No country sang this kind of song about America when Joe Biden and Barack Obama were president.
Trump did this:
Canadian France Joli:
Saturday, May 31, 2025
THE LYING LIAR, TRUMP, LIED ABOUT THE LUXURY JET FROM QATAR
What a surprise! NOT!
Videos all over the intertubz show Trump bragging about how Qatar begged him to take this luxury plane as a gift to the Pentagon (not to Trump himself! Ha!), so that he could refit it and use it while the new AF1 is being completed.
But Trump lied. Qatar is quite adamant about getting out the truth.
Trump ASKED Qatar for the plane. And Trump lied to the American people about the transaction.
Why would anyone ever believe anything this disgusting lying liar says?
Just a reminder, in case you've forgotten, that Donald J. Trump is a soulless, dishonorable, hateful human being. Imagine anyone you know talking like this about a human being with a terrible disease.
The people who continue to support this immoral human waste are just as sick as he is, IMO:
TRUMP DENIGRATING JOE BIDEN: Trump on Joe Biden, who recently announced a cancer diagnosis: "If you feel sorry for him, don't feel so sorry, because he's vicious ... I really don't feel sorry for him."
Trump on Joe Biden, who recently announced a cancer diagnosis: "If you feel sorry for him, don't feel so sorry, because he's vicious ... I really don't feel sorry for him." pic.twitter.com/qOT4hC67Qc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 30, 2025
Thursday, May 29, 2025
THE REASON THE WEST POINT GRADUATING CADETS DID NOT SHAKE TRUMP'S HAND:
The Cadet Honor Code at West Point, a cornerstone of their ethical foundation, is succinctly stated as: "A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do".
This code, deeply rooted in the academy's history, emphasizes the importance of integrity and trust among cadets.
Key Aspects of the West Point Honor Code:
Core Tenets: The Honor Code prohibits lying, cheating, stealing, and tolerating such actions in others.
Their current Commander in Chief is a convicted felon, liar, cheat, and fraudster.
Shaking his hand at their commencement ceremony would have broken their Code of Honor.
Let that sink in.
That's where we are as a country. 77 million of our fellow Americans elected a man so corrupt and dishonorable that the graduating cadets at West Point could not in good conscience shake that man's hand.
During a West Point commencement speech, cadets reportedly expressed concern about shaking hands with Donald Trump, who at the time was a former president facing legal challenges.
Their concern stemmed from the "toleration clause" of the Honor Code, suggesting that shaking hands with someone convicted of felonies could be interpreted as condoning those actions.
Cadets' Perspective:
Cadets felt that shaking the hand of someone they perceived as not adhering to the Honor Code could be seen as a violation of their own commitment to the code, according to reports.
They emphasized that the Honor Code is not just a set of rules but a fundamental principle they take very seriously.
Trump's Actions:
Trump's decision to depart quickly after the speech was presented as a way to avoid a situation that could compromise the cadets' commitment to the Honor Code.
It was suggested that his departure was a way to protect the "very soul of West Point," according to a Reddit post.
In essence, the situation highlights the weight and significance of the West Point Honor Code for cadets, who are expected to uphold its principles in all their actions and interactions.
The TACO Kid: Wall Street is mocking Trump — and it has nothing to do with his diet
The acronym "TACO," which stands for "Trump Always Chickens Out," was reportedly coined by a Financial Times columnist, Robert Armstrong, and quickly gained traction on Wall Street.
“Each apparent escalation of the trade war has been followed up by a pause, a pattern that was apparent before April when the US president began to make pronouncements about Canada and Mexico, the prelude to his assault on the global trade system on ‘Liberation Day,’” he added.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
"The Trump administration is among the most corrupt in modern American history." --Conservative David Frum
Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
Paul Walczak in 2011. His recent pardon by President Trump spared him from having to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution and serving 18 months in prison.Bill Ingram/Palm Beach Post/USA TODAY NETWORK, via Imagn Images
Trump to pardon a reality TV couple convicted in $36M fraud
Paul Walczak in 2011. His recent pardon by President Trump spared him from having to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution and serving 18 months in prison.Bill Ingram/Palm Beach Post/USA TODAY NETWORK, via Imagn Images
Todd and Julie Chrisley’s daughter, Savannah, spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2024.
In November 2022, Todd and Julie Chrisley were sentenced to prison terms of 12 and seven years, respectively, for conspiring to defraud banks in Atlanta of more than $36 million and evading taxes.
Jenkins was convicted by a jury in December 2024 on charges including one count of conspiracy, four counts of honest services fraud and seven counts of bribery concerning federally funded programs.
Lee wrote in a March sentencing memo that Jenkins repeatedly violated the public's trust "by exploiting his official powers for personal gain."
"After he was caught, he sought to manipulate the judicial process and to evade responsibility for his crimes by lying to the Court and the jury," Lee added.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
This was Trump's Memorial Day message to America.
Not one mention of the military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice serving our country.
The people who still support this deeply sick malignant narcissist need to look within themselves to understand why they tolerate this level of disrespect and idiocy in Trump.
This made me sick to my stomach. That was a normal reaction. Anything else, IMO, is not normal.
"On Memorial Day, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Donald Trump bragged about the World Cup, the Olympics, and the 250 year anniversary of the start of the Revolution: 'Look what I have. I have everything… God did that. God did it.' ”
Disgrace has lost its meaning."
This is a good explanation for why 30+% of the American people continue to support the convicted felon, sexual assaulter, liar, cheat, and fraud:
Monday, May 26, 2025
On this Memorial Day
‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish
“Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.” —Pete Buttigieg
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Friday, May 23, 2025
THIS IS FOR OUR P.E. FRIEND, SKUDRUNNER:
Remember the times you claimed Pete Buttigieg was unqualified to be Secy. of Transportation?
What do you have to say about this? : :
In a shocking leaked audio, Trump’s newly sworn-in head of the Social Security Administration Frank Bisignano admits he didn’t even know what the job was: “I'm like, well, what am I going to do? So, I'm Googling Social Security. I'm like, what the heck's the commissioner of Social Security?”
NEW: In a shocking leaked audio, Trump’s newly sworn-in head of the Social Security Administration Frank Bisignano admits he didn’t even know what the job was: “I'm like, well, what am I going to do? So, I'm Googling Social Security. I'm like, what the heck's the commissioner of… pic.twitter.com/dd0bXG9eHh
— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) May 23, 2025
And how about the times you dragged the Biden Administration for hurting the middle and lower classes?
This is what the Trump administration is doing to them. Where's your indignation on this?
Thursday, May 22, 2025
'The Largest Wealth Transfer In American History'
"...the $3.8 trillion extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, which disproportionately benefit the wealthy and corporations. Yesterday the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said that Americans in the lowest tenth of earners will lose money under the measure while people in the top five percent of earners will see a tax cut of $117.2 billion, more than 20% of the tax cuts in the bill.
Poorer Americans take a hit from the bill because it cuts federal healthcare and food assistance programs to partially offset the costs of the tax cuts. Cuts to Medicaid are expected to leave at least 9 million people without healthcare coverage. Cuts of about 30% to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would be “the biggest cut in the program’s history,” Ty Jones Cox, vice president for food assistance policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, told Lorie Konish of CNBC. They would cut about $300 billion from the program through 2034. More than 40 million people, including children, seniors, and adults with disabilities, receive food assistance.
Yesterday the CBO reported that the measure will add $2.3 trillion to the deficit over ten years, and noted that when a budget adds too much to the federal deficit, it triggers cuts to Medicare (not a typo) under the Pay-As-You-Go law. The CBO explains that those cuts are limited by law to 4% but would still total about $490 billion from 2027 through 2034.
Tobias Burns of The Hill summed it up: “Republicans’ tax-and-spending cut bill will take from the poor and give to the rich, Congress’s official scoring body has found.”
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This is your Trumpublican administration in action: Taking from the poorest Americans and giving to the richest.
Have you lost your Medicaid? You have no recourse. You could sue, but then the administration would ignore the suit because it has now been codified that the courts can't enforce any decision.
As noted everywhere, this is a cruel bill
"A defining feature of American culture is that everyone believes that in the "Empire of Liberty" each individual is solely responsible for his or her financial success in life.
Those who become rich therefore deserve their wealth and should not be taxed or regulated in any way as to do so would be to punish them for their wealth-creating virtue.
Those who become poor, however, not only deserve their poverty, but must be punished for it, as without punishment how would they ever realize the error of their ways?
With this core belief in a divine moral order that rewards the deserving rich and punishes the deserving poor, what does a person who "worked hard and followed the rules" and yet ended up poor (or just not rich) believe?
Well some some black or brown person, some immigrant, some liberal do-gooder, some corrupt elite must have rigged the system to take from hardworking people what is rightfully theirs and give it instead to some undeserving freeloader.
Once you understand this core belief that defines American culture, you will understand everything you need to know about the "Empire of Liberty."
You will also understand exactly why such a wealthy nation has such a threadbare social safety net and why it wants to make getting any benefits from that threadbare social safety net as difficult, as embarrassing, and as punitive as possible."
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
ANOTHER FIASCO IN THE OVAL OFFICE BY THE FELON-IN-CHIEF
South Africa's President Ramaphosa was ambushed by Trump in the Oval Office today. It was a display of disrespect and vulgarity (well, to be fair, Trump IS a short-fingered vulgarian) unheard of in previous visits by heads of state to a sitting president.
Trump played a fraudulent video in the Oval Office during South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit in order to try and push a false narrative. Trump claimed that the video was of 1000 roadside graves of dead White South Africans. In reality, it was just a political statement made by a politician in the country and not actually of real graves.
No evidence supports claims of a "white genocide" in South Africa. The Expropriation Act of 2024 addresses historical land inequalities, applying to all landowners, not targeting white farmers. Farm attacks occur, with 32-50 murders yearly, but are primarily robbery-driven, not targeting white farmers. Farm attacks occur, with 32-50 murders yearly, but are primarily robbery-driven, not racially motivated. White murder rates are lower than other groups. South African courts and officials dismiss genocide claims as false.
Trump's claims about genocide being perpetrated against White Afrikaners is false.
Too incurious to find out the facts, Trump showed America and the world that he's an uninformed idiot, shooting his mouth off on things he knows nothing about.
America's shame.
#ProudBlue #Resist Well someone didn’t do any fact checking before handing a story to #Felon47. I wonder if any other articles he used as “proof” of white people being murdered in South Africa were about other countries. Does he even realize South Africa is a country in the continent of Africa?
— Barbara Rybolt (@barbararybolt.bsky.social) May 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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CONTEMPTIBLE
Trump on Harvard University: “The students they have, the professors they have, the attitude they have is not American…So we'll pull back the grant.”pic.twitter.com/o9mID3CyJf
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) May 20, 2025
Harvard University IS America.
Harvard will sustain this attack on America's oldest university from where several of our esteemed presidents, scientists, jurists, writers, poets, philosophers graduated.
Trump will be gone in a little more than 3 1/2 years, and he will go down in American history as our least educated, most destructive, and most anti-democracy of all US presidents.
Harvard has stood for 389 years; Trump for 79.
Harvard will still be here when Trump is long gone and forgotten by his betters and all people of good will.
Trump talks big now and attacks Harvard. Let him. It's what weak, insecure little men do to make themselves feel powerful, because they know they've been a profound failure as a human being.
Trump has 3 1/2 more years to secure his place in history, and it will NOT be kind to him.
Harvard will survive and have the last word:
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
DISGUSTING.
Imagine if former Presidents Obama or Biden had said anything like this about the red states, fellow Americans:
"We're going to make a couple of tweaks," Trump said of his "one big beautiful bill" during a Tuesday trip to Capitol Hill. "I mean, we don't want to benefit Democrat governors, although I would do that if it made it better, but they don't know what they're doing."
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"We want to benefit Republicans. They are the ones that are going to make America great again," he added. "The Democrats are destroying our country."
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Trump’s cuts to Medicaid will devastate red states, this will have a cascading effect on retirement home residents, disabled assistance, loss of medical jobs, closures of clinics. It’s a horrible joke on the voters of states Trump won.
SHAMEFUL!
The head of Homeland Security, Noem, doesn't know what Habeas corpus is. We have idiots running the country! (But she knows how to do fake eyelashes, hair extensions, and cosplay!) Y'know, the important stuff.
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Monday, May 19, 2025
THIS IS HOW FASCISTS BEHAVE
Limited Legal Authority:
The President's power to directly control business practices is limited. They cannot impose penalties or fines for raising prices, nor can they legally require companies to absorb tariff costs.
The President cannot dictate the prices that businesses charge their customers.
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Saturday, May 17, 2025
DEAR GAWD!
This is a post of a mentally diminished, petulant child.
Are you MAGA proud of this level of puerility in Trump?
With everything going on in this country and the world, the most powerful man in the world (he isn't) feels the need to post this on his way home from the Middle East?
Good to know that the president is busy with the important work of telling us which Americans are “not hot.”
Trump will never change. He will always be a global joke.
PRESIDENT MUSH FOR BRAINS
It's no wonder Trump's @PressSec hasn't released transcripts of Trump's remarks in over 2 months.
— KT "Special MI6 Operation" (@KremlinTrolls) May 16, 2025
Maybe it's because he says things like this? pic.twitter.com/FYVWNHOOPE
Friday, May 16, 2025
FRIDAYS ARE VOLUNTEER DAYS AT THE BLUEBERRY GOAT FARM
Here's Onyx who was born last year at the Blueberry Goat Farm. The milking goats at the farm are all Saanen breed, known for being excellent milkers. Their coats are normally white.
Onyx presents in browns and blacks, the normal colorations of alpine goats, because of a recessive gene. Both her dam and her buck were Saanen and white.
Onyx is friendly, affectionate, and healthy. I don't know if the owners of the goat farm will breed her in a year or two. If they do, I look forward to seeing what her kids will look like.
The Blueberry Goat Farm milkers are disbudded/dehorned a few days after birth for their safety and ours.
Onyx does not have wattles, as some of the other doelets on the farm do.
Sweet little Onyx prettily posing for a photo.
This year's group of kids was named with the letter "P."
I started volunteering during the letter "I" year.
So far, we have three little doelings: Prima, Poppy, and Penelope. And three little bucklings, Peter, Paul, and Patrick.
Prima, Poppy, and Patrick
Peter and Paul
Penelope and her mother, Naomi
We are waiting for two more does to give birth.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Just like other tyrants, dictators, and authoritarians...
No American president has ever done this.
Disgraceful.
(Again, imagine if Barack Obama had done this!)
Trump has always admired the bloody murderer, Putin.
Just like the North Korean dictator:
It won't be long before Trump copies another dictator he admires, Xi Jinping of Communist China:
RICK WILSON:
"In fascist systems, the leader is transformed from man into myth, into a superhuman figure—unbeatable, inevitable, omnipotent. Trump has his own modern iterations of Joseph Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl, Julius Streicher, and Hans Fritzsche working to saturate public and private spaces with his face, his brand, his ideas, his name, and his mythology.
Whether in the form of signs, banners, statues, murals, or big, synchronized military parades like the one coming up for the Dear Leader’s birthday, the imposition of image and symbolism serves as a critical instrument of control, unity, and intimidation."
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
HERE'S YOUR POTUS BEING AN OBSEQUIOUS LITTLE TOAD TO THE THE EMIR OF QATAR AND THE SAUDIS
Trump is an embarrassing nitwit on the world stage.
BREAKING: Trump praises the Emir of Qatar as “tall” and “handsome” instead of confronting him over Qatar’s atrocious human rights record and financial support for terrorist organizations around the world.
— Trump Lie Tracker (Commentary) (@MAGALieTracker) May 14, 2025
pic.twitter.com/wkuJcILe0T
Listen to your president, selling the U.S. out, groveling to those who sent planes to the Twin Towers. Taking a $400 million plane from QATAR, a country that financially supports Hezbollah and Hamas.
No President of the United States in my lifetime has ever denigrated and embarrassed our country as Trump has. This is grotesque.
Trump in Saudi Arabia: " I see the things that you're doing here and in your countries, it's just incredible...The whole world is talking about what you're doing and you're the envy of the world." pic.twitter.com/divmTsqUDP
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) May 14, 2025
Trump Gushes with Envy Toward the House of Saud
Trump Gushes with Envy Toward the House of Saud
American-style kleptocracy is fine and all. But what Trump really wants is the kind with aggressive repression, no dissent, and a bonesaw on hand just in case.
Autocrats, Kleptocrats, Plutocrats… Oh My!
by William Kristol
What a spectacle! There they were yesterday, assembled in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, autocrats and plutocrats and kleptocrats, gathered to enjoy each other’s company under the benevolent patronage of their host, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Saudi Arabia was an appropriate destination for Donald Trump’s first foreign trip in his second term as president. He chose to visit not a democracy but a despotism; not a free nation but one of the world’s most unfree; not a land of tolerance but of repression.
And Trump made it clear yesterday that he did not consider these features unfortunate or undesirable aspects of life under the House of Saud. There was not a hint of criticism or even of hesitation in the fulsome praise Trump heaped upon his hosts. The American president admires the Saudi achievements in autocracy, plutocracy, and kleptocracy.
And so Trump paid homage to his “friend,” Mohammed bin Salman, who rules without consent and who brooks no dissent. “I like him a lot. I like him too much,” the president said. So much for the late Jamal Khashoggi. As to the kingdom over which bin Salman rules, Trump said the United States has “no stronger partner.” So much for the free nations with whom we are allied.
And Trump emphasized that the achievements of Saudi Arabia that he admires have nothing to do with democratic principles or ideas of freedom. Quite the opposite. He disparaged those who supported efforts at democratization and liberalization in the region—“the so-called nation builders, neocons, or liberal nonprofits.”
“It’s crucial,” he said, “for the wider world to know this great transformation has not come from Western intervention or . . . lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs.”
Once upon a time, when American presidents still believed in the principles of the American republic, they accepted that they still had to work with despotisms like Saudi Arabia. Still, they mostly tried to move them along, even if slowly, toward the goal of a freer society. “Liberalization” was the hope, from Riyadh to Beijing. The goal may not have always been pursued consistently or effectively. But it was held out as a not-ignoble hope, as a desirable outcome.
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