Category: Red Flag

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The Three Biggest Lies

  1. Sure, I will respect you in the morning (clean version)
  2. The check is in the mail
  3. I will give every American $5,000 if the Republicans win the mid-terms, or so sayeth El puta pendajo

Let’s see…  the current population of the United States is 342,620,143.  Multiple that by $5,000 and you have an amount of this blatant bribe of $1,713,100,715,000. To put it another way, 1.7 trillion dollars.  Even if he is just talking about taxpayers in the United States of which there are 153,800,000 that number is $769,000,000,000 or 7.69 billion dollars.

Yeah, right!

That, my friends, is the definition of inflation, when the government starts printing money wildly like would be needed for that give away.

To give you some perspective, the first number is roughly what the United States spent on social security in 2025, a program that the Republicans are trying to eliminate as they say it is too costly.

Sorry.  When I originally posted this as I was rushing out the door, I mixed up trillion and quadrillion.  A trillion has 12 places (1,000,000,000,000) while a quadrillion has 15 places (1,000,000,000,000,000) after the first set of numbers.

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Venn Diagram for Upcoming Election

Apologies to the comedian Don McMillan, an engineer who has forged a very good comedic career using Venn diagrams. This is not his Venn diagram, but I like his idea of using Venn diagrams for such things. Check him out on YouTube.

If you like what the Enshittificator-in-chief has done to this country, the economy, the world, our relationship with our allies, the return of childhood diseases, a food inspection program in shambles, a military in disarray, the dismantling of our social safety nets, ICE harassing folks simply for the color of their skin and murdering citizens and non-citizens, climate change about to hit us like a sledge hammer, a man who idolizes murderous dictators, a man who started an unnecessary, unwinnable war that has killed hundreds of innocents, a man who has made $2.2 billion using the office of the President,  a man who has made the United States the laughing stock of the world, and a man who is mentioned 38,000 times (according to the New York Times) in the Epstein files, then by all means vote Republican in the upcoming mid-terms.

Remember that Trump could not have done any of this without the Republicans enabling him or minimally, lacking the backbone to stop him.

Venn diagram of what happens when corruption meets incompetence

May Ahura Mazda save our souls.

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The USA’s Problem in One Image

The image below is circulating on social media.

There is so much wrong with this image, I am at a loss as to where to begin. While the majority of our Founding Fathers were deist, and many other presidents were not particularly religious, Abraham Lincoln comes to mind, Trump does not believe in anything except himself.  And I am even doubtful of that. I do not even believe him to be irreligious as that would imply he has thought, even if only shallowly, about religious beliefs.  If he has a god, it is green or gold. If I were a religious person I would view this depiction as a gross sacrilege. Come to think of it, I am not religious, and I still view it as a gross sacrilege. If there is such a thing as unholy, the definition is: See Trump.

What is sad to me is that politics and religion have almost always walked hand in hand.  Both are efforts to control the behavior of large groups of people.  Religion tends to pretty it up with ideas about improving the person and society, with ideas about aiding the believer to get to heaven or, more importantly, stay out of hell. Politics frequently dresses itself up as doing the most good for the most people, but often does not even bother with that. In the end  they are both about the same thing, power and control.

The melding of conservative politics with fundamental religions is as scary to me as various theocracies, past and present. There are good reasons the Founding Fathers were so adamant about the separation of church and state.

God save us from the religious.

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How Wealth Inequality Spiraled Out of Control | Robert Reich

This country has more problems than a monkey on a rock, but to my way of thinking, this is one of the biggest, the out of control, growing wealth gap.  The issue is explained very clearly by one of my favorite “pundits”, Robert Reich.  America has never been a very fair country, but it is certainly the goal we should be aiming for.

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Public Comment Period: Proposed Monumental Arch at Memorial Circle

Submit your comments at: https://savingplaces.org/monumental-arch

Yet another example of El puta pendejo‘s ego run amok.  No matter how you spin it, this is a monument, aka Arc de Trump, to the insatiable hole that is the tRump’s ego.  I had no idea that it would have such a drastic and negative effect on what the National Park Service is calling the viewscape. However, it right in line with his defacement of the White House and his attempt to plaster the obscenity that is his name all over Washington, D.C.   I see it as slap in the face to all veterans buried at Arlington and to Lincoln as the 250 foot tall Arc with dwarf the Lincoln Memorial and the entrance to the Arlington Cemetery.

And what a horrible waste of tax money when he the Republican party are doing their best to take away health care and social program from millions of Americans.  Does his hubris, his cruelty have no bounds?

If you have been to Washington, D.C. you will know that this space is perfect the way it is.

The Romans used to march defeated armies through their arc in Rome.  I suppose Cadet Bone Spur needs a place to march the defeated Iranian army through.

May Isis save us all.

From the National Park Service website:

National Park Service is accepting public comments on this project until June 15, 11:59PM MT. Learn more below and on nps.gov.

If you submitted comments to the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) or Commission of Fine Arts (CFA), please submit again to NPS. This is a new comment period for a separate government entity.

Members of the public have the opportunity to provide input on a proposed Monumental Arch at Memorial Circle on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, near Arlington National Cemetery and along the Potomac River.

The location of the proposed Arch will interrupt the highly significant relationship between the Lincoln Memorial, across Arlington Memorial Bridge, to Arlington National Cemetery and Arlington House. One of the most symbolic landscapes in Washington, D.C., the vista was designed to represent the post-Civil War reconciliation of the north and south of the United States.

It is because this viewshed carries so much meaning to the country that the National Trust has raised concerns about the proposed Monumental Arch, whose scale, location, and design will disrupt this important visual and symbolic vista. In addition, the Arch will dwarf the Lincoln Memorial and disrupt the long, open, and uninterrupted viewsheds, overwhelming the entry to Arlington National Cemetery—the hallowed resting place of 400,000 veterans and their families and a powerful reminder of American military sacrifice, selfless service, and national unity, all within sight of the monumental core of the Nation’s Capital.

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Borowitz has a point…again

While written as satire, this absolutely nails the results of the disastrous policies of this malAdministration. I have no idea how these folks sleep at night.  I can only believe they no conscience, no shame, no regard for their fellow human beings. It is beyond my comprehension that after all this, there are people that still support this convicted criminal and obviously incompetent occupant of the White House.

What El puta pendejo has done to the White House is simply a microcosm of what he is doing to the United States.

May Kumugwe save us all.

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A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.

From Dr. Strangelove… Slim Pickens riding the bomb down

The caption of this post is the latest insane quote from our so called POTUS.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” ~~ Donald J. Trump

It sounds like he is threatening to wipe out a whole country. For what? They did not bow down to his royal ass? Of course, this is referring to Iran and oil shipments. The problem with tRump and his malAdministration is that none of them are chess players, they are not even checker players.  They cannot see the global chess board one move in front of them.  How else could they start an immoral, unneeded war that was urged on by the madman in Israel, and the power hungry, greedy leader of Saudi Arabia?

Might does not make right.

Truth is I really do not know what to say.  This is beyond comprehension. This is not the country that I have loved and been proud of for most of my life. Not by a long shot.  This cluster f*** is even worse than I could have imagined. I would have never envisioned the United States as a terrorist country, but we are fast becoming one.

For a more nuance and scholarly take on the the catastrophe that is dangling over us like the Sword of Damocles go to Paul Krugman’s video for today:  Our Darkest Hour (read the transcript – it is quicker and easier)

What has the MAGA mob gotten us into.  May Huitzilopochtli save us all.

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Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Minneapolis (Irish Folk Version)

The world is weighing in on the tRumpian craziness…

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This Machine Kills Fascists

The image below is from a phrase Woody Guthrie wrote on his guitar. It is very sad that here we are, 75 years later, and we are fighting this fight again.  The reality is that it seems to be a struggle that never ends, the clash of humanity’s dark side against its humanistic side.

As my cousin, The Don Quixote of West Texas, said, “This political nightmare is turning into a field day for musicians.”

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Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

The Boss needs no comment from yours truly. His words say it all. I would say enjoy, but this is a time for action.  This monstrous malAdministration needs to go and like yesterday…

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