THE MANTEL GANG AND I ARE UPSET

Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell, 

The Mantel Gang has been pretty quiet since the rigged election that put a traitor and a convicted felon back in the White House. I'm sure you all saw the videos with suitcases full of votes for Kamala Harris hidden under tables so they wouldn't be counted and the My Pillow Guy has proof that voting machines were messed with so if you voted for Harris the vote would go to the felon instead. You know how these things work. 

The Gang has also moved around. For a while they were The Top of The Pie Safe Gang, but that didn't go well. Although they enjoyed the pastel floral prints in their background, they tended to fall over and lose their tiny accessories. Stacy Abrams' microphone disappeared (another Republican plot to keep her from getting out the vote for Democrats), and Nancy Pelosi's gavel got lost THREE TIMES!

Look at the way Nancy holds out her hand as if a gavel is in it, but her poor, little hand is empty. The first two times the gavel fell I found it on the floor, but the third time was not the charm. 

I asked RBG if she would share her gavel with Nancy. Try to imagine how that went down. Ruthie does not share. 

And I'm not the only person who has asked the action figure company to please make replacements for the tiny accessories with no response received.

After leaving the Pie Safe, these good folks moved to The Top of The Book Shelf for quite a while, and then moved again recently and are now The China Cabinet Gang.

They were pleased about their move because they had great expectations for long awaited additions to the family, one of which couldn't be coming at a more crucial time. 

Then we received a crushing disappointment, about which we want to vent because it must be the result of a republican conspiracy.

When I first purchased FCTRY action figures, I bought what they had in stock. Then I learned about their Kickstarter campaigns for new figures. I pledge money for the campaign and when the figure is finished, it's shipped to me. That's how I got the bad guys, Putin and Kim Jong Un, and I think I backed Mayor Pete. But one time I backed a campaign (I don't remember which figure it was), and when the product didn't arrive, I emailed FCTRY and they said I had not pledged money. Okay. I thought I had but figured I was wrong.

Then an opportunity came up before the 2024 election for a new Kickstarter campaign and I was all over it: Back the creation of Michelle Obama andTim Walz figures and receive a free Blue Goose presidential lectern! Some other figures were also available, such as different versions of Kamala Harris and a Barack Obama with gray hair, but I'm happy with the Kamala and Barack I have and didn't need others. I wanted Michelle, Tim, and the Blue Goose. So I signed up and waited.

I waited some more. I checked the FCTRY site and saw creation and production were slow for various reasons. I was patient. But ICE created havoc in Minnesota and I really wanted Governor Walz to join The China Cabinet Gang, so on Jan. 12th, I emailed FCTRY to ask when they would send Michelle and Tim because the rest of my action figures wanted to be with them. "Macky" replied that it would be soon and offered to check my pledge to make sure they had my details correct. Yes, please check, I wrote back to him.

No further response from Macky, but on Feb. 4th I received a generic email stating the Michelle Obama and Tim Walz action figures were shipping. Michelle Obama had already arrived. We were thrilled to see her, but I emailed the company again: Where is Tim Walz?

Again, it was Macky who responded and told me I hadn't backed the Tim Walz campaign, which is not true. I know I did. Macky said I should check my records to see if my card had been charged for both campaigns. It turns out my card wasn't charged for either one! I believed it the first time FCTRY told me I didn't back a campaign, but this time, I am absolutely positive I did. 

Macky insists I didn't. I reminded Macky that he offered to check my pledge details, didn't follow through, and if he had, I would have known at least a bit sooner that there was a problem. No apology from Macky. I'm very disappointed in FCTRY. Some kind of disconnect exists between the Kickstarter campaigns and the FCTRY order fulfillment.

I can't order Tim Walz or the lectern because they're sold out.

I haven't introduced Michelle Obama to The China Cabinet Gang yet. Carol and I are going out to lunch tomorrow. Perhaps I'll remove Michelle from her box while Carol is here. 

Carol and I love Michelle. I'm happy that Michelle has been doing her own thing and didn't bother to go to the inauguration of the fake, illegally elected president. That election was all a hoax. It was all rigged. It was terrible, so terrible, sad, sad, sad. Dozing Don can't stay awake for five minutes. Throws his food at the walls in what's left of the White House. Shutting down the Kennedy Center pretending it needs to be remodeled because he can't cope with the embarrassment of acts refusing to perform there and ticket sales are way down because of the stupid shit he's done and it's all a hoax. It's all rigged. 

Rigged rigged rigged hoax hoax hoax illegal illegal illegal

All these distractions and none of it erases his name from THE EPSTEIN FILES. The President of The United States is a pedophile and a rapist, and that's no joke.

Infinities of love,

Janie Junebug

He never knew his best friend, Jeff. And was it Bondi or Leavitt who pointed
out that "Donald Trump" is a common name so when that name appears in the files it doesn't refer to the president. Obviously. Duh.

Remember how the republicans complained about Michelle Obama's bare shoulders? They don't say one damn word about Melanie's naked ass. 

It's hilarious that Melanie doesn't understand the attitude of Americans toward her nudity because it was an art form. Yeah, posing naked in cheap ads as a model who never really made it –– you just keep telling yourself that's art, honey.

Those disgusting drag queens and trans people who are always trying to indoctrinate children, yeah, they're really horrible. But they didn't join Epstein in raping girls. 

I'm radical leftist scum and I've never molested a child either. What's wrong with me?

Don't call Melanie's movie a documentary. She says it's a creative expression of something something, I don't know what she said. I don't understand her. 

Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Jill Biden –– four First Ladies with post-graduate degrees. 

Then we get the Slovenian hooker who's had breast implants, some kind of plastic surgery on her face, and must spend several hours a day putting on all that makeup and having her hair done. Her husband "allowed" her to have a baby IF she would get her fake body back afterward.

That's because he's more important than Jesus. He's stopped 29 1/3 wars. Inflation is non-existent. Drug companies pay me a few thousand dollars every time I order a prescription. 

For god's sake, the man won The FIFA Peace Prize.

Well, of course those brown-skinned bastards aren't in the files. Nice Caucasian rapists who have a metric fuck ton of money aren't going to associate with Mexicans!

Good luck with testimony from her. No one would understand what she said.

And she'd lie her naked ass off.

PTA

Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell,

PTA = PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON

Anderson is one of my favorite filmmakers. Recently, I was pleased to see him rack up some Golden Globe Awards for his 2025 movie, One Battle After Another (Rated R, 2 hours 41 minutes, Streams on HBO Max or whatever they're calling it now they can't make up their minds). 

This is a wild ride of a movie. It's a dark comedy, a thriller, has all sorts of crazy stuff going on. I won't even try to get into the plot. I enjoyed One Battle After Another and felt entertained throughout even though it's quite long.

I don't know if it's worthy of the 13 Oscar nominations it received. I wouldn't have given that Best Actor nod to Leonardo DiCaprio while leaving out Jesse Plemons in Bugonia.

I hope to see PTA win something.

Oh! I glimpsed Alana Haim a couple of times and was excited to see her. I thought she was wonderful with Cooper Hoffman in PTA's Licorice Pizza, but she really doesn't do anything in One Battle.

My favorite Anderson movie, and one of my favorite movies that I re-watch every few years, is 1999's Magnolia. It's Anderson's masterpiece––so far.

Who knows what Paul Thomas Anderson will bring us in the future?

Have you see One Battle After Another? Some people think it's overrated. What do you think? It also has seven Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.

Infinities of love,

Janie Junebug

EVEN FLORIDA IS COLD

 Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell,

Did Winter Storm Fern bring ice and snow and low temperatures to you? Although we don't have snow, Florida is cold. Our high was in the 40s on Monday and it will stay chilly all week with overnight lows in the 20s and 30s. 

Fern is such a mild name for a such a destructive storm.

Princess is prepared for a long winter night's rest.

We have a merry fire to keep us cozy.

In North Carolina, Favorite Young Man and K were iced in on Sunday and Monday. I'm pleased the schools were closed Monday and Tuesday so K didn't have to go to work. FYM was able to negotiate the icy roads to go to work Tuesday. 

Yesterday I recounted the story of our visit to the Holocaust Museum in DC many years ago. Today I'll add that when I was a reporter in Pennsylvania I wrote an article about a woman from Ukraine who told me the story of Nazis arriving in her village. The next day, the Jews were gone. Then the young people were ordered to go to the village square. Her grandmother told her, Do whatever they say, and you will be all right.

She, a 16 year old, and the other young people were shipped off to Germany to be slave labor. She and another girl had to work for a cruel German farmer. The farmer had a kind wife who helped them as much as possible. She did as her grandmother told her, and she was hungry but all right.When the war was over, she got a job cooking for the US Army, where she met a handsome GI who took her to rural Pennsylvania as his bride. Their 50 year marriage on their farm ended when he died. She missed him terribly.

I've mentioned my interest in history before. I read quite a bit, and I also like to watch documentaries, many of which are about World War II. Princess often watches with me.

A couple of days ago, Princess said, That chap with the strange, little moustache, and the animal with the orange face, they have much in common. They hold rallies and shout a lot. Sie sind hasserfüllt und grausam. Sie sind Brüder, oder zumindest beste Freunde, nicht wahr?*

Nein, I told her. The German man has been dead for a long time. Many people wish the American man would die.

Ich könnte das beschleunigen, indem ich viele Bisse auf seinen fetten Hintern gebe, Princess said.

I let Princess know many of you would join me in appreciating her offer, but I couldn't take her up on it because she would be harmed in the process. She would catch a disease from biting his fat ass. 

Infinities of love,

Janie Junebug

*Now you know Princess hasn't forgotten how to speak German and is rather more elegant in the use of her first language.

INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

 Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell,

On January 27th, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly declared Jan 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

I've told this story before, but it's been a long time and I think it's worth repeating. When my daughter, The Hurricane, was in middle school, we took her to Washington, D.C., for a Van Gogh exhibit. The line for the exhibit was long and when we were within six people of getting in, someone came out to announce that was it, no one else could enter the museum that day.*

The Hurricane asked if we could instead visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum, which had opened recently. I was reluctant because I was very much aware of the horrors of Hitler's attempt to rid Europe of Jews and other people he did not want––Roma, the disabled, political enemies, LGBTQ, and more.

But I agreed, and I was glad I did. It was a good learning experience, and the museum had been designed in a way that allowed those who did not want to see the most graphic photos to avoid them. I looked at them, and I told Hurricane what was depicted in them before she saw them, which she chose to do.

The staff members did not wear the garb of security guards as they do at other museums in D.C. They were dressed in dark clothing. 

When we entered a room that had "beds" from Auschwitz––the wood frames that in no way resembled beds––after a couple of minutes I noticed an older woman holding on to one of the frames and crying. A young woman on the staff sternly told her she must not touch the items on display from the camps.

She said through her tears, in heavily accented English, You don't understand. I slept in these. 

The worldwide Holocaust survivor population now stands at 196,000. That number is dwindling rapidly as many are older than 90. About half of them live in Israel. 

We can't allow them to be forgotten.

Infinities of love,

Janie Junebug

*We returned to the museum another day and arrived earlier. Only one small group was ahead of us in line. The Van Gogh exhibit was beautiful. 

GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TOM

Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell,

 

 ICE is in my city. I want to take off in a rocket to the moon, as long as it's not launched by the musk melon.

Was I the last to know that Alligator Alcatraz didn't close? I found out it's still open when I read an article about a popular Miami food truck owner who had been arrested and taken there. The last I'd heard, a judge had ordered its closure. 

A different judge said it could be kept open. Next to no information about the prisoners has been released. How many are in custody there? Who are they? Where will they be sent?

Deporting people who are in the US legally is crazy (I don't really approve of deporting people who are here illegally and not causing any trouble). Deporting people to countries where they've never been before is even crazier. The fascist felon has never given up trying to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia. 🟧and his henchmen last wanted to send Mr. Garcia to an African country, I believe. A judge ordered Mr. Garcia be allowed to stay in the US. When🟠falls asleep during meetings, he dreams of sending Mr. Garcia to any country that offers to torture him. Will this poor man ever be granted any peace? 

All vestiges of Christmas are gone. I put away the tree on Sunday. I do have a string of lights on the dining room table. I need to untangle them and store them correctly so they'll be ready for use in 10 months.

My supervisor works in Virginia. She was 30 minutes late to work Tuesday because ICE had closed down some roads. She didn't know what they were doing. 

She tells me all the time that I'm going to be fired. I've been with the company 4+ years. Every supervisor I've had, except the first, has told me I'm going to be fired. It's demoralizing. According to her, I don't do anything right. Blah, blah, blah. 

Last week I renewed the license I must have to do my job, which I need to do every couple of years. Why did the company pay for the licensing if I'm going to be fired? She praises one aspect of my performance, but tells me to change that aspect. She doesn't want me to be me. 

The Junebug is the Junebug.

When someone finally gets around to firing me, I have my big money-making businesses, and I added a new business last weekend: Junebug Refrigerator Repair. The icemaker wasn't working in Leon, my refrigerator. Usually I repair an icemaker by unplugging the refrigerator for five minutes and then plugging it back in. That didn't work, so I had to figure out a different method, which worked beautifully. Therefore, I have a 100% Success Rate in the field of Refrigerator Repair. I have a 50% Success Rate with Junebug Lawn Mower Repair, and a 100% Success Rate with Junebug Automotive Repair (consists of adding power steering fluid to vehicles). 

Then there's my whopper of a great idea: THE LAKE JUNEBUG RESORT & RUMPUS ROOM. I haven't opened the resort in a long time. I think this coming summer will at long last be the time to accede to your demands and throw open my doors again. Break down the gate––literally. The gate is falling apart anyway. I'll have the same great offerings I had in the past along with some new ones. 23,407.99% Success Rate. I suspect some of you will make reservations for the first time, and you'll encourage your friends and relatives to do the same.

Princess was a delight last weekend. She continues to learn and adapt. Saturday I had to go grocery shopping because the cupboards were bare, so I returned with a pretty big haul. When I need to bring in groceries, I ask Princess to go in the backyard so I can prop open the front door without her running out and screaming FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST! THANK GOD ALMIGHTY! I'M FREE AT LAST!

Princess has always resisted being relegated to the back, but this time, I walked in the house, she led me to the back door, I let her out, and she sat on the deck at the door, waiting patiently until all the groceries were inside. She didn't bark or cry. I praised her liberally. I'd had no indication she was ready to make such a big change.

On the rare occasion someone comes to the front door, she also lures me to the door by motioning with her head and showing her concern if I don't move quickly enough. Princess doesn't know I can look at the camera app on my phone to see who's there, but I appreciate her assistance.

Sunday evening I gave Princess a shower. I'd been calling her Stinky Butt. She's not stinky now, and her fur is soft and fluffy. She was pretty good in the shower. She didn't like it, but she cooperated. That's my sweet girl.

Infinities of love,

Janie Junebug

IF YOU'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THE NEWS

 Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell,

If you've been following the news, you know Jonathan Ross, the piece of shit ICE agent who murdered Renee Nicole Good, filmed his kill encounter with Ms. Good with his cell phone. At first, the phone was in his right hand. 

Ms. Good smiled at Ross through the open window of her vehicle and said what I believe were her last words: That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you. 

Ross switched the phone to his left hand so he could place his right hand on his gun and remove it from the holster. Ross shot Renee Nicole Good three times and said, Fuckin' bitch.

Because that's how a professional behaves in this kind of situation? ICE agents told Ms. Good to leave the area, she turned the wheels of her vehicle to leave, began to leave, and somehow she deserved to be executed and cursed for doing as she was told?

If you want to see the puppy killer on State of The Union Sunday, January 11, 2026, here's the video. I warn you: It will infuriate you as it infuriated me. It's non-stop lies. She defends the regime, defends the murderer, and continues to blame the victim. She also claims there are videos of the victim causing trouble with the ICE agents earlier that morning. I want to see those videos and they had damn well better not be AI. 

Carol says retribution is coming for the felon and it will be terrible for him. She doesn't know when, but it's coming. I'm trying to join Carol in believing it will happen. I hope it's soon.

The state of Minnesota and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis & St. Paul are suing the regime. They want a court order to get ICE out of their state.

Infinities of love to you and to everyone who cares about Renee Nicole Good,

Janie Junebug

We all need a Rexbo to protect us from ICE.

I'm pissed off all the time. 

IT'S JUST ANOTHER MANIC MONDAY