Trump is a battering ram for insane “libertarian” billionaires

These billionaires may not like him personally, but kissing up to the vain, shameless autocrat has been fantastic for their bottom line, which is the only thing that truly concerns the hoarders of thousands of millions of dollars. I don’t know that every billionaire is genetically a psychopath [1], but the percentage is surely way above the psychopath’s 2% prevalence in the the general population. The billionaires most devoted to becoming trillionaires, and then quadrillionaires (a million million), are surely psychopaths. Trump is very handy for these best of the best and their desire to have, and to control, everything, which is the same driving impulse that animates Dozy Don’s every waking moment.

I stumbled on this description of the tech billionaire personality/philosophy listening to an interview The Nerd Reich author Gil Duran conducted with author Paulina Borsook. Her book, Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech [2], described exactly what we are up against today with the Silicon Valley elites that are forcing AI down everybody’s throat. Borsook’s book focuses on the unique personality type, and antihuman politics, of the fascistic billionaire tech bros. This description is from her 2000 book:

It bespeaks a lack of human connection and discomfort with a core of what many of us consider it means to be human. It’s an inability to reconcile the demands of being an individual with the demands of participating in society. Which coincides beautifully with a preference for — and glorification of — being the solo commander of one’s computer — in lieu of any economically viable behavior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these techno-libertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.

Almost nobody likes these motherfuckers.

In a new CNBC/Generation Labs survey that polled 1,088 Americans between the ages of 18 and 34, about 45% said AI would have a negative impact on their careers, compared to 10% that said it would help them.

A majority of respondents said they distrusted the leaders of major companies investing in AI—81% said they distrusted Palantir CEO Alex Karp, 79% distrusted Palantir chairman Peter Thiel, 76% distrusted Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, 74% distrusted Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, while around 70% said they distrusted Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

All you need to do is picture the smug faces of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Alex Karp, the stilted way they speak, how they carry themselves, their self-proclaimed priorities and idiosyncratic dreams for the future. Clearly they consider themselves the most important people in the world, by a million miles. Why should they not also control it?

Donald Trump is a crude and brutal means to a crude and brutal end, a few obscenely wealthy people having control over everyone else on earth. Trump’s first order of business, after his miraculous capture of all seven swing states by virtually identical margins, was to appoint his largest donor, technological wizard and chainsaw wielding racist Elon Musk, aided by a handful of twenty year-old hackers, to a fake commission to cut government fraud, waste and abuse. Musk gleefully wielded that chainsaw to do untold damage here in the US while condemning millions in poor countries to death from preventable causes when he destroyed USAID. He denies this vehemently, as those who can never be wrong always do. He’s right, after all, he was briefly the world’s first trillionaire!

Keep in mind, this dynamic is nothing new. The only difference now is they have technology to enforce everything they want to do.

Here is Gil Duran’s full interview with Paulina Borsook:

[1]

Here are three videos with James Fallon, the mild-mannered, affable neuroscientist who discovered he was a “prosocial” psychopath at 60, and realized he didn’t care when it was confirmed, proving he was a psychopath. If you’re pressed for time, the TED talk is the most condensed of the three. All three are fascinating and cover slightly different aspects. The Moth story is a relaxed and charming telling of his personal story, the second is the same length but much more detailed, and also excellent — it includes his recent humane accommodations to his condition and a surprising moral realization.

Moth https://youtu.be/fzqn6Z_Iss0?si=2aby-jSOm5YbQmQU

This 7 minute TED talk, with the most science, and the direct connection of the “warrior gene” to violence, was done either before he saw the PET scan of his own brain or before was willing to talk about it:

In the TED talk he explains the biology, genetics, epigenetics and brain changes of psychopathy (a condition not listed in DSM-5, oddly enough). The PET scans of the brains of psychopaths are always similar, a unique and recognizable configuration. The recessive gene for psychopathy, MAOA, is on the X chromosome (making psychopathy much more prevalent in males, with only one X) and that in addition to passing on the gene, the mother produces an extreme volume of serotonin while the fetus is in the womb. This overexposure renders the newborn immune to serotonin’s effects and so unable to really bond, feel empathy or have the capacity for regret (bonus: no hesitation or anxiety).

This constellation of traits that some are born with explains things I am otherwise at a loss to grasp about our human world.

[2] from the Yale Journal of Law and Technology:

Abstract: Paulina Borsook, high-tech cultural commentator and author of Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, discusses Silicon Valley’s paradoxical “technolibertarian” attitude
towards the government and the Big Capital Establishment who made the meteoric rise of the technology industry possible. Borsook, in deconstructing the myth of the freewheeling Silicon Valley technogogue, exposes the fragile
connections between the Randian pretensions of today’s near-religiousegotism and the genuinely libertarian fringe from the salad days of the Internet.

Only for really smart people!

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And look, fellow geniuses, we are kicking the literal shit out of Evil Iran! Don’t believe their dirty LIES.

Notice we are also raining fiery death on the water of the Strait of Hormuz itself!

Turns out she was a gutless COMMIE!

Mr. Trump ordered the regularly held joint military exercise between US and South Korean troops halted, one day after North Korea sent 50,000 troops to help Mr. Putin’s war against Ukraine. The Art of the Deal in action.

By the way, Truth Social lost $405,900,000 in the first quarter of 2026. Just sayin’. source

I’ll deal with soul-dead, ambition-drunk Todd Blanche some other time. A real peach, but at least he had that robust 50-49 mandate as Attorney General working at the pleasure of a man who would never ask him to do anything unethical (“I love you, sir…”).

Sanitizing language, sanitizing history, sanitizing human consciousness

Here’s another short with a guy making the point that these private “detention centers” for immigrants who have committed no crimes are concentration camps. More people are dying in them than died in many concentration camps (which are not ‘extermination camps’ vernichtungslagers [1]) — and we will never know the true number murdered in those lucrative, private hellholes. Many who die of medical neglect are shipped out to die in hospitals, so they don’t count as dead in concentration camp custody. Relatively few of the Japanese-Americans interned in concentration camps during World War II died, though the situation and conditions were appalling enough — they were far better than those provided by our greatest private, for-profit detention corporations.

People locked up in these Stephen Miller/CoreCivic/GEO Group camps are required to work long hours for $1 a day. Coincidentally that was the same amount the SS charged to rent out slave laborers from Auschwitz. Once again, some wealthy gate keeper/corporate “person” (psychopath) is not allowing me to embed this “political” short.

So let’s just say privatized detention centers for the worst of the worst, no need to mention the 40 to 100 people packed into a single cage in these best of the best facilities for the worst of the worst. Why make people feel bad by releasing the numbers of peaceful immigrants actually murdered by our masked, heavily armed, unvetted, poorly trained, violence-prone best of the best?

https://youtube.com/shorts/SKSyn6MerQg?is=We8KwdjZ7-xncO4K

Hannah Arendt’s statements always ring true in our current situation. She escaped Nazi Germany, barely made it out of a concentration camp for women in France (thanks to wealthy American friends) and had an intimate understanding of the fascist project. Stop critical thinking, stop history, stop cause and effect, focus violent hatred on enemies, in 2026 use AI to accelerate all these things. She, as often, puts our current pre-fascist situation into stark relief:

And just for giggles, let’s try another short, at random, and see if WordPress is “unable to embed” it.

Nice work, beautifully done. So it is simple to embed a youtube video short, as long as it doesn’t offend the delicate sensibilities of the Nazi-adjacent superwealthy. Fuck the stinking tech and privatized concentration camp oligarchs, may they all be replaced by AI sexbots programmed to Epstein themselves under shady circumstances.

[1] First you get the population used to the random murder of citizens, called “terrorists” after they’re shot point blank, and the need to violently round up and abuse, hundreds of thousands of innocent people and, sometimes, inadvertently (or even intentionally) kill a bunch of them. Once the populace is inured to those atrocities, for which no federal agent may be held accountable, you can move on to the real work of these fascist fucks:

Extermination camps are special concentration camps (KZ) that were used during the Nazi era by SS Death’s Head Units in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union specifically for the mass murder of Jews from all over Europe and other groups of people persecuted by the Nazis .

The Nazis made no secret of the existence of concentration camps as early as 1933, as these served as a deterrent. The extermination camps, on the other hand, were subject to strict secrecy. To conceal their existence, the mass murder was even described in internal correspondence only as ” special treatment ,” “cleansing,” “resettlement,” or “evacuation.” The SS referred to the extermination camps as concentration camps, and they were also subject to the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps . The designation “extermination camp” only came later in historical scholarship and in court proceedings and serves for more precise categorization. . .

. . .Unlike other concentration camps , where inmates died primarily from systematically induced disease and malnutrition as well as excessive work, known as “extermination through labor “, in addition to individual murders, the extermination camps served the immediate purpose of murdering those deported there, who were brought to the camps by special railway trains. source

Yikes, what was Bill Cassidy threatened with for his 4 a.m. tie-breaking Blanche vote?

I’ve been distracted by tubes of beautiful gouache and all the colors, shades and nuances that can be drawn out of them with a brush and water. I’ll post a couple of the paintings soon. Meanwhile, I wrote this a few days back, before I found out that Todd Blanche was sworn in by fellow criminally inclined Trump lawyer lifetime federal judge (voted in on an overwhelming 50-49 majority, like his buddy Blanche) Emil Bove IV, in a secret ceremony, as you do in these situations if you are the most transparent — and TOTALLY HONEST AND UNCORRUPT!!– administration in human history…

Check out this shockingly emotional hostage video of successfully primaried out of a job Louisiana senator Dr. Bill Caasidy, casting a 4 a.m. deciding vote to make a criminally inclined criminal attorney for criminally insane serial offender Donald John Trump the nation’s top law enforcement official. He’s clearly upset, can’t look in the camera, gives no reason for his decision, other than saying he’s worked hard to understand the issue and to make the right decision. What right decision? Casting a deciding yes vote or having the gunmen with laser targets on his family open fire?

I tried to embed this video, with the cringing, eye contact avoiding, under duress Cassidy, as you do with most YouTube videos, including shorts, and was not able to, for whatever reason. WordPress let me know it could not be embedded.

Whenever this happens, as it has been recently with political shorts I try to post, I always think how easy it would be, and it’s already happening, for Trump to start pressuring the morally pliable billionaires who own all of these public social media spaces to throttle content Trump doesn’t want seen.

What a dream it would be to American Nazis to completely shut down critical voices, truth tellers and organizers on the internet, the folks on Trump’s openly published enemies list, a list that was a scandal when Nixon maintained a secret one, but which Trump shares openly now, because that’s how Nazis do it in 2026. In 2026, if you tell them exactly what illegal shit you’re going to do, then you’re being honest and owning the “critically thinking” commie libtard cucks…

As a test, here’s another short, two kind men saving a trapped coyote pup, let’s see if WordPress lets me post this one:

Nuff said?

Fascist worms on parade

I started to call this “Fascist Weasels on Parade”, then decided it was an insult to actual weasels. Changed it to worms, invertebrates, true, but also heroes in their own right. Without worms, no food supply for life on the planet. My humble apologies to worms for the constant, necessary, life-sustaining work that you do. There really isn’t a proper pejorative to describe these fascist ass-lickers who cringingly cleave to the unwashed butt crack of their Leader. There is no depth they won’t stoop to in service to their violently insane, supremely vindictive master.

Shamefully, and predictably, enough, Trump’s spineless lickspittles in the Senate, at 4:00 a.m., right before they left for a well-earned five week vacation, voted to narrowly confirm Trump’s criminal lawyer, and dead-eyed criminal in his own right, Todd Blanche, as the Attorney General of the United States. Heather Cox Richardson lays it out beautifully.

She contrasts this cringefest to how principled Republican senators reacted in 1974 when Nixon (a paranoid, bold-faced, lawyerly liar who insisted he never did anything wrong — see below [1]) faced impeachment for abusing his power and obstructing justice by covering up crimes far less serious than countless crimes Trump has committed in his second term, and being in contempt of Congress (the government branch Trump has contemptuously neutered).

American fascists (Roger Stone, Manafort and associates among them) have put the lessons learned from Nixon’s downfall to good use — making charges against Republicans for abuse of power and contempt of Congress, neither crime nor misdemeanor and the same with obstruction of whatever you want to call it. As for any non-MAGA official doing anything that can be cast as similar — call out the DOJ, National Guard, ICE, CBP, Proud Boys, Klan, the National Park Service, FEMA and the Department of Prisons!!

Blanche wrote fraudulent “settlement” “agreements” in the days after “dismissing” a fake lawsuit that was basically Trump v. Trump’s Lackeys, (Trump’s lackeys never even submitted a “defense”), in a case the judge called out as a fraud on the court. The judicial investigation into that fraud is ongoing. Blanche, in the fake settlement contracts (signed only by him, talk about invalid contracts — no meeting of the mind between two parties, no exchange of consideration) preemptively covered up a host of likely, almost certain, Trump tax crimes, for Donald J. and Uday and Kusay Trump and their heirs. Blanche was the author of Trump’s self-pardon (though he tap danced for the Senate Judiciary Committee about who actually typed it up for him).

Blanche has so far successfully, and brazenly, covered up Trump’s long involvement with suicided sex criminal and blackmailer Jeffery Epstein, withholding over 3,000,000 documents, heavily redacting all others (except for nude photos and names of teenaged victims of Epstein) and declaring there is nothing further to investigate.

Emmet Sullivan, the federal judge in the case Katie “Though she be but little, she is fierce” Phang brought against Blanche for his multiple, ongoing violations of the Epstein Files Transparency Act has ordered Blanche to testify in open court next week, August 13th, about his evidence, not his bullshit rationales for why he lied over and over about his redactions, wrote insulting dismissals of Phang’s motives rather than legal answers to her motions and ignored direct court orders from Judge Sullivan.

This is the fully weaponized Trump DOJ under a criminal maniac who hires his criminally-inclined criminal lawyer as Attorney General to get perpetual, no cost, unlimited prosecutorial revenge on enemies real and imagined and blanket legal protections for himself and his fabulously corrupt offspring as well as loyal billionaire ass-lickers like Howard Lutnick, Scott Bessent and Doug Burgham.

Unless the fascist brains behind Trump stage a massive terrorist attack right before the upcoming midterms (and why wouldn’t they?) and station heavily armed masked ICE/CBP militias, and paid freelancers in full KKK regalia, including pointy white hoods, in front of every minority voting district polling place (Trump would love to) and starts having his gestapo openly assassinate election officials, judges, non-corporate journalists, snide citizens and anyone else who doesn’t stay silent or parrot his incoherent lies (the only “rigged election” he lost was the one when he was president and the federal officials who declared the election valid worked for him) there will likely be a “blue wave” that will turn Congress Democratic. When that happens, all of these nefarious characters will be investigated. Blanche will be impeached on multiple counts, along with Hegseth, Patel, Lutnick, Bessent, Robert F. “Dr. Brainworm” Kennedy Jr. and the rest of them.

All the more reason for Trump to make a secret deal to have “Iran,” “antifa,” humanists, hamas, tren de aragua, commies, Jews, Puerto Ricans, etc. — in other words TERRORISTS — nuke an anarchist jurisdiction two days before Election Day, possibly with one of their many Patriot missiles, since even adorable MAGA Mike Johnson’s declaration that he runs the protection racket for corrupt MAGA Congressmen who committed crimes for the Boss won’t be of much use when they are once again in their blessed minority.

The Republican party now openly represent the 1%. Why not have Congressional representation reflect that, as Trump’s billionaire donors build obedient, undefeatable, merciless AI robot armies and fill cyber-brothels with irresistible, endlessly compliant sex slave robots, while raping and pillaging what’s left of the biosphere?

USA! USA!!!!

[1] In his resignation speech, Nixon refused to acknowledge that he had done anything wrong. Instead, he told the American people he had to step down because he no longer had the support he needed in Congress to advance the national interest. He blamed the press, whose “leaks and accusations and innuendo” had been designed to destroy him. His disappointed supporters embraced the idea that there was a “liberal” conspiracy, spearheaded by the press, to bring down any Republican president. source

Sound familiar?

A vile turd by any other name

Below is an irrefutable op-ed by Anthony Conwright, about the renaming of the Slaveholder Rebellion of 1861 to The War Between the States and finally The Civil War. This metamorphosis happened over the course of decades as the result of political lobbying by Confederate sympathizers. Conwright draws the straight line to Trump doing the same thing at warp speed with his January 6th Day of Love when peaceful, victim patriots went to the Capitol where they were met by violent libtard cuck traitor cops… Those who refuse to learn the lessons of the past, as they say, are continually fucked the same way.

We are living, as the curse goes, in interesting fucking times.

If you can’t open the op-ed by clicking the image above, use this “gift” link.

US Army definition of fascism from 1945

This full description of fascism was provided to US Army personnel in the European theater toward the end of World War Two, when democracy had finally, and at tremendous cost, was about to defeat fascism and reach a cautious stand-off with communism that would turn into the Cold War. This is from the great Heather Cox Richardson:

The political ideology called fascism grew out of World War I, when former socialist Benito Mussolini rejected the equality that defined democracy and came to believe that a few leaders must take a nation toward progress by directing the actions of the rest. These men must organize the people as they had been organized during wartime, ruthlessly suppressing all opposition and directing the economy so that businessmen and politicians worked together. And, logically, that select group of leaders would elevate a single man, who would become an all-powerful dictator. To weld their followers into an efficient machine, they demonized opponents into an “other” that their followers could hate.

This theory drove the Axis powers during World War II, and in 1945, the United States War Department explained to U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II what fascism was. The government focused less on the ideology of fascism than on its practical outcome.

Fascism, the pamphlet Army Talks explained, “is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.”

“The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence—democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.” “Fascism treats women as mere breeders. ‘Children, kitchen, and the church,’ was the Nazi slogan for women,” the pamphlet said.

Fascists “make their own rules and change them when they choose…. They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of ‘blood’ and ‘race,’ by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and ‘realistic’ to be pitiless and violent.” source

And here’s how it’s done in a modern corporate society:

The sickening smiles at the end, between the journalist who asked a tough question and the tough guy who repeatedly danced away from answering it, are all about access. If you want someone like Jordan on your network, you have to smile and thank him at the end for stonewalling and essentially lying to your audience. Note that none of these guys are ever familiar with anything a journalist asks them about.

Then there is this tough guy presidential hopeful Nazi wannabe, bullying a retired public servant who gave the best available advice about preventing the spread of Covid, as his president lied about and weaponized the pandemic, killing hundreds of thousands Americans (including Herman Caine, who contracted the disease at a Trump rally), while countries that followed the practices Fauci advocated prevented countless deaths.

And finally, the State Department’s loyal lapdog to the Leader, presidential aspirant Little Marco, Viceroy of Venezuela, scourge of Cuba. He announces that the US wants to abolish the The International Criminal Court, take it down brick by brick because it weaponizes “statute” and “so-called international law”. The ICC was set up after decades of advocacy by idealists and humanists to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. It was created in response to the atrocities of the Nazis and the Japanese, and others, including the Soviet Union, during World War Two, and, horrifically, through the present day.

The US has never been bound by the ICC, Reagan explicitly repudiated its jurisdiction over the US when the ICC tried to hold him accountable for his illegal mining of Nicaragua’s harbor to aid the far-right Contras — who he also illegally gave millions to through the sales of munitions to Iran (Iran-Contra “scandal” — see Bill Barr, Act I) something explicitly barred by American law.

Trump hates the ICC because, theoretically, or even just symbolically, it could still move to hold him accountable for various war crimes, including the ongoing killing of over 200 fishermen at sea (accused, without evidence, of drug dealing — not a capital offense except in Duterte’s Philippines something he’s facing trial for at the ICC) and the reckless, pitiless murder of 165, mostly girls, at a girls’ school in Iran, not to mention war crime attacks on civilian infrastructure.

Getting rid of the International Criminal Court is the dream of every war criminal and mass murderer. If you think these people aren’t Nazis, think again.

Sorry, WordPress won’t allow me to embed this short video highlighting this last point. Here’s the link:

https://youtube.com/shorts/BVuCJn993PI?is=0zavOcsim3I9XeJB

Hang Fauci, Smith, Schiff, Comey, James, O’Donnell, Talarico, Mamdani…

While Trump’s personal criminal lawyer Todd Blanche bobs and weaves, assuring senators with practiced lawyerly weasel words that he is no longer Trump’s personal criminal lawyer… “uh, excuse me, senator, I have to take this call from Mr. Trump…” MAGA is spraying its high-powered firehouse of cyclosporiasis full force.

Put that fucking liar and self-aggrandizing fraud Anthony Fauci on the stand, let him plead the Fifth over and over so we can’t get him for perjury as we let the country see how clearly guilty he is of being a lying, self-aggrandizing fraud. Look what he wrote in his personal diary! Like we couldn’t get our hands on it! Fauci had testified to Congress literally hundreds of times during his long term as head of the infectious disease unit at NIH. His opening remarks went into detail about why this session he was subpoenaed to attend, years after his retirement, was different.

This time it was purely political, a distracting partisan hate-fest as Trump implodes, to give FOX and the MAGAsphere endless talking points about what a lying, weaponizing dickhead Fauci was while he was nonchalantly killing a million Americans by ignoring Trump’s wise advice about not testing for Covid in order for the numbers not to keep going up and up.

To watch Josh “Fistpump/flee in terror” Hawley aggressively interrogate Fauci over what color his tie was, what color the carpet was, whether Fauci had a dick, was to see a Nazi go after a Jew in a German courtroom from the mid-thirties until the day Hitler blew his own brains out in a bunker. It brought to mind debate champ Lyin’ Ted Cruz’s Jew-baiting of mild-mannered nebbish AG Merrick Garland when he confronted Garland over the Nazi salute (directed at Jewish members of school boards) being protected First Amendment expression. Check out Rand! Paul bullying Fauci’s lawyer.

Not to be outdone by his senate colleagues Hawley and Paul, pugnacious, unpinnable college wrestling champ and law school graduate Jim Jordan made a criminal referral to Blanche accusing Jack Smith of perjury on an extremely weak theory. Let us not forget that Jordan defied a subpoena from his Congressional colleagues and awkwardly dodged questions live on FOX about his conversations with Trump as his Day of Love riot was going on at the Capitol. MAGA knows better than to take oaths.

Jordan (who never actually became a lawyer) made a perfectly-timed fanciful criminal referral for Jack Smith while Todd was on the ropes for his unflinching service to every corrupt Trump whim, his refusal to answer questions honestly, his participation in, and defense of, Trump’s fraudulent Trump v. IRS “settlements”, his refusal to put in writing what he stated under oath, his grudging, insulting, pro forma meeting with Epstein survivors, his incoherent, contemptuous two page court filing response to Katie Phang’s lawsuit against him for the release of Epstein files and redaction logs (both required under the EFTA), and all the rest. Jordan wrote his beautifully timed, if idiotic, criminal referral asking Blanche to investigate and prosecute Jack Smith for not answering a question Jordan and his colleagues never asked him. In other words: perjury by a man, a scumbag, actually, who simply hated and persecuted Trump for no reason! That will play well on FOX, OANN, Newsmax, Der Stürmer, et al.

Former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general Harry Litman fully demolishes law school graduate Jim Jordan’s incoherent criminal referral here. This is what Republicans, running interference for the most corrupt president in world history, are saying about Jack Smith, who, unlike the rest of them, testified candidly under oath for hours. I turn this over to Harry:

Moreover, Trump and Judiciary Committee Republicans have undertaken a vicious defamatory campaign against Smith, part of the overall elaborate effort to whitewash Trump’s crimes. Trump called Smith a “deranged lunatic,” a “deranged animal,” a “criminal” who should be “thrown out of the country.” Grassley called his investigation “a runaway train that had no brakes” and declared in an official Senate Judiciary Committee press release that Smith and his “merry band of DOJ partisans weaponized the justice system” and that “it’s no surprise Smith didn’t play by the rules.” Kennedy, speaking to reporters outside the Blanche confirmation hearing, said: “I think he hates Republicans. He exercises power emotionally and immaturely. And I think he ought to have his head in a bag.” Cruz called the prosecutions “the worst political lawfare this country has ever seen.”

A defense against spurious false statement charges would serve as a public relitigation of Smith’s prosecutions and the mountains of evidence they were built on. It would remind the country—and re-establish for the historical record—who played their hand straight and who palmed the cards.

The hearing contained false and misleading statements, but they weren’t Jack Smith’s. In every public appearance, Smith has been scrupulous and by-the-book, which only makes sense since he knows the administration has him in its crosshairs.

The misconduct and false witness are on the other side: Trump, still lying about his crimes; Blanche, still straddling the untenable position of representing DOJ and his former client; Senate Republicans, still hiding under Trump’s coattails and hypocritically assailing Smith; and Jordan, in the self-appointed role of Torquemada, arrogantly leveling nonsensical charges against the one man in this farcical episode who actually followed the law.

Trump loves “acting” officials, and they love you, sir!

The Emperor is Naked(ly “political”)

The White House report [savaging the Smithsonian as an America-hating bunch of brown-skinned pet eating racist cucks) is a nakedly political document, seeking to prove that “the museum profession has catechized and codified the ideological dogma of DEI to…an astonishing degree.” It builds on Trump’s belief that the Smithsonian has an “improper ideology” that Trump says is too focused on “how bad slavery was.” . . . source (all quotes are from Heather’s July 27, 2026 letter)

Slavery, as every school boy knows (particularly if he went to the finest private schools, like Trump did), was really not that bad. It’s not like the history books say, those so-called history books were written by freedom-hating communist dupes working in the pay of their international pedophile Jew-banker handlers.

Attacking Wokeness, “DEI”, abortionists and pedophiles (ironic that last one) is the best Trump, the Heritage Foundation, Koch and the Federalist Society have right now to rile up their angry, eternally faithful base. Some of MAGA’s sharpest and most insightful tools in Congress grilled the director of the Smithsonian’s National American History Museum. Here are some of the highly intelligent critical thinking questions she was asked:

Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) claimed Hartig strives “to represent queer pedophiles, indoctrination, and grooming of kids at an American history museum,” and demanded: “Do you know how many kids get raped by adults every year in this country?” Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) repeatedly demanded of Hartig where the exhibitions honoring “50 million aborted babies” are. Representative Eric Burlison (R-MO) demanded: “Do you love America?”

same source

Every statement is, famously and consistently, a confession, and a projection. I know you are, but what am I? We are not racist, the Blacks, Browns and Yellows are, and the Red, especially the Red. We did absolutely nothing to the Red. And Red is the color of communism, so you put that antifa puzzle together. We never did to them what they are trying to do to us, therefore, we must fight them to the last savagely victimizing maggot!

And its not as though our transactional president is suddenly saying the opposite of what he said in his first term, and if he is, SO WHAT? SO FUCKING WHAT?!!! What about Hunter Biden, Fauci, Comey and Rosie O’Donnell?!!! What about that ruthless dictator of Ukraine?

Trump/Saddam’s interior decorator working full-time with the gold leaf.

At least the Ukrainian dictator showed up in a suit this time (where’s his tie?)

In a response to the administration’s report, Representative Joe Morelle of New York, the top-ranking Democrat on the Committee on House Administration, pointed out that in February 2017, a month after his first inauguration, Trump praised the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and its founding director, Dr. Lonnie Bunch, for sharing “the great struggle for freedom and equality that prevailed against the sins of slavery [which really wasn’t, isn’t that bad…] and the injustice of discrimination.”

The injustice of discrimination is ultimately their last, best, strongest hope for a permanent one-party state of White Protestant (and certain useful fascistically oriented Catholics) rule by Christ the Ultimate Warrior of Holy Lethality. Coming soon to a theatre of war near you.

The president doesn’t control the Smithsonian, so the only thing the report’s authors could recommend was “a label at every entrance that reads: ‘Warning: the exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don’t want you to love your country.’” On July 24 the president issued Executive Order 14415, titled “Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution.” It ordered the National Park Service to place temporary signage outside the Smithsonian “that corrects inaccurate information presented inside the Museum.”

You can be polite and not compare this regime to the Nazis, though their personnel, methods and goals are identical. The main difference lies in Hitler’s long-expressed, open desire to mass murder his enemies, the ones poisoning the blood, raping the white Christian girls and, presumably, eating the pets of good Germans. Hitler’s psychosis was turned into a political “ideology” and codified into German law.

Trump has many of the same impulses as the man whose collected speeches he kept on his nightstand, but has not turned them into an “intelligible” ideology, and he changes his lies with every breeze. He’s a basic Nazi (or Klansman, if that’s less offensive to you) without the “intellectual” framework. Like Adolf, Trump enjoys humiliating and torturing his enemies and has a taste for killing innocent people, if he perceives any benefit to himself in their murder. He and Hegseth have already committed numerous war crimes. Ignore the grim similarities between those who work for him and those twisted souls who worked for Mr. Hitler at your own peril [1].

Here’s a short take on what these best of the best are attempting to do with American history right now:

I’ll give the brilliant Heather Cox Richardson the last word on history (same source as above):

History is not just a set of facts and events. It is the study of how and why societies change. Why do people act in certain ways? Are there patterns in human behavior? What makes a society successful? What makes one fail?

Accuracy is imperative. Without it, we will learn the wrong answers—not just about the details the judges of the Presidential 1776 Award competition seem to have changed to privilege white Americans over an Indian immigrant, but also over whether our country’s foundation is about race and land or, as the Founders said, about principles and the rule of law.

[1] It takes that ruthless Thousand Year Reich mentality to commit this kind of moral obscenity (from Crooked Media):

On that note, the Trump administration has arrested some 12,000 migrant children and sponsors thanks to tips — from the U.S. government office intended to help resettle refugees fleeing dangerous situations in their home countries, Reuters reports. For instance, one 6-year-old girl spent more than six months in a child migrant center while her mother, who was already in the United States, worked to get her released. Days after the mother and daughter were reunited, ICE arrested them and sent them to a detention center, the outlet reports

Stop calling us Nazis, you goddamned anti-fascists!

We are just doing what’s in the best interests of the Reich and the Leader (and our greatest, wealthiest and, by far, most important citizens)!

NY Times (on Trump administration’s in court admission that clean energy funding was withheld only to states that gave their electoral votes to Harris in 2024):

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Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the chamber’s appropriations committee, and Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, a Democrat who leads her party on the House’s top energy appropriations panel, said in a joint statement on Friday that politically minded grant cuts amounted to an “outright un-American” weaponization of government.

“This administration has now admitted in court what has long been obvious: It terminated nearly 300 cost-cutting energy projects for no reason other than the fact that the states they were in did not vote for the president in the 2024 election,” they added. “This is an astounding admission that the president and his team corruptly abused their power to kill good jobs and punish hard-working families because of their political views.”

Many Democrats have raised those same concerns as the White House looks to assert even greater control over federal grants. Those proposed regulations, which are expected to be completed by October, would require Mr. Trump’s political appointees to review all federal grants, with the power block or revoke money if they did not conform to administration priorities.

The White House has also sought to layer additional restrictions on grant recipients, limiting their political activities, memberships and even appearances at conferences, along with vague requirements that they cannot use the money for certain purposes, including those deemed “anti-American.” source

As always, historian Heather Cox Richardson has a great take on Trump’s corrupt, transactional partisan thuggery. Read it (and sign up for Heather’s free email newsletter)

I know it’s distasteful of me to constantly compare these cynical, cruel, opportunistic, incompetent, corrupt, covetous, power-crazed, transactional suck ups to fascists, more specifically to Hitler’s inner circle of moral and intellectual giants (read any history of the Thousand Year Reich — except for ones written by our current crop of homegrown Hitler admirers), but if the jackboot fits… I salute Congressman Jim McGovern, from the great state of Massachusetts, for this beautifully detailed snapshot of the current Republican party:

“Proof of Life” — as long as there’s a pulse, or even if there isn’t… MAGA only has to cover up the truth about Senator Mitch McConnell’s coma/rehab until August 3. After that date, Mitch’s cadaver can hold the key senate seat through the midterms — and likely vote accordingly. But, to their credit, just a few weeks ago, Mitch McConnell proved, with a snapshot and a statement, that he is alive and well, and two reliable MAGA spokespeople claimed to have talked to him, in depth, for 20 minutes —

And here’s Hannah Arendt, with wise and encouraging words for us all during this dark moment in human history: