…ok folks…I know it’s friday & all…& in so far as I’m keeping track of the days these days I would personally prefer to be able to consider the weekend sacred because in my undoubtedly biased opinion that is the stuff sanity is made of…fuck it…if it were up to me the weekend would outweigh the week four days to three…but alas like so many things…up to & including the frankly absurd length this wound up stretching to…altogether too many things are sadly beyond my control…& I’m pretty sure it’s not just me
A decades-long criminal investigation compared in scale to the probe into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Lockerbie bombing has ended with the case unsolved as investigators said they were calling off the hunt for answers to the 1986 killing of then prime minister, Olof Palme.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/olof-palme-mystery-swedish-prime-minister-s-murder-still-unsolved-n1229006
…sometimes “the big ones” seem to get away from us…life can be funny that way, I’m told
…not “funny, ha ha” funny
…maybe, “if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry” funny…so let’s not dwell for now on the the depth of the rabbit hole they tapped & called a well & worry a little more for now on how the waters are rising
…because you can be sure some boats will stay afloat no matter the tides
…but when things like this tank & the losses are counted it always reminds me that maths really isn’t the same thing as economics
…& as someone once said, there are lies, damned lies & statistics
…it always helps to know who to ask…& really pick your moment
…because these salad days can’t last forever
…why it’s almost as though someone looked at the problem through a smeared lens…like watching Fox & Friends through a film of KFC grease or something…& thought to themselves, “if I were a third rate salesman of corporate snake oil known for welching on deals & cooking the books looking for big ticket numbers I could juggle to make it look like the whole business wasn’t in the shitter before off-loading the fatally-wounded carcass onto some poor sucker who ought to be enjoying a nice retirement somewhere – what would I do?”
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/should-u-s-refuse-pay-back-its-1-trillion-debt-n1227351
…because these books are gonna take a lot of cooking
“The downturn has not fallen equally on all Americans.”
…burnt on the outside & frozen in the middle…ain’t that a bitch?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/11/unemployment-claims-coronavirus/
…& the outlook seems choppy at best
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/10/fed-forecasts-economy/
…so…remind me again what part of the current globe-spanning shitstorm in particular was it that caused “the markets” to take a dent a bunch of people might feel in their retirement fund?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/11/markets-today-fed-coronavirus/
…gotta wonder, though…whose nerves are really feeling the bite of that “economic pain”?
…or…to look at it a little differently
…& shit is starting to get about as real as anything can that’s saturated in such a sweeping current of toxic bullshit & specious narratives
…you’re going to notice that there’s some language coming out of the higher echelons of the military that tries very hard to stress the importance of an apolitical suite of armed forces
…& I’m not about to claim I know how true that is if you stack up the aggregate mass of political sentiment across those institutions but I know that as points go it seems like one that probably can’t be overstated, so if the man wants to really underline that it’s the point he’s trying to make then sure, let’s do that
…because that commander-in-chief bullshit can tend to go to an asshole’s head & if those folks start going all-in on that brand of bullshit like a certain billious bill barr-nothing-the-least-general-attorney-ever-appointed that could go the sort of way that winds up with the preppers looking to be so smug it might just fucking kill me…& while we’re talking about prepping
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/11/william-barr-attorney-general-trump-protests
…maybe I could have cut this…it’s the same shit after all…but the point is we can see this stuff…it’s right fucking there
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/10/william-barr-white-house-protest-crackdown
…& it sure as shit seems like it doesn’t smell a whole lot fresher up close
…& exactly none of this shit…when you get down to it…is fucking surprising…because it’s nothing if not fucking consistent in what you’d have to be insanely charitable to refer to as its “character”…as in witness
…this apparently endless farce of prodigious proportions is many things
…but to go back to the consistent thing…& character
…unless I’m mistaken Flynn has “associates” currently awaiting trial on charges directly related to his assciation with them on account of him being guilty of the exact same shit they did together…what with that generally being how that works…& all that shit you just got through looks like a lot of things to me but pretty close to none of them are the way I’d expect his case to go after spectacularly blowing up his cushy plea deal…guess it helps to be a little fish
…let’s hope nobody’s holding their breath
…think anybody’ll come to the dance this time?
…running scared & thinking about authorities beyond the domestic purview can paint a picture worth a thousand words
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/11/trump-icc-us-war-crimes-investigation-sanctions
…I’m guessing most of those words would be various translations of “guilty”…but that’s probably just because I don’t like the guy & I have a healthy respect for the balance of probabilities in a deterministic universe where quaint notions like cause & effect are accorded a modicum of respect
…fucking finalized what you egregiously pompous ass?
…you haven’t even got to the address part yet you fecklessly fatuous famine in a fatsuit
…literally the worst ever interpretation of “it’s miller time”
…you’d think even an idiot would see through this kind of bullshit before it even began…but you know what…I bet to a lot of those idiots even this wouldn’t give them pause
…nothing says “I’ll save you, flock to me” quite like “oh, & by the way you renounce any claim against me for the flocking thing killing any of you because let’s be fair now, we all of us know it’s gonna kill some of you idiots”
…which begs the eternal question
…well, he is fond of walls…so maybe he thinks he can build a big enough wall of bullshit to keep the tide from washing away his sandcastle
…not that such a thing could be possible in the land of free speech
…& yet
…which sounds reassuring…but probably shouldn’t be
…it’s a tough gig raking in all that cash…when they pay you the big bucks you gotta make those hard calls
…even if your whole business model exploded on the back of all those calls you made so easy to make
…but it’s probably fine, right?
…I mean, China’s gonna lie about that shit…shouldn’t be too hard to spot…except a one-trick pony can still play a lot of shows
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/11/exxon-hack-for-hire-climate-activists-campaign
…& it’s not like there aren’t suddenly an awful lot of numbers that paint a pretty stark picture of how much of a difference it makes when we behave differently en masse
…but it’s never easy to juggle priorities when so much is overdue
…& so much rests on shoulders who didn’t ask for the burdens they had to begin with
…while some keep whistling dixie
Trump rejects calls to rename military bases honoring Confederate generals
…even as the pipes are calling
…which reminds me…”isolated incidents” does not mean “incidents only to be considered in isolation” no matter how hard you clutch a bible or how much graffiti you pretend you can’t read
…becasue none of this shit is happening in isolation even if a bunch of us recently became acquainted with the term isolation in new & personal ways
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/i-can-t-breathe-oklahoma-man-tells-police-dying-i-n1229586
…because some of us don’t get to take it easy on the government dime while mere anarchy attempts to loose itself upon the widening gyre
…& we’re fresh out of bogeymen made of straw
…but overflowing with hateful motherfuckers ringing that hateful motherfucker bell
…& sights I never thought I’d see
…along with too many I can’t stand being as familiar as they feel
…so I’m glad as hell people seem to be listening & taking some of this anguish to heart
…& it feels better to read this kind of thing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/11/police-reform-minnesota-walz/
…or hear more people start to admit that it isn’t the idea that’s the crazy part
…even if it might seem like running before we can march…or walk…or see…or stop retching
…but the kicker is that might turn out to be the easy bit
…now scale that up till it looks like november
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/11/georgia-election-chaos-november
…but don’t go throwing in any towels…because the grumpy old bulldog was right about a couple of things…if you’re going through hell, keep going…& democracy is the worst form of goverment known to man…except for all the others
…& the numbers aren’t good when it comes to people who think they have nothing left to lose in a land littered with an abundance of firearms
…so even new ideas aren’t necessarily news
…even when they literally make the news
…& there’s more than one way to change a definition
…or define a change
…we don’t need more obituaries
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/politics/joe-biden-funeral-speech.html
…& we don’t need to throw the wake while the patient’s still on the table
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/11/joe-biden-donald-trump-military-election-lose
…also…that whole apolitical-armed-forces thing…well, let’s just hope we don’t have to see how that goes, shall we?
…because when it comes to campaigning & the GOP…they’re not sending their best people…unless they are…in which case they’re in a deeper hole than even I thought
…the kind of idiots who think it’s pretty neat to co-opt an icon of brutally simplistic “justice” born of a willingness to embrace irredeemable acts in service of retributive justice as a response to unbearable loss…so however you feel about the punisher you just know this had to piss on some combat boots
…& once more for the cheap seats
…thankfully the punisher is fictional…but if he wasn’t then I’m pretty sure a lot of weekend warriors would find meeting him a great way to get acquainted with their inner child
…some people it’s just nice to think you’d have in your corner, you know?
…still…on balance I’d kinda like to stave off any incipient uprisings all that scrolling might incline a person to…so in case all that made you as cranky as it did me…maybe this’ll help?
Let’s hope Trump continues into the Danger Zone and ends up too far gone and takes his moron supporters with him (he won’t because he hates them as much as he hates anyone smarter than him.)
Yes, the vid did help.
High score today for best use of “fecklessly” and simultaneous alliteration. I had to watch a good bit of the Punisher TV show through covered eyes, and often asked Keitel to take a break on it after a few episodes a night, because the violence was overwhelming. That is exactly how I feel about the news, Republican actions, and government/police sanctioned violence, except there is no off button.
“When Republicans read…”
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Oh, you.
In other news, Mnuchin told the Senate they weren’t actually going to abide by the reporting aspect of the law that approved a half trillion dollars in PPP loans. Just spitballing here, but I’m guessing they already know where the lion’s share of that money went and simply don’t want anyone to know. Of course Mitch will roll over, as he always does for his boy, but maybe the House will do something about it–and let’s hope they don’t give up like they typically do.
Fur Face Friday – nature’s anti anxiety meds, good for those jangled nerves!
https://groupthink.kinja.com/fur-face-friday-1843946650
I think I’ll take a minute to paws and read this.
…I may need to cats up
Fur sure!
I’m going to show this to my wife, this will whisker away to a happy place.
Do it right meow!
…just be-claws