SATURDAY NIGHT FUNNIES

 

DARK TRIADS...

 

are about to take over the running of our country.

Know what and who they are, and be aware.

PS. The incoming POTUS is one.

And he's surrounding himself with hundreds more.

WE USED TO BE AN HONORABLE COUNTRY...

 

until Trump and his MAGA turned it into a vengeful, hateful and lawless dystopian garbage can*:

*During his 2024 campaign, Trump called America a "garbage can."

 

“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce”.

 

White House spokesman said on Monday that President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will attend Donald Trump's inauguration in January. 

This is a reminder that Donald Trump did not attend President Biden's inauguration, the first incumbent president to skip his successor's inauguration since 1869.

Never forget that in addition to his egregiously petulant behavior in 2021, Trump instigated an insurrection against his own government because he falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen.

It. Was. Not.

Trump is and will always be the worst president this nation ever had to suffer through.

I don't care what the polls say about his popularity now.

Hitler and Mussolini were beloved by their citizens, too.

That's because the "good" Germans and Italians refused to see what was in front of their noses.

Millions of us have not forgotten the incompetence, chaos, lies, indecencies, and dishonor of Trump's first presidency. Now he's four years older and failing, and he's still the malignant narcissistic monster he ever was, but with no one to stop his worse impulses.

The American people did this to themselves.

Our friends and enemies are laughing at us.

ANOTHER CRAPPY TRUMP NOMINEE:

 

NEVER SERVED IN THE NAVY.

NEVER SERVED IN ANY BRANCH. 

"John Phelan, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Navy, appears to have absolutely zero relevant experience for the job — other than having hosted a fundraising dinner for Trump at his $38 million home in Aspen. He’s an art collector who runs a private equity firm.

Being rich does not qualify you to take on highly sensitive and important appointments relating to things you know nothing about just because you dumped a lot of money in #Trump 's lap. Secretary of Navy is a specialist position. This man seems to be big in equity & art - not ships."

Welcome to Trump's America:  

A president who sells sneakers, watches and bibles and who's a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter.

Dr. Oz, a "physician" who promoted questionable medical therapies (and who lost a law suit  to the tune of $5 million for his fake vitamins) to oversee Medicare and Medicaid.

RFK, Jr., a former heroin addict and functioning sex addict who claims no vaccine is safe and who has no background in virology or medicine, but has lots of conspiracy ideas about both.

Linda McMahon as Secy. of Education who has zero experience in education (who forgot that she didn't get her degree in education) but is a billionaire who made her money in wrestling.

Hegseth for Secy. of Defense who was credibly accused of sexual assault, cheated on wife #1 with wife #2, and got wife #3 pregnant while married to wife #2! His military experience is he was a weekend warrior.

TRUMP NOMINATED THIS THING FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES:

"Matt Gaetz, the former Florida congressman,  wasn’t only an unpopular colleague among fellow GOP members. Until he resigned from Congress, he was being investigated by a bipartisan House ethics committee for multiple allegations, including paying a 17-year-old girl for sex."

A little over half of the voting public chose a crazy, convicted felon/sexual assaulter to lead our country.

The above named cabinet hopefuls are just a small sample of how far into the gutter Trump will, again, drag America.

 

AMERICA VOTED FOR A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE!

 

Israel Approves Hezbollah Deal, Bringing Truce Closer 

 Israeli ministers endorsed a truce that still needs formal approval in Lebanon. It followed an intense barrage of Israeli strikes in and near Beirut.

"President Biden just spoke with Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister’s office said. Netanyahu thanked Biden for U.S. involvement in achieving the cease-fire deal and for 'the understanding that Israel will preserve its freedom of action in enforcing it.' ”--Aaron Boxerman, reporting from Jerusalem

"The Biden administration and its allies hope that the truce will become a durable cease-fire, ending a war that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Lebanon and Israel, killed over 3,000 Lebanese and 70 Israelis and upended the regional balance of power.

 n the hours before Israeli ministers approved the deal, the Israeli military launched one of its heaviest barrages of airstrikes since the war began, hitting the heart of Beirut and Hezbollah-dominated neighborhoods south of the city.

The cease-fire is officially an agreement among Israel, Lebanon and mediating countries including the United States. Nabih Berri, the speaker of Lebanon’s Parliament, has been acting as a liaison with Hezbollah, and any deal was expected to include the group’s unofficial approval."

"Trump vows new Canada, Mexico, China tariffs that threaten global trade" --Reuters

 

Scott Lincicome @CatoInstitute Vice President (Econ/Trade), @DukeLawadjunct: 

 "Assuming he goes through with his insane promise to slap tariffs on Canada and Mexico (a big assumption), this would be a ~$210B tax increase on Day 1, hitting a lot US manufacturers along the way:"

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Hey! American parents!

 

Here's Trump's pick to head Health & Human Services telling us that heroine helped him go to the head of his class!

Now what American parent wouldn't want his or her child to hear this right from the horse's mouth!

Heroine good!

Fluoride bad!

Pro-heroin, anti-fluoride https://t.co/GxLaxqZiNo

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) November 25, 2024

 MAGA logic: Hunter Biden does heroin: LOCK HIM UP! 

 RFK, Jr., does heroin: MAKE HIM SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES!

PS. It didn't help him study for the bar. A few months after he failed the NY bar exam, he was arrested for heroin possession.

November 25, 2024

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAVE MILLER!

WATCH WHAT THE ANTI-DEMOCRACY/AMERICA TRUMP REGIME DOES, NOT SAYS!

 

In Hungary, a key Orbán tactic in dismantling their democracy was that his allies bought media outlets that were critical of the regime and turned them into loyal cheerleaders for the regime. 

Josh Marshall:

"Trump's incoming FCC chair already putting TV networks on noticed they'll be punished for coverage Trump doesn't like. Trump use already violated his oath in term 1 by using public power to punish coverage he didn't like. Even more open now."

(This is how authoritarian regimes take control of media -- they threaten them unless they publish only good things about them.)

This is NOT American.

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On another topic. Trump was pro-trans people before the Christian Nationalists talked him out of it: Trump said people should use the bathroom they feel is appropriate, and he spoke out against trans bathroom bills.

Trump has never had any core values or beliefs. 

 

Holy moly. MAGA is losing their mind over an uncovered video from 2016 where Donald Trump says people should use the bathroom they feel is inappropriate and speaks out against trans bathroom bills. RT this so MAGA implodes.

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— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) November 25, 2024

Hey! Remember this from the charlatan who calls himself God's new Moses.

 

That little hypocritical scoundrel is 2nd in line to the presidency. 

Richard Stengel @stengel "Trump is the first president-elect ever to not sign an agreement that makes transition donations public. That means no one knows who is contributing to his transition, and how much, and it also allows foreign donations. I don't believe even Trump supporters think this is a good idea."

President-elect Trump is keeping secret the names of the donors who are funding his transition effort, a break from tradition that could make it impossible to see what businesses or wealthy people are helping launch his second term.

This is how totalitarian/authoritarian regimes operate.

Trump's second administration is playing out to be one of the most corrupt, and he isn't even the POTUS yet.

The Felon-elect will do it anyway...

 

because he's a lawbreaker and a criminal himself.

(A plurality of Americans chose a convicted criminal and a sexual predator to lead America.)

New poll: Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to Trump’s plan to pardon Jan 6 defendants. 64% say he should not pardon those involved in the insurrection. (Scripps/Ipsos)

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC

I hadn't heard about this until now.

Is this where the Confederate States of Trump are headed?

This bill became law in 2024.

Think about it:  If this were the law when Justice Clarence Thomas and his dainty little white bride, Gini, wanted to marry in Tennessee, some troglodyte racist minister or other officiant could have refused to marry them. 

The MAGA racists are determined to drag this country back to the 1850s!

We. Will. Not. Let. That. Happen. Here!

Tennessee House Bill 878 is a proposed state law in the U.S. state of Tennessee, granting an individual the right to refuse to solemnize a marriage if the individual has a religious or conscience-based objection to that partnership. The law was passed in 2024 and signed into law by Governor Bill Lee.^[2]

The law would thus allow wedding officiants to legally discriminate against couples entering interracial unions, heterosexual unions and same-sex marriages

JUST A REMINDER...

 to counter the Felon-elect's lie about his "mandate." 

Seth Abramson‬ ‪@sethabramson.bsky.social‬

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8h

Trump is slipping farther and farther below 50%. He now leads by only 1.6%—and his vote advantage is under 2.5M. One of the narrower victories of the last 100 years of American politics, and any journalist or politico using the term mandate probably needs to retire from their profession immediately.

Brian Cardone 

@cardon_brian

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Nov 22

Let me SCREAM this louder for the people in the back, Trump does NOT have a mandate to govern the US. He's under 50% with the popular vote and his margin over Kamala is 44 of 51 since 1824. Don't let MAGA Republicans gaslight you!

ABOUT THE FELON-ELECT'S NEW NOMINEE FOR U.S. A.G.:

 

He bought her for a mere $25,000:

Brian Tyler Cohen

@briantylercohen

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13h

Pam Bondi, Trump's AG nominee, took a $25,000 donation from Trump while she was reviewing allegations against Trump University in a class action lawsuit. No action was taken against Trump or his university.

YOU WERE WARNED:

 Heather Cox Richardson: 

 Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian who uses facts and history to put the news in context

There are a number of ways to think about Trump’s appointments. The people he has picked have so little experience in the fields their departments handle that Erin Burnett of CNN suggested that he is simply choosing them from “central casting”—a favorite phrase of his—to look as he imagines such officials should. Indeed, as Zachary B. Wolf of CNN pointed out, while President Joe Biden vowed to make his Cabinet look like America, Trump’s picks look “exactly like Fox News.” Trump has actually tapped a number of television hosts for different positions.

That so many of his appointees have histories of sexual misconduct is also striking, and underlines both that they share his determination to dominate others and that they do not think rules and laws apply to them.

But there is another pattern at work, as well. In a piece he published on November 15 in his “Thinking about…” newsletter, scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder explained that destroying a country requires undermining five key zones: “health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence.” The nominations of Kennedy, Gaetz, Hegseth, and Gabbard, as well as the tapping of billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to run the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to destroy the administration of the government, are, according to Snyder, a “decapitation strike.”

“Imagine that you are a foreign leader who wishes to destroy the United States,” Snyder writes. “How could you do so? The easiest way would be to get Americans to do the work themselves, to somehow induce Americans to undo their own health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence. From this perspective,” he explains, “Trump's proposed appointments—Kennedy, Jr.; Gaetz; Musk; Ramaswamy; Hegseth; Gabbard—are perfect instruments. They combine narcissism, incompetence, corruption, sexual incontinence, personal vulnerability, dangerous convictions, and foreign influence as no group before them has done.”

But that destruction of the United States is so far still aspirational. The constant references to Trump’s supposed “mandate” are misleading. He did not win 50% of the vote, meaning that more voters chose someone other than Trump in the 2024 election than voted for him, and even many of his voters appear to have misunderstood his policies.

According to Jonathan Karl of ABC News, Trump’s loyalists have tried to shore up support for his nominees in the Senate by threatening the Republican senators: "If you are on the wrong side of the vote, you’re buying yourself a primary. That is all. And there’s a guy named Elon Musk who is going to finance it.”

That threat is a direct assault on the Constitution, which gives to the Senate the power to advise the president on senior appointments and requires their consent to a president’s choices, and one that also hands the U.S. government over to an international billionaire. Forcing a leader’s political party to get into line behind that leader is the first task of an authoritarian, who needs that unified support in order to attack political opponents.

THIS GUY IS A DANGEROUS MORON:

 

And a charlatan who was ordered to pay a fine by a court of law for selling fake vitamins.

And Trump chose him to be in charge of Medicare and Medicaid!

On June 15, 2018, well-known television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, along with the producers of his hit television show, ZoCo Productions LLC and Harpo Productions Inc., agreed to a $5.25 million settlement to end class claims alleging that Dr. Oz made misrepresentations regarding the quality, effectiveness and sponsorship of weight-loss supplements featured on The Doctor Oz Show. 

 Named plaintiffs Veda Woodard, Teresa Rizzo-Marino and Diane Morrison allege that they purchased Labrada Garcinia Cambogia Dual Action Fat Buster and Labrada Green Coffee Bean Extract Fat Loss Optimizer after hearing Oz describe the supplements as “revolutionary fat busters,” “miracles in a bottle” and “a magic weight-loss cure” on three separate episodes of Oz’s popular day time television show.

Dr. Oz: The uninsured “don’t have the right to health,” but should be given “a way of crawling back out of the abyss” with “15-minute physicals” provided by the government “in a festival like setting.”

Dr. Oz: The uninsured “don’t have the right to health,” but should be given “a way of crawling back out of the abyss” with “15-minute physicals” provided by the government “in a festival like setting.”
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— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) November 21, 2024

RFK Jr. compared Trump to Hitler and praised descriptions of his supporters as ‘Nazis’

 

 By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN 

 Thu November 21, 2024 

 NEW on RFK Jr: In audio we uncovered from his radio show he read and praised a description of Trump and his supporters as "belligerent idiots," "outright Nazis," and "cowards" and "bootlickers." He also compared Trump to Adolf Hitler.

So that makes at least two high-ranking choices for his administration who have referred to Trump as "Hitler."

JD Vance, his VP choice is on record calling Trump "America's Hitler."

RFK,Jr., compared Trump with Hitler.

From Politico: 

"In the now-eight-year-old radio show broadcasts, first reported by CNN, Kennedy said Trump was stoking fear on the campaign trail with his rhetoric and compared him to Hitler, the former-segregationist Gov. George Wallace and other divisive leaders. On another episode from 2016, Kennedy also said that Trump was unlike Hitler because 'Hitler had like a plan, you know, Hitler was interested in policy.' And Trump did not, he said."

Matt Gaetz is out!

 

The Felon-elect's monumentally stupid choice for Attorney General of the US, Matt Gaetz, has withdrawn.

Why in the hell did the Felon-elect put his name up for the nomination in the first place?

Who will he nominate next?  Steve Bannon?

The dictator wannabe Felon-elect threatened Republican senators:

ABC News reports that the Trump team issued this warning to Republican senators considering a vote against Matt Gaetz:” “If you are on the wrong side of the vote, you’re buying yourself a primary. That is all. And there’s a guy named Elon Musk who is going to finance it"

The guy's never wrong! Amirite?  LOL!LOL!LOL!

JANUARY 20, 2025, 12 NOON

 

 

“GOP House Ethics Committee Members Vote To Coverup Gaetz Investigation.”

 If Gaetz were innocent of all allegations in the investigation, the Ethics Committee would have blasted that information out to the public..

This is a coverup for the man who will head the Department of Justice.

One of the first things a totalitarian leader does is take over the independent justice system and install weak men/women who will do his bidding.

It IS happening here.

House Ethics Ranking Member Susan Wild (D-PA) on Gaetz deliberations: 

 “It has come to my attention that the chairman [Michael Guest] has since betrayed the process…and he has implied that there was an agreement of the committee not to disclose the report… That is inaccurate.”

House Ethics Ranking Member Susan Wild (D-PA) on Gaetz deliberations:

“It has come to my attention that the chairman [Michael Guest] has since betrayed the process…and he has implied that there was an agreement of the committee not to disclose the report… That is inaccurate.” pic.twitter.com/npgnN18cQr

— The Recount (@therecount) November 20, 2024

When I said Trump would drag this country into the sewer, I wasn't exaggerating or being overwrought. 

I was telling the truth.

 "It should be emphasized just how obscene the Gaetz nom is. He's unqualified, unfit, & was recently investigated for sex trafficking. He faces accusations of paying for sex & sexual misconduct w/ a minor. That there's even a chance he gets confirmed as the top law enforcement official is shameful." --Aaron Rupar

MUG SHOT OF TRUMP'S PICK FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES: