It’s the biggest day of the year here in Glibs Gulch. Bigger than Christmas, bigger than St. Patrick’s Day, bigger than Simchas Torah, even. Hot Dog Day! It’s a celebration that’s been coopted by one of the local universities, who leases out space for food trucks and gets very pissy at local businesses who sell hot dogs without authorization. Last year it fell on 4/20, with the attendant themes, which also greatly pissed off the university bluenoses. There’s a parade, live music, and we’re setting up the university jazz band to entertain people at our little café. The kids have been partying since yesterday and the streets are already littered with red Solo cups and puke puddles. No matter, Prime is coming down to experience this, ahhh, cultural event, and I have a bottle out and waiting. Ok, maybe a couple bottles.
So on the theme of celebrations, birthday highlights of the day include the Mother of the Blues; the Father of the Impenetrable; true Evil Incarnate; John Waters’s favorite filmmaker; a delightful sci-fi writer; one of my favorite authors, and recommended if you’re feeling suicidal; the Father of Harbor Place; arguably the funniest female actress of the 20th century; and a woman who is characterized as dumb, conniving, and pure evil, consistent with Michelle Obama and Nancy Reagan.
And hot diggity dog, it’s time for Links!
Inconceivable! You can hear the dog whistles. Legendary!
But we have disappointed Miriam.
See, these are the important issues.
And the blind shall lead the lame…
“Gimme da money, THEN I’ll try killing Jews.”
“What happens if the next one isn’t a commie? Trump wins!”
This electrifies my inner geek.
I don’t usually cheer police crackdowns, but this time I’ll make an exception.
Y’know, every once in a while I can enjoy some twangy country music. And this is what got the Old Guy’s toes tappin’ this mornin’.
I swear — when I went to Georgia Tech, it was hard to find anyone to care about your hot dog…. college kids these days….
Enjoy Festival!
Yeah — but she starts working with politicians… next thing you know the principal is being eaten by a giant snake. It never works out like she expects…
Prime arriving to revel in hot doggery? That’s barely a euphemism.
Hey buddies….
More seriously:
1) The human animal adapts. Always has, always will… if there’s enough cultural inertia that this becomes acceptable… well, that will become the culture.
2) While I agree with her that it is crass (just as a personal opinion) — the obvious thing would be for the Vatican to post “No use of cell phones” signs and enforce it if they really find it disrespectful.
3) As a larger issue — the West as a whole has been moving away from shame as a cultural enforcement for decades. Better or worse, that’s the cultural shift that has been allowed to occur and it isn’t easy to roll back. Again purely personally, I think a bit of shame again would be a good thing for some self-reflection and self-policing. I don’t want to move to the full Asian model of Face. But evolution is well done with me and my thoughts on society are increasingly irrelevant (if they ever were of merit)… y’all just get the rambling. Especially on the weekends.
I remember when Barack Obama was taking selfies at Nelson Mandela’s funeral.
Honor culture uses shame, dignity culture not so much. What kind of culture we are in the midst of evolving to is neither.
Every cell phone should have a built-in rail gun than zaps anyone who points the fucking thing at their face.
What about the Caucasian model of Face?
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Rita Hayworth gave good face.
So it is racism that Sanders has dropped below Milroe? Interesting…
I am so glad I have no idea what any of this is about, nor do I really care.
Although when you just say “Sanders” now I’m imagining Bernie getting sacked for a loss of 10 yards or something.
Two black college QBs in the NFL draft. Only one is the son of a famous narcissist.
Remind me of the #1 pick in the draft? I’m just having trouble recalling…
Lol, I hadn’t paid attention at all; that’s awesome.
I have to code switch from “white trash” to “not white trash” on interviews.
It’s not brain science, people.
The idea that teams passing on an impulsive immature kid makes them racist is pretty damn racist.
There are no black people in the NFL.
Sigh… keep stirring the pot there, reporters.
Obviously first — Trump isn’t Catholic (though Melania is), so some deference for Catholic world leaders at the Vatican is expected.
Second, I didn’t look at the seating (because I don’t really care that much), but I assume the front is purely Church (Cardinals) anyway.
Third… this is the Vatican. Old Europe if there ever was Old Europe. I would expect the second row to be Old Europe aristocracy… it is the way it is over there.
More to the point — this is just attempting to get a rise out of OMB’s ego, I expect… but if he doesn’t have anyone capable enough for such events that can determine this is the seating chart before he leaves DC and informs him of why and why it isn’t a personal slight, etc… well — he’s even worse at personnel management than the worst speculations around these parts. And I don’t think anyone who can get to the Presidency would overlook the need for a diplomatic function planner/handler/staff, so we’re back to “stop stirring the pot, jerks”.
That role is called a Protocol Officer. A normal job in any diplomatic service regarding dealing with other cultures.
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“Smartphones are destroying our sense of common decency
Selfies at St Peter’s Basilica show just how far our obsession with these devices has gone”
Humans be human. I *do* think the constant connection to the online world is possibly a bridge to far. Every generation has said it, and we’re no different, but it seems an outpaced acceleration in tech that we’re really not designed for.
Biggest effect? I agree, is people have forgotten, or never learned if they’re young, how to interact with humans in general, and ‘strangers,’ in particular.
Interesting to live through how we adapt to it all. Enjoy the prosperity, I suppose, while it lasts.
The acceptance of tech is always at the cutting edge of society. If it works for you, FCVOW, then you will accept that aspect of tech. If it doesn’t… Well, you wont. I know that sounds banal, but there you go.
I only got a couple of paragraphs into the article before some type of registration wall bullshit kicked in, but I’ll bet that Miriam has never heard of Victorian era funerary photography. Photography was a new medium and many people, particularly those of more modest means, had never had a portrait made in life and the funeral was the last opportunity to do so.
(Fictional) case in point.
Love that flick.
Inorite?? 🤜🤛
NBD. You’re selling wieners and frankfurters. TOTALLY different!
…also, Hebrew National or GTFO!
My hometown is known for “white hots” which are awesome. I think it has beef in it.
They have gone downhill under Conagra. Oscar Meyer all beef are surprisingly good when cooked over a campfire.
And Carolina red dogs (not red hots) are the superior dog. I may have to ship some this year.
Local code enforcement can be the wurst. If they want to go after the local sellers, they can come up with some real bangers to do it.
This is so passe. Last year was the summer of brat.
I have somehow already put in three hours of work. Still shocks me how quickly it goes.
Best orders: one person got one three-lb bag of potatoes. One got ONLY a four pack of triple A batteries, and another only NEEDED(!!!) a box of Hostess
Box of Hostess Snowballs. Someone done did fuck up and I sense desperation in the urgency.
People, such strange creatures. We really are fun (when we’re not killing each other).
Are you some sort of personal shopper?
I have done that exactly once in my life, and that was when I was deathly ill and needed some Nyquil stat.
Yep. My handheld tells me where to go and what to get. It’s odd ‘factory work,’ where me and the rest of our flock gather orders for customers. We deliver as well but about half drive up and get curbside service, usually never leaving the car.
Bizarre in so many ways. Remarkably chill, tho constantly busy. Time is exceptionally fast in this universe.
I can see using it more if/when I get decrepit.
An admission of senior responsibilities is what we try to avoid.
At a certain point we have to admit that some things can be ignored and some shouldn’t.
It isn’t Wedding Bells that are breaking up that ol’ gang of mine.
:eyeroll: As if everything is about US politics… The more conservative side of Catholicism in the US hasn’t been able to do squat with the US bishops in ages… much less “win” at the Vatican. Get over yourself, man. (to the article writer, not OMWC if it wasn’t obvious).
Trump really has broken what little brains they were down to.
The Grauniad is going to miss commie Pope.
Film at 11.
Then we end up with bio-neural gel packs and alien cheese giving the ship a flu virus…. Madness!
I am wondering if they will work on biological systems, like nerves. That would be a plus in my book.
I always thought that was a ridiculous “innovation”. Even if it still managed to fuck up less often than the transporters.
I am the Electric Eel! *shocks myself
Wow, I had no idea he was still alive and residing in Berlin when I was there in ’87.
Yeah, wasn’t he in Spandau prison?
“For 46 years he served a life sentence in West Berlin’s Spandau prison. For the last 17 years he was the only inmate in a fortress built to hold 600.”
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And they replaced the priz with a shopping center after he offed himself.
Perfect.
They did have a ballet.
Good morning all.
Earlier while killing time I happened upon a country song by someone I had never heard before. I listened and thought ‘huh, he ripped that riff off from…some other song. The whole bit was that way. each part of the perfectly constructed generic song was lifted from other music. Then I looked closer at the guy. I remember seeing him in the toy section at war-mart…he was in one of those clear plastic clam packages hanging on pegs in the doll section. The card at the top said ‘COUNTRY MUSIC SINGER’. I was reminded of some rock band from back in the day who, when asked why they trashed a hotel room said “We didnt do that. We paid a couple of guys to do that and that parade of girls in and out all night we paid them too. We weren’t even there. It’s just publicity man.”
Now looking at the links I see that sports people, media people and politicians are the same way. It is all theater. They are playing a part. I have to say though, X black dude didnt get on a team because racism is a pretty good one.
I only know of that person via a memorable South Park episode.
I only know of her because of the wonderful cover of Royals done by Fetterman in clown makeup.
LOL
The song one of them wrote for “Lorde” is kind of catchy.
Mustard starts with mustard seeds.
It’s mustard, not shouldard.
“Well, if you’re a white male Christian cisgender macho MAGA man, you can be as dumb as a rock and be deemed qualified to serve as secretary of Defense. That’s apparently what we’ve learned from this episode,” Rice said in the clip, highlighted by Mediaite.
Preaching to the choir.
Now see, when I read ‘Evil Incarnate’ I had guessed either Hillary or Susan Rice.
She left off “heterosexual.” I are disappoint.
These are not serious people. They have some comic book boogey man in their head. When they rattle that shit off, which they have obviously memorized by rote, I think the majority of people simply dismiss anything that follows.
“Virginia Giuffre, the most prominent victim of late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, took her own life Thursday — just weeks after she made headlines for saying she had “four days to live” following a collision with a bus….
First responders found Giuffre unresponsive in her home near Perth, and local authorities said her death is being probed by Major Crime detectives, but the “early indication is the death is not suspicious,” the BBC reported.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/25/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-victim-virginia-giuffre-dies-by-suicide-weeks-after-saying-she-had-days-to-live/
Nothing suspicious at all.
I’m starting to think we will never see the list. Just a hunch.
The name yaqonensis honors the Yaqona people, the Indigenous inhabitants of the Yaquina Bay region, who are now part of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. The researchers collaborated with tribal representatives to select a name that would respect and reflect the cultural and environmental history of the land from which this bacterium arose.
Aaaand done.
I hadn’t realized this was local research done at the local uni.
And by 2030 it will be considered racist to equate indigenous peoples with bacteria.
Constitutional crisis
U.S. District Judge Landya B. McCafferty, an Obama appointee in New Hampshire, began her opinion by noting the importance of safeguarding academic freedom in the U.S. and of exposing students to a multitude of viewpoints.
We must defend every viewpoint which opposes Trump.
Ugh. I am strongly in favor of freedom of speech and academic freedom. The way you get it is by doing it on your own dime. Take govt money? Freedom is out the window. That’s just the way it is. Hey MSM, are you listening?
Because they’re racists.
What do I win?
You win trip to luxury stay in gulag Comrade!
Meanwhile, when the government dictated that every action and every grant needed to be viewed through a racial/gender/sexuality equity lens, the judge didn’t seem to have any qualms.
Which gluten-free ethically sourced B-Corp culturally sensitive hot dogs are you selling at the Cooked Clay?
We tried selling hot dogs last year, but that was slow. So this year, we’re leaning into our strength- you have a choice between sausage or bacon with the eggs on your breakfast sandwich.
For a proggy little town, the dietary preferences are pretty strongly junk-meat based.
Hot dogs and eggs works.
“Anything more than a handful is a waste” is The Big Lie.
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Silicone Saturday.
It is the point of diminishing returns, with the inflection point not far past it, and they reach the “more grotesque than attractive” stage at about the size of the woman’s head.
Pop Culture Crisis were talking about how her looks changed over the years, but she just looks looks like a healthy 42 here.
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AHA! There it is, my favorite meaningless subliminal term! “effortlessly stylish’.
Also more gibberish: ‘interstellar star’. Wut?
Looking at those people….the hand holding looks very perfunctory. I am pretty sure those people also came. in the plastic clam packaging I described in my earlier comment.
She was in the movie Interstellar.
Oh. I let my cynicism get the better of me. I dont remember that one.
Also love that flick.
I’d like to see more of those legs.
I have no idea who Gigi is but Bradley Cooper looks like a washed up greaseball.
you have a choice between sausage or bacon with the eggs on your breakfast sandwich.
Croissant or bagel?
Ciabatta roll is the way to go.
No bread, no eggs, just meat.
We offer both.
hard roll
Croissant, s’il vous plait! The perfect bagel sandwich has just a quarter-inch thick slab of cream cheese cut from a big food service brick. (Hold the lox, please!)
“Convicted child molester charged in murder, torture of 82-year-old Washington state woman
According to the Thurston County Prosecutor’s Office, Jeffrey Zizz, 47, is facing two counts of first-degree murder while armed with a deadly weapon—including premeditated murder—along with first-degree kidnapping and unlawful disposal of human remains.
Court documents reveal that Zizz pleaded guilty to child molestation and inappropriate communications with a minor in 2022. He turned himself in the previous year, admitting to multiple sexual assaults involving children connected to him through family ties. Additionally, there was an outstanding warrant for Zizz in Thurston County on separate child molestation charges…
An autopsy revealed that Norman suffered blunt force and penetrating injuries to the head. The coroner concluded that the wounds were consistent with a nail gun and suggested she was tortured over several hours.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/convicted-child-molester-charged-in-murder-torture-of-82-year-old-washington-state-woman
Didn’t want to wait in line in Hell.
Is this the leader of the Zizians or a different Zizz?
Completely unrelated as far as I can tell.
I dunno but “Zizz” is the awesomest last name I’ve seen in a while.
The birthday link ‘Evil incarnate’ doesnt really narrow things down much. It appears that humans have a near infinite capacity for evil.
Normal looking guy, at least that pic, but a complete bastard and the underage predation was on family members apparently. Lord have mercy…
Ciabatta roll is the way to go.
No thanks. Ciabatta is the Cap’n Crunch of bread. It’s like eating gravel.
Vitamin enriched Wonder Bread for the win!?
It fights back when you try to eat it.
Tragic
Sally Quinn, an author, journalist and socialite, said: “I will never, ever, ever go to the White House correspondents’ dinner again because it’s the worst event in Washington every year. First of all, there are too many people in the Hilton Hotel; there are like 3,000 people jammed in; it’s like being in the subway in Manhattan at rush hour with bad food and bad jokes.
“You stand in line forever and ever to get your ticket. Last year I was in line with the British ambassador in the rain because the line went all the way outside and we stood there and stood there and stood there and it was a nightmare.”
For Quinn, the widow of Ben Bradlee, former editor of the Washington Post, the lack of an entertainer at the dinner is no great loss because there is not much to laugh at in Washington right now.
“Everyone’s scared,” she said. “You’re scared you’re going to get thrown in jail if you write something he doesn’t like and that’s going to happen very soon.
“Then you have the owners of these news organisations who keep keeling over and bending the knee so you’ve got all these people in the media who are quitting in protest. It’s a horrible time to be covering Trump. If you’re a journalist and you want to be on the story, this is the story to cover, but people are not having fun covering it. It’s very intense and very upsetting.”
Poor little dears.
They should have had Dave Smith for the entertainment.
Better yet, STEVE SMITH!!
“…AND BY “ENTERTAIN,” MEAN…”
Dave’s too nice, Sam Hyde or Tim Dillon would make these delicate flowers stroke out.
“author, journalist and socialite”
A socialite eh, the upper class equivalent of a barfly. Go piss up a rope lady.
OFFS Sally. That is pure horseshit. Why doesnt the media have any credibility? Why did the radical left loonies loose so badly last election? These and other mysteries we may never know….
Those reporters are so brave to be still reporting and speaking their truth about Trump. With so many of their colleagues languishing in prisons and torture chambers from the Orange Dictator, and yet they soldier on, bravely providing us with information about the regime at the risk of their lives.
They should get their backbone up for challenging Orange Hitler by moving to Istanbul and writing about Erdogan. Once they got out of Turkish prison maybe they’d have some perspective.
Everyone wants to slay a dragon…until they meet one. Real dragons are fucking scary as hell.
It is safer to go after imaginary dragons. This is on constant display with college students, media people and politicians.
After this last win I thought they might change their tactics a bit, but so far it looks like they have still learned nothing.
KSuellington – These are people that went to Columbia and the like. They are literally brain-washed useful idiots, i.e. one-trick ponies. It is the only thing they can do.
Remember back in TOS days the phoney rape story where the girl claimed she was raped, murdered and dismembered by a mysterious dude no one had ever seen or could find? The journalist who wrote and then defended that story defended her story with an ad-hominem against the journalist who debunked it with ” They didnt go to Columbia University school of journalism like I did”
The state of the media and of the USGov has gotten so bad that the saying “You cant even make this stuff up” is far too commonly applicable.
Heheh Suth, yup it is amazing how severely educated they are and yet self awareness and common sense is so completely absent. I was talking with an educated type customer a month or so back at his rental house in SF that I was working on and we got to taking about remodels as he had just done one and I had done a major one at our house last year. Somehow I remarked that I put in gas everything, stove, heating, dryer and added a gas line to the fireplace. He told me that I wasn’t allowed to do so and I said, no, I even got permits for this one. I told him that the enviros hadn’t succeeded yet in their stupid plan to ban natural gas here. He got huffy and said that electricity was cleaner and better for the environment. They should ban natural gas from homes he said. I pointed to an electrical outlet on the wall and asked him where did the electricity come from? The power plant, of course, he said. “How does the power company generate electricity,’” I asked. He pondered the question for the first time. I told him that the electricity in California comes from about 80% natural gas, most of the rest from hydro. “Why is it better for the environment to burn natural gas at the power plant than my home?” He mumbled something and changed the subject.
Death of due process
A federal judge in Louisiana on Friday said that a 2-year-old U.S. citizen appears to have been deported with her mother to Honduras with no meaningful due process.
In an order scheduling a hearing for next month, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty wrote that the child was sent to Honduras on Friday with her mother who had been ordered to be removed.
“The Government contends that this is all okay because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her,” Doughty wrote. “But the Court doesn’t know that.”
They should have taken the child away from her mother and put her in federal custody in order to conduct 36 months of legal wrangling.
You know it’s getting more perilous when even deported moms are submitting to Donald Hitler’s hideous demands.
The child belongs to the state.
“Burgum’s procedures apply to permitting processes under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Endangered Species Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act. The NEPA process alone can take several years, but litigation, economic and engineering challenges can stretch the time to open new mines by decades. Most of the litigation comes from environmental groups, and environmental groups are already raising alarms about the Trump administration’s truncated review periods….
An S&P Global study last year examined 268 average development times from discovery to production across the globe and determined that on average, new mines in the U.S. take 29 years to begin production.
Of the U.S. projects the researchers examined, only three had come into production in the U.S. since 2002, while another 10 had been in development for decades. One had been in development since 1978.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/trump-named-ten-mining-projects-fast-track-list-some-languishing-permitting
Congress needs to repeal all this shit, but they won’t.
The Hotdog of Null A
Guardrail repair
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the administration of President Donald Trump from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal employees of the ability to unionize and collectively bargain over working conditions.
Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington, D.C., blocked an executive order Trump issued in March from being implemented pending the outcome of a lawsuit by the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents about 160,000 federal employees.
The union says Trump’s order, which exempted more than a dozen federal agencies from obligations to bargain with unions, violates federal workers’ labor rights and the U.S. Constitution.
Eliminating collective bargaining would make it easier for agencies to alter working conditions and fire or discipline workers. And it could prevent federal worker unions from challenging Trump administration initiatives in court.
The workers must have complete control over the terms of their employment. Otherwise they are nothing but slaves.
Also, holding the American taxpayer hostage to the outrageous demands you place on your do-nothing job is a constitutional right.
NTEU President Doreen Greenwald in a statement said the decision was “a victory for federal employees, their union rights and the American people they serve.”
Trump’s order affects about 75% of the roughly 1 million federal workers represented by unions, according to court filings. NTEU has said the order applies to about 100,000 of its members and that it is losing $2 million a month in dues that agencies are no longer deducting from workers’ paychecks.
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY!
Take it out of the judge’s salary. Fuck the robed shits.
I as well fell quite a bit in every NFL draft undrafted to this day and I did not even get a courtesy cheerleader
but I have high hopes for the pope job
Pope? I hate to crush your dreams but….you aren’t gay.
Get in line behind Jimbo.
I think this hot dog celebration is an affront to the Discordians.
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Save our fragile e3cosystems
In his executive order, Trump instructed federal agencies to expedite the process for reviewing and issuing permits for mining on the seafloor in both U.S. and international territory. It will use a U.S. law from 1980, the “Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act.”
Scientists and environmental groups condemned the order, arguing that opening the deep seabed for mining could disrupt important marine ecosystems, and damage the fishing industry.
“This is being planned on some of the least resilient ecosystems on the planet,” says Douglas McCauley, professor of ocean science at the University of California Santa Barbara. “It would have catastrophic biological consequences.”
Asteroid mining is our only viable alternative. We can’t mine anywhere here.
Don’t worry environuts, I’m sure an injunction is incoming if it hasn’t been issued already.
I realize they are trying to gum up the works and run the clock out on Trump’s presidency otherwise they would just issue one injunction against anything he does that says ‘No because OMB’.
They probably have a zillion fill in the blank injunctions printed up.
No nickname is so apt as ‘watermelon’.
Can’t do that, mining might alter their mass and mass distribution and destabilize their orbits which will lead to them colliding the earth and cause an environmental catastrophe.
Best not to do not any mining at all anywhere. Or tilling of the soil. Or breathing. That will save Gaia!
These types literally place the well-being of every other organism above that of humans.
Weird
Rob Holland, a famed aerobatic pilot who wowed airshow crowds and championship judges with tight spirals, meticulous loops and inventive sequences in the sky, has died in a plane crash. He was 50.
Holland died Thursday while landing his custom-built, single-seat aircraft at Joint-Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia, in preparation for an upcoming airshow at the military installation.
The plane was making a normal landing and was not conducting aerobatic maneuvers, National Transportation Safety Board investigator Dan Boggs said at a Friday news conference. The crash remains under investigation.
That sucks. Those things are dangerous.
Tied to Trump in 3…2…1…
Down here just north of the Delaware Line is a famous hot dog stand called Jimmy John’s (no relation to the chain). Their specialty is foot long and ‘original’ hot dots with the skins. Started out literally as a parked hot dog stand around 1946 and expanded to be a diner-type operation complete with booths, a operating model railroad set, and pictures of people and events all over the walls. During their 50th anniversary a propane tank blue up and burned the place to the ground, but the new owner (who had worked in the place for decades before the owner retired) was able to rebuild and reopen it and is still in business today.
I go by there frequently and have never gone in. Parking lot is always busy. Has good rep for dogs. It is at u.s. 1 and u.s. 202 if anyone is in the area.
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Old Guy Music is not bad.
And the lamentations of their bureaucrats
Regardless of what comes next, the initial 100 days of DOGE have been unprecedented, with an impact that will reverberate for years to come.
“There’s just never been anything like DOGE in American history,” said Donald Kettl, a former dean at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and author of multiple books on the federal government.
“The legacy, if Musk were to leave in the next hour, will be something that will last for a very long time,” Kettl added. “Because it took a very long time – decades and decades – to assemble the federal government as it was. And in less than 100 days, he’s taken it down to the foundations in lots of places.”
Tragic destruction of the vast apparatus of civil society. Millions will die.