No Kings. No Fascism. No Gestapo. Not in Our America.

Listen to Arizona MAGA Congressturd Andy Biggs make the lame-ass defense of ICE's unconstitutional claim that they can stop and arrest ANY citizen of this country, ANYWHERE simply on suspicion that their darker shade of skin color makes them instant suspects for being undocumented immigrants.

I mean . . . he is literally saying "fuck the judges, fuck the law."

They aren't being subtle about who they are, are they?

This is how the Nazis started ridding "undesirables" from the German Fatherland just before their racist, madman leader led them to a bloody and world-changing catastrophe just some 80 or so years ago.

I am just utterly flabbergasted that here we are again having to have this fucking conversation about the dangers of ultra-nationalism and especially fascism in 2025, more so knowing that there are still survivors of the last world-wide fascist insurgency led by hateful despots that afflicted human history just some four score years ago around to tell us about the horrors of that period.

I will not sully my page by posting the video of this traitorous jagoff Biggs, who incidentally it should be noted, was one of the several Trumpublicans in Congress who went begging to Drumpf for a blanket criminal pardon for their involvement in DonOLD's deadly January 6th coup attempt.  So if you want to watch the video of this goose-stepping prick, feel free to click the link. 

 

Link: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lts2ut4n6h2v

 

Andy Biggs can just fuck right off.  He pisses on our Constitution in suggesting that the ICE gestapo can just randomly stop people anywhere in this country simply based on physical appearance and arrest and detain them without warrants.

Is that what the Ma and Pa MAGAs signed up for in voting for these bastards? If so, are you all really naive enough to believe that if Drumpf's constitutional excesses are not put in check right now that it is not going to similarly affect your lives some day?

Once the mass societal purging begins by order of a despot all bets are off as to who gets caught up in that purge.

 

 

 

---TFG

 

The Madness of King DonOLD

First off, it must be pointed out that it is the constitutionally mandated role of the United States Congress, not a rogue, demented, corrupt POTUS, to levy tariffs.  I mean, it's right there in the fucking U.S. Constitution folks, in very clear terms, Article I, Section 8, which states Congress has the power to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises".

Republicans in Congress, like the pants-wetting, cowardly weaklings they ALL are, have totally abandoned their legislative branch oversight role in our government, all in fealty toward a convicted felon thug POTUS who is massively abusing the powers of his office as he attempts to drag America toward the very same type of thoroughly corrupted, kleptocratic fascism as practiced by his mentor Putin.

Secondly, we have already seen evidence that Drumpf, his mafia family, and his cronies are financially benefiting from DonOld's psychotic, aberrant tariff announcements.

He is also using tariffs as a political weapon, threatening to impose a 50% tariff on Brazil if their courts refuse to stop investigating the violent coup attempt by his right-wing Brazilian butt-buddy Jair Bolsonaro.

 

 

Link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-drops-new-tariff-threats-to-canada-in-deranged-letter/ 

 

What Drumpf is doing is not leadership.  It isn't twelve-dimensional chess.  It's not even child's play as even toddlers have some recognizable sense of rational purpose in their behavior.  As it is with everything Drumpf does, his tariff strategy, if it can even be called a 'strategy', is to create chaos and then misuse the atmosphere of that manufactured chaos to take vindictive actions against America's allied trading partners, while surreptitiously making money for himself and his crooked friends.

DonOLD Drumpf has been a life-long con artist.  Tony Schwartz, the actual author of Drumpf's "biography" 'Art of the Deal', has openly stated that he regrets ever getting involved with Drumpf on ghostwriting the book and that in his opinion, libraries should reclassify the book as a piece of 'fiction'. 

Only fools would have voted for this con artist with the expectation he would change his con artist ways once in the White House, and all we will get out of that is a lesson that a nation of fools is soon enough a nation of slaves.

 

 

---TFG

"But In Light of Recent Discoveries" - YIKES!

Another example of who the phony "moral values" leaders of MAGA truly are.

This is a social media post that was put up online today by the wife of Texas MAGA Attorney General and big Drumpf supporter Ken Paxton:

 

 

 And her God-fearin' hubby's response:

 

Link: https://bsky.app/profile/mollyjongfast.bsky.social/post/3ltn3mo2pas2g

 

That a woman would announce her decision to divorce her husband of 38 years on the internet to the whole world is bad enough.  That Texas Republican Congresswoman Angela Paxton would do so while insinuating that there is more to her "biblical" decision to divorce her MAGA hubby Ken Paxton than just a single known case of his infidelity.  I mean it's so bad that she literally said that God would disapprove of her if she remained married to him.

I can't wait to find out the "biblical" nature of Angela Paxton's "recent discoveries" about other sins committed by her MAGA hubby.  Wouldn't it be something if the nature of those sins rhymes with Pefferey Blepstein?  Would you be surprised?  I wouldn't.

 

 

---TFG

 

If Grandma Needs Medicaid, Make Her to Go Pick Lettuce For It

The reason why Republicans passed Drumpf's "Big Beautiful Bill" in the middle of the night on a Friday night was because they know just how fundamentally evil it is and the less light shone on it, the better.

Drumpf's eunuchs in the House and Senate themselves crafted the murder budget bill along with help from the 'Project 2025' monsters.  One of the sad realities of this execrable bill is that it decimates Medicaid and to an extent Medicare much more than previously revealed.  

There is going to be a cascading (downhill) impact to the country from this gratuitously cruel, un-Christian legislation, and rural Americans WILL NOT be spared the savagery of the right's long-time wet dream efforts to defund and eliminate a program that helps tens of millions of poorer American, most whom already work, have access to affordable medical care.

And that is why this idea is so colossally fucking stupid that it defies any rational explanation:

 

Link: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-official-suggests-replacing-deported-farm-workers-with-medicaid-enrollees 

"However, it now appears that at least one Trump administration official — one who is specifically tasked with supporting and regulating America’s farmers — is supportive of the raids on farm workers plowing ahead. Rollins has, she professes, found a solution for those in the industry she oversees: Farmers short on field laborers due to mass deportations could replace the work with some sort of amorphous AI. You know, the kind that picks tomatoes. Alternatively, they could nab some of those purported freeloaders (child-free, able bodied adults between the ages of 19 and 64) on Medicaid who will soon have to complete work requirements (at least 80 hours per month of work, volunteering, education, or training) in order to access health care, thanks to Trump’s disastrous, Medicaid-slashing megabill." 

 

Approximately 80 million Americans are enrolled in Medicaid across all 50 US states. 

65% of Medicaid enrollees are already working.  45% work full time, 20% part time.   The remaining third are divided between children, the disabled, full-time caregivers, and elderly Americans.

Only 8% of Medicaid recipients are NOT working due to retirement, inability to find work, or some other contributing factor.

There are approximately 2.5 million farm workers (most seasonal) in the US.  A little more than a million of them are undocumented. 

So lets game out this insidious piece of MAGA assholery shall we?  If only 8% of Medicaid recipients are in non-working status, that equates to around 6 million Americans.  And if of those 6 million, the majority are already retired, reside in a state and area where the jobs economy is substandard (meaning no work available), then where exactly does this MAGA apparatchik think they are going to find more than a million "able-bodied" people to do the tedious, backbreaking work of agricultural field work?

This is who MAGA is folks.  They are mostly uncaring, unthinking, selfishly cruel assholes who wouldn't blink an eye at the prospect of throwing their own mothers off of Medicaid if it meant they would get the opportunity to crow about "owning the libs."

MAGA is a cancer on this nation.  It's long past time to irradiate this metastasizing disease and eliminate it from our public society and our lives.

 

 

---TFG

The American White House is "Adorned by a Downright Moron"

Every minute of his execrable presence in our American White House cheapens and sullies the history and the honor of that hallowed office ever further.  

Behold:

 

Link: https://apnews.com/article/trump-ufc-white-house-america-250-a9a819e6610a8390b5d1a794c276d03e 

 

I cannot think of a more garish, ugly, tasteless and gratuitously cheap political stunt than holding a bloody UFC fight on the White House Lawn as a celebration of this nation's independence from the very same kind of repression and totalitarianism that our forefathers fought to vanquish some 250 years ago, and for which Drumpf and his goons are attempting to resurrect.

In 1926 writer H.L. Mencken wrote: 

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

 

 

Mr. Mencken sure as shit nailed that prediction, didn't he?

 

 

---TFG

The Right-Wing Blame Game Spins Up in Texas - Again

Watch as a drug-addled, dementia-ridden American President, like the slimy coward he is, blames his predecessor for the horribly tragic, probably preventable loss of life in the Texas flash floods, calling it "the Biden setup" and then in the same breath bizarrely claiming that he's "not blaming" Biden, when it fact he just did.

It has been pretty clear for awhile now that what little remains of Drumpf's undersized brain is the consistency of under-cooked oatmeal.  But sure, Joe Biden, who could actually string coherent sentences together and remain focused on topics, albeit with the occasional verbal gaffe was just too damn old. 😕 

 

 

As far as the Texas floods being a "Biden setup," like the moral recreant he is, Drumpf will never accept responsibility for his and his party's role in tragedies like these.  And of course, just like after mass shootings such as occurred a couple of years ago in Uvalde Texas, Republicans have already begun their mantra that it is "too soon" to talk about exactly who and what was responsible for such a high number of lives lost in a single deadly event like this.  Republicans don't want to talk about root causes of shit like this because it would reveal their own culpability.

Here's one story to help you understand the factors that contributed to this horrific flooding tragedy: 

 

Link: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/06/texas-disaster-warning-emergency-communication-bill-kerrville-floods/

That would be mostly Republican lawmakers since they have held an iron grip on political power in Texas for decades.  Nothing happens in that state without the imprimatur of the Republican party, believe me. 

And then there is this:

  

Link: https://bsky.app/profile/mrsbettybowers.bsky.social/post/3ltfawslcp225
 

Drumpf and the right-wing 'Project 2025' ghouls want to slash and burn everything, including agencies and employees who provide the public service of warning Americans about severe weather forecasts and life-threatening weather events such as the flash flooding that has taken at least 90 lives so far in Texas, many of them children.  

Isn't it odd how Republicans never have a hard time finding money to hand out to their billionaire cronies and corporate donors with ever more tax cuts, tax loopholes, public land giveaways, government contracts, etc., but plead insolvency when circumstances demand they do their fucking jobs and actually legislate something beneficial for the safety, security and welfare of their own constituents? 

You want to Make America Great Again folks?  The solution is as simple as it gets.  Stop voting for corrupt, money and power-worshiping Republicans.  That's all it takes.

 

 

---TFG

The Warning Signs Are Steadily Accumulating

If you read anything this week, read this.

This guy isn't wrong.

 

  

 

 LINK: https://bsky.app/profile/mikeljollett.bsky.social/post/3lta326zfhc2s

 

As an armchair World War 2 historian myself, I cannot begin to tell you the kinds of chills that run through my body every time I watch a documentary about the rise of Nazism and the Nazi party in Germany in the 1930's and see the clear parallels between the party of Hitler coming to power back then, and MAGA coming to power in our present day.  Its almost as if Drumpf had studied Hitler and adopted his dumbed-down, carnival barking, con man public presence, forged his own dictatorship, and he found a teeming pool of slack-jawed rubes and hateful, uncaring, dictatorship-loving Americans to mesmerize and exploit. 

All that is left for Drumpf to super-accelerate and complete his totalitarian takeover is to stage his own Reichstag Fire moment.  And when that fateful day arrives, and there is every reason to believe it will, I better not hear a goddamn word of contrition or regret from the mouths of those who blindly facilitated the end of the American Experiment in democracy.

 

 “Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.” 

― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

 

 

---TFG

Christmas Came Early For Budding Dictator Donny

Drumpf's BBB "Big Beautiful Bill" gives more taxpayer money to ICE than what the US Marine Corps will get.

Think about that.  Think long and hard about it.  Then go read this article:  LINK   

 

Link:  https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-175-billion-windfall-trump-103059036.html

 

 "President Donald Trump’s budget, which passed the Senate Tuesday, allocated some $175 billion towards his mass deportation campaign, more money than almost any country spends on its military, and many times the estimated yearly cost it would take to end world hunger." 

 

Drumpf is building up his own paramilitary force.  Loyal paramilitary forces are what dictators use to keep themselves in power and their political opponents terrorized and neutralized.

The Republicans just gave him all the money he needs to become a Putin-style despot.

All this can be stopped if Americans started voting every Republican out of office that we possibly can in every single county, state, and national election between now and the 2026 mid-terms.  That idea is premised of course on the supposition that Americans will even have federal elections in 2026.  There's a lot of time between now and those elections next year for Drumpf to further erode our liberties and further ignore or even suspend our constitution.

 

 

---TFG

SS Recipients: Believe Drumpf at Your Own Peril

Deceit has no boundaries with Drumpf and his criminal regime.

If like I, you received this email from the hijacked and hallowed out SSA (Social Security Administration), congratulations, you have just been gaslit by one of the world's most prolific con artists.

Donald Trump, surprise, surprise, is lying to you.

The BBB "Big Beautiful Bill" DOES NOT, as in any way, shape, or form, contain any language that keeps Social Security from being taxed for 90% of recipients.  None.  Don't take The Gadfly's word for it, go and read the fucking bill, which is something that several of the MAGA monkey House representatives have publicly admitted they have failed to do, yet voted for it anyway.  

The Project 2025 people wrote this bill.  That means this bill was written by people who have a documented history of hostility toward government entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare, and VA care, and who have vowed to eliminate those programs and agencies if given the opportunity to do so.  Unsurprisingly, this bill also hastens the arrival of the date that Social Security becomes insolvent which will automatically trigger massive across the board cuts.

I mean seriously folks, just stop and think about this for a moment.  Why would people (Project 2025 assholes) who have a permanent hard-on for eliminating programs like Social Security and Medicare put anything in a bill that would truly benefit SS recipients or strengthen the solvency of the program?  The indisputable answer is - they wouldn't. 

If Donald Trump and his crooked MAGA cronies will lie to you, to we Americans on a fundamentally consequential matter that directly affects millions of American's lives such as this, then what won't he lie to you about? 

 

 

 

 ---TFG

Starve the Poor Kids and Fatten the Billionaires. That's Who MAGA Is.

A lot of clueless people in this country are going to find out soon enough just how cruel and uncaring these MAGA lawmakers can be.

This spiteful Wisconsin Trumpublican is not an anomaly when it comes to the subpar, collective moral character of the people who ascribe to this execrable movement:

 

Link: https://newrepublic.com/post/197614/maga-representative-donald-trump-budget-medicaid-free-school-lunch

 

"Van Orden reshared a post on X hitting back at White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declaring “VICTORY!”

“17 million people just lost health care. 18 million kids just lost school meals. 3 million Americans just lost food assistance. And $3.5 trillion was added to the deficit. All for a tax cut for Trump’s billionaire donors,” read the post, from an account called Logical Luminary.

“YES!” Van Orden wrote, excited about the laundry list of benefits he’d just voted to strip away from his own constituents in Wisconsin."
 

 "YES!," the MAGA Republican screamed in orgasmic joy at hearing the news of all the Americans who he and his billionaire-owned fellow Trumpublicans voted to hurt.  It boggles the mind trying to understand how supposedly decent, God-fearing people could ever have voted to put a humanity-hating party like MAGA into power. 

Something tells me though that gratuitous sadism as a party platform is going to translate to an electoral bloodbath for the GOP in the 2026 mid-terms - providing of course that Hair Führer doesn't cancel those elections and proclaim himself dictator for life.

 

 

---TFG