I Think We've Seen This Movie Before

 

The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Poland. Thank you!
Chancellor AH

Earworm of the Afternoon -- Chile

 Apropos of nothing...

Be who you are
If it fits in the system
Say what you want
But you might die if they listen
They think in the politics of gasoline and torture

Please only talk to me in the dark
Please only talk to me in the dark

Write what you will
If you write in a prison
Sing how you feel
But you might die if they listen
They think in the politics
Of rosaries and chains

And its hard to tell the right from the wrong
When the right is protecting the wrong

Be who you are
But not where there are people
Reality is taught
Right and wrong, there is no middle
We think in politics
Of money and ourselves

Say What You Want About Trump...

 

But boy, are his scandals creative. I have to admit that in 2014 I did not have "All flights for Thanksgiving week will be under threat of being shutdown because the President is a pedophile" on my 2025 predictions.

I'm beginning to see the appeal...

OTHER PRESIDENTS HAVE REMODELED THE WHITE HOUSE TOO!!!!

 

If I said what I wanted to say, I'd have the Secret Service all over my ass so quickly.

BUT BIDEN WAS OOOOOOOOOOOOOLD!!!!!!!!!

 

Why this is not being treated as a 9/11 type moment is beyond me.

The Sack of Washington

 It's happening. The destruction of the East Wing of the White House.

To everyone that didn't think these four years, and maybe more, would be a massive nightmare, here you go. The Vandals are inside the walls. And are smearing ketchup on them.

F**k It, I'm Done With Twitter

I signed onto Twitter tonight to find the For You tab to be completely filled with anti-Semitic, pro-Russian, pro-Nazi filth.

That's Elon's October Surprise, and what he intended to do all along.

I'm out.

Merrick Garland Doesn't Know What He's Doing

 

It's true! He doesn't. Nor does Jack Smith, nor Letitia James, nor Fani Willis, nor Alvin Bragg, nor Jocelyn Benson, nor you, nor I.

We are in completely uncharted waters, and we don't know which strategy is going to work. Garland started bottom-up. Willis seemed to start in the middle. Bragg inherited his strategy. Smith decided to forget everything below the top. I thought they should've gone bottom-up but discrete tier by discrete tier (i.e. 1/6ers on the ground --> Oath Keepers/Proud Boys --> Alex Jones/Roger/Stone/etc --> Trump).

But no one has ever put a former President of the United States behind bars. The system doesn't make it easy to begin with, and we have a court system that's both way more conservative and way more backed up than it should be, and the majority of the Supreme Court is on that former President's side.

Out of all of these approaches, is Garland's right? I really don't know. But the solution is far from obvious, and 90% of the attacks against Garland aren't just wrong; they're lies. Are the other 10% right? I don't know about that, either.

All we have to go on is that a President has now been indicted by the current Department of Justice three times, and we're going to have to wait to see if this Attorney General's approach is the one that works. Or if more than one works. Or if none work.

Late Night Track -- Waste

 RIP Steve Harwell. He became a kook in his older age, but wrote a lot of good tunes.

Elon Musk is a Fascist Goat Banger and Suspends People He Doesn't Like

 

Well, I started this blog many years ago to write about something I never really have written much about -- the issues with consolidation in corporate America and the world.

For anyone who's not living in a cave, the former richest man in the world (his standing dropping every day), bought Twitter, one of the top social media companies in the world, and has begun using it as his own animal-fucking fiefdom. And despite his many protestations to the contrary, he's shown that he is a fascist who loves Nazis, hates many, many oppressed groups of people.

And tonight, he's begun suspending reporters who are calling him out. So I thought I'd do a public service and track all of the ones he's suspending. So here goes nothing (I'll be adding more as I see them):

-Aaron Rupar:

-Donie O'Sullivan, CNN:

-Ryan Mac, New York Times:

-Drew Harwell, Washington Post:

-Matt Binder, Mashable:

-Keith Olbermann:

-Micah Lee, the Intercept; and Tony Webster, FOIA specialist:

-Mastodon (a competitor to Twitter):

-Steve Herman, VOA News:

-Linette Lopez, Insider:

-Terry Cowgill, CTNewsJunkie: