You Can Probably Guess Who I Mean
Fat Caligula, the Farting Flabby Fraudster, Donold Judas Trump. Conrad will be O so sad when he keels over dead from a heart attack or turned into a drooling vegetable in a wheelchair, as he is the source of so much free blog content. At which point J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller (possibly Heggy if he's sober enough) will all be squabbling about who takes over as Prez. Art!
ANYWAY I was inspired by a vlog from 'Farron Ballanced' over on Youtube, gleefully gloating about Trump's failures in the legal field. Farron, for your information, lives in Florida, which is normally verrry 'deep red' i.e. Lizard Wizard Gizzard territory, or used to be. Art!
Farron on hearing the box office for 'Melania'
FAIL NUMBER ONE: Federal Judge Jia Cobb - Art!
A black female judge; Donold's nightmare
- shot down a legal assertion by Kirsti 'Puppy Killer' Noem that Senators or Representatives were unable to visit ICE facilities without giving her 14 days written notice at the Department Of Homeland Security. Cobb pointed out that the legislation involved in building these facilities explicitly stated that they COULD visit without notice. Meaning nothing gets swept under the rug.
FAIL NUMBER TWO: The Trump administration has been trying to make it harder for citizens to register for absentee voting, and to even register to vote. Judge Collen Kollar-Kotelly ruled these attempts as unconstitutional and unenforceable in law. Thus citizens cannot now be 'assessed' before being given registration forms, which would have been another method of restricting voters. Art!
Adds new meaning to the phrase 'feeling his Kollar'
For some reason that escapes both Farron and myself, King Piggy had wanted Pete 'Braindeath' Hegseth to carry out this ILLEGAL pre-screening operation, because as Secretary Of Drinking To Excess War, it has absolutely nothing to do with his department.
FAIL NUMBER THREE: There is a conditional entitlement under South Canadian law called 'Temporary Protection Status', where foreign nationals can obtain work permits and are ineligible for deportation IF their home country is in a parlous state. Thus it is with 350,000 Haitian migrants. Art!
Kristi Noem - that name again! - had sought to end this status for the Haitians, because she's a bottomhole and wants to pander to Donold's racist side (which is more like all sides of the saggy suet pudding). She was ordered to keep the TPS program running by Judge Ana Reyes, who analysed the issue in an 83-page judgement and whom remarked that Noem can call the Haitians all the insults she wants, BUT she has to adhere to Constitutional law.
FAIL NUMBER FOUR: No mention of the judge involved, only that they were a Federal one. In this case they gave the go-ahead to the Norwegian company Orsted A/S, who have invested $7 billion in creating a wind farm off Long Island, which DJ Tango had blocked. He has a whole hive in his bonnet about wind farms and power turbines, the senile sausage, and this is the fifth time one of his embargoes has been overturned. Art!
Corks! It's the Norks!
Art!
This is Chris Cillizza, whom you may have seen as a television pundit on <goes to check> CNN (I suspected as much), but who now has a Youtube channel offering political commentary. He's notable for a very kinetic delivery and covering a lot of bases in a short time. He felt that this past week has been the worst for the Saggy Senile Sepia Sackbut over his entire year in office, for the following reasons.
FAIL NUMBER FIVE: A Federal Grand Jury refused to indict the 6 ex-Forces Democrats who put out a video last year, urging the military not to obey unlawful orders. A bit of a no-brainer, that one, but it sent Pumpkinhead into a frothing rage and he got Pam Bondi (Attorney General) to bring a case against them. Which has now fallen flat. Art!
Now 'Pan Blondi' in BOOJUM!-speak
FAIL NUMBER SIX: Possibly Five-and-a-half. Heggy, putting down the bottle after chugging half of it, was also thwarted legally in trying to both demote Senator Mark Kelly (ex-fighter pilot and astronaut) and cut his pension. This may be resumed after Heggy sleeps off his latest bender. Art!
FAIL NUMBER SEVEN: The House rejected one of Trump's political babies, tariffs, with some Republicans voting with Democrats, which of course triggered Boorish Orange Oaf Himself, threatening them with 'Primaries'. This used to mean he would jet out to their district when primary elections came up and campaign for one of his MAGA minions in opposition to the incumbent. This process has now changed, as he's too infirm to manage this today, so it'll be merely nominating a MAGA minion whilst staying sitting in the White House.
FAIL NUMBER EIGHT: ICE, after 10 days under a newly-nominated leader (Tom Homan), is pulling out of Minneapolis. He replaced the now-disgraced Greg Bovino, who had been sent there by - O what's this name again? - Kristi Noem. You know, I wonder how long she has left in office. Art!
The caricaturists are cruel. But accurate.
FAIL NUMBER NINE: No matter how much DJ Tango wants the Epstein Files to go away, they remain in the limelight. Howard Lutnick, the Secretary For Commerce and a right Trump Toadie, insisted up to this week that he had NO INTERACTIONS with Epstein, until it was revealed that he had been to Epstein Island. An oops! moment if ever there was one. Art!
Lutnickers in a twist
FAIL NUMBER TEN: Trump's polling figures all have him 'underwater' as the South Canadian pundits say, which means they are bad. More aptly, BAD. Significantly more people disapprove of him than approve, which he will always shrug off as 'fake polls' because if he doesn't like it then it cannot be true.
Hmmm. Apart, that is, for figures from the Rasmussen Research polling organisation, a conservative organisation whose figures he loves loves loves to quote, as they're usually favourable for him.
Not this time. 40% of respondents thought Pimpkinhead had done a better job as Prez, but 48% of respondents thought Biden had done a better job. ZING! That one's going to sting. Art!
This is the NY Times cover photo he hated, and you can see why
Then there was his speech at the <checks to make sure> 'Washington Coal Club', where he broke down into incomprehensible babbling before accepting an award for 'Beautiful Clean Coal'. Except coal is neither beautiful nor clean, take this from someone who had to fill the coal scuttle as a youngster. Art!
"I proudly accept my bribe. AWARD! My award! Quick, covfefe!"
Okay, enough about Gargantuawful*.
Not For The First Time
Conrad has just seen an item in my news feed with an unusual modus operandi. Art!
Conrad recalls that one of the siloviki died because he'd been licking venom from the back of a live toad at a party, which you have to admit is more creative than falling out of a window. The revolution devours it's children, and also batrachians.
I Did Warn You
Waaaay back in October of 2024, when the budget figures were coming out for 'Snow White' and there was speculation about how high the budget would bloat to, figures of $400 million being mentioned.
BOOJUM!: Bang Bang Reshooty Reshooty
We now know that the total expenditure ran to $336 million, which includes marketing. Because the film shot extensively in the Allotment Of Eden, they got a tax rebate of $63 million, which is a hefty chunk of change. Bringing the cost down to $270 million. Art!
The downside to that is that they have to file complete tax records detailing EXACTLY how much they spent on the film. The box office profit was $102 million, meaning a loss of $170 million.
BUT it doesn't end there, because this omits marketing, advertising and promotion, which at the very least adds on another $50 million and potentially $100 million. So round that loss up to $320 million, or nearly one third of a billion dollars.
My old joke about Disney laundering money doesn't sound so amusing now.
Finished Season One Of 'Zomvivor'
Don't worry, I'm not going to post a photo-essay. Not today anyway. They cheated at the end, finishing with what you, the viewer thinks is a cliff-hanger, and then adding on a coda 'One month later'. 'Ning and Wiroj are missing!' declares a minion, referring to the medical student and her incredibly misadvised professor. Art!
Then Nonn, her brother, wakes up in a web of restricting ropes, with a background of zombies pushing up against a fence.
There had better be a Season Two.
* That's a new one. Do you like it?
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