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Everyone except the cult can see that Trump is unraveling. His galloping mental dissolution is on display every time he opens his puckered mouth, his physical disease is apparent everywhere on his decomposing corpus.
While he is at the Resolute Desk dimly fondling fabric swatches and wallpaper samples or pottering oblivious about the course on his little cart Golf Force One, his courtiers are jockeying for position.
Their motives and agenda differ — many are at odds with each other, as the crackpot coalition that carried MAGA to power collapses under the weight of its own incompetence, hubris and sheer stupidity.
But the players are nonetheless determined to prevail in their particular obsessions, despite rapidly plummeting poll numbers.
JD Vance, for instance, is plotting his own ascension to the Crypto Throne, although hampered by an appalling lack of charisma, humanity, charm or wit. From a foreign policy standpoint, he is already widely despised by most of America’s allies for his attacks on European leaders over their immigration policies [did anyone ask his opinion?] and his defense and support of neo-fascist fringe political parties, like the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), and his belligerence similarly spills into every issue he touches.
Ignoring alleged Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s efforts to include Ukraine in the “negotiations” for a Ukraninian “peace plan,” Vance has thrown in his lot with Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner [both real estate developers/investors] who are plotting with Russian officials to ensure U.S. businesses—and Trump’s and JD’s friends — are lined up to make a killing, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Friday.
According to this account, their Russian counterpart, Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, has been dangling lucrative Russia-U.S. ventures, such as exploiting Arctic mineral resources and teaming up with SpaceX on a joint mission to Mars — much to the delight of Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley buds who bankrolled Vance’s political career.
Domestically, Vance’s agenda mirrors Trump’s — demonizes immigration, LBQT rights, same-sex marriage, sex education, women’s access to appropriate medical care, and religions other than what passes for Christianity in America. Which makes it awkward for his wife, Usha, who is Hindu and the child of Indian immigrants. He has remarked publicly that he wishes she would convert to Christianity but nobody seems to be asking her how she feels about that.
But his prospects of scheming his way to the top — perhaps with a new, telegenic christian First Lady sporting long blonde hair and tight leather jeans at his side — are dimming along with Republicans showing in the polls.
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Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War Crimes, is so obsessed with his eggshell-fragile male ego that he fancies himself a medieval Crusader, complete with Nazi-adjacent Jerusalem cross tattoos, and can’t stop talking about “lethality” and “warriors” and how terrible women are for the military. I think the lady doth protest too much.
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This photo it makes me chuckle ruefully, the way reminds every woman who ever went to a frat party with a friend while in college, what a bad idea that was. I am sure he thinks that women find that banty rooster chest-puffing and strutting irresistible. After all, he’s been married three times and credibly accused of rape at least once, so he’s a catch, amiright, ladies?
Pete, who probably also harbors fantasies of commanding the Ship of State, is having a little problem now, what with it coming to light that he ordered a second strike on a small boat in the waters off Venezuela, killing two survivors of a first strike, who had been clinging to the sides of the boat.
Hegseth’s order, which has not been previously reported, adds another dimension to the campaign against suspected drug traffickers. Some current and former U.S. officials and law-of-war experts have said that the Pentagon’s lethal campaign — which has killed more than 80 people to date — is unlawful and may expose those most directly involved to future prosecution.
Oh, dear. Petey’s failure to observe even basic guidelines for US military conduct, let alone compassion or honor — like we don’t kill wounded people who can’t fight back — is so bad even some Republicans have taken notice.
The leaders of the House Armed Services Committee said late Saturday they are seeking “full accounting” of an early September U.S. military attack against an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean after a report alleged that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered U.S. troops to “kill everybody” aboard the vessel.
“This committee is committed to providing rigorous oversight of the Department of Defense’s (DOD) military operations in the Caribbean,” Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), the chair of the House committee, and Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the top Democrat on the panel, said in a joint statement.
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Petey thinks murder is very funneee … he posted this on social media.
He is defiant — and so is President Donny, they don’t need your stinkin’ laws. They’re going to keep on killing the “terrists,” they say. Sound familiar? It’s an old refrain. They don’t need — or indeed possess — any evidence or proof. Which may explain why they want to kill any survivors of attacks, before they can talk to anyone. We just need to take Pete and Don’s word for it. They are not even claiming that Venezuela’s leader Maduro has “weapons of mass destruction.” Just that he is basically a drug dealer, and because of that, are preparing to invade the country. Which would destabilize the region, a la Iraq, but stop that thinkin’ about tomorrow, you silly people.
President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the United States is preparing to take new action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that efforts for strikes on land will be starting “very soon.”
Which actually would require Congressional approval, but why would they start now? But it is also confusing, this war on drugs thing, when Trump is pardoning a MAJOR drug dealer, Juan Orlando Hernandez — one of several he has pardoned, in fact, along with rapists, fraudsters, and murderer cronies.
Mr. Trump signaled on Saturday that he was ratcheting up his campaign against drug cartels, saying in a social media post that airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be considered “CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”
Less than 24 hours earlier, Mr. Trump had announced on social media that he was granting a full pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who had been convicted in the United States of drug trafficking charges in what was seen as a major victory for authorities in a case against a former head of state.
So what gives? From the same source:
In private, the president has shown an interest in Venezuela’s oil reserves, while he and his aides also have said they want to oust Mr. Maduro.
Shades of Saddam! Trump wants the oil. And also he says that Maduro is a bad guy. Hernandez, on the other hand, despite prosecutors saying he was key to a scheme that lasted more than 20 years and brought more than 500 tons of cocaine into the United States, is a “victim of political prosecution.” He’s relatable.
In a statement, Mr. Trump said he had issued the pardon to Mr. Hernández because “many friends” had asked him to do so, adding, “They gave him 45 years because he was the president of the country — you could do this to any president on any country.”
So there’s the coherent, logical foreign policy strategy the US is now pursuing. Thank god we aren’t being governed by Joe Biden’s magical animated autopen anymore.
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Poor ineffectual Liddle Marco. He’s trying so hard to look relevant, like anybody even notices if he’s in the room, despite him being so important and everything and having like five jobs. But JD Vance and the other kids in the Silicon Valley Social Club don’t like him, and he doesn’t have even a million to his name, let alone a billion, so nobody pays any attention to what he says.
Possibly the most monstrous of the MAGA cabal [although that is a low bar here] is probably the master architect of all the current ugliness with immigrants— the ICE King himself, Stephen Miller. Where to even start? So much evil in such a tiny, warped homunculus.
Miller started working with far-right hate groups while studying at Duke University. He worked with the David Horowitz Freedom Center, an anti-Muslim hate group, organizing events such as an “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” on Duke’s campus. He also served as the first national coordinator of the Center’s “Terrorism Awareness Project.” To Miller, the project existed to “make our fellow students aware of the Islamic jihad and the terrorist threat, and to mobilize support for the defense of America and the civilization of the West.”
Miller also worked with classmate Richard Spencer, as members of Duke’s Conservative Union. The pair organized a speaking event which brought white nationalist Peter Brimelow to campus in 2007. Brimelow is the founder of the white nationalist group VDARE, which regularly publishes the work of eugenicists, nativists and other extremists. Spencer is arguably the most notorious white nationalist figure in the U.S. He is credited with popularizing the term “alt-right,” and was scheduled to serve as the headline speaker at the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
All that Nazi cred couldn’t help but endear him to pathological racist Trump, and now it appears he’s basically running the whole show — now that Donny has pretty much turned off all the lights upstairs.
Miller is on a roll now, of heartless, deliberately cruel and sadistic assaults on humans who just want to live and work and raise their families in this country—most of whom have been productive member of their communities for many years, and some who are actually native born, or naturalized American citizens. Miller must lie awake nights, in his cozy swastika patterned pjs and jackboots, jerking off to fantasies of ways to hurt helpless people and their children. His latest atrocity:
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to arrest people in San Diego during their green card interviews, the final step in a legal pathway, some of the people taken into custody have been spouses of military members and veterans, including one who said he felt “betrayed” after serving for decades in the U.S. Marine Corps.
ICE has repeatedly said these arrests, which began Nov. 12, are for overstaying visas. But multiple immigration attorneys contend that’s never been an issue before, with an exception in federal law for direct relatives of U.S. citizens, including spouses, who are going through the green card process.
“I feel betrayed, to be honest,” said Samuel Shasteen, a retired staff sergeant who said he spent 20 years with the Marines, including two deployments to Afghanistan. “We do everything that we can to protect and serve our country. And then they betray us by treating us like we’ve never done anything.”
And then there’s the other vet whose wife was ripped away from their 3-month old baby…
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre doesn’t know how to tell his children where their mother went after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained her last month.
When his nearly 2-year-old son Noah asks for his mother before bed, Clouatre just tells him, “Mama will be back soon.” When his 3-month-old, breastfeeding daughter Lyn is hungry, he gives her a bottle of baby formula instead. He’s worried how his newborn will bond with her mother absent skin-to-skin contact.
His wife, Paola, is one of tens of thousands of people in custody and facing deportation as the Trump administration pushes for immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day.
But let’s not forget Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, aka ICE Queen Barbie, brownshirt cosplayer — here on her Facebook page:
“My first time riding an Argentinian bred horse — her name is “Abundance” — she reaffirmed that no hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle!”
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Lucky Kristi, getting to live out her romantic fantasies on the taxpayer’s dime. On this “official” trip to Argentina, she brought along boyfriend Corey Lewandowki, to meet with U.S. and Argentine officials. They shared their idyll on social media, so we could all enjoy the fun.
By the way, Lewandowki has a wife, Alison, and Noem has a husband, Byron, but they don’t let that get in the way of their very public gambols. Sucks to be you, spouses. Kristi hired Corey as her senior advisor at the Department of Homeland Security, where he has “wielded significant influence despite his temporary role”, according to Politico, who also say he has been mentioned as considering a run for governor of New Hampshire.
All that despite the fact that Lewandowski was ousted from his post in a pro-Trump super PAC in 2021 because he reportedly made unwanted sexual advances toward a GOP donor’s wife at a charity event and later cut a deal with prosecutors after he was charged with misdemeanor battery stemming from the accusation. Classy guy.
He has used his close relationship with Kristi for considerable dick-swinging at the agency, despite having no formal position, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Lewandowski - a 2016 campaign manager for President Donald Trump - has served as an advisor to the secretary, providing counsel as she meets world leaders, and advising on personnel decisions and agency contracts.
People familiar with the inner workings of the department told The Journal that Lewandowski is often the only person attending meetings alongside Noem. Having gone to El Salvador, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia alongside the secretary, and having advised her on policy and personnel, some DHS staff call Lewandowski the de facto chief of staff or the “shadow secretary,” according to The Journal.
Hmm. On another jaunt, Kristi and Corey went riding with President Daniel Noboa and First Lady Lavinia Valbonesi, Ecuador’s right-wing US puppet. President Noboa is the son of the country’s richest billionaire oligarch. The Noboa family company trafficks cocaine in banana crates at the private ports they own.
So got that straight now? DONT BE a poor Venezuelan fisherman, or we’ll blow you out of the water. DO BE a super wealthy drug lord, and we’ll give you a pardon and a nice pony ride.
