A MAZE of MADNESS

 No foul play regarding the Reflecting Pool, except in the demented and dangerous mind of an octogenarian who suffers from a very bad infection of malignant narcissism, which never permits him to ever back down from any lie he has uttered. Facts, if not of his own imagination, are phony, and truth is like a clogged artery, which, when spoken, causes him severe pain and lightheadedness.

More money spent on Golden statues, all around Washington, DC, because nothing says value to an empty carcass more than lavishing in a metal that makes his frailties seem hidden, reflecting a pretense of might and meaning instead. And then there is the cost of this senile and selfish old fool whose 250^th American Party turned into a “how to waste taxpayers’ money while puffing up your own ego; who now has decided that the entire cost of this fiasco is not his problem but once again the taxpayers!

A GOP gang of goons playing doctor, hoping to provide the reliable Republican “gotcha” to Dr. Fauci for having had the audacity of applying science and medical reasoning to save lives during COVID. These FOX favorites are hoping for their 15 minutes of shame, bashing the man who insisted vaccines were the answer to help save lives (Fauci) but ignoring the empty rants and raves of a man who told Americans that using bleach would cure COVID.

Trump’s personal attorney, the guy who found hours upon hours to visit Ghislaine Maxwell, placing her in a more comfy and cozy jail suite, the guy who maybe spent a begrudging and patronizing hour with real victims of Epstein and Maxwell, the guy who will place nothing in writing, is still the GUY Trump madly desires to become Attorney General. And even sadder is the fact that the only Republican Senator making any attempt to stop this act of professional legal indecency is the guy who will be out of office.

Just four current events, which have and will currently impact our daily lives. All of these insane instances stem from the man who remains in power, and who each and every day pulls all of us into a maze of madness!

 

His CRAZY continues

 Trump blasts Pirro for nixing Reflecting Pool case: ‘What was she thinking?’ The president lashed out at his hand-picked U.S. attorney, Jeanine Pirro, for blaming damage on “botched work” instead of on vandals. (MS NOW)

Trump escalates feud with GOP senators over Todd Blanche nomination. Sens. Thom Tillis and John Cornyn have refused to support Blanche unless he proves that a payout fund for alleged victims of government abuse is dead. (MS NOW)

Donald Trump is so bitter about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz that he rejects the suggestion that his inexplicable war with Iran has led to a hacking attack on the water systems of several U.S. states and instead bizarrely insists that Minnesota somehow hacked its own water system. (MS NOW)

Here we go, AGAIN, an insane, perhaps demented, one might suggest senile, sad sack of a person, in the most powerful position on Earth, and pick one of these headlines, two of these headlines, or all three of these headlines, and after you have said what the fuck, state clearly scream WHY THE FUCK!

Once again, Trump is ready to blame his own ineptitude on one of his besties, Judge (I was just following orders, Pirro. Or, as usual, Trump is pissed that his besties in the Senate have not come to his aid and continue to assist his grift and con. Or, unaware of his own failures, or does he not give a fuck about his own ineptitude, now blames a democrat for circumstances which could have been avoided.

And yet, with the exception of those Republicans who have no more fucks to give, because Trump fucked them over, NO ONE within the Trump Reich has the backbone, balls, and courage to say, ENOUGH, you crazy fool, ENOUGH!

 

 

 

BUT INSTEAD

 The Hidden Impact Of Trump's Public Health Cuts Is Starting To Appear — And Experts Say This Is Only The Beginning. From trust to communication, experts share what concerns them most about the current response to cyclospora and more. (HUFFPOST)

BUT INSTEAD of calling in “I eat roadkill Kennedy,” to answer for his and Trump’s blatant and intentional insidious actions against the health and welfare of American citizens, Rand Paul and his Republican hypocrites went on a revenge tour and decided to attack Dr. Fauci.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) attempted to stick it to Dr. Anthony Fauci during Wednesday’s hearing on the origins of COVID-19. Hawley hoped to make an example of Fauci during his own questioning, only to have things fall apart when he posted a segment of the hearing on social media with this caption: “Hint for you: no honest person pleads the Fifth.” (HUFFPOST)

BUT INSTEAD, Senator Hawley, all full of himself and his 15 minutes of some kind of FOX News segment fame, was so busy trying to impress his low-IQ voters that he seemed to forget that Demented Donnie, Trump, invoked the Fifth more than 440 times during a 2022 deposition for the New York attorney general’s fraud investigation into his firm. 

Jim Jordan Melts Down On CNN When Confronted Over Support for Candidate Accused Of Abuse. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) got into a heated exchange with CNN’s Kasie Hunt on Thursday when confronted about his continued support for Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) even after being accused of abusing his wife and daughter. (HUFFPOST)

BUT INSTEAD, Gym Jordan, the Congressman from one of the most gerrymandered districts in the nation, so not having to worry about either passing any legislation or following any moral highway, of actually saying that this kind of behavior is not acceptable for a Congressional candidate, Gym Jordan used the old excuse that this bit of physical abuse was a family matter, and we should respect the family, and look the other way.

I am tired, so sick and tired of the Republican BUT INSTEAD. And this continuous respect for double standards by Republicans and disregard for facts is also very concerning, not just for the lack of morals and values, but it also highlights very clearly why and how the most heinous of hypocrites, Trump, manages to remain in power. 

Looking at the current crop of Republicans, except for those who are not going to run for office again, all we see is a tribe of cockroaches branching out from the crumbs Trump feeds them!

 

 

The Game of GOTCHA, again

 Senate Republicans try to smear Fauci over COVID, but he refuses to play their game. “There's a comic trope beloved by playwrights, novelists and screenwriters about the fighters all suited up for battle, only to discover that their adversary refuses to play.

Fauci, who was appearing before Paul's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee under subpoena, took the weapon out of Paul's hands by simply refusing to answer a single question other than to state — 116 times by my count — "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the 5th Amendment to the Constitution." (Los Angeles Times)

In the meantime, while the GOP Senators are trying their damnedest to rewrite the history of COVID during Trump’s first Reich, pretending that Heir Trump poohed-poohed the entirety of the dreaded virus. We have a current Director of HHS, Bobbie (I eat roadkill, and snort cocaine off of bathroom toilets) Kennedy doing his best to remove the word Health and Human from the services his department was established to defend! 

As a reminder, Rand and your self-absorbed GOP hypocrites: During the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump frequently downplayed the virus's severity, claiming it would "go away" and suggesting that the number of cases would soon be "close to zero," despite warnings from health officials about the expected spread of the virus. 

The GOP loves to play the game of gotcha when it comes to anyone who is not them and indeed who is not their Lord and Master, Trump. They refuse to look at the world around them, pretending that the measles virus has erupted like Mt. Vesuvius, that foodborne bacteria have gone wild, that too many people have no access to vaccinations, and that nutrition programs in the country and around the world are causing severe health hardships.

But, Rand Paul at heart is a Republican so the here and now never matter, because he and his MAGA-based hypocrites are too afraid to help the people who voted them into power because Trump hates those people

 

 

 

$153 billion, for what now?

Granted, it is a few dozen bungled policies ago, but remember when we were blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean as part of the administration's Operation Dude Bro anti-drug strategy? “In a recent assessment reviewed by The Washington Post, DEA analysts found the strikes had failed to affect the supply or price of cocaine in the United States and had led traffickers to diversify beyond go-fast boats and to avoid international waters, opting instead for larger boats and hemming close to coastlines, where U.S. forces are less likely to open fire.” (Esquire)

It was called Operation Southern Spear. It was the beginning of the inept and testosterone-deprived Pistol Pete Hegseth’s desire to DUDE UP the Military, and pretend that Cuba and Venezuela were skinny kids on the beach, and testosterone-deprived Pistol Pete was some kind of muscled guy ready to kick sand in their faces. Trying his best to win the love of the Pedophile Rapist, Trump, the most unqualified person to be the Secretary of Defense, Hegseth, did a whole lot of show and tell, without much to show, and here is the telling part: 

The U.S. military campaign to destroy alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific has cost tens of billions of dollars, with the initial fleet alone costing over $40 billion to purchase and daily operating expenses exceeding $333,000 for the aircraft carrier involved. (PBS)

Why this matters to me is a myriad of reasons, from why the fuck did we do this,  to just how expensive this OPERATION SOUTHERN SPEAR cost me as a taxpayer. And then, as seems the case now regarding the Republican majority in Congress, the same insecure heterosexual dudes have pumped up and preened themselves with the Iran War, calling the first mistake, OPERATION FURY, and then the second blunder of insisting that the US Blockade of the Hormuz Strait was better than the Iran blockade, calling that PROJECT FREEDOM.

As of July 29, 2026, the estimated cost of the Iran war for U.S. taxpayers is over $113.3 billion, which includes approximately $11.3 billion for the first six days and ongoing costs of about $1 billion per day. (csis.org)

So far, we have spent $153.7 billion dollars. And that total does not include the money necessary to manufacture more of our depleted munitions, let alone rebuild our infrastructure across the Middle East. 

We have no idea what is happening in Venezuela, and we have no idea what will happen next with Iran…so please explain, Hegseth/Rubio/Trump, what or who was this actually for?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

HIS morality, come on!

 President Trump said his “own morality” guides his decisions on foreign intervention in an interview published Thursday, following weeks of scrutiny for U.S. strikes overseas.

“Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,” Trump told The New York Times on Wednesday night when asked if there were any limits on his international power. (The Hill)

I read this interview and, as frightened as I have been, a very hardened chill fell directly all over my body. Here we have Trump proclaiming that it is HIS morality that is the defining factor in any and all decisions he makes. The convicted Rapist, the accused Pedophile, the guilty of fraud conman, the slum landlord, the purveyor of international war crimes, the grifter, the liar, the King of Presidential corruption has admitted publicly that he uses his MORALITY as a basis of action.

Trump then added that it is his own mind. The man who must take cognitive tests after another, the man who slurs his words or speaks jibberish, jumping from one inane topic to another, this aged man who each and every day seems more riddled with one health problem after another, states that it is his mind that makes him the Emperor of the World!

And then Trump admits that within the US and, for that matter, the world, there is no one to stop him. On this point, at least within the United States, there is no one to stop him. The Republican majority in Congress has readily acquiesced to any “checks and balances,” as has the Heritage Foundation Supreme Court. Perhaps worldwide, we witness Iran stopping him, and most likely the secret videotapes in Putin’s vault are a hindrance. 

A madman, a cruel, degenerate narcissistic sick and sad madman pretending that he has a moral compass, but the direction he is moving just leads to death and destruction!

Then and Now...why the same

 THEN: Many people living near concentration camps claimed they were unaware of the true nature of these facilities, often believing they were merely labor camps. However, evidence suggests that the German public had some understanding of the brutal conditions and the likelihood of fatality for those sent to these camps. Many witnesses reported seeing the mistreatment of inmates, which indicated the camps were not just educational institutions as some believed. (Wikipedia)

NOW: ‘Nightmarish’: Report exposes medical failures at California ICE detention center. The court-appointed medical review is the first-of-its-kind for an ICE detention center. It resulted from a November class action lawsuit filed by seven people detained at the Mojave Desert facility, who alleged inhumane conditions and medical neglect. (San Francisco Chronicle)

THEN: The Brownshirts, officially known as the Sturmabteilung (SA), were a paramilitary organization associated with the Nazi Party in Germany. They played a significant role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power by using violent intimidation against political opponents and protecting Nazi rallies from 1921 until the end of World War II in 1945. (Wikipedia)

NOW: ICE/ Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Of course, the…criminal drug dealers, the rapists, the murderers, the individuals who have committed heinous acts on the interior of our country and who have terrorized law-abiding American citizens, absolutely, those should be the priority of ICE,” she said. “But that doesn’t mean that the other illegal criminals who entered our nation’s borders are off the table.” (Karoline Leavitt).

History is fact. The evidence is in plain sight, even when the Trump Reich, his state-sponsored propagandists like FOX, Newsmax, and the MAGA Podcasters, and the Republican Majority in Congress pretend otherwise.

The names may change from Concentration Camps to Detention Centers, from Brown Shirts to ICE, from Adolph Hitler to Donald Trump, from German Citizens looking the other way to American citizens looking the other way…BUT there is very little difference between THEN and NOW. Ya gotta wonder how the fuck!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The PROOF IS out there

 Proof is a logical explanation or argument that demonstrates the truth of a statement or proposition, often using evidence and reasoning to establish its validity.

In the American political world dominated by a vast majority of Republicans, PROOF seems to be the one and only thing they, as a group, refuse to accept, provide, or share. Imagine just providing PROOF, as in providing all of the hidden papers or tapes, providing person-to-person interaction, or providing facts, not fiction, to prove that what you say and do is real!

Today, Monday, July 27, 2026, there was a new photo of Mitch McConnell and his wife, Elaine Chao. “Senator Mitch McConnell has been absent from Congress for more than a month as he recovers from what he says was a fall. This week, the former Senate majority leader issued a rare new statement on his recovery and a second proof-of-life photo. But he gave no clear timeline for his return to Capitol Hill amid widespread speculation about the specifics of his condition.” (New York Magazine)…Is this Proof that Mitch is alive, or not brain dead, or already buried? If Mitch were just Mitch McConnell, mail delivery person, store clerk, a laborer, the photo shoot alone would not suffice to provide the PROOF that indeed, Mitch is living and functioning. But somehow, we, the people, and especially the people of Kentucky, must assume that Mitch is alive and doing so much better. Imagine inviting a few members of the Kentucky media to visit him in the hospital!

The war that wasn’t a war, until it was a war, and then suddenly became just a skirmish…the embargo of the Strait of Hormuz, which had been open, but now was closed, which was almost opened again, is still shut…the nonexistent fees to travel through the Strait are now in existence, the obliterated arsenal of weapons of war and nuclear abilities, are somehow not obliterated…PROOF is an inconvenient truth for Trump, Hegseth, Rubio, and Vance. What we see and hear is not PROOF of anything but of MAGA/Republican based propaganda of what it is that the Trump Reich prefers to “show and tell!”

Approximately 2.5 million pages of Epstein files have not been released, as the Department of Justice stated that they had fulfilled their legal obligations with the release of over 3.5 million pages, while estimates suggest the total could be around 6 million pages. (CBS News)…Innocence can be proven by providing PROOF. If no harm or no foul had been committed, then open up the remaining files associated with Epstein, look into the camera with a shit-eating “I told you so grin,” provide the American public with your middle finger, and here is the PROOF: I am not either a PEDOPHILE or a RAPIST. PROOF should be as easy as releasing ALL the remaining millions of files.

The TV show The X-Files used the tagline "The truth is out there." Seems to me McConnell and Trump, and Todd Blanche, and Pete Hegseth, and Marco Rubio, and Just Dance Vance could easily dispel any confusion by stating: “THE PROOF IS OUT THERE.”

 

 

Some kinda Golden Rule

 As Trump boosts nuclear power, regulators seek to eliminate a longstanding radiation safety rule. Currently, facilities such as nuclear plants, hospitals or academic institutions that use radioactive materials must ensure radiation exposures are kept “as low as reasonably achievable” — the ALARA principle. The NRC proposal would abandon that philosophy while keeping a separate standard on maximum radiation exposure. (AP News)

The same administration that decided the measles vaccine was just a socialist scheme to control the population… the same administration that decided cuts to food safety were not in favor of the large corporations’ bottom lines…the same administration that has decided wind mills either kill birds or stop the air from actually flowing, and that climate change is nothing but a Left Wing hoax… the same administration that is supported by a band of so called Pro-Life Christian Nationalists has DECIDED that money from the Nuclear Power Industry placed into their pockets is a priority over and above the health and welfare of the citizens of this nation.

No abortions, this administration insists, as do their hypocritical Republican enablers, but once the fetus is outside of the womb, then suddenly it is of no concern, cutting back health care, cutting back nutritional assistance, cutting back almost any governmental program that actually makes living livable!

Profit over people. The Trump Crime Family and his billionaire sycophants prefer to keep the peasantry hungry, homeless, and unhealthy. Public safety is now a form of communism or socialism. Public health is suddenly a very un-Christian machination.

The saying "do unto others as you would have them do unto you," commonly known as the Golden Rule, is found in the Bible in Matthew 7:12 and Luke 6:31.Nope, none of that Biblical storyline is of any consequence with this administration and their enablers; that too just sounds a little too much like Left Wing propaganda! The only Golden Rule Trump is concerned about is the amount of Gold he can own!

His NEW Enablers

 Trump seems to get away with grift, corruption, maybe rape of a minor (think about the inability to access all of the video from the FBI Epstein Files), perhaps even murder (one might wonder about his first wife, Ivana, suddenly falling down a set of stairs in her apartment days before she was to testify against Trump), because he has surrounded himself with willing enablers people from the Republican dominated Supreme Court, to the puppets posing as Republican politicians, the billionaire bros who base their morality and humanity on how much wealth they can accumulate, to the media insurrectionists at FOX. We know this, we witness this, and for many of us, we are pissed that THIS is even a thing.

However, at least for me, one of the most disgusting and self-serving enablers of Trump’s constant scam of the American people, and his profitable distribution of snake oil, comes from a group of people who, once again, as I see it, were supposed to be a part of the checks and balances of our Democracy…CORRESPONDENTS! 

We recently witnessed the White House Correspondents' Dinner, something I would usually not give a shit about, but this one was months after the original, where supposedly an assassination attempt had been planned against Trump. (And remember this, please: this so-called assassination was a hue and cry for why Trump needed his ballroom to keep himself safe and sound.) And once again, as Trump tried at the original dinner, he insulted and harassed the correspondents in attendance. (This time, as an aside, suddenly there was a plethora of Secret Service agents in attendance…I suppose you can only plan an assassination one time only).

Trump lied, as he only knows how to do; Trump demanded and insulted as he only knows how to; Trump pontificated about “FAKE NEWS,” as he always does, and YET, AND YET, knowing that lies and fabrication is all Trump is capable of, these CORRESPONDENTS still invited Trump, and sat there almost as willing idiots as Trump ranted and raved!

Why I give a shit about this IS the fact that once the JOURNALISTS/REPORTERS/ and CORRESPONDENTS provide access to a 34-count felon, a man found guilty of rape, a man found guilty of fraud, as if none of that matters, IS just one more example of normalizing a most abhorrent and criminal President. Is there nothing or no one that will finally say “SHUT THE FUCK UP!”

The last 4 don't count

 The Pentagon reduced the official death toll from the Iran war from 18 to 14 after removing four service members who were killed after President Trump declared a ceasefire in April. This change has raised questions about the transparency of casualty reporting during the ongoing conflict. (CNBC)

Please read the opening paragraph again. Read it, and if your blood pressure did not shoot up, then shame on you, because according to Trump, the 4 Troops who died, as in they no longer are alive, were just unfortunate collateral, and admitting that they died while serving during Trump’s Iran War would make Trump’s DEAD SOLDIERS TOTALS seem a little too ominous and odious.

Following the Trump/Hegseth philosophy if you are a member of the US Military, and died from any Iranian attack, but if you died during the time that Trump and Hegseth and even Rubio decided that the Iran War was not a war but a skirmish or some kind of so called ceasefire, your death was not that important, rather it was a bit too inconvenient to tame Trump’s lies and ego.

And remember this: Donald Trump reportedly referred to fallen soldiers as "losers" and "suckers" during his presidency, particularly mentioning the Marines who died at Belleau Wood and American casualties at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France. These comments were detailed in a 2020 article by The Atlantic.

So to the most recent service members who died during the Trump Iran War, Capt. Cody Khork, Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, Sgt. Declan Coady, and Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, my sincere gratitude for your service, and to your families my sincere apologies for having Trump in the position of Commander-In-Chief.

Two fer...

 Two tidbits- maybe tidbits are too kind a word to use- so I will, instead, say two AVOIDABLE, REPREHENSIBLE, and seemingly INTENTIONAL medical issues have arisen from within the Trump Reich. One of them alone should have been cause for alarm, but two of them at the same time should have American citizens demanding that Trump/RFK Jr./and Elon Musk be held accountable.

2025, with five more months of 2026 still to come. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logged 2,318 cases of measles as of Thursday, according to an agency update on Friday. (AP, APnews.com)

As of mid-July 2026, nearly 7,000 cases of cyclosporiasis, which causes "explosive" diarrhea, have been reported across at least 34 states in the U.S. (Yahoo)

Trump is guilty of hiring Musk, who took it on his whims and wishes to eliminate staffing and budget cuts at the CDC, basing none of the DOGE cutbacks on fact or purpose. And Trump is guilty because he nominated RFK Jr. not based on Kennedy’s education in health and medical issues, but rather as “got you” to Democrats. And RFK Jr. should be reprimanded for relying on his own medical conspiracy theories and ignoring any medical facts.

The Trump Reich, with their bigots, racists, and misogynists at the helm, are doing their best to drag this country into the days of slavery and the years before the 19^th Amendment was ratified; they have now added the bonus of dragging this nation into the era of the Plague. 

It is fucking 2026, and the Trump Reichstadt is in full mode to turn back time, not by days or years but decades and decades and decades. UNBELIEVABLE!

 

 

 

One SHOULD wonder

 “Russiagate” was real, according to none other than Donald Trump and his administration. Trump spent years dismissing allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election to aid his presidential campaign, labeling it a “hoax.” And yet, now his administration has, seemingly unwittingly, admitted that Russia sought to meddle in the 2020 election to boost his failed reelection bid. (zeteo.com)

FBI Director Kash Patel has planned a trip to Russia, making him the first FBI director to visit the country in 13 years, according to a Politico report on Monday. It's unclear if he will meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin or any of his top aides. The agenda for the visit was also unknown, sources told Politico. (rawstory.com)

Two headlines, how very interesting that both headlines have made it to the public eye, especially during a period of time in the United States, when the current President is clamoring about how the US elections are rigged whenever Trump or Trump's cronies fail to win the popular vote.

Russia was listening, was interfering, and it is in Russia’s best interests, especially that of Putin, for Russia to continue involving itself in what once was considered fair and democratic elections in the US.

Hmm. Keystone Kash traveling to Russia- why? The FBI Director flying off to visit Moscow, how come? Is he to broker the Russian/Ukraine War…is he a Senator or an elected official? Is he there to just spend time in some locker room and drink beer? Why now, as in 4 months until the Midterm elections, which, if the Democrats win the majority, will certainly put a lid on Trump's intentions to remain king? 

Trump is desperate to rig the elections! And now the FBI Director, the guy who is supposed to be the guy who maintains law and order in this nation, is visiting one of the most lawless nations in the world. One must wonder!

 

 

 

Yet, another worry

 “Last week, Donald Trump’s Justice Department sent teams of FBI agents to the private homes of at least four Times journalists who reported that during his recent trip to Turkey, the president’s new Qatari-gifted airplane had to be switched out due to security concerns, requiring a return flight on the original Air Force One. The story reportedly infuriated the president, who in May 2025 had gleefully accepted the plane as a “gift” from Qatar, despite obvious ethical and security concerns shared across partisan lines.” (New York Magazine)

The "What, me worry?" meme features Alfred E. Neuman, the mascot of Mad magazine, known for his carefree attitude and distinctive appearance. This phrase reflects a humorous, carefree approach to life's problems. (Wikipedia)

There is nothing carefree, not an ounce of humor, no iota of ignoring, the ONCE AGAIN Fascist and Authoritarian machinations initiated by Trump and instituted by his Injustice Department. Truth is an unhealthy aspect in the life of Trump, and for Trump and his orange-ass licker “brown shirts,” serving Trump’s every anti-democracy decision becomes more worrisome, more threatening, and more dangerous, towards the so-called life and liberty of Americans.

Be it the FBI or the Injustice Department, Trump is doing everything he can (and the Supreme Court has made it quite easy) to remove free speech and freedom of the press. Trump is as dumb as they come kind of shit, but the one thing Trump is quite wise about is exactly how many crimes he has committed, how many lies he has told. Trump relishes his grift, his con, and so far in his life he has gotten away with all of his insidious and heinous actions. Trump does not plan on losing his presidency, his power, or his freedom.

So, now, here we are, once again, as Fascism Trump style is moving in on denying journalists the ability to explain to the population how much snake oil has been produced and sold to the American people. Just one more Trump action to fear!

 

 

Only 18...MEH!

 After the American troops’ death toll rose to 18, Trump appeared to downplay criticism of the conflict, which he launched in February, by posting comparisons to the number of U.S. soldiers killed in wars launched by his predecessors. He first shared this list on his Truth Social platform. (BuzzFeed)

Demented, deranged, and dangerous DonOld has once again demonstrated how NOT PRO-LIFE he truly is. Those of us with morals and standards, intelligence and compassion knew from the very beginning that Trump is incapable of empathy or pity, but his gang of bigoted Republican so-called Christian Nationalists kept on pretending that their guy, just like the Jesus they worship, is the BEST-EVER pro-life president this nation has ever seen.

18 American Troops have died due to Trump’s Iran War. 18 individuals. 18 men and women who had long lives ahead of them to live and learn. 18 people with fathers, mothers, siblings, children, family, and friends. But for Trump, what is 18 lives? To be exact, what is 1 life, because it is not his life or his interest or his concern?

The audacity to brag that in other wars more Troops died, so meh on just 18 dying in his war. The audacity to brag that other Presidents and their Secretaries of Defense had more Troops die in those wars, so why even waste your time criticizing Trump’s war?

One more blatant example by Trump showcasing his aloofness, his carelessness, his pathetic disinterest in anyone or anything that is not Trump.

Hey MAGA, hey Evangelical Christians, hey all you who say Jesus has chosen Trump, what have you to say about this?

Chump Change and we are the CHUMPS

 Thanks to Trump’s Iran war, the Pentagon is almost broke. The U.S. military running out of money is as improbable as losing money when you run a casino; it just should not be possible. But it’s happening. Congress funds the Defense Department at increasingly higher levels every year, reaching nearly a trillion dollars in 2025. It is the agency with the largest discretionary spending by far; nothing really comes close. (MS NOW)

BUT… Pistol Pete has no time to worry about Trump’s costly war, which at the moment has no end in sight, because this insecure heterosexual male is more concerned about just how manly his toy soldiers will look and feel to the outside world. Because I assume if they are mucho macho then by osmosis, insecure Pete will be a real He-Man!

The U.S. military's plan to screen hundreds of thousands of troops for low testosterone each year is described as wasteful and costly, with no clear medical benefit for most service members. (celinegounder.com)

Trump has no concerns about spending taxpayer money. He most likely pays a very low percentage of his earnings into the economy, so it ain’t his cash being spent. Trump has too many taxpayer-funded grifting jobs to tend to worry about how things will get paid. He has redone the Lincoln reflecting pool three times; he has bulldozed the East Wing; he is still adamant about his Ballroom; he spent tons of cash on the Great State Fair; built an arena on the White House lawn; and then had to spend even more money on refurbishing that lawn. The drawings and God only knows the fee for planning his Great Arch are underway, and somehow the Qatari bribe (the new Air Force One) needed plenty of refinements and security, which of course is on the taxpayers' tab.

And now the USA, supposedly the greatest military force in the world, is running out of money, because no one, let me clear NO ONE, within the Trump Reich had the balls or backbone to inform both Trump and his homoerotic obsessed Secretary of War, Petey Hegseth, that without a plan, without a real mission statement, without any credible military expert to lead the way in or out of Iran, the Trump/Iran War is and will be nothing but a money pit!

But hey for Trump, it’s just chump change, and we the people are the chumps!

 

 

 

Trump and his Mutants

 Trump is frightening. An insecure narcissist, a con, a snake oil salesman, a convicted fraudster and rapist, and a man listed millions of times in the Epstein Files, Trump is someone to fear and loathe. Most people understand this, but way too many people are not voicing their opposition to this insidious creature, either by ignoring the thing living under the bed or by just existing with the monster in the closet.

But here is another awful truth. As disgusting and immoral and anti-democratic as Trump was, is, and will be, he has accumulated a plethora of smarter people than he, who crave the same heinous power to not make America great again but rather to drive our democracy to its demise, replacing it with religious bigotry and religious nationalism (which is a blatant form of Fascism).

All of this has been easily achieved by the Republican majority in Congress, the body of legislators who, by the laws of the US Constitution, should be the “checks and balances” of a criminally motivated Executive Branch and those who help commit the crimes.

The list of evil doers is great when it comes to Trump’s buddies, but one man in particular, Russell Vought, has gone so far as to ignore laws he does not think will help him win his Christian nationalist agenda, or just pretend that the words in the Constitution have a different meaning when it comes to his agenda.

As head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Vought has a hand in how practically every tiny bud on the executive branch operates. With the possible exception of deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, Vought arguably has the firmest grip on the levers of power in Washington. While Trump’s focus is trained on a handful of obsessions, Vought has the knowledge and skill set to turn his Christian nationalist ideology into policy — and transform those policies into reality. (MS NOW)

Russell Vought is a key architect of Project 2025, which is a conservative plan aimed at overhauling the federal government, and he has been involved in drafting its policies and transition playbook. (ap.org)

Accordingly, Trump’s OMB director has insisted that the president is allowed to hold back, or “impound,” funds that he doesn’t want to spend despite the 1974 Impoundment Control Act and Supreme Court precedent saying otherwise. (MS NOW)

Unchallenged by the spineless Republicans in power, we the people can only watch as Vought pronounces this a Christian Sharia Nation, and step by step and inch by insidious inch, Vought remakes this nation into the United States of the Heritage Foundation. Trump is the originator of the parasites, and his mutants are infecting all of us!

 

 

We are watching...as somethings happening here

 “But you tell me over and over and over again my friend. Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.” (‘Eve of Destruction’/ E. F. Sloan)

Republicans back Trump’s legal theory to continue the Iran war without congressional approval. The Trump administration is arguing that the renewed conflict in Iran is legally distinct from the war that began in February because of a short-lived ceasefire. (MS NOW)

Of course, and once again, the Republican majority in Congress is quite happy to look the other way and pretend that Trump is a King, and as King, the rules and regulations laid out in the US Constitution have actually nothing at all to do with the demands, derangement, and dereliction of his duty. Afraid for their political lives, ONLY, and the welfare or well-being of, say, everyone in this nation, and while we are at it the welfare of the rest of the world, the Republicans once again bend at the knee for the service of a Mob Boss, who somehow still has ownership of the balls and backbone of almost 99% of the Republicans in Congress. 

There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over there. Telling me I got to beware. (‘Something’s Happening Here/Stephen Stills)

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured. ICE doesn’t share its violent incidents with the public. So here’s our list. (prospect.org)

Shoot, maybe murder, maybe maim, maybe miss, but INTENTIONALLY aim and fire. Wear a mask, do not wear a body cam, but claim what you are doing is in the name of the Federal Government, and pretend as you shoot and aim, you are a Patriot. Do all of these crimes in anonymity, because the only way you feel secure is to hide. Oh yeah you have the protection of the two Federal Agencies in AMERIKA, the DOJ, and the FBI which pretend to be the agencies who will obey the law, all the while pretending they are above the law.

Not afraid yet? Wait until it is your turn, because that is how Fascist Governments operate!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Male mayhem

 2 U.S. troops killed in Jordan and 1 missing after Iranian attacks, CENTCOM says. A senior Iranian official told MS NOW that the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran is “no longer valid” after days of fighting. (MS NOW)

Nothing to worry about, just a few more deaths and tons of casualties, but the real issue concerning Pistol Pete Hegseth is just how macho his male Troops are and exactly how low their T-cell count is!

The Trump Iran War is just so yesterday, the real priority for the Secretary of WAR, is that his BOYS in Uniform are rough, tough, and jacked enough, so Pistol Pete can demonstrate to the world that the American Military of He-Men, herculean in stature, examples of course of the kinda machismo male Pistol Pete yearns to be.

The billions of dollars a day that the Trump Iran War continues, causing death and destruction, has become too boring, taking too long, consuming too much PR time, from the real purpose of American military concerns, that of keeping the “sissies,” the “effeminate”, and lady men out of serving this nation. 

When insecure men, self-loathing males, and inadequate guys find themselves in positions of power, they fear that all of their own weaknesses will be discovered, and as the cowards they are, these dudes try their hardest to hide their own inadequacies.

And here we are, America, entrenched in a war with absolutely no plans, no exit strategies, just people leading the way, like Bone Spur Trump, and I Am Man, Hegseth, growing tired of the mess they started.  And, oh yeah, so far, the people in Congress who have the power to actually change the trajectory of this malicious machination sit quietly as more people die.

 

 

It's more than maddening

 US military says 2 troops are dead and 1 is missing after Iran attacks a base in Jordan. (AP News)

 But undeterred, not bothered, and of course having lost interest in the Trump/Iran War… Trump Heads to Golf Club, FIFA Events as Iran Conflict and High Prices Persist. 

Kentucky politicians continue to demand transparency regarding U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell's health and recovery following his June 14 hospitalization. (courier journal). Mind your own business, people of Kentucky. -Your 8 Term Senator, yep, that is 32 years- Kentucky King’s life or death is far from your concern. You may think he works for you, but to do so just makes you an idiot as far as his family, staff, and Republican Party are concerned.

“Donald Trump’s disastrous makeover of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is weathering yet another blow. The peeling of the lining on the iconic Washington fixture was not the work of vandals, as Trump has claimed, but rather the result of a botched repair job, several experts have told The Washington Post.” (The Daily Beast)

But none of that matters because Trump needed a scapegoat, and he used one of his favorite FOX TV personalities, Judge Jeanine Pirro, to ask a grand jury in D.C. to indict a former Olympic canoeist on Thursday for vandalizing the newly refurbished Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Nothing is ever Trump’s fault, and he has a cadre of clowns to make certain no finger of guilt is ever pointed at him.

Just another day in the life of America and Americans this Saturday, July 18, 2026. A war costing billions of dollars and thousands of lives ended. A political party playing God, deciding who is alive and who is dead. Millions of dollars for a vanity project were wasted. We, the people, find ourselves as captives to a Mad House of Politicians, who, so far, have paid no consequences for their maddening actions. When does this shit ever end?

 

 

The fools, at it again

 Trump joins Republicans calling to punish Canada for hazardous wildfire smoke in the U.S. The president threatened to levy additional tariffs, while four House Republicans appeared to allude to Trump’s threat to annex the country. (MS NOW)

WHAT! HUH! Yep, the nonsense and continuous hypocrisy flow steadily from Trump and his Klan of MAGA politicians. These same Republicans, who have denied climate change, call anyone caring about the horrific consequences that carbon-based energy products have caused “Libertards,” now suddenly pretend that the nature-based human-created crisis in Canada is an attempt to hurt the USA and was and is avoidable.

COME ON! On June 4, 2026, Trump identified himself as “champion of clean coal.” Coal is not clean, and Trump only called it so because he received the "Undisputed Champion of Coal" award. And the lobbying efforts by the Coal Industry are widespread. Also, Trump has made clear that he hates Wind Turbines, because Trump has also received lots and lots of bribe money from the Oil Industry.

So now, once again, as if having the war in Iran continue, the price of gasoline and grocery prices are higher and higher, inflation uncontrollable, the Epstein Files not released, ICE still murdering people in the streets of America were not pressing issues, Trump and his dip shit, gerrymandered MAGA Republicans decide to attack Canada.

I wish that I could look at this latest fomenting of Republican bull shit as just stupid stuff, but to do so would be ignoring the fact that the President and the Majority Party in the Congress have the power to actually do something substantial regarding Climate Change, but instead prefer to act the fool.

 

 

 

He has warned us...

 I could not witness the Trump tantrum on Thursday, July 16, 2026. It is not comical to watch Trump lie, and lie again, and try his best to nullify any and all democratic policies which have, until Trump’s current election, been the backbone of American democracy. I know that Trumps intention was not to speak to people like me, those of us who seek truth and avoid fiction, but his truest motivation was to talk directly to the ilk of people who stormed the Capitol on January 6^th, those who believe that FOX TV tells the truth, and those people, who believed that Haitians were eating cats and dogs in Springfield, that Obama is not an American citizen, and that there is actually an ANTI FASCSIST organization that wants to fight Fascism as if fighting Fascism is a bad thing for this country.

The thing about Trump that I believe is very evident, due to his mental illness, suffering as a malignant narcissist, is the fact that Trump must project the actions he has been involved with by accusing others of each and every criminal and corrupt action he has taken himself. 

I also STRONGLY believe that Trump is quite aware of the heinous, hideous, and criminal activities he has done from his involvement with the Epstein girls, to defrauding the American public, to being a puppet for Putin. And I do believe that the fear of finally being held accountable for those decisions will come to the fore if, in fact, the Democrats take the majority in both Houses of Government. 

Trump feels he must remain King and maintain his surfs (those in the Republican Party in Washington), because losing that power would lead to a rapid decline for Trump.

Trump has finally provided Americans with some truth, no, not that the elections were stolen, or that there is any election fraud, but the mere fact that if this nation holds its Midterms in November, Trump is out of tricks. So, he has projected that his trick will be to do everything and anything to disrupt our elections. 

Trump’s speech on Thursday, July 16, 2026, was a two-part plan. To warn us that he will stop at nothing to steal the election, to stop the election, and to recruit the paranoid cultists in MAGA to join his army to rid America of anyone who is not Trump! 

Trump cannot help himself in signaling his ill intentions; it is a part of his mental illness.

 

 

"I'm A MAN, yes I am..."

 “I got to keep my image. While suspended on a throne. That looks out upon a kingdom. Full of people all unknown. I'm a man, yes, I am. And I can't help but love you so, no, no, no.” (‘I’m a Man’/Winwood & Miller)

“Critics on social media blasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s newly announced plan to require testosterone level testing for service members over the age of 30. “This sounds suspiciously like taxpayer-funded gender affirming care,” one commenter wrote. (HuffPost)

“I’m authorizing a new screening program for testosterone deficiency for our service members, ensuring you have the right testosterone levels to operate at your absolute best, because it’s well-established science that as we age, testosterone levels often naturally drop,” Hegseth said in a video on X posted with the phrase “The High-T Department of War.” (HuffPost).

Pistol Pete, some kind of incomplete heterosexual male, full of lack of self-confidence in his manliness, the Secretary of War, in the middle of a war costing American taxpayers over $1billion a day, having created the loss of life of American Troops, thousands of Iranians, and the destruction of a majority of the US bases in the Gulf States, the go to guy hired by his draft dodging wanna be Alexander the Great, conqueror of the world, Trump, has a new invented a sudden new priority MACHISMO in the form of how high is your T-cell count!

The Trump Iranian War, let’s be real, has become a bore for Pistol Pete and Demented Don, so it's time for them to play a new round of the Republicans' favorite pastime…” Look over there!” Now the real enemy of the USA is men over 40 in the military who have become wimps because the test of real men is having a HIGH number of testosterone.  

Ladies need not apply, and eventually, if self-emasculated Pistol Peter has his way, there will be no ladies permitted to serve in the “I Am Man Military.” SNL, The Onion, and even MAD Magazine could not create a situation like this if they tried.

 

 

But of course, AGAIN

 On Tuesday, July 14, 2026, after yet another murder by ICE agents on American soil, CE has been ordered to cease vehicle stops due to concerns over aggressive tactics and potential violations of rights. This decision aims to protect individuals during interactions with immigration enforcement.

But death and destruction, chaos and belligerence are the oxygen that Trump breathes, so on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, this happened: Trump’s order to resume ICE traffic stops means more danger for the public. Even his own immigration czar admits that permanently ending the stops would better protect ICE agents, their targets and the public. (MS NOW)

I am so tired of saying, but of course so, the of course so always relating to the simple fact that Trump is an immoral, criminal giving zero shits about the lives of anyone but himself. Saying of course also is in regard to the simplest of facts that Trump is enabled to wreak havoc and murder upon this nation, because the so-called “checks and balances,” which were enshrined in the US Constitution giving the Congress the right to challenge the Executive Branch, have been completely removed and ignored by the Republican led majority in Congress.

Trump's private Militia, his “Brown Shirts,” his “Gestapo”, can once again run amok, kidnap, maim, and murder as they please, and will figuratively and literally ‘GET AWAY WITH MURDER!”

Donald Trump's ICE agents killed two more men who were not the targets of their operations. The fatal shootings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine are the latest incidents of the federal government killing civilians during immigration operations. Add to that Renee Good and Alex Pretti and most likely a score of other people whose deaths had not been recorded, and we witness, once again, zero remorse, zero responsibility, and zero consequences.

And of course, I am so tired of begging the question: “What have we become as a nation?”

 

 

 

A murder by any name

 “In Maine on Monday, DHS said ICE officers were conducting surveillance at the last known residence of a person under a deportation order when they attempted to stop a vehicle as it was leaving the property. The driver tried to flee and an officer fired “fearing for public safety,” according to DHS. Independent Maine Senator Angus King said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him the man who died — Joan Sebastian Guerrero — was not the target of the deportation operation.”  (Bloomberg)

Like most Americans, unlike the MAGA, those of us who believe in morals, values, democratic rules of law, I am appalled. I am not surprised, sadly, at this newest occurrence of murder by ICE.

A few more facts to piss off anyone who is not a MAGA cultist, a bigot, a racist, a xenophobe, to make this current murder by ICE even more disgusting.

ICE agents were directed to wear body cameras as part of a program to increase transparency and accountability. This directive was announced by Secretary Kristi Noem in response to public outcry following incidents involving federal officers. (Brennan Center for Justice)…And yet the ICE Gestapo agents of death still have no such camera attached to their bodies, permitting them to freely commit crimes of kidnapping and murder, as freely as they desire. 

ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is not the official to take charge of scenes in a murder, but in each incident where a human is murdered, ICE immediately directs the local police to step down and back off. Imagine how unjust it is for the same Government agency that caused the murder of innocents to immediately become the Chief investigators. What evidence could be ignored or removed.

And last but not least, the real ugly thing about this is that to date, none of the murderers of innocents have been held accountable for their crimes. Instead, they have been praised by their Nazi-like leadership under the tutelage of Stephen Miller, and now Markwayne Mullin and the ever accomplices in murder, the Republican majority in Congress, and protected, all of them calling the murders by ICE Gestapo as Patriotic!

 

 

Another "gash" in the truth

 Trump keeps changing his story about the alleged ‘gash’ in the Reflecting Pool. When administration officials can’t keep their story straight about dubious details, it’s a big hint that they’re probably making stuff up. (MS NOW)

This is probably the one and only time the Reagan/Republican bull shit line about “Trickle Down” is true. The lies begin with Trump and are then owned and operated by members of the Trump Reich and set out to be planted and plotted by the Republican Party. There is never a “THERE, THERE”; instead, what we get are continuous lies, treason, corruption, and criminals walking away freely. Sadly, who is surprised? And even sadder than all of that is the fact that for Trump and his Reich, there are fewer and fewer consequences paid for!

David Hearn, a three-time Olympian, was arrested for allegedly touching a piece of paint that was peeling from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, leading to charges of felony destruction of property. And now that the Reflecting Pool has been drained a third time yet, we witness no 200-foot or 350-foot, and the current Trump-quoted 450-foot gash. What we do see are the tire marks from the Trump Reich SUVs, which did a Trumpian show-and-tell drive on it right after the so-called blue lining had been added.

As do most authoritarian governments, when the Dear Leader and his gang of Gestapo goons like flunkies are found to be guilty, they crack down on the lowly citizen, making him or her the scapegoat. Quick retribution, based on a necessary cover-up, using their state-run media to insist that what you saw ain’t the truth.

Trump keeps on lying. The members of his Reich bend over backward to keep the Trump lie alive. Innocents, instead of the true corrupt criminals, are used as fodder. And so far, Trump and his Regime have clearly gotten away with this!

 

 

 

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!