Among the list of those who may nominate someone for the NPP is
It’s a pretty sure bet that at least one of his bootlickers has submitted a certain name to the pile. So a nomination essentially means nothing.
This is very true. But in most of those cases, people who at least appeared amenable to reason with the hope that the Peace Prize would lead to more introspection about their actions.
I would hope they aren’t stupid enough to think Trump is capable of introspection or capable of the level of thought required to understand it isn’t meant to be just some trophy to put up on the mantle to boast in front of visitors.
“I won from the biggliest and best pool of candidates ever nominated. True. But really, I don’t know why they bothered. I mean, they were never going to win.”
If Trump wins the Nobel Peace Prize, I will eat my laptop. And my phone. And all the dogs and cats in Springfield.
Dissent amongst the ranks.
A private dinner attended by dozens of administration officials and close advisers to President Donald Trump was temporarily marred by a dramatic clash between two of Trump’s top economic officials, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at one point threatening to punch top housing finance official Bill Pulte “in the fucking face.”
Both of those guys are assholes.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/08/scott-bessent-bill-pulte-blowup-00549956
This is like the third of fourth time we’ve heard of Bessent flying off the handle and threatening people with violence. Any other job HR would just be skipped and he’d be summarily fired.
I think the chances are low but not nearly low enough that I would make the statement you just did.
There is a non-zero chance that the Ukraine war will end on Trump’s watch, and that the USA will have had enough to do with that outcome for Trump to be seen as deserving of some credit. Nobels have been awarded for less.
Kissinger advanced policies that actually killed hundreds of thousands of people.
We have more on why Tom Hanks is not being honored by West Point’s grad association.
Donald Trump launched a vitriolic attack against Tom Hanks for supposedly being “destructive” and “woke” after one of America’s most beloved actors was snubbed without much explanation by West Point last week.
On his social media site on Monday, the US president applauded the alumni association of the US Military Academy (or West Point) for abruptly calling off a ceremony honoring Hanks, twice an Academy award winner who has played numerous military characters and also has a long history of advocating for veterans.
Trump wrote: “Our great West Point (getting greater all the time!) has smartly cancelled the Award Ceremony for actor Tom Hanks. Important move! We don’t need destructive, WOKE recipients getting our cherished American Awards!!! Hopefully the Academy Awards, and other Fake Award Shows, will review their Standards and Practices in the name of Fairness and Justice. Watch their DEAD RATINGS SURGE!”
The very embodiment of cardinal sins says his DOE will say how to do prayer in schools.
Washington — The Department of Education will issue new guidance about prayer in public schools, President Trump announced Monday in a speech at the Bible Museum.
“I am pleased to announce this morning that the Department of Education will soon issue new guidance protecting the right to prayer in our public schools, and it’s total protection,” the president said, to applause and cheers from attendees ahead of a meeting of the Justice Department’s Religious Liberty Commission.
Mr. Trump did not provide further details about what the new guidance will be.
Nothiing like the smell of unconstitutionality in the morning, huh, felon?
Roberts blesses the felon’s firing of Rebecca Kelly Slaughter.
The chief justice granted interim relief to the Trump administration Monday while the Supreme Court takes more time to consider its request to lift a lower court order requiring Rebecca Kelly Slaughter to be reinstated to her position at the commission.
Slaughter is one of several appointees at independent agencies that the president has removed since he returned to the White House. The Supreme Court has allowed Mr. Trump to fire members of the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission while legal challenges to the removals move forward.
Mr. Trump appointed Slaughter to the FTC in 2018, and former President Joe Biden reappointed her to the role. Her term was set to expire in 2029.
But in March, Slaughter received an email from the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, which contained a message from Mr. Trump informing her that she had been removed from the FTC. Slaughter sued the president and officials at the commission, arguing that her removal violated the Federal Trade Commission Act. That law limits the grounds that a president can remove a commissioner to inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.
Who had “Roberts is in the felon’s pocket” on their Bingo card? I think that answer should be Everyone.
The felon’s invading Illinois now.
CHICAGO — After much speculation and teasing by President Donald Trump, the Department of Homeland Security said it is launching Operation Midway Blitz, a new initiative targeting undocumented immigrants who commit crimes across Chicago and Illinois.
The DHS said a social media post on Sept. 8 the operation is in honor of Katie Abraham, a 20-year-old woman from one of Chicago’s northwest suburbs who was killed in a hit-and-run crash in January by Julio Cucul Bol, a 29-year-old Guatemalan national who is in the United States illegally.
DHS said the Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation will target people in the country illegally who commit crimes and “flocked to Chicago and Illinois.” Hundreds of Homeland Security officials are expected to operate from a naval base outside Chicago.
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement the operation will go after “the worst of the worst,” accusing Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and other local politicians for releasing gang members, rapists, kidnappers and drug traffickers that put lives at risk.
“President Trump and Secretary Noem have a clear message: no city is a safe haven for criminal illegal aliens,” McLaughlin said. "If you come to our country illegally and break our laws, we will hunt you down, arrest you, deport you, and you will never return.”
The announcement by Homeland Security comes as Chicago is bracing for the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops and more ICE agents. Last week, Trump said “we’re going in,” in response to a violent Labor Day weekend. Meanwhile, Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have vigorously rejected the notion and said they will stand up to Trump’s “tyranny.”
On Sept. 7, Trump told reporters that Chicago is a “very dangerous place” and that he could “solve Chicago very quickly.”
No, it’s not hyperbole to say the felon’s invading Illinois.
Insisting a surge of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement will occur in Chicago and other sanctuary cities, U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan on Sunday warned anti-ICE activists “you’re going to jail” if they cross the line from peaceful protests and suggested instead they should rally against Congress.
President Donald Trump and Homan also sought to downplay controversy over Trump’s social media post on Saturday in which the president declared, “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” The posting generated angst and accusations that the Republican president was declaring war on a major Democrat-led city.
The felon himself says he’s going to war–using the military–against Chicago.
The felon’s legal knowledge is fantastic, absolutely fantastic!
Donald Trump’s latest shocking statement was outrageous even for him, so, naturally, internet critics had thoughts. Lots and lots of them.
During an event at Washington, D.C.’s Museum of the Bible on Monday, the president suggested domestic violence shouldn’t be considered a crime.
It appeared he was dismissing such actions because calling domestic violence a crime hurts his claim that crime has seriously dropped in D.C. since he deployed the National Guard last month.
Although violent crime seems to have declined since the deployment, it hasn’t disappeared entirely, according to CNN. And other factors, like decreased tourism and restaurant reservations, may indicate fewer people are venturing out. Trump blamed the inability to entirely eradicate crime on an unnamed group of opponents who insist on including domestic violence in D.C.’s crime stats.
“They said crime’s down 87%. I said, ‘No, no, no, it’s more than 87%. Virtually nothing,’” Trump said during his speech, before suggesting domestic violence shouldn’t be considered a crime.
“Much lesser things, things that take place in the home, they call crime. You know, they’ll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say, ‘This was a crime, see?’ So now I can’t claim 100%.”
Killer Kennedy has one upped Jewish Space Lasers!
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) use of its “Biothreat Radar Detection System” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week.
But no such system appears to exist, NOTUS reported.
“The CDC also now operates in 63 countries, monitoring biothreats before they reach our shores,” Kennedy wrote. “Its Biothreat Radar Detection System—an advanced early-detection tool—can spot pathogens like H5N1 or MERS early enough to prevent catastrophe.”
Koreans arrested in the Hyundai raid get to go to their own country.
When hundreds of federal, state and local officers descended on a Georgia Hyundai manufacturing plant last week, they came armed with a judicial search warrant naming four people. Ultimately, over 450 people were taken into custody, officials say, suspected of living and working illegally in the United States.
The high-stakes raid followed a monthslong investigation and marked the largest sweep yet in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown at US worksites. Its repercussions reached high into the halls of diplomacy, prompting South Korea’s foreign minister to offer to personally travel to Washington, DC, “to engage directly with US officials to resolve this matter.”
A majority of those arrested — over 300 — are South Korean, according to the country’s foreign affairs minister, and are now slated to return to South Korea on a chartered flight in what immigration attorneys are calling a unique agreement.
Now why is that? It couldn’t be because they’re not Brown, could it? And don’t toss up “Well, the South Korean government is paying for the trip” because, you guessed it, nobody else got that deal; their home countries weren’t allowed that option. They were simply shipped off to different continents.
Immigration law isn’t my thing, but I have done a certain amount of work on it as a consequence of having to deal with stowaways on ships.
There tend to be a few reasons why receiving countries can’t send non citizens home. They may have no passport and make it hard to establish where they are from. Stowaways will throw away their passport and ID deliberately for this reason. More commonly they may claim refugee status, alleging they will be persecuted if they are sent home. Under treaty obligations it is then unlawful for the receiving country to do so.
These reasons are what cause Australia (to my embarrassment) and the US and recently the UK to seek out third party countries to which such people can be sent while still remaining technically within international treaty obligations.
If a non citizen has a passport and is not claiming refugee status they are just sent home. It’s pointless to do anything else since if they are willing and able to go home that is what they will do even if you send them to some third party country in the first instance. Sending people home is also the cheapest and easiest solution for the receiving country if it can be done.
I think you will find that the USA has deported people to weird third party countries only where the obvious solution of sending them home is not available for some reason such as those I’ve outlined. Most have just been sent home. There is no special privilege being exercised in favour of these Koreans.
The most stunning thing about this is that the building didn’t burst into flame as soon as he set foot in it.
To be fair, given the particular people involved in creating it, it’s a wonder the building itself wasn’t destroyed by lightning as soon as it opened
For many of them, the US is their home. And the cruelty is the point; sending people to “weird third party countries“ hurts them more, therefore that’s the option we’ll choose.
Or just dump them into the ocean halfway.
What exactly happens to people when you dump a person into a country they never came from, with no money, no ID, don’t speak the language, and with only the clothes on their back? Ignoring one poster’s expected-but-not-helpful answer, what really happens? Do they get refugee help? Do they get robbed and killed immediately? Send off to slave camps? Live under a bridge and beg for food? I know the administration treats them like NPCs, but we live in the real world. They have to do something…what?
Is the US paying for the detainees to be incarcerated in El Salvador?
Yeah, true. Bad choice of words on my part but hopefully you know what I meant - the place they have citizenship.
In Australia’ case - again much to my embarrassment - we have paid vast sums to small Pacific Island nations to take these people. I am not across the details but understand that this is probably part (in effect) a bribe and part to defray costs of keeping the deportees. The idea I think is that in the long term they are supposed to integrate into the local community. How well a bunch of (say) Iraqi refugees are actually going to integrate into the community somewhere like Papua New Guinea is an open question…
This story says yes, the US is paying el Salvador to imprison deportees.
US$4.67M
And we’re paying for jets and jet fuel, I suppose. 
I see no reason for El Salvador, or any other contry the US pays to hold people in concentration camps, to send those detainees to another country, not even their own, so long as the holding country can cash in at the US taxpayer expense.
By the way, how’s that coming for y’all, magaflatearthers? This is how you think the felon is cutting costs?
On another note, and I can’t believe I’m actually posting this, there’s a great opinion piece in today’s China Daily about the rebranding of the Defense Department.
When the US administration announced last week that the “Department of War” will be used as the “secondary title” for the Department of Defense, it was, for once, being honest.
The administration offered two justifications for the White House’s decision. First, it reminded Americans that when the department was still called the “Department of War”, the United States won two world wars. The name, it suggested, carries a victorious aura. Second, it argued that “Defense” sounds too passive, whereas “War” better captures the US’ military posture. One can hardly fault this candor.
Asked about the move, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson simply said that it is the US’ internal matter.
From George Washington to Harry Truman, US presidents maintained the Department of War for over 160 years. Through those years, the US transformed from a fragile republic into a global power. For the incumbent administration, which has pledged to “Make America Great Again”, evoking that era makes political sense. By dusting off the old title, it taps into a collective memory of past glory, rekindling pride while fueling hopes of renewed greatness. That is an apt political move for the US, given its current belligerent posture.
More important, restoring the title, “Department of War”, makes it consistent with the institution’s true character. Since 1949, when it was rebranded the “Department of Defense”, the Pentagon has not followed a defensive defense policy. Its mission has remained that of the Department of War: planning, launching and sustaining conflicts across the globe.
A “department of defense” should primarily safeguard national security. But in the eight decades since the end of World War II, the US’ so-called Department of Defense has done the opposite. It has frequently used its military power abroad on pretexts not related to self-defense. Successive US administrations have exhibited one common behavior: even when no country posed a threat to the US’ security, they have conjured up enemies and triggered conflicts. If there were no adversaries, they were invented.
The rebranding of the US defense department did not temper US aggression. On the contrary, the US Department of Defense has proliferated wars. The record is long and bloody. The countries and regions scarred by US military action include the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Guatemala, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. The Pentagon’s interventions are too numerous to catalogue. Suffice it to say that the department has been far busier using force than defending US soil.
Even in 2025, only months into the current administration, airstrikes were carried out on Iran, and warships dispatched to Venezuelan waters under the guise of fighting drug cartels. If this is not the behavior of a “war department”, what is?
Seen in this light, restoring the old title is not a reckless but a “corrective” move. For decades, the US Department of Defense has acted under a misleading title. Now, at least, the name reflects reality. By admitting what everyone else can see — that the US is a country perpetually at war — the administration has indulged in an act of bureaucratic truth-telling.
The rest of the piece has some humorous suggestions about renaming other government departments. And the piece closes with:
If the US insists on projecting force, let it at least do so under a name that admits as much. The recent renaming of the Pentagon is, then, a first step toward bureaucratic honesty. Whether future administrations will maintain this practice of linguistic candor remains to be seen.
For now, though, the “Department of War” has returned. And for once, its name is exactly what it does.
And the felon will not understand that he’s being taken to task here by a Chinese government mouthpiece. He’ll think they’re congratulating him on this incredibly stupid move.
The piece is taking the US (not Trump) to task for proliferating wars the overwhelming majority of which happened before Trump. If the felon does not think he’s being taken to task here by a Chinese government mouthpiece, he would be correct. For once.