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How the Right Has Twisted

Trump wants the government to buy and bail out Spirit Airlines.

Anyone remember when both Bush and Obama backed bailing out GM, calling it "Government Motors"? Something Trump opposed once he saw that President Obama was getting credit for it.

There is something fitting about Trump trying to save a bankrupt airline when he, himself, bankrupted an airline.

Mister Art of the Deal

It's obvious that pulling out of the Iran Deal was a catastrophic decision by Trump. Yet that decision got far less media and political scrutiny than the Deal itself. https://t.co/UojD3XYJim

— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) April 25, 2026

We are were we are because that Orange Self-Inflated Moron did what Netanyahu wanted ripped up the first accord, which Iran was abiding by, to get a better deal, which he never achieved. The original agreement took years of negotiation by professional diplomats. But after ignoring things for years, he fell again under the spell of Netanyahu, went to war, and when that all backfired, he didn't send diplomats to talk to Iran. No, he sent his corrupt son-in-law and his best bud, who is a corrupt real-estate guy and, allegedly, a Russian asset, much like Trump.

And no surprise, those two idiots were who the Iranians were talking to before Trump had Whiskey Pete drop bombs because, allegedly, neither Witkoff nor Jared the Wunderkind understood how to do their jobs.

Trump and Hegseth: Stupid to the Core

They fired the SecNav for failing to do the impossible:

Greg Jaffe and Helene Cooper of the New York Times reported that Trump has been frustrated by Phelan’s inability to fulfill his demand for the first of his new battleships by 2028, an inability caused by the fact that the U.S. shipbuilding industry doesn’t have the capacity to do it. At a Wednesday meeting with Trump, Hegseth and Feinberg convinced the president that Phelan had to go.

The idea that the shupbuilders could deliver a large capital ship in three years or quicker is just a crack-smoking fantasy.

If you feel like taking the time online, look up how long it took to build battleships back in the day. From laying the keel to commissioning, the USS New Jersey, partially built during wartime conditions, took 31 months. The USS Tennessee, built during World War One, took four years, the USS California almost five. One of the reasons why the first years of WW2 were fought with CVEs was that it took longer to build fleet carriers.

Even then, with a far larger shipbuilding industry, we couldn't just poop out capital ships. It's not happening now. It took seven years to build the USS Nimitz fifty years ago and the Navy's trying to get the Ford-class down to eight years' construction time.

Dimbulb Donnie and Whiskey Pete seem to be operating on the mindset that if you want to plow the field faster, you need to beat the mules more. Building complex ships doesn't work that way. That's a fact that's obvious to anyone who can take even a short span of time to educate themselves about building things.

Which is neither one of those fools. The United States has the dumbest, most vapid and mercurial leader of any major power since Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Caturday

"Moar food!"

Because It's Friday

German (presumably) steam:

Kicking These Down, Here

Iran's trolling game has been impressive:

Iran’s consulate in Hyderabad just posted this video mocking Trump and his “ceasefire extension”

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) April 22, 2026 at 7:56 AM

Hunter Biden Would LIke a Word With Trump's Dim Son

Eric Trump -- the president's son -- is on Maria Bartiromo's show bragging about one of his companies landing a $24 million Pentagon contract

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) April 23, 2026 at 8:11 AM

Anyone who really believes that the Dim Son would be involved with a drone company selling to the government if his dad wasn't president should really think about slowing down their consumption of Trump Kool-Aid. This is naked corruption of the sort that, on a far smaller scale, got Repubicans twisted in knots about Hunter Biden.

But you know how it goes: It's OK if you're a Republican and ten-fold if you're a Trump relative.

Seems in Hungary, Spending Government Money on Foreign Political Operations is a Crime

They're going to investigate Orban's funding of CPAC and other Trumpist/Putinite entities with public money.

Hungary is pointing the way forward: Turn out the vote, oust those fuckers and then investigate them, including Putin's poodles.

J. Edgar Boozer Sues!

He's suing for reports on his getting frequently blitzed.

Kash Patel has followed through on a threat to sue the Atlantic and the author of a story the magazine published that included allegations of “excessive drinking” as well as “conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences” while in charge of the FBI.

He's going to learn of the Streisand Effect because, every time there is a story on the news about this case, the allegations of his excessive drinking will receive a fresh airing. Because his boozing is a far more relatable story than his use of the FBI jet to go see his girlfriend or his assigning HRT agents to be her security detail.