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“When this court issues a decision, it constitutes a precedent," Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recently wrote. But Justice Samuel Alito said during a speech in 2021 that “a Supreme Court ruling is not a precedent.” C'mon you right-wingers, get your act together.
The distractions aren't working. The Epstein case is back front and center. The FBI has 10,000 pages of victim testimonies, unless Trump's FBI destroys them. They will reveal a sordid cesspool of child sexual abuse by Epstein and Maxwell, Todd Blanche's complicity, and rich and famous clients.
"Ha!" mocked Trump, talking about Ukraine. "They thought they would win against a country 15 times their size." I can think of another country that fought a war against a world power at the time and won: Today it's called the USA.
At the ass-kissing at Trump's recent cabinet meeting, Steve Witkoff told Trump that he should go down in history as the greatest of all peacemakers. "I wish the Nobel Committee realizes that you are the single finest candidate” for a Nobel Peace Prize, he said. The Cabinet broke out in applause.
To every woman who's ever had her due date pegged to September 1, here's to the hope you made it happen!
That's a bitchin' portrait!
Trump has royally fucked up the world. He's driven Russia, india, and China together in a new partnership. So Russia's feeling its oats and disabled the European Commission plane's GPS system on Sunday so the pilot had to land using paper maps. Nice going Donny, you ignorant toad.
It's German, so the correct pronounciation is frahnk-en-sht(eye)n.
Jan. 6 rioters push for compensation. A panel would decide on financial damages for what the rioters believe were unfair prosecutions. --NY Times 8/31/25 So, attack the Capitol, beat cops, poop on desks, smash things, go to jail, get pardoned by a fellow criminal, get paid for your trouble. Nice.
Every day Trump's Goon Squad (ICE, military, compromised FBI agents, and police) gets larger and more militarized. Don't think he won't use them when he thinks they're strong enough. Every day that our Congress and courts let him get away without consequence, his triumph becomes more inevitable.
I keep getting MAGA emails saying Trump should be added to Mount Rushmore. I say sure, but only if he's bare-assed and upside down so everyone can see what a total ass looks like.
Pete Hegseth is like a dorky high school kid tasked with flying a large airplane. Look at all these levers and knobs! Wheeeee! If I pull this thing, what will happen? Whoops! Yow!!! We're blowing money out the back cargo door! Yikes. Get me a stewardess. Hey honey--I need a stiff drink. >burp<
This is one of the best editorial cartoons I've ever seen. All props to Jesse Duquette. Heartbreaking but accurate.
linktr.ee/jesseduquette
People complain that the NY Times isn't reporting that Mamdani is leading the Jewish vote for mayor by 12 points. Why? My guess--the paper is owned and run by Sulzberger, Ochs, and Dryfoos famiies, and edited by Mr. Kahn. These are all well-established NY folks and NY is more than the top echelon.
The Nazis also persecuted gays and Jews who didn't "follow their agenda." They also prohibited "degenerate art" and approved only brutalist architecture. They also said they could "do whatever they wanted." They militarized the police. They set up concentration camps. They suppressed journalists.
The White House says Trump has every right to prescribe the kind of decorative art and public architecture that meets his approval. But Trump is a philistine and a vulgarian who is hostile to art, culture, and intellectual pursuits, whose worldview is materialistic and lacking in refinement.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: "Those who long for peace must declare for war--er, prepare for war." Wait, George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1949. His estate still owns the copyright. You'll get sued ripping him off like that.
"As Trump said during a recnt televised cabinet meeting: 'I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the president of the United States.'” --from today's NY Times. I also have that right as a citizen of the United States. You and I have a limit, however, called the law, you bloated blot.
Many black folks now feel a brief window of equality has shut. "Trump's description of D.C. as full of 'bloodshed, bedlam and squalor' sounds racially coded. Some true equality was starting to form, but now it’s like we took 100 steps back,” a woman told the NY Times.
Watched "Sinners" again last night and the take-away was: "The blues is not just great music. It's some heavy juju." This song from 1930 by Geeshee Wiley and Elvie Thomas proves the point.
Here's another charming pig from my book of 100 pigs. I know another guy who thinks he's magnificent but is actually a pig.
Big Balls, Trump's DOGE goon, gets beaten up by two thugs. Trump freaks. Other criminals are invading his DC turf, so he decides to show them who's boss and sics the U.S. Military on the whole city. Now we find DOGE swiped SSA's file with docs on 300 million Americans. Trump's pet. Pure mob stuff.
A 1935 Supreme Court case says Congress can shield the leaders of independent agencies from politics by making it hard to fire them. Trump says that he must be allowed to remove officials for any reason or no reason. So he's claiming absolute authority. Just like any tinhorn dictator.
The reason for Trump's law-breaking is becoming clearer. By intimidating the Federal Reserve Board he aims to take over the economic system. By sending the military into our cities, he's planning martial law. By ignoring judges, he's turning his office into a dictatorship. Let's face it.
What's the difference between Stephen Miller and Voldemort? Answer: Stephen Miller can be named.
Why in hell would companies hire Snoop Dogg as a spokesperson? Here's a Doggism I heard him say on the radio a few years ago, when asked how he'd treat a woman who crossed him: "I'd kick my foot so far up her ass it'd come out of her mouth."
Trump appeals because "he's authentic," MAGA says. He's authentically an asshole. An authentic criminal. An authentic grifter. An authentic authoritarian. A real womanizer. An actual con man. Authentically anti-American. An authentic hater. An authentic bigot. Authentically stupid. A true liar.
Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.
Trump on Sunday told Maryland Gov. Wes Moore to "clean up this crime disaster" before he would visit Baltimore, in response to the governor inviting the president to visit. Mr. Trump also threatened to rethink the funding for replacing the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge. That's our prexy!
Epstein is sent to jail with lots of incriminatory info in his head. He dies in his cell. Tapes of the few minutes when he died are missing. His fellow child abuser is jailed. Trump's lawyer spends a day with her. She's moved to Club Fed although child sex abusers are not allowed. Connect the dots.
The rampant Republican lying, cheating, cover-ups, and lawbreaking have gone way too far. Every American should stand up for all the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. Know your rights and defend them. If you've never read the Constitution, now's the time to read it and believe it.
Maybe we all should carry an extra sandwich in our pocket to throw at ICE goons when they harass innocent people.
The artist should learn to spell.
Trump wants to be a dictator. OK, let's see what happened to some recent ones. Adolf Hitler: tried to poison himself but was shot in the head by an aide. Benito Mussolini: hung by his feet and used as a pinata by his citizens. Hideki Tojo: hanged on a gallows in Tokyo. Careful, Donald.
“The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects” says Ghislaine Maxwell in her DoJ interview. Trump? A gentleman in all respects? Never inappropriate? C'mon Ghislaine. You're as big a liar as Trump.
Not "swanky affair" Ms. Mama. Rather "Skanky affair."
So the Kennedy Center just fired three dance masters in order to "align itself more closely" with Trump's wishes. Maybe they'll rename it The Trump Center and he'll do the hippo choreography from "Fantasia." I can see his fat ass in a tutu.
The White House published a list of Smithsonian exhibits, programming and artwork it considered objectionable on Thursday. --NY Times Since when does Donald Trump decide what artwork and programming we can see and hear? He's a fucking ignoramus without a shred of good taste. Go pound sand, Don.
David French, in today's NY Times, said we must change Article II of the Constitution. Instead of declaring, “The executive power shall be vested in a president..." it should read, “A president...shall execute laws passed by Congress.” Congress, not the President, must be supreme! He's right.
Stephen Miller and a couple of other Trump ass-kissers went to a DC Shake Shack today to have burgers with the troops and were jeered by people passing by. Miller said the jeers will be answered by doubling down on the "resources" (soldiers) he's going to throw at this crime-ridden hellhole. Ha ha.
An article in the Atlantic asks if Democrats could use a liberal Stephen Miller. YES. And if you act now, you can also have a free soft-hearted Heimrich Himmler.
All AI output should be documented as such. A stamp on printed fakes. A visual watermark on videos. Disclaimers on audio. And especially notifications on deep fakes about real people. Make it law. Give it teeth. $50,000 fine and three years in jail for any AI without attribution.
It's what they DON'T tell you that's most important.
"I am not convinced that President Putin wants peace,” President Emmanuel Macron of France told reporters at a news conference today. Well, yeah. Putin started and prosecutes this war in Ukraine. If he wanted peace, we'd already have it.
Criminal Trump's remaining ally is criminal Vladimir Putin, because birds of a feather flock together. Putin is a murderous dictator, not a democrat. Trump is a traitor: to his oath of office, the Constitution, his country, and the people who elected him. The criminals deserve each other.
While Trump spent Friday cozying up to his Commie pal and fellow thug, at home his administration paused approvals of visitor visas for children who arrived in recent weeks from Gaza with serious medical conditions inflicted by the IDF. Does this make America great again?
Along with rewriting history and murdering Ukrainians, Putin has made a star-fucker out of Trump. At their meeting, Trump agreed Ukraine should cede territory to Putin. In a Fox interview, he heaped praise on him. It may take a criminal to know a criminal, but it takes a wuss to kiss his ass. Yech.
Palsy-walsies: one a murderous invader of other countries, the other an invader of women and young girls. Both human wreckage fucking up their home countries. Wait til karma finds these joy boys.
Border Patrol agents assembled outside a museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a rally and news conference on congressional redistricting--I guess to be intimidating. Do you think they have any idea what idiots and losers they are in their "scary" monkey suits? This is our country, not theirs.
Tom Cruise plays an action hero in the movies, but now, he's also an action hero in real life. Trump hand-picked Cruise for an award at The Donald J. Trump Center for the Arts-- and Cruise declined, citing "scheduling conflicts." It would have been more honest, Tom, if you said "Fuck off."
Trump's iron clamps are closing all around now. Soldiers in our cities--"review" of Smithsonian exhibitions--masked secret police in unmarked cars--morons in charge of government agencies. And a Supine Court sitting in smug silence when it should be sending the fascists to prison.
Immanuel Swedenborg was an 18th Century mystic who wrote about his visits to heaven and hell. Here two Swedenborgians talk about the mystic's ebncounter with a demon, and by Christ, it sounds like they met Donald Trump.
The reason we're watching America's power and prestige evaporating is because Donald Trump doesn't have a clue as to how to actually govern the country. All he does is ego-driven performative and partisan bullying. He's the sorcerer's apprentice, with great power and no idea how to control it.
Belligerent Bar Pig is just one of 100 pigs in my new "A Book of Pigs" now available on Amazon.
“Like middle-aged Manson girls, Pam Bondi, Tulsi Gabbard, Linda McMahon and Kristi Noem take orders from a supremely nasty felon. But they have vile streaks all their own. The vileness blends their private and public actions in a filthy smoothie.” --Virginia Heffernan in The New Republic
Allison Gill has reviewed the files on how Ghislaine was sent to a minimum security prison and allowed to be let out for "work." Contact her on Signal at Muellershewrote.23 for more.
David Cay Johnson has a reason for optimism. He says that Trump's self-aggrandisement--$3.5 billion so far and building--while in office reveals how we need to call a new Constitutional Congress to fix the leaks and loopholes and blatant extortion that's funneling all this money to Trump. YES!
The Nazis had a saying: "Man gewohnt sich an Alles." "One becomes accustomed to anything." Trump's crimes against our rule of law and Constitution are ground-breaking steps. We protest now, but those steps will be easier to take in the future. Will we still protest? Man gewohnt sich an Alles.
It was only a couple of years ago that our military, Department of Justice, and FBI were all non-partisan--walled off from politics. Now Trump has politicized all three. The military has taken over policing in DC. The FBI's on night patrol. A fascist criminal is amassing his Army. Be very afraid.
South Park accurately showed Trump in bed with Satan. Here is a horrifying tale from a young girl taken by Epstein to visit Trump. This is our President--a deeply dark and damaged human loading his malevolence on all of us.
The upcoming Trump-Putin meeting will tell the tale. Either Putin will be told to sit down, shut up, and end his invasion of a sovereign country, or Trump will cave. This horrific murder of a neighboring country has gone on long enough. If Trump caves, the US as a world leader is lost.
“When you don’t have anything, you learn the difference between fashion and taste,” she said. “You have to be creative when there’s no money.” --Robby Hoffman, quoted in the NY Times. This is why 16-year-old girls shopping in thrift stores come up with the best outfits.
"Zelensky rejects ceding territory to Russia after Trump suggests a land swap. The Ukrainian leader’s blunt comments risk angering President Trump." --NY Times today In other words, give Putin a part of your country, or I'll get angry. Zelensky should tell Trump to give Putin a part of his country.
The concept of the "banality of evil" was introduced by Hannah Arendt. Evil didn't have to be driven by hatred, she said, just a banal lack of intelligence and willingness to follow orders. Trump's consistent evil, though, does seem fueled by hatred, cruelty, and a misnathropic temperament.
Stephen Colbert tonight TORCHED Trump, J.D. Vance, and the whole pack of lying, cheating morons running our government. This comedian is leading the way our entire country should be reacting--with fearless derision and merciless contempt. Good on ya, Stephen.
Find beautiful female children. Set them up in "modeling agencies" in posh places worldwide. Create parties and dinners where adult men are invited. Explain to the girls what's expected of them if they want to work as models and make good money. They trade sex for money. They're now prostitutes.
Congress makes the laws. The President makes sure they are faithfully executed. The Supreme Court has just one job: make sure the laws are Constitutional. Trump perverted Congress and his office. The Supreme Court was our last hope. Instead, it has enabled Trump's lawless perversion of justice.
"Article 1, Sections 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus; Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws. This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blown dictatorship." --A lawyer.
Edward Coristine, 19, the former DOGE employee known as "Big Balls," was attacked by a gang of thugs and beaten bloody in Washington, DC, yesterday. Trump's response was to say we should start prosecuting 14-year-olds as adults and that he's considering taking over the District of Columbia.
Courage, honesty, truthfulness, spine, morality, compassion, trust, lawfulness, justice, integrity, diversity, liberalism... Remember what this country used to be about?
I heard a woman at the Sonoma County Fair today say, "At least the SS had enough integrity to sew their afiliation on their collars and not hide their faces."
What if American citizens dressed like Mexicans and congregated at Walmarts. When ICE or DHS manhandled them, they could produce their passports and then sue the shit out of the Trump goons.
The German for "thistle finch" is "Distelfink." A distelfink is a popular stylized symbol in Pennsylvania Dutch (which is actually Pennsylvania German) folk art, especially in hex signs and fraktur. If you live there, it will be very familiar to you.
"I believe that if the behavior that this administration has exhibited in just its first six months continues and is amplified for its full four years, the America you know will be gone. And I don’t know how we will get it back."--Tom Friedman in the NY Times today.
I hope that we have names and docs on all those in our government who are violating the Constitution, including and especially those in ICE and DHS who are acting illegally by kidnapping people without due process. They will soon all be arrested and jailed with no chance of pardons.
Where do they get these ICE agents and faceless police willing to ignore our laws and haul innocent people off to "detention camps?" Are these Americans? What kind of Americans are willing to do this dirty work? Maybe it's those guys that need to be arrested and sent to prison camps.
She's right, you know.
Ghislaine Maxwell was given 20 years for trafficking children for sex and for molesting them. Trump's personal defense attorney--now elevated to second-in-command at the DoJ--goes to see her and suddenly she's placed in a country club prison where sex offenders aren't allowed. Where are the cops?
Trump's paving over the White House vibrantly-alive Rose Garden with cold, dead tiles is a metaphor for the man.
That Trump's personal defense attorney, now second in command at the DoJ, interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell in secrecy, after which she was moved to a "country club" prison in Texas where sex offenders are prohibited, STINKS so bad that the entire DoJ should be jailed.
Trump's so stupid he thinks his wishes are commands that the rest of us must obey. Only the rest of us see his wishes as the longings of a two-year-old with a full diaper.
So the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a steep jobs loss. Trump's reaction: fire Erika McEntarfer, the BLS chief. "I don't believe the numbers. She had them rigged to attack Republicans--ME!" Trump raged. Faced with reality, Trump makes up a fake reality he likes better. Verdict: Insanity.
Trump, the convicted criminal, daily ignores the laws of our land and the Constitution. The only reason I can see that the cops don't arrest him is that the cops and the "justice" system are in his pocket. If I break the law, my ass is in jail. Why not Trump?
I know who to blame for the collapse of our country. Fox News. Day in and day out, for years and years, Fox News has spewed an intoxicating mix of rightwing entertainment and propaganda. And a huge number of Americans bought the lies and elected a criminally insane moron President--twice!
Why would anyone invest in Trump's America? Would you put your money in his hands? Now that he's not only extorting our universities, media companies, and manufacturers, but he's running an extortion racket on the world with tariffs that are a tax on American consumers when they buy foreign goods.
M favorite Steinbeck book. So much fun!!!
Maybe the worst aspect of the Trump destruction of our Constitution is that Democrats aren't kicking down the doors and swinging verbal baseball bats at the chief agents of Trump's rampage of evil--the Republican Party. They should be screaming, kicking ass, bludgeoning the GOP with the TRUTH!
MSNBC today writes: "Unlike Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, whose bungling at the Pentagon doesn't implicate Trump..." Excuse me? Hegseth's bungling doesn't implicate Trump? Trump APPOINTED HIM fer chrissakes. Trump has appointed unqualified morons to all his cabinet posts.
The album 'Breakfast in America' by Supertramp (1979) was not only fabulous music (check out the outro on 'Goodbye Stranger' from 4:30 to the end) but also had a genius album cover--the best conception and artwork of any album cover in my opinion. Look closely.
Watching the Ivy League capitulate to Trump's shake-downs is truly disgusting. Even Harvard, which initially told Trump to fuck off, has made a payment settlement. Dartmouth fell, Columbia sold its soul to Trump, and now Brown owes Trump $50 million to avoid his shutting off the money valve.
There's the hilariously, deleriously funny side of Trump because he's so looney tunes and so worthy of delicious satire like South Park's. But then there's the depressingly sad part watching our beloved America be shredded by fascists and morons. Here's the theme song for that depression.
Trump, addressing the European Commision President today: "We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They're killing us." Who's "we"? Americans are dying from windmills? Trump is using the royal "we" to prohibit windmills? Talk about shit-for-brains!
It's becoming more and more obvious that the depravity revealed so far in the Epstein matter includes Donald Trump. I suspect that much more will be revealed, and all of it will be astonishingly horrible. But this is just my speculation. Awaiting full files' release.
WWII, especially in the Pacific, was hell on earth thanks to the unspeakable cruelty of Japanese militarism. But after the war, the madness cooled, the Japanese learned that America wasn't half bad, especially baseball, our national sport. Now MLB is full of Japanese stars, and we love them for it.
My guess is that she lied, exonerating Trump of any participation in her or Epstein's pederasty. My next guess is that if she is tried, her immunity will protect her from conviction OR if convicted, Trump will pardon her. IT'S A BLATANT MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE.
For two days, Trump's defense lawyer says, "She answered every question truthfully and fully." And now we find out he granted her immunity, meaning anything she answered to him could not be used against her in a court of law. See next post
Ghislaine Maxwell refused to give testimony or answer DoJ questions in the past, because anything she said could be held against her when she faced prosecution. Now here comes Trump's personal defense lawyer, repositioned as deputy head of DoJ, spending two days asking her questions. See next post.
Why would Trump's lawyer grant immunity to Ghislaine Maxwell, a woman her victims say is one of the most cruel, predatory people in the world? The FBI has gigabytes upon gigabytes of information on her. Immunity means she can't be prosecuted for perjuring herself for lying about Trump's innocence.