I was recently watching an episode of The Orville, and this reminded me of one exchange:
Captain: We’re not here to hurt you!
Security Officer: We did just shoot his dad.
Captain: Aside from shooting your dad, we’re not here to hurt you!
Or:
♫ Ah! We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill;
We come in peace, shoot to kill; Scotty, beam me up! ♫
English? it is an official language.
I thought because that describes trump.
Technically he may be OK here. This is not the force of law - there is no law saying capital punishment is mandatory; he is telling his prosecutors to pursue the death penalty in all murder cases. Judges / juries are free to sentence however they wish.
Cf. The Wrong Guy:
HOSTAGE NEGOTIATOR: We don’t want anyone to get hurt.
HOSTAGE TAKER: I’m already hurt!
HOSTAGE NEGOTIATOR: …Right. We don’t want anyone else to get hurt.
Hear hear. Great work @Monty .
For fuck’s sake.
Ashli Babbit is going to be buried with full military honors, that goddamn traitor.
Fuck! Why not go full-in with this travesty? Bury her right next to the Tomb of the Unknowns, or better yet, next to President Kennedy, an actual patritor and war hero to boot.
I am so glad I’m retired from the military now. There’s no way I would participate in such a sham, rendering honors to a traitor.
But, hey, I think we all saw this coming after the government paid her family almost five million dolloars for her wrongful death.
I agree that her death was wrongful. She did something wrong, and she died doing it.
p.s. Take a wild guess what her Air Force Specialty Code (akin to MOS) was.
If no one wants to take up the burden, perhaps you could just post the daily link to WTF Just Happened Today?
A sample from today’s update:
Federal agents interrupted operations at the site Washington’s largest wildfire for more than three hours to conduct immigration checks and arrest two firefighters. Border Patrol said it acted at the request of the Bureau of Land Management after contracts with two Oregon firms were canceled, though officials gave no details about the investigation. Firefighters said they were ordered to line up, told not to film, and blocked from saying goodbye to detained coworkers. One firefighter said a federal officer told him, “You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I’m gonna make you leave.” The Bear Gulch fire has burned nearly 9,000 acres and was 13% contained as of Thursday
I didn’t know about that site-- thanks!
A concentration camp or grift or both?
Both, for sure.
Who owns the company? An ex-gf of Donnie?
No, those get their money from court awards. (Remember: in his tiny little mind, they’re his ex-girlfriends, not his victims.)
Instead, it handed the project on a military base to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a small business that has no listed experience running a correction facility and had never won a federal contract worth more than $16 million. The company also lacks a functioning website and lists as its address a modest home in suburban Virginia owned by a 77-year-old retired Navy flight officer.
Yet again, the problem is the R-ten switch.
We now know what’s causing the problems in the United States of America. (The bolding is mine.)
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared a post to Instagram that asked people to pray for the victims following the tragic shooting at a Minneapolis church that claimed the lives of two children. However, not all is what it initially seems.
A look at the full post, originally made by The Conservateur, a conservative lifestyle magazine, reveals a second slide that blames a “demonic force” for the shooting.
The full post reads, “There is a demonic force moving when a transgender maniac sprays bullets at pews of Catholic school children. Shame on the progressive leaders and lawmakers who make this about the man in the White House, the second amendment or so-called trans bigotry.”
Minnesota Senator lambasts Killer Kennedy.
Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith (D) blasted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday after he suggested psychiatric drugs given to children could partly be to blame for school shootings.
“I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do,” Smith wrote on the social platform X on Tuesday, just more than 24 hours after a deadly school shooting in Minneapolis. “Just shut up. Stop peddling bulls‑‑‑. You should be fired.”
Kennedy has long argued selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a class of antidepressants that increase serotonin and lift mood, are overprescribed, particularly for children.
And just where did he get the idea this is related to the latest school shooting? Felon News Network, of course. (Same link.)
“Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Kennedy if his agency was looking into the possibility that psychiatric drugs used to treat gender dysphoria were partly to blame for mass shootings.
Are you sick? Get your woo practitioner to just look at you. Did something bad happen? It’s the fault of demons. Did you shoot up your school? Not your fault! It was the drugs forced into you.
Top vaccine official tells it like it is on his way out the door. (The bolding is mine.)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official tasked with overseeing the nation’s vaccine policy resigned from his post Wednesday, shortly after the White House fired the agency’s director.
Demetre Daskalakis, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, cited his philosophical differences with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that “challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people,” adding, “Enough is enough.”
“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health,” he wrote in his resignation letter, which he also posted on social media.
Coconspriator Gabbard shares the identity of an undercover agent on X.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been condemned for sharing the name of an undercover CIA officer on social media.
On Aug. 19, Gabbard posted a memo on X that included a list of 37 current and former officials who had been stripped of their security clearances, including those who had supported Trump’s first impeachment trial or concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
Also included on the list was a senior CIA officer who had been working undercover, though Gabbard was unaware of this at the time, The Wall Street Journal reported. However, sources told the newspaper that Gabbard did not consult with the intelligence agency before posting the list of names to her 762,000 online followers.
Criminally stupid.
How many more cases like this will occur before the felons in office are held to account? (The bolding is mine.)
The family of 18-year-old Benjamin Guerrero-Cruz was shocked when they found out that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) had discreetly moved him out of California, according to California congresswoman Luz Rivas, who spoke with his relatives and reviewed federal detention records.
Guerrero-Cruz, who was first detained in Van Nuys neighborhood while walking his dog, was transferred late Monday from the Adelanto detention facility in San Bernardino county to a remote holding site in Arizona without any notification given to his family.
The next day, Ice prepared to send him to Louisiana, a key hub for deportation flights. At the last moment, however, Guerrero-Cruz was removed from the plane and returned to Adelanto, where he remains in custody, according to Rivas’s office.
“The nightmare for him, his family, and thousands in similar situations is not over yet,” Rivas said in a statement. “I will not accept the current reality that ICE shuffles and transfers detainees without notifying their family to inflict psychological pain for all of those involved.
“Benjamin and his family deserve answers behind Ice’s inconsistent and chaotic decision-making process, including why Benjamin was initially transferred to Arizona, why he was slated to be transferred to Louisiana afterward, and why his family wasn’t notified of his whereabouts by Ice throughout this process,” the statement continued.
The Revenge Tour continues, this time against FEMA. (The bolding is mine.)
FEMA employees were abruptly placed on administrative leave Tuesday—just 24 hours after they signed an explosive open letter warning Donald Trump that the agency is being dragged back to its pre-Katrina dark ages.
The letter, signed by 191 current and former FEMA staffers, was sent to Congress and top officials on Monday. Its message was blunt—the people now running FEMA are inexperienced, politically driven, and dismantling the very programs that keep Americans safe when disaster strikes.
The writers warned that, left unchecked, the agency could stumble into catastrophe. By Tuesday evening, FEMA’s administrator’s office had fired back with suspension letters.
Here’s an update on the Garcia case. He’s seeking asylum.
Washington — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was taken into immigration custody after he was released pending a criminal trial, has asked an immigration judge to reopen his immigration proceedings and is seeking asylum in the United States, his lawyer said during a court hearing Wednesday.
Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, Abrego Garcia’s attorney, told a federal judge overseeing a legal challenge to his immigration detention that the Salvadoran man made the request Tuesday, one day after he was taken back into custody by U.S. immigration authorities in Baltimore.
Abrego Garcia had been summoned for an interview with Immigration and Customs Enforcement at its Baltimore field office after he was released from criminal custody in Tennessee on Friday while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges, according to a notice. When he arrived at the Baltimore office, Abrego Garcia was then taken into custody by ICE and was being processed for deportation to Uganda, the Department of Homeland Security said.
I recall the latest judge extended his reprieve until some time in October. He might as well put that time to use learning Swahili. There’s no way the Second Felonial Era is going to let him be.
I thought states were supposed to honor each other’s driver licenses.
An undocumented immigrant who was found driving in Florida with a New Jersey issued commercial driver’s license will face deportation as part of the state’s new commercial driver crackdown, officials said this week.
Roberto Carlos Vergara Cervantes, of Ecuador, was arrested after he was stopped and found to be driving a commercial vehicle in Bay County, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said at a press conference on Sunday.
In a statement released this week, Uthmeier said out-of-state commercial driver’s licenses issued to undocumented immigrants are not valid for those operating a commercial vehicle in Florida. Cervantes was taken into custody by the Bay County Sheriff’s Office and is now on ICE hold, Uthmeier said.
Oh, yeah. Right (as in right wing). That’s quite the sneaky loophole, isn’t it?
Gavin Newsom’s with me. The felon does not plan on leaving office ever.
California Governor Gavin Newsom says he thinks President Donald Trump will seek to remain in office beyond his constitutional term in 2028, and use federal agents to try to rig future elections in his and his Republican supporters’ favor.
Newsom, who has acknowledged he might run for president in 2028, has become one of the Democratic party’s most forceful and visible critics of Trump. He gave what appeared to be his most extensive and full-throated warnings about the current president, and the state of American democracy, in a 48-minute Aug. 27 interview at POLITICO’s “The California Agenda: Sacramento Summit.”
The United States is on the precipice of tipping into authoritarianism, Newsom said, because of actions taken by Trump including using federal immigration agents as “the largest private police force in history” for his own political benefit.
Repeatedly urging the audience to “wake up,” Newsom said the rule of law in America “is being replaced by the rule of Don,” and warned that Trump and his administration will send federal agents to polling places and voting booths across the country in upcoming elections.
Newsom also said he thinks Trump wants to stay in office, and questioned whether there would be future democratic elections at all.
“I don’t think Donald Trump wants another election,” he told a POLITICO moderator. “I have two dozen Trump 2028 hats his folks keep sending me.”
There is no such thing as an independent agency under the Second Felonial Era.
WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday that it has fired a member of the Surface Transportation Board, a move that comes as the independent federal regulatory agency is considering the proposed merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroad companies.
“Earlier this evening, I received an email from the White House purporting to terminate my position at the Surface Transportation Board,” Robert Primus wrote in a post to LinkedIn on Wednesday. “This is deeply troubling and legally invalid.”
Primus’ termination, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, comes as the White House has increasingly moved to exert control over agencies across the federal government, including those considered to be independent.
Primus said in his post that he planned to “continue to discharge my duties as a member of the Board and, if I’m prevented from doing so, I will explore my legal options.”
The Presidential Personnel Office — which is now set to be run by longtime Trump aide Dan Scavino — did not offer a reason for Primus’ dismissal, according to a copy of the email seen by MSNBC. Staff member Mary Sprowls said that his position as a member was terminated “effective immediately.” Access to Primus’ government devices was shut off on Wednesday evening, according to a person familiar with matter.
In an interview on CNBC on Thursday, Primus said he found out that he had been fired after he participated in the launch of a new high-speed train yesterday. When he arrived home and saw his work phone was not functioning, he said, he thought he “actually sat on it or did something different to it” before he realized it had been locked.
Of course there’s a reason for this.
Reached for comment, a White House spokesperson did not provide a specific reason for Primus’ firing.
“Robert Primus did not align with the President’s America First agenda, and was terminated from his position by the White House,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai said in a statement. “The Administration intends to nominate new, more qualified members to the Surface Transportation Board in short order.”
On Yahoo’s posting of the Felon News Network article, some stable (floor debris) genius made this comment:
Bob Sacamano
3 hours ago
I love seeing triggered lefties. Trump is the master troll and promised four years of triggered snowflakes, he has kept his promise. Hilarious.
And here is my reply.
Chip
1 hour ago
So, by your admission, you believe there is no merit in this decision. The one and only reason your idol and his gang are doing this is simply to troll his political opponents. Does that about sum it up?
Get it straight, folks! The felon’s base do not care what he does as long as it “owns the libs”. That’s their one and only metric for its validity. Constitution? Get real. Law? Not a barrier. Pissed off the felon’s political opponent? GENIUS!
(At the moment, Bob the Sac has zero thumbs up and four thumbs down, while I have one thumbs up and one thumbs down.)
One thing I was reading about earlier:
He uses “national security” as an excuse to remove union protections for several offices.
Why not? After all, he’s the guy who wrote The Art of the Deal. Why would those workers need anyone else. His deals are the best deals. Nobody’s seen deals as good as he makes.
And we have a Twofer from the duffer!
The Trump administration is planning a new four-year time limit for foreign students in the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in a press release Wednesday.
According to the release, a proposed rule was unveiled by the administration Wednesday “that, if finalized, would limit the length of time certain visa holders – including foreign students– are allowed to stay in the United States.”
“For too long, past Administrations have allowed foreign students and other visa holders to remain in the U.S. virtually indefinitely, posing safety risks, costing untold amount of taxpayer dollars, and disadvantaging U.S. citizens,” a DHS spokesperson said in the release.“This new proposed rule would end that abuse once and for all by limiting the amount of time certain visa holders are allowed to remain in the U.S., easing the burden on the federal government to properly oversee foreign students and their history,” the spokesperson added.
The statement also says the U.S. government, via the proposed rule, would limit foreign students’ time allowed in the country to four years or less.
“Since 1978, foreign students (F visa holders) have been admitted into the U.S. for an unspecified period known as ‘duration of status.’ Unlike other visas issued, those with a ‘duration of status’ designation are allowed to remain in the U.S. for an indefinite amount of time without further screening and vetting,” the DHS said.
“In turn, foreign students have taken advantage of U.S. generosity and have become ‘forever’ students, perpetually enrolled in higher education courses to remain in the U.S.,” it continued.
It’s a twofer because it hits two of his favorite targets: universities and foreigners.
What safety risks? What cost to the taxpayer? And let’s have some actual examples of someone who is a “forever student”. And I don’t mean Dick Stuart-Clark.
This is also a self-burn on the Second Felonial Era’s part as one of those previous administrations was his!
Paul Krugman’s Substack is worth a read today-- well, it is every day, but today he talks about how Trump has destroyed America’s standing in the world.
A close up of that picture.
