So how about something a little lighthearted to start. (Yes, please.) I’ve just read that Taylor Swift holds the record for ‘greatest seismic activity caused by a music concert.’ Apparently a concert in Seattle generated the equivalent of a 2.3 earthquake.

Now I’ll tell you the truth. I’ve never thought about which musical act holds the record for greatest seismic activity, nor have I ever attended a Taylor Swift concert so I have to confess, I don’t know what happens at a Taylor Swift concert beyond singing and dancing. But if I was going to guess which musical act holds the record for greatest seismic activity, Taylor Swift would not have been my first, third, or even fifth guess.

My actual first guess would have been the band ‘Queen.’ I can’t believe that a stadium full of concert-goers pounding their feet on the ground in unison for the song, ‘We Will Rock You’ didn’t generate greater seismic activity. Of course, maybe Queen never bothered to set up a seismometer.

I don’t know, that just struck me as a useless, but fun fact. Props to Taylor Swift. Oh yeah, her new album, “Life of a Showgirl,” drops at midnight ET. I know a fifteen year old girl who is very excited about it. I’ll be sleeping…

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“No more beardos?” Really? That was one of Whiskey Pete Hegseth’s messages to the generals and admirals in a meeting, to which they were called from all over the world to attend. He also had a “No fatties” message. From everything I’ve seen or heard, it was the kind of message they could have conveyed with a memo. Well, Hegseth DID get the chance to throw in some racism he might not want in a written memo when he suggested that black senior officers had benefited from a “quota system” that doesn’t exist.

AT one point, Whiskey Pete looked directly into the camera and in true little boy tough guy fashion said, “To our enemies, FAFO.” Then he stood there, trying to look tough and not like the buffoon he is, chest puffed out, pausing for the thunderous applause that – never came. Instead? Crickets. No problem. They can fix it in post. Adding thunderous applause to deceive MAGA will be easy.

Then, Donny got to talk. Oh, BOY, does he like to talk. He loves nothing more than himself and the sound of his own voice soothes his agitated mind. He told the gathering they should get used to the idea that their troops might use American cities as “training grounds.” He said some other things, too, but his brain is so deeply impacted nobody is sure what the hell he was talking about.

This way, though, Whiskey Pete and The First Felon got to issue a command to generals and admirals and watch them comply. That’s a BIG ego boost to such vanishingly small egos. (I see it as evidence that even they know they aren’t qualified to be in the position they are in.) Oh, AND it had the built in, added feature of being a ridiculously expensive event.

As of this writing, the GOP has shut down the government because, the GOP insists, we here in ‘The Richest Nation On Earth™’ just don’t have the money to help struggling Americans with access to health care, but we DO have the money to fly hundreds of people around the world to tell them, “No fatties?”

We also, apparently, have plenty of money to send to Argentina, who has just taken the entire American soybean crop sales from the US, leaving American soybean farmers with no market and getting ready for a government handout they pray will come. This, of course, means we’ll ALSO have to have money to bail out the Soybean farmers Donny has screwed again. The LAST time soybean farmers were in this position, it was because of Donny, and he DID help them out financially. He bragged about it, of course, obviously leaving out the part about the bailout being necessary in the first place because of his failed policies.

We have money to rig out a new airplane. 47 apparently pressured Qatar into “giving” it to him, er, the country and THEN to him, so it is NOT a bribe. It’s going to “belong to the US” juuust long enough for the refit. Completely unrelated is the new memo just signed by Donny promising military support if anybody attacks Qatar. No word on the US response when that “anybody” turns out to be Israel again.

We ALSO have money to deploy military troops around to various US cities to harass American citizens and, apparently, clean things and plant flowers, but mostly the ‘harass American citizens’ part…

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Benito Mussolini once described fascism as the marriage of corporations and government. Pretty straightforward. That’s one dot. When all is said and done, “marriage” is nothing more than an official partnership agreement regarding the co-mingling and disposition of assets. That’s a second dot. Conservatives get all butthurt every time someone even hints they might be fascists. Third dot. Shall we connect them?

MAGA is just going to have to pick up some ‘Preparation H’ for that butthurt because the US government just took a five percent stake in another privately owned business, Lithium America. This, after taking a 10% stake in Intel, the chip maker.

The US government is moving into co-ownership positions with corporations, the literal “marriage” of corporations and government. MAGA is STILL all in with The Felon so they MUST be a-okay with the new agreements, making them – BY DEFINITION – fascists…

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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Mahatma Gandhi.
Just remember that as Donny goes on one revenge tour after another…

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I know MAGA pretends the ICEholes are only rounding up violent criminals for deportation. You know, bloodthirsty, violent, drug-dealing gang members who happen to also be working in housekeeping in hotels or as day laborers, that kind of thing. MAGA media works very hard to make sure MAGA doesn’t even know the ICEholes keep harassing people “following the process” or even US citizens. But they do.

Harass US citizens, I mean. I’ve been wondering how long it would take until one of the US citizens the ICEholes roust decided to take action of their own and file a lawsuit. Now, one of them has, and yay for him. I know how this would have played out were this still the Constitutional Republic I was born into. But this bizarro MAGAmerica? Who knows? Still, I’m rooting for the guy…