Frodo:
As I said at the start of this thing, if that’s the case it’s eerily parallel to Hitler’s 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, he was convinced that Stalin’s regime was teetering on the brink and that they would only need to “force the door to make the whole house go down” or words to that effect.
Actual quote: “We have only to kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.”
More euphonious, but just as catastrophically wrong a prediction.
Frodo
April 11, 2026, 1:19am
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That’s it, thanks! I couldn’t remember the exact words and was not inclined to google Hitler words at work.
dougrb
April 11, 2026, 2:26am
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Trump has repeatedly promised pardons to administration officials on multiple occasions, including during one recent meeting at which he reportedly said he’d “pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval” before he leaves office in January 2029.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-pardons-top-aides-b2955583.html
Usual Orange Peril bullshit: he has no intention of leaving office in January 2029 (or ever). The only way he’s leaving is feet first or frog marching. Not sure which I’d prefer.
Monty
April 11, 2026, 2:35am
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Yep, it’s yet another sinecure. Accented heavily on the sin .
When you put a convicted fraudster in charge, don’t be surprised when the accounting’s mysterious.
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration this week acknowledged it made a significant error in figures it used to help justify a fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program, a glaring mistake that undercuts a federal campaign to tackle waste, mostly in Democratic-led states.
The error, which the administration admitted first to The Associated Press, prompted health analysts to question how many of the Republican administration’s sweeping anti-fraud efforts around the country were based on faulty findings. One of a few mischaracterizations it made about New York’s Medicaid program, it also reflected a common criticism that’s been made of Trump’s second administration — that it tends to attack first and confirm the facts later.
“These numbers could have been cleared up in a phone call, so it’s really slapdash,” said Fiscal Policy Institute senior health policy adviser Michael Kinnucan, whose recent analysis called attention to the Trump administration’s inaccurate claim.
The mistake appeared in comments made last month by Dr. Mehmet Oz , the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in a social media video and in a letter to New York’s Democratic governor announcing the fraud investigation.
Oz claimed that New York’s Medicaid program last year provided some 5 million people with personal care services, which assist people in need with basic activities like bathing, grooming and meal preparation. That would add up to nearly three-fourths of the state’s 6.8 million Medicaid enrollees.
“That level of utilization is unheard of,” Oz said in the video, adding in his post that New York needs to “come clean about its Medicaid program.”
But the real number of New Yorkers who used those services last year was about 450,000, or between 6% and 7% of total enrollees, CMS spokesman Chris Krepich told the AP this week. He said the agency misidentified New York’s approach to applying billing codes and had since refined its methodology.
The felon’s Arc de la Vanité to be near Arlington National Cemetery.
Washington — The Interior Department has submitted renderings of President Trump’s proposed triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery, showing that the structure would dwarf the Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac River.
The proposal calls for the arch to be roughly 250 feet tall, more than twice as high as the 99-foot tall Lincoln Memorial. It would be the tallest triumphal arch in the world, like the president said he wanted, roughly 30 feet taller than the Plaza de la República in Mexico City.
The proposed building site sits in a traffic circle on the Virginia side of the Potomac, in between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, on land that technically falls within the boundaries of the District of Columbia.
The renderings in the article show how much of a blight on the landscape and cityscape this vainglorious monument would be–if it ever gets built.
You had one job!
The CDC was expected last month to publish a study showing that Covid vaccines reduced the likelihood of severe illness, but the agency’s acting director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, delayed its release due to concerns about the methodology.
The study was scheduled to come out in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s flagship scientific publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). But Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, said in an email that Bhattacharya “expressed concerns about the observational method used in this study to calculate vaccine effectiveness.”
“It’s routine for CDC leadership to review and flag concerns about MMWR papers, especially relating to their methodology, leading up to planned publication,” Nixon said. “Dr. Bhattacharya wants to make sure that the paper uses the most appropriate methodology for such a study.”
Top health officials in the Trump administration have criticized the way that vaccine research is typically conducted, calling into question methods that have been used for decades and are widely accepted among scientists. Many public health experts see this as part of a broader effort to sow doubt in vaccine safety and make vaccines less available to the public.
The felon does have an exit strategy for his chosen few adulators.
Since returning to office last year, President Donald Trump has used his pardon-issuing power to reward friends and allies, campaign donors , and the thousands of supporters who stormed the Capitol during a violent riot after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
Now, he is reportedly promising pardons to a broad swath of his aides as a way of shielding them from consequences for any potentially illegal acts committed in his service.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump has repeatedly promised pardons to administration officials on multiple occasions, including during one recent meeting at which he reportedly said he’d “pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval” before he leaves office in January 2029.
The Journal also reported that he’d had a separate conversation with aides in his private dining room during which he’d mused about holding a news conference to announce the mass pardons in the waning days of his administration.
The felon must be tired of all this “winning”.
NEW YORK — A Manhattan federal judge has vacated the Trump administration’s move to halt magnet school grants to New York City over its policies for transgender students .
Judge Arun Subramanian in a 10-page order Wednesday said the U.S. Department of Education failed to follow the procedures of Title IX — the federal civil rights law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex — and that it “strains credulity” to argue they do not apply in this case.
“It is undisputed both that defendants did not follow these statutory procedures, and that the procedures would apply if they non-continued the grants because of Title IX violations,” Subramanian wrote.
The judge said the Trump administration’s written back-and-forth with local education officials “makes clear that the alleged violations were violations of Title IX,” he wrote. “It thus strains credulity to argue that the DOE’s actions were anything other than an effort to enforce Title IX.”
It’s a full house, a house full of crooks. Do you want to bet?
The White House has written to staff reminding them that insider trading is a federal offense after a flurry of online bets cashed in on Donald Trump’s foreign policy decisions.
The email came after a series of lucrative wagers were placed on Trump’s decisions, such as pausing strikes in Iran and toppling Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, with many of the bets landing in the hours before the president’s announcements, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The felon’s paid liar tries to justify his war crimes.
“I understand the questions about the president’s rhetoric, but what the president cares most about is results,” said Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt.
Though the White House is claiming “victory” after President Donald Trump agreed to a final-hour ceasefire with Iran, it is struggling to explain away Trump’s vow to kill the entire Iranian civilization , which drew chills all around the globe.
During Wednesday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was repeatedly pressed about President Trump’s violent rhetoric and tried to justify his days-long threats to attack innocent civilians, particularly children.
“I understand the questions about the president’s rhetoric, but what the president cares most about is results,” said Leavitt, who described the president’s threat as “tough rhetoric.” She said, ultimately, it, along with his “tough negotiating style” led to real results with the current ceasefire.
When asked what her understanding of the president’s threat against Iranian civilians was, the Trump spokesperson said, “I think it was a very, very strong threat from the president of the United States that led the Iranian regime to cave to their knees and ask for a ceasefire.”
Leavitt affirmed that Trump’s remarks were “not an empty threat by any means,” explaining, “The Pentagon had a target list that they were ready to hit go.”
My mistake. She didn’t try to justify it at all. She just admired it.
And in news of the “WTF is he on about?” category.
Speaking as he left Hungary—where he controversially campaigned for far-right leader Viktor Orban’s upcoming election—Vance was asked about claims by Iran’s parliament speaker that America had violated three clauses of the ceasefire agreement.
These violations, according to Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, were Israel’s continued attacks on Lebanon, the entry of a drone into Iranian airspace, and the denial of the Islamic Republic’s right to enrich uranium. However, Vance responded with an insult.
“I actually wonder how good he is at understanding English, because there are things that he said that frankly didn’t make sense in some of the context of negotiations that we’ve had,” he told reporters.
Seriously? Your boss utters a lot of things that make no sense in any context. Moving on.
Vance then addressed the points the speaker made, firstly by declaring that “ceasefires are always messy,” before using a bizarre analogy involving Second Lady Usha Vance.
Noting Ghalibaf’s claim that Iran was being denied its right to enrich uranium, Vance said: “I thought to myself, You know what? My wife has the right to skydive, but she doesn’t jump out of an airplane because I don’t want my wife jumping out of an airplane.”
And the first shall be last. At least under the felon.
For the second year in a row, the Trump administration is proposing slashing federal funding for tribal colleges and universities .
President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal calls for a $1.5 trillion increase to defense spending and would carve billions of dollars out of programs that fulfill trust and treaty responsibilities to tribal nations, including entirely eliminating funding for the Institute for American Indian Arts, the country’s only federally funded college for contemporary Native American arts.
The budget proposal released last week also calls for cutting funding for TCUs, as well as funding for two schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Education: Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas and the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in New Mexico. Students at both colleges sued the BIE last year over funding and staffing cuts made by the administration.
“If this budget was to pass, our TCUs would be forced to close within a year,” said Ahniwake Rose, president of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, which represents the interests of tribal colleges and universities.
Trump’s budget proposal also slashes billions of federal dollars in housing, business, and infrastructure grants that benefit Native Americans.
There are about three dozen TCUs operated by tribal nations in the U.S., and they provide education to mostly rural parts of the country, often at a significant discount for tribal citizens. Most of them get the majority of their funding from the federal government. It’s a financial commitment tied to the country’s trust responsibilities and treaty rights owed to tribes.
Oh, there’s the reason right there. It’s a treaty obligtation. Of course he’s going t ignore it.
How about he starts out being frog marching and then croaks during it?
Plus Trump? Keep a promise? Yeah, right.
Odesio
April 11, 2026, 3:19am
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A few years back, I read that when Trump was just an incompetent businessman running his companies into the ground, he would often focus his attention on the minutia of his building’s aesthetics. Like he would personally spend a serious amount of his time just looking at different patterns for curtains or wallpaper trying to decide on what would be the best. I keep thinking the Trump is playing the fiddle while America burns.
Smapti
April 11, 2026, 3:21am
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These days it seems like Trump rolls a d4 every couple hours to determine what he’s going to post next
I will unleash the fury of the heavenly host upon Iran and all its people and they will know my name is the LORD
Iran has made a big beautiful deal to reopen the strait
Why won’t NATO open the strait, from which I need nothing, for me?
Hey, losers! Check out my awesome new building!
DWMarch
April 11, 2026, 3:42am
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It wasn’t cover for the raid, it botched the raid. They were setting up to attack Isfahan when that fighter got shot down. Then all of a sudden every solider, cop and Iranian concerned citizen with a gun was heading towards where those parachutes landed, with the staging area for the Isfahan raid being right in the middle. That massive amount of force was there to conduct the raid and to be ready to rescue Navy SEALs and Delta Force etc. but had to pivot to rescuing the downed aircrew instead while fighting off the Iranians streaming through their base camp (which they burned down as they left). Iran, now being fully aware of how and where the US forces tried to set up, are probably now taking proactive measures to make sure they can’t do it again.
(for reference, most of this is my own speculation and I also do not have sources for my assertions.)
TBF not knowing much about Hamilton other than his fatal duel, I had to Wiki ‘The Reynolds Affair.’
“This? Oh, uh… I was looking up teen porn and this came up instead. Yeah… So, how 'bout them Yankees?”
My guess on the “who” would be Netanyahu.
Monty:
The CDC was expected last month to publish a study showing that Covid vaccines reduced the likelihood of severe illness, but the agency’s acting director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, delayed its release due to concerns about the methodology.
I suspect the real problem is that the study didn’t come to the conclusion the Trump administration wanted it to.
Leavitt hasn’t been thrown under the bus yet? She’s pregnant so I expect when he fires her Donald will talk about how fat she is.
When has the US ever respected any treaties with the Natives? Aside from that, he treats every nation like that, see NATO and all other sooner to be former US allies.
DWMarch:
It wasn’t cover for the raid, it botched the raid. They were setting up to attack Isfahan when that fighter got shot down. Then all of a sudden every solider, cop and Iranian concerned citizen with a gun was heading towards where those parachutes landed, with the staging area for the Isfahan raid being right in the middle. That massive amount of force was there to conduct the raid and to be ready to rescue Navy SEALs and Delta Force etc. but had to pivot to rescuing the downed aircrew instead while fighting off the Iranians streaming through their base camp (which they burned down as they left). Iran, now being fully aware of how and where the US forces tried to set up, are probably now taking proactive measures to make sure they can’t do it again.
(for reference, most of this is my own speculation and I also do not have sources for my assertions.)
It’s a good and plausible scenario, though, and passes the sniff test much better than what the maladministration is saying.
I wonder when (if) we will get the whole unvarnished story of what actually happened there.
I think the R’s learned the lesson very well from Operation Eagle Claw under Carter, and from the Benghazi attacks in 2012.
What they learned is: If an operation goes tits-up, then cover up, deny and lie about what happened. Never, ever, ever reveal the truth.
If they’d learned a lesson, they might have been paying attention when Colin Powell created his doctrine.
The Powell Doctrine states that a list of questions all have to be answered affirmatively before military action is taken by the United States:
Is a vital national security interest threatened?
Do we have a clear attainable objective?
Have the risks and costs been fully and frankly analyzed?
Have all other non-violent policy means been fully exhausted?
Is there a plausible exit strategy to avoid endless entanglement?
Have the consequences of our action been fully considered?
Is the action supported by the American people?
Do we have genuine broad international support?
They paid attention to that, inasmuch as they read it and went “fuck that noise, we’re gonna go in and stomp them flat! Yeeehaaa!”
They are the idiots at the end of the bar spouting macho bullshit.
“No” on all counts. Impressive in its way. One of the ways in which power corrupts: you mistakenly think you lose the need to listen to other people.
Ah, but Powell was obviously a DEI hire; thus anything he said could be disregarded, or else was the opposite of true.
Worth noting the Bush administration itself, which included Powell himself, pretty much ignored the Powell doctrine when it was politically convenient to do so.
I only knew because of some research into Hamilton I’d done not long ago.
As for Melania’s motivation for bringing the Epstein Files back to the headlines: the immediate cause of her running to the microphone may be this–
…The ex-girlfriend of a former modeling agent-turned-presidential special envoy is threatening Melania Trump with legal action while vowing to tear down the first lady’s “corrupt system.”
Amanda Ungaro, a 41-year-old former model from Brazil, threatened to upend the first lady’s life in a series of intensifying posts on X just hours before Trump on Thursday disavowed all ties to Jeffrey Epstein or knowledge of his crimes. …
Apparently the “just hours” factor induced Melania to run, run, run—without any time to confer with Hubby.
