Orange Felon Can't Tell Me What to Do

Words of Advice:

DONALD TRUMP IS A CONVICTED FELON. CASE CLOSED.

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- Trump

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

Karma may sometimes be late to arrive.
But it never loses an address.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

What Bannon and Trump Have in Common

They're both convicted felons.

Conservative firebrand Steve Bannon pleaded guilty to defrauding donors in a fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern US border in a deal that allowed him to avoid prison.

Bannon pleaded guilty to one state felony count of a scheme to defraud in the first degree and was sentenced to a three-year conditional discharge.

My guess is that he realized that he was probably going to lose at trial, and in that case, he would be back in prison. And this time, he can't rely on Trump to pardon his ass out of stir.

Companies Have Lawyers; Foreign Bribery Ed.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice to pause enforcing a nearly half-century-old law that prohibits American companies and foreign firms from bribing officials of foreign governments to obtain or retain business.

“It sounds good, but it hurts the country,” Trump said of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, as he signed the order at the White House.

He can refuse to enforce the Act all he wants, but the truth of the matter is that a time will come when the Orange Felon isn't in office and the next president/AG can direct enforcement to resume, including looking at bribery that happened during the Putin Puppet's time. Any competent company lawyer knows that; they'll do their jobs and advise their clients most strongly to follow the law.

Autocracy on the Horizon, But Donnie Will Wreck It.

It can be stopped.

The peace in the link is pretty detailed, but it is worth your time.

another point is that if we are going to stop an incipient Decatur ship, the time to do it is now. The more and more entrenched it would get, the more blood and struggle it will take to overthrow.

What may save us is that he's not lying about shit like USAID, Gaza and the 2020 election, he really is delusional.

Poor Widdle Donnie Throws a Temper Tantrum

Petty is a petty does. But would you expect anything else from the Orange Old Toddler?

The Associated Press said the White House barred its reporter from Tuesday’s Oval Office executive order signing because of the AP style guidance on using the name Gulf of Mexico versus Gulf of America.

The AP said in a statement it was informed Tuesday that if the news agency did not “align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.”

AP is correctly stating that this is clearly a First Amendment violation.

They have more integrity than Google.

'Tooning These Down, Here











There is a Reason Why It's Being Called the "Darwinnebago"

The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto.

Yes, if you're dumb enough to have spent good money on a WankerPanzer, you bought yourself a firey coffin.

Seventeen times more likely to kill you in a fire than the good old exploding Pinto:



Yes, that Pinto, the car that was a poster-child for corporations that were willing to see their customers killed if it made a buck.

Meanwhile, other people are digging into the records to show that Musk has profited hugely off of Federal contracts and Federally-sponsored research and that at his companies that actually might do something, they've put him in a sandbox so he can't fuck things up. But I'll link to that stuff down the road. Got shit to do.

Monday, February 10, 2025

Corruption and Ass-Kissing At Work

The Trump administration on Monday ordered federal prosecutors to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, arguing in a remarkable departure from longstanding norms that the case was interfering with the mayor’s ability to aid the president’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

That's one hell of a quid pro quo, there. Support the Ancient Orange Felon and he'll make your Federal criminal corruption charges go away.

Yale: Revoke JD's Law School Diploma, Plus
If You Think Prices Are High Now, Stand By

The Couch-Fucker apparently slept through his first week of law school, where this issue is discussed:

Trump administration officials are openly questioning the judiciary’s authority to serve as a check on executive power as the new president’s sweeping agenda faces growing pushback from the courts.

Over the past 24 hours, officials ranging from billionaire Elon Musk to Vice President JD Vance have not only criticized a federal judge’s decision early Saturday that blocks Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records, but have also attacked the legitimacy of judicial oversight, a fundamental pillar of American democracy, which is based on the separation of powers.

“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” Vance wrote on X on Sunday morning.

That is both so wrong and so dangerous that it's almost beyone belief that someone who went to law school for more than two weeks would utter it. CouchBoy is advocating for a dictatorship, where a president can do anything he wants and it's OK. If he truly believes that, his law school diploma should be nullified. If Yale is teaching that to its students, then the school needs to be decertified. And the Faux Hillbilly should be impeached and removed from office for swearing a false oath.

The utter hypocrisy of this view is shown by Vance's opposition to President Biden's canceling student loan debt. So what the bearded fascist is claiming is that it's OK when his master wants to do something, but not when a Democrat does it. That's not a legal principle, that's just a naked power grab.

Meanwhile:

President Donald Trump said he will announce on Monday that the United States will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada and Mexico, as well as other import duties later in the week.

“Any steel coming into the United States is going to have a 25% tariff,” he told reporters Sunday on Air Force One as he flew from Florida to New Orleans to attend the Super Bowl. When asked about aluminum, he responded, “aluminum, too” will be subject to the trade penalties
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Imported steel and aluminum is in almost everything metallic from buildings to drink cans. The prices of those are going up, thanks to Deluded Donnie, who had repeatedly vowed to lower prices on Day One. That's a promise he has made no move whatsoever to keep, because he doesn't give a fuck about the people who voted for him because they thought he'd do a beter job on the economy.

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Exceeding These Down, Here













Musk/Trump: Only White Refugees Need Apply

President Trump on Friday directed government officials to prioritize the resettlement of South Africans of European descent through the U.S. refugee program, which he suspended during his first day in office.

In an executive order, Mr. Trump accused the South African government of discriminating against Afrikaners, an ethnic group in South Africa made up of descendants of European colonists, mostly from the Netherlands, who first arrived there in the 1600s.

If you needed any convincing that The Felon is a racist right down to his bone marrow, well, there's your proof. The Orange Racist stopped the refugee resettlement program before he left his swearing-in because those people were coming in. Refugees with visas and tickets in hand were turned away, including those who lives were at risk for helping our soldiers on the battlefield. They're still waiting.

But the group of rich people who benefitted from living in the most officially racist nation on Earth? The same country that Musk's grandparents went to because Nazi Germany had lost the war, so they couldn't emigrate there? Those folks, Musk's people, get to come in when nobody else can.

Unless the Sámi people take power in Norway, the Afrikaners are likely to be the only refugees that the Fat Old Orage Racist allows into the country. Because most of the other refugees aren't white people.

Caturday

A photo stolen from elsewhere, so you get a break from Chip and Priss.


Friday, February 7, 2025

Federal Workers!

Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing?

DON'T DO IT.

If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.

Document, document, document.

Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots of clarity. Document everything.

And Now a Second Racist is Found to be Working for the World's Richest Nazi

One of the people working with billionaire Elon Musk in his efforts to overhaul the U.S. government is a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online.

Gavin Kliger lists his job on LinkedIn as "Special Advisor to the Director" at the Office of Personnel Management, which has been spearheading Musk's efforts to shrink the federal workforce. ... In social media posts between October 2024 and January, Kliger has voiced controversial views and reposted content from white supremacist Nick Fuentes and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate
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Who else would work for a Nazi but a baby Nazi in Musk's Department of Grift and Extortion?

Remember: Only racists now buy Swastikars.

ETA:
There is something funny about these nazi larvae being like “i would never date interracially.” Yeah bro I’m sure the ladies are just fucking lining up.

Coup 2.0

We told everyone that if Trump got back in, he'd try to pull off another coup. And that's what he and Musk are trying to do.

Or is this a continuation of the first coup, as WW2 was a continuation of WW1?

Remember this if you voted for Trump: Whatever reason Germans had for votong for Hitler in 1933, be it concerns about the economy or Germany's place in the world or any other concern that didn't involve bigotry, history regards everyone who voted for Hitler as a Nazi.

And so will you be so regarded.

It'll Be Fun When Whole Foods Stores Start Being Torched

Amazon, which owns Whole Foods, is asking the NLRB to nullify a union vote on a technicality.

If we're going back to the days when union organizing isn't recognized, then we are a small step away from the time when the Pinkertons' goons were murdering strikers and strikers were, in response, torching factories and killing the bosses. Because that's how things were done before there was a NLRB and peaceful union organizing.

Truth

Because It's Friday

Steam on two wheels:

Thursday, February 6, 2025

I am Shocked, Shocked, to Find Out That a Racist Works for the World's Richest Nazi

Elon Musk’s DOGE, the fake government agency currently doing real damage to the safety and security of the United States, just lost one of its most crucial members. And it will come as no surprise that this distinguished member of Musk’s team left because he was allegedly writing racist garbage on the internet.

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer who previously worked at X and SpaceX, resigned from DOGE on Thursday, according to the Wall Street Journal, after the newspaper contacted Donald Trump’s administration to ask about old deleted posts that advocated for racism and eugenics. White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told the Journal that Elez had resigned.

Elez was allegedly linked to the account @nullllptr, which was deleted in December. But the account was filled with tweets like, “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool” and, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” according to the Journal. That last tweet was reportedly sent in September, just a couple of months before the 2024 election.

The account often wrote about politics and international affairs, tweeting in June, “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth,” according to the Journal.

Is anyone surprised that a prominent bigot like Musk would attract like-minded turdlets to his ranks?

For the future, whenever Elez goes to look for a job, the fact that he's a racist, an antisemite and an all-around Nazi will pop up on every background search.

ETA: The original WSJ article.

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Remember Total Information Awareness?

That was the brainchild of John Poindexter; a plan where the government (DoD or NSA) would track everything that everyone was doing with the goal of trying to spot terrorist acts before it happened. That, at least, was a program with some degree of accountability to Congress and the American people.

But now, the Corrupt Felon has permitted the World's Richest Illegal Alien to install his own servers in government offices to vacuum up the data of all Americans. Musk is completely unaccountable; he has bought Trump and the GOP and they are letting him do whatever he wants to do. Conflicts of interest? Nobody is watching him. It's like giving Willie Sutton the keys to Fort Knox and telling him that it's his job to self-report if he steals anything.

Both Musk and Trump are criminals. Musk has a gang of immature co-conspirators to help him steal hand and fist.

Conflicts of interest? The first thing that he did was go after USAID because they were investigting StarLink for fraud. Of course, the Corrupt Felon is letting Elon go wild; for Musk bought the Felon for nearly $300 million.

It's not clear to me that the Republic will survive Musk's looting. But if it does, rest assured, all of those involved will eventually face a judge and be held to account for their treachery and thievery.

Maybe not Musk, for he'll take his billions and buy another country. And as for the Old Orange Criminal, he'll probably be in a memory care facility by then.

Donnie Caught Lying, Again

His "mass deportations" is, partially, a sham.

News of mass immigration arrests has swept across the US over the past couple of weeks. Reports from Massachusetts to Idaho have described agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) spreading through communities and rounding people up. Quick Google searches for Ice operations, raids and arrests return a deluge of government press releases. Headlines include “ICE arrests 85 during 4-day Colorado operation”, “New Orleans focuses targeted operations on 123 criminal noncitizens”, and in Wisconsin, “ICE arrests 83 criminal aliens”.

But a closer look at these Ice reports tells a different story.

That four-day operation in Colorado? It happened in November 2010. The 123 people targeted in New Orleans? That was February of last year. Wisconsin? September 2018. There are thousands of examples of this throughout all 50 states – Ice press releases that have reached the first page of Google search results, making it seem like enforcement actions just happened, when in actuality they occurred months or years ago. Some, such as the arrest of “44 absconders” in Nebraska, go back as far as 2008.


Smoke and mirrors, the hallmark of the Felon's Fantastic Horror Show.

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Deja Vu: "Walking Back" Demented Donnie's Blatherings

President Donald Trump’s top diplomat and his main spokesperson on Wednesday walked back the idea that he wants the permanent relocation of Palestinians from Gaza, after American allies and even Republican lawmakers rebuffed his suggestion that the U.S. take “ownership” of the territory.

Diarrhea of the Mouth, coupled with a total inability to consider one's thoughts before voicing them.

We'll be lucky if he doesn't talk us into a major war.

We Used to Know How to Deal With Nazis Like This Guy


We did know how to deal with Nazis.




Ending up like this:

Who Had "Team Led By a South African Nazi Drills into Treasury Department's Computers" on Their 2025 Bingo Card?

And, you might notice, that's barely worth a mention by the chattering monkeys on most of the network news. Not all, though.

The following clip has nothing to do with anything.



But seriously, people are keeping track of all the illegal shit that Dilbert Stark and his DOGEbags are doing. The cycle will turn and they will be held to account for their actions.

Trump's Ethnic Cleansing; Nakba 2.0

Donald Trump has vowed that the US will “take over” war-ravaged Gaza and “own it”, effectively endorsing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, in an announcement shocking even by the standards of his norm-shattering presidency.

Trump, who has previously threatened Greenland and Panama and suggested that Canada should become the 51st state, added Gaza to his expansionist agenda, claiming that it could become the “Riviera of the Middle East”. He declined to rule out sending US troops to make it happen
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Jim Stonekettle is right: The Felon is channeling the 19th Century BIA; all he's missing is smallpox-infested blankets. Kick out two million people to go where, exactly? Maybe some of them could move to beautiful pieces of land in and around Mar-a-Lago.

He is fucking delusional. Gen. Eisenhower observed in 1945 that there wasn't a building standing between Berlin and Moscow, but that was rebuilt.

The Egyptians and the Jordanians are not going to take massive numbers of Palestinians. Their governments won't survive. Jordan's monarchy would fall in a day if it agreed to this.

Beyond that, it's kind of sad how Republicans, who decry nation-building at every turn,keep taking on massive projects that are destined to fail at every turn: Iraq (now effectively an Iranian puppet), Afghanistan (where Trump surrendered to the Taliban) and now, Gaza.

And, to all those who didn't vote in the last election because they were mad at Biden for the Gaza War: How's that working out for you? You're now in a position where nobody gives a flying fuck what you think. Abba Eban was right about you clowns: You never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.