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!

 

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?’

 

 

Is it is, or is it ain't?

 Is he is, or is he ain’t? Amazing how, once you become a Senator or a Representative on the federal level, a public servant, whose salary is paid for by the taxpayer, whose job actually is your job because of the American citizen, you suddenly seem to think somehow you are no longer beholden to those of us who voted you into office, and those of us who pay your working wage! Is he is, or is he ain’t alive?

It has been more than three weeks since Sen. Mitch McConnell was hospitalized, and since then, the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican has not been seen or heard from publicly. (MS NOW)

Trump Refers To 'Islamic Republic Of Japan,' Calls Zelenskyy 'President Putin.' The 80-year-old president blundered his way through a briefing with journalists at the NATO summit. (HUFFPOST)

Is he is, or is he ain’t? In broad daylight, not hidden behind his Truth Social Posts, or reading a speech from a teleprompter, or constantly trying to recite some bit of propaganda from a handwritten piece of paper provided to him by his staff, but sitting there in his usual slouched position, top heavy leaning forward, the President of the United States, sadly the guy who supposedly represents one of the most powerful countries in the world, demonstrated, once again, how senility, dementia, and very old age have ravaged his brain and cognitive abilities. Is he is, or is he ain’t incapable of retaining his job as President?

Is it is, or is it ain’t? There once was no Trump war on Iran; the Strait of Hormuz was open and free. Then there was a war, but it was called Epic Fury, so it was not a war, But when the Defense Department forgot that it wasn’t a war, it was referred to as a war. The Strait was closed, but then we were told it really wasn’t closed. Then, when it wasn’t closed, we closed it to show the Iranians that if the Strait was closed, the only ones who had the real power to close it were the US. Then there was a ceasefire, for a war that was not a war, and now that ceasefire may or may not be over. Is there is, or is there ain’t anyone who can please tell the world what the fuck is really happening regarding the Trump-Iran War?

President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to unleash more military strikes against Iran after saying that Iranian attacks signaled the end of the ceasefire. "Anything that happens is going to happen very fast," Trump said, though he also suggested the U.S. military might "just finish the job." (yahoo.com)

 

 

Act up NOW

 A Texas-based white supremacist group staged what appeared to be its largest public demonstration to date over the Fourth of July weekend, marching through Washington, D.C., in a brief, coordinated display before dispersing before noon Saturday. (Austin-American Statesman)

As these face-masked white supremacists marched in DC, with absolutely no commentary regarding their actions, Trump did take the time, however, to say: President Donald Trump has been warning recently that communism will pose a threat to the U.S. if Democrats win in the upcoming midterm elections. (Yahoo News).

The Trump Reich, via their masked agents in ICE, arrests people without due cause, kidnaps them off the streets, and places them in jails without the right of habeas corpus, has sent police to arrest those who dare touch the reflecting pool, hiring wealthy donors to work on no-bid federal projects, and has a penchant for financial corruption…the Trump Reich favoring dictators from the most vile regimes across the world…the Trump Reich which has tried and tried to revoke as many Americans rights to one person one vote…this Trump Reich favoring Segregation, trying to dynamite the wall between the church (not any church but the Christian Nationalist American Church) and state, is using their guaranteed guise of “look over there, while we rob you blind,” in an effort to win over the dumb, the disturbed, and the dangerous, are poster boys and girls for the most Authoritarian styled government leading to all of the ugly aspects of a government trying their best to be Fascist.

Confederate flags were paraded during the 4^th of July, and not a single Trump Klan member criticized that. The men marching in DC, with their masks covering their faces, (nothing says being proud of your actions by covering your faces, you know, like the Ku Klux Klan and ICE, were never called out for their actions, but rather the only commentary was by the State Regime Network, known as FOX and way too many GOP Senators, calling them ANTIFA.

I remain afraid. I remain alert. I remain attuned. Way too many plans for the disruption of the November Midterms, by the Trump Reich, are being shown and demonstrated, and instead of reacting, we the people should be acting up, NOW!

I ask:when is too late, too late

 “Doomsday speculation about the midterm elections takes hold. “They’re animals,” President Trump said about the success of leftists in this year’s Democratic primaries. “We have to stop this…horrible threat of cancer that’s permeating our country called communism,” he told right-wing evangelicals in a desperate effort to stir fear about Democrats. The Washington Post described his words as “dehumanizing,” and similar to 1950s “redbaiting,” attacks on Democrats that led the U.S. Senate to censure the infamous Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.).”

When is it too late to change the direction of the future? When is one minute past the Eleventh Hour, the last-ditch chance to redirect, to correct, to release the pressure of an oncoming storm of doom? 

The only truth Trump is capable of speaking, and thinking about, is his knowledge regarding his crimes committed, his perversions, his relationship with Putin, and his fear of going to prison. Trump’s army of Fascists, those who know that their power will only remain intact as long as Trump is the all-powerful Oz, are grifting the system and using the government for their own needs and rewards and are just as worried about keeping Trump in office; they, like Trump, will not stop at any hideous or insidious methods to deny democracy.

There may be a Blue Tsunami in November, but the Trump Reich is already in the throes of diverting that powerful wall of water from ever reaching the shores of Washington, DC.

And so here I sit once again, ranting and raving, perseverating, full of angst, and worry, witnessing evil doing its best to knock out good. Watching as corruption and heinousness move closer and closer to victory, I ask: when is too late, too late?

 

 

 

 

are you now or have you ever been

 “President Donald Trump evoked the threat of a “communist menace in our land” on Friday to push Republican lawmakers to pass his SAVE America Act and end the filibuster, promising them election wins for the next century if they do. 

“America will never be a communist country. We can only lose the midterms if we allow ourselves to lose the midterms, if we are foolish, stupid and unwise,” Trump said in front of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. “But if we terminate the filibuster as we should do and immediately vote for the SAVE America Act, then we will not lose an election for 100 years.”  (HuffPost)

The new Transgender/Illegal Immigrant/People of Color/Gay Pride Month and Flag created enemies of America, created by the Republican Party/MAGA and, of course, the American Christian Nationalists, are Communism and Communists.

Understanding that Trump and the Republican Party cannot run on affordability, low inflation, the lack of success in Trump’s vanity war in Iran, the economy or jobs numbers, the folks at The Heritage Foundation, the real owners and operators of America, have come up with a new scapegoat, identifying those democrats who identify as Socialist Democrats.

Because the MAGA lacks any literate idea of various terms for the types of governing, the Trump Reich is hoping that, as in the 1950s, when the question was asked, “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” These people believe that their dumb as shit voters will somehow acquiesce, not question their Dear Leader, and immediately decide that all Democrats are Communists.

In doing so, the Trump Reich and its billionaire puppet masters are betting that by blaming Communists for the evil within America, they will overlook the authoritarianism and Fascism that are at the core of any one or anything Trump.

Oh, and by the way, Trump’s SAVE America Act has nothing to do with saving America but has everything to do with saving Trump from finally paying the consequences of his criminal activities.

 

 

A New (look over there) Enemy

 “On the eve of the nation’s 250th birthday, President Donald Trump used his address Friday night at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota to allege that there is “a resurgence of the communist menace in our land.” “Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty,” Trump said. “It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor or even 9/11.” (South Dakota Searchlight)

Here we go, folks, get ready for the newest enemy to the US, from the Trump regime and in turn his lackies within the Republican Party. I am not surprised. Why, easy, there have been a bunch of election upsets by Democrats who identify as Socialist Democrats. These Democrats believe in issues that will lessen the divide between the haves and the have-nots, and this group of Democrats prefers laws that prioritize the benefits of health and welfare for all. 

So Trump and his Fascism understand that most of the MAGA voters and sadly a large amount of remaining Republican voters are ill-informed regarding the definition of Socialism, Communism, and Fascism, and knowing that lack of education, the plan is to terrify the low-IQ voter into thinking that Socialism is really Communism and Communism is bad.

If the MAGA voter understood Socialism, they would learn that Medicare, Medicaid, the Police Departments, the Fire Departments, and the Bailouts for the Farmers are all forms of Socialism, and so far, none of those examples have led to this nation turning into a Communist state.

And if the MAGA voters really understood the world in which they live, they would discover that two of Trump’s idols, Vlad Putin and Kim Jong-Un, are actually Communist leaders. And if these ill-educated MAGA voters had an iota of smarts, they would realize Trump’s Reich’s love for the ideals of a Fascist America.

So now, forget the Transgender community, or the Immigrants of Color, or Feminists as the real enemy of America, we will witness how the Trump propaganda team will announce that the real enemy of the state is the Democratic Socialists, and in turn, of course, the rest of the Democrats. We are witnessing a new version of the Witch Trials of Salem, going into the November Midterms.

 

 

 

249 years later

 It is Friday, July 3, 2026. A day before Americans celebrate their 250th anniversary of independence from a tyrannical government in England. A Civil War, and yet somehow the Union won, and thus we remained the United States rather than the Confederate States of America. But even so, way too many people reminisce about the days of slavery, injustice, and inequality. We fought the Fascists in World War Two, but yet as I write this, somehow way too many people consider antifascists as unpatriotic Americans.

249 years later, and we have way too many people who still consider people of color as inferior, we have way too many people who would rather patrol the public bathrooms or sports teams for fear that the dreaded Transperson might be there to commit some kind of perverted action, all the while these same way too many people support a convicted rapist, and a man who refuses to release the truth regarding Pedophiles. 

249 years later, and once again, we have way too many people who want to relegate women as chattel, as property, including way too many women doing so! Of course, many of these women who proudly demonstrate their own form of misogyny are in positions of power, have great education, but continue to act upon their own hypocrisy.

249 years later, we have a President who has become a multi-billionaire, along with his family, while serving as the Executive of this nation. It almost seems like the United States is his own corporation. He has his private attorney as the Attorney General, acting on behalf of his client, rather than on behalf of “we the people.”

And yet, even with our Constitution and the celebration of freedom, 249 years later, the current occupant of the White House is enabled and permitted to erase any and all advances made in equality, freedom, and democratic principles.

It is Friday, July 3, 2026, a day before our 250^th year as a Republic, and I seriously worry about day 251 for the people of the United States!

 

 

Two Songs SUNG

 "The Gold Diggers' Song" (‘We’re In the Money’) is a song from the 1933 Warner Bros. Pictures film Gold Diggers of 1933.

We're in the money, we're in the money; We've got a lot of what it takes to get along! We're in the money, that sky is sunny. Old Man Depression you are through, you done us wrong. (Al Dubin)

Trump is rearming America. His sons are invested in the companies selling it weapons. The president’s two eldest sons are linked to investments in at least 10 defense firms that have drawn some $3.7 billion in federal funds since he took office — and no law requires them to step back. (MS NOW)

Donald Trump reported more than $1.6 billion in outside revenue and income during his four years as president, with a portion of that earned in his first year in office. (citizensforethics.org).

Razzle Dazzle, hocus pocus, now you see, and then you don’t. Nothing to see here, just keep on looking over there. Corruption, crime, grifting, and one more scam from the guy who the MAGA peons voted for to Make America Great Again, but wait, this so-called Populist is just making him and his family greater.

"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" is one of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression. Written by lyricist Yip Harburg and composer Jay Gorney, it was part of the 1932 musical revue Americana.

Cuts in Medicaid, cuts in SNAP benefits, cuts to USDA, housing costs rising, inflation at 4.2%. Since the elimination of the Affordable Health Care Act, health care premiums are rising and rising. Gasoline is way too expensive, and some folks have to prioritize a trip to the supermarket, or paying rent, or utilities.

Two songs written in the 1930s. One of them sung by the ilk of the trump Family and their Billionaire Bros, the other becoming a way too common anthem for the rest of America!

 

 

It's Mark WAYNE Mullin for your pleasure

 Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters this week he was thrilled Iran was knocked out of the World Cup. “I’m just glad they’re done, and they’re not coming back,” Mullin said, according to Politico. “I was so happy when we were able to pull their visas and said they could leave U.S. soil, and I might have sung a song or two, or maybe danced a happy dance.” (MS NOW)

Trump wanted a dunce, a used dildo, a douchebag, and a useful idiot to replace the position of his very creepy, uneducated, grifting, cosplay Barbie, Kristi Noam at the Department of Homeland Security. We thought at the time that Kristi may have held the title of the most dumbshit sycophant in his Cabinet, surpassing Keystone Kash, or Ken Doll Hegseth, and even the crooked criminal Bondi, which by any normal standards was a very, very low bar to begin with.

But now the once wannabe MMA fighter (“don’t make me kick your ass”) Markwayne Mullin has arrived and seems to be hell-bent on going even lower than Noam. No experience in anything but inheriting his father’s business, Markwayne, who brings with him a rubber ball to squeeze during any Senatorial hearing he is asked to attend, as a tool to keep his cool, or is it to not lose his temper, is darn tootin’, shucks ma’am, and God Bless (his God of choice of course) America, glad the Eye-rain-e-ins have left the World Cup. He was elated to be able to pull their visas.

I am no fan of the Iranian Regime; they are evil, they are vile, they seem to disregard their citizens, kind of like Trump and his Regime toward the non-billionaire American. But supposedly the World Cup is an athletic, for-profit sport, and I thought that sports were supposed to be, well… non-political! Hmmm.

But Markwayne loves to pound his chest, pretending that he is some kind of Tarzan, and of course king of “let’s pull their passports world!

 

 

 

More Dystopia

 A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification. In its term that ended last October, the Supreme Court passed an important milestone that went unnoticed: For the first time, it decided more cases by secret ballot, and with few signed opinions, than it did for cases argued in open court. (PROPUBLICA)

WAIT, WHAT? Now we have an Imperial Supreme Court, similar to Trump's Imperial Presidency! Nine people, not elected, and who serve for a lifetime, none of whom are required to provide even an iota of ethics reports or financial status reports. All of which seem to be given free rein as to who they wine and dine with, or report who has gifted them with lavish bribes.

The highest court in the land can now keep decisions it makes that directly affect all of us in the United States hidden from American citizens. Have these Justices become royalty? Is there something sinister they are trying to hide? Do they not want to be held accountable for their actions, but expect the rest of us peons and peasants to be held accountable for the laws they pass?

It is enough that we already have the Trump Reich, lie to us, omit facts for us, create fiction for us, and now, as if we the people are just cogs in some Imperial mechanism, the Supreme Court believes they can remain anonymous and not justify their rulings.

The dystopian environment in which we find ourselves struggling seems to be growing in leaps and bounds, created from insidious and intentionally evil actions of those with the highest powers in the land. When is enough, enough?