NOPE, NEVER MET HIM. WHO?

It's official: there was no island where rich people went to snort coke, swill expensive liquor, and brutalize under-age girls. Nor are there lists of any type, like for instance flight logs, that show the names of rich people who, it is unreliably alleged, may have visited that imaginary island which does not exist. Or even photos of them hobnobbing with the unfortunatly dead pimp king of the fictitious island where under no circumstances rich people went to snort coke, swill expensive liquor, and brutalize under-age girls.

REPEAT: No such island. No lists. No clients.

Reports that a well-known politician may have called Jeffrey Epstein a "terrific guy" and "a lot of fun to be with" are all spurious gossip. And in any case, he was not a fan, and had a falling-out with him a long time ago. Whatever. It. Is!

Also and furthermore, he never knew the man.
Why are you still talking about it?
It's all lies. Fake news.
No files at all.

THIS IS NOT A PHOTO!

Like every rational person, I completely trust Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, as well as Karoline Leavitt. They are upstanding people of the greatest veracity. Huge veracity. Big beautiful veracity. People always say they've never seen such veracity.


"Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years. You’re asking, we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things. And are people still talking about this guy?"


Well, he was a financier. A terrific guy. In banking or something, And people love talking, about financeering and other things. It takes our minds off all the underage girls that were brutalized. Supposedly by rich people (they were paupers) who snorted coke (nope, they couldn't afford it, losers) on an imaginary island (never existed, hurricanes).
Where all kinds of crimes were committed (never happened).




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AM I A SAINT YET?

Surprisingly, the detestables in the backroom were relatively well-behaved today. I ascribe that to the retired member of the judicial branch being absent. Along with the book he often pretends to read. There was none of his whiny petulant kvetching, and no bad tempered excoriation of everyone to the left of Benito Mussolini.

He supports everything that Trump has done.
Wholeheartedly, one hundred percent.

Seeing as he's Jewish, I really should ask him how he feels about the Shylock comment, or "the only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day". But I bet he'd say that I'm taking all that out of context, as we liberals often do.


It's such a darn shame that we liberals are so nitpicky about minor things, rather than fully supporting a truly great man, a real patriot, who is making America great again.
Despite our horrible ingratitude.

Some of those boys in the back are just genuinely stupid.
Some of them are Jewish. Some of them are laywers.
And some of them, bless their hearts, are evil.
They're capable of multi-tasking.

Both psychopaths, AND dumb-asses!

On a different note, the two Mexico supporters during today's soccer match are both traitors, you know that, right? If they're so keen on those people, they should move there. It's just so wrong of them!

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WHERE SYPHILIS AND ADDERAL REIGN

There are large parts of the United States of America where people are traitorous narrow minded xenophobic cretins and ignoramuses. Places where you do not want to go.
Where the food is mediocre and leads to obesity, sloth, and brain rot.

As you might be aware, I have borrowed a term from Trump to name these places.

The Shithole States.

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Junkfood, shitty beer, and lead poisoning.

Amoral, and ethically crippled.

Spitefilled and deranged.



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THE REAL AMERICA, THE HEARTLAND

While Officer Michael Fanone was testifying about January 6 the other day, someone left a voicemail for him which, as well as anything else, expresses what "real Americans", Republicans, Trump voters, feel about their fellow citizens.


"Yeah, this is for Michael Fanone, Metropolitan Police Officer. You're on trial right now, lying and not, you want an Emmy, an Oscar, what're you trying to go for here? You're so full of s*it, you little f**got f**ker. You're a little p**sy, man. I could slap you up the side head with a backhand, knock you out, you little f**got. You're a punk f**got, you're a lying f**ck."

"How about all the scummy Black f**king scum for two years, destroying our cities and burning them, and stealing all that s*it out of the stores and everything? How about that, assaulting cops and killing people? How about that, you f**ker? That was s*it on the goddamn Capitol, I wish they would've killed all you scumbags, 'cause you, 'cause you people are scum."

"They stole the election from Trump and you know that you scumbag, and you f*cking, too bad they didn't beat the shit out of you more, you're a piece of sh*t you're a litte f*g, you f*cking scumbag."


Got that? More than anything else, it shows exactly why I will never visit the "real America", and do not wish those people well. In fact, I hate dealing with them when they come to California.



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ANTIFA TEMPTRESSES FIGHTING QANON

Per my pillow guy Mike Lidell, the insurrection by rightwingers and other well-meaning Republican loonies was caused by agents of the other side. Quote: "The rioters were hypnotized by antifa temptresses who hid psychoactive drugs in their vaginas".

Which begs the question: dammit, why weren't we invited? Y'all threw an unChristian commie sex orgy, and none of us got to be there! What's the point in fighting fascist turdbrains if the ONE time there's drugged licentiousness we can't play?!!?


"The rioters were hypnotized by antifa temptresses who hid psychoactive drugs in their vaginas"


Mike "Pillows" Lidell, Lou Dobbs, and Marjorie Taylor Greene are fast becoming the braintrust and public face of the Republican Party, which proves that America's conservatives are not only completely off the rails, but have mutated into rabid poo-throwing monkeys.

No, don't blame Trump for this. Trump was merely the symptom.

They played that conceited shitbag for a sucker.


If anything, blame inbreeding, dysfunctionality, sexploitation, beer, and Bible Thumping. Which are the fundaments of society in both the Midwest and the South. As well as the Mountain States, and Idaho, where Mormons rustle potatoes. Plus Alaska.

Goh-damn, you folks are stupid.

Mentally all Texas.
Florida man.



By the way, how was your dumb-ass game yesterday? Did y'all get drunk? Of course you did.




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HABEMUS PRAESES

Of course I watched the swearing-in live. It's a historic moment. And hope has been reborn. As one of my favourite bloggers said " I'm happy he's not on Twitter and beyond happy he's gone a very small part of me wishes I could see him live Tweet this inauguration."

I wish I could see some of the cigar smokers who supported Trump puke into their early morning cocktails right now.

Also, thanks to a Danish pipe maker whose work is solid, I have pre-emptively blocked several people from ever contacting me. All "true Americans". For non-Americans reading this, that means 'retrograde slope-browed hicks' from the red state world. My Facebook blocked list is well over two hundred people, my various e-mail blocked lists are as large.

Joe Biden says he will be a president for all Americans. There are seventy million of them whom I never wish to know.


For everyone else, this is a new day, hope has dawned again, there will be progress, and we'll rise out of this mess and rebuild.

There is much to do.



What with being a petty and vindictive man -- severely flawed, ich veiss, ich veiss -- it is a sincere wish that a number of people do not enjoy this day, and have excruciating stomach acid for the next several years. May their food burn on the way in, and may it burn on the way out. May their lives be damaged, dysfunctional, and traumatic. And may their liquor prove tasteless and disappointing. And toxic to their livers too.

I have never been a forgiving man.




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THE RANCID OLD GLOAT

Despite the momentousness of the day, I intend to get things done. Gloat. Coffee. Gloat. Smoke the first pipe of the day. Gloat. Wash, get dressed, second cup of coffee. Gloat. Read news on the internet. Gloat. Head downtown to my bank. Gloat. Shop in Chinatown. Gloat. Smoke another pipe. Gloat. Head home for a late lunch. Gloat. Read a bit. Gloat. Teatime. Gloat. Another pipe. Gloat. A light snack-like dinner. Gloat. Last pipe of the day. Gloat.

Yeah, that is a lot of pipe smoking.


Currently working through a tin of Astleys and a tin of flue-cured leaf made for Savinelli. Plus a lovely red Virginia. Tobaccos that are old codger blends, if the old codger's tastes are firmly in the gilded past. So not the typical modern-day old codger who smokes Captain Black Grape, or Sutliff Molto Dolce, but an old codger who is still young in spirit.
Not a dessicated old fossil.

Smoking aromaticized shite like Black Grape and Molto Dolce, or any of the other soddenly sweetened candy flavoured crap sold to old fossils and young men living in their mothers' basements, leads to syphilis, testicular cancer, and gonads shrunk to the size of a pin.

As well as incontinence, hairy palms, and a slack jaw.


It is exceedingly likely that three percenters, oath keepers, boogaloo bois, Texans, and other assorted Trumpite incendiarists reek of such aromas. Not only their wetly gurgling briars, but also their macho aftershaves, and their medicated athletes foot powders and jock creams.

[BTW: Gloat, gloat, gloat, gloat, gloat, gloat, gloat, gloat, gloat.]

I may need some coffee to calm down soon.
And a pipe with top notch tobacco.

TOBACCO INDEX


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ICECREAM ALL AROUND

Here it is, less than twelve hours to go, and that orange shit gibbon is still managing to piss people off. Except for his acolytes, of course.

Who cannot understand why staffers might have problems ever working again.

Or why all of a sudden My Pillow ain't selling like hotcakes.


Folks, if you voted for Trump, you're dumber than fenceposts. And, like Ellen Lee Zhou, you might be a Fundamentalist Christian. Maybe you even believe that tomorrow marks the beginning of the End-Times and the Tribulation, and you're praying fervently.

Or, like Lauren Boebert, you're a gun nut and seditionist.

Odious chief sycophant Lindsey Graham is desolate, bereft, inconsolable. No longer will he feel those spongy arms around him, the small small hands holding his head still, hear the hoarsely whispered "huge, huge", or enjoy the wondrous bigly covefe that servile obedience to his flabby orange master gave him. If he wants to have any influence at all during the rest of his rancid political career, he'll have to wag his tail for someone else.
It's sad. Very sad.



Oh well. Suck it up, traitors.



I'm not being very Christian.

Sorry.



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JACOB SCHMIDT'S RESIGNATION FROM HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE STAFF

GOP aide resigns while lashing 'congressional enablers of this mob'
Top staffer at the House Armed Services Committee ripped lawmakers who backed Donald Trump's challenge to Joe Biden's win
[Source: GOP aide resigns - Politico]

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Ranking Member Rogers and Members of the House Armed Services Committee,

All who serve this nation swear an oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same. Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee have led Congressional efforts to defend the nation and its Constitutional principles from foreign enemies since the establishment of the committee. Year after year, under Republican and Democratic Chairs, the committee has set aside factious contemporary events in the name of national defense. This is a legacy that I am extremely proud to have supported.

The sad, incontrovertible truth is that the people who laid siege to the Capitol were and continue to be domestic enemies of the Constitution of the United States. A poisonous lie that the election was illegitimate and should be overturned inspired so called “patriots” to share common cause with white supremacists, neo-Nazis and conspiracy theorists to attack the seat of American government. Anyone who watched those horrible hours unfold should have been galvanized to rebuke these insurrectionists in the strongest terms. Instead, some members whom I believed to be leaders in the defense of the nation chose to put political theater ahead of the defense of the Constitution and the Republic.

The decision to vote to set aside legitimate electors harmed the ability of every service member, intelligence officer, and diplomat to defend the nation and advance American interests. How are they to effectively defend American democratic ideals when the entire world saw so many members disregard those same ideals for cynical political purposes? Regardless of the motivations behind the vote, these members bear the consequences that the men and women in harm’s way will face for many years to come. I cannot imagine any series of events more damaging to the already fragile US led post-World War II order that has brought more peace and prosperity to the world than at any other time in history. These self-inflicted wounds are a gift to autocrats who seek a diminished America and are fundamentally inconsistent with the responsibility to provide for the common defense. Foreign intelligence services were likely on the scene and will certainly capitalize on the crisis it has caused – our people will pay a steep price. Congressional enablers of this mob have made future foreign conflict more likely, not less.

Going forward, the Committee must play a role in the accounting of this horrible chapter in our history. It is very disturbing that currently serving members of the armed forces participated in this. It is vitally important that the Committee hold the Department of Defense accountable for bringing any participants to justice. These extremist influences are a grave threat to our ability to defend the nation, and they must be expelled from the force immediately. I deeply regret some members may no longer have the credibility needed to accomplish this work.

All of our words and actions in the coming weeks and days will reveal those who believe in defending the Constitution, and those who stand only for self-interest and sectarianism. There can be no reconciliation and healing without accountability. While it is my hope the Committee finds a way yet again to legislate in a bipartisan way for the men and women in uniform in the 117th Congress and beyond, the failure of so many Republican members of the Committee to put the nation ahead of electoral politics compels my resignation from the staff. It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve the men and women in uniform, their families, and the civilians who also serve the Nation. I am proud of the things we have accomplished on their behalf, and the work we have done to strengthen national defense.

In Service,
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LAUREN BOEBERT

Stating that now is the time for America to heal ("unity, forgiveness, mutual cooperation", bla bla bla) ignores the fact that far too many on the other side had evil intentions that they would gladly have put into practice, including shootings, lynchings, bombings, and a reign of terror. Including Lauren Boebert, newly elected Congress woman from Colorado's 3rd congressional district), who tweeted Nancy Pelosi's whereabouts to the rioters while it was all going on. Healing means hanging traitors like her. And her equally psychotic husband.


Thanks to the Republicans and Qanon, parts of this country are sodden with traitors.


"Today is 1776"

------Lauren Boebert, January 6, 2021.


Colorado may be filled with them.
Certainly their third district is.
Plus gun nuts and drunks.


[Note as of January 12, 9:12 AM: It is now increasingly looking like Lauren Boebert deliberately broke Twit-silence, and alligned herself with the seditionists. Why has she not yet been removed? There are far too many treasonous Republicans in Washington.]



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MIRACULOUS ZAPP-MAN

Pursuant my recent mention of Trumpite scumball Kevin Greeson, where I stated that he died after a self-induced heart-attacked from tazing himself repeatedly in his testicles, several of my readers whom I know personally took me aside and chastised me for perpetuating a falsehood. He did not taze himself in the balls. He tazed himself in the penis. Same result.
The testicle story is the "fake media" imposing their narrative.

Okay. I will issue a retraction.

Kevin Greeson did NOT die as a result of tazing his own testicles.
He zapped his own penis instead.
Happy?


He was attempting to steal a painting of Tip O'Neill (his childhood idol) when he accidentally set off the device in his pocket. Probably not the first time his penis hurt while holding Tip O'Neill.

He's in the arms of the angels now. Who all look like Tip O'Neill. Holding (big, big!) tazers and cattle prods. There are already posters of him on Parler with a beautific smile on his face.
The charred tissue from his heroic electrical storm is being passed around as we speak like a holy relic by the adulating faithful.

Once again, the penis, not the testicles.
They exploded independently.
He had them in a jar.





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THE CRAVEN

It's part of the public record, people can do their own research.
Which I encourage.

U.S. Senate
Tommy Tuberville, Ala.
Rick Scott, Fla.
Roger Marshall, Kan.
John Kennedy, La.
Cindy Hyde-Smith, Miss.
Josh Hawley, Mo.
Ted Cruz, Texas
Cynthia Lummis, Wyo.

U.S. House of Representatives
Robert B. Aderholt, Ala.
Mo Brooks, Ala.
Jerry Carl, Ala.
Barry Moore, Ala.
Gary Palmer, Ala.
Mike Rogers, Ala.
Andy Biggs, Ariz.
Paul Gosar, Ariz.
Debbie Lesko, Ariz.
David Schweikert, Ariz.
Rick Crawford, Ark.
Ken Calvert, Calif.
Mike Garcia, Calif.
Darrell Issa, Calif.
Doug LaMalfa, Calif.
Kevin McCarthy, Calif.
Devin Nunes, Calif.
Jay Obernolte, Calif.
Lauren Boebert, Colo.
Doug Lamborn, Colo.
Kat Cammack, Fla.
Mario Diaz-Balart, Fla.
Byron Donalds, Fla.
Neal Dunn, Fla.
Scott Franklin, Fla.
Matt Gaetz, Fla.
Carlos Gimenez, Fla.
Brian Mast, Fla.
Bill Posey, Fla.
John Rutherford, Fla.
Greg Steube, Fla.
Daniel Webster, Fla.
Rick Allen, Ga.
Earl L. “Buddy” Carter, Ga.
Andrew Clyde, Ga.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ga.
Jody Hice, Ga.
Barry Loudermilk, Ga.
Russ Fulcher, Idaho
Mike Bost, Ill.
Mary Miller, Ill.
Jim Baird, Ind.
Jim Banks, Ind.
Greg Pence, Ind.
Jackie Walorski, Ind.
Ron Estes, Kan.
Jacob LaTurner, Kan.
Tracey Mann, Kan.
Harold Rogers, Ky.
Garret Graves, La.
Clay Higgins, La.
Mike Johnson, La.
Steve Scalise, La.
Andy Harris, Md.
Jack Bergman, Mich.
Lisa McClain, Mich.
Tim Walberg, Mich.
Michelle Fischbach, Minn.
Jim Hagedorn, Minn.
Michael Guest, Miss.
Trent Kelly, Miss.
Steven Palazzo, Miss.
Sam Graves, Mo.
Vicky Hartzler, Mo.
Billy Long, Mo.
Blaine Luetkemeyer, Mo.
Jason Smith, Mo.
Matt Rosendale, Mont.
Dan Bishop, N.C.
Ted Budd, N.C.
Madison Cawthorn, N.C.
Virginia Foxx, N.C.
Richard Hudson, N.C.
Gregory F. Murphy, N.C.
David Rouzer, N.C.
Jeff Van Drew, N.J.
Yvette Herrell, N.M.
Chris Jacobs, N.Y.
Nicole Malliotakis, N.Y.
Elise M. Stefanik, N.Y.
Lee Zeldin, N.Y.
Adrian Smith, Neb.
Steve Chabot, Ohio
Warren Davidson, Ohio
Bob Gibbs, Ohio
Bill Johnson, Ohio
Jim Jordan, Ohio
Stephanie Bice, Okla.
Tom Cole, Okla.
Kevin Hern, Okla.
Frank Lucas, Okla.
Markwayne Mullin, Okla.
Cliff Bentz, Ore.
John Joyce, Pa.
Fred Keller, Pa.
Mike Kelly, Pa.
Daniel Meuser, Pa.
Scott Perry, Pa.
Guy Reschenthaler, Pa.
Lloyd Smucker, Pa.
Glenn Thompson, Pa.
Jeff Duncan, S.C.
Ralph Norman, S.C.
Tom Rice, S.C.
William Timmons, S.C.
Joe Wilson, S.C.
Tim Burchett, Tenn.
Scott DesJarlais, Tenn.
Chuck Fleischmann, Tenn.
Mark E. Green, Tenn.
Diana Harshbarger, Tenn.
David Kustoff, Tenn.
John Rose, Tenn.
Jodey Arrington, Texas
Brian Babin, Texas
Michael C. Burgess, Texas
John R. Carter, Texas
Michael Cloud, Texas
Pat Fallon, Texas
Louie Gohmert, Texas
Lance Gooden, Texas
Ronny Jackson, Texas
Troy Nehls, Texas
August Pfluger, Texas
Pete Sessions, Texas
Beth Van Duyne, Texas
Randy Weber, Texas
Roger Williams, Texas
Ron Wright, Texas
Burgess Owens, Utah
Chris Stewart, Utah
Ben Cline, Va.
Bob Good, Va.
Morgan Griffith, Va.
Robert J. Wittman, Va.
Carol Miller, W.Va.
Alexander X. Mooney, W.Va.
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HOW MERCIFUL, HOW REPUBLICAN!

Events in Washington this past week leave me feeling cheated. A violent mob broke into the Capitol Building, and were treated with kid gloves while perpetrating their crimes. If those had been Democrats storming the Capitol, or African Americans, there would have been piles of dead and wounded.

The police forces have spent all summer justifying vicious brutality against peaceful protestors. This week their "law and order" friends committed an outrage, and were welcomed.

Which stands in marked contrast to how the cops behaved in the last for years.



I blame the president for instigating a riot. And I am absolutely shocked that there weren't piles of corpses, or blood and guts cascading down the steps to the Capitol.

Nary an accusation of unnecessary force, even.

Surprising police "gentleness",


It is not the "time to heal". It is the time for heads. Who led this mob? Who are the ringleaders? Who prevented an appropriate defense against their attack? Which senators abetted this? Who entered the building illegally. Which politicians and political appointees elsewhere lent support or organizational skills to facilitate this? Who prayed for the success of this adventure?

I want to see people lose their jobs, arrested, imprisoned.

This was an attempt to undo the votes of eighty million citizens who voted for Biden, by the extremists who have taken over the Republican Party, and by their leader, Donald Trump.
This was an assault on democracy, this was an attack on America.
This was NOT a tea party.

It is not time to heal. First we must cut out the diseased tissue and sterilize the affected area. Identify the disease, neutralize it, erradicate it.



After that, and the passage of sufficient time, we can start entertaining thoughts of healing.



This is not the time to waffle about "healing".




PS. May Ashli Babbit burn in hell.
Like Benjamin Phillips, Kevin Greeson, and Roseanne Boyland.
Treasonous garbage.





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OVER THIRTY MILLION TRAITORS

They like to call themselves "patriots". Obviously they do not know the meaning of the term. Seditionists, extremists, terrorists, christians, and goons would be more appropriate.
As well as several unprintable terms.


"Nearly half of Republican voters — 45 percent — approved of the storming of the Capitol, according to a YouGov poll."

[Source: Politico: GOP grassroots.]


SERVANTS OF SAURON

It's almost like over thirty million citizens have Stockholm syndrome, but the reality is that they're too damned stupid even for that.

Or evil, racist, bigotted, criminally inclined religious nuts.
It's not just Texas and Florida anymore.
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PARTICIPATION TROPHY

San Francisco has brought forth a larger than usual number of public figures who generate controversy. Among them, Ellen Lee Zhou, a former mayoral candidate.
Who went to Washington the other day to attend a rally.

In addition to other items of faith, Ellen Lee Zhou has stated that San Francisco has 75,000 unlawful dead voters.

She is pro-gun ownership, in favour of a border wall, and a staunch Republican. She also is a member of the Chinese American Alliance for Trump (美國華裔支持川普聯盟 'mei gwok waa yeui ji-chi chuen-pou luen meng').


Other than the statement below, there is no smoking gun.


"Most of those who attack Chinese are African-American. I don't blame the African-American community, but this is a social issue. Mayor Breed and most officials avoid discussing these social issues."
[大部份攻擊華裔者是非裔，我不怪非裔社區，但這是社會問題，市長布里德及大部份官員卻避而不談這些社會問題。]

------李愛晨 ('Lei ngoi san')


She's a fervent Christian and extraordinarily anti-liberal.
Also a believer in Qanon and "the Deepstate".
And "God's supernatural intervention".

She's convinced that the election was stolen.
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TRUMP, FOMENTATION

"Today’s violent assault on our Capitol, and effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by Mr. Trump. His use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice."
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DON'T RILE UP THE FOSSILS!

In my day, we didn't storm the Capitol! No sir! We just gave pointless tax breaks to millionaires while people died in a pandemic! And we played football to get rid of our frustrations, and exercise our sexual fantasies! Or so I imagine some old people are now saying, while obfuscating their role as closet fascists from the Reagan era in inciting and enabling yesterday's disgraceful events.

Then they take another drag on their smelly green cigar manufactured by an extreme rightwing Cuban immigrant in Tampa, and return to sipping their weak cup of mixed Folgers and Postum.
Perhaps, finally, it is time to poo.


When their beloved children and grandkids come back from Washington, where they attended a "cultural event", they will give Covid to everyone in the retirement village. Souvenirs!

There is a folkloristic aspect to rioting, vandalism, and sedition in America.
It's the highest form of artistic expression in some states.
Treason Season started early this year.
The Red ones.


Not being creatively inclined, this young fellow prefers to think back fondly on all the times he's unfriended people on Facebook, refused to stand in the same protest lines as the assholes, sneered at their inchoate faux-intellectual existential angst, and refused to drink crappy liquor or shitty McDonalds coffee.

While, in a snooty fashion, smoking a pipe with fancy tobacco.

Because Prince Albert is too damned "inbred Jed". Pretty much the bargain bazaar brand, horrid Burley leaf, favoured by Christians in Kansas.

The pipe pictured above was made in the United States by a company that had been founded in 1851 by fine people from .... Germany. As a Dutch American whose first New York ancestor arrived on these shores four centuries ago, I should probably pooh-pooh their déclassé origins, barely a shade better than those horrid English Puritans whose damned dry bird shows up in every nasty sandwich between here and the Eastern Seaboard, but I've never been a snob, and I'll gladly accept such folk as my equals. Provided they don't go around instigating riots. As one particular such person did recenty, a certifiable sexual predator, slum landlord, associate of casino-operating mobsters and child-molesters, and all-round skeevy conniving conman.
Also president of the Springfield Gay and Lesbian Alliance: Hans Moleman.

Not our type, dear. A total cad.
And his role in yesterday's disgraceful insurrection cannot be doubted.


"In so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol and in so far as the president consistently has cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that that was completely wrong."
-----Hans Moleman's bestie, Boris Johnson


A paltry 68 people got arrested for misbehaviour during Rudy Giuliani's rock concert, and only four people were shot. One would have expected hundreds of arrests, and several more dead considering how many braindead headbangers were walking around with assault riffles, but sofar it appears to have been a largely peaceful violent and destructive mob. The only thing damaged was the American Constitution, and seeing as most people pay no attention to that anyway, no harm no foul.

Far be it from me to criticise a bunch of potsmoking hippies from Texas and Arkansas.

Or their syphilitic meth-manufacturing redneck cousins.

Ford pickup on cinder blocks.



Yesterday we showed our ass as the banana republic shithole state we've always, in our heart of hearts, been. It was a shameful display. Buncha dumbasses.


"We're in! Keep it moving, baby!"
------Derrick Evans, a Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, elected in 2020.
Who livestreamed himself breaking the law.


There should be mass prosecutions.
But there probably won't be.

And by the way: West Virginia produces better tobaco than people.
Same can be said for the state of Louisiana.
Those are indisputable facts.
Sad.

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IT'S COVEFIC! BUT IS IT BIGLY?

This morning in a speech the president of the United States spent an hour wipping up a frenzy and inciting a riot. His followers -- baaaah! -- heeded his words and stormed the capitol. Unlike during BLM events, security was lax and ineffective, quite unprepared and understaffed. Because some of the officers may have been kinfolk or fellow fanatics.
Or in any case their committed fellow travellers.


"There must be an investigation to find out how these breaches were allowed to happen, and why the Capitol Police were so unprepared. Where were the tactical teams to secure any penetrations of the different perimeters in place? It was a complete failure in leadership all around. MPD has tactical teams as well that should have been on QRF (quick reaction force)."
------name withheld


"FBI, Homeland Security, White House Advisers Foresaw Possible Riots, Looked the Other Way."
------Newsweek


"Donald Trump caused this insurrection with lies and conspiracy theories about the election being rigged against him" ----- "The election was not stolen but this madness was fomented by the president and his top advisers."
------Scott Jennings


It's pretty damned shameful when the president of the Unites Stats incites a riot. Which is exactly what his speech was intended to do, as anyone who spent time listening to him will readily admit. I listened. And I heard outright sedition there. I spent way too much time this morning listening to an explosion of bullshit.

We've become a shithole state. And the man who encouraged mobs to march to the Capitol is to blame. As well as his craven enablers. Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, and many others.



I note, by the way, that around half of the protestors were not wearing masks or practicing social distancing in any way, so it will be a superspreader event, especially as those imbeciles head back to the red states. That may be some poetic justice for the fact that they weren't gunned down by Capitol Hill security or had the bejazus clubbed out of them.



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MAKE IT GREEN

One good reason to look forward to the end of this election season is that undoubtedly my fellow Americans will piss me off less afterwards. Not only the raving Trumpites and idiot undecided voters, but also the entire state of Texas, along with Mississippi, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee, and several states in the MidWest populated largely by gun nuts and goobers. It will be very good to ignore them again.


"There are still undecided voters???? Seriously??? At this point, they just need to put their earplugs back in, their blindfolds back on, and crawl back into their basements."
-----Smart aleck retired person in South San Francisco who likes patri ni machi


And of course I agree with the person quoted above. I too like patri ni machi. It's some damned fine stuff, and is often made with pomfret, though cod, haddock, perch, pollack, and tilapia can also definitely be used. The Sanskrit derived word 'patra' means leaf, although in a textual context the word also refers to a writing surface, a page, or a cohesive block of text.

Fish covered in green chutney, wrapped in banana leaf, and cooked.

Whir about a dozen nice green chilies in the blender, throw in a handful of kotumir and half a dozen or so cloves garlic, plus salt and lemon juice, and about a teaspoon of cumin seeds. Smear this on the cleaned fish, wrap it in banana leaf (fasten it with kitchen twine or toothpicks), and either steam or put above charcoal for twenty minutes or so.

Salmon this way is good as well.


You know, it was very humane of Biden to agree to a final debate with Trump. Tolerant. And Christian. But a waste of time, because we already know what comes out of a horse's ass.

Instead of paying any attention whatsoever to the circus, I stepped out for a nice walk and a final smoke of the evening. Solani 633 flake in a Peterson.
Sam Manekshaw would have approved.

My apartment mate did not watch the debate either, but went to bed early.
There are no undecided people in this household.

As an afterthought, what I had for dinner last night was bittermelon and fried tofu with fatty pork in green curry, with a thick wedge of toasted bread from an Italian bakery.
Plus a sploodge of Sri Racha hot sauce.
It was delicious!

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IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH

Sometimes you are baffled by the sheer audacity. And the idiocy. And the outright shameless pandering to the inbred bigots who comprise ninety percent of the Republican electorate.


"Look, China will own the United States if this election is lost by Donald Trump. If I don't win the election, China will own the United States. You're going to have to learn to speak Chinese, if you want to know the truth. And you'll have to learn it fast. They will own the United States."

-----President Donald Trump


Well, his suits were made in China. I believe his ties were too. But his foreign policies were made in Moscow. Which owns Donald Trump lock, stock, and barrel. Probably pee tapes, Deutsche Bank, and the National Rifle Association.

如果這次選舉唐納德·特朗普輸了，中國將擁有美國。如果我輸了，中國將擁有美國。 你會想知道真相的，你們會不得不學習講中文。他們將擁有美國。

[In Cantonese pronunciation: 'Yü-kwo je chi suen-geui tong-naap-tak tak-long-pou sue laa, jung-gwok jeung yong-yau mei-gwok. Yü-kwo ngo sue laa, nei wui seung ji-tou jan-seun dik, nei-mun wui pat-dak-pat hok-jaap gong jung-man. Taa mun jeung yong-yau mei gwok.']


Kushner, of course, very likely is owned by the Saudis.


The patriots have no problem with Donald.
Which is entirely odd.




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