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Bwaack! Bwaack!
Attribution: Trump policies coming home to roost by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian
Speaking of chickens, haven’t heard a peep from the GOPer congress on the government shutdown they’re about to hatch.
Author: patd
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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helpful GOPer chicken translation guide to overly dramatic response and/or “no comment!” to hard questions:
If your chicken gives a sudden, single, short-clipped, loud cluck, this usually means that your chicken feels that they are in danger by a nearby predator. If you hear a cluck-cluck-cluck-BWAK, this is an alert to go check on them.
[…]
Buck-Buck-Buck
If your hen makes this noise, it typically means they just laid an egg, about to, or wanting to.
The language of chickens. Perfect for the sound of GOP cowards.Of course, in private they roar like lions at the madness.
not the only chickens in the GOPer coop are in congress.
craig, big apology for inadvertently substituting chicken soup for your brunswick stew draft. that’s the trouble with posting so early in the morning before one’s coffee has taken effect and before she’s checked thread drafts.
BTW stew sounds delicious.
As we hand over Ukraine to Russia let’s remember…
…What a top Putin aide said in November:
“To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them.”
… Russian intel says he’s been their asset for decades:
“Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow”– former KGB agent
DODO in the Oval with Macron asked about the US refusal to vote with our allies on the UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and withdrawal from occupied Ukraine, “I’d rather not explain it now but I believe it’s self evident.” Chickenshit sez Buck-Buck-Buck.
There are measles outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico, RFK Jr. is working with Dr. Oz, thanks to Trump and Musk the federal government is in unprecedented disarray as the mass firings continue, Elon sent out an email to all federal workers asking them to list the top five things they did at work last week, Trump has spent $10.7 million of our tax money playing golf, he claims that he is going with Musk to check out the gold at Fort Knox, someone hacked into the monitors at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and put up an AI-generated image of Trump kissing Elon’s feet, we got some new insight courtesy of the latest tell-alls by Michael Wolff, JD Vance is wearing short pants, Melania reappeared in DC for the Governor’s Ball, French President Emmanuel Macron was in Washington on the third anniversary of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Rudy Giuliani went shopping for hair dye at Walmart, and we take a look at all of the incredible things Trump is doing.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday highlighted the moment earlier in the day that he believed Donald Trump was “fully humiliated on the world stage” after the president was fact-checked — to his face — by French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
Macron made Trump “the first president in history who had to be interrupted and corrected by an ally when the president of the United States was lying and lying about that ally,” claimed O’Donnell.
O’Donnell noted how Macron had interrupted “blustering” Trump who was parroting his “standard line about Europe’s aid to Ukraine, the lie that Europe has loaned money to Ukraine, and it’s a loan, and Ukraine has to pay it back.”
“Trump became the first American president in history fully humiliated on the world stage by instantly getting caught and corrected in his lie,” he continued.
Macron “actually reached out, grabbed the arm of the American president, to stop him from telling a lie about France and the rest of the countries of Europe,” he noted.
[continues]
colbert’s take on what went on at the presser
Something might have been lost in translation as the French president gave remarks in the Oval Office.
he rewards loyalty
observe whom he is rewarding
Patd, I agree that his fact check in real time by Macron has to be an AA extra large. DODO and his administration is a special breed of chicken that lays eggs out of its mouth.
Anonstu: Good podcast but the whole time before I actually turned it on I was thinking it was Jon Lovitz…..lol…..I was really looking forward to it.
It was still good to watch but I’d like to have seen Jon Lovitz and Mahar too.
Macron has owned krasnov a long time. That stupid would go on a propaganda, alternate universe, harangue with someone who tells the truth, and is bold, was an opening worth taking.
One of the questions I had floating in my mind has been ‘what, how and when, will muskovite step too far?’. Many have speculated that krasnov would tire of him sometime, especially if it was president muskie for several weeks or months.
This weekend with the send me a love letter or go home alone demand it seemed like hacking off a million or so federal employees in one day might seem that point. But, it was not. During the question and answer session when asked about this issue, krasnov stated that he backed up the email request. Obviously, he was either out of touch with what was going on with his cabinet and other parts of the administration, or he was overriding them. I think the first is mostly correct.
What might happen is the fools and addicts that make up his cabinet might actually be taking the job more seriously than puttie or krasnov expected. They might tell him to go back to a golf course and destroy more sod while they do something. (okay, that is a lot too far) The Congress has started whispering something. we just need to wait for it to speak up more. The courts are showing displeasure, but that is a slow act to watch.
and a migraine has started. Off for a while.
Just added to our Trail Feed — BBQ Brunswick Stew recipe (with lots of chicken) I made last night..
The Clown Has No Clothes. Embattled Musk gives federal workers “another chance”‘ to justify their job: “Failure to respond a second time will result in termination” (no deadline this time)
— CBS News
his first name is “Jon”, too
he gets it a lot
imo there is a good case to have that guy deported if he violated immigration law and misrepresented that fact
by their standards
There is a strong push in Canada at the moment to revoke Skum’s Canadian citizenship and passport.
I wish I’d moved there in ‘68, eh?
UPDATE: The charges against her have been dropped “in the interest of justice” (she bit one of the brownshirts that assaulted her) and the private security firm has lost their license to operate. I hope she sues them into oblivion.
The bible…….a book they never read, so of course they want to put it in the schools.
The chickens turn out to be roosters. All cockle doodle and no do.
The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet system to upgrade the information technology networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflicts of interest for CEO Elon Musk in one of his other roles, that of recommending funding cuts at federal agencies, including the FAA.
McConell…..can’t hang out with maggots, can’t hang out with regular gop, damn sure can’t hang out with democrats.
He deserves so much worse
I’ve suggested denaturalization & deportation of MuskRat to my Senators & Rep multiple times. This time, I added that Canada is trying to revoke his citizenship. (Let him go live in effing Moscow!)
Are ~Republicans~ understanding that they are placeholders, because a dictator does not need legislators? I’ve been telling them that for weeks.
They will probably stop having town hall meetings because they are chickens.
There’s nothing scarier to them than a woke MAGAt.
Sure wish NBC News had some balls and hadn’t cut off Macron corrrcting tRUMPsky with the truth.
Sure would be nice if someone would spill ALL the tea on Elon & Krasnov…and the 2024 election.
So, me pea-picking-brain looking at this here chart I saw on posted on Bluesky, and just looking at Colorado’s numbers (CO-08) from right near where I live, it strikes me as not completely accurate because this margin of votes shown that Dem. Caraveo lost to Repub. Evans does not contain votes that went elsewhere. She (Caraveo) actually lost by 11,861 votes. It may not be as easy or straightforward to pressure them as others would make it look.
I haven’t checked other districts. Just saying.
Almost back to the Trump COVID recession.That was fast.
US consumer confidence fell by the most since 2021 as tariffs and inflation weigh on Americans
Bluesky user responds: “Who wouldn’t be worried when you have an escapee from the loony bin threatening all of our best trading partners, mass firing American workers, and ignoring a potential pandemic threat?”
As egg prices continue to rise in Colorado and across the country, some people have decided to raise their own chickens and produce their own egg supply. One animal sanctuary is offering a warning to those who take on such a responsibility.
“Feed stores sell chicks that are sexed and chicks that are unsexed,” …
It usually takes about four months for people to realize their chicks are male, aka roosters because that is around the time they start to crow.
“More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), citing their refusal to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”
“The mass resignation of engineers, data scientists and product managers mark a temporary setback for Musk and the Republicanpresident’s tech-driven effort to overhaul the federal workforce. Their departures come amid a series of court challenges aimed at halting or reversing attempts to fire or pressure thousands of government employees out of their jobs.”
“We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”
NOW! If the military and Congress remember they took an oath to the Constitution, not to the con man…
I’m not reading much news these days. They are going to do what they are going to do and there is not much I can do about it. I control what I can control.
And this week that is getting my yard cleaned up and getting my garden ready to plant an early garden. Spring is in the air, my neighbor and I talked planting as she prepared sed beds for her greenhouse. She is much more ambitious than I am.
Even though it got 5 below last week I was raking trash off my raised beds and uncovered edible turnips. Didn’t realize they could survive that cold of weather.
“Aluminum producer Alcoa (AA.N), opens new tab
said on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to impose a tariff on aluminum imports, opens new tab could cost about 100,000 U.S. jobs and would itself not be enough to entice it to boost production in the country.”
“Plant closures in recent years, including in Kentucky and Missouri, have left the country largely reliant on imports.”
“The tariffs alone would not be enough to entice Alcoa to restart some of its shuttered U.S. facilities, the CEO said, adding that Trump officials have asked the company to do just that.”
“It’s very hard to make an investment decision, even on something like a restart, without knowing how long the tariffs will last,” Oplinger said. He also said that he has lobbied Trump officials for an exemption on Canadian aluminum imports.”
“Separately, Oplinger said he believed that any end to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia could see aluminum from Russia move into Europe.
Oplinger also said he believed there were opportunities for the global aluminum market to consolidate, without providing details.”
“Trump earlier this month said he would impose a flat 25% tariff on aluminum imports “without exceptions or exemptions” in a bid to lift U.S. production of the metal used to make automobiles, cans and other products.”
“The tariff takes effect on March 4.”
Bet Agent Orange was planning on bloviating about this during the SOTU on March 4.
today’s meme…
Oh ho, what have we her? The “New Pinkertons” are raiding marijuana grower fields in California.
“Southwest Plane and Private Jet Nearly Collide at Chicago Midway Airport”
“Video shows the Southwest plane attempting to land on the runway, then immediately taking off again as the private plane, which had landed, starts to cross its path.”
“White House Doesn’t Say Who Leads DOGE As Musk to Attend Cabinet Meeting”
Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Agent tRUMP has got to go!
Here’s what I am reading for my book club.
In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens.
In resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise for how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet, and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it.
Definitive and singular, Soil functions at the nexus of nature writing, environmental justice, and prose to encourage you to recognize the relationship between the peoples of the African diaspora and the land on which they live, and to understand that wherever soil rests beneath their feet is home.
Game on. A federal judge ordered the Trump regime to pay millions of dollars to multiple nonprofits, finding the regime violated the terms of a temporary restraining order issued two weeks ago regarding freezing foreign aid.
“A MYSTERIOUS apparent bruise was spotted on Donald Trump’s hand after he had a series of handshake jousts with Emmanuel Macron.
Trump was photographed with a large dark mark on the back of his right hand as he sat opposite Macron at the White House.”
Don-Old is likely on blood thinners or he’s had an IV of something and blew a vein.
“WASHINGTON (AP) – More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon
Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to
use their technical expertise to
“dismantle critical public services.”
doge-bros having more of a conscience than the foreign chaos agent
I’m hopeful that the exit of DOGE staffers has some impact on Republicans in Congress, if those spicy town halls didn’t do the trick.
Also, seeing vids of military explaining their primary oath is to the US Constitution, to defend her against enemies foreign and domestic; it supersedes obeying the President (who now claims to be King, so…)
The US and Ukraine are doing the mineral deal
Zelenskyy plans to visit DC on Friday.
Extortion! by Putin & Agent Orange!
Is this the dirty deal private lawyers drew up, that stated it would be governed by New York law?
Remember when the OG Bobby Kennedy went after the mob? Good times.
That “bruise” looks like the shit he’s full of is beginning to leak through his skin.
DODO’s not having a good time of it in front of Federal judges. Looks like the plaintiffs in the cases know where to file their suits.
i was wondering how you were doing, Jack, thanks for the update 🫡
FFS! Agent Orange is planning to “sell” gold cards for $5 million to get residency in the US. Russians & Saudis are probably lining up. NOBODY else in the world wants jack squat to to either the US now.
Like, I’d be embarrassed to be overseas and someone know that I’m from the US.
Meanwhile, back at the Capitol, Republicans are getting ready to sell out their constituents.
i told you the russian mob would be moving in
Mass staff layoffs at MSNBC. Looks like the rumors of its demise are true..
— Hollywood Reporter
“Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’The group, led by Blackwater veteran Erik Prince, has close Trump ties.”
“A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases, a private fleet of 100 planes, and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests.”
“Deporting 12 million people in two years “would require the government to eject nearly 500,000 illegal aliens per month,” the document says. “To keep pace with the Trump deportations, it would require a 600% increase in activity. It is unlikely that the government could swell its internal ranks to keep pace with this demand …in order to process this enormous number of deportations, the government should enlist outside assistance.”
Top White House officials are having multiple conversations with military contractors, coinciding with Republicans’ mad dash on Capitol Hill to secure more resources for the president’s immigration crackdown.”
As disturbing and disgusting as this is, I think it’s one more distraction from the theft that’s underway with DOGE programmers, their invisible/non-existant administrator, and Republicans in Congress. Although, this is not shiny like golden tickets from Weirdy Wonky to gain access to the US.
they’re not distracting from awful policy with more bad policy it’s just all bad policy
with real consequences for real people
Putin’s oligarchs gonna love this…
Trump: “We’re gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We’re gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that’s going to give you green card privileges, plus. It’s gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country.”
Le Bruise, or whatever it is being considered is similar to what of Moscow mitch had a while back. Getting old sucks, eh? Also, due to the rumoured self-medications krasnov has done over the years, it is difficult to know how “shot” his body is. Sometimes things go real bad in the future if you do stupid things. Of course, no one talks about how fried a brain is after decades of drug abuse. No one would point to jfk jr and decades of drug abuse, or bongingo (sic) and how his interview went the other day, very slow deliberate and monotone. Yup. life is good, eh?
MSNBC declined comment.
Rachel gave us a little Uncle Walter talk last night. It will hurt but we’re going to be okay.
Capehart, Mohyeldin, Díaz-Balart and Phang are all staying with the network in various capacities.
I’m pulling for Jose to get the Lester spot. I said that to Mr. Ivy all the way to the beginning of last year. Lester has been getting long in the tooth for a while.
“Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the US DOGE Service, the agency that houses the temporary Department of Government Efficiency, a White House official told CNN on Tuesday.”
Does Amy know this? Has she been included in meetings? Is there an email thread to prove if/when she became involved with the Fart-full DOdGErs?
Greene: Those are not real jobs producing federal revenue. Federal employees do not deserve their jobs. Federal employees do not deserve their paycheck -Marjorie Taylor Green speaking in Oversight
There will be no one to plunge her toilet when it backs up.
“The US and Ukraine are doing the mineral deal
Zelenskyy plans to visit DC on Friday.”
good news in a bad context
Sounds like a certain Amy Gleason is going to have [no prounouns] rear end fried in the morning lawsuits against [no pronouns] rear end.
Same pep talk from Chris Hayes.
Amy is currently in an undisclosed location…in Mexico.
It’s getting wild. For something that had been in the works for a while, seems odd how sudden and chaotic it’s happening.
Many readers have told columnist John Archibald the reason he’s bothered by current actions in Washington, D.C., is because he’s a leftist. His response:
Note: I wrote various versions of this letter in response to emails from readers who said I was bothered by current actions in D.C. because I’m a leftist. I figured I might as well post my response here as well.
Good afternoon,
Thanks for the note, and I hope you are well. We disagree on some things, and that’s great. Conversational disagreement is a lost art.
A lot of people call me a leftist these days. I guess that’s because I feel strongly that people should have the same shot at pursuing their own happiness, no matter what they look like, who they worship or love. If that’s liberal then call me what you will.
I belong to no political party. If I were to add up all the corrupt politicians I’ve written about over the years who ended up in jail, more than half would be Democrats (but barely). I’m proud of that, because right and wrong should not depend on party or ideology.
You are right that waste is bad and the debt too high. It has been spiraling out of control since 1984, through administrations and congresses controlled by both parties. I’m all in favor of getting a grip on that, but not in an arbitrary way that puts — in my view, not yours, I understand — the fundamental underpinnings of America at risk.
The debt rose most sharply under Trump and Biden. I don’t hear a lot of people pointing to the $8T debt increase in Trump’s first term. And if the new tax break package passes, it will add an estimated $5T-to-$11T more over the next 10 years. (Links to data are in the comments.)
It’s almost like it’s not about the debt.
I’m still with you, though. I understand the need to reduce it, but I recognize that we’d likely choose different ways to go about it. So I’ll set it aside.
But I need help figuring out some other things. I’m being serious. I don’t understand why there is no backlash to dropping those charges against the corrupt New York mayor because he’s friendly to the administration. That goes against every conservative tendency I used to hear about.
I don’t understand the U.S. voting with Russia, North Korea, Venezuela and their ilk. If any administration in our history had done that they’d be pilloried.
I don’t understand Dan Bongino’s appointment as Deputy FBI director (among others). From what I’ve seen he’s one of the most graceless, foul people ever appointed in government. But then, I can’t understand why people seem to be ok with giving a South African billionaire who receives billions in federal money the power to determine what parts of American government are worthy.
If you could help me understand that I would be grateful. Because very little of this seems “conservative.” It doesn’t seem Republican, patriotic or American either.
Thanks much,
JA
I don’t understand what’s going on in MSNBC, and I don’t suspect there’s anyone who’s gonna explain it. I have to say I hated to see that Joy Reid was no longer gonna be with the network. She’s smart, and while my wife said she’s an acquired taste, we had both acquired that taste apparently. Regardless, I did watch Michael Steele’s slot tonight, and I’ve liked Michael Steele ever since he discovered that he wasn’t a Republican. He’s smart. He doesn’t put up with bullshit and laughs at it. I appreciate laughing at bullshit.
BB, I contend that it’s just the shit inside DODO leaking out through his skin.
Everyone is going to their own, little silo. A podcast, a TikTok channel, a Substack newsletter.
Folks with a loyal following, like Joy Reid, will take there audience with them.
I never turned a test in until the entire exam-time was about to elapse. After you turn it in, there’s no chance to amend your answers.
Well, there are about to be a lot of unhoused elderly if this abomination of a budget keeps progressing. They call themselves “Christians,” but they don’t want kids to eat, or vets to get benefits they earned, or Medicaid for nursing homes. They all work for Putin. They all broke their oath to the US Constitution and to their constituents. F U Russian warship aka Republicans.
“Texas regulators late last week approved billionaire Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX to discharge wastewater from its South Texas launch site to nearby wetlands, the Express-News reports.
On a 3-0 vote, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) denied requests from environmental groups and area residents to halt the permit
The permit allows SpaceX to release up to 358,000 gallons of water into wetlands around its facility in Boca Chica during rocket tests and launches. Environmentalists argue the discharge would violate the federal Clean Water Act.
No public comment was allowed at TCEQ’s hearing, which took place Thursday.”
helpful GOPer chicken translation guide to overly dramatic response and/or “no comment!” to hard questions:
FYI from What are your chickens trying to tell you? – Prairie’s Choice
The language of chickens. Perfect for the sound of GOP cowards.Of course, in private they roar like lions at the madness.
not the only chickens in the GOPer coop are in congress.
Oct 15, 2015 #InsideEdition
craig, big apology for inadvertently substituting chicken soup for your brunswick stew draft. that’s the trouble with posting so early in the morning before one’s coffee has taken effect and before she’s checked thread drafts.
BTW stew sounds delicious.
As we hand over Ukraine to Russia let’s remember…
…What a top Putin aide said in November:
Tass News Agency
… Russian intel says he’s been their asset for decades:
The Guardian
… Putin also has Elon’s ear:
Wall Street Journal
… What the Mueller Report actually found:
(Vol. II, pages 18-23)
DODO in the Oval with Macron asked about the US refusal to vote with our allies on the UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and withdrawal from occupied Ukraine, “I’d rather not explain it now but I believe it’s self evident.” Chickenshit sez Buck-Buck-Buck.
There are measles outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico, RFK Jr. is working with Dr. Oz, thanks to Trump and Musk the federal government is in unprecedented disarray as the mass firings continue, Elon sent out an email to all federal workers asking them to list the top five things they did at work last week, Trump has spent $10.7 million of our tax money playing golf, he claims that he is going with Musk to check out the gold at Fort Knox, someone hacked into the monitors at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and put up an AI-generated image of Trump kissing Elon’s feet, we got some new insight courtesy of the latest tell-alls by Michael Wolff, JD Vance is wearing short pants, Melania reappeared in DC for the Governor’s Ball, French President Emmanuel Macron was in Washington on the third anniversary of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Rudy Giuliani went shopping for hair dye at Walmart, and we take a look at all of the incredible things Trump is doing.
pogo, seems that wasn’t the only egg laid by him at the presser
Donald Trump Dragged After Being ‘Fully Humiliated On The World Stage’
colbert’s take on what went on at the presser
Something might have been lost in translation as the French president gave remarks in the Oval Office.
he rewards loyalty
observe whom he is rewarding
Patd, I agree that his fact check in real time by Macron has to be an AA extra large. DODO and his administration is a special breed of chicken that lays eggs out of its mouth.
Anonstu: Good podcast but the whole time before I actually turned it on I was thinking it was Jon Lovitz…..lol…..I was really looking forward to it.
It was still good to watch but I’d like to have seen Jon Lovitz and Mahar too.
Aaaaaand
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IcoqeNdMAfA&pp=ygUXRGFuY2luZyBjaGlja2VuIHN0cm96ZWs%3D
Macron has owned krasnov a long time. That stupid would go on a propaganda, alternate universe, harangue with someone who tells the truth, and is bold, was an opening worth taking.
One of the questions I had floating in my mind has been ‘what, how and when, will muskovite step too far?’. Many have speculated that krasnov would tire of him sometime, especially if it was president muskie for several weeks or months.
This weekend with the send me a love letter or go home alone demand it seemed like hacking off a million or so federal employees in one day might seem that point. But, it was not. During the question and answer session when asked about this issue, krasnov stated that he backed up the email request. Obviously, he was either out of touch with what was going on with his cabinet and other parts of the administration, or he was overriding them. I think the first is mostly correct.
What might happen is the fools and addicts that make up his cabinet might actually be taking the job more seriously than puttie or krasnov expected. They might tell him to go back to a golf course and destroy more sod while they do something. (okay, that is a lot too far) The Congress has started whispering something. we just need to wait for it to speak up more. The courts are showing displeasure, but that is a slow act to watch.
and a migraine has started. Off for a while.
Just added to our Trail Feed — BBQ Brunswick Stew recipe (with lots of chicken) I made last night..
The Liar
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iS4z4zF-g44&pp=ygUVSm9uIGxvdmV0dC4gIFRoZSBsaWFy
The Clown Has No Clothes. Embattled Musk gives federal workers “another chance”‘ to justify their job: “Failure to respond a second time will result in termination” (no deadline this time)
— CBS News
his first name is “Jon”, too
he gets it a lot
imo there is a good case to have that guy deported if he violated immigration law and misrepresented that fact
by their standards
There is a strong push in Canada at the moment to revoke Skum’s Canadian citizenship and passport.
I wish I’d moved there in ‘68, eh?
Muk’s emails being met with flood of spam.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-email-spam-very-rude-1235278629/
muellershewrote.bsky.social
UPDATE: The charges against her have been dropped “in the interest of justice” (she bit one of the brownshirts that assaulted her) and the private security firm has lost their license to operate. I hope she sues them into oblivion.
https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.bsky.social/post/3liy7x3nvv22n
The bible…….a book they never read, so of course they want to put it in the schools.
The chickens turn out to be roosters. All cockle doodle and no do.
The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet system to upgrade the information technology networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflicts of interest for CEO Elon Musk in one of his other roles, that of recommending funding cuts at federal agencies, including the FAA.
McConell…..can’t hang out with maggots, can’t hang out with regular gop, damn sure can’t hang out with democrats.
He deserves so much worse
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Rq-4spRz4&pp=ygUcdG93bmVzIHdhaXRpbmcgYXJvdW5kIHRvIGRpZQ%3D%3D
I’ve suggested denaturalization & deportation of MuskRat to my Senators & Rep multiple times. This time, I added that Canada is trying to revoke his citizenship. (Let him go live in effing Moscow!)
Are ~Republicans~ understanding that they are placeholders, because a dictator does not need legislators? I’ve been telling them that for weeks.
They will probably stop having town hall meetings because they are chickens.
There’s nothing scarier to them than a woke MAGAt.
Sure wish NBC News had some balls and hadn’t cut off Macron corrrcting tRUMPsky with the truth.
Sure would be nice if someone would spill ALL the tea on Elon & Krasnov…and the 2024 election.
So, me pea-picking-brain looking at this here chart I saw on posted on Bluesky, and just looking at Colorado’s numbers (CO-08) from right near where I live, it strikes me as not completely accurate because this margin of votes shown that Dem. Caraveo lost to Repub. Evans does not contain votes that went elsewhere. She (Caraveo) actually lost by 11,861 votes. It may not be as easy or straightforward to pressure them as others would make it look.
I haven’t checked other districts. Just saying.
Almost back to the Trump COVID recession.That was fast.
https://cnn.it/41w29cK
Bluesky user responds: “Who wouldn’t be worried when you have an escapee from the loony bin threatening all of our best trading partners, mass firing American workers, and ignoring a potential pandemic threat?”
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/rooster-sanctuary-danzig-roost-colorado-warns-impact-people-backyard-chickens-eggs/
https://www.newsweek.com/more-20-doge-staffers-quit-over-musk-trump-government-slashing-plan-2035979
“More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), citing their refusal to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”
“The mass resignation of engineers, data scientists and product managers mark a temporary setback for Musk and the Republicanpresident’s tech-driven effort to overhaul the federal workforce. Their departures come amid a series of court challenges aimed at halting or reversing attempts to fire or pressure thousands of government employees out of their jobs.”
“We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”
NOW! If the military and Congress remember they took an oath to the Constitution, not to the con man…
I’m not reading much news these days. They are going to do what they are going to do and there is not much I can do about it. I control what I can control.
And this week that is getting my yard cleaned up and getting my garden ready to plant an early garden. Spring is in the air, my neighbor and I talked planting as she prepared sed beds for her greenhouse. She is much more ambitious than I am.
Even though it got 5 below last week I was raking trash off my raised beds and uncovered edible turnips. Didn’t realize they could survive that cold of weather.
Here is my music to clean house for today.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/alcoa-warns-trumps-aluminum-tariff-could-cost-100000-us-jobs-2025-02-25/
“Aluminum producer Alcoa (AA.N), opens new tab
said on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to impose a tariff on aluminum imports, opens new tab could cost about 100,000 U.S. jobs and would itself not be enough to entice it to boost production in the country.”
“Plant closures in recent years, including in Kentucky and Missouri, have left the country largely reliant on imports.”
“The tariffs alone would not be enough to entice Alcoa to restart some of its shuttered U.S. facilities, the CEO said, adding that Trump officials have asked the company to do just that.”
“It’s very hard to make an investment decision, even on something like a restart, without knowing how long the tariffs will last,” Oplinger said. He also said that he has lobbied Trump officials for an exemption on Canadian aluminum imports.”
“Separately, Oplinger said he believed that any end to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia could see aluminum from Russia move into Europe.
Oplinger also said he believed there were opportunities for the global aluminum market to consolidate, without providing details.”
“Trump earlier this month said he would impose a flat 25% tariff on aluminum imports “without exceptions or exemptions” in a bid to lift U.S. production of the metal used to make automobiles, cans and other products.”
“The tariff takes effect on March 4.”
Bet Agent Orange was planning on bloviating about this during the SOTU on March 4.
today’s meme…
Oh ho, what have we her? The “New Pinkertons” are raiding marijuana grower fields in California.
Yet another dictator move: White House takes control of choosing press pools.. https://mediaite.com/a/mqupk
https://www.newsweek.com/southwest-plane-private-jet-nearly-collide-chicago-midway-airport-2036083
“Southwest Plane and Private Jet Nearly Collide at Chicago Midway Airport”
“Video shows the Southwest plane attempting to land on the runway, then immediately taking off again as the private plane, which had landed, starts to cross its path.”
When will AF1 and MuskRat collide?
https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-doesnt-say-who-leads-doge-musk-attend-cabinet-meeting-2036110
“White House Doesn’t Say Who Leads DOGE As Musk to Attend Cabinet Meeting”
Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Agent tRUMP has got to go!
Here’s what I am reading for my book club.
Game on. A federal judge ordered the Trump regime to pay millions of dollars to multiple nonprofits, finding the regime violated the terms of a temporary restraining order issued two weeks ago regarding freezing foreign aid.
Pushback
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/33548627/trumps-bruised-hand-macron-bromance-handshake/
“A MYSTERIOUS apparent bruise was spotted on Donald Trump’s hand after he had a series of handshake jousts with Emmanuel Macron.
Trump was photographed with a large dark mark on the back of his right hand as he sat opposite Macron at the White House.”
Don-Old is likely on blood thinners or he’s had an IV of something and blew a vein.
“WASHINGTON (AP) – More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon
Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to
use their technical expertise to
“dismantle critical public services.”
doge-bros having more of a conscience than the foreign chaos agent
I’m hopeful that the exit of DOGE staffers has some impact on Republicans in Congress, if those spicy town halls didn’t do the trick.
Also, seeing vids of military explaining their primary oath is to the US Constitution, to defend her against enemies foreign and domestic; it supersedes obeying the President (who now claims to be King, so…)
The US and Ukraine are doing the mineral deal
Zelenskyy plans to visit DC on Friday.
Extortion! by Putin & Agent Orange!
Is this the dirty deal private lawyers drew up, that stated it would be governed by New York law?
Remember when the OG Bobby Kennedy went after the mob? Good times.
That “bruise” looks like the shit he’s full of is beginning to leak through his skin.
DODO’s not having a good time of it in front of Federal judges. Looks like the plaintiffs in the cases know where to file their suits.
i was wondering how you were doing, Jack, thanks for the update 🫡
FFS! Agent Orange is planning to “sell” gold cards for $5 million to get residency in the US. Russians & Saudis are probably lining up. NOBODY else in the world wants jack squat to to either the US now.
Like, I’d be embarrassed to be overseas and someone know that I’m from the US.
Meanwhile, back at the Capitol, Republicans are getting ready to sell out their constituents.
i told you the russian mob would be moving in
Mass staff layoffs at MSNBC. Looks like the rumors of its demise are true..
— Hollywood Reporter
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648
“Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’The group, led by Blackwater veteran Erik Prince, has close Trump ties.”
“A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases, a private fleet of 100 planes, and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests.”
“Deporting 12 million people in two years “would require the government to eject nearly 500,000 illegal aliens per month,” the document says. “To keep pace with the Trump deportations, it would require a 600% increase in activity. It is unlikely that the government could swell its internal ranks to keep pace with this demand …in order to process this enormous number of deportations, the government should enlist outside assistance.”
Top White House officials are having multiple conversations with military contractors, coinciding with Republicans’ mad dash on Capitol Hill to secure more resources for the president’s immigration crackdown.”
As disturbing and disgusting as this is, I think it’s one more distraction from the theft that’s underway with DOGE programmers, their invisible/non-existant administrator, and Republicans in Congress. Although, this is not shiny like golden tickets from Weirdy Wonky to gain access to the US.
they’re not distracting from awful policy with more bad policy it’s just all bad policy
with real consequences for real people
Putin’s oligarchs gonna love this…
Trump: “We’re gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We’re gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that’s going to give you green card privileges, plus. It’s gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country.”
Le Bruise, or whatever it is being considered is similar to what of Moscow mitch had a while back. Getting old sucks, eh? Also, due to the rumoured self-medications krasnov has done over the years, it is difficult to know how “shot” his body is. Sometimes things go real bad in the future if you do stupid things. Of course, no one talks about how fried a brain is after decades of drug abuse. No one would point to jfk jr and decades of drug abuse, or bongingo (sic) and how his interview went the other day, very slow deliberate and monotone. Yup. life is good, eh?
Rachel gave us a little Uncle Walter talk last night. It will hurt but we’re going to be okay.
I’m pulling for Jose to get the Lester spot. I said that to Mr. Ivy all the way to the beginning of last year. Lester has been getting long in the tooth for a while.
liberal legacy media is kaput, replacement needed
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/politics/amy-gleason-doge-acting-administrator/index.html
“Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the US DOGE Service, the agency that houses the temporary Department of Government Efficiency, a White House official told CNN on Tuesday.”
Does Amy know this? Has she been included in meetings? Is there an email thread to prove if/when she became involved with the Fart-full DOdGErs?
There will be no one to plunge her toilet when it backs up.
“The US and Ukraine are doing the mineral deal
Zelenskyy plans to visit DC on Friday.”
good news in a bad context
Sounds like a certain Amy Gleason is going to have [no prounouns] rear end fried in the morning lawsuits against [no pronouns] rear end.
Same pep talk from Chris Hayes.
Amy is currently in an undisclosed location…in Mexico.
It’s getting wild. For something that had been in the works for a while, seems odd how sudden and chaotic it’s happening.
Rachel Maddow staff to be let go as part of MSNBC overhaul
News comes as leading network star criticizes management for decision to cancel shows hosted by non-white anchors
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/msnbc-layoffs-rachel-maddow?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Many readers have told columnist John Archibald the reason he’s bothered by current actions in Washington, D.C., is because he’s a leftist. His response:
Note: I wrote various versions of this letter in response to emails from readers who said I was bothered by current actions in D.C. because I’m a leftist. I figured I might as well post my response here as well.
Good afternoon,
Thanks for the note, and I hope you are well. We disagree on some things, and that’s great. Conversational disagreement is a lost art.
A lot of people call me a leftist these days. I guess that’s because I feel strongly that people should have the same shot at pursuing their own happiness, no matter what they look like, who they worship or love. If that’s liberal then call me what you will.
I belong to no political party. If I were to add up all the corrupt politicians I’ve written about over the years who ended up in jail, more than half would be Democrats (but barely). I’m proud of that, because right and wrong should not depend on party or ideology.
You are right that waste is bad and the debt too high. It has been spiraling out of control since 1984, through administrations and congresses controlled by both parties. I’m all in favor of getting a grip on that, but not in an arbitrary way that puts — in my view, not yours, I understand — the fundamental underpinnings of America at risk.
The debt rose most sharply under Trump and Biden. I don’t hear a lot of people pointing to the $8T debt increase in Trump’s first term. And if the new tax break package passes, it will add an estimated $5T-to-$11T more over the next 10 years. (Links to data are in the comments.)
It’s almost like it’s not about the debt.
I’m still with you, though. I understand the need to reduce it, but I recognize that we’d likely choose different ways to go about it. So I’ll set it aside.
But I need help figuring out some other things. I’m being serious. I don’t understand why there is no backlash to dropping those charges against the corrupt New York mayor because he’s friendly to the administration. That goes against every conservative tendency I used to hear about.
I don’t understand the U.S. voting with Russia, North Korea, Venezuela and their ilk. If any administration in our history had done that they’d be pilloried.
I don’t understand Dan Bongino’s appointment as Deputy FBI director (among others). From what I’ve seen he’s one of the most graceless, foul people ever appointed in government. But then, I can’t understand why people seem to be ok with giving a South African billionaire who receives billions in federal money the power to determine what parts of American government are worthy.
If you could help me understand that I would be grateful. Because very little of this seems “conservative.” It doesn’t seem Republican, patriotic or American either.
Thanks much,
JA
I don’t understand what’s going on in MSNBC, and I don’t suspect there’s anyone who’s gonna explain it. I have to say I hated to see that Joy Reid was no longer gonna be with the network. She’s smart, and while my wife said she’s an acquired taste, we had both acquired that taste apparently. Regardless, I did watch Michael Steele’s slot tonight, and I’ve liked Michael Steele ever since he discovered that he wasn’t a Republican. He’s smart. He doesn’t put up with bullshit and laughs at it. I appreciate laughing at bullshit.
BB, I contend that it’s just the shit inside DODO leaking out through his skin.
Everyone is going to their own, little silo. A podcast, a TikTok channel, a Substack newsletter.
Folks with a loyal following, like Joy Reid, will take there audience with them.
I never turned a test in until the entire exam-time was about to elapse. After you turn it in, there’s no chance to amend your answers.
Well, there are about to be a lot of unhoused elderly if this abomination of a budget keeps progressing. They call themselves “Christians,” but they don’t want kids to eat, or vets to get benefits they earned, or Medicaid for nursing homes. They all work for Putin. They all broke their oath to the US Constitution and to their constituents. F U Russian warship aka Republicans.
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/state-regulators-approve-elon-musks-spacex-to-release-wastewater-into-south-texas-wetlands-36790995
“Texas regulators late last week approved billionaire Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX to discharge wastewater from its South Texas launch site to nearby wetlands, the Express-News reports.
On a 3-0 vote, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) denied requests from environmental groups and area residents to halt the permit
The permit allows SpaceX to release up to 358,000 gallons of water into wetlands around its facility in Boca Chica during rocket tests and launches. Environmentalists argue the discharge would violate the federal Clean Water Act.
No public comment was allowed at TCEQ’s hearing, which took place Thursday.”
OD, already!
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