Monday Stuff

Jesse Dollemore lets us know that Don The Con fired the architect who warned #47 that his stinking ballroom was just too damn big because of course...and Cheetoh Benito “exercising restraint”??? What a “laff riot” THAT is...and Jesse keeps calling this “Hitler sh*t” because that’s pretty much what it is...and leave it to Our Treasonous Orange Pustule to engage in this madness and bypass any org having to do with D.C. that might exercise a scintilla of oversight to this clusterf*ck...and it would be not surprising in any way for this ridiculous project to hurt the structural integrity of the actual White House to the point where the whole damn thing needed to be rebuilt (mildly NSFW/H)...



...and Robert Reich goes after this mess with that damn ballroom from the angle of the corporate players involved and what they’re looking to gain by currying favor with Combover Caligula...what a vile rogues gallery of bootlickers and bottom-feeders...



...and Stephanie Ruhle tells us that the economic forecasting firm Challenger says that our glorious capitalist economy is looking at about 1.1 million layoffs this year, the most since the pandemic in ’20, with folks struggling to make ends meet largely because of Mango Mussolini’s wretched non-governance, including tariffs, ICE’s despicable tactics and attacking health care (and DOGE destroying about 300K jobs), but about 2,900 billionaires are ”livin’ large,” to the tune of about $16 trillion (interview with Natasha Sarin and Rohit Chopra)...good points by all but also Chopra, pointing out what younger individuals trying to start to make a life for themselves are dealing with...and “Trump Accounts For Babies”?? Great...so #47 can scam a whole new generation of potential suckers I guess (as Sarin says, just fund the damn child tax credit and forget about some new scheme to make the banksters wealthier than they are already)...oh, and Sean Duffy wants to bring back station wagons? How? By overturning more Biden policy, this time making vehicles ultimately more expensive as Sarin points out, and non-competitive globally (to say nothing of climate change, which our villainous ruling cabal doesn’t believe in anyway of course...more here)...



...and I’ll let Mr. Newberger have the last word for now...



...and here are more seasonal numbers...







...and I now present our annual remembrance (#45).

Sunday Stuff

Jen Psaki lets us know that it looks like Donnie Accordion Hands is trying to find new ways to pass the time aside from dumb president stuff like, y’know, ACTUALLY TRYING TO SAVE OUR ECONOMY, GETTING RID OF THOSE STOO-PID TARIFFS, REINING IN HIS ICE GOONS, etc. and is now making speeches about renaming American football...and oh yeah, the Tangerine Toddler got that alleged “peace” award from FIFA, one of the most corrupt organizations on earth, as Psaki reminds us; that thing looks pretty damn weird with those hands reaching out of the ground like they’re from “The Walking Dead” (and I would ask that you bear this in mind as you take note of that)...clip revisits “I’ll Drink To That” Hegseth preaching to people far better than he’ll ever be about “war fighters”...also, we learn more about Crazy Eyes Kash Patel using the FBI to cart around his 27-year-old girlfriend...Psaki speaks with Miles Taylor who was DHS Chief of Staff during Trump 1.0 and a guy who sums up this madness pretty well (I knew the Gropenfuhrer was allergic to memos longer than a page, but I didn’t know that he was that way about memos longer than a freaking paragraph!)...



...and Jerrod Zisser of Ring of Fire lets us know that, apparently, Pumpkin Pol Pot’s ICE goons in New York managed to somehow lose a 6-year-old boy named Yuanxin; this story tells us that ICE claims the boy is in federal custody, but it seems that nobody knows where he is (and given the bunch of belligerent incompetents in charge of our government, do you actually trust them?)...



Update 12/8/25: More here.

...and here are a couple of other seasonal tunes.





...and here are a couple of more late selections (I honestly try to work in newer and/or different stuff, for what it's worth).

Saturday Stuff

This ABC News report tells us about Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a Boston college student who was trying to fly to Austin, TX for a family visit, but she ended up getting detained by the ICE Gestapo and eventually was sent to Honduras, a country she knows practically nothing about, despite a judge’s order (oh, and she had to try and sleep on a cold floor, and God only knows what other kind of deprivations she had to endure...more here)...



...and I’ve been meaning to get to this all week, so I’d better do it now; Robert Reich tells us more about Palantir (and its “Lord Of The Rings” provenance, if you will), a company that makes these AI platforms that are sold all over the place (including to the military) and are subsequently used to amass huge amounts of personal data that are used to increase the surveillance state to an ever-greater degree...and as if that isn’t bad enough, Palantir is doing all of this with billions in taxpayer dough...and I remember the wingnuts losing what’s left of their minds about putting info on gun owners into a database monitored by the government, but I don’t recall hearing a peep out of them in response to what Palantir wants to do, which is compile a massive government database of their own, used for immigration surveillance among other nefarious purposes...clip explains why Peter Thiel could be the most dangerous person in this country, aside from Cantaloupe Capone of course...



...and this New York Times clip tells us that the Tangerine Toddler’s aid cuts are forcing food pantries to replace fruits and vegetables with junk food...food cost 28% more now than it did in ’20, as we learn from the clip...also, the Gropenfuhrer has cut more than $1 billion in federal food aid, including a program sending food from farms to low-income Americans, calling it “a Biden-era slush fund” (figures)...I’d like to see this Brooke Rollins character be forced to miss a meal for a change instead of dining at a five-star hotel...oh, and two million are likely to lose access to food stamps next year; I would say that these times are Dickensian, but they’re likely worse than that...



...and another culprit in this country’s misery is private equity IMO, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren has some pending legislation to address that (she should be the Senate minority leader; maybe Schumer can ask “the Baileys” if that’s a good idea – here)...



...and here are more selections in the spirit of the season.

Friday Stuff

Chris Hayes takes a look at a presidency in decline (though I’ll admit that it’s hard to measure that considering that this administration has been in the gutter ever since it took power in January)...and I know I’m repeating myself, but while I’m definitely not a medical professional, from what I read, an MRI is NOT part of a “yearly physical,” even a “yearly” one for #47 that apparently takes place every six months...oh, and for the record, Dementia Donnie granted asylum to the accused shooter of the two D.C. national guard members, one of whom was killed (here)...



...and when it comes to more madness from Pumpkin Pol Pot, Kyle Kulinski tells us that Our Treasonous Orange Yam is scamming his voters again in order to get an alleged “tariff rebate check” (found out by Ben Meiselas of the Meidas Touch Network) – yep, sounds like the mask is completely off with our ruling gang of cretins...I didn’t know about the latest BS with Cheetoh Benito and Vlad The Butcher having to do with Ukraine (also including Steve Witkoff and Wonder Boy Jared Kushner, and communicating on unencrypted devices with Russia to make it all extra stoo-pid), but that sure fits the seamy, disgusting profile all right...yeah, let’s just COMPLETELY SELL OUT UKRAINE so we can help Russia carve it up and get oil and mineral rights, to say nothing of U.S. companies getting richer from reconstruction contracts (and I think “mob-ocracy” is about right, with Venezuela apparently next on the list... trying to control my vomit reflex...definitely NSFW/H)...



...and as you let the previous clip sink in a bit, I would also ask that you listen to the story of this man, who served our country way back when and had to be abused (along with his wife) by our insane for-profit health care system in this country...oh, and he was also cast aside by our predatory capitalist economy and left to fend for himself, leading him to the point where, at 88 years old, he has to work a crappy job in our service economy...I’m hearing (and I’m sure you are too) of young men and women in their 20s who are leaving this country for (hopefully) a better life overseas, and after seeing stories like this, I don’t blame them one bit...

We are the wealthiest country in the world and yet this is how we treat our seniors and veterans. If you support Trump and Republicans ripping away SNAP, Medicaid, and Obamacare subsidies to give tax cuts to billionaires — GO FUCK YOURSELF. 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/wMP214280s

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) December 4, 2025

...and Michael Kosta wishes us all a “Merry Bizmas” (and converting to Islam to save dough at Christmas time? Hit me!)...and a BDSM teddy bear also? Wonder how many of them you can buy by dealing blow at the food court near the Sbarro (#joke)...



...and yep, you guessed it - time for more seasonal tunes.

Thursday Stuff

CNN’s Harry Enten and John Berman take a look at the TN-07 race won by Repug Matt Van Epps over Dem Aftyn Behn, but not by much, as we learn from Enten...more importantly, Enten discusses the Dem overperformance across the country, and the TN-07 result is part of that trend; this makes me gnash my teeth a bit because I think to myself “where the hell were these people last year??!!,” but we are where we are...Enten's segment ends at about 3:47 (it should also be noted that the “R” team had to spend an ungodly amount of dough to keep Van Epps afloat, though Behn benefitted a bit from a lot of funding also)...I’m not the biggest fan in the world of David Axelrod, but he does make a good point that the Dems had better watch out for Repugs suddenly saying, “Oh, vote for me because I care about affordability too”; the “D” team needs to come up with a response, or better yet, hammer the “R” candidate over that so much that voters never forget it (more here)...



...and staying with the “volunteer state,” Farron Cousins tells us that libraries across Tennessee (with the exceptions of Knoxville and Memphis) are shut down on the orders of Secretary of State Tre Hargett (do I really need to identify the party?) so books with LBGTQ or DEI-related characters or themes can be purged, which is part of the whole effort to indeed erase these folks...great point by Cousins that none of the dough that comes from the state pays for the books, so the libraries could conceivably tell this Hargett guy to pound sand (more here...the dogs at the end are adorable)...



...and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report brings us the story of University of Oklahoma student Samantha Fulnecky, who got a trans professor fired by claiming “religious persecution” led by these Turning Point USA scumwads (who are still at it despite the demise of their founder Charlie Kirk)...sooo, Fulnecky cites the Bible and doesn’t provide empirical evidence in her essay (which was about gender, and Fulnecky was supposed to use the class material in her essay, which she really didn’t do), and she received zero points for it, and she got hurt fee fees over it and decided that she would try to get the professor canned (if this were a theology class, then maybe this would be acceptable...maybe)...I would say that Figueredo is indeed being conspiratorial in saying that this student was out to “get” this prof, if it weren’t for the fact that doing that is indeed right out of the wingnut playbook...oh, and this student’s mom is a wingnut podcaster and attorney for some January 6th treasonous insurrectionists; yep, that “checks all the boxes” all right...more here (NSFW/H)...



...and RIP legendary guitarist Steve Cropper (who also co-wrote this unforgettable tune)...



...and here are more seasonal numbers.

Wednesday Stuff

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us of Kristi (“Unsafe At Any Speed”) Noem implicating herself in a crime on national TV in an interview with Kristen Welker, with Noem basically agreeing with Welker that she chose to ignore a judge’s order to stop sending migrants to a prison in El Salvador (and I don’t want to hear this “activist judge” bullsh*t – this regime of criminals doesn’t get to decide which court orders they want to follow and which ones they want to ignore, as Cohen says)...Marc Elias provides legal insight on this also; didn’t know Judge Boasberg can appoint someone to look into all of Noem’s disgusting nonsense and, as Elias says, we may not even need to wait until a future Democratic congress for investigation into this barbarity...good job by Cohen to go over everybody the Tangerine Toddler has thrown under the proverbial bus (and why am I not surprised by this from Noem in any way?)...



...and as a bit of a follow up, Jerrod Zisser of Ring of Fire brings us the story of ICE wanting more ways to track you, going waaay beyond typical demographic stuff (contracting with Palantir for more surveillance garbage)...yep, mixing up targeted enforcement and broad domestic monitoring seems to be the goal here, or one of them anyway (Robert Reich also has a clip on this that I’ll plan to get to soon – more here)...



...and this CBC report gives a pretty good rundown on how Texas and California want to gerrymander for the ’26 election (and once more, if the Lone Star State had decided not to engage in this nonsense first, then CA would have kept out of it also)...with reporter Andrew Chang...pretty good description of how gerrymandering works, including “packing and cracking”...good job to report the derivation of the actual term “gerrymander” dating back to the 1800s...and it would have been nice if the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR had actually pushed back against gerrymandering in 2019, but of course they didn’t (probably because it usually helps Repugs as noted in the report) and we are where we are...



...and Stephen Colbert of The Late Show brings us the latest bedlam from Our Orange Atrocity...$37 for a MAGA red hat Christmas ornament? Yep, sound about white...and props to Dem MN guv Tim Walz for the most called-for 4-word response to the Gropenfuhrer that could be mustered short of profanity (I know I’m behind the news cycle on that a bit, but I think it bears repeating since the cut was aimed at Walz’s special needs son...typically putrid for Pumpkin Pol Pot)...oh, and we’re reminded of the latest murderous madness from “Kill Them All” Hegseth...”I don’t know anything about it – you talking about the two men?”; he doesn’t even bother to keep his lies straight any more (not sure what Colbert has against Caillou...#joke...a related item is here)...oh, and when we’re talking about incompetents in this administration, we have to include Crazy Eyes Kash (“I Need Help Finding My FBI Jacket”) Patel...



...and here are more seasonal selections...

Tuesday Stuff

Lawrence O’Donnell reminds us of Mango Mussolini and Ghislaine Maxwell (who has said she’ll take the fifth if called to testify under oath) and how Repugs are tethered to this orange psychopath...oh, and Cheetoh Benito has suffered a 39 percent decline over his first wretched term? I guess I’ll continue to await the breathless corporate media coverage on that like we were exposed to relentlessly after Biden’s admittedly bad debate performance last year (and we’ll likely keep waiting)...



...and Chris Hayes speaks with Dem U.S. House Rep Eric Swalwell on the latter’s lawsuit against Trumper Bill Pulte over at HUD...Swalwell is fighting back against Pulte for attacking Adam Schiff, Letitia James, and Swalwell himself, with Pulte wasting God knows how many taxpayer dollars in these silly inquisitions (the reason Pulte is culpable in particular is because he’s been looking into people’s mortgage records)...Hayes and Swalwell also talk about the TN-07 general election today between Trumper Matt Van Epps and Dem Aftyn Behn...



...and Belle of the Ranch informs us of 20 states suing Our Treasonous Orange Pustule to reinstate funding for HUD’s Continuum of Care program, with Trumpers turning permanent housing into temporary shelter, with strings attached of course (with the aforementioned NY AG Letitia James fighting for permanent funding, which is bound to drive the Tangerine Toddler particularly nuts...more here)...



...and I guess I’m a few days late with this NSFW/H item from America’s Finest News Source, but I suppose it’s still timely for this time of year...



...and here are more seasonal selections.