Wheelz
February 22, 2026, 5:58am
2601
So basically, the Executive Branch is flat-out ignoring a ruling of the Supreme Court. How is this not the biggest story on every news outlet in the country? What the actual fuck?
Monty
February 22, 2026, 6:16am
2602
That’s why I posted that “Hold my beer” comment upthread. We are deep into the proverbial frog in the pot analogy. That’s amazing since nothing the felon does is gradual.
Smapti
February 22, 2026, 6:18am
2603
I invite you to consider the possibility that Stephen Miller is full of shit.
I invite you to consider the possibility that whatever Stephen Miller is full of, it’s precisely why he got the job.
I got a fully fitted, silk lined, hand made three piece suit for the equivalent of US$180.
Granted it was in a third world country.
Seeing as these are going to be off the shelf, and probably not tailored at all, are we entering the “Trump Sartorial Elegance” era, or is this (gasp!) another grift? “Trump Tailors”, perhaps.
I probably did not need to ask that last question.
Monty
February 22, 2026, 9:32am
2606
Of coursevthevthings will be sourced from.China.
Smapti
February 22, 2026, 9:34am
2607
His job is the same as everyone else’s in this administration; “make Trump happy”. Getting to be a gutter trash racist, which is what he’s in it for, is just one of the side perks.
He’s not a finance guy. The only reason he’s talking about tariffs is because President Grandpa is shitting himself with fury and needs constant reassurance.
Well, we’re headed that way…
solost
February 22, 2026, 4:59pm
2609
Hey, it’s not as if trump is the only one who has a beef with the Supreme Court. This guy named John Barron who called in to C-SPAN also has some serious complaints:
On Friday, an individual identifying themselves as “John Barron” phoned into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court’s ruling against President Donald Trump’s tariffs, but by Sunday, a prominent political commentator suggested that the mysterious...
It sounded like Trump talking while pinching his nostrils closed. Stable genius, that one.
I’m pretty sure that’s not Trump. People calling into C-SPAN don’t typically open by giving their full name. They’re introduced as, say, “John from Virginia.” However someone doing an impersonation of Trump might open with “This is John Barron” just to get the online politicos’ tongues wagging. Sort of a wink and a nod to those who remember Trump in the 90s.
Plus, I’m pretty sure Trump hasn’t tuned in to C-SPAN a day in his life. I’m not even convinced he’s heard of it.
dougrb
February 23, 2026, 12:32am
2612
Maybe we are sending a hospital ship to Greenland to ferry people to the mainland. Healthcare is much cheaper.
Smapti
February 23, 2026, 12:40am
2613
In all likelihood, Trump was briefed on this incident and his dementia-addled brain scrambled it into “Sir, there are many strong Greenlanders who are big fans of Trump, they have tears in their eyes and they’re saying ‘Sir, Denmark is doing nothing for us, we want Trump’”, and then he babbled incoherently about sending a hospital ship and told the staffer who tweets for him to post it.
Monty
February 23, 2026, 1:37am
2614
First Amendment? More like the First Forgeddaboutit.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has requested personal information of online users who have been critical of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to the New York Times .
The Times reported that names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize ICE have been requested as part of “hundreds of administrative subpoenas” issued by the federal agency in recent months, based on information provided by four government officials and tech employees. Reports have been corroborated by said companies to Military.com .
Some of the largest companies in the world that possess data for hundreds of millions of Americans have been contacted, including Google, Meta (which owns Facebook and Instagram), Reddit and Discord.
Military.com reached out for comment to all those companies, as well as DHS and the White House. The White House deferred remarks to DHS, which did not respond to an inquiry by press time.
This next one is my favorite news because of the parts I bolded and italicized .
COPENHAGEN, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Sunday “no thanks” to U.S. President Donald Trump’s idea of sending a hospital ship to Greenland, a territory that Trump has repeatedly said he wishes to take over.
Trump said on Saturday on social media he was working with Louisiana Governor and special envoy to Greenland, Jeff Landry, to send a hospital boat to Greenland.
"President Trump’s idea of sending an American hospital ship here to Greenland has been noted. But we have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens. It is a deliberate choice," Nielsen said in a post on Facebook.
Nielsen said Greenland remained open to dialogue and cooperation, also with the U.S.
“But talk to us instead of just making more or less random outbursts on social media ,” he said.
I hope you don’t need to fly anywhere soon.
The Department of Homeland Security is temporarily halting TSA PreCheck and Global Entry, two of the most widely used trusted-traveler programs in the United States, amid a partial government shutdown.
In a statement to CNN regarding the suspension of those programs, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said the Transportation Security Administration and Customs and Border Patrol “are focusing on the general traveling public at our airports and ports of entry and have suspended courtesy and special privilege escorts.”
“Shutdowns have serious real-world consequences, not just for the men and women of DHS and their families who go without a paycheck, but it endangers our national security,” the statement added. The Washington Post first reported on the measures.
The move marks a significant escalation in how the DHS shutdown is impacting travelers, effectively dismantling expedited airport security lanes and fast‑track customs processing relied on by millions of frequent flyers who are US citizens or legal permanent residents as well as international passengers from more than 20 countries .
The suspension comes during a partial government shutdown affecting only the Department of Homeland Security, after Congress failed to reach a funding agreement amid a standoff over immigration enforcement policy.
Instead of just blathering, Cruella, why don’t you have a chinwag with your felonious boss and get him to do his actual job for the first time in his life?
I like Bill Maher’s commentary on the felon’s actual job.
Comedian Bill Maher called for an end to the State of the Union address during “Real Time” on Friday, ahead of President Donald Trump ’s speech this week.
“Since the State of the Union address is next Tuesday, let’s get rid of the State of the Union address before Tuesday. And here’s why. Nothing has misled the American people to the warped belief that the president can act like a king more than this stupid, boring, performative after-dinner speech from hell where the Sergeant-at-Arms announces the president like he’s a king,” Maher said.
Trump is set to address Congress on Tuesday for his 2026 State of the Union speech.
“He walks into the room like Conor McGregor heading into the octagon, with members of Congress lining the aisle like medieval peasants hoping to touch the royal garments, and then he proceeds to tell Congress what he wants them to do, making it look like the president is in charge of everything, and it’s he who sets the agenda,” Maher continued.
The comedian said it wasn’t part of the “operating manual” of the Constitution. He then read Article 1, Section 1 of the document.
“Nearly half the words in our Constitution are in Article 1. That’s the one about Congress and all the stuff they’re supposed to be in charge of. The exclusive power to make laws, declare war, tax, tariff. Congress creates the laws . The president is just supposed to execute them,” he said.
“The star of this movie we call American Democracy is Congress. The president is at most up for best supporting actor,” he said.
Here’s a trifecta for the wannabe king.
President Donald Trump reposted a message calling Michelle Obama a “racist” and ranted against a former high-ranking official in Barack Obama’s administration as he prepares to face Democrats in Congress at the State of the Union address.
In a Truth Social post on Saturday, the president reposted a message from far-right activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer describing the former first lady as an “anti-white racist.” In his own caption, the president took aim at another Black woman in the same administration: former White House adviser Susan Rice.
Threatening Netflix to fire Rice, who serves on the company’s executive board, Trump wrote: “Netflix should fire racist, Trump Deranged Susan Rice, IMMEDIATELY, or pay the consequences.”
First amendment violation. Conspiracy nut. Racism. And here I was thinking he couldn’t multi-task.
The felon’s DOJ joins a lawsuit against a school district for discriminating against a particular “minority”.
For decades, the Los Angeles Unified School District has classified its schools based on the proportion of enrolled students who aren’t white.
In a city where more than two-thirds of residents identify as Hispanic, Black or Asian, that meant a vast majority were found to have extraordinarily diverse student bodies. And in an effort to combat segregation, the school district has afforded those diverse schools with smaller class sizes and other benefits.
But last month, a conservative group sued the school district , saying the decades-old program has become a mechanism of “overt discrimination against a new minority: white students”.
There you have it, folks. Whites are a minority. So says the government.
Cruelty isn’t just the point, it’s the only point. Nay, it’s the very essence.
Donald Trump’s administration is concentrating all pregnant children being held in federal immigration enforcement custody into one group shelter in south Texas, a state where abortion is outlawed with no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest.
Since last summer, more than a dozen pregnant minors, some as young as 13 years old, have been moved to a facility in San Benito along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a joint investigation by The Texas Newsroom and The California Newsroom, citing sources within the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Department of Health and Human Services.
The agency is responsible for children who entered the United States without a parent or legal guardian or who were separated from their families by immigration authorities.
Their detention at the Texas facility deviates from longstanding federal policy, which has typically placed unaccompanied minors into ORR shelters or foster homes that can handle high-risk pregnancies.
But legal advocates and care providers fear the administration has concentrated those girls into a poorly equipped Texas shelter, even if they were detained in other states, to ensure they are denied access to abortion care.
I can’t even.
Monty
February 23, 2026, 2:42am
2615
At least one of our soon to be former allies doesn’t doubt the felon’s going to go in big with his latest squirrel.
The Korean Embassy in Iran on Monday advised Korean nationals in the Middle Eastern country to leave it when flights are available as tensions are growing over the United States’ possible military attack on Tehran.
U.S. President Donald Trump said last week he is considering limited military strikes on Iran, exerting pressure on Tehran to reach a new nuclear deal.
“We advise (Korean nationals) to leave Iran when available flights are in operation,” the embassy said in a safety notice uploaded on its website, noting that if the situation rapidly worsens, private flights heading to and departing from Iran could be suspended.
smithsb
February 23, 2026, 4:14am
2616
TACO also describes Noem. The TSA program is back on. The usual PR disaster reared it’s head. So, flip-flop.
Monty
February 23, 2026, 8:43am
2617
France’s government tells the felon’s claque to STFU. (The bolding is mine.)
France will summon the US ambassador to Paris over comments made by the Trump administration about the killing of a French far-right activist blamed on the hard left, the foreign minister said Sunday.
The death of Quentin Deranque has put France on edge, igniting tensions between the left and right ahead of a 2027 presidential vote.
It has also provoked international reactions, with US President Donald Trump’s right-wing administration on Friday denouncing what it called “terrorism” in France.
“We are going to summon the United States ambassador to France, since the US embassy in France commented on this tragedy … which concerns the national community,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told French media outlets.
“We reject any attempt to use this tragedy … for political purposes,” he added.
A diplomatic source later Sunday said ambassador Charles Kushner – the father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner – had been summoned for a meeting at 7:00 pm (1800 GMT) on Monday.
The source was however not at liberty to specify which French official would receive Kushner.
The beneficiary of the nepotism just might be thinking he didn’t expect to actually have to deal with being an ambassador.
icon
February 23, 2026, 12:49pm
2618
Here’s to hope, the “French official” is the equivalent of a janitor and keeps him waiting when he arrives.
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