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UH-OH: ABC, NBC, and CBS News are ‘Unlikely to Preempt Programming’ for Trump’s Birthday Parade

Posted by on June 11, 2025 at 12:45 pm. 4 Comments :

This Saturday, June 14, Donald Trump has planned a vain tribute of himself on his 79th birthday that he expects every American to celebrate. It’s an event that he has long coveted, featuring a military parade to salute his self-proclaimed magnificence. While he pretends that the affair is to note the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army, he can’t stop reminding people that it is also his birthday.

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Trump in Bed, Eating, Sad

The parade is set to take place in Washington, D.C. in the early evening, with tanks and jets and more than 6,000 soldiers marching in the streets of the Capitol. It is estimated to cost about $45 million to pay this homage to Dear Leader in the style of history’s most notorious tyrants (e.g. Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un), who Trump makes no secret of embracing with admiration and envy. But what else would you expect from someone so patently disturbed?

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Trump may be in for a bit of disappointment on Saturday when his party isn’t given the attention that he believes it deserves. It appears that the media isn’t planning on catering to his ego for a change. According to Variety…

Mainstream TV-news outlets seem divided over how to cover an extravagant display of military might along the streets of Washington, D.C. from the Trump administration. […]

“ABC News, NBC News and CBS News are unlikely to pre-empt regular TV programming for coverage of the event, according to people familiar with their plans.”

All three national broadcast networks plan to direct their live coverage of the parade to their streaming platforms. That will significantly depress viewership for Trump’s shameless shindig. But not to worry, Trump will still be able to tune in to it at the White House as he scarfs down his Big Mac and sips his Diet Coke. Because it will be airing on Fox News – of course. In fact, as reported by Variety…

“Fox Corp.’s Fox News Channel will pre-empt its Saturday schedule with four hours of special coverage.

[However…]

“Other cable-news networks do not seem poised to offer robust parade coverage. MSNBC will have anchor Ali Velshi on hand, according to a person familiar with the matter, and “will cover news as it happens.” Warner Bros. Discovery’s CNN was not able to offer immediate information about coverage plans tied to the event.”

Adding to Trump’s likely dismay, many of trump’s fellow Republicans plan to skip the festivities as well. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul went so far as to criticize them saying that he has “never been a big fan of goose-stepping soldiers in big tanks and missiles rolling down the street.” And he’s not the only one. Politico reports that only seven of the 50 members of Congress they asked intend to attend the affair. Some of the most senior members of Congress are staying away. Including…

  • Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker
  • House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers
  • Senate Majority Leader John Thune
  • Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso
  • House Majority Leader Steve Scalise
  • Sen. Tommy Tuberville
  • Sen. Markwayne Mullin
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham
  • Sen. Todd Young
  • Sen. Rick Scott
  • House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole
  • House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris
  • House DOGE Subcommittee member Rep. Tim Burchett

What’s more, there are hundreds of demonstrations planned for the same day as Trump’s bash. The “No Kings” events will likely draw far more people than Trump’s parade. The question is whether the media will devote the appropriate measure of coverage to a movement that exceeds what remains of the MAGA cult. For more information, and links to how you can participate, see this: NO KINGS

Trump has been on the receiving end of some decidedly bad news lately. For instance, his bitter break up with billionaire pal Elon Musk; his failure to fulfill his promise to bring peace to Ukraine or Gaza; his assault on academic freedom and free speech at universities such as Harvard; his recessionary tariffs; and his so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” that may be big, but is grotesquely ugly and detrimental to most Americans.

Consequently, Trump is desperately trying to change the subject. His war on Los Angeles and its peaceful protesters is one of his efforts to deflect attention from his failures. This parade is another. And he has managed to conflate the two by threatening to use “very heavy force” against anyone who dares to protest his party. Because the only thing that Trump hates more than being ignored, is the Constitution.

First Trump deploys the military against peaceful protesters in Los Angeles. Now he's threatening anyone who protests his vanity birthday parade in Washington, D.C. He couldn't care less about the Constitution.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-06-10T17:26:17.549Z

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Trump Wishes a ‘Happy’ Memorial Day to ‘THE SCUM’ that He Hates, but Never Mentions the Fallen

Posted by on May 26, 2025 at 1:56 pm. 3 Comments :

Memorial Day is a national holiday set aside to commemorate the soldiers who gave their lives in defense of America and its principles, so that we can all live in a land of liberty and free of the shackles of authoritarianism and tyrants.

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Donald Trump, Saving Cadet Bone Spurs

Most of the American people honor the ultimate sacrifices that these soldiers made on their behalf. But unfortunately, we are living at a time when a uniquely ill-suited “leader” has come to occupy the White House. Donald Trump is a five-time draft dodger who has called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers” and who aligns himself with the sort of totalitarians (Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, etc.) that our military fought against so many times. Even in financial matters, Trump couldn’t care less about America…

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On this Memorial Day, Trump got up early to post on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, about his feelings on this hallowed day. And as usual, he managed to neglect the true purpose of the occasion in order to shift attention to the only subject that really matters to him: himself. He began his harangue saying, in a diarrheic deluge of all-caps…

“HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS.”

This is a typically infantile outburst that Trump unloads on these occasions. Last year he addressed his Memorial Day message “to All, including the Human Scum that is working so hard to destroy our Once Great Country.” And on Easter the same year, Trump bellowed “HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING CROOKED AND CORRUPT PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES THAT ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024, AND PUT ME IN PRISON.” And on Christmas in 2022, Trump raged “Merry Christmas to EVERYONE, including the Radical Left Marxists that are trying to destroy our Country.”

This year’s message went on to whine about President Biden, who he called “AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT;” about the judicial system and the “USA HATING JUDGES;” about the immigrants who he maligned as “CRIMINALS AND THE MENTALLY INSANE;” and about the grab bag of ‘MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL.” After the humiliating performance he gave at West Point a couple days ago, he shouldn’t be talking about the alleged “imcompetence” of others.

However, there was one group of Americans that was conspicuously absent from Trump’s tantrum. He never once mentioned the fallen soldiers who Memorial Day was created to memorialize. It was all about Trump, his political enemies, and his personal grievances. What’s more, Trump later visited Arlington National Cemetery and said much the same thing. While the script that was prepared for him did make a few references to those buried at Arlington, Trump “weaved” into his speech some more exaltations of himself.

This is the sort of rancid rhetoric that Trump is so well known for. It is drenched in narcissism and vengeance. And it is utterly devoid of empathy, consideration, or respect for anyone other than himself. Yet somehow, Trump is so emotionally dysfunctional that he can’t see the harm in his insensitivity. And his handlers are either too blind or too scared to be honest with him about how grossly inappropriate his egomaniacal tirades are.

Which, unfortunately, means that we are all going to be subjected to further episodes of Trump’s Derangement Syndrome until his term is over, or he is removed from office by impeachment or invocation of the 25th amendment. Hopefully, he won’t be allowed to cause too much more harm between now and them.

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Trump Warns West Point Graduates About the Troubles with ‘Trophy Wives’ – No, REALLY!

Posted by on May 24, 2025 at 12:42 pm. NO Comments :

Taking a day off from his busy schedule of staged executive order signings, dinners with buyers of his meme coins, and golfing at his own resorts, Donald Trump ventured off to the United States Military Academy at West Point. The five-time draft dodger who called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers” was there ostensibly to deliver a commencement speech to inspire the cadets on their graduation.

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Donald Trump Baby at Podium

Unfortunately, Trump’s speech was just another one of the rabidly partisan campaign style rants that he disgorges at his cult rallies. Consequently, it was filled with lies, insults, and narcissistic exaltations of himself. It was indistinguishable from the self-serving propaganda that he unloads during the staged press avails where he reveals how ignorant he is about pretty much everything.

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Commencement speeches are supposed to be events that will inspire graduating students in advance of the life journeys that they will shortly embark upon. But true to form, Trump’s speech hardly conformed to that grand tradition. Instead, he tainted the entire affair with his radical, far-right, MAGA-fied politics, and flattery of himself and his imaginary achievements in office.

Among Trump’s egomaniacal glorifications was one that was particularly appropriate. He told the story of his friend, real estate magnate William Levitt, who “lost momentum” and became a wretched loser who died bankrupt and alone. According to Trump…

“He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife — could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn’t work out too well. And that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell you, a lot of trophy wives. It doesn’t work out. But it made him happy for a little while, at least. But he found a new wife. He sold his little boat, he got a big yacht.”

In a pathetic commencement speech at West Point, Trump rambles about someone's trophy wife:"That doesn't work out too well, I must tell you. A lot of trophy wives."How inspiring, coming from an expert on trophy wives that don't work out well, who cheated on all of them.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-05-24T16:52:46.800Z

Trump’s tale of Leavitt sounds awfully familiar. Trump himself was divorced – twice. Each time he remarried someone that could be described as a “trophy wife.” It didn’t work out well. He cheated on all three of them. His current wife Melania – a former model – rarely spends any time with him. She lives in New York, not at the White House or Mar-a-Lago. She probably made him happy for a little while, at least. But now she’s probably just trying to hold on until the will has been read.

Most of the rest of Trump’s speech wasn’t any better. Rather than imparting any gems of wisdom for his young audience, Trump battered them with political bullsh*t that they couldn’t care less about. They rarely applauded his raving madness that included the following…

“We are making deals with other nations that were not even –nobody thought it would be possible.”
Trump hasn’t made a single trade deal to mitigate his ludicrous, inflationary tariffs. He just has a framework with the UK, and some discussions with China. Nothing finalized with them or the nearly 200 other countries that he tariffed.

“We won 2750 districts against 505. 2750 against 505. We had a great mandate and it gives us the right to do what we want to do.”
The districts he won were mostly sparsely populated rural areas. The districts won by Kamala Harris were densely populated cities. And winning an election does not give you the right to violate the law or the Constitution, as Trump does every day.

“I was investigated more than the great, late Alphonse Capone. Alphonse Capone was a monster.”
Trump loves to brag that he is a worse “monster” than the notorious mob boss, Al Capone. Which is true. Trump has a couple of dozen more felony convictions than Capone, and is responsible for more death.

“The job of the U.S. Armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun.”
So Trump thinks that it’s his job to threaten all other countries to accept his perverse brand of democracy at “the point of gun.” That’s the rhetoric of a mad tyrant who wants to rule the world. And it’s consistent with his talk of invading and/or annexing Mexico, Canada, and Greenland.

Hopefully the West Point Cadets can shake this off and get on their lives without this staining their day of accomplishment and pride. It’s too bad they didn’t have the far better, more inspirational, more intelligent, commencement speaker that the University of Maryland was lucky enough to get…

“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson. nyti.ms/4dwMuhQ

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-05-23T15:28:14.784Z

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Pete Hegseth Spends Thousands for a Pentagon Makeup Studio to Fortify America’s Military Might

Posted by on April 23, 2025 at 2:37 pm. NO Comments :

One of the most prominent parts of Donald Trump’s election campaign was his promise to restore what he said was a depleted American Defense Department and to strengthen what in his opinion were weak and ineffectual troops.

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Fox News, Pete Hegseth, Cleared

Trump’s callous and ignorant insult to the soldiers who put their lives on the line every day was nothing new for him. It was just more of his derogatory rhetoric that cast fallen fighters as “suckers and losers,” from a five-time draft dodger who installed the most dangerously unqualified, and universally reviled, flunky to run the Pentagon in U.S. history.

SEE THIS: WHUT? Trump’s Press Secretary Reveals that ‘the Entire Pentagon is Working Against’ Pete Hegseth

Hegseth has made a lot of noise about returning command of the U.S. military to the warfighters. By which he seems to have meant eliminating anyone who didn’t fit his, and Trump’s, perverse idea of a soldier. Therefore, they had to banish women and LGBTQ troops. And they had to terminate programs that advanced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as a goal for ending discriminatory promotions.

However, this vision of a stronger, whiter, more masculine fighting force may not be the only thing on Hegseth’s mind to improve the American military. Because it has just been reported that he has spent thousands of dollars to build a makeup studio in the Pentagon. Apparently, our soldiers also have to look good in battlefield photos. Or more likely, when Hegseth and other officers are making appearances on Fox News. CBS News reports that…

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered modifications to a room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a makeup studio that can be used to prepare for television appearances, multiple sources told CBS News.

“The price tag for the project was several thousand dollars, according to two of the sources, at a time when the administration is searching for cost-cutting measures.”

The CBS story also noted that a Deputy Assistant to the Secretary for Strategic Engagement (whatever that is), and Hegseth’s wife expressed their approval of the studio. Both just happen to be former Fox News producers. Which shouldn’t surprise anyone since Hegseth himself is former Fox News weekend host. Which is where Trump found him, just like at least twenty other people that Trump recruited for his White House staff…

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Despite Hegseth’s insistence that the only thing he’s interested in is improving the warfighting abilities of the armed forces and military readiness, his emphasis on more shallow objectives, such as appearance, is noticeably uppermost among his priorities. He said as much Wednesday when he said this about troops to students at the U.S. Army War College…

“They need to be fit, not fat. Sharp, not shabby. Especially our leaders. That’s why we’re reviewing how the department has maintained standards in the past, such as the last four years, and whether those standards have dropped.”

MUST WATCH: Pete Hegseth really thinks a fat officer is more dangerous than traitors leaking war plans or extremists infiltrating the ranks. Not sabotage. Not sedition. Just body fat. This isn’t about standards—it’s about being a performative, fascist little bitch on TV.

— Kye (@gxldsociety.bsky.social) 2025-04-23T19:50:12.630Z

You have to wonder who Hegseth was thinking about when he said “Especially our leaders.” Has he ever actually seen Donald Trump? Furthermore, his reference to the standards of the past administration is one of the mandatory offhand insults of President Biden that all Trump subordinates are required to make in every public address.

It’s clear that Hegseth has other things on his mind than military readiness. That was also evident when he disclosed sensitive attack plans in two separate Signal chats that included people without security clearances, such as a journalist, and his wife. But did anyone expect anything more of a former TV talking head with zero experience in managing anything bigger than a lemonade stand?

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The Trump Regime Just Purged Nearly 400 Books From the US Naval Academy Because of…DEI?

Posted by on April 5, 2025 at 12:30 pm. 3 Comments :

The determination of Donald Trump and his white-wing MAGA movement to erase any and all evidence of America’s rich medley of humanity and culture has been a key component of its mission from its inception. To describe it as merely racist would be far too inadequate to accurately convey its noxious intent.

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In the two months since Trump’s reoccupation of the White House, he and his Klan have sought to undermine democracy, cancel the Constitution, and foment hatred and division among the American people, always casting themselves as the victims.

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High on their list of purely putrid priorities is their campaign against DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) programs, whether in government or private enterprise. Because the worst thing that the Trump cult can imagine is a country that honors its diverse population, where all are treated equally, and who can be included in the benefits that a free society provides.

Consequently, the Trump regime has been working overtime to eliminate DEI programs from every government agency, while simultaneously bullying private companies into dropping their programs.

Among the preposterous results of this barrage of bigotry was the deletion of a web page about baseball great and veteran, Jackie Robinson, from the Defense Department website. And then there was the scrapping of info about the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima because its name was “Enola Gay.” Many other examples exist of atrocious cancelations of notable Americans simply because their gender, their religion, or the color of their skin offended the Trumpists.

The latest victim of this censorious purge is the library of the United States Naval Academy. According to Navy spokesman Cmdr. Tim Hawkins, “Nearly 400 books were removed from Nimitz Library to comply with directives outlined in Executive Orders issued by the President.” As reported by CBS News…

“Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,’ were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library this week after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office ordered the school to get rid of ones that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.” […]

“Other books clearly deal with subjects that have been stridently targeted by the Trump administration, including gender identity, sexuality and transgender issues. A wide array of books on race and gender were targeted, dealing with such topics as African American women poets [and] historical books on racism, the Ku Klux Klan and the treatment of women, gender and race in art and literature.”

There is no justification for this brazenly fascist act of censorship and bigotry. It would be unthinkable for any business or government agency act this way. But it is particularly galling when an honorable institution like the U.S. Naval Academy is being forced to engage in such toxic, unconstitutional misbehavior.

Sadly, this is what it has come to in Trump’s (per)version of America. They simply have zero tolerance for anyone who doesn’t look and act like them. So he orders his utterly unqualified secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, to cleanse the Academy’s library of materials that they find offensive.

Furthermore, there is a repugnant irony in that Hegseth himself is a product of the rankest form of bias in the hiring of blind Trump loyalists with no experience whatsoever for the jobs they’ve been asked to do. What ever happened to merit-based recruiting?

Apparently the Trump regime believes that America’s soldiers are too weak to handle an honest and complete accounting of American history. So they have to sanitize it of any references to heroes who don’t fit their pale-faced, Jesus-fearing, far-right GOP model of supremacy. And that’s supposed to make America great?

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Trump’s Defense Secretary Rages that ‘The Department of Defense Does Not Do Climate Change Crap’

Posted by on March 12, 2025 at 1:55 pm. 2 Comments :

When Donald Trump recruited Pete Hegseth from Fox News to lead his Department of Defense, it was unarguably among the worst nominations in the history of the country. Hegseth had zero experience in military management, or in leading an enterprise on the scale of the Pentagon. He was just a weekend talking head on a propaganda network. So what could go wrong?

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Donald Trump Climate Change

Since his confirmation, Hegseth has proven to be just as incompetent and corrupt as his lack of experience and judgment predicted. In his brief tenure to date he has fully embraced the agenda of Trump and co-president Elon Musk to decimate the Defense Department. And to make sure that nobody gets any reliable information about that, he has banished credible news outlets from the Pentagon and replaced them MAGA media hacks.

SEE THIS: Trump Kicks Reporters Out of Pentagon Offices, Replaces Them with MAGA Media Mouthpieces

Determined to diminish the military readiness of the United States, Trump and Hegseth continue to implement policies that will surely delight Trump’s idol and mentor, Vladimir Putin. Among them is an official rejection of the risks posed by climate change. In response to a news story on the subject, Hegseth posted a tweet that said only that, “The @DeptofDefense does not do climate change crap.”

The CNN article that Hegseth was so cavalierly dismissing was an in-depth analysis of how the climate crisis would impact America’s military engagements around the world. It said in part that…

“As the Pentagon and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency [DOGE] set their sights on climate-related programs at the Defense Department, officials and experts are warning that slashing them could put US troops and military operations at risk, both in the near and long term.”

Despite the well-reasoned insights by experts in military matters and meteorology, Hegseth felt comfortable posting his pithy little reply that wasn’t merely a blind disagreement with the science, but a childish insult characterizing the nearly universal consensus on climate as “crap.” His bullheaded ignorance is very likely going to result in catastrophes for American soldiers, as well as America’s military strength worldwide.

For the record, Hegseth’s views – and Trump’s – are contrary to those of prior secretaries of defense. And that includes one of Trump’s own from his first term, James Mattis, who warned that…

“Climate change is real, and a threat to American interests abroad and the Pentagon’s assets everywhere. [And that] this is a real-time issue, not some distant what-if. Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today.”

MORE HERE: Trump’s Defense Secretary Says Climate Change Is a Real Threat to American Interests

Mattis wasn’t the first Defense Secretary to issue such a warning. Fourteen years prior, under George W. Bush’s defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, the Pentagon published a report titled ‘An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security.’ that warned that “threats to global stability posed by rapid warming vastly eclipse that of terrorism.”

These views were shared by at least seven of the past Secretaries of Defense (Mattis, Ash Carter, Chuck Hagel, Leon Panetta, Robert Gates, Rumsfeld, and another Trump appointee, Mark Esper), who all subscribed to the policy that climate change is one of America’s top strategic risks. And five of the seven are Republicans.

The military has been crystal clear for decades about the very real consequences of a world where water and arable land become scarce, and nations erupt into chaos and war. Migration, border disputes, and even the habitability of the bases the U.S. has around the world are all risk factors that the military have long recognized as critical to our national security.

While this dangerous rejection of reality is reprehensible, it isn’t surprising. After all, Trump has long been a climate change denier. And a pretty asinine one at that. He still believes that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by China.

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Trump Kicks Reporters Out of Pentagon Offices, Replaces Them with MAGA Media Mouthpieces

Posted by on February 1, 2025 at 11:49 am. NO Comments :

One thing you can say about Donald Trump is that he is working furiously to assure his place in American history as the nation’s first tyrannical despot. No American leader has ever been more hostile to the U.S. Constitution and its democratic principles, or more determined to destroy it.

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Trump spends most of his time disparaging American institutions and the patriots who serve them. He despises the justice system, the military, free enterprise, academia, science, and even unbiased practices of faith. But perhaps the liberties that he is most averse to are those specifically cited in the First Amendment that protect freedom of the press. He is laser focused on turning the whole of government into a propaganda factory to attack his foes and exalt himself.

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On Friday Trump issued a new decree to banish several media organizations from offices that they have occupied in the Pentagon for decades. The Department of Defense provided the office space to facilitate access for journalists to the stewards of the nation’s military. However, the message sent by Trump’s DoD is an unmistakable threat to press freedom, and an embrace of shameless propaganda. NBC News, one of the news outlets ousted reports that…

“NBC News, The New York Times, NPR and Politico must vacate their office spaces in two weeks for other news organizations — including at least one that did not request to be added.”

[And that…]

“The new outlets rotating in are One America News Network — which will take NBC News’s spot — the New York Post, Breitbart News Network and HuffPost.”

Needless to say, the Trump-fluffing One America News, Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post, and MAGA’s own Breitbart News, are not exactly paragons of journalistic integrity. But that’s who is moving into the office space previously reserved for more mainstream media sources that, even with their own imperfect records, are at least not brazenly sycophantic toadies who exist only to kiss Trump’s…let’s say ring. The NBC report added that the Pentagon…

“…did not include further details about the process of the new ‘rotation program,’ including how officials chose which outlets needed to vacate office space first, how the new outlets were chosen and which are next.”

Based on the disreputable outlets that are moving in, we hardly need much elaboration as to how they were chosen. And this is one of the first command decisions of Trump’s new Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, whose confirmation squeaked by in the Senate, despite his history of abusing women and alcohol, and his woeful lack of relevant experience.

This assault on freedom of the press is consistent with Trump’s long held belief that the media is “the enemy of people.” However, it is not the only assault he has made targeting a variety of American liberties. In the short time since he has reoccupied the White House, Trump has…

And this is only the beginning. He is dead set on transforming America into the sort of totalitarian dystopia that his heroes – Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, etc. – are lording over. But he isn’t going to have a clear path to his dictatorial dreams. The American people are not going to sit still while he dismantles democracy. And they already have a decidedly negative opinion him…

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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. 1 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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Pete Hegseth with Drunk Emoji

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.

SEE THIS: Trump’s Nominees Are Largely Fox News Alum, Mar-a-Lago Patrons, and Billionaires

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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CNN’s Republican Shill Says Tariffs Are Not Enough, Proposes Starting a Drug War with Mexico

Posted by on November 27, 2024 at 2:14 pm. NO Comments :

One of the absolute worst ideas that Donald Trump has proposed since becoming president-elect is his promise to impose new tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico, America’s biggest trading partners. His justification for this is that it would serve as a lever to make them end the trafficking of drugs into the United States.

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Never mind that economists and trade experts agree that such a reckless and ill-considered act “would significantly increase U.S. inflation next year [and] curtail economic growth.” Trump doesn’t really care about the welfare of the American people. If he did he wouldn’t lie to them so flagrantly and frequently.

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If the gullible rubes who voted for Trump think that he is going to lower the price of gas or eggs, they are going to be woefully disappointed. To the contrary, his plans will increase the costs of everything from fruit to toys to shoes to cars, and more. And to rub some salt into those wounds, it won’t have the slightest impact on drug trafficking.

Which makes the following exchange about Trump’s initiatives on CNN, between economic contributor Catherine Rampell and Republican hack Scott Jennings, all the more troubling…

Rampell: Mexico has actually put a lot more border security on its southern border.
Jennings: It’s really working wonders. This is crazy.
Rampell: Yes, again, border crossings are down 75 percent. They’re back to what they were under Trump.
Jennings: If I were [Mexican President Sheinbaum], I would be prepared for my country to possibly have United States military incursions to take out the drug factories and the people who do this to us too.
Rampell: So, you think we should not only have a trade war, we should have a military war with Mexico?
Jennings: I think we have to do what we have to do to stop the drugs.

So Jennings, who has previously supported deploying the military within the U.S. to round up immigrants for mass deportation, now also wants the Army to invade our allied neighbor to South to put an end to the Fentanyl crisis at home. The minions of MAGA have become the foremost advocates of military engagements. Unless, of course, it is aimed at preventing Vladimir Putin from invading and annexing our friends in Ukraine.

Rampell was correct to note that border crossings are down 75 percent. What’s more, most of the Fentanyl coming into the U.S. is brought in by American citizens through legal ports of entry. And there is a reason for the flood of drugs into the U.S. There’s a huge market for it. Fentanyl trafficking would end if Americans would stop buying it. It isn’t an international crime problem. It’s a domestic public health problem. These and other concerns were addressed by President Sheinbaum following Trump’s tariff threat…

“Mexico’s main exporters to the U.S. are General Motors, Stellantis and Ford Motor Company, which came to Mexico 80 years ago. Why put a tax on them that puts them at risk? It is not acceptable and would cause the U.S. and Mexico inflation and job losses.” […]

“Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours.”

The military “solution” that Jennings proposed would be worse than ineffective. It would be objectively harmful. It would put the lives American soldiers, as well as innocent Mexican civilians, at risk. It would do nothing to reduce drug trafficking because, as long as there is a demand, the traffickers will seek to fill it. They would just raise their prices along with the legal businesses who respond to the tariffs.

Worst of all, it would destroy the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico, it’s biggest trading partner. It would accelerate inflation at home, and waste billions of dollars and military resources.

Yet somehow CNN is comfortable having a regular contributor on their air making these preposterous and dangerous proposals. Jennings is not a serious conservative commentator. He is war mongering fanatic whose opinions are not worthy of being disseminated by any reputable news enterprise. And if CNN wants to be regarded as “reputable,” they need to dispose of Jennings.

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Trump Makes Memorial Day All About Himself, Attacking the Judges in His Cases as ‘Human Scum’

Posted by on May 27, 2024 at 1:22 pm. 5 Comments :

For as long as Donald Trump has been a public figure, he has been known as a compulsive self-promoter. There is virtually no subject that he won’t hijack as an opportunity to shamelessly exalt himself or viciously malign his foes. This is especially notable on holidays when most of the American people are united in paying tribute to people or events that have contributed to them or their country. That includes everything from Independence Day to Mother’s Day.

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One of the most revered days of remembrance is Memorial Day. It’s a day when Americans honor those who gave everything for the preservation of the gifts of freedom and democracy that are sometimes taken for granted. But true to form, Trump can be relied on to tarnish these tributes in favor of exploiting the occasion to denigrate others. It’s particularly loathsome considering his long held disrespect for the military and those who serve.

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On this Memorial Day, Trump behaved exactly as one might expect. He diminished the service of patriots in order to launch attacks on his perceived personal enemies. In a comment posted to his floundering social media scam, Truth Social, Trump hammered out a long, tormented rant that is typical of a malignant narcissist who is obsessed only with his own problems.

It’s predictable that Trump would begin his rancid tirade by wishing the cult followers who patronize his posts a “Happy Memorial Day,” when the day is not an occasion for happiness, but is a day of solemn remembrance for the losses suffered by the sacrifices of patriots. He then continues to extend his wretched wishes to “the Human Scum that is working so hard to destroy our Once Great Country.” Such inspirational holiday thoughts from someone who wants to represent the “Scum” …er… people of the nation.

However, the rest of Trump’s rant doesn’t mention a single person who is supposedly destroying the country, a country that he doesn’t regard as great. It is just an extended tantrum aimed solely at the judges presiding over some of his civil and criminal cases. Those judges, who serve the cause of law and order, are who he believes are the destroyers of America. He assaults them as…

  • The “Trump Hating Federal Judge in New York [Lewis Kaplan] that…awarded a woman [E. Jean Carroll]…91 MILLION DOLLARS.”
  • “Arthur Engoron, the N.Y. State Wacko Judge who fined me almost 500 Million Dollars.”
  • And “Now for [Judge Juan] Merchan!”

That’s Trump’s Memorial Day message. It is wholly devoted to his own personal legal tribulations. He doesn’t mention fallen American soldiers once. And while that is reprehensible, it isn’t surprising.

After all, it was Trump who insulted the late Sen. John McCain for having been captured and enduring a Vietnamese POW camp for seven years; who ripped off his phony veterans charity to enrich himself; and who dodged the draft by getting five fake deferments for alleged bone spurs, while whining that his vulnerability to sexually transmitted diseases was his own personal Vietnam.

For some context, the Daily Show helpfully put together some examples of how Trump really feels about the troops and this holiday…

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