Whatever one’s thoughts on the federal government we have built over 250 years, it has supported and managed a 27 trillion dollar GDP. Just heedlessly slashing away at it and removing parts randomly risks truly cataclysmic knock off consequences. I cant even believe we are watching this happen.
The monumental flaw in the "Colin Powell Pottery Barn Rule", then as now, is it does not factor in the possibility the PB's customer WANTS to put PB out of business.
Likewise, everything about maga, trump, DOGE, international despots and tyrants want is for everything America stands for, and America itself, to no longer exist.
Leon is not conducting an experiment to see how many organs can you remove from a patient before it dies, he is intentionally killing the patient by removing organs . . .
The point is not to actually to set the boundaries they insist are so necessary to defend despite them being immutable, obvious and natural. The point is to humiliate, embarrass and isolate people who do not conform. Every time a trans person has to present ID they will be questioned. They will be treated as invalid, but at the very best will be required to be embarrassed every single time. This is about bullying, fascism is all about bullying.
Here’s the thing about bearded dragons. They’re mostly stationary. And silent. So sometimes when they move suddenly or make noise it scares the crap out of you. (It’s worse when you’re a little stoned.) Anyways, Pretzel just flopped from the couch to the rug, and the thump made me jump a foot into the air. I am WIDE awake now, little man. Thanks.
CPAC was full of MAGA types fawning over Musk. Also Liz Truss saying "We want a Trump revolution in Britain. We want to flood the zone. We want Elon and his nerd-army of Musk rats examining the British deep state.” (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/23/cpac-elon-musk). Yeah, "Musk rats" seems quite apropos, and not in the way she meant. Well, maybe Elno can fit you in once he's done destroying the American government. Oh, wait, Liz Truss is not in charge of shit, having made herself a small unit of tenure, slightly larger than a Scaramucci.
These people are so fucking stupid. They go about being stupid in all sorts of devious and cunning ways, but at the end of the day, it's all dumb as fucking shit.
Trump lives in his own reality-detached world, and he's using that as a basis to enact massive changes in the U.S. government. Which is scary as shit. Also scary is the number of people looking at that and going "fuck, yeah!"
I don't want to be a dick, and I know that you've done very well since the War catching up with us on this, but the thing is, honestly, I have a feeling that our Deep State- which has been in existence in one form or another since around about the sixteenth century and which has taken excessive pains to infiltrate everything, while having excellent tailoring- is not going to be as easy for a clumsy Boer to dismantle.
I have a pretty strong feeling a significant amount of our deeply important state records are on fucking vellum.
One difference that seems to separate old money from the nouveau riche is generally being less visible and keeping their comments fairly measured and brief. I cannot fault old money for that.
We love, we love Tick, don't we folks? Great, great player and also some are saying he likes bass, I'm not into fish but lemme tell you that guy- he knows his fish.
Hegseth isn't even *trying* to pretend that the firings of top military lawyers isn't anything but trying to install loyalists who will follow illegal orders.
Immediately after 9/11 who kept an eye on our skies? since we had grounded all air traffic, none other than our NATO partners I think France was the first to volunteer
Bit of trivia. Katherine Houghton was Hepburn’s niece. Houghton was Hepburn’s family name. Corning Glass family.
[Moved to more current thread. Oops.]
Last week I:
1. Read an email
2. Filled out the first line of my response
3. Filled out the second line of my response
4. Filled out the third line of my response
5. Filled out the fourth line of my response
Then wrote a technical process report
Whatever one’s thoughts on the federal government we have built over 250 years, it has supported and managed a 27 trillion dollar GDP. Just heedlessly slashing away at it and removing parts randomly risks truly cataclysmic knock off consequences. I cant even believe we are watching this happen.
It’s hitting the parks in NM quite hard, will be a terrible fire season
The monumental flaw in the "Colin Powell Pottery Barn Rule", then as now, is it does not factor in the possibility the PB's customer WANTS to put PB out of business.
Likewise, everything about maga, trump, DOGE, international despots and tyrants want is for everything America stands for, and America itself, to no longer exist.
Leon is not conducting an experiment to see how many organs can you remove from a patient before it dies, he is intentionally killing the patient by removing organs . . .
Is there any difference between his policies and goal for the us and Putin's for Russia?
Putin's goal for USAmerica and Enlo's have no light between them.
Just came back from bringing Bernie on her off less walk in the woods. Ran like a nut job with some doggie friends, did over 3 miles. Huzzah.
Who did the 3 miles? You or the doggos?
Me and Bernie. Well, that is what my Samsung health app said I did. Bernie probably did more with all of her running.
Well, this is gross. So it begins.
𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗘𝘂𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗲
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4klq45ngvo
Respect has been outlawed.
The point is not to actually to set the boundaries they insist are so necessary to defend despite them being immutable, obvious and natural. The point is to humiliate, embarrass and isolate people who do not conform. Every time a trans person has to present ID they will be questioned. They will be treated as invalid, but at the very best will be required to be embarrassed every single time. This is about bullying, fascism is all about bullying.
Here’s the thing about bearded dragons. They’re mostly stationary. And silent. So sometimes when they move suddenly or make noise it scares the crap out of you. (It’s worse when you’re a little stoned.) Anyways, Pretzel just flopped from the couch to the rug, and the thump made me jump a foot into the air. I am WIDE awake now, little man. Thanks.
Taking lessons from the cat.
CPAC was full of MAGA types fawning over Musk. Also Liz Truss saying "We want a Trump revolution in Britain. We want to flood the zone. We want Elon and his nerd-army of Musk rats examining the British deep state.” (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/23/cpac-elon-musk). Yeah, "Musk rats" seems quite apropos, and not in the way she meant. Well, maybe Elno can fit you in once he's done destroying the American government. Oh, wait, Liz Truss is not in charge of shit, having made herself a small unit of tenure, slightly larger than a Scaramucci.
She does not understand that Muskrat is an insult. A head of lettuce would get it, but she does not have the brains of a head of lettuce.
Now you've got "Muskrat Love" running through my head. Thanks a LOT.
Smaller than a Scaramucci. Not even long enough for a head of lettuce to wilt.
These people are so fucking stupid. They go about being stupid in all sorts of devious and cunning ways, but at the end of the day, it's all dumb as fucking shit.
Trump lives in his own reality-detached world, and he's using that as a basis to enact massive changes in the U.S. government. Which is scary as shit. Also scary is the number of people looking at that and going "fuck, yeah!"
They've already got a pissy king.
What do they want with an orange one?
She ended with 'as only I romaine, lettuce begin anew'
Yo, Liz! You had your chance and a head of lettuce out lasted you. Move on, sugar.
I don't want to be a dick, and I know that you've done very well since the War catching up with us on this, but the thing is, honestly, I have a feeling that our Deep State- which has been in existence in one form or another since around about the sixteenth century and which has taken excessive pains to infiltrate everything, while having excellent tailoring- is not going to be as easy for a clumsy Boer to dismantle.
I have a pretty strong feeling a significant amount of our deeply important state records are on fucking vellum.
One difference that seems to separate old money from the nouveau riche is generally being less visible and keeping their comments fairly measured and brief. I cannot fault old money for that.
I may start calling the situation here a Boer in a china shop.
She is so loathed in the UK that she is desperately trying to find a new home
Royal Allowances seem unnecessary.
My favorite scene is when Isabel Sanford reads Portier the riot act and ends with "and you ain't even that good lookin'."
George Frederick Handel, born on this day in 1685. Here's his Water Musick to keep you moist on this fine Sunday morning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQBZWCiqo_U
my fav go to calming music
D. Earl Stephens
@dearlstephens.bsky.social
📌Our Park Service Rangers have flagged the warning on El Capitan.
We are under threat by an America-attacking felon.
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:o5q6dynpme4ndolc3heztasm/bafkreic7wkrgzov4assi2jktwfhcnn2u3i4sth7ir2narea2k74kbyr3om@jpeg
Damned appropriate.
𝗘𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗵𝗶𝘁 𝗖𝗣𝗔𝗖 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵
𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-157616128
Senile 78-yr-old Bellows More Bullshit!
We used to be rich it was great great time tariffs lots if money but we give it away now.
Give it away give it away give it away now!
Trump's gonna do away with taxes and foreign governments are going to pay tribute through tariffs!
We love, we love Tick, don't we folks? Great, great player and also some are saying he likes bass, I'm not into fish but lemme tell you that guy- he knows his fish.
that's a way better earworm than the one it just replaced, which I now can't even remember
Always glad to be servicey!
A little morning pick-me-up: federal workers respond to the DOGEbags “what did you do this week” email
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/federal-workers-send-me-responses?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Monday to Friday: Heroic doses of Ketamine.
AAA hahaha! I need to send this to my Fedworker sister. I don't know if she got that email yet since she hasn't checked her email over the weekend.
Song lyrics ... Chef's Kiss 💋
I like the Ghostbusters one
Hegseth isn't even *trying* to pretend that the firings of top military lawyers isn't anything but trying to install loyalists who will follow illegal orders.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3liu3tpbfhs2h
Meanwhile, Markwayne Mullin is on the "What has NATO done for us lately?" train.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3liu5esycyo2i
Somewhere I read it spelled as “Marquane”. I prefer it, and keeping see it in my head this way when I skim across his name.
Immediately after 9/11 who kept an eye on our skies? since we had grounded all air traffic, none other than our NATO partners I think France was the first to volunteer
That patriarchal prat named after a bad haircut doesn't really understand what NATO was contrived to achieve.
These metro-Nazis have no regard for context.
MarKwayne Mullet needs to have the rocks in his skull replaced with new ones.
Ooo hoo ooo yoo yeah!
Has he sobered up enough to notice?
Is substack broken?
Always in some way.
If I could figure out how it works when it’s not, I could tell you. Having eschewed all forms of social media, none of it ever made sense to me.
It seems to me like I'm missing a lot, but I'm on the browser not the app, not sure if that has anything to do with it.
It wouldn't be substack if it weren't
Trump Declares MSNBC a ‘Threat to Democracy’ at CPAC: ‘They Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Lie!’
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-declares-msnbc-a-threat-to-democracy-at-cpac-they-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-lie/
BREAKING: Joy Reid Out at MSNBC as Part of Stunning Network Shakeup
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/breaking-joy-reid-out-at-msnbc-as-part-of-stunning-network-shakeup/
“I hereby declare that only I may lie”
Are they offering any justification, or are they just leaving people to jump to the extremely obvious conclusion?
Cowards.
Democracy has already be worked over by the far-Reich.
Appeasement is sure making its rounds. If I were still working, I’d demand a raise.
If anyone knows about "Bad people at the top" it's Donald Trump.
Shakeup, my ass. It's a purge.
Shake it but don't break it!
These two stories are not a coincidence. They are related.