Christmas In July? Why Not Festivus In June?

 Good morning, everyone. You know, we are now exactly six months away from Christmas, and about the same amount of time away from Festivus. With that being said, here are some airings of grievances that I have halfway through 2026, and I have plenty of them. 

I'll start off with something disturbing in my estimation that I see whenever I'm playing one of those room escape games online, it's an advertisement for TENA, which I guess is a men's health product used to help prevent unwanted urinary leakage. The issue I have is that for the ad, they have some 60-something year old dude (probably AI; I'll have a rant about THAT later) in nothing but his tidy whities talking about said product with a rather suggestive shot of a small fountain at the end. Dude, I DON'T NEED TO SEE THAT SH*T, and quite frankly, neither do most men. I know it's Pride Month and all, but the visual for that ad is too much for my liking. Now if it was THIS person doing the sales pitch...

Let's move on to what I've been seeing on television. Most notably FOX 13 in Tampa since that's the only local station my sisters watch. Primary elections are coming up, and one the few political ads I see is for Kevin Steele, who is NOT getting my vote. He checks all the marks for the prototypical gullible FOX viewer, Republican, Trump endorsed, DeSantis supporter. Yuck. And it's OF COURSE it's on Fox. Gosh almighty I hate that network. My gripe is where are the ads for David Jolly (who's running for FL governor) or Charlie Crist (mayor of St. Petersburg)? Does the Florida Democratic Party even aware that television media still exists? Do they even have a budget for TV ads after having their asses handed to them in the last forty-leven election cycles (our last Democratic governor was Buddy McKay, who finished the term of the late Lawton Chiles in 1999)? Or does Fox 13 have their ad rates so high that the Dems a) figure it isn't worth the cost or b) they can't, but you can bet dollars to donuts that Fox will put an ad for Morgan & Morgan or any other ambulance-chasing grifter in the Tampa area.

Speaking of Morgan & Morgan, the grand poobah of ambulance chasers has revealed the name of his "new" political party; the Common Ground Party. Uhhh...okay. Way to use your imagination there, John. From the home office in Rennert, North Carolina, top five rejected names for John Morgan's political party.

1. 5. The Ambulance Chaser Party.
2. 4. The "I want to steal your baseball team and move it to Orlando" Party.
3. 3. The Bourbon Drinking Coalition.
4. 2. The Exotic Dancer Caucus (and their PAC, Porno for Paralegals)

...and the number one rejected name for John Morgan's political party...

1. 1. Grifters R Us.
2. 
   
   
   
   

sorry, Dave.

While I'm covering late night hosts and their gimmicks, another popular one is Jimmy Kimmel's Unnecessary Censorship routine, where his producers will randomly insert a bleep over an otherwise innocuous word. Well, seems like social media lately from Facebook to TikTok have been practicing it to a fault, where even the name of a movie was censored. In a CBS Sports post on Facebook late Thursday night during the Turkey-USA World Cup match, the words "Fight Club" was blurred out. Why? I know that rule no. 1 of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club, but that was ridiculous. What's next? An announcement that I'll have a d*te at O**** G****** (which never happened by the way...thanks for nothing Samantha)? That I'm planning on taking a tr*p to ***th Car*****? You get the idea. Censorship is running amok and I don't like it.

Another gripe I kinda have is the decision of Florida to lift the ban on fireworks for the Fourth of July. Now from what I understand, there are currently burn bans in the greater Tampa Bay region, which means that personal fireworks are indeed technically prohibited. Now how much do you want to bet that some of the counties in greater Tampa Bay (like Hernando) will conveniently lift the burn ban in time for the fourth, because FREEDOM!!! and TRUMP!!! and 250!!! and STUFF!!!! That's the mentality of the copious amount of MAGA lunkheads that live here. If you've ever had the misfortune of hearing any advertisement on the radio for Pyro Junkie in the Tampa Bay area, you know what I'm talking about.

In a related note, known N*zi sympathizer Kanye West had not one but TWO sold out shows not at Benchmark International Arena, but Raymond James Stadium. Why? Because Tampa, I guess. What's really interesting in that whole thing is the concerts were pushed to be cancelled, but the person pushing for them was the least favorable person imaginable; Senator Rick Scott. This is like that scene from "Ace Ventura 2" where Jim Carrey has spears on each thigh and is shouting to heaven above.

That's right, the present-day incarnation of Voldemort tried to get Ye cancelled...but failed.

It didn't help Scott's cause that the Tampa Sports Authority had its hands tied, if they cancelled the shows, then Kanye's promoter would have litigated, and God knows the Tampa Sports Authority loses money because they are pushing for further renovations to Raymond James Stadium, ahead of the proposed ballpark that the Rays have been trying to get built across the street at Hillsborough Community College. Remember when Trump in his first debacle of an administration shoved the leader of Montenegro out of the way for a photo op at a NATO meeting? It's kind of like that. 

That said, the TSA is playing with fire because from what I understand the Raleigh-Durham area would love an MLB team and the Rays' triple-A affiliate is the Durham Bulls, and who knows, if the Rays bolt for the Research Triangle, I may soon follow...

Speaking of Trump, he's the subject of my next grievance. Dude insists that the colossal mess that is the Reflecting Pool on the Washington Mall was created by far-left activists with a cutting knife. So dear leader decides on a whim that he wants to paint the reflecting pool American flag blue with the 250th birthday happening this upcoming week, oversaw by some dude that looks like a TEMU Bond villain from central casting, then has his motorcade DRIVE over the sealant once it's applied to the drained pool, and is now blaming ANTIFA for vandalizing the pool once he realized he done screwed up. A better explanation (which is rather long) can be found on Facebook here. Yeah, I don't think "antifa" really vandalized the pool, much like that date I never had...

I swear he takes zero accountability for things when they don't go his way, and when they don't, he'll bitch and moan until the objects of his rage capitulates. Oh, and we're still at war with a nation we've supposed to have defeated (allegedly) several times over the past month. 

Same, Conan. Same.

My final rant will be what I alluded to earlier in this post, and that's the wonton use of AI that has infiltrated social media. Now I know that AI can be used for good, like if you need to know an answer to a question and you don't feel the need to google it, but some of AI I've seen has been used to created deep-fakes, cheesy advertisements, and bad comedy. One dear follower of mine on the site Muskrat has all but destroyed uses AI to enhance that person's photos; I know what you look like and that's not it. You already know about that TENA ad I mentioned in the beginning, there's other ads for various games on your phone that uses AI, including an arrow removal game that's called "Arrows Out," though recently they've started calling themselves "Point Out," which is an entirely different rant I could go on, but this entry is already long in the tooth as it is.

A final word before I go. I know that June is also Men's Mental Health Month, and my mental health hasn't really been all that great as of late. It took me three whole days just to type this blog post, and I haven't done any flashbacks since May 10. The fact that I had a bit of a breakup may have something to do with it, but was it really a breakup when the rocket never lifted off the launch pad, so to speak? In any event, I'll see my therapist on Thursday and tell her about it.

I really liked that woman, too...oh well. 

Enjoy America 250 y'all. For now I'm off the celebrate my sister's birthday.

Bonyscribe

Happy New Year, Welcome To World War III

 Good afternoon, I'm more than a little bit late with this, but since I had to wait to have a procedure done in Tampa yesterday (isn't getting older fun?) I had to wait until now to say it...

...and no sooner than the calendar had been freshly turned, the United States, or rather Donald Trump's regime, sprung itself to a war with Venezuela. JFC.

Now, is Maduro in the words of Trump a "bad hombre?" Of course he is. But the way this administration has went about this capture and arrest, as well as the reasons we're being told Maduro was arrested, is totally bogus. It isn't about fentanyl, which is evil in its own right because there have been friends of mine that have been greatly affected by it. It isn't about cocaine either. It's about Venezuela's crude oil supply all for the purposes of making the American Oil Lobby richer. Remember George Carlin's line from that one comedy special he did about twenty years ago, in which he said, "it's a big club, and you're not in it" when he was talking about the rich and powerful? The American Oil Lobby is part of said club.

And now, Trump is bitching and whining about wanting to take over Greenland...again. Greenland was part of the Kingdom of Denmark long before the United States even came to existence. Furthermore, Denmark has been a long-standing ally of NATO. In the words of Scott Van Pelt, "what are we doing here?" Then again, Trump has never been a friend of NATO and totally wants to upset the "New World Order" applecart that George H.W. Bush spoke of in 1988. It seems like he wants the new axis of evil to be us, Russia, and China. Let me repeat that, US, Russia, and China, an axis of evil.

Folks, we're better than this. At least I thought we were. Because this isn't the same America that I gave six years of my life defending in the US Navy in the early 1990s. One such indicator is probably the obscenest "billboard" I have seen in my life, heading northbound on US 41 just north of Tampa. If you're from that area, and you know my world view, I think you know what I'm referring to.

But don't take my word for it, check our my reposts on my TikTok page (@bonyscribe1), especially from Former MLB agent Joshua Kusnick. There are other reposts I have on there sounding the alarm that World War III is impending.

Folks, it isn't impending, it's here. The world is at war. Buckle up buttercup.

I should have my normal flashback blog post sometime later in the week. But for now, 2026 is off to a rough start.

Be sure to follow my socials:

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Happy New Year, I guess.

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"Crapture" At Scamelot, Plus More...

 Hello again everyone, except the cultaholics over at Sinclair Broadcasting. Yeah, keep pounding your right-wing views on everyone (and guess what? The hyperlink on Twitter does not work, thanks a little Hulk Hogan). Your little stunt for Jimmy Kimmel to get his show back on air in the ABC stations you own is nothing more than extravagant extortion attempt. Anyway, Tuesday the rapture was allegedly supposed to happen...again. And just like in 1988 and 2012 and every other time it was supposed to happen, it didn't happen...again. 2016 may have seemed like the rapture, when everyone notable seemingly died, but in my estimation, it was our Creator calling certain ones home because it knew what was going to happen from 2017 and beyond; the rise of Scamelot.

Another event that happened on Tuesday was President Trump speaking at the UN General Assembly, which was a shitshow in and of itself, but what made it more so was that his teleprompter took a dirt nap in the middle of his speech, and before that, the escalator he and Melania were taking suddenly stopped as they were entering it. This led to the "world's most powerful man-baby" throwing a glorified hissy-fit about the whole ordeal, wanting an investigation into the whole matter even going as far as calling it sabotage. Fox Faux News even called (sarcastically) called for the UN to be bombed.

Turned out it was one of his staffers accidentally hitting a safety switch that stopped the escalator, and that his own White House staff was operating the teleprompter that went kaput in the middle of his speech. Which has me thinking, was the escalator incident a visual metaphor for the rapture that was supposed to happen on Tuesday? Furthermore, if it was Trump's WH staff behind the two faux pas, were they low-key just trolling him? After all, his presidency (more so his first term, but it also applies to the current one) seems like a bad SNL skit. As a song from last year said, get me off this ride.

NFL Week 4

Last week on my NFL picks, I went 10-6, putting me at 33-15 this year as of Thursday Night. I already made my pick for the game between Seattle and Arizona across various social media platforms earlier today, so let's see how I do this week:

Minnesota over Pittsburgh
Philadelphia over Tampa Bay (Eagles are due in Tampa and the Bucs are banged up)
Washington over Atlanta
LA Chargers over NY Giants
Buffalo over New Orleans
Houston over Tennessee
Detroit over Cleveland (more on this in a moment)
New England over Carolina
LA Rams over Indianapolis
San Francisco over Jacksonville
Taylor Swift over Baltimore
Chicago over Las Vegas
Green Bay over Dallas
NY Jets over Miami
Denver over Cincinnati

Some other thoughts

Cal Raleigh is a monster, but he won't win MVP. Aaron Judge is the better all-around player. 

Detroit's football team will probably win Sunday against Cleveland, but their baseball team is on the verge of completing a generational choke job to the same city. 

Make sure your alarm clocks are ready for Green Day on Thursday.

Speaking of which, Mariah's beginning to thaw. Great.

Hockey season is here; they skate for realsies in a couple of weeks. GO BOLTS!

I haven't done a flashback in a long while, and I think only one this year. Might need to do something about that.

All eyes may be on the coast of the Carolinas early next week, as the storm that may be named Imelda approaches. Too bad we can't throw a shoe at it to make it disappear. 

Halloween is nearing, and I'm excited for it.

Speaking of Halloween, separated at birth: Lara Loomer and Momo

I also can't wait to see my favorite person again...

Have a great weekend, peeps!

Bonyscribe

This Is CBS...Or Is This BS?

Hello again, everyone. Remember back in the day when the Columbia Broadcasting System, better known to you and me as CBS, was considered the Tiffany of networks? Yeah, good times. Well, the past couple of weeks have demonstrated how far that corporation, as well as most of "legacy media," has fallen. 

The stars of CBS in happier times...

As many of you are well aware by now, CBS pulled the plug on a 32-year-old franchise recently when they decided to cancel the wildly popular "Late Show" with Stephen Colbert. All of this stemming from President Trump being majorly butt hurt over a technique done many times by networks over the years, an edit to an interview. This one just happened to be one of Kamala Harris, the former VP who Trump "beat" in November's presidential election. Trump sued claiming CBS was trying to influence the election, and CBS and Paramount, hoping to acquire Skydance, capitulated. As a result, or "financial decision," Colbert and the Late Show was canned. 

Fast forward to the very next week. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of "South Park," signed a $1.5 billion deal to have 50 episodes over five years on their streaming service (Paramount+), and immediately mocked the Paramount's settlement with Trump in the most "South Park" way possible. 

Now I don't watch Colbert (I did watch Letterman), nor have I seen South Park in years (since their movie came out years ago), but I've seen bits and pieces of both shows over the years. Colbert is pretty much an answer to the talk radio format (mostly conservative), and very left-leaning politically. I guess Gutfieldless on Fox "News" Channel would be considered their polar opposite. The bits I saw from South Park's premiere last week were something I can't describe without being graphically vulgar (which begs the question, how can South Park keep getting away with this?). Trump gets absolutely skewered in this episode, which was all satirical (which answers my previously parenthesized question). 

But in my opinion, the loss of Colbert sets a disturbing precedent. If he can go, who's to say that other late-night talk shows aren't safe from the corporate axe, and could this mean the death of late-night television as we've known it for generations? I mean, we've been in a 24/7 news cycle for about a decade now, and morning shows are starting at 4am. Back when I was a kid, some TV stations didn't air programming until 6am. But the 1980s and 90s were a different time. All I can say is instead of hearing "this is...CBS" which I would hear as a kid between network programs, it will be only a matter of time before we're all saying to ourselves, this is BS.

 

Oh, we're still waiting for the Epstein files...

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It's The Final Countdown...

We're leaving together
But still it's farewell
And maybe we'll come back
To Earth who can tell?

--"The Final Countdown," Europe, 1986.

Hello, everyone. We less than 24 hours away from the very first polls closing for Election Day 2024. Hopefully, most of you have took advantage of early voting where you are. I did a couple of weeks ago, and from the looks of things where I went to vote, many others did too, which is a good thing. If you're able to do so, please vote tomorrow. 

If you follow my twitter page, you likely know how I voted in this election, but for the record, I did something I hadn't done before, I voted Democrat up and down the ballot. I'm sure that my stepmom and father are probably turning in their graves, since they were Republicans for as long as I've known them, but they don't know how extreme right-wing that party has become, and I have a theory as to why that is, and it goes back several decades. I won't get into it on this post, although I may have alluded to it in prior posts. Not only that, if I knew nothing about politics (and I still know very little), knew English, and didn't know squat about either of the candidates, I'd likely pick Harris anyway. I mean Trump has no plan (to speak of, WE WANT DETAILS!) except deport immigrants and propose tariffs on everyone, which actually does us more harm than good. And the stunt he pulled the other day? Disgusting. We've already had four years of this shitshow, we don't need another four. 

Two other big ballot initiatives here in Florida are Amendments 3 and 4, which legalizes recreational marijuana and legalizes safe abortions here in Florida. I won't get into the details of each amendment, because there have been various debates and commercials (which thank God are ending tomorrow) about both of them, but I voted "Yes" on both. Why? Well since DeSantis is our governor, I'll let Dave Chappelle to explain:

Yeah, I don't like DeSantis, and I never have liked him. Unfortunately, I've lost a few friends over my political choices the last few years. For the better? Can't tell. Now do I think that the left is a bunch of communists who want us to conform to a certain way of life. No. Do I think the right has become a bunch of populist fascists? Not necessarily, but do most of them seem to blindly follow an individual with a cult of personality? Absolutely. Will said individual claim if he loses it will because the system is "rigged?" Probably, even though this isn't NASCAR, where apparently you can alter the results so that a certain driver advances in their "Playoffs."

So, grab a bag of popcorn, some Xanax, and your bottle of liquor and enjoy (at least try to) the events of the next 24 hours...or more. Probably more.

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Ohhhh Brother, Here We Go Again (The 2024 Presidential Debate Drinking Game)

 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a day that is both looked forward to and dreaded at the same time; the date of the first Presidential Debate of 2024. Once again, it's President Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump, and given the age of both candidates, it should be sponsored by Geritol. While some of us will be watching with bated breath, others will just ignore it completely. Then there are those that would rather drink than watch this train wreck take place and that's where I come in. I think the best way to watch this debate is to make it into a drinking game, so grab your favorite bottle of liquor and play along!

Since the debate is being hosted by CNN, if Trump makes a reference to them as "fake news," take a shot.

Since the debate is held in Atlanta, if either candidate brings up the election subversion case in Georgia, take a shot. Take an additional shot if Trump brings up Fani Willis.

If Trump makes a personal insult, regardless of it's to Biden or either of the hosts, take a shot.

If Biden tells Trump to "shut up," take a double shot.

If either candidate kisses up to Benjamin Netanyahu, take a shot.

If Trump mentions anything about the war in Ukraine, take two shots, blyat.

If Stormy Daniels is mentioned, take a shot.

If Hunter Biden is mentioned, take a shot.

If "Dark Brandon" somehow appears, take THREE shots.

If Biden mentions how the economy is improving, take two shots.

If the Border Wall is mentioned, take a shot.

If Trump says "China," take a shot.

If Trump makes a bizarre facial expression, take a shot. Here are some examples:

If Trump breaks out in his gosh-awful dance of his. Drink the whole damned bottle. 

You know what? Maybe just grab a bottle of Everclear to wash that sight out of your system. Either way, you're sure to be blacked out by the end of the night and hopefully you won't remember what transpired later tonight when you wake up on Friday. 

In any event, if you decide to watch this debacle, please be careful. I don't want to hear of anyone suffering from alcohol poisoning from watching it. So, in the words of Edward R. Murrow, good night, and good luck.

BonyScribe