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Evidence? We don’t need no stinkin’ evidence

Trump sued the BBC for $10,000,000,000 in monetary harm because he claims the BBC aired a clip of his speech on January 6, 2021 that maliciously and knowingly defamed him. Trump claims the British Broadcasting Corporation viciously, knowingly and deceptively edited his more than hour long January 6, 2021 Ellipse speech to make it sound like he urged an angry, armed crowd, without a parade permit, to walk down to the Capitol and make sure Mike Pence did the right (if not strictly legal) thing, and to fight (peacefully, peacefully!) like hell or they wouldn’t have a country anymore (the savage dark-skinned eaters of pet cats and dogs would get it, and put them all to the sword, presumably). It seems the BBC has no incentive to fold to Trump’s incoherent defamation demands in the TEN BILLION dollar lawsuit against them, like CBS, ABC and other spineless US broadcast corporations.

Now BBC, as the party sued, is entitled to discovery from MAGA man to prove his monetary damages as he tries to prevail on his claim that their version of his speech was inaccurate and deliberately false and harmful to his reputation and his finances (defamatory). The court gave the BBC, who has already turned over thousands of pages of evidence to Trump’s lawyers (Trump turned over about 700 pages, fair is fair) the greenlight to get Trump’s relevant business records (evidence of $10,000,000,000 in monetary harm) and depose people who were in his Day of Love War Room, the Oval Office and on the phone with him, in the days leading up to, and including, January 6th.  Trump’s lawyers tried to withdraw the monetary damages part a few days ago, to protect his problematic financial records from becoming part of the court file, but the federal magistrate blocked that attempt.   Be careful what you wish for, boss.

This childish and vindictive fellow has a thing about not needing to produce evidence of anything. The 2020 Donald Trump for President reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee, prior to the election Trump lost, brought over a hundred lawsuits to try to limit mail-in voting, drop boxes and other forms of early and absentee voting — during the pandemic, mind you. They lost almost all of these cases, for lack of evidence of voter fraud, proof of vote dilution, systematic Black cheating, Libtard cuck cheating, Feminazi cheating, Illegal ALIEN cheating, communist skullduggery, etc.

Remember, Trump claimed, without evidence, of course, that he’d been robbed of the popular vote win in his 2016 Electoral College victory by massive voter fraud, dead Mexicans voting for Hillary by the millions, as I recall him saying. A regular zombie apocalypse. He announced the appointment if Mike Pence and a MAGA schmuck from Kansas named Kobach to head a voter fraud commission. Their rigorous investigation ended in no finding of fraud and they closed up shop without bringing charges against anybody.

Announcing the formation of this voter fraud commission was one of those reptilian Trump propaganda moves, like when he told state election officials to just say there had been fraud and he and his friends in Congress would do the rest. Or when he told Zelensky to just announce an investigation into Hunter Biden on American TV, no investigation necessary. Or when he had a guy who dipped his hand into the reflecting pool indicted for a felony. Or when he subpoenaed New York Times reporters to a grand jury — subpoenas that were withdrawn by Todd Blanche’s DOJ when a judge gave him the choice of withdrawing them or having them quashed.

The reason Pence and Kobach didn’t find those millions of dead Mexicans who voted for Hillary in 2020 is clear enough. Here’s the far-right, Project 2025 Heritage Foundation’s authoritative Voter Fraud Database. Take a look. Explore the data, as the good folks at the Heritage Foundation invite you to.

You will see literally hundreds of cases of voter fraud documented over the last forty years or so — out of maybe a billion votes cast. The incidence of fraud is something like 0.0001%, which looks as bad as it is. There’s no widespread fucking voter fraud. Truth has never been an obstacle to psychopaths.

These lawless sociopaths believe judges Trump appointed are Trump judges and should rule like Aileen Cannon, the unleashed Colombian-born Kraken in her cozy Florida federal court. To their credit, many of the federally judges Trump appointed are not corrupt. I followed one of the 2020 Trump/RNC voter suppression lawsuits in Western Pennsylvania and was very impressed by 43 year-old Federalist Society member, Trump appointee J. Nicholas Ranjan, who wrote one of the most thorough dismantlings of a baselees lawsuit I ever read (tediously detailed highlights here).

When Judge Ranjan granted the motion from every sued county election board in Pennsylvania and ordered Trump/RNC to produce evidence of their claims, Trump/RNC told him they didn’t need evidence to prove their case.  Then they produced boxes of screenshots from public opinion shaping entertainment outfits FOX, Breitbart, OANN, Newsmax, Der StĂĽrmer, Völkischer Beobachter [1], etc. 

Pugnacious dickhead, Trump-booster and supremely qualified chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan, a wiry college wrestler who could not be pinned, a law school graduate who did not pass the bar exam, an adult witness to sexual predation of college wrestlers who maintained Omerta to protect his boss (allegedly), sent fellow Trump lover Todd “I am, was, his criminal lawyer” Blanche a criminal referral urging him to investigate, indict and prosecute Jack Smith for perjury. The charge is based on a very attenuated legal theory, and, MAGA-style, with no credible evidence of a crime (Smith’s alleged perjury was in not answering a question he was not asked), in clear reprisal for Smith’s unpardonable public crimes against the Leader, a man unfairly subjected to countless witch hunts.  

Smith, in Jordan’s learned legal opinion, committed perjury when he lyingly answered a question posed by a MAGA interrogator about phone evidence he’d legally obtained as part of his investigation into the January 6th plot Jordan was a key player in. Recall Jordan’s twitchy tap dance when asked live on FOX if he talked to the president before or during the riot at the Capitol, recall his stuttering evasiveness. Jordan also disobeyed a Congressional subpoena and refused to testify before the January 6th Committee.   Senator Josh Hawley, neither as stupid or as uneducated as Jordan, and an actual lawyer, jumped on Jordan’s idiot theory, with the alacrity he showed scooting away from the rioters he’d fist pumped on his way into the Capitol an hour or two earlier, calling Smith a “serial perjurer”, presumably for his answers to questions asked, and not asked, about phone logs obtained showing calls to and from Trump as he attempted to overturn the 2020 election results.  

Evidence? The phones, including call records and hundreds of real time texts, of Secret Service agents and others at DHS intimately involved with Trump on January 6, 2021, were wiped clean under the watchful eye of corrupt Department of Homeland Security inspector general Joseph Cuffari. That mother violator, who waited six months (the time after which it would be impossible to retrieve any of this crucial evidence) to inform Congress that there were no texts or phone records from those around Trump as he fomented his insurrection, is still in his job, through multiple scandals and four years of Biden, one of the few IGs who survived Trump’s immediate Project 2025 purge of all agency watchdogs. Because when you have someone good, and loyal, who will bury evidence to help you out, you don’t fire someone like that.

Because when it comes to winning or losing, in the court of public opinion, what the fuck does evidence have to do with it anyway, am I right?

[1] The “fighting paper of the National Socialist movement of Greater Germany“, or “Kampfblatt der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung GroĂźdeutschlands” as it called itself, had its origin as the MĂĽnchener Beobachter, or “Munich Observer”, an antisemitic semi-weekly scandal-oriented paper which in 1918 was acquired by the Thule Society with financial backing by Käthe Bierbaumer and, in August 1919, was renamed Völkischer Beobachter (see Völkisch and Völkisch movement).

America finally has our homegrown Hitler

JD Vance said it a few years ago, before Trump won the Electoral College to become president, that Trump could be “America’s Hitler”. Vance also compared Trump to heroin; Trump personally injects his poison into the veins of millions of hopeless, suffering Americans who become addicted to his rage and hatred. Now the unlikable sucking vacuum of Vice President Vance is poised for those very jobs, without a shred of the showman’s talent of our inimitable American Hitler, and with no sense of irony whatsoever. Oh, well.

We have a network of lucrative, privatized concentration camps owned by mega-MAGA donors — that we taxpayers pay for — and daily quotas for immigrant detentions (now totaling nearly 40,000 nationwide — cah-ching!) set by our own raging powerful Jewish Nazi, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, a perpetually seething racist nobody elected (or would elect). I don’t understand fucking Jewish Nazis any more than I understand Blacks who embrace the vicious worldview of the Ku Klux Klan. Maybe Uncle Clarence can explain that to me, in one of his learned dissents…

Speaking of Nazi fucks, ICE, Trump/Miller’s well-funded, masked gestapo, has murdered several more people recently, two by shooting into their cars in the last week. This criminal outfit uses the same lie after every murder, “they weaponized their car to try to kill us” to justify shooting into moving cars to kill drivers or passengers.

The story is bullshit every time, as we all saw in the video of Renee Good’s murder by Jonathan Ross of ICE, whose own phone video ends with him calling the woman he shot in the face a “fucking bitch”. Of course, ICE prevented a doctor from attending to the dying Ms. Good, who they then publicly defamed as a “terrorist”. There was no car involved when ICE agents pinned Alex Pretti to the ground and shot him in the back repeatedly, but in that case, because they removed a legally possessed gun from his belt, they were, according to MAGA, morally entitled to kill him (just like the cops had every right to shoot Kyle Rittenhouse in the head after he killed people, and what about J6 Day of Love’s poor, martyred Ashli Babbitt WHO DID NOTHING WRONG and a Black guy shot her dead!?? — a bit of MAGA irony for ya…).

If American citizens can be murdered, on video, without any consequence by masked “federal law enforcement”, what hope does a Mexican man like Lorenzo Salgado Araujo (father of three American college graduate sons, shot to death in Houston) and Colombian citizen Joan Sebastian Guerrero (murdered in Maine with his three year-old daughter in the car) [1] have against the unleashed state sanctioned deadly violence of the US federal government?

This legalized government murder (the two men above were both identified by ICE post mortem as not the men they were looking for) and the countless deaths in detention (a number we’ll never know), is right out of the the Third Reich’s early mass murder playbook. You can only set up the death camps once the population accepts the government’s right to kill anyone they deem “other” or in any way undesireable. Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio delivered a speech the other day about hunting down “terrorist”enemies on the “left” in the US and worldwide, presumably all anti-fascists, the kind of people who protest outside of ICE concentration camps, presumably, or post mean things like this on the internet.

This legalized government murder (the two men above were both identified by ICE post mortem as not the men they were looking for) and the countless deaths in detention (a number we’ll never know), is right out of the the Third Reich’s early mass murder playbook. You can only set up the death camps once the population accepts the government’s right to kill anyone they deem “other” or in any way undesireable. Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio delivered a speech the other day about hunting down “terrorist”enemies on the “left” in the US and worldwide, presumably all anti-fascists, the kind of people who attend No Kings rally or protest outside of ICE concentration camps, presumably, or those who post mean things like this on the internet comparing Trump’s saintly Christian government to Hitler’s.

According to America’s president, ICE agents are well within their rights to shoot to kill anyone who doesn’t immediately stop their cars when cut off by an unmarked ICE van, put their hands up when heavily armed, masked men demand it, and allow themselves to be handcuffed, hooded, sent to a private concentration camp and shipped off to some dangerous “shithole country” whose language they don’t speak. Here’s a “Truth” directly from Trump’s ass, from the other day:

But at 6:45 this morning, Trump insisted—incorrectly—that the people ICE is rounding up are “Criminals, and we have to get them out. In order to do this, we must be strong, tough, and smart, and we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP! Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands. The Radical Left Dumocrats would like to see this done, but it won’t happen on my watch. I.C.E., be judicious, fair and smart, and go back and do your very important job. Keep those Crime Stat Records coming! Remember, you are loved and respected in America.” source

We’ll be at a local vigil to remember and honor the two innocent men slaughtered in the street by Trump/Miller’s epic fury outfit, ICE. And to say their names, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero. What is wrong with people who accept the cold-blooded, brutal murder of innocents, and the lifelong trauma to their children, families and friends? Tom Homan, Markwayne Mullin, what the fuck happened to you to turn you into the unredeemed, murder-justifying, bootlicking asshole lackies you are today?

Todd Blanche, who piously claims to follow the law and the facts without fear or favor (as long as Trump tells him what the law and the facts are, what the fear is and what the favor is) will no doubt launch a full investigation into these ICE murders, as soon as he’s done meeting with a few of the adult women he doxed, including by publishing their nude photos as teenagers, in an innocent mistake made while being totally transparent about the heavily redacted, largely unreleased, nothing-to-see here, now totally released, Epstein files. It’s a ceremonial meeting with a small contingent of the Epstein survivors or have his nomination die in committee. One has to wonder what turned Mr. Blanche into a soul-dead psychopath. Or every Republican in the Senate and House, for that matter.

[1] from the NY Times:

Mary Hayes, who also lives nearby, said she looked outside at about 7:30 a.m., after seeing social media posts about the shooting. She saw a white car with the driver’s side window blown out, she said, and bullet holes in the windshield.

There was also a woman on her knees, screaming, Ms. Hayes said, alongside a young girl with a pink backpack who was being comforted by another child.

“I heard agony,” Ms. Hayes said. “I heard a howl that came from your soul, that your whole life had just changed and it was never going to be the same.” source

Epstein, Trump, Blanche, Roy Cohn

Trump criminal attorney, former and present, Todd Blanche, stood at a podium when he was elevated to Acting Attorney General and addressed Trump directly, telling him that whatever Trump decides his service to Trump and his agenda will be, Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General or no government role at all, “I’d say ‘thank you very much, I love you, sir”.

Blanche is neither an honest person nor a remotely ethical one. He should be repeatedly asked one question during his upcoming confirmation hearings. This excellent yes or no question was raised by Andrew Weissmann, former Department of Justice official . “Yes or no question. Is Donald Trump’s name in the millions of pages of Epstein files you have not released?”

I can hear Blanche, glancing over at the clock he needs to run out, stone faced, doing what they all do. “Senator… sen-a-tor… I have already answered that question and yet you persist in re-asking it over and over… Senator, do not try to reclaim your time, I am an officer of the court, senator, and the Acting Attorney General of The United States of America and you will treat me with the respect I am entitled to under the law. I serve the Constitution, as well as my client, Mr. Trump, the greatest American to ever occupy the Oval Office. Don’t interrupt me, senator…”

Blanche has already demonstrated his unfitness for the job over and over again. He has defied the law Donald Trump signed regarding full release of the unredacted Epstein files, on orders from his boss and sole client, Donald J. Trump. Blanche has the temperament of an angry, self-righteous lackey. He has disgraced the DOJ in ways even Bill Barr would not stoop to, though Barr was a lying abomination in the role of America’s top law enforcement officer.

Blanche’s open defiance of federal law, his brazen stonewalling of the Epstein Files Transparency Act alone, should disqualify him. So should the shameless services he rendered to Trump in the fake case Trump v. IRS that Trump brought against himself to get billions of taxpayer dollars, to fund an army of armed insurgents to disrupt the midterm elections. In a side deal, the next day, Trump/Blanche granted Trump and his accursed kin all immunity from IRS audits.

Regarding Epstein, how many times will the survivors of Epstein’s abuse have to make themselves heard before the law is enforced and the guilty men of power are held accountable, even if only be named publicly? Ghislaine Maxwell, the only person convicted connections to Epstein’s years of sexual abuse of junior high school girls, after speaking with Mr. Blanche, got a nice change of prison, from a high security one for sex offenders, to a much more pleasant one where she can practice yoga, have catered meals and her own puppy. Blanche has now changed DOJ rules to give himself the unappealable right to move federal prisoners anywhere he wants, with or without cause, reason or explanation. That’s how democracy works, if you’re a fascist working directly for the corrupt leader.

Check out the courage and dignity of these women. Compare it to the absence of courage and dignity in Todd Blanche and his MAGA confederates

And they made this video months earlier, when Epstein’s longtime Girl Friday, Lesley Groff [1], appeared to lie repeatedly to James Comer’s House Committee that hosted her for an informal conversation that was not videotaped or given under oath.

[1] The controversial 2008 non-prosecution agreement Epstein entered into with the Justice Department named Groff as a potential co-conspirator that the U.S. “will not institute any criminal charges against.”

Following Epstein’s 2019 death by suicide [there is no doubt he was suicided, by whom is the question — ed], the Justice Department continued investigating people connected to him, including Groff. A 2019 Justice Department list of Epstein family and associates named Groff as a “co-conspirator.” The list also included Maxwell.

A memo describing the department’s investigation after Epstein’s suicide details Groff’s interactions with Epstein’s survivors, including scheduling appointments, arranging travel and completing payments.

(from the PBS link above)

Self-evident truths denied at 250th birthday bash

National Rent-A- Fence plus DANGER!! Explosives!

The wall Mexico paid for (along with the Restricted Area, Do Not Enter sign), erected around the White House during the end of Trump’s first tumultuous term, before Mr. Trump fixated on his plan to build an impenetrable, state of the art, top secret FĂĽhrerbunker under what used to be the East Wing of the White House.

Meanwhile, the price for consideration for a presidential pardon, for serious crimes (no pardon attorney necessary, cash only) starts at $6,000,000, I’m hearing. Which is TOTALLY normal. Ask Clarence Thomas, Ginni Thomas, Samuel Alito, his wife, John Roberts’ wife, John Roberts, etc.

Yee hah!

Representing the government, Solicitor General John Sauer told the court that the president must be able to remove officials in the agencies because “the President must have the power to control and…the one who has the power to remove is the one who…is the person that they have to fear and obey.” source

Sauer, if memory serves, is the RFK Jr.-voiced Trump myrmidon who argued, in the aptly named, dystopian Trump v. United States, that, sure, the president could legally send Seal Team Six to execute political opponents (or witnesses, or anyone else, really). Only if he thought it was in the best interests of his agenda, of course. They won that case, like yesterdays Slaughter case (sometimes the name really tells the story) that gives Fuckface the right to fire the head of any government agency with cause or without cause. In Republican states that’s called “right to work”. You serve at the pleasure of the boss, end of story. It worked during slavery as it works today. USA! USA!!!

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 GrĂĽnder sowie ehemaliger CEO von GPB Capital Holdings, einer Private-Equity-Gesellschaft mit Sitz in New York, die 2013 gegrĂĽndet 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

Nazi justice

Psychiatrist Robert J. Lifton, in The Nazi Doctors, pointed out that doctors were the first professional group in Germany to fully Nazify. German doctors did this voluntarily, assertively, as soon as Hitler was in power. No Jews, all doctors with “Jewish blood” out, every German doctor had to a loyal member of the Nazi party to practice medicine in Germany.

Not surprising to me that doctors were the first, especially in light of some of the arrogant, contemptuous, corporate medical experts I’ve seen in the last few years, including one actual psychopath. See also the complicity of the American Psychiatric Association in suppressing the findings of dozens of psychiatrists, including Lifton, in regard to the dangerous instability of Donald J. Trump during his first term. It’s not my point here to bash doctors, although many highly admired doctors are self-involved schmucks and the opposite of healers.

I would guess, without any evidence at the moment (just like the Trump legal eagles in their false charging affidavits), that German lawyers were the second German profession to fully Nazify themselves. Public distaste for lawyers needs no elaboration, but there is a special breed that embraces fascists in a democracy.

The legal and medical professions are full of ambitious, competitive, self-aggrandizing people (as well as many people of fine character and the best motives). Put a Nazi regime in charge of their careers and many (the worst of them), once the Nazi has solidified power and control, will become more fervent Nazis than the Leader himself. This is observable throughout history.

It is plainly observable with Trump’s craven, lying criminal defense team at the Department of Justice. Their bottom shelf lawyers (many of the best at DOJ have quit or been fired for things like taking their ethical duties seriously, or doing their jobs on a nonpartisan basis) torment and prosecute the enemies of their enraged, paranoid master. They do this at the whim of a man who is awake ranting on social media nonstop throughout the night, and sleeps through meetings and even the staged $60,000,000 gladiatorial event the 80 year-old birthday boy threw for himself on the south law of the White House. That Mr. Trump is insane is also easily observable (sorry, American Psychiatric Association).

The coverup of crimes, which indicates a consciousness of guilt that is admissible against defendants in criminal prosecutions, is often worse than the crimes being hidden. In Trump’s case, both are heinous. He also has an unbroken lifelong pattern and practice of committing crimes and covering them up. Hence the “settlement” of his fraudulent case against his own IRS, an attempt to make sure any of his likely frauds against the IRS (and the American taxpayers) remain unpunished, in perpetuity.

A group of the president’s sycophants met in panicked secret meetings to strategize how to protect the Orange Polyp (and, more importantly, their own careers) from what is revealed about his behavior in the 6,000,000 documents of the Epstein files. Against the advice of anyone who knew anything about the strategic use of military force, Trump attacked Iran, based on lies and in support of a fellow autocrat, Bibi Netanyahu, a plague on the world in his own right. The mass murder Trump unleashed was a crime against humanity. The “memorandum of understanding” his expert real estate baron negotiators hammered out with Iran appears to be unconditional surrender to Iran. For starters, it gives Iran exponentially more billions, and more future power, than the JCPOA, Obama’s hated deal did. So, why not keep it secret? It is a great triumph, that Trump so quickly forced Iran to its knees!

The worst part of all this, to me, is the violent, hate-inspiring lies. Nazism, like all fascist movements, is founded on lies and depends on people believing those lies. White Supremacy? Trump rips up a deal painstakingly negotiated by skilled diplomats and scientists because it was signed under a Black president. One of Obama’s parents was “white”, of course, which I mention because only in a racist society does this need to be said (he said, triggering racists who believe only whites can be persecuted).

Trump ripping up Obama’s JCPOA is white supremacy in a nutshell. Rip up the Black guy’s carefully considered plan, hammered out by experts over the course of several years (and cosigned by Russia, China, the EU and other nations), because the president at the time was a fucking “n-word,” as the KKK will always insist. Send two completely unqualified real-estate billionaires to quickly cover up your failed mass bombing of Iran after shredding the deal, claim victory and unconditional surrender — while not revealing the terms of the memorandum of understanding. An enraged white supremacist, without any need for thought beforehand, reflexively joins his fellow white supremacist in illegally mass murdering the innocent brown people whose repressive government signed the deal with the Black guy. Maybe the worst part, beyond even the lying, is the vicious, heedless, proud stupidity of these race-obsessed fascists.

Trump’s government lawyers (leaving aside their oath to support the Constitution and protect the rights of citizens, not “the boss”), like all lawyers, are considered officers of the court. As officers of the court hey are bound by oath to tell the truth, to not resort to scumbag tactics, not to bring frivolous charges without evidence against people the boss instructs them to investigate and prosecute, not to lie to grand juries, or redact their lies when a judge forces them to turn over grand jury transcripts (unheard of with any previous administration). The Department of Justice was always given the “presumption of regularity” from federal judges. Judges took the DOJ at its word in all previous administrations. In the administration of the Lyin’ King — there is no longer the presumption that the poisonous toads King Turd sends to court to torture his enemies are telling the truth. Latest case in point:

Today U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota Daniel Rosen announced his office was charging fifteen people with conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers over their behavior during the federal immigration crackdown in Minneapolis last year that led to the deaths of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Rosen alleges that the defendants are part of two “antifa” groups that “violently oppose immigration law enforcement.”

At the press conference about the charges, prosecutors introduced a Facebook post from one of the accused that said: “We need to become ungovernable.” Journalist Aaron Rupar noted: “Oh, so they have NOTHING nothing.” It’s actually even more embarrassing than that: Trump attended the Libertarian National Convention in 2024 when its theme was “Become Ungovernable,” and stood in front of the banner bearing that slogan, so the idea that the phrase is part of a criminal conspiracy will be awkward to argue.

From Minneapolis, Matt Sepic of MPR News reported that Rosen said the people were “charged not for what they said but what they did.” But Rosen did not answer questions about whether any law enforcement officers were injured and said evidence would come out later. Sepic notes that federal prosecutors charged thirty-six people with assaulting or impeding immigration agents in December and January, but have now dropped eighteen of the cases entirely and eleven more through nonprosecution agreements. Sepic notes that Magistrate Judge David Schultz in April called one of the prosecutors’ charging documents a “false affidavit.” source

Obedience to a constantly raging, racist idiot is abhorrent to decency, democracy and the rule of law. Of course, there will always be lawyers (think fucking Todd Blanche, Emil Bove, Pam Bondi) who will do the bidding of the man in power — no matter how immoral, illegal or otherwise repugnant. Among German lawyers under Mr. Hitler the principle was FĂĽhrerworte haben Gesetzeskraft –– the Leader’s every fart has the force of law. This is most horrible when the Leader is an insanely enraged and prodigiously flatulent motherfucker.

Hannah Arendt speaking to this moment

Nothing is more dangerous to nature and humanity than an inability to think.    This inability to think is deliberately, mindfully fostered by those who make the most money, and seize great power, when  people can’t think.  Without critical thinking it is impossible to choose well between complex alternatives, to accurately identify problems in the first place, to protect ourselves from predators. 

A populace that can’t think is ideal for manipulation, many of them will be ready to tolerate or commit atrocities for an incoherent “cause”.  The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, as Francisco Goya the painter observed.   Here’s Hannah Arendt, who clearly identified this central villain of human history, from a few generations ago.  

American children raised watching TV, and devices, see more than 10,000 hours of advertising, tailored to their baby minds, before they learn to read. Today attention spans are shattered, brains and social interactions rewired, by constant smartphone notifications from people trying to sell something, push some idea, inoculate the “user” against critical thinking by amplifying their own prejudices and likes and silencing opposing ideas. The algorithms that cater to our personalized prejudices are making a small number of neuroatypical men unlimited billions of dollars as they emotionally and intellectually immiserate billions of vulnerable human beings.

We are at the “mercy” of psychopaths at the moment. Only we, by acting together and thinking as critical problem solvers, can stop these merciless, insane bastards who would have everything. They will own everything even if it takes destroying the earth itself, the biosphere, all the animals and all but a handful of specially selected humans who will live on militarized luxury islands, in outer space or in well-furnished spas deep under the ground. Fuck those putos.

Thousands of Trump ICE arrests dismissed

Kyle Cheney crunched the numbers, in a recent article in Politico, and found that federal judges ruled against ICE in 10,000 cases brought contesting the illegal tactics frequently employed by Trump’s federal goon squad. ICE has won about a thousand times, a 10-1 skew in favor of the law. The use of force, detentions, and conditions of detention, and denial of constitutionally guaranteed rights were deemed illegal in 90% of the cases.

The federal circuits are unaccountably deadlocked, in regard to ICE policies. There is a divide between The Rule of Law and MAGA/Project 2025 over the ICE question. That question is whether Trump’s masked goon squads need to follow the Fourth Amendment, be truthful to judges, present actual evidence or if their executive branch agency really has to honor the 9-0 Supreme Court affirmation of the writ of habeas corpus (the right to go in front of a judge to contest the reason you’re being held in prison). The Federalist Society Six will eventually have the final say about the criminally insane president’s right to unilaterally suspend Fourth Amendment and habeas corpus rights, and trial court judges in several districts have their hands tied in the meantime by Appellate decisions.

Criminal charges brought by Trump’s DOJ are routinely dismissed, by judges and juries, for lack of evidence of a crime. A number of his attempted vindictive indictments were rejected by grand juries. His DOJ has repeatedly committed frauds on the court and prosecutorial misconduct, including jury tampering. Top DOJ officials routinely go on the air to declare Trump’s enemies guilty before they are even indicted.

In a court of law, evidence is required to prove a claim, particularly when the State intends to deprive a person of their liberty or their life. Evidence that there is probable cause to believe a crime has been committed is required to get a judge to sign a search warrant. Evidence is the factual basis for any legal claim. Vexatious litigants like the petulant, pampered, professional victim in the White House hate this requirement of “evidence.” Evidence is as abhorrent to a compulsive liar as the truth itself. Judges require evidence (outside of the Federalist Six, of course), as does our justice system.

If you are Trump, you send lawyers to shop for a cooperative judge to give you a search warrant to seize 2020 ballots in a county that voted for the Democratic candidate, without evidence of any kind of crime — and well beyond the statute of limitations. You illegally appoint unqualified acting state’s attorneys to commit hanky panky to get indictments from grand juries, claiming to have slam dunk evidence they don’t have. Some are even forced to admit prosecutorial misconduct in court.

When it comes to Trump’s crimes, the same principle applies in reverse. A search warrant, legally obtained and based on evidence of criminal possession of documents and obstruction of the investigation (both of which turned out to be true) — a witch hunt by a weaponized DOJ engaging in “lawfare”! Trump is entitled to billions in compensation for being the target of a weaponized DOJ, IRS, the electorate, etc. So are all his wealthy “friends” and those violent loyalists willing to risk death for his lies, they are all entitled to millions.

Trump’s DOJ was recently found to have maliciously prosecuted Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man they illegally rendered to the torture prison in El Salvador. To save face, after defying a federal judge’s order to turn the airplanes around, and claiming for months that they had no jurisdiction over El Salvador (the dictator of El Salvador acknowledged these US prisoners were living in cells rented by Trump), they prosecuted Abrego for a non-crime they had no evidence he committed. They did this after publicly vowing that IF he ever got back into the US because some traitor judge ruled he had to come back, they’d put him on criminal trial for felonies they falsely assured the public he was 100% guilty of. That case was dismissed with a rare finding of “malicious prosecution”. Trump’s psychotic lackies are now determined to deport Abrego Garcia to one of several African war zones the State Department classifies as highly dangerous. Abrego has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, who has indicated they’d take him, but the DOJ is determined to send him to South Sudan, ASAP.

Trump’s Department of Justice has lost the “presumption of regularity” judges always gave government lawyers when they appeared before them. There is nothing regular about a DOJ routinely hiding evidence, lying to judges, making public statements about the guilt of the parties they haul into court. Never have we had an acting Deputy Attorney General tell his lawyers that they have to be ready to tell judges “fuck you” if they ask inconvenient questions that could impede the president’s illegal agenda. Erez Reuveni, a former DOJ lawyer, quoted criminal weasel Emil Bove, now federal appellate Judge Bove for life, to that effect. Reuveni was fired for admitting to the court that he had not been given any evidence to present to the court. In fact, he’d been instructed to defy the judge by one of the president’s most aggressive mongooses (no offense to mongooses, but look at this motherfucker:)

I keep thinking of one of the hundred or so cases Trump and the RNC brought (and lost) before the 2020 election to restrict voting by mail and the use of drop boxes (recall this was in the middle of the hpandemic, voters who believed Covid was highly contagious and deadly skewed overwhelmingly anti-Trump). This federal case, Trump 2020 v. Boockvar, against numerous election officials in Pennsylvania, caught my eye. The media was not reporting on it (it was one of many such frivolous lawsuits) so I followed it on PACER, the online database of federal cases. I was frustrated that the judge, a 43 year-old Trump appointee named J. Nicholas Ranjan, was not dismissing such an amateurishly filed case presented with zero evidence of its mostly incoherent claims. Week after week I followed this case. Judge Ranjan granted a motion to compel Trump and the RNC to submit evidence supporting its many bogus claims. Plaintiffs delivered a box full of screenshots and printouts from FOX, NewsMax, Breitbart, der Sturmer and other reliable legal authorities. I waited for Ranjan to dismiss the case. He didn’t, not for some time. But it was well worth the wait. The judge made a record that ensured he could not be reversed on appeal when he finally dismissed the case.

These two quotes are from the Kyle Cheney article linked above:

“This isn’t how things are supposed to work in America,” wrote U.S. District Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee based in New York, in the case of a man whose lawful status was revoked after ICE arrested him. “Unquestionably, the laws of human decency condemn such villainy.”

“Despite hundreds of similar rulings in this and other courts resoundingly in favor of the ICE-detainee petitioners, ICE continues to act contrary to law, to spend taxpayer money needlessly, and to waste the scarce resources of the judiciary,” said U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III, a George H.W. Bush appointee from Pennsylvania.

Senator Andy Kim was pepper sprayed today by masked agents outside of  infamous ICE detention center, GEO Group’s private Delaney Hall, in Newark, New Jersey. The detainees are on a hunger strike over conditions there that have been found to constitute torture — insufficient, expired food, unclean water, lack of medical care, abusive treatment. The other day the governor of New Jersey was prevented from entering to inspect the facility. This is the same hellhole that refused admission to the mayor of Newark, and then let him in before he was briefly and illegally arrested when he left, on orders, presumably, of the highly qualified Alina Habba.  The melee that followed led to assault charges (still pending) against US Congress member LaMonica McIver.  Apparently she assaulted an ICE agent’s elbow with her eye and her stomach during a chaotic shoving match between elected officials and masked goons licensed to kill and gas with impunity. Evidence, I suppose, will eventually be presented in the case against her. I suspect it will be similar to the suspect evidence judges have rejected in many other fraudulent Trump DOJ vindictive prosecutions.

As for Trump’s Stephen Miller-led deportation Gestapo, in 2018, under Trump, there were six detainee deaths in ICE custody. In the year and a half the malevolent creature has been back in power: 61 acknowledged deaths in ICE custody (dying detainees are often rushed to hospitals to take their deaths off the books of ICE, but 61 deaths in detention in 2025 and the first half of 2026 are confirmed on ICE’s own website..

Fuck these fuckin putos.

THIS IS AN ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH — no Photoshop, no AI, NO COVFEFE!!!

GOP without the masks

A few shorts, showing the real agenda of the David Duke-supported front man for White Evangelical Christian Supremacy (no Papists need apply, Leonard Leo). You simply write history the way you want it to have been and burn any book that contradicts your preferred story. The Confederate plutocrats never lost the Civil War, it just took them a century and a half to morph into the force we are confronted by today, with the aid of many obsessive billionaire oligarchs and their corporate avatars.

And this kind of open corruption and fraud is perfectly acceptable in today’s oligarch friendly GOP:

Finally, that $1,776 million slush fund — in “settlement” of a baseless $10,000,000,000 “case” against his own executive agency (IRS) that was about to be dismissed as frivolous (Trump was both plaintiff and defendant and attempting to make a deal for a taxpayer funded $10,000,000,000 for himself) — to pay off an army of violently insane J6ers and rabid top Trump asslickers, at Trump’s absolute discretion as irrefutable “head” of this new Commission of Weaponized Peace and Crime Punishment Covfefe, is the mad turd’s biggest, most openly irrational and lawless fuck you to America yet.   Commissioners, who can be hired and fired by the boss with or without cause, may include: MAGA Mike Johnson, Sidney Powell, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Jeffrey Clark, John Eastman, Stewart Rhodes, Enrico Tarrio, Rudy Giuliani, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, Mike Flynn, Paul Manafort, Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Ron DiSantis, Alan Dershowitz, Ghislaine Maxwell, Vladimir Putin and, as commissioner “emeritus,” the Honorable Hermann Goring.

Are you still hesitant to call people who hate democracy this much, are this racist, lawless, cruel, destructive and as prepared to weaponize government, unleash violence (and pose as persecuted victims of “weaponization”), while they attempt to seize absolute, unquestionable control of a one-party state by any means necessary, Nazis? These fuckers have allocated billions to pay for a vast network of lucrative, privately owned, for-profit, concentration camps. Can I make the connection any clearer between two extremist parties run 100% by the will of their clearly insane leader?