Ye Shall Know Him by the Company He Keeps

 

 

Link: Trump Hosted Phillipp-Anders Rau, Far-Right Alleged Porn Star, at Mar-a-Lago on Election Day

 

"Donald Trump posed for a photo and shook hands with a convicted far-right German politician, who allegedly appeared in professional pornographic films, at Mar-a-Lago on election day.

Phillipp-Anders Rau, 41, a Bundestag candidate for the populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, was found guilty of stealing from a hotel in 2009 and was thrown out of university in 2015 for doctoring his high school transcripts, according to legal records. He denies appearing in porn movies."

These are the kind of people who Drumpf surrounds himself with.  It really is a cabal of scumbaggery that leaves you breathless when you contemplate the full scope of the type of lackeys that Drumpf is trying to install in key cabinet positions.

This country is going to deserve the pain and misery of the next four years for allowing Drumpf to regain the White House, and it has to be stated very clearly right now that there will be no forgiveness, empathy, or sympathy from these quarters for those MAGAs whose quality of life is going to be severely impacted by Drumpf's Project 2025 assholery.

 

 

--- TFG

 

 

DonOld Drumpf and the Art of De-regulating America

 

Link: Trump privatization plan will add thousands a year to typical mortgage: expert - Raw Story 

 

Here's yet another way in which Drumpf is going to economically fuck over Americans with his wingnut MAGA policies:

𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙕𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞, 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙪𝙥 𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙩 𝙈𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙮'𝙨, "𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙡 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙯𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙁𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙮𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙖 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚 $1,200 𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮." 𝙃𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 — 𝙖𝙙𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 "𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 $1,800 𝙖𝙣𝙙 $2,800 𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙩𝙮𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧, 𝙕𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞 𝙩𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝘾𝙉𝙉 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙪𝙥𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨" — 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙨.

𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙁𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨, 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙣𝙩. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧-𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚, 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 2008 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚, 𝙖𝙨 𝙁𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙚'𝙨 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙩-𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙠 𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙪𝙗𝙗𝙡𝙚.

𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙥'𝙨 𝙧𝙚-𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝, 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙥 𝙪𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙤 6.8 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩.

 

--- TFG

 

 

Drumpf Hates China Except When They are Putting $ in His Pocket

Link: A Chinese national, charged with fraud by the SEC, just sent Donald Trump $18 million

 

Drumpf hasn't even set foot back in the White House yet and he is already making sleazy kickback deals with his Chinese friends.  But sure America, go on deluding yourselves that DonOld has your best interest in mind when making these shady deals.

This is the sleaze and corruption that you MAGA folks voted for.  Just know this - when everything starts going sideways in the middle of Drumpf's next term, The Gadfly doesn't want to hear one goddamn word out of any of you Trump-voting idiots crying in their soup about how his policies are impacting your precious lives, mkay?

--- TFG

An Indefensible Choice for Secretary of Defense

Link: Pete Hegseth’s Secret History | The New Yorker

 

Oh wow.  So not only is Drumpf's Secretary of Defense nominee, and part-time Fox "news" TV show host Pete Hegseth an alleged/accused rapist, he was also forcefully removed from leadership positions in two separate non-profit Veterans organizations because of "financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct."

𝘼𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙋𝙚𝙩𝙚 𝙃𝙚𝙜𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙖 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙖 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 2017, 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩-𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝘿𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙙 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙥 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙚𝙜𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙎𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚. 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙥’𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧, 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝘾𝙝𝙚𝙪𝙣𝙜, 𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙃𝙚𝙜𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙝, 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙙𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚. “𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙥 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙞𝙜𝙝-𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙙𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣,” 𝘾𝙝𝙚𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙.

𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙃𝙚𝙜𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙝’𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙡-𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙁𝙤𝙭 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙨 𝙏𝙑 𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩, 𝙞𝙣 2017, 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙪𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙’𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚. 𝘼 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨, 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙜𝙪𝙚𝙨, 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙃𝙚𝙜𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙥 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙗𝙮 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙣𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙥𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙖𝙣—𝙑𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙤𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙑𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖—𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙨𝙚𝙭𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙮, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩.

Drumpf is scraping the bottom of the dregs barrel for his toady cabinet nominees and in the process he is making this country a whole helluva lot less secure not just for the men in women in uniform who would be ruled over by Drumpf's rapist and grifter buddy Pete Hegseth, but also for every single American citizen.  This is the freak show that you Trump voters opted for.  Heckuva job you fucking idiots.

--- TFG