It’s more FCC chair Brendan Carr at this point than it is barefaced corporate capitalism.

I think this is the speech in which he stated his support for NATO and Greenland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lAtfG22VPg

I thought “fuck” had the most set meanings…

Ah yes… in olden times we had a more succinct term for people like that: Asshole.

Now, now… let’s not be a male chauvinist pig and think everyone on the internet’s got a big swinging cod between their legs… in my case, you should have written

…sure thing, “nattering hen”.

(FYI you can even call me a cunt if it makes you feel better… I’m old enough to honestly not give a shit. Knock yourself out.)

LOL!

…he’s just doing pro-Israel spin…

Yup. Spin like a fucking top.

Nauseating.

::barf::

That would have been under the direction of James Murray, who left under the cloud of suspicion regarding those deletions, and yet the Biden Administration found nothing actionable to prosecute for, after their investigation concluded. (in point of fact, apparently Murray stayed on at his job until the investigations were concluded, so he did NOT cut and run…)

It’s not like there isn’t a level of independence tied to the professionalism that - again - is something that the politicans and diplomats don’t want to fuck with.

This gets back to the agents being willing to put down their lives for people they may loathe.

I’ve talked at length to Secret Service agents in my time working with them. The whole service is a different level of dedication.

And let’s just leave it at that, as you’re gonna want to act as if the quid pro quos they give - and get - are indicative of something that only one party that requires their protections, deals with.

I can guarantee you that even if we got the most socially progressive, honest, leftist government in the world, the basic policy of the Secret Service would remain unchanged.

They’re really not interested in bloviating hens that rant on social media. My bet is that some Trump staffer saw the post and cried like a bitch to a Secret Service liason and they were ordered to go out and check for “terrorists”…

Manbaby Don-don and his peevishly thin skin wants everyone to love and kiss him and offer him hugs and praise after all…

Secret Service really don’t give a shit because the threats they look out for today aren’t the ones that are advertised.

WTF Gavin. Yeah, no “technically” it may not be an actual genocide, as Gazans still exist, but my dude, Israel is certainly doing a bang up job of acting like they really want to go all the way and do it.

Fucking hell, this splitting of political hairs and pandering to the morally bankrupt people in AIPAC is disgusting…

I don’t know if that is true.

The guy who is the director now is a longtime agent that was on Presidential duty for Obama - he joined when Bush was President. Long term knowledge and skill is an actual asset for this agency that any politican who wants to stay safe understands…

It’s different than other agencies.

Secret Service are the chillest of all the services.

NGL, I know there’s a ton of hate for everything government at this time, but I worked with them decades ago when I did union stagehand work setting up for Presidential debates.

They aren’t particularly motivated by politics, since their two main tasks are protecting money (figuratively via fraud crimes and literally in the sense of maintaining awareness of currency supplies when its transferred around the country or the globe) and politicians and foreign diplomats.

Many of them get called up for duty protecting people they may personally loathe, and they do it nonetheless.

God knows I saw some of that in action with how the agents treated the college kids that were running the various campaign events.

To wit: We’re setting up at one stop and the managing director is some 24 year old poli-sci major with ZERO understanding of safety and security and even less of stage construction, set design and dressing (“No… move this here…” and then 20 minutes later… “No… move that back and put the other piece there…” and by this time we’ve spent nearly double the amount of time as normal to set the stage and press risers and are ready to kill ourselves in frustration…) and the agents are telling us how far to put up stanchions and what exists must be kept clear, and we’re doing it and in comes the kid all hot and bothered saying “…No, no no… this isn’t right… THEY - the candidate - wont’ like it this way, they want a grand entrance…” and the agent stares them down and says, “I don’t care what they want, this is what it is going to be…”

All the candidates campaign managers - Republicn or Democrat - acted this way. Miserable shits. They were getting their marching orders from the politicians themselves. It sucked.

So it was was delightful to see them get taken down a few notches by Secret Service. Also on another setup for Obama, one of our lead upriggers - a notorious drunk - got similarly frustrated in a similar situation and threateed to get a gun and start shooting… Within earshot of a TV news crew. Half an hour later Secret Service shows up and the BA (business agent) for the Local pulls us all together to “get the story straight” to tell the agents, and I cut her short and said… “Nope… He’s a drunk, we’re pissed at the idiots running this setup and I’m not lying or distorting what he said…” And she kinda agreed and we all just vented at the agents about the campaign managers and that yeah… uprigger is a massive dick and a raging drunk and miserable - we all are - but we want to ge this done so Obama can come in and speak.

They went to his house and talked to his wife and asked if there was a gun in the house and she replied she’d made him sell the pistol he’d bought a few years earlier. He was put permanently off the political jobs and sent home. (I knew his wife and I can only imagine the firworks when he got home AFTER he’d spent the remainder of the day drinking himself blind at the Elks Lodge he was a member at.)

Secret Service… man, they could have been waay bigger dicks than they were (and they were totally ok), and seeing the shit they put up with from the politicians directly, was an eye opener.

They are different than what one expects, that’s for sure. NGL, Secret Service are the last people I’d be worried about, they’re never unprofessional. (which at time boggles the mind as they’re often treated like shit by the politicians who can be fucking ungrateful…) They aren’t ICE.

Personally I’d love to see a Trump trial or even better, Steven Miller.

The only viable opportunity is summary execution for said terrorism

Nope. That’s not gonna work at all.

Trump will call up the actual military and the National Guard doesn’t have the biggest guns.

Good. Use a really high resolution camera with a decent telephoto lens if you can.

Stay well away from being a target, but close enough that you can catch everything clearly.

Keep a handful of SD cards (preferrably use a micro SD card in a tray and swap it out for a fullsized if it looks like you may get picked up… The full size card may throw them off enough so they won’t be looking for a micro one - they’re not the brightest of men) on hand to swap out if things heat up and you’ve got damming evidence, and wear clothes that you can tuck that micro card into a pocket that won’t get found easily.

I expect that if things go sideways for Trump as his dementia takes hold even more, he may try and mass pardon the ICE agents, but the states will need vidence to bring charges. Yeah, there are those saying don’t bother, we need violence - and that may be the case we get there, but if that rabbit gets pulled out of the hat and the mid-terms roll out with a democratic sweep, the states will need as much evidence as they can get.

The only thing Trump knows is lawsuits. His MO is what Roy Cohn taught him.

He’s a massive pussy which is why he gets self-loathing, angry goons to fight for him - Steven Miller is exactly that, a Roy Cohn copy, (who also suffers from Little Mans Disease) and he will be thrown under the bus like EVERY thug that thought they could be “Big Men” working for the NY kiddie fucker.

That’s actually amazing. Love old videos of life in motion.

I like enough to move the characters forward in their story. If it’s gratuitous, it makes me go “meh!”

Just watched Pillion a few days ago and it was fairly steamy and funnier than hell in some points… it was odd, as a dom/sub story it somewhat fell flat at the end for me. The guy I was watching it with was likewise disappointed as he’s gay and said that most gay-centered stories rarely have a happy ending.

The sex scenes were okay and both of us ooohed and ahhed over seeing Alexander Skarsgard’s ass… which was quite delightful, but the sex scenes were… meh! Honestly the sex scenes in the John Cameron Mitchell film, Shortbus, did more for me.

I’m going to be playing the cool hand and putting a full court press with a measured response to my MAGA co-workers and roll out the slow drip of bad news to many of them who are already getting a taste of taking America back to Trump’s “new Gilded Age…”

They get to play the part of the people living in filth and squalor while the Robber Barons lived high on the hog.

Will do this by reminding them that their costs will continue to skyrocket for insurance, and oh did you hear that once we’re out of NATO ad kicked out of the military bases across Europe, taxes will have to rise to cover the costs of building new bases in other countries we haven’t pissed off. I mean, it’s too bad that the billionaires got permanent tax breaks from Trump while we get to foot the bills for them.

Trump sure loves the poorly educated, and the working class voters that voted for him, doesn’t he?

I’m going to needle and do it with as little gloating as possible and try and make them so sour on the GOP they either switch to a Democrat (unlikely) or don’t vote again (the better option)

Not getting hot about this and serving up resistance coldly is where I’m heading.

Umm. Some Americans would call those pricks cunts as well… (how does that one work again?)

I mean, I would.

There is no plan other than to hope they get their bonus for capturing “illegals” before it is discovered that they are in fact, Americans.

There’s no surplus of smarts in evidence with these morons.

They’re gonna be barfing up Trump’s official line as the Orange Mangina dropped a lawsuit against them.

The NY Times hasn’t been on the cutting edge of impactful journalism for quite a while, unfortunately.

Agreed! Not to get to off tanget, have you heard of Elle Cordova? - she is one of my favorite creators.

I can appreciate when someone uses language well.

What I find is that people hear what they want from politicians and a good linguist can cut through the noise and point out what the pols are actually saying.

Before the election, Trump was saying that he was going after criminals, and the people that voted for him who were in the immigrant and latin communities were hearing that and thinking gang bangers and robbers… not realizing that undocumented people were also criminals in that they had broken immigration law.

No one wanted to hear it and I was out screaming at the top of my lungs this was going to come down like it was as Trump is a dyed in the wool racist. Was told I had TDS… Really? Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t half as perilous an affliction as Trump Delusion Syndrome, in that the Hispanic Trump supporters thought he actually cared for them.

Now, they’re getting harased and detained by ICE because they’re not white.

TDS indeed.

The racism, that’s old news actually - he got it from his father who was even more barefaced with his bigotry. There’s a reason that President Eisenhower loathed Fred Trump, aside from scamming government funds for Veterans Housing, which used to build houses to bare minimum standards of quality and design for the times than pocketed the rest. He also redlined neighborhoods and took funds for public housing and used it to build homes in tonier neighborhoods which he sold for handsome profit. Fred Trump was an evil man. Out of all his children, he did the most damage to Donald.

The fruit did NOT fall far from that particular tree it grew on.

Please do check out Elle Cordova’s work, it’s delightful.

Regards,