Respectful enough of his fellow passengers to avoid exposing his buttocks, genitals, and bare torso, a conscientious and courteous Amtrak traveller kept his briefs and undershirt on after stripping off the rest of his clothes in front of crew members during a drunken 8:00 AM EST Thursday incident on a northbound train in North Carolina, the Miami Herald reports.

“Deputies responded to an Amtrak passenger train, which was stationary … due to an intoxicated passenger on the train causing a disturbance,” the Rockingham County, North Carolina sheriff’s office said in a statement. “(The passenger) was extremely intoxicated and had removed all of his clothing, with the exception of his undershirt and underwear. (He) refused to cooperate with train officials’ requests to put his clothing back on, gather his belongings and disembark the train.”

Deputies arrested the man and charged him with being intoxicated and disruptive, a misdemeanor violation. “No one was injured during the disturbance on the train and the train resumed its travel after (he) was removed,” cops said. The Herald notes Rockingham is 490 miles away from the unidentified man’s hometown in New Jersey. It’s not clear if he has enough money for that Uber ride.

Despite years of complete shutouts in local elections in the former British colony, Hong Kong’s Democratic Party is no longer in disarray, as its leaders on Tuesday announced a bold new initiative to end the malaise and once and for all put the losing streak behind them, the BBC reports.

The party will cease all operations and dissolve, ending the disarray once and for all.

“Developing democracy in Hong Kong is always difficult, and it’s especially difficult in the past few years,” Dem chairman Lo Kin-hei told reporters at a late night presser following a party meeting where the decision was made to throw in the towel after concluding that the ChiComs’ draconian 2021 “patriots law,” which barred all of the Dems’ candidates from running in legislative elections, had made the political party pointless. “I am not surprised at all that they have been losing supporters in recent years… the Democratic Party has already reached a dead end,” said pro-commie Hong Kong official Regina Ip, spiking the ball on the Demonrat libtard losers.

New Mexico reports Texas measles outbreak has now crossed it's border https://t.co/8NjXwJFuoy

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 21, 2025

Now-former IRS employee Robert McCabe, tells NBC10 Philadelphia that he did not think there would be any actual consequences for his actions until approximately 9:00 AM EST on Thursday, when he went into work and was unable to log in on his computer. It wasn’t until 11:30 AM that he found out he was one of the tens of thousands now without a job in the name of “efficiency.”

“McCabe said he had been a supporter of President Trump prior to the layoff,” NBC10 writes.

“You know when he talks about government waste and all that, yes, I’m behind it. I believe there is a lot of stuff in the government that needs fixing. And that’s part of the reason why I actually wanted to work for the government, actually. To help change. Help change the things that are wrong in the world, you know? I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason,” McCabe told the station as he worked his way through the bargaining stage.

Despite an inspiring pep talk from convicted felon President Trump, Team USA was defeated 3 to 2 against the orange overlord’s mortal enemy, Canada, in the Four Nations Face-Off final on Thursday.

It’s not clear what Trump’s excuse will be for the stinging loss – one suffered on American soil, no less, although it’s possible he will call the American players losers and disown them.

Congressman Rich “Dollar Store Eric Roberts” McCormick found out that the bullshit canned talking points about social safety net cuts and forcing kids to work for school lunches that didn’t work on CNN a few weeks ago works even less with his own constituents who were pretty fucking pissed.

The people that were not eating the dogs, eating the cats, eating the pets yet a bunch of incest porn addicts believed it anyway and voted accordingly are going to be going through some things as Politico reports hussy DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has ordered a rescission of protected status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians already in the US, overruling a Biden-era extension to 2026.

Again, this is just to pad the numbers of “deportations,” not actually any valid reason.

A group of Venezuelans living in the US under temporary protected status on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the MAGA Reich for rescinding their status, arguing that dog murderer Kristi Noem lacked legal authority to vacate former President Joe Biden’s granting an 18 month extension of temporary protections for Venezuelans or – failing that – even if Noem did when she cruelly fucked these people over on February 3rd she did not follow proper legal procedure, Reuters reports.

The roughly 348,000 Venezuelans whose status Noem pulled represent about half of the people from the dysfunctional socialist failed state to have been granted parole, all under Biden. The lawsuit cites statements by Noem, Trump, and other minions who the plaintiffs said had incorrectly claimed the Venezuelans are here illegally, and Noem referring to them as “dirtbags” on Fox News.

It’s not clear when it will be revealed that racism, cruelty, pandering to the MAGA base, and so on were motivating ideological factors for the rescission while the main, politically functional one was simply so they could say “We deported 348,000 illegal Venezuelans” as if ICE had raided hundreds of thousands of homes and arrested them one-by-one. But that’s definitely a when, not an if.

The Indiana state House’s GOP majority on Thursday passed Speaker Todd Huston’s bill to create a special commission to study the feasibility of having 33 MAGA hillbilly racist fentanyl-addicted rural shithole Illinois counties become 33 MAGA hillbilly racist fentanyl-addicted rural shithole Indiana counties, the Indianapolis Star reports. “We’ve really created a fantastic place, and we should take every advantage to make sure people are aware of that,” Huston said. “So we have this opportunity to raise our hand and say, ‘Hey, if you’re disenfranchised, we’d love to welcome you or have a conversation about what we do, because we think we have something really good offer.'”

Locally a number of these counties had passed secession referenda on the November ballot, giving Huston more political cover than a certain other Republican politician does with certain other territories like Canada, Greenland, Panama, and Gaza. But that’s still a pretty goddamned tall order considering that Illinois would have to approve it any border changes and then so would the US Congress. And good fucking luck with that, as it is extremely difficult to imagine that they would want to set any precedent that amounts to effectively gerrymandering state borders when some hicks don’t want to live in a Blue State. Rent a fucking U-Haul if you don’t like your state’s politics.

The following is a non-exhaustive scorecard for where the United States is at on February 20, 2025, starting with the stats for which we have data on with a definite change:

Not so great again, eh fanboys?

As expected, scumbag former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell will not be seeking reelection in 2026, the AP reports. Whether he lives long enough to actually retire is an open question.

A new Washington Post/Ipsos national survey finds 43 percent of respondents saying they approve of convicted felon President Trump’s first month in office to 48 percent opposed to his regime.

Neckbearded Vice President JD Vance will supposedly kick things off on Thursday as serial male sexual assaulter Matt Schlapp’s Conservative Political Action Conference 2025 begins.

“I’ll be calling our GREAT American Hockey Team this morning to spur them on towards victory tonight against Canada, which with FAR LOWER TAXES AND MUCH STRONGER SECURITY, will someday, maybe soon, become our cherished, and very important, Fifty First State. I will be speaking before the Governors tonight in DC, and will sadly, therefore, be unable to attend. But we will all be watching, and if Governor Trudeau would like to join us, he would be most welcome. Good luck to everybody, and have a GREAT game tonight. So exciting!” posted the convicted felon on Thursday morning, evidently keen on inciting on-ice international violence.

An obscure, far right social media platform often used to disseminate Russian propaganda was abruptly blocked in Ukraine on Thursday, unhinged conspiracy freak Alex Jones reports.

There was no official announcement from the Ukrainian government on why the platform, Truth Social, owned by controversial racist and credibly accused sexual pervert billionaire Donald Trump, was unavailable to users in the country, raising the possibility that the block was initiated on the company’s end. Trump on Wednesday called democratically-elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator” for refusing to surrender peacefully to Russian forces occupying the country.

“As United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, I receive requests for information and clarification. I take these requests seriously and act on them with letters like this one you are receiving. At this time, I respectfully request that you clarify your comments from February 12, 2025.”

“During a live interview with CNN, when asked how Democrats can stop Elon Musk, you spoke clearly: ‘What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy.’ This sounds to some like a threat to Mr Musk – an appointed representative of President Donald Trump who you call a ‘dick’ – and government staff who work for him. Their concerns have led to this inquiry. We take threats against public officials very seriously. I look forward to your cooperation with my letter of inquiry after request. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Please respond by February 24, 2025. Should you have further questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to call my office or schedule a time to meet in person,” wrote Ketamine Brain’s personal enforcer Ed Martin to Dem Congressman Robert Garcia on Monday.

Martin also sent similar letters to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the first asking him about some shit he said in fucking 2020. “I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,” said Schumer at the time. Last week Martin wrote “Time is of the essence. You have now received three letters as well as public discussion. Your cooperation is more important than ever to complete this inquiry before any action is taken. I remind you: no one is above the law. Please be in touch by COB on Thursday, February 13, 2025,” emphasis Martin’s.

A new CNN/SSRS national survey finds 62 percent of respondents saying convicted felon President Trump has not done enough in “Trying to reduce the price of everyday goods” vs 27 percent saying his nonexistent efforts have “Been about right” and just 11 percent going with “Gone too far.”

That last option seems pretty misplaced on this particular question, it was asked as part of a set that also included other issues like “Do you think Donald Trump (has gone too far), has been about right, or (has not gone far enough) when it comes to cutting federal government programs?” where 51 percent said “Gone too far,” and “when it comes to using the power of the presidency and executive branch?” at 52 percent “too far,” etc. Deportations was 45 percent too far, 16 not enough.

Anyway, the partisan breakdown of the prices question was pretty predictable: 73 percent of Dem respondents and 65 percent of indies said not enough vs 47 percent of Republicans saying the same. The “safe” answer for Republican respondents appears to be “Been about right” at 50 percent of the MAGA party’s voters. Just 10 percent of Dems and 23 percent of indies said “about right,” to describe what is, again, zero effort from the fat fuck to lower prices gas, groceries, and housing.

US appeals court rejects Trump’s emergency bid to curtail birthright citizenship https://t.co/OOlUoZkpCv pic.twitter.com/senQS2iLTv

— New York Post (@nypost) February 20, 2025

Sources tell Vanity Fair’s Gabe Sherman that North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis was warned by the FBI of “credible death threats” when he was going back and forth about voting to confirm white nationalist alcoholic Pete Hegseth – for whom Tillis ultimately provided the decisive 50th yes.

Whatever makes this easier on him. Blame some extrinsic “threat” that, whether or not it’s actually credible, has essentially zero chance of succeeding. He’s a goddamned US Senator and it would be extremely unlikely for some crazed MAGA terrorist to succeed in an assassination attempt. Sleeps easier the safe coward than the hunted heretic, right? What a total fucking pussy.

In another little bit, Tillis’s staff denied to Sherman that he told people to read a 2006 book called “Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work” if they want to understand convicted felon former President Trump. Or they denied it was for that Trump-specific purpose. Jesus Christ this is so lame.