Lunatics running the asylum.

This guy graduated from the University of Florida and went on to obtain a Juris Doctor sheepskin from the same institution. He is on his fourth term as a Representative from Florida's 17th District.

So either he knows what contrails are and is saying stuff like this because he thinks his constituents are smoothbrained yahoos and will eat this stuff up, or else the University of Florida is handing out diplomas to smoothbrained yahoos who don't know what contrails are.

Neither of those things is really very good.

Holy Memes!

Meme Dump!

Tab Clearing...

• Children and Grandchildren of Immigrants Abduct a Native American


• This guy monitors the movements of the "shadow fleet" of sanctioned tankers from the rooftop of his home.


• ChatGPT wrote a suicide lullaby for this man based on his favorite childhood book, Goodnight Moon.

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Thank God it's Meme-day!

Meme Dump!

Projection

It is possible to believe both that military action against Greenland is very unlikely and also that this administration’s unhinged obsession with it has already done serious long term damage to relations with European nations that will take generations to repair.

We obviously don't think it's vital to our national security or else we wouldn't have closed all the bases we used to have there.

(Meanwhile, if you checked Marco Rubio's browser search history, I guarantee you'd find "map projection that makes cuba look huge".)

I would also point out that ratified treaties, such as the North Atlantic Treaty, have the force of law in the US.

So any order of hostilities against Danish territory is prima facie, de facto and de jure, cut and dried, no two ways around it and any way you slice it, definitionally an illegal order.

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Butt wait, there's more!

The Department of Defense has requested that a Canadian sex toy vendor stop fulfilling orders placed by U.S. service members stationed in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Hand to God this is a thing that happened.

@grace.bonjibon Made my week. Think I’m gonna frame this in a PINK frame. #dod #goodvibesonly #soldier #canadianbusiness ♬ Piano famous song Chopin Deep deep clear beauty - RYOpianoforte

Special Edition Tab Clearing...

• We're the Only Ones Disorganized Enough: ICE accidentally extends job offer to Slate reporter


• We're the Only Ones Authoritarian Enough: Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows


• We're the Only Ones Warrantless Enough: Federal Agents Used a Battering Ram to Enter a Minneapolis Home Without Valid Warrant, Video Shows

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Hump Day Memes!

You keep using that word...

...I do not think it means what you think it means.

“Globalization of the intifada“? In Jackson, Mississippi?

If you handed that Pittman kid a Zippo and a jerry can and positioned him in the center of a quadrangle equidistant from a synagogue, a mosque, a Black church, and a gay bar, he’d be as effectively pinned in place as if there were a force field. He’d starve.

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Meme Dump!

Memes of a Monday Morning!

Cult of the Victim

What is it with these Right wing snowflakes and all their imaginary persecutions?

The "war on protein" is as much made-up ragebait as are the ones on Christmas or Christians.

You can’t swing a Happy Meal in this country without hitting a burger joint or a barbecue shack or a steakhouse. (And thank heavens for that.)

If there was a war on protein, then protein won a crushing, lopsided, complete victory sometime before I was born. I mean, Dr. Atkins wrote his book while we still had boots on the ground in Vietnam.

And why are they using a photo of RFK, Jr. that makes him look like the bad guy from a low-budget Saw ripoff?

WH Comms Director: "Did you get that picture of Bobby for the socials?"

Photographer: "Sure did, boss. All creepy and sinister just like you asked."

WH Comms Director: "What?"

Meme Dump!

Oh. Duh.

I am embarrassed to say that I was today years old when the etymology of "iglesia" suddenly popped into view, like staring at the same picture of a candlestick your whole life and all of a sudden realizing it was two faces in profile.

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Meme Dump!

QotD: Gaucherie Edition

"Now I will not lie, it feels kind of like cheating making fun of this Ready-Player-One-ass car. Can you imagine rolling up to the club in this shit? The wealthy of our era are so jaw-droppingly tasteless they have finally invented a Rolls-Royce that you could not get laid in."
-sometime automotive journalist Victoria Scott on a Bespoke program Rolls-Royce

Just some excellent writing there. Like, John-Phillips-at-the-1990s-height-of-his-powers cackle-out-loud funny. I'm legitimately envious of a few of those turns of phrase.
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Grab Some Memes for the Weekend!

Tab Clearing...

• Elon's deepfake non-consensual porn and CSAM generator catches even more heat.


• Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI


• The Most Underrated Sports Car of the 2000s

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Meme Dump!

Fundamentally Unserious

If there's anything more emblematic of just how far this country has fallen since the days of the Merkin Muffley administration, it's that the War Room is now a blanket fort and the "Big Board" is displaying Twitter.

Before

After. Yes, that's Twitter on the big screen. You've got the head of the CIA in the room and you've got some OSINT Twitter account on the screen. WTF?

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Tanker Games

That shadow fleet tanker that tried to run the blockade into Venezuela and was pursued by the U.S. Coast Guard into the Atlantic? Well, the Russians have flagged it and renamed it and now it's being escorted by Russian navy vessels and headed for the Barents Sea, probably headed to Murmansk.

The thing is, the tanker was headed from Iran to Venezuela. It hadn't even taken on cargo. So what is on the ship that Russia's so eager to keep it from being boarded and seized? Drones? SAMs? Sensitive personnel?

UPDATE: Looks like the Russians had their bluff called.

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Midweek Memes!

Meme Dump!

That '70s Show: Armor Edition

The recent fighting between Thailand and Cambodia saw US-supplied Thai M48A5 tanks take on Russian-built Cambodian T-55s.

A lot of obsolescent hardware is still putting in work in various corners of the globe.

The M48A5 took out T-55s. This clash between the two is a very classic matchup, but the Cambodian side was at a serious disadvantage due to being in lower ground.@joeblillib4090 @Rattapoom_K @AnnQuann @ArmyMilitaryHD @T_55AM1_ pic.twitter.com/88MiAlq9VJ

— Нем🥖 (@wuthi11_) December 29, 2025

This doesn't feel very well thought out...

Professional foreign affairs understanders are a bit baffled at some decisions announced over the weekend...

Instead, the White House has selected Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, a hardline exponent of the chavismo ideology which has ruled Venezuela for a quarter century, as Maduro’s temporary successor. Machiavellian and ruthless, but with a reputation for technocratic management, Rodríguez is the daughter of Jorge Antonio Rodríguez, a Marxist guerrilla who was tortured and died in prison in 1976 following his orchestration of the kidnapping of William F. Niehous, an American business executive. Her revolutionary zealotry is said to have been a byproduct of her father’s martyrdom and the lifelong asthma she developed after being tear gassed by the Venezuelan secret police while visiting him in his cell. Rodríguez was even rumored to have been in Moscow during Maduro’s exfiltration.

Nevertheless, Trump explained at his press conference that she had already been sworn in as president and spoke to Rubio at length. Anti-American firebrand though she may be, Rodríguez is now meant to be a pliant tool of the imperialist aggressor she detests. “She, I think, was quite gracious, but she really doesn’t have a choice,” Trump said. “She is essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again. Very simple.”

I'm sure hoping someone's got a plan here, but I'm not getting that kind of vibe, man.

Automotif DCVIII...

The ZB II platform was in production from the 2008 through 2010 model years. Displacement had been bumped up to 511 cubes (8.4 liters) and output rose to 600 horsepower. When it was discontinued after 2010, it was assumed that was the end of the Viper but, like Palpatine, it made an implausible comeback a few years later.

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