Month: December 2024

Trump Spends New Year’s Eve Whining About Whether the Senate Will Confirm His Noxious Nominees

Posted by on December 31, 2024 at 2:03 pm. 3 Comments :

Another year is coming to a close and people all over the nation and the world are celebrating the promise of what a new year will bring for them, their families, and their country. It’s a time when everyone is filled with somber reflections on the past and uplifting hopes for the future.

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Joe Biden and Donald Trump on New Year's Day

Well, almost everyone. True to form, Donald Trump is plagued by his persistent fits of distemper and hostility aimed at the armies of perceived enemies that he imagines are converging to destroy him. While others are preparing for parties and good times with loved ones, Trump generally celebrates holidays like these with infantile attacks on the conspirators plotting against him, such as his message last year…

“HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of the Radical Left Democrats, Marxist Lunatics, China loving Coco Chow and her Obedient Husband, Mitch, and Clueless RINOS, who are working so hard to DESTROY our once great Country.”

SEE TRUMP’S 2023 NEW YEAR: Trump Starts 2023 with a New Year’s Eve Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago but Nobody Came

Heartwarming, isn’t it? This year Trump continues to focus on the tribulations of his miserable existence. For someone who is always bragging about his wealth and success at everything he does, he sure seems to complain a lot. And on New Year’s Eve morning Trump was furious that the Senate, whose constitutional duty it is to provide “advice and consent” to presidential nominees, actually has the audacity to plan confirmation hearings. Trump raged that…

“We just won a Historic Landslide and Mandate from the American People, but Senate Democrats are organizing to improperly stall and delay the confirmation process of many of our Great Nominees. They will try all sorts of tricks starting very soon. Republicans must not allow them to do that. We have a Country to run, and many big problems to solve, mostly created by Democrats. REPUBLICANS, BE SMART AND TOUGH!!!”

Let’s begin to unpack that harangue by noting that Trump’s claim to have “won a Historic Landslide and Mandate” is a flagrant lie. The margin of victory over Vice-President Kamala Harris was a mere 1.6%, one of the narrowest margins in modern history. Consequently, the only mandate he has is in his ego-warped, cartoon brain.

The remainder of Trump’s rant addresses his outrage that Democrats in the Senate, and even a few Republicans, intend to hold confirmation hearings to assess the suitability of Trump’s Cabinet and White House nominees. And no wonder he’s upset. His nominees are profoundly unqualified, inexperienced, and utterly unfit for the jobs that Trump nominated them to perform. Many of Trump’s nominees are, in fact, downright hostile toward the departments they are being asked to run. For instance…

  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, advocates terminating most of the experts at the Food and Drug administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services.
  • Kash Patel, his nominee for FBI Director, has promised to go after the media as well as members of the Bureau for imaginary crimes against Trump.
  • Pete Hegseth, his nominee for Secretary of Defense, has advocated on behalf of soldiers convicted of war crimes.
  • Pam Bondi, his nominee for Attorney General, says she will prosecute the U.S. attorneys under her in the Justice Department.
  • Linda McMahon, his nominee for Secretary of Education, has called for the Education Department to eliminated.

In Trump’s mind, the hearings themselves are “improper” and meant to stall the consecration of his blindly loyal apparatchiks. He believes that Democrats are engaging in “tricks” by inquiring into the qualifications of Trump’s flunkies. And he is beseeching his fellow Republicans to prohibit the Senate from fulfilling their Constitutional duties.

These are the demands of an aspiring authoritarian who seeks unchallenged power and unflinching fealty to Dear Leader. And the fact that Trump is obsessing over this on a day that most other Americans are celebrating the new beginnings of a new year tells you just how serious he is about exalting himself as the this new year unfolds.

Trump must not be allowed to prevail in this wholly un-American perversion of democratic principles. The American people must resist his assault on our Constitution and the liberties it provides. And the resistance begins right after we’re done partying and celebrating the turning of the calendar’s page. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

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Trump is Terrified of Being Blamed for Extending the Debt Ceiling – That He is Trying to Extend

Posted by on December 30, 2024 at 1:55 pm. 4 Comments :

Donald Trump is a walking encyclopedia of psychoses. He suffers from a mind-boggling array of mental maladies ranging from malignant narcissism, to paranoid personality disorder, to delusions of grandeur, to sadistic sociopathy, to substance use disorder, to pathological lying, to generalized anxiety, to senile dementia, to the dreaded Cartoon Brain Syndrome.

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A common characteristic of many of these disorders is a crippling fear of events that trigger exaggerated defensive responses. The result is that the sufferer is in a near constant state of terror that something awful has occurred, or is about to. Consequently, Trump is perpetually on guard against imaginary threats and lashes out with wild preemptive strikes against his perceived foes.

SUCH AS: LOLOL: ‘Feds Hijacked Truth Social’ According to Trump Post. And He Wants it Checked Out, NOW!

Trump supplied a prime example of this behavior in a post to his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, on Sunday evening. He threw a hissy fit because Congress had passed a bipartisan Continuing Resolution to keep the government from shutting down that included an extension of the debt ceiling until the beginning of next year. He raged in part that…

“The extension of the Debt Ceiling by a previous Speaker of the House…will go down as one of the dumbest political decisions made in years. There was no reason to do it – NOTHING WAS GAINED, and we got nothing for it. […] The Democrats must be forced to take a vote on this treacherous issue NOW, during the Biden Administration, and not in June. They should be blamed for this potential disaster, not the Republicans!”

Trump’s rant began with a swipe at former GOP speaker Kevin McCarthy for agreeing to a compromise bill that relied on Democratic support to pass. Without the Democrats there would have been no bill and the the government would have had to shutdown, causing millions of people – especially seniors and soldiers – significant hardship. The avoidance of that hardship is what Trump calls “one of the dumbest decisions made in years.” Trump went on to complain that “we got nothing for it,” because everything in Trump’s mind is transactional. To heck with the American people. If he isn’t paid some sort of tribute, it wasn’t worth doing.

In closing, Trump demanded that a new vote be held immediately to extend the debt ceiling so that the bill and the blame would be recorded during President Biden’s term. Notice that Trump’s argument has nothing to do with what is in the best interests of the nation or the people. The only thing he cares about is the appearances and who he thinks will get the blame. And he is mortified that he will be blamed for the debt ceiling extension.

Let that sink in. Trump is afraid that he will be blamed for extending the debt ceiling that he himself is insisting be extended as soon as possible. Which must make perfect sense if you have the ghastly psychological profile described above.

To make matters worse, the criticism that Trump is casting is actually falling on his fellow Republicans who are in the majority in the House of representatives. And his attack on former Speaker McCarthy is comically hypocritical. Because in another insanely long, rambling, and grossly dishonest Sunday evening post, Trump shows that he is a profoundly deranged sore winner.

In that post, and nearly two months after his narrow victory, Trump is still whining about the election. He’s also lying, saying that he won by a landslide when, in fact, it was one of the closest races in modern history. And he alleges that there was “large scale voter fraud” without a shred of evidence. Then he closes with his trademark “Complete & Total Endorsement” of Speaker Mike Johnson, whose prospects of being reelected to the post are hanging by a thread.

Never mind that Johnson also pushed through a Continuing Resolution, with the help of Democrats, that was similar to the one McCarthy negotiated. But in Trump’s mind, McCarthy’s bill was “one of the dumbest” in years, while Johnson’s earned him a hearty endorsement. You figure it out.

Clearly Trump is frightened that he will be saddled with responsibility for the debt ceiling increase that he himself is actually demanding. And he’s clinging to Johnson as Speaker because he’s afraid of igniting another Speaker battle that goes on for three weeks into his next term. And if this is how his next term is starting, it’s going to be a long four years.

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Word of the Day: FLAWGIC – The ‘Flawed Logic’ Employed by Trump and His Dimwitted Disciples

Posted by on December 29, 2024 at 2:23 pm. 0 Comments :

Donald Trump is not known for having a well developed capacity for rational expression or comprehension. After all, he is the self-proclaimed “stable genius” who delivers deranged sermons on cancer-causing windmills, nuking hurricanes, and Hannibal Lecter. He believes that injecting bleach will cure COVID, and that tariffs are paid by foreign governments rather than domestic importers and, eventually, consumers.

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Consequently, it will surprise no one that Trump and his MAGA flunkies can now be recognized for their use of what we at News Corpse are calling “Flawgic” – a portmanteau of “flawed” + “logic.” [Note to Trumpists: a portmanteau is a new word formed by combining two existing words] Flawgic has become a regular component of the discourse in Trumpian circles, along with his grossly distorted perceptions of political reality.

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This weekend a couple of confirmed Trump-fluffers were kind enough to offer examples of flawgic that perfectly illustrate their meaning. Let’s begin with one by New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who had the following exchange with CNN’s Dana Bash about the obvious potential for conflicts of interest that Elon Musk presents as Trump’s government efficiency czar…

Bash: One of the criticisms and concerns is that [Elon Musk] has billions tied up in government contracts. You don’t see a conflict of interest here?
Sununu: Everyone has a conflict of interest.
Bash: But that’s a pretty big one
Sununu: The guy’s worth $450 billion today. I don’t think he’s doing it for the money. He’s doing it for the bigger project and the bigger vision for America. He doesn’t need the dollars…He’s so rich, he’s removed from the potential financial influence of this.

Right! Because billionaires all got that way by not caring about making money. And when they became billionaires, they cared about it even less. So why not put them in charge of regulating the agencies that regulate their own businesses? And Trump’s businesses as well. After all, every billionaire has abandoned any aspiration for their own self-interest and devotes themselves exclusively to the welfare of others less fortunate than they are. Right?

That would explain why Musk and Trump are now advocating on behalf of well paid, highly skilled foreign technology workers rather than the Americans they have pretended to be the champions of. Meanwhile, they vent venomously about mass deportations of low paid foreign workers in agriculture, construction, and healthcare jobs, that Americans refuse to do.

What’s more, Sununu is excusing the wealthy from the burden of obeying laws that the rest of us have to comply with. In his view, they can violate conflict of interests laws at will because of their purity of purpose and lack of motivation to grease the wheels of government in order to enrich themselves further.

The other notable example of flawgic came during a Fox News interview of Robert O’Brien, Trump’s former National Security Advisor, who presented a unique defense of Trump’s dangerously hostile and preposterous ideas about invading and/or annexing American allies such as Panama, Mexico, Canada, and Greenland. O’Brein said that…

“The Kingdom of Denmark owns Greenland. And they’ve got an obligation to defend Greenland. So president Trump says “If you don’t defend Greenland, we’ll buy it, and we’ll defend it. But we’re not going to do it for free.”

Is O’Brien really arguing that any country that is unable to defend itself from an attack by Russia or China should be taken over by the U.S.? That could apply to almost every country in the world. It’s a proposal that reeks of the “master race” superiority of fascist regimes who regard themselves as the saviors of all mankind. It also destroys the concept of national sovereignty and international alliances for mutual defense, such as NATO, an extraordinarily successful treaty agreement that Trump is itching to drag America out of unless they send kickbacks his way.

Sununu and O’Brien are not crackpot QAnon types who rant anonymously online. They are supposedly reputable Republicans who reflect the ideology of the party. And yet they will appear on television and disgorge this sort of nonsense with a straight face. That’s what has become of the GOP in the Era of Trump. Everyone is required to sink to the same depths of depravity as Dear Leader. No matter how cowardly, humiliating, or shameful.

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LOLOL: ‘Feds Hijacked Truth Social’ According to Trump Post. And He Wants it Checked Out, NOW!

Posted by on December 28, 2024 at 1:49 pm. 0 Comments :

The madness of wannabe King Donald continues to illuminate the Intertubes with increasingly bizarre outbursts and unhinged episodes of derangement. If you thought it was inconceivable that anyone could vote for somebody this buoyantly bonkers before, you better hold on to your seat.

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Trump’s failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, offers an endlessly rich supply of his hatred, ignorance, and narcissistic self-glorification. It also serves to fatten his wallet as the whole enterprise was structured as a scam that he is using to enrich himself and may be receiving funds (bribes?) from conflicted corporations and hostile foreign operatives.

SEE THIS: Grifter-in-Chief Trump Puts His Truth Social Stock into a Phony Trust Controlled by His Son

On Saturday morning Trump fired off a flurry of buffoonery that rivals anything that The Onion could have cooked up. Particularly notable was his repost of a MAGA cult disciple who goes by the name “Redhead Conservative.” Her comment was originally posted nearly a year ago on February 21, 2024, but Trump is only now getting around to regurgitating it.

What she was so feverishly upset about was her allegation that “Feds Hijacked Truth Social. Feds made my account disappear, and hundreds of others on Truth told me the same happened to them.” In response, Trump demanded to know “What is going on here? Check it out, NOW! DJT”

What indeed is going on here? This is a bombshell accusation that threatens to tarnish the sterling reputation of Truth Social as a source of honest discourse. (Okay, stop laughing). Somehow Redhead Conservative’s announcement that her Truth Social account disappeared was made on Truth Social. You figure it out. She went on to ask “What is Truth doing about it,” and to allege that the “Feds are running Truth Social.” Of course they are. Who could not have noticed?

[UPDATE: Trump has deleted his reposting of this. But it is preserved on TrumpsTruth, an independent site that archives everything Trump posts on Truth Social]

In addition to the post revealing the the Fed takeover of Truth Social, Crybaby Trump also posted a complaint about the celebrities who endorsed Kamala Harris during her campaign. He’s very disturbed that Beyoncé and Oprah were reimbursed for some of their expenses.

The charge that Harris had to pay these celebs for their support is preposterous. Their longtime political leanings were not exactly secret. Not surprisingly, Trump has ignored his own endorsements from billionaire oligarchs forking over hundreds of millions of dollars to him for which there is no accounting of its use. This represents an opportunity for corruption that even Fox News anchor Stuart Varney couldn’t ignore…

“Think about this: Nobody voted for Elon Musk. But with the support of Donald Trump he called the shots on shutting down the government, and he’s calling the shots on trimming the fat in government. In fact, he has influence on just about every aspect of policy, including who should take which job in the Cabinet.”

Finally, Trump also reposted a meme with photos of Trump and writer E. Jean Carroll, along with a caption reading “Should a woman go to jail for falsely accusing a man of rape? Retruth if you want justice for Trump.” Trump lost a defamation case brought by Carroll and was ordered to pay her $5 million. Shortly thereafter he repeated the very same defamatory comments and subsequently lost another round that cost him $80 million more. Now he’s going for a trifecta. Plus he seems to be determined to remind everybody that he is a misogynist and an adjudicated rapist.

SEE ALSO: SMART POLITICS? As Election Day Nears Trump Reminds America of His Sexual Assault Judgment

Maybe Trump and Redhead Conservative are right, and the Feds have infiltrated Truth Social. That would explain these profoundly stupid posts, allegedly by Trump, that seem designed to make him look foolish. Of course, his infamous idiocy and flaming maliciousness would also explain it. So what do you think? Was it the Feds, or the meds, or the redheads, or those meddlesome kids, or is his brain just on the skids?

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Pete Hegseth’s Lawyer: His Misconduct Was Due to Stress, So Let’s Make Him Secretary of Defense

Posted by on December 27, 2024 at 4:07 pm. 0 Comments :

The Cabinet of Donald Trump is shaping up to be an even more frightening version of the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, with all of the twists and turns of that psychological horror story populated by inmates of an asylum.

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If Trump gets the Republicans in Congress to capitulate to his commands, the U.S. government will be run by incompetents and sycophantic flunkies who have little to no experience for the jobs they are tasked to perform. They include Kash Patel at the FBI, Tulsi Gabbard heading Intelligence, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, in charge of healthcare, and a madhouse of MAGA minions who have scant relationships with the lives of average Americans.

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Featured in this cast of circus psychos is Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense. Hegseth has zero experience managing anything on the scale of the Pentagon. But he has had a presence on Fox News where Trump found and recruited him. He also has a history of managerial failure, excessive drinking, and alleged sexual assault. Which makes him an ideal candidate for a job in the Trump administration. They have so much in common.

On Friday morning Hegseth’s lawyer, Tim Parlatore, was interviewed by Pamela Brown on CNN. It was a revealing discussion during which Parlatore offered up a peculiar defense of his client in the following exchange…

Parlatore: The FBI background check is really going to strip away the false allegations and focus on just what the evidence is. And the evidence is he didn’t do any of these things that he’s been accused of.
Brown: But he’s also openly admitted he’s a changed man from several years ago. So how does that square? If you’re saying he didn’t do any of it, but he’s a changed man?
Parlatore: I’m saying he didn’t commit any of the misconduct they’re alleging. The sexual assault, totally false. All of this stuff at CVA (Concerned Veterans for America) where they said that he was climbing on the stage at a strip club. Yeah that happened, but it was somebody else. […] The fact that earlier in his life when he was a young recent combat veteran who came home and dealt with the demons by drinking too much, that’s not uncommon.

In order for Parlatore’s denials to be valid, you would have to dismiss the testimony of the woman who filed the police report against him, as well as all of Hegseth’s colleagues and coworkers who witnessed his shenanigans at the strip club, and suffered through his mismanagement of organizations like the CVA, that he brought to near bankruptcy.

The core argument that Parlatore is making is that Hegseth behaved badly because of the stress he encountered during his military deployment. He goes on to say that Hegseth overcame his problems because “that which drove him to drink is not driving him anymore.” Perhaps that’s because he’s been a weekend host on a Fox “News” program for the past eight years. So the stress of combat wasn’t affecting his behavior.

However, if his duties in the military were sufficiently stressful to result in years of drunken depravity, how might the stress produced by running the entire Pentagon – with an $850 billion budget and the responsibility of millions of soldiers and civilians, none of which he has any experience with – affect his ability to cope emotionally and to refrain from the deviancy of his past? Surely there’s no stress involved in any of that, right?

Parlatore also claimed that Hegseth’s excessive drinking wasn’t a “drinking problem.” Which is reminiscent of the Tom Waits lyric “I don’t have a drinking problem. Except when I can’t get a drink.” Although he did promise to abstain if he were to be confirmed. Which suggests that he is still drinking, but is willing to stop if he’s handed the nuclear codes. That should not fill any senator with confidence that Hegseth would be up to the job. The question is: Will Republicans vote to confirm him anyway?

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MAGA Republicans Killed the Intel Agency that Monitors Disinformation From Russia, China, Etc.

Posted by on December 26, 2024 at 1:47 pm. 2 Comments :

The week before Christmas, the razor-thin Republican majority in Congress tried three times to pass a Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep the government from shutting down. They finally succeeded on the third try after purging the bill of funding for a variety of programs that are critical to the welfare of the American people and to national security.

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While passing the stripped-down version of the legislation was necessary to avoid falling off a fiscal cliff, the deliberate malfeasance of the GOP leaders in the House of Representatives must not be overlooked or dismissed as standard operating procedure. Even though it was standard for the incompetents who comprise the MAGA caucus in Congress.

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One of the programs that was excised from the CR that is not getting much attention was the funding for a State Department Agency responsible for monitoring foreign disinformation. Al Jazeera reports that…

“A leading United States government agency that tracks foreign disinformation has terminated its operations, the State Department has said, after Congress failed to extend its funding following years of Republican criticism.

“The Global Engagement Center (GEC), a State Department unit established in 2016, shuttered on Monday at a time when officials and experts tracking propaganda have been warning of the risk of disinformation campaigns from US adversaries such as Russia and China.”

If anyone is wondering why Republicans would oppose an agency that is intended to keep track of nefarious foreign operatives spreading lies about matters of national security, just ask the old question that is posed whenever something untoward occurs in government: “Who benefits.”

In this case it is fairly clear that Donald Trump is among the prime beneficiaries of the shuttering of the GEC. He has received an incalculable amount of help from Russian disinformation and propaganda in all three of his campaigns for president. That includes promotion of his “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was “rigged and stolen” from him, as well as their pushing disparaging lies about President Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris in order to sabotage their electoral prospects.

What’s more, Trump has long been a staunch advocate of Russia and his hero, Vladimir Putin. While he frequently insults American leaders in the most vile terms, he has never said anything derogatory about Putin. He doesn’t want to cut off the flow of support he gets from Vlad. Which is why he wouldn’t want a government agency pointing out all of the dishonest propaganda that emanates from Russian sources. And his MAGA minions in Congress cooperated by defunding the agency.

It’s notable that Fox News covered this story with their typical heaping of right-wing bias. Their headline declared that the “State Department’s ‘Global Engagement Center’ accused of censoring Americans shuts its doors.” However, the “accusations” referenced in Fox’s headline all happen to be from extremist MAGA Republicans, including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Trump’s pick for deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, and Elon Musk, who was quoted in the article saying that the GEC is the “worst offender in U.S. government censorship & media manipulation.”

These are the cheerleaders of “America First.” Well, make that “Blame America First.” Like Trump, they routinely shoot down the United States, particularly when it is in conflict with Russia or China. And they have both ideological and financial reasons for doing so. Trump and Musk are heavily invested in China’s economy. The last thing they want is an agency exposing the malevolence of their political and business partners.

When the Trump administration is officially sworn in, it will have people in place to further their fealty to their foreign propaganda outlets. Most notably, Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who has zero experience in intelligence, but is notoriously close to Russian operatives. And there is also Trump’s choice to run the CIA, John Ratcliffe, who worked with Trump and Russian intel to smear Hillary Clinton. And then there’s Kari Lake, Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media, who promises to turn the Voice of America, which it oversees, into America’s propaganda network.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Trump’s allies in Congress would seek to obstruct American efforts to expose Russian and Chinese disinformation. It shouldn’t surprise anyone, but it should worry everyone. Trump’s affinity for foreign dictators is well known. And now Congress is helping him to cover up how his foreign pals are continuing to help him by giving them a free hand to spread propaganda. Hopefully independent media watchdogs will be up to countering their efforts, because in Trump world they will be rooting for them.

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Donald Trump Celebrates Christmas with a Flurry of Fawning Tributes to Himself – As Usual

Posted by on December 25, 2024 at 12:57 pm. 0 Comments :

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Especially if you’re Donald Trump and you can fill it with the glory and adulation that you feel you so richly deserve. Which is precisely what he did for most of the morning on this Christmas day.

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Trump’s yuletide greeting this year actually represents a bit of a departure from his standard holiday wishes for his perceived enemies to suffer eternal damnation, such as his message last year when he spread the joy of the season by…

Saying This: “Merry Christmas to all, including…the THUGS we have inside our Country [who] are looking to destroy our once great USA. MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!”

It just makes the heart tingle, doesn’t it? But Trump took a different path this year. Instead of reaching out to Satan for help corralling his adversaries in Hades, he chose to pay homage to himself with 33 posts on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social that either exalted himself or disparaged his foes.

Out of those 33 hostile posts only one delivered to his cult disciples the message that he claims was prohibited prior to his recovering it: Merry Christmas. However, Trump’s greeting was something less than genuine considering that he couldn’t be bothered with a fresh salutation, so he merely reposted an old greeting from 2018.

Among the other 32 posts, Trump bragged about his fake “Patriot Award” from Fox News, took a childish swipe at Obama, lauded his phony border wall that Mexico didn’t pay for, furthered his threat to annex the Panama Canal, linked to an article praising his “ultimate virtue,” hyped his deplorable, unqualified Cabinet nominees Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth, affirmed his plans for a mass deportation of undocumented immigrants/refugees, and insulted Biden as “President in Name Only.”

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UPDATE: Trump posted a few more self-exalting messages on Christmas day, including this rambling excretion of bullpucky that is spine-chilling proof of his dangerously demented mind and cognitive decline.

Despite Trump’s annual festival of spitting venom, News Corpse would like to continue its holiday tradition by presenting a musical gift that is truly inclusive and welcoming. This is for all of those who are not huddled around a dead tree today, buried in colorfully wrapped packages. It’s for the cynics who won’t accept the notion that the birth of a messenger of peace and love is an excuse to exchange material goods or fruitcakes that nobody likes.

It is for the forsaken and forlorn, the outcasts and rebels and nonbelievers who are puzzled by the greed and commercialism that permeates the season. And yes, it’s for those who still believe that peace and goodwill are morally superior to profit and oppression. So we leave you with Miles Davis and Bob Dorough performing the heartwarming traditional Christmas ballad Blue Xmas. And Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to All!

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Steve Bannon is Right? Matt Gaetz Should Return to Congress and Expose All the Sexual Depravity

Posted by on December 24, 2024 at 1:23 pm. 1 Comments :

In the few short weeks since the election, Donald Trump has been working at breakneck speed to assemble his Cabinet. His haste and aversion to properly vetting his nominees serves as an object lesson in incompetence. Already three of his first choices have been bumped from consideration. And several others are teetering on the ledge of political exile.

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The most high profile of Trump’s losers has to be Matt Gaetz, his first pick to be Attorney General. It was a profoundly bold move for Trump to nominate someone whose only prior experience in criminal law was having been a criminal. At least Gaetz and Trump have criminality and sexual deviancy in common. They also share an obsession with exploiting the media to grab attention for themselves…

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When Gaetz dropped out of the running for Attorney General, he likely thought that he would avoid the embarrassment produced by the House Ethics Committee releasing its report on his misconduct in Congress. The report concluded that Gaetz had violated “standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress.” And this was Trump’s top choice to be Attorney General? What does that say about the rest of his nominees?

Unfortunately for Gaetz, he not only resigned his seat in Congress, and was axed as Trump’s AG nominee, but the Ethics Committee released the report anyway. Under ordinary circumstances, a decent person with a smidgen of self-respect would scurry away to his ignominious obscurity. But decency is not a trait that is associated with Trump or his MAGA minions. Consequently, Gaetz has spent the last few days whining about how unfairly he was treated considering the abundance of deviants that he claims are present among his former colleagues.

Now Gaetz also has a key supporter backing up his allegations. Trump whisperer Steve Bannon went on his podcast with a hearty endorsement and a suggestion, proclaiming that…

“I’m strongly urging Matt Gaetz to return to Congress and on its first day next year, take a page from that old song ‘The Harper Valley PTA’ and expose all the hypocrites in the House who have used tax money to cover up their sexual depravity.”

Hear, hear! Gaetz should take Bannon’s advice and reclaim his seat in the House. From there he can point his bony finger at his fellow perverts and see to it that they are held to the same standards of accountability that he is. He would be doing a sort of penance for his own misconduct by ridding the People’s House of sleazeballs like himself. In fact, after asserting that he knows of such slime in the House, if he doesn’t expose them he is protecting them and is an accomplice in their continuing malfeasance. And is anyone surprised that Gaetz knows these pervs personally?

In the same program, Bannon proposed that Trump get behind an effort to have Gaetz become the next Speaker of House. That’s another great idea by Bannon that would make Gaetz, now known for his sex and drug crimes, the face of Republicans in Congress. And also a wholly inept legislator who would doom the GOP’s agenda to failure.

Needless to say, this would all be great news – for Democrats. So good that it might just be too good to hope for. Although, Gaetz himself posted a comment endorsing the idea, suggesting that he might indeed return and “File a privileged motion to expose every ‘me too’ settlement paid using public funds (even of former members).” And on behalf of all Democrats, I say “Go for it, Matt!” Let’s clean the House up from filth like you. It’s a safe bet that most of them will be Republicans anyway.

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Trump-Humping Hack Wants to Ban Everyone But Peter Doocy of Fox News From White House Press Room

Posted by on December 23, 2024 at 3:32 pm. 0 Comments :

The MAGA media mob is growing more aggressively authoritarian with each passing day. The prospect of Donald Trump reoccupying the White House has them bursting with confidence that their Project 2025 plot to infest the U.S. government with unabridged neo-fascism can proceed unchallenged.

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Leading their agenda for the Trump regime is an effort to purge the White House press corps of any and all reputable journalists and others who are not fully indoctrinated Trump cultists. They are determined to banish reporters who might cause trouble by actually reporting the truth about Trump and his administration’s corruption and malfeasance. And they aren’t shy about their nefarious intentions…

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Among those seeking to Trump-itize the White House press corps is long-time Trump flunky, Hugh Hewitt. On a recent episode of his podcast, Hewitt floated this preposterous suggestion that is staunchly aligned with the approach to the press that is favored by the likes of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un…

“With the exception of Peter Doocy, I would ban everyone from the White House press room who has been there for the past four years because they are obviously of no use to the country. They didn’t tell us the number one thing, which is that he’s not competent. Why in the world would Trump let them in? […] ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, Washington Post, New York Times, those five brands are broken beyond broken after this expose. Is there any way you could trust anything that they say?

REALLY? Hewitt thinks that only the most partisan hack in the press room, Peter Doocy of Fox News, should remain there, and everyone else be cast out? That would make for a pretty dull daily press briefing with only Doocy asking questions of Trump’s predictably dishonest press secretary, Karoline Leavitt.

Although they could fill the empty seats with Trump-approved asses such as Hewitt, Joe Rogan, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Laura Loomer, Alex Jones, etc. That way they would be assured of fielding only friendly questions, to which they would still provide non-answers that were mostly lies and smears.

What’s more, Hewitt is so appalled by the media that he can’t understand how anyone “could trust anything that they say.” So his solution is to limit the media outlets to the one that was found to have lied so horribly that they were forced to pay a settlement of nearly a billion dollars.

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The specific complaint that triggered Hewitt’s rant was his view that the media – except for Doocy – didn’t properly cover what he believes was President Biden’s diminished mental capacity. But even if you give him a pass on that brazenly biased perspective, he’s leaving out something that would be just as relevant. And that’s the obviously diminished mental capacity of Trump. Here’s how the Daily Show presented it by using Fox News attacks on Biden, but showing Trump video instead…

These cretins don’t have any appreciation for the traditional purpose of the Press Room, which is to provide journalists with access to the president and his staff in order to inform the public, not to become a partisan propaganda mill where only those who have sworn allegiance to Trump can participate. But that’s precisely what Hewitt wants. And it’s also what the Trump media team want. The only problem they face is that it isn’t what the American people want. But if they pursue this strategy, they will find out soon enough.

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Trump Picks His ‘Apprentice’ Producer, Mark Burnett, for Diplomatic Post – To Buy His Silence?

Posted by on December 22, 2024 at 2:15 pm. 2 Comments :

The administration of Donald Trump is shaping up to be an epically inept roster of political toadies and personal suck-ups who lack any shred of relevant experience for the jobs they have been tasked to perform. The single criteria that Trump appears to require of his nominees is blind obedience to, and adoration of, Dear Leader Trump.

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In the few weeks since the election, Trump has turned the White House into a garbage heap for blithering incompetents with a flurry of nominations that guarantee failure on an unprecedented level in critical governmental agencies, including the departments of State, Justice, Health, Homeland Security, Intelligence, and more. They are a motley crew of crackpots who bear no resemblance whatsoever to the citizenry they supposedly there to serve.

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On Saturday Trump posted on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, that he is nominating Mark Burnett to be his Special Envoy to the United Kingdom. Note, that is not the same as the U.S. ambassador to the U.K., for which Trump has chosen billionaire donor Warren Stephens. The “Special Envoy” post is a brand new title made up by Trump for Burnett.

Burnett joins a diplomatic team of losers from Trump’s past who he is rewarding for their loyalty, including failed senatorial candidate, Herschel Walker (Bahamas), his son-in-law’s felon father, Charles Kushner (France), and his son Don Jr’s ex-fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle (Greece). His nominees not only portend serious harm for America’s international relations interests, they are an insult to our allies who will host the phony diplomats.

However, Burnett may have some additional “qualifications” that made him just too compelling for Trump to pass up. Burnett was the producer of Trump’s reality TV game show, “The Apprentice.” He may bear more responsibility for burdening the nation (and the world) with Trump than any other single person. That’s because it was Burnett who manufactured the myth that Trump is a successful businessman, when in fact, he has a long record of bankruptcies and other financial fiascoes.

What’s more, there are reports of video outtakes from “The Apprentice” wherein Trump is heard to be using racial epithets and manipulating the outcome of the game to prevent Black contestants from winning. These reports are coming from the show’s participants and insiders, not Trump critics.

Trump surely wouldn’t want any of that to come out. And handing Burnett a plum spot in one of the world’s most desirable locales could be a way to compensate him for covering up Trump’s bigotry. Although there are others engaging in the conspiratorial cover up as well, including Jeff Bezos, whose company now owns the tapes from the show. Bezos, whose space and cloud computing companies rely on government funding, dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago earlier this week.

There’s nothing suspicious about any of this, is there? And Trump never does anything wrong. So since he is such a huge advocate of transparency, he’ll probably release the Apprentice cast and crew from any non-disclosure agreements they were forced to sign. Right? RIGHT?

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