Midweek Meh-Ness [DOT 21/5/25]

21/5/25 MegMegMcGee 31

Hope everyone is having a great week so far. I’m crazy busy at work and it’s really annoying!

I’m sorry this is crazy

Trump says U.S. has chosen plan for ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense system
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/20/trump-golden-dome-missile-defense

Florida man voted for his neighbor to get deported and is ‘shocked Pikachu face’ when he gets deported.

In Florida, an immigrant pastor’s detention sends a community reeling
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/19/nx-s1-5387457/florida-community-rallies-around-immigrant-pastor-swept-up-in-crackdown

Medical tourism anyone?

FDA may limit future Covid-19 shots to older people and those at risk of serious infection
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/health/covid-vaccine-fda-changes

Sprots!

As ‘Around the Horn’ ends, Tony Reali debates what went wrong
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/05/20/tony-reali-espn-around-horn-canceled

#RIP Norm!

George Wendt, actor who played Norm on ‘Cheers,’ dead at 76
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/entertainment/george-wendt-death

Have a great day!

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31 Comments

  1. Maybe it had to do with Mina Kimes taking a huge dump on Pete Kegsbreath’s removal of Jackie Robinson from the Pentagon’s History Website?

    Wouldn’t be the first time ESPN got rid of something because it was offensive to Trump and loadmouthed shithead racist sports fans… /cough Dan LeBatard cough/

  4. Evangelical preacher

    Small business owner

    Immigrant (non citizen)

    MAGAt

    Yup. I feel bad for his family and kids, but not him. Same way I’d feel if my MAGAt Uncle and Aunt suddenly found themselves deported… well, I’d laugh a little.

  5. …I remember when ronnie announced star wars to counter nukes…& the iron dome does seem largely to be effective…so…there’s perhaps a way to look at the idea where it wouldn’t be entirely ludicrous…but…to call it the gold version…& claim it will be up & running before his term times out?

    …how long does this caricature of governance keep going before the crashing comes to a halt…because it never had the weight behind it that it claims to & it sheds momentum by the hour so you’d think the idea it keeps trucking for four long years gets harder to credit…the man is delusional & that alone ought to qualify as a clear & present danger to national security?

    • Iron Dome works the same reason why transit in Europe is pretty good compared to most North Murrican municipalities.

      Israel is a small area so you can concentrate radar stations and interceptor sites.

      Some place as huge as Murrica… good luck.

      As for how long till the Trump Admin blows up? Your guess is as good as mine. I suspect that it will happen when food riots happen as the local Walmart runs out of ground beef or when someone decides to start shooting back at COSPlay Delta Farce aka ICE.

    • The big unasked question is “Who will be shooting missiles at us?” That’s not something Israel had to figure out because of their policy toward Palestine, and I suppose you could make a (bad) case at the heights of Cold War paranoia. But now?

      I’m pretty sure this is a “how much money can we funnel to our friends in no-bid contracts” but having a missile defense system also opens us up to doing the sorts of things that would make other countries want to fire missiles at us, and don’t love that path! (It’s also not going to work, but that’s somehow not even in the top 10 problems with all of this.)

      • Cuba, Mexico, Canada as proxies for China, NK or Russia? Submarines? They can probably get away with never answering that unasked question because the MAGAt and Republican mentality is founded on a victim complex.

        My guess is that they build (if they ever get to that point) a couple gold domes near cities which matter to them politically and financially. Of course they will make Canada China, Cuba, NK and Russia foot the bill. Right?

        • Oh yeah, the odds of it actually being built are extremely low, no matter how many billions (trillions?) they funnel into it. And yes, those people are afraid of everything; don’t need to convince them that this will also protect them from [spins wheel] Mexicans and [spins wheel again] gay frogs and [third spin] women asking for divorces.

          But it would be a valuable question to pin down exactly who and what this is meant to protect us from (if we had a media that was interested in those sorts of things).

           

      • I think they want to develop the monitoring etc to make it easier to drop missiles on people and say “well those people were in gangs and illegal immigrants” when it’s random student housing and they posted pro-Palestine support online.

        • im actually inclined to agree with @brightersideoflife here

          im not expecting anyone to be throwing missiles at the us of a…much as we might like to sometimes… pretty sure nobody is stupid enough to start that fight

          now…the us of a deciding to lob missiles at inconvenient parts of itself?

          used to be a time i’d laugh that off and tell you to stop being a moron….

    • It’s horrifying. Especially for his wife and five kids. She is probably terrified that she is next, since she won’t give her full name or let her picture be taken. The detention center is overcrowded and an illness is going around. He’s lost 8lbs in a month. The article did a good job of humanizing him in spite of him being a Republican. Which makes me think of what Fannie Lou Hamer said “no one is free until we are all free” and that includes people who are ignorant/naive and even spitefully motivated to vote against their own interests.

      • Yeah, 100% this: the right spends a lot of time making their voters think that the left wants to kill them and their “way of life.” Meanwhile it’s like, actually, I would love to vote for health care for everyone, and job and financial protections, and fewer spam calls, and better housing, and clean air…

  8. Every time he opens his mouth he gets creepier.

    Billionaire Man-Child Elon Musk Gives His Most Petulant Interview to Date

    Musk said Tuesday that having too many regulations “was a natural consequence of prosperity,” saying that, “this has happened throughout history.”

    “When you have an extended period of prosperity with no existential war, there’s no cleansing function for unnecessary laws and regulations,” Musk said. That’s obviously a rather unnerving thing for Americans to hear when you remember that Musk is both the wealthiest man in the world and a huge defense contractor.

    • …not disagreeing with any of that but it was the part where he clearly seems to fondly believe he is the living embodiment of that cleansing function & has done long enough to persuade an easily manipulated venal old man with grease for brains to let him walk his talk & it’s cost more than it’ll save anyone but him that glared at me enough to click through…&…he’s out there with the people who need people to not be people or the world is too much to get their head around…he called the woman interviewing him an NPC

      …& then there’s this kind of thing

      “There are also people who are buying it because Elon’s crazy, or however they may view it,” Musk joked. “So yes, we’ve lost some sales perhaps on the left, but we’ve gained them on the right. The sales numbers at this point are strong. And we see no problem with demand.”

      …let’s look at the elon-i-est one

      At one point, Tesla boasted having over 1 million reservations for the electric pickup truck, but only about 40,000 people ended up converting their reservations into orders.

      Now, Cybertruck inventory is sitting unsold for months and Tesla is having to offer heavy discounts to move them.

      We previously reported that Tesla refused to accept the Cybertruck, its own vehicle, as a trade-in more than a year after starting deliveries.

      Tesla didn’t share an explanation at the time, but we assumed that the automaker knew the Cybertruck was depreciating at an incredible rate and didn’t want to be stuck with more trucks than it was already dealing with.

      Now, Tesla has started taking Cybertruck trade-ins, at least for the Foundation Series, and it is now providing estimates to Cybertruck owners
      […]
      Tesla sold a brand-new 2024 Cybertruck AWD Foundation Series for $100,000. Now, with only 6,000 miles on the odometer, Tesla is offering $65,400 for it – 34.6% depreciation in just a year.

      Pickup trucks generally lose about 20% of their value after a year and 34% after about 3-4 years.

      It’s also worth noting that Tesla’s online “trade-in estimates” are often higher than the final offer

      [https://electrek.co/2025/05/18/tesla-starts-accepting-cybertruck-trade-ins-confirms-insane-depreciation/]

      …petulance is the word…but it kind of undersells the scale of the specific infestation?

      • His unearned reputation has floated him this far and he worked for President Loudest Liar Wins … you can kinda see why he’d feel like he can just talk his way out of it again.

        The problem is that publicly traded companies kinda have to report some stuff and oops, it all looks disastrous, and it turns out you can’t actually talk your way out of that.

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