Backtracking These Down, Here

Because It's Friday

Nevada Northern RR:

Remember This

If you had a dollar for every transgendered athelete who was playing in the NCAA before Trump's jihad, you would not have enough money to buy a gallon of diesel fuel.

That what what his bullshit was all about: Focusing the might of the Federal government on a group of people who could not fill up all of the seats on an airport parking lot shuttle bus.

But tat was enough to energize all of the brain-dead MAGAts, wasn't it.

Drooling These Down, Here

“Your Papers or Else”

ICEstapo agents beat up an American citizen for refusing to show his papers.

The cops demanding one's papers used to be the bad guys in the movies. Now they work for Trump and Miller.

Remember, if you have to deal with ICE agents, presume them to be low-IQ sociopaths who believe that they can get away with anything they do to you.

Trump Loses in Court, Again

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s ban of three news outlets from the White House grounds, ordering early Thursday that CNN, MS NOW and Politico must have their access restored. Reporters for two of the outlets, however, were denied entry hours after the ruling.

The back-and-forth is the latest in an extraordinary showdown between Trump and media outlets whose coverage he dislikes.

Trump first announced he was banning the outlets Friday, assailing what he called “fake news,” and only later arguing that their reporting was a risk to national security. The outlets argued in a joint lawsuit that the ban was a blatant violation of the First Amendment because it singled them out for the content of their coverage.

In his late-night ruling, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the White House to “immediately return, reinstate, and restore” the three outlets’ access. He said they had met the legal thresholds to obtain a temporary restraining order, in effect for 14 days, and were likely to succeed in showing that their press passes were revoked without due process.

Judge Kelly was appointed by Trump, so expect his bog-standard rant about disloyal judges. Because he thinks judges he appoints owe loyalty to him, not the Constitution.

Probably didn't help that Trump's lawyer on the case is a closet Nazi.

Also, thanks DOGE:

Trump Isn't Well

With temperatures in the mid-60s, he greeted Xi while wearing a long overcoat and gloves.

Something's not right with that boy.

The Only Cure for Presidential Ambition is Embalming Fluid

That's a paraphrase of a quote from Harold Ickes; he was talking about Thomas Dewey.

The quote is relevant because Chris Christie is mulling over yet another try at the White House.

I imagine that one would have to do an almost Diogenes-grade search to find more than a few people who would think that Christie running for president is a good idea. But then again, since he's alleged to have once shut down a state park so he and his family could have a beach to themselves, he may be a good fit for the Turmp party.

ICE = Gestapo (and Tab Clearing)

I know that a number of readers probably view my frequent comparisons of ICE to the Gestapo as hyperbole. But consider this: When an ICE agent shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in the back, they had a hospital slap a bandage on him and then tossed him into an ICE detention cell with no bed and no pain medication. ICE didn't bring him back to a hospital until the shit hit the fan in the press. Garces Perez may have some paralysis from some ICE goon trying to murder him.

There has been no colorable justification for the shooting, not even the usual ICE lies about one of their victims trying to run them over. The most I've seen was that he was fleeing, which is not justification.
------------
Meanwhile, the Russian Army is tattooing service numbers on their drone fodder soldiers' chests to aid in identifying their corpses. It may also be an anti-desertion measure, for all that I know.
------------
Trump's ballroom design isn't up to code for things like fire safety, sufficiency of exits and number of bathrooms. Trump says that "I am the code" and he'll have it built the way he wants, regardless of such piddling concerns of it being a firetrap or having seven stalls in a single women's room for a space that can hold over a thousand people.

The only good thing about Trump's constant meddling with the design is that a future president can say "this thing is unsafe and there's no good way to fix it" and then level the fucking monstrosity.
------------
Whenever he gets caught doing something blatantly unconstitutional, he reverts to the worn-out justification of all tyrants: National security. And so he's doing with his latest censorship.
-----------
"The Trump-Ford Theater"? No, it's not a joke. Even Hitler was not as obssessed with having shit named after him. The economy is falling apart from the cost of diesel fuel, his war is a failure, but all he can thing about is slapping his name onto buildings.

Which will all be torn off with the required haste. The only place in the world where the name "Donald Trump" will eventually be found will be on his tombstone.

"Abortions for Me, But Not for Thee" (Plus Susie Collins the Corrupt)

Abortions are OK if you're a conservative with a pregnant mistress:

Texas Republican state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione helped write one of the country’s strictest abortion laws.

Now he’s been forced into a stunning admission after a woman revealed that she had carried on a 17-year relationship with Capriglione and accused him of “secretly paying for multiple abortions.”

Funny how morality gets tossed out the door when the rubber hits the road.

Meanwhile, Susan Collins was about to get hammered for political corruption by the FBI until the Orange President of Corruption stepped on the probe.