The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues

I have never used Twitter for anything and don’t plan to do so.

Utterly ridiculous.

Ya gotta hand it to them. They keep thinking of new things to do that I would never have dreamt possible.

May I just say … the Presidential Penis must be even smaller than we thought:

That should look good beside the portrait that has Donald’s face crudely splattered under one of those Iwo Jima flag-standers’ helmets.

I have a question. Who is Aaron Rupar?

Google told me that he is an independent journalist and publisher of this:

He has Twitter and Bluesky accounts to which he posts live clips of Trump and his cronies. Good source for finding out what inanities they’re blithering on about these days without the media’s attempts to sanewash and both-sides it. He gets all his clips directly from live TV, so you can be assured it isn’t old or AI-generated.

He also occasionally comments on sports and wrestling.

Thus explaining why he’s constantly xitting from the throne room in the wee hours.

He calls himself an independent journalist and has a newsletter online.

Just in case you forgot felon47 does not like immigrants he’s not fucking (in the literal sense, not figurative), here’s the latest regarding migrants and Social Security.

Let’s be clear here. These people entered the country legally, obtained SSANs legally, and are now without a proper visa because this administration canceled their visas. And now they’re going to punish them for not having a proper visa.

Mork called something a Catch 44 because it was like a Cach 22 but twice as bad. Now we’re exponentially beyond even that.

I wonder if this will wake up a few congresscritters.

Oh, they’re Democrats. This administration doesn’t care about their safety.

What the everloving fuck? We are now full on into “show me your papers” territory.

Hey, some good news from this administration!

Let me guess. It’s the vaccines, right?

This just seems to fit with that autism bit above.

Ah, yes; who says consumers need protection?

The press conference will be like this, but with “cancer” crossed out and “autism” written in, in Sharpie.

Let’s hope nobody shows this to those two clowns, Trump and Kennedy.

Remember 15 years ago when whiny restaurant owners were putting an “Obamacare tax” on receipts because they were offended by the notion of making sure their employees are healthy enough to work?

Turns out two can play that game.

I like this and hope it catches on. People need to be reminded again and again why they’re paying higher prices.

Hey, nothing says functioning democracy like making the border a military base.

This is problematic for a few reasons. First off, of course this is to circumvent the law prohibiting using the military for domestic law enforcement. It’s also a way to turn the actual non-violent misdemeanor of entering the country without inspection into a felony.

Next, while the strip of land is already federal property, that does not make it a military installation. AFAIK, creating a military base by his lonesome is not something the president has the authority to do.

Next, it’s not like we’ve had a great experience when cdreating military exclusion areas on the border based on nothing other than prejudice and histeria.

And where’s DOGE in all this? Aren’t they supposed to be making governmental actions more efficient; aren’t they supposed to be cutting costs? From the first link:

That’s a bit of, dare I say it, overkill, don’t you think?

More on the nothing says democracy like this front: an immigration judge in Louisiana is permitting the administrationto punish someone the admnistration admits has not committed any crime.

And why is this in a federal court in Louisiana instead of New York?

Meanwhile, someone has apparently managed to hack Homeland Security’s email servers and sent out a bunch of fake deportation notices to American citizens.

if I’d been the hacker, I’d send one to Trump, Vance, every cabinet member, and every Republican Congressman.

No shit. The dog kennel (resort really) that we take our dogs to when we are on vacation posts daily photos of all the dogs playing. On facebook… I don’t do facebook, I had an account, and for some crazy reason that they will not tell me, I was banned. I NEVER USED IT, the only reason I had an account was to see what all the bruhaha was about.

I tried to get the ban lifted so I could see my dogs, but they would not, nor would they tell me why I was banned. Probably due to zero activity, or did someone hi-jack my account? I haven’t a clue.

Aggravates me that the ‘kennel’ doesn’t use a different way to see pictures of my pups, but at least it’s not the freaking SSA

Remember the tariffs? The amazing tariffs that will make everything great and earn us so money?

Shouldn’t someone be collecting those wonderful tariffs?

Speaking of tariffs:

Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs

Electronics imported to the United States will be exempt from President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, according to a US Customs and Border Protection notice posted late Friday.

Smartphones, computer monitors and various electronic parts are among the exempted products. The exemption applies to products entering the United States or removed from warehouses as early as April 5, according to the notice.

The move comes after the Trump administration imposed a minimum tariff rate of 145% on Chinese goods imported to the United States. The tariffs would have a major impact on tech giants like Apple, which make iPhones and other products in China.

I just saw Stephanie Ruhle on Velshi (MSNBC) say something like ~“So we’re going to impose 145% tariffs on everything we buy from China except the things we actually buy from China?”

I think that is a little misleading. The US buys more than just electronic-related products from China. For example, doesn’t China make Trump’s red MAGA hats and other MAGA and America First memorabilia?

Shouldn’t this be the reaction for the magaflatearthers? But, of course, they’ll just excuse it or, as is their wont, deny it outright.

I believe I read that official MAGA hats sold by Trump are made in the U.S.A.; but there’s a lot more unofficial MAGA products that are made in China. My WAG is that most Trump supporters buy whatever’s cheapest or most convenient, rather than buying the official products.