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!

 

 

Let them STARVE

 The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran, they can’t have a nuclear weapon. I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation, I don’t think about anybody.” (Donald Trump)

“When asked about the comment during a Friday night interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Trump said it was a “perfect statement.” “I’d make it again,” he continued. “You can imagine how many people stopped the soundbite at ‘I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation’ so what’s your response to that?” Baier asked, “It’s very simple, when people hear me say it, everybody agrees,” Trump said. “Short-term pain, it’s gonna be short-term pain.” (HuffPost).

Yep, I have to rehash the arrogant, selfish quote by Trump, because, for once, he has stated his true intentions, and when asked again if he might want to rethink his ignorant, nonchalant “I give no shits” commentary, he demonstrates his loathing for anyone who is not one of his billionaire puppet masters.

Trump, aloof, and (no MAGA, not a Populist Idol that you pretend he is), says “short-term pain,” because living from paycheck to paycheck, prioritizing food, healthcare, housing, utilities, and if you can afford to drive your car, are all silly inconveniences.

“Short-term pain,” meh, so what if you run out of money now, boo-hoo, you are not Patriotic enough, you are not American enough, you just don’t care enough. 

Trump does care, however, that Americans’ finances are used to soothe his insecure, narcissistic machinations, such as his Ballroom, his Triumphant Arch, his Reflecting Pool, his swimming pool, and his Golfing outings to not only Mar-a-Lago but also all of his golf properties. Oh yeah, and his billion dollars a day cost to continue a war in Iran, which he started with absolutely no idea or care about how to stop.

Maria Antoinette has been paraphrased as saying to her French citizens, “let them eat cake.” In Trump’s case, it sounds more like let them starve!

 

 

 

 

 

Keep letting them rig

 Tina Peters deserves due process, not political clemency. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has sent a dangerous signal to election deniers that with enough political pressure, accountability becomes negotiable. (MS NOW)

Being pissed off, for me, does not just stop with the Christian Nationalist/Fascists MAGA Republicans, those who believe that Democracy is useless when it doesn’t work in their favor, but when I witness injustice, or is it indifference by Democrat politicians, my ire and anger must be shouted out toward their careless, and “let’s fuck the Constitution actions.

The Democratic Governor of Colorado just provided the same middle finger used by the Republicans to the Constitution and the American public, by permitting clemency toward a very insidious and evil person, who decided that she was the one who could fuck around with democracy.

Tina Peters was found guilty “by a jury of her peers — in conservative Mesa County — on seven counts, including four felonies, of orchestrating an illegal breach of her county’s voting equipment. She let an unauthorized outsider into a secure elections room, directed staff to shut off surveillance cameras and copied hard drives from voting machines — all to try to prove conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that were never true.”  (MS NOW)

Why this should matter, I believe, is evident, but I will shout it out, as I see it. Peters tried her best to deny the people of Colorado their ability to keep their votes legitimate. Peters was found by a jury of her peers to have committed various crimes. Tina Peters gave zero shits about truth. She deserved prison time, and now wham bam thank you, Governor Polis, you too, are playing the same Tina Peters game by saying screw all that law and order, I am more powerful, and I will determine right from wrong.

The other real thing here is that so far, Trump and his Fascist Republicans are doing everything in their power to undermine the Midterm elections. From canceling the Voting Rights Act to gerrymandering districts, the Trump Reich has also been screaming that voting is somehow rigged, especially when the Republicans lose. By ignoring the crimes of Tina Peters, Governor Polis, as I see it, is sanctioning anyone who wants to truly rig the elections to do so, and not to pay any consequences for their felonious actions. Shame on you, Governor Polis, shame.