here’s a huge mistake the worthless scribblers of the corporate-controlled press are making right now, as they cover Dear Leader’s Splendid Iran Adventure™: they’re treating Donny as if he were a rational actor who knows what he’s doing.
spoiler alert: he’s not. he’s bugfuck nuts, in steep cognitive decline, and there is no plan. he’s making it all up as he goes along.
A demented moron, says what?
We'll just put the obligatory "Can you imagine MAGA heads exploding if Presidents Obama or Biden had said that?" right here.
To follow up on my recent post about Starfleet Academy, last night's episode, "Series Acclimation Mil", was fantastic. It wasn't a perfect story - a few filler scenes could have been shortened, but any episode that makes me tear-up three separate times is a winner in my book. Seriously, if you love (or even like) Trek, especially the golden age of the mid-nineties, watch this one. So good.
Melania Trump, today:
"We need to unify," Trump told "Fox and Friends." "I'm calling for unity. I know my husband, the president had a great call yesterday with the governor and the mayor. And they are working together to make it peaceful and without riots. I'm against the violence, so please, if you protest, protest in peace."
Why don't you talk to the husband you can't stand, you plagiarizing, vacuous, mannequin? He's directly responsible for ALL of the violence in our country right now, especially in Minnesota. He could end it with a single phone call.
Yes, let's all unify behind the fascists. What a fantastic idea.
Fuck off.
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The White House said on Friday that the founding members of the executive board would include U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, World Bank chief Ajay Banga and Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff. Also named on the board are Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, U.S. billionaire Marc Rowan and Robert Gabriel, a national security adviser in the U.S.
To the people and state of Minnesota. What you're going through is terrifying and I thank you for your courage in the face of the United States' fascist government. I know you didn't choose this, but you have responded with bravery, kindness, imagination, and dignity.
"The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement," Trump told reporters on Air Force One after being asked if he thought the officer's use of force was warranted. "You saw that. They were harassing, they were following for days and for hours, and I think, frankly, they're professional agitators. And I'd like to find out and we are going to find out who's paying for it, with their brand new signs and all these different things. But these are professional agitators and law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff. What that woman and what her friend ... were doing to law enforcement ... is outrageous."
Trump: She ran over the Agent so he shot her in self-defense.Trump: Her behavior was terrible.Kristi Noem: She was a domestic terrorist.Kristi Noem: She was harassing and impeding law enforcement operations.Paul Sperry (rightwing "reporter"): She once donated to Bernie Sanders.JD Vance: She was a deranged leftist who tried to run him over.Jessie Waters: She had pronouns in her bio and was a lesbian.Mark Hemingway (rightwing "reporter"): She shouldn't have been there to begin with.Rep. Mark Fine (R-FL): “If you impede the actions of our law enforcement as they seek to repel foreign invaders from our country, you get what's coming to you. I do not feel bad for the woman that was involved.”
Here's an excellent article that just might give you a sense of hope, right now when we need it.
In the first months of the year, Trump seemed to be on quite the march. It seemed many days like the United States was careening toward fascism — and, indeed, I still believe that sometime in August we crossed a never-before-crossed invisible line into an authoritarian state — but since the summer, Trump’s efforts to cement his corrupt rule have faltered. Whether traditional American democracy and rule-of-law will return in the future remains very much an open question, but I’m more hopeful in recent weeks than I have been all year.
(And this was written before the world's worst person attacked a beloved murder victim and made it all about himself.)
Go read the whole thing. I guarantee it will make you feel better.
Hey folks.
Life taking precedence at the moment. Nothing personally horrible, just busy. And the shitshow from the White House is more of the same wearing, demoralizing, garbage fire. That's not going anywhere.
Talk at you soon.
I can't speak of the 19th century Presidents, but there hasn't been one in my lifetime who held those who serve/served their country in the American military in such open disdain.
The Trump administration said Monday that it expects the Department of Veterans Affairs to lose nearly 30,000 employees by October due to a mix of resignations, early retirements and attrition amid a hiring freeze.Lovely. But at least billionaires got a tax cut, right?
The agency said the mass exodus would “eliminat[e] the need for a large-scale reduction-in-force,” or RIF, which was expected to cut the agency’s headcount by as much as 80,000. The administration appears to have recognized that the prospect of a RIF has alarmed many veterans who rely on the VA for their care and raised concerns even among Republican lawmakers. Link
