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

Social Security is Under Siege By the Planet's Wealthiest Person - Why?

If Drumpf, Elmo, and his henchmen shut down the Social Security Agency and interrupt SS benefits to millions of Americans and American families it could very well wind up killing more Americans than were killed by Drumpf's colossal mishandling of the Covid pandemic.

I sure hope the Ma and Pa MAGAs of this country who rely in some part on Social Security or Medicare to survive sit down and think long and hard about what they have done not only to us dirty hippie libtards, but to essentially everyone in this country, including themselves, with their blind support of the convicted felon and rapist.

 

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/21/social-security-benefits-trump-doge/

 

And can anyone say for sure what Elmo's true interest in purging Social Security, shutting down the Education Department, throwing US veterans out of their jobs, and canceling any vestige of decency and honor from the government and people who hired him?  What exactly does this Nazi-saluting, South African carpetbagger want from America and Americans?

He has more money than any one human on this Earth.  He travels with an army of bodyguards and has an even bigger army of drooling sycophant fan boys. He has fortified mansions and properties all over the world.  He has sucked in more than $40 billion in US taxpayer dollars via government contracts over the years already.  He canoodles with other billionaire 'celebrities' like Putin and MBS.  He blows up $100 million rockets as a leisure activity.  Seriously, what exactly does this prick gain by inflicting economic pain on so many Americans with his rampage through the American people's government?

The answer is actually pretty simple.  Power and more wealth for himself and his billionaire cronies.  That's it.  That is all little Lord Elmo gives a rat's ass about.

Sigh...

Our children and grandchildren will wonder how we could have so effortlessly and timidly sacrificed their futures to the sinister whims of a drug-addicted, Nazi-sympathizing billionaire who is not even from this country without putting up a fight.  And they will be right to feel ashamed that we did nothing.

 

 

---TFG

Convicted Felon and Rapist Lets His Dictator Freak Flag Fly

When Drumpf openly stated during the presidential campaign last year that he wanted to rule America as a dictator, the fucking dirty old criminal rapist was not joking.  Not in the slightest.

At this very moment, Drumpf has his DOJ stooges arguing in a US court of law that based on his own inherent authority as POTUS that he and he alone, absent any legal constitutional standing, possesses the power to independently order the arrest and deportation of any individual in this country he chooses, regardless of whether they are a non-citizen or citizen.

Drumpf is literally claiming that he can order his ICE goons to break down your door in the middle of the night and drag your ass to an ICE detention center and put you on an unregistered, one-way flight to Guantanamo or to an El Salvadoran torture prison based on any flimsy claim of "national security" that he decides to seize upon.

It is an utterly disturbing, un-American claim to make, and one that has never been recognized before in the history of our nation's existence.

It becomes clearer by the day that Americans in this country who approve of this authoritarian bullshit are themselves a significantly greater threat to the continued existence of this nation and democracy than ALL of the undocumented immigrants residing within our borders combined. 

 

 Link: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-brief-terrifying-court-deport/

 

If nobody is willing to stand up against these America hating thugs, then democracy and freedom as we in America have known it will become nothing more than a long lost memory to our children and grandchildren.

 

 

---TFG

Charlatans Gonna Charlatan . . .

A gazillionaire Nazi and a guy whose head resembles a Russet potato walk into a bar . . .

This is an actual Xshitter exchange between MuskRat and Charlie Mr. PotatoHead Kirk.  

Stand back and gaze in wide wonder at the magnificence of the intellectual nothingness of the people who want to rule over us:

 

 

 

Wow.

The level of dipshittery between these two MAGA poobahs is staggering in it's breadth.

I mean, come the fuck on.  Seriously?

Anyone who paid even the slightest bit of attention in high schools civics class knows what impeachment is, knows how many votes are required for impeachment, and knows the difference between the House and the Senate and what their respective roles are in an impeachment.

Elmo and Charlie Kirk are either too stupid to know these things, or as I am more inclined to believe, they know that most of their followers are people who are as uninformed and ill-informed as they come and so they exploit that ignorance by engaging in these calculated social media exchanges of disinformation in order to keep the MAGA base perpetually dumbed down and more prone to manipulation.

It just goes to show how deep the moral rot truly is with these guys. 😶

 

 

---TFG

Elmo's Indiscriminate Chainsaw Massacre Continues Unabated

That Drumpf hired the world's wealthiest immigrant billionaire to use his chainsaw to "reform" the Social Security program demonstrates the extent of the contempt he has for average Americans and their economic plights.

Essentially, Ma and Pa MAGA voted to have their economic security shredded by a chainsaw wielding, drug-addicted psychopath who harbors deep delusions of world dominance in his Nazi sympathizing head.

 

"Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Wednesday buried billionaire Elon Musk for his reported plans to gut the Social Security Administration by cutting telephone services for beneficiaries.

Writing on his Substack page, Krugman cites reports that Musk intends to gum up beneficiaries' abilities to get information about their benefits over the phone by forcing them to verify their identities either over the internet or by visiting field offices in person.

"Bear in mind that we’re talking about older and/or disabled Americans, many of whom are unable to access the internet and physically unable to visit SSA offices — which would in any case be overwhelmed by the increased traffic, given that the agency is already facing large staffing cuts," Krugman explains. "So this would be a move of almost cartoonish cruelty, and a nightmare for millions of Americans."

Krugman then speculates why Musk might undertake such an initiative, and he doesn't think that it's about trying to save money for American taxpayers."

 

Link:  https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-social-security-2671359714/

 

Wanton cruelty is the point with these MAGA/DOGE stooges.  It's the only way they know how to communicate with other human beings and it will eventually be a major fact in bringing about the destruction of their undemocratic, inhuman, un-American movement.

 

 

---TFG

 

Donald Trump is a Russian Asset and the Evidence is Overwhelming

Yet more Drumpf executive actions that clearly benefit Putin and Russia.

 

Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-suspends-some-efforts-counter-russian-sabotage-trump-moves-closer-putin-2025-03-19/

 

And not to be outdone by easing up on investigating Russian terrorism - how about whitewashing some of the crimes for which Putin is now a wanted war criminal:

 

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/us/politics/trump-ukraine-abducted-children.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

 

Drumpf spends more time and expends more effort trying to make life easier for Vladimir Putin than he does for average Americans.  That he is much more beholden to Putin's needs than the needs of his fellow countrymen is indisputable at this stage.

And apparently, Ma and Pa MAGA don't mind being just an inconvenient afterthought for Drumpf as his fascist regime takes root and sells out America and our shared American values and ideals one corrupt executive action at a time.

 

 

---TFG

Oh What Tangled Little Girl Webs MAGApublicans Weave...

Shocked?  Why would these Republicans be "shocked" that a member of their thoroughly corrupted, morally bankrupt political party has a sexual taste for underage girls?

I mean FFS this is a party and movement (MAGA) whose revered leader is someone who had a close, BFF, decade-long relationship with one of the world's most notorious child sex traffickers, the now conveniently deceased Jeffrey Epstein.

Their dear leader is also a guy who bragged about himself sexually assaulting women, claiming it was his privilege to "grab them by the pussy" because he was a celebrity "star" and women "let you do anything to them when you're a star."

And this fucking guy in turn nominated another guy, Matt Gaetz, who was driven from Congress for also reportedly having had sex with underage girls, for the nation's highest law enforcement position, Attorney General.

This is who these Drumpf-fluffing, MAGA conservatives are. By and large they are moral frauds, hypocrites, shameless liars, and people of generally low caliber personal integrity.  Observe:

 

"State Senate Republicans in Minnesota have called for the "immediate resignation" of Republican Sen. Justin Eichorn after he was arrested on suspicion of soliciting a minor for sex.

According to the Bloomington Police Department, Eichorn, 40, "thought he was talking to a 16-year-old female" during a sting operation. The state senator was arrested after planning a meet-up with the fictional girl on Monday."

 

But that's not the best part of this story.  This is:

 

"Earlier this week, Eichorn promoted a bill to classify "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a mental illness."

 

Fucking hilarious.  Married, "moral values" MAGApublican is arrested in a law enforcement sting soliciting sex from what he believed to be a teen girl, and just this very same week he was also pushing a bill to classify Trump critics like The Gadfly as mentally ill.  Lmfao.

That sure is something, isn't it?   😶

 

 

Link: https://www.rawstory.com/justin-eichorn-arrested/

 

Oh dear!  What will we tell the children?? 😲

---TFG

MAGA's Vengeance Presidency Is in Full Swing. Nice Going You Assholes.

My God - he is such a nasty, petty little twat of a man, and it makes me cringe just calling him a 'man.'

Honestly, I would be eternally fucking embarrassed to have admitted voting for and continue supporting this infantile, backbiting piece of orange shit.  It would be a stain on my personal integrity I could never live down, mostly with myself.

Seriously.

 

 

 

 

---TFG

Now That We Have 'Arrived' - What Are We The People Going to Do About It?

Yes indeed, it sure does appear that our country has finally arrived at the brazenly defying lawful court orders phase of Mango Mussolini's ongoing coup:

 

Link: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-court-order-constitutional-crisis/

 

""It would appear we have arrived" at the constitutional crisis, the lawyers wrote. Both judges demanded compliance, but it was ignored.

"We are long past the point at which courts have any reason to believe Trump’s lawyers when they use rhetorical tricks and deliberate misdirection to suggest that judicial orders were ambiguous or that compliance is inadvertently delayed in good faith," the legal experts said. "We are now at the place, only eight weeks into this presidency, at which judges must decide if they will take the necessary steps to enforce their decisions, including sanctions and contempt, or if they will agree to be made irrelevant.""

 

It wasn't too long ago, on the very pages of this shitty little blog that I predicted Drumpf was intent on bringing civil conflict to our society and by doing so forcing Americans to choose sides against their fellow Americans, friends, neighbors, even families.

Ask yourselves who more than any other human on this planet would benefit the most from a United States of America weakened by internal civil conflict?

Who do you think it would be that would benefit the most from an economically-ravaged United States of America?

Who would benefit the most from the United States of America betraying their promise to Ukraine and their people?

Who would be the most delighted in seeing the United States of America pull out of NATO and abandon all of the nation's treaty commitments with longtime allies?

Who would benefit the most from the internal gutting of the collective intelligence and terror/law enforcement agencies of the United States of America? 

Most sentient adults know the answer to every damn one of those questions is Vladimir Putin.

So that begs the obvious question then: Why is the President of the United States of America, DonOld Drumpf doing the bidding of a mass murdering, genocidal dictator and wanted war criminal?

 

 

---TFG

No Virginia - There is no Santa Claus, And There is no 'Plan'

Sigh . . .

 

 Link: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5320335/north-dakota-went-big-for-trump-now-many-farmers-say-they-face-an-uncertain-future

"Starting this week, American farmers like Sherlock are getting hit with tariffs on food they directly sell to China, including soybeans, corn and wheat — as well as pork, chicken and beef. Those levies are in retaliation for tariffs President Trump put on Chinese goods coming to the United States.

In farm-dependent states like North Dakota, all of this has renewed concerns about a trade war.

Sherlock says that up until a few days ago, farmers had still hoped President Trump was using tariffs to negotiate. But now it feels chaotic. One minute they're on, then off, then one thing is exempted. Then there's a post on President Trump's Truth Social platform that American farmers should get ready to supply America, ending with "have fun."

"That really struck a lot of farmers, it was the wrong note," Sherlock says. "It has a lot of them questioning, is there a plan?""

 

Lol!  "Is there a plan?"

Drumpf?  A plan?  Lmfao.

Is there a plan for Drumpf's tariffs? 😶

Is there a plan to provide basic life sustenance for Grandma and Grandpa MAGA when they destroy Social Security?

Is their a plan to replace Medicare and Medicaid when those programs are eliminated?

Is there a plan to support the healthcare needs of tens of millions of Americans who will lose medical coverage when they repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA - aka 'Obamacare')?

Is there a plan to support American veterans when they sell off the VA and VA benefits programs to profiteering private interests?

Is there a plan to educate American children when they shut down the free, public school system and hand it over to their grifter for-profit education friends and Wall Street vultures?

These conservative Republican farmers apparently learned not a damn thing from Drumpf's tariff war with China the first time around.  I mean, seriously.  How could they have so conveniently forgotten that because Drumpf had no 'plan' in 2018, his tariffs ended up being used mostly to bail their asses out of the financial harm that was caused by the stupidity of the tariffs to begin with?:

 

Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/92-percent-trumps-china-tariff-proceeds-has-gone-bail-out-angry-farmers

 

These people should fucking know better by now that DonOld Drumpf is a lying, incompetent, unreliable fraud, and always has been.  His word isn't worth dog shit, and putting faith in him to ever do the right thing by others is an exercise in tiresome futility.

 

 

---TFG