Would Pirate ships raise their flags and give him a 21 gun salute?
Pirate ships would pay tribute. 50, 60, 90%. And they’d like it.
I’ve got a salute. It involves one finger on each hand…..
Hey, Welcome!
Yet that line about Pirate ships lowering their flags when Puff roared out his mighty name has me thinking.
He would roar “Puff!” ? Or “Trumf?”
Good question. Prolly “Trump!!” or “Don!!” or “Donanld” in all seriousness.
As people were taken and left in haste, KCTV5 crews observed belongings abandoned, such as purses and wallets. Opened food was left, as well as open burners in the kitchen, before witnesses shut them off to prevent the possible spread of fire.
I could see him reading that aloud just like that if it appeared on the teleprompter and then he would still blame someone else for his getting his own name wrong.
I’m so impressed with how the felon’s cutting waste! (The bolding is mine.)
The federal government is paying more than 154,000 federal employees not to work as part of the deferred resignation program, an administration official confirmed to ABC News.
The updated figure, first reported by the Washington Post, includes thousands of government workers across dozens of agencies who took the buyout offers through June to maintain benefits and pay until the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.
It represents just over 6% of the 2.3 million federal civilian workforce.
To critics, the program has been administered haphazardly, throwing government offices into chaos and disrupting federal workers and programs indiscriminately, and prompting a number of legal fights between federal unions and the government – all of it at taxpayers’ expense.
“The American taxpayer ultimately is not only watching federal employees who are deeply interested in serving the public be sidelined, they’re having to pay for them too. It makes no sense at all,” Max Steier, the president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, told ABC News. “They’ve done ‘ready, fire, aim,’ instead of ‘ready, aim, fire.’ It’s detrimental to the capability of our government to meet our needs.”
What’s that called when a central government manages the economy?
President Trump escalated efforts to reduce drug prices in the US on Thursday, releasing letters sent to 17 pharmaceutical company CEOs on Truth Social.
The letters, addressed to Eli Lilly (LLY), Pfizer (PFE), AstraZeneca (AZN), and others, include a 60-day deadline to implement Trump’s most-favored-nations (MFN) clause — to reduce drug prices to the lowest rates they sell to any developed nation — for Medicare and Medicaid enrollees.
All three company stocks were trading down between 1% and 3.5% after the letters were posted.
Novo Nordisk (NVO) said in a statement that it “remains focused on improving patient access and affordability, and we will continue to work to find solutions that help people access the medication they need.”
In a statement to Yahoo Finance, Novo Nordisk said it remains “committed to finding ways to improve access and affordability for patients.”
Meanwhile, Trump has set a deadline of 60 days for the companies to comply.
“Domestic MFN pricing will require you, and all manufacturers, to negotiate harder with foreign freeloading nations,” Trump wrote in the letter.
Giuffre’s family, understandably, wants answers after the felon shoots off his mouth. (The bolding is mine.)
WASHINGTON − The family of Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent and outspoken sex trafficking accusers, demanded answers over why President Donald Trump said the disgraced financier “stole” Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago spa – and have called for Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to remain in prison.
In a lengthy July 30 statement, the family of Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, said, “It was shocking to hear President Trump invoke our sister and say that he was aware that Virginia had been ‘stolen’ from Mar-a-Lago."
“It makes us ask if he was aware of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal actions, especially given his statement two years later that his good friend Jeffrey ‘likes women on the younger side … no doubt about it,’" the family’s comment, given to USA TODAY July 31, said. "We and the public are asking for answers; survivors deserve this.”
Not content with stacking the court, the felon’s raised vexatious litigation to the supreme level. (The bolding is mine.)
Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday defended the way the Supreme Court is handling the flood of emergency cases that has reached its docket during President Donald Trump’s administration, pushing back on mounting criticism that the court is often resolving those disputes with little to no explanation.
Kavanaugh’s remarks to a group of judges and lawyers meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, came as the court has faced growing criticism for issuing emergency orders with so little explanation that similar controversies boomerang back weeks later.
Most of the court’s emergency cases have involved policies pursued by Trump, including on immigration and the firing of leaders at independent federal agencies.
Not that it really matters, anyway, with today’s court.
Seriously, he’s acting like a jilted lover. This time it’s with Felon Fox News. (The bolding is mine.)
Donald Trump has called out a Fox News host who raised the issue of gun control reform during an emotional TV tribute to the victims of the New York murder spree.
On Tuesday, Jessica Tarlov, one of the co-hosts of Fox’s panel show The Five, was discussing Monday’s mass shooting in a Manhattan office that killed four people. After she expressed heartbreak for the victims, Tarlov, a liberal who calls herself a “defender of Democrats,” changed the conversation towards a potential ban on assault weapons.
The suspect in the New York murders, Shane Tamura, had been issued a concealed firearms permit by the Las Vegas Police Department and used an assault rifle in his rampage.
The 27-year-old had a “documented mental health history”, according to New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
Speaking on The Five, an emotional Tarlov raised his mental health history and the issue of gun control, while questioning, “How did he get a concealed carry license even in Nevada? How are these things happening?
“And I don’t think that it hurts the conversation or takes us backward at all to consider how we might prevent one of these things from happening,” Tarlov said.
She added, “You will never be able to stop all of the lunatics. But if you stopped this one, we’d have four people that were alive today who certainly deserve to be. And I don’t see why that’s a bad thing to do that.”
Uh-oh!
Tarlov’s comments on the New York rampage aired on The Five between 5:11 and 5:13 p.m. EST. As Tarlov was wrapping her comments, President Trump posted on his Truth Social, “I can’t stand Jessica Tarlov of THE FIVE. A real loser!!! DJT.”
The felon wants to screw up the White House (the building itself) some more.
President Donald Trump continues to put his personal stamp on the White House with a new $200 million ballroom.
Personal stamp? You know where this is headed already.
Work will begin on the site in September and will be paid for by Trump and unidentified donors, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
I believe there are two words that don’t belong in that senetence.
Leavitt announced the project at her press briefing on Thursday, showing renderings of what the finished product will look like. She said it will be completed “long before” Trump’s term is up.
The felon actually did learn something from the Qatari fiasco.
“We are proud to announce that the construction of the new White House ballroom will begin. For 150 years, presidents, administrations and White House staff have longed for a large event space on the White House complex that can hold substantially more guests than currently allowed,” she told reporters.
“The White House is one of the most beautiful and historic buildings in the world, yet the White House is currently unable to host major functions honoring world leaders in other countries without having to install a large and unsightly tent approximately 100 yards away from the main building’s entrance,” she said.
Okay, but I’m guessing their dreams did not include this.
You remember how you can tell the felon’s lying? He’s talking. It’s still not a joke.
President Donald Trump told a story on Monday about how he “made a correct prediction” about the outcome of the United Kingdom’s 2016 Brexit referendum while he was visiting his golf course in Scotland “the day before the vote.”
“You remember?” he asked reporters.
They couldn’t have remembered. It didn’t happen.
Trump actually visited Scotland the day after the Brexit referendum, not the day before it. And while he did say about three months prior that he thought the UK would end up leaving the European Union, he made no public predictions in an interview the day before the vote – saying he personally favored Brexit but also that “I don’t think anybody should listen to me because I haven’t really focused on it very much.”
Trump’s imaginary story about these events nine years ago might be considered trivial compared to his lies about pressing topics like inflation and the war in Ukraine. But it’s part of a pattern – a long line of similarly fabricated tales from the president about his own history and world history.
Who is writing this nonsense for the Second Felonial Era?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is attempting to sign on recruits with bonuses of as much as $50,000 as well as student loan forgiveness, as it tries to reach the Trump administration’s goal of hiring 10,000 new ICE agents.
The Department of Homeland Security received a big boost to its cash flow for immigration enforcement following the signing of President Donald Trump’s Big, Beautiful, Bill. On Tuesday, ICE launched a new campaign with the title “Defend the Homeland.”
The campaign included posters of Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, as well as pay benefits to recruit “the next generation of law enforcement professionals to find, arrest, and remove criminal illegal aliens,” the department states in a press release.
“Your country is calling you to serve at ICE. In the wake of the Biden administration’s failed immigration policies, your country needs dedicated men and women of ICE to get the worst of the worst criminals out of our country,” Noem said in a statement. “This is a defining moment in our nation’s history. Your skills, your experience, and your courage have never been more essential. Together, we must defend the homeland.”
Of course the poster with the felon has him saluting.
Accomplice Bondi is Rewhiting Funding Rules
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday issued a memo ordering recipients of federal funding to scrap a stunning array of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” initiatives—including antidiscrimination protections.
It’s the latest move by the Trump administration to eliminate DEI programs meant to address inequities stemming from historical injustices such as discrimination, on the grounds that they themselves amount to discrimination.
The new guidance, per Bondi, applies to all federally funded entities or those “otherwise subject to federal antidiscrimination laws, including educational institutions, state and local governments, and public and private employers.” It describes various practices they must do away with in order to comply with the administration’s interpretation of civil rights law and maintain federal funding.
The memo offers specific examples.
Oh? Do tell. Buckle up!
To give a taste: A state agency that prioritizes awarding contracts to women-owned or minority-owned businesses will be engaged in unlawful practices. As will institutions that mandate or “implicitly prioritize” “diverse slate” hiring or selection practices.
Another artist slams the felon and his accomplices for using their music
Grammy-winning singer Jess Glynne slammed Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday after the White House featured her music in a widely panned post that praises the president’s aggressive immigration policies.
On her Instagram story, Glynne — whose 2015 song “Hold My Hand” has seen a resurgence of listeners after its use in an ad for the British airline Jet2 went viral in a TikTok meme this year — weighed in on the post, which features several men in chains seemingly being led toward a flight out of the United States accompanied by text that says, “When ICE books you a one-way Jet2 holiday to deportation.”
That Jet2 meme — which features voice actor Zoe Lister declaring that “nothing beats a Jet2 holiday” as Glynne’s song plays in the background — has been jokingly shared by social media users to ironically highlight their unpleasant and chaotic travel experiences.
“This post honestly makes me sick,” Glynne wrote alongside a screenshot of the White House’s post of the meme.
“My music is about love, unity, and spreading positivity — never about division or hate.”
NTSB Chair BLASTS the felon’s management at FAA.
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) criticized the Federal Aviation Administration for not “taking ownership” in the deadly Black Hawk helicopter collision with a passenger jet near Washington Reagan National Airport in January.
During a hearing on Wednesday that is set to continue this week, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy alleged that some FAA tower employees knew there “was a problem” with U.S. Army helicopters flying in close proximity to passenger aircraft near the airport.
Sixty-seven people died on Jan. 29 after a regional American Airlines jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over Washington, D.C., officials said, the nation’s first major commercial airline crash since 2009.
The Army helicopter was on a training flight at the time of the collision.
“Every sign was there, that there was a safety risk and the tower was telling you that," Homendy said of the air traffic controllers working at Reagan National Airport (DCA) at the time.
“Yet you know what FAA did, after the accident occurred, you transferred out the air traffic manager, two assistant general managers,” Homendy continued. “You transferred people out instead of taking ownership over the fact that everybody in FAA tower was saying there was a problem.”
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“Why did it take 67 lives to be lost and families who are just destroyed forever to understand what was occurring, to realize that you had helicopters flying under civilian aircraft, that you had people within the tower that were trying to say, hey, there was an issue here and not being heard," Homendy told reporters in a press gaggle after the hearing.
Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from fallout over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, but nearly half of Americans believe the President was “involved in crimes” allegedly committed by the disgraced financier, a new poll finds.
Trump has repeatedly denied reports about his connections to the late sex offender. Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi told the President in May that his name appeared in the so-called “Epstein Files,” shortly after Trump told reporters that his name didn’t appear in any of the documents.
Being named in the files does not suggest any wrongdoing and Trump has not been accused, or charged with any crime related to the Epstein case. The White House also dubbed the WSJ report “fake news.”
But it appears that nearly half of the American public doesn’t buy it. Some 46 percent saying they believe Trump “was involved in crimes allegedly committed” by Epstein, according to a poll by The Economist and YouGov this month. That’s compared to 32 percent who say they don’t think the president was criminally linked to Epstein and 23 percent who said they’re not sure.
Democrats in particular think Trump was an Epstein accomplice, with 80 percent saying they think he was involved in the disgraced financier’s alleged crimes compared to just 5 percent who don’t think he was involved.
Just 11 percent of Republicans think he was involved with Epstein’s alleged crimes while 68 percent believe Trump wasn’t.
In case you aren’t aware, the White House Rose Garden is getting a makeover.
DJT is paving over a large part of it and replacing it with a patio.
It’s being modeled after his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida.
Construction has been underway for a while now, and the AP got some new pics of how it’s going.
You can see the photos at the link. Not addressed, though, is how well Easter eggs roll on concrete.
Everything he touches turns into dlog.
Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, said on Wednesday that the Trump administration’s tariff policy would saddle the automaker with a $2 billion bill while benefiting its Japanese rivals.
“Our tariff bill is $2 billion, and that’s a net number,” Farley said in an earnings call. The company had projected a tariff hit of $1.5 billion in its last quarter.
Farley told analysts he expected automakers to adopt a regional rather than globalized approach toward their businesses. In addition to tariffs, Farley said the change was being driven by the rise of electric vehicles and new carbon regulations.
Yet again, a judge tells the felon and his accomplices to STFU.
The federal judge in Tennessee overseeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s criminal case told the Trump administration on Thursday that officials must moderate their public comments about him to ensure he received a fair trial.
The order from US District Judge Waverly Crenshaw comes a week after attorneys for Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year and brought back to the US in June to face human smuggling charges, complained to the judge about “inflammatory” comments Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and others made about him earlier this month.
“To ensure that Abrego receives a fair trial, all counsel are subject to” rules prohibiting extrajudicial statements that could interfere with a criminal defendant having a fair trial, Crenshaw, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, wrote in the brief order.
And you have to love the quick civics lesson here.
“All counsel and those working with counsel shall ensure that any proper public communications include that the Indictment only contains allegations,” the judge added. “Our Constitution requires that Abrego is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt by a jury.”
Anyone else ready for the weekend?
For what you want to do all you need is the “>” at the beginning of the line.
Like this.
See?
You’ll have to add your own attribution.
Actually, in the post in question, greater than signs were stuck in front of the quote tags, which renders them non-working. I don’t know how they got there, but likely it was because the post was edited in WYSIWYG mode. Try editing in the raw mode (click on the button labeled A in the upper left corner) to make sure things are as they should be.
I spent my high school years across the river from Washington, DC. My younger brother and I spent many afternoons after school visiting The Smithsonian. It is one of the most imporant and best accomplishments of the American people and a beacon, nay, a veritable temple of knowledge.
I should say, “It used to be such.”
I’ll quote the whole blurb for the video in that link.
The Smithsonian has scrubbed references to Donald Trump’s impeachments from a museum display, following repeated attempts by the White House to make changes to the institution. This month, the National Museum of American History removed a temporary label at an exhibit that described Trump’s two impeachments, reverting to an outdated label from 2008, according to The Washington Post. The temporary label had reportedly been in place since 2021. The 2008 version states that “only three presidents have seriously faced removal,” referring to Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon.
The incompetent felon in office has destroyed democracy, the world economy, the military, higher education, public health, public safety, and now the very idea of museums. He has alienated the United States to the point we no longer have any allies, at least none that still trust us. He has done this in a matter of months. And all of this is for no other reason than to flatter his own fragile ego.
Make Attorneys Go Away. (The bolding is mine.)
A Washington, DC, disciplinary board recommended Thursday that Jeffrey Clark, an attorney and longtime ally of President Donald Trump, should lose his law license for trying to include the Justice Department in Trump’s failed attempt to subvert the 2020 election results.
The recommendation from Washington, DC’s board on professional responsibilities will now proceed to the DC Court of Appeals, who will make a final decision on Clark’s disbarment.
Clark’s potential punishment shows the cascading, and continuing, effects of Trump and his allies’ effort to keep him in the White House despite losing the 2020 presidential election.
In explaining its decision, the panel wrote that Clark, then an assistant attorney general, “urged Justice Department leadership to issue a letter he had drafted that cast doubt on the election results” despite being told by DOJ leadership his theory was not correct.
The letter Clark wrote, but was never sent, urged the Georgia state legislature to investigate election “irregularities” and, if necessary, appoint electors themselves that go against the results of the popular vote. The letter was meant to be a “proof of concept” that would eventually be sent to several states.
“Lawyers must observe the highest standard of professional conduct. At a minimum, they must be honest,” the panel wrote.
“He should be disbarred as a consequence and to send a message to the rest of the Bar and to the public that this behavior will not be tolerated,” it added.
Why doesn’t he just call it Twitter from the Toilet at this point. His speech is verbal diarrhea; many people believe the stench around him is from actual diarrhea; he spends an inordinate amount of time on the throne. One would think the president of the United States of America would spend his time in office better. Then one would not be in the year 2025 AD (or, as the felon likely calls it, The Year of I am THE Lord 5).
President Donald Trump hit the reshare button hard on his Truth Social platform Wednesday, flooding his profile with wild and weird posts and memes that slammed his political enemies.
Among them was an image depicting former President Barack Obama, his 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and other foes behind prison bars.
One post declared, “It’s time to indict Obama the traitor.”
Another labeled former President Joe Biden’s time in office “the biggest scam in U.S. history!”
Trump has, in particular, ramped up his attacks on Obama in recent weeks, falsely accusing his predecessor of orchestrating a “deep state” plot to sabotage his presidency.
Earlier this month, Trump shared an AI-generated video that depicted Obama being arrested in the Oval Office and hauled off to prison.
The president’s latest meme spree comes amid rising anger from his MAGA base over his administration’s refusal to release documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — who was once a close friend of Trump.
Federal Court orders the felon and his accomplices to extend TPS.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge ruled on Thursday against the Trump administration’s plans and extended Temporary Protected Status for 60,000 people from Central America and Asia, including people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Temporary Protected Status is a protection that can be granted by the Homeland Security secretary to people of various nationalities who are in the United States, preventing from being deported and allowing them to work. The Trump administration has aggressively been seeking to remove the protection, thus making more people eligible for removal. It’s part of a wider effort by the administration to carry out mass deportations of immigrants.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem can extend Temporary Protected Status to immigrants in the U.S. if conditions in their homelands are deemed unsafe to return due to a natural disaster, political instability or other dangerous conditions. Noem had ruled to end protections for tens of thousands of Hondurans and Nicaraguans after determining that conditions in their homelands no longer warranted them.
The secretary said the two countries had made “significant progress” in recovering from 1998’s Hurricane Mitch, one of the deadliest Atlantic storms in history.
The designation for an estimated 7,000 from Nepal was scheduled to end Aug. 5 while protections allowing 51,000 Hondurans and nearly 3,000 Nicaraguans who have been in the U.S. for more than 25 years were set to expire Sept. 8.
U.S. District Judge Trina L. Thompson in San Francisco did not set an expiration date but rather ruled to keep the protections in place while the case proceeds. The next hearing is Nov. 18.
In a sharply written order, Thompson said the administration ended the migrant status protections without an “objective review of the country conditions” such as political violence in Honduras and the impact of recent hurricanes and storms in Nicaragua.
Let’s be perfectly clear here: “I must meet the felon’s target of one million deportations” is not a valid reason for removing or denying TPS.
Okay, Canada. What did you do now? (The bolding and italicizing are mine.)
The White House took a step forward with President Trump’s plan to remake the trade landscape by releasing new details Thursday evening that included a raft of new tariff rates, now formally authorized by executive order, which set levels from 10% to 40% on nearly every global trading partner.
The move represents a giant shakeup in the US’s trade order, outlining a 35% tariff on Canada (up from 25% currently) as well as rates above 30% on nations from South Africa to Switzerland.
But there’s a last minute catch, as nearly all these new rates (except for Canada’s) will not go into effect for seven days, instead of a midnight Friday deadline Trump had previously set.
“These modifications shall be effective … on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time 7 days after the date of this order,” reads the now signed order.
The new tariff rate on Canada is under a different order focused on illicit drugs and and will take effect Friday, as originally planned.
I must amend a comment I made near the beginning of this post.
The incompetent felon in office has destroyed democracy, the world economy, the military, higher education, public health, public safety, the very idea of museums, diplomacy, the rule of law, the serparation of powers, checks and balances, and has turned our constitution into no more than fading memory. He has done this in a matter of months. And all of this is for no other reason than to flatter his own fragile ego.
Good song - Well done !
And welcome !

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Another comprehensive news digest.
I’ll be hiding under my rock….
It would take an entire brand-new language to adequately describe how angry I am at and how much I abhor the Second Felonial Era.
I am currently on vacation (between semesters) from my Beijing job. I’m staying at the hotel on the US Army base in Seoul, South Korea. Since it’s the Army base, the television package includes a few US military channels. Each of these channels, instead of commercials, runs what are called spots. The channels are part of the American Forces Network. As this network is for the military, it is supposed to be non-political.
I’ll pause a moment for you to tell yourself, Damn straight I know exactly where this is headed!
One of the USDOD “information” updates had a woman at the Pentagon gushing over new policies introduced by the felon and his co-conspirator Hegseth. That part, in theory, is perfectly fine.
In theory.
The reality was the woman actually and literally called President Biden incompetent and stated that under Biden our military was incapable. It may have been just one minute long, possibly up to five minutes, but it seemed like an entire hour of lie after lie, insult after insult of decent people who had done their jobs under great pressure, and praise after praise of the magaflatearthers’ idol.
This is not impartial, non-political reporting.
I say again:
It would take an entire brand-new language to adequately describe how angry I am at and how much I abhor the Second Felonial Era.

Okay, but I’m guessing their dreams did not include this.
OK, trump wins, Dimitry Epelboym is second. See post 6878. Paid by trump himself and anonymous donors to the tune of 200 million US$? That means that he will extort 400 million from some facebook “friends” by the usual means and keep 200 million for himself, I suppose. Clever.
Versailles West is finally getting a new ballroom, but is 200 mil really going to be enough? Why are they cheaping out on something so important?
Force of habit. You can buy two or three times as much bling for the price of a genuine article.
Of course the main reason for cheaping out is tacky stuff isn’t all that expensive, I suppose.

It would take an entire brand-new language to adequately describe how angry I am at and how much I abhor the Second Felonial Era.
I’m with you my friend. My wife and I are on the edge of retirement. Months away. We planed this for years. As such we bought a different house to retire to and are selling our current house.
It has destroyed all confidence in pretty much all markets. Nobody knows WTF to do. Real estate, financial, everything. You do not re-model your bathroom when your house is on fire.
But the fucker got re-elected, and triple downed on everything. Congress and SCOTUS won’t do a thing. It has cost me at least 50k. And that’s a conservative estimate.
A new language would possible work. My cousin and I went through the entire alphabet to describe It.
Starting with A - Asshole
B - Bastard
C - Corrupt
And so on and so forth. Took about 2 minutes.
X - xenophobic.
Z - Zero.
And we, like another poster here do not bespeak his name or type his name. He is henceforth known as It.
If Trump winds up pardoning Maxwell (and I fully expect him to do so, because there is no bar so low that he can’t fail to clear it) I look forward to hearing his rationale. She’s a political prisoner? Unjustly imprisoned? A victim of Biden & Obama? Pedophilia/sex trafficking really isn’t that bad?