MAGA's Deification of Drumpf is an 'UnGodly' Sight to Behold

I wish I could tell you dear readers that this is an AI-generated video.

Sadly, it is not.  It's the real deal: 

 

Link:  Post by @patriottakes.bsky.social — Bluesky

 

Hmm... I seem to recall a certain sacred religious text that warned it's disciples against such openly sacrilegious worship of false idols.  Now what was the name of that book . . .?...

Why yes, now I remember - 

 

Exodus 20:3

    “You shall have no other gods before me.”


Isaiah 44:9

    “All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless.”


Psalms 115:4

    “But their idols are silver and gold, made by human hands.”


Jeremiah 10:14

    “Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols.” 
 

1 John 5:21

    “Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.”

Psalms 97:7

    “All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols.” 

1 Corinthians 10:14

    “Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry!”

 

I mean -- what more can be said about that?  Can you imagine if Barack Obama, while still in office, had a gold statue of himself commissioned and erected on his property to honor himself?

Words fail on this one.  They fail mostly because the old mobster's evangelical voters will not bat an eyelash at the brazen insult to one of the core tenets of their religion.  They have chosen a new Golden God to bow down to.  And that's why I feel no remorse when I use the term 'cult' when criticizing them.  It is exactly what they are.

 

 

---TFG

Obese Republicans are Stealing American Worker's Share of the Economic Pie and it Needs to End

This is why it was a bad idea to give unfettered governing power to a party that is essentially a bought and paid for subsidiary of the 'valueless' billionaire class and foreign interests who are hostile to a successful American democracy, and who have given their unbridled economic support to a lifelong criminal and con artist as their party leader:

 

Link:  The Trump Administration’s Trade Wars Are Crushing U.S. Small Businesses - Center for American Progress

 

"President Donald Trump’s embrace of tariffs to a level not seen in more than a century, supposedly to foster the redevelopment of the country’s industrial base, will do the opposite of what he intends it to do. It will crush U.S. small businesses, particularly those engaged in manufacturing, decimating the backbone of American industry and of countless communities across the country. Already, corporate bankruptcies are up 7.38 percent year over year, commercial freight contracts have plummeted, ports are empty, and hiring has been frozen across several different industries.

The Trump administration’s trade wars will hit—and are already hitting—small businesses, which employ nearly half of all U.S. workers, from multiple directions, putting significant strain on their operations. The net effect will be layoffs, furloughs, and downward pressure on wages and benefits for American workers. In fact, small-business owners face an almost unprecedented situation as they deal with massively increased operating expenses, higher borrowing costs, and in many cases, falling demand for their products or services abroad." 

 

 

Link: U.S. Workers Are Getting Record-Low Compensation Based on Their Productivity - TPM – Talking Points Memo

 

"The widening rift between the haves and the have-nots continues to be borne out in federal data, as a Thursday Bureau of Labor Statistics report revealed U.S. workers are doing more and reaping less.

Workers are earning record low wages and other compensation compared to their labor output, according to the BLS productivity and costs report published Thursday. Called the “labor share,” this indicator essentially measures how much of the nation’s economic earnings is used to pay wages and other worker benefits. 

At 54.1%, workers are netting the lowest earnings compared to the income they’re producing since the data started being collected in 1947. Meanwhile, labor productivity increased 0.8%, output increased 1.5%, and people worked 0.7% more month over month. 

“I think it’s really disturbing news for workers,” Joseph McCartin, professor of labor history at Georgetown University, told TPM, “because it shows that even while the economy is growing, workers are getting a smaller and smaller share of the economic pie.”"

  

So, if America's "workers are getting a smaller and smaller share of the economic pie," which selfish pigs are unfairly gobbling up the worker's share of that economic pie?

Drumpf's tax cuts from his first term should have been a clear sign that he and his enablers do not give a shit about working Americans.  Those cuts massively favored the class of "earners" whose obscene wealth is primarily geared toward putting ever more wealth in their own bank accounts and giving less and less back to the country that helped them gain that wealth.

Very little of the 'idle' billionaire wealth in this country gets turned around to benefit American businesses, or American workers and their states and communities.

I think specifically of the social media tech bro billionaires for example, whose products produce nothing of true value to Americans and the communities they live in.  Seriously, they don't.  I mean - think about it.  If all the Twitters and Facebooks, and TikToks, and Instagrams and yes, even Blueskys, etc, ad nauseam were to shut down permanently tomorrow, society would keep humming along just fine without them,just as fine as before they ever existed to begin with.

And that's why I call those kinds of billionaire products 'valueless' because while some people would piss and moan and about losing access to their favorite social media sites, the fact is, most people would get over it and move on fairly quickly because social media is not a life necessity product and life really is too short to be crying over not having a social media site to waste all your time on anymore.

The simple truth is - America has a surplus of dead weight (mostly tech-bro) billionaires who rake in their billions her in the U.S., pay little to no taxes with their corporations thanks to 45 years of conservative Republican "trickle down economics" lies and bullshit and Drumpf's tax cuts and billionaire-friendly tax laws, and collectively they are a net drain on American productivity and their products are mostly a plague on our social fabric.

The Muskrats and the Zuckerturds and the Brins and the Pages hide most of their personal wealth in offshore tax havens to evade paying taxes in this country, and essentially put little to nothing back in or give anything back to this country and the American working people who made it possible for them to attain such fabulous wealth.

Elect progressive candidates for higher office.  Only radical tax reform change can put an end to the Republican party's insidious 'trickle down,' billionaire-concocted economic theories that have been economically strangling hard working, fair playing, taxpaying Americans for the better part of the last five decades.

 

 

---TFG

Would Drumpf Sell Out America to the Chinese? Yeah, he Would.

As the cumulative effects of Drumpf's illegal tariffs, his pro-billionaire, anti-worker economic policies, his 'Big Beautiful Bill, and his involvement of the US in Israel's Big Iran Armageddon Adventure crater the buying power of American consumers, devastate small businesses, and bankrupt American farms, Orange Caligula is also selling out America to China right in front of our eyes:

 

 

Link:  Trump on verge of 'error of world-historic proportions' — against aides' advice: report - Raw Story

 

"Always one looking to make a splashy deal, Donald Trump is giving serious consideration to allowing China to make a massive investment in the U.S. — against the advice of some of his closest advisors, an expert warned Friday.

In a column for the New York Times, conservative economist Oren Cass reported the president, “May be on the verge of tying the United States to China irrevocably: Mr. Trump and Xi Jinping are reportedly considering a deal to allow China to invest $1 trillion in the United States, largely to build factories on American soil.”

Cass described that scenario as “an unforced error of world-historic proportions.”

A trillion-dollar infusion of Chinese capital would exceed the total direct investment in the United States made by any other country since the Declaration of Independence, he wrote before adding that even a fraction of that amount would devastate what remains of American economic defenses, weakening national security and supply-chain resilience while handing the Chinese Communist Party a powerful tool to subvert U.S. markets." 

  

When DonOld Drumpf makes "deals," what he is negotiating for isn't a deal that benefits America, or American businesses, or American consumers.

No, when Drumpf makes deals, the #1 priority of that "deal" is - what is the payoff for DonOld?  If the "deal" doesn't make DonOld look good, and more importantly if it doesn't put money in one of DonOld's offshore bank accounts, then it's not a deal worth making to DonOld's tiny, lizard brain way of thinking.

Drumpf is a life-long, transactional criminal.  A cursory review of his past business failures shows a clear pattern of DonOld laughing all the way to the bank as his business partners, financiers, contractors, and employees all got stuck with those failing, cash hemorrhaging companies and their resulting bankruptcies.

Americans will come to sorrowfully regret giving unfettered power to a mafia-groomed, vulture capitalist charlatan.

 

 

 

---TFG

The FBI Should Probe Their Own Director for Malfeasance and Unfitness for Duty

Well of course they are.

I would expect nothing less from an agency stocked full of quislings who willingly work for an individual who is a lifelong criminal, rapist, convicted felon, and suspected child rapist:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  FBI probing leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Patel, sources say

 

The FBI has launched a criminal leak investigation focusing on an Atlantic magazine journalist who wrote a deeply unflattering account last month of Director Kash Patel’s work habits, two people familiar with the matter told MS NOW.

The sources said the so-called insider threat investigation is highly unusual because it did not stem from a disclosure of classified information and because it is focused on leaks to a reporter. The agents involved are part of an insider threats unit based in Huntsville, Alabama, the sources added.

Typically, leak investigations look into government officials who may have disclosed state secrets or classified documents. Journalists who receive and publish such information have typically only been involved as potential witnesses.

The journalist, Sarah Fitzpatrick, cited two dozen anonymous sources in a detailed story reporting that Patel’s alcohol consumption and erratic behavior had caused deep concern among FBI officials. Patel was known to drink to the point of intoxication, she reported, adding that on occasion his security detail had trouble waking him in the morning.

 

Ka$h Patel essentially got outed as an unprofessional, drunken loser whose on the job behavior was creating a national security risk per several of the DOZENS of administration and DOJ insider contacts who talked to the Atlantic reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick for her published story.

Let's review.  Ka$h Patel has ordered an investigation in to the reporter who simply reported the words of DOZENS of Patel's own co-workers inside the Drumpf administration and DOJ, that Ka$h Patel's alcohol problem was posing a national security risk to the nation.

Ka$h Patel is abusing the vast powers of the DOJ and FBI to harass this Atlantic reporter for publishing an article with claims from DOZENS of administration and DOJ inside sources confirming the stories of Patel's drunkenness on the job and unfitness for the office. It appears that he is doing it to exact revenge by trying to force the Atlantic reporter to reveal the names of her DOZENS of insider sources who Patel will summarily purge from the DOJ and ask Drumpf to purge from his administration for being leakers about bad shit and bad people in DonOld's masturbatory, corrupt government.

Have I mentioned that not just one or two, but DOZENS of people were willing to tell the truth about Patel for this article?

And then there's this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash - The Atlantic

 

But sure, Ka$h doesn't have a booze problem.  Nothing to see here, move along... 

 

 

 

 

---TFG

Perhaps We Should Warn the GOP Loudly and Firmly Instead of "Quietly"?

These Republicans have got to be the most tone-deaf bastards on the face of the planet if they haven't figured it out by now that an American electorate which is already pissed off at them for letting Drumpf drag us into the Iran morass and exploding gas prices, is not going to stand idly and quietly by while they burden hard working, tax paying Americans with the $1 billion (and climbing) cost of Drumpf's 'Big Beautiful' golden ballroom which of course he plans to name after himself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  GOP warned about quietly asking America for $1B to pay for Trump's $400M ballroom: analyst - Raw Story 

 

"Republicans won't have an easy time trying to sneak a high price tag for Trump's White House ballroom into a bill to fund federal immigration enforcement, a political analyst warned.

"The White House boasted last summer that the price tag for the ballroom would be $200 million, and every penny would come from private donations," wrote Steve Benen for MSNOW in a Tuesday piece. "Late last year, it was up to $400 million — though, again, the official line was that American taxpayers wouldn't be on the hook."

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed on Monday that a $72 billion reconciliation package includes $1 billion in security features for Trump's ballroom, NBC News reported. "Put another way, congressional Republicans expect the public to pay $1 billion for a $400 million ballroom," according to Benen."

  

Actually, it's $1 billion for a $200 million ballroom since that is the up-front cost that Drumpf told Americans it would be, in addition to claiming that his big donor pedo "friends" would pay for it all.

When will people stop believing the brazen and opportunistic lies of this man?  He fucking lies about everything and he lies as a means of getting things that he wants, even if they are things that the country does not need or asked for.

The Republican party is going to sink even further in the polls and in the eyes of voters before this November's midterms if they try to shove this $1 billion wet kiss to Drumpf's inflated, kiddie-diddling ego down American taxpayer's throats.

 

 

---TFG

Republicans Deceitfully Plot to Have Americans Pay $1 Billion for DonOld's Golden Ballroom

Ah yes - the old Trumpian bait and switch trick - a Trump Crime Family classic.

Remember how we found out that Drumpf had snuck bulldozers on to the White House grounds overnight to have them begin demolishing the historic East Wing of the White House to make room for his big, beautiful, golden ballroom without telling or asking anyone, and how DonOld told us not to worry, that his billionaire "friends" were going to pay for the $400 million cost?  Remember that?

Well, as many predicted, the cost of that vanity project has now ballooned to over a$1 billion, and Drumpf has apparently ordered his lackeys in the Republican party to try and sneak $1 billion of taxpayer funding into their new anti-American, anti-democracy, pro-billionaire, pro-MAGA spending package to fund the fluffing of DonOld's delicate ego: 

 

Link:  Critics floored after GOP sneaks in late-night proposal for Trump's White House ballroom - Raw Story

 

"Senate Republicans unveiled a $72 billion spending package late Monday night, and onlookers were left stunned after discovering a $1 billion line item related to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, which he’s long claimed would be entirely funded by private donors.

“What happened to the ballroom being paid for by private funds?” asked political strategist Reed Galen, co-founder of the conservative organization The Lincoln Project, writing in a social media post on X late Monday night.

Unveiled by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Republicans plan to advance the spending package using reconciliation, a process by which the Senate can move legislation with a simple majority and avoid the 60-vote threshold typically required to overcome the filibuster."

  

If anyone had any lingering doubts about how manifestly corrupt the Republican party is and just how steadfastly beholden they are to and controlled by the kiddie-diddling, convicted felon mobster in the White House, this should decisively dissuade those doubts.

The Republican party cares about their constituency of one - Donald Trump - infinitely more than they care about their actual constituencies - you the voters.  They prove that observation out day after day after day after day with their words and in their  deeds.

 

 

---TFG

'Low IQ' POTUS Brags About His Ability to Identify a Squirrel - That's Right, a Squirrel

That he actually believes his dementia tests are actually 'IQ' tests is cute and funny for all of two seconds until you realize this buffoon has control of the US nuclear codes and control of the world's most powerful military, or at least what's left of that military anyway after Dumbass DonOld prematurely shot America's munitions wad in Bibi Netanyahu's Big Iran Armageddon Adventure:

 

 

 

Drumpf enjoys insulting his detractors (black people and women especially) by calling them "low IQ" individuals in his social media posts.  It's his way of compensating for the fact that he himself is in fact a "low IQ" individual.  And there's no reason to take my word regarding Drumpf's dearth of intelligence:

Drumpf's former White House Chief of Staff in his first term, General John Kelly called him an "idiot."

His former Defense Secretary General James 'Bulldog' Mattis said he had the understanding of a "fifth or sixth grader."

DonOld's former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called him a "moron."

His former political advisor/guru Steve Bannon stated that DonOld had the mindset of an "11-year-old child."

And his former National Security Advisor General H.R. McMaster has publicly stated that Drumpf is an "idiot," a "dope," and has the intellect of a "kindergartner."

Every minute Drumpf remains in office brings this nation one step closer to a national security disaster that will have lasting ramifications for every American in this country.

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf Exploits A Dying Rudy Giuliani to Rage About His Loss to Biden

Drumpf is using the hospitalization of one of his 2021 coup plot criminal co-conspirators to whine about his 2020 election loss again: 

 

 

Although I could give less of a shit about Rudy Giuliani's fate, it really is just like Drumpf to use the illness of one of his supposedly dearest "friends" to draw attention to himself and his own psychotic grievances. 

Drumpf is such a horridly awful human being and he shows it to the world incessantly.  Personally, I would be embarrassed and deeply ashamed to ever admit openly to having voted for such a morally repugnant individual like Drumpf.

I honestly don't know how people who have voted for Drumpf, especially in 2024, can go about their daily lives as if everything is hunky-dory, life is good, and there will never be any consequences to the shitty moral values that compelled them to cast a vote for someone THEY KNEW to be a congenital liar, a serial sexual assaulter, a court-adjudicated rapist, an embezzler, a multi-indicted, 34-times convicted felon, an open racist, and a suspected child rapist.

But yeah, Drumpf using Rudy Giuliani's deathbed illness to peddle verbal diarrhea  on social media about his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden is not just a fitting ending to Rudy's criminal relationship with Drumpf, but also a fitting message to everyone else who has abandoned whatever pretext to 'moral values' they have ever possessed, and thrown their lot in with the vituperative orange dictator wannabe.

 

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf and Kegsbreath are on the Precipice of Doing Something Very Stupid

As I have stated previously on the pages of this shitty little blog, if Drumpf launches a ground war in Iran, it is going to have lasting consequences for every single American in this country - except for the "friends" of DonOld:

 

Link:   Post by @robertscotthorton.bsky.social — Bluesky

 

Robert A. Pape is a well-known professor of political science whose areas of expertise are in national and international security affairs, air power, political violence, social media propaganda, and terrorism.  If what he is observing indicates an "imminent" large-scale attack on Iran, he should probably be listened to.

The actions that Drumpf and Hegseth have already taken in Iran alongside Israel are unlawful, unconstitutional actions and both of them should be impeached for it and criminally charged by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Putting American boots on the ground in Iran and involving the United States in yet another generational 'forever war' (think Vietnam) by a lying, felonious mobster who is selling this country out to the wealthiest and sleaziest and most anti-American bidders (think Putin, Xi, and the Saudis), should inspire every American who cares about this nation's future to loudly demand their representatives remove the dirty old mobster from office.

But sadly - both the House and Senate are currently controlled by literally the most morally bankrupt, cowardly, and nihilistic and selfish crop of Republican politicians that I have ever seen in my nearly half a century of observing American politics.

And it's not just that these MAGA Republicans are moral cowards for prostrating themselves at the feet of a rapist and suspected child rapist, it's that they are willfully dishonest cowards while doing so.

Republican politicians, and to a large extent Republican voters in this country, seem to have assimilated Drumpf's moral values (hint: he has none), one of which is chronic lying, into their own already faltering moral values belief system, and now here we are.

Drumpf has:

📌 Conspired with other MAGAs (Bondi, Patel, Blanche, etc.) to violate the core legal edict of the 2025 'Epstein Files Transparency Act' (law) by refusing to release ALL of the Epstein files documents, photos, videos, etc. to the US Congress and the American people.  They are still in violation of that law as of today having released only half the material.

📌 Had his tariffs declared ILLEGAL (SCOTUS decision), and his economic policies have vastly increased the wealth of his billionaire friends while crushing the middle class and working poor, all the while his 'Big Beautiful Bill' takes from those in need and gives to those who have no need (more of those MAGA moral values).

📌 Transformed a previously innocuous border security agency (ICE) into a personal masked and armed mercenary army who are illegally breaking into citizen's homes without warrants, terrorizing neighborhoods in large urban areas, ignoring court orders, brutalizing people, and murdering American citizens in cold blood in broad daylight.

📌 Used the office of the American presidency for personal financial gain and also allowed his crooked offspring (Cokehead Jr., Eric the Lesser, Jarvanka) to do the same. 

📌 Misused and abused his powers of office by turning the DOJ into a personal vendetta agency against his perceived enemies and anyone who dares cross him, or even just criticize him (Jimmy Kimmel for ie.).

📌 Promoted himself on social media as a 'Jesus-figure' with magical healing powers, and has compared himself to fatally flawed historical figures like 'Julius Caesar' and 'Alexander the Great.'

📌 Demanded construction of a gigantic, billion dollar plus golden 'ballroom' with a bomb-proof bunker beneath it in honor of himself on the spot where he ILLEGALLY demolished the historic White House East Wing.  He previously stated his "friends" would pay for it, but now is demanding that American taxpayers pick up the tab.

And of course, he now has: 

📌 Illegally usurped the powers of Congress by taking the nation to war without their advice and consent, much less the advice and consent of 'We The People' and our treaty allies who might be affected by such a war. 

I highly doubt that the American people are prepared for the blowback toward this country if Drumpf starts a land invasion of Iran, and possibly the triggering event for World War 3. 

 

 

---TFG

The Party of Convicted Felons Swells It's Ranks

Yet another Florida Republican joins the ranks of convicted felons.

You know, perhaps we've got ICE going after the wrong criminals in this country?  Considering the number of Republican politicians convicted of felonies in this country, maybe we ought to be rounding up and deporting their fat, greasy asses instead?  Just a thought...

 

Link:  Former US congressman convicted of secretly lobbying for Venezuela | Reuters

 

"NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Congressman David Rivera was found guilty on Friday of illegally lobbying ​U.S. officials to ease pressure on ousted Venezuelan ‌President Nicolas Maduro's government.

• Rivera's conviction came after a six-week trial in federal court in Miami, which featured testimony from U.S. Secretary ​of State Marco Rubio.
• Rivera, a Republican who represented ​southern Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives ⁠from 2011 to 2013, pleaded not guilty. His lawyer ​did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
• Prosecutors ​said Rivera lobbied U.S. officials on behalf of Venezuela's government in 2017 without registering as a foreign lobbyist as required by ​the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
• He was paid $20 million by ​the U.S. subsidiary of a Venezuelan state-owned company, prosecutors said."

   

It truly is a political party comprised mostly of crooks, liars, coup-plotters, and pedophile enablers.

Convince me I'm wrong.

 

 

---TFG