When I read this morning that the DoD vanished tens of thousands of images, iconic photos which this old boomer grew up with, made me want to vomit. This defense department drunkard
is staggeringly ignorant and an historical and civil illiterate. If I were in the Marine Corps today I would brace myself for a discharge for being a Jew. All of this smells like McCarthy on steroids and Orwell gone nuclear.
This is the 60th anniversary of Selma. There was a commemoration on the 50th. I typed this then:
"John Lewis is an American hero. And on this 50th anniversary of the day he nearly gave his life for the rights the Constitution was supposed to guarantee him, exactly none of his Republican colleagues in Congress is present in Selma. None. Because they wish they had been the police officer hitting him with the nightstick."
I can now say I was wrong. It was not every republican in Congress. It's every single person who didn't vote Democratic in 2024. Every one of you.
... yeahbut not sure if my memory serves me correctly: Kamala won the popular vote; however, as revealed by Trump at his inauguration speech, “my friend Elon “fixed” the voting machines”. How much of this is backed up by hard evidence? Is there anyway that elections going forward can ever be accurate as long as Krasnodar is at the helm?
I know that there has been talk, but I don't buy it, just as I didn't buy it that Ohio was fixed for Bush in 2004. If we're that bad at fixing things ....
" 77 million Homo Sap white Americans". In the interest of historical accuracy, check the demographic breakdown. The Democrats' persistence in focus on victim groups instead of people has driven away members of multiple ethnic groups and even though they may now regret their votes or the decision to stay home, we'll need to improve the outreach if '26 is going to yield a better result. Chuckie Schumer needs to go. Now.
Ms. Leavitt is just another glib mean girl in the same mold as the now crepuscular GOP cheerleader Marsha Blackburn. I'm sure they both avoid the women's restroom where there's no audience and face-2-faces can become quite "inspirational."
To beat the magas at their own game, that of being the new gang in the street, I think the Dems need to redefine themselves. There's already a grassroots Working Family Party out there. It's way past time to elevate labor, the element Abe Lincoln said was superior to capital. We seem unable to break the two-party system, so why not embrace the WFP and rename the Democratic Party in a way that emphasizes labor, while AI has so far allowed us to have jobs. Party renaming is not new in our history, and the magas love their new name that most of them can spell, so why not? Bring in the Gen Zs who are busy podcasting, an arterial cleanse for the Dems, and ask them to rename and do PR for non-magas, what ever a new name and streamlined identity might be. Time is of the essence.
And I have to confess that there are days when I have to immediately scroll down to the Good News, Tom, because it braces me for the news from the other rightly named departments.
I keep thinking we’ve reached the peak of American stupidity, that the barrel has been well and truly scraped, that we are standing on the hard, unyielding floor of rock-bottom. And yet, every goddamn day, these people show up with pickaxes and a mandate from the state to dig deeper.
Let’s be absolutely clear: This is not about history. This is not about accuracy. This is not even about the military. This is about a country so consumed with performative, brain-dead, culture war bullshit that we are now retroactively censoring words that scare idiots. Words! Not acts. Not policies. Not historical events. Words.
They’re terrified of a goddamn adjective. A word that, in this case, was never even used the way their two functioning brain cells assume it was. A word so dangerous in their mind that they’d rather rewrite history than risk exposing their fragile, quivering electorate to the specter of its existence.
Meanwhile, these same dipshits will turn around and screech that their history is being erased, that their traditions are under attack, that their way of life is being censored. Buddy, you just took an actual, historical fact and flushed it down the toilet because you don’t know what words mean. You erased your own history because you are so deeply, profoundly insecure that you think a plane name from 1945 is a threat to the American way of life.
But sure. Sure! By all means, let’s spend our dwindling national resources worrying about whether or not a goddamn aircraft has homosexual tendencies. Let’s rewrite history to make it more palatable to the incurably ignorant. Let’s dedicate government time and effort to de-gaying reality.
I don’t know how much more of this country’s aggressive stupidity I can tolerate. I don’t know how much longer I can watch these people eviscerate reality in real-time while still pretending this is some kind of political difference rather than an outright assault on intelligence, common sense, and basic fucking literacy.
This is where we are. This is where we live now. In a country where people are so far gone, so deep in their own manufactured terror, that they will erase history before they even take five seconds to learn it.
It’s exhausting. It’s infuriating. And it is so fucking embarrassing.
Seems to me this crew of, lets face it, deplorables (the ENTIRE administration), really has "issues" of some kind, when they are so terrified of the word, gay, that they blame an airplane? AN 80 year old airplane!
Now, doesnt that sort of bring to mind an actual possibility of a bumper sticker, a T-shirt, maybe a hat with that insignia? Works for me.
My God, has it been 60 years? (Selma) And kicking the Enola Grey out? Seriously???? Who the hell ARE these people. Oh, wait, they're people like Pete (I'm dumb as a stump) Hegseth, who pulled this stunt -
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered a massive review of DOD computer archives in an attempt to “align” the department with President Donald Trump’s directive to eliminate anything on government systems that could be related to DEI. What are America’s warfighters so afraid of?--
So now we're so blatantly re-writing history we're digging around in the ARCHIVES???
I am making my 5 calls to Congresscritters daily--wish I could do more but I don't want to have a stroke and I get pretty worked up. I'm doing plenty of postcard/letters, but I am really wondering where the *stuff* is the Democratic leadership?
Months ago, when Biden was still running and I was already physically sick with worry, someone introduced me to Irish comedy trio Foil, Arms & Hog. I needed a break for sanity reasons. For the most part, FA&H aren't very political. They release a clip every Thursday, and yesterday's, well......astute but I wasn't expecting it!!
Thanks, TC. I confess that when I read about the Inquisition coming for DOD photos, I did not at once think of George Gay. I should have. The story of Midway is one of the great tales of all time. Talk about heroism and resilience! Things that Trump/Krasnov and The Drunk could never imagine.
It’s so reassuring to know we have a blackout drunk in charge of our defense. Not to mention a Russian useful idiot and a ketamine infused pillager in charge of the country.
As for your email problems Tom, I can totally relate. I’ve had similar issues. Damned AI !!
I’m very proud of my Oregon Senator, Jeff Merkley, for laying it on the line. Here is the link if you haven’t seen it.
Taking down photos of the Enola Gay because it has the word gay in it is the most Beavis and Butthead thing I have ever heard of. I can hear the drunk SecDef cackling now.
This is in response to Secretary Duffy's efforts to remove roadside driving distractions for reasons of public safety. There is a local fellow in the next town down the road who has made a pant-load of money running Sticker Mule, whatever that is. His business has a big building right on the New York State Thruway on which he had erected a huge lighted sign saying VOTE FOR TRUMP. The local authorities of course denied his petition for a variance to put it up, but since he is a good Republican he put it up anyway. Now he wants to amend it to read AMERICA LOVES TRUMP.
He is pure MAGA. If Speaker Moses ever allows Elise Stefanik to enter her new post he is running for her seat. He has repeatedly taken out full page ads in the local newspapers explaining how wonderful he is. You get the picture.
Why doesn't Sec. Duffy address this giant lighted distraction to high speed drivers? The likelihood of someone getting killed is far greater and 75 or 80 MPH than driving on a city street at 30 MPH with a Black Lives Matter sign painted underneath you.
If you havent already, look the The Front Page written by three former news editors - its in or near Glens Falls area. A ways north of me but not that far. Very Very good posts - not all local.
I found it and read the post about the MAGA cage match. It was very good indeed and I'm surprised I never heard of it. I'll mention it to some friends who live further north than I do and some here in the capital district.
Thanks Tom, great rundown. The Edmund Pettus bridge should be re-named the John Lewis bridge, but I don't expect the un-reconstructed shit-kicking rednecks in Alabama to do anything that righteous...ever.
That was actually tried back at the 50th anniversary and was shot down as you expected. So it's still named f or the Confederate General who became Grand Dragon of the KKK.
To be honest I’m not in favor of renaming national landmarks. The folks with Lewis had the temerity to trod all over Pettit’ bridge, and we need to remember the delicious irony of that event.
I’d be all in favor of errecting statuary depicting the leaders of that march and a goodly number of the many unnamed and unremarked individuals who accompanied them, near the approach to the bridge.
The Enola Gay? These people are beyond obtuse. Paranoid. Any descriptor you can think of. Lori Vallow Daybell incomprehensible. Even beyond that. Who's next, (great album, off topic) Marvin Gaye? My friend's sister, who's a Sister named Gaye? People with the last name Gay. Monty Python, Christopher Guest, Laugh-In couldn't be this absurd.
When I read this morning that the DoD vanished tens of thousands of images, iconic photos which this old boomer grew up with, made me want to vomit. This defense department drunkard
is staggeringly ignorant and an historical and civil illiterate. If I were in the Marine Corps today I would brace myself for a discharge for being a Jew. All of this smells like McCarthy on steroids and Orwell gone nuclear.
It’s shameful.
I posted this on Facebook:
This is the 60th anniversary of Selma. There was a commemoration on the 50th. I typed this then:
"John Lewis is an American hero. And on this 50th anniversary of the day he nearly gave his life for the rights the Constitution was supposed to guarantee him, exactly none of his Republican colleagues in Congress is present in Selma. None. Because they wish they had been the police officer hitting him with the nightstick."
I can now say I was wrong. It was not every republican in Congress. It's every single person who didn't vote Democratic in 2024. Every one of you.
... yeahbut not sure if my memory serves me correctly: Kamala won the popular vote; however, as revealed by Trump at his inauguration speech, “my friend Elon “fixed” the voting machines”. How much of this is backed up by hard evidence? Is there anyway that elections going forward can ever be accurate as long as Krasnodar is at the helm?
... Krasnov. Sheesh
I know that there has been talk, but I don't buy it, just as I didn't buy it that Ohio was fixed for Bush in 2004. If we're that bad at fixing things ....
" 77 million Homo Sap white Americans". In the interest of historical accuracy, check the demographic breakdown. The Democrats' persistence in focus on victim groups instead of people has driven away members of multiple ethnic groups and even though they may now regret their votes or the decision to stay home, we'll need to improve the outreach if '26 is going to yield a better result. Chuckie Schumer needs to go. Now.
Ms. Leavitt is just another glib mean girl in the same mold as the now crepuscular GOP cheerleader Marsha Blackburn. I'm sure they both avoid the women's restroom where there's no audience and face-2-faces can become quite "inspirational."
To beat the magas at their own game, that of being the new gang in the street, I think the Dems need to redefine themselves. There's already a grassroots Working Family Party out there. It's way past time to elevate labor, the element Abe Lincoln said was superior to capital. We seem unable to break the two-party system, so why not embrace the WFP and rename the Democratic Party in a way that emphasizes labor, while AI has so far allowed us to have jobs. Party renaming is not new in our history, and the magas love their new name that most of them can spell, so why not? Bring in the Gen Zs who are busy podcasting, an arterial cleanse for the Dems, and ask them to rename and do PR for non-magas, what ever a new name and streamlined identity might be. Time is of the essence.
And I have to confess that there are days when I have to immediately scroll down to the Good News, Tom, because it braces me for the news from the other rightly named departments.
In the department of “How the fuck do you do that?”, how do you do this, TC.
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
I keep thinking we’ve reached the peak of American stupidity, that the barrel has been well and truly scraped, that we are standing on the hard, unyielding floor of rock-bottom. And yet, every goddamn day, these people show up with pickaxes and a mandate from the state to dig deeper.
Let’s be absolutely clear: This is not about history. This is not about accuracy. This is not even about the military. This is about a country so consumed with performative, brain-dead, culture war bullshit that we are now retroactively censoring words that scare idiots. Words! Not acts. Not policies. Not historical events. Words.
They’re terrified of a goddamn adjective. A word that, in this case, was never even used the way their two functioning brain cells assume it was. A word so dangerous in their mind that they’d rather rewrite history than risk exposing their fragile, quivering electorate to the specter of its existence.
Meanwhile, these same dipshits will turn around and screech that their history is being erased, that their traditions are under attack, that their way of life is being censored. Buddy, you just took an actual, historical fact and flushed it down the toilet because you don’t know what words mean. You erased your own history because you are so deeply, profoundly insecure that you think a plane name from 1945 is a threat to the American way of life.
But sure. Sure! By all means, let’s spend our dwindling national resources worrying about whether or not a goddamn aircraft has homosexual tendencies. Let’s rewrite history to make it more palatable to the incurably ignorant. Let’s dedicate government time and effort to de-gaying reality.
I don’t know how much more of this country’s aggressive stupidity I can tolerate. I don’t know how much longer I can watch these people eviscerate reality in real-time while still pretending this is some kind of political difference rather than an outright assault on intelligence, common sense, and basic fucking literacy.
This is where we are. This is where we live now. In a country where people are so far gone, so deep in their own manufactured terror, that they will erase history before they even take five seconds to learn it.
It’s exhausting. It’s infuriating. And it is so fucking embarrassing.
So, Gloria, tell us how you really feel?
You hit all the high(not really) spots there.
Seems to me this crew of, lets face it, deplorables (the ENTIRE administration), really has "issues" of some kind, when they are so terrified of the word, gay, that they blame an airplane? AN 80 year old airplane!
Now, doesnt that sort of bring to mind an actual possibility of a bumper sticker, a T-shirt, maybe a hat with that insignia? Works for me.
Wholeheartedly agree
My God, has it been 60 years? (Selma) And kicking the Enola Grey out? Seriously???? Who the hell ARE these people. Oh, wait, they're people like Pete (I'm dumb as a stump) Hegseth, who pulled this stunt -
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered a massive review of DOD computer archives in an attempt to “align” the department with President Donald Trump’s directive to eliminate anything on government systems that could be related to DEI. What are America’s warfighters so afraid of?--
So now we're so blatantly re-writing history we're digging around in the ARCHIVES???
Just realized I wrote “Grey” instead of “Gay”. I need to slow down and proofread before sending. And put on my glasses 😒
Ed Martin--a bit more info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaIRPf2Utnc
I am making my 5 calls to Congresscritters daily--wish I could do more but I don't want to have a stroke and I get pretty worked up. I'm doing plenty of postcard/letters, but I am really wondering where the *stuff* is the Democratic leadership?
Months ago, when Biden was still running and I was already physically sick with worry, someone introduced me to Irish comedy trio Foil, Arms & Hog. I needed a break for sanity reasons. For the most part, FA&H aren't very political. They release a clip every Thursday, and yesterday's, well......astute but I wasn't expecting it!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YBc3V6JaLM
We really aren't making any friends on the global front.
I'm already dreading whatever news this weekend will bring.
Thanks, TC. I confess that when I read about the Inquisition coming for DOD photos, I did not at once think of George Gay. I should have. The story of Midway is one of the great tales of all time. Talk about heroism and resilience! Things that Trump/Krasnov and The Drunk could never imagine.
It’s so reassuring to know we have a blackout drunk in charge of our defense. Not to mention a Russian useful idiot and a ketamine infused pillager in charge of the country.
As for your email problems Tom, I can totally relate. I’ve had similar issues. Damned AI !!
I’m very proud of my Oregon Senator, Jeff Merkley, for laying it on the line. Here is the link if you haven’t seen it.
https://substack.com/@letsgetintoit2025/note/c-98412924?r=3jvi8&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I’m going to injure my neck because I’ve been shaking my head so much about everything.
I tend to go with shouting you have GOT to be kidding me! Along with the curse words. ALL of them.
Taking down photos of the Enola Gay because it has the word gay in it is the most Beavis and Butthead thing I have ever heard of. I can hear the drunk SecDef cackling now.
Plus Orwell’s 1984.
This is in response to Secretary Duffy's efforts to remove roadside driving distractions for reasons of public safety. There is a local fellow in the next town down the road who has made a pant-load of money running Sticker Mule, whatever that is. His business has a big building right on the New York State Thruway on which he had erected a huge lighted sign saying VOTE FOR TRUMP. The local authorities of course denied his petition for a variance to put it up, but since he is a good Republican he put it up anyway. Now he wants to amend it to read AMERICA LOVES TRUMP.
He is pure MAGA. If Speaker Moses ever allows Elise Stefanik to enter her new post he is running for her seat. He has repeatedly taken out full page ads in the local newspapers explaining how wonderful he is. You get the picture.
Why doesn't Sec. Duffy address this giant lighted distraction to high speed drivers? The likelihood of someone getting killed is far greater and 75 or 80 MPH than driving on a city street at 30 MPH with a Black Lives Matter sign painted underneath you.
I confess it is a mystery to me.
If you havent already, look the The Front Page written by three former news editors - its in or near Glens Falls area. A ways north of me but not that far. Very Very good posts - not all local.
look FOR the Front Page!
I found it and read the post about the MAGA cage match. It was very good indeed and I'm surprised I never heard of it. I'll mention it to some friends who live further north than I do and some here in the capital district.
Thanks for bringing Front Page to my attention.
Thanks Tom, great rundown. The Edmund Pettus bridge should be re-named the John Lewis bridge, but I don't expect the un-reconstructed shit-kicking rednecks in Alabama to do anything that righteous...ever.
That was actually tried back at the 50th anniversary and was shot down as you expected. So it's still named f or the Confederate General who became Grand Dragon of the KKK.
To be honest I’m not in favor of renaming national landmarks. The folks with Lewis had the temerity to trod all over Pettit’ bridge, and we need to remember the delicious irony of that event.
I’d be all in favor of errecting statuary depicting the leaders of that march and a goodly number of the many unnamed and unremarked individuals who accompanied them, near the approach to the bridge.
Because , of course it is. I’d forgotten about the 50th effort.
The Enola Gay? These people are beyond obtuse. Paranoid. Any descriptor you can think of. Lori Vallow Daybell incomprehensible. Even beyond that. Who's next, (great album, off topic) Marvin Gaye? My friend's sister, who's a Sister named Gaye? People with the last name Gay. Monty Python, Christopher Guest, Laugh-In couldn't be this absurd.
John Lewis is a hero. Full fucking stop.
Thanks, Tom. This really is another fucked up Friday. Makes you wonder if every Friday in 2025 will be the same.