Ain't That America VII

Well, what a week it's been in America … floods killed over a hundred people in Texas while the government twiddled … now a pair of GOPers are claiming Democrats control the weather … the Cult is real and they love being sent to one of Kristi’s Koncentration Kamps … TACO flipped and flopped on tariffs again … DUI hire Pete Hegseth overstepped after perhaps being over-served … and some good news from couple of spots, even from a Republican … The Felon in tights …

Under pressure from worried farmers and hotel owners, The Felon’s regime put on their Flip Flops to launch a program to streamline issuing visas for temporary, migrant workers to try to make sure fruits get picked, meat is packed and lodgings are cleaned.

I have a suggestion … create a pathway for citizenship to every immigrant and just round up and deport the criminals.

Multiple governors say they’re being increasingly pushed to scrounge for disaster recovery money without the support they traditionally rely on from the federal government. The Felon has the sole power to issue disaster declarations, but states are finding emergencies that would usually qualify for federal assistance are being slow-walked or denied in recent months.

Well, what do they expect? He’s busy helping the 1%.

As FEMA responds to the deadly flooding in Texas, one key resource is missing: FEMA leader. David Richardson, the agency’s acting administrator. He has not been to the site of one of the nation’s deadliest floods in this country in the past 25 years.

Former FEMA officials said Richardson’s absence raises concerns that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem AKA Border Barbie AKA Dogkiller AKA Koncentration Kamp Kristi is controlling FEMA’s response.

The Felon announced plans to impose a 50% tariff on all goods from Brazil, in part due to the prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro over an alleged plot to remain in power after losing an election.

Criminals stick together.

The Felon is so dumb? How dumb is he? So dumb that he praised Liberian President Joseph Boakai for speaking “such good English.” Odd,. Cuz Liberia’s official language is … English … while The Felon’s is blabbering bull shit.

Immigrants being detained in federal holding rooms in Lower Manhattan have complained of being unable to bathe or change clothes, cramped conditions, sometimes being provided just one meal a day, and sleeping on concrete benches or the floor.

But they’re brown people so, yeah, the regime doesn’t care.

GOP Representative, and certified asshatted loon, Tim Burchett has cosponsored Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House bill that would ban supposed weather control by the Democrats.

Yes, that’s what they believe and, well, say it’s, true … could Democrats send a hurricane to Large Marge’s house and slide a tornado over Burchett’s home?

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine, setting off a scramble inside the administration to understand why the halt was implemented and explain it to Congress and the Ukrainian government and the so-called president.

At a press conference, when asked who authorized the pause, the inept, confused, demented, hate-filled lump of gelatinous rotted flesh AKA The Felon, said:

“I don’t know, why don’t you tell me?”

Sounds like a well-oiled machine, doesn’t it?

The TACO is insisting ::: foot stomp head snap ::: that the August 1 tariff deadline set this week in letters to U.S. trading partners is firm and won’t change though it’s the opposite of what he said earlier in the week when he said the deadline was “firm but not 100% firm.”

Flabbier than his fat ass.

After the Big Billionaire Bill passed both the House and Senate, Wisconsin GOP Representative Derrick Van Orden responded to this Tweet:

“17 million people just lost health care. 18 million kids just lost school meals. 3 million Americans just lost food assistance.”

… with:

“YES!”

When they tell you who they are, believe them, and Van Orden has told you he is a goose-stepping fascist who works for The Felon and The Billionaire Class, but does nothing for We The People.

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins wants all the immigrants removed from the fields across America and replaced with people on Medicaid.

So, if you’re looking for your Nana to take her to her chemo treatment, check the corn fields.

Arpineh Masihi, a devout MAGAt is being held in a detention center in the Mojave Desert and wants y’all to know that she still supports The Felon.

Masihi was born in Iran but has been in the US since she was three. She became a target for ICE over crimes committed 17 years ago, was arrested in June, and says this from her detention cell

“He’s doing the right thing because lots of these people don’t deserve to be here. I will support him until the day I die. He’s making America great again.”

And they say it’s not a cult. Good luck back in Iran, dear.

A federal judge has once again barred the regime from enforcing The Felon’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship.

US District Judge Joseph Laplante made the ruling after immigrant rights advocates implored him to grant class action status to a lawsuit they filed seeking to represent any babies whose citizenship status would be threatened by implementation of the regime’s racist directive.

One step forward …

North Carolina GOP Senator Thom Tillis has a warning for the regime as he finishes out his time in office:

“The president should know if there is anyone coming up for a nomination through any committee of my jurisdiction that excuse January 6 that they’re not going to get confirmed in my remaining tenure in the US Senate.”

Tillis is still angry about the violent events that unfolded after The Felon sent a mob of criminals, drug dealers and rapists to attack the US Capitol to protest the 2020 election results.

With little discussion, the Pittsburgh City Council unanimously passed three bills intended to provide further safeguards to LGBTQ+ citizens: the first bill prohibits the withholding or denial of elective medical care based on a person’s real or perceived gender identity or expression; the second bill aims to pre-emptively shield the LGBTQ community against being barred from society by future federal legislation; the third bill lessens the legal penalty for engaging in sex work from a misdemeanor to a summary offense.

Good on Pittsburgh.

Federal immigration agents would be banned from wearing most face coverings but be required to wear visible ID during public enforcement operations, according to a proposal from Democratic U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.

If the ICEstapo is doing nothing wrong, then show yourselves, identify yourselves.

In a new documentary, Surviving Ohio State, survivors of sexual predator Dr. Richard Strauss say Ohio Republican Representative Jim Jordan knew about the sexual abuse the student-athletes suffered and did nothing about it.

Jordan declined to be interviewed for the documentary, but his name is frequently brought up by former Ohio State wrestlers and a referee.

Jordan knew and did nothing; he’s complicit.

And now for a laugh … The Felon was ridiculed last week after the White House posted an image of the gelatinous lump of flesh as Superman with the tagline:

“THE SYMBOL OF HOPE. TRUTH. JUSTICE. THE AMERICAN WAY. SUPERMAN [_____].”

Of course, people had words:

“Guess the Epstein list is your kryptonite, huh?”

“As a Trump voter, this is cringy as hell.”

“Just imagine the response if the Biden White House had posted something like this. But Trump is graded on some kind of never-seen-before curve and this craziness is normalized.”

The AI hilarity is right next to the real blubbering tool.

PS MAGAts are up in arms because the director of the new Superman film, James Gunn, keeps reminding them that Superman is an immigrant!

So there we have it, another week of madness and sadness and fascism and racism down, and another week closer to the midterms where you know what to do ...

Ain't That America V

Well, what a week or so it's been in America … The Felon has launched a propaganda website …RFK Jr. once again proved himself mentally ill … The Felon admitted that tariffs will hurt Americans … Pam Bondi went full Nazi and stupid  … a Nebraska GOP asshat laid out plans to gut Medicaid while Lying Mike Johnson said there would be no cuts … DOGE is the Cybertruck of government agencies … The Felon’s first 100 days were golf and lies, and lies about golf …the GOP and planes don’t mix …Marco Rubio lived his parent’s dream of becoming an anti-immigrant fascist … the GOP clearly puts party over country, but … the Equality Act is up for a new vote … a wrongfully detained man was released .. Mark Carney and Canada .. pools show The Felon to be the worst … and impeachment charges were brought up …

The White House has launched its own Drudge Report-esque website—White House Wire—to spotlight positive news stories on The Felon.

Talk about your fake news.

Heroin addict and victim of a brain worm, Robert Kennedy Jr claims that the MMR, or Measles, vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris and DNA particles.

No. Seriously.

The Felon acknowledged that toy shortages are possible as his tariff hikes ripple through the economy after the CEOs of Walmart, Target and Home Depot privately warned him about the likelihood of shortages and price spikes.

Huh. It’s almost as if he admits he’s a liar.

In the midst of The Felon’s major immigration crackdown and violent law enforcement techniques, Attorney General Barbie Pam Bondi boasted about her plans to kill American citizens:

“That’s keeping America safe. We’ve rescinded the death penalty. I’m signing death warrants.”

Bondi also claimed that “119 million lives have been saved” due to fentanyl seizures and the next day that number more than doubled to 258 million.

There are 340 million Americans so is she suggesting that anywhere from 35% to 75% of us are hooked on fentanyl or is she just another blithering lying fascist idiot.

Nebraska’s GOP Representative Don Bacon is drawing a red line on Medicaid cuts saying he won’t accept more than $500 billion in reductions to the program.

Just $500B.

On the other side, Hose Speaker Little Lying Mike Johnson, Nationalist Christian or Nat-C, says do not believe the lies the Democrat Party says about the GOP gutting Medicaid.

Even the GOP doesn’t have an effing clue as to what they’re ]doing.

DOGE promised $2 trillion in savings but now says it has saved the government just $160 billion but, in fact, the government has actually been spending more compared to this time last year as spending rose by $156 billion since The Felon took office.

Grifters, all of ‘em.

The Felon’s First 100 Days:

He promised to reduce the price of eggs and then egg prices reached record highs. He promised to bring everyday prices down but everyday prices have risen. He promised a booming economy but tanked the stock market. He promised to create jobs and then fired 100s of 1000s of government workers.

And then there was SignalGate, trade wars, Social Security benefits at risk, deported citizens, declassified the JFK files—but not the Epstein files, ended federal support for paper straws, ended production of the penny.

But the rich got their tax breaks so …

An F/-18E Super Hornet assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman was lost at sea during a towing incident in the hangar bay on Monday.

The plane cost $66 million.

What is it with this regime and airplanes?

In addition to El Salvador, The Felon’s regime is seeking other countries willing to accept illegally deported people from America and Marco Rubio, whose family escaped the fascist Castro regime in Cuba only to see their son join a fascist regime, says:

“We want to send you some of the most despicable human beings to your countries … the further away the better.”

He wants these Latino immigrants sent to Libya and Rwanda.

His family must be so proud.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is open to renaming New York’s Penn Station after The Felon after his regime announced that the federal government would take over its redevelopment.

Stepping with the fascists, Kathy? Because you’ll re=name it after him and then he’ll pull funding.

That’s what grifters do.

House Republican leaders are moving to thwart Democratic efforts to probe DUI hired Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s controversial use of Signal, using their power to stop the minority party from forcing a vote that could embarrass The Felon.

Anything goes in the Party Over Country group as long as their gelatinous tub of lard doesn’t look bad.

As leaders in the House and Senate are set to reintroduce the Equality Act—historic federal legislation that would ensure comprehensive nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people everywhere—a coalition of civil rights organizations urgently calls for the legislation’s swift passage.

The bill’s reintroduction comes amidst a dangerous rise in anti-LGBTQ+ legislative and executive actions, including the erosion of nondiscrimination protections and weaponization of federal authorities against marginalized communities.

The nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute found that national support for the Equality Act topped 75 %, including a majority of Republicans and Independents.

But fascists in power … the march goes on.

A federal judge dealt a blow to The Felon’s regime and ordered the release  of Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, who was arrested at his U.S. citizenship appointment.

Now do Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

One thing to remember during The Felon’s first 100 days that he helped Mark Carney win the Canadian election.

I mean, he did that one thing right, eh?

A majority of Americans say The Felon is a “dangerous dictator” who poses a threat to democracy and believe he’s overstepped his authority by actions such as the mass firing of federal employees and the illegal deportations without due process.

Forty percent of Americans expressed favorable views.

Fifty-two percent expressed unfavorable views.

Forty percent still seems high.

Great Britain and the European Union are set to sign a formal declaration committing to “free and open trade” in defiance of The Felon’s tariff agenda.

A leaked draft seen by POLITICO promises a “new strategic partnership” between London and Brussels based on “maintaining global economic stability and our mutual commitment to free and open trade.”

The rest of the world will turn away from us thanks to the Bankruptcy King.

This week Democrat Congressman from Michigan, Shri Thanedar, introduced articles of impeachment against The Felon citing a sweeping abuse of power, flagrant violations of the Constitution, and acts of tyranny that undermine American democracy and threaten the rule of law.

Doubtful much will come of this right now, but the Cultists and Fox news are already playing the race card and wondering how someone named Shri Thanedar was elected to political office.

Monday, October 21, 2024 GOP Dumpster Fire: Racists, Liars, Grifters and Some Good News, But First ...

… an announcement:

I will be away for the week tending to the closing of my father’s estate. There are some pre-planned posts and I hope to be able to comment on your blogs, but we’ll see how smoothly this goes.

I should be back at my desk by November 4.

Oh, and I did this before leaving; have you voted yet?

There’s an old saying about when someone shows you who they are, believe them; and when someone says something, openly and publicly, believe that, too, and not the spin machine that envelopes the liar afterwards.

Here are a few examples of liars, and morons, and weirdos showing us who they are …

Mark Robinson, North Carolina GOP candidate for governor, suggested that people who can’t take care of their children should be sterilized in a series of social media posts from 2014 through 2019:

“If you need a court order to tell you to take care of your children, then you probably need an operation to make sure you don’t have any more. I said this once and I’m saying it again; A weak-minded, muddle-headed negro, ALWAYS thinks he and ‘his people’ are victims.”

Ouch.

The Felon spewing lies that FEMA was spent on illegal migrants:

“Many of them are murderers. Many of them are drug dealers. Many of them come out of mental institutions and insane asylums, and many of them are terrorists. And [Democrats] spend money to bring these people into our country and they don’t have money to take care of the people from North Carolina and other states.”

Of note, standing with The Felon was GOP North Carolina Representative Chuck Edwards who had denounced the lies about FEMA and relief workers.

If you thought JD Vance was gonna work hard for y’all if elected, think again.

Since becoming The Felon’s vice-presidential running mate in July Sofa Lorne hasn’t cast a single vote in Congress. He literally stopped working for his constituents the minute he kissed the, um, ring.

And while the 42 votes he missed were mostly to confirm federal appointees they also included measures to expand the child tax credit, create a right to in-vitro fertilization, and to extend government funding and avoid a partial government shutdown.

In addition, from April until June, Vance missed 22% of all votes and has never seen one of his sponsored bills passed by Congress. He has been in Congress since January 2023 and barely worked for those who voted for him.

Do we need someone like that a heartbeat away?

The Felon, once again pushing the most ridiculous lie:

“You know, in Washington, I don’t know if you ever noticed that you got Department of Education, Department of Education. You got half the buildings are Department of Education. I never saw—you don’t need any of them. You know, I want one person and the secretary to just make sure they’re teaching English. Okay. Give a little English. Okay. I say reading, writing, and arithmetic. No transgender, no operations. You know they take your kid. There are some places your boy leaves the school, comes back a girl. Okay. Without parental consent … Could you imagine without parental consent? At first, what I was told that was actually happening, I said, you know, it’s an exaggeration. No. It happens! It happens in areas where it happens. We’re not going to let it happen, but we are going to straighten out a lot.”

Oh, well, it happens in areas where it happens and yet this slobbering gelatinous bag of feces can’t name one child, one school, one case.

Tim Sheehy, GOP former Navy SEAL running for Senate in Montana, has said he was discharged from the military for medical reasons due to injuries he sustained on duty, but his discharge paperwork tells a different story.

Huh? What? How? He lied? Again.

The heavily redacted, two-page document obtained by NBC News indicates that Sheehy voluntarily resigned his commission and does not list any medical condition that forced him out of uniform.

This is another in a long line of lies by Tim Sheehy … like when he said he was shot in Afghanistan, which never happened … and when he claimed he was impoverished before starting a business even though his wealth was listed at $400K.

Lies. The GOP way.

Governor Gogo Boots, who begged people to vote for him for President last year, is now begging people not to write his name in when they vote as a misguided protest vote.

Does he really think, given his handling of two hurricanes in his state, that anyone would right his name in?

Weird AF.

The Felon’s national security advisor and QAnon nutbag Kash Patel, who is currently hawking $90 “COVID detox” pills, on that Felon is Hitler story:

“If they want to call him Hitler and try to print out more disinformation. I guess that’s all they got, because Kamala Harris could have brought home the hostages right now in Israel from a war she started with $7 billion she gave to Iran and she hasn’t brought home any of them. She started two more world wars.”

Kamala Harris started two world wars??? Where? When??? How???

In April 2020, Vanessa Guillén, an Army private, was bludgeoned to death and then her body burned by a fellow soldier and his girlfriend at Fort Hood, Texas. After her body was discovered The Felon invited the Guillén family to the White House and made this promise:

“If I can help you out with the funeral, I’ll help—I’ll help you with that. I’ll help you out. Financially, I’ll help you.”

In December 2020, The Felon asked for an update and was told that the funeral cost was $60,000, and he shrieked:

“It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican! Don’t pay it! Can you believe it? Fucking people, trying to rip me off.”

Anyone surprised that a draft dodging sociopath would say such a thing?

At a recent Unhinged Rally, The Felon boasted that his supporters had “no idea” what he did in the White House before launching into a nonsensical claim:

“I stopped wars with France. France. You know the France story? They were gonna charge us, think of this, 25% to all Amer—I have to protect American companies whether we like ’em or not, some of ’em I didn’t even like. They say McDonald’s was one of the most viewed things that they ever had. Can you believe, McDonald’s?”

A word salad from stopping wars … plural … with one of our allies, to McDonald’s.

Seriously Demented.

In Arizona, this week The Felon said America is “like a garbage can” for the rest of the world because of its border policies:

“They unleashed an army of migrant gangs waging a campaign of violence. We’re a dumping ground. We’re like a garbage can for the world.”

Fact: border crossings are at the lowest levels since Biden took office in 2021. In September, Border Patrol agents made fewer than 54,000 apprehensions of immigrants trying to cross the US, the fewest since August 2020, when The Felon was still in the White House.

The Felon always claims to hire only the best people and one of those people is John Kelly who now says The Felon is a fascist; so how does Demenetd DonOLD respond:

“Thank you for your support against a total degenerate named John Kelly, who made up a story out of pure … hatred. This guy had two qualities, which don’t work well together. He was tough and dumb … Even though I shouldn’t be wasting my time with him, I always feel it’s necessary to hit back in pursuit of THE TRUTH. John Kelly is a LOWLIFE, and a bad General, whose advice in the White House I no longer sought, and told him to MOVE ON!”

Only the best people until they realize who The Felon truly is, and then they leave their jobs and speak the truth and, to quote from a military film, he can’t handle the truth!

But then, how to explain that more than a dozen former Felon administration officials have come out in support of former chief of staff John Kelly?

In a new letter, shared exclusively with POLITICO, the former officials stated:

“The revelations General Kelly brought forward are disturbing and shocking. But because we know [The Felon] and have worked for and alongside him, we were sadly not surprised by what General Kelly had to say. We applaud General Kelly for highlighting in stark details the danger of a second [Felon] term. Like General Kelly, we did not take the decision to come forward lightly. Everyone should heed General Kelly’s warning.”

I guess that’s a dozen more people who were the best people for the job until they spoke out against a fascist.

The five men who comprise the Central Park Five, and now call themselves the Exonerated Five, have filed a lawsuit against The Felon for defamation in connection with his remarks during the presidential debate where The Felon said that the five men—Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise—pleaded guilty when they were tried in connection with the assault and rape of a woman who had been running in Central Park on April 19, 1989, and that the victim died.

In reality, all five men pleaded not guilty and the victim of the attack survived. And years later DNA evidence linked another man, a serial rapist, to the attack.

But to The Felon these five Black men should have been put to death and, in his mind, are still guilty.

Kamala Harris has a sweeping lead over The Felon—among voters who have already cast their ballots; Harris leads by 63%-34%, close to 2-1, among those who have already voted. One in five voters volunteered that “abortion rights/women’s rights” were their most important issue, second only to the economy/inflation.

The Dallas Morning News  has endorsed Democrat Colin Allred over Rafael ‘Ted’ Cruz in the coming election saying:

“Ted Cruz had the opportunity to support a step toward a solution with the bipartisan Lankford-Sinema bill that would have provided massive resources for border security. He refused, calling the bill a ‘steaming pile of crap.’ Allred worked in favor of it, recognizing it as an imperfect but necessary step forward. Cruz could have supported the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to help rebuild our country … but [he] refused. In the House, Allred joined with Republicans and Democrats in voting yes. Cruz could have supported the peaceful transfer of power in the 2020 presidential election … [but] … instead was the first senator to rise in objection to certifying the electoral vote and one of just six to do so. His actions were a catalyst for what became one of the worst days in our nation’s history."

Wouldn’t it be a wonderful day to see both The Felon and Fled Cruz lose?

Remember, the GOP is a party that promises but never delivers, a party of demented old men, and mascara-wearing RuPaul wannabes who hate women, the  LGBTQ+ community, immigrants, education and members of our military.

We don't need that, so ...