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Nicknames for He Who Shall Not Be Named

Trigger warning: This is going to get crude… fast.

Giving nicknames to politicians has long been a popular American pastime, especially for those occupying the White House.  The current occupant stinking up the Oval Office, however, has spawned a whole cottage industry generating euphemisms and nicknames for him.  This quasi-humanoid has an extreme pathological need for attention, which reminds me of a psychology precept from Transactional Analysis, “a soggy potato chip is better than no potato chip.”

One of the ones that I see  most often is tRump, emphasizing the rump part of his name, which to my way of thinking is much too polite. On occasion I have riffed on that one and used tArse.

From the title of this article, He Who Shall Not be Named, obviously a reference to the villainous warlock of the Harry Potter series of books. In Mexico this becomes Innombrable, interesting enough one of the few examples of when it takes fewer Spanish words for a concept than in English. It may be common in other parts of Latin America, but I visit with a few Mexicans on iTalki so I know a little bit more about there. 

Speaking of Spanish, I frequently refer to him as El pendejo, which over time has morphed to El puta pendejo, then El puta pendejo naranja. If you are not up on your Spanish curse words I will let you put these phrases into Google translator yourself. One of the things about Google translator is that it will take the crudest of comments and translate them to something somewhat milder.

I was talking about the current cluster f*** that is the politics in the United States, and I used El puta pendejo with one of my tutors who lives north of Mexico City.  Normally I stay very proper with my tutors except Continue reading “Nicknames for He Who Shall Not Be Named”

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Top 10 Tips for Surviving 2026

This is a satirical website, hopefully that is obvious… This video, however, is less so.  She is advocating some of the strategies I have implemented attempting to ride out the tormenta de mierda that is El puta pendejo naranja.

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Word of the Day – Snollygoster

Word of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many on my landing page.  Words have always fascinated me, and I am a fan of all types of word play, especially puns.  I have a hard time not looking up a word that I am unfamiliar with or not sure of the definition. I like those authors that stretch me by throwing in unexpected terms.   

  • Noun: Snollygoster
    1. a shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician – US dialect.
  • Synonyms:
    1. Machiavellian
    2. opportunist
    3. knave
    4. And many more… Synonyms for Snollygoster
  • Encountered: While watching an offering from Great Courses Plus , one on vocabulary, go figure.
  • Usage: Well not usage, but my thoughts on the word.  When I first heard the definition I immediately thought of El puta pendejo naranja currently stinking up the Oval Office. I began playing with how the word sounded as I pronounced it.  On its own it changed from snollygoster to Snollygoster-in-Chief. For a brief moment I thought it a good euphemism for President Baldy Locks, but I then thought it sounded much too cute for that, like a character in a Dr. Seuss book. However, there is no way his heart will ever grow three sizes in one day.  In fact it seems to be shrinking more and more with each new day, almost as fast as his cognitive decline.
  • More:
    1. If you want to get your nerd on here is an article on the origin of the word: What’s a snollygoster? Even lexicographers are wrong sometimes

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A snallygaster, not a snollygoster

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #4,033

yeah I know you did not ask!

You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.

A New Pandemic

As you probably remember, most of us survived the recent COVID pandemic that occurred at the beginning of another pandemic, the invasive parasitic brain worm known as Trumpism, which in itself was the result of the unnatural mating of incorrigible, rampant, corporate capitalism and dogmatic, religious fundamentalism.

In the last few months a new pandemic has descended on us, this one given the cute name of AI, Artificial Intelligence.  It is everywhere I do not want it to be… like out of control canker sores. IMHO, the movie, Terminator, was prophetic.  I am spending way too much time trying to eliminate AI from my devices to just see it pop up in a different application.  It is reminding me more and more of a “social disease”. It is appearing more and more like the only solution is abstinence from all things computer related.

From the movie, Terminator:

“By the time Skynet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms, everywhere. It was software in cyberspace. There was no system core. It could not be shut down. The attack began at 6:18 p.m., just as he said it would. Judgment Day. The day the human race was nearly destroyed by weapons they’d built to protect themselves.”

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Pay Attention to History

Pay attention to history.

I sincerely hope we are a better nation than what tRump and his sycophants are attempting to do to our country currently… I sincerely hope so.

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Why Separation of Church and State IS SO VERY Important

Among all the scary s*** happening in this country and the world right now,  this ranks way up there.  Mike Huckabee is a true believer in the Armageddon / Second Coming of Christ fantasy.   I had not realized until now that El puta pendejo naranja had appointed this whacko as ambassador to Israel.  Truly the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. of the State Department. His daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, current governor of Arkansas, is every bit as crazy as he is.

I would give them their religious delusions if they were not trying to push them on the rest of us…. much to our detriment. IMHO, their world view is delusional and draconian. Maybe it is a little over the top, but given half a chance, these “true believers” would make the Spanish Inquisition look like a cake walk.

God save us from the religious.

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What Would Jesus Say About Donald Trump?

I am not going to comment (much) on this video except to say it echos how I feel about the current state of Christianity in the United States of America.

What I always say about religion is that life is tough, whatever gets you through the day.  Of course, that is close to what I say about gender/sexuality identity.  Life is tough, whatever gets you through the night.  Of course, being religious is a choice.  Gender identity is not.

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No Kings Protest / USS Carr Hat

As I have detailed elsewhere on this blog my mother’s brother,  my Uncle Paul, died heroically in the largest naval battle in history.  You can read about it here: Paul H. Carr inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame. Besides being inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame for his heroic action he had a missile frigate named after him, the USS Paul H. Carr, FFG-52.  There are several books of naval history that include his story.  Obviously, having a Navy ship named after a family member is a huge honor, and all the family is rightly very proud of it.  There is also a movement afoot to have one of the new class of missile frigates named after him.  Hopefully, that comes to past.

I have several USS Carr hats, a couple shirts, etc.  I wore them for years to honor my uncle.  A few years past I stopped wearing them as it had become very fashionable to thank veterans.  I became very tired of people coming up to me and thanking me for my service.  More than a few wanted to shake my hand, something I am not comfortable with in the best of circumstances.  Most importantly, I did not want Continue reading “No Kings Protest / USS Carr Hat”

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Robert Reich: We Don’t Do Kings in America

I had a lighter posting queued up for today, but the world feels like it is spinning even more out of control thanks to the Idiot-in-Chief aka El puta pendejo naranja.

Robert Reich is my type of crusader.

Do your part – PROTEST!

What blows me away is that there are still folks out there happy that they voted for this incompetent,  arguably mentally unhinged monster. This is an America I thought I would never see.

Various sources are estimating that the military parade will cost $45 million.  Street repairs afterwards are estimated to cost $16 million. Whether that last amount is included in the $45 million I do not know.  This at a time when the Republicans are hell bent on cutting services and benefits to the most needy among us, being the good Christians that they are.

As a reminder here is the famous poem by Pastor Martin Niemöller:

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #3,683

yeah I know you did not ask!

You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.

I am still not imbibing news, at least consciously. I do follow my investments on Google’s Finance page which at the end of my watch list always has news stories related to those investments or to the market in general.   Today one headline read that tRump was threatening 50% tariffs against our good friends in Europe.

For some reason a picture of the orange orangutan currently occupying the White House came to mind.  In this picture he is sit squatting in the Asian manner inside a zoo cage.  He is busily flinging his turds at the various zoo visitors passing in front of his cage.  For reasons unclear, the zookeepers have removed the glass partition that would have kept his excrement on his side of the wall. His malodorous missiles were landing pell-mell, but damaging those among us in the most need. Maybe if he turned that Bible upright… nah.

Outside of making him and his contemptuous cronies even richer,  I am still trying to figure out what the problem is that he is trying to fix.  He is making America anything but Great.

While this posting, A Jack Handey Fable, is about addiction, I see MAGA’s devotion to El puta pendejo naranja in a similar vein.

And so it should not go.

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