are & decide to end it all before it's too late. Wasn't that the great fear of acid? That "the kids" would use it, see through the bullshit, realize there was no hope, & slit everyone's throat, Manson-style?

*Nothing is "iconic" either, except icons, you fucking illiterates. Stop it!!

Friday, March 21, 2025

Items To Read

Found a new to me version of "Hypocrites", a snappy number which applies to virtually all current American activities (You horrid pieces of crap!) & the first item below. Should just pin it to the top of the web-log.
Another NYT nitwit schooled about the two faces of Republicans:

Republicans Aren't Abandoning Free Speech Principles — They Never Had Any

How Jeremy Peters' latest piece misses the obvious truth about Republican campus speech tactics

And from southwest Missouri:
To the streets.

Friday Freak Out

This date in 1979, per the iNternet.
Any competent disc/bit/byte jockey will play Andy Devine's immortal line at least once during any & all guitar solos. Talent my ass, you self-indulgent jagoffs!
Seeing the album title made me want to hear that tune too. Sums it all up.

Lemming Instinct

Too Many People; Close The Borders & Murder Your Children!

Yeah yeah, we know, lemming suicide isn't true (A Disney lie, like everything else; why shouldn't you kill yourselves when everything is a lie?) but something's up w/ the masses.

Mother Charged with Killing 11-Year-Old Son in Santa Ana

Custody "battle". Maybe "battle" isn't the best word for the situation.

Man Pleads No Contest to Killing 5-Year-Old Son

Just plain murder.

Friday Fingers

Double fingers from a baseball player, commerating the end of spring training 2025,
& because everything is twice as miserable as it was yesterday. It will probably be twice as miserable tomorrow,
& this reporter will be twice as ready to kill.
Continuing our baseball theme, Coca-Cola® presents Mr. Met,
who seems to have incorporated the Eye-talian/Noo Yawk "get stuffed" or vaffanculo gesture.
Today's agony includes getting up at 1320 only to find that the Angels game started at noon rather than 1300, & being trapped in a world of eight billion sub-human cretins. How th' hell did that happen? Why are they all so stupid? (And ugly?)