Monty
May 17, 2026, 5:50am
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But then Superman’s X-ray vision won’t work.
Infamously, Xi didn’t greet Donald—he sent his VP, instead. Let’s see if Putin gets more respectful treatment.
(It’s the Post so I didn’t visit the link.)
It’s said that Donald was the victim of Chair Deception. Putin likely won’t be, as I believe he’s noticeably shorter than Xi.
BBC says Trump ripped up Iran’s latest proposal after reading one line.
Considering he couldn’t read KCIII’s invite without handing it back to Starmer, I’m skeptical.
I am pretty sure Iran is not being taunting and belligerent. Nor do I think the one line said “Sir, you win! Please pick up the full sovereignty keys to Iran at your pleasure. We’ve made a copy for your bestie in Israel”
So I’ll go with poking the psycho.
“TACO!”
trump ripping up paper is already implausible. Is that his new threat? You get one line. Better use it well"
“The party of the first part…”
Monty
May 18, 2026, 5:27am
5466
The ballroom isn’t going to be paid for by the government!
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 16 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate official on Saturday removed security funding that could be used for President Donald Trump’s planned $400 million White House ballroom from a massive spending package, Democratic lawmakers said, imperiling Republican efforts to devote taxpayer money to the contentious project.
The decision by the Senate’s parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, deals a blow to Trump and his administration, which has sought the money for security purposes related to the ballroom.
Trump has said construction of the ballroom will be funded by private donors. But Senate Republicans are seeking $1 billion in taxpayer funding to the Secret Service for security upgrades, including the ballroom.
The parliamentarian interprets Senate rules, including whether legislative provisions are permitted. Trump’s fellow Republicans control the Senate, and they still could revise the legislation to try to gain the parliamentarian’s approval.
If they do not succeed, they may be unable to include the ballroom-related funding in a $72 billion spending package they plan to bring to a vote on the Senate floor, with passage expected on a party-line vote with Democrats opposed. The bulk of the legislation is devoted to immigration enforcement.
Just in case you thought we still have separate branches of government, Beetlejuice Fan One is here to show her support.
Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert suggested that Donald Trump blocked funds for a clean drinking water project in her state over the prosecution of election denier Tina Peters.
Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, commuted Peters’ nearly nine-year prison sentence on Friday, ordering her release on 1 June. The former Colorado county clerk had allowed unauthorized people to access voting records amid efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, in which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
Boebert welcomed the commutation the same day, taking some credit, but giving even more to Trump.
“I’m proud of the relentless pressure my office and I applied, working hand-in-hand with President Donald Trump, to highlight Tina’s case and demand fairness,” the congresswoman wrote . “This outcome would not have been possible without the continued pressure and advocacy from President Trump who always knew Tina deserved fairness under the law.”
Please note the irony of some promising to “drain the swamp” blocking funds for clean drinking water.
The Big Lie lives on.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo that he’s “not going to promise there’s going to be a definitive answer” on whether the 2020 election was stolen — a comment which seems unlikely to endear him to President Donald Trump .
In an interview on Sunday Morning Futures , Blanche — in response to a question from Bartiromo — did say “there’s a ton of evidence” to back Trump’s longstanding claims that the 2020 election was “rigged.” But he stopped short of saying he would be able to prove it.
“The president says all the time that the election was rigged,” Bartiromo said. “What have you done about that? Do you have any evidence that the elections was rigged?”
“Well, there’s a ton of evidence that the election was rigged,” Blanche replied. “That’s not something that DOJ needs to tell you about. There’s been evidence about that for many, many years. What I can tell you is that we have multiple investigations going on in Arizona, in Georgia — in Fulton County, Georgia. And that’s exactly what we’re looking at. By the way, this is very difficult because they’re very good. They’re very good at hiding misconduct, and hiding what they’re doing. And so that’s why we’re very focused on finding out whether the right people voted, whether people who were supposed to vote voted, whether there was one vote cast per voter. And that’s what we’re doing in multiple states.”
“I assure the American people that as soon as we have something to say for it, whether it’s charges, whether it’s a report, whether it’s the results of an investigation, the American people will learn about what we uncovered.
TLDR: “The absence of evidence is evidence the election was rigged.”
And the grift continues.
Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure has turned a routine ethics filing into a major political and financial talking point.
Newly released documents from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics show that Trump’s trust carried out 3,642 securities transactions in the first three months of 2026. That includes 2,346 purchases and 1,296 sales between January and March, with the total reported volume estimated between $220 million and $750 million because the forms list broad value ranges rather than exact figures.
Analysts are already calling this one of the most active reported trading periods for Trump since he returned to the presidency. And the companies involved are not small names; we are talking Apple, Netflix, Disney, Nvidia, Goldman Sachs, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast, and more.
And the meat of it is here:
Trump’s own company, Trump Media & Technology Group , has been publicly positioned as an alternative to legacy media, basically, a competitor to the exact entertainment giants that dominate Hollywood and streaming. But while that narrative was being pushed publicly, Trump’s personal trust was quietly buying stock in those same companies.
The filings show his trust traded securities tied to Paramount Global, Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix, Disney, and Comcast, all in the first quarter of 2026. One specific entry records a purchase of Comcast securities in the $1,000,001-$5,000,000 range on January 12, 2026. Another shows a Paramount purchase worth between $15,001 and $50,000 on March 25, 2026.
Warner Bros. Discovery investments total at least tens of thousands of dollars based on the banded entries, and Disney-related trades may exceed $1 million for the quarter. His public brand says one thing; his private portfolio says another.
May I remind you this is the very same person who says he’s not worried about your economic woes?
Traitor the felon pardoned is, you guessed it, arrested yet again.
Yet another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter has been arrested—the latest for allegedly threatening a man with a gun in a church parking lot.
Ryan Nichols, 36, a former Marine who bragged on social media that he was going to “bring violence” to the U.S. Capitol in 2021, has been arrested in Texas on a deadly conduct charge.
Harrison County Sheriff B.J. Fletcher told a local news station in East Texas this week that Nichols had followed a man out of church to the parking lot, where he proceeded to lift his shirt and flash a gun.
“At one point, the guy had finished putting his kid in the backseat…Ryan Nichols took a step back, apparently, pulled his shirt up and… displayed his weapon and then grabbed his weapon.”
The victim, who was unarmed and holding a bible, said he was in fear for his life at that point, the sheriff said.
Fletcher said a bystander stepped in and de-escalated the confrontation, but that Nichols had done “more than enough” to be charged with deadly conduct.
He’s on the prowl!
President Donald Trump appeared highly complimentary toward the wife of a senior administration official in a Truth Social post, urging others to have her contact him.
“I HOPE EVERYBODY AT REDEDICATE 250 IS HAVING A GOOD TIME,” Trump posted , referring to a day-long prayer festival held at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Sunday.
The 79-year-old’s message then took a more personal turn, as he added: “IF THERE IS ANYTHING I CAN DO TO HELP, JUST HAVE OUR BEAUTIFUL, BOTH INSIDE AND OUT, RACHAEL C.D., GIVE ME A CALL.”
Ain’t he just romantic ?
Smapti
May 18, 2026, 6:30am
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I’m honestly not sure if Trump is aware that this isn’t actually a thing he actually did.
“Well, there’s a ton of evidence that the election was rigged,” Blanche replied. “That’s not something that DOJ needs to tell you about. There’s been evidence about that for many, many years."
It’s too bad his team of crack lawyers didn’t produce any of that evidence in the 60-odd fraud cases they’d brought before various courts.
Spoons
May 18, 2026, 9:40am
5469
What puzzles me is why Trump is still complaining about the 2020 election. It’s over and done with, and we’ve had five years since. What does Trump possibly have to gain, except to be able to say, “I told you so.” He’s not going to be able to be be US President for the years January 2021 to January 2025. Why does he care?
At any rate, Trump lost in 2020. That’s it, that’s all, that’s final. Trump lost in 2020. Period.
Gyrate
May 18, 2026, 9:43am
5470
Spoons:
Why does he care?
Because he’s a pathetic whiny babyman who throws a tantrum at the mere suggestion he might have lost at something.
Spoons:
Why does he care?
Because he cheated to win, and yet didn’t win. He is convinced that means the Dems cheated even more. In his mind there can be no alternative explanation.
The MAGA logic I’ve heard is, because the 2020 election would have been Trump’s second term, he is entitled to be elected in 2028, because his second term was stolen from him. Which means he is actually serving his third term now, but he deserves a do-over in 2028 anyway, to make up for his second term, which was stolen.
Monty:
“Well, there’s a ton of evidence that the election was rigged,” Blanche replied. “That’s not something that DOJ needs to tell you about. There’s been evidence about that for many, many years.
I find it strange that Todd Blanche, an acting Attorney General, does not know what the word evidence means.
It keeps everybody looking at that corner of the room instead of the other corner of the room where the Epstein files sit, and another corner of the room where the destruction of the White House grounds sits, and another corner of the room where the Trump organization is making money off tons of insider information… How many corners does that make?
IOW distraction, distraction, distraction!
During the 2016 election process, someone from New York City said that Trump is one of the worst social climbers around. They said that he thought he should be in the highest echelon of New York society and was upset that he wasn’t accepted as being high society at all. It didn’t seem that anyone wanted to invite him to the real elite parties where social status, not money is what counts. It seemed reasonable to assume that his entire reason for running was to try to push into being accepted by high society.
While he may be President, I sincerely doubt that he has gained acceptance by those members of New York’s high society. It is as if he is now to the point of trying to take revenge on the whole country for his failure to be accepted by the social elite.
Gyrate
May 18, 2026, 10:59am
5476
Pardel-Lux:
I find it strange that Todd Blanche, an acting Attorney General, does not know what the word evidence means.
To quote Jason from The Good Place :
Yes. He’s from Queens, not Manhattan.
No offense to Queens — I adore it, my cousins live there, and I teach my students about its glorious linguistic and cultural diversity — but especially in the 1980s, it (and the other “outer boroughs,” except a few Brooklyn neighborhoods) were considered (by Manhattan’s Yuppies and tastemakers) uncool and gauche.
This theme is explored in films like Saturday Night Fever and Summer of Sam .Spy Magazine documented this thoroughly as it was happening.
Monty
May 18, 2026, 1:29pm
5478
Have you ever heard of a litmus test? This is an article of faith.
Pass the test. Uphold the faith. Do not get primaried.
He pounds that, so the faithful will continue to adore him.
Fear_Itself:
The MAGA logic I’ve heard is, because the 2020 election would have been Trump’s second term, he is entitled to be elected in 2028, because his second term was stolen from him. Which means he is actually serving his third term now, but he deserves a do-over in 2028 anyway, to make up for his second term, which was stolen.
They should be beaten on the head with a civics textbook not produced for Texas.
Squirrel!
Probably why he is building an octagon on the White House lawn for the upcoming MMA fight.
Monty:
Squirrel!
I don’t know why the aspect ratio is messed up. But you get the idea.
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