By the by, some excellent personal news. Starting next week, I’ll be bartending at the Lakewood Country Club. I took time off from behind the stick after my daughter’s health scare, but time and finances were right for me to get back to bartending full time. I’m ecstatic.
Congrats to OUR BEST bartender for becoming THEIR BEST bartender. May every other customer be like Rodney Dangerfield in your new hoity toity country club life!
Y'know the USA is actually built on crimes committed against indigenous nations; crimes like genocide, forced relocations, theft of land and failure to honor every single treaty ever forced on the survivors.
The foundations of our Constitution include human slavery of kidnapped Africans. Huge fortunes were accumulated thru the misery of oppressed slaves. Not one penny has ever been returned. The work for the original White House included dangerous quarry jobs. Slaves were used at the quarry. The actual foundation is stained with the sweat and blood of slaves.
Despite the halos painted upon the heads of the founding fathers, many of the signers of the Declaration Of Independence had family trees filled with actual criminals who had been sentenced to "transportation to the colonies" instead of serving time in overcrowded English prisons. England was not sending over their best.
Those Puritans who are so lauded around Thanksgiving were actually EXPELLED from England. It seems the worst of the Puritans preached a doctrine of complete intolerance for any other christian who was not a puritan. They agitated for a government that enforced their brand of intolerance. Even the monarchy minded English aristocracy found those puritans to be completely insufferable. Solution? Send them over to the colonies.
Could Donald be the balancing of the scales of metaphysical justice? Is it possible that the hell-on-earth he is creating is karma in action? Has the universe finally sent a scourge to chasten USA arrogance, sin and evil? Are we finally being made to repay the debts incurred by slave owners, war crimes against Indigenous people and rapacious capitalism exploiting workers?
The DOGE Team is looking for world-class talent to work long hours identifying/eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. These are full-time, salaried positions for software engineers, InfoSec engineers, and other technology professionals.
The DOGE team landed at the Social Security Administration this week, with Musk drawing attention for his outlandish claims that large numbers of 150-year-old “vampires” are receiving Social Security payments. DOGE has begun installing its own operatives, including an engineer linked to tweets promoting eugenics and executives with a cut-first-fix-later philosophy, in multiple top positions at the Social Security Administration.
Their first wave of actions — initiating the elimination of 41 jobs and the closing of at least 10 local offices, so far — was largely lost in the rush of headlines. Those first steps might seem restrained compared with the mass firings that DOGE has pursued at other federal agencies. But Social Security recipients rely on in-person service in all 50 states, and the shuttering of offices, reported on DOGE’s website to include locations everywhere from rural West Virginia to Las Vegas, could be hugely consequential. The closures potentially reduce access to Social Security for some of the most vulnerable people in this country — including not just retirees but also individuals with severe physical and intellectual disabilities, as well as children whose parents have died and who’ve been left in poverty.
In the event of more Social Security office closures like the ones that the Trump administration has begun pursuing — the president is broadly moving to close a range of offices and has even floated the idea of terminating every single federal lease — it is disproportionately poor people with lower levels of education who will become less likely to apply for and get help, research on past closures has found.
The White House press office did not respond to a request for comment. But in a recent Fox News interview, press secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized “fake news reporters” for “fear-mongering” about Social Security’s future under the Trump administration. She said that Musk is only going after fraud and waste in the program.
Recently, long-dormant white supremacist activity has ramped up in northern Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana.
A gathering of KKK members at a “Klan grounds” in northern Indiana was organized last Saturday, according to flyers distributed across Kentucky last month by the Trinity White Knights faction.
An hour’s drive north-west of Maysville, in Ludlow, Kentucky, flyers depicting an “Uncle Sam” figure kicking a Muslim family and the words “Leave now. Avoid deportation” and calling for people to “track and monitor” immigrants were found on the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration last month. Flyers have also been distributed by the Trinity White Knights group in Indiana and east Tennessee in recent weeks.
A call to a phone number printed on the flyers was answered by recorded voicemail that describes a way for people to join the group and said: “Come stand with us and help fight illegal immigration, homosexuality, and every other form of wickedness and lawlessness,” among other racist troupes.
Backlash is good. Resistance is good. But keep in mind this isn’t going to be easy.
The more backlash they receive the more they will try to silence us. The more resistance we give the more they’re going to ignore the courts.
These people didn’t write a 900 page plan to end democracy only to give up once they received a little resistance. They didn’t set all this in motion only to say, “just kidding” at the first sign of trouble.
Our will to save democracy has to be greater than their will to end it.
There a few very rich, powerful people who are pushing this agenda. They currently seem to be immune to any push back. It will take a lot of citizens to actually get off their asses.
But even with a lot of resistance, the path to fascist theocracy has been well laid. That is why I'm worried about direct political violence ... cornered persons tend to react very badly.
They have a good number of the population brainwashed into thinking they are geniuses and deserve all that money.
It's been generation after generation of people duped into believing that "things happen for a reason" and there's a reason the rich are at the top and the rest of us are at the bottom and that reason by no means involves exploitation on a mass scale.
Mr. cc woke up in the night puking. Bad leftover burger for a late night snack. So worrisome. He is asleep on the couch just now, puke bucket at the ready. He will be okay. Knock wood.
Reminds me of a work conference years ago. All the managers were there. (I was not that then.) Bad catering. Everyone went home and got violently ill. One engineer puked so much he had a heart attack and ended up in the hospital. One of the caterers was working sick, apparently.
That was more than a decade ago. But our state legislature, in their wisdom, finally passed a law requiring almost all businesses to offer at least some paid sick leave. This week they did that.
I wrote below: "Racism and misogyny are America's heritage. Time to end that ..."
In today's America, I believe that the genies of bodily autonomy and racial/gender equality can't be put back in the bottle. I have no idea whether enough citizens will stand up and fight for those rights. I don't know whether it will require a violent uprising to secure those rights.
What I do know is that America will get there. I'm hoping it does before I leave this mortal coil.
I never thought the I would live to see the day when the complexities of operating the most powerful government and it's economy would get (hard?) boiled down to metaphors based on something a chicken squeezes out of its bottom.
Humpty Dumpty has fallen and the King and all of his men don't seem to give a shit.
They want to get banned so the US can attack Europe some more about their "censorship" (aka "decency" and "unwillingness to accept hate speech like Americans are").
Vance already started in on that bullshit at the Munich conference.
The rest of the world has it right. Our 1A sucks ass in a lot of ways.
They think they can get away with it. They will do this right before the election for maximum impact, and Meta (not twitter) will issue a mea culpa after the fact.
By the by, some excellent personal news. Starting next week, I’ll be bartending at the Lakewood Country Club. I took time off from behind the stick after my daughter’s health scare, but time and finances were right for me to get back to bartending full time. I’m ecstatic.
It's been years since I had a reason to visit Ohio.
Salud!
Wonderful news
Molotov! And just in time for spring.
a truly noble profession.
Sounds like the place for a WonkWoot! How many guests can a member bring into the joint?
Congrats!
Slanté!
Great news! Is the clubhouse open to the public?
Full-time Englebert Hooper-Drink FTW!
Well done. I won't insult you by going Caddyshack (I know, wrong country club) and asking "Hey, can you make a bullshot?"
*raises glass* And here's to your kid's continuing good health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaLMFRt9few
As long as you make it magnificent!
Huzzah!
Congrats to OUR BEST bartender for becoming THEIR BEST bartender. May every other customer be like Rodney Dangerfield in your new hoity toity country club life!
That should be fun!
https://clip.cafe/img800/can-make-a-bullshot.jpg
Glad for you Hooper! Hope it's a great fit!
I've been to Lakewood.CC.
I made a new post to my substack - https://substack.com/@cynmac/note/c-95442795
Can I get metaphysical for a moment?
Y'know the USA is actually built on crimes committed against indigenous nations; crimes like genocide, forced relocations, theft of land and failure to honor every single treaty ever forced on the survivors.
The foundations of our Constitution include human slavery of kidnapped Africans. Huge fortunes were accumulated thru the misery of oppressed slaves. Not one penny has ever been returned. The work for the original White House included dangerous quarry jobs. Slaves were used at the quarry. The actual foundation is stained with the sweat and blood of slaves.
Despite the halos painted upon the heads of the founding fathers, many of the signers of the Declaration Of Independence had family trees filled with actual criminals who had been sentenced to "transportation to the colonies" instead of serving time in overcrowded English prisons. England was not sending over their best.
Those Puritans who are so lauded around Thanksgiving were actually EXPELLED from England. It seems the worst of the Puritans preached a doctrine of complete intolerance for any other christian who was not a puritan. They agitated for a government that enforced their brand of intolerance. Even the monarchy minded English aristocracy found those puritans to be completely insufferable. Solution? Send them over to the colonies.
Could Donald be the balancing of the scales of metaphysical justice? Is it possible that the hell-on-earth he is creating is karma in action? Has the universe finally sent a scourge to chasten USA arrogance, sin and evil? Are we finally being made to repay the debts incurred by slave owners, war crimes against Indigenous people and rapacious capitalism exploiting workers?
Are the chickens finally coming home to roost?
"Be all [the asshole] you can be!"
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The DOGE Team is looking for world-class talent to work long hours identifying/eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. These are full-time, salaried positions for software engineers, InfoSec engineers, and other technology professionals.
https://doge.gov/join
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Criminals and foreign nationals are welcome to apply.
The gates are wide open, boys, c'mon in.
𝐀𝐧𝐱𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐀𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐃𝐎𝐆𝐄 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐈𝐧
𝐸𝑙𝑜𝑛 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑘’𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝐴𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑣𝑢𝑙𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠.
The DOGE team landed at the Social Security Administration this week, with Musk drawing attention for his outlandish claims that large numbers of 150-year-old “vampires” are receiving Social Security payments. DOGE has begun installing its own operatives, including an engineer linked to tweets promoting eugenics and executives with a cut-first-fix-later philosophy, in multiple top positions at the Social Security Administration.
Their first wave of actions — initiating the elimination of 41 jobs and the closing of at least 10 local offices, so far — was largely lost in the rush of headlines. Those first steps might seem restrained compared with the mass firings that DOGE has pursued at other federal agencies. But Social Security recipients rely on in-person service in all 50 states, and the shuttering of offices, reported on DOGE’s website to include locations everywhere from rural West Virginia to Las Vegas, could be hugely consequential. The closures potentially reduce access to Social Security for some of the most vulnerable people in this country — including not just retirees but also individuals with severe physical and intellectual disabilities, as well as children whose parents have died and who’ve been left in poverty.
In the event of more Social Security office closures like the ones that the Trump administration has begun pursuing — the president is broadly moving to close a range of offices and has even floated the idea of terminating every single federal lease — it is disproportionately poor people with lower levels of education who will become less likely to apply for and get help, research on past closures has found.
The White House press office did not respond to a request for comment. But in a recent Fox News interview, press secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized “fake news reporters” for “fear-mongering” about Social Security’s future under the Trump administration. She said that Musk is only going after fraud and waste in the program.
https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-social-security-elon-musk-trump-closures-benefits
Tax season is going to be a real shitshow.
I have already filed my taxes to get my refund. My niece had filed last month and already has her refund. It took 2 weeks to arrive.
I gotta find out where Joan got that T-shirt.
https://substack.com/profile/113381848-noma-larkey/note/c-95370457?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1vi5zs
I found it on Tee Bubble.
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/71995390-is-he-dead-yet?countrycode=US&utm_source=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=%5BG%5D+%5BG.NAM%5D+%5BL.ENG%5D+%5BGEN%5D+%5BC.WomensTShirts%5D+%5BPLF%5D&utm_id=notset&utm_content=not+set&ar_clx=yes&ar_channel=google&ar_campaign=71700000112173001&ar_adgroup=&ar_ad=&ar_strategy=search&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=%5BG%5D+%5BG.USA%5D+%5BL.ENG%5D+%5BGEN%5D+%5BC.Womens_TShirts%5D+%5BPMAX%5D&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAiOa9BhBqEiwABCdG80gskR3lyTvv6EtVPInDhdHSdubAep3bvwPZQFLaZILNFPnE98IfohoCQFgQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds#397P71995390D1V20G79A11C21S
And it's on sale! Thanks!!
𝐔𝐒 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 ‘𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐝’ 𝐚𝐬 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬
𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡’𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖-𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑒𝑙 𝑎 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒-𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠
Recently, long-dormant white supremacist activity has ramped up in northern Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana.
A gathering of KKK members at a “Klan grounds” in northern Indiana was organized last Saturday, according to flyers distributed across Kentucky last month by the Trinity White Knights faction.
An hour’s drive north-west of Maysville, in Ludlow, Kentucky, flyers depicting an “Uncle Sam” figure kicking a Muslim family and the words “Leave now. Avoid deportation” and calling for people to “track and monitor” immigrants were found on the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration last month. Flyers have also been distributed by the Trinity White Knights group in Indiana and east Tennessee in recent weeks.
A call to a phone number printed on the flyers was answered by recorded voicemail that describes a way for people to join the group and said: “Come stand with us and help fight illegal immigration, homosexuality, and every other form of wickedness and lawlessness,” among other racist troupes.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/22/white-supremacist-groups-emboldened-trump-immigration
I have no idea how we fight the algorithms that are tuned to spread right wing bs constantly and drown any left wing bs.
I’m absolutely worried that Germany is getting the algorithm deluge right now. When things are good normal people can’t fight the algorithms.
Backlash is good. Resistance is good. But keep in mind this isn’t going to be easy.
The more backlash they receive the more they will try to silence us. The more resistance we give the more they’re going to ignore the courts.
These people didn’t write a 900 page plan to end democracy only to give up once they received a little resistance. They didn’t set all this in motion only to say, “just kidding” at the first sign of trouble.
Our will to save democracy has to be greater than their will to end it.
There a few very rich, powerful people who are pushing this agenda. They currently seem to be immune to any push back. It will take a lot of citizens to actually get off their asses.
But even with a lot of resistance, the path to fascist theocracy has been well laid. That is why I'm worried about direct political violence ... cornered persons tend to react very badly.
They have a good number of the population brainwashed into thinking they are geniuses and deserve all that money.
It's been generation after generation of people duped into believing that "things happen for a reason" and there's a reason the rich are at the top and the rest of us are at the bottom and that reason by no means involves exploitation on a mass scale.
That’s the part most dystopian political dramas kind of ignore or gloss over.
We aren’t just fighting the authoritarian regime. We also have to contend with their base who agrees with them as well.
It’s not like the end of Star Wars where we blow up the Death Star and suddenly there is a grand celebration and everyone is invited.
The more they silence us the more annoying they become. Americans hate cancel culture. Gotta label them and hang them (with votes) with it
They lit the fire thinking they won't get burnt.
Yes, they do believe two things: they are immune and the rest of the world will just kowtow to America.
Mr. cc woke up in the night puking. Bad leftover burger for a late night snack. So worrisome. He is asleep on the couch just now, puke bucket at the ready. He will be okay. Knock wood.
Reminds me of a work conference years ago. All the managers were there. (I was not that then.) Bad catering. Everyone went home and got violently ill. One engineer puked so much he had a heart attack and ended up in the hospital. One of the caterers was working sick, apparently.
That was more than a decade ago. But our state legislature, in their wisdom, finally passed a law requiring almost all businesses to offer at least some paid sick leave. This week they did that.
I wrote below: "Racism and misogyny are America's heritage. Time to end that ..."
In today's America, I believe that the genies of bodily autonomy and racial/gender equality can't be put back in the bottle. I have no idea whether enough citizens will stand up and fight for those rights. I don't know whether it will require a violent uprising to secure those rights.
What I do know is that America will get there. I'm hoping it does before I leave this mortal coil.
I never thought the I would live to see the day when the complexities of operating the most powerful government and it's economy would get (hard?) boiled down to metaphors based on something a chicken squeezes out of its bottom.
Humpty Dumpty has fallen and the King and all of his men don't seem to give a shit.
Oh ..,Jesus, I've done it too.
Q: How can you tell if someone is a chemist?
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A: Listen to how they pronounce he word "unionize."
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Q: What do you do with dead chemists?
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A: Ba.
Hold still while I scavenge ALL of your electrons!
Dad?
I only got the second one. :(
If you're not going to ionize something, then you will ________ it.
Oh. Oh, no. No. Now I’ll never again hear that word properly in my brain.
Surprise (not), the Trump Administration's claims that the workers let go in their mass purges of Federal employees were dismissed due to "poor performance" is some bullshit (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/trump-mass-firings-federal-government-bill). Can you say lawsuits, as in lots of them?
A private company might get away with it, but with the government it's public record, so when they falsify the evaluations, it amounts to defamation.
"They were terrible, really disgraceful."
"I would have done much better. BIGLY better."
👉🏼 😱 !! (not)
𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮, 𝗫 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗺, 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/meta-x-approved-ads-containing-violent-anti-muslim-antisemitic-hate-speech-ahead-of-german-election-study-finds/
Sorry, Meta and X are trying to get banned in Europe?
I guess its a strategy.
They want to get banned so the US can attack Europe some more about their "censorship" (aka "decency" and "unwillingness to accept hate speech like Americans are").
Vance already started in on that bullshit at the Munich conference.
The rest of the world has it right. Our 1A sucks ass in a lot of ways.
Doesn't mean it shouldn't happen.
They think they can get away with it. They will do this right before the election for maximum impact, and Meta (not twitter) will issue a mea culpa after the fact.
SSDD.
No more mea culpas, I think. Just offhand smirking 'whatever'.
And yet people stay on both Meta and Twitter.
So Presidential!
Trump Mocks Bloomberg Reporter At Press Scrum — Demands She ‘Speak’ Her Question ‘Without Reading It’
https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-mocks-bloomberg-reporter-at-press-scrum-demands-she-speak-her-question-without-reading-it/
He's such an asshole.
Fuck him.
Trump thinks reading is an unfair advantage.
I remain on Team CVA.
or Team PE