Does anybody have some good memes I can tweet on how horrible the internet is?

Department of Defense Orders Removal of All DEI Media Materials
March 1, 2025

David Johansen, New York Dolls, Buster Poindexter, Scrooged, age 7520250228
□ [“New York Dolls Lead Singer David Johansen Dies at 75 Following Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis"]

The last of the New York Dolls has died.  They were one of those bands that was quite influential but never became popular.  They're from the early 70s and did their part to inspire various late-70s forms of rock'n'roll, like glam and punk, which the critics adored.  By an odd coincidence, their managers were heavily involved in promoting them and far less interested in the other band they managed, Aerosmith.  Fifty years later, Aerosmith has been one of the biggest rock bands ever and still have all their original members still alive.  The Dolls, not so much.

Johansen was the only member of the Dolls who would go on to any success, a one-hit wonder under the name "Buster Poindexter" and a few minor roles in movies.  He was quite entertaining as the Ghost of Christmas Past in Scrooged, but that's not much of a career to build on.  I suspect he got the little success he had was as a 'critical darling,' i.e. being with the critics in NYC.  If you know anything about the Dolls, you can probably see why they and their fans helped start the *woke* agenda.

But the music does have its place.  What the band lacks in musical ability, they make up for in entertaining songwriting, definitely inspired by some of earlier rock acts.  Their second album was produced by Shadow Morton, who had produced tracks like "Leader of the Pack" and "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida" although the band was too far gone on drugs at that point to do much in the way of songwriting.

But they had influence, on Aerosmith and other movements.  I first heard of the Dolls on Guns'n'Roses cover of "Human Being," Sylvain Sylvain also played at a local bar and I got his autograph after the show, so obviously I was influenced, but it's interesting how these unknown critical darlings quickly connect to very popular musicians.

The Dolls' first album was produced by Todd Rundgren, who's been part of a number of hits, the biggest one being Bat out of Hell.  Rundgren also spent a decade or so where everybody assumed he was Liz Tyler's father.  He also produced Patti Smith, another critical darling who only critics think is sexy.  She had very little success too, her biggest hit being co-written with Bruce Springsteen.  Notice how all these acts center around New York City and really like degraded sex yet somehow became very influential.  Wonder how that happened.

DOGE Cuts Fauci-Funded Animal Testing in China
March 1, 2025

I don't know if I can do any more writing.  For the second of the last three evenings, my time has been completely wasted with internet problems.  Now it's late and I'm totally pissed off.

Trump Will Pardon MLB Legend Pete Rose, Slams MLB for Lacking Courage
March 1, 2025

□ [“White House Announces No More Blank Checks to Ukraine Without Peace Deal"]

This was probably the point of yesterday's meeting and possibly the point of Trump demanding the rare metals in Ukraine, to get Zelensky to come out and sign them over.  Trump made sure to have cameras running and the world can see the footage.  Now Trump's got an excuse to stay out of the war and can send DOGE to start looking into the funding.  Where did all those billions of dollars go?

□ [“Globalist European Leaders Tweet the Exact Same Message to Appear United Behind Ukraine"]

But some people disagree.  These were all EU leaders with the word "president" in their titles, so they aren't that big on individual nations.  Most of them are NATO members so they aren't really interested in fighting anyway, so they're probably just showing off to each other and other elites.  It's not something that Russia would have to worry about.

□ [“UK PM Tells Zelensky Ukraine Has UK's 'Full Backing,' Gives 2.26 Billion Pounds in Aid"]

This is something indicating that it's all a show.  It's not clear who the performers are or why, but Starmer is doing this for Zelensky.  He was in the US just a couple days ago, doing a press conference with Trump.  World leaders didn't rush over to do this with Biden but they are with Trump.  Macron had just been there on Monday.

But Starmer also made sure to give Trump a letter from Charles, asking Trump to do a state visit.  It's Charles so we'll have to wait for William to see any real royalty, but still, everybody in the press conference seemed to realize that this was unprecedented.  Someone who self-identifies as the king of England requesting the American leader for a visit, it must be something big.  Of course Trump said he'd go.  But there's been all these talks with people who claim to support Ukraine in the war, they come to the White House and then this happens.  Something about that seems planned, doesn't it?

Sydney, Australia’s “Woman” of The Year is a Man
March 1, 2025

□ [“Panicked AOC Sends Desperate Letter to AG Bondi, Is She Under Investigation?"]

This could be fun.  She makes instruction "webinars" to teach illegal immigrants how to disobey the law and avoid ICE.  Border Czar Homan had said there might be an investigation.  Member of Congress assisting invaders to defy the law?  Yeah, I'm sure there's an investigation well-underway by now.

AOC has probably already been met by the investigators, or at least they've set up some sort of appointment or however they handle it.  Can't just kick down her door (unfortunately) but they've made it clear that she is a target and they've got her actions on video.  She can't admit that, so she's pretending to be horrified at the idea that her freedom of speech is being threatened.

Sure, you can say that she really is too stupid to know what she's doing, and maybe you'd be right about that, but I'll just assume that she knows she's lying, she knows she's committing treason and she's totally fine with that.  But her supporters aren't, so they need to believe that her rights are threatened because she self-identifies as a victim.  She may have already given them instructions on how to protect her.

I'm sure this is a fight she can't win.  All the evidence is right there, it would be easy for other members of Congress to go after.  She'll probably never be prosecuted in full, but an equivalent warning will be put out that she'd better shut the hell up about this sort of thing.  That may be what inspired her to send this letter to Bondi.

Norwegian Oil and Shipping Company Announces Immediate Halt as Fuel Provider to U.S. Ships in Ports
March 1, 2025

□ [“Failed Former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo Announces NYC Mayoral Bid"]

Any place other than NYC, this would be seen as a step down.  A governor going to mayor, when does that ever happen?  Even with NYC, it used to be just a section of what Cuomo oversaw.  And now he wants to be in charge of it?  Is he just trying to find a place where he can abuse women and kill people because of a fake virus?

Partially it's just how the elites roll.  They always expect to get high-ranking places, especially if family members have already been there.  Cuomo had followed his dad as NY governor, might as well try for NYC mayor too.  Mario Cuomo had run for mayor against Ed Koch, "vote for Cuomo, not the homo."  Maybe that'll work this time.

But Cuomo the younger has the typical connections you expect from Democrats in New York.  He was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in Bill Clinton's second term.  He pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make easy loans to minorities, starting a financial crisis there.  He helped start the practice of getting what you want by accusing others of racism.  Obama pushed out the New York governor so Cuomo could replace him.  He's even connected to other elites, his ex-wife is RFKjr's sister.

So maybe he's trying to hide from investigation by the Trump administration, maybe New York (city or state) is just the place to go for elites like him.  Maybe he's desperate for attention.  It's not like the voters would be allowed to choose anybody else.

Illegal Haitian Alien Flown In on Biden’s Parole Program Charged with Triple Murder, Two Children
March 1, 2025