The Second Coming of Donald Dumpling - November 2025

Non-Epstein News: November 2025 

BLOGGING ABOUT Donald Trump has always been a slog, much more so during his second term. Every time I feel as if I have a solid grip on the news, the president or his allies pry my fingers loose.   

Since keeping up has been nearly impossible, I will divide my post for November into two equally depressing parts. There will be an “Epstein News” half, and a “Non-Epstein News” half. 

One shit sandwich. 

Then another. 

(First, a quote from one of our esteemed Founding Fathers.)

 

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“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” 

Thomas Jefferson

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WITH JEFFERSON’S WORDS in mind, let us dive into a list of reasons that explains why I do not like Donald, “Sam I Am.” 

Frankly, I don’t think any well-informed American should. 

1. Did you realize that Mr. Trump was suing CNN for using the term “Big Lie” to describe his incessant claims that he was cheated out of a win in the 2020 election. He was asking for $475 million in damages. 

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling, noting that the choice of phrase is protected speech. Read the First Amendment, Donald. 

Also, you Fascist Fat Ass, you did lose, and so you’re still lying, five years later, about how you beat Joe Biden. 

(The judges’ decision was unanimous, 3-0, including two judges Donald Dumpling appointed himself.) 

(See #67, for more lying about the 2020 election.) 

(Also #218-222.)

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2. The president took time out from his busy schedule of sticking gold flourishes on every flat surface in the Oval Office to talk to Larry Ellison, owner of Paramount. The president wanted to discuss the burning issue on every American’s mind. 

He told Ellison he needed to reboot the buddy-cop film series, Rush Hour. No doubt, Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan were thrilled.

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3. Ellison brought up his dream of buying Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN, among other properties. Sources report that Trump told Ellison he wanted two CNN hosts fired. Namely: Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar. The White House is reportedly “animated” by the possibility.

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4. Dear MAGAs: If you are confused, please figure out why the free press is fundamental to a healthy democracy. Who do you think broke open the story of the Epstein Files, after it was buried in 2008? 

The Miami Herald.

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5. After talking with Vladimir Putin, Trump sent Ukraine a “peace plan” on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. He told the Ukrainians they had to accept the terms by Thursday. Otherwise, the U.S. would cut off satellite links (essential to targeting Russian missiles) and stop sending ammunition. The “plan” included 28 points. Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska, summed it up like this: 

“IN THE WAR BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA, THE FIRST TO SURRENDER WAS AMERICA.” 

(The blogger put it in caps. DONALD LOVES CAPS.)

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6. U.S. senators Angus King, a Maine independent, and Mike Rounds, a South Dakota Republican, put in an emergency call to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. They claim that Rubio “distanced” the United States from the plan, and assured them that it “was not the administration’s position.” 

It was only put out as if it were, by some nincompoop. Sen. King described the plan as “essentially the wish list [emphasis added] of the Russians.” 

Here’s the nincompoop: 

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7. Our European allies reacted politely – though I think we can guess that behind the scenes they were calling Donald “chicken shit” and a “Russian asset.” Sen. Mitch McConnell spoke for many, even in the Republican Party, when he suggested that the president should “find new advisors,” and warned that “Putin has spent the entire year trying to play President Trump for a fool.” 

(From this blogger’s perspective, it’s working.)

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8. The only person who loved the plan was Vlad. Meanwhile, Donald Dumpling insisted once more that “the invasion would have NEVER HAPPENED” had there been “strong and proper” Ukrainian leadership. 

This is akin to lashing out at the U.S. Navy because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. 

Russia did invade. 

“Invade,” get it, Donald?

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Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Stadium? 

9. The Narcissist-in-Chief has been busy demanding that the new NFL stadium to be built in Washington D.C. and used by the Commanders, be named after him. 

Suggestion: If we’re going to name a facility after a great American who molested many women, why not: “Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Stadium.” And shouldn’t it be legal, within the confines of the club boxes where the super-rich sit to enjoy the games, for men to grab women by the pussy? 

Donald would love it, I think. 

Grab that cheerleader - she's trapped in the corner.

 

10. And he’s still not done! The man never stops focusing on issues critical to voters. He continues to call on the NFL to dump its new kickoff rules, which he describes as watching “sissy football.”

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11. Even better, he wants the Washington Commanders to take back their old racist name: Washington Redskins. 

(The blogger is old enough to remember watching the first African American to ever play for the Redskins, the last NFL team to integrate, in 1962. Bobby Mitchell was the man with the dark skin.)

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12. In even more exciting news, the Treasury Department is finalizing plans to issue a special dollar coin in honor of the 250th birthday of the United States. That’s a joke! It’s a coin to honor Donald. It will feature his mug on the front. 

And on the obverse? 

Him again! 

  

No other living American has been honored by having his or her likeness featured on U.S. coins or currency. 

But someone felt the need to stroke The Dumpling’s ego. 

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Boom times for billionaires and trillionaires. 

13. Thanks to the magic of the Trump Tax Cuts, passed on January 1, 2018, on a promise that economy growth would explode and the national debt would disappear, we can report that the U.S. minted 204 shiny new billionaires in 2024. The wealth of America’s richest men and women – and perhaps a trans person, snuck in there, somewhere – grew by $2 trillion in just twelve months.

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14. Economists predict that we will have five trillionaires by the end of the next decade, which I think we can all agree is the best possible way to “Make America Great Again.” For trillionaires.

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15. Last year, the ten richest Americans saw their fortunes increase by an average of $100 million per day. Could you live happily ever after if your personal fortune grew by $100,000,000 for just one day? 

Yes, you could.

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16. Of course, the loudest voices on the right would like to convince the uneducated that those of us on the left – who are not thrilled to see billionaires/trillionaires amass giant piles of loot – are Devil-Worshipping Communists. Not true. We just don’t trust the Big Money Power folks any more than we would trust any group – or any individual – with great power that can be turned to abuse.

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17. Back in 1787, Ben Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers, warned about the dangers of avarice in government. 

As he explained: 

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“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.”

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Musk was essentially paying for votes.

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18. Meanwhile, one in four American families now lives paycheck to paycheck. When we talk about the “working poor,” that phrase sums up a bedrock problem the government should address.

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19. Those of us opposed to Trump and his grab-all-the-dough-that-you-can crony government believe more than enough has been done in Washington to help “struggling trillionaires” succeed.

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20. Time to work harder for the bottom fourth of the American people.

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21. Even better, time to work for the bottom half or bottom three-fourths. The blogger should note that his family is in the top fourth, so, it’s not about a handout for him or his kids. 

(Still, if Elon wants to shoot me a check for a hundred million, I won’t rip it up.)

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22. The loudest talkers – Sean Hannity, skilled slinger of malodorous bullshit, for one – want you to believe that anyone who questions Donald J. Trump must be a godless heathen. They want you to believe that the millions of protesters at the “No Kings” rallies last month secretly hated America. 

Not even close. Our side includes people who worship God in a variety of ways. We simply worry because we notice that the worst MAGA types (and we absolutely acknowledge that there are millions of good MAGA types) hate Muslims with even more fervor than they hate Jews.

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23. These worst of the MAGAs aren’t fond of Hindus, either, and that would include Vice President J.D. Vance’s wife and parents, too.

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24. The blogger has noticed that a subset of the MAGA faithful believe in the “white replacement theory,” and are twice-bothered by the VP’s dark-skinned wife, and mixed-color kids. 

Top White House aide Stephen Miller has been happy to peddle the “white replacement” theory, for sure. (See #44.) 

Miller worries about people with dark skins.

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25. To start the month, one right-wing type made it clear he had no use for Mormons, either. He rammed his giant pickup truck into the wall of a Mormon church, in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Then he set the building on fire and started shooting. Of course, he had an “AR-15-style” rifle. So, he killed and wounded a dozen people before police could stop his murderous spree. 

(We will discuss religion again, when we introduce Nick Fuentes, at #83.)

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26. It is true. Many of us on the left-of-center side of the political spectrum do support gun control. For example: Background checks for all purchasers of weapons at all places where guns might be sold.

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27. Bamboozling the uninformed isn’t just a “capitalist” trick. This might be the place for a quick note on the sad state of supposed communism today. Zhang Yiming of China – a country that purportedly follows the teachings of Karl Marx – is worth an astounding $65.5 billion. In a true communist society that would be impossible. But “communist” leaders fool the people much the same way ours do, but in reverse, by proudly claiming they are communists. 

In China, in theory, that means you are good – a member of the proletariat, in good standing – which is clearly not true. Even in China, the Big Money Power folks, booted and spurred, ride the backs of the people. At least twenty of the top two hundred richest people in the world are Chinese. 

Communism in China is a charade. 

(See “avarice,” #17.)

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28. To ensure that the “communist system” keeps working the right way, the Chinese government employs overwhelming State Power to stifle dissent. See also: Donald J. Trump and his endless attacks on the free press. 

(There is no free press in China – or in any other authoritarian state.)

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29. When it comes to U.S. politics, you need not have communist sympathies to believe, as most on our side do, that we should: 

a.     Raise taxes on billionaires, if for no other reason than to curtail their Big Money Power. 

b.     Guard against the Big Money Power interests abusing the environment – for example, British Petroleum polluting the Gulf of Mexico with a giant oil spill. (Is your life significantly improved if we call that body the “Gulf of America?” Geez. Don’t be a bunch of dopes.) 

c.     Make it easier for workers to form unions. Stop the union busting at Big Money companies like Amazon, Walmart and Starbucks. 

d.    Treat healthcare as a human right. At the very least, cover all children.

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30. Other ideas our side might favor, would be to increase the minimum wage; make daycare more affordable for working families; and get rid of partisan gerrymandering – as we voted to do by 70% here in Ohio – but got stoned by Republicans in control of the legislature, to name a few.

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31. Today, most Americans support unions (around 70%), which act as counterweights to Big Money Power and Big Business Power. Know who was laughing about firing union workers earlier this year? 

Trump and Musk. Listen here.

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32. With the government shut down for more than a month, and SNAP food assistance payments frozen, President Billionaire headed for Mar-a-Lago so he could golf and throw a “Great Gatsby”-themed party for his Big Money pals. As invitations noted, “A Little Party Never Killed Anyone.” 

(Hunger has.)

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33. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson defended the president, insisting that he was desperate to get SNAP payments made, but evil Democrats tied his hands. Then the courts told the president he had to send the full payments out. And The Dumpling and his DOJ lawyers sued to stop that from happening. 

And Mike looked like a sap.

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34. You can’t deny ICE agents are hard at work, doing their best to protect law-abiding Chicagoans from criminals. That would include shooting a Chicago lady and bragging about it on social media. As the shooter proudly posted: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”

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35. Yeah, maybe a book titled Fun with Fascists.

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36. We can now report that prosecutors have dropped charges against Marimar Martinez, the perforated Chicago lady – who was originally charged with ramming her vehicle into the vehicle of the ICE agent who perforated her and bragged about being such a crack shot.

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37. Expect Martinez to sue – and win – and figure taxpayers are going to pay the bill.

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38. You also had the ICE agent who shot a praying Chicago minister in the head with a pepper spray ball.

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39. Also, my dear MAGA friends: You need to chill. 

Those of us on the Democratic/liberal side do not worship Satan – even if we are not afraid of trans people, who seem human to us. We just aren’t keen on seeing illegal immigrants, who have committed no other crimes, save for sneaking into this country, and mostly building good lives, and starting families, being snatched out of daycare centers and arrested while driving their kids to school. 

As of now, under the Fourteenth Amendment, their children, born here, are citizens. We were protesting at the “No Kings” rallies in part because we see no value in deporting the parents of U.S.-citizen kids.

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40. We don’t believe Jesus would, either.

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41. Know who else agrees with us on this question of treating illegals with decency and respect? Yeah: Pope Leo. 

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42. His predecessor, Pope Francis, once said that Donald Trump was “not Christian,” which this blogger would say was an astute call.

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43. Regarding the teachings of Jesus, Team Trump has decided to cap the number of refugees allowed to enter the U.S. in 2026. That figure will be set at an all-time low of 7,500, essentially slamming the door in the face of the world’s oppressed.

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44. Only white South Africans will be given priority next year. Elon Musk is undoubtedly thrilled. The operative word is “white.”

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45. In related news, Team Trump has deported 54 Iranian dissidents and sent them back to Iran. This strikes the blogger as nuts, since the theocratic Iranian government makes a habit of executing those who protest against harsh rule.

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46. Sometimes the Iranian military mixes it up for fun and just mows down protesters in the streets. 

That’s an idea Donald has toyed with himself. (See #187.)

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47. It’s been a bit since I read the Bible all the way through (which I did); but I seem to remember that Jesus had sympathy for the less fortunate – for example – refugees – and that his parents were refugees once. 

I’d also bet that Christ would never be invited to a “Great Gatsby”-type party, and if he were, I don’t think he’d attend. 

(See #32.)

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48: We at this excellent blog never tire of reminding the MAGA people that Donald hired illegals from Poland to work on his construction projects in New York City in the 1980s. Then he slapped his name on the place they helped build: Trump Tower New York! Yeah, that was your boy, MAGAs. 

Donald did that.

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49. Who had illegal immigrants working at his golf courses, wineries, and private clubs, during his first term as president? 

Not Barack Obama. Guess again. 

It was this guy: 

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50. Whenever those of us on the side of humanity protest against the tactics and mission of ICE, White House Press Secretary Karoline “Worst Christian Lady Ever” Leavitt shows up to claim that the “Democrat Party’s main constituency are [sic] made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals.”

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51. The blogger should point out that “constituency” is singular and “is” should be used and not “are.” 

He thought language purists would want to know.

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52. Leavitt may be too dense to get it, but no Democrat, no Republican, and no Know Nothing that I have ever met, has said, “You know, I love violent criminals.” 

(Use your brains, people. Don’t fall for scare tactics.)

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53. Speaking of dangerous criminals, Mr. Trump has pardoned a sizeable batch of “America’s Most Wanted” this month. That includes all the major players who tried to help him steal the 2020 election – which, conversely, he insisted had been stolen from him. That includes Rudy Giuliani, who claimed two Georgia poll workers stole 54,000 votes (or possibly 144,000 – he never could get his numbers straight). Giuliani got sued for defamation and a jury awarded the two women $148.3 million. 

The F.B.I., the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and Republican election officers in that state agreed no votes were stolen. 

(Rudy was lying and a jury figured that out.)

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54. The president lied even more shamelessly than Rudy, which was hourly. Donald claimed, as just one example out of hundreds, that 6,000 votes were stolen from him in Antrim County, Michigan. 

A recount by Republican officials in that county found that the vote was off by 12, meaning Donald was off by 5,988. 

Which I think we can all agree, is a lot.

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55. Now the president says he plans to award Rudy the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Who’s next? 

Ghislaine Maxwell? He did once say, “I wish her well.”

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56.. My MAGA friends (and relatives), I admit. People on our side do make fun of people on your side, which may seem rude, but it seems us that you will believe anything Hannity and Alex Jones and the mysterious “Q” have to say. Such as: 

The Sandy Hook school massacre was a “false flag.” 

The kids from Parkland, who called for gun control after another school massacre, were paid “crisis actors.” 

Michelle Obama is a man. 

You even swallowed the farcical claim that the seven million protesters who showed up for the “No Kings” rallies in October were all paid. I don’t mean to be impolite, but you seem awfully gullible, at this point. 

(See #114.)

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57. Many from our side were out there at the “No Kings” rallies, because we knew Bill Barr, Trump’s own attorney general in 2020, told him the election wasn’t stolen.

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58. So did Jeffrey Rosen, Barr’s replacement, and Rosen’s top two lieutenants, all Trump appointees. That should have alerted even the most loyal MAGA types that something fishy was up, long before January 6.

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59. We’re not wrong, on our side, to fear Big Government Power, which is increasingly concentrated in Donald fumbling, bumbling hands. 

(We’d be in real trouble if he wasn’t such an incompetent man.)

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Pardons gone bad. 

60. We can also offer fresh news regarding one of the pardoned January 6, 2021, rioters, John Bansuelos. (He was accused of murder even before the events of that day.) Having been pardoned by The Dumpling he has been arrested again. This time he faces charges of felony kidnapping and sexual assault. 

(The man is a crime wave all by himself.)

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61. Trump granted a rare second pardon to a January 6 rioter, Dan Wilson. Dan is supposedly one of those poor men and women who was tricked into rioting by F.B.I. plants in the mob. 

Sure. He was “tricked.” Wilson announced in a secret group chat, in days leading up to the bloody assault on the U.S. Capitol, “I am ready to lay my life on the line. It is time for good men to do bad things.” 

So, he did bad things and got convicted for his crimes – and Trump pardoned him. But during a search of Wilson’s home, illegal guns had been recovered – Wilson being barred from owning guns due to previous felony convictions. Now, Donald Dumpling has pardoned him on gun charges too. 

(Trump: Standing strong for felons with guns!)

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62. We know Donald has a soft spot for the rioters who tried to get him an undeserved election “win” on January 6. Two federal prosecutors were suspended this month, after referring to the events of that dark day as a “riot” and calling the attack the work of a “mob” in a court filing. They were recommending a higher degree of punishment for Taylor Taranto, who had, since his pardon, decided to add a bomb hoax to his resumé. 

Judge Carl J. Nichols commended the suspended prosecutors before handing down Taranto’s sentence, describing their work as “the best” and saying they “held the highest standard of professionalism.” 

Taranto was sentenced to 21 months, time served, which meant his days in jail were ended, but he was also ordered to report to his parole officer for the next three years. He plans to appeal.

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63. The two prosecutors – who committed zero crimes combined, have been fired.

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64. One American no longer in need of a pardon would be the D.C. sandwich guy, first charged with a felony for throwing his Subway special at an ICE agent in that city. A grand jury refused to indict. Members were not convinced that an assault with pastrami on rye posed a significant threat to masked men in body armor. 

With guns.

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65. Next, the Department of Justice tried to make a misdemeanor charge stick. A petit jury sat through a trial and said no. A flying Subway food item did not rise to the level of even a minor assault.

 

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66. In the wake of this double defeat, D.C. District Attorney Jeanine Pirro, formerly of Fox News, offered up one of the most ironic statements ever made – all unaware, herself. She justified charges against the Mad Sandwich Bomber, saying that her office would always protect law enforcement officers, at all times, including from mayonnaise stains on their bullet proof vests. 

Unless, of course, you were an officer tasered in the neck by Daniel Rodriguez, on January 6 – and you suffered a heart attack – and then President Trump gave the Taser Man a full pardon. 

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67. Since our topic is January 6, once again, did you know that Pirro lied with abandon when she worked for Fox News? She said the 2020 election was stolen. Behind the scenes, one Fox executive referred to her as a “reckless maniac.” 

“I don’t trust her to be responsible,” a second agreed. 

When Fox News had to pay $787.5 million in a defamation suit for claiming Dominion Voting Systems helped rig the 2020 vote, it was in large part due to the drumbeat lies of Jeanine Pirro.

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68. And Tucker Carlson.

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69. What kind of idiot would put a “reckless maniac” and prolific liar in charge of an important federal prosecutor’s office? 

This guy (left):

 

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70. Trump’s list of terrible pardons continued to grow. The latest addition: Eliyahu “Eli” Weinstein. His 24-year sentence was commuted in 2021, just before Donald snuck out the back door to the White House so he wouldn’t have to try to be cordial when President-elect Biden and Dr. Jill Biden knocked. 

Weinstein has been sentenced to 37 years, this time for setting up a Ponzi scheme and defrauding investors. Weinstein and his felonious buds spent $41 million on personal expenses like casino gambling and buying up choice real estate. 

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71. Jonathan Braun is also headed back to the slammer, this time for 27 months. His post-Trump-pardon activites include groping his children’s nanny, assaulting a man at synagogue, and punching a third victim (and knocking that man’s 3-year-old child down), at a dinner Braun was hosting at his home. 

(Worst host ever.)

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72. On November 18, Paul Anderson Johnson, 44, another pardoned January 6 rioter, was arrested “on charges of lewd/lascivious molestation, lewd/lascivious exhibition and transmission of material harmful to a minor.” The detail that clinched my disgust: He tried to buy silence from his victim by promising that a “payout” he expected to get from the government – for his “unjust arrest” – would go to him. 

(That’s right, MAGA, one of yours was allegedly molesting young boys.)

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73. In related news, the Justice Department posted a series of pardons which showed identical “signatures” from President Trump. Such as signatures that could only have been produced by the dread autopen. 

Almost as if Donald was no better than “Sleepy Joe” Biden, whom Donald has mocked repeatedly for using …. an autopen. 

Always petty: Trump posts a gallery of all presidential portraits.

For Biden: He has a picture of an autopen signature.

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74. When millions of Americans showed up for the “No Kings” protests last month, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said our side was staging “hate America rallies.” In fact, many protesters were out in the streets because they could not stomach watching 70,000 people in Gaza be blown to bits. Many of those torn to shreds were not Hamas terrorists – but innocent children. 

(Again: Jesus would not approve.)

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75. Where Donald Dumpling is concerned, the idiot ideas keep coming. Earlier this month, he got riled up (apparently after watching Fox News) and warned the government of Nigeria that if it didn’t stop the murder of Christians in that country, he’d have to forgo his quest to win the Nobel Peace Prize and bombs away! Nigeria’s population of 233 million is divided between Christians, mostly in the south, and Muslims, mostly in the north, but mixed almost everywhere. The government has been fighting a guerrilla war against ISIS-backed religious zealots. 

As Macho Donald put it: 

If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, “guns-a-blazing,” to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! 

 

Did the president just suggest that blowing up human beings would be “sweet?” (Blogger rereads what he said.) He did.

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76. The man who covets a Nobel Peace Prize – in fact, demands he be awarded one – has also warned that he will attack Venezuela to oust its communist leader.

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77. First, he will send back anyone from that country who fled communism and took refuge in the United States. More than 300,000 Venezuelans have seen their “temporary protected status” revoked.

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78. President Thin Skin tunes in to Jimmy Kimmel’s show on the night of November 18 and does not like the jokes he hears. 

At 12:49 a.m., he launches a rant on Truth Social: “Why does ABC Fake News keep Jimmy Kimmel, a man with NO TALENT and VERY POOR TELEVISION RATINGS, on the air? Why do the TV Syndicates put up with it? Also, totally biased coverage. Get the bum off the air!!!” 

(Mr. Maturity in the White House.)

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79. In related news, Mr. Maturity explodes when a female reporter aboard Air Force One asks him an Epstein Files-related question. 

“Quiet, quiet, piggy,” he replies. 

His White House Press Secretary, Karoline “Worst Christian Lady Ever” Leavitt tells reporters that the American people appreciate Donald’s language, because he’s “frank,” and they love him.

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80. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy has called for increased civility from airline passengers. That includes keeping control of one’s kids, helping pregnant women stow bags overhead and saying “please” and “thank you,” especially to pilots and flight attendants. Duffy would also like travelers to dress nicely, not in flip flops or pajama-like outfits, as if planning to sleep during flights. (See #79, for the irony.) 

(Can you call the pregnant lady “piggy,” and tell her you’re being “frank?”)

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Neo-Nazis hiding under MAGA beds. 

81. You might imagine, if you were on the left side of the political divide, that this next issue would be easy to figure out. The MAGA faithful are struggling over which path to follow. Embrace the teachings of Charlie Kirk? Or go with Nick Fuentes? 

Your favorite blogger was and is no fan of Kirk/Kirk’s legacy, though he clearly did not deserve to be killed. Kirk, for example, seemed to believe we should go back to the 50s and have women stay home. And he did say African Americans were better off before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed. 

As a former history teacher, I wasn’t buying what he was preaching. I would even suggest that it is a better day, when young women can, for instance, play sports and get college scholarships if they’re good. 

(“Woke,” I think that’s called.)

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82. The blogger is old enough to remember a time when African Americans down South couldn’t vote, until that Civil Rights act, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, passed. If they protested, the all-white Southern police forces of that era might help the KKK make sure they ended up dead. 

Bodies of three civil rights workers murdered in 1964,
and buried in a damn.

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83. If Kirk was mistaken that’s no crime. By contrast, Fuentes is a repulsive twit. He’s an admirer of Hitler and a Holocaust denier. He once joked about Jews being burned up in ovens like “cookies.” Yet, there he was, earlier this month: He showed up on Tucker Carlson’s podcast for a friendly discussion of conservative values.

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84. Even Sen. Ted Cruz has called Fuentes’s brand of conservatism “poison.” The Republican Party faces an “existential crisis” if it embraces Fuentes and the people, known as “groypers,” who follow him, says Ted. So, let me break it gently to my MAGA friends. The Nazis were fascists. Fuentes is a neo-Nazi. Whether you care to admit it or not, fascists keep showing up on your side.

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85. See, for example, Richard B. Spencer – giving an exuberant Nazi salute in his excitement overTrump’s election in 2016.

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86. Listen to Rocky Suhayda, head of the American Nazi Party, talk about how Trump’s election opened up “opportunities” for members of his group to build a “pro-white” political caucus. 

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87. Consider the glee expressed by the editor of The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi publication, who once said he loved what Carlson was saying.

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88. The Texas Tribune has reported that Fuentes spent a day in meetings, recently, with leaders of Pale Horse Strategies. Pale Horse is a right-wing organization funded by a trio of Texas billionaires, Tim Dunn, and brothers Farris and Dan Wilks. When you combine Big Money Power with Big Fascism, you can see why some of us on the left-leaning side don’t want to see weird billionaires running the country. Neo-Nazis with piles of dough would be the worst.

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89. We would be remiss if we failed to mention Paul Ingrassia, nominated by President Trump to head the White House Office of Special Counsel. His job would have been to tell the president what it would be legal for him to do, and what would not. Ingrassia’s chances of Senate confirmation were nuked when it was revealed he had posted on social media that he had a “Nazi streak.”

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90. When we checked to see how Ingrassia was doing lately, we learned that he had landed a new job in the Trump administration. 

(But at least no one had accused him of being a pedophile!)

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91. The news just keeps coming, where Ingrassia is concerned. It has been reported that when Andrew Tate and his brother were arrested after returning to the United States from Romania in February – on charges of sex trafficking women in three countries – Paul leaped to their aid. Their electronic devices had been seized (potential evidence). 

Ingrassia, who had represented the alleged sex-trafficking brothers before (almost) joining the White House staff, made sure they got their phones and electronics back.

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92. Donald spent the first weekend of November at Mar-a-Lago, and the second, and the third. Sadly, all that Florida sunshine did not appear to agree with The Dumpling. A picture taken of Donald without his pancake makeup made it appear as if the 79-year-old might be unwell. 

 

We do know the president had a recent MRI test at Walter Reed Hospital. But the White House isn’t explaining why. Press Secretary Leavitt insisted that no president has ever been so healthy! 

On Air Force One, reporters had a chance to ask Trump for clarification. Why did he have an MRI? What were the results? 

“Here’s what the story is,” he replied, sensing another opportunity to brag about his Dumpling self. “I had an MRI. The doctor said it was the best result he has ever seen as a doctor. That’s it.” 

When a reporter asked whether the scan focused on his brain, Trump replied – almost cluelessly, “I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well.”

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93. When reporters checked with experts later, they were told that a patient who is going to be sent through an MRI machine is going to be informed as to why the expensive test is necessary. 

It’s not done for kicks.

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94. When not golfing or partying with Gatsby fans, the president loves to post on Truth Social, his happy place to go and lie. Like most septuagenarians, including this blogger, he lacks tech savvy. 

Unlike Donald, this blogger checks sources before he posts. 

Donald was delighted to dredge up an old story from a satirical website and, not noticing that it was clearly marked “satire,” post it on his feed. His fans fell for his “shocking” reveal. It soon proved to be no reveal at all, but rather a steaming pile of road apples, posted as truth. 

At least one of the blogger’s right-wing Facebook friends fell for Donald’s post and re-posted nonsense on top of nonsense on top of nonsense. 

Best of all (in the eyes of this blogger), was Donald’s clueless, incurious, brain-dead reaction: “WOW!” 

Check your sources. 

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95. What else besides the Epstein Files, is bothering the blogger? It seems wrong that transgender veterans who served between 15 and 18 years in the U.S. armed forces, which is between 15 and 18 years more than ANY MEMBER OF THE TRUMP FAMILY has ever served, have had to sue. 

They had in fact served. Yet, they were denied the option to retire early and collect limited health and pension benefits – even though Trump toadies were kicking them all to the curb. 

“Thank you for your service???” 

(Words no Trump has ever heard.)

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“Things happen.” 

96. We also learned this month that the Trump Organization is working on another lucrative deal to build a property in $audi Arabia. It will be part of a $63 billion luxury hotel and entertainment zone, meant to lure tourists. This explains why Crown Prince Mohammed bin $alman was at the White House in November and no doubt secretly pleased to hear the President of the United States torch a journalist who asked a question he didn’t like. 

Let me start by saying, that if I were in charge I wouldn’t allow Mohammed within a thousand miles of the White House, and especially not reporters, including the guppies who suck up to Trump on OAN News. According to U.S. intelligence, the prince is the man who ordered a hit squad to grab a journalist during a visit to the $audi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. That journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, wrote for the Washington Post, and lived in exile in the United States. 

Khashoggi had been a fierce critic of $audi leaders. After his visit to the consulate, he was never seen again. Turkish intelligence agencies announced they had recordings that proved he was grabbed as soon as he entered the building – strangled – and his body dismembered with a bone saw. 

(The assorted parts of Mr. Khashoggi may have been dissolved in acid.)

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97. What kind of fellow was this, seated next to the wannabe king, Donald Dumpling I? The prince was no fan of the free press. He was no fan of due process or the rule of law. Nor is the Dumpling King. 

When the prince began his rise to power, he squashed domestic dissent, sending scholars, activists, businesspeople, and even less-powerful members of the royal family to prison. The royals, at least, served time in a luxury hotel. 

(Saudi Arabia – where stoning adulterers is still the law!)

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98. Donald being Donald, he gave Mohammed a free pass and said he believed his claim that he knew nothing about the murder of Khashoggi. The president could never be bothered to condemn the assassination, which Khashoggi’s two U.S.-citizen-daughters had a right to expect. A bone $aw, in Trump’s eyes, was a trivial matter. “Things happen,” he shrugged at one point during the Oval Office gathering. 

Fucking “things happen!” 

Fuck. 

$$$$$

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99. During their sit down, Trump grinned at Prince Mohammed and took the time to point out that there were “a lot of people” who didn’t like Khashoggi, as if that justified slicing through flesh and bone. 

The $audi potentate must have felt right at home when Trump attacked a reporter who asked a question he didn’t like. The president called her “insubordinate,” and told her she was a “terrible person.” Mohammed had to enjoy hearing The Dumpling threaten to take away the license of ABC, which employs her, almost as if he was listening to an American president revving up the bone $aw. Because we know, if we are keeping track, that Donald has threatened the broadcasting licenses of ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN. He has yanked funding from NPR and sued the BBC.

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100. The President of the United States is, in very fact, a monumental threat to the freedom of the press. 

(And his clueless followers still don’t get it.)

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101. As if to put a cherry atop the authoritarian sundae, The Dumpling gushed about the prince, patting his arm, grinning like a buffoon. “What an honor it is to be your friend,” he told him. 

At that point, Prince Mohammed smirked.

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102. If you were wondering, “Why was Prince Bone $aw a guest at a state dinner later that evening?” follow the fucking money. Follow the armored car groaning under a load of fucking gold. 

We knew the Trump Organization was already developing a property in Jeddah, a major Saudi city, on the Red Sea. 

$$$$$

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103. We knew the Trumps were cooking a deal, regarding a property in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. 

$$$$$

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104. And we remember the $2 billion deal, worked out between Jared Kushner and Prince Mohammed in 2022. 

$$$$$

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105. Regarding attacks on the free press, whether with bone saws, or by threats to revoke broadcasting licenses, these are a staple of fascist leaders, tyrannical kings and constitution-busting despots who find all kinds of ways to stay in power past their term limits. If you are too dense to understand the dangers that come with too much power in too few hands – including fat billionaires who dream of silencing their enemies – you should stay home during all future elections. 

Do not hurt your brain by trying to vote. 

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106. Speaking of hurting one’s brain, Press Secretary Leavitt responded in juvenile fashion recently, to a valid question from a reporter who wanted to know why President Trump was going to hold a meeting with Vladimir Putin, in Budapest. Who chose that location, a favorable one for the Russian leader, to hold a discussion on how to end the war with Ukraine? The reporter wanted to know. 

The people of this country needed to know. 

Leavitt responded, “Your mom did.” 

Donald Trump’s press secretary may not have the intellectual abilities needed to grasp the importance of the First Amendment and the free press. The Founding Fathers were clear, however. 

As Alexander Hamilton saw it, the “office of the free press” was: 

__________ 

“To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against the encroachments of power.” 

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…not to be blown off with a “Your mom did.” 

We don’t live in a land of bone saws – though Donald appears to be dreaming.

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107. It seems to me – as someone who taught American history for decades – that if we are going to say we love the Constitution, we ought to study carefully what the Founding Fathers had to say. 

So, allow me to quote another Founder to make what I believe is always and forever a valid point: 

__________

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

 

John Adams

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108. We all know that Donald J. has had to fight and win a lot of wars, such as “The War on Christmas,” and “The War on Coal.” 

Now, as an offshoot of his “War on Reporters,” he faces another bloody fight: “The War on Comedians.” 

He has already killed Stephen Colbert (metaphorically) and wounded Jimmy Kimmel (metaphorically). Now he has opened fire on a third target. The President of the United States has demanded that NBC fire Seth Meyers, for having the audacity to make him the butt of so many jokes. 

Only this is no joke – and the blogger is not laughing – and hopes you cherish the First Amendment as much as he does.

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109. Unfortunately, Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed-sycophant-head of the Federal Communications Commission, does not. Carr is backing President “Fuck Free Speech” Trump. 

In an ominous development, on November 15, Carr decided to share his boss’s furious Truth Social post:

 

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110. We were also reminded, this Thanksgiving season, that government agencies serve many important purposes. Unless the DOGE Boys destroyed their ability to perform basic functions with all their “cost-saving” cuts. That would include inspecting our food for safety reasons. A listeria outbreak, related to tainted pasta sold in groceries across multiple states has sickened at least 27. 

Six are dead. 

No problem, as far as Mr. Trump is concerned. He wants us to know that the cost of Thanksgiving dinner will be greatly reduced from what it was last year. Just don’t get poisoned by the pasta. 

PICTURE OF TURKEY PURCHASE

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111. Ah, yes, food prices! Donald J. Trump promised, if elected again, that he would be slashing prices on Day One. In fact, the White House proudly announced last week that tariffs on coffee, beef, bananas, and other tropical fruits have been rescinded. Prices on many items had skyrocketed. Consumers were livid. The price of ground beef had surged 11.5% over the course of a year.

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112. Coffee was up more than 40%. Caffeine addicts were furious.

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113. Best of all – if your taste runs to absurdity – was that the White House proudly announced that Donald had a plan to reduce beef prices by getting rid of tariffs he imposed to start.

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114. Don’t forget. The president said repeatedly that tariffs would not cause prices to increase. 

That was stupid. 

(Who believed that! Oh, yeah, Karoline. Your mom did.) 

(See also #56.)

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115. Donald continues to insist that gas prices are coming down fast and we will soon be paying less than $2 per gallon. He has repeatedly claimed that some Americans already are. Where this blogger resides, prices did dip briefly to $2.69, in late October – which was nice. As of November 14, however, they were ten cents per gallon higher than when “Sleepy Joe” left town. 

(I am using only the price posted at a station near my house, for consistency.) 

(I’ll update this at month’s end, if I remember.) 

 

I think they are down in Glendale again, for Thanksgiving, but I am too lazy to go check. I have too much turkey and stuffing, slathered with gravy, to eat. When I checked recently, however, I saw that the national average for a gallon is essentially unchanged. A year ago, gas was selling for $3.05.6 per gallon. 

Biden! That rat bastard!!! The MAGAs hated him. 

Today, through the miracles of Donald Dumpling, the average price has plunged to … oh, boy …$3.05.5. 

Donald! He’s the best!!!

 

UPDATE: Okay, I checked on the evening of November 29. Gas was selling for $2.34 per gallon. 

So, kudos for The Dumpling. 

(But he’s still a menace to the free press and willing to trash the Constitution.)

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The Debt Clock continues to whirl. 

116. As you may remember, Donald also promised he would reduce the federal deficit to zero if we gave him eight years in office. With Donald back as the cop on the fiscal beat, how are we doing? 

Answer: About as well as we did during his first term in office. Which was terrible. Even Republican lawmakers have been forced to admit that the red ink tide rose to $38 trillion in October. 

That was after hitting $37 trillion in August. 

If you’ve never done this before go to the “Debt Clock” website and watch the dials spin as the deficit mushrooms. There’s a chance the debt will surpass $39 trillion before the end of this year. 

In January, surely.

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117. Once again, Donald has big plans to stop the clock. The only problem is that they are dumb plans and won’t work. His plan is to sell “Golden Visa Cards” to people who want to immigrate – so long as they can cough up $1,000,000. 

Let’s remind the MAGA faithful how often they are told immigrants are ruining this country. 

To cut a trillion from the deficit, we will need to allow 1,000,000 immigrants in, each with $1,000,000.

Of course! Donald has his own picture and name on the cards.

(At least the super-rich immigrants won’t be “eating the pets.”) 

(See #201.)

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118. In other news, the president has come up with a boffo plan to bring down monthly mortgage bills! Why not have banks create fifty-year loans, meaning payments would be spread across two extra decades, and you would be dead before you started paying down the principle. 

When asked about the idea a Treasury Department spokesperson admitted it was “probably not an optimal approach.”

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119. We should also note that as part of the bill to end the longest government shutdown in history, GOP leaders in the Senate snuck in a provision which would have allowed eight of Republican senators to sue the government – the one they’re supposed to help run. It would have allowed them to seek $500,000 damages for every time their phone records were subpoenaed. 

Those subpoenas were part of an investigation related to the January 6, 2021, insurrection. The underlying question was whether any of the eight senators helped support the attack or not. 

This money grab looked so bad that even Mike Johnson, wimpy Speaker of the House of Representatives, said it made him “angry,” and he would take it out of the House version of the legislation.

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Power of the purse, knuckleheads! 

120. If you follow the news, you should have noticed that Donald Dumpling is blocking billions of dollars in funding already allocated by Congress. Almost all those billions have been earmarked for use in blue cities and blue states, and blue congressional districts in red states. 

Now listen up, Patriots! 

The Founding Fathers placed the “power of the purse” firmly in the grip of the House of Representatives. They knew their history. They understood how kings like Louis XIV and George III wasted money. So, they decided that the power to tax and spend should rest in the hands of members of the House. These lawmakers are the most frequently elected, and therefore most amenable to voter control. If the House taxed and spent foolishly, the Founders reasoned, the people would boot their representatives out. 

Louis XIV.

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121. This was before gerrymandering made almost all seats in the House safe for one party or the other.

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122. Gerrymandering reduces the ability of unhappy voters to rid themselves of inept lawmakers. 

(Inept lawmakers love it.)

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123. The president has been demanding that red states improve the gerrymandering tricks, so that even if a majority of voters in this country don’t want Republicans to remain in control of Congress, gerrymandering will save the GOP majority. See his calls for new, safer-for-Republican-voting districts to be created in Texas. 

Good, he hopes, for five more GOP seats in the House.

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124. Also: Nebraska (1).

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125. Also: Kansas (1).

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126. Also: Indiana (2). As for the Hoosier State, The Dumpling has been spending his social media time attacking members of his own party who oppose a plan designed to thwart the will of the people. 

(Death threats aimed at reluctant lawmakers have exploded.)

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127. As the U.S. Constitution stands, the President of the United States can spend only money that the House agrees to provide. As I used to tell students, the president doesn’t have a dime to spend, unless Congress gives him dimes. The Supreme Court is currently hearing a case to decide the question: Can a president hold back the dimes Congress has already said should be spent? 

Would not that ability negate the concept of keeping the “power of the purse” out of a chief executive’s hands? It seems to me, a layman, that it would, and I hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will agree.

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128. Donald doesn’t care about the Constitution, however. He wants to grab all the power he can. 

(See #106)

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129. Until recently, Donald and his pal, Steve Bannon, were looking into ways the president could finagle a third term. But that idea now seems dead. 

Kind of like Jeffrey Epstein. 

(See #106)

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130. As per the Epstein Files, we now know that Bannon was in frequent communication with the King of Pedophiles, right up to the time he committed suicide in prison. That is a wild revelation, right there.

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131. If you are still reading this list, I should remind you. I have a whole other list of Epstein Files-related reasons why I don’t trust Donald, or Bill Clinton, or any of the Big Money people who fill the pages of those files. Trump’s name shows up in just these emails (which were released under subpoena by the Epstein estate), more than 1,600 times.

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132. I have committed two or three major sins in my life, but have repented, and would never hang out with a man like Jeffrey Epstein.

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133. Not Steve Bannon, either.

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134. Not with Crown Prince Mohammed, or Vladimir Putin. I wouldn’t hang with that weirdo, Elon Musk.

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135. Not Nick Fuentes, or Paul Ingrassia, or Richard B. Spencer, or any other neo-Nazis.

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136. I most definitely would not hang with Stephen Miller – that creepy, closeted white supremacist.

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137. I wouldn’t hang with that liar, Jeanine Pirro, or that other liar, Rudy Giuliani.

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138. I wouldn’t hang with the ICE agent who bragged about perforating the innocent Chicago lady.

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139. I wouldn’t hang around with the January 6 guy who tasered the police officer, nor the pedophile J6er who promised to pay his victim for silence. Nor the J6er who made the bomb threat.

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138. I would not hang with the Ghislaine Maxwell, and if asked by reporters, I would never say, “I wish her well.” 

Donald, Melania, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine.

(See #55.)

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139. Finally, I would never buddy up to a guy who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, or a guy who banged a porn star while his third wife was recovering from her pregnancy, nor a guy accused of sexual assaults and improprieties by more than two dozen women. 

Those three guys all being one person: Donald J. Trump.

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140. Surely, all patriotic Americans remember that the Founding Fathers divided Big Government Power into three parts and set it up so that the parts – roughly equal – could keep watch on each other and not let any one part get too strong. 

And, surely, when Trump whines about “rogue judges” interfering with his plans, we can see he’s dangerously wrong. 

In fact, we have several courtroom defeats for Team Trump to report. A federal court of appeals, by a 2-1 vote has thrown out the new Texas plan to gerrymander the shit out of congressional districts in time for the 2026 midterms. One of the two “no” votes was cast by a Trump appointee to the bench.

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141. A second judge has ruled that the First Amendment rights of furloughed employees at the Department of Education were violated. This, after automated out-of-office emails were altered without their consent. The new messages blamed “Democrat Senators” for the shutdown. 

As the judge in this matter explained, “Nonpartisanship is the bedrock of the federal civil service; it ensures that career government employees serve the public, not the politicians.” 

(See #121-123.)

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142. We should point out that a third judge, Mark Wolf, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, took the opportunity on the day he resigned office earlier this month, to pen a scathing rebuke of President Trump’s conduct. Donald, he warned, had been “targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment.” 

This “assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out,” he wrote.

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143. In other news – and thank you, Secretary of HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for making this possible – we assume the anti-vaxxer crowd is celebrating, now that Texas can report 3,500 cases of whooping cough this year. That would be a 300% increase over 2024 and compare with 340 cases in 2023. 

About a third of all babies under a year of age who develop whooping cough need hospitalization.

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144. Equally exciting, measles cases have increased six-fold since 2024, with 1,798 individuals sickened in the United States, as of November 25. The disease, considered eradicated in the U.S. a quarter century ago, can cause blindness, hearing loss, brain damage, and in rare cases, death.

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145. We can also report that Team Trump enjoyed boycotting the most recent COP30 summit in Brazil, where world leaders met to discuss the accelerating threat of climate change. A spokesperson for President Knucklehead called efforts to address the threat a “scam,” adding, “These Green Dreams are killing other countries, but will not kill ours thanks to President Trump’s commonsense energy agenda!” 

Common sense gems such as The Dumpling insisting: “Windmills cause cancer.” That was classic!

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146. Funds for green energy programs were earmarked by Congress. So: “power of the purse” again.

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147. Here, it seems important to remind readers that only four countries in the world have refused to sign the Paris Accords, which were drawn up to address the very real climate change threat. And Trump has bombed two. 

One is Iran.

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148. The second is Yemen.

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149. The third is Libya. (We bombed them, too, but that was before Donald sat down his fanny behind the Resolute desk.)

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150. Yay. We’re the fourth!

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151. Donald J. Trump has made us a pariah on the world stage.

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152. In related news, Iranian authorities warn that Tehran, a city of ten million people, may have to be abandoned. Reservoirs that supply the capital are at five percent capacity and a megadrought shows no signs of abating.

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153. A similar problem is festering across the American West. Seven states and 40 million people rely on water from the Colorado River. The supply is dwindling, with no agreement among those states, regarding what must be done. Trump has remained blissfully unaware, promising instead to “Make America’s Showers Great Again,” by ending regulations designed to conserve water. 

(See #195.)

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154. He’s a toilet-flushing lunatic, as well. Donald wants to ban low-flush toilets and claims that he must bang the handle 10 or 15 times before poop disappears. 

(What kind of dumps is The Dumpling taking!) 

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155. In other climate-change news, a glacier in Antarctica has retreated at a record pace: five miles in two months, ten times faster than the previous record. Scientists worry about what this could mean for global sea level rise.

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156. Trump doesn’t get that threat, either.

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157. In Iceland, they do. That nation has declared a security threat. That threat would be the collapse of a critical current in the Atlantic Ocean. This current acts like a conveyor belt – moving warmer water north from the Caribbean, along the U.S. coast, and across the North Atlantic. This current helps keep Iceland and Europe warmer than you would expect, based on latitude. 

The government of Iceland says that melting glaciers in Greenland (climate change, you dolts!) are increasing the freshwater content of the North Atlantic – and that the change in mix may cause the conveyor belt to stop. 

(I doubt Donald has even heard the news.)

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158. Scientists warn – but not any of the scientists still working for the U.S. government – because they have been silenced – that the oceans of the world are warming dangerously. Coral reefs, havens for countless fish species, are “bleaching” round the world. In other words, reefs are dying.

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159. Not to worry, if you are MAGA folks. Ignorance is bliss. And you are too busy panicking over transgender athletes playing girls’ sports. Mr. Trump has devoted the bulk of his second term to firing scientists who study issues like climate change, or how vaccines protect us from polio. 

Bring back the Iron Lung! 

The Iron Lung helped polio victims breathe.

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160. We know Trump promised to cut energy prices in half in a year, if we gave him a second chance in the White House. In fact, he told a crowd at a 2024 rally in North Carolina: “You will never have had energy so low as you will under a certain gentleman known as Donald J. Trump.” According to the Federal Reserve, monthly household energy costs rose to $280.91 this past August, compared to $261.57 in August 2024. That would be an increase of seven percent. 

As even members of the MAGA Cult can see we have a long way to go before Donald hits his magic ½-price mark. 

I think we can safely say that the Second Coming will occur before The Dumpling cuts energy prices in half.

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161. Also, Mexico is never going to pay for the wall. I thought I should remind all Trump fans.

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162. Republicans still don’t have a viable healthcare plan. Their real hope now is to stumble past the midterms before the “Make America Great Again” folks wake up. Remember those happy days, when Donald Trump insisted his “phenomenal” Trumpcare plan would be ready in two months? 

That was in June 2019.

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163. Donald has also promised to bring drug prices down by 1500%. Surely, his fans can understand why mocking “Trump Math” is so much fun.

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164. Speaking of promises that didn’t pan out. Let us count the days since Donald claimed, if elected again, that he would end the Ukraine War in one day. 

391 and counting (November 30).

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We’re going to need more cowboys. 

165. Apparently, shutting down large chunks of the federal government permanently is not a solid plan. 

David Richardson, the man in charge of FEMA, and a loyal ally of Homeland Security Secretary “I Shoot Puppies” Kristi Noem, is only days away from being ousted. He has submitted a letter of resignation, and will no doubt be missed by all who saw him do his job with positive effect. Which is essentially, no one. 

Richardson proved almost impossible to get ahold of during the disastrous Texas floods this past summer.

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166. Poor Richardson was first tapped by his Fairy Godmother to lead FEMA even though he lacked any experience in disaster management. His time as boss was marked indelibly by the moment, during a meeting in June, when he told staff he was unaware the U.S. had a hurricane season. A DHS spokesperson later claimed that the comment was a joke. Ha, ha, hurricane disasters! 

So funny!

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167. The original second-term plan was to get rid of FEMA entirely. Elon and the DOGE Dopes loved the concept. Then nobody seemed to know what to do when disasters struck. Now a White House task force has announced that getting rid of the Federal Emergency Management Agency might be a mistake. So, FEMA has been crippled, but not killed, and now must be repaired.

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168. In other Team Trump news, questions have been raised, concerning the State Department’s decision to send a payment of $7.5 million directly to Equatorial Guinea. That payday came in return for a promise to take individuals deported from the United States. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, rightly asked why funds for this payment came out of the Migration and Refugee Assistance account – those funds “intended to respond to global refugee and humanitarian crises.” 

Which is not the same as locking refugees up.

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169. With beef prices headed for $10 per pound for ground chuck, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a man with a net worth estimated to be somewhere north of $500 million, showed up on television, to offer a bizarre explanation for why the current administration can’t just bring prices down with ease. Bessent claimed migrants were sneaking across the border and bringing diseased cows. 

(I believe this proves ICE needs to hire more cowboys.)

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170. According to a recent report, home foreclosure rates have jumped by 19%, compared to a year ago.

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171. The jobs report for September is finally out, now that the government shutdown is at an end, and the White House has been crowing about the great numbers! A total of 119,000 jobs were added to the economy. Factory jobs, however, were down for the fifth straight month. 

The job numbers for July and August were revised downward to 72,000 gained in July, and 4,000 jobs lost in August. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4%, the highest since October 2021.

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172. As the bad economic news continues to pile up, Donald grows more desperate. He now dreams of giving deserving Americans a “tariff rebate,” in the sum of $2,000 per person – qualifications yet to be determined, regarding recipients. This means money he says he made for America by imposing tariffs, and which he promised would reduce the federal deficit, will not reduce … the deficit.

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173. Tariff money will also be used to bail out farmers, since China got huffy about tariffs they had to pay, and cut all purchases of American soybeans, corn and wheat. Farmers will need between $10 and $15 billion dollars to stay afloat. 

Giving money to certain Americans and not others is always “socialism,” if Democrats say they’re going to do it. 

(Socialism is, in MAGA terms, the work of Satan and his spawn.)

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174. We can also report that Donald has a new dream “51st state.” Canada can kiss his ass! Mr. Trump has decided to funnel $40 billion in cash and currency swaps to Argentina, to prop up that nation’s floundering economy.

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175. Elon Musk got something right for a change – albeit briefly. On X, a new feature was added during the weekend of November 21-23. Suddenly, users could see where accounts originated. Lo and behold, it turned out dozens of big MAGA-related sites were based in Eastern Europe. 

“This is easily one of the greatest days on this platform,” wrote influencer Harry Sisson. “Seeing all of these MAGA accounts get exposed as foreign actors trying to destroy the United States is a complete vindication of Democrats, like myself and many on here, who have been warning about this.” 

One example was MAGANationX (400,000 followers), with a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We The People.” 

Yep, Eastern Europe. 

Another would be IvankaNews (1,000,000 followers). The sight posts about the doings of the First Daughter, the threat of illegal immigration to this country, and thumps the drum in support of Ivanka’s dad. 

That account is based in Nigeria. 

Don’t get me wrong. There are many huge right-wing “influencers” on X. Even if all foreign accounts were to be nuked, you could still find heavy doses of stupidity every day. As far as I can tell, the job of many commentators (including on our side) is to influence people to fall for nonsense and not bother to check sources. 

(Social media is making us dumber.)

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176. Donald recently signed an executive order limiting federal workers’ collective-bargaining rights. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has forced Speaker Mike Johnson to schedule a vote to overturn that order and restore those rights. Two hundred and eighteen signatures were necessary on what is called a “discharge petition,” forcing Johnson’s hand. That group included, I think, five whole Republicans. 

Enough for a basketball team. 

The other votes were Democrats (and one or two Socialists). As mentioned above, it is a slick trick of the loudest voices on the right, often serving the interests of the Big Money Power folks, to paint all Democrats as communists, also known, according to Donald, as “radical left lunatics.” 

While you spend your time loading your guns, my MAGA friends, and preparing to fight the Red Menace, the Big Money billionaires and wannabe trillionaires continue to line their pockets. It’s the Robber Baron Era, all over again. 

(A century ago, Teddy Roosevelt called such individuals “malefactors of great wealth.”)

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177. Those of us on this side support collective-bargaining rights. We wish all workers had such rights, government and private sector workers, too. Collective bargaining is how workers first got two weeks of paid vacation, then paid sick days, then pregnancy leave, then 401(k) plans, and many other job benefits. 

(Non-union workplaces provide similar benefits to attract workers.)

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178. The blogger should note that he is a big fan of the capitalist system. That doesn’t mean it hasn’t been warped. Money is power. Vast money is vast power. Vast power is always a threat.

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 “You can refuse illegal orders.” 

179. In big news, a group of six Democratic lawmakers (all veterans) posted a “public service message” in the days before Thanksgiving. It was directed at members of the U.S. Armed Forces. They warned that “threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.” 

“Our laws are clear,” said Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, a Navy veteran and former astronaut. “You can refuse illegal orders.” 

“You must refuse illegal orders,” Representative Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, who also served in the Navy, added with emphasis.

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180. President Trump dealt with the situation exactly the way we would expect. He screamed that the six Democrats had engaged in “sedition at the highest level” and “should be in jail right now.” 

(He never seems to care if opponents go to trial, first.)

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181. Donald is no fan of trials. Or juries. Every time his ass gets smoked in court he insists the trials were rigged. 

See, for example, his 34 felonies, and his double defeats in defamation trials, when juries concluded that he molested E. Jean Carroll.

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182. Trump suggested that the six lawmakers’ crimes could be “punishable by DEATH!” Then he shared a post from another Truth Social account that said, “Hang them George Washington would.”

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183. I taught American history. That characterization of George Washington is flagrantly in error. The person who posted it – as well as the person who re-posted – must have slumbered away their high school days in American history class. After the British surrendered at Yorktown in 1781, Gen. Washington made a special effort to see that all Tories (Americans who had supported the Crown during the American Revolution) were able to leave the country safely, if they desired.

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184. This is an opportunity to remind the MAGA faithful that Dimwit Donald once gave a speech about how Washington and his Continental Army captured the airports at the Battle of Yorktown. 

Again: in 1781.

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185. That would be exactly 122 years before the Wright Brothers flew their first airplane at Kitty Hawk.

(Still comedy gold!)

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186. As for the matter of giving illegal orders, would Donald dare? According to several cabinet members from his first term, he would. General James Mattis, his first Secretary of Defense, listened to Trump bluster about the 2020 election and came to the conclusion, that his boss was a threat to the U.S. Constitution.

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187. Mattis’s replacement, Mark Esper, says Trump wanted him to clear peaceful protesters from around the White House, in the wake of George Floyd’s death. “Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” he asked Secretary Esper. 

That should always be a “no.”

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188. Christopher Miller replaced Esper in the waning days of Mr. Trump’s first term. He too learned to distrust the Man from Mar-a-Lago. He was once asked, “Was the attack on Congress on January 6, 2021, sparked by Trump’s incendiary comments?” 

Miller called it “cause and effect.”

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Trump wants the military to follow My Lai-style orders. 

189. For Donald and all his fans who might be slow on the uptake, here are examples of illegal orders that a president or high-ranking officer might theoretically give – and which lower-ranking servicemen and women would be obligated to refuse: 

“I want you to torture the prisoners until someone talks. The first guy who won’t talk, cut off his penis. Cut off penises until someone breaks.” 

“Our mission today, flight crews, is to over-fly three Afghan villages, and deploy poison gas and kill everyone there.” 

“Solder, I want you to set up your machinegun and mow down all those unarmed women and children.” 

(See: My Lai massacre, below.)

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190. If you are still puzzling over this matter, I would urge you to read about what happened at My Lai, during the Vietnam War. On May 16, 1968, Lt. William Calley ordered his platoon to slaughter unarmed civilians. 

(Some estimates put the death toll as high as 567.) 

 

191. By comparison, consider the actions of Chief Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr., a helicopter pilot who realized what was happening, landed, and with his crew rescued 15 or 16 Vietnamese, instead. 

Some followed orders. Some disobeyed.

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192. What those six Democrats were warning against was members of our armed forces who might imagine they were duty-bound to follow orders like this: “Marines, prepare to fire on the crowd gathering on Michigan Avenue. We’re not going to tolerate anti-Ice protests here in Chicago. Kill as many protesters as you can. Set an example! Our beloved Trump will not tolerate disobedience.”

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193. To make matters worse, F.B.I. Director Kash “I’m Trump’s Bitch” Patel has promised to launch an investigation into the actions of the six who called on troops to be ready to disobey illegal orders. Meanwhile, he has decided that taxpayers should foot the bill to have agents from an elite agency SWAT team guard his girlfriend. 

Kash has also commandeered an F.B.I. jet five times to fly to Nashville, where the lovely lady lives, to give her a squeeze.

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194. You can’t say that businesspeople of the world don’t understand what makes Donald Trump’s heart skip a beat. (Besides grabbing females who don’t wish to be grabbed.) A group of Swiss billionaires has gifted The Dumpling a gold bar, engraved with numbers “45” and “47.” 

The bar is worth an estimated $130,000. Trump promptly reduced tariffs on Swiss products, from 39% to 15%.

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195. Not since the 1950s, have America’s ranchers been running such small cattle herds. With U.S. population having doubled since then, beef prices are going to remain high. As even Fox News has had to explain, “Years of punishing drought, rising costs and an aging ranching workforce have thinned herds across the country.” 

“The biggest thing has been drought,” explains Eric Belasco, head of the agricultural economics department at Montana State University. What Fox does not want to say is that scientists have warned repeatedly that climate change will make droughts worse – more common and longer lasting. 

(See #153.)

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196. Donald thinks climate change is a “hoax.” On this topic, the president has the same level of awareness as a coconut.

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197. Team Trump’s indictments of James Comey and Letitia James (basically on charges of being mean to Donald during his first term), have been tossed. Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled that Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was unlawfully appointed. 

Therefore, “all actions flowing from Ms. Halligan’s defective appointment” were “unlawful exercises of executive power and must be set aside.” 

(Part of Donald’s problem is that he keeps picking lawyers based on looks.) 

Ms. Halligan.

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198. A round of applause for the ICE agents who made America safer on November 21, when they snagged a dangerous illegal immigrant wanted for the machete murder of a grandmother of ten. The victim was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat when she was slaughtered. 

No, we’re joking. 

ICE agents stopped a 17-year-old high school student who was driving his father’s car, during the boy’s lunch break. They smashed the driver’s window when he was slow to get out – probably because he was too busy shouting, “I’m an American citizen, you fascist goons!” 

Christian Jimenez soon found himself in custody, where he remained until 7 p.m. When all was said and done, his only real crime appears to have been a DWB offense – Driving while Brown. 

(He is in fact, a U.S. citizen.)

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200. ICE also nabbed a dangerous criminal, who came to the United States from Brazil, as a child. Bruna Ferreira was picked up a few days before, but news broke only on November 26. Ms. Ferreira has an 11-year-old son, who has been unable to speak to his mother since her arrest. 

The father of her son is Michael Leavitt, brother of White House Press Secretary “Piggy is Okay” Karoline Leavitt. Michael and Bruna were once engaged, and he can only say that he hopes his son will be able to see his mom home for the holidays. 

Ms. Ferreria - not dangerous at all.

(I’m not going to put it past Karoline to have turned her in to ICE.)

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201. ICE does it again! A blind Ecuadorean man who was arrested this month in New York City was held in locked in his cell for 24 hours a day and deprived of his cane. “I feel so terrible I cannot see and that I cannot walk, read or do things on my own,” Carlos Anibal Chalco Chango, 40, explained in a court document, prepared by his lawyers. 

After five days in isolation, the cane-wielding, pet-eating, murder-minded criminal was back on the streets. 

If only he had a million dollars, he could buy a Trump Golden Visa Card and remain, safe and sound. (See #117.)

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202. We can also announce, on the day before Thanksgiving, that families of victims of the October 7 massacre in Israel have sued Binance. (That cryptocurrency company is accused of helping Hamas, by turning a blind eye to more than a $1 billion worth of funding funneled to the terrorist group.) What connection is there to Team Trump? 

Changpen Zhao, owner of Binance, has invested in the crypto dreams of Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr.

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203. Zhao recently snagged a pardon from Don Sr.

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204. At this point, I’m simply adding stories as they come up. We can now report, for example, that those who attended the state dinner for Prince Mohammed included billionaires, millionaires, and celebrities. Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese soccer star, who currently plays for a $audi team, was there. 

Elon was there. Donald Trump Jr. Tim Cook – of Apple (Or “Tim Apple,” as Donald once called him – and then denied he had). Michael Dell got a seat. There was at least one Taiwanese billionaire, Jensen Huang, chief executive of A.I. giant Nvidia. David Ellison, who controls CBS, rubbed elbows with administration officials who like to refer to journalists as “Enemies of the People.” Mike Wirth of Chevron snacked on expensive appetizers, paid for by taxpayers. Mary Barra showed up, representing Chevrolet; and William Clay Ford Jr., was there for Ford Motors. Guests included two Fox News anchors, and a representative from Pfizer.

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205. It would be hard for the blogger to pick the worst attendee, but if we disqualify Stephen Miller, I’m voting for Stephen Wynn, who was there with his (I assume blameless) wife, Andrea. You can go to Wikipedia and read up about all the accusations of rape and sexual abuse filed by Mr. Wynn’s former employees against him. 

Several have won civil judgements, including a manicurist who received a settlement of $7.5 million.

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206. Jesus H. Son of a Bitch. I swear, if Jeffrey Epstein had still been alive, he might have wrangled an invite.

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207. We’re talking food now – so kudos, once more, to the ICE folks who have chased away dangerous illegal immigrants who were running and/or working at taco stands across Los Angeles.

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208. Weren’t we just discussing illegal orders and whether our men and women in uniform should deny them? The lawyer for imprisoned election denier Tina Peters just put an exclamation point to that debate. 

He has been calling on Trump to send the 101st Airborne Division to Colorado to break his client out of jail.

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209. The hits keep coming. The day before Thanksgiving, a federal appeals court upheld a $1 million judgment against Donald Dumpling and his hot-but-dumb personal lawyer, Alina Habba. It was ruled that they filed a “frivolous” lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, James Comey, and others. 

(Once again, Donald, don’t hire lawyers based on Botox lips.)

Habba, second from left, rear.

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210. The right-wing comedy show continues, with MAGA influencer Candace Owens now insisting the French government has paid to have her assassinated. This after she has spent the last year, making zany claims that the wife of President Emmanuel Macron, Brigitte Macron, is a man. She has also suggested that the French played a hand in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. 

When not making ludicrous claims, Candace likes to dabble in anti-Semitic rants – a kind of hobby among many on the far-right end of the political spectrum. 

(I know plenty of people who like Trump. Thankfully, none are anti-Semitic.) 

(So, that’s good.)

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211. Two thieves recently made off, briefly, with six expensive bottles of wine from a Virginia winery. One thief and two bottles were recovered. The other bottles and the other thief remain at large. 

A detail that caught my eye and proved that we can never tax rich people at rates equal to what you and I pay (they hire expensive tax lawyers to shrink their bill), was that the most expensive bottle, a 2020 Romanée-Conti, was priced at $24,000. This story reminded me that the week before some lucky billionaire gained ownership of one of Gustav Klimt’s rare full-length portraits. 

That is, one person could afford to plunk down $236.4 million for a painting.

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212. Thousands of experienced lawyers are currently abandoning positions with the Department of Justice – and explaining why as they leave. Executive Director Stacey Young made plain in her statement that DOJ workers were “being asked to put loyalty to the President over the Constitution [emphasis added], the rule of law, and their professional ethical obligations.” 

Three assistant U.S. attorneys quit after a case against former New York City mayor Eric Adams was dropped. “There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons,” they wrote in farewell. “We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs.” 

Another pointed out that firing whistleblower DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni was “a warning and act of intimidation against us all.”

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213. Who was that whistleblower? CBS explains: 

Erez Reuveni was on his way up. He was an attorney in the Department of Justice who was so effective defending President Trump’s first-term immigration policy, that he was promoted right away in Trump’s second term. But Reuveni’s 15-year Justice Department career ended suddenly after, he says, he witnessed government lawyers lying in court and evading orders of a judge. 

 

Normally, whistleblowers are protected by law – but since Pam Bondi is now “the Law,” and may have been lying herself… 

Well. 

(Hey, Pam, where’s the Epstein Client list???)

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214. Reuveni explained why he saw himself at DOJ. “I was there on behalf of the American people,” he said, “on behalf of the millions of citizens of this country to make sure that justice was done [emphasis added].”

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215. By the way, Eric Adams is a Democrat; but on our side we are not sad to see Democratic crooks get hammered. Our MAGA friends might take note. Consider, also, ex-senator Bob Menendez and the gold bars. 

(See #194.)

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216. ICE again! Agents swept another dangerous individual off the Houston streets, when they nabbed 15-year-old Emmanuel Gonzalez, who wandered away from his mother’s fruit stand one day, to seek a bathroom. According to one source, the boy “has significant learning disabilities, a speech impediment, and is hard of hearing. He is in special education classes at Spring Branch ISD.” Mom believes Emmanuel may be autistic – and his prize was 48 days in ICE detention. 

A whole team of immigration lawyers had to get to work to pry the boy loose and return him to his mother.

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“Think how incredible our ratings would be.” 

217. Remember back at #1, when I said the free press matters? Well, we also want the free press to keep citizens correctly informed. Fox News failed miserably in that regard, in discussing the 2020 presidential election. This Thanksgiving week, Fox got walloped in court again. 

Fox hosts like Judge Jeanine Pirro, a very poor judge of the difference between fact and fable, and Sean Hannity, Grand Master of Bombast, helped spread the tall tale that Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, a software company, were behind the vote-rigging that supposedly occurred. Dominion, of course, won a gigantic cash settlement, after proving that Fox’s own leadership didn’t believe Fox hosts’ lying. 

Now Smartmatic has won another round in court. Fox wanted a judge to dismiss Smartmatic’s defamation case. 

The judge said, no. 

The idea that this case has dragged on for four years reminds us that very wealthy individuals and corporations often triumph in court simply by spending lavishly to impede the progress of justice. 

(More reason to fear Big Money Power. See also: The Epstein Files.)

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218. Who knew that the 2020 election was not stolen, even though the hosts at Fox kept working overtime to convince the dopes it was? Brett Baier, an actual newsman, warned producers that claims of vote rigging didn’t hold up: “None of that is true as far as we can tell. We need to fact-check this crap,” he warned.

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219. Judge Jeanine had good reasons for lying. If for no other reason, she hoped Trump would grant a pardon for her ex-husband. A tax cheater. 

Her husband’s pardon was the last Donald issued at the end of his first term – just before he bolted from D.C., because he was too immature to stick around and hand Biden the White House keys.

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220. Pirro wasn’t trying to keep citizens informed. She was partisan at her core, and only masqueraded as a newscaster. 

In a message to Ronna Daniel, then head of the Republican National Committee, Pirro admitted her bias. “I’m the Number 1 watched show on all news cable all weekend,” she wrote. “I work so hard for the President and party.” 

According to Smartmatic, in a deposition, Pirro has since admitted that the 2020 election was “fair and free.”

Pirro was lying and her bosses knew it.

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221. So why did Fox spread lies about vote rigging? Jesse Waters, a shameless hack, emailed Greg Gutfeld, a second shameless hack, and focused on the real reason behind the Fox effort to sell the “Stolen Election” myth. 

“Think about how incredible our ratings would be if Fox went ALL in on STOP THE STEAL,” he wrote. 

(The dopes who rioted on January 6 should sue Jesse for leading them astray.)

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222. In an effort to go “un-woke,” the Coast Guard announced on November 20, that hangman nooses and swastikas would no longer be listed as “hate symbols.” Instead, they would be considered “potentially divisive,” which might or might not lead to problems on land, sea or in the air. 

This sounded so dumb, that within days, the Guard had to revise its “new” policy. So, we got this: “Divisive or hate symbols and flags are prohibited,” top officers now agreed, adding that this category included “a noose, a swastika, and any symbols or flags co-opted or adopted by hate-based groups.” 

I suspect the change made Paul Ingrassia sad (see #89.)

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223. The tragic death of National Guard soldier Sarah Beckstrom, and the critical wounding of fellow Guardsman Andrew Wolfe, should sadden all Americans – except the President of the United States. Donald senses that Beckstrom’s death might represent a juicy opportunity to score political points and blame Joe Biden and Democrats for letting the alleged killer into the United States. That alleged shooter is an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal. 

Why was he allowed to enter the U.S., at all? He had fought on our side in Afghanistan, and would have been killed by the Taliban, had we not allowed him, and tens of thousands of other Afghans who helped us during the war to come to this country as refugees. As we clearly should have done.

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224. After Kabul fell in 2021, the Biden administration admitted 76,000 Afghans under a program called “Operation Allies Welcome.” 

That brought the total number of Afghan immigrants and refugees in this country to 195,000, with some having arrived as early as 1979, when Russian forces invaded, and a bloody war erupted. 

Then a second wave fled after the Taliban took control. The blogger can report that at least two of his former students – and, he should add, both classroom stars – were daughters of Afghan doctors who escaped Taliban rule. (Their mother, of course, would have been forbidden to continue practicing medicine, under the Taliban’s twelfth century interpretation of Islamic law.)

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225. Now the Hater-in-Chief is banking on firing up his base. He hopes to scare them into believing that every Afghan immigrant or refugee wants to eat their pets and then shoot the pet owners in cold blood. 

A thoughtful person – especially a president with the ability to use the “bully pulpit” for good and ill – should not blame 195,000 Afghans for the crimes of one. It would be idiotic, for example, to blame everyone who voted for Trump, for the murderous rampage of the Trump fan who shot up the Mormon congregation in Grand Blanc, earlier this month. 

(See #25.) 

 

Let us pray that Wolff makes a full recovery and let us say a few extra prayers for the family and friends of Sarah Beckstrom, and for Beckstrom herself.

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226. We will remind people on the Trump side that people on our side do believe in reasonable gun control laws – which tend to make it harder for suspicious persons to get their hands on the weapons with which to wound and kill.

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227. Certainly, one group of Americans is increasingly fearful in Trump’s Dystopian America. I mean, of course, “rogue judges.” (See #140-142.) Donald Trump’s drumbeat attacks on those who dare stop him in court have led to an explosion of death threats. So, if you rightly think Charlie Kirk should not have been assassinated, listen to what the president many of you revere has to say. Judges who have balked him are issuing “unlawful” decisions, he says. There are “so-called” judges who rule against him, and “lunatic” judges, and “radical left” judges. 

And these judges make Trump mad; and Trump makes sure he makes his loyal followers mad; and from October 2024 through September 2025, 400 federal judges faced death threats of all kinds. 

(That doesn’t even include state judges.) 

 

I think we can all agree (unless we are blind, deaf and dumb) that the rule of law is not bolstered if judges can be intimidated. 

We can agree. 

Right?

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228. We can also add to Trump’s sustained attacks on the free press, noting that he spent his free time before Thanksgiving, insulting a female reporter, describing her in a Truth Social post, as “ugly, both inside and out.” 

Her free press crime? Writing an article, with sources, indicating that Trump was slowing down with age. 

(One ability Donald has clearly not lost is the ability to act immaturely.)

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229. Mr. Crabby also attacked a female reporter who corrected him when he blamed Biden for the shooting of Beckstrom and Wolff. She pointed out that his own administration had ruled that Lakanwal was fully vetted in April, this year. Trump sneered and called her “stupid.” He enjoyed his little power trip so much he called her a “stupid” person again. Then he though he should label her “stupid” a third time. 

No class.

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230. Trump’s narcissism triumphed over good taste again on Thanksgiving. During a call to U.S. servicemen and women around the world, Donald got caught up in his own greatness. He started bragging about his golfing prowess, and how much Joe Biden sucked on the links, and how he, Donald Dumpling, had won “38 club championships,” and would keep winning and winning, even if he had to play future rounds while riding around the course in a motorized wheelchair. 

I am sure the troops stationed in Poland, placed there to deter further Russian aggression were thrilled to hear that Donald was good at clubbing a little white ball and getting it to fall into a buried cup.

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232. For some ungodly reason, on the day after Thanksgiving, President Trump announced his decision to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez. He had been arrested in 2022 and extradited to the U.S. Hernandez was found guilty in federal court and sentenced to serve 45 years, on charges of conspiring to move 400 tons of cocaine into this country.

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233. Meanwhile, Donald has been blowing up boats allegedly bringing drugs into this country.

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234. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, Donald announced that Venezuelan airspace should be considered “closed.” As he made clear, he’s feeling an itch to launch airstrikes on that country – because (ironically) Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela is a horrible man. (Well, that’s true, at least.) And he’s helping smuggle drugs into the United States! 

Naturally, the announcement came from Mar-a-Lago, where Donald is spending his fourth weekend of just this one month. 

Meaning: U.S. taxpayers continue to foot the bill – roughly $3 million – every time The Dumpling Man flies south because he hankers to play golf. 

As Trump recently explained to reporters, he had a plan for Venezuela, which he was happy to explain. “I don’t think we’re necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead.” 

(Eloquence is not Trump’s forte.)

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235. It seems fitting to end in the same place we began, with President Trump ginning up hatred for the free press. 

The White House has now created a new website, paid for by taxpayers, to track what Donald lovingly calls “fake news.” 

The site is called “Media Offender of the Week.” 

So let us counter with a nomination of our own for the site – which would have been good every week since Donald came rattling down the escalator in Trump Tower and started spreading the hate. 

Donald makes the wall again for claiming to care about other Americans, to be a patriot, to be a Christian, to be even a decent human being.

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236. On the fourth Saturday in November, President Donald J. Trump decided it was time to brag on Truth Social. “I HAVE JUST GOTTEN THE HIGHEST POLL NUMBERS OF MY ‘POLITICAL CAREER,’” he announced.

 Naturally, he was so excited, he hammered the caps button, like a president possessed. 

I’m a realist. So, I thought I might be missing something, this great news, that Donald wanted us to KNOW ABOUT. 

I decided to check RealClearPolitics, which compiles all kinds of numbers from different polling operations. 

AND DAMN DONALD… 

Your numbers suck:

 

 

  

Until we meet again,

have a “Make America Great Again” kind of day.