The Pot Simmers
Let’s start this morning by everyone waving at the Chinese bots that routinely check every new post except for Sundays. Why bots need to take Sunday off, I don’t know, but they do. Smile and say “Xi is a criminal” as you wave. We don’t want them to get the mistaken assumption that we’re going to be friendly with them just because we’re pissed about our own government.
There’s a lot of fake news running around and, sadly, much of it is coming from the White House. Here’s some of the top bullshit.
- Felonious Punk claims that Ukraine started the war with Russia. The truth is that the current conflict in Ukraine began on 24 February 2022 when Russian military forces entered the country from Belarus, Russia, and Crimea.
- Felonious Punk claims that Ukraine’s President Zelensky has an approval rating of only 4%. Swing and a miss. Zelensky’s approval rating sits at 57%, considerably higher than that of the American dictator.
- No matter what you hear, or what the source, Tens of millions of dead people aren’t getting Social Security checks. I’ve talked about this before but the extreme right keeps bringing it back up. Among other reasons the claim is wrong is that funeral directors typically submit form SSA-271 to the Social Security Administration when someone dies. This isn’t new. Stop being stupid.
- Late breaking last night is the charge that Brazil’s former leader, Jair Bolsonaro, approved a plan to poison the current president. What does the Punk do? He has his media company sue the judge, the one in Brazil. The claim is that a judge’s order in Brazil violates the First Amendment in the US. I’m not sure exactly when our Idiot-In-Chief decided that Brazil has to honor our Constitution, but he’s clearly and painfully wrong.
There is so much that is bothering me this morning. Were you aware that DOGE Reportedly Cuts FDA Employees Investigating Neuralink? This is the company that wants to implant chips in people’s heads. The FDA previously found Musk’s company was engaging in “objectionable conditions or practices.”
Gaby De Vale has an interesting take on the DEI purge. She’s of the opinion that all the DEI talk is a smokescreen for a war on the Civil Rights Movement itself using WWI-era eugenics principles. After reading her article this morning, I’m not seeing any major problems with her claim. This should be alarming on an incalculable scale.
This just happened: French President Emmanuel Macron called a second emergency meeting of European allies on Wednesday to devise a united response to President Punk’s remarks embracing Vladimir Putin’s narrative that Ukraine is to blame for the war. All of Europe is now of the opinion that Felonious Punk is in Putin’s pocket and they’re adjusting policies accordingly.
Threats of a 25% tariff on cars, drugs, and chips are causing a lot of people to begin stockpiling items they fear might be affected. Even Walmart is affected, though don’t worry, the Walton family is still making obscene amounts of money.
I’m bothered that the West Texas measles outbreak isn’t getting more attention. The count is now up to 58 cases and includes vaccinated people for the first time. This is not something that anyone needs to ignore. Outbreaks like this can explode exponentially in just a few days’ time.
All of this is overwhelming and that’s exactly what the administration wants. Fighting on multiple fronts is exhausting and most of us have neither the time nor the energy to fully engage in any of it. Sure, people are upset. Yesterday, a Southern Indiana man was arrested for making threats online against the Muskrat. The dude happens to own an AR-15, so he’s being held without bail. That’s where we’re at.
But then, one can argue that the whole of society is in the shitter. One local school is being charged with claims that it cultivates an ‘atmosphere of violence.‘ This is the same school from which Kat graduated. It hasn’t been a great school ever, but when bloodshed becomes an everyday occurrence then we have to question not only what is wrong with government, but what is wrong with us.
This is not the life we wanted. If we want it to change, we have to start acting in uncharacteristically aggressive methods. I’m over anyone telling me to ‘let it go’ or that ‘love will find a way.’ That might work in your personal relationship, but it’s not going to cause the world’s three strongest dictators, Punk, Putin, and Xi, to back off their atrocious plans.
Can I get real for a second? Canada was already making plans for war with the US over the whole statehood question. Now, all of Europe is banding together to prepare to take on the Axis powers of the US, Russia, and China. We are no longer the good guys.
Inevitably, this leads us to the question: What are you willing to do to get our country back?
I encourage you to think outside your comfort zone. Being comfortable will get you killed.
We are at war.
Friday, February 21, 2025
Well Isn’t That Special
Senators stayed up all night debating and voting on amendments before finally passing the framework for a budget bill that would significantly increase border spending. The bill passed along party lines, 52-48. Note that this is a totally separate budget plan from the one in the House that would severely cut Medicaid and other social programs. This comes, of course, at a time when the President is allowing DOGE to slash and cut previously approved budgets, a move that has resulted in over 70 lawsuits currently making their way through the courts.
TGIF.
Now, the propaganda parade begins. You’ll see it in the headlines of every major news source as they attempt to put their own spin on what has happened this week. For example, Reuters is running a story about US conversations in Russia taking place in Switzerland as if it had never been done before. Yes, we’re right to be concerned about any conversation between the US and Russia, but side meetings like this are a standard part of the diplomatic process. If these small meetings didn’t take place, the big meetings would go nowhere.
Sinn Féin leaders Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill have announced they will not attend this year’s St. Patrick’s Day events at the White House in protest against U.S. President Felonious Punk’s comments on Gaza. The move is largely proformative, more propaganda than content, but be sure that this president will take note and look for some form of retribution. He likely doesn’t remember Sinn Féin’s terrorist past. The Irish are one bear that is definitely better left unpoked.
Uber with guns has arrived, The service that provides armed guards and vehicles with heavy window tinting is only in a couple of cities, including New York, at the present time, but they have aggressive growth plans. This is straight capitalism, folks, preying on people’s fears not only about the government but imaginary foes as well. The app might come in handy should recently confirmed FBI director Kash Patel begin working off an alleged ‘enemies list,’ but if you’re not a federal judge or in the media you’re probably safe. For now.
President Shitforbrains did give Ukraine’s President Zelensky a nice poll bump. When the Felon lied about Zelensky’s popularity, it was actually at 57%. This morning, however, it’s at 63% as Ukrainians rally around their democratically elected president. Be sure that were it possible to get accurate polls out of Russia and the US, neither of their leaders would come in above 50%.
Perhaps the item of biggest concern that I’m seeing this morning is one of those stories that gets shoved to the inside pages and skipped by most people. A Mississippi judge has ordered a Clarksville newspaper to remove an editorial from its website. The article, which is critical of the Clarksville City Council, appears to be standard reporting about an error in the city clerk’s office, a mistake to which the clerk has already admitted. The newspaper is challenging the decision on First Amendment grounds, but the fact that any judge anywhere would insert themselves into such blatant censorship should be alarming to everyone.
But then, there’s not much in Mississippi that isn’t alarming.
Seriously, there is so much spin in this morning’s headlines that it’s making me dizzy. Be careful what you read this weekend. Even normally trustworthy news sources are challenged to fill space. Let’s hope the weekend stays quiet.
Yeah, right.
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