US Navy's New Boss is Just Another MAGA Grifting Kook

Yeah, just what American Navy personnel need right now as they sit precariously on top of a powder keg that has the potential of being the catalyst for World War 3 - a right wing MAGA conspiracy whack job leading them in to harm's way:

 

Link:  MAGA Navy Boss Spreads Unhinged Theories About Witches and Cannibalism

  

"While Cao, unlike Phelan, has a military service background, he became known in political circles as a MAGA Senate candidate in Virginia in the 2024 election, where he lost to Democratic Senator Tim Kaine. Previously, the retired Navy captain also ran for the House in 2022.

During the campaign cycle, Cao, a 54-year-old Vietnamese refugee who moved to Virginia as a child, turned heads with a series of bizarre interviews and unhinged claims as he campaigned in the deep purple state where he lost in 2024 by eight points.

“There’s a place in Monterey, California called Lover’s Point. The original name was Lovers of Christ Point. Now it’s become, they took out the Christ. It’s Lover’s Point. And it’s really, Monterrey is a dark place now, a lot of witchcraft and the Wiccan community has really taken over there,” Cao said." 

 

Oh - he is also a 'stolen valor' asshole claiming publicly to have suffered combat injuries while serving in the US military but no service records exist to back up his claim that he suffered such injuries, much less was ever near an actual theater of war.

Umm . . . something tells me no good will come from the appointment of an individual who believes that 'witches' have taken over the coastal city of Monterrey, California, and who has lied about his military service as the head of the world's most powerful naval forces.

Drumpf continues his assholery of appointing the least qualified, least worthy or deserving, most incompetent, and most obsequious people to high places in his government and the results of those personnel decisions speak for themself (Noem, Bondi, Patel, Chavez DeRemer, etc.).

This clown Hung Cao is no exception to that rule.

 

 

---TFG

 

The Trump Crime Family Profits Off Corruption - It's the Family and Family Business Model

Nothing to see here.

Just former children's cancer charity embezzler Eric Trump bragging about one of his startup companies being gifted a $24 million taxpayer-funded contract by his crooked father's government: 

 

Link:  Post by @atrupar.com — Bluesky 

 

MAGA Republicans in Congress spent  years investigating and holding taxpayer funded hearings in the House looking in to a personal loan of $8000 from former President Joe Biden to his son Hunter to purchase a pickup truck.

Jared Kushner, Drumpf's scummy, ne'er-do-well son-in-law walked away from his advisory role in Drumpf's first administration with his pockets bulging with $2 Billion in Saudi Arabian cash.

Not one single minute of congressional hearings  took place looking into that clearly corrupt payoff to the 'Slim Man.'

Don Jr. and Barron are cashing in on crypto scams to the tune of hundreds of millions.  Zero congressional hearings.

Amazon owner Jeff Bezos gave Melania Trump $75 million to make her execrable movie biopic that sold almost zero tickets to the actual movie-going public because most of the tickets were hoovered up by wealthy MAGA sugar daddy buyers who bought them in bulk to inflate theater attendance numbers for Drumpf's spouse.  Not one congressional hearing.

$8000 vs. $2 billion - see the difference?

$8000 vs. hundreds of $millions in shady crypto deals - see the difference? 

$8000 vs. $75 million  - see the difference?

So yeah, it's guaranteed that Eric Trump pilfering $24 million in US taxpayer money won't elicit so much as a batted eyelash from House Republicans, because as long as it's Donald Trump and his crooked spawn committing the corruption and profiting off that corruption, Republicans simply do not give a fuck.

Americans are going to be shocked when the full, horrifying extent of depraved corruption, graft, embezzling, and outright theft by the Drumpf crime family and their "friends" gets revealed after the American people have rooted him, his international mobster family, and every last one of their morally bankrupt entourage of MAGA charlatans out of our American government.

 

 

 

---TFG

Republicans Cry Rivers of Crocodile Tears When Voters Win

Mike Johnson is another phony MAGA crud who can go pound sand in his sphincter.

 

Link:   'Boondoggle': Fuming Mike Johnson demands court strike down anti-Trump redistricting - Raw Story

 

"The GOP Speaker of the House said he expects the Virginia Supreme Court to overturn the redistricting that state voters approved on Tuesday, and that gives Democrats a chance to add four House seats in November.

"It's a hyper-partisan, gerrymandering boondoggle," Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday. "We raised a ton of money. We did our best, but the Democrats in charge of Virginia foisted this upon the people."

Johnson reminded reporters that the state's Supreme Court can still have the final say, adding that "we are confident and calling upon the Virginia Supreme Court to do the obvious and right result. That is to strike this thing down.""

 

And so now MAGA Mike and his crybaby MAGA friends will run to the Virginia state Supreme Court to try and pressure them to block the will of the citizens of Virginia.

The Republican party sure does spend an awful lot of time and expends a great deal of effort to block the will of American voters, don't they?

I won't be holding my breath waiting for MAGA Mike and his death cult of Republicans in the House to demand a similar court intervention of the redistricting in Texas where Drumpf ordered his MAGA governor buddy Greg Abbott to give the GOP more House seats in that state.

But here's the major fundamental difference between what Republicans did in Texas with their redistricting compared to what Democrats did in California and Virginia.

The Democrats put their redistricting plans in front of the voters of their respective states to be approved. The voters of those states decided the matter.

In Texas, that did not happen.  The Texas GOP unilaterally performed their redistricting with zero public or voter choice in the matter.

So when MAGA Mike Johnson starts publicly crying about how unfair the Virginia redistricting win was for Democrats, people need to tell that smarmy little dissembling shit-stain to just fuck off, and also ask him if he plans to seek court action against the Texas redistricting plan which was NOT voter approved.

Hearing all of these MAGAs screeching like banshees about what happened in Virginia the other evening is a strong sign that Democracy in the US still has plenty of life and is not going to willingly bow down to a morally corrupt political party and their child rapist leader.

 

 

 

---TFG

Another Drumpf Cabinet Member Jumps the Sinking Ship

Well, that didn't take long.

I went and refreshed my internet pages only to see a breaking news article about the Secretary of the United States Navy, the top Navy guy, just up and resigned out of the blue this afternoon - this while the United States Navy is currently immersed in a tense war footing scenario in the Middle East.

Perhaps this is the beginning of the "bad" that Lindsey Graham predicted (see previous post) was coming with an imminent Drumpf decision: 

 Link:  'What the hell is going on?' Firestorm as Navy secretary ousted while Iran war rages - Raw Story

  

"The sudden and unexplained departure of Navy Secretary John Phelan, appointed by Trump last year, has left observers baffled and outraged, especially as war with Iran drags on with dueling naval blockades.

Writer Charlotte Clymer joked that "the Strait of Hormuz is closed, but the Pentagon unemployment line is open."

Journalist Isaac Saul criticized Phelan for having "zero naval experience or military experience of any kind," in a post on X. "He was a businessman and donor to the Trump campaign, who bizarrely got tapped to be Sec of Navy...the appointment was bad. the timing of this was worse. This is inexcusable stuff."

Some floated rumors that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth forced Phelan out."

 

I'm wondering if Phelan was either given orders by Hegseth and Drumpf that he either could not stomach issuing being that he's a non-military guy and nothing more than a crooked business crony of Drumpf, or they were illegal orders and perhaps because he still possesses a small amount of personal integrity, he resigned rather than carry out those orders.

I have an uneasy feeling that as Lindsey Graham crowed about, something very "bad" is about to burst Don and Bibi's Big Iran Armageddon Adventure wide open and there will be bad repercussions as a result for America and Americans.

 

 

 

---TFG

With Drumpf and Hegseth Calling the Shots, "Bad" Undoubtedly Means Bad for America and Americans

If Drumpf leg-humper and war whisperer Senator Lindsey Graham is boasting that something "bad" is about to occur with Drumpf and his next move in his and Bibi's Big Iran Armageddon Adventure, perhaps the rest of ought to start paying a little closer attention: 

 

Link:  Lindsey Graham astonishes with claim after Trump call: 'Something bad is about to happen' - Raw Story

 

"Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made a stunning claim Wednesday after speaking with President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier that morning by phone, one that could have major global implications if proven accurate.

Graham’s announcement comes amid the U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping waterway through which 20% of the world’s oil trade flows. Trump ordered the blockade last week in response to Iran’s own partial blockade of the waterway to U.S.-aligned vessels.

Robert McCartney, a retired journalist with The Washington Post, voiced concern with the optimism seen in Graham’s statement.

“If Lindsey Graham is happy, then expect more war,” McCartney wrote to his more than 6,000 followers on X."

    

If Drumpf orders a full-throated ground invasion of Iran, he should be removed from office immediately and arrested for flagrantly violating the constitutional separation of powers in bypassing the US Congress and ignoring the will of the American people and involving the United States of America and our citizenry in yet another 'forever war' that will cost us dearly in money, blood, treasure and world-wide trust and take a generation to repair the damage from.

Should it come to that point,  I shudder to think of what comes next for us all.

 

 

---TFG

The Blue Tide is Turning Hard Against Trumpism and MAGA is Scared - As They Should Be

Last night, the voters of Virginia chose to redistrict their state which will eliminate a few Republican seats and add them to the Dem column in Congress, and the MAGA crowd is enraged about it:

 

Link:  MAGA erupts after blue state hits back at Trump with new election map: 'Total travesty!' - Raw Story

 

"Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement melted down on Tuesday night after voters in Virginia approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's election map.

The new map will give Democrats four more seats in the House of Representatives, and was passed at a time when many in the Republican Party are expressing concern about their party's chances of retaining power in the upcoming midterm election. About 51% of voters, or more than 1.5 million people in all, supported the ballot measure, according to the election results.

Virginia is the latest state to enter the redistricting arena. Texas and California both passed new maps that effectively canceled each other out. Meanwhile, lawmakers in other states like Indiana, Florida, and Maryland have considered passing new maps."

   

Here's my message to these Republican MAGAs crying about the Virginia redistricting win for the Democrats - go fuck yourselves, every damn one of you.  Go fuck yourselves until you collapse from exhaustion from fucking yourselves.

When Drumpf urged his MAGA governor buddy of Texas Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans to redistrict their state to eliminate Democratic representation, not one of the MAGAs spoke up to denounce such an overtly corrupt power move.  Texas Republicans did not even bother to put the matter to a vote of it's citizenry like the Democrats did in California and now Virginia, they just went ahead and did it.

So yeah - fuck you MAGA Republicans if losing four seats in Virginia is too much for your delicate, right-wing sensibilities to bear.  Your greasy old child raping leader started a redistricting war that he couldn't finish, not at all unlike the Big Iran Armageddon Adventure that he started with Israel and won't be able to finish.

So if you MAGA voters have a problem with what occurred in Virginia yesterday, go talk to your dear traitor leader about it, as if he actually gives  a shit what any of you think.

 

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf's Choice in Iran - Capitulate or Start World War 3

I suppose at this point we should just be thankful that the demented old lunatic hasn't commenced to committing war crimes or launching a nuke - yet:

 

 

Link:  Trump extends ceasefire with Iran after vowing 'to be bombing' if negotiations stalled - Raw Story

 

"President Donald Trump announced that he was extending a ceasefire with Iran just hours after he threatened to bomb the country if negotiations stalled."

 

All of these bombastic threats by Drumpf, deadlines issued and always backed off of or extended, and Drumpf's erratic public bravado tells me that Iran has the mobbed-up, old New York real-estate mobster over a barrel, and unless DonOld truly wants to unleash the hellfires of World War 3 by using nuclear weapons, he has no choice but to capitulate to Iran's terms which essentially leaves Iran with a better deal than what they had gotten with Obama, plus they will get to continue enriching uranium.  More importantly, they will continue to maintain unilateral control of the Strait of Hormuz and the shipping that passes through that critical international shipping channel.  Iran wins, Drumpf is a loser.

However, if Drumpf's inner demons, for which there are many, get the better of him and he launches nukes . . . well, I hate to say it, but it's pretty much all over for everyone.

 

 

 

---TFG

Performative Huckster Patel is About to Ka$h His Chips Out

Ka$h Patel is a poster-child example of the kind of leadership and governing you get when you hire performative internet trolls and Fox "news" weekend talk show co-hosts for high positions in your government, as well as military (Hegseth):

Link:  Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job - The Atlantic

 

"On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out.”

Patel oversees an agency that employs roughly 38,000 people, including many who are trained to investigate and verify information that can be presented under oath in a court of law. News of his emotional outburst ricocheted through the bureau, prompting chatter among officials and, in some corners of the building, expressions of relief. The White House fielded calls from the bureau and from members of Congress asking who was now in charge of the FBI.

It turned out that the answer was still Patel. He had not been fired. The access problem, two people familiar with the matter said, appears to have been a technical error, and it was quickly resolved. “It was all ultimately bullshit,” one FBI official told me.

But Patel, according to multiple current officials, as well as former officials who have stayed close to him, is deeply concerned that his job is in jeopardy. He has good reasons to think so—including some having to do with what witnesses described to me as bouts of excessive drinking. My colleague Ashley Parker and I reported earlier this month that Patel was among the officials expected to be fired after Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ouster, on April 2. “We’re all just waiting for the word” that Patel is officially out of the top job, an FBI official told me this week, and a former official told my colleague Jonathan Lemire that Patel was “rightly paranoid.” Senior members of the Trump administration are already discussing who might replace him, according to an administration official and two people close to the White House who were familiar with the conversations." 

Ka$h Patel was always a terrible fucking choice to make the head of the FBI, but from Drumpf's perspective, it was a conveniently transactional choice.

Patel was chosen solely to be the instrument of destruction from within to the agency that had been involved in investigating and indicting DonOld for his previous crimes, and Drumpf saw the quisling quality in Patel that he seeks in all of his nominees as an opportunity to exact some revenge.

At Drumpf's bidding, Patel has shut down any and all investigations into Drumpf's crimes as well as crimes of his cronies.  Patel has purged the FBI of any and all agents involved in any aspect with any of Drumpf's criminal investigations.

Patel, like Pam 'Scam Blondi' Bondi was always where he was because he was a convenient stooge for Drumpf to manipulate and control for his own pernicious purposes.  Look for Patel to be jettisoned soon enough.  DonOld has pretty much gotten his usefulness out of the phony little rat bastard.

And of course, just as he did with Noem's and Bondi's replacements, watch Drumpf choose someone just as, if not more unqualified and shady (Todd Blanche for ie.) to supplant Ka$h and his booze-fueled fratboy sideshow.

When certain people in this country gave a mobbed-up, 'pussy-grabbing' orange clown the powers of the US presidency, they should have expected, and no doubt many did but didn't care, a circus administration.

Well, the time has come to at long last run this entire fly-by-night MAGA governing circus out of town and ban them from returning.

 

 

 

---TFG

Prepare the Executive Straitjacket and the Padded Cell - A New Patient Will Be Arriving Soon

Nothing is sacred to Donald Trump.  Not even the Congressional Medal of Honor:

 

Link:  Trump considered awarding self Medal of Honor amid Iran war chaos: insiders - Raw Story

 "Amid the ongoing U.S. war against Iran, President Donald Trump considered awarding himself the Medal of Honor, the most prestigious military award issued by the U.S. government, White House insiders claimed in a report published Saturday evening in the Wall Street Journal."

 

As if that's not bad enough, this doesn't sound all that good either:

'“Aides kept the president out of the room as they got minute-by-minute updates because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful, instead updating him at meaningful moments, a senior administration official said,” the Journal’s report reads.

Amid the chaos, which according to the insiders also involved Trump “sometimes” losing focus and attempting to pivot to topics unrelated to the U.S. war against Iran such as his White House ballroom, the president also actively considered awarding himself the highest military decoration in the United States’ history."

 

For the past 165 years the Congressional Medal of Honor has been awarded to American military service members who have distinguished themselves through supreme gallantry at the risk of life and the ultimate, above and beyond the call of duty sacrifice.

The idea that a serial draft dodging, larcenous, felonious mobster who is enmeshed in a world-wide child sex trafficking ring scandal and is more worried about his "big beautiful" golden ballrooom being built than the young soldiers he is sending off to war deems his self worthy of being awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor is a clear and present sign of the dirty old gangster's deteriorated mental state.

And the fact that just last week he was posting memes on social media depicting himself as some sort of celestially begotten, Christ-like healing figure who possesses a magical healing orb doesn't help the case one bit of those who continue to defend his fitness for office.

If there were any truly patriotic and sane adults surrounding Drumpf, he would be removed from office immediately, for every minute of his continued presence in the American people's White House endangers (Iran war for ie.) the national security of this country and every single American in it.

 

 

---TFG 

Dr. Trump's Vindictiveness Has no Boundaries

Dirty DonOld is pissed off at Pope Leo XIV for having the temerity to question the godliness of his and Bibi Netanyahu's Big Iran Armageddon Adventure, and so how does he respond to the pontiff and spiritual leader of over 3 billion people worldwide?  Naturally by taking away shelter funding for immigrant children by cutting off federal aid to a Catholic Charity program that provides such shelter.  In other words - something Republican Jesus Would Do.

Malignantly retaliatory shit like this is just so on-brand for the dirty old, mobbed-up pig: 

 

Link:  Trump Yanks $11 Million From Catholic Charity Aiding Migrant Children

 

"Thomas Wenski, Archbishop of Miami, said the federal government abruptly ended a more than six-decade relationship with Catholic Charities in Miami, calling it “baffling” to shutter a program the government would be “hard-pressed to replicate at the level of competence and excellence that Catholic Charities has achieved.”" 

 

Didn't we just endure a week of public uproar about DonOld posting a meme online depicting himself as a celestially-robed Jesus figure with magic healing hands and a magic healing orb and a winged, horned demon hovering above him, bringing a dying man back to life?

Why yes - yes we did: 

  

 

Dr. Drumpf is a fucking quack.

Dr. Drumpf and his gazillionaire intern Musky Muskrat's DOGE did the same thing with their sudden de-funding of USAID.  

The human death toll from that malevolent decision is already in the hundreds of thousands and the final total has yet to be tallied but will likely be in the millions.  I hope it comes to be that Drumpf and the thugs  who he commissioned to defund USAID are haunted unto the fiery depths of Hell by the souls of those whom they have already killed, and others who they have condemned to premature death because of that greed and racism-inspired governing decision.

DonOld can have his public beef with Pope Leo and the Catholic Church all he wants for all I give a shit, but to target innocent immigrant kids as a disagreement tactic in that confrontation is utterly chicken-shit behavior, but it's the kind of chicken-shit behavior we have come to expect from Drumpf and the morally bankrupt sycophants in his execrable MAGA government.

 

 

 

---TFG