“There are two passions
which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men.These are ambition and avarice; the love of
power and the love of money.”
Alexander Hamilton:
“When avarice takes the lead in a
state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall. How shocking is it to
discover among ourselves, even at this early period, the strongest symptoms of
this fatal disease.”
June
2025:
THE DEDICATED BLOGGER has been forced to accept the bitter truth. Keeping up
with Donald Trump (a.k.a. “Donald Dumpling”) during his second term has been a herculean
task. This has much to do with the fact that anyone with scruples is gone
from the White House, under Trump 47.
Only the
soulless and the sycophants remain – some of Trump’s most loyal aides being one
and the same.
November 1, 1952: The United States explodes the first hydrogen bomb.
Once
again, we will default to the HOT/NOT HOT format to bring what order out of
chaos we may.
***
A chronology
of Iran and other nuclear nations.
THERMONUCLEAR
HOT – Bombs and missiles: First, Israel attacks Iran, claiming the Iranians are
weeks or days away from having enough enriched uranium to produce their own atomic
bomb. Iranian defenses are quickly crippled; but they strike back at targets in
Tel Aviv and across the tiny Jewish nation.
Here, it
might be wise to remind ourselves that Bibi Netanyahu has long been warning everyone that Iran
is just minutes – days – weeks – months – years – from getting a nuclear weapon:
1992: He
claims Iran is “three to five years” away from having the bomb.
1995: Iran
is “three to five years” away, he says, again.
1996:
Iran, says Bibi, is “extremely close” to having nukes, and “catastrophic consequences”
will result, if the Iranians achieve their goal.
(The U.S. government believes Israel has possessed nuclear weapons for fifty years.)
1998: In
related news, Pakistan explodes its first nuclear weapon – to offset what it
sees as a threat from India.
(India explodes its first atomic bomb in 1974).
2003: President
George W. Bush warns the world that Iraq is in possession of weapons of mass destruction,
and that claim is used to justify a U.S. invasion. No such weapons are ever
found.
(We all remember how that worked out.)
2006: In
an interview with Glenn Beck, Netanyahu tells
listeners that Iran is like Germany under Hitler. Or like David Koresh, the cult
leader who died with dozens of his followers at Waco, Texas. The Iranians, he
says, want “to obliterate America,” want “to obliterate America’s allies,” want
“to take over the world’s oil supply.” He warns that the Iranians want nuclear
weapons “with which they can dominate the world.”
2012: Netanyahu
cries wolf again, insisting that Iran is just “a few months away” from having its own
weapons of mass destruction.
2015:
President Obama agrees to a deal with Iran to halt enrichment of uranium to
levels necessary to make an atomic weapon. Netanyahu claims this has “opened a
pathway to the bomb.”
(Did we mention that Iran was “a few months away,” three years
ago?)
2017: Obama
leaves office. Iran still has no bomb. Trump takes over. North Korea keeps
firing missiles to prove that it could hit the continental United States, if it
wanted. Donald promises “fire and fury like the world has never seen” if the North
keeps threatening the U.S. with attack.
May 2018:
President Trump withdraws from the deal with Iran. “The
Iran Deal,” he grumbles “was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions
the United States has ever entered into.”
(He promises to work out a better deal!)
June 2018:
Mr. Trump meets with Kim Jong-un, the homicidal North Korea leader. The
president claims the meeting went great. In an interview with Greta Von
Susteren, he gushes in describing Kim: “He’s got a great personality. He’s a
funny guy, he’s very smart, he’s a great negotiator. He loves his people, not
that I’m surprised by that. I think that we have the start of an amazing deal. We’re
going to denuke North Korea.”
September
2018: Trump says he and Kim “fell in love” and North
Korea is going to hand over all its nukes.
January 2020:
Standing beside Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump reveals his Middle East Peace Plan,
which he calls “the deal of the century.”
(It’s a Neville Chamberlain “peace for our time” kind of moment.)
September
2020: Trump, Netanyahu, and the leaders of the United Arab Emirates and
Bahrain, sit down to sign the Abraham Accords. “We’re
here this afternoon to change the course of history,” Donald says. “After
decades of division and conflict, we mark the dawn of a new Middle East.”
“Thanks
to the great courage of the leaders of these three countries, we take a major
stride toward a future in which people of all faiths and backgrounds live
together in peace and prosperity,” the president insists. The accords “will
serve as the foundation for a comprehensive peace across the entire region.”
(Trump presents the Israeli leader with a golden key to the
White House.)
2021: Donald
leaves office (albeit not without first helping stir up a devastating attack on
democracy).
(The Palestinians never sign the Abraham Accords.)
(Trump never gets a deal done with Iran.)
(North Korea never surrenders a single nuke.)
(Trump never does win a Nobel.)
January
20, 2021: President Biden takes office. Four years later, when he leaves the
White House, Iran still has no nuclear weapons.
2023:
Hamas launches a surprise attack on Israel, killing 1,195. Israel responds by
pulverizing the Gaza Strip, killing an estimated 57,000 Palestinians.
2024:
Candidate Trump runs for a second term on the promise to keep the U.S. out of
any Middle East wars.
January
20, 2025: In his Inaugural Address, Trump announces, “We will measure our success
not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end – and perhaps
most importantly, the wars we never get into.”
FUN FACTS:
The first
atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killed 78,000 Japanese.
That bomb had an explosive power estimated to be 15 kilotons (a kiloton being equivalent
to 1,000 tons of TNT.)
The
second atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki on August 9, and another estimated 60,000
to 80,000 people were killed.
Two badly burned survivors of the attack on Hiroshima.
Modern
hydrogen bombs have an explosive power measured in megatons – that is 1,000,000
tons of TNT.
No
nation, in the last eighty years, has deployed an atomic bomb – for painfully
obvious reasons.
It is
estimated that at the very moment Donald delivered his second Inaugural Address,
the nine nuclear powers possessed more than 12,000
atomic weapons.
The United
States and Russia both have more
than 5,000 nuclear weapons. China is in third place with 600.
France had 290, the United Kingdom has 225, India has 180, Pakistan has 170, and
North Korea has 50.
It is estimated that Israel possesses 90
nuclear weapons, with at least 50 designed to be delivered by land-based Jericho
missiles.
Five
other members of NATO are believed to be “hosting” nuclear weapons, which is
kind of wild.
Both
Russia and the United States possess additional “tactical nuclear weapons” for
battlefield uses. Some are estimated to have an explosive power as high as 300
kilotons – which is kind of nutty, if you think it over.
A single
atomic bomb exploded over New York City (it is better to explode bombs above a
city and not let the ground absorb any of the power of the blast) would kill an
estimated 583,160 people.
Even if an
atomic blast didn’t kill you, the electromagnetic pulse created would fry your
car’s computers; and you and millions of others would be hoofing it to work
every day.
A 1.4
Megaton bomb launched about 250 miles above Kansas would destroy most of the
electronics that were not protected in the entire Continental United States.
During the brief return to atmospheric testing in 1962, a 1.4 megaton nuclear
weapon was detonated over Johnston Island at an altitude of about 250 miles.
The effects of EMP were observed in Hawaii, 800 miles east of the detonation.
Streetlights and fuses failed on Oahu and telephone service was disrupted on
the Island of Kauai.
Scientists
believe that an all-out nuclear war would lead to a “nuclear winter,” as all the smoke, and
dust of what used to be cities, and the ashes of untold numbers of human beings,
animals, insects, trees and plants filled the sky, severely reducing the amount
of light that reached the Earth’s surface.
Russia
could, if it desired, hit every town and city in the United
States, with a population of more than 5,000, and still have several hundred atomic
weapons left over, maybe to strike Disney World.
BLOGGER’S
NOTE:
The humble gentleman who resides in Glendale, Ohio would not normally fault a U.S.
president for whatever other nations do – since a president is often no more
than a powerful spectator, when it comes to what other nations do.
Yet, Trump,
himself, has always been quick to blame his predecessors, while oddly unwilling
to accept even a wisp of blame if bloodshed does erupt.
He has
said repeatedly that the war in Ukraine would not have started if he had been president
in 2022. By the same logic, since this war with Iran started when his lard ass
was plunked down in the Oval Office, by Trumpian logic, he merits blame.
When I
work on this post, on June 23, A grand total of 230 days had passed since
Donald was elected on November 5, 2024, at which time he promised to end the
fighting in Ukraine in one day.
100
MILLION DEGREES HOT: And that’s Celsius. According to Fox News, President Trump
(when not busy golfing) had been considering using a nuclear bomb to take out Iran’s
nuclear facility at Fordo, buried deep underground. But don’t worry. It would
only be a “tactical nuclear weapon.”
If
Donald had the urge.
NOT HOT
– Working: President Trump bags his job early Friday afternoon, June 20, and heads for his private club at Bedminster, New
Jersey.
Where he
is expected to spend his time…playing more golf.
(Donald gives the go-ahead for a strike on Iran the next day.)
ONCE
AGAIN, the dedicated blogger is forced to accept a bitter truth. Keeping up
with Donald Trump (a.k.a. “Donald Dumpling”) during his second term has proved a
herculean task. This has much to do with the fact that anyone with
scruples is gone from the White House, under Trump 47.
Only the
soulless and the sycophants remain – some of Trump’s most loyal aides being one
and the same.
Stephen Miller.
(For
more on Miller’s neo-Nazi proclivities, check this link.)
June 1, 2025: Rep.
Andy Ogles gets the month off to a fantastic start when he claims there’s strong supportin
Congress for a third term for Mr. Trump. (And possibly a fourth, fifth,
and sixth, if we keep Donald cryogenically preserved.)
Meanwhile, the three-branch
concept of government continues to suffer multiple hits. Republican lawmakers
are outraged because judges keep telling President Dumpling that he can’t just
do whatever he wants because …
The damn U.S.
Constitution!
GOP legislators
insist that they can and should impeach
any judge
that doesn’t do what Trump wants, reducing the number of real branches by one. All
judges, from now on, shall be replaced by cardboard cutouts.
___
“Doubly
violative of the Constitution.”
6/2/25: Thankfully,
the courts continue to slap Donald silly – because, unlike Mr. Trump, judges
tend to read and understand the U.S. Constitution.
U.S. District
Judge John D. Bates has ruled against President Donald Trump’s executive order
targeting the law firm Jenner & Block LLP. Bates found the order
unconstitutional, claiming it violates protections of free speech and the right
to counsel. This marks the second time Bates has blocked Trump’s attempts to
punish law firms he views as adversarial.
“Going after
law firms in this way is doubly violative of the Constitution [emphasis
added],” he added. “Most obviously, retaliating against firms for the views
embodied in their legal work ... violates the First Amendment's central command
that government may not ‘use the power of the State to punish or suppress
disfavored expression.’”
(Bates was chosen for a spot on the federal bench by George W.
Bush.)
*
In a similar case, Judge Richard J. Leon rules that
an executive order aimed at crippling WilmerHale, another law firm whose work
angered Trump, is unconstitutional and “must be struck down in its entirety.”
(Even the commas.)
“The
cornerstone of the American system of justice is an independent judiciary
and an independent bar [emphasis added] willing to tackle unpopular cases,
however daunting,” Judge Leon explained.
Leon was
so exercised that in his 73-page ruling he laced it with exclamation points,
such as this blogger might use: “F**king Donald Dumpling!!!!!!!!!”
“Accordingly,”
the judge continued, “they took pains to enshrine in the Constitution certain
rights that would serve as the foundation for that independence. Little wonder
that in the nearly 250 years since the Constitution was adopted no executive
order has been issued challenging these fundamental rights.”
Finally,
he added, “If the executive [The Dumpling] is inclined to interfere with the
traditions that are essentially necessary to have the rule of law in the
adversarial system of justice, the president’s hands should be tied.”
*
June
proves to be a busy month, regarding federal judges smacking down Executive
Orders issued by Dictator Dumpling, designed to punish law firms – in this case Susman Godfrey. In
each instance, Donald is mad because lawyers did good work for people who had helped
people on Donald’s “enemies list” or caused Donald or his sycophants to get
their asses whipped in court.
(Such as: Dr. John Eastman being disbarred for lying about the
2020 election.)
(Donald getting taken to court for asking Georgia officials to
“find” votes.)
(Steve Bannon being hauled into court for bilking the MAGA
faithful)
Susman Godrey’s
sins involved representing Dominion Voting Systems in a defamation case against
Fox News, for spreading lies about the “Stolen Election” of 2020, lies which the
President of the United States continues to spread. Fox, of course, was crushed
in court and had to cough up $787.5 million, which is a high price for peddling
garbage.
By way
of retribution, Donald has said that such firms shall lose all government
contracts and representatives of such firms will be denied security clearances,
making it impossible for them to do certain types of work.
The
judge in this case explains, in a 53-page ruling, “[E]very
court to have considered a challenge to one of these orders has found grave
constitutional violations [emphasis added] and permanently enjoined
enforcement of the order in full. Today, this court follows suit, concluding
that the order targeting Susman violates the U.S. Constitution.”
Namely
the First Amendment – protecting free speech.
And the
Fifth Amendment – guaranteeing due process in court.
*
White House Fake Christian Lady Karoline Leavitt has announced that the president will no longer seek recommendations from the American Bar Association when selecting candidates for positions on the federal bench.
From
this day forward, Mr. Trump shall use a Ouija board or appoint a few January 6
rioters, or maybe Stormy Daniels.
FUN WITH
FASCISM: Threats against federal judges have spiked dramatically, as the president blows on the
glowing embers of MAGA loathing. Between March 1 and May 27, 197 judges were
threatened.
When
Judge Brian E. Murphy ruled that Team Trump couldn’t send deportees to South
Sudan – a country none of them had ever seen – The Dumpling erupted. First, the
president hammered the “caps button,” then started hate-posting. Judge Murphy,
he howled, was a “FAR-LEFT ACTIVIST.” He was one of those “USA HATING JUDGES
WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY.”
___
Will smooch ass
for work.
6/3/25: Newsweekreportsthat there will
be a new “loyalty test” to determine whether or not candidates
can be hired
for federal jobs, such as air traffic controller, FBI agent, park ranger or IRS
data processor.
The prospective
hire must complete several essays, including:
“How would you
help advance the president’s executive orders and policy priorities in this
role?”
(Best answer:
“I would smooch Trump’s ass, without questioning why or when. And I would enjoy
doing so. It would be as the taste of honey.”)
“Identify one
or two relevant executive orders or policy initiatives that are significant to
you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.”
(Best answer:
“I would personally like to work for ICE, and wear a mask, and shoot people
with rubber bullets if they protest, just because we snatched high school kids
at their graduation parties. I think it would be awesome to deport them to
places like El Salvador, even if they are originally from Belarus, and make
sure they rot in maximum security prisons. Make Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Great Again!”)
“How has your
commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States
inspired you to pursue this role within the federal government? Provide a
concrete example from professional, academic or personal experience.”
(Best answer:
“I have read the Constitution at least once, I think – in fifth grade social
studies class. Or maybe art. I think there should be only one branch of
government, not three. And that one branch shall be the ‘Trump Branch,’ and we
shall all do the president’s bidding, without question.”)
___
6/4/25:
Scientists warn that “atmospheric thirst” is making droughts more common and making them worse.
Atmospheric
thirst is a measurement of evaporation, which is affected by temperatures
(increasing yearly, round the globe), wind, humidity and solar radiation. Drought
has been spreading since the 1980s, but the period from 2018-2022 has been
especially bad. Worldwide, the area affected by droughts increased by 74%
in that period.
*
In other
news, President Trump announces a new round of travel bans, blocking all individuals
from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea,
Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen from entering the U.S. Observers
note that, since 1989, there hasn’t a country named “Burma,” meaning
people from Myanmar might sneak past the folks at TSA.
The bans
are also terrible policy, since refugees from Afghanistan, who helped us
during two decades of fighting, and their relatives, are still desperately
seeking asylum in this country.
UPDATE (June
16, 2025): On further thought, President Dumpling announces that he may ban
travel from 36 more countries. These would include: Angola, Antigua and
Barbuda, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cote D’Ivoire,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Ethiopia, Egypt,
Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Niger,
Nigeria, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sao Tome and Principe,
Senegal, South Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia
and Zimbabwe.
Apparently,
his goal is to make the United States hated around the globe.
And it’s
working!
According
to a recent Pew Research poll, people around the world
have a dim view of President Trump’s leadership skills. In a survey of
24 countries, 62% said they had “no confidence” in the president. Only 34% said
they did. In Canada, 77% said they had no confidence, meaning they’re still not
keen on becoming the 51st state.
The
Dumpling scored best with Nigerians (79%), Israelis (69%), Kenyans (64%),
Hungarians (53%) and Indians (52%). Opinions on Trump may skid in Nigeria,
if he goes forward with his plan to add their country to his travel ban. (See:
6/4/25.)
The percentage
of respondents who had a favorable view of the United States also declined, by
double digits in a dozen countries, and in fifteen overall, compared to spring
2024.
___
6/5/25: Thomas
Fugate, 22, wakes up today knowing that Trump has chosen him to head the Center for Prevention
Programs and Partnerships (CP3) at the Department of Homeland Security. The Center
“plays a vital role supporting nationwide efforts to combat terrorism and
hate-fueled violence.” (See: 6/14/25.)
Mr.
Fugate has never worked in the field – although he did once operate his own
lawncare business.
The
blogger does a little extra checking and discovers that Mr. Fugate also
served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club, either in high
school, or college, that being unclear.
FUN WITH
IGNORANCE: Recently, David Richardson, acting head of FEMA, told staff
he was not aware the U.S. had a “hurricane season.” According to the MAGA
faithful, Richardson was “joking,” but we do know he admitted that any new
plan for the 2025 season – which began on June 1 – wasn’t ready.
___
“Founded as a
Christian nation.”
6/6/25: Congresswoman
Mary Miller is furious when a “Muslim” delivers the
morning prayer in the U.S. House of Representatives. This should have
“never been allowed,” she howls.
First, we
should point out that Giani Singh, a Sikh religious leader, is not a Muslim.
And Miller is a bonehead.
In addition to
the stupidity of Miller’s comments, someone needs to explain to Rep. Bonehead
that the First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, almost without limit.
(Human sacrifice not included.)
Miller grumbled
that the United States was “founded as a Christian nation” and insisted “our
government should reflect that truth.”
We should point
out that in Colonial America, Catholics were banned entirely in some places. Baptists
could be whipped in New England colonies by other Christians for their flawed
views on when to baptize, Quakers could be executed, and witch-burning was a
fad. Freedom of religion was often necessary to protect Christians from
other Christians.
Antisemitism
was pretty much accepted everywhere our forefathers and foremothers, and
fore-in-laws went.
The good old days: Christians burying other Christians alive. Crime: "Heresy."
*
And let’s not forget the time Rep. Miller
gave a shout out to the Nazi madman, during a speech to “Moms for America.” On January 5, 2021, just one day before the
attack on Capitol Hill, she fumed, “This is the battle. Hitler was right on one
thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’”
Sure. Even if
the future includes the Holocaust.
January 6 rioter, center, sprays police with chemical irritants. ___
6/7/25:
Ordinary Americans will no doubt be relieved to learn that the ultra-rich are
not suffering from all the “communist” assaults launched against them by Joe
Biden and his evil minions. It turns out, the ultras enjoyed an excellent year
in 2024, when Sleepy Joe was last in charge. Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir
Technologies, had the best time of all, banking $6.8 billion.
Others
who did surprisingly well would include Brian Armstrong, a crypto king, who pulled
down $523.6 million. Tony Xu of DoorDash didn’t have to rely on tips. Indeed!
Mr. Xu took home $313.8 million. And Brian Niccol of Starbucks, among others,
received $95.8 million in compensation.
(These people need tax cuts, right?)
___
6/8/25: The
Department of Education, being led by and dismantled by former pro-wrestling
maven Linda McMahon, is fighting hard to block the State of New
York’s ban on school Indian mascot names like “Thunderbirds,” “Warriors” and
“Chiefs,” and potentially offensive images.
“The
Trump Administration,” McMahon promises, “will not stand idly by as state
leaders attempt to eliminate the history and culture of Native American tribes.”
As a
former history teacher, the blogger has a mix of opinions related to this
issue; but he does wish New York public schools would get rid of images of
indigenous leaders in war bonnets, since that is the custom style of tribes of
the Great Plains.
He also
remembers the big fights of the 90s over names like “Redskins,” which, to his thinking,
did not pass muster.
Growing
up near Akron, Ohio, in the 50s, the blogger’s high school graduating class had
exactly zero minority students.
(I don’t think people would have wanted us to be called the
Revere “Whiteskins.”)
*
Irony of
ironies! While Secretary McMahon was battling hard to save mascot names,
funding was being slashed by Elon Musk and his DOGE Boys. The budget for
the Bureau of Indians Affairs, rarely robust in the best of times, was scheduled
to be cut by $700 million from various programs, with another $239 million cut
from tribal housing.
But
sure. You kids in New York can keep your “Chiefs” t-shirts.
McMahon, right, and the Massapequa mascot shirt, left. ___
6/9/25: A
letter signed by several dozen brave staff members at the National Institute of
Health sounds alarm.
“We
dissent to administration policies that undermine the N.I.H. mission, waste
public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the
globe,” they explain. These concerns, have been raised repeatedly, since Team
Trump took over, the signees add, “yet we remain pressured to implement
harmful measures.”
Funding
for more than two thousand studies has been cut. Clinical trials have been
halted, so that patients enrolled – for example – in studies of kidney disease,
are suddenly told, “Hey, we’re not going to continue with this trial, that
might lead to life-saving treatments for you or others.”
Feel
free to go home now and just die.
*
Speaking
of dying, a study of gun deaths, prior to and since a Supreme Court ruling in
2010, which made it harder for local governments to restrict gun ownership,
reveals a cancerous development. In states which loosened gun
laws homicides and suicides increased among young Americans.
The average
age of the youngest victims in all types of shootings, including accidents
(23,000 fatalities), was fourteen. In addition, “Three of four school shootings
are committed with a weapon taken from the homeof the family or a
close relative [emphasis added, unless otherwise noted].”
FUN FACT: Gun
sales are always hot in this country. We are on pace for 15.5 million Firearms to be sold this year.
FUN FACT
#2:
Speaking of guns and gunfire, Trump family dipshit Don Jr. decides to post what
he believes is a hilarious meme, calling for protesters in L.A
to be shot down. “Make Rooftop Koreans Great Again,” he posts.
Humor? The idea of Americans shooting down American protesters.
That
photo harkens back to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, when police battered Rodney
King within an inch of his life, and yet were still found innocent of
wrongdoing. Tensions between Korean store owners and black protesters exploded,
and some store owners brought rifles for protection.
Which
may be fine.
The
president’s son joking about killing protesters is not. Junior has the same
level of empathy as his dad.
That is:
The same as a mushroom.
___
6/10/25: To
start the month, we learned that the World’s Richest Man, Elon Musk, was leaving
DOGE behind, and saying goodbye to his buddy and pal, Ol’ Donald J., and to
government service.
Trump
wished him well – and gave him a golden key to the White House, in a tasteful,
brown, embossed box. Then Elon went home and started hate-posting on X. He called
the president’s “Big Beautiful Budget Bill” a “disgusting abomination,” and warned
that it would add several trillions to the federal deficit.
*
Conspiracy
thinking: Musk also suggested on X, that Trump may have been replaced by a
body double.
(If anyone had motive –it was Melania.)
*
Elon was
just warming up. Next, he called for Trump to be impeached, insisting his name appears
in secret government files related to disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
*
The
prickly president replied, on Truth Social, that lawmakers should “terminate
Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts.”
*
Steve
Bannon entered the fray, and called for President Trump to deport Elon, and to
deny him due process, and maybe give him a wedgie as he boarded the plane back
to South Africa. “I am of the strong belief that he is an illegal alien,” Mr. Bannon
said of Mr. Musk, and we all know that “belief,” not evidence, is good enough
to get anyone Trump doesn’t like deported these days.
*
President
Dumpling suggests that Musk suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome and may
have “gone crazy.”
(No word on whether he has demanded that Musk return his golden
key.)
___
6/11/25: President
Trump visits Fort Bragg, N.C., and stirs the Mussolini tin
pot. Speaking in front of a backdrop of cheering, laughing U.S. Army soldiers,
he calls Los Angeles a “trash heap,” insists immigration protesters are part of
a “foreign invasion” and claims the 2020 election was stolen from his Benito J.
Trump grip.
And, of
course, many of the men and women in uniform applauded when he attacked the
“fake news.”
The
troops were there voluntarily, so you figure many were Trump supporters to
begin; but the Army has admitted it regrets allowing Trump merchandise
to be sold on base, including those popular red MAGA hats.
There
are also reports that cards like this were for sale:
Clan
Trump has also banked $3 million related to royalties on the Save America
coffee table book. Also: royalties on Trump Sneakers and Fragrances, such as
“Eau de Fascism” ($2,500,000), Trump watches ($2,800,000), Trump bibles ($1,306,035),
The “45” Guitar ($1,055,100) and NFT licensing and royalties ($1,157,490).
Not to
mention charging $1,000,000 a plate for other Fat Cats to rub elbows with
Donald during a candlelight dinner at one of his private golf clubs – in April.
And not
to mention the big bash for crypto bros in May. At that dinner gathering the 220 guests paid between
$55,000 and $37.5 million for a seat.
(At least one guest complained that the food wasn’t any good.)
And not
to mention that after yet another dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Jeffrey Bezos agreed to
pay $40 million dollars to make a documentary film about First Lady Melania
Trump. (It is expected that she will pocket $28 million herself – almost making sleeping
with Donald worth the horror.)
___
6/14/25: In
Washington D.C., the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of the creation of
the U.S. Army (and by purest coincidence, Donald Dumpling’s 79th birthday),
with a big old parade.
Unfortunately,
for Donald, his hopes of a North Korean-style display of power fail to
materialize. The parade is a fizzle, with shuffling marchers, and low attendance,
spiced with pictures of the event showing Mr. Trump looking glum.
*
In
Minnesota, on that same day, two Democratic lawmakers are gunned down at their homes. Melissa Hortman is
killed, along with her husband. John Hoffman is badly wounded, as is his wife,
in what police call “targeted attacks.”
___
6/15/25: The
free press starts digging, as the free press is expected to do; and we quickly
learn that Vance Boelter, the alleged Minnesota assassin, is an evangelical Christian pastor. On
film, you can watch him spout anti-abortion sentiments. In his vehicle, when he is
arrested, he has a target list including the names of more than 70 individuals
he’d like to kill, including Democratic politicians Rep. Ilhan Omar and Minnesota
Attorney General Keith Ellison. Both are Muslim – and the assassin is also
anti-Islam. In addition, we learned he had preached against LGBTQ rights. His roommate, and
childhood friend since fourth grade, tells reporters that Boelter “voted for Trump” and was “a strong supporter” of the president.
Records also show that when the killer lived in Oklahoma in the early 2000s, he
and his wife registered to vote as Republicans.
Which
proves?
On X, right-wing
nincompoops, including Head Nincompoop Elon Musk, and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, do
not bother to wait for facts, and label Boelter a Democrat and, in Sen. Lee’s
clueless case, “a Marxist.”
Which
the senator thought was funny.
Boelter shows up disguised as a police officer at a victim's home.
___
6/16/25:
Courtroom defeats keep piling up for Donald Dumpling, as the days grow longer,
and the approach of summer. First, we know the president has continued his battle
to avoid paying a $5 million judgment in a
defamation case filed against him by E. Jean Carroll. Carroll had claimed that
he sexually assaulted her, and then defamed her, repeatedly calling her a liar.
The jury
in the civil case heard the evidence and decided … Carroll was the winner! Not
a single juror believed Trump. Now a panel of federal judges has voted,
8-2, to allow the judgment to stand.
*
In
related news, the courts rule against the president in the second defamation
case, involving E. Jean Carroll. That’s the one where another didn’t believe
a word he said and roasted him again. This time, jurors awarded Ms. Carroll
$83.3 million – because Donald couldn’t keep his yap shut.
The
president tries to pull a fast one and, instead of paying his own attorneys,
and keep losing in court, he orders the Department of Justice to represent him,
as he appeals this other judgment.
A panel
of judges from the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals informs the cheap-ass Chief
Executive that there is no way in Hades that taxpayers should have to pay for
his legal representation in court.
Ms. Carroll - around the time of the attack.
*
The
hammer blows to Team Trump keep coming. Mike Lindell also loses in court and is ordered to pay $2.3
million to Eric Coomer, a man he defamed. Lindell had insisted that Coomer
helped Dominion Voting Systems steal the 2020 election from that American hero,
Donald J. Dumpling Trump.
Ever the
delusional dope, Mike claims he won his court battle, because his company could not
be found guilty of defamation, probably because it’s a company, and not a
lying, living, breathing doofus. (Like
Mike.)
FUN WITH
FOOLS: Perhaps you have forgotten, but Mr. Lindell is also famous
for insisting he had proof of election rigging, saying he would pay $5 million
to anyone who could disprove his claims. Then he refused to pay, when a numbers
expert showed his “evidence” was nothing but computer gibberish.
My
favorite Lindell story, however, is when his lawyers
used AI to craft a filing and ended up submitting an argument to the judge that
cited precedents from court decisions which did not actually exist.
*
The
president’s former election-denying ally, purported “constitutional scholar” John
Eastman, is just one of many Team Trump players to get thumped in court. Eastman
learns that a California appeals court has upheld his disbarment, basically for being a lying
sleazebag, who helped Donald push the “Stolen Election” lie in 2020.
“Attorneys
have a fundamental obligation to be truthful and uphold the rule of law,” the
court ruled.
John
Eastman violated this obligation when, at the behest of his client,
now-President Donald Trump, he engaged in a calculated campaign to falsely
undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election, which then-candidate
Donald Trump lost. In so doing, Mr. Eastman lied to courts, Vice President
Michael Pence, and the American people.
Yeah.
Get it?
He’s a
liar.
Lindell’s
a liar.
Rudy
Giuliani’s a liar. (He was hit for $148.3 million in a defamation suit of his
own, which he lost.)
Fox News
was chock full of liars, and their lying cost the corporation $787.5 million in a defamation judgement.
And, of
course, Donald Dumpling is the most bodacious liar of all.
Eastman and Giuliani both showed up on January 6, 2021, to spread lies. ___
6/17/25: Two
meatpacking giants, Tyson and JBS, now control 85% of the U.S. beef processing
business. Prices for steak and hamburger have increased by 22% year-over-year, which
is not what Candidate Dumpling was promising last fall, whenever he blabbered
about bringing down grocery prices.
___
6/18/25:
President Trump spends part of another busy day, hate-posting about Fox News
opinion polls.
The
Narcissist-in-Chief announces that he has the highest approval rating ever seen
for any president past, present or to come (I exaggerate slightly) at 56%. Then
Fox does a story, based on polling, and puts Trump at 46%. That includes a 46%
approval rating on his handling of immigration. On handling foreign policy,
Donald scores 42%, on the economy, 40%, and on inflation, a woeful 34%.
The
president explodes, like the crabby old man he is, and all but
shouts at reporters, “Get off my White House lawn!”
He starts
by insisting that Fox was wrong, and that he won the 2020 election. “The
Crooked FoxNews Polls got the Election WRONG, I won by much more than they said
I would, and have been biased against me for years.”
“They
are always wrong and negative. It’s why MAGA HATES FoxNews, even though their
anchors are GREAT. This has gone on for years, but they never change the
incompetent polling company that does their work.”
Sorry,
my MAGA friends. Trump lost. Ken Block, the expert he paid $800,000 to find voter
fraud, admitted he couldn’t.
He says
Trump lost.
In fact,
the hard-working blogger decided to check. He looked at the final polling numbers for Real Clear Politics
in 2024. The last Fox poll had Trump winning by 50% to 48%, close to a
perfect call.
Trump
won 49.8% of the vote. Harris trailed at 48.3%.
(Trump calls that a “landslide,” because he’s a delusional
nutcase.)
You can go
back to 2020, too. You can do what Donald rarely does: Check the goddam facts.
In that
election, Fox got Biden’s vote total just about right, predicting he
would get 52% (he scored 51.4%), but did underestimate the share Donald would
win. They thought he’d get 44% (where in reality, he had 46.9%). But as all the polls predicted in 2020, Trump lost.
And that
is a FACT.
*
In other
“Liar’s News,” Bryan Bedford, President Trump’s choice to head up the Federal
Aviation Administration turns out not to have a pilot’s license which he has repeatedly claimed
he does.
*
Did we
just mention “facts?” Donald also offers up this weird observation. Assuming he
had been president during the Civil War– and
not that loser Abraham Lincoln – he believes “it could have been solved.” He
could have “solved it” and 600,000 Americans would have been saved – and, who
knows, maybe black folks would still be slaves.
(Which some Trump supporters would love.)
Donald
Dumpling’s ignorance shows again, when he tells reporters why he’s demanding an end to birthright citizenship. The
legal matter, he gripes, was first taken up a long time ago. “Again, I say if
you look at the end of the Civil War – the 1800s, it was a very turbulent time.
If you take the end day – was it 1869? Or whatever – but you take that exact
date and that’s when that case was filed.”
(Actually, Mr. President, the Civil War ended in 1865.)
Robert E. Lee surrendered his army on April 9, 1865.
___
6/19/25: According
to Fox News, President Trump (when not busy golfing) has been considering using a nuclear bomb to take out Iran’s
nuclear facility at Fordo, buried deep underground. But don’t worry. It would
only be a “tactical nuclear weapon.” And it will be used only if Donald has the
urge.
(A hydrogen bomb blast can reach temperatures of 300 million
degrees Celsius.)
___
6/20/25: The
Dumpling displays his complete lack of class, coupled with disdain for a free
press. On Truth Social, he howls: “Why does Fox News allow failed TV
personality Jessica Tarlov to ‘soil’ The Five? Her voice, her manner, and above
all else, what she says, are a disgrace to television broadcasting.”
According
to Donald, the poor MAGA faithful must suffer, must “listen to her spew off
that I am doing terrible in the polls.”
But no!
You can’t fool President Trump.
He knows
he’s doing great.
*
Under
new Trumpian management, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau today announces
that it has dropped eighteen lawsuits aimed at restraining predatory
loan companies from ripping off ordinary Americans.
Credit
Acceptance, for example, will gladly lend you the money needed if you want to
buy a used car but will not make it clear that you will be paying 20%
interest on whatever you borrow.
FUN FACT: The
blogger himself had forgotten: The CFPB was created by Congress in 2008, after
a bunch of Wall Street firms, like Lehman Brothers, cause the financial system
to crash, and then “We the Taxpayers” ended up on the hook for $700 billion. Not to mention that a cascade
of bad economic news, related to the Wall Street meltdown, led to unemployment
rates rising to more than 10% the following year.
___
6/21/25: Late
Saturday night, President Trump steps up to the White House podium, and
announces on national TV that a surprise U.S. bombing mission has “completely
and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear sites.
He adds,
innocuously, that we “love God.”
He’s
clearly pleased with himself.
___
6/22/25: On
Sunday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth assures reporters that Donald
Dumpling is right, and Iran’s nuclear ambitions “have been obliterated.” And
Pete is also feeling good about himself.
(You know he’d like to have a drink or two to celebrate.)
___
6/23/25: On
Monday, the president announces that Iran and Israel have agreed to an
immediate truce, lasting twelve days, and you can pretty much mail him the
Nobel Peace Prize right now.
The
Iranians decide to celebrate Donald’s big Nobel win by firing a barrage of
missiles at a U.S. base in Qatar. Fortunately, all are intercepted, no harm, no
foul. Trump says the Iranians were kind enough to give advanced warning.
___
6/24/25: The
Iranians announce that they have taught the “Zionist enemy” (Israel)
a lesson and will abide by the truce.
Israel
claims it has achieved its goals.
The Dumpling promises that
all attacks are ended. “ISRAEL is not going to attack Iran,” he explains. “All
planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly ‘Plane Wave’ to
Iran,” he posts on
social media. “Nobody will be hurt,
the Ceasefire is in effect!”
(Everybody party!)
Alas,
both Iran and Israel keep firing missiles and dropping bombs. Trump is forced to tell reporters, “Israel, as soon as we made the deal,
they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never
seen before, the biggest load that we’ve seen. I’m not happy with Israel.”
(Apparently, Donald missed
the pounding Israel has been giving the Gaza Strip.)
Several
hundred additional Iranians and Israelis are killed, before Trump can post
again, in a patented all-caps shout: “THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE
IT!”
___
6/25/25: An
initial U.S. intelligence report leaked to both CNN and The New York Times,
indicates that Iran’s nuclear program has probably not been obliterated, and instead, the attack has “set
them back a few months, tops.”
It is
thought their stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed, and that the
centrifuges at Fordo remain “intact.”
Trump
and every Trump sycophant you can name explode with anger. Donald lashes out in
a rage after CNN and the Times question his word.
Press
Secretary Fake Christian Lady Karoline Leavitt insists that the report was
leaked by “a low-level loser,” adding, “Everyone knows what happens when you drop
fourteen 30,000-pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”
Hegseth insists
critics of the president hate the brave pilots and crews who bombed Iran, and
hate America, and hate the people in the factories where the bombs were made, and
hate the workers’ mothers, the flag, hot dogs, and are committed commies, and
traitors, and pedophiles, if not worse.
Cannibals.
That too.
*
Israeli defense
experts agree that the three
Iranian sites suffered “very significant” damage, but were not necessarily obliterated,
and more intelligence will have to be gathered before a final assessment can be
made.
Donald has no
doubt because Donald loves Donald, and Donald knows when Donald acts, Donald
cannot fail. A reporter asks Donald if the U.S. might carry out more attacks if
Tehran rebuilds its uranium enrichment facilities.
“Sure,” Donald says.
“But I’m not going to have to worry about that. It’s gone for years.”
Then he decides that
doesn’t sound as impressive as he hopes and ups his estimate. “I think it’s
basically decades, because I don’t think they’ll ever do it again,” the
president exclaims. “I think they’ve had it. I mean, they just went through
hell. They’ve had it.”
FUN
FACTS – NUCLEAR DESOLATION.
The
first atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killed 78,000
Japanese. That bomb had an explosive power estimated to be 15 kilotons (a
kiloton being equivalent to 1,000 tons of TNT.)
The
second atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki on August 9, and another estimated 60,000
to 80,000 people were killed.
Modern
hydrogen bombs have an explosive power measured in megatons – that is 1,000,000
tons of TNT.
No
nation, in the last eighty years, has deployed an atomic bomb – for painfully
obvious reasons.
It is
estimated that at the very moment Donald delivered his second Inaugural Address,
the nine nuclear powers possessed more than 12,000 atomic
weapons.
The
United States and Russia both have more than 5,000
nuclear weapons. China is in third place with 600. France had
290, the United Kingdom has 225, India has 180, Pakistan has 170, and North
Korea has 50.
It is estimated that Israel possesses 90 nuclear weapons,
with at least 50 designed to be delivered by land-based Jericho missiles.
Five
other members of NATO are believed to be “hosting” nuclear weapons, which is
kind of cool?
Both
Russia and the United States possess additional “tactical nuclear weapons” for
battlefield uses. Some are estimated to have an explosive power as high as 300
kilotons – which is kind of nutty, if you think it over.
A single
atomic bomb exploded over New York City (it is better to explode bombs above a
city and not let the ground absorb any of the power of the blast) would kill an
estimated 583,160 people.
Even if
an atomic blast didn’t kill you, the electromagnetic pulse created would fry
your car’s computers; and you and millions of others would be hoofing it to
work every day.
A 1.4
Megaton bomb launched about 250 miles above Kansas would destroy most of the
electronics that were not protected in the entire Continental United States.
During the brief return to atmospheric testing in 1962, a 1.4 megaton nuclear
weapon was detonated over Johnston Island at an altitude of about 250 miles.
The effects of EMP were observed in Hawaii, 800 miles east of the detonation.
Streetlights and fuses failed on Oahu and telephone service was disrupted on
the Island of Kauai.
Scientists
believe that an all-out nuclear war would lead to a “nuclear winter,” as all the smoke, and dust of
what used to be cities, and the ashes of untold numbers of human beings,
animals, insects, trees and plants filled the sky, severely reducing the amount
of light that reached the Earth’s surface.
Russia
could, if it desired, hit every town and city in the United States, with a
population of more than 5,000, and still have several hundred atomic weapons
left over, maybe to strike Disneyworld.
BLOGGER’S
NOTE:
The humble gentleman who resides in Glendale, Ohio would not normally fault a
U.S. president for whatever other nations do – since a president is often no
more than a powerful spectator, when it comes to what other nations do.
Yet,
Trump, himself, has always been quick to blame his predecessors, while oddly
unwilling to accept even a wisp of blame if bloodshed does erupt.
He has
said repeatedly that the war in Ukraine would not have started if he had been
president in 2022. By the same logic, since this war with Iran started when his
lard ass was plunked down in the Oval Office, by Trumpian logic, he merits
blame.
When I
work on this post, on June 23, A grand total of 230 days had passed since
Donald was elected on November 5, 2024, at which time he promised to end the
fighting in Ukraine in one day.
___
6/26/25: Donald
Dumpling loses in court again. It’s like a recurring
nightmare! This time, he asks a federal judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit
filed against him by the “Central Park Five.” Those are the five young African
American men (now much older) he insisted raped a white jogger in Central Park
in 1989.
He made the
same claim in a September 2024 debate with Kamala Harris. But this time he said
they had killed their victim and confessed. This is the second time Donald has
whiffed in court in this matter.
___
6/27/25: Secretary
of Defense Pete Hegseth has moved decisively to keep Americans safe from ship
names! Names he and The Dumpling don’t like! Hegseth has ordered a U.S. Navy
oiler renamed after realizing that the USNSHarvey
Milk honored a gay naval veteran. Other oilers to be considered for
new christenings: the Thurgood Marshall, the Ruth Bader Ginsberg
and the Harriet Tubman.
I am
really, really hoping – praying, even – that Secretary Hegseth will remember
his boss and christen an oiler: USNSBone Spurs.
*
In
related, “Make America Straight Again” news, the Pentagon begins kicking out an estimated 4,200
transgender service personnel. Some of whom have served long enough to be approaching
retirement age.
(We
should remind the MAGA faithful that while Milk did serve, and so have these
transgender individuals, no member of Donald’s family ever has.)
___
Is Donald
Dumpling suffering a “manhood crisis?”
6/28/25: You could
have bet, the minute Ayatollah Khamenei said that he had slapped the face of
the United States, after launching a missile attack on a U.S. base in Qatar, that
Donald Dumpling could not allow that comment to stand. We
know the folks in MAGA World complain about the death of American manhood and
blame woke liberals. I think Trump and his fans should blame themselves. If
you’re a fat oaf, who considers riding around in a golf cart “exercise,” maybe
you need to push yourself physically, so that you can overcome your feelings of
inadequacy. If your wife isn’t interested in sleeping with you, maybe don’t
sleep with porn stars when you think she won’t find out.
Donald
is reduced to blustering in response, as if the ayatollah is going to be scared
off by his juvenile rant:
Friday, the president spoke to reporters at a
White House press conference, and the Grand Liar suggested a path for the
ayatollah to follow, “Look, you’re a man of great faith. A man who’s highly
respected in his country. You have to tell the truth. You got beat to hell.”
(This from the man who was furious because
not all reports agreed his attack on Iran was a 1000% success.)
Donald was asked if he was worried that Iran
might have “secret nuclear sites,” but Donald being Donald (i.e. a man who can
never admit the smallest failure or slightest mistake) said he was “not worried
about it at all.”
Those poor Iranians – who had felt Donald’s
wrath! “They’re exhausted. The last thing they're thinking about right now is
nuclear,” he told reporters. “You know what they're thinking of? They're
thinking about tomorrow, trying to live in such a mess. The place was bombed to
hell.”
Next,
Trump issued an even stronger response on his social media platform, Truth Social, which I think we can all agree the
ayatollah and his military leaders are not reading daily. Or ever. But The
Dumpling needed to feel good about himself, so he bragged about his phenomenal military
success. “[Khamenei’s country] was decimated, his three evil nuclear sites were
obliterated, and I knew exactly where he was sheltered, and would not let
Israel, or the U.S. Armed Forces ... terminate his life. I saved him from a very
ugly and ignominious death.” he insisted.
Then we
had poor “Hurt Donald” – the Donald who says he never gets credit for any of
his fantastic successes – like when he got North Korea to give up all its
nukes, and he, Donald, deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
(Ha, ha. North Korea gave up 0 nukes.)
“Hurt
Donald” insisted Khamenei should “thank” him for sparing his life – not to
mention all of the president’s hard work: “During the last few days, I was
working on the possible removal of sanctions, and other things, which would
have given a much better chance to Iran at a full, fast, and complete recovery.
The sanctions are biting! But no, instead I get hit with a statement of anger,
hatred, and disgust, and immediately dropped all work on sanction relief.”
(Trump
just bombed Iran. Is he really such a dolt that he fails to understand why the
Iranians might be angry?)
Trump
concluded by saying “Iran has to get back into the world order flow” or else
things “will only get worse for them.”
Then
Iran’s foreign minister joined the debate:
If
President Trump is genuine about wanting a deal, he should put aside the
disrespectful and unacceptable tone towards Iran’s Supreme Leader, Grand
Ayatollah Khamenei, and stop hurting his millions of heartfelt followers. The
great and powerful Iranian people, who showed the world that the Israeli regime
had no choice but to run to “Daddy” to avoid being flattened by our missiles,
do not take kindly to threats and insults.
Saturday,
the president posted on Truth Social again – because what world leader doesn’t
carry on diplomacy on his or her social media site! The Iranians, he said, “are
always so angry, hostile, and unhappy, and look at what it has gotten them. A
burned out, blown up country with no future, a decimated military, a horrible
economy, and death all around them. They have no hope, and it will only get
worse!”
(That would be enough to make even an ayatollah smack himself in
the head.)
___
6/29/25: Elon
Musk logs on to X and warns his followers that Trump’s big
budget bill is “utterly insane” and “destructive,” and will set back renewable
energy development by ten thousand years.
(Okay,
the blogger made up the “ten thousand years” part. But the “utterly insane”
part is Elon, for real.)
To be
more exact, Musk writes, “The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of
jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” The bill, he
adds, is, “Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of
the past while severely damaging industries of the future.”
___
6/30/25: The Trump
administration terminates the a “Temporary Protective Status” program
for 520,000 Haitians living in the U.S. They are now free to get kicked out of
this country and sent back to an island where gangs are in control, and where they
might be killed.
During
his first term in office, Mr. Trump famously referred to Haiti as one of the “shithole countries” on a list he kept in his head
– all, ironically inhabited by people with dark skins.
Well,
f**k those “pet-eating” people who might get murdered if we boot them out. We
need to make room for white people fleeing South Africa, where Trump warns, if
they can’t find refuge here, then they might be killed.
(See a difference, MAGA folks?)
*
Let’s
close out the month with a mention of H.R. 792, a resolution introduced by Rep. Anna Paula Luna (R-FL).
On the
Toady-o-Meter, Luna scores a perfect 100, after she calls for members of Congress
to direct the Secretary of the Interior to get cracking, and get Donald
Trump’s face carved on Mount Rushmore.