Inverting The Asserting

There Is A Danger -

That BOOJUM! might become the 'How Much I Loathe Droopy' blog, which would probably deter those interested in tanks, atom bombs and zombies from reading it, unless <thinks> Donold dies, reanimates and leads an army of the undead driving seized armoured vehicles on New York City.  If The Asylum ever film that, I want royalties.  

     ANYWAY Art!

     Say hello to a caricature of Matt Gaetz, a ****bag in human shape, whom we have covered in the past but not for ages.  He is one reason I got a subscription to 'The Daily Beast' when they were covering the trial of his 'wingman', who subsequently got a 10-year prison sentence.  Congressman Matt got off scot-free, as his daddy is a wealthy and influential Wizard Lizard Gizzard party grandee who is probably tired of pulling strings to keep his idiot scion out of prison.  Art!

     George Santos, another moral vacuum, who actually served prison time until Droopy got him released.  The relevant detail here is that House Ethics Committee, a body you as a corrupt politician absolutely do not want taking an interest in you, took an interest in Santos.  They got him expelled in 2023.

     Gaetz could feel the breath of the HEC on his collar.  He had already married his girlfriend so she couldn't testify against him, probably since he was worried about the allegations of conjugal relations with a minor.  He then decided that his House career was perhaps a little too risky and resigned in 2024, thwarting the HEC, dammit!

     However - O that word again - he didn't go away into quiet obscurity.  Art!

     It did not set the network alight.  OANN is a very niche right-wing channel with a fraction of the audience of major networks like Fox or CNN, but hey if it pays Matt will do his one-trick pony act.  One hour per week.

     So, this is an example of a politician moving to television.  Actually it's worse than that, Eddie Munster Junior was appointed to an executive position on a quango board in June.  Watch him try and sleaze and slime his way back into politics.
     Whom do we know who moved from television into politics? - thus underlining today's title?  Why, none other than Donold Judas Trump!  Art?

When he was simply stupid, not senile

     Now, if you follow this blog with any regularity, you know that DJ Tango likes to insult other people with rather what the South Canadians call 'sophomoric' humour, or a person displaying the intellect of a 7-year old.  However - ah that word again! - HE CANNOT TAKE IT.  Zeppelin ego, you see: huge but fragile.  

     So, he consequently had the news channels CNN and MS NOW banned from the White House, since they were reporting on things he didn't like, such as the Trump-Iran war and escalating petrol* prices.  You know: news, not pandering and boot-licking like the White House staff.  The reasons for this ban have rapidly evolved over time as the said WH staff try to give the ban a veneer of rationality.  To begin with, it was because they were 'fake news', which has mutated to being about 'security' and then again to 'professionalism'.  Art!

The Donold has anger.  

     The networks all rallied round, NBC, ABC, CBS and even Fox News retaliating by removing media pool coverage, resulting in Pumpkinhead making a speech to no microphones where only the lip-readers knew what was going on.  A judge promptly overturned the ban but Donnie Dorko is going to dig his heels in on this and have a mantrum, which only increases his likelihood of a rage-induced stroke or myocardial infarction.

     O I should acknowledge that he has started his '35 district' political campaigning.  We'll see how long that lasts.

     What did Trump come up with as a solution to ensure he is adored and loved via the television?

     TRUMP TV!

     I kid you not.  This, I swear, is further evidence that his brain is now made of mashed potato.  Unsure if Maris Piper or Rooster.  Art!

     It's just looped old videos and certainly not the 'Essential Station' it claims to be.  

     Initially, thanks to novelty and the South Canadian ethos about sackcloth and ashes, it launched to 8,500 viewers.  A few hours later it was down to -

     <drum roll cymbal clash>

     91.
     I don't think I need to explain that this is Not Good.  Conrad notes that the White House staff number over 400, so obviously none of them are viewing the video equivalent of pylon-watching.  Why would you?  If you spend your day trying to damage-control Fat Caligula, why on Earth, Mars, Venus and Jupiter would you want any further association with him?  Art!

     Here's a screenshot from earlier this afternoon.  109 watching.  I suspect that the White House command structure has broken down, otherwise Suzie Wiles would have all of the staff - plus their significant others, friends, associates and randomly-encountered people on the sidewalk - dialling in.  Art!

The Donold has pensiveness.

     Apparently vlog loops of a box fan or people having a pedicure are far, far outpacing 'Trump TV'.  Since the metrics for this channel are so open, Conrad suspects it will be quietly retired with no fanfare to avoid acknowledging that Droopy is not, at all, popular.

A Beautiful Sunset

Although, I have to say, beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.  Allow me -  Art!

     What you see before you is the sea offshore of Sochi, the tourist resort in Mordorvia, and the flame-bar at bottom is a Ruffian oil tanker on fire.  Note that the fire has apparently spread across the whole length of the tanker, meaning that their fire-extinguishing technique has made things worse instead of better.  Say goodbye to an estimated $5 million in liquid assets, and another $10 million in dead tanker, but a splendid sunset is priceless.

Killer Pelikan Is At Hand

Following on from the item above, the Ukrainians are now deploying their short-range ballistic missile, the Firepoint Seven, which has recently been tested on a Ruffian target.  Art!

     We're not told what the target was, or how many pieces it ended up in, just that Prez Zed has approved mass production of this missile, which is possibly called the 'Pelikan'.  The metrics are that it has a range of 250 kilometres, travels at 1 PROUD IMPERIAL MILE per second and has a payload of 200 kilograms of high explosive.

     So what? says Bunker Grandad.

     Welllll since you asked.  As it's Ukrainian, they don't need to ask South Canadian permission about where to launch and target it as with the ATACMS that the Biden administration begrudgingly sent to Ukraine and which Agent Krasnov has completely cut off.  What was that about cards?  This means that a zone 200 kilometres wide inside Mordorvia is now vulnerable to Ukrainian ballistic missile attack, as these missiles travelling at Mach 12 on a parabolic arc are verrrrry hard to intercept.  Another point is that the Kozaky have managed to develop their own effective ballistic missile in 2 years rather than the usual 10.  Art!

     That map was with ATACMS.  Imagine that with the gloves off.

More Along The Lines Of 'Greybeard'

In case you need reminding, 'Greybeard' is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel by Brian Aldiss, he whom criticised John Wyndham for writing 'cosy catastrophes'.  Conrad cannot help thinking of the mother who gassed herself and her two children in 'The Day Of The Triffids' before her husband got himself so drunk that he joined them, and wond

     ANYWAY we have a novella here that is so bleak and dismal that it makes Brian's most anti-CCC work look like the epitomy of CCC work.  Art!

     No I have not read the novella, but I have seen the film.  A touching tribute to the bond between Hom. Sap. and Doggo Domesticus at the end of the world.  Featuring a young Don Johnson and a denouement that would have Brian quivering in horror.

I think we're done here!

*  Note correct term.