Am I to understand the Giant Orange Fucktater's twattering nonsense yesterday about him reopening the Strait of Vermouth (not a sic Bessent said it not me so I've stolen it forever) because he loves China so much and he did it for them and he did it for the world and bullshit yadafuckingyada and China will hug him and kiss him and call him George was INFUCKINGFACT bullshit!? The Strait of Orange Fucktater isn't open? Can you feel my shocked face? The San Andreas Fault felt it.
The Fucktater seemed to think just yesterday they were deeply in love with him for everything he's doing for them - like reopening the Strait of Vermouth.
Are you telling me China won't go to prom with him?
Specifically the Turning Point USA shindig that no one went to, and Erika Kirk didn't show because of "security concerns", but it was safe enough for JD Vance??
And everyone was like "hmmm, that make no sense, guys?!"
I solved the case: the REASON it was safe for JD Vance but NOT for Erika Kirk IS BECAUSE the threat came from one USHA VANCE!
Ooo Goody! I’ve been waiting for Usha to go all trailer park on JD and Erika! “ In India, they have 68 ways to kill an adulteress. You will be Number 69!”
Back in the dark ages when I first worked as an admin for a smol law firm, they taught me about what "stricken from the roll" meant. One of them helpfully explained, "it's as if you never fuckin' existed as an attorney".
Holy hosanna in the highest fuck, Hegseth just fucking doubling down on his holy war crusader bullshit. Our military is under the command of a fucking vangie lunatic.
Forbes: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted almost word-for-word a violent prayer used in Quentin Tarantino’s cult classic “Pulp Fiction” that’s loosely based on a Bible passage in honor of the Iran war during one of a series of controversial Christian worship services he’s been hosting at the Pentagon.
Kegseth's prayer is in the American Bible but not the Actual Bible.
It's such a clusterfuck that even if it ended yesterday, it would take months to return to even a semblance of normal.
Like, tankers that normally had a week or so two-way trip in Asia are making a trip that takes a month one way to get to USia. It will take them another month for the return trip.
About two-thirds of the 100 ships that have been announced are super tankers, which take two days to fill and can only take on oil in a very deep water port.
Those tankers are on top of the normal traffic of tankers coming to the US.
So ... ships will be backed up waiting to get filled with oil. Ships could be sitting out in the Gulf of Mexico for weeks waiting just to be filled.
Did I mention what a clusterfuck this all is?
Then you've got oil and natural gas infrastructure in the Middle East that's going to take years to repair.
Also the shortage of fertilizer that some economists are saying will mean a drought for the world. Poor people will be starving, middle class Americans will be even more screwed choosing between paying rent, medical care, pumping a quarter tank of gas or feeding themselves.
Truly the Golden Age of America being the hottest country.
I hate these motherfuckers with the heat of a thousand suns
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Epstein told accused sex harassment pal to contact to his 'friends' at White House
A year before convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein died in a prison cell under mysterious circumstances, a friend who was teaching at Arizona State University worried about accusations of sexual harassment and asked for help, which led Epstein to suggest he turn to Donald Trump's White House.
According to Politico's Bianca Quilantan, the texts and emails show Epstein believed Trump's efforts to weaken protections for sexual misconduct accusers could provide physicist Lawrence Krauss, who was teaching at ASU, an escape route from disciplinary proceedings.
"My friends in the White House HATE the title ix c----," Epstein wrote to Krauss in April 2018, using a crude sexist slur to describe his contempt for women protected by Title IX enforcement.
According to Quilantan, the text and email exchanges also illuminate Trump's Title IX agenda and attitude toward women. Advocates for sexual assault survivors say the Epstein emails prove what they've long argued: the Trump rollback was designed to shield accused men from accountability, not to protect fairness.
White House officials in panic that Trump pardons won't save them from prison
Many MAGA hardliners in Donald Trump's White House are quietly panicking that they're going to prison — and no preemptive presidential pardon will be enough to save them.
Administration insiders told Zeteo's Asawin Siebsaeng that officials such as Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth fear the midterms will put them in grave danger of impeachment.
"Some of them have told me they’ve noticed a growing trend of Democratic politicians making public calls for aggressive prosecutions of Trumplanders in the future — a trend one Trump aide privately lamented as 'kind of worrisome,'" he wrote.
While publicly remaining silent, much of Trump's inner circle privately acknowledges polling data that shows Democrats will likely retake the House in 2026, Siebsaeng wrote. Administration insiders also recognize that, eventually, progressive political opponents will likely control the White House again.
Team Trump anticipates intense Democratic voter demand for aggressive accountability measures, he wrote. Progressive politicians are expected to pursue what Democrats characterize as "retribution" investigations into the administration's conduct.
What Democrats are characterizing it as that? That paragraph starts from the White House perspective. What Democrat wants to use that language? If that person actually exists they should shut up about "retribution" and talk about "justice".
They may see it clearly, just as they may understand that their actions are illegal and unethical, but Trump already riled up the base with projection about retribution, so it's a concept the christofascist knuckle daggers already accept.
Clarence Thomas hounded by observers for 'manipulation' of role: 'An outright psyop'
Thomas, 77, appeared in a broadcast where he spoke against progressivism, a political philosophy he described as a threat to the principles on which the United States was founded. Thomas has faced persistent speculation about potential retirement, with White House advisors reportedly preparing for a vacancy.
The recent appearance from Thomas at the University of Texas Austin Law School saw the George H. W. Bush-appointed judge hit out at that popular political philosophy. He said, "Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government.
"[Progressivism] holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government. It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights.
Clarence Thomas had better retire before the good guys come back into government and retire to s country without an extradition treaty to the US and take his financial assets with him.
The entire concept of Americanism was progressive - a rebellion against tyrants in Europe. People like Thomas saying these spurious things is an example of the lack of education in the rich, right-wing communities.
The U.S. Army shut down an entire network of official social media accounts this week after a post celebrating Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Purple Heart recipient who lost both legs in combat, drew backlash from a pro-Trump veteran online.
The "Soldier for Life" program, which connects veterans and their families to employment, healthcare and retirement resources, posted a tribute to Duckworth's military career as an Army lieutenant colonel and Iraq War veteran. Within 24 hours of a former Army paratrooper criticizing the post on X, it was deleted.
Chase Spears, a former Army paratrooper and veteran of the war in Afghanistan, criticized Duckworth, calling her 'one of the most brazenly hostile partisans to have worn the uniform,'" NOTUS reported Wednesday.
Driscoll, Trump's Army secretary, ordered all Soldier for Life accounts shuttered after the negative online reaction, a Department of Defense source familiar with the decision told The Hill. An Army spokesperson insisted the move was "simply a circumstance of the Army handling routine Army business," citing a December memo requiring accounts not managed by qualified personnel to be deactivated.
During Driscoll's confirmation hearing, Duckworth pressed him to pledge he would refuse illegal orders from the Trump administration and ultimately voted against confirming him. She has also called for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's resignation.
It’s not like Pete could read a violent prayer from the New Testament…Sermon on the Mount comes to mind.
Consequences. You don’t see those much anymore. Nice to know they still exist because I was starting to wonder…
Now if only Truth could make a comeback and hitch a ride with those Consequences.
If only reality made sense!
OT: fuck FIFA!
(Watching sportsball.)
Am I to understand the Giant Orange Fucktater's twattering nonsense yesterday about him reopening the Strait of Vermouth (not a sic Bessent said it not me so I've stolen it forever) because he loves China so much and he did it for them and he did it for the world and bullshit yadafuckingyada and China will hug him and kiss him and call him George was INFUCKINGFACT bullshit!? The Strait of Orange Fucktater isn't open? Can you feel my shocked face? The San Andreas Fault felt it.
Even Ray Charles could see your expression.
China is not stoopid.
The Fucktater seemed to think just yesterday they were deeply in love with him for everything he's doing for them - like reopening the Strait of Vermouth.
Are you telling me China won't go to prom with him?
Worse yet, China is telling everyone else that Drumpfenfuehrer is a pushover.
That's somehow believable. I can't put my finger on any one thing....but I think that's right.
Bwahaha! But according to the meme, you just know Jesus will!
Why should China be any different from the rest of sane humanity?
Hate to have to tell you this my dear but it almost sounds like you understand what they are attempting to say there. Be careful.
I'm treading water over here!
You have the best lifesaver possible. Named Paul.
That's a true statment right there!
How's everything in your slice of the world?
Middling to pretty good. I need to sign off and do something useful right now so enjoy the rest of the day as best you can my darling Holly.
It looks to me like Eastman treasonously engaged in war against the United States. Alas, that's probably not a state crime, even in California.
When I look at Eastman I wonder, 'What would Genghis do with him?'
KHHHHHAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!
Montal-BHHHHHAAAAAANNNN!
lol!
Remember yesterday?
Specifically the Turning Point USA shindig that no one went to, and Erika Kirk didn't show because of "security concerns", but it was safe enough for JD Vance??
And everyone was like "hmmm, that make no sense, guys?!"
I solved the case: the REASON it was safe for JD Vance but NOT for Erika Kirk IS BECAUSE the threat came from one USHA VANCE!
Ooo Goody! I’ve been waiting for Usha to go all trailer park on JD and Erika! “ In India, they have 68 ways to kill an adulteress. You will be Number 69!”
Now if Usha's next public appearance is as a blonde, all bets are off.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
AOT,K?
I'd love this for him 😍!
She already murdered 3 couches, but was never convicted because couches aren't technically people.
What about the unborn loveseats?!?!
Bwah!
If corporations are people, couches are people. Once you buy into the fantasy, all bridges are burned.
Incorporate them.
🤔
Back in the dark ages when I first worked as an admin for a smol law firm, they taught me about what "stricken from the roll" meant. One of them helpfully explained, "it's as if you never fuckin' existed as an attorney".
Holy hosanna in the highest fuck, Hegseth just fucking doubling down on his holy war crusader bullshit. Our military is under the command of a fucking vangie lunatic.
Where? ETA: Nvm. I see it downthread. What a putrid piece of shit.
Forbes: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted almost word-for-word a violent prayer used in Quentin Tarantino’s cult classic “Pulp Fiction” that’s loosely based on a Bible passage in honor of the Iran war during one of a series of controversial Christian worship services he’s been hosting at the Pentagon.
Kegseth's prayer is in the American Bible but not the Actual Bible.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/04/16/pete-hegseth-quotes-violent-prayer-from-pulp-fiction-references-bible/
When's the smiting? I want to be there.
He is messing with the sacred, you know. I mean we are talking 'Pulp Fiction' man.
Remember how that went? The Bad Motherfucker had an epiphany about his shit behavior, and then QUIT DOING IT, and changed careers entirely.
Aw, he's just trollin' bro! Why so serious?
cult classic?
"Europe Has ‘Six Weeks’ of Jet Fuel Left Unless Strait of Hormuz is Opened — Millions of Flights Could Soon Be Grounded"
Like an unoiled machine
It's such a clusterfuck that even if it ended yesterday, it would take months to return to even a semblance of normal.
Like, tankers that normally had a week or so two-way trip in Asia are making a trip that takes a month one way to get to USia. It will take them another month for the return trip.
About two-thirds of the 100 ships that have been announced are super tankers, which take two days to fill and can only take on oil in a very deep water port.
Those tankers are on top of the normal traffic of tankers coming to the US.
So ... ships will be backed up waiting to get filled with oil. Ships could be sitting out in the Gulf of Mexico for weeks waiting just to be filled.
Did I mention what a clusterfuck this all is?
Then you've got oil and natural gas infrastructure in the Middle East that's going to take years to repair.
Also the shortage of fertilizer that some economists are saying will mean a drought for the world. Poor people will be starving, middle class Americans will be even more screwed choosing between paying rent, medical care, pumping a quarter tank of gas or feeding themselves.
Truly the Golden Age of America being the hottest country.
They need to prime the pump.
I fly home from the UK Sunday 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
There goes the Mile High Club.
And anyone crazy enough to fly to the US for the World Cup
The chaos, carnage and damage Trump has caused around the world has to have surpassed his loftiest, wildest dreams and ambitions.
his ambitions ... you're thinking of Vlad, right?
I was going to say “wank fantasies” but decided not to be crude for once.
Pfft.
< wanking gesture >
But that doesn't affect Real Americans!
just in time for the world cup.
Gonna be a boycott!
I hate these motherfuckers with the heat of a thousand suns
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Epstein told accused sex harassment pal to contact to his 'friends' at White House
A year before convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein died in a prison cell under mysterious circumstances, a friend who was teaching at Arizona State University worried about accusations of sexual harassment and asked for help, which led Epstein to suggest he turn to Donald Trump's White House.
According to Politico's Bianca Quilantan, the texts and emails show Epstein believed Trump's efforts to weaken protections for sexual misconduct accusers could provide physicist Lawrence Krauss, who was teaching at ASU, an escape route from disciplinary proceedings.
"My friends in the White House HATE the title ix c----," Epstein wrote to Krauss in April 2018, using a crude sexist slur to describe his contempt for women protected by Title IX enforcement.
According to Quilantan, the text and email exchanges also illuminate Trump's Title IX agenda and attitude toward women. Advocates for sexual assault survivors say the Epstein emails prove what they've long argued: the Trump rollback was designed to shield accused men from accountability, not to protect fairness.
https://www.rawstory.com/epstein-tyrump-krauss/
So they really don’t care about saving women’s sports from trans athletes?
I’m shocked, Rick, shocked.
I'll share my smelling salts.
And my fainting couch and pearls.
White House officials in panic that Trump pardons won't save them from prison
Many MAGA hardliners in Donald Trump's White House are quietly panicking that they're going to prison — and no preemptive presidential pardon will be enough to save them.
Administration insiders told Zeteo's Asawin Siebsaeng that officials such as Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth fear the midterms will put them in grave danger of impeachment.
"Some of them have told me they’ve noticed a growing trend of Democratic politicians making public calls for aggressive prosecutions of Trumplanders in the future — a trend one Trump aide privately lamented as 'kind of worrisome,'" he wrote.
While publicly remaining silent, much of Trump's inner circle privately acknowledges polling data that shows Democrats will likely retake the House in 2026, Siebsaeng wrote. Administration insiders also recognize that, eventually, progressive political opponents will likely control the White House again.
Team Trump anticipates intense Democratic voter demand for aggressive accountability measures, he wrote. Progressive politicians are expected to pursue what Democrats characterize as "retribution" investigations into the administration's conduct.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pardons-2676752057/
Gosh, this would be nice!
(I'll believe it when I see it.)
I want trials for heresy! I want exorcisms, like the Church did for Linda Blair!!
Bring on the Inquisition!
Are Dems calling it 'retribution'? That sounds MAGATy, as the orcs can't grok the notion of JUSTICE. I never realised how destitute their minds are.
You wouldn't have to worry if you all weren't FASCISTS COMMITTING CRIMES DAILY. Just sayin'
Take more pills, fascists. Drink more Everclear. You will need it.
Don't do the crime if you can't go the time!
Prison is the nicest thing I wish for them all.
I sure fucking hope they're scared.
The country should start knitting circles. Meanwhile, throw them in the stocks.
Madame Defarge is already hard at work.
I hope the name of "Russell Vought" is the first display in the knitting.
He could hit the carpet any minute. Better have an undated one now
Good. And unlike those assholes, there's plenty of evidence to back up all the claims about their criminal activity.
what Democrats characterize as "retribution"
What Democrats are characterizing it as that? That paragraph starts from the White House perspective. What Democrat wants to use that language? If that person actually exists they should shut up about "retribution" and talk about "justice".
There are no Democrats saying "retribution" ... that's our "free press" slanting the narrative.
Yeah that pissed me off because no one sees this as justice and consequences.
They may see it clearly, just as they may understand that their actions are illegal and unethical, but Trump already riled up the base with projection about retribution, so it's a concept the christofascist knuckle daggers already accept.
Tiny minds.
Stephen Miller's gig isn't one that he can be impeached for, is it?
That's a maybe. "civil officer" is left undefined in the constitution and so far we have only tried it on cabinet level officers and judges.
I personally think it should apply to all other appointed positions, but not those who are hired
No but he can be tried and convicted of crimes.
Trump saw Eastman's coat on January 6 and declared Camel!
Eastman is all hump and no camel
Kristi and Corey, first hump, then a Camel
Fucking hell he is batshit.
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Clarence Thomas hounded by observers for 'manipulation' of role: 'An outright psyop'
Thomas, 77, appeared in a broadcast where he spoke against progressivism, a political philosophy he described as a threat to the principles on which the United States was founded. Thomas has faced persistent speculation about potential retirement, with White House advisors reportedly preparing for a vacancy.
The recent appearance from Thomas at the University of Texas Austin Law School saw the George H. W. Bush-appointed judge hit out at that popular political philosophy. He said, "Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government.
"[Progressivism] holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government. It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights.
https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-2676752421/?utm_source=superhead
Progressivism includes freeing the slaves. What a piece of shit he is.
Oh, so now a god is on his side. How convenient. Trendy even.
🤪
Can we just let God come down and tell us what God thinks?
While we wait for that to happen we can focus of reality.
Deal, godbotherers?
A god that works in mysterious ways bears a suspicious resemblance to shit just happens.
Fucking hypocrite. Your job in the government wouldn't have been possible without progressive human rights advances. JUST FUCK OFF.
He not only pulled up the ladder he set it on fire and scattered the ashes.
God doesn't write fucking checks, Clarence.
Clarence Thomas had better retire before the good guys come back into government and retire to s country without an extradition treaty to the US and take his financial assets with him.
No keep him there and impeach is ass or he can choose to retire after midterms where Ds will block any conservative.
"the principles on which the United States was founded" only counted him as 3/5 of a person.
God will teach you whom to hate.
That Teddy Rosevelt really subverted America with his Square Deal! Imagine—a full dinner pail for ordinary workers!
Sir, it’s a spaghetti sauce!
The entire concept of Americanism was progressive - a rebellion against tyrants in Europe. People like Thomas saying these spurious things is an example of the lack of education in the rich, right-wing communities.
He's using god as a twisted crutch and ignoring the constitution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40hnw76WNWA
Not just uneducated, actively delusional and self-loathing.
"actively delusional" I like that.
May his final resting place be soaked in urine.
I'll do my part!
I will send mine.
The U.S. Army shut down an entire network of official social media accounts this week after a post celebrating Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Purple Heart recipient who lost both legs in combat, drew backlash from a pro-Trump veteran online.
The "Soldier for Life" program, which connects veterans and their families to employment, healthcare and retirement resources, posted a tribute to Duckworth's military career as an Army lieutenant colonel and Iraq War veteran. Within 24 hours of a former Army paratrooper criticizing the post on X, it was deleted.
Chase Spears, a former Army paratrooper and veteran of the war in Afghanistan, criticized Duckworth, calling her 'one of the most brazenly hostile partisans to have worn the uniform,'" NOTUS reported Wednesday.
Driscoll, Trump's Army secretary, ordered all Soldier for Life accounts shuttered after the negative online reaction, a Department of Defense source familiar with the decision told The Hill. An Army spokesperson insisted the move was "simply a circumstance of the Army handling routine Army business," citing a December memo requiring accounts not managed by qualified personnel to be deactivated.
During Driscoll's confirmation hearing, Duckworth pressed him to pledge he would refuse illegal orders from the Trump administration and ultimately voted against confirming him. She has also called for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's resignation.
https://www.rawstory.com/tammy-duckworth-2676749545/
Meh, sane people know what they see.
Hit dog will holler.
WARFIGHTERS are afraid of words.
“Chase Spears”?
Is a Blue Falcon!! Ca-Caw! Ca-Caw!! Va-room!
VA keeps hounding me to use “Soldier For Life”. It’s an on-line version of the bar in a VFW or Legion hall, without the alcohol and cigarettes.
As long as they can be petty assholes, does it really matter whom they harm?
Brittle twats.
And there is no law that says it is illegal to wear a penis costume.