Some people get stuck in a rut -- that's especially true of elderly men who don't recognize their own decline even as the entire world around him does. That's Convicted Felon Donald Chump who is tanking the polls, who's lost so man supporters who were stupid enough to vote for him in November. He's claiming he can run for a third term. Even you've seen the videos of him trying to get into automobiles, you likely reply, "Run? He can barely walk."
It and other idiotic comments were made to distract from -- among other things -- the ongoing security breach scandal that's widening to include not just Pete Hegseth but also the tramp he rode in on.
Most of all, there is the economy. On day one, Donald Chump was going to fart in the Oval Office and the vibrations that created from his fat ass would shake the economy, wake the economy and bring down prices.
Prices are actually higher and that's a result of an idiot who completely understands bankruptcies but has never understood the economy.
There is nothing in the tool box because Chump's never done real work in his life and has never had a tool box. So he keeps blustering "tariff" over and over and is unable to offer anything else -- even as each round of the news cycle makes clear that tariffs -- and his constant talk of them -- are spooking the markets. Gavin Bade, Alex Leary, Kristina Peterson (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL) report:
The Trump administration is scrambling to determine the specifics of its new tariff agenda ahead of its self-imposed deadline of Wednesday, weighing options as the president has promised to remake the American economy with a swath of new levies.
One key point of debate is whether to impose individualized tariff rates for U.S. trading partners, as President Trump has previewed in recent weeks, or revert to his campaign pledge for an across-the-board tariff that would affect virtually every country doing business with the U.S., say people familiar with the conversations.
[. . .]
Democrats argued that Trump’s trade policies aren’t helping Americans.
“Americans will pay more,” Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.) said on “Fox News Sunday.” He added, “They hired this president to bring down costs and you’ve got the market crashing because they think the tariffs are stupid.”
Chump just can't stop tanking the economy. Again, he's a financial idiot which explains all of his bankruptcies. So he just keeps wrecking the country's economy. Jason Ma (FORTUNE) reports, "US stock futures fell Sunday evening as Wall Street braced for the latest salvo in President Donald Trump's trade war. The Wall Street Journal reported that advisers have considered a global tariff of up 20% on almost all countries, though reciprocal tariffs are still an option. That follows an earlier report that said Trump is eyeing more aggressive duties to transform the US economy."
He's a failure and we're all paying for it.
Back to the security breach. David McAfee (RAW STORY) reports:
While all eyes are on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's attack plans posted on Signal, there was another dangerous leak from the Trump administration, according to a new report.
The media is largely focused on the Signal chat scandal, but according to Rolling Stone, there is another leak that should be spoken about.
"Reports that Donald Trump’s top national security officials accidentally shared their Yemen attack plans with The Atlantic in real-time drove the news in official Washington in recent days," the report states. "But it wasn’t the only damaging leak of information held by the administration this week."
The report continues, "Two Trump administration spreadsheets — which each include what numerous advocates and government officials say is highly sensitive information on programs funded by the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — were sent to Congress and also leaked online."
The outlet further reports that, "The leak, which sent a variety of international groups and nonprofits scrambling to assess the damage and protect workers operating under repressive regimes, came after the organizations had pressed the Trump administration to keep the sensitive information private and received some assurances it would remain secret."
That's actually not the only leak and another one emerged at the end of the week but let's also remember Chump's intelligence 'slip' a few weeks ago. I have no idea why people aren't pulling together. I know why I'm not. I'm on the phone with a friend who served on the city council for many years and listening to explain the massive march that just took place in Dallas. At any rate, Tom Boggioni (RAW STORY) notes how Chump's attempt to distract from the security breach is not working:
Add Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) to the list of Republican lawmakers calling for an investigation high-ranking Donald Trump officials who engaged in a chat on the Signal app where they discussed an upcoming military attack on Yemen with a journalist mistakenly invited to listen in.
Speaking with CNN's Dana Bash, the conservative from Oklahoma didn't pause when asked if an investigation is warranted about comments made by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth who shared blow-by-blow assault plans with his colleagues that have since alarmed military officials.
"I want to get straight to this question of this potential national security breach," the CNN host prompted her guest. "The Senate Armed Services Committee chair, Roger Wicker, he said the incident, quote, 'Raises questions as to the use of unclassified networks to discuss sensitive and classified information.'"
Our country is not safe with idiots getting access to classified information when they don't know how to secure it. Hegseth has lied repeatedly in his attempts to distract from his sub-standard performance. Is he drunk?
We know he's a drunk and that might be all we need to know because Sabrina Haake (RAW STORY) offers:
Our prized family possession, after a pink and brown conch shell from Oahu, was a wooden coocoo clock.
Hand-carved to look like a bird house, it was dark stained, complete
with gingerbread-trimmed gable roof and hanging metal pine cone weights
(tree house. you get it.) The house was about two feet long, ten inches
wide, and every hour, on the hour, little green shutters would draw back
to let a beautiful blue bird pop out, chirping.
My dad hated that bird.
I could always gauge whether it was a wet drunk or dry drunk week by what he did at the top of the hour.If he merely yelled obscenities at the chirping bird, it was a wet drunk, Pabst-soaked day and the ugly exchange would end when the bird went back inside. But if my dad threw something at the bird, it was a dry drunk day, which meant the safest place to be was anywhere else.
I’ve learned since then that when he wasn’t actually drunk, my dad was what’s known as a ‘dry drunk.’ October Road, a publication about substance use, says that dry drunks, despite their sobriety, typically continue to behave in destructive ways if they “have not fully embraced recovery.” Dry drunk doesn’t necessarily imply relapse, but it suggests “a lack of personal growth and mental or emotional recovery.”
Pete Hegseth’s seething anger feels familiar
“Angry lack of personal growth” should be tattooed on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s forehead. Following the Signal fiasco, when Hegseth got off the plane at the Pearl Harbor-Hickam base in Honolulu, (coincidentally where my dad was stationed), a reporter asked him about the Signal breach, specifically, how an editor from The Atlantic was added to a chat about attacking Houthis in Yemen.
Hegseth spewed outrage, as if concern for servicemembers whose lives he put at risk infringed his right to breathe. He jacked up and down on his heels, leered forward and scrunched his face, going in for the pre-emptive attack: “So you’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who (has) made a profession of pedaling hoaxes time and time again.” He looked away from the camera, indignant, looked back, flexed his shoulders like a boxer in the ring and said, “(The editor of The Atlantic) is a guy who peddles in garbage. This is what he does.”
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