Here’s where we seem to be this week: the Kleptocrat has extorted a good chunk of Ukraine’s national resources in return for…no security guarantee (but maybe not actually supplying Putin with weapons of war). Pillsbury Spock and his minions are rampaging through federal agencies in search of mythical “fraud and abuse”. Oh—and Spock’s companies are profiting to the tune of $2M per day, and the FAA has just announced that they’re tossing out Verizon, which has a contract to manage their communications, and replacing them with Starlink. Tens of thousands of federal workers have been terminated, including the ones managing nuclear safety and ebola prevention programs.
In military matters, Cadet Bonespurs has
fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (a four-star Air Force general,
who happens to be black) and the (female) Chief of Naval Operations, replacing
them both with white men. In the case of the chair, the replacement is a
retired three-star general. SECDEF fired a flock of senior JAG staffers and
gave his reason as (and I quote) not wanting lawyers who “exist to attempt to
be roadblocks to anything that happens in their spots.”
What, you might ask, could be construed as
“roadblocks” that might be posed by…lawyers? Could it be instances where war
crimes are being contemplated? Or violations of the Constitution? Or actions
that contravene the UCMJ? Hegseth’s saying this like it’s a bad thing.
And on the health front, Texas is
currently experiencing an outbreak of measles—a disease that was eradicated in
the last century by vaccines—and an (unvaccinated) child has died.
Well—there’s more, there’s more, but I’ve
hit my limit.
There were a few bright spots, though. GOP
congressmorons—the ones who actually faced their constituents (many are
flat-out hiding)—were besieged by Republican voters who were not having their “hey—Dear
Leader has it in hand” spin. They were heckled and booed—by White people—and
they returned to DC visibly shaken. Not enough to risk crossing either Klepto
or Elno, but enough to consider what other career choices they might make.
On Tuesday, 21 employees of the carbuncle
DOGE outfit—who were subsumed earlier this year from the US Digital Service—resigned
en masse because they refused to be part of activities that made a mockery of
their oath to protect and defend the Constitution. This is the first time, to my
knowledge, that regular worker bees have taken this step; there have been
SIS-level resignations, but for these people, quitting your job in this kind of
on-the-edge economy carries financial consequences, and God bless every one of
them for taking a stand and telling the brochachos to get stuffed.
The second ray of hope came on Monday, as
hundreds of employees of the Housing and Urban Development Department returned
(as per Klepto mandate) to their headquarters in the District, to find that
every TV monitor on every floor of the building was playing a video:
Yes, it’s an AI depiction of the
Kleptocrat sucking Elno’s toe, to the latter’s audible enjoyment, with "Long Live the Real King" overlaid. We know it’s
AI not because Klepto is sucking off Elno; obvs that’s just fact. It’s AI because
Elno has two left feet.
(Although, well—maybe he actually does?
Has anyone seen him barefoot? Can you verify?)
Anyway—if generating that video weren’t
hysterical enough, it gets better. Apparently no one could figure out how to
turn off the video, which was on loop, so someone had to go to every floor and
unplug each monitor to stop the breakfast show.
So, today’s earworm is from 1975, the Isley Brothers singing “Fight the Power”. Because—as overwhelming as this flood of dangerous bullshit we’ve had dumped on us since 20 January is, we are not without power. We can show up. We can speak up. We can stand up.
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