Minneapolis law enforcement authorities along with the Texas Rangers apprehended ICE agent Christian Castro May 29th after he shot an INNOCENT Venezuelan immigrant in Minneapolis in January. Castro lied about the shooting then fled Minnesota to Texas.
Castro faces four felony charges of aggravated assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime.
I hope they lock this violent ICE asshole up for a long time. Get him on state charges so that Trump cannot pardon him.
A federal judge just handed trump a stinging legal rebuke, ordering his name stripped from the Kennedy Center and ruling that only Congress has the authority to rename a building created by an act of Congress in 1964 as a living memorial to John F. Kennedy. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper made it plain in his 94-page ruling: “The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so.” The judge also blocked the administration’s plan to shut the whole place down for two years starting July 4th for what trump called a “complete rebuilding.”
Predictably, trump did not take the news gracefully. He went straight to Truth Social to blastwhine about Judge Cooper, saying the judge “should be ashamed of himself” and framing the whole thing as the “Radical Left” wanting the Kennedy Center to “DIE.” In classic trump fashion, he didn’t just complain about losing. He picked up his toys and threatened to go home, announcing he was instructing the Commerce Department to transfer control of the institution back to Congress, writing that he has “no interest in continuing” unless he’s free to do things his way.
The lawsuit was brought by Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, who argued, correctly as it turns out, that what trump’s board did was flatly illegal. Beatty called it a desecration of a sacred memorial “for his own vanity.” The legal principle here is not complicated: Congress named the Kennedy Center for Kennedy, and only Congress can change that. trump can chair the board, fire the trustees, and secure $257 million in renovation funds, but he cannot simply rename a federally chartered memorial on a whim. The courts, at least for now, are holding that line.
today is Memorial Day. youâre going to hear a lot of mouth-farting from the Usual Republican Suspects about how much they honor and respect our nationâs fallen heroes.
theyâre going to be all over social media, tweeting out the same old boilerplate platitudes about duty and sacrifice.
itâs all bullshit. the GOP fucking hates our veterans.
as always, watch what they do, not what they say.
soldiers, sailors and marines are useful props whenever some asshole wingnut needs to burnish their âpatriotâ cred, but when it comes time to actually support them â say, by helping them when theyâre in need â itâs a completely different story.
need proof? letâs go to the video tape, from July 29, 2022:
here we have a bunch of Republican Senators fist-bumping. why? because they just blocked a billthat would have expanded healthcare coverage for military veterans exposed to toxic burn pits during their service.
who the fuck celebrates that?
awesome job, you evil soulless hypocrites â because nothing says âwe support our heroesâ so much as âjust fucking die.â
fast forward to 2025. in April of that year, the Space Naziâs merry band of pimply DOGE incels showed up at the Department of Veterans Affairs and said good news, everyone â youâre all fired. they then took a wrecking ball to the place.
right now, the VA is so understaffed that veterans calling in with need for assistance canât get anyone to answer the phone. thatâs âjust fucking dieâ on steroids.
listen up, shitheads: if you send a person into a war zone and tell them to fight for their country, and they come back injured and permanently disabled, you fucking well take care of them â forever.
itâs basic human decency.
head-trauma poster boy Tommy Tuberville is a complete bag of shit in every way. heâs posted an eight minute video about how super fucking grateful he is for our troops. donât bother watching it, youâll just get stupider.
âItâs Memorial Day weekend. Memorial Day is about more than just grilling out by the lake. Itâs a time to reflect and be grateful for the tremendous sacrifices that have been made for our freedom.â
ugh.
letâs not forget that Mr. Should Have Worn A Helmet When He Played Football single-handedly blocked all military promotions for the better part of a year. why would T-Tubes do this? because he had worked himself up into a big hissy over a Pentagon policy that paid the travel expenses of raped soldiers in need of abortions.how dare they.
but sure, Tommy â please tell us once more about how youâre âgrateful for the tremendous sacrifices that have been made for our freedom.â no, wait â donât bother.
just fuck all the way off.
hereâs something that white supremacyâs middle manager, Steve Scalise, tweeted out on Veterans Day 2023:
âAmerica is the greatest nation in the history of the world because of the bravery and sacrifices of our veterans. Join me in thanking and honoring all those who answered the call to serve our country and defend our freedomsâbecause without them we’d have neither. #VeteransDayâ
Steve, with all due respect, you too can fuck straight off into the sea.
you voted against the VA Employee Fairness Act, the Veteran Service Recognition Act, the PACT Act (twice), the Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act, and the Ensuring Veterans Smooth Transition Act.
for a guy who claims to honor those who made sacrifices, you have an odd way of showing it.
last Veterans Day, six-time international lap-hockey champion Handy Oakley took a minute off from vigorously beetlejuicing her latest conquest to post this drivel:
âWithout our Veterans the American Dream would not be possible. To anyone who has ever worn the uniform, thank you!â
sit down and shut the fuck up, you vapid bobblehead.
letâs see how you show your appreciation: in your first term in Congress, you made 15 anti-veteran votes. in 2023, you voted to cut funding for the 49,000 veterans in your district by supporting a bill that would gut their health care.
now letâs move on to the googly-eyed director of the Federal Bureau of Guzzling As Much Bourbon As You Can, As Quickly As You Can â the always steady on his feet Kash Patel.
this atrocity should be fresh in your mind, as it was first reported on a couple of weeks ago. Iâm talking about the day that Krazee-Eyes Kash got it in his head to invite a bunch of his besties to have a snorkel party within splashing distance of one of Americaâs most sacred war memorials â the sunken remains of the U.S.S. Arizona in Pearl Harbor.
this memorial is such a hallowed place that no one but the divers who inter the remains of fallen heroes are allowed to go into the water. you canât even walk around in a bathing suit. they will throw your disrespectful ass right out of there â but that didnât stop Kash and his posse from jumping right in for some snorkely hijinks.
who the fuck thinks this is appropriate behavior?
and donât even get me started on this rotting diaperload.
Cadet Bone Spurs has spent his entire life finding new and inventive ways to insult and dishonor our troops. back during the 2024 presidential campaign, the Biden-Harris HQ assembled this greatest hits video:
hereâs what this dipshit posted last Memorial Day, on his own crappy app:
âHappy Memorial Day to all, including the Dumocrats, who disrespect our Military and all of the tremendous success that it has had over the last year. God Bless those that have made the ultimate sacrifice. I love you all! President DONALD J. TRUMPâ
awesome. Donny canât even post a simple Memorial Day message without turning it into some broken-inside grievance-fest.
letâs not forget that in November 2018, as world leaders gathered at a cemetery in France to honor the memory of US soldiers killed while fighting in World War One, Donny blew the whole thing off â because it was drizzling lightly and he didnât want that weird tangle of piss-colored bullshit on top of his fat head to get wet. instead, he spent the day rage-tweeting from his hotel room. good times, bro, good times.
letâs also not forget that in conversations with his chief of staff John Kelly, Donny referred to prisoners of war as âsuckersâ because âthere is nothing in it for them.â he also called soldiers killed in action âlosers.â
what kind of overgrown diaper-baby gets mad at a fucking boat?
letâs not ever forget that incident in 2024, when Donny barged his way into Arlington National Cemetery to do a disgraceful thumbâs-up campaign photo-op while trampling over the graves of fallen heroes â and grinning like an asshole the whole time.
âWhereâs her husband? Oh, heâs away. ⌠What happened to her husband? Where is he? Heâs gone,â Trump said at his rally in Conway, his first visit to the state this year.
Michael Haley is deployed in Africa with the South Carolina Army National Guard in support of the United States Africa Command, his second active-duty deployment overseas.
hey, remember that Pentagon policy that got Terminally-Concussed Tommy Tuberville so upset â the one that paid the travel expenses of raped soldiers in need of abortions? Tommy should be happy now, because Donny shitcanned it four days after taking the oath of office.
now I want to repost something I wrote on September 24, 2023 â because of all the shitty episodes regarding Little Donny Fuckfaceâs callous treatment of our troops, this one just might be the rock-bottom worst:
At his welcome ceremony at Joint Base MyerâHenderson Hall, across the Potomac River from the capital, Milley gained an early, and disturbing, insight into Trumpâs attitude toward soldiers. Milley had chosen a severely wounded Army captain, Luis Avila, to sing âGod Bless America.â Avila, who had completed five combat tours, had lost a leg in an IED attack in Afghanistan and had suffered two heart attacks, two strokes, and brain damage as a result of his injuries. To Milley, and to four-star generals across the Army, Avila and his wife, Claudia, represented the heroism, sacrifice, and dignity of wounded soldiers.
It had rained that day, and the ground was soft; at one point Avilaâs wheelchair threatened to topple over. Milleyâs wife, HollyÂanne, ran to help Avila, as did Vice President Mike Pence. After Avilaâs performance, Trump walked over to congratulate him, but then said to Milley, within earshot of several witnesses, âWhy do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded.âNever let Avila appear in public again, Trump told Milley. (Recently, Milley invited Avila to sing at his retirement ceremony.)
what a cold-hearted prick.
âwhy do you bring people like that here? no one wants to see that, the wounded.â
imagine youâre a severely wounded soldier. after five combat tours, sacrificing yourself for your country â you find yourself in a military hospital, minus one leg, your life permanently altered. you live though months of hell â bedridden, undergoing multiple operations and grueling physical therapy â and when finally youâre discharged, youâre confined to a wheelchair for the rest of your life.
and what does the President of the United States â your Commander in Chief â say about you?
âno one wants to see that, the wounded.â
fuck you, Donald Trump. you piece of shit.
letâs look at how a real patriot honors our troops.
two years ago, President Joe Biden gave the commencement address to West Pointâs graduating class. afterwards, he spent over an hour saluting and shaking the hands of each one of the 1,036 graduates. he didnât ask what was in it for them. he didnât call them suckers and losers. no one had to hide any warships.
at last yearâs West Point commencement ceremony, after rambling incoherently about trophy wives to mystified cadets, Preznit Fuckwit teetered off stage and hurried the fuck out of there. the MAGA-cap-wearing shithead didnât shake a single hand.
he then spent the rest of the day cheating at golf at his New Jersey ex-wife cemetery.
this year, Donny didnât even bother to show up for the West Point Commencement. he sent his piss-drunk Secretary of Skateboards in his place.
Donny, Tuberville, Scalise, Handy Oakley, Krazee-Eyes Kash, the whole worthless lot of them â the next time any of these grandstanding hypocrites starts going on and on about how much they love the shit out of our troops, remember: watch what they do, not what they say.
this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery thatâs ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
When Donald Trump announced earlier this week that his son Donald Trump Jr was getting married, he initially appeared to say that his son was âsomeone Iâve known a very long time.â Upon closer inspection, a mumbly and barely coherent Donald Trump actually said that his son has âgot someone Iâve known a very long time.â Not much better. Trump clearly has no idea what the womanâs name is, in spite of how long heâs known her.
Somewhere in there Trump revealed that he wasnât going to attend his sonâs wedding, blaming his presidential duties. Then his babysitters reportedly booked a trip for him to his own resort in New Jersey for the weekend. So heâs got time for that, but not time to go to his sonâs wedding. Or maybe heâs just not well enough to travel to the Bahamas. Given that his trip to his resort has since been canceled, who knows? Something isnât right with him.
But the larger underlying story here may be that Donald Trump simply canât remember anything. And not in a forgetful, aging brain, âI canât think of the word I was about to sayâ senior moment kind of way. No, this is something different entirely. Itâs not that Trump momentarily couldnât remember his sonâs brideâs name. Itâs that he has no recollection of having ever known it. How do we know this?
When Trump tried to give a speech yesterday, he came to the word âdumbâ and then stopped to announce that a lot of people donât know that the word âdumbâ has a âbâ on the end of it. No really, he said this. And it wasnât a one-off, either. Recently Trump came across the word âseaâ and then stopped to announce that a lot of people donât know the word is spelled âseaâ when referring to a body of water. Before that he announced that heâd never heard the word âgroceriesâ in his life. Before that it was âcorner storeâ that heâd never heard of.
No one would ever describe Trump as being particularly literate. But heâs certainly seen the word âdumbâ enough times in his life to know full well that it has a âbâ on the end of it. He also knows full well that âseeâ and âseaâ are pronounced the same. And heâs spent a lifetime hearing words like âgroceriesâ and âcorner storeâ even if heâs never done his own shopping in his life. He knows these words. Or at least he did. But not anymore.
Itâs pretty clear whatâs happening here. Trumpâs brain is dying one area at a time from dementia, and in the process heâs losing an entire lifetimeâs worth of memories and experiences. His dying brain clearly no longer has any recollection of any of the thousands of instances in which heâs seen the above words. Thatâs all gone. And so when Trump is seeing these basic common words now, whatâs left of his brain thinks itâs seeing them for the first time. Hence why heâs so surprised to learn how some of them are spelled.
. . .
Trump is trying to deflect his own frustration and insecurity by projecting all of this onto unnamed other people out there who have no prior recollection of having ever seen the words âdumbâ or âseaâ in their lives. And yet this fully senile individual, who has now lost most of his lifetimeâs worth of recollection, is somehow President of the United States.
holy shit, the unthinkable is happening: Republicans are beginning to openly revolt against Mad King Donnyâs corrupt agenda.
over the past couple, Senate Repubs have served up multiple slices of Fuck You Pie to Dear Leader. theyâre refusing to fund the Epstein Dance Hall â and they absolutely want no part of this business of enriching the shitheads who did January 6.
Glitch McConnell unfroze long enough to actually sayâso the nationâs top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? utterly stupid, morally wrong â take your pick.â
reporter: âare you attending your sonâs wedding this weekend?â
Donny: âuhhhh. heâd like me to go. Iâm gonna try and make it. Iâm in the midstâ I said, âyou know, this is not good timing for me.â I have a thing called Iran and other things. heâs a person Iâve known for a very long time. hopefully theyâre going to have a great marriage.ââ
wait, what? did Donny actually refer to his eldest son as âa person Iâve known for a very long timeâ? I mean, technically, thatâs an accurate statement â but what in the hallowed name of Cognitive Collapse Jesus is going on inside this imbecileâs big dumb pumpkin head?
if Junior stands up in public and asks his father âwhat the fuck is wrong with you,â I say he gets that lifetime Pulitzer. after all, you just know heâs said it in private countless times.
how does Donny have âother thingsâ more important than a childâs wedding? any normal human parent would jump at the chance to attend that shit, but not Donny â not when thereâs an entire holiday weekend full of cheating at golf in front of him.
the Trump family â going all the way back to bordello operator Frederick Drumpf â has essentially been a multi-generational experiment in âwhat would happen if a parent actively hated his children?â
well, obviously, not all his children.
but you get my point.
before we move on, can I take a moment to introduce you to Americaâs latest sweetheart? Iâm talking about the outie belly button of the dude standing behind Donny.
look at that thing. that is fucking adorable â and check out what goes on at the 27 second mark of that clip.
go, man, go! how long before that navel is a featured speaker at CPAC? I want that thing to have its own show on Newsmax. Iâd watch the shit out of it.
voters donât want this donât-you-dare-call-it-a-war on Iran thatâs made gas unaffordable. nor do voters want some ginormous vulgar Epstein Dance Hall, with its sniper nests and what Donny calls a âdrone empireâ on its roof. and this business of enriching the January 6th insurrectionists with taxpayer money is just too blatantly in-your-facedisgusting for words. as I said the other day, âthereâs corruption, and then thereâs holy fucking shit corruption.â
News â Nearly 2-hour meeting with Acting AG Todd Blanche and Senate Republicans was incredibly hostile, per multiple attendees. As many as 25 GOP senators spoke (this is very rare for these meetings), all in opposition to weaponization fund. Râs pitched specific ideas such as dictating how the 5 commissioners are chosen & not allowing people convicted of violence against cops to be eligible for a payout.
the thing about Todd Blanche is that everyone fucking hates him, because heâs a sleazy little shitweasel. ask Todd what two plus two is, and heâll dance around and prevaricate for half an hour without ever answering the question.
In the end, Republicans were so angry about the slush fund and immunity agreement that Senate leadership decided not to try to pass $72 billion of funding for immigration agencies, left out of an earlier funding package, out of fear Democrats would force Republicans to vote on the slush fund.
Even before they decided to avoid the vote, Republicans had dropped from the measure the $1 billion Trump wants for security for his ballroom.
so, no money for masked ICE thugs, no money for the heavily-militarized Epstein Dance Hall â oh, and a few days ago four Republicans broke ranks and voted with the Dems to finally send that Iran war powers resolution to the House. (where Holy Mike had yank it at the last minute from a scheduled vote because it was certain to pass there, too.)
you love to see the GOP and Donny at war with each other â bring it the fuck on! â but letâs not get too happy. after all, these are Republicans weâre talking about. at the end of the day, they still fucking suck. they love to talk big, but they could still TACO out and end up doing a Reverse Lucy: swear theyâre going to yank the football away, and then end up holding it down for Dear Leader to kick a mile.
it wouldnât be the first time.
oh, and fuck Senator Glitchy McTurtlehump and all his âI do declare itâs morally wrongâ outrage. dude could have put an end to this shit five years ago, by whipping up enough votes to convict Donny when he got impeached for doing January 6 in the first place. but Glitch wimped out, and here we are, trapped in the timeline he created. get back in your terrarium, Turtle Man.
and, of course, we still have the entire Moron Wing of the Republican Party to deal with.
hereâs one dumbfuck whoâs totally down with the idea of doling out millions to traitors, because he thinks the whole January 6 thing was staged.
South Carolina Rep. Ralph: âlook, January 6th is an issue that was made up in the first place.â
reporter: âmade up, sir?â
Norman: âthat was a staged thing from day one ⌠there was a riot there but it was a self-made riot by members who hate Trump.â
fact check: fuck off, Ralph.
Rep Norman has forced himself to chug an entire tanker truck full of Kool-Aid. his current premise is that Capitol Cops allowed people who hate Trump to fake a riot â but he sung a very different tune back on the day that it happened.
âthe riots were fakeâ is a conspiracy theory that doesnât make one lick of sense â because riddle me this: if the rioters were all Democrats who âhate Trump,â then why the fuck does Ralph Norman want to give each of them millions of dollars?
âmy most exciting is the Reflecting Pool between the Washington Monument and theâ uhhhhhhhhhhh, theâ theâ Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, itâs uhâ [gestures with his hands] two hundredâ two thousand, five hundred feet long by almost two hundred feet wide. itâs a massiveâ structure, if you think of it. itâs taller than the tallest building in the world.â
thatâs right, folks. the refurbished Epstein Reflecting Poll â which I guess I need to point out is flat and at ground level â is taller than the tallest building in the word. heâs so fucking dumb.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is about 2,029 feet long, not â2,500 feet long.â Also the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, is about 2,717 feet tall.
this weak and insecure halfwit is such a bottomless pit of need that he has to exaggerate the size of a pool he didnât even build.
but what else is new?
this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery thatâs ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
After 11 years and over 1,800 episodes, the final installment aired this week to great fanfare and emotion. The showâs premature demise was, of course, the direct result of Donald Trumpâs eggshell-fragile ego and his complete inability to withstand criticism of any kind.
The joyless, narcissistic Man-Child-In-Chief has always despised people like Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jon Stewart; guys who possess a comfort in their own skin that he will never know, a razor wit that will always escape him, and an easy humanity that he is simply incapable of. Though he positions himself as an overconfident Alpha Male, his raging insecurity and naked resentment have always exposed him as a terrified fraud who knows he doesnât measure up.
Trump has spent an embarrassing amount of time during his two presidential terms trying to silence and de-platform any members of the media who do not bend the knee and kiss the ring: leveraging his social media platform, weaponizing the FCC, and begging his billionaire buddies to purge the airwaves of dissension or critique.
With his surrogates now overseeing CBS, the thin-skinned wannabe despot was finally able to shutter The Late Show, something his similarly morose disciples have hailed as a kind of righteous victory. In reality, though, all it really did was illustrate why MAGA will always lose: it is a misery movement of deeply unhappy human beings.
Colbert began his series finale with a poignant, heartfelt monologue, addressing the home and studio audiences simultaneously about the genuine gratitude he felt for those who have traveled this journey with him.
Speaking about the small army of collaborators responsible for making The Late Show possible five nights a week for over a decade (writers, booking agents, crew members, musicians, artists), the host described their collective endeavor as âThe Joy Machine,â saying:
âWe call it the Joy Machine, because to do this many shows, it has to be a machine, but the thing is, if you choose to do it with joy, it doesnât hurt as much when your fingers get caught in the gears.â
Manufacturing joy.
When you hear Stephen Colbert deliver that simple, elegant mission statement, you can rewind through those 1,800 shows and realize that this is exactly what he and his team have been doing all along. The Daily Show helped us all face the terrifying, infuriating, grief-worth reality around us by helping us stay emotionally buoyant enough to laugh at the absurdity of it all. Colbert, leading by example, never let his hateful adversaries win by becoming them. It has been his resiliency and optimism that have made him the perennially sanguine counterpoint to Trumpâs unceasing nihilism.
Continuing, the host said of his team:
âI cannot adequately explain to you what the people who work here have done for each other and how much we mean to each other.â
Joy. Gratitude. Affection. In just over two minutes, Colbert exhibited the kind of quiet, confident humanity that the current president has never had access to.
Over the last decade, though he has quite literally never shut up, Donald Trump has never expressed any kind of genuine appreciation for other people, never centered anyone but himself, and never offered humility of any kind. He has never been anything but a sad, insult-hurling, grievance-wielding malcontent who will never find peace in this life because his self-hatred will not allow it.
And this unrelenting unhappiness is something his followers are similarly afflicted with. Itâs the reason that, although they have their president in the White House, a chokehold on Congress, a compromised Supreme Court, and a near-complete monopoly on the media, they are all still miserable. They continue to be in perpetual war with the world, and the rest of us need to pay attention.
Yes, while Colbertâs cancellation is certainly a sad milestone, another tangible sign that we are approaching the throes of authoritarianism, we can take heart in being reminded that in inhumane times such as these, victory is found in holding onto our humanity. We are not fully defeated when we lose platforms, have rights stripped away, or face corrupt powerâs persecution, but when we forfeit the love of life and of the people around us, that they have long since discarded.
Trump can continue to abuse his office to attempt to silence criticism. He can leverage the power of the presidency to try to steamroll dissenters. He can marshal every resource at his disposal to remove voices that ridicule him, and his hateful acolytes across this country can celebrate all of it.
But none of these things will deter those of us who refuse to fall prostrate before him.
They will not break us down or shut us up.
We will continue to traffic in laughter and beauty and connection.
We will continue to dance and dream and create.
We will continue to give and celebrate and embrace.
We will not become as miserable as the people who seek our demise.
Friends, be encouraged, be courageous, stay human⌠and let the Joy Machine roll on.
Donald Trump returned from China on May 15th claiming strength, dominance, and another âhistoric success,â but the reality looked far different to much of the world watching. What unfolded during the visit often appeared less like a display of American power and more like a carefully managed spectacle orchestrated entirely on Chinaâs terms.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is known for discipline, control, and strategic patience. Trump, by contrast, frequently appeared impulsive, distracted, and overly eager for praise and optics. While Chinese state media projected calm authority and national confidence, Trump spent much of the trip creating headlines centered on himself rather than meaningful diplomatic achievements.
For critics, the visit reinforced a growing perception that Trump walks into high-stakes international situations believing theatrics can replace preparation and substance. The awkward moments, exaggerated praise, and constant need for attention only fueled the image of a leader more focused on performance than policy.
Meanwhile, China gained exactly what it wanted: powerful visuals, global exposure, and the appearance of stability and control beside an American president many already view as chaotic and unpredictable.
Whether supporters admit it or not, the trip did little to project strength for the United States. To many observers around the world, it looked like Donald Trump had wandered into a geopolitical chess match while still believing he was starring in reality television.
âThe Senateâs parliamentarian has found that $1 billion in federal funding related to President Trumpâs White House ballroom is subject to a 60-vote threshold in the Senate rather than a simple majority, throwing into question whether Republicans will be able to fast-track a vote for the project.â
âRepublican leaders on Capitol Hill had included the Trump administrationâs $1 billion request for security-related upgrades tied to the ballroom in a $70 billion package to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for three years. Senate Republicans have been waiting for the parliamentarian to clear the entire bill before holding a vote this coming week.â
I doubt that Senate Democrats âexcept for you-know-whoâ will vote for the Epstein ballsroom (or for ICE for that matter), so this is kinda dead, barring any additional effâery from Republicans.
As you almost certainly know, Comrade Trump was recently asked how much thought he was giving to the financial situation of Americans in his negotiations with Iran. His answer:
âNot even a little bit. The only thing that matters when Iâm talking about Iranâthey canât have a nuclear weapon. I donât think about Americansâ financial situation. I donât think about anybody. I think about one thingâwe cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. Thatâs all.â
For the moment, letâs just ignore the fact that Iran has NO nuclear weapons and currently lacks the capacity to create them. Letâs just focus on that statement and the reaction to it. Obviously, a LOT of US citizens were offended and angered by it. But what about Trumpâs base? Specifically, letâs see what the Trump-loving âpatriotsâ at FreeRepublic had to say about it.
You may be surprised (well, I was surprised) to find Freepers were almost evenly divided about Trumpâs comments (and his âexcursionâ in Iran in general). I expected the majority to be maximally Trump-brained, and some most certainly were.
You can always count on CBS to slice out a piece of a Trump statement to make it sound as bad as possible. Keeping the nukes out is well worth the price but the Trump haters have no vision beyond that hatred.
by gibsonguy
Nothing would destroy the USA financial well-being like an Iranian nuke going off in a major city.
by ProtectOurFreedom
America first means doing what it takes to remove the Iran nuclear threat. How is this so hard to understand? I would gladly pay $7 at the pump if thatâs what it takes.
by Kleon
Why arenât Liberals mad at Iran for the high gas prices and general disorder in the mid east?
by Az Joe
As the leader of the free world you need to lead by example and through the strength that you possess to do the right thing and stand up for other democracies⌠Israel is the only Democratic country in the Middle East. By standing with them you instill discipline within the world community, and establish your credentials as the leader of the free world. Imagine if you will, letting Israel flounder and allowing it to be nuked by Iran⌠That would be a terrible example and other countries would start losing respect for America. The United States must lead⌠Sitting on your arse is not an option.
by jerod
Terrorist muslims bent on death to America with a nuclear weapon is the GREATEST threat to our national security that I can think of.
Trump is not doing this because he wants to but because he cares more about America than those who preceded him office and likely cares more than those who will likely succeed him.
by Biblebelter
Thatâs pretty much what I was expecting to find. But hold on to your keffiyehs, friends, because a surprising number of Freepers are angry and disgusted with Trump and his war against Iran. Whoâd a thunk it?
I watched that video and proves Trump is out of touch with the average American but he is more worried about his Stock Market pals⌠He will pay a steep price for being out of touch. Wonder what happened to America First!
by dpetty121263
Americans who donât watch CBS, who voted for Trump, are also economically hurting right now.
by CondoleezzaProtege
If Trump is dead set with Iran not having nuclear weapons then he needs to put troops on the ground instead of doing it all by air right now. He also would not be negotiating.
He is making things worse by negotiating. This is his screw up. The economy is going to crap. Republicans will lose big. Either pull out or go all the way in.
Obiviously he is making it up as he is going along and this adventure was poorly planned.
by moviefan8
Tucker says Iran is no where close to having a nuke. Tucker has intelligence that is so much better than Trumpâs. Trump just wanted to go to war because, well because, er wellâŚcause Epstein.
by Sir Bangaz Cracka
What most likely happened was Trump believed he was going to replay his grand Venezuelan victory out in Tehran. It blew up in his face, and now we all have to pretend that we were going to get incinerated at any moment if Trump had not blundered into this stupid war
by hcmama
There you are. Trump, being Trump, naturally had to double down on his comment. When asked about it after his return from China, he said, âItâs a perfect statement. Iâll make it again. Everybody agrees.â
President Xi Jinping andâŚyou know, that guy.Heâs right, sort of. Almost everybody does agreeâthat Trump doesnât know what the hell is going on, isnât capable of understanding whatâs going on even if he knew, and doesnât have a plan to deal with whatâs going on. Obiviously (which is probably how Trump pronounces it).
ENDNOTE: Just to be clear, at present Iran has neither the material nor the capacity to make any nuclear weapons. The CIA has confirmed it would take at least one year to create a nuclear weapon IF they had the technologies necessary to produce enough fissile material and to design and implement a delivery system with a proper detonation system. And they donât have that. Obiviously.
CNNâs KFILE reveals the man leading the hantavirus response in the U.S. is a specialist in penile implants with little public health experience and hosted a podcast called âErection Connection.â
wait, what? I understand what all of those words mean, but when you put them together in that order, Iâm mystified.
so youâre telling me that the guy Dear Leader picked to deal with a potential hantavirus crisis is a crackpot who doesnât believe in vaccinesand has no fucking clue how to handle a public health emergency â but if you need a homey to biggify your pantsmonster, heâs your man?
Uncle Tim Walz was right, these people are all weirdos â and not just weirdos, but dick-obsessed weirdos.
then thereâs Dear Leader himself, who canât stop waxing rhapsodic about the enormity of Arnold Palmerâs 9-iron.
Lady Space Laser was absolutely smitten with Hunter Bidenâs freakishly ginormous trouser trout.
donât even get me started on six-time international lap-hockey champion Handy Oakley.
and if you want to get penis-adjacent, thereâs always roasted ball-sack aficionado Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson, who believes that microwaving the family jewels is the True Way Forward.
these freaks and oddballs need to all get a grip. no, wait â what am I saying?
MAGA, when it comes to your weens, donât get a grip. keep your fucking hands where I can see them.
tuesday: just a perfectly normal dude, doing perfectly normal stuff
the morbidly wealthy, theyâre so relatable, am I right?
the Space Nazi was part of the gaggle of gazillionaires who accompanied Donny to China this week, and â well, who among us hasnât been at a state dinner at the exact moment the ketamine kicks in?
âI did some research on âthe blacks.â blacks, for 150 years, have only represented 10% to 15% of the American population. okay? thatâs not that much. so if they wanna have more seats, they gotta get in between the sheets.â
how awesome. in one short soundbite, Jesse manages to be racist, paternalistic, condescending and crude. heâs won the Fucknut Quadfecta.
Republicans have spent the last two weeks working overtime to disenfranchise black voters by gerrymandering their districts out of existence â and this is the smirking buffoonâs sage advice? to get busy fuckinâ?
they say that a gif is worth a thousand words, so here you go, Jesse, this oneâs for you.
thursday: verily, she doth spew bullshit unto you
oh look, itâs transdimensional-traveler-obsessed goofus and noted biblical scholar An Appalling Lunatic, here to give us an extremely fucked-up lesson in religion.
Anna Paulina Luna: âand so itâs interesting because you have, you know, the evolution of the King James Bible, as we all know that story. he wanted to get remarried, they re-wrote it. itâs what happened.â
Representative Lunatic is so fucking dumb, and all simpering meathead Joe Rogan can do is sit there with a stupid grin on his face and go âright,â because heâs as big an ignoramus as Appalling Ann.
King James didnât want to get remarried. thatâs not what the King James Version of the Bible is all about. the British king who wanted to get remarried was Henry VIII, the jamoke famous for prancing about with a haunch of meat in each fist.
and Eighth Hank didnât rewrite any Bible. what he did was he form the Church of England and put himself in charge of it, so he could get busy offing an endless series of spouses. remember, the merry fucking wives of Windsor?
(donât even ask me what this is all about. I googled âmerry wives of windsor gifâ and google gave me Batman. hey, everyone â Iâm as good as doing my own research as Jesse Watters!)
but I digress. hereâs my point:
it must be nice to be a wingnut and go on podcasts like Meathead Roganâs and just be eternally wrong from dawn until dusk â because none of these shitwits knows dick about anything, and no one ever corrects you.
itâs a fucking oroboros of stupid.
oh look, you actually get something useful if you google âoroboros gif.â
friday: the further adventures of Some Fucking Idiotâ˘
on Friday, some fucking idiot made exactly two public appearances. the first was when he deigned to talk to reporters aboard Fuckface Force One as it flew home from Beijing.
the fucking idiot is so monumentally stupid. someone told him that Dem candidate James Talerico identifies as âcisgenderâ and the fucking idiot heard it as âsix genders,â and now he repeats it all day long.
how wonderful. the fucking idiot has one meeting in China, where heâs too dumb to realize heâs being disrespected by Xi â and now, all of a sudden, Taiwan needs to âcool it a little bit.â
yeah, keep on reminding voters that you couldnât give less of a shit about them. letâs see how that works out for you in the midterms.
and, despite all the dumbfuckery going on right in front of their faces, neither Bret Baier nor any of the reporters aboard Fuckface Force One stood up to ask âwhat the fuck is wrong with you?â
how fucking idiotic is that?
this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery thatâs ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
I have noticed more people wearing masks in public over the past couple weeks. Since I now have a compromised immune system I should probably start as well…
hey, folks? Iâm not sure how to break this to you, but itâs looking more and more like the guy who lied about bone spurs and lied about hush money and lied about his dead pedo bestie and lied about how tariffs work and lied about being able to point to a camel and lied about his weight and lied about his golf scores and lied about his wealth and lied about a hurricane and lied about a pandemic and lied about his taxes and lied about a million other things has been lying to us about just how swimmingly his donât-you-dare-call-it-a-war on Iran is going.
oh, and his piss-drunk Secretary of Death? the shouty one with all the Christofascist tattoos, who gets off on bombing schoolgirls? heâs been lying, too.
I know, right?
remember all that blather from Preznit Fuckwit about how Iranâs military has been smithereened to death and how they have no navy and canât fight, and how the whole country is on the verge of complete collapse, and how Iran has no choice but to open up that Strait of Epstein, like, any minute now?
thatâs right, the Washington Post got its hands on a leaked CIA report that basically contradicts every word thatâs seeped out of Dear Leaderâs rancid anus-mouth.
The analysis by the U.S. intelligence community, whose secret assessments on Iran have often been more sober than the administrationâs public statements, also found that Tehran retains significant ballistic missile capabilities despite weeks of intense U.S. and Israeli bombardment, three of the people familiar with it said.
oh, so not totally obliterated, then.
Donny has been presenting us with a version of his merry little war that bears absolutely no resemblance to reality.
either Donnyâs been lying to us, or someone like Piss-Drunk Pete has been lying to Donny â or, more likely, everyone is lying to everyone, because thatâs all these shit-kazoos do all day long, tell one lie after another like itâs going out of style.
remember how Donny keeps telling us he holds all the cards? he never shuts the fuck up about holding all the cards, because like any toddler whoâs been dropped on its head, Donny thinks a stupid joke gets funnier the more often he repeats it.
well, it looks like Iran still has about three quarters of their cards.
Iran retains about 75% of its prewar inventories of mobile launchers and about 70% of its prewar stockpiles of missiles. There is evidence that the regime has been able to recover and reopen almost all of its underground storage facilities, repair some damaged missiles, and even assemble some new missiles that were nearly complete when the war began.
basically Donny isnât even anywhere close to winning this war, because Iran still retains most of its weapons stockpile, and is rebuilding its military infrastructure faster than Donny can blow it up.
Iran is laughing at Donny, as they eat his lunch.
how is that any kind of victory? look at that, even Obama canât figure it out â and heâs a smart dude. he went to Harvard and everything.
this is why I go fucking ballistic when I see a newspaper headline that begins with âDonny saysâŚâ â because Donny says a lot of shit, and almost none of it is true.
telling us that âDonny says heâs winningâ without also noting that his claim is without evidence is not reporting, itâs worthless scribbling.
it fact, itâs worse than worthless. itâs outright dangerous, because a democracy cannot survive without a fully-informed populace.
The U.S. military said it struck Iranian military facilities and other targets after, it said, Iran fired on U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz.
what the fuck is going on in the Middle East? âexchanging fireâ doesnât sound very âtruce-yâ to me â and it didnât sound very truce-y to a reporter who caught up with Donny later in the day.
reporter: âafter these strikes is the ceasefire with Iran still on?â
Donny: âyeah, it is.â
the ceasefire is still on, because words stopped having meanings in the Donnyverse years ago. Iâm so old, I remember when a âceasefireâmeant that all parties âceased firing.â
Donny: âthey trifled with us today. we blew âem away. they trifled. I call that a trifle. Iâll let you know when thereâs no ceaseâ you wonât have to know. if thereâs no cease fire, youâre not going to have to know, youâre just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran. and they better sign their agreement fast.â
excuse me, a big fucking glow? did Donny just threaten to nuke Iran? he did, didnât he?
what the fuck is wrong with this maniac?
this is all so incoherent. one minute weâre told that a deal is imminent â and then the next minute, missiles are flying everywhere. could everyone please stop getting shot?
and then to top it off, here comes Donny, and heâs all âIranâs gonna be glowing. get it? get it?â
I know that Donny imagines this makes him sound like the ultimate tough guy, but it doesnât. he just sounds weak and stupid, and his threats accomplish nothing. every time the fucking idiot says something like this, Iran just gets up and walks away from the negotiating table. itâs how theyâve reacted to every one of Donnyâs infantile threats â and Donny would understand that by now, if the demented imbecile had any capacity to learn.
has anyone checked the prediction markets? Iâll bet thereâs someone out there whoâs going to make a total killing on any nuclear conflagration.
we def need a palate cleanse after all that. I donât know who created this image, but they just won the entire internet.
reporter: âcan I ask you about the hantavirus? have you been briefed on the virus?â
Donny: âyes, I have.â
reporter: âcan you tell us what youâve learned in these briefings?â
Donny: âwell, I think youâre going to be told everything, and you already have. uhhhh, itâs very much, we hope under control. it was theâ ship. and I think weâre gonna make a full report about it tomorrow. we haveâ a lotta people. itâs a lotta great people, are studying it. it should beâ fine. we hope.â
reporter: âare you concerned itâs going to spread?â
Donny: âI hope not, I mean I hope not.â
oh joy, Donny hopes not. rest easy, everyone â the guy who tried to wishful-think a pandemic out of existence six years ago is on the case.
Donnyâs got a âlotta great peopleâ who are âstudying it.â big, strong, teary-eyed virologists, who are definitely in the room with us right now.
why does hearing this from Donny this fill me with zero confidence?
I donât know about you, but Iâm so glad that I have boxes and boxes of masks and gloves left over from the covid era.
this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery thatâs ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
History is replete with villains who should have seen their downfall coming but did not. Hitler spent his final days still insisting that he was about to win World War II, thanks to a new Nazi secret weapon that didnât exist. Saddam Hussein was completely caught off guard by the invasion that chased him into a mud filled hole, even though that invasion was being broadcast on live television. Itâs enough to make you wonder how someone who went to such conniving, paranoid, evil lengths to take power and remain in power could, in the end, be so distracted when it mattered most.
These types of villains, of course, have something wrong with them to begin with. Their minds, obviously, do not work like that of a normal, sane, decent person. But youâd think that the same paranoid hyperawareness that got these villains where they were in the first place would end up being something theyâd never let go of. Yet at some point, usually toward the end, as things are getting undeniably worse for them, these types somehow conclude that they somehow donât need to worry about anything at all.
Perhaps itâs a subconscious attempt at denying the reality theyâre facing. An attempt at enjoying the time they have left, in whatever deranged way they feel enjoyment, as the walls cave in. Or maybe theyâre merely betrayed by their own narcissistic sense of invincibility. But regardless of the reason, the result tends to be the same. And this brings us to Donald Trumpâs week.
By now everyone knows that Trump has become obsessed with building a White House ballroom. It makes sense, given that heâs the worldâs worst real estate developer and has spent his entire life trying to con others into paying for his shoddy construction debacles so he can launder money through them. Perhaps he sees it as one last big real estate con, the last gaudy piece of crap heâll ever get to build as his health continues to collapse. But as it turns out itâs not just the ballroom.
Yesterday Trump showed of renderings of a UFC mixed martial arts fight that he plans to host on the White house lawn on his birthday. Thatâs right. Trump, whose approval rating is historically low, whose economy is collapsing, whose war in Iran has been lost before it began, whose ballroom has less support in national polling than (not making this up) ghosts and telepathy, has now decided that his big fix for everything is to have a couple guys beat the crap out of each other while he watches.
Whatever you think of mixed martial arts, thatâs beside the point. You could be the biggest UFC fan in the world, and if you were in Trumpâs current position, you still wouldnât conclude that hosting a UFC fight on the White House lawn is the key to turning around your failed presidency. Itâs just not a thought that a mentally competent person, good or bad or evil or otherwise, could even entertain. Yet here we are.
Donald Trumpâs advanced dementia exacerbates all of this, of course. And because his downfall is going to come in the form of losing the midterms, getting impeached, and dying of his worsening health problems in humiliating fashion, one can grasp why itâs a little harder for him to see it coming than, say, Hitler or Hussein being unable to hear the bombs dropping around them. But still, Trump thinks everything is going so swimmingly for him that he can afford to focus almost solely on a ballroom and a fistfight? This all just keeps growing more absurd.
