Odesio
April 20, 2026, 5:01am
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Oh, snap! If he’s working with Todd Blanche and the rest of the DOJ then we’re looking at some slam dunk prosecutions!
Smapti
April 20, 2026, 6:17am
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Kash “DOLLA DOLLA BILL Y’ALL” Patel apparently thinks it’s a bragging point that there were more attempted terrorist attacks in one month last year than there were during the entire Biden presidency.
Monty
April 20, 2026, 7:18am
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That’s because he’s using the felon’s definition of a terrorist attack: he felt like one was being planned so he stopped it in advance. How? Duh. He felt like he stopped it!
Can’t the 22nd amendment somehow be “reinterpreted” by SCOTUS on the grounds it’s unfair or not giving the people what they want? The usual 5-4 vote to give Trump what he wants.
At any rate, he has to decide which of Vance / Rubio / Hegseth to endorse, on the agreement that they pardon him. Hasn’t he also pardoned people with state charges that were set up as precedent and upheld by the usual SCOTUS 5-4? If not, just the felonies he’s been convicted of can only be appealed for so long. He will end up in jail by 2030 if he lives that long, otherwise.
My thought exactly. That Atlantic article has him shook.
Monty
April 20, 2026, 5:02pm
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Speaking of elections…
NEW YORK, April 19 (Reuters) - Michigan officials on Sunday pushed back on a U.S. Department of Justice demand for Detroit-area ballots and other materials related to the 2024 election, accusing the Trump administration of trying to cast doubt on the integrity of U.S. elections.
The Justice Department last week sent a letter demanding ballots, ballot receipts and ballot envelopes to the clerk in Wayne County, home to the heavily Democratic-leaning city of Detroit, according to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
Nessel’s office released the DOJ’s letter, authored by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, along with a reply vowing to fight the request.
"This request is as absurd as it is baseless,” Nessel said in a joint statement with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
"If this administration wants to bring this circus to our state, my office is prepared to protect the people’s right to vote.”
In short: go pound sand, felon.
And now she’s finding out being blonde doesn’t mean she’s trusted by the felon.
When it comes to Donald Trump, not even his own press secretary knows what he’ll do next.
White House officials told Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal that Trump, 79, has repeatedly taunted Karoline Leavitt, 28, by claiming he has leaked information to a journalist—without saying what he said or to whom. Instead, he has teased the top communications adviser that she will have to “wait and see” like everyone else.
Since Trump and Israel launched their surprise war on Iran on Feb. 28, the president has been fielding calls on his personal cellphone from an ever-widening circle of journalists , often offering contradictory messages.
White House officials told the Journal that aides have taken turns trying to warn him against taking such calls, which have sown further chaos and confusion across the country.
Please let it be his announcement of resignation. Hey, I’m allowed a flight of fancy from time to time.
The war criminal finally found someone to tell him his war crimes aren’t war crimes.
U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz defended President Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants Sunday, telling ABC’s This Week that such strikes wouldn’t amount to a war crime.
“All options are on the table, absolutely,” Waltz told anchor Jonathan Karl. “We could take that infrastructure out relatively easily. The Iranian air defenses have been absolutely decimated.”
Waltz went further, preempting the criticism: “Just to get ahead of a lot of the critics and hand-wringing, throwing out irresponsible terms like ‘war crimes,’ attacking, destroying infrastructure that has clearly and historically been used for dual military purposes is not a war crime.”
Karl pressed him. “The president today said that he would knock out every single power plant and every single bridge in Iran. He’s not just talking about those that are supporting the military infrastructure. He’s saying every bridge.”
“That would be an escalatory ladder,” Waltz said, comparing it to World War II. “Of course, we bombed and took down bridges, other infrastructure, power plants.”
Waltz made similar comments on CBS, calling the war crime framing “a false, fake, and ridiculous notion.” “Bridges, power plants that are run by the IRGC are absolute legitimate military targets, not only now, but have been historically,” he said, referring to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Escalatory ladder? Yeah, right. It’s escalating to war crimes .
Guess who’s hankering for the nation’s highest military award.
President Donald Trump, a five-time draft dodger, has plotted how to bestow upon himself the U.S. military’s highest honor while scrambling over a war he started.
White House insiders told The Wall Street Journal in a report published Saturday night that amid the chaos of his war on Iran, Trump, 79, has considered giving himself the Medal of Honor—the nation’s most prestigious military recognition.
Citing a senior administration official and people who had spoken with the president, the newspaper reported that Trump has been panicking over his handling of the war he started.
The officials said that apart from melting down so dramatically that he was banished from a briefing on a downed-pilot rescue mission, the president has repeatedly shifted focus to other topics, be it his $400 million ballroom or fundraisers for the upcoming midterms.
Among those distractions, the insiders said Trump has mused about honoring himself with the Medal of Honor—an award authorized by the commander in chief to recognize a military service member who “distinguishes himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.”
The Journal reported that Trump pondered the idea during a White House reception ahead of the nation’s semiquincentennial this July, saying he deserved it because his plane flew into Iraq on an unlit runway during a first-term trip to visit troops stationed in the country, citing people who were at the event.
The Daily Beast reached out to the White House for comment.
It’s not the first time the president has sought the prestigious accolade.
The Mutiny agains the Insane Inane at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
When President Donald Trump learned that two American pilots had gone missing in Iran on Good Friday, he “screamed at aides for hours” and was then “kept out of the room” while his team was given minute-by-minute updates, according to a report.
An F-15 fighter jet was shot down over Iran on April 3, prompting a high-stakes rescue mission for the missing airmen . One crew member was swiftly rescued by U.S. forces after ejecting before the aircraft went down - but the second crew member spent more than 24 hours behind enemy lines before he was safely extracted.
Back in Washington, D.C., Trump’s fears about how the war was playing out “were ramping up,” according to The Wall Street Journal .
“Trump screamed at aides for hours” after he was informed the fighter jet had been shot down and two airmen were missing , the outlet reported, citing a senior administration official. “Images of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis — one of the biggest international policy failures of a presidency in recent times — had been looming large in his mind,” WSJ reported.
Over the next 24 hours, Trump’s most senior aides and administration officials, including Vice President JD Vance and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, dialed into the Situation Room to receive updates.
Trump was not included in the meeting but was kept updated “at meaningful moments” on the phone, according to the WSJ , citing a senior administration official.
“Aides kept the president out of the room as they got minute-by-minute updates because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful,” the official told the newspaper.
Are you standing up? You better sit down. Are you already sitting down? You had better spread out on the ground for this one.
Rip van Simple considering paying $20 billion dollars to Iran.
President Donald Trump is considering a deal with Iran that would return $20 billion in frozen assets back to the U.S. adversary, a new report alleges.
Trump and his proxies are negotiating over a three-page plan to permanently end hostilities, with an element of the discussion being the unfreezing of billions in Iranian funds in exchange for Iran giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium, four sources tell Axios .
The site reports that there has been steady progress toward a deal this week, but “significant gaps remain.” Trump, 79, announced just before markets opened on Friday morning that the Strait of Hormuz was back open.
He condemns President Obama for following the law when Obama returned Iran’s funds to them. This time the payment’s not following the law; it’s solely to assist him in getting out of a mess he’s created.
Killer Kennedy doesn’t need any of that science “garbage”.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rejected the findings of a recent Danish study that found no link between autism and Tylenol use during pregnancy, calling the research “garbage” and “fraudulent.”
“The study is a garbage study; it should be retracted,” he told lawmakers when asked about the findings during Friday’s hearing before the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
The study published in the peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA Pediatrics this week evaluated the potential association using the medical records of over a million women in Denmark.
The study’s publication addressed Kennedy’s concern of potential bias, stating that the “true exposure level among those with low-level exposure was likely underestimated,” but it also noted that past studies of over-the-counter drugs “have shown such bias to be largely negligible.”
One such study carried out in 2021 examined Kennedy’s concern, specifically whether Danish prescription registries are valid data sources for assessing the effects of aspirin and NSAID use. The study concluded that non-recorded use of both medications had a “virtually negligible” influence on the true usage.
The felon signals…who knows whom…to have a female journalest ejected.
As his press conference in the Oval Office was wrapping up, a reporter from CBS News asked about developments in the Strait of Hormuz, a thorny issue for the president, who keeps claiming victory in Iran and then having to backtrack .
As an aide tried to silence the question, Trump made a brief, dismissive hand gesture, signaling he wanted the reporter, Olivia Rinaldi, gone.
Using his pointer finger, he made a circular gesture and then followed that up with a thumb to the side, clearly asking for the journalist to be removed.
President Trump declined to answer CBS News’ @olivialarinaldi ’s question on reports of Iranian gunboats shooting at vessels in the Strait of Hormuz Saturday morning.
This comes after the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre announced there were apparent attacks on… pic.twitter.com/tMfoTSYaue
— CBS News (@CBSNews ) April 18, 2026
The exchange follows several past interactions that have drawn criticism, causing many to accuse Trump of having a certain amount of disdain for female reporters.
I’ve said it before and I’m going to keep saying it until the press gaggle starts doing it or the felon croaks out of office. Each time the felon tries to avoid the question, the next journalist up needs to repeat the question.
So shook that he’s recklessly risking DISCOVERY: he’s suing for defamation. Which means he has to prove that The Atlantic knew that what they published about him was false.
Which means discovery. Wherein all that they published about him will be shown to be very, very, very true.
No doubt Lush Patel believes he’s following the august example of King Donald, who routinely punishes those who displease him by making them hire lawyers and take off time from work to appear in court, etc.
But what Lush hasn’t realized is that
he’s actually shining a HUGE spotlight on his own ghastly job performance, and
The Atlantic will be able to countersue, and take him for whatever he’s been able to grift while in office.
Of course there’s also the fact that Donald’s tried-and-true method of punishing people (by suing them) hasn’t been working out so well, lately:
With his lawsuit, Patel is following a playbook used by his boss to fight back against damaging stories. Last week, a judge in Florida dismissed Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its report about a risqué birthday greeting he had sent to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The judge said Trump had not plausibly alleged the story was published with actual malice, the standard for a libel finding.
Last September, another judge dismissed Trump’s $15 billion lawsuit against The New York Times and some reporters for a story critical of the president’s business acumen. …
Smapti
April 20, 2026, 9:32pm
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Trump: I have made a big beautiful deal with Iran
Trump 5 minutes later: I don’t need to make a deal with Iran
Smapti
April 20, 2026, 10:04pm
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Monty
April 20, 2026, 10:11pm
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@Smapti I see Rip van Simple of the Clan Bigot had to chuck in president Obama’s middle name. Thre’s one reason and one reason only for that stunt.
Actual footage of Kash in the spotlight:
Interesting that it’s yet a third female member of his Liquor Cabinet.
Smapti
April 21, 2026, 12:11am
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When Trump attended Wrestlemania IV in 1989 he believed pro wrestling was real.
I’m surprised she wasn’t the first one out - there’s been issues with her for a while. I guess after he let Ice Ice Barbie go it was all downhill from there. And while yes, so far it’s all been women, I think Lush Patel and Kegsbreath are skating on thin ice as well.
This post about it from former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich just about broke my heart.
Smapti
April 21, 2026, 1:35am
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From your article;
She’s alleged to have been drinking during the workday from a “stash” of alcohol in her office, arranging official trips for herself that were extended vacations, taking subordinates to an Oregon strip club while on one such trip, showing no interest in the work of the department, and having an affair with a member of her security team.
I actually have some inside knowledge of that Oregon trip! It took place in September of last year. I know about it because in October I took a vacation in Portland and booked a spot on a day trip van tour to Multnomah Falls and Mt. Hood, and the tour guide told us he’d just recently done a bespoke city tour for a number of Cabinet members, including Hegseth and Noem. It was just a few days later that Trump tweeted about how he was going to send the military into “war-ravaged Portland” (which never wound up happening) and the guide quipped that he must’ve shown them the wrong side of town.
Oh my goodness, I remember you writing about that!
I clicked the link, and God forgive me, my first thought was that she was forced out because she had declined to adopt a Mar-A-Lago face.
(light-years more misogynistic than I consider acceptable to come out of my brain, but it was reflexive, and no one can tell me I was wrong)
PLEASE tell me it was Hawthorne Strip. The guy who owns that place is a douchebag.
Monty
April 21, 2026, 12:27pm
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The traitor-in-chief is back to spouting polls.
President Donald Trump has begun sharing X polls in a desperate bid to prove his own popularity.
A myriad of recent polls suggest that Americans are particularly concerned about the economy, the spiraling war in Iran, and how the president is handling those issues. But not in Trump’s mind.
In an attempt to regain control of the narrative, the 79-year-old shared a screengrab on Truth Social detailing a poll from an X account named “America First Now.”
The account claims to be based in the U.S., but an advisory notice in its account information section warns that the profile manager may “have used a proxy—such as a VPN” to change the country displayed on their profile.
It cites data from a months-old Wall Street Journal poll—then cherry-picks the most flattering numbers, ignoring the bad. In fact, the post completely ignores the WSJ piece’s headline , which was particularly unflattering to Trump. “It’s Trump’s Economy, and Voters Are Unhappy With It,” it read.
Not for nothing, but have you ever heard of the CRAAP test ? Take a wild guess what rating I’d give that post.
Tees. Tees and greens. Tees and greens and…oh, my…windimills!
Environmental activists took a swing at Donald Trump —on his own golf club’s turf.
Protesters erected mock windmills on the green at Trump Turnberry Golf Club in South Ayrshire, Scotland, Greenpeace announced Monday. All six structures stood roughly 10 feet tall and were planted beside a sign reading: “Choose Wind. Dump Trump.”
The felon doesn’t know where his second is.
Whiplash over the Iran war intensified on Monday as Donald Trump made conflicting claims about the whereabouts of his Vice President JD Vance.
As the war entered another day, the 79-year-old president struggled to keep his plans straight, adding to confusion about where things stand.
On Sunday, the president said Vance wasn’t going to Pakistan to lead the peace talks with Iran.
Trump had told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl that Vance would not be part of the U.S. delegation for the next round of talks. “It’s only because of security,” he insisted.
Then it turned out that the vice president was, indeed, going to Islamabad. Shortly after Karl broadcast his information, direct from Trump, on This Week , Karoline Leavitt told other reporters on the record that Vance was going.
And on Monday, the befuddled president said his number two was in the air, only for Vance to turn up at the White House.
Do you remember the old Saturday morning cartoons? One gag was to have a long hall with many doors on both sides of the hall. The characters would go in one door and come out a different door that wasn’t possible if they’d been real.
This clusterfuck is now a cartoon. Who am i kidding? It’s been a cartoon from the get-go!
Oh, oh, oh! You know full well I am going to stay home this Sunday so I can watch the felon bomb . (The bolding is mine.)
Donald Trump has hired joke writers to help his “roast” set during Saturday’s annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner — his first-ever while president.
That’s according to daughter-in-law and former RNC chair Lara Trump, who told Meghan McCain on Monday that the dinner is a “full-circle moment” for the president and that he’s not going to “hold anything back.”
Sitting with “Citizen McCain” podcast hosts McCain and Miranda Wilkins, Lara Trump teased what to expect from her father-in-law’s highly anticipated appearance at the WHCA event as McCain wished for a “Comedy Central roast of a celebrity on acid.”
“I hope that he roasts every journalist in the room and I hope I can watch it and enjoy it, and I hope he just takes them all to task,” McCain said. “I’m really excited about it.”
“What I’ll say is people probably already know this about the president: He is one of the funniest people I have ever met,” Lara Trump said of Donald, emphasizing that “his jokes really hit” and “this is going to be a good time.”
Hitting the in-floor toilet is not a good thing.
