Hard Not To Imagine

 ‘I’m leaving,’ Trump said. ‘There’s no reason to be here any more’: inside the meeting that brought Nato to the brink. Former secretary general Jens Stoltenberg recalls the rollercoaster ride of dealing with Donald Trump – and how close the US president brought the alliance to the point of collapse (The Guardian)

Imagine it will be difficult to do so, but imagine if Trump had the same vitriol, vengeance, and vigor he has demonstrated towards Democrats, Trans People, Hispanics, and Women, and used all that energy and bullying to actually support Ukraine’s democracy…to fight back at Putin, and declare a real enemy of the state, as exactly that AN ENEMY OF THE STATE!

Imagine, and this too will be as difficult as the previous paragraph, if the Republican politicians had the same motivation to serve Trump and, of course, their billionaire puppet masters…and instead placed all of that effort and energy in preserving democracies around the world, and oh, by the way, in the United States!

One certainly must wonder aloud why Trump has acquiesced to the whims and words of Putin. I mean, there is the old story about the “pee tapes,” there is the ongoing news of Trump as a Russian Asset, and there are the constant accusations that Russia helped hack our American elections. Difficult not to imagine why Trump has constantly sided with Putin, isn’t it!

 

 

Continued Crazy

 The second night of the current government shutdown saw Donald Trump doing the incredibly essential work of... serving up AI slop to supporters via his various social media feeds. (BuzzFeed)

The man is insane. This person has the nuclear codes. Stop calling him president, and begin referring to him as The Village Idiot.

President Donald Trump has one goal on the campaign trail ahead of the 2026 midterms. “I have big plans, I want to survive,” the president told One American News Network with a laugh on Thursday, in response to a question about campaigning across the country. (HuffPost)

Dude, we all want to survive, but we who are not MAGA or your robot-automated Republicans in Congress are having a very difficult time surviving. Also NOT surviving is the Constitution, as you abuse it every which way, and Democracy is being eviscerated. 

Trump pushes a new label for Democrats: ‘The Party Of Hate, Evil, And Satan’ Republicans apparently want Democrats to stop using the kind of incendiary political rhetoric that the president uses all the time. (msnbc.com)

It is not the same on both sides, Dear Leader. Your side, that of the Fascist American Party, has demonstrated just how untrue your bull shit about the rest of us being the bad guy truly is. It’s time for the rest of America to act just as evil and Satanic as you and your followers act.

Oh yeah, RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

 

 

 

 

The Dreaded OTHER

 Mm, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I think I did it again. I made you believe we're more than just friends. Oh, baby, it might seem like a crush. But it doesn't mean that I'm serious. ‘(Opps I did it again/Yacoub/Sandberg)

Well, the MAGA supporter recently changed his tune a little. In another Facebook post, he wrote, "This is so Fucked up!!! The very administration, that I voted for is prohibiting, my pregnant fiancé Entry to the United States. Oh the irony, i'm an employee of the DOD, and the Department Of The Navy. I proudly voted for Trump and now I'm getting Fucked by my own Government Great!!!! Apparently A Sweet innocent pregnant woman is A foreign terrorist. I'm disgusted!!!!!!" (BuzzFeed)

The sweet smell of HOW THE FUCK DID I BECOME THE OTHER, as one by one the racist, bigoted, misogynist, homophobic, antisemite, xenophobic  MAGA realizes that Trump has ZERO allegiance to anyone but himself. The sweet aroma of your stupid fascist ass has just been had by the guy you supported because, above all else, he hated the same as you, and he hated the same people you hated.

It is so DIFFICULT for the MAGA morons to realize that wearing a red hat, or a white robe, or dressing in Nazi or Confederate ornaments, will not keep you from eventually morphing into that dreaded OTHER!

Great question

 TIL Major Harold Hering was discharged from the Air Force for asking the question, "How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane President?"

Harold L. Hering is a former officer of the United States Air Force, who was discharged in 1975 for requesting basic information about checks and balances to prevent the carrying out of unauthorized orders to launch nuclear missiles. (New York Times)

After the Hegseth/Trump demonstration of utter buffoonery at Quantico, watching both Hegseth and Trump trying to act as the role model for masculinity, toughness, and, of course, American manliness, I had to wonder, what exactly does the US Military elite do next?

In 1975, Major Harold Hering asked a straightforward and telling question: “How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane President?" Are the Military brass to just abide by the machinations of a President who, in fact, may be demonstrating traits of mental decline? Are they obligated not to question the mental faculties of the Commander-in-Chief who may be suffering from early-onset dementia? Bluntly, are the men and women of the US Military to acquiesce to a President who is bat-shit crazy?

I have been wondering about this.

teddy's truth

 Republican Senator Ted Cruz thinks we need to “stop attacking pedophiles.” The Texas senator made the brutal (potentially) Freudian slip during a Senate hearing about crime on Tuesday. “Senator Booker also said we should have bipartisan agreement. I think that’s a great idea, we should have bipartisan agreement,” Cruz said. “How ‘bout we all come together and say ‘let’s stop murders?’ How ‘bout we all come together and say ‘let’s stop rapes?’ How ‘bout we all come together and say ‘let’s stop attacking pedophiles?’” (The New Republic)

The reporter for The New Republic called it a Freudian slip, which was kind of him, but I believe, for once in his life, Teddy (let’s go to Cancun) Cruz was speaking his truth, kind of like he did when he was running against Trump.

"Donald does seem to have an issue with women. Donald doesn't like strong women," he said. "Real men don't try to bully women. That's not an action of strength. That's an action of weakness. It's an action of fear. It's an action of a small and petty man who is intimidated by strong women." (Teddy Cruz)… "This man is a pathological liar," Cruz said. "He doesn't know the difference between truth and lies ... in a pattern that is straight out of a psychology text book, he accuses everyone of lying." (Teddy Cruz)… “I want everyone to think about your teenage kids. The president of the United States talks about how great it is to commit adultery. How proud he is. Describes his battles with venereal disease as his own personal Vietnam.” (Teddy Cruz)

So NOW, Teddy (I am a hypocrite) Cruz, once again spoke a truth, and it was and remains a sick, creepy, enabling truth about not only Teddy (go insult my wife and father) Cruz, but most of the entire Republican Nationalist Christian Republican Party.

 

 

 

 

 

Out Loud

 Here's What Trump Was Up to While the Government Was Shutting Down. As government funding ran out, Donald Trump posted racist AI videos. (The New Republic)

I know Trump as a Racist is not new news, but for me, it is necessary to speak about it, and along with the Epstein Files, not brush it aside either. Trump’s appeal to the bigots and racists of America continues, out in the open, for everyone to see. However, now that I look at it, it also raises a new question…How can anyone remain silent about this blatant and overt intention by Trump and his Fascist, racist, bigoted “Brown Shirt Army purposeful display of disgust and hate. Trump, it seems, is making it very clear: pick a side, choose his racism and be one of his friends, or vehemently disagree with his racism and be his enemy.

When Trump tells the military elite that there is an enemy from within, as Trump’s Supreme Court permits racial profiling on behalf of ICE, as Christian Nationalists proclaim this nation was founded as a white Christian Republic, as all of this has and is happening, I believe anyone who remains silent, and does not protest any of this might as well consider themselves enablers, or worse co-defenders of bigotry and racism! 

 

 

Poor Pitiful Pete

 U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slammed ‘fat generals’ and diversity initiatives that he said led to decades of decay in the military and told a rare gathering of commanders on Tuesday they should resign if they don’t support his agenda. ‘Foolish and reckless political leaders set the wrong compass heading and we lost our way. We became the “Woke Department,”’ Hegseth said as he kicked off the event in Quantico, Virginia. ‘But not anymore,’ he said.

Hmm, Pete, macho man, masculinity… Pete Hegseth’s former sister-in-law said in a sworn affidavit that Pete made his ex-wife, Samantha Hegseth, “fear for her safety” while they were married. Hmm, Pete gotta act with swagger, letting your testicles free and wild… Among the allegations are that Samantha once hid from Hegseth in a closet, that she developed escape plans “if she felt she needed to get away from Hegseth” that would be activated with a code word, and that she did once put the escape plans into action.

Now Pete and his bone spur, grab ‘em by the p***y draft dodger Lord and Savior are acting all He-Man and testosterone-ridden, thinking that all it takes to prove their masculinity is shout, act the overlord, and macho. Poor pitiful Pete!