The Second Coming of Donald Dumpling - October 2025

Under Biden the defense budget was $883,700,000,000.

October 1, 2025: It’s 7:55 a.m., when I start typing today. Do you know where your president is? 

Relaxing, no doubt, as his government has shut down again, despite Republican control of the House, Senate and Oval Office. 

Meanwhile. Details are coming out regarding Donald Dumpling’s speech to the generals and admirals who lead our troops around the world, who were gathered this week from around the world – essentially, so Sec. of Big Talk Pete Hegseth could call the generals “fat,” and (I was hoping), maybe “ugly.”

Pete, of course, is known mostly for his Frat Boy good looks – and for abusing inebriated women.

Secretary of War hating on fat soldiers.

 

After Pete “warmed up” the crowd, the Fat Boy president waddled to the podium and launched into what most would call a typical, Trumpian campaign-style diatribe. Who loved “his” generals and admirals? Donald did! Obama didn’t, he insisted. Biden didn’t – even more, he didn’t. Only Donald. At one point, the president invited the audience to “applaud” – you know, if they just couldn’t resist. But his listeners had been told to applaud only if the Joint Chiefs did.

And they didn’t.

So, Donald bragged about Donald. He said he “rebuilt the military” when he took over from Obama, and he was doing it again, now that Biden was gone. If it weren’t for him, the generals and admirals wouldn’t even have bullets and tanks, and fighter jets, and aircraft carriers, and MRE’s for breakfast, when out in the field, or scrambled eggs on their plates, if out at sea. But that was good, since all the troops were fat oafs, and we had no hope of winning wars, until the Frat Boy and the Fat Boy took over.

This particular claim, that Donald has rebuilt the military, has always baffled the blogger, since in Mr. Biden’s last year in office, the defense budget was a robust $883,700,000,000. It always seemed to me that if you had $2.421 billion to spend every day (that is a billion per hour) you were going to be fine. 

The Great Dumpling, however, has new plans for spending some of that pile. He wants to conquer America’s blue cities. “It seems that the ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they’ve done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they’re very unsafe places,” he told the stunned (we hope) generals and admirals. “And we’re going to straighten them out one by one, and this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room.” 

“That’s a war too,” Mr. Trump said. “It’s a war from within.” So, who are the “soldiers” our military must now be ready to fight? 

The citizens of blue cities. 

Donald wanted the generals to know that Biden had been “incompetent,” but he was excited, and hoped they were, too, now that they were all cogs in the mighty “Department of War,” because the “Department of Defense” was a name for pussies, and Fat Boy was no pussy, even if he was once afflicted with crippling bone spurs. Frat Boy had made it clear that we were going to have a more lethal military now – because we were getting rid of beards – and transgender soldiers were gone – and women in combat really sucked. Donald also wanted our military leaders to know that he had the godlike power to order boats in the Caribbean blown up if he thought they were carrying drugs to this country. And now that you think about it, maybe he could blow up boats in Lake Erie, if he wanted. Donald’s speech included all his greatest hits. 

“Washington, D.C., was the most unsafe, most dangerous city in the United States of America, and to a large extent beyond, and beyond that. You go to Afghanistan, they didn’t have anything like that,” he insisted. 

Yet, D.C. wasn’t even the most dangerous city in America – with a variety of cities in red states demonstrably more dangerous. 

If you had an ounce of gray matter in your skull, and you cared about checks and balances, you knew Trump sounded dangerous. It certainly should have alarmed our military leaders when the president attacked the free press, CNN in particular, opining, “We have a really corrupt press.” 

Maybe Pete could add a Bureau of Propaganda to the Department of War? I think White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt could take a promotion – maybe make her an admiral – and lead it. 

Or as retired Army Maj. General Paul D. Eaton put it, “I couldn’t be prouder of our highest-ranking leaders for maintaining an apolitical face under immense pressure.” They were told not to react to what they heard – to remember that they swore an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution, not any individual. “Pete Hegseth spent millions to fly in all of our generals and admirals to rant about facial hair and brag about how many pull-ups he can do,” Gen. Eaton said, “and have Donald Trump sleepwalk through a list of partisan gripes.” 

Nor was Eaton the only officer who came away appalled. According to the Times, another senior officer, speaking only on the condition of anonymity, described the whole show as, “Terrible.” 

In fact, this blogger thought he should probably go see what other retired military officers (who had no reason to worry about retribution) were saying about the Frat Boy and the Fat Boy, and their little show. 

If the U.S. military was sent into blue cities, and blue states, “It will no longer be that our military is part of us. It’ll be, ‘It’s those guys in uniform, those armed thugs’,” Retired Maj. Gen. Randy Manner, who served as vice chief of the National Guard Bureau, told Military Times earlier this month. 

Speaking of “lethality,” we can report that our National Guard troops did a little landscaping while they were in D.C., partly to make up for the bonehead fact that Team Trump had cut funding for the U.S. National Parks Service. As a reporter for Military Times noted, Guard members have “cleared 1,133 bags of refuse, spread 1,045 cubic yards of mulch, removed five truckloads of plant waste, cleared 7.9 miles of roadway, painted 270 feet of fencing, 400 trees pruned, and packaged 6,030 pounds of food,” according to the latest data provided Monday by the joint task force in charge of the D.C. deployment.

And thank you for your service, men and women, because mulching is exactly what Pete Hegseth is all about. 

 

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Meanwhile, Nigel Edge, who served with the Marine Corps in Iraq, and was severely wounded, and who suffers from PTSD, is accused of shooting patrons at a Southport, N.C., riverside bar. That Edge is suffering cannot be denied. In 2012, before his problems became too great to handle, he attended the CMT Music Awards ceremony with Kelly Pickler, after they met at a gathering to honor wounded service members. The darkness gripping his life was clear earlier this year, when poor Edge sued Pickler. He claimed that she had tried to kill him with a poisoned glass of whiskey during the awards gathering. 

Now the combination of his demons – and the unending availability of military-style weaponry – means three more Americans are dead, and eight more are wounded. A veteran who needed help is likely headed for prison. 

The senseless slaughter wasn’t over. A second Marine veteran, Thomas Jacob Sanford, who had also served in Iraq, decided to attack a church in Grand Blanc, Michigan. People who knew him, or spoke with him, indicated that he had been involved with the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints in some fashion. He may even have removed several tattoos in order to take part in a Mormon religious ceremony. But one man who spoke with him said Sanford made it clear he no longer believed Mormons were Christians, instead calling them “the Antichrist.” 

Kris Johns, who was running for city council in the town where Sanford lived, met the killer a few days before he gunned down four, wounded eight, and set a Latter-day Saints church on fire. He said he heard enough to be concerned that Sanford might have dangerous intent. “He’s been thinking about this for a very long time,” Johns said. “And whatever it is, it’s personal, it’s deep-rooted.” 

(We learned later that he had fumed, saying that Mormons “believe they’re above Jesus Christ.”) 

So here we are. Two more mass shootings in a country that is increasingly defined by mass shootings. 

Instead of focusing on the senselessness of it all, many of our loudest pundits and political leaders spend their time trying to prove that the other “side” gets blame for producing the haters with (so often) heavy weaponry.

Pickler and Edge.

 

Those of us with even a passing knowledge of the killing of Charlie Kirk, are aware that the alleged assassin is transgender – or involved in that lifestyle. Somehow Republicans made that single shooter the face of an entire movement that, like it or not, is mostly about equal rights, broadly defined. 

In these two mass shooting events, the shooters are straight. So is this blogger. Both served in the Corps. So did this blogger, although his time was spent, unheroically, behind a desk in California. We should not be surprised to find that Sanford might have been suffering from PTSD himself. 

So far, evidence indicates that Sanford was pro-Second Amendment, which is fine, anti-abortion, which is fine, and had at least one pro-Trump yard sign in his yard and a picture of himself on Facebook wearing pro-Trump regalia. Still fine. 

What Sanford did is on him, not on all Trump supporters. If you can’t figure that out – or couldn’t with Kirk’s killer – you should go soak your head. 

The concept is simple, and if you’re religious, it’s laid out nicely in the Sixth Commandment: “Thou shalt not kill.” 

Don’t kill Charlie Kirk (although this blogger though he was kind a dick). 

What I thought of Kirk doesn’t matter. Don’t kill dicks. 

Don’t kill Mormons, either.

 

Don’t kill other Americans because they don’t vote like you. Yeah, Ohio Sen. George Lang, I’m still talking about you, with your idiotic call for a civil war if Trump lost the 2024 election. I wrote you a letter, Sen. Bozo, and you never answered. 

Don’t kill Jews, Christians, Muslims, Steelers fans, ex-wives, sorority girls, immigrants, Sikhs, left-handed people, rival gang members, drivers in other cars who piss you off, police officers, George Floyd-types, school children, or their teachers, presidents (even the dickish ones), Democratic lawmakers, or any other category of humans you can name. 

Geez. 

“I have told my sons,” Kurt Vonnegut once said, “that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee.” 

 

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The president takes a kick in the Commander-in-Chief nuts, when a federal judge rules that top federal prosecutor Sigal Chattah is disqualified from supervising four criminal cases in Nevada. The problem, in the fewest words required is that Donald has been using all kinds of devious tricks to put attorneys into key spots, who might not have a chance to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. 

So, the judge said Chattah would have to stand down. “Her involvement in these cases would be unlawful,” the judge explained.

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“We live on a flammable planet.” 

10/2/25: A new study shows that costly and deadly wildfires are becoming increasingly common. Or as Donald Trump puts it, “Climate change is a hoax.”

Actual scientists, however, strongly disagree. As Brian Harvey, a professor of forest fire science at the University of Washington puts it, the study is “a pretty big wake-up call. We live on a flammable planet, and that flammability is increasing.” 

Looking at the 242 deadliest, or costliest fires, occurring from 1980 to 2023, experts found that 43% had occurred in the last ten years studied. That was a fourfold increase. 

As The New York Times explains, Dr. Calum Cunningham, a wildfire scientist at the University of Tasmania, and his study team found a correlation between “fire weather” and climate change. 

They found that the fires were closely associated with “fire weather,” which includes strong, dry winds, high temperatures and drought. Other research has found that fire weather is on the rise as a result of climate change.

 

“It’s clear that these events are driven by extreme weather,” Dr. Cunningham said. Climate change isn’t solely responsible for all the disastrous wildfires in the study, he stressed, but “it sets the stage” for them. 

 

Which means Trump’s head-up-his-ass approach to the danger will only set the stage more firmly for future disasters. 

 

NO FUN FACT: Another study, done by weather experts at Yale highlights the increasing frequency of mega-killer hurricanes, tornados, and floods. For example, the flash flood in Texas on July 4, which killed 138, was the deadliest flood in 49 years. Hurricane Katrina had the highest death toll in 77 years, and then, just twelve years later, in 2017, Hurricane Maria killed nearly 3,000 people in Puerto Rico. Wildfires are also growing more deadly. The Camp Fire in 2018, was the worst, for loss of life in a century; and then five years later, the fire in Maui killed 102. Finally, the F5 tornado that pulverized Joplin, Missouri, was the deadliest in 64 years.

 

FUN FACT: I think we can all agree that most scientists don’t care for the 47th President of the United States. This has much to do with the fact that he can’t tell the difference between weather and climate, and really, really believes windmills cause cancer. (Also, his choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is kind of  nuts.) 

Anyway, before Jane Goodall passed away, the researcher who told us so much about how chimpanzees live, suggested that there were five people she’d like to put on a spaceship and shoot off to Mars. 

Vladimir Putin made her top five.

So did Xi Jinping.

And Benjamin Netanyahu.

And Elon Musk – partly because it would be his rocket ship. 

And Mr. Trump.

 

FUN FACT #2: Did we must mention that scientists don’t like Donald J. Trump? Well, they don’t like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. either. Six former U.S. surgeon generals, appointed by every president since George H. W. Bush sign a joint letter. They warn that Secretary Kennedy is putting the health of all Americans at risk. 

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this,” the explain. “But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

 

NOT SO FUN FACT #2: The acting director of the CDC backs up President Trump’s call to break the MMR vaccine into three separate vaccinations. This means that children will need six shots, instead of two, since it is currently recommended that they get vaccinated against mumps, measles and rubella at 12-15 months, and then get a second booster shot between ages 4-6. 

To put it plainly, the American Academy of Pediatrics considers this a stupid idea, and warns that there is no scientific basis to support the change. 

And what parent wouldn’t rather make six trips to the doctor, and pay six times, under this new plan?

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10/4/25: Saturday is off to a bloody start, when at 5 a.m. a deadly shooting at a gas station in Angleton, Texas, leaves two children dead, and two in critical condition. The alleged shooter is a woman. 

The mother of those four kids. 

Meanwhile, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas is answering the siren call of Donald Dumpling to send his National Guard troops to blue cities, including Portland, Oregon. The state of Oregon has a much lower murder rate that Texas – so maybe Abbott-sans-Costello could keep his troops home.

 

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As for The Dumpling, he spends a relaxing Saturday cheating at golf. Instead of calling leaders of the Democratic Party to see if there can be some kind of deal to end the government shutdown, he heads for Trump National Golf Club in Virginia. There he can play a round and simultaneously make his Secret Service agents pay for their food and drink. 

Cha-ching.

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10/5/25: With the government shut down, President Trump is busy using powers this blogger suspects the courts will say he does not possess. That is, he is withholding moneys allocated by Congress for projects and programs in…blue states. Russell T. Vought, for example, has announced that $2.1 billion meant to improve transportation in Chicago will be withheld. Green-energy funding, totaling $7.6 billion is also being blocked – mostly in blue states. New York City would also lose $18.1 billion in infrastructure funding, if Vought has his way. 

In fact, Trump gave away the game when he posted a parody video on Truth Social, showing Vought as the Democrats’ “reaper.” 

Judges seem to be sniffing a few rats, with one ordering the Trump administration to restore $187 million in counterterrorism funding for New York. Which begs the question: “What kind of president wants to ‘protect’ blue cities by cutting counterterrorism funding?” That would be nuts.

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10/6/25: White House Press Secretary/Math Genius Karoline Leavitt tells reporters they should fall to their knees and worship Donald J. Trump. He is, she claims, cutting drug prices “200, 300, 100 percent.” 

We have already explained why this is an impossibility, but if you are too dense to understand, as Ms. Leavitt is, we can’t really help you out. 

In other Oval Office-related news, check out the hideous new décor, now that Donald is back in charge. 

Also, check out Donald Dumpling’s plans to use the Insurrection Act, if judges block him from sending troops to blue cities like Portland – which Trump has recently insisted is a “burning hell hole.” 

During his first term, Donald mused on calling out the troops to ensure that he remained in power – despite losing the 2020 election by several million votes. 

And what exactly was the nature of this “insurrection” that Mr. Trump might have to put down with troops? 

As Politico noted, top White House aide Stephen Miller insisted that the president was contending with a “legal insurrection.” 

Huh? 

Yes, indeed, Miller said. The rulings by assorted federal judges were “stifling the White House’s agenda” and “amounted to ‘an insurrection against the laws and Constitution of the United States.’” In other words, judges were making rulings on the laws and the Constitution, based on their understanding of the laws and the Constitution, and if they didn’t rule Trump’s way, it was a “legal insurrection.” 

Or as Miller might put it behind closed doors: “We don’t need a system of courts standing in our way.” 

Indeed, there has never been a president more willing to place not just his thumb on the scales of justice, but to sit his entire fat ass on the scales, and them grab Lady Justice by the pussy for fun. With James Comey now having been indicted, Donald Trump wants prospective jurors to know exactly what he thinks. He has already announced that Comey is “guilty as hell.” He has demanded that the former Director of the F.B.I. be placed on trial, howling at his toadies at DOJ to act. “We can’t delay any longer,” he insisted, adding “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” 

Trump also told reporters that he could get involved in Comey’s case – but he didn’t want to. Then he pushed down on the scales anyway. “I think I'd be allowed to get involved if I want, but I don't really choose to do so. I can only say that Comey is a bad person. He’s a sick person. I think he’s a sick guy, actually. He did terrible things at the FBI.” So, if you’re listening out there, potential jurors, you know what Donald wants you to do. 

In addition, the president is already complaining about the judge who will try Comey’s case, noting that he is a “Crooked Joe Biden” appointee. 

Then, in case any prospective jurors missed it, Trump gave Comey a nickname of sorts, calling him “James ‘Dirty Cop’ Comey.” 

Meanwhile, at least one F.B.I. agent claims to have been fired after refusing to organize a “perp walk” for Mr. Comey. And there are reports that Trump’s top F.B.I. appointees were thinking of sending “large, beefy” agents in Kevlar vests to Comey’s house to drag him off to court. 

In fact, one former Trump lawyer, has explained the danger that he sees; and here Huff Post has done the work explaining better than I ever could: 

Cobb noted how the Justice Department “in the ordinary course of traditional processes” had concluded there was “insufficient evidence” to prosecute Comey and that he was only now being targeted because he was “an enemy of the president.”

 

“This is really authoritarianism,” and “should scare everybody,” Cobb cautioned.

 

Cobb also suggested that Trump’s deployment of troops to cities was possibly “practice exercises” of something more sinister to come and that the president’s focus on targeting his perceived domestic enemies is “just narcissistic vengeance at its core.”

 

What “scares me the most,” Cobb said, is how few Americans seem to realize the dangers of the moment they are living in, and the need for them to stand up to Trump and the GOP. 

 

During a second talk with reporters, Cobb added, “America needs to learn from the mistakes and lessons that we’ve had, and one of the biggest mistakes that America ever had was re-electing President Trump.”

Comey.

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10/7/25: Donald Dumpling was asked today by the “fake news” people if he had any plans to grant clemency to, or pardon Ghislaine Maxwell. It’s a fair question, and one many Americans (including all of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims) would like to hear answered. Donald decided to play dumb – admittedly a skill he has perfected during his time in the White House, if not before. 

Kaitlin Collins of CNN, wanted to know, in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to reject a petition from Maxwell’s lawyers to reverse her twenty-year sentence for aiding and abetting Epstein’s horrific crimes. 

Now Collins began: “Her only chance for getting out of prison is a pardon from you. Is that something…” 

Trump interrupted to ask who was being discussed. 

“Ghislaine Maxwell,” Collins said. 

“You know, I haven’t heard the name in so long,” Donald claimed. “I can say this: that I’d have to take a look at it. I’d have to take a look.” 

“Did they reject that?” he asked.

“She wanted to appeal her conviction and they said they were not going to hear her,” Collins explained. 

“I see, well, I’ll take a look at it. I will speak to the DOJ. I wouldn’t consider it or not consider it, I don’t know anything about it,” Trump replied. 

Had he added a “duh,” no one would have been surprised. 

But as the New Republic noted, “that last detail would mean the president has an incredibly short memory. Trump not only acknowledged in July that Maxwell was seeking a pardon, but emphasized at the time that he was technically ‘allowed’ to give her one.” 

So? 

Donald, Melania, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell.

AND STILL NO SIGN OF THE EPSTEIN FILES. 

 

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And never let it be said that Donald Trump doesn’t focus on critical issues – such as putting out his healthcare plan, which he promised was almost ready back in 2017. Today, he and some of his most loyal pals decided to bash Bad Bunny, the entertainer now slated to do the halftime show at Super Bowl LX. 

Asked by a reporter for Newsmax what he thought of the NFL’s decision to feature Mr. Bunny, Mr. Dumpling replied, “I never heard of him. I don’t know who he is. I don’t know why they’re doing it, it’s crazy … I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.” 

Bad Bunny has been a fierce critic of Trump’s policies on immigration. It’s only a matter of time before he calls the singer “a loser.” So you knew the fury on the right would pass all bounds. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene demanded Congress immediately pass her bill making English the official language of these United States (and Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, where almost all of the three million plus inhabitants speak Spanish as a first language). 

No one on the right suggested that maybe Puerto Rico should be allowed to become a state and have representatives in the Congress, and two senators like several red states with way fewer people. 

ICE Barbie, head of Homeland Security Kristi Noem promised she would have agents “all over” the Super Bowl game – ready to catch those illegal immigrants wanting to… what? Clean up the stadium after the game? Not a lot of illegals are going to be paying $2,500 for a seat to watch an NFL game. 

On Fox News, Tomi Lahren lost her shit. Bad Bunny, she howled, “hates America, hates President Trump, hates the English language.” 

Lahren is nuts.

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And never let it be said that President Trump doesn’t care about the ordinary American worker. He announced today that he did not believe some government workers “deserve” back pay for wages lost during the shutdown. 

This is fun because in 2019, Congress passed, and Donald signed into law, an act to guarantee back pay to furloughed federal workers. So, Ghost of President Past, tell The Dumpling he’s a giant asshole.

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“Grab’em by the pussy.” A new era of masculinity begins. 

10/8/25: Sometimes you just go with the flow of the news and try not to barf. Last night the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 51-47, confirmed Herschel Walker to be U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas. 

His “qualifications” include: 

Being a former pro football player.

Having held a gun to the head of his then wife, threatening to kill her.

Having run for a seat in the U.S. Senate on an anti-abortion platform but having two girlfriends testify he pressured them to have abortions.

Having claimed to have graduated in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia.

Not having graduated at all.

Having three children he had never discussed, nor supported, while running on a “family values” platform. 

 

Meanwhile, Monica Crowley showed up on Fox News, where she used to work (“real news,” so long as no Democrats are allowed to be on the shows). In her new, taxpayer-funded job (Chief of Protocol of the United States) she was there to lather on praise for President Trump. So, lather she did. She wanted to tout the new “era of real masculinity,” thanks to the “bold, muscular leadership” of Mr. Trump. Gone are the days of “toxic masculinity,” under Joe Biden, she chortled. Donald was making American males feel great again. 

We could now celebrate the studliness of Mr. Walker, and Pete Hegseth, and Donald Dumpling himself. So, Pete is a role model? No fatties in the military! No transgenders, either, even if they are in top shape and want to serve. Pete? Pete is famous for cheating on his wife and, more recently, getting a woman drunk at a conference and then having sex with her when she was blotto. Walker is the very picture of “real masculinity,” despite the fact he threatened to kill his wife? (Seems “toxic” to me.) And Donald? He’s the model all males should follow? Get accused of sexually assaulting two dozen women. They love it! Call women “pigs,” and mock their looks, as with Sen. Ted Cruz’s wife. (Now Ted – yes, Ted lacks masculinity, because now he sucks up to Donald every day.) Donald is our model? We should talk about all the people we hate, ride around in a golf cart, and dismount mostly so we can cheat on the score and bang porn stars and a Playboy Bunny while our wife is not looking? “Grab ’em by the pussy,” is the new battle cry of American men? 

They’ll just let you do it? 

No thanks. 

Crowley, who once worked for Fox News, does an interview with Fox News.

 

FUN FACT: The MAGA movement was weaned on conspiracy thinking. So, this should come as no surprise. Some of the MAGA folks, including Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson are hinting darkly that Israel and Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, may have had something to do with his assassination. 

The fools are eating each other. 

 

FUN FACT #2: Attorney General Pam Bondi showed up before Congress to answer questions about the Epstein Files – but refused to answer when asked about … the Epstein Files, or pretty much anything else. She refused even to say whether she had told President Trump his name appeared in the Files. 

Instead, as a reporter with a camera noticed, Pam had come to Congress with ready-to-use retorts. 

She didn’t come to answer no stinkin’ questions. 

Bondi came prepared not to answer any questions.

  

NO FUN FACT: The blogger never denies that his side has its own share of kooks and creeps. Bob Menendez and the gold bars, for example. Now we bring you Jay Jones, running as the Democratic candidate to be the attorney general of Virginia. Old texts he sent have surfaced, wherein he suggests killing a political opponent. That includes one where he indicates, if he had two bullets to use, and three targets, Hitler, Pol Pot (the Cambodian madman), and Todd Gilbert, GOP Speaker of the House in Virginia, “Gilbert gets two shots to the head.” Jones should drop out, and Democrats should say so.

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10/10/25: President Trump has been busy lately, sending troops to blue cities, which he describes as the most dangerous in the world, more dangerous even than cities in Afghanistan. Friday night, a mass shooting occurs in Leland, Mississippi. Six dead, ten wounded. Then there were shootings at two Mississippi colleges on Saturday, and on Sunday, a mass shooting at a bar in South Carolina left four dead and sixteen injured. We might point out that both Mississippi and South Carolina sent National Guard troops to D.C. to help clean up that blue city’s “crime wave.”

 

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In other news, Vivek Ramaswamy showed up at a Turning Point gathering to talk about why he should be the next governor of Ohio. Unfortunately, members of the conservative audience were quick to point out that Vivek lacked certain qualities necessary to be an elected Republican in America today. 

As The New Republic reports, at least some of the late Mr. Kirk’s supporters, had a narrow view regarding eligibility for public office: 

“Jesus Christ is God, and there is no other God,” said a male student. “How can you represent the constituents of Ohio who are 64 percent Christian if you are not a part of that faith?”

 

“If you are an Indian, a Hindu, coming from a different culture, different religion than those who founded this country, those who grew this country, built this country, made this country the beautiful thing that it is today,” he continued. “What are you conserving? You are bringing change. I’ll be 100 percent honest with you –Christianity is the one truth.”

 

A female student asked Ramaswamy why he chose to “masquerade as a Christian.”

 

“I’m an ethical monotheist, that’s the way I would describe my faith,” Ramaswamy said in another jarring exchange with a student. “Do you think it’s inappropriate for someone who’s a Hindu to be a U.S. president?”

 

“No. I think it’s –” another male student started, before stopping himself. “But isn’t Charlie Kirk’s organization founded on Christian values as well? And isn’t America based on what Protestantism is and based on how those values are? Wouldn’t that contradict what your beliefs are?” 

 

So, that was fun. The U.S. Constitution says quite plainly, in Article VI, Clause 3: 

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. 

 

In other words, Kirk fans, yes, a Hindu could be governor of Ohio, or President of the United States. 

Also: Catholics could. 

And Jews, and Muslims, to name just a few.

 
Vivek and his family - not white or Christian enough.

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10/13/25: Once again, the American people can rest easy, knowing that Donald Dumpling, their most-beloved president is the picture of good health and masculinity (see: 10/8/25). Yet again, he has taken a cognitive test, he claims, and he has aced it in a way that doctors have never seen before. 

Not once, dating all the way back to President George Washington, who when asked to identify a picture of a cat, said it was a “yak.” 

The White House insisted Donald had simply gone to the doctor for his “yearly check-up.” But “fake news” reporters consulted calendars (now known as “fake calendars”) and pointed out that this was The Dumpling’s third check-up in the last six months (now known as “fake months”). 

We should also point out that the president risked instant death, or the development of autism, or having his dingaling fall off next time he diddles himself, because he got a COVID vaccine booster shot. 

According to Trump’s own Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., vaccines don’t work – not even in stopping polio or measles. And, of course, he warns, they cause autism! 

Is Donald too old to develop autism?

 

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We can also take comfort knowing that the president is spending his time, during the government shutdown, tooling around one of his golf courses, shouting at his fat cat friends, “Your taxes just went down!”

Don't forget to buy some Trump golf balls.

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10/14/25: “Real masculinity” is now the battle cry of the MAGA tribe – which sometimes means asking young women to stay home and produce more babies and listen to orders from their masculine men. 

Or so it seems to me. At any rate, if we want “real masculinity,” we might be smart to bust up all the video games and get the boys outside to play. A new study of time use indicates that young men, ages 14-25, have doubled the time they spend playing video games in the last decade and a half, to ten hours per week on average.

 

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We might also point out that real men can work at factories, like the blogger’s son, and cut up steel on hot summer days in Cincinnati, or mine coal, or build munitions at a plant in Tennessee. Only safety rules may be lax in some states, and so you can get black lung or get blown to bits, if your luck is bad. 

In Tennessee, authorities are still combing through the fragments left after a munitions plant near Bucksnort exploded Friday, killing all sixteen workers. Two people thought to be dead were not at the plant when that disaster occurred.  (Call this blogger a “commie,” I guess, but he is a big, big fan of state and federal safety rules and inspections. He is not a big fan of workers getting killed on the job.) 

Across several states, including bright-red West Virginia, coal miners are currently complaining, insisting that the Trump administration has abandoned them by pausing new rules meant to cut down on the silica in the air they breathe, that they say is most responsible for black lung disease. 

As The New York Times reports, miners and their families will be in Washington D.C. today to protest the delay. 

They have been waiting months for the government to enforce federal limits on silica dust, a carcinogen that has led to a recent spike in the disease. But mining industry groups have sued to block the rule, and the Trump administration has paused enforcement while the lawsuit plays out.

 

Labor unions, Democrats and a growing number of miners accuse the Trump administration of ignoring workers while using hundreds of millions of dollars in federal subsidies to bolster the companies that operate coal plants and mining operations.

 

As it stands now, tougher regulations proposed by President “Sleepy Joe” Biden are on hold, and silica dust – thought to be twenty times worse for miners to breathe than coal dust – has caused a spike in black lung disease. In West Virginia, for example, as many as 1 in 5 miners now suffer from black lung. 

Judith Riffe, whose husband died recently after a long battle with black lung, had this to say: “The coal miners have supplied this country with electricity, and now they’re just cast aside to die.” 

As the Times notes, “West Virginia’s senators, Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice, both Republicans, declined to comment on the rule and the delays.”

 

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In other news, New York City now has 140,000 homeless students. Or as one mother has described their family life: “It was just constantly survival mode.” 

Across the country, at least 1.3 million children are homeless, with many experts insisting this is an undercount. 

But remember: The billionaires are doing great.

 

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Not doing so good: employees of the Centers for Disease Control. Team Knuckleheads (a.k.a. the Trump administration) fired 1,300 people on Friday. Then the boneheads who run the government realized they had stepped on their own dicks, and had to un-fire 700, as of Monday. That means half are out, anyway, and the other half got needlessly terrorized. An HHS official said the some of the firings were the result of a “coding error.” 

Otherwise known as malfeasance.

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10/17/25: Chandler Langevin, a Florida politician (and, of course, a Republican), called on Friday for the federal government to stop immigrants from India from entering the country, saying they came to “drain our pockets.” 

It was bad enough, Langevin said, that these dark-skinned people (that was simply implied) came here to empty our bank accounts, and then return home, “or worse… to stay.” 

In a call with the Washington Post, the Palm Beach councilman defended himself, saying, “I’m not the first Republican to make a mean tweet.” 

True that: In short order, we learn that Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel – that is the person in the White House who tells the president what it is legal to do, and what it is not – has had his nomination withdrawn. Ingrassia was prone, on social media to admit that perhaps he would not be a great choice to be telling Adolf…I mean, Donald…what he could and could not do. At one point the former nominee told others, he had a “Nazi streak.” 

On “X,” Ingrassia announced, with no sense of the irony, 

I will be withdrawing myself from Thursday’s HSGAC hearing to lead the Office of Special Counsel because unfortunately I do not have enough Republican votes at this time.

 

I appreciate the overwhelming support that I have received throughout this process and will continue to serve President Trump [emphasis] and this administration to Make America Great Again!

 

Paul was also in favor of tossing the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday into the “seventh circle of hell,” along with Black History Month, and in February 2024, wrote: “We need competent white men in positions of leadership. … The founding fathers were wrong that all men are created equal … We need to reject that part of our heritage.” 

That sounds like more than just a “streak.” It’s like having syphilis, and telling a sexual partner, “I just have a streak of a sexually transmitted disease.” 

Ingrassia also fits in with Team Trump, because he has been accused of canceling a female subordinate’s hotel room reservation, and forcing her to share a room with her, although she did manage to fend him off.

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10/20/25: President Trump was asked this weekend about the $40 billion bailout he is sending to Argentina. He did not take the question well, especially from a female reporter. 

“Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady,” Trump responded. “You don’t know anything about it. They’re fighting for their life. Nothing’s benefiting Argentina. They’re fighting for their life. Do you understand what that means? They have no money. They have no anything. They’re fighting so hard to survive.” 

I, for one, am thrilled to know my tax dollars are going to prop up the president of Argentina, one of the few world leaders to have hair that looks more fake than Donald’s.

The leader of Argentina parties at Mar-a-Lago.

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10/22/25: According to a report from the U.S. Treasury Department, the national debt has surpassed $38 trillion, with Donald Dumpling at the helm. This is particularly bad, since the debt passed $37 trillion only in August. 

We are now spending more than $1 trillion per year to cover interest on the debt, more than we spend on national defense. 

That cost is expected to rise, along with the debt, to $1.4 trillion per year, over the next decade. 

On a “positive note,” Forbes also notes that the Trump tariffs could bring in $4 trillion over the next ten years. 

The bad news: Importers (that is, U.S. businesses) pass the increased costs on to consumers (that is: me and you, chucklehead.)

 

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In news most Americans will miss, a second Republican United States senator, Todd Young of Indiana, had called on his colleagues to rein in the president and his Hair Gel Secretary of War from blowing up drug smuggler’s boats. It is hard to drum up sympathy for the crews of “drug smuggler’s boats,” but in at least one case, the wife of one dead sailor says her husband was a simple fisherman. 

And it’s not like Team Trump folks don’t make plenty of mistakes. See, for example, firing hundreds of CDC workers by mistake, and having to bring them back, all in one bonkers weekend. 

Donald is claiming that he and Secretary Hegseth can blow up any boat they want, under some nefarious war powers, but Sen. Young now echoes Sen. Rand Paul, insisting, 

If there’s been any takeaway from me from the last roughly 25 years of congressional action and inaction – it’s not that Congress needs to be more hands-off, that Congress needs to get out of the way. I think Congress needs to go further.

 

Rather than just asserting our ability to authorize military force – which we certainly need to do – we also need to officially bring to close these conflicts and make clear that we have constitutional prerogatives that need to be consistently asserted. 

 

Sen. Young is harkening back to the mistakes made after we were attacked on 9/11, but somehow ended up going to war in Iraq, because Saddam had his hands on (supposedly) “weapons of mass destruction.” 

He could have gone back even further, to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, in 1964, when Congress let President Lyndon B. Johnson become bogged down in a war in Vietnam.

 

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In a new Quinnipiac poll, only 38% of Americans approve of President Trump’s handling of the U.S. economy. 

A whopping 57% do not. 

Overall, 40% of respondents approve of the job Donald is doing, and 54% would rather have a potted plant in the Oval Office.

 

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In other news, President Impatience ragged on another reporter on Wednesday. This time he directed his fury at Jeff Mason of Reuters, who had dared to ask if he was being “transparent” enough, regarding his demolition of the East Wing of the White House. You know – so The Dumpling can put up his gaudy new ballroom. 

“I haven’t been transparent? Really?” Trump fumed. Then, as if to prove some obstruse point that only he could grasp, he raised a mockup photo of his ugly new palace, and fumed, “I’ve shown this to everybody that would listen. Third-rate reporters didn’t see it because they didn’t look. You’re a third-rate reporter – always have been.” 

Whether or not Mr. Mason is a good reporter or not, several questions arise: 

Did the White House go through all the legal steps required before going ahead with plans for construction? 

Why did Dumpling Don say, previously, that construction would not “touch” the existing White House structure? 

Why were demolition teams busy demolishing part of the East Wing, if the above statement was true? 

Why were employees at the Treasury Department, across the street, told not to take pictures of said demolition? 

Did any reputable architects warn that the massive ballroom will dwarf the actual White House (to which it will be attached), and, frankly, look like an architecture school dropout came up with the plans? 

If the cost of the giant ballroom is to be borne by private individuals and corporations, what favors do said individuals and corporations expect in return? 

Can we please see a list of the donors, to form some idea of what deals, behind the scenes, may be cooking?  

And, finally, is it healthy for a democracy to be led by a man who no longer tries to answer questions from the free press, but only chooses to assail the questioners – unless they lather him with praise?

 

 

(The new ballroom will not be directly attached to the White House, as shown here, but will in fact dwarf the House itself.)

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10/23/25: The fun with Donald Trump continues, as he is said to be demanding $230 million from the federal government (i.e. U.S. taxpayers) to reimburse him for the money he spent defending himself from various investigations. Such as the one where he was found to have committed 34 felonies. 

Or the one where he plotted to overturn the results of the Georgia presidential election in 2020. 

Perhaps Donald $-Bags will be willing to part with some of that swag to help a brother out. The U.S. Supreme Court has now slammed the last door shut on Alex Jones, lying host of Infowars. He lied so often about the Sandy Hook massacre, and about the “actors” he said were the parents, and made their lives miserable for so long, that a jury agreed the families of the dead should be awarded $1.4 billion in damages. 

Alex tried to wiggle out of the financial jam he found himself in – and took his case all the way to the top. Now the highest court in the land says he must pay. Almost as if, when it comes to “fake news,” the fakery is from the right wing. Jones was even told in the spring of 2020 to stop selling fake COVID remedies. 

Ha, ha, and the MAGA faithful loved Alex and his bombast.

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10/24/25: Rumor has it that President Trump has already decided on a name for the new ballroom he is constructing on White House grounds. Anonymous sources say it will be named “The President Donald J. Trump Ballroom.” 

That figures. 

Meanwhile, the year-over-year inflation rate this month ticked up to 3.0%, close to where it was when Mr. Biden left office. 

 

FUN FACT: Another one of the pardoned January 6 rioters has managed to rack up another felony charge. Christopher P. Moynihan thought it would be a brilliant idea to threaten to kill Congressman Hakeem Jeffries. 

(Did Antifa trick him again, to get him in trouble!)

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10/27/25: According to President Trump, U.S. consumers and companies never pay tariffs. So all the money raised by tariffs is gravy for the government and will help reduced the deficit by several trillion dollars over the next decade. 

Only… 

Now Donald wants to send each of us taxpayers a check for up to $2,000, probably so we can kneel and bow, and praise his leadership, and not notice that all that money given away will not reduce the national debt, which just topped $38 trillion. (See: 10/26/25) 

Let’s be honest. Trump just wants us to boost his ego. He doesn’t really care about reducing the debt. 

Trump also plans to hand over big cash checks to farmers, totaling at least $10 billion to make up for their losses caused by the tariff wars Trump declared. 

Nor should we forget the Team Trump plan to bail out Argentina with $20 billion in aid, and also buy $20 billion in Argentinian pesos, which – if the Argentine economy should collapse – could end up being as valuable as Monopoly money. 

Also not going to reduce the debt. 

Even dumber – but at least not adding to the national debt – Donald Dumpling is proposing that the U.S. buy tons of Argentinian beef, because beef prices are currently at an all-time high, despite The Dumpling’s promise to bring down grocery prices on Day 1 of his second term in the White House. 

Or what was the White House, before he decided to tear the East Wing down. We have probably all seen and heard stories about Donald’s unilateral decision to level part of The People’s House. The apologists are quick to point out that, blah, blah, blah, other presidents have remodeled the White House. 

True. 

The difference, I would argue, is that no president has ever gone in for tacky décor quite like The Dumpling. He’s not a king; but he wants to make the White House look more like a palace, or Mar-a-Lago North. We already know what he’s done to the Oval Office: 

We know what his penthouse in New York looked like: 

 

Now compare to Palace of Versailles, where the profligate King Louis XIV lived:

 

FUN FACT: On Tuesday, the White House announced the firing of “all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that would have reviewed President Donald Trump’s ballroom construction project.” Six new members would be appointed, people “more aligned with President Trump’s America First Policies,” and the six od members were fired via White House email. 

(No truth to the rumor that the six new members will include four pardoned January 6 rioters, a plate of muffins, and a life size Barron Trump-cardboard cutout. The real Barron, after all, has not been seen out and about much.)

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10/28/25: Our topics Monday were Donald Trump’s wasteful spending, and his desire to mold the White House in his own style. 

That style: Gaudy crap. 

We also know he’d like to rule like a king and serve as many terms as he could in a row. Right-wing Fake Patriot Steve Bannon recently promised that plans were afoot to make sure Donald got a third term. And if that plan floated, who could complain if Donald got a fourth, fifth, and sixth, if he lived long enough. 

Bannon was all for ignoring the U.S. Constitution, and bashful Donald was onboard with the idea, himself. It was kind of the “Vladimir Putin Plan” for staying in power. 

Alas, today U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that for Trump to get a third term, there would have to be an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and he didn’t “see a way” to get such an amendment passed. 

“I think the president knows about the restrictions of the Constitution, as much as so many Americans lament that,” the Speaker said. 

(Fuck, is Mike doing drugs, now that the government is shut down?)

 

This is one liberal American who does not lament the constitutional ban on third or more terms, because unlike Donald, or Mike, apparently, he fears a concentration of power in one person’s hands. 

Suppose my dear MAGA friends, that Democrats had floated a plan in 2016, to run Barack Obama against Donald Dumpling, insisting Obama deserved a third or fourth or fifth term. You would have started loading all your AR-15s, and calling for a march on Washington and you would have gone nuts. 

Then again, if we could pass an amendment that said a president could serve a third term, it would mean Mr. Obama could stage a comeback, which I’m sure all patriotic Americans, in that case, would support. Polls show that in a hypothetical 2028 match, Obama would kick Donald’s tired, lard ass (52% to 41%).

 

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In other news you probably missed: 

FIRST: President Trump is traveling in Asia. During a stop in Japan took time to give a pep talk to U.S. men and women in uniform. Unfortunately, Donald decided to lie to the troops.  He told them he really won the 2020 election. “You know, we won the second election by a lot, so we had to just prove it by winning the third – by too big to rig, I called it. It was too big to rig.” 

SECOND: During his flight from Japan to South Korea, Trump seemed to admit that his second term would be his last, but added that it was too bad because he was doing such a spectacular job, ending wars, such as the Boer War of 1906, and bringing down drug prices by 1500%, and grocery prices by 500%. “The sad thing is,” he told reporters, “I have my highest [poll] numbers that I’ve ever had.” 

The blogger does a quick check of RealClearPolitics.com. 

Okay. Either I’m going blind, or Donald’s underlings are trying to keep him from figuring out the truth: 

 

  

THIRD: A federal judge has ordered Greg Bevino, commander in charge of the ICE “cleanup” in Chicago, to start appearing daily to give an account of his agents’ actions, and his own. This, after he was allegedly seen saving America from dangerous Halloween parade goers, and throwing a can of tear gas into the Trick or Treating crowd. Bevino must also wear a body camera from now on. As the judge angrily explained, “Kids dressed in Halloween costumes walking to a parade don’t pose an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer…they just don’t.”

 

FOURTH: Remember how Hunter Biden used his family name to rake in millions in Ukraine and elsewhere – as much as $20 million – and all the MAGA folks went insane? (By the way, Hunter was clearly profiting from his family name; that was clear.) 

Now, Reuters reports that in the first half of 2025, the Trump family (namely Don Jr. and Eric, in charge of the Trump Organization) raked in $864 million from crypto sales. In fact, much of that loot came from foreign investors – which even the most doltish American can probably see might be a problem. 

Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University, summed up the game: “These people are not pouring money into coffers of the Trump family business because of the brothers’ acumen. They are doing it because they want freedom from legal constraints and impunity that only the president can deliver.” 

$$$$$

 

FIFTH: As NPR recently explained, Donald Dumpling has pardoned “the founder of the crypto marketplace Binance, Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ. His company has become an important supporter of the Trump family's own crypto business. (See: #4, above.) 

Zhao had been sentenced to four months in prison, and Binance was fined $4.3 billion for its lax enforcement of rules meant to stop money laundering. 

$$$$$

 

SIXTH: U.S. forces blew up four more reputed drug smuggling boats today, all in the Pacific, killing at least fourteen people aboard. No one besides Secretary of War/Killing People Pete Hegseth knows what intelligence the Pentagon might have to prove all these strikes were justified. Nor does anyone know under what laws, such preemptory killings are justified. But the new rule, I guess, is that if Donald wants to blow you up, he can, and you can’t question. 

In fact, new Pentagon rules require that reporters who want to be allowed to enter the building must sign pledges not to report on anything the Pentagon doesn’t want reported. If Pete toppled off the wagon and started chasing an attractive female aide down the hallway, while he was naked, that would be a story Pete would have the power to nix. 

The new Pentagon press corps includes Trump sycophants like Mike Lindell, Laura Loomer and Raheem Kassam. You can expect a lot of sucking up, as Kassam all but admits, since he describes his news site as “basically an industry mag/site for MAGA world.” 

You almost need to be in a coma to miss the dangers in these kinds of developments. Or: being stupid would help.

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10/29/25: There is no way of denying. The stock market is on a hot streak. But grocery prices aren’t down, and Trump can’t end the way in Ukraine – which he promised he could do 

357 days ago. 

Also, the Gaza Truce isn’t holding, not because Trump is especially bad at achieving peace in the Middle East, but because it’s the Middle East. The only difference being, Trump likes to brag about how he’s bringing lasting peace to the region – which he said he had done during his first term. 

We just can’t keep up with all the crazy news. A quick listing must suffice: 

FIRST: Amer Ghalib, Trump’s choice for ambassador to Kuwait, has been shot down, after it was learned he had hit “like” on a social media post that referred to Jews as “monkeys.”

 

SECOND: Coffee prices are up 25% since Donald took charge again, making Americans even crabbier in the mornings than they were before.

 

THIRD: Donald Dumpling has announced that with his “drill, baby, drill” approach to ignoring the environment, gas prices will “soon” fall to $2 a gallon. This will be “bigger than a tax cut.” (This is interesting, since for months, he has been claiming gas was selling in some states for $1.98.)

 

FOURTH: Halloween is upon us – and prices for some items, including strobe lights, and Pumpkin-style decorations are up significantly, due to Trump tariffs. How much this will matter to consumers remains to be seen. But prices are up, and anyone who says consumers won’t pay… well. 

That’s idiocy. 

A few of the worst examples: 

At regional grocer Giant Eagle, the price of Pumpkin Masters Contest Winners Pattern Book was up 330%; Pumpkin Masters Fright Light Kit was up 302%; and Pumpkin Master Carving Party Kit was up 302%.

 

Kroger is also selling Pumpkin Masters Jack O Lantern Teeth, up 283% in price; and Pumpkin Masters Masters Collection, up 214%.

 

Pick and Save, which is a part of Kroger, has also listed similar items at price increases of over 100%.

 

The Pumpkin Masters Xtreme Strobe Light White, briefly mentioned above, leads with a retail price increase of 331%. 

 

FIFTH: President Crybaby got mad when Canadian officials aired an advertisement on U.S. television, showing President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs. Donald decided to cut off trade talks and raise tariffs on Canadian products by 10%, a petty move, if ever there was one. 

It was like the president was six. 

Donald wanted all his faithful fans to know that Reagan loved tariffs; but people began running Reagan’s full speech (in which he says he doesn’t), and former VP Mike Pence came out and basically assured everyone that, no, Reagan didn’t love tariffs, and if the Dumpling said he did… 

Well, he’d be lying. 

 

SIXTH: An Alabama man, Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker, 33, has been arrested and charged with an array of felonies, including making anti-Semitic threats. He was arrested while in possession of firearms (he appears to have been ineligible based on prior felony convictions), a trunkful of ammunition and body armor. Police allege that Shoemaker did not expect to be taken alive after he launched his attacks and may have planned to target elected officials. 

(He does not belong to antifa.) 

 

SEVENTH: ICE agents kept us safe this past weekend when they knocked a 76-year-old U.S. citizen to the ground in Chicago, and broke six of his ribs, after agents said he was threatening them. (The intimidating septuagenarian had been returning home after jogging, when his car ran into an ICE roadblock near his home. This is not the same as the incident where ICE agents arrested a reporter, even though at least one witness said she was doing nothing except filming agents in action.

 

EIGHTH: Bryce Mitchell, heretofore a big fan of Donald Trump, and a well-known UFC fighter, has renounced his support for The Dumpling. My favorite part is not Mitchell’s complaint about current policies, but the fact that he insists people should go dig into the Bible: 

“Now, let me tell you how bad I think this is,” Mitchell said. “This is really this bad, guys. I want y’all, if you’re a Christian, I want you to get into Revelation 13:3, and I want you to read that verse — yeah, about the Antichrist, about the one who was fatally wounded in the head; then he was miraculously healed and the whole world marveled at him and said, ‘No man can make war with him.’ Yeah, I do think that Donald Trump is that beast of Revelation 13:3. Yeah, go read it. Go read it!”

 

That’s right, the dopes are turning against Donald. 

 

NINTH: Several demolition and construction companies involved in tearing down the East Wing of the White House are taking so much heat from the public that they are shutting down their websites and hoping we won’t remember who did all the dirty work for President Trump. McCrery Architects, in particular, appears to be hiding behind an Internet wall, rather than put up with all the attacks.

 

TENTH: The president decided to insult Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, after he “aced” his medical checkup at Walter Reed Hospital. Yes! Donald passed his MRI test and didn’t even have to study. He also claims he hit it out of the park when he took the test to be sure he didn’t have dementia. 

So, he had to remind reporters, that he had the best results on a physical of any man his age, in history. 

As for the congresswoman, he offered an opinion on his and her comparative intellectual gifts. “AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test,” he said, “have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard ... They're really aptitude tests, in a certain way, but they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe...” 

(Damnation, MAGA fans. Are you paying any attention?)

 

You can go to the website for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment that Donald Dumpling is bragging about taking.

 

Here are some of the types of test questions you’d have to answer: 

Sentence repetition:

 

Administration: The examiner gives the following instructions: “I am going to read you a sentence. Repeat it after me, exactly as I say it [pause]: I only know that John is the one to help today.” Following the response, say: “Now I am going to read you another sentence. Repeat it after me, exactly as I say it [pause]: The cat always hid under the couch when dogs were in the room.”

 

Scoring: One point is allocated for each sentence correctly repeated. Repetitions must be exact. Be alert for omissions (e.g., omitting “only”), substitutions/additions (e.g., substituting “only” for “always”), grammar errors/altering plurals (e.g. “hides” for “hid”),

 

Verbal fluency:

 

Administration: The examiner gives the following instructions: “Now, I want you to tell me as many words as you can think of that begin with the letter F. I will tell you to stop after one minute. Proper nouns, numbers, and different forms of a verb are not permitted. Are you ready? [Pause] [Time for 60 sec.] Stop.” If the subject names two consecutive words that begin with another letter of the alphabet, the examiner repeats the target letter if the instructions have not yet been repeated.

 

Scoring: One point is allocated if the subject generates 11 words or more in 60 seconds. The examiner records the subject’s responses in the margins or on the back of the test sheet.

 

And my favorites (because I’m old enough to have been administered this test at my annual checkup): 

Name the three animals show, draw a cube, and mark a specific time on the face of a blank clock! 

I would not only wager that AOC could beat DJT on this test, but that she could smoke his ass in the 100-yard dash.

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10/31/25: President Dumpling celebrated the first full month of the government shutdown by flying down to Mar-a-Lago so he could play golf. It marked the thirteenth trip Donald has taken since once again assuming the mantle of leadership. 

I am sure all of you good MAGA folk remember when you used to gnash your teeth because Barack Hussein Obama played so much golf.

 

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We also learned today that back in 2007, when prosecutors began pushing harder to get their hands on financial records for Jeffrey Epstein, his legal team helped block that effort. His lawyers included Harvard professor Alan Deshowitz, and former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Nor can we forget Alex Acosta – Secretary of Labor during Trump’s first term as President of the Pedophilia States. 

Meanwhile, new information in the Epstein Files has convinced King Charles of England to kick his brother out of the royal family, as it were. Prince Andrew is officially no longer a prince. 

(Republicans continue to refuse to release the files.) 

 

What else? Since Donald took over the Kennedy Center and promised to make the D.C. venue hot again, 43% of tickets have remained unsold. On a positive note, however, staffers report that they are getting more free seats – as Team Trump tries its best to put warm bodies in the seats. 

I think Donald should give tickets to all the felons he has pardoned since taking office. That would pack the house. 

In other news, F.B.I. Director Kash “Bug Eyes” Patel made use of his government plane (and your tax contributions) to fly to State College, Pa. to see his girlfriend, a country singer, perform at a Real American Freestyle wrestling event. Then it was on to Nashville, where his main squeeze lives.