Trump just fired the FBI director, James Comey. This sounds strangely familiar.
Comey was a ratfucker, and deserved to be fired…but Trump doing it, as the investigation into his ratfuckery grows, is the action of a dictator.
So perfect. An artist is going to float 4 helium-filled pigs over the Trump logo in Chicago. Thank you, Pink Floyd. Roger Waters must be prescient — they released the Animals album 30 years ago. I guess they saw Trump coming.
If you don’t remember the lyrics…
Big man, pig man
Ha, ha, charade you are
You well heeled big wheel
Ha, ha, charade you are
And when your hand is on your heart
You’re nearly a good laugh
Almost a joker
With your head down in the pig bin
Saying ‘Keep on digging’
Pig stain on your fat chin
What do you hope to find
Down in the pig mine?
You’re nearly a laugh
You’re nearly a laugh
But you’re really a cry
John Oliver wants you to help defend net neutrality.
In case you didn’t want to watch all that, it’s easy.
Done!
They didn’t make our mistake, and avoided electing a fascist: it will be President Macron, and Le Pen was soundly defeated.
Lynna is your curator. I don’t think this thread will run dry for a long time.
The Republicans are having a fucking party to celebrate disemboweling health care in the country, to the profit of the rich.
Goddamn them all. Goddamn the political movement that spawned them and goddamn the political party in which that movement found a home, and goddamn the infrastructure in which their pus-bag of an ideology was allowed to fester until it splattered the plague all over the government. Goddamn anyone who believes that blind, genetic luck is a demonstration of divine design. Goddamn anyone who believes in a god who hands out disease as punishment. Goddamn anyone who stays behind the walls and dances while the plague comes back again.
And if the Democratic Party can’t reduce these idiots to smoking ash through the stunning visuals that greeted this atrocious vote, then goddamn the Democratic Party, too.
Everyone who voted for this crime must pay a heavy price. The Republican party must be destroyed.
Y’all remember the true meaning of this date, right?
The National Guard fire tear gas to disperse the crowd of students gathered on the commons, May 4, 1970.
Don’t let the Star Wars jokes distract you from the fact that this is a day to remember the horrors of the police state.
Also note that the guardsmen who murdered four students got away with it. No surprise there.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, has announced his retirement at the age of 95. I don’t quite see the point of retiring from a job as a figurehead, but I guess even Walmart greeters can expect to see some time off, so good for him. The BBC did report on it, and made this statement that made me laugh:
He is famed for off-the-cuff remarks he has made at royal engagements around the world over the years.
Yes, I suppose you could say that.
One down. So when are y’all getting rid of the rest of the royal family?
I live in Minnesota’s 7th congressional district. Our representative is a Blue Dog Democrat, Collin Peterson.
I do not like Peterson.
I never voted for the guy until the last election, when I held my nose and punched his name in the voting booth because the Republicans have become the party of intransigent ignorance and bigotry, so even Peterson looks good in comparison. Unfortunately, I think he relies too much on the odious nature of the opposition to skate by.
And then I looked at the Facebook page for the Minnesota 7th Congressional District Republican Party. They really hate Collin Peterson. They think he’s a liberal, dont’cha know. By comparison with the poison they spew, I guess he might be.
What brought me to look at their page was that I learned that the 7th district Republicans, my neighbors, had posted this:
Wow. My neighbors suck.
Head Muslim Goat Humper
? Seriously, dudes? Can you get any more racist?
Worst thing about it: now I’m going to have to vote for Collin Peterson, or whatever Blue Dog substitute comes along, again, and it left a foul taste in my mouth last time.
I went to the rally for the People’s March for Climate in Fargo. I guess 200,000 people attended the march in Washington, DC. That’s more than attended his inauguration! People are protesting all around the world.
Meanwhile, Trump has fled the capitol and all the contempt for his presidency to try and restore his confidence with another of his silly, itty-bitty rallies in Pennsylvania. Afterwards, he’ll stare into a mirror and struggle to reassure himself that he really is loved, as tears stream down his cheeks.
