Following this?

 President Trump said Monday he is reimposing the U.S. blockade on Iranian shipping, escalating a standoff over control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz. (The Wall Street Journal)

What, wait! First, the Strait was open, toll-free kind of open at that. Then it wasn’t opened, but we were told that the Strait was open, and the United States decided that it wouldn’t be opened by the Iranians until the United States told them it was open.

It’s kind of like there was no war until there was a war, because we were told we won the war, which was not a war, until we won it…but we didn’t win it. Got it?

Then there was a ceasefire, except it was never a ceasefire because if it had been a ceasefire, then all fire would have ceased, and the only reason there would be the need for a ceasefire, if in fact there had been a war, and since there was no war, just something called Epic Fury, which was just a means for Testosterone-starved Pete Hegseth to pretend that his box of tin soldiers were he-men and all powerful. Following this?

And this war, not a war, was never supposed to go on for more than a week, because we were told directly by Trump that the US had obliterated the Iranian nuclear threat and destroyed the entire military complex of Iran. Except that, as is usually the case with Trump, he makes things up in his head and tells so many lies that he cannot remember what he lied about. So, conveniently, it seems the US did not obliterate all of the nuclear dust, and we the people had to go to war to make certain that in the near future, we would all be safe from Iran dropping a nuclear bomb on the US in the next month or two.

13 US Troops died, thousands of people were murdered or maimed, billions of tax dollars (not money from the billionaires), US Middle East bases were destroyed, and the cost of almost anything that must traverse via the Strait of Hormuz has exploded.

Now we are blockading the Strait once more. But do not despair, because while all of this is happening, Trump is rebuilding Washington, D.C., from a cesspool that used to be reflecting to a 250th birthday bash that was a busted and bogus celebration, to building a Ballroom for the elite, to building Triumphant Arches. 

Just another day in the United States Hell!

 

Just another ICE murder

 Fatal shooting in Biddeford, Maine; Speaker says ICE agents involved. (Seacoastline.com)

How to get away with murder and be free to murder again. All you have to do is wear a mask on your face, wear a bulletproof vest, and, oh yeah, be an employee of Stephen Miller, who, of course, works for Donald Trump. No worries, just shoot first, ask questions later, that is, if you hang around long enough to see your victim lying dead on the ground or in a car.

Know that you, the ICE murderer, will be protected by the Trump Reich In-Justice Department, be called a Patriot by the Republican Majority in Congress, and will have “dibs” on joining the Trump Militia when he needs you to disrupt the midterm elections in November.

Trump and his Gestapo within his Reich love to claim that it is only the worst of the worst that ICE is seeking out, deporting, kidnapping, or occasionally murdering, but in fact, the truth is that the worst of the worst are the ones being recruited to do the dirty work of murdering anyone they pretend is the enemy of the state.

And we, the people, watch, wonder, wait, when, oh when, if ever, will any of these American Fascists ever be stopped and finally face the consequences for their heinous and deadly actions?

Isn't a bit MACABRE!

 Top Republicans say they spoke with Mitch McConnell while still in the hospital. (MSN) but… Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’ (MS NOW)

The Republicans in Congress have, if not a macabre definition of death, or like their view on which life is worth their Pro-Life, they just prefer to pick and choose who is alive and who is dead. Of course, the decision regarding Life and Death always depends on pleasing either Trump or the audience of FOX!

It was easy to declare Lindsey Graham dead, because not only did Lindsey actually die, but he died while a Senator in a state governed by a MAGA Governor, meaning that it will be easy peasy to immediately replace the now deceased Senator. However Mitch McConnell maybe a live or maybe dead, but as far as the Republicans are concerned it is much more beneficial to keep the guy alive, because he lives in a state governed by a Democrat, and even though the Republican State House changed the Constitution to keep him from replacing a deceased Senator, it seems that the odds are a non-MAGA or a non Trumpster might become Senator.

Not hard to follow, is it! If you are in Congress in a red state, with no one but other MAGA Republicans in line to replace you, then the GOP can declare you died. If you are in a red state with a bunch of other people who aren’t MAGA enough for you wanting to replace you, then, according to Republican law, you are really not dead, at least until the next election in November.

The self-described political party identifying as a Pro-Life Party, which is also quite picky on whose life it is that matters…(not an immigrant, not kids needing nutrition or three meals a day, not a female whose pregnancy is life-threatening, and not those who cannot afford health care) but the fetus or zygote in the womb. This same political party is also quite picky about who is dead and whose death is too inconvenient for the party’s own survival!

 

 

'Our House'

 “Our house is a very, very, very fine house. With two cats in the yard. Life used to be so hard. Now everything is easy 'cause of you.” (‘Our House’/Graham Nash)

The White House is often referred to as "The People's House" because it symbolizes the residence and workplace of the President of the United States, representing the American people and their government. This term emphasizes the idea that the White House belongs to the citizens of the nation, not just the president. (White House Historical Association),

Nope, Nah, Not On Your Life. Maybe in a land far, far away, a long, long time ago, once upon a kind of civil-minded government governed by a moral and sane President, the White House, which in reality is owned by the taxpayers of this nation, was the People’s House, but the current squatter living there, rent-free, believes the house belongs to him. 

President Donald Trump shared a photo Wednesday of what he described as the “newly revamped” West Wing of the White House — and it’s as tacky as you might expect. Maple trees and plantings were also added outside the West Wing, per the president. (HUFFPOST).

The White House is becoming the Trump Palace, or even worse, Mar-Lago North. With no regard for the cost of renovation, or rather, the destruction of this once American symbol of democracy, is more symbolic of an empty malignant narcissist, whose only priority in life seems to pretend that the more gold-plated shit you attach to your house equates to being the Alpha Dog! 

There remains a billion-dollar-a-day war going on with Iran, hundreds of billions of dollars are being requested to rebuild the military assets lost in that war, and right now there seems to be an unanswered question regarding whether we, the people, will pay the staggering sum of $600 million for a Ballroom for the billionaire class.

Amidst all of this, this ego-centric flipping of the White House, Trump, (MAGA, Trump, who has given zero shits about you and your everyday cost of living-no, not just the Dumb-Ocrats), has no need to sign to help the rest of us with our housing.

Trump pointedly refused to affix his name to a major housing bill that both houses of Congress recently passed with huge veto-proof margins. The bill became law Saturday without his signature. (MS NOW).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN SUMMATION

 IN SUMMATION:

It is Friday, July 10, 2026, perhaps just another day in a very dystopian nation I find myself living in, maybe just another day in a very surreal life I find myself living in, or a new version of a much more haunted and insidious Twilight Zone?

Graham Platner is ousted for being a sexual predator, in the same time frame that Trump finally must pay for his sexual predatory actions, yet the Republicans seem nonchalant and uninterested in pointing their fingers at Trump. The ever-abundant adulterer from Texas, Ken Paxton, is off on a fling in France with a married Christian influencer, and nada, nil, zilch, zero disgust has been shared by the Pro-Life MAGA minions.

Mitch is either dead, brain dead, or a real conversationalist, because way too many republicans and their enablers have sworn up and down the media highway that he is fine and dandy and discussing all kinds of politics. His wife (talk about family values) took off to China right after Mitch was 911-ed to the emergency room, and she seems to give more shits about talking to the Vice President of China than spending even an iota of a minute with her husband.

Is anyone truly surprised that the Republicans are replaying a version of the movie “Weekend at Bernie’s,” regarding Mitch, since they have pretended that Trump’s health is A Plus and perfect?

The Trump Iran War, which wasn’t a war until Trump declared we won that war, became a ceasefire, which meant, in Trumpian language, we won that non-war, war once again, and now there is no ceasefire, but still a war, and still costing the taxpayers about a billion dollars a day.

And then we have the Qatari Air Force One, which is almost Air Force One except it doesn’t come with all of the extra security trappings that the original Air Force One had, so after spending a billion dollars on refurbishing Trump’s personal aircraft, we have two Air Force Ones and are once again, as taxpayers, paying the bill for Trump’s bullshit.

In summation, the rabbit hole in which we find ourselves swirling round and round and downward and downward, is opening up into some as deep as the Mariana Trench, which is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth,

 

"weaponizing a car"

 Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday. Multiple witnesses have disputed DHS’ assertion that he “weaponized his vehicle” against an ICE officer. (MS NOW)

How to get away with murder, Trump Reich-style.

The Trump Reich In-Justice Department has a new “get out of jail free” card it uses for its private Militia. For these masked murderers and kidnappers, doing the biding of such heinous creatures as Lieutenant Reichstag Miller and his lacky loser “ya wanna take it outside,” Markwayne Mullin, all you have to say when you commit murder in the first degree is the phrase, “but they weaponized their car!”

It’s an easy phrase to get away with murder, and it will buy you the ICE Nazi from paying any consequences for losing your temper! Or maybe you’re just afraid you’re losing your machismo, or maybe you feel you are low on testosterone, and if you already beat up your wife or girlfriend and still need some kind of MACHO MAN release, just cower behind your mask and taser, and bulletproof vest and say, “but they were weaponizing their car.

And since you are backed by Republicans who seem to prefer Fascism versus Anti Fascism, you really have little to worry about as you gladly commit first-degree murder. Why, you might ask, because the Republicans who swear to their Christian Nationalist American Jesus that they are pro-life don’t give a shit about that life once it is outside a woman’s womb. 

Lots of murder when you are a Trump Reich Hitman, and zero consequences, and apparently you joined this Nazi Klan because you certainly have no conscience!

 

AND...yet

 “For weeks, Donald Trump’s fury has been growing at Republicans for failing to pass voter suppression legislation, demanding that they end the filibuster to do so. In a late-night tirade, he urged them to attach the SAVE Act to a must-pass defense spending bill, a dramatic move that reveals his deep frustration with them.” (The New Republic).

Trump is brain-dead regarding most priorities for America and Americans, but his total fear of finally facing the criminal consequences for his insidious and heinous crimes still firmly resonates in his diminishing and more demented mind. He knows he is a fraud, a felon, a very pathetic pedophile, a Putin puppet, and even if he calls it “the Islamic Republic of Japan, sits directly across from President Zelinsky identifying him as President Putin, and refers to TikTok as Tic Tac, the one item which is very clear traveling from his gut to his brain is his immense fear of going to prison. So he will do anything and everything within his crooked power to eliminate that future opportunity.

And then we have the Republican Party, the guys and gals who, 99% of them, have permitted Trump to ignore the rules and regulations provided in the US Constitution, to absolve the “checks and balances” established in the Constitution, and to rewrite any history in favor of his racist and bigoted priorities. So when I read about the following statement: They (The Republicans) also blame Trump for letting this obsession take his focus off costs. One GOP Senator even tells NBC: “He’s a bully, and he’s f------ things up as fast as he can.” (The New Republic) …I want to SCREAM!

The Republicans sold their souls (whatever that really amounts to) to Trump, hoping to keep them in power. They knew Trump was a criminal, and they decided that their jobs were more important than the job of governing for the citizens. And now, just like the MAGA voters who voted for Trump because they were certain Trump’s actions would only hurt “THE OTHER”, and never them directly, the Republicans suddenly have taken their heads out of Trump’s ass to realize that the bad guy they permitted to be bad is bad for them. And yet, AND YET, these guys and gals of the Republican Party remain obedient, obliging, keeping Trump in office, thus in power.

When you know there is poison in your food, and you still decide to indulge in that meal, the only question to ask is, “How fucked up are you?’