Orange Man is Afraid of Wilting in the Cold

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said his inauguration on Monday will be held inside the U.S. Capitol rather than outdoors because of severe cold.

"The weather forecast for Washington, D.C., with the windchill factor, could take temperatures into severe record lows. There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way," Trump said on his Truth Social platform on Friday.

Horseshit. The high on Monday in D.C. will be 22. When they moved it indoors for Reagan, it was 7.

It was 22 when JFK was inauguated and he didn't move it indoors. But he was made of sterner stuff than the Old Orange Bastard.

Well, to be fair, cold weather probably affects his nonexistent bone spurs.

Another News Organization Obeys the Autocrat in Advance

CNN is apparently plotting to exile star anchor Jim Acosta — a longtime antagonist of President-elect Donald Trump — to the “Siberia of television news” in a bid to “throw a bone” to the incoming commander-in-chief, according to a former colleague.

The network’s boss, Mark Thompson, this week called in Acosta to propose shifting his show, “CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta,” from 10 a.m. to the graveyard midnight slot, ex-CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy reported in his Status News newsletter.
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“Midnight is not a serious offer when his ratings are among the best on the network.”

They are all sucking up to Mar-a-Lago's Chief Felon before he asks them to do a thing. the term of art isn't "throwing a bone", it's "servile acquiescence" or "abject cravenness" or "yellow-bellied cowardice".

Might as well watch Fox, which has has made an art form out of kissing the Orange Traitor's ass.

Because It's Friday

German steam.

Or maybe not. I don't know German.

Sure, Giuliani's Settled His Case. Tell Me Another One.

Rudy Giuliani reached a deal Thursday that lets the cash-strapped ex-New York City mayor keep his homes and belongings, including prized World Series rings, in exchange for unspecified compensation and a promise to never again speak ill of two former Georgia elections workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him.

That's not going to stick. Somebody is going to stick a mic in his face, whether in an interview or in a podcast, they'll ask him about it and he'll run his mouth again. Because he can't help himself. He's been subject to gag orders and yet he's blathered on and been dragged in for contempt hearings.

So he'll be back in court on this. Bet on it.

WaPo's Going to Play Fast and Loose With the Facts

After [the Orange Shitbird] entered the White House in 2017, The Washington Post adopted a slogan that underscored the newspaper’s traditional role as a government watchdog: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”

This week, as [the Felon] prepares to re-enter the White House, the newspaper debuted a mission statement that evokes a more expansive view of The Post’s journalism, without death or darkness: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”

There's an age-old saying of "never let the facts get in the way of telling a good story". Who are "riveting storytellers"-- Alistair MacLean, Frederick Forsythe, J.D. Rowling, Stephen King, etc. They all write fiction. Even those who have written popular histories have been accused of playing fast and loose with the facts in service of a good story. William Randolph Hearst never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Neither does Rupert Murdoch.

In short, the downhill slide of the WaPo continues unchecked.

The CEO and Majority Shareholder of Facebook is a Major-League, Whiny-Ass Pussy

Zuckerberg has been leaning into the pro-masculinity and pro-white-bigotry movements of the Trumpies.

So who does he blame for FB's DEI policies that the fascists hate? Not himself, of course, for he's only the boss and owner. Nosiree bob!

He's blaming Sheryl Sandberg, who left over two years ago.

That's a real masculine move to blame a woman who is long gone for his current problems.

What a fucking pussy. He owns the store, he could have changed things at any time and on a whim. But no, it's someone else's fault, isn't it.

Zuckerberg is the Frank Burns of the tech world.

Guess Who Can Launch a Big-Ass Rocket Without It Blowing Up Half-a-Dozen Times?

Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth.

First flight and it went into high orbit. That's the adult way to do it: Engineer the shit out of and take the care of a professional to try to make it right the first time. Make sure it is all fit, including Stage Zero (the launch pad). That's engineering development in the spirit of the Wright Brothers, people. It's patient and reasoned development before trying it out.

Not just half-assing it and, when it blows up, say "well, we learned something." That's the juvenile way to do it.

Revolver Guys, Time to Put Up or Shut Up

Have you been one of the crowd of gun people who have sworn for the last quarter-century that they wouldn't buy a S&W revolver with the internal lock, A/K/A "the Hillary Hole"? Have you said that if they made a gun without it, you'd buy one.

Well, time to cough up and put your money where your keyboard is.

Model 19, no IL.

Model 10, no IL. It has a button-head ejector rod, last seen almost a century ago, if I'm not mistaken.

Model 36.

I have Model 10s ranging from a century-old M&P to a 10-11, so I'm good, there. But yeah, I'm going to be down with a new Model 19.

Inserting These Down, Here

And now they're gone. Like tears in rain.

Questions and an Observation

The same questions sort of apply to the felon-in-chief, except that I suspect that he is not as wealthy as he pretends to be.

And now this:

There is nothing good. I can say about that man, either. I would not be surprised to learn that his diet includes helpings of roasted puppies. He seems to be truly evil, a man who uses the Bible to justify whatever ill intent he has for everybody else.