Bored of War & Peace 20: The Iran "War" will be Over by Christmas!

It's amazing to see the collapse of the Rule of Law in real time.

No...  I'm not talking about the unenforced Epstein Files Release Law.  Nor am I referring to the fascist ICE Stromtroopers goose-stepping around the Nation, wantonly and willfully violating the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th 6th Amendments with the tacit support of the Republicans in Congress and the Supreme Court and the explicit support and defense of Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and Traitor trump himself.  No, I'm referring to The War Powers Act of 1973;  the text of which is explicit but, when Republicans in Congress, the Treasonous trump administration, and Corporate Media get together to declare Not a War, therefore no war powers act.  So, in keeping with his petty cheating golfing ways Traitor trump was given a mulligan on the The War Powers Act!

"I'm a Winner!"

We back at "War" with Iran after the ridiculous Memorandum of Understanding signed with so much self-congratulatory fanfare by the big fat fucking asshole in Versailles feel to pieces in days.  As everyone who bothered to look at the stupid document knew it would.

Now, tough-talking Donnie Don't Care is back to his bluster about defeated Iran will be defeated soon, by being defeated and they've already been totally defeated by their defeat which is days away from being a total defeat.

But, unlike here in the United States of America where the Corporate Media sane-washes Traitor trump's verbal diarrhea and everyone pretends what he says has some semblance to the truth, the reality is Iran has damaged numerous bases ivo of their Nation, continues to have rocket and missile projection capability and continues to strike both US targets and others in the wider Gulf Region.

So, I was saying, we have an aircraft carrier, which is one of the most beautiful in the world. It's one of the biggest. The Abraham Lincoln. And two months ago — I told this story yesterday — we had 111 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan. They were shot at the aircraft carrier over a period of about one hour — 111 missiles going to a very expensive ship. And every one of those missiles was knocked down, pretty much most by Patriots, but by other means also, as you know. Other less-expensive means, it's even better when you do that.  

Wow!  A totally defeated and obliterated military still managed to launch over 100 missiles at the US Navy?  And yes whilst Donnie Dumbass was talking about how beautiful his aircraft carrier, he called it the Islamic Republic of Japan...

It sure would be nice if there was a larger discussion by the Media, not only about Traitor trump's ignorant rambling missives about warfare, but also about the broader goals and conduct of this conflict in general.  Instead Traitor trump and the Republicans are allowed to get away with "First off, Iran can never have a nuclear weapon..." and then zilch, zero, follow-up on what that exactly means and entails.

Nope.  That the United States is in a state of conflict with Iran should be a huge nightly story.  But, the US Corporate Media can barely be fucking bothered to cover the missile strikes, service members deaths, and wide destruction of U.S. bases in the region!  The only reporter who questioned why Iran is still launching strikes despite Republicans claiming for five months they've been completely obliterated was republican lunatic Maria Bartiromo!!!

"I don't understand how it's possible that Iran has the capabilities to fight this way and continue to try to lash out at Gulf countries and U.S. military bases.  Because the U.S. has obliterated Iran's military, and the president continues to reiterate that."  

Yeah, why is that?  Why would the MSM cover a war which is going badly for the Untied States, strategically, tactically, and operationally?  They don't and they won't.  Because the media is compliant and complicit in the goals of Traitor trump and the larger goals of the Republican Party, their rightwing mobs, and the inhuman Billionaire bastards; who have conspired to destroy the Untied States and replace it with a Totalitarian Neo-Confederate Ethno State.

President Obama's negoiated JCPOA plan was an incredible piece of 21st century Diplomacy and it was immediately undermined by the treasonous Republicans in the Federal Government and then destroyed by Donnie Don't Care for capricious whimsy and because someone asshole or assholes told him what a big strong big swinging dick he will be if he bombs Iran and it'll be so easy!

And even now 5 months later, Traitor trump's cabinet of buffoons, thieves, racists, and grifters is telling him just a few more aerial bombardments is going to bring Iran to their knees any... day... now...

And dysregulated Donnie Dumbass, who can never be wrong about anything, has said officially 50 times over Iran has been defeated and we've won, and the not a war war is over anyway, and there are no problems in the region except for NATO not doing their part so when reality ignores and disputes his lies in a way contrary to fawning adulation he gets here in the United States well he's left with going back to bombing.  He's got another unofficial official 50 days into the War Powers Act ostensibly comes into force again...

I've included some of Traitor trump's remarks at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit.  Listen to him speak and don't turn it off, reading the comments doesn't give you the full horror of the barely intelligible cable from Donnie Dumbass

In less than two years ago, we were a dead country. I say it all the time. The King of Saudi Arabia told me — I was with him two years ago — he said, “You know, it’s amazing. Just a little while ago, you were a dead country, and now you’re the hottest country anywhere in the world.”

Every leader — I just got back from NATO — every leader said the same thing. “You’re the hottest country anywhere in the world.” And they treated me like that. They’re not treating me — they’re treating me because of the country. We’re the hottest country anywhere in the world. And a year ago, two years ago, we were a dead country. It was an embarrassment.

And they said, “Affordability. Affordability.” They go — that’s a fake word that they use. They caused the affordability problem. It’s called high prices. They came up with this word. They’re good at coming up with words, but we came up with a good word too.

They’re Democrats — dumb. You take the b out. Most people don’t know that dumb has a b. Okay? But the u replaces the e, and you have a Democrat. And I just don’t understand because their policy is so dumb

We built an aircraft carrier for $19 billion, which is crazy. The price is crazy. It started off — I came in, one of the first things I wanted to see was the Ford aircraft carrier. It was way over budget, and it had things on it that you didn’t need. Like, it had magnets to lift up the elevators with ten and twelve planes on them. Think of it. It had all sorts of modern day things that were — instead of using steam for the catapults, they used electric. “Let’s have an electric catapult.”

And so when I went to the ship — because I came into office and the ship was way over budget, built in Newport News unfortunately — it was way over budget. It was going to cost $3 billion. It was up to like $18, $19 billion. It was terrible. And I said, “I want to meet the catapulter.”

And a man came over along with four of his assistants, and I said, “What’s better? Electric catapult or steam?” He’s been there for twenty-five years. He said, “Steam is better, sir. We can fix it with a hammer and a blowtorch. When the electric goes bad, I have to send to MIT to get geniuses over here.”

I said, “Steam is better?”

“Yes, sir. It’s better.”

“So why do they do electric?”

“Because you can have the catapult go like this, but you can’t put planes on it, sir. It takes you thirty-nine seconds. By the time the thirty-nine seconds is up, you have a full head of steam. And I love breathing that steam, sir. That’s the cleanest air you’ve ever seen.”

But I said, “So you’re saying we spent billions of dollars extra to build electric catapults instead of using — ” And I said, “What else do you hear?”

He said, “The elevators are no good, sir. They’re lifted up by magnets.”

So we’re not letting any — Pete, we’re not letting any more ships be built with the ridiculous billions of dollars more they spent on electric catapults, and they’re not good. They’re not nearly as good, too complex. And by the way, we had to call the ship in twice because the catapults didn’t work, and I predicted that was true.

And the same thing with the magnetic elevators. We want them to be made hydraulic, which — it can be hit by lightning, it can be hit by anything. When a little water touches the magnets, it doesn’t work anymore. And you’re in the Atlantic Ocean with waves that are 60 feet high, and the Pacific Ocean with waves that are 70 feet high, and they’re talking about magnets — that makes you want to get sick.

I actually called in the architect of the ship and I said, “Have you designed a ship before?”

“Well, I haven’t spent a lot of time on that, sir.”

Even the cab — you know, the tower — they have it in the back instead of in the middle. It’s supposed to be in the middle where you have more room. I said, “Why’d you move it there?”

“Well, we thought it was very good.”

“Why did you do it? And why is the ammunition under the — where the admiral is, the tower? They have the tower and they have the ammunition under the tower.” I say, if I’m the enemy, I know where I’m aiming. These people — and the thing cost like $20 billion. It’s ridiculous.

Alright. So we’re changing all of that. Right, Peter? You’ll be fired so fast if you don’t. But a lot of this is common sense stuff, really. I mean, I hope I’m not boring anybody, but it’s all common sense. This isn’t exactly part of my speech, but I gotta tell you — I’m getting it all out now and all the anger I have when I hear about electric catapults that don’t work...

Thank goodness Climate Change isn't Real

The Sun as seen in the western suburbs
That doesn't look like a G2 star...

    Fortunately, while Traitor trump is making the world less safe for Americans with his stupid and capricious foreign policy of bombing the infrastructure of Iran or murdering fisherman in international waters for the crime of being from South or Central America, and while RFK Jr is making food uneatable due to cutting programs to keep feces off our lettuce and parasites out of our beef, we still have breathable air.

Oops!

CHICAGO (WGN) — Chicago has logged its worst air quality in the city’s history and new data showed Chicago had the worst air quality in the world among major cities.

So, living ivo Chicago we are on the trailing edge of the wildfire smoke from the burning Canadian fires.  Just recently I was in Denver which was experiencing wildfires in the Rocky Mountains in late June and early July.

Now that these wildfires are naturally occurring function of these great forests of the North American continent isn't going to stop rapaciously ignorant Republicans from threatening Canada,

Republican members of U.S. Congress are slamming Canada's federal and provincial governments over what they claim is inaction in preventing the wildfires currently spreading smoke and poor air quality across much of the northeastern U.S., in addition to Central Canada. 

The criticism comes in a sharply worded letter from four Michigan members of the House of Representatives, addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney. 

It accuses Canada of failing to conduct adequate forest maintenance to reduce the risk of wildfires and warns that the U.S. "will look elsewhere, and act on our own" if more action isn't taken.

"This is the third consecutive year we have had to write to Canadian officials about a crisis that Canada has the tools to prevent and has chosen not to," write the four Michigan Republicans — John James, Jack Bergman, John Moolenaar and Lisa McClain — in a letter dated Wednesday.

"Our hospitals are once again treating children, dialysis patients and older residents for the effects of smoke that did not originate anywhere near them." 

The Republican lawmakers say they are "done accepting apologies in place of action," and float the idea of taking cross-border fire prevention into U.S. hands. 

Masked Republicans en route

Cross-border action?  Will Donnie Dumbass rattle his teeny saber at Canada again and threaten to invade turn Canada into the 51st State and enslave Canadians to rake their forests to stop the fires?  Also I thought masks and breathing problems weren't real?  But, then Republicans only deem to wear masks to hide their faces when they go on White Supremacist Ramages.

Bored of War & Peace 19: Hegseth resegregating the United States Military and Republicans are Genital obsessed weirdos

Remaking the Military into Lethal Whites instead of Lethal Weapons and trading in OD Green for White Power.

Well...  Drunken Whiskey Pete Hegseth just issued a directive about testing for Testosterone levels in military service members...

Every Republican is a panty-sniffing genital obsessed weirdo.

This test is for women as well as men.  I actually think this is a backdoor way of getting a test ensconced which Republicans plan to then use on other people (forcibly if necessary) to prove they are a "Transgender" and thus put them into camps and psych wards for reprogramming. (I'm sure bad faith rightwingers will declare, You forced us to get Covid tests so we are going to force you to get Low-T tests!) 

Besides wanting to fondle service men's balls and sniffing women's panties to see if they are producing High-T Warriors, and of course issuing illegal and immoral war crimes orders, the other thing Hegseth has been focused on is stopping women and minorities in the US military from advancing up the ranks.

For a long time the enlisting in the United States military was a good move for financial stability and a base level of respect for black and brown people in the United States.  Advancement was, ostensibly, color-blind and medical benefits, base pay, basic housing, and TDY pay provided a stable floor to try and break the shackles of generational poverty.

The White Power Military
Hegseth is building

When I was in the Marines in the early 2000's many senior enlisted personnel were African-Americans.  Including my first Sgt Maj, a man from Belize, who was coming up on 30 years service.  The reason has always been that for the most part many of the prerequisites for promotion (in the enlisted ranks) are based on color-blind merit and evaluations free from the bigotry.  One of the ways Hegseth is specifically targeting black service members is his draconian no beards policy.  Black men shaving everyday is a quick way to get Pseudofolliculitis barbae commonly known as "razor bumps".  There are many other skin irritation and infections caused by shaving in unsanitary conditions which don't matter to Hegseth, it's just a way for him to target black men.

Officer promotions are, of course, different and at the higher levels are a political chess game.  Remember the only senior high ranking Officer to face repercussions for Abu Ghraib was a Female Brigadier General Janis Karpinski.  But, Hegseth has taken it upon himself to not let women or blacks into the door.

The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, stripped nine navy officers including women and Black service members from a promotion list last month, according to a person familiar with the matter, resulting in an all-male, overwhelmingly white slate of 22 advancing as nominees to become one-star admirals.

Sexual Violence jokes
from a Sexual Predator

 This isn't the first time Hegseth has stopped the advancement of women and persons of color.  And he's also pushed those already in positions out.  Most notably, he fired General Charles Q. Brown, the military's highest-ranking Black officer. He also removed Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to hold that most senior position in U.S. Navy history.  The goal is of course to produce a genocidal evangelical endtimes focused military which will be more than happy to engage in warcrimes and xenophobic wars against the other to ensure Armageddon.

It's hard to pin-point which Traitor trump co-criminal is the worst.  Stephen Miller certainly might be, Just Despicable Vance wants to be, Mirco Rubio is pushing more and more for the invasion of Cuba, but the long-term damage Hegseth is doing to the U.S. military, senior structure, and physical and moral damage to the U.S. Navy, to say nothing of the fracturing of NATO with this constant drumbeat about Greenland are going to have lasting impact and require decades of careful diplomatic work...  which I don't think the current United States can muster.

Traitor trump orders ICE to keep killing people

“Everyone was saying that, you know, ICE was gone, you know, January, February, March, because, you know there was not really activity for some people, or people were not paying attention because all eyes were on Minnesota. But ICE never really left.” Allison Galvan, co-founder of the ICE detention rapid response.

"I tried to stop," - last words of Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero before his constitutional rights were violated and he was murdered in Biddeford, Maine.

For the briefest moments, after several unlawful extrajudicial murders by ICE Agents conducting unconstitutional searches & seizures, John Wayne Mullin called for a pause in these 4th Amendment violating "Kavanaugh Stops".  Well, Traitor trump let his lackey know that's not acceptable.

Traitor trump ordered the resumption of these unconstitutional traffic stops with the hope and expectation it will lead to more highly charged confrontations and more deaths.

Never forget these ICE agents are acting this way because they are getting tacit and explicit support from their superiors, higher ups, trump administration officials, rightwing corporate media, and King Donnie himself.  They absolutely believe they can brazenly act this way because there iz zero accountability and no future repercussions.

One thing which the Corporate Media doesn't cover and rightwing media completely ignores is these forcible detentions are often happening based on no probable cause.  Seeing a brown person isn't probable cause no matter what Beer swillin' Bart O'Kavanugh claims.  But, and this is hard truth; white people love these fatal interactions even with so-called "innocent" persons because whites in America believe all black and brown people are a priori  guilty of something and just haven't been caught yet, therefore their mistreatment up to and including summary extrajudicial execution in the streets is not a problem.

And don't go thinking any pretend moderate Republicans care.  Do you think Senator Susan Collins gives a shit ICE gunned down an innocent man in her state? Or any single Republican in Texas cares Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot dead without cause?  And that the Federal Government is pressuring and attempting to get all the witnesses to deport themselves so as to ensure the cover-up?  Or that there is no body camera footage?  Which would perjure the ICE Agents lies as it did when little fascist shit Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good and called her a "fucking bitch" while he and his buddies let her bleed out?

Well, Traitor trump, Stephen Miller, John Wayne Mullin, et al want these murderous encounters and traffic stops to continue.  They want people to be killed because the rightwing propaganda machine goes into immediate overdrive to besmirch the murdered individuals (recall the multiple "killings" of Renee Good) and they want Democrats to get upset and call for the Abolishment of ICE.  Republicans would like nothing better than to run on Democrats want to abolish ICE so black and brown monsters can kidnap and rape all the white women.  

Fear-mongering over immigrant hordes raping and killing along with Kamala is for They/Them, trump is for You was the greatest American political campaign of the 21st century.

I'm sure you wish it wasn't so but, it is.  That's the political reality.  Whites are by and large a lost cause.  These people aren't your countrymen anymore.  They expect your silent and docile acceptance of the new fascist order and want you dead if you protest or interfere.

It's Rule or Ruin, just like it was 165 years ago.

Trump's purloined billions, crypto cons, pardons, and insider trading

“Let’s also ensure that members of congress cannot
corruptly profit from using insider information.
Did Nancy Pelosi stand up? ... Doubt it.”

    Once he was back in office Donnie wasn't no time stealing every dollar he could.  Traitor trump revealed he "made" $2.4 billion in his first year back in the White House.

Everyone knows he made ten times that number or more but, this is what he had to admit to in his monstrous 927 page disclosure.    

The deal Traitor trump made with the Republicans was he could steal everything he wanted as long as he delivered what they wanted; a dismantling of the Federal bureaucracy and a powerful fascist paramilitary domestic force to quell dissent.

In exchange, Republicans would ceaselessly prattle on about the Biden Crime Family, or Hunter Biden's "Laptop", or Nancy Pelosi and know their conditioned conservative drones will immediately nod and say Yes, they all do it but, Democrats is worse...

"The word 'affordability' is a fake word, made up by the Democrats, I'll tell you why it's fake: Because they made it up I inherited these prices." - Donnie Don't Care.

 As Donnie Don't Care has repeatedly stated he doesn't give a shit about Americans well-being as he claims the "Affordability" crisis is a fake word, a hoax, and it's the Democrats fault anyway, even as Republican liars like Mike Lawler claim to have solved the "housing crisis" and after all there's always Nancy Pelosi,

 "As I said I don't think people should be profiting in office.  Nobody should.  You know, Nancy Pelosi shouldn't.  She's made, you know, millions upon millions of dollars."- Mike Lawler when asked about Traitor trump's looting of the United States.

Whataboutism is the go to move every time Donnie Don't Care is caught with his dick inside a teenage rape victim.

And if all that would fail, well Traitor trump, Just Despicable Vance, and StepheNazi Miller can simply do another round of blaming the immigrants.

White people have been successfully conditioned by 50 years of non-stop Republican propaganda;  ever since the Lewis Powell Memo and Nixon's forced resignation, Republicans determined never to put the interests of the Nation or American People ahead of their Party and their Rich co-conspriators.

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who has used his time in the Senate to enrich his family via various kickback schemes, repeatedly threatened probes and congressional investigations into President Biden's conflicts of interests and his pardon of his son.

And in response, Donnie Don't Care has been a wild pardon spree releasing all manner of fraudsters, grifters, thieves, and con artists, and traitors;  i.e. his people.

And the January 6th treasonous insurrectionists aren't even the worst!  (But, Republican propaganda has masterfully convinced some MAGA that the Jan6th criminals were all Antifa, FBI, and Souther Poverty Law Center activists while rightwingers also say the Jan6th criminals were all innocent patriots.)

And thus we see the successful rightwing propaganda machine at work.  White people, who often don't even hear about these heinous pardons because of the rightwing news they consume, are also done a disservice by the US corporate media, which barely seeks to cover Trump's criminal financial empire, stops mentioning it after an initial tepid report, and then retreats to their preferred #BothSidesDoIt narrative while also giving Donnie a pass cause they like the guy.

Anyway stealing is the least of Donnie's crimes.

Draining the Reflecting Pool and tearing the White House down

is an allegory for the draining of the National spirit of the United States of America.  The National Mall Anniversary Day is July 16th, to commemorate the laying out of the city plan in 1790.  I suppose we could reflect on that...

So, after Traitor trump's colossal fuck up and destruction of the reflecting pool, the National Parks Service had to drain it yet again.

You know what wasn't found?  A "350-foot gash"...It should be a bigger deal the President of the United States is a syphilitic liar.  A traitor.  A conman.  

You know what was found?  Massive tire marks caused by lazy Donnie's motorcade which ferried his gigantic ass across the reflecting pool surface even though it wasn't made for being driven upon, let alone with Traitor trump's stupid fucking vehicles.

Look...  Donald trump is a thief and a traitor.  But, he'd be nothing more than some two-bit failed casino hustler and grotesque rapist without his acolytes, sycophants, and the criminal co-conspirators he's surrounded himself with who are willing to do all sorts of immoral, unethical, and illegal acts.

You know, I was at the Reflecting Pool yesterday, and I think it's very sad. 

Someone intentionally did a tremendous amount of damage to the pool. 

And you can actually see where all the cutting is. 

They took a sharp object and cut for many feet along the pool.

- Lying Jeanine Pirro

I know why white people love him, he encourages them to be their worst selves, to revel in their biases, to feel good about being bigoted and racist and intolerant.  He does all the things they wish they could do;  

• Steal.  
• Cheat on his taxes.  
• Bang hot broads.  
• Lie.  
• Damage and destroy shit and blame someone else.  
• Murder... 

I know why Republicans love him.  His bombastic bullshit and total unhinged, fact-free missives gives them license and cover to do what they want;  dismantle the Federal Government and turn the United States into a Fascist Totalitarian shithole country whilst maintaining a simulacrum of the Democratic Republic.

And the US Corporate Media simply likes him.  Journalists get a kick out of him and simply ignore his lies and nonsense and bullshit and direct insults and attacks on them cause they like the guy.

So...  So, I guess we're here then.  Where a total piece of shit asshole rapist racist loser gets to claim, Antifa and vandals damaged the Reflecting Pool, and his lackeys make false arrests based on that.

Traitor trump destroyed the Reflecting Pool because that's what this asshole always does.  He's always done slip-shod work, on the cheap, while breaking things, and claiming the work he's done is the greatest ever.

And for years everyone when he was bankrupt casino owner, and a Russian-mafia backed slumlord in New York City everyone, simply nodded and went Yeah, yeah, yeah to his claims of greatness.

And now he's broken the United States.  It doesn't mean we can't fix it but, Republicans are going to viciously fight non-stop to hamper We, the Peoples efforts to right what Donnie Dumbass has wronged.

Fearing for Public Safety

 As a Police Officer, I heard and read all manner of euphemisms to justify blatantly illegal actions by Officers and Departments.  But, I never heard a justification of an unconstitutional extrajudicial killing as being based on "fearing for public safety".

It's a disgusting amorphous phrase based on total bullshit.  It's like trying to claim a disorderly conduct authorizes deadly force.  But, in fact it's even worse.

Yet, again the Gestapho imitators at ICE have launched an attack on a person not committing a crime, in unmarked vehicles, while not in uniform, wearing regular clothing, while masked, guns drawn, seemingly without identifying themselves, using their vehicles as a weapon, and thus ended up executing a man.

That man by the Department of Homeland Terrorism admitted was not the "suspect" they were looking for, but when every brown person is your eventual target any one will do,

The fatal shooting of a 26-year-old Colombian man by a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Maine has become the latest flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s aggressive crackdown on foreign nationals.

The incident unfolded in Biddeford, a coastal city about 24km (15 miles) southwest of Portland, the state’s biggest city.

According to DHS, agents attempted to stop a vehicle leaving the address. The department said the driver tried to flee and that “fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon”.

Earlier, Maine Senator Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had told him the officer fired after the driver allegedly attempted to use the vehicle as a weapon against ICE agents.

King also said the agents involved were not wearing body cameras and that they had been in Biddeford to arrest someone other than the man who was shot.

This is as clear-cut a 4th Amendment violation as the murder of Alex Pretti was an express violation of the 2nd Amendment.  The murdered man was not a suspect, was here legally, and was not in the commission of any crime when the unidentified ICE Thugs attacked.  Biddeford, Maine is right next door to Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, two of the richest areas in Maine, 99% white, and the home to former President George W. Bush.

First off, don't ever forget, don't ever accept their lies, and don't ever give the benefit of the doubt.  These actions are completely unconstitutional and unlawful.  And they are being done willfully and wantonly by agents in the field, with the express support of their superiors, and the vocal support of the treasonous White House officials, like Stephen Miller, Jeannie Pirro, and MarkJohnWayne Mullin.

Again, lying Trump acolytes and co-conspriators attempted to use the ubiquitous lie of the murdered individual tried to use his vehicle as a weapon, this is the go to lie they use to set the tone for on-line bots to parrot and to justify these murders.  Again the ICE Agents shot someone in a car because they are being told to do so and most likely been given verbal assurances they will be defended by the Trump Department of Injustice and the rightwing propaganda machine.

Secondly, this is exactly what white people wanted and expressly voted for in selecting Donnie Dumbass.

Third, Trump lackeys feel comfortable committing crimes and acting with petulant impunity because they feel certain they will face zero repercussions when this whole thing finally comes to an end.  This extends all the way down to individual murderers at ICE up to Traitor trump himself.

The ICE murders are ramping up again, after Stephen Miller told them to cool off for a bit.

Trump's Empty GAS-F is a fart in the wind

(Runnin' On) Running on Empty

As a visual metaphors go, Traitor Trump tearing down the White House, turning the Reflecting Pool into a swampy morass, while Republicans lovingly reinstall statues Confederate Traitors in Washington DC is sadly perfect.  But, I don't think anyone was prepared for how thinly attended, how cheap and shoddy*, and just how empty in attendance as well as spirit his GAS-F would be!

Trump's GAS-F is as big a failure as everything else he's ever done.  Unfortunately, something being a total failure doesn't mean it isn't massively destructive.  The Reflecting Pool, the John F. Kennedy Center, the East Wing of the White House these are just the most obvious and apparent illustrations of the repair work the next Democratic Administration will have to do.

But, while the Republicans in the Senate, House, and Supremacist Court will do everything they can to undermine, subvert, stall, obstruct and harm the next Democratic President as they attempt to undo the generational amount of damage inflicted on the Nation by Traitor trump and his criminal cabal, it's so apparent white people don't actually like Donnie.

Reflections of...
the way life used to be

Now, you'll counter with all the Jordan Kleeper or Dean Withers interviews with insane white people festooned in trump apparel and signs but, white people don't actually like Donald trump, instead they fucking love the evil shit he is doing.  Republicans don't like Donald trump but they love the destruction and undermining of the United States and the enshrinement of the rightwing agenda of intolerance and oppression into law.  

White people were driven utterly insane by President Obama's two election victories, mostly the second one, as the first victory in 2008 could be chalked up to George W. Bush's evil disastrous administration and a one-off fluke.

But, the second one against the two "wholesome" white bread candidates Romney and Ryan pushed whites into a spiral of insanity in which they demanded the shittiest white MAN alive be nominated for President.  Donnie Dumbass told whites in 2015 he was that shittiest of white men.

So, always understand no one lies Donnie Dumbass.  He's the most unlikable and unliked person in the US.  But... what he did do was allow these despicable, nay deplorable, white people like themselves.  Like themselves for their racism, for their ignorance, for their vile bigotry.  Traitor trump told them their worst impulses and worst aspects were not only right but good.  And so white people for the past decade have reveled in their hatreds and the more you or I or anyone tried to point out Donnie Don't Care crimes, immoral actions, violations of the Constitution, or the error of their ways, the more they said

Let them eat my gold-plated shit,
Traitor trump Antoinette

HA HA HA Triggered!!! Triggered!!!! Triggered!!! Hahahahahaha!  TDS!!!  Haha you woke libtard DEI are so mad!!!  Hahahaha Trump Derangement Syndrome!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

"Go home! Get out. We know our country is better than yours. That's because we filled it with our work ethic and our culture and our values.  You being here only dilutes it for us, those who built it and live it. We don't want you! We don't care if you're offended. Get out! Go home! Go back to fucking Haiti!" - Megyn Kelly - this is why whites and Republicans love traitor trump this racist speech by Megyn Kelly.

And... that's it.  That's the entire appeal to whites, and as allegedly prophesied by LBJ all those years ago the whites are more than willing to empty their pockets for trump.  

Of course, for Republicans, it's a little bit different.  Republicans hate Americans.  You can tell because they always say so.  But, they love Donald trump.  And it's because he's helping them accomplish goals they've dreamed about since Nixon was forced to resign.  First off, Nixon wouldn't resign or even face any criticism in today's America, Just Despicable Vance was correct about that.  But, under Traitor trump Republicans have dismantled the Department of Education, they've subverted the Department of Justice and weaponized it in a manner we haven't seen since the Hoover FBI went after the Black Panther Party in the 1970's and after Martin and Malcolm in the 1960's.  Republicans have also neutered multiple regulatory bodies like the EPA, OSHA, BLM, and opened up the Nation for the rapacious exploitation and despoliation for the rich.  The Republican Party has also undermined Voting Rights and representation across the Nation in a way 1960's Reactionaries could not have dreamed.  So, Republicans are more than willing to let Donnie raid the U.S. Treasury and steal billions, deface various monuments, undermine law & order and start various foreign conflagrations on a syphilis influenced whim because of the fundamental way in which the Republican Party is replacing the Democratic Republic with a Neo-Confederate Fascist Nation.

*- This video from Amanda Moore shows the construction standard Traitor trump is known for.  If you are even in St. Louis go and see the diorama of the buildings made for the 1904 World's Fair, the grounds and some of the structures are still standing today

Secret Agent John Wayne Mullin defends deaths in ICE Custody

 I said a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE… We didn't see things like this happening to the same degree when we froze ICE funding. - Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez

ICE "Officers" have engaged in direct violations of the Constitution, up to and including, illegal extrajudicial killings of innocent people not engaged in unlawful or criminal conduct.

Mark-John-Wayne-I'm-Not-John-J-Rambo-Mullin, who took over for Kristi Noem, because in the fascist playbook you replace your underlings after a while because the people become angry or irritated or shocked at their incompetence, cruelty, or outright thievery.  The new deputy is thus able to continue the same policies until they too become too ridiculous or too embarrassing.

And, now we see ICE is back to violently assaulting and murdering.

But, it does seem no one, not even Senator John Cornpone Kennedy with his voice imitation of actor Pat Buttram,  could be as ridiculous as MarkyMarkJohnWayneMullin, a man who once thought he had the skill set to fast rope into Afghanistan.  Mullin's only other notable Senate accomplishment was being a hold-me-back wannabe tough guy in a Senate hearings who had to be reminded by Senator Bernie Sanders he was no long King of the Bum-Fights.

So it should come as no surprise when brought before a Congressional committee this month, Mullin acted like a lying servile trump toady and pugnacious asshole towards Congresswoman Lauren Underwood.  Mullin even had to have a little stress ball in his hands because of how angry he was being questioned by a black woman.

Because that's what it means to be a rightwing white male in America today; be actively ignorant, be violently stupid, and always be disrespectful towards women, especially women of color.  While constantly lying about everything and showing Traitor trump worshipful fealty by immediately rising up to defend Donnie Dumbass when he's criticized.  In authoritarian regimes, Mullin is one of those idiot treasonous yes-men so sought after and so prized because of the his reflexive desire to heap effusive praise and defend the head fascist.

And what was JohnWayne Mullin attacking Congresswoman Underwood about, the deplorable conditions and unconscionable deaths and mistreatment occurring in ICE detention facilities.

In today's United States Senate, every Republican Senator is more ridiculous, more odious, more deplorable than the next.  In 2021, when President Biden brought an end to the Republican Afghanistan War and occupation debacle after a futile 20 years, Mullin ridiculously tried to sneak in with “Delta [Force] guys” and “special forces”,

Mullin first attempted to enter Afghanistan via Greece, only to be denied permission by the defense department. 

He then reportedly called the US ambassador to Tajikistan with a request to help transport a large amount of cash into the country, saying he would be going on to Afghanistan to rescue a woman and her four children, all US citizens.

Mullin told the embassy he planned to fly to Dushanbe in Tajikistan from Tbilisi in Georgia, then to rent a helicopter. The embassy turned him down. Officials told the Post Mullin threatened the US ambassador, John Mark Pommersheim.

Mullin told Fox News: “Unfortunately, the ambassador, Pommersheim, was not helpful at all.”

 What a fucking asshole. I am certain in private Mullin claims if only he and his merc buddies had been allowed in they would have turned the tide in Afghanistan. But, Mullin lying about himself doing #extraordinarythings and his chances of coming home being "50-50" are the height of white male culture in the United States.

When you stare too long into the Reflecting Pool...

"It is legitimate! I saw it!  I was there.  I saw it all!"

So, once again the United States is getting a lesson about Donnie's slap-dash, slip-shod, shit-ass building methods which New Yorkers knew decades ago. 

Traitor trump, besides being a rapist thief, who is undermining the United States, destroying Law&Order, robbing the U.S. Treasury and unraveling the Constitution and undoing 250 years of Americans trying to make the United States a more perfect Union, is also a cheap and tawdry mafioso-style construction conman.

So, everyone now knows the sleazy Donald gave a no-bid contract to his cartoonishly scummy neighbor who proceeded to do such a shoddy and stupid non-environmentally sound job that within weeks of coating the bottom of the pool in polyurethane liner the reflecting pool started to turn into a fetid swamp.  So, as he fucks America over again traitor trump turned to his ultimate defense lying.

But, it really should be a bigger story the President of the United States is a shameless unabashed liar;

“I saw it. They cut it. They cut it very violently," Trump said. "The same thing with the floor. They cut it and then they lifted it. They pulled it. And that's what it is.”

There are several things at play here;

1. First, the reason Traitor trump has latched onto this claim of someone cutting the coating is during one of his inane press conferences in May he went on one of his rambling verbal weaves in which he claimed the paint job was too manly and too tough to cut with a knife.  So, the idea of his pool being damaged by being cut is deeply rooted in his narcissists brain, and once Donnie Dumbass has some idea in there, he clings to it and no amount of proof or impossibility will dislodge it from his emotionally dysregulated brain.
2. Because his claim someone cut the coating on the floor of the Reflecting Pool is absolutely impossible.  It is not a thing to be cut with a "box cutter" or linoleum knife.  Nor could someone wade into the pool and casually slice it for hundreds of feet.  But, in trumpian fashion, as he always does his lie about the vandalism grew first from a 250 foot gash then a few days later to 300 feet and finally to 350 foot long cut coupled with dumping some pollutants into the pool.  The truth is the polyurethane coating was not the correct material for the Reflecting Pool but for Donnie Don't Care his gauche and gaudy Casino conman ideal of a classy is a chemically saturated crystal clear pool to overawe the rubes.  But, this doesn't matter to the MAGA base because trump knows all he has to say is he did a perfect and great job and conservatives gleefully nod along.
3. Traitor trump's cult absolutely believes his fact-free claims that "vandals" damaged the Reflecting Pool.  And if you think this can absolutely not be true, then understand what does MAGA claiming to believe it's true give them license to do?  Traitor trump's order to arrest of innocent people and accuse them of damaging the Reflecting Pool show you what he, his criminal cabal, and conservatives yearn to do writ large.
4. Donnie Dumbass, found out President Obama had overseen a renovation of the Reflecting Pool so when Donnie announced the Reflecting Pool contract he peppered it will all his phrases of faux masculinity, and used it as a way to slander President Obama (this is how he slyly calls President Obama the N-word).  When things went badly as they always do since everything traitor trump touches turns to shit Donnie turned to the MAGA 3-step,
5. One) Take All Credit (especially for things you didn't do, Two) Pass All Blame (especially for things you did do), Three) Declare Greatness (or victory in Iran).

Historically, when a body of water defied an absolute ruler that ruler had the water whipped for insolence. But, Donnie knows he can whip President Obama for trump's failures and lies and white people in America will greedily agree.  Just ignore trump's giant bulk being driven across the drained reflecting pool because he can't walk 2000 feet.

But understand MAGA is just a variation on time-worn fascism. Fascists inherit a working bureaucracy and then run it into the ground via thievery and appointing partisan ideologues, grifting con-artists, and imbecilic yes-men.  And when things don't work out?  Why you just erect drapes and fences to hide the damage you've done, place armed guards around the area to imitate and arrest innocent people, allege a vast criminal conspiracy, and ignore environmental laws and just dump the hydrogen peroxide laden algae pool water straight into the sewer.  After all who is going to cite the Traitor trump administration for that violation the EPA?

Anyway it's not Alge's fault!
So stop blaming him

Just as with his Iran debacle, his gestapho goons at ICE violating the Constitution, brutalizing innocent people and murdering Americans, we are witnessing Traitor trump's conflict with reality. And when reality doesn't conform with his lies, he invents whole easily disprovable fables, and massive conspiracies (like Antifa) and lies constantly. But, since most Americans are removed from he immediate impact of his lies, fables, and failures they can go along with his bullshit and after all there's always lying MAGA sycophants, rightwing propaganda outlets and their social media algorithms to assure them this is Biden or Obama's fault.

Bored of War & Peace 18: Traitor trump’s Memorandum of Understanding that the US is surrendering to Iran at Versailles

“Our surrender is signed.
I signed our surrender in Versailles.
Just signed our surrender.”

"Qatar is the closest to Iran, physically. With other countries, I noticed they had to travel about 45 minutes to get there. With you, you could walk right across the border."

There's no land border between Iran and Qatar. They're separated by the Persian Gulf.  But, at this point Donnie Don't Care was so bored and so frustrated with Iran he was willing to take any "deal", claim his "victory", and walk away.

Donnie Dumbass started an "excursion" against Iran and lost.  That's the headline.  That's the unescapable historical conclusion.  That's the result of his ignorant ass being negged into bombing Iran in conjunction with Israel War Criminals and having absolutely no plan, no diplomatic ability, and no other idea than to threaten more bombings.

This was a total strategic defeat for the United States capped off by Dumbass Donnie signing the surrender document at Versailles while French President Emmanuel Macron smirked and laughed at trump's boorish and obvious ignorance.

But, don't expect the US mainstream media to cover the reality of the fiasco in Iran in anyway other than Glorious Donald did it Again!  Another War Won!  Another War Stopped!  Statesmanship like you've never seen before!!!

Certainly, independent journalists like Greg Sargent at The New Republic or Heather Digby Parton at Salon and elsewhere will accurately describe this debacle of a embarrassing failure but, the corporate media is going to rush to defend Donnie and obscure the details and rush to move onto Traitor trump's next astounding victory. 

Obviously, Traitor trump himself will claim and is already claiming repeatedly he won an enormous unheard-of victory and did something no one else could have done and is the greatest President, certainly had the greatest year and a half, of anyone in the history of Presidents and the Republicans will all nod along and clap and continue clapping harder and harder in a grotesque simulacrum of a Stalinist speech.

Plus, Traitor trump got to call President Obama, a "stupid son of a bitch" and claim the Iranians said it.  Don't ask who; you wouldn't know them.  Just like everything else Traitor trump and his treasonous cabal of criminal co-conspirators claimed all along with Iran, just Trust Us Bro! 

But, the US corporate media loves trump and wants him and the Republican fascist agenda to succeed.  I will never forget and never forgive them for enthusiastically adopting Traitor trump's lies and bullshit about President Biden ending the shameful 20 year occupation of Afghanistan.

The US corporate media torpedoed Joe repeatedly and vowed to destroy his Presidency and his chances at a second term in office for him ending the occupation of Afghanistan.  Not once and not repeatedly did these same media personalities write anything about Traitor trump's unlawful military action with Iran, nor it's conduct, nor it's shameful conclusion, and Donnie's total and utter surrender.  What did Donnie's "excursion" accomplish?  He killed an elderly ruler, he murdered some school children, he hardened the Iranian regime's control and resolve.

And as always in the coming years, when the United States reaps the whirlwind for it's actions, Republicans and their media allies will simply ignore what they've sown and blame a Democratic President or Democratic Congressmen and Senators for their Republican perfidy.

So... what's next?

I think trump, Just Despicable Vance, the trump spawn, and other Republicans are going to start another vile push to steal or force the UN to give Donnie Greenland.  While Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham push for an invasion of Cuba.  Of course, Hegseth will continue to blow up fishermen in the Caribbean Sea, Pacific Ocean, and elsewhere.  But, no doubt as gas prices begin to drop, conservatives will claim Iran was a complete success for Traitor trump ha ha ha ha suck it libtards.

The Broadview 6 case of Prosecutorial Misconduct illustrates the Coming Fascist Escalation (The DAMN 15 included)

The latest 15 patriots arrested by the
Fascist Criminal Trump administration

One of the cute tricks Republicans have mastered is to constantly rotate their cast of secondary fascists so when one becomes enough of a liability (I know that hardly seems possible in the current Trumpublican Party) a new one is elevated and the criminality continues without interruption.

Gregory Bovino is gone but Tom Homan issues the same pronouncements.  Krisiti Noem has disappeared into the vat of filler she uses for her face but, Secret Agent Mark Wayne is ready to commit the same crimes.  

There is a seemingly endless parade of these low-light conservative thugs and traitors available for the Republican Party to elevate above their head who then take it upon themselves to issue all manner of illegal orders, unlawful edicts, and immoral or unethical memorandum.

But, more disconcerting than these high-profile, made for rightwing tv fascists are the everyday bureaucrats and seemingly hard-working non-partisan officials who so willing or so easily allow themselves to slip into authoritarian mindset and set aside their ethical guidelines and abuse their authority without prompting, prodding, or provocation.

The Broadview 6 case clearly illustrates how ready some Americans are to get in line, just follow orders (even ones they know are unethical or outright illegal), to curry favor, and abet fascism;

Lawyers for the “Broadview Six” late Tuesday asked a federal judge to appoint special counsel to investigate alleged wrongdoing by the U.S. Attorney’s Office — and possibly prosecute for contempt of court.

The 33-page motion said the investigation should focus on prosecutors’ conduct “during the grand jury proceedings and the ensuing cover-up before this court” and should include everyone who touched the case, including U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros, his top deputies, and his supervisors at the Department of Justice.

“Indeed, these steps must be taken in large part because of what appears to be a determined effort to blame a single prosecutor when the misconduct now known…runs much deeper and indeed to the highest levels of the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office and likely to the Department of Justice in Washington D.C.,” the motion stated.

The motion warned U.S. District Judge April Perry that if a special prosecutor was not able to dig deeper, blame for the collapse of the Broadview Six case would be laid on a single scapegoat, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Mecklenburg, which would be “a convenient outcome for those who are eager to turn the page.”

As a police officer I testified before a Grand Jury several times, I can not imagine a State's Attorney wantonly or willfully giving false or misleading instructions to the Grand Jury or trying to engage in legerdemain of telling the Grand Jurors, 'Trust me Bro!'  But, as detailed by the lawyers for innocent Broadview 6 this wasn't just some individual rogue "bad apple" but a coordinated, and far-reaching conspiracy.

This is far from the only incident of prosecutorial misconduct, most of which have fortunately been stopped by judges willing to buck the fascist tide and rule against the State.  Of course, consistent defeats in court haven't stopped the Traitor trump underlings from pushing to make splashy arrests knowing their brainwashed white maga drones equate arrest with absolute guilt (unless the arrestee is a Jan6er or elected Republican pedophile).

It isn't called "Facebook" anymore, it's Meta and
since the US Government got the terminology wrong
their argument is invalid.

Therefore, in order to muddy the waters about the illegal actions by Department of Justice across the Nation but, especially in Minnesota, which resulted in the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti as well as countless constitutional violations and unlawful acts under the color of law, the treasonous Republican Department of Homeland Terrorism arrested 15 apparent members of the Direct Action Minnesota alleging their Facebook posts, statements, and meetings constituted a conspiracy.

Prosecutors say the 15 are members and associates of the protest group Direct Action Minnesota, which they describe as an antifa — or antifascist — affinity group. Antifa is an umbrella term describing any far-left-leaning militant groups and is not a singular entity. They consist of groups that resist fascists and neo-Nazis, especially at demonstrations. 

The indictment itself does not allege any specific acts of violence. Rosen said that whether or not they caused bodily harm isn’t the measure of whether they committed a serious crime.  

He played video from Kyle Wagner where he allegedly said, “we’re not talking about peaceful protest anymore” and urged people to “get your f---ing guns and stop these f---ing people.”

Eternal Vigilance wasn't just a catchy phrase by Thomas Jefferson because understand the treasonous and increasingly unlawful Republican Party sees no reason not to use the Department of Injustice to torment, harass, and arrest political opposition just as their ICE goons engage in wanton unlawful use of force and unconstitutional searches and seizures.

Understand this is happening because almost every Republicans today believes they will suffer no repercussions for engaging in criminality.  I hope they are wrong and enough Americans have the stomach to make them pay for what they've done.