@zeldakrup
Original Zelda Krup returns with chartreuse pallor and memory like a steel trap Still battling woo, junk science, MAGA fascists, fringe theories, and political pisseurs de copie. Achievement: Haven't missed a Kentucky Derby since I was 6YO.
Last week: “We don’t need your stupid aircraft carrier, UK!!!!”
Today: “Hopefully, the UK will send an aircraft carrier to the Strait of Hormuz!!!”
What a fool.
screenshot of a dictionary definition of kakistocracy: government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state. "the danger is that this will reduce us to kakistocracy" • a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens. plural noun: kakistocracies "the modern regime is at once a plutocracy and a kakistocracy"
this word takes up so much space in my head that i'd rather be using for other things
Off she goes into the wild blue yonder
It's Colorado Springs, so not a total surprise. USAF academy is enfused with white Christian Nationalists. Focus on the Family and evangelical sects are located there. Almost as if if is the counterweight to Boulder.
Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.
I had that. In fact, still do. It comes and goes and yes, I feel like sleeping most of the day. It sucks. Doctors mostly shrug it off. The conventional "wisdom* in the medical community is " get more exercise." For the record, I'm not a MAHA/woo advocate.
Yup. Wood fatigue. Arborists have told me that in some cases the wind puts the tree in a twisting motion. The tree starts to torque and that's what brings it down.
We've been lucky so far. But tree fall in 2021 just missed our garage. Still, it demolished my favorite ornamental tree. Had several taken down later that presented a danger. Anyhow, we were up till 2:30 am. watching and waiting. I dread wind.
According to one report, the other plane is also KC-135. Top part of its rear stabilizer is missing. Photo from where it landed successfully in Tel Aviv is on socials. Stay tuned for details that may or may not be true.
Sounds like a midair collision and what's in process is a recovery. That said, I'm very skeptical of anything announced by Centcom. Hegseth has used up all his fog-of-war excuses.
I think they're using every aircraft at their disposal. Still using B-52s, also. Don't know where this tanker was based; stock photo showed KC135 at McDill.
Loss of KC-135 Stratotanker reported this afternoon (PDT) in the Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA. Photo appears to be stock photo taken at McDill AFB.
KC-135 Stratotanker refueling jet down in Iraq. Rescue underway, according to Centcom. Tanker is reported to be from McDill AFB. Not shot down, according to US military.
I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.
It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.
I bet one of his advisors used the word “incursion” and he’s been saying “excursion” ever since.
Everything now is Sportsbooks. Trump and friends, thru proxies, are betting on outcomes and exotic wagers that they control. That's why his reasons for war are so vague and shifting.
"Two grifters, off to see the world..." 🎶
BREAKING The US Federal Aviation Administration says it is grounding all JetBlue flights at the airline's request.
The ground stop affects JetBlue flights to all destinations, the FAA said in an advisory, without giving further details on why the request was made
There's a gene in the family DNA that when activated produces Princess Margaret and Jack the Ripper.
Reporters will want to talk to Bessent on Monday. Will he be available? I'd love to watch that android malfunction in mid-interview: "Daisy, Daisy..."
BREAKING: Bahrain’s state oil company declares force majeure for its shipments after an Iranian attack set its only refinery ablaze. Follow our live updates.
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
This becomes even more galling when you realize Donald only wore a cap to the "dignified" transfer because the slob is more worried about the appearance of his hair in wind than presence of soldiers in coffins.
Will Trump's merchandising extend to I Made America Great™® coffins?
bsky.app/profile/jkbj...
Key tenet of the news biz (least it used to be) is Get it First, Get it Right.
If there's corroborated info on this or from other news media, I will be well pleased.
This is the Platonic ideal of a social media exchange, never again to be equaled or even attempted:
Putin also is infamous for this. Didn't he slaughter an entire schoolhouse of kids in the Chechnya region?