So fucking dumb

In an effort to rile up the stupid people, and help move away from the Epstein case, the orange menace decided it was time to dictate how sports franchises name themselves. 

He went on some weird screed about how the time to worry about names that insult native Americans has passed, and the Cleveland guardians should revert to "Indians," while the Washington commanders should revert to "Redsk*ns" or else he'll personally veto any stadium money from the federal government. 

The Cleveland team said in a statement they're happy with the name as it is. And that pretty much was it for them. For now anyway. 

The football team would (I would say "never" in the past, but these days the world is truly upside down)  be unlikely to change the name back because (as I've noted before) the copyright restrictions on the name and likeness that they used have been lifted. Anyone could profit from it, undercutting a prime source of revenue for the team. 

Aside: take a look at the reveal of the throwback uniform. Do take note of the fact that there is no mention of the name and they did not use the logo for this very reason.

And here is the guy who is in the highest office telling literally everyone - from private citizens to private companies - how to conduct themselves.  

Smithsonian Fights Back Against $85 Million Space Shuttle Kipnapping To Texas

The stupidity of craven people elected to "represent us" is on full display here. 

TL;DR the space shuttle discovery isn't owned by the federal government. The appropriated funds are about 1/4 of what it would take to move it. And the specially outfitted 747s that can move the shuttle have been retired for about 15 years. 


https://www.jalopnik.com/1916183/smithsonian-fights-back-against-space-shuttle-kidnapping/

America's scary fire truck shortage

A while ago, I posted a video about why fire trucks are so expensive. Here's more context on the topic. 

https://media.hubspot.com/americas-scary-fire-truck-shortage

Musk will ask Tesla shareholders to vote on bailout for Twitter/xAI

Wait. A billionaire who spent ostensibly his own money to buy a platform that is used for hate - and which is bleeding money - wants to ask the company where he serves as the CEO (poorly) to bail him out for his privately held company?

And what does the company get in return? Nothing I assume. 

Why not just spend your own damn money? You have it for gosh sakes. 

If the shareholders and board vote for this, rather than voting no confidence in him … then we are as stupid as it seems. 

https://electrek.co/2025/07/13/musk-will-ask-tesla-shareholders-to-vote-on-bailout-for-twitter-xai/

Schroedingers executive.

I mean he was "unfit to serve" according to pretty much everyone FIVE YEARS AGO. 

It's not like he got better. 

The absurdity amazes me sometimes

The federal government wants to cut, cut, cut!  They have cut programs big and small, all in a seeming effort to inflict the most "pain" on citizens, while mostly protecting the oligarchs.

And this budget bill proved just how silly all of this is, on almost every level.  Rafael Edward Cruz (I shan't call him "Ted" because that's a nickname, and that is simply unacceptable in this day and age) added a line item to said budget that moves the Space Shuttle Discovery from its home at the Air and Space Museum to the Johnson Space Center.  For no reason other than he thought it belongs in Texas.  But included in this line item was $85,000,000 to facilitate its move and to create a structure to house it.

Its just the usual stupidity from the people who we "elect to serve us" but instead just act like a bunch of imbeciles in it for themselves.

That Epstein report

I have the Epstein report and I’ll release it right away!  

Don’t worry, it will be available soon!

There never was a report.

T-rump channeled his inner Frank Drebin in order to keep people close to him (and likely himself) from salacious headlines that ultimately wouldn’t matter (remember when Al Franken resigned from the senate because at some point he made an inappropriate comment about a female reporter? Such simpler times.  Now you can literally do anything and it gets a yawn) 

And meanwhile, Elon opened that can of worms further. https://www.buzzfeed.com/alanavalko/elon-musk-reacts-epstein-memo-memes