President Ramaphosa handled tsf like a true statesman. If you watch the entire oval office fiasco, after tcf rambled on incoherently. The President of SA calmly refuted almost every one of tsff’s distortions and talked of cooperation between the US and SA to correct misinformation. Trump immediately turned away, and went into his pout stance.
ETA This happened, near the end, after Ramaphosa told trump SA didn’t have a jet to give to the US.
Which generally turns out to be the last person he talked to.
This is on par with some disgruntled lunatic in the “2024 Election Autopsy” thread yesterday nattering on and on about how Trump won more men last time because – and I’m NOT making this up – all the economic opportunity in America goes to women.
Seriously.
And Trump takes that weapons-grade bullsh-t to an even higher level by claiming…pink people are the real oppressed minority!
If there EVER were a more pampered, privileged beneficiary of 400+ years of enslaving Africans, reducing women to property, and institutionally discriminating against religious and other minorities, it’s Pink, Xian, Hetero, Non-Disabled, Cis Men.
And, apparently, a byproduct of all those centuries of privilege – which, make no mistake about it, ruthlessly continues at this very moment – is the most asinine, childish, un-self-aware, hissy-fit mentally that life is somehow unfair to them…because they don’t enjoy even MORE privilege
Sure. But the people that count, Trump’s supporters in the public and in Congress, believe Trump. Put to a resolution every single GOP member of the House would sign on condemning the “genocide” in S. Africa.
The current occupant is less important than piling on the guy who is dealing with serious cancer and holds no office. It’s FUCKING CRUELTY TO SELL FUCKING BOOKS
I will not buy or read it. Nor will I watch Jake Tapper again anywhere he shows up
CNN is off my viewing and reading list
I took today and tomorrow off, got a nice long weekend. Lots to do, Spring is busy.
I have started a Linseed Oiling operation. Not to mention my outhouse garden shed (The Lindseed Graham suite), and my rebuilt wheelbarrow…I have a ton of thirsty garden tools and handles/poles. Right now, 27 different garden weasels, hoes, rakes, shovels, pickaxes, axehandles etc. leaning or strung up and drying. Haven’t stepped on a rake yet. I got plenty of metal and fiberglass handled tools that get a pass.
My kid just bought a house and I have been reconditioning/salvaging and offloading all the extra tools I was keeping for just this moment. That includes lots of auto and woodworking tools and home implements and power equipment. Weed whackers, mowers, blowers, drills, sawzalls, sanders, etc. All electric corded or battery powered. No gas.
I have a couple of brands of cordless tools I have collected…buying new when there is a great deal and picking up used that fit the battery platforms. So I was able to gift one whole platform of new/used tools and batteries/chargers.
Here I am using a piece of gutter and sacrificing a plastic drop-cloth to lay all the long pieces into the oil. It’s amazing stuff. Many are 20-50 years old (some older) and sadly…quite a few never had any attention or care. I glue them up and bind them up and sand and fix and then the oil. Most of that old wood is beautiful.
Burn the rag(s) at the end of each day in a muddy far corner of my driveway.
REPORTER: Tells us more about that!
Totally agree. I often feel manipulated by the coverage of these things.
Its not really that Americans don’t want to know how the sausage is made, its that they lie about who gets to throw in all that added fat, nitrites and fillers into the fucking thing, and then say it was all a fait accompli anyway, after they finished up their “butchering”. Like we’re too dumb to understand how we’ve been snookered all along. Its often a case of classic misdirection.
And probably tempered by the thought that it can’t be THIS bad once it’s carved up by the Senate and the House is forced to negotiate it down. Can it? Can it?
“through a glass darkly” covers the entire field of view when speaking of our times by optical metaphor
Which is why I stopped trying to make sense of anything he says or tweets. His scrambled brain makes him blurt out a fetid stew of stupid stuff and lies and braggadocio and things he won’t remember tomorrow.
Don’t strain yourself trying to figure it out. It means absolutely nothing. Any of it. All that matters is what his handlers make him do. That’s all I pay attention to. I scroll past his endless rants because they’re as meaningful as the drugged-out babbling of a nutcase on the streetcorner.
I’m pretty sure SNAP benefits involving local produce and other agricultural products were cut early on. New England and the Hudson River Valley have lots of small farms that sell a lot of their produce via SNAP, and I was reading weeks ago in our local paper about how cutting this program would hurt local farmers. Farmers in other parts of the country will also be affected, of course.
Litigants usually have to post a bond to obtain a temporary injunction or TRO. It’s intended to compensate the opponent for whatever damages they may incur as a result of the injunction should the plaintiff’s case ultimately fail. But the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allow the court to waive that security, and they frequently do so when the injunction is just aimed at ordering the government not to do illegal stuff.
And the entire thing is freaking pointless because courts can easily issue new orders backed by “nominal security,” i.e., gimme $1 and then the injunction goes intro effect.
I wondered how it was doing with your other pet. Looking good.
I have a scene from Terms of Endearment in my head every time I go to the grocery store and put too much in my cart than I can afford…I’ve recalled that one part so many times…
I have been in that position more times than I can count.
(Btw, that movie was made in 1983 as this country was coming out of one of the more difficult recessions the country had been in, in a long time too.)
Would Hegseth and those pastors approve of Satanic worship services in the Pentagon while the Army marching band breaks into some Black Sabbath?
