You think we’re shipping the wrong people to Guantanamo?
I’m old enough to remember a time when, if some civilian loudmouth waltzed through your front door barking orders, you could kick him in the plums, give him the old heave and also the ho, and get back to whatever it was you were doing before all the bad noise started.
Yet somehow, in the Year of Our Lard 2025, we’ve allowed this porcelain pissant from South Africa to start rearranging the national furniture, to say nothing of the org chart, without so much as a “Just who the hell elected you to anything, anyway, Fisheyes?”
Raise a ruckus and you get frog-marched out the door, either to the breadline or maybe a gated beachfront community that doesn’t feature in Beelzebozo’s plans for the tourist trade. Meanwhile, our media watchdogs just keep licking their own nuts; chasing random brain farts down countless odiferous ratholes; and “fact-checking” the arsonists who are burning down the government faster and more thoroughly than the Brits did during the War of 1812.
But be of good cheer: There’s plenty of bark and bite to be had in the latest edition of Radio Free Dogpatch!
• Technical notes: RFD favors the Ethos mic from Earthworks Audio; Audio-Technica ATH-M50X headphones; Zoom H5 Handy Recorder; Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack; Apple’s GarageBand, and Auphonic for a wash and brushup. The Captain from “Cool Hand Luke” and Yosemite “The Little Drummer Boy” Sam communicate to us from YouTube. The boot to the bollocks and subsequent heave-ho hail from Freesound. The French taunter you may recall from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Air travel to Gitmo, a newspaper’s printing press running, and soldiers on the march courtesy of Freesound. “Twisted Clowns” honk at us from Zapsplat. Charles P. Pierce does his barking from the Esquire Politics kennel. And last, but far from least, that’s Sam Cooke working the “Chain Gang.” All the other gang violence is the fault of Your Humble Narrator.
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Well Warden, it won’t be long before prisoners won’t be flying to Gitmo-they’ll be dumped a few miles offshore and told to swim as a cost savings. Muskellunge is simply the perfect bedfellow for t-Rump. What one won’t think of the other will. Which is what Mom said about the McLeary brothers down the street who by the way, both ended up doing some prison time.
If’n we go back in time to any protests that had teeth in the US we’d certainly see a LOT of youth in those crowds (known by conservatives as mobs). I’m sorry to say that the younger gens haven’t (yet) been inconvenienced enough to give a shit. The last election proves it…..they are spoiled. Now if somehow they all had their cell phones confiscated and their social media accounts locked….well that would get em out in the streets a hollerin. And maybe even voting!
Meanwhile, The NYT’s editorial board tells us, with a straight face: “Now Is Not the Time to Tune Out.”
Elsewhere, Irony belches, chuckles, and orders another boilermaker.
When his candidacy was providing clicks, they were more than willing to go along with the charade. But those eyeballs dry up quickly when there are no whataboutism articles to write.
I wonder how many people have gone into some form of suspended intelligence-gathering animation, a news-cycle hibernation. Not even Filson makes a jacket for this class of shit monsoon.
I would chime in, but my pant legs are soaking wet, and the choir has heard enough. The Old Gray Lady can grab her ankles and have bozos service the account.
Good Ezra Klein piece in the Grey Lady.
The thing Ezra overlooks is the media’s complicity in making people believe Beelzebozo is invincible. By chasing every brain fart down every rathole the NYT lends legitimacy to the administration.
I’d like to see a daily column, “He Can’t Do That, Can He?” Break down these giant turds he’s tossing so they flush away more easily. More coverage and more prominent display of what opposition there is would be useful too.
As Ezra notes, a president — especially one who’s butt-ass nekkid and thinks he’s stylishly attired for battle — is not a king.
Word, Patrick. The title of that piece is enough to make me not read it. Don’t believe him? Where has Ezra been in the last 20 years? Where was his editor when he came up with that title. Besides, the people that need to see that probably don’t read the NYT, at least not enough of them to swing the political needle to the rational side. And the other “Now Is Not The Time To Tune Out” piece should be “Now Is The Time To Speak Out.” Or, “How Would You Like This Guy To Marry Your Daughter?”