I imagine the ghosts of the 1600-odd German “foreign class of servants” imported into the US via Operation Paperclip would be surprised to discover that somehow they’d evidently been Americans all along. But. of course, so many of them had been Nazis that J. Divans here probably considers them honorary Republicans…
Pope Ghosts JD Vance at Vatican, Sends Top Cardinal to Lecture VP on Compassion
Vice President JD Vance flew to Rome hoping to meet with Pope Francis. Instead, the Pope skipped the meeting entirely—and sent his top cardinal to deliver a pointed message about compassion and care for the vulnerable.
Vance was greeted not by the pontiff, but by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State. In a statement, the Vatican said the meeting covered global conflicts, political unrest, and “difficult humanitarian situations,” with a clear focus on “migrants, refugees, and prisoners.”
The conversation sounded more like a lecture than a diplomatic exchange. And the Pope’s absence was hard to ignore.
While Sky News reported that Vance had a brief, private encounter with the Pope at his residence, there were no details, no photos, and no official mention. The real meeting—the one on the schedule—never happened.
The message? Clear enough: the Pope isn’t backing down from his public criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda.
Old Frank was in hospital for a while there but, as the article notes, he’s out now and doing his public duties and met Charles and Camilla recently, so this is a very deliberate snub, meeting the leader of the opposition but not one of his highest-profile converts. Obviously the Catholic church still leaves much to be desired, but still nice to see. I suspect Mushroom Cock would declare the US to now be sedevacantist with regards to the church for this insult, if only he knew how to spell it…
So J. Divans and his wife decided to go to Greenland, presumably in the service of Mushroom Cock’s burning desire to conquer the place (despite the fact that his owner in the Kremlin apparently isn’t too keen). This would’ve been fine, I’m sure, except that no one seems to have checked to see what Greenland thought of this…
…And they didn’t think much of it, to be sure. The government never actually issued an invitation to them or anything (neither did Denmark, which still owns the place), this just seems to have been the Vances’ idea, and they are, frankly, not welcome. Usha has apparently decided to stay home (EDIT the next day: no she didn’t, after all, she’s in the photos of the event) but James David has insisted on going to check out the US military base there… Honestly, this is just dick swinging, isn’t it? More to the point, it’s J. Divans trying to keep in with the clown in the Oval Office; much as his tour of Europe a few weeks ago was him showing he could mix with Nazis just like Edolf could and did before him, this is him trying to assert himself and remind people that he exists, and let Trump know he’s available to toady for him wherever and whenever. Cunt. I’m pleased to see the good people of Greenland not putting up with his shit, and I am greatly enjoying the story being spread on Danish television that representatives of the US government were doorknocking in Nuuk to promote the Vances’ visit and asking would people be interested in a personal visit from them, and apparently everyone told them to fuck off, hence why the itinerary was slashed. I don’t know if this is in fact the case and the White House are obviously denying it, but I love it anyway…
Marco Rubio is in Canada for the G7 summit and, well, Canada did not lay on the warmest welcome for him… this is kind of magnificent, it’s almost ruder than not laying out a red carpet at all. Mind you, I’ve not seen a lot of media coverage of this event, which did make me wonder if this photo were, in fact, real. This sort of thing isn’t that hard to fake, after all…
…Oh. Look at that, another photo of it from another angle.
More crucially, though, I saw someone credit the photo to AFP, whereupon I had the brilliant idea of trying to find it on AFP’s website…
…Which I soon did. So, evidently authentic. I wonder if THAT’s why I’m seeing so little coverage of it from the media…
I saw this on Threads last night:
Now, this is an eight year old tweet, which I’m not sure the original poster realised and evidenly neither did some of the responders, but never mind. This was J. Divans back in his “America’s Hitler” days of loathing Mushroom Cock before being content to become America’s Himmler himself, not the present day model. Either way, this is a bizarre question to ask and I’m puzzled by what his purpose was in asking it even back then…
I wish he hadn’t apologised, cos I think this is hilarious:
The Western Australian premier, Roger Cook, has apologised after calling the US vice-president, JD Vance, a “knob” at a pre-election event in Perth.
At the West Australian’s Leadership Matters event on Tuesday morning, at which Cook was the guest speaker, a journalist asked the premier to finish the sentence: “JD Vance is a …” Cook replied: “Knob.”
Cook then said: “You’ve got to have one unprofessional moment, don’t you? That was it.”
His description won him laughs and a round of applause from the audience.
Cook is vying for a third Labor term in office, with the state to go to the polls on Saturday.
Cook later said he was just having fun, telling reporters at a press conference after the function: “It was a light-hearted, non-professional moment and I didn’t mean any offence.”
Frankly, if “knob” is the nastiest thing anyone calls J. Divans this week, he’ll be doing well. And, let’s face it, Cook wasn’t wrong, and professionalism is wasted on that couchfucker anyway…
Librarians in the schools of 66,000 children of American service members are being directed to pull books “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics” at Department of Defense-run schools, according to a memo viewed by Task & Purpose.
But they’re doing so without a list of specific titles or even clear guidance on what books to target.
Among the books selected for review were 2003’s “Kite Runner,” a story about a boy growing up in Afghanistan amid the rise of the Taliban by Khaled Hosseini, and 2016’s “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” by Vice President JD Vance about his upbringing in Ohio as part of a white working-class community. […]
A Feb. 6 memo to DoDEA administrators, librarians, and teachers directed a review of library books to ensure they’re in line with two of President Donald Trump’s executive orders disavowing the use of gender identities instead of sex and “ending radical indoctrination” which the memo describes as treating people as part of groups defined by race, sex, national origin and blaming or stereotyping people for actions committed in the past by their own groups.
DoDEA librarians have been instructed to remove physical and online copies of books on gender and inequity topics and catalog them in a spreadsheet, the librarian said. The memo states that the books will be relocated to the school’s professional collection — which is off-limits to students. Task & Purpose asked DoDEA officials what would happen to those books but they did not elaborate.
“Teaching students about the lives and experiences of people from different backgrounds than their own is part of the high-quality education DoDEA offers. However, there are some resources that appear to be in violation of the spirit of recent directives,” said Will Griffin, a spokesperson for DoDEA, in a statement.
The censorship is not even remotely surprising, obviously, this is entirely in keeping with Trump’s Reich. The article notes the following books are a partial selection of the ones removed so far:
“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
“Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by Vice President JD Vance
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
“An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States” by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves” by Glory Edim
“War: How Conflict Shaped Us” by Margaret MacMillan
Not particularly surprised by most of these particular titles (Brave New World having always raised a stink with the right wing)… but, obviously, one of these things is not like the other:
I found this a little… bizarre and unlikely when I first saw this posted on Bluesky earlier, but, bafflingly, it was evidently true. I’m still wondering what the hell’s happened here. I see the order cited above attacks “blaming or stereotyping people for actions committed in the past by their own groups”, and from what I can gather Hillbilly Elegy does very much do that, it’s part of why the good people of Appalachia hate it and Vance so much… so, technically, I suppose it fits the description, but… it feels somehow like that’s not why it was done. It feels a bit more like those instances of the Bible being banned as a sort of malicious compliance:
House Bill 900 – also called the Restricting Explicit and Adult-Designated Educational Resources (Reader) Act – took effect in September 2023 and requires library vendors to rate materials for explicit content, inform parents of potentially explicit books and recall materials already in circulation when required. More broadly, the law requires library content to align with state educational standards.
While the bill, sponsored by Representative Jared Patterson, was intended to shield students from obscene content, critics say it could restrict their constitutional freedoms, and the bill has faced legal challenges since before its implementation.
Citing HB900, the full text of the Bible was temporarily banned from Canyon independent school district, which serves 11,000 students across 21 schools in Amarillo and Canyon counties.
For some reason this banning of J. Divans’ book gives me a similar vibe to this, like the librarian ordering its withdrawal did so out of spite more than anything… Surprising how little reaction there seems to have been so far, though, you’d think the government would be less than pleased that a book written by one of their own number had been pulled like that. But then again, we’re talking about that couch-fucking clown. Do they even remember he’s the vice-president?
Thanksgiving isn’t something we do here in Australia (except on Norfolk Island for some reason), so it’s something I only see from quite a distance and find a little strange… but this is the strangest thing about it I’ve ever seen that I can remember:
I mean… MAGA photoshop propaganda, which I’m sure this is supposed to be, is obviously a thing, that’s not the problem here. Not even the fact that said MAGA propaganda is, frankly, kind of denigrating J. Divans by making him the housewife. It’s that Vance himself posted this thing. I initially didn’t believe it, but no, a quick squiz at his Shitter revealed it was bafflingly real. Did Vance possibly even make this? Is this actually his own photoshop work? If not, why is he still clearly amused enough by this thing to post it himself? Is it some way to remind Mushroom Cock that Vance is his bitch rather than that Musk fellow? Cos the latter does seem to be getting cocky lately about the things the impending debacle is going to do, as if he were going to be charge of said things, and there’s been some speculation that even the orange guy is getting jack of him… so maybe Vance posted this otherwise peculiar image to remind Drumpf that he’s still there and won’t overreach himself? I don’t know.
Yeah, someone apparently took another pop at Dampnut. I find myself oddly “meh” about this one, possibly because bugger all really happened; the gunman got chased off by the secret service before he could get a shot off, so Drumpf and his apologists can’t even claim he “took a bullet” like he did the previous time… not, of course, that he did take a bullet then, some other poor bastards did and it’s become increasingly obvious that Trump never suffered any real damage that time.
I hesitate to call “false flag” in the way my housemate Joe did when he spoke about to me, because that’s the sort of thing they would say (Alex Jones does all the time), but… the timing certainly is interesting. This all comes as the orange one has been on tour with Laura Loomer in the last few days; Laura is one of the biggest pieces of shit involved in right-wing activism, and there’s been many eyebrows raised at her accompanying Trump from the Republicans (Marjorie The Gathering had a particularly hilarious fit of the vapours over Loomer being racist towards Kamala Harris), partly because she’s an obviously revolting human being and a potentially very bad influence on someone who doesn’t need bad influences, but I’m sure it’s mostly because THEY’RE not getting to be bad influences on him as long as she’s in their way…
But the worst thing about Loomer’s presence around Trump…
…is that it’s given Milo Hanrahan a way to desperately become “relevant” again. I was so enjoying not hearing from this tedious cunt, but he’s been insisting on spreading stories about Loomer and Drumpf being, you know, a thing. Quite apart from it being inconceivable that Trump could actually get it up long enough for her to give him a blowie, this is Milo telling the story. You can’t trust him to tell you the sun will come up again tomorrow.
Anyway, the theory has been that this shit with Loomer has been a stunt to distract people from the debate last week, which is believable cos hardly anyone’s talked about that lately, she’s been the real subject of discourse for the last few days… so is this “shooting” also a distraction? To draw people’s attention away from Loomer now? Or from this?
In a stunning admission, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, said he was willing “to create stories” on the campaign trail while defending his spreading false, racist rumors of pets being abducted and eaten in a town in his home state of Ohio.
Vance’s remarks came during an appearance on Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, where he said he felt the need “to create stories so that the … media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people”.
Asked by the CNN host Dana Bash whether the false rumors centering on Springfield, Ohio, were “a story that you created”, Vance replied, “Yes!” He then said the claims were rooted in “accounts from … constituents” and that he as well as the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, had spoken publicly about them to draw attention to Springfield’s relatively large Haitian population. […]
The rumors proliferating out of Springfield have led to bomb threats aimed at local hospitals and government offices. Vance on Sunday told Bash it was “disgusting” for the media to suggest any of his remarks had led to those threats. He also used the same term to refer to the people issuing those threats, though – in a separate appearance on Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press – he made it a point to blame the media for accurately reporting on them, saying it was “amplifying the worst people in the world”.
So the whole story about illegals coming for your pets was transparent bullshit, obviously, but the racist foghorning worked, and that was the whole point. And J. Divans basically just said it outright. Helpful. Anyway, I don’t personally think this business with the Mar-a-Lago gunman actually is a false flag or similar distraction to take our attention away from the debate or Laura Loomer or JDV or Project 2025 or whatever we’re supposed to not be looking at… just why other people might do so. I do find it curious, mind you, that in both instances so far, the shooters have been Republican voters, which is not really what I’d expect if it were staged, you’d think they’d be more likely to hire a Democrat or independent or, well, anyone other than a Republican. Just waiting for someone to claim Taylor Swift was really behind it…
It’s been kind of amusing to see the Democrats leaning recently into the idea that there’s something basically strange about the Republicans… Minnesota governor Tim Walz seems to have kicked it off in a TV interview and the Harris campaign quickly picked up on it:
“Old and quite weird” indeed. The Republicans aren’t particularly happy at being picked on like this:
And, to be sure, it’s really not the most refined political argument, but then again the Republicans don’t have much in their armoury either that’s better. “Ron DeSanctimonious” was about as sophisticated as Trump got, and someone probably had to come up with it for him. And, as someone says in that Politico piece, people understand Trump being weird better than they understand “an existential threat to democracy”. The latter is, of course, still correct, but “weird” certainly does hit harder in a way.
And let’s face it, THIS shit IS weird. There isn’t any other way to fairly describe whatever the fuck this is if it’s not meant to be some sort of parody of the cult’s iconography. Cos on the face of it, it’s so deranged it looks like it has to be parodic, and indeed I thought it had to be when I first looked at it when someone posted it on Bluesky. But then I saw Tim Pool’s name at the top of the post. Yes, Grim Fool posted this monstrosity (obviously didn’t create it, though, cos that would’ve required him to have talent). I couldn’t believe that either and thought someone must have photoshopped it… no, they didn’t, I went to Tim’s Twitter and, well, that’s exactly what I found there. And Tim is incapable of irony, so he posted this thing with a straight face. Fuck me dead. These people have no sense of their own absurdity.
I mean, look at this silly old chud here. There was a bunch of people like him at the recent Republican convention at which Drumpf appeared with a frankly unnecessarily large bandage covering his putative war wound from that shooting, whereupon it became like a badge for other people there. This is not normal. Weird is the word. I don’t see John Fetterman’s admirers having strokes as a sign of support for him, for example. And see this fuckwit too:
Well, at least her father probably wasn’t a leader in the fucking Ku Klux Klan, which is rather more than can be said for Rod Dreher’s dad. Also, I wonder if she ever published private pictures from a teenage girl’s private Instagram in a major magazine while accusing said girl unjustly of sexually harrassing other girls at her school, cos Rod DEFINITELY did that. That’s clearly weird behaviour on his part. People with normal moral compasses know better than that.
Obviously the left has been kind of tut-tutty about the “weird” thing, too, like the clown I saw harrumphing on Mastodon the other day about how everyone laughing at the couch-fucking thing distracts us from realising that J. Divans (saw him called that on Twitter today and thought it was FUCKING MARVELLOUS) is in fact a monstrous human being… Jesus FUCK, you idiot, NO ONE who’s paying attention thinks Vance isn’t a piece of shit, we know exactly what he thinks. Piss off with your indignation, let the rest of us laugh at the cunt like he deserves. Make him look stupid. Make him look weird.
But the choice of the term “weird” has also drawn some criticism on the grounds of ableism or something like that, which I understand a little better. By the same token, I also understand the arguments I’ve seen some make that the Left deploying “weird” like this gets in the way of the Right defining themselves as “normality”, and about the distinction between “good weird” and “bad weird”… but the latter does kind of assume people’s willingness to actually make it, and I did see someone (wish I could recall who) say something about how what we should really be calling them isn’t so much weird as creepy…
…and, frankly, Malsh Walsh here makes a good argument for that. Let’s face it: the idea that he expresses here (a girl raped by her father should have to give birth so the father’s crime will be discovered) is not only weird and illogical, it’s FUCKING MONSTROUS. Not only is Walsh full of shit, he’s being actively evil here. And I can see why some are saying we should be emphasising their badness more than their oddness, and frankly that’s a line of thought I’m increasingly coming round to myself…
…and the authors of this astounding bit of work have latched onto that aspect of the whole thing; this is profoundly disquieting, nailing the essential unpleasantness of these people, and it’s one of the best political ads I’ve ever seen. The casting is just brilliant, and the SWEAT… oh gods, the SWEAT. I think the increasing amount of sweat is a good way to finally round this post off.
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