They joined me and volunteer Abby for Happy Hour yesterday, wearing their vintage doll dresses, newly tailored-to-fit by MT. She even hand-stitched tiny pleats on the bodices!
Did you see the latest lunacy from DT? I laughed out loud reading him on not-falling downstairs—it had a slapstick humor, and the headline could’ve been straight out of The Onion:
Trump compliments Obama’s ability to walk down stairs in rambling speech to military leaders.
Military leaders! This is their Commander in Chief…
This is where he praises President Obama:
“So one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs, I’ve never seen it. Dah-dah, dah-dah, dah-dah, bah, bah, bah. He’d go down the stairs. Wouldn’t hold on.
I said, it’s great. I don’t want to do it. I guess I could do it. But eventually, bad things are gonna happen, and it only takes once.”
I read the whole stairs riff here at Orange Crate Art: mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/not-well-stairs
Marz said, “This is the kind of personality we crave and celebrate in a cab driver. You wish he were a commenter and not a player.”
And not just a player—the coach and seemingly the owner of the team—the whole league!—too.
Not in the least funny though:
“Trump also highlighted the current and potential use of the National Guard and Active-duty military to aid law enforcement in American cities, saying it was important to quell ‘the enemy within.’”
The enemy? The enemy is real, alright, and we need help with him us.
—Pogo poster for the first Earth Day, 1970, by Walt Kelly—library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/05/we-have-met-the-enemy
The dresses are fine! The bodice is lovely, tiny stitches- a talent to be sure. Time to put jumpers over them, it has been autumnal here for the past week! Feeling it! Watching both speeches was like a poorly scripted poorly acted marvel comic page. Cringed me right into a coma. Hilarious...yet...THIS is our finest, our choice of man behind the golden desk? Holy shite! Every day it becomes more nutso and normalized.
ReplyDeleteAlso it’s almost time to get out the tiny wool doll socks Sarah W. knitted! ❤️
DeleteYour orphans have some, don’t they.
Normalized… yes, like plastic bottles of water!
oddly i don't remember that poster for earth day but i do remember the first one. i'm trying to find the reference in the college paper about the pile of aluminum cans that were collected and amassed in a huge pile on the decrepit tennis courts that have now been turned into a parking lot!! sing it joni! i even have a button from the first one as well the book that was published about actions for the first national environmental teach-in which was renamed to earth day.
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Cool, K!
DeleteFrom sometime in that early Earth Day era, I remember our class planting a tree and singing,
"Plant a tree, plant a tree,
plant a tree for Arbor Day.
Though it may grow slow,
every leaf will show,
plant a tree for Arbor Day!"