Day 359 – Pet Peeves & Bithchin’

Sunday, December 28, 2025

Let’s begin with car ads. I have never ever seen anyone stop and look at a car with an ohh – awah stare of approval. Maybe a Ferrari or a Lotus. Maybe for a second, but certainly not a sedan, or a hatchback or an SUV. No one spills their coffee or drops a package looking at a car drive by. And what about the ads where the spouse surprises their better half with a car or truck? Yeah. Right. You think maybe they’d have liked to have been in on the decision? At least GMC ran the same ad as last year with a truck bursting through the snow. They saved some bucks. Mercedes with the big red bow on top? Eh.

And those medicine and pill ads – OMG! What are these conditions? What are the diseases? I mean whatever they are helping you with must be really bad if one of the side effects could be death. And the line everyone hates – “Don’t take if you are allergic to it.” Really? Ya think? How do you know? Is the real question. (How do you know if you are allergic? Well, that’s simple. Take it and see. If you die then you shouldn’t have taken it.)

Then there’s the one that offers you a boost to your anti-depressant. I had to think about that for a bit. Okay you’re depressed so you take something to make you feel happy. But it’s not enough so you take something else. Now you’re bouncing off the walls. Great. What happens when you come down. Warning – thoughts of suicide, etc.

Then there are the text messages to my phone. OMG. I have to select and delete three times a day. Rick, this is important. Rick we’ve only got three hours until the dead line. Hi I’m Jack manager for Jill and I just looked at Spot and he’s says his bowl is empty can you pleas rush five dollars or what ever you can…

If you enter “stop” they change numbers. If you delete repeatedly they get hostile We’ve asked you seven times… Yeah? You’d think they’d get a hint. No one ever comes back and tells me what they did with the money. No one ever says, “Thanks, we have enough.”

And if you sign up to “make it monthly” They keep taking month after month even after the election is over.

Oh and the jazz guy who canceled his concert Christmas Eve at the Kennedy Center because it had been renamed The Trump-Kennedy Center? He’s being sued for a million dollars because it was “a political stunt.”

A Political Stunt? No. The Center he was supposed to perform at no longer exists. I mean if you want to talk political stunt – renaming a memorial that would have to be approved by Congress – that’s a political stunt.

How long will it take us to remove the stain of the current president?

We are creeping up on a new year. I wish I could be hopeful but I think we have another eleven month (come on new elections) before we might get any relief.

Two other things: ICE & China’s trade surplus.

ICE has been running ads looking for people to join. I think everyone should join ICE, especially YouTubers, content providers and streamers. “Today I’m in Chicago where we are going out to crack some heads in the suburb of … Please join us!”

China has a trade surplus – duh. It’s huge. We don’t know how huge because they cook their books. They have a problem in that they can’t find good investments for their money. People in China save money like crazy, which is good to a point but they are way over that point. People in China don’t have guarantees of health care or retirement so they save “just in case.” Their standard of living remains low. Their leadership doesn’t want to do much about it because they fear falling into a middle income trap. That is if people spend more and are guaranteed health care and retirement they might stop working and given the one child policy they don’t have workers coming behind to fill in the gaps so production will decline. But it will decline anyway because they don’t have enough workers and they are getting older and won’t be able to work so they are trapped.

Which brings me to Africa, which I forgot about until I wrote about China. Trump bombed Nigeria to protect Christians who he says were being targeted. Okay. Just a few problems. His bombs were directed at a place where terrorism wasn’t happening and there were few Christians. Oh yeah and his bombs landed in fields and no one was hurt. American might – fuck yeah! But the Nigerians are scratching their heads. WTF? 

Okay. All the problems solved. Wait – let’s send ICE to Nigeria! There are lots of black people there and they are used to gangs roaming around terrorizing people. Maybe, send them to Haiti too? 

I read an article that said 2025 was summed up in conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson last January. These are two no nothings discussing things they don’t understand and offering solutions that don’t make sense. Go Team. They should sit around a table with Aaron Rodgers and swallow bleach with an ivermectin chaser and then blame someone when they are close to death. (Jews? Biden? Kamala? Doesn’t matter.)

Would the Hague indict Trump, Pete Hegseth, and Netanyahu for war crimes? Wouldn’t that be something?

I forget the last ”e” in Hegseth’s first name when I originally wrote the above sentence, making him “Pet Hegseth” maybe that’s what Trump calls him? Donnie has a pet it’s Pete! Oh man. 

I was in Target yesterday they have signs all over saying “High Prices, Expect Less”  Maybe I got that backwards? “Expect Less, High Prices”? Yeah. That’s it. The funniest thing was the puffy cloud motto above where the pillows was – “Pillow Fart”. Maybe, it was “Pillow Fort”? No. Fart for sure.

Gotta go.

Wait. Bridgette Bardot died. she was 91, which is weird because Yoko Ono is 92. I thought Bardot was from an earlier generation. A beautiful woman who turn ugly in later life, both inside and out.

Scream on Yok.