"The Justice Department confirmed that it had deleted the press releases as part of “stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Most Corrupt Administration In US History: The Jan 6th Victims Fund
"U.S. creates $1.8B ‘lawfare’ fund in exchange for Trump dropping $10B IRS suit"
-- 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
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"Donald Trump is the most powerful idiot in history.”
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..........................
Trump mocks MAGA seniors to their faces
He can never not be a giant self-inflated GOP asshole
President Donald Trump bragged that he is "young" and "vibrant" compared to the residents of The Villages retirement community in Florida on Friday. "I don't happen to be a senior," said the 79-year-old president. "I'm much younger than you. I'm a much younger man than you. Look at you old guys. Wouldn't you like to be my age? Young, vital, vibrant."
Trump then went on to brag about his performance on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, or MoCA, which is a screening test for dementia in the elderly — suggesting many of his supporters in attendance probably couldn't have done as well as he did, and taking a jab at former President Barack Obama.
"I took three of them," said Trump. "I'm the only president to take a cognitive test. I don’t think Obama could pass it. Didn't he get into Harvard with a C average? The first question is a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark. A lot of you wouldn’t have been able to answer those questions."
Trump's conspiracy theories about Obama's academic records date back over a decade. In reality, Obama's biographer David Maraniss has said he had a respectably high 3.7 grade point average before getting into Harvard Law School.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/trump-mocks-maga-seniors-to-their-faces/ar-AA22cowh
Friday, May 1, 2026
Supreme Court weakens the Voting Rights Act and aids GOP efforts to control the House
Freaking racist fuckface GOP assholes on SCOTUS
And now this evil shit from racist GOP ASSHOLES:
Louisiana suspends House primaries after Supreme Court redistricting ruling
GOP Gov. Jeff Landry issued an executive order Thursday delaying the elections until July 15 at the earliest — though the state’s Senate primary is unaffected.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Sunday, April 19, 2026
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Trump Skips Easter Church to Take Self-Worship Tour of D.C.
Of course, he's an evil GOP asshole
STATIONS OF TRUMP
Rather than attend Easter services, the president spent the day roaming D.C. and visiting his golf course.
Laura Esposito Updated Apr. 5 2026 1:31PM EDT
Donald Trump, a Christian, opted to skip Easter service and instead went on a bizarre tour of Washington, D.C.
The 79-year-old president spent Easter Sunday taking a “ceremoniously slow” presidential motorcade tour around Memorial Circle—close to the Arlington Memorial Bridge, where he hopes to build an arch honoring himself, according to pool reports.
During his travels, he also stopped at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia.
STERLING, VIRGINIA - APRIL 05: US President Donald Trump leaves Trump National Golf Club on April 05, 2026 in Sterling, Virginia. The President made a quick stop there Easter Sunday. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-skips-church-on-christianitys-holiest-day-to-go-on-crazy-tour/
False claims Trump made as he addressed the nation about Iran
Of course, this GOP asshole lies about EVERYTHING
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump mischaracterized core elements of the U.S. economy and stretched the facts in claiming to have toppled Iran’s government as he addressed the nation Wednesday night in a time of soaring gas prices and persistent inflation.
Here’s a look at some of his statements.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-fact-focus-gas-prices-inflation-821374c3c249ad0abf471843ce8e9557
Trump Says There’s No Money for Daycare Because We Have to Fight Wars
What a fucking evil GOP asshole:
“I said to [Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought], ‘Don’t send any money for daycare because the United States can’t take care of daycare.’ That has to be up to a state. We can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people,” Trump said. “We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare. You got to let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for it, too. They should pay. They’ll have to raise their taxes, but they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up.”
“It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country. But all these little things, all these little scams that have taken place, all you have to you have to let states take care of them,” Trump continued.
https://newrepublic.com/post/208523/trump-no-money-daycare-medicare-fight-wars-military
Trump has a social media toddler tantrum after attending SCOTUS birthright citizenship hearing
He's SUCH A STUPID IDIOTIC RACIST PIECE OF SHIT GOP ASSHOLE!
“We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, just as oral arguments in the Supreme Court hearing had ended.
Despite Trump’s claim, birthright citizenship exists in dozens of countries, including the United States’ neighbors Canada and Mexico. In the United States, birthright citizenship was enshrined as a right in 1868 through the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Trump has long sought to eliminate birthright citizenship in the United States, signing an executive order on his first day back in office last year to challenge the longstanding precedent.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676650259/
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
"The president speaks genocide"
What an evil godforsaken GOP asshole
Article III of the Genocide Convention makes it clear that not only the person who issues the genocidal order is guilty. Genocide itself is of course a crime, where genocide means the intent that Trump expressed, and actions such as killing members of a group, causing members of a group serious harm, or “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part” -- which would of course include actions such as destroying access to energy or water. But also defined as a crime are conspiracy to commit genocide, incitement to commit genocide, attempts to commit genocide, and complicity in genocide.
We all have good ethical and political reasons to reject the president’s words. But those who serve in government, and in the armed forces, have been placed under the legal shadow of genocide by what Trump wrote. To bomb a bridge or a dam or a power plant or a desalinization facility, very likely a war crime in any event, could very well have a different legal significance, a genocidal one, if it takes place after the expression of genocidal intent by the commander and head of state.
The concept of genocide was created by a survivor and an observer of atrocities, Rafał Lemkin, so that we could see ourselves, judge ourselves, stop ourselves. But genocide is not only a concept. It is also a crime under international law, signed by the United States in 1948 as a convention, ratified by the United States as a treaty in 1988. That makes the words I have quoted here the law of the land.
The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal
SOMEONE needs to stop this MONSTROUS GENOCIDAL GOP ASSHOLE!
Not to mention this disgusting Easter day lunacy:
Friday, April 3, 2026
Trump calls America 'stupid' after abruptly leaving Supreme Court debate
He is such a goddamn GOP asshole spoiled idiot manchild -- and just a massive disgrace to the world
President Donald Trump has branded the U.S. “stupid” after attending Supreme Court arguments over his administration's efforts to end birthright citizenship.
He left halfway through the proceedings, and several key justices, including three Trump appointed to the nine-member bench, appeared skeptical of the administration’s arguments to block automatic citizenship.
After the arguments wrapped, Trump ranted on Truth Social, writing, “We are the only country in the world STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!”
Thirty-two other countries, most of them in the Western Hemisphere, have birthright citizenship laws that are substantially similar to the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center. Another 50 or so countries have more limited variations of birthright citizenship.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/trump-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-debate-stupid-b2950293.html
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
US to pay almost $1bn to French energy company to kill wind project plan
Really fucking awful shit from the most evil set of GOP assholes yet:
As a fuel crisis triggered by the war in Iran drives up global fossil fuel prices, the Trump administration has announced it will pay French energy major TotalEnergies $1bn to kill plans to construct wind farms off the US east coast.
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In the deal announced on Monday, TotalEnergies will give up two offshore leases it had purchased off New York and North Carolina. Trump’s Department of the Interior will reimburse the company the $928m it paid for the leases under Joe Biden.
TotalEnergies has pledged not to develop any new offshore wind projects in the country, a US interior department statement said, and will invest nearly $1bn this year in the development of four trains at the Rio Grande LNG plant in Texas, and the development of upstream conventional oil in the US Gulf and shale gas production, the statement said.
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Lena Moffitt, executive director of the climate advocacy group Evergreen Action, called the new deal “a taxpayer-funded bribe to kill homegrown clean energy and hand the money straight to oil and gas executives”.
Monday, March 30, 2026
Friday, March 27, 2026
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Newly released case records show Jack Smith found Trump had a business motive for keeping classified documents
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Monday, March 16, 2026
Trump draws backlash for comment on Iran war: ‘Maybe we shouldn’t even be there’
What a fucking moronic doofus GOP asshole:
Trump draws backlash for comment on Iran war: ‘Maybe we shouldn’t even be there’ Donald Trump drew a backlash on Sunday for suggesting US efforts to protect the strait of Hormuz were unnecessary – and that “maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all” because his country has plenty of oil of its own.
The president made the contradictory comment to reporters on Air Force One after pleading with European and Nato allies to enter the war against Iran to help the US secure the strait amid the largest oil supply disruption in history.
“Really, I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory – because it is their territory,” he said. “They should come and they should help us protect it. You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all, because we don’t need it. We have a lot of oil. We’re the number one producer anywhere in the world times two.”
"Trump Will Destroy Washington if It’s the Last Thing He Does"
As Mussolini misunderstood Rome, Mr. Trump misunderstands Washington. Washington was conceived as an expression of democracy, a place in which the largest and grandest public building was the Capitol, where the representatives of the people gathered. The White House is a mansion, not a palace; it is large compared with the average house of its time, but it was never intended to intimidate. In person, especially if you are used to the oligarchic great houses of the Gilded Age of a century ago or the ones that have gone up in the Hamptons in New York or Jackson Hole, Wyo., that typify the age we are living in now, it’s surprisingly human-scaled and lived in. The president resides upstairs, like a shopkeeper over the store of state. There is a simplicity to it, a restraint. And it is not — at least was not before this past year — gilded.
Until now, every addition to the White House — the North Portico, the South Portico, the East Wing, the West Wing — was designed to defer to the original structure and to make it larger without appearing to be making it larger. The East Wing and the West Wing were pavilions, built later and intended to recede beside the White House. (Thomas Jefferson designed the East and West Colonnades before the wings were built.)
The proposed new ballroom, nominally designed by the architect Shalom Baranes but for all intents and purposes designed by Mr. Trump, does exactly the opposite. It is a huge, dumb box. The portico at one end is more than twice the size of the North Portico of the White House, and it doesn’t even serve as a door. It is more like a decorative emergency exit atop a vast staircase leading down to the White House grounds, the so-called President’s Park, which would also be compromised by the enormous addition.
It is not just symmetry that is being thrown away here; it is more than two centuries of respectful deference to building, function and history.
As Mussolini’s hand was apparent in all his schemes for Rome, both the ones that were realized and the ones that were not, the architects working on Mr. Trump’s various projects are more factotums than independent thinkers. Mr. Baranes is well suited to the task, since he has long had a reputation in Washington as an architect who works comfortably with real estate developers and can produce work of whatever type in whatever style his clients want.
James McCrery, who designed the first versions of the ballroom, is a respected classicist who, The Washington Post reported, was uncomfortable with the president’s desire to make the building as big as Mr. Trump wanted it. Mr. McCrery, who stepped aside from his central role in the project, seemingly made the mistake of believing that Mr. Trump had some understanding of the dignity and proportionality of classicism. But the client wanted what he wanted.
Mr. Baranes is not the only architect to have been caught in the trap of serving the president’s belief that bigger is always better. Nicolas Charbonneau of Harrison Design has come up with an arch Mr. Trump wants to build on a traffic circle facing the Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac that would be taller than the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. At 250 feet, his arch — or Mr. Trump’s arch, to be more accurate — would overshadow the Lincoln Memorial and destroy the subtle relationship between the memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. There is a reason that this land has not had a monument on it. The Lincoln Memorial was designed to be seen not only from the east, down the length of the National Mall, but also from the west, across the Potomac, and this arch would be a huge intrusion on that cherished vista.
Like Mussolini, Mr. Trump grasps at things that he thinks will express the strength of his regime but that only show its vulgarity. The arch, if built, would be less a monument than a roadblock.
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