Today's WTF

Seriously - what the fuck are we doing?

At CPAC yesterday

Skepchick

Scam me once, shame on you. Scam me again, shame on me.

If you don't learn something about yourself when you've been taken for a fool - and if you then don't work to fix it - it's just a matter of time before you get fooled again. And usually in very much the same way.

Here's a pretty strong rebuttal to guys like Will Westmoreland, whose thing is not to get the rubes to admit they were wrong, but just to admit they were lied to. ie: Victimized

Jonathan Explains

The Cult Explained

Today's Long-Form Quote

John Cleese

My American friends are asking me about President Trump’s observation that the British ‘like him’.

I regret this is quite unfounded.

The explanation for this canard is that Trump is pronoid.

Pronoid is the opposite of paranoid. A paranoid person thinks, without any basis in reality, that everybody is out to get them. A pronoid person is someone who thinks, without any
basis in reality, that everybody likes them.

The fact is that the British loathe Donald Trump.

This is because he is the polar opposite of a ‘ Gentleman ‘, who has qualities the British admire. A fine example is Gareth Southgate.

To the British, a ‘ Gentleman ' is a man who is modest, well-mannered, self deprecating, quietly intelligent, considerate of other people’s feeling, and well-informed.

He is not vulgar, inflated, vain, boastful, noisily ignorant, sleazy and common as muck.

I hope this clears up any confusion.

Today's Wilson

Do not count Trump out - not until he's been stomped on so there's nothing left of him but a greasy spot on the rug.

We've seen how the guy will go all in on every hand. And now that he owns the house money, it seems he believes he can't be beat, which will probably make him even more reckless - more willing to throw down - and more willing to pull us all into the vast black emptiness where a man's soul is supposed to be.

Just remember - nobody's bulletproof.

No, I'm not suggesting somebody should Luigi the motherfucker - the drugs and the cheeseburgers will eventually take care of that for us.

Laying Bare The Lie

It was never about "they should do it the right way" or law-n-order, or any of the other excuses and deflections.

It is, and always was, about rounding up brown people.

This country already has a genocide on its soul, and 400 years of slavery. Now we're going to add ethnic cleansing?

You are nine kinds of fucked up, America.

Gov Pritzker

It took the Nazis 1 month, 2 days, 8 hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle Germany's constitutional democracy.

JB Pritzker, sounding the alarm. Fascism is here, y'all. 2025 America is 1934 Germany. 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/XZOSx5ILUX

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) February 20, 2025

The road to tyranny

is crowded
with people telling us
we're overreacting. 

Partly Explained

hat tip = Bill D, Facebook

Eileen Workman is an author and essayist, who previously spent 16 years in the financial industry as First Vice President of Investments at a major Wall Street firm, until she had a spiritual awakening and left that field. She has worked with Trump, and now offers this about him:

"I know a little something that so many do not appreciate about Donald Trump, but that those of us who worked with him in the financial services game have known for many decades—long before he ever made a run at national politics.

"His stated motives rarely reveal his true agenda. His showmanship and charisma bedazzles the uninformed, which is exactly how he likes it. He never signed a contract or met an agreement he wouldn’t violate or wriggle out of if it suited his hidden agenda. He never met an investor whose purse he didn’t consider his own in some strategic way. And he never met a human being he wouldn’t screw in order to advance or satisfy himself.

"If you want to understand his beef with Panama, don’t look at the canal to which he now points. Look at Trump enterprises and their fraught financial and criminal relationship with Panama, and look to the Russian oligarchs who bought condos in his Panama Tower. If you want to understand his fixation with Gaza, don’t look at the Palestinian or Israeli people; look at the real estate value he now perceives that Gaza holds, and he’d like to unlock. If you want to understand his insane, obsessive beef with energy renewable windmills, don’t look at the wind energy aspect; look at his beef with Scotland over his golf course and the nearby windmills that damaged his idea of its aesthetics.

"If you want to understand his irrational hatred of Obama, don’t look at the policies of the Obama administration; look to the annual press corp dinner where Obama poked fun at him and bruised his ego. If you want to understand his demonization of Democrats, look not to Democratic social policy, but to the fact they didn’t want him to run under color of their party. If you want to understand his hatred of “immigrants” don’t look to the actual contributions and challenges related to immigration, but to his own germophobia and personal disgust for all things “dirty and brown.”

"What he does SO masterfully, as many sociopaths do, is figure out how to align, however temporarily, his own personal agenda with the drives of those he can then USE to help him execute it.

"And the GOP fell right in line with that abusive strategy. The GOP now looks much like a battered wife who would love to quit Trump, but who also knows their financial security, personal comfort, and social status would collapse if they ran away. And they fear they won’t get much sympathy or support from the people who tried to warn them not to marry the dude—a serial, liar, cheater, thief, sadist, and a generally Bad Person.
"Many of the GOP politicians today are busily masking their own abuse from the general public; at some point, however, as they watch their power continue to erode, their reputations get smashed, and themselves get blamed for the extensive abuse they now suffer, something’s gonna give.

"I don’t know what it is, but every bone in my body feels an energetic convergence heading toward a massive, MASSIVE explosion—coming soon."

The Ol' Mumbo Jumbo

Shit shovelers like Trump are practiced in the art of NewSpeak.

"I've done more in 4 weeks than Biden did in 4 years."

"I've only been here a month - it's not my fault."

It's a variation on Daddy State Awareness Rule 4:

4. They change the meaning of words to suit their needs.

a) if it's false but it works in my favor, then it's true

b) if it's true but it works against me, then it's false