…fuck it…maybe I just start drinking at breakfast now

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Wednesday chose Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who became one of his most enthusiastic backers, to serve as the director of national intelligence.

Ms. Gabbard, a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve who served in Iraq, has been a longtime critic of the foreign policy establishment. Her nomination is another sign that Mr. Trump intends to give top foreign policy jobs to supporters who are deeply skeptical of the effectiveness of U.S. military intervention abroad.

In a statement, Mr. Trump said Ms. Gabbard would bring “a fearless spirit” to the intelligence agencies and secure “peace through strength.”

The statement announcing the nomination said she was a former Democrat who had joined the Republican Party “because of President Trump’s leadership and how he has been able to transform the Republican Party, bringing it back to the party of the people and the party of peace.”

…if you can just…say that shit…& we all have to go “sure, chief – if you say so I guess it must be true”…& ignore…oh…I dunno

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/04/the-gops-new-russia-friendly-campaign-trail-buddy-tulsi-gabbard

…it’s so hard to remember stuff while my intelligence is being so fucking insulted

Tulsi Gabbard’s journey to Donald Trump is an ominous sign of Putin’s power
byu/Quirkie inpolitics

…it’s on the tip of my tongue

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/01/politics/tulsi-gabbard-cpac-ukraine-russia/index.html

…oh, yeah…that’s what it was

Tulsi Gabbard Is a Uniquely Bad Choice For Director of National Intelligence [Mother Jones]

…& they have all three heads of the hydra…plus the supreme court…so…even if at some point the grown ups put elon & el toddler viejo in a ball pit somewhere while they buckle down to project gilead 1.0…come january it isn’t going to be a brave new world…it’s going to be the cocky arrogant sort of a new world that the older worlds are going to kick the shit out of & extort lunch money out of while it runs away crying for its mommy

The news of Ms. Gabbard’s appointment was first revealed by Roger Stone on his X account. Mr. Stone, a longtime friend and adviser to Mr. Trump who was pardoned by the president in 2020, posted the statement about Ms. Gabbard and said Mr. Trump had just sent it to him.

…this is literally just fucking trolling as politics…fucking where are all the damn ninja…or thunderbolts…I’m not fussy…why hasn’t some deity settled the thing by putting all these assholes all over the damn world out of our collective misery like an inverse rapture & then claimed responsibility like a guy with an irish accent & a confirmation code that makes the newspapers believe him when he claims his lot are taking responsiblity for that shit that blew up?

Along with John Ratcliffe, Mr. Trump’s choice to lead the C.I.A., she would be a top intelligence adviser to the White House. She would oversee 18 spy agencies and would be responsible for preparing the President’s Daily Brief, a written intelligence summary assembled each morning. In his first administration, Mr. Trump did not often read the written summary. But he held in-person intelligence briefings, often twice a week or more, engaging his briefers on world affairs, at least on topics that interested him.

…compared to this shit putting that fucking dipshit in for head of DoD is some 4D galaxy brain chessboxing master-stroke…even after he winds up getting “accidentally” fragged observing a training exercise…in the manner of officers whose men chose not to risk dying for the stupidity of enough in vietnam they had slang for it…I just…the shit is so far beyond merely earth-shatteringly dumb & into wantonly destructively nihilistically flirting-with-the-apocalypse fucking dementedly fucking stupid as to defy credulity…except…we’re just supposed to nod along because 10s of millions of americans would rather not notice the overwhelming evidence to support the part where this is how it would look if someone wanted to cause a world war…that the west would be as likely as possible to lose…while setting fire to the US itself just for the sake of adding to the ambience?

“These are extraordinarily serious jobs,” said Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “It’s why the Senate has an advise and consent process. I have a lot of questions.”

[…] in a debate that November, Ms. Gabbard called out Democrats for being beholden to “the foreign policy establishment in Washington.” She went on to say that Democrats were overly influenced by “the military industrial complex.”
[…]
She also expressed skepticism about the Obama administration’s intervention in Syria, which included airstrikes on Islamic State fighters and a deployment of military advisers. In 2017, Ms. Gabbard met with Mr. Assad. The visit drew criticism because of his human rights record.

Her opposition to President Barack Obama’s policy in Syria developed into a broader critique of both the Republicans’ and the Democrats’ foreign policy, which she said wrongly believed that U.S. military power could solve overseas crises.
[…]
After Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Ms. Gabbard posted a video on social media repeating a false claim pushed by the Kremlin that the United States was funding biological weapons labs in Ukraine.

The post prompted Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, to say that Ms. Gabbard was “parroting false Russian propaganda.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/trump-tulsi-gabbard-director-national-intelligence.html

…when the less dire way things could go involve incompetence-induced career implosions in some of the most consequential posts in an administration…that’s a special kind of fucked

Mr. Hegseth’s book, “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free,” was published in June.

“Our ‘elites’ are like the feckless drug-addled businessmen at Nakatomi Plaza, looking down on Bruce Willis’s John McClane in ‘Die Hard,’” Mr. Hegseth wrote in the New York Times best seller. “But there will come a day when they realize they need John McClane — that in fact their ability to live in peace and prosperity has always depended on guys like him being honorable, powerful and deadly.”

…they are playing fantasy league government…with…if someone doesn’t fucking sort this insane clown posse from wish.com the fuck out…the actual fucking government

During a recent podcast interview, Mr. Hegseth said that General Brown, who is by law the senior military adviser to the president and the most senior American military general, should be fired for being too “woke,” a term for those who support diversity and inclusion.

…forget the part where allies are even now trying to figure out how to fire-wall their side of intelligence sharing deals because anything the US sees is insane to consider actuallly confidental any more come the reign of king gorge…listen to I-play-a-general-on-tv talk about the guys with better qualifications

Mr. Hegseth also asked in his book whether General Brown, an African American Air Force fighter pilot with 130 combat flying hours and 40 years of service, would have gotten the job as Joint Chiefs chairman if he were not Black.

…I dunno…willie pete or whatever your fucking name is…would you have gotten this nomination if you weren’t whiter than wonderbread & roughly as smart?

Mr. Hegseth expressed surprise that he had not received “more blowback” to his book because, he said on the “Shawn Ryan Show” podcast, “I’m straight up just saying, we should not have women in combat roles.”
[…]
He vocally supported Mr. Trump in 2017 after the racial storm in Charlottesville, Va., during which a white nationalist killed a protester when he crashed his car into the crowd.
[…]
“I think the president nailed it,” Mr. Hegseth said on “Fox & Friends” after the protests. “He condemned in the strongest possible terms hatred and bigotry on all sides as opposed to immediately picking a side out the gate.”

…no prizes for guessing which bigoted side pete picked before he even knew there was a gate to get out of

Any “general, admiral, whatever” involved in diversity and inclusion in the military, including General Brown, “has got to go,” Mr. Hegseth said in the same episode of the Shawn Ryan podcast, using a profanity to describe such programs.
[…]
After joining Fox News as a commentator, Mr. Hegseth repeatedly supported service members accused of war crimes, including Maj. Mathew L. Golsteyn of the Army Special Forces, First Lt. Clint Lorance of the Army and Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher of the Navy SEALs.

In Fox appearances and in interviews with family members of the accused, Mr. Hegseth portrayed the men as heroes and victims, wrongly prosecuted by stateside bureaucrats who did not understand the complexities of combat.

…see…he wants the military full of dudes who’d frag a CO like it was just another tuesday…I’m telling you…if ever I saw a guy who could die from just officiating a march past of unarmed troops…it’s this fucking asshat?

Notably absent from those interviews were the troops who served with the men.

Multiple platoon members serving under Lieutenant Lorance and Chief Gallagher directly contradicted Mr. Hegseth’s characterizations in court, describing the killings by their leaders as coldblooded, unnecessary and in no way related to the confusion of combat.

“War is hard; there is collateral damage,” Staff Sgt. Daniel Williams said in an interview. “I get that. I’ve got my own stories,” But Sergeant Williams, who was on his third tour in Afghanistan and was a squad leader in the platoon, added, “That’s not what this was; this was straight murder.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/trump-defense-pete-hegseth.html

…the guy thought jack nicholson was the hero of a few good men…&…his hand eye coordination leaves a lot to be desired

Man sues ‘Fox & Friends’ host after being struck by ax on set [The Hill]

…if you’re thinking, wait – what?

…it didn’t really do that…the guy out of sight of the axe-lobbing lumpen-jack who was playing a drum may have been more surprised that the thing that hit him bounced off than he was to be suddenly hit with an axe out of nowhere thrown by a fuckwit who couldn’t even see where it landed…& that was on live TV…das oranjefuhrer maybe saw it in real time, even

In his victory speech last week, Donald Trump declared that a “historic realignment” in American politics had occurred. His claim has been echoed by Republican intellectuals. In a podcast the day after, Michael Needham, the chairman of American Compass, said, “We are seeing the realignment come to mind.”

…if the inmates murder the physicians & say they’re running the asylum…do you think we’d call it a historic realignment of the mental health paradigm?

There is, however, a stronger meaning of “realignment.” That is not only when the party coalitions change, but also when one party’s coalition comes to dominate American politics. It becomes an enduring majority party the way the Republicans did in 1896 and the Democrats did in 1932, controlling over more than a decade, with only a few interruptions, the presidency and both houses of Congress. This is probably what Mr. Trump had in mind when he boasted of a “historic realignment.”

…I dunno…once bitten…twice…uhh…involuntarily mauled? …all I know is it’s hard to believe anything it sounds like I might want to hear at this point?

There are reasons to doubt that what happened on Nov. 5 is that sort of realignment.

…see what I mean?

Mr. Trump’s and the Republican Party’s coalition consists of the working class (primarily but not exclusively white); traditionally Republican small-business people, including farmers; upper-level private-sector white-collar workers; and a wealthy donor class drawn from finance and real estate, fossil fuels and most recently, high technology. The donor class is important. In Mr. Trump’s campaign this year, according to Open Secrets, about 70 percent of his contributions came from large donors.

As a candidate, Mr. Trump possessed a striking ability as a shape-shifter, able to take several positions at once on a variety of topics and still inspire aspirations from a range of people. In the context of a campaign, he is a highly talented political entertainer, a sort of conjurer.

But stepping into the White House and governing is a very different context. What Mr. Trump is promising for his second term — the actual choices he will have to make about policy — and the makeup of that coalition do not appear to be the building blocks of a durable majority coalition. Combined, they appear to have great potential for a crackup.

Some proposals could unite elements of the coalition. For example, immigration policy. Some of business supporters depend on a growing immigrant labor market, including undocumented workers, but Mr. Trump can potentially satisfy them by enlarging guest worker programs.

Mr. Trump can also maintain support of his coalition by opposing climate-change regulation, a stance that unites many blue-collar workers and businesses, including farms, that depend on petroleum-based products. One of Mr. Trump’s principal backers, Elon Musk, gave Mr. Trump a pass on removing the subsidies for electric vehicle purchases that Mr. Musk seems to think would hurt legacy car companies and not his own.

But there are plenty of issues that could fracture this coalition. Even immigration cuts both ways. He might try to carry out his promise of deporting millions of illegal immigrants, a project that could not just wreak havoc among families and in communities but also cause economic chaos.

Or take tariffs. Mr. Trump’s working-class voters who lament the loss of jobs to China have supported his trade initiatives, including his plan to slap as high as a 60 percent tariff on Chinese goods. But Mr. Trump’s first-term tariffs provoked retaliation from China, and angered Republican farmers and Senate Republicans. Much higher tariffs could meet with opposition from Mr. Trump’s high-tech backers, who depend on the Chinese market, and from his financial donors, who still have investments in China. Unlike most Republican initiatives, tariffs, if successful, work by imposing short-term costs in prices in order to achieve long-term gains in jobs from otherwise endangered industries. It’s the short-term costs — another round of inflation, this time imposed by Mr. Trump — that might endanger the Republican coalition.

On health care, some Republicans still want to repeal Obamacare. JD Vance has talked about reforms that could remove important protections for many Americans with pre-existing conditions. As Mr. Trump and his Republican allies in Congress found out in the 2018 midterms (when the G.O.P. lost control of the House), potentially imposing hardship on the working-class base through policies that threaten its access to health care — or education or child care — is not a winning electoral strategy.

Many business backers of Mr. Trump and his congressional allies are hostile to any labor regulation, including for health and safety, and to conventional environmental regulation. They would be unhappy with a significant increase in the minimum wage. In Mr. Trump’s campaign, he promised a raft of tax exceptions for workers and Social Security beneficiaries, but some congressional Republicans are already expressing skepticism about the costs of these promises.

To hold his coalition together, Mr. Trump and whoever aspires to succeed him also need to retain a modicum of public approval outside of what are currently Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters. To do that, he has to marginalize what could be called the “kooks.” Ronald Reagan succeeded in keeping his coalition together and winning re-election at least in part by consigning a single representative of Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority to a junior position in the Education Department. Mr. Trump was not successful in doing this during his first term, and he may prove even less successful in his second term.
[…]
The final obstacle to a strong realignment is Mr. Trump himself, who is consumed with the quest for power and self-aggrandizement, and appears eager to seek revenge against his detractors. Many of his difficulties during his first term stemmed from his own misbehavior, and he continues to revel in division and divisiveness.

Trump Called His Win a ‘Historic Realignment’ of U.S. Politics. We Have Our Doubts. [NYT]

…I mean…no shortage of people headed for reins of various sorts of power who very definitely should be in prison…or under it…possibly even noticeably more than usual…but…wishing doesn’t make it so…so

When Trump left office in 2021, before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war between Israel and Hamas and Hezbollah, one could argue that we were still in the “post-Cold War” era, dominated by increasing economic integration and Great Power peace. Russia had taken a bite out of Ukraine, but never attempted to devour the whole thing. Iran and Israel were hostile, but never directly attacked each other.

Israel occupied the West Bank, but never had a government whose official coalition agreement included formal annexation of the whole West Bank and now has members advocating the same for Gaza. America did not care for the Houthis in Yemen, but we had never sent B-2 stealth bombers to drop some of the largest payloads in our arsenal on them.

In short, a lot of bright red lines have been crossed since Trump occupied the big White House. And restoring them, and “making America great again,” will almost certainly require more subtle and sophisticated uses of force and coercive diplomacy than the isolationist Trump ever contemplated in his first administration or suggested in his campaigns.

In Israel, where I am right now, one of the farthest right members of Israel’s far-right government, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, has not wasted any time, declaring on Monday that Trump’s new presidency presents an “important opportunity” to “apply Israeli sovereignty to the settlements in Judea and Samaria,” using the biblical names for areas of the West Bank. He added, “The year 2025 will, with God’s help, be the year of sovereignty” in these occupied territories.

…I think he always looks like a loser…so I don’t find this actually makes me feel any better

Putin, Aron added, cannot afford to come back to the Russian people after some 600,000 of their compatriots have been killed and wounded in Ukraine, and say, “Oops, sorry, we are not going to control Ukraine after all.” Putin cannot let this war end in defeat. But Trump cannot accept a peace that looks like a defeat for the West. Then he would look like a loser.

…but then again

If there is any chance of a mutually acceptable deal on Ukraine — a long-term cease-fire roughly on existing battle lines in return for some lifting of sanctions on Russia and accelerated membership for Ukraine in the European Union along with security guarantees but not formal NATO membership

…what the fuck about that is mutually acceptable?

The fact that Putin had to effectively hire 10,000 North Korean forces to help fight his reckless war in Ukraine shows two things: how afraid he is to stop without a visible victory “and how afraid he is of a societal backlash if he is forced to send into the trenches raw 18-year-old ethnic-Russian conscripts, especially from Moscow and St. Petersburg where the Russian elite lives,” said Aron, author of “Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Uses of War.”

“Putin is not in a position to have a forever war,” concluded Aron. “He is running out of people.” All of which is to say that if Trump is capable of sustaining Ukraine in its current battlefield position for 12 more months, he might get the deal to end the Ukraine war in a year that he promised in the campaign to deliver in a day.

…he’ll probably just have them say on fox & friends that he did it & not actually try…that seems to be how he thinks immunity-president-powers work

“Five years ago, Washington sanctioned Huawei, cutting off the Chinese company’s access to advanced U.S. technologies because it feared the telecommunications giant would spy on Americans and their allies.” It continues: “Huawei struggled at first — but now it’s come roaring back. Bolstered by billions of dollars in state support, Huawei has expanded into new businesses, boosted its profitability and found fresh ways to curb its dependence on U.S. suppliers. It has held on to its leading position in the global telecom-equipment market.” And now, it adds, Huawei is “making a big comeback in high-end smartphones, using sophisticated new chips developed in-house to take buyers from Apple.” [this part was from WSJ]

That’s the thing about the world — it is always so much more complicated than it sounds on the campaign trail, and today more than ever. Or as the boxer Mike Tyson is said to have observed: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/opinion/trump-had-it-easy-the-first-time.html

…speaking of people you wish got punched in the face more…maybe by you

A large part of what a majority of Americans voted for last week was the Trump campaign’s virulent misogyny. Trump himself, an adjudicated rapist who has bragged about both committing sexual assault and engineering the reversal of Roe v Wade, speaks of women in vulgar, degrading terms. He picked a running mate who has denigrated childless women as “psychotic” “cat ladies”. His adviser and funder Elon Musk, who seems to have designs on becoming something of a shadow president in Trump’s second term, is a techno-fascist pro-natalist who goes around offering women insemination.

The Trump campaign positioned itself as a champion of a hierarchical gender order, aiming to restore men to a place of wrongfully deprived supremacy over women. Many of his voters cast their lot in with Trump hoping that he would do just that.

Now, after Trump’s victory, some of his supporters have adopted a slogan which neatly joins the movement’s twin projects of forced sex and forced pregnancy: “Your body, my choice.”

“Your body, my choice,” was coined by the far-right, pro-Nazi internet troll and Trump dinner guest Nick Fuentes on the night of the election. “Your body, my choice,” Fuentes tweeted. “Forever.” It’s a taunting inversion of the pro-choice slogan “my body, my choice”, meant to assert women’s autonomy: instead, “your body, my choice” presents women’s full citizenship and freedom as laughable, asserting, in gleeful terms, the male supremacy that will now carry for the force of policy and law under a new Trump administration.

In response to Fuentes’s post, pro-Trump men have adopted the slogan en masse to troll women online. An analysis from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found that the use of the phrase soared on social media in the days following the election, along with similar misogynist phrases like “get back in the kitchen”, and the use of sexist slurs directed at liberal and progressive women like Kamala Harris and Rachel Maddow. Female TikTok users reported a flood of such comments, with “your body, my choice” chief among them on the platform. And young girls in schools, along with their teachers and parents, reported incidents of the phrase being yelled out by boys in taunting jeers of harassment and intimidation in the days following the election.

“Your body, my choice” is a rejection of women’s rights to control their own bodies in more ways than one. In addition to the phrase’s sneering inversion of a pro-choice phrase, rejecting the abortion right and claiming the overturn of Roe as a victory for men, the phrase has a second, dual meaning: as a rape threat. The men and boys who use it are not merely taunting women with the threat of an unwanted, forced pregnancy. They are taunting them with the threat of forced sex.

It is not always a connection that the misogynist right has made so explicit. In other eras, the anti-choice movement has adopted an overtly religious attitude of sexual repression, aiming to restrict abortion as a means of restricting sexuality across the board. But this preacherly, sexually repressed masculinity is not the masculinity of today’s misogynist rightwing movement. Rather, the Maga right is one that sees sex not as something that must be rendered shameful and pushed out of the public sphere, but as a weapon that can be used to punish, humiliate and dominate women.

This new, avowedly and vulgarly sexual rightwing masculinity is what Fuentes was crystalizing in his snide little coinage of “your body, my choice”: it is one that aims to use physical and sexual force to coerce women into a degraded gendered role, one subject to men’s domination and only partial, limited and conditional in its citizenship and access to the public sphere. In this sense, their projects in joyfully celebrating rape and restricting women’s access to abortion are two sides of the same coin: the right seeks to dominate women and to commandeer the inside of their bodies so as to force them into a gendered role against their will, be that role as sex object or as mother.
[…]
There is no use pretending that this is not what the Trump movement is. And there is no use in pretending that this is not what many of the men who voted for Trump hoped to achieve when they supported him. Much of the pre-election coverage of the gender dynamics of Trump’s campaign has disappeared in the days following the election, and perhaps this unpleasant reality is why: most Americans voted for a man they have every reason to believe is a rapist. For some of them, at least, that was not a liability, but an asset.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/13/your-body-my-choice-maga-men

…& pea-brained neanderthal-fivehead-sporting dipshits who have those people saved as venmo favorites

Matt Gaetz resigns from Congress, ending ethics probe after Trump nominated him for attorney general [AP]

…you couldn’t make it up

https://www.advocate.com/politics/matt-gaetz-trump-attorney-general

…what am I saying…making it up is literally all they do

On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump has depicted the nation’s public schools as purveyors of an extreme ideology on gender and race. One of his proposed remedies is to revive a Reagan-era call to shut down the federal Department of Education, founded in 1979.

“We will move everything back to the states, where it belongs” he said in one speech. “They can individualize education and do it with the love for their children.”
[…]
Lost in the back and forth over this relatively small federal agency is any discussion of what the department — affectionately known in Washington policy circles as “Ed” — actually does, and what the practical impact would be of shuttering it (if that is even possible).

…it belongs with the states worked for him with abortion…so maybe the suckers suck that down & ask to go again…but fuck that noise

The Trump campaign did not respond to a question about how, specifically, Mr. Trump proposed to close the Department of Education while also using its powers.

In a written statement, Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the campaign, said, “President Trump has always supported bringing education back to the states, closest to parents and educators, where it belongs.”

…you can say it over & over…but it’s not a replacement for years of schooling most of you sound like you need to start over from scratch so you wouldn’t sound so incredibly fucking ignorant…but sure…education should be up to the states & the department for education is the bad guy…in a world where these people get to hold these posts…the lie is truthier than the truth

While the agency’s involvement in K-12 issues has often been in the spotlight politically, by far the Department of Education’s biggest expenditure is on higher education.

More than 70 percent of its $224 billion annual budget goes to the federal student aid program. The agency provides more than $90 billion in new loans to students annually, which are distributed by colleges and serviced by the federal government through private contractors.

It also offers $39 billion in Pell Grants annually to low-income students, which generally do not need to be paid back. It administers the federal work-study program and gives grants to students who promise to work as teachers in hard-to-staff subjects or schools.

Under President Biden, the Department of Education canceled more than $167 billion in student debt for 4.75 million borrowers, about 10 percent of those who hold a federal student loan. Mr. Trump and other Republicans have often opposed that effort, arguing it is an unfair giveaway to the college educated and an overstep of the agency’s authority.

The limited federal funding for K-12 schools commonly pays for special-education aides, school social workers, tutoring programs and additional teachers to lower class sizes. The department also has a research arm that collects data on student achievement and points toward best practices in the classroom. Following its guidance is mostly optional.

It is not easy for a president to withhold federal dollars from schools. The money flows out according to formulas preset by Congress, and it is targeted toward particular groups, such as low-income students and children with disabilities.

…know why kids learning isn’t covered by “discretionary” spending?

And to close the department entirely? That would also have to go through Congress. Lawmakers would have to vote to disband the agency, a highly unlikely proposition, according to education experts in both parties.

…because some shit it pays you so well to do that you’d have to be the world’s biggest sucker not to take that deal

Some staunch liberals like Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, opposed the creation of the department. They believed all of the issues impacting children — health care, nutrition, cash welfare and education — should be handled by a single federal agency, then known as the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
[…]
Still, over the next four decades, Ed became a part of the beltway firmament, popular with Democrats and many Republicans, too. Many of the programs Ed oversees are sources of bipartisan comity, such as funding for vocational education.

Trump Wants to Shut Down the Department of Education? Is That Possible? [NYT]

…maybe if I think real hard about being king of somewhere while saying “who will rid me of these troublesome pieces of shit?”…the universe might…provide?

…& if I get a moment I’ll try to do better with the tunes than I did the other day…but…I look like having a lot of the same obstacles between me & that…so…it could be worse…which…I wish wasn’t about the only thing to be said about quite so much stuff that didn’t make it sound like it already covered that part?