Hegseth

Typical of the top-down management-by-asshole style that's apparently all the rage in the Trump regime, Hegseth seems to think the problem isn't actually the problem - the problem is that people know about the problem.

We don't hate these jerks nearly enough.

The Big Shift

Quick reminder for all you pseudo-macho tiny-peckered would be conquistadors:

Better men than you have been trying to conquer the world for a good 40,000 years - and the world remains undefeated.

Business Guys

Gosh - companies have been treating employees worse and worse for more than 40 years, and now the plutocrats are whining about how everybody seems to have a bad attitude?

What a puzzlement. These schmucks have to be the dumbest smart guys ever.

It's Always A Grift

"I don't care if it's not reasonable. That's what I want, and if you don't give it to me, I'm gonna set fire to the couch."

Government by tantrum.

Aaron Parnas

Oopsie

Shit Posting

"It seemed appropriate considering the subject."

A.I. Must Die

These assholes have to pay.

A Win

Judge blasts Trump’s IRS lawsuit as filed for ‘improper purpose,’ recommends attorney discipline

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax returns was filed for an “improper purpose,” a judge said Monday in a scathing decision that recommended attorney sanctions and disciplinary action.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams amounts to a stinging rebuke of the Republican president’s lawsuit, characterizing it as an exercise in self-dealing in which he sued an entity that is effectively under his control.

The suit concluded in May with a settlement agreement that created a since-abandoned $1.776 billion fund meant to compensate allies of the president, as well as immunity from tax audits.

“The nature of the suit itself and the conduct of the Parties and counsel from its filing make plain that this was an attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law,” the judge wrote.

Aaron Parnas

First, why would private sector "conservatives" be OK with taking orders from a centralized federal government?

Second, does Stephen Miller think firing a coupla hundred thousand brown people will give his ICE goons that many more chances to fuck with immigrants?

Third, if this isn't just another Trump fuck up, what Project 2025 purpose might it be meant to serve?

Fourth, if it's just another Trump fuck up, how deep is the resulting recession/depression likely to be?

Aaron Parnas

Behold the birth of the next great conspiracy fantasy.

This is going to keep the MAGA freaks busy for a long long time.

We're talking posthumus adoration rituals surpassing those devoted to Eva Peron.

Aaron Parnas

That little "peace deal" is what most of us thought it was - pure desperate fantasy.

Trump gets his stoopid ass into a huge bind, and he thinks he can just walk away with a few parting shots at people who're trying to help him. Instead of recognizing them as the ones willing to do what he needs done, he treats them like enemies, and so - voilà - they become enemies.

Dumbest fuckin' stable genius anybody's ever seen.

Aaron Parnas

What will the history books tell us about what's going on now?

Always the big question.

Aaron Parnas

Some Epstein shit.

And some retribution shit. And Newsom does it right. He calls Trump out for the skeevy prick he is, and smacks Trump right in the kisser with it.

Remember - Trump sues everybody except the ones who tell the truth about him.

Escalation Please

I don't know if this is Iran being cagey - trying to tell us something about how the US government isn't what we've been told it is - but if Trump orders commensurate retaliation against Iran for hitting Elon's stuff, then we'll have a clearer idea on who's running things at the White House.

For my money, it'll just be a bit of confirmation of my worries about radical libertarians pushing hard for Plutocracy.

For those guys, the federal government has three main purposes:

1. Defend US commercial interests abroad
2. Keep the rabble in line at home
3. Settle contract disputes 

I'll say it again: Gettin' pretty fuckin' tired of living in interesting times.

Aaron Parnas

Always More Shit

I think Trump is really beginning to realize how unpopular he is. And it seems he's having a lot more trouble getting the rubes to rally loudly enough for him to compensate.

So the more he feels that disapproval, the more churlish he's likely to get, and the more punishment he's likely to dole out.

Aaron Parnas

"...in the middle of my negotiations..."? What negotiations?

The guy can't negotiate his way thru changing his own fuckin' diaper.

The State Of Things

Wanna know what I hate? I mean aside from the Raiders, a bad tequila hangover, and Celine Dion - I hate it when it becomes obvious that the US is the bad guy.

We have a long and illustrious history of doing good things, even while trying almost as hard to hide the fact that we do some horrendously shitty things too - often at the same time.

I guess my point is that generally, we've been able to balance it out, and even to tip the scales towards the positive side - usually.

But we seem to have gone out of our way to find the shittiest people ever, and put them in charge of our government.

And that plops us right smack dab in the middle of another phase of our history that makes it pretty fuckin' clear that we're not the good guys now.

I HATE

THIS SHIT

Today's Hopium

Aaron Parnas

If corporations are people, then they can't own other corporations.

13th Amendment, bitches.