Monty
July 28, 2025, 2:08am
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AF One? I’d pay real money to hear an air traffic controller call it out as Air Felon One .
Maxwell will be pardoned as soon as she confirms that Trump showed no interest at all in women at any time other than his wife to whom he was absolutely mentally and physically faithful, and that Trump constantly berated Epstein about the latter’s interest in younger women, and that Maxwell never saw Trump and Epstein together and as far as she is aware they never met, and that Trump, while wearing a cape, once ran into a burning building with an active shooter to save underage women from Epstein’s clutches, and that as far as she is aware Trump has never at any time even met any underage women, and that Maxwell actually saw every single Democrat in the USA in an Epstein-organised orgy involving baby-oil, goats and underage women.
You what? Little Mikey has not taken a principled stand on anything, ever, when it comes to Big Daddy.
Monty
July 28, 2025, 2:33am
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Ah, but LM has never challenged BD’s choices.
If BD takes the decisive step of pardoning Maxwell, LM will find a position that will enable him to feel comfortable despite the inherent awkwardness of having his tongue up BD’s ass.
Monty
July 28, 2025, 7:59am
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Commander-in-cheat meltdown!
Despite the lateness of the hour in Scotland , Donald Trump remained vocal on social media Saturday, unleashing a late-night rant in which he threatened to prosecute Kamala Harris, Oprah Winfrey and Beyonce while lashing out at news networks whose “licenses could, and should, be revoked.”
The president, who is spending the weekend golfing in the UK, wrote at 7.45 p.m. ET (12.45 a.m. local BST) that he was reviewing the large amount of money spent by his Democratic opponents “probably illegally” during the 2024 election.
Trump claimed Beyonce was paid $11 million to endorse Harris, and that she “never sang, not one note, and left the stage to a booing and angry audience!” He also claimed that Democrats paid $3 million in “expenses” to Oprah and $600,000 to civil rights activist and TV personality Reverend Al Sharpton.
And the evidence for these assertions (as though you didn’t already know)?
The Felon evidently doesn’t need the farm vote anymore.
Farmers in rural America were recently dealt another curveball.
Out of nowhere as far as many were concerned, the U.S. Department of Agriculture canceled an important application window for its Rural Energy for America Program, which could send thousands of small farms and business owners scrambling.
Canary Media reported that this wasn’t some scheduling hiccup; it was the last chance many had to finance clean energy projects this year, and the future of the program remains uncertain.
What’s happening?
On June 30, the USDA announced it would not accept new REAP applications from July through September, citing a backlog. The agency said it anticipates reopening submissions in October, according to Canary Media, but farmers need to decide in advance whether to proceed with projects, not knowing if they will be paid back.
REAP has long helped farmers and rural businesses afford solar , wind, and other energy upgrades. It offers loan guarantees and grants, according to the report, and the grants are issued through reimbursement. Successful grant applicants front the money and are later paid back a portion of project costs, with reasonable confidence in past years that a strong application would be awarded and that the government would honor its commitments.
This year, though, that trust was shaken. Bruce Everly, who has worked with REAP for decades, told Canary Media, “This year, since Jan. 20, has been incredible levels of stress for people who did not understand if they would ever get paid for work where they have already put down millions of dollars on projects.”
January 20th, you say? Hmmm. It seems as though that date should tell me something. It should also tell you morons you got played.
And how is the felon going to reduce government cost? Hire more cops! (The bolding is mine.)
Former Department of Homeland Security officials and employees are raising the alarm that the Trump administration’s plan to hire 10,000 more immigration enforcement officers could result in lower hiring standards, as expansions have in the past, and that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers’ current behavior could attract prospective agents for the wrong reasons.
As part of its campaign to hire new ICE personnel, the Trump administration has presented a smattering of offers, including a $10,000 yearly bonus for agents over the next four years, a $50,000 signing bonus to former ICE agents who decide to return to the agency and a starting salary of up to $89,528 for new officers.
Combined with the fact that ICE agents are not required to take any pre-employment exams, have no educational requirements and are only required to pass a background check and a physical exam (which includes a “kneel/stand test,” five minutes of cardio and performing 15 pushups in two minutes), the job offers a better salary and benefits than many, especially considering it doesn’t even require a high school education.
And for the Understatement of the Century Award we have this. (Same link.)
John Sandweg, who served as the acting director of ICE from 2013 to 2014, told Salon that he’s concerned that the current conduct of the agency under Trump could also attract candidates for the “wrong reasons.”
ICE, as part of Trump’s mass deportation scheme, has been accused of using racial profiling and targeting even Puerto Ricans and Native Americans, who are U.S. citizens. Some raids have also been criticized as intimidation tactics and some have also become violent , like in California earlier this month when masked federal agents — brandishing firearms and deploying chemical irritants and flash bang grenades — clashed with protesters.
“I do worry that in this kind of supercharged environment we’re in, there are going to be some people who want to get into this for the wrong reasons, and that’s not because they’re trying to make the country safer, but maybe some bias and hatred towards immigrants generally,” Sandweg said. “That’s the concern, that and lowering the bar in terms of picking people who would otherwise normally be disqualified and bringing them on board.”
Let me repeat what one of those “wrong reasons” might be.
Also, re the applicant requirements: WTELF? No high school diploma? No foreign language competency? No law enforcement certifcation?
The bigot’s going to make other bigots get rich by getting paid for their bigotry with our tax dollars.
Why would ICE need any of that? The job fundamentally isn’t that complicated, if you can drive and use handcuffs, that’s really all the skill they need. And languages? Why talk to someone if you have no intention of listening to what they say?
Gyrate
July 28, 2025, 10:59am
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Huh. There must be something those three people have in common but I just can’t put my finger on it…
Monty
July 28, 2025, 11:15am
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Yep. I’m shocked he posted such a thing! It’s not at all like him. Seriously. He completely forgot to include Obama.
Alessan
July 28, 2025, 12:30pm
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Michelle Obama, you mean.
Combined with the fact that ICE agents are not required to take any pre-employment exams, have no educational requirements and are only required to pass a background check and a physical exam (which includes a “kneel/stand test,” five minutes of cardio and performing 15 pushups in two minutes), the job offers a better salary and benefits than many, especially considering it doesn’t even require a high school education.
Huh. Clearly, I’d have gotten that one wrong. I would have assumed that the screening process was simple blood in, blood out:
The film’s title refers to the initiation ritual of having to kill someone to enter a gang and, on the reverse end, not being able to leave the gang unless killed.
Wheelz
July 28, 2025, 3:33pm
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If I were younger, I might actually consider applying to become an ICE agent, just so I could be a really bad one. “Whew! That guy just runs faster than me!” “Gosh, I don’t know how I missed everybody slipping out the back door!”
Sure, I’d probably get fired quickly, but I’d be a broken cog in the cruelty machine for a short time at least.
ThelmaLou:
One time I was sitting off by myself with the NYTimes open on my kindle and a fellow resident came over and asked if she could join me. I reluctantly said, “Okay, but do you mind if we don’t talk to each other?” She was tickled, said that was fine with her
Make it regular. People will assume you’re best buds and leave the both of your alone, a social beard, if you will.
Why did Trump throw Epstein out of Mar a Lago? (No, that’s not a setup for a joke.)
MAGA: Trump threw Epstein out because Epstein was a ‘creep’.Trump: He was a creep. He kept hiring my workers away from me.Washington Post: It was a disagreement over a real estate dealMark Epstein (Jeffrey’s brother): Actually, Jeffrey stopped hanging out with Trump after he realised Trump was a crook.
How bad of a crook does one have to be to upset a procurer of underage sex workers? People like trump are his prime clientele.
The one thing a lot of criminals really hate is when people commit crimes against them. Donald may have tried a grift on him.
But how would you get that stain off your CV afterwards? The MAGA people would not hire you because of your attitude (you are either incompetent or a traitor in their eyes) and the decent people because they would not believe you did it on purpose to throw a spanner in MAGA’s works (you are a MAGA and a stupid incompetent one in their view, three things that do not contradict each other at all).
Record a video, with some kind of date proof, that says what you’re planning to do, and then release it after you quit or get fired.
