I tried to sneak closer to get some shots that weren’t obstructed by the fence, but by the time I got close enough, the babies had all scrambled away, running to their moms for protection and comfort. Still, yes, beware of Steve, always.
Word is that Pedo47’s minions are just showing him video montages of shit blowing up every morning as his presidential daily briefing. So he thinks every is going great! We keep winning the war over and over again like an infinite loop of winning! It’s Ground Hog Day but he actually learns nothing.
The StarTribune article “where they’re harassing Democratic lawmakers because they can” from yesterday led me to this more horrific article from today about people who were in the US legally -
“Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.
Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.”
Once this all is over, whoever taught Trump the word 'obliterate' should have to do some serious community service for the remainder of their sorry days.
I am reminded that one of the things Dem are holding up DHS funding for is that they want to require ICE agents to not wear masks. Makes sense to me. Police don't wear masks, only Trump's Gestapo does. But of course, Republicans don't want this reform, or any reform.
"President Trump has picked Nick Adams, a right-wing influencer known for his machismo and professed love for steaks and the restaurant chain Hooters, to be a new diplomatic envoy for American tourism...."
Adams was originally named to be Ambassador to Malaysia, but his nomination elapsed at the end of the year when he was not confirmed by the Senate.
[ Considering that Malaysia is a "Muslim-majority" country and, in addition to his other offensive stances as a "self-described alpha male", Adams is has expressed Islamaphobic views several times in his social media posts. ]
The "new diplomatic envoy" post sounds like another convenient creation just so Trump doesn't have to lose face over this failed nomination:
"...The new position is aimed at promoting U.S. tourist attractions, like national parks and other monuments, according to the White House..."
Damn, I was almost convinced that guy was being sarcastic in all his posts. That he was putting on an act and being as over the top as possible just to see if people would fall for it. Turns out he's for real, huh? In that case, eeeeww.
I was also suspicious because wasn't "Nick Adams" a character in a book? I don't remember if he was a fictional character or if he was the writer, but I know the name Nick Adams is associated with a book of some kind. Yes, I could Google it, but it's early, I'm lazy, and I'm dog sitting two of my daughter's dogs today. While the dogs are pretty good, every once in awhile they get it into their heads to harass the cats, so I have to play referee. The dogs actually just want to play, but the cats ain't having it.
I'm not going to scroll down to see if the point has already been made, but for you young'uns, Ana Marie Cox was the original Wonkette. She founded this place, and she could tell the best dick jokes you'd ever hear.
For every decision President Donald Trump makes, some nearby patsy invariably gets blamed when that decision goes south. Trump throws people under the bus so often that there’s not a single bloodless bus undercarriage left in Washington, DC.
Knowing that, I think Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host cosplaying as a U.S. Defense secretary, might want to don his nicest bus-exhaust-pipe-viewing suit and prepare to get tossed.
Not for nothing, when I peeked at "Yahoo News" yesterday to see what was being promoted - none of it was good for Trump.
Peeked at the comments, THOUSANDS mostly shitting on the Republicans and Trump. Maybe it's *liberals* infesting the site, but I'm not sure Yahoo News is a beacon for that.
Peripheral point, but that expression 'point in time' (and especially 'particular point in time,' what with its irritating inessential alliteration) is a pet peeve. There are no 'points' in time!
Just like children are the price we pay for 2A rights, practically giving away info to the enemy is the price we pay so rich traitors can line their pockets.
“Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up. And you said, ‘Let’s do it.’ Because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.”
Pete: "Yes Sir, It WAS my idea to negotiate with bombs, and things were going great, things were blowing up and ... hey, fellas, why're you all looking at me like that?"
Soooo, billionaire completely-NOT-an-amoral-sociopath, Patrick Soon-Shiong has a biotech company. His company has a new cancer drug, Anktiva...
He also has a newspaper, the Los Angeles Times...
On Tuesday, the FDA released a rocket of a warning letter accusing the wealthy shitbird of making “false” and “misleading” claims through his media interests and using the leverage those interests provide.
Local lambs, leaping. Your hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/leapin-lambs
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/4962bfab-b5f3-471b-8bb2-a3a934d159d6?utm_source=share
Mary had a little lamb
A little toast
A little jam
A Little soda
Topped with fizz
Now, oh how stuffed
My Mary is.
Leaping lambs!
I like baby sheep almost as much as baby goats! And now I know how to tell the difference. I'm going to go and watch it again, thank you.
I would rather see lambs leaping than lords. Yay! Spring!
"C'mon, let's go exploring! . . . Mom, we're home!"
seeing the lambs reminded me of a simpler time when we used to get baby goat videos in The Tabs
There's still tomorrow.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, there's always-----STOP THAT!
But mother...
Father son, father!
Where is local?? I want to see them!!
Get a move on, lambs, Chop, Chop!
Mint Sauce!
Those adorable zooming lambs are all “WAKE UP SHEEPLE!”.
Now, but I just want to play on my pan-pipes
I just want to drink me some wine
As soon as you're born you start dyin'
So you might as well have a good time, oh no
.
Sheep go to Heaven, goats go to Hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYxs4esLI_E
Reminds me I am late. I will be there in 2 shakes of a lambs tail.
I feel better with all them behind a fence. That fucker Steve might be hiding among them!
I tried to sneak closer to get some shots that weren’t obstructed by the fence, but by the time I got close enough, the babies had all scrambled away, running to their moms for protection and comfort. Still, yes, beware of Steve, always.
Alan! Alan! Alan! Oh, that’s Steve. Steve! Steve! Steve!
Word is that Pedo47’s minions are just showing him video montages of shit blowing up every morning as his presidential daily briefing. So he thinks every is going great! We keep winning the war over and over again like an infinite loop of winning! It’s Ground Hog Day but he actually learns nothing.
"embussening"
Greatest verb ever.
The StarTribune article “where they’re harassing Democratic lawmakers because they can” from yesterday led me to this more horrific article from today about people who were in the US legally -
“Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.
Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.”
https://www.startribune.com/how-ice-detainment-harmed-immigrants-with-chronic-health-problems/601588583?utm_source=gift
MoFos.
I wish there was a gawd to damn all these ICE assholes to hell.
Once this all is over, whoever taught Trump the word 'obliterate' should have to do some serious community service for the remainder of their sorry days.
Mutilizing the English language, as per ususal.
I am reminded that one of the things Dem are holding up DHS funding for is that they want to require ICE agents to not wear masks. Makes sense to me. Police don't wear masks, only Trump's Gestapo does. But of course, Republicans don't want this reform, or any reform.
CBS’s ratings are the lowest they’ve ever been. Yet Mediate frames it as a “rough quarter”.
ONE SHEET: Hegseth’s End Run, the $580M Iran Bet, Bari Weiss’s Rough Quarter
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/one-sheet-hegseths-end-run-the-580m-iran-bet-bari-weisss-rough-quarter/
CBS ratings will be even lower after Colbert leaves in May.
Everything Is Great! By Carsie Blanton & The Burning Hell:
https://youtu.be/JhZkPRtc4Go?si=8aF8pJunzRRBJyin
Yet more "best people":
"President Trump has picked Nick Adams, a right-wing influencer known for his machismo and professed love for steaks and the restaurant chain Hooters, to be a new diplomatic envoy for American tourism...."
Adams was originally named to be Ambassador to Malaysia, but his nomination elapsed at the end of the year when he was not confirmed by the Senate.
[ Considering that Malaysia is a "Muslim-majority" country and, in addition to his other offensive stances as a "self-described alpha male", Adams is has expressed Islamaphobic views several times in his social media posts. ]
The "new diplomatic envoy" post sounds like another convenient creation just so Trump doesn't have to lose face over this failed nomination:
"...The new position is aimed at promoting U.S. tourist attractions, like national parks and other monuments, according to the White House..."
What's he gonna do, shill for DisneyWorld?
[ from the NYT ]
Just in case there was a single person anywhere outside the US who was still contemplating a visit here.
Damn, I was almost convinced that guy was being sarcastic in all his posts. That he was putting on an act and being as over the top as possible just to see if people would fall for it. Turns out he's for real, huh? In that case, eeeeww.
I too often wondered if Nick Adams wasn’t a parody, but apparently the caricature he portrayed online is his real personality.
I was also suspicious because wasn't "Nick Adams" a character in a book? I don't remember if he was a fictional character or if he was the writer, but I know the name Nick Adams is associated with a book of some kind. Yes, I could Google it, but it's early, I'm lazy, and I'm dog sitting two of my daughter's dogs today. While the dogs are pretty good, every once in awhile they get it into their heads to harass the cats, so I have to play referee. The dogs actually just want to play, but the cats ain't having it.
Hemingway alter ego!
"Come to the USA! Get harassed, assaulted, arrested, and deported to a 3rd country!"
No one is visiting here, this won’t help.
They just needed another free salary on the gravy train of loyal incompetents.
I'm not going to scroll down to see if the point has already been made, but for you young'uns, Ana Marie Cox was the original Wonkette. She founded this place, and she could tell the best dick jokes you'd ever hear.
From the USA story about Pete:
For every decision President Donald Trump makes, some nearby patsy invariably gets blamed when that decision goes south. Trump throws people under the bus so often that there’s not a single bloodless bus undercarriage left in Washington, DC.
Knowing that, I think Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host cosplaying as a U.S. Defense secretary, might want to don his nicest bus-exhaust-pipe-viewing suit and prepare to get tossed.
I need to order a box of nice cigars so that I'll have one on hand for when the next "crunchy" gets cast under the motorcoach.
Not for nothing, when I peeked at "Yahoo News" yesterday to see what was being promoted - none of it was good for Trump.
Peeked at the comments, THOUSANDS mostly shitting on the Republicans and Trump. Maybe it's *liberals* infesting the site, but I'm not sure Yahoo News is a beacon for that.
That sounds like it's worth noting because I always heard the Yahoo comment section was teeming with right wingers. (I've never gone there.)
There were a lot of people who suddenly never voted for Bush the Lesser (but not by much) when it began to affect their pockets
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhxevsgjek2q
Idiot suet-golem sounds off about NATO again.
we totally won the war that I demand you guys help me with!
Well if its only DECIMATED, that means 90% is still fine... probably true but not, I'm guessing, what he meant
(the shade of my loving yet pedantic* father nods approvingly from the great beyond)
(ETA * "accurate!". I meant to say accurate - sorry Dad)
IN ALL CAPS!!!
Ah, it's an all-caps morning, is it?
Peripheral point, but that expression 'point in time' (and especially 'particular point in time,' what with its irritating inessential alliteration) is a pet peeve. There are no 'points' in time!
dt libels!
Time waves at us as we pass by.
From Paul Krugman:
𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘵, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴?
Just like children are the price we pay for 2A rights, practically giving away info to the enemy is the price we pay so rich traitors can line their pockets.
I want the U.S. economy to be run by Krugman, Warren, Reich, and Stiglitz. If anyone can figure their way out of the American economic mess, they can.
It's not just getting out, it's *staying* out, which requires a distinct lack of venal Republicans.
It's infuriating and tons of people need to be locked the fuck up.
Excellent newsletter.
“Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up. And you said, ‘Let’s do it.’ Because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.”
Pete: "Yes Sir, It WAS my idea to negotiate with bombs, and things were going great, things were blowing up and ... hey, fellas, why're you all looking at me like that?"
Soooo, billionaire completely-NOT-an-amoral-sociopath, Patrick Soon-Shiong has a biotech company. His company has a new cancer drug, Anktiva...
He also has a newspaper, the Los Angeles Times...
On Tuesday, the FDA released a rocket of a warning letter accusing the wealthy shitbird of making “false” and “misleading” claims through his media interests and using the leverage those interests provide.
https://www.status.news/p/patrick-soon-shiong-fda-los-angeles-times-cancer-drug?utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=soon-shiong-s-drug-deception&_bhlid=bb71e9d3af6fc419dc8a081372c28f4f5c8598fb
Third world kleptocracy with a huge standing army and nuclear weapons plus "Ima billionaire so I do what I want!!!"
AI will fix everything.
LA Times Headline: ASK YOUR DOCTOR IF ANKTIVA IS RIGHT FOR YOU!
I just learned how to play War (cards) from my nephew. Here’s what I think Trump should do to capture Kharg Isalnd and reopen the Straight of Hormuz.
He’d turn it into 52 card pick up.