Month: August 2025
Our Fascist Idiocracy: August 18, 2025
Lying liars lie about mail-in voting. After his disastrous peace summit with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, wannabe American dictator Donald Trump
announced on state regime TV that Putin agrees with him that letting voters send in ballots by mail puts honest elections at risk. “Vladimir Putin, smart guy, said you can’t have an honest election with mail-in voting,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” after a nearly three-hour meeting between the leaders in Alaska. “He said there’s not a country in the world that uses it now.”
Did Putin really say that? We’ll never know. But whoever said it, it was a lie. According to a CNN fact checker, “Dozens of other countries use mail-in voting, as CNN and others have pointed out when Trump has made such claims before. These countries include Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Switzerland.” But the clincher is that Russia legalized mail-in voting in 2020 in a law signed by Trump’s favorite dictator, Vladimir Putin.
Speaking of liars. Like Fox, its cohort in state regime media, Newsmax, has agreed to pay tens of millions in damages to Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems. But while Fox paid Dominion $787 million, Newsmax will pay $67 million.
Fascist fashionista. The producer of the “Trump Show” – the daily reality clown show that masquerades as the U.S. government – has ordered Ukrainian Presiden Vlodimir Zelensky’s to wear a suit to their meeting in the Oval Office today. J.D. Vance, Trump’s lap dog, gave Zelensky an on-camera dressing down for showing up last time dressed as what he is – a war leader. But wait – some of us are old enough to remember when former Friend of Donald, fascist bilionaire Elon Musk showed up repeatedly for Oval Office press avails wearing sloppy T-shirts and jeans, accessorized by a nose-picking four year old. Obviously, hypocrisy is just part of the show.
MAGA sets Soviet-style show trials of prominent Dems for mid-term campaign season. The Trump regime is promising retribution for the Democrats’ investigations into Dear Leader’s multiple criminal activities – inciting an insurrection, stealing dozens of boxes of classified documents, fraud, etc. – by investigating prominent Dems based on rumors, conspiracy theories and disinformation. It looks like MAGA’s Soviet-style show trials will be timed to broadcast during the campaign season next year.
A Transgressive Missive
Melania Trump broke protocol to draft a personal note to Putin
In which she didn’t mention the Ukranian shootin’.
She wrote about a world full of dignity,
She wrote about peace, the future, purity.
The letter undoubtably flattered, but indubitably didn’t move him.
The media’s reporting on the Alaska summit left the wrong impression.DHS to Spend Up to $50 Million to Rehab Noem’s Rep
$50 million
The Trump administration is set to spend up to $50 million on a wave of taxpayer-funded PR amid the torrent of negative coverage dogging his Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, reports the Daily Beast. A planning forecast record posted this week by the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) pledges $20 million to $50 million as an “International Campaign Follow-on” to the “Stronger Border, Stronger America” ads that have starred Noem.
Outside Time and Space
You’ve gotta wonder about Representative Anna Paulina Luna.
Her concerns seem to be from Andromeda, not Florida.
She wants government transparency
Into topics that sound like lunacy:
All files on “multidimensional beings” and “unidentified anomalous phenomena.”
Conservation Group Has Pulled 20 Tons of Python from Southwest Florida Wilds Since 2013
40,000 pounds
More than 20 tons of Burmese python have now been pulled from the wilds of Southwest Florida by one of the region’s most enduring and effective science teams, reported the Palm Beach Post. In early June, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced it had removed more than 6,300 pounds of snakes during the most recent six-month season, pushing the program’s total haul past the 40,000-pound mark since its launch in 2013.
Trump’s Tariffs Pulling in Billions
$27.7 billion
data from the Treasury Department released Tuesday afternoon confirmed that July marked another record month on the revenue front, with some $27.7 billion in customs duties coming into US coffers, reports Yahoo Finance. This was another step up from June’s total of $26.6 billion and May’s total of $22.2 billion. It represents a significant jump from around $8 billion in customs duties one year ago and brings the total for the fiscal year to around $135.7 billion.
Trump Is Losing Support Among Republicans
-9%
A new Economist/YouGov poll finds 83% of Republican-leaning Americans approve of President Trump, down from 92% in January. Interestingly, a majority of Americans think Trump knew some (27%) or a lot (44%) about the sex crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein against underage girls before investigations into Epstein began; only 8% say he knew nothing about them.
Tangling in Anchorage
Already, pundits are saying the Russian dictator will best him.
Some say it’s just an opportunity for Putin
To program Comrade Don with new instructions.
If Trump wants to prove he’s not Putin’s “asset,” he’ll arrest him.
