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Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

AV-8:

I saw one at an airshow, many years ago. When it went into a hover, it was about the loudest airplane I've ever heard.

Time to Make T-Shirts

ETA: My brother said that the first line should read "an asshole". I'll get a round tuit.

Either Way, I'll Happily Watch on Pay Per View

The FOFF mused about being on a sinking boat:

But I asked the boater. I said, “So let me ask you: Let’s say your boat goes down and I’m sitting on top of this big powerful battery and the boat’s going down. Do I get electrocuted?” And he said, “You know what, honestly nobody’s ever asked me that question.”

But if I’m sitting down and that boat’s going down and I’m on top of a battery, and the water starts flooding in, I’m getting concerned. But then I look ten yards to my left and there’s a shark over there. So I have a choice of electrocution or a shark. You know what I’m going to take? Electrocution. I will take electrocution every single time. Do we agree? Yeah, I will take electrocution.

Meanwhile, CEOs are starting to figure out that the Convict From Queens is a few cans short of a sixpack:

Former President Donald Trump failed to impress everyone in a room full of top CEOs Thursday at the Business Roundtable’s quarterly meeting, multiple attendees told CNBC.

“Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” said one CEO who was in the room, according to a person who heard the executive speaking. The CEO also said Trump did not explain how he planned to accomplish any of his policy proposals, that person said.

Several CEOs “said that [Trump] was remarkably meandering, could not keep a straight thought [and] was all over the map,” CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin reported Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

It won't dent the Kool-Aid-Swilling Trumpanzees, they'd vote for him if he were in an irreversible coma. But there are not enough of them, alone, to elect his senile, treasonous fat ass.

Yet if he loses, quite a few will act up. Good thing that a lot of guys convicted of possessing pot have been let out of prison, we'll need the space for the Legion of Losers.

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Caturday

Someone else's cat:

The Difference Between Cops and Catholic Priests

One carries a gun and wears a badge. The other wears a cassock and carries a cross.

Both have child rapists in their ranks and the organizations cover it up.

They served in police departments big and small. They were new recruits and seasoned veterans, patrol officers and chiefs of police. They understood the power of their guns and badges. In many cases, they used that very power to find and silence their victims.

A Washington Post investigation has found that over the past two decades, hundreds of law enforcement officers in the United States have sexually abused children while officials at every level of the criminal justice system have failed to protect kids, punish abusers and prevent additional crimes.
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The Post identified at least 1,800 state and local law enforcement officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022.

Same as the RCC and other churches: Using positions of trust to rape children.

Read it, it's outside the paywall. It's horrifying

Scratch a Pro-Palestinian Demonstrator, Find an Antisemite

Monday’s protest started in Union Square, where footage posted to social media showed a small group of demonstrators holding up a flag saying, “Long live October 7th.”

Protesters then flooded into the subway and rode down to Wall St., where they staged a larger action outside the Nova Exhibition, a memorial created to honor the victims of Hamas’ attack, in which terrorists killed some 1,200 Israelis and took hundreds hostage.

At the Wall St. protest, footage showed a protester waving a flag with Hamas’ logo on it and another with the emblem of Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S., while someone else was seen holding a sign saying Zionists are “not human.”

Terrorist sypathizers gotta sympathize, I gather. And they are just that. Most of them are mask-wearing cowards. Just like the ones in Gaza, who make war while hiding behind civilians.

They will inadvertently accomplish one MAGA priority by outlawing wearing masks.

On another note, the UN Security Council endorsed President Biden's cease-fire plan. Hamas hasn't accepted it.

It should be pretty clear by now to even the most casual observer that Hamas's strategy is to continue to hide behind the civilians in Gaza and dare the Israelis to keep killing Gazans. Hamas believes that if the civilian death toll continues to mount, that eventually the other nations of the world will put enough pressure on Israel (aided and abetted by Hamas's useful idiots in the West) to unilaterally call a halt. And then Hamas can claim victory.

Well, maybe that'll work. But in the meantime, the Israelis will do their best to ensure that if that is a Hamas victory, it'll be a Pyrrhic one.

The Convention of Amoral Male Whores

Donald Trump spent the day before his 78th birthday being feted by Republicans in Congress who sang “Happy Birthday” and presented him with a cake and gifts. It was a remarkable show of loyalty for a former president who was shunned by many of the same lawmakers after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

If Don Snoreleone didn't have the MAGA morons in an iron grip, there is no way that "good Christians" like Mike Johnson and the rest of them would stand to be within a kiloparsec of that serial adulterer/liar. But because they think they can get something out of him they want, they'll happily lick his anus.

Which makes then nothing other than political whores.

Actually, it makes them delusional pilitical whores. Because if the FOFF does win, there is nothing more that he'll need from him. He already has plans to govern like a dictator and, if the GOP members of Congress oppose him, Demented Donnie will see that they are taken care of.

They re as delusional as the politicians and weathy jerks who thought they could control Adolph Hitler and Vladimir Putin. Dolt-45 is cut from the same cloth as those two.

Because It's Friday

British steam.

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