Donold's Phony 'Art of the Deal' is Totally Worth Missing

"Art of the Deal?"

Lol?  Seriously??

Those of you old enough to remember who 'Baghdad Bob' was, will clearly recognize that tragic individual's veracity-challenged character traits in Drumpf's Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

For those who don't remember or know, 'Baghdad Bob' was then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's Minister of Information (Press Secretary) during the Gulf War, who even as US-led coalition forces were dropping bombs on his country and capital city and their army was in full retreat, was telling the press that Iraq was winning and dear leader Saddam had everything under control.

That is who Karoline Leavitt reminds me of.

Link: 'You clearly missed art of the deal': Karoline Leavitt scolds reporters after tariff pause - Raw Story

"Leavitt seemed annoyed after being peppered with questions about why Trump blinked on his trade war.

"Many of you in the media clearly missed the art of the deal," she snapped. "You clearly failed to see what President Trump is doing here.""

JfC.  I thought Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kayleigh McEnany were smooth liars, but neither of them can hold a candle to Karoline Leavitt's ability to massacre reality and the truth.

All the sadder, Leavitt is a true believer liar.  She is a dyed-in-the-wool Drumpf, uber-MAGA cult disciple, and a remorseless liar on top of that.

What makes this all the more laughable is how she cites the term "art of the deal" in describing Drumpf's scattershot tariff strategy, referring of course to Drumpf's famous autobiography book, 'Art of the Deal.

Perhaps someone should advise Karoline that Donold Drumpf did not write one single word of his book 'The Art of the Deal.  It was ghostwritten by author Tony Schwartz who has since disowned the book and has publicly expressed his regret for having ever gotten involved with Drumpf to write it to begin with.  Schwartz also has stated that 'Art of the Deal' belongs in the fiction section of libraries and book stores.

So essentially you have the spokesperson for the President of the United States of America informing Americans and the entire world that if they want some insight into her boss's current economic strategy they should go read a fake book about a fake billionaire businessman and his fake acumen for competently running a fake business empire.

My God, what stupid times we are living in with these charlatans running the show.  The absolute stupidest.

---TFG

Diplomacy by Drunken Brawling, MAGA Style

How else could Drumpf's clown college administration embarrass the US and the American people, one might ask?

Let us count the ways, shall we?

And here is as good a place as any to commence that countdown.

Less than two weeks after Drumpf Defense Secretary and others in his administration were busted using an unsecure chat platform to discuss highly sensitive US military intel and mistakenly invited an Atlantic reported into their chat, here is one of Marco Rubio's handpicked staff getting arrested in a host country for starting a brawl at the hotel he was staying at after hotel staff refused to open the bar for him.

These MAGA people are just a bunch of morally reprehensible clowns.  The whole fucking sordid lot of them, and you get the clown government you vote for folks.

Link: Marco Rubio’s Security Detail Boss Arrested After Alleged Hotel Brawl

What a joke.

---TFG

HAIL TO THE THIEF! Our Beloved Commander-in-Thief

 Wait?  Wut?... lololololol...

Link: Trump Plans $92 Million Military Parade—Honoring Himself | The New Republic

You know which other world leaders are in the habit of putting on gaudy $100 million, taxpayer-funded military parades as a birthday gift honoring themselves?

Well I can think of three right off the top of my head, and of course that would be the leaders of Russia, North Korea, and China.

But forget about the colossal waste of taxpayer money and misuse of our military resources for such a stupidly conjured up vanity event.  That is not the worst of it.

No, what's really fucking galling is the fact that this is a guy who conspired with his father and a business acquaintance foot doctor of his father to write up a bogus medical diagnosis of "bone spurs" for poor, young DonOld deferring him from the Vietnam war draft.  He's also a guy who who has repeatedly insulted and disrespected American veterans and active duty military people in this country over the years.  Draft Dodger DonOld has gone to great lengths to show his disdain for our military and it is nothing short of vomit-inducing appalling that he is truly going to go and throw himself a goddamn authoritarian, strongman military parade in our nation's capitol, just as his heroes Putin and Kim do, to honor his own rancid fucking birth date.

God help us all if we're to survive as a free country with this banana republican, tinhorn dictator lunatic in charge.

---TFG

Drumpf Voters "Shocked" Pet Leopard Ate Their Faces!

I have seen no evidence of this:

Link: https://newrepublic.com/article/193656/disaster-trump-voters-suddenly-realize-badly-screwed

Other than a few of the wealthy elite MAGAs, who are on the verge of losing their asses by Drumpf crashing the world stock markets, I have seen no sign whatsoever that the rank and file Ma and Pa MAGA voter has soured on their orange lord and savior - yet.  They are still as much in thrall to the filthy old raping mobster as they always have been, and as all followers have been with the leaders of their respective cults since the dawn of time.

---TFG

It Can Not be Stated Any Clearer Than This:

Every fucking word in blinding neon signage of what Stonekettle says here:

Link: https://bsky.app/profile/stonekettle.bsky.social/post/3llzhp5hyh22w

---TFG

FDR Saved America With His "New Deal." Drumpf Slays America With His "Raw Deal."

Because those billionaire tax cuts and billion dollar SpaceX contracts aren't going to pay for themselves, you know?

We have arrived at the stealing food from America's elderly to fund proposed billionaire tax cuts phase of Drumpf's rancid, illegitimate regime.

Drumpf voters think this shit, these massive, one fell swoop federal job cuts, agency closures and shutdowns, program funding cancellations, providing he gets away with it which it looks like he will, aren't going to affect them, or affect their communities.  Boy are they in for a rude and painful awakening.

Link: Aging, disability and poverty-fighting agencies gutted amid HHS layoffs : Shots - Health News : NPR

You know what fucking irks the living shit out of me?  Biden's long-term economic vision had all of the helpful and successful government programs like 'Meals on Wheels' adequately funded while also reducing the deficit.  And while yes, it did involve taxing guys like Elmo, Zuckerterd, Bezos, and Soros a little bit more, the fact of the matter is that it was working and the economy was steadily improving when he left office.  And it would have kept working for the good of the most people in this country if Orange Mussolini hadn't regained power and unceremoniously pulled the plug on the surging success of Biden's economic policies.

Tellingly here, the solution of Elmo and Drumpf have employed is to essentially just defund it ALL, and let the law of the jungle prevail. Sink or swim bitches!  That's their message to middle America.  It's their message to farmers.  It's their message to small business owners.  It's their message to educators and decent, honorable public servants.  It's their message to good, hard-working people who are just struggling to keep roofs over their heads, their kids clothed, and food on the table.  All of which prompts me to ask the MAGAs how it can be that the indiscriminate, slash and burn governing policies of Drumpf and Elmo align so seamlessly with their cherished "pro-life" views?

The way I see it is that if these bastards can fund more of Elmo's wasteful government contracts, then they sure as hell can adequately fund a program to help grandma and grandpa and the disabled NOT starve to fucking death.

---TFG

Drumpf's Economy is Just a Shitty Knock-Off of Putin's Russian Economy

The sonofabitch took a perfectly good, steadily recovering economy from Joe Biden and in less than three months in office he has that economy on the verge of crashing and burning not just here, but world-wide, all because of his stupid, stupid, stupid, childishly stupid fucking obsession with tariffs.

Keep a close eye on your 401k accounts folks, it's going to be a bloodbath for the average American investor and saver.

Link: Stock market rout deepens as Dow plunges more than 2,200 points and Nasdaq enters bear market - CBS News

This is Drumpf's economy now.  It's MAGA's economy now.  They own every bit of what happens from here on out.  Let's not forget it when it comes time to hold people accountable for the national economic disaster looming ahead.

---TFG

Losing All Your Money "Means Nothing" Says Millionaire MAGA Apparatchik

Sadly, these are the kind of MAGA charlatans and fraudsters who have Drumpf's half-shot-off ear on the subject of managing the American economy.

Benny Johnson is a right-wing grifter and opportunist who has made a multi-millionaire living off of pimping fascist propaganda on social media sites.  He is also incidentally, someone who took in at least $10 million in income from Russia in 2024 while helping promote MAGA and Drumpf in the 2024 election.

Here is Benny literally telling you MAGA dolts that you should be happy that your dear leader is crashing the US economy, as well as your financial well-being and your morally destitute American dreams, and that you should be praise-Jesus happy about it.

Do yourselves a huge favor folks - stop listening to these fucking rightwing assclowns.  Stop patronizing their grifting, bullshitting social media accounts.  Stop believing the disinforming nonsense and hateful messaging that they spew incessantly into our public discourse.

Tune them out, and for those who have truly seen the light about who and what the Benny Johnsons of this world are, tell these America-hating pricks to go fuck themselves too.

Link: https://bsky.app/profile/thesgtjoker.bsky.social/post/3llza33hnbk2n

---TFG

What "Words" Could Possibly Atone For Drumpf's Disgrace?

"No words?"

We'll I have some words.

Seriously - who is authentically shocked that Drumpf would rather hang out and play golf with his bonesaw murdering, Saudi oil sheikh "business partner" buddies at his Florida porn resort than perform his fucking duty as an American POTUS and Commander-in-Chief?  

One of those duties, which Joe Biden or Barack Obama never failed at incidentally, is to show some solemn dignity and sincere respect to not only our fallen soldiers, but also to their families and friends, comrades, and to our military personnel in general by being available to receive the remains of fallen US soldiers being returned to America after having lost their lives abroad in service to their country.

I mean . . . and it infuriates me to no end that I even have to ask this question, but . . . is it really such a hard fucking thing to ask of this golf-playing, social media tweeting, draft-dodging pile of orange shit posing as a President, ffs? 😡

Link: https://www.rawstory.com/lithuania/

"President Donald Trump created an uproar Thursday evening after reports emerged that he would skip the dignified transfer of the four U.S. soldiers who died in Lithuania for a golf event.

NBC News reported that Trump would not be present when the fallen soldiers arrive at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware after they were killed when their vehicle sank during a training exercise last month. Instead, he’ll be several hundred miles away at his Doral golf course in Miami, taking part in a LIV Golf dinner reception.

The president attending a golf tournament over the dignified transfer of the U.S. military members shocked – and angered — critics."

It goes without saying that those Americans who continue to defend him and yet publicly proclaim their "support for the troops" are just plain out and out shameless hypocrites.

---TFG

DonOld Drumpf: Champion of Horrible Humans the World Over

Drumpf once again comes to the defense of a criminal.  Apparently it's one of his favorite leisure activities.

Marine Le Pen, France's female version of Drumpf, was unanimously convicted by a jury of her French countrymen for criminal acts, not at all unlike how Drumpf himself was unanimously convicted by a jury of his fellow Americans for his criminal acts.

As with his own criminal conviction, DonOld and his screeching MAGA toadies are crying "witch hunt" in Le Pen's case.  Don't these MAGA choads ever tire of crying and blubbering over perceived and manufactured right-wing persecution?  My God these people are such wearying fucking whiners.

But anyway, it really does say something about Drumpf's own personal integrity that he continues to champion con artists and crooks like Le Pen while shitting on people who are more decent and honorable than he or his brainless, dickless supporters could ever hope to be.

Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-offers-support-french-far-right-leader-le-pen-after-her-conviction-2025-04-04/

---TFG

The American Dream Gets Laid Off by Drumpf and Elmo

If you were wondering how and why the Drumpf/MAGA candidate for the open state Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin got the shit kicked out of them the other night in that state-wide election, this is why:

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/economy/us-jobs-report-preview-march-doge-layoffs/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=blueskyCNN&utm_content=2025-04-03T11:43:16

This past month, the United States saw the third-highest number of worker layoffs occur in the recorded history of the nation.  80% of those job cuts came at the order of Elon's DOGE committee.  And all of this has occured before yesterday's big announcement of Drumpf's disastrous tariffs plan which is certain to destroy even more American jobs and will be one of the largest ever direct tax hikes on American workers and consumers.

The people who voted for and continue to support Drumpf are going to become accessories to his crime of murdering the American dream.

---TFG

Tariffs Are Indeed a Tax on Consumers as Americans Are About to Discover

Brace yourselves Ma and Pa MAGA.  Here comes the economic pain that your dear leader promised he would deliver to us all.

When this economic pain visits the households of Drumpf's voting bloc, I don't want to hear a goddamn complaining word out of any of them.  Nor do I want to hear them whining that it's all the fault of Joe Biden and the Democrats.  This is all on Drumpf.  It's all on MAGA.  It's all on MuskRat.  It's all on a clown college Trumpublican-controlled House and Senate.  The economic shitshow that these clowns are unleashing on the country is 100% their handcrafted shitshow.

Drumpf, with the help of Elmo and the Republican party, is selling out the economic futures of your kids and grandkids folks.  These bastards have aligned themselves with the billionaire broligarchs and right wing foreign interests to do their bidding and it will have the effect of triggering a deep recession that will devastate millions of families and communities and will financially benefit the already top of the ladder super wealthy like Elmo, Bezos, Zuckerterd, and their obscenely affluent friends.

Take care to remember that in all the upcoming state and national elections.

Link: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-2671664736/

"Global financial markets were rocked on Wednesday by Donald Trump's announcement of sweeping tariffs, targeting China and the European Union in particular, with the risk of undermining the international economy.

The US president laid out the new measures after Wall Street stock markets had closed. But his announcement still rippled through the markets that were open at the time, sending stock futures and bond yields lower, while gold surged to a new record high.

- Stocks struggle -

As the evening progressed, US futures fell sharply, with the Dow Jones dropping 2.4 percent at around 2345 GMT, the Nasdaq index plunging 4.2 percent, and the broader futures index for the S&P 500 falling 3.5 percent."

---TFG

The Taming of Unbridled Hubris - A Charming Tale of Comeuppance

Want to hear a truly feel-good story folks?

Well, pull up a chair, sit back, and listen to this one.  It will tickle you pink.

The wealthiest, nazi-saluting human on planet Earth was tasked by a certain, well known convicted felon to use his amassed wealth to rig an election for a state supreme court justice seat in the state of Wisconsin because, you know, he's a convicted felon and a dictator wannabe and that is pretty much what convicted felons and dictator wannabes do in their leisure time.  

Anyway, the wealthiest, nazi-saluting human on planet Earth swoops into the state of Wisconsin this past week with his army of weirdo groupies, waving around $1 million bribe checks under the noses of Wisconsin voters enticing them to commit to voting for the state supreme court justice candidate favored by himself and the convicted felon.

During his week in Wisconsin, the wealthiest, nazi-saluting human on planet Earth spent $25 million of his vast reserves of billions mightily attempting to convince Wisconsin voters that their vote for the candidate favored by himself and the convicted felon would determine the "destiny of humanity."  Stop laughing - he seriously did say that.

So the election was last night.  The favored candidate of the wealthiest, nazi-saluting human on planet Earth and his convicted felon buddy was soundly defeated and decisively rejected by Wisconsin voters.

Now doesn't that make you feel just peachy keen wonderful? 😊

Link: https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-trump-8fe006c7f8fa40b663eccd6751bada98

Thank you for patronizing today's episode of Gadfly Storytime.

---TFG

Seriously - WTF??

In what world but the dementia and brain fever ravaged world of Donald Drumpf do PBS and NPR suddenly become "MONSTERS" and enemies of the people?

If any of my MAGA acquaintances can rationally explain how publicly denigrating and attacking public television and radio in this manner is all part of Drumpf's plan to "Make America Great Again," I would truly love to hear your take on that.

That's all.  Thanks.

---TFG

They are Coming for Grandma and Grandpa's Meals

It's a given that Ma and Pa MAGA aren't paying attention to this shit, mostly because they simply do not care, but I sure as hell hope the rest of America is wising up to what is going on:

Link: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/agency-for-older-adults-and-people-with-disabilities-to-be-shuttered-under-hhs-cuts-d0ff3bc2

"With the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that it will slash its workforce, consolidate divisions and close regional offices, an agency focused on older adults and people with disabilities has become collateral damage.

The Administration for Community Living will be disbanded and its “critical” programs will be integrated into other HHS agencies such as the Administration for Children and Families, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the HHS said. The department did not say which ACL programs were considered “critical” and which would be eliminated.

“These are programs that truly are lifesaving and critical,” Alison Barkoff, who headed the ACL from 2021 to 2024, told MarketWatch. “Dozens of millions of older adults and people with disabilities may not know the name ACL, but they know senior centers and Meals on Wheels and programs that touch their lives every day.” 

In fiscal 2022, the ACL provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-living services to nearly 250,000 people with disabilities, Barkoff said.

According to the HHS announcement, the department’s current 82,000 full-time employees will be reduced to 62,000. Meanwhile, 28 divisions will be consolidated into 15, and the number of regional offices will be cut from 10 to five. As part of that reorganization, the ACL will no longer exist."

It amuses me to no end thinking about how an inherited wealth, failed reality TV show host and guy who used to bankrupt casinos for a living hired the wealthiest human being on this entire planet to essentially dismantle the the American social safety-net infrastructure, which if they get away with it will be the cause of untold misery and suffering, and the people who voted for this to happen are blissfully ignorant of the fact that they themselves are going to be victims of this injustice just as much as any of their "libtard" neighbors will be.

What stupid, stupid, stupid, and cruel times we are living in.

---TFG

This is Your Political Party American Republicans

Ahh yes, the 'party of family values' demonstrating to us all what a manifestly sick joke that term is when applied to their own party members.

If you think Drumpf isn't already seriously considering pardoning this Republican creep, then you don't know shit about Drumpf.

Link: https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/27/north-dakota-senator-ray-holmberg-pleads-guilty-sex-underage-boys/

"A North Dakota state senator, formerly one of the most powerful people in the state, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for flying to Europe to have sex with underage boys.

Ray Holmberg, 81, had pleaded guilty to traveling to Prague 14 times between 2011 and 2021 to meet minors at a brothel. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors recommended a sentence of only three to four years in prison.

But Judge Daniel Hovland went above and beyond the recommendation, telling the court Holmberg’s “egregious and despicable” conduct deserved a longer prison term.

“From my perspective, this was not an isolated case and this is not a victimless crime,” Hovland said, according to the North Dakota Monitor. “It displays a pattern of very vile, sickening criminal behavior.”"

"It displays a pattern of very vile, sickening criminal behavior."

Words that could easily be applicable to the entire Drumpf/MAGA movement.

Make no mistake - Ray Holmberg is the representative face of MAGA.

---TFG

Greedy Billionaire Wants So Badly to Own America

This is what is known as political corruption in broad daylight.

It speaks volumes about the quality of the Trumpublican Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel that the carpetbagging immigrant billionaire from South Africa has to swoop into their state a few days before the election waving around million dollar checks as enticement for Wisconsin citizens to vote for his candidate and against their own best interests:

Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-gives-away-two-1-million-checks-wisconsin-voters-high-profile-judicial-race-2025-03-31/

The other day Elmo was at a conservative speaking event and someone in the crowd heckled him.  Elmo's immediate response was to lash out and call the heckler a George Soros operative.  Funny thing about that is that yes, George Soros is a billionaire, and yes, George Soros does support generally liberal political causes, but I can tell you right now that George Soros has never openly attempted to bribe American voters like Elon Musk and Donald Trump are doing in the state of Wisconsin this very moment.

---TFG

Drumpf: So Many Fellow Criminals to Pardon, So Little Time

Nothing to see here folks.  Just a convicted criminal pardoning more of his criminal billionaire donors.

Link: https://apnews.com/article/nikola-trevor-milton-fraud-trump-pardon-3fcebb0a3820cecb205656f2dc3f6764

"Trevor Milton, the founder of electric vehicle start-up Nikola who was sentenced to prison last year for fraud, was pardoned by President Donald Trump, the White House confirmed Friday.

The pardon of Milton, who was sentenced to four years in prison for exaggerating the potential of his technology, could wipe out hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution that prosecutors were seeking for defrauded investors.

Milton, 42, and his wife donated more than $1.8 million to a Trump re-election campaign fund less than a month before the November election, according to the Federal Election Commission."

Apparently the going rate for a criminal pardon from Drumpf starts around $1.8 million.

Corruption in broad daylight.

---TFG

America's All in the Fox "news" Family Defense Department

FFS.  This alcoholic, Fox "news" personality clown Hegseth is endangering not only the military security of this country, but also the personal security of every citizen of this nation.  First he's caught stupidly holding a sensitive intel meeting about a live, in progress military bombing operation overseas on an unsecure public chat platform in violation of previous DOD policy.  And now he is dragging his Fox "news" producer wife into sensitive meetings with foreign military leaders.

Wtf is this guy doing????????  What are we doing as a country when we aren't outraged enough by this bullshit to demand accountability?  My God.

Link: Exclusive | Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials - WSJ

I suppose next we will be hearing some crazy story that Hegseth has hired his podcaster brother for a high-level, taxpayer-funded position in the Department of Defense and . . . oh wait, he did do that too?  Well fuck me...

Link: Who is Phil Hegseth? Defense Secretary's Brother in Senior Pentagon Role - Newsweek

I don't ever, ever, ever, ever again want to hear a Drumpf voter lecture me or anyone else for that matter, about corruption, nepotism, negligence, and gross incompetence in government - not ever.  Not when they themselves are so willing to avert their own eyes to the actuality of it occurring every goddamn day while Drumpf and his cabal wield their illegitimate power.

Just know that the lives of more than two million Active, Reserve, and National Guard men and women are in the hands of this unqualified, unfit, C-grade Fox "news" celebrity.

---TFG

Elmo's Insatiable Greed for More Wealth and Power Escalates

Meanwhile, the guy who is as we speak is taking away the livelihoods of American veterans by eliminating their jobs, and trying to cancel out the economic safety net for millions of elderly Americans (Social Security/Medicare), is now traipsing around the state of Wisconsin attempting to purchase himself a Wisconsin state supreme court seat.

MuskRat is bribing Wisconsin voters with $1 million lottery checks to support his corrupt vision of purging judges who won't bend to the whims of his and Drumpf's illegal, unconstitutional orders.

This isn't democracy folks.  It is not governing.  It is not decent.  It is not normal.  And it sure as fuck is not American.

But it's what Ma and Pa MAGA voted for.  It's what they wanted.  That much they made clear to the rest of the country.

---TFG

Drumpf Admin: Criminal Justice For Everyone But Themselves

The first rule of Fascism Fight Club - fascists don't prosecute other fascists.

Yeah, never mind the FACT that in ANY other presidential administration, at any other time in the storied history of this country, every one of these Drumpf appointed assholes would be sitting in jail right now for endangering American national security and the lives of American military personnel.

Drumpf's AG Pam Bondi will not investigate, much less prosecute anyone involved in this 'Signalgate' fiasco because that is not the job she was hired to do.  Pam Bondi was hired to run the Department of Justice as if it were DonOld Drumpf's personal criminal defense legal team.

We are in dangerous, unchartered waters when people who recklessly endanger the lives of not only American military personnel, but of American civilians as well, are given a free pass because they serve a corrupt master.

And at a time when armed, masked ICE agents in civilian clothing are kidnapping lawful residents of this country off the streets and "renditioning" them to God knows where for having political opinions that dear leader does not like, the Justice Department's wholesale takeover by corrupt Drumpf foot soldiers is just another sign that none of this is going to end well for America and the American people.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/signal-leak-prosecution-bondi.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism."

~~~ Henry A. Wallace

---TFG

Trumpublican Party Declares War on American Working Families

You gotta love it.  Yet another example of Trumpublican governance shitting all over the very people who helped put Drumpf and his fascism freak show in control of all three branches of our government.

Are there any sentient beings left in MAGAville who aren't thrilled at the prospect of big banks unfairly gouging them for more money?

Drumpf and his apparatchiks are going to undo every single good thing that Biden and the Democrats did to ease the burden of inflation that Drumpf's pandemic economy inflicted on average Americans, and help even the playing field against the greed of big corporations and banks.  Drumpf and the Republicans are going to stand up for the big banks against working people and yes, that includes you Ma and Pa MAGA.

Link: https://newrepublic.com/post/193279/republicans-banks-overdraft-fees-consumer-protection

That is what the Republican party exists for these days - to make life easier and more profitable for big banks, big corporations, billionaire and millionaire tax cheats, wealthy, unproductive heirs, and their party's shady foreign donors.  Republicans sure as fuck don't give a damn about working families struggling payday to payday trying to keep pace with Drumpf's inflationary economy.  And on the back end, Republicans are going to pass a tax bill that shifts ever more of the tax burden on to the backs of the working poor and middle class, slashes benefits and entitlements, and puts ever more money in the pockets of big business and the parasitic, idle rich.

Nice fucking job putting these corrupt assholes in charge of everything.  The economic pain that is coming will be deserved by few Americans, but those few are much, much more deserving of that pain than all others.  But this is what you voted for Ma and Pa MAGA.  You all can suck on it now.

---TFG

Drumpf Sent in The Clowns and the Results Were Predictable

You will not find a more definitive depiction of the embarrassing incompetence and buffoonery which permeates the ranks of Drumpf's cabinet hirelings than this magnificent cartoon:

---TFG

Guy Who Nearly 'Flourished' US Farmers To Death is At it Again

For those fond of import automobiles, get ready to pay a hell of a lot more for a new one if you are in the market.  Why?  Because a bunch of American numbskulls voted for a pussy-grabbing, casino-bankrupting, business ruining, lying, cheating, stealing, coup-plotting, Putin ass-licking, convicted felon and rapist who has unilaterally decided to start a world-wide tariff war for no coherent reason whatsoever:

Link: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5341767/trump-trade-tariffs-imported-cars

"President Trump signed an executive order imposing 25% tariffs on imported cars on Wednesday.

"I think our automobile business will flourish like it's never flourished before," Trump said in remarks from the Oval Office.

The latest policy is yet another example of the president's tariff-centric second-term economic agenda. Thus far, Trump has imposed tariffs on Chinese goods, steel and aluminum, and on some goods from Canada and Mexico. Trump also plans a wave of what he calls "reciprocal tariffs" to start April 2, which he has called "Liberation Day." The taxes on imports have caused plummeting stock markets and consumer confidence, and have left businesses and consumers uncertain about what they want to invest in."

"I think our automobile business will flourish like it's never flourished before," blares the demented orange buffoon.

Funny - that is the exact same thing he said about his tariff war with China during his first term in office which ended up with American farmers having to be bailed out to the tune of $60 billion in taxpayer money.

When will people learn that everything Drumpf touches turns to a steaming pile of runny shit?

---TFG

We Have Found The Enemy and He is . . . Drumpf's Cabinet

Ffs.

Link: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-national-security-2671525757/

"Top officials in President Donald Trump's Cabinet have been swept up in what has been dubbed "Signalgate" — and possible additional concerns came to light Wednesday.

On Monday, a bombshell report in The Atlantic alleged that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared secret war plans in a Signal chat that included a reporter among its membership.

Top officials in President Donald Trump's Cabinet discussed in a Signal chat classified military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen."

I don't want to hear one solitary fucking word out of the Ma and Pa MAGAs when these incompetent, unqualified Drumpf clowns end up gettting some of our troops needlessly killed with their carelessness and stupidity.

My God - they were chatting and yukking up the serious matter of the United States dropping bombs on a foreign nation in an unsecure platform and revealing precise military mission details in the process.

If anyone in Obama's administration, or Biden's administration had done something so reckless and dangerous to American national security as what these fucking Drumpf clowns have done, Republicans would have been calling for their arrest and imprisonment and don't tell me that isn't the goddamn truth.

Hegseth should be fired.  Gabbard should be fired.  Rubio should be fired.  Waltz should be fired.  They are all a bunch of fools and incompetent apparatchiks, and they pose more of a danger to Americans than they do to the actual enemies of Americans.

---TFG

Pennsylvania Voters Tell GOP They've Gone Too Far

This does not bode well for the success of MAGA's Thousand Year Reich plans.

There were two special elections held in Pennsylvania yesterday.  One election was in a district that Kamala Harris won by 16 points in 2024.  The Democrats took this election yesterday winning by 29 points, nearly doubling the margin of their victory last November.

The second PA special election was in a district that Drumpf WON by 15 points just four months ago.  The Democrat won this race by a single percentage point, a 16-point swing IN FAVOR of Democrats.

And now you know why Drumpf and MAGA are so antsy about and obsessed with making it harder and more of a burden for Americans to make it to the polls and cast ballots.

Link: https://bsky.app/profile/votehub.com/post/3llawct6co22x

The 2026 midterm elections are only 19 months away.  If the Trumpublicans lose the House or the Senate, the corruption plans of Drumpf and Elmo are dead in the water and they know it.

A lot of Americans are beginning to tire of these corrupt MAGA assholes already.  Most voters just want competent, reasonably honest governing.  Sadly, Drumpf convinced a bunch of morally impoverished Americans that only he and he alone could fix America's problems and now here we are, on the brink of a fascist takeover of the American experiment.

The Dems picking up a seat in a red district Drumpf handily won just four months ago is a warning shot across the bow of the MAGA pirate ship that Drumpf and Elmo are piloting.

Soon it will be time to switch from warning shots across their warship's bow to a full-on assault with the express intent of sinking their invasive, anti-American vessel to the bottom of the cold, dark, silent sea.

---TFG

Elect Inferior Leaders, Expect to Get an Inferior Economy

 Gee.  Who could've predicted it?  (The Gadfly's arm shoots skyward):

Link: https://apnews.com/article/consumer-confidence-economy-inflation-bd6ece8784efff205e2ab922bcb86958

"WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence continued its sharp 2025 decline as Americans’ views about their financial futures slumped to a 12-year low, driven by rising anxiety over tariffs and inflation.

The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell 7.2 points in March to 92.9, the fourth straight monthly decline and its lowest reading since January of 2021. The reading was short of analysts expectations for a reading of 94.5, according to a survey by FactSet.

The business group found that the measure of Americans’ short-term expectations for income, business and the job market fell 9.6 points to 65.2.

That’s the lowest reading in 12 years and well below the threshold of 80, which the Conference Board says can signal a potential recession in the near future. The proportion of U.S. consumers anticipating a recession remains at a nine-month high, the board reported."

And no Ma and Pa MAGA, this plummeting US consumer confidence is not due to anything Joe Biden has done.  It's not due to anything Kamala Harris has done.  It's not due to anything Barack Obama or Bill Clinton has done.

The current downward dive of consumer confidence began four months ago.  And what significant event pray tell occurred four months ago in this country?  That's right, a slim majority of uncaring, selfish, morally impoverished voters elected a casino bankrupting, business ruining, lying, cheating, stealing, twice impeached, Putin ass-licking, coup-plotting, convicted felon and rapist as President.  Again.

You think Mango Mussolini's mishandling of the Covid pandemic which led to the largest mass death event in the US in over a century was bad?  Wait until he and his goose-stepping pal Elmo and their Project 2025 co-conspirators complete their handiwork.  This is just the tip of the deadly iceberg that is just beginning to violently tear through the hull of the USS America.

Make no mistake about it, this precipitous decline in consumer confidence is all on Drumpf, Elmo, and and the MAGA party.  It's their freak show.  They need to own every bit of it's stench.

---TFG

Teacher: Read This Book . . . Republicans: You're Under Arrest

I don't give a flying fuck what anyone says, if your political party spends more time trying to craft legislation to hand out 10-year prison sentences to school teachers for the crime of GASP!, teaching, than they do in formulating legislation to make the lives of those educators and their students more rewarding and successful, then you are not so much a political party as you are a cabal of intellectually bankrupt mobsters.

Link: https://popular.info/p/texas-lawmakers-advance-bill-that

"Lawmakers in Texas are seeking to impose harsh criminal penalties on school librarians and teachers who provide award-winning works of literature to students. Identical bills in the Texas Senate and House would make it a crime for librarians and teachers to provide books or learning materials that contain sexually explicit content, punishable by up to 10 years behind bars — whether or not a book has educational or literary merit."

A society that prefers to jail teachers yet allow violent insurrectionists to roam freely among its citizenry isn't a society worth admiring, much less saving.

---TFG

♪ Where are the clowns? Quick, send in the clowns, Don't bother they're here ♪

Wait?  Wut happened??

Link: https://www.wired.com/story/trump-officials-signal-chat-candlelight-dinner-mar-a-lago-yemen/

"Shortly after senior Trump administration officials discussed and celebrated the bombing of Yemen in an encrypted group chat that, unbeknownst to them, included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, a subset of the group feasted at an opulent, secret dinner featuring the president where guests were asked to pay $1 million apiece to snag a seat."

Drumpf is turning our nation's government into a pig's trough for the millionaire/billionaire set who have almost as few scruples as he himself has, and while doing so he and his crack team of amphetamine junkies, boozehounds, Putinphiles, fascist grifters, and conniving billionaires are mishandling sensitive US military intel that in the wrong hands could get American troops killed.

JfC.  They shared highly classified war plans with an Atlantic reporter who has no security clearance - by mistake apparently.  I wonder who else was "mistakenly" fed top secret US military intel by these incapable fucking clowns?

God help us all with these Drumpf buffoons in charge of our nation's national security.

---TFG

Billionaire BFF of Drumpf Tells Old Ladies to STFU About Their Social Security Checks

Well, at least you have to give them credit for openly admitting that they are monsters.

 

Link: https://www.rawstory.com/social-security-cuts-2671381860/
 

"But the Trump administration recently made threats that could impact Social Security payments. Acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek, appointed under the Trump administration, suggested shutting down the Social Security Administration entirely in response to a federal judge's ruling that restricted access to sensitive SSA data by DOGE. Such a move could potentially delay or halt payments to millions of Americans who rely on Social Security benefits, including retirees, disabled individuals, and others.

Lutnick, a billionaire who recently gobsmacked conflict-of-interest watchdogs by promoting Musk's Tesla stock on Fox News, added to the controversy, telling the "All-In in DC!" podcast: "Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks this month. My mother-in-law, who's 94, she wouldn't call and complain. She just wouldn't. She'd think something got messed up and she'll get it next month.""

 

These are the kind of people who Drumpf has surrounded himself with.

The planet's wealthiest, Nazi-sympathizing human, and a cabal of greedy, obsequious billionaires who are all just as uncaring and cold-hearted as this asshole Howard Lutnick has shown himself to be.

These are the people who Drumpf has given power over all of us to.

Let's be clear - Howard Lutnick and his billionaire buddies DO NOT GIVE A FLYING SHIT ABOUT YOU.  They just don't.  These pigs are addicted to wealth and the power it brings, and like any addict they can never get enough of their chosen drug and will travel to the depths of Hell to attain ever more of it.

 

 

---TFG