The ICE boyos have brought a chill to Chicago, Aurora, and even the desert Southwest as Jesus Hitler starts making good on his promise of mass deportations.
Round up the usual suspects. A little song and war dance for the TV cameras. “Dr. Phil” even got in on the act in Chicago.
Shock and awe, baby. It works, for a while. But some folks just don’t take kindly to being shoved around.
Soon even the fanboys will find the price of admission to the Dingaling Bros-Barnum & Beelzebozo Circus (“There’s One Born Every Minute!) just keeps going up, as honest immigrant workers vanish alongside the bad guys, citizens decline to take their jobs in agriculture, construction, manufacturing, food processing and service industries, and goods and services get more expensive and/or harder to find.
But never fear. We’ll be annexing Canada! And Greenland! And the Sudetenland (whoops, wrong fascists, never mind). The Circus will roll on a Road of Bones until the world is under One Big Red White and Blue Tent (handmade by skilled artisans in border internment camps)!
While you await your own personal invitation to assist the authorities with this project (and their inquiries) you might as well listen to the latest All-American Episode of — yes, yes, yes — Radio Free Dogpatch. Could be the last one. You never know who’s lending us an ear, or why.
• Technical notes: RFD favors the Ethos mic from Earthworks Audio; Audio-Technica ATH-M50X headphones; Zoom H5 Handy Recorder; Apple’s GarageBand, and Auphonic for a wash and brushup. The trailer theme from “Fort Apache” comes from YouTube, as do Rick’s conversations with Major Strasser and Sam in “Casablanca.” Bob and Doug McKenzie say “Good day” from SCTV’s YouTube page. The drum-heavy martial music (by Gregor Quendel) and “Out of Step” are both courtesy of Zapsplat. The Mescalero Apache tribe’s take on a member’s run-in with an ICE agent can be found here. The Guardian reports on a Navajo experience. Lawmakers from New Mexico and elsewhere view with alarm. The Associated Press covered immigration raids in Chicago. At The Atlantic Mark Leibovich had some fun visiting Greenland, soon to be our 52nd state. And at The New Republic Matt Ford shredded the pestilential ordure dropped on birthright citizenship. All the noisy, less-well-reasoned palaver comes from Your Humble Narrator.
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Firing 2M federal workers, revoking GEN Milley’s security clearance and investigating his loyalty (the dude retired already!), and withholding Medicaid funding … it’s going to be a laugh a minute for the next four years.
Is there an ICE tip line? Cuz there’s this women named Melania who was supposed to produce her green card 12 years ago, never did.
It’s just such punk-ass shit. Always punching down. The United States is devolving into the world’s biggest middle-school-gym locker room.
Thinking about Michelle Obama’s “we go high.” Fuck that. I just sent a postcard to 1600 Pennsylvania with “President Elon Musk” on the top line. “Great job playing Donnie for the fool. You and me will make bank on crypto while he takes the blame for the next recession. See ya in Aspen!”
Yeh, I always thought that little sound bite was a tad lofty as applied to politics. Tip O’Neill would’ve laughed his ass off.
I need to come up with a creative way to put a burr under a few saddles in DeeCee. Annoy a few henchpersons. Nothing actionable, mind you. Just a little sumpin’-sumpin’ to get the ol’ stomach acids bubbling as the recipient gulps that fifth cup of bad joe from the vending machine in the basement.
Speaking of punching down, Anne Castle makes mention of this classless chickenshit in her letter of resignation as U.S. Commissioner and Chair of the Upper Colorado River Commission.
Here’s a representative sample:
Dr Phil is a real honest to dog REMF.
O, lawd, I dunno who’s worse in this theater of the absurd, the stars or the spear carriers. Plenty of loons in the audience too.
Well, the good news is, the lawyers are making bank. The judges are wearing oilskins and sou’westers. Rig for heavy weather, me hearties.
That’s a good podcast, heh? I think it’s for a re-screening of “Strange Brew” at Casa O’Be. We have it in Blu-Ray, because watching Hosehead fly is best done in high definition.
Thank you, sir. And mos def on the hi-def. Don’t ever use it to watch the news, though. You’ll run screaming into the streets.
Well it does make you sorry for Bjorn. And what’s next. Miguel in Puerto Rico being told to “beat it”? Jorge in Cuba? I guess with all the toxic waste here in the US we might be running out of places to dump it so annexing our neighbors gives Rethuglicans an out. Alas the real toxic waste IS the Rethuglicans and the remediation efforts are gonna be painful as they’ve seeped into the soil and have contaminated the groundwater. It’s gotta be something in the water that caused so many to lose vision and vote in Adolph tRump.
I’d like to think that a lot of this stupid shit is a smokescreen, designed to conceal the truly evil shit they’re up to.
“Mama, lookit the funny orange man!”
But maybe it’s stupid shit and evil shit at the same time?
Well, Allo Fiber Optic Internet is horizontal drilling behind our house today. They are installing the fiber optic backbone through our neighborhood, and they are also installing backbone all over town. Residential service should start next year with 1Gb basic service. The cable monopoly in town, Cox, should be very afraid.
Send ’em over here when they’re done, Paddy me boyo. We’re in the slow lane of the Infobahn. Mebbe the breakdown lane.
I just looked, but Allo is not coming to Duke City at this time according to their website. But, I did find this. And, the contract foreman here said they might have work in Albuquerque soon.
https://www.cabq.gov/technology-innovation/broadband-office/high-speed-fiber
My previous phone monopoly installed Northern Telecom equipment and fiber backbone Then they were bought by Centurylink, which cannot have the brains to pass flatulence if all it took was a sneeze. my router modem has to reboot two to three times a day to maintain my 2.5 GB minimum. But the service is marginally better than dial-up
Our internet provider is Cox Communications via coax cable into a Netgear cable modem connected to a Apple Airport Extreme router with an Airport Express router extension in the living room. I pay $140 a month for download speeds up 500 Mbs. I just ran the Ookla Speedtest on it a minute ago and got 504 Mbs down and 11 Mbs up. Allo will provide 1 Gbs download speed as a minimum, which is twice as fast as I get now. I don’t use the speed I have now. But, I think that overall network speed will increase since Allo is an all fiber optic network, not a combo of coax cable and fiber optic. Reliability should improve as well.
https://www.speedtest.net/result/17322343665
I just ran Speedtest: 14.1 mbps download, 0.97 mbps upload. You can see every byte as it leaves the station, waving a stained hankie and choking on the coal smoke. This is why we call it “ScenturyStink.”