Looked like a Sherlock Holmes flick in the cul-de-sac this morning: “The Case of the Missing Desert.”
“The game’s afoot, Watson!”
And indeed it is, if the game is “Who’s the dumbest man in the Senate?”
There’s always a thundering herd of whinnying glue-factory candidates in that august stable, but lately it’s a two-up horse’s-ass race between Eric Schmitt (R-Misery) and Tommy “Coach” Tuberville (R-CTE).
Schmitt couldn’t even pull off a “Gotcha!” against Jack Smith without stepping in it up to his flag pin.
But Coach may edge him by a nose — a big red one that honks when you squeeze it — with his charge that the friendly skies are full of furries.
Talk about game. It’s one helluva race when it looks like Ted “I’m Not Just Stupid, I’m Evil Too” Cruz might not even make the podium. It’d have Holmes reaching for the old iron butterfly and his 7-percent solution, craving mental exaltation.
We’d all laugh at Schmitt except we’re crying. When a real attorney states something like this, you take him seriously and check what he says against facts. And it’s not like we can’t all see it’s an open and shut case. They guy stood there and told people to storm the capital on television! I want to throw those people who didn’t immediately arrest him, still have the ability to do so, and refuse to take action, in jail near enough to hear the orange thing and his sycophants in solitary complain and moan for at least two years. I’m thinking Spandau for the orange thing and his associates for life AFTER we take all their wealth from them.
Appalling, innit? “The world’s greatest deliberative body,” me bollocks. You could find better rhetoric and snappier repartee at a goat fuck in Ass Hat, Idaho.
A Senator from Minnesota eh by golly (Hockey Heaven) knows more about basketball than a Senator from the show me state, Dumbass guy does not quite know female from male A major fundamental handicap Does not know his ass from a hold in the ground. A common trait among maga republicans.
Whaddaya wanna bet some junior staffer gets tossed under the bus for Jughead’s failed gotcha?
“Gosh darn it, Chip, you don’t expect me to fact-check this stuff before I say it, do ya?”
Hey, Chuck Grassley must know what he is doing. After all, he’s been there 45 years, almost half his miserable life. A prime example of the insanity definition.
Speaking of stupid, a government chatbot touted by the goldbug infesting the Oval Office as “a damn good” tool calls bullshit on more than a few of his greatest hits.
I tried it. It said Biden won. I used Safari private browsing to go there and cleared all cookies and web data afterwards.
Ho ho ho. Good man y’self. Never give the bastards an inch; they’ll take the whole mile and then some.
Speaking of tech, my man John Gruber at Daring Fireball has been using Kagi for search ever since the old standbys got all algorithm’d up.
It’s a paid service, but may be worth it if you can actually find something you’re searching for.
I have used Duck Duck Go fir years as my search engine. Andy recommended dontcha know and free. It’s one of the choices in the Safari settings.
Couldn’t find out on the Kagi site whether the Duo plan would allow you to set up their searches on all your devices without login hassles. I go from phone to Ipad to Mac laptop like most and want everything to look the same and work the same. Anyone know more about Kagi? I don’t mind paying to in order to avoid the carnival barkers I get on Google. Trackers?
Sweet Jesus….I even think about something for two seconds and next thing I know here comes an email or text. Optery hasn’t proven to worth it IMO.
I haven’t given ’er a whirl yet. But Gruber is an old Apple hand, and pretty fussy. If he’s a fan I’d say it might be worth a test drive.
That being said, I use only a couple-three MacBooks in various flavors/OSes and the ancient iPhone 13 Mini these days. Not exactly your Consumer Reports test kitchen.