Good day, Blue Chekists!
What has our jimmies all rustled this week?
Let’s take a look around the septic system that is Legacy Media and see what our betters have decided to take to their fainting couches over.
SecDef Pete Hegseth decided to wear a red, white, and blue tie to a meeting with Ukrainian officials, not realizing that if you took “red” from the front part of that phrase, and moved it to the back part of that phrase, you get “white, blue, and red” — which is the colour pattern of the Russian flag.
Sigh. Not the first time some official had an oopsie, and noses got out of joint — there is a reason that the last time I darkened the city limits of the District of Columbia Cockwombles there were no less than three different schools teaching protocol there, every Department had a metric butt-ton of protocol secretaries; and that the Department of State had an entire Office dedicated to that discipline.
Personally, the fact that the pattern on his tie also matched the flag of France (to say nothing of Luxembourg) irks1 me more.
Speaking of Secretary Hegseth, does anyone remember the Two Minutes of Hate directed at him for daring to have a tattoo of the Jerusalem Cross? The vapours! The pearl-clutching!
Well, turns out that back in 2007 the current Communist Democratic candidate for Senator of Maine was serenading the happy couple at his brother’s wedding in Coatia, and took off his shirt2 for his karaoke rendition of “Wrecking Ball”3, revealing the SS “Totenkopf” tattoo on his chest. Unfortunately, somebody video’d the performance.
Flash forward 18 years, and said video has surfaced during his run for the Senate — along with some … intemperate social media comments about rape, political violence, and cops — and the reaction of the WharrGerbils Democrat Party seems to be: “Youthful indiscretion”.
Jerusalem Cross Tattoo on Republican: “Bad, Facist, Nazi, Tyranny, End of the Republic As We Know It!“
Actual 1940 Nazi Tattoo on Democrat: “Meh, Kids Will Be Kids.”
Got it.
In other news, in 2010 Donald Trump contacted Obama’s Chief of Staff after attending a White House State Dinner hosted in tents on the South Lawn, where the dignitaries had to use Porta-Potties, and offered to build a proper ballroom for the White House.
His offer was turned down, but he has continued to be aghast4 at the fact that any event at the White House with more than 200 attendees has to be thrown in tents.
July of 2025, and Trump — impulsive git that he is — announced he would be building a proper ballroom at the East Wing. Fast forward to October, and the renovation crews have showed up.
Cue the WharrGerbils.
Oh, my tap-dancing gods. Disregard that Presidents have been redesigning the White since the second day it was opened; disregard the whole “Tents and Porta-Potties” thing, and disregard the security snarl of off-site functions during the current political climate — how dare he!
Sigh. Hell of a topic to spend political capital on, but whatever floats their boats, I guess.
In other news that just left your Humble Correspondent absolutely gob-smacked — Amazon Web Services did an update which not only bricked Amazon’s servers, but shut down a significant part of the Internet.
We also learned — and I had to triple check this, because … damn — that apparently some people have purchased $2000 beds which are on a subscription service.5 Said subscription service6 being somehow attached to the Amazon Web Service — and when AWS went down, the beds decided that the owners had defaulted on their subscriptions … and immediately cranked the heat to ‘Saute’, and went vertical.
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… The hell has a subscription bed???
Right. A bed on a monthly subscription plan. I’m done with people for today.
Enjoy the memes — steal them if they catch your eye. See y’all later.
Ian
I kid, I kid.
Like you do.
Really … odd choice for a wedding. Just saying.
Because nothing says “First World Superpower” quite like a line of tuxedo-clad World Leaders, VIPs, and ambassadors queued-up at the Porta-Potties during your State Function.
Yeah, I had to go look it up.
FOR A SODDING BED???!!!
https://youtu.be/Kv6RXa6Ftwo?si=icYYh4AqBcGLmT27
How many people having their electronic doorlocks with Cloud component discovered that they had no way to get into their house, an event that has allegedly* happened before.
*On one hand, I saw it on the internet. On the other hand it referred to California, where many strange things happen.