Idiot of the Week
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Monday, December 23, 2024
Iraq snapshot
Monday, December 23, 2024. Chump and Musk suffer a very public failure to achieve erection, JD Vance and Musk get their Nazi on, apologists for Rashida Tlaib don't seem to know history or grasp that it's over for Rashida, and much more.
Donald Chump and Elon Musk tried to bring the government to a shutdown. As Edith Olmsted (THE NEW REPUBLIC) notes, they didn't get their way. Yes, there are evil geniuses but, as Chump and Musk prove, there are also evil dunces.
Tom Boggioni (RAW STORY) notes:
As part of a discussion on MSNBC on Saturday morning, the former head of the Republican National Committee suggested that Donald Trump is letting billionaire adviser Elon Musk call the shots because he's not the man he used to be.
During a spirited debate over Musk leaning on GOP lawmakers to pass a budget bill to his and Trump's liking –– while also noting they had some disagreements about the debt limit –– MSNBC "The Weekend" co-host Michael Steele pointed out that Musk was the most prominent critic of Republicans who had agreed to a compromise deal with Democrats.
With co-host Symone Sanders Townsend admitted she was surprising herself by defending the president-elect, she insisted that the billionaire Musk needs Trump more than Trump needs him.
He is old and he is aging. Old Man Chump is 78 years old, grossly obese and one clogged artery after another. He'll be lucky to make it through four years in the White House without a stroke or a heart attack. So last week, he and Elon tried to impose a government showdown on the American people -- something that would have cost the country millions and millions of dollars. Chump was going to show the country how important he and his domestic partner were but instead? They both came up short -- and stubby. Micro. The two princes tiny meat.
— Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) December 22, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Olivia Rosane (COMMON DREAMS) quotes US House Rep Pramila Jayapal (Democrat) stating, "We forced President-elect Trump and Shadow President Elon Musk to back down from the 11th-hour demand to pass a suspension of the debt ceiling, a move that would have paved the way for a Trump Tax Scam 2.0 that would once again send trillions of dollars to the billionaires and giant corporations while cutting Social Security and Medicare for working people and poor people to pay for those tax cuts to the wealthiest. Democrats forced Republicans to back down and, when we enter a Republican trifecta, it will be on Republicans to deliver all the votes for such a scam. Democrats won’t bail them out—on that or any of their policies that cater to the wealthiest in America at the expense of working people and struggling Americans."
The president-elect successfully pushed House Republicans to jettison some spending, but he failed to achieve his central goal of raising the debt limit. It demonstrated that despite his decisive election victory and frequent promises of retribution, many members of his party are still willing to openly defy him.
Trump’s decision to inject himself into the budget debate a month before his inauguration also showed that he remains more adept at blowing up deals than making them, and it foreshadowed that his second term will likely be marked by the same infighting, chaos and brinksmanship that characterized his first.
“Stay tuned. Buckle up. Strap in,” said Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., a senior appropriator.
Be interesting to see Chump and all of his stupidity and all of his incompetence exposed. Over and over. For four years. If his heart doesn't give out or if his stooges don't run him out of the White House with pitchforks when they realize just how badly he conned them.
In a Saturday interview on MSNBC, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) reminded host Ali Velshi and his viewers that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) needed Democratic support in order to prevent a shutdown. She added that "every single [continuing resolution] has had to have Democrats provide the votes" as dozens of members of Johnson's own conference routinely go against him due to government spending concerns.
However, Crockett said one of the more shocking moments of the past week for her was an ultimately unsuccessful effort for Republicans to cut $190 million worth of funds appropriated for pediatric cancer research. While senators ended up unanimously re-inserting language into the final funding measure that secured passage of the Gabriela Miller Kids First Reearch Act 2.0, Crockett observed that Republicans were the ones to recommend axing it – while keeping other money set aside for Trump's inauguration.
In other news . . .
My latest. I wanted to take today off but I think more Americans need to know this before it's forgotten by tomorrow. "Elon Musk and JD Vance's Support of Germany's Nazi-Loving AfD Party Should Be Much Bigger News" thelefthook.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...
— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) December 21, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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From his article:
Elon Musk, the richest man on Earth and the current daddy of the GOP, tweeted an endorsement of the racist, anti-immigrant, pro-Nazi Alternative for Germany (Afd) party.
The timing could’ve been better.
A few hours after his tweet, a terrorist plowed his car into a Christmas market and killed five people in Germany. The suspect is a Saudi Arabian refugee and atheist, who is an anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant supporter of the AfD, and a fan of Elon Musk. The suspect also supports Tommy Robinson, the racist hooligan who incited violent riots with his hateful lies and was actively promoted by, wait for it, Elon Musk.
Earlier today, Vice President JD Vance emerged from hiding to tweet what appears to be a defense of Musk and the AfD.
[. . .]
JD Vance has forgotten or doesn’t care he’s married to an Indian American woman and has bi-racial children who are seen as “invaders” seeking to “replace” Western, white civilization according to the AfD and their right-wing supporters, which now includes a man who gave $250 million to elect Donald Trump and feels emboldened to target Republicans and torpedo a bipartisan spending deal.
This is the modern Faustian bargain all Republicans must make to ascend to political power and protect themselves from an increasingly violent, belligerent base that lives on Earth 3 due to a 24-7 IV drip of conspiracy theories fueled by cultural grievances and racism. Please remember it was Vance who once referred to Trump as America’s Hitler. I think Trump took it as a compliment. After all, Trump repeatedly quotes Hitler’s attacks on Jews and immigrants and said he “did some good things” according to his former Chief of Staff, Gen. John Kelly. Both Vance and Trump aggressively promoted a Nazi conspiracy of Haitian immigrants eating pets even after they were told it was a lie. Trump said there were “very fine people” on “both sides” during the white nationalist march in Charlottesville where people chanted Nazi talking points.
Chris Walker (TRUTHOUT) explains the hate group:
AfD is vehemently anti-immigration, particularly with regard to Muslims, calling for a “net zero” number of immigrants entering Germany in the coming years. Leaders of the party have repeatedly made racist and antisemitic statements, emphasizing a need to return to a German “identity” and pushing other white nationalist views; AfD leader Alexander Gauland, for example, has described immigration to the country as an “invasion of foreigners” that he and his party intend to fight off.
The party has also called for changes to how Nazi Germany is depicted in historical settings, such as monuments, schools and museums, with Gauland once minimizing the country’s Nazi history as being no more than “just a speck of bird’s muck.” Other AfD members have denied Nazi wrongdoing, including by describing the Holocaust as a “myth.”
Musk’s public support for AfD is just the latest example of the billionaire sharing reactionary viewpoints on X. Musk has, for example, called for the deportation of protesters utilizing the First Amendment to express views he disagrees with. He has also promoted antisemitic, anti-Muslim, transphobic and other bigoted content on his profile, and has shared content denying the Holocaust.
Novelist and political commentator Patrick S. Tomlinson has said that Musk’s support for AfD is illuminating.
“The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party,” Tomlinson wrote on Bluesky. “They are anti-immigration, anti-EU, and unapologetically pro-Putin. The German courts have labeled the entire party extremist. Elon Musk has gone fully mask off.”
Now let's deal with some stupidity from the left or 'left':
Liberals* using straight up far right rhetoric telling Rashida Tlaib to f**k off out of America. *Given their avatar seems to be an AI image I'm open to this being an op.
— Lamentably Awake (@lamentablyawake.bsky.social) December 22, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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An AI image? Oh, I love crap-ass lying Socialists because they make their stupidity so very obvious from the very start. Lamentably Awake isn't using a photo either. He was apparently some Twitter god for Elon Musk's social media once upon a time. And I'll stick with he because he writes like either a "he" or a "man identifying woman." And that latter term has nothing to do with a trans person. It has everything to do with a queen bee who disowns her sisters to be the sole woman in the room (see Gloria Steinem's REVOLUTION FROM WITHIN if you're new to the queen bee).
La-La really needs to find a lane and stay there. Veronica McDonald is a Democrat. She's talking about a Democrat. And she's holding a Democrat accountable.
Now, I get it, since US SOCIALIST WORKER went down in flames and accusations and charges, it's been hard for the JACOBIN left and 'left' to educate their followers but there's nothing right-wing about what Veronica Tweeted. Or are we unaware of the Spanish Loyalist War? How damn stupid is La-La?
I don't have time to educate the intentionally stupid.
Rashida Tlaib is Zell Miller -- a Democrat who betrayed the party in a presidential election. She made the decision to work to take down the party's presidential nominee. In terms of party politics, she's a Benedict Arnold. B-b-b-but Palestinians!!!
Palestinians didn't elect her to the Palestine Congress.
She was elected to the US Congress and took an oath to uphold the Constitution-- an oath she abandoned when she worked to support Chump's campaign. With her sister, she worked to destroy Joe Biden and, when Joe dropped out, she worked to destroy Kamala.
Gaza was important to her than the Democratic Party or the American people or immigrants in this country or addressing climate change. Suggesting that she take her protected ass to Palestine and fight for the last thing she supposedly believe in isn't a right-wing talking point. On the left, it was often deployed against those in the US who favored the military uprising in Spain -- the left suggested that right-wingers take their safe little asses to Spain and fight for the fascism that they rooted for.
Veronica Tweeted nothing that was offensive unless you're a whiny ass cry baby outside the Democratic Party who thinks you have a say in this. Because you really don't. This is a party matter and we don't need nor do we want your input. She took money from the DNC and would not have been re-elected without it. She then turned and s**t on the Democratic Party. That was her choice.
She has to live with that choice now. We're not going to ignore her betrayal. We will laugh at her hypocrisy. Such as this:
In the crucial last month before President Joe Biden leaves office, immigrants and allies on Tuesday urged the president to offer protections for immigrant communities before Donald Trump is inaugurated.
The president-elect has promised the largest deportation in U.S. history, stoking fear and uncertainty among undocumented immigrants and immigration advocates over a sweeping platform that marked the core of Trump’s GOP presidential campaign.
Speaking near the U.S. Capitol, the “Home is Here” campaign featured immigrant youth, allies and advocates demanding Biden take executive action.
[. . .]
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib also voiced her concerns Tuesday over the president-elect’s immigration plans.
“We cannot underestimate, as you all know, what will unfold the moment Trump takes office in January, and we need as many people as possible working to resist this hateful agenda,” the Michigan Democrat said.
Tlaib noted that Biden “still has power to take immediate executive action to protect our immigrant communities.”
She also said “we must continue to work incredibly hard, not only to outwork the hate, but to really promote love and justice within our communities.”
Shut your lying mouth, just shut it. You don't care about immigrants. No one who does would have ever voted for Donald Chump. No one who cares for immigrants would have worked to defeat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
You made your decision and you'll have to live with it. And Home Is Here and other organizations are going to have to learn that she's not going to pull people over to the cause. No, she's as toxic now as, for example, Cynthia McKinney was when they ran her out of Congress the first time. That's not me endorsing the running out of Cynthia. That's me noting reality that others try to ignore. Rashida's done. Her actions in 2024 have doomed many people in this country and no one's going to paper over that to make it pretty. She has to be held accountable for her part in putting Chump back in the White House. She has to be held accountable for all that follows.
And her fan base of uneducated Socialist -- not all Socialist are uneducated -- most are highly educated -- though many DSA-ers are come off as home schooled -- can glom to her and try to protect her but that's not going to work. It never has historically. She's done. Fork in her ass time. It's over. Whatever national platform she once had is over. So much so that I'm sure even Chump considers her more of a joke than a threat and she won't make his enemies list.
If it helps any, I don't think she was motivated just by her desire to put Chump back in the White House. I also think Rashida was motivated by her hatred of Black women.
And, one more thing, when you've actively done your part to destroy the Democratic Party's presidential ticked in 2024 the way Rashida did, you're a f**king hypocrite to think you can then make demands on Joe Biden in the final days of his presidency. You're gall is appalling.
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Sunday, December 22, 2024
Chislers Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur
That's from THE STEPHANIE MILLER SHOW.
Ana Kasparian is a fright-winger. And maybe we have to tolerate her in the United States but not in my state. Kamala won over 58% of the vote to Donald Chump's 38%. Kamala's won state wide office before. Not once. Twice. In 2010, she won the race for California's Attorney General. Then in 2016, we elected her to be one of our two US senators. She followed that as Vice President of the United States and she ran for president this year and got 48% of the vote to Chump's 49%.
So, yeah, a natural move would be for her to now run for governor.
Second, Ana, that face is looking real tired. You should probably go back to your plastic surgeon and see if he can do more to freshen your face up than the idiot who does your hair. What is about your Armenian looks that so you despise? First you had them chop off your nose and now you're trying to be, I'm guessing, a blond. That is the color you're going for, right?
Oh wait, that was wrong of me. To act surprised that she was embarrassed about her Armenian roots and self-loathing. I mean, it's not like she's on a show that's very title celebrates the 20th century of the genocide of the Armenian people.
If you haven't streamed the clip, Ana's caterwauling at the prospect that Kamala might run for governor of California and insisting that she'd move, she' move, she'd just move.
In that outfit? And can we break it down for stupid women? Can we break down the color black. Yes, it's slimming and forgiving in terms of your waist. But when you have no tits, like Ana, it just makes you look even more flat chested.
She needs to be rebuked and there's no need to address her "points" or "thoughts" because she has none.
Nor does her portly co-host Cenk trashbag.
We were noting Turning Point USA yesterday -- the racist, homophobic and anti-woman trash org with their "AmericaFirst" or whatever festival. Wasn't aware that Cenk showed up there on Saturday because I really don't follow hate groups -- especially for those for the deeply, deeply disturbed and the deeply closeted. I understand the male prostitutes cleaned up with piles of cash at the festival.
During his on-stage interview with Kirk, Uygur noted that Republicans do “a great job of coalescing” and are more “welcoming” to other political groups than Democrats. Uygur has criticized Democratic leaders, including Kamala Harris, following Donald Trump’s victory in the November election for not reaching out to independent voters with a populist message.
He also encouraged Democrats to “unify” and stop attacking “one another.” Uygur then said older Democratic voters need to stop watching cable news because “they’re trying to get you to vote for corruption.”
I don't speak Chisler so possibly Cenk is using a different meaning; however, in politics, when you speak of political parties and "coalescing," you're referring to how, when someone gets the nomination, you "coalesce" behind them. Which, of course, is something that Cenk and Ana refused to do when Kamala Harris became the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. No, they attacked her daily and savaged her repeatedly.
At the conference, he wanted the fright wing MAGA to know that they unify -- over on the fright wing, they unify. But the left? They have too much division on the left.
Let me help Cenk out by making an observation.
I think right now, on the left, we're pretty much unified in agreement that you, Ana and THE YOUNG TURKS are grifters who need to stop using leftist identification to try to mate with the fright wing. In fact, let's all pull their cachet to the right as leftists-who-have-seen-the-light. That's not what they are. They're corporate pigs who worked their way through millions of Katzenberger dollars and lost the left and lost their audience and now they're trying to transition into something different.
Fright wingers, you're not embracing a hot act. You're embracing an act whose career ended many years ago. In other words, you had a slot open and some personal manager hyped you on delivering a big act from the 80s. You were picturing Heart, DeBarge, the Pointer Sisters, the Beastie Boys and then. instead, Men Without Hats showed up. That's what you got, an act that long, long, long ago lost its audience. It's kind of funny if you think about it, grifter Charlie Kirk gets used by grifter Cenk.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Donald Chump Small and Exposed
The unelectable Kari Lake is in the news. Chump's choice to head the Voice of America is talking immigration. Natalie Venegas (NEWSWEEK) explains:
During a Saturday appearance at AmericaFest in Phoenix, Lake spoke about Trump's deportation plan.
"We're
sending people back to their homeland, and we're going to be freeing up
our country for the citizens of this country, but we've got to make
sure that they [the media] don't spin it. You know they are going to try
and spin it and they are going to try and make it look like the worst
thing in the world," Lake said.
She added: "I see it as human beings heading back to their homeland. They will go there and make their homeland better and we will make our homeland better...We're going to have to push back when the fake news tries to take everything President Trump is going to try to do to make our country great and they are going to try and spin it in the opposite way."
Really? And will that include Donald's dom Elon Musk as well? Will he be sent back to his homeland in South Africa? Elon's parents weren't American citizens and he was born in South Africa.
Regardless, at the Turning Points USA event -- a detail NEWSWEEK skimps on -- has finally found her equals in the sewer that they live in:
In December 2017, The New Yorker published an article by Jane Mayer showcasing interviews with former minority members of TPUSA. Former staff members said they witnessed widespread discrimination against minorities in the group; "the organization was a difficult workplace and rife with tension, some of it racial," The New Yorker said.[14][129] One former employee, an African-American woman, said she was the only person of color working for the organization at the time she was hired in 2014; she then said that she was fired on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The article also said that Crystal Clanton, a leading figure in the organization who had served as the group's national field director for five years, and whom Kirk had praised in his book Time for a Turning Point as "the best hire we ever could have made", had texted to another Turning Point USA employee, "I hate black people. Like fuck them all ... I hate blacks. End of story." Kirk responded to the revelations by saying that "TPUSA assessed the situation and took decisive action within 72 hours of being made aware of the issue."[14] Justice Clarence Thomas, who hired Clanton after she left TPUSA, later commented on the incident regarding her text messages, stating, "I know Crystal Clanton and I know bigotry. Bigotry is antithetical to her nature and character."[130]
In the Hillsdale College Collegian, opinions editor Kaylee McGhee wrote an article that referred to TPUSA as a "reactionary cancer" rather than a group supporting real conservatism that is "supposed to preserve the timeless principles of liberty and equality for all".[131] In June 2018, conservative radio talk show host Joe Walsh resigned from the TPUSA board because Kirk was too closely tied to Donald Trump. Walsh said: "It's so important to not be beholden to politicians, but to be beholden to the issues ... When Charlie went to work for Trump, that crossed that line. You can't advance Trump and advance these issues."[132]
During October and November 2019, Kirk launched the Culture War college tour of speaking events with appearances from many conservatives such as Donald Trump Jr., Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle. These events were frequently targeted by homophobic and antisemitic members of the alt-right and far-right who consider TPUSA to be too mainstream and not sufficiently conservative. Concerted efforts were made by this group to ask leading questions during the Q&A sections on controversial topics such as Israel and LGBTQ issues in order to challenge the extent of the speakers' views.[133]
In November 2019, the Dartmouth Review called TPUSA an organization that promoted Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump first, rather than conservative values. The article added "True conservatives must eventually outgrow TPUSA and devote their efforts elsewhere. We must challenge ourselves by pursuing an environment of rigorous inquiry, instead of being coddled by the intellectually devoid echo chamber of TPUSA, compromising our values for recognition."[134]
The trash that Chump has to glorify in order to be in office. Trash that blindly worships him because they've been home schooled and tricked by carnies. Kari Lakes is just another example of that. Tom Boggioni (RAW STORY) notes:
As part of a discussion on MSNBC on Saturday morning, the former head of the Republican National Committee suggested that Donald Trump is letting billionaire adviser Elon Musk call the shots because he's not the man he used to be.
During a spirited debate over Musk leaning on GOP lawmakers to pass a budget bill to his and Trump's liking –– while also noting they had some disagreements about the debt limit –– MSNBC "The Weekend" co-host Michael Steele pointed out that Musk was the most prominent critic of Republicans who had agreed to a compromise deal with Democrats.
With co-host Symone Sanders Townsend admitted she was surprising herself by defending the president-elect, she insisted that the billionaire Musk needs Trump more than Trump needs him.
He is old and he is aging. Old Man Chump is 78 years old, grossly obese and a walking heart attack waiting to happen. He'll be lucky to make it through four years in the White House without a stroke or a heart attack. I guess he needs all the groupies and orderlies he can garner -- no matter what hellhole he has to dig them out of or jail he has to spring them from.
So this week, he and Elon tried to impose a government showdown on the American people -- something that would have cost the country millions and millions of dollars. Chump was going to show the country how important he and his domestic partner were but instead? They both came up short -- and stubby. Micro. The two princes tiny meat.
The president-elect successfully pushed House Republicans to jettison some spending, but he failed to achieve his central goal of raising the debt limit. It demonstrated that despite his decisive election victory and frequent promises of retribution, many members of his party are still willing to openly defy him.
Trump’s decision to inject himself into the budget debate a month before his inauguration also showed that he remains more adept at blowing up deals than making them, and it foreshadowed that his second term will likely be marked by the same infighting, chaos and brinksmanship that characterized his first.
“Stay tuned. Buckle up. Strap in,” said Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., a senior appropriator.
Strap in, Steve, or strap on?
Be interesting to see Chump and all of his stupidity and all of his incompetence exposed. Over and over. For four years. If his heart doesn't give out or if his stooges don't run out of the White House with pitchforks when they realize just how badly he conned them.
In a Saturday interview on MSNBC, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) reminded host Ali Velshi and his viewers that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) needed Democratic support in order to prevent a shutdown. She added that "every single [continuing resolution] has had to have Democrats provide the votes" as dozens of members of Johnson's own conference routinely go against him due to government spending concerns.
However, Crockett said one of the more shocking moments of the past week for her was an ultimately unsuccessful effort for Republicans to cut $190 million worth of funds appropriated for pediatric cancer research. While senators ended up unanimously re-inserting language into the final funding measure that secured passage of the Gabriela Miller Kids First Reearch Act 2.0, Crockett observed that Republicans were the ones to recommend axing it – while keeping other money set aside for Trump's inauguration.
And that's who Chump truly is. A minor hanger-on who was never really that wealthy and certainly never well mannered. A cheap social climber who's never done an honest day's work and never valued anyone but himself.
90 million for himself and he'll rob from children with cancer to get his ands on it.
And these sorts of reveals that will turn even MAGA idiots against him in the end.
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Friday, December 20, 2024
Iraq snapshot
Friday, December 20, 2024. Donald Chump and his new fellow Elon work to wreck Christmas for millions of Americans as they demonstrate their incompetence, if Mike Johnson's in the closet is it a closet with glass walls, War Crimes in Iraq?, and much more.
MAGA only knows how to destroy. They represent the worst part of the Republican Party. Michael Williams and Leinz Vales (CNN) report this morning:
Shutdown looms: The US is just hours away from a government shutdown unless a funding plan is passed to avoid it. The House failed Thursday to pass a new Donald Trump-backed GOP proposal to fund the government into March, intensifying the threat of a shutdown ahead of the Friday night deadline.
• Debt limit suspension: The GOP inserted a two-year suspension of the debt limit into the legislation after the president-elect demanded that any deal also address the looming debt limit.
• Democrats firmly opposed: Nearly all Democrats and 38 Republicans voted against the new bill after Trump sank a bipartisan deal and Republicans scrambled to find a plan B. Ahead of the vote, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told members in a closed-door meeting, “I’m not just a no, I’m a hell no,” according to a source in the room.
Chris Stein and Fran Lawther (GUARDIAN) add:
By a vote of 174-235, the House of Representatives rejected a Trump-backed package, hastily assembled by Republican leaders after the president-elect and his billionaire ally Elon Musk scuttled a prior bipartisan deal.
Now lawmakers face a last-minute scramble to secure a new deal before the Friday night deadline – or all nonessential government functions will pause.
Thousands of federal government employees would be put on furlough, meaning that they are told not to report for work and go unpaid for the period of the shutdown, although their salaries are paid retroactively when it ends.
Other government workers who perform what are judged essential services, such as air traffic controllers and law enforcement officials, continue to work but do not get paid until Congress acts to end the shutdown.
A shutdown just before the holiday season hits its peak, could be disastrous for millions of Americans.
MAGA smash. MAGA break.
They don't know to fix things and they don't know how to govern. Last night, on MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell explained how imbecile Donald Chump and non-American born Elon Musk destroyed and harmed the country.
Yesterday, Robert Reich noted:
Musk went on a daylong rampage yesterday against the continuing resolution drafted by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team to keep the government going.
Musk posted nearly nonstop on his social media platform X about how lawmakers must kill it. “Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!” Musk wrote in one post.
Musk — the richest person in the world — was joined in his posting spree by another billionaire, Vivek Ramaswamy, whom Trump asked to partner with Musk in an effort to slash government spending and reduce the federal budget deficit.
Republicans gauging support for the legislation said they were bleeding votes as a result of Musk’s barrage.
Then, after Musk spent the day telling Republicans not to support the bill, Trump weighed in against it, too. That put the bill on life support.
If this isn’t oligarchy, I don’t know what is.
You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way.
A government shutdown right before Christmas. Do we realize how many people -- how many families -- that would harm. Chris Hayes notes:
The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) December 19, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Mainly, the drama just exposes MAGA.
It exposes them as an uncaring, anti-family mob that doesn't care if people are put out of work.
It exposes Chump as an idiot fool who has already been wounded in the public eye with each ridiculous nominee he has tried to push for his administration is exposed as a loser -- a big loser that's either a sociopath or a threat to national security.
It exposes apartheid boy Elon Musk as the non-American that the South African born racist truly is.
It exposes Mike Johnson and conversion therapy as a failure.
Conversion therapy was supposed to allow Mike to run with all the boys -- in a non-sexual way.
That's not happening.
This is Washington -- This is how -- uh -- lawmaking is done.
Did you catch that -- and his delivery of it --- and the way he coyly tried to be fetching with a head move - in Lawrence's video? If not, pay close attention to him in the MEDIASTOUCH NEWS video below.
Look at him in those photos. Grasp why Marjorie Taylor Greene's been whispering for over a year and a half that Mike's a closet case.
He certainly reads that way and that's the thing, MAGA notes the obvious. And MAGA -- for all its pretense -- isn't anti-gay. It's anti-equality. Those closet case MAGA men are lusting after one another in bondage and discipline fantasies.
Let's note this video about the protesting Mike Johnson.
Kat noted last night "MAGA a cult of closet cases" and that is so true. But it's not just the subs. It's the bullies. And they're going to pretend the straight the same as the timid Mike Johnsons. But they're going to get off on bullying.
And when you look at photos of Mike with other males, he really doesn't come off well. The others in the photos are comfortable in their skin. He never comes across that way. Instead, he always looks subservient to the other males. And bullies -- I assume straight bullies or gay bullies -- are like sharks and start to circle when they smell blood in the water.
MEDIASTOUCH is counting the days that they feel Mike Johnson has left as US House Speaker. Senator Rand Curly Locks Paul began calling yesterday for Elon Musk to replace Mike as Speaker of the House.
Chris Walker (TRUTHOUT) notes:
Lauding Musk’s actions against the bill, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) suggested on the social media site X (which Musk owns) that the billionaire should take over the speakership from Johnson.
The U.S. Constitution stipulates that the House of Representatives “shall choose their speaker and other officers.” But it doesn’t require a person to be a duly-elected member of the House before becoming speaker.
If Republicans move forward with this plan, it will be the first time ever that a speaker of the House was not also a representative within the House.
“The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress,” Paul said, adding that he believes Musk would be a good choice to “disrupt the swamp.”
Far right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) agreed with Paul’s assessment, saying she could “be open to supporting @elonmusk for Speaker of the House.”
No one took Mike seriously. Again, Marjorie's been calling him a closet case for over a year and a half now. Markwayne, what's his name, the one from Oklahoma compares Mike to a KING OF THE HILL episode where the Cowboys play the Saints. But the one in the episode that Markwayne and others compare Mike Johnson to is Gilbert Dauterive.
They giggle and they laugh at him. Not the Democrats, mind you, but his own MAGA 'peers' mock him and laugh at him. And the world recognizes him for what he is.
Before going into politics, Mike Johnson worked with Exodus Int’l, the anti-queer group that pushes fake gay conversion therapy. He’s looking more and more like a self-hating closet case.
— Gar McVey-Russell (@garmcveyrussell.bsky.social) November 1, 2023 at 8:07 PM
“Rules for thee, not for me.” —Mike Johnson while watching gay dolphin cuck porn on his burner phone, probably
— Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) November 23, 2024 at 7:37 PM
www.apnews.com/article/mike... J. Michael Johnson Esq. in 2010 was named “inaugural dean” of the Judge Paul Pressler School of Law - saluting a Southern Baptist Convention luminary instrumental in SBC’s return to bigotry - an anti-gay hate group honoring its own serial sexual predator of boys.
— MickieMorganfield (@mickiedances.bsky.social) November 22, 2024 at 10:19 AM
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Reminiscing about that time when botched gay conversion therapy victim Mike Johnson came to terms with his sexuality in the weirdest way possible.
— Dorian D (@drdorianoz.bsky.social) November 15, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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As for Elon, Ruth noted:
We all get that Elon Musk is not an American citizen,
right? He was born in South Africa and loved living there until the end
of apartheid meant Black people had rights so that is when Mr. Musk
fled. He should have gone to his mother birth country of Canada.
Instead, he came here on a visa that did not allow him to work so he
worked as an undocumented worker -- something he says is "breaking the
law" when other people do that.
Because
he can buy so much, he thought he could buy citizenship here and we
were corrupt enough to let him. So he has three citizenships. He is a
third American. On the trashiest side of our family, you can be sure.
Now he appears to think he is the president of the United States. Miles Klee (ROLLING STONE) reports:
Elon Musk, self-described "First Buddy" of President-elect Donald Trump,
went all out to thwart a last-minute funding deal to avert a government
shutdown. The move was a direct challenge to Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who rolled out the sweeping plan on Tuesday night.
Now, it appears Musk has successfully killed the stopgap measure in its cradle - before it was even brought to a vote.
In a manic posting spree on Wednesday, the world's richest man bombarded his platform X, formerly Twitter, with attacks on a proposed funding bill, which would've kept the government funded through March 14 and had bipartisan support. He also amplified misinformation about what's in the 1,500-page bill - as did his non-governmental commission, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is recommending cuts to government spending and regulations to the incoming Trump administration.
Trump himself signaled Wednesday that he opposes the resolution, according to a joint statement shared by Vice President-elect J.D. Vance. Various hard-right GOP representatives also vowed to vote against it. Should Johnson fail to get a spending plan passed by Dec. 20, the federal government will enter a partial shutdown ahead of the holidays. But that apparently sounded ideal to Musk and his social media clique.
All of this happens as the American people watch. All of this unfolds and we're reminded yet again what a chump Trump is.
Chump and The MAGA Cult are making fools of themselves as the American people watch. Danielle Moody's right that this is just time to watch the nutty idiots. In fact, it's hard to believe that Stan wrote "A new daytime soap opera" this week and was not talking about THE DONALD CHUMP SHOW (Stan was covering CBS' upcoming BEYOND THE GATE).
David McAfee (RAW STORY) explains that The Idiot Chump can't grasp how bad this looks for him:
Donald Trump on Friday welcomed a potential shutdown of the government before he takes office.
Trump risked a shutdown when he pressured GOP lawmakers to reject a bipartisan spending deal, which resulted in a second deal which died after being rejected by almost all Democrats and some Republicans.
Trump has already tried shifting blame for the result over to President Joe Biden.
We'll wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:
“DoD has repeatedly misled the public about what has come to be known as the Haditha Massacre.”
New photos from the scene reveal Iraqi civilians killed in their homes by U.S. Marines; Marine Corps Commandant bragged about keeping photos secret.
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Representative Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, sent a letter requesting the Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General investigate reports that the DoD mishandled a case involving U.S. Marines killing civilians in Haditha, Iraq, and DoD’s continued efforts to cover up the alleged war crimes.
In November 2005, as U.S. Marines patrolled the Iraqi town of Haditha, an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded, striking their convoy, killing one Marine and injuring two others. Immediately after the explosion, eight Marines moved through nearby Iraqi homes to pursue what they described as “the continuing threat” and “armed terrorists who fled the IED site.” Afterwards, the Marine Corps failed to conduct an investigation until three months after the incident, violating then-existing policy and law that required prompt reporting and thorough investigation.
A recent New Yorker story revealed several disturbing photos of Iraqi civilians, including women and children, who appear to have been killed in their homes by U.S. Marines. The graphic photos from that day appear to reveal a much more sinister, deliberate, and cruel execution of civilians, and not the accidental chaos and misidentification of civilians described as armed combatants in previous reports. General Michael Hagee, the Marine Corps Commandant at the time of the Haditha killings, “bragged about keeping the Haditha photos secret.”
“We seek to understand whether DoD improperly withheld information from the public regarding this incident, and whether current DoD processes can ensure timely and complete investigations in response to reported instances of civilian harm,” wrote the lawmakers.
In 2013, the Defense Legal Policy Board reviewed investigations into civilian deaths and prosecutions of DoD personnel accused of war crimes and published a report on military justice in combat zones, which provided several recommendations on how to improve and increase training at all levels and make other institutional corrections. Specifically, the review called for the appointment of a joint commander to “have a central role in the administration of military justice in a theater of operations” who is “ultimately responsible for the conduct of his force,” including “all forces, from every service.”
Yet, even after that report, senior DoD leadership appeared to continue to cover up evidence of the massacre. Following the Haditha killings, the DoD denied New Yorker reporters’ Freedom of Information Act requests for DoD records of alleged war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan since September 11, 2001. The DoD also claimed it would not release the photographs due to concerns about the surviving family members of the Iraqis killed that day, even though those same family members ultimately assisted the New Yorker in obtaining and finally publishing them.
“We expect and require the U.S. military to uphold the law, rules, and ethics code that service members swear to obey,” continued the lawmakers. “Ensuring fair and swift justice for any violations of the rules of war supports good order and discipline in the armed forces while also building trust with the American people and the international community.”
The 2013 DoD review included several recommendations for changes to DoD’s policy on military justice for war zone investigations. The lawmakers seek to understand DoD’s implementation of the 2013 recommended policy changes, DoD’s current practices to investigate and report civilian harm, and whether they are equipped to better hold military personnel accountable.
The lawmakers are requesting answers by December 30, 2024.
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