The American Sturmabteilung

Pro Publica has a lengthy article up about the American Brown Shirts known as the American Patriots Three Percent.

AP3, although they'd deny it, is pretty much a neo-Nazi group that desires to be an instrument for the far Right to trash American democracy and install a fascist government.

These assholes are serious and they are out LARPing with live ammunition. They are infiltrating police forces. Their only weakness seems to be that, other than playing in the woods with real guns, they couldn't organize a successful three-car parade.

But they are serious and they bear watching, closely.

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

Two Luftwaffe Tornados:

Dear Online Marketing and Promotional Companies: Go Suck Off a Cape Buffalo

If you click on a link for a newsletter or information, that stuff starts appearing in your inbox in nanoseconds. But if you ask them to delete your email, they say that can take up to ten business days.

Why? Does somebody have to write the email addresses on clay tablets, bake them in a kiln, and then transport them by donkey cart to the office that does the actual task?

{grumble}

Where's my frigging coffee?

Caturday

"Gitcher ass in gear and feeed meeeee!"

Back in the Day, This Would Have Been Handled By a Rain of Molotov Cocktails

For the past few weeks, Randol White has been dealing with a persistent and annoying problem right outside his San Francisco condo.

"I was like, where is that coming from? And I looked down, and I was like, I think it's coming from the Waymo cars," White said.

A parking lot just outside his condo full of driverless Waymo cars has had multiple incidents where suddenly the vehicles seemingly become confused and start honking all at each other.

White says he heard it the first time about two weeks ago -- he was woken up around 4 a.m.

And the general reaction to torching a bunch of robot-cars would have been "well, whaddya'd expect would happen?" But now, people'll sic lawyers on them.

Based on how stupid these robots are, SkyNet is a long ways off.

Because It's Friday

Steam switcher action at Steamtown:

Trump Just Shat on the Medal of Honor

Speaking at a pro-Israel event Thursday, Donald Trump said the Presidential Medal of Freedom is better than the Medal of Honor. The former is the highest honor given to civilians in the United States, awarded to those who have made contributions to the United States’ security or national interests, world peace or culture. The Medal of Honor, often referred to as the “Congressional Medal of Honor,” is awarded exclusively to members of the military for acts of valor beyond the call of duty.

Trump said that the Presidential Medal of Freedom is “much better” because “everyone who gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers, they’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead.”

The PMoF is sometimes a political gift to toadies, as it was when Dolt-45 gave it to Gym Jordan and Devin Nunes. That cannot be said of the MoH, which is awarded to heroes, the men of whom Cadet Bone Spurs is not worthy of buffing their shoes. The sort of heroes he just denigrated.

If JD Vance had a shred of personal integrity left, he would get off his couch and go punch out the running lights of his running mate.

As to anyone who possesses a DD214 and who still supports that Senile Fat Old Draft-Dodger, I respectfully suggest that you look at his character and ask yourself why you still support that venal ancient coward.

Hey, JD, Let Me Couch This in Terms You'll Understand: Look At Who Your Running-Mate Is, Bud.

So the Faux Hillbilly is going around, slamming Gov. Watz for "stolen valor". When he's not doing that, he's complaining about Democrats engaging in name-calling.

Jeebus on a Bus, has he taken a look at the nasty old fat fuck he's running with? You know, the guy whose father allegedly paid a podiatrist to write a letter to Donnie's draft board about Donnie's alleged bone spurs so he could stay out of the Army during the Vietnam War? The guy who insults everyone and anyone who has ever opposed anything that he wants to do, beginning with Low Energy Jeb and claiming that Ben Carson was a child molester in 2016? The guy who says that he is entitled to make personal attacks?

That guy?

Something about motes and logs in people's eyes comes to mind.

A Professional Military

When the Russians aren't engaging in terrorism by targeting children's hospitals, they're shooting up their own military columns.

it's a pretty slick, move to kill your own troops and then post it on social media, as if it is something to be proud of. when that video spreads throughout Russia, as it most certainly will, it will, no doubt, be of comfort to the family who have lost their men in Putin's war of aggression.

Corpse-Powdering These Down, Here