Tuesday, August 26, 2025

More Gavin and The News of the Week



First, More Gavin
Sister Resister Anne made a good point after my last post showcasing Gov. Newsom's expert trolling and the memes that mock the MAGAt crowd. Though Gavin's socials are chock-full of trolling and baits, the man is smart, well-spoken, reasoned, reasonable, and strong. As Anne pointed out, the contrast between his mocking TACO and his real persona enhances the other. It's really brilliant. 

Let's listen to the real Gavin:



Here he is talking to Ms. Frazzled, who you know as the gentle parenting guru.



There shall be mocking.






The baiting is working. And the governor doesn't let up.



Gavin has also launched a catalog of merch! Buy it here! 



Proceeds from the sale of the merch go to efforts to pass the Election Rigging Response Act. If you don't need the merch but want to support the measure, donate here. If you can, please throw them a few bucks.

There is a lot of money behind the opposition to the ERRA. In fact, Newsom's mic had barely been turned off from the press conference announcing it when I received a mailing opposing it. 

I've already received two:



The Totalitarian Files
 We need a new file cabinet. There's just too much.
  • He's saying it out loud now: "A lot of people are saying, ‘Maybe we would like a dictator.’ I don’t like a dictator; I’m not a dictator. I’m a man with great common sense, and I’m a smart person." The only voices saying that are the ones in your head, you twit!
File this under "Dementia," as well. Disinhibition is happening more often (more about this later).
  • Shitler has directed the Smithsonian to modify its displays across the museums. He wants it un-woked. Now! Apparently we do not need to know "how bad slavery was."
  • ICE continues its atrocities. I'm emotionally not prepared to delve into them today, but you can look up how they opened fire in vehicle stop; arrested a strawberry delivery man while they stalked Gov. Newsom's press conference about redistricting; arrested a student who had overstayed his visa, bragging that they would earn $1500 for his detention; tackled a U.S citizen and held her in detention, withholding water for 24 hours. 
  • Oklahoma has a new requirement for teachers coming from New York and California. They must pass an "America First" test and leave the woke shit at home. 
  • How his eyes light up when Zelensky mentions that elections are suspended during wartime:

  • Kilmar Abrego Garcia was briefly released from prison while he awaits trial. But the regime moved to detain him and deport him to Uganda right away unless he pleads guilty to the trumped up trafficking charges they are holding over him. A judge intervened, saying no you don't! Abrego Garcia is being held for now in a facility in Virginia.
  • John Bolton, 45's former national security adviser and Bush II's ambassador to the United Nations, had his home raided by the FBI. 
The reason? One source said it was a "national security investigation in search of classified records." We all know the real reason. Retribution and political intimidation. Bolton wrote a scathing book in 2020, The Room Where It Happened, and has been a critic of the regime since he left it. 
 
The raid and intimidation did not stop Bolton from publishing a piece slamming Hair Füror's dealings with Russia and Ukraine in a Washington Examiner op-ed. 
  • The cruelty continues: the rainbow crosswalk in front of the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando was painted over in the middle of the night. The crosswalk acted as a memorial for the awful mass shooting at the nightclub in 2016, when 49 people were murdered. 
  • The Traitor Tot moved to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook, trumping up allegations that she committed mortgage fraud. Members of the Fed can only be fired for cause, so he made up a cause. She is not resigning and is fighting the dismissal in court. 
  • He signed an executive order to make burning the flag a crime punishable by a year in jail. Once again, sir, it's protected free speech. SCOTUS ruled that way in 1989. Taking a sharpie to the Constitution does not re-write it, moron. 
It seriously makes me want to burn a flag.


 


The Fascism in Texas is Bigger! 
They went and did it; Texas Rethugs voted to redraw the Congressional district lines to disenfranchise millions of people of color and give Dear Leader five more Congressional seats as he requested. 

Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier was held captive in the Texas Statehouse when she refused to leave the Capitol under police escort. She stayed a couple nights in chambers. You can watch her on NBC here. She is fighting hard.



The Incompetent Files
Remember the meeting with Russia in Alaska?

Please, make it stop!


Stepheratu Miller spoke at Union Station in D.C. when (allegedly) Drunk McHeggie and J'aDore a Divan-ce went to make a show of welcoming the National Guard to the city. If you encounter this vermin, don't get too close or you'll need a rabies shot.

It would be laughable if it weren't so fascist. That guy makes my skin crawl.


This training video for ICE, featuring has-been actor Dean Cain, is not satire. This was on the official ICE not-twitter account.

Fun fact about Dean Cain: his father is of Japanese heritage, and several members of his family were interred in a Relocation Center during WWII. Yet, he has these views and he does these things. Despicable human.


The Hypocrisy is Strong in This One

The Dementia Files
Show us your papers "license plate." Huh?
Another brain vessel popped:

The children of Ukraine must come back to their families. "Congratulaions." Huh?
Watch the bizarro interaction between EU Commission President and Dementia Don here:

Diddler on the Roof. Huh?
For some demented reason, he saw fit to climb up on the roof of the Whitewash House and yell down at puzzled reporters. Really, truly concerning.




Going to Heaven?! Huh? 
Wow! Do we have a whiff of a guilty conscience?

He said this to Faux News when talking about how he wants a peace deal in Ukraine: "I want to try and get to heaven if possible. I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I hear I’m really at the bottom of the totem pole."

You can hear the audio here:
Dude, if "at the bottom of the totem pole" you mean "where the bottom scrapes hell and starts to burn" then, yes, you are there. You are not getting to heaven, sir. 

Here we have disinhibition again. Disinhibition is also a common symptom of dementia, especially frontotemporal dementia, which has been on my diagnosis radar for years. He is blurting out what he would usually inhibit. You should hear the things my patients have said to me over the years! 

These are certainly words

Trump: "China intelligently went in and they sort of took a monopoly of the world's magnets. Nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20 years ago, 'let's all do magnets.' There were many other ways that the world could have gone ... we're heavily into the world of magnets now."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) August 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM



Not technically dementia, but something is terribly wrong.
This was this week:


Look closer:





The Resistance & Other Positives
More Governor Resisters
Both Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have been unrelenting. 

The Mango Mussolini, continuing on his authoritarian march, has threatened to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, another city with declining crime rates and in which he wants to play dictator regardless. 

Gov. Pritzker has said plainly, "Do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here, nor needed here." 

🚼 responded by calling him fat. He also answered with this. Echoes of Nixon, who famously said, "When the president does it, that means it is not illegal."


He's not hiding the fact that he's targeting Blue cities in Blue states. He said as much, when he lied and said, "If you look at the top twenty-five cities for crime, just about every one of those cities is run by Democrats."

The reality:

Crime rates, overall, are falling across the country. If he sat back and did nothing, he could take credit for the drop in crime and keep on calling himself "the law and order president." Instead, he's taking us into another alarming chapter in our 2025 history book. 

Oops, sorry I veered from the positives.....

Gov. Walz gave a speech to the DNC this week. Here it is. It's not super long, and it's sure good to hear him again. Plus he skewers 47.


Here's a Big Dish of Hope
Iowa voters flipped a state senate seat blue! It was in a district that went to Donold in 2024 by 11 points. The flip broke the Iowa senate's supermajority. 

Be afraid, Rethug office holders. Be very afraid. 

Yes to Vaccines
The American Academy of Pediatrics has bucked Secretary Brainworm's anti-vax edicts and recommended that children receive the Covid vaccine. 

Hecklers in D.C.'s Union Station


This was my favorite guy. "Go fuck a couch, JD Vance!"


These resisters in DC

Our Canadian Ally

Returned Land
The Los Angeles Times recently reported this good news. The San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians in the Los Angeles area had some land returned to them from a church. They now have a gathering space of their own, and though it's only a small bit, it means a lot. 

This Texas State Representative
Rep. Ann Johnson protests against the Texas gerrymandering. I love her fire! We need more Ann Johnsons.

D.C. Police Caught a Criminal
Faux News host Bret Baier was pulled over in D.C. for distracted driving. I call that a win.

James Dobson Died
See you in Hell, Jimmy!

This Website
I came upon this by accident but I like it!

No Commandments!
A federal judge in Texas disallowed the 10 commandments from being displayed in classrooms. The judgment was kinda fun too, with quotes from Sonny & Cher, Greta Garbo, and Kurt Vonnegut

No Alligator Alcatraz!
A judge ordered operations at the concentration camp be shut down. A federal judge ordered that the facility is to be shut down, dismantled, and detainees moved, within 60 days. No new construction may be started. Her reasons were that the impacts to the environment were not considered before construction was started. 

Eight people
Transphobic Repug Rep. Nancy Mace (SC) had to cancel her appearance with Moms for Liberty because only eight people bothered to show up. When even the Moms don't want you, maybe it's time to take a hint. Pound sand, Nance.

Randy Rainbow!
(I wish he wouldn't plop a long ad in there! I skipped his banter intro and the ad and started the video at the actual song)



The Weird
The fluff up about the Cracker Barrel logo. They give new meaning to the word conservative when they lose their shit over corporate rebranding. What a hidebound bunch!

They hated the logo so much that Cracker Barrel's stock tanked overnight, losing $200 million in value.

The memes though!








Posted without irony by a United States congressman:

Breaking: The crackers are safe to return to the barrel.

Just as this was getting ready to publish, the news came out that Cracker Barrel is keeping their old logo. And adding TACOs to the menu, I guess. 😉


Here's another weird thing. 
The gold accents that Diaper Don added to the Whitewash House? They are plastic "decor" from Home Depot, retailing for about 50 bucks.


Meme Dump!

Michael de Adder


Jesse Duquette




Matt Wuerker



On a neighborhood streetlamp


Shannon Wheeler





Mike Luckovich


David Cohen




Ricardo Caté



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