Something to remember as we're on the
verge of the weekend, "Sweeping taxes on imports have cost the average
American household nearly $1,200 since Donald Trump returned to the
White House this year, according to calculations by Democrats on
Congress' Joint Economic Committee," reports Paul Wiseman (AP). Daniel Orton (NEWSWEEK) notes:
Republican
voters are growing noticeably less confident in Donald Trump’s economic
stewardship, a troubling shift for a president who has long cast
himself as the party’s chief dealmaker and financial fixer.
A
new AP-NORC poll shows GOP approval of Trump’s handling of the economy
has dropped 9 points since March—from 78 percent then to 69 percent
now—as overall public approval of his economic agenda sinks to a record
low of 31 percent. The erosion suggests that frustration with persistent
inflation, concern over Trump’s escalating tariff strategy, and
pessimism about the pace of economic recovery are cutting into his
base’s support.
Ben notes the polling numbers this morning on MEIDASTOUCH NEWS.
And despite those and other realities,
Chump's trying to renamed the Republican party to Tpublican. Is that
pronounced T-P-ublican for toilet paper? Adam Lynch notes:
Former
Illinois Lt. Gov. Bob Kustra (R) says he is surprised President Donald
Trump is mulling naming the Republican Party after himself at a time
when the party should be going out of its way to avoid him.
“Some
will write off Trump’s ruminations about changing the name to
‘Tpublican’ ... as another of his egomaniacal rants to distract the
media from learning about playboy Trump’s earlier years with Jeffrey
Epstein,” said Kustra. “Yet, few believed Trump would tear down the
entire East Wing of the White House to create a Mar-a-Lago North."
“This
is the American president who has plastered the Oval Office with gold,
now converted to the Trump family cash register with real estate deals
and crypto scams ringing up sales for the billionaire family,” Kustra
added. “Most Americans would not expect a sitting president to approve a
new dollar coin with his portrait on it, but it is in the planning
stages. There seems no end to Trump disgracing the office of the
presidency with his monumental ego and tacky taste.”
Instead,
Kustra argued Trump’s latest attempt to stamp his name on the party
ought to be the spark that finally “ignites a serious reconsideration of
just what the Republican Party stands for and what the future holds
for” the GOP.
Turning
to that wet mess Pete Hegseth
Before he was facing allegations of War
Crimes but after he was a TV personality, Secretary of Defense Pete was
using his blabber mouth in texts -- a non-secure text -- and blabbing
all the plans of when to bomb. Those actions were supposed to result in
serious reviews. Oops! Wet mess Hegseth cut a few corners yet
again. Zachary Cohen and Haley Britzky (CNN) report:
The
Pentagon did not conduct a routine investigation into the impact of
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s disclosure of sensitive military
information in a group chat on Signal
earlier this year and whether it damaged national security – in part
because Hegseth never authorized it, according to multiple sources
familiar with the matter.
A
classification review and damage assessment would typically be
initiated following any unauthorized disclosure of sensitive defense
information, in part, to examine whether sources and methods or ongoing
US military and intelligence operations have been compromised in a way
that would require mitigation.
Hegseth did not
order an assessment, two former senior officials who were working at the
Pentagon at the time and a current US official with knowledge of the
situation said.
After the Signal messages came
to light, Hegseth, instead turned his attention inward and focused on
formally investigating suspected leakers on his own staff, even
threatening to polygraph defense officials he believed were disclosing
potentially embarrassing details about him, multiple current and former
officials said. Those threats had a “chilling effect” among DoD
officials who became increasingly wary of doing anything that could be
perceived by Hegseth as an attempt to undercut him, according to those
officials.
Let's
stop for a moment because what Hegseth did was wrong. I know it. You
know it. But Pam da Bimbo Bondi doesn't know it. She's an idiot.
And what's even sadder? That doesn't make her stand out in this administration because there are so very many idiots.
This
week da Bimbo Bondi raged to the press about how 'activist judges' were
hurting the country. No, Pammy, you and the other idiots are hurting
the country. Don't become Attorney General of the United States when
you're both an idiot and a serial liar.
Earlier this week, UPI quoted da Bimbo:
Bondi
then posted on X: "Following the flawed Third Circuit decision
disqualifying Alina Habba from performing her duties in the U.S.
Attorney's office for the District of New Jersey, I am saddened to
accept Alina's resignation. The Department of Justice will seek further
review of this decision, and we are confident it will be reversed. Alina
intends to return to lead the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District
of New Jersey if this occurs."
Farrah Tomazin (THE DAILY BEAST) quoted that and the following:
“The
court ruling has made it untenable for her to effectively run her
office with politicized judges, pausing trials designed to bring violent
criminals to justice.
“These judges should not
be able to countermand the president‘s choice of attorneys entrusted
with carrying out the executive branch’s core responsibility of
prosecuting crime.”
Pam is a highly stupid woman.
The judges are doing their job: Judicial Review. Do we need to hire a
tutor for Pam? If we did, would she just try to seduce her tutor?
Every
administration requires judicial review. Most of the time, when
judicial review finds something wrong you can consider it an innocent
mistake. There are no innocent mistakes in the Chump administration.
Which makes judicial review all the more important.
Alina
Habba, by the way, is what had da Bimbo so bent out of shape. Habba
did not quit this week. Habba did not have a job. The court ruled it.
So all she did was comply with a court order and that should have been
the headline: Someone In The Trump Administration complies with a court
order finally. But instead the press offered headlines like "Habba
Quits" -- no, she wasn't quitting. They, the administration, were
breaking the rules. She did not get confirmation -- because of her
problems as a Kurd with a family back in Iraq linked to violence -- and
the Turkish government has said terrorism -- from the
Senate. She's inexperienced and was put in place for a limited amount
of time. Per the law you can do that.
But
her days were up. And then some. And Pam Bondi, the bimbo playing at
Attorney General, ignored the law and tried to keep her in place.
Activists judge, da Bimbo, try unqualified Attorney General.
And time to talk about another of your 'brilliant' employees, da Bimbo. Remember Lindsey
Halligan? She was completely unqualified. "Chump wanted her!" You're
the Attorney General and should have pointed out she wasn't qualified.
Having
failed at that, Pammy, you failed further by letting her appear before
her first grand jury alone. Did you not understand that, Pam?
We've
all made jokes about Hiligan but, da Bimbo, you are the AG, having gone
along with making this unqualified person an AG, you damn well should
have held her hand and walked her through. You've been allowed to
define your duties which just goes to how lousy a president Chump is.
You are reckless and you are offensive. And when you're gone people in
law schools will never stop laughing at you.
You've
made clear that you are highly and overly concerned about your looks
but you don't see to give a damn about the Constitution. And, I know
we've already pointed this out once again, but for the Attorney General
of the United States to reference hate speech laws and not grasp that's
Canada in North American, not the United States? What the hell do you
even know about our country's history?
You
will forever be mocked for your tantrum in front of the Senate and for
showing up with a notebook of pre-written insults and accusations --
accusations that weren't correct. You got on your high horse at one
point to tell Adam Schiff that he couldn't understand what you do
because you are a lawyer and -- And you were shocked to discover that he
is an attorney. Now as I noted in the snapshot covering that hearing, I
didn't know Adam had been an attorney. But here's the difference, I
didn't sit in front of cameras and insult him for not being an attorney
when he was in fact an attorney.
How stupid are you, Pam? Seriously, how stupid are you? You prepared that attack ahead of time, wrote it out ahead of time.
And yet you didn't even have the facts right?
And you think your actions don't require judicial review?
You aren't just an idiot, Pam, you're a f**king idiot. ATLANTA BLACK STAR NEWS explains:
Attorney
General Pam Bondi barreled into controversy on Thursday when she walked
straight into a reporter’s trap and tried to match President Donald
Trump’s signature rage—only to unleash a tirade so over-the-top it
immediately raised questions about how far she’s willing to go for him.
What
should have been a routine Fox News appearance turned into a
constitutional faceplant as Bondi began echoing Trump’s attacks on
critics and threatening consequences for anyone who crossed them.
It
happened during an interview on “Fox & Friends,” where a leading
question about progressive backlash to Trump’s National Guard
deployments sent Bondi into a spiraling monologue.
Instead
of answering, she launched into a sweeping denunciation of unnamed
“lawmakers” and “news anchors,” accusing them of endangering the country
and hinting the administration was now scrutinizing “everything they
have said.”
[. . .]
They should be praising our men and women in law enforcement,” she demanded.
“And
we are looking at everything they have said and why they said it and if
they encouraged acts of violence,” the attorney general firmly
threatened.
“But it is, it’s actually sad what
our country has come to with these progressive left idiots,” she added
in an elevated tone and emphasized speech.
No, dear, what is sad is that a dumb and unqualified bimbo is now our Attorney General.
“I’ve
never liked her, but this is just laughable and sad. Like, is she ok?
It’s so unserious and lacks any sort of power. Is she high? Is she
drunk? Has her soul left her body? This does not seem like a human,”
this Threads user wondered.
The
whole country laughs at you. And you've never understood Ka$h so let
me explain him to you: One way or another, he will bury you. And it
will be the most hilarious thing in the world to watch.
In
the meantime we register your attacks on six members of Congress for
stating the law -- it is illegal to follow unlawful orders. You have
attacked them and lied about them. Yet? Let's turn it over to Adam Liptak (NEW YORK TIMES):
When
six Democratic lawmakers issued a video last month telling members of
the military that they must refuse unlawful orders, President Trump said
they had committed “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
But
Pam Bondi, the attorney general, said the same thing as the lawmakers
last year in a friend-of-the-court brief in the Supreme Court as a
lawyer for the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank
that represented three former military leaders.
“Military officers are required not to carry out unlawful orders,” she wrote.
She
elaborated: “The military would not carry out a patently unlawful order
from the president to kill nonmilitary targets. Indeed, service members
are required not to do so.”
The brief was
filed in support of Mr. Trump, who was asking the Supreme Court to grant
him immunity from prosecution on charges of trying to subvert the 2020
election. It was, more specifically, an effort to address a statement by
one of Mr. Trump’s private lawyers, D. John Sauer, now the solicitor
general, at an appeals court argument in January 2024.
See? You're unfit for your job, you're unfit for any job, pretty much.
When
I think of the battles Janet Reno had to fight -- and win -- in order
for women to be taken seriously as the Attorney General of the United
States only for us to end up with you, I just shake my head in
disbelief over Pam's lazy and ignorant approach to the law.
A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., declined on Thursday to indict Letitia James, the New York attorney general, the second time in a week that jurors had rejected the effort — a rebuke of President Trump’s bid to order up prosecutions against his political enemies.
The jury refused to charge Ms. James, who had brought a civil case against Mr. Trump, in connection with making false claims on a mortgage application, according to people familiar with the matter, exactly one week after another set of jurors did the same.
The back-to-back failures by prosecutors to secure an indictment amounted to a striking rejection of the administration’s retribution campaign. It highlighted the Justice Department’s unusual strategy of pursuing second indictments despite earlier failures in court and suggested the department would face major hurdles in bringing charges against President Trump’s foes.
da Bimbo, your department is a joke. And if you yourself are not the biggest joke in the administration, it's due to the fact that the administration also includes Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, Robert Kennedy Junior, Tom Homan and so many other idiots and fools. In fact, let's catch up on the H*A*R*L*O*T of Homeland Security. Because she was at a Congressional hearing yesterday. And at that hearing? She made news for all the wrong things.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem brought her husband Bryon to her grilling on Capitol Hill after a report that Donald Trump is considering firing the top administration official over her problematic alleged lover.
Noem showed up before the House Committee on Homeland Security with members of her family in attendance on Thursday.
One person who did not appear to be in the hearing room: Corey Lewandowski.
Lewandowski has been referred to as the secretary’s “gatekeeper,” and their alleged affair has been referred to as Washington, D.C.’s “worst-kept secret.”
“I
have my husband Bryon, who’s with me, and also two of my children,”
Noem shared in her opening statement. She noted that her daughters’
husbands and one grandchild had also joined her there.
Bryon Noem was also in attendance, sitting just behind Noem, as she testified on Capitol Hill in May.
Byron Noem was spotted? Well thank goodness for that, he was becoming the most noted missing person since Shelly Miscavige.
As Nicole Wallaces noted on MS NOW yesterday, Kristi ducked on the hearing but not before making clear that she intended to continue deporting veterans.
And grasp that she refused to acknowledge the service veterans of the military have contributed to this country.
Let's go back to Pete, then one more topic so we can wrap up this morning. THE DAILY BEAST notes:
The
secret adviser who is guiding Pentagon Pete Hegseth’s hardline
“warrior” approach to the U.S. military is a retired colonel with a
controversial past, The Swamp can reveal.
Michael
Steele, who led the 3rd Brigade, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st
Airborne Division, has been described by Hegseth as a “certified bad
a--.” But while his men adored him, Steele, now 65, was regarded with
suspicion by his superiors for his uncompromising approach.
The
“Screaming Eagles” commander, who led the 1993 U.S. mission in
Mogadishu immortalized in the book and movie, Black Hawk Down, is
infamous in Army circles for his tough-as-nails approach and was said to
have inspired the use of “kill boards” for troops to tally how many
enemy soldiers they killed.
It may come as no
surprise that Hegseth’s military posturing is heavily based on his
fanboy admiration for his old boss. Hegseth was a platoon leader under
Steele. In his 2014 book, The War on Warriors, the Pentagon chief wrote
of his former boss: “He suffered no fools. If you engaged the enemy and
destroyed it under his command, you got a ‘kill coin’.”
[. . .]
The
idea that Steele is now playing a key role in reshaping the U.S. forces
in his image will shock many—even those within the military—because he
left under a cloud after four of his men were charged with murdering
unarmed Iraqis. In sworn statements, members of a combat unit under
Steele’s command claimed at a military hearing in 2006 that he “ordered
them to kill all military-age males.” Steele denied giving the order and
was never charged, but he was formally reprimanded.
A
clue to Hegseth’s loyalty to his hero was revealed in a dig he made
after getting all his generals to travel to Quantico so he could lecture
them about warcraft in September. He specifically called out retired
U.S. Army General Peter Chiarelli, Steele’s nemesis—the senior officer
who reprimanded him over the “kill order” deaths. “The new compass
heading is clear—out with the Chiarellis, the McKenzies, and the
Milleys. And in with the Stockdales, the Schwarzkopfs, and the Pattons,”
Hegseth told the generals.
Gen
Peter Chiarelli had more awareness and wisdom in deep sleep than Hegseth has at anytime during the day -- even before he starts one of his drunken benders. Asleep. Chiarelli truly
cared about the troops under his command and his desire to learn about
PTS and his efforts to champion it as PTS were praiseworthy and we noted
that in real time.
If
you're late to the party, we use PTS. It is conduction, you become
hyper aware as a result. I grasped it the first time I spoke with
veterans -- "disorder" was the wrong term and would make some not seek
treatment. So Chiarelli championed Post-Traumatic Stress and that's how
I heard of him because that's the term we were using when we spoke to
groups including veterans and service members. By removing the stigma,
you could understand what it was -- you were in a dangerous place and
your body helped keep you alive by making you hyper aware. Now that you
were back home, you just needed some help on learning how to handle
this g
Next topic?
Oh, how sweet. Just like his father, Barron Trump is drawn to sexual predators. Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell remain in the news. Yes, Donald's close friends remains in the news -- despite Epstein being dead and Maxwell vacationing behind bars. Adam Van Eekeren (EXTRA.IE) reports:
Less than six months after being transferred to a
low-security prison in Texas, sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is set to
go before a judge and request that she be released. According to a
letter from her high-powered attorney, Maxwell will represent herself in
the matter.
Former lover and accomplice to Jeffrey Epstein,
Maxwell was originally transferred from Florida to Federal Prison Camp
Bryan in August after she agreed to be interviewed by Attorney General
Todd Blanche. Previously released letters from a prison nurse revealed
that the Texas facility was treating Maxwell to a life of luxury.
It was alleged that Maxwell was being waited on ‘hand
and foot’ at Camp Bryan, even receiving ‘customized and prepared’ meals
that were delivered straight to her cell. The nurse's letter claimed
that the convicted sex trafficker was also allowed to play with a puppy
while in her cell.
Ari provided a strong overview of this Chump scandal yesterday on MS NOW.
Let's wind down with this from THE BLACK COMMENTATOR:
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