befuddled old coot blithers about ‘two-dollar plane tickets’

does Donny even know what year this is?

think of the White House as the world’s most-exclusive assisted living facility. its primary resident is an increasingly-incapacitated 78-year-old man who can longer take care of himself — but he gets by, because his needs are completely provided for. he has a cook to prepare his meals, he has someone to dress him, and someone to remind him of his daily schedule. there’s even a fully-staffed medical center, right in the building.

and, once or twice a day, they let him out in public, where he can babble incoherently to his heart’s content.

“we’re going to start a big investigation. because it’s — I’ve never seen anything like it. nobody’s ever seen anything like it. the worst overruns that there have ever been in the history of our country. and it wasn’t even necessary. I would have said, you don’t buy it, you take an aeroplane, it costs you two dollars. it costs you nothing. you take an aeroplane. but this got started, and if you have to, you drive. you can drive.”

what the fuck is Dear Leader gibbering about? two-dollar flights? where? when? in 1903? is two dollars what the Wright Brothers charged? seriously, how out of touch is Donny? why the archaic pronunciation of ‘airplane’ as ‘aeroplane’? who does that any more? he sounds like Grandpa Simpson free-associating about tying an onion to his belt, which was the style at the time.

so, let’s ask again — what the fuck is Donny gibbering about? this:

FRESNO, Calif. — President Trump confirmed he is setting his sights on California's controversial High-Speed Rail Project.

While answering questions from the media in the Oval Office Tuesday, he threatened to open the investigation himself.

there are two reasons for Donny wanting to kill California’s high-speed rail program: one, it’s a golden opportunity to fuck over California — because fuck you, Gavin Newsom — and two, the Space Nazi has a personal vendetta against the project, because California rejected his ‘hyperloop’ scam, and went with high-speed rail instead.

the ‘hyperloop’ is the Space Nazi’s fever-swamp hallucination of magical high-speed transit-by-hole-in-the-groud. there’s only one problem with it: the technology doesn’t exist.

Instead of a tangible plan based on a proven technology, Musk was pitching a transportation fantasy of pods shooting through vacuum tubes that would cost next to nothing and take no time to build.

the Space Nazi wanted California to gamble on his plan to bore four-hundred-mile-long tubes from Los Angeles to San Francisco using tech that he promised would be real cool, once it actually existed — and the state basically told him to fuck straight off with his nonsense.

so, egged on by the Space Nazi, Donny hates him some high-speed rail — but his mind has deteriorated to the point where he can no longer make coherent arguments for why he’s against it, so it all gets dumbed down into “it’s the worst” thing that “no one’s ever seen before” — and, of course, the nonsensical “just take an ‘aeroplane,’ tickets are only two bucks.”

I realize that Donny is a soft, pampered wealth-baby who has obviously never had to book a plane flight in his life, but how out of touch do you have to be to get the price that wildly wrong?

just as it was the first time around, this is government by revenge — only this time, we have the Space Nazi’s grievances piled on top of Donny’s.

he’s got a grudge against California, so he’s going to fuck with their high speed rail program. he has a grudge against USAID — because they were investigating Starlink — so he’s going to make the whole agency go fuckity-bye.

meanwhile, if your own grandparent started blithering about why didn’t you just fly, tickets are only two dollars, you’d confiscate their car keys and start googling for a good managed care facility.

but there’s no need to do that for Donny, he’s already in one.

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the legal system is doing the lord’s work right now.

a lawsuit has gotten the DOGE incels to temporarily back down with their Treasury Department fuckery.

Attorneys for the Justice Department have agreed to temporarily restrict staffers associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing information in the Treasury Department’s payment system.

a judge has blocked Donny’s plan to end birthright citizenship, ruling that it’s unconstitutional as shit.

A second federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, saying it’s likely unconstitutional and “runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citizenship by birth.”

and, most deliciously of all, a court just ruled that the Proud Boys have lost the trademark on their name.

back in 2020, the no-longer-Proud Boys went ape-shit and vandalized the Asbury United Methodist Church, a black church in Washington — because y’know, racists gonna racist.

the Church sued the shit out of the Boys, and won a $2.8 million judgment against them. you’ll never guess how the Boys responded. actually you will totally guess, because deadbeats gonna deadbeat.

When the Proud Boys failed to turn over any money, lawyers for the church sought to satisfy the judgment by seizing control of the trademarked name and by enjoining the group from “selling, transferring, disposing of or licensing” any merchandise using the words “Proud Boys” or any of the organization’s symbols.

the judge was all yeah, that sound like just deserts to me. let’s do that.

Proud Boys chapters across the country can no longer legally use their own name or the group’s traditional symbols without the permission of the church that was attacked, the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church.

so now, whenever the no-longer-Proud Boys want to slap their violent Nazi-adjacent imagery on merch, they have to go running to a bunch of black church elders and beg for their permission first.

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this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:

practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.

to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.

we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.