I want to make her saying "ooo the girls are fighting, aren't they?" a ringtone
— Cake or Death (@johngcole.bsky.social) June 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
That was delicious.
Somewhere in the dark recesses of a trailer park in the panhandle of Florida, Ted Nugent’s “Wang Dang Sweet Poontang” plays quietly in the background punctuated by the rhythmic clank of a rusty old metal ceiling fan. Our lens pans across a damp, dark room of an old gulf coast doublewide, the smoke from a joint laced with cocaine in an ashtray on a folding table drift and wisp in front of an open window, bracketed by thin, stained, formerly white curtains. In the center of the dank moldy room, Darth Bannon bathes in a tub of acid, doing poppers in between chugs of off label vodka, cackling as he watches the trump/musk feud play out on twitter and truth social. The dark lord rubs his hands together with glee, causing droplets of puss to ooze from his open scabrous boils and land in the acid bath with a hisssssss. The camera trails away….
Remember, if anyone hates Elon Musk to the extent that we do, it is Steve Bannon, who has been calling him an illegal immigrant and a parasite for some time now:
Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former White House chief strategist, has renewed his feud with Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and a top Trump adviser, calling him a “parasitic illegal immigrant” in an interview published online on Tuesday.
Mr. Bannon made the comments in an interview with UnHerd, a British news site, that took place last week.
“Musk is a parasitic illegal immigrant. He wants to impose his freak experiments and play-act as God without any respect for the country’s history, values or traditions,” Mr. Bannon told the interviewer. He appeared to be referring to news reports that Mr. Musk, who was born in South Africa and who has become an aggressive voice against undocumented immigrants, overstayed his visa as he built a company in the United States. Mr. Musk has denied the accusation.
The problem is that Musk prefers a Technocratic Autocracy run by billionaire broligarchs focused on Musk’s ketamine soaked vision of intragalactic travel and colonization based on the depraved philosophy of longtermism. If you do not know what longtermism is, you can go here, or you can deal with my description, which is that longtermism is gussied up Maoism (BUT CAPITALIST, ALSO TOO!) in space suits.
Bannon, on the other hand, is a white christian nationalist populism, with a sincere belief in a return to a time when every white man could have a good paying mill job with great benefits and we had no reason to deal other nations ever. Hell, can’t say for sure, but I bet he’s even ok with unions. He is, after all, the one who wanted to tax the rich in this bill. He’s not alone, a lot of other Republican Senators would easily shift to openly supporting Bannon’s vision. Hawley is already there. Tom Cotton would be next and Ted Cruz and others would quickly jump on board. But Bannon is right there out loud saying this stuff for DECADES. He wanted to just use Elon as a tool for the election.
And if this gets really ugly, Bannon is an absolutely evil twat and he will know how to put the screws to Elon in a scorched earth manner if Trump lets him and the Elon sycophants lose their sway in the room. This could be a really volatile inflection point, and it would be darkly hilarious if techbros get a quick lesson in “You’re only as rich as we let you be” but only because the worst fucking human being on the planet is having a very messy and public breakup with the second fucking worst person on the planet.
The chipmonk is outside. I am going back to Andor. Peace Out.
War for Ukraine Day 1,197: Putin Gives Trump His Answer
different-church-lady
Nice to have you back, John.
Gin & Tonic
You paint a picture. I’m sorry I read this post, but you paint a picture.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
The only person here who can use the “c word” is the blogmaster.
If we lived in Australia or the UK, many would use it like a comma.
PsiFighter37
Looks like Elon says he won’t decommission his rockets after all. Oh, the irony of finding out that he’s actually Donald’s bitch now.
glc
Some nice phrasing here. (AP
Suzanne
The true believer MAGA and the techbros are a weird alliance. I don’t know if this is a permanent rift for FFOTUS and Elmo, but I don’t see the nation’s crypto freaks and MAGA chums being an enduring alliance, either. Time will tell, I guess.
YY_Sima Qian
I am rooting for injuries, but whatever the outcome of the contest, it will be worse for the US.
glc
@YY_Sima Qian:
Admittedly the night of the long knives didn’t work out well, either, but we’ll just have to see.
John Cole
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: thanks- did not realize I wrote that and changed it
JoyceH
Question – assume a parent allowed kids fighting in the park to “continue fighting for a while” before separating the combatants. What would Child Protective Service say to that parent?
JaySinWa
Has the GOP found a set of talking points to respond to this affront to their dear leader?
matt
I think Bannon putting the screws to Elon is the optimal outcome here, pour encourager les autres.
FDRLincoln
Night of the Plastic Sporks.
Bannon sees himself as a patriot. It is a twisted, racist, and retrograde variant, pernicious and poisonous and blood-soil nationalist. But recognizable as a form of patriotism.
Musk is a techno-fascist, wanting to do away with borders and nations and patriotism in favor of a Blade Runner-esque dystopia.
They aren’t natural allies. Both are evil and against the better angels of the American spirit. We have to defeat both of them, but it helps that the Musk-Trump pact has died just as the Nazi-Soviet pact did.
espierce
@JaySinWa:
They’re in a no win situation…need elon’s $ but can’t afford to piss off the boss so their silence actually says it all.
Bunch of fucking worm boys.
Peale
@espierce: they are afraid of Elons money, but they don’t need it.
Melancholy Jaques
@Peale:
You’re right, they don’t need his money and they don’t need his social media. But I also do not think they fear Musk or his money. They’ve got the most loyal following among voters and among the political media since the Solid South.
If Trump turns on anyone, they follow.
SiubhanDuinne
Back to his little chipmonastery?
NotMax
Clash of the
TitansBantams. Two ambulatory egos deafened by the echo chamber.//
Bill Arnold
For what it’s worth, muriatic (hydrochloric) acid is effective for removing calcium deposits, or … stray organic material, from bathroom surfaces. Not as effective as Piranha solution for the later, though.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Rimshot!
:)
JCJ
@SiubhanDuinne: now I can’t get an image of a chipmunk with a Friar Tuck haircut out if my mind. Well done!
SpaceUnit
I’m possibly beginning to understand the meaning of Melania’s “I Don’t Care Do U?” jacket. Maybe she was ahead of the curve.
ETA: And good for the chipmunk. In 2025 we are all the chipmunk.
currawong
@Melancholy Jaques: I would imagine the people who fear Elmo’s money are the GOP senators up for re-election next year. He’s threatened to primary any of them that vote for the big beautiful bill.
On another note, the detail that the GOP goes to to fuck people over is amazing and sick. Republicans want to ban pets from domestic violence shelters
YY_Sima Qian
A great read from Peter Hessler, as always (link to New Yorker piece below):
piratedan
while this also works as a distraction from the evil dystopian vision of the GOP Big Beautiful Bill, the fact that there is an element of conflict between these factions of the techno corporatists that want to have a population to buy their products and be able to pay for it and these old school, America was better in the 1850s, when you could own slaves and the industrial revolution was just starting to rev up to allow other people to own people in a different way, it makes it difficult to know who to root for, other than fatal injuries to all. As always its the collateral damage that concerns me.
Not just this show down, but the show down in the courts between the Fascist people snatching policy and using J6 pardonees as ICE agents and the fact that its fucking illegal to do so will go a long way to telling us if will be Civil War II, judicial Bugaloo or the 47 admin blinks, which only seems to happen when the money guys say that they’ll stop writing checks if you continue on the path.
NotMax
Don’t mess with the munk.
;)
JoyceH
Jeez, guys. The Post has an article about what’s been going on with one of these “deportation” flights. In this one, eight convicted violent criminals were being flown to South Sudan. The court issued a temporary restraining order due to lack of compliance with the convention against torture. Now at this point, never forget, the Trump administration could have brought the plane home. But of course they’re not going to do that. Can’t make it look easy to undo the damage and bring the guys back to the US. So – the plane was diverted to a US naval base in Djibouti. Since then, which is several weeks now, the eight detainees and eleven ICE officers have been living in a shipping container. Conditions are temps over 100 during the day and a toxic smog cloud at night, and a good portion of the group have some sort of as yet unidentified respiratory infection. They could have been brought back at the beginning, they still could be brought back but there they sit hacking and wheezing and worried about Yemeni rebel rocket attacks. This is the Trump administration.
Mathguy
Which is which?
“the worst fucking human being on the planet is having a very messy and public breakup with the second fucking worst person on the planet.”
Mathguy
I need to change my nym to “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.”
prostratedragon
@Mathguy: Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee resolved to have a battle …
mrmoshpotato
Is Vlad sad that he has to share his orange bitch now?
They should all fly themselves to Mars (South African Nazi shit**** flying the bitchass bitchship).
NaijaGal
The gofundme for the family of the brain dead woman in Georgia forced to carry a baby to term has almost reached 50% of its goal. This story particularly bothers me because the vagueness of the state laws on situations like hers make them more likely to reoccur, with all the financial burden and heartbreak falling on family, while lawmakers wash their hands of the consequences. I’d like to see the fundraiser at least get to 50% of the goal by the end of June. Donation fatigue has already clearly set in.
BellyCat
@prostratedragon: Tweedle-Dump and Tweedle-Deelon?
Westyny
In the BlueSky thread: “This fued is like Drake and Kendrick Lamar, except they’re both Drake.”
Lol.
prostratedragon
@BellyCat: Life sticks pretty close to art these days, eh?
smike
@SiubhanDuinne: To all stations, The Chipmonk Is Outside. I REPEAT: The Chipmonk Is Outside.
prostratedragon
Looking back at D-Day 🧵:
Traveller
@Gin & Tonic:
G&T really says it best…You do paint a picture, nicely written…by both of you. (and YY of course, wishing for injuries to both!) Best Wishes, Traveller
NotMax
@Westyny
S’pose I ought to know who they are but really can’t be arsed to bother looking ’em up.
;)
prostratedragon
@prostratedragon:
TS
Has this been discussed at all – just seen in Wapo – it would seem ICE officers are getting a taste of what is happening to the immigrants they move around the world? Will it stop any of them being part of this?
ICE officers stuck in Djibouti shipping container with deported migrants
Trump officials transferred the migrants to the East African nation in response to a judge’s order. They now face threats that include rocket attacks from Yemen
https://wapo.st/4kPIACX gift link
It would seem the facility is unfit for human existence but they were happy to take immigrants there
Trump officials could have flown the immigrants back to the United States. Instead, they were taken to Djibouti, where in late May officers turned a Conex container into a makeshift detention facility on U.S. Naval Base Camp Lemonnier, according to Mellissa Harper, a top ICE official, who detailed the conditions Thursday in a required status update to the judge.
So trump officials are blaming the Judge who said they could not be flown to South Sudan.
NotMax
@prostratedragon
“More and more people are learning the D stands for Donald Day.”
//
Balconesfault
Love AOC … but.
Every time a Dem has a mic in front of their faces they need to point out that the only reason all this matters is because voters took away all of the Democrats ability to stop the worst abuses by Trump unless a handful of Republicans in Congress join with them … and you can’t find a handful of Republicans in Congress who will vote to stop Trump.
Right wing pundits will argue this clip shows Dems don’t care about issues. We need to emphasize that until 2026, and unless people quit voting R, the Dems can’t do squat to protect them.
something fabulous
@Balconesfault: Oh look: Dems Doing it Wrong, again. Quelle surprise. What difference does it make what “Right wing pundits will argue”? Is there anything anyone could say that would make RWP say Democrats are right? Does it matter if they do?
NotMax
@Balconesfault
A politician blaming the voters is an overtly offensive tactic.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
Wait, I missed this – there was talk about decommissioning SpaceX’s rockets?
As for Andor, that’s the good stuff. And, y’know, there’s a reason that back when the First Felon came to power the first time, a lot of the grass-roots opposition took to calling themselves “The Resistance” and adopted the Rebellion’s Starbird insignia as their own.
And the feud between Trump and Musk – one problem with leaving the United States and returning to the Free World is that I’m not sure where I can find a good source of popcorn, because I think I may need a lot of it as the infighting continues.
something fabulous
@NotMax: also that!
rikyrah
Hey Cole👋🏾
Only thing for sure. Nobody in this fight is rootable. They are all rotten human beings.
prostratedragon
“Great Expectations,” Miles Davis
Baud
White working class has been allied with rich capitalists since Reagan. I doubt that’s going to change.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@prostratedragon: And here I thought Charles Dickens wrote that
But, kidding aside, as a federal worker I’m wondering what this feud might mean for the DOGE shits…Elon seems to have more or less hand picked them. If the administration kicks them all out on suspicion of disloyalty I certainly won’t shed a tear over it.
sab
@TS: I did see that and quietly cheered about the ICE agents being stuck too.
jlowe
I got a chuckle out of Madame Representative AOC’s jest. Befuddlement to the sorry scolds who didn’t.
SFAW
@NotMax:
Beautiful. And the sad/effed-up part about it is, I can envision him saying and believing that.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Yep. Musk is going to go crawling back to Trump. Let’s start the countdown now.
Ella in New Mexico
I sincerely need some type of Ven Diagram to figure out what the damn differences are between all these people around Trump because they all seem to want the same thing but just from different, miserable approaches.
I hope they all just fucking drag each other under the surf
tam1MI
There’s a line in ANDOR, spoken by the evil Dedra, where I said aloud, “She’s talking about the Gazassholes!”
ANDOR is THE best show on television now, bar none.
Paul in KY
@TS: I have a relative stationed in Djibouti. He said it is about the hottest place on Earth. One time in bar was listening to ‘world traveler dude’ trying to regale a bartender with all the places he’d visited. Mentioned that Djibouti was hottest place he ever visited.
Paul in KY
@Balconesfault: I agree with you, but it’s hard to get any elected official to say they are basically powerless.