Wigging These Down, Here

Google and Apple are Knee-Bending Cowards

From Google Maps:

From Apple Maps:

Mapquest hasn't buckled under:

Which is why they're the number-one app on Apple's app store.

Google should have a new logo:

Apple, which used to say "think different", now has a different mindset:

None of this is surprising. Most companies these days are gutless amoral monsters owned by billionaire oligarchs who will do whatever it takes to make a buck. There is likely not a single executive left at Apple or Google who would not do anything but applaud if the ICEstapo shoved their neighbors into unmarked vans.

The message to the rest of the world is clear, if they choose to hear it: Do not trust American tech companies.

ICE Goes Further Fascist

ICE, whose job is in their title, you know, immigration and customs enforcement", is compiling a database of voters.

ICE is Trump's paramilitary goon squad, which is why they're spending $125 million in support of Trump's campaign to end fair elections.

History will regard having worked for ICE as the 21st Century equivalent of having been a Gestapo officer or a SS soldier. There should be headers on every online job application form that reads "No Former ICE AGent Need Apply". After we de-MAGAfy the government, "homeless former ICE goon" should be a thing.

Dipping These Down, Here

Shorter Milo: "It Hurt When the Leopards Ate My Face!"

In his first interview since being detained by ICE and deported, far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos said he is “very ashamed” to have ever supported President Donald Trump.

Yiannopoulos joined Piers Morgan on Piers Morgan Uncensored this week to discuss his detention by ICE agents in Louisiana on Thursday. Yiannopoulos has since been deported back to the United Kingdom.
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"If I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would never have got involved in supporting Trump in the first place and I’m very ashamed that I did."

Milo didn't spend months in an ICE concentration camp, nor was he flown out in shackles, like ICE normally deports people. And he likely rode out on a standard commercial flight, with meals and beverage service.

But then again, ol' Milo's a white dude, so he got pretty brutal treatment for one.

Flagging These Down, Here

FBI: Federal Bestiality Instigators

In June, new internal guidance revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation relaxed several longstanding hiring disqualifiers, according to reporting by CBS News.

Past acts like soliciting s** workers or stealing from an employer no longer trigger an automatic rejection. Candidates who hired s** workers may still qualify if the incidents occurred over ten years ago and happened fewer than three times. Theft is allowed if it happened over three years ago.

The updated rules also address past acts of bestiality or animal cruelty. Applicants who engaged in such behavior before turning 18 are no longer automatically banned from working for the FBI.

It'll lead to interwsting questioning of agents in trial: "Have you ever fucked a sheep or other animal", etc. I know that J.Edgar Boozer has pushed out a shitload of competent people, but how short of applicants are they that they need to hire johns, office thieves and sheep-fuckers?

DEAR SUPREME COURT: FUCK YOU ALL

The Supreme Court issued a decision on Monday that gives Donald Trump the ability to proceed with his plans for construction of a new White House ballroom.

Trump’s plans for a White House ballroom have been an ongoing point of contention and legal action, with opponents arguing that Trump has no legal authority to pursue the project without congressional approval. In a 5-4 decision, the court granted the Trump administration’s request to block a lower court ruling that would have prevented work from being done on the ballroom.

They all knew that he didn't have congressional authority, but they relied on a technicality to let him go ahead.

The bottom line is that the Spremes hauled out their rubber stamp and let Trump do what he wants to do. They like to say that no man is above the law, but it's clear as glass that one man is.

Your Sunday Morning Aircraft Noise

EAA mostly departures.



The GA fleet is pretty old.

DHS is the American Gestapo

They have been pushing the edges of the law to illegally serve administrative subpoenas on tech companies to get the records of reporters and others. The tell is, whenever someone is able to contest the subpoenas, DHS folds rather than fight things and take the good chance that a judge will slap their dicks for being fascist douchebags.

It's nothing new, really. DHS has been an authoritarian police state organization since it was esablished under Chimpy McFuckwit. Nothing about DHS would suggest that anyone who works there has any familiarity with the Constitution of the United States. In short, everyone who has been worn into a DHS position and swore to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution should be charged with perjury or, at least, lying to a federal official.