In case you haven't seen this, it's worth watching. The first four minutes are especially important to remember.
A Taste of Ipecac
Random Thoughts on TV, Movies, Gaming, Current Events and Whatever I Feel Like
Monday, March 11, 2024
A reminder
In case you haven't seen this, it's worth watching. The first four minutes are especially important to remember.
Friday, March 08, 2024
And a fun time was had by all (in Gilead)
Don't fall for this
The most discussed potential candidate for No Labels has been Manchin, who has declined to say whether he would participate in this effort. Poll data suggesting a No Labels campaign would hurt Biden more than Trump—as well as the conservative bent of the few previously known funders of the group, such as billionaire Harlan Crow, the billionaire benefactor of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a collector of Nazi memorabilia—has prompted Democratic strategists to speculate that this endeavor is a not-too-secret project to elect Trump or another Republican. Prominent Democratic operatives and Never-Trump Republicans recently met privately in Washington, DC, to discuss how best to counter a No Labels presidential campaign.
I long ago concluded that No Labels is not a serious political party, but an attempt to throw the election to Trump and put the United States under the control of a fascist, white Christian Nationalist dictatorship.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Hardware Wars
I think about this every few years, but I haven't seen it in decades.
Monday, February 26, 2024
A stable genius at CPAC
Trump's weekend at CPAC in 101 seconds. pic.twitter.com/eMQEvkRDjY
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) February 25, 2024
Thursday, February 22, 2024
The War
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
It's like a mirror
These were two stories on the front page of the Washington Post online, today.
Notice a difference?
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Don't fall for this, Montgomery County
"Add now to the assorted fruit loops Bethany Mandel, a home-schooler, book-banner, and anti-Disneyite who is running for a seat on the Montgomery County school board."
“The Left is waging an all-out battle on the American family, particularly the youngest members. If they can make our children miserable, lead them to question every building block of society, and rebuild their entire concept of reality, then the Left and their woke indoctrinators will consider that a victory. But we can't let them win.”
The school board, recently rocked by the scandal of having ignored truly gross sexual misconduct and bullying allegations against a middle-school principal, has three of seven seats open. The primary is May 14 and the general election November 5. Fortunately there are 13 other candidates, and some of them sound sane.
Monday, January 22, 2024
What do you give a "billionaire" who has everything?
Florida's Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis announced today that he is supporting State Senator Ileana Garcia's bill SB 1740 to create a "Florida Freedom Fighter's Fund" to provide millions of dollars to fund Trump's criminal defense legal team.
One day after Ron Desantis drops out of the presidential race, the push is on to use state resources and funding to finance a private citizen's legal defense in criminal cases. While tens of thousands of indigent Floridians are represented by Public Defenders with massive caseloads due to limited budgets, Florida's CFO wants the state to provide millions to Trump, who testified recently that his net worth is in excess of $10 billion and that his Florida home is the most expensive in the world.
Yes, the state of Florida is likely to use TAXPAYER money to fund Trump's (a supposed BILLIONAIRE) legal fees for all manner of criminal conduct, including an attempt to OVERTHROW THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
Meanwhile, Florida ranks third in the country for the number of homeless, at around 30,000. Oh, and large chunks of the state are going to be underwater within a few decades.
These people are psychotic.
Thursday, January 11, 2024
A sociopath says what?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appeared on right-wing gun fetishist Dana Loesch’s “The Dana Show,” recently to talk about his inhumane border policies.When Loesch asked about the “maximum amount of pressure” he could apply in his border policy, Abbott responded, “We are using every tool that can be used from building a border wall to building these border barriers” to passing a law that makes it illegal for undocumented immigrants to enter the state. Abbott did note that the latter move was now the subject of a federal lawsuit from the Biden administration questioning a state’s right to make up immigration law.Then the Texas governor added, “The only thing that we're not doing is we're not shooting people who come across the border because, of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder.”
Monday, January 01, 2024
Crypto
If you can't embiggen the image below, the original is here.
As you read, remember, all of this is ON TOP of a catastrophic energy and climate crisis. Bitcoin, a scam and huge waste of resources, couldn't have come at a worse time for the human race.
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Santa won't help us
From Tom:
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Monday, December 18, 2023
Election Fraud
Why didn't Fox simply show evidence of electoral fraud to avoid a loss in court costing $787m?
— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) December 16, 2023
Why didn't Giuliani simply show evidence of electoral fraud to avoid a loss in court costing $148m?
And why didn't Trump in any 2020 court case?
Credit for accepting the obvious answer. https://t.co/Tn6TZynpBE
It's still (kinda) shocking to me that so many people in the Republican party believe that the 2020 election was stolen, despite a complete lack of evidence (almost as if it never happened /s). But if you repeat the "Big Lie" often enough, people start to believe it. Trump got that idea from the Nazis.
As always with Republicans, the whole thing is projection; Trump tried to steal the election and failed. So, naturally, the Democrats were the ones who stole the election.
Vote Blue to save American democracy.
Saturday, December 16, 2023
Another thing that NEVER happened
In the vein of things that Trump clearly lied about is this truly inspiring story from a speech he gave last weekend.
“A general, who’s a fantastic general, actually said to me, ‘Sir, I’ve been on the battlefield. Men have gone down on my left and on my right. I stood on hills where soldiers were killed. But I believe the bravest thing I’ve ever seen was the night you went on to that stage with Hillary Clinton, after what happened. And then that woman asked you the first question about it.’ And I said, locker room talk! It’s locker talk! What the hell?! What are you talking … Locker room talk!”
Friday, December 15, 2023
Thoughts and Prayers
Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Andre Braugher
Friday, November 17, 2023
Can we please STOP electing complete morons to Congress? No. Alrighty then.
This week on "God, these people are tedious and stupid and horrible and tedious" is Senator (R-F'ing Moron) Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. For months, Senator Tommy has single-handedly held up hundreds of military promotions to pressure the Armed Forces to change their position on allowing military personnel to travel out of state for medical care. This has actually harmed America's military and those serving in numerous ways. (I won't even go into the stupid rules of the Senate that allow one guy to do this.)
The military's completely reasonable position is that if you're stationed in bum-fuck, red state, you might not have access to the kind of healthcare you need, so the military allows you to travel out of state. Senator Tommy doesn't like that pregnant people might travel out of Gilead to get an abortion in an actually free, blue state.
Here is Senator Tommy recently on Fox News:
Tuberville says that he is blocking promotions because women in the military may try to get abortions after birth under the current policy. pic.twitter.com/30pKpTt6yP
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 16, 2023
Here's the quote:
“You know, it’s been rape, incest, or health of the mom, but we asked in one of our hearings, you know, what month are you going to go by for the abortion? They couldn’t tell us whether it was abortion after birth."
Of course, this idea isn't unique to this dipshit. In America, in the 21st century, the Republican party actually "believes" that Democrats want to allow abortions after birth and that this is a thing that happens.
If you have even a toe in reality, you know that after birth abortions are NOT A THING. An after birth abortion would actually be considered MURDER and does not happen anywhere in America. In fact, even third trimester abortions are very rare and happen ONLY when there is a medical necessity, and are almost universally considered a tragedy because the pregnancy was WANTED. But the Republican base believes whatever they're told, so now the rest of us have to deal with this stupidity.
STOP VOTING FOR THESE ASSHOLES.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Nomenclature
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
(Likely) Speaker for a day
It's time to meet the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson!
(Seriously, he's never held any leadership position in Congress, so 99% of Americans have never heard of him.)
Let's take a brief look at Mike's resume!
- Mike was one of the "intellectual" leaders of Republican Representatives who voted not to certify the 2020 election.
- Mike is in favor of a national abortion ban.
- Mike is a Christian Nationalist.
- Mike is against fair wages and capping medical costs.
- Mike is extremely anti-LGBTQ.
- Mike doesn't want women protected by the law.
Here's a quick graphic of things Mike has voted for/against.
To be fair, ANYONE in the Republican caucus would be a terrible speaker with stupid, hateful, positions on all issues, and an insurrectionist. The supposed "moderates" in the caucus all voted for this guy. But no worry, I'm sure Mike will be great.
Vote Blue.
Friday, October 20, 2023
Republicans can't govern
Sheesh, America. Why is this so hard?
Don't vote for non-serious, seditious, idiots who are working against YOU.
(If you don't know what I'm talking about, read the news.)
Wednesday, October 04, 2023
A cell phone for every veteran and fewer insane whales
Montage of 33 clips of the stupidest, most vile, insane, weirdest, addled dementia-ridden, psychotic statements made by Trump over the past two weeks. pic.twitter.com/iCbt5PtzBX
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 30, 2023
I especially enjoyed his plan to use canals to irrigate America's homes and bathrooms. If you want more, Google "Trump shark electrocution" to find out which way he would rather die, by being electrocuted or eaten by a shark. Because that's something he talked about. (Spoiler: He HATES sharks.)
All of this nonsense was before he received a gag order this week in his NY fraud trial for bad-mouthing and endangering innocent court personnel. So things aren't getting better for him.
As far as I'm concerned, if you support this addled, traitorous moron, you are obviously a little demented yourself.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Don't let the door . . .
Aw crap.
A bunch of Christians were predicting that the Rapture would happen yesterday, September 22nd, raising all good Christians up to heaven. Apparently it didn't happen. Or maybe there are so few good Christians in America that no one noticed.
Either way I'm disappointed. I was looking forward to finally getting things done to make this country a better place.
Seriously, you guys can go. The rest of us are good.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
The rich mindset
I've never understood how those people at the top of the corporate ladder, who get paid millions of dollars, don't recognize the contributions of the actual workers who do the work to get them those millions of dollars. Oh, wait, yes I do understand. They're sociopaths.
“People decided that they didn’t really want to work so much anymore through COVID and that has had a massive issue on productivity,” he said. “They have been paid a lot to not do too much in the last few years, and we need to see that change.”
...
We need to see unemployment rise —unemployment has to jump 40 to 50 per cent, in my view.
We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around. There’s been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around. It’s a dynamic that has to change.
That's Australian billionaire Tim Gurner, founder and CEO of the Gurner Group, lamenting that his workers might not fear him so much since they can easily get another job. He'd rather that hundreds of thousands lose their jobs so that he can once again rule over them like desperate serfs.
Fuck this guy.
Oh, wait. He has since apologized, once he realized that his remarks made him look like an arrogant, insensitive dickhead.
Fuck this guy.
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Addled
"Russia alone bears responsibility for this war... We have to stand up to this naked aggression today and deter other would be aggressors tomorrow."
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 19, 2023
President Biden pledges continued support of Ukraine in his address to the U.N. General Assembly. pic.twitter.com/391aE1d5Hq
And, forgive me, let's see what this disphit has to say:
Delusional Trump thinks that "nobody showed up" for President Biden's speech at the United Nations. pic.twitter.com/lbH1zHYzPr
— News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) September 19, 2023
When Trump addressed the United Nations in 2019, they laughed at him when he claimed that he had “accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.”
Aw, bless his heart.