The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues

Well, gold colored ink anyway…




Just saw this on Reddit. Mikey has some ideas for the Democrats.
Do you think this is code for, "Please do this and put me out of my misery!’

Johnson: “If we lose the majority… They will try to end the Trump administration. He won’t have 4 years. He’ll have only 2, because they will move to impeach him, probably on the first day of the new Congress in January 2027 and try to systematically unwind all the important reforms that we’ve done”

Video at this link:

Mike! Why aren’t you following your oath of office and starting the impeachment process yourself. The dummy has done a number of things in office that he said a president should be impeached for.

Better than snu-snu.

Or Foo-Foo the Snoo.

Remind me - is it a good idea to starve the people you expect to impose fascist rule for you?

They’ll just have to find some other organ to march on.

Communist South Africa is doing reasonably well, thank you, Mr. Trump. We have the bigliest economy in Africa, and are probably the most influential.

Yes, we did have Zuma as president, which was as big a mistake as Trump’s election, and yes, we as a country did pay an unreasonable amount of money for Zuma’s home improvements… I think I might see something of a pattern there.

Meanwhile, Trump is now posting videos of himself standing at a podium in Mar-a-Lago, reading his own tweets out loud and verbatim.

Hegseth did say he didn’t want any fat troops.

I listened to the entire hearing. Gorsuch, Barrett, and perhaps Roberts could join with Kagan, Brown, and Sotomayor in striking down the tariffs. Alito seemed to be asking questions just to pretend that he was being open to arguments, but it sounded performative. Kavanaugh as well. It’s really a toss-up.

I will say, the atty for the govt, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer, has the world’s most irritating voice after RFKjr.

Are those more of those spray painted Home Depot decorations above the door?

Can you do that with a laser printer? The paper borders showing gives it away, yet I’d have thought they got someone to do a cutout and gold-leaf it?

And that’s the only detail of this President Shit Bomber I have to say today.

puts on a construction hat Where’s the destruction? I am the architect of a Grand Rally Room and one Marcos gave me All Backstage Accesss.

You are not wrong. I just listened to an exchange between him and Justice Jackson. He sounds eerily like a younger RFKjr. You can listen to the video here:

Painful to listen to.

The tariff case plaintiff’s attorney, Neal Katyal, is with one of the law firms which has to pony up $100 million worth of pro bono work as dictated by the trump administration in order to have access to government buildings, etc. I wonder how much restitution this little escapade is going to cost them.

Yep. I won’t be surprised when they appear over every door and window of the White House.

Katyal has been a regular guest on various MSNBC shows, as a legal commentator, for a number of years. He’s very sharp, and I wasn’t surprised to learn that he’s representing the plaintiffs in this case.

Yes, the two plaintiffs were instructed to combine their arguments into one, with only one of their attorneys arguing for the both of them. The other plaintiff’s attorney was equally qualified. Katyal won the coin toss (literally, that’s how they decided which attorney would argue the case). He’s argued 52 cases in front of the SC.

At least, being painted urethane or even vacuformed plastic, they’ll be easy to remove when the administration changes.

Didn’t one of his acolytes, the so-called governor of Texas, already threaten to place tariffs on New Yorkers coming to Texas if Mamdani wins? Yeah, you and I know the constitution prohibits that, but does the felon and his acolytes? Do they even care? Does it matter at this point? It’s not like the SCOTUS is going to stop them.

I like your take on that. My guess is it’s some Christmas decoration and, given the character of the person in charge in that domicile, of course it’s the color of coal.

Hey, the pubbies have “Mexican countries”; why shouldn’t they have “South African countries”?

Get real. Do you actually think it was paid for?

Keystone Kop Klowns, aka the felon’s mis/maladministration, carjack a US citizen’s vehicle with his toddler in it.

And the agency response?

Why do I find that scenario unlikely? Anyway, let’s hope there are follow-up reports as this case wends it way through the courts. That is, assuming the US citizen arrested isn’t sent to a prison overseas without notice.

This really does show the cruelty is the point.

Here’s something nobody seems to be discussing much (unless I missed it). Not only is this government shutdown affecting the troops themselves, it’s also affecting the family members. Yes, I know that’s been discussed. But here’s something else to talk about. We currently have a number of active duty service members and their families using SNAP at the commissaries. The commissaries, last I heard, in the United States are closed for the duration. Overseas commissaries are not and still accept SNAP, but, of course, if there are no funds on the SNAP card, there’s nothing to accept.

Fuck it. While the felon’s still in office, I’ll never refer to his mal/misadministration as government again. Five fingers thrust in a circle should be appropriate.*

Please tell me that doesn’t date me. If you’re curious, think about a gesture that exression describes.

Felon hanger-on, I mean FIFA president to award a peace prize. Yeah, right. (The bolding is mine; the bullshit is said hanger-on’s.)

Seriously, when can we expect someone to just blow the felon on stage and on camera? I mean, we should already be expecting that to happen. What I’m asking is what date will it happen?

Here’s more on the felon’s reaction to Tuesday’s vox populi.

What he doesn’t get is that last year, a wannabe sovereign was put in office and this year the people refused to endorse that wannabe’s choices.

So far everyone’s asking what he meant by “and so it begins”. What I want to know is what does he mean by “but we’ll take care of it, don’t worry about it”. Is he going to try some more illegal shenanigans to invalidate the New York City mayoral election?

Five Fingers thrust in a circle orders air traffic reduced by 10%.

Which markets, which flights?

We’re three weeks from Thanksgiving, folks. Do you expect the jive turkey in the remains of the White House and his flunkies in Congress to get this fixed before then?

And yet another federal judge calls out the Five fingers thrust in a circle. (The bolding is mine.)

This is amazing. It’s a rare momet of awareness from the LEFP. (The bolding is mine; the schadenfreude is yours to enjoy.)

But what the fuck does that even mean? What does putting a “tariff” on a human being look like?