Just for fun, for every newsit I quote below, rate it from 0 to 5 on (a) how much of an attempt it is for the convicted felon and/or his co-conspirators/accomplices to deflect from the Epstein case, (b) how mucht of an attempt it is to spin the felon’s falling popularity, (c) how much proof it is of his dementia/cognitive decline, and–the biggie–(d) how unfit he is for office.*
The felon touts a bygone test as proof of two things, neither of which he has himself. (The bolding is mine.)
If you grew up in the U.S. before 2013, you probably remember the Presidential Fitness Test.
Whether it was racing classmates in the shuttle run, wheezing through a mile in the heat or trying to touch your toes during the sit-and-reach, it was a rite of passage in American schools — and for many, an annual mix of dread, sweat and sticker-based validation.
Now, more than a decade after it was phased out, the test is coming back. President Donald Trump officially reinstated it earlier this month, framing the move as a return to national strength and discipline.
This goes along with his recreating the Presidential Fitness Council. And who is on this council? (Same link, still my bolding.)
The announcement came alongside a rebooted Presidential Fitness Council stacked with athletes and sports celebrities — all part of a promise to get American kids moving again. The council includes pro golfer Bryson DeChambeau, along with others who’ve attracted controversy such as former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, a registered sex offender.
In the felon’s war on education, journalism, and the constitution, students are fighting back.
Stanford University’s independent student newspaper on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against two Trump administration officials, claiming some of its writers in the U.S. on student visas have “self-censored” to avoid being targeted for deportation.
The Stanford Daily and two anonymous plaintiffs, who have published commentary online but are not employed by the newspaper, claim Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s immigration enforcement moves against outspoken students have chilled their speech.
“Secretary Rubio and the Trump administration’s war against noncitizens’ freedom of speech is intended to send an unmistakable message: Watch what you say, or you could be next,” the complaint reads. “Message received.”
The student newspaper said its writers present on student visas have declined assignments tied to Israel’s war in Gaza, including coverage of campus protests, worried that reporting on the conflict could endanger their legal status. Some writers have sought removal of previous articles about the conflict, as well.
The two plaintiffs have self-censored over concerns they could be deported for expression deemed “anti-American” or “anti-Israel” by the government, the complaint reads.
People are now playing peek-a-boo with him at an official event.
President Donald Trump once again appeared to suffer a ‘senior moment’ as he struggled to keep track of people standing behind him during an Oval Office meeting on Wednesday.
The president rolled out the red carpet to welcome Apple CEO Tim Cook to the White House this week, which saw him presented with a 24-karat gold ornament after announcing the tech giant’s plans to invest an extra $100 billion into the U.S. economy.
Trump was joined at the press conference by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, but as the president stood at the podium to begin his speech he appeared to momentarily forget they were in the room with him.
“I’d like to welcome to the White House one of the great and most esteemed business leaders and geniuses and innovators anywhere in the world, Apple CEO Tim Cook,” said Trump as he began the presentation.
“Thanks as well to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for being here, wherever you may be.”
At this point Lutnick, who had been standing directly behind the president the entire time, chirped up and said “I’m right behind you,” catching Trump off-guard as he quipped “oh hey fellas, I missed you.”
For your edification, here is what Wikipedia has on peek-a-boo.
Peekaboo is thought by developmental psychologists to demonstrate an infant’s inability to understand object permanence.[5] Object permanence is an important stage of cognitive development for infants. In early sensorimotor stages, the infant is completely unable to comprehend object permanence. Psychologist Jean Piaget conducted experiments with infants which led him to conclude that this awareness was typically achieved at eight to nine months of age.[6] He said that infants before this age are too young to understand object permanence. A lack of object permanence can lead to A-not-B errors, where children reach for a thing at a place where it should not be.
The windbag must be jealous of windmills.
The Trump administration will reverse a Biden-era approval of a major wind energy project — marking the latest in a string of anti-renewable moves by the Trump administration.
In a press release, the Interior Department said it was “reversing the Biden administration’s misguided, last-minute push to approve the Lava Ridge Wind Project.”
It did not provide procedural specifics, and The Hill has reached out for more information.
This next part of the article stumps me, to be honest. I didn’t get great grades in physics, but I think what I did learn shows this particular metric to be meaningless when it comes to energy production.
The missive also cited the administration’s recent policy that considers how much land an energy project takes up — which is expected to disproportionately hamper solar and wind energy.
Status update on the FBI rounding up Texas state legislators
The chair of the Texas House Democratic caucus remained defiant Thursday in the face of one US senator’s bid to enlist the FBI’s help in returning him and his state House colleagues to the state.
“Sure, if they don’t follow the law,” state Rep. Gene Wu told CNN’s Pamela Brown on “The Situation Room,” when asked whether he was concerned the FBI would arrest him and his fellow Texas state House members.
“We know that the governor has no power outside of the state, and we know that the federal government cannot get involved in this unless there is a legal reason why they are allowed to get involved.”
Let’s skip down in the article to a very interesting bit. (The bolding is mine.)
Texas US Sen. John Cornyn, who is up for reelection next year, said Thursday the FBI had granted his request of federal assistance for state law enforcement, as they work with Texas Republicans to bring back the lawmakers and reestablish quorum.
“I am proud to announce that Director Kash Patel has approved my request for the FBI to assist state and local law enforcement in locating runaway Texas House Democrats,” Cornyn said in a statement, but he did not elaborate on what such assistance would entail.
He later told conservative talk show host Mark Davis that Patel had assigned agents from the bureau’s Austin and San Antonio offices to fulfill his request – though did not detail what role they would have.
It’s unclear to what extent agents are assisting Texas Republicans in the matter and under what authority they would be allowed to do so. The FBI has declined multiple requests for comments from CNN on the matter.
The felon is really embracing his centrally managed economist (yeah, that means communist).
President Donald Trump sent a jolt through the tech industry on Thursday, demanding the immediate resignation of Intel’s CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, and branding him as “highly conflicted.” The call, issued via Trump’s Truth Social platform, follows a request earlier in the week from Republican Sen. Tom Cotton to the Intel chairman, demanding answers about Tan’s ties to China.
“The CEO of Intel is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!” Trump wrote Thursday morning.
One of the felon’s pardonees and now current Second Felonial Era official had an interesting take on January 6, 2021.
“You guys are disgusting, man. You guys are disgusting,” Wise can be seen and heard saying on the footage. “I’m former law enforcement, you’re disgusting. You are the Nazi, you are the Gestapo, you can’t see it, cuz you’re chasing your pension.”
“Yeah! Fuck them, yeah! Kill ’em, yeah!” he later cheers as rioters push their way forward.
Don’t count on getting connected to Social Security Administration workers who can help you when calling Social Security Administration.
Phone calls to Social Security are being rerouted to other field offices where workers don’t have jurisdiction over some claims, according to staffers, as the beleaguered agency struggles to cut down on wait times amid thousands of staff losses and high demand.
Amber Westbrook, a union chapter president and field office employee serving the Chicago region, said the system means that when certain calls come in, she can’t “actually take care of the issue.”
“Our system is very specific to the office that we can do things in,” she told NPR, which reported on the phone routing plan. “So I, physically, if another claim is open in another office, I cannot clear their case. It’s just kind of the way that they retain that to make sure that things are accurate and complete.”
And why is this happening?
Social Security has been in turmoil throughout the Trump administration.
By April, it had lost about 7,000 employees or about 12 percent of its workforce, through resignations, retirements, and firings under the Trump administration’s DOGE initiative.
Turns out the “glitch” with the Library of Congress website just deleted something the felon doesn’t like.
The Library of Congress removed two and a half sections of the Constitution from its website sometime after President Donald Trump ousted the library’s longtime leader in May.
In recent days, internet users noticed that portions of Article 1 were missing from the Library of Congress’ Constitution Annotated website: Sections 9 and 10, and part of Section 8. Article 1 appeared on the site in full at the start of the summer, according to internet archives.
On Aug. 6, the Library of Congress insisted that deletion of several clauses in Article 1 were the result of a website “coding error” and ensured the issue would be resolved in a timely manner. But despite the library’s statement, some have continued to express suspicion given the timing of the removal and the specific clauses that were cut.
My only question is why that “coding error” didn’t also affect the Fourteenth Amendment.
MSNBC journalist gives the felon a truth slap. (The bolding is mine.)
ence O’Donnell Shreds Trump For Denying Role In Ghislaine Maxwell Prison Transfer
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is continuing to cast doubt on President Donald Trump’s claim that he wasn’t aware of sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison transfer, which reportedly required a special waiver.
“The only people who can believe that are the people who believe every word Donald Trump says,” O’Donnell said Tuesday on “The Last Word.”
Maxwell was serving her 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Florida, but amid public furor over the Trump administration withholding files on her late accomplice Jeffrey Epstein, she is seeking a deal — and was moved to a minimum-security facility in Texas last week.
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When CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins asked Trump on Tuesday if he had personally approved the transfer or knew about it beforehand, the president said, “I didn’t know about it at all. Nope. I read about it just like you did,” adding that “it’s not a very uncommon thing.”
However, O’Donnell didn’t buy Trump’s denial. “The rules had to be changed” by Trump’s Justice Department to transfer Maxwell, the MSNBC host pointed out, echoing CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig.
It’s yet another Pennsylvania Avenue meltdown!
President Donald Trump marked the highly anticipated start of his massive tariffs with a classic all-caps social media rant against the rest of the world.
After several delays, products from nearly 70 countries were hit with tariffs of 10 to 41 percent starting Thursday, risking price increases for everyday goods ranging from food and clothing to toys and electronics, ABC News reported.
“RECIPROCAL TARIFFS TAKE EFFECT AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT! BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, LARGELY FROM COUNTRIES THAT HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR MANY YEARS, LAUGHING ALL THE WAY, WILL START FLOWING INTO THE USA,” Trump wrote on a Truth Social post.
The felon ain’t no Hober Mallow. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if the rest of the world finally gets fed up with this toddler, says screw it, and simply stops sending any goods whatsoever to America. Actually, my current thoughts and prayers are for just that to happen.
Speaking of the tariffs, MSNBC has a “gotcha” for the felon’s fool. (The bolding is mine; the enjoyment is all of ours.)
MSNBC analyst Eugene Robinson pressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent into spelling out who is paying for President Donald Trump’s newly imposed sweeping tariffs.
After months of discussions and extensions, Trump’s comprehensive tariffs took effect on Thursday just after midnight ET on dozens of countries, including top U.S. trading partners. Countries importing goods into the United States will encounter at least a 10% rate, while the overall average effective tariff rate also increased to over 18% — the highest tax on foreign goods since the Great Depression, according to Yale Budget Lab, a nonpartisan policy research center.
Trump on Wednesday had also separately announced an additional 25% tariff on India, ticking its tariff rate up to 50% later this month, as punishment for importing Russian oil and gas.
Early Thursday, Robinson walked Bessent through addressing the “confusion” when it comes to whether a U.S. importer or another country would have to pay for tariffs on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“If someone here — an importer — wants to buy Brazilian products today or tomorrow, and import them, they’re going to pay 50% to the Treasury. So who writes that check?" Robinson asked.
& a jump to the answer.
“Who writes the check to the Treasury?” Robinson repeated.
“Well, the check is written to the person who receives it at the dock in the U.S.,” Bessent responded.
Robinson went on to say, “So the tariff is paid in this country by the importer, is that right?”
Bessent said: “The Brazilian exporter could decide that they want to keep market share. They could lower their price…”
Robinson again chimed in, saying that other countries could “eat” part of the tariff.
“But the check is written by the importer, right, at the dock?” Robinson asked.
“Yep, and then the importer can pass it on, or not,” Bessent concluded.
Construction at Alligator Auschwitz must halt.
MIAMI — A federal judge Thursday ruled construction must temporarily stop at “Alligator Alcatraz” as hearings challenging the Everglades-based detention center’s environmental impact continue.
District Judge Kathleen Williams ordered the state to, at the very least, stop installing additional lighting, infrastructure, pavement, filling or fencing and to halt excavation for 14 days. She called the request for the temporary restraining order from the plaintiffs, which represent environmental groups, “pretty reasonable” to prevent further interruption to the ecosystem. The judge, an Obama-era appointee, said the plaintiffs had introduced evidence of “ongoing environmental harms.”
The legal strategy used by these plaintiffs is worthy of William Wilberforce.
The felon’s takeover of the District of Columbia has begun.
The Trump administration will increase the federal law enforcement presence in Washington, DC, starting Thursday night, the White House said. It comes just days after a well-known former Department of Government Efficiency staffer was assaulted in DC.
“President Trump has directed an increased presence of federal law enforcement to protect innocent citizens. Starting tonight, there will be no safe harbor for violent criminals in D.C. President Trump is committed to making our Nation’s capital safer for its residents, lawmakers, and visitors from all around the world,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
CNN previously reported that the Trump administration had been making plans to increase the federal law enforcement presence in DC.
A White House official confirmed to CNN that Thursday’s increase in law enforcement presence will include federal officers in “marked units, and highly visible.”
The increased presence will start at midnight and begins as a seven-day effort, with the option to extend, the official added.
The effort will be led by US Park Police, with participation from US Capitol Police, FBI, US Marshals Service, DC Police, DEA and other agencies.
Of course this is a needed intervention, right? Well…
But according to a preliminary year-to-date crime comparison from DC Police, 2025 crime numbers are lower than last year’s. As of Thursday, violent crime is down 26%, according to the DC Police.
I can’t force myself to even quote his gibberish blather on why he’s doing this. Feel free to peruse the article yourself. If you dare.
They’re getting the magaflathearthers to cheer for him some more. Is there really any other metric he uses?
Guaranteed the felon, his co-conspirators, and his flacks in the right-wing media will go to town berating Zelenskyy if he were to wear a suit.