Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Monday, July 27, 2026
Trump's foreign policy enters its decadent, desperate end stage
I so hope it's a final end stage for this supreme GOP asshole
It’s tough to find any semblance of a silver lining in the humiliating implosion of Donald Trump’s foreign policy over the last year, especially after a week that has brought us another escalation of the war no one supports, a recycled trade war with Canada, an out-of-nowhere nuclear deal with a country that should never have access to nuclear weapons, and yet more threats against a small nation that poses no threat to the United States.
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Trump’s return to power has, at the very least, finally confounded all the doofuses who ever took anything he said at face value, and has also dispensed with the contradictory or two-faced rhetoric of the Biden years. There’s no more talk of universal human rights or the spread of democracy. The fundamental logic of Trumpian policy is cynicism all the way down: We don’t care about any those things and we never did. To paraphrase Stephen Miller, surely the most instrumental figure in the Trump White House, the only thing that matters is power.
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As the Trump administration veers unsteadily into its lame-duck phase and a likely midterm wipeout, its quest for a legacy achievement becomes increasingly pathetic, not to mention increasingly dangerous. Trump’s dance of death with the Iranian regime might have a comical aspect if the lives of many thousands of people and the future of the global order were not at stake. By goading the president into restarting the war for the third time (by my count), the new roster of hardline leaders in Tehran, at least for now, have strengthened both their domestic control and their international reputation. It’s difficult to imagine, in fact, how Trump and his ludicrous cast of advisers could possibly have screwed this up worse than they did. (D.C. rumors suggest that high-testosterone “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth will ultimately be compelled to walk the plank over this fiasco.)
Meanwhile, the search for something that can be pitched to last-ditch MAGA loyalists as a victory, no matter how petty and insignificant, continues. Trump has never given up on his dream of seizing or annexing Greenland, but it was always more like an extortion scheme or a real estate scam than a military threat. Roughly the same applies to his improvised plan to rebuild Gaza as a Trumpified new Riviera, which took even Netanyahu by surprise and was never likely to escape the uncanny valley of AI fantasy. ....................(more)
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
How the NDAA Would Merge US and Israeli Defense
Freaking insanity from the ultimate GOP assholes:
Congress added Section 224 in the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act. Here's why it's fundamentally different from decades of traditional military aid.
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Trump Administration Guts Efforts to Prevent Gun Violence, Suppressing Reports
Summary:
As the administration works to expand gun rights, hospitals and community groups have lost funding, and reports on preventing firearm injuries have vanished from government websites.
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Thursday, July 9, 2026
Trump passport screw-up leaves conservative pundit speechless and MS NOW hosts laughing
He's SUCH a moronic stupid fucking GOP asshole
Before moving on to more serious topics, “The Weekend” co-host Jackie Alemany told the panel, “Let's talk about Donald Trump's new commemorative passport. This features a picture of the President leaning over scowling with his signature scowl, but it also has a new catchphrase on it. His message: ‘Welcome, but be good.’”
Monday, July 6, 2026
Thursday, July 2, 2026
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Monday, June 29, 2026
A swampy symbol of Trump’s denial, deflection, deceit and ‘dirty pool’-- The Reflecitng Pool Debacle
If you’re looking for the perfect metaphor for Trump’s “presidency” – I’m not first to say it – it’s his Reflecting Pool debacle. From start to whatever the finish will be, it has it all: hubris, incompetence, insider graft, lying, blaming. Some things are emblematic enough that they bear repeating; trying, futile as it may be, to bring sight to the unseeing. Yes, it seems trivial compared to his lie-based, ill-conceived, vanity-motivated Iran war; nor has it, like the war, cost America and the world countless billions, jobs, and security. Unlike the war, it hasn’t left the terrorist nation of Iran in a stronger position than it was before his senseless embarkation. What it has done is provide shorthand for the dark, fibrillating heart of Trumpism.
It began, predictable as sunrise does the day, with Trump bragging that he alone had the know-how to “fix” the Reflecting Pool, adding that Presidents Biden and Obama, of whom his jealousy is boundless, are responsible for everything wrong with the pool; as he has with everything wrong in the world he created. Then, as with climate change and vaccines, he ignored the science of adding a dark, heat-absorbing base beneath a primordial soup. Which rejects evolution and climate change, as well. Because of course.
It’s US law that government contracts can only be no-bid when there’s an emergency. But he handed one out, to the tune of millions, when no emergency exists. To a donor.
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet
"Taken together, these bills would fundamentally change the internet as we know it."
Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files
Freaking evil "Guardians Of Pedophiles" GOP ASSHOLES!
The president’s top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself.
Situation Room Scramble Over Sick Trump Fetish Claim Revealed
Monday, June 22, 2026
The Massive Cost of the Pointless and Failed Iran War
Several outlets have reported that the true cost of the war to the U.S. could be closer to $50 billion if it takes into account the bill for repairing extensive damage to military bases and replacing damaged or lost drones and missiles.
There will be a lasting impact on economic growth as the country faces a long process resolving outstanding costs, according to analysts. Goldman Sachs said in March that the war had "lowered our 2026 U.S. growth forecast and raised our 2026 U.S. inflation forecast to reflect higher oil prices"—a direct result of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz.https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/u-iran-war-numbers-185625869.html
“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid
Fascist GOP assholes at work--
Key Points:
- A Constitutional Crisis: Congress gave orders to Trump officials on foreign aid spending, but officials have largely refused to follow many of them, likely in violation of the law, experts say.
- Delayed Spending: Officials have made little effort to spend aid money that Congress earmarked for specific purposes like nutrition and have reduced funding for HIV and other diseases.
- Blocked Funds: Russell Vought’s Office of Management and Budget has labeled some aid money “unallocated” to control how it can be spent.
Saturday, June 20, 2026
The Reflecting Pool Mess Is Right Out of Trump’s Destructive Playbook
He's such a destructive failed piece of shit GOP asshole
See also:
A White House spokeswoman said the president was not involved in selecting Greenwater Services, the business owned by a trust led by John J. Cafaro.
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Trump's $14M Reflecting Pool Paint Job Is Now Peeling Off In Chunks
Friday, June 19, 2026
I’m a critical care doctor. I’ve never seen the US harm its children this deliberately
The GOP asshole DEATH CULT is killing our kids, evil pieces of shit
At every stage of childhood, the Trump administration is withdrawing a protection. It is also dismantling the tools that would measure the harm
Also see:
Manufacturing a scandal: What the FDA’s COVID vaccine pediatric death review actually says
Friday, June 5, 2026
Thursday, June 4, 2026
There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This: The Jan 6th Slush Fund
Has there ever been an episode of presidential corruption so blatant and threatening to constitutional order? Certainly not in modern times. President Trump’s Justice Department is using taxpayer money to create a $1.8 billion political slush fund. Ostensibly set up to compensate those who the department claims have “suffered weaponization and lawfare,” it will in fact reward loyalists willing to defy the law and commit violence on behalf of the president. The fund manages to combine three of Mr. Trump’s most alarming behaviors. One, it is an obvious form of corruption, coming from a president who has used his office to enrich himself, his family and his allies. Two, the fund continues his pattern of using the Justice Department as an enforcer to punish his perceived opponents and protect his friends and allies. Three, the fund is his latest attempt to rewrite history about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress. It is worth pausing to put the fund into the larger context of Mr. Trump’s political project: He is destroying pillars of American democracy to empower himself. He claims elections are legitimate only if he wins. He uses federal law enforcement to investigate and prosecute his perceived enemies. He purges his party of officials who defy him. He describes members of the other party and civil society as traitors and enemies. He incentivizes his supporters to break the law on his behalf and rewards them when they do. He directs his allies to change election rules to keep his party in power.
Trump Tries to Pardon Himself
A one-page Justice Department settlement, signed quietly Monday by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche shields Trump, his family, and his businesses from any federal prosecution or civil action for crimes "presently known or unknown."
Donald Trump and the Israelis had a grand plan to reinstall Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the leader of Iran.
So fucking stupid, coming from evil war criminals and the evil war criminal king of the GOP assholes
from the NYT:
Days after Israeli strikes killed Iran’s supreme leader and other top officials in the opening salvos of the war, President Trump mused publicly that it would be best if “someone from within” Iran took over the country. It turns out that the United States and Israel went into the conflict with a particular and very surprising someone in mind: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president known for his hard-line, anti-Israel and anti-American views. But the audacious plan, developed by the Israelis and which Mr. Ahmadinejad had been consulted about, quickly went awry, according to the U.S. officials who were briefed on it.
Mr. Ahmadinejad was injured on the war’s first day by an Israeli strike at his home in Tehran that had been designed to free him from house arrest, the American officials and an associate of Mr. Ahmadinejad said. He survived the strike, they said, but after the near miss he became disillusioned with the regime change plan. He has not been seen publicly since then and his current whereabouts and condition are unknown.
To say that Mr. Ahmadinejad was an unusual choice would be a vast understatement. While he had increasingly clashed with the regime’s leaders and had been placed under close watch by the Iranian authorities, he was known during his term as president, from 2005 to 2013, for his calls to “wipe Israel off the map.” He was a strong supporter of Iran’s nuclear program, a fierce critic of the United States and known for violently cracking down on internal dissent. How Mr. Ahmadinejad was recruited to take part remains unknown.
The existence of the effort, which has not been previously reported, was part of a multistage plan developed by Israel to topple Iran’s theocratic government. It underscores how Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel went into the war not only misjudging how quickly they could achieve their objectives but also gambling to some degree on a risky plan for leadership change in Iran that even some of Mr. Trump’s aides found implausible. Some American officials were skeptical in particular about the viability of putting Mr. Ahmadinejad back into power.
…U.S officials spoke during the early days of the war about plans developed with Israel to identify a pragmatist who could take over the country. Officials insisted that there was intelligence that some within the Iranian regime would be willing to work with the United States, even if those people couldn’t be described as “moderates.” Mr. Trump was enjoying the success of the raid by U.S. forces to capture Venezuela’s leader, Nicolas Maduro, and the willingness of his interim replacement to work with the White House — a model that Mr. Trump appeared to think could be replicated elsewhere.
More at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/iran-israel-us-leader-ahmadinejad.html?unlocked_article_code=1.j1A.h1bG.Dl09HQ5GLR1p&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters
"The Justice Department confirmed that it had deleted the press releases as part of “stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Most Corrupt Administration In US History: The Jan 6th Victims Fund
-- Fucking thieving GOP assholes.
Paul Krugman--
So the Trump administration is creating a $1.776 billion slush fund — 1776, get it? — to pay off victims of “lawfare and weaponization.” Just to be clear, if you’re a U.S. taxpayer, this action means that almost $1.8 billion of your money will be handed out to whomever a panel appointed by Donald Trump decides to reward. The beneficiaries are likely to include January 6 insurrectionists, as well as Trump, his family, and his allies.
Few things shock me these days, but this development — in which a Justice Department that works for Trump is paying a vast sum to “settle” a lawsuit brought by Trump himself — is a new nadir in self-dealing, further revealing Trump’s utter contempt for the American people.
Now, massive corruption on the part of Trump and his minions isn’t new. But the shamelessness of this latest episode of looting takes it to a new level. Until now, we’ve seen a combination of crony capitalism and insider trading. Plutocrats and corporations have been enriching Trump through back channels, especially crypto, in return for government contracts and policy favors, while Trump himself and people close to Trump have been making hugely profitable market bets thanks to advance knowledge of government policies.
But now Trump has eliminated the middlemen, effectively telling his officials to pay money directly to him or anyone else he favors.
Granted, we already knew that Trump was, by orders of magnitude, the most corrupt president in U.S. history. But now Trump is the most explicitly corrupt leader in today’s world. After all, Vladimir Putin has obviously stolen billions, but never this brazenly. Even Third World dictators normally try to mask their corruption.
Don’t say that this taxpayer-financed slush fund won’t have political consequences.
On the contrary, the polling and focus-group analyses I’ve seen say that voters are very angry about corruption. Trump’s theft of taxpayer money, while people are losing healthcare coverage and food aid while suffering from Trump-induced higher prices, is perfect fodder for the Democrats in the upcoming elections.
So we should ask ourselves why the Trumpists have abandoned all restraint. There have been many corrupt politicians in U.S. history – although they were pikers in comparison to Trump. Yet they at least attempted to hide their corruption, or at least keep it discreet and deniable, in order to avoid a voter backlash.
I would argue that the blatant nature of the new looting is a signpost of where America under Trumpism is heading in the months and years ahead.
It’s true that Trump has a base that will support him no matter what, in many cases literally believing that he has been chosen by God. This puts a floor under this support. But his disastrous recent polling, as Nate Cohn writes in the Times, suggest that this floor may be lower than many thought.
Now, we already know that Trump and his allies have no intention of facing free and fair elections. With the unstinting help of the Roberts Supreme Court, they have already rigged the midterms through redistricting. Trump minions are actively trying to depress Democratic-leaning voter turnout, by demanding from states the right to challenge their voting rolls. And it would be naïve to think that redistricting will be the end of the MAGA effort to undermine democracy.
Still, Trump is aware that, even with Republican gerrymandering, November may deliver a blue wave big enough to hand Democrats the House and, quite possibly the Senate. G. Elliott Morris estimates that Democrats will need a 4-point popular vote advantage to win the House, but the latest Times poll gives them an 11 point lead. Why, then, isn’t he trying to be at least slightly discreet in his corruption?
One answer is that even if MAGA loses big in November, Democrats can’t count on wave elections every cycle, and the field is now strongly tilted against them. As Morris writes.
While the situation for Democrats is not necessarily dire for 2026, the situation for democracy in 2028 and beyond certainly is.
So you can think of the $1.8 billion slush fund as a promise to MAGA-world that there is a payoff to be had if they just stick with him for the next two and a half years.
Beyond that, we are, in effect, watching what happens when a quasi-authoritarian regime’s corruption and criminality pass the point of no return.
At this point Trump and his MAGA minions have stolen so much, committed so many crimes — not just theft but taking America to war illegally, abusing ICE detainees, and much more — that if and when they lose power many of them will face personal ruin at best, years of jail time at worst. This would happen even if they stopped committing more crimes.
So there’s no incentive for them to end their criminality, or to end the attempts to bribe others to go along. Either they succeed in destroying America as we know it, or they won’t. And until that’s resolved, they may as well engage in even more corruption and criminal acts.
Think of it this way: The gravity of what the Trumpists have already done has created a sort of black hole at the center of American political life — and the Trumpists have already crossed the event horizon, the boundary beyond which there is no escape. So they will do ever more terrible things, because they have nothing more to lose.
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Southern Republicans Are Already Deleting Black Districts
Fucking racist asshole GOP assholes
The Supreme Court’s recent gerrymandering ruling has touched off an instantaneous demolition of Black political power as state lawmakers roll back the Second Reconstruction.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
It's Clear That Trump Is Wrecking America
Thanks so much, GOP assholes, for inflicting this monster on the world.
Donald Trump, Wrecker of American Empire
The president has done more damage to American power than anyone in history.
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Donald Trump's Plan To Steal Or Destroy Everything
Monday, May 4, 2026
Iran Exposes How Trump and Hegseth Have Debased Our Military Standards
Fucking fucked up GOP assholes and wear criminals
Pardons, promotions, and dismissals under Trump and Hegseth all say one thing: They don’t want to be bound by any rules of engagement of any kind.
Sunday, May 3, 2026
White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request.
Could these GOP asshole psychopaths possibly be bigger asshole psychopaths? $1.5 trillion is INSANE.
OR IS IT $1.7 TRILLION??? Fucking hell!
The $1.7 trillion military budget includes a massive slush fund for Trump’s political allies
Trump's IRS lawsuit is best shakedown in presidential history: the Motherfucker was president at the time of the leaked data
What a fucking GOP asshole:
Who was president at the time of the leaked data? Trump. Who appointed the chief of the IRS? Trump. And who deserves $10 billion because of alleged federal misconduct under his watch? Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trumps-irs-lawsuit-best-shakedown-100554091.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall
President Donald Trump is suing the Internal Revenue Service to force the American people to pay him at least $10 billion in damages because he was embarrassed when his tax returns leaked out in 2020.
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The lawsuit asserts that the leaked tax returns caused Trump and his sons “public embarrassment, unfairly tarnished their business reputations, portrayed them in a false light, and negatively affected President Trump, and the other Plaintiffs’ public standing.”
Almost all presidents voluntarily disclose their tax returns. From 2014 onward, Trump often promised to disclose his tax returns if he ran for the presidency, but he never released them.
When the returns finally leaked out just before the 2020 election, many Americans were appalled. In 2016 and 2017, Trump paid only $750 in federal income taxes each year and “paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years.”
However, according to Trump, the real outrage is that other Americans finally learned the president paid far less taxes than they did..........................