Brief snappy commentary, for (both of) YOU. Regularly incorporating material from legitimate outside sources, this site presents occasional commentary about (ongoing) Donald Trump/Trump administration deception (lies), incompetence, cruelty and corruption.. P.S. My blog's domain name *should* have been accurate ..in a sane country.
(Reposted videos, temporarily posted, 7/29/26:) ..Regarding today's sad and ridiculous Republican-led grilling of medical expert Dr. Anthony Fauci...Never forget: Two reposted examples of "dear leader's" kooky (and dangerous) public "recommendations" to Americans during the COVID pandemic:
(Reposted information + comment, 7/28/26:) Excerpts from one recent polling effort. Results are the same or very similar with a large majority of other legitimate polls recently conducted:
******************************************************************************************************************************************************** (Reposted article links + brief comment:) (Articles below:) Voting reality in the U.S. vs.ongoing, made-up Trump fiction...
(Comment:) Please be sure to VOTE. Suggesting that one main possible problem with actual voting might come from a few Trump-duped fringe 'nuts', who local and/or state police will likely take care of for us (at polling places).
7/16/26 update:..No, it's potentially much worse.. Flailing loser (and 2020 Georgia election interferer/January 6 riot champion) Donald Trump - plus his minions - are likely attempting to lay the ground for bogus election interference and baseless election challenges this fall. Do NOT allow them + do not fall for another un-American, anti-democracy ploy.
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We will be ready. We have systems to protect the vote and lawyers to defend those systems.
The important thing right now is for the public to see and understand what this lawless and increasingly unhinged president is trying to do.
↓Remember this crap? ..Get ready for more lies and absurdity about elections. (..FAKE problems that do not widely exist..) It all got thrown out in the courts in the past.. ..Pray that it happens again...
..AND: One small excerpt linked to a worthwhile news article:
(Reposted 7/8/26 article link, excerpt, brief comment:) Ref. below: The latest vindictive a-hole move by Donald Trump et al requires way more attention and pushback. (..P.S. Democrats will govern more fairly, more professionally -- and for ALL Americans.)
“…FEMA also documented $79 million in damage in New York, $45 million in Massachusetts and $19 million in Rhode Island, according to officials from those states. That follows a pattern reported by POLITICO in March: Most of Trump’s denials involving Democratic-led states occurred after FEMA had documented sufficient damage to qualify for aid.
FEMA said Tuesday that it has “returned to a more rigorous review process” under Trump to ensure that “requests for federal assistance are justified and not granted for routine or expected weather events.”
Two days before Trump denied aid to the four Northeastern states, he approved 11 other requests for disaster aid that include three U.S. territories or tribes. Approvals also went to Wisconsin and Michigan, both of which have Democratic governors.
The disaster declarations Trump approved involved less-damaging events than the four he rejected.
For example, Trump denied Rhode Island’s request for $19 million — which is roughly 10 times the state’s threshold to qualify. That came as Trump approved $8.6 million for Louisiana after it was hit by a tropical storm — an amount that it is roughly equivalent to the state’s qualification threshold…”
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(7/3/26) Reposted material. No ownership or affiliation:)
(Reposted quotation, 6/28/26:) Sentence of the day:
“Although Donald Trump says he has “destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military Capability”, the 0% that apparently remains is playing havoc with the global economy by choking off 10-15% of its oil supply.”
(Re image (etc.)) Unbelievably sick and absurd: ↑ ↑This mess of a dishonest old letch is what "human printer" Natalie Harp - and other Trump sycophants - apparently blindly worship...🤦🏼♂️(P.S. Harp reportedly published the "Obamas as apes" posting, among others..)
(Reposted material + comment, 6/20/26:)..Until definitively proven otherwise (with real facts)..: ("Tiny blog exclusive")↓↓ 'Perfect' photo obtained of the leading vandal of national landmarks in Washington D.C.:
(Reposted 6/18/26 video clip. An update is below:) ..Are you f-ing kidding me?!? $14+ million dollars ..for this? ↓..Trump "genius" (..in reverse..) at work, yet again:
Copy of a recent aerial photo of your National Mall area in Washington D.C, courtesy of the idiocy of Donald Trump (et al)...:(Zoom in on photo..)
6/20/26 update, excerpt: "The naval division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned vessels not to approach the Strait of Hormuz after Iran declared the waterway closed on Saturday."
“..The fact that the strongest, the mightiest military power in the world, in cooperation with the mightiest intelligence agency in the world — Israel’s — were not able to achieve any of their strategic objectives against a third-rate regional power is quite stunning,” said Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group.
Details of the “memorandum of understanding” between the United States and Iran are still emerging; the White House has said the text will be released in a day or two. But it appears that its main accomplishment will be to open the Strait of Hormuz, which of course was open before the war. There’s been no nuclear agreement. Reports suggest Iran has not had to give up its ballistic missile program or its support for proxies like Hezbollah. The beleaguered Iranian people have not, perhaps needless to say, been freed from their awful rulers.”
“There’s a very easy way to not get impeached: Stop committing impeachable offenses,” Raskin added. “Stop committing high crimes and misdemeanors. Don’t go to war and usurp the powers of Congress to declare war. That’s up to us. Don’t spend money in a way different from how Congress has appropriated money. Don’t impose illegal taxes and tariffs on the American people without congressional consent.”
(Temporarily reposted:) “Say it over and over to your Republican friends. Donald Trump lied to them. He said he'd fight for them, but instead he’s building himself a $1 billion ballroom and handing his criminal cronies a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund.
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"Fact check: 28 separate false claims Trump made this week"
(5/18/26 temporary post/comment:)(Previously posted:)...And now, what will likely be a taxpayer-funded "slush fund" primarily for Trump miscreants, operatives and shady characters.
Understanding it yet? It MATTERS who you vote into political office. Bad actors = bad consequences. (..A well-informed electorate..: ESSENTIAL.)
5/18/26 article excerpt:
“The Justice Department on Monday announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate President Donald Trump’s allies who claim they were unfairly targeted by the previous administration.
It’s an unprecedented move that would allow the president’s administration to pay his supporters from a government agency he controls with taxpayer money.”
Trump is stealing $1.7 BILLION of your money to set up a totally unprecedented, first-in-American-history political slush fund that he can use to dole out cash to win loyalty and favors for him and his family. https://t.co/mDgTkuaHN1
5/19/26: ↓..Apparently sneaking yet more into the new in-your-face Trump admin. scam job.. Reposted excerpt:
"The Justice Department on Tuesday expanded the agreement it reached this week with President Trump to resolve his extraordinary lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service to include a provision that would bar the agency from pursuing tax claims against the president, his family or his businesses.
In a one-page document signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and quietly posted on the department’s website, officials vowed not to pursue any matters, including those involving Mr. Trump’s tax returns, that are currently pending."
************************************************************************************** (Comment) 5/12/26 UPDATE: "Trump says Americans’ economic pain is not a consideration for the Iran War" Partial excerpt (link below): “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation,” Mr. Trump added. “I don’t think about anybody…””
********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Per linked articles: NEVER FORGET, never forgive..:
(January 2026 excerpt:) "One year after the Trump administration began its dismantling of USAID, a model that tracks the impact of USAID funding cuts on global disease prevention programs estimates that more than 762,000 people have died as a result of those cuts, including more than 500,000 children."
ALSO: (2/26 peer-reviewed study.) "One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030"
(Brief 4/12/26 comments regarding Trump's Iran war fiasco:) HOW -- exactly -- is the typical inhabitant of the United States somehow better off than they were on February 27th? (The day before Trump's bombs began raining down on Iran.) 2/27/26: Strait of Hormuz oil traffic was not halted.., thousands of Iranians and others in the Middle East were not dead (- including school children -),..American military people were not killed in the war, or wounded, .. U.S. taxpayers were not paying approximately $1 billion per dayfor direct war expenses.. etc., etc.
For that matter, how is the U.S. better off now than in 2015 with the Iran nuclear treaty that was reached between Iran and world powers, including the United States?
..If interested please read-up on some actual facts (about that) here:
ALSO: ATTN: MAGA misinformation/disinformation purveyors and loud-mouths, with an outsized role in elevating a bloodthirsty nut-job into the White House: You helped put Trump in there, now leverage your screwball platforms to help push him OUT, ASAP:
******************************************************************************************************************************************************** (Temporarily reposted image, Easter 2026. Parental guidance suggested:):Once again (below), another manifestation of a hateful and mentally sick person -- somehow installed into the White House - - who very much requires help. Republicans choose to blindly ignore all of that. ..25th amendment time, sycophants:
3/27/26 article excerpt, reposted: “The world is facing “the biggest gap in energy supplies the world’s ever seen” as the war with Iran enters its 29th day, according to Francisco Blanch, head of commodities and derivatives research at Bank of America.
With Brent crude trading at $110 per barrel, Blanch warned in an interview with CNBC that the global oil buffer is rapidly depleting and the market has only about ten to fourteen days before hitting a critical shortage.”
******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* (Reposted 3/24/26 article excerpt:) “Roughly $580 million worth of oil futures changed hands in a single minute early Monday morning, only about 15 minutes before President Trump posted on Truth Social that the U.S. had been engaged in “productive conversations” with Iran to end the war…
...“We have another word for situations in which people with access to confidential information regarding national security — such as plans to bomb or not to bomb another country — exploit that information for profit,” [Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul] Krugman wrote in a Substack post Tuesday. “That word is treason.”"
3/1/26 temporarily reposted article: Comment: Details (e.g., timing) about the U.S. military deaths (likely in Kuwait) are currently scarce. Nonetheless, though the reposted headline below may be on the sensational side, how is it 'incorrect", at least generally speaking?
"Trump Parties With Millionaires as American Troops Die" "Millionaires, Republican Party elites and big-spending donors were at Mar-a-Lago to party while Trump’s war raged across at least 10 countries."
UPDATE: ..While we wait for actual facts to emerge, investigations to complete, etc., lying, fact-loathing Donald Trump continues to do his best to embody The "Great Satan".
3/8/26 article excerpt:
“When asked by journalists aboard Air Force One about reports claiming the Iranian girls’ school that was hit during joint Israeli-U.S. strikes on the Middle Eastern country was attacked by the U.S., [Donald] Trump dismissed them outright…"
“…“We think it was done by Iran,” Trump jumped in to repeat. He then undercut [Pete] Hegseth by saying the Iranian military is “very inaccurate” in its targeting.
“They have no accuracy whatsoever,” he continued. “It was done by Iran.””
>>>> Reposted: Yet more TRUMP IDIOCY.. (Thanks so much, uninformed/misinformed voters..PLUS non-voters..) ..↓This is dead accurate:
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
Temporarily reposted, source links are below: “We will see them in court, and we will win,” said Manish Bapna, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The science and the law are crystal clear, and E.P.A. is issuing a rushed, sloppy and unscientific determination that has no legal basis.”
Temporary, "wake-up" post, 2/3/26: Unfortunately (...very...): Unhinged, fair-election-fearing, tin-pot dictator spewage such as the following has to be taken seriously.. (If not already understood..:) The undemocratic lunacy spoken of in the following cannot ever be allowed in the United States. If attempted, it is - and should be for all Americans - a 'red line'..(not to be crossed):
(Article excerpt:) “..Trump alleged noncitizen voting was improperly influencing election outcomes, though experts insist such instances are incredibly rare and already illegal, and told [Dan] Bongino it was "amazing that the Republicans aren't tougher on it."
"The Republicans should say, 'We want to take over,'" Trump said. "We should take over the voting ... in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that are so crooked and they're counting votes."
The Constitution gives states the authority to conduct federal elections, subject to laws passed by Congress. The elections clause states, in part, that "state legislatures will establish the times, places, and manner of holding elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate."
Trump didn't elaborate on how he wanted Republicans to "nationalize" voting…”
Reposted, 2/4/26: “Donald Trump said he was ‘entitled’ to five more Congressional seats in Texas. He started this redistricting war. He lost, and he’ll lose again in November.”
January 2026: *Blog break*, temporarily for now..(Updated 3x) (Some sample links are below:) It’s become the opinion of this tiny blog(ger) that, in sum, the current nut-job-in-chief (of the U.S.) is a threatening, out-of-control man-baby craving attention any way that he can get it. (Please also see the 1/19/26 update below.) Chronicling, reacting to and counterpointing just the more egregiously ridiculous whims of the toddler-in-chief …has really gotten tiresome.
(..Please be sure to read to the end of this commentary, however.. No one is "quitting" the good fight.. The ongoing battle to preserve the U.S. republic is now being widely covered by news media around the world.)
Excerpt: Part of a communication from the U.S. president to other heads of nations. (Comment: So it 'ain't' a "joke" (or something) to do that.. Rhetorical: What if Joe Biden (..or any other US president..) stated the following to other countries??): “[Text message from President Trump to Prime Minister Støre [January 18 at 4:15 p.m.]]:
«"Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace…””
(Insert: ..ADD IN: Ceaseless LYING from Trump (plus lackeys)..)
It’s an endless list but a few fairly recent sample supporting links follow, featuring some pertinent news or opinion/analysis items. Don’t miss the article about “owning the Libs” as a “core belief” of Trump Republicans:
..On and on, ad nauseam. For those paying attention: As noted many (but not all) of the Trump regime's offenses are being openly reported (..for now..) (Or: DIST-orted (vs. reported..))
On a personal note, while violence is not an answer, from a distance I can’t shake the impression that - just like a pro rasslin’ “heel” extraordinaire - Donald Trump is desperately begging (or “cruising”) for someone to body-slam him into submission (+ reform ..but maybe not..). Too many of his constant antics seem to be part of some sort of bizarre "act". ...So wish that I could be the protagonist to accommodate Mr. Fake Tough Guy (as above), but that won’t ever happen (..His persistent hiding behind security goons is one of many reasons why..) Let’s just muse that, if we really somehow were kids again, Donald would never make it across my old school’s playground without an “issue”..
Returning to reality, this tiny blog is reposting some excellent sources that regularly monitor and completely understand the Trump kakistocracy. (..That has somehow been placed into power by a bunch of uninformed/misinformed Americans. …Also 'take a bow' those many of you who decided not to vote at all.. P.S. Reminder for next time (if there is one..): "Is the candidate basically sane" is the lowest -- but likely most important -- bar that any person running for political office MUST clear..)
Thanks for occasionally stopping by ...and this blog will be kept open. It’s become, however, increasingly tedious (and depressing) to react to loads of Trump/Republican garbage that was easy to foresee, as outlined in this blog’s November 12, 2024 post (just after the '24 elections):https://donaldwontlast.blogspot.com/2024/11/comment-new-trump-admin-will-probably.html
The fight for the U.S. republic definitely continues! ..Suggest that the overall situation will probably get worse before it gets better. A guess is that tin-pot dictator Trump and his henchmen may soon try to mess with 2026 elections, in nefarious ways. Do not stand by and allow this.
P.S. Know it: DHS 'goons'/ICE currently appear to be arresting a significant number of individuals in the U.S. that have NO criminal record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyT-ogkM8_U
>>>1/8/26 update: (Comment:) Complete garbage...Total cover-up effort by Trump goons. (Story excerpt:) “The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said it “reluctantly” withdrew from investigating the fatal ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis after the FBI told the agency the US Attorney’s Office “had reversed course” and would no longer allow the BCA “access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews,” BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said in a statement.
The BCA was initially set to conduct the joint investigation with the FBI after consulting with the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, the US Attorney’s Office and the FBI yesterday.
“Without complete access to the evidence, witnesses and information collected, we cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands.””
Here's to 2026, the year that vindictive, unhinged Donald Trump, his grifting family, and spineless Republicans finally begin to be held to account. Yes: Democrats will do that. Warning: Things will probably get worse before they get better. Push for free and fair elections in 2026 (as much as possible), and VOTE.
(Reposted 12/26/25 news commentary article link, temporarily posted, no affiliation:) If this story is basically accurate... ..Still think it doesn't matter who you vote into the U.S. presidency and Congress (... or don't bother to vote for..)?? (Off-site link, check it out:)
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..NOW some of you are agitated and dismayed ..?? (..For whatever strange reasons..) Know it: 99%-100% certain that we would be getting NONE of this slimy garbage with President Kamala Harris (or family guy Joe Biden). Way, way too many of you actually voted a known sleaze-bag in to the highest government office in the land. (Yeah: Not too much of the Trump (otherwise) well-known smarmy-ness made it onto 'Faux News'..)
..Just more evidence that, collectively, this is no longer a serious or sane, or smart country ↓anymore..
(P.S. ..Sleazy Trump worms his way out of this current mess ..? ..Also more evidence that there is some kind of amoral *cult*in place here..)
(↓One reposted released message is displayed below..)
(Reposted image via screenshot. Linked to source.)
************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ (Comment:) ..So many evil, vile things to choose from.. But what follows is (also) all that anyone really needs to know about the kind of NON-human beings Donald Trump and many U.S. Republicans in fact are..:↓ (Copy:)
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://t.co/qRt3yTyaoO
(Previously reposted map, link)▼▼▼..Where millions and millions of patriotic Americans will be on October 18, 2025. 🇺🇸 This is what DEMOCRACY LOOK LIKE 🚫NO KINGS NO DICTATORS🚫
(Temporarily posted. 10/8/25 reposted clip. Comment:) ↓ How many different ways does it need to be (re-)proven?? NEITHER Donald Trump nor most U.S. Republicans CARE AT ALL about non-billionaire human beings -- like me and (many of) you!
It's been over 9 months since the LA fires.
We have asked for federal disaster aid for months now.
Not a dollar from Trump.
He is abandoning Americans while building ballrooms and decorating his office gold.
(↓Reposted video clip. No affiliation. Temporarily posted.) Comment: RIP. ..But this excerpted statement below - especially as delivered - is at least a borderline blanket THREAT that sweeps-in (envelops) millions of patriotic Americans who: 1) do not engage in violence, and 2) do not condone some of the false and hateful rhetoric that her husband and others have presented. (Who, exactly, are the "they" in her statement? ..Thought we were all supposed to 'take a step back' from such rhetoric..) The wife's statement may possibly be more of a warning (and political statement -- she should be prostrate with grief so soon after the heinous killing --), but it is not what is needed right now.
Parental guidance is suggested:
Excerpted overview of some of what Charlie Kirk and his organization promoted:
"..The organization and Kirk also courted controversy — he claimed that the civil rights legislation of the 1960s had turned into an anti-white weapon and mocked what he described as America's deification of Martin Luther King Jr. The group's conferences and shows regularly hosted conspiracy theorists and fellow provocateurs, including Alex Jones, the broadcaster who lost a $1.3 billion defamation suit brought by the family of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre."
P.S. ↓A sampling of some attributed Charlie Kirk quotations (see story link below):
"If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024"
"Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.
– Discussing news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement on The Charlie Kirk Show, 26 August 2025"
July 24, 2023, episode, "The Charlie Kirk Show" :"..Joe Biden is a bumbling, dementia-filled Alzheimer's, corrupt, tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against America."
"..Based on government and independent analyses, right-wing extremist violence has been responsible for the overwhelming majority of fatalities, amounting to approximately 75% to 80% of U.S. domestic terrorism deaths since 2001.
Illustrative cases include the 2015 Charleston church shooting, when white supremacist Dylann Roof killed nine Black parishioners; the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue attack in Pittsburgh, where 11 worshippers were murdered; the 2019 El Paso Walmart massacre, in which an anti-immigrant gunman killed 23 people. The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, an earlier but still notable example, killed 168 in the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in U.S. history."
NOTE: Parental guidance suggested. ↓Reposted, 9/8/25 partial screen-captured image, below. Linked to source. No affiliation. (Comment:) Per the source linked below, Donald Trump (and his minions) appear to have lied about the existence of said 'letter' and have actually sued the Wall Street Journal about its reporting of the letter (etc.) ..Another something that happens when ill-informed people decide to vote an apparent lying sl**ze-bag into the highest public office in the land...
When kids are getting shot in their pews at a catholic school mass and your crime plan is to have national guard put mulch down around DC maybe rethink your strategy
Pinned: ↓How to ruin a mostly-magnificent nation -- over false, mostly-imagined matters. LUDICROUS:
(Excerpt:)"MAGA has a cosmology, a mythology: There is a corrupt elite — in the most extreme forms, it’s a corrupt, pedophilic elite — and that elite controls everything." (Insert: Ref.: "Pizzagate")
Also pinned: "If the U.S. motor-vehicle sector were a country, it would be the fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, according to the E.P.A.’s own data."
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*****Do not ever, ever believe a word that Donald Trump - and his sycophants - say. EXCEPT: Their words of HATE, vengeance and cruelty. Those are real...*****
MAGA 'leaders' are (..to put it mildly) DECEIVERS: (Sample links)
YT video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA9CA3nOou0
Defend your right to vote + free and fair elections ...from despots and cheaters like THIS: (Excerpt)
"...Though Trump has insisted his [election] fraud claims are real, there’s no evidence they were, and the lawsuits in the Fox and Newsmax cases show how some of the president’s biggest supporters knew they were false at the time. Trump’s then-attorney general, William Barr, said there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
Trump and his backers lost dozens of lawsuits alleging fraud, some before Trump-appointed judges. Numerous recounts, reviews and audits of the election results, including some run by Republicans, turned up no signs of significant wrongdoing or error and affirmed Biden’s win."
**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************↓ ..We will be using AI models for fact-checking more often here. ...Will learn if the technology can keep up with the never-ceasing torrent of Trump lies:
↓↓↓Reposted partial screen-grab of AI evaluation summary of Noem's claims. (Image source is linked:)
7/10/25 reposted article. Yet more...courtesy of the Trump clown car "cabinet" 🤡🤡🤡: "ICE Barbie Delayed Texas Aid While Asking Instagram Which Portrait to Order"
7/12/25 reports: 🤡🤡🤡🤡 ↓..Worse and worse.. (Recall Donald Trump's history of bashing governors and other administrations about FEMA's disaster responses:) "'Horrific': Thousands of flood survivors called for aid — but FEMA didn’t answer"
↓Also: Reposted 7/12/25 AI fact-check summary, per ChatGPT.com:
"In **short**: yes, FEMA did **not** answer thousands of calls during and just after the Texas floods, and the main reason was a **bureaucratic delay in renewing call‑center contracts** under new spending controls mandated by Noem."
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 P.S...An actual reported quotation from a supposed "leader" ...someone above you and me..(??):
"“These contracts were in place, and those people were in those call centers, and they were picking up the phone and answering these calls from these individuals. So that report needs to be validified,” Noem said, making up a new word — “validified.”"
Insert: ↓Excerpts from a plausible explanation for Kristi Noem, and those of her kind:
"...In the world of MAGA, stupidity is a badge of honor for both sexes, but the heads of women need to be thoroughly empty. Book learning, in MAGA-land, is for lesbians and cat ladies. Intelligence gets in the way of the true duties of MAGA womanhood: keeping up your highly artificial appearance and, crucially, defending the man you serve with your whole heart and soul. Especially if said man, in this case Donald Trump, is himself dumber than a box of rocks. It's so much easier to be a yes-woman for such a man if you turn your own brain off completely..."
"...The 20th-century version of the "bimbo" was dim, but almost always good-hearted, exhibiting a childlike generosity to others. The innovation of the MAGA movement, however, is to make the bimbo a nasty figure, as cruel as she is dumb. In the past, what men wanted from a bimbo was someone with dog-like loyalty. For the right-wing man of our time, the craving is more for an attack dog, someone who will charge in to fight your battles, unconstrained by intellectual concerns about whether doing so makes sense."
P.P.S. (Excerpt:) ..↓Pretty much all that anyone needs need to know about (too) many current U.S. Republicans:
"A group of Republican lawmakers has complained that smoke from Canadian wildfires is ruining summer for Americans, just days after voting for a major bill that will cause more of the planet-heating pollution that is worsening wildfires."
"The Trump administration has ordered 500 metric tons of emergency food aid—enough to feed 1.5 million malnourished children for a week—to be incinerated tomorrow rather than be distributed as part of its ongoing purge of USAID. The high-energy biscuits, intended for children under five living in war and disaster zones, are currently being stored in a warehouse in Dubai and were meant to be shipped out this year, but will instead go to waste due to cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effectively halting nearly all forms of foreign aid. Current and former aid workers, speaking anonymously for fear of retaliation, told The Atlantic that the sheer scale of waste is unprecedented."
HINT:..NOT at a tin-pot dictator's silly + wa$teful (..up to $45 million cost) vanity parade. 6/13/25 update: ..It's likely going to be millions of people, despite bad weather in some forecasts..
(↓Linked to source:)
..↓6/14/25: Just a couple of representative photos from approx. 2000 separate protests..: (Copies:)
..Now ↓this↓ cruel zillionaire crazy (..but he is 100% correct, below..) may think of running for president..😱 (Musk is not a natural U.S.-born citizen.. So, NO.) 🥳🥳
(↓6/3/25 copy, no affiliation:)
I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore.
This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.
Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.
Also credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbzXaL5aYVo&ab_channel=MSNBC **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
CROOKED JOE BIDEN IS THE WEAKEST, MOST INCOMPETENT, AND MOST DISHONEST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES BUT, MOST IMPORTANTLY, HE IS THE WORST PRESIDENT OUR COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN OR KNOWN. HOPEFULLY, THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ONE LIKE HIM. HE IS A THREAT TO… pic.twitter.com/DrfR1cBcAZ
— Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) May 16, 2024
BTW: (5/26/25) ↓INSANITY..The real, actual SCUM name-calling non-scum people 'scum'... (etc.)This isn't normal. ..What if Joe Biden or Barack Obama - or anyone - did this (repeatedly)?? (↓Reposted false GARBAGE:)
"..The second Trump administration’s brazen pattern of blowing through myriad apparent legal limits has prompted debate about its intentions. One theory is that it is deliberately setting up test cases that would ultimately pave the way for the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed supermajority to expand presidential power by striking down the statutes as unconstitutional.
But the escalating pace of courtroom clashes has raised the question of what would happen if Mr. Trump simply started ignoring decisions he did not like, rather than appealing them. The result would be a constitutional crisis."
Brief comment:NO ONE is above the law. If that is somehow becoming not true in the United States, it's time to find another democratic country. OR, stay and fight to take this one back, as I (- and many others -) will..
"We cannot accept former President Trump’s claim that a President has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power — the recognition and implementation of election results. Nor can we sanction his apparent contention that the Executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and to have their votes count."
And,
"“Former President Trump lacked any lawful discretionary authority to defy federal criminal law and he is answerable in court for his conduct,” the panel of judges wrote."
...↓Here is a topic overview listing (reposted here) covering the 91 current felony counts against Donald Trump. Please refer to this unaffiliated source article for additional details:
"...The 49-page indictment gave the clearest picture yet of the files that Mr. Trump took with him when he left the White House. It said he had illegally kept documents concerning “United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.”"
↓Insert, video short -- Donald Trump, 2016:...being a lying demagogue, with no actual concept of a U.S. president's expected duties.....+ who the law is at last finally catching up to...:
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INDICTED, AGAIN History unfolds as feds file criminal charges against Donald Trump in Florida tied to documents at Mar-a-Lago: reports https://t.co/8NHSDeteTR
"...The affidavit contains substantial redactions in its section on providing probable cause for the August search, which is about 20 pages. One almost completely blacked-out section is titled, “There is Probable Cause to Believe That Documents Containing Classified [National Defense Information] and Presidential Records Remain at the Premises.”
Ultimately, FBI agents removed 11 additional sets of classified documents, including some labeled secret and top secret, during the Aug. 8 search, according to the property receipt of items that were recovered. There were also papers described as “SCI” documents, which stands for highly classified “sensitive compartmented information"."
(Commentary, including reposted material. Temporarily posted. Note: Video playing sound (some viewers) is located further below, in the preceding post.)
It is a sign of President Trump’s disdain for America’s working families that he has spent years abusing the tax code while passing a GOP Tax Scam for the rich that gives 83 percent of the benefits to the wealthiest 1 percent. https://t.co/FXfxlc7wfY
According to The New York Times, Trump paid only $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency and again during his first year in office."
🚨 🚨 I have been leading Congress’s fight to get the trump tax returns since he took office. I’m going to be reading every word of this blockbuster to see how far the crimes go. Wow. https://t.co/1iD4tLwOpe
If tax cheat trump makes you mad, remember mcconnell republicans’ *only* legislative achievement of his entire presidency is a massive tax cut to big business tycoons. My gop colleagues admire trump’s fraud and criminality. https://t.co/Q6UVMsrG6G
"President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin appear to have had more sustained contact with each other in the past two weeks than at any time since 2016, as the Kremlin tries to use the coronavirus pandemic and close personal ties between the two leaders to normalize long-strained relations with Washington."
"...Though intelligence officials have previously told lawmakers that Russia’s interference campaign was continuing, last week’s briefing did contain what appeared to be new information, including that Russia intended to interfere with the 2020 Democratic primaries as well as the general election.
The intelligence official who delivered the briefing, Shelby Pierson, is an aide to Mr. Maguire who has a reputation of delivering intelligence in somewhat blunt terms. The president announced on Wednesday that he was replacing Mr. Maguire with Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany and long an aggressively vocal Trump supporter."
More (copy):
The day after, Trump berated Joseph Maguire, the outgoing director of national intelligence for allowing it to take place, people familiar said. Trump cited Rep. Adam Schiff's presence in the briefing as a particular irritant.https://t.co/HYxousN8JF
>>>2/21/20 update/article link: (Comment:) ↓If true -- along with the above -- it's just about all you need to understand about the autocratic, vindictive, sycophantic, corrupt Trump regime (..including its 'henchmen' + enablers):
This report should sound an ear-splitting alarm—on both sides of the aisle. I didn’t receive this House Intel Committee briefing, but all Congress should hear about Russia’s repeat interference. More important, all Americans need to know. https://t.co/t5EdaM97QC
"We write to express our deep concerns about the impartial administration of justice in connection with the prosecution of Roger Stone in federal court in Washington, D.C., and to call for immediate investigations by Congress and by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General. Recent actions by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, a component of the United States Department of Justice, raise serious questions about whether the Department of Justice is making prosecutorial decisions based not on neutral principles but in order to protect President Trump’s supporters and friends. In our criminal justice system, a single standard must apply to all who are accused or convicted of violating the law—unequal treatment based on political influence is to be deplored in all cases but is especially dangerous if it emanates from the presidency."
A shocking, cram-down political intervention in the criminal justice process. We are now truly at a break-glass-in-case-of-fire moment for the Justice Dept. https://t.co/lYmoh5BrPv
"Rick Gates, the former deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump and ex-business-partner of Paul Manafort, was sentenced Tuesday to 45 days in jail and three years' probation...
...Gates and [Rick] Manafort, who served as President Donald Trump's campaign chairman, were the first former Trump campaign officials to be charged by former special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors, accused of evading taxes and violating federal lobbying laws by concealing millions of dollars they earned representing pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine. Manafort was convicted after a jury trial in Alexandria, Virginia, and pleaded guilty to related charges in a separate case in Washington. He is serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence in federal prison."
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(12/10/19 copy:)
I don’t know what report current Director of the FBI Christopher Wray was reading, but it sure wasn’t the one given to me. With that kind of attitude, he will never be able to fix the FBI, which is badly broken despite having some of the greatest men & women working there!
"...The attacks, which number nearly 1,200, are part of a strategy to beat back the investigations. They have also opened him to possible obstruction of justice charges. They include statements made on Twitter, in official speeches, at rallies and during news media interviews and other press events.
While it is highly unusual for anyone — let alone the president of the United States — to comment on continuing criminal investigations, Mr. Trump has done so at least once on 330 days, or more than 43 percent of his time in office as of Feb. 14."
↓THIS is the Oval Office meeting on the DAY 'abuse of power' (etc.)impeachment articles are announced?? This is the photo the president (..of the United States,supposedly) broadcasts...today? (Copy:)
Just had a very good meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and representatives of Russia. Discussed many items including Trade, Iran, North Korea, INF Treaty, Nuclear Arms Control, and Election Meddling. Look forward to continuing our dialogue in the near future! pic.twitter.com/tHecH9a9ck
(Credit to this unaffiliated source for cluing us in that the Trump Oval Office meeting with a Russian overlord actually took place today (12/10/19). A general link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDIVi-vBsOEyETRGoRP9y8zhyu6bHl6iK. FWIW: The (2017) Trump-Russians-Oval Office-classified info., etc. subject has been generally discussed many times at this tiny blog..)
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(Continuing, previously posted material:)
..Just one recent sample observation. Link, subscription may be required:
....An excerpt from another article describing the district court judge's ruling today:
"Jackson called absolute immunity “a fiction” that has been propagated by a succession of presidential administrations by simply repeating it as a fact while avoiding testing the principle in court."
......An additional excerpt from the ruling, linked above. Emphasis has been added here:
"...It also plainly advances constitutional separation-of-powers principles, rather than subverts them, when a federal court decides the question of whether a legislative subpoena that a duly authorized committee of the House of Representatives has issued to a senior-level aide of the President is valid and enforceable, or, alternatively, is subject to the President’s invocation of absolute testimonial immunity. Furthermore, Miers was correct to conclude that, given the indisputable Article I power of the House of Representatives to conduct investigations of potential abuses of power and subpoena witnesses to testify at hearings concerning such investigations, the Judiciary Committee has both standing and a cause of action to file an enforcement lawsuit in federal court if the Executive branch blocks a current or former presidential aides’ performance of his duty to respond to a legislative subpoena. See id. at 65–75, 78–94.
DOJ’s arguments to the contrary are rooted in “the Executive’s interest in ‘autonomy[,]’” and, therefore, “rest[] upon a discredited notion of executive power and privilege.” Id. at 103. Indeed, when DOJ insists that Presidents can lawfully prevent their senior-level aides from responding to compelled congressional process and that neither the federal courts nor Congress has the power to do anything about it, DOJ promotes a conception of separation-of-powers principles that gets these constitutional commands exactly backwards. In reality, it is a core tenet of this Nation’s founding that the powers of a monarch must be split between the branches of the government to prevent tyranny. See The Federalist No. 51 (James Madison); see also Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1, 120 (1976). Thus,when presented with a case or controversy, it is the Judiciary’s duty under the Constitution to interpret the law and to declare government overreaches unlawful. Similarly, the House of Representatives has the constitutionally vested responsibility to conduct investigations of suspected abuses of power within the government, and to act to curb those improprieties, if required... "
"...“Today’s McGahn ruling is a very significant victory for congressional oversight, and for the American people,” Schiff said in a statement.
He added: “To those witnesses who hide behind fallacious claims of absolute immunity, this ruling shows again how meritless their position remains. The witnesses who have defied Congress at the behest of the president will have to decide whether their duty is to the country, or to a president who believes that he is above the law.”"
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Yeah, 'BTW':.........That (above) would be (some of) 'all-over-impeachment' (..of Bill Clinton..) Lindsey Graham's sermon, circa 1998. Totally all-over Clinton's impeachment........
(↓Video clip: 10/8/19 copy, no affiliation:)
Want a great succinct answer to the absurd White House letter today stonewalling Congress on the impeachment inquiry?
"The intelligence officer who filed a whistle-blower complaint about President Trump’s interactions with the leader of Ukraine raised alarms not only about what the two men said in a phone call, but also about how the White House handled records of the conversation, according to two people briefed on the complaint...."
(Commentary, including reposted material. Temporarily posted.)
9/24/19 mid-day update:(If you care to...) Change this post's title to: '(Impeachment proceedings) WILL be (forth)coming...', unless current circumstances dramatically change (..in a believable way).
(Previously posted material:)
9/23/19 news/opinion articles (links, subscription may be required for some):
.@ChrisMurphyCT on whistleblower complaint: "I don’t know how I live in a country .. that allows a president of the United States to openly admit to this kind of corruption and get away with it.” https://t.co/KlaW0hlhrO
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