America 'Slides' Away From Being the 'Land of the Free and Home of the Brave' Under Drumpf

 

🎶 "Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold and it has overturned the order of the soul..." 🎶

~~~ Song by Leonard Cohen ‧ 1992

 

If these seasoned and esteemed former US Ambassadors who were eyewitnesses to democracies being transformed into dictatorships are correct, and I for one believe they are, then every single upcoming election across the US at the city, county, state, and national level needs to be overwhelmed by Americans voting in favor of the candidates and party that will stand up to Drumpf, MAGA, Putin, and the multinational billionaire boys club and carpetbagging tech bros who are trying to purchase our government to further their own self-serving financial and political aims.

 

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/30/former-us-ambassadors-warn-authoritarianism?CMP=share_btn_url

 

"The US is treading the path followed by democracies that descended into authoritarianism and dictatorship, former ambassadors to countries that underwent autocratic takeovers have warned.

At a panel discussion held to mark Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, four ex-heads of American embassies in countries that had experienced swings away from democracy said the current domestic political landscape felt eerily familiar and was pervaded by a “climate of fear” deliberately created to make opponents “back off”.

The four – who served in Russia, Ukraine, Zimbabwe and Nicaragua – were addressing a panel discussion in Washington entitled “Hey wait! We’ve seen this movie before: How democracies descend into dictatorship.”

They were among more than 200 retired US ambassadors and diplomats who signed an open letter calling for urgent action to challenge what they called Trump’s “assault on democracy”."

 

Get involved.  Register to vote.  Show the fuck up at the polls.  Pull the lever for anyone other than a Republican.

That's how this gets stopped.  One person, one vote, and showing up to cast that vote.  That's how we get off this slide.

Capiche?

 

 

---TFG

 

And We Owe it All to President 'Unsustainably Bad Fundamentals'

One of these day, maybe, but probably not . . the MAGA faithful are going to, at long last, really and truly realize the reality of what ginormous suckers they have been all along, not to mention what useful tools they have been for Drumpf's ascension to the status of would-be dictator and destroyer of world economies.

Economic damage is coming, that much is pretty obvious at this stage. Just ask the longshoremen working in US docks how the number of shipping containers coming in from abroad are down to a trickle all due to Drumpf's tariff asininity.  If there are no products coming into US ports, that is going to have a ripple effect throughout the US economy which will impact Americans and communities across the nation.

In his first 100 days in office the convicted felon baboon has managed to bring the US economy, rated the world's strongest just 5 months ago thanks to Joe Biden's steady stewardship, to the brink of official recession that could eventually lead to stagflation.

Drumpf took Biden's downward trending inflation, low unemployment and steady wage growth, a booming stock market, and the drubbing of China in the competition for world's strongest economy,  and in three and a half months has managed to tank not only the US economy, but the entire world economy.  

How can people not see through this painted up, orange boob's blustering, fact-free, all-caps boasting on his social media site about his own greatness and not acknowledge what a colossal fucking failure and fraud he is boggles my mind to no end.

Of course, his enablers are already laughably casting the blame at Joe Biden for the current turn of economic fate, mostly because they know just how badly King DonOld has fucked up, but in their cold, lifeless minds he is simply omnipotent and incapable of being wrong and so they propagate his deleterious judgment on to the rest of America 😑.

Btw, this guy Dalio isn't the only smarter money guy who sees Drumpf's trade war writing, er crayon scribbling on the wall and believes that bad economic times are coming, not bad times for him mind you because he is a billionaire, but for the rest of us mostly, and it's not hyperbole to say things could get pretty harrowing.

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/29/business/ray-dalio-trumps-tariffs-world-order/index.html

 

"— Billionaire investor Ray Dalio believes it is “too late” to combat the economic fallout of Trump’s tariffs and says the world economic order, with the US at the center, is breaking down.

“Based on many of my indicators,” he wrote in a social media post, “it appears that we are on the brink of the monetary order, the domestic political and the international world orders breaking down due to unsustainable, bad fundamentals.”

Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund by assets, who became famous on Wall Street for anticipating the 2008 financial crisis."

All that's left to be said is - good luck to you Ma and Pa MAGA.  Most of you are surely going to be needing it.

 

 

---TFG

Pete Hegseth is Fighting a War Against His Own Lies

There truly is no bottom to the depths that Drumpf and MAGA will descend to in order to keep a manifestly unqualified Pete Hegseth in his position as the US Secretary of Defense.

Kegseth is so desperate to maintain his unsteady standing among the MAGA faithful that yesterday he publicly announced the cancellation of a supposed 'woke' Biden law promoting the equality and rights of American women and girls. Only problem is that the individual who hired Hegseth, DonOld Drumpf, was the POTUS who signed that initiative into law back in 2017.

This is how dishonest these people are folks.  If they will lie right to your faces about something like this, imagine all the much worse shit they are lying to you and deceiving you about.

A nation that puts trust and faith into a government run by a lifelong con artist, convicted felon, and court-adjudicated rapist gets the shitty, unscrupulous, destructive government it deserves and it gets shitty, unscrupulous, self-destructive, and dishonest public servants like Pete Hegseth.

Link: https://www.rawstory.com/newslying-again-hegseth-ripped-for-ending-woke-biden-initiative-trump-signed-into-law/

“This morning, I proudly ENDED the “Women, Peace & Security” (WPS) program inside the @DeptofDefense,” Secretary Hegseth bragged on Tuesday. “WPS is yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative that overburdens our commanders and troops — distracting from our core task: WAR-FIGHTING.”

“WPS is a UNITED NATIONS program pushed by feminists and left-wing activists. Politicians fawn over it; troops HATE it,” he claimed. “DoD will hereby executive [sic] the minimum of WPS required by statute, and fight to end the program for our next budget. GOOD RIDDANCE WPS!”

In 2019, the Trump White House lauded the WPS program:

“The Trump Administration is committed to advancing women’s equality, seeking to protect the rights of women and girls, and promoting women and youth empowerment programs. The United States Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS Strategy) responds to the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017, which President Donald J. Trump signed into law on October 6, 2017.”

Pete Kegseth needs to go.  He is a national embarrassment and a dark and ugly shit stain on our US military.

 

 

---TFG

"Knock-kno.. BAM! CRASH! . . . Your Papers Please!

Make no mistake about it.  This is Drumpf's America.  This is MAGA's America.  They are trying to take us down the path of authoritarianism and unless he and they are stopped, stories like this will become daily occurrences in our country.

 

Link: https://kfor.com/news/local/were-citizens-oklahoma-city-family-traumatized-after-ice-raids-home-but-they-werent-suspects/

 

“We just moved here from Maryland,” she said. “We’re citizens. That’s what I kept saying. We’re citizens.”

She said the agents didn’t care.

“They were very dismissive, very rough, very careless,” she said. “I kept pleading. I kept telling them we weren’t criminals. They were treating us like criminals. We were here by ourselves. We didn’t do anything.”

Marisa said the agents tore apart every square inch of the house and what few belongings they had, seizing their phones, laptops and their life savings in cash as “evidence.”

“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” she said. “I have to feed my children. I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”

 

Drumpf and his red hat movement have every intent of leaving a lot of Americans "like an abandoned dog," because quite simply they really are not good people, and they really do not give a shit about democracy.

 

 

---TFG

 

Elmo and His Shady Geek Squad Are Sniffing Around US Nuke Secrets. Why?

Meanwhile, the cyber-worm punks who Elmo hired to pillage the computer systems of all of these government agencies and vacuum up all of the raw data they can, are now burrowing into some of the most sensitive systems in our government, specifically ones having to do with this nation's most guarded nuclear secrets.

The singular, most obvious question is - why? Wasn't Elmo's mandate from the crook he spent $350 million putting in the White House to find fraud, waste and abuse in government agencies? What interest does Putin's pillow-talk buddy have in gaining access to these highly classified nuke data systems?

Something tells me it cannot possibly be anything good for America, or Americans, or American democracy if Elmo and his posse of prepubescent hacker trolls are roaming around at will in US government systems that house any type of sensitive US intel, much less those involving US nuclear weapons systems and programs.

 

Link: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/28/nx-s1-5378684/doge-energy-department-nuclear-secrets-access

 

"Two members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency were given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America's nuclear weapons, two sources tell NPR.

Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern, and Adam Ramada, a Miami-based venture capitalist, have had accounts on the computer systems for at least two weeks, according to the sources who also have access to the networks. Prior to their work at DOGE, neither Farritor nor Ramada appear to have had experience with either nuclear weapons or handling classified information."

 

Seriously though, I can't be the only one wondering why a carpetbagging, South African billionaire who blows up $100 million rockets for shits and grins, who canoodles with dictators, and who has a habit of firing off Nazi salutes in public would want access to American nuclear systems secrets, right?

 

 

 

---TFG

Unprecedented Corruption From an Unprecedented Crook

He really is the most corrupt POTUS in the 249 year history of this country. No other American president comes close to the criminality and sleaziness of Donald Fucking Trump.

Drumpf and his billionaire tech pals and MAGA henchpeople want to devalue the US dollar, and essentially replace it with crypto and bitcoin as our national currency because it will make them all filthy rich and consolidate even more political and economic power into even fewer hands, hands which do not have the best interests of the vast majority of American people in mind.

And so far, with his childishly conceived tariffs, mass federal layoffs, and disemboweling of government agencies, the dirty old convicted felon mobster is following through on his promise to bring pain to the American people for having rejected his criminal ass in 2020.

And of course, what good would Drumpf's vengeance tour be without his own profiting off the economic misery of his fellow Americans?

Link: https://popular.info/p/an-unprecedented-scheme-to-profit

"President Trump has invited virtually anyone, including foreign governments, government contractors, and people under federal criminal investigation, to compete to see who can personally enrich Trump the most. The winners will get a personal audience with Trump on May 22 — and potentially a "VIP White House Tour."

It is a brazenly corrupt scheme to profit from the presidency."

Just remember - the people who put him in power and voted for him, and who continue to support him will be the ones to hold responsible for the widespread economic devastation when it comes. It's ALL on them.

---TFG

Then They Came for The Judges, But I Was Not a Judge...

Well, we have now arrived at the Drumpf administration arresting sitting judges stage of MAGA's slide into fascism freak show kids with DonOld's FBI arresting a sitting circuit-court judge (locally elected) in Wisconsin on "suspicion" of interfering in an ICE immigration enforcement act.

And you can tell that Drumpf and his apparatchiks know what a weak case they have for having had their goons arrest this judge when Drumpf's bug-eyed, unqualified FBI Director Kash Patel jumps on Elmo's bot and Nazi-infested 'X'shitter platform to crow about it, and his unqualified criminal defense attorney Pam Bondi who moonlights as the US Attorney General ran to Fox "news," the network convicted in court of lying to the public about election fraud, to defend it even before the ink on the judges arrest warrant had yet to dry.

This is how banana republics operate folks. If this is kind of nation you want to live in and you want your kids and grand-kids to have future lives in, that's your prerogative, for sure.  But there are millions of us, hopefully millions more, who do NOT want to live in that kind of America and there will eventually be a forceful backlash against the agents of anti-Americanism who are pushing this country toward an authoritarian, fascist government.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but Drumpf and his people truly ought to open up a history book and read what happened to the fascists who were defeated by America, it's western allies, and the forces of good and defenders of democracy in World War 2.  There are pictures.  There are documentaries.  There all kinds of books written about it and movies made about it.  One thing to be learned about history is that it does have an innate tendency to repeat itself and DonOld and his henchmen like Kash Patel and Pam Bondi would be wise to remember it.

 

Link:  https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/fbi-arrest-judge-deportation-operation/

 

"FBI Director Kash Patel said bureau agents arrested a county judge in Wisconsin Friday, alleging she obstructed an April 18 immigration enforcement operation.

 

Patel claimed in a post on X that Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hanah Dugan “intentionally misdirected” federal agents away from a Mexican immigrant who was appearing in state court at the time.

 

The FBI’s arrest of Dugan comes amid President Donald Trump’s escalating battle with federal courts. In recent weeks, Trump officials have repeatedly called for the impeachment of judges who ruled against the government, deliberately misconstrued a Supreme Court ruling and appeared to have disregarded multiple court orders. Some judges are said to worry that Trump could tell the U.S. marshals to stop protecting them.

On Fox News Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi called some judges “deranged” and promised to arrest those who help people who are in the country illegally."

 

When citizen-elected judges begin fearing their own government is going to lock them up for exercising their judicial independence, that is not a good omen for democracy folks, no matter how confident the bullshitting squawking heads on Fox "news" and the professional right-wing propagandists on social media are in saying it is.

 

 

 

 

 ---TFG

This is who MAGA is - Scum

How sleazy is Drumpf?  How sleazy is MAGA?

They pardoned a MAGA Republican criminal who stole money from a slain police officer's memorial fund so she could pay for her own plastic surgery.

There will never be anything remotely resembling reconciliation between myself and the people who continue to support these shitty fucking Americans and shitty human beings until they stop supporting them.

It's a simple as that.

 

 Link: https://apnews.com/article/trump-pardon-michele-fiore-nevada-fraud-cf56ef8b302b8111e47cf52d5a606d19

---TFG

Because When You're a TV 'Star' They Let You Do It

I mean, what more will it finally take to get rid of this bum Hegseth?

They covered up Hegseth's sexual assault (rape) accusation with a $50k payout to the woman he purportedly assaulted.

They covered up his firing from two nonprofit Veteran's advocacy groups that he ran due to his mismanagement of funds, sexual impropriety, and reports of intoxicated behavior on the job.

They have covered up his ties to extremist right-wing, white, christian nationalist groups (aka KKK without the robes).

Here's the thing though.  There is no amount of right-wing media lies or billionaire money that can cover up Kegseth's malfeasance and gross negligence in the line of duty when he betrays the trust and respect of the members of our military whom he rules over, in addition to the American people who, sadly, depend on his ability to defend their national and personal security.

Seriously though.  A fucking makeup studio?  Does Kegseth somehow think that he is still an on-air, third tier Fox "news" personality who has to be prettied up in his own makeup studio for his daily public appearances?  Or is he just trying to emulate the bronzer-lathered, fake hair, fake teeth con-artist he works for?

My God these people are such ungodly pathetic losers.  I guess that's why the MAGA voters love them so much.

 

Link: https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-sex-assault-payment-trump-6674cc8cfee654c374725948e01ff666

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered modifications to a room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a makeup studio that can be used to prepare for television appearances, multiple sources told CBS News. 

The price tag for the project was several thousand dollars, according to two of the sources, at a time when the administration is searching for cost-cutting measures. 

"Changes and upgrades to the Pentagon Briefing Room are nothing new and routinely happen during changes in an administration," a Defense Department spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News. 

The renovation that was initially planned was estimated to cost more than $40,000, but the ideas were scaled back, sources said."

Kegseth really, really needs to go.  He is an unqualified fraud who is in leagues over his booze-soaked, pompadoured head, and in the position he is in, that kind of inexperience, incompetence, and negligence is going to get innocent men and women in our armed forces needlessly killed.

It cannot be put in any starker terms than that.

 

 

---TFG

 

Americans Should Have Zero 'Faith' in Drumpf's 'Faith Office'

Always distrust people proclaiming God's favor and loyalty is on the side of their chosen political cause.

Always.

Link: 'God has an order': Head of Trump's faith office says women must 'submit' to men - Raw Story

Paula White is a long-time evangelical grifter and charlatan.  It's only fitting that she hooked up with the convicted orange criminal in the White House to propagate her radical extremist religious claptrap.  Her views about women are predictably atrocious and ugly.  But if Paula knows one thing it's that DonOld Drumpf is a world-class misogynist and sexual abuser and he gets a thrill out of listening to ideas about how to make life in America more miserable and dangerous for women, and forcing women to "submit" to the wills of their knuckle-dragging, right-wing husbands is right in DonOld the rapist's wheelhouse.

Oh yeah, did I mention Paula White is also a con-artist grifter?

Link: Trump spiritual advisor accused of improperly accessing Journey's bank account - Raw Story

Drumpf surrounds himself with unscrupulous people like Paula White because he knows their mindset and he knows that as long as they are getting a few crumbs from whatever pie he is carving up, he can count on them being steadfast allies who will happily turn blind eyes toward his own criminality and injustices.

It's just who these rotten people are.

---TFG

Who Needs Enemies When Pete Hegseth is Your "Defense" Secretary?

If I understand this reporting correctly, we are in some truly unchartered territory with our government controlled by a cabal of literal clowns.

DonOld Drumpf plucked a chronic drunk and woman abuser, and white nationalist sympathizer from his third-tier Fox "news" personality dung hole and appointed him to be the leader and moral values example to the three million men and women in our combined US armed forces.

That guy has already been busted for sending highly sensitive military intel over an unsecure chat platform, issued an edict to scrub accomplishments by American heroes of color (too "woke") from public-facing DOD sites and documents, and has fired competent military leaders to install lackeys who will do Drumpf's bidding if and when (likelier) it comes time for him to order the US military to employ armed force against US citizens.

And now we find out this guy has been having his security-clearance lacking wife sit in on high-level meetings with foreign military leaders, and if that wasn't fucking shameful enough, he was also attempting to get Elmo, the drug-addled, carpetbagging, South African mega-billionaire unapproved access to "highly, highly" sensitive Pentagon programs related to China, which coincidentally of course is where the batteries for Elmo's junky EV cars are manufactured and imported from.

Just a bunch of fucking crooks and charlatans these guys, and sadly so many Americans have bought into their buffoonery, lies and treachery.

Link: 'Did I hear that right?' CNN host stunned by latest Pete Hegseth revelation - Raw Story

"The defense secretary has also drawn criticism for inviting his wife Jennifer Hegseth to high-level meetings with foreign counterparts, and Bertrand said he has raised eyebrows with invitations to other individuals whose presence was questioned by Pentagon officials.

"He earlier last month, he actually went directly to the head of the office of special access programs here at the Pentagon," Bertrand said. "Instead of going through a normal policy process that included lawyers, for example, to ask whether Elon Musk could be read in on over two dozen special access programs, which are highly, highly classified programs here at the Pentagon related to China. Ultimately, when those [Department of Defense] lawyers were looped in, they said, look, this is probably not a good idea, but sources told us that maybe that would have actually panned out if secretary Hegseth had included more people and gone through a regular process.""

I sincerely hope Jenny Hegseth has been enjoying her little coffee klatches with the military leaders of foreign countries. In doing so she and her dim-witted husband have now made her a prime target for foreign intelligence ops to monitor, hack, blackmail, bribe, etc. her.

And if there is one person in this nation of 335 million who should not EVER be granted access to special, "highly, highly classified" Pentagon intel on China, it's the drug-addled, carpetbagging, South African mega-billionaire who wants to nuke Mars ffs.

Pete Kegseth needs to go.

Pete Kegseth is a fucking poser clown.

Pete Kegseth was never anything more than a right-wing media grifter (Fox "news") who was thrust into the role of a real man's job and a real soldier's duty for which he is manifestly unfit for by a mobbed up, pussy-grabbing, raping, convicted felon and coup-plotter.

Prove that last statement wrong. 😐

---TFG

Make Depressions Great Again!

Drumpf boldly and haughtily declared "Liberation Day" on April 2nd with his big, beautiful tariffs announcement.  

As wiser people predicted it would be, it has been straight downhill since.

This isn't just a normal, market correcting downturn that Drumpf's tariffs and economic policies have triggered folks.  He is inflicting long-term generational damage to our economy, to our nation's sovereign wealth, and to the American dream.  It is going to take years to repair his destructive handiwork.

Perhaps another decade-long 'Great Depression' is what is needed to remind Americans how quickly and easily their comfy American lifestyles can be turned upside down and smothered under the weight of corrupt, incompetent, buffoonish presidential leadership.

---TFG

Tip: Never Buy a Used Car from a Convicted Felon and Rapist

People who are much smarter than the vastly undereducated Gadfly said it was a horrible, rotten, no good idea to install a manifestly unqualified, substance abusing, undeserving, Fox "news" weekend talk show co-host, accused rapist, and white nationalist sympathizer as the Secretary of Defense and moral values leader of the 3 million diverse Americans serving in all branches of the US Armed Forces.

The Gadfly made that prediction alongside those much smarter people btw, but only because it was just so fucking obvious how undeserving and disturbing Hegseth's nomination for Defense Secretary was to begin with.

And of course, as expected, here we are:

Link: White House looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary : NPR

"The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

This comes as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth continues to find himself mired in controversy. NPR has also confirmed with the same official that Hegseth shared details ahead of last month's Yemen strikes with his wife and brother in a Signal chat on his personal phone, minutes after being updated by a senior U.S. military official. The news of the second Signal group chat about the mission was first reported by The New York Times.

In March, Hegseth shared details about action against Houthi targets in Yemen in a Signal chat with top White House officials that accidentally included a journalist.

Days after the Signal leak, the Pentagon warned the app was the target of hackers

In the last few weeks, four senior advisers to Hegseth have left abruptly, some accused of leaking. They have all released public statements suggesting infighting within the department of defense."

Drumpf, as he routinely does, demonstrated horrible personal judgment in nominating Pete Hegseth for the US Secretary of Defense position.  The Republican eunuchs in the Senate demonstrated equally horrid judgment in approving the nomination.

That very same caliber of judgment btw can be seen in DonOld's nominees for DOJ (twice), DHS/DNI, FBI, CIA, IRS, HHS, and Education.  And of course, we can't overlook his giving a drug-addled, carpetbagging South African super-billionaire and his posse of cyberpunk minions carte-blanche access and control over multiple US government agencies and programs.

Drumpf will of course blame Pete Hegseth's imminent downfall on a media "witch hunt," while his enablers will waggle their fingers claiming it justifies their demands to purge even more people from the military leadership ranks than what they have already done for being insufficiently loyal to dear leader.

This is what these charlatans do when their bad decision-making blows up in their stupid faces, they seek out scapegoats.  Just as their moral-values bankrupt movement made scapegoats out of immigrants for this country's economic stagnation, when the real culprit, corporate and political greed and corruption, are what brought the nation to that point.

Seriously though - don't you MAGAs ever tire of Drumpf's phony, greasy, dim-witted, used car salesman shtick??  When are you all going to grow up and just admit that you got conned by a fast-talking, smooth bullshitting, conniving, criminally-convicted con-artist and you just cannot bring yourselves to admit to your own personal moral values failure?

Perhaps if more Americans had wised up earlier about the mobbed-up hiring mentality of Don the Con's Used Car lot they might have thought better of supporting him and our country would not have ended up with a, leaking, sputtering, falling apart, no warranty lemon like Pete Hegseth as the leader and role model for the proud members of our nation's military.

---TFG

♫ Evil Mind That Plots Destruction - Sorcerer of Death's Construction ♫

It really ought to be more concerning to more people that the wealthiest human on the planet, an individual who canoodles with despots and mass murderers and who spent a third of a billion to buy himself an office (and a POTUS) in the American people's White House, also has designs on a mass societal surveillance system here in the US, not at all unlike how they have in China.

I wouldn't trust MuskRat with any involvement, at any level with this country's national security, mostly because I would not trust anyone who has played such an instrumental role in putting a pussy-grabbing, coup-plotting convicted felon and Putin asset in the oval office.

Link: 'Raising alarms': Experts concerned as DOGE eyes tracking and surveillance system - Raw Story

"“As part of their fixation on this conspiracy theory that undocumented people are voting, they're also pulling in tens of thousands, millions of US citizens who did nothing more than vote or file for Social Security benefits. It's a massive dragnet that's going to have all sorts of downstream consequences for not just undocumented people, but US citizens and people who are entitled to be here as well.”

“The ultimate concern is a panopticon of a single federal database with everything that the government knows about every single person in this country,” he added. “What we are seeing is likely the first step in creating that centralized dossier on everyone in this country.”"

Some may have heard the old saying, "he who has the gold, makes the rules."  Well, data in the cyber age is gold.  And lots of gold translates to lots of power.  Elmo has the capability to accumulate mass quantities of data, and it is guaranteed that he will not use it in a way that will be benign or beneficial for democracy, for the United States of America, for this nation's society, or for the human race.

---TFG

DOGE Czar Accused of Consumer Fraud. Surprised? Don't Be.

Oh this is just fucking beautiful.

Get this kids.  Drumpf's co-conspirator, wealthiest human on planet Earth, and guy who is currently rampaging through the US Social Security and Medicare systems, rooting out what he determines to be 'deadbeat' grandmas and grandpas to remove from those programs so that he can grab more billion dollar government contracts for his companies, has just been sued in a class-action lawsuit alleging his EV automobile company Tesla has been screwing over customers by monkeying with the odometer readings.

If not mistaken, I do believe that is also a federal felony and a felony offense in the majority of US states folks.  

If Elmo is found guilty in this lawsuit of having manipulated the odometers on these people's cars, I think he ought to be immediately arrested and charged with those federal and state crimes, and then if he is convicted in a US courtroom of those crimes he should summarily have his US citizenship revoked, and carpetbagging, billionaire ass put on the first one-way plane ride to his home country of South Africa . . . shackled hands to ankles.

Anyone believe that would actually happen with the subservient apparatchiks in Drumpf's DOJ?  Yeah, sadly me neither.

Link: Tesla Accused of Inflating Odometer Numbers to Avoid Repair Payouts | PCMag

"Tesla is inflating odometer numbers to avoid paying for under-warranty repairs, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in California.

Plaintiff Nyree Hinton argues that odometers rely on "predictive algorithms, energy consumption metrics, and driver behavior multipliers that manipulate and misrepresent the actual miles traveled," IEN reports.

Hinton purchased a used 2020 Tesla Model Y in December 2022 with 36,772 miles on the odometer. Six months later, the odometer read 50,000 miles, an increase of 13,228 miles. With the same driving routine in previous years on different vehicles, one Chevy and one Mercedes, Hinton only drove around 6,086 miles, suggesting a 117% increase with the Tesla.

Hinton noticed an "abnormal spike" in the odometer reading as the vehicle's basic warranty (four years or 50,000 miles) approached, despite his vehicle sitting in the repair shop for long periods around this time. This led Hinton to believe Tesla had "devised a scheme to increase profits and retain the revenue from the purchase" of additional, extended warranty agreements. Tesla offers several of these packages, which drivers can add on when their basic warranty expires.

After the warranty expired, the odometer's rate of increase slowed, Hinton says, even though he started driving more at the time, commuting multiple days a week from Irvine to Los Angeles, a roughly 100-mile trip."

The sheer number of shady, morally deviant, and corrupt charlatans, professional con artists and liars, and greed mongers in this new Drumpf administration defies sentient belief.  It really does.  Elmo is just the most prolific of them.

---TFG

The Dismantling of Joe Biden's Booming Economy Continues Apace

More of the Drumpf/MAGA economic plan handiwork taking it's toll on American workers.

It's only going to get worse from here on out.  I sure hope folks are prepared.

Link: Pennsylvania truck company blames tariffs as it announces huge layoffs - Raw Story

"Mack Trucks will lay off between 250 and 350 workers at its Lehigh Valley Operations center outside Allentown over the next three months, due to economic uncertainty caused by U.S. tariffs, a company spokesperson said Thursday.

“Heavy-duty truck orders continue to be negatively affected by market uncertainty about freight rates and demand, possible regulatory changes, and the impact of tariffs,” spokesperson Kimberly Pupillo said.

“Today we informed our employees that this unfortunately means we’ll have to lay off 250-350 people at LVO over the next 90 days,” Pupillo said. “We regret having to take this action, but we need to align production with reduced demand for our vehicles.”"

Heckuva job DonOld.  Heckuva fucking job.

---TFG

Pam Bondi's Steady Path to Her Own Nuremberg Denouement...

The word "reprehensible" doesn't begin to paint the full picture of just how evilly corrupted Drumpf and his henchpeople like Pam Bondi are.

Drumpf didn't choose Pam Bondi for his Attorney General because she was qualified, or competent, or deserving of the role.  No, DonOld chose Bondi because she had already demonstrated her fealty to him by covering up for some of his prior crimes, and so he knew she would be a reliable, order-following apparatchik who would not ask questions or resist when given unconstitutional or unlawful presidential directives, or intervene when Drumpf abuses his power.

Link: 'Utterly reprehensible': Ex-prosecutor puts Pam Bondi on notice for 'refusing' judge order - Raw Story

The excuse of, "I was just following orders" didn't save any of Hitler's henchmen from the gallows.  Pam Bondi would be wise to keep that in mind as Drumpf's dictatorial ambitions intensify.

---TFG

Nobody Should Be Giving Money to Drumpf's America

Can you blame these potential tourists?  I wouldn't want to travel to and spend money in a budding, fascist nation whose leaders harbor ideas of imprisoning it's people in third-world, banana republic countries either. 

Tourism to the US is just one more industry that will wither and die during Drumpf's filthy occupancy of the White House, and frankly at this point, I really don't give a shit.

Let him kill it all.  Let him burn 249 years of American exceptionalism to the ground.  Let him bring this country to it's ungrateful knees so that they may at long last understand the true nature of authoritarianism and fascism.  Let the downgrading and dismantling of the American experiment begin in earnest, and let's see how that works out for everyone in the end.

Link: ‘I don’t want to give money to this America’: tourists’ fears of US travel under Trump | US immigration | The Guardian

A message to the MAGAs though - don't act all shocked and surprised when Drumpf's plans to turn the US into the most powerfully powerless banana republic on the planet blows up in his stupid, makeup lathered face.  And let's hope the public backlash that ensues when that happens sends Drumpf into permanent exile abroad (Russia or the Saudis will be happy to take him), and his MAGA sycophants crawling back to the darkness under the rocks where he lured them from.

---TFG

"We Are All Afraid" - Yes We Are

This is Drumpf's America.  It's MAGA's America.  It is an America where even a sitting senator and member of Drumpf's own political party is telling us that she is fearful of this country's president.

"We are all afraid."

If she is fearful, as are others in her party that she references, then the rest of us should be fearful as well.

Drumpf is a danger to all of us.  His MAGA sycophants are a danger to all of us.  Stopping their fascist seizure of unfettered power is paramount to the survival of our American constitutional republic.

Link: Republican Senator Murkowski on threat of Trump retaliation: 'We are all afraid' | Reuters

---TFG

Time to Start Thinking About Future 'Nuremberg Trials' in America

Last week, Drumpf apparatchiks were publicly musing about using the US criminal justice system to go after (aka weaponization of government) anyone daring to criticize or say mean things about Donold's thug "business" partner Elon Musk.

Now comes this:

Link to Video: Post by @meidastouch.com — Bluesky

What this Drumpf-hired, Nazi piece of shit Seb Gorka is saying is that any American who might hold a different viewpoint about Drumpf's regime ILLEGALLY and UNCONSTITUTIONALLY kidnapping people off the streets and underhandedly sending them off in the middle of the night to a banana republic torture prison can themselves be considered to be "aiding and abetting" terrorism, and thusly subject to the same extraordinary renditioning to the aforementioned banana republic torture prison.

How fucking un-American do these Drumpf cocksuckers need to get before some of you open your damn eyes to what they are all about??

Ffs.  Wake up people.  These fascist pricks aren't playing around and if they aren't stopped, it just might be one of your friends or family members, hell, even yourself, snatched off the street some day soon and whisked off to a banana republic torture prison.

---TFG