Part of Disney Logo Ends up on DeSantis Campaign Hat

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Thursday April 20, 2023 · 12:49 PM PDT

2023/04/20 · 12:49

[There used to be a photo here, of what, I don’t remember, but it has been removed at the request of the owner.]

Can dyspeptic loser, and current Governor of the Gunshine State, Ron DeSantis and his associates get any more petty? He’s already turned the normal governance of the area surrounding Walt Disney World on its head, and threatened to distort it further, just because the Disney organization, the largest employer in Florida, had the temerity to make use of their right to free speech. The moves are intended to punish Disney for its relatively mild bleat about DeSantis’ “Don’t Say Gay” law, and more of them are in the pipeline.

Any person with an ounce of real leadership in their system would have ignored it. Why didn’t DeSantis? Because his only goal is to prove to voters that he can annoy liberals. He has no platform (nor does the GOP), and nothing to run on other than his skill at killing off Floridians with COVID and rampant gun ownership. Expect more of them to die once his new law allowing people to buy and carry guns with no permit and no training starts taking effect.

Most of the laws DeSantis has championed will ultimately be declared unconstitutional or ignored. He doesn’t care. He’s not after a legacy, he just want his voters to see that he can piss off the imaginary woke folks.

If you doubt how petty this asshole and his followers can be, take a look at the letter “D” in the photos below (note: the merchandise is not officially associated with the DeSantis campaign). I imagine DeSantis is hoping that Disney will complain about this so he can pretend to slap them around some more and show them who’s boss. He might as well. Clearly he has literally nothing better to do.

Let's Nationalize Credit Reporting

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Saturday September 16, 2017 · 9:57 PM PDT

2017/09/16 · 21:57

Let me first stipulate that my credit score is spectacular. It’s over 800, so I’m not bitching about unfair calculations or being unable to correct an error at one of the credit bureaus, though we all know those things happen all the fucking time.

Nor am I complaining about the Equifax data breach, at least not directly. That was bound to happen eventually, and I’ll talk about why it was inevitable in a bit.

I’ve got two main beefs with these ass-clowns.

Who Said You Could Have That?

First, they have a shit-ton of private information about me that I never agreed to let them have and can’t make them remove. They literally know stuff about me that even I don’t know, and they’ll give it out at the drop of a hat.

I recently had to verify my identity to an investment company. Keep in mind that the investment company had, at this point, no fucking idea who I was. As far as they knew, I could have been a Russian mafia member who specialized in identity theft. The functionary at the investment company got on his computer, connected to one of the credit bureaus (refusing to tell me which one), and began asking me questions like what kind of car did I own in 1972, where was my Social Security card issued, and what was my phone number in 1995. My answer was, “how the fuck should I know?” How difficult would it be for a hacker to connect like the investment guy did and get access to everything about me except how long it’s been since I got a blow job from my wife? Probably, not that hard.

CaptainMarginal

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Tuesday November 08, 2016 · 1:41 AM PST

2016/11/08 · 01:41

[This article has been rewritten in view of the unexpected (to me at least) election results]

Dear American Media, for ages, now, you have been building the coffin of American Democracy with your relentless insistence on presenting Trump as a viable candidate and Clinton as a dishonest, distasteful, unlikable woman, as if congeniality were the only qualification for the Presidency.

You have painted Hillary as a liar, all the while knowing that compared to Trump, she is a paragon of veracity.

You have relentlessly pursued the utter non-story of her emails, while burying Trump’s Russian connections, the Russian attempts to help Trump get elected, the fact that Trump is not a successful businessman, and the blatantly dishonest (and likely illegal) operations of Trump’s foundation.

You led people to believe that the FBI had reopened a criminal investigation against Hillary that was likely to provide new evidence, while being fully aware that the emails were not on Hillary’s server and that any work-related emails were almost certainly copies of emails that had already been examined. At the same time, you buried the fact that Trump will actually be in court this month facing charges of fraud and racketeering.

You have presented Trump’s flat-out lies about immigrants, the economy, crime, and a host of other topics without bothering to point out that they weren’t true.

You created Trump, the successful candidate, largely out of thin air solely in the hopes of making a little more money. Was it worth it?

In the coming days, you’ll get to decide if you want to continue destroying America. It may be your last chance.

Could the Trump campaign be any more Incompetent?

CaptainMarginal

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Tuesday July 19, 2016 · 8:15 PM PDT

2016/07/19 · 20:15

OK, I’m not a fucking PR person. I’ve never done PR, I would never do PR, I have absolutely no training in PR, and I generally spend zero time thinking about PR.

I’m not bragging, mind you, I just want to establish my lack of credentials before demonstrating how much better at it I am than the pathetic morons who run the Trump campaign.

Let’s assume that someone was going to lie their ass off about what happened with Melania’s speech. Here’s what I would have had Melania say. I came up with it within 30 seconds of hearing about the plagiarism charges. Ready?

I wanted to write my speech myself, but I’ve never written a convention speech before. I didn’t really know what to say, so I read a lot of other convention speeches, especially ones from candidate’s wives, to see how it was done. I guess some of the phrases from those speeches got stuck in my head and I unconsciously put them into my own speech. I certainly didn’t mean to steal from any of them.

Compare this with what Trump’s brain-dead ass-hats came up with: “There’s no plagiarism because both speeches used common words,” followed by, “She didn’t write it,” (after she said she wrote it), followed, no doubt, by an avalanche of more foul-smelling gibberish.

As we learned from that notorious and demented criminal, Richard Nixon, it’s not the crime, it’s the fucking cover-up. God help me, though, if he were running against Trump, I’d vote for Nixon in a New-York minute.

Congresswoman Betty McCollum is mad as hell about gun violence

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Thursday December 03, 2015 · 2:01 PM PST

2015/12/03 · 14:01

I couldn’t say this any better than she has. The comments are from an excellent rant by Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D Minnesota) from her email to me (also visible on her web site but in a sidebar with no permalink). Her title is “This is intolerable” and I couldn’t agree more.

Yesterday’s massacre in San Bernardino, CA was the 355^th mass shooting in the U.S. this year in which there were 4 or more victims. Over the past decade, 280,000 Americans have died due to gun violence.

This, by the way, is more deaths than we incurred in Iraq.

Gun violence in America has now become such a common, everyday occurrence that we know there will be another “breaking news” report of a shooting. We can only hope it is not our town, neighborhood, or family that is victimized.

This is intolerable. I am done with the “politically correct” talk about “common sense” gun safety measures. It is time for the American people who value their safety from gun violence more than gun rights to stand up and say: “enough!”

This Republican Congress is controlled by the NRA and they are only interested in protecting guns, not our families and communities. Innocent Americans will continue to be murdered in schools, churches and at work unless policy makers acknowledge the proliferation of guns is directly responsible for this epidemic of death and violence.

Nice to see this spelled out so clearly.

We need a comprehensive public safety and public health approach to guns in America. Every legal firearm should be required to be registered and insured for liability. Ammunition sales should be regulated and limited. And, possessing or owning a firearm should require safety training and a license following a background check.

How is the public safer when there are more regulations imposed on a person owning and driving an automobile than on an individual who owns an arsenal of guns?

It is time to make America safe for all our families!

If you are a gun rights absolutist, you may comment that we need guns to protect us from the government. If you think your arsenal will be of any use against a government that has drones, rocket launchers, and tanks, you’re a moron and you’ve wasted a shitload of money.

I’d also ask you if you think 5-year-olds should be allowed to own shoulder-fired rocket launchers and fully automatic assault rifles. If you say no, then you (like me) believe in gun control. The only question is how much of it is appropriate. I’d say the amount we have now is not nearly enough.

Let's Refer to Donald Trump Properly

CaptainMarginal

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Monday August 10, 2015 · 3:03 PM PDT

2015/08/10 · 15:03

It's time to stop farting around with our references to Donald Trump. No, he's not a self-made man or a man of the people (he can't seem to remember the silver spoon that was in his now continuously erupting pie hole at birth). Yes, he's technically an entrepreneur, a real-estate magnate, a speculator, and a presidential candidate. He's also a tragically self-absorbed pig-faced ass-hat, a loudmouth, and a mean-spirited, egomaniacal bully with something from an alien-invasion movie perched on his scalp. At heart, though, he's a buffoon.

I want — no that's not right — I fucking insist that we call him by his rightful title. I want to see news articles with headlines like this:

Buffoon Donald Trump insults Mexicans yet again

"Fox's Megyn Kelly is secretly in love with me", says Buffoon Donald Trump

Buffoon Donald Trump claims his IQ is over 400

More below the stylized version of Trump's buffoonish hair.

CaptainMarginal

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Thursday July 02, 2015 · 11:07 PM PDT

2015/07/02 · 23:07

Criticizing Ronald Reagan is almost too fucking easy. Contrary to conventional wisdom, he wasn't a particularly popular president. There's Iran-Contra, the fact that most of his cabinet turned out to be crooks, firing the air-traffic controllers, decimating Americas unions, and so much more.

Still, people rarely talk about the one thing he did that got us in the unholy clusterfuck we find ourselves in today: shit-canning the Fairness Doctrine.

More below the stylized orange fright wig.

CaptainMarginal

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Friday August 08, 2014 · 2:57 PM PDT

2014/08/08 · 14:57

I'm fucking sick to death of hearing about the "problem" of illegal immigration.

For the sake of argument, let's ignore the fact that net immigration across the southern border is fucking negative. More people are going South than are coming North!

Let's also ignore the fact that immigration helps the economy, and the fact that the majority of immigrants, legal or not, want to become upstanding, hardworking, English-speaking, tax-paying US citizens, and the fact that the vast majority of people complaining about immigration are fucking descendants of actual fucking immigrants, and the fact that the whole fucking country and its culture was originally based on people coming to America. Social Studies textbooks used to have titles like Our Immigrant Land, for Christ's sake.

For the sake of this argument, I'm going to assume that illegal immigration is a real and significant problem, even though it's fucking child's play to prove that this is not the case. I can solve this "Problem", really. See how below the fold.

CaptainMarginal

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Sunday June 08, 2014 · 12:16 AM PDT

2014/06/08 · 00:16

Just what we need -- another hysterical rant about the medical system in the United States.

Why do we, the American People, put up with this shit for even a New York minute?

You won't need any Kleenex for this this screed. Neither my life, nor the life of someone I care about was threatened during this incident. This is just a typical rant about the kind of rampant fuckwittery, bureaucratic assholery, and unsympathetic butt fucking that people with medical problems put up with on a daily basis.

Let me first say that I have insurance. In fact, I have fucking fabulous insurance. I have both Medicare and a "Cadillac" policy from a good insurer to cover the crap Medicare is too cheap to cover. I have no deductible and no copays, even for specialists.

Look below the fold to see what transpired. I'll try to make it as brief as I can.

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Let's Refer to Donald Trump Properly

I Blame Ronald Reagan

I Solve the "Problem" of Illegal Immigration Once and for All

Just How Fu¢ked Up Is the US Medical System?