I can probably keep this short as you’re still reading yesterday’s DOT at this point…
Today is my Mom’s 84th birthday so happy Bday to Mrs. McGee.
Drone Targets U.S. Consulate in Dubai as Iran Escalates Attacks
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-israel-us-strikes-2026
Trump denies that Israel forced USโs hand in launching strikes against Iran
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/03/trump-israel-iran-war
More of this por favor
Father of Georgia school shooting suspect found guilty of murder and manslaughter
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/03/georgia-school-shooting-suspect-father-guilty
Kristi Noem refuses to retract statement calling Minnesotans killed by federal agents โdomestic terroristsโ
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/03/kristi-noem-senate-hearing-minnesota-ice-shootings
He’s right tho
The candy heir vs. chocolate skimpflation
https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/03/03/g-s1-111940/the-candy-heir-vs-chocolate-skimpflation
Have a good day!
…really not trying to repeat yesterday’s performance…& actually do have probably enough on today to ensure that’s even true…but…gah
You know, I work on a boring IT team at a boring company and don’t do anything important in the grand scheme of anything.
And even my teams understand the point of “get your story straight when you open your mouth about a project,” something our government clearly cannot manage.
Who can take a Reese’s cup?
(Who can take a Reese’s cup?)
Mix in some chemical goo
(Mix in some chemical goo)
Cover it with a label and a marketing lie or two
The Hershey Man (the Hershey man)
The Hershey Man can (the Hershey man can)
The Hershey Man can ’cause he mixes it with tariffs
And hope the Murrica don’t care
(Hope the Murrica don’t care)
If Hershey’s wants to go the route of the “chocolate candy product,” they need to have Sixlet prices.
Weiner dog chaos indeed. I think about the ones in our family. They’d be those running around barking in circles unless mom was at the other side. She drew them like a magnet and they all ran to her (mostly for food.)
This is what happens when you have stupid people pulling the strings of power.
Dan “Arrr” Crenshaw lost his TX primary because he didn’t lick Trump’s taint enough and this is why the rest of the world will have a hard time forgiving the Murrica because you have fuckwit places like this who don’t care what’s going on elsewhere and loyalty to Trump is al that matters.
Do you think he saw it coming?
Wait. We’re attacking Ecuador now? Fuck Godwin, this is Hitler shit, attacking every country you can.
Trump Launches Military Operation in Yet Another Country
I have a better link…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/03/us-military-operations-ecuador-00811272
I’m aghast at the FIFA Peace Prize winner authorizing military attacks. A true mark against this otherwise august honorific.
Suffice to say this should do it for everyone:
I do hate to hoperpost but last night was pretty terrific for the forces of … well, I don’t want to say “good” so let’s go with less bad. Three NC Dems in their statehouse went against a governor’s veto to pass some GOP anti-trans bullshit. All three got wrecked in their primaries, including the also-pro-ICE one losing 70%-22% (not a misprint.) Voters mad!
Talarico winning clean(-ish; the Dallas precinct voting thing is eyebrow raising vis a vis electoral fuckery later this year) with far higher turnout and Cornyn/Paxton needing a runoff are both good signs in Texas. I’m not hopeful there, necessarily, but it’s in play.
Smart people need not apply…
https://popular.info/p/the-meritocracy-exposed-internal
It’s the same at the Pill Factory. Loyalty to a clan or frat or certain engineering skule or certain execubots was more important. To be fair, I’m glad I never got trapped in that hamster wheel. If I was a miserable shit as a production ape then I’d be way more miserable as a process engineer especially after all the (improvements and ego punching) shit I pulled off.
i mean…trumps hissy fit about spain earlier was fun n all…but
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/white-house-spain-has-agreed-cooperate-with-us-military-2026-03-04/
holy shit leavitt… did nobody ever tell you that if you’re gonna make up shit…you best do so about someone what cant talk back?
tho i am aware…zero fucks are given about how shit is taken across the pond… this is just about keeping trump and the base happy
tho…i really am beginning to think this current administration is actually made of the worst american posters on the interwebs…
you know..the ones that actually believe europe is a third world country without proper internet or colour tv….
the arrogance is hard to let slide
…see now if I’d waited maybe the reply would have been better here…but…they are the content coup committee for sure, yes
…they think the world is now the internet & twitter is the high ground…& somehow that they’re all either luke skywalker or han despite being either a palpatine wannabe or a hutt
…& hegseth probably thinks stormtroopers are famous marksmen & says he watched those films
…it’s fucking delusional…& yet…here we all are having to live their dysfunction rather than have any chance of anything happening that doesn’t have fucking-stupid running through it like letters in a stick of rock
P.S.
…on the off chance this isn’t what made you say the thing to begin with…case in point
hahahaha oh fuck no thats not why i said what i said
thats somehow worse and sadder
congratulations… you are now north korea far as media blurbles go
i uhh.. you know.i dont know how to put a positive spin on that..
twould appear you have found a way to turn a position of strength into a position of ridicule…
this would be a lot funnier if you didnt hava all the nukes and president thin skin
…yeah…it’s not great to be saying shit to the home crowd in front of a watching world that knows you lying
…whether the part where it “works for him” with that domestic audience makes that worse is perhaps…academic…in the sense that it clearly is worse if it does but the ways it’s bad in the rest-of-the-world context & the ways it’s bad that it might play fine domestically are different…if overlapping…kinds of bad?
…for the full hat-trick you gotta wonder how much of the extortion racket in an administration costume that doesn’t fit actually believes this stuff…the orange mush might…mush isn’t really mind so he’d probably pass a polygraph while contradicting himself…but…does anyone else out there enabling him actually think any of the shit they put out is remotely tethered to reality at this point?
well… one of the stereotypes about americans over here…is that they are not even a little bit curious about the world….beyond the borders of the greatest nation…
and you know…that probably explains why leavitt feels like she can just make shit up….coz odd are…the people wont look further..
as to the full hat trick point…i actually think very few people enabling him believe any of it…..but they see personal gain
…can’t argue with the last bit…here & there I think some had their bits they really did do the sunk costs thing with…like MTG…the pivot is to keep the grift going but the betrayed framing seems like it might be really how she feels because she thought the insincere for-desired-effect stuff was the leopard that would never eat *her* pet stuff with the cute faces everyone loved
…whoever let them keep making their shortlist for ayatollah replacements while bibi’s bunch had those on the gone-now list…& somehow told him he could give bibi the cake he literally said delightedly he’d been waiting to taste for 40years…but also that even though they couldn’t do it without him also they would go first so it wasn’t war when he did it & then he could get his gonna-be-dead candidate in place & tell everyone how it went even better than venezuela…is either very, very good at what they do…or…he/they is/are somehow even dumber than I think…which…seems implausible…& yet?
oh..almost forgot…
happy birthday mrs. McGee ๐
many happy returns