I woke up this morning thinking about the fall of the Soviet Union. At the time that was going down, I was very politically unaware; I had the theatre bug really bad, and I was busy hanging lights and building sets and generally being a theatre nerd. But I was at least aware that it was happening, and even at the time it seemed to me that the US was being a very sore winner. 'Communism doesn't work, so therefor the only conceivable way to run a society is American-style capitalism/representative democracy. Here, let us come over and show you how it's done!". Doesn't seem to have worked out well for most Russians, thirty years on. I strongly suspect that right now we are seeing a similar collapse of the American empire.
I'm starting to wonder if they changed Grandpa's meds. He seems far too passive about all the attention President Musk is getting. Remember 8 years ago how he bristled about Bannon being called Trump's brain. Something is definitely up
My theory: whether it's true or not, Elon told him he stole the election for him by hacking and manipulation of the vote tabulation programs, and donnie believes him.
He's simply satisfied because he found his Roy Cohn in Elon Musk. He's always wanted to sit back and play mafia don or President while a soulless ghoul does the actual work.
The past couple of days, I've been checking out some of the episodes of "Match Game" from their first couple of seasons. I remember watching It when I was in elementary school.
Seriously, this game show should be called "Boobity Boobs" since "boobs" is the answer to most of the questions.
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
The rubes are getting suckered in, and the banks are getting out. What does that tell you?
𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀: 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗱 ~$𝟰.𝟳𝗕 𝗼𝗳 𝗫'𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟯, 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 $𝟯𝗕 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹, 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 ~$𝟭𝗕 𝗼𝗳 𝗫 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 — The social media company is attracting investor interest because of Elon Musk's close ties to President Trump and a recent jump in revenue.
I see that the House GOP decided to go ham and are putting forward a budget that demands $4.3 trillion in tax cuts for Rich Bastards Who Should Be [REDACTED], so expect deep cuts or eliminations everywhere.
Ya know, I do not do math, and what not, but I am curious if the amount that Hellno and his band of unfuckables stole from all those departments is close to the 400 mil TFG promised to buy from Tesla
‘Stop Schlapping my… stop Schlapping my part around… hey, hey, hey.’
Ali can't tell us, but somebody knows what bar this was. Would love to avoid it if it's Schlapp's regular watering hole.
* Activates ziggy bat signal*
Dagnabit!! Now I got an ear worm. Can't keep The Monkees theme song from playing in my head with your header's lyrics... And it is hilarious!!!
I would not say the Schlapps are "very" Catholic. I would say the Schlapps are "a certain kind of" Catholic.
Heh. Even the Trump PACs admit Musk is running things:
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We've been trying to get in touch with you about the Official MAGA Census, but we haven't heard back yet.
FIRST, Donald Trump Jr. reached out.
THEN, JD Vance followed up.
AFTER THAT, President Trump asked us to reach out one final time. He knows how much you admire him.
NOW, even Elon Musk has personally given us the green light to give you one last reminder.
I woke up this morning thinking about the fall of the Soviet Union. At the time that was going down, I was very politically unaware; I had the theatre bug really bad, and I was busy hanging lights and building sets and generally being a theatre nerd. But I was at least aware that it was happening, and even at the time it seemed to me that the US was being a very sore winner. 'Communism doesn't work, so therefor the only conceivable way to run a society is American-style capitalism/representative democracy. Here, let us come over and show you how it's done!". Doesn't seem to have worked out well for most Russians, thirty years on. I strongly suspect that right now we are seeing a similar collapse of the American empire.
We're basically there, with the US broken into regions run by different oligarchs, with a Federal government that has pretty much ceased to function.
exactly
I'm starting to wonder if they changed Grandpa's meds. He seems far too passive about all the attention President Musk is getting. Remember 8 years ago how he bristled about Bannon being called Trump's brain. Something is definitely up
My theory: whether it's true or not, Elon told him he stole the election for him by hacking and manipulation of the vote tabulation programs, and donnie believes him.
Money.
Bannon does not have nearly even close to the amount that Elon is paying him to lay back and think of england
Also, Trump likes what he thinks is a casting-director's idea of well-groomed. Bannon never was or ever will be that.
Maybe his bosses explained to him how things will be run from now on.
He's simply satisfied because he found his Roy Cohn in Elon Musk. He's always wanted to sit back and play mafia don or President while a soulless ghoul does the actual work.
Whoa -- you mean Tiny Hands can now boast that in his sad, sick life, he's actually had TWO friends?
Too bad he still can only get close to any woman by using money or violence.
progressive dementia
No, Donnie Dipshit, other countries are lining up to take advantage of YOU.
𝘏𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 "𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘫𝘰𝘣𝘴".
𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 "𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴", 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘹𝘦𝘴.
"𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴," 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘪. "𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴."
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴.
𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗶 𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗨𝗦-𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 '𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽' 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgylj77xz9o
Xi is not going to be a happy Winnie the Pooh.
The past couple of days, I've been checking out some of the episodes of "Match Game" from their first couple of seasons. I remember watching It when I was in elementary school.
Seriously, this game show should be called "Boobity Boobs" since "boobs" is the answer to most of the questions.
If it were on now, we could have questions like "Dumb Donald is so dumb......"
I like the theme song.
If you want a great theme song ... They really should have released the theme from "10,000 Pyramid" as a single.
https://youtu.be/ig01av1tHPs?si=OvV_T-ziNFgcL1dJ
"Boobs Or Backsides?"
I remember a lot of patootie answers.
Making friends and influencing people, The Homunculus style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72WWh3nz_JM
It's rare to see the media reporting on BRICS also too.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/17/the-brics-bloc-is-growing-and-trumps-tariff-threat-isnt-expected-to-put-off-aspiring-members.html
Hilarious!
He might believe he can roll back the tides too.
In his tiny, tiny mind, there's nothing he can't do.
I'll bet someone just explained what BRICS is and he's mortified.
Only cause he can't see anyway to weasel in and grift off it
Pretty much my entire life
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Rage Against the Needlepoint
lovely stitching
I'll allow it so long as they'll teach me how to pronounce it.
SassyMetisChick
@sassymetischick.bsky.social
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
I'll take a stab
chal-chee-oot-lee-q
The rubes are getting suckered in, and the banks are getting out. What does that tell you?
𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀: 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗱 ~$𝟰.𝟳𝗕 𝗼𝗳 𝗫'𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟯, 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 $𝟯𝗕 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹, 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 ~$𝟭𝗕 𝗼𝗳 𝗫 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 — The social media company is attracting investor interest because of Elon Musk's close ties to President Trump and a recent jump in revenue.
https://archive.ph/GRPBF [Vichy Times]
"investor" uh huh
Makes the suckers sound all important and shit.
I see that the House GOP decided to go ham and are putting forward a budget that demands $4.3 trillion in tax cuts for Rich Bastards Who Should Be [REDACTED], so expect deep cuts or eliminations everywhere.
I’ll be curious to see how much in tourism dollars the US loses over the next several years.
Florida will take a massive kick to the crotch.
So the redacted word is embraced? Worshipped? Loved?
(shifty look)
Yeah, my "family filter" is on.
Ya know, I do not do math, and what not, but I am curious if the amount that Hellno and his band of unfuckables stole from all those departments is close to the 400 mil TFG promised to buy from Tesla
I can't wait for the field tests of those wankpanzers. US troops will be blowing them up just to get rid of them.
Will not be the first time
But this is assuming troops get them
I have the bad feeling they will be fleet for Competent White Men
I'm having a "ha ha!" key installed on my laptop tomorrow, that'll be a big time-saver.