From their viewpoint it’s an improvement since it’s money being spent to hurt people, and money being used to hurt people isn’t being wasted; it’s being used virtuously. It’s why they voted for Trump in the first place; to hurt as many people as possible as much as possible.
Right. They’re taking the US to task for the conflicts it’s been involved in, but they’re also taking the US to task for the current rebranding and that, of course, is all Trump’s doing.
Speaking of being taken to task, Senator Gallego is doing his part to keep a traitor from receiving military honors.
Sen. Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, will seek to block the Pentagon from offering full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, a member of the crowd that rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Gallego, who has criticized the Pentagon for agreeing recently to provide Babbitt with an honorary military funeral, will attempt to pass legislation this week to prevent the honor from being conferred.
He told CBS News, his legislation “comes from a sense of patriotism, you know, as someone who served this country, as someone who unfortunately buried a lot of Marines with full military honors.”
“The idea that they’re giving this to a person who actively tried to overthrow the government, who was violent in nature, who knowingly was entering a restrictive zone while we were trying to conduct the safe passage of democracy, and the idea that they’re just going to give this without a fight, it’s just not going to happen,” Gallego said.
He said he’s noticed that top officials, the secretary of the Air Force, defense secretary, the vice president and president have “never even said this,” and “they just kind of have been trying to sneak this in under — in the dark.”
“And I’m not gonna let that happen,” Gallego said. “I’m gonna put people on the record to make sure that we know who stood with your traitor, Ashli Babbitt.”
Gallego’s formal resolution said Babbitt was undeserving because she “attempted to force her way inside by climbing through the door’s broken window, where a Capitol Police Officer intervened to protect dozens of House members and staff cornered nearby.”
“Ashli Babbitt’s actions on January 6, 2021, constitute disqualifying conduct under section 985 of 4 title 10, United States Code, the rendering of military funeral honors to her would bring discredit upon the Air Force, and she is not eligible for such honors,” Gallego’s resolution reads.
I contacted Ruben Gallego thanking him for standing up for decency. It’s an absolute disgrace that she would be buried with honors. And it’s horrible that her family won the lawsuit when instead they should have been cowering in absolute shame.
But, like Trump, these idiots don’t know shame.
Russia sends drones into Poland and the felon’s reaction?
President Donald Trump offered his first reaction to Russia’s drone incursion on Poland, which the country’s military and European leaders condemned as “unprecedented.”
“What’s with Russia violating Poland’s airspace with drones? Here we go!” Trump wrote on his social media platform on Wednesday.
Polish airspace was violated by at least 19 Russian drones overnight, the country’s prime minister said. The Russian action prompted NATO to scramble a response, as two Polish F-16s and two Dutch F-35s were deployed to shoot them down.
It marked the first time in the alliance’s history that fighters had engaged potential targets in allied airspace, according to Col. Martin L. O’Donnell, a spokesperson for Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe.
Trump spoke with Polish President Karol Nawrocki on Wednesday afternoon, “regarding the repeated violation of Polish airspace by Russian drones, which occurred last night,” the Polish leader said in an post on X.
So why’s Poland getting support from the felon but Ukraine isn’t?
Isn’t Ukraine the country where they couldn’t “find”, i.e. manufacture, dirt on Joe Biden?
Just in case you thought we still had an independent congress, check this out.
WASHINGTON — Republicans triggered the “nuclear option” to change the rules of the Senate on a party-line basis Thursday, a move that will allow them to speed up confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees for key executive branch positions.
The vote was 53-45 to establish a new rule that allows the Senate to confirm an unlimited number of nominees en bloc, rather than process each one individually.
The rule applies to executive branch nominees subject to two hours of Senate debate, including subcabinet picks and ambassadors. It will not affect judicial nominations. Republicans say they’ll allow their own senators to object to individual nominees in any given block, but the rule will strip away the power of the minority party to do the same thing.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., initiated the process by bringing up a package of 48 Trump nominees, which under longstanding rules has been subject to the 60-vote threshold. The vote to advance them failed due to Democratic opposition. Then, Thune sought to reconsider and Republicans subsequently voted to overrule the chair, setting a precedent and establishing the new rule.
Thune had telegraphed the move for weeks, accusing Democrats of creating an “untenable situation” with historic obstruction of Trump’s nominees. The vote was held up for hours Thursday as the two parties engaged in last-ditch negotiations to strike a deal to avoid a rules change.
But they failed. And Republicans chose to proceed.
“It’s time to move. Time to quit stalling. Time to vote. Time to fix this place,” Thune said in an impassioned floor speech, accusing Democrats of stalling and dragging out negotiations. “This is a broken process, folks. That’s an embarrassment.”
Fix this place? Oh, yeah; the fix is in, no doubt.
The never-ending saga of a dead traitor continues.
A resolution offered by Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego to prevent the US Air Force from providing military funeral honors for Ashli Babbitt failed Wednesday after an objection from Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville.
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Gallego asked for unanimous consent for the Senate to proceed with the resolution and it was objected to by Tuberville.
And Tuberville’s reasoning? Hooboy!
Ashli Babbitt was never charged with or convicted of a crime. She has never been found guilty of anything by a jury of her peers,” Tuberville said, adding, “Has Ashli’s family not already been through enough? Are Democrats just hell bent on piling on? Unfortunately, Ashli is not with us any longer, so this petty resolution would serve no other purpose than to punish the Babbitt family.”
Let’s unpack that bullshit, shall we.
- Of course she wasn’t convicted. She fucking died while committing treason. But, hey, we now know how much Republicans love them some dead traitors.
- Her family’s troubles? Blow it out your can, clown. Every single thing her family is “suffering” now is 100% self-inflicted.
- Democrats piling on? Fuck me, he actually got that one correct. Yes, we’re hell-bent on piling on on the site of the right thing to do. Honoring that traitor doesn’t qualify as right.
- Unfortunately? No, you jackass, it’s actually fortunate that someone who was at the vanguard of an armed mob intent on killing members of our government to include ethe vice president in order to negate an election is no longer with us.
- Petty? Wrong. This resolution is needed because your idol, the traitor and convicted felon now back in the White House pardoned en masse those traitors who, by the way, could quite likely have killed you on that fateful day.
- No other purpose? Wrong again. The purpose of this resolution is to preserve the meaning of the military funeral honors for those of us who managed to not commit treason before, during, or after out terms of service. Why don’t you go dig up Benedict Arnold and all those CSA idiots and have honors rendered for them, you fucking idiot?
Republican Senator takes Cruella de Vile to task.
One MAGA lawmaker has had enough of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s “stonewalling” requests for funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Speaking with CNN’s Ted Barrett Tuesday, Republican Senator Ted Budd slammed Noem for slowing the disbursement of FEMA funding to North Carolina residents still suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
Congress had appropriated an estimated $5.95 billion to North Carolina for Helene recovery in December 2024, through the American Relief Act of 2025.
“But now here we are, nine months later, we still haven’t seen the reimbursements,” Budd said. As of June, his state was still waiting on $4.2 billion, according to a report from the governor’s office.
How’s that hunt for the Nobel Peace Prize coming, felon?
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, once known as the “Trump of the tropics,” appears to be on the verge of a conviction for his role in a failed coup attempt launched after he lost his last election. And on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared to threaten Brazil with “military might” if Bolsonaro should face repercussions.
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“I don’t have any additional actions to preview for today, but I can tell you this is a priority for the administration and the president is unafraid to use the economic might, the military might, of the United States to protect free speech around the world,” she said.
Venezuela and now Brazil are in the felon’s crosshairs.
That will be interesting:
You never walk alone:
There were leftwing celebrations outside the supreme court as Rocha sealed the fate of Bolsonaro and seven other close allies who were also convicted. They include the former defence ministers, Netto and Gen Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira, the former minister for institutional security, Gen Augusto Heleno, and the former navy commander, Adm Almir Garnier Santos.
Bolsonaro’s former spy chief, Alexandre Ramagem, and justice minister, Anderson Torres, were also found guilty, as was Cid.
Through most of my life, I’ve been informed one of the strengths of democracy is a free press. Alas, that, too, no longer applies in today’s America.
Fox News is axing MediaBuzz and ending Howard Kurtz’s 12-year run as host of the Sunday morning media affairs show—just months after President Donald Trump publicly called for his retirement.
The network will replace MediaBuzz with The Sunday Briefing, a new program hosted by Washington correspondents Jacqui Heinrich and Peter Doocy, airing Sundays at 11 a.m., Variety reported.
But, hey, the felon still knows a great deal when he sees it.
Donald Trump’s White House makeover is back in the spotlight after internet sleuths claimed the president’s team dressed up the Oval Office with bargain store plastic.
At the center of the debate is a gold-accented applique seen in photos of the Oval Office fireplace, which users say is nearly identical to a $58 “Ekena Millwork Onlay” available at Home Depot. The piece, made from molded urethane, is marketed online as a decorative embellishment.
A tongue-in-cheek product review on the retailer’s site stated: “My boss is image-obsessed & understands that when it comes to decorating, more is MORE! AND he’s convinced it’s all real gold!”
I just hope that the next occupant of the White House removes all those fake gold appliqués from the Oval Office, tears the concrete out of the Rose Garden, and stops construction on an unnecessary ballroom.
What? You don’t like the pedo patio with its dildo adorned sidewalk tables?
The felon’s FDA is trying to scare parents away from vaccines.
Food and Drug Administration officials plan to present data they claim links the Covid vaccine to 25 deaths in children at what’s expected to be a closely watched vaccine advisory committee next week, a source confirmed to NBC News.
The Washington Post first reported the expected data.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, is scheduled to meet Thursday and Friday to review and make recommendations on several vaccines, including this fall’s updated Covid shots.
The FDA is basing its claim on an analysis of data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, a publicly available database maintained by the FDA and the CDC, according to three sources familiar with the plan.
But, two of the sources said, the agency is misusing the database which allows anyone — including doctors, patients and caregivers — to submit reports to VAERS about adverse events they believe are linked to vaccines. The reports are unverified, but the health agencies use the database as a guide for topics to investigate further.
Dorit Reiss, a vaccine policy expert at the University of California Law, San Francisco, said the database reports can’t prove a connection between vaccination and children’s deaths.
“To identify causation to a vaccine you need to show that the cause of death was something the vaccine caused, and by itself, a VAERS report would not show that — you need larger studies comparing incidents of the harm with or without the vaccine,” she said in an email.
Tariff price increases are hitting now.
For much of 2025, the Trump administration’s wide-ranging tariffs defied forecasts that the import duties would drive up inflation. But that reprieve appears to be over, with economic data this week showing the tariffs are now pushing prices higher.
The Consumer Price Index in August rose at a rate of 2.9% from a year ago, accelerating from the previous month as President Trump’s tariffs filtered through the economy. Heavily imported goods saw some of the steepest price hikes last month, the data show. The increase represents the fastest rate of inflation since January, when Mr. Trump was inaugurated for his second term.
Although the tariffs were first announced in April on what Mr. Trump called “Liberation Day,” their implementation was largely delayed as the administration negotiated new trade deals with multiple nations over the ensuing months. That gave U.S. companies time to prepare for the new import duties, which are paid by U.S. businesses directly to the federal government.
Facing the prospect of sharply higher tariffs, some American companies scrambled to stock up on the imported goods and parts they use in their business, postponing the need to raise customer prices. Others absorbed the levies instead of passing them along to consumers.
But many companies are now pulling back from those strategies, economic data shows. According to the Federal Reserve’s latest “Beige Book” survey, which includes responses from businesses, economists and other sources, tariff-related price hikes were visible across the U.S. in August.
Beth Hammack, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, recently told CBS News that some companies facing a hit to their profit margins have no choice but to start passing on tariff-related costs to consumers.
Among the companies to say they are raising prices for some goods as tariffs take effect are home improvement giant Home Depot, retailer Macy’s and camera maker Nikon.
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Many types of goods that rely heavily on imports saw significant price hikes last month, the latest CPI report shows.
Coffee, for instance, is largely imported because there are only a handful of places in the U.S. where the beans can be grown, such as Hawaii and Puerto Rico. About 80% of unroasted coffee imports are sourced from Latin America, primarily from Brazil, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Products from Brazil that are shipped to the U.S. now face a 50% tariff, according to the White House. Once those import taxes kicked in, U.S. consumers in August shelled out 21% more for beans than a year earlier, according to CPI data.
Other products that are heavily imported and that, as of August, are seeing large price increases compared with a year ago include:
Audio equipment: +12% Household furniture: +10% Bananas: +6.6%Women’s dresses: +6.2%
Watches: +5.6%Motor vehicle parts: +3.4%Strain on consumersPrices are edging higher as worker wages are growing more slowly, straining lower-income households.
“It’s troubling that so many basic necessities now cost more. Food, gas, clothing and shelter all had big cost jumps in August,” Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, said in an email. "And this is only the beginning of the price hikes. The situation will worsen in the coming months as more costs are passed along to American consumers."
The felon’s war on education takes a hit.
A federal freeze impacting Harvard University has been ruled unconstitutional.
The Trump administration froze $2.3 billion in research funding to the university due to its failure to comply with numerous demands. As AFROTECH™ previously told you, the U.S. Department of Education requested in April that the school decrease the influence of faculty, staff, and students “more committed to activism than scholarship.” The administration had previously stated that schools and universities should no longer factor “racial preferences” in admissions, financial aid, or hiring to align with the dismantling of DEIA initiatives, offices, and programs within the federal government.
The Education Department additionally told Harvard University that an external panel was required to audit faculty, staff, and students to ensure “viewpoint diversity,” claiming it “failed to live up to both the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment.” White House Spokesperson Harrison Fields also said Trump is “working to Make Higher Education Great Again by ending unchecked antisemitism and ensuring federal taxpayer dollars do not fund Harvard’s support of dangerous racial discrimination or racially motivated violence.”
Harvard University did not comply with the orders. Still, it did address concerns about antisemitic and anti-Muslim bias and committed to making improvements, Bloomberg reports. The university countered the administration’s letter at the time by filing a lawsuit in a U.S. District Court in Boston, MA, stating it was unconstitutional, citing the First Amendment, and that the administration showed no regard for vital medical research, according to a separate story reported by AFROTECH™.
“Moments ago, we filed a lawsuit to halt the funding freeze because it is unlawful and beyond the government’s authority,” Harvard University President Alan Garber said. “…Before taking punitive action, the law requires that the federal government engage with us about the ways we are fighting and will continue to fight antisemitism. Instead, the government’s April 11 demands seek to control whom we hire and what we teach.”
In a September verdict, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs confirmed the freeze issued by the Trump administration was unconstitutional, stating a “review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities,” according to CNN.
Marine Corps recruiter relieved of duties after social media post re Kirk. (The bolding is mine.)
A Marine has been fired over a social media post calling Charlie Kirk a “racist man” who was “popped” after the Pentagon said it was tracking and would have “zero tolerance” for posts from servicemembers or employees glorifying the conservative icon’s killing.
“It is unacceptable for military personnel and Department of War civilians to celebrate or mock the assassination of a fellow American,” chief spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote on X. “The Department of War has zero tolerance for it.”
“We are tracking all these very closely – and will address, immediately,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on X. “Completely unacceptable.”
After Kirk’s death, right-wing influencers with sway in the Trump administration put out calls on social media asking for their followers to put on blast any posts from servicemembers or Department of War employees criticizing Kirk or celebrating his death.
A screenshot circulated in the conservative social media sphere appeared to show a post from a U.S. Marine Corps recruiter that read, “Another racist man popped,” alongside an image of Kirk.
“Hi @PeteHegseth, can you please fire this lunatic?” wrote Libs of TikTok, an account run by right-wing influencer Chaya Raichik.
The U.S. Marine Corps confirmed that one of its members was fired.
“We are aware of a social media post that does not align with our core values,” Lt. Col. Joshua Benson, lead spokesman for the Marines, said in a statement. “The Marine in question has been relieved of his recruiting duties, and the matter is currently under investigation.”
What bugs me about this is the bolded part. The rightwingnuts want people punished even for simply criticizing Kirk.
The felon blames the left for Kirk’s killing and justifies the right’s violence. (The bolding is mine.)
President Donald Trump on Friday doubled down on blaming what he called the “radical left” for political violence in the United States after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
During an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” Trump was asked about the presence of radical individuals on both sides of the aisle and how it can be fixed to bring the country together.
“Because we have radicals on the right as well. We have radicals on the left. People have gotten are watching all of these videos and cheering. Some people are cheering that Charlie was, was killed. How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?” co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked the president.
“I’ll tell you something that’s going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. They don’t want to see crime. Worried about the border. They’re saying, We don’t want these people coming in. We don’t want you burning our shopping centers. We don’t want you shooting our people in the middle of the street,” Trump said.
“The radicals on the left are the problem,” Trump continued, “and they’re vicious and they’re horrible and they’re politically savvy, although they want men and women sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders.”
The comments come after Trump on Wednesday, just hours after Kirk’s killing and before details about the suspect or motivations were known, blamed the “radical left” and vowed to take action against those he claims contribute to political violence.
Just hours after an assailant gunned down conservative commentator Charlie Kirk on the Utah Valley University campus Wednesday, voice messages containing a torrent of expletive-laden insults were sent to Democratic members of the Utah state House, blaming them for Kirk’s killing, according to audio of two calls obtained by ABC News.
The calls came in just after 10 p.m. on Wednesday night to House Democrats’ staff work numbers from an unidentified male caller, who called the Democrats “demons” and “enemies to the American people.”
“You should find somewhere else to f—ing live. You murderous terrorist animals, you despicable f—ing subhuman, f—ing violent, disgusting f—ing animals. You murdered that man in front of his f—ing family, you evil f—ing pieces of s—, subhuman f—ing garbage,” the man said. “I don’t even want to see the f—ing color blue in the state of Utah ever again. I’m gonna burn everything blue in my entire f—ing house.”
In a second message, the same caller directly addressed a staff member by name and told them to “leave the f—ing state.”
“You murdered that man in front of his f—ing family,” the caller said, adding, Democrats nationwide belonged in “hell.”
He seems calm, cool, and collected. (Think about the initial sounds.)
Please Donny! I’ve already got three transgender, I don’t have a place to put another one!
Why can’t that fucker get through a single sentence without saying something that makes no sense???
I just watched Hegseth’s 9/11 speech. That guy fucking terrifies me. He’s a war crime waiting to happen. You can tell he is just itching to kill somebody. Doesn’t care who, the weaker the better, just so long as he can lethally demonstrate his dominance.
So, basically, you’re saying he’s a cross between Queeg, Hubbard, and Hyde?
The felon’s wrong, of course, about Cook.
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook declared in financial forms that her Atlanta property would be used as a “vacation home” and not her primary residence, according to documents obtained by NBC News that appear to undercut allegations of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration.
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte and President Donald Trump, who has moved to fire Cook, have accused the central bank board member of passing off the property as her main residence for financial gain. Cook has repeatedly denied the allegation, and administration officials have not provided definitive evidence supporting their claims.
A loan summary from the Bank-Fund Staff Federal Credit Union in May 2021 reads: “Property Use: Vacation Home.” Additionally, public records in Fulton County, Georgia, reviewed by NBC News show that no tax exemptions available for a primary residence were sought by Cook.
A second document obtained by NBC News, Cook’s “questionnaire for national security positions," which was submitted to the Biden administration in late 2021 and later the Senate, lists a question that reads: “Please list all of your interests in real property, including additional homes, vacation homes, rental properties, and interests in trusts that may hold property.”
Cook responded by writing “2nd home” followed by the address of the Atlanta property.
The felon’s EPA doesn’t want to know how much polluters are polluting. Guess why. (The bolding is mine.)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed doing away with a program that has required large, mostly industrial polluters to report their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to the government.
The program requires refineries, power plants, oil wells and landfills to report their emissions without risk of penalty as officials seek to identify high-polluting facilities and develop policies to lower emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Experts say the reporting held the companies publicly accountable for their emissions.
Since the program began in 2009, U.S. industry has collectively reported a 20% drop in carbon emissions, mostly driven by the closure of coal-fired power plants.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program “burdensome” and unhelpful to improving human health and the environment.
The felon is not wrong about Lisa Cook. He is only lying.
He is wrong about almost everything, always. But in this case he is not wrong: he is telling something which he knows is false on purpose.
The nuances of your post are escaping me… can you explain like I’m 5?
I took him to mean that Trump is not wrong about Lisa Cook because he actually does know that she did not commit fraud. But he’s consciously lying, and saying she did. If that’s what the post was saying, I disagree. I think he thinks she committed fraud (because that’s what He does), and is spreading a lie. I think that even if he did know at one time she didn’t commit fraud, he is convinced now that she did, because he told himself so.
Indeed that is what I meant, but I see your point too. He is capable of this level of self-delusion, he only needs to think of something once and he already believes it is true. Particularly if it is in his favour.
I don’t know: lying makes him a worse person. Being self-deluded makes him a bigger moron. Can I have both? A self-deluded bad moron? Or just an asshole, for short?