I want my money back

 “Democrats were ready to pounce when Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) sent the House home a day earlier than planned this week after already having canceled the final two weeks of votes scheduled ahead of the November midterms.

“What are Republicans doing?” asked Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries at a Thursday news conference with House Democratic leadership. “They’re running away from their responsibilities here on Capitol Hill.” (The Washington Post).

Trump is scared. So, he has demanded that his lackey, actually the best lacky ever, Mike Johnson, cancel the number of days that the House of Representatives is in session. Most of the Republicans in the House most likely prefer this idea, so that they can pretend that they care about their constituents, but if they remained in their job, they might have to vote on legislation that demonstrates how much more they care about pleasing Trump than helping those who voted them into office in the first place. Mike Johnson may be called the Speaker of the House, but the only person he speaks for is Trump.

There are 243 days from January 1 through August 31. If you are a full-time employee with a standard five-day workweek, you probably worked around 165 of them, depending on how generous your holiday and PTO policy is. But the House held floor votes on 65 of those days, just over a quarter of the time. That’s low, even by Congress’s standards. Washington always slows down during election years as members spend more time at home campaigning. But No Labels pulled the data going all the way back to 1994; 2026 was the fewest voting days in over three decades. (No Labels)

The total cost to taxpayers for members of the House of Representatives includes a salary of $174,000 per year, plus an average office budget of approximately $1.93 million per member, which covers staff salaries, office expenses, and travel. Additionally, members receive benefits such as health insurance and a pension under the Federal Employees Retirement System. (fedlaws.org)

Umm, at least for me, if the public servants for whom I am paying their salaries, benefits, and office budgets are not showing up for work on a regular basis, I am not happy and want my money back. But who am I just a lowly taxpayer!

 

 

 

 

Should have said, Thanks, but no thanks!"

 “In response to detailed questions, a spokesperson for Trump Jr. did not dispute the wedding payments from Kremlev. “Umar is a personal friend of Don,” he said. The spokesman said that Kremlev is “not someone he has a business relationship with” and that the men met through a mutual friend in the hunting world and bonded over their love of boxing and the outdoors.

A spokesperson for Trump Jr.’s brother Eric said of Kremlev: “Eric has absolutely no clue who this person is, nor has never heard his name.” 

In a statement, Kremlev’s press office said, “Mr. Kremlev and Mr. Trump Jr have a friendly relationship” and they first met “a couple of years ago.” (New York Magazine)

Maybe I should ignore this continuous story regarding the Don and Betinna wedding saga, but I don’t. Who gives a fuck about Junior and his bride, you might ask… and the answer to that who cares " question is that Don Junior is the evil seed of Don Senior, and both men are career corrupt conmen. Both wield significant influence and power, breathe the same rotten air of scams, and have shown zero evidence of moral fortitude or a sense of values.

And like their in-law, Jared Kushner, both men have flirted with, caved to, and have sung the praises of Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin, by the way, has invaded the democratic nation of Ukraine and has been proven to have provided information to the Iranians regarding all of the US bases in the Middle East.

Putin is an enemy of the United States, and so far, the behavior of the Trump/Kushner families has proven that as long as there is a profit to be made, they too can and will be enemies of the United States. 

The bull shit line from Junior and his wife is that Kremlev is a friend and he gave a gift… Kremlev is a BFF of Putin, an enemy of the USA, so it would have been very easy for Junior and his wife to say, thanks, but no thanks!

 

 

A Master Race?

 Pentagon Wants Only the Fittest Troops to Attend Upcoming Hegseth Speech. Service members must meet waist-to-height standards and have “impeccable” grooming. (The Wall Street Journal)

The Nazis considered the putative "Aryan race" a superior "master race" with Germanic peoples as representative of the Nordic race being considered the best branch, and they considered Jews, mixed-race people, Slavs, Romani, black people, and certain other ethnicities racially inferior subhumans, whose members were only suitable for slave labor and extermination. (Wikipedia).

Pete Hegseth is an insecure man who feels emasculated and always looks for a scapegoat to blame for his own inadequacies. He seems terrified by women, nauseated by people of color, and consumed with the horrors of never being a real mucho, macho male. Pete, of course, is in power because his boss, Donnie Trump, shares the same sad, sick insecurities about manliness as Pete. 

Hitler and his henchmen, I believe, suffered from the same delusions of power, might, and superiority, always fearful that their own weaknesses might be discovered, showcasing just how inadequate they are. To offset their lack of self-esteem, the Nazi’s decided that they would create a false narrative by identifying as a master race. In doing so, it was a whole lot easier to scapegoat, belittle, and eventually convince other insecure people that they were the master race. 

This bizarre psychology worked well during Nazi Germany, and sadly Pete and Trump are trying desperately to do the same in the United States. Weak men, are a parasite, weak men with power are deadly!

 

 

He just hates you

 Trump is doing everything he can, and with the spineless and immoral Republican majority in Congress, he is having zero pushback in doing so, and he is Making Trump Great Again.

“This year, Trump has championed a number of initiatives and positions that a solid majority of Americans oppose. There’s his deeply unpopular war against Iran; a new trade war with Canada and a new name for Lake Ontario; the “anti-weaponization” slush fund his Justice Department concocted, which even GOP allies instantly rejected; and his incessant need to build a White House ballroom, among other efforts to gut-renovate D.C. — using taxpayer dollars — in the middle of a nationwide affordability crisis his administration undoubtedly made worse.” (New York Magazine).

Add to the fact that all Trump cares about is his wealth and feeding his fragile ego, the fact that, along the way, as long as he keeps his American billionaire oligarchs satisfied, he reaps the reward of never having to say he is sorry.

Trump Can’t Stop Backing Stuff Americans Hate. (New York Magazine)

 In a Truth Social post, Donald Trump said the only “guardrails” AI needs are a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT.” Poll upon poll has demonstrated the American public’s loathing for AI Data Centers, but as long as his Tech Bro’s feed him and his family, Donnie gives zero shits about the rest of us. And Trump’s EPA has recently rescinded greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicles and power plants, significantly reducing federal regulations on emissions. His carbon-burning barons have paid Trump good money to help them kill the planet and its inhabitants, because profits are more important than the health and welfare of the rest of us.

To support Trump is to admit that your life is meaningless, you are impressed with immorality, values are for heretics, and that to embrace Trump is simply to state that as long as he hates the same people you hate, it is no biggie in hating yourself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Russia, Russia, Russia

 Hilary Clinton cautioned us and warned us, saying, “Russia, Russia, Russia,” during her campaign against Trump, some ten years ago in 2026. She knew, and let’s be honest, any thinking person of any intelligence knew that Donald Trump was, and most likely still remains, a Putin Puppet. And as is the case with Trump, the more he demonstrates a hissy fit denying any negative accusation against him, the more it proves to be a fact.

For me, Trump is slime, oily, sleazy, gross slime, and the one thing he, as a parent, does best is to let his slime drip and drop and ooze all over his children.

Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin. (PROPUBLICA).

Let’s probe this fact a bit more. First, ask the simple question… Forbes Magazine estimates Donnie Jr. is worth around $400 million as of 2026. Betina Anderson, the woman Junior married, has a net worth of $500,000 to $600,000. So one might wonder: why would anyone else have to pay for their wedding weekend, and especially anyone else who happens to be a BFF of Vlad Putin? 

Then we have to wonder why a BFF of Putin would want to pay for the wedding, and we might think, out of the goodness of his heart. Or maybe it has nothing to do with charity and is more of a covert move by Putin to get even closer to the Trump family. 

Donnie Junior has proven his own sliminess and penchant for corruption. He has honed his father's grifting talent. And maybe, just maybe, Putin and his goons are betting on the same greediness and lack of respect for this nation that Donnie Senor has, which is a common trait among the Trump kids.

The Con, a Trump Family Tradition. Selling out to the highest bidder, a Trump Family treasure.

 

 

No clean water for you

 “Federal court rules there is no constitutional right to safe drinking water.” “A federal appeals court has used a decades-long water crisis in one of the Blackest cities in America to rule that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee Americans the right to clean and safe drinking water. The Sept. 4 ruling came even after Jackson, Mississippi, residents alleged officials knew the water was contaminated and assured the public it was safe. To this point, the appellate court also ruled that the Constitution does not offer citizens the “right to truthful information from officials during a public health crisis.” (Capital B).

In the age of Trump, I sadly have become used to headlines that are obscene, bizarre, sadistic, painful, miserable, and pathetic. I have not become numb to them, but seriously, the spark of surprise at their content has become less and less shocking, and more and more expected.

And now I read this article, where the Courts are declaring that our Constitution gives no fucks about each and every American having the right to safe and clean drinking water. If you live in a location where that municipal, county, or state government is run by fools who place profit over people, most likely owned and operated by some corporation that never gave a shit about people, who have now decided that it is too costly to provide the life-sustaining clean water, well then either die or spend your life savings and purchase bottled water. 

Yep, in America, it is of no concern, as stated by a Federal Court, for you to drink clean, safe water. Nope, your local government can lie to you, can purposely hide the truth from you, and in return, you have no rights to fight back. Just when I think we have reached some of the lowest points of our American life, suddenly the idea of demanding clean water is illegal!

 

 

 

 

 

 

And God created Trump

 

“And on June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker,’” the narrator says. “So God gave us Trump.” “God said, ‘I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, fix this country, work all day, fight the Marxist, eat supper then go to the Oval Office and stay past midnight and a meeting of the heads of state.’ So God made Trump.” (HuffPost)

Critics were stunned by the video’s blatant idolatry, especially on a stage where speaker after speaker had attacked Democrats about faith while posturing as defenders of Christianity.  (HuffPost).

Hypocrisy is the real religion that Republicans and MAGA worship. They salivate over creating false Gods, and refuse to ever acknowledge a truth that may provide them with the real facts, disrupting their bigoted, xenophobic, and nowadays Fascist ways. 

Trump has audacity galore, but he and his sycophants understand that those who have joined his cult are so hateful that, as long as Trump points out the evil of the other, his followers feel safer.

“So God made Trump…” Hmm. Trump has been found to be a fraudster, a sexual harasser; he lies as swiftly as he breathes; he is crass, belligerent, a bully, just to list a few of his attributes. So, did God have all of this in mind with this creation?

I can laugh at this bull shit, but what becomes less funny for me is the fact that way too many other Americans don’t find this form of heresy funny, but insist this flimflam is true. Who is the bigger fool…Trump and his goons or the minions who fall for this shit?