Hakeem Jeffries is Still Full of Shit

Quite wrong. Being anti-Trump, anti-GOP is not the same as being pro-Democratic party. I doubt very much if any meaningful number of people went to the polls thinking that their votes were ratifications of what Jeffries and Schumer are doing or not doing.

A lot of Democrats won because voters looked at the economic and political chaos brought by Trump and said "whoa." Eight million people don't turn out in the street nationwide because they're happy with the way things are going. Mayor-elect Mamdani received more votes than the total turnout in some of the recent elections. Two democrats won seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission, the first Democrats to be seated there in this century.

Voters are not happy and the person they are most unhappy with is the president and his lackeys. Watch for un uptick of Republicans in the House deciding to retire. And I expect some long-term Democrats to read the room and also opt to quit.

But for today, I am enjoying the fact that Andrew Cuomo lost two elections this cycle.

Gee. Who Saw This Coming?

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to a local police precinct. “Ensure law enforcement personnel adequality [sic] identify themselves during operations and cooperate with individuals who request further verification,” it says.

So, to sum up, criminals are impersonating another group of criminals.

Someone with a mask and a gun should be presumed to be a violent criminal. Any clown can buy an ICE raid jacket.

Plopping These Down, Here

Satan Gains a New Lieutenant

Dick Cheney, the former White House chief of staff, member of Congress, secretary of defense and US vice-president, has died, his family has said. He was 84.

Cheney started out covering up the war crimes of Tiger Force and reached the height of power, pushing for wars of aggression and ordersing/approving the commission of war crimes. Like other conservatives, he flipped on culture war issues only when they affected his family. It took Trump's first coup attempt for him to recognize the threat posed by the Bloated Orange Fascist, but by then, he was long out of office and, if not for the stand taken by his daughter, he might have kept quiet.

So I'll end with the old saying of never speak anything but good of the dead. Good.

War #3 Threatened by Trump

The Trump administration has begun detailed planning for a new mission to send U.S. troops and intelligence officers into Mexico to target drug cartels, according to two U.S. officials and two former senior U.S. officials familiar with the effort.

The early stages of training for the potential mission, which would include ground operations inside Mexico, has already begun, the two current U.S. officials said. But a deployment to Mexico is not imminent, the two U.S. officials and one of the former U.S. officials said. Discussions about the scope of the mission are ongoing, and a final decision has not been made, the two current U.S. officials said.

The "no moar foreign wars" guy sure seems to be hot on invading every country that he sees on Fox News.

The United States is going to end up with no friends south of the Rio Grande, other than those that we have bought, like Argentina. Latin American countries are going to look for a counterweight and the most likely choice is China, which is going to be increasingly interested in overseas basing rights.

People in other countries have a better sense of history; they haven't forgotten when American Latin Policy was "send the Marines" to every country that the United Fruit Co. was beefing with. This threat to send in the military is going to ring a lot of chimes.

The Trump Administration is disintegrating American power and influence around the world. We will be cleaning this up for a lifetime, if even that quickly.

A House of Dynamite

If you like movies with a tidy storyline where everything gets wrapped up in the end and everyone lives happily ever after like a Disney fairytale, "A House of Dynamite" is not for you.

If you want to see a serious adult-grade movie that, if you really think about it, will scare the shit out of you, then watch it.

One thing the movie gets right is that the ground-based missile defense system is a $250 billion coin toss, because the odds of it working are about 50-50.

Fucking With the Trumpy Business Owners

Do you know a business owner who supports Trump and is dismissive of people who are on SNAP or other assistance? I'll bet that you likely do.

Here's a fun thing: Go to this database, enter the name of the business (you may have to dig into a DBA filing) and you can see how much they got in COVID relief loans and how much they didn't have to pay back, ie, welfare for businesses.

Whiskey Pete is a Serious Piece of Shit

The War Department showed off photos of War Secretary Pete Hegseth working out with U.S. troops stationed in Malaysia, vowing America's soldiers will be "fit, not fat."

"Secretary Hegseth joined our warriors for morning PT in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia," the DOW's rapid response account wrote on X. "From the top down, we will be FIT, NOT FAT!"

In a sane world, it would not matter a fucking whit whether or not SecDef can run four miles with a full pack or is so obese that he has to be moved with a forklift. The job is to run the bureaucracy of the world's most powerful military. Nowhere in that is a need to be fit enough to go on a combat patrol.

Hegseth is coming across as a stereotypical low-ability military leader who only understands one aspect of his job and hammers that to the exclusion of everything else. You could grab an E-7/9 or an O-3/6 out of the ranks at any unit and that person would have a 75% or better chance at being a better SecDef than this alcohol-infused loser.

So, This is an Illegal Blog?

According the the Demented Orange Fart Machine, this blog is illegal:

He doesn't understand how numbers and percentages work, so I can safely say that I am easily 250% anti-Trump.

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I've not seen a lot of them, but when one passes overhead, you'll know it. It sounds different because the props are cutting up the exhaust flow.