“Muh Pooh Bear,” the hat moaned.
“He’s not coming,” the hair said.
“I know!’ the hat said. “I just wanted to party with Xi.”
The hair rolled his eyes, nestled as they were under his dramatic swoop.
“Xi. Is that his first name or his last name?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well, google it.”
“You do it!”
“I won’t enact your labor for you!”
“ENACT!” the hat hollered.
“Father,” Barron said from the doorway of the South White House. “There are drones overhead.”
“Drones?” Donald asked.
“Large drones. Covered in blinking lights, red and blue.”
“No white? No white lights? Downright unamerican. Sounds like the ones from New Jersey,” Donald said. “I’ve been briefed on them. Cheap Chinese trash.”
“But they are over our home now,” Barron said, crossing the room to stand by his father.
“The boy is afraid,” the hair said.
“Chinese drones? Why would Uncle Xi do that? What if they have grenades like in Ukraine?” Barron asked. “Or lasers?”
“Where is the Space Force?” the hat demanded. “Where are our American counter-drones? Elon? ELON!”
“He’s in Canada,” the hair said. “Baby Momma drama.”
“He should just buy it while he’s up,” the hat said.
“Who wants it?” the hair asked.
Something landed on the terracotta roof tiles, bouncing, rolling, landing with a thump by the pool.
“DOWN, SON!” Donald screamed, pulling the boy down under his tactical desk.
“Don’t leave me on this desk, dammit!” the hat screamed.
“Donald! The hat!” the hair cried.
The Trumps waited under the desk, breathing heavily.
“Where is the Secret Service, Father?” Barron whispered. “Is it Butler all over again?”
“This is unclassy bullshit!” Donald said, climbing from under the desk. He slapped the big red button beside the Diet Coke button and thundered: “INITIATE FLORIDA MAN PROTOCOL!”
Loud country music tore the air from enormous speakers, proud patriotic music about America and dogs and Applebee’s. Donald pulled off his jacket and tie, and ripped his dress shirt, abalone buttons ricocheting around the room. He smoothed his wifebeater and stuck out his chest.
“Father! You look so American!” Barron said, the pride in his voice swelling like the deafening chorus on the speaker.
“FUCK YEAH!” the hat said.
“OK, yeah, so awesome, I have to admit,” the hair said.
“Thank you, my son,” Donald said. He put on MAGA hat, took up the shotgun leaning against the wall and opened the patio doors.
“C’mon, you Chinese bastards!” Donald said defiantly and began firing wildly into the air.
“Muh Pooh Bear,” the hat moaned.
“He’s not coming,” the hair said.
“I know!’ the hat said. “I just wanted to party with Xi.”
These euphemisms.
I assume the Hair took on the appearance of a mullet?
“I won’t enact your labor for you!”
Fan service!
“ChatGTP, write me a country song about Applebee’s, in the style of Lee Greenwood…”
(Chorus)
“At Applebee’s, we raise a glass,
To the simple things that always last.
Good friends, good food, and the laughter’s free,
This little hometown spot means the world to me.
Under the stars and neon light,
Life feels right at Applebee’s Friday night.”
It is better than the current pop country.
The style of David Allen Coe or Jerry Jeff Walker might be more
I can’t wait to see what hijinks Barron gets up to in the next four years.
+ 1 fuck tunnel
Obviously Hunter will still be down there. Living off of the remains of Blackberry after they accidentally got sealed in together. The personality of Dark Cracky having completely taken over his psyche. Make it happen SF.
All American Florida Man?
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1869424519821295700
“He’s in Canada,” the hair said. “Baby Momma drama.”
Reminded me immediately of this. Critics are trying to spin that he “can’t” get clearance rather than he doesn’t “need” clearance.
Why Musk Doesn’t Have Access to SpaceX’s Biggest Government Secrets
https://www.wsj.com/tech/musk-spacex-security-clearance-secrets-b9774346?st=Wwq8LB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Because he actually doesn’t want to know and be conflicted. Happens all the time on Wall St. CEOs don’t know deal details by design.
Next you’ll be telling me our CEO can’t just walk into our SCIF because he feels like it.
But…
“The CEOs of Boeing, Lockheed Martin and their rocket joint venture, United Launch Alliance, have authorizations for sensitive compartmented information, according to people familiar with their clearances.”
The ever reliable “people familiar”. How do they know and how do they disclose this legally?
TBF, he may in fact have clearance, come to think of it.
Access to the good stuff is (supposedly) controlled individually according to established need-to-know. In other words, just because you’ve submitted to the indignities of a TS/SCI backgrounder, doesn’t mean you can just wander in to the Bush and sign out the Kennedy assassination files.
In DC, clearance is mostly about social standing and resume filler.
ES,
You are correct. You are read on for specific compartments of information at particular facilities. Even if you were read on to the requisite compartment at one site, you would still have to submit a visitor request to visit another facility.
“This is unclassy bullshit!” Donald said, climbing from under the desk.
Get out there on the terrace with your pearl handled .45s, like George C Scott in Patton.
Or your M1919A6 like General Jack D. Ripper?
pearl handled .45s
Ivory – you’d only find pearl handled in a pimp’s waistband.
It is Trump…
trump would have gold-plated revolvers
Nacre please!
“Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore- house carries pearl-handled revolvers. These are ivory.”
*shops on-line for pearl handles for Para-Ordnance*
https://texasgrips.com/product-category/pistol-grips/para-ordnance/para-p-14/page/2/
Only imitation available. Sad. Kinda like the mesquite grips, though.
I want to get some stag grips at some point.
Tactical desk: https://qlinedesign.com/concealment-furniture/tacticaldesk
Niiiice.
I dunno man. I genuinely like the hidden compartments, but the overall aesthetic reminds me of the desks in my junior high school library.
It is a bit boring, though I suppose that adds to the security.
As president, Trump will have the power to give Musk and others working for DOGE broad access to classified information as they search for cuts.
“Where does the money go?”
“We can’t tell you. It’s a secret.”
OR… now hear me out… Trump declassifies tons of things that have no legitimate reason to be classified in the first place.
Well, there’s the four years accounted for.
“Donald! The hat!” the hair cried.
So poignant.
This kind of thing might earn SF some NPR lady love.
OR… now hear me out… Trump declassifies tons of things that have no legitimate reason to be classified in the first place.
Like Joe’s shipments of loot to Ukraine?
Barron has a lot of catching up to do but his big brother will help him along the way.
I see The Hunter hanging out at the White house, what exactly is his role? Does he have an office? Does he get paid? Man needs some walkin’ around money,
Hunter has a hidey-hole downstairs in the fuck tunnels. Donald doesn’t know about it – yet.
Fuck Tunnels? You mean JFK official library annex!
The operate theory is that Hunter was living at the White House to hide from process servers for the stripper he knocked up suing for child support.
This all sounds familiar
Global security leaders are warning nuclear threats are growing as weapons spending surged to $91.4 billion last year. At the same time, private bunker sales are on the rise globally, from small metal boxes to crawl inside of to extravagant underground mansions.
Critics warn these bunkers create a false perception that a nuclear war is survivable. They argue that people planning to live through an atomic blast aren’t focusing on the real and current dangers posed by nuclear threats, and the critical need to stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Meanwhile, government disaster experts say bunkers aren’t necessary. A Federal Emergency Management Agency 100-page guide on responding to a nuclear detonation focuses on having the public get inside and stay inside, ideally in a basement and away from outside walls for at least a day. Those existing spaces can provide protection from radioactive fallout, says FEMA.
But increasingly, buyers say bunkers offer a sense of security. The market for U.S. bomb and fallout shelters is forecast to grow from $137 million last year to $175 million by 2030, according to a market research report from BlueWeave Consulting. The report says major growth factors include “the rising threat of nuclear or terrorist attacks or civil unrest.”
Just hide under your desk. You’ll be fine.
“$137 million last year to $175 million by 2030”
This is a big deal? You can account for that increase just from inflation.
BJ Campbell’s article on tinfoil-hat gun preppers seems particularly relevant here. https://hwfo.substack.com/p/the-surprisingly-solid-mathematical
+1 George Costanza
If I had big lottery money in the bank when the ICBM silo was for sale outside of Tucson several years ago, I would have absolutely bought that sucker and renovated it.
These two both read the “Trump Memo” and came away with completely different conclusions.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-peacekeepers/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/europeans-grapple-over-security-force-post-war-ukraine-2024-12-18/
What part of Russia will not accept Ukraine in NATO does the rest of Europe not understand?
…proud patriotic music about America and dogs and Applebee’s.
Legit lol.
Go get ’em Donald.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15tW4dEK7A4
Absoute perfection.
Nonproliferation advocates bristle at the bunkers, shelters or any suggestion that a nuclear war is survivable.
“Bunkers are, in fact, not a tool to survive a nuclear war, but a tool to allow a population to psychologically endure the possibility of a nuclear war,” said Alicia Sanders-Zakre at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Sanders-Zakre called radiation the “uniquely horrific aspect of nuclear weapons,” and noted that even surviving the fallout doesn’t prevent long-lasting, intergenerational health crises. “Ultimately, the only solution to protect populations from nuclear war is to eliminate nuclear weapons.”
The doomsday cultists will always be with us, in one form or another.
with enough shovels . . . .
Nuclear war is, in fact, survivable. Some of the 8.2 billion people alive will survive.
I don’t think I’d like to be one of those people. The good news is that I won’t have to worry about that.
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=5000&lat=42.358056&lng=-71.063611&hob_psi=5&hob_ft=17519&ff=50&psi=20,5,1&zm=9
Here’s where I am:
Colorado will cease to be.
Yeah, I’m screwed too: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=5000&lat=42.358056&lng=-71.063611&hob_psi=5&hob_ft=17519&ff=50&psi=20,5,1&zm=9
Same here.
Apparently, one of the underestimated things in a nuke strike is fires. I would expect the mountains around Tucson (and the desert) to go up in smoke after the strike on the Air Force base and the boneyard.
If I’m at home, it just depends on how hard they hit Lockheed.
If the closest largest city were nuked, I’d be on the very edge of the line between 3rd degree burns and 1psi, which is “breaks lots of glass” territory.
I do suspect, however, that this city isn’t real high on anyone’s target list unless Sugarfree is the target.
Job security: Choose a completely hopeless cause with strong emotional appeal, harp on it and collect donations for the cause.
So if threatened by nukes their advice would be to surrender?
Not in my foxhole.
Foxhole . . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVYw7PypiJ8
Office prank perfection:
https://x.com/_ROB_29/status/1866917367575613776
sigh LOL
This was done to a coworker on a trading desk. Only everything was aluminum foil.
Since it was desk on a trading floor they did every single object. So every pen, each piece of content in his desk drawers, etc.
“You know I have like 800 emails, right?”
Who still uses email? I threw up my hands when my email count was in the low four digits. Who has time to dig through that shit?
A lot of my work is done in email.
I’ve churned through thousands of emails after a vacation in a couple of workdays.
It’s not that difficult to stay on top of it.
Suthenboy:
E-mail is the best asynchronous communication we’ve got in the tech world. When going through numbers, large strings, or sample data sets, you don’t want to be trying to transcribe them from a phone call/voice mail.
I tell my clients I do not want to talk on the phone because I’ll forget what was said. I need a paper trail. Please use email.
They don’t, but that’s a consequence of me having my phone number on my website (which, by the way, has gotten me business where it might not have otherwise).
However, I do take extensive notes on what is said in phone calls and I tell them I’m taking notes.
I like the Euro method of dealing with email while they are on vacation.
You get a reply email that says “I’ll be out until ____________. All emails received until then will be automatically deleted.”
IOW, if it’s that freakin’ important, make a note and ping me when I’m back in the office.
To be fair to Suthen, Ents don’t need email much.
Moje, my rule was any email that has gone through two cycles of replies results in a phone call/meeting. I loved email – paper trail, everything in writing, etc. But there are times when you just gotta talk it through.
RC, that is an incredibly stupid approach if they carry out that threat (and rude to make). The accumulated vacation emails are of a great deal of help in catching up on what’s been happening without going and pestering everybody and making a nuisance by being behind on what’s been going on.
That was in Re the Euro foolishness
UnCiv, I got a few of those when I was working. The first couple of times, I was peeved. Then I made a note, pinged when they got back if I still needed to, and it worked out fine. 90+% of the email traffic while you’re on vacation is just wasted pixels anyway. On top of the X% that is wasted all the time, a lot of the rest gets sorted out by the time you get back.
But jeeminy criminy, the phone calls take forEVER! 🙄
Email is a great idea but like all great ideas it has been ruined. Reading and responding to email is not actually getting anything done.
Totally agree, as some people just lose the plot with too many quoteds. I have a client whom I can barely communicate because she phrases things in such an odd way. Also, she wants A LOT of tweaks and changes that are small. Also, she speaks in acronyms (like, the titles of her books). I mean, we have a hard time communicating, so I have to send lots of “to clarify, do you mean ___?” emails. She also has a tendency to write these long-ass emails without paragraphs and I have sent it back and flatly asked her to put this email in bullet points.
Anyway, I’ve been working with her for 14-1/2 years. She fired me once around 12 years ago, then came back complaining that the person she replaced me with couldn’t understand or do what she wanted. Orly.
It’s a power game.
@RC – I suppose it depends on the nature of your work.
Given how many things I’ve got in flight and ongoing projects, there is always worthwhile information in the accumulated emails. Even if I can Ctrl-A, Del the automated messages folder contents as being out of date. I specifically look for human originated messages for the updates.
UCS, I saw your request in the previous thread, and thought I’d mention mustie1 on YouTube. He works on cars and various small engine things, and does a lot of explaining. He has a series on a VW pick up truck that was used by a lumber business in the early 60’s, and lots of other multi-video projects. He and John Muir (How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive) are the main reason I’m able to work on my own cars.
Thank you.
Depends on what you need to get done and who has the ability/access to do it. If I email our payroll processor to “please make this change to Employee X’s [whatever] deduction” because I don’t have access to do it myself, that’s how I have to get it done. And yes, I want the
paperelectron trail to prove what I said and when I said it.I do 90% of my job through email. Soooooo much more efficient than phone calls.
I had a boss who was big on the phone calls.
He was an ass & everyone heaved a huge sigh of relief when he left for greener pastures.
Email is vastly superior unless you need an answer right now.
phone calls
teleconferencing
emails
chat
All tools have some value and have both strengths and weaknesses
All tools are dangerous in the wrong hands
Credibility, we dont need no stinkin’ credibility!
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/congressional-immunity?publication_id=323914&post_id=153323211&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNTA0MTU4MDUsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE1MzMyMzIxMSwiaWF0IjoxNzM0NTQ2NDExLCJleHAiOjE3MzcxMzg0MTEsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0zMjM5MTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.lps6tKNCPgoyAEO2MTz-f2vnF4HlhnUZrft6ddeTWKk&r=453a2l&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
One might be tempted to think that the fedgov is a criminal cabal attempting to escape any accountability.
Late stage aristocracy.
Credibility? We dont need no stinkin’ credibility!
Ah, i see Trump graduated from the Joe Biden School of Home Defense and Shotgunnery.
I gotta say, I do hope the media starts referring to Trump as “Florida Man” during his second term.
“Florida Man Vetos Spending Bill”
“Florida Man Impeached for Record Third Time”
I’m fully on board.
“Florida Man Stops Congress With This One Trick”
He can keep right on running things from Florida as far as I’m concerned.
For the right person this job on the resume will likely get you an interview.
Oscar Mayer Hotdogger Applications are Officially Open: Now is your Chance to Get Behind the Wheel of an American Icon
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oscar-mayer-hotdogger-applications-officially-120100472.html\
I saw a similar story for a person who was Disney character for several years. He said he got lots of interviews as a result.
Is Inslee trying to position himself as a frontrunner for the Dem President race with that wealth tax proposal?
Where else but CA?
Scientists stunned after observing ‘carnivorous’ squirrels eating voles
https://nypost.com/2024/12/18/science/scientists-stunned-after-observing-carnivorous-squirrels-eating-voles/
Larger rodents eat smaller rodents? Wait until they learned about rodents’ tendencies towards cannibalism.
Where can I get some of those squirrels for my yard?
An awful lot of people today grew up seeing Bambi and the like at an early , impressionable age.
Basic tenet of Mother Nature: all living things live at the expense of other living things.
Even lichens compete for space.
I am making a list of sensational but meaningless words and phrases commonly used to bait people into reading, buying, clicking etc.
‘Stunned Scientists’ is near the top of the list.
Perhaps at some point I will ask the AI thingy to compose a few paragraphs using the list. Hey, I could become a political speech writer.
“On the rise”.
California ground squirrels are monsters. They will eat anything, living or dead and are destructive as hell. They turn hillsides into swis cheese and can collapse a building foundation.
Also very tough to eradicate.
How is it that these scientists are just finding this out?
Interesting… I can actually see this particularly considering how nationalistic Japan is. The now no longer used term for this is a “white knight”.
‘Foxconn risk’ sped up Honda-Nissan merger talks, sources say
Japanese carmakers reacted to Taiwan company’s move to acquire shares from Renault
20241218 Foxconn and Nissan Honda merge
Honda, which formed a strategic partnership with Nissan in August, was worried by Foxconn’s recent moves to acquire shares in Nissan. (Nikkei Montage/Source photos by Sae Kamae and Hideaki Ryugen)
Nikkei staff writers
December 18, 2024 14:51 JST
TOKYO — Honda Motor and Nissan Motor will enter into merger talks in order to preempt a possible bid for the latter from Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
Foxconn, whose main business is contract manufacturing — known for assembling Apple’s iPhone — but announced in 2019 that it would enter the electric vehicle business, was working behind the scenes to acquire a stake in Nissan. These moves had been noticed for a few months, sources said.
“How does a bill become a law?”
https://x.com/Rothmus/status/1869472323335786618
Educational!
The original is such a part of my childhood.
People on Twitter are getting pretty spicy about that CR bill. The more you hear about it the more infuriating it is. It’s not just the pork, it funds a censorship program, gives Congress a raise, allows Congress to ignore subpoenas for their communications, and lets Congressfolks out of Obamacare.
These cocksuckers still don’t understand what happened.
Oh, and Vivek edited the bill:
https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1869479465803513874
As predicted, they waited until the last minute, put in a bunch of things none of us wants, and are crying “But muh farms! But muh disaster recovery!” As if they have no choice but to pass it.
CNN does not disappoint!
CNN
The Fed just cut rates — but when Trump is president, the next move is anyone’s guess
53 minutes ago
By John Towfighi, Elisabeth Buchwald & Bryan Mena
Not a fan of Dick but this is funny: https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1869421877313343605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1869421877313343605%7Ctwgr%5E8526db00a66794cfe88e8a2a331b573e3060a425%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fdougp%2F2024%2F12%2F18%2Fdems-are-eating-themselves-alive-sen-durbin-zings-cnns-ratings-when-asked-about-pay-raise-in-cr-n2405403
https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2024/12/18/and-the-award-for-the-state-with-the-worst-drivers-in-the-nation-goes-too-n4935241
Damn…that pic…