So Drumpf went and shit the bed again by dispatching his attack dog FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to open a sham investigation to harass and threaten the producers and the hosts of the long running, all woman hosted morning show, 'The View.'
Drumpf's attempt to intimidate and bully the ladies on 'The View' is not at all unlike what he tried and failed to do to Jimmy Kimmel.
Why did the suspected pedophile American POTUS do this? Because in DonOld's polluted mind, the ladies of 'The View' aren't inviting a sufficient number of right-wing charlatans and professional agitators to appear on their program to spew MAGA lies to his satisfaction.
I wonder how DonOld's bullying of 'The View' ladies is working out? Oops - probably shouldn't have asked:
"TheTrump administrationwas facing an army of furious fans and advocates of "The View" after ABC called on people to fight back against the agency's probe.
More than 77,000 comments were filed with theFCCby defenders of the long-running daytime talk show, which reportedly prompted the show to makebooking changesthis week.
Fans and advocacy groups made it clear ahead of the July 6 deadline that they were rallying in support of the ABC show. Viewers voiced concern that the show's producers, hosts, and journalists — not the FCC — should decide who appears on air. This came after the FCC revealed in February that it had opened aninvestigationinto the widely watched daytime program."
Why did Brendan Carr's FCC open an investigation into 'The View?'
It's simple folks.
Because Donald Trump is an insecure, corrupt, fascist whiny-ass titty baby who has sadly found a handful of American losers (like Brendan Carr, for ie.) who are willing to trash their own credibility and honor to do the old kiddie-diddling fascist's un-American bidding in abusing the powers of their public office to target DonOld's political detractors.
And let's be clear here - using the powers of the government to investigate the producers and hosts of a public airwaves, television talk show because the people who created and put THEIR names and professional reputations into that show would prefer not to invite dissembling, MAGA assholes on to THEIR show to lie to THEIR viewers is unmistakably a fascist move.
Here's the thing though. Fans of 'The View' are similar to Taylor Swift fans - they are super-fanatical supporters, and they are legion.
Drumpf and Carr have just poked their little MAGA stick into a women's hornet nest and my guess is the dying old gangster will back down just like he did when Jimmy Kimmel's fanbase pressured ABC/Disney to not give in to the filthy old despot wannabe's demand to remove Kimmel from the air.
All of these corrupt apparatchiks in Drumpf's regime like Brendan Carr, Pete Hegseth, Markwayne Mullin, Linda McMahon, Howard Lutnick, Doug Burgum, etc., had better start thinking about what happens when the day arrives, and it will, when the MAGA block party is over and Orange Caligula is no longer around to save the MAGA day with his presidential pardon powers because he's roasting on a spit in Hell and the MAGAs in Congress have been thrown out of power. That is going to be a very ugly day for many of these morally bankrupt Republican quislings.
Long harangue coming up - so grab your favorite beverage and kick your feet up on the desk:
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I'm glad someone published a story like this finally.
Not that I believe it will have an influential or widespread effect on those who continue to believe blindly in Drumpf's wicked lies about the 2020 election being 'stolen' from him, but because it shows that there is a sliver of redemptive hope for the minds and souls of some of the Fox "news" zombies who are still addicted to Rupert Murdoch's right-wing propaganda heroin:
"In interviews with MS NOW’s David Noriega over why they have abandoned DonaldTrump, members of the “Leaving MAGA” organization explained why they got involved in the movement before fleeingwhat one called a “cult.”
Admitting that they found acceptance within the Trump-can-do-no-wrong movement,Ron Kelleystated he left when he removed himself from theFox Newsbubble.
“I did believe that the election was stolen,” he told Noriega. “I believe that the riots were actually —those were patriots until I actually switched off Fox News and started getting my news from other places for my information. That's when it finally hit.”
Tori Hurst confessed she fell in with the MAGA crowd because, “I grew up really poor, so a lot of my friends' parents would be responsible for helping me get to prom or making sure I had new shoes for school, and they were all MAGA. And it was very much this constant conversation of, if you want to have nice things, be a Republican.”
What happened at the Jan. 6 insurrection eventually became a wake-up call for her.
“I met my now-husband in 2021, and they made me watch a documentary on January 6th, and I didn't even know what happened on January 6th prior to the PBS documentary,” she recalled. “And I looked at him and I said, ‘Scott, did that really happen?’ And he was like, ‘Where have you been?’"
First off, I have to say something about the young reformed MAGA lady having been 'groomed' as a teen by the MAGA parents of her friends to believe the hateful idea that "if you want to have nice things, be a Republican."
I am presuming the messaging there to that then teen girl was that if you want to be accepted in our group, be a Republican. And vote for Republicans.
Ah yes - preparing the American youth of tomorrow by grooming them to vote for the kind of Republicans like the one currently squatting in the American people's White House who just so happens to be a lifelong con artist, failed crooked "businessman," serial adulterer, serial sexual assaulter, adjudicated rapist, suspected child rapist, and coup-plotting, convicted felon. Apparently those are the kind of Republicans the MAGA parents of that girl's friends were grooming her to vote for.
Seriously though, that attitude right there is about as 'elitist' as you can fucking get, man. The implication is that Americans who vote for Democrats are the kind of Americans who don't attain "nice things" in life simply because of the way they vote.
It intrigues me that these hardcore MAGA people can be so willfully blind. Have any of them who truly believe that bullshit ever done any extensive traveling through the rural heartland of this country and seen the poverty and rot that exists in so many areas?
Is it just coincidence that many of the poorest rural areas in this country are also GOP voting strongholds? Not that poverty in forgotten little rural towns is anything to celebrate, or make fun of. Poverty, whether inner city or rural should be something that is unacceptable in any form in the wealthiest nation on the planet.
Seriously though, I can only imagine what other manner of right-wing nonsense and malevolent bullshit those MAGA parents of that woman's friends filled her head with.
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But yes indeed, I too had wondered where that former MAGA lady had been that she had not heard about the violence perpetrated by Drumpf's thugs on January 6, 2021 at the US Capitol.
The answer is simple. She was hanging out on Fox "news" getting all of her "news" and information about that ugly, un-American day from a network which just a few years ago had to pay out three quarters of a billion dollars to a voting machine company in a lawsuit settlement after admitting in court to having used their "news" platform to mislead and dis-inform their viewers about the 2020 election being compromised by corrupt voting machines. Fox had perpetrated this misdeed against their own viewers despite Drumpf's own DHS saying at the time that the 2020 election was the most secure election in history.
So yeah, it is not surprising in the least that Fox "news" is the reason that these unfortunately clueless, now former MAGA folks were utterly shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that January 6th actually happened, and that it wasn't a bunch of 'Antifa' (there's no such thing) guerilla forces who violently attacked our nation's capitol, put more than 150 law enforcement officers in the hospital, ransacked and looted the capitol complex, threatened the lives of public officials, stole and vandalized public property, and got several people killed, including three police officers, all in a bid to stop the lawful congressional certification of Joe Biden's legitimate victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
And now you know why I have stated on multiple occasions on the pages of this shitty little blog that I believe Rupert Murdoch is just a pure, unadulterated pile of evil human waste.
Murdoch's native country of Australia more or less forced the dirty old fascist ass out of their country for attempting to do the very same thing to their news media that he has been doing to the news media here in the US for the past 30 years with his tainted Fox Corp. and all of it's slimy tentacles. I mean, how fucking vile of a person do you need to be for your home country to essentially tell your ass to leave?
But, Rupert did leave Australia knowing that he he would not be able to expand his corrupt muckraking media empire there the way he wanted to, and so he set his sights on the good old US of A, launched the execrable Fox 'news' in 1996, and it's been downhill for the American news media industry since.
The fact that day in and day out several million Americans tune in non-stop to that execrable lie peddling, trash slinging network and swear by everything they see and hear on it is not only a sad testament to the power of propaganda, but its pretty fucking scary as well.
I hope the two former MAGA folks highlighted in this article continue on their path of MAGA-free enlightenment. I hope they are able to convince others to burn the red hat and rejoin the world of sanity and decency.
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Btw - the article did not mention the name, but I believe the PBS documentary the MAGA lady referenced as influencing her decision to leave MAGA was likely this one:
I'm going to let Matt Randolph, aka 'Mr. Global' explain perfectly how this 4th of July was ruined and shat upon by Orange Caligula and his red hat minions:
There is nothing to celebrate about watching the fascist, criminal and his stooges who are currently squatting in the American people's White House tearing away at the foundational document of our nation, the U.S. Constitution, abusing the powers of his office, making a mockery of law and order, personally profiting off of the presidency, and taking the nation and our people to war on lies and corrupt deceit.
Mr. Global is right. This 4th of July celebration which was supposed to be a national, all-inclusive celebration of 250 years of our nation's history and democracy, and it was hijacked by a dying, corrupt despot wannabe and his cabal of future federal prison inmate quislings who turned the nation's 250th birthday celebration into one ginormous, disgusting Trumpian shit show.
I wasn't going to post anything else today other than the 4th of July related cartoon and commentary in the previous post, but this news was just too good to pass up and not make mention of for a myriad of reasons, the least of which is that Drumpf and Todd Blanche are currently defying US law by refusing to release the remaining 3+ million unredacted documents from the 'Epstein Files':
"A former beauty queen who says DonaldTrumpgroped her at a 1993 pageant has leveled a new claim at the president's first wife, alleging Ivana Trumphelped funnel young womeninto Jeffrey Epstein's orbit.
Beatrice Keul, 55, a former Miss Switzerland and Miss Europe contestant, told the Daily Beast's new Punch Up Substack that she believes Ivana acted as a "madam"-style figure in Epstein's social world, on par with hisconvicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
In the final part of a three-part interview, Keul said she believes "Ivana played a major role in this whole cosmos, bringing in women in the same way as Maxwell.""
If this story of Ivana playing an active role in recruiting and "funneling" young girls and women to Epstein's sex trafficking ring while she was married to Drumpf, and while Drumpf was in an active, best buds relationship with Epstein, that adds a whole new level of eye-opening nefariousness to this whole sordid fucking story.
And to think that we have MAGA voters to thank for all of this embarrassing, disgusting lunacy.
This cartoon effectively conveys the totality of Drumpf's message to the American people, as well as to other aspiring democracies around the world on this 250th anniversary of America's own representative democracy:
His ICE soldiers are still running around liked masked death squad goons kidnapping people off the streets, from their places of business, their job sites, their homes, and even their places of worship.
He is installing unqualified lickspittle henchmen (Bill Pulte and Todd Blanche for ie.) in positions of critical national security and DOJ leadership positions for the sole purpose of targeting and persecuting his enemies and detractors.
He is in current defiance of the will of the American people, the US Congress, and the law by refusing to release the remaining 3+ million documents from the 'Epstein Files' investigation, files which so far have revealed the mention of DonOld Drumpf's name more than anyone else's name except Epstein himself.
He is in the process of surrendering to Iran in the war that he and Bibi Netanyahu started and that surrender is going to cost the American people dearly.
He hijacked most of the funding for the official America 250 org for his own shoddy 'Freedom 250' festival in D.C. this week which has been a spectacularly embarrassing failure with practically non-existent attendance by the public.
So yeah, it is completely understandable that many people have a somewhat jaded view of celebrating 250 years of America's existence at a time when a budding dictator is trying to tear down everything good which that 250 year-old democracy stands for, and he is trying to do it from the inside of the the very White House that is supposed to be the seat of that democracy.
I frequently hear this refrain from some on the left side of the aisle that we dirty fucking hippie liberal Democrats should be more forgiving of the few MAGA voters who are beginning to have buyer's remorse about Drumpf, and that we should be more understanding and accommodating of their views in grateful anticipation of them outright rejecting Drumpf and rejoining humanity.
Here's the problem with that - most of the MAGA believers might bitch and moan about specific things Drumpf has done that may have impacted them directly, but ultimately it is never enough for them to completely refute their overall allegiance to the racist old, mobbed-up kiddie diddler, much less sever their emotional and spiritual support umbilical cord to him.
I mean - Drumpf's base still supports him even after they found out from the 3.2 million 'Epstein Files' documents that were released that DonOld's name appears in a third of those documents (more than a million), which is more than any other human on the planet besides Epstein himself. And that they still support him even after he brazenly misuses and abuses the powers of his presidency and of the DOJ to cover up the remaining three million documents in their possession and keep them hidden from public view.
But seriously, sometimes you have to just stand in slack-jawed awe at the obtuseness of DonOld's supporters and apologists as they wrestle with the conundrum of, on one hand being hurt personally by his governing policies and the slowly swelling economic fallout from his foolish decision to take the country to war in Iran and being 'frustrated' at his brazen corruption, yet still loving and adoring him for his racism, his misogyny, his vulgarity, and his fascism:
"Blockbuster reports that DonaldTrumpis cashing into the tune of billionsduring his second term have trickled down to some of his MAGA supporters, and they had a few unpleasant things to say about it to MS NOW’s Alex Tabet.
On “Morning Joe," co-hosts Jonathan Lemire and Willie Geist shared a clip of Tabet talking to Florida GOP voters, all of whom admitted they voted for the president, with Lemire first offering, “He's making money, his rich friends are making money,his family is making money, you know, but we saw it at the opening of the show. Who has a 401(k)?”
Guest Richard Haas interjected, “Theblatancy of this, the nakedness of it is really interesting that in a sense, he's getting away with corruption.You know, people went after Hunter Biden for what now looks like penny-ante stuff, without excusing that. But this is on a scale that is really unprecedented, to the best of my knowledge.”"
Yeah - we remember what they did to Hunter Biden, don't we? Five years of public investigations and in the end what did the Republicans get on the younger Biden? That he lied on a gun purchase form about his past drug use and accepted an interest-free, undeclared loan of $8000 from his father to purchase a new vehicle.
Lol.
I mean -- do MAGA people grok the concept of 'contrast' and the divergent degrees of contrast?
Joe Biden giving his son an eight-thousand dollar interest free loan to buy a new pick-up truck, and the younger Biden's past drug habits warranted five years of GOP-led public congressional hearings at taxpayer expense.
Donald Trump has raked in more than $2.2 BILLION in his first year back in office. He is steering government contracts toward startup companies tied to his crooked sons and their foreign dealings. His daughter and son-in-law are eyeballs deep in Arab world money corruption.
Has anyone heard a peep from the same Republicans in control of Congress who opted to spend five years investigating Hunter Biden about looking into any aspect of the shady crypto, bitcoin, Arab money dealings swamp that Drumpf and his family are immersed in?
No, not so much as a whisper, which is why I just laugh when I hear and see these Republican chuds on my TV talking about law and order and justice and concepts like honesty and decency. GTFOH.
And you really do have to laugh because the godawful, mind-numbing reality is that the Republican/conservative/MAGA leader is a failed businessman, a failed reality TV show host, a serial adulterer, a serial sexual assaulter, an adjudicated rapist, a suspected child rapist, a convicted felon, impeached twice for corruption and for inciting insurrection, and as we are now seeing, someone who is willing to openly use the office of the US presidency to massively enrich himself and his parasitic family at a time when the American people are being ravaged by his own economic policy and governing failures.
So what I am trying to say in a roundabout way here is that there should be no sympathy or empathy for 'some' these MAGAs who are suddenly whining about Drumpf's blatant corruption and self-dealing from the inner sanctum of the White House.
These people don't get to cherry-pick the parts of Drumpf's corruption and immorality to renounce any more - its all or nothing.
It's stunning, not to mention slightly horrifying to watch grown-ass adults listening to Drumpf's brazen dissembling to their faces and finding his lies and bullshit amusing and entertaining.
The fact that people joined DonOld at this public event, laughing with, or at him, and participating in the further embarrassment and despoilment of our nation's honor and heritage is just sad:
Drumpf continues to peddle the comically childish lie to his gullible, dipshit followers that evil liberals ruined the shoddy workmanship performed on his big, beautiful reflecting pool by his hand-picked, personal pool contractor.
DonOld claims, without one iota of evidence of course, that the pool job performed by his corner-cutting, Mar-a-Lardass pool contractor was sabotaged by a spec ops team of Antifa stealth Ninjas with box cutters who slashed the cheap, toxic rubber lining that his no-bid contractor installed in the basin of the reflecting pool, work that the contractor performed in a rushed job just so that Donny could brag about it to his 'Great American State Fair' visitors (of which there are hardly any).
As I stated at the top of this post - the fact that grown-ass adults in this country listen to this fat, demented, conniving prevaricator and believe the old charlatan's mind-numbingly stupid lies is a testament to just how bereft the MAGA/Trump movement is of not only cognitive thinking abilities, but also how bereft they are of just plain old basic morality.
And this is why our country is in the condition it is in today - plain old human stupidity and moral poverty.
We are nearly two years in to Drumpf's second execrable term in office, in addition to the Republican/MAGA party having control of all three branches of our government, and DonOld's handpicked eunuchs and quislings are still publicly blaming Joe Biden for the governing failures of their own hopelessly inept, brazenly corrupt party and their child-molester party leader.
Watch as Drumpf's unqualified Homeland Security Secretary Marky Markwayne and the Mullin Bunch deceitfully implies (on Fox "news", where else?) that there is an epidemic of good, Christian, white Americans being murdered by undocumented immigrants across the country:
None of what Mullin says in this clip is true of course. In fact, most if not all of what he says in this clip is simply slanderous lies - an area incidentally where MAGA chuds like Mullin are subject matter experts.
Study after study, after study, after study shows that the immigrant crime rate in this country is significantly lower than the native crime rate. What Mullin and his ilk are actually doing is cherry-picking a few tragic, individualized cases where yes, an undocumented person killed an American citizen, the rarest of immigrant crimes, and using those cherry-picked incidents to incite hatred and violence toward immigrants and immigrant communities as a whole.
For that alone Mullin is a piece of shit. That he does this at the behest of a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and suspected child rapist whom he calls his 'leader' means he is a grotesque piece of shit.
"A woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump when she was 13 years oldhas gone into hiding over fears of retaliation.
A family member of the woman, identified only as Jane Doe 4, has come forward toThe Guardianto say that the alleged victim has resorted to “staying off the grid” and away from the Trump administration amid the fallout from allegations that resurfaced inthe Jeffrey Epstein files.
On Wednesday, the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, must unredact the FBI’s Epstein files or enter an argument as to why he should be allowed to keep their contents hidden and protect his boss from further recriminations.
Jane Doe 4 alleges she was abused and trafficked by Epstein, and that the disgraced financier took her to New York or New Jersey and introduced her to Trump when she was about13 years old in 1984.
The woman wasinterviewed four timesby the FBI in 2019, when Trump was serving his first term, soon after Epstein was arrested on federal child sex-trafficking charges.
There is no indication that an official investigation into the allegation involving the president was conducted."
And Todd Blanche is there to ensure that no "official investigation into the allegation involving the president" will ever be conducted. That you can take to the bank.
But I find the whole timeline of this woman's story coming to the FBI's attention pretty interesting.
🔔 She presents herself to the FBI in early 2019 to report that Drumpf had violently raped her when she was 13 years old in 1984, and that Jeffrey Epstein had also raped and abused her.
🔔 She shows up to the FBI knowing that giving a false report under sworn testimony is a felony offense, meaning by simply coming forward she was putting herself in legal jeopardy.
🔔 The FBI thought her story was credible enough that they interviewed her four times.
🔔 If the FBI had believed her story not credible the first interview, there would not have been second, third, and fourth interviews.
🔔 Shortly after these series of FBI interviews, then POTUS DonOld has his old pal Jeffrey Epstein arrested by his own DOJ, for which the FBI is the principal investigative agency.
🔔 Three or so months later, Jeffrey Epstein is dead, purportedly having hanged himself in his high security, DOJ holding cell.
🔔 The report into Drumpf's rape of the woman when she was 13 gets disappeared into the corn field.
🔔 The woman is now in hiding.
As Walter Cronkite used to say, "and that's the way it is."
To every single conservative and Republican who routinely mock the notion that man-made global warming and planet climate change are just liberal media, woke hoaxes and that water conservation efforts are communist conspiracies to take away your freedoms - go bloviate your ridiculous denial bullshit to the citizenry of Utah - I am certain it would go over quite swimmingly:
"Utah’s top official overseeing the Colorado River gave a serious warning alongside his counterparts from other states Tuesday: Utah’s farmers and ranchers, as well as some rural towns, are grappling with drastic water shortages from the ongoing drought.
“I want you all to recognize the significance and severity of the things we’re dealing with — totally unprecedented,” said Gene Shawcroft, Utah’s Colorado River commissioner, during Tuesday’s meeting of the Upper Colorado River Commission. “The real question is, what happens if next year looks like this? And I hope we don’t have to answer that question.”"
The first step toward humanity mitigating the worst effects of global climate change is for humanity to universally accept the reality that global climate warming is occurring and that it is indeed human caused.
Those who continue to deny the reality of the situation as we see it occurring in Utah right now are simply delusional and foolish. And those who continue trying to push these ginormous electricity and water guzzling A.I. data centers on these poor, rural communities really are the evilest of shitheads.
