Facial Expressions That Tell a Sordid Story Aren't Difficult to Distinguish

I saw this photo on Bluesky the other day but was waiting for additional confirmation that it was an actual photo and not A.I. generated.  It's authentic apparently and is now listed in the Getty Images online archives (link below):

By the looks on the faces of China's dictator Xi and his wife, and the disturbingly venomous looks on the faces of Don and Mel, clearly one of two things has occurred here in the moment just before this photo was snapped.  

Either Drumpf shit his diaper and it was runny enough to squirt down the inside of his pantleg, or Xi just told him to fuck off as it relates to providing any help to DonOld in his Iran war.

It's a tossup as to which one triggered these ugly faces:

Link:  8,770 Trump And Xi Photos and High-Res Pictures - Getty Images

They're such a lovely couple aren't they?

And nothing to see here, right?  Just the smokey-eyed, Jeffrey Epstein recruited model turned mobster moll and her felonious, Epstein associate hubby hanging out with and toasting the dictator guy from China whose country's intelligence agencies are presently assisting Iran target US military bases and assets in the Persian Gulf region in DonOld's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure."

The nightmare of watching these two compromised fakers despoiling the American people's White House and continuing to be propped up by a bunch of other MAGA clods and fakers, ends with this November's midterm elections.  Make a plan to verify your voter registration frequently between now and November 3rd, vote, and make sure your vote counts.

---TFG

Would a Felonious, Coup-Plotting Dictator Wannabe Declare Martial Law to Steal an Election? Do Americans Really Want to Find Out?

Can any of Donald Trump's supporters coherently and truthfully explain what the rationale would be for Drumpf to declare 'martial law' and deploy the US military to seize control of this year's midterm elections?

Link:  White House desperate to distract Trump as outside allies clamor for 'martial law': report - Raw Story

"President Donald Trump's White House and Cabinet advisers have spent months trying to pull his attention away from election conspiracy theories as some of his most devoted outside allies are urging him to take control of this fall's midterms – even through martial law.

The Atlantic reported Wednesday that advisers have worked to steer Trump away from baseless fraud claims pushed by figures such as attorney Peter Ticktin, conservative host Wayne Allyn Root and former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, while at the same time they've authorized efforts to find evidence that would make those claims appear more credible.

Administration officials gathered once-classified documents on foreign election interference, authorized the seizure of Georgia election records and reviewed voting equipment used in Puerto Rico – but none of that work turned up the large-scale fraud Trump has alleged."

Drumpf and his MAGA enablers have lost nearly 70 court cases all the way to the US Supreme Court trying to prove massive voting fraud since 2020.

Reputable study after study after study after study confirms vote fraud is one of the rarest crimes in the country.

Drumpf's own officials have had years to come up with solid evidence of massive voter fraud taking place across the country and that it cost Drumpf the 2020 election to Joe Biden.  They have found nothing that will stand up under the scrutiny of litigation in any court in the nation.

Drumpf won't let it go, though.  It's how he grew the MAGA movement - crying "RIGGED ELECTION!"  He knows he lost.  It's been reported that he acknowledged to many around him at the time in 2020 that he had lost to Biden.

But DonOld Drumpf is a con man.  And the work of con men is to run cons.  That is their livelihood. 

Running cons is Drumpf's stock in trade and he saw a perfect opportunity to rile up his base by screaming election fraud after losing to Biden, and that is exactly what he did.

DonOld is too far down the rabbit hole of his voting fraud con to stop now, and so he has to continue with the ruse of looking for election fraud that doesn't exist just to keep the slack-jawed rage of his idiot followers percolating.

Here's the thing though.  Drumpf has to know that if he were to declare martial law based on the ravings of a bunch of right-wing conspiracy nuts, and interfere in this November's election, Americans will take to the streets in very large numbers, and those numbers will dwarf the numbers in Drumpf's movement.  DonOld and his enablers would do well to keep that reality in mind.

---TFG

Perhaps the 'MAGA Manhood' Movement Should Just Stop Raping Girls and Women. What a Novel Concept, Huh?

I've made this observation previously, but perhaps it's time to revisit it.

Whenever I hear the term"MAGA influencer," the thought that instantly pops into my mind is, 'unemployable right-wing loser.'

Case in point:

Link:  Clavicular's charges shows the real danger of MAGA manhood - Salon.com

"It wasn’t long after Braden Peters, better known as “Clavicular,” was arrested on suspicion of raping a 17-year-old girl at his family’s home in Massachusetts that his fellow MAGA influencers started complaining that he was the real victim.

“Now we live in a climate where a 19-year-old can’t even sleep with a 16-year-old with a little alcohol involved. Absolutely insane,” said Nick Fuentes, the popular white nationalist podcaster, ignoring the fact that it has long been considered rape to have sex with someone unconscious and unable to consent, as alleged by the criminal complaint against Peters.

Others floated conspiracy theories accusing the mysterious “they” of trying to “control” Clavicular, or claiming he is besieged with “women trying to ruin his life with rumors.” Brian Atlas of the “Whatever” podcast posted a video of the alleged victim drinking with Peters, as if it were exonerating evidence instead of bolstering the criminal case against him."

When I first heard of this "looksmaxxing" 'Clavicular' guy, my initial reaction was, "what the fuck is a 'Clavicular' and what the fuck is "looksmaxxing?"

So, after that initial reaction and doing a little bit of research on Mr. 'Clavicular' I was soon beset with utter disbelief that such a clownish, valueless (to the good of society and the body politic anyway) individual could exist for one, and secondly that he would have millions of cult followers on social media, which really should be seen as a 'canary in the coal mine' justification for the strict regulation of social media companies, imho.  And I base that view on the societal damage that we have seen occur in the age of social media from social media in this country.

But just as it all too frequently ends up with a lot of these far right, online, performative loons, it comes as no shock to hear that this chud 'Clavicular' has fallen out of favor with the laws of our country with the commission of --- wait for it ---- sex crimes (it's a pandemic with these MAGAs).

Young American conservatives worship guys like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Barron Trump, and of course, 'Clavicular' for their wealth, their fame, and their online 'influencer' celebrityhood.   Where has that choice of role models gotten them?

Musk and Thiel are named in the 'Epstein Files.'

Barron Trump is pals with 'influencers' Andrew and Tristan Tate who are currently in jail awaiting extradition to the UK for the alleged crimes of sex trafficking, rape, and child pornography.  The Tates are also wanted by the country of Romania for the same alleged crimes.

And 'Clavicular?'  Well, it looks like our little MAGA 'influencer' buddy might be facing his own time behind bars for a while for being such an influential, raping MAGA stud.

To the young MAGA conservatives out there - dirty liberal hippies like yours truly here aren't mocking and trashing your conservative politics solely for pleasure when we criticize you and your movement - well, ok, some of us are... but more than anything we are mocking the caliber of people you constantly put forth as your movement spokespeople like this shithead 'Clavicular,' and others like him who keep showing us over and over again just how intellectually destitute and morally bankrupt they, their ideas, and their movement truly are.

---TFG

The First Amendment Has Become a Major Annoyance to Drumpf Leading to His Harsher Attacks on It

Best political cartoon I've seen this week accurately depicting Drumpf's outright assault on the First Amendment when he banned reporters from CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from being on White House grounds as part of the White House press pool.  

Five days ago, in a scatterbrained decree issued from the perch of his 'Truth Social' social media site, Emperor Drumpf banned banned all employees from those three news organizations from the American people's White House property and confiscated their badges.

All three news orgs immediately sued and won reinstatement today from a federal judge, but apparently Drumpf is defying the court order now, and I guess we will just have to see where that goes.

Anyway, Nick Anderson nails it in this cartoon:

Link:  Underwater Trump decides America's freedom is going to drown with him - Raw Story

Drumpf is a dictatorial menace to American freedom and democracy.  Anderson's cartoon sufficiently conveys that message.

---TFG

MAGA Cop Seizes Election Ballots and Might End Up in Jail Himself For It

The right-wingers in this country continue their epic losing streak in the US courts when it comes to their clumsy, inept attempts at trying to prove that massive election fraud is occurring in the US - fraud which apparently only occurs when they are on the losing end of elections:

Link:  California Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to return seized ballots, affirms state’s power over local law enforcement - Democracy Docket

"The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) violated state law when he seized roughly 650,000 ballots from last year’s special redistricting election after pursuing debunked claims of a massive ballot discrepancy.

Writing for the court, Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero held that Bianco’s seizure violated the “plain language” of the California Elections Code, which commands that “[i]n no event” may voted ballots be taken from the custody of an elections official. The court made clear that the protection applies even during a criminal investigation.

“To remedy this violation, we issue a peremptory writ of mandate directing Bianco to return the seized ballots to the registrar’s custody and to refrain from further handling of the ballots except as necessary to comply with our order.”

The court ordered Bianco to return all packages containing voted ballots to Riverside County Registrar of Voters Art Tinoco “forthwith.”"

This Southern California Sheriff Chad Bianco is a Trump-loving MAGA chud.  Apparently having a lawless POTUS running the country inspired Bianco to use his civilian policing authority to forcibly SEIZE election ballots when a special statewide election that was held last year that didn't go MAGA's way in his county and local MAGA chuds, like their orange cult leader, screamed, "rigged election!"

This MAGA chud Sheriff disgraced himself, the honor of his public office, and agency by colluding with others to secure an unlawful warrant to seize more than half a million voter ballots in order to prove some right winger's idiotic conspiracies.

The California Supreme Court says they broke the law in doing so.  Well, duh.

Bianco needs to be run out of law enforcement, and whatever other attorneys and local judge who colluded with him to allow Bianco's sheriff agency to illegally seize those ballots should be relieved of their duties and be brought before the California state bar for disciplinary review, if they aren't actually charged with state election crimes along with Bianco himself.

It is so inspiring watching actual American justice put these election conspiracy MAGA assholes in their place over and over again.

If you recall, Drumpf and his Rudy Giuliani led "dream team" of attorneys, in the wake of his election loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, LOST 65+ court cases in state and federal courts across the country, including twice at the US Supreme Court level, trying to prove Drumpf's loss was due to election fraud.

Drumpf's booze-soaked attorney Giuliani and his legal team's conspiracy-soaked evidence were laughed out of those courts one after another.

So yeah - I hope this dipshit Bianco goes down in bigtime flames for attempting a third-world shithole, banana republic stunt like that - at minimum a ruinous and tarnished ending to his policing career would suffice.

---TFG

The Cover-Up of a Ring of Wealthy, Child-Raping Elites Continues Apace

I don't give a shit what anyone says.

When you are sending your corrupt Attorney General, former criminal defense lawyer, and now criminal co-conspirator to beg the courts to block the release of criminal case files which could implicate you in the child sex trafficking activities of a ring of wealthy, elitist pedophiles, that to me is a straight-up admission of guilt:

Link:  Todd Blanche begs appeals court to halt release of batch of Epstein files - Raw Story

"Attorney General Todd Blanche asked an appeals court to halt a judge's order forcing the Justice Department to release foreign-language Epstein files.

In a motion filed Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Blanche asked the court to pause two orders from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan and to expedite the appeal. The orders came in a lawsuit against Blanche brought by lawyer and journalist Katie Phang.

Sullivan's June 25 order directed the Justice Department to begin reviewing and producing foreign-language documents under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. A second order, issued on September 16, set a September 24 deadline for the DOJ to start that process and notify the court."

These are documents that were supposed to have been released to Congress and the public last November when the 'Epstein Files Transparency Act' law was passed.  

Blanche, at Drumpf's direction, has been violating that law since day one for refusing to release the more than three million documents that the DOJ is keeping hidden from Congress and from public view.

It has become inmistakably clear that in Toad Blanche, DonOld Drumpf has finally 'found' his Roy Cohn to protect him and his "friends" from long overdue justice.

---TFG

'Stupid and Evil' Are at the Core of MAGA's Mission Statement Plans to Transform America

"Stupid and evil" doesn't begin to describe the true nature of this order.

Link:  'Stupid and evil': Fury after White House revokes health care for 750K Americans - Raw Story

"President Donald Trump's administration sparked fury Tuesday after it moved to revoke health care coverage for 750,000 Americans.

Vice President JD Vance announced the move during remarks carried by CSPAN, claiming that the people who lost their health insurance had purchased it fraudulently. Vance claimed that the government is investigating whether the people who lost health insurance are American citizens and whether they meet the income requirements to qualify for the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz also announced that there will be a six-month moratorium on new ACA brokerage sign-ups. He added that more than a million Americans could be kicked off of the program because they "never filed a claim.""

First off - JD Vance's claim that they are taking away healthcare access for nearly a million Americans because these Americans signed up fraudulently is worthless on it's face.

This is an administration that knowingly and purposefully lies to Americans on a daily basis as effortlessly as the rest of us breathe, and they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Also, let's remember that it was shameless prevaricator JD Vance who tried to tell us that Haitian immigrants were stealing and eating people's pet cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio when he knew it was a lie because local authorities had told him to his dishonest face that it wasn't true, so yeah, JD Vance's word isn't worth a pile of warm, freshly dropped dog shit in this matter.

Conservative Republicans and their morally bankrupt party have had a perennial boner for destroying the Affordable Care Act since its inception, mostly because it was the black guy's signature policy achievement.

But they also hate the ACA not only because they hate Obama, but also because conservative Republicans do not give a shit about their fellow Americans.  Let me repeat that.   A sizable percentage of American, primarily white conservative, MAGA Republicans do NOT give a damn about the health, welfare and well being of their fellow Americans and ESPECIALLY so if those fellow Americans are brown or black.

The ACA helps all Americans, white, brown, and yes, even black Americans who have been priced out of this country's unjust, immoral, and massively failed for-profit healthcare system to attain some measure of affordable healthcare coverage.

Drumpf and MAGA have taken it upon themselves to declare that cannot be allowed to happen.

Abruptly taking away the healthcare of another million Americans and throwing them to the free-market healthcare wolves is going to boomerang back on Drumpf and MAGA big time.  Taking healthcare access away from people is just one more in a long list of human harming decrees that this evil administration has issued.

The GOP and MAGA are digging their own party's political grave the more they allow Drumpf and his thugs to keep deliberately hurting Americans like this.

---TFG

Man Who Plotted a Coup of the US Accuses Former POTUS of Plot to Kill Him

So this occurred this past week and the collective yawn of the valueless corporate media in this country was utterly deafening:

Link:  Trump claims Butler assassination attempt was a 'Democrat Plot' without showing evidence - ABC News

"President Donald Trump alleged on Tuesday that the 2024 assassination attempt on him in Butler, Pennsylvania -- which killed one person and wounded two others -- was a "Democratic Plot" aimed at removing him from the election. 

The president blasted the FBI under former President Joe Biden and said former FBI Director Christopher Wray, who Trump nominated during his first term, "should pay a price" for the investigation.

"This was all a Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election, that failed. Dirty Cop Christopher Wray should pay a price for the way he handled this assassination attempt, and certainly for the things he said," Trump posted."

The sitting President of the United States of America has accused his predecessor, former President Joe Biden of conspiring with then FBI Director Chris Wray, whom Drumpf himself had appointed to that position, of orchestrating the purported (a whole other discussion) assassination attempt of himself in Butler, Pennsylvania in 2024.

Ffs.

There is truly no bottom to Drumpf's ability to make an utter ass(hole) of himself publicly in an attempt to further warp the minds of his MAGA cultists as he desperately clings to the levers of power of the American presidency.

And as far as our new billionaire-owned "news" media landscape goes, what a colossal failure of these so-called news organizations to just completely blow this story off.

If Joe Biden had accused Donald Trumpf of conspiring to kill him in 2021 after Drumpf's January 6th coup attempt, I'm pretty sure that would have been around the clock, hysterical news coverage from all of the major "news" outlets.

But this gets to the heart of just how unfathomably insane this whole timeline of the era of Drumpf has become.  An American president accusing another American president of an assassination "plot."

This tiresome insanity of the dishonorable era of Drumpf & MAGA ends when enough Americans finally decide it's enough, and the opportunity to do that is this November's midterm elections. 

Make a plan.

Vote early.

Get to the polls.

Do what we all know needs to be done.

Kick the MAGA Republicans out of power and do it decisively.

Put an end to Drumpf's reign of psychotic terror, end the Iran war idiocy, impeach, convict, and remove the rapidly metastasizing cancer that has taken ruinous root in the American presidency.

---TFG

The Republican Party Cannot Bullshit and Lie Their Way Out of Drumpf's Tragic Foolishness

The holidays are coming up and that means it's time for Republican operatives to dust off their hoary old playbook of disingenuous arguments to deflect attention away from their party's corruption and massive governing failures:

Link:  Post by @atrupar.com — Bluesky

This is how you can tell that the Republican party has no plans to extricate the US from Drumpf's disastrous war in Iran, and that they are fully aware that their party's failed governance of the country has resulted in economic hardship for most Americans while enriching the bank accounts of multi-millionaires and billionaires including the multiple bank accounts of the Trump crime family members.

I mean, it's pretty telling when you go on national TV to promote your party's platform and all that you can come up with is to peddle laughable claims that Democrats want to eliminate Thanksgiving and the 4th of July.  That level of cynical desperation tells me that you and your party have absolutely zero ideas on how to address the myriad of real-world, serious issues that are facing the United States and the American people right now.

Vote these Republican clowns and grifters out of office in November.  Kick their execrable, corrupt and cowardly asses to the curb once and for all.

---TFG

Someone Stole DonOld's 'Frozen Strawberries' and He's Losing What Remains of His Tiny Mind Over It

This unhinged screed by the President of the United States of America is all that is left of an increasingly unwell mind:

Link:  Post by @joshgerstein.bsky.social — Bluesky

Drumpf is entering the flailing 'Captain Queeg' phase of his execrable presidency and for those of you too young to remember the reference, here's what I mean:

I continue to wonder, in utter futility I'm sure, what more exactly has to happen with this "fake news" screeching maniac before anyone in the Republican leadership finds enough patriotic courage and decency within themselves to finally at long last stand up and declare that Donald Trump is unfit for the office he presently occupies and is trashing, and is himself the most significant, actual national security threat that is endangering every man, woman and child in this country?

---TFG