One More For The Road

The yellow brick road to hell that is, as we end the first third of 2025.Granted, may not be the actual first third of the yr., w/ 28- & 30-day months, but what's a day or two?

Railroading News

Note our Canadian neighbors at Rapido want you to know this isn't political. News flash: Everything is political. Esp. this stuff.

Disordered Thinking May Be Punished

Collin Binkley / Associated Press:

Trump administration cuts $1 billion in school mental health grants, citing conflict of priorities 

Elaine Mallon / Washington Examiner:   Trump administration slashing $1 billion in Biden-era school mental health grants

Zachary Schermele / USA Today:   Trump administration discontinues $1 billion in school mental health grants

Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:   Trump administration cutting $1B in school mental health funding over DEI

Juan Perez Jr / Politico:   Education Department cancels grants that won bipartisan support after Uvalde attack

Breccan F. Thies / The Federalist:   Education Department Cuts $1B In ‘Mental Health’ Grants Used To Advance DEI

Ah, "mental health" is somehow part of the great anti-white DEI monster. Th' hell? It's becoming clearer & clearer who the mental cases in this country are, & the sooner we round 'em all up & institutionalize them the better. Stalin was certainly right about this. They're already trying to do it to us.

Minnesota Republicans' bill to define "Trump derangement syndrome" as mental illness provokes backlash

Could this reporter again be involuntarily institutionalized (AGAIN!!) for suggesting rounding 'em all up? Or for typing that Stalin was "right"? I wonder if the squealer told the police the URL to this mess, & if they're just waiting until I type something that so outrages their pig sensibilities they'll be able to convince a judge to commit me permanently. Or have I been driven to paranoia?

Take An Old Cold 'Tater (And Wait)

Trump's Concept Of A Plan To
Make America Great Again

Bobby Brain Worms will give us a generation of stunted, malnourished children w/ measles pockmarks.
Bigger picture: Chicken for the preachers, old cold 'taters for the rest of us.

And then the preachers they would come
To stay a while with us
I would have to simp around
And raise a little fuss
In fear that I would spill the beans
Or break a china plate
My mama always said to me "Jim take a 'tater and wait"

Now taters never did taste good with chicken on the plate
But I had to eat 'em just the same
That is why I look so bad and have these puny ways
Because I always had to take an old cold tater and wait

Well I thought that I would starve to death
Before my time would come
All that chicken they would eat
And just leave me the butt
The feet and neck were all that was left
Upon the china plate
It makes ya pretty darn weak
To take an old cold 'tater and wait

Untitled

Why bother w/ a title?

Why bother w/ anything at all, including breathing? Don't bother yourselves to find out. (As if there's anyone reading this but censorious creeps &/or humanoids who absolutely wouldn't bother themselves.) There is no answer.

A Year W/o Xmas?

Scrooge "The Grinch" McTrump hates the youth.

Axios:

Trump on possible toy shortage: “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30”

Kelly Rissman / The Independent:   More than 60 percent of toymakers forced to cancel orders as Trump's tariffs threaten Christmas

Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:   Retailers Fear Toy Shortages at Christmas as Tariffs Freeze Supply Chain

Nihilist's Corner

I know damned well this sounds like comic book villainy, but there is not a supposedy itelligent being on the face of this horrible old world who has the slightest reason to live. Not for yourselves, or your hideous mutant spawn, or anyone/anything the hell else. All is pointless vanity. Give up & die already.

Note well there is not the slightest indication of suicidal ideation there. I want you fucking people dead, not myself. I like myself, & I deserve better than to drown in the ocean of humanoid stupidity & ignorance that currently covers the planet.

Added agony & indignity: Knee went out (twice) yesterday, the first time in about two yrs. Knee brace is as pointless as most other medical stuff. Why do the traffickers in human misery bother w/ anything short of ensuring immortality, or at least perpetual youth while we're still alive? (If you can call it that.) Anything less is bullshit. Stop it, you rotten bastards!!

Relax? Not Bloody Likely!

Continuing in the Charlie Parker vein, I now have a greater appreciaton of this Yardbird classic.

The End Of April

Bird, dead 70 yrs. as of 12 March.

Graffiti Gets Stranger

Words Of The Prophets

Note very well that there is no due process for someone who doesn't kiss police ass when he has been reported as a "threat" by a moronic asshole who should be sued into abject poverty for such an act of aggression. Are there no fair laws, or are all the laws bullshit like everything else humans have made?

Rhetorical question, obviously. I am so mother-fucking tired of the non-stop bullshit from every last humanoid. Too bad they didn't understand the concept of rhetoric, but acted like morons, costing me a week of my life, which wasn't getting any longer, if you know what I mean.

Good thing I don't have any actual enemies; they would've had the police SWAT me to death rather than merely send me up the San Gabriel River 210 for a wk.

More Economic News

This madness affects me to an extent, 'though I do have most (All?) of the plastic crap from China I'll ever need for railroading. Entirely possible that virtually all hobbying, crafting & the like will be affected, to the point of more small businesses being driven out of business.

No denying the majority of model railroaders (at least those who make YouTube videos) are older wretched balding four-eyed & gray/white-haired male honkies (This reporter included, but he's not a racist woman-hating Nazi, or balding.); saw a layout video a few months ago & the fuckhead had a "Trump 2024" sign atop a building. Happy US$1,000.00 locomotives you fuck. Another has a Gadsden Flag on the garage wall over his layout. He's a veteran, too; hope he's happy w/ things at the new VA & the tariffs.Mind-numbing numbers.The latest generation of model railroaders: Balding middle-aged honkie wretches.

State Of The Blogger

Could be worse, although my right hip is killing me. (Ooops! Bad word choice? It's a figure of fucking speech, literal-minded knobs!! DO NOT CALL THE POLICE!)

I am pleased (And fucking relieved!) to have received Social Security & pension payments. Safe for another month! Although Social Security can rip the payment from your acc't. ay any time should they decide you're a dead illegal alien, or a smart-ass who types against Trump & Musk. (Should I stop spending like a drunken sailor & save money? It is to laugh. I couldn't possibly save enough money to pay even a month's rent.)

Speaking of false leaders, another classic from fifty yrs. ago:And in conclusion, I beg all eight billion of you cretinous jerkwads to do the honorable thing, which, right now in April 2025, is the ancient Japanese practice of seppuku (切腹). Just die already.

100 Days Of Foolishness, Fools & Foolery

And Other Words That Begin W/ "F"

"Macroeconomic Uncertainty"

Note that our musical selection is fifty yrs. old. Nothing ever changes, it just gets worse.

UPS Says It Will Cut 20,000 Jobs

New York Times: “The cuts come as President Trump’s tariffs are prompting some UPS customers to ship fewer goods. The company said ‘macroeconomic uncertainty’ prevented it from updating its forecasts for revenue and profits for 2025.”

Ha ha ha fuck you. Why does the occupant of your White House hate you so much, America?

Take Six

Another April

Portrait PDF Of A Recession

Check the charts & graphs; stagflation is on the way!

America is on the verge of stagflation

I study markets for a living. I've never been this worried before.

That can't be good.

Sunny Day W/ Clouds 7270

State Of The Blogger

Monday Sucks & So Do You

As filled w/ blood-red rage as ever. No wk. in the hole & no amount of drugs for the weak-minded sheep that comprise most of these United Snakes can stop my righteous anger or alleviate my suffering, you misguided fuckheads. The only thing wrong here is your pig society & its incessant bullshit.

Hip & opposite ankle still hurt, gall bladder aching, yada. Of course I'm fucking angry. You're all insensitive morons w/o human emotions who've been sedated into brain-dead numbness by Big Shrink & brain-washed to think/pretend all is good, but your ignorance & stupidity don't invalidate this reporter's perception of current events & the situation in general.

And let me take this opportunity to sincerely thank each & every one of you for your kind sympathy & assistance during this trying time. No, wait, it's just like when I was homeless; I was completely on my own, might as well have been dead. (Maybe I am. Certainly being treated as if I were.) Why should I expect any concern or care yrs. later? Maybe I am crazy to expect humans to be humane. And there's certainly something wrong w/ the way I express my anger, according to some ignorant pig. Fuck everybody to hell & back, twice. Call the police about that desire, mother-fuckers!!

Reprise, Take 10

Sensing a theme?

The Sky Above ...

... The Mud Below

Don't Wake Up!

Stolen from Facebook.

My retirement account is wrecked. My social security and healthcare might get taken away. I don't know if I'll be able to afford groceries. Everything I love about America is under threat. Now I understand why roosters start their day screaming.

Throwing stuff at the wall: Will it stick?

And now we're just 'phoning it in!I remind you all: Everything sucks & you're all going to die. Not at my hands but nonetheless much sooner than expected, I sincerely hope. Nothing personal, just the way it is.

Still, if I can't afford groceries, can I at least threaten to beat the living shit out of Albertson's & Kroger stockholders?
W/ a stick?

Here's the joke part that literal-minded simpleton assholes should ignore, where I claim that ever since some jerkwads put me in psychiatric prison & told me to watch what I type I can't think about anything but threatening people w/ imminent death. Hope you're happy w/ the results of your bullshit intervention, slumlord-loving pieces of shit.

Another One For The "Ha Ha Ha, Fuck You Chumps" File

Market turmoil has many afraid to check retirement savings

Retirement savings. Ha ha ha. First, you stupid jerks, 401(k)s & the like are not savings but investments. Were they savings, their worth wouldn't be a mystery. All you need check w/ savings is whether your interest posted.

These are probably the same people who've been screeching that Social Security is a scam. We'll see who's been scammed now.

“I hope like hell I don’t lose all my retirement savings,” he says. “But where else could you put the money that these people could not disorder? They can’t get into your mattress but that’s about it.”

Many experts warned U.S. stocks were overpriced and due for a correction even before President Donald Trump reclaimed the Oval Office. But a historic blanket of tariffs have injected new uncertainty into the market.

Suck overpriced stock, chumps. A different victim:

At his age, he says, there’s one goal: “Make sure I don’t run out of money before I die.”

Americans’ retirement savings totaled about $44 trillion at the end of 2024, according to the Investment Company Institute. The composition of those savings has shifted increasingly toward stocks in the last couple decades as the 401(k) has become employers’ typical offering.

Ha ha ha again. Some of them are so screwed it almost makes me smile. Almost.

Sunday In April In Another Town

Goofy Stuff For A Silly Sunday

One never knows what might be found on YouTube.

State Of The Blogger

Nice, innit? Surely someone who creates something like this from nature & an idiot computer program
can't be a danger to himself or others. Indeed, it is the hell of other people (Rat fucking bastards, all of them!)
that is a danger to him. When does the fucking bullshit stop? How much more is he expected to take?

Woke up after about six hrs. of interrupted sleep, no angrier than usual but unable to return to blessed unconsciousness. I may never get eight hrs., interrupted or not, again. Thank you all so fucking much for the kind assistance w/ my alleged problems.

Now I do have fucking problems, you sons-of-bitches! I am the aggrieved party, so of course I am punished for being the victim of a slumlord. Slumlord gets away w/ it, police get away w/it (What does an ignorant buffoon police officer, trained only to brutalize the poor & those who try to help them, know about mental health? Anyone who wants to use their stick & gun under color of authority is mentally ill to begin w/. If you can't differentiate righteous, justified anger [Nay, rage!!] from "mental illness" you have no right deciding my fate, you useless fascist pricks.) and College Behavioral Health got Gawd-only-knows-how-much Medicare money for trying to pump me full of drugs & feed me fake meat & other food so horrible I lost about 20 lbs. in a seven-day "stay". Fuck everybody & everything. (Is that some kind of threat? May I type that? People run up & down the street screaming that all day long around here & they don't get 5150'd. Because it takes a squealer. Well, "snitches get stitches", to coin a phrase.)

And now (Due, I imagine, to an error in transcribing records of gun purchases.) the police think I have a .45-cal. Colt Gold Cup National Match, purchased in 1982. Never purchased or owned it. (Bought a Charter Arms AR-7 .22-cal. rifle in 1982.) Believe me, if I'd had one I'd either have sold it long ago (Current list price: US$1,549.00, which is $461.00 in 1982 dollars.) or there'd be a pile of dead parasites bleeding all over a rental office somewhere. Can't prove a negative, however, so I'm probably screwed for what little is left of my life. I'm assuming this pointless little escapade has cost me several yrs. of my life, judging from how miserable I am now. Hip hasn't started hurting yet, legs still swollen, expecting ankles & feet to join them soon. Back could start irking me at any moment. Soon it will be your turn to suffer, pigs.

Damnation, I was completely correct about every last piece of shit I knew in meatspace. None of them of any use to me whatsoever. Young people, remember well that you have no actual friends; everyone you know will always take the easy way out, leaving you hanging, & the family is a corrupt bourgeois concept even worse than friends acquaintances. You're all entirely alone, & the vast majority of you are too stupid to realize it, or live in denial 24/7. There's no point & there never was, give up now!! (Yes, I'm telling people they are worthless, have less than no reason for existence & should go away forever. I understand that's discouraged by the powers that be, because they think they need the workers or something. Still, if you fucking sheep were honest w/ yourselves you'd face the fact that you are useless & it would indeed be preferable to have died than to spend the rest of your life scuffling & hustling for gig work like someone in front of a Home Depot, except digitized. No future, get lost!!)

No More Nazis!!

Cherie Currie when she was only Kim Fowley's tool.

West Hollywood officials are distancing themselves from a planned march Sunday by a conservative political group.

The “American Restoration Tour” event is being organized by the #WalkAway campaign, a social-media campaign that was launched by New York hairstylist Brandon Straka ahead of the 2018 mid-term elections, with the stated purpose of encouraging voters to leave the Democratic Party.

The march will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday at the corner of North Robertson and Santa Monica boulevards. Marchers will arrive at Beverly Gardens Park in Beverly Hills for a rally set for 2 p.m.

According to a flyer posted online by the #WalkAway campaign, speakers at the rally will include Straka, former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, former California state Senate candidate Joe Lisuzzo, singer Cherie Currie, comedian Josh Denny, actresses Shiva Bagheri and Roxanne Hoge, podcaster Jeff Dornik, YouTuber Gothix, actor and commentator Mike Harlow, political commentators Natalie Beisner, Emily Wilson and Jairo Tomico, and Karen Siegemund of the Beverly Hills Conservative Club.

“The city of West Hollywood and its public safety partners at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department are aware that there is a planned `American Restoration Tour’ march/rally scheduled to take place on Sunday, April 27 in the city of West Hollywood and in the city of Beverly Hills. The city of West Hollywood has received calls from residents and businesses with concerns,” West Hollywood officials said in a statement late this week. “Community members have expressed alarm that this assembly stands in contradiction to West Hollywood’s core values and community ideals. Additionally, there is concern about the potential for counter-protests in response.

“It is important to note that the march/rally is not a city-permitted event. Rather, the city of West Hollywood respects the Constitution and honors the First Amendment rights of free speech and assembly.

“While the city values the rights of free expression, it also recognizes that language and actions matter,” the statement continued. “The city remains steadfast in uplifting the dignity and rights of our community members and remains vigilant in denouncing words and actions that may seek to devalue, divide, or diminish us.

“As with any First Amendment assembly, public safety is the city of West Hollywood’s top priority. Law enforcement personnel from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will uphold public safety and, when there may be substantial threats to public safety, a gathering may be declared unlawful and ordered to disperse in order to protect people and property.

“The city of West Hollywood works diligently to defend the fundamental rights of its community members including LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, older adults, people of color, immigrants, women, and others. The city’s outspoken advocacy and commitment to promoting social justice and equal rights is unwavering and the city does not condone or support actions that seek to harm, divide, or undermine our community and its values.”

Beverly Hills officials said organizers had a permit for the rally, but no road or sidewalk closures were permitted. City officials said “police, park rangers, and Code Enforcement will be monitoring the event.”

This reporter covered the Beverly Hills Tea Party* in 20-effing-10 (two eternities ago) but no way in hell will I be arsing myself to record/mock this collection of ninnies & nitwits, even if it does start at a semi-civilized hr. Organized by a hairstylist named Brandon, is it? And why isn't it the Free or First or Fabulous or Fantastic or Fanatical "American Restoration Tour"?

I s'pose I dare not suggest what could, should or might be done to & with these specimens, for fear of being reported to John Law as a domestic terrorist. I'm on enough bullshit lists as it is, thank you bastards so fucking much. Crikey, the damn Nazis can march around exercising their First Amendment rights, but my feelings (which I am not supposed to keep bottled w/in me, mind you) are taboo. Every damn time I do share I get in trouble, as if this world of shit & pain were junior fucking high filled w/ tattletales & squealers going to the vice-principal.

[mynewsLA.com]

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*If you gave a fuck you could look on the YouTube channel linked at the top.

Flower Or Coronavirus?

Nature Study

Pains In The Ass & Elsewhere

My ass (right hip) hurts, as do my left wrist & left ankle. My legs are swollen & soon enough my ankles & feet will be swollen again. And my right radius & left tibia are tender. (Th' hell? Bone cancer or something else hideous & osteo-related?) On a more positive note, everything's made of shit & you're all dying.

No matter the agony, my anger & rage will keep me going; just as the late Pope hung on for a final Easter before giving up the (Holy?) ghost, I will live to see every last one of you bitches & the sons-thereof dead as a fucking doornail, & then I will spit, piss & shit on your graves. (That should keep me busy.)

Anyway, I fucking give up; at this stage I just hope I can get an appointment w/ the croaker on Mon. & he makes good on his suggestion that he could prescribe something to keep me from feeling anything. No codeine bullshit either; I want something that works, damnit.Fucking New York City losers & their drug problems.May '65. 60 (Sixty!) damn yrs. ago.

Same Song Different Day

And The Words Of The Prophets Are Written On ...

Expecting Rain

Friday Night Aggro

Can't go wrong w/ the Four Stooges.Destroy All Monsters & All Music!!

Babylon Continues Gentrification

Do you rent? Expect the above from your landlord in the Age of Trump. There'll be plenty of unemployed thugs available for extra-legal evictions.

NB: Not in any way, shape or form a suggestion that one might just want to kill one's landlord before said scumbucket landlord kills one. Not at all. Uh-uh. No effin' way. Don't get the wrong idea, literal-minded shitheads. No violent ideation here. None whatsoever. And don't go killing Israelis on general principles either. That would be wrong. Very, very wrong.

Friday Freak Out [UPDATED]

Ooops. [followed by nervous laugh] Shoulda knowed it wouldn't be "available" now when this item was scheduled then.
Let's see how long this'n lasts.This should be safe.

Is It Friday Yet?

Do the days of the wk. still mean anything? Like, dude, it's almost Saturday on the other side of the Pacific.

Are You A Sufferer From Babylon Pressure?

I sure as hell am. It's as if I lived right in Sufferers Heights.Sadly, it appears the only completely certain cure for sufferation, existential agony & the like is death. Please, "concerned" jerks, don't call the police because I'm morbid & juvenile. Or because I asked "When Do We Start Killing The Aristocrats?" Or because this web-log has a "Morbidity Report" category/label/whatever.

No damn wonder I despise all of my former meatspace acquaintances. Literal rat bastards, as in ratting one out. What's wrong w/ you people, how can you live w/ yourselves, how can you sleep at night, &c., yada yada yada?

(For inexplicable reasons, this reporter is not sleeping that well of late. It's as if he thinks he could be rendered to a psychiatric prison w/o warning at any time, especially when disagreeing w/ the gummint has been declared a dangerous mental illness that proves one isn't a real American & doesn't deserve to be a citizen. And we all know non-citizens have no "rights". Oh, what a silly worrywart I am. What a fantasy. Surely not here in the land of the free.)

Demonic Forces & Mental Illness

He Sees A "Light"?

This sumbitch is one fucking nutjob, fascist & religious.

One of Donald Trump’s top health advisers offered a wild diagnosis Thursday for the rise in chronic diseases among American children.

Calley Means blamed “demonic forces” for the uptick, revealing on the Steve Gruber Show Thursday that he is “very optimistic” Donald Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be able to battle the supernatural forces responsible for childhood illness.

“When Secretary Kennedy is in a meeting with various people or stakeholders, I see a light behind him of MAHA moms,” Means told host Steve Gruber.

Kennedy has been under fire for his recent comments on autism. The health secretary stated Sunday that the condition “dwarfs the COVID epidemic” in its seriousness.

Gruber and Means both agreed that the technology, pharmaceutical, and food industries profit off of suffering and transgender children.

“Let’s be clear, there are demonic forces against children in this country. A child that is sick, and depressed, and is getting gender transition surgery, and in fear, that child’s extremely profitable,” he said. “A sick, addicted, depressed child is a gold mine.”

“And that is evil,” Gruber added.

Means also noted how children who are addicted to their phone, eat processed foods, and do not understand the “interconnectivity of their body and how to thrive” are more susceptible to be used by companies and the government.

“Chronic disease is such a powerful invention because the child doesn’t die, they just suffer,” he said. “But that suffering leads to profit that’s paid for by our government, so we have very very dark forces.”

Gruber said that a big issue in the U.S. is that Americans don’t have anyone lobbying for them when it comes to their health, whereas corporations like Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Fritos do.

“That six year old, they don’t have a lobbyist,” he said. “That farmer in Iowa? Probably doesn’t have a lobbyist.”

But Means has hope that Trump and Kennedy will help quell these “demonic forces” that he says have been preying on American children, remarking that Trump and his health secretary actually “galvanized voters for this issue.”

“It is a voting issue right now,” he said. “That’s what Donald Trump and Secretary Kennedy have done: they have made health a voting issue so now kids have a lobbyist for them.”

He added: “I think one of the uniting themes of this administration is they’re protecting kids.”

Means was appointed as a White House health adviser in March, tasked with working on issues pertaining to Trump’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission.

Trump signed an executive order to create the commission in February, which stated: “It shall be the policy of the Federal Government to aggressively combat the critical health challenges facing our citizens, including the rising rates of mental health disorders, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases.”

Government by the seriously disturbed. Tell the increasing number of measles victims how Lumpy & Brain-Worm are "protecting kids” from "demons". What a hilarious joke it all is. Also too:

Death Cult On A Death Trip

Actual active murder everywhere, yet this two-faced society won't allow this reporter to express his righteous, justified & understandable desire to punish his oppressors. The sheep have been warned; will they defend themselves?

Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
The Trump Administration Is Objectively Pro-Cancer  —  America used to have the best medical research system in the world.  Elon Musk and RFK Jr. are ripping it to shreds.  —  “United in Blue,” a flag installation organized by the organization Fight Colorectal Cancer, is seen on the National Mall in Washington, March 14, 2025.

Amid the chaos of Donald Trump’s misrule—what with his on-again, off-again trade war causing a sharp slide in the dollar, a rise in American borrowing costs, accelerating inflation, and possibly a severe recession—his attack on basic medical research is getting less attention. Elon Musk’s DOGE goons have slashed federal grants across the country, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is putting through further sweeping layoffs and budget cuts. Meanwhile, Trump’s war on immigrants is targeting top medical researchers.

In particular, cancer research and treatment in America is being gored. Development of promising diagnostics and treatments has been called into question or frozen, clinical trials are being halted, and—unless the cuts are stopped—hospitals around the country will be bankrupted. Many Americans will die soon, and many more will die in future who could have been saved.

Let me start with immigration. America has the most advanced medical research system in the world, which has attracted brilliant researchers from many countries. The flip side of that fact, however, is that system depends to a great degree on highly skilled immigrants. In any previous administration, the legal status of such people would be all but sacrosanct—people might argue about deporting unauthorized construction workers, but not a handful of world-class scientists with legal visas or green cards.

"Any previous administration." A phrase you'll hear frequently as the body count mounts & life expectancy drops.

Those Stooges have a number for any situation or eventuality.

More Measles & Mass Murder

Reuters:
Trump cuts threaten free vaccine program for kids amid measles outbreak
Avery Lotz / Axios:   Measles misinformation taking hold amid outbreak: poll
Tara Suter / The Hill:   Exposure to false measles and vaccine claims rises: Survey
Charles Kuffner / Off the Kuff:   Measles update: Hello, Montana

Eli Hager / ProPublica:
The Trump Administration's War on Children
Los Angeles Times:   With Head Start in jeopardy, Trump administration threatens child care for 800,000 kids
Geoff Dembicki / Jacobin:   The Canadian Right Wants to Copy DOGE
Aneri Pattani / CBS News:   Trump's addiction funding cuts hurt recovery groups, leaving moms in crisis, jobs lost

I hate this fucking shithole country because it's two-faced beyond belief & filled w/ asshole morons like Trump & Kennedy Jr. Why, then, do all the Republican assholes hate this country so much? You'll have to ask Dr. Freud, 'cause it's beyond this reporter.

Wednesday Wig Out

Force of Nature or Something Iggy Stooge/Pop rocks hard at 78. (Turns out he hit 78 on the 21st inst. Would've run this on Mon. had I known.) If you pig fucking Americans wanted a 78-yr. old white man to be prez, the Ig was the only logical/rational/sensible choice. But no!

Measles Moving To Montana

First Cases In 35 Yrs.

How many cases are there in Montana?

Montana state health officials announced five cases Thursday in unvaccinated children and adults who had traveled out of state, and confirmed it was an outbreak on Monday. All five are isolating at home in Gallatin County in the southwest part of the state.

State health officials are working to trace exposures in Bozeman and Belgrade.

They are Montana’s first measles cases in 35 years. Health officials didn’t say whether the cases are linked to other outbreaks in North America.

That is a head-scratcher. If you have lice.

[AP]

Measles? Hold My Beer!

Jizz-countin' Bobby wants the peasants to die.

Adam Cancryn / Politico:
RFK Jr. eyes reversing CDC's Covid-19 vaccine recommendation for children  —  RFK Jr. has raised doubts about the need for kids to get vaccinated against the disease.  —  HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is weighing pulling the Covid-19 vaccine from the government's list of recommended immunizations …
Bloomberg:   RFK Jr. Questions Universal Covid Shots for American Children
Marina Dunbar / The Guardian:   RFK Jr calls sugar ‘poison’ but says government probably can't eliminate it

Alix Breeden / Daily Kos:   RFK Jr. ramps up his ignorant—and dangerous—war on autism

Brian Niemietz / New York Daily News:   Rosie O'Donnell says she left U.S. to protect her nonbinary child

Grabien:   RFK Jr.: Why Are We Giving the Covid Vaccine to Kids When it Does Have Profound Risk Associated with It?

Harriet Rowan / Daily Camera:   CDC advisory group considers narrowing COVID vaccine recommendations

RFK Jr. Launches Into Bizarre Rant About Teenage Sperm Counts on Fox

UM...

The health secretary expressed concern about male fertility in a Fox News interview.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is worried about testosterone levels in American teens.

The health secretary expressed concern about declining testosterone levels among teenagers as he spoke to Fox News on Tuesday night about a newly announced initiative to phase out eight artificial food dyes.

“The food our kids are eating today is not really food,” Kennedy said on Jesse Watters Primetime, listing a litany of health issues faced by Americans including chronic disease and obesity.

“Seventy-four percent of our kids cannot qualify for military service,” he said. “We have fertility rates that are just spiraling. A teenager today—an American teenager—has less testosterone than a 68-year-old man. Sperm counts are down 50 percent.”

Th' hell goes through Bobby Jr.'s mind, if it can be called that? How much of his gray matter did that worm eat? When does the crazy sumbitch make the connection between fluoridation & weak gyzm?

The character General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear war in the hope of thwarting a communist plot to "sap and impurify" the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people with fluoridated water.

You'd think that on Earth Day Wormy would realize low whatever counts are the planet defending itself from a plague of parasites.

Slum Life 2025

[NOTE: Only a gallon, not two or two-&-a-half.]

On a slightly more positive note, the leak from the light fixture in the kitchen ceiling finally appears to have been abated; hasn't been any excess water for five days now. Previously, on 11 April:

And to ice the cake, 14 April.

I've many more mins. going back some time, att'y types. Please help me bankrupt these cheap rat bastard slumlords.

Per one of the maintenance people, the pipes in the cell above were completely shot, the inmates were using a bucket for their dishwater, & when it was full they'd dump it down the leaking pipe or something. So they are to blame, probably not for being low-life call-the-police-types but for the damn ceiling leak. May I type that I wish they'd be evicted w/o a snitch reporting me to the police as a menace to society? Evicted, not dead, mind you, 'though I'd have no complaints about their or anyone else's deaths.

Do you people understand what a "drug on the market" is? Check in the mirror if you have questions, then do the right thing & go away. Forever.

Free The Heffalumps!!

LA Zoo Relocates Elephants to Preserve in Tulsa

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Existential Agony Corner

You people have no fucking idea whatsoever. Possibly beause you're all cretins w/ slug brains, unlike this reporter, an admittedly unstable genius. Bonus track, talkin' 'bout that ol' man river!And Jackie Mittoo dubs it up as we 'phone it in.Stop it, YouTube! ('Though why not play a slickly produced doesn't-sound-Caribbean version?)

Expecting Schadenfreude: First The Geatest Depression, Then WWIII?

The toilet at the end of the rainbow economic trendline; soon you'll be seeing it in your nightmares.

Lookit all the pixels. These people must be very agitated about their investments, holdings & the like. They probably expected to retire; now most of them will be dead before retirement age so it doesn't really matter.

 Wall Street Journal:

The Fire Jerome Powell Market Rout  —  Investors render a verdict on tariffs and politicizing the Fed.  —  Click for Sound  —  If the White House wanted a test of how firing Jerome Powell would go over in the markets, it succeeded on Monday.  U.S. stocks and the dollar plunged while yields

Discussion:

Timothy Noah / New Republic:   Jerome Powell Is the Next Trump Crisis

Lauren Aratani / The Guardian:   Can Trump fire Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell?

Matthew Medsger / Boston Herald:   Markets tumble as Trump calls for ‘loser’ Fed chair to lower interest rates

Aimee Picchi / CBS News:   Can Trump fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell? Here's what to know.

Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:   'Can't bully Adam Smith': WSJ conservative editors torch Trump amid market ‘meltdown’

Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:   Trump, Upping Pressure on Powell, Again Calls for Rate Cuts

RELATED:

 Jesse Pound / CNBC:

U.S. dollar falls to three-year low as Trump's Powell threats further dent investor confidence  —  The U.S. dollar continued its slide on Monday, falling to its lowest level since 2022, as global investors retreat from U.S. assets in the face of tension between President Donald Trump and the Federal Reserve.

Discussion:

New York Times:   Trump's Renewed Attacks on Powell Drive Markets Lower and Weaken Dollar

Heather Long / Washington Post:   There's only one way the U.S. avoids a recession

Fortune:   Trump's Powell threats sink stocks in rocky start to trading week

NBC News:   Trump ramps up his attacks on the Fed chair: From the Politics Desk

Bloomberg:   Trump's Push Against Powell Adds to Doubts of US's Haven Status

Alex Gangitano / The Hill:   Trump rips ‘loser’ Powell to immediately lower interest rates; markets fall

Edith Olmsted / New Republic:   Trump Sends the Economy Tanking Over Fight With Fed Chair

 Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal:   Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932 as Investors Send ‘No Confidence’ Signal

 Bloomberg:
Markets Are Discovering the Real Trump Trade Is ‘Sell America’

Discussion:

Charles Gasparino / New York Post:   Trump team needs a trade deal to stop investor panic

Rafael Nam / NPR:   Sell USA? Why Trump's tariffs may be sparking a historic storm on Wall Street

 John Towfighi / CNN:
Stocks tumble and dollar hits three-year low as Trump bashes Powell again

Discussion:

Reuters:   Dollar slides to three-year low as Trump attacks threaten Fed's independence

Wall Street Journal:   Stock Market Today: Dow and Dollar Drop on Jitters Over Fed and Trade

Stan Choe / Associated Press:   Wall Street and the dollar tumble as investors retreat further from the United States

Mike Bedigan / The Independent:   US dollar hits three-year low as stocks tumble after Trump rips fed chair Jerome Powell

CBS News:   Dow falls more than 900 points over Trump attacks on Powell, dollar falls to 3-year low

 CNBC:
Dow drops 1,200 points, S&P 500 loses 3% as Trump again attacks Powell and sows investor doubt: Live updates

Discussion:

Misty Severi / Tennessee Star:   Dow Jones Closes with a 971-Point Loss amid Trump, Powell Conflict

Alex Samuels / Daily Kos:   Trump thinks insulting Fed chair will fix broken stock market—somehow

Tobias Burns / The Hill:   Markets plummet as Trump rips Powell

Simon Druker / UPI:   U.S. markets slip after Trump calls out Fed Chair Jerome Powell

Fox Business:   Dow falls over 900 points as Trump slams Fed's Powell, trade uncertainty weighs

Fortune:   Bitcoin rebounds as the U.S. dollar weakens and Trump feuds with Fed Chair Jerome Powell

1932 is back, nitwits. Keep electing Republicans & expecting better economic results. History has shown again & again how that always works. And jump on the bitcoin wagon while you're at it. I need to see the suffering. 

Can't wait to laugh & laugh over your (probably mass) graves. But so much laughing may cause incontinence. Where could I go to go? Behind this rock w/ the names & dates carved on it? O.K.