Friday Stuff

Robert Reich asks if Our Demented Orange Toddler Has Finally Lost it (and if you have to ask, then yeah, I think you know the answer, and no, I’m not trying to make fun of someone suffering from a mental decline, but I’m only pointing out how dangerous this is given that he’s the leader of the free world already)...clip contains a lot of stuff we know about, but Reich connects the dots pretty well here IMO...



...and don’t look now, but Don The Con actually engaged in an arguably worse case of mortgage fraud than Letitia James or the Fed’s Lisa Cook did (though Cook’s case is more comparable)...see, the Gropenfuhrer tried to claim two primary residences, neither of which he seems to have lived in primarily for decades, while James rented out property she claimed as a secondary residence, according to ProPublica, doing fine work once again (as usual with Our Cretin-In-Chief, every accusation is a confession...Jesse Dollemore tells us about it)...mildly NSWF/H...



...and Belle of the Ranch comments on the GOP losing the Miami mayoral race, and also discusses the Dem winning in Georgia’s 121st state congressional district (which was a Trump-plus-12 district in the last election)...good point that the Miami mayoral impact is pretty local, but it definitely is symbolic, especially with these FIFA games upcoming to raise the city’s profile...also noteworthy IMO that the Dem mayor is a Catholic woman who ran against a Trump-supported lackey in a state where Repugs generally cruise in elections unfortunately...



...and Jimmy Kimmel brings us a wrapup on recent news items...I’m definitely the wrong person to ask about this 6-7 business...and those jump cuts of the verbal diarrhea from the Gropenfuhrer is exactly how he should be covered by every network, and online also of course...kudos to Kimmel for going right after this flatulent orange meat sack – can’t imagine the mentality of the life forms in attendance for that Bund rally in our beloved commonwealth, and hopefully I never will...absolutely love the “12 days” at the end...



...and I now present the following seasonal selections (and happy heavenly 110th for Ol' Blue Eyes).

Thursday Stuff

Farron Cousins tells us that ICE/standards from DHS Dress Up Doll Kristi (“Unsafe At Any Speed”) Noem have been lowered, with predictable results according to the Daily Mail, with a bunch of these thugs (and actual criminals, apparently) not able to meet the physical and mental requirements...I forgot that Dubya did something similar for his Not-So -Excellent Adventure In Iraq, in terms of lowering enlistment standards for gang members and those accused of committing crimes (mildly NSFW/H)...



...and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report tells us that bad behavior from Don The Con is rubbing off on people in the worst possible way...and while I’m glad to see the Somalis in Minnesota brought to justice for scamming people under the guise of COVID relief, I’m old enough to remember a gang of people with influence who abused their PPP loans and didn’t even get a slap on the wrist (here and here)...and this Cinnabon woman employee was quite rightly fired but raised $75K anyway? I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again – I interact with people in their 20s who have openly discussed getting out of this country, and unfortunately, I don’t blame them one bit...”there really is no hate like ‘Christian’ love”; I wish I could disagree, and God bless the Walz family (incredibly NSFW/H but apropos)...



...and Alec Opperman of More Perfect Union brings us the sordid tale of foreign oligarchs who bought #47 and what they got for their money, Qatar specifically, spending a quarter of a billion dollars on lobbying and tons of dough on PR also, trying to mask their human rights abuses including deaths of migrant workers...report also tells us how Qatar bailed out Trump loyalist Steve Witkoff and his Park Lane Hotel in NYC...and gee, I must have missed the robust public debate about the Qatar Air Force base in Idaho...I actually knew about the scheme from Bronzer Beelzebub to militarily defend Qatar in the same manner as an Article V NATO violation, but I learned that from Canadian media...didn’t know that Pam Bondi was registered as an agent for Qatar, but that sure fits, along with her gutting FARA enforcement...and I guess Trumper Lee Zeldin has taken a bit of a break from wrecking the EPA to do Qatar’s bidding also, along with Crazy Eyes Kash Patel and Mike (Google Wayne DuMond) Huckabee...and I guess they had to renumber the building because “666 Fifth Avenue” was a little too “on the nose”...also, we’re reminded about the UAE dumping $2 billion into some crypto scheme linked to Witkoff, and as a result, that country got access to “hundreds of thousands” of AI chips, which our NatSec experts warned against (with the Gropenfuhrer dutifully ignoring those warnings of course)...and I realize HRC isn’t exactly innocent either, but her misdeeds are absolutely overshadowed in the extreme by our ruling cabal...



...and I know I haven’t done this in a good while, but I’m keen to present another installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 12/11/15, in which our manly man, “tough guy” POTUS flinches more than a little bit in the presence of an American Eagle...to be fair, I probably would too, but I also wouldn’t be trying to round up every immigrant in sight and I would trust people who knew what they were doing to actually manage our economy and our presence on the world stage...I know the football namesake of this cultural icon is having a tough go of it lately, but I have faith that they’ll turn it around...we’ll see...



...and here are more seasonal selections.

Wednesday Stuff

David Shuster of Rebel HQ discusses George Stephanopoulos asking this Repug U.S. senatorial asshat named Eric Schmitt about Trump’s pardon of the Honduran president responsible for flooding this country with drugs...and credit to Mrs. Scar for calling out this numbskull from Missouri (Schmitt I mean)...and oh yeah, the boat involved in the “double tap” strike from our ruling cabal of grifters and lowlifes wasn’t even heading to this country, as it turns out, but to Suriname instead in the opposite direction (more on that next)...and what would a Repug administration be if it wasn’t yelling about drugs on the one hand and cutting funding for overdose addiction and treatment on the other?...and let’s not forget Tom (“Militarize Our Cities” ) Cotton’s typically wrongheaded take on this (“strategic reasons”??? Oh, but it wasn’t Biden or a Dem doing it, so that makes it OK I guess...and “righteous strikes” my butt)...and I can tell those hyenas on Fix Noise are tired of getting schooled with reality by Jessica Tarlov because they’re talking over her more...



...and Lawrence O’Donnell says in this clip that, If Cheetoh Benito hasn’t called you a bad reporter, you’re not doing your job...looks like the Gropenfuhrer is flip-flopping on releasing the video of the second missile strike on that Venezuelan boat with the alleged terrorists (and kudos to ABC’s Rachel Scott for calling out this treasonous orange meat sack), and I would wear insults from this bulbous, flatulent fraud as a badge of honor...terrific analysis by O’Donnell here on why the attack on that boat, which was outright murder from where I sit, is also idiotic in truly Trumpian fashion...I’m glad the video cuts off that lying nonsense from Pumpkin Pol Pot at the end about the Repugs having no plan whatsoever about skyrocketing health care costs without ACA subsidies...



...and Farron Cousins tells us about a pending SCOTUS case on whether or not Combover Caligula can continue to wage economic war with his stinking tariffs; given the track record of our Philistines-in-robes, I’m definitely not hopeful...actually, ruling against the tariffs could be disastrous economically since it would indeed ensue a flood of litigation that might cripple our floundering economy, as Cousins notes...



...and The Daily Show with Ronny Chieng brings us up to date on the latest madness...sooo, we no longer have MLK day or Juneteenth as days to get into our national parks for free, but we DO have that for the Tangerine Toddler’s birthday?? And I knew a lot of our farmers were going bankrupt, but I didn’t know the number was 50 freaking percent! And it sounds like the “math isn’t mathing” on that aid package, since (as I recall from elementary school) $12 billion (the aid package) is less than $44 billion (the revenue farmers have lost)...and doesn’t Melania look just so thrilled to tell us her Santa story??...and we can’t forget Sean Duffy telling us about his $1 billion scheme to come up with a better airport experience, or something, including at least one pull-up bar (how about just making sure WE GET TO AND FROM OUR DESTINATIONS SAFELY, OK??!!...mildly NSFW/H)...



...and here are more seasonal tunes.

Tuesday Stuff

I admire the intent of this ad from this group, though I will only say that the ad implies that there is some degree of humanity shared by these ICE scumwads; maybe there is for one or two, but I would guess that, for the majority of them, imprisoning people against their will and shipping them off to ‘black sites” in foreign countries makes their pathetic lives worthwhile, so I’m sure they think what they’re doing is just peachy (I heard about this ad from Rachel Maddow last night)...



...and John and Jayar of The Damage Report bring us MAGA Mike Johnson lying yet again about the fact that the “party of Lincoln” doesn’t have ANY CLUE WHATSOEVER of what to do when millions face either skyrocketing health care premiums without ACA subsidies or losing health care altogether...oh, and along comes Repug Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas to (maybe?) try to save the day..?? (more on this cretin is here)...and as John says, health savings accounts aren’t going to be worth a damn thing unless you’re rich...



...and Brittany Page informs us that Amazon tops the list of companies with the most employees receiving SNAP benefits...hadn’t though of this much as a case of the feds subsiding corporate profits by providing these bennies when these malefactors refuse to pay a living wage to their employees, but sadly, that seems to fit...oh, and Walmart is in that awful mix also, which shouldn’t be surprising, along with Uber and DoorDash (data is from Massachusetts from the Boston Globe, though this awful trend exists across the country, affecting millions)...oh, and Jeff Bezos shouldn’t get a speck of credit for a charitable donation given that his employees are paid starvation wages...



...and Stephen Colbert brings us the latest stoo-pidity from you-know-who, including 47 hosting the Kennedy Center honors and installing himself as chair of the Kennedy Center board because I guess he doesn’t have enough to do with all of that “presidenting”...and I might as well ask my cat what constitutes a good song as opposed to Cheetoh Benito...Colbert gives that “FIFA Peace Prize” idiocy another well-deserved shot...



...and here are more seasonal selections.

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.