Republican Governing Policies Transform Red States into Unlivable States

It's amusing at times to watch how these right-wing conservatives address every piece of public information that reflects badly on their party and their party's ability to govern competently as "fake news" or a "Democrat hoax," or "liberal hoax."

Yet, as sane people can plainly see in these stories, the numbers don't lie and they accurately portray just how badly the Republican party has governed over their own constituents over the decades to the point that these Republican-led red states have essentially become, as DonOld Drumpf himself would say, "shithole" places to live:

 

Link:  Ranking of 10 Worst States to Live Is Entirely Republican, Sparks Backlash - Newsweek

 

"CNBC’s ranking of the 10 worst states to live in 2026—all of them Republican-led—has drawn criticism from conservatives.

 

The broadcaster gave each state a Quality of Life score based on factors including crime rates, air quality, healthcare access, worker protections and civil rights laws. The Quality of Life category was one of 10 in the outlet's annual America's Top States for Business study.

 

Tennessee was ranked the worst state to live in after receiving a score of just 64 out of 290."

 

Republicans, not to be content with or outdone in degrading the quality of life of their own state's constituents, have also turned their states into retirement dead zones:

 

 

Link:  Avoid these five states if you want your retirement savings to last | The Independent

 

"Retiring in the wrong state can cost the average American retiree and their beneficiaries as much as $200,000, according to a new study from financial services firm Integra Credit.

Using average retiree income figures, state tax rates, net worth and spending, the study calculated how much money a retiree would have left if they retired at 67 and died at 79.

“Our data analysis of retirement spending and savings data across the U.S. revealed that retirement wealth actually erodes at a staggering rate during the average retirement lifespan of 13 years, unwanted news for those depending on inheritance over building their own pot of savings,” Integra wrote."

 

 

Once again, the top 10 worst states for retirement are Republican-led red states.

What more will it take for Republican voters to realize that the performative, right-wing clowns and bozos who they themselves keep electing to higher office just don't give a shit about them and are more interested in advancing their own personal, mostly greedy political agendas by attaching themselves like sucker fish to a dying Trump's bloated ass, and performing like trained, clapping seals whenever dear leader issues one of his corrupt orders to trash our constitution and commit criminal acts on his behalf. 

I mean - when the voters of these red states find themselves being shit upon constantly by the GOP voters who they keep voting for, don't you think it would dawn on John and Mary Republican at some point that they are being taken for reliably gullible fools by the party they so slavishly support?

This is why I personally find it so difficult to avoid calling these MAGA voters 'stupid.'  I see no acceptable, alternative way to describe people who don't think twice about continually voting to degrade their own quality of life over and over and over and over and over again.

 

 

 

---TFG

Oh Dear! Elmo is Criminally Referred for "Election Bribery" and It's Long Overdue

God, I so hope they indict this Nazi sonofabitch:

 

Link:  Elon Musk's voter cash giveaway stunt 'likely' broke the law: report - Raw Story

 

"A bipartisan elections panel found that billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk "likely broke Wisconsin law" when he gave $1 million checks to voters in last year's Supreme Court election, according to The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5-1 to hand the case to prosecutors, who now have 40 days to decide whether the Tesla CEO faces criminal charges for election bribery.

Musk and his allies spent at least $20 million trying to install conservative judge Brad Schimel — only to watch him lose by 10 percentage points. The total spending for the election topped $100 million, the priciest judicial race America has ever seen."

   

Musk has used his vast wealth not only to buy the White House for Drumpf, he is also enriching himself at the expense of the American taxpayers, and nastily polluting our politics and national discourse.

Elmo's name, just like DonOld's name, also appears prominently in the 'Epstein Files.'

Connect the dots.

Perhaps a criminal indictment or three will give Elmo something to think about as he continues to use his ill-deserved wealth to meddle in our politics and our government.

And do you know what the best thing would be about Elmo were he to be indicted in Wisconsin?  Those would be state criminal charges, and Donald Trump has absolutely zero power to pardon state crimes.

Keep your fingers crossed that Wisconsin prosecutors find some moral courage to do the right thing by the law, and also teach Elmo a lesson about American law and order in the process. 

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf's Efforts to Poison American's Trust In Our Elections is un-American and Treasonous

If anyone plans on watching Drumpf's propaganda speech on primetime TV Thursday night where he is promising to unveil "newly declassified intelligence," which if reports I am hearing are accurate, he plans to present to the American people as "proof" that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election from him with help from "foreign" sources, I would strongly urge you to watch a really informative primer on the history of Drumpf's chicanery re: his ongoing fraud of claiming the 2020 election was "stolen" from him. 

Here's Hawk to review, in his own inimitable way, what Drumpf and his henchmen are up to.

All I can say personally is that folks had better start preparing for some really crazy shit to start coming down the pike from this criminal administration and it's demented, convicted felon leader between now and the midterms in November.  

And if somehow the Democrats are able to overcome the election ratfucking efforts of Drumpf and corrupt Republicans and win back the House and Senate as polls are currently suggesting is going to happen, it will get even more insane and dangerous in the two months before those midterms winners are sworn in come January.

Here's Hawk - both videos are worth your time:

 

 

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf Administration's Temu Stormtroopers Take Yet Another Human Life

Drumpf's ICE goons have wrongly killed yet another human being.

At some point we need to start seriously considering charging Trump and his DHS leadership toadies alongside the ICE trigger-men as accessories to murder once they are removed from power:

 

 

Link:   ICE quickly cordons off body after agents kill another person - Raw Story

 

"ICE agents killed a person in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday morning, then quickly surrounded the body while state and federal investigators rushed to the scene.

The killing is at least the 11th fatal shooting involving ICE or Border Patrol agents since Trump took office, the Bangor Daily News reported. Earlier this month, ICE agents fatally shot Lorenzo Araujo, 52, a Houston construction worker, sparking mass protests, the BDN reported.

ICE has a recent history in Biddeford specifically. Earlier this year, the agency flooded Maine with agents under "Operation Catch of the Day," a mass enforcement sweep. Of nearly 200 people detained statewide, only 11 had criminal convictions, the BDN reported. The Trump administration had claimed it was targeting the "worst of the worst.""

 

Earlier this year, Drumpf subjected Maine to the same terror tactics by his ICE goons that were employed against the citizens of Minneapolis, albeit on a much smaller scale.  Those tactics in Minneapolis as the whole world saw, resulted in the unjustified shooting deaths of two American citizens by trigger-happy, testosterone-amped ICE stormtroopers.

Drump and the lying sacks of fascist waste he employs in his administration keep claiming that they are only going after the "worst of the worst" of the undocumented immigrants in this country.  It's all lies.  They are straight-up lying to our faces on that matter.

In ICE's Maine operation, they mass-arrested more than 200 people.  Only 11 of those arrested had any type of criminal history whatsoever. And that is not an anomaly.  That ratio has remained consistent since Drumpf unleashed ICE on the American populace.

So no, these lazy ICE goons aren't going after the "worst of the worst" as they claim.  That would be much too hard work for those gorillas, and lord knows we can't be having that.

ICE has presented the country with example after example of their public malfeasance.  They prey on immigrants who are elderly, children and teens, people living normal, law-abiding lives being snatched violently from their homes, workplaces, and even places of worship, and all too often as we have seen, just random people in the street who have the wrong shade of skin color.  It does not matter to DonOld's boys that most of these people are not 'illegal,' but people who have overstayed visas, and overstaying visas, no matter how long, in and of itself is a civil, not a criminal offense.  It is certainly not an offense that warrants a bullet to the head.

So, yesterday morning in Biddeford, Maine DonOld's ICE goons took the life of a 26 year-old young man from Colombia who was in this country LEGALLY.  They shot him in the head, in his car, in front of his three year-old daughter who was in the back seat.  This young man was not the target of any ICE enforcement operation.

Videos posted by local residents to social media show the ICE thugs then dragging the young man's lifeless body from his car, bouncing his head on the pavement in doing so, and handcuffing the dying man as he bled out on the street.  Once again, all of this taking place in front of his three year-old little girl.

Sadly we have quite a few folks on the immigrant-hating, MAGA right who wholeheartedly approve of scenes like this routinely playing out on American streets in broad daylight in our country now.  To those people I say a simple, sincere, and unrepentant - fuck you all, every one of you.  You're all shitty citizens and even shittier human beings, and none of you are deserving of the freedoms that this great American nation and democracy has afforded you.

 

 

 

 

---TFG

Felon Covering Up a Mass Pedophilia Ring Wants National TV Time to Talk About Election Fraud

Guess who is going on live TV Thursday night with a special address to the country to peddle more of his lies about his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election?

If you guessed that it was the traitorous, diapered orange crybaby who is currently illegally squatting in the American people's White House, give yourself a pat on the back.

 

Link:  Trump to revive 2020 conspiracy with declassified intel in 'speech to the nation': report - Raw Story

  

"President Donald Trump plans to use newly declassified intelligence in a primetime speech Thursday night to revive his long-running claim that a foreign nation interfered in the 2020 election, according to MS NOW.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe, acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, FBI Director Kash Patel and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin will join Trump for the address, MS NOW reported."

  

Muahaha!!!!

"Newly declassified intelligence." 

Uh-huh, sure Jan... 

 

Here's DonOld's Thursday night, primetime lineup: 

🤡 The CIA Director who couldn't get confirmed as Attorney General when Drumpf nominated him in 2019 because of his corrupt, too cozy relationship with Drumpf.

🤡 The horrifyingly unqualified DNI Director who is a home mortgage, billionaire trust fund baby pal of DonOld's who not only doesn't know a goddamn thing about intelligence, but apparently is sorely lacking in it himself.

🤡 The 'MIA' FBI Director who has been outed as a corrupt little apparatchik with a major drinking problem and who is currently being probed for even more corruption while in his position.

🤡 And finally, DonOld's newest head of Homeland Security, the poser tough-guy plumber from Oklahoma who is no more qualified for his job than DonOld's aforementioned home mortgage crony.

And all four of these disingenuous, compromised bozos are going to stand next to Drumpf, a lifelong criminal and con man, a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, and a suspected child rapist as he reads a litany of manufactured half-truths and lies to the American people on live TV about non-existent election fraud.  Why?  Because that is what morally vacuous little apparatchiks are supposed to do when dear leader orders it to be done.

Don't watch these liars on TV if you can help it, folks.  If you do feel the urge to watch them, please keep in mind that these phony bastards have had six years to prove that even one single vote was illegally switched from Donald Trump to Joe Biden in the 2020 election and they have FAILED.

They have failed in over 70 court cases in state and federal courts all across this country, even all the way to the US Supreme Court twice, to prove election fraud occurred in 2020.  They FAILED, and in fact most of those cases they were literally laughed out of court, which tells you just how bad they are at lying.

So yeah - rest assured that DonOld and his apparatchiks do not possess any credible or trustworthy "Newly declassified intelligence" that supports his tiresome, crybaby claims that the 2020 election was 'stolen' from him.

What DonOld and his stooges do do possess is fear and lies, and that will be the sum total of their "Newly declassified intelligence" portfolio that they plan to present to the American people on national TV Thursday night.

And with that, all that remains to be said is - when are Donald Trump and Todd Blanche going to release the remaining 3+ million Epstein Files that they are illegally keeping hidden from the American people?

 

---TFG

The Republican Part is a Hot Mess Amid the Spectre of Death

Something very odd and creepy is happening within the hivemind collective of the Republican party and I'm not talking about their ongoing efforts to cover-up Drumpf's pedophilia problem.

I am not one who is prone to conspiracy theories, but if I were, I would be pretty conspiratorially amped up right now with what is going on within the power structure of the Grand Old Party.

Apparently Mitch McConnell suffered massive cardiac arrest on June 14, almost a month ago, and reports are now coming forward from eyewitness neighbors of McConnell who said the Kentucky Senator did not appear to be in a living state as he was wheeled to an ambulance and whisked away:

 

Link:  Jaws drop as Mitch McConnell’s neighbors spill new details on hospitalized GOP leader - Raw Story

 

"Neighbors of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) revealed “disturbing” new details about the Kentucky Republican’s condition in the days leading up to his hospitalization in mid-June, The Daily Beast reported Saturday, leaving onlookers stunned and demanding transparency.

McConnell was hospitalized on June 14, though his office initially disclosed few details about his condition. Last week, however, reports revealed that he had been discovered unconscious at his home in Washington, D.C. and administered CPR for a possible cardiac arrest."  

 

The fact that NOBODY has physically seen or heard from McConnell since June 14 deepens the suspicion that he remains among the living.  Sadly, we have also see a few GOP apparatchiks publicly claim to have had phone conversations with McConnell in the past few days and that McConnell was in good spirits and looking forward to getting back to work, all of which contrasts with the fact that the Leader of the US Senate has not been seen or heard from in a public setting since June 14, the reported day of his reported cardiac arrest.

If McConnell did indeed fail to survive his cardiac arrest and loss of consciousness (and most people don't at his age of 84), then a great crime and hoax have been perpetrated on the people of Kentucky, the US Senate where McConnell is Majority Leader, and the American people.  And what a macabre joke it is too.

I mean seriously folks -- what in God's name are we doing here if one of the two major political parties in this country is hiding the corpse of the United States Senate Majority Leader for a month because they are fearful of losing their tenuous grip on political power?

Can you imagine if Chuck Schumer cashed in his chips and Democrats hid his body in a freezer for a month while party apparatchiks were publicly claiming to have had conversations with the dead man?

Good lord.

And as if McConnell's mystery disappearance isn't enough to make you wonder about what in Hell is happening within the Trumpublican party, it is being reported today that former Drumpf hater turned Drumpf groupie, Lindsey Graham, US Senator from South Carolina dropped dead last night from a massive heart attack upon returning from a trip to Ukraine and shortly after having had a phone conversation with Lord Vader himself, Drumpf.

 

Link:  'Get your tinfoil': MAGA chases 'conspiracy' clicks hours after Lindsey Graham's death - Raw Story

 

"Just hours after the 'sudden' death of Sen. Lindsey Graham was announced to the public, MAGA conspiracy theorists began chasing traffic with wild claims about the cause.

Questions do remain after Graham's office released an statement Sunday morning that was short on detail.

"On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away from a brief and sudden illness," read the 2 a.m. statement."

   

"Brief and sudden" illness resulting in death typically indicates cardiac arrest, which is supposedly what felled Mitch McConnell nearly a month ago.

I know - it's all just mere coincidence for sure, but holy shit, there is some serious fucking drama going down in the world of the Republican party right now and considering how immoral we know these Trumpublicans to be, who the hell knows what shoe is going to drop next, or if recent events are any indication, who is going to drop dead next. 

 

 

---TFG

President Buzz Windrip Amps up The Insanity As The Scope of His Iran War Loss Hits Home

Yeah.

It is becoming increasingly clear, no longer by the day, but by the hour, that our nation is being led toward catastrophe at the hands of a raging, dying, demented maniac.

Tell me this isn't disturbing as fuck coming from the President of the United States of America:

 

 

 

The guy's brain is over-baked folks.

He got suckered into joining Bibi Netanyahu's "Big Iran Armageddon Adventure," got taken to the cleaners by the Iranians with his failing "peace deal" and now we are right back where we started with Temu Napoleon threatening to unleash hellfire on a nation of 90 million people while bizarrely offering all capital letters praise to "ALLAH!"

When will this lunatic's execrable presence in all of our lives finally be over with - forever, ffs?

Those in Drumpf's orbit and administration are cowards of the highest order for continuing to enable this madness from Orange Caligula, madness which if not ended soon is going to get a whole lot of humans killed than he has already gotten killed, and it is a certainty that Americans will not be exempt from that mass death event. 

Frankly, I believe it is also becoming increasingly clear that Americans are going to have to  seriously consider holding a special hybrid type of 'Nuremberg Trial' once this shit is all done and over with and a semblance of sanity and law and order is restored to our government.  Justice must be served, and those responsible for Drumpf's reign of terror and corruption must be held accountable.  

That's assuming of course that we all come out of this alive and the country is still a democracy.

 

 

---TFG

*for those unfamiliar with the 'Buzz Windrip' reference in the title of this post, here you go: It Can't Happen Here - Wikipedia

 

MAGA's Opioid-Like Addiction to Drumpf Was Recognized Early on By DonOld's Right-Hand Man

Without clicking the link below, guess who wrote the following:

 

"What Trump offers is an easy escape from the pain. To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution. He can bring jobs back simply by punishing offshoring companies into submission. As he told a New Hampshire crowd—folks all too familiar with the opioid scourge—he can cure the addiction epidemic by building a Mexican wall and keeping the cartels out. He will spare the United States from humiliation and military defeat with indiscriminate bombing. It doesn’t matter that no credible military leader has endorsed his plan. He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t. Trump’s promises are the needle in America’s collective vein.

The great tragedy is that many of the problems Trump identifies are real, and so many of the hurts he exploits demand serious thought and measured action—from governments, yes, but also from community leaders and individuals. Yet so long as people rely on that quick high, so long as wolves point their fingers at everyone but themselves, the nation delays a necessary reckoning. There is no self-reflection in the midst of a false euphoria. Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.

I’m not sure when or how that realization arrives: maybe in a few months, when Trump loses the election; maybe in a few years, when his supporters realize that even with a President Trump, their homes and families are still domestic war zones, their newspapers’ obituaries continue to fill with the names of people who died too soon, and their faith in the American Dream continues to falter. But it will come, and when it does, I hope Americans cast their gaze to those with the most power to address so many of these problems: each other. And then, perhaps the nation will trade the quick high of “Make America Great Again” for real medicine."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:   Donald Trump Is an Opioid for the Masses, But He Can't Solve America's Growing Social-Cultural Crisis - The Atlantic

  

Uh-huh.  That was DonOld's hand-picked Vice President JD Vance accurately describing the MAGA movement back on July 4, 2016, 10 years ago, which was also around the time JD was also publicly warning Americans that Drumpf could be "America's Hitler."

What changed for JD?  Why has he thrown his entire lot in on the MAGA/fascism bandwagon now?

Americans have seen by his own examples that JD wears his morality like a chameleon as it is constantly changing and adapting like the lizard's skin.  You do have to marvel though at how easily JD seems to have morphed from believing Drumpf to be America's version of Hitler to being Drumpf's side-kick in the most corrupt and incompetent administrations that the people of this country have ever witnessed.

JD Vance will not be treated kindly in the history books, as will none of the other spineless apparatchiks in Drumpf's increasingly malignant MAGA government.

 

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf Dispatches His DOJ to Meddle in New Mexico's Attempt to Uncover Epstein Truths

Don't look now, but the state of New Mexico is picking a fight with Drumpf's DOJ because DonOld's personal criminal defense attorney and acting Attorney General of the US, Todd Blanche is using the power of the federal government to interfere with and obstruct the state of New Mexico's investigation into a ranch property that Jeffrey Epstein owned in their state, a property where allegedly child sex and other crimes, perhaps even murder were committed:

 

Link:  New Mexico Accuses Trump’s DOJ of Interfering With Epstein Ranch Probe | The New Republic

 

"New Mexico officials are accusing President Trump’s Department of Justice of obstructing the state’s investigation into billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ranch. 

The state’s Attorney General, Raúl Torrez, sent a letter to the DOJ last week accusing the department of withholding redacted records related to Epstein’s Zorro Ranch property, south of Santa Fe, The New York Times reports.  

“The U.S. D.O.J.’s continued withholding of unredacted records is causing real and escalating harm,” Torrez wrote to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in the letter, made public Thursday. “Every day that the U.S. D.O.J. withholds these records, the foundation upon which a New Mexico prosecution could be built erodes.”

In February, Torrez requested documents from the DOJ related to the ranch, but despite receiving assurances from department officials that they would send over the documents, nothing ever came. Torrez wrote that he even followed up five times over the next few months through different channels to no avail, impeding important leads in the probe."
  

 

Sure as hell sounds like obstruction of justice to me.  And that would make it yet one more crime to charge Todd Blanche with once Drumpf and his MAGA goons have been removed from power.

Does anyone care to guess why DonOld ordered Blanche to meddle in New Mexico's investigation of a remote property owned by DonOld's best bud of 20 years, the notorious child sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein?

Did Drumpf also arrange for one of his wealthy pedo friends to purchase the Epstein property and 'clean it up?':

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  Epstein ranch in New Mexico bought by family of ‘Trump Republican’ candidate | New Mexico | The Guardian 

 

"The family of a self-identified “Trump Republican” running for office in Texas bought Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch where the sex trafficker abused teenage girls and young women, according to new documents.

A spokesperson for Donald Huffines, a Texas businessman and former GOP state senator now running for comptroller, confirmed the purchase to the Santa Fe New Mexican, a local media outlet.

“Four years after Mr Epstein’s death, the Huffines family purchased property in New Mexico listed at public auction whose proceeds benefited his victims,” a spokesperson for the family, Allen Blakemore, wrote to the outlet. “Prior to the auction listing, they had never visited the property.”"

 

The late Virginia Giuffre was photographed at this same property with the now thoroughly disgraced Prince Andrew. 

So sight unseen being that he never visited the property, why did this Texas millionaire Republican (the pedo protection party) friend of Drumpf parachute in to New Mexico out of the blue and swoop up a property owned by DonOld's best friend of two decades,  Jeffrey Epstein, a property where several of Epstein's victims have alleged sex crimes were committed against them?

This isn't a trick questions folks.

ITS BECAUSE DRUMPF PROBABLY KNOWS WHAT MANNER OF CRIMES WERE COMMITTED AT THE PROPERTY AND QUITE POSSIBLY WAS HIMSELF A PARTICIPANT IN SOME OF THOSE CRIMES.

That's why.  Convince me it's not so.

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf Demands SCOTUS Do-Over on Birthright Citizenship - The High Court Should Tell him To F*ck Off

This lying sack of miserable shit who also happens to be the guy selling special, gold permanent resident visas for $1- $5 million a pop, no doubt getting his cut, to his wealthy foreign friends.

I really don't need to say anything else about this sickening trash tweet - it's vile, rancid messaging stands on it's own in the annals of deceit and presidential malfeasance:

 

 

The US Supreme Court decision a week ago in the birthright citizenship question is settled law now - yet again.

Drumpf lost his case, and he is not so special that he gets to have a do-over 'rehearing' by SCOTUS on the matter just because he stomps his little feet and throws a tantrum.

Fuck this guy.  Fuck those who support his continuing attacks on our Constitution and rule of law.

 

 

---TFG