I am the bird feeder, LOL!!!!! I feed the mourning doves and they sometimes hear my voice from inside the house and come down and wait by the window for me to come out. XD XD XD XD
Vibrio Vulnificus, Bacteriophage of the Order of the Fleur de Lis. Another quality nickname for Trump, and actually one that he could easily be bamboozled into enthusiastically embracing as a “title.” Quick, someone tag the Vatican graphics department (which is probably a bunch of seminary students working part-time at Staples’ copy center) to come up with an official-looking certificate of sainthood bearing this name.
"A Texas school principal accused of touching cheerleaders' chests found protection from an unlikely source; President Donald Trump, a new report revealed Sunday."
Iran wants to be paid now to make it end. And honestly, that looks like the only way out. Don't think North Korea isn't seeing this and getting some ideas too. The American deterrent has lost a lot of value in 5 months.
Unlike Iran, North Korea can't threaten American oil shipping. Also unlike Iran, North Korea doesn't present a credible military threat -- their forces participated in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Ukraine lit their asses up.
North Korea can do serious damage to the South, but they can't win a war. South Korea will fuck up the North if they try some shit.
North Korea has estimated 20,000 pieces of artillery, extensive ballistic missile forces and a reported 1,000,000 infantry. We barely didn't lose last time we went round with them. And now they know we're out of the highly advanced munitions that, combined with air superiority, kept the strategic balance. Their sending some brigades to Ukraine doesn't change the fact that North Korea has always presented as a formidable opponent. None other than Gen. Mattis once said that the prospect of a war with them was "ghastly" and would result in massive civilian and military casualties.
No, we kicked their asses last time. They got more help from China than they would care to admit. They are a dirt poor nation with an undisciplined military -- basically Russia without oil money.
That being said, they can cause a lot of damage. A war with them would be bloody, but also one they would lose, unless China interferes, like they did last time.
I was a mere spermatozoa in my dad's nutsack when he was getting his pimples shot off over there at 19, but his unit was overrun, fell into disorganized retreat from Chinese forces, so I know they played a role. But the pentagon and the last 60 years of defense planning disagree with your thesis. It is not a long trip down the Korean peninsula, and their army is by all accounts big, with huge redundancy. Where is Russia getting artillery shells the last 4 years? NK. We have about 30k total personnel there, maybe half that is combat forces. What we have always planned around was massive air superiority, over the horizon standoff weapons and tank busting planes. This boo boo in Iran is out in the open, and it turns that strategic planning on its head.
They're demanding payment for the illegal actions against them, it's terrible. It's terrible. They're calling it "the sue us crisis" folks, and it's not good. It's not good from the standpoint of bad.
this is sad. I shoudln't be laughing at my own country. But fuck this shit. WE DESERVE IT!
I hope gas goes up to $10.00. I will go down to the gas station and troll the MOTHERFUCK out of the trumpers in their big jacked up trumper trucks about how stupid they are.
Obligatory: The Iranian regime is actually awful. But, yes, I really dont care if gas goes to $20, bad decisions only stop when bad decisions carry consequences people understand.
The best way to break the stronghold that “gas prices” have on our economy is to transition to renewables and to expand public transit and walkable cities. But we have too many people who reject that with a rage-boiling fever because “eco green stuff is gay” and transitioning to public transit is, well, y’know.
They want 99c diesel in their own consumer-market Abrams Tanks. The only reason they don’t have it is because of the socialist libs doing environmental communism.
"The Trump administration has sent excavators to tear up Big Bend National Park for the construction of border barriers and roads through protected land."
OT: Alcoholic upset no one wants to give him OUR money.
"Despite pleas and threats from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Senate Republicans left for their summer break without handing him more money that he insists he needs."
Anyone remember how giddy that fucking douchebag was when the war first started and he was blathering about lethality and not fighting fair? Playing cool bomb videos, predicting the end of the regime? What an amateur, what a sorry ass excuse for a SOD.
That week was massive emotional whiplash for me. It was my birthday, then Fukui went, then it was my friend's birthday, then my uncle went into hospital for a terminal bleed in his heart, then my other friend announced he was getting married, then my uncle died, then it was that engaged friend's birthday.
OT: "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"
"The 2 largest private prison companies in the U.S. have reported $1.4 billion in quarterly revenue as the number of people in immigration detention reaches record levels."
In a deliberately cruel turn of phrase, just like how the “Hanoi Hilton” became a gallows-hunor euphemism for a notorious Vietnam POW camp, the Kennedy Krip Kamps will be referred to as
"Tyler Boebert, the eldest son of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) , was released from the Garfield County jail in Colorado on Sunday, according to the county's inmate roster, though the circumstances remain a mystery."
Phil Williams (of investigative news fame) has today's least surprising polling data
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3lyvfp5sfic2e
But I'm glad he has it -- we're all going to need it once the propaganda machines start yelling
Incredibly OT (but it did make me lol):
https://bsky.app/profile/philoof.bsky.social/post/3mso46fxm222m (sound up)
You see this? This is how the attack by The Birds started....
*Tippi Hedren has entered the chat*
ROTFL!
We have heaps of birbfeeders in our yard and, as the guy who fills them, I found this pretty comical.
I've literally had birds impatiently waiting in the shrubbery as I've refilled ours.
I am the bird feeder, LOL!!!!! I feed the mourning doves and they sometimes hear my voice from inside the house and come down and wait by the window for me to come out. XD XD XD XD
very sketchy pigions.
OT: While in the Red States...
𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗵-𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3msqcvurfvh2r
"The Trump administration cut mandatory public health reporting of Vibrio vulnificus last year."
Can someone pass this on to Tangerini and RFK Jr., please?
Flesh-eating bacteria would probably run screaming from RFK Jr.'s rancid body.
we need to Crisper a fash eating virus.
Ewwwwwwwwwww.
Vibrio Vulnificus, Bacteriophage of the Order of the Fleur de Lis. Another quality nickname for Trump, and actually one that he could easily be bamboozled into enthusiastically embracing as a “title.” Quick, someone tag the Vatican graphics department (which is probably a bunch of seminary students working part-time at Staples’ copy center) to come up with an official-looking certificate of sainthood bearing this name.
*looks at bingo card*
“Nope. No flesh-eating bacteria, or explosive diarrhea, or measles, or Iran quagmire, or…”
They're not telling you anything about what they're doing or not doing
They're spending your money without telling you what they're spending it on
https://bsky.app/profile/lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com/post/3msqe5zooi22d
And they've cut regulations to take bribes and also because THEY DON'T CARE IF THEY KILL YOU
Everybody got all that?
"Warns against" makes it sound like a bad choice on the menu.
"Y'all mind you don't die from this!"
"I had the flesh-eating bacteria here last week, very chewy. And the aoli that comes with it is not very good."
1/10, would NOT recommend.
Thanks, Prof. Loomis. Another great post. Any chance you'll do one on the NYC teachers strikes?
OT: Meanwhile, with the Child-Rapist-in-Chief...
"A Texas school principal accused of touching cheerleaders' chests found protection from an unlikely source; President Donald Trump, a new report revealed Sunday."
https://bsky.app/profile/rawstory.com/post/3mso2qbmoz627
That does sound unlikely. Trump? Supporting the feeling up of teenagers? Stap me actual vitals.
Unlikely source? The rapist pedophile Donald Trump?
Yes, the convicted rapist, Donald Trump.
I mean, surely not!
My gast is flabbered!
hE wAs jUsT dOiNg fAiRnEsS iNsPecTiOnS tO pRoTeCt GiRLs iN sPoRtS!!!!111!
"unlikely"???
Iran wants to be paid now to make it end. And honestly, that looks like the only way out. Don't think North Korea isn't seeing this and getting some ideas too. The American deterrent has lost a lot of value in 5 months.
Unlike Iran, North Korea can't threaten American oil shipping. Also unlike Iran, North Korea doesn't present a credible military threat -- their forces participated in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Ukraine lit their asses up.
North Korea can do serious damage to the South, but they can't win a war. South Korea will fuck up the North if they try some shit.
North Korea has estimated 20,000 pieces of artillery, extensive ballistic missile forces and a reported 1,000,000 infantry. We barely didn't lose last time we went round with them. And now they know we're out of the highly advanced munitions that, combined with air superiority, kept the strategic balance. Their sending some brigades to Ukraine doesn't change the fact that North Korea has always presented as a formidable opponent. None other than Gen. Mattis once said that the prospect of a war with them was "ghastly" and would result in massive civilian and military casualties.
No, we kicked their asses last time. They got more help from China than they would care to admit. They are a dirt poor nation with an undisciplined military -- basically Russia without oil money.
That being said, they can cause a lot of damage. A war with them would be bloody, but also one they would lose, unless China interferes, like they did last time.
I was a mere spermatozoa in my dad's nutsack when he was getting his pimples shot off over there at 19, but his unit was overrun, fell into disorganized retreat from Chinese forces, so I know they played a role. But the pentagon and the last 60 years of defense planning disagree with your thesis. It is not a long trip down the Korean peninsula, and their army is by all accounts big, with huge redundancy. Where is Russia getting artillery shells the last 4 years? NK. We have about 30k total personnel there, maybe half that is combat forces. What we have always planned around was massive air superiority, over the horizon standoff weapons and tank busting planes. This boo boo in Iran is out in the open, and it turns that strategic planning on its head.
They're demanding payment for the illegal actions against them, it's terrible. It's terrible. They're calling it "the sue us crisis" folks, and it's not good. It's not good from the standpoint of bad.
Reparations? Reparations! Your the Reparations!
LMMFAO!!!!!
this is sad. I shoudln't be laughing at my own country. But fuck this shit. WE DESERVE IT!
I hope gas goes up to $10.00. I will go down to the gas station and troll the MOTHERFUCK out of the trumpers in their big jacked up trumper trucks about how stupid they are.
Obligatory: The Iranian regime is actually awful. But, yes, I really dont care if gas goes to $20, bad decisions only stop when bad decisions carry consequences people understand.
The best way to break the stronghold that “gas prices” have on our economy is to transition to renewables and to expand public transit and walkable cities. But we have too many people who reject that with a rage-boiling fever because “eco green stuff is gay” and transitioning to public transit is, well, y’know.
It's pathological with these people.
They want 99c diesel in their own consumer-market Abrams Tanks. The only reason they don’t have it is because of the socialist libs doing environmental communism.
Bicycles murder cars.
Oh, I know, which is why I am even more shocked at myself for "siding" against my own country.
But he's the one that started this shit.
Da!
Heh, I can’t hear the phrase “Transport Workers Union” without thinking of the latter books of The Expanse.
The reason they’d be targeted today is because their name would be misread as “Trans Sports Workers’ Union.”
Or the “Trans Women’s Union,” since that seems to be who RWNJ’s are particularly concerned about.
OT:
"The Trump administration has sent excavators to tear up Big Bend National Park for the construction of border barriers and roads through protected land."
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3msqe3t7qjm2o
wheeeeeee!
Where are the monkey-wrenchers?
The guy building this got a cool $2b no bid contract.
𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗧𝗔𝗫 𝗗𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞
@atrupar
"Trump says he is now asking for reparations from Iran as part of any peace deal 😵💫"
wheeeeee!
[Hank Schrader] "Yeah, well, I want Shania Twain to give me a tuggie. That ain't happening either." [/Hank Schrader]
Laughs in Farsi.................
Thank you Eric, I enjoy these.
OT: Alcoholic upset no one wants to give him OUR money.
"Despite pleas and threats from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Senate Republicans left for their summer break without handing him more money that he insists he needs."
https://bsky.app/profile/rawstory.com/post/3mspyqs77kk27
Ooh, that reminds me, I haven't had my testosterone level checked in like........for fukin' ever!
LMAO!!!!!!
Go suck yourself off, you war criming son of a bitch.
Poor bastard. He gonna have to check the ads for beer on sale. And generic chips. 😢
CostCo lobster tails and filet mignon... Dollar Store missiles...
Anyone remember how giddy that fucking douchebag was when the war first started and he was blathering about lethality and not fighting fair? Playing cool bomb videos, predicting the end of the regime? What an amateur, what a sorry ass excuse for a SOD.
He's both a SOD and a SOW.
(Yes, porcine libelz)
Yeah?! Well that night he leveled up and his mom served Hot Pockets !
Putin-esque.
That Surf & Turf isn’t paying for itself.
Nor the bacon fat he uses on his hair.
That's so the dog will play with him. 🐶
Ta, Erik. I always learn something new from you, even when I'm familiar with the so-called big picture. Solidarity forever. When we vote, we WIN!
FDR saved capitalism with the New Deal, which regulated the excesses of capitalism and introduced a social safety net.
Republicans seem to forget how popular that shit is with the majority of people.
Me in heaven.
God: you're about to get your wings.
Me: garlic Parmesan or honey bbq?
God: get out
The other night daughter made them in air fryer. Donut make them in air fryer.
No teriyaki?
Gawd no.
Then this can’t be heaven! I saw that episode of The Twilight Zone with Buddy Epsen!
No. If it was you could go by the pub and hear Fukui yelling "Bellend"
at someone.
That week was massive emotional whiplash for me. It was my birthday, then Fukui went, then it was my friend's birthday, then my uncle went into hospital for a terminal bleed in his heart, then my other friend announced he was getting married, then my uncle died, then it was that engaged friend's birthday.
Oof. Hugs, if wanted.
OT: "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"
"The 2 largest private prison companies in the U.S. have reported $1.4 billion in quarterly revenue as the number of people in immigration detention reaches record levels."
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3msqdjkfurm2o
People need to go to prison, especially those running it as "for profit" prison
There should be no "for profit" prisons in the U.S.
Concentration camps.
After they deport all the immigrants, whom will they imprison there?
Us. Yes. See Girl Guide's note below.
ETA: Also the "unwomen" like in The Handmaid's Tale.
Triangle patches bought in bulk from Hobby Lobby.
:( :(
But we're hysterical. It can't happen here.
The disabled and neurodivergent.
“Wellness farms” and “reparenting centers.”
In a deliberately cruel turn of phrase, just like how the “Hanoi Hilton” became a gallows-hunor euphemism for a notorious Vietnam POW camp, the Kennedy Krip Kamps will be referred to as
“Paris Hiltons.”
And 'homeless shelters'
Us
fittingly, Hegseth is using his Lindsey Graham eulogy to renew his membership in the Trump Kiss My Ass Club
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3msqj6zvrps2v
fantastic response....
https://bsky.app/profile/venicederek.bsky.social/post/3msqjel4v2s2l
And the response to that, suggesting the Department of War Crimes is the more fitting name.
Desperately blowing his boss to keep his job.
OT: Bobo!
"Tyler Boebert, the eldest son of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) , was released from the Garfield County jail in Colorado on Sunday, according to the county's inmate roster, though the circumstances remain a mystery."
https://bsky.app/profile/rawstory.com/post/3msq2gq3o4d2g
It’s not a stretch to say Boebert probably had a hand in it.
This rubs me the wrong way
She’s ready to do that job.
Ew.
now now now, he meant that Boebert had a hand in getting the kid released without releasing the charges...
heh, I said releasing....
Wouldn't be the first time she used her hand to produce a release.