MAGA Mike and MAGA Mace's Bathroom Ban

It's somewhat fitting that MAGA Mike announced his Bathroom Ban on the Transgender Day of Remembrance. I guess he has everything well under contral that he can devote his time to making it more difficult for one incoming Representative to take a pee.

I used to say that that I would not vote for a Republican unless I personally knew them. Well, scratch that. I'm a yellow dog Democrat.

You Have Enough Fucking Clothes.

Don't buy more. Remember the old maxim: Use it up, wear it out. Make it do or do without.

One tip from Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy is that if you want to buy something online, put it in your shopping cart and then leave it there for a month. If you still want it a month later, buy it.

The world is drowning in waste, a numerous stories about how recucling doesn't happen and how e-waste is dumped on fourth-world nations will tell you. Or how there is so much plastic in the ocean, the fish, the air and in us.

Most petrochemicals were developed within the lifetimes of people still living. And it has taken an amazingly short period of time for humans to pollute the globe with them.

We need to do better. But I have every confidence that we will not. A classic beginning bio experiment is to put a layr of nutrient-rich agar in a petrie dish, put in a drop of bacteria-laden water and incubate it. Bacterial colonies will grow and grow until they consume the nutriets and/or die fromt heir own waste. We are no different, we're just doing it with the fucking planet.

Which may be why Widdle Elon wants to go to Mars.

Fuck With Nancy Mace

Democrats should get some big, heavily muscled, hairy, tattooed trans men to go into the women's bathrooms in the House. After all, they were born female, so Nancy Mace should de cool with it, amirite?

Social Safety Net Cuts Coming so Musk and Other Billionaires Can Get Tax Cuts-- Toljaso

President-elect Donald Trump’s economic advisers and congressional Republicans have begun preliminary discussions about making significant changes to Medicaid, food stamps and other federal safety net programs to offset the enormous cost of extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts next year.

Seventy million people, from kids to seniors, receive help from food stamps, Medicaid and other government programs. The people who had you food and coffee through the service windows at the fast food joints rely on those programs. So do the workers at a lot of retail establishments, including the Blue and Yellow Box of Evil.

If you, your relatives or your friends are using SNAP or Medicaid (often under some state-program name), then stand by for heavy rolls. And if you voted for Trump or you couldn't be bothered to vote, then enjoy lying in the bed that you made.

Toljaso, we did.

Nancy Mace, Professional Backshooter

Remember, she betrays her friends in a nanosecond.

This was her in 2021:

Now she's a MAGA-fueled bigot.

Another Day, Another Stupid Pick by the Senile Old Fuckwad

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Dr. Mehmet Oz, a former television talk show host and heart surgeon, to head the agency that oversees health insurance programs for millions of older, poor and disabled Americans.

Dr. Oz's talents included running a TV show where he pushed all sorts of medical quackery. And he carpetbagged himself over to Pennsylvania to run for senate and got beat by a guy who was having a stroke.

But there is a near-constant: The Doddering Old Fat Felon seems to like to surround himself with people whose one real talent is appearing on television. Sort of like himself, in that regard.

When Mark Burnett dies, may he burn in Hell, forever. For without his stupid show, Cadet Bone Spurs would have spiraled into backruptcy and prison ages ago.

Nancy Mace is a Disgusting Lump of Sentient Slime

A House Republican is pushing to ban transgender women from women’s restrooms at the US Capitol, two weeks after history was made with the election of America’s first out transgender person to Congress.

South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace on Monday introduced a resolution to amend the rules of the US House of Representatives less than two months before Democratic Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, a Delaware state senator, is sworn-in in January.

It takes a really hateful person to try to use even a bit of the power of government to go after one person in order to gain praise from the Christian Taliban.

But that's where the MAGA party lives, these days.

ETA:

Something, Something, Something. All Y’All Know The Drill.

The Third World War Continues to Creep Along

>Germany has said it has to assume that damage to two undersea fibre-optic communication cables in the Baltic Sea since Sunday was an act of sabotage.

Two cables – one between Finland and Germany, the other between Sweden and Lithuania – were severed on Sunday and Monday, raising suspicions of a malicious attack, though authorities initially declined to speculate.

“No one believes that the cables were accidentally damaged. I also don’t want to believe that the ships’ anchors caused the damage by accident,” the German defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said in Brussels on Tuesday. “We have to assume, without certain information, that the damage is caused by sabotage.”

The West is at war with Russia, as I've said before. It may be a covert war, for the moment, and a bit of a Sitzkreig, but war it is. Any Western company that does business with Russia is a company that is owned and run by quislings and traitors. Guys like these, if found guilty, should be shot. the corporate assets should be confiscated and the buildings razed.

Roundups and Hate

I wonder what people who were on the wrong side of history later told their children and grandchildren about what they did.

• What did those who rounded up American citizens who had Japanese ancestry, who stuck them on train cars, who swindled them out of their property, who forced them into concentration camps, who guarded the camps and the judges who said it was all legal-- what did they tell their grandkids when they asked what they did during the war?  
• What did the cops who turned firehoses and dogs on civil rights marchers tell their kids?  What did the all-white jurors who acquitted racists of murderous crimes later say?  What did the adults who cursed and spat on the Little Rock Eight later tell their families?
• What did the Germans who did the work of running the camps tell their grandchildren?  What did the French cops, who stuffed Jews into boxcars in France, what did they later tell people?

When the troops are ordered by Trump to go round up immigrant families, what will they later say? That they were "just following orders"? They joined to defend the country against enemies and now they'll be used as immigration stormtroops. Come fifty years later, what are they going to tell their grandchildren when they ask why grandpa or meemaw got a medal or commendation for rounding up kids and sticking them in internment camps?

And if you are going to start bleating about "we're being invaded," go do it elsewhere. I don't have to tolerate your unhinged bigotry and I have no intention of doing so. One doesn't have to spend much time among immigrants, legal or not, to learn that they have come here for the same reason everyone else did, from the First People over ten thousand years ago to visa fraudsters like Melania and Elon: To have a better life for themselves and their children.

Historians will write about the "good little Americans" who voted for Trump and who facilitated his crap.

And let's dispense with any notion that due process will be observed. The immigration courts are already severely backlogged. There won't be any due process of note. If there are any hearings, they will be drumhead hearings that won't last longer than three minutes, at best: No witnesses, no documents, no continuances. A form will be filled out and then people be marched over the border into Mexico at the point of a bayonet. All done by good little Americans.

Co-Presidents-Elect to Watch Fireworks Together

President-elect Donald Trump appears to be planning to attend a SpaceX “Starship” rocket launch on Tuesday, in the latest indication of founder Elon Musk ‘s influence in the Republican’s orbit.

Is Musk's plane going to be designated AF 1.1? Is he getting a desk in the Oval Office?

"Co-President-Elect" would be a good working title for now. It would seem to be clear that Elon bought the TOFF because the constitution prohibits Musk from being prison, himself. Which begs the question as to whether Putin has transferred ownership of Trump, or is he just sharing with Elon.

Chinese Disinformation

The Chinese are putting up fake news sites around the world in order to catapult Party propaganda. Those who have uncovered the operation are calling it PAPERWALL.

There is a shitload of detail in the PAPERWALL report.

There is an old-school way to ensure that you're not consuming Chinese or Russian propaganda: Subscribe to a print newspaper that is not owned by the Murdoch family. Harder is to find a newspaper that isn't owned by some pillaging hedge fund, but it can be done.

Trump's Peeps March in Ohio

Masked Nazis were marching in Trump's Ohio.

He could condemn this, but like his "both sides" statement after Charlottesville in 2017, he won't. Nazis are his people.

Elon's Death Traps: Unsafe at Any Speed

Tesla's vehicles have the highest fatal accident rate among all car brands in America, according to a recent iSeeCars study that analyzed data from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).

The study was conducted on model year 2018–2022 vehicles, and focused on crashes between 2017 and 2022 that resulted in occupant fatalities. Tesla vehicles have a fatal crash rate of 5.6 per billion miles driven, according to the study; Kia is second with a rate of 5.5, and Buick rounds out the top three with a 4.8 rate. The average fatal crash rate for all cars in the United States is 2.8 per billion vehicle miles driven.

The study also breaks down some of the data for individual models. The Tesla Model S has a rate more than double than average, at 5.8 per billion vehicle miles driven; meanwhile, the Tesla Model Y — the best-selling vehicle in the world has a fatal crash rate of 10.6, nearly four times the average. It ranked as the sixth worst vehicle overall.

Meanwhile, I wonder if the betting websites are running pools on how long it will be until Felon^34 kicks little Elon out the door. He's acting as though the Oval Office will be subdivided and he'll get a desk there.

Handsy Boebert is Running for Dumbest Congressman Alive

In a move that raises eyebrows and questions about her grasp of government structure, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) recently suggested that former President Donald Trump appoint pro-Trump commentator Dan Bongino to a post she called the "Secretary of Secret Service." The only problem? That job doesn’t exist.

You'd think that Handsy would have been in office long enough to have a basic idea of how Federal agencies are organized.

But you would be wrong. She's dumber than MTG, which heretofore would have seemed to be an impossibility.

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

Hansa Jet:

A quick search shows that while the FAA has a manufacturer and model code for the aircraft, none are currently on the US registry.

Funny Thing, That

Dolt-47 has been executing on his promise to protect women by nominating rapists and abusers to his cabinet.

So he can keep a close eye on them? Pick up some pointers?

American Muslims Are Among the Stupidest People on Earth-- New Entry Into the Toljaso Files

U.S. Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration's support for Israel's war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon have been deeply disappointed by his cabinet picks, they tell Reuters.

"Trump won because of us and we're not happy with his secretary of state pick and others," said Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump.

We told you so. We told you that the FOFF would buttfuck you as soon as he got in. We told you that he didn't give a cold shit about the people of Gaza or Lebanon. We told you the kind of people that Felon^34 would appoint and that both he and his appointees hate you. We told you that he would exercise zero restaint of Netanyahu.

But did you listen? No. You let your anger towards Biden blind you to what was plain as day to even the most casual observer. Maybe your votes for Trump or Stein or your sitting on your hands didn't seem stupid to you at the time, but you get the prize nonetheless.

Toyota, assholes! (You asked for it, you got it.)

Caturday

Chip is charging his solar cells.

In cat news, Speck is back. He looks a little thin, he's sucking up kibble as though the production line was closing.

Yup

You don’t bury an ethics report that would exonerate Trump’s pick.

You don’t skip FBI background checks unless his nominees have something to hide.

See what they’re doing? Please tell me you see what they’re doing.

Criminals, drug addicts, white supremacists, and Russian assets would seem to comprise most of Dolt-47's staffing choices. In other words, his peeps.

Which makes me wonder: Who is in the wings to step in if his first line of sycophants and idiots can't get confirmed?

Trump is not a serious person. We toljaso. And yes, I expect to be saying it a lot.

Because It's Friday

Winter German steam:

Fuck the Logan Act

If you or I did this, the Feebies would be slapping on a pair of Smith & Wesson's finest darbies. But if you're a rich fuck, and if you're a Republican, well, the rules don't apply to you.

Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person and close ally of President-elect Donald Trump, met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, the New York Times reported, citing two Iranian officials.

The meeting between Musk and Iran’s envoy Amir Saeid Iravani was held at a secret location in New York and lasted more than an hour, the NYT reported, citing the Iranian officials, who reportedly described the discussion as focused on how to defuse tensions between the two countries.

I can't wait on this one until the next snark drop:

Musk is meeting with people who want to shoot his latest toy. So I don't know how that'll work.

Crazier Than a Shithouse Rat on Meth

"Handsy" Boebert:

Colorado's Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert pressed witnesses Wednesday at a UFO hearing on theories she said she's heard about non-human civilizations underwater.
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"There are rumors that have come up to the Hill of a secretive project within the Department of Defense involving the manipulation of human genetics with what is described as non-human genetic material for the enhancement of human capabilities, hybrids," Boebert said. "Are any of you familiar with that? Yes, or no?"

All of the experts said they were not familiar with that claim. Boebert spent most of her time asking about non-human civilizations in the ocean's depths.

If she likes unsubstantiated rumors, then someone ought to tell her that JD Vance is really one of the lizard people and that's why he got confused and boffed a sofa.

But yes, she's operating with a few fouled spark plugs.

Combing These Down, Here

You Can’t Make This Shit Up; Infowars Ed.

The Onion bought Infowars at auction.

Sarcasm and snark would be totally redundant.

Gaetz Attempts to Dodge Accountability for Being a Pedo and Druggie

GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz resigned from the House Wednesday, Speaker Mike Johnson announced, the same day that Donald Trump announced that he had tapped the Florida firebrand to be his attorney general.
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Johnson said Gaetz had resigned so abruptly because he knew how long it would take to fill the seat if he becomes attorney general. Johnson said he reached out to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday and added that because of Gaetz’s early resignation it’s possible they could fill his seat as soon as Jan. 3, when the chamber is slated to elect a speaker.
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Other GOP House colleagues believe his decision is actually tied to an Ethics Committee report investigating several allegations including that Gaetz engaged in sex with a minor, which they believe was poised to be released in a matter of days. Gaetz has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and has sought to attack the panel probing various allegations against him. If Gaetz is no longer a member of the House, the report likely won’t be formally released, though it could leak.

One House Republican, granted anonymity to speak candidly, tied Gaetz’s resignation to trying to “stymie the ethics investigation that is coming out in one week.”

A guy who likes underage girls and drugs-- no wonder the TOFF and his oldest spawn, Coke Boy, adore him.

You know that the report will leak in a New York second, anyway. But it won't matter to the Commandante of Mar-a-Lago or his legions of supporters. You might recall that his loons were babbling about Hillary Clinton running a child exploitation ring out of the basement of a pizzeria that, as it turned out, didnt have a basement. But no matter what comes out about Gaetz, it won't affect the mindset of those clowns.

Gaetz is more evidence that the FOFF prizes loyalty over picayune concerns such as competence. That is a sad trait of autocrats and dictators, for reasons that should be obvious to a casual observer.

The Dumbest Man in the Senate Speaks

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Wednesday threatened his Republican colleagues with primary opposition if they do not vote to confirm President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Matt Gaetz for U.S. attorney general.

Tuberville would have trouble closing an umbrella if the instructions were printed on the handle. If there was an unofficial honorific of "The Moron of the Senate", Tuberville would win in a walk. Threatening to primary people who might not be up for election for four or six years is really hollow and stupid.. So is trying to threaten senators into confirming an alleged child molester and drug user as AG.

But "hollow and stupid" are apt descriptions of Tuberville.

You Can’t Make This Shit Up: Noted Alleged Pedophile to Become Attorney General (and There's More!)

Strap in, boys and girls: The weird are turning pro:

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will nominate Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as his attorney general, putting a loyalist in the role of the nation’s top prosecutor.

In selecting the congressman, Trump passed over some of the more established attorneys whose names had been mentioned as being contenders for the job.

“Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department,” Trump said in a statement.

Right, and if you believe any of that, you are most definitely stupider than you would appear to be. Gaetz's time in Congress, when he wasn't dodging investigations for having relationships with underage girls, was spent trying to investigate and persecute the enemies of Trump, both real and imagined.

Between his alleged penchant for pretty young things, like his orange idol, and his abject loyalty to same, I can see why he was the perfect pick.

Meanwhile, Commandante Bone Spurs is picking a defense secretary whose main qualification is jacking his jaws on Fox. He's picking Russia's girlfriend to be DNI. And, even more worrisome, he is looking to purge military officers who may be viewed as loyal to the Constitution and not him.

Wait for the day when the military will have to swear an oath to Trump. It's coming, folks.

If the Senate lets him appoint these turds, it will be clear to all that they are Trumpers, not Americans.

Two Hundred Million Smackers Buys a Lot of Influence

Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club has been brimming in the last 48 hours with two kinds of people: those angling for a job in the president-elect’s incoming administration, and those trying to influence him into hiring their picks for the top spots.

But the one person who has loomed over it all and has exerted a great deal of influence is Elon Musk, according to multiple sources. The tech billionaire has been seen at the resort in Palm Beach, Florida, almost every day since Trump won the election last week, dining with him on the patio some evenings and hanging out with his family Sunday at the golf course.
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Sources have described Trump as enamored with Musk.

“We have to protect our geniuses, we don’t have that many of them,” the president-elect said during his victory speech early Wednesday morning.

While Musk himself is not formally expected to take a position in Trump’s administration, he doesn’t really need to, one source said, noting the X owner is having just as much influence from the outside. ... It seemed more plausible that Musk would be appointed to a blue-ribbon committee, where he would still have enormous access but would not be subject to government ethics rules, which would require him to divest or put assets in a blind trust to avoid conflicts of interest.

I have no doubt that Musk, who is allegedly America's richest illegal immigrant, is laying on the flattery and obsequiousness with a trowel, because that (and cash) is the way to Commandante Bone Spurs's withered heart.

But sooner or later, Musk is going to say or do something that Demented Donnie doesn't like and Musk will be kicked to the curb. Because, when you get right down to it, the FOFF already has Elon's money. And people who can't do anything more for The Donald get gone. His motto pretty much is "What Have You Done For Me Lately." He doesn't need anything more from him.

Musk will eventually commit the cardinal sin of getting his name in the press too much. And then he'll be tossed away like a used tissue.

In the meantime, between the almost-certain termination of the EV tax credit and the emnity Musk has earned from the demographic that buys EVs both here and abroad, Teslas will be a drug on the market.

Sanding These Down, Here

Killer of Dogs to Get the Nod From Felon^34

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his nominee for Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, two sources familiar with the transition discussions confirm to CBS News.

Just don't go with her to a gravel pit.

She's Once, Twice, Three Times a Loser

Democrat Ruben Gallego has been elected Arizona’s first Latino U.S. senator, defeating Republican Kari Lake and preventing Republicans from further padding their Senate majority.

Lake, who has no more political experience than the average house cat, has run for statewide office three times and been beaten each time. I have no doubt that she will tear a page from the Fascist Manual of Capitaine Bone Spurs and claim that the election was stolen, just like the other times she's lost.

Don’t Bother Crying Here

The Arab population in Dearborn have collectively cut off their noses to spite their faces.

Trump moved the American embassy to Jerusalem. He's told Bibi to do what he needs to with regards to Gaza. One of his first actions in 2017 was to try to ban Muslims from even visiting the U.S.

The only Arabs Trump cares about are the super-wealthy one. Anyone who thinks that he gives a shit about the people in Gaza or southern Lebanon is anacephalic, at best.

So, Arabs of MI: Trump has always hated you people, he probably privately refers to you as "sand n-word" and now you've given the Democrats a reason to not like you, as well. That's some really genius political strategizing.

Second Toljaso

Remember all of those Democratic activists who, during the first half of the Biden Administration, called for getting rid of the filibuster so shit could get done?

I wonder how they feel about the filibuster, now?

Toljaso.

Deporting Americans

If your father is not a legal resident, then Trump's incoming border czar will deport you, as well.

Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Thomas Homan said that “families can be deported” together as a solution to separating families when carrying out mass deportation.

In a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday night, Homan, who was ICE director for a part of former President Trump’s administration, spoke on the GOP candidate’s pledge to implement mass deportations.

When journalist Cecilia Vega asked, “Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?” Homan responded: “Of course there is. Families can be deported together.”

Homan said he's not going to oversee neighborhood sweeps or build concentration camps, but, Gentle Reader, you have to know that he is lying on both counts. They're not arresting eleven or twelve million people by checking IDs at the factory gates or the fields. And they're going to have to out those people somewhere. Immigrants from Venezuela can't just be frog-marched over the border into Mexico. Mexico has no obligation to take them. They'd have to be transported to Venezuela, which likely won't allow the planes to land there. So we're going to get into a shooting war with a good part of Latin America?

But to the main point: If you're going to round up families because one member isn't a legal imigrant, well, that is some Nazi-grade shit.

And everyone knows it, including the Fat Orange Turd who keeps a copy of Mein Kampf on his nightstand.

Veterans Day

The guns of the Great War fell silent at 11AM local time, on November 11th, 1918, 116 years ago. The Armistice had been agreed to about six hours before it went into efect. About three thousand men died between the agreement to stop fighting and the cessation of hostilities. In a war marked by extreme callousness to the wastage of human life on both sides, those deaths may have been the most futile.

Armistice Day was first marked a year later. The Brits later renamed it Rememberance Day. It is still Armistice Day in France. For the Americans, Armistice Day became Veterans Day in 1954. For about eight years, in the 1970s, Veterans Day was jerked around to always be on the fourth Monday in October. But sanity finally prevailed and the day was restored to its intended day: November 11th.

America's last doughboy, Frank Buckles, who drove ambulances at the front, died in 2011.

This is the day to honor all those who have served in the Armed Forces.

If you have served, thank you. If a close family member served, thank you for supporting their service.

Please take a moment to remember those who have served.

And, if you wouldn't mind, please do not patronize an establishment that is running a "Veterans Day Sale". Fuck all of those assholes who seek to make a buck off the holiday.

And yes, I write these lines with a tinge of sadness. The voters of this country six days ago took a massive dump on the graves of all those men and women who have fought for freedom over the last 250-odd years, as well as those who fought against fascism eighty years ago. Our incoming president has derided those who fought and died for this country as suckers and losers and has used a previous Veterans Day's to rant on his personal grievances. I fear that we have traded our freedoms away for the promise of cheaper gasoline.

Our ancestors would be so proud of us.