Digging a hole

 

We are nowhere near bottom yet, no matter how it feels.

The Defense Department is carrying out an Orwellian purge of its past.  Any and all references to women, Black and Hispanic people in the services must be memory-holed by next Wednesday.  For comic effect, the order requires the removal of the word "gay," including images of the B-29 bomber which dropped the first atomic bomb in 1945.  Col. Paul Tibbets's orientation is not in question; his offense was in naming the plane after his mother:

The original Declaration of Independence is displayed in the rotunda of the National Archives where just anyone can look at it, in a high-tech case filled with argon.  The Leader is afraid for its safety and wants it moved into the Oval Office where he can show it off to visiting Russians and Musk brats can wipe boogers on it.  Coincidentally, during a recent brainstorming session on Fox & Friends Weekend, Charlie Hurt hinted darkly that Democrats discourage schools from teaching cursive writing to children "so they can't read the actual Constitution."  He seems to believe the handwritten original differs radically from the tens of millions of print versions readily available.  Then, as required by contract, Hurt and his fellow idiots went on to praise The Leader's handwriting and denigrate Joe Biden's.  

Kamala Harris will announce by the end of the summer whether or not she plans to run for governor of California.  Gavin Newsom is term-limited but in any case has disqualified himself from office by seeking advice from Charlie Kirk.  Kirk told him that it's all well and good to go after homeless encampments, but he has an obligation to keep transgender athletes out of women's sports and to deny them health care whenever possible.  He should even ban books that treat them as human beings. Newsom's hajj to Motel a Lago can't be far behind.

The Leader's regime speaks with one voice.  The Agriculture Department has decided not to vaccinate chickens against avian flu because egg prices are still Biden's fault, or something.  Meanwhile, as measles continues to spread (30 cases and one death in New Mexico) the CDC will conduct a "large study" on the long-settled issue of a connection between vaccines and autism.  For stupid things, funding can always be found.

Not content with censuring Rep. Al Green for disrupting The Leader's address, Andy Ogles (R-TN) wants everyone who joined him in singing "We Shall Overcome" during the censure vote thrown off their committees.  No word on whether he wants people who voted for Green deported or imprisoned, but it's still early.

For the second consecutive time a SpaceX rocket experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" ("explosion" in English) after launch in Texas yesterday.  This did not prevent The Leader from promising of the two Americans at the ISS that "Elon is right now preparing a ship to go up and get them...We're going to get them out.  They've been left up there.  I hope they like each other.  Maybe they love each other, I don't know.  But they've been left up there, think of it.  And I see the woman with the wild hair.  Good solid head of hair she's got.  There's no kidding, there's no games with her hair."  Apart from hair envy, he seems unaware that she also has a name, Sunita "Suni" Williams.  Her colleague is Barry "Butch" Wilmore.  Both are married, you dirty old man.  (Debris from the latest SpaceX disaster forced the FAA to delay flights at several Florida airports, but this is clearly Pete Buttigieg's fault somehow.)

Don't expect anything from another private space launch, Intuitive Machines's Athena, which was supposed to collect data for returning humans to the moon.  It landed yesterday and then toppled over, meaning it's not sending information and can't recharge.  Another day, another billion.  If humans return to the moon they'll have to avoid tripping over a lot of expensive junk.

The USAID freeze is having its desired effect in the "shithole country" of Uganda, struggling to contain an outbreak of Ebola which has killed four people and infected dozens more.  

True to form, the Department of Education is undermining education.  It had the honor of announcing that $400 million worth of contracts and grants to Columbia University have been cancelled because of its "continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students."  In other words, pro-Palestinian ("illegal") demonstrations.  All other universities are now on notice.  It's axiomatic that Jewish = Israeli = Likud in this regime.  "Universities must comply with all federal antidiscrimination laws if they are going to receive federal funding," wrote Linda "WWE" McMahon without irony.

The DOGE pound have been sending out emails to federal employees demanding a sort of "what I did on my summer vacation" essay describing what they did last week to justify having a job next week.  K$H Patel is the latest putative agency director to tell the staff to ignore it.  Trouble in Golden Age America?  Asked for clarification, The Leader responded, "Yeah, well, it's somewhat voluntary but I guess if you don't answer it you get fired."  Either it's the first he's heard about it or he just got one.  ("I played golf, I signed that official language thing, I shorted some Apple stock, I played golf, shot a sixty-one, many people are saying it was the best game they ever saw, I screwed Ukraine, I made a big speech at night, highest ratings of all time, much higher than the Oscars...")  Further clarification:  "We're gonna be watching them and Elon and the group [sic] are gonna be watching them and if they cut, it's better, and if they don't cut then Elon will do the cutting."  It's Authentic Queens Gibberish.

Here's something new:  a female arsonist.  It may not be arson exactly but Alexandra Bialousow is accused of starting the fire which has burned more than 2,000 acres of forest in South Carolina.  The Myrtle Beach-area resident apparently decided to burn some rubbish in her backyard "in close proximity to a treeline" without having tools or a water source handy.  Her neighbors snitched, so she's probably made herself disliked in other ways.

Who was the Speaker of the Reichstag from 1933 to 1945?  I'm sure there was one but there's also a reason his name is lost to history.  He said things like this:  "They disrupted the proceedings of the House.  So there's some irony there.  We have to keep decorum...I think this went way over the line, by the way, these censures...he was only the 29th member of the House to be censured in the entire history of the US Congress.  So it was above [sic] the pale.  He's the first person ever to be removed from the floor during a presidential address.  We've got to, we've got to maintain control."  I never thought I'd say it but Mike "Mouse Turd" Johnson makes Kevin McCarthy look like Sam Rayburn.

It's not just those "Nazis and Communists" in the pay of George Soros turning up to annoy their elected representatives in person.  Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) wants them to stop calling his office, too.  He and his fellow MAGAts have been inundated since they voted for cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, which he would prefer people accept instead of complaining about how sick and hungry they are.  Those poor Republicans -- just because they control the Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court, Joe and Jane Scratchcard think they have a right to hold them accountable for stuff.  What has happened to deference and civility?  They even know where their representatives live!  Time for martial law.

The lady in the middle is the mother of one of the 880,660 Russian soldiers killed in the "special operation" in Ukraine.  She has just received her consolation prize from the United Russia party and holy sisters of Quorn, it's a meat grinder.  You cannot make this shit up -- trust me, I try every day.  "The meat grinder" was what the French defenders of Verdun called the battle that raged for most of 1916, claiming over 714,000 French and German lives.  Sometimes I wish I didn't know history. 

These are your allies, America.  For them the Leader has ended cyber operations and put a Russian mole in charge of national security.  For them, Ukrainian refugees may soon lose their legal protections and be sent home to face the Russian onslaught.  For them, military and intelligence assistance to Ukraine has already ended, in the face of protests even from some Republicans.  (Thom Tillis (R-NC), clearly a real smart one, thinks it "could be helpful to Putin.")  But the black lady has a weird laugh, right?

I'm through with you, America.  Until Monday, anyway.