National security, the Hanson Brothers, and putting goalies in charge....

You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey
And I never saw someone say that before
You held my hand, and we walked home the long way
You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr

—“Fireworks”
The Tragically Hip

I don’t know about you, but I need distractions. Between photo-shopped gang tattoos, AI-generated Pope portraits, REALLY gay Star Wars light-saber pics, threats to “tariff foreign films” because they are a “national security threat”, and a late night vow to re-open Alcatraz, the United States continues to drive itself into a brick wall. Wars are still raging, prices are still rising, DOGE’s destruction of government agencies has become almost normalized, and masked storm-troopers continue to break down the wrong doors and disappear the wrong people. Major airports have, literally, stopped working, which should terrify anybody who does not have a death wish. And all of this on the eve of the China tariff bomb detonating, along with Trump’s “let them eat cake” moment when speaking of the upcoming expense of Christmas presents. “I don’t think that a beautiful baby girl needs — that’s 11 years old — needs to have 30 dolls,” Trump told NBC News’s Meet the Press. “I think they can have three dolls....they don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five….”

Jesus Christ, Republicans are STILL mad at Jimmy Carter for wearing a sweater and suggesting we turn the thermostat down…..but are silent in the face of this? They have less balls than Hitler, and he only had one.