Happy birthday, I suppose

I’ve seen a couple of particularly fascinating images from the fourth of July:

I’ve included this (via) at full size—click on it to view it accordingly—cos it’s so stunning. This is from the fireworks show at the end of the day in DC, and, well, it looks like the heavens are sick of it and decided to put on their own show. Shame they couldn’t have struck down Mushroom Cock while they were at it…

Unfortunately, I think THIS (via) should be the definitive image of the 250th anniversary of the erstwhile US of A: a black woman on a train surrounded by masked racists going to DC for a masked racist march, or “First Amendment activities” as the DC mayor’s office euphemised it in the article.

Hundreds of masked men carrying banners, including the Confederate flag, marched through Washington DC on the Fourth of July, the 250th anniversary of the US’s inception.
The group appeared to be led by Thomas Rousseau, founder of the neo-fascist, white supremacist organization Patriot Front. Members of the group wore white masks and gathered in front of DC’s Union Station. They later marched towards Capitol Hill, WTOP reported.
Members chanted “Life, liberty, victory!” and “Reclaim America!” during the Saturday demonstration, according to video posted on social media.
Images published by Reuters also showed masked members riding the DC Metro as other riders looked on warily.
The white supremacist group’s gathering attracted some counter-protesters. In one video, a man with a bullhorn shouted at Patriot Front members: “Every single one of you justifies the fucking right to abortion.”

I’m with THAT guy. That’s more condemnation of these cunts that Trump will offer. The losers of the Civil War waving the losers’ flag in the nation’s capital on its 250th birthday… how did that happen? I’ve seen a lot of nostalgia online for the 1976 Bicentennial, which people seem to have been far more enthusiastic about than they are about the 250th, and 1976 wasn’t as bad a time as 2026 but it still had its problems… Gerald Ford had overseen the loss of the Vietnam War, economic disaster, a swine flu outbreak that’s been blamed for kicking off the whole anti-vaxx movement in the US, letting Indonesia annex East Timor, a low point in US-Israel relations, a resurgence of the KKK, and would end 1976 by losing the election to Jimmy Carter. And for all that people were still excited by the Bicentennial, he still had that to his credit… I’ve seen other claims that people just aren’t as excited by a half century as they are a full one, but I don’t feel that’s right somehow. Something really is different in 2026. If the Klan had pulled that stunt in 1976, I feel like Ford would at least have been critical of the event and of the Klan, unlike someone else we could name…

Well there’s a shock

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk

If Donald Trump’s administration really wants to find evidence of foreign interference in Georgia’s elections, then they need look no further than the president’s old friend Elon Musk and his shady super PAC.
Members of the Georgia State Elections Board voted Wednesday to issue a formal letter of reprimand to Musk’s America PAC over the billionaire technocrat’s illegal scheme to get Trump elected. Georgia, a key battleground state in 2024, was the target of aggressive campaigning by Trump’s team.
In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC, according to John Fervier, the State Elections Board’s chairman.
There was evidence to suggest America PAC had violated a state law that prohibits any person or entity, other than an authorized relative, to send an elector an absentee ballot application prefilled with the elector’s required information, according to Janice Johnston, the SEB’s vice chairman.
America PAC had also failed to display in a conspicuous location that this was not an official government publication, was not provided by the government, and was not a ballot, Johnston added.
The board swiftly voted to issue a letter of reprimand to America PAC.

Wow, I’m sure THAT’s got him shaking in his jackboots and he won’t dare try that again in 2028…

Trump @ 80


Honestly, I wanted to say something about Mushroom Cock’s 80th birthday “celebration” but I don’t know what cos the whole thing was grotesque in so many ways. I genuinely don’t know what. I’ll let some people who say things for a living do it instead. They know how to describe the hideous spectacle and I find it hard to disagree with the things said.

Meanwhile on Shitter

Reassuringly normal as ever. I don’t know who the first guy is, so I don’t know why an “African” would want to behead him in the first place, but if an “African” did that to Edolf I suspect millions of people would want to give the guy a gold fucking medal rather than go on a pogrom of the sort witnessed in Belfast recently and which Edolf is fully in favour of:

“Bunnesses”? Fuck, these cunts have less idea how to use their own languages than the immigrants they hate so much. But it’s Yaxley-Lennon posting it, so why expect anything better…

Flop of July

The other funniest story from American politics has been the collapse of the proposed 250th birthday of the US concert. This was amusing enough when they just announced the artists that would be performing, most of whom were last big hitters around 1990—including the surviving half of Milli Vanilli who were… not exactly renowned as live performers (or studio performers, of course)—but it became genuinely comedic when pretty much all the advertised “stars” abruptly withdrew from the show; apparently no one told any of them the Freedom 250 concert was actually an official celebration endorsed by the Shite House, which I find hard to believer but that’s what most of them seem to be saying.

Mushroom Cock’s solution to this slight problem: who needs music when you’ve got… him?

“I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History (THE GOAT!), DONALD J TRUMP, to take the place of these highly paid, Third Rate ‘Artists,’ and give a major speech, rallying the Country forward like I have done ever since being President!” Trump wrote.
The president appeared to be referring to the concert series announced last Wednesday, which lost seven of its nine featured musical acts within 48 hours, but since none of the shows was scheduled for next Wednesday, his meaning was difficult to parse.
A spokesperson for Freedom 250, the organization Trump created to run celebrations of the nation’s founding, contacted the Guardian later to say that the Wednesday in question is one next month, 24 June, when the president “will personally kick off this historic celebration” at a previously unscheduled “opening ceremony” for a 16-day fair on the National Mall. The fair was to have started a day later, on 25 June, with a concert by Martina McBride. The country star announced on Thursday that she would not perform, because, although she had been “assured this was a nonpartisan event”, that “turned out to be misleading”.
“I don’t want so-called ‘Artists’ that get paid far too much money, who aren’t happy,” the president added. “I only want to be surrounded by Happy People, Smart People, Successful People, and People that know how to WIN. So, by copy of this TRUTH, I am ordering my Representatives to look at the feasibility of doing an AMERICA IS BACK Rally on Wednesday, Washington, DC, same time, same location. Only Great Patriots invited — It will be a Wild and Beautiful Celebration of America!”
Trump’s promise that his rally will be “wild” echoed a tweet he issued after his 2020 election loss to urge his supporters to protest in Washington DC on 6 January 2021: “Be there! Will be wild!”

I wonder if this means we can look forward ro a repeat of that day. The worst thing is, Krasnov just monologuing for as long as he can stay awake would, for a lot of MAGAts, actually be a much bigger draw than any of the musical acts would be. Oh well. The dude from Milli Vanilli is apparently still keen on performing, which is… something, I suppose. Not sure what.

Meanwhile, in the Unhinged States…

This has been the funniest thing to come out of American politics this week:

Yes, someone at the Democrats ACTUALLY GREW A FUCKING SPINE FOR ONCE and snapped back at undeniable ugly fuck Stephen Miller in words they would understand. Apparently this constitutes “violent political rhetoric” in the eyes of Katie Miller, the ugly fuck’s wife, who also doxxed the poster of the above reply as Paulina Mangubat. Pleasingly, Paulina is unrepentant in the face of it all:

“All we did was say what everyone else is thinking, which is, ‘Shut up—that’s not what people care about right now,’” Mangubat says. She added that there’s no reason to regret using the “ugly” moniker to describe Miller.
“What he’s doing is ugly—siccing federal agents on civilians, applauding when families are separated. It is ugly behavior,” Mangubat said. “The reason this happened is because Stephen Miller, who is one of the most powerful men in the country, decided that it would be a good use of his time to go on Twitter and hurl an untrue and transphobic attack against James Talarico.”
It’s worth stressing that the roots of this saga lie in the depiction of Talarico as transgender—and that this was intended as a vicious insult. Indeed, Stephen Miller went on a tear after this exchange, going on Fox News and ripping Talarico as soft and effeminate in every way he could. Miller derided Talarico as “transitioning to female,” mocking his testosterone count and claiming Talarico’s blood is made of “soy milk.”

The Republicans do seem to be quite alarmed about this Talarico fellow, cos his opponent, Ken Paxton, did well in the Texas primary the other day but seems to be widely unpopular as a person; apparently his own staff reported him for corruption to the FBI when he was the Texas A-G, and amidst other things he’s faced more recent criticism over cutting a deal with a lawyer facing a life sentence on child abuse charges and getting that reduced to SIXTY DAYS, of which he only served half of that. Paxton is evident scum and the Republicans are worried that Talarico could actually become the first Democrat senator in Texas since the 80s, hence the peculiar and desperate attempts to paint him as transgender (or at least gay) and, worst of all, VEGAN! Clearly that’s the worst possible thing he could be…

Honestly, the stupidest thing the Democrats did was reigning in Tim Walz on the “weird” rhetoric during the 2024 campaign. And, to be sure, I kind of understand the thinking, it’s all about being bigger than the Republicans, moral high ground, adults in the room, etc… I understand it but it gets them nowhere cos the Republicans don’t care about being the adults in the room, they’re satisfied with being fundamentally juvenile because it works for them. I know it doesn’t look good for the Dems to descend to their level, and it only makes the whole spectacle of American politics even less edifying, but they may as well. Cos you can see by the Republican reaction to Stephen Miller being called what he is that it bothers them. The Dems need to bother them more often. Call them all ugly fucks. Call them all weird. Keep describing them as abnormal. Just ATTACK them. The Dems need more Paulinas.

A reasonable response by a reasonable man

As I have possibly said more than once before, I’m kind of sick of those people who get the vapours about Trump doing something he legally can’t do, as if they think he thinks he is constrained in any way by little things like laws. That said, when a court finally deigns to do something about it, it’s always pleasant to see, and though the renaming of the Kennedy Centre was a minor thing compared to, you know, international incidents in Iran and Venezuela, there was something singularly irritating about him doing that, it just seemed particularly egregious for some reason. For all Kennedy’s faults, he didm’t and doesn’t deserve to be associated with Mushroom Cock, who seems to have taken the judge’s decision… personally. I know he’s prone to verbal diarrhoea on Truth Social but he really went off on this one, as far as I can tell that’s a single post (just divided in four, click to enlarge, etc).  On the plus side, maybe performers will actually want to play there again if his name’s not on it…