Rebuked by America, An Angry Old Mobster Predictably Commits to Pardoning Himself and His Hench-people

Once again for the gazillionth time - if no crimes have been committed, then why would preemptive criminal pardons be needed for everyone in DonOld's employment?:

 

Link:  Post by @atrupar.com — Bluesky 

 

"Trump suggests he is going to pardon everyone, including himself: "I'm allowed to do a self-pardon ... I don't want to see people that work for me go through years of nonsense."" 

 

"I'm allowed to absolve myself of all the crimes I have committed against this country and the people of this country," brays the small, angry, now irrelevant little man-child.

And isn't it quite telling that the "nonsense" that DonOld refers to is commonly known as 'justice' and 'accountability' when it comes to US and moral law?

But yeah, of course the dirty old mobster included himself in his 'Pardon-Palooza' plans.  There is nobody else who can or would pardon him for the myriad of crimes he has committed in office.

Whether Drumpf issuing a pardon for himself, an act that has never been committed by any US POTUS in the history of the nation, is legal or not remains an unresolved constitutional question, but it sounds like it's a question that an answer will be forthcoming for at some point soon.

But the mere optics of Drumpf issuing criminal pardons to himself, his crooked children and cronies, and several of his crooked administration officials should be seen and accepted by all Americans as an open confession of their guilt of having committed God knows how many and what types of crimes in office.

And as for those whom DonOld is considering pardons for - neither time or belated mea culpas will ever - EVER erase the dark stain on one's character for having received a preemptive criminal pardon from a lifelong con man, a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, a suspected child rapist, and a traitor to this American nation.

Frankly, imho, people's careers in US politics should be ruined for eternity if they accept one of these pardons from the diapered orange gangster in the White House, and they should not be allowed anywhere near our government ever again, either as part of government, or doing business with it.  Period.  (And you're damn right that includes Elon MuskRat)

 

 

 

---TFG

MuskRat Bet the Farm on MAGA and Now His Farm is in Foreclosure

This asshole had better start setting aside some of his wealth to hire some top-flight criminal defense lawyers for himself: 

 

Link:  Elon Musk sulks after blowing $400 million on GOP midterm wipeout - Raw Story

 

"Elon Musk spent more than $400 million trying to stop a Democratic wave, and woke up the morning after Election Day to find his money had bought him almost nothing.

The world’s richest man, now the largest individual political donor in modern American history, poured his fortune into Republican Senate and House races through a network of super PACs, but Republicans lost both chambers anyway, reported the Washington Post.

Early Wednesday, Musk lamented the results, posting, “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now,” and joking that his “election-interfering space lasers” had failed.

The sting was sharpest in Musk’s adopted home state of Texas. In the race’s closing days, he attacked Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, claiming he wanted to “open the borders” and “abolish democracy” and that he “will vote to trans your kids.” Musk sent $168 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, much of which flowed to a PAC backing Republican Ken Paxton." 

  

MuskRat wagered his undeserved, ill-gained wealth on the wrong horses.

Not only did Elmo's chosen horses all come in dead last, but the party that he has single-handedly been underwriting for the last few years also suffered a catastrophic defeat and has had their congressional political power taken away.

The message to Musk and Republicans is simple and unequivocal - take your mountains of dirty cash, your fascist ideology, and your bought and paid for MAGA political candidates and go fuck yourselves into extinction.

 

 

---TFG

Make No Mistake - American Democracy is Alive and Well, And is Coming For it's Enemies

BOOM!

And there it is: 

 

Link:  Democrat Gina Hinojosa defeats Greg Abbott in Texas governor race | AP News 

 

"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Gina Hinojosa was elected the first Democratic governor of Texas in more than 30 years on Tuesday, ousting Republican incumbent Greg Abbott and catapulting a decided underdog to the helm of what has long been the nation’s most populous red state.

She will become Texas’ first Latina governor — and the first Democrat to hold the office since Ann Richards in the 1990s — following a groundbreaking victory that topples one of the nation’s most prominent Republican governors and steadfast supporters of President Donald Trump, possibly accelerating the state’s shift to an emerging battleground.

Her victory was part of an electrifying night for Democrats in Texas, where James Talarico also won election, defeating Republican Ken Paxton in the race for the U.S. Senate."

  

You will find no clearer sign of just how badly Drumpf and his party got the shit kicked out of them last night in the midterm elections than seeing what happened in the deep red state of Texas.

Incumbent MAGA Republican and Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick loses to the Democrat.

Current Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton loses his US Senate bid to a Democrat.

Incumbent MAGA Texas Governor Greg Abbott loses to the Democrat putting a Democrat in the Texas Governor's mansion for the first time in over three decades.

A clean sweep of Texas for the Democrats.

The Democrats also have retaken control of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.

Such an occurrence in Texas would have been unthinkable a couple of years ago.  But then along came Drumpf, part Deux, and the rest is now history and so is the cowardly and corrupt Republican party.

What occurred yesterday was that a lot of better Americans went to the polls and an unmistakable majority of those better Americans made it clear that we have had enough of DonOld's shitshow and Republican cowardice.  And they did so with a total and comprehensive rebuke of Donald Trump and his MAGA goons, as well as those weak-kneed Republicans who refused to stand up to them.

Now comes the reckoning part of this story, a story which incidentally is no way near being over because this story does not end until DonOld Drumpf is removed from office and the execrable MAGA movement is shoved back under the rock it crawled out from under.

Let's get to work now America, and put Donald Trump and MAGA in our rearview mirrors and leave their asses in the dust.

 

 

---TFG

When More Than Half Your Own Troops Don't Trust You, It's Time to Go

Had there existed a list of the 1000 worst Americans who could be considered to be the absolute worst choices to put in charge of the entire US military, Pete Hegseth would have been at, or very near the very top of that list, I damn well guarantee it:

 

Link:  Pete Hegseth Makes Over Half the Military Want to Quit Early | The New Republic 

 

"The Trump administration’s hyperpoliticized military environment apparently has thousands of active-duty military members looking toward the exit.

A survey by Common Defense Civic Engagement, a grassroots veterans organization, found that 53 percent of active-duty service members want to leave because their service is becoming more politicized." 

 

Peter Brian Hegseth has no business being where he is at and doing what he is doing.  

Hegseth is a right-wing 'DEI hire' disgrace, and the fact that more than half of the current rank and file would rather leave the service than continue serving under him should be seen as a huge red flag for troop morale and readiness.

Let's be clear - Pete Hegseth is more of a big talking, loud talking "culture warrior" than an actual warrior - in other words, the exact kind of person most professionally-trained soldiers would prefer not to have next to them in a combat trench.

Drumpf hired the manifestly unworthy Hegseth because DonOld does not give a flying shit about our military or our troops, and the fact that he installed a high-strung, performative, ethically compromised, Fox "news" weekend talk show co-host with a drinking problem in charge of the entire US military instead of a qualified, experienced leader is proof enough of that.

If Democrats retake control of Congress on Tuesday, one of the first orders of business of the new Congress is to impeach and remove Pete Hegseth from our government and send a message to Drumpf that there's new management in Washington, D.C., and they're not fucking around.

 

 

---TFG

Tuesday, November 3, 2026 is Judgment Day for Drumpf and MAGA - Let's Vote Them Off the Island

JfC, MAGA's crocodile tears act truly has grown interminably wearisome, you know what I mean?

Ten years of this stupid, seemingly endless bullshit from these people.  It is long past time to put an end to this scornful, insufferable nonsense.

What Drumpf has taught these bozos who support him sadly, is that if you just make a big enough public scene, stamp your feet and beat your chest, and respond with malicious lies while screaming, "RIGGED!!," every time an election or a court ruling doesn't go your way, it becomes fairly easy to sow doubt about the integrity of the legal and electoral systems in the public's mind over time.

And nothing benefits an aspiring dictator more than a populace that is distrustful of their own nation's justice and elections systems.  Those kind of people and their fears are easily exploited and manipulated for nefarious purposes, and that is what we see going on with Drumpf right now as he desperately tries to keep his MAGA 'protectors' in power in Congress.

But, tomorrow is the day that Americans have a golden opportunity to take a big step forward and begin the long overdue process of ridding our politics of this viral, toxic disease that goes by the name of MAGA:

 

Link:  ‘It’s all rigged!’ MAGA erupts after yet another Trump DOJ prosecution collapses - Raw Story 

 

"MAGA figures erupted in outrage Monday after a federal judge dismissed criminal charges against two former FBI officials accused of lying to Congress about investigations involving Hunter Biden.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui threw out the case against Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, finding prosecutors had failed to establish probable cause. He described the prosecution in his ruling as critical of the Trump DOJ as political “weaponization.”

The decision on the eve of the critical mid-term elections unleashed a wave of fury from prominent supporters of President Donald Trump, who accused the judiciary of protecting Democrats."

   

Shorter MAGA:  WAHHHHH! THE MEAN OLD JUDGES ARE "PROTECTING DEMOCRATS!  WAHHHHHHH!!...

Umm, no.  The judges are following the letter of the law and making decisions based on that and that alone.  Why is that such a difficult concept to grasp for the MAGA chuds?

This is no different than the 65+ judges who ruled on the merits of the law and letter of the US Constitution in ruling that Drumpf and his lawyers had no evidence and no legal standing to challenge the outcome of the 2020 election, an election that Drumpf lost, and knew that he had fairly lost to Joe Biden.

American judges in American courtrooms across this country right now are once again standing up for the rule of law and the letter of our constitution by keeping Drumpf and his lawless regime from committing crimes to advance their corrupt agenda.  It's that simple.

That is why DonOld and his corrupted toadies in his corrupt DOJ keep losing case after case and also why citizen grand juries keep refusing to indict people whom Drumpf and Toad Blanche have targeted for retributive prosecution.

MAGA wants a dictator with unlimited power running the country.  That quite simply stated, can never be allowed to take place.  It would portend the literal demise and ultimate death of the United States of America and the freedoms as we have known them.

Let MAGA scream and whine and pout all they fucking want about these court cases that Drumpf and his DOJ keep losing.  Tomorrow is the day that sane America finally takes a stand and silences the incessant, graceless, obnoxious caterwauling of these performative MAGA crybabies with our collective vote to remove them and their kiddie-diddling cult leader from power and restore some semblance of responsible adult leadership to the American people's White House and Congress.

 

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf's Closing Midterms Message to America: 'Vote For My Malignant Narcissism'

Drumpf held a last minute rally today in front of the D.C. Reflecting Pool that he and his Mar-a-Lardass pool cleaning buddy ruined, and rather than providing Americans with an update on how he plans to extract the US from his failing, flailing Iran war and fix the economy that he broke, the phony old traitor instead chose to brag about and pimp his 'big, beautiful' new Nazi-inspired 'Triumphal Arch' which is the sister vanity project to his 'big beautiful' Nazi-inspired ballroom: 

 

Link:  Post by @atrupar.com — Bluesky 

 

If better Americans are allowed to have a say in the matter, the embarrassing 'sniper' and 'drone' armed monstrosity that the filthy old mobster wants to build and force upon the country and force taxpayers to pay for, a structure which will cast an enormous shadow over Arlington National Cemetery as well as the Vietnam Memorial Wall, not only will never be built, but if by some crook of fate it does get built, it will most certainly be torn down and relegated to the trash heap of history after the old kiddie-diddling despot has been removed from power.

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf's Pardons Are Nothing But Get Out of Jail Free Cards for His Criminal Co-Conspirators

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once again, the question must be asked - if no crimes have been committed, why the need for pre-emptive criminal pardons??

 

Link:  Trump Says He Would Offer Pardons to Musk, Aides If Democrats Target Them - Bloomberg

 

"President Donald Trump said he would be willing to offer protective pardons to Elon Musk and close aides if Democrats take control of Congress after the midterm elections.

The president in an interview dismissed a suggestion that Democrats would move to nationalize Musk’s Space X, but said he would “protect” the billionaire entrepreneur and any aides who were targeted by Congressional investigators, including Edward Coristine, who was part of Musk’s DOGE project to slash government programs."

 

MuskRat's money helped buy Drumpf's second term in office and has helped keep DonOld's enabling MAGA operatives in control of Congress.  Of course Drumpf is going to "protect" the guy who has done so much to put him where he is today and helped him avoid accountability for his role in Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes against children.

Every move like this that Drumpf makes should be viewed as just one more confession of his own criminal guilt.

 

 

 

---TFG

On The Eve of Election Defeat, Drumpf Plots Destruction and Mass Death

"Satan laughing spreads his wings..."

America's orange war pig is seriously contemplating deploying nuclear weapons to use against Iran:

 

Link:  'I can't sleep': Terror spreads after Trump insider's nuclear attack warning - Raw Story

 

"Panic spread late Sunday as a prominent conservative figure with deep ties to the Donald Trump administration warned that the president was just days away from deciding whether to use nuclear weapons in his deeply unpopular war against Iran.

That conservative figure was Tucker Carlson, formerly a staunch ally of Trump who has since broken with the president over the U.S. war against Iran. Sunday night, Carlson issued a warning that Trump, under pressure from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, may be “within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran,” citing an “informed observer” and other inside connections.

“We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months,” Carlson warned in a statement published on social media that had been viewed more than 34 million times as of Monday morning.

"Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called ‘battlefield nukes’ easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.”"  

 

I hope to God that those responsible for helping put such a vile madman in power in this country spend every waking moment of the rest of their lives haunted by that awful decision.

 

 

 

---TFG

No Matter Where He Flees, Justice and Accountability Will Catch Up With DonOld Drumpf Eventually

There is every reason to believe things could very well play out this way with Drumpf should the MAGA Republicans be removed from power in these midterm elections: 

 

Link:  Trump quietly plotting his own escape to friendly dictatorships: legal expert - Raw Story 

 

"A legal expert believes that a Trump ally's dramatic escape from prosecution abroad offers a glimpse of the president's own exit strategy.

Jamie Rowen, an international law expert and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, warned on a Saturday episode of All Rise News that President Donald Trump and his strongman allies appear to be laying plans to flee to friendly dictatorships if they lose power and face prosecution at home.

"You can imagine that if he loses an election that he thinks was rigged, even if it very clearly wasn't, and he loses by a sizable margin...that he too might face some type of criminal investigation for all of the crimes that he is currently committing," Rowen told journalist Adam Klasfeld of All Rise News."

  

Would Vladimir Putin provide asylum refuge to Drumpf and his cronies if they fled the country once the entire breadth of evidence of DonOld's treachery and corruption become public knowledge and his protectors in this Trumpublican congress are removed from power and investigations uncover serious, "high crimes and misdemeanors?"

Of course he would.  Drumpf has helped Putin accomplish more of Russia's long-term agenda for destroying the United States of America from within, than any murderous tyrant this nation has ever faced from foreign shores.

I have no doubts that Drumpf would be given a red-carpet hero's welcome in Moscow.  Hell, Putin might even give his old friend DonOld something he has always coveted, a full-blown, Red Square military parade with tanks and missiles, and marching troops and military jets flying overhead, and banners of DonOld's orange, leering face hanging from the facade of every building.

That Drumpf is actually considering fleeing the country that he claims to love so much is DonOld's confession that he really doesn't give a shit about this nation one bit unless he can own it, control it and do with it as he pleases - not at all unlike the feelings he has toward little girls.

If Drumpf flees the US, it would not only validate everything bad I ever said about him, but would also vindicate those who have spent the better part of the past decade screaming from the rooftops about Drumpf's untrustworthiness and the danger he poses to the American people.

 

 

 

---TFG 

Internet 'Influencers' are Helping Transform America From a Democracy to an 'Idiocracy'

Speaking of online "influencer" buffoons who I personally wouldn't trust to influence a potato... 

 

Link:  Joe Rogan spills on Trump's broken promise that disappointed his supporters most - Raw Story 

 

"Joe Rogan, who endorsed President Donald Trump in 2024, said this week that Trump’s biggest letdown for his supporters was his promise to keep the country out of new wars.

“The thing that disappoints everybody who supported Trump before he got into office was one of his big things that everybody agreed with was no more war,” Rogan said on the latest episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” with comedian Colum Tyrrell. “Like please, that sounds great.”

Rogan said voters had long assumed that the “military-industrial complex” pushes the country into unnecessary conflicts."

 

The half-dozen or so times that I have watched Joe Rogan talking on his show about things where he fancies himself to be knowledgeable on the subject matter at hand, I've come away wondering even more how it is that this guy has so many followers, and all I can come up with is that apparently bro-talk bullshit sells very well to the bro podcast crowd, and the simple, boring truth doesn't.

It's quite interesting that lying the country into war with Iran is the line in the sand moment for Joe Rogan as it relates to his ongoing support of the dirty old mobster and his friend, DonOld Drumpf.

I don't recall any public backlash from Rogan when on Drumpf's first day back in office he pardoned all 1600+ of the January 6th convicted thugs and seditionists.

Nor has Joe had much to say about the spastic tariffs and trade wars that have helped torpedo our economy and put millions of Americans in a bad way economically, which when you think about it, is not surprising considering Rogan's own multi-millionaire wealth.

Nor has Rogan seemed to have been bothered about the massive amount of corruption and graft taking place out of the White House by Drumpf, his family members, and their cronies at America's expense.

Rogan has been wrong on issue after issue over the years, dumbly wrong (Covid for ie.), and the fact that he supported and promoted Drumpf for POTUS in 2024 AFTER Drumpf had become a convicted felon, AFTER he had been adjudicated a rapist by a US court in the E. Jean Carroll case, and AFTER he had violently attempted to overthrow the 2020 election, calls into question Rogan's own judgment and casts a long shadow on his own character.  

More than anything, it tells me that Joe Rogan is not a serious individual.  He is one of many online 'entertainers' with big platforms, big mouths, and shitty MAGA-friendly opinions, and those opinions regardless of Rogan's meaningless celebrity fame and wealth, aren't worth a bucket of warm spit in the reality-based world.

Not that Rogan doesn't have the right to spew his unserious opinions in the media and make a lucrative living off of the unthinking chumps and patsies who buy into it, I am only saying that upon close inspection, most of the guy's opinions are not worth a bucket full of warm human saliva.  That is all.

Joe Rogan is essentially a dumb guy's idea of an intelligent, well-informed guy, and if that perspicuous equation doesn't explain it well enough, I'm not sure how else to put it to make it any clearer. 

Sadly, we are in an age where picking up and reading a book to learn more not only of world and human history, but also other subjects and current events, has been replaced by a 'vast wasteland' of young Americans (mostly young men) getting a sizable portion of their worldly knowledge and information from know-nothing chuckle-heads like Joe Rogan and other internet "influencer" podcaster types whose views they have found themselves attracted to for God knows what reason.

The bottom line, whether Joe Rogan acknowledges it or not, is that Drumpf did take this country to war with Iran by his choice.

DonOld had been advised by wiser military and intelligence people to NOT do it.  He ignored those advisors, got rid of them, and instead listened to others - others such as wanted war criminal and indicted criminal in his own country Bibi Netanyahu, the now deceased warmonger Lindsey Graham, that cartoon-villain, Rambo wannabe Pete Hegseth, and right-wing "influencers" (there's that dirty word again).

The fallout that will come to America and Americans as a result of that ill-advised choice as Don and Bibi's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure' spirals further out of control and the desperation and panic sets in will be incalculable if it plays out to it's full damaging potential.

And make no mistake about it.  The Americans most responsible for that damage will be those like Joe Rogan and others who helped put a clearly inept and corrupt larcenist and arsonist like Drumpf back in office in 2024 with their public support of him.

Let's hope that all of the votes are fairly and lawfully counted in this midterm election and that once all is said and done, wiser Americans will have chosen to take governing power away from these nihilistic, morally bankrupt, pedophile-protecting, Drumpf enabling MAGA Republicans and put some adults back in charge who are answerable and accountable to the American people instead of a crooked, lying, dying, wretchedly insane old mobster.

And also, let's stop listening to and allowing our views and public discourse to be "influenced" by incessantly wrong, self-serving, meathead clods like Joe Rogan.

 

 

 

---TFG