It is becoming increasingly clear, no longer by the day, but by the hour, that our nation is being led toward catastrophe at the hands of a raging, dying, demented maniac.
Tell me this isn't disturbing as fuck coming from the President of the United States of America:
The guy's brain is over-baked folks.
He got suckered into joining Bibi Netanyahu's "Big Iran Armageddon Adventure," got taken to the cleaners by the Iranians with his failing "peace deal" and now we are right back where we started with Temu Napoleon threatening to unleash hellfire on a nation of 90 million people while bizarrely offering all capital letters praise to "ALLAH!"
When will this lunatic's execrable presence in all of our lives finally be over with - forever, ffs?
Those in Drumpf's orbit and administration are cowards of the highest order for continuing to enable this madness from Orange Caligula, madness which if not ended soon is going to get a whole lot of humans killed than he has already gotten killed, and it is a certainty that Americans will not be exempt from that mass death event.
Frankly, I believe it is also becoming increasingly clear that Americans are going to have to seriously consider holding a special hybrid type of 'Nuremberg Trial' once this shit is all done and over with and a semblance of sanity and law and order is restored to our government. Justice must be served, and those responsible for Drumpf's reign of terror and corruption must be held accountable.
That's assuming of course that we all come out of this alive and the country is still a democracy.
---TFG
*for those unfamiliar with the 'Buzz Windrip' reference in the title of this post, here you go: It Can't Happen Here - Wikipedia
Without clicking the link below, guess who wrote the following:
"What
Trump offers is an easy escape from the pain. To every complex problem,
he promises a simple solution. He can bring jobs back simply by
punishing offshoring companies into submission. As he told a New
Hampshire crowd—folks all too familiar with the opioid scourge—he can
cure the addiction epidemic by building a Mexican wall and keeping the
cartels out. He will spare the United States from humiliation and
military defeat with indiscriminate bombing. It doesn’t matter that no
credible military leader has endorsed his plan. He never offers details
for how these plans will work, because he can’t. Trump’s promises are
the needle in America’s collective vein.
The
great tragedy is that many of the problems Trump identifies are real,
and so many of the hurts he exploits demand serious thought and measured
action—from governments, yes, but also from community leaders and
individuals. Yet so long as people rely on that quick high, so long as
wolves point their fingers at everyone but themselves, the nation delays
a necessary reckoning. There is no self-reflection in the midst of a
false euphoria. Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a
bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.
I’m
not sure when or how that realization arrives: maybe in a few months,
when Trump loses the election; maybe in a few years, when his supporters
realize that even with a President Trump, their homes and families are
still domestic war zones, their newspapers’ obituaries continue to fill
with the names of people who died too soon, and their faith in the
American Dream continues to falter. But it will come, and when it does, I
hope Americans cast their gaze to those with the most power to address
so many of these problems: each other. And then, perhaps the nation will
trade the quick high of “Make America Great Again” for real medicine."
What changed for JD? Why has he thrown his entire lot in on the MAGA/fascism bandwagon now?
Americans have seen by his own examples that JD wears his morality like a chameleon as it is constantly changing and adapting like the lizard's skin. You do have to marvel though at how easily JD seems to have morphed from believing Drumpf to be America's version of Hitler to being Drumpf's side-kick in the most corrupt and incompetent administrations that the people of this country have ever witnessed.
JD Vance will not be treated kindly in the history books, as will none of the other spineless apparatchiks in Drumpf's increasingly malignant MAGA government.
Don't look now, but the state of New Mexico is picking a fight with Drumpf's DOJ because DonOld's personal criminal defense attorney and acting Attorney General of the US, Todd Blanche is using the power of the federal government to interfere with and obstruct the state of New Mexico's investigation into a ranch property that Jeffrey Epstein owned in their state, a property where allegedly child sex and other crimes, perhaps even murder were committed:
"New Mexico officials are accusing President Trump’s Department of Justice of obstructing the state’s investigation into billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ranch.
The state’s Attorney General, Raรบl Torrez, sent a letter to the DOJ last week accusing the department of withholding redacted records related to Epstein’s Zorro Ranch property, south of Santa Fe, The New York Times reports.
“The U.S. D.O.J.’s continued withholding of unredacted records is causing real and escalating harm,” Torrez wrote to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in the letter, made public Thursday. “Every day that the U.S. D.O.J. withholds these records, the foundation upon which a New Mexico prosecution could be built erodes.”
In February, Torrez requested documents from the DOJ related to the ranch, but despite receiving assurances from department officials that they would send over the documents, nothing ever came. Torrez wrote that he even followed up five times over the next few months through different channels to no avail, impeding important leads in the probe."
Sure as hell sounds like obstruction of justice to me. And that would make it yet one more crime to charge Todd Blanche with once Drumpf and his MAGA goons have been removed from power.
Does anyone care to guess why DonOld ordered Blanche to meddle in New Mexico's investigation of a remote property owned by DonOld's best bud of 20 years, the notorious child sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein?
Did Drumpf also arrange for one of his wealthy pedo friends to purchase the Epstein property and 'clean it up?':
"The family of a self-identified “Trump Republican” running for office in Texas boughtJeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranchwhere the sex trafficker abused teenage girls and young women, according to new documents.
A spokesperson for Donald Huffines, a Texas businessman and former GOP state senator now running for comptroller, confirmed the purchase to theSanta Fe New Mexican, a local media outlet.
“Four years after Mr Epstein’s death, the Huffines family purchased property in New Mexico listed at public auction whose proceeds benefited his victims,” a spokesperson for the family, Allen Blakemore, wrote to the outlet. “Prior to the auction listing, they had never visited the property.”"
So sight unseen being that he never visited the property, why did this Texas millionaire Republican (the pedo protection party) friend of Drumpf parachute in to New Mexico out of the blue and swoop up a property owned by DonOld's best friend of two decades, Jeffrey Epstein, a property where several of Epstein's victims have alleged sex crimes were committed against them?
This isn't a trick questions folks.
ITS BECAUSE DRUMPF PROBABLY KNOWS WHAT MANNER OF CRIMES WERE COMMITTED AT THE PROPERTY AND QUITE POSSIBLY WAS HIMSELF A PARTICIPANT IN SOME OF THOSE CRIMES.
I really don't need to say anything else about this sickening trash tweet - it's vile, rancid messaging stands on it's own in the annals of deceit and presidential malfeasance:
The US Supreme Court decision a week ago in the birthright citizenship question is settled law now - yet again.
Drumpf lost his case, and he is not so special that he gets to have a do-over 'rehearing' by SCOTUS on the matter just because he stomps his little feet and throws a tantrum.
Fuck this guy. Fuck those who support his continuing attacks on our Constitution and rule of law.
"LORENZO SALGADO ARAUJO CAME TO THE UNITED STATES thirty-five years ago—a few years too late to benefit from theImmigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, popularly knownas the “Reagan amnesty.” He worked in construction. By the 2000s, he was a small business owner who provided jobs and work for other men. They would drive to the North Houston suburbs and build houses. His dream was to build his own home for his family one day—a dream he achieved.
On Tuesday morning, Lorenzo was picking up workers as usual shortly after 6 a.m. when he was confronted by ICE and killed. He was 52 years old.
The shooting in Houston’s historically Mexican-American East End community near Magnolia Park took place just five minutes from the site of Houston’s FIFA Fan Festival.
Lorenzo’s son Ronaldo Salgado, a teacher,wrote on FacebookTuesday night that his father had been in the process of obtaining his work permit through the legal process."
It gets worse - as it always does with these ICE pieces of shit:
"In the emotional press conference, Ronaldo described his desperate scramble to find out information about what happened to his father. When he first heard about an interaction with ICE, the reports were conflicting. He hoped his father had simply been detained, so his first plan had been to find his father’s white work van and deliver it to his crew so that they might be able to finish work and get paid.
As time went on, Ronaldo remained in the dark. He did not learn about his father’s final moments from a hospital or law enforcement. Instead, confirmation of his death came in the cruel form of videos on social media.
“I recognized him immediately: not from his appearance, but from his voice crying in the street as he was bleeding out,” Ronaldo said through tears."
Americans saw how ICE openly LIED about the broad daylight shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis falsely claiming they were the aggressors. We saw how DHS leadership and ICE leadership went on TV and news shows and libeled the names of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by calling them terrorists. We have seen judges across the country throw ICE prosecutions out of court for lying about the circumstances of cases. The statements of the DHS and ICE officials from this corrupt administration aren't worth a pile of warm dog shit is what I am getting at.
And the fact that the US government killing unarmed people in the streets over civil immigration infractions is just a micro-blip in the news cycle shows what a massive failure our worthless fucking billionaire-owned "news" media is in this country, and it also shows the indifference of a nation of morally vacuous people who have allowed this kind of thug fascism to take control of their government and institutions for the sole purpose of inflicting cruelty and harm on some of our most vulnerable citizens.
The blood of Lorenzo Araujo is on the hands of Donald Trump and every MAGA crud who sides with him and continues to enable him.
So Drumpf went and shit the bed again by dispatching his attack dog FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to open a sham investigation to harass and threaten the producers and the hosts of the long running, all woman hosted morning show, 'The View.'
Drumpf's attempt to intimidate and bully the ladies on 'The View' is not at all unlike what he tried and failed to do to Jimmy Kimmel.
Why did the suspected pedophile American POTUS do this? Because in DonOld's polluted mind, the ladies of 'The View' aren't inviting a sufficient number of right-wing charlatans and professional agitators to appear on their program to spew MAGA lies to his satisfaction.
I wonder how DonOld's bullying of 'The View' ladies is working out? Oops - probably shouldn't have asked:
"TheTrump administrationwas facing an army of furious fans and advocates of "The View" after ABC called on people to fight back against the agency's probe.
More than 77,000 comments were filed with theFCCby defenders of the long-running daytime talk show, which reportedly prompted the show to makebooking changesthis week.
Fans and advocacy groups made it clear ahead of the July 6 deadline that they were rallying in support of the ABC show. Viewers voiced concern that the show's producers, hosts, and journalists — not the FCC — should decide who appears on air. This came after the FCC revealed in February that it had opened aninvestigationinto the widely watched daytime program."
Why did Brendan Carr's FCC open an investigation into 'The View?'
It's simple folks.
Because Donald Trump is an insecure, corrupt, fascist whiny-ass titty baby who has sadly found a handful of American losers (like Brendan Carr, for ie.) who are willing to trash their own credibility and honor to do the old kiddie-diddling fascist's un-American bidding in abusing the powers of their public office to target DonOld's political detractors.
And let's be clear here - using the powers of the government to investigate the producers and hosts of a public airwaves, television talk show because the people who created and put THEIR names and professional reputations into that show would prefer not to invite dissembling, MAGA assholes on to THEIR show to lie to THEIR viewers is unmistakably a fascist move.
Here's the thing though. Fans of 'The View' are similar to Taylor Swift fans - they are super-fanatical supporters, and they are legion.
Drumpf and Carr have just poked their little MAGA stick into a women's hornet nest and my guess is the dying old gangster will back down just like he did when Jimmy Kimmel's fanbase pressured ABC/Disney to not give in to the filthy old despot wannabe's demand to remove Kimmel from the air.
All of these corrupt apparatchiks in Drumpf's regime like Brendan Carr, Pete Hegseth, Markwayne Mullin, Linda McMahon, Howard Lutnick, Doug Burgum, etc., had better start thinking about what happens when the day arrives, and it will, when the MAGA block party is over and Orange Caligula is no longer around to save the MAGA day with his presidential pardon powers because he's roasting on a spit in Hell and the MAGAs in Congress have been thrown out of power. That is going to be a very ugly day for many of these morally bankrupt Republican quislings.
Long harangue coming up - so grab your favorite beverage and kick your feet up on the desk:
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I'm glad someone published a story like this finally.
Not that I believe it will have an influential or widespread effect on those who continue to believe blindly in Drumpf's wicked lies about the 2020 election being 'stolen' from him, but because it shows that there is a sliver of redemptive hope for the minds and souls of some of the Fox "news" zombies who are still addicted to Rupert Murdoch's right-wing propaganda heroin:
"In interviews with MS NOW’s David Noriega over why they have abandoned DonaldTrump, members of the “Leaving MAGA” organization explained why they got involved in the movement before fleeingwhat one called a “cult.”
Admitting that they found acceptance within the Trump-can-do-no-wrong movement,Ron Kelleystated he left when he removed himself from theFox Newsbubble.
“I did believe that the election was stolen,” he told Noriega. “I believe that the riots were actually —those were patriots until I actually switched off Fox News and started getting my news from other places for my information. That's when it finally hit.”
Tori Hurst confessed she fell in with the MAGA crowd because, “I grew up really poor, so a lot of my friends' parents would be responsible for helping me get to prom or making sure I had new shoes for school, and they were all MAGA. And it was very much this constant conversation of, if you want to have nice things, be a Republican.”
What happened at the Jan. 6 insurrection eventually became a wake-up call for her.
“I met my now-husband in 2021, and they made me watch a documentary on January 6th, and I didn't even know what happened on January 6th prior to the PBS documentary,” she recalled. “And I looked at him and I said, ‘Scott, did that really happen?’ And he was like, ‘Where have you been?’"
First off, I have to say something about the young reformed MAGA lady having been 'groomed' as a teen by the MAGA parents of her friends to believe the hateful idea that "if you want to have nice things, be a Republican."
I am presuming the messaging there to that then teen girl was that if you want to be accepted in our group, be a Republican. And vote for Republicans.
Ah yes - preparing the American youth of tomorrow by grooming them to vote for the kind of Republicans like the one currently squatting in the American people's White House who just so happens to be a lifelong con artist, failed crooked "businessman," serial adulterer, serial sexual assaulter, adjudicated rapist, suspected child rapist, and coup-plotting, convicted felon. Apparently those are the kind of Republicans the MAGA parents of that girl's friends were grooming her to vote for.
Seriously though, that attitude right there is about as 'elitist' as you can fucking get, man. The implication is that Americans who vote for Democrats are the kind of Americans who don't attain "nice things" in life simply because of the way they vote.
It intrigues me that these hardcore MAGA people can be so willfully blind. Have any of them who truly believe that bullshit ever done any extensive traveling through the rural heartland of this country and seen the poverty and rot that exists in so many areas?
Is it just coincidence that many of the poorest rural areas in this country are also GOP voting strongholds? Not that poverty in forgotten little rural towns is anything to celebrate, or make fun of. Poverty, whether inner city or rural should be something that is unacceptable in any form in the wealthiest nation on the planet.
Seriously though, I can only imagine what other manner of right-wing nonsense and malevolent bullshit those MAGA parents of that woman's friends filled her head with.
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But yes indeed, I too had wondered where that former MAGA lady had been that she had not heard about the violence perpetrated by Drumpf's thugs on January 6, 2021 at the US Capitol.
The answer is simple. She was hanging out on Fox "news" getting all of her "news" and information about that ugly, un-American day from a network which just a few years ago had to pay out three quarters of a billion dollars to a voting machine company in a lawsuit settlement after admitting in court to having used their "news" platform to mislead and dis-inform their viewers about the 2020 election being compromised by corrupt voting machines. Fox had perpetrated this misdeed against their own viewers despite Drumpf's own DHS saying at the time that the 2020 election was the most secure election in history.
So yeah, it is not surprising in the least that Fox "news" is the reason that these unfortunately clueless, now former MAGA folks were utterly shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that January 6th actually happened, and that it wasn't a bunch of 'Antifa' (there's no such thing) guerilla forces who violently attacked our nation's capitol, put more than 150 law enforcement officers in the hospital, ransacked and looted the capitol complex, threatened the lives of public officials, stole and vandalized public property, and got several people killed, including three police officers, all in a bid to stop the lawful congressional certification of Joe Biden's legitimate victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
And now you know why I have stated on multiple occasions on the pages of this shitty little blog that I believe Rupert Murdoch is just a pure, unadulterated pile of evil human waste.
Murdoch's native country of Australia more or less forced the dirty old fascist ass out of their country for attempting to do the very same thing to their news media that he has been doing to the news media here in the US for the past 30 years with his tainted Fox Corp. and all of it's slimy tentacles. I mean, how fucking vile of a person do you need to be for your home country to essentially tell your ass to leave?
But, Rupert did leave Australia knowing that he he would not be able to expand his corrupt muckraking media empire there the way he wanted to, and so he set his sights on the good old US of A, launched the execrable Fox 'news' in 1996, and it's been downhill for the American news media industry since.
The fact that day in and day out several million Americans tune in non-stop to that execrable lie peddling, trash slinging network and swear by everything they see and hear on it is not only a sad testament to the power of propaganda, but its pretty fucking scary as well.
I hope the two former MAGA folks highlighted in this article continue on their path of MAGA-free enlightenment. I hope they are able to convince others to burn the red hat and rejoin the world of sanity and decency.
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Btw - the article did not mention the name, but I believe the PBS documentary the MAGA lady referenced as influencing her decision to leave MAGA was likely this one:
I'm going to let Matt Randolph, aka 'Mr. Global' explain perfectly how this 4th of July was ruined and shat upon by Orange Caligula and his red hat minions:
There is nothing to celebrate about watching the fascist, criminal and his stooges who are currently squatting in the American people's White House tearing away at the foundational document of our nation, the U.S. Constitution, abusing the powers of his office, making a mockery of law and order, personally profiting off of the presidency, and taking the nation and our people to war on lies and corrupt deceit.
Mr. Global is right. This 4th of July celebration which was supposed to be a national, all-inclusive celebration of 250 years of our nation's history and democracy, and it was hijacked by a dying, corrupt despot wannabe and his cabal of future federal prison inmate quislings who turned the nation's 250th birthday celebration into one ginormous, disgusting Trumpian shit show.
I wasn't going to post anything else today other than the 4th of July related cartoon and commentary in the previous post, but this news was just too good to pass up and not make mention of for a myriad of reasons, the least of which is that Drumpf and Todd Blanche are currently defying US law by refusing to release the remaining 3+ million unredacted documents from the 'Epstein Files':
"A former beauty queen who says DonaldTrumpgroped her at a 1993 pageant has leveled a new claim at the president's first wife, alleging Ivana Trumphelped funnel young womeninto Jeffrey Epstein's orbit.
Beatrice Keul, 55, a former Miss Switzerland and Miss Europe contestant, told the Daily Beast's new Punch Up Substack that she believes Ivana acted as a "madam"-style figure in Epstein's social world, on par with hisconvicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
In the final part of a three-part interview, Keul said she believes "Ivana played a major role in this whole cosmos, bringing in women in the same way as Maxwell.""
If this story of Ivana playing an active role in recruiting and "funneling" young girls and women to Epstein's sex trafficking ring while she was married to Drumpf, and while Drumpf was in an active, best buds relationship with Epstein, that adds a whole new level of eye-opening nefariousness to this whole sordid fucking story.
And to think that we have MAGA voters to thank for all of this embarrassing, disgusting lunacy.
This cartoon effectively conveys the totality of Drumpf's message to the American people, as well as to other aspiring democracies around the world on this 250th anniversary of America's own representative democracy:
His ICE soldiers are still running around liked masked death squad goons kidnapping people off the streets, from their places of business, their job sites, their homes, and even their places of worship.
He is installing unqualified lickspittle henchmen (Bill Pulte and Todd Blanche for ie.) in positions of critical national security and DOJ leadership positions for the sole purpose of targeting and persecuting his enemies and detractors.
He is in current defiance of the will of the American people, the US Congress, and the law by refusing to release the remaining 3+ million documents from the 'Epstein Files' investigation, files which so far have revealed the mention of DonOld Drumpf's name more than anyone else's name except Epstein himself.
He is in the process of surrendering to Iran in the war that he and Bibi Netanyahu started and that surrender is going to cost the American people dearly.
He hijacked most of the funding for the official America 250 org for his own shoddy 'Freedom 250' festival in D.C. this week which has been a spectacularly embarrassing failure with practically non-existent attendance by the public.
So yeah, it is completely understandable that many people have a somewhat jaded view of celebrating 250 years of America's existence at a time when a budding dictator is trying to tear down everything good which that 250 year-old democracy stands for, and he is trying to do it from the inside of the the very White House that is supposed to be the seat of that democracy.
