The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2)

[aurora_maire]

Trump is really going off the rails today. He has “truthed” over 70 times since noon. There are rants and really bizarre AI slop. It’s something to behold. Here is a website that copies all his “truths” if you want to see them without going to Truth Social.

Trump's Truth

[Monty]

But he just had an amazing physical, one that’s better than any other physical. He passed yet another cognition test and he even has the heart of a younger man. (No telling what younger man he took it from, though.)

I feel sorry for the poor souls who (a) discover the rotting corpse and (b) have to clean up the scene afterwards when he finally croaks on the commode.

[DesertDog]

@Gatopescado

Some dogs can’t be trained.

Those are the one that get shot in a quarry, aren’t they?

[Der_Trihs]

@DesertDog

Those are the one that get shot in a quarry, aren’t they?

Nah, they get elected President and rip up the White House.

[Robot_Arm]

Am I the only one who saw that Greenland pic and thought “Dinsdale!”

@Smapti

(Note the one glove, Michael Jackson style, to conceal the hand with the zombie bite on it.)

From what I’ve seen, that’s common for golfers.

@Dung_Beetle

Discombobulated? Oh, no, not that! Anything but that!

You can have my combobulate when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

[Monty]

@Der_Trihs

@DesertDog

Those are the one that get shot in a quarry, aren’t they?

Nah, they get elected President and rip up the White House.

And turn it into a quarry.

[Gyrate]

And then throw things into it.

[Buck_Godot]

@Monty

He passed yet another cognition test

Get your facts straight you Dumbocrat! He didn’t just “pass” the test. He got a perfect 30 out of 30 indicating “extreme intellegence”.

[Maus_Magill]

@Robot_Arm

Am I the only one who saw that Greenland pic and thought “Dinsdale!”

Not any more.

[Johnny_L.A]

@Monty

And turn it into a quarry.

@Gyrate

And then throw things into it.

Just noticed. He last posted more than four years ago.

[carrps]

@Robot_Arm

Am I the only one who saw that Greenland pic and thought “Dinsdale!”

LOL. I should have thought of that.

[smithsb]

@Smapti

Note the one glove, Michael Jackson style, to conceal the hand with the zombie bite on it.

Short note. One glove worn on the left hand is standard for right handed golfers. Back to our regularly scheduled program.

[smithsb]

Could go in the ICE thread too. So much graft.

More Perfect Union

[Sylvanz]

Ahemm … that is spelled “Dumocrat” get it right.

[Stratocaster]

Who knew there’s a “b” in “dumb”? Huh…

[Sherrerd]

@smithsb

We dug into it, and found that some properties were bought by the feds for 10x their list price.

It’s a new level of corruption

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/2057086883167903874?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^2057086883167903874|twgr^6b943f6c5f8520a0d39819c1c46e9b3feb1327be|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.twz.com%2Fnews-features%2Fbunker-talk-lets-talk-about-all-the-things-we-did-and-didnt-cover-this-week-193

And that’s BEFORE the for-profit prison industry gets involved.

[Monty]

“More than ten thousand lawyers left” sounds like the beginning of a joke; it’s actually them leaving a joke. (The bolding is mine.)

The Trump administration has seen a mass exodus of more than 10,000 government lawyers, with roughly one in five attorneys who worked in the federal workforce at the end of 2024 no longer working for the administration by March 2026, a new analysis from the New York Times found.

Across multiple departments, President Donald Trump pushed lawyers out of government work as he sought to reduce the number of federal employees, get rid of entire agencies and pressure attorneys to swiftly implement his agenda regardless of constitutionality.

The Department of Education, which Trump is seeking to close permanently, lost more than 50 percent of its lawyers who were employed before Trump was inaugurated, according to the analysis. The Justice Department, which the president has used to go after his political opponents, has seen a 21 percent decrease in its attorney count.

The only department to gain lawyers was the Department of Homeland Security, which required more litigation due to the spike in immigration cases as a result of Trump’s mass deportation plan.

The felon is peeved someone’s kissing someone else’s ring.

President Donald Trump hit out at Pope Leo XIV on Saturday after seeing photos of the pontiff meeting with Brandon Johnson, the mayor of the pope’s hometown of Chicago.

“Someone should explain to the Pope that the Mayor of Chicago is useless, and that Iran cannot have a Nuclear Weapon! President DONALD J. TRUMP,” the 79-year-old commander-in-chief wrote on Truth Social in the midst of a prolific stretch of posting.

The president also posted some of the mayor’s own photos from the trip, suggesting he’s lurking on social media to monitor his political rivals.

Johnson took a large delegation of leaders with him on his trip to Rome this week, and met with Leo at the Vatican on Thursday.

The mayor, 50, gifted the Supreme Pontiff a box of various Chicago goodies, including hats from the Cubs and the White Sox, a key to the city, and local Chicago honey.

Johnson, who appeared to be sending a message to Trump with his gift for the pope, which also included a hat that read “Immigrants Make America Greater” and a sanctuary city pin.

The gift also reportedly included letters from families of detained migrants, and a pin from one of the city’s “ICE Watch” groups.

This is not what “suffer the little children” means!

Joel Andre is a 17-year-old immigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo, a soccer-obsessed high school junior who now lives just outside of Portland, Maine. At the moment, for Joel and his younger sister, Estafania, homework is taking a back seat to this summer’s World Cup – which is the perfect distraction at this dinner table for a family that badly needs one. “Every time I’m doing something, I always think about Olivia,” said Joel.

Olivia is their 19-year-old sister. All three, along with their mother, Carine, were detained last November at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

“In Dilley was very hard, very hard,” said Joel. “Especially to kids, right? The food, the water you drink, even the water you shower, is the worst.”

But when Joel, Estafania and their mother were released in March, Olivia, at 19 years old, had to stay. Joel said, “We all went like, why? Why?”

Estafania said, “I have a hope that we can all be together, but I don’t know when, where.”

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Mukherjee has been inside Dilley. “It is a series of trailers,” she said. “Families and children alike consistently report that they do not have access to sufficient clean drinking water, that they found live worms, bugs and mold in their meals. The lights are on 24/7, making it really difficult for everyone detained there to sleep.”

Those accounts have been repeated by dozens of detainees in sworn testimony, written letters, and interviews.

Whom do I kid? It’s long- and well-known the cruelty is the point now.

Let’s see how voluntary those voluntary deportations really are.

Ana María had been happy living in the US. She had an asylum case going through the US immigration system and was working, becoming part of the community, living with her boyfriend and was grateful for safe harbor.

But after she was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), she had such a horrendous experience that, in desperation, she agreed to be deported back to her native country in South America, back to danger and thousands of miles away from the life she had been building.

She was shuttled around to at least six places of detention in three months, shackled each time she was transferred and packed in with other women suffering the same indignities, despite having no criminal record in the US or her home country, she told the Guardian in an exclusive interview.

“They treated us worse than criminals, like dogs – well, a dog lives better than that in the US,” she said, in phone calls from South America, conducted in Spanish.

The Guardian is protecting the woman’s real identity and has agreed to refer to her as Ana María, while also not revealing her place of origin in South America and certain other locations and dates in her story, as she fears retaliation by the authorities or criminal gangs.

Despite life going well in the US initially, Ana María had become so scared of the anti-immigration crackdowns unfolding in the months after Donald Trump returned to the White House that she and her boyfriend decided they would move from their home in the north-eastern US to Canada. He had family there and they figured they could start again, she said, especially as Trump was pursuing people with papers and ongoing court cases, not just the undocumented.

Meanwhile, ICE and the US border patrol were descending on Democratic-run cities, and the pair had watched TikToks of people being arrested, sent to detention and deported – and feared it could happen to them any day.

“In Canada, the situation is better, we will live more peacefully there,” she recalled her boyfriend saying.

In the dead of winter this January, the couple took a bus to the US-Canada border, turned themselves in to the Canadian police and asked for asylum.

Ana María, 23, was horrified, however, when the Canadian authorities accused her boyfriend of being a gangster trying to traffic her, chiefly because of his tattoos, it seemed. Nothing she said convinced them otherwise, she recalled. They arrested and held him, while they sent her back to the US, straight to ICE – and the nightmare began.

She recalled that she spent one day in the nearest detention center, then the next day was moved just over 50 miles to another center for almost two weeks. One of her first shocks was being painfully handcuffed at the wrists and shackled at the ankles while she was being transferred, which then happened every time she was moved across the state or the country.

How many times does it need to be said? Seeking asylum is not illegal.

Reflecting Pond?

President Donald Trump has bungled the name of one of his renovation obsessions, just days after his doctor declared the president had aced his most recent cognitive test. In a cozy chat with daughter-in-law Lara Trump for Fox News, Trump explained his plans for the “reflecting pond” that lies between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. “We’re doing one that’s really interesting, the reflecting pond,” Trump tells Lara Trump, who doesn’t clarify that it’s actually called the Reflecting Pool.

Gold hoarder connected to the felon’s deputy defense chief.

A now-former high-level CIA official accused of stealing a whopping $40 million in gold bars from the U.S. government has been linked to President Donald Trump’s billionaire deputy defense secretary.

FBI agents last week seized 303 gold bars from the Ashburn, Virginia, home of former CIA official David Rush, according to court documents.

Rush, who claimed the gold was for “work-related expenses,” was arrested and charged with theft of public money. Agents also discovered $2 million in U.S. cash and 35 luxury watches, investigators reported.

Rush, 49, is also accused of forging his educational and military credentials. He worked for the CIA for 17 years, and held a senior role in the agency’s Directorate of Science and Technology, which utilizes cutting-edge technology in intelligence investigations.

Rush had a years-long professional relationship with the current Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, the billionaire Trump backer who founded private equity behemoth Cerberus Capital Management, sources told NBC News.

And of course the felon’s name is staying on what used to be the Kennedy Center.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum would not commit to removing President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center on Sunday, despite a judge’s order requiring it to be done within two weeks.

“I’m not sure if that’s going to be appealed or not, but I think, you know, there’s controversy on both sides of this about that ruling,” Burgum said on CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” when asked if the name would be removed.

Guess how much effect the felon’s crimes at sea have had on cocaine smuggling.

President Donald Trump’s $4.7 billion war on cocaine smugglers has claimed the lives of nearly 200 people yet hasn’t made the drug meaningfully harder to buy in the United States, according to experts.

Nearly nine months after the Trump administration began launching strikes on small boats off the coast of South America, experts say cocaine prices, purity levels, overdose patterns, and border seizure data all suggest the flow of drugs into the U.S. is largely unchanged.

That is despite the operation ballooning into one of the largest U.S. military deployments in Latin America in decades, with heavy equipment such as guided-missile destroyers and roughly 15,000 American troops now involved. The campaign has stretched from the Caribbean into the eastern Pacific, alongside ground strikes in Ecuador and the capture of Venezuela’s former leader on U.S. drug trafficking charges.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has insisted the strikes are “highly effective,” pointing to Coast Guard seizures of 511,000 pounds of cocaine in 2025, more than triple the agency’s annual average.

But addiction scientists and epidemiologists say the cocaine market inside the U.S. looks remarkably unchanged, according to The New York Times.

Street prices in many American cities still hover between $60 and $100 per gram, roughly where they stood before the strikes began. Researchers also say cocaine purity levels have remained steady, undermining the idea that traffickers are struggling to replace lost shipments or dilute shrinking supplies.

Anyone want a “Rump” watch?

A MAGA devotee got an unexpected surprise after buying a gift for his wife: a watch missing the “T” in Trump.

“The ‘T’ is missing. It just says ‘R-U-M-P.’ It says Rump,” Melanie Petit told NBC 6 about a $640 watch she received as a present from her husband, leaving her so disappointed that she was brought to tears.

“An apology would be nice for making my wife cry,” Tim Petit said.

Petit should apologize to the nation for voting for the felon.

[Pardel-Lux]

She really cried because a T was missing? Does she not realize that this is a collectors item, like a mis-printed stamp, probably worth millions? She should give a cut to President Ineptstein and praise his everloving grace.
Jeez, there’s no pleasing some people.

[Monty]

It’s a collector’s item like Franklin Mint’s schlock, no doubt.

[Spoons]

I’ve always thought that if something is marketed as a “Special Collector’s Edition,” it almost certainly isn’t.