Bondi Lies Like Her Orange Boss

But she thinks that the Syphilitic Sociopath is saving millions of people's lives.

One thing is clear: She lies for Trump like the corrupt pol that we all know that she is.

Bezos Bends His Knee, Again

The White House took aggressive aim at Amazon, with President Donald Trump putting in a call to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Tuesday morning, after the company considered displaying the added cost of tariffs on certain items.

Trump called Bezos to complain about reports that Amazon was considering displaying the cost of US tariffs next to prices for certain products on the company's website, two senior White House officials told CNN. Trump later said it was a "good call."

"Jeff Bezos was very nice. He was terrific," Trump told reporters on Tuesday. "He solved the problem very quickly. Good guy."

Some really quick (and cowardly) knee-bending there, Jeffy. Even the Wall Street Journal was not amused.

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I Miss the Cold War

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reportedly authorized his country's armed forces to respond to a deadly attack in Kashmir last week in whatever way they see fit, as tensions with neighboring Pakistan remain high.

Hours later, Pakistan's information minister said that Islamabad had "credible intelligence" that India was planning an imminent military strike within the next 24-36 hours.

"Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends to launch a military strike within the next 24 to 36 hours using the Pahalgam incident as a false pretext," Attaullah Tarar wrote on social media platform X.

"Any act of aggression will be met with a decisive response. India will be fully responsible for any serious consequences in the region!" he added.

Shit like this can spiral out of control, as the shooting of an Austrian royal and his wife demonstrated. Maybe there will be some minor-ish shooting, but it's possible that the world will see its first nuclear exchange, which is a pretty antiseptic way of describing blowing a number of cities and millions of people into oblivion.

Add to that the possibility of a nuclear fall, things could be kind of worse.

We may up regretting the end of the Cold War.

Kicking These Down, Here

ICE/DHS is an Evil Gestapo-Grade Entity

ICE agents raided a home occupied by American citizens (the targets have moved out weeks before), made the family stand outside in the rain in their skivvies, stole their shit, and said: "I know this was a little rough."

This is some Gestapo-grade shit, except that the Gestapo was probably more competent than ICE. Cruelty is not a by-product, it's entirely the point.

ICE is evil. If you work for ICE, then so are you.

And if you agree with what happened to that family, congratulations! You're also evil.

Canadian Liberal Party to Send Gift Basket to the FLOSS

Mark Carney used his victory speech to claim Donald Trump wanted to “break us” as he led Canada’s Liberal party to a fourth term in office, in a race that was upended by threats and aggression from the US president.

The Liberal triumph capped a miraculous political resurrection and marked a landmark victory for Carney, the former central banker and political novice who only recently succeeded Justin Trudeau as prime minister.
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Mirroring a theme of the campaign, Carney told election-night supporters that Trump wanted to “break us, so that America can own us”, adding: “That will never, ever happen,” to shouts from the crowd.

He also gave a stark assessment of a world order once defined by an integrated global trading system with the US at the centre, saying such a system was over, and he pledged to reshape Canada’s relationships with other nations.

“We are over the shock over American betrayal. But we will never forget the lessons,” he said.

The Liberal party in Canada was on life support, heading for an epic beat-down, but then came the FLOSS on his mission to make everyone else in the world despise the United States. It made the Conservatives so unpopular in Canada that even their party leader lost the seat he's held for two decades.

Today

The Failure of the American News Media, or Why There Will Be War Crimes Trials for ICE Agents and Their Bosses

Two U.S. citizen children were sent on their mother’s deportation flight to Honduras without the opportunity to speak with attorneys, leaving a 4-year-old boy with Stage 4 cancer without access to his medication, according to the National Immigration Project.

Gracie Willis, an attorney with the organization, told NBC News that the boy and and his 7-year-old sister were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday. They were taken to El Paso, Texas, and flown to Honduras first thing Friday morning, Willis said.

The 4-year-old boy, who was actively receiving treatment for a rare form of cancer, was flown to Honduras without his medication, according to Willis and the National Immigration Project.

Attorneys were preparing a habeas corpus petition when the children were deported on an ICE charter flight before it could be filed, Willis said.

There is an astonishing amount of inhumanity and callousness in people who exile a child battling cancer overseas without his medicine. Especially when that child is an American citizen.

Inhumanity and cruelty are features of the administration of the FLOSS and Pee-Wee German.

Welp, This Will be Fun

From Craig Fuller of FreightWaves:

I was at a fundraiser tonight for the local hospital.

Spoke with dozens of business owners, many had different stories about how tariffs are impacting their business:

1 - Logistics exec: "One of our big box customers has stopped taking new imports from China altogether."

2 - Community banker: "We are requiring all home builders to bring more equity due to higher anticipated costs. This will have a big impact on new home builds later in the year."

3 - Wholesale distributor: "Overseas suppliers have changed payment terms, requiring payment up front. They've had so many US orders refuse to take delivery due to tariffs, now they view US customers as a credit risk."

4 - Toy retailer: "A large number of our domestic suppliers have cancelled all incoming containers and are not placing new orders until they get some direction, which will impact this coming holiday season. Toys will be in short supply all over the country."

5 - Staffing in manufacturing: "We had a lot of momentum coming in this year. Our manufacturing clients have mostly paused all new placements. We are talking hundreds of would-be jobs that have disappeared."

6 - Investment banker: "We had several deals in process that have stalled, including one large ($300M+) transaction that fell apart literally on the day of closing. The private equity fund got cold feet."

7 - Hospital exec: "We have a few months of inventory of PPE available. We can't pass on price increases, because most of our prices are fixed with the carriers. We aren't placing orders for anything that comes from China."

The COVID-19 virus caused the supply chain to collapse five years ago. Unemployment skyrocketed and the government was handing out money hand over fist to keep the economy from collapsing.

This time, the virus has a name: Donald Trump.

Achtung Fan! Fecal Matter Incoming!

Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

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— Lizzy Tish (@lizzy-tish.bsky.social) April 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM

I think that speaks for itself. The trade embargo is taking hold. Which means that there are a lot of truckers who are going to find themselves idled.

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

Ryan PT-22

I had a chance to buy one in the `90s for far less than what PT-17s were selling for. Most of the time, I'm glad that I didn't. But it would have been fun.

The Old Term Was “Trash”. And He Is.

The FLOSS wore a blue suit to the Pope's funeral.

And he couldn't stay awake for the funeral.

Remember when the Right Wing Noise Machine worked themselves into a tizzy because President Obama wore a tan suit in the White House? I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that they have zip point shit to say about the FLOSS showing such blatant disrespect to the late Pope Francis.

And then he couldn't stay off his fucking phone during the service. He also said that the only reason he went to the funeral was because Catholics voted for him.

He's just a vile narcissistic person. Everything is always about him in his mind.

Caturday

Warm kitty.

Because It's Friday

Fascism Law Tracker

Some law students at Georgetown have created a spreadsheet to track what law firms have surrendered to Trump and what ones haven't.

You can see the spreadsheet here, in case you're looking for a job or if you need to hire a lawyer from a big firm. Because why would you want to hire lawyers who can't even fight for themselves.

Somebody's Lying

The US and China held talks on Thursday to help resolve the trade war between the world’s two largest economies, Donald Trump said.

“We may reveal it later, but they had meetings this morning, and we’ve been meeting with China,” the US president told reporters at the White House.
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The Chinese commerce ministry’s spokesperson He Yadong said there were “currently no economic and trade negotiations between China and the United States”.

“Any claims about progress in China-US economic and trade negotiations are baseless rumours without factual evidence,” he said, adding that if the US wanted “de-escalation” – as Trump’s Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has argued – it should “completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures against China and find a way to resolve differences through equal dialogue”.

Are there talks or are there no talks? Hard to say, but one thing we all know from years of experience: The FLOSS lies about everything. Everything he says is a lie, including the conjunctions and articles.

It should be clear to almost everyone but the most brain-addled Trumpanzees that the risks to the global economy come from just one lunatic with a crayon for signing his orders. China has Trump (and us) by the nuts and they know it. China sees this as an golden opportunity that has been handed to them by Trump to break what they see as American hegemony, and they'll make full use of it. Whatever hard times come to China, they'll sell it to their people as defeating the U.S.

The COFF and his minons bleat about the trade deals they are negotiating, but none have been announced. My guess is they think that Trump's going to fold once the hurt sinks in, so they'll string him along until that happens.

Smooshing These Down, Here

What "Merit Hire" Truly Means

"We hire marginally qualified (or unqualified) white men."

No rational person would have hired Kegstand Pete to do anything other than what he did: Hold down an unwatched TV show on the Murdock Fascism Channel. Nobody would have hired Brainworm Bobby for, well, any job if it wasn't for his name. He's not qualified to be a road-flagger on a tree-removal project.

It's a fairly safe bet that nobody who the FLOSS hires is competent to do their job. The only thing he wants around him are white guys (or blonde women) who sing his praises.

But in general, "merit hire" means "all women and men of color need not apply".

Fascism is a Feature, Not a Bug

Trump wants to deport American citizens who say bad things about him.

Anyone who lives in this country and who thinks that is a good idea should consider moving to Russia. For that is the level of freedome they have in Russia and they had in Nazi Germany: The freedom to agree with the dictator.

Anyone who thinks that is a good ida is a tritor to everything this country stands for.

More Nazi Ideas from the FLOSS

His "motherhood medal".

Evil and the Machinery Thereof

In shelters across New York, migrant children sit in front of computer and TV screens, appearing virtually in real court proceedings. They swivel in chairs, walk in circles and play with their hair — while immigration judges address them on the screens in front of them.

“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex.

“It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.”

The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.

If you are any part of this, of running very young children through legal proceedings without them having the benefit of an attorney, then know this: You are not only helping to run a machine of evil, you are not ony participaing in evil, you are evil.

And if you can sleep at night, know this: Your soul is damned.

Detaining These Down, Here

Have a Nice, Cool Glass of Refrigerated Poison

The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality-control program for testing fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
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The FDA this month also suspended existing and developing programs that ensured accurate testing for bird flu in milk and cheese and pathogens like the parasite Cyclospora in other food products..

We all know how this story will play out. The purity of food will degrade, because nobody is checking, and corporations will cut corners every which way they can. We are on our way back to the glory days of the Gilded Age, when the quality ofAmerican food was somewhere between problematical and poisonous. It was a time when food products produced in America were so bad that most civilized nations would not allow them to be imported.

But that seems to be what our old syphilitic sociopath-in-chief wants to see.

Hegseth's Not Going Anywhere

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.

Lots of pundits think this will be it for Hegseth (seen here getting dressed for work):

But I don't think so. The only thing that matters for Trump 2.0 is loyalty and Drunken Pete's loyal to his Orange God.

And Now Starting the Meme Timer

Just waiting for the "J.D. Vance killed the Pope" memes to start.

I'm not sure if "pope-killer" is much of an upgrade over "couch-fucker," though.

Egging These Down, Here

A few to jump the queue.

Your Sunday Morning Aircraft Noise

Scenes from an airshow:

Asshole Pundits

Let's see if this works.

David Fucking Brooks wins!

This will be a one and done, unless I can figure out another way to do it. It was too limited.