Racist as Fuck: Heritage Foundation

The Heritage Foundation had two memorial panels removed from a military cemetery in Holland. Because those panels described the work of, as the Dutch see it, Black Liberators.

The Dutch are not amused. Nor should they be. they were occupied by Nazi Germany and the Heritage Foundation, as recent events has shown, is Nazi-infused.

I haven't been blogging about the Nazi/groyper fighting going on there. Maybe I'll write up a quck sketch of it. For it seems that the Right can go from Conservative to Nazi in no time flat.

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

Burt Rutan's company Beech Starship:

I don't know how many others are out there. Beechcraft bought back every one they could find and scrapped them.

"Don the Pedophile Stadium" Does Have a Ring to It

President Donald Trump wants the Washington Commanders to name their planned $3.7 billion stadium after him, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told ESPN.

A senior White House source said there have been back-channel communications with a member of the Commanders' ownership group, led by Josh Harris, to express Trump's desire to have the domed stadium in the nation's capital bear his name. The new stadium is being built on the old RFK Stadium site that served as the team's home from 1961 to 1996.

Sure, go ahead. Name that shit after him.

And in 2029, we'll put a TV in his prison cell so he can watch his name be chiseled off of everything. He can watch the gilding be ripped off of the White House and his ballroom demolished into rubble. And then he can watch coverage of the trials and proceedings in which every Trump company is dismantled for corruption and his kids also get sent to prison for their financial crimes.

Trump's legacy will be erased. His memory will be as toxic as that of his mentor in Germany.

And you can bet the farm on that.

Your Shit May Even Be Later

UPS and FedEx said they are grounding their fleets of McDonnell Douglas MD-11 planes “out of an abundance of caution” following a deadly crash at the UPS global aviation hub in Kentucky.

The crash Tuesday at UPS Worldport in Louisville killed 14 people, including the three pilots on the MD-11 that was headed for Honolulu.

MD-11 aircraft make up about 9% of of the UPS airline fleet and 4% of the FedEx fleet, the companies said.

My guess is that those airplanes will go to the boneyard, especially if the AI bubble crashes things next year.

Caturday

The "I hate my food" glare, directed at teh server (me).

A Drop in the Bucket and Corporate Welfare (Updated with OpenAI Losses)

Wal-Mart is donating $500K to food banks. They have 4,600 stores, so they're donating less than $110 per store.

They are seriously cheap fucks. Brookshire Grocery, which has about 200 stores, is donating half a million.

If you donated a load of groceries to a food bank, the chances are that you, proportionately, did more to help people needing food than did Wal-Mart.

Keep in mind that SNAP, the ACA and Medicare work also as subsidies to labor exploiters like Wal-Mart, which thereby don't need to pay a living wage to their workers.

Meanwhile, OpenAI, which is backed by billionaires and large tech giants, wants the government to back their loans, so they will have nothing at risk. (OpenAI lost about $12 billion last quarter.)

Sam Altman read the room and realized that asking for a few hundred billion in loan guarantees wasn't a good sell when tens of millions of Americans are going hungry, so he walked that back.

For now. Corporations and oligarchs always seem to want the government to guarantee their shit, while deriding those at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Socialism for the rich, same as it ever was.

Because It's Friday

A USATC locomotive in the UK:

Corruption and Fealty, Coastie Ed.

Coast Guard Exchanges at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., and in Centreville, Virginia, recently stocked Trump-branded wine and cider, according to a photo posted on Instagram and confirmed by Forbes from calls to the stores.

Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin confirmed the exchanges were carrying Trump wines in a statement to Forbes, saying, “The brave men and women of the USCG are pleased to be able to buy Trump wine and cider tax free.”

If Biden had sold coffee through the military exchanges, the Republicans would have twisted them into knots in their haste to get in front of a microphone. But there will be nothing but crickets from the Right on this.

It is corrupt? Possibly. But it sure smells rotten for a present to sell his goods through a semi-captive system.

Dyeing These Down, Here

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Is a Motherfucking Liar and a PerjurerandThey Can Indict a Ham Sandwich, But Not Convict It

Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, lied about firing tear gas at protesters in Little Village and tackling a man outside the Broadview ICE facility, a federal judge said Thursday.

He lied repeatedly (and so did his subordinates and the government's lawyers). That should be noted in any case he testifies in down the road.

Meanwhile, Drunken Jeanine lost another one:

Jurors showed no appetite for the Justice Department's case against "sandwich guy," the D.C. resident who chucked a Subway sandwich at the chest of a federal officer, finding him not guilty Thursday after several hours of deliberations.
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Border Patrol Officer Greg Lairmore received two "gag gifts" related to the incident — a plush sandwich and a patch featuring a cartoon of Dunn throwing the sandwich with the words “Felony Footlong” — which the defense team argued showed this was not a serious event in his life.

Lairmore had testified that the sandwich “exploded all over” his chest and claimed he could smell mustard and onions. But a photo showed that the sandwich was still in its wrapper on the ground after it hit Lairmore in his bulletproof vest.

So, yet another cop got on the stand and testilied about the facts of the case.

The one difference between the American Gestapo and the original is that, for now at least, their bullshit sometimes gets dragged into the light in front of a jury.