__________
“When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.”
Alexander
Hamilton
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The Founding Fathers warned us. |
July 1, 2026: Only three days left to buy your favorite country a birthday present, as America turns 250.
Speaking of buying, we learn that Donald J. Trump did not “pay out of his own pocket” for the $689,232 worth of polished black granite he had laid down along the White House colonnade, next to what used to be the Rose Garden.
(Now paved.)
He promised he would he would cough up the dough, but The Atlantic has documents showing that the Trumpster siphoned off $1.3 million from National Parks funding for repairs and had the granite laid.
We should also inform taxpayers that he ordered $347,503 spent to remove stucco from the colonnade wall.
Again, we paid.
Then Dumpling Boy had portraits of all the other presidents, in gold frames, hung up along the walkway– mainly because he wanted to insult his predecessors in the most childish way possible. So, we paid for those frames and insults, too, I would suspect.
Joe Biden’s portrait, famously,
is nothing but an autopen. Trump’s two portraits, 45 and 47, should both be
dicks.
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DON’T WORRY, we have even worse
news to report. The Trump administration continues to spend tens of millions of
dollars to NOT produce renewable energy. Duke Energy has just been handed a check for $129 million to put an end to a plan to
build a wind farm off the North Carolina coast. At least one non-profit group
estimated that the farm would have “created 37,000 jobs, $232 million in taxes
and an overall $44 billion capital investment in the state.”
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Historic drought – a sign of climate change.
IN RELATED NEWS, the massive Cottonwood Fire in Utah continues to burn, having already charred 94,000 acres – with only 4% containment. It will soon become the second worst fire in state history.
Three firefighters were killed battling a separate fire; and many ranchers and farmers are reporting heavy livestock losses.
As ABC notes, “Even before the recent wildfires ignited, Utah cattle ranchers were reeling from a record drought that has hit the state, drying out thousands of acres of grazing land, officials said.
“Lost grazing land results in producers relying on replacement feed, which is in short supply and at a high cost due to historic drought conditions,” according to the Department of Agriculture.
According to National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, 43.74% of the land in the lower 48 states is
currently suffering from drought conditions, with
worse days and weeks almost certainly to come.
Increased droughts are predicted as part of the damage wrought by climate change. Same as increasing tornado activity.
Illinois has already set a state
record for most tornadoes in a full year, with 205. Scientists
also fear that “Tornado Alley” is shifting to the east.
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SADLY, the world’s oceans have now warmed to a new record high temperature – beating the old record set in 2024.
The warning bells keep ringing. (See: 7/4/26 and 7/12/26, below).
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7/2/26: Job growth in June stalled, with only 57,000 people joining the workforce. Still, the unemployment rate dropped to 4.2%, which would normally be excellent news. Unfortunately, we also know that estimated job gains for May were reduced by 43,000, and the final report for April cut 31,000.
For the first half of 2026, subject to a final May revision, Team Trump has added a measely 423,000 jobs, total.
Even more worrisome, the
labor participation rate (individuals employed plus individuals looking for
work) slipped to 61.5 percent. That’s down by more than a point since
Dumpling Don took the reins of government for a second time. A drop of 1.1% in
participation in a workforce estimated to be about 171 million would mean that
since January 2025, roughly two million workers have dropped out of the job
market. Wage growth is also lagging inflation.
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THE BLOGGER is going to take a wild guess and say that the U.S. national debt is still growing. So, to the Debt Clock we go!
Yep, the hands are still spinning wildly. We’re up to $39,357,627,566,416 dollars in debt.
Speaking of up: We know Donald Dumpling’s personal bottom line is way up – including the $636 million he made in 2025 just on transaction fees related to sales of $TRUMP, his meme coin. This is truly impressive, since virtually everyone else who invested in the stupid coins (which feature Trump’s iconic picture – fist raised after the failed assassination attempt in Butler, Pa.) – has been hosed.
The coin has no intrinsic value, but loyal MAGA folks dumped a lot of cash into purchases, believing Trump Magic would make the coins soar in value and they would be rich and famous and could suddenly afford to pay the estimated $1 million monster fee to join Mar-a-Lago. Little did they realize, that if they bought more coins the Trump family collected a fee. If they sold more coins, the Trump family collected a fee. The Trump family absolutely could not loose.
Matt, a 45-year-old investor from Indiana bought $40,000 worth of $TRUMP coins and lost 79% of his money.
Naturally, he blamed … Democrats.
FUN FACT: The blogger has a brother who can instantly tell you a player’s batting average (a percentage) if you say, “Ned, what is Player B’s average if he had 143 hits in 411 at bats.” His brother can also multiply a triple digit number by another triple digit number in his head. But I notice a mistake in the CNN reporting, by way of Reuters. They say that Matt has lost “about $32,700,” but I have a little math skill, myself – even if I did barely pass Algebra II in high school back in the day.
A loss of 32,000 out of 40,000 would obviously be 80%. I know this instantly because 32 out of 40 could be reduced (that is: dividing by four) to 8 out of 10. So, Matt would be left with one fifth of his money.
And then you must address that random $700, and I know by looking that 1% of $40,000 is $400, and $700 would be 1.75 percent (trust me). That means, Matt may be out 81.75% of his investment.
I feel sorry for Matt – who I am guessing is not a wizard with percentages, nor a clear-headed American.
Trump rigged the meme coin game.
FUN FACT #2: It could be even worse if you were also one of the dopes (and there are today more than 223,000) who plunked down hard-earned cash for $MELANIA meme coins. Those coins have also lost at least 60% of their value.
Damn Democrats!
FUN FACT #3: I am now officially creating my own meme coin, $VIALLNOTVILE. You can be the first on your block to get in on this deal, by sending me a check today, minimum investment: $50,000. My coin will show me on a bicycle riding off into the sunset but flashing a big wad of money in one hand.
And if the price crashes?
Democrats did it.
FUN FACT #4: We should also note that Donald Trump’s $3.8 billion lawsuit for defamation, filed against the Washington Post has been blown up by a federal judge, who said no jury could possibly find for the president.
The case was that weak – but still,
Trump did do his best to scare the free press into going easy on him and his
criminally-inclined aides.
FUN FACT #5: We won’t
know this until later in the month but the guy who runs Trump’s teleprompter gets suspended after he allegedly wins
$100,000 betting on the futures market about … Trump speeches.
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7/3/26: The rumor spreads across the internet: The lovely Ms. Natalie Harp, who follows the president everywhere, is really …
HIS HOSPICE NURSE!
This is classic! Donald, the same dope who has spread all kinds of stupid stories about other people, is now being dogged by the same kind of fools who believed his tall tales. Natalie Harp is not a nurse; but, my God, she does follow the lumbering oaf everywhere. She even traveled to Turkey, for the NATO summit, alongside the Big Dumpling Man.
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Harp is devoted to the president - and quite attractive. |
In other news, Iran has started shooting at ships in the Strait of Hormuz again – almost as if they don’t know the Iran War is over and that they have lost.
Then again, Donald Trump has finally finished first in new polling!! Sound the Trumpets of MAGA Joy.
In a poll of greatest Americans and worst Americans, more respondents picked Trump, 34%, as “worst American” in history than any other person.
Jeffrey Epstein came in second
at 14%. So, the two pals combined were rated worst by almost half of us getting
ready to celebrate July 4.
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WE CAN ALSO REPORT that a federal judge has called on Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to release more Epstein Files – to follow the law almost unanimously passed by Congress.
Good old Todd says the Department of Justice needs more time to make sure victims’ information is shielded and he thinks he can have the Files released by … the start of the twenty-second century.
As of this moment, roughly 2.5 million files are still tucked away in the bowels of the DOJ headquarters.
Donald Trump doesn’t want any more Files released.
As in zero.
Todd serves Donald first, justice either a distant second, or completely irrelevant in his calculations. Blanche is now asking to delay a court order to release the Files for 60 days, so that an appeal can be made to a higher court. Meanwhile, the DOJ is going hard after “vandals” who supposedly dumped algae in the reflecting pool or somehow used box cutters to slice an opening in the covering as long as a football field. Ha, ha. What dorks would believe that tall tale?
As for billionaires going after hundreds and thousands of underage girls and young women? Yeah.
Not a priority.
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7/4/26: We did it, America! We made it to our birthday without getting blown up in any wars, even civil wars. We’re still a functioning democracy and/or republic (kind of), with a promising future (possibly) ahead.
Unfortunately, we’re stuck with President Narcissus for our next birthday and next after that. In recent days, Donald Trump has suggested (again) that he deserves to have his jowly mug chipped into Mt. Rushmore. He has told a MAGA crowd gathered to hear him yap, that he wanted to do a “threesome” with his sons – which, out of context would sound creepy and sexual.
If you look at his comments in context, however, he wasn’t suggesting bedding Don Jr. and Eric. Worse! The president said he wanted to give himself the Congressional Medal of Honor and then give the highest medal we can bestow to each of his two oldest sons. This is the medal won by Sgt. Alvin York in World War I and Lt. Audie Murphy in World War II. More recently, Staff Sgt. Ty Michael Carter and Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha were both awarded this honor for their roles in the fight at Combat Post Keating in Afghanistan. Look them all up.
If Narcissus had his way, Family Trump would have three Medals of Honor – even though no member of that crew of greedy grifters has ever dared put on the uniform and face enemy fire.
Tonight, Donald will cap off the
nation’s big birthday bash – which he has commandeered, and give a big,
beautiful speech and talk about how great the United States is … I mean,
how great Donald is.
Meanwhile, his “Great American State Fair” in D.C. has been an epic fizzle. Part of the problem from the start, was the venue – on the grassy National Mall, with not a stick of shade to be seen. And it’s July (and climate change is real). And it’s in Washington, a city famously hot and humid during summer, even when normal presidents are running the country. Yesterday, it was so hot that the Fair had to be closed for a “heat emergency;” and the high today is expected to hit 101°.
Mr. Trump is promising to give a speech longer and better than any other president has ever given tonight, starting around 9:45, but rain is forecast and the temperature may still be 88 degrees.
I’m 77 years old, myself, and I would not want to be giving a speech in such heat, while wearing a suit – and I’m no wimp. I’ve bicycled across the country twice, and almost did it a third time two years ago. If I was the First Lady, I’d be urging my dumpling-shaped husband to consider not standing in the heat, in suit and tie, and rambling on about all the medals he wants to give himself.
Speaking of heat, and climate change, Europe has been experiencing record high temperatures this summer. Simply put, changing weather patterns are trapping heat longer, and France, in late June, registered temperatures as high as 112°. As many as a thousand people died of heat-related stresses. The United Kingdom registered its highest June temperature ever, on June 26, 37.3C (99.1F) in a nation where most people have never needed air conditioning.
In fact, climate change is affecting northern parts of the world most. Europe has been heating up by one-degree Fahrenheit per decade, since the 1990s – making it the fastest warming continent on the globe.
To say it another way, a child born in Spain or Poland this year, living to the same age as our Dumpling Leader, might live in a land eight degrees warmer before they die.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration used to keep track of climate changes; but under the second Trump administration, the science is being buried, and all our new leaders are talking about how much we should all love coal.
Experts used to warn that the Arctic was heating up three times faster than the rest of the planet – and as proof, noted that sea lanes over the top of the world might be wide open by the year 2065.
“There’s no scenario in which melting ice in the Arctic is good news,” said Amanda Lynch, the lead author of a study done by Brown University, and a professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences. “But the unfortunate reality is that the ice is already retreating, these routes are opening up, and we need to start thinking critically about the legal, environmental and geopolitical implications.”
Now a visit to the NOAA website says:
And President Narcissus? His battles against offshore wind farms and solar panels continue to ensure the situation will get worse.
(See also, all-time-record temperatures set in the Western U.S.,
7/12/26.)
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HOW IS DONALD DUMPLING doing as president? We’re glad you asked. In a poll highlighted today in Newsweek, “Old Dumps” has a positive net approval rating in twelve entire states. Which means Dumps will claim the people love him in all 63 states, plus Greenland and Westeros.
In fact, he is in negative territory in 38 states, and in several his approval rating is only slightly higher than algae’s.
If it was up to the 700,000 people in Wyoming (59% approval), you could argue that they might be ready to crown Donald king, except that he’s old and feeble and maybe they would prefer a younger Trump. Like Don Jr.
Or? A Queen Melania I?
Back East, not so much love. Only 19% of Vermonters approve of what King Doofus is doing, 22% in Maryland, 25% in Massachusetts, 28% in Connecticut and 29% in New York. In fact, in the seven swing states, which were critical to his victory in 2024, the big oaf is stinking at his job, if you ask the people.
Comparing his approval ratings and disapproval ratings, we have this, in those seven swing states:
Arizona (42% vs. 54%)
Georgia (37% vs. 57%)
Michigan (38% vs. 57%)
Nevada (35% vs. 59%)
North Carolina (41% vs. 55%)
Pennsylvania (39% vs. 56%)
(Wisconsin (41% vs. 54%)
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“What they stand for is nothing that I could possibly agree with.”
7/5/26: Yesterday, the Patriot Front showed up in force and marched to celebrate the nation’s birthday – which is their right, under the U.S. Constitution. Even assholes have protection under the Bill of Rights. But an even more depressing reality – more so even than that these creeps still exist – was the reaction of the Team Trump folks and their news apologists.
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum was asked about the march, and whether he would condemn their Patriot Front’s views. “Well, certainly what they stand for is nothing that I could possibly agree with, but one of the foundational principles of the United States, which makes democracy messy, is free speech.”
He did go on to say, by way of deflection, that a person can say they are a “communist” and run for office in this country (although I am not aware of anyone with the tiniest chance of winning office who has so self-identified).
Dana Bash finally put Burgum on the spot and asked if he would recommend to President Trump that he condemn the group’s beliefs. He responded by saying that there are protests on the National Mall where people say “irreprehensible things about President Trump,” and he tap danced away from any answer.
It’s not terrible, I suppose. Just cowardly. And I personally suspect the president doesn’t want to condemn the group, because many of the racists and neo-Nazis support him and hate the Democratic Party.
Finally, the complete fools on the right tried to claim that the Patriot Front folks are leftists in disguise, like the January 6 rioters were Antifa in disguise. Laura Ingraham and Sen. Mike Lee, who both claimed the folks in the Front were Democrats, proved yesterday that you don’t have to have a functioning brain to be a Fox News evening show host or a U.S. senator from Utah.
I first got interested in this matter, because we had a member of the Patriot Front living here in Glendale, Ohio. His identity was revealed when he and about fifteen other members were stopped by police and charged with riding in the back of a U-Haul moving van and had to give names and addresses. And I also know that a group of Front members were driven off an overpass over I-75, in Lincoln Heights by membered of that mostly African American community, along with some of my liberal friends for the village where I live. So, I knew immediately that Ingraham and Lee were fools.
Then I saw this summary on X, and, as always, decided I would have to track it down and learn more about the group:
Rousseau has said that he “believes Trump is a white supremacist who uses the same rhetoric as his group.” He added “It’s encouraging to hear him [Trump] call African countries ‘shitholes’ and say now and then that Mexican illegals are criminals and rapists, and sometimes he even utters some truth about the Jew.”
Here’s what learned. In fact, the founder of the group is Thomas Rousseau, a man with impeccable white supremacist credentials. He warns that dark skinned people can’t really be Americans, absolutely voted for Trump in 2016, and wants the white people of this country to protect their good racial stock.
I’m looking for that quote about Trump speaking the Patriot Front language and stumble upon a story in The New Yorker from August 2024. David D. Kirkpatrick does an excellent job of summing up Patriot Front thinking in just the first paragraph, which focuses on a new recruit named Colton Brown.
What else do we learn from Kirkpatrick’s investigation. Clearly, the people who belong to Patriot Front aren’t on our side – that is, the liberal side:
Rousseau insists that the only true Americans are “descendants of Europeans.”
There should be a “white homeland” within the United States.
He’s anti-Semitic.
According to Kirkpatrick, “One of Patriot Front’s goals was to lure more mainstream MAGA types into the far right.”
Then this quote comes close to what I saw on X. According to Kirkpatrick, “Rousseau once told a journalist that although he understood why Trump could support white nationalism only indirectly, his rhetoric was nonetheless ‘encouraging,’ adding, ‘Sometimes he even utters some truth about the Jew.’”
Robert Rundo, the head of another white nationalist organization, often has his member hike, train and spar with the Patriot Front groups. Rundo once traveled to Germany to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday.
Leading up to the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlotte, Va., in 2017, Rousseau could be found participating in secret group chats, where lovely people suggested, “death to all non-whites,” “let’s bomb a major federal building,” and insisted, “Hitler did nothing wrong.” Rousseau suggested he’d like to see “jackboots on commie skulls, blood on the pavement.” Participants asked each other what flagpoles they thought would double best as weapons and talked about using cars as weapons against anti-fascist protesters.
Rousseau travels in the same circles as neo-Nazi group such as Atomwaffe Division, Fascist Forge and Identity Evropa. The latter group came up with the slogan, “You will not replace us.” The threat to white purity, these organizations warned was posed by non-whites, immigrants, Muslims, Jews, and others.
Alex Witoslawski, at the time a Republican consultant, counseled Identity Evropa not to deny the Holocaust – but to be more subtle in disguising their hate speech.
One neo-Nazi leader was clear, explaining that the goal of all their organizing and marching was to reach “the average conservative white person.”
At an earlier demonstration in Washington D.C., in 2021, Rousseau delivered a speech about “we the people born to a nation of the European race.”
When hackers managed to gain access to Patriot Front records in Seattle, they posted fliers in members’ neighborhoods, including Colton Brown, warning that Mr. Brown “is unashamed to hold neo-Nazi beliefs and should not be welcomed in our community.”
Another leak revealed Rousseau talking about the “Zionist Occupied Government” that ruled America. As Kirkpatrick explains, “Recordings captured members discussing the need to ban homosexuality and to make women subservient, and fantasizing about how ‘rape gangs’ could exert control over women in their future ethnostate.” A Patriot Front leader in Florida urged members to recruit their girlfriends to commit racist vandalism – and then blackmail them to ensure their loyalty.
Stealing “Black Lives Matter” signs became a kind of specialty of the Patriot Front folks – as was proven true of the member who lived up the hill from the blogger in Glendale. Kirkpatrick continues,
These acts [of vandalism] included defacing a statue in Portland, Oregon, that honored George Floyd; a mural in Olympia, Washington, that celebrated gay pride; and a mural in Richmond, Virginia, commemorating the tennis star Arthur Ashe. Rousseau, it was revealed, insisted on personally approving all major vandalism operations, in addition to some detailed schemes to evade arrest.
Finally, every group of racists needs a lawyer – and, under our Constitution, deserves one – and the Patriot Front relies on the services of Glen Allen.
Kirkpatrick writes,
Forty years ago, he [Allen] became close to William Pierce, the leader of a far-right group called the National Alliance; Pierce is also the pseudonymous author of “The Turner Diaries,” a novel about a coming race war, which has inspired generations of white nationalists. Allen told me that he eventually broke with Pierce over his violent rhetoric and views on women. But Allen attended an Alliance conference that questioned the Holocaust, and he contributed five hundred dollars to the group after Pierce died.
The blogger is a former American history teacher; and he is an advocate of the broadest possible First Amendment rights – even to the point of vomiting up hate speech. He also believes that even the most disgusting people deserve good legal counsel, and that juries must render verdicts, fairly and impartially.
So, keep up the good work Lawyer Allen.
As for Sen. Lee and Ms. Ingraham, they owe it to their constituents and viewers to try to tell the truth.
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WHO ELSE is ready for a little dash of fascism! How about Elon Musk! (Who is in the Epstein Files!)
“Anyone who doesn’t love America is a traitor and beneath contempt,” he now insists. “Those who don’t love America, those who are disloyal should be exiled immediately.”
(I am assuming “disloyal” means not sucking up to Donald Trump.)
(Or: Believes we should raise taxes on the superrich.)
(Or just maybe isn’t white.)
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7/6/26: President Trump continues to act more like a “communist” according to the current definition of the word being bandied about in MAGA circles – or a “socialist” as most experts in politics would say.
That is, he is taking money from some Americans and giving it to other Americans. In this case, parents with children two-years old, or three, four, five, etc. will get zero dollars under a new Trump initiative. Eligible children born during Donald’s second term in office will get $1,000, to be invested in new “Trump Accounts.”
The blogger’s children, all in their 30s and 40s, will get nothing; but the blogger and his wife and those four adult children will pay taxes to help fund Trump’s new budget-busting plan. Naturally, Donald is happy to give away tax dollars, because he doesn’t pay federal income taxes, as far as we know.
This is “socialism” by any kind of definition. The blogger doesn’t really mind helping young families – or farmers, who have been gifted billions of dollars in repeated Trump handouts. But it is galling to hear Trump and his toadies warning us that communists are about to take over.
(At the very least, these should
be named “Taxpayer Accounts” so that parents of new babies would remember
exactly who was giving them the $1,000.)
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7/7/26: Yesterday, the Iranians fired missiles at two more commercial vessels trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz. A tanker was struck and set on fire. The second ship was also struck.
In less dangerous but equally depressing news, you had to feel bad for the U.S. Men’s National Team, and their fans last night, after Belgium bounced them unceremoniously from the World Cup. The 4-1 defeat featured a series of defensive blunders by our guys – but could have been worse.
President Trump had managed to pressure FIFA to overturn a red card handed out to a key American player, Folarin Balogun, in the previous game. No such action had ever been taken in the World Cups, dating back to 1962, when current rules were instituted. The Belgian team protested. The European organization, covering soccer across that continent, protested. Most of the soccer world exploded with outrage.
Naturally, Trump lovers defended the president. The MAGA stalwarts even forgot to rant about how Balogun was American only by “birthright citizenship.” They stomped their feet, and insisted that Donald was the greatest president ever. They knew, because they weren’t “Dumocrats,” that if George Washington were still alive, he would say, “Chip my face off Mt. Rushmore. Donald deserves to be up there. In fact, chip all four of us off – and replace us with four different versions to represent The Dumpling.
I kept wondering what would happen, as I watched the game. What if a Belgian player got a red card? Would they be allowed to ignore it and play on? Would all red cards, for the remainder of the tournament, be void? The president has admitted he had never heard of red cards before, but as per his usual approach, he hinted that the referee who carded Balogun was not to be trusted and added as an aside, for the ten thousandth time, that his 2020 election defeat was “rigged.”
At the end of the game, Belgian players trolled the president by doing his stupid little dance, both on the field, and again in the victorious locker room. Someone posted a picture from the game, featuring the final score, and added the words:
“Overturn
this.”
And we got memes:
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KEEPING TRACK of the machinations of Donald Trump and his grifting pals is a full-time job. Even with plenty of overtime involved this blogger can barely keep up the pace – and he’s retired.
Here, then, is an old story – which by chance I missed until today – but one which epitomizes what the Trump presidencies have always been about. Back in October 2024, the Associated Press did a little digging. Where were the famous “Trump Bibles” being printed?
Take a guess. Take ten guesses – and if your first is “the United States,” you only have nine more left.
The correct answer: Hangzhou, China. In fact, 120,000 Chinese copies were shipped to this country, at a cost of less than $3 each. Then the Trump folks sold them for a minimum of $59.99. Which, I think we can all agree, did not produce many good new jobs for American companies.
Donald, however, made a tidy sum, earning $300,000, just to license his name as part of the sales deal.
On one version of the Trump Bible, the date, “July 13, 2024” and the words, “The Day God Intervened” are embossed on the cover. That’s a reference to the failed assassination attempt in Butler, Pa.
Apparently, having the
communists print your Bibles is cool, if you can pile up the profits.
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“joebidennnn69.”
SPEAKING OF BIBLES, we have been warned by the Christian Nationalist folks types that we must fear the transgenders, and the pedophile Democrats, and the communists, not to mention the triple-threat transgender, pedophile Democrat. There is however a cottage industry of liberals on X, making fun of Bible-thumping MAGA hypocrites. See, for example, the account “I Expose Racists & Pedos.”
You must be careful not to fall
for fake quotations, absurd statistics, and trickery designed to fool the ill-informed
on X. But, wow, when I check, there are a lot of “good Christian” types, and “MAGA
folks” who continue to be exposed as pedophiles. Today, we bring you Christian
singer Phil Vaught, facing a 160-count indictment for sexual abuse of minors. Add R.J. May, a former Republican lawmaker in South Carolina –
about as red a state as you can find. May has been sentenced to seventeen years
in prison for possession and distribution of hundreds of videos of child sexual
abuse. The irony in Mr. May’s case? He used one account with the name: “joebidennnn69.”
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7/8/26: The Iran War continues to be over, in the words of President Dunce, but both sides traded fire last night, with Iran focusing on hitting U.S. bases across the Middle East. During an impromptu press conference, Mr. Dunce seemed confused about the war, explaining how “the Islamic Republic of Japan fired 111 missiles” at American targets. With Ukrainian President Zelenskyy seated at his side, Trump waved a hand in his direction and suggested reporters talk to “President Putin.”
The president was asked if the ceasefire was over. He replied, “To me, I think it’s over. I don’t want to deal with them anymore.” Trump brought out the Insult Gun, and called Iranian leaders “scum,” “sick people,” and added, “They’ll agree on everything, and then they’ll go and have a news conference and say we never even talked about it. They’re cuckoo. There’s something wrong with these people, and for 47 years they’ve been the bully of the Middle East, and they’re not the bully anymore.”
U.S. Central Command announced that 80 Iranian targets were hit Tuesday, including 60 small enemy boats.
The Iranians claim to have targeted 85 U.S. facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait. “All of the American bases in the region are legitimate targets for our military drones,” an Iranian army source stated.
Prices of oil rose more than five percent on the news.
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THE U.S. NAVY has identified the pilot of a Sea Hawk helicopter, which went down on the night of July 1, over the Arabian Sea. Three crew members were rescued. Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards was killed.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
In other “the Iran War is over” news, an Air Force official admits that the Iranians have shot down 30 Reaper drones, worth roughly $16 million.
Each.
In May,
Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, the Air Force’s top officer, told lawmakers during a
budget hearing that the Reaper has emerged as a “most valuable player” in the
war with Iran.
“We’ve
made many, many strikes,” he said, referring to the Air Force’s use of the
drone. “No other platform is even close.”
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LAWYERS FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking judges to agree that he need not give E. Jean Carroll the $5.8 million she won in a defamation case after she convinced a jury (unanimously) that he did rape her and that she wasn’t lying as he said. And said, and said, and said.
Interesting maneuver, considering the high court recently said the lower court findings that he had to pay still stood.
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E. Jean Carroll - around the time she was assaulted. |
Meanwhile, Donald’s dream of wallowing in free press money has been killed by a judge. Our free-press-hating president wanted to sue the Washington Post – basically, for describing him as a terrible president.
He was demanding $3.8 billion in damages.
The judge essentially told the
Trump legal team their case was garbage and only a bunch of incompetent
dolts would have filed it.
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Warped priorities at the U.S. Justice Department.
7/9/26: Depending on how diligently you follow current events you may know that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has less interest in investigating individuals named in the Epstein Files than a poodle.
Evidence? Blanche can’t see any – and he’s not trying to find any –let’s say, by interviewing victims and potential suspects, whose names fill hundreds of thousands of pages of Files, already released.
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez now accuses the Justice Department of withholding access to unredacted Epstein Files and stymying state efforts to bring relief to survivors. For many years, Epstein’s “Zorro Ranch” located not far from the New Mexico-Mexico border, was the scene of horrendous crimes.
“Every day that the USDOJ withholds these records, the foundation upon which a New Mexico prosecution could be built erodes,” Torrez warned in a June 30 letter. “Witnesses relocate and become unreachable,” he noted. “Memories, already strained by years of trauma, fade further. Physical and documentary evidence degrades, is lost, or is rendered more difficult to authenticate with the passage of time.”
There have been reports about two young women killed during “rough, fetish sex” at the ranch, their bodies buried in the surrounding desert. New Mexico authorities are moving to investigate on their own but could use help. Every criminal involved can only pray that Blanche continues to delay.
Meanwhile, Lesley Groff testified recently before Congress, regarding her time as a key assistant to Mr. Epstein. As details from her testimony continue to emerge, Epstein’s victims have expressed their deep frustration. Groff’s testimony boiled down to this: “What? My boss was abusing underage girls? Every day? Thousands during all the years I worked for him? Who knew! Not me. I never handed out any money to girls who looked like teens. I never even saw those girls!!”
Groff worked for the King of Pedophiles almost two decades. Helen Keller would have been able to figure out that what Jeffrey was up to was illegal and repugnant. So far, six victims have spoken with the press and all have essentially said the same: that Groff is lying, and she knew plenty.
The
contradictions get even more specific regarding money. Groff told Congress she
never directly paid any of the girls.
The
victims tell a different story. Lacerda remembers getting white envelopes
stuffed with fresh cash straight from Groff, especially when Epstein traveled.
One
unnamed woman claims the assistant helped secure her first passport. If true,
this means Groff saw her official birth date and knew her exact age.
Lisa Phillips remembers collecting checks from the assistant to cover school fees. She told CNN it is impossible to believe that Groff forgot handing out those payments.
So, a letter to the Acting AG:
Dear
Todd Blanche,
I am no
lawyer, just a simple blogger. You, sir, are a lawyer. Not a good one. Still, a
lawyer.
Even a
crappy lawyer, such as yourself, should be able to deduce that Groff almost
surely perjured herself during her recent testimony. I recommend that you
indict her and start from there. As your boss, Donald Dumpling likes to say,
“Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Sincerely,
John
J. Viall
(a.k.a.:
The Blogger)
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AS OF TODAY, we are stuck on zero Epstein Files-related arrests, thanks to the Trump administration.
By comparison, the gunslingers
at ICE managed to kill two more individuals this week, including one man they stopped by mistake – while
looking for a real suspect. That deceased father had raised three sons,
two of whom had graduated from college, the third being currently enrolled, had
been living in this country for 35 years. Salgado Araujo was killed after two
ICE vehicles tried to pull him over on the way to work, with his brother and
two employees riding in his van. Agents claim he tried to “weaponize his
vehicle” and run an agent down. We’ve heard this story multiple times – and
it’s usually a lie.
*
AT THE SAME TIME, DOJ officials are working overtime to send dangerous criminals to jail. Such as: Individuals who have yanked on the newly painted liner in the Reflecting Pool. Seven arrests have been made, with six individuals facing misdemeanor charges, and one hit with a felony count. According to U.S. District Attorney Judge Jeanine Pirro, that alleged felon, U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn, did “forcefully and violently” pull up two square feet of liner.
This is interesting, because a well applied liner (basically a thick rubberized coat of paint) would be virtually impossible to “rip up,” and Donald himself had bragged about how strong the new $14 million liner was. Our nincompoop president told reporters it was going to last fifty years. He called it a “powerful rubber,” and said you couldn’t cut it with a knife. Even a direct hit with a Tomahawk cruise missile wouldn’t damage the great job his pool guys had done.
(Okay: I made the Tomahawk part up.)
Gene Rossi, a legal expert interviewed for Fox News, and a man who had previously tried 110 cases federal cases, said he’d rather be the defense lawyer in the Hearn case than the prosecutor. Team Dumpling is arguing that the former Olympian caused a thousand dollars’ worth of damage – enough to elevate his heinous actions to a felony – meaning the defendant could get ten years in prison.
“They may have a difficult
argument to make for the prosecution to say that a detached piece of paint that
detached from the bottom of the pool – just touching it or even grabbing it –
caused $1,000 worth of damage,” Mr. Rossi explained. “… if that is a detached
piece of paint, that piece of paint is worthless [emphasis added]! You
can’t use it again!”
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7/10/26: My fellow Americans, how are we doing? Has inflation been tamed? Are gas prices finally lower than the day “Sleepy Joe” left the White House? How are we doing, now that we have totally defeated Iran?
Well, yay, measles! As of today, the U.S. has piled up 2,231 cases, including 446 involving children under age five. With one or two more bad weeks, we can pass the record for “worst year” since measles were declared eradicated in this country, back in 2000. That record was set in 2025.
That was Team Trump, too.
Also going up: The national debt! A report out today indicates that the U.S. Treasury has had to borrow $155 billion every month, during the current fiscal year.
Every week, $24 billion goes to paying interest on existing debt – meaning coming generations will pay the bill for our largesse.
In fact, Team Trump policies
have caused the growing debt to accelerate, piling more trillions on the
backs of future Americans.
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Was the judge happy? Of course, not.
WE DO KNOW, however, that Donald Dumpling has brought smiles to the faces of deserving Americans, such as kindergarten kids on graduation day (no, scratch that, he attacked five-year-olds who attend a Muslim-affiliated school in Minnesota, because the girls were wearing hijabs and it’s now fashionable on the right to hate all Muslims, even those about to start first grade).
Instead, Donald went with making January 6 plotters smile. The Department of Justice has dropped the last fragments of cases against the leading figures in that attack on democracy, namely, the Proud Boys.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, in charge of the cases – and a Trump appointee during his first term – made it clear he had no choice. If the Department of Justice, an arm of the executive branch, chose to drop matters, the “separation of powers” doctrine meant the judicial branch could not interfere. Was he happy? Judge Kelly made his sentiments clear in his order to end proceedings:
“President
Trump’s views about the prosecution of those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on
January 6 – whether those views are based on fact or fiction – are well known,”
Kelly said. The judge also noted that the prosecution of the Proud Boys leaders
began in the final days of Trump’s first term, not under Biden.
“The decisions to issue the Executive Order and to abandon this prosecution – even after the Government secured convictions for serious crimes relating to the attack on the Capitol on January 6 – are solely the Executive’s,” Kelly wrote.
FUN FACT: Whereas Acting AG Blanche can’t catch a single Epstein Files pedophile, we can report that Sec. of War/Killing More People and Loving It Pete Hegseth is going hard after troops with beards. He has made it clear he wants the “beardos” gone and he is fed up with “fat generals.”
Apparently, a visit to the USS Carl Vinson upset Pete, because an email has now gone out: “Want to bring to your attention that the SecWar is paying close attention to the progress,” a Pentagon official told colleagues in the wake of his tour of the ship. “In fact, the push is to move faster … there is a need to revamp some of our timelines,” the email warned. Or as Pete put it: “The Department must remain vigilant in maintaining the grooming standards which underpin the warrior ethos.”
So, let’s remember a few famous pussies with beards:
This
guy:
Vikings:
John
Smith:
This
loser:
And this guy: Famed Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle, who had 160 confirmed kills in Iraq.
Also, if we are toning up the
generals, what about the Commander-in-Chief, The Dumpling? Does Donald really
reflect the “warrior ethos?”
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NATO for numbskulls.
7/11/26: Oh, shit, Iran is in trouble now. President Trump had begun hitting them with “all-CAPS” words in his latest unhinged Truth Social posts.
It is now clear that Mr. Trump had to switch planes when leaving Turkey, after the recent NATO summit, because of an Iranian assassination plot.
We’re glad Donald wasn’t harmed but what this blogger notices – once again – is how clueless regarding foreign policy, the President of the United States really is. While at the summit, for example, Mr. Trump lavished praise on the leader of Turkey, another one of those authoritarian types Donald always seems to admire. Then he got mad at Spain, because Spain had not been dumb enough to get dragged into our current “bomb the hell out of Iran” debacle. Donald said he was going to cut off all trade with Spain – which, I don’t believe is even a power a president possesses.
The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, explained his country’s reluctance to bail the United States out of its latest Middle East mess, in a telecast to his people. “Twenty-three years ago, the U.S. dragged us into Iraq over claims of weapons of mass destruction. None were found. You cannot fool us twice,” he said.
And again, for the preternaturally ill-informed: Let us explain how the NATO charter works. All members agree that if one member is attacked, it will be considered an attack on all, and the alliance will defend itself, as one.
That’s the gist of the famed “Article V.” And it does not say: “If some bozo decides to bomb another country, such as Iran, just because Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israelis asked that bozo to do so, we don’t have to join in.” NATO is and always has been a defensive arrangement.
Now, back to Donald and his all-CAPS ravings. Yes, he has a right to be touchy, having been nearly shot in the head in July 2024. But he sounds like Adolf Hitler, calling for a “Final Solution” for the Iranians. First, he lets the New York Post know. “I’ve been on their list for a long time. That’s what we’re dealing with. The only thing is, I’ve left instructions – if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they’ve never seen before.”
Then he elaborated on his threats – posting on Truth Social, of course:
1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more [sic] to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME!
I love how he capitalized the random “ME.” Then, for emphasis, he threatened to destroy an entire country, like a maniac possessing nukes. “Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran - PRAISE BE TO ALLAH! President DONALD J. TRUMP[.]”
(You can probably see why our NATO allies want no part of this.)
We should also point out that our friends on the right are in a frenzy, once again, this time because Karl Marx and the commies are coming to squash our freedoms – such as free press, and the right to protest. (No, wait, that’s the Trump administration). So: A dab of history for the ill-informed. The NATO charter was drawn up in 1949, to serve as a bulwark against aggression by the Soviet Union (long the head of the communist snake) against Western Europe, and also to give the U.S. powerful backup in case of war.
The Dumpling Dolt also seems confused regarding Greenland. Donald recently insisted that Russian and Chinese ships had the island surrounded. Denmark has a claim to the island, going back to before there was a United States, but Donald desires it, and insisted the Danes could not possibly defend the island.
So, we would have to take it – and maybe ask our NATO allies to help sink all those enemy warships, that did not, technically, exist.
Okay, they exist. They just don’t exist “surrounding” Greenland.
At any rate, the NATO charter is clear. Article V, again. Denmark is a NATO member. An attack on Greenland by the Russians, or the Chinese, or even the Iranians, would therefore trigger Article V.
So, when Donald rants and raves
about taking the island, it would be NATO attacking NATO, which all other
presidents, going back to 1949, would understand immediately, would be bonkers
shit.
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IN ANY CASE, Dumpling Don is not
taking the Iranian threats against his life well, even if he did have the U.S.
military assassinate the leader of Iran. (It has long been the policy of our
country, and many others, to avoid assassinations of enemy leaders – because
once you take a stroll down that road … well, you end up where we appear to be
now.
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WORRIED about rigged elections?
Well, a former White House lawyer, who worked for Trump in his first term – and
knows from experience what a liar and sneak he is – warns that Trump has a plan
to put his thumb on the scales in the
coming midterms. “I don’t think we can be sanguine about the elections because
he is stacking every card in the deck that he can get his hands on,” Cobb
warns.
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7/12/26: Today, we’re going to take the easiest route in preparing our post. We’ll just do headlines and brief stories.
U.S. AND IRAN TRADE HEAVY FIRE
Early Sunday, Eastern Standard Time, the United States and Iran launched heavy attacks against each other. This came after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz (again) and disabled a container ship with a missile or drone.
The U.S. responded, striking 140 targets, while Iran launched attacks on American military bases in Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.
DIARRHEA OUTBREAK EXPLODES ACROSS AMERICA
Closer to home –in America’s bathrooms – there has been an outbreak of cyclosporiasis, colloquially known as “explosive diarrhea.” Hundreds, possibly thousands, have been stricken by the long-lasting parasitic infection.
Experts at the C.D.C (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) have so far been unable to identify the source of the outbreak. I expect right-wingers to claim Antifa did it. This inability to locate the source has much to do with the fact Elon Musk and the DOGE Boys worked so hard last year to fire tens of thousands of talented government scientists. That included gutting C.D.C.’s office of Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, or FoodNet, which monitored cyclospora.
In fact, Team Trump dropped that parasite, and five others, from its list requiring mandatory reporting, leaving the government monitoring only two: Salmonella and STEC (Shiga toxin-producing E. coli.), both of which can be fatal.
In other words, if the Big Food Business folks get you sick – well, they don’t necessarily want you to know they did it.
(Elon doesn’t care. He got a massive tax cut, thanks to Donald J. Trump.)
CLIMATE CHANGE STILL A HOAX!
No amount of data will ever convince the windmill-hating President Trump that the planet may be in growing danger. Today, Montana set records for highest temperature ever recorded, at 118° (meaning the state was ten degrees hotter than Phoenix). Sheridan, Wyoming, registered an all-time high of 109, breaking the “old” record of 104, set five years ago. Several locations in Utah registered the hottest temperatures ever recorded, going back to the 1890s: Deseret (111°F), Salt Lake City (109°F, or 4°F above the previous record), and Randolph (100°F, or 6°F above the previous record).
(See 7/4/26, above, for all-time-record temperatures across Europe.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION GOES AFTER REPORTERS – AGAIN
The headline above, could be recycle endlessly, during this, the Second Coming of President Donald J. Trump. This time his administration has issued subpoenas to several New York Times journalists after the newspaper dared to report on security concerns with the president’s new plane, a gift from Qatar, according to the outlet.
The Department of Justice took the unusual step of sending agents to deliver subpoenas to reporters’ homes.
Just the kiss of intimidation the Founding Fathers hope to see when they enshrined freedom of the press in the First Amendment.
A spokesperson for DOJ insisted the government was trying to clean up “breaches of national security.”
“To be clear, reporters are not the targets, those leaking classified information are,” a DOJ statement said.
The National Press Club, an organization of D.C.-based reporters, warned that federal prosecutors’ “decision to subpoena journalists at the New York Times should alarm every American because it threatens the public’s constitutional right [emphasis added] to an independent press.”
PRESIDENT TRUMP HATES NEW BOOK – WANTS AUTHORS EXECUTED!
Okay, that headline is a joke – I hope. In a book just out, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan had revealed all kinds of Trump administration secrets. Harberman, for example, said in an interview last week that Natalie Harp, 34, now one of the most powerful White House aides, would run “on foot” behind Donald Trump’s golf cart during days spent on the links before his re-election.
“She became ever-present,” Haberman explained. “She would join him on the golf course when he was golfing, you know, in the interregnum period even before the [2024] campaign, literally sometimes running on foot behind his golf cart.”
But wait, there’s more:
The
veteran journalist revealed that Harp – a former television presenter turned
executive assistant to the president – attends “almost every single meeting” in
the White House. She also helps funnel information to Trump outside of formal
channels and displays a level of devotion that once alarmed the Secret Service.
In response to these and other claims, a White House spokesperson insisted, “Natalie Harp is a beloved White House Official, and the Fake News Media will never understand what it’s like to be as trusted and admired as her.”
Also, Harp is a former high school track star – so there.
(Yeah, I made that up, too.)
What we do know is true, is that the lovely blonde babe has picked up the nickname “the human printer” because, even when on the golf course, she carries around a “battery-charged portable printer” to furnish Trump with “a healthy supply of positive news.” For example, I could imagine:
TRUMP BEST GOLFER EVER – COULD KICK TIGER WOODS’ ASS
PRESIDENT DECLARED SEXIEST OCTOGENARIAN ALIVE
TRUMP WINS IRAN WAR WITH EASE
MY BOSS IS A SEX GOD
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Harp and The Dumpling. |
As you might expect, the President of the United States is not handling this situation, involving the free press digging up stories, at all well.
On Saturday, he ranted at length on Truth Social – the social media site where actual truth goes to shrivel and expire.
Edited for length (with blogger comments added, we had this:
“Maggot Hagerman [dehumanizing use of word “maggot”] has covered me incorrectly for ten years. Her book is a joke! 90% of it is Fake News. She has made a living off her bad reporting, and will pay the price when our Multi Billion Dollar Lawsuit against The Failing New York Times gets to Court [see: threats to the free press, above], which should not be that long. I don’t mind bad press, if they are right. [That’s a lie.] … Maggot is a loser! If she ever wrote the true story about me, it would actually be quite boring, but loaded with lots of SUCCESS [Trump currently has an approval rating hovering around 40%].”
Then Donald jumps on his fantasy merry-go-round and starts bragging about all the great recent physicals that he’s had.
“Also, I just finished a perfect physical at Walter Reed, I do it every six months, and I requested another Cognitive Test, the only President to do so, three times, and I aced them all – Got every question right. [The blogger, age 77, has also aced the test twice, because it’s just a test to see if you have dementia. And if you miss one or two questions, it’s a bad sign. Naturally, I aced my test, too.] Few people in Washington, D.C., could do so, including Maggot and her flunky associate, Jonathan Swan. I would be willing to bet they couldn’t get 50% of the questions right. [Really, you have to look at little pictures of, like, a duck, a moose, and an elephant – and pick the elephant from the lineup? My wife, 74, has also aced the cognitive test – and she’s not a tub of lard like Donald, either.] Anyway, don’t buy their book, it’s garbage! President DONALD J. TRUMP[.]”
I am definitely buying that book, Regime Change – and if I ever see Natalie Harp out and about, I am going to ask her to autograph my copy.
(She’ll be the young beauty chasing the golf cart driven by the fat, old guy.)
(I mean Trump, not me, although the description does fit.)
(Except, I hate golf.)
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7/13/26: Donald has been feeling his authoritarian oats of late. Sunday night he shared a video on Truth Social, calling for “hardcore communist bastards” to be deported from this country, specifically including Mayor Mamdani of New York City.
The fool who put together the 49-minute-long video is Michael Savage, who goes on to compare what is happening with all these communists giving away “free” programs to what happened in Cambodia under Pol Pot.
Okay, first. Savage is f**king nuts. Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge friends may have been responsible for murdering as much as a fourth of that country’s population (an estimated 1.5-2 million people).
I might also note that Donald Dumpling has been giving away a lot of “free” stuff, too. For example, he is taking from the rich (taxpayers) to give to the poor – farmers hard hit by tariffs. He is also using government money to seed the Trump accounts, that is taking money from people like me to give to children born since he took office a second time. What a commie! Giving people money.
Even the U.S. Department of Agriculture admits that in Trump’s two terms, the government has given farmers $65 billion. (You can look it up.) Do plumbers ever get federal handouts? Roofers?
Anyway, Savage is simply scaring the uninformed – and the President of the United States is loving it. If I were to label my flowerpot a “communist,” it wouldn’t make it true. Mamdani isn’t a communist. He’s a socialist, which is not the same. Pol Pot was a communist and said so. The leaders of Finland, where health care is free for all, and life expectancy is 84 years (significantly higher than in our country) are socialists. There’s murder (Pol Pot), and there’s excellent healthcare (Finland). Even Savage, if he scratched his head long enough, might figure out the difference.
Communists are not hesitant to identify themselves – and if all the communists in this country lived in one large city, say New York, they still wouldn’t have enough votes to win the mayoralty.
(A recent estimate places
membership in the Communist Party U.S.A (CPUSA) at 20,000, not even enough to
fill a major league baseball stadium.)
Finally, could someone – perhaps Todd Blanche, the Acting Attorney General, or Acting First Lady, Natalie Harp – explain to Mr. Trump that you cannot deport people because you don’t like their beliefs. Apparently, our fearless Fatso Leader doesn’t realize that free speech rights protect even communists, neo-Nazis (who do love Trump), and Luddites.
Savage wasn’t done, either, howling how he’d like to get rid of Sen. Bernie Sanders “and the other scum who should be criminalized and deported – I’ll send them to Uganda … before they spread the cancer.”
“Right now,” he continued to howl, “we have open Marxists in high places in America. Every one of them must be criminalized and deported. I’m not mincing words, I don’t care what the courts say,” he barked at one point. Then he went on to blast the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding birthright citizenship.
That, he screamed, was “death to America.”
Michael Savage isn’t the guy in charge of policing free speech and his calls to deport other U.S. citizens would chill a normal person – and make you wonder, is Savage really kind of like Pol Pot?
Or maybe a better comparison – since Savage leans heavily in the direction of fascism – would be Adolf Hitler. For Savage, people he hates are “scum.” For Hitler, they were “vermin.” The Nazis had death camps. Savage seems to dream of camps in Uganda. Hitler destroyed the independent judiciary.
Savage would love it, too.
And Donald?
WTF.
Save for the sacrosanct Second
Amendment, I’m not sure the protections enshrined in the First, Third, Fourth,
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth or Tenth Amendments are safe.
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MR. BLOGGER would argue that with friends like Michael Savage and Pastor Doug Wilson, maybe the problem isn’t Mamdani setting up free childcare facilities, but people like Wilson and Savage, who appear to be opposed to most of the protections enshrined in the Bill of Rights.
Wilson is in the news for several reasons, not least of which is that he is the spiritual advisor to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Among other highlights, Pastor Doug believes,
We should re-criminalize homosexuality.
He has defended American slavery, describing it like so:
“Slavery
as it existed in the South … was a relationship based upon mutual affection and
confidence,” the excerpts read in part. “There has never been a multiracial
society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history
of the world. …
“Slave
life was to them [slaves] a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food,
clothes, and good medical care.”
And he thinks the Nineteenth Amendment was a mistake:
When an interviewer asked him how he could call for repeal of women's right to vote, he responded, “Because it’s a good idea. A lot of women wouldn’t agree. I don’t want women voting as individuals.”
That’s who is giving Hegseth
spiritual advice.
FUN FACT: The president is now claiming that his approval rating with the American people has never been higher. Sunday night, perhaps with Natalie Harp, the “human printer” by his side, he claimed he had a 59% approval rating; and if Natalie was there, she was probably whispering sweetly, “Oh, oooooooooooooo, so high. So BIG! I mean, your massive approval ratings.”
The blogger is not suffering from delusions (or Trump Derangement Syndrome, as his critics like to insist). The blogger has studied polling results, going back to the 2000 election, when more and more polls came online. When polls are aggregated, they are almost always correct in predicting the outcome of national elections:
2000: George W. Bush would narrowly win the popular vote (wrong, he narrowly lost).
2004: Bush would beat John Kerry (correct).
2008: Obama would be John McCain (correct).
2012: Obama would win a second term (he did).
2016: Hillary Clinton would win the popular vote (she did, but not by enough to win the Electoral College vote)
(Trump becomes first winner of a presidential election to claim
the vote was rigged.)
2018: In the midterms, the Democrats would wallop Republicans (correct)
(Funny: Trump predicted a “big red wave.”)
2020: The polls have Joe Biden winning the popular vote in comfortable fashion (correct)
(Donald claims, despite his low approval ratings at the time,
that he really won.)
2022: The polls show Republicans with a narrow lead in voters’ midterm congressional preferences (correct).
2024: The polls indicate that Trump will win key battleground states and take office again (correct).
(The polls correctly call eight of ten battleground states, and miss only in two, where Harris was believed to have leads of less than a percentage point.)
So, let’s consider an aggregate showing Donald Dumpling’s current approval rating – which he claims is at 59%. How close is he to reality …
Ha, ha, what a blind dope:
FUN FACT #2: With Donald Dumpling there’s always more lying to discuss. Now that his beautifully redone Reflecting Pool has been drained again, we learn that “Country hating sleazebags,” and “thugs,” as the president calls them, have ripped up a section of the painted-on rubber coating 900 feet long – right along the edge of the Pool.
Somehow, these wizards of destruction “cut and then pulled upward,” on the liner “with great force.”
Or, it could just be that a lousy job of preparing the surface and coating it with rubberized paint was the problem.
7/14/26: Team Trump 2.0 is the crew that can’t get inflation down, find a single criminal to prosecute in all the millions of pages of the Epstein Files, but can keep shooting innocent people and/or the wrong people, during traffic stops. Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s border czar has now announced that ICE agents will refrain from making most traffic stops – a “temporary pause,” he calls it. This comes after trigger-happy agents killed two more individuals in less than a week. One victim was stopped by agents looking for another man and still he ended up dead. The second victim, Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, a 26-year-old from Columbia was in this country legally and had a social security number so that he could work. He leaves behind his wife and three-year-old daughter.
Duran worked two jobs, and in the aftermath of his killing, his wife and child could he heard crying in the street, not far from where his body lay.
On social media, his wife posted: “I have no words for this pain, my life, my love, watch over me, help me to have strength, I love you, stay with me always – don’t leave me alone, I beg you, my love.”
So, a “temporary pause.” (For some strange reason, despite munificent funding by Congress, many ICE agents still lack body cameras.
((This video of ICE in action, during another arrest, should tell you why we worry.)
NOT-SO-FUN-FACT: According to the Associated Press, the man who shot Guerrero, ICE agent David Brouillette, “has a history of terrifying and violent behavior,” according to relatives. “They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.”
His ex-wife says she was surprised last year when Brouillette told her that he had landed a job with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “She said that because of his long history of psychiatric issues, she thought he was having a mental health episode” and didn’t believe him. You know …
Because who would give him a
badge and gun if he had a history of violence?
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We must also warn our loyal readers, if any, that thanks to cuts to monitoring programs at the Center for Disease Control, cases of “explosive diarrhea” are spreading. Here in Ohio, where the blogger lives, roughly 400 people have already been reduced to sitting on a toilet or close to one. Michigan is reporting more than 3,300 cases. Taco Bell has announced that it is voluntarily removing some ingredients from its menus – such as lettuce –a sign they may be at least one source of the problem.
C.D.C. is currently working to catch up on the spreading illness, with as many as 6,600 cases reported or under study.
At least 141 people have been hospitalized.
(If you don’t hear from this blogger for a while, check the
bathroom.)
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MICHIGAN may lead currently in poop problem cases, but Tennessee can brag that it tops a recent list which measures “quality of life.” CNBC, which compiled the list considered factors such as “crime rates, air quality, healthcare access, worker protections, and civil rights laws,” as well as “business climate,” and came up with a list of the ten worst states to live in.
Tennessee finished first – which means, last.
The ten worst states in order:
The
rankings are based on a “quality of life” score, with a perfect score being
290.
1, Tennessee (64) high crime, low
worker protections.
2. Texas (82) proudly leading
the nation in the highest rate of people without health insurance; also Ted
Cruz is a Texas senator (the blogger added that as a joke, but it’s not actually
funny. They could be stuck with Ken Paxton, too).
3. Indiana (82) finished last in
access to childcare.
4. Louisiana (89) the governor
wants to investigate colleges and universities to make sure they don’t push for
diversity, equity and inclusion.
5. Georgia (89) know for anti-union
policies.
6. Utah (95) the minimum wage is
$7.75 per hour.
7. Missouri (98) at least the “Show
Me State” got a D- on the report.
8. Alabama (99) it’s still legal
to discriminate in public housing.
9. Oklahoma (103) if you believe
in the right to have an abortion rights, prepare to go to jail.
10. Arkansas (103) “most-improved
state,” on the list of worst states to live in; Gov. Sarah Huckabee did help
pass legislation to guarantee free breakfast for every school kid.
The MAGA folks, of course, saw
this list, and flipped out. All ten states are controlled by GOP-led governments
and voted for Trump in 2024.
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7/15/26: Yesterday, Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s border czar announced that ICE would be pausing most traffic stops, mainly because the wrong people or innocent people kept getting shot (not to mention that ICE agents have been caught repeatedly, lying about the threats the victims posed).
It seemed like a good idea, until Donald Dumpling intervened. Naturally, word of the not-really-a-change policy decision came in a post on Truth Social.
[We] CANNOT
give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE
TRAFFIC STOP! Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands.
The
Radical Left Dumocrats would like to see this done, but it won’t happen on my
watch. I.C.E., be judicious, fair and smart, and go back and do your very
important job.
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THE LATESTS INFLATION REPORT shows that price rises have slowed, mostly because gasoline is cheaper.
In June, the Consumer Price
Index was up 3.5%, year-over-year. That’s still worse than Biden’s last year in
charge.
(Look it up: It was 2.9 percent in
2024.)
(At 2.7 percent, it was only marginally better in 2025.)
Trump, of course, had famously promised, if given a second change, he would “immediately bring prices down on Day 1.”
He is
currently 542 days behind schedule.
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7/16/26: Catching up on the news here. First, we have an appalling story, regarding ICE officials working with the government of … fucking Iran. As The New York Times reports,
The
Trump administration gave Iranian officials in Washington extraordinary access
to Iranian asylum seekers being held in immigration detention in the months
before the countries went to war, providing sensitive details about their
reasons for fleeing the country, according to documents filed in a federal
lawsuit on Wednesday.
The sworn accounts, submitted in Federal District Court in Washington, provide a detailed account of behind-the-scenes contacts that led the United States to deport more than 100 Iranians to Tehran between September 2025 and January 2026, not long before the initiation of U.S. military action against Iran in February.
(The Trump administration is making us look Putin, in how the
Russians abuse dissidents.)
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THE PRESIDENT has endorsed Mike Lindell as GOP candidate for governor of Minnesota. The head of the Minnesota Republican Party now warns that “public records showing tens of thousands of dollars in delinquent property taxes” can be found under Lindell’s name. Mike’s real “qualification” for the post? He’s almost as big an election denier/liar as Donald J. Dumpling, himself.
My favorite Lindell story (and there are many) is when he said he had proof the 2020 election was stolen. Then he said he would pay $5 million if anyone could disprove it. Next a kind of computer whiz showed that the “data” Lindell was putting forward was mostly random computer code.
Then Lindell refused to pay up.
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PEW RESEARCH has been asking questions around the world for at least two decades, about how people in various countries view other nations’ leaders, whether “favorably,” or “unfavorably.”
Respondents in 36 nations had to choose: Who did they view more favorably: President Trump or China’s President-for-Life Xi Jinping – a true-blue communist if ever there was one – but still Donald’s friend.
In the following countries, the President of the United States bested the Chinese autocrat, and leader of a political party that only allows the “right” candidates to run for any political offices: India, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and two others.
In twenty-five other thirty
countries, Xi scored higher in “favorability.” Trump lost out to a communist
dictator. Think about that.
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SPEAKING OF TRUST, Helen Comperatore, the widow of Corey Comperatore, who was killed during the attempted assassination of President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, now alleges the attack was an inside job – that people in the government had a plan that day.
Asked by a reporter what would bring her closure, she said she would tell President Trump not to forget her family.
“We’re still here,” she says sadly.
Is Acting AG Todd “I don’t see any evidence in the Epstein Files” Blanche working on the case of the assassination.
Nobody knows.
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AND THERE’S EVEN MORE Todd Blanche news. A letter signed by 1,200 former DOJ officials, from across fourteen different administrations, has been sent to U.S. senators not to confirm his appointment to be United States Attorney General.
That letter offers a dire warning:
Since
his confirmation as Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche has shown time and
again that his guiding star is fealty to the President, not the Constitution. That
fealty led to the purge of thousands of experienced career employees, a loss
that will have a generational impact on the Justice Department’s ability to
carry out its mission and maintain credibility with the courts and the American
people.
WAIT? There’s still more??? Yes. A federal judge, studying a deal Blanche cut with President Trump to exempt him and his family members from any I.R.S. investigations into their past tax records calls it an “exercise in self-dealing.” Put bluntly, Trump as president made a deal with his own Department of Justice to give himself a “free pass” on any crimes he might have committed.
Even worse, a second prong of the deal created a fund, “cleverly” pegged at 1.776 billion dollars, to pay off all the January 6 rioters, including any who, for example, tasered police or clubbed them on their heads with baseball bats, or later got sentenced to life in prison for abusing minor children.
And Blanche signed off on that, too.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams took the highly unusual step of referring one of Trump’s personal lawyers in the case, Alejandro Brito, and senior Justice Department officials who signed off on the settlement to state bar authorities to determine if their actions violated legal ethics rules.
Nominee Todd may now face
sanctions before both the New York State and Washington D.C. bars.
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BLANCHE again! My god. Speaking before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Epstein survivor Dani Bensky blistered the nominee for refusing to meet with victims, month after month, after month. “He simply ignored us,” she told senators – in case any of the Republicans on the committee gave a shit.
Whereas Blanche, as Deputy
Attorney General, famously met with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell,
in July 2025. And he and she enjoyed their conversations – and then Maxwell got
moved to a minimum-security prison in Texas, an unusually sweet setup for a
massively guilty sex offender.
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IN FACT, I EVEN HAVE old news, involving Blanche, this story from June, and one I missed until now. Earlier this summer, Team Trump killed an investigation into coal mines owned by former West Virginia governor and current U.S. Senator, Jim “I Love Water Pollution” Justice. His companies were accused of tens of thousands of violations of the Clean Water Act.
Yes, indeed. Not a hundred. Not a thousand. Tens of thousands!
As ProPublica reports, by order of then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, prosecutors were told, “pencils down.”
Justice would not face justice.
(Well, at least he’s not in the Epstein Files.)
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A human "rubber stamp" for the president to use. |
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MORE TRUST ISSUES? There are reports that VP Vance wanted his Secret Service detail to ferry him, and his son, across D.C., to a golf lesson. By helicopter. As in, spare no expense! Let the taxpayers eat another bill.
(It’s working for Vance’s boss; why not him?)
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WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? Yet another election denier must pay up after losing a defamation case, this time with Hunter Biden besting former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne. In this case, Byrne accused the former president’s son of taking part in an $800 million bribery scheme involving Iran.
Byrne, a fan of President Trump, who has also engaged in frequent defamation campaigns, didn’t bother to defend his claims in court and the judge has awarded Mr. Biden $1.7 million in damages.
Byrne resigned his position with Overstock in 2019, after it was reported he was in a relationship with Maria Butina – later convicted as a Russian spy.
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