We Are 17 Months in to Trump's Second Term. No More Blaming Predecessors for His Blunders.

Just remember folks that when the economic pain referenced in this article arrives on your doorstep, on my doorstep, on all our doorsteps, and all indicators say it will, the individual in this country MOST responsible for that economic pain is going to be this colossally inept, arrogant, stupid, greedy, and corrupt old con man:

 

Link:  Panic ensues as ‘largest energy crisis in modern history’ appears imminent - Raw Story 

 

"Energy expert and investor Eric Nuttall predicted in early May that the world was heading toward what may be the “largest energy crisis in modern history,” one that could spark oil rationing “within weeks” – and with the two-week mark now fast approaching, observers across the political spectrum began expressing alarm on Monday.

“We’re not talking months or quarters. In the next couple of weeks, you will have to rationalize demand by more than during COVID,” Nuttall told Bloomberg on May 1. “This is by far the biggest energy crisis that anybody alive is experiencing. There remains a lot of apathy in the market, because I just don’t think people can wrap their heads around it.”

Nuttall’s prediction came amid the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, a conflict that immediately saw the partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil trade flows. Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Gulf States’ energy infrastructure have only further exacerbated fears of a looming energy crisis of historic proportions."

 

Drumpf ignored his own intel that said Iran was still years away from enriching enough uranium for a nuclear warhead.  He ignored the advice of his military people that starting a war with Iran could have catastrophic consequences for exactly what we see happening right now in the Strait of Hormuz.

Drumpf ignored the advice of those American experts and chose to go with the advice of Israel's leader Benjamin Netanyahu instead, a guy who is under criminal indictment in his own country for corruption, is a wanted war criminal, and has had a throbbing hard-on for bombing Iran for more than four decades.

And here we are.  And when that economic pain hits, it is going to hit middle America and the middle class and working poor the hardest and that includes quite a few of Drumpf-supporting MAGA folk.

And it goes withouth saying that Drumpf, being the blameless con artist he is will of course blame it on Obama.  He will blame it on Biden.  He will blame it on Democrats.  He will blame it on the media.  He will blame it on America's long-time allies.  He might even blame Netanyahu if he's desperate enough.  He will blame everyone but his execrable self, and if it doesn't go down that way I will print those words out and eat them.

Seriously though, I don't think most Americans are ready for the kind of economic pain that is being talked about in this article and it's going to get very interesting if the Iranians decide to stand their ground knowing full well that such economic pain to the American people will eventually become painful to the American POTUS who attacked their country as well.  Unfortunately, it appears we are all about to find out.

 

 

---TFG

Bloody UFC Fights on the White House Lawn? What's Next: 'Jackass: The White House Movie'?

JfC.

He is literally, before our very eyes, transforming OUR American people's White House into his own tasteless reality TV version of Mar-a-Lardass on the Potomac:

 

 

Link:  Republicans desperate for White House UFC tickets as Trump curates crowd for $1M pledges - Raw Story

  

"Republicans were reportedly clamoring for tickets to President Donald Trump's Ultimate Fighting Championship Fight Night on the White House's South Lawn — but tickets are limited, according to reports on Monday.

Trump's event coincides with his 80th birthday on June 14 and is part of a series of celebrations around America's 250th anniversary, NBC News reported. The president was apparently "handpicking most of the 4,000-plus spectators lucky enough, cunning enough or rich enough to score a seat on the South Lawn."

The UFC is paying for the event and tickets are free. But a Republican lobbyist who has direct knowledge of the event and process told NBC News that sponsorship packages have been selling for $1 million or more for ringside seats, with one report suggesting the figure was closer to $1.5 million.""

 

"Sponsorship packages."  Lol - also known as "bribes."  They really do think that we all are as stupid as the average MAGA voter, don't they?

Drumpf is giving tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to the company that maintains the pools at his porn resorts to paint the bottom of the D.C. Memorial reflecting pool blue because he wanted to see the water look like the swimming pool at his Mar-a-Lardass mob hangout. I wonder what his kickback amount is on that deal?

He unilaterally made the decision to bulldoze the historic East Room of OUR American people's White House to make room for a ginormous, ugly, gaudy, gold-leafed "ballroom" that emulates the tacky decor at his tacky Florida resort, and for which he now wants US taxpayers to pick up the $1 Billion cost of.

He wants to build a huge Nazi-era style 'Triumphal' arch that dwarfs just about every other structure in and around the US Capitol area in massiveness.

And now he is going to taint the celebration of 250 years of America and American democracy by turning the White House lawn into a fucking outdoor arena and invite his roid-raging, knuckle-dragging, UFC fighting pals to stage one of their lowbrow, three-ring-circus blood-fests there.  And of course he is trying to make money off of it.  I mean - ffs folks, it's OUR shared, national celebration, NOT HIS!!

These are all acts of a malignantly narcissistic madman who harbors delusions of being the first dictator in this nation's history.  The people who voted to put this classless pile of gelatinous, orange trash in an ill-fitting suit back in the White House for a second time around have no idea of the destructive madness they have unleashed on the people of this country with that morally bankrupt vote.

 

 

 

---TFG

House Trumpublicans Would Opt to Ingest 'Toxic' Poison Rather Than Oppose Dear Leader

This is where the rubber meets the road for the Republican party.

Republicans are going to be forced to determine what is more of a priority - Americans in need because of their shitty economic stewardship of the country, or the deranged whims of a diaper-shitting old mobster, rapist, convicted felon and suspected child rapist with delusions of kingly grandeur? 

 

Link:  Vulnerable Republicans nervous as they near 'toxic' vote found to be on 'thin ice': report - Raw Story

 

I have every reason to believe that this craven, morally bankrupt Republican congress will give Drumpf anything and everything that he demands, and therefore, you, Joe and Jane Six-pack America, get the privilege of having dear leader's government take even more taxes out of your stagnating paychecks to pay to complete the construction of DonOld's 'Big Beautiful Golden Ballroom' and dictator hideout bunker for at minimum $1 billion, even though dear leader PROMISED up front that it was only going to cost $200 million and his rich billionaire pedo buddies were going to foot the bill.

I mean shit, these Republican gimps in the House are already naming airports after the old conman, his MAGA evangelical sycophants are erecting two story tall, half million dollar, gold-plated statues in honor of his magnificence, and the old charlatan has been tweeting out memes depicting himself as a Christ-like figure  recently, so it's pretty much a sure bet that these neutered and spayed house Republicans will come up with a sufficient amount of bullshit excuses to justify unanimously approving the old gangster's new gilded mob hangout and shove it down the American taxpayer's throats whether they like it or not.

 

 

 

 

---TFG

Repeat Offender Business Fraudster Wants a Money 'Stake' in American Companies

In case anyone is wondering, this is how Vladimir Putin amassed his own nearly half a trillion dollars of wealth after 20 years of dictatorial power:

 

Link:  Trump 'startles' industrialists with push for a stake in big American businesses: report - Raw Story

  

"Trump's push to have his administration take a bigger stake in major American businesses is beginning to scare industrialists and executives, according to a new report.

"Some executives are so worried Trump will ask for a stake in their company that they have prepared for Oval Office meetings by rehearsing what they would say to fend off the president's advances," the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday based on information from the lobbyists involved in those preparations.

According to the WSJ, Trump's reach for large stakes in the biggest American businesses "startles many large U.S. companies that fear an expansion of government power in their industries.""

 

Putin's government took ownership stakes in private industries throughout Russia and over time, Putin's power grew, his greediness grew and he started eliminating the owners and CEO's of those companies (falls from hotel balconies, small aircraft crashes, poisonings, etc.),  and eventually transferring ownership and assets of those companies to his personal wealth portfolio.

Drumpf reveres brutal, authoritarian kleptocrats like Putin because he aspires to the very same level of obscene wealth and unrestrained power that they have.  That is the sum total of all that DonOld aspires to in his miserable, valueless life.

These American business owners have every reason to be wary and suspicious of Drumpf wanting his corrupt government to be a financial business partner in their companies.

I would seriously call in to question the competence and stewardship of a company owner/CEO who was not  alarmed and guarded against a lifelong mobbed-up con artist, business fraudster, bank fraudster, tax fraudster, and convicted felon wanting to have a "stake" in their company.

 

 

  

---TFG

MAGA/TPUSA 'Star' Blows the Whistle on Just How Scummy the Whole Movement Is

It has always just been a matter of time before those inside the MAGA movement started coming to their senses and acknowledging the reality of the kind of people and ideology they involved themselves with when they hopped on the Drumpf/MAGA gravy train.

This is beyond humorous: 

 

Link:  Rumors of secret GOP payments to influencers now confirmed by ex-insider: expert - Raw Story

 

Ashley St. Clair, a 27-year-old former brand ambassador for Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, has turned into one of the fiercest critics of the movement she helped build.

St. Clair, who amassed more than a million followers on X, published an anti-transgender children's book, appeared on Fox News and took selfies at Mar-a-Lago, now alleges that many of President Donald Trump's top online cheerleaders are "mercenaries of the attention economy" coordinating with administration officials for paid promotional deals, reported the Washington Post.

"There is no free thinking here," she said in a recent TikTok video. "They are waiting to get marching orders and a direct deposit."

In near-daily TikTok monologues to over 77,000 followers, St. Clair claims to expose secrets of her former allies and the "hidden machinery" that created social media stars, alleging that top MAGA personalities portrayed as grassroots activists received coordinated talking points from administration officials and congressional Republicans through group chats with names like "Fight, Fight, Fight."

St. Clair revealed in February 2025 that she had secretly had a child with Elon Musk, the owner of X, and after their relationship ended and custody disputes emerged, she withdrew from public life for several months, describing it as a period of doubt and self-reflection when she realized she "didn't understand what [she] was talking about."

She emerged in January expressing "immense guilt" over spreading anti-transgender views and contributing to a movement built on "fear and false patriotism," where she said "everything is staged, everything is for a dollar, everything is about making money."

 

St. Clair says that TPUSA (MAGA) is a movement "built on fear and false patriotism" and that everything they do is "staged" for and all about "making money."

Fear, false patriotism, flag-waving, and bible thumping are all hallmark characteristics of the final refuge of scoundrels.

Btw - St. Clair's claims jibe with the results of a 2024 DOJ investigation that found MAGA 'influencers' getting caught accepting payments from Russia for their online propaganda peddling.  That is why whenever I hear the term 'MAGA influencer,' I immediately think 'loser,' 'fraudster,' and Putin tool.

Being the highly inquisitive individual I am though, I have to wonder if St. Clair's claim that TPUSA stages everything they do extends to the killing of their leader? Could that have been a "staged" event, perhaps unbeknownst to poor Charlie Kirk?  As murky as the pool of acolytes who control this movement is, it's not an invalid question, imho.

While I have little empathy with or sympathy for Ashley St. Clair, mostly because she reproduced with that reptilian billionaire piece of racist shit Musk (eww), she does deserve to be acknowledged and applauded for having the courage to publicly admit to the truth of what she saw being near the inner core of the MAGA/TPUSA movement and the people immersed in it. 

But I say all of this is beyond humorous to me personally because Ashley St. Clair's admission of what TPUSA and MAGA and the Drumpf regime are all about gets right to the core of one of the more obvious truths that I have been pointing out for years on the pages of this shitty little blog, namely that the MAGA movement is essentially a morally bankrupt movement of performative charlatans, racists, misogynists, and America-hating losers who believe in absolutely nothing themselves except for their unbending faith in a mobbed-up old kiddie rapist, and their own smug, aggrieved sense of vengeful entitlement for having been "wronged" for having been forced to endure eight years of a successful, decent black man as president residing in "their" White people's House with his black spouse and black children,  and ruling over them.

Seriously - at this stage after all we have seen and heard from this execrable movement, convince me it's not true.

 

 

---TFG

MAGA's Deification of Drumpf is an 'UnGodly' Sight to Behold

I wish I could tell you dear readers that this is an AI-generated video.

Sadly, it is not.  It's the real deal: 

 

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

 

Hmm... I seem to recall a certain sacred religious text that warned it's disciples against such openly sacrilegious worship of false idols.  Now what was the name of that book . . .?...

Why yes, now I remember - 

 

Exodus 20:3

    “You shall have no other gods before me.”


Isaiah 44:9

    “All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless.”


Psalms 115:4

    “But their idols are silver and gold, made by human hands.”


Jeremiah 10:14

    “Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols.” 
 

1 John 5:21

    “Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.”

Psalms 97:7

    “All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols.” 

1 Corinthians 10:14

    “Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry!”

 

I mean -- what more can be said about that?  Can you imagine if Barack Obama, while still in office, had a gold statue of himself commissioned and erected on his property to honor himself?

Words fail on this one.  They fail mostly because the old mobster's evangelical voters will not bat an eyelash at the brazen insult to one of the core tenets of their religion.  They have chosen a new Golden God to bow down to.  And that's why I feel no remorse when I use the term 'cult' when criticizing them.  It is exactly what they are.

 

 

---TFG

Obese Republicans are Stealing American Worker's Share of the Economic Pie and it Needs to End

This is why it was a bad idea to give unfettered governing power to a party that is essentially a bought and paid for subsidiary of the 'valueless' billionaire class and foreign interests who are hostile to a successful American democracy, and who have given their unbridled economic support to a lifelong criminal and con artist as their party leader:

 

Link:  The Trump Administration’s Trade Wars Are Crushing U.S. Small Businesses - Center for American Progress

 

"President Donald Trump’s embrace of tariffs to a level not seen in more than a century, supposedly to foster the redevelopment of the country’s industrial base, will do the opposite of what he intends it to do. It will crush U.S. small businesses, particularly those engaged in manufacturing, decimating the backbone of American industry and of countless communities across the country. Already, corporate bankruptcies are up 7.38 percent year over year, commercial freight contracts have plummeted, ports are empty, and hiring has been frozen across several different industries.

The Trump administration’s trade wars will hit—and are already hitting—small businesses, which employ nearly half of all U.S. workers, from multiple directions, putting significant strain on their operations. The net effect will be layoffs, furloughs, and downward pressure on wages and benefits for American workers. In fact, small-business owners face an almost unprecedented situation as they deal with massively increased operating expenses, higher borrowing costs, and in many cases, falling demand for their products or services abroad." 

 

 

Link: U.S. Workers Are Getting Record-Low Compensation Based on Their Productivity - TPM – Talking Points Memo

 

"The widening rift between the haves and the have-nots continues to be borne out in federal data, as a Thursday Bureau of Labor Statistics report revealed U.S. workers are doing more and reaping less.

Workers are earning record low wages and other compensation compared to their labor output, according to the BLS productivity and costs report published Thursday. Called the “labor share,” this indicator essentially measures how much of the nation’s economic earnings is used to pay wages and other worker benefits. 

At 54.1%, workers are netting the lowest earnings compared to the income they’re producing since the data started being collected in 1947. Meanwhile, labor productivity increased 0.8%, output increased 1.5%, and people worked 0.7% more month over month. 

“I think it’s really disturbing news for workers,” Joseph McCartin, professor of labor history at Georgetown University, told TPM, “because it shows that even while the economy is growing, workers are getting a smaller and smaller share of the economic pie.”"

  

So, if America's "workers are getting a smaller and smaller share of the economic pie," which selfish pigs are unfairly gobbling up the worker's share of that economic pie?

Drumpf's tax cuts from his first term should have been a clear sign that he and his enablers do not give a shit about working Americans.  Those cuts massively favored the class of "earners" whose obscene wealth is primarily geared toward putting ever more wealth in their own bank accounts and giving less and less back to the country that helped them gain that wealth.

Very little of the 'idle' billionaire wealth in this country gets turned around to benefit American businesses, or American workers and their states and communities.

I think specifically of the social media tech bro billionaires for example, whose products produce nothing of true value to Americans and the communities they live in.  Seriously, they don't.  I mean - think about it.  If all the Twitters and Facebooks, and TikToks, and Instagrams and yes, even Blueskys, etc, ad nauseam were to shut down permanently tomorrow, society would keep humming along just fine without them,just as fine as before they ever existed to begin with.

And that's why I call those kinds of billionaire products 'valueless' because while some people would piss and moan and about losing access to their favorite social media sites, the fact is, most people would get over it and move on fairly quickly because social media is not a life necessity product and life really is too short to be crying over not having a social media site to waste all your time on anymore.

The simple truth is - America has a surplus of dead weight (mostly tech-bro) billionaires who rake in their billions her in the U.S., pay little to no taxes with their corporations thanks to 45 years of conservative Republican "trickle down economics" lies and bullshit and Drumpf's tax cuts and billionaire-friendly tax laws, and collectively they are a net drain on American productivity and their products are mostly a plague on our social fabric.

The Muskrats and the Zuckerturds and the Brins and the Pages hide most of their personal wealth in offshore tax havens to evade paying taxes in this country, and essentially put little to nothing back in or give anything back to this country and the American working people who made it possible for them to attain such fabulous wealth.

Elect progressive candidates for higher office.  Only radical tax reform change can put an end to the Republican party's insidious 'trickle down,' billionaire-concocted economic theories that have been economically strangling hard working, fair playing, taxpaying Americans for the better part of the last five decades.

 

 

---TFG

Would Drumpf Sell Out America to the Chinese? Yeah, he Would.

As the cumulative effects of Drumpf's illegal tariffs, his pro-billionaire, anti-worker economic policies, his 'Big Beautiful Bill, and his involvement of the US in Israel's Big Iran Armageddon Adventure crater the buying power of American consumers, devastate small businesses, and bankrupt American farms, Orange Caligula is also selling out America to China right in front of our eyes:

 

 

Link:  Trump on verge of 'error of world-historic proportions' — against aides' advice: report - Raw Story

 

"Always one looking to make a splashy deal, Donald Trump is giving serious consideration to allowing China to make a massive investment in the U.S. — against the advice of some of his closest advisors, an expert warned Friday.

In a column for the New York Times, conservative economist Oren Cass reported the president, “May be on the verge of tying the United States to China irrevocably: Mr. Trump and Xi Jinping are reportedly considering a deal to allow China to invest $1 trillion in the United States, largely to build factories on American soil.”

Cass described that scenario as “an unforced error of world-historic proportions.”

A trillion-dollar infusion of Chinese capital would exceed the total direct investment in the United States made by any other country since the Declaration of Independence, he wrote before adding that even a fraction of that amount would devastate what remains of American economic defenses, weakening national security and supply-chain resilience while handing the Chinese Communist Party a powerful tool to subvert U.S. markets." 

  

When DonOld Drumpf makes "deals," what he is negotiating for isn't a deal that benefits America, or American businesses, or American consumers.

No, when Drumpf makes deals, the #1 priority of that "deal" is - what is the payoff for DonOld?  If the "deal" doesn't make DonOld look good, and more importantly if it doesn't put money in one of DonOld's offshore bank accounts, then it's not a deal worth making to DonOld's tiny, lizard brain way of thinking.

Drumpf is a life-long, transactional criminal.  A cursory review of his past business failures shows a clear pattern of DonOld laughing all the way to the bank as his business partners, financiers, contractors, and employees all got stuck with those failing, cash hemorrhaging companies and their resulting bankruptcies.

Americans will come to sorrowfully regret giving unfettered power to a mafia-groomed, vulture capitalist charlatan.

 

 

 

---TFG

The FBI Should Probe Their Own Director for Malfeasance and Unfitness for Duty

Well of course they are.

I would expect nothing less from an agency stocked full of quislings who willingly work for an individual who is a lifelong criminal, rapist, convicted felon, and suspected child rapist:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  FBI probing leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Patel, sources say

 

The FBI has launched a criminal leak investigation focusing on an Atlantic magazine journalist who wrote a deeply unflattering account last month of Director Kash Patel’s work habits, two people familiar with the matter told MS NOW.

The sources said the so-called insider threat investigation is highly unusual because it did not stem from a disclosure of classified information and because it is focused on leaks to a reporter. The agents involved are part of an insider threats unit based in Huntsville, Alabama, the sources added.

Typically, leak investigations look into government officials who may have disclosed state secrets or classified documents. Journalists who receive and publish such information have typically only been involved as potential witnesses.

The journalist, Sarah Fitzpatrick, cited two dozen anonymous sources in a detailed story reporting that Patel’s alcohol consumption and erratic behavior had caused deep concern among FBI officials. Patel was known to drink to the point of intoxication, she reported, adding that on occasion his security detail had trouble waking him in the morning.

 

Ka$h Patel essentially got outed as an unprofessional, drunken loser whose on the job behavior was creating a national security risk per several of the DOZENS of administration and DOJ insider contacts who talked to the Atlantic reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick for her published story.

Let's review.  Ka$h Patel has ordered an investigation in to the reporter who simply reported the words of DOZENS of Patel's own co-workers inside the Drumpf administration and DOJ, that Ka$h Patel's alcohol problem was posing a national security risk to the nation.

Ka$h Patel is abusing the vast powers of the DOJ and FBI to harass this Atlantic reporter for publishing an article with claims from DOZENS of administration and DOJ inside sources confirming the stories of Patel's drunkenness on the job and unfitness for the office. It appears that he is doing it to exact revenge by trying to force the Atlantic reporter to reveal the names of her DOZENS of insider sources who Patel will summarily purge from the DOJ and ask Drumpf to purge from his administration for being leakers about bad shit and bad people in DonOld's masturbatory, corrupt government.

Have I mentioned that not just one or two, but DOZENS of people were willing to tell the truth about Patel for this article?

And then there's this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash - The Atlantic

 

But sure, Ka$h doesn't have a booze problem.  Nothing to see here, move along... 

 

 

 

 

---TFG