Notices by Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓 (ogjester@stranger.social)

On Monday, I bought body patch panels for my classic car in anticipation of the dipshit’s tariffs. That’ll be the last purchase I make for a long, long time.

Guess what country #Krasnov excluded from the #tariffs list

https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-explains-why-russia-not-included-trumps-new-tariffs-2054548

“A White House official told NOTUS' Jasmine Wright that Russia is "not on this list because sanctions from the Ukraine war have already rendered trade between the two countries as zero,”” states the #Newsweek article, which fails to mention that our imports from #Russia last year actually added up to over three billion dollars - a stat that I was able to find by clicking on the top website on a simple google search.

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4621.html#2024

The current Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, retired from the National Guard as a Major.

To rise through the officer ranks in the U.S. Army National Guard, one must start at Second Lieutenant. Then, the ranks go as such:

First Lieutenant
Captain
>Major
Lieutenant Colonel
Colonel
Brigadier General
Major General
Lieutenant General
General

Generals are answering to someone who is six promotions beneath them. It’s like having a SEAL Team led by a Cub Scout. It’s all very silly and unserious.

Deeply unserious people. #BananaRepublic

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=kPTlqn0J1iP9IBZcsdI5IVJpB2t9BYyxpzU4sooa69M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

@gerrymcgovern Railroader here… I know this is anecdotal, but I have a front row seat to the amount of coal moving on the rails out of the big coal mines in Wyoming and Montana. For one of the large western railroads (the orange one), current coal volume is at a 30-year low. The only country in the Americas where coal use is currently increasing is Canada; in Europe, it’s dropping through the floor. I don’t think the statement “There is no Energy Transition” is a fair one.

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@flexghost I do enjoy rolling this one out:

Elon’s #Starship is a massive failure, and we should stop allowing it to launch.

NASA’s Saturn V rocket from before I was born is beating SpaceX’s Starship by the metrics Elon promised Starship would excel. It could carry more, it was reliable, and it never experienced any “rapid disassemblies” or whatever he calls it.

In 2022, #NASA sent Artemis 1 on a successful test flight around the MOON on its FIRST ATTEMPT. Starship has yet to complete a single orbit around the Earth in 8 attempts.

“Can’t a guy even do nazi salutes without facing consequences anymore?”

or

“Chump comes out swinging in opposition to the free market”

or

“”We must rid the nation of that pesky First Amendment,” says Chump, probably”

There were a lot of ways this headline could have gone.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-cries-elon-illegal-liberal-boycott-tesla-1235293465/

Fun fact: as of today, the three biggest point drops in NASDAQ history all happened when Chump was president #winning

The guy who hasn’t managed to come up with any hint of plan to replace the Affordable Care Act in 8 years wants you to believe he has a plan to bring back the economy after his stupid ass tariffs burn it all down.

So, if you don’t buy something tomorrow, but then go buy it next Monday, corporations don’t notice anything. Play the long game, folks.

@sidereal Railroader here. What happened in ‘22 will be remembered by us for a generation. Railroads testified on the public record that they believe their workers contribute nothing to their profits, and therefore don’t deserve a raise that even keeps up with inflation… and Biden couldn’t bring himself to take a stand against that. He caved when it mattered, and he zeroed out the contributions to the union PACs overnight. A REAL pro-union president would have let us strike.

I’m going to give another shout out for GriftCoin.

#GriftCoin is by far the best #cryptocurrency, because when you give GriftCoin your money, then they have your money. There’s no shadowy, secretive scam behind the scenes in the dark web or whatever… just a clean, up-front grift. No bullshit.

GriftCoin. It is a grift coin.

https://griftcoin.biz/

I’m starting to think that there is no amount of hardship or oppression that would compel Americans to engage in a #GeneralStrike.

The real #history of Valentine’s Day - like most Western history - is pretty messed up…

and stolen from the Pagans.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/st-valentine-beheaded

@br00t4c so if some unelected rando can walk in there and delete stuff, I can go in there and delete the military.

@br00t4c I’m going to go ahead and blame their nazi CEO.

@br00t4c Kid has to resign because of racist tweets, but Elon can give full on Hitler salutes at a president’s podium and it’s fine.

@SteveThompson I do love when I get to pull this one out: