Sunday, February 16, 2025

Morning

Sunday funday. Gonna try to enjoy this one, because every day is hell now.

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Eff Off

Hard to beg people to come back to work when the shitler youth already terminated their email accounts.

People have their own personal constraints but I hope many of them stay unreachable.  Unless we all die of course.

What Is It All About Then

When covid hit, various international associations of lunatic right wingers were thrilled that the old and weak, the botched and the bungled, and of course the poor, would be culled.  

The cult of elite rich weirdos is a eugenics cult.

Lunch

Eat

They Know Even Less Than What They Say

When Trump made Rick Perry the Energy Secretary, journalists took to twitter to tell people how stupid they were for rolling their eyes about it because Perry was the governor of an oil state.

They covered the government for years and had no idea what it did, so it shouldn't be too surprising that the Incel Clown Posse doesn’t either.

Morning

Slacker Saturday. Congress and me both.

Friday, February 14, 2025

Happy Hour

Don't worry.

Why Won't Hochul Remove Him

 The NY state dems (including many NYC dems) would rather burn down Manhattan than let Jumaane Williams - next in line - be mayor.

Seems Bad

Well they WOULD say that WOULDN'T THEY.
The Department of Energy has paused the firings of hundreds of employees who work for a key agency maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, multiple sources tell ABC News.

Managers with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are frantically calling employees back and telling them that -- as of right now -- they're not fired, despite some receiving termination emails and phone calls on Thursday. Their badges are getting turned back on and access to federal systems is being restored, at least temporarily.

Hundreds of probationary employees were terminated Thursday night in the mass Trump administration layoffs. The move prompted concerns of a national security risk because the agency is responsible for maintaining U.S. nuclear weapons, transporting them, and nuclear counterterrorism, among other missions.

NNSA held an all-staff meeting Friday morning, announcing the DOE had agreed to pause the layoffs, due to the agency's national security mission.

Processing

A problem with tariffs is that there isn't an easy way to deal with the processing.
Feb 14 (Reuters) - Days after U.S. President Donald Trump ended duty-free entry for cheap Chinese goods entering the U.S., his administration put the order on hold after more than a million packages piled up at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

It was the result of a rushed, confusing policy change that proved unworkable on short notice. Government officials are now scrambling to implement the order in a way that won't cripple America's hyper-efficient import system.
It is above my pay grade, but I don't think there is a way that can implemented in any reasonable time frame.

Very Stable Geniuses

I don't think it matters that the ridiculous "DOGE" website is insecure in and of itself, but it does show that the Incel Clown Posse have probably left the entire Treasury open to hackers.

Bug or feature?

If Only There Was Something We Could Do

The Trump administration is taking over New York City through an illegal "deal" with its Mayor to drop the prosecution of his corrupt ass, so insane that even the FedSoc attorney resigned, but sadly there's nothing we can do.

Hold on, I'm being told that there IS something "we" can do, that the democratic governor of New York can simply remove him.

Also I'm being told, alas, she won't because democracy or something.

Morning

It is kind of funny that journalists followed up Watergate with Whitewater. To balance the scales.

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Happy Hour

Get happy.

Nobody Knows In America

Puerto Rico should probably look into being annexed by someone else (or independence, of course, but there is the little issue of defense).

Ah, Well, Nevertheless

Dem senators went with the "inside" plan - approach their colleagues (call them Lucy) with reason and kindness. Susan Collins will be with us if we don't scare her!

This plan involved voting for a lot of Trump's nominees and discouraging any outside campaigning against their colleagues.

How did that work?

If you can't win, then it is good to achieve something in a loss: a clear statement of and explanation of opposition, and making sure every voter knows what shits these people are.

Lunch

eat

Bust Out

Crime is legal now, for the right people, so there is nothing to be done.

Misson Accomplished

That fucking newspaper. (paywalled, everything is paywalled).
Once you have decided that there are too many people identifying as trans, you have opened a negotiation with the right wing about how many of them to get rid of, and by what means. The polite, liberal Times position is "get rid of enough of them that I don't have to worry about my child being one" and "by discouraging transitioning." The Trump position is "get rid of all of them" and "by making them illegal." And the Trump position effectively includes the liberal position, though anti-trans liberals don't like to see it that way.

...

On the question of sports participation, the Editorial Board immediately contradicted itself:

The fearmongering is all the more disproportionate, given how few people identify as transgender. They are a minuscule less than 1 percent of the American population. And they are 0.002 percent of college athletes—a population that’s been especially incendiary in the culture wars.
Why should there be room for fierce debate, or conversation, about the participation of 0.002 percent of college athletes in sports? Why should there be room for a 3,000-word front-page New York Times story on the topic? If you call as much attention as you can to how you think there might be a stray nail sticking up somewhere, why would you be shocked when someone shows up swinging a hammer?

Elder Care With Fun Group Trips

Prost ihr säcke.
Some 20 senators have their bags packed for the Munich Security Conference this weekend, but they are waiting on a final green light from Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) before heading to Andrews Air Force Base.
So easy to ruin their fun.