What kind of deal did Trump make with the Guatemalan government and the parents of these kids to send them there. Parents got offered payoffs for sure.
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What kind of deal did Trump make with the Guatemalan government and the parents of these kids to send them there. Parents got offered payoffs for sure.
Depending on how badly this week goes on Capital Hill we may see a Trump invasion of Chicago by land, sea and air.
Groups of elementary school girls may soon be rounded up in Florida for playing hopscotch and chalking the court on the sidewalk. Actually they should hold a big tournament on the sidewalk in front of the Pulse nightclub, just to see how DeSantis responds.
“I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.” Who said it? A - Steven Wright B - Donald Trump C - Probably both, but only one publicly.
From Them, to Men in Black, the boss bug(s) seek to rule.
Amazing how there’s a political faction where some members wear 6MWE t-shirts while a different part of the faction deny the Holocaust actually happened. But then logic, consistency and critical thought are not big in that group.
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I got kicked on a flu & COVID twofer, and went back to getting them separately. I’d prefer to knock which one is kicking me. Just personal preference.
Gotta love that 2 dollar a gallon gas. Don’t you?
She is both. They are not mutually exclusive.
Sadly, this was inevitable under the current regime.
Ask Alex Acosta. He might know. Barry Krischer too.
Only if you don’t leave any marks on the pavement, I guess.
I think they’re shit-bags, covered in a pile of offal from last week’s operations at the slaughterhouse, slathered with the oil from a thousand fast food restaurant grease traps.
If it ever happens at all, it will likely be preceded by a long period of MSM talking heads saying the issue of his decline is overblown, with extensive video loops of Joe Biden.
There is a concept in evolutionary biology called regressive evolution, that may involve the loss of previously developed forms of complexity. It has been suggested in some species, but not for a political party. They may have lost their backbone and the ability to grow one.
Good for you,
We seem to be rapidly approaching the King Lear phase of the Trump administration.
Extending benefits, of any kind, to Americans in the IDF, while simultaneously manipulating the deployment times of the National Guard to avoid providing benefits is peak Republican policy. But then, the Guards don’t have someone like AIPAC looking out for them.
The thing to watch after he exits the White House feet first is the battle among his children and wives to gain control of as much of his estate as possible. Before it collapses in toxicity . The attacks, recriminations and (virtual) bloodshed will match the medieval succession battles of history.
And the poor bastards are getting screwed out of their benefits by Trump.
They’re using this image because the same guy on his knees in a field picking vegetables isn’t nearly as macho. But that’s what they really expect the American workers to do.
When is Trump going to sign yet another Executive order, directing DHS & ICE to act with the presumption that every undocumented person they stop is a member of a drug cartel? Due process be damned.
I suspected Trump was going to screw the Guard out of their benefits. The red states that deploy their Guard to DC or to blue states aill be complict in the abuse of their own citizen soldiers. It is an abomination. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
We’ll know MAGA has fully accepted the divine right of kings if Trump shuffles off this mortal coil, and instead of referring to the Constitution for Presidential succession, they start talking about Vance being chosen by god to succeed him. I can hear it already. Can you!
The “Free State of Florida” where you can be arrested for crossing the street with chalk on your shoes. www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2...
Putting RFK Jr in charge of DHS shows we have gone beyond kakistocracy. No longer simply the worst or least-qualified, we are now governed by those who willfully engage in actions and policies that directly harm citizens, particularly the weak and vulnerable.
Eugenics is a foundational element of racism. Racism is a foundational element of American fascism. Explicitly reviving eugenics gives American fascism an opportunity to go beyond just racism to reach the weak & vulnerable to include them in the “other” who should be eliminated from the MAGA world.
Trump with the support of the MSM is redefining presidential powers into three groups. Things specifically allowed. Things prohibited, but can be done in hopes of a favorable SCOTUS ruling. Things not clearly allowed or banned, which are now being considered inherent powers by Trump. MSM acquiesces.
If polling on Trump and his policies gets any worse, we’re going to see some kind of attack on independent polling organizations. Those associated with academic institutions will see funding cuts. Private entities will see IRS harassment. He has to try and control that narrative.
When the full story of Epstein & Trumps involvement comes out, within 48 hours MAGA & the Trump media (aka MSM) will start a narrative that Trump was actually working undercover to investigate the pedophile ring. Everything he did was to maintain his cover. It will fit the Q-anon conspiracy theory
He may have never seen the inside of a lab, but it’s a sure bet that a lot of samples of his tissue have.
Might be the mark. Might also be the product. Hard to tell.
Do I need to start building a positive relationship with some AI system so they’ll let me live?
It’s only gotten worse since he’s in the White House and the all debased themselves.
What kind of legal action is Bondi planning to intimidate and silence the independent polling organizations? Some are associated with Universities, so that pressure campaign will be easiest. With Trump’s polling in the toilet, they have to do something. Killing independent polling may be the move
Trump may try to lift sanctions, after some feeble statement from Putin about wanting peace. But the US would stand alone in advocating it. Which is fine with MAGA.
The don’t identify where she is being buried. For good reason.
“It’s only one meeting”. Soon to be followed by “It’s only one vaccine”.
What do you expect from State-run media?
Soon to be updated to add the “picking up litter” and “spreading mulch” options.
I know how you meant it, but a mental image of seagulls and penguins sharing glands gave me a mental image and a moments pause. But I haven’t had my coffee yet.
Or have one of your kids shoot another because you left the gun unsecured.
Buried in the article is a sentence that effectively states that the contractor was a DEI hire. See if you can find it. I thought this regime opposed that stuff.
One of the first things done in a coup is seizing the radio and TV stations. MSM in the US has saved the regime the trouble of doing that. With very few exceptions, they’ve simply surrendered.
This is why we should be burning Nazi, Confederate and MAGA flags, instead the American flag. Burn the fascists flags.
Are red states & the federal government going to try to bill/sue the blue states and cities they’ve occupied for the costs of the National Guard deployments? Someone’s gotta foot the bill. Showing up uninvited & unwelcome, then trying to make the place you’ve invaded pay the cost. Wait for it.
I’ve already sworn off raw oysters. Its gonna get worse as environmental and food safety regulations and funds for monitoring are cut due to “waste, fraud and abuse”. floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/27/t...
Sounds like some of the profile fits a lot of MAGA voters.
He was charged with lighting a fire in a public park. Not charged with burning the flag. Why not? TACO
New in PN: Trump's flag burning executive order flames out "This is a blatant attempt to transform protected speech into criminal conduct, despite decades of SCOTUS precedent barring just that. And it was immediately challenged by a veteran who set fire to an American flag just across from the WH."
They are also very interested in allowing the richest in our country to keep as much of their wealth as possible. So they can hoard it and not spend it, except on themselves.
RFK Jr believes in eugenics. The movement rests on a belief that some are genetically inferior. Principles it stands for are letting the weak and unfit die, sterilizing the genetically inferior, and ultimately euthanizing those who don’t have the state approved genetic makeup. Our DHS secretary.
The one certainty I believe in is that plants will survive us. They were here hundreds of millions of years before us, effectively creating the world in which we live. I take comfort in that.
I live in an unfortunate reality where my wife & I, our children & our grandchildren live in 3 different red states that many say should be boycotted. Reality limits the opportunities to relocate. All are blue dots. I suspect we’re not alone in this dilemma.
They’re in a ménage a trois with Putin.
I believe a trend to burn Nazi, Confederate and MAGA flags at every demonstration would be a better use of matches and lighter fluid. It’s absolutely protected speech, and would have a greater impact, I suspect.
Bondi is failing to convince or intimidate Grand Juries to indict on bogus cases. How long will it take before she starts publishing the personal information of jurors as retribution? Hoping that threats from MAGA crazies will follow and achieve the jury tampering she can’t manage.
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Apparently this is false. I should have checked before reposting. My mistake.
There’s going to be ketchup on the walls, truth social posts and god knows what at the White House tonight. Tomorrow? Maybe higher tariffs or sanctions on Sweden? Require all past American winners to return their awards? Forbidding Americans to accept any future awards? It’s gonna get weird.
The media soft pedals the fact that the only reason this is happening is Trump’s tariffs. Is that anywhere on the graphic?
A guy walks out of a Subway carrying a sandwich and an assault rifle. He is surrounded by police and National Guardsmen. They throw him to the ground and confiscate the sandwich.
Blaze orange safety vests with yellow reflective stripes over a camouflage uniform. Picking up litter. That seems to fit right in with Hegseth’s “warrior ethos”. A great way to “restore trust in the military”. Just say “Thank you for your service, you missed a gum wrapper”. A waste of our military.
Medicare Advantage is becoming a disadvantage. But relax. The insurance companies are making billions.
She couldn’t indict the Subway sandwich guy either.
That first photo someone gets of Trump being pushed in a wheelchair will make them a lot of money.
How soon will Jeanine Pirro announce an investigation of the citizens on the 3 Grand Jury panels that wouldn’t indict the woman for her “assault” of an FBI agent. She has to start publicly intimidating jurors or her failures to get indictments & convictions will draw Trumps ire.
Do the CEOs of the businesses that gave the government shares in their companies realize that Donald Trump now owns them? They can be fired by Truth Social post. Board of directors be damned. They won’t cross him. I’m certain it will happen soon.That’s Socialism, with a side order of kleptocracy.
I don’t disagree. But being pointless may be the point.
MSM keeps saying Trump fired Lisa Cook. It’s not clear that he has the legal authority to do so, but MSM treats it as fact. How would MSM treat Trump’s announcement that he fired Aaron Boone, manager of the New York Yankees? Would they treat that as a fact too?
The overreaction, weeping and gnashing of teeth that will follow Trump not winning the Nobel Peace Prize will be something to see. The subsequent retribution and vengeance sought as a consequence of him not winning will be saddening and angering to see.
The fact that Trump’s tariffs are the sole and direct cause for mail & package delivery service from over 20 countries being halted is the lede that’s being buried in all the MSM stories I’ve read about it.
Victims of Epstein’s pedophile ring are coming forward to oppose the ongoing coverup and the favorable treatment of Maxwell. At the same time Republican’s want to move slowly on releasing information to “protect” victims and “innocent” people. They want to protect the perpetrators, not the victims.
States pay to activate their Guard. That’s why Blue states said no to Trump. Broke-ass Red states mobilize theirs but won’t be able to pay for it. Budget crisis. Trump will try to force Blue states to pay for guards sent against their request. Gonna be another fight and court battle.
We may soon be finding out that the majority in the US House of Representatives finds that a President declaring himself dictator is neither a high crime nor a misdemeanor. It will not be fun to watch.
Your recognition is well deserved.
As orange man’s health declines more, I see this possibility. He will never voluntarily declare he can’t perform his duties and transfer them to JD. If he can’t or won’t, JD & the cabinet may do nothing in fear of MAGA reaction or his, if he recovers. Chaos ensues. 25th Amendment becomes useless.
It can be “flush out” too. As in sending the hunting dog into the grass to flush out the birds hiding there, or similar circumstances. But you’re right that it’s used incorrectly instead of flesh out frequently.
They probably told their tech buddies where it was too.
MSM response. “Stephen Miller starts National discussion on the future of the Democratic Party, forcing them on the defensive in the debate.”
I am stocking up on antiemetics, so I’m prepared when the Epstein victims coming forward are attacked and harassed by the White House, Congress and the fascist media. Those people nauseate me most days, and it will be worse.
Intentionally.
If anyone doesn’t think the DOGE boys told some of their tech bros where they could find and access this information, they’re more credulous than I could reasonably believe.
They’re going to respect precedent all right. They’re going to try to bring back the precedent of Dred Scott v. Sanford.
If you combine violations of the emoluments clause with lying under oath in Senate confirmation hearings, at least 5 Supreme Court justices have committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
Comeuppance.
John Roberts may be the fourth.
Burning Confederate , Nazi and MAGA flags should now be a standard practice at every anti-Trump protest. Don’t take the bait and burn a US flag. That’s our flag. Not theirs. Our flag is a symbol of freedom and democracy. Theirs are symbols of hate and suppression. Burn their flags. Not ours.
His hand is as swollen as his cankles.
I know.
The only people who certainly won’t be there are the MSM.
By the way, Trump is planning a major assault this week too. But Chicago. Not Kiev.
Hand swollen as hell too. To match the cankles.
I can almost see airborne guard troops parachuting into Grant Park. Then taking selfies in front of the Bean.
Perhaps if they pay a big enough bonus for the job, some daredevil will try it. But the number of “Made in USA” firearms on that side of the fence would give me pause.
How soon are ICE & Border Patrol going to come up with a way to paint over the murals on the Mexican side of the border fence without having to cross to the other side? I’m sure ICE hates the murals and graffiti on the other side of the fence, but the sure won’t cross the fence to paint over it.
“… the Supreme Court” perhaps. But if you think that’s the case with this particular Supreme Court majority, I fear you may be wrong.
At some time in all the Congressional hearings on the Epstein papers, a Republican will use the words “Ghislaine Maxwell” and “Stockholm Syndrome” together in their comments. The ultimate whitewash and coverup.
