With Every Passing Day Drumpf's Regime Inches the US Closer to Becoming a Militarized State

I needed a few days of physical and mental health distancing from commenting on the Disunited States of DonOld Drumpf, so a short sojourn to the outback with Mrs. Gadfly for a couple of days, or what's outback for us in our elder years, was just the trick to soothe my savage brow.

And good thing I am soothed too, as coming back to the news cycle and reading about this story is enough to shoot the old blood pressure level right back up the chart:

 

Link:  Immigration experts floored after devious motive behind ICE’s ‘sadistic’ plan exposed - Raw Story

 

The Department of Homeland Security plans to spend $20 million to equip Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with gloves that can deliver an electric shock, and a law enforcement officer’s recently unearthed admission left multiple immigration advocates stunned on Saturday.

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“Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they [don't] leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively,” Reichlin-Melnick wrote Saturday in a social media post on X.

Thomas Kennedy, a Florida-based writer and immigration advocate, was also left stunned by Glueck and Couey’s remarks, calling it “sadistic stuff.”

“The gloves ICE wants to purchase for tens of millions of dollars that can deliver electric shocks allow the wearer to inflict pain without leaving the sort of marks that look bad to witnesses or leave an officer vulnerable to lawsuits,” Kennedy wrote Saturday. “Sadistic stuff.”

   

Yeah, unsurprisingly, you count me firmly on the side of NOT giving $20 million of taxpayer funded human torture toys to the guys that are running around like masked death squads in our states and cities kidnapping people off the streets and sending them to human rights abusing concentration camps, and who are responsible for the unwarranted shooting deaths of American citizens in broad daylight with no repercussions from the lawless agency and lawless chief-executive they work for.

These goons are actually trying to convince you that they need $20 million more of your tax money to purchase "gloves" that are essentially nothing more than small five-finger, electric cattle prods, in order to arrest the kind of people they have mostly been arresting so far, which are non-violent, mostly non-criminal immigrants, many of them women and children.

So yeah, a big, loud FUCK NO to giving the over-testosteroned, trigger-happy bullies and goons like the one in this recent incident in Virginia additional ways to inflict harm against humans:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video @ Link:  'He could have shot me' | Northern Virginia woman says federal agent pointed gun at her | wusa9.com 

 

"BAILEY'S CROSSROADS, Va. — A Northern Virginia woman says a confrontation with federal agents left her looking down the barrel of a gun.

Carolina Molina says the encounter happened Monday afternoon in Baileys Crossroads. 

Molina is a licensed counselor who works with immigration lawyers, conducting psychological immigration evaluations for their cases."

 

Considering the fact that these 🧊 I * C*  E🧊 shitheads are arresting mostly non-violent, non-criminal immigrants, and a great many of them are women and children, I think a fair argument could be made to not only deny their request to spend $20 million for electric shock "gloves," but also to take away their fucking guns from them as well.

The additional fact that they have already unjustly shot several non-criminal immigrants and lied to the public and courts about those incidents, and also the glaring fact that they have murdered US citizens in our streets in broad daylight should be a clear motivation to NOT give these assholes $20 million of taxpayer funded electric shock "gloves."

 

 

 

---TFG

It's Not a Matter of 'If' Drumpf Will Interfere in the Midterms, But to What Extent He Will Do So

He has been telling us for years that he wants to rule the United States of America as a 'dictator.'

That is still the plan of the filthy old mobbed-up Kremlin asset:

 

Link:  Trump Blurts Out Vile Plot to Steal Midterms as GOPers Grow Unnerved | The New Republic

 

"While interviewing Donald Trump, a MAGA media personality urged Trump to consider declaring a national emergency to seize control of our elecctions. Trump’s response was ugly. “Let me just say that stranger things have happened,” Trump said. “I’ll leave it at that.”

In other words, Trump wants it understood that declaring a national emergency absolutely is being considered.

This comes as Politico reports that Republicans are privately bracing to face Trump’s “wrath,” now that the Senate has gone on recess without passing the voter suppression legislation he wants. Republicans fear he’ll erupt at them anew over this in coming days.

In short, Trump is intensifying his search for ways to rig the midterms or steal them outright."

 

Mark these words.  Drumpf is going to try and interfere in the November midterm elections, and my guess is that efforts are already being implemented as these words are being typed to that end.

DonOld and his team of MAGA crooks and con artists are not going to allow a fair and free election to ruin their plans to help Drumpf realize his dictatorial aspirations.

All the more reason to vote in numbers so large this November that the MAGA cheaters will have no choice but to be outwardly brazen in their election ratfucking attempts, and if they choose to go that route, it will be up to the American voting public to resist their un-American attempts to 'Putinize' our American elections.

 

 

---TFG

There's Unabashed Cowardice and Then There's DonOld Drumpf

For those who are aficionados of scandalous intrigue at the highest levels of government, it doesn't get any more intriguing than this:

 

Link:  Trump Abandons Air Force Crew, Secret Service, Press And His Own Staff As Expendable Bait | HuffPost Latest News

  

"WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump last month abandoned Air Force One crew members, Secret Service agents, journalists and his own White House staff to serve as decoys against a possible attack from Iran while he secreted himself away from danger — despite the existence of alternatives, aviation experts said.

In a remarkable episode detailed by the Washington Post, Trump left last month’s NATO summit in Turkey via an airline catering truck that let him escape Air Force One and board a smaller jet for the flight to England. 

 

He then clandestinely reboarded the craft at Mildenhall Air Base, disembarking in view of the cameras to climb onto his preferred air transport, the luxury 747 he solicited from the Qatari royal family that lacks the missile defense systems of the purpose-built Air Force One 747s. 

Multiple White House officials failed to respond to HuffPost queries on the topic, and the Air Force referred all questions on the matter to the White House.

The 13 members of the press “pool” aboard Air Force One were unaware that Trump was not aboard — the entire reason for their being there — until the Post published its article. It is unclear how many of the two to three dozen Air Force crew members aboard and the unknown number of Secret Service and White House staff were also unaware of the deception.

It was also unclear why Trump chose to potentially endanger all those people — possibly 100 or more, depending on how many White House and Secret Service staff were aboard — rather than choose another option."

Let's see if we can condense this story into a straightforward, unambiguous explanation of what seems to have gone down here: 

Drumpf wanted to show off his sparkling gold, shiny new jumbo jet that his Qatari oil sheikh pals "gifted" him, for which I shall from this moment forward refer to as 'Qatari Force One, or 'QF1' for short.

DonOld was very excited to strut in front of foreign dignitaries at the NATO summit in Turkey with his luxuriously bedecked new QF1 jet that US taxpayers have paid more than a $billion - so far - to retrofit, and so he decided to take it on the NATO trip to Turkey.

But just like DonOld did with rushing the job for the reflecting pool repairs by giving one of his skeevy pool maintenance buddies down in South Florida a $6 million taxpayer funded, no-bid contract to to do the job which resulted in predictable failure, DonOld wanted so badly to show off his shiny new toy to European elites that he jetted off for Europe without it having been outfitted with any anti- surface-to-air missile defensive capabilities as the actual Air Force One is equipped with.

As Scooby Doo's pal Shaggy would say, "Zoinks!"  Right? 

So DonOld and QF1 fly into Turkey.  As they are about to depart Turkey for England, along comes Israel (making this story only more suspicious) to inform DonOld that they had intel of a plot by the Iranians to assassinate Drumpf by shooting down QF1 while Drumpf was in it, presumable upon take-off or landing somewhere.

So what does our dashing hero DonOld do?

He boards QF1 in Turkey along with his staff as normal procedure along with Secret Service, media people, and the flight crew.

As QF1 is waiting on the airport tarmac, DonOld is secretly spirited out of the plane into a waiting food catering truck that is parked beneath QF1, where he is hidden inside the catering truck and driven to a nearby military aircraft to be taken to England, where he reboards QF1 after it had departed Turkey and landed in England.

Apparently none of the SS, press/media, and flight crew who remained on QF1 for it's flight from Turkey to England knew that Drumpf had been taken off the plane on the tarmac in Turkey.

None of them were informed of the security threat to the plane they were about to take off in by Drumpf or his people.

QF1 took off from Turkey and thankfully landed safely in England where dashing DonOld then re-boarded.

Once again, as Shaggy might say, "Zoinks!"

Not a day goes by that the cowardly old kiddie diddling mobster doesn't come up with novel new ways to make people despise and revile him even more than they already do.

 

 

 

---TFG

The MAGA Offspring Apples Don't Fall Far from the MAGA Moral Values Apple Tree

Perhaps MAGA politicians like Lauren Boebert who seem to take great pleasure in publicly boasting of their Christian bonafides and reminding the rest of us of their superior faith beliefs, should spend less time lecturing dirty liberal hippies like myself about God and faith, and more time raising their children to be better human beings:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  New details emerge in child exploitation case against Lauren Boebert's son - Raw Story 

 

"Newly released court records are filling in the case against Tyler Boebert, the 21-year-old son of firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who was arrested Sunday on three felony charges of sexual exploitation of a child.

According to an arrest affidavit obtained by The Denver Post, the investigation began in 2024 with a Safe2Tell report that sexually explicit videos involving minors had been posted to an Instagram account. Investigators allege that one 43=second video recorded in early 2024 showed Tyler Boebert, then 18, having sex with an underage 17-year-old girl. He is accused of producing, possessing, and distributing sexually exploitative material.

Boebert, of New Castle, was released the same day after posting a $10,000 bond. He faces three counts of sexual exploitation of a child and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, all felonies, and is scheduled to appear in Garfield County District Court on Aug. 19.

In 2024, Tyler Boebert pleaded guilty to attempted identity theft after a string of vehicle break-ins. He faces two sentencing hearings next month in separate cases." 

 

Typically I wouldn't waste valuable blog space on a story about a MAGA politician's sex criminal offspring, but Lauren Boebert is a special case. 

Boebert has been using her Republican congressional position to shove her Christian piety act down the public's throats since she appeared on the MAGA scene with Drumpf's ascension to the White House.

Boebert herself has been caught up in multiple embarrassing public morality situations which seriously call into question her aggressive commitment to the religious values she incessantly and profusely expresses love for.

Here's a novel concept Republican voters - stop electing performative moral frauds like Lauren Boebert to public office.  That is the most surefire way to avoid embarrassment and shame to your political party that inevitably comes with having these losers in public office.

 

 

 

---TFG

Uday and Qusay Drumpf Pad Their Bank Accounts While Americans Pay More for Everything

Republicans in Congress spent more than five years holding multiple congressional hearings and spending millions of taxpayer dollars investigating $8000 that Joe Biden lent to his son Hunter Biden to purchase a pickup truck, and chasing the contents of a doctored laptop containing pictures of the younger Biden's exposed penis on it.

Five years.  Multiple congressional hearings.  Millions in taxpayer money spent.

Now - contrast that with this:

 

Link:  Trump boys' 'shady' Russia deal ties unmasked in explosive new report - Raw Story

  

Drumpf's unscrupulous spawn are cashing in 'big' and 'beautifully' on their old man's position of power.

Both of DonOld's boys are involved up to their eyeballs in scummy crypto deals and have ties to MULTIPLE companies who have suddenly been gifted with billions in US government contracts.

Yet Americans haven't heard a peep from this Republican-controlled congress on these matters of clear familial corruption occurring deep within the bowels of the American people's the White House.

Not one single hearing has been held looking into these matters.  Not one single Republican has called for any hearings or investigations into this braze, out in the open corruption by Drumpf and his family.

One can only conclude that Republicans in Congress are rubber-stamping the sleazy activities of the Money Launderer-in-Chief and his crime family because they really don't give a shit about corruption in government unless it's a Democrat involved in that corruption.

 

 

 

---TFG

DonOld Drumpf and the White Trash Trashing of the American People's White House

Drumpf posted this picture on his own social media site a few days ago boasting about his "big beautiful ballroom" construction progress, construction which is currently in direct violation of a court order:

 

 

Link:  Post by @helenkennedy.com — Bluesky

 

Look at the size of that monstrous fucking "ballroom."  It dwarfs the actual White House by at least triple the footprint.

And he is going to emblazon it inside and out with some of the gaudiest, tackiest, gold decor that any depraved, dictator-aspiring mind could conjure up, and you Mr. and Mrs. Taxpaying American get the privilege of footing the bill for Donny's vanity project.

He is also tearing up the formerly beautiful green White House lawn to construct a big fucking cement helipad just so he can step out of Marine One helicopter and only have to walk 15 feet to enter the White House or his "ballroom."

It's all so depressing and sickening to watch this pig's ugly, forced transformation of our nation's capitol into his own vulgar, classless version of his sleazy Mar-a-Lardass compound in Florida.

He is so disgusting, as are his supporters. 

 

 

 

---TFG

Deporting The Spouses and Parents of US Soldiers Isn't Going to Help Drumpf Win in Iran

I am still spitting mad furious about this story of Drumpf's and Steven Miller's goons rounding up and deporting the spouses and parents of active duty US military personnel.

This never would have occurred under any previous American presidential administration, Democratic or Republican.

It is such an insult to those active duty personnel who now have to live with the thought that the government and country whom they swore an oath to protect and defend with their lives would throw their own spouses and parents out of the country that they have committed their lives to protecting.

It's a pathetic and disgraceful betrayal of trust and honor between our government and these soldiers that underscores the zealotry of Drumpf's and Miller's cruel and destructive deportation mission:

 

 

Link:  Trump immigration crackdown ensnares families of US troops | Trump administration | The Guardian

 

"The Trump administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty US troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families in the pursuit of its mass deportation agenda.

More than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty service members have been detained since Donald Trump returned to office, and at least six have been deported, an Associated Press investigation found. It is the first accounting of such detentions, which the government does not track.

At least eight immediate family members of US service members remain in federal immigration custody.

Parents and spouses of people in the military have generally been shielded from deportation under bipartisan consensus for decades. But the AP found they are now routinely being detained for months as they try to adjust their legal status through the policies available to service members’ close relatives and even as parts of the military continue to recruit by advertising immigration benefits for enlistees’ families.

Experts warn that the reversal could undermine military preparedness even as the US is at war in Iran. It has left military members without emotional support and caretakers for their children, delayed deployments and forced some to take leave.

“How can I even focus on my military career because I have to worry about how my wife is doing?” said army Sgt Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez, who was stationed in Fort Bliss, Texas, when his wife was detained outside a Walmart in front of their six-year-old daughter in July.

A handful of detentions of service members’ spouses have prompted public backlash."

 

The "public backlash" isn't nearly as forceful as it rightfully ought to be about this villainous practice.

As far as I am concerned, they can add this embarrassing assholery to the list of charges for the filthy old kiddie diddler's third and final impeachment.

 

 

 

---TFG

"Uttlerly Lawless" Despot Wannabe Rages at Being Denied His Perceived Kingly Rights

Nobody gave DonOld permission to bulldoze the historic East Wing of the American people's White House to make way for his ginormous fucking "big beautiful ballroom."

The fact is, he was required by law to obtain congressional approval.  He ignored (aka - broke) the law, not at all unlike how he is currently breaking the law by refusing to release the remaining 'Epstein Files" that he and Toad Blanche are purposely hiding from the American public.  

The law has spoken now and stopped DonOld yet again:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  Trump raves as court denies him 'utterly lawless' ballroom: 'Vital for national security!' - Raw Story

 

"President Donald Trump unfurled a nearly 500-word screed in response to an appeals court loss for his White House ballroom project.

A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed 2-1 with a federal judge's ruling from April requiring construction to pause until Congress expressly authorizes the project, which they dubbed "utterly lawless."

But Trump insisted on Truth Social that he needed it.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which is authorized by Congress to preserve historic buildings, challenged Trump's project in December, saying the president had skipped required reviews before demolishing the White House East Wing and did not receive congressional authorization for the project, which has proceeded despite the lawsuit."

 

I am not going to post any of the dirty old mobster's 500-word social media screed here.  It's at the Raw Story link for those who care to be nauseated reading it.  It's just a bunch of dissembling horseshit gibberish as is typically seen from the demented orange clown.

The dying old tyrant is angry and lashing out because the courts are telling him that he is not a king who can just bulldoze an historic wing of the American people's White House with a barking order and a mere wave of his little orange hand.

DonOld Drumpf doesn't own these White House buildings.  The American people own them.  He not only did not give enough of a damn to seek congressional approval, I have no doubt that the thought of asking the American people for their opinion and approval never once crossed his vacuous mind.

DonOld and his grifting scum family are just temporary, itinerant squatters on American taxpayer funded, taxpayer owned US property, that is all.  DonOld seems to think otherwise.  Fuck him.

I know I must sound like a broken record on this subject, but it can't be stated often enough that all of this madness and "utterly lawless" contempt for our constitution, our laws, our shared historic heritage as Americans, and our common decency can be ended by showing up to the polling booths in every election between now and November, and going forward for the foreseeable future, and refusing to vote for ANY candidate with the letter (R) after their name.  Write-in vote for your favorite cartoon character if you can't stomach voting for an Independent or Democrat.  Just don't cast a vote for a member of the Republican party.

That is how we escape this storm of corruption and lawlessness, right our national ship, and steer this country back to some semblance of normality and honorable purpose - if that is even possible at this stage.

 

 

 

---TFG

The Tate Sex Criminals Are Going to Prison For the Same Crimes Committed by POTUS #47

Poor things.  

No doubt it must be a very difficult situation to be going from MAGA celebrity status with access to the American White House and the American president and his family, to being jail inmates facing the possibility of spending the remainder of your life in prison:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  Accused MAGA sex traffickers moan about jail bunkbeds in bid for freedom: report - Raw Story

  

"Attorneys for social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate filed a motion Friday in Miami federal court seeking their release while they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where they face rape and sex trafficking charges, the Associated Press reported.

The filing also describes harsh detention conditions at Miami's Federal Detention Center, where the brothers are held in a protective unit with limited family contact, no television or radio, no commissary access, and bunks shorter than they are tall — conditions the defense says violate due process for detainees who haven't been convicted.

A judge will decide next week whether the brothers remain jailed during what could be a months-long extradition process, prosecutors have until respond to the motion filed by defense attorneys, according to the report." 

 

I am so happy for these two that the law has caught up to their filthy asses.

Here's my reply to Andrew and Tristan Tate's complaints about their jail conditions - 'if you can't do the time, don't do the crime, bitches.'

And I am doubly happy that it projects yet another dark stain on the Trump family and the MAGA movement that these two sex traffickers and rapists were welcomed in their circle, and now are going to get the justice that Donald Trump himself has been evading all these many years for his own crimes.

All that remains to be seen is how earnest the effort will be by Drumpf and his administration to interfere in the case on behalf of these pieces of shit before the UK can extradite the scumbags back to Europe.

 

 

---TFG

Every MAGA Defeat Is a Win For Democracy, Sanity, and Decency

Here are a couple of stories about two MAGA politicians that convey pretty clearly just how manifestly corrupt and morally bankrupt the adherents to this movement are.

First up - there was a primary election in Tennessee last night and the MAGA candidate personally endorsed and promoted by Drumpf got his MAGA ass kicked to the curb:

 

Link:  Embattled MAGA candidate loses key Tennessee primary race - Raw Story 

 

"A major Tennessee primary has been called on Thursday night, deciding the fate of a scandal-plagued MAGA lawmaker.

Rep. Andy Ogles has lost re-nomination against his primary opponent, former Tennessee Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher, according to calls from the Associated Press and NBC News.

Shortly after his first election in 2022, local reporting revealed that Ogles had embellished or fabricated major parts of his campaign biography, including his alleged former time as an economist and law enforcement officer. He has also faced ethics and criminal investigations into his underhanded campaign finance tactics. And two months ago, he posted a rant so virulently homophobic even members of his own party pressured him into deleting it."   

 

This guy Ogles was the white-guy version of George Santos. Ogles was caught telling so many lies to worm his way into office that it was inevitable that even slow-witted Republican voters would eventually figure out his scam angle and turn on him.  And last night that is precisely what happened.  The fact that Ogles was even too toxic for the deep red district he is in tells the whole story.

Good.  One less pile of lying MAGA shit stinking up the the people's House of representatives, imho.

And the second story I wanted to highlight around the topic of bankrupt MAGA moral values is this story of the wealthy MAGA dude from Kansas who parachuted into Iowa, purchased an old farm that belonged to a long dead relative, is pretending he is an Iowa resident, and now wants to be the Governor of the state that he doesn't even live in:

 

Link:  Trump-backed candidate caught living luxury out-of-state lifestyle despite 'farmer' image - Raw Story

  

"A MAGA candidate running with President Donald Trump's endorsement has been living a life of luxury outside the state where he's running, per The Daily Beast.

The Republican nominee for governor in Iowa, Zach Lahn, has been living in a multimillion-dollar mansion in Kansas despite presenting himself to voters as a farmer, according to reporting by The Daily Beast. Lahn is running on a platform aligned with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement and also has the endorsement of Turning Point Action, the conservative group founded by Charlie Kirk.

An investigation by The Daily Beast found that his Kansas mansion is worth about $2 million. His wife, Annie Lahn, is the ex-daughter-in-law of billionaire Republican donor Charles Koch. Lahn and his wife bought the property in 2024 and transferred it to an LLC, according to The Daily Beast, which noted that the move is likely meant to hide Lahn's ownership."

  

The arrogant entitlement of these wealthy, Drumpf-endorsed, MAGA shitheads is truly something to behold at times.

This MAGA asshole lives in a $2 million mansion in Kansas that is described in the article as 'heaven on earth,' and believes his wealth and connections afford him the right to essentially 'shop around' and use his wealth to purchase any political office in whatever state he chooses to  squat in.

Thankfully the voters of Tennessee saw fit to send one MAGA scumbag packing yesterday and let's hope that the voters of Iowa are smart enough to see through the fraudulent bullshit of the Trumpy MAGA toad from Kansas who is trying to steal their governorship.

The tide is turning against Drumpf and MAGA - albeit ever so slowly. 

 

 

 

---TFG