WTF Wednesday: Week Twelve
It's a Turd! It's a Plane! It's Stupid, Man.
Hello, Friend,
WTF?! It’s Wednesday, again! I’ve got my slicker and wellies on for this week’s foray into the muckity muck of the D.C. Swamp. The big splashy turds get plenty of coverage, but the chaos is so constant and unrelenting a lot of smaller turdlets settle to the bottom. Enter your fearless muckraker!
I may be trawling for turdlets, but there will be no frolicking in shit water for this gal! I’ll leave that questionable activity to Bob-e-coli.
There’s trouble in MAHA Land! According to Bob-e’s former running mate, Nicole Shanahan, someone or something is controlling Bob-e and it isn’t his brain worm. His deepened association with and promotion of the Means siblings has her flummoxed due to promises she claims he made to her during his Senate confirmation. She seemed fine with these two last fall, so one wonders what, exactly, has changed her tune. It’s not just Nicole who has issues with these two, apparently, ever looming Laura has entered the chat.
While the media continues to focus on the gilded flying palace, the rest of the shenanigans unfolding on Donny’s Middle Eastern tour are flying under the radar. (Ba dum cha.) The 400 million dollar plane is a big deal, but the 5.5 BILLION dollar real estate deal for Trump International Golf Course and Trump Villas is even bigger. The Trumps have already made a flurry of luxury resort, golf course, and cryptocurrency deals in the Middle East, while keeping a watchful eye on the potential for Gaza oceanfront property. Shameless? Yes, yes they are. It’s all a grift and the deepest pocketed players are lining up behind the Trumps. Ever present ME-lon took center stage for an extended speech while doing all the deals for all of his companies. The rest of the sharks are trolling for chum including folks from Google, Qualcomm, Johnson & Johnson, Palantir, Open AI, NVIDIA, Blackrock, and Blackstone along with “oil executives, bankers, private military contractors, the chiefs of Coca-Cola and Uber, and American defense contractors from Halliburton, Northrop Grumman and Boeing”…it’s a feeding frenzy.
The Saudis have pledged to ‘invest’ 20 BILLION dollars in massive energy sucking AI data centers in the US, which leads me to wonder if the tariff driven economic crash is designed to free up some farmland for cheap, not to mention the sale of our public parks. It seems they’ve read the writing on the petrochemical wall and they’re divesting their considerable assets into AI, which is also an environmental nightmare.
But Boss! Ze plane! Ze plane!
Guess being “Saudi Arabia’s Bitch” is working out just fine for the Hamberder King, eh, Tulsi?
In related news, if you’re wondering why the Copyright Office Head and Librarian of Congress were suddenly fired last week, it’s another data grab for ME-lon and his Tech Bro buddies. The United States Copyright Office was blocking their unfettered access to legally copyright protected IP via the Library of Congress which is the coveted treasure trove of literature, sound recordings, sheet music, maps, architectural drawings, newspapers and magazines, digital image assets, film, art, and photography now freed from constraint to train their AI modules. Contrary to the utter BS spewed by generic blonde lady with big cross hired to lie, children do not have any access to the Library of Congress.
Even better (and by better I mean worse) the GOP is trying to pass a bill that would prevent ANY regulation of AI for the next 10 years.
Let’s see if I have this straight, the Tech Bros want unfettered freedom to use the data they’ve harvested via social media and via DOGE along with everything protected under US Copyright and housed in the Library of Congress to shape AI towards their Dark Enlightenment surveillance state purposes. Meanwhile the Saudis plan to profiteer while helping them achieve their goals.
Cool.
While we’re scrambling to keep up with the constant chaos, Jesus’ favorite Christian Nationalist Mikey Johnson has been busy as a bee fine tuning the plan for FINALLY defunding the ACA along with those other bugaboos Medicare and SNAP. Listen up, the rich need their billions in tax breaks and subsidies and the poors need to pay up, get to work in the factories, and play with their three to five dolls.
But not Barbies, because she’s banned.
What else is banned? Anti-semitism, but only when it’s foreign born student protestors and op-ed writers, because nation states that fund terrorist groups, social media influencers, white Afrikaner ‘refugees’, and white supremacist insurrectionists are fine. Muslims, except for the Saudis and the rest of the folks in the Middle East showering the Trumps and their oligarchs with riches, including the former member of al-Qaeda Ahmad al-Sharaa who just got Trump to remove the sanctions against Syria. Masks, except for the ones worn by unidentified kidnappers who may or may not be with ICE or the FBI or DHS or private contractors or some other mysterious group disappearing people from American streets. Immigrants from Mexico and South America who are gang members, drug dealers, or violent criminals or have suspicious tattoos, but not El Chapo’s entire family who’ve been bestowed with Golden Visas.
“The code is more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules.”
Hector Barbosa, Pirates of the Caribbean
And now, it’s time for a pause in the madness for a moment of science!
Henry David Thoreau, writer and (surprisingly not reclusive) flora and fauna afficionado, took such meticulous notes over a decade of dedicated nature study that they’re proving invaluable to climate change scientists! Thereby illustrating that writers offer far more than mere words to the world, despite the dismissive ramblings of the Tech Bros. Who can, as far as I’m concerned, go take a flying leap into Walden Pond.
Running off to a cabin in the woods is my life goal, especially if there’s a water feature. Preferably an ocean or a bay or a river…but a stream or a creek will do…and if all else fails I suppose a pond would suffice.
Dreaming is free, until the Tech Bros figure out how to monetize our thoughts.
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Every day it becomes a more dystopian reality. Sigh…
I'm just flabbergasted that congress, the senate and the Supreme Court are not all yelling "no you can't have the shiny plane little donnie". I mean they made Hillary Clinton give back(or give up) a $400+ necklace.