Facial Expressions That Tell a Sordid Story Aren't Difficult to Distinguish

I saw this photo on Bluesky the other day but was waiting for additional confirmation that it was an actual photo and not A.I. generated.  It's authentic apparently and is now listed in the Getty Images online archives (link below):

By the looks on the faces of China's dictator Xi and his wife, and the disturbingly venomous looks on the faces of Don and Mel, clearly one of two things has occurred here in the moment just before this photo was snapped.  

Either Drumpf shit his diaper and it was runny enough to squirt down the inside of his pantleg, or Xi just told him to fuck off as it relates to providing any help to DonOld in his Iran war.

It's a tossup as to which one triggered these ugly faces:

Link:  8,770 Trump And Xi Photos and High-Res Pictures - Getty Images

They're such a lovely couple aren't they?

And nothing to see here, right?  Just the smokey-eyed, Jeffrey Epstein recruited model turned mobster moll and her felonious, Epstein associate hubby hanging out with and toasting the dictator guy from China whose country's intelligence agencies are presently assisting Iran target US military bases and assets in the Persian Gulf region in DonOld's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure."

The nightmare of watching these two compromised fakers despoiling the American people's White House and continuing to be propped up by a bunch of other MAGA clods and fakers, ends with this November's midterm elections.  Make a plan to verify your voter registration frequently between now and November 3rd, vote, and make sure your vote counts.

---TFG

Would a Felonious, Coup-Plotting Dictator Wannabe Declare Martial Law to Steal an Election? Do Americans Really Want to Find Out?

Can any of Donald Trump's supporters coherently and truthfully explain what the rationale would be for Drumpf to declare 'martial law' and deploy the US military to seize control of this year's midterm elections?

Link:  White House desperate to distract Trump as outside allies clamor for 'martial law': report - Raw Story

"President Donald Trump's White House and Cabinet advisers have spent months trying to pull his attention away from election conspiracy theories as some of his most devoted outside allies are urging him to take control of this fall's midterms – even through martial law.

The Atlantic reported Wednesday that advisers have worked to steer Trump away from baseless fraud claims pushed by figures such as attorney Peter Ticktin, conservative host Wayne Allyn Root and former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, while at the same time they've authorized efforts to find evidence that would make those claims appear more credible.

Administration officials gathered once-classified documents on foreign election interference, authorized the seizure of Georgia election records and reviewed voting equipment used in Puerto Rico – but none of that work turned up the large-scale fraud Trump has alleged."

Drumpf and his MAGA enablers have lost nearly 70 court cases all the way to the US Supreme Court trying to prove massive voting fraud since 2020.

Reputable study after study after study after study confirms vote fraud is one of the rarest crimes in the country.

Drumpf's own officials have had years to come up with solid evidence of massive voter fraud taking place across the country and that it cost Drumpf the 2020 election to Joe Biden.  They have found nothing that will stand up under the scrutiny of litigation in any court in the nation.

Drumpf won't let it go, though.  It's how he grew the MAGA movement - crying "RIGGED ELECTION!"  He knows he lost.  It's been reported that he acknowledged to many around him at the time in 2020 that he had lost to Biden.

But DonOld Drumpf is a con man.  And the work of con men is to run cons.  That is their livelihood. 

Running cons is Drumpf's stock in trade and he saw a perfect opportunity to rile up his base by screaming election fraud after losing to Biden, and that is exactly what he did.

DonOld is too far down the rabbit hole of his voting fraud con to stop now, and so he has to continue with the ruse of looking for election fraud that doesn't exist just to keep the slack-jawed rage of his idiot followers percolating.

Here's the thing though.  Drumpf has to know that if he were to declare martial law based on the ravings of a bunch of right-wing conspiracy nuts, and interfere in this November's election, Americans will take to the streets in very large numbers, and those numbers will dwarf the numbers in Drumpf's movement.  DonOld and his enablers would do well to keep that reality in mind.

---TFG

Perhaps the 'MAGA Manhood' Movement Should Just Stop Raping Girls and Women. What a Novel Concept, Huh?

I've made this observation previously, but perhaps it's time to revisit it.

Whenever I hear the term"MAGA influencer," the thought that instantly pops into my mind is, 'unemployable right-wing loser.'

Case in point:

Link:  Clavicular's charges shows the real danger of MAGA manhood - Salon.com

"It wasn’t long after Braden Peters, better known as “Clavicular,” was arrested on suspicion of raping a 17-year-old girl at his family’s home in Massachusetts that his fellow MAGA influencers started complaining that he was the real victim.

“Now we live in a climate where a 19-year-old can’t even sleep with a 16-year-old with a little alcohol involved. Absolutely insane,” said Nick Fuentes, the popular white nationalist podcaster, ignoring the fact that it has long been considered rape to have sex with someone unconscious and unable to consent, as alleged by the criminal complaint against Peters.

Others floated conspiracy theories accusing the mysterious “they” of trying to “control” Clavicular, or claiming he is besieged with “women trying to ruin his life with rumors.” Brian Atlas of the “Whatever” podcast posted a video of the alleged victim drinking with Peters, as if it were exonerating evidence instead of bolstering the criminal case against him."

When I first heard of this "looksmaxxing" 'Clavicular' guy, my initial reaction was, "what the fuck is a 'Clavicular' and what the fuck is "looksmaxxing?"

So, after that initial reaction and doing a little bit of research on Mr. 'Clavicular' I was soon beset with utter disbelief that such a clownish, valueless (to the good of society and the body politic anyway) individual could exist for one, and secondly that he would have millions of cult followers on social media, which really should be seen as a 'canary in the coal mine' justification for the strict regulation of social media companies, imho.  And I base that view on the societal damage that we have seen occur in the age of social media from social media in this country.

But just as it all too frequently ends up with a lot of these far right, online, performative loons, it comes as no shock to hear that this chud 'Clavicular' has fallen out of favor with the laws of our country with the commission of --- wait for it ---- sex crimes (it's a pandemic with these MAGAs).

Young American conservatives worship guys like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Barron Trump, and of course, 'Clavicular' for their wealth, their fame, and their online 'influencer' celebrityhood.   Where has that choice of role models gotten them?

Musk and Thiel are named in the 'Epstein Files.'

Barron Trump is pals with 'influencers' Andrew and Tristan Tate who are currently in jail awaiting extradition to the UK for the alleged crimes of sex trafficking, rape, and child pornography.  The Tates are also wanted by the country of Romania for the same alleged crimes.

And 'Clavicular?'  Well, it looks like our little MAGA 'influencer' buddy might be facing his own time behind bars for a while for being such an influential, raping MAGA stud.

To the young MAGA conservatives out there - dirty liberal hippies like yours truly here aren't mocking and trashing your conservative politics solely for pleasure when we criticize you and your movement - well, ok, some of us are... but more than anything we are mocking the caliber of people you constantly put forth as your movement spokespeople like this shithead 'Clavicular,' and others like him who keep showing us over and over again just how intellectually destitute and morally bankrupt they, their ideas, and their movement truly are.

---TFG

The First Amendment Has Become a Major Annoyance to Drumpf Leading to His Harsher Attacks on It

Best political cartoon I've seen this week accurately depicting Drumpf's outright assault on the First Amendment when he banned reporters from CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from being on White House grounds as part of the White House press pool.  

Five days ago, in a scatterbrained decree issued from the perch of his 'Truth Social' social media site, Emperor Drumpf banned banned all employees from those three news organizations from the American people's White House property and confiscated their badges.

All three news orgs immediately sued and won reinstatement today from a federal judge, but apparently Drumpf is defying the court order now, and I guess we will just have to see where that goes.

Anyway, Nick Anderson nails it in this cartoon:

Link:  Underwater Trump decides America's freedom is going to drown with him - Raw Story

Drumpf is a dictatorial menace to American freedom and democracy.  Anderson's cartoon sufficiently conveys that message.

---TFG

MAGA Cop Seizes Election Ballots and Might End Up in Jail Himself For It

The right-wingers in this country continue their epic losing streak in the US courts when it comes to their clumsy, inept attempts at trying to prove that massive election fraud is occurring in the US - fraud which apparently only occurs when they are on the losing end of elections:

Link:  California Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to return seized ballots, affirms state’s power over local law enforcement - Democracy Docket

"The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) violated state law when he seized roughly 650,000 ballots from last year’s special redistricting election after pursuing debunked claims of a massive ballot discrepancy.

Writing for the court, Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero held that Bianco’s seizure violated the “plain language” of the California Elections Code, which commands that “[i]n no event” may voted ballots be taken from the custody of an elections official. The court made clear that the protection applies even during a criminal investigation.

“To remedy this violation, we issue a peremptory writ of mandate directing Bianco to return the seized ballots to the registrar’s custody and to refrain from further handling of the ballots except as necessary to comply with our order.”

The court ordered Bianco to return all packages containing voted ballots to Riverside County Registrar of Voters Art Tinoco “forthwith.”"

This Southern California Sheriff Chad Bianco is a Trump-loving MAGA chud.  Apparently having a lawless POTUS running the country inspired Bianco to use his civilian policing authority to forcibly SEIZE election ballots when a special statewide election that was held last year that didn't go MAGA's way in his county and local MAGA chuds, like their orange cult leader, screamed, "rigged election!"

This MAGA chud Sheriff disgraced himself, the honor of his public office, and agency by colluding with others to secure an unlawful warrant to seize more than half a million voter ballots in order to prove some right winger's idiotic conspiracies.

The California Supreme Court says they broke the law in doing so.  Well, duh.

Bianco needs to be run out of law enforcement, and whatever other attorneys and local judge who colluded with him to allow Bianco's sheriff agency to illegally seize those ballots should be relieved of their duties and be brought before the California state bar for disciplinary review, if they aren't actually charged with state election crimes along with Bianco himself.

It is so inspiring watching actual American justice put these election conspiracy MAGA assholes in their place over and over again.

If you recall, Drumpf and his Rudy Giuliani led "dream team" of attorneys, in the wake of his election loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, LOST 65+ court cases in state and federal courts across the country, including twice at the US Supreme Court level, trying to prove Drumpf's loss was due to election fraud.

Drumpf's booze-soaked attorney Giuliani and his legal team's conspiracy-soaked evidence were laughed out of those courts one after another.

So yeah - I hope this dipshit Bianco goes down in bigtime flames for attempting a third-world shithole, banana republic stunt like that - at minimum a ruinous and tarnished ending to his policing career would suffice.

---TFG

The Cover-Up of a Ring of Wealthy, Child-Raping Elites Continues Apace

I don't give a shit what anyone says.

When you are sending your corrupt Attorney General, former criminal defense lawyer, and now criminal co-conspirator to beg the courts to block the release of criminal case files which could implicate you in the child sex trafficking activities of a ring of wealthy, elitist pedophiles, that to me is a straight-up admission of guilt:

Link:  Todd Blanche begs appeals court to halt release of batch of Epstein files - Raw Story

"Attorney General Todd Blanche asked an appeals court to halt a judge's order forcing the Justice Department to release foreign-language Epstein files.

In a motion filed Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Blanche asked the court to pause two orders from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan and to expedite the appeal. The orders came in a lawsuit against Blanche brought by lawyer and journalist Katie Phang.

Sullivan's June 25 order directed the Justice Department to begin reviewing and producing foreign-language documents under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. A second order, issued on September 16, set a September 24 deadline for the DOJ to start that process and notify the court."

These are documents that were supposed to have been released to Congress and the public last November when the 'Epstein Files Transparency Act' law was passed.  

Blanche, at Drumpf's direction, has been violating that law since day one for refusing to release the more than three million documents that the DOJ is keeping hidden from Congress and from public view.

It has become inmistakably clear that in Toad Blanche, DonOld Drumpf has finally 'found' his Roy Cohn to protect him and his "friends" from long overdue justice.

---TFG

'Stupid and Evil' Are at the Core of MAGA's Mission Statement Plans to Transform America

"Stupid and evil" doesn't begin to describe the true nature of this order.

Link:  'Stupid and evil': Fury after White House revokes health care for 750K Americans - Raw Story

"President Donald Trump's administration sparked fury Tuesday after it moved to revoke health care coverage for 750,000 Americans.

Vice President JD Vance announced the move during remarks carried by CSPAN, claiming that the people who lost their health insurance had purchased it fraudulently. Vance claimed that the government is investigating whether the people who lost health insurance are American citizens and whether they meet the income requirements to qualify for the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz also announced that there will be a six-month moratorium on new ACA brokerage sign-ups. He added that more than a million Americans could be kicked off of the program because they "never filed a claim.""

First off - JD Vance's claim that they are taking away healthcare access for nearly a million Americans because these Americans signed up fraudulently is worthless on it's face.

This is an administration that knowingly and purposefully lies to Americans on a daily basis as effortlessly as the rest of us breathe, and they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Also, let's remember that it was shameless prevaricator JD Vance who tried to tell us that Haitian immigrants were stealing and eating people's pet cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio when he knew it was a lie because local authorities had told him to his dishonest face that it wasn't true, so yeah, JD Vance's word isn't worth a pile of warm, freshly dropped dog shit in this matter.

Conservative Republicans and their morally bankrupt party have had a perennial boner for destroying the Affordable Care Act since its inception, mostly because it was the black guy's signature policy achievement.

But they also hate the ACA not only because they hate Obama, but also because conservative Republicans do not give a shit about their fellow Americans.  Let me repeat that.   A sizable percentage of American, primarily white conservative, MAGA Republicans do NOT give a damn about the health, welfare and well being of their fellow Americans and ESPECIALLY so if those fellow Americans are brown or black.

The ACA helps all Americans, white, brown, and yes, even black Americans who have been priced out of this country's unjust, immoral, and massively failed for-profit healthcare system to attain some measure of affordable healthcare coverage.

Drumpf and MAGA have taken it upon themselves to declare that cannot be allowed to happen.

Abruptly taking away the healthcare of another million Americans and throwing them to the free-market healthcare wolves is going to boomerang back on Drumpf and MAGA big time.  Taking healthcare access away from people is just one more in a long list of human harming decrees that this evil administration has issued.

The GOP and MAGA are digging their own party's political grave the more they allow Drumpf and his thugs to keep deliberately hurting Americans like this.

---TFG

Man Who Plotted a Coup of the US Accuses Former POTUS of Plot to Kill Him

So this occurred this past week and the collective yawn of the valueless corporate media in this country was utterly deafening:

Link:  Trump claims Butler assassination attempt was a 'Democrat Plot' without showing evidence - ABC News

"President Donald Trump alleged on Tuesday that the 2024 assassination attempt on him in Butler, Pennsylvania -- which killed one person and wounded two others -- was a "Democratic Plot" aimed at removing him from the election. 

The president blasted the FBI under former President Joe Biden and said former FBI Director Christopher Wray, who Trump nominated during his first term, "should pay a price" for the investigation.

"This was all a Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election, that failed. Dirty Cop Christopher Wray should pay a price for the way he handled this assassination attempt, and certainly for the things he said," Trump posted."

The sitting President of the United States of America has accused his predecessor, former President Joe Biden of conspiring with then FBI Director Chris Wray, whom Drumpf himself had appointed to that position, of orchestrating the purported (a whole other discussion) assassination attempt of himself in Butler, Pennsylvania in 2024.

Ffs.

There is truly no bottom to Drumpf's ability to make an utter ass(hole) of himself publicly in an attempt to further warp the minds of his MAGA cultists as he desperately clings to the levers of power of the American presidency.

And as far as our new billionaire-owned "news" media landscape goes, what a colossal failure of these so-called news organizations to just completely blow this story off.

If Joe Biden had accused Donald Trumpf of conspiring to kill him in 2021 after Drumpf's January 6th coup attempt, I'm pretty sure that would have been around the clock, hysterical news coverage from all of the major "news" outlets.

But this gets to the heart of just how unfathomably insane this whole timeline of the era of Drumpf has become.  An American president accusing another American president of an assassination "plot."

This tiresome insanity of the dishonorable era of Drumpf & MAGA ends when enough Americans finally decide it's enough, and the opportunity to do that is this November's midterm elections. 

Make a plan.

Vote early.

Get to the polls.

Do what we all know needs to be done.

Kick the MAGA Republicans out of power and do it decisively.

Put an end to Drumpf's reign of psychotic terror, end the Iran war idiocy, impeach, convict, and remove the rapidly metastasizing cancer that has taken ruinous root in the American presidency.

---TFG

The Republican Party Cannot Bullshit and Lie Their Way Out of Drumpf's Tragic Foolishness

The holidays are coming up and that means it's time for Republican operatives to dust off their hoary old playbook of disingenuous arguments to deflect attention away from their party's corruption and massive governing failures:

Link:  Post by @atrupar.com — Bluesky

This is how you can tell that the Republican party has no plans to extricate the US from Drumpf's disastrous war in Iran, and that they are fully aware that their party's failed governance of the country has resulted in economic hardship for most Americans while enriching the bank accounts of multi-millionaires and billionaires including the multiple bank accounts of the Trump crime family members.

I mean, it's pretty telling when you go on national TV to promote your party's platform and all that you can come up with is to peddle laughable claims that Democrats want to eliminate Thanksgiving and the 4th of July.  That level of cynical desperation tells me that you and your party have absolutely zero ideas on how to address the myriad of real-world, serious issues that are facing the United States and the American people right now.

Vote these Republican clowns and grifters out of office in November.  Kick their execrable, corrupt and cowardly asses to the curb once and for all.

---TFG

Someone Stole DonOld's 'Frozen Strawberries' and He's Losing What Remains of His Tiny Mind Over It

This unhinged screed by the President of the United States of America is all that is left of an increasingly unwell mind:

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

Drumpf is entering the flailing 'Captain Queeg' phase of his execrable presidency and for those of you too young to remember the reference, here's what I mean:

I continue to wonder, in utter futility I'm sure, what more exactly has to happen with this "fake news" screeching maniac before anyone in the Republican leadership finds enough patriotic courage and decency within themselves to finally at long last stand up and declare that Donald Trump is unfit for the office he presently occupies and is trashing, and is himself the most significant, actual national security threat that is endangering every man, woman and child in this country?

---TFG

The Deepening Crisis of the American White House Being Occupied by a Brainsick Cult Figure

He's as mad as the proverbial fucking hatter:

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

Turns out it isn't a parody.  He actually posted this on his 'Truth Social' account this morning.

Link:  Trump says planned arch will be ‘military complex’ for drones, snipers - The Washington Post

Seriously folks.  What are we doing here when it's clear that the person with control of the nation's military forces and nuclear arsenal is a raging, dangerous sociopath who is manifestly unfit for the presidency?

The people who continue to prop up this madman clearly do NOT have the best interests of the United States and the American people in mind with their continued loyalty to the felonious old kiddie diddling traitor, and it's long past time that the terrible wrong of allowing this demented charlatan to come to power be righted.

---TFG

Guy Who Publicly Expressed a Desire to Rule the US as a Dictator is Banning News Outlets Now

"I THE GREAT AND POWERFUL PHAROAH DRUMPF DO HEARBY BANISH THE COMMIE-PINKO, FAKE WOKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS CNN, MSNOW, AND POLITICO FROM MY EARTHLY KINGDOM.  BY THE POWER VESTED IN MY HUMBLE GREATNESS BY THE GODS OF TOTALITARIANISM, SO LET IT BE WRITTEN, SO LET IT BE DONE!

That's pretty much how I interpret Orange Shitler's decree today ordering the removal of CNN, MSNOW, and Politico reporters from the White House press pool.  That is a direct and brazen attack on the first amendment to our US Constitution.

Have a gander at DonOld's laughable edict issued from his 'Truth Social' site today:

He is "proud" to literally pour gasoline on the 1st amendment to this nation's constitution and set it afire.

Link:  Trump expels CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House in fit of rage — with more to come - Raw Story

"President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is barring three major news organizations from the White House, effective immediately.

"I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW ... and Politico ... from the White House as a result of their constant 'reporting' FAKE NEWS!" Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform."

The POTUS has no legal or constitutional authority to ban news organizations that he doesn't personally like from the White House.  None.

Not that our constitution or laws matter to the convicted felon currently squatting in the American people's White House.

Drumpf will ban these orgs until the courts order him to reinstate them, and then he will defy the courts until they threaten him with legal repercussions.  The whole point will be to stretch his repression and blacklisting of these news outlets out for as long as he can get away with it.  He did the exact same thing when he banned CNN reporters Jim Acosta and Brian Karem from the White House press pool.  They both sued and won reinstatement.

It goes without saying that CNN, MSNOW, and Politico will not be the last news orgs to receive the purge treatment.  Btw - Hegseth is doing the same thing over at the Pentagon by replacing the traditional news and press reporters with a pool of shadily credentialed right-wing "influencers," podcasters, and media collaborators, which explains the shameful scarcity of credible, trustworthy news coming out of Pistol Pete's "Big Iran Armageddon Adventure."

Vote these fraudster fascists out of office.  Send MAGA back into the cracks and crevices they crawled out of at the beckon call of the filthy old mobbed-up felon, and kiddie-diddling dictator wannabe.

---TFG

Is the Drumpf Administration Being Honest With Americans About Iran? It Sure Doesn't Look Like It.

As they have done from day one, Drumpf and Kegseth continue to lie to and deceive the American people about the state of Donny and Bibi's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure.'

Link:  More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly - The Washington Post

It stands to reason that if these guys will lie about the number of American soldiers dying and being wounded in this congressionally un-authorized, boondoggle of a war that they have blundered the US into, then they will also lie about the overall state of the conflict.

And if the news I have been reading about that is coming out of the Middle East is any indication, the war is not going well for the United States or their regional allies.

Americans can see the tangible damage of Drumpf's horrible blunder in the increasing rate of domestic economic inflation, the rapidly rising price of both gas and diesel fuel, rising costs of groceries and everyday necessities, utility bills increasing, and the costs of healthcare rising at a time when millions of Americans are being thrown off of Medicaid and Medicare and more underprivileged American kids are losing food and basic necessity benefits.

All to fund Don and Bibi's "Big Iran Armageddon Adventure," and give massive tax cuts to wealth-hoarding scum like MuskRat, Bozos, Zuckerturd, and the rest of those tech-bro billionaire 'nerd reich' twats who want to turn the US and eventually the rest of the planet into their own dystopian, AI-controlled version of 'Oceania.'

And to think Pete Kegseth recently went to Congress, hat in hand begging for nearly $70 billion more of your tax dollars to to presumably keep their already failed Iran war boondoggle financed through the end of Drumpf's already disastrously failed second term in office.

All that I have to say about that is that anyone in congress, Democrat or Republican who votes in favor of giving Drumpf's clownish "Secretary of War," a day drunk, over-testosteroned, former Fox 'news' weekend talk show co-host, and fellow accused rapist 'Pistol Pete' Hegseth $70 billion MORE of our American tax dollars to continue his already clearly failed war effort against Iran should be run out of politics, preferably on a log rail, after having been tarred and feathered by their constituents.

God only knows how much about the true cost to the United States in lives and treasure is deliberately being kept hidden from the American public's view.

But having witnessed the depth of the moral rot that exists in the decrepit souls of these Drumpf administration dissemblers, it is always best practice to expect the worst from them.

---TFG

Dictator Wannabe Taunts the Law as He Tries to Steal America's Tribute to a Slain President

A federal judge yesterday was forced to issue a ruling that ordered Drumpf and his gangster government to provide the court with 30 days advance notice before ANY action is taken toward demolishing the iconic Kennedy Center:

Link:  Judge demands 'emergency' answers as forklift rams Kennedy Center after Trump threat - Raw Story

"A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump and the Kennedy Center's board to respond by Thursday morning to an emergency motion filed as forklifts were seen striking the building while quickly moved to encircle it with fencing.

Judge Christopher Cooper signed the order Wednesday, less than two hours after Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) filed the motion, the court docket shows. Trump and the other defendants must answer by 10 a.m. Thursday, and the court will schedule a prompt hearing if necessary after reviewing that response.

Cooper's May order blocks the board from closing the Center until it approves a shutdown that follows his opinion and he lifts that freeze, the motion says. The board voted Tuesday to close. Cooper has not lifted it."

DonOld Drumpf is such a narcissistic, miserable old cunt that he has decided that if he is not allowed to carve his execrable name on the facade of the Kennedy Center building, then he is just going to tear it down and nobody gets to enjoy it then.

The people who continue to support and enable this hopelessly corrupt, America hating piece of shit who is illegally squatting in the American people's White House have their day of reckoning coming.  I sure hope they are preparing themselves for it's eventual arrival.

---TFG

Who Needs Enemies When The Leader of Your Military is an Incompetent, Unqualified Buffoon?

America could only be so lucky...

Pete Kegseth's fantasy gig as 'Secretary of War' is going to come to an ignominious end soon enough. The only question that remains after that is how soon he is arrested and extradited to The Hague to face a war crimes tribunal.

😶

---TFG

'MAGA Mike Johnson' Temporarily Dodges MAGA-on-MAGA Impeachment Disaster by Furloughing Congress

So if you haven't heard, Republican House leader 'MAGA Mike' Johnson dismissed congress and sent them home until after the midterm elections are over, even though this lazy ass, do nothing Republican-led congress has only worked 70 some days this year so far.

The reason MAGA Mike sent everyone home is because of this:

Link:  'Enjoy your little fantasy': Massie scorches Hegseth in speech after House sent home early - Raw Story

"A Republican congressman accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of committing more illegal acts than anyone else in the administration, after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called off Thursday's impeachment vote of the cabinet official.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) delivered the speech on the House floor Wednesday, one day after he introduced eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth.

Johnson announced earlier Wednesday that he was sending members home for a seven-week campaign recess, a decision that pushes any impeachment vote past the November midterm elections, CNN reported."

Not only has Kegseth blown $40 billion in us taxpayer money in his, Don's, and Bibi's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure,' and precariously depleted U.S. military offensive and defensive weapons inventories, he has also been covering up the true cost of this Iran boodoggle to the American people in deployed assets and American military personnel:

Link:  New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks - CBS News

"New photos obtained exclusively by CBS News reveal for the first time the widespread damage and destruction of buildings and vehicles at multiple U.S. positions across the Middle East, as a result of Iranian missile and drone attacks.  

The images were sent to CBS News by active service members on condition of anonymity because of rigid media restrictions within the military. 

"This is major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public," one deployed service member told CBS News. "We're standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face.""

What I have been reading is that Iran has essentially blown up and rendered unusable a sizable percentage of the military installations that America has (or, had?) in the Persian Gulf region, and that Americans haven't been told about so much as a fraction of the truth as to the actual cost of those military assets that Iran has put out of commission in Don and Bibi's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure.'

Additionally, I have also read reports that American military troop casualties have gone over the 900 mark and that Kegseth and his lackeys are keeping purposely silent about that as well.

It's all so odd though because Kegseth and his Putin-fellating boss have told us, no, boasted about on MULTIPLE occasions over the past seven months of this war that was supposed to be over in two or three weeks, that Donald and Pete had literally defeated Iran, had destroyed their nuke capabilities, destroyed their military, gained military control of the Strait of Homuz, and that America had 'won' the war.

So how did the all of these US military bases and all of these assets get bombed to smithereens, and apparently are still getting pulverized with all of this 'winning' that Drumpf and Pete are telling us is occurring?

And how did we arrive at nearly 20 dead and 900 troop casualties if we 'won' this war six months ago?

Because Pistol Pete Kegseth is covering up his colossal incompetence would be my guess.

And that brings us back to scorned Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie and his impeachment resolution.

Massie kept his Hegseth impeachment resolution under wraps and sprung it on his House Republican colleagues without any advance warning.

Immediately, in response, 'MAGA Mike' Johnson shuts down the House and sends everyone home until AFTER the midterm elections in November.

That tells me a couple of things.

The most obvious is that it's clear that the Democrats have corralled enough GOP cross-over votes to impeach and remove that little bohemian Private First Class drunkard and incompetent Fox "news" chud posing as a military leader, Pete Hegseth, from office.  If 'MAGA Mike' was certain that he had the votes to defeat Massie's resolution, he would just let it come to the floor now and be done with it.

Secondly, and not so clear, but not out of the realm of possibility either, is that 'MAGA Mike' is feeling a bold level of confidence in waiting until after the midterms perhaps because he has first-hand knowledge of the Drumpf/MAGA plot to ratfuck these elections so that it's ensured that Trumpublicans retain control of congress, thus making an impeachment of Hegseth a moot effort.  I would not put such a scenario beyond these thugs.

---TFG

MAGA's 'Dear Leader' is a Liar, a Fraud, and an un-American Stochastic Terrorist Who Despises His Own Cult

Drumpf threatened the citizenry of North Carolina yesterday, telling them that if they fail to elect his chosen MAGA candidate to the US Senate, he is not going to release FEMA disaster aid for their state:

Link:  'This is sick': Outrage as Trump taunts rallygoers with hurricane relief - Raw Story

"President Donald Trump told North Carolinians that he'll withhold FEMA funding needed for hurricane relief unless the candidate he endorsed wins the midterms.

On Wednesday, Trump showed up in Gastonia, North Carolina, to stump for GOP Senate nominee Michael Whatley, and he told the voters at the rally that Whatley had to win if the state were to receive any additional FEMA funding as the state continues to recover from Hurricane Helene.

"We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding, and you know you're waiting for some additional money," Trump reminded his rally attendees. "I'm going to get that to you, Michael. Now, if Michael loses, I'm not sending it."

The audience reacted with a mixture of laughs and groans while online commentators were outraged."

It's called 'extortion.'

"Vote the way I tell you to vote or your state will suffer in the aftermath of a natural disaster because I won't help you."

It's more than just "sick."  It's un-American.  It's anti-American.   It's un-Christian.  It's evil.

If anyone out there has a better way of describing the act of the President of  the United States threatening to allow his own citizenry to suffer unaided in the aftermath of a disaster if they don't vote the way he demands they vote, I am all ears for hearing it.

The idiot MAGAs at that rally who were laughing at Drumpf's insidious threat really have to be some of the dumbest sons of bitches alive on this planet.  He was literally ordering them to vote his way, 'or else.'

The Drumpf cultists laugh because they either fail to comprehend the filthy old mobster's messaging, or worse yet, they do understand it and are completely on board with it.

Essentially, when you analyze it, what Drumpf was telling these people was, imagine if Ma and Pa MAGA are in a horrible car wreck, and DonOld comes upon the scene with his crew of rescuers and 'jaws of life' to find Ma and Pa MAGA trapped in their burning vehicle.  DonOld would make these folks who are slowly being burned alive promise to vote for his candidate if they wanted his help escaping from their fiery death trap.  And even then of course, he wouldn't lift a finger himself to assist them, he would simply defer to others to do the task.

"Sick" doesn't come close to accurately describing DonOld Drumpf's toxic mindset.

And it goes without saying that if Drumpf is as "sick" as his words at this North Carolina rally yesterday depict him to be, his few remaining die-hard followers are just as mentally unmoored as he is.

---TFG

Coming Soon: The Great Donald J. Trump Economic Crash of 2026

Buckle up, turbulent economic weather ahead for non-millionaire, non-billionaire Americans:

Link:  'Extraordinarily dire' signs spark fears of imminent US crash: 'This could be it' - Raw Story

"A U.S. market crash could be just around the corner “directly as a result” of a recent Middle East development and a confluence of other factors, political analysts Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti warned on Monday.

Last week, the Yemeni militant organization the Houthis gained significant control over the Bab al-Mandeb Strait — a critical global shipping chokepoint in the Red Sea — after seizing control of Yemen’s west coast and Mayyun island, which divides the strait into two channels. The Saudi Arabian East-West oil pipeline was also damaged in an attack originating from Iraq, threatening 4% of global oil supply.

The developments come as oil prices continue to surge to what Ball called “extraordinarily dire” levels amid the months-long disruption of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz."

All of this could have been avoided.

But no.

A bunch of selfish, hateful, foolish Americans thought it was a dandy idea to put DonOld Drumpf back in the White House KNOWING that more than a million Americans died on his watch from his failed handling of a pandemic, KNOWING he was a convicted felon, KNOWING he was an adjudicated rapist, KNOWING that he had instigated a violent, deadly coup attempt against this country, KNOWING that he had promised to rule America 'like a dictator,' and of course, KNOWING of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking empire.

So when the economic crash happens, and this message is directed primarily at every single person out there who voted to re-elected Drumpf in 2024 KNOWING all of the rotten, criminal, un-American shit he has been involved in, and knowing what a colossal piece of human waste serial sex offender he is - don't any of you dare say you weren't warned, or that you never could have imagined how the brilliant "businessman" known as Donald Trump could once again crash the American economy (as he did during Covid) and leaving a fucking wreck of a nation for Democrats to also once again clean up.

Suffice to say that in regard to those Americans who KNEW what a scumbag Drumpf is and still went out and voted to foist his corrupt, raping ass along with the freakshow gallery of traitorous douchebags and quislings he surrounds himself with on this country a second time, there will be no sympathy or empathy from these quarters for when the economic lives of the orange kiddie-diddler's supporters are devastated by their savior's colossal incompetence and stupidity.

Grocery bills have nearly doubled for most American families.

Gas is steadily on the rise, nearing nearly $4.50 a gallon national average, soon to be $5-6 a gallon if reports coming out of the middle east are accurate.

The cost of diesel fuel, literally which runs economies, and the American economy is no exception, has shattered records and just passed the $6.30 a gallon mark and is increasing by the day.

Electric, natural gas, and heating oil prices are skyrocketing just before a winter predicted to be colder than normal.

Meanwhile, as the MAGA POTUS disinterestedly watches the war that he started against Iran turn in Iran's favor, he busies himself with golfing expeditions to Ireland and schmoozing with the MAGA 'influencers' at his Mar-a-Lardass Porn Resort and shitty golf motel.

DonOld also seems to have plenty of free time on his hands to keep pushing forward with his disgusting vanity projects such as renaming iconic buildings like the Kennedy Center after himself, gold leafing bronze statues, building a multi-billion dollar taxpayer funded 'ballroom,' hideout bunker, and drone port that is three times the size of the actual White House itself, and trying to force the construction of a gigantic, Nazi-era inspired 'victory arch' that would dwarf the Washington D.C. skyline.  

All of Drumpf's totally unneeded vanity projects are projected to cost American citizens billions more of their tax dollars on top of the $40 billion that DonOld and Pete Kegseth have already pissed down the drain in their 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure.'

So yeah, when The Great Donald J. Trump Economic Crash of 2026 hits home, make no mistake about it  that the felonious leader of MAGA will be the sole cause of it, no matter how vociferously, deceitfully, and despicably his fraudster enablers and apologists try to blame Joe Biden.

---TFG