The Cornhusker Concentration Camp, Errrr, Clink!!!

Because we here in Nebraska love anything with the word "Husker" or "Cornhusker" or "Big Red" or "prison" in it the latest travesty from Homeland Security Chairman and dog murderer Kristi Noem is the placement of another cutely named concentration camp right here in CornHuskerland. McCook, Nebraska is the lucky recipient of this place to imprison farm workers, restaurant employees, construction workers and their children. Noem is so cute in her cosplay uniform of the day, in this case it's probably a whip carrying warden on a horse, that she named this monstrosity, Cornhusker Clink. Ooooooo Im so overwhelmed by something named after our extreme mediocrity of a football team that I cannot breathe. Cue the screaming Beatles fans.

Now look, McCook is barely in Nebraska, stuck down in the southwestern corner of the state where nobody ever goes. Its more Kansas or Colorado but whatever. McCook was the first town in this state to lose their hospital because of that Big Ugly Ass Bill. It closed, or will be closing, because of the uncertainty of Medicaid funding. Oh wait, rural Nebraska uses Medicaid? How socialist of them. McCook, or rather Curtis County, voted for Trump with 85% of the vote going to the orange alleged child molester so there's a temptation to say Schadenfreude Bitches but I digress. 

As a bleeding heart libtard, aka a decent person, I really don't want anybody, including the Maga cult, to get their health care cancelled by a truly despicable administration of cruelty and hate. Despite the news reports of residents of McCook poo pooing the hospital closure as not Trumps fault, again, it's a self-administered disaster caused by about 85% of the Curtis County residents. Well ok then. Sometimes people need to be saved from themselves.

Back to the Cornhusker Concentration Camp. Despite the bootlicking local support of Governor Jim "Pass the Vodka" Pillen, the human penis, Senator Pete Ricketts, and Trump simps like Representatives Mike "Medicaid Has Been Increased I Swear" Flood and Adrian "Who the Fuck Am I" Smith, a concentration camp holding their friends and neighbors isn't really all that popular anyplace in this state. The local yokel state senator from out there hasn't put her finger in the air yet so she has to do some "further study" to see what she thinks. The mayor of McCook, the county commissioners and the residents all were wandering around when the Governor showed up to announce the camp. Basically, their response was "excuse me?" 

Theres already a "prison" in McCook. A minimum-security work camp that has 186 residents who are being rehabilitated with actual jobs. The Governor, a real tool, announced those inmates will be relocated to a prison system designed to hold 4000 that currently has 6000 inmates. Pillen will do anything for his orange master, including telling the skeptics they need to get onboard the Trump Train and critics don't know what they are talking about. Pillen, who has a difficult time swearing in new National Guard members at halftime of a football game (ahhh he was hammered), is obsessed with Trump. He defeated Trumps handpicked candidate for Governor, a real grabass named Herbster, so he needs to get in line to lick Trumps ass cuz he's up for reelection in 2026. So, 186 work camp residents will be thrown back in a cell with real criminals in the overcrowded Nebraska prison system, perhaps the worst in the nation. And the new Cornhusker Concentration Camp will be built, surrounded by ICE thugs, Nebraska National Guard folks and people with pitchforks.

Good luck Nebraska. The workers, many of them undocumented, who make the farm economy go, will be sitting in a camp while crops rot in the fields, raising prices and forcing MAGAts to come up with some cockamamie excuse to blame Biden.

As long as we're at it, Governor Three Sheets, lets change the state motto from "Equality Under The Law" to "Arbeit Macht Frei". 

Resist!

Penn & Teller!

 

50 years these two have been dazzling audiences with magic tricks, Don't say illusions or Penn gets pissed. Its tricks dammit. They refuse to lie and pretend its real.

The two magicians played the Orpheum Theater last evening to what looked like a sold-out crowd. Penn was the voice; Teller was the silent magician as usual. The tricks are amazing and the participation by the audience is essential. Penn would call children onto the stage, give them shit just like he does to adults, and allow them to be the "punch line". We had Live Your Dreams, we had count the jellybeans, we had a weird pointless Entropy skit that ended up being very pointed. We had a Spanish trick that killed. All the while Penn's motormouth entertained the audience with "frustration" at kids who didn't follow instructions, adults who tried to be funny (dont) and the crowd who didn't follow instructions. It's a brilliant combination of magic and comedy.

The last act before the Entropy reveal (which is genius by the way) was inviting anybody who "believed" that Penn and Teller used "stooges" to fool the audience. onto the stage where yet another trick involving the Bible was unfolded.

The show is a bit over 90 minutes and it goes like that. You don't even notice the time its so captivating. If you've seen them In Las Vegas realize the touring show is all new stuff. The show is not as long as the Vegas show because the venue is probably not suited for some of their tricks (no magic bullet) but it is well worth the price of admission.

Brilliant!

Z Z Top!

 I first saw ZZ Top in 1973 in Omaha, pre-beards, at the old Civic Auditorium. This was so long ago that the opening act was Aerosmith, followed by Sugarloaf. ZZ Top was touring after that release of Tres Hombres, one of the great albums of the 1970s. I saw ZZ Top, also at the Civic, post beards, in 1980 or 81 and they had the longhorn onstage with a rattlesnake, in a cage thank gawd. They are what they are. Just a rock band.

Night Ranger opened to a tepid response. They have a lot of songs I didn't realize were theirs because I absolutely despise hair metal. Jack Blades seems like a decent enough guy, but man he's just not my cup of tea.

ZZ Top took the stage to a much better response. Under Pressure opened the show and had such a lousy sound mix I was worried the rest of the show would be just as bad. But like pros that have pros running the show it got fixed quickly. Billy Gibbons is joined onstage by former guitar tech Elwood Francis who got the job after the death of Dusty Hill probably because he's a brilliant bassist and he already has the beard. John Douglas played drums in place of Frank Beard who has had health problems.

The band is just straight ahead rock n roll. All the hits are there, no here's something off our latest album stuff, from Gimme All your Lovin, which the crowd recognized easily from the drum opening volley to the encore of La Grange. Theres not a song you wont recognize if you're a fan or have just been alive for the last 51 years. Remember those 80's  videos where they stood aside for a bigger story? Well now its just play the damn song, whether it be Sharp Dressed Man or Legs. 

And it still glorious.

Trumpstein!

 Did Trump engage in sex with under 18's? Of course he did, nobody with a room temp IQ doubts it. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were inseparable for years. They both enjoyed the same things, most of which is illegal, immoral and just plain sick. And now, you'd think Trump never met the guy. The Epstein list is going to be released, it's on Pam Bondi's desk awaiting review, Bondi "reviewed" it and told Trump he's in the files, then all of a sudden there was no Epstein List. Its all a fraud. made up by Obama and Biden and the Democrats. Then, because this pervert cant shut his ass up, he shades Bill Clinton and Larry Summers and a bunch of hedge fund guys, HEY he'll give you the list.

WAIT! There's a list after all? Trump is such a blabbermouth he digs a grave that 99,9% of humans would already be in, yet somehow Trump can get his fellow grifters like Charlie Kirk, Tim Pool, J D Vance, and the rest of the paid con artists profiting off Trumps debauchery to do the ol' 180 and claim they now don't care about Epstein any longer. He's got power and charisma that's for sure but it doesn't change the fact the President of the United States is a kiddie diddler, a felon, a rapist, a thief and a golf cheat.

Trumpstein is one of those guys we call a useful idiot. The Project 2025 scum will use him up, get what they want, then when it's accomplished, Trump will be shooed off to the dustbin of hedonists. Oh well we didn't know, oh my what a horror show, he needs to resign and then Peter Thiel's bitch, J D Vance, can continue the road to authoritarianism. 

Trump's latest foray into I didn't like Epstein, didn't know Epstein, or threw Epstein overboard involves Epstein stealing his employees from Mar A Lago. Purely business, eh? Tomorrow we may hear that Trumpstein was undercover to bring down a child sex trafficker and HAD to partake to keep his cover.

Meanwhile the well-known pimp and perjurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, doing 20 years for various crimes against humanity, was interviewed by Trumps personal lawyer, no not Bondi, in federal prison for some reason which I'm sure is a precursor to her saying Trump is innocent, Clinton and anyone else Trump wants to take down is guilty and she's an innocent victim of Democrats. Trump then pardons her, she stays silent and it all goes away.

What kind of moron buys any of this? I am not sure but trust me there are millions who will.

Did you know there are 4700 financial transactions in the Epstein files? Wouldn't that be interesting to see the names on that list. 47? Trump is 47. There ya go Q anon. Thats enough "evidence" for you to con more people out of money and their intelligence.

Will this whole sordid slog of degeneracy be enough to take Trump down? I have no idea. This guy is a walking scandal day after day and nothing sticks. Yeah, he has 38% approval, but he wasn't that much more popular in 2024 and America said sure why not, FASCISM RULES!

This country is truly in the Age of Stupid.

Ozzy!

 You could say making it to age 76 means Ozzy Osbourne won. Christ the guy should have died 40 years ago. Ozzy was the ultimate front man whether it was Black Sabbath or solo. He was the Prince of Fucking Darkness for gawd sakes.

Ozzy was a chubby kid from England when he was chosen to front Black Sabbath, perhaps the first heavy metal band. Those of us of a certain age and of a certain musical preference knew of Ozzy from the get-go. I mean come on now, War Pigs? Paranoid? Children of the Grave? Those were unlike anything we'd ever heard before. This was punch you in the mouth rock, there was no room onboard for wimps and we all went along for the ride. Dammit, your heroes die just like everyone else.

Ozzy didn't play a damn thing. He just shared the best musicians he could find and went out and rocked the arenas and stadiums. He acted all goofy onstage whether by design or by just being himself. And could he bring you along for the bumpy ride. Ozzy was exhausting to watch. He sweated, he dumped water over his head, he sprayed foam all over the front rows and once bit the head off a bat he thought was a toy. THAT made him a legend among disaffected youth. A pure accident.

The reality show, The Osbournes, made him a household name. He was made fun of, he looked a fool, he let Sharon use him to make cash. Some of us didn't like it, but most people thought it was hilarious. It seemed Ozzy was mush brained, used by his overbearing wife and kids to secure a lifestyle they'd grown accustomed to. He got Parkinsons, obviously from years of drug abuse, alcohol abuse and bad food. Yet he was still pushed out on tours he may not have wanted to be on. Just weeks ago he was pushed onto a stage for the last time on a throne, sang a few songs and left. Forever.

Ozzy wasn't the greatest singer. He wasn't the best frontman. But dammit he was entertaining as hell. But most of all he rocked for 76 years. We should all be so lucky.

Cheers Ozzy.

Chilling Effect Achieved!

The chilling effect is here. Corporate America is scared. They always get scared when their bottom line is threatened because Corporate America doesn't give a shit about the constitution, what they give a shit about is making money. And if they have to kowtow to a mad King, well they've proved they will. ABC settled with the Mad King over nothing. They took Trumps nuisance suit and just paid it. Chilling Effect 1. Paramount (owner of CBS) wants to merge with Skydance and in order to do so need FCC approval. They settled Trumps nuisance suit over an edit done by everyone from CBS down to the Lindell TV for $16 million. Also allegedly provided $16 million of free propaganda to advance authoritarianism. And now? They have fired Stephen Colbert, the Trump critic that holds nothing back. Oh, I guess technically he wasn't "fired" but his show was cancelled as of May 2026 when his contract is up. Trump gloats like the glorified thug he is.

Who's next? Jon Stewart? Jimmy Kimmel? Stewart's contract expires in December 2025. Kimmel's contract is up in 2026. Are they secure? Not with Donnie Dipshit in charge. ABC already folded to the bully boy in chief. Skydance will own Jon Stewart if the merger goes through. Do you think any of the cowardly media conglomerates will stand up to back channel demands to fire Kimmel or Stewart and replace them with "funnyman" Tony Hinchcliffe or "comedian" Theo Van? Will Dennis Miller make a comeback? Larry The Cable Guy hosting a late night ahow dedicated to kissing Trumps ass?

This really is a chilling effect on free speech. Conservatives have been whining for years that they are "censored" by big media. Anyone who has google knows what bullshit that is. But they thrive on being the victims. They hate watch Trump critics just so they can be offended and narc them out to the powers that be. The podcasters, the manosphere, the right wing paid Russian assets, the regime itself, and twitter, the Nazi forum some of us still fight with.

Colin Kaepernick was blacklisted for kneeling during the anthem. Jan 6ers were pardoned for trying to kill the Vice President, breaking into the Capitol and shitting in waste baskets. Breonna Taylor was murdered by a cop for sleeping. The cop who did it will serve one day in jail because Pam Bondi and the DOJ are racists. The Rosenbergs were killed for doing less spying for Russia than most of the people in this regime. Chilling effect.

Trump and his goons will continue to push the envelope further and further. The Democrats will do nothing. The courts will do nothing. The Supreme Court is nothing but a kangaroo court for Harlan Crowe and Donald Trump to do their bidding. We are in the throes of fascism right fucking now. Are you gonna do anything?

In a normal world, which hasn't existed since the Degenerate In Chief descended down the golden escalator to applause from paid actors in 2015 and called all Mexicans rapists and murderers which allowed the slime under the rocks to emerge. In a normal world, Colbert, the ratings winner, would be scooped up by someone. But in this world, are the media chickenshits willing to fight back?

Pardon me while I howl in laughter.

We are fucked.

Divide And Conquer!

 The Moron in Chief continues to throw the world his famous knuckleball regarding economics and it continually rolls to the screen. 25% tariffs on Japan, Mister Japan to be exact, which maybe or maybe not will ever go into effect, could be the stupidest thing this economic illiterate may ever do, Ya see, Japan holds most of the United States' debt in bonds and loans. Ya don't piss off the bank that holds your destiny in their hands. But when it comes to a lifelong deadbeat like Trump, what does he care? This guy has never paid a debt in his life. In fact, one of the dumber things he's ever said, and it's a long list, was he would wipe out the debt by turning it into crypto? WTF? This man child will bankrupt this nation like he did his casinos. President Deadbeat, that's what 49.8% of this stupid country voted for. 

The Big Ugly Bill passed. The Republicans danced, oh how they danced on the backs of the poor, the brown, the elderly, the very white trash that voted for them. They YMCA'd in front of a camera, while the miserable dopes who voted for Trump had no idea what had just happened to them. They gave Trump a prop gavel to pound like a toddler and they all laughed. Oh, how they laughed as President Fisher Price pounded the gavel with a stupid look on his face. The billionaires, the 1%, the Republican politicians funded by moral lepers, the oil and gas leeches, the corporate blood suckers, the masked thugs hired by ICE, the military industrial complex, they all danced. Their time has come.

Meanwhile, the very rural voters who voted 75-90% to deport nonwhites and didn't like the black lady, are about the get reality jammed up their bums. Medicaid will be destroyed, thus destroying rural health clinics, hospitals and nursing homes. Already in rural Nebraska (no we aren't all hicks here) in a county that voted for Trump 94%, a rural hospital is closing due to uncertainty about Medicaid cuts. More to come. Enjoy your bigotry. It's really fucked you now. Karma.

Alligator Alcatraz. A concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades. A tent city with cages. The "worst of the worst" undocumented will be housed there. Ya know, the field workers, restaurant cooks, the home health care workers, the construction workers, the roofers, the very people who make rural America go. The people who will be housed there, with the mosquitos and the bugs and the humidity, are urged to not escape because "Alligator Auschwitz" is surrounded by gators and pythons and other deadly creatures. And the Republicans laughed and put up signs and hoped for escapes so they could be entertained by the thought of a brown person being killed by gators. 

Meanwhile Trump has offered what is called "owner responsibility" which is fancy term for slavery. You see, Trump's goons take workers off farms or construction sites or ranches and then "sells' them back under "owner responsibility". The owner of the farm, ranch or whatever can have back his workers he paid under the table and not pay them at all now. Corporate America salivates over this concept as their already slave wages become actual slave wages. Nothing. All in the name of "shareholders" or "competitiveness" they will come up with new terms to justify their thievery and human trafficking. These are the moral lepers Trump appeals to.

We once fought a war over this. The concept that human beings could be bought and sold as unpaid slaves. The good guys won that war. 

Unfortunately, I am not sure the good guys would win this time. Theres's way too many people out there busting their ass waiting for the riches that will never come. Blaming the browns and the blacks and the gays and the chicks for fucking up their perceived Fatherland. Sorry rubes, the 1950s are not coming back. The tax cuts for the prosperous have been made permanent. And you aint getting any of it.

Resist