A Cynical GOP Tries to Co-Opt An American Icon Who Was Nothing Like Them

On the heels of the sad news of iconic American singer Dolly Parton's passing yesterday, it's time again to remind everyone that the modern-day Republican party is a party run by ugly, selfish, vindictive people who have completely lost the plot when it comes to simple human decency and basic morality.

Case in point:

 

Link:  GOP lawmakers quietly slash funds for Dolly Parton children's book charity - Raw Story

 

"Republicans this year quietly cut millions of dollars of funding for the late and beloved Dolly Parton's children's book charity, according to multiple reports.

Imagination Library, the nonprofit founded by Parton that sends free books to children across the world, faces an uncertain future in Indiana and Missouri as Republican lawmakers limit public funding, Newsweek reported Wednesday.

The charity, meanwhile, has vowed to carry on."

   

Isn't it interesting that the Republican party never seems to have trouble finding copious amounts of American tax dollars to fund massive tax cuts for billionaire chuds like DonOld Drumpf, Elmo Muskrat, Jeff Bozos, and Mark Zuckerterd?

The party of 'trickle-down economics' never seems to encounter difficulty finding ungodly amounts of taxpayer money to fund new wars of choice, and to fatten the bank accounts of defense contractors by purchasing new weapons of war as well.

This manifestly corrupt Republican party was also all ready to sign on to Drumpf's brazen theft of $1.776 billion in taxpayer money that he was going to dole out to the January 6th terrorist thugs and felons after siphoning his cut from it.

They gave the ICE goons $75 billion of our tax dollars to outfit their masked thug army with weaponry they don't need and shouldn't have, and to build human concentration camps.

They let Drumpf piss $1 billion of your tax money down the toilet tearing down the historic East Wing of the American people's White House without permission to build a ginormous gold-leafed "ballroom" and dictator hideout bunker for DonOld and his apparatchiks.

And don't even get me started on Drumpf's colossally foolish decision to embroil America in Bibi Netanyahu's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure.' 

But some books for poor kids?  Nah. There's no money to be made in that for the grifters and charlatans who populate the now MAGA-controlled Republican party.

And that is why I don't want to hear one fucking word from these Republicans praising the legacy of Dolly Parton. These Republicans haven't earned the right to have the great Dolly Parton's name cross their phony hypocrite lips.

 

 

 

---TFG

US vs Canada Trade War is Peak Drumpf Irrationality and Recklessness

Mr. Global (US/Intn'l oil and gas/energy expert Matt Randolph) can confirm that an all-out trade war between the US and Canada would not be a good thing for America's already shaky economy.  

Randolph is worth listening to and much worthier of credibility on the matter than the rantings of a dirty old liberal hippie on the pages of this shitty little blog.

Therefore - go give Mr. Global a few minutes of your time and allow him to explain some things to you about Dumbass DonOld's trade war threats against Canada and the implications that might affect you personally (hint: 💲💲) if it gets out of control.

 

 

 

---TFG

King Drumpf Decrees Another Large Body of Water to Be an American Possession - Ready the Straitjacket

This nation needs to hang it's head in collective shame for allowing this embarrassing buffoon to continue dragging our country into the gutter of his own demented assholery:

 
 

Link:  Trump Threatens to Rename Lake Ontario as Spat With Canada Escalates - WSJ

 

"WASHINGTON—President Trump threatened to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” in the latest escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Canada after trade negotiations between the two countries collapsed.

On Tuesday, Trump wrote on Truth Social that the U.S. is “giving serious consideration” to the name change because it didn’t expect to be “doing much business with Ontario any longer.”"

 

DonOld threatened Canada with "severe consequences" the other day after the Canadian Prime Minister  responded to his massive call of across the board 50% tariffs on imported Canadian goods by putting out a public statement that Canada would reciprocate in kind with "dollar for dollar" tariffs on US imports into their country.

And true to form, like the toddler he is, this is apparently the first wave of of those "severe consequences" from King DonOld: 

 

 

The Canadians have essentially had enough of Drumpf's bullying and manically spontaneous threats, and the blustering accusations about past US/Canada trade relations which are primarily lies.

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney is a serious man with serious political and career accomplishment credentials that make Drumpf look exactly like the low-life mobster that he has always been.

Carney has a degree from Harvard in economics.  He has a doctorate in economics from the distinguished University of Oxford.  He was the first non-British person to be appointed as Governor of the Bank of England.  He has served honorably in a variety of positions in Canadian government for many years and was popularly elected Prime Minister of Canada in March of last year.  

Carney is generally considered to be a political moderate, but Drumpf's completely erratic and unserious actions and behaviors during the recent US/Canadian trade talks more or less has convinced Carney that the US POTUS is hopelessly and intractably demented, and that Canada isn't going to entertain any deals while Drumpf is in office.

Therefore Americans get higher prices on Canadian imports and Canada is going to forge ahead with plans to do less trade with the US and more trade with Europe.

And no - having Canada turn away from doing trade with the US is not a good thing for America or our economy.  It is not a good thing at all.  

Canada is the second largest trading nation with the US behind Mexico and ahead of China: 

As you can see, Canada, at -24 has a much lower trade imbalance with the US than most of the other countries in that top ten list of trading partners.

Also, the overall Total trade imbalance that the US has with all of it's trading partners is -901.5: 

 

Link:  List of the largest trading partners of the United States - Wikipedia 

 

So why is Drumpf picking on Canada?  Because the Canadian leader Mark Carney refuses to bow down on his knees and kiss the filthy old mobster's ring.

Carney is telling Drumpf straight up that he has no patience or time for DonOld's adolescent behavior and arrogant gamesmanship - period.

Unlike Diaper Donny, Mark Carney has a nation to run and a citizenry to responsibly answer to and protect, and he is going to do what is in the best interests of his nation and his people, DonOld Drumpf be damned.

On this side of the border, Drumpf couldn't give less of a shit what his tariff wars do to the American economy, American businesses, American farmers, and American consumers.  

All that DonOld cares about is what he himself gets out of any deal.  What's in it for DonOld and his "friends" is always the prime negotiating point in every transaction the mobbed-up old con artist is involved in.

DonOld is just showing us all how things work in the mob world when it comes to making "deals."  The mob boss always gets his generous cut of the shakedown loot and that is an unbreakable tenet of that line of Drumpfian 'business.'

Anyway, long enough harangue.  Support our neighbors to the north.  Refuse to vote for a single candidate or politician with the letter (R) after their name for the foreseeable future. That's how we put an end to the orange lunatic's tragicomic subversion of our constitution, our laws, our democracy, and our sense of decency. 

Taking power away from Drumpf, MAGA and the hopelessly corrupt and morally impoverished Republican party is the first step toward re-establishing some sense of normalcy and sanity in our government and putting America on the road to recovery from Orange Caligula's Canada-bashing reign of terror.

 

 

 

---TFG

Nobody Does "Blatanty Corrupt" as Good as DonOld Drumpf Does It

The six morally and ethically compromised conservative justices on the US Supreme Court just rubber-stamped the right of DonOld Drumpf, the 34 times convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and suspected child rapist to CONTINUE with his administration's efforts to interfere with American citizen's ability to vote by mail in this November's midterm elections - specifically in states that have defied his administrations demand for all of the private voter data from their voting rolls (Hint: almost all blue states):

 

 

Link:  ‘Blatantly corrupt’: Critics snap after Supreme Court hands Trump mail-vote win - Raw Story

 

"Critics erupted Monday after the Supreme Court cleared the way for President Donald Trump to move forward with an executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections.

“This court is blatantly corrupt. It’s honestly laughable,” political scientist and author Conor J. Kelly wrote on X minutes after the ruling’s release.

The unsigned order handed Trump at least a provisional victory after Democratic officials in 23 states and Washington, D.C., sued to block his directive. The court’s three liberal justices dissented."

  

It was a given that hypocrites and ethically-challenged doorknobs like Alito, Thomas, and Kavanaugh would side with those voter suppression efforts by Drumpf and his apparatchiks.

It was only tepidly surprising to see Gorsuch, Coney-Barrett and Roberts sign on to this kind of election ratfuckery less than three months before probably the most pivotal election in this country's 250-year history.

This is an election that could very well decide whether the American people continue living as free humans in a nation where our American constitution is the final word in the laws of our land, and no one man and no one political party are above the laws set forth by that founding document.

Or, we go the repressive, despotic, autocratic billionaire-controlled path like is done in Russia with a thoroughly corrupted dear leader who wins 80-90% of the corrupted vote in corrupted election after corrupted election, and when the corrupt despot dies, they hand off the reigns of corrupt power to their corrupt family and corrupt collaborators.

It goes without saying that it is probably a good idea for anyone who is planning to vote by mail-in ballot in any of the 23 or so US states that refuse to bow to Drumpf's threats to hand over the private data of their voters to the most corrupt administration in history, to make sure your mail-in ballot is mailed in as far in advance as possible.

It is also highly recommended that everyone should dutifully check and keep re-checking their voter registration status right up until election day, more so if you are a blue voter in a state where Republicans control everything (Texas, Florida, etc...), but more importantly in the critical battleground states.

Drumpf and his people are hell-bent on ensuring that Republicans retain control of the House and Senate and have not been shy at all about their intentions to resort to unconstitutional and illegitimate remedies to preserve Drumpf's pedophilia-stained presidency if that is what it takes to do so.

So please believe these bastards when they threaten your ability to exercise your fundamental constitutional right as an American citizen to participate in our electoral process.  Protect your right to vote, stand up and speak out for your right to vote, and exercise that right to vote.

And for those intending to exercise that right to vote in this fall's midterms . . . do choose wisely - it may very well be the last time you have a choice in who governs over you.

 

 

---TFG

The 'Epstein Files' are Drumpf's Very Own Strain of an STD That There is No Cure For

Ah yes, the story which is at the core of everything that is happening in Drumpfworld right now roars back into the spotlight - where it rightfully belongs I might add:

 

Link:  ‘Missing’ Epstein files containing major allegations against Trump discovered: report - Raw Story

  

"Supposed FBI files that have previously been referred to as “missing” were recently discovered sitting on an online document-sharing platform, files that former MSNBC host Katie Phang said Saturday contain “allegations of sexual abuse committed by Donald Trump” against a 13- to 15-year-old victim, according to a report published Saturday.

Back in February, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced it was investigating claims that it had withheld a select trove of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. The DOJ had justified withholding some of the files by describing them as "duplicative" of material already turned over, a characterization that has since come under scrutiny.

A growing number of critics increasingly pointed to a trove of 37 pages of FBI handwritten notes taken during a 2019 interview with “Jane Doe 4,” a South Carolina woman who accused Trump and Epstein of sexual and physical abuse beginning when she was 13 years old.

The woman  by twas interviewed four separate times by the FBI and was found credible by the agency, according to a DOJ source who spoke with the Miami Herald."

 

All of Drumpf's madness.

The Iran war boondoggle and the billions wasted only to be losing.

The destructive tariff wars that are strangling our economy.

The looting of our treasury to give tax cuts to billionaires.

The building of billion dollar gold-leafed ballrooms, and the plan to build a gold-leafed, Nazi-era inspired Victory Arch, all while our American troops whom he has sent to war are forced to eat moldy food and live in floating septic tanks.

The purposeful hiring of compromised, incompetent, yellow-bellied stooges and fellow 'Epstein Files' alumni to high level positions of government (Hegseth, Blanche, Patel, Rubio, Duffy, Mullin, Burgum, Lutnick, Warsh, etc.).

The massive amount of personally profiting off of the office of the presidency.

The alienating of traditional US allies and the cozying up to dictators like Putin and Kim. 

The ICE goons and their terrorism.

All of it collectively was, and still is a calculated, cynical effort to keep DonOld and his "friends" from being outed to the world as child rapists and participants in the expansive international sex trafficking ring that was run by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and which catered to the wealthy 'elites' of the world - elites just like DonOld Drumpf.

 

 

---TFG

Why Would the Guy Who Wants to be the Dictator of America Care About the Economy? Newsflash... He Doesn't Care.

It's not as if many didn't predict this was going to happen if he was re-elected:

 

Link:  Trump’s economic challenge: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel

 

"Almost two years since Donald Trump won election pledging to slash prices and fix the US’s public finances, his Iran war and tax cuts have delivered a different outcome: record-high debt, soaring fuel costs and punishing mortgage rates. 

Investors pushed yields on long-term US debt to a 19-year high on Tuesday amid alarm at the weight of public borrowing and the war’s inflationary fallout.

The market tumult underlines how Trump’s economic agenda risks unraveling just as November’s midterm elections loom into view. 

Polls show Democrats leading the president’s Republicans on their handling of the economy. 

Government debt hit a record $40tn this week, with borrowing rising at its fastest pace outside the pandemic era as federal spending outstrips income."

 

As the November midterm elections approach, let's take stock of the exalted position in the world that our bold and intrepid 'Art of The Deal' president has brought our nation to, shall we?

Drumpf boasted that he and only he could deliver prosperity and good times to American consumers.  He has done the exact opposite.

DonOld's unhinged stewardship of the US economy has brought record-high national debt. 

His losing 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure' with Israel has caused fuel costs for working Americans to soar and sharply rising diesel prices to increase the costs of consumer goods across the board.

Under Drumpf, mortgage rates have risen to levels that have priced most Americans out of the home-buying market. 

Basic living necessities such as gas, food, housing, utilities, and healthcare have become frighteningly more expensive for an increasingly larger number of Americans.

Recent polls not performed by MAGA-friendly pollsters indicate a historically record-breaking level of steadily sinking US consumer confidence in the Drumpf/MAGA economy.

And now he has reignited his tariff war against the largest and closest trading partner of the United States - Canada. 

Sigh...

😐 

There isn't much to be said other than this is what predictably occurs when willfully misinformed voters walk into a polling booth after having ingested gobs of online and media propaganda from some of the most diabolically unscrupulous propagandists that presently exist on this planet (looking at you Fox "news"), and based on that propaganda consciously choose to elect a life-long con artist and fraudster whose manufactured image of a fabulously successful, enviously wealthy, shrewd "businessman" has always been nothing but a delusive front designed to project and protect the entirely fake public image of an individual who is actuality a common crook, an embezzler, a tax cheat, a business fraudster, a serial sex offender, an adjudicated rapist, and a suspected child rapist.

The above described individual is the person who the people who cast ballots for DonOld Drumpf voted for in 2020.  Sadly, with every passing day it becomes harder and harder to believe that those voters didn't know what kind of scumbag criminal they were actually voting for.

Turn off Fox "news" and right-wing media. They have deceived and manipulated everyone long enough.

Refuse to cast a vote for a single candidate that has the letter (R) after their name for the foreseeable future.

That's how we get out of this mess and salvage what's left of our democracy and our American way of life.

 

 

 

---TFG

The Tawdry Soap Opera that is Drumpf's White House Takes an Intriguing Twist

There is so much sordidness and "vapid depravity" (see previous post) enveloping DonOld Drumpf and his clown car MAGA administration that it is literally impossible to keep up and comment on all of it.

I've kind of been holding back a little on this bizarro story of Drumpf allowing this 35-year old platinum blonde named 'Natalie Harp', who looks eerily like his beloved daughter Ivanka and who used to peddle election conspiracy nonsense on the Russia-linked cable "news" outlet OAN, to worm her way into the inner sanctum of the White House, with ZERO security background checks, and literally become DonOld's constant companion nurse-maid, media fluffer, "human printer," and life coach as he bumbles his way through his execrable second presidency,  just to see how it was going to flesh out.

And oh boy, was the wait ever worth it:

 

Link:  Natalie Harp’s Intimate Letters to Trump Revealed in Full

 

"Natalie Harp’s intimate letters to Donald Trump are being revealed in full for the first time—showing her spilling her heart and saying she is “unworthy” of him.

“You are all that matters to me,” Harp writes to Trump, “I don’t want to ever let you down.”

The Daily Beast is publishing them amid swirling questions over the national security implications of 35-year-old Harp’s status as 80-year-old Trump’s most significant gatekeeper, even being used as a conduit to the president by foreign leaders.

Harp was one of the few people who accompanied Trump when he fled Air Force One in a catering truck in Turkey, leaving behind Secretary of State Marco Rubio, staff, and journalists as flying decoys, while he flew in a secret plane to avoid an apparent Iranian plot to target Air Force One."

 

Here's a copy of one of Natalie's letters to DonOld Dearest:

 

 

💕💕💕

😶😶😶 

Anyone who calls that fat, diaper shitting, pussy-grabbing, raping slob their "Guardian and Protector" has got some serious psychological issues going on and shouldn't be anywhere within a thousand miles of White House power.

Reading Natalie Harp's groupie fan letters to her dearest DonOld at first made me want to retch.  But then I started thinking about it and holy fuck.  This woman waltzed in literally out of nowhere, with a very odd personal background and her two-year podcasting stint at Russia-tainted OAN.

She took up residence in the White House, is raking in a cool 💲150k taxpayer-funded salary and all the perks, is fielding direct communication inquiries from foreign leaders apparently, and was been doing it for more than a year 🚨🚨without a government security clearance🚨🚨.

I mean . . . 

Imagine if you will - and you truly do have to imagine it because it is not something that would have ever occurred in reality, but imagine if you will Barack Obama or Joe Biden having allowed a love-letter writing groupie to take up residence in the White House for a year, with intimate proximity to the POTUS, and with no security clearance, and become their constant companion and foreign policy conduit?

Good lord, these hypocritical right wingers and Republicans would have filed articles of impeachment against Obama and Biden faster than they voted to acquit Drumpf of both of his well-earned impeachments.  You know it's  fucking true.

But anyway, JfC - what in the world is going on in our American people's White House?  Does that structure even belong to the American people any more?

After Drumpf's literal looting and pillaging of the White House and tainting it with the stench of his family scum and their ilk, will the American people ever regain ownership of it, much less even wish to keep it any longer after it's been so thoroughly debauched and stained by the Drumpf clan?  Tune in again next week I guess for another exciting edition of 'As The Drumpf World Burns.'

Seriously though.

Vote these cowardly, morally bankrupt Republicans out in November.  Every damn one of the Drumpf enabling bastards.

Impeach, convict, and remove Drumpf.

It is long past time to end this madness and restore some sense of sanity and stability to our government and to our American lives.

 

 

---TFG

"Vapid Depravity" Is the Internal Force That Powers The MAGA Movement

There are times when you just have to sit back and laugh in awed wonder at how so many Americans allowed themselves to be bamboozled into putting these scumbag Trump people in charge of our government.

Here we see the truth about who longtime Drumpf personal attorney and pal Rudy Giuliani is and yeah, it's everything that we have come to expect from these morally destitute MAGA shitstains:

 

Link:  'Vapid depravity': Rudy Giuliani ordered to prepare for 'sordid' sex trial - Raw Story

 

"Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to prepare for trial after he failed to silence “sordid” sex claims hurled against him — and a lawyer made famous by a movie took up his accuser’s case.

The disgraced former New York City mayor and Donald Trump lawyer must sit for a deposition before the end of January next year — and be ready to go before a jury by the end of March, according to a judge's order filed in New York Supreme Court this week.

It follows a 3-year fight by Noelle Dunphy, who claims she was subjected to booze-and-Viagra-fueled sexual harassment, including being forced to have sex, while working for Giuliani between 2019 and 2021. She claims to have recordings of many of Giuliani’s demands.

Dunphy’s lawsuit is seeking $10 million in damages. In it, she claims she was hired by Giuliani for “business development work and other work,” but he harassed her and demanded sex until he fired her, owing $2 million in unpaid wages.

“Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former US Attorney, once hailed as ‘America’s Mayor,’ is a sexist sexual predator and abuser,” she said in the lawsuit." 

   

This is the moral values cesspool of Drumpfworld.

Rudy Giuliani is not an outlier kind of person in DonOld's MAGA movement, or in his immediate sphere of influence.  The MAGA movement is a giant vat of "vapid depravity" that is teeming with human pond scum like Rudy.

It's been fascinating watching Rudy's spectacular fall from grace, going from "America's Mayor" after the 9/11 terrorist attack on NYC, to being a corrupt, dutiful stooge for a Russian-sponsored con man, rapist and, suspected child rapist, who himself is now going to go on trial for his own sex crimes.

Aren't you all fucking tired of this disgusting, Trumpian shit show in Washington?  I sure as hell am.

Vote in November.  Vote against every Republican puke on the ticket, up and down the ballot.  Vote in numbers large enough that MAGA's election ratfucking efforts fall short of their ratfucking goals.

That is how we end this MAGA nightmare for the country.

 

 

---TFG

MAGA Rule #1: Every Ill-Advised, Incompetent Decision Drumpf Makes is Always Joe Biden's Fault

Every word of this post is utter bullshit and the fact that he feels compelled to incessantly blame Joe Biden for his own fuckups and issue these lies to the American people only serves to underscore just how much of a small, weak, cowardly, and failing loser he truly is.

This is why I have lost all personal respect for those who continue to support and worship the filthy old, kiddie diddling mobster:

 

Link:  @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social on Bluesky

  

The only question that matters about DonOld's big beef announcement here is how much money are he and his crooked family pocketing on kickbacks with this imported beef?  Right?  Because you know damn well that Drumpf, being the tainted, transactional creature that he is, isn't doing this because he feels compelled out of some inner moral obligation to help Americans lower their grocery costs or to help American beef producers avoid economic ruin.  No.  There is definitely something (💵 ＄＄💵) in it for DonOld, you can fucking bet on it.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! 

 

 

 

---TFG

Why Does This Keep Happening to MAGA Republicans?

How it started:

 

 

Link:  DeSantis appoints Republican Mike Caruso as Palm Beach County court clerk

 

"Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday appointed state Rep. Mike Caruso as Palm Beach County clerk of the circuit court and comptroller.

“Very excited. Very honored that the governor has the confidence in me to take on this role,” Caruso said in a phone interview. “Here’s a great opportunity. I think my background lines up perfectly with it.”

Caruso said he will be sworn in early Tuesday morning, then swear in the deputy clerks in time for the county’s daily court business to proceed uninterrupted.

DeSantis was widely expected to name Caruso, one of his staunchest allies in the Legislature. The governor has called Caruso “the legend” and praised him for standing up to political pressure."

 

And of course, how it inevitably and much too frequently goes with these MAGA Republicans:

 

Link:  Mike Caruso denied bond on child sex abuse charges

 

"Mike Caruso, the suspended Palm Beach County clerk of courts who was arrested on child sexual abuse charges on Tuesday, made his first appearance in court on Wednesday morning.

Wearing prison garb and shackles and represented by attorney Jason Weiss, he briefly appeared before Circuit Judge Donald Hafele to hear the charges. Hafele denied Caruso bail, stating that the allegations are a “no bond matter.”

By Wednesday evening, Caruso had been extradited to Orange County in Central Florida and is being held in the jail there without bond.

He is facing five felony counts related to the abuse of a young family member: kidnapping, lewd or lascivious molestation, lewd or lascivious exhibition, luring or enticing a child, and child abuse (mental injury). The sexual abuse began in 2024 and continued until at least August 2025, according to a probable cause affidavit."

  

Apparently it was his own grandson he was molesting and raping. 😮

Umm. . . I just . . . I just can't with these bastards... I just can't.

Anyway, this story is a good opportunity to remind everyone that Toad Blanche and DonOld Drumpf are still deliberately and illegally withholding more than three million documents from Jeffrey Epstein's child rape and child sex trafficking investigation that by law they were supposed to have released last November to Congress and the American public, in their unredacted entirety.

Btw, these would be the very files where reportedly Donald Trump's name appears more than anyone else's name other than Jeffrey Epstein himself. 😶

 

Sigh...

 

 

---TFG