ANOTHER ONE OF TRUMP'S IDIOTIC AND RECKLESS CABINET NOMINEES IS TANKING

 

First Gaetz, now this drunken wife beater and sexual assaulter, Hegseth.

Trump is a failed human being who chooses failed human beings to lead America. What a national disgrace!

Why did anyone expect anything better from a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter/rapist and tax fraudster?

Trump mulls alternatives, including DeSantis, as Hegseth nod teeters 

"Hegseth, a former Fox News host and Army veteran, has seen his nomination pushed to the brink in the face of mounting allegations of sexual misconduct, excessive drinking and other controversial behavior in his previous jobs. 

 Republican senators on Tuesday, during Hegseth’s third round of meetings since last month, questioned his chances of making it through the nomination process, with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) calling some of the allegations against him 'very disturbing.' ”

Oh, and there's this one, too:

"Only 3 days after being chosen as Trump’s nominee to lead the DEA, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister withdrew his name from consideration. 

 Chronister wasn’t the worst Trump nominee, but he definitely had some big red flags on his resume we were already planning to call out. For example, his billionaire father-in-law was pardoned by Trump for his role in a huge corruption scandal." 

Only convicted felons, pedophiles, and sex offenders need apply to any cabinet or government position

Trump's choice for FBI director Kash Patel: "We're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We're going to come after you." 

"Kash Patel Has Plan to Remake the F.B.I. Into a Tool of Trump 

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I. has called for firing the agency’s top officials, shutting down its Washington headquarters and prosecuting journalists."

(NOTE:  This is what dictators/authoritarians do as soon as they're in power.)

Trump's choice for Ambassador to France:

Mr. Kushner, 70, pleaded guilty in 2004 to 16 counts of tax evasion, a single count of retaliating against a federal witness and one of lying to the Federal Election Commission in a case that became a lasting source of embarrassment for the family. As part of the plea, Mr. Kushner admitted to hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, a witness in a federal campaign finance investigation, and sending a videotape of the encounter to his sister.

"Kushner further admitted at his plea hearing that he devised a scheme to retaliate against a cooperating witness - his sister - and her husband by having a prostitute seduce the husband and covertly filming them having sex.

Kushner admitted that he paid a private investigator $25,000 to arrange for the seduction and videotaping of the cooperating witness' husband. Kushner admitted to personally recruiting the prostitute and instructing that the videotape be mailed to the cooperating witnesses.

Chris Christie told @MargaretHoover that Charles Kushner's criminal case was "one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes" he had handled.

Trump just nominated Kushner to be the US Ambassador to France.
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— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) December 2, 2024

Trump's choice for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth:

Heather Cox Richardson:  

"Under his direction, Veterans for Freedom ran up huge debt for what appears to have been inappropriate expenses; the group’s donors squeezed Hegseth out of his job and then shuttered the organization. He moved to Concerned Veterans for America. A whistleblower for Concerned Veterans for America reported that Hegseth was repeatedly so drunk at events that he had to be carried out, and that he once tried to join dancers on stage at a strip club to which he brought his work team. Their report said that Hegseth and other members of his team divided the female staffers in the organization into “party girls” and “not party girls” and sexually pursued them, leading to allegations of sexual assault. 

Another complaint said that at a bar in the early hours of May 29, 2015, Hegseth began to chant drunkenly: “Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!” 

An email from one of the whistleblowers to Hegseth’s successor at Concerned Veterans for America said that “[a]mong the staff, the disgust for Pete was pretty high.” 

The letter detailed Hegseth’s “history of alcohol abuse” and said he had “treated the organization funds like they were a personal expense account—for partying, drinking, and using CVA events as little more than opportunities to ‘hook up’ with women on the road.” 

 By 2016, Hegseth was out at Concerned Veterans for America but had joined the Fox News Channel as a contributor. It was during this period that he appeared in October 2017 as a speaker at the California Federation of Republican Women’s convention, where he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman."

What did this "Dictator on Day One" mean by this?

It is THE most anti-American rhetoric I've ever heard from an incoming POTUS in all my years.

Who will determine who the "enemy within" is?

Remember it was his armed thugs who attacked the U.S. Capitol and beat the crap out of LEOs, vandalized the Capitol, smeared feces all over the Capitol, and shouted "HANG MIKE PENCE!" 

Yet "Dictator on Day One" call the radical left "lunatics."

Trump is a dangerous, lawless criminal.

President Biden pardons his son, Hunter.

 

Bravo, Mr. President!

"No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong," Biden said in a statement on Sunday.

"There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they've tried to break me – and there's no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough." 

Hunter Biden said in a statement on Sunday: 

 "I have admitted and taken responsibility for my mistakes during the darkest days of my addiction – mistakes that have been exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me and my family for political sport. Despite all of this, I have maintained my sobriety for more than five years because of my deep faith and the unwavering love and support of my family and friends." 

"In the throes of addiction, I squandered many opportunities and advantages. In recovery we can be given the opportunity to make amends where possible and rebuild our lives if we never take for granted the mercy that we have been afforded. I will never take the clemency I have been given today for granted and will devote the life I have rebuilt to helping those who are still sick and suffering."

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

--Wendell Berry

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.