12/2/24: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travels to Mar-a-Lago to discuss tariffs with the Dumpling. (Trump can’t travel to Canada because Canada doesn’t allow felons to cross its borders.)
When Trudeau says Trump’s tariff plan will be devastating to Canada – which happens to be an allied nation – Donald jokes that perhaps Canada can become the 51st state. The Prime Minister later says the President-Elect was “joking.”
I am guessing that behind closed doors, Trudeau has a much different opinion of what must have sounded like an insult. Because:
1. Canada has 37 million people and would not want to become a state equal to Wyoming, which has .6 million.
2. Our northern neighbor is divided into thirteen provinces and territories. At least eight should, if we are using the U.S. model, become states. Ontario, for example, would be fifth in population, if made a state, beating out Pennsylvania. Quebec would match Virginia, and British Columbia would equal Alabama.
3. Saskatchewan would have to change its name to “Even Further North Dakota,” and would also demand two senators.
4. Canada has universal healthcare.
5. An overwhelming majority of Canadians (81%) believe climate change is real, and think Donald Dumpling is a moron because he still can’t tell the difference between climate and weather.
6. Only 21% of Canadians would have picked the Dumpling
over Kamala Harris, vs. 60% for the Democrat.
UPDATE: Whether or not Trump was joking, we know he decided to troll the Canadians again. On Truth Social, the future president posted the picture below – one apparently generated by AI – with a two-word caption, “Oh Canada!” An alert observer pointed out that the mountain in the distance is the Matterhorn – which is in Switzerland – which is not a Canadian province.
No sane person would expect Trump to know that. During his first term in office he thought he could trade Puerto Rico for Greenland.
No president has ever had so many ways to prove he’s a shallow asshole. So, he trolled Trudeau again.
“It was
a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin
Trudeau of the Great State of Canada,” Donald posted on Truth Social. “I look
forward to seeing the Governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth
talks on Tariffs and Trade, the results of which will be truly spectacular for
all! DJT.”
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12/3/24: Another “Stolen Election” myth is revealed, after Dinesh D’Souza admits that the core argument of his movie “2000 Mules,” is based on flawed data – also known as “data people made up.”
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Same day: Dumpling Trump threatens Hamas with “all hell to pay,” if American hostages captured in the attack on Israel in October 2023, are not released by the time he takes office. “Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied history of the United States of America,” Macho Donald promised. Then he added, in all caps, “RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!”
Naturally, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been raining death and destruction on Gaza, thanked our boy for his “strong statement.”
Short of
dropping a nuclear weapon on the Gaza strip, there’s not much more you can do
to make hell pay. As for more and more bombs, at this point, as someone once
said, you’re just “making the rubble bounce.”
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12/4/24: File this under the category of “Numbskull Hypocrisy.” Sen. Mitch McConnell is miffed because two Democratic-appointed federal judges have unretired, in the face of Donald Trump’s election.
Mitch says this proves “partisan politics” are involved – and the nerve of these judges, not to want to be replaced by Trump’s picks. Rudy Giuliani, maybe? Or Matt Gaetz? He’s available.
Again.
If you have the attention span of a melon, you should be able to remember a happy time when McConnell, then Senate Majority Leader, blocked an Obama appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court in March 2016, saying it was too close to the election. Mitch insisted the people should get to decide who they wanted on the court, by picking their president in November – that president then picking their favorite judge – a concept which is nowhere mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.
Then you may remember when McConnell looked at the calendar on October 27, 2020, and voted, along with his GOP pals, to put a fresh face, Amy Coney Barrett, on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mitch
did not feel a need to wait and see who the people wanted for president, six
days later.
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Same day, more hypocrisy: Old clips of Pete Hegseth surface, with Pete saying what this blogger used to say – but what this blogger still does. (We even have a Megan Kelly sighting, speaking of hypocrites.) Pete is all bent out of shape after Candidate Trump, in 2016, says he supports torture. “It’s typical Trump, all bluster, very little substance,” he fumes. “He talks a tough game. But then when pressed on it, he’s an armchair tough guy. I hate to say it, but this is a guy who said that John McCain is not a war hero. Yet he sought his own five military deferments.”
As I never fail to enjoy pointing out, Pete was right, and I’m still right. Trumps are all sunshine patriots, at best, and cowards, at worst.
None shall serve.
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Same day: Trump nominates another billionaire to help run the U.S. government. His pick for the #2 spot at the Department of Defense is Stephen Feinberg. “President-Elect Trump has made brilliant decisions on who will serve in his second administration,” his transition spokesperson crowed to reporters, and has done it “at lightning pace.”
Let’s hope Feinberg:
1. Does not have a history of cheating on wives
or groping other women.
2. Does not abuse his position to help his company, which happens to make missiles for the U.S. government.
Apparently, Donald’s second choice was Silicon
Valley favorite Trae Stephens, a venture capitalist.
Also: a billionaire.
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Same day: Trump picks Peter Navarro to be his trade advisor – that is: to hold the same job he had during Trump Presidency 1.0
When last seen, Navarro was lodged in prison,
after refusing to testify in front of Congress. He couldn’t even bother
to show up and plead the Fifth. We should also point out that he is still
fighting a court order to turn over documents that might relate to the attack
on Congress on January 6, 2021.
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“Find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media.”
Same day: Now that Matt Gaetz is out as Trump’s choice for attorney general, we will have to make do with Kash Patel – who, at least, is less likely to pay prostitutes than Donald first choice for the job.
Recently, an interview from October 2023 surfaced again. At the time, Kash showed up on Steve “I Got a Pardon, You Didn’t” Bannon’s show to discuss his view of justice if Trump was ever reelected. To say that “the rule of law” was not mentioned prominently is an understatement.
In fact, Patel – who Trump has now nominated to head the F.B.I., had big, fascist plans:
“We will
go out and find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media.
Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American
citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We’re going to come
after you. Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out. But,
yeah, we’re putting you all on notice.”
The fact that Team Trump has had four years to prove that Biden rigged the 2020 election, and found nothing but cobwebs in corners, does not trouble Mr. Patel. So, we’re stuck with another threat to the free press.
We should also point out that during Donald’s first go as president, Patel worked at the Department of Defense. He served as chief of staff for Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, Trump’s third and last choice to fill that slot during his first administration. Choice #1, Gen. James Mattis, later labeled Trump a threat to the U.S. Constitution. Choice #2, Mark Esper, also called Trump a threat to the U.S. Constitution.
As for Secretary Miller, in the wake of the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, he blamed the president’s rhetoric and lies for all the wild violence, describing what happened as “cause and effect.”
Kash? What does Kash offer, if confirmed by the Senate, to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation?
He’ll be
a tool of the president, willing to use the power of the Bureau to advance Donald’s
instincts for revenge.
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No choice but to riot.
12/6/24: Donald Trump showed up for “Fox Nation’s Patriot of the Year” awards ceremony, and to the surprise of no one, walked away with the trophy – “Patriot of the Year” – which was handed over by Sean Hannity.
Meanwhile, Mr. Dumpling has promised to pardon all 1,600 January 6 rioters on his first day in office. According to “Dumps,” those dolts had no choice but to riot and pummel cops with flagpoles, baseball bats, hockey sticks, and expandable batons, and douse them with wasp repellant, bear spray, and other chemical irritants.
Because Donald – in his patriotic delusions – said he really won the 2020 election and unleashed the mob.
Like the “Patriot of the Year!”
Assuming he was winning the award for Russia, or China, or Iran, or some other country that hates America.
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12/7/24: Perhaps you’ve heard about Donald Dumpling’s big plans to close the borders and throw every illegal immigrant who has snuck into the United States in the last hundred years, out on their ears.
If you’ve missed it his “Border Czar” will be Tom Homan, who normally sounds like he wants to give each illegal a boot in the ass, on the way out. Well, maybe not the two-year-old girl from El Salvador, found recently alone at the border, with only a slip of paper, a phone number, and a name, in her possession.
Homan showed up to talk with the New York Post about the border crisis, and he teared up, and tried to put on a more human face.
“I’ve held dying children and I’ve helped dead children,” he said, apparently too emotional to get his words right. “I’ve talked to girls as young as nine who were raped multiple times by members of the cartel. I saw 19 dead aliens at my feet, a five-year-old boy was baked to death. I’m tired of it,” he added.
So tired, of course, that if Team Trump 2.0 has its way, no child, no matter how dire their circumstances back home, will be allowed to cross the border. And if they’re already here, out they go.
F**k them all, right?
Look, the situation on the border is immensely complicated and if we let everyone in, from around the world, who would wish to come, our population would balloon to a billion. Unfortunately, what we tend to get from our leaders are simplistic arguments instead of substantiative discussion.
Talking about deporting more than ten million
individuals, including mothers and fathers, who have children who are U.S.
citizens, is going to get us nowhere in the end. (It doesn’t help, either, when
people like Donald Trump keep hiring immigrants, legal and illegal, to do jobs
Americans might not want.)
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12/9/24: Well, Planet Earth, you are screwed. Team Trump 2.0 is chock full of climate deniers – in the mold of the Dumpling himself. Donald: the only idiot ever to claim that climate change will increase the amount of seashore in the world. Ha, ha, MAGA folks. You elected a moron.
Speaking of morons, Trump’s pick for energy secretary is fracking executive Chris Wright, not quite as clueless as the Dumpling, but not appreciably brighter. His take on climate change?
He agrees that burning fossil fuels is contributing to rising temperatures.
But he also says climate change makes the
planet greener by increasing plant growth, boosts agricultural productivity and
likely reduces the number of temperature-related deaths annually.
“It’s
probably almost as many positive changes as there are negative changes,” he
told conservative media nonprofit PragerU last year, referring to climate
change. “Is it a crisis, is it the world’s greatest challenge, or a big threat
to the next generation? No.”
Even leaders of some of the world’s biggest oil companies now admit that humanity faces a serious threat.
As the Wall Street Journal notes:
Occidental
Petroleum Chief Executive Vicki Hollub this year called climate change “the
greatest crisis our world has ever faced.” Exxon Mobil CEO Darren
Woods said in a Wall Street Journal interview last month that Trump
shouldn’t pull the U.S. from the Paris climate pact.
Trump,
of course, is still trying to stay as far away as he can from windmills –
because he believes they cause cancer.
BLOGGER’S NOTE: You can argue all kinds of ways about what must be done to deal with the threat. If you think Trump and Wright are right, however, you must ask yourself: What do the rest of the nations of the world know that they don’t? At last count, 194 countries, and the European Union, have signed on to the effort to limit the damage done by climate change.
A full list of nations that have not:
Iran
Libya
Yemen
Trump took us out of the deal during his first term in office and seems likely to do so again. Yay! More seashore.
Also, next time you have a beastly hot day, be sure to stand outside in the direct sun, because according to Mr. Wright, hotter temperatures will reduce temperature-related deaths annually.
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Greenland ice is melting - worrying scientists. |
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Same day: But wait, there’s more! I mean more morons.
Today, 75 non-morons, all Nobel laureates, cautioned against putting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of America’s healthcare system. Richard Roberts, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 1993, put it plainly. “These political attacks on science are very damaging.”
With RFK Jr., you get attacks on vaccines, and support for taking horse tranquilizers to stop the spread of COVID.
In a letter, the group warns: “Placing Mr. Kennedy in charge of DHHS would put the public’s health in jeopardy and undermine America’s global leadership in the health sciences.”
We know, for example, that in 2019, nurses in Samoa mistakenly mixed a muscle relaxant with a measles vaccine and two children died. Kennedy saw this as proof that vaccines were unsafe and helped fuel an anti-vaccine fervor. A measles outbreak naturally followed, and 83 Samoans died, most of them children.
Kennedy took his show to Europe in 2020, where he helped spread the conspiracy theory that the COVID-19 pandemic was part of “a sinister game” played by the governments of the world to control people. “A lot of it feels very planned to me,” he explained during a visit to Germany.
Here, the hard-working blogger should naturally respond: “Look, if we’re doing ‘feelings,’ instead of science, I have a ‘feeling’ that Robert is kind of nutty on the vaccine topic, among others.”
If RFK Jr. is willing to take on the multinational pharmaceutical companies – for example, on price gouging – that would be terrific. The problem being that Republican members in Congress have been the biggest protectors of those very companies and their soulless pricing policies.
FUN FACT: If you don’t follow the news closely, another Trump choice to watch over the health of all Americans is Dr. Oz.
Oz once
signed on to a legal settlement, where a company whose product,
green coffee extract, he touted as a surefire weight loss supplement, agreed to
pay $5.25 million for false advertising.
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12/13/24: The free press, doing what the free press does best – reports on RFK Jr. ally Aaron Siri, who, in 2022, petitioned to have the Food and Drug Administration revoke approval for the polio vaccine. Apparently, Aaron and Robert believe the vaccine hasn’t been tested sufficiently for safety.
Bring
back paralysis, leg braces, and iron lungs!
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Random news flash: Did you know Rupert Murdoch got married for the fifth time this past June? Bride #5 is a Russian lady, Elena Zhukova, who was previously married to a Russian oligarch, and whose daughter was married to Roman Abramovich, another oligarch, also Russian.
I think all the MAGA faithful can agree: You can never have too many oligarchs helping run the government and shape the news you receive, whether here or in Russia.
For example, Elon Musk.
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12/16/24: There’s wild celebration at Mar-a-Lago, when Donald wins a defamation suit against ABC, after George Stephanopoulos, referred to him during a Sunday morning “This Week” show, as a “rapist.”
ABC will now pay $15 million in damages, and another million to offset Donald’s legal costs. In fact, Trump was adjudged to have “digitally penetrated” a woman, against her will: Namely E. Jean Carroll.
Is that, technically “rape?” ABC didn’t want to fight. So, yay, Donald. You’re not a “rapist.” Just a scuzzbag.
And Melania doesn’t even want to move back to the White House with you, you fat orange oaf.
Donald has repeatedly shown his respect for the free press before. As in, reporters, “Enemies of the people.”
You would think even an ass-kisser like Sean Hannity would understand why presidents consistently attacking the free press pose a serious threat to freedom, generally. Angered by leaks to reporters during his first term in office, Trump has made clear he believes government must curtail reporters’ abilities to shield their sources. Or, as he puts it, in his crude, classless fashion, there’s a good way to smoke out the leakers.
“The reporter goes to jail,” he sneers. “When the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough, and mean, he will say, he or she, ‘I think I’m going to give you the information. Here’s the leaker, get me the hell out of here.’”
Just how crazy is Donald – and how far is he planning to take his war on the free press during a second term? He has also filed a damage suit against the Des Moines Register, and pollster J. Ann Selzer, after they produced and reported on a poll showing that Trump was losing Iowa by three points, heading into the November election. We know polls are wrong all the time.
That makes this lawsuit seem stupid.
And dangerous.
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“Ask why schools HAVE to.”
12/17/24: Today, we must report on another school shooting. This one was in Madison, Wisconsin, at a private Christian academy. This time, three are dead, including the 15-year-old female shooter. So, three lives wasted.
Six others have been injured.
But, hey, you know those Christian schools don’t let just anyone use the bathroom of his, her or they’s choice.
Also: This is American, and all we can ever do is buy more guns to make ourselves safer from the crazy people who are also buying up more and more guns.
Do we have a lot of these incidents?
Yes, there were 85 in the 2000s, in this country.
Then there were 266 in the following decade.
And it’s only getting worse: 226 bloody incidents, in just the last five years.
A
frustrated chief of police in Madison, finally
said,
“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass & metal detectors at
all the doors. Ask why schools HAVE to. That’s the question that needs to be
asked.”
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Same day: Clearly, what this country needs is millions more guns to make our children safer, and more pipe bombs!
Brad Spafford of Virginia has been arrested and charged with, among other crimes, possession of 150 pipe bombs of various kinds.
Spafford is said to be a connoisseur of explosive devices. Some he allegedly kept in a detached garage on his property and marked them with the word “lethal.” Others he kept in an unsecured backpack in his bedroom. That backpack carried the phrase, “#nolivesmatter.” According to the F.B.I., the No Lives Matter movement espouses an ideology of targeted, mass killings, spiced up with self-harm and animal abuse.
And, if you blame schools for the problems of society, federal agents found two small children living in the home.
In his freezer, Spafford allegedly kept a jar of chemicals he told authorities was so unstable, even a temperature change or friction could touch it off. It was marked, “Dangerous,” and “Do Not Touch,” and was found along with “what appeared to be Hot Pockets and other food items.” For fun, Dad Brad liked to use a picture of Joe Biden for target practice and had been working on gaining “sniper-rifle qualification” status at a nearby shooting range. At some point, Spafford apparently “disfigured” his hand while blowing shit up. And of course, he was stockpiling arms and ammunition. Among other charges, he is accused of possession of an unregistered short-barrel rifle.
Plus, he
was in possession of an assault-style rifle, which every American needs to
protect his or her family.
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12/18/24: Data gathered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service have caused growing alarm. Put plainly: temperature increases appear to be accelerating in unexpected fashion. It’s no surprise that 2024 is expected to be the hottest year in recorded history – beating out the old hottest year – 2023.
But studies of tree rings and ice cores indicate that we may now be “enjoying” the warmest year in 125,000 years.
In November, for example, record high temperatures on all seven continents outnumbered record lows, 50-1.
The alarming numbers were the subject of discussion at the American
Geophysical Union conference in Washington last week. You figure Donald Trump
has never heard of the Union, nor would he ever care to have the data
explained. Because he has the same level of intellectual curiosity as a totem
pole.
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12/19/24: Let’s catch up on all news Donald Trump. Come for the facts, stay for the mockery.
First, we can report that the Dumpling has blown up a funding deal worked out by hard-pressed Republicans in Congress. Now the Dumpling’s right-hand, right-wing immigrant pal, Elon Musk, is clamoring for the government to simply shut down for 33 days. (I think Elon is hoping to win an award as “Worst Immigrant to America Ever.”
We can also report that now that the election is over, GOP members in Congress have decided to admit that cuts to Social Security and Medicare are on the table. Because we have huge deficits, and you can’t raise taxes on billionaires.
See: Elon, above.
When I check this morning, Musk is worth an estimated $464 billion. To help you get a grip on how much that is, if he simply put all his money in certificates of deposit, earning $1.74 percent for a year, he would have an extra $8,073,600,000 a year later.
That would give him $22,119,452.0548 to spend every single day. But no. He needs a tax cut; and Donald is going to make sure he gets it.
Did you know Donald has chosen Herschel Walker, former football player, and guy who put a gun to his wife’s head and threatened to blow her “f**king brains out,” and tried to punch a girlfriend, but she dodged, to be ambassador to The Bahamas? Well, Donald did. If you’ve never heard Mr. Walker speak, you are missing a comic pleasure. I doubt he could even find The Bahamas on a map of the world.
Equally amusing, since Don Jr. was doing his best to ditch girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle, Don Sr. has decided it would be a perfect time to ship her off to Greece, to serve as ambassador. So all that Botox she got on her lips still wasn’t enough.
Since we know Melania is not interested in living in the White House again, I think she should be careful, lest the Felon-elect decide to send her to Uzbekistan. They need an ambassador, for sure.
Donald also appears to have a new hairdo – almost as if he’s trying a new look to appeal to the ladies.
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Looking good for the ladies! Including man boobs. |
It’s official, the U.S. economy grew at a healthy 3.1% rate in the third quarter of this year. Not bad, Joe Biden.
That followed another good quarterly report, for April-June, of 3%; so, Donald should be inheriting a solid economy in January. Not counting the fact that the Dumpling has now ordered his minions in Congress to refuse to raise the debt ceiling and shut the government down.
Meanwhile, “Dumps” has already backed off a promise to lower grocery prices as soon as he takes the oath of office – which he’s going to break. He now admits what every person over the age of five should have already understood. Once prices go up, they almost never come back down again. For example, I’m old enough to remember when gas was 19 cents a gallon. In high school, I could still go to a movie for a dollar, and I bought my first house in 1976, for $31,000.
Well, then, can we expect the price of eggs to drop, and will bacon be handed out at Kroger free? Forget it. When asked recently if he thought he really could slash grocery prices, Donnie backpedaled, faster than he did when approached by the draft board when he was a wee boy. “I don’t think so. Look, they got them up,” he told ABC News, referring to Team Biden. “I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.”
Okay, so no free bacon. Well, then, what about his plan to end the war in Ukraine in one day?
Also not going to happen.
Not going to cut Social Security or Medicaid? Yeah, he promised.
April Fools.
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12/20/24: Once again, Republicans can’t manage to chew gum and keep the federal government funded at the same time. First, they passed a resolution to fund the system until Donald took office.
Then Donald started barking, and Elon, who has hundreds of billions of dollars all for himself, joined in, with Elon insisting the government be shut down. With that, the bill just passed by the House of Representatives was sent to the morgue.
Then Donald said he wanted a bill which would basically get rid of the “debt ceiling” until 2029, at which point he could happily walk away from the White House – assuming his lard ass lives that long. Then conservatives in Congress, who claim they really believe in balancing the budget, refused. That meant Donald got mad and insulted Rep. Chip Roy, who proudly calls himself fiscally responsible.
On Truth Social, Donald Dumpling went with a fresh screed. “The very unpopular ‘Congressman’ from Texas, Chip Roy, is getting in the way, as usual, of having yet another Great Republican Victory – All for the sake of some cheap publicity for himself. Republican obstructionists have to be done away with.”
First, we should remember, as The Dumpling’s second term approaches, that it’s always fun to read his postings – with his random use of quotation marks, as if Roy isn’t really a “Congressman.” A little checking, and here we are adopting Trump-style quotation marks, reveals that Roy won his “race” for “reelection” in “2024,” with “62%” of the “vote.” (By the way, his Twenty-First Congressional District, in Texas, is weirdly gerrymandered to dilute the vote of blue-leaning Austin.)
Trump, himself got 56% of the vote in Texas (but I can’t find any comparison of his vote in Roy’s district).
Anyway, Donald now says Roy should face a primary challenge, and if he does, he will have “no chance.”
(Those marks are in the original post.)
In any case, Republicans like Rep. Paula Luna immediately blamed Democrats for killing the budget deal.
Then
“Congresswoman” Luna and other Republicans did a little more scrambling, and
came up with a bill that “could pass” – eliminating the debt ceiling for two
years – thereby kicking the “Deficit Can” down the road another few miles.
P.S.: If
you think Donald and Elon are ever going to balance the budget, or that
Republicans will risk their power by making hard choices that might offend
voters, you need to go back and look at what Donald did during his first term
in office. Or go back to George W. Bush’s eight years in the White House.
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Another billionaire: We should add another billionaire or three to the crew helping Trump plan for the next four years. Meet Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle. He comes in nicely at $210 billion net worth.
This crew of ordinary Americans includes:
Marc Andreessen: Net worth, a paltry $1.9 billion, but no doubt hoping to see his bank account balloon by sucking up to Trump.
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Mr. Andreessen. The perfect egg-shaped head. |
Peter Thiel, the billionaire who flew J.D. Vance around on his private jet and pushed for him to be chosen for VP, Mr. T. being worth $14.3 billion.
Palmer Luckey, head of a military technology firm called Anduril; Forbes estimates his net worth at $2.4 billion.
Antonio Gracias, a Elon pal, $1.5 billion.
Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon sidekick, $1 billion.
John Hering, a venture capitalist, whose firm, Vy Capital, has invested $4 billion in Musk enterprises.
Then we have billionaires who will help run the government directly:
Linda McMahon, nominee for Secretary of Education, famous for running zero education operations, but big in bigtime pro wrestling, $3 billion.
Howard Lutnick, Commerce Secretary nominee, $2.2 billion.
Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary nominee. He’s a “reported billionaire,” and once helped George Soros (the billionaire right-wingers love to excoriate at every chance) score a billion-dollar profit on a single deal.
Jared Isaacman, to head NASA, $1.8 billion.
Frank Bisignano, to be the next Social Security Administrator, $1 billion (because who better to understand the needs of people who rely on Social Security).
Warren Stephens, an investment banker, who will serve as ambassador to the United Kingdom, $3.4 billion.
Conair executive Leandro Rizzuto Jr., ambassador to the Organization of American States, $3.5 billion.
Charles Kushner, pardoned tax cheat and father of Jared, husband of Ivanka Trump, slated for ambassador to France, $1.8 billion.
Tom Barrack Jr., a close friend of Donald’s, and once accused of cheating Italy out of $190 million in taxes owed, to be ambassador to Turkey; net worth: $1 billion.
Steven Witkoff, Special Envoy to the Middle East (okay, admittedly that job is going to suck); worth $1 billion.
And we
should include Donald, himself, coming in at an estimated 275 pounds of lard,
and $6.2 billion net worth.
And we can now include:
Jeff Bezos, who has decided to donate $1 million to Donald’s Inauguration, lest he rankle the easily rankled Dumpling. Bezos is just another one of those billionaires who doesn’t want to see his taxes raised, forcing him to pinch the proverbial penny. He comes in second to Elon, at $234.5 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg is also donating a cool million to the Inauguration extravaganza. He’s worth $206.5 billion.
And Sam
Altman, OpenAI CEO, also good for a million; net worth $1.1 billion.
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Having compiled this list, and keeping in mind that Donald Dumpling is far from done, I think we can all agree that these are exactly the type of people who you know will be in sympathy with the typical MAGA voter, who worries if the price of gasoline goes up 19¢ per gallon, or when a 15.6 oz. box of Wheaties costs $5.99 at the local supermarket, and, hey, who shrank the box!
And I am feeling the vibe where Elon and The Dumpling sit down at Mar-a-Lago with the guy who owns this house in the Upper Peninsula, and they talk about why the government needs to cut Social Security and Medicare.
And get rid of food stamps.
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12/31/24: Sen.
Bernie Sanders is all on board with a proposal Donald Trump floated during his recent
campaign. Donald has said he wants to help all the MAGA’s of the world – and
even those of us of the “lunatic left-wing fringe,” by capping interest rates
on credit cards at 10%.
Bernie is now crafting legislation to achieve that cap.
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