I'm waiting, Donald
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” (James Joyce, Ulysses)
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20-something bro: But, but, but... that's not what Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate and Nick Adams and every "alpha male" on Youtube told me!
Will the NG next be deployed to rake the national forests?
Marco Rubio, remembering the Presidential line of succession: "Let's see,there's VP (that rat bastard hillbilly), then Speaker of the House (guy who thinks he's Moses) then President Pro Tempore of the Senate (910 yr old Chuckles) then Secretary of State (Me! Bingo!)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Excellent
1890s-1920s: surge in the erection of Confederate monuments, often funded by organizations like the United Daughters of the Confederacy... part of a broader effort to memorialize the Confederacy, with a narrative that downplayed the role of slavery and emphasized the "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy
The first wave coincided with the rise of Jim Crow laws and white supremacist policies, while the second was a backlash against the progress of the civil rights movement
The majority of Confederate monuments in the South were erected during two distinct periods: the first from the 1890s to the 1920s, and the second during the Civil Rights era in the 1950s and 1960s.
Press *corpse*. Legacy media are the walking dead.
Adding, "Please don't release the Epstein files, master. Please!"
Popular Methods of Communicating With the Dead
Putin has EVERYthing, going back to at least the 1970s. The art of the kompromat.
OTOH: White South Africans, particularly Afrikaners, have been granted refugee status in the U.S. under a Trump administration policy that cited racial discrimination and persecution as reasons for expedited processing.
It's Monday, so... time for another distraction. To distract from Friday's distraction, which distracted from last Weds' distraction... BTW: Release the Epstein files unredacted. Also: in case you were wondering, yeah Putin has the complete unredacted set, which he told Trump about in Alaska. FYI.
Moscow, Idaho - best known for misogynistic murders and the Christian Nationalist pastor who leads Christ Church and wants to repeal the 19th Amendment.
The word you're failing to spell correctly is RIDICULOUS.
WH to FoxNews and the right-wing echo chamber: Quick! We need another distraction to distrac t everybody from the previous distraction and each of the ones before that. STAT!
Bounty hunters
"Follow the money" - where did I first hear that, WaPo? Hint: all that DHS money is going to private prison companies.
DJT forged his "wife's" signature. It's pretty unmistakably his handwriting
www.alternet.org/ryan-walters...
“School choice” = re-segregation. It's a way to steathily overturn Brown v. Board of Ed Topeka and all subsequent SCOTUS rulings.
"Improper ideology"? She will remove all exhibits re: Black slavery/Jim Crow laws/segregation/the Civil War or Native American genocide/Trail of Tears. White-washing American history so white people won't feel uncomfortable.
Pasteurization, a process of heating liquids to kill harmful bacteria, was invented by French chemist Louis Pasteur in 1864.
"Agnorance" is a portmanteau of "arrogance" and "ignorance," referring to a state of being both ignorant and arrogant. It describes someone who is confidently wrong, or who is both unaware of their lack of knowledge and also overly proud of their opinion or stance.
In the grocery industry, net profit margins are notoriously thin, typically ranging from 1% to 3% of revenue. This means that for every dollar of sales, the store keeps only a small percentage as profit after accounting for all expenses, according to Toast
JD Vance's 7-month travelogue: Cotswolds (UK), Italy (Pope! Photo op - Sistine Chapel) and India (Taj Mahal) (March), California (Disneyland), Vermont (skiing at Sugarbush - March), Greenland (Mar), Paris/Munich (Feb), Ohio (Orders river water raised for kayaking - Aug). All paid for by taxpayers.
Privatize, monetize, evangelize. Actual education? Not so much.
American journalism - wholly owned and operated by the oligarchy
ICE will recruit trigger-happy psychopathic racists who were rejected by local and state law enforcement as psychologically unstable. Expect all 1600 pardoned violent J6ers to join and receive $50k signing bonuses. Also, Aryan Brothers, Proud Boys and Three Percenters.
Constitution 2.0 - The Project 2025 rewrite implemented by the DOGE boys. Next "coding" issue: removal of Amendments 13, 14, 16 and 19.
DOGE boy: tl;dr - let's just get rid of it
So DOGE is now editing out those parts of the Constitution that Trump and Project 2025 don't like. Cool...
Make the check out to "Donald J. Trump". Prefer payments in $TRUMP meme coin.
J Stuart Adams - Religion: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Viral marketing is a strategy that uses existing social networks to promote a product or service, leveraging the rapid spread of information like a virus through online sharing. It relies on creating content that is so engaging or compelling that users naturally want to share it with others...
Bingo!
"The news lost its way — it became extreme, elitist, and performative" ---> this is absolutely true for FOX NEWS, NewsMax, OAN. In other news: Colbert is comedy commentary on the news, not a division of CBS News.
Does Cosplay Kristi always travel with a video production team and makeup artist?
Trump's personal attorney/Deputy AG Todd Blanche will make Ghislaine Maxwell an offer she can't refuse. Implicate Trump opponents, deny that Trump or any of his allies were involved, receive immunity and a pardon OR wake up with a horse head in your bed. theonion.com/ghislaine-ma...
Weirdest Trump admin photo op so far.
As an aside: I always wondered how many abortions Trump paid for and covered up with Michael Cohen fixing via NDAs.
Re: Epstein files - Elon, if you're listening... Remember all those files your DOGE boys downloaded? Yeah, THOSE files...
Todd Blanche will give her the GOP talking points + an NDA
The corruption is brazen.
"political gamesmanship" is the GOP brand. How dare the opposition Dems try to use the GOP's legislative tricks and gimmicks! Glitch McConnell
NYT both-sides-ing WWII: Should the Gestapo and SS be allowed to round up Jews, Roma and political opponents, to send to concentration camps? Depends on who you ask.
Grok now has a sense of humor?
The goal goes even further back, to reverse the New Deal
Peak Trump deflection - at least until tomorrow...
The Trump Revenge Tour 2025 continues. Damn the optics! Full speed ahead!
In the U.S. federal government, special counsels are typically appointed by the Attorney General, or in cases where the Attorney General is recused, the Acting Attorney General. ---> So, yeah, never gonna happen with AG Blondie.
Two watchdog bodies at the DHS responsible for investigating complaints — the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman — have been shut down under Trump.
"It’s a huge, profitable business . . . the medical care in detention centres is privatised, the phone access is privatised — all these ancillary things,” says Wolf of the American Immigration Council. “It incentivises more people, but also disincentivises providing resources.”
Companies are not just making money from facilities. Geo Group and CoreCivic both have transportation divisions, while a Geo Group subsidiary is contracted by ICE to digitally track those with pending immigration cases using ankle monitors and a smartphone app.
The private detention industry also has a history of seeking to influence US immigration policy through lobbying and campaign cash. Companies have contributed millions of dollars to congressional campaigns and party committees.
With overall US crime rates dropping, private prison companies have increasingly turned to immigrant detention centres for income. “These spaces, the communities, the companies — all of the people who are invested — are strongly incentivised to fill the spaces they’ve built,” says Brianna Nofil.
The facilities run by Geo Group and CoreCivic, alongside smaller contractors such as Management and Training Corp, LaSalle Corrections and Akima Global Services, are in rising demand.
On a quarterly earnings call in May, CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger told shareholders that Trump’s election heralded a “significant moment” for his company. “Never in our 42-year company history have we had so much activity and demand for our services as we are seeing right now.” (FT 15/7/25)
The US immigration detention apparatus is largely run by the private sector. About 85 per cent of people in immigration custody are held in places run for profit, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). (Financial Times 15 Jul 2025)
Two companies depend upon ICE for a large chunk of their income: Geo Group received almost $1bn from immigration detention contracts in 2024 — 42 per cent of its revenue and more than double what it was in 2015. CoreCivic relies on ICE for almost a third of its revenue. (FT - 15 Jul 2025)
Schrödinger's Epstein files - They simultaneously exist and don't exist
ADHD as political strategy
“A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money." (Everett Dirksen updated)
The feckless Dem gerontocracy is incapable of resisting.
Total respect from a dog person.
When Stephen Miller orders daily quotas of 3000 bodies, ICE agent/bounty hunter$ obviously go after the "low hanging fruit" - street vendors, gardeners, farm workers, 70-yr old grandmothers, children with cancer - rather than the armed and dangerous criminals they *say* they're going after.
Those leaving are career civil servants who will move over to private practice. They left because they cannot in good conscience defend Trump's ideological weaponization of the DOJ against his adversaries. Unfortunately, they will be replaced by Federalist Society true believers.
Schrödinger's Epstein files - simultaneously exist and don't exist
Almost inevitable that some trigger-happy "ICE agent"/bounty hunter will open fire on protestors, provoking the civil war that MAGA white supremacists have been calling for. Next step: invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law. Stephen Miller is already laying the groundwork.
DHS “has authority to question and search people coming into the country at points of entry,” he wrote. “But ICE may not detain and question anyone without reasonable suspicion — and certainly not based on their physical appearance alone.”(Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), a former federal prosecutor)
If an agent detains you, ask for their basis for reasonable suspicion, and they should tell you. An immigration officer also cannot search you or your belongings without either “probable cause” or your consent. If an agent asks you if they can search your belongings, you have the right to say no.
Cosplay Kristi never turns down a photo op.
Richardson has no emergency management experience, which is unusual for the head of FEMA. The federal law enacted after Hurricane Katrina requires Senate-approved FEMA administrators to have “a demonstrated ability in and knowledge of emergency management.”
"The most persecuted group in the US is straight, white, Christian men.” - 46 of 47 Presidents have been white men. 301/434 Congress members are white. 83/99 Senators are white.
How did they nazi this coming?
His Mr Rogers first grade teacher voice lecturing a classroom about decorum is peak deflection.
Columbus' interactions with the Indigenous people he labeled “Indians”: the use of violence and slavery, the forced conversion of native peoples to Christianity and the introduction of a host of new diseases that would have dramatic long-term effects on native people in the Americas.
www.cnn.com/2020/06/12/u...
Negotiating international trade deals typically takes a significant amount of time, often spanning years. It can take an average of 18 months to negotiate a trade deal with the US, but the process from initial talks to signing can take over two and a half years...
I'm old enough to remember this "opsec": The phone number that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was using to discuss sensitive war plans on Signal was used on multiple other public platforms. newrepublic.com/post/194447/...
Ethnic cleansing
Richard Butler, seated in the bed of the truck, in his last public appearance at a parade in Coeur d’Alene.
June 25, 1973 - former WH counsel John Dean: "there's a cancer on the presidency." June 30, 2025 - the cancer has metastasized to stage 4
"I became a fan of crypto" when someone explained how I could personally profit from it.
Notable that in 1973 the NYT didn't "both-sides" Dean's testimony.
Devil's Island: was notorious both for the staff's harsh treatment of detainees and the tropical climate and diseases that contributed to high mortality... Note that Devil's Island is off limits. Allegedly this is so because of the dangerous currents around the shores and because of sharks.
He REALLY wants that Nobel Peace Prize (like Obama)
Cellphone camera people: get license plates. Evidence
Another reason: many are deputized J6ers, Proud Boys and Three Percenters acting as bounty hunters.Top Trump aide Stephen Miller set a quote of 3,000 undocumented migrant arrests per day, in a meeting with ICE officials. Price per head?
