To My Fellow Oil & Gas Workers or Business Owners

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Wednesday May 07, 2025 · 6:56 PM PDT

2025/05/07 · 18:56

There was nothing more self destructive in 2024 than an oilfield hand in a voting booth.

Yeah you.

Trump is literally conspiring with Russia and Saudi Arabia to put you out of business and/or take away your paycheck. He's doing that next week. He's not only doing that, he's saying he's doing that. Listen to him. He's happy as fuck about it.

Trump wanted to help the Oil & Gas industry by eliminating regulations. Deregulation is without effect these days. You can't buy an inefficient compressor or save money by specifying a pump that leaks. Manufacturers no longer make inefficient compressors or pumps that leak. If you've been in the patch for any length of time you're totally good with safety regulations. If Trump eliminates some OSHA stuff tomorrow, will your operator or company man require any less of you safety wise? Fuck no. If you have employees will you require less of them safety wise? Fuck no. Absofuckinglutely no.

You'll continue doing all that stuff the right way if Trump dumps some regulation. Question is, will you keep getting paid for it.

If you have a chemical or oil or water leak you clean it up, not because of regulations, but because you know it needs cleaned up. Also the adjoining farmer will sue you into bankruptcy if you don't. It's not political. The farmer voted for Trump just like you did. Trump is financially destroying both of you, but get ready for this, Trump's own Presidential History indicates he'll help the farmer. He won't make the farmer whole in any sense -- I mean he's a dick -- but he'll do something.

Just not for you.

I'm not talking about Trump's crew putting you through a few bad months. I'm talking about folks in your industry including entire communities, losing houses and vehicles and people. I'm recently retired from the patch after 44 years. I've seen pretty bad slumps but none like the one Trump shows every intention of ushering in.

The Republican Party has changed. They're not going to change back or even become mildly competent anytime soon. Stop fucking voting for them.

Hello Again Lovers, I Might Be Losing My Mind

Fishgrease

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Sunday September 08, 2024 · 4:13 PM PDT

2024/09/08 · 16:13

I'm Fishgrease. I've been gone quite awhile. I won Rant of the Year in 2010. William Gibson quoted some accidentally significant stuff I wrote here at Daily Kos. I was going to come blazing in here solving everything this time around but I found I have a problem. You see, with this fast approaching election, I've begun to wonder whether any of this shit is real or not, so I'm going to approach this quiet Sunday with a very short philosophical proposition.

(cross posted to TPM's Hive Rant thread)

Harris vs Trump cannot be evaluated logically except at the most basic level. By somehow existing its way through a thick wall of absurdity, it is, in itself, an insult to logic. I have proof. How do we awaken and start our day?

By checking whether or not this thing even fucking exists. Checking to see if Donald Trump even fucking exists. Fuck.

I promised a most basic level. Is this a thing?

I submit to you that it is not.

Discuss.

Fishgrease: Pick any Day!

Fishgrease

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Sunday June 09, 2013 · 1:05 AM PDT

2013/06/09 · 01:05

Pick any day between 10 and 30 days ago. Can anyone remember the reason on Daily Kos, that day, why Obama was an asshole? Huffington Post -- same deal. While some folks might remember the day within that time-span when they themselves wrote a particularly rabid "Obama is an Asshole Because..." diary, most of us cannot.

We can narrow it down, sure. There are themes within the "Obama is an asshole" mega-meme. There are flavors of "Obama is an asshole" of the day, flavors of the week, et cetera, et ceteros, et ceteri.

Also, there are individual diarists who seem to be expert, Black Belts in every form of "Obama is an Asshole" martial arts. (example: Belching Fat Guy form, Obama is an Asshole)

Right now it's the NSA thing, which is just the latest vehicle by which the far right AND left have chosen to prove that people like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi are actually neocon tyrants.

Fishgrease

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Tuesday May 14, 2013 · 6:13 PM PDT

2013/05/14 · 18:13

I know there's a lot of people on Daily Kos who do not like President Obama one damn bit. That's okay. You're criticizing the coach. You can do that.

But when, on Daily Kos, you call for the impeachment of President Barack Obama on Constitutional grounds,

You're running toward the wrong fucking end zone.

You're heading toward the mound fully intent on punching your own pitcher.

You're creating an intentional turnover.

Fishgrease

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Saturday March 09, 2013 · 12:28 PM PST

2013/03/09 · 12:28

I have two questions and I'm going to try my damnedest to ask them with as much respect as I can. These questions are not for the anti-Obama crowd on Daily Kos because other than a very few who with no shame say we'd be better off with Mitt Romney, I don't think we have an anti-Obama crowd. So the questions are for those here on Daily Kos who are very critical of President Obama for whatever reason -- sequester, banksters-Wallstreet, drones, KXL, anything as long as it is specific, say more specific than TYRANNY or FREEDOMS!

Here's the questions: What do you want to happen? What do you foresee as the possible fruits of your criticism?

Fishgrease

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Wednesday March 06, 2013 · 1:03 PM PST

2013/03/06 · 13:03

He did.

Also.

Barack Obama killed my Mom. Okay, she's still alive but you know what I mean. Just hasn't got around to it yet.

I'm going to put Barack Obama's picture in my cat box. Then I'm going to get a cat. Barack Obama will probably kill it though.

Fishgrease

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Friday January 25, 2013 · 3:11 AM PST

2013/01/25 · 03:11

I'm serious as foot cancer. You all expect me to say something like I'm serious as dick cancer but I'm trying to clean up my act.

Okay, I'm serious as dick cancer.

When I say we all have to give up something we love, I actually mean we have to give up a lot of things we love. We DO NOT have to give up the things we love most. In fact, in terms of doing something real about climate change, giving up things we THINK we love will protect the things we REALLY love for us and future generations.

My main argument with the way Bill McKibben is approaching activism (not that Bill knows who I am or cares) is that he is working only on the supply side of the carbon-energy equation. Please believe me, this is a very minor disagreement. No two people agree completely and I will take Bill as he is, the most important, the most effective climate activist alive today. The only agreement that matters is that we are on the very precipice of a planet-encompassing disaster. No one person has shouted that louder, and made people believe it than Bill McKibben.

So instead of bitching that Bill doesn't talk carbon consumption - conservation issues enough, I'm going to start talking about them myself. I'm not going to quit being an asshole. I'm going to try to be a more useful asshole.

Along those lines, how about supporting this Daily Kos outfit.

Subscribe or Donate. I gave the home team $200 a few days back. Cuss jar.

Fishgrease

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Thursday December 20, 2012 · 9:00 AM PST

2012/12/20 · 09:00

Now that I've figured out how to check my KosMail, which isn't called KosMail but instead is called "Messages", I've received a request to stop with the fucking profanity. This request was heartfelt and was from a fellow Kossack in good standing who provided some very convincing reasons why my own credibility (ha!) and the credibility of Daily Kos would be improved if I stopped using words like fuck, fucking, motherfucker, motherfucking and probably cock and stuff as well. As much as I took this request to heart, it occurred to me that this is the equivalent to asking NYC's Naked Cowboy to wear clothes. I mean, I've heard the guy and he's not much of a guitar player. Better than Nugent, yeah, but so's an ourang with a Strat taped to his ass. I figure the Naked Cowboy puts on Dockers and he's out of business. To be democratic, I'll include a poll at the end asking your opinions on this. I'll adjust my use of profanity as per the results. Probably.

Also, I'm going to pick four random-as-fuck commenters and buy them year subscriptions for Daily Kos. I don't mind the ads, myself, as some of them are for music gear and I like clicking on them and buying more amps and shit I don't need -- so I'm just going to donate on Sunday.

Again, those links are subscriptions and donate

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Fishgrease should use profanity

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Whatever the fuck

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Fishgrease: I'm Home Now

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Thursday November 29, 2012 · 9:23 PM PST

2012/11/29 · 21:23

Hey Boomers. Few things up front, here. First, my absence for the last 520 days was my fault and only my fault. I hope the RKBA folks who I blamed it on at the time can somehow forgive me. I'm sorry. My saying this stuff is not because it's a condition of my reinstatement. I'm back. Management put no conditions on that other than my obeying the rules. I'm saying these things because I want to say them and I need to say them. Fact is, I agree with the RKBA people on so many things. In my future diaries, for instance, you'll find I use the "Assault Weapons Ban" as an example of worse-than-useless, poorly researched, poorly targeted legislation. But just as an example - not going to focus on 2nd Amendment issues. At all. Ever.

Second, I want to thank someone who has been my favorite political cartoonist for some time now. Eric Lewis (ericlewis0) was not only instrumental in bringing me home, I dare say he fucking did that. I cannot thank Eric and the people who joined with him in that effort enough. I love you all. Forgive me, still kinda choked up about this whole thing. Give me a minute and I'll continue below the caricature of an orange dog turd.

Fishgrease

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Tuesday June 28, 2011 · 9:42 AM PDT

2011/06/28 · 09:42

I'm leaving this site. Overall, Kossacks have treated me much much better here than I deserve. They've certainly thought more of my diaries and my writing than I deserve. I love 99.9% of Kossacks to pieces.

Writers of GBCW diaries are told, basically, if you can't take the heat, get out of the fucking kitchen. I agree with that. I personally cannot take there deference paid to obvious wingnut trolls here these days. ME. I can't take it. I'm not speaking for anyone else and no one has my authorization to use my departure as a reason for their own.

I'm not going to say that if this website doesn't take care of one problem or another, that other Kossacks will leave. I don't know that and will not speculate upon it.

Fishgrease

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Sunday June 12, 2011 · 8:58 AM PDT

2011/06/12 · 08:58

And he apologizes, both to the people who claimed to have good reasons for demanding Anthony Weiner's resignation, and to the people he's letting down by switching sides in this argument. Which, he, (I) am doing. Right now. Right this fucking minute.

It has been amply proved to me by some very patient Kossacks that Representative Anthony Weiner had ~~bad~~ horrible, perverted reasons for his conversations with that 17 year-old girl.

I'm not ashamed that I had to have it proved to me. I am ashamed (at least a little) that it took so long to prove it to me.

Fishgrease

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Friday June 10, 2011 · 9:47 PM PDT

2011/06/10 · 21:47

I think I've a way to nip all this "Weiner must resign" horseshit in the bud. I was watching Real Time on HBO this evening and Maher had my spiritual sister, Janeane Garofalo on his panel. Well, sweet little Janeane committed the grotesque sin of telling the truth. She said that the media loved to cover stuff like the Anthony Weiner scandal because it's easy -- much easier than doing their real jobs, covering stuff that actually makes a difference to most Americans. For an example of a real journalist doing his real job, we need look no further than Matt Taibbi, who you'll note has not written a single article about Weinergate.

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