Well, today was the last Fed meet for Powell before his term ends.
***
Bye, economy. There's only one guy holding any of it together at this point.
The only thing that's going to piss me off even more about the impending disaster is the "What have I done? Sowwy." that you're going to get from Tillis before he runs off to his lobby shop job.
You know, the exact same shit you get from Cassidy over Secretary Brainworm MAHA.
The Fulvous Fuckwad, or at least some of his (sick)ophants, have found yet another place to slap his name, and in this case his face, someplace else it doesn't belong.
> "THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS CLOSE TO FINALIZING a radical redesign of the U.S. passport to include a picture of President Donald Trump [sic], The Bulwark has learned from two sources with knowledge of the redesign, including one who shared images currently under consideration.
[...]
According to the images of the passport redesign provided to The Bulwark, the inside cover of the new State Department-issued document will feature a scowling Trump [sic]—taken from his second inaugural portrait—superimposed over the Declaration of Independence, as well as the president’s signature in gold.
[...]
... According to the source, a government official who provided The Bulwark with color photographs of the redesign, the State Department is planning a “limited run” of 25,000 Trump [sic]-emblazoned passports. As of now, according to the source, the new design is still awaiting approval.
[...]
... No modern U.S. passport has featured the image of a sitting president, and no foreign passport has featured “the head of state of any country,” [Edward Kolla, a professor at Georgetown University and an expert on the history of passports] said." https://thebulwark.substack.com/p/exclusive-state-dept-finalizing-plan [I'm pretty sure this isn't paywalled. If so, please let me know and I'll try sharing the link.]
* The Fulvous Fuckwad's narcissism, and those pandering to it, continues to amaze me -- although by now it shouldn't. Every primary hustle and side hustles/grifts bears his name and image (the image where possible).
* The Teflon Con Don™ is still following a page directly from The Authoritarian Handbook in that he is conflating his name with the country with no one holding him to account. Yeah, the Dems try, but the congressional RINOs certainly won't... or at least if they want to remain in Congress and not face a primary challenge.
* The signature had to be in gold; if it ain't gold, it's shit.
* I wonder how much more this limited edition will cost those trying to pay to play?
* The necessary approvals are a done deal before they started. They'll have to come from people (and I use that word loosely here) he put in office and who know better than to be disloyal.
* His face on select US passports is just another norm broken; one that stood between him and the glory he deserves. I, for one, stand proudly and say, with a quiver in my voice "Thank you Sir, you have more than earned the accolades heaping up around you!"
(The Bulwark story has pics of what's proposed and a nice abridged list of where the Cantaloupe Codpiece's name or face is now in place.)
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Sidebar: the regime knows how to take care of its friends, and the Bulwark is not on that list:
> "A State Department spokesperson asked us for deadline extension as they were “looking into” the inquiry. We gave them an additional two hours. In that time, Fox News published an “exclusive” on the new passport design. A White House spokesperson then sent us an email response confirming the new design “on background” with a link to the Fox News story." ibid
The white men who annoy me the most are the ones who say something like "I once worked in a place where we were all white men and everything was great until the boss decided to hire a [insert non-white-male race, ethnicity, gender or religion of your choice], and that person was an incompetent idiot who caused the rest of us to have more work to cover up their incompetence."
As if never in the history of the world did a company hire a WHITE MAN who was incompetent and who gave everyone else more work to do.
Like a white guy named Carl I worked with once. Carl lied on his resume about his educational level and IT skills, plus he was an incompetent idiot, and everyone knew this by his 3rd day on the job, but our boss (white man) refused to fire him. Then I found out they hired him at $10,000 a year more than me even though I had 2 degrees, had worked there for 6 years already, and was widely recognized as extremely competent and well liked.
So I used that to my advantage at my next annual evaluation. After they told me for the umpteenth time that they thanked god on bended knee for having hired me, I asked them why Carl was making $10,000 a year more than me. Was it because he had a penis?
I walked out with a $10,000 raise and a promise of another $5000 in 6 months.
Carl still works there, as far as I know, but he got demoted to Help Desk. This is a guy who could never even figure out how to rotate the backup tapes, which is the first job they give to new hires.
Should have been a 15k raise and another 5k in 6 months at least, it's still insulting that they only paid you the entry level white dude amount after 6 years.
Yes, it should have been a $15,000 raise, but the Department Chair who was conducting the evaluation said he was only allowed to give a raise of $10,000 at one time to any employee without submitting a request to the Chancellor, and he didn't want to do that because the Chancellor rarely granted such requests. I looked into this, and he was correct.
🌔 On this day the Moon will be in a Waxing Gibbous phase. Visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon.
Today in History: Mussolini Executed (1945), First Atom Split by a Particle Accelerator (1932), First Automobile Race (1887), Billy the Kid's Last Murders (1881), Mutiny on the Bounty (1789), First Known Abortion Clinic Ad (1790), Gun Used to Kill Jesse James Auctioned (1993)
Today's birthdays: Ann-Margret, Jessica Alba, Penelope Cruz, Jorge Garcia, Violent J, Jackson Galaxy, Too Short, Kim Gordon, Jay Leno, L’Wren Scott, Harper Lee, Blossom Dearie, Lionel Barrymore, Saddam Hussein, Oskar Schindler, Kurt Friedrich Gödel, Bradley "Wiggo" Wiggins (Only Cyclist to Win World and Olympic Championships and Tour de France), Marcia Strassman, Ferruccio Lamborghini
Today's deaths: Ken Curtis, Benito Mussolini, Gavrilo Princip (Assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand), Michael Collins, Rory Calhoun, Francis Bacon, Ed Begley
I passed over a SHIT TON on "more qualified" white dudes because we need Spanish speakers. Especially Spanish speaking women. I'll take that with an associates over an MEd any day.
Violinist and keyboardist Eddie Jobson is 71 years old today. Here he is with Roxy Music performing "Out Of The Blue". His violin solo on this gave me the freakout when I saw the band live back in the day:
Here he is teamed up again with bassist John Wetton in the band UK playing "Night After Night" and "Caesar's Palace Blues" (with Eddie on electric violin) on The Old Grey Whistle Test. The great Terry Bozzio is on drums here:
I know a white guy who got passed over for a promotion to the Chief Pullman Porter.
I also know a guy who didn’t get taken by the labor boss at the 7-11 store for weeding the lettuce with a short handled hoe. He has a suit for tens and tens of dollars.
Because when you've been on the side of the mountain for so long, leveling the playing field feels a lot like discrimination, the loss of what you had.
The White Supremacy is right out there in the open now. Speaking of which, I saw a headline about Tucker Carlson considering a run for President. Someone who is even more a White Supremacist than TFG.
In a video response to the indictment of James Comey, senator Adam Schiff, a former prosecutor who led the first impeachment of Donald Trump, accused Todd Blanche of bringing charges as part of an effort to get the job of attorney general on a permanent basis.
Schiff predicted that this second effort to convict Comey of a crime “will also fail, but this has, I guess, the merit, from the White House point of view of just putting James Comey through the wringer, and from Todd Blanche’s point of view, helping burnish his record of frivolous cases against the president’s enemies in order to secure the top job for himself.”
There are 5 ways for a president to leave office, impeachment, the 25th, resignation, go naturally (please, please), and violently. While one might use 86 to mean any one of the five, it puts reasonable doubt at 80%, and probable cause very low.
It'll be tossed because it falls under the category of "vindictive prosecution." That is exactly the point though. Every three hours is a news cycle they have to dominate.
In a sickening act of mollusk mischief, someone placed 6947 in shells on the dune.
Notes from Canuckistan:
https://bsky.app/profile/brittlestar.com/post/3mkj3wbxykc2v
Well, today was the last Fed meet for Powell before his term ends.
***
Bye, economy. There's only one guy holding any of it together at this point.
The only thing that's going to piss me off even more about the impending disaster is the "What have I done? Sowwy." that you're going to get from Tillis before he runs off to his lobby shop job.
You know, the exact same shit you get from Cassidy over Secretary Brainworm MAHA.
Ha! It won't be sorry, it'll be "why didn't anyone stop me? It's their fault!"
The Fulvous Fuckwad, or at least some of his (sick)ophants, have found yet another place to slap his name, and in this case his face, someplace else it doesn't belong.
> "THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS CLOSE TO FINALIZING a radical redesign of the U.S. passport to include a picture of President Donald Trump [sic], The Bulwark has learned from two sources with knowledge of the redesign, including one who shared images currently under consideration.
[...]
According to the images of the passport redesign provided to The Bulwark, the inside cover of the new State Department-issued document will feature a scowling Trump [sic]—taken from his second inaugural portrait—superimposed over the Declaration of Independence, as well as the president’s signature in gold.
[...]
... According to the source, a government official who provided The Bulwark with color photographs of the redesign, the State Department is planning a “limited run” of 25,000 Trump [sic]-emblazoned passports. As of now, according to the source, the new design is still awaiting approval.
[...]
... No modern U.S. passport has featured the image of a sitting president, and no foreign passport has featured “the head of state of any country,” [Edward Kolla, a professor at Georgetown University and an expert on the history of passports] said." https://thebulwark.substack.com/p/exclusive-state-dept-finalizing-plan [I'm pretty sure this isn't paywalled. If so, please let me know and I'll try sharing the link.]
* The Fulvous Fuckwad's narcissism, and those pandering to it, continues to amaze me -- although by now it shouldn't. Every primary hustle and side hustles/grifts bears his name and image (the image where possible).
* The Teflon Con Don™ is still following a page directly from The Authoritarian Handbook in that he is conflating his name with the country with no one holding him to account. Yeah, the Dems try, but the congressional RINOs certainly won't... or at least if they want to remain in Congress and not face a primary challenge.
* The signature had to be in gold; if it ain't gold, it's shit.
* I wonder how much more this limited edition will cost those trying to pay to play?
* The necessary approvals are a done deal before they started. They'll have to come from people (and I use that word loosely here) he put in office and who know better than to be disloyal.
* His face on select US passports is just another norm broken; one that stood between him and the glory he deserves. I, for one, stand proudly and say, with a quiver in my voice "Thank you Sir, you have more than earned the accolades heaping up around you!"
(The Bulwark story has pics of what's proposed and a nice abridged list of where the Cantaloupe Codpiece's name or face is now in place.)
-----
Sidebar: the regime knows how to take care of its friends, and the Bulwark is not on that list:
> "A State Department spokesperson asked us for deadline extension as they were “looking into” the inquiry. We gave them an additional two hours. In that time, Fox News published an “exclusive” on the new passport design. A White House spokesperson then sent us an email response confirming the new design “on background” with a link to the Fox News story." ibid
fnord
Getting a jump on tomorrow:
https://www.wonkette.com/p/no-james-comey-shouldnt-go-to-jail
Lordy, seashells for Hillary’s emails
“Again!?”
- Rocky J Squirrel
"Button up my sleeve, presto!"
The white men who annoy me the most are the ones who say something like "I once worked in a place where we were all white men and everything was great until the boss decided to hire a [insert non-white-male race, ethnicity, gender or religion of your choice], and that person was an incompetent idiot who caused the rest of us to have more work to cover up their incompetence."
As if never in the history of the world did a company hire a WHITE MAN who was incompetent and who gave everyone else more work to do.
Like a white guy named Carl I worked with once. Carl lied on his resume about his educational level and IT skills, plus he was an incompetent idiot, and everyone knew this by his 3rd day on the job, but our boss (white man) refused to fire him. Then I found out they hired him at $10,000 a year more than me even though I had 2 degrees, had worked there for 6 years already, and was widely recognized as extremely competent and well liked.
So I used that to my advantage at my next annual evaluation. After they told me for the umpteenth time that they thanked god on bended knee for having hired me, I asked them why Carl was making $10,000 a year more than me. Was it because he had a penis?
I walked out with a $10,000 raise and a promise of another $5000 in 6 months.
Carl still works there, as far as I know, but he got demoted to Help Desk. This is a guy who could never even figure out how to rotate the backup tapes, which is the first job they give to new hires.
Should have been a 15k raise and another 5k in 6 months at least, it's still insulting that they only paid you the entry level white dude amount after 6 years.
Yes, it should have been a $15,000 raise, but the Department Chair who was conducting the evaluation said he was only allowed to give a raise of $10,000 at one time to any employee without submitting a request to the Chancellor, and he didn't want to do that because the Chancellor rarely granted such requests. I looked into this, and he was correct.
Today is April 28, 2026 (Tuesday)
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🫐 Clean Comedy Day
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🫐 Great Poetry Reading Day
🫐 Kiss Your Mate Day
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🫐 National Cubicle Day
🫐 National Parvo Awareness Day
🫐 National Superhero Day
🫐 Occupational Safety & Health Day
🫐 School Bus Driver Appreciation Day
🫐 Workers Memorial Day
🫐 World Day for Safety and Health at Work
🌔 On this day the Moon will be in a Waxing Gibbous phase. Visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon.
Today in History: Mussolini Executed (1945), First Atom Split by a Particle Accelerator (1932), First Automobile Race (1887), Billy the Kid's Last Murders (1881), Mutiny on the Bounty (1789), First Known Abortion Clinic Ad (1790), Gun Used to Kill Jesse James Auctioned (1993)
Today's birthdays: Ann-Margret, Jessica Alba, Penelope Cruz, Jorge Garcia, Violent J, Jackson Galaxy, Too Short, Kim Gordon, Jay Leno, L’Wren Scott, Harper Lee, Blossom Dearie, Lionel Barrymore, Saddam Hussein, Oskar Schindler, Kurt Friedrich Gödel, Bradley "Wiggo" Wiggins (Only Cyclist to Win World and Olympic Championships and Tour de France), Marcia Strassman, Ferruccio Lamborghini
Today's deaths: Ken Curtis, Benito Mussolini, Gavrilo Princip (Assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand), Michael Collins, Rory Calhoun, Francis Bacon, Ed Begley
Bacon. RIP.
I passed over a SHIT TON on "more qualified" white dudes because we need Spanish speakers. Especially Spanish speaking women. I'll take that with an associates over an MEd any day.
Violinist and keyboardist Eddie Jobson is 71 years old today. Here he is with Roxy Music performing "Out Of The Blue". His violin solo on this gave me the freakout when I saw the band live back in the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POEa8iqFCRM
Here he is teamed up again with bassist John Wetton in the band UK playing "Night After Night" and "Caesar's Palace Blues" (with Eddie on electric violin) on The Old Grey Whistle Test. The great Terry Bozzio is on drums here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGkFnMu7V0c
Wetton: Christ he had a great voice.
I know a white guy who got passed over for a promotion to the Chief Pullman Porter.
I also know a guy who didn’t get taken by the labor boss at the 7-11 store for weeding the lettuce with a short handled hoe. He has a suit for tens and tens of dollars.
Kash Patel Says FBI Spent Nearly a Year Investigating James Comey’s Instagram Post: ‘These Cases Take Time’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/kash-patel-says-fbi-spent-nearly-a-year-investigating-james-comeys-instagram-post-these-cases-take-time/
Lotta long, drunken lunches there, eh bro? And of course you billed it all as "work expense" . . .
Dredging every part of someone's life to find the tiniest speck of the appearance of wrongdoing does indeed take a lot of time.
It’s so stupid but it approaches the joke about your MIL driving your Mercedes over a cliff.
Nearly a year. Yeah.
Feels good to know our country is safe and in good hands.
Hi Wonkets. Here is your evening Zelenskyy. They will be the teachers and suppliers to the world. https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/ye-rishennya-dlya-togo-shob-u-nashoyi-derzhavi-u-nashoyi-obo-104149
Because when you've been on the side of the mountain for so long, leveling the playing field feels a lot like discrimination, the loss of what you had.
Fuck your feelings.
I'm actually living in your hometown 🤷♀️
The White Supremacy is right out there in the open now. Speaking of which, I saw a headline about Tucker Carlson considering a run for President. Someone who is even more a White Supremacist than TFG.
Holy shitballs, I look away for a few hours and we're on to THIS?? The thing with the fucking SHELLS?!?
Ah, fetch me my bathing toaster.
𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 ‘𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥’ 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐁𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫
𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑦’𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟; 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝐹𝐵𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙
In a video response to the indictment of James Comey, senator Adam Schiff, a former prosecutor who led the first impeachment of Donald Trump, accused Todd Blanche of bringing charges as part of an effort to get the job of attorney general on a permanent basis.
Schiff predicted that this second effort to convict Comey of a crime “will also fail, but this has, I guess, the merit, from the White House point of view of just putting James Comey through the wringer, and from Todd Blanche’s point of view, helping burnish his record of frivolous cases against the president’s enemies in order to secure the top job for himself.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/apr/28/donald-trump-king-charles-melania-camilla-white-house-congress-latest-news-updates
I'm not throwing that thing in the tub with you so don't ask.
C'mon, that's how you spell relief.
Dammit Marlon.
There are 5 ways for a president to leave office, impeachment, the 25th, resignation, go naturally (please, please), and violently. While one might use 86 to mean any one of the five, it puts reasonable doubt at 80%, and probable cause very low.
I wouldn’t give two sheds if Comey spent 10 years behind bars but not for that. He manipulated 2016 more successfully than Putin.
Ah, yes. This is true. He basically yanked it from Clinton.
He arranged seashells
Pretty weak death threat IMHO
That's right, it was seashells.
I was thinking rocks.
I am, however, supercalifragi-autistic today tho. Heh.
Actually, per accounts, he just took a picture of seashells someone else arranged.
Michael Feinberg (former FBI who is always very careful about his comments) on Nicole Wallace said it was the 'stupidest' charge he's ever heard of.
It'll be tossed because it falls under the category of "vindictive prosecution." That is exactly the point though. Every three hours is a news cycle they have to dominate.
I mean, nothing's shocking, as the song goes, but...I walked and saw this and my head exploded like I'm doing a remake of "Scanners"...
Meh, most of the shit he threatens fades away in the next news cycle.
Oh, sure it does.
This one just seemed like New Heights In Stupidity® though.
Scammers?