Today's Tweet

Daddy State Rule #2:
Every boast is an admission of deficiency; often an attempt to take credit where credit has not been earned.

Trump:
My penis is big.
I'm very smart.
I'm not a racist.

Large penised smart men who aren't racists don't need to tell you this every minute.

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) January 15, 2018

 

Today's Today

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

--MLK

Governor Ralph Northam

Northam's inaugural:

Today's Tweet

I'd really like to get me one of those projector thingies. Did I mention I have a birthday coming up?

Sh*thole Projections 1-13-18 #resist https://t.co/uQ7cUXiqhn

— robin bell (@bellvisuals) January 14, 2018

 

It's Not Coincidence

"Shithole countries" comes practically on the eve of MLK Day.

And last year, a day or so ahead of MLK Day, 45* took a shit on John Lewis's head.

Michael Edison Hayden, Crooks & Liars
(Posted with permission from Newsweek)

President Donald Trump’s already infamous “shithole” comment is among several remarks the commander-in-chief has made that have energized white supremacists, rights groups fear.

Trump made the comment Thursday in the context of asking why America should accept more immigrants from Haiti and Africa—instead of places like Norway—while discussing a bipartisan immigration deal with lawmakers. The remark reinvigorated accusations that Trump is a racist, and it was embraced online by white supremacists David Duke and Richard Spencer.
We seem to have an emerging trend here. 45* knows he can't break with tradition completely just yet. He'll issue the annual MLK tribute, even though he has no regard for people of color, but he wants to stay in good stead with Duke and Spencer while seeming not to.

So he shits on Lewis and drops the shithole bomb as a way of sending a nice little wink and a nudge to the crazies: "Don't worry fellas - you know I'm not going to mean anything with this MLK shit, right?"

What Was That, Anyway?

Raw Story

President Donald Trump’s White House was caught completely unprepared for Saturday’s false alarm about a missile attack on Hawaii, said Politico.

The news about the potential attack “sent White House aides scrambling” as they frantically called federal agencies trying to find out what to do and how to respond, raising serious questions about their preparedness for an actual attack — nearly a year into Trump’s presidency.

“President Donald Trump’s Cabinet has yet to test formal plans for how to respond to a domestic missile attack, according to a senior administration official,” wrote Politico’s Eliana Johnson. “John Kelly, while serving as Secretary of Homeland Security through last July, planned to conduct the exercise. But he left his post to become White House chief of staff before it was conducted, and acting secretary Elaine Duke never carried it out.”
The last I heard, it took 38 minutes before Hawaiian officials got their shit together enough to go public and withdraw the warning.

38 minutes.

I get the feeling there was a buncha guys hiding in the basement waiting and checking their watches, until finally one guy says, "I didn't hear a boom - I think there woulda been a boom by now - anybody hear a boom? Anybody?"

So this is where we are now. We have a government run by assholes who apparently think it's OK to make everybody live at the broken end of the bottle all the fucking time.

Working poor - don't get too comfortable with that Medicaid. You're kids are expensive, and we've got better people to spend that money on.

Middle class - don't bitch to us about conditions and wages - we let you work here and pay you just enough to keep you from getting together and coming to our gated communities to fuck us all up.

That false alarm in Hawaii could be real next time - you'll need to trade in your Social Security and Medicare to pay even more for a military that you're required to venerate, but will never ever be used in any way that benefits anyone but multinational rentiers.

What do you mean you don't like it? This is what you voted for, dumbass - it's not like nobody told you this is what we intended to do all along.

Today's Tweet

I don't even...can't even...

Time to start drinking

The scene: three days after nuclear war erupts in the aftermath of a Presidential twitter rant.

Congressman A: This move by the President was very unhelpful.

Senator B: I am deeply disturbed by the President's actions.

Pundit: This is how real Americans use nuclear weapons.

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) January 12, 2018

 

Today's Bit O' Satire

The fucked-up-edness really kicked into high gear when we (ie: conservatives) became convinced that the whole thing should be demystified because all you really needed was some common sense and a regular guy's outlook.

Jonathan Pie

"I went to the best doctor's on the planet, and the cancer came back - twice.  And now it's back again. This time I think I'll hire a plumber instead."

James Baldwin

I remember being aware of Baldwin, but he wasn't a big influencer for me.

I kinda regret missing that opportunity, and I regret not listening better.

Today's Plucky Entrepreneur

Here's a cool little novelty. 

When you squeeze it, a brown gel oozes out ever so slightly.

Imagine thousands of these lining the shelves in the gift shop at The Great Hall of the People in Beijing during 45*'s next visit.

hat tips = FB buds Doug and Bill