Poofing These Down, Here

Yep, He’s Demented

Look at the full list of countries being tariffed.

Those aren't based on countries, those are based on top-level Internet domains. The British Indian Ocean Territory, for example, example, that is pretty much the naval and air base at Diego Garcia. Which exports nothing. Heard & McDonald Islands are uninhabited. Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands are Norwegian. but they are all Internet domains.

Those idiots had no knowledge of what they were doing; instead, they used AI and some LLM to generate the list and the tariffs. It is economic policy, run by clown shoe-wearing chuckleheads, who haven't even reached the peak of Mount Stupid on the Dunning-Kruger curve. It would be one thing to crash the globally economy by maliciousness. But it is something else entirely to be crashing it because of sheer and utter stupidity.

Jeebus, Boeing

The flight up on Starliner to the ISS was bad. As in between the devil and the deep blue sea bad.

Our Long Postwar Run of Health and Prosperity is Over

The Syphilitic Sociopath has continued on his path to destroy the global economy, while Brainworm Bobby has gutted the process to approve new drugs.

This trade war is beyond stupid. The FOFF talks about the late 19th Century being a "golden age". It might have been for the very rich. It certainly wasn't for those who weren't, with lengthy recessions and depressions. Working conditions led to unionization and violence when the factory/mine/mill owners used private goons, plice and the National Guard to crack down on strikers.

I'm not sure what the hell will happen with new drugs. The laws and rules requiring FDA approval of new drugs are still in place, but the people who check and approve or disapprove new drugs have been shitcanned. I'm not sure if the inspectors who check food-processing plants have also been fired, because there is just too much chaos for me to track. But I'll assume, for the sake of argument, that they have.

So we are going back to Demented Donnie's 19th Century: Economic turmoil for all but the ultra-rich, adulterated food and untrustworthy medicines.

Don't blame me. I voted for the black lady who didn't want to crash the global economy and make everyone sick.

If True, This is Some Nazi Shit

A forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there is evidence of execution-style killing, based on the “specific and intentional” location of shots at close range.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society, the Palestinian Civil Defense and UN employees were on a humanitarian mission to collect dead and wounded civilians outside the southern city of Rafah on the morning of 23 March when they were killed and then buried in the sand by a bulldozer alongside their flattened vehicles, according to the UN.

Executing medics is shit that one would expect from the Germans in WW2 and the Russians in the current war.

I've been of the opinion that, after the Iraq War, Americans have little cause to call others out for war crimes. But this is way too much to let pass.

Judge Nixes the Felon's Move to Extort Mayor Adams

A federal judge dismissed New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case on Wednesday, agreeing it was the only practical outcome while blasting the Justice Department’s “troubling” rationale for wanting the charges thrown out — namely so the Democrat could help President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The judge, though, denied prosecutors the option to refile the charges after the mayoral election. Judge Dale E. Ho’s order to dismiss the case “with prejudice” spares Adams from having to govern in a way that pleases Trump or potentially risk having the Republican’s Justice Department revive the charges.
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“Dismissing the case without prejudice would create the unavoidable perception that the mayor’s freedom depends on his ability to carry out the immigration enforcement priorities of the administration, and that he might be more beholden to the demands of the federal government than to the wishes of his own constituents,” the judge wrote

"Perception," hell, that was the truth of the matter. "Everything heser smacks of a bargain" were the judge's words.

Adams is, in my opinion, as crooked as the day is long. But so is Deranged Donnie. The move to dismiss the case without prejudice was clearly the move of a blackmailer; the judge did the right thing in squashing that.

Mugging These Down, Here

MAGA hat in Greenland:

The Joys of Hiring Idiots

One of the side benefits of hiring women and minorities is that the white guys who cruised through life on their gender, skin color and good looks were somewhat pushed out. The Syphilitic Sociopath reversed that trend. And that's a reason why we're getting shit like this:

National security adviser Mike Waltz used his personal Gmail account for government communications, The Washington Post reported, citing documents it reviewed and interviews with three U.S. officials.
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According to The Washington Post, Waltz had his schedule and other work documents sent to his personal Gmail account.

A Waltz staffer reportedly used his Gmail account to have "highly technical conversations" with staffers at other government agencies about military positions and weapons systems being deployed in an ongoing conflict.

These are guys for whom OPSEC are just five letters that may appear in a spoon of alphabet soup. The FSB and the MSS must be laughing themselves silly on a daily basis with this group of clownshoe-wearing chuckleheads in charge of American security.

Then there is the point that they are deliberately circumventing records retention laws by using non-governmental email systems for official correspondence. But that's the Trump-effect: the laws apply to the little people, not to them.

Chambering These Down, Here

Unconscious irony is one of Little Marco's talents:

Shorter RFK,Jr. & CDC: Die, Kids, Die

Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

In an aborted plan to roll out the news, the agency would have emphasized the importance of vaccinating people against the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease that has spread to 19 states, the records show.

Let's be clear about this: Bobby Brainworm doesn't give a shit about protecting public health. He's been pushing pseudoscience and eugenics-based crap for decades. He had his fingerprints all over a empidemic in American Samoa and now this. To his twisted mind, people dying in epidemics is a feature, not a bug.

To the Senators who voted to confirm him: This is on you.