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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

This whole thing by Trump is haphazard. It is indicative of both his and Elon's approach to business, which seems to be to throw some ketchup on the wall until something sticks. But then, I observe that the dim bulbs in the Republican House of Representatives are so thick that that it is no wonder admonitions and characterizations from Democrats and others, do not penetrate. There may be skulls, but there is nothing between the ears to recognize either insult or praise. Dumb as rocks.

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Ruhe's avatar

I promise I'll be more hopeful later after I've had lunch, but for now I'm going to plum the depths...

With Patel and Bongino in at the FBI and Bondi at DOJ, these moves at the Pentagon have me convinced that it's a done deal now. There will be no mid-term election wave because the various state legislatures are going to blow that up with claims of massive vote fraud and then count on DOJ and FBI for cover...with the military set up to join the party by suppressing local protests. States like Texas and Florida will just send whoever the fuck they want to Congress.

At this point I'm rooting for a coup.

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ResistanceFictionistaBlondeIQ's avatar

We just had one. Is one a month not enough for you?

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fawkedifiknow's avatar

Pissed Up Pete forgot to add one of Hair Hitler's enduring obsessions to his list of mandatory purposes of his manly Army: Exploitation of the natural resources of whatever country gets to enjoy the wanton destruction they clearly are jizzing themselves over. Trump still says the biggest mistake we made in Iraq was NOT taking their oil. Now, he's after Ukraine's rare minerals; and, he's not even hiding it.

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Megan Macomber's avatar

But we have new allies! North Korea and Hungary will surely protect us when President Macron insults our newborn baby POTUS again and we are forced to invade France. New friends are the best friends, amIright?

And don't forget all those war criminals Trump pardoned first time around. They gotta be itching to take it out on the so-called "authorities" who presumed to charge them, and the witnesses who testified against them. Joe Arpaio will ride to their aid for sure!

It'll be just like a Clint Eastwood movie. If, you know, the heroes are a pack of skanks and there aren't any villains because they're all on the other side.

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Frank Talk, Action Pundit!'s avatar

As we see, Russia and China have given a lot of thought over a lot of years on how to eliminate the U.S. as a military deterrent.

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RRJKR's avatar

Long story short, Trump is one sick fuck. He has a fascination with "ultra masculinity", and all the guys he's appointing are the same way. The few women appointees are all pretty strange too. The whole thing is a freakish cartoon show.

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Cat Cafe's avatar

Just horrifying

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Rick Klatt's avatar

Every one.

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Always Be Ithacating's avatar

I do wonder how someone this ignorant could claim a Bachelor's degree from Princeton, after majoring in politics.

Then I read that he played football and basketball on an athletic scholarship there, while serving as the publisher and later editor-in-chief of The Princeton Tory, a conservative newspaper. According to Wikipedia, "In April 2002, he declared that as publisher, he would 'defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.'"

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Fifth Dentist's avatar

Know what we called Tories in the 1770s and '80s? Loyalists.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie. That boy ain't right.

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KEITH TAYLOR's avatar

One of the things that both enrages and frightens me about Hegseth (there are others) is that he evidently has juvenile romantic ideas about the crusades. Thinks they were heroic, noble endeavours, Christians against evil heathens. They were a gross mess from the start. The first one, inspired by Pope Urban and Peter the Hermit, was spearheaded by hordes of unwashed ignorant peasants who swarmed across Europe in the general direction of the east, without provision or plan, and once they began starving they destroyed crops and besieged cities in eastern Europe, at great cost to Hungary and Bulgaria.

They apparently had no idea that Christians existed who didn't speak their language.

More disciplined, professional warriors did follow them, but they didn't do so well either. And Christians turning on other Christians became a hallmark of the Crusades. The fourth one saw Crusaders from the German Empire conquering the Byzantine Empire (Greek Orthodox) instead of pushing on to the Middle East. And well before then, the Byzantines had come to view crusaders from Germany, France and England as visitors about as desirable as anthrax.

From the Fifth Crusade onward, if not before, enthusiasm for crusading steadily ebbed, a boon to civilization.

For greater detail I recommend a useful book by Charles Mackay, EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS, published originally in 1841. Other sections cover alchemy, financial booms and crashes like the Dutch Tulip Mania and the South Sea Bubble, and brass-faced con artists like the Count of Saint-Germain.

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ResistanceFictionistaBlondeIQ's avatar

Let us not forget the notorious "Children's Crusade," Because, surely the god would ensure the victory of a holy endeavor undertaken by (many, but not only) children. Two thirds of them died, and thousands more were enslaved in north Africa. Fucking religion. Fucking zealots.

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KEITH TAYLOR's avatar

I did forget the Children's Crusade. Talk about infant sacrifice. But even without the Children's Crusade, the list is long, bloody, stupid and grotesque.

Let no man who wears a tattoo proclaiming "Deus Vult" ever be granted respect or benefit of doubt for either his common sense or integrity.

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RRJKR's avatar

Read history honestly and you get pretty disgusted with humans. Just a bunch of fucking mean monkeys. Ever get the feeling that you really don't belong with them

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Eos_explorer's avatar

I come from bonobos exclusively - no chimps. I'm sure of it.

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Enter Ranting's avatar

How long before Shitfaced McDrunkalot goes on a bender?

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ResistanceFictionistaBlondeIQ's avatar

How to Avoid a Hangover, Chapter One: Just Stay Drunk.

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RRJKR's avatar

When isn't he on one?

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

Go ahead and get rid of everyone who isn't a loony white nationalist Xtian itching for the next Crusade - good luck trying to get supplies ordered, transported to your "tip of the spear" and dragging your sorry asses back home in boxes once your vaunted Warriors fail to live up to their Rambo fantasies and fail at the actual art of war - organizing and bringing supplies to the battlefield.

I can't wait until this entire lot is prosecuted and sent to prison.

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clairence's avatar

“The single dumbest phrase in military history is [Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth]."

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Thixotropickle's avatar

"Small group of insulated assholes selected by a ginormous asshole in order to perpetuate fascism and chaos."

Bit of a paraphrase but definitely applicable to Mehgsdeath and his Dump-brethren.

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clairence's avatar

all accusations are confessions.

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