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Republicans Keep on Lying for Fascism

Before a federal judge blocked Donald Trump from putting members of California’s national guard on the streets of Portland, Oregon, late on Sunday, the state’s Republican party welcomed the planned deployment in celebratory posts on social media.

“President Trump on Sunday deployed 300 California National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon after a judge ruled that the Oregon National Guard could not be deployed to keep federal facilities and personnel in Portland safe,” Oregon Republicans wrote on their official Facebook, Instagram and X accounts.

On all three platforms, the statement was illustrated with an image that seemed designed to support Trump’s false claim that protests against immigration sweeps in Portland are so out of control that the city is “burning to the ground”. On one side of the image, a line of police officers held riot shields; on the other, a crowd of young men held up flares that lit up a night sky filled with red smoke.

On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart.

Republicans are lying to support Trump's push to turn this country into a police state. They are not loyal to the Constitution, they are loyal to Trump.

To be an active Republican is to be a traitor. They are the Confederates of this century and they are just as evil as the Confederates were.

Heh. Heh. Heh.

Donald J. Trump reportedly “exploded with rage” on Tuesday after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2025 Peace Prize to California Governor Gavin Newsom.
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Though the committee did not bestow its prize on Trump, it did recognize him with a laser printed “certificate of participation.”

Everything DHS/ICE Claims is a Lie

They are lying about the woman they tried to kill in Chicago.

ICE lies and fabricates. Their so-called agents are totally lacking in moral character. They are mask-wearing, heavily-armed cowards. They are badged-up terrorists.

The GOP gave ICE more money than any other law enforcement agency. The next congress controlled by Democrats needs to defund it.

ICE is beyond saving or redemption.

Burn it to the motherfucking ground.

And Then There Were None

The last American WW2 ace has died. Donald McPherson was 103.

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

JAS-39 Gripen:

We're Just Having Fun, Beardo

Since JD Vance thinks that posting degrading memes is "just having fun", Stephen Colbert obliged him.

Caturday

Chip wants royalties.

It’s What Dictators and Kings Do

They put their faces on money.

For 224 years in this country, those whose faces were on money and stamps were dead.

But that's a tradition that the Senility Patient-in-Chief wants to break. It's also the law, but that doesn't matter to Trump. He's already a convicted felon, so what are a few more laws to him?

Since he's making the Oval Office look like Saddam Hussein was using it, it's only fitting that he adopt another tradition of tyrants and put his ugly mug on a coin.

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Because It's Friday

The Locomotion replica:

200 years ago last month, the original pulled the first passenger train on a public railroad.

Top-Grade MAGA Voter Fraud

Jack Posobiec, a top-level MAGA loudmouth about voter fraud, lives in Maryland and votes in Pennsylvania, using his parents' address.

Ity's pretty much the MAGA reality: Everything they complain about is stuff that they themselves are doing. Voter fraud is rare, but it seems to be concentrated among Republicans and MAGAidiots.

Google Comes Down on the Side of Trump

Goggle's tilting the table on searching about Trump's senility. Try it yourself: Run a search on Google AI for "Trump senile". It'll give information on Biden.

The tech bros and the oligarchs are all bending their knees to the Obscene Orange Senile Pedo. Don't trust the results that you get from Google.

Separating These Down, Here

The Knock on the Door in the Middle of the Night

There was a time when that was considered thr hallmark of police states, of totalitarianism. There was a time when that was widely understood in this country, that only secret police, like the Gestapo or the KGB, did that.

Not any more. We do the same.

If you are in favor of this, you know who and what you are. Which is not an American who believes in freedom.

Discount Goebbels Threatens to Arrest Everyone Who Calls Him Names

That's pretty much what he's going on about.

He's a fascist and so is his increasingly demented boss. It's a good question as to who is actually running things and it's likely not the Orange Bloated Fuckwad.

Meanwhile, as Seth Meyers pointed out, a convicted felon is selling drugs.

We Shall Remember

We will remember that Joe Biden did not discriminate against red states when money was distributed following the passage of his infrastucture bill. We will remember that in contrast to what the Bloated Senile Gasbag is doing now.

I've said before, and I'll say it again: The Golden Rule of Politics is I'll Do Unto You As You Did Unto Me. If the people in the Party of Trump don't think that we'll remember this and act accordingly when it is our turn, then they all have rocks for brains.

Shutdown

The Trumpist Party controls the entire government and yet they can't keep it open.

Or they don't want to, because then Johnson will have to swear in a new congressman and then the Epstein discharge petition will have enough votes.

Trump Loses His Shit (Updated)

He told the generals that he wants to use American cities as live training grounds.

And this:

Trump’s speech was packed with campaign references to his electoral victory and the perceived shortcomings of his political adversaries. The assemblage of uniformed officers sat stonefaced, expressionless and inscrutable with few smiles. Trump’s attacks on Joe Biden were met with silence. Some of his lines elicited polite ripples of laughter.

It's just insanity. And the generals and admirals in the audience all know it.

Added: Andy Borowitz pointed out that it was kind of ironic that a former TV host who installed a makeup room by his office in the Pentagon was lecturing senior leadership about masculinity. Or that he was the opening act for a fat, senile draft-dodger.

ICE is a Pack of Cowards and Terrorists

Not my opinion alone, but an opinion of a Federal judge who was appointed by Ronald Reagan:

“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence,” [Judge] Young wrote. “To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

"Obloquy" means "public disgrace".

And that is just what the cowards of the ICEstapo have brought to the Federal badges that they wear and abuse.

Friending These Down, Here

The Kavanaugh Stop

Consequences of the ICEstapo arresting brown people is that they are, in fact, arresting innocent people.

One plaintiff, Jose Escobar Molina, was approached and immediately handcuffed by plainclothed unidentified federal agents outside of his apartment building on the morning of August 21, despite having a valid Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador since 2001 and living in D.C. for 25 years. The officers did not have a warrant and never asked for Escobar Molina's name, identification, immigration status, or about his ties to the community—ties that are often used to assess whether someone is a flight risk.

According to the lawsuit, when he told the officers that he had legal immigration status, they replied, "No you don't. You are illegal." After being put into a vehicle, he pressed the issue again and told the officers he had "papers." To which the driver responded by yelling, "Shut up, bitch! You're illegal."

After spending the night in immigration detention, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement supervisor realized that Escobar Molina did, in fact, have legal status, and he was finally released.

The ICEstapo is not shy about admitting that they are arresting brown people based solely on how they look.

But hey, Justice Kavanaugh said it was OK to arrest people based on their skin color, so the Puppy-Slayer's goons are doing just that.

Crickets From the Right

On Sunday, news broke out of Michigan that a lone gunman crashed his vehicle into a Mormon church, opened fire, and set the building ablaze—another horrific act of violence in a country where such scenes have become all too common. Almost immediately, speculation swirled on Twitter, with far-right voices rushing to blame a Muslim or a “transgender leftist,” their favored scapegoats after mass shootings. But early images told a different story: the truck rammed into the church flew two large American flags and bore an Iraq War veteran plate. The shooter was no Muslim, no trans person. He was a Trump-supporting combat veteran—a cisgender white man who fit the profile of so many American mass shooters.

Just like that, the story faded from the political radar. There were no calls in the aftermath to investigate Trump supporters as potential terrorists. No national conversations about the violent capacity of cisgender men. No discussions about whether white people who fly massive American flags on the backs of their trucks should have their guns taken away. No presidential proclamations casting suspicion on the identity of this mass shooter. Cisgender combat veterans will not spend the days after this tragedy fearing that their rights will be stripped away because of the actions of one man.

Meanwhile, in North Carolina, another mass shooting by a combat vet. No calls from the Trump Administration to declare white male combat veterans as being mentally ill or some other machination to strip them of their rights.

The far Right is a hate group. They always have been, since they began lynching former slaves 160 years ago.

The General Officers' Meeting

It seems that the entire event is nothing but an ego-fluffing session for Wiskey Pete that has now been bigfooted by the Obese Orange Dementia Case.

Untold millions of dollars this is costing, only so those two narcissists can see an audience full of general officers.

One thing that neither of those clowns knows is that those who spend time in the service have pretty good horseshit detectors; those are going off across the entire DoD. WETSU! WETSU!

Trump Shutting Down the Government Because of Epstein

Everything evil that the Orange Demented Buffoon has been doing has been to distract the American people from the fact that he is in the Epstein files. This government shutdown is no different.

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

A Jug:

Our TV-Fixated, Brain-Damaged President

Donald Trump said on Saturday he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon, “authorizing Full Force, if necessary”, ignoring pleas from local officials and the state’s congressional delegation, who suggested that the president was misinformed or lying about the nature and scale of a single, small protest outside one federal immigration enforcement office.

Trump made the announcement on social media, using references to antifascists and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). He claimed that the deployment was necessary “to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists”.
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A visit by the Guardian to downtown Portland on Saturday morning confirmed that the city is placid, the farmers’ market was packed and the protest against immigration enforcement in an outlying residential neighborhood remained small. There were just four protesters on the sidewalk near the Ice field office Trump claimed was “under siege”. One, wearing a chicken costume and draped in an American flag, held up a sign that read: “Portland Will Outlive Him.” Passing motorists honked in appreciation.

So the Bloated Old Boob watched Fox and somebody then told him that there was trendy arugula in the Portland farmers' market and he snapped. So the troops will go and stand around with their guns and their thumbs up their asses, writing letters to their homes.

Those supporting Private Bonespurs are, if they're honest, know that they're supporting a demented lunatic. But they lie to themselves that it doesn't matter. They are traitors to the Consitution.

GOP: Free Speech For Me, Executions For Thee

An Arizona Republican lawmaker on Wednesday called for the execution of a Democratic congresswoman because she urged people upset with President Donald Trump to protest in the streets.

Kingman Republican Rep. John Gillette wrote on the social media site X that U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington, was calling for the the government to be overthrown and should be hanged.

Right, the party that has spent the last several years bleating about free speech and screaming about "cancel culture" now wants to lynch anyone who says anything nasty about Lord Voldemoron of Mar-a-Lago. And don't think it is a coincidence that this clown wants to hang a woman of color for having the temerity to say anything derogatory about His Orange Babyman God.

Conservatives: Guns and free spech only for white men.

Prove me wrong.

Caturday

Chip gets some sun.

Epstein Keeps on Giving

Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are surfacing as good buddies of Epstein.

Meanwhile, Lord Voldemoron is releasing the Earhart files.

It would seem kind of dumb of Cadet Bonespurs to be drawing attention to his ability to release government files.

EARHART
EPRHART
EPRTART
EPRTERT
EPSTERT
EPSTERN
EPSTEIN

Meanwhile, rating matter, so Sinclair and Nextel have thrown in the towel on their boycotts of Jimmy Kimmel Live. Both companies, especially Sinclair, made demands of both Disney and Jimmy Kimmel before they'd put the show back on and, according to reporting, they got...

What they apparently got was a subtle threat that if they, as network affiliates, refused to air network programming, that maybe they would lose their affiliation.

The Grifter Administration, Episode the Epsteinth

They are just fucking corrupt AF:

As Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, conducted delicate cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas this year, his son Alex was on another mission. He was quietly soliciting billions of dollars from some of the same governments whose representatives were involved in peace talks with his father.

Alex Witkoff pitched Qatar, a mediator in the Gaza talks and a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, on a planned investment fund focused on commercial real estate projects in the United States, according to a spokeswoman for Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund.

Nothing changes for these clowns. They keep on leveraging their connections to Lord Voldemoron to wedge money out of foreign governments.

Because It's Friday

On the Atcheson, Tpoeka and Santa Fe.

Comey Indictment

By now, unless you've been in a cave or a coma, you know that Trump's DoJ, on his direct order, procured an indictment of James Comey.

the Feds to Comey probably doesn't have many political friends. In the space of a year, he managed to piss off both Republicans and Democrats, by investigating Trump over his connections to Russia and by throwing the election to Trump. So it's probably a smart move to go after him, first.

But it's still both pernicious as hell and likely to fail. A president publicly acting as a shot-caller for the DoJ, which formerly operated somewhat independently, turns the criminal justice system into a travesty. It would have, in an earlier time, been enough to trigger an impeachment. It may also make it harder for prosecutors in other cases to win convictions, as it may be in the minds of jurors to wonder whether or not the charges are fair.

It's likely to fail as the defense will have a wealth of information to show that Preznit Voldemoron has been trying to prejudice the case. It may fail because his handpicked stooge may have to run the case herself, as no career prosecutor was willing to sign the charge sheet and, for some reason, La Stooge signed and filed two charge sheets and then denied knowledge of that to the judge. She may have to present the case as a complete newbie and she's already demonstrated to the judge that she doesn't know what she's doing. It's quite likely that the case will fall completely apart. I would not be surprised if the defense was able to suggest that, what with the directed dropping of the Homan bribery case, that there's not justice coming from the DoJ.

Republicans should also be aware of the Golden Rule of Politics: I"ll Do Unto You Like You Did Unto Me.

Watch What is Coming

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned the military’s top officers — hundreds of generals and admirals — to a base in northern Virginia for a sudden meeting next week, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The directive did not offer a reason for the gathering Tuesday of senior commanders of the one-star rank or higher and their top advisers at the Marine Corps base in Quantico. The people, who described the move as unusual, were not authorized to publicly discuss the sensitive plans and spoke on condition of anonymity.

My guess is that Whiskey Pete called this meeting to have the generals and admirals swear an oath of personal loyalty to President Voldemoron.

I sure hope that I'm wrong.

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