Ain't That America VIII

Another week, and more scandals ... Jeffrey Epstein is dead but his story and connection to The Felon will not die ... our attack on Iran wasn't at all what The Felon said it was ... Josh Hawley flip-flopped like a dying fish on a dock ... James Comer proved himself both stupid and hypocritical in one swoop of a pen ... and Gym Jordan might have to testify to his part in a college rape scandal after nearly twenty years ... and some Good News, too ...

The Felon has been diagnosed with a “benign and common” vein condition known as chronic venous insufficiency after he noticed swelling in his legs; according to Johns Hopkins, chronic venous insufficiency occurs when veins in the legs struggle to allow blood to flow back up to the heart.

And because his veins are filled with cheese.

The team at the state Department’s Office of Casualty Assistance, which supports US diplomats and their families abroad in the event of death or severe injury, received termination notices last week as the team was repatriating the remains of a senior US official who died in a car crash in Mexico. The State Department says that such future operations will be handled by another department though staff in that department have no experience in dealing with such a solemn task.

Just dead people so who cares, right?

Remember the Great Obliteration of the three nuclear enrichment sites in Iran struck by the United States missiles last month?

One was destroyed but the two others were not as badly damaged and may have been degraded only to a point where nuclear enrichment could resume in the next several months.

He lied to us again.

In Stoopid News The Felon claimed during an Oval Office press event that he was “surprised” that Jerome Powell was appointed Fed Chair.

Funny, cuz The Felon is the one who appointed him in 2017

GOP Senator Josh “Chicken Run” Hawley has introduced legislation that would repeal the cuts to Medicaid that he helped make possible only two weeks ago.

Seriously, you cannot make this shiz up.

Florida’s Director of Emergency Management is defending the conditions at the “Alligator Alcatraz” internment facility, arguing that people sheltering from hurricanes wish they had the kind of space undocumented immigrants get at the site.

No food, few toilets, sleeping on the floor. Sounds plush.

Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, The Felon’s Regime has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it.

Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week—are set to expire and America will just burn it rather than feed children.

Well, since the children are no longer fetuses, The Regime doesn’t care about them.

Republican lawmakers have blocked a move that could have forced The Felon’s Regime to release the files on the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s death and investigation with all but one of the GOP members of the House Rules Committee voting against a Democrat amendment that would have allowed Congress to vote on whether the files should be made public or not.

He’s on the list.

GOP Representative James Comer has been leading the probe into Joe Biden’s cognitive state during his presidency, with Republicans alleging that Biden’s occasional use of an “autopen” to sign documents—a practice other presidents have done as well—proving he wasn’t fully in control or aware of what his administration was doing.

But documents show that some of the letters and subpoena notices James Comer sent out in connection with his investigation have been signed using a digital signature—not written by the congressperson himself.

Every GOP accusation is an admission and I need James Comer to have a cognitive test.

Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States are being held at Kristi’s Koncentration Kamp in Florida that federal officials have characterized as a place where “vicious” and “deranged psychopaths” are sent before they get deported.

It’s like being arrested for DUI and sent to Death Row.

 Trump officials have directed staff at national parks to review all items in gift shops for anti-American content that “inappropriately disparages Americans past or living” or that includes “matters unrelated to the beauty, abundance or grandeur” of a natural feature in its description.

Erasing history.

Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi has fired her personal ethics adviser because she ain’t got time for ethics!

She has files to scrub.

An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed The Felon’s Regime to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency.

They want to keep Americans poor and stupid so any scrap they toss your way is seen as a gift and you’ll continue to fall in line.

Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, was fired from her job as a prosecutor in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, according to two people who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Comey had worked in the U.S. attorney’s office for ten years and prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. but there's nothing to see here except ...

He’s on the list.

George Retes, a US Army veteran, arrested during an immigration raid at a Southern California marijuana farm, says he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his car and pinned down by the ICEstapo. Retes works as a security guard at Glass House Farms in Camarillo was arrested despite him identifying himself as a US citizen.

But, you know, he’s brown and works at a farm.

Pedophile enabler, and GOP Representative Jim Jordan, was deposed last week about allegations that he failed to protect the wrestlers he once coached at Ohio State University from a sexual predator.

Jordan has been running from this story since 1994, before he got into politics, has repeatedly and publicly denied any knowledge that the team’s doctor, Richard Strauss, was preying on the athletes.

But why hide Gym??

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, AKA Pee Wee German, one of The Felon’s fascist friends went on national television and ridiculed the city of Minneapolis as a crime-ridden haven for undocumented immigrants.

But then Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty responded:

“If we wanted a white supremacist’s opinion, we’d ask. But we don’t. So we won’t.”

Poor Pee Wee.

California will partner with the Trevor Project to provide suicide prevention support to LGBTQ+ youth; the announcement comes weeks after The Felon’s Regime said it will no longer provide national suicide and crisis hotline services to LGBTQ+ youth.

Cuz, it’s just kids and LGBTQ+ ones at that killing themselves so who really cares?

Fox News host Jesse Watters acknowledged this week that his program made a mistake he lied about California Governor Gavin Newsom’s phone call with The Felon during last month’s immigration raids in Los Angeles.

Newsom filed a $787-million defamation lawsuit against Watters and Fox News and both the network and their little bitch boy Jesse apologized.

The Felon’s Little Johnson claims his boss’s approval ratings are skyrocketing saying CNN—that bastion of journalistic integrity—says The Felon is at a 90% approval rating. But, facts are facts, and Nationalist Christian, AKA Nat-C, Mike Johnson is lying …

After declining slowly, but steadily, since the beginning of July, The Felon’s approval rating started to drop more quickly. His net approval rating was -6.9 on July 10th. A week later it’s down to -8.9. And his net approval on most of the issues has also fallen:

Immigration: -3.4 —> -7.4

Economy: -12.1 —> -14.1

Trade: -14.5 —> -17.5

Inflation: -24.5 —> -24.8

And the share of Americans who strongly approve of The Felon has fallen below 27% percent for the first time in his second term; 43% of Americans strongly disapprove of the regime.

The midterms are coming and you know what to do …

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 ...

Bobservations

Every night Carlos practices his trumpet and when he’s finished he tells me how he thinks he did:

“I think I finally got that piece.”

“I think so, too.”

“You liked it?”

“Well, I don’t know if I liked it, but I know my ears didn’t bleed as badly as other nights.”

But my new favorite response came after last night’s practice when he said:

“Whoosh, I think I nailed Mahler.”

“So do I.”

“You do?”

“Yeah, it’s sounds like you were nailing him to the wall.”

I still got it!

This Tuxedo memory is from September 2013 …

"Tuxedo's Revenge

Yesterday when we came home from Kroger's and I found MaxGoldberg pouting on the bed because there was nothing to do, so i grabbed the camera and took his picture, really set Tuxedo off.

He likes to be photographed because:

A] he's the Alpha Cat and
2] He gawg-eous!

So, while snapping pictures of MaxGoldberg, I turned to get one of Tuxedo, and he decided to express his outrage that he was not the first cat photographed....

Motto: Start with Tuxedo."

Oy, the punim on that cat!

Some guys have all the luck. Last year Wayne Murray, Brooklyn, New York, won $10M playing the New York Lottery. This year Wayne Murray, Brooklyn, New York, won another $10M playing the New York Lottery’s 200X scratch-off game.

And I still scream with delight winning the occasional five bucks on a scratcher.

The Super PAC Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ presidential bid canceled a donor event last week due to a lack of interest from invitees. Yes, people who were asked to come stayed home.

Sorry, Ronnie, the heels aren’t working.

Is it possible to be any thirstier for attention than JLo … or as Carlos calls her, Jell-O? And could her husband. Mr. Jennifer Lopez, look any more bored to be out with her?

Pedophile enabler Jim Jordan has threatened Hunter Biden with a contempt charge for defying a subpoena to testify in the House’s “impeachment” probe. Strange, though, because  Hunter Biden says he’s happy to testify in a public hearing but the GOP has refused and wants a closed-door hearing.

Why would that be? :::cough no evidence cough:::

PS  Pedophile enabler Jim Jordan repeatedly defied subpoenas to testify about his part in the January 6 insurrection so, yeah, hypocrite.

This is the Opera House in Camden, strung with lights for Christmas. And while it no longer operates as an opera house there are plans afoot to renovate it into a small boutique hotel and I think that would be wonderful.

Josh Hawley, of the famous J6 Chicken Run through Congress,  on January 6 has endorsed Inmate # P01135809 for the GOP nomination after the former Criminal In Chief warned both Hawley and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) about being “very careful” in their own 2024 reelection bids.

I guess Hawley and Cruz are both doing the Chicken Dance.

Texan Kate Cox was facing pregnancy complications that would have caused her unborn child to die before birth or shortly after and might have also affected her life and her ability to conceive again, so she and her husband and her doctor thought it best that she have an abortion.

But Texas said ‘No,’ forcing Cox to sue the state to make her own health care decisions. She won that lawsuit but then the Texas Supreme Court overturned that ruling and denied her access to abortion and forced her to travel out of state for the procedure.

That’s what the GOP is doing to women in this country.

PS That one-star on the Texas flag is actually a review.

This is actor and … mostly underwear … model JeanPaul Acocella and the question is the same: Would You Hit It?