The faces of Sexual Assault Awareness And Prevention Month. pic.twitter.com/IMX5ee7KZI— Talia (@2020fight) April 3, 2017
Apr 3, 2017
Today's Tweet
Apr 2, 2017
Gerson
File this one under "about fucking time".
Republicans got an administration that is morally small. Trump’s proposed budget would require massive cuts in disease research, global development and agricultural programs — just as a famine gathers a hideous strength. The proposed budget practices random acts of gratuitous cruelty.
This is a pretty bad combination: empty, easily distracted, vindictive, shallow, impatient, incompetent and morally small. This is not the profile of a governing party.
But then, I look a little closer, and I see the standard "moderate sensible conservative" thing goin' on.
Gerson is providing a way for Repubs to put some distance between themselves and 45* - as usual (driftglass nails this one pretty consistently).
As soon as the voters act on the bullshit that guys like Gerson are always flacking at them, guys like Gerson are always quick to bail.
Republicans got an administration that is morally small. Trump’s proposed budget would require massive cuts in disease research, global development and agricultural programs — just as a famine gathers a hideous strength. The proposed budget practices random acts of gratuitous cruelty.
This is a pretty bad combination: empty, easily distracted, vindictive, shallow, impatient, incompetent and morally small. This is not the profile of a governing party.
But then, I look a little closer, and I see the standard "moderate sensible conservative" thing goin' on.
Gerson is providing a way for Repubs to put some distance between themselves and 45* - as usual (driftglass nails this one pretty consistently).
As soon as the voters act on the bullshit that guys like Gerson are always flacking at them, guys like Gerson are always quick to bail.
- Take whatever shitty things the GOP has been up to and tie them all to (eg) a president
- Pretend you were never actually in favor of the shitty things "this president has done" (which gives every rube the rationalization for denying ever having voted for that phony traitorous bastard)
- Make sure nobody even mentions his name at the next convention
- Find the next guy to front for your fuckery and start again at 1
You may have noticed a slight change in the last dozen or so years.
First of course, there was apparently no such thing as a Republican President since Reagan. And there was no Republican majority anywhere in DC or any of the states where some really shitty things were happening to the GOP's most faithful voters.
Second, rather suddenly in the last few years, not that many folks are doing a whole lotta talking about Reagan either. Possibly because even the dumbest rubes have started to think a little - and they're thinking the Golden Era of the 80s is beginning to look more and more like a very long time ago.
And the kicker - what we've known for a good long time: they've been promised all kinds of sparkly results in return for their party loyalty, but what they've been delivered is little more than balloon filler.
BTW - that Gerson piece was very boiler-platey. We can now look forward to the followup which will attempt to nail it down in terms of "Trumpism" (in order to further distance the GOP from the guy they pimped at us - the guy carrying their fucking flag), and shoehorning it all back into the usual Yeah-But-The-Democrats-Both-Sides bullshit.
Today's Toon
I may have done this one already, but it's just too good - especially the bite marks on his butt.
Apr 1, 2017
A Podcast
And the winning phrase for this week is:
"Your government turned itself inside out to try to find a way to rationalize the lunatic ravings of an asshole."
"Your government turned itself inside out to try to find a way to rationalize the lunatic ravings of an asshole."
I wake up every morning realizing I've survived to fight one more day
Mar 31, 2017
Tech Today
So, I needed to clean the ol' iMac today, and I can do that best by standing behind it. This makes for less wear and tear on my wrists and arms, but since I have to look around the side or over the top, it's hard to tell the difference between what's there legitimately and what needs to be gone.
Thinking it was a bit of snot or phlegm or mayonnaise or whatever, I just spent close to a full minute trying to scrub the cursor off my computer screen.
It occurs to me that I may be spending way too much time calling other people stoopid.
Thinking it was a bit of snot or phlegm or mayonnaise or whatever, I just spent close to a full minute trying to scrub the cursor off my computer screen.
It occurs to me that I may be spending way too much time calling other people stoopid.
Today's Resistance
The GOP fucks us over by knocking down FCC privacy regs, so here's one small thing we can do to fuck 'em back.
Every day, I go to Google to look something up - OK OK, every day, I go to Google about 40-leven times to look something up.
But every time, before I do anything else, I Google these:
Fuck Comcast
Fuck AT&T
Fuck the GOP
Fuck American oligarchy
Fuck Google Analytics
Fuck autoplay video ads
And I do it a dozen or more times each. Once you type it in and hit ENTER, all you have to do is click in the search box and hit ENTER again.
The Google Bomb works - ask Rick Santorum.
Takes maybe 90 seconds for the whole thing.
Show your discontentment. Fight back.
Every day, I go to Google to look something up - OK OK, every day, I go to Google about 40-leven times to look something up.
But every time, before I do anything else, I Google these:
Fuck Comcast
Fuck AT&T
Fuck the GOP
Fuck American oligarchy
Fuck Google Analytics
Fuck autoplay video ads
And I do it a dozen or more times each. Once you type it in and hit ENTER, all you have to do is click in the search box and hit ENTER again.
The Google Bomb works - ask Rick Santorum.
Takes maybe 90 seconds for the whole thing.
Show your discontentment. Fight back.
Today's Tweet
There's so much nepotism in the White House that Trump might resign to spend less time with his family.— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) March 31, 2017
#TrumpRussia @realDonaldTrump
Mar 30, 2017
Today's Tweet
I have no idea if Trump campaign colluded w Russia. But if they didnt, what else could possibly be worth this amount of hamhanded deception?— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) March 30, 2017
Nunes Is Dirty
It's possible Devin Nunes really thinks he's doing what we pay him to do - and it is possible he actually is doing what we pay him to do, even as he does it in a very unorthodox and troubling way.
It's also possible I can make the jack of spades jump out of a brand new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. (with apologies to Sky Masterson's dad for turning that one around)
NYT:
WASHINGTON — A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies.
The revelation that White House officials assisted in the disclosure of the intelligence reports — which Mr. Nunes then discussed with President Trump — is likely to fuel criticism that the intelligence chairman has been too eager to do the bidding of the Trump administration while his committee is supposed to be conducting an independent investigation of Russia’s meddling in the last presidential election.
- and -
Several current American officials identified the White House officials as Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, a lawyer who works on national security issues at the White House Counsel’s Office and formerly worked on the staff of the House Intelligence Committee.
A White House spokesperson declined to comment.
It's also possible I can make the jack of spades jump out of a brand new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. (with apologies to Sky Masterson's dad for turning that one around)
NYT:
The revelation that White House officials assisted in the disclosure of the intelligence reports — which Mr. Nunes then discussed with President Trump — is likely to fuel criticism that the intelligence chairman has been too eager to do the bidding of the Trump administration while his committee is supposed to be conducting an independent investigation of Russia’s meddling in the last presidential election.
A White House spokesperson declined to comment.
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