I honestly don’t know what to say about the perplexing “events” at the White House Correspondents Dinner a couple of days ago, so I’m just going to let Mike Figueredo do it for me. Personally I don’t know what to make of all the “false flag” theorising that’s emerged from it…
…in that, frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised to discover it was a false flag, but I’d be equally unsurprised to discover it wasn’t. Not, of course, that we’ll ever find out either way, but still. It’s just, you know, America being America in the age of Mushroom Cock. You get up each day, have breakfast, check the news… “yeah, that’s the bullshit America’s on today, oh well, time I was getting on with my own”… I mean, someone actually did die in that 2024 shooting, which is the consideration that stops me writing that off as a hoax in the way that even MAGAts are (apparently) increasingly thinking it was. But there’s so much cynicism about what the administration does and how it does it that you can’t blame people’s cynicism about this sort of thing. A false flag? The real deal? I can honestly believe either. I don’t know either way, and I’m not sure I even care either way. It’s America’s bullshit as usual, whatever it is, and I’m just so fucking sick of it.
To be honest, when I first heard about the Artemis II mission, I was like: the US is going back to the Moon? Under TRUMP? Astonishingly, the whole thing actually did begin under his aegis in 2017, when the first proposals were made, but it didn’t actually really get going until 2022 when the first unmanned Artemis mission took off under Biden. Then the manned second mission also began under Biden, who was probably expecting to still be the president when it actually happened. That’s kind of why I’m surprised Trump didn’t cancel it; apart from all the other things he’s demanded an end to, this was something that Biden could claim credit for, and I couldn’t imagine him tolerating that.
But—despite all that, Artemis II went up and returned safely to Earth. I was holding off writing about it until it did that, which it did earlier today… it set a number of milestones along the way, most notably the four people on board travelled further away from the Earth than anyone has before (as well as being the first people to do so in over half a century), but I think the fact that it happened at all is the amazing thing. Artemis II went to the Moon and came back. It proved NASA could pull it off. It almost feels like a fuck you to Edolf, doesn’t it? “Look at that, we managed the job without blowing up on the launch pad”…
I saw that online, and it’s an… inelegant way of putting it, but there’s so much truth in it. Because the important thing about Artemis II is that it worked. A US government body—part of THIS particular US government, lest we forget—carried out a major operation for the benefit of science, sending four people into space as far as the Moon for the first time in over half a century, then bringing them back to Earth (good thing there was still an Earth for them to return to, eh); not only was it a useful thing, it was a successful one. A US government body got something RIGHT. And I don’t think people expect that now, especially not from the current mob. We are starved for this sort of competency in recent years, at least when it comes to things that aren’t evil.
And I don’t know what it all cost, but I have seen complaints about the no doubt vast amounts of money being spent on it rather than on things like healthcare. And I mean… Trump was never going to spend that money on healthcare or anything good for the American people in the first place, but also none of that money got spent on anything bad either. It didn’t blow up schools and so forth in Iran, for example. And yeah, obviously America should be putting itself in order and there are other, higher priorities… but that money was going to be spent on something. Better going on something that adds to science and knowledge rather than takes away from life, something actually good and useful at a time where we can no longer count on the US to do that sort of thing.
I was never a huge fan of They Might Be Giants, at least not enough of one to actively follow their career, hence I never heard this until now. Someone posted it on Bluesky today, and just, FUCK. It is so relevant to the current moment and a certain individual that I can’t believe this song is actually fifteen years old and not actually about That Guy. It predates the full horror of That Guy by years, so much so that he wasn’t even a threat to the world at the time. And yet the question contained in that title is one that I’m sure billions of people keep asking about That Guy every day. Prophetic stuff…
In memoriam the man behind Midnight Oil and others, not only as the band’s drummer through its history but also one of its primary driving forces as co-founder and songwriter with Jim Moginie plus occasional lead vocalist. And man in pink overalls.
Because something good had to come out of 2025, and these chaps and chapettes were it. Particularly the Pomeranian chasing the bear out of that house. Let us at least get 2026 off to a good start.
Cos evidently this guy hasn’t forgotten it like the rest of us:
This… possibly not altogether there chap, Tilahun Desalegn, stood out to me in the coverage of the non-event of September 2025 by virtue of being noticeably Australian (I alluded to him here before). And, well, yeah, per the video above, he’s got new evidence that the Rapture would in fact finally happen at Christmas. It’s a bit unfair to single him out, cos a quick search on Youtube reveals several dozen other channels there predicting the same thing, or at any rate it would apparently happen at Hanukkah. Seems all those prophets never predicted what did happen at Bondi at the start of Hanukkah… but hey, they were only Jews so who cares, not like they were fully human to the people posting this bullshit… Anyway, I think it’s safe to say the Rapture didn’t exactly come off as scheduled this time either, just like all the other times it’s failed and will continue to do so. Not, of course, that this has ever convinced these morons it won’t happen eventually so they’ll keep predicting it…
Obviously I haven’t felt much like writing stuff in the last few days, which is not to say that at least some kind of fun stuff has happened amidst the horrors… and right-wing media’s meltdown over the legacy of Charlie Kirk has been one of them:
Now, this is in some respects just a continuation of the existing feud between Klandace and Benji Bear, but even so it’s kind of amazing just how far the former is willing to push it. The general right-wing freakout about the Charlie Kirk aftermath and what’s happening at Turning Point USA is too silly to talk about—it will fill books in years to come, but I can’t be arsed right now—but seeing all these dreadful people losing the plot is rather lovely. Ben has been losing it as much as any of them, of course, though certainly not as much as her… I mean, Candace is the person who said Hitler would’ve been perfectly fine if he’d just limited his ambitions to Germany, but I feel this is her going far beyond her personal issues with Boon Shabibula and her beef with the state of Israel, both legitimate targets, into hatred of Jews in general, not legitimate targets. She’s an even better useful idiot for the far right than Ben is, really, and her “black people’s problem is not white people” bullshit in this video is going to age VERY badly if the racists she’s pandering to ever get that ethnostate they want, even worse than his will…
Godfuckingdamn. Everyone’s been going off at Fucker lately for interviewing the Nazi Fuentes, but I think he deserves more of a beating for reminding us all of THIS cunt (and didn’t he “stop” being gay at some point?) and making him “relevant” again…
…I presume, too, this is why he had gayness on the brain in this peculiar conversation. I’ve said before that Piers Morgan is a thoroughly odd figure, in that he usually gets things wrong but occasionally he gets outfuckwitted by someone else to the point where he gets it right instead… and oh my, this is one of those instances and then some; he is clearly out of his depth against Carlson’s obsession. I don’t know if I agree with Kyle Kulinski’s theory that the latter is hopped up on nicotine of all things, but then again I’ve never ingested as much of that stuff as Carlson apparently has so I don’t really know if it can do this sort of thing to you. He’s hopped up on something at any rate…
A former Department of Justice employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington DC was found not guilty of assault by a DC jury on Thursday in the latest legal rebuke of the federal intervention.
Sean Charles Dunn, a former justice department paralegal, became a symbol of the resistance to Trump’s occupation in the nation’s capital when video of him, clad in a pink polo shirt and shorts, throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent, wearing a bulletproof vest, went viral.
“Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!” Dunn shouted at the officers on 10 August, calling them “fascists”. After throwing the sandwich, he took off running.
Dunn’s lawyers argued his sandwich throw was a “harmless gesture” meant as an act of protest. In a city under federal siege, the incident served as a rallying point, with posters showing Dunn mid-throw popping up around the district. Prosecutors said Dunn knew he didn’t have a right to throw the sandwich at the agent, and that his speech was not the issue, but that he threw a sandwich at a federal officer “at point-blank range”. […]
The jury acquittal was another example of DC residents pushing back on federal troops in their city. Grand juries have in several instances, including Dunn’s, refused to indict people with assaulting officers as the US attorney Jeanine Pirro has pushed for felonies.
The man who was hit with the sandwich was CBP agent Gregory Lairmore, who told the jury earlier this week that the sandwich “kind of exploded all over my uniform” and “smelled of onions and mustard”, according to the Washington Post. The defense pushed back, as it appeared in imagery from the scene that the sandwich did not leave its wrapper.
What a transcendently ludicrous situation this was from the start, and that’s a third failure on Jeanine Pirro’s part to get an indictment out of it. Mind you, though I said the story appears to be over, I wouldn’t be surprised if they go for a fourth, just to make sure. In conclusion, Colbert:
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