Everything he touches turns to shit … everything.
This past week Trump threatened to bomb Oman, an ally …
Oman knows that Trump is crazy assed insane and now has to incorporate the very real prospect of facing a hostile U.S. into their defense planning.You know, pretty much like every other former ally of the U.S.
Meanwhile in the middle of an agreed ceasefire he does this …
Why should anybody ever take any agreement either Israel or the US negotiates seriously when they simply rip up such agreements time after time?
As many of us have known since day 1, his dealmaker myth is exposed for the total BS that it always was.
Nick Anderson – Wall Street
A few “Oh FFS” Moments of the week
So this happened …
Todd Blanche is going to have to go to prison. Disbarment isn’t going to be enough. Miller, Noem, Lewandowski, Homan, Bondi, Bove and others will need to actually be indicted during the Reconciliation Era, if there is one.
What we are now seeing is what happens when a junta of lawless savages takes over a once-great nation in a bid to destroy it, enrich themselves, aid its enemies and promote corruption, larceny, and pedophilia.
Meanwhile, to the guy who pops up to label my articles with TDS I will say this: If you think opposing this man and his corrupt regime with every fiber of your being is a form of derangement, then you need to be institutionalized, because you’re a clear and present danger to your whole country. What we are witnessing is a crime wave of post-apocalyptic proportions.
Clay Jones – Next, Donald Trump will order the Justice Department to indict any scale that says he weighs more than 224 pounds. #Trump #TrumpHealthExam #MAGA #TrumpCankles #TrumpHandBruises
This also happened …
Oh wait, the image above does not quite do it, but this does …
Economic Incompetence
Political Corruption
This however really sums it up …
- Link to article
- Quote: “…the Senate Republican caucus already includes two other former state attorneys general who signed the Texas AG’s shoddy brief seeking to throw out the results of the 2020 election. Graham and the rest will welcome him, even if it costs $100 million to get him there, because whoever was left of the old guard has retired or been forced out. There’s no more delusion about what a Republican senator is or needs to be in Trump’s second term: They’re all Ken Paxton now.“
Nick Anderson – The Paxton Endorsement
Clay Jones – From one indicted, impeached, adultering, corrupt individual to another. #Trump #KenPaxton #JohnCoran #Texan #Vegan #BreakfastTaco #Taco
Nick Anderson – Groveling Cornyn
Corruption on a truly epic scale
Multiple layers of Lunacy and utter incompetence
You really really do not need to be a rocket scientist to work out what just might go wrong because of this utter stupidity …
Appoint stupid people and … well yes, so this is apparently coming …
- Is this real? … Yep, it really is real.
- I guarantee you nobody from Paris is flying into Oklahoma.
- We are living in the dumbest of times surrounded by the most inept people.
- Quote from The Hill article on all of this – “Airlines cannot divert large numbers of international flights from one city to another,” he wrote on X. “They’d just have to cancel flights en masse, causing enormous economic damage that splashed waaaaay beyond a few big cities that were the target.”
ICE Gestapo updates
MAHA – Healthcare
Adam Zyglis – MAGA entertainment… #Obamacare #ACA
Matt Wuerker – MAHA Madness
WhiteHouse UFC
Literally every single thing he touches turns to total shit …
Clay Jones – The Trump regime loves them some cages. #Trump #UFC #WhiteHouseCageFight #StephenMiller #ICE #ufc250 #MAGA
Data Centers
- Link to Article
- Quote: “Finlayson and Morgan call the claim an out-and-out lie motivated by their opposition to a controversial Utah data center. “You don’t wake up in the morning often thinking, like, maybe I’ll get accused of sedition today on Fox News by Kevin O’Leary, but here we are,” Finlayson told me. “I’d probably get paid a lot more if I was” being paid by a foreign government, Elizabeth Huntchings, of Alliance for a Better Utah, told Fox News.“
Clay Bennett – Doesn’t everyone love a data center? #DataCenter #Water #Pollution #AI
Dennis Goris – AI Slop
MAGA Christian Cranks
The nuttier right-wing religious fanatics within the MAGA cult are as always doing their thing, and so here are this week’s samples.
- Everything I see from him tells me that his variation of Christianity is a demonic death cult.
- To illustrate that point, his bold new plan to “save America” is to have a taxpayer-funded lieutenant governor stand at the podium and announce that what the country really lacks is more officially licensed hatred. Not jobs. Not healthcare. Not housing. Not competent infrastructure. Just a permission slip from Pastor Rage himself saying, “Go forth and be worse.”
Quiz time: Will the deeply religious “constitutionalists” at WallBuilders oppose a president using his administration to create a slush fund to funnel billions of dollars to his political allies?
- Spoiler: If you thought “yes”, then you would be wrong, but hey, you knew that.
Elijah Schaffer announces that he is “boycotting all Hindu owned businesses” out of pure racism and bigotry
- Guys like this are always yelling about “Western civilization” while failing the most basic civilization test: do not punish random shopkeepers because your brain turns into soup around minorities. That is not defending America. That is cosplaying as a medieval village rumor with a podcast mic.
- Hindu-owned businesses include doctors’ offices, restaurants, tech firms, hotels, shops, franchises, convenience stores, and countless local employers. So his plan is basically: “I will make my own life more inconvenient to prove I am not controlled by prejudice, only guided entirely by it.”
Pastor Jack Hibbs claims that if Charlie Kirk was transported back to the Founding Era, “John Adams and him would have been best of friends.“
- Fact Check: John Adams famously signed a treaty saying the United States was not founded on the Christian religion, warned about toxic political factions, and helped build a republic designed to avoid exactly the kind of religious-party personality cult Hibbs is trying to sell.
- This is Founding Father fan fiction for people who think powdered wigs were just colonial MAGA hats.
- This is not principle. This is not conviction. This is a pastor telling people to take their moral compass, throw it in a ditch, and follow the golden Trump statue by smell.
- Apparently “vote your conscience” is bad, but “let Shane Vaughn’s conscience repossess yours like a used Ford Focus” is good. What could possibly go wrong, especially when you consider that this is a guy who went to jail for fraud while he was a pastor.
- These people spent years screaming about “principles,” “values,” “character,” and “biblical truth,” only to discover that all of it was apparently stored in a disposable MAGA gift bag.
- In one sense it is perhaps a bit of progress. Think of it as a confession that he knows that Trump does a lot of morally repugnant stuff and many can now see that.
- Will his followers buy this horseshit? … (you already know the answer).
The above is just a random selection. There is plenty more bigotry, hatred, and lunacy that hides behind a religious mask …
- Eric Metaxas asserts that America “should have died under the second Biden administration” but “God had a different plan.“
- Dale Partridge declares that freedom of religion only applies to Christians and that by allowing Hindus to immigrate to America, we are “literally … importing devils into our land.“
- Andrew Isker says that Indians are not welcome in America: “People are what they worship, and they worship poop demons.“
- etc…
The issue is not that a few fringe cranks dress up truly obnoxious stuff in religious terms to make it socially acceptable to many, but that doing so is the official policy of many within the administration …
- Link to article
- Quote: “Among its most religiously outspoken figures is Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, an evangelical who’s written a book titled American Crusade. He has frequently framed political and military action in explicitly biblical terms, both during the war with Iran and in the days and weeks leading up to the military actions there.“
Memorial Day
Multiple reports say Trump privately referred to fallen U.S. service members as “losers” and “suckers,”.
The original claim came from The Atlantic in September 2020. It reported that, during a 2018 France trip, Trump declined to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and allegedly said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,” and referred to Marines killed at Belleau Wood as “suckers.”.
The claim was later corroborated in part by other outlets, including reporting referenced by PBS and The Guardian. Most significantly, John Kelly, Trump’s former White House chief of staff and a retired Marine general, later confirmed to CNN that Trump made remarks along those lines; Axios summarized Kelly’s statement as confirming Trump called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers.”.
So what did Trump post last Monday?
As usual it was pure shit …
- He cant even fake solemn or dignified for a minute. First he disrespects our heroes with “Happy” then has the audacity to project on to dems when he’s the one risking more lives, calling them losers, cutting funding, firing vets, doing videos at arlington and missing a ceremony to keep his hair dry
Daniel Medina – Happy Memorial Day. Today we honor the American soldiers who gave their lives in service to our country. It’s also worth remembering that our Donald Trump referred to fallen U.S. soldiers as “losers” and “suckers,” #memorialday #military #honorourvets #fucktrump #maga
This is how you honor them properly and with true dignity …
Even More Political Cartoons from the past week
As always, there are many excellent cartoons.
Clay Jones – Did you hear about the nut job at the White House who believed he was Jesus Christ? #Trump #WhiteHouse
Dave Whamond – Sleepy Don
Comparison
He really is in Rapid Decline
Those who watch him the most do notice it …
- Link to Article
- Quote: “No one will stop him. The only people who can stop Trump are Republicans. They’re not going to stop him. They’re going to let him keep crashing and killing and destroying“
Aliens – WTF!!
Trump Jr
So this has been going on …
- Link to article
- Where are all those who were falsely screaming about Biden … suddenly it is crickets.
The Shape of Things to come?
- Upstate New Yorker here: I, for one, welcome our dark Canuck overlords. I’d like to remind them that as lifelong New Yorker, I could be useful to help recruit southerners to work in their maple syrup caves.
- We have to wait ten years for this?!
- We’d immediately have universal healthcare and no guns—‘nuff said.
- Croissants, cultured butter and high-speed trains in Alabama, YAYAYAY!!!
- ain’t no way minnesota doesn’t go to Canada right away
- As a South Texan, I fully support the Mexican Occupation Zone. It’d basically be just another day here… but with better healthcare!
- Oh, good! I get to be a fancy European!
On a more serious note, there is a real possibility that this slush fund scam is going to have huge legal consequences for Trump …
… and this also happened …
Finally
Given everything else going on, then yes, I really can see how deeply enticing being a shepherd in a remote region of inner Mongolia really is a very enticing prospect …
- Link to article
- Quote: “The advert stated that the shepherds would be paid 8,000 yuan (around £880/US$1,180) each per month and have their accommodation and groceries provided“
- When asked about the disadvantages of the job, Zuo said “In our place, you might not see people for a whole year,” … no no, I asked about the disadvantages, not the benefits :-)
Let’s now finish with Jimmy Kimmel.
Trump’s Approval Rating Hits New Low, America’s 250th Party is a Mess & Iran War May Be Over Soon?
May 29th
We are now officially 159 days from the midterm elections, Trump’s approval ratings have sunk to an all-time low even though he has “done more” than any President ever, the DOJ is now going after one of Trump’s victims E. Jean Carroll who accused him of sexually assaulting her, in honor of our country’s 250th anniversary the Treasury Department is looking to print special Trump $250 bills, they’re also lining up entertainment for the “Great American State Fair” and the lineup is shaping up to be a real dud, there will be a mass pardoning ceremony as part of the semi-quincentennial celebration, the US and Iran have reportedly reached another tentative deal to potential end the war he says we won three months ago, the State Department posted a very upbeat message for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, RFK Jr can’t stop picking up snakes, and another edition of This Week in Florida.