How Many More Needless Deaths Will Occur at the Hands of DonOld's Temu Stasi?

I might in normal circumstances say that reading this article left me speechless and leave it at that, but it's hard to be speechless when you find out that a 25 year-old young man was gunned down by your government in front of his 3 year-old little girl and young wife because fate had him come into contact with an over-testosteroned, trigger-happy member of a federalized mercenary force, who if the reporting in this 'Independent' story is true, should never have been in a position to confront that young man to begin with:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  A man’s violent past didn’t stop ICE from giving him a badge and gun. After a fatal shooting, his hiring is in question | The Independent

 

"Outrage over the fatal shooting of an immigrant father in Maine intensified Friday after reports revealed the violent past and serious mental health struggles of the ICE officer who allegedly pulled the trigger.

The ICE officer who allegedly killed 25-year-old Colombian national Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford on Monday was identified by The Associated Press and Portland Press Herald as David Brouillette, 37.

Maine Senator Angus King has said that Durán Guerrero was not subject to an arrest warrant and that ICE officers at the scene weren’t wearing body cameras. Immigrant advocacy groups also said he had a Social Security number and was authorized to work in the U.S."

 

Oh but it gets much, much worse - astonishingly worse:

 

"Brouillette told an ex-wife, Ashley Brouillette, late last year that he was hired by ICE, but she didn't believe him at the time because of his long history of psychiatric issues, Ashley Brouillette told the AP.

In addition to mental health struggles that dated to his childhood, Ashley Brouillette and other family members claimed to AP that he had a history of violent behavior that included assaulting women and tossing boiling water at Ashley Brouillette as she held their daughter.

The terrifying incidents reportedly include a voicemail message in which he allegedly told a family member that he believed someone should slit her throat, and multiple requests for temporary protection in which another ex-wife alleged that he stalked and harassed her." 

 

Hmm.

❌ History of "psychiatric issues" dating back to childhood.

❌ History of violent behavior.

❌ History of violent behavior toward multiple women who were forced to seek protection orders from him.

Yet - they gave him an I*C*E badge, put a taxpayer paid for gun in his hands, and gave him a mandate to behave as violently as needed to nab brown-skinned people to help Stephen Miller meet his premature ejaculation triggering deportation dream of removing 100 million "illegal immigrants" from this country. 

I am inclined to think that this clearly fucked up dude who shot down this young man in cold blood is very probably not an outlier example of the kinds of monsters that  I*C*E has been hiring in large numbers.

And if what we have seen so far from these goons as they keep gunning people down in the streets of our country and terrorizing immigrants and American communities is any indication, it is not a far-fetched possibility that unstable nuts like this are being hired purposely and with malice aforethought at the direction of Stephen Miller and his direct report in the White House, for precisely their penchant for violence.

They have given these  I*C*E foot soldiers free bullying reign under the color of federal authority, and with their actions it's almost as if they were training for something, you know, such as a future coup move perhaps where DonOld sends in his stormtroopers to violently seize voting machines and ballots, arrest elections officials, arrest his political opponents, to begin the slow process of transforming the United States of America into a two-bit, banana republic run by a diaper-shitting, orange spray-painted, carnival barking, sleazy used car salesman, common crook, pervert, and Putin sellout.

Drumpf's defenders would call thinking like that 'TDS,' Trump Derangement Syndrome, but honestly, I do not put any manner of evil beyond the malignant and corrupted souls of these bastards. 

 

 

 

---TFG

The Scale Doesn't Exist That Can Accurately Measure the Totality of Drumpf's Corruption

I mean . . .

His corruption is just simply breathtaking at times.  Breathtaking as in it literally takes your breath away at the depth of his depraved greed.

This is why I just laugh whenever I hear one of his apologist voters lecturing DonOld's critics about anything to do with the subject of real-world 'law and order.'  

I'm like - umm, no, G-T-F-O-H with that gaslighting foolishness.  

Drumpf's defenders do not get to pontificate to anyone on the subject of "law and order" knowing full well that Donald Trump is a lifelong con-man, a business fraudster, a tax cheat, an embezzler, a serial sex-crimes offender, a multi-indicted convicted felon, impeached twice for public corruption and instigating an insurrection and violent attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and was a deeply embedded associate of Jeffrey Epstein for two decades.

To those people I say, nope.  Just take a walk with your bullshit defending the indefensible and defending such a horrifically flawed, morally repugnant individual like Donald Trump.  Just take a walk and keep on walking until the pavement runs out.

Anyway, here's what appears to be pretty straightforward and clear evidence that Drumpf is (likely criminally) manipulating the stock market for his own personal gain:

 

 

Link:   Trump promoted companies on Truth Social days after buying their stocks | CNN

 

"Donald Trump hopped on Truth Social last year to share some “very big and exciting news.” Nvidia, the computer chip manufacturing behemoth, had just announced plans to build AI supercomputers in the United States.

“All necessary permits will be expedited and quickly delivered” to Nvidia and similar companies, Trump vowed in the April 15, 2025 post to his more than nine million followers.

What the president didn’t disclose at the time was that days earlier, he had purchased between $200,000 and $500,000 of the company’s stock.

A CNN investigation found that Trump has promoted more than 20 companies on his Truth Social account days after buying stock in those firms – at times announcing government actions that could benefit the companies he just invested in."

 

Lol.

In addition to DonOld's corruption being 'breathtaking,' it's also just cartoonishly evil.

He's doing this shit at a time when his stupid Iran boondoggle has gas prices shooting up again, inflation is on the rise with Americans paying more and more for basic necessities, healthcare costs are skyrocketing, unemployment is creeping up, and all of that as his government throws ACA recipients to the free-market healthcare wolves and seeks to eliminate Medicare and Social Security safety nets as well.

I mean - add DonOld's stock market manipulation larceny to the $4+ billion that he and his scummy spawn have raked in with their family's shady crypto and bitcoin deals, and deals with foreign countries seeking to influence American foreign policy by gaining access to the White House and a corrupt POTUS through their familial connections, and you just have to stand back in awe at the brazenness of it.

And of course I'd be negligent if I failed to mention DonOld's scuzzy selling of pardons.

It is corruption on a massive scale, in broad daylight by a literal crime family and it truly does cause you to catch your breath when you take in the totality of it all - mostly because the whole sordid criminal empire is being run out of the American people's White House.

JfC, America.  Put an end to this dirtbag's criminal reign of power and reign of corruption at long last.  Show up at the ballot box and refuse to vote for any candidate with an (R) after their name.

That is how we end this madness.

 

 

 

---TFG

Are Republicans Pulling a 'Weekend at Mitch's' On Everyone? Where the F*ck is Mitch??

Meanwhile, it is looking more and more as if the Republican party is hiding the month old deceased body of the United States Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell somewhere, if they haven't already cremated or buried him - hey, with this bunch, you never know.

New info is coming out though, that McConnell is very likely dead and may have been in such a state for a few weeks:

 

Link:  Kentucky Governor Warns He Got Calls “Suggesting” Mitch McConnell Died | The New Republic 

 

"Despite recent evidence to the contrary, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear isn’t so sure that Senator Mitch McConnell is actually alive.

Speaking with journalist Katie Couric in an interview published on YouTube July 15, Beshear explained why he had requested a formal update from McConnell’s office earlier this month. In his explanation, Beshear revealed that he had received information from multiple officials indicating that the 84-year-old Republican had passed away.

“It had been a month before anything had been put out, not even an official statement from Senator McConnell,” Beshear recalled. “In fact, I’d gotten two calls from different agencies—not state agencies—suggesting he’s passed.”

The Kentucky senator went missing for nearly a month after he was found unconscious in his Washington residence and rushed to the hospital on June 14. For weeks, McConnell’s office refused to explain his extended hospitalization or elaborate on his eventual return to Capitol Hill." 

 

If this turns out to be true, that means the Republican party has not only been lying to Mitch McConnell's Kentucky constituents, to the media, and the rest of America these past couple of weeks about the reasons for McConnell's sudden vanishing act and radio silence since he disappeared off of radar screens more than a month ago, but they have also been fabricating fantastic stories of having had 20 minute conversations with the the corpse of McConnell, just within the past week.

I mean . . . what are we doing here folks when the politicians of one of our two major political parties are resorting to this manner of skullduggery and deception in a desperate and disgustingly morbid attempt to retain political power? 

We are in proverbially uncharted territory with these deceivers, and all of this insanity will end only when enough people in this country come to their senses, get off their asses, go to the polls on election day, and vote for anyone other than a Republican.  If the town drunk is on the ballot and you can't stand voting for the Democrat, then vote for the drunk.  Just don't vote for a fucking Republican.

Only when these clowns are out of power can we begin the task of cleaning up their mess - again - and putting things back on the road to some semblance of normality, if such a thing is even possible at this point. 

 

 

---TFG 

A Widening War With Iran Inevitably Means US Boots on the Ground - And Then All Bets Are Off

I don't want to hear a single word from Donald Trump voters when young Americans start coming home from Iran in body bags and in numbers too large to hide or ignore.

That is where America is headed if the sane adults in this country don't step in and put a stop to this unhinged madman's idiocy:

 

Link:  The U.S. and Iran Creep Toward a Wider War With Escalating Attacks - WSJ

 

Fighting between the U.S. and Iran has expanded, with the American military striking a broader range of targets and moving jet fighters into the Middle East while Tehran launches attacks across the Persian Gulf.

The fighting is focused on control of the Strait of Hormuz but this round raises the risk of a return to a larger war. The U.S. is hitting bridges and other targets in Iran’s interior to increase pressure across Iran to force an end to attacks on Gulf shipping, after a deal to open the waterway collapsed last week. Iran has responded with broader and deadlier attacks."

 

"Iran has responded with broader, and deadlier attacks." 

Pretty amazing how the Iranian military that Pete Kegseth has assured us on multiple occasions had "suffered a devastating military defeat," and was totally "obliterated," is able to pretty much freely target any of  the US allied countries in the region, and any ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz with impunity, isn't it?

Drumpf has now ordered the targeting of Iranian infrastructure.  Predictably, the Iranians are hitting back at the infrastructure of several US allies in the region.  Iran blew up a Kuwaiti desalination plant and the electrical plant that services it today.  That's bad folks.  Desalination plants are the primary or only sources of fresh water in many of these arid regions of the Mideast.  Human beings cannot survive without it.

Drumpf and Hegseth themselves are barreling their way toward committing war crimes, if they haven't already committed them.  They are trapped in a situation that they should not have gotten this country into to begin with and they are panicking and making very bad decisions, which is what happens when you hand total control of your military to an absurdly unqualified alcoholic, weekend Fox "news" talk show co-host, and individual who was accused of rape and paid his victim a $50k hush money settlement and made her sign an NDA. 

But, I suppose that's why DonOld dispatched Lil' Marco Rubio to rattle his Lil' wooden saber at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, threatening that the US was going to make efforts to "dismantle" the court and put an end to their arrests and prosecutions of the mass murdering despots of the world.

If Drumpf lets this undeclared Iran 'war' spiral out of control any further, he will have no choice but to put American boots on the ground in one of the most hostile terrains in the world in a nation of more than 90 million, and I damn well guarantee you those American troops won't be greeted as 'liberators.'  And that is when the real bloodshed begins.

And make no mistake about it - that blood will stain the hands of Drumpf, Hegseth, MAGA, and the Republican party - for eternity.

A vote for a Republican this November is a vote for never-ending war for the foreseeable future for this country and people.  It's that simple.

 

 

---TFG

Fatherland Security Czar Threatens to Jail Fellow Americans Who Refuse to Abide by Unconstitutional Edicts

We can add Markwayne Mullin's name to the list of corrupt Drumpf officials who will need to be thoroughly investigated, and if any unconstitutional and criminal acts were committed, prosecuted to the FULLEST extent of our nation's laws once Drumpf and MAGA Republicans are removed from power: 

 

Link:  Jaws drop as DHS chief threatens to jail state officials who defy Trump’s midterm plan - Raw Story 

 

"During a press conference on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin openly threatened to jail state officials who refuse to cooperate with the Trump administration’s midterm election security “program” this fall, leaving a number of critics stunned over the blatant admission.

Mullin’s admission came just one day after President Donald Trump’s national address on supposed election security shortcomings, and amid the Trump administration’s ongoing push to exert more control over the midterm elections, which include efforts to seize states’ voter registration data through threats of withholding federal funds earmarked for disaster preparedness, among other things.

“If the states that choose not to participate with the program and they choose not to participate in securing the elections, we will make sure that we make those states a priority to look at who voted in their states and hold them, the election officials, accountable,” Mullin said in response to a question from a Daily Caller reporter."

  

This truly is unprecedented corruption and malfeasance in office folks.  And on a mind-boggling scale.

Think about this.

The unqualified head (he was a loudmouth MAGA plumber from Oklahoma, ffs) of the nation's national security apparatus is threatening to indict and imprison his fellow American elections officials in states across this country who have the temerity to stand up for the privacy of their state's voters by rejecting Drumpf's corrupt attempts to SEIZE control of their state's voter rolls containing the private/personal information of their state's voting citizenry.   And we all know that the dirty old mobster is purposely targeting blue states, right?

Drumpf's administration has already attempted this fascist, unconstitutional seizure of voter data in nine states.  Every one of those states took Drumpf and his corrupt henchmen to federal court and won.

Drumpf has LOST every single case, mostly because he's a fucking loser, but also because what he is attempting to do is blatantly unconstitutional, not to mention un-American.

Drumpf and his stooges don't want this voter data for administrative or national security purposes as they dishonestly claim.  The fact that most US states are defying Drumpf's order to hand over their citizen's private voter data and are consistently winning in court should tell you all you need to know about just how nefarious this effort is by Drumpf and his thug administration.

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf Chases Election Fraud Ghosts as The Nation Sinks Lower into the Abyss

As expected, DonOld Drumpf gave a partially televised speech to the nation last night.

I say 'partially' as the only two major networks to air the speech were CBS which is owned by the Israel-connected billionaire Ellison family, and of course Rupert Murdoch's propaganda clearinghouse, Fox News.

 ABC and NBC rightly refused to broadcast his lies and they should be commended for it.

As those who know what Drumpf is all about predicted, all he did was rehash his same, tiresome 2020 elections lies and bullshit that have gotten him and his 'Dream Team' legal team and other strip-mall lawyers laughed out of courts from coast to coast more than 65 times in the wake of that election as they failed miserably to prove that even one single vote had been illegally cast for Joe Biden, or illegally taken away from Donald Trump in that election:

 

Link:  Trump uncorks wild theory about 'manufactured illegal ballots' during national speech - Raw Story

 

"President Donald Trump, as widely predicted, used his primetime address on Thursday night to announce that China has been working to compromise U.S. elections.

While he insisted he was not seeking to undermine confidence in elections, the speech was clearly downstream of years of his assertions, without any evidence, that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him.

Trump further announced that he will declassify a huge trove of documents about foreign election interference."

  

When Drumpf won in 2016, Democrats controlled the White House.

When Drumpf won in 2024, Democrats controlled the White House.

When Drumpf lost in 2020, he himself controlled the White House. 

So what Drumpf is essentially telling every American is that election fraud ONLY occurs when he loses, and it ONLY occurs when he and his party are in control of the White House.

DonOld also claimed that foreign "election interference" was rampant in American elections (once again, ONLY in elections he and MAGA lose) and that classified intelligence documents he intends to declassify will prove it.

I wonder if the intel that DonOld is threatening to declassify includes the intel which showed coordinated "election interference" having been committed by Putin and Russia, for Drumpf's benefit, with Drumpf's knowledge, in the 2016 election?  Somehow, I highly doubt it.

Ultimately, what DonOld's speech last night was really all about was sowing ever more conspiratorial mistrust, fear, and anger over our elections among his cult base in the run-up to this November's midterms, and peddling right-wing propaganda about the security and fairness of American elections to any unthinking American rube who is sufficiently foolish and dumb enough to believe him.

 

 

 ---TFG

Will Network TV Broadcast the Rantings of a Madman? Yeah, Probably. Moral Cowardice is the New American Way.

The guy who is a lifelong con artist, embezzler, tax cheat, convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and suspected child rapist is going to go on national TV tonight, if the cowardly broadcast network owners allow it, which they will, and he is going to straight up lie into the faces of the American people about his legitimate election loss to Joe Biden in 2020:

 

 

Link:  TV networks won't confirm Trump speech will air as calls mount not to broadcast a 'madman' - Raw Story

  

"President Donald Trump's hyped-up plans to address the nation Thursday night might have hit a major roadblock as it remains unclear whether any major television network will actually air him, the Daily Beast is reporting.

Major broadcast networks—ABC, CBS, and NBC—along with cable outlets including Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC have remained silent on whether they intend to preempt regular programming to carry the speech, the Daily Beast reported Thursday morning.

As of Tuesday evening, the Thursday 9 p.m. time slot across networks continued to display "their standard scheduled content," with no indication that coverage would be interrupted for the presidential address."

  

Drumpf is not doing this because he truly, in the depths of his rancid heart, believes that massive fraud "stole" the 2020 election from him.

Christ, we're almost seven years past that event and this big fat crybaby is still - STILL! whining about that election.

He and his pinhead enablers/followers/cult members, whatever the fuck they are, have had nearly seven years to come up with JUST ONE piece of credible, verifiable evidence that Drumpf lost the 2020 election by massive voter fraud.

They have lost upwards of seventy court cases over the years challenging the outcome of that election, including cases in front of judges appointed by Drumpf himself, and even two cases that made it all the way to the US Supreme Court where his hand-picked justices told him to fuck off, he had no case.

Drumpf's own intelligence and DOJ people at the time told him very clearly that Biden's victory was not only fair, but that the election was the most secure election in history.  His own fucking people told him that.

So why does DonOld want to re-litigate his seven years of lies and subterfuge over his election loss to Biden?  Because he and the GOP are polling lower than a rattlesnake's scrotum sac right now across the country right now and looking at a midterms election blowout, and DonOld is still expending great efforts to keep the remainder of the 'Epstein Files' hidden from the view of the American people and a lot more people are beginning to take closer notice of that ongoing cover-up.

It's called, creating a "distraction." And DonOld is the king of distractions because he has a lot of bad shit that he has done that he desperately wants to distract people's attention from.

Let's face it - Drumpf is shitting in his already shit-filled diaper about the prospect of his MAGA enablers and criminal co-conspirators losing control of the House and Senate to Democrats and being impeached, as he rightly should be.

Therefore, the filthy old kiddie diddler isn't hiding his intentions at all.  He is going to pull out every execrable, unethical, shady stop in the book to ensure his Republican enablers and co-conspirators in the House and Senate remain in power, whether they rightfully won and deserve that power or not. 

Tonight then, fully expect this twisted, loathsome, pathetic creature posing as an American POTUS to stir up old lies and manufacture brand new ones.  He will use those lies to divide Americans and pit Americans against each other and further undermine trust in our elections, our state elections workers, and in our democracy.

Just know that this is the dirty old mobster's contemptible plan.

 

 

 

---TFG

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