Ain't That America ...

Well, what a week or so it's been in America; The Felon disrespects the troops and locks up innocent people because ... brown skin, while Leon tries to buy an election and whines about his money woes while Leon; while some GOP Senators stood against The Felon's attack on federal judges, Democrats stood with Republicans to push The Felon's agenda along.

But, million of Americans  ... including yours truly who protested at the South Carolina Statehouse, marched against the fascist regime, so all is not bad ... yet. 

This past weekend, while four U.S. soldiers—Troy Knutson-Collins, 28; Jose Duenez Jr., 25; Edvin Franco, 25; and Dante Taitano—who died in a tragic training accident in Lithuania were being honored in a dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base, the current draft-dodging, bone spurred, anti-military, anti-service president spent the weekend hosting a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at his Florida resort and attending a fundraising dinner.

Listen up: he doesn’t give a flying fuck about this country; he doesn’t give a fuck about the “suckers and losers,” as he calls them, who die in service to America, he only cares about his ego and his wallet and his Kids Meal and his wee orange dick.

The Felon administration “accidentally” sent Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian immigrant, to a notorious Salvadorian prison and says it can’t do anything to get him back even though the man had protected immigration status in America, specifically barring him from being sent back to that country for fear of persecution.

But he’s an immigrant so The Felon and The Flunkies don’t care.

Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered their staff not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging.

The agency would have emphasized the importance of vaccinating people against the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease that has spread to 19 states, but a CDC spokesperson says the agency decided against releasing the assessment “because it does not say anything that the public doesn’t already know.”

People are dying, but tariffs and tax breaks for the wealthy deserve the attention.

While Leon Skum runs around with a chain saw looking for government waste—like Fat Boy Golf Trips every weekend—five senators who visited Guantánamo Bay criticized the migrant mission there as a waste of resources.

Really? Huh? See, the Pentagon estimated the operation cost $40 million in its first month to detain 85 migrants. That’s $470,588.23 per migrant for the month, or $15,180.26 per migrant per day.

Imagine how many school children could be fed for that much money.

Oh, and there are 1,000 government employees staffing the migrant operation to watch less than a hundred people but again … brown people with accents.

Remember those $1 million checks Leon Skum offered people in Wisconsin to sway their voted to the GOP? Well, y’all know it didn’t work but at least one of the people who received a check was Nicholas Jacobs, the chair of the Wisconsin College Republicans.

Scams from Nazi Leon? Go figure.

Foreign arrivals into major U.S. airports fell in March compared to the same time last year suggesting a reluctance to visit America.

The country makes over a $1 trillion a year on tourism but, hey, rich people need a tax cut.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., recovering heroin addict and human vessel for brain worms … and secretary of the Health and Human Services Department says he plans to reinstate many employees and programs he began cutting last week.

Wait; you cut programs and fired workers last week but this week you want to reinstate some programs and hire some workers back?

That brain worm is really noshing on the gray matter.

Leon Skum blasted top Felon enabler and alleged trade adviser Peter Navarro overnight, calling out his education and lack of corporate credentials after the two-day rout in the stock market cost Skum nearly $18 billion just on his Tesla stock.

Boo Hoo; billionaire do-nothing Nazi lost some coins.

The Felon says he will relax limits on automobile pollution from cars saying that the move doesn’t “mean a damn bit of difference to the environment” even though decades of science show that the pollution from automobile tailpipes has harmed the environment and public health.

But hey, a fat gelatinous rapist knows best, eh?

Republican senators … you read that right … are warning that any efforts to impeach James Boasberg, the federal judge who ruled against The Felon’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members and is now handling a lawsuit related to the SignalGate scandal but his corrupt, inept, monumentally stupid regime would be dead on arrival in the Senate.

Senior Senate Republicans also say they will oppose any effort by Speaker Little Mike Johnson to defund federal courts that rule against the regime’s agenda, sending a message that they want to de-escalate The Felon’s war against the federal judiciary.

Now, if more GOPers would step up … perhaps America will survive this criminal enterprise.

They’re saying that millions of people ... some say 5,000,000 ... came out for the Hands-Off march in all 50 states over the weekend to protest The Felon’s attack on We The People.

The people are angry, everywhere, across all states and party lines …

The Resistance is building.

The Funny Papers

Ed Hall, John Cole, Dave Whamond, Clay Bennett, Steve Sack, Nate Beeler, Ted Littleford, Kevin Siers, Adam Zyglis, Nick Anderson, Marc Murphy, Jack Ohman, Michael de Adder, Bill Day

He Lies, She Lies

It's funny that we expect Mitt Romney to lie because it's the one thing he does consistently, but now it seems Queen Ann Romney has done her fair share of mangling the truth.

Ann "You people!" Romney was a guest on The View this week--her husband said in one of his secretly taped meetings that he's afraid of those women--and she talked up Mittsy’s attendance at every single funeral of every single fallen soldier while he was governor of Massachusetts.

Oops, not so fast and loose there, Annie, because it turns out that Mittsy missed at least one funeral, and probably because the dead soldiers mother dissed him.

Stephany Kern's son died in Iraq while Mittsy was governing Massachusetts and, well, he apparently tried to contact Kern but, in her grief she was not taking calls, and this didn't sit well with Mittsy. He apparently went all Fatal Attraction on the woman....I will not be ignored... and left voicemails that offended Kern: 

Mitt Romney [on voicemail]: "I can’t believe you haven’t returned my call. Here I am making a second call; I haven’t heard from you."

Kern says many officials, including Romney and Senators John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, left messages for her the day after her son died, but she was so grief-stricken that she couldn't speak to any of them. Still, it was Mittsy who felt offended and snubbed by a mother who'd just lost her son.

Kern: "I didn’t listen to any of the calls, [but Romney] was completely unable to understand that a mom was not going to return his phone call, and that it wasn’t a priority for me. I wasn’t being disrespectful. I was being a mom who was greeting the casket of her son coming home from war."

Kern's husband remembers hearing Romney's second and third messages, with Mittsy saying "I'm a busy man" in one of them.

But here's where the lie comes in: Mitt Romney didn't attend the funeral for her son, Marine Lance Corporal Nickolas Schiavoni, though his office said he would visit the grave.

Uh huh.

This is a Mittsy M.O. It's all about Mittsy, calling mothers of dead soldiers for purely political gain, and when one mother won't speak to him, he decides to skip that funeral. I mean, let's take his wife at her word; she said Mittsy attended all the funerals, but we know that's a lie and we know that at least one funeral he didn’t attend was the son of a woman who was too distraught to speak to him.

That's Mittsy.

Let's not forget that just this past month the mother of Glen Doherty, a Navy SEAL killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, complained that Mittsy was using her son's death to score political points; she asked him to stop doing so.

Amanda Henneberg, a spokeswoman for the Romney campaign, refutes the Stephany Kern story, saying Romney would "never" exhibit the behavior described in the story: "Anyone who knows Governor Romney understands he would never treat or address anyone in the way described. The Governor honors the commitment made by every brave American who wears our nation’s uniform as well as the sacrifices made by their loved ones. He honored this fallen Marine by naming Nov. 26th Nicky Schiavoni Day."

Hmm, was that to save face, Mittsy?

This speaks volumes about one, just one, of my issues with Romney. He’s out for himself in everything he does, from making money by buying and selling companies, to sending his money on vacation to Swiss banks and the Cayman Islands, to running for president, not because he wants to lead, but because he wants the job on his end-of-life resume.

He isn't out for anyone but himself. Dead soldiers and grieving mothers don't matter; what matters is the press Mittsy would get from attending funerals.

That's Mitt Romney.

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A Memorable Memorial Day: After DADT

from left: gay midshipmen  Caitlin Bryant, Kay Moore, Nick Bonsall, and Andrew Atwill   

Last year, Andrew Atwil's roommate at the Naval Academy joked that Atwill was gay, and Atwill told him to cut it out; because he is gay. And because, last year, Atwill could have jeopardized his military career if anyone know.

This year, though, it's a different story at Annapolis. Now, with DADT repealed Atwill says the academy has changed, and that now, talking about his sexual orientation is no longer a reason to be drummed out of the military. In fact, most in the academy now come to the defense of its gay and lesbian cadets.

Andrew Atwill:  "Pretty much everybody in my company knows now, [and] they actually stand up for me." 

As it should be.

Eight months after the repeal, midshipmen both gay and straight describe a quiet but significant transformation at the Naval Academy. Gay midshipmen are seeking recognition for a student club, and, just last month, for the first time, faculty members and staff openly attended an off-campus dinner that had been organized secretly every year by and for gay midshipmen.

And this year, Andrew Atwill and his boyfriend, classmate Nick Bonsall, are going to Saturday’s Ring Dance, a formal ball held each spring for third-year midshipmen.

"It's been really great, actually," says Nick Bonsall. "Everyone has been really accepting of us."

As it should be.

The experience at Annapolis this year mirrors those across the country at the other service academies, but some future officers worry about what might happen upon graduation. While their generation might be accepting, the majority of military personnel is still made up of people of all ages and backgrounds, and some senior officers say privately that they won't come out for fear of jeopardizing their careers.

Even Andrew Atwill, while aware of this new level of understanding and tolerance, wonders what life will be like after leaving Annapolis and joining the fleet: "For me, personally, it's still a concern. When I become an officer, I'm kind of worried about whether or not my sailors will take it the wrong way if I give them a pat on the back or, you know, happen to be in the bathroom at the same time as them. I'm afraid that if they know that I'm gay, that if I was even to look at them wrong, they may end up somehow turning that against me."

But not everyone sees any problems arising. Caitlyn Bryant, a second-year midshipman, says, "In the fleet, it will be good, you don't have to worry about what they might think your orientation is. You can just focus on being a leader….People have accepted it."

As it should be.

And Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, however, doesn’t foresee a problem. He says the repeal of DADT is going very well: "It's not impacting on morale. It's not impacting on unit cohesion. It's not impacting on readiness."

As it should be.

And change is coming to all branches. Gay cadets at the U.S. Military Academy and the Coast Guard Academy are forming clubs, while gay alumni at the Air Force Academy hosted their first football tailgate last fall, and Air Force Academy and West Point gay alumni held their annual dinners on campus for the first time.

Kara Yingling, a fourth-year midshipman , who is not gay, says the majority of the student body "didn't make a big deal" of the policy change: "We have seen more openly gay people, and I think that's good for them, because they no longer have to live their lives in fear that something's going to happen just because of their sexuality."

This Memorial Day will be, if possible, more memorable, because of this new openness and honesty and acceptance.

As it should be.

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