American Cattle Ranchers Owe Thanks to Drumpf for Their Looming Screwworm Disaster

Please go read the AP article by all means, but just know that the very likely primary reason that despite all of the lame-ass finger pointing by Drumpf's toadies, this 'screwworm' problem was clearly exacerbated by DonOld Drumpf's reckless governing decisions.

 

Link:  What to know about the New World screwworm fly, now in US | AP News

 

"The New World screwworm fly is threatening the $113 billion U.S. cattle industry for the first time in more than half a century, as officials race to eradicate a deadly flesh-eating parasite not seen in Texas since 1966.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced two new cases Monday, including the first outside Texas in a dog from just across the state line in Lea County, New Mexico. A calf hundreds of miles away in La Salle County, Texas, brought the total reported cases to four.

Texas is home to $17 billion worth of cattle, making it the industry’s No. 1 state.

Screwworm flies were an annual warm-weather scourge for cattle ranchers from at least the 1930s through the 1960s, when the U.S. eradicated the pest by breeding sterile male flies and dropping swarms of them from planes to mate with wild females."

 

When I say this issue was 'exacerbated' by Drumpf's governing decisions, that is stated with the knowledge that Drumpf, in this his second term, has slashed funding for ag programs that were designated to help contain the spread of the screwworm.  

The orange buffoon also issued an EO (Executive Order) that permitted over 100,000 metric tons of beef to be imported from Argentina as a favor to his right-wing authoritarian butt buddy Javier Milie, even though it is known that Argentina has long been battling outbreaks of these cattle destroying worms for decades in their country.

Just as Measles had been declared eliminated in the US nearly three decades ago and is now making a raging comeback in the country, screwworm is also now making it's return appearance after having been eliminated in the US six decades ago, and all it took was 16 months of DonOld Drumpf's execrable presence in the White House to accomplish the feat.

Apparently it wasn't enough that more than 1.2 million Americans died on Drumpf's watch during Covid, most of them needlessly according to his own Covid 'czar.'

I honestly believe that the dirty old mobster is trying to kill more of us by putting that drug-addicted, road-kill munching freak RFK Jr. in charge of Health and Human Services, along with other compromised, unqualified apparatchiks in job roles that impact public health, and now with the unleashing of a previously defeated pestilence on our food supply chain with this screwworm control failure, the portfolio of evidence supporting the view that Drumpf is deliberately trying to harm this nation and people expands exponentially.

 

 

 

---TFG

Stupidity Got America in to the Iran War. That Same Stupidity Will Prolong it.

Anyone else see the supreme irony in DonOld desperately trying to claw his way out of his and Bibi Netanyahu's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure' to a position that would look at least as "favorably" as the deal that Obama had struck with the Iranians?

 

Link:  Trump Rages Over Iran Setbacks as Leaks Reveal His Seething Obama Envy | The New Republic

 

"After the House voted to direct Donald Trump to end the Iran war, he exploded in fury at the four Republicans who turned against him, terming them “grandstanders” who “should be ashamed of themselves.” 

This comes as The New York Times reports that extensive internal war games among military officials established that Iran would react to an attack by closing the Strait of Hormuz—which Trump ignored.

And incredibly, officials just leaked to The Atlantic that Trump is privately “irritated” by commentary casting his emerging framework as weaker than Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal. Trump also wants a way to argue that Iran “accepted terms from him that Obama never managed to extract.” We talked to former National Security Council veteran Emily Horne, author of the Spin Class Substack. We discuss how all those leaks themselves signal Trump’s growing weakness, why his demand for a “better” deal than Obama’s may be hopeless, and whether that leaves us any way out of this fiasco."

 

There was good reason that all previous American presidents, Republican and Democrat, steadfastly refused Israel's invitation to the 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure.'

But then Dumbass DonOld came along. 

And now, because DonOld is an incompetent, buffoonish, corrupted, and arrogant dumbass who ignored the advice of America's own military and intel experts against joining Israel's war, here we are, on the precipice of a worldwide economic recession and energy shortage, and it was all predicted by wiser, more thoughtful people, the very kind of people and public servants who Drumpf and Hegseth routinely purge from this administration and military.

I have every reason to believe that the Iran's leaders have no intention of giving DonOld the satisfaction of announcing a 'deal' that was on par with Obama's JCPOA deal with the Iranian regime.  Why would they?  Contrary to DonOld's oafish boasting, the Iranians hold all the worldwide economic cards right now, and they essentially have Drumpf's flabby, diapered ass over a barrel.

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf Ordering the Demolition of the Statue of Liberty Would be Putin's Crowning Achievement

And you know what?  I honestly believe that the dirty old mobster would have no reservations whatsoever in issuing an edict to demolish the Statue of Liberty, likely as one of the last vengeful acts of a dying, soulless despot wannabe, hell-bent on taking his anger and revenge out on a people, a nation, and democracy that he has despised for a very long time.

Sadly, there's a lot of similarly insane shit that Drumpf and his morally corrupted MAGA minions would like to perpetrate (see 'Project 2025') against our society that would destroy this country from within, anti-American and anti-democracy shit that all Americans should be knowledgeable about.

Anyway... digression.

 

 

Link:  Trump could also tear down the Statue of Liberty, DOJ argues in defense of White House ballroom - POLITICO 

"A federal appeals court panel expressed skepticism Friday about the Trump administration’s view that courts are powerless to stop the construction of the White House ballroom now that the East Wing had been demolished.

Two members of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit repeatedly pressed administration lawyers about its argument that President Donald Trump’s pet project — now well underway — could not be stopped by the courts even if it was found to be illegal, because it was too far along and involved significant national security interests."

 

I have to admit that is some ballsy, dictator wannabe favoring bullshit right there folks.

It is totally unsurprising that Drumpf seems to have found the only "lawyers" in the country willing to state on the public record that Drumpf has such privileged, sacrosanct powers that he can order the instant destruction of United States historical monuments (see White House East Wing), and that he installed these "lawyers" in his now  hopelessly corrupted Department of Justice.

What these Drumpf toadie DOJ "lawyers" are essentially claiming is that because Drumpf violated the law with his order to bulldoze and demolish the historic East Wing of the American people's White House with absolutely no input from the American people or their representatives in Congress, and zero review by appropriate governmental agencies, he now possesses extended immunity from the law because his illegal ballroom project, which he had no legal basis for beginning construction on to begin with, is simply too far along in construction.

Lol.  The fucking gall of these assholes.

They are trying to put Drumpf above the law and grant him kingly executive powers.  They want to make Drumpf untouchable by our legal system just as they are trying to do in giving him, his dirty family, and their dirty associates blanket immunity from investigation and prosecution of their future financial crimes.

What these DOJ "lawyers" are saying with this audacious claim about Drumpf's executive power is nothing but their own cowardly way of placating the expiring gangster's torpid intellectual whims and doomed ambition to be America's first dictator.

 

 

 

---TFG

Americans Are About to Seriously Pay $ For Drumpf's Iran War Foolishness

The vast majority of Americans are nowhere near prepared either economically or psychologically to deal with the fallout from this if and when it happens:

 

Link:  Analysis-global oil inventories depleted, next price spike could roil economies, markets

 

"HOUSTON/NEW YORK, June 5 (Reuters) - Global oil inventories are running dangerously low as a deal to re-open tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has proven elusive, and industry executives and analysts warn there could be another oil price shock in the coming weeks, severe enough to upset broader financial markets.

Some fear the next move higher for oil prices would pose a risk to economic growth, bond yields and the bull market for stocks. 

"We're approaching unheard of inventory levels. I mean, really, really low levels. You can debate whether that's going to hit those really low levels in two weeks or three weeks. But once you get to that point, you'll see prices shoot up," Neil Chapman, Exxon Mobil senior vice president, said at the Bernstein conference in New York on May 28.

Chapman said that if inventory levels get much lower, dated Brent, which is used to price more than 60% of globally traded crude, could rise to $150 or $160 a barrel."

  

Most Americans, including myself until recently, are clueless as to how the energy markets work which makes them clueless as to the economic catastrophe looming over them because Dumbass DonOld Drumpf let Bibi Netanyahu talk him into joining Israel in their 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure.'

Listen to an industry expert I follow on YouTube named Matt Randolph whose online name is 'Mr. Global,' explain it in more concise, knowledge-based terms:

 

 

Link:  Oil Executives Meet With Trump To Warn Him About Coming Energy Crisis

  

American voters may want to start paying attention to this stuff considering how it has the potential to drastically impact their economic lives and economic futures.

 

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf's Choice for US Attorney General is a Con Artist and Manfestly Unfit to Safeguard Justice

Todd Blanche will go down in the history books as one of the most corrupt facilitators of Donald Trump's reign of terror.

The one and only reason that Drumpf wants to install Blanche as this nation's highest law enforcement official is because Blanche defended DonOld (unsuccessfully) as his personal criminal defense attorney.

 

Link:  Todd Blanche: Working To Keep Dems From Prosecuting Trump

 

"Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who served as Donald Trump’s personal attorney, told NewsNation that he’s working to put up “roadblocks” to keep Democrats from successfully prosecuting the president and his administration officials if they retake power in the future.

Host Katie Pavlich interviewed Blanche Thursday — the same day Trump said he planned to nominate the acting attorney general for Senate confirmation to move him permanently into the role. If he’s confirmed, Blanche will replace Pam Bondi, who was fired over her handling of the Epstein files."

  

Todd Blanche promising to put up "roadblocks" to investigations of any future Trump crimes is so on brand for this lawless regime.

"Putting up roadblocks" is just a slick con artist's term for 'obstructing justice,' to any investigations of Drumpf and his "associates" for any future crimes they may commit.

Blanche telling right-wing media that he will "put up roadblocks" (obstruct justice) indicates that he fully expects Drumpf and his associates will be committing future crimes, and that when those crimes occur, he will abdicate his role as the chief law enforcement official in this country and essentially look the other way and permit those crimes to proceed.

You truly can't make this shit up kids, and no, none of it is normal. None of it is fucking normal at all.

 

 

---TFG

The American POTUS is Asleep at the Wheel and Endangering American National Security

I have heard it said that a picture can paint a thousand words.

I am pretty certain that a thousand words are not needed to describe how this picture of Drumpf from a  cabinet meeting yesterday not only spectacularly fails to project the 'strongman' strength and manly virility that the MAGA chuds fantasize about him, it also prominently exposes his cabinet members as the spineless, obsequious, morally vacuous eunuchs that they ALL are for allowing it to go on - especially in public settings like this for the whole world to see:

 

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

 

Seeing those Republican cowards all standing around him, pursing their lips and pretending not to notice their dying emperor sound asleep as they prattle on about whatever latest fantastical achievement dear leader has gifted to Americans, and understanding full well his manifest unfitness for the job, should tell you everything you need to know as to how these Trumpublicans would fare if this country were to ever actually be attacked on our home soil by America's longtime enemies of democracy (Russia, China, North Korea for ie.).

I guarantee you that all three of the aforementioned enemy nations are licking their chops seeing photos like that coming out on nearly a daily basis now.

The wolves of oppression and totalitarianism are at democracy's gate, and on the other side of that gate they see a weak and deteriorating America led by a weak and deteriorating leader and it's a sure bet they are actively looking for ways to exploit America's weakened position on the world stage to pass through the gate and devour their prey.

And some of my readers still wonder why I have absolutely zero respect for the Republican party, their politicians, or their voters these days.

 

 

---TFG

Bobby Brainworms Told Them to Drink Raw Milk. They Did. Predictable Harm Ensues.

Remember this compromised bozo, folks?

 

Link:  RFK Jr. Promotes Raw Milk—What Does the FDA Say? - Newsweek

 

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the next presidential administration, is a controversial choice and some of his views, including the promotion of raw milk, are stoking concern among medical professionals.

 

RFK Jr., who doesn't have medical training, is a proponent of alternative and holistic medicine, and he has said he believes that pharmaceutical companies are suppressing research into healthcare outside of the bounds of pharmaceutical patents."

  

RFK Jr. is still around pretending to be the nation's top public health official, and his presence in that position still poses a significant threat to the public health of every man woman and child in this country.

And of course, as it always is with these MAGA charlatans, their stupid shit (literally in this case) has come full circle. 

Case in point:

 

Link:  Nearly 60 Idahoans sick after drinking raw milk in past two weeks, officials say • Idaho Capital Sun

 

"Idaho health officials are investigating how nearly 60 people got sick after drinking raw milk in the past two weeks.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare announced in a news release on Wednesday that most of the people reported being sick after drinking raw milk from two different milking operations in North Idaho and southern Idaho. The infections were reported starting May 19. 

The state health agency didn’t disclose the names of the dairies, but said they are collaborating with health officials “to identify and fix any potential sources of contamination.”"

  

What is there to "investigate?"

Raw, unpasteurized milk is known to contain active bacteria such as Campylobacter, E. coli, Listeria, and Salmonella.  Pasteurization kills that bacteria. Cows are notoriously filthy animals who wallow in shit all day long and if proper precautions aren't taken, these bacteria can easily contaminate the animals milk producing function.

I share all of this knowing that there isn't much sense in trying to inform a bunch of American morons who would rather obtain their medical advice from a guy with worms in his brain and who has a fetish for collecting fresh roadkill animal corpses, than listen to reason and knowledge from reputable medical professionals.

Look for more blinding stupidity like this to occur in areas of the country where the prevailing political winds favor MAGA con artists like Trump and RFK Jr.

Committing self-harm is an inherent characteristic of the MAGA hivemind and its unthinking adherents.

 

 

 

---TFG

 

MAGA-friendly Billionaires Rape and Pillage CBS News

Right-wing, Trump-supporting, Zionist billionaires Larry and David Ellison, along with their hired, MAGA-approved political assassin Bari Weiss, have essentially finished off the remaining remnants of integrity that used to define the journalistic achievements of the American news organization commonly referred to as 'The Tiffany Network' of news,  CBS News:

 

Link:  Bari Weiss just set off an 'underwater earthquake' at CBS by firing Scott Pelley: expert - Raw Story

  

"A media expert warned CBS chief Bari Weiss on Tuesday night that she just set off an "underwater earthquake" at her network by showing veteran journalist Scott Pelley the door.

Pelley had been a journalist with CBS News for more than four decades before he was dismissed on Tuesday. His firing came just one day after Pelley confronted CBS News leadership in a staff meeting and accused them of "murdering" the flagship show, "60 Minutes.""  

 

Firing a highly respected, trusted, long-time 60 Minutes journalist like Scott Pelley does nothing to dispel the belief held by many that the Ellison billionaires and Weiss have set out to accomplish exactly what they wanted to do, which was to gut and hollow out CBS News and effectively neuter it, with the long-term goal of remaking it into a slicker version of Rupert Murdoch's execrable, completely unwatchable Fox "news."  

The Ellisons owned Skydance then merged it with Paramount.  Paramount is a glossy, corporate media behemoth that is in the ownership hands of some very greedy, very corrupt, very shitty human beings (the aforementioned Ellison father and son billionaires).

The Ellisons and Paramount are intent on buying up as much of the American news media landscape as they can, and their motivation for doing so is both greed and power, mostly power though.  The Ellisons want to control the media messaging Americans get from their broadcast "news" programs, and so they have opted to do what Fox does, which is lie to and manipulate their subscribers into believing things that are against their own best interests.

What the Ellison scum have done so far to CBS News is evidence enough that their ownership intentions are not benign.

Personally, I will do everything in my power to ensure that not one penny of my income ever ends up in the bank accounts of the Ellison scum.  Fuck them.  Fuck Bari Weiss too.  Fuck Paramount Plus as well.

As far as I'm concerned Paramount is an enemy corporation now, and they aren't deserving of one red cent of my American money or my patronage.

 

 

 

---TFG

Why Should Anyone Trust a Government Agency That Won't Commit to Abiding by Court Orders?

This is why I have no reservations or remorse for openly referring to this administration as a rogue, lawless administration:

 

Link:  Mullin refuses to commit to following court orders for DHS - Live Updates - POLITICO

 

"Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin repeatedly refused Tuesday to commit to following court orders from judges who rule that the Department of Homeland Security is acting illegally.

In his first appearance on Capitol Hill since confirmation as secretary two months ago, the former Oklahoma Republican senator told lawmakers that DHS “will never break the Constitution, and we’re not going to break the law.” But Mullin also would not vow to abide by rulings from judges."

In other words, what Mullin is saying is saying to Americans is, "laws and courts for thee, not so much for we."

That is not the attitude of a government agency that is worth putting any amount of trust in.

And Mullins audacious statement that his ICE goons "will never break the Constitution" or "the law" is enough to make my blood boil.

Go tell that to Renee Good and Alex Pretti you ignorant shitheel, Markwayne.  Oh wait!  You can't tell them because your agency's goons murdered them in cold blood for exercising their constitutional right to protest injustice in their country, and so far to this day as far as we know, those murderers have gotten away scot-free with those killings.

So yeah - Markwayne Mullin can go pound sand in his MAGA nether regions.  The Democrats need to make the message clear to this goof and the masked goons who work for him - either commit to abiding by this nation's laws and courts, or your agency loses it's fucking funding.  Period.  End of discussion.

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf Pal Busted For Lying About Fraternizing With the Russians is Back on Vlad's Payroll

Sigh.

I sigh because what we have here is yet another case of we dirty fucking liberal hippies having warned Americans about the compromised integrity of these MAGA apparatchiks who Drumpf has surrounded himself with.

Mike Flynn is another of Drumpf's many pardoned criminal pals.  There are so many of these scumbag charlatans in Drumpf's orbit, it's practically impossible to keep tabs on all of them.

Michael Flynn PLEAD GUILTY in 2017 to having lied to the FBI re: his contacts with Putin's Ambassador to the US.

Flynn openly admitted his guilt to lying about secret communications he was having with the Russians.  The traitorous piece of shit openly admitted that he was canoodling with an enemy country.  He got caught, plea-bargained his way out of prison by PLEADING GUILTY to the charges knowing quite likely that his good buddy and corrupt benefactor Drumpf would misuse the powers of his office to set his traitorous ass free, especially since those contacts with the Russians were at DonOld's behest.  

And of course, that is exactly what happened.  And now we've come full circle:

 

Link: MAGA world revolts as Trump's ex-national security adviser exposed as agent for Putin ally - Raw Story

 

"Some of Donald Trump's most loyal online supporters are pushing back against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser, after a report revealed he has registered as a foreign agent for a Bosnian Serb entity led by one of Vladimir Putin's closest European allies.

Scott McMahan, a conservative journalist who writes under the handle BiggerTruth and first reported the story roughly a month ago, confirmed Monday that Flynn has filed paperwork with the Justice Department's Foreign Agent Registration Act database on behalf of the Republic of Srpska, the Serb-dominated entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina. The entity is led by Milorad Dodik, a Bosnian Serb politician widely described as Putin's most vocal ally in the Balkans. According to McMahan's reporting, Flynn is being paid $100,000 per month."   

 

Mike Flynn is back on Putin's payroll it appears.

And does anyone believe that Drumpf's thoroughly corrupted DOJ will investigate?

No, of course they won't.  Because it's not in the interest of either Drumpf or Putin to find out what kind of treasonous ratfucking work Mike Flynn is doing on behalf of the Russians for a cool $100k a month salary.

I stand by my oft-repeated observation that this administration, it's indecent leader, and the shady apparatchiks who populate it are the most corrupt administration in this nation's history.  Richard Nixon's crimes and corruption can't hold a candle to Drumpf and his MAGA administration's dirtiness.

 

 

---TFG