This is an improved variation on something I already posted. It was created by putting two photos together
into one illustration, and then I
labeled it appropriately, using epithets
I found on-line (that others came up with).
We all already know what evils this regime is doing. So, the image I created needs no further explanation! Too many do not learn from history!
Update 6-18-2025: My wife found this one on her Facebook
page. It’s too funny not to add here.
The vast difference between understanding what the job of
President really is, and what Trump actually
does and says, makes one wonder what he
really understands about anything. If
he’s this bad now, how bad off will he
be 4 years from now? Think about THAT!
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This one makes fun of the security breach mess created by the demonstrably-incompetent Pete Hegseth, whom the Senate should NEVER have approved for Secretary of Defense! The only one I can think of who is even more demonstrably incompetent is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, although there are several others very nearly as bad as Hegseth!
Kennedy the vaccine denier is going to get a lot of people killed by doing lot of very stupid things. Probably even a greater death toll than Musk and his DOGE are going to cause. And that’s a lot of dead people!
It starts
with Hegseth sending the Marines to the LA protests. One has to wonder who actually paid the hired
rioters to cause trouble. Could it
actually have been the Trump cult who hired the “ringers”, trying to make Trump opponents look bad? (That’s almost what Jan. 6 2021 was.)
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This is where we are headed if Trump can overcome the courts trying to stop him when Congress won’t.
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There are many who would prefer to see this procession instead of the expensive “Army birthday parade” at Trump’s insistence in DC on Flag Day (June 14th), a thing he has wanted since his first term. To opponents of Trump, this would actually be funny.
It would be even funnier for Trump opponents if the
associated headstone were to look like this:
These are among the “funnies” I have found on-line. There are quite a lot of them. It’s nice to know I am not alone in opposing
Trump.
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Update 6-10-2025: I seem not to be alone in my opinions
here. I found this on-line:
My federal rep voted to defund Sesame Street. Based on past actions, I believe my federal senators will also vote
that way, too. And I will not forget their perfidy!
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minions, too, plus the Trump cult majorities in the House
and Senate!
We do not need a “fearless leader” cult dictatorship, which is really what Trump offers. I’d rather get rid of them at the ballot
box, than by revolution in the
streets. Less mess to clean up
afterward.
This is the face of fascism (absolutism, neo-Nazism, autocratic rule, dictatorship, you choose a word) in America today:
That’s not exactly the same as anything I have done or
said, but it is what the New Republic
thought strongly enough to make a cover of it.
And I do in fact agree with them,
as some of my earlier articles clearly indicate.
As the title of this article says, history may not actually repeat itself, but it sure as hell rhymes a lot. Read on.
I found these other two illustrations below, on-line for free download. Along with some rather amusing epithets for
Trump and his government, misbehaving illegally, un-Constitutionally, and anti-democratically the way they do. In my opinion, the very best of these epithets are:
Agolf $hitler rhymes
with Adolf Hitler
and
The Turd Reich rhymes with The Third Reich
Where I came across these is in the two illustrations
below. I hope you find them as funny as
I did. Although, given the dangers this regime poses to
America, this is gallows humor. The first one tries to show the truth vs the
lies Trump tells about Biden, and the
funny is at the very bottom of it.
I did see at least one mistyped number in the image just
above, but that makes no difference
to the point it is making about the propaganda lies with which we are
inundated. Virtually everything ever
claimed by this bunch, when actually
fact-checked, is not just false, but the majority of these are actually “pants
on fire” lies. There are thousands upon
thousands of such lies.
The next one is even funnier, at least to me. This is a photo someone took of a billboard somebody else put up. On-line, I found out you could get shirts and other stuff imprinted with what’s on that billboard. The choice of faces makes this “Turd Reich” assessment actually a multi-national problem.
But I will say
this: Trump has appointed a lot of
incompetent, unqualified turds to lead
various government agencies. Which
actually makes the funny into something quite accurate!
I have sent several messages to all three of my federal
representation asking them to do something to remove this crowd from our
government, before their “policies” and
mismanagement start killing us by the 10’s of thousands (and they soon will, while driving the rest of us into unemployed poverty).
My representative and senators have done nothing I can
see, which to my way of thinking makes
them complicit in these crimes, up to
and including treason of the “aid and comfort” type. I have told them that, too.
I am but one voice,
easily lost in the multitude.
The rest of you need to inundate your representatives and
senators with similar messages, so that
they know that they, too, will suffer the fate of traitors and
murderers, if they fail to act.
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the better.
I’m unsure where I found this, but it is too good not to share. It is both true and funny, in a gallows humor sort of way.
And this other one just below is closely related.
There’s only been a few verified cases of illegal aliens actually
committing crimes here. Certainly less
than a hundred or so, although they get
ballyhooed into the public thinking there are lots of evil criminals among about
a hundred thousand immigrants in any given year.
But
when you get right down to it,
Trump, with his pardons of almost
two thousand convicted criminals who were also among his supporters, has set loose far more criminals upon America! Far beyond any among the illegal immigrants! And at least a handful of those Trump
pardoned have already been re-arrested for committing yet more crimes!
And then there is all the other Trump corruption, plus all the defying of the courts, and the general disregard of the law and the Constitution.
So, what did
you-the-majority expect when you elected a convicted felon who wants to rule
over you as a dictator? You are getting
EXACTLY what you voted for! Including
the distinct possibility of never having a real election to vote in, ever again!
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Update 6-7-2025: I see "they" finally brought Kilmar Garcia back to the US, but NOT because the courts told them to! They did it to file charges against him for "transporting illegal immigrants", based on people in the vehicle with him that had no luggage, in a 2022 traffic stop. (In Tennessee, I think it was.) This is our Trump-weaponized DOJ violating the law by not doing what the courts ordered, but instead persecuting further an immigrant they already abused!
Update 6-3-2025: A close version of this article ran in today's Waco "Tribune-Herald" as a column on the opinion page.
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The recent Flight 9 test resulted in the loss of both the
upper stage spaceship and the lower stage booster. A lot of stories class this as just another
failure in a series of three, but it is
a little more complicated than that.
The “Superheavy” booster portion of this test was actually a
lot more successful than many believe.
They never intended to recover this one,
instead choosing to stress it possibly to destruction, on a return flight profile that was likely
fatal. And that is exactly what
happened.
On the plus side,
this was the very first re-flight of the reusable “Superheavy”
booster. This very same stage launched
the Flight 7 “Starship” test, with most
of those 33 engines reused on this Flight 9 test. What was “new” on Flight 9 was twofold: (1) the deliberate overstress return, and (2) the demonstration of a “quick flip”
during hot staging.
The “quick flip” was entirely successful! Until this flight, after staging, the booster would flip slowly using only
vectored thrust from a few of its engines,
which also settled the propellants in the tanks so that the engine pumps
could maintain a good suction.
This time around, the
hot stage ring that protects the forward end of “Superheavy” from the hot blast
of “Starship’s” engines during staging,
was built to an asymmetric shape,
so that “Starship’s” exhaust was deflected out one side only. The force of that asymmetric exhaust
deflection flipped “Superheavy” around much faster, saving propellant for the landing. That was completely successful!
The stressful return involved flying the booster at an angle
to the oncoming wind, instead of
streamlining straight in, tail
first. That being off-angle increases
the aerodynamic drag, so that less
braking propellant might be used.
But, there are structural limits
to how much off-angle is survivable.
They found that limit experimentally, essentially breaking up that “Superheavy”
with too much wind load coming from the side,
where it is nowhere near as strong.
That is something very important to know “for sure”. It is just like pulling too many gees that can
rip the wings off an airplane! You must
know your limits!
The Flight 9 “Starship” upper stage spacecraft did not
experience engine failures during the ascent burn from staging to orbital
insertion, unlike what happened on
Flights 7 and 8. It appears that they
may have fixed at least a part of what was going wrong on those two
flights.
However, there was a
slow loss of propellant tank pressure,
due a leak (or leaks) somewhere.
Their attitude thrusters are cold gas thrusters powered by the
propellant tank pressure. And there
must be at least some pressure to successfully ignite an engine.
Whether this loss of propellant tank pressure had anything
to do with opening the payload door is unknown to me, but not long after that door failed to open, is when the vehicle went into an uncontrolled
spin for lack of attitude thrusters. And
they called off the engine relight test because of it, too.
Not having attitude control is why the ship broke up upon
reentry over the Indian Ocean. The heat
shielding is only on the belly and around the nose, so that if you are pointed in the wrong
direction, you are unprotected from the
extreme heating of orbital reentry. The
vehicle was spinning completely out of control as it entered.
SpaceX is going to have to figure out what caused the leak
and loss of tank pressure. That won’t be
easy. But it has to be done, and I hope they obtained the necessary data
to figure out that problem, from this
test.
Getting a reentry survival is crucial toward verifying their
heat shield design. I would suggest that
SpaceX add some independent attitude thrusters to these flight tests, so that loss of tank pressure does not mean
loss of attitude control. The Draco
attitude thrusters on their Dragon capsules would be a good choice, with lots of real experience behind them.
I do not know for sure, but had Flight 9 been equipped with independent attitude thrusters, that particular “Starship” might have made it back through reentry successfully. That would have been a huge “plus” for this mission! They will still have to find and fix the propellant tank pressure leak, in order to make the final landing burn, however.
