Yes, I was aware of that and also of Trump’s claimed height. Funny, that
solost
September 23, 2026, 4:44pm
9082
I actually used that in a post in the ‘Real news, or Onion headline? ’ thread this morning. Agreed, if I hadn’t seen it on MS NOW I would have thought it was made-up. I’m still finding it hard to believe it’s real.
At the risk of being redundant and unoriginal, as many others have said….we are truly living an even worse version of the movie ‘Idiocracy’ right now.
Think? Think?? Where have you been for the last decade?
Monty
September 23, 2026, 5:14pm
9084
I should have gone with:
Liar, liar, nappy on fire!
And then the AI can tell Trump what pronouns it prefers.
Smapti
September 23, 2026, 7:08pm
9086
By the time he’s done they’ll be calling it BYD theater.
If they won’t let them do it, I’m sure it’s not a problem he can’t fix with a Sharpie
Nice nine second YouTube video
Title: “Trump Asks ‘Where Is Marco?’ As Rubio Is Sitting Right Beside Him ”
Oh, yeah. It just keeps getting worse.
I sometimes wonder if things would be worse if he were compos mentis. But then, I’m not sure he could have been elected if it were. The insanity and inanity seem to be part of the appeal to the cultists
Smapti
September 24, 2026, 12:15am
9091
The White House claims they had to ban Politico from the press pool because they were publishing leaked information.
The source of that leak was JD Vance.
Vice President JD Vance has been exposed as the source of a story whose supposed leak was used by the White House in court to justify the termination of Politico's access to the press pool, Oliver Darcy reported for Status.In the court battle today,...
Monty
September 24, 2026, 2:40am
9092
Judge informs the felon there is a constitution.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge on Wednesday dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit accusing The Des Moines Register and its former pollster of misrepresenting the state of the 2024 presidential race, rejecting the president’s claim that the newspaper’s poll coverage violated Iowa’s consumer fraud law.
Calling the case extraordinary, Iowa District Judge Scott J. Beattie said that allowing the lawsuit and its “faulty” claims to proceed could have a chilling effect that “can discourage others from reporting on and debating public affairs.” He sided with pollster J. Ann Selzer and the newspaper in affirming that the poll and coverage of it were constitutionally protected political speech, not a commercial product.
The ruling Wednesday came hours after a judge heard arguments but did not rule from the bench in a case on Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds. Trump banned the three outlets last Friday, assailing what he called “fake news.”
After the ruling in Iowa Wednesday, a spokesman for Trump’s legal team said the president will take his case to the Iowa Supreme Court.
Trump filed the lawsuit against Selzer, The Des Moines Register and the newspaper’s parent company in December 2024, accusing them of fraudulently publishing inaccurate poll results to damage him and help Democrats, saying coverage of polls is not protected speech.
Here’s what the judge had to say.
In dismissing the case, Beattie wrote that Trump’s lawsuit sought to “stretch both Iowa statutory and common law beyond their current bounds, turning speech that enjoys the highest category of First Amendment protection into a liability.” After hearing the arguments, the judge concluded the constitutional protection “is too great and the reach is too far. The case must therefore be dismissed.”
Beattie said the case would have to be dismissed even if, solely for the purpose of deciding the motions, he accepted the Trump team’s allegations that the poll was intentionally skewed and its results fabricated. “Even with this assumption, each of the three counts still fails,” the judge wrote, because the lawsuit did not meet the legal requirements for fraud or consumer deception.
The Minority Report , Kller Kennedy edition.
During Donald Trump ’s first term, there were some controversies surrounding members of his team and their sizable security details. Scott Pruitt, for example, who led the president’s Environmental Protection Agency, spent so much on an around-the-clock security detail that it became the subject of three inspector general investigations.
In the president’s second term, there have been related questions surrounding the security teams for, among others, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth , White House budget director Russell Vought and border czar Tom Homan . (Relatedly, FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly sought a private security detail for reasons that still aren’t altogether clear. His former deputy director, conservative media personality Dan Bongino , also benefited from a bodyguard team with multiple agents.)
Evidently, that list is still growing. The Wall Street Journal reported :
The Department of Health and Human Services informed congressional appropriators earlier this year that it was moving about $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the ballooning cost of security for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to people familiar with the matter and a document reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The cost of security for Kennedy, a high-profile figure in the Trump administration whose father and uncle were assassinated in the 1960s, grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026, some of the people familiar with the matter said.
For those unfamiliar with the Office of Minority Health, it was created decades ago to address systemic health disparities in the Black community, funding research that touched on everything from life expectancy to infant mortality.
With RFK Jr. at the helm, the department has already scrapped a series of grants from the office, citing, among other things, “limited” funds.
Good news! The felon’s vanity room might collapse on him.
The architect who worked on the preliminary design of President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom stepped down last year after repeatedly raising concerns that the plans violated building safety codes, according to a report.
Trump selected D.C.-based James McCrery II as the lead architect on the project , announced by the White House in July 2025. But a few months later, the classical architect resigned following clashes with the president, according to*The Washington Post. *
In the weeks prior to leaving the project, McCrery aired concerns about inadequate emergency exits and fire safety measures, according to the outlet. In one reported exchange, the president responded by arguing that the building codes don’t apply to White House construction , telling McCrery, “I am the code.”
The newspaper obtained documents, including preliminary drawings of the ballroom scrawled with notes in Trump’s signature black Sharpie. One of them appeared to mock the architect’s concerns over Trump’s wishes to increase the size of the ballroom. “James. And you think this is big enough,” the note said.
Another note for McCrery written in Sharpie over an image of a White House colonnade said, “James - great look - but Corinthian columns.” The president is known to favor the ornate columns.
I guess the felon really does believe the climate is cooling down.
Donald Trump raised a few eyebrows as a somewhat surreal red-carpet ceremony was put on for Chinese President Xi Jinping at a military base in Maryland on Wednesday for Xi’s arrival.
Video caught Chinese officials looking on as U.S. Marines smoothed out a red carpet for the Chinese president, who descended the stairs and was greeted by his U.S. counterpart, clad in a long winter coat and leather gloves in the 65-degree weather.
The pair, along with their spouses, then stood beside each other awkwardly as the national anthem was played, cannons fired in a salute, and a military jet soared loudly overhead — causing Trump to visibly wince while Xi placidly watched the plane pass overhead.
Turns out tens of thousands of non-citizens registered to vote actually said “Don’t register me; I’m not a citizen.”
WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - US states may have added more than 30,000 self-declared non-citizens to the nation’s voter rolls since 2000 because of software glitches and clerical errors made while processing their driver’s license and state ID applications, according to official records reviewed by Reuters.
The cases expose weaknesses in voter registration systems across a dozen US states governed by both Democrats and Republicans, but at numbers that experts said were too small relative to the country’s more than 170 million registered voters to impact elections. Reuters was not able to determine how many of these non-citizens actually cast a ballot.
The findings suggest that inadvertent bureaucratic failures, rather than organized efforts to register immigrants illegally, are a major source of non-citizen registrations, and raise questions about whether legislative efforts to require proof of citizenship for voter registration would eliminate the issue.
Steve_MB
September 24, 2026, 4:04am
9093
He should have gone with “Supreme Intelligence” just for the facial resemblance.
The Supreme Intelligence, also known as the Supremor, is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is an artificial intelligence that rules the alien race known as the Kree. The Supreme Intelligence has appeared in various media outside comics, including animated series and video games. It made its film debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain Marvel (2019), set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), where it assumed the appearance of Mar-Vell (portr...
Monty
September 24, 2026, 4:27am
9094
He could harken back to A Wrinkle in Time * and simply start referring to artificial intelligence as It *.
*Oops. That would require him to have actually read something or watched a video not related to him for longer than ten seconds.
**Double oops. I forgot the giant brain in that story is the evil one. The felon only thinks he has a giant brain.
Love me! 1984 if Big Brother was pathetic.
Smapti
September 24, 2026, 6:05am
9096
Spoons
September 24, 2026, 7:25am
9097
Good news. CNN’s take:
From the item:
Federal Judge Timothy Kelly has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily reinstate CNN, MS NOW and Politico’s access to the White House after they were banned from the premises by President Donald Trump.
In the ruling issued early Thursday, Kelly found the revocation of reporters’ press badges was done without “constitutionally adequate due process.”
It’s the due process reason that makes me a little wary. Due process is required under the Fifth Amendment, which is fine; but I’d be more comfortable if the ruling was issued under the First Amendment. The latter would mean that Trump couldn’t prevent media access; but under the former, all he needs to do is say, “I’m revoking your credentials; your fair hearing will be held on Thursday.” And (just conjecturing here) would likely be a kangaroo court.
Smapti
September 24, 2026, 7:35am
9098
The judge hearing the case is a Trump appointee, but evidently not of the Aileen Cannon variety. He previously ruled that Trump couldn’t ban Jim Acosta from the White House in 2018, and tried several of the 1/6 insurrectionists (before they were pardoned).
Timothy James Kelly (born 1969) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and former chief counsel for national security and senior crime counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kelly received his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Duke University in 1991. From 1991 to 1993, he was a legal assistant at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and from 1993 to 1994 he was a waiter at a restaurant in Washington, DC. He then attended ...
Monty
September 24, 2026, 8:15am
9099
And you already know what the felon and the magaflatearthers are going to focus on in that resume.
Spoons
September 24, 2026, 8:30am
9100
Yes, that’s obvious. Waiter? Legal assistant? No law degree?
Maybe I’m too used to Canadian law, but don’t American courts require a judge to have a law degree and to have passed the bar? That’s what’s required here in Canada.