The felon is still on a naming spree!
President Donald Trump suggested changing the name of Defense Department back to its pre-World War II moniker as the War Department, after the success in bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities .
“You know it used to be called secretary of war,” Trump told reporters June 25 at the conclusion of a NATO meeting in the Netherlands. “Maybe for a couple of weeks we’ll call it that because we feel like warriors.”
Trump’s comment came after describing the U.S. military bombing missions against Iran on June 21. He talked about B-2 stealth bombers flying for 36 hours roundtrip from a base in Missouri and hitting targets “perfectly” at night without the benefit of moonlight
But of course we know the attack wasn’t all that much of a success. It certainly didn’t accomplish what the felon said it did.
The felon attacks the legitimate media yet again. (Or is that still ?)
President Donald Trump is repeatedly condemning CNN and The New York Times for reports that call into question the damage caused by last weekend’s U.S. strikes of Iran — and downplaying his own intelligence analysts in the process.
Trump on Wednesday called on CNN to throw out “like a dog” a reporter who has worked on the story and suggested Times reporters were “bad and sick people” who were attempting to demean American pilots involved in the strikes.
Both news outlets defended their reporting.
The president is angry about stories that a preliminary assessment by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency had said Saturday’s strike of three nuclear sites had set back Iran’s nuclear program by a few months. The assessment "suggests that President Trump’s claim that Iran’s nuclear facilities were ‘obliterated’ was overstated,” The Times said in a six-bylined story on Tuesday night.
Shortly after the reports began circulating, Trump disputed them, saying in a social media post that the nuclear sites were completely destroyed, and he doubled down on Wednesday.
“They tried to demean the great works our B-2 pilots did, and they were wrong in doing so,” Trump wrote. "These reporters are just BAD AND SICK PEOPLE. You would think they would be proud of the great success we had, instead of trying to make our Country look bad.”
Newspaper says Trump’s criticism was fake news
The Times noted that Trump had initially called the report fake news, but he and his national security team subsequently confirmed that the report was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency.
The revolving door brought to you by DOGE is a mini-clusterfuck all by itself.
Some former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who were fired, rehired and fired again this spring say they have received debt notices from the federal government to pay it back for health care coverage. Those workers also say the notices are for coverage they never had.
The workers say it’s the latest development in a firing process mired in confusion, poor communication and missing paperwork as they confront the most basic workplace questions.
Three former NOAA employees shared letters titled “DEMAND NOTICE FOR PAYMENT” with NBC News. The letters, dated June 16, claimed the employees owed a debt — sometimes hundreds of dollars — and that interest could be charged. The letters also warned that the debt would be reported to a credit bureau if it went unpaid.
“It’s very gloomy and threatening language,” said Sarah Cooley, who was fired as the agency’s ocean acidification program director in late February.
It’s not clear exactly how many workers who were laid off received the letter. Two former NOAA employees told NBC News they did not receive any such letter.
The notice says the charge is for health care premiums for the eighth and ninth pay periods of the year, a time when their health coverage plans had already expired, the workers said.
“They’re trying to bill me for health insurance after I was fired. I had no coverage,” said Ya’el Seid-Green, a former special assistant in NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. “It’s just more salt in the wound on how incompetent all of this has been.”
Time for a poll!
If you were laid off by the feds and then offered your job back, what would you do?
Take the offer!
Tell the feds to stick it where the Sun doesn’t shine!
I, for one, am not surprised co-conspirator Kennedy’s hand-selected team of kooks experts wants the United States to go back in time.
The eight new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met for the first time on June 25, where ACIP Chair Martin Kulldorf announced at the top of the meeting how the panel plans to reexamine the childhood immunization schedule.
“The number of vaccines that our children and adolescents receive today exceeds what children in most other developed nations receive and what most of us in this room received when we were children,” he said. “In addition to studying and evaluating individual vaccines, it’s important to evaluate the cumulative effect of the recommended vaccine schedule.”
Kulldorff added the committee will also establish workgroups to investigate vaccines that protect against measles, mumps and rubella and hepatitis B.
How soon before the United States of America will be rife with Bubonic plague?
The felon, as all fraudsters are, is greedy.
President Donald Trump isn’t just looking to acquire Greenland as he tries to gain an edge in the artic, he also wants ships that navigate icy waters.
Trump said he is negotiating with Finland to buy 15 icebreaker vessels that can cut through seas that are frozen over.
And why do I say it’s because of his greed? (Same link)
“I want to buy icebreakers. You know, you’re very good at icebreakers,” Trump said in response to question from a Finnish journalist June 25 during a press conference in the Netherlands as he prepared to depart a NATO summit.
Nations are rushing to gain an edge in the artic as it becomes more navigable because of climate change. Icebreakers would help the U.S. pursue it’s goals in the region.
Trump also has been trying to expand U.S. territory to the north, repeatedly talking about acquiring Greenland. Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, traveled to a military base in Greenland recently.
Dinky Dick Mike wants the felon to wage war without congressional oversight .
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday asserted that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional, pushing back forcefully against the lawmakers in both parties who are invoking the law in an effort to block President Trump from further military action in Iran.
Johnson has already rejected calls to stage a vote on a bipartisan war powers resolution in the wake of Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend, arguing that Congress’s input is unnecessary. On Tuesday, he took that opposition a long step forward, saying the War Powers Act — a 1973 law designed to limit a president’s authority to wage unilateral war — defies the Founder’s designs for the commander in chief.
“Many respected constitutional experts argue that the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional. I’m persuaded by that argument,” Johnson told reporters in the Capitol. “They think it’s a violation of the Article II powers of the commander in chief. I think that’s right.”
The comments are the strongest indication to date that Johnson, a close Trump ally, has no intention of trying to check the president’s use of military forces, even amid the growing calls from bipartisan lawmakers to block further action in Iran without explicit congressional approval.
Let me say that another way: The Speaker of the House of Representatives wants the president to be allowed to fight wars on his own volition.
Y’all remember, of course, when the felon said he wanted to chuck out the constitution. He doesn’t need to. Johnson’s leading the charge.
But, hey, he cares about people, right? Right?
If President Donald Trump’s tax bill becomes law, millions of people are expected to lose access to Medicaid, the government insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) doesn’t feel bad for them — and has argued, in fact, that stripping their health care is the “moral” thing to do. Johnson’s message to these millions of people on Tuesday was to insult them. “For heaven’s sake, do something constructive,” he said at a press conference on Capitol Hill, arguing the legislation simply brings “common sense” to the Medicaid program.
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” would authorize another round of tax cuts for the rich — and it would be financed, in part, with sweeping cuts to Medicaid .
Some of these savings would be achieved by imposing work requirements on all supposedly “able-bodied” adults on Medicaid under the age of 65, demanding they either work or volunteer at least 20 hours a week. Medicaid contains strict income caps mandating that recipients earn little money — so the new work requirements are effectively a demand that recipients toil in low-wage jobs in order to maintain their health insurance.
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the legislation will force 10.3 million people off Medicaid, primarily due to the new work requirements.
“If you’re going to be on the public wagon and you’re able, you should try to help pull it,” Johnson said Tuesday. “All we did was put in there, as you all know, a 20-hour work requirement per week,” he continued, expressing shock that anyone might quibble with this. “Give me a break. They’re complaining about that. You either have to be working, you have to be looking for a job, in a job training program, or volunteering in your community. For heaven’s sake, do something constructive.”
Damn straight, Mikey! I am going to do something constructive. ***I’m voting a straight blue ticket in the next election and every election following until I leave this mortal coil.
It occurs to me, though, Mikey, that if you were to croak, you still would not be doing anything constructive. Your decomposition would generate some greenhouse gases, thus you would be a net negative for the planet even after you die.
And more nitty-gritty details from the Big Bullshit Bill.
President Donald Trump ’s spending cuts and border security package would inject roughly $150 billion into his mass deportation agenda over the next four years, funding everything from an extension of the United States’ southern border wall to detention centers to thousands of additional law enforcement staff.
The current annual budget for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the government’s primary department for immigration enforcement, is around $10 billion. If the Republican president’s big bill passes in Congress, the immense cash infusion could reshape America’s immigration system by expanding the law enforcement and detention network while increasing costs to legally immigrate to the U.S.
And a very damning point is inlcuded later in that article.
Plenty, though, remains unclear about the legislation.
“One thing about this bill, these sections are super vague,” said Adam Isacson, a researcher with the Washington-based human rights advocacy organization WOLA, including multibillion-dollar expenditures sometimes explained in just a few vague lines. “There’s no real specificity in the bill about how it’s going to be spent.”
I feel the compulstion to note now a very interesting point. Instead of spending all those billions of dollars on punishing people who, at most, have committed a non-violent misdemeanor, why not spend the mony on social programs, in the United States and abroad, to improve their lives, and thus the world?
This disappoints me.
The bulk of the House Democratic caucus voted down an effort to launch impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump on Tuesday, joining a unified House GOP.
Led by Rep. Al Green , dozens of House Democrats including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voted on Tuesday in favor of beginning an impeachment inquiry into Trump’s strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend, a move which numerous Democrats as well as Rep. Thomas Massie , a Republican, said was unconstitutional.
But the majority of their caucus was against such a response to the announcement of U.S. involvement in Israel’s war against Iran, which many Democrats have seemingly not been able to condemn outright.
Many instead have attacked the president for the sudden nature of the strikes and lack of congressional oversight, shying away from total condemnation of the effort to knock out Iran’s nuclear program at the same time.
And don’t think the felon and his co-conspirators constantly condemning and demeaning immigrants has nothing to do with this racist idiocy. (Formatting is from the cite.)
New Hampshire State Rep. Luz Bay says a Republican lawmaker told her to “go home” after she spoke in honor of Philippine Independence Day at the State House.
“Home country” In a speech delivered on June 12, Bay said the incident followed remarks she gave “exactly a week ago,” on June 5, during which she reflected on her heritage and referred to the Philippines as her “home country.” Afterward, an unnamed Republican colleague questioned how someone who called another country “home” could serve in the New Hampshire legislature.
She returned to the floor to address the exchange and affirm her right to serve. “Let me say it clearly,” she said. “I am here because I belong here.” A video of her remarks, posted by the New Hampshire House Democratic Caucus on June 14, has since been widely shared on social media and has drawn support from advocacy groups.
Bay’s background Born in the Philippines, Bay immigrated to the U.S. and earned a Ph.D. in educational measurement and statistics from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She lives in Dover and was first elected to the New Hampshire House in 2022. Now serving her second term, she is also a three-time cancer survivor and marathon runner.
“My constituents in Strafford County District 21 elected me under the same laws, with the same legitimacy as anyone in this room,” she said. “My birthplace does not make me less American. My accent does not disqualify me from public service. And my identity as a Filipino American does not make me a guest. I am a citizen. I am a public servant. And I am home.”
White descendants of immigrants are not told to go home. That “honor” is reserved for Asians and Blacks, evidently. And look at this representative’s résumé!
And, by the way, let’s not forget that the United States colonized the Philippines for a century. I am certainly not saying the United States caused all of the problems in that country, but we certainly bear a good share of the blame for those problems, especially given our support of that dictator Marcos.
