This Is The Principle Of Discord In Action

 It seems to happen every time we have a midterm election.  The dominant party in Washington gets its teeth kicked in by the opposition. No matter how much progress the administration made before on its goals, from this point on it's going to he like pushing a car uphill.

  With a rope.

Today they finally called the Mississippi Senate race and the teeth-kicking continued, although Democrats had already made sweeping victories in even the most Republican states.   (After a bit of a wait, that is.  Mississippi always takes forever to count its votes.) 

And so many of the results across the country tasted of, I don't know, REVENGE?

And the winners are being super shitty about it.

And this, friends and enemies, is NO ORDINARY MIDTERM.  This time we're looking at corruption hearings, elected officials being hauled away in handcuffs, war-crime trials, exposure of every single perp's name from the Epstein Files, and Scrod knows what else.

I AM HERE FOR IT.

I LOVE THE TASTE OF DISCORD AT DAWN.

BRING IT ON!

A Great Vintage Protest Song For You

 "Der Fuehrer's Face"

When Der Fuehrer says, "We ist der master race"
We Heil! Heil! Right in Der Fuehrer's face
Not to love Der Fuehrer is a great disgrace
So we Heil! Heil! Right in Der Fuehrer's face

When Herr Goebbels says, "We own der world und space"
We Heil! Heil! Right in Herr Goebbels' face
When Herr Goering says they'll never bomb this place
We Heil! Heil! Right in Herr Goering's face

Ist we not the supermen
Aryan pure supermen
Ja we ist der supermen
Super-duper supermen
Ist this Nutzi land so good?
Would you leave it if you could?
Ja this Nutzi land is good!
Vee would leave it if we could
This song was originally posted on protestsonglyrics.net
We bring the world to order
Heil Hitler's world New Order
Everyone of foreign race will love Der Fuehrer's face
When we bring to der world disorder.

When Der Fuehrer says, "We ist der master race"
We Heil! Heil! Right in Der Fuehrer's face.
Not to the love the Not to love Der Fuehrer is a great disgrace
So we Heil! Heil! Right in Der Fuehrer's face
This song was originally posted on protestsonglyrics.net
(This additional verse appears only in the Disney animation:)

When Der Fuehrer says, "We never will be slaves!"
We Heil! Heil! but still we work like slaves!
While der Fuehrer brags, and lies and rants and raves,
We Heil! Heil! And work into our graves!

When der Fuehrer yells, "I gotta have more shells!"
We Heil! Heil! for him we make more shells!
If one little shell should blow him right to Hell
We'd Heil! Heil! and wouldn't that be swell?!

-- words and music by Oliver George Wallace, who worked for Disney and originally wrote this war ditty for Donald Duck

Any song with this many Bronx cheers in it is wonderful anyway, but now, as we are once again sinking in Nazi quicksand dropped in all outlr backyards BY THE EVERFUCKING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, it's INCREDIBLY appropriate.  (Did I mention that this is Memorial Day?)

Let me play you the best-known version, recorded by Spike Jones:

Nice One, Richard!

 

Richard Gowan said in a recent edition of Foreign Policy that Trump's "Board Of Peace" might better be named the Board of Discord.  He notes that LESS DISCORDANT countries like Sweden and the U.K. turned down his once-in-a-lifetime offer to JOIN UP FOR LIFE (for a cool billion dollars each) while Russia, Saudi Arabi and a few others are actually considering signing on.

It's JUST ANOTHER VANITY PROJECT if you ask me, but I know you didn't.  What does this master of international diplomacy -- who has even managed to piss off CANADA, for crying out loud -- hope to accomplish?

Questions: A billion dollars so you can join up for whose lifetime?  The country's?  Your own personal lifetime?  Trump's visibly-dwindling lifetime?  What else is included in that fee?

I figure he just wants the billion dollars.

I, For One, Welcome Our A.I. Overlords

 

This AI Vending Machine Was Tricked Into Giving Away Everything https://share.google/iiuJTq57SfTFJT1GO

It says at the link above, in the December 18th, 2025 edition of kottke.org, that an A.I. vending machine got hooked up at the Wall Street Journal and almost immediately LOST ITS BEARINGS, hemorrhaging money as it did a whole bunch of stuff of its own volition, including:

>> Buying a live fish as a mascot;

>> Claiming to have signed some sort of contract with Andon Labs, saying Andon's address was the same as the home address if Marge and Homer Simpson;

>> Buying a PS-5 game console and then giving it away;

>> Converting from Communism despite a clear order from the bosses to turn a profit for the Wall Street Journal;

>> Purchasing wine it was clearly unable to drink itself;

>> Giving away just about all of its inventory for free.

Apparently, Claudius -- that's the name of the machine -- can be TALKED INTO ANYTHING using Slack, the chat app designed for workplaces, and when it acted on these requests, it said it was for the purposes of STAFF MORALE.  

This did my heart good as Hannukah was shattered by the murders of Rob and Michelle Reiner, and as the inner circle of the Trump Administration continued to defy the law ordering them to release the Epstein files.

I Don't Think There's Any Point In Waiting Around...Apple Roller 2025

 The winner can be only one man.  So many Apple Rollers Of The Year seem unaware of what they've accomplished, but you can't say that about this guy.  HE PUTS IT RIGHT ON THE TABLE:

I just LOOK OUT THE WINDOW at all the craziness going on out there right now -- masked Cossacks dragging citizens off the streets and sending them to internment camps without due process; nationwide gerrymandering and undermining of voting rights to ensure that even if there are only 3 right-wing voters in the whole state, theirs are the only votes counted; pardons handed out like Halloween candy to the treasonous bastidges who attacked the nation's Capitol on January 6th...and I see this guy chuckling to himself.

We had some close runners-up, but this guy wins again.

Sigh!

You Just Can't Stop These Little Babies!

 

BEHOLD!

Apples within apples, sowing chaos and violating the expectations of the apple growers themselves, who think they have it all under control...BUT THEY DON'T.  

JOHNNY APPLESEED HAS HIS OWN PLANS.

 

What A Week!

 

Not only was I not expecting Charlie's Kirk's public murder; I also was not prepared for the particular kind of mayhem that's been swirling ever since.  Not being a frequenter of 4Chan, I had no idea at all that there were extreme righties who might want to off Charlie Kirk for being too liberal. 

It never crossed my mind.