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The Idiocy of Trump: Responding to the Supreme Court Nixing His Tariffs Trump – Raises Tariffs?

Posted by on February 20, 2026 at 1:17 pm. 0 Comments :

There is an enduring lesson that Donald Trump is determined to pass on to the American people, and the world. That lesson is that it is never wise to underestimate just how pitifully stupid he is.

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Just when you think that Trump has done or said something that has to be as low as he could possibly go, he always manages to find a way to go even lower. Whether it’s about windmills causing cancer, or cutting drug prices by 1,200%, or making Canada the 51st state, Trump revels in his ignorance and the willingness of his glassy-eyed cult followers to accept it.

SEE THIS: Trump Proudly Hypes a Poll that Shows His MAGA-tists are Mindless Members of a Totalitarian Cult

The latest example of this Olympic-class asininity came Friday morning shortly after the Supreme Court struck down his inflationary tariffs as an unconstitutional tax on American businesses and consumers. In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled that Trump’s tariffs are not permitted under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) that he improperly cited as justification.

This ruling is a rare rebuke from a Court that has been extraordinarily subservient to Trump. And in this matter they might have actually been doing him a favor. By undoing his ill-considered economic trade policies, the Court handed Trump an excuse to abandon the massively unpopular tariffs (64% disapproval) that have resulted in raising the costs of nearly everything that the American people buy. Ditching the tariffs could have brought those prices down, and Trump could have taken credit for it.

But no! Trump’s immediate response, provided in a hastily scheduled press conference, was to do exactly the opposite. He announced that he would instead “sign an order to impose a 10% global tariff under Section 122, over and above our normal tariffs already being charged.”

Trump: "Today I will sign an order to impose a 10% global tariff under Section 122, over and above our normal tariffs already being charged"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-02-20T18:53:59.720Z

Let’s let the insanity of that response sink in. First of all, Trump is waving off the opportunity to claim credit for lowering the cost of living, which is the number one concern of voters today. And he is doing it by declaring that he intends to skirt the law as laid down by the Court’s ruling. What’s more, he is even raising the tariffs, not because of any rational reason or action on the part of the tariffed countries, but just because he feels like it after not getting his way with the Supreme Court. Poor baby.

Trump went on to say that he would rely on “other alternatives [to] replace the ones the court incorrectly rejected.” He claims that those alternatives will allow him to “take in more money.” Which, of course, will just reinstate his tariff tax on the American people at an increased level.

Trump also insulted the Justices who voted to strike down his tariffs as “a disgrace to our nation.” That includes the conservative Republican Justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Chief Justice John Roberts. And he made the absolutely bizarre contention that “Now the [Supreme] Court has given me the unquestioned right to…destroy foreign countries.” Which the Court never even implied, but which is something that he has already been doing (See Venezuela).

So in the wake of a perfectly rational decision by the Supreme Court, that Trump didn’t bother to dispute with any substantive arguments, he is going to make life more difficult for the American people and for our international allies, while simultaneously launching yet another round of court challenges to his unlawful, authoritarian aspirations. All of that should further endear him to voters come November. And they already despise him in near record numbers. Smart move, Donnie.

UPDATE: Trump followed up his rambling, ranting press conference with a bunch of comments on Truth Social…

Trump suffered a massive meltdown following his humiliating loss in the Supreme Court over his idiotic, inflationary, illegal tariffs.So he posted a series of tediously long and deranged tirades on Truth(less) (anti)Social…

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-02-21T10:56:44.065Z

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Karl Rove Slams Trump on Fox News for Lying About the Economy and Ignoring How the Public Feel

Posted by on February 2, 2026 at 1:41 pm. 0 Comments :

The flagrant failures of Donald Trump are becoming so unwieldy and impossible to ignore that even the most hard core, right-wing Republicans are beginning to speak out about it. They are starting to recognize that dodging reality is going to have a more severe impact on the GOP’s electoral prospects than failing to suck up to Dear Leader Trump.

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What’s more, the once MAGA faithful who are tenderly distancing themselves from Trump’s self-serving fantasies are doing it openly on Trump’s official televised Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News. This emerging state of affairs is being driven by Trump’s horrendous agenda that includes deploying ICE thugs to attack American citizens, invading foreign countries, demolishing historic buildings, and even proposing tyrannical schemes to undermine democracy.

SEE THIS: Trump Whines That He Has ‘Accomplished So Much’ That ‘We Shouldn’t Even Have An Election’

On Monday morning the longtime conservative political strategist, Karl Rove, was interviewed on Fox News in a segment about the economy. Host Shannon Bream introduced him by reading an excerpt from an op-ed allegedly written by Trump that was published this weekend in Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal. The portion that Bream read was a defense of his tariffs that was riddled with more of the lies that Trump has repeatedly told on this subject. When asked for his response, Rove said that…

“That piece in the Wall Street Journal is ‘the economy is great.’ That’s not what people feel. Last year we lost 70,000 manufacturing jobs. We lost 145,000 blue collar jobs…Blue-collar consumer confidence is at a record low since 1976 when they began asking the question.

“The top 20% of the American population is responsible for 75% of the GDP. The bottom 80% is responsible for the remaining 25% of the GDP. The lower income households are bearing a bigger burden of inflation because the things that they have to pay for, like rent and utilities, have risen higher.”

‘Last Year We Lost 70,000 Manufacturing Jobs.’Legendary GOP operative Karl Rove scolded President Donald Trump for continuing to boast about his economic record during an appearance on Fox News.

— Mediaite (@mediaite.com) 2026-02-02T17:35:59.586Z

Rove is right. He is cogently explaining why the economy can appear to look decent by some metrics, but actually only works for the wealthy, but is terrible for most Americans. Furthermore, he is warning Trump and the Republican Party that failing to pay attention to how people are actually experiencing these difficulties is political suicide.

Unfortunately for Rove, he is barking up the wrong tree. Trump doesn’t know or care how people feel. He is dead set on telling them what they “should” feel. And in Trump’s mind they should feel that he is their lord and savior who is infallible and cannot be challenged, lest they be punished. In MAGA World, if Trump tells you that the economy is the best it’s ever been, then you are expected to nod obediently and acquiesce to the dictates of the cult, wherein only the leader will ever tell you the truth.

Trump is focused squarely on gaslighting the nation into believing that they are all as wildly prosperous as he is. And the truth is an irrelevant distraction that is being pushed by radical leftists. Even Trump’s choice of the Wall Street Journal as the vehicle for his propaganda is bizarre. He recently blasted it as “FAKE” news and “third rate,” when they published a verified story about his unsavory relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

“The Wall Street Journal printed a FAKE letter, supposedly to Epstein. These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures. I told Rupert Murdoch it was a Scam, that he shouldn’t print this Fake Story. But he did, and now I’m going to sue his ass off, and that of his third rate newspaper.”

Someone better be keeping track of all the lawsuits that Trump is filing, or threatening to file. There must be dozens of them aimed at journalists, lawyers, universities, celebrities, and politicians. You have to wonder where he finds the time to screw up the country so badly, and to make so many private deals to enrich himself.

Apparently the part of Trump’s brain that handles grift and corruption isn’t affected by his obviously worsening dementia. Which is getting so bad that he is openly proposing to rig elections by illegally taking them over and nationalizing them, which is prohibited by the Constitution. Not that Trump cares about that old rag.

HOLY CRAP! Trump says out loud to his former FBI flunky, Dan Bongino, that Republicans "should take over the voting."He is literally admitting that he wants to steal the midterm elections because he knows he and the GOP are gonna lose. Nationalizing the election is illegal.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-02-02T18:33:14.667Z

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Trump Escalates His Threat to Take Greenland By Force in an Absolutely Insane Truth Social Rant

Posted by on January 17, 2026 at 1:07 pm. 1 Comments :

The legacy of Donald Trump is going to be jam-packed with the most profoundly preposterous actions and rhetoric of any president in the history of the United States – or any other nation for that matter. His wild outbursts attacking everything from previous presidents, to the free press, to windmills that kill birds and cause cancer, make life difficult for political comedians whose humor can’t compete with Trump’s insanity.

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However, Trump’s actions as president are far worse than his words. He has imposed inflationary tariffs on virtually every country on the planet, including our allies. He has terminated international aid that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths. He invaded Venezuela and abducted its president who he calls a drug trafficker, while granting pardons to certified, convicted drug kingpins. He has deployed soldiers into American cities to suppress constitutionally protected dissent. And for that abridged selection of Trump’s many malfeasances, he believes that he should be anointed president-for-life…

SEE THIS: Trump Whines That He Has ‘Accomplished So Much’ That ‘We Shouldn’t Even Have An Election’

If any further proof were needed that Trump is suffering from a severe case of mental impairment, Trump himself provided it on Saturday morning. He posted a tediously elongated tirade, intended to justify his deranged obsession with taking over Greenland, on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. It’s too long and filled with bullshit to repost. But what follows are a few annotated excerpts that provide a summary of just how far the cognitive rot has eaten into Trump’s mushy brain matter. He begins…

“We have subsidized Denmark, and all of the Countries of the European Union, and others, for many years by not charging them Tariffs.”
Not charging tariffs is not the same as subsidizing. To the contrary, charging tariffs is commonly regarded as a sanction. which is exactly how Trump is using them in this instance by his own admission.

“It is time for Denmark to give back — World Peace is at stake! China and Russia want Greenland.”
Denmark doesn’t owe the U.S. anything. And world peace is hardly at stake because Greenland is a territory of an American ally in NATO. Also, Russia and China have exhibit no interest in Greenland, and if they did they would face international resistance from the NATO alliance.

“They [Greenland] currently have two dogsleds as protection.”
Trump thinks this is funny. In reality Greenland has been successfully affiliated with Denmark for 300 years (longer than the U.S. has existed). And Denmark is well equipped with modern maritime and air power technologies, including a fleet of American F-35 fighter jets.

“Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland have journeyed to Greenland, for purposes unknown. This is a very dangerous situation. Therefore, it is imperative that, in order to protect Global Peace and Security, strong measures be taken.”
Trump is openly threatening an array of American allies. Which actually makes him the provocateur of a “dangerous situation.” Is he talking about the same “measures” he used against Venezuela?

“Starting on February 1st, 2026, all of the above mentioned Countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland), will be charged a 10% Tariff on any and all goods sent to the United States of America. On June 1st, 2026, the Tariff will be increased to 25%.”
So Trump is threatening to rescind his prior trade agreements that he made with these nations, and instead punish them for adhering to the long held NATO treaty obligations that the U.S. is also subject to. These tariffs will only make the cost of living hardships in the U.S. – which are due to Trump’s already atrocious economic policies – even worse.

“This Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.”
In Trump’s mob boss lingo, he thinks that he is extorting America’s allies to coerce them into complying with his utterly unreasonable demands. “Give me what I want,” Trump is yalping, “or pay up.” But he is actually just forcing American companies and consumers to pay more for everything imported from these countries.

True to form, Trump is demonstrating how pitifully ignorant he is of economics and international relations. But unfortunately, it is the citizens of the U.S., and these foreign targets of Trump’s egomaniacal wrath, who will suffer.

There is, however, some good news. The suffering that Trump is causing may not be long lasting. Everything he is doing lately is contributing to his being the most reviled president in decades. And as his approval ratings sink into the abyss, his comrades in Congress will begin to fear the voters more than they fear him. At that point – and we may be there now – Trump will be vulnerable to political defiance, sanctions, and even impeachment. Particularly if he takes hostile actions toward Greenland. Or Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Portland, etc.

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THANKS DON: If Trump Gets His Way, Democrats Will Win a Big Majority in the Senate This Year

Posted by on January 13, 2026 at 2:21 pm. 0 Comments :

The upcoming midterm elections in November are going to present some compelling opportunities for Democrats. In 2025 they enjoyed some strong victories across the nation in races that were predicted to be close. And in many other races where they fell short, they narrowed the margin significantly.

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Now most polls are showing that the Democratic Party is favored to win a majority in the House of Representatives. That advantage is the result of a combination of factors. First, Democrats have been taking the lead on the issues that matter most to the American people. And secondly, Republicans are saddled with Donald Trump, a mentally impaired megalomaniac who is only interested in himself.

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While Democrats are working hard to lower the cost of housing, healthcare, groceries, and other expenses that folks encounter on a daily basis, Trump and his MAGA comrades are are squarely focused on building ballrooms, invading other countries (Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, Mexico, etc.), imposing inflationary tariffs, suppressing the Epstein files, and cutting government programs that help middle and lower income citizens, in order to enrich Trump and his wealthy benefactors.

That’s a political recipe for GOP disaster. But despite how bad that is as a strategy, Trump is going all in on it. On Tuesday morning Trump was asked about his vindictive and meritless persecution of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell. His response reveals just how devoted he is to – – – electing more Democrats?

Question: Sen. Thom Tillis says that the grand jury subpoena to the Federal Reserve chairman [Jerome Powell] was a little excessive. What do you think?
Trump: Well, that is why Thom is not going to be a Senator any longer, I guess. Right?. But I like Thom Tillis. He’s a nice guy. But he’s not gonna be a senator any longer because of views like that.

Q: “Sen. Thom Tillis says that the grand jury subpoena to the Federal Reserve chairman was a little excessive. What do you think?”Trump: “That is why Thom is not going to be a Senator any longer.”

— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2026-01-13T19:08:30.357Z

Trump’s reaction to news that a Republicans senator considers the probe by Trump’s “Justice” Department to be only “a little excessive,” is to celebrate the end of that senator’s political career. Which Democrats will surely appreciate. Tillis represents the purple state of North Carolina that currently has a popular Democratic governor, Josh Stein. Tillis isn’t running for reelection this year, but former Democratic governor Roy Cooper is running for that seat, and holds a substantial lead over his likely GOP opponent.

Trump went on to demonstrate his ignorance of economics by stating that…

“We have a bad Fed chairman. He’s bad in a lot of different ways. But he’s bad because his interest rates are too high. And today we had a great inflation report. And today we had a really great growth report. So we have great growth and low inflation. And we’re doing very well.”

First of all, the Fed chair is just one vote on the Board, so he alone does not determine the interest rates. And true to form, Trump is lying about how great recent economic reports are. However, more to the point, Trump’s analysis that a strong economy warrants lowering of interests is the exact opposite of proper fiscal policy. Interest rates are generally only lowered to juice an economy that is troubled. Doing so with a strong economy is more likely to trigger inflation.

As for Trump’s political analysis, his embrace of losing this incumbent Republican senator is just the start of his strategic foolishness. He also came out against five other GOP senators who had the audacity to vote against his aspirations for unilateral tyranny over American war powers. He commented on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social, that…

“Republicans should be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Todd Young should never be elected to office again.”

Trump’s opinion that these Republicans “should never be elected to office again” will be welcomed by Democrats, who only need to net four seats in order to become the majority. Flipping these five seats, along with Tillis, would do that with a two seat cushion. So once again, the more that Trump talks, the better things get for Democrats.

More Republicans are starting to defy Trump. Several recently did so to pass bills to extend the Obamacare subsidies, and to reign in his military aggressions. We are reaching a tipping point where the GOP are becoming more afraid of voters than they are of Trump. And the result of that will be that he lashes out more at members of his own party out of pure spite. And Democrats will be the beneficiaries.

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Trump On Why He Can’t Be Trusted With Government Data: ‘When People Give Me Things I Post Them’

Posted by on January 10, 2026 at 3:07 pm. 0 Comments :

One of the most peculiar and annoying things about any period of time when Donald Trump has occupied the white House, is that not a day – or an hour – goes by without him seeking to inject himself into the weary and unwilling minds of the American people. He unleashes a non-stop barrage of idiocy, anger, and self-exaltation in order to control his cult followers and satisfy his ego.

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Ironically, another consequence of that social vibe bombing is that Trump often exposes the underpinnings of his motives in a manner that undermines his own purposes. He literally admits what is evil about his intentions in the most public way possible. In many cases confessing his own ignorance. For instance…

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On Friday Trump answered some questions from the press during a meeting with oil company executives on how they will profit from his taking over Venezuela. As usual, his inability to maintain focus on the issue at hand resulted in some detours into wholly unrelated matters. So naturally he weaved off course revealing more than any mentally stable person would want to. And he began with a real doozy, responding to Kaitlan Collins of CNN, who asked him about an inappropriately early release of economic data…

Collins: You posted some numbers on Truth Social last night. People are saying you posted the jobs data early when you’re obviously not supposed to share it until the next morning. Did you do that on purpose?
Trump: No, no. I don’t know. If they posted them, I said post them whenever you get a chance. I don’t know. They gave me some numbers. When people give me things, I post them. But the numbers are amazing.

REALLY? First Trump tries to claim ignorance. Then he veers off to make a bizarre excuse, saying that he routinely just posts what ever he is given. Which seems like a bad policy from a national security perspective. Maybe people should stop giving him things.

TRUMP: "When people give me things, I post them."That doesn't seem like a particularly good policy from a national security perspective. Maybe people should stop giving him things. #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-01-10T11:51:30.376Z

As for the jobs numbers being “amazing,” that’s another Trump claim that bears no resemblance to reality. There was a paltry 50,000 jobs created in December. And there were big downward revisions for the two months prior. In response to that, Trump’s National Economic Council Director, Kevin Hassert, said that the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) numbers are not reliable. Never mind that Trump had fired the career BLS officials five months ago and installed his own people. So he’s insulting Trump’s chosen analysts. Maybe it isn’t really the numbers’ fault.

What’s more, the reason there isn’t a new BLS director is that the one that Trump tried to appoint was so unqualified, and a downright despicable person, that he couldn’t get confirmed by the GOP Senate and Trump withdrew the nominee. Hassert also claimed that “the unemployment rate went down quite a bit.” It went down from 4.5% to 4.4%. Which may have been due to holiday season hiring, and more people leaving the workforce.

After yet another bad jobs report, Trump's National Economic Council Director says the BLS numbers are not reliable.Trump fired the career BLS officials 5 months ago and installed his own people. And they still aren't reporting reliable numbers? Maybe it's not the numbers' fault.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T18:22:17.798Z

Trump also addressed his preposterous obsession with occupying Greenland. The reason he offered up was tacked onto an open threat…

Trump: I would like to make a deal the easy way. But if we don’t do it the easy way, we’ll do it the hard way….But the fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn’t mean they own the land. I’m sure we had lots of boats go there also.

WTF? "The fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago does not mean they own the land," could apply to the U.S. #TrumpIsAnIdiot

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-01-10T11:53:21.414Z

Of course we – the U.S. – did not have “lots of boats” go to Greenland 500 years ago, because there was no “we” at the time. Trump went on to brazenly lie that “if you take a look outside of Greenland right now” you’ll see Russian and Chinese destroyers “all over the place” who are going to occupy Greenland “if we don’t.” So he’s admitting to wanting to occupy Greenland. The easy way, or the hard way.

Furthermore, Trump’s argument that Denmark has no jurisdiction over Greenland just because they had a boat land there is more than a little odd. Because it could just as easily apply to the United States who had a boat land in the “New World” about 500 years ago (1492). So we don’t own that?

Remember, this was a meeting with oil executives on the future of Venezuela. But Trump also wandered off to threaten Iran, where there is an uprising against the ruling regime. He warned that if they “start shooting, we’ll start shooting too.” So he’s threatening to start yet another war? This isn’t gonna help his campaign for a Nobel Peace prize.

Trump warns Iran that if they "start shooting, we'll start shooting too."On the other hand, Trump's pal Putin in Russia has been killing tens of thousands of civilians in Ukraine, but he is going to sell them Venezuela's oil to further fuel their slaughter,

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-01-10T11:58:19.576Z

Trump’s feigned concern that Iranian protesters might get killed is curious considering that his pal Vladimir Putin in Russia has been killing tens of thousands of civilians in Ukraine for three years. But Trump’s punishment for that is that he will sell them Venezuela’s oil to further fuel their slaughter.

Finally, Trump told the New York Times that the only limit on his power, the only thing that can stop him, is “My own morality. My own mind. [and that] I don’t need international law.” And that’s another admission of his deranged, authoritarian aspirations. Which he has made a point of admitting in many ways – overt and covert – for several years. And his cowardly, sycophantic Republicans, along with the MAGA media, still seem to be fine with it.

Trump says that the only limit on his power, the only thing that can stop him, is "My own morality. My own mind."For the Record: #Trump has no morality. He's a malignant narcissist whose 80 year old mind is severely impaired. And admits that he only "consults" with himself.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T18:08:22.012Z

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The Trump Regime is Blocking ALL Child Care Funding Over Allegations By a Lying MAGA YouTuber

Posted by on January 1, 2026 at 2:44 pm. 0 Comments :

America and the world are celebrating the arrival of a new year with the customary dose of optimism. It’s an annual tradition that brings people together to recall the good times of the past year, to commiserate about the hardships, and to look forward to better times ahead.

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Unfortunately, thanks to Donald Trump’s callous insensitivity to the welfare of others, the new year may not be so happy for all American families. He has spent the holidays in his familiar state of petulant outrage, posting dozens of hate-filled commentaries on everything from President Obama to George Clooney to anything else that triggers his tendentious temper tantrums. For example…

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Consequently, it should come as no surprise that the Trump regime has chosen New Year’s Day to announce that it is halting all federal funding for child care services throughout the country. According to ABC News…

“The Trump administration is pausing child care funding to all states after allegations of fraud in daycare centers in Minnesota emerged, an official with the Department of Health and Human Services said.

“The official said the funds will be released ‘only when states prove they are being spent legitimately.’ The official did not provide details or more information about the proof the agency is requiring from states.” […]

“The federal actions came after an unverified online video from conservative influencer Nick Shirley alleging fraud in child care in Somali communities in Minneapolis. Minnesota officials had disputed the allegations.”

That’s right. The Trumpists are relying on video made by a MAGA Internet troll that alleges fraud committed by Somali-Americans in Minnesota. They have not verified the credibility of the charges in the video, and the MAGA cretin who produced it has no credibility of his own. But they are using it to justify holding back funding for every child care service in the country.

There are over 180,000 licensed child care centers and Family Child Care (FCC) homes in the United States. And now every one of them is going to have their funding withheld until they provide some unspecified proof of their legitimacy. Which, by the way, was already provided when they were licensed, and every six months thereafter.

In the meantime, parents will lose their child care providers. Which will not only harm them and their children, but it will hurt all of the businesses who could see their employees be absent because they have no place to care for their kids.

The video that started it all has never been validated by any reputable news source. To the contrary, it has been debunked every time it was examined. The CBS News affiliate in Minnesota did an exhaustive review that thoroughly debunked the video’s claims. Every one of the facilities that the video said was a fraud that had no kids in its care, was actually active and populated by kids when the CBS reporter made unannounced visits.

“CBS News conducted its own analysis of nearly a dozen day care centers mentioned by Shirley: all but two have active licenses, according to state records, and all active locations were visited by state regulators within the last six months.”

After the video Shirley posted on Twitter/X went viral, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in an X post that her department was conducting a “massive investigation on childcare and other rampant fraud.” Kash Patel at the FBI did the same thing. And they are both basing their massive and expensive and resource depleting investigations on a bullshit video. Because that’s how the Trump regime works.

All of this is made even worse by Trump himself, who posted at least seven comments on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, about the fabricated scandals in Minnesota. And he unleashed a racist insult, referring to the Somali community as “garbage” and saying that “They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country [and that they] should be out of here.” He specifically addressed that to Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali-American citizen and a sitting member of Congress.

Naturally, the MAGA Republican Party won’t have a word of criticism about Trump’s hate-speech. Never mind their supposed pro-life principles. Their pro-Trump cult devotion supersedes any of their facades of faith. So they will cheer the hardships faced by American families due to this cutting off of funds. Just like they have cheered all of the other pieces of Trump’s agenda that has hurt the American people.

So Happy New Year, MAGA. Enjoy it while it lasts, because it isn’t going to last much longer. The new year will be bringing a new blue wave of electoral change as the approval ratings of Trump and his policies continue to sink to new lows.

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HUH? Trump Flunky Tells Fox News that Small Businesses Are ‘Excited’ to Pay Taxes Thanks to Trump

Posted by on December 28, 2025 at 1:29 pm. 1 Comments :

It’s high time that Trump gets credit where credit is deserved. And truth be told, no president in U.S. history has been as averse to the truth as the current occupant of the White House. His record of flagrantly lying about all matters, great or small, is unsurpassed. And while he isn’t particularly good at it, he is devoted to it.

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Fortunately for Trump, he doesn’t need much skill to pass off his lies to the cult followers he is lying to. They hungrily eat them up and beg for more. And they can’t be persuaded that Trump’s lies are completely removed from reality because cult followers are brainwashed to believe only their Dear Leader and assume that everyone else is lying to them. Which allows Trump to take credit for virtually anything.

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In addition to the barrage of flagrant falsehoods that flow from Trump himself, the Confederacy of Trumpists that populate his regime are similarly trained to disseminate untruths to the loyal MAGA-tists. Case in point is Trump’s SBA Administrator, Kelly Loeffler. She was at her post on Fox News Sunday morning to unleash a litany of lies to the willing believers…

“Small business optimism is really spiking under president Trump after four very difficult years under Joe Biden….I don’t think small business owners have ever been so excited to pay their taxes thanks to President Trump.”

Kelly Loeffler: "I don't think small business owners have ever been so excited to pay their taxes thanks to President Trump."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-12-28T15:16:50.293Z

Those comments are typical of the sort of gaslighting that Trump et al engage in. She expects people to accept the notion that business owners are actually “excited” to pay their taxes now that Trump has made it so much fun. Can’t you just imagine all of these taxpayers grinning ear to ear as they sign their tax returns and skip merrily down the street to deposit them in the mailbox?

There’s just one little problem. None of what Loeffler is saying is remotely true. To the contrary, small businesses are struggling to keep their heads above water in Trump’s collapsing economy. The Washington Post just published a detailed analysis entitled “Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs.” The article began…

“Corporate bankruptcies surged in 2025, rivaling levels not seen since the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, as import-dependent businesses absorbed the highest tariffs in decades.

“At least 717 companies filed for bankruptcy through November, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. That’s roughly 14 percent more than the same 11 months of 2024, and the highest tally since 2010.”

For the record, the 11 months of 2024 that saw far fewer bankruptcies were presided over by President Biden, who Loeffler falsely accused of leading through “four very difficult years.” While there were some challenges during Biden’s term, they were resolved before Trump was inaugurated. After which his policies just made things worse.

Had Loeffler ever actually spoken to any small business owners, she would know that that are not “excited” about paying taxes. Nor are they thrilled with the present economic conditions. She would know that they are suffering through hard times that are the direct result of Trump’s ignorance, negligence, and even deliberate malfeasance.

As for the business owners, they know that they are paying more for imported goods thanks to Trump’s tariffs. They know that it’s harder to hire and retain employees thanks to his short-sighted, xenophobic immigration policies. They know that there is anxiety inducing uncertainty caused by Trump frequently shifting his actions and rhetoric. And they are all to aware of the abysmal consumer sentiment ratings that are near historic lows. The University of Michigan’s “Index of Consumer Sentiment“ is down 28 points from the same time last year when Biden was finishing his term.

Yet somehow Trump’s SBA chief has the gall to go on Fox News and tell their viewers that they are all “excited” to pay their taxes. You have to wonder how many of them just nodded their heads and said “Yeah, it’s so exciting.” But it’s more likely that most of them furrowed their brows and thought “WTF is she talking about?”

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Trump Brags (Lies) That the Unemployment Rate Rose Because He Fired Lots of Federal Workers

Posted by on December 19, 2025 at 3:16 pm. 0 Comments :

The November jobs report revealed that unemployment increased to a four year high of 4.6% eleven months after Trump’s reoccupation of the White House. Although Trump routinely tries to blame everything bad on the “fake news” and/or President Biden’s impressively enduring impact on the government that he left nearly a year ago, he has been unable to make any of that stick.

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Undeterred by his prior failures to shift blame, Trump is trying again to evade responsibility for the harm his neglect, ignorance, incompetence, and deliberate malfeasance has imposed on the nation and its people. Unfortunately he has the assistance of the media that he pretends to despise, but which is actually his partner in spreading his perverse distortions of reality.

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While Trump can lie about pretty much anything, the troubled state of the economy is a harder con to sell, because people know what everything they are buying actually costs. Trump can’t just tell them that they are paying less when they know that isn’t true. Well, he can and does tell them that, but they know that he’s lying.

The same thing is true with regard to the just released job numbers for November. The new report showing a 4.6% unemployment rate reflects the reality that the American people face everyday. But in Trump’s world it is a fluid figure that he can falsify because it doesn’t affect him or anyone he knows or cares about. Consequently, he posted the following comment on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, as his explanation for the higher unemployment numbers…

“The only reason our Unemployment ticked up to 4.5% is because we are reducing the Government Workforce by numbers that have never been seen before. 100% OF OUR NEW JOBS ARE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR! I could reduce Unemployment to 2% overnight by just hiring people into the Federal Government, even though those Jobs are not necessary. I wish the Fake News would report the 4.5% correctly. What I am doing is the only way to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

First of all, Trump incorrectly says that “our Unemployment ticked up to 4.5%,” when it actually ticked up to 4.6%. But that was the least important error in his comment. Trump’s statement that unemployment worsened because of a reduced government workforce has no factual basis. Nor does his claim that he “could reduce Unemployment to 2% overnight by just hiring people into the Federal Government.” And he doesn’t bother to provide any support for those claims. Although he did repeat the same lies to the press a few hours later…

“The only reason our unemployment tucked up and went up to 4.5%, which it went up to 4.5%, which is quite a low number, but still, it is because we are reducing the government workforce by numbers that have never been seen before.”

Trump: "The only reason our unemployment tucked up and went up to 4.5 percent [it's actually 4.6 percent] is because we are reducing the government workforce by numbers that have never been seen before."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-12-19T19:24:51.296Z

“I could reduce unemployment to 2%, 1%, or practically zero by just hiring people into the federal government even though those jobs are not necessary. Which is what we had before. Millions and millions of people having jobs that they never even showed up. So I wish the media would report that the 4.5% is an amazing number.”

Trump: "I could reduce unemployment to 2%, 1%, or practically zero by just hiring people into the federal government even though those jobs are not necessary"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-12-19T19:25:40.527Z

It’s rather bizarre that Trump is bragging about having raised the unemployment rate by putting hundreds of thousands of productive Americans out of work. These are people who performed critical services for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Veterans Affairs, the Social Security Administration, and more. So not only is Trump hurting those fired workers, he’s hurting every American who relied on those services.

As for Trump’s preposterous claim that rehiring fired federal employees “could reduce unemployment to 2%, 1%, or practically zero,” that is another example of his mathematical illiteracy. The number of federal workers that were fired during Trump’s term since January is estimated to be around 317,000, according to his own Office of Personnel Management. While that is a significant amount of people and families that Trump has hurt, adding those people back into the workforce would only reduce the unemployment rate from 4.6% to about 4.4%. Which is a long way from “2%, 1%, or practically zero.”

This is par for the course for Trump. It mirrors his claim that he will cut drug prices by as much as 1,200%, when any cut greater than 100% would mean that the drugs would be free, or even result in the drug company paying the customer to buy the drugs. That doesn’t compute. Nor does Trump’s unemployment stats. Nor does his claims about tariffs revenue. That only thing that we can depend on with regard to Trump is that he will lie shamelessly about everything. And so will his sycophantic minions in Congress and the MAGA media.

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ENOUGH! American Media Disgraced Itself Again By Airing Trump’s Lie-Riddled Harangue-a-Thon

Posted by on December 18, 2025 at 2:19 pm. 3 Comments :

Wednesday night Donald Trump delivered a primetime address from the White House that was billed as an important communication to the American people concerning matters that would be of great interest to them. And every major national network carried the speech live. Ordinarily those networks don’t give up that valuable airtime unless they have been assured that there is a valid justification for it.

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However, on this occasion, the networks don’t appear to have done even a perfunctory review of what the content of Trump’s speech would be. Consequently, they greenlit his speech so that he could eat up half an hour of primetime to literally yell at the American people for not being sufficiently worshipful, and for failing to recognize the magnificence of his performance during the first year of his second occupation of the White House. It’s something that he is preoccupied with given his abysmal standing in national opinion surveys.

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Trump’s psychotic display of rabid rage and unrestrained ego was unprecedented in U.S. presidential politics. The entire speech was nothing more than a bellicose, live-action version of the tantrums that he posts daily on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. It was an outburst of explosive diarhetorical™ fury aimed at the peasants who failed to properly adore him.

As a public service, the video of his speech will not be posted here. It’s widely available for those with the stomach to endure it. And that’s precisely the problem. This speech should never have aired live on television by any reputable news network. It was entirely devoid of any substance that would have any appreciable impact on the lives of the American people. It was pure bitching and whining from an emotionally stunted malignant narcissist. The media could have taped it and later aired any part that had actual news content. But no. They caved to Dear Leader Trump who began his address saying that…

“Eleven months ago I inherited a mess, and I’m fixing it. When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years, and some would say in the history of our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans.”

And that is where every network that was foolish enough to air Trump’s speech should have cut the feed and returned to their regularly scheduled programming. Those opening lines were pure fiction. Trump not only didn’t “inherit a mess,” he inherited what the right-leaning magazine, “The Economist,” said was “The Envy of the World.” And most other economics experts agreed.

What’s more, inflation was not nearly “the worst in 48 years” when Trump took office, While inflation did rise to about 9% in the U.S. – and even more worldwide – during President Biden’s term, he was successful in reducing it to about 2.7% before his term ended. That’s what Trump inherited. And he proceeded to make that worse. Today inflation is about 3%. And predictions about the economy are mostly dire due to Trump having no policies that could reasonably produce a positive result. Or more accurately, due to his policies being overtly detrimental.

Furthermore, if Trump really cared about “making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans” (he doesn’t), he wouldn’t be imposing billions of dollars in taxes (aka tariffs) on them. And he wouldn’t be allowing health insurance subsidies to expire. And he wouldn’t be deporting the labor that builds our homes, works in our factories, and cares for our children and elders.

The rest of Trump’s speech was an excruciating, insufferable, offensive, and incomprehensible exercise in self-serving blather. It offered nothing that could have benefitted anyone but himself. And it even failed on that level. It’s a safe bet that his already cratering poll numbers will sink further after this oratorical debacle.

In Trump’s defense, what else did anyone expect from him? He delivered exactly the sort of bullshittery that he is known for. And with the predictable quantity of blatant lies. The bigger problem with respect to his speech was that it was aired live by every news network. At what point do they realize that his temper tantrums are not newsworthy? When will they stop kowtowing to him and providing a platform for his deception and propaganda? Will they ever take their responsibility as journalists and patriots seriously?

Those are questions that the American people are going to have to answer. They must make their voices heard so these alleged “news” networks know that we expect more of them. We expect them to be honest and probing and fearless. But if they persist in being sycophants to wannabe dictators, they will have no audience left for their shameless and worthless garbage-casting.

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Fox News Says ‘People Don’t Really Feel Bad’ About the High Cost of Living Caused By Trump

Posted by on December 13, 2025 at 12:15 pm. 1 Comments :

The debate over the state of the economy rages on. The problem is that it is a totally one-sided debate wherein Democrats are standing up for the welfare of the American people, and Republicans – at the behest of Donald Trump – are flagrantly lying. It’s bad enough that Republicans are being so fiercely dishonest. But it’s even worse that, with all the practice they get, they are still so bad at it.

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The worst possible strategy for deceiving mass groups of people is to tell them something that they know from their own experience is false. Yet that is precisely what Trump and his GOP confederates are doing. Trump thinks he can convince the American people that they are not paying more for almost everything since his reoccupation of the White House. But that isn’t working for him. Trump is hitting the lows in polling on virtually every issue, and particularly the economy. In fact, even 37% of Trump’s own MAGA voters disapprove of the economy, and worse, they say that Trump is to blame.

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Naturally, Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News, is backing Trump up with some of the most pathetically unconvincing arguments imaginable. And leading the charge is Fox’s Senior Trump-Fluffer, Maria Bartiromo. She was on the program of Trump’s shadow chief of staff, Sean Hannity, on Friday night (video below) where she obediently disseminated the MAGA talking points that the economy is fantastic. and if it isn’t, it’s President Biden’s fault.

“People are frustrated with housing and the price of homes. People are frustrated with certain food items. But there are a number of things that President Trump has already been incredibly successful doing. So when he says this affordability issue is a hoax, he’s right! He’s basically talking about how the Democrats have taken this word ‘affordability’ and used it as their calling card for the 2026 elections.”

First of all, the only things that Trump “has been incredibly successful doing” is imposing inflationary tariffs, demolishing parts of the White House, deporting innocent migrants, and murdering fishermen in the Caribbean. His achievements with regard to the economy are nonexistent. And his spin on “affordability” is a bizarre mix of denial, blame-shifting, and taking undeserved credit. But Bartiromo was just getting started. In an attempt to explain away why Republicans are suffering in recent elections and public opinion polling, She continued…

“They think these Democrat wins that we just saw in Miami, in New York City, in other places like New Jersey, we shouldn’t be surprised that the Democrats won those races. These are all blue states and cities. So, it’s no surprise there.”

For the record, The Democrat who just won the mayoral race in Miami is the first Democrat to win there in 28 years. Also, five of the last ten governors of New Jersey were Republicans. Also, the Democrat who won the governorship in Virginia is succeeding a Republican. So these are not what an honest person would call “blue” cities and states. But Bartiromo was still not done…

“What is a surprise is that after all of these years, the Republicans keep getting rolled over by the Democrats’ messaging. I gotta tell you, I don’t think the people really feel as bad as the Democrats are talking about. The economy is doing well. There is $18 trillion of new investment that has come into this country.”

And there it is. Bartiromo is telling people that they are not feeling what they are feeling. That’s a fool’s game. She’s parroting her Dear Leader Trump who has been trying to persuade people that they are all prosperous and elated with what he is doing. Except that they have to limit the number of pencils they can buy, as well as the number of dolls for their children. And even Bartiromo admitted above that housing and grocery prices are unbearably burdesome.

Bartiromo also mentions the blatant lie that Trump has brought in $18 trillion via his ludicrous tariff (aka taxes) scheme. Even his own White House web page tracking his alleged receipts says it’s only half of that – $9.6 Trillion – which is a combined figure of both domestic and foreign items. And even that is grossly inflated and made up of uncertified pledges and unenforceable handshakes. Furthermore, what has been collected in tariffs is paid by American companies that import foreign goods, and then pass the cost on to American consumers.

That is what forms the basis of the Fox News conclusion that the economy is booming and, if people feel bad about it, they’re suffering from some sort of derangement. However, if Fox News and Trump and the GOP want to pursue this theme for their midterm election campaigns next year, they will surely have the approval of the Democrats running against them. So buckle up, America. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride.

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