"Trump approval ratings sink to new lows nationwide and in Utah."
I realize there's a lot of weirdos in Utah, and badly behaved Mormon housewives, but, it's damn beautiful country, and it IS a part of "nationwide." I wonder what prompted that?
President Donald Trump says he has instructed the negotiators “not to rush into a deal” with Iran since “time is on our side”, adding that the US blockade in the Strait of Hormuz “will remain in full force and effect until an agreement is reached, certified, and signed”.
The threat of renewed war with Iran “still looms large”, according to Al Jazeera’s team in Washington, DC, as “the US president still leaves open the opportunity to launch military strikes”.
Translation: We have plenty of explosive thingies to kill more brown people, so take your time.
For 46 years when I worked at Social Security I always looked forward to the Memorial Day weekend because that was the end of what I called “The Stretch” between President’s Day and Memorial Day 14-15 weeks with no Federal holiday. When we got to Memorial Day that meant for me more holidays are coming sooner.
Now that I’m retired and because of what Poopy Pants and Drunk Ass Pete have done to completely corrupt the military I no longer have any desire to do anything on Memorial Day except stay at home. Don’t even feel like playing chess. Maybe I will just listen to music. I have no desire to go to El Cholo like I did for 21 years to remember my son since Trump and the GOP now consider him just another “sucker and loser”.
To compare Dr Suzuki to Bill Nye, is a huge disservice to Dr Suzuki. As far as I know Dr Suzuki has never given the impression of a conflict of interest unlike Bill Nye who changed his public opinion on GMO foods after spending time at Monsanto and then claiming he had signed an NDA and could not explain the evidence Monsanto presented that changed his position and that we should just trust him. That is not how science works.
I suspect that Carney's promises about the new pipeline have more to do with appeasing Maple MAGA Danielle Smith and her merry band of American-backed seperatists than it has to do with actually building a pipeline. He's smart enough to know about all the hurdles involved, and is probably aware that it will never happen in the forseeable future.
Ta, Dok. Happy 90th to David Suzuki, and many thanks that he's telling the truth, which does and should hurt. We have much to do at the pied-à-nuage today. We've had our luscious fruit bowls and flowery green tea, and are munching elitist avocado toast and sipping excellent coffee. Dear darling husband has to finish making the fresh tomato sauce he started last weekend, and when it's ready I'll roll out the whole wheat pizza dough that waited in the freezer all week. But before we do that, we have to climb farther up the mountain to collect ramps; this is the last week their leaves will be usable, and we have plans for them. We harvest sustainably (unlike the people who sell at NYC's Greenmarkets) so our ramp patch has become a ramp field. It's rampant! Good day, beloved Wonketteers. We love and appreciate you all and we bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot six months after your last (done!) and catch up on any other vaccines you need (and if there are children in your life, make sure they're vaccinated also, too), avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from us and anyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because we love you, too. Do this in memory of 27 Club member Treg and heroic Tony, Holly's pilot friend, among nearly eight million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (we adore you, all medicos of Wonkette, active and retired), especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark, RN. Stay safe.
Slava Ukraini. (I can't post emojis/symbols RN so imagine the sunflower, Ukrainian flag, blue heart, and yellow heart.)
The privately-funded games have garnered considerable attention online, and are financially backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm, 1789 Capitol, and tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The company behind the event, the publicly-traded Enhanced Group, is using the games as a launch pad for their business, selling peptides and other supplements.
"The Enhanced Games do not promote the indiscriminate use of restricted substances," D'Souza said. "Instead, we advocate for the safe, responsible and clinically supervised use of performance enhancements."
In other words, "only use the drugs that we sell".
Henlo, the great Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) talks to some people to ask if the Proud Boys are white supremacists (they are). One person says yes. One person says it depends on the definition. The third person, I don't see his name, says "I'm not like the SPLC. I don't fund groups-"
The fourth person says he believes that they are not white supremacists.
He must be smoking car exhaust.
Update:
Tony Perkins! Head of the Family Research Council. One of the worst things on this Earth.
He is the very devil.
He actually says, when Rep. Crockett asks if *neo-Nazis* are white supremacists, starts off his answer with "Well, they're anti-Semitic-"
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiie
I better start watching the footie match, or I am going to whack the poor tee vee with this chair.
Really disappointed* in how our media frames things. Reuters has an article that seems to be paywalled, but the headlines are that Trump keeps talking up his vanity projects while Americans are struggling financially... and they are worried about how it will affect the election. NOT how it affects their constituents, or the country as a whole. Just their election chances.
I think anyone who is fine with Trump's behavior, unless and until it affects them personally, deserves every bit of that effect.
Everything, when there is a republican in office is framed politically. When there is a D, especially congress, but also POTUS, everything is framed on how Americans feel, country going in the right direction, inflation, which was all the media talked about under OHJ, healthcare, on and on.
I always kind of wonder about those people who are always looking to "fast-track" something that is not only "controversial", but also complex and has potential for failure. Are they really that blinded by their greed? What kind of "analysis" have they done on their project ( other than how much money it will make them )?
Here's the bombastic '80s opening for The Nature of Things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwVOnDiLqy8
So did Donnie bring more freedom to Iran or Venezuela?
"Trump approval ratings sink to new lows nationwide and in Utah."
I realize there's a lot of weirdos in Utah, and badly behaved Mormon housewives, but, it's damn beautiful country, and it IS a part of "nationwide." I wonder what prompted that?
From Al Jazeera:
President Donald Trump says he has instructed the negotiators “not to rush into a deal” with Iran since “time is on our side”, adding that the US blockade in the Strait of Hormuz “will remain in full force and effect until an agreement is reached, certified, and signed”.
The threat of renewed war with Iran “still looms large”, according to Al Jazeera’s team in Washington, DC, as “the US president still leaves open the opportunity to launch military strikes”.
Translation: We have plenty of explosive thingies to kill more brown people, so take your time.
alternate translation: "I'm a gibbering demented idiot"
"Iran, the tick that killed the camel" . . .
For 46 years when I worked at Social Security I always looked forward to the Memorial Day weekend because that was the end of what I called “The Stretch” between President’s Day and Memorial Day 14-15 weeks with no Federal holiday. When we got to Memorial Day that meant for me more holidays are coming sooner.
Now that I’m retired and because of what Poopy Pants and Drunk Ass Pete have done to completely corrupt the military I no longer have any desire to do anything on Memorial Day except stay at home. Don’t even feel like playing chess. Maybe I will just listen to music. I have no desire to go to El Cholo like I did for 21 years to remember my son since Trump and the GOP now consider him just another “sucker and loser”.
To compare Dr Suzuki to Bill Nye, is a huge disservice to Dr Suzuki. As far as I know Dr Suzuki has never given the impression of a conflict of interest unlike Bill Nye who changed his public opinion on GMO foods after spending time at Monsanto and then claiming he had signed an NDA and could not explain the evidence Monsanto presented that changed his position and that we should just trust him. That is not how science works.
I suspect that Carney's promises about the new pipeline have more to do with appeasing Maple MAGA Danielle Smith and her merry band of American-backed seperatists than it has to do with actually building a pipeline. He's smart enough to know about all the hurdles involved, and is probably aware that it will never happen in the forseeable future.
Ta, Dok. Happy 90th to David Suzuki, and many thanks that he's telling the truth, which does and should hurt. We have much to do at the pied-à-nuage today. We've had our luscious fruit bowls and flowery green tea, and are munching elitist avocado toast and sipping excellent coffee. Dear darling husband has to finish making the fresh tomato sauce he started last weekend, and when it's ready I'll roll out the whole wheat pizza dough that waited in the freezer all week. But before we do that, we have to climb farther up the mountain to collect ramps; this is the last week their leaves will be usable, and we have plans for them. We harvest sustainably (unlike the people who sell at NYC's Greenmarkets) so our ramp patch has become a ramp field. It's rampant! Good day, beloved Wonketteers. We love and appreciate you all and we bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot six months after your last (done!) and catch up on any other vaccines you need (and if there are children in your life, make sure they're vaccinated also, too), avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from us and anyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because we love you, too. Do this in memory of 27 Club member Treg and heroic Tony, Holly's pilot friend, among nearly eight million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (we adore you, all medicos of Wonkette, active and retired), especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark, RN. Stay safe.
Slava Ukraini. (I can't post emojis/symbols RN so imagine the sunflower, Ukrainian flag, blue heart, and yellow heart.)
🌻💙💛
O Zyx & Mecca, didja catch this yesterday? I believe Teen linked it.
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:7qqkq2zdwq4j5jingukgtuky/bafkreifplrs2uy4cmo3gcvami776vyzls5gmqype6wammoeunmadiwywya
Well, poopie.
(switches from the Premier League to the Indy 500, just in time to see a crash)
Yay!
I laughed, and then felt guilty. More drugs should cure that.
If the drugs don't do the trick, consider more tattoos.
I've seen three cars wrecked and one afire, so far. This is officially a fun race.
And thus, a life is lived. 🤪
Which part ? . . .
The car that caught fire in the pit. The driver got out okay, but pissed straight off.
is this the fuel that burns invisibly?
Ahhh..and I love the Lorax! And our Truffula Trees!
But, a Thneeds a fine something that all people need!
DJT Jr. and Peter Thiel, what's not to hate?
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁
The privately-funded games have garnered considerable attention online, and are financially backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm, 1789 Capitol, and tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The company behind the event, the publicly-traded Enhanced Group, is using the games as a launch pad for their business, selling peptides and other supplements.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/24/nx-s1-5831252/enhanced-games-steroids-olympics-trump
Pieces of fucking shit.
Wow, a circus, now that bread is $$.
"The Enhanced Games do not promote the indiscriminate use of restricted substances," D'Souza said. "Instead, we advocate for the safe, responsible and clinically supervised use of performance enhancements."
In other words, "only use the drugs that we sell".
Odds of someone popping a nut or shattering a brittle bone...?
(or developing prostate cancer or heart disease)
"Evil? Sure, let me grab my checkbook"
what is the deal with peptides? what makes THEM so great?
you people are not help AT ALL
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/23/1133522/peptides-are-everywhere-heres-what-you-need-to-know/
The make con artists richer
Ask Deanna and Data, they might have a thought or two on that.
This nurse/athlete (not very good) is DEEPLY dubious.
Anecdotal reports that they may promote healing after injury
Try them and find out!
This was an SNL sketch that, IIRC, ended with Kevin Nealon (or someone) getting his arms torn off.
So SNL's All-Drug Olympics are upon us at last?!
Oops. Shoulda read before I posted.
lol nearly at the same time! ^5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43QexWNgqUc
OT:
Henlo, the great Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) talks to some people to ask if the Proud Boys are white supremacists (they are). One person says yes. One person says it depends on the definition. The third person, I don't see his name, says "I'm not like the SPLC. I don't fund groups-"
The fourth person says he believes that they are not white supremacists.
He must be smoking car exhaust.
Update:
Tony Perkins! Head of the Family Research Council. One of the worst things on this Earth.
He is the very devil.
He actually says, when Rep. Crockett asks if *neo-Nazis* are white supremacists, starts off his answer with "Well, they're anti-Semitic-"
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiie
I better start watching the footie match, or I am going to whack the poor tee vee with this chair.
And they name themselves "Boys," because not one of them knows how to be a Man.
One of their songs is "We're Proud of Our Boy," a song written for the film version of "Aladdin," it's today used in the musical.
Yes, a gay musical where a gay character exists and sometimes people who exist want to have fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX4YR3ItBsw
Does he also believe they're "boys", or "Proud?" Idiots.
Given how long it took to get rid of Mr. Floatie I am not surprised that the "Pragmatics" are back on stage.
Really disappointed* in how our media frames things. Reuters has an article that seems to be paywalled, but the headlines are that Trump keeps talking up his vanity projects while Americans are struggling financially... and they are worried about how it will affect the election. NOT how it affects their constituents, or the country as a whole. Just their election chances.
I think anyone who is fine with Trump's behavior, unless and until it affects them personally, deserves every bit of that effect.
*angry af
They are complicit.
The progaganda re: "liberal media" is one of the biggest gaslighting operations in the history of this country.
Everything, when there is a republican in office is framed politically. When there is a D, especially congress, but also POTUS, everything is framed on how Americans feel, country going in the right direction, inflation, which was all the media talked about under OHJ, healthcare, on and on.
The US Corporate Controlled Conservative Press is totally worthless.
Yes. Every media source today is owned by ultra-rich people, usually the types of white people who are full of hate.
NPR isn't, but they sure act like it, or at least afraid of offending those same people.
The Guardian isn't, but they are sure a mixed bag, editorially.
The Guardian isn’t part of the U.S. corporate owned media. I certainly get better news coverage from them than WaPo.
definitely, me too. they still piss me off sometimes by showing deference to Trump, giving benefit of doubt. seems like less so lately?
Sometimes they add some snark to their political reporting, which I enjoy.
Nice Polite Republicans.
Bought and paid for bullshit distributers.
I always kind of wonder about those people who are always looking to "fast-track" something that is not only "controversial", but also complex and has potential for failure. Are they really that blinded by their greed? What kind of "analysis" have they done on their project ( other than how much money it will make them )?
If you're fast-tracking something, you know it's absolute crap, and you are trying to get in and make a profit before consumers realize it.
The "analysis" is...How Much Money Can I Make For Myself!
Well doomed or not, we might as well keep trying to make the world a better place.
I delivered groceries to three migrant families the other day.
Meanwhile, Trump cut off food stamps to three million people.
It's like trying to empty the ocean with a turkey baster.
But, goddamnit, you've got to keep trying.
this is, of course, the correct take
HELL yes!
Yes and yay.