International Women’s Day Shero
I first learned of International Women’s Day in the 70s, on a Polish research vessel surveying a chilly Georges Bank. My female Polish counterpart clued me in. It was a very popular holiday in Europe, eastern and western. Today I marvel at the strength of President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico. Too bad we can’t have a President like her here. We could have, twice. Now I don’t think I will ever see it in what’s left of my lifetime.
One story jumped out at me today from The New Republic about a woman showing strong leadership and resistance to the chaos being caused by FOTUS and FElon. The ousted head of HR at the IRS, Traci DiMartini, a 21 year civil servant who has never had a bad performance review or discipline action against her, was placed on leave for “ineffective management” and “insubordination” to DOGE. Her crimes and misdemeanors? She told the IRS staff where the firings were coming from. She refused to call them back to work over the weekend after they’d already worked 60-70 hours in the heat of tax season. She DARED call out “flagrant prohibited personnel practices”.
She is challenging her dismissal. “It’s my job to stand up and be the buffer between politicals and career employees, and I’m just trying to do my gd dmn job”. Good on you, Ms. DiMartini. What an excellent example you are setting for others in the same situation.
I spent lots of time on ships and can swear in several languages. I love the fight in this woman, and saved the best quote for last: “They have no idea who they picked a f-ing fight with.”
Hoping more brave souls step up and open the flood gates to similar resistance and public condemnation of dogeshit, terrible cabinet heads and trumpF.
1she needs to sue.. Maybe Juanita’s son could help.
2Just another thanks to El Jefe and Fran for keeping these doors open!
I’m loving it!
3Second what djw said!!!
4Thirds for me.
5Hear! Hear! (I’m 4th)
6Damn! I’ve missed you guys! Appreciate any suggestions/instructions, whatever, to combat the morons running (ruining?) the country now. Like you Fran, pretty sure I won’t be around to see the end of this garbage dump, but would like to contribute to its death with what time I have left. You and El Jefe need to lead the way!
7Kudos and best wishes to Ms. DiMartini for standing up to DOGE. Not that she should need those wishes, because she did the right thing–but that’s the country under Trump. She should be reinstated, pronto! Many thanks, also, to El Jefe and Fenway Fran for keeping the salon open! It’s a refuge in these stupid times.
8I have cousins in Norway who are appalled at the sudden switch in America’s stance from Ukraine toward that of Russia. They’re having a hard time understanding how we could be backing the likes of Trump and Musk. I am too.
This is not the America that my dad went to war for in WWII. I could only profusely apologize to them. Every day I wake up and wonder what fresh hell awaits us.
9what fresh hell awaits? Glad you asked. putiebot is closin g embassies overseas and firing staff, likely because putie pie wants them closed, imho.
10Thanks, y’all. I’ve been so overwhelmed with all the stuff, but finally realized I can take one small thing once in a while and still help El Jefe keep the lights on.
11FWIW, I travel to Mexico often. Mexicans pronounce the name of La Presidenta “shanebaum,” unlike “shinebaum” as we say here.
12btw, Poland and Germany are looking to NATO for country based nukes to deter the putiebot/putieboss cabal threat to Europe.
13Petulant putiebot just slapped a 250% tariff on Canadian dairy products. Wall Street will likely show improvement tomorrow, not!
14Texas TrailerPark Trash- I have the exact thought overnight and when I get up in the morning. The challenge is to pick the worst hell on earth to focus on. It’s almost always more than one thing. Make that it’s always more than one thing.
15The sum effect of the spectacle that is the Age of Trump is to make the American people feel powerless, disoriented, confused, and that they lack any agency over their personal destiny(ies) and the direction of their country, as David Remnick writes in a new essay at The New Yorker:
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It was one thing to anticipate this prolonged political moment; it has been, these past weeks, quite another to live it. Each day is its own fresh hell, bringing ever more outrageous news from an autocrat who revels in his contempt for the government he leads, for the foreign allies who deserve our support, and for the Constitution he is sworn to uphold. Since beginning his second term, six weeks ago, Donald Trump has commandeered public attention to such an extent that it is hard to recall that there was ever a time when an American President went about his first weeks in office in a frenzy of activity characterized not by threat, chaos, and corruption but by discipline, competence, and compassion.
16Excerpt @ 17 came from this article….
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/10/just-getting-started-we-have-yet-to-see-the-worst-of-spectocracy/
17putiebotnevillechamberpotdrumpfuckthedumbfuck donned a bear suit, walked into a b ar and ordered a gin and tonic at which time the bartender smacked putiebot up alongside the head with a bungstarter and said you ruined the punchline you dumbass.
18Anyone think trumpF will actually spend his own money for his new tesla model Swastikar? Gosh I hope it doesn’t catch on fire with him in it. Maybe it’ll be his new golfcart. Will need to be armored at tax payer expense. What a clown show.
19putiebot reads from tesla sales pitch in a staged car purchasing fiasco @ shithole WH.
https://www.politicususa.com/p/trump-busted-reading-from-tesla-sales
putie also retaliated against Canada again by increasing tariffs on imported aluminum and steel to 50%. Says he wants to bankrupt Canada’s auto industry so they will join America as 51st state.
20https://open.substack.com/pub/keithknight/p/think-heathen-scent
21gutless magats in congress had the power to stop putiebot from destroying american economy b y taking away the so called emergency putiebot declared. Dems were going to force gutless magats to vote for or against tariffs. magats decided to give away the only power they had to save america. Now that vote Dems wanted can not be done at least this year.
Rachel Maddow has the details here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKDPrsMaZU8
22I guess it’s fitting trumpF bought (so he claimed) the muskmobile model S for swastikar in magat/kremlin red.
23Everything you need to know about how tariffs work from the white house brainiac unim press secretary. Seriously….
https://substack.com/redirect/73e5ee6e-d964-451f-afd4-427424788170
24Steve from Beaverton @ 24,
Those swastikars catch fire easily. Just sayin’. I have to write the rest of what I’m thinking in invisible words.
25Check out the video in this article of an employee of the office of personnel management in DC while 1000’s are being fired. This is is not surprising though considering the grifter in chief she works for.
26https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/trump-official-makes-fashion-inluencer
putiebot set off a firestorm today suggesting NATO might have to help him invade Greenland for national security interests after saying the US would likely not back NATO in Europe.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-greenland-2671325010/
27He’s not only a malignant narcissistic old dimented fraudster, he’s maniacal.
28Actually, he’s a psychopath.
29Hey, is it just me or does the Muskitizing very much resemble what the Chinese went through with Chairman Mao?
30Inquiring minds would like to know. And I mean that!
Maniacal psychopath.
31Speaking of women, sort of, corrupt liar SG blondie bondi stood in front of the world and claimed putiebot had been indicted 200 times, 196 more than he really was. What is it with magats and whopper lies?
32Another likely reason putiebot wanted to drop charges against NYC mayor, Adams…..
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-org-presses-eric-adams-for-rights-to-central-park-ice-rink-after-city-hall-spurned-nonprofit-gift_n_67d5a4ade4b0ae541d66c311
33felonkingiaperdonnieputiebotnevillechamberpotdrumpfuckthedumbfuck just declared Biden’s J6 pardons of investigaors void.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-biden-pardons/
How about a firing squad instead of another impeachment?
34Part of this week’s episode of the Twilight Zone. More to come I’m sure.
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