Visa For Sale. Not Cheap.

President Donald Trump announced a new visa program for investors coming to the United States on Tuesday that would cost applicants $5 million.

Trump, touting the project as a "Gold Card" program mimicking the Green Cards permanent residents get, told reporters in the Oval Office that it would be up and running in two weeks.

I will bet no money that these so-called Gold Cards will have Dementia Donnie's ugly mug on them.

Everything is for sale in this country since the Orange Boss is running his administration as though it was a mob operation.

The Prince of Fascism Surfaces His Malignant Head

Erik Prince is pitching Trump on using mercenaries to round up immigrants. Because nothing typifies evil in service of the government as Prince and his mercs. They're the same group of goons who sparked the Battle of Falluja and who massacred civilians in Baghdad.

There has been distain for mercenaries in this country ever since the Battle of Trenton. Mercenaries owe no loyalty to the Flag or the Constitution, only to their paymaster.

They are beyond evil. And Prince is one of the masters of evil.

Squatting These Down, Here

This is still relevant:

Agent Krasnov Delivers

The US voted against condemning Russia for its aggression.

So did Israel, so fuck Bibi, as well.

Inconvenient Truth

The TVs at HUD wete running that this morning.

The Onion Nails It.

With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American people wouldn’t notice them. “Don’t make any sudden movements, or they’ll spot us,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said out of the corner of his mouth, tightly squeezing his eyes shut as he reminded Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to hold their breath anytime a member of the voting public walked by. “Did it work? I think we’re in the clear for now, but that was a close one. They could have talked to us, for crying out loud, or worse—demanded that we do something.

That's satire, of course, but it is also the truth. People are beginning to demand that the Democrats do something.

In 2009, with only forty senators, Moscow Mitch rallied his troops to oppose President Obama on all fronts. Chuckie Schumer the Slug Farmer can't seem to get off the dime.

Younger Democratic politicians with some ambition need to start spinning up primary challenges for the Democrats now in the House and the Senate.

KGB Agent Krasnov

We know him better as the Orange Fuhrer.

But it's as a lot of us suspected. For if Trump were truly a Russian plant, what would he have done differently? He's pushing Ukraine to surrender, he's dismantling the government, and he put another alleged Russian asset in as DNI. He's trying to destroy NATO and make the USA a virtual member of what's left of the Warsaw Pact, a/k/a the Axis of Evil.

The ROI for Russia has been pretty damned good.

Attention All Passengers! Form an Orderly Line for the Boxcars on Track Five

Hegseth is signalling what is coming. He and the Two Top Nazis are planning on using the military as an internal suppression force. They are getting ready by removing anyone who might tell them "no, you can't do that, boss."

To those in uniform, I ask this: Did you sign up for that, and are you going to honor your oath?

Expect the Right to cheer, as they have never cared about liberty or freedom for anyone other than themselves. They won't mind when the Orange Felonious Fuhrer makes it a crime to protest or to criticize him. Because they have never been loyal to the Constitution or to this country. Their loyalty only flows to their party and now, their Obese Old Leader.

I am willing to be shown that I am wrong about this. But I don't expect to be.

Ass Patel Gets More Power

FBI Director Kash Patel will be tapped to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), two sources confirmed to Fox News Digital on Saturday.

The news comes a day after Patel was sworn in as the ninth FBI director in a narrow Senate vote.

I'm not crazy about one person being both director of the Feebies and of the Gun Cops. That seems to be a lot of power in one person's graspy mitts.

But the Senate will confirm it, since Republicans in the Senate have become rubber stamps for whatever Trump wants.

Your Sunday Morning Rotor Noise

CH-53Es:

"Big fucking helo" is an understatement.

Musk's Brownshirts

The US Marshals Service has deputized members of Elon Musk’s private security detail, giving them certain rights and protections of federal law enforcement agents, three law enforcement officials familiar with the matter told CNN.

As far as I can tell, deputizing mercs/pinks is pretty rare. Now his goons get to have the DoJ defend them when they "accidentally" shoot someone and they can draw on the qualified immunity doctrine instead of being liable for their fuckery like any other mall cop.

Moonraker and Bribing Donnie

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

Meanwhile, rumors are that the Russians are offering an oil and gas deal to the Dopenfuhrer if he sells out Ukraine. And the Russians are using their own wounded and disabled soldiers as targets to give the Ukrainians something to shoot at.

When You Call a Federal Agency for Assistance and Nobody is There or If You Visit a Park and There are No Rangers to Help, Think of This

The Department of Homeland Security has budgeted up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads in the United States and overseas that repeatedly thank President Donald Trump for leading an immigration crackdown. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Friday night that these ads were Trump’s idea, and during the administration’s transition to power, the president asked her to star in ads thanking him “for closing the border.”
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The ad campaign amounts to an extremely expensive taxpayer-funded propaganda blitz to scare off migrants and to flatter Trump on television. On Friday, Trump’s DHS secretary entertained the CPAC high-roller audience with her account of how Trump orchestrated the whole thing.

Noem said that Trump instructed that he didn’t want to be in the ads himself, telling her: “I want you in the ads, and I want your face in the ads … but I want the first ad, I want you to thank me. I want you to thank me for closing the border.”

Two hundred million of your dollars used to run propaganda to stroke his fragine sense of self-worth.

That's beyond pathetic. You can bet the farm that there will not be more than a few so-called conservatives who will object to this. Because conservatism is now a cult and their leader is the Felonious Vulgarian.

Europeans, Who Well Remember the Nazis, Hate Tesla

And sales are crumping.

They're not interested in buying his swastikars anymore.

Either the company will eventually go under or he'll be pushed out.

Shorter Trump: No Bigotry Here, No Siree

So far, he's removed three service chiefs: The Chairman, the CNO and the Commandant of the Coast Guard.

One Black man and two women, all replaced with white men. The dude named as Chairman isn't qualified for the job, other than by skin color.

No bigotry here, you betcha.

He also fired all of the JAGs, evidently to ensure that the lawyers in uniform get the message that they owe allegiance to the Short-Fingered Vulgarian, not to the Constitution or the law.

Which brings us to the next question: apparently, Disgustus Maximus wants to use soldiers for guarding his internment camps. That may do wonders for retention, as nobody signed up to be a fucking concentration camp guard.

Caturday

It's hard to read and be a cat bed.

Ass Patel Makes His First Move

New FBI Director Kash Patel has told senior officials that he plans to relocate 1,000 employees at FBI headquarters to field offices around the country and move an additional 500 to a bureau facility in Huntsville, Alabama, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions.

The plans were communicated Friday, the same day Patel was sworn in at the White House. They reflect his long-stated determination to reduce the FBI’s footprint in Washington and have more of a presence in offices in other cities.

Nothing says "let's save government money" like spending several million bucks to relocate employees and their families for some bullshit half-baked political reasons. This could be the dumbest move since Chimpy started the process to close the Plum Island research facility.

CPAC Is a Haven for Nazis

Convicted felon Steve Bannon flashed a Nazi salute at CPAC and was cheered for doing so.

When someone tells you that they're a Nazi, believe them.

UPDATE: Even the French far-right can't stomach those Nazis.

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Because It's Friday

CT Antique Machinery Association.

Couch-Boy Publicly States That the Felon-in-Chief Is Fragile

Free speech champion JD Vance warned Volodymyr Zelensky against “badmouthing” Donald Trump who has branded him a “dictator”.

The US Vice President, who lectured European leaders at the Munich Security Conference, on the need for free speech, with flawed claims, stressed that publicly denouncing Trump is an “atrocious way to deal with this administration”.

President Zelenskyy said that the Dictator of Mar-a-Lago is living in a "disinformation space," which was the "badmouthing" that the Faux Hillbilly was whining about. The obvious fact that the Short-Fingered Vulgarian believes Russian propaganda about who began the war and other points is beyond dispute by any rational person.

People who are in politics generally have thick skins. They know that taking critcism is part of the job. But not The Fat Old Felon, oh, no.

And neither does the South African Nazi. When an astronaut dared to correct him, he threw a hissy fit and demanded that the ISS be de-orbited.

I don't know if both of them are malignant narcissists who can't stand anyone telling them "no", or if they are just rich clowns who are high on their own supply. Or both.

Republicans Think That This Post is Illegal

They seem to believe that informing people of their rights is a crime.

So here goes.

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True, That

You know how to tell that Zelensky isn't a dictator? If he was, Trump would be far more solicitous towards him. Look at how Trump interacts with authoritarians like Putin, Xi and Kim vs how he interacts with democratic allies. It's night and day. Trump likes and admires dictators.

On Commenting on Political Matters, Both Here and Elsewhere

You should ask yourself two questions:

1. Was I eligible to vote in the last election?
2. Did I vote?

If the answer to the first one is "no", or if the answer to both question is "yes", then sound off.

If the answer to the first question is "yes" and the answer to the second question is "no", then consider shutting the fuck up until November, 2026.

However much you think your vote doesn't count, it does. 90 million Americans were eligible to vote in 2024 and, for whatever reason, couldn't be bothered to do that one act of citizenship. An act of citizenship that people have been killed over. An act of citizenship that a majority of Americans were once forbidden to perform, either by intimidation or by the law (and still are, in more and more states).

But you, you special snowflake, couldn't get off your dead ass and vote.

Note that I'm not making this contingent on for whom you voted. Regardless of what I think of Der Drumpfenführer, those who voted for him are mostly honorable citizens (neo-nazis notwithstanding) who exercised their rights as citizens.

To those who could have voted but didn't: Your opinions on political matters are without value.

You didn't vote.

Shut the fuck up.

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