Posted Without Comment for Workers in FedWorld (and Elon’s Companies)

The OSS Simple Sabotage Manual.

Attention should be given to Chapter 5, Section 11: General Interference with Organizations and Production.

The Musk Coup

This is what the Orange Shitbag's tariffs may be covering for:

Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

Musk is an enemy of the country. He's using his bought-and-paid-for access to the Bloated Old Felon to carry out a hostile takeover of the country.

If you are on Musk's payroll in any capacity, you are working for the enemy. If you have sworn an oath to the Constitution and you are taking Musk's gelt, you are a traitor.

Stand By for the Trump Crash and Depression

President Donald Trump said Friday he would place 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on goods from China effective Saturday, raising the specter of swift price increases for U.S. consumers even though he suggested he would try to blunt the impact on oil imports.

So much for controlling inflation and bringing down the price of oil and groceries.

A crash and depression may be what he has in mind.

Worming These Down, Here

Getting ready for Ka$h Patel:

Because It's Friday

The Salvesen Steam Car, circa 1893:

The French, of course, had a steam car 130 years before then.

Vichy Democrats

That's what a number of people, including myself, fear that the Democrats are becoming. They're not fighting Trumpism, they're collaborating.

The billionaires and mainstream media companies have already caved.

Fascist regimes all fail, usually in less than a generation. The replacement strongmen can't keep it going and then justice comes for the collaborators.

Heckuva Job, Trumpie

Since Republicans were blaming Joe Biden for anything and everything that happened in the country during his presidency, the Felonious Irange Shitbag owns this crash.

And so do the two Fox News white guys that he hired for Secretary of Sefense and Secretary of Transportation. Because, and let's be clear about this, the only qualifications that those two worthies had for their jobs was the fact that, like him, they were incompetent straight white men on TV.

And this page has suddenly disappeared from the White House's website:

BBQing These Down, Here

THOSE WHO BLAME DEI FOR THE CRASH AT WASHINGTON NATIONAL WITHOUT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE ARE COMPLETE AND UTTER ASSHOLES.

That includes Our National Orange Shitbag.

He is really slipping mentally, but we knew that. He is racist AF and the MSM is actively covering it up.

The Hypocrisy, It Burns

Rep. Nancy Mace graduated from the Citadel. Which makes her a DEI admission, as that school fought like hell do not accept women.

Brainworm Bobby's application to Harvard consisted of one thing: His name. He was a DEI admission for white connected guys. Like Chimpy was to Yale; unqualified candidates who only got in because they were white guys from elite families.

But that kind of DEI is OK to conservatives.

Trump to Build His First Concentration Camp

At the signing of the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United States and cannot be deported to their home countries.

It's not a "dentention center," people. It's a concentration camp. And there is no accident that he's ordered it built in a place that is beyond the effective reach of American law. No pesky reporters, no rule of law, just terror.

Second, there is no way to be sure who will be put there. It will be a black hole. Anyone who irritate the Great Orange Shitbag could end up there.

Third, with regard to transgendered people, he's slowly trying to strip all of their rights.

Does anybody not get this, yet? He is following Hitler's playbook.

Wake the fuck up, people.

And that includes the Democrats up on the Hill. Start obstructing everything. If the dumbest person in the Senate, bar none, can figure it out, so can you. This shit is not normal. Start playing like it.

Charging These Down, Here

Stochastic Assassination

Publicly removing people's security details, such as Gen. Milley, Dr. Fauchi, Mike Pompeo and John Bolton is nothing less than asking somebody to go kill them because they annoy the Criminal-in-Chief.

The Great Orange Felon learned his lesson well from hanging around with mobsters and Roy Cohn: Be ambiguous and never get your hands dirty.

Hmmm.

All those red states, which rely on Federal grants to fund their state governments, are going to take a real hit with the Orange Shitbag's funding pause.

She Was There In Case That There Were Puppies to Be Shot

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joined federal agents in New York City on Tuesday to announce the arrests of immigrants wanted on criminal charges, including a man accused of kidnapping who was seen on a viral video entering a Colorado apartment with reputed gang members.

Grandstanding in service of the Obese Orange Shitbag.

Transgendered? Don't Apply for a Passport

The State Department has paused the processing of passport applications for transgendered people.

What this means is that the State Department is holding their documents. Birth certificates, medical documentation, marriage licenses, everything. Which the applicants won't get back, probably for a very long time.

Ducking These Down, Here

Whatever Could Have Happened Since November to Make Americans Lose Confidence in the Economy?

U.S. consumer confidence dipped for the second consecutive month in January, a business research group said Tuesday.

The Conference Board reported that its consumer confidence index retreated this month to 104.1, from 109.5 in December. That is worse than the economist projections for a reading of 105.8.

Thought it was suposed to be rainbows, free gas and cheap eggs from here on out. Or that's what the MAGA Moron-in-Chief was promising.

Affirmative Action for White Nepo Babies

Buckley Carlson, a former Capitol Hill aide and the son of conservative media personality Tucker Carlson, is set to join Vice President JD Vance's press office, sources tell ABC News.

The younger Carlson is set to serve as Vance's deputy press secretary, sources said.

Buckley Carlson has worked as an aide on Capitol Hill since 2019, including most recently serving as deputy chief of staff to Republican Rep. Jim Banks.

Does anyone believe for a nanosecond that this kid would still have been swanning around the Hill since he graduated from high school if his dad was a city worker in Boston?

The Trump Administration is Evil. There is No Other Word for It.

The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing H.I.V. medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics.
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Appointments are being canceled, and patients are being turned away from clinics, according to people with knowledge of the situation who feared retribution if they spoke publicly. Many people with H.I.V. are facing abrupt interruptions to their treatment.
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Without treatment, virus levels in people with H.I.V. will quickly spike, hobbling the immune systems of the infected people and increasing the odds that they will spread the virus to others.

About one in three untreated pregnant women may pass the virus onto their babies.

Interrupted treatment may also lead to the emergence of resistant strains that can spread across the world.

One study estimated that if PEPFAR were to end, as many as 600,000 lives would be lost over the next decade in South Africa alone. And that nation relies on PEPFAR for only 20 percent of its H.I.V. budget. Some poorer countries are almost entirely dependent on the program.

You can tell the Trump administration that hundreds of thousands of people will die, that HIV will spread and possibly more resistant strains will arise and it will not matter one bit. They simply do not care about the human cost of their ideology.

Worse, to them, the idea that Black people will die in Africa is not a problem for them. They actually see it as a positive. It is a form of passive-aggressive mass-murder.

Am I wrong? Show me. Point to the prominent Republicans trying to revive PEPFAR. Indicate the active Republicans who care.

You can't. They don't exist. Trump and his goons are doing a celebratory dance on their graves.

Trump is evil. His people in the West Wing are evil. No other word fits.

And so is the GOP.

Donnie's Ignorance is On Full Display

I meant to get to this earlier:

[Dumbo Donnie's] proposal to "clean out" Gaza has sparked a backlash from the Arab nations he would need to help implement it.

Egypt and Jordan have spoken out against Trump's plan to resettle Palestinians in their countries, stating that it would not achieve peace sought by many in the region, according to their foreign ministries. Trump's idea has provoked widespread opposition from people not directly affected, and an ally of his has also branded the plan not "overly practical."

"Not overly practical" is likely code for "insane AF". He's old enough to remember what happened in Jordan in 1970-71, but he was probably too busy trying to keep Black people out of his apartment complexes. Jordan's not going to commit suicide to please the Orange Moron. My bet is that if the king of Jordan would agree to take a million or more refugees, he'd be turfed out of the palace at gunpoint.

But it's interesting that the Bloated Bigot is hot on every other country in the world accepting refugees while he won't agree to take a single one.

Also, to all of the pro-Arab voters who either sat out the election or voted for Trump because they didn't like Biden's policy with regards to the Israel-Hamas War: how did that work out for you, you assholes?

Hope You Are Well-Stocked on Coffee

[The Great Orange Shitbag] said Sunday that he was ordering tariffs, visa restrictions and other retaliatory measures to be taken against Colombia after its government rejected two U.S. military flights carrying migrants.

Trump said the measures were necessary because the decision of Colombian President Gustavo Petro “jeopardized” national security in the U.S.

“These measures are just the beginning,” [von Shitzinpantz] wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “We will not allow the Colombian Government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the Criminals they forced into the United States.”

Earlier Sunday, Petro said his government would not accept flights carrying migrants deported from the U.S. until the [Felon's] administration creates a protocol that treats them with “dignity.” Petro made the announcement in two X posts, one of which included a news video of migrants reportedly deported to Brazil walking on a tarmac with restraints on their hands and feet.

“A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves,” Petro said. “That is why I returned the U.S. military planes that were carrying Colombian migrants... In civilian planes, without being treated like criminals, we will receive our fellow citizens.”

If the task was merely to transport people being expelled, a passenger plane would do. But the Criminal-in-Chief loves the optics of migrants in chains being frog-marched onto military planes and then chained down like animals. Because to both him and the Right, cruelty is the point. Even if it costs $10K/head.

You can bet the farm that if there was a rail line running to Colombia, that the Fat Orange Felon would be order that people being expelled be crammed into boxcars and hauled back that way.

Don't be surprised if China offers to step into the breach as a reliable trading partner for every country that has a beef with the Senile Orange Shitbird.

And expect that the FBI/DEA agents working in much of Latin America will be on airplanes back home.

Also, oranges are going to be a lot more expensive. 75% of the fruit-pickers in California didn't show up for work.

Private Equity Firms are Criminals and Should be Outlawed

Here's another case in point: A private equity firm jacked up the price of fire trucks.

Private equity firms and funds are nothing but amoral vultures and pirates. Maybe after we get through the next four years, we can have a correction and start doing something about these thieves.

Maybe involving the use of tumbrels?

"Refugees For Thee, But Not For Me", or Demented Donnie's Ethnic Cleansing Plus Even More Ass-Kissing

President Donald Trump said he would like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip, potentially moving out enough of the population to “just clean out” the war-torn area to create a virtual clean slate.

That's ethnic cleansing, which is a war crime. But there's no point in trying to make that point to the Diminished Orange Felon, as he's always been of the mindset that obeying laws is for the little people.

Meanwhile, the CIA has gotten into the business of kissing the Old Corrupt Crook's ass, but you can read the story yourself. It's too early in the day for me to be throwing up into my mouth.

And as for the inspector generals that the Wannabee Dictator has said he's fired, they're not going anywhere, as the firing attempt is illegal as fuck.

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

Take a flight with a Sopwith Pup.

You'll notice that engine control is via a "blip switch"

Handsy Harassed a Woman in the Bathroom Because She Didn't Look Sufficiently Feminine for Handsy's Taste

And she dragged notorious bigot Nancy Mace to help her harass the woman.

I guess Republicans now want to go looking at the gentials of women. They are truly despicable people.

Springtime for Elon

Didn't take long for someone to do this:

Making the Government Safe Again for Corruption and Racism

[the Orange Shitbag] fired 17 independent watchdogs at multiple government agencies on Friday, a person with knowledge of the matter said, eliminating a critical oversight component and clearing the way to replace them with loyalists.

The inspectors general at agencies including the departments of state, defense and transportation were notified by emails from the White House personnel director that they had been terminated immediately, the source said on condition of anonymity.

The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires the president to give both houses of Congress reasons for the dismissals 30 days in advance.

Getting rid of the very people who are supposed to root out corruption seems like the move of a criminal. It'd be like John Dillinger being able to fire Jedgar Hoover.

But that's to be expected when a criminal who is both a con man and a thief gets into power.

Strap in, it's going to get worse.

Caturday

The one, the only, Chip.

Mexico to Trump: Fuck Off and Die

For now, at any rate:

Mexico denied a U.S. military plane access to land Thursday, at least temporarily frustrating the Trump administration's plans to deport immigrants to the country, according to two U.S. defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation.

Two Guatemala-bound Air Force C-17s, carrying about 80 people apiece, flew deportees out of the U.S. Thursday night, the sources said. The third flight, slotted for Mexico, never took off.

A Bunch of People Dying in Africa Isn’t a Bug, It’s a Feature, to The Felonious Orange Fuckwad

The sudden decision by United States President Donald Trump to halt and review all foreign aid for 90 days could be devastating for HIV programmes in African countries. After Trump’s inauguration on 20 January, he signed numerous executive orders. One of these suspends aid to “foreign countries and implementing non-governmental organisations, international organisations, and contractors” pending review for whether it aligns with “American interests and … values”.

The order said, “no further [US] foreign assistance shall be disbursed in a manner that is not fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States”.

Foreign aid includes the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR. PEPFAR has saved millions of lives since it was launched by former president George W. Bush in 2003.

PEPFAR statistics show that at the end of 2024, it was providing life-saving antiretroviral treatment to nearly 21-million people across 55 countries, many of them in sub-Saharan Africa. PEPFAR is also delivering pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) — which stops people from contracting HIV — to about 2.5 million people. In 2024, PEPFAR provided HIV testing to about 84-million people. It funds HIV treatment and intervention in Uganda, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and many others.

He simply doesn't give a shit. In point of fact, the deaths of lots of people in sub-Saharan Africa because foreign aid has been stopped will be a good thing in the eyes of that demented old racist. And you can bet that his buddy, the World's Richest Nazi, is cheering him on for this issue.

ICE Raids

“Terrible things are happening. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Funny how the past resonates with the present. Those words could be written today about the Fat Orange Bastard's ICE raids. But they were written over eighty years ago.

Breathe Deep and Relax, a Little

There are a lot of legit worries about what the Old Orange Felon is doing, but those worried about things that require amending the Constitution need to take a deep breath and chill out for awhile. It hasn't been amended in 33 years, the last amendment took 202 years to ratify. The last modern amendment was ratified 54 years ago, to correct the wartime injustice of "you're old enough to kill, but not for voting".

Amending the Constitution is not for the faint of heart. It takes two-thirds of both houses to propose an amendment and then three-fourths of the states to ratify it. That is why, after the Bill of Rights was ratified, it was only amended seventeen times (and one of them was a repeal amendment).

In this current day and age, the idea that two-thirds of both houses of Congress are going to agree on anything and then three-quarters of the states will follow suit is somewhere between naive and laughable. And it certainly isn't going to happen if the Supreme Private Bone Spurs wants it or if some low-wattage corrupt congressman who is trying to kiss his royal anus proposes it.

So chill.

Storming These Down, Here