Today's GIF

I knew you were in need of a little inspiration today.

Because just like everybody else with a living thinking brain, it's hard for you to imagine how we got here and what we're supposed to do about getting back to where a few things actually made a little sense once in a while.

The short answer is: fuck if I know

Slightly longer - tho' not very gratifyingly informative - "answer" is: Never give up. Never surrender.

More Fuckery

In case you were wondering why 45* has been kind of impatient with "his" generals about Afghanistan, wonder no more.

Raw Story, Sarah Burris:

During a panel discussion on President Donald Trump’s many conflicts of interest, Michael D’Antonio, author of The Truth About Trump, blasted his financial surplus in the wake of his presidency. 

According to the Financial Times, Blackwater founder Erik Prince — who happens to be Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s brother — has proposed a two-year plan to supply 5,000 mercenaries and close to 100 aircraft, bringing the total cost of the U.S. effort to turn round a failing war to less than $10 billion a year.

I liked it a lot better when the only guys with private armies were Bond villains.

Keith

Channeling a former (and so Etch-A-Sketched) commentator.

Used to be, anything that backfired this badly would be news in itself. But not now. 

It doesn't matter to DumFux News, because they're busy laying the groundwork for the time they'll need to wipe 45* out of everybody's memory.

And the rubes are already figuring out how they can pretend Ms Pirro had to have said that on CNN or MSNBC because now that she's gone, she must've been fired for being a Lame Stream Media spy who was paid by George Soros to degrade the noble purity of the freedom-lovers andt blah blah blah.

(I know that didn't fucking make any sense - none of it makes any fucking sense)

I get really sick of hear myself say that - when will the rubes get sick of hearing what makes me say it?

Today's GIF

God-awful.Obnoxious.Pricks.

As 45*'s base continues to solidify, boiling itself down to the essence of the absolute worst animal-instinct-driven impulses you can imagine outside the lynch mob scenes from old movies, the GOP "establishment" phonies begin to bail.

But I'm guessing there're very few who can pull it off with the precision they need to prevent crashing the whole fleet.

On The Border

John Oliver, Last Week Tonight

Today's Bible Nonsense

Thinking themselves wise, they became fools.

--Romans 1:22

The simple believe anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps.

--Proverbs 14:15

There's one main, very good, reason so many "Christians" can be counted on to stay supportive of a complete phony like 45*.

"Folks in the grip of really powerful denial can be rendered effectively unreachable"

(starting at about 11:20)

Today's Orwell

The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself.

Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.

It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments ... of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.

--George Orwell, 1984

A Closer Look

tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors:

Pundits have told us since that fateful day when Comrade Preznint Stupid won the election, a large number of white, working class Dims had changed lanes. The Villagers told us that these voters so hated Crooked Killery (“but her E-MAIL!!1!) that they voted for Hair Führer. The very serious media people told us that these voters were deserters and that they must be appeased for the Dims to ever win anything again.

Looks like that might be BS.

Shocking, I know.

BTW - tengrain is so good, he inspires his blog followers to come up with the bestly brilliantest nicknames.

Everybody - say hello to Pee Wee Goebbels:

Today's GIF

Maybe this is what they're talking about. Is this when America was great?

Today's Quote

"There has always been a section of the left, which I call the Whiny Party - the party that really doesn't wanna win. They just wanna be pure. And if they go down swinging purely, then that's fine. Well, the problem with that is it leaves behind the people who really need their help. If we're gonna have a single-payer or Medicare For All or whatever we're gonna have in healthcare, then we all have to pull together. And people who sit out or crank on some candidate because they did this or that that wasn't to their purity test are basically turning their back on the very people they pretend to represent. So I don't have a lot of patience with this wing of the progressive party." 

--Howard Dean