Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Lord Of The Files"

"Lord Of The Files"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4208

With a big ol' School Book Depository Anniversary Day salute to all you
poor-ass marks who showed out for this shit show. For me, personally, it
just wasn't worth a whole goddamn day of hanging out listing to bitter
Democrats and fauxgressives shitting all over the Left in the drizzling
goddamn damp for maybe a half-hour set of Dropkick Murphys at the end of
it all.

Doubtless, aforementioned marks' nipples are certainly exploding with
delight at the prospect of the DNC apparatchiks on Occupied Capitol Hill
finally getting their damp, stanky little mitts on ZOMG TEH FILES... and
meanwhile, I keep wondering how many Palestinians were murdered today
while the Democratic Party and the New York Times and MSNOW keep yelling
their goddamn faces off about Jeffrey Goddamn Epstein.

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"Democrats plan full-court press on DOJ to release Epstein files" Mike
Lillis and Rebecca Beitsch at The Hill, Nov 22 2025
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5618228-democrats-doj-epstein-files/

"Trump signs Epstein bill into law, releasing files from DOJ", Julia
Manchester at The Hill, Nov 19 2025
https://thehill.com/homenews/5614156-trump-signs-epstein-transparency-act/

"DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC", political cartoon by Mike Flugennock, Aug
29 2025 https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4176

"Live Gaza casualty count" https://gazacasualties.org/

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Potemkin Revolution"

"Potemkin Revolution"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4202

We've just barely had time to hose down our street from that rank-assed
"No Kings" shitfest before we get the news that these assholes are
rolling into town on the 22nd of November — a quite apropos date for
this shindig as I've often found myself wishing for a cheap Italian
rifle and a school book depository lately.

This is from the same blast of inspiration which coughed up the "No
Kings" flyer parody, and my disgust/amusement at the continuous parade
of half-assed Democratic astroturf "Potemkin Revolutions" through my
city, such as the latest partisan bitchfest headed our way next week.

Caitlin Johnstone published an excellent Substack piece recently about
the flood of fake movements – mostly Democratic Party front groups –
hitting us one after the other this year. It's not just the shallow
fakery that's got me pondering, but how this strikes me as some kind of
"domestic 'color revolution'" blitz by the Democrats. Like US-backed
"color revolutions" in Hong Kong or Ukraine, the DNC's domestic version
functions much the same way — divert and waste attention, time and
energy and promote US capitalist interests.

It's not enough for the DNC to suppress our voices in their media and
their phony "democracy"; they have to add insult to injury by flooding
the public protest space with these inane fake "movements" which cause
no trouble, make no demands and constitute no threat to the State or to
Capital – and so are ultimately useless.

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"U.S. Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now", Caitlin Johnstone
at Substack, 10.19.2025
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-politics-is-just-nonstop-fake
 
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "'No Threat' Weekend"

"'No Threat' Weekend"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4199


"Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn't
disrupted in the slightest. People held up some signs saying the
president is orange and that if Kamala were president they would be at
brunch, and then went home.

The whole thing was just one big pep rally for the Democratic Party,
designed to accomplish nothing beyond getting American liberals excited
about the prospect of someday voting for Gavin Newsom..."

–Caitlin Johnstone on Substack, 10.19.2025


For real, Ms. J. I almost feel personally insulted every time these
flyers hit the streets in my neighborhood for their goddamn fake-ass
astroturf "movement" which seems to roll into town at least once per
quarter, as if trying to make a fundraising goal. My first thought was
"Christ, weren't these assholes just in town this summer?" – and we've
got a whole fresh load of astroturf being rolled out next week, and we
haven't even had a chance to wash the stink off the Mall from the last
"No Kings" flag-kissing festival.

Hell, there's a whole freakin' raft of these phony-ass outfits that have
suddenly sprung up like mushrooms after a summer downpour bouncing
around now, and they're all fronting for the DNC – No Kings,
FiftyFiftyOne, local clowns like the Free DC Project – and obstructing
real revolutionary change.

LOOK THE HELL OUT for these time wasters.


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"Refuse Fascism"
https://refusefascism.org

"Fifty-Fifty One"
https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

"No Kings"
https://www.nokings.org/

"Free DC Project"
https://freedcproject.org/

"US Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now", Caitlin Johnstone at
Substack, 10.19.2025
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-politics-is-just-nonstop-fake

 
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Globalize Intifada"

"Globalize Intifada"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4197


C'mon, folks. It says what it says, right there in the Declaration,
second paragraph: "throw off". Yeah, that's right — Intifada.
When the clampdown comes down, you throw it off by any means necessary.
And if you think popular uprising against oppression is "terrorism",
maybe it's because you're the terrorist.

It's time to globalize the throwing off.
It's time to Globalize Intifada.



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Broadside printed by John Dunlap on the night of July 4, 1776
https://declaration.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/declaration/files/dunlap_broadside_copy_of_the_united_states_declaration_of_independence_loc-2.jpg
(https://tinyurl.com/2f38p89b)

"Text of the Declaration Of Independence", Harvard Graduate School of
Education
https://declaration.fas.harvard.edu/resources/text

"I Covered the Intifada. It's Wrong to Say It Means Violence Against
Jews." Daoud Kuttab at FAIRblog, 07.07.2025
https://fair.org/home/i-covered-the-intifada-its-wrong-to-say-it-means-violence-against-jews/

"The Word 'Intifada' Meaning in Arabic With Examples" at
meaninginarabic.com
https://meaninginarabic.com/intifada-meaning-in-arabic/
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Voter Enthusiasm"

"Voter Enthusiasm"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4191

I happily confess that nearly my entire contact with Legacy Media™ these
days comes from the five minutes or so I spend scoping out the front
pages of the Washington Post, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, New
York Times – and the New York Post, if I think I can stand it – in
search of inspiration at the newsstands of my local bodegas while out on
my morning walk.

Isn't it adorable how all the DNC can think about is getting their
goddamn vote out while our neighbors are being snatched and disappeared
by gangs of masked thugs, the regime is spitting in our faces on live TV
and trying to provoke a civil war, and pretty much every goddamn
American institution we were taught to venerate in school has turned out
to be total garbage? But yeah, sure, Donkeycrats; let's get that
mid-term vote out.

And what's with the "voter enthusiasm" thing? Goddamn Democrats can't
shut the hell up with that crap. What, are they bugged that the voters
are so goddamn beat down, desperate and indoctrinated that they're just
kind of reflexively dragging their glum, dejected asses out to punch a
chad, tap a screen, pull a lever, then back home for "The Price Is
Right" instead of eagerly, happily, proudly – dare I say "joyfully" –
skipping and singing on their way to the polls?

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"Under Pressure From The Left, Democrats Rejoin The Fight; Divided party
hopes shutdown will help reignite voter enthusiasm", Wall Street
Journal, Page A1 10.03.2025
https://www.sinkers.org/posters/enthusiasm/WSJ_A1_Oct0325-01voterenthusiasm.jpg
  
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC"

"DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4176


A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the
stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few
weeks ago, has gone viral and a huge hit with folks in neighborhoods
like Capitol Hill. All I could think of, though, was just how toothless
and ineffectual my fellow Washingtonians have apparently been in the
face of a hostile military occupation; basically, the only response we
can muster is to throw sandwiches. No general strikes, student walkouts
being proposed or organized anywhere around here? Any disobedience –
civil or otherwise – being called around town? Any organizations forming
anywhere around here working on plans to make this city ungovernable?
Anything at all beyond throwing sandwiches, creating celebratory t-shirt
art and posting stupid jokes about it on Facebook? Nope, not seeing
anything.

Well, what the hell, then; while I wait for someone to drop an action
call who isn't a freshly minted Democratic Party front – like the "Free
DC Project" or those "No Kings" dipshits – here's something which might
be at least a cut or two more provocative than tossing a foot-long for
all my "flypasters" out there.
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Really, Really, Really"

"Really, Really, Really"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4146

Oh, f'crissake, you goddamn fashy tools. You heard the sonofabitch
yelling all over the goddamn place about what he was going to do if he
got back into office, you heard all the big plans, right...? But you
still supported the bastard because THE PRICE OF EGGS...? ...like you
all were actually TOTALLY OK with all the other shit as long as the
price of your goddamn carton of eggs came down? C'mon; y'all didn't
actually think he was going to get that price of eggs thing done, did
you?

Like the Liberals suddenly running from the Gaza genocide as if it were
a house on fire, collaborationist motherfuckers like YOU aren't getting
away this easy. If you supported Trump, you support "this".

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"'I voted for Trump, but I didn't vote for this': Rep. Scholten shares
stories from her constituents", Alex Witt at MSNBC 04.06.2025
https://www.msnbc.com/weekends-with-alex-witt/watch/-i-voted-for-trump-but-i-didn-t-vote-for-this-rep-scholten-shares-stories-from-her-constituents-236665413566

"Not all Trump voters 'voted for this'" G. Elliott Morris at Substack
06.02.2025
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-trump-supporters-did-not-vote

Kevin Buist on Twitter, 06.2025, 'Yes, you did vote to deport moms.'
https://tinyurl.com/t8mfse42

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "The Democrats Find Their Clear Message"

"The Democrats Find Their Clear Message"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4142

I'm almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the
"Democrats need a clear message" horseshit for this long before some
kind of metaphorical anvil fell on my head from the top of a
metaphorical skyscraper and I suddenly realized that oh, f'crissake, the
Democratic Party has been giving me a great big loud-ass and clear
message since at least 1996, when Ralph Nader first ran on the Green
Party ticket, and that clear message is —

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"The Democratic Party is still trying to figure out its message after
2024's defeat", Stephen Fowler & Steve Inskeep at NPR 07.31.2025
https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-07-31/the-democratic-party-is-still-trying-to-figure-out-its-message-after-2024s-defeat

"How About a Daily Democratic Message?", Robert Kuttner at The American
Prospect 02.19.2025
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-02-19-how-about-a-daily-democratic-message/

"Lawmakers pressure Trump on Gaza aid, as support for Israel craters
among Democrats", Michael Arria at Mondoweiss, 07.30.2025
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/lawmakers-pressure-trump-on-gaza-aid-as-support-for-israel-craters-among-democrats/
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "ICE Unmasked!"

 
"ICE Unmasked"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4137

"I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that
area."
— US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025

If candy-assed, non-committal hemming'n'hawing were an Olympic event —
if namby-pamby mealy-mouthing around were an NCAA Division I sport — New
York Rep. Hakeem "AIPAC Shakur" Jeffries would be a multiple gold
medalist, AND in the top brackets for the Final Four.

Really, brah? You're the goddamn Minority Leader in the goddamn House,
the goddamn head of the goddamn Democratic Caucus, you represent New
York on Capitol Goddamn Hill — but somehow didn't get involved in the
primary, and you didn't know Zohran Mamdani well? What, you never once
during the whole NYC mayoral campaign peeped the New York papers, the
Roll Call, the Hill, none of that shit, like you've been in a goddamn
cave and honestly never heard of the sonofabitch?

Like, are we for real, seriously expected to buy that shit? F'crissake,
ya' pasted-on smiling, empty-eyed mumbling suit; stop insulting our
intelligence and just admit that you're a goddamn useless-assed racist,
fascist-collaborating tool. Everybody else seems to be cutting it loose
these days with no consequences; what the hell, man.

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Karmageddon"

"Karmageddon"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4133


I'll be absolutely 100% honest with y'all — I couldn't pretend I didn't
enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their
foot down, rise up and hit the bully back. And after a year and a half
of relentless US-backed oppression and genocide, Israel — like your
standard-issue bully — instantly starts screaming victim and runs crying
to the teacher.

I couldn't pretend not to enjoy the footage of Israelis nervously lined
up at airports, scrambling aboard buses and boats, running all over each
other to get out of "their" country. What'sa matter, gang? That land was
promised to you by god. What are you running for?

Trump's remarks were real class, too — the more he bragged, the more you
knew Israel was getting a first-class ass-paddling. So goddamn MUCH
winning, there, Donster.

Hats off to Iran for having the strength and courage to teach Israel
that actions have consequences.

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"Trump: 'Very hard' to ask Israel to cease Iran airstrikes" NewsBytes,
06.21.2025
https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/world/trump-very-hard-to-ask-israel-to-halt-iran-airstrikes/story

"Iran Missile Attacks Shake Israel", Jon Elmer at Electronic Intifada,
06.20.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77w9LPtzpYc

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "'Iron' Dome"

"'Iron' Dome"

Almost as if somebody threw a switch someplace, Western media were
suddenly awash in fotos and video of bombed-out buildings and people
weeping for lost and missing loved ones and agonizing over the trauma of
having to hole up in basements all night in... Tel Aviv.

Yes, that's right, the capitol of the most reviled nation on Earth, led
by a skeezy cabal of psychotic genocidal fascist murderers, trained and
funded by an equally skeezy cabal of psychotic genocidal fascist
murderers — is begging us to "not remain silent" and stand with Israel
as they get some well-deserved payback  at last.

All my pals and I are hashtagging this happy fun time #Karmageddon.

Cry me a goddamn river, motherfuckers. Iran's got yer number.

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"Tel Aviv blocks evacuation flights as tens of thousands of Israelis
stranded abroad", The Cradle, 06.16.2025
https://thecradle.co/articles/tel-aviv-blocks-evacuation-flights-as-tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-stranded-abroad

"Iran's ballistic missiles cause extensive destruction across Israel"
The Cradle, 06.16.2025
https://thecradle.co/articles/irans-ballistic-missiles-cause-extensive-destruction-across-israel

"Netanyahu says Israel 'in control' of Teheran skies" China Daily,
06.18.2025
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202506/16/WS68503024a310a04af22c696a.html

"Tel Aviv miscalculates: Why Israel's shock strategy failed against
Iran" Ali Salehian at The Cradle, 06.16.2025
https://thecradle.co/articles/tel-aviv-miscalculates-why-israels-shock-strategy-failed-against-iran

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Resistencia California"

"Resistencia California"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4127


In solidarity with our freedom fighters in the Battle Of Los Angeles.
Time to support OUR troops.

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"Protests continue in Los Angeles in response to fascist immigration
raids" Jacob Cross and contributors at World Socialist Site 07.06.2025
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/07/tebb-j07.html#903286324

"Nationwide protests multiply against fascist ICE raids and military
deployment in Los Angeles", Jacob Crosse at World Socialist Site
07.10.2025
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/10/fxqc-j10.html


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Making Life Interplanetary"

"Making Life Interplanetary"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4112


"Some may focus on the lows, but behind the efforts of Starship – and
other programs like New Glenn, Neutron, Vulcan, Terran, Stoke, etc – is
a massive space economy taking shape: tens of thousands of jobs,
billions in private investment, all aimed at truly opening the last
great frontier.

When these capabilities arrive, they will spearhead a new era of
exploration and discovery – and the lows will become a chapter in a much
longer story."

– Jared Isaacman, Trump NASA Administrator Nominee,
   05.28.2025


I saw the news of the latest SpaceX Starship explosion with a complete
lack of surprise a few days ago, and it had me somehow flashing back to
Musk's performance at that post-Inaugural shindig, and his bluster about
putting boots on Mars... and a joyful, iconic moment on the Moon,
waaayyyy back when I was an awestruck kid of 15.

...and given Isaacman's background in — what, some kind of Internet
payment system or some shit — I'm also not surprised at the complete
lack of any mention of science, exploration, the expansion of humanity
into the solar system in his remarks... nahh, fuck that noise; there's
money to be made — once Elon can stop blowing those goddamn things up.

Speaking of blowing up giant rocket-powered dildos, apparently Elon was
supposed to have delivered a company-sponsored TED-ish talk entitled
"The Road To Making Life Interplanetary", but his plans kinda... shall
we say, "blew up in his face":

"...Ahead of the Starship Flight 9 mission, Musk said he would host a
company talk, which was dubbed "The Road to Making Life Multplanetary,"
which he said would be live-streamed. However, that was originally
scheduled before the launch, then shifted to after and now appears to be
off the table for the time being..."
– Will Robinson-Smith, reporting at Spaceflight Now, 05.28.2025

...so, I guess Making Greed Interplanetary will just have to wait, for
now.

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Isaacman quoted in Spaceflight Now, 05.28.2025
https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/05/28/spacex-launches-first-flight-proven-super-heavy-booster-loses-control-of-starship-mid-flight/

"Starship tumbles back to Ocean after reaching a nominal orbit", Moises
Avila, with Issam Ahmed in Washington
South Padre Island, United States (AFP) May 28, 2025
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Starship_megarocket_blows_up_over_Indian_Ocean_in_latest_bumpy_test_999.html

"How did Jared Isaacman, billionaire behind first-ever private
spacewalk, make his money?" Tom Sanders at Metro UK, 09.12.2024
https://metro.co.uk/2024/09/12/jared-isaacman-billionaire-behind-first-ever-private-spacewalk-21591723/

"No, Elon Musk Did Not Perform a Roman Salute at Trump's Inauguration"
George Liapis at Roman Empire Times, 01.20.2025
https://romanempiretimes.com/no-elon-musk-did-not-perform-a-roman-salute-at-trumps-inauguration/
https://romanempiretimes.com/content/images/size/w2000/format/avif/2025/01/Elon-Musk-using-a-Salute-towards-the-crowd-of-Donald-Trump-s-inauguration--a-move-some-called-Nazi-salute--and-others-Roman-salute.jpg

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Donald's Drive-Thru"

"Donald's Drive-Thru"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4107

Though actually quite grim and cringe as hell, I found this news
sickeningly funny somehow, in ways reminiscent of the big-ups drum
beating Sept 2005 BLS jobs report the month after Hurricane Katrina.
Y'think Microsoft was hoping Mickey D's would pick up some of that
layoff headcount?

Then, of course, is the cringingly upbeat economic hard-sell in the
Mickey D's announcement featuring the new Labor Secretary, and the
obvious clumsy-ass tap-dancing they're going to have to do around our
new quack-ass Health & Human Services Secretary – especially seeing as
Big Mac's is one of El Presidente's favorite brands.

You deserve a break today!

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"McDonald's announces plans to hire 375,000 workers with Trump Labor
secretary", Amelia Lucas at CNBC, 05.12.2025
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/12/mcdonalds-to-hire-375000-workers-trump-labor-secretary.html

"Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce",
Jordan Novet at CNBC, 05.13.2025
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/microsoft-is-cutting-3percent-of-workers-across-the-software-company.html

"169,000 New Jobs!", editorial cartoon by Mike Flugennock, 10.19.2005
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=381

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Retro Kitsch"

"Retro Kitsch"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4101

Many of my readers of a certain age may have had Dads or uncles who were
enthusiasts of a certain style of rec room bar lighting. Here's my
backhanded tribute to classic Mid 20th American cheese.

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"Gaza will be concentration camp, declares Netanyahu", Owen Jones at
Substack, 05.07.2025
https://www.owenjones.news/p/gaza-will-be-concentration-camp-declares

"Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire
efforts", Mitchell Plitnick at Mondoweiss, 05.02.2025
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/biden-staffers-admit-what-we-all-knew-white-house-lied-about-ceasefire-efforts/

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Private Astronaut"

"Private Astronaut"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4096

OK, US media – and aerospace-related trade media, I'm especially looking
at YOU – it's time to cut the goddamn crap and quit calling these knobs
"private astronauts" and call them what they are: "rich-ass
motherfuckers who can afford to have themselves shot into space",
especially this Isaacman clown who could afford to have himself shot
into space twice, and on the second flight performed the most
useless-ass excuse for an EVA ever. Even Alexei Leonov was out longer,
and actually managed to gather significant scientific and engineering
data while in the process of getting back into the spacecraft without
accidentally killing himself.

But yeah, sure... the standard-issue tech entrepreneur who has near-zero
training or experience in aerospace engineering or program management or
flying high-performance jet aircraft at all but who made himself a
massive pile off a payment processing company he supposedly started as a
teenager in his parents' basement (your standard tech-bro rags-to-riches
saga) and so was able to pay to have himself shot into space twice and
who is best buds with Elon Musk is, according to the Donster, the ideal
choice for NASA Administrator. Yeah, that's right — the goddamn "private
astronaut".

We're fucked on Earth, and fucked in space.


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"Become An Astronaut" basic astronaut qualifications at NASA:
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/become-an-astronaut/

"Katy Perry, Gayle King and 4 other women are headed for the 'edge of
space.' Here's what that means", Jackie Wattles at CNN, 04.13.2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/13/science/blue-origin-karman-line-space-mission/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

"SpaceX launches private astronauts on first crewed polar orbit", Space
Daily 04.01.2025
https://www.spacedaily.com/afp/250401021019.vm4h5rsn.html

"How did Jared Isaacman, billionaire behind first-ever private
spacewalk, make his money?", Tom Sanders at Metro UK, 09.12.2024
https://metro.co.uk/2024/09/12/jared-isaacman-billionaire-behind-first-ever-private-spacewalk-21591723/

"Demystifying Jared Isaacman, Trump's NASA nominee", Jeff Foust at
SpaceNews 01.22.2025
https://spacenews.com/demystifying-jared-isaacman-trumps-nasa-nominee/

"Jared Isaacman makes first public remarks since nomination for NASA
Administrator" Will Robinson Smith at Spaceflight Now, 12.12.2024
https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/12/12/jared-isaacman-makes-first-public-remarks-since-nomination-for-nasa-administrator/

"Alexei Leonov: Spacewalk Pioneer" bio by Kimberly Hickok at Space.com
10.11.2019
https://www.space.com/alexei-leonov-bio.html

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "GOP + DNC = ZFG"

"GOP + DNC = ZFG"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4091


If you're a Liberal or Progressive who, at this point, is still
furiously bitching about why the Democrats won't "do something" about
all this, then you're as stupid as you look.

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Stop Overreacting!"

Latest'n'Greatest:

"Stop Overreacting!"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4086

So — exactly how comically bad ARE Liberals, Centrists and other mutant
beasts in the Democratic Party Zoo going to get about this shit?
Schumer, Pelosi, AOC, "and the rest" are basically selling us out and
handing us over to the Fascists, like "m'eh, waddya gonna do…?" right
out in front of Jah and everybody, and the Liberal/Centrist crowd tells
us to stop "overreacting".

Well, hell — they aren't the ones who are being criminalized and
terrorized for merely existing, so of course.

Assholes

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "No Coherent Message"

"No Coherent Message"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4082

Yeah, that's right — a wannabe Mussolini has just bullied his way into
the White House and is terrorizing the country, his Seig-Heiling
rocket-powered dildo-building buddy has basically stolen the keys to the
Treasury and is getting ready to loot the place, and the Democratic
Party... has no coherent message.

No coherent message. Like, not even "fuck you". Like, they got nothing.
Nothing.


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Fashionably Fashy"

"Fashionbly Fashy"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4076

"Not a single Roman work of art — sculpture, coinage, or painting —
displays a salute of the kind that is found in Fascism, Nazism, and
related ideologies... It is also unknown to Roman literature and is
never mentioned by ancient historians of either republican or imperial
Rome. The gesture of the raised right arm or hand in Roman and other
ancient cultures that is attested in surviving art and literature had a
significantly different function and is never identical with the modern
straight-arm salute."
— Martin Winkler, in "The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology"

...just in case you run into any fashy apologists or Musk symps trying
to explain it away by saying it's a "Roman Salute".

So just cut the crap already, 'cos all the wide-open fash are wide-open
loving it and — like the original — the Early 21st sequel also features
craven-ass collaborators, in the form of the Democratic Party.

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"Senate Democrats provide key votes to fast-track Trump's mass detention
plan", Jacob Crosse at the WSWS Web site, 01.19.2025
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/20/vyfg-j20.html

"Elon Musk Gets Most Outrageous Ally Over His Nazi Salute", Ellie
Quinlan Houghtaling at The New Republic, 01.23.2025
https://newrepublic.com/post/190584/elon-musk-benjamin-netanyahu-salute-defend

"The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology" by Martin Winkler, listing
at Bookshop.org
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-roman-salute-cinema-history-ideology-martin-m-winkler/17389156

"The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology" Michelle Borg in the Bryn
Mawr Classical Review https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009.08.45

"No, Elon Musk Did Not Perform a Roman Salute at Trump's Inauguration",
George Liapis at the Roman Empire Times, 01.20.2025
https://romanempiretimes.com/no-elon-musk-did-not-perform-a-roman-salute-at-trumps-inauguration/

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