Bill Pulte is Don Drumpf's Chosen Capo for the Dirty Job of Ratf*cking the Midterms

Drumpf is leaving his corrupt, nepo baby real-estate mortgage crony in charge of US intelligence agencies until the end of the year for the sole purpose of being his go-to henchman when it comes time to perpetrate voter suppression and election tampering tactics in the lead-up to this November's pivotal midterm elections.  That much is clear at this point:

 

Link:  New spy chief 'eyes firing hundreds' to clear way for midterm interference plot: report - Raw Story

 

"President Donald Trump's new acting spy chief arrived at his post Friday with orders to fire hundreds of intelligence officials — clearing the way for Trump's election meddling aspirations in the midterms.

Bill Pulte, who took over the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday without Senate confirmation, can hold the post for up to 210 days under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act — well past November's midterm elections.

CNN reported that Pulte showed up on his first day with a list of employees and that he "eyes firing hundreds.""

  

Drumpf has no intention of watching the Democrats legitimately win back the House and Senate without making a hamfisted attempt to tamper with and taint the elections, if not outright overthrowing the results of them.

When your announced first order of business as new acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is that you're going to be purging the department of staff, that is a pretty clear sign that your mission is not to serve US national security interests, but to be a tool of revenge to be deployed against our own democracy and any Americans whom a corrupt, twice-impeached, coup-plotting, convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and suspected child rapist doesn't like.  Americans like myself for instance.

Bill Pulte has ZERO experience in national security as by law candidates for the position of DNI are required to have.

Bill Pulte has ZERO experience in intelligence as by law candidates for the position of DNI are required to have. 

Bill Pulte has already abused his power in government and violated the public trust by misusing his high level administration position to help DonOld Drumpf target his political enemies.

It goes without saying that in service to Donald Trump, Bill Pulte will willingly abuse that power in his position as Director of National Intelligence as well, and that is precisely why Drumpf is going to leave him as interim head of DNI until January.

Just as Pam 'Scam Blondi' Bondi, Ka$h Patel, and Pete Kegseth have hollowed out the DOJ, the FBI, and the US military leadership ranks of dedicated, competent, career staff and employees who failed to meet their demands to pledge fealty to dear leader, Pulte is going to take up where the fired Tulsi Gabbard left off, only on steroids and with a directive from the mob boss at the top to ensure the House and Senate remain in reliably safe, pedophile protecting, MAGA Republican hands.

 

 

 

 

---TFG

The Russians: With Friends Like Drumpf, Who Needs Enemies?

Drumpf betrayed the defense of Ukraine and so Ukraine, realizing that they could not put any trust in the United States for as along as Donald Trump is POTUS, decided to take their version of war straight to the Russians who have been carpet bombing Ukrainian cities and civilian population centers with missiles and drones for the entirety of this illegal Putin vanity conflict.

And the end result?

Moscow, the crown jewel city of DonOld's buddy Putin's Russia, is wallowing in smoke and flames today:

 

Link:  Post by @chriso-wiki.bsky.social — Bluesky

 

And this:

 

 

It's the same old, sad 'ETTD' story folks.

 

Everything

Trump

Touches

Dies 

 

Russia will not be an exception to that rule.

 

 

 

---TFG

♫ "Evil Minds That Plot Destruction, Sorcerers of Death's Construction..." ♫

Some inconvenient truths to keep in mind as you read this story.

Immigrant billionaire tech bros Elon Musk and Peter Thiel helped bankroll Drumpf's 2024 presidential election campaign.

Both Musk and Thiel are prominently named in the 'Epstein Files.'

Drumpf gave both Musk and Thiel hundreds of millions of taxpayer-funded US government contracts.

Drumpf is the second most mentioned name in the 'Epstein Files' with only Epstein's name being mentioned more.

 

 

Link:  MAGA billionaire's secret society list looks a lot like Epstein files: columnist - Raw Story

  

"A recently leaked list of the members of a MAGA billionaire's secret society looks a lot like the Epstein files, one columnist warned.

Wired published a list of more than 200 of the world's elite who are part of a secret society, Dialog, run by tech billionaire Peter Thiel. A list of events at a retreat for the group included sessions on "Navigating WWIII" and "How's Your Sex Life?" Wired reported."

 

So apparently, Peter Thiel's 'secret society' of wealthy 'Epstein Files' alumni is holding, presumably, secret meetings to presumably plot further ways to hide their secret plans for a future America from the public and to use their combined wealth to cover up their 'Epstein Files' crimes and go after their detractors and those trying to expose their crimes.

Musk and Thiel are both bad men.  They both harbor bad intentions toward humanity.  And it goes without saying that the recipient of their political largesse Donald Trump is also a bad man.

As such, it really shouldn't be surprising that the names of all three of these 'bad' men who show up prominently in the 'Epstein Files' have political and financial ambitions that are dangerously intertwined.

Oh, I would be remiss if I failed to note that one of the group sessions at these secret billionaire  meetings is on the subject of "navigating" your way through World War 3.  

Ruminate on the meaning of that for awhile if you will.

 

 

 

---TFG

Keep Excavating the 'Epstein Files' - There is Much More 'Buried Evidence' to be Found

Drumpf's staunch defenders are in seriously deep denial that the whole truth of his sex crimes against women and children will see the light of day some day in the not too distant future.

It is no longer a matter of 'if' the truth about DonOld's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein will be revealed to the American people, but a matter of 'when.'

 

Link:  Buried evidence in Epstein files names Trump Tower as sex recruiter hunting ground - Raw Story

 

Donald Trump had a team of recruiters roaming Trump Tower searching for women for him to have sex with, according to an explosive FBI interview buried in the Epstein files.

In a 2021 interview, a woman told agents she was approached in the 1990s as she sat in the public atrium at the base of the Fifth Avenue skyscraper in New York City.

Two men asked her if she wanted to meet Trump, the report stated, adding, “The man winked and said [Trump] could do whatever she liked.

The record of the interview was buried within millions of documents released by Trump's Department of Justice in the Epstein Files. Lying in an FBI interview is a federal crime."

  

DonOld's Mar-a-Lardass shitty golf motel and mob safe house in South Florida was also reportedly an Epstein/Maxwell "hunting ground" for young girls - that according to the testimony of the late Virginia Giuffre who was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell while working at Drumpf's crib:

 

Link:  Unsealed documents detail alleged Epstein victim’s recruitment at Mar-a-Lago - POLITICO 

"A trove of court documents unsealed Friday detail allegations by an alleged victim of wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein that while working as a teenage locker room attendant at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort nearly two decades ago she was recruited to give Epstein massages that often involved sexual activity.

The roughly 2,000 pages of records released by the Manhattan-based 2^nd Circuit Court of Appeals also show the same woman, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, appears to have claimed she had sex with a series of prominent men — including former politicians — at Epstein’s direction while working as a staff masseuse for the investment adviser, who eventually came under investigation in 2006 for sex trafficking over his involvement with teenage girls."

  

You can keep the kind of evil that Drumpf has perpetrated hidden for only so long.

The truth will come out.  And it will be horrifying.  Will it sway his supporters?  Based on their moral failings up to this point in maintaining their fealty to the old coup plotter and kiddie rapist, it's highly doubtful.

 

 

 

---TFG

DonOld Bails on Bibi's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure' and Screws the Pooch Bigly

I'm going to give my haranguing a rest and allow Mr. Global and Hawk to provide you with accurate analysis and updates as to what is going on with Drumpf's seeming white flag waving surrender to Iran.

Enjoy and share: 

 

 

  

 

Donald Trump dragged this nation to war and in three months lost that war and gave in to Iran.

His MAGA cult can spin that shit any way they want, but it does not change the raw fact that Drumpf's big mouth and stupidity started a war that he could not finish and now the American people, yet again, get to pick up the tab and the pieces of Donny's catastrophically losing ways.

 

 

 

---TFG

An America Led by an "Exceedingly Unwell" POTUS is an "Exceedingly Unwell" Nation

I hate to break the news to the weak, cowardly, groveling Republicans who continually prostrate themselves at the feet of a vulgar, dying, demented old mobster and sex criminal, but their boy has been 'exceedingly unwell' for quite some time, and the sad fact of the matter is that they themselves could end all of this madness tomorrow by joining with Democrats in removing him from office.

If even just a handful of Republicans had so much as an ounce of moral courage in them, this long national nightmare that our country is presently suffering through could end.

 

Link:  'Ummm…': Trump's 'erratic' speech sparks concerns he's 'exceedingly unwell' - Raw Story

 

"The internet fired off stunned reactions on Wednesday as President Donald Trump gave a meandering speech after the G7 Summit in France.

Trump spoke about the Iran agreement from Évian-les-Bains and talked for more than 40 minutes on a stage with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick standing behind him.

Political and media experts commented on the president's demeanor and claims."

 

There hasn't been a single day of DonOld Drumpf's execrable second White House stint where he has been even mildly 'well' in any sense of the word.

While the rest of the sentient world has been loudly noticing for months that Drumpf is not in a favorable mental state, the GOP looks the other way and whistles past the dirty old mobster's future graveyard in the dire hopes that their voters fail to wise up about Dear Leader's palpable unfitness for office.

And it's also mind-boggling that the US corporatized media keeps cluelessly 'wondering' what is wrong with Drumpf, when they seemed to be all-knowing certain of what was wrong with an equal aged Joe Biden after having committed a couple of  inconsequential public verbal gaffes.

America's allies around the world are watching what is happening in this White House and it is certain that they are fearfully wondering what on earth has happened to the great country they used to trust in and look up to as the premier democracy and most responsible and moral super power nation on the planet.

The answer of course is that fascism came to America and around a third of the voting public were enthusiastic enough over the prospect of living life under an American dictator that they helped put the mobbed-up, old kiddie-diddler in office a second time even after he violently attempted to overthrow our democracy on January 6, 2021, and even after it became apparent that he has a very serious pedophile problem for which he has yet to be totally forthcoming about.

 

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf Passes Cost of His $600 Million (and climbing) Playroom to American Taxpayers

He lied to your faces Ma and Pa MAGA.

He told you that it wouldn't be you and your families paying for his 'big beautiful' gold-trimmed ballroom and dictator hideout bunker.

He looked every one of you right in your beady MAGA eyes and straight up told you that you need not worry about the cost of this monstrous gold-trimmed party venue because his wealthy billionaire pals and corporate CEO "friends" would pay for it ALL:

 

Link:  GOP leader confirms taxpayers on the hook for Trump's ballooning $600M ballroom - Raw Story

 

"Senate Majority Leader John Thune acknowledged on Tuesday that taxpayers will help foot the bill for President Donald Trump's $600 million White House ballroom.

Trump has promised since July 2025 that the project would cost taxpayers nothing. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that internal contractor documents tell a different story.

Thune, speaking at a Capitol press conference, didn't dispute it."

  

One can only assume that Drumpf's defenders enjoy being lied to, and enjoy being manipulated by the dirty old mobster.

I am beginning to think that they derive some kind of perverse pleasure in being conned and taken advantage of, and shit upon so routinely by their celebrity cult leader.

But yeah folks - no money to shore up social security.  No money to save Medicare and Medicaid.  No money for Head Start.  No money for schools, healthcare, or any other social service program that serves Americans and betters the lives of Americans.

Nope.

And now DonOld wants you Ma and Pa MAGA, and the rest of us, to fork over $600 million of yours and our tax dollars to fund the construction of a "ballroom" that he had no legal right to build in the first place.

Believe this - the original price tag for Donny's ballroom was $200 million.  That amount currently stands at $600 million.  It's a sure bet that once all is said and done and all the bills come due, Donny's gold-gilded "ballroom" will equate to well over $1 billion being added to the debt of American taxpayers.

What can truthfully be said of people who keep falling for the same bait & switch lies and deception by a greasy old con man over and over again?

Simple.

SUCKERS!

 

 

 ---TFG

Don the Con Gets Taken to the Cleaners by Iran

Cartoonist Michael de Adder accurately sums up the 'big beautiful' deal that Drumpf claims he has agreed to with Iran:

 

 

Drumpf's Iran "deal" is a deal to reward Iran for hanging tough against a much bigger, much stronger bully than themselves.

And the American people get to have the honor of helping to pay for Donny's deal to rebuild Iran's 'obliterated' military. 

 

 

---TFG 

Drumpf Has FAFO'd Average Americans Into Long-Term Economic Hardship

Drumpf fucked around where he shouldn't have been fucking around and now we tax paying Americans get to find out by bearing the economic burden of DonOld's fucking around where he had no business fucking around.

And when I use the term "tax paying Americans" it doesn't include guys like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, and other billionaires who are siphoning wealth from the underclasses like Daniel Plainview slurping Eli Sunday's oil wealth through a straw like it were a milkshake, while simultaneously deploying battalions of billionaire-bought lawyers to help them attain practically tax free status.

No, the burden of finding out about Drumpf's fucking around will be borne by the same taxpaying Americans who are being battered right now by the failures of Drumpf's inflationary governing decisions.

 

Link:  Trump, Iran agree to MOU opening Strait of Hormuz: What is in the 60-day deal?

 

"President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance both signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran, which would cease fighting on all fronts for 60 days and is expected to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to all traffic, a senior administration official said Monday.

The official said the signatures were done digitally and that a formal signing will happen in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday.

While the official said the details of the agreement will be released within the next 24 to 48 hours, Trump on Monday said the text of the memorandum of understanding would be released "pretty soon," but sometime after Friday."

 

 Hey folks.  For anyone that is interested in simple reality.

Re: Drumpf's bold announcement of an Iran "deal."

(clears throat)...

There is no "deal."

It is an MOU.

That's right.  For those of you old enough to remember:

M-i-c

k-e-y

M-O-U

s-e

🐹

Uh-huh-hum... (clears throat again).

Anyway - Drumpf's "deal" is in actuality a 'Memorandum Of Understanding' - an understanding for the terms of a future, actual "deal." 

Undoubtedly, in the understanding agreed to by DonOld and the Iranians, it likely means that the United States military will be forced to turn tail and go home, Iran keeps their uranium, Iran keeps control of the Strait of Hormuz, and DonOld's administration is going to be sending American ships to Iran loaded with shrink-wrapped pallets stacked full of hundreds of billions of US taxpayer dollars.  Those pallets full of US taxpayer money will be used to rebuild the obliterated infrastructure of Iranian cities that DonOld spent $100 billion of those same US taxpayer dollars to blow up with American bombs and missiles.

That $100 billion and climbing price tag accompanying those pallets of cash will be a cost passed on to every non-billionaire taxpaying American in this country, and it will be the price Americans will be forced to pay for dipshit DonOld rejecting the advice of his more respected military and intel leaders about getting the US involved with Bibi Netanyahu's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure.'

It is all the more galling because this is the same administration that canceled funding for pediatric cancer research, is trying to throw people off of the social security and Medicare rolls, and actually wants to eliminate social security, medicare, and medicaid because gosh darn it there's just no money in the MAGA budget.

But somehow in addition to the $100 or so billion pissed away so far on Bibi's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure,' they also found a $1 billion for a gild-trimmed ballroom/bunker that nobody was asking for.

There was the $20 billion they found to bail out Argentina's economy to save the political ass of Argentina's right-wing president who's a Drumpf pal.  Nobody was clamoring for that "critical" expenditure either. 

Then they found another $20 million to repaint the floor of the D.C. reflecting pool swimming pool blue, another project that absolutely nobody was asking for.

And of course I would be remiss in my duties as a Gadfly if I failed to mention the $1.776 billion slush fund DonOld wants taxpayers to absorb to pay off the thugs who got sent to prison trying to help him overthrow the 2020 election.

Here's the straight up thing with Iran.  There is no "deal."

There is only a "digitally-signed" memorandum which matter-of-factly states that there may be a deal in 60 days, and meh, there may not be a deal in 60 days, and aside from temporarily and conditionally opening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping traffic, that is about all it says.

All of this because dipshit DonOld listened to the unsound advice of Pete Hegseth and Lindsey Graham, and fell hook, line and sinker for the lies and bullshit from wanted war criminal Bibi Netanyahu about how easy it would be to topple the Iranian regime in just a few days with bombs and missiles.

And now Joe and Jane Sixpack-American are just going to have to get used to $4 and above gas and higher grocery costs for the long-term future in order to help pay for that colossally buffoonish DonOld stupidity.

 

 

 

---TFG

The Growing 'Nuisance Neighbor' Problem Facing Canadians

After Drumpf's Bud Light sponsored, bloody cage fights on the White House lawn last night, our Canadian neighbors to the north have got to be wondering what the fuck has happened to the North American neighborhood:

Cartoonist Dave WHAMoND - 

 

 

 

 

---TFG