Jan 23, 2025

Overheard


  • We can't do Green Energy because that would destroy the Dirty Fuels Cartel.
  • We can't do Universal Healthcare because that would ruin the Insurance Claims Denial Cartel.
  • We can't do World Peace because that would take down the Merchants Of Death Cartel.
We're allowing this fucked up version of
capitalism to make it impossible for us
to do what's best for the most.

Today's Belle


Today's WTF


The guy is saying he was pretty sure they wouldn't do what they said they would do, and he voted for them anyway.

His profile has to be fairly well aligned with: "You can't trust politicians and their campaign promises - they're all a buncha liars", but he's right there, going along with those lyin' untrustworthy politicians.

WTAF, MAGA?

Call Your Senator



202-224-3121

Allow Me To Retort

Jan 22, 2025

Quick Poem


You're a ghost
driving a meat-covered skeleton
made of star stuff,
hanging out on a rock
hurtling through spacetime.
Fear nothing.
--anon

In Context

It's just a gesture.


No Beeping Necessary


JUST NOW: “Obviously, we didn’t get to beep that.” CNN’s Pamela Brown reacts to Officer Fanone’s choice words for the head of the Oath Keepers Trump just pardoned after his seditious conspiracy conviction, who says he has no regrets.

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM

How Great We Aren't

We love to puff ourselves up and pretend the mighty US military can never be whupped. And while that may be true now (and no, it isn't - everybody can get beat), we've been in so many scraps, big and small, just in the 236 years of our current state of existence, that we're kinda prone to skip over the "little ones" so we can brag about how we're undefeated.


Don't get me wrong. I'm plenty proud of the skills and the courage of Americans who've stepped up and served - the ones who fought and bled and died, and the ones who watched and waited.

But once in a while, historical reality walks up and spits on my shoes in order to remind me that the badassery of "the enemy" is not to be dismissed.




Overall USA record:
  • 89 wins
  • 14 losses
  • 16 ties
  • 6 ongoing - TBD