The
Second Coming of The Dumpling
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“Totalitarianism
in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their
sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and
creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
Hannah
Arendt
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ONCE
AGAIN, we pick up the cudgels of mockery and steel ourselves to cover the
second presidential term of Donald J. Trump – henceforth to be known by the nickname:
“Donald Dumpling.”
In some cataract
view of the world, the MAGA faithful see a man whose most strenuous form of
exercise is driving a golf cart at high speeds as a macho figure of muscle,
animated by courage. The real “Dumpling” has man boobs and slathers his face
with Cheez Whiz-colored skin toner.
As we
travel the path on which Donald will take us once more, expect lies, and plenty
of them, daily ineptitude, endless excuses, and ominous attempts to subvert
the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution.
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Who slapped that man's mug with toner?
They missed a few spots. |
***
“Irregularities like this are rare.”
October
22, 2024: Let’s step back in time and start with “voter fraud” news.
It’s the same news we’ve been following for the last sixteen goddam years –
this being the period wherein Donald set to work to convince ignorant people that
U.S. elections were rigged by “commie” Democrats.
It
started with lies – and plenty of them – about Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
The Dumpling was so adept at deceit and took so much joy in lying, and so few
of the ignorant caught on to his duplicity, that he kept lying. His lies multiplied,
growing ever more elaborate and absurd.
Now we
have been warned that when the illegals aren’t voting by the trillions, “they
are eating the cats, eating the dogs, eating the pets!”
Meanwhile,
Ohio Attorney General David Yost, a stalwart Republican, has announced an indictment
of six illegal immigrant voters. A grand total of two
voted in 2020. “Irregularities
like this are rare, and this is a small number of cases,” Yost told reporters.
“We should all be confident in the upcoming election, knowing that the laws are
being enforced and will continue to be enforced.”
___
*
WTF! Donald again?????
ELECTION
NIGHT (November 5, 2024): Donald Trump wins a second term. This blogger
is not surprised. Polling numbers, for Democrats, had been ominous. Cheaper
gasoline, here we go!
Also, free
bacon will be handed out in grocery stores, and Donald will really get a healthcare
plan done this time.
___
Unlike
2020.
11/6/24: Kamala
Harris takes time to gather her wits before calling Mr. Trump to admit defeat. At
2 a.m. this morning, Dana Perino, on Fox News, has the temerity to complain. “You should concede and let your opponent have their
election night … Let them have their moment,” she says.
Apparently, Ms. Perino has never heard of “irony.”
(Or journalistic integrity.)
As of
November 6, 2024, 1,464 days had passed, and Donald Dumpling had not conceded
victory to Joseph R. Biden Jr.
*
Vice
President Harris calls the former and future president Wednesday afternoon and
congratulates him on his victory. She also promises that there will be a
peaceful transfer of power.
Unlike 2020.
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A January 6 rioter sprays police with mace.
Donald was still insisting he won. |
___
*
11/13/24:
President Biden – acting maturely – invites President-Elect Trump to visit the White House. As The New York Times
reports:
On
Wednesday, at least, the nation’s 46th president was determined to uphold the
traditions that have long surrounded a peaceful transfer of power – offering to
do “everything we can to make sure you’re accommodated, have what you need” –
even if they were traditions that Mr. Trump refused to extend to him four years
earlier.
Such as: Lying endlessly about a
“Stolen Election,” inciting a riotous attack on Congress, and then refusing to
show up for the Biden Inauguration.
Instead, Mr. Biden said in
greeting: “Welcome. Welcome back.”
“Thank
you very much,” Mr. Trump responded. “And politics is tough, and it’s in many
cases, not a very nice world. But it is a nice world today and I appreciate
very much a transition that’s so smooth, it’ll be as smooth as you can get. And
I very much appreciate that, Joe.”
Mr.
Biden responded: “You’re welcome.”
*
Palestinians
don’t exist. Don’t tell the Palestinians.
Same day: Mr.
Trump announces that he has selected Mike Huckabee, former governor of
Arkansas, and current Christian talk show host, to be the next U.S. ambassador
to Israel. For Middle East envoy, Trump taps Steve Witkoff on the shoulder with
his putter, making clear that his second administration will be even more pro-Israel than
the first. Huckabee may let his biblical views cloud his assessment of current
events – since Joshua, God’s great warrior, was told of old to grab every speck
of The Promised Land for the Jews and kill the current inhabitants.
So, it
came to pass, two thousand years later, that during his own run for president
in 2008, Mike could utter nuggets of thought such as: “Basically, there
really is no such thing as – I need to be careful about saying this, because
people will really get upset – there’s really no such thing as a Palestinian
[emphasis added, unless otherwise noted].”
“You
have Arabs and Persians,” Huckabee continued. “And there’s such complexity in that. But
there’s really no such thing. That’s been a political tool to try and force
land away from Israel.”
(So, f**k the Palestinians for sure.)
As for
Witkoff, he’s a fat cat real estate tycoon and presidential golfing buddy. He spent
his time during the 2024 campaign, raising money for Mr. Trump, and ignoring the
suffering in Gaza, where the Palestinians – who don’t exist – still think they
have a right to live. When the Biden administration stopped shipping 2,000-pound
bombs to Israel, where they used them to pulverize the Gaza Strip, Witkoff saw
a chance to use the humanitarian delay as a fund-raising tool. Every one of his
friends, he told reporters, started calling, asking, “What can I do for Donald
Trump?”
He
suggested they start writing “six-figure and seven-figure donations,” meaning that
in this Trump administration the “Palestinians” are sure to be screwed.
Meanwhile,
in Gaza:
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Yazen Khaled
was orphaned by an Israeli airstrike
that
killed his parents and all his siblings.
His leg
was amputated in Gaza without anesthesia. |
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Maram Qassim,
5, was pronounced dead and wrapped in burial cloth.
Her
mother insisted on seeing her one last time and squeezed her hand.
Maram
squeezed back, albeit faintly. But sure: send those six-figure and seven-figure checks. |
*
During
his second run for president, Donald Dumpling bragged about his diplomatic success
during his first term, claiming: “With the historic Abraham Accords, I even
made peace in the Middle East [emphasis added],” he said. “We’re gonna have
peace in the Middle East.”
The
Abraham Accords, signed in late 2020, did normalize relations between Israel
and some nations in the Middle East.
They
assuredly did not bring peace.
*
“I know
nothing about Project 2025.”
Same day: Kevin
Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation, is no doubt happier to see Trump
returning to office than most normal Americans. It was Roberts, after all, and
his Foundation, that brought conservative thinkers together to create the massive
922-page Project 2025, which laid out an extreme right-wing agenda, should Donald
prevail in the 2024 election.
Democrats
blasted Trump, warning that Project 2025 suggested all kinds of unpopular policies,
putting The Dumpling on the defensive. In July, on Truth Social, he insisted, “I know nothing about Project
2025. I have no idea who is behind it.”
Yet, The
New York Times could report that Donald had, in fact, “sat next to Roberts on
a 45-minute private flight to a 2022 Heritage conference, where Trump had given
a speech praising the organization’s work ‘to lay the groundwork and detail
plans for exactly what our movement will do.’”
Trump’s
amnesia was even more surprising, considering J.D. Vance had written the forward
to a book by Mr. Roberts, scheduled for release in September 2024. You’d have
thought he might have taken time to tell the Dumpling-Elect who Roberts was and
what his plans were should the Trump/Vance ticket prevail.
Provisions
included in Project 2025:
ü Excluding
abortion from health care
ü Disbanding
federal agencies
ü Killing
climate change programs
ü A plan to
“burn down” the F.B.I.
ü Also:
“every Ivy League college”
ü Also: The
New York Times
Publication
of Roberts’ book, Dawn’s Early Light, was delayed until after the election.
But a reporter from The Guardian, who showed up at a gathering to
celebrate its release, and who had the nerve to ask questions, was told to “go
to hell” and escorted out.
___
Recounts validate the voting system.
11/20/24: If you
have been living with your head wedged in a Halloween pumpkin, you may not
realize how often recounts validate the security of state and federal
elections. In
Maine, multiple GOP losers in the November 5 contest asked for recounts, which
is fair in races as tight as theirs.
So, what
happened? In the first recount – of more than 6,200 votes – the Democratic
candidate’s margin of victory decreased by one. In a second recount, the
Democrat’s margin was cut to seven out of 4,600, down three. A third
race for a seat in the Maine legislature saw the Democrat prevail by 36 votes
on Election Night. In that case, the recount showed a gain of three.
As the Portland Press Herald explained,
in a fourth recount, Democrat Kilton Webb won House District 98 by 55 votes,
2,996 to 2,941, over Republican Guy Lebida. Webb lost a solitary vote in
the recount.
Lebida’s total was unchanged.
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11/21/24:
In most states, elections go to automatic recount, if victory margins fall below certain
percentages of the total votes. The battle for a seat in Congress, from Iowa’s First
Congressional District, falls into that category, with the GOP candidate ahead by 802 votes, out of 413,000.
This blogger is not aware of any race – other
than the statewide recount in Georgia, in 2020, which involved five million
votes – where an error larger than 802 has been discovered, let alone the
result reversed.
Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks, the leader
in the Iowa race, has faced a recount before. In 2020, she won Iowa’s Second
Congressional District, by six votes. The original count of just under 400,000 votes had shown Miller-Meeks
ahead by 47. So, she lost 41 votes, a high number, as recounts go.
Ironically, Rep. Miller-Meeks’ campaign accused Democrats of being “election deniers,” and Republicans complained,
and said the recount was a waste of taxpayer dollars. “This is a delaying
tactic,” her campaign added, “to thwart the will of the people.” Which Republicans
would never support!
UPDATE
(11/27/24): The recount is completed, and the Democrat picks up a
measly four votes.
*
Senators
bringeth the stones.
11/21/24 (Bible
Interlude): For
those of you “less Christian” than Pete Hegseth, Trump’s uber-religious choice to
head up the Department of Defense, the Good Book is clear when it comes to
adultery, which even Pete admits he has often committed.
First, you’ve got that
whole Ten Commandments list. Number VII: “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
The idea is hammered
home in Number X: “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not
covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his
ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.” (See: Exodus
20:14 and 20:17, respectively.)
(To
paraphrase: Don’t covet the neighbour’s wife’s ass.)
For fun, we can also turn
to Exodus: 20:10: “And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s
wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the
adulterer and the adultress shall surely be put to death.”
In fact, in both
Leviticus and Deuteronomy it is made clear that the death sentence shall be carried
out by stoning.
You can read all about it
yourself. In Exodus you also have death as remedy for those who “curseth” their
father or mother. You have death for he who shall “lieth” with his father’s
wife – this having been an era when a man could have multiple wives and sleep
with slave girls – and death for the man who “lieth” with his daughter-in-law.
If a man lies with a beast, you guessed it. Death for the man. And a club to
the skull for the offending beast.
The religious zealots –
like Pete – forget these admonitions. But one idea many still fixate upon
today remains: “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both
of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their
blood shall be upon them.”
So, if Pete is right,
and “God Wills It,” as one of his tattoos reads, he won’t have to worry about
Senate confirmation.
The senators will bringeth
the stones.
FUN FACT:
Should we decide to “Make America Biblical Again” we’re going to thin out conservative
ranks rather quickly. Hegseth gets stoned. Donald Dumpling gets stones. Rudy
Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, and Jerry Falwell Jr. get the rocks, too. Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., a Democrat, but Donald’s bizarre choice to head Health and Human
Services, is also doomed. He famously kept a list of 37 women he
slept with while married to his first wife – who found it and committed
suicide. And then he cheated on his current wife with at least three more women.
UPDATE (6/8/25): While looking for another story
about adultery, I stumbled on the tale of Jesse Watters, Fox News master of
bombast, who also had an adulterous affair with a much younger Fox employee.
So bringeth the stones!
___
“Consistent
with strangulation.”
11/22/24: Good
news, family values folk! Republican State Rep. Lucas Lanigan has won a recount by a single vote and
will keep his seat in the Maine legislature. Also,
bad news, family values folk! Lanigan has been accused of choking his wife,
after she confronted him with evidence about an affair.
(See “Stoning,” above.)
Rep.
Lanigan finished with 2,478 votes. His Democratic challenger, Patty Kidder,
finished with 2,477. The original count had the candidates tied.
Mrs.
Lanigan is asking to drop charges, but prosecutors have refused. When she first
complained, charges of aggravated domestic assault were filed. She was taken to
a hospital, where she was found to have bruises on both sides of her neck,
consistent with strangulation.
I am not
going to make a cheap pun, and suggest Rep. Lanigan choked back tears when his
one vote-victory was announced.
*
Same day
– non choking news: President-Elect Dumpling has announced that his choice for senior director for counterterrorism, as part of
the National Security Council, will be Sebastian Gorka. Donald praised Gorka,
saying that “since 2015, Dr. Gorka has been a tireless advocate for the America
First Agenda and the MAGA Movement.” If you’ve ever listened to The Dumpling,
or Gorka, you know their idea of “terrorists” comes down to reporters, doing
the job the free press is tasked with performing. We also know that Dr. Gorka is not a fan of the
Black Lives Matter folks, or liberals in general.
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Ejaculating on her chest.
11/24/24: There’s
fresh news regarding studly Fox News commentator Pete Hegseth, Trump’s choice
to helm the Defense Department during his second term. Pete does have combat
experience, with the U.S. Army in Iraq and Afghanistan. So, this blogger can
respect that.
And he is studly; and Donald loves advisors who
look studly, if male, or hot, if female. Not counting Dr. Gorka (see above).
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Trump picked his lawyer, Alina Habba (second from left), one suspects,
based on cleavage, not legal acumen.
She helped him lose more than $88 million in two defamation lawsuits. |
Pete is also a survivor of deadly combat with
women – for example, women he has married, and women other men have
married. Hegseth first cut the three-tiered cake in 2004, when he wed Meredith
Schwarz. The couple divorced in 2009. Apparently, Pete’s five admitted affairs were one too many for Mrs. Hegseth. The
candidate to lead Defense didn’t wait long to carve the cake a second time,
marrying Samantha Deering in 2010. Pete and Samantha had three children
together, but Pete was once again boinking elsewhere. In August 2017, while
still married to Deering, he had a daughter with Fox executive producer
Jennifer Rauchet.
A second divorce followed.
It was time for wedding cake once more, and Hegseth
and Rauchet, who has three young children from her first marriage, “tied the
knot” (loosely?), in August 2019. The
ceremony was held at Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, where
cheating on wives is not considered a problem.
As mentioned on November 11 (above), Pete is
super religious and when not banging women he’s not married to yet – or never
will be – he enjoys attending services
at Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship. That congregation is affiliated with the Communion
of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
Sometimes, Pete likes to show off his tattoos,
including a Jerusalem cross on his chest, and one reading “Deus Vult,” a Latin phrase meaning “God Wills It,” on his right bicep. This last
phrase harkens to the Crusades, when Catholic and Muslim soldiers devoted the best
part of two centuries to killing each other.
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Murderous religious warfare! What fun!
|
For good measure, Mr. Hegseth has been accused of
assaulting a woman he met at a business conference. Here, we can rely on USA
Today to tell the tale:
The 2017 allegation centers on a California
Federation of Republican Women convention where Hegseth, a telegenic Republican
culture warrior, was the keynote speaker on Saturday, October 7, and his
alleged victim was a staffer for the organization.
On several occasions that night, the alleged
victim expressed dislike for Hegseth
In texts to her husband, who was staying at the hotel with,
according to reports, their two small children, she wrote that Hegseth was giving off “creeper” vibes,
ridiculing him as he spoke from the podium.
“I’m
going to be here all night,” she wrote. “It’s awful.” She also texted her
husband that she had been drinking “much more than normal.”
Much of what occurred from
that point forward is in dispute – one woman’s word against one studly man’s.
What is not in dispute is that Pete soon had the woman naked and in bed and
admits he did ejaculate on her chest. But he says he was careful to ask the
married lady if she was okay with everything he was doing.
Such as committing adultery.
Again.
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A vibrant
free press is ideal.
11/25/24: As a
former history teacher, I would like to suggest that if you don’t know why we
all gain from having a vibrant free press, you need to go back to middle
school and pay more attention in social studies class. The concept is simple. If
Fox News can help expose a Democratic politician skimming cash from foreign
agents, or the Washington Post can expose a Trump adviser for shaking
down potential candidates for spots in the Trump administration, we all
benefit.
Fewer
crooks in government = good news for taxpayers, and honest individuals,
generally, both MAGA and UN-MAGA, alike.
And so, today’s
news:
A top adviser
to President-elect Donald Trump asked potential
administration nominees to give him monthly consulting fees in exchange for advocating for them
to Trump, a written review by Trump’s legal team concluded.
The scathing
review of Boris Epshteyn, a top lawyer to Trump who has extensive
sway in the transition, was prepared by Trump’s attorneys in recent days, according to two
people familiar with the report. It found that among those whom Epshteyn had
unsuccessfully solicited for payment was Scott Bessent, Trump’s pick for
treasury secretary.
Trump
commissioned the report after he heard allegations that Epshteyn had been
asking potential Cabinet nominees and others for money, said the people, who
spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the internal document.
The review
recommended that Epshteyn’s employment with and proximity to Trump should be
ended, warning of scandal for Trump and possibly eventual criminal charges for
Epshteyn, according to one of the people with knowledge of the review.
The existence
of the review itself was first reported by CNN. Some of the elements
of Epshteyn’s conduct were first reported by Just the News, a conservative
website, on Monday afternoon. That outlet said it had spoken to Trump, who had
criticized anyone who seeks to make money off him. “I suppose every President
has people around them who try to make money off them on the outside. It’s a
shame but it happens,” Trump said, according to the outlet. “But no one working
for me in any capacity should be looking to make money.”
We should also mention
that Boris was setting his standards high. He wasn’t going to sell his soul
cheap. He was expecting $100,000 a month from candidates willing to pay for his
“services.”
(Only Donald Dumpling,
himself, shall sell the golden tennis shoes.)
(Also: The
Bibles.)
___
11/28/24:
President-Elect Trump issues another heartfelt Thanksgiving message to the
American people.
“Happy
Thanksgiving to all,” he posted on Truth Social, “including
to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country,
but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and
policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a
landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
“Don’t
worry,” he added, “our Country will soon be respected, productive, fair, and
strong, and you will be, more than ever before, proud to be an
American!”
___
11/29/24: As the
right-wingers like to say, every time they see a veteran, “Thank you for your
service.”
Not
counting anyone who has ever crossed Donald Trump.
Today,
Elon Musk accused Col.
Alexander Vindman (now retired) of committing “treason” when he testified
against Donald during the president’s first impeachment – and said Trump held
up aid to Ukraine for selfish reasons, even at risk to U.S. security.
We would
also like to remind readers that Vindman’s testimony was later supported by
John Bolton, Trump’s National Security Advisor.
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“Get some help and take an honest look
at yourself.”
11/30/24:
President-Elect Trump chooses Jared Kushner’s father to be ambassador to France,
because if you look high and low and even Google, “Rich people who are not
crooks,” there is no better choice to fill the spot than Charles Kushner. Sure,
you could look up and down your street, for example, and think, “My neighbor,
Debbie, is not a pardoned criminal. I will select Debbie!”
Nope.
Instead,
you pick Charles, who “was convicted of
preparing false tax returns, retaliating against a cooperating witness, and
making false statements to the Federal Election Commission in 2005.”
And who pardoned Mr. Kushner in 2020?
Donald did.
*
“The sad, sad truth.”
Same day: Pete
Hegseth’s problems just got a little worse, when an old email, sent to him by his mother surfaced.
Mom now insists she supports her boy and hopes he can be the next Secretary of
Defense – and tell women they don’t belong in combat – but maybe belong in his
bedroom.
Angry over what she had seen of her
son’s behavior, back in 2018, she fired off an email. “On behalf of all the
women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say … get some help
and take an honest look at yourself,” Penelope Hegseth wrote,
while making clear she still loved her son.
“I have no respect for any man that
belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego,”
she added. “You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it
pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.”
*
Same day: Let’s
not forget Kash Patel, Donald Dumpling’s choice to head up the F.B.I. If confirmed by the Senate, Patel will be the
first director ever to have pleaded the Fifth in front of a federal grand jury.
In
October 2022, a probe into Donald’s mishandling of top-secret documents was
moving forward. Patel was called to testify, but decided he’d rather not
incriminate himself, for any criminal efforts he might have made to help a
possible plot advance. It is, of course, a virtue of the U.S. Constitution,
that a defendant need not testify against himself. But I would not think the
average voter would believe the best person to lead the F.B.I. for the next ten
years is a guy with possible crimes to hide.
Patel
was granted immunity for his testimony, which meant
if he told the truth, he could not be prosecuted; but whatever he said when
questioned again, was included in the Jack Smith report. This report is now
being kept secret by order of GOP Congressional leaders – who are deathly
afraid of Donald J. Trump.
(In his own cases, Donald has taken the Fifth hundreds of
times.)
Other
luminaries who have taken the Fifth include Mark Maguire, who refused to answer
questions before a Congressional panel, regarding steroid use in baseball.
Maguire, of course, set the single season homerun record with 70 moonshots in
1998. That record was broken three years later when Sammy Sosa blasted 73. Both
men, as we now know, absolutely used steroids.
Also
refusing to talk to Congressional investigators, we have “pharmaceutical bro”
Martin Shkreli, who went to prison anyway, after it turned out he had
come up with clever schemes to increase certain drug prices – in one case, from
$13.50 per pill to $750.00, almost overnight.
(More
recently, Shkreli lost another court battle, and was ordered to disgorge
$64.6 million in illicit gains.)
__________
“We will
go out and find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media.
Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American
citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We’re going to come
after you. Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out.”
Kash
Patel, October 2023.
__________
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Donald J. Trump (whom we will nickname “Donald Dumpling” during his second term)
gets December 2024, off to a rousing start. It’s
going to be a long, dickish four years.
“Oh,
Canada!”
12/2/24: Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau travels to Mar-a-Lago to discuss tariffs with The
Dumpling. (Trump can’t travel to Canada because Canada doesn’t allow felons
to cross its border.)
When
Trudeau says Trump’s tariff plans will be devastating to Canada – which happens
to be an allied nation – Donald suggests that perhaps Canada should become the 51st state. The Prime Minister later says the President-Elect was “joking.” But I am
guessing, behind closed doors, Trudeau has a different opinion of what sounded to
most ears like an insult.
Because:
1. Canada
has 41 million people and would not want to become a state equal in the U.S.
Senate (two senators each) with Wyoming, which has .6 million.
2. Our
northern neighbor is divided into thirteen provinces and territories. At least
eight should, if we are using the U.S. model, become states. Ontario, for
example, would be fifth in population, beating out Pennsylvania. Quebec would
match Virginia, and British Columbia would equal Alabama.
(Only with more hockey players.)
3. Saskatchewan
would have to change its name to “Even Farther North Dakota,” and would also demand
two senators, as would all these provinces.
4.
Canada has universal healthcare.
5. An
overwhelming majority of Canadians (81%) believe climate change is real, and think Donald
Dumpling is a moron because he can’t tell the difference between climate and
weather.
6. Only 21% of Canadians would have picked the Dumpling
over Kamala Harris, vs. 60% for the Democrat.
UPDATE:
Whether or not Trump was joking, he decided to troll the Canadians again. On
Truth Social, the president-elect posted the picture below – one apparently
generated by AI – with a two-word caption, “Oh Canada!”
An alert
observer pointed out that the mountain in the distance is the Matterhorn –
which is in Switzerland – which is not a Canadian province. No sane
person would expect Trump to know that. During his first term he thought he could trade
Puerto Rico for Greenland.
No
president has ever had so many ways to prove he’s a shallow asshole. So, he
trolled Trudeau again!
“It was
a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin
Trudeau of the Great State of Canada,” Donald posted on Truth Social. “I look
forward to seeing the Governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth
talks on Tariffs and Trade, the results of which will be truly spectacular for
all! DJT.”
___
12/3/24: Another
“Stolen Election” myth is revealed, after Dinesh D’Souza admits that the core
argument of his movie “2000 Mules,” is based on flawed data – also known as “data people made up.”
He is
clearly worried about being sued for defamation.
Again.
*
Same day: Donald
Dumpling threatens Hamas with “all hell to pay,” if American
hostages captured in the attack on Israel in October 2023, are not released by
the time he takes office. “Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has
been hit in the long and storied history of the United States of America,”
Macho Don promises. Then he adds, in all caps, “RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!”
Naturally,
Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been raining death and destruction on Gaza, thanked
his boy for his “strong statement.”
Short of
dropping a nuclear weapon on the Gaza strip, there’s not much more you can do
to make hell pay. As for more bombs, at this point, as someone once said,
you’re just “making the rubble bounce.”
___
“It’s typical Trump, all
bluster, very little substance.”
12/4/24: File
this under the category: “Numbskull Hypocrisy.” Sen. Mitch McConnell is irked because
two Democratic-appointed federal judges have unretired, in the
face of Donald Trump’s election.
Mitch
says this proves “partisan politics” are involved – and the nerve of these
judges, not to want to be replaced by Trump’s picks. Rudy Giuliani, maybe?
Or
Matt Gaetz? He’s available, again.
If you
have the attention span of a muskmelon, you should remember a happy time when
McConnell, then Senate Majority Leader, blocked an Obama appointment to the U.S.
Supreme Court (March 2016), saying it was too close to the November
2016 election. Mitch insisted the people should decide who
they wanted on the court, by picking their president eight months later – that
president then picking their favorite judges – a concept which is nowhere mentioned
in the U.S. Constitution.
Then you
may remember when McConnell looked at the
calendar on October 27, 2020, and voted, along with his GOP pals, to
put a fresh face, Amy Coney Barrett, on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mitch
did not feel a need to wait and see who the people wanted for president, six
days later.
*
Same day: Even
more hypocrisy! Old clips of Pete Hegseth surface, with Pete saying what this
blogger used to say – but what this blogger still does. (We even have a Megan Kelly
sighting.) Pete is all bent out of shape after Candidate Trump, in 2016, says
he supports torture. “It’s typical Trump, all bluster, very little substance,” he
fumes. “He
talks a tough game. But then when pressed on it, he’s an armchair tough guy. I
hate to say it, but this is a guy who said that John McCain is not a war hero.
Yet he sought his own five military deferments.”
Pete was right, and I’ve
been right all along. Trumps are sunshine patriots, at best, cowards, at worst.
*
Same day:
Trump picks Peter Navarro to be his trade advisor – that is: to hold the same
job he had for Team Trump 1.0.
When last seen, Navarro was lodged in prison,
after refusing to testify in front of Congress. He couldn’t even bother to
show up and plead the Fifth. We should also point out that he is still
fighting a court order to turn over documents that might relate to the attack
on Congress on January 6, 2021.
UPDATE
(6/2/25): Lo and behold! The Department of Justice drops legal action against
Navarro. (Old Pete had refused to hand over documents, required under the
Presidential Records Act – such as documents which might reveal egregious or illegal
acts performed by members of Team Trump 1.0.)
Navarro fought the matter at all three levels
of the federal judiciary and lost every time. But he stalled the justice system
just long enough.
Now, Team Trump 2.0 has saved his ass.
*
“Find
the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media.”
Same day: Now
that Matt Gaetz is out as Trump’s choice for attorney general, we will have to
make do with Kash Patel, to head up the F.B.I. – a man who, at least, is less
likely to pay prostitutes for services rendered.
Recently,
an interview from October 2023 resurfaced. At the time, Kash showed up on Steve Bannon’s show where the two
discussed their plan to implement fascism if Trump were reelected. To say that
“the rule of law” was not prominently discussed is an understatement.
In fact, said
Patel:
“We will
go out and find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media.
Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American
citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We’re going to come
after you. Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out. But,
yeah, we’re putting you all on notice.”
The fact
that Team Trump had had more than four years to prove that Biden
rigged the 2020 election, and found nothing but cobwebs in corners, does not
trouble Mr. Patel. So, we’re stuck with another threat to the free press.
*
We
should also point out that during Donald’s first go as president, Patel worked at the Department of Defense. He
served as chief of staff for Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, Trump’s
third and last choice to fill that slot during his first administration.
Choice
#1, Gen. James Mattis, ended up labeling the president as a threat to the U.S. Constitution.
Choice
#2, Mark Esper, also called Trump a threat to the U.S. Constitution.
As for
Secretary Miller, in the wake of the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, he
blamed the president’s rhetoric and lies for all the wild violence, describing what happened as “cause and effect.”
(Dear MAGA folks: You should probably notice a
trend.)
___
No choice but to riot.
12/6/24:
Donald Trump showed up for “Fox Nation’s Patriot of the Year” ceremony, and to
the surprise of no one, walked away with the trophy – “Patriot of the Year.” It was handed over by
none other than Sean Hannity, Donald’s ass-smooching friend.
Meanwhile, Mr. Dumpling has promised to pardon
all 1,600 January 6 rioters on his first day in office. According to Donald,
those fools had no choice but to riot and pummel cops with flagpoles, baseball
bats, hockey sticks, and expandable batons, and douse them with wasp repellant,
bear spray, and chemical irritants.
Because Donald – in his patriotic delusions –
said he really won the 2020 election and unleashed the mob.
QUIZ TIME
1. Which of these four individuals has hired
more undocumented immigrants during their lifetime?
A) “Sleepy Joe” Biden
B) John (the blogger)
C) Barack Obama
D) Donald J. Trump (former and future
president)
Answer: D
The Dumpling has a long history of hiring immigrants, legal and illegal, to do jobs Americans don’t
really want.
At least at the level of pay cheap-ass
Donald is willing to offer.
___
More seashore, more morons!
12/9/24:
Planet Earth is screwed. Team Trump 2.0 is stuffed with climate deniers, in the
warped mold of Donald Dumpling himself. Donald is the only idiot ever to claim
that climate change will increase the amount of seashore in the world.
Ha, ha, MAGA folks. You elected a moron.
Speaking of morons, Trump’s pick for energy
secretary is fracking executive Chris Wright, not quite as clueless as The
Dumpling, but not appreciably brighter. His take on climate change? He agrees that burning fossil fuels is
contributing to rising temperatures.
But he also says climate change makes the
planet greener [emphasis added] by increasing plant growth, boosts
agricultural productivity and likely reduces the number of temperature-related
deaths annually.
“It’s
probably almost as many positive changes as there are negative changes,” he
told conservative media nonprofit PragerU last year, referring to climate
change. “Is it a crisis, is it the world’s greatest challenge, or a big threat
to the next generation? No.”
Trump,
of course, is still trying to stay as far away from windmills as possible – which
he insists cause cancer.
UPDATE (1/20/25):
You can argue all kinds of ways about what must be done to deal
with the climate threat. If you think Trump and Wright are right, however, you must
ask yourself: What do the rest of the nations of the world know that they
don’t? At last count, 194 countries, and the European Union, have signed on to
efforts to limit the damage done by climate change.
A full
list of nations that have not:
Iran
Libya
Yemen
– and now
–
United
States
Trump
took us out of the deal during his first term in office and Biden took us back
in, and Donald has jerked us out again.
Yay!
More seashore.
*
Same day: But
wait, there’s more! I mean morons. Today, 75 non-morons, all Nobel laureates, cautioned against putting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in
charge of America’s healthcare system.
With RFK
Jr., you get attacks on vaccines, and support for taking horse tranquilizers to
stop the spread of COVID.
Richard
Roberts, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 1993, put it plainly.
“These political attacks on science are very damaging.”
In a
letter, the group warns: “Placing Mr. Kennedy in charge of DHHS would put
the public’s health in jeopardy [emphasis added unless otherwise noted] and
undermine America’s global leadership in the health sciences.”
We know,
for example, that in 2019, nurses in Samoa mistakenly mixed a muscle relaxant
with a measles vaccine and two children died. Kennedy saw this as proof that
vaccines were unsafe and helped fuel an anti-vaccine fervor. A measles outbreak
followed, and 83 Samoans died, most of them
children.
Kennedy
took his show to Europe in 2020, where he helped spread the conspiracy theory
that the COVID-19 pandemic was part of “a sinister game” played by governments of the world to control people. “A lot of it feels very planned to
me,” he explained during a visit to Germany.
Here, the
hard-working blogger should naturally respond: “Look, if we’re doing ‘feelings,’
instead of science, I have a ‘feeling’ that Robert is kind of nutty on the
vaccine topic, among others.”
___
12/13/24: The
free press, doing what the free press does best – reports on RFK Jr. ally Aaron
Siri. In 2022, Siri petitioned to have the Food and Drug Administration revoke approval for the polio vaccine.
Apparently, Aaron and Robert believe the vaccine hasn’t been tested sufficiently
for safety.
Bring
back paralysis, leg braces, and iron lungs!
FUN FACT: Did you
know that Rupert Murdoch got married for the fifth time this past June? Bride
#5 is a Russian lady, Elena Zhukova, who was previously married to a Russian oligarch, and
whose daughter was married to Roman Abramovich, another oligarch, also Russian.
I think
all the MAGA faithful will agree. You can never have too many oligarchs
helping run the government and shaping the news you receive, whether here or in
Russia. For example: Elon Musk.
UPDATE (6/8/25):
Okay. Forget Elon. Elon is now out, and Donald Dumpling is warning that there will be “very serious
consequences” if Musk bankrolls Democratic candidates in coming
elections.
(If that doesn’t sound like fascism to you, you need to read up
more on fascism.)
___
“Digitally
penetrated.”
12/16/24:
There’s wild celebration at Mar-a-Lago, when Donald wins
a defamation suit against ABC, after George Stephanopoulos, referred to him during
a Sunday morning This Week show, as a “rapist.”
ABC will
pay $15 million in damages, and another million to offset Donald’s legal costs.
In fact, Trump was adjudged to have “digitally penetrated” a woman, against her
will: Namely E. Jean Carroll.
Is that,
technically “rape?” ABC didn’t want to fight. So, yay, Donald. You’re not a
“rapist.” Just a scuzz bag.
As most
of us who fear Donald and his fascists leanings remember, during his first,
manic term in office he consistently displayed disrespect for the free press.
As in, reporters, are “Enemies of the people.”
You
would think even an ass-smooching fool like Sean Hannity would understand why
presidents attacking the free press pose a threat to freedom. Angered by leaks
to reporters during his first term, Trump made clear he believed government should
curtail reporters’ abilities to shield sources. Or,
as he put it, in his crude, classless fashion, there’s a good way to smoke out leakers.
“The reporter goes to jail,” he sneered. “When
the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain
prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough, and mean, he will say, he or she, ‘I
think I’m going to give you the information. Here’s the leaker, get me the hell
out of here.’”
Just how crazy is Donald – and how far is he
planning to take his war on the free press during a second term? He has filed a damage suit against the Des Moines Register, and pollster
J. Ann Selzer, after they produced and reported on a poll showing that Trump
was losing Iowa by three points, heading into the November election. We know
polls are wrong all the time. That makes this lawsuit stupid.
And dangerous.
___
“Ask why
schools HAVE to.”
12/17/24: Today, we have another school shooting. This one is in Madison,
Wisconsin, at a private Christian academy. Three dead, including the
15-year-old female shooter. Three lives wasted. Six injured.
But, hey, those
Christian schools don’t let just anyone use the bathroom of his, her or they’s
choice.
Also: This is American,
and all we can ever do is buy more guns to make ourselves safer from the crazy
people who are also buying more guns.
Do we have a lot of
these school shooting incidents? Yes, there were 85 in the 2000s, in this
country.
Then there were 266 the
following decade.
And it’s only getting worse: 226 bloody incidents,
in just the last five years.
A
frustrated chief of police in Madison, finally
said,
“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass & metal detectors at
all the doors. Ask why schools HAVE to. That’s the question that needs to be
asked.”
*
Same day: What America
really needs is millions more guns to make our children safer. And more pipe bombs!
Brad Spafford
of Virginia has been arrested and charged with possession of 150 pipe bombs of
various kinds.
Spafford
is said to be a connoisseur of explosive devices. Some he allegedly kept in a
detached garage on his property and marked with the word “lethal.” Others he
kept in an unsecured backpack in his bedroom. That backpack carried the phrase,
“#nolivesmatter.” (According to the F.B.I., the No Lives Matter movement espouses
an ideology of targeted mass killings, spiced up with self-harm and animal
abuse.)
If you
blame schools for the problems of society, federal agents found two small
children living in the home.
In his
freezer, Spafford allegedly kept a jar of chemicals he told authorities was so
unstable, even a temperature change or friction could touch it off. It was
marked, “Dangerous,” and “Do Not Touch,” and was found along with “what
appeared to be Hot Pockets and other food items.” For fun, Dad Brad liked to
use a picture of Joe Biden for target practice and had been working on gaining
“sniper-rifle qualification” at a nearby shooting range. At some point,
Spafford apparently “disfigured” his hand while blowing shit up. And of course,
he was stockpiling arms and ammunition. Among other charges, he is accused of
possession of an unregistered short-barrel rifle.
Plus, he
was in possession of an assault-style rifle, which every American needs to
protect his or her family.
___
The
warmest year in 125,000 years.
12/18/24: Data gathered by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, and the European Union’s
Copernicus Climate Change Service have caused growing alarm. Put plainly:
temperature increases appear to be accelerating in unexpected fashion. It’s
no surprise that 2024 is expected to be the hottest year in recorded history –
beating out the old hottest year – 2023.
But studies of tree rings and ice cores indicate that we may now
be “enjoying” the warmest year in the last 125,000.
In November, for example, record high temperatures on all seven
continents outnumbered record lows, 50-1.
The alarming numbers were the subject of discussion at the American
Geophysical Union conference in Washington last week. You figure Donald Trump
has never heard of the Union, nor would he care to have the data explained. He
has the same level of intellectual curiosity as a totem pole.
UPDATE (3/11/25): Once Donald takes
office, with the help of Elon Musk, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration is gutted, with thousands of workers terminated.
Now we won’t have to worry about 2024 being the hottest year in
the last 1,250 centuries. Because NOAA won’t be reporting.
___
12/19/24: Let’s catch up on all news
Donald Trump. Come for the facts, stay for the mockery.
First, The Dumpling has blown up a funding deal worked out by
hard-pressed Republicans in Congress. In fact, his right-hand, right-wing
immigrant pal, Elon Musk, is clamoring for government to shut down for 33
days.
We can also report that now that the election is over, GOP
members in Congress have decided to admit that cuts to Social Security and
Medicare are on the table. Because we have
huge deficits, and you can’t raise taxes on billionaires.
When I checked this morning, Musk was worth $464 billion. To get
a sense of how much that is, if he put all his money in certificates of
deposit, earning 1.74% annually, he would have an extra $8,073,600,000 twelve
months later. That would give him $22,119,452 to spend every single day.
(The Dumpling also needs a tax cut.)
Second: Donald has chosen Herschel Walker, former football
player, and guy who put a gun to his wife’s head and threatened to blow her “f**king brains out,” and tried to punch a girlfriend,
but she dodged, to be ambassador to The Bahamas. If you’ve never heard Mr.
Walker speak, you are missing a comic pleasure. I doubt he could find The
Bahamas on a map of the world.
Even after we send him there.
(I doubt the President-Elect could, either.)
Third: Equally amusing, since Don Jr. was doing his best to
ditch girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle, Don Sr. has decided to ship Kimberly off
to Greece, to serve as ambassador. All that Botox she
got still wasn’t enough.
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Not enough Botox. |
Fourth: It’s official. The U.S. economy grew at a healthy 3.1% rate in the third
quarter of this year.
Not bad, Joe Biden!
That followed another good quarterly report, for April-June, of
3%; so, Donald should be inheriting a solid economy in January.
Meanwhile, “Dumps” has already backed off a promise to lower grocery prices as soon as he recites
the oath of office – which we know he’s going to break. He now admits what
every person over the age of five should have grasped. Once prices go up, they
almost never come back down. For example, I’m old enough to remember when
gas was 19 cents a gallon. In high school, I could still go to a movie for a
dollar, and I bought my first house in 1976, for $31,000.
Well, then, can we expect the price of eggs to drop, and will bacon
be handed out at Kroger free? When asked recently if he thought he could slash
grocery prices, Donnie backpedaled, faster than he did when approached by the
draft board when he was a lad. “I don’t think so. Look, they got them up,” he told ABC News, referring to Team
Biden. “I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re
up. You know, it’s very hard.”
Fifth: Okay, so no free bacon. Well, then, what about his plan
to end the war in Ukraine in one day?
April Fools.
___
No more
debt ceiling.
12/20/24: Once
again, Republicans can’t chew gum and keep the federal government funded at the
same time. First, they passed a resolution to fund the system until Donald
took office. Donald started barking, and Elon Musk, who has hundreds of
billions of dollars all to himself, joined in, with Elon insisting government
be shut down. With that, the bill just passed by the
House of Representatives went straight to the morgue.
Then
Donald said he wanted a bill which would get rid of the “debt ceiling” until
2029, at which point he could happily waddle away from the White House –
assuming his lard ass lived that long. Then conservatives in Congress, who claim
they believe in balancing the budget, refused. That meant Donald got mad and
insulted Rep. Chip Roy, who proudly calls himself fiscally responsible.
On Truth
Social, the president-elect went with a fresh screed: “The very unpopular
‘Congressman’ from Texas, Chip Roy, is getting in the way, as usual, of having
yet another Great Republican Victory – All for the sake of some cheap publicity
for himself. Republican obstructionists have to be done away with.”
We should
point out, as The Dumpling’s second term approaches, that it’s always fun to
read his postings – with his random use of quotation marks, as if Roy isn’t
really a “Congressman.” A little checking (and here we are adopting Trump-style
random quotation marks), reveals that Roy won his “race” for “reelection” in
2024, with “62%” of the “vote.” By the way, his Twenty-First Congressional
District, in Texas, is weirdly gerrymandered to dilute the vote of blue-leaning Austin.
Trump,
himself got 56% of the vote in Texas, but I can’t find any comparison of his
vote in Roy’s district.
Anyway,
Donald now says Roy should face a primary challenge, and if he does, he will
have “no chance.”
(Those last quotation marks are in the original post.)
In other
news, Republicans like Rep. Paula Luna immediately blamed Democrats for killing the budget deal.
Then
“Congresswoman” Luna and other “Republicans” did a little scrambling and came
up with a “bill” that “could pass” – eliminating the debt ceiling for two years
– thereby kicking the “Deficit Can” down the road another few miles.
*
We can
now add another billionaire or three to the crew helping
Trump plan for the next four years. Meet Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle.
He comes in nicely at $210 billion net worth.
This
crew of ordinary Americans, helping Trump shape policy for the next four years,
includes:
Marc
Andreessen: Net worth, a paltry $1.9 billion, but no doubt hoping to see his
bank account balloon by sucking up to Trump.
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Mr. Andreessin. |
Peter
Thiel, the billionaire who flew J.D. Vance around on his private jet and pushed
for him to be chosen for VP. Thiel is worth $14.3 billion.
Palmer
Luckey, head of a military technology firm called Anduril; Forbes estimates his net
worth at $2.4 billion.
Antonio
Gracias, an Elon pal, $1.5 billion.
Vivek
Ramaswamy, Elon sidekick, $1 billion.
John
Hering, a venture capitalist, whose firm, Vy Capital, has invested $4 billion in Musk enterprises.
Then we
have billionaires who will help run the government directly:
Linda
McMahon, nominee for Secretary of Education, famous
for running zero education operations, but a titan in pro wrestling, $3 billion.
Howard
Lutnick, Commerce Secretary nominee, $2.2 billion.
Scott
Bessent, Treasury Secretary nominee. He’s a “reported billionaire,” and once helped George Soros (the
billionaire right-wingers love to excoriate) score a billion-dollar profit on a
single deal.
Jared
Isaacman, to head NASA, $1.8 billion.
Frank Bisignano,
to be the next Social Security Administrator; worth a cool billion (because who
better to understand the needs of people who rely on Social Security).
Warren
Stephens, an investment banker, to serve as ambassador to the United Kingdom,
$3.4 billion.
Conair
executive Leandro Rizzuto Jr., ambassador to the Organization of American
States, $3.5 billion.
Charles
Kushner, pardoned tax cheat and father of Jared, husband of Ivanka, slated for
ambassador to France, $1.8 billion.
Tom
Barrack Jr., close friend of Donald’s, once accused of cheating Italy out of
$190 million in taxes, to be ambassador to Turkey; net worth: $1 billion.
Steven
Witkoff, Special Envoy to the Middle East (okay, admittedly that job is going
to suck), worth $1 billion.
And we
should include Donald himself, coming in at an estimated 275 pounds of lard,
and $6.2 billion.
And we
can now include:
Jeff Bezos,
who has decided to donate $1 million to Donald’s Inauguration, lest
he rankle the easily rankled Dumpling. Bezos is just another billionaire who
doesn’t want to see his taxes raised, forcing him to pinch the proverbial
penny. He comes in second to Elon, at $234.5 billion.
Mark
Zuckerberg is also donating a million to the Inauguration extravaganza. He’s
worth $206.5 billion.
And,
finally, Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, also good for a million; net worth $1.1
billion.
Having
compiled this list, and keeping in mind that Donald Dumpling is far from done,
I think we can all agree! These are exactly the type of people who you know
will be in sympathy with the typical MAGA voter, who worries if the price of
gasoline goes up 19¢ per gallon, or when a 15.6 oz. box of Wheaties costs $5.99
at the local supermarket, and, hey, who shrank the box!
I, for
one, am feeling the vibe where Elon and Donald sit down at Mar-a-Lago with the
guy who owns this house in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and they talk about why
the government needs to cut Social Security and Medicare.
And food
stamps.
___
12/31/24: Sen.
Bernie Sanders is all on board with a proposal Donald Trump floated during his recent
campaign.
Donald
has said he wants to help all the MAGA’s of the world – and even those of us of
the “lunatic left-wing fringe” – by capping interest rates on credit cards at
10%.
Bernie
is now crafting legislation to achieve that cap.
UPDATE (5/22/25):
A bill with bipartisan support has been introduced in Congress. Today, however,
the American Bankers’ Association has come out with a letter to oppose the change.
___
“Obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”
1/12/25: Vice
President-Elect J.D. Vance shows up on “Fox News Sunday,” to discuss plans for dealing with the January 6
rioters.
Vance assures his host that the pardon question is “very simple.” Those who “protested peacefully” should be pardoned. On the
other hand, “if you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be
pardoned.”
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This January 6 rioter attacked police with a baseball bat. |
*
1/13/25: Mike
Lindell is still fighting – and losing badly – to prove that the 2020 election
was stolen, and Smartmatic software was used to do the stealing. Lindell has
been ordered to pay the voting technology company
$56,369, pending appeal, for filing a frivolous counterclaim against
Smartmatic.
Mike’s likely
to end up homeless at the rate he’s going.
Unless…divine
intervention! Mike is now shilling sales of “MyCross,” a lovely necklace for
only $249.98.
For some
reason, the website where you can order these beautiful crosses makes clear:
“All sales are final.”
___
1/15/25: Donald
has called on supporters to donate to Rudy Giuliani and his defense. Rudy is bogged
down in a fight related to damages he must pay in a defamation lawsuit which he
lost.
Catastrophically.
He lied
about two Georgia poll workers stealing tens of thousands of votes in the 2020
election, when they stole zero. Now he owes $148 million, or so.
According
to a headline in Newsweek, since The Dumpling
issued the “Bat Call,” donations have “flooded in.”
Yes, Newsweek notes,
$10,000 have “flooded in.” Clearly, Rudy is still in a serious jam.
(How much is Donald, that cheap bastard going to donate?)
___
Donald
Dumpling and his Dumpling Accomplices.
1/16/25: On
this blog, I have made it policy not to quote Democrats to prove points
regarding the comic ineptitude, malfeasance and criminality of Donald Dumpling
and his Dumpling Accomplices. At least 90% of the time, political rhetoric is predictable
and unedifying, a waste of breath by those speaking and of time spent
listening. This exception, by way of Senator Patty Murray of Washington, is too
perfect not to quote.
“It
takes no imagination to see how dangerous it would be to confirm RFK Jr. as
Health Secretary,” she said this week, “and it takes mountains of willful
ignorance to ignore it.”
*
Same day: We
should note that U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, ever sensitive to the
cries of The Dumpling, has announced that the flags, which are flying at half-staff
for 30 days, in honor of Jimmy Carter, will be raised on January 20, so
that Mr. Trump will not tear up during his Inauguration.
Because,
everything is about Donald, and how Donald is feeling, and f**k the dead guy,
and, if needs be, the U.S. Constitution.
*
Same day: Trump’s
choice for Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, a reported billionaire,
says he is not in favor of raising the federal minimum wage, which
has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009.
If you
assume the average worker does 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, with paid
vacation, that minimum wage worker would earn $15,600 annually. Bessent
recently disclosed assets worth $521 million dollars, which one minimum-wage
worker could pile up if they worked a mere 33,397 years.
If we
use the “inflation calculator,” we can also see that it would
take $10.84 to equal the purchasing power of $7.25 back in 2009.
___
1/19/25: Donald
Trump goes to bed for the last time, as a civilian, and at noon on the morrow
will again take the oath of office to uphold the U.S. Constitution. He sleeps
and dreams of ignoring that oath.
Get
ready again, America!
(Something tells me Melania slept in a separate bedroom again.)
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