Trump Has the Emotional Maturity and Self-Control of a Toddler

He told a female reporter "Quiet, quiet, Piggy" when she asked a question he didn't like.

But the Right stil loves him, which I submit, tells you all you need to know about them. You have to wonder what they would think if he said that to their wives, daughters or sisters.

Fucking With the Trumpy Business Owners

Do you know a business owner who supports Trump and is dismissive of people who are on SNAP or other assistance? I'll bet that you likely do.

Here's a fun thing: Go to this database, enter the name of the business (you may have to dig into a DBA filing) and you can see how much they got in COVID relief loans and how much they didn't have to pay back, ie, welfare for businesses.

The Death of CBS News

John Oliver has the deets:

Guess Which Has Upset MAGA the Most? (plus more grifting of the faithful)

Changing Cracker Barrel's logo or Trump's continuing refusal to release the Epstein files?

Guess which?

Meanwhile, both the Orange Turd and Wifey #3's memecoins have done a good job at grifting the MAGA Morons.

In an Earlier Era, the Term for This Clown was "Trash"

According to records obtained from the Windsor Police Department and confirmed by the Weld County District Attorney's office, Tyler Boebert, the eldest of controversial Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's four sons, was cited on Friday, July 11, by the Windsor Police Department and faces a misdemeanor charge of child abuse.

Coup Plotters of a Feather, Stick Together, PlusMAGA Hates Superman

President Donald Trump singled out Brazil for import taxes of 50% on Wednesday for its treatment of its former president, Jair Bolsonaro, showing that personal grudges rather than simple economics are a driving force in the U.S. leader’s use of tariffs.

Trump avoided his standard form letter with Brazil, specifically tying his tariffs to the trial of Bolsonaro, who is charged with trying to overturn his 2022 election loss. Trump has described Bolsonaro as a friend and hosted the former Brazilian president at his Mar-a-Lago resort when both were in power in 2020.

Of course the Premier J6 Plotter is looking out for other coup plotters. One might also presume that if the former leader of another country is accused of rape, that our Sexual-Offender-in-Chief will put tariffs on that country.

Meanwhile, the MAGA Right is getting into a frenzy over Superman because he's an immigrant. Maybe those white-sheet-wearing snowflakes ought to get a fucking clue. Being an alien has been Superman's origin story since Action Comics #1, but the MAGA-lunatics love to forget everything that contradicts their Fox-News-generated worldview.

Shall we recap? Kal-El is an illegal immigrant/refugee from another planet, he came here without a visa, he snuck over the border, and he stands for truth, justice, and the American way.

Of course the Right hates him.

Patel Turns the FBI into a Trumpist Goon Squad

They're getting rid of agents whose only offense was having a friend on Trump's enemies list.

Remember, when you see an FBI agent, you're seeing a political operative with a gun, not a cop. You're seeing a representative of a rotten and politically corrupt agency that is just as evil as it was when Hoover was running things.

DeSantis's Dachau

A new plan to convert a remote Everglades airstrip into a migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," has been celebrated by MAGA supporters, who hailed it as a victory for the hard-line immigration agenda they voted for.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said the facility would be funded through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Shelter and Services Program, which has been used to provide housing and support for undocumented migrants.

Remember this: for MAGA, cruelty is the point. These are not the "worst of the worst", these are people who have not committed a crime. Overstaying a visa or not having one is a civil, not a criminal violation. And yes, the Puppy-Killer is reveling in the cruelty.

MAGA are the same sort of people who reveled at cramming Jews into boxcars. They are just as despicable.

We All Knew That the Trumps Were Lying

Grifting the gullible MAGA idiots was always their business plan.

Another MAGA Terrorist at Work

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro on Sunday morning revealed that his family had to evacuate the governor's residence after an arsonist set fire to the building.

Shapiro, a Democrat, said that Pennsylvania State Police woke him and his family at 2 a.m. ET after the fire had been set.

Find this MAGA/neo-nazi clown and hit his dead ass with consecutive sentences for attempted murder.

Trump's Cult of Personality

His minions now have to wear golden pins of Trump's profile. Just like Mao pins.

There’s a new dress code in Trump’s Washington, and it’s straight out of a dictator’s playbook. Loyalists in the regime—congressmen, senators, the whole parade of sycophants—are now sporting golden Trump bust lapel pins, a garish little tribute to the man who’s turned the White House into a shrine to himself. They’ve been quietly told to ditch their congressional or Senate pins in favor of this new badge of allegiance. It’s not a suggestion; it’s a loyalty test. And if you’re paying attention, it’s a chilling sign of where this country’s headed.
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Forcing elected officials to swap out their congressional pins—symbols of their constitutional role—for a golden idol of Trump’s face isn’t just petty; it’s a deliberate erosion of institutional identity. It says, “You don’t serve the people or the Constitution. You serve me.” This is the authoritarian playbook, page one: replace symbols of shared governance with symbols of personal power.

It's a cult, people. It is a dangerous, vicious cult of personality, no different from those of Mao, Stalin or the North Korean Kim dynasty. We are headed for a bloodletting and, should it come to that, everyone wearing one of those pins will be a legitimate bullet-catcher.

Trump/Miller/Homan's Nazi Shit

This is straight out of the days when the Germans would arrest people based on anonymous denunciations with no proof.

Three weeks ago, 238 Venezuelan migrants were flown from Texas to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.
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The government has released very little information about the men. But through internal government documents, we have obtained a list of their identities and found that an overwhelming majority have no apparent criminal convictions or even criminal charges.
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At least 22% of the men on the list have criminal records here in the United States or abroad. The vast majority are for non-violent offenses like theft, shoplifting and trespassing. About a dozen are accused of murder, rape, assault and kidnapping.

For 3% of those deported, it is unclear whether a criminal record exists.

But we could not find criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans - 179 men- now sitting in prison.

Vague allegations, bullshit based on "he's got a tattoo" or "he flashed a gang sign on social media a decade ago"... yeah, this is some real Nazi/Soviet shit.

And that the Administration chortles about this cruelty and its acolytes cheer them on is telling. For you know, don't you, that they are the same kind of people who would have called the Gestapo to rat out Anne Frank and her family.

Please, Mr. Leopard, Eat Other People's Faces

The steer stupidity of MAGA has to be read to be believed.

If you look around, you can find lots of people complaining that they foted for Trump and they truly thought that only those people would be hurt by the Trumpist meat axe.

Well, sucks to be them.

Meanwhile, down on the farms:

Farmers across the United States are finding themselves in precarious economic positions, as they attempt to navigate a strained farm economy and a barrage of executive orders from the Trump administration that put some farm programs in limbo.
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Missouri cattle producer Skylar Holden signed a $240,000 cost-sharing contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to improve water systems on his 260-acre cattle operation. After getting approval in January for the next phase of the project and investing upwards of $50,000 in pipes, equipment and labor, Holden says he got a call a week later from his field agent telling him the payments from USDA were on hold.

“I instantly asked … what does that mean for all this money that I just spent, that I’m relying on these funds to come through?” Holden recounted in a TikTok live on Feb. 13.

He said he was told the money was frozen and that it was not clear when or if the payments would happen.
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When asked on a scale of 1 to 10 what his confidence was that the payment would come through eventually, Holden, who voted for Trump, rated the possibility a “one.”

They are now in "finding out" territory.

Waiter! An order of schadenfreude for the table, please.

Donnie's Dementia Was on Full Display

Trump remained adamant that Palestinians did not even want to live in Gaza and would relocate to Jordan, Egypt and elsewhere. And he insisted the United States would “have” Gaza, while offering few specifics on how it would acquire the territory without spending any money or deploying troops.

“We’re not going to have to buy. We’re going to have Gaza. We don’t have to buy. There’s nothing to buy. We will have Gaza,” Trump told reporters. “It’s a war-torn area. We’re going to take it, we’re going to hold it, we’re going to cherish it...."

Apparently, I was not the only one who thought that the Orange Old Felon was channeling Bugs Bunny:

How that's going to happen without a single American soldier or a singe American dollar is beyone belief.

The MAGA movement was championing isolationism. There's a wide gulf between isolationism and imperialism, but Trump can span that because he knows that his supporters are, in the main, cultists who will accept that up is down, left is right, back is forward and any other radical change of direction as long as Mango Mussolini says to.

Coup 2.0

We told everyone that if Trump got back in, he'd try to pull off another coup. And that's what he and Musk are trying to do.

Or is this a continuation of the first coup, as WW2 was a continuation of WW1?

Remember this if you voted for Trump: Whatever reason Germans had for votong for Hitler in 1933, be it concerns about the economy or Germany's place in the world or any other concern that didn't involve bigotry, history regards everyone who voted for Hitler as a Nazi.

And so will you be so regarded.

A Woman of Serious Integrity

President Donald Trump has made good on his vow to pardon participants in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, sparking intense criticism — including from one of the planned recipients.

Pamela Hemphill, a 71-year-old resident of Boise, Idaho, who was sentenced to two months in jail after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge in the attack, said she will not be accepting Trump’s pardon.

“Accepting the pardon would be an insult to the Capitol Police officers, to the rule of law, to our nation,” Hemphill, who had posted videos of herself entering the Capitol as the attack unfolded, told the Idaho Statesman on Tuesday.

I don't know that I'd have the gumption to do what she did, to skate away with a clean record because the leader of my former cult had the power to issue legal forgiveness. So I have a lot of admiration for her and her decision.

The Dark Ages Return in Louisiana

A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov. 14 meeting in Baton Rouge expecting to talk about outreach and community events.

Instead, they were told by an assistant secretary in the department and another official that department leadership had a new policy: Advertising or otherwise promoting the COVID, influenza or mpox vaccines, an established practice there — a nd at most other public health entities in the U.S. — must stop.
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According to the employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they fear losing their jobs or other forms of retaliation, the policy would be implemented quietly and would not be put in writing.

Staffers were also told that it applies to every aspect of the health department's work: Employees could not send out press releases, give interviews, hold vaccine events, give presentations or create social media posts encouraging the public to get the vaccines. They also could not put up signs at the department's clinics that COVID, flu or mpox vaccines were available on site.

So go ahead, live in Louisiana, and let the good times roll. Maybe you won't die fron an infectious disease. Hell, those idiots will probably discontinue food safety indpections because Bobby Brainworm might conclude they're based too heavily on science.

And all illnesses in that shithole of a state will be treated by blood-letting and prayer, no doubt.

Republicans in the second quarter of the 21st Century are morons.

Watch for the Upcoming Run on Consumer Goods

President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he will issue executive orders imposing new tariffs on all imported goods from China, Mexico and Canada, the nation’s three largest trading partners, upon returning to the White House.

Once people realize that prices on almost everything will be going up, the rush to get shit while the getting's good will be on. If that happens, look for sales on stuff to go away.

And if anyone you know is a Trump voter or didn't vote and they complain about it, tell them "Toyota" if they're old or that now they're finding out if they're young.

TOFF-Embolded Racists

Several federal and state agencies are investigating how racist mass texts were sent to Black people across the country in the wake of the presidential election this week.
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It would be so easy for the Toff to denounce these trolls or have Coke Boy or a spokesweasel do it. They could shut this shit down for the next four years years by a strong statement of condemnation and outrage. They could set a positive tone for his administration.

But he won't do it. They won't do it. Because the racists who did this are his peeps. Just like the Tiki Torch racists in Charlottesville. They know it. And we know it.

“You’re Smarter Than That”

That is from three different people in three different forms when I said the 2020 election was not stolen. If somebody tells you that "you're smarter than that" as an argument that the election was indeed stolen, they are talking from the latest series of Trumpy talking points.

Which probably sounded better in the original Russian.