Snorting These Up, Here

Fucking Retaliate, Guys

In November, a train carrying almost 500 people came to a sudden halt in eastern Poland. A broken overhead line had smashed several windows, and the track ahead was damaged. Elsewhere on the line, explosives detonated under a passing freight train.

No one was hurt in either case and the damage was limited, but Poland, which blamed the attack on Russia’s intelligence services, responded forcefully: It deployed 10,000 troops to protect critical infrastructure.

The sabotage in Poland is one of 145 incidents in an Associated Press database that Western officials say are part of a campaign of disruption across Europe masterminded by Russia. Officials say the campaign — waged since President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — aims to deprive Kyiv of support, create divisions among Europeans and identify the continent's security weak spots.

So far in this hybrid war, most known acts of sabotage have resulted in minimal damage — nothing compared to the tens of thousands of lives lost and cities decimated across Ukraine.

Hit them back. That's what one does with bullies: Hit them back. Russia is a big country with lots of ground to defend. Fuck with their shit from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok.

Play by Chicago Rules, for the Russians are.

Or give up and start teaching your populations basic Russian for when the Russian army shows up to murder and rape your women. For that is what they do.

There's an old saying that you can fight on your feet or die on your knees. With the Russians as opponents, that's your choice.

“Repeated False Claims”

That's CNN's analysis of Trump's speech.

I can't say it's his dementia. He lies about everything snd always has. Everything said by Trump is and has been a lie, including the articles and punctuation.

Except when he implied that he wanted to bang his daughter. That was the truth.

The "Peace President" at Work, Plus More Racism From the Orange Piggy and Discount Goebbels (and Covering Up War Crimes)

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro in a move that seemed designed to put a tighter chokehold on the South American country’s economy.

Trump’s escalation comes after U.S. forces last week seized an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast, an unusual move that followed a buildup of military forces in the region. In a post on social media Tuesday night announcing the blockade, Trump alleged Venezuela was using oil to fund drug trafficking and other crimes and vowed to continue the military buildup until the country gave the U.S. oil, land and assets, though it was not clear why he felt the U.S. had a claim.

“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform. “It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.”

Anybody want to tell the world what land and oil Venezuela has stolen? Does Grandpa Sundowner now think that he's a member of some native South American tribe?

Meanwhile, the Ancient Racist is adding more countries to his Operation Ban Brown People From Coming Here.

He's been very specific as to what countries he wants immigration from: Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Nobody has managed to point out to Our Demented Nazi-in-Chief that, to the residents of those countries, the U.S. is a shithole country with bad health care, a failing public education system, an emerging autocratic government and rampant crime committed by gunmen.

In a move that should surprise nobody, our Drunken War Criminal isn't going to release the video that proves that he's a war criminal. To cover up his crime, he's classifying it "top secret".

Finally, Lord Bezos is in the news for giving a neurdivergent school charity $5 million. To which I say: Big Fucking Deal. If a millionaire gave a local animal shelter fifty bucks, neither the shelter or the donor would be putting out press releases. Because, on a percentage basis, that's the same level of giving. Bezos isn't the only rich fuck to make a mockery of charitable giving, both Grandpa Sundown and the Ketamine Rocketman are masters of that.

Awarding These Down, Here

I'm betting he took it to bed with him.

Trump is Both Pathetic and Deranged

Only he would make the murders of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer about him.

He is truly a pitiable husk of a man, one whose soul has already been blasted into cinders.

The GOP is the American Nazi Party.

Nazis of a feather, hang together.

The GOP is merely reclaiming its roots as a Nazi-adjacent party, which they were before Hitler declared war following the Pearl Harbor attack.

Racist and Fascist ICE/CBP

They shut the doors of restaurants with Black patrons in Minneapolis and then demanded that everyone show their papers. All were American citizens.

We need to fire every badge-toting goon at ICE and CBP, bar them from future employment with the Federal government and disestablish those angencies. We'll have to spin up something new, but what exists now is irretrievably contaminated with "officers" who regard the Constitution as if it was printed on toilet paper.

That's at a bare minimum. Investigations and trials must also happen and, if they need to be held someplace, Alligator Alley is available.

And, of course, DHS's gotta go.

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

C-17 at St. Maarten Airport:

"Swing and a miss..."

Thank You, RFK, jr. and the Rest of You Anti-Vaxx, Ivermectin-Swilling MAGA Idiots

Even your propaganda channel can't hide it:

Thanks again, morons, for turning this country into a laughingstock.

Caturday

"Ready for my close-up, C.B."

ATTN Deaf People

Trump hates you.

The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public,” part of a lawsuit seeking to require the White House to provide the services.

It's yet another example of both Trump's childish pettiness and his utter distain for anyone differebnt from himself.

Reminder Trois

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Because It's Friday

Steam at some German museum.

MAGA Terrorists At Work

A small school district in Vermont was hit with racist and threatening calls and messages after a Somali flag was put up a week ago in response to President Donald Trump referring to Minnesota’s Somali community as “ garbage.”
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The Somali flag was flown alongside the Vermont state flag and beneath the United States flag at a building that includes K-12 classrooms and administrative offices. Somali students cheered and clapped, telling administrators the flag flying meant a great deal to them, he said.

What ensued was a deluge of phone calls, voicemails and social media posts aimed at district workers and students. Some school phone lines were shut down — along with the district website — as a way to shield staff from harassment. Chavarria said videos of the event did not also show the U.S. and Vermont flags were still up and spread through right-wing social media apps, leaving out the important context.

Terroristic threats is how the Right and MAGA works to intimidate people, just like they tried in Indiana.

The Right is showing their racism. They don't even try to

Bribable PamALLAH and Ka$happ are setting up a tip-line to call in political terrorists, so maybe they can flooded with calls about the MAGAidiots doing their thing.

Trump Keeps Poodling for Putin

When you are siding with Russia, North Korea, China and Iran, you're on the side of evil. Trump is evil and since this vote was inour name. so are we.

Remember, It's not Piracy When a Nation-State Does It.

US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out, but I'm not about to give The Orange Sundowner the benefit of the doubt.

ETA: MAybe someone will explain what seizing tankers has to do with fighting the export of drugs to Europe.

Mafia Nation (ETA: Indiana's Response)

Trump is running this country as though it was a Mafia family: "Nice state you have there, Indiana. Be a shame if something were to happen to it."

I hope that the Republicans in Indiana can find their balls and spine and call his bluff.

And then their congressional delegation can help stick it to the Bloated Orange Sundowner.

ETA: Indiana Republicans to Trump (and the White Slaveowners Heritage Foundation): Go fuck yourself. It wasn't even close.

Scooping These Down, Here

Johnny and the Supine Supremes:

Participation prizes for deranged adult toddlers:

Trump/Rubio to Tourists: Visit Another Country

Tourists to the United States would have to reveal their social media activity from the last five years, under new Trump administration plans.

The mandatory new disclosures would apply to the 42 countries whose nationals are currently permitted to enter the US without a visa, including longtime US allies Britain, France, Australia, Germany and Japan.

In a notice published on Tuesday, the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) said it would also require any telephone numbers used by visitors over the same period, and any email addresses used in the last decade, as well as face, fingerprint, DNA and iris biometrics. It would also ask for the names, addresses, birthdates and birthplaces of family members, including children.

This is the notice.

My suspicion is that more and more tourists are going to opt to go to a more welcoming country. Which is probably any other country other than Russia, Iran or North Korea.

Stupid and Racist, All in a Nasty Bundle

Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few…from Denmark…send us some nice people. We always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster…filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime. The only thing they’re good at is going after ships."

I'm somewhat astonished that he just didn't come out and say "Aryan".

Because you know who else blamed minorities for his country's problems? This dickhead:

Donnie's Lawn Mower

Heh.

Thanks to RFK, Jr and the Rest of the Anti-Vax Idiots

The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials said Wednesday.

As of Wednesday, 111 measles cases had been reported in what’s known as upstate South Carolina — an area in the northwest of the state that includes Greenville and Spartanburg.

If you want a quickie explanation why my side of the aisle regards conservatives as being morons, this is a good example. Dumb-asses believe the stupid shit that Brainworm Bobby and the other conspiracy theory fools (or Russian tools) hand out, so they don't get their kids vaccinated and now we're getting epidemics of formerly defeated diseases.

100% Fully Mockable Bullshit

Ol' Kashyap Patel is handing out these challenge coins:

Of the FBI directors, Hoovel was evil while Patel is nothing more than a clownshoe-wearing buffoon,

Fraudster Trump

Donald Trump signed mortgage documents in the 1990s claiming two separate Florida properties would each serve as his principal residence – the same thing his administration is calling “mortgage fraud” when done by political rivals, records show.

ProPublica unearthed documents demonstrating that within seven weeks of each other in late 1993 and early 1994, the president obtained loans for neighboring Palm Beach homes, pledging each would be his primary dwelling. Instead of living in them, though, he rented both out as investment properties.

There is no suggestion that the activity is or was illegal, and proving intent is key in fraud cases. Yet Trump has called the same behavior – having two primary dwelling mortgages – “deceitful and potentially criminal” in relation to mortgage fraud charges against the Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook. The Trump administration is bringing several similar cases against the New York attorney general, Letitia James, the senator Adam Schiff and the congressman Eric Swalwell.

Guess it's OK if the Demented Orange Piggy and other Republicans do it. Including the asshole who has been making such a big point of it.

Trafficking These Down, Here

RELATIONSHIP ADVICE: Find someone who will defend you with the same ferocity that Megyn Kelly defends pedophiles.

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— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM

Bribable Pam Hasn't Met a Constitutional Right She's Not Willing to Violate

Later today, the Developer of the ICEBlock app - Joshua Aaron - is expected to file a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against Pam Bondi in her official capacity as Attorney General, Kristi Noem in her capacity as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Todd Lyons in his capacity as the Acting Director of ICE, and Tom Homan in his capacity as the White House Border Czar.

The lawsuit alleges that government officials - acting in their official capacity - pressured Apple into removing the ICEBlock app from the Apple App Store in violation of Mr. Aaron’s 1st Amendment protected expression. The lawsuit asks the court to permanently enjoin the government from coercing, threatening, or demanding Apple or other app distribution services to stop distribution of the ICEBlock App, among other things.

Trump's blackshirts pretty much view rights and freedoms as only applying to them and their supporters.

Apple, like most companies, is an amoral entity that only cares about money.

Not a Surprise About that Felonious Sleazeoid

Steve Bannon was a buddy of Jeffrey Epstein. Few seem to be upset, because we pretty much expect Bannon to be a suckup to rich sleazoids.

But working to rehabilitate the reputation of a wealthy pedophile and sex trafficker?[1] Shouldn't that be called out as being especially repugnant?

What's going on is that "conservatives" are being silent because criticizing Bannon for being cozy with Epstein implicitly criticizes their Orange God-Pig.
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[1] In earlier times, he'd have been called a "white slaver".

Dear DHS, ICE & CBP in NO,LA: FOAD

State and federal authorities are closely tracking online criticism and demonstrations against the immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoringmessage boards around the clock for threats to agents while compiling regular updates on public “sentiment” surrounding the arrests, according to law enforcement records reviewed by The Associated Press.

Fascist little piggies, all of them.

2029 to-do list:

1. Abolish DHS.
2. Investigate the conduct of CBP/ICE goons and prosecute those who broke the law.
3. Pack the Supreme Court.
4. Tear down that fucking ballroom.

Tricky Dick's Letter to the Orange Piggy

From Andy Borowitz's FB page.

Donny Boy:

Congratulations: I’m adding you to my enemies list.

It’s not because you’re evil. I usually put evil people on my friends list. Every Thursday, I play bridge with Mao, Stalin, and Kissinger. Mao and Stalin had a moral objection when I brought Henry into the game, but I begged them to give him a chance.

No, it’s not because you’re evil. It’s because you’re so fucking unoriginal.

Hmm, let’s see: a paranoid president commits a shitload of crimes, then abuses his power trying to cover them up. Why does this ring a bell?

You’re lucky I’m dead, asshole, or I’d sue you for plagiarism.

Your sad little Epstein cover-up isn’t an homage to my Watergate cover-up—it’s a fucking reboot. And I don’t appreciate a bloated asswipe like you stealing my IP.

I mean, you ripped off my playbook down to the tiniest details—including your choice of a crooked Attorney General. Do you honestly think if Pam Bondi winds up in jail, that will be a fresh plot twist? Wrong, moron! My boy John Mitchell already did that. (John’s still a good friend, by the way—just last week we went skinny-dipping in Satan’s lake of fire.) Now, don’t get me wrong—I don’t blame you for wanting to keep the Epstein files under wraps. Beelzebub has a copy of them in his lending library and I read them last night. I’m not easily shocked, but let me say this: you are one sick fuck. There’s stuff in there that would curl Matt Gaetz’s toes.

When this shit gets out, you’re going straight to prison—and not the Canyon Ranch resort where Ghislaine is getting her daily mani-pedis.

Since you’re stealing all my best ideas, I know how you’ll try to save your ass: you’ll whip out your trusty Sharpie and scribble over every word of the Epstein files until they look like something Jackson Pollack did on a bender. But that won’t work, fuckface. Because whenever there’s a document this spicy, there are bound to be bootlegged copies out there, just waiting to be leaked to some Jew in the media. Remember the Pentagon Papers? Of course not—you can’t even remember your wife’s name.

Let me put it this way: if you think the DOJ has all the copies of the Epstein files in existence, then Pete Hegseth isn’t the only one who’s been drinking on the job. That genius Pam left them sitting on her desk, for fuck’s sake. I’ve seen documents stored more securely in Mar-a-Lago’s public crapper.

So, once the unredacted Epstein files come out—and they will—how do you plan to save your drooping jowly ass? Well, I see you’ve already dipped into my playbook yet again: you picked a vice president so fucking loathsome that he’s impeachment insurance.

That’s what I thought I was doing when I chose Spiro. But then, what do you know, that lowlife scumbag went and got busted accepting paper bags full of cash in the White House basement. The moment he got the boot, I knew I was fucked. I don’t know what skeletons JD has in his closet. Maybe there’s a video of him in a three-way with a couch and an ottoman. But you’ve got to do everything in your power to make sure that nothing, I repeat, nothing happens to him. Bubble-wrap that fucker. One last thing, jerkwad: I ran into Epstein the other day at a barbecue. (Satan was mesquite grilling him in a lime cilantro marinade.) In between anguished shrieks, he told me to thank you for that perverted birthday card you gave him. I told him to thank you in person. It won’t be long.

Fuck you,

Dick Nixon

Trump's National Security Strategy

It probably reads better in the original Russian. For it seems to be a document that serves Russia's interests in Europe, which the Russians readily acknowledge.

If you still support Trump, dear reader, and you are an American citizen, you are as much as a traitor as he is. Or you are a fool. Those two categories are not mutually exclusive.

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

The first flight of the X-59:

Trump: "Pay No Attention..."

"... to those rising food prices, falling employment numbers and spiking health care premiums, things are going great!"

That's what Paul Krugman thinks he is going to try and sell and that his upcoming "trust me over your lyin' eyes" tour is going to fall flat.

You can read his analysis for yourself here.

ICE/CBP are Brutal and Nasty. Only Small-Dicked Bullies Work for Them.

The Trump Administration is treating white people like Black people have historically been treated.

They say they were looking for a male immigrant, but the only person in the car was a tiny white blonde woman (4'1", 85lbs), who they dragged out of the car, threw her to the ground and handcuffed.

Because ICE and the Border Patrol are either so stupid that they had no idea what their target looked like or they are engaging in the degree of casual cruelty demanded by Orange Piggy and Pee-Wee German.

ETA: More ICE brutality of the kind perpetrated by Southern Jim Crow cops.

Ratifying Racism

In recent days, Trump has twice gone on racist rants about Somali-Americans.

This isn't about that. This is about those standing around him or in his party. And I'm not talking about those who are just member of the Trump party. I'm talking about officeholders who have "R" after their names.

To you folks: Either you condemn Trump's racist rhetoric or, by your silence, you are adopting it.

Same goes for all of those auto execs who were standing around Trump as he went on his second racist tant this week about the Somalis: Speak out or you're tarred with that brush.

Caturday

Solar farming cat.

Bigoted, Petty and Vindictive, the Hallmarks of the Trump Administration

As you walk down a particular hallway on the seventh floor of the Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., you'll find a line of photographic portraits of all the people from years past who have led the Public Health Corps at the federal Department of Health and Human Services.

Only one of those portraits is of a transgender person: Adm. Rachel Levine, who served for four years as President Biden's assistant secretary for health. She was the first transgender person to win Senate confirmation, and her portrait has been displayed in the hallway since soon after she was confirmed in 2021. The role is a four-star admiral position in charge of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.

Levine's official portrait was recently altered, a spokesperson for HHS confirmed to NPR. A digital photograph of the portrait in the hallway obtained by NPR shows that Levine's previous name is now typed below the portrait, under the glass of the frame.

There is no point in any of this other than bigotry and pettiness.

But that's where the Trump Administration lives.

And if you support that bullshit, that tells me about your character.

Adapter

I put a grip adapter on my new-to-me Model 22:

I like the way grip adapters feel with the standard service (non-target) grips.

I think that Smith & Wesson could sell a bunch of them if they fit a .45 Long Colt cylinder to the gun. They'd probably have to shorten the length of the barrel where it comes out the back end of the frame. But I'll bet as either a Lipsey's or Davidson's exclusive, they'd sell out.

Remember, these 21st Century Model 22s were first sold as Thunder Ranch models, with that gaudy-ass gold emblem on the left side of the gun. They sold well enough to justify a regular production run.