To sum it up

 To sum it up:

Trump Shrugged Off Soaring Gas Prices As "Peanuts" Amid The Iran War, And People Have A Lot To Say About It.” I don't even think about that,” Trump said. (BuzzFeed).

The Trump Sush Fund, aka the Weaponization Act: $1.8 billion.

The Trump Ballroom: $400 million.

The Trump Reflecting Pool: $15 million

The Trump Arch: $15 million.

The Trump Iran War: Over $25 billion so far, with little end in sight; some estimates put the total as high as $1 trillion.

The estimated cost to taxpayers for Donald Trump's golf trips since returning to office is $155,400,000, based on the average price per round calculated from previous trips. He has golfed on 111 days out of 486 days since taking office. (PBS).

Affordability ain’t on Trump’s radar or agenda. The rising cost of almost every consumer-oriented item is of no concern to Trump. It seems that those who continue to support Trump don’t really care about what things cost, as long as Trump and his Reich prefer racism and bigotry over morals, values, decency, and freedom.

Trump, who it seems does not pay his fair share of income taxes, as well as his children, has no worries about the price of anything for the peons. And so far, his cadre of peons doesn’t seem to mind it either. When Trump proudly and boastfully calls the rising price of gasoline “as peanuts,” I imagine what he means is it just “Chump Change,” because he knows his voters are CHUMPS…willingly so!

 

 

 

No Middle Ground anymore

 Rep. Thomas Massie, a Trump critic, lost the Kentucky Republican primary after the president endorsed Ed Gallrein. (MS NOW)

The Republicans voting in Kentucky have made it VERY clear that they support Pedophiles, Fraudsters, and Corruption. It is not limited to the Republicans in Kentucky, but for any Republican who voted for the candidates that Donald 34-count Felon endorsed and supported.

I may not have agreed with the myriad policies Rep. Massie had supported throughout his tenure as a Congressperson, but Mr. Massie made it loud and clear that he understood that criminal and immoral acts had taken place and that Trump and the Epstein Class should be held accountable for those heinous acts. The majority of Republicans in Congress, a vast MAJORITY, demonstrated their cowardness and immoral priorities by pretending to ignore the facts regarding the girls who were victimized by Epstein/Maxwell/Trump, and God only knows the many, many billionaires and millionaires.

Mr. Massie learned the sad lesson that in today’s Republican Party, decency is deferred to indifference, taking on Trump is treacherous, and speaking up for the people leaves you at a professional loss.

The MAGA/ Republican voters have once again demonstrated their hatred for those who dare to speak up and speak against their Dear Leader, who, I must suppose, is their Racist and Bigoted Idol. 

As I see it, you either care about justice being sought, or you support Trump; there is no middle ground or excuses that can be made.

Once again HE benefits

 First, it was Make America Great Again. The message was more of Make Bigotry and Racism Great Again in America. The idea that Trump could, would, and should be the guy to make magic in America worked well…perhaps because he bragged about grabbing women by the p***y, had been a three-time adulterer, convicted of sexual harassment, was responsible for an attempted insurrection, and, of course, had 34 felony counts charged against him. Maybe it was his hatred for anyone whose skin was not pearly white. 

Then, to keep the Bigots, the Racists, the Christian Nationalists, the Fascists, the Klan, the Oath Keepers, the American Nazi’s, and of course the FOX viewers extremely excited, the new slogan turned into America First. And of course, his cult bought into the bull shit, praising Trump as a man of the people. But alas alack, the con and corruption can never be contained by Trump, and his sycophant billionaire buds, and suddenly it was no longer Making America Great, or America First, nope, it never was about either idea, rather just to further the self-serving, selfish needs of Trump and his Family of Crime.

After filing a highly unusual lawsuit in which President Donald Trump sued his own administration’s Internal Revenue Service, he settled it through his acting attorney general — also his former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche — setting up a team of “volunteers” to dole out nearly $1.8 billion in taxpayer money out of what the Department of Justice calls “The Anti-Weaponization Fund.” (MS NOW)

Why Trump’s stock trades are so exceptionally corrupt. The president continues to find new, once-unimaginable ways to use the awesome powers of the federal government to enrich himself. (MS NOW)

I thought our government was to be all about “checks and balances,” but that is just ancient American history. The Republican majority in Congress only cares about not being primaried, and the Supreme Court only cares about what their donors, the Heritage Foundation, find important. And here we go again, watching Trump bankrupt the rest of us as he benefits.

 

 

Now it's derogatory

 Mike Johnson rejects ‘new term Christian nationalism’ as ‘derogatory.’ The GOP House speaker made the comments ahead of the Trump-backed, all-day prayer festival on Washington’s National Mall Sunday. (M NOW)

A few right in your face thingies regarding The Republican party of Trump. They easily noticed and blatantly demonstrated. 

Whenever anyone from The Trump Republican begins to argue that their actions are being interpreted as derogatory, dangerous, or disgusting, the very first thingie The Republican Trump politician does is to identify that critic as either a non-Patriot, a left-wing domestic terrorist, a Communist, and accuses them of suffering from Trump Derangement Condition. When truth is told regarding the inappropriate, illegal or ignorant actions by The Republican Trump politicians, the façade of lies begins to melt, it is like the bucket of water thrown at the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz, and the structure of bigotry, racism, theocracy, and Christian Nationalism is now in plain sight, and the nightmare becomes a day mare!

But sadly, The Republican Trump Party has little to no other reason for its existence, other than pretending that somehow Jesus, the white republican Jesus, fought side by side with Washington and his Troops, to make this new country, a Christian Nation. This fear of the other has been a key component in keeping Trump in power. 

Amazing ain’t it, that Christian Nationalism, as part of their beliefs, adore any heterosexual who commits adultery, any person who can sexually harass others successfully, individuals who participate in pedophilia (except if it’s Gay pedophilia), enjoy the thought that slavery was a freeing experience for the slave, and desire for the Confederacy to come back in style.

MAGA Mike makes Trump almost look honest, as he pretends to be offended by being called out as a liar, a hypocrite, a hater, and someone who has only contempt for the US Constitution!

 

 

Another one bites the orange dust

 Bill Cassidy held Trump accountable. Voters responded by humiliating him. Louisiana’s Cassidy is the first elected U.S. senator to lose a primary in more than a decade. (MS NOW)

Rape and Pillage, Crime and Corruption are meaningless for the Republican voters in Louisiana, and they demonstrated their disdain for democracy, prioritizing authoritarianism as their go-to form of government. As I read the results of the Republican primary in Louisiana, it seems that Trump is God, Trump’s form of racism and hate are gifts from God, and if you betray Trump’s bigotry, you will be cast away!

Why this should matter, to say, any American who believes in our democratic Republic, is that Senator Cassidy actually understood that Trump incited an insurrection, and instead of kowtowing like the majority of his Republican “ass lickers,” pretending that the demise of a free and honest government was at stake.

Trump, if anything, is good at revenge; he is very much like a Mob Boss and will stop at nothing to punish anyone who dares tell him that, in fact, this “Emperor has no clothes.”

As much as I appreciated Senator Cassidy doing the right thing then, he has not gone out of his way for the cause of democracy since. He has voted the Republican party line on every illicit, idiotic, and illegal scheme introduced by Trump.  Senator Cassidy is a practicing physician, and yet, to try to prove his fealty to Trump, this physician voted in favor of appointing RKK Junior as Secretary of HHS!

But even though this physician voted in favor of Kennedy and Kennedy’s absolute bull shit non-medical experience, to please Trump, that was not enough loyalty.

A few last words. Cassidy has once again demonstrated that you owe your soul to Trump, and if you commit one iota of disparaging Trump, you lose, because Trump neither forgives nor forgets. And the Republican voters in Louisiana have proudly stated out loud that morals and values are not as important as HATRED!

 

 

 

CLOSED...we've gone fishing

 House Speaker Mike Johnson has effectively stalled action on the Epstein files by adjourning the chamber early, delaying any votes until September. (BBC)

House Speaker Mike Johnson has closed the House for session multiple times, notably during the 2025 government shutdown, which lasted 54 days. This was the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, and the House was not in session for most of that period. Additionally, Johnson frequently canceled votes and sessions when internal tensions flared or legislation wasn't going his way, contributing to an unusually light legislative calendar. (AXIOS)

The Constitution requires that neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate can adjourn for more than three days without the consent of the other chamber. This rule ensures that Congress remains available to conduct legislative business. (USA Facts)

Members of the House of Representatives earn an annual salary of $174,000. Additional leadership positions, such as the Speaker of the House, earn higher salaries, with the Speaker making $223,500. (Indeed).

So, let us understand this, shall we…when MAGA Mike decides that any House business might interfere with the wishes and wants of his Lord and Master, Trump, MAGA Mike just adjourns for a few days, a few weeks, or even a few months. It ain’t the people’s business he is taking care of, but the business of taking care of Trump. Even though the House passed the Epstein Transparency Act, MAGA Mike decides to waylay that information, hoping that it will go away…And as MAGA Mike adds even more “We’ve Gone Fishing Days, Sorry We Are Closed, he and his Republican Fascist cohorts still receive a salary as if they are actually working for their Constituents.

The Trump Iran War, Mile High Gas Prices, Inflation on the rise, Pedophiles, including Trump, still face zero consequences, Affordability is unaffordable, people living paycheck to paycheck if they are lucky enough to have a job, Trump, having the Taxpayers pay for his Ballroom/Reflecting Pool/Triumphant Arch/privatizing public golf courses in DC, and the Voting Rights Act dismantled, but MAGA Mike says don’t worry be happy.

Please explain all of this, and then explain why the fuck you would vote to re-elect or even elect a single Republican come November!

And now this!

 Apparently, President Donald Trump’s “full, complete and unconditional” pardon for the roughly 1,500 rioters who violently assaulted the U.S. Capitol building and Washington police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, including those who pleaded guilty to felony charges and others who were serving prison time, did not go far enough. This week, a new class action lawsuit was filed by a group of participants in the Jan. 6 insurrection, claiming that the federal government owes them $18 million for injuries they allegedly suffered. It might be laughable if there wasn’t a real chance they could collect. (SLATE)

THE MADDNESS DOES NOT STOP, SLOW DOWN, BUT GETS STRONGER, AND STRANGER.

The Trump-inspired Insurrectionists, the Trump-motivated Domestic Terrorists, the people Trump was counting on to keep his Dictatorial position of Dear Leader intact, the Enemies of the State, are now demanding that they were the victims of the January 6^th attack on our nation, and as victims are due compensation. Yep, read that again!

Trump’s Army, Trump’s violent army of insurrectionists, has now decided that we, the people, whom they so despised and wanted to destroy, are the good guys, and the rest of us, not members of Trump’s army, are the villains.

In a real world of law and order, a respect for the Constitution and Democratic principles, this would be nothing but a big laugh, maybe a parody on SNL or an article in ‘The Onion’, but since Trump needs all of the votes he can get to keep the Republican majority in Congress, and keep himself out of jail, this lawsuit has a chance to actually become our reality. 

The crazy, bat shit, criminal actions within and by the Trump Reich keep on piling on!