Orpheus Condescending

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Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Jul 12

Just putting it out there, folks.

It's just white text on a purple background (in honour of Miss Lindsey, because whether or not it was true, it provided us all with a LOT of laughs - and let's face it, there's not WAY that gentleman wasn't closeted - and that closet's walls and door were made of RICE PAPER, honey)... The text reads:
"Before you & your liberal friends laugh about Lindsey Graham's death,
ask yourself:
Would Donald Trump mock & celebrate the death
of a political opponent? Would Lindsey Graham
have justified & excused it?
Something to consider."
My first comment, attached to the post itself, explains that, as usual, I have PURLOINED this here snarky meme from who knows whom - but it's probably Patrick Naugle. Or whoever it was from who HE stole it:
"It's not even mine, I saw it on the internet. Might've been @nauglepatrick quoting himself, I dunno... I'LL never tell."

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Jul 10

Here's a problem people with money DO NOT have: THE CONSTANT FEAR OF THE NEXT FINANCIAL HIT. The fatal one. Ever wish the other shoe would just fucking DROP already? Mine just did. $1300 to fix a 21-year old car. YIKES. But wait... Guess what? I NEED A NEW ROOF. Ugh. Excuse me.

A blue-tinted close-up of me contemplating the sky from my back porch of a windy July summer afternoon as I consider my limited options when it comes to replacing my thirty-year-old motherfucking roof. I look a lot better than I fucking feel. But this is nothing new. Actually, this is - like so many things when it comes to cameras - a false image, vis a vis the narrative. The photo was taken a week or two ago. You would know this if you could see me today, as I have platinum hair right now, and in the photo I clearly have ash blonde hair with dark roots. It looks pretty amazing. So, why have I deprived you of this ravishing sight? Because I have been CRYING FOR THREE DAYS, fuckers, that's why. JESUS. Fucking money. Fuck this fucking bullshit system. Every fucking time I get ahead this bullshit happens. And EVEN AS I SAY THAT I am FORCED by years & years of experience to contemplate my comparative GOOD FORTUNE in a world full of people who never get a chance to GET AHEAD and have the ability to PAY for their various financial catastrophes. Who don't HAVE families to catch them when they fall off the cliff. Whose physical disabilities and medical emergencies send them into penury and homelessness, whose families suffer... The entire history of my absurdly long life (when you consider I ought to have died DOZENS of times over) is POCKED with metaphorical lottery wins. I should have nothing but gratitude; this churlish pouting & whining is beneath someone who has seen firsthand true suffering & misfortune. I know NO true want. Have I suffered? Known real pain? Absolutely. But I have been RELIEVED OF THAT SUFFERING. My physical pain has been LESSENED to such a degree that I live EVERY DAY in acute awareness of how GODDAMNED LUCKY I am. CAR TROUBLE? MONEY? Jesus. I'm fucking FINE. My life is CAKE. Goddamnit. I don't even get to whine for an HOUR? Shit.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Jun 16

Gary Larson’s immortal “When clowns go bad” comic strip. Unsuspecting businessman walks on city street - waiting in an alley are two thug clowns holding what look to be coconut cream pies (I’m guessing - could be banana cream, but even clown thugs couldn’t be that cruel)… Preparing to pounce as he passes. Clowns. Gone bad. Just… one of the more perfect Larson creations, among many.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Jun 8

I am SO OVER the 21st Century War of the Sexes. It exploded post-Trump; it's sickening, depressing, exhausting, endless. And driven relentlessly by men. It's true. Women? We're bad at defense. The DEMOCRATS of the war of the sexes. But yes, they started it. Doesn't matter. It sucks. 1/4

Picture of me taken about a week or two ago, crying or having just finished crying in my kitchen about something not ENTIRELY unrelated to the subject of this post, but not very related. Some tears remain on my left cheek, but I'm smiling, sort of, looking off & down to my left. Blonde hair down & messy, maroon dress, v-neck. Diffuse morning light through gauze curtain you can't see.
That's it, nothing editorial to add. I am feeling godawful right now about the state of things, but my personal life doesn't thoroughly suck, so... there's that. Happy Monday.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· May 16

I got this bumper magnet... And promptly put it on my counter. The last time I had a political bumper sticker on my car was during the Obama years, & those motherfuckers vandalised it beyond recognition. That was BEFORE the MAGA miasma freed them from ANY constraints of politesse. I need my car.

A magnet for the bumper of a car (or a refrigerator if, like me, you're trepidatious about vandals in your area destroying your car because you have an opinion contrary to theirs): A white oval with black sans-serif numbers in the centre - 8647 - surrounded by a black outline. Am I embarrassed to be reluctant to put it on my car? Yeah, slightly. On the other hand, fuck these assholes, I'm not VOLUNTEERING to have my property destroyed by a bunch of troglodytes who've abandoned all pretence of civilisation. The fucking IRONY of these scumbags calling US the violent, lawless ones just never fails to infuriate me... But then, lately I'm infuriated by breathing too deeply. FUCK THESE FUCKING MOTHERFUCKING FUCKS. I wish them nothing but pain & misery till they die agonised, horrible, long, drawn-out deaths whilst they reflect on the meaninglessness, emptiness, & worthlessness of their horrid, nasty, brutish, all too long lives. I wish them twice the suffering they've caused or wished on others. I wish them the tortures of the damned while conscious & alive. If I could cause them all to spontaneously combust and stay alive till the very last minute when they expire with screams of agony, I FUCKING WOULD. Fucking scumbag shitbird asswipe dickcheese cocksniffs. Eat shit and choke on it while someone assfucks you with a rusty chainsaw and NO LUBE, you ILLITERATE PUS-FILLED SACKS OF GOO.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· May 10

No further comment necessary. 😡

A political cartoon by Steve Sack from his Substack - a large group of almost identical FBI "agents: in sunglasses in a circle (jerk) surrounded by crime scene tape, studying intently (with magnifying glasses, clipboards cameras) a group of SEASHELLS on a beach, while neglected RIGHT NEXT TO THEM lie two smeared bloodstains and a dead hand and a dead leg - marked Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Motherfuckers.

'nuff sed.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Apr 29

The earth has traversed around the sun 58 times since someone dragged me into this world without so much as a "by your leave". I'd very much like to pay the fine and go home, please. This place would be great, if it weren't for all the humans. Pay no attention to the smile. It's all an act. 🤨

Picture of me with hair down, facing front; a small, sort of sad smile on a makeup-free face, wearing a dark grey satin robe. My hair is VERY pale blonde; it won't be of much longer, I'm about to dye it grey - or silver, or purple, or whatever it comes out to be, we shall see. Anyway, who cares, I don't care. I will say this, my son texted me early this morning and HE is the one VERY bright spot in an otherwise fairly fucking bleak landscape. I'd reprint the message, but it's long. Condensed: he thanked me for raising him to love himself and others, knows I think I didn't give him enough but reassures me I gave him far more than he can express. And he can't wait to see me in person, etc. Which... yeah... made me weepy. I love my kid. He just aged out of the draft (26), which also makes me happy, considering the way these maniacs are going. No, I don't think they'll activate the draft. I'm just being acid. As I am wont to do in these FUCKED TIMES. Look... we aren't supposed to live like this. I think almost everyone has a massive case of shock/PTSD. We aren't supposed to react to FOILED assassination plots like they're HUGE FUCKING EMERGENCY SITUATIONS. They happen ALL THE TIME to Presidents. FOILED plots are what are supposed to happen. It's the ones that SUCCEED that are the big deals. For the love of god... Every. Fucking. Day. these people have us on HIGHFUCKINGALERT over goddamned NOTHING. Or SOMETHING. And WE have to sort through the lies to figure out whether it IS something or nothing. WE aren't supposed to have to DO that. First, in the first place. Second, if it's the CASE, we're supposed to have BARRIERS, FILTERS - like an opposition party, a Fourth Estate. We have been ABANDONED by the grownups, like a toddler at a ZOO. INSIDE the fucking monkey cage. We are IN THE MONKEYHOUSE. Fucking Vonnegut, man... Anyway. I'm not suicidal, but I sure as FUCK don't want to be here. Happy fucking birthday to me. 🙄

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Apr 25

So, it’s never a shock when people block me. Like Lester Bangs, I am uncool. I've always BEEN uncool. THOUSANDS of people block me, here & elsewhere. And that’s fine. Honestly. My identity & self-worth aren't about likes or shares or who’s blocking me. They're about MY LOOKS. Duh.

My hair is PLATINUM right now - second phase in the “dyeing it grey” process. I hope. I meant to just go straight to the third step, but it looked so cool like this, I decided to leave it for a while - at least till the toner starts wearing off and it starts turning yellowy again. (My hair is STUBBORN AS FUCK, and refuses to take permanent colour the way it’s supposed to. Invariably, it’ll look great for a couple weeks, and then start going back to the gold/blonde it always is. Very irritating. The only colours it’s ever really been good at holding on to are red and dark brown. Which makes sense - lots of pigment in those. As opposed to pale colours like grey or ash blonde, which are more an absence of other colours than anything else. And that’s fine, whatever. Anyway - took this picture right after the bleaching/toning steps, doing a little Kubrick stare for the camera, a little sly, smug smirk, as is my wont. It’s a pretty cool pic. Next time you see me, I very much hope it will be with SOME shade of grey. Though with my luck, it’ll be purple. 🙄

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Apr 15

Noah Wyle thinks he’s a REAL DOCTOR.

Noah Wyle in a promotional poster for HBO’s The Pitt. He’s been photoshopped (or whatever they call it now) into a Jesus robe & a crown of thorns to go along with his stethoscope as he stands in the emergency room, the setting of his popular series, for which he recently won the Best Actor Emmy, along with pretty much every other award for acting on a dramatic series. Nice to see him get his flowers, as they say, after all these years since ER (heh), when actors playing flashier roles got the glory. He had some meaty story lines & was nominated five years in a row for the Best Supporting Actor Emmy (no win)… But he’s FINALLY getting major plaudits for The Pitt (a show I’ve admittedly never seen, though I WILL. Gimme a break, I’ve a lot of fucking stuff on my plate). Okay, that’s ENOUGH, I did’t mean to turn this into a NOAH WYLE biography, for fuck’s sake. This is about TRUMP’S DELUSIONAL AI POST OF HIM AS JESUS, HEALING (not JON STEWART, what the fuck, Jon, are YOU delusional?) or, actually, RAISING EPSTEIN FROM THE DEAD glowing ORB in one tiny gross little hand, GLOWING what-the-fuck shooting from the OTHER tiny gross little hand. The JOKE in this doctored (HEH) photo stems from his immediate removal of HIS doctored post once his “CHRISTIANS” screamed “BLASPHEMY” - & his ABSURD claim that he thought it depicted him as a DOCTOR. Another funny bit: KKKAroline LeavePlease tweeting (alas, ’twas a fake tweet) that the photo was DOCTORED, leaving us all to infer that Trump was TOLD TO SAY IT WAS DOCTORED, something something something - & that CLEARLY he heard “doctor” & his frontotemporal dementia RAN WITH THAT instead of what was almost certainly the SIMPLE little script they gave him, & thus was born another day or three of stupid Trump memes & shit. Alas, that was too LOGICAL an explanation. Nope. He just MADE IT UP, like makes up EVERYTHING. Oh, fuckety doo dah, please fucking DIE, you human pustule. Just DIE. We want OFF this timeline.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Apr 10

He has to know… Doesn’t he? I’d tell him. Happily. Hell, I’d hire a skywriter. “Yeah, dummy. EVERYBODY DOES."

Picture of that weasel, Eric Trump, with a quote: “The Iranian regime wants my father to die right now.”
Yeah, Eric. They are not alone in that fucking sentiment. I would expand on this, but I’m trying to keep my fucking blood pressure down, you shit.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Apr 7

Is EVERYONE in any position to STOP this lunacy just going to PRETEND IT ISN’T HAPPENING? God or what-the-fuck-ever help us all. Because the Republicans and Democrats sure as fuck won’t.

Donald Trump’s most insane tweet, bar none… and why nobody is locking him up in a padded cell at this point is beyond me:
“ A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!” April 7, 2026

God or what-the-fuck-ever help us all. Because the Republicans and Democrats sure as fuck won’t.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Apr 5

@misshelenlawson.bsky.social Took a screenshot, just in case. Pretty sure this account will be blocked before any meaningful discussion needs to be had about this…

Some troll calling itself a parody account of Miss Helen Lawson posted a comment responding to my “Trump dying on Easter weekend” post basically saying I was going to die before Trump, implying he would break my neck, then saying it was a joke. I checked. It’s a troll. Reported and blocked. It’s been a while since I’ve had anything remotely like a death threat. I don’t miss them.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Apr 4

At this point in the FIRST nightmare, I had DISTRACTIONS. Terry was still a high school senior preparing for football at Michigan State. My heath sucked. Divorced that fall & lived alone for the first time in 19 years. Now? 24/7 RELENTLESS REALITY. I’m too sober for this. Have a selfie.

Been a while since I posted a decent photo of myself. Been a while since I TOOK a decent photo of myself. I’ve felt like shit, I’ve looked like shit. Anyway - the hair here is straightened, ash blonde - slipping toward brassy. I hate that it won’t just stay the silver shade I dye it, but my hair just insists on going back to the blonde. Bare shoulders. (The corrupt fucker in the Oval Office would probably say BEAR shoulders.) A mild amount of makeup; I look pretty good. But I also look pissed off - looking off camera to my left. I hate my nose. Wish I had a nice, easily photographed, flat nose. A Keira Knightley nose. The kind cinematographers love. No multiple lighting setups. But no… mine is a ROMAN nose. Long. Prominent. ALMOST straight. Asymmetrical nostrils. (yeah, I’m self-obsessed, shocker. Whatever. Sue me. I’m not a narcissist. I’m a solipsist.) Okay, I’m rambling. I should eat. Depression is going to win if I don’t take basic care of myself. Byeeee.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Apr 4

I wonder what he pictures when he hears the phrase BARE HANDS…

A photo of the front, large, scary-clawed paws of a brown bear. Presumably what the orange fuckwit pictures when someone says BARE HANDS. (Since he flips homonyms on a whim - per his recent post wherein he said something “Bares no relationship to reality” or something like that. Sigh. We are under the totalitarian rule of morons. I will never forgive the racist misogynist morons who did this.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Apr 1

Going to do a little whinging in the ALT Text today. Call it selfie-pity.😈 Feel free to pass this one by. I’m basically dumping it here because I don’t want to bum out anyone in the corporeal world. Took this one a few hours ago; as you might guess, I’m not feeling all that well. 🥸

Simple. Not easy.

Would I had a magic wand.

Why did ANYONE ever believe in witches?

If they HAD been witches, they’d have BLASTED those assholes to kingdom come.

Just. Like. I. Would.

Right fucking now.

So many toads.

Hopping all over the country.

A plague, you might call it. 😈

I feel awful today. Don’t want to ruin anyone else’s day by moaning to them about it, nobody needs to hear this shit. There are many reasons for this, some of which I can mention, some I can’t. (Rather, I can, but choose not to out of some scrap of propriety in me.) First on the list, a medication issue. Just a monthly side effects thing, it’ll pass. Here, I’m really in no position to COMPLAIN. These meds have taken me from a basically crippled wreck of an MS patient to a mildly healthy, mobile one, whose case could be said to be in REMISSION, for lack of a better word. So… side effects? Fairly MILD ones, at that, comparatively speaking? I’d be an INGRATE to complain about those. But they DO sideline me for a few days per month, & this month has been particularly difficult for a few reasons it’s not necessary to get into. I CAN say that ultimately, it’s Trump’s fault. Trust me on this. Medications, shipping, fuel costs, Medicare, Medicaid… if you think any of this MIGHT BE AFFECTED by the fuckery of the Trumpist budgetary & warmongering dipshittitude, give yourself a gold star. It IS. I’m one of millions being fucked with on a regular basis now by this regime. From benefits cut or removed to medications denied or changed or delayed, they’ve fucked up the entire machinery of the best version of healthcare in this country. ON PURPOSE. Then there are the perennial financial issues; not news. There’s more; a lot of personal stuff I won’t share. I will say I’ve thought about suicide more in recent months than I have in a long, long time. Strictly ideation, no danger of actually doing it. I NEVER EVER WILL. I have a son I would NEVER do that to. But OY, gestalt.
/self-pitying whinging

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Mar 29

It is so embarrassing to be American right now.

Screenshot of social media post by a user named “ryanshrime” - “The US is losing to Iran so badly that they pulled out the “yeah, well you’re gay” card.🤣” This accompanies a picture of the new leader of Iran ( presumably), posted by a White House mouthpiece in the media, The Times, with the accompanying text: “Trump confirms CIA report claiming Iran’s new supreme leader is gay”. YEAH. This is seriously the fucking world we’re living in. SOMEBODY FUCKING INVENT A TIME MACHINE FOR THE LOVE OF MOTHERFUCKING RICE CAKES AND GET BACK THERE AND STRANGLE THAT FUCKING INFANT IN ITS CRIB. AND WHILE YOU’RE AT IT, I HAVE A LIST…
And if YOU aren’t up to the task, if you’re suddenly squeamish about butterflies and Amazonian footprints or whateverthefuck, come get ME. I have NO SUCH COMPUNCTIONS. GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF THIS TIMELINE, SPOCK.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Mar 26

She’s aiming for the Mark Twain Prize.

March 25, 2026, 2:05PM Fox “News”
Screenshot of Karolyn Leavitt, the worst Press Secretary ever (since the last worst Press Secretary ever, who was also a Trump Press Secretary, shocker), saying possibly the funniest thing a US President’s Press Secretary has ever said into a microphone:
“If you heard it from the president, obviously it’s true.”
OH, KAROLYN. First… You are a KKKARD, you KKLOWN! And while we’re on the subject… Now, that’s not really how you spell your name, is it? You fucking kkkunt. Hmm. Adding a K to things DOES make it KKKLASSIER… Hey! I have a suggestion, KKKAROLYN… Why don’t you get yourself a KKKAN of gasoline and pour it on yourself and your KKKULT leader, and KKKILL both of you in one swell foop? That would be so KKKOOL.

KKK. BYEEEEE.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Mar 24

True. 😈

Me, looking oh so sexy in my dark rimmed, very large rimmed, square rimmed (yes, how many times WILL she say RIMMED?) glasses, a curtain of straightened, freshly blinded hair falling to either side of my sparkingly make-up free face… Pretty sly, smug look on my face, if you ask me. That’s a smirk if ever I saw one. You’d be smug, too, if you looked this good after crying for three hours straight. YEAH, I SAID IT. This is what HOT GARBAGE looks like. Sigh. Not the greatest day… but are any of them? People. We are in hell. And speaking just for myself - MY hell ain’t nothing compared to the one in that fucking concentration camp in Texas. And that’s just the one we know about. WE ARE THE FOURTH FUCKING REICH and here we sit on our laptops bitching about how hard it is to do nothing about it. FUCK THIS FUCKING SHIT. I WANT TO KILL THEM ALL, and…
OH, Blanche. You wouldn’t be able to do these awful things to me if I weren’t still in this chair… BUT YA ARE, BLANCHE! YA ARE!!!

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Mar 23

ENOUGH SANEWASHING. All his press conferences & gaggles should be broken down & reported exactly like this, distilled to their essence. If you really want to INTERPRET it so your paper is printing something intelligible, do it at a 6th grade level. No quotation marks. Impressionistic Journalism.

Trump’s Friday 3/20/26 press gaggle distillation:
12:03 We don't need Hormuz
12:05 We have won in Iran
12:07 Iran is finished except for Hormuz
12:08 Opening Hormuz is simple
12:11 We need NATO's help with it but they're cowards
12:16 Hormuz will open itself
12:17 Iran is totally crippled
12:23 There will be no ceasefire
12:29 Chuck Norris was great guy & supporter
12:36 CNN poll approval rating is 100
12:37 Australia & UK are bad allies
12:41 Price of oil is fine, Dow is great
12:42 We'll probably take Cuba next
12:42 SAVE Act will pass
12:44 Ballroom will be greatest ever

It SHOULD be reported in just this manner - THIS fucking starkly chaotic. THIS incoherent. There was and is NOTHING coherent, logical, pr sane about this motherfucker’s thinking or what he says. He is an idiot AND full of shit AND riddled with dementia half the time - they only make him available during daylight for press because he SUNDOWNS.
And what is our option? He dies, VANCE takes over. And HE is fucking LUCID. And I suspect that sociopath is actually evil. We are so fucked. But fuck the media. And fuck every fucking asshole who put us in this fucked up fucking place. I hate this fucking timeline so fucking much.
(Yes, I’ve been watching WAY too many videos of ICE “detaining” people [women, always women].) Fuuuuuuuuck.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Mar 21

This is a real post. The actual President of the United States* POSTED THIS. There is NO BAR too low. He will simply ooze under it.

Donald Trump’s latest abomination of a social media post: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP
1.81K Likes 3/21/26 12:26PM

I have no further comment on this fucking asshole except that I hope he suffers the tortures of the damned before he dies a long, lingering death - preferably in a fire as the pustules covering his pain-wracked, crippled body explode one by one. And I hope there is a hell.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Mar 20

We’re #1! We’re #1! We’re #1! Sigh. I love living in one of most popular resort towns in the US. It’s beautiful. My mom lives here. I basically grew up here. Lots of history here. My son is 4 hours away. But it definitely has its drawbacks.

From AAA fuel prices: the jump in prices in the last month in Michigan cities by percentage - in Metro Detroit, Grand Rapids, Muskegon, & Holland, 22%. In Marquette, 30%. And in MY hometown of Traverse City, prices have risen by a whopping 41%. THANKS FOR THAT, MAGA. You fucking shitbirds. Eat a bag of festering, pusfilled dicks, you racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, Trump worshipping asskissing bootlicking scumsucking zombie horde of cult fucks.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Mar 20

SHIT. I forgot to post the screenshot!

a screenshot of something Amazon SELLS & SHIPS, which supposedly means they offer free returns on.

As you can clearly see, it says FREE 30 day refund/replacement. NOT RETURNS. I feel like I’m being gaslit.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Mar 20

The Forsyte Saga, PBS If you liked Downton, you’ll love this.

The Forsyte Saga, from PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre in 2002 - the photo is of Damian Lewis as the horrid yet tragic Soames Forsyte, and Gina McKee as the sad but ultimately victorious Irene Forsyte. If you’ve never seen it and you enjoy period drama (if, for example, you liked Downton Abbey), RUN, don’t walk, to whatever streaming service you can find that’s showing it. (PBS still has it.)

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Mar 19

My actual St. Patrick’s Day was spent snowed in, with most of the rest of northern Michigan. Literally couldn’t open my front door. The Saturday before was the parade, etc. Mom, sister, & I attended the shindig but left before the parade. Too cold for us. Blizzard started next day. 🥶

My mother, Lynn, sister, Heather, and me - all wearing our emeritus Irish Queen regalia to watch this year’s new Queen be crowned in Traverse City - about 24 hours before the biggest blizzard to hit northern Michigan since 1978. GOOD TIMES!

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Mar 15

It’s heeeeeere. The BOMB CYCLONE approaches Traverse City, Michigan as Governor Whitmer activates the state emergency response system in preparation for what’s about to happen to the upper half of the state…

Satellite map imagery shows the severe weather front hovering over my location, Traverse City, Michigan - first described as a blizzard, now they’re calling it a BOMB CYCLONE. Whatever the name, the city has already closed municipal services for Monday till noon - so far. Since this thing is running about 12 hours behind schedule, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the whole day and even Tuesday gets at least a half day. GOOD TIMES!

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Mar 15

I wonder when we will see the proliferation of TRUMP: ”I DID THAT“ stickers on gas pumps all across the US (nay, the WORLD)…

Gas pump: $3.139 p/gallon, regular, ubiquitous “I DID THAT” sticker, Joe Biden pointing gleefully at price. They showed up after lockdown ended & gas prices rose ACCORDINGLY, since all the people who hadn’t been DRIVING started DRIVING again - & when demand for a product rises, so does the fucking price. As any Republican with a brain ought to know - & does. But that didn’t stop them from blaming him for a perfectly normal rise in gas prices.
Complaining about these shitheads & their incessant hypocrisies is like complaining about weather - there’s nothing new to be said, they don’t give a fuck, & it doesn’t change a thing. There’s not even any satisfaction to be gained in bitching about it. Misery does NOT, in fact, love company, unless the miserable person LOVES MISERY in the first place. So once again I say unto thee: fuck these fucking motherfuckers. Also… apropos of nothing… The next time someone tells you s/he’s not voting for the Democrat because [insert the way in which said candidate is UNACCEPTABLE]: BATNA.
Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement. A business term, but in voting, you can look at it this way:
WHO BENEFITS IF THE REPUBLICAN WINS?
That’s it. In a nutshell.
The obverse is also a thing to consider: WHO SUFFERS?
If someone PERSISTS in their “I refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils” bullshit (despite the obvious argument that in a binary election, you can have EVIL or you can have LESS EVIL - NO evil is not on the ballot) - or whatever the argument du jour is…
Then fuck ‘em. This is on them as much as it’s on MAGA.
None of the EVIL happening under Trump would be happening under Harris. Period. Own it. Don’t talk to me about HER HYPOTHETICAL evil. His is real, it’s happening, and you helped do it. So fuck you and your third party or non-vote.
And you can take that to the Texas Senate ballot, too.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Mar 8

Already do. WAY ahead of you. Went to British schools. Hence the spelling. Oh - look - same colours as my high school AND university. It’s fate.

The football (soccer) jersey of County Clare GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) - with its sponsor, Pat O’Donnell & Sons, emblazoned prominently on the front. The jersey is blue & yellow - same colours as my high school AND university. It’s fate.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Mar 2

If only the Secret Service were as incompetent as everyone else around him.

Map of Florida. Maralago circled in black. Then in red. “DEAR IRAN. HE’S ON THE GOLF COURSE.”
Am I advocating that Iran follow through on their very recent threat to do to Trump what he did to Maduro -
and then what he did to Khameini? Hey, man, I’m just some asshole on social media, posting memes to try to laugh a little, make others laugh a little, lest the horror get to be too much, you know? What kind of a sociopath would I be if I actively rooted for the most dangerous assassins in the Iranian secret police to sneak into the US and somehow find a way to kidnap an old dickbag with dementia and torture him to death? I’d have to be a TOTAL sociopath. With absolute disregard for human life. A complete and utter disgrace of a human being. No sense of shame. Who would ever wish such a thing on even a grotesque fuckwad like Donald “deserves all that and so much worse” Trump? Oh, no. Not I. No, no. Cross my blackened, desiccated heart.

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Feb 18

And now, for something completely different… My gorgeous son & his gorgeous beloved, spending their long weekend in northern Michigan, being young & happy while they can. They live in Detroit. She’s in law school, 2nd year; he works for the State of Michigan as a counsellor for disabled people. 💙

My son, Terry O’Connor, & his beloved Sophie, take a break from skiing in Petoskey, Michigan, to snap a photo for their loved ones, with the blue skies & bare trees looming behind them. Beautiful inside & out, these two. God, I can’t tell you what a relief it is that at LEAST I don’t have to worry about TERRY. Practically perfect in every way, as Mary Poppins would say…

Orpheus Condescending@maryscottoconnor· Feb 16

If you were a pair of shoes, what pair would you be? Tieks, “Romantic Blush".