Buttermilk Sky

 Trump went into the rural to assure  farmers that he will improve their machinery by rolling back "environmental restrictions," which he naturally blamed on Joe Biden.  He's an expert because he buys a lot of equipment to manicure his golf courses, which is practically like farming.  "They put these environmental excesses on the equipment which don't do a damn thing except make it complicated, make it impractical...you need about 185 IQ to turn on a lawnmower...the old days you used to fix it yourself.  Now you can't do that, you have to be a Ph.D. from let's say MIT."  Protecting the environment is the epitome of woke, and any red-blooded American farmer could fix a lawn mower.  A combine harvester or a seed drill, maybe not, but who needs them anyway?  Remember, Trump thinks Barron is a genius because he can turn on a computer. Then he promised them $12 billion to cushion the blow caused by his absurd  tariffs,  money they would othe...

 Tomorrow is my birthday -- thank you -- and I just got the best present a blogger could ask for:  I'm a domestic terrorist! According to a document obtained from the Bondi Department and published by  Ken Klippenstein,  this encompasses anyone whose views are "anti-Christianity, anti-capitalism, adherence to radical gender ideology, hostility toward traditional views on family, religion and morality, and views in favor of mass migration and open borders."  I feel seen. Bondi is ordering law enforcement to prioritize combatting us and refer us to the Joint Terrorism Task Forces.  Fortunately the JTTF is led by K$H Patel's FBI, so they probably wouldn't know an anti-capitalist from Auntie Mame.   Pammy pays lip service to the First Amendment but I suspect she's not going to let it slow her down. All because a man in Utah from an impeccable Republican-LDS background was so unhappy about Charlie Kirk's anti-trans position that he decided to kill him....

 In The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel  Midge is disillusioned to learn that her husband Joel is performing a comedy monologue taken word for word from a Bob Newhart album.  He assures her that everyone starts out that way, and he could be right.  (S.J. Perelman once told an interviewer, "I could have been arrested for stealing from Ring Lardner.")  When Trump made his comedy debut at the  Kennedy Center he may have thought he was channeling Don Rickles as he told the audience, "Many of you are miserable, horrible people.  But you are persistent, you never give up.  I wish you'd give up but you don't."  Apart from being mean, needless and completely unfunny, it was Mr. Warmth to the life.  Rickles died in 2017 so he can't complain and if he did, Trump would call him a r----d. He made a twenty-minute speech hailing his Billionaire Bastards Bill from July but somehow forgetting to announce that gas is selling "for $1.98" in some unnamed state....

 Those Miller Quotas are beginning to bite.  Maybe they're running out of "illegals," maybe it's just the expected consequence of recruiting semi-literate thugs, but no one is safe from the ICEstapo as they conduct their daily roundups.  Certainly not the blonde woman in medical scrubs who was dragged from her car and handcuffed in  Key Largo, Florida, on her way to work.  She complied with their order to roll down her window but was assaulted anyway while shouting, "I'm a US citizen."  She is not quite five feet tall and weighs 85 pounds, so the four masked men protecting us from "rapists and murderers" figured they could handle her.  Later in the day they let her go so I don't know what all the fuss is about, Miami Herald.   The woman is a behavioral therapist, but people who need her skills are clearly not getting them. Rep. Adelita Grijalva  had a similar experience in Tucson which stopped short of arrest.  She arrived at a res...

  When pancake makeup won't conceal the lesions anymore.   Interviewed by Ben Meiselas,  Dr. Vin Gupta  suggested that Trump is getting infusions of a new drug for Alzheimer's, leqembi, which can cause brain bleeding.  Hence the need for MRIs.  Even if it works, he'll still be the depraved rapist, racist and habitue of Epstein Island he always was.  What's in it for us? Let's enjoy the good stuff.   Sean "Doofus" Duffy has inaugurated a campaign called "The Golden Age of Travel Starts With You," urging airline passengers to smarten themselves up.  Specifically he says, "Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport."  Who does that, especially in winter?  People who got the idea from Duffy, of course.  According to the  Independent  people are arriving in their comfiest clothes while audio of Duffy's nagging plays over the PA.  The problem is that Duffy and his ilk have never flow...

 According to  Psychology Today  "cognitive dissonance" describes the state of discomfort that results from holding two or more contradictory modes of thought.  F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."  Of course, he drank.  I just think of it as being muddled up. It worries me that the clearest thinking about war crimes in the Caribbean is coming from  Rand Pau l.  "Our military code is pretty clear that when people are wounded or left in a shipwreck, left in the debris of a shipwreck, that they're considered to be out of combat and are not to be killed...I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris...the public will get interested enough in this to stop this."  He's optimistic about the chance of getting Americans to pay attention, much less demand that their country stop murdering peopl...