Life in a Country Where the President Is a Toxic Mixture of Neville Chamberlain and Al Capone

From today's meeting:

Khrushchev was right:

Watching the bullshit today was depressing. Ukraine is bearing the burden of Russian aggression and the Putinist in the White House is intent on rewriting history and blaming Ukraine for the war.

I have lived through a lot of crap in this country and I have never been as ashamed of this country as I am today. Thanks to the Felon's maladministration, the United States has shown itself to be a country that can't keep its word or live up to an agreement. Other countries can have treaties and agreements on topics ranging from security to trade, and all it will take is one maniacal moron who was elected president by a bunch of disgruntled crackers to blow it all up.

The Old Fat Fuck of Florida has demonstrated to the world that the United States is not a serious country. We cannot be counted on in a pinch, or, for that matter, at all. Chairman Xi is probably laughing in his tea at the prospect of crushing Taiwan.

The French have it right:

Vraiment!

And this:

Putin's poodles, indeed.

Because It's Friday

"Blue Peter":

Republicans Support Sex Traffickers (And Death Cults)

The Tampa Bay Young Republicans tweeted an invitation to Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan to come speak to their group, drawing swift criticism for the outreach to the men currently facing charges for human trafficking and related offenses in multiple countries.

Between this and the Felon's administration putting the squeeze on the Romanians to let the Tates flee, it's becoming clear that QAnon was right: The government is a cabal of sex pets and sex traffickers.

Note, also, that GOP yammering about Epstein and his sex trafficking stopped the day after the election.

There would seem to be an argument that Republicans have become a eugenics party, that by cutting support for vaccines and combatting infectious diseases, that only those people will die and their party will gain power. They're also floating the idea of mass sterilizations of "lesser-quality humans".

The modern term for this Nazi bullshit is "necrosecurity". Those who die are "ungrievable subjects".

The GOP is an extremist and fascist hate group. That's beyond dispute, now.

The Corruption is Blatant

Musk wants to strip Verizon of a contract with the FAA and, surprise, surprise, surprise, award it to his company.

Corruption? Check. Undue influence? Check. Self-dealing? Check.

In normal times, he'd already be in custody for such blatant corruption. But since he and the Demented Felon are running the country like a fourth-world republic, it's to be expected.

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Bobby Brainworm to the American People:DIE, MOTHERFUCKERS, DIE!!!

A March meeting of outside advisers to the United States Food and Drug Administration to discuss the composition of flu vaccines for this fall’s flu season has been canceled, a member of the advisory committee told CNN.

The meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, or VRBPAC, is held every March “to pick flu strains, because it’s a six-month production cycle for a vaccine released in September,” Dr. Paul Offit, a member of VRBPAC, told CNN Wednesday.

No reschedule date, so no flu shots for next fall because RFK,jr wants to play at remote-control murdering.

Slap-Shotting These Down, Here

Shorter Republican Pols: Stop Paying Attention to Those Pesky Plebes

House Republicans are becoming weary and wary of in-person town hall meetings after a number of lawmakers have faced hometown crowds angry about the Trump administration’s push to slash government programs and staffing.
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A GOP aide said House Republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in them altogether.

The message is clear: Listen to the Demented Felon and the King of Ketamine, not the people who actually vote.

Trumpist Bigotry in Action

If someone who is trans and has fully transitioned and has the ID to reflect that wants to visit the US, well, basically, they can't.

At this point, the official hatred of the Musk/Trump administration for transpeople seems to be signs of a deep mental illness.

The French Press Corps Is Braver Than the American Press Corps

The French stood up for freedom of the press.

As President Donald Trump and France’s Emmanuel Macron today met in at the White House, American journalists from the Associated Press (AP) were barred from the press conference. But some weren’t waiting long, according to a tweet from Semafor White House Correspondent Shelby Talcott. The French press corps stepped in to ensure that a Paris-based AP reporter could go in and ask her first question. They decided amongst themselves to guarantee her entry, contending with Trump’s ongoing efforts to restrict certain news outlets.

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 were running that this morning.

Even better is AI Elon's feet.

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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