A Picture Says a Thousand Words

King Donald of Depend Daipers lambasted President Obama less than two weeks ago for bowing, saying "traitors bow".

And so he does what he complains of others doing.

The Right, which echoes everything the Addlepated Autocrat says, will, no doubt, be silent about Trump's bow to President Xi.

Caturday, Memorial Ed.

Elliott went over the Rainbow Bridge yesterday.

It was my task to escort him to the point of departure. In the photo, he's waiting in the lounge. It was maybe another ten minutes before the process began. The poor guy had some medical issues that weren't getting better; the alternative would have been far less peaceful.

Farewell, little man. You were a very good cat.

Because It's Friday

This looks like a throwback to ninety years ago:

Diesels are like AI: Boring and soulless, but there was no stopping them.

The FBI's Make-a-Wish Kid

When Kash Patel visited Hawaiʻi last summer, the FBI took pains to note the director was not on vacation, highlighting his walking tour of the bureau's Honolulu field office and meetings with local law enforcement.

Left out of FBI's news releases was an exclusive excursion that Patel took days later when he participated in what government officials described as a “VIP snorkel” around the USS Arizona in an outing coordinated by the military. The sunken battleship entombs more than 900 sailors and Marines at Pearl Harbor.

Someone had an idea: Make a reality show of Trump officials defiling national monuments. Pretty Boy Pete can rappel off the face of Mt. Rushmore. Dumbshit Markwayne can zipline over Gettysburgh. Little Marco can set up a hot tub at Yellowstone.

Testing These Down, Here

Worshipping the Golden Ass:

Color me "laughing":

Two Cases Show How Racist and Evil the Roberts Court is

In 2006, the Court, in Purcell v. Gonzales, held that election changes should not be made just before a vote, to avoid confusing voters. But in the aftermath of the Callais case, the majority of Roberts' Calvinball Court has been tripping over themselves to allow the Confederate states to redo their congressional districts mere days before the primaries and, in the case of Louisiana, while voting had already begun.

The takeaway is this: Whatever the Fascist Six on the Court can do to promote white districts and eliminate majority-Black districts, they will do. The Klan Six may believe that the Voting Rights Act was obsolete, but every action taken by the states of the Old Confederacy since Callais have shown that the VRA is as necessary today as it was in 1965.

Oh. Monsieur Roth, You Have No Idea

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the city’s ultra-rich residents to help patch a $5.4 billion fiscal hole is getting pushback from the ultra-rich, at least one of whom believes “tax the rich” is akin to a racial slur.

Steven Roth, the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, used his company’s earnings call on Tuesday to complain about Mamdani’s rhetoric.

“I must say that I consider the phrase ‘tax the rich,’ quote, tax the rich, when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs ― and even the phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’” Roth told investors on the call.

He has no idea how much the ultra-rich are despised. He doesn't have a clue that we know that they've been getting richer and richer while the rest of us have been scraping by.

This graph goes to only 2015, but it shows the trend.

2017:

Housing costs keep going up:

Since 1980, median family income has risen by about 50%, the income of the rich have more than doubled. People who know the constant struggle of paying rent, buying food, health insurance and fuel know that things aren't getting any better for them. But it's getting better for the rich.

But to putzim like Roth, pointing this out is hate speech. Taxing the rich at a higher rate is hate speech.

Well, if he thinks that's hate speech, then here's a response for him:

Things Have Been Busy

And tomorrow I've got a stint of Charon duty for a friend's cat.

Gloving These Down, Here

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

The Skyraider, a/k/a the Spad:

The Spad, the E-1 and the S-2 were the last carrier-based reciprocating-engined aircraft. To say that the Navy was glad to get gasoline-fueled aircraft off its carriers is a severe understatement.