Thursday, April 10, 2025. Chump wants to waste millions on a military parade for his birthday, this after refusing to greet the fallen at Dover last week, in the face of massive opposition he semi-pauses his tarrifs, one of his supporters turns out to be a liar and a fake (shocking!) which leads to her arrest, and much more.
And he is right, Chump should have been there.
Last week, Convicted
Felon Donald Chump was fled to Florida on Thursday to start his 'vacation' and to avoid Dover Air Base where four Americans who died on an overseas mission were returning. He had no time for the fallen, please understand, because the most important thing when you're commander-in-chief is . . . golfing. As Ruth noted Friday:
There was a time in Donald
Chump's first term as president that I gave him the benefit of the doubt
regarding his alleged hatred of U.S. troops. He quickly made clear
that the rumors were indeed true. We saw that further in his 2024
campaign and, of course, we have seen it since he was sworn in.
SignalGate, for example, put our military pilots at risk as they set out
on a mission he ordered and then Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, DNI
Director Tulsi Gabbard, and the rest do a non-secure discussion of the
mission before it starts and as it is being carried out. To this day,
he has refused to fire any of these people despite the fact that their
actions could have resulted in the deaths of the military pilots. That,
by the way, is a point Senator Tammy Duckworth has made strongly and
repeatedly.
Because
he is never done s**ting on our troops, Mr. Chump's actions are not
surprising but they are shocking, outrageous, and offensive. Jeremiah Hassel (THE MIRROR) reports:
Donald
Trump was slammed for missing the dignified transfer for four U.S.
soldiers who were killed in Lithuania during a training accident as he
was seen playing golf at his Trump National Doral Miami golf course for a
LIV Golf event.
Lithuania's president held a
ceremony honoring the fallen soldiers who drowned in a peat bog after
their tactical vehicle went missing about a week ago. Lithuanian, Polish
and U.S. soldiers and rescue teams searched through forests and swamps
at the Gen. Silvestras Žukauskas training ground in Pabradė, which is
about 6 miles west of the country's border with Belarus.
[. . .]
President
Gitanas Nausėda and other dignitaries were among those who stood in
respect as the hearses carrying the bodies to Vilnius airport in the
nation's capital paraded past. They were flown to Dover Air Force Base
in Delaware and will be buried this week.
Several
of the onlookers were reportedly in tears during the procession.
Nausėda said the reaction of the population and the military to the
disappearance of the soldiers was rooted in the country's own difficult
history.
Lithuania's
president showed them respect; however, Convicted Felon Donald Chump
did not. The Convicted Felon could not stop his golf game to honor
Americans Pfc. Dante D. Taitano, Staff Sgt. Edvin F. Franco, Staff Sgt.
Jose Duenez Jr., and Staff Sgt. Troy S. Knutson-Collins. Dante was the
youngest at 21, Troy was the oldest at 28, and Jose and Edvin were both
only 25. They are passed and they passed while doing a mission that
they were tasked with but the nation's commander-in-chief was too busy
-- yet again -- to honor them.
The disrespect Chump has shown the four fallen soldiers is appalling and it's one more reason that he is a joke. And that's before the rumblings about his plan to use the military as a prop for his birthday celebration.
On THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JIMMY FALLON, Jimmy addressed the nonsense of a parade for Chump.
My favorite joke from Jimmy above? "Yeah, the parade will be four miles long. The organizers asked Trump if he wanted to walk in it and then everyone laughed and laughed."
WJLA reports on the potential cost for Chump's vanity trip.
The costs were also addressed on ABC's THE VIEW.
"Who do you think is paying for this?" asks Joy and she's right. Over $90 million for that parade for himself? It's outrageous.
Some veterans I've spoken to raise the issue that Chump's trying to stage a military parade to celebrate himself when there has been no DC parade for the veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.
Let's note this from IAVA:
Today, following news of President
Trump’s proposal for a military parade, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of
America (IAVA), the leading non-partisan veterans empowerment
organization representing the Post-9/11 generation of veterans, released
a poll of its members. The poll, conducted from February 7th to 8th
over a 24 hour period, shared how veterans view the proposal:
“It
is clear that our community has strong opinions on this issue. Their
voices are critical and must be heard. We hope leaders in the Pentagon
and White House will listen to our members—especially in these decisive
and overly-politicized times,” said Paul Rieckhoff, Founder and CEO of IAVA. “We,
as much as anyone, are committed to honoring and empowering our
military and veterans—and that starts by listening. Most of all, our
members believe America should honor and support our military and
veterans everyday, and in the ways and times we need it most. Guided by
our dynamic and diverse membership, IAVA has plenty of important
recommendations for how to do it in our annual Policy Agenda. We
encourage all lawmakers, members of the media, and our fellow citizens
to spend some time reading this playbook for how we believe our country
can support us most effectively, on the issues we care about the most.”
Here's the thing about the above, they issued that in Chump's first term. On February 8, 2018.
Chump didn't throw them a parade, still hasn't, but is again having a public tantrum because he wants a military parade at his birthday party. Now he didn't like the military enough to serve. He lied to get out of serving during Vietnam -- those nasty bone spurs remember -- that apparently healed through magic and now he can golf every weekend with no problem. And he doesn't care enough about veterans to protect them from his DOGE program. But he wants to use them fo rhis birthday because that's how selfish and stupid he truly is.
Next topic.
Another one bites the Chump? Apparently another one's gone and another one's gone, another one bites the Chump. Despite vowing full speed ahead on his insane tariffs on Tuesday, yesterday saw Chump back off.
The
Trump Administration’s tariff policy, which was announced a week ago
today, has started to hit the presidency somewhere that he cares about:
His approval rating.
Enough, in fact, that Trump on Wednesday announced a drop to 10 percent on most of the non-China tariffs.
That’s according to a new The Economist/YouGov Poll, taken between April 5 and 8 — entirely after the tariffs were announced — and released on Wednesday Up
at the top, the poll finds that Trump has an approval rating of 43
percent, compared to 54 percent unfavorable, although if it’s any
consolation for the president, Vice President J.D. Vance’s approval
rating is just 38 percent, while Elon Musk comes in at 40 percent.
[. . .]
The
poll also finds that 54 percent of respondents see things in America as
“off on the wrong track,” while 35 percent say the nation is “Generally
headed in the right direction,” while 12 percent answered “not sure.”
That's
not a surprise. And even an idiot should have seen it coming. One
idiot didn't. As Ann points out Michigan Governor Gretch The Wretch
Whitmer spent yesterday making nice with Chump about tariffs:
Corrupt as can be and she makes my grifter beat for that and for this nonsense:
Michigan
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivered a speech emphasizing points of
agreement with President Donald Trump on economic policy, just hours
before their scheduled meeting — a reflection of the high-profile
Democrat’s more diplomatic approach toward the president as her party
ramps up its attacks on him.
Framed by Whitmer
as a “blueprint for success,” her lengthy “Build, America, Build”
address called for bipartisan cooperation to boost American
manufacturing. While she offered soft criticism of the president, she
also underscored shared priorities.
Does
the wretch not know how to work with her own party? She's a Democrat.
Does she not get how hard Maria Cantwell, Patty Murray, Elizabeth
Warren, Richard Blumenthal, Mark Warner and others are fighting against
these tariffs to help the American people?
And
the wretch wants to throw a wrench into all of that? She's not a
Democrat, she's Gretch-ite -- out for Gretch and only Gretch. She
really is hideous.
What
an idiot, what a backstabber. There are times -- and people don't
always get this -- when a politician may take a stand you disagree
with. If it's consistent with who they are, you should be able to
respect it.
Former
Senator Russ Feingold should have gone on to become a president of the
United States. He was a great politician and a number of us tried to
talk him into running for the 2016 nomination. Had he been in the Senate
this year, he would have made a lot of Democrats angry because he
would've voted for Chump's nominees. He felt, at least when he was in
the Senate (and when the nominees might be problematic but weren't as
ridiculous as Chump's nominees) that you voted to confirm the Cabinet
appointees to give the president the staff he wanted.
I disagreed with that but I understood where he was coming from and never held it against him.
But
Gretch The Wretch? She has no ethics and she has no party loyalty.
Ann's right, how dare she undermine the party with her nonsense kiss
assery.
President
Donald Trump's budget plan likely won't pass its House vote Wednesday
afternoon. That's because several GOP lawmakers will not be backing it,
including Congressman Eric Burlison (R-MO).
“I
can’t live with myself if I go back home and I added more debt and
deficits without any kind of correction whatsoever,” Burlison told the
New York Times. “I couldn’t live with myself.”
The
former state lawmaker successfully advocated for the Show-me State's
Legislature to seek an amendment to require a balanced budget.
Burlison
is not the only republican who has yet to come around and agree with
President Trump's budget plan within the halls of Congress.
Yes,
the mutiny was coming. And would expose just how weak Chump truly is.
(Some would argue by yet again waffling on his plan, Chump exposed
himself as a weakingly.) But while the hard work of We The People was
paying off, there's Gretch backstabbing our party, tossing him a life
line, embarrassing the country. That wretch does not belong on a
national ticket. She demonstrated that this week. When she feels the
need to make nice with the GOP, she can take that sentiment into the
bedroom with her Republican second husband.
Here's Rachel Maddow addressing the topic last night on MSNBC.
Here for Paul Krugman's take on Chump's semi-reversal. On THE 11TH HOUR WITH STEPHANIE RUHLE, there was a very strong discussion but MSNBC hasn't posted the video online.
At any rate, Americans take to the street, US senators stand up -- even some Republicans -- and Gretch The Wretch goes with appeasement? Not only was that a betrayal it was damn stupid. If she'd waited a few hours even she would have grasped what an idiot she was about to make of herself with her cowardly acquiescence.
In
the latest twist of political theater, 'Forrest Trump' reminded the
world that "stupid is, as stupid does," as he paused his economically
reckless tariff crusade for 90 days.
In the
movies Tom Hank's famous character was shown to have far more business
acumen than the US leader. But Donald Trump has once again proven that
his self-proclaimed genius is little more than a hollow myth built on
bluster and bankruptcy.
And
now, in a humiliating climbdown, he has announced a 90-day pause on his
disastrous trade war - a desperate face-saving exercise cloaked as
strategy.
Americans
have taken to social media to share stories about their MAGA-supporting
neighbors removing their merchandise in recent weeks, with some even
flying an upside-down Trump flag, a symbol typically associated with
distress.
Reddit user GimmeSumCredit shared a
photo in r/pics of a red, upside-down Trump flag captured on the way to
work. Thousands of Redditors chimed in with similar instances of family,
friends and neighbors who have seemingly turned their back on President
Donald Trump by removing MAGA merchandise.
Again, everyone could read the writing on the wall, everyone but Gretch The Wretch. At BUSINESS INSIDER, Katherine Li charts the downfall market effects on some of Chump's biggest donors:
Since
Trump's April 2 "Liberation Day" announcement of a 10% blanket tariff
on all countries, on top of additional tariffs on certain countries, the
stock market has experienced heavy losses in a matter of days.
Here
is how much eight companies lost in share value since Trump's
inauguration day as of market close on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, according
to Yahoo Finance.
APPLE
Percentage of share decline since January 21: -23%
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, personally donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee and attended the ceremony.
Trump took credit for Apple's plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the US over the next four years.
AMAZON
Percentage of share decline since January 21: -26%
Jeff
Bezos, the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and founder of Blue
Origin, praised Trump for an "extraordinary political comeback and
decisive victory" after Trump won the election.
Amazon donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration committee, and Bezos also attended the inauguration.
GOOGLE
Percentage of share decline since January 21: -27%
Google donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund.
In
addition to attending Trump's inauguration, Sundar Pichai, Google's
CEO, also congratulated Trump on his election win and said, "We are in a
golden age of American innovation."
Let's move over to the topic of crime. Eva Royer. The devoted Donald Chump supporter is in the news -- for all the wrong reasons. MD Mack (LATIN TIMES) explains:
A Republican political committee member in Texas was arrested for election fraud while wearing a shirt that read "Ban Democrat Chairs," following allegations she falsified residency documents.
Eva
Royer, a member of the Hood County Republican Party, filed to run for
Granbury City Council on August 19, 2024, according to an official Facebook post. However, Texas election law requires candidates to live within city limits for at least six months before filing.
Royer claimed nearly three years of residency, but evidence later
surfaced showing she had only recently changed her address in July—and
that the property she listed was being operated as an Airbnb.
Authorities
say Royer's listed address wasn't her primary residence, but rather a
short-term rental owned by her real estate brokerage, for which she had
paid hotel occupancy taxes.
Here's a longer report from FACEBOOK:
Hood County Breaking News!
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Eva Royer withdraws her City Of Granbury City Council application due to falsification of offical government documents and voter fraud allegations.
### **List of Facts**
1. **Residency Requirement Violation**: Eva Royer filed to run for city council on August 19, 2024. State law and local charter regulations mandate that candidates must have been residents for at least six months prior to the filing date, meaning she would need to have been a resident since February 19, 2024.
2. **Falsification of Application**: On her official application, Eva Royer claimed she had been a resident for 2 years and 9 months, which is alleged to be falsification of a government document and potentially election fraud—a felony offense. According to election offical Stephanine Cooper via an open records request Eva Royer changed her address July 12. In May of 2024 Councilman Vale announced he would not seek reelection due to moving after his term was up in Novemeber.
3. **Airbnb Property**: The address she listed is allegedly owned by her brokerage as an Airbnb property, which has been actively rented out based on customer reviews and listings. Additionally, she has been paying hotel occupancy tax (HOT) to the city of Granbury for this property.
4. **Previous Voting Behavior**: In the March primary, she voted using an address where she presumably lived with her significant other, Tim Bolton, on Ravenswood in Pecan Plantation, which is outside the city limits. This action further suggests potential voter fraud.
5. **Withdrawal of Candidacy**: After a special city council meeting was called to address the situation, Eva Royer withdrew her candidacy, indicating awareness of the fraudulent nature of her actions.
6. **Role in Hood County Republican Party**: Eva Royer is a member of the Hood County Republican Party committee for events and fundraisers. Given the seriousness of her alleged actions, you express concerns about her trustworthiness in handling party funds.
7. **City Council Approval**: On July 23, 2024, Eva Royer received approval from the city council for her Airbnb property.
8. **Concerns with Party Leadership**: You raise broader concerns about the Hood County Republican Party's leadership, mentioning previous endorsements of individuals with serious allegations, and now a potential fraud.
### **Suggested Remedies**
1. **Contact the Hood County Sheriff’s Office**: Report the alleged voter fraud and election fraud for legal investigation and possible prosecution. Correction might be GPD. Reporting to both not a bad idea! I have sample.letters for all
2. **Report to the Texas Real Estate Commission**: File a complaint against Eva Royer for violating professional standards as a realtor.
3. **Contact Greg Harrell, Hood County Republican Party Chairman**: Urge the removal of Eva Royer from her position within the party due to her involvement in the alleged fraud.
4. **Remember at the Voting Booth**: When you vote this November, remember that Tim Bolton, her significant other and a candidate for school board, was undoubtedly aware of Eva Royer’s fraudulent actions.
### **Closing Statement**
This is not about "cancel culture" but about maintaining integrity within our democracy, which Eva Royer has allegedly disregarded. Election fraud is a serious crime and should be treated as such.
If you need the specific contact information for the Sheriff’s Office, Real Estate Commission, or Greg Harrell, please let me know.
The GOP keeps insisting they're trying to protect the vote and their actions keep demonstrating that they're just trying to cheat.
Will she be going to jail? Let's hope so. And if she does, it can be a learning experience for her. Why, just a few weeks ago, she Tweeted:
EVA ROYER
@TheEvaRoyer
·
Mar 3
Prison can offer true change and second chances! @TDCJ
programs at the O’Daniel Unit with @GatewayPeople
Prison Ministries and @KCBI
are real trailblazers…by launching the Ladies of “The Tank” Radio Station inside.
BIG THANK YOU for joining us @DrindaRandall
our @TexasGOP
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Prison can offer true change, Eva, and let's hope you get a chance to find out.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:
ICYMI:
Senator Murray Statement on Trump Plans to Freeze Tens of Millions in
Title X Family Planning Funds for Planned Parenthood, Other
Organizations
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray
(D-WA), a senior member and former chair of the Senate Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Tina Smith (D-MN), and
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reintroduced the Expanding Access to Family Planning Act,
a bill that would safeguard funding for Title X – the country’s only
federal program dedicated to providing family planning and preventive
health services, including birth control, cancer screenings, testing for
sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and reproductive health care –
following attacks on the program by the Trump Administration last week.
Title X clinics serve 4 million people annually,
and in 2023 alone, more than 1.5 million visits to Planned Parenthood
health centers were made possible by the program. The bill is co-led in
the House of Representatives by Representative Sharice Davids (D,
KS-03), Judy Chu (D, CA-28) and Dina Titus (D, NV-01).
“For more than 50 years, Title X funding has helped women
across the U.S. get cancer screenings, contraception, pregnancy tests,
STI treatment, and so many other services that are critical to helping
women—especially women with the tightest budgets—stay healthy and plan
their futures,” said Senator Murray. “I’m proud to co-lead the Expanding Access to Family Planning Act—this
legislation would give Title X reliable annual funding to provide
reproductive health care to more people, meeting a growing need for
these vital services. As the Trump administration does everything they
can to attack Title X and rip away women’s ability to receive basic
health care, Democrats will keep fighting back to protect a woman’s
right to make her own decisions about her body and her future.”
“We are at a time when Americans’ reproductive freedoms are
under attack from extremist Republicans – which makes the Title X Family
Planning Program more important than ever,” said Senator Smith. “Title
X funding provides American women with access to critical reproductive
health services. I invite my Republican colleagues who claim to champion
family planning services to join us in supporting this commonsense
legislation that will protect women’s access to life-saving services and
birth control, pregnancy counseling, infertility services, and more.”
“The Title X program saves lives by making sure people have
access to affordable cancer screenings, STI testing, birth control, and
pregnancy tests,” said Senator Warren. “While the Trump administration puts women’s health at risk, Democrats are fighting back.”
The Expanding Access to Family Planning Act is even more crucial as the Trump Administration recently froze millions
of dollars in already-appropriated Title X funding, impacting 16
organizations across several states. Planned Parenthood affiliates have
lost access to as much as $3 million annually — resources they rely on
to serve tens of thousands of patients each year. According to the
Guttmacher Institute, the freeze could impact access
to care for up to 1.25 million people, many of whom are low-income,
people of color, or live in medically underserved communities.
“In Kansas and across the country, people are being turned
away from the only places they can afford to get basic, lifesaving
reproductive care — all because the Trump Administration is playing
politics with their health,” said Representative Davids. “This
bill protects trusted providers and ensures access to cancer
screenings, birth control, and STI testing, no matter your income, where
you live, or how you vote.”
“The Trump Administration is denying women across Nevada and
the U.S. the freedom to make decisions about their own bodies and their
families’ futures,” said Representative Titus. “By
fully funding family planning services, we can protect their rights to
access lifesaving preventive care, birth control, and other reproductive
health services at a time when these freedoms are under constant
attack.”
Specifically, The Expanding Access to Family Planning Act would:
Guarantee stable, annual funding for Title X
$512 million annually for 10 years, addressing the current funding shortfall and ensuring access to essential services.
$50 million in mandatory funding for clinic construction, renovations, and infrastructure improvements.
Protect providers like Planned Parenthoodfrom being excluded, as seen under the Trump Administration’s so-called “domestic gag rule.”
Reinstate regulations prohibiting discrimination against providers
who offer Title X services, ensuring continuity of care for patients.
Provide information related to prenatal care, delivery,
infant care, foster care, adoption, and pregnancy termination — unless a
patient opts out of receiving information on certain options.
Senator Murray has consistently fought to strengthen and preserve the Title X program, and was a vocal critic of
the first Trump Administration’s Title X gag rule and countless other
efforts to undermine reproductive health care. Early in 2019, Senator
Murray released a memo highlighting
some of the negative impacts of the rule and comments from patients,
providers, city and county officials, and religious organizations
submitted in opposition. Senator Murray is also a longtime leader in
the fight to protect and expand access to reproductive health care and
abortion rights, and she has led Congressional efforts to fight back
after the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Murray has introducedmorethan a dozen pieces of legislation to protect reproductive rights from further attacks, protect providers, and help ensure women get the care they need; Murray has led efforts to push for passage of these bills on the floor multiple times. Murray also led her colleagues in
raising the alarm about the threat a second Trump administration poses
to reproductive rights and abortion access in every state, as outlined in Project 2025.
The full text of the Expanding Access to Family Planning Act is HERE.
