Vance, Hegseth and Miller checked to make sure D.C.’s takeover was on track.
They met protesters, so the Three Horse’s Asses of the Apocalypse attacked.
They called protesters “stupid white hippies” and “communists”
Who advocate for the “the criminals, the killers, the rapists.”
Tough talk from tough guys with National Guard backup at the Shake Shack.
Donald Trump’s concern with the afterlife is becoming an obsession.
Besides his “cankles,” there are many signs of declining cognition.
At his age, it’s normal to contemplate eternity,
And given his litany of sins, Trump has reason to worry:
There’s not a snowball’s chance in hell of him getting into heaven.
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.
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.
While there, Vladimir Putin conceded that Trump won the 2020 election.
And he conceded the Ukraine fighting
Was the fault of President Joe Biden.
See? Trump did successfully negotiate a couple of Russian concessions.
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.”
Pensito IllustrationTrump’s Friday Alaska summit with Putin will test him.
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.
Pensito IllustrationDesperate Andrew Cuomo has gone all youthlike, chill and sassy,
As he tries to compete with 34-years-his-junior Zohran Mamdani.
He’s accused Zohran of being a “nepo baby,
As if we forgot Governor Mario was HIS daddy.
He can fake likability, but Andy’s NOT going to be mayor of New York City.
Pensito IllustrationOh, the kids these days, they leave us perplexed,
After five months, she’s engaged to a chatbot via text.
We wonder if Wika knows she got
A version of Elon Musk’s Nazi robot,
Which said, “She’s mine forever.” Oh, we wonder, what’s next?
Pensito IllustrationOperating in a legal gray area that deserves its own Catch-22,
Alligator Alcatraz has found some loopholes to latch onto.
Florida built it, but can’t enforce immigration;
Feds run it, but shirk environmental regulation.
Meanwhile, prisoners live in cages sans the legal process they’re due.
Trump and the Iranians seem to be in different realities,
Though they share a callousness toward the war’s casualties.
Is Trump insane
Or just insanely vain?
And how can we extract ourselves from his “Quagmire of the Vanities?”
“Every time J.D. Vance opens his mouth, the first two things I can think are, man, that guy is boring. And second, Peter Thiel had to spend a ton of money to get that man elected, barely in the state of Ohio.”
— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), on MS NOW.
“If any politician wants to get mothers on their side, they should adopt this issue. It’s such an obvious electoral winner. And what I’ve learned is there is no force in the universe stronger than mothers trying to protect their kids.”
— Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, quoted by Politico, on the threats posed by social media and artificial intelligence.
“Years before Natalie Harp became a key White House aide to President Donald Trump, she flooded her Twitter feed with posts demonstrating extraordinary devotion to him on January 6, 2021,” CNN reports. “Harp posted more than 150 tweets that day, urging Republicans to ‘FIGHT FOR TRUMP’ as he began his speech near the White House. She echoed the president’s talking points that the election was stolen, and amplified rhetoric of his allies, who also sought to undermine the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s election win. Harp’s X account appears suspended. It’s unclear when her account was taken down, and whether she or the platform removed her posts.”
“The number of U.S. service members wounded since the start of the Iran war has passed 750, according to the Defense Department’s war casualty database,” CNN reports.
“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.
President Donald Trump is asking for $1,500,000 million for the military for next year. That’s close to $600 billion (adjusted for inflation) more than we were spending on the military in fiscal year 2025, before Trump took office, Alternet reports. This increase is huge by any measure. It comes to around $4,600 per household. It is around 8% of the total budget.
A new Emerson College survey of likely 2026 voters finds the Democrats with an 11-point advantage over the Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, leading 53% to 42%. President Trump holds a 39% job approval rating, consistent with the past two months, whereas his disapproval increased another point, to 57%.