Oops - part the first

Sen.Thom Tillis (R-NC) pushed back on President Donald Trump's comments blaming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the war in Ukraine, and issued a warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a "cancer" that cannot be given "any space."
CNN

A small crack in the dam? Will anyone else in the GOP admit that shitler and muskrat^©dugugotw are lunatics?

DEI - part the first

Well, well, well. Just got a posting from one of the job boards. Here's the title

University of Wyoming, Wyoming Natural Diversity Database has a new opportunity

I wonder how long it will take Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) to have that get trapped in their filters? I mean, Wyoming has gone all DEI on shitler and muskrat^©dugugotw!!!

Are You Dumb Enough - part the first

Are you dumb enough to swallow that Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) and DOGE will use access to the raw files looking for "fraud" from the .1% cheaters? Or may be just folks who give money to various woke NGOs? Hmmm?

"Get your brownshirts here!! Get them while you can! Don't get caught on the street without one! The American STASI will arrest you if you don't wear one!!!"

Better Government Through LSD

Well... Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) is clearing out FDA as we speak. If you think Mutt and Jeff are going to stop destroying the Damn Gummint with just the easy bits; well... wake the fuck up.

So, Bone Spur Samurai^© will add Trump Ivermectin, approved by The Trump Drug Company of St. Petersburg, Russia. No tariff on import, of course. Guaranteed to cure anything what ails you.

Many scientists that CBS News spoke to said they had uprooted their lives for the chance to serve the federal government, sometimes taking steep pay cuts from what they could be earning in academia or the private sector. Others had been on probation for staff roles after many years working for the same agency as a contractor.

Yeah, we all know that if you work for the Damn Gummint you're, at best, a C- employee. The private sector would never think to have you on board.

"Words cannot adequately express how financially screwed I am," the former NIH scientist said.

As explained in earlier missives: another house on the auction block for private equity to slurp up and then rent out for a nice phat profit. Ain't Social Darwinism the way to go?

Our Mr. Brooks

You get the joke, right? Well, may be not. As a rule, I'll excise some sentence or two from a pundit's pronouncement, put it in the Sigs pile and use it, or not, in the Thoughts section. These days, I'm finding more than I can use on the once-a-week schedule.

One of my pet peeves is David Brooks, who along with some others, presents as the Respectable Republican not-a-MAGAnaut. Not really. And today's (dead trees division) column is so full of baloney, he gets a regular entry, in which he seeks to blame the folks who bothered to get edumacated (and, of course their parents who saw to it). I've said it before in these essays: the redneck shitkickers are poor, stupid, unhealthy, and envious for the simple reason they keep electing politicians who spend their every working moment feeding these rednecks bullshit that they're being actively abused by the northern/city folk who don't value their Traditional Ways. A euphemism for overt racism.

So, let's start somewhere with Brooks

Well, starting about 60 years ago, a group variously labeled the Bobos or the creative class began establishing hegemony over commanding institutions of American life — the universities, the media, the foundations, publishing and entertainment. There are two things you should know about this class. First, like most groups, its members dislike intellectual diversity and tend to impose a stifling progressive orthodoxy in the places they dominate. Second, more than most groups, they see themselves as the moral uplifters of society, on everything from environmental attitudes to sexual ethics, and enjoy preaching in order to enlighten their morally backward countrymen.

There you have it: progressives are the problem. Like hell they are. And, by the bye, the Right Wingnuts are far more strident with their fellow travelers. By a mile; just Hang Mike Pence. Earlier in the piece, Brooks says this

If America elected a populist as president, you would expect him to devote his administration to addressing these inequities, to boosting the destinies of working-class Americans. But that's not what President Trump is doing. He seems to have no plans to narrow the education chasms, no plans to narrow the health outcome chasms or the family structure chasms. He has basically no plans to revive the communities that have been decimated by postindustrialization.

In the first place, addressing those inequalities is exactly what the FDR Dems have been trying to do, with no help from the so-called conservatives. I sense a major league level of projection.

With a few sentences he put the blame where it belongs: on the rednecks who continue to elect politicians (starting at the Top) who exploit their dumb as a sack of hair persecution complex (yes the educated elite are better than you, and very many of them are the ones trying to lift you up, but you're small minded ingrates), The simple fact is: it's been the progressives who've pointed the finger at the existential issues, not the rednecks and their politicians. In a few paragraphs, as most dissemblers, he tries to have it both ways.

He goes on to lament the left-ish tilt of the educated class. Well, d'uh!! The so-called conservative class is driven by a single principle: the Rich ain't Rich Enough. You see this in Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor)'s tax giveaway from 2016 and, likely, 2024. The right wingnuts assert there exist no social goods, only profit-making enterprises. Laissez faire on speed. And they always feed the rednecks in the shithole domestic countries race baiting themes. If you're not into race baiting blamesmanship, where ya gonna go? To the nattering nabobs of negativism of course. You can only fix a problem if you, at first, recognize that it exists.

Many of them are not pro-conservative; they are anti-left. There's a big difference. They do not focus on building and reforming the civic institutions that conservatives believe are crucial to any healthy society.

It would help his argument if he simply ennumerated (which he can't) what those (different from what the progs list) institutions are. And how relying on those institutions promotes a higher standard of commonweal. He can't simply because such effort is nowhere in the lifeblood of an American conservative.

He closes the piece

I'm not a fan of populism, but real populism would be better than the right-wing elite nihilists who are running the country now.

Of course, that's a self-contradictory sentence. There is no real populism, of the right wing sort, other than what we see. Trumpism is just as bankrupt as, and identical in structure to, all the other Populists going back at least to Mussolini and Hitler. Real populism, not Huey Long, is truly what progressives abide: increasing the commonweal.

He won't admit that, because to do so he'd have to shitcan the Prime Directive of the Conservative Class: all that matters is that the Rich ain't rich enough and we need to fix that.

Gabbard

Well... I guess now we (the People) will have to rely on the Four Eyes spooks to tell us when Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) and/or Gabbard betray us to Vlad.

Have a nice day.

Fun With Words

Some on-air pundit recently noted that DOGE is the name of a fake cryptocurrency which actually went live. Go figure.

[A] cryptocurrency created by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, who decided to create a payment system as a joke, making fun of the wild speculation in cryptocurrencies at the time.

The Musk Ox is a joke, so it does fit.

But Doge has another meaning: dictator

In Venice, doges normally ruled for life, although a few were forcibly removed from office. While doges had great temporal power at first, after 1268, the doge was constantly under strict surveillance: he had to wait for other officials to be present before opening dispatches from foreign powers; he was not allowed to possess any property in a foreign land.

No Gaza for you!!