Time to Defund ICE and DHS

Considering the fascist shit they are doing, like trying to confiscate a house that someone they don't care for no loner owns, they need to be defunded and made to find honest jobs.

The Right lost their collective minds over the "little pink house" twenty years ago. Their silence on this case is telling.

Fricking These Down, Here

When you fuck around, finding out is karma at work.

Episcopal Church to Trump: Fuck You, You Racist Asshole

In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Trump's administration.

In a letter sent to members of the church, the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe — the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church — said that two weeks ago, the government "informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees."

The request, Rowe said, crossed a moral line for the Episcopal Church, which is part of the global Anglican Communion, which boasts among its leaders the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a celebrated and vocal opponent of apartheid in South Africa.

"In light of our church's steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step," Rowe wrote. "Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government."

There are any number of white-supremacist churches that the FLOSS can tap to help resettle the pack of bigots he's importing. But still, one would think that American racists would object at South African racists coming over to take their jobs.

Update on Bribe Force One

The FLOSS has lost Loomer the Lunatic on this one.

The Trump Cycle Continues

U.S. and Chinese officials said on Monday they had reached a deal to roll back most of their recent tariffs and call a 90-day truce in their trade war to allow for more talks on resolving their trade disputes.

What gaps in the supply chain will be there from all of this stupid shit will show themselves in the coming weeks and months.

The shit show poops on.

Xmas Gifts

Per the Trump Aministration's senior officials:

Girls, you get two dolls.

Boys, you get three pencils.

Trump gets a $400 million 747.

That's all.

Bribe Force One

In what may be the most valuable gift ever extended to the United States from a foreign government, the Trump administration is preparing to accept a super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar -- a gift that is to be available for use by President Donald Trump as the new Air Force One until shortly before he leaves office, at which time ownership of the plane will be transferred to the Trump presidential library foundation, sources familiar with the proposed arrangement told ABC News.

Nothing like our president flying around in a giant airplane that advertises that he can be bought. No surprise that Bondi, formerly a lobbyist for Qatar, thinks it's all legal for a foreign government to give him an airplane for his exclusive use. She's approve if he was caught in bed with a dead 14-year old girl.

And anyone who thinks that he'll just park it at his "library" in 2029 is naïve as fuck.

Fewer and Fewer People Want Teslers (as the FLOSS calls them)

Tesla told Austin workers on its Model Y and Cybertruck lines to stay home for the week of Memorial Day, three workers told Business Insider.

The break is unusually long, the workers said. Production lines were up and running during the same period last year, they said.
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In April, Elon Musk's carmaker reported a 13% drop in deliveries year over year. During the first quarter, Tesla reported it produced nearly 26,000 more EVs than it delivered, even after a drop in production of nearly 100,000 vehicles compared with the previous quarter.

Whether or not EVs are a good thing and whether or not the WankerPanzer in particular deserves its repuation as an expensive piece of garbage, it's a shame that the workers are paying the price for Musk's successive decisions to become so identified with the brand and then to go on full Nazi with the FLOSS.

But it is what it is. One of the few ways that people have to openly show their disapproval of him is to not buy his shitty cars. And so they are.

The American Gestapo

ICE agents, cosplaying as soliders, showed up at an apartment building to arrest two men.

It's pretty clear, by now, that those milita-kitted-out goons are not going after the worst of the worst. They are grabbing random people, those who are doing nothing more sinister than working at low-paying jobs, because they're trying to make a quota. They are far more evil than a cop who tickets out-of-staters for going four over the limit.

Note also that neither of those overweight clowns is showing any form of agency identification. Unmarked vehicles, unmarked gunmen, for all we know, it could have been a kidnapping. Even the Gestapo didn't hide their faces.

Memo to ICE: You are the bad guys.

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

Hawker Hunter in the Mach Loop.