Category Archives: History and Politics

Ethical journalism is a cornerstone of democracy

Too bad so much of our commercially produced news is controlled by psychopathic judicially created “persons” focused exclusively on their sacred bottom line. “Both sides” journalism, in an age when one side is increasingly, openly lawless, and contemptuous of the law, leaves very fine people on both sides screwed.

The reason The Fourth Estate exists in a democracy, and is protected as the first order of business in the Bill of Rights, is to provide information and analysis to the populace so we can make informed, intelligent decisions about how we are governed. Democracy, our framers said, to distinguish this new form of rule from the tyranny of a king, was government by consent of the governed. You can’t give consent if you don’t know what you’re consenting to.

Fascism rises when real information is erased, dismissed as “fake news” and facts are replaced with an endless loop of constantly changing lies. Many of the people inundated with those lies will consent to whatever they are told. Attack judges as partisan lunatics, then accuse your enemies of attacking judges; foment political violence and accuse your enemies of being murderers; try to rig elections and accuse your enemies of doing it when you lose, the list goes on and on. Consent of the governed is replaced by “obey or die,” backed by the full violence of the state. Many are pleased, even proud, to do it, I’m sad to say.

Lawrence O’Donnell, brilliant journalist and great writer, consistently gives an intelligent take on the most important issues of the day. Here’s Lawrence on the moral and intellectual idiocy of our government’s defense of the privacy and reputations of wealthy, powerful pedophiles and sex traffickers. The lifelong trauma of their victims? “I haven’t even thought about that,” said our grifter-in-chief, America’s Greatest Liar:

Here’s Trump, after a still unknown murderer killed a well-funded, highly influential far-right extremist influencer, organizer and MAGA icon, now a martyr.  As is often said, Trump’s every accusation is an admission:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It’s long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year, in the most hateful and despicable way possible. For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie [1] to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.

My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials and everyone else who brings order to our country.

very fine people, on both sides, on both sides.

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I think it’s worth noting, because you’re seeing some people saying, “Well, you know, I disagree with what he said, but he was a champion of free speech. He died debating.” Look, the fact that he was murdered doesn’t change the fact that he also — he was an opponent of free speech. There’s no other way to cut it, for a man who created something called Professor Watchlist, School Board Watchlist, to name and frighten people from teaching, who advocated restrictions on what school teachers could teach, who called for — and there’s a clip you can see online — who called for the televised public executions, and he had a pretty broad category in mind. But what was really chilling was he wanted this to be required viewing for children. And you can look at this clip, and you can see his colleagues. They’re sort of trolling, but Kirk, again and again, pulls it back to seriousness, and he says, “No, no, no, this isn’t a joke. This has to be a holy experience, a teaching experience for children, watching enemies be killed.” That is not a champion of free speech.

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Two thousand plus words on Trump-Epstein

I don’t know if this hung in Epstein’s home or not, but it’s a really nice picture of super-spy FBI informant, Donald J. Trump, deep undercover while bravely protecting vulnerable 13-16 year-olds from his pedophile friend (Trump/FBI informant according to the recent, now radically revised, statement of MAGA Mike Johnson).

Released by the lying commies on the House Oversight Committee and printed in the failing, fake NY Times today. Note the breasts, much smaller than the ones Trump publicly prefers, the head and arms missing, and the sassy Sharpie pubes signature. Drawn by a man who clearly loves and respects women. A Democrat HOAX!

Nepo baby Trump attacks Diversity, Equity and Inclusion hiring by Black president of conservative Virginia university; kills eleven “suspects” on boat in international waters

George Mason University, the home of the Antonin Scalia School of Law, for fuck’s sake, home base for the Heritage Foundation, with professorial chairs endowed by Charles Koch and friends. Black president, Dr. Gregory Washington, is being pressured by Trump’s minions to apologize for comments he made about the importance of diversity hiring in 2020 and 2021. You see, the Civil Rights Act was racist, according to the persecuted U.S. president (and his boiling “brain”, Jewish Nazi Stephen Miller), presumably because it failed to recognize that only rich white men can be true victims of vicious, systemic racism. You can’t make this shit up, as one of Trump’s supremely flexible appointees stated in chastising the school president in a recent official statement:

The Education Department’s assistant secretary for civil rights, Craig Trainor, upped the pressure in a statement last month, saying Dr. Washington “waged a university-wide campaign to implement unlawful D.E.I. policies that intentionally discriminate on the basis of race,” the statement said, adding, “You can’t make this up.”

Read all about it.

Unfortunately, you can’t make this up. However, everywhere you look our low IQ, increasingly demented mad leader is making himself less and less useful to the billionaire tech fascists who put him into power. How do you like this headline?

First another reminder: there is absolutely no connection, beyond years of purely superficial, 100% transactional friendship between Donald Trump and convicted procurer of underaged “prostitutes” Jeffery “Hoax!” Epstein. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Suspected drug smugglers, you get that? I think you’re a drug smuggler, you make me suspicious, I’m a very stable genius, I can kill you and everybody around you, who I also suspect is a drug smuggler. I’m Duterte! [1] I will kill you! This is a turn on Alan Dershowitz’s incoherent defense of the big guy at one of his impeachments (subsequently written into US law by the Koch Six): if the president truly believes he has a good reason to violate the law, he can’t be punished for that.

Note the NY Times characteristic Nazi-tolerant delicacy in framing this obscenity — the issue in their subhead is not, God forbid, that this is clearly the alarming claim of a dangerously unhinged, murderous, dictatorial psychopath. The last guy who did it is in front of the International Criminal Court. We, at the Grey Lady, note that it appears to be problematic to treat criminals (who have been convicted after a trial) as enemy combatants, although, admittedly, the power the Orange polyp claims is to treat suspected criminals (no trial, nothing but my suspicion and your death!) as wartime combatants — and summarily kill them, as he did to eleven people on a boat the other day.

We are living in the shit, boys and girls, and the NY Times is innocently helping. For every important article highlighting grotesque fascistic excess by this desperate regime, we get several mealy mouthed headlines like this, to keep things fair. To not piss off an obviously insane, revenge-twisted maniac to take some kind of profit crushing retaliatory action, one supposes.

[1] Mr Rodrigo Roa Duterte, born on 28 March 1945 and a national of the Republic of the Philippines. President of the Philippines, Mayor of Davao City, and allegedly the founder and head of the Davao Death Squad (‘DDS’), at the time of the relevant conduct.

Arrest warrant issued on 7 March 2025

Allegedly responsible for the crime against humanity of murder, committed on the territory of the Republic of the Philippines between 1 November 2011 and 16 March 2019 in the context of the ‘war on drugs’ campaign. . . On 12 March 2025, Mr Duterte was surrendered to the International Criminal Court after being arrested by the authorities of the Republic of the Philippines in accordance with the warrant of arrest.

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Literal Nazi fucks

Who but a Nazi pulls this kind of brutal, illegal shit at 1 a.m. of a holiday weekend? This is from Labor Day:

The rush to deport children in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend, in apparent violation of the law, looked a great deal like the administration’s removal of undocumented immigrants from Venezuela to the notorious terrorist CECOT prison in El Salvador in March. At the time, President Donald J. Trump denied that he had signed the order invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act the administration used to justify the rendition of the men to El Salvador. “Other people handled it,” he said, even though his signature is on the document that appears in the Federal Register.

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I pose the question again: who but a Nazi targets the children of “others” for illegal deportation, at 1 a.m., to a country they, or their parents, fled for fear of persecution?

A regime that renders people they deem alien enemies, of their children, in the dark of night, to places like war-torn South Sudan and a torture prison in El Salvador, is not a democracy governed by laws. It is a totalitarian regime driven by a lust for unchecked power. These insane, enraged, cruelty-addicted fuckers are Dick “Darkside” Cheney on steroids. Adolf Eichmann (and his ilk) got nothing on rabid “MAGA” loyalists Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Tom Homan and their foul-smelling Nazi ilk.

Of course, nobody ever accused Eichmann of protecting pedophile sex traffickers and their clients.

Nice if-pology idiotically framed as an apology from judge scolded by Gorsuch and Kavanaugh about their new rule on binding precedent

This is one of the scariest distortions I’ve read in the New York Times recently. The article focuses on the conditional apology given by a Reagan appointed federal judge after he was scolded by two bullies on the 6-3 Leonard Leo majority Supreme Court for not following “binding precedent” — an unsigned summary order, with no legal reasoning they released on an emergency basis to serve President Project 2025.  Their ruling on massive cuts to the The Department of Education, they scolded, obviously applied to cutting NIH grants to study cancer, Alzheimer’s, HIV and similar deadly plagues. This was a bit of unprecedented bullying by these radical right ideologues.   The Grey Lady styled it as the federal judge (who ruled correctly) messing up and legitimately being required to apologize.

Let us also note that an emergency application from Special Counsel Jack Smith languished for seven months before the 6-3 far right majority granted candidate Trump unprecedented blanket immunity for any crimes committed by a US president as part of his “core duties” (try to imagine the hypothetical where a president would have to commit a crime to do his job, the six provided none).   Their delayed ruling effectively ended the prosecutions of Trump for violating the Espionage Act (by taking classified documents to his home when he was out of office), obstructing justice (having his lawyers lie by claiming he’d returned everything), and trying to overturn the results of an election he was well aware he lost. 

In glaring contrast, every one of Trump’s emergency applications, complaining he’s not being allowed to commit random illegal acts, is immediately heard and almost invariably decided by the far right six in the hardened sociopath’s favor. As was his emergency application after he was busted by federal judges for illegally firing tens of thousands of civil servants without cause and violating other laws.

Here is the Gray Lady’s idiotic headline about the Supreme Court extending its power in a hideously fascistic manner (while neutering lower federal courts):

Judge Apologizes to Conservative Justices in Case Over N.I.H. Cuts

Judge Young said on Tuesday that he had not realized he was expected to rely on a slim three-page order issued with minimal legal reasoning in April to his case dealing with a different agency.

“Before we do anything, I really feel it’s incumbent upon me to — on the record here — to apologize to Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh if they think that anything this court has done has been done in defiance of a precedential action of the Supreme Court of the United States,” said Judge Young, who was appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1985.

“I can do nothing more than to say as honestly as I can: I certainly did not so intend, and that is foreign in every respect to the nature of how I have conducted myself as a judicial officer,” he added.

Since the beginning of President Trump’s second term, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has sided with White House in nearly every case it has considered.

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Wrong headline.  Wrong framing.  Here’s a better headline, off the top of my head:

Respected federal judge bullied by Trump appointees for not recognizing their unsigned, three page “emergency” shadow docket ruling as binding precedent.

Honestly, I don’t know what’s wrong with the New York Times sometimes, they only intermittently serve the interests of democracy in their reporting.

For one thing, the federal judge’s apology was conditional — if I offended you, I’m sorry. This is known as an if-pology. The New York Times apparently doesn’t make this distinction. The judge defended his actions while “apologizing”– how was he expected to know an unsigned three page emergency ruling was now binding federal precedent according to two members of the highly partisan Supreme Court majority? How indeed? He had to be told by two of the six doctrinaire jurists who made their way up the far right judicial pipeline by proving their brazenness and fidelity to the dogma of their extremist judicial fraternity.

Read the rest of the article, it doesn’t spell things out with the greatest of clarity, but it eventually manages to make clear how offended the judge who apologized was to be singled out this way for an ass whupping by Kavanaugh and Gorsuch (two prep school bullies whose powerful mothers both assured them they were destined to sit on the Supreme Court). Another triumph of incoherence by Project 2025’s architects, with a snazzy assist from the journal of record.

Supreme Court precedents are binding rulings that all federal courts must follow. They are traditionally based on articulated legal reasoning, analyzing and evaluating the arguments of both sides in light of past Supreme Court decisions directly impacting the issue in question. Supreme Court holdings are based on centuries of case law, legislative history, the text of the Constitution, the merits of both sides of the constitutional argument presented.

These emergency “shadow docket” rulings, sometimes only a paragraph, answer only the narrow burning question placed in front of the court for immediate, emergency decision.  The Supreme Court, in the past, has rarely ruled this way, except on the eve of an execution, for example.  It is now routine for Trump to run to his appointees for these “shadow docket” rulings which are made without briefing or argument, citing no cases, no precedent, no legal analysis.  His record is something like 16-0 in these unsigned majority  orders.

To force federal judges to consider these abbreviated, unsigned emergency rulings “binding precedent” is an abomination on the Constitution, the specialty of this particular group of six transactional corporate assholes in robes. Shame on the Grey Lady for helping to obscure how radical and dangerous this latest overreach by these judicial arsonists is.

Nice bit (hic) from Jair Bolsonaro

Jair Bolsonaro, who managed, with the help of right wing judges, to have his popular opponent jailed for fake corruption charges right before former insurrectionist Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil, (“lock him up! lock him up!”) lost his reelection bid after one term (to the man he locked up). Then, advised by Steve Bannon, he tried a January 6 style overthrow of the election results, and immediately (while still president) fled to the US for health reasons. He’s now on trial for his crimes against the constitution of Brazil. Courtesy of the Grey Lady:

He didn’t appear in court because of poor health, his defense team told reporters outside the courthouse. Ahead of the trial, one of his sons told a Brazilian news site Mr. Bolsonaro had been suffering from debilitating hiccups that the former president attributes to complications from a stabbing attack on the campaign trail in 2018. [1]

Trump’s “illegally” (subject to unsigned shadow docket order by the Federalist Six) imposed 75,000% tariff on Brazil when it stubbornly refused to halt the totally unfair persecution of democratically elected Hall of Fame hiccupper Jair Bolsonaro who had the presidency illegally stolen from him by communists and intellectuals in 2022 and didn’t do anything Trump and his people didn’t also do, literally, perfectly, legally, in the months prior to, and on, the Day of Love, January 6, 2021. Many people, billionaires and poor people alike, love dictators!

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Mr. Bolsonaro, 70, has been under house arrest, wearing an ankle monitor, for weeks. Then, over the weekend, Brazilian authorities tightened security measures, placing police officers around his home amid worries that he may try to flee and possibly seek refuge at the U.S. Embassy near his home.

Prosecutors accuse Mr. Bolsonaro and seven members of his inner circle of overseeing a vast conspiracy to cling to power after his defeat at the polls in 2022, seeking to overturn the results, trying to enlist the military in their plot and drafting plans to poison Mr. Bolsonaro’s rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is now Brazil’s president.

Mr. Bolsonaro and the other defendants face criminal charges, including the “violent abolition of the democratic rule of law” and “coup d’état.” If found guilty, Mr. Bolsonaro could be sentenced to more than 40 years in prison.

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Note, the scrupulously fair to Nazis NY Times (see my upcoming post for more chilling details) presently does not allow me to easily attach a “gift” link to their articles.  This is a new innovation, I was able to attach a gift link yesterday. If you have a subscription to the NYT, you can read the rest of the article, perhaps now you can even without one.   The gist of the article is in this footnote.

How Nazis always do it

When it comes to manipulating public opinion, particularly regarding an embarrassment to the party in power, lead with an aggressive, lying attack directly contradicting the actual truth.

The Environmental Protection Agency [1], a thoughtful, forward-looking Nixon creation hated by Project 2025 and Leonard Leo’s Supreme Court, had its legs cut off by the 6-3 majority.  They ruled that the EPA does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions from existing power plants. The 2022 decision also opened the door for a future Unitary Executive to have the final word over government scientists on most things formerly protected by the EPA.    Not enough for Project 2025, the arms and head had to be cut off too. 

So President Project 2025 obliged.

The Trump administration fired at least seven employees for signing a letter criticizing the agency’s leadership for undermining “the EPA mission of protecting human health and the environment.” The firings are, Amudalat Ajasa of the Washington Post noted, “an escalation of the administration’s effort to clamp down on dissent within the federal bureaucracy.”

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Here’s Trump appointee-speak (note the consistent sprachregelung, with piquant, aromatic notes of the boss’s seat) for what the EPA, and the entire federal government, which has the final say in every state, now stands for (and it’s not the so-called environment, woke mind virus infested cucks!)

“The Environmental Protection Agency has a zero-tolerance policy for career officials using their agency position and title to unlawfully undermine, sabotage, and undercut the will of the American public that was clearly expressed at the ballot box last November,” an EPA spokesperson said.

But [Heather adds], increasingly, it seems obvious that the administration is claiming a mandate for policies that voters did not intend to endorse.

Like Dr. Brainworm’s clueless concepts of a plan to make random little kids in airports not strike him as so mitochondrially defective.

Fuck those fucking putos.

They only get away with this incoherent, immoral, indecent, crude, lying lawlessness if good people stop fighting them at every turn. It is on us all, to pace ourselves and do whatever is in our power to do, Remember to stay encouraged by the uniformly high level of reckless idiocy and constant failure displayed by these mirthless assclowns [2] as they carry out their boss’s wildly unpopular cruelties. Do not accept deliberate incoherence as the final word.

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The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. Wikipedia

[2] They might actually be asshats:

In the word’s official entry in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, lexicographers theorized that it could be a play on the phrase to “have one’s head up one’s ass,” an insult which, if pictured literally, would indeed result in the person’s ass serving as a sort of hat. However, the author concluded, “a more precise history will depend on the location of further attestations.” source

~88 deaths AN HOUR from “DOGE” (Project 2025) cuts is not news

With an insane and increasingly demented Unitary Executive empowered by a far-right Supreme Court to commit as many crimes as he likes as part of this “core duties”, it’s no surprise he’s been able to destroy as much as he has in seven short months (while personally making literally billions since taking over as US CEO). His goal is clearly American Carnage, creating the violent, bloody battleground for his childish dream of world domination. This dystopian dream requires off the charts desperation among average Americans, violence, mayhem and unpunished murder. His more immediate dream, adding to his personal fortune, has been advanced by about $3,000,000,000 since he gilded the Oval Office.

He’s surrounded by supremely ambitious, unprincipled loyalists, backed by a dozen powerful “Libertarian” think tanks and judicial pipelines (all owned by the same handful of billionaires), who fund nefarious projects and get deadly legislation passed, policies designed to maximize fear, instability and mass desperation, to bring about the social disintegration needed for violence and dictatorship.

Who, but a Nazi, is focused on “mass deportation”, particularly of law abiding residents who pose no threat to anyone? American carnage, now! It’s their only hope for permanent minority rule.

With so much disgusting offal hitting the fan every hour of every day, orchestrated by rabid chaos agents frantically working for a visibly declining old maniac, it’s hard to focus on any one aspect of it for more than a moment. That is by design. It enables all kinds of abuses, humming along in the background. For starters, get rid of FEMA, Emergency Management after killer storms is just more woke mind virus. Same goes for the CDC, woke mind virus stubbornly insisting on vaccines for pandemics!

Donald Trump’s team, by arbitrarily shuttering USAID, the agency of American soft power in the poorer parts of the world, is quietly committing mass murder. More than 60,000 people, most of them children, die every MONTH since team Trump nullified Congress’s appropriation of funds to USAID. This horrific fact is no longer reported, it’s among so many other senseless acts of willful idiocy performed daily by the president’s competitive sycophants. Countless child deaths, at the stroke of an insane unelected bureaucrat’s pen, the stuff of nightmares.

Doing a search just now I learned that the last media mentions of this ongoing international slaughter by an American president were in June or early July when the number killed, mostly children, was reported as over 300,000 dead so far. Understood, when an insanely cruel man leads a heartless movement bent on permanent enforcement of their privilege, many ongoing atrocities will simply have to get overlooked.

It is like the National Rifle Association’s lobbyists prevailing for decades on the issue that it is unfair to include suicide by gun (more than 50% of all American death from gunshot) in the annual tally of American gun homicides. Dead bodies are considered, by a certain economic philosophy, to be externalities, unfortunate, perhaps, but part of the cost of doing business, and always subject to negotiation. So, according to the NRA, gunshot being the number one cause of death for children below the age of 18 in American is bad enough without by conflating it with tens of thousands of annual voluntary self-killings that don’t hurt anyone else.

When the Supreme Court condemned girls just old enough to menstruate to bear to term and give birth to their rapists’ babies, if their state legislature so ordered, I thought the outrage of that barbarously medieval ruling would shock people awake and cause a tidal wave at the polls that could not be countered by fraud. Take in the full horror of it: the girl is eleven, she has a period, she gets raped by a pedophile. JESUS SAYS SHE MUST CARRY THE SACRED FETUS TO TERM, say the majority of “Red” states newly empowered to enforce radical Christian views. No matter if you and your daughter are Christians, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, Jews, Buddhists, Wiccans, you must obey what five rich, unappealable, “justices” say Jesus Christ commands under the US Constitution. I don’t know why that MAGA crime against girls and women wasn’t the single most decisive issue of the 2024 election. I pictured the ad with the blurred face of the ten year-old who was forced to flee her state to terminate a pregnancy initiated by a rapist of children. I saw this irrefutable ad in my mind, MAGA is the party of forced pregnancy and birth for child rape victims, but don’t recall ever seeing it anywhere else.

After one of the world’s richest psychopaths generously donated $250,000,000 to convicted felon Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, and Trump was elected, Elon Musk received full access to the personal data of all Americans and the files and personnel of every agency that was investigating him. Musk also had carte blanche to defund and close down any agency that particularly offended him. USAID [1] was one of these agencies. At the time Musk and his bogus “DOGE” operation cut USAID funding by 83% and slashed its staff, it was estimated that as a result of services and medications not delivered and food rotting in warehouses, 103 people AN HOUR were dying worldwide. A virtual 9/11 death toll (2,977) every day — 2,472 dead EVERY DAY because Elon Musk’s teenaged hackers followed Mr. Neurodivergent’s orders to take down this massive source of “waste, fraud and abuse.”

USAID expenditures amounted to less than 1% of the US budget, and the agency saved millions of vulnerable lives annually. However, USAID was apparently investigating Musk’s selective use of Starlink in various war zones and “DOGE” had a mandate from Trump and the Heritage Foundation to radically slash the federal budget by any means necessary (with full, unchallengeable presidential pardons at the ready for anyone caught “over-reaching”).

Since the closure of USAID (after “DOGE” canceled the agency, Marco “MAGA” Rubio ordered USAID’s website removed from the internet) hundreds of thousands, mostly children, have died worldwide, particularly in war zones where the US has long provided life saving humanitarian aid.

I searched for an update about the USAID cuts and there is no news more recent than June or early July, it’s simply not a story anymore, with the high-powered firehouse spraying fecal “content” 24/7 as advocated by Sloppy Steve Bannon. Though, by sheer chance, Project 2025 made another move today to claw back the rest of the shuttered agency’s funds, through an untested legal theory called presidential “pocket recission”, taking back money already appropriated by Trump’s majority Congress. By chance this was reported in the NY Times, in the hours since I started writing this post earlier today:

The request largely targets accounts funding the United States’ contributions to the United Nations and economic development and aid programs run by the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has already largely been dismantled by the Trump administration.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the proposal on Friday, saying that none of the targeted programs “are in America’s interest, which is why the president is taking decisive action to put America and Americans first.”

The single biggest clawback would be a $445 million cut to U.S. funding of peacekeeping operations abroad, including through the United Nations. The request also proposes a $132 million rescission of the $340 million approved by Congress for the Democracy Fund at the State Department. The White House’s proposed budget released earlier this year suggested eliminating that program entirely.

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Millions die in distant lands every day, nature and humans are cruel, what are you going to do? It’s like raped girls, bad things happen to good people, like the kids murdered the other day while praying, though their souls got thoughts and prayers from MAGA.

The estimate of hourly deaths as a result of the Musk/Trump/Project 2025 USAID cuts is currently 88 dead per hour. You can see the breakdown of how these deaths are happening and how many of the dead are children, dying easily preventable deaths. Should we be relieved that only 2,112 people are dying every day, down more than 300 a day from the earliest projections? Or is outrage more appropriate when rich, corrupt psychopaths, at the behest of our nation’s greediest billionaires, cut off a program, fully funded by our Congress, that saved tens of millions of lives over the last two decades? The good news is that the wealthiest 1% got even wealthier, so, even if just under a million have to die unnecessarily in 2025, it wasn’t a total loss.

Adolf Eichmann was tried, convicted and executed for his role in the mass murder of millions of Jews and others he’d had shipped to death camps. He insisted that he’d never killed anyone, Jew or any other person, and no evidence was ever produced to show he had. He claimed he’d only done his job, as was his lawful duty under the laws of Nazi Germany and the oath of personal loyalty he’d taken to Adolf Hitler. Contrary to the myth that Eichmann was the architect of the Final Solution, he was not the mastermind of anything, except the logistics of moving large numbers of doomed people to their places of execution. He was very good at delivering these condemned souls to their final nightmare deaths. Eichmann was a bragging, self-aggrandizing bureaucrat of limited imagination who worked tirelessly to please his bosses and make himself look good by “getting results”. Much like the highly competitive crew of grossly unqualified sycophants who pretend to love the taste of the big orange guy’s lowest sphincter.

The same addled sycophants are frantically busy protecting the boss and a group of powerful white male pedophiles who were supplied with teenaged girls by longtime close Trump buddy Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein very likely blackmailed them after secretly videotaping their statutory rapes of minors. The criminally unaccountable Talented Mr. Epstein, a billionaire with no obvious source of his billions, of course blackmailed the wealthy, powerful white men who came to “party” with him. Why WOULDN’T he? He even got a secret non-prosecution deal from Trump’s future Secretary of Labor, since disgraced, Alex Acosta. Click the hideous clause below to read the whole seven page 2007 “sweetheart” deal the late Mr. Epstein, with tactical support from Mr. Dershowitz, negotiated for himself for the “crime” of … uh… hiring a few underaged hookers.

The legal notice to victims required by law before settling such cases… uh… you know what? Screw the “victims”?!! Who has suffered more than that powerful friend of many of the world’s most powerful white men, Jeffrey Epstein? Only one name comes to mind.

[1] The United States Agency for International Development was the agency within the United States federal government primarily responsible for foreign aid. Established in 1961 during the Cold War by President John F. Kennedy, USAID was designed to counter the Soviet Union through the use of soft power across the world. Wikipedia

When a psychopath also has dementia

I’m not a psychiatrist, and American psychiatry at the moment only recognizes psychopaths who are antisocial enough to be arrested and locked up for criminal behavior (Antisocial Personality Disorder, “APD” [1] ) but the scary clown in the Oval Office fits all the criteria for what used to be called psychopathy.   All of his relationships are strictly transactional, he pursues only narrow self-interest, ignores laws and norms, is impulsive and incapable of empathy or regret.  Now, increasingly, daily, he exhibits signs of senility.   This is from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter from an American, last night:

At [yesterday’s] meetings, Trump repeated Russian talking points, complained about how poorly he is treated, said he had ended six wars, insisted that voting in the U.S. is full of fraud, and suggested he would cancel the 2028 elections. By the late afternoon, the president was unable to recognize President Stubb, who was sitting directly across the table from him. “President Stubb of Finland,” Trump said. Looking around, Trump continued: “And he’s uh, he’s somebody that, where are we here? Huh? Where? Where?” Stubb said, “I’m right here.” Trump focused on him and answered: “Oh. You look better than I’ve ever seen you look.”

This evening, CNN senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes reported that Trump paused his negotiation with European leaders to call Vladimir Putin. Her source said that European leaders were not present for the conversation. Ivan Nechepurenko of the New York Times reported that the call was forty minutes long. source

I don’t know why Trump WOULD call Putin, in the middle of a meeting with Zelensky and European leaders about ending the war Putin started, the war against civilians Putin prosecutes mercilessly, including as Zelensky was flying to war-ravaged, crime-infested, national emergency DC to meet Trump.   I don’t know why Trump WOULDN’T call Putin.   He greatly admires the Russian dictator, and Putin, master of spy craft, kleptocrat, political assassin, aggressor in an unprovoked war, kidnapper of 20,000 Ukrainian children, orderer of mass graves for executed Ukrainian civilians, multifaceted war criminal, his idol, his Excellency, the beloved perpetual President of Russia, likely has his 79 year-old protege by the balls somehow.

Could His Excellency have a copy of pertinent sections of the thousands of hours of secret video Trump’s old buddy Jeff used to take, of his powerful guests enjoying some sneaky fun with fourteen year old girls?

You never know what someone as highly moral as Jesus Christ’s personal pick to be the 45th and 47th president is capable of.  History shows pretty convincingly that nothing is beyond his impulsive imagination, since he lives in a world of his own creation where he is the incomparable superstar around which everything else in the universe worshipfully rotates.  

Hopefully his advancing dementia takes him off the fascist billionaires’ chessboard sooner rather than way too late for humanity. Let charismatic, hugely popular President JD Vance try to run the sinking ship of the United States of MAGA/Project 2025.

“He [Putin] said, ‘No country has mail-in voting—it’s impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.’ And he said that to me. It was very interesting, because we talked about 2020. He said, ‘You won that election by so much, and that’s how he [President Biden] got it… you lost it because of mail-in voting. It was a rigged election.’”

[1] click the blurb for the rest of the article on APD

Here are the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic criteria for APD, this list make you think of anyone?

My man scores better on this than the genius score he got on the test for dementia that he’s still bragging about!

Tragedy is inevitable when mass media lets a powerful idiot [1] doublespeak without correction

In 2018, in Helsinki, when Trump met with his idol Putin, after a secret one on one meeting their translators were ordered to destroy all notes of, he contradicted his own intelligence services about well-documented Russian meddling in the 2016 election (“The Russiagate Hoax” according to MAGA orthodoxy).  In answer to a question he said, standing next to his close friend, Vladimir,  “I don’t see any reason why Russia would have meddled in the election.”  The next day, after backlash, Trump clarified that he’d meant to say exactly the opposite of what he’d actually said, as so many of us so often do.  He claimed to have been tripped up by the double negative in that sentence.  A nice sixty second video of him making both statements appears here.  In any event, the idiotic, lying retraction was seemingly accepted by corporate media without much of a ripple.

He’s up to the same thing seven years later, his main trick, the only thing he really is an expert at, continually lying to cover up, or at least muddy, his other lies. Before the summit with the aggressor in the Russia-Ukraine war Trump said he would not walk away without a cease fire and would impose serious sanctions on Russia. After the aborted meeting, where, after public fawning by Mr. Trump, who applauded his Russian counterpart as he walked the red carpet, a ceasefire and sanctions were both taken off the table, Trump beamed about confirmation of one of his pet theories by Mr. Putin.

Putin himself said, Trump proudly reported, that Trump won by a mile in 2020, that mail-in voting guarantees massive fraud (see Heritage Foundation’s own voter fraud database [2] for definitive disproof of this widespread far right myth, snarlingly parroted by Bill Barr publicly before the 2020 election), and that’s why he “lost” a rigged election Biden cheated in with fraudulent votes.  So Putin PROVED that Trump’s claims are correct and all the so-called Election Truthers, a crazed offshoot of those who opposed the Birthers and the incredibly smart Flat Earthers, are big, fat, smelly liars.  “I don’t know why Vladimir WOULD lie about the certain fraud of mail in voting?” His takeaway from Putin’s confirmation of this pernicious anti-democratic myth? US only country to use infamously corrupt mail-in voting (although Putin’s Russia allows mail-in and internet voting, as do dozens of democracies). That would have to be scored: Putin lies, Trump lies.

Putin, the world’s wealthiest dictator, is a KGB trained expert at manipulation, intimidation and murder, and Trump is transparently the easiest president in American history to manipulate.  Tell him he’s great, that he doesn’t smell bad, that he’s a genius and he will eat whatever you’re holding right out of your hand.   This is the secret to Stephen Miller’s and Laura Loomer’s great success, they are experts at making Trump feel powerful, infallible, invulnerable, the greatest winner ever and not a deviantly corrupt, mentally unbalanced old man visibly losing his tenuous grip on reality with every passing day.

Meanwhile, as a result of the Artist of the Deal’s masterful negotiation with his master, Vladimir Putin, Russian tanks ravaging Ukraine today are flying Russian and American flags. USA!  USA!!!

By the way, I love this picture of Putin, taken the other day while Trump hosted the war criminal in “Russia”, or Alaska, or whatever. Thank you to Rapert Murdoch’s NY Post.

“Trump is greatest ever”

[1] Apologies for the outdated, now offensive term. “Stupid” or “dumb” just didn’t seem to do it.

[2] These slick, lying Nazis, authors of Trump’s blueprint for American Autocracy, Project 2025, have made the actual database quite a bit harder to access, after years of showing detailed findings of the vanishingly rare, statistically insignificant amount of voting fraud since 1982, a rate almost as low as the proportion of multibillionaires (like the owners of the Heritage Foundation) in the general population.