Category Archives: Grey Lady

Seven NY Times Takeaways from Trump-a-Palooza

Conspicuously, the NY Times did not find space to mention that the president asked everyone at his “convention” to raise their right arms and take an oath to cheat at the polls because, according to his “abuser is actually the victim” ideology, the Democrats are trying to rig the election. You can read the Grey Lady’s seven takeaways here.

You won’t find the biggest takeaway reported on. What is wrong with “legacy media”? It is corporate, and being a corporate “person” means never having to admit you’re wrong, or that anything that could possibly benefit you is wrong. Nothing wrong with this, apparently (at least he wasn’t wearing a tan suit, or being demented, like Biden at the debate!)

Please raise your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can’t even breathe. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it any way — I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try to cheat like hell like they do. There’s never been bigger cheaters. They don’t care. I am going to go out and I’m going to get my friends, my family. And we are going to vote on Nov. 3, or we are going to vote before that.

Because I can’t stop banging my head against the wall sometimes, I wrote to the article’s authors just now:

I read your article and was dismayed that one of the takeaways was not the president asking the crowd to raise their right hands and take an oath to commit voter fraud.

How is this not mentioned?

Please raise your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can’t even breathe. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it any way — I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try to cheat like hell like they do. There’s never been bigger cheaters. They don’t care. I am going to go out and I’m going to get my friends, my family. And we are going to vote on Nov. 3, or we are going to vote before that.

The Times does some valuable reporting, particularly the investigative pieces.  I don’t understand the timidity of tone in addressing serious, serious issues raised by having an incompetent, erratic, destructive, divisive, vindictive, increasingly demented, president with complete control of the federal government and one of our two political parties.   One who has also done, or is trying to do, everything on the far-right Heritage Foundation’s anti-democratic Project 2025 checklist.  Your takeaways suggest some kind of normalcy.

To borrow a phrase as deeply cynical (in the context of its use) as “arbeit macht frei” (though actually true) “democracy dies in darkness.”

Any explanation for the omission of the takeaway above would be greatly appreciated,

I’m likelier to get an email from Mr. Trump himself than from either of the two New York Times reporters, I’m pretty sure.

To suggest the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, a bullet from an assault rifle miraculously missing the anointed presidential candidate’s brain by a fraction of an inch, ripping his ear and killing a man behind him, was staged? Ugliness! Ungraciousness!!! Disgusting lack of decency! Treason! Nobody in either party or the media dared to suggest the obvious at the time — even after no medical records were released, after the instant killing (and expedited cremation) of the shooter seconds after the shots were fired, even with no scar on the victim’s ear (further proof of God’s grace toward his chosen favorite, no doubt). A year after Trump miraculously survived a deadly assassination attempt that killed a bystander, a retired police detective posted this, which seems so obvious it should have been pointed out the day after the shooting. Here’s Snopes with the whole story — you be the judge.

Amazingly, Trump’s corrupt IG at DHS seems to have allowed the release of this whistleblower complaint

The same Trump loyalist, Joseph Caffari, who oversaw, and covered up, the innocent, totally inadvertent deletion of all Secret Service and DHS texts and tweets as the U.S. Capitol was being sacked on January 6, 2021, appears to have allowed the release of a whistleblower complaint regarding the random, rushed hirings of unqualified, unvetted, violent goons for Trump’s licensed to kill Gestapo, ICE. You can read all about it in the New York Times. Click on the image below.

Biden made a tremendous mistake not firing Caffari, for cause. Trump, on the other hand, following the plan laid out by the determined fascists at the Heritage Foundation who authored Project 2025, immediately, summarily, fired 18 federal agency watch dogs, Inspectors General like Caffari. Removing these ethics supervisors allowed Trump, acting through one of his most unstable, and generous, campaign donors, Elon Musk, to slash and destroy dozens of agencies, for “waste, fraud and abuse” (the domain of IGs), laws and ethics be damned. The same goes for Trump’s new postmaster, appointed by his new Postal Board of Governors, after swing vote Kirsten Synema kept Biden’s three nominees locked up in committee until Trump was back in power.

Here’s the USPS Whistelblower complaint, reported on by Amy Goodman at Democracy Now!

You can see here that 16 of the last 18 USPS governors were appointed by Republican presidents, members of the same party that crippled the Postal Service by passing a midnight lame duck law that USPS must prefund all retirement benefits 75 years into the future.

We are concerned, those of us who follow current events, that a criminally insane man famous for vindictiveness and frivolous litigation, using the courts to vex and cow anyone who has a claim against him, and now perversely using the DOJ to persecute his enemies, who is now exhibiting sleepiness and impulsiveness characteristic of dementia, is running our democracy, and the world, into worldwide economic misery and possibly World War Three (en route to global fascism, the corporatist dream).

Trump is only the savage figurehead for the elitist psychopaths who kicked in hundreds of millions, tax deductible, to put him back in power. Trump being Trump is good for their bottom line, as long as he does what’s best for billionaires like himself and his sons, Uday and Koosay, and his son-in-law, self-made billionaire mediocrity Jared “Son of A Convicted Felon Billionaire” Kushner. In respect to Jared’s father Charles, he is the US ambassador to France under Trump.

It’s not necessary for these insatiably greedy psychopath assholes to get together in a room and figure out what is best for them, in order to hatch an effective conspiracy. Their interests — being as obscenely rich as possible by any means necessary — align perfectly. Trump will always serve them, as long as the individual billionaires line up to lick his crusty ring. Google immediately changed its maps to show that the majority Canadian Lake Ontario is now called, by Trump’s infantile decree, Lake America. If you have fuck you money, and still line up to lick a dotard’s unwashed posterior, what does that say about your integrity and mental health?

It says, even if you have ten thousand million dollars, a hundred thousand million dollars, a million million, it’s still worthwhile to service an insane, demented man with the power to reward your services with even more money. Speaking of billionaires, here’s an actual photo of Donald with the mastermind he speaks to for at least an hour every week.

Trump gave Argentina’s dictatorial regime $40,000,000,000 in US taxpayer money for expenses related to staying in power. In Brazil and South Korea, would-be dictators who did exactly what Trump did to stay in office after he was voted out in 2020 are serving long prison sentences. That’s why Trump is punishing both of those countries. You reward friends and punish enemies, even a dozy dotard knows that.

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.

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):

click on the photo above, the “gift” link for full article

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:

Very stable genius, July 12th edition

The left just won’t stop reporting things that embarrass the most stable, brilliant president in American history (just ask him). The other day the rabidly communist New York Times reported that Qatari Air Force One apparently did not get state of the art security features installed during the recent upgrade, which is why the president flew back from Turkey in another Air Force One. This NY Times story infuriated the president, who had told another story entirely about why he switched planes coming back from the NATO summit.

So beleaguered, obedient FBI director Kashyap Pramod Patel was summoned to the White House to get busy issuing subpoenas to the four NY Times reporters who wrote the story to testify under oath in a grand jury (top secret!) exactly a week after their “leaked national security threat” story on Qatari Air Force One came out. No time to waste, no time to lawyer up to protect traitors who leak!!!

Many will call this hounding of journalists who publish facts that embarrass the Leader, armed agents of the unmistakably weaponized FBI serving them summonses at their homes, a fascist tactic. It does violate the First Amendment, among other things, but, recall, our president is very special — and extremely sensitive. And NATIONAL SECURITY!!! And look at how disrespectfully the eggheads treat him! Here’s know-it-all historian Heather Cox Richardson directly quoting the president to make him look… I don’t even know how to describe it:

By 11:18 PM on Friday, Trump’s fury had turned back to Iran. He posted on social media that if Iran tried to assassinate him, “Locked and Loaded” missiles would begin to rain down on the country “to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran—PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!”

Today he turned his anger toward those questioning his mental acuity, particularly New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman, who commented on MS NOW about his reference in Türkiye to the “Islamic State of Japan.” At 12:23 PM he lashed out at “Maggot Hagerman” and then, to refute her claims, wrote that he “just finished a perfect physical at Walter Reed, I do it every six months, and I requested another Cognitive Test, the only President to do so, three times, and I aced them all—Got every question right. Few people in Washington, D.C., could do so, including Maggot and her flunky associate, Jonathan Swan. I would be willing to bet they couldn’t get 50% of the questions right.”

The White House said Trump was referring to a physical he underwent in May.

Then, at 3:16, the president’s account posted a screed of almost 450 words complaining angrily that “I win the Election IN A LANDSLIDE against the entire Dumocrat Party,…against almost 100% negative press and Fake News,…especially Maggot Hagerman, one of the most unattractive people in the News “Business,” and her lightweight assistant, Jonathan Swan…. All I do is WIN, often against all odds,” yet no one compliments him on his great successes . . .

. . . [In response to Walmart clarifying that Trump had nothing to do with their 15% drop in meat prices for the summer] White House spokesperson Kush Desai clarified on social media that the president’s “announcement was that the sale is extending all summer long,” adding, “The media’s obsessive need to try to undermine any good news when it affects President Trump is pathological.”

A rant about the news media took up most of Trump’s long post, as he insisted that those reporting his bad poll numbers and policy failures “have no credibility…. If the Election was held again today, I would win by even more—Actually, much more!” he posted. “The Dumocrats don’t have what it takes, their Policies are wrong, and they are, generally, stupid people. They are going COMMUNIST because they are a desperately ‘sinking ship,’ and there’s not a thing they can do about it.

“Instead of writing inaccurate, false articles, for over 10 years now, shouldn’t it be time that they say, ‘We give up, we can’t beat him, there seems nothing we can do.’ Isn’t it time they say, ‘TRUMP IS THE BEST POLITICAL ATHLETE OF ALL TIME! CONGRATULATIONS, MR. PRESIDENT. YOU HAVE BEATEN US FOR 10 YEARS, AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO WASTE OUR TIME FIGHTING YOU ANY LONGER. WE CAN’T WIN. DO A GREAT JOB, SIR, RUNNING OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!’” source

Take his statements one by one and you’ll see how unfair Heather is.

If a foreign country targets and kills your leader, it is the supreme Act of War, greater than killing a million civilians, or 175 young people at a girls’ school a hundred times over. If Iran killed our president, we’d be morally entitled to retaliate with epic nuclear fury, ask Mr. Hegseth, Stephen Miller, JD Vance — ask Trump. It’s not like the United States would ever commit a war crime so serious as the targeted assassination of another nation’s leader. Oh, wait…

It’s true Trump did make a little Freudian slip at the recent NATO meeting, calling out the Islamic State of Japan when he meant to say, obviously, the Evil Islamic State of Iran. But everyone knows Trump likes to have fun when he talks, DUH! He was just trolling the Japanese, who, you have to admit, kind of deserve it, considering what they recently did to us at Pearl Harbor, and how disrespectful their leader was to Trump in the Oval Office on her recent visit… and President Putin, perfectly disguised as Ukrainian lawyer and comedian Volodymyr Zelensky, had no problem being mischievously called Zelensky by Trump’s playful “slip” of the tongue. Trump is just keeping everyone on their toes with his patented Weave. Maggots like Maggie “HAG-erman” Haberman keep trying to viciously dehumanize Trump for his all too human behavior.

Ah, I can’t go through every one of the distortions by the left above, but you get the drift. It’s those goddamned, godless COMMIEs again, millions of ’em! They hate our freedom and our way of life. They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the naked children from the so-called Epstein files!

Why this hostility to incoherence?

Incoherent, incoshmearent…

Like many other observers, Nichols [writing in the Atlantic] noted that Trump was “incoherent” in Ankara. He referred to Iran as the “Islamic Republic of Japan” and referred to Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky as “President Putin.” In an off-with-their-heads! moment, he also announced he had ordered Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to cut off all trade with Spain. source

I mean, will the commie press and radical left pundits never tire of torturing this staunch warrior against communism, wokism, racism against White Christian Soldiers, unfair anti-Klan hatred, Truth, Justice and the American way?  I mean, just look at how the NY Times is viciously attacking Mr. Trump (no wonder he’s suing them for $10,000,000,000). This first incendiary headline is from today:

OK, that’s fair enough. Iran (quite likely) started the war and now they risk reigniting it. No argument there, at least not in this headline. But most of the time The Gray Lady and their ilk are just mercilessly bashing Trump over and over. No president in history, according to Trump, has ever been subjected to this kind of coordinated attack by virtually everybody who is not directly profiting from his amazing presidency.

Like there’s something wrong — or abnormal — with a president marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by holding a campaign rally for himself!

Friggin’ COMMIES!

Photographic proof!

As you can plainly see, God spared his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, while causing only a small wound on his ear, like a stigmata of the ear, because God so dearly loved him that He deflected a deadly bullet and gave an innocent member of the audience, seated behind the president, a quick pass to heaven, so that His imperfect vessel could be miraculously spared and go on to be reelected as the most righteous president, the most righteous leader of any country, in human history. Amen.

Meanwhile, vicious critics continue to attack him, without mercy, seemingly every second.  Thankfully, he can defend himself, including against those who brutally gouged a 250 foot long gash at the bottom of the beautiful reflecting pool in DC to destroy his donor’s perfect work restoring the historic pool to its pristine 1922 beauty:

Friday night, Trump blamed “Radical Left Lunatics, most likely Dumocats [sic], who have spent their lives trying to ruin our Country,” for “some real problems with Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool.” By this evening, he was blaming “multiple individuals for vandalizing our Nations magnificent Reflecting Poll [sic]. Who would do such a thing? These are very serious crimes having to do with the destruction of National Monuments. Years in jail! Work will begin immediately on its repair.” Source

Who is David Gentile? What a surprise:

David Gentile (* 1966) ist ein US-amerikanischer Unternehmer und Gründer sowie ehemaliger CEO von GPB Capital Holdings, einer Private-Equity-Gesellschaft mit Sitz in New York, die 2013 gegründet wurde.

The NY Times reports:

The investigation, which has not been previously reported, had begun examining whether improper payments were made to help facilitate the commutation awarded to David Gentile, a private equity executive who was convicted in a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of mostly mom-and-pop investors, some of whom lost their retirement savings.

The clemency grant freed Mr. Gentile last November less than two weeks into a seven-year prison sentence, and wiped away the possibility of forfeiting more than $15.5 million to the government.

Within a few months, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, where Mr. Gentile’s conviction had been secured, opened an investigation into how the commutation came about.

Among the evidence they gathered was information about jailhouse communications in which Mr. Gentile discussed making payments of $2.5 million or more to people or companies to help facilitate his clemency, according to two people with knowledge of the investigation who were not authorized to discuss it.

One of the people who came under scrutiny by investigators was the Rev. Frank Mann, a retired Catholic priest from Queens who is friends with Mr. Trump. In an email sent to The New York Times, Father Mann denied having anything to do with the clemency. But people with knowledge of the prison communications say that the priest corresponded with Mr. Gentile about lobbying the president on his behalf. . .

. . . Mr. Trump’s unorthodox approach to clemency has spawned a seamy cottage industry in which lawyers, lobbyists and others with ties to the president have collected millions of dollars from pardon seekers who would not necessarily qualify for second chances under the Justice Department’s criteria for identifying and vetting worthy recipients.

One lobbyist was charged in March by Mr. Nocella’s office for attempting to violently extort $500,000 from a client who received a pardon from Mr. Trump last year. source

When you work for a compulsive liar

Understand, first of all, why people lie.  If the truth is embarrassing, especially if it’s humiliating, someone with a propensity to lie will always lie.  If confronted about the lie, they will lie again, make you the liar for accusing them of lying. 

This hideous, maddening cycle will be familiar to anyone who has ever been close to, or worked for, someone who can never be wrong no matter what.  If you can’t be wrong, and the facts clearly show you are, then the facts are fucking liars and so are you for bringing up those lies.

Trump is perhaps the most prolific compulsive liar in American history. He’s up there with the all-time heavyweight liars of world history. He may be number one (though, it is said, he smells like number two). If he gets his ass kicked in an election, obviously, the election was rigged, he was cheated out of a victory he actually won by a landslide, was the victim of a massive bipartisan fraud, and when you are the victim of fraud, as he told his enraged crowd on January 6th (a day of love, obviously), you get to play by very different rules. You fight like hell to make your truth the real truth and violence is totally justified because the liars who cheated you won by being scumbags who viciously rigged everything against you and deserve whatever they get, including death.

Picture working for a vengeful, childish asshole like this guy.  Lying is a condition of employment.  You can’t tell the truth.  If you do, the boss will fly into a rage.  When asked if Biden won the 2020 election you deliver the company line “well, he was sworn in as president on January 20, 2021…”.  When pressed on whether Biden won you must not give an inch, must continue this line of idiotic equivocation.  If you say “yes, senator, Biden won…” then you are out of a job, out of the party, out of the cult, out of business, kaput.  Plus, you face an excellent chance of death threats on your phone day and night.  Everybody who works for Trump knows this.  

Still, sometimes there are slip ups, like this, from a recent convert to MAGA spokesman for those furious that Obama “gave” Iran $1.6B in the JCPOA deal where Iran agreed not to develop nuclear weapons.

Trump is trying to cover over the release of $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets [in his birthday Memo of Understanding — not a final agreement] by saying “no money will exchange hands.” But this morning, Vice President J.D. Vance told CBS that in addition to that $24 billion, Iran will also have access to $300 billion in funds for reconstruction. source

Oopsie.  Et tu, CBS?

Liars lie, that’s not news.  I guess the news is that the central characters of Trump’s inner circle appear to have been captured on tape, discussing various illegal ways to allow the president to do whatever pops into his insane head.  If Stephen Miller, our foremost, infernally powerful, Jewish Nazi, orders 3,000 brown immigrants captured, detained and deported daily, and the boss loves the idea, then… fuck it, suspend habeas corpus (the right to a hearing to contest your confinement)… change administrative rules to make a loophole to avoid giving habeas corpus rights to those illegally detained, invoke the Insurrection Act… kill more “paid protesters” like Renee Good and Alex Pretti… 

The squealing among Trump’s inner circle about the New York Times report on secret meetings in the Situation Room (without the president present) that someone tapped into our nation’s most secure SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility) is an unintentional admission, as Lawrence McDonnell points out, that the reporting is super accurate.  NY Times reporters Haberman and Swan couldn’t have transcribed all those verbatim quotes without a recording. 

More lies are now needed to cover the lying lies that some liar recorded and made them lie in their own voices on a tape that doesn’t exist, like Epstein, who never actually existed, never knew the president, never shared any “wonderful secrets” with him — and the president certainly wasn’t rough with fourteen year-olds’ nipples, where did those stupid, lying quotes come from and, more to the point,  who was the traitorous leaker? — the boss was always a gentle lover who always had consent from every woman and girl he ever touched — no, wait, he never touched anybody! Epstein and those little bitches are all LIARS!!!

Trump is not playing five dimensional chess, he doesn’t even know what a game is. Point out that he just took a crap in his pants and he will angrily scream: “NO! YOOOO took a crap in my pants!!!!” I know you are, but what am I? Another win for the Winner-in-Chief.

Early this morning, Trump posted on social media: “On July 4th, at The Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, in beautiful and safe Washington D.C., we are going to host the most spectacular TRUMP RALLY of them all, a ‘TRIBUTE TO AMERICA.’” source

Be there, fans, will be wild! There should be, literally, hundreds there, mad as hell and ready to rumble.  You go, Mr. President, sir!

Trump’s legal talent, and deal making brilliance

The proud, the few, the fewer and fewer, Trump’s increasingly less competent Department of Justice. Trump’s childishly vindictive reign — he is our retribution, after all, as promised — (and, arguably, America’s punishment for centuries of racism, slavery, mass murder of the indigenous people, sexism, tolerance of pedophilia, consequence-free rape and so on) requires the unquestioning loyalty of unprincipled men and women (almost overwhelmingly white and almost all born male) who will do literally anything for proximity to power.

If a law needs breaking, they must be prepared to defiantly break it. If an honest answer to the court will make the boss look bad, and hamper “his” vengeful, cruel and illegal “agenda” — lie. As federal appeals judge for life Emil Bove instructed his attorneys going into court to defend the illegal detentions and deportations of several hundred men, be prepared to say “fuck you” to nosy federal Judge Boasberg if he tries to push back against illegal government tactics. Thousands of career lawyers in the Department of Justice have either been forced out, fired (scores for prosecuting January 6 rioters or working with Jack Smith — same with FBI agents) or demoted for lack of, I don’t know the German word for it, unlimited zeal for the Leader’s every corrupt and vicious whim. The New York Times notes:

Things have gotten so ugly with the openly corrupt Trump/Charles Koch/Heritage Foundation/Federalist Society agenda, and its in-your-fucking-face AI generated dump of tons of excrement on America, that even the NY Times has felt empowered to be a little saucy with her headlines. Picture the clucking, matronly tone of voice delivering, after the pause indicated by the comma, ” and it stings.” Shaking her head, pitying you: “it stings, doesn’t it? I know, the truth hurts…”

Any judge ruling against the president’s/Project 2025’s “agenda” is deemed a dangerous, sick, partisan hack activist judge. Here’s former Krisi Noem spokesperson, from a few months back, when she defended the unconstitutional practices of the Department of Homeland Security:

In February, then–DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin explained away the administration’s dismal record by saying that “many activist judges have attempted to thwart President Trump from fulfilling the American people’s mandate for mass deportations.” source

We, you and I, elected Mr. Trump (by a landslide and, coincidentally, a victory, by almost identical margins, in all seven swing states) and gave him a mandate to open a nationwide system of brutal concentration camps to house millions of “illegals” of all ages (and the five year-olds are as dangerous as the 75 year-olds, aren’t they?).  That’s exactly why we put the man in power, isn’t it?  That’s democracy and if you don’t like it, GEO group has a nice, damp cement cell you can share with twelve other cucks, with a nice bowl of maggot-filled mush twice a day if you’re hungry.

You see, people like Trump, Koch, the insane chainsaw wielding Musk, hate fueled zombie Stephen Miller, can NEVER BE WRONG ABOUT ANYTHING.  You must understand this.   They are capable of committing unthinkable acts to never be wrong, to prevail, to try to bring about the triumph of their will.  

Trump can muse at a news conference about how weird it would be to sue himself, then a few months later he can sue himself, settle with himself (with a deal that ends all IRS investigations into years of his tax fraud, and his family’s — retroactively, prospectively and in perpetuity) and attack the judicial process that calls bullshit on his bullshit. 

If it comes out of your ass, sir, and it smells like shit, and when you smear it on the wall it looks like shit, it’s unlikely to be anything else.  The same goes for the excrement that pours out of your pie hole, sir.

When the judge in Trump et al v. The Internal Revenue Service saw Trump quickly withdraw the baseless, fraudulent lawsuit the day before the judge would have dismissed it as a baseless, fraudulent lawsuit — and thrown out the clearly fake “settlements” that Trump claims ended the suit, she noted in her decision that no settlement had been filed with the court, as is required. The two-part “settlement” only came out after Trump dismissed the case against himself.

Undaunted Trump’s lawyers, the Acting Attorney General most prominent among them, insisted over and over, in public, that the illegal seizure of almost two billion dollars in taxpayer funds to compensate Trump allies and innocent victims of Biden’s DOJ vindictively prosecuted and convicted, or forced to plead guilty, to Trumped up charges of breaking into the Capitol, assaulting police, respectfully defecating in the halls of Congress, chanting “Hang Mike Pence” after constructing a gallows outside the Capitol, assaulting those defending the joint session of Congress as members and their staff fled for their lives, conspiring to bring weapons across from Virginia for a fully armed assault, etc. was completely above board, He also defended the second half of the “settlement” released the day after the slush fund was created, the one that said the IRS can never investigate Trump for anything, ever. Blanche claims that his order that the IRS will never investigate any person or entity associated with Trump, his children or the Trump organization is 100% legal and binding, now and forever. He also claims it does not give anyone “blanket immunity”. I have to say, Blanche is a fucking moron, though one must admire his doglike brazeness, I suppose.

When the judge reopened the case to hold a hearing on the clear fraud on the court and the conspiracy to bring about these fake “settlements”, after a filing by 35 retired federal judges of urged her to do so [1], TACO Trump immediately withdrew the slush fund — though Blanche, as pathetic a suck up as I’ve ever seen in politics, insists his order that the IRS never investigate anyone related to Trump will stand for all time, and that there is nothing foul or in the least bit irregular or suspicious about the order.   Just don’t hold it too close to your nose.

[1]   35 retired federal judges were not having this shit, and their motion to the judge who consented to dismissing the case is worth reading in its entirety.  It is beautifully written and perfectly argues a flawless point, the judge who dismissed the case is legally permitted to, and must, reopen Trump’s fake case for a hearing on a fraud against the Court.  The next day she did.  Trump’s “answer” to conspiracy to commit fraud on the court is due on June 12, two days before the handsome rascal turns an athletic eighty years old.  I told a nurse yesterday that I plan to celebrate my birthday by hosting a cage match on somebody else’s lawn. Hey, if you can do it, why not?

If you work for a cheating psychopath…

People have to do things they may not want to do to please their boss, particularly if your boss is an unreasonable, demanding asshole. When your boss is Donald Trump, you sometimes are asked to do extreme things, illegal things. If you do them, you keep your job (for the moment). So you do things like this:

Federal judges have been accusing [Trump DOJ] prosecutors of misconduct, most recently in a case last week in Chicago in which a grand jury indicted six people, including a Democratic congressional candidate, for interfering with a federal agent and conspiring to interfere with a federal agent at a protest at a detention facility.

As Julie Bosman of the New York Times reported, U.S. District Judge April Perry dismissed the case after she discovered that prosecutors had talked to individual grand jurors outside the courtroom and removed those jurors who refused to indict, as well as apparently overstating the strength of the evidence against the defendants. After making these maneuvers, the prosecutors then tried to hide evidence of them by redacting the transcripts from the grand jury. source

In an extremely rare DOJ case ruled vindictive prosecution, the court found that the Trump DOJ had brought a baseless criminal prosecution against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in order to punish him for exercising his rights in court, and beating a team of Trump’s lackies to vindicate rights they clearly violated.  Here is former DOJ prosecutor Glenn Kirschner explaining vindictive prosecution to Dean Obeidallah.

So it’s no surprise when ambitious scumbags, working for a criminally insane boss, file a fake lawsuit and make a fake “settlement” (as the fake lawsuit is about to be dismissed as a fraud) to defraud US taxpayers out of almost $2,000,000,000 and finance an army of loyal violent white men who have already demonstrated their willingness to gouge the eyes out of police officers to serve the illegal wishes of the man who brought the fake lawsuit and established the slush fund to pay them.

35 retired federal judges were not having this shit, and their motion to the judge who consented to dismissing the case is worth reading in its entirety.  It is beautifully written and perfectly argues a flawless point, the judge who dismissed the case is legally permitted to, and must, reopen Trump’s fake case for a hearing on a fraud against the Court.  Here’s the introduction:

On May 18, 2026, this Court dismissed this action with prejudice in response to Plaintiffs’ Notice of Voluntary Dismissal with Prejudice, filed earlier that day. The Court expressly noted in its Order dismissing the case that “the Notice does not reference any settlement or include a stipulation of settlement,” and thus “there is no settlement of record.” The Court further noted that Defendants “neither submitted any settlement documents nor filed any documents ensuring that settlement was appropriate where there was an outstanding question as to whether an actual case or controversy existed.”

The Court was deceived. Despite Plaintiffs not having mentioned any settlement in their Notice, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) publicly announced a “settlement” of this action shortly after Plaintiffs filed their dismissal. That “settlement” commandeers the contrived sum of $1.776 billion from the United States Treasury, to be handed out to recipients chosen by a commission effectively controlled by the President. The DOJ is calling this the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”

The day after the “settlement” containing the Anti-Weaponization Fund was announced, the DOJ announced that it had subsequently agreed to release “any and all claims . . . whether presently known or unknown, that—as of the Effective Date of the Settlement Agreement—have been or could have been asserted by [the United States] against any of the Plaintiffs or related or affiliated individuals . . . or parties . . . by reason of, with respect to, in connection with, or which arise out of . . . any matters currently pending or that could be pending . . . before Defendants or other agencies or departments.”4 The plain language of this extremely broad provision sweeps in Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) audits of Plaintiffs’ tax returns and all other claims the United States might have against Plaintiffs—extraordinary benefits for which no consideration was provided to the government.5

The parties to this case are using this lawsuit as the legal justification for these actions. This is not speculation; the parties themselves have proclaimed it, repeatedly. For starters, the DOJ implemented all of the actions described above via a document expressly titled “Settlement Agreement,” captioned with this case’s caption, plus a three-paragraph addendum that references that “Settlement Agreement” in its first paragraph and in its third paragraph purports to “forever bar[] and preclude[]” the United States from pursuing claims that could have been asserted “by Defendants against any of the Plaintiffs” in this case.6 The “Settlement Agreement” was signed by Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward the same day Plaintiffs filed their Notice; in fact, Plaintiffs’ filing of the Notice was expressly required by the “Settlement Agreement.”

The addendum granting the extraordinarily broad releases to the President and his family and businesses was signed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche the next day, May 19. Yet none of the parties filed either of these documents with the Court. In addition, shortly after announcing the “settlement,” the Acting Attorney General issued an order creating the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” That order—which references the “Settlement Agreement” in this case—explicitly identifies the Judgment Fund statute, 31 U.S.C. § 1304, under which Congress has authorized appropriations for payments of settlements against the United States, and 28 U.S.C. § 2414, which authorizes payments of “final” judgments against the United States including compromise settlements and “imminent” claims, as the statutory bases for the creation of the AntiWeaponization Fund. Payments purportedly made pursuant to these statutes in the absence of a genuine case or controversy are not authorized. Movants submit that this “settlement” is a product of collusion and is itself a fraud on the
Court.

The initiatives  [see below] are part of an effort by Mr. Trump to honor himself while commemorating the nation’s 250th birthday.

(great line from today’s NY Times, referring to Trump’s glaring face on the new $250 bill, his signature on all paper money, more sycophants lapping from his capacious tush)

E.J. Carroll at the time of the sexual attack Trump lied about and defamed her over