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Jimmy on some of those paying, have paid and will pay bigly to play:
President Joe Biden spent the weekend at the beach and took a terrifying stroll, Biden and Trump are scheduled to meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday to ensure a smooth peaceful transfer of power, Team Trump has missed multiple deadlines for signing the ethics pledge, we are starting to learn about the cabinet secretaries who will soon be hired and then fire by Trump including Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA, Tom Homan as Immigration Czar, Stephen Miller as Deputy Chief of Staff, and Susie Wiles as Trump’s Chief of Staff, Elon Musk has been spending all of his time at Mar-a-Lago, there has been a lot of gloating from “celebrity” Republicans, Donald Trump Jr. reposted a video mocking President Zelensky of Ukraine, Trump wrote that the NFL should get rid of the “ridiculous” new Kickoff rule, Monkeys are on the loose in South Carolina and it’s right out of a movie, more than 10,000 troops from North Korea have been deployed to Russia and have reportedly been gorging in pornography, Mattel made special dolls for the new Wicked movie and they accidentally listed the website to a porn site on the box, and we sent a team out to Hollywood Blvd to ask pedestrians about some of the most important people in history.
Attribution: Tariffs and the price of eggs by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
BB, thanks for your last thread’s comment “Brig. Gen. Harriet Tubman – American Hero with a capitol H. She was a black woman in the Union Army. Wow. She was wonderful. What an inspiration for so many people”
here’s something from that link that caught my attention:
In 2016, US Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew announced plans to have a portrait of Tubman featured on the front of the $20 bill. In 2021, the Biden administration said it was “exploring ways to speed up” the release of $20 bills featuring the abolitionist after the Trump administration delayed the move first initiated by President Barack Obama.
If put on the $20 dollar bill, Tubman will be the first African American to appear on a US banknote.
whattaya wanna bet DOTUS-elect will see fit to cancel honoring her on the $20 so he can continue honoring his favorite general, mass killer of native americans and slave owner, Andrew Jackson.
I expect he’ll discover Nathan Bedford Forrest and try to put him on the penny.
Trump picks Kristi Noem to serve as his Homeland Security secretary
DOJ Told Go MAGA Or Get Lost
Here we go, the official mission statement politicizing the Department of Justice, ending decades of independence from the president, reverting to pre-Watergate White House control.
An ominous message from Trump’s DOJ transition director, Mark Paoletta…
“If career DOJ employees won’t implement President Trump’s program in good faith, they should leave. Those employees who engage in so-called “resistance” against the duly-elected President’s lawful agenda would be subverting American democracy. Those that take such action should be subject to disciplinary measures, including termination. I look forward to President Trump’s team Making America Great Again, especially at the Department of Justice and the FBI.”
[click link for all agencies the pistol packing puppy killer will control and imagine you are or are related to an undocumented immigrant]
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/trump-congress-agenda-lame-duck/index.html
[Orange Adolf] “…won’t arrive back at the White House until January. But the president-elect will have fingerprints over every piece of the lame-duck session of Congress.
Trump and his team haven’t yet informed GOP leaders how he wants to proceed on those key issues, including the December 20 government spending deadline, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
While many Republicans would prefer Johnson strike a spending deal with Democrats during the lame-duck Congress, plenty of conservatives are urging the GOP to punt everything until Trump has the reins in 2025 – a fight that could complicate Johnson’s road to the speakership in January if Republicans hold the House.
If Republicans decide to punt on that sweeping spending package, it will cut into critical floor time, which the Senate will need to confirm Trump’s nominees next year, and could interfere with the GOP’s plans to pass a sweeping tax and economic package.
The funding fight isn’t the only outstanding issue for the end of the year. Congress faces a jam-packed to-do list of critical legislative items, including the annual defense policy bill. While members in both parties expected to finish the defense bill this year, they believe the more contentious farm bill will be pushed into 2025, according to two people close to leadership, most likely through some kind of a stopgap extension. Congress will also have to deal with the question of disaster relief for the deadly hurricanes earlier this fall.”
Hmmm, if there’s a government shutdown on December 20th, it still happens on Biden’s watch (even though it’s Adolf’s doing), but then it eats into his time in the other side. What to do? What to do?
That farm bill is gonna be an early heads-up if they follow Project 2025.
ps – Adolf’s 2018 government shutdown cost the economy about $11 billion, and that was mostly reduced spending by impacted workers. My company couldn’t get paid by clients who were filling orders for the government; this hit heavily for clients in Guam and Puerto Rico.
If the DOJ is infested with MAGAts, to Liz Cheney, Adam Kirtzinger, and others need to move abroad? Would Adolf have them extradited?
HOUSEKEEPING: In case anyone noticed our brief crash this morning and yesterday, due to higher traffic causing that I just bought some extra memory capacity (updated file permissions is the technical term).
That’s always a balancing act — need enough to handle traffic without overbuying. I’ve been plugging our comments on X and in emails a bit more lately, so traffic is up.
We still have the interesting phenomenon of so many more lurkers than commenters. I’ve been told we are intimidating to some who might otherwise join in, which seems so silly since we really are a fun and welcoming bunch.
How to create comment links:
By the way if you ever want to create links to any comment, just click the Date/Time Stamp under the author’s screen name to get the url address for that comment.
The entire administration will be a Rogues’ Gallery.
Craig, I have some places where I lurk-only for that very reason, they would eat me alive. But this is a safe place with real folks, thanks to you.
Our “humor” can be inside stuff and goes off the rails occasionally (maybe it’s just mine) but that is a minor character defect for which we readily make amends.
today’s meme…
because this is who we are… so if you’re lurking… jump right in…
Craig – I lost the house intertube over a week ago, tech is supposed to install “upgraded” router Thursday, as support told me, we (Verizon) don’t sell what you have anymore, it is obsolete”. Then, the cell phone tower was damaged by a wind blast a week ago, leaving me with very limited anything. Nice and peaceful. So the answer to your ponder is, nah I did not notice anything. I have a rig set up until I get home intertube again, but it is very limited to access the world.
HA!
Craig – You should see a donation filter through, shortly. Thanks for all you do to keep our community together.
Military To Round Up Migrants Into Camps
Incoming Trump “border czar” Tom Homan on Fox Business says “we will absolutely need the military and special ops” involved in mass detentions of migrants. https://x.com/atrupar/status/1856352692299301150
Thank you very much, BiD. Always appreciated.
“we will absolutely need the military and special ops” involved in mass detentions of migrants.
My peeps expect to be immune, i hope to god they/we are. Everybody thinks “it” won’t apply to them until it does. I have no such illusions thanks to his first go-round in the Oval Office.
Hopefully the demonstrations of depravity will be all for the shit show and then it will be quickly shut down.
Not to minimize the harm that will be done.
For those who thought they were voting for lower grocery prices wait till they find out after mass deportations lettuce is $6 a bunch.
And that’s not even the fancy stuff that will make you sick.
If I was one of the guard dogs of the border patrol agents I would be a bit nervous when Kristi comes down to inspect the border.
Wait until Project 2025 hurts farm subsidies/crop insurance. Might wanna give each other canned and dry goods for the holidays. I’ve been saving seeds all summer and will get some more. We will all need to plant WWII-type “victory gardens.”
Yep, the California part of the family who would mostly likely be profiled because they don’t look like me are all tRUMPers of the church-going variety.
How folks with advanced degrees have changed from “love thy neighbor” Christianity to everything-is-evil/end times dogma (which has nothing to do with Jesus) is beyond me. Our grandparents would be ashamed of them.
Double whammy, not only will they not be here to pick the lettuce, you won’t want to pay the cost of the lettuce you’re not getting.
Time for victory gardens and backyard chickens.
My Normandy uncle brought home a “rescue dog” surrendered by a German officer. We kids hated that dog, meanest thing ever.
He kept it going and somehow there were puppies and those were no nicer.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., has called Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who President-elect Donald Trump is expected to tap to serve as secretary of state, a “strong choice” for the cabinet-level role.
“Unsurprisingly, the other team’s pick will have political differences than my own,” Fetterman wrote in a post on X. “That being said, my colleague @SenMarcoRubio is a strong choice and I look forward to voting for his confirmation.”
If Rubio does take on the job next year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will be able to appoint a temporary replacement to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat until a special election is held for the seat.
* Do I feel a tiny bit calmer by Fetterman’s reaction? Not sure.
Question: Since Orange Adolf is not one to forgive, and since Little Marco made fun of Adolf’s tiny hands and disagreed with him on many past policies, and since Adolf’s last cabinet had a revolving door…did Adolf get Rubio to give up his Senate seat just so he can then fire him as SOS and leave him unemployed…and maybe unemployable in MAGAtland?
I’ve never worked for somebody who shot their puppy in the face, so let’s start there,” Psaki said. “I’ve also never worked for somebody who’s lied about a foreign leader they’ve met with.” Psaki said that only a handful of people have met with Kim. “It’s very knowable,” Psaki said.
Noem wrote in the book that when she served in the House Armed Services Committee during her time as a congresswoman is when she met him. “I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. I’m sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants (I’d been a children’s pastor, after all).”
*Ladies and gentlemen, Your Secretary of Homeland Security: Puppy killer, liar, and hater of children (as is the norm in church?), Kristi Noem.
No Landslide
Votes still being counted, but Trump is on track for the smallest margin in the popular vote (in percentage-point terms) by a winning candidate since Jimmy Carter 48 years ago:
—2024: Trump, +2.2 percentage-point difference.
—2020: Biden, +4.4.
—2016: Clinton (lost), +2.1.
—2012: Obama, +3.9.
—2008: Obama, +7.2.
—2004: Bush, +2.4.
—2000: Gore (lost), +0.5.
—1996: Clinton, +8.5.
—1992: Clinton, +5.6.
—1988: Bush, +7.8.
—1984: Reagan, +18.2.
—1980: Reagan, +9.7.
—1976: Carter, +2.1.
Doug Jones also gave lil’ Marco the 👍
But will he have to stop selling fake back pain medicine?
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee named U.S. ambassador to Israel.
Surely Huckleberry won’t be pushing born again Christianity on the children of Moses.
Should have made it a dual ambassadorship, Huck and spawn huck of governor seat.
And the world goes on.
From the military news website, Task and Purpose
The airstrikes struck nine targets in two locations in Syria that were “associated with Iranian groups,” U.S. Central Command said.
The U.S. military’s latest airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups in Syria underscores how difficult it has become to get basic information about American forces deployed to the Middle East. U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, announced on Monday that the airstrikes were “in response to several attacks on U.S. personnel in Syria over the last 24 hours.”
This was the first time that U.S. military officials had acknowledged that American service members in Syria had been attacked recently.
On Monday, a defense official told Task & Purpose that no U.S. service members had been wounded in the attacks and all American troops in the region have been accounted for, but the official declined to specify when and where the attacks in Syria had taken place.
I was “frozen out” for most of the afternoon. Glad we’re all back.
Evangelical support of Israel is about themselves. They still hate Jews.
Ivy – You are correct. They have to do their part to trigger the second coming of Jesus. Faithless, anti-semitic, white supremacists.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/climate/methane-rule-biden-trump/index.html
The Environmental Protection Agency just finalized one of the Biden administration’s only outstanding climate rules, aimed at cracking down on leaks of methane — a potent planet-warming gas with an outsized impact on the climate.
The rule, proposed nearly a year ago, was mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act, which could make it more difficult for the second Trump administration to dismantle.
The new rule charges high-emitting oil and gas producers a fee for wasting methane above a certain threshold by venting or flaring it into the atmosphere instead of capturing it. The methane fee will be charged by the federal government until the companies fix the leaks.
This fee was paired with financial incentives for oil and gas companies to fix leaky pipelines or infrastructure.
The rule could prove tricky for the incoming Trump administration to overturn because the program was included in Biden’s climate law, which passed Congress in 2022. Undoing it would take another act of Congress; while not impossible if Republicans take the House of Representatives, it could be an uphill climb and take longer than if the Trump administration were acting on its own.”
*Couldn’t Adolf, in this instance or any other, issue an EO until it can be undone?
*Same for Adolf’s underlings doing his bidding. He writes an EO for “whatever the hell he wants” to do, including the military, and they carry it out because SCOTUS gave him total immunity, and he can bring them up on charges and/or fire them if they don’t comply?
He names a FOX TV host Secretary of Defense — Pete Hegseth
They have to do their part to trigger the second coming of Jesus.
BID, they lack faith that God can do His job without their “help.”
It wouldn’t need to be called “crypto” if it was any good.
None of these folks will last very long. Then it can be Fox’s Fault.
Haven’t heard many peeps from Martin O’Malley since he was the commencement speaker at my post-grad graduation.
Democrats, reeling from the sting of losing the White House again to Donald Trump, may be looking for a new leader for the national party, and that person could be former Maryland Governor and Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley.
O’Malley, who currently serves as Social Security Administration commissioner under President Joe Biden, is one of several Democrats who have expressed interest in chairing the Democratic National Committee, according to sources familiar with O’Malley’s activity and who were granted anonymity to speak freely.
The former governor has been “ramping up his outreach” regarding his potential candidacy and the feedback he’s received so far has been “encouraging,” one source said. If O’Malley were to enter the race, he would need likely need to do so in early- to mid-December and would have to first resign his role as as Social Security Administration commissioner — something he plans to do either way before Trump takes office, the sources said.
“Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead new ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ in Trump administration”
“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump said in a statement.
The statement quoted Musk as saying that “this will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!”
Elon and Vivek to run the Department of Government Efficiency
The various media, especially those complicit is pushing the sfb campaign, are now putting the stables together of the next sets of Dems who could be running in 2028 (if we still have elections). They want to start the horse race now. I am not going to bother with all the names, we have plenty of time for that later on.
There is one name which is often listed, Wes Moore gov of Maryland. He is going to be a force in 2028 or 2032.
Elon, the Mighty Favog!
lol
His military review board is particularly ominous. The President has always had the ability to fire a general i.e. MacArthur. Elevating it to some sort of loyalty review hints of dictatorship.
They are privatizing the government. Welcome to the oligarchy. Everyone is on their own. Hope Elon OD’s on ketamine, and MAGAts turn on Vivek because white nationalism.
When Adolf is gone, whether it be by #25 or illness or lightning strike, is JD gonna keep the dictatorship going or are the fascists going to eat each other scrambling for power?
*Huh? Does “relied on certain forces” to win the election mean there was tampering beyond misinformation? Was that Adolf’s “secret” and why he said he already had all the votes he needed before Election Day? Now, he is obliged to withdraw aid and let Putin do “whatever the hell he wants.”
Biden is still POTUS, and SCOTUS says he is immune from everything he does as President. Biden took an oath to uphold the US Constitution, and it is clear that tRUMPsky and his MAGAt lackeys are already stepping on it, and have every intention of destroying it. (They weren’t kidding about taking away a woman’s right to vote, either.).
President Biden should direct the generals to protect our country from them, and stay in power and hold a new election.
Don’t care who it is or how it happens, but someone needs to do us a solid with Putin’s puppets.
Adolf’s deadline for Elon & Vivek to destroy the country is July 4, 2026. We had a good run. 250 years.
It’s a small world, though, and this will destroy the world economy.
If the shutdown in 2018 cost $11 billion because federal workers had no money to spend, and businesses who contract with the government couldn’t get paid in order to pay their bills, what in the eff do they think will happen when they start firing thousands of workers permanently?
I realize Elon & Asshat don’t give a flip about human cost, but it’s going to destroy the economy. The damage will trickle down from federal workers to everyone else.
Businesses will fail because their customers are now unemployed.
Don’t bother building vehicles, gas or EV; nobody will be buying cars.
No vacations; tourism fails.
Americans not traveling abroad; business overseas are impacted.
Start hoarding canned goods and toilet paper now folks, because things will be nonexistent or unaffordable.
Jimmy on some of those paying, have paid and will pay bigly to play:
President Joe Biden spent the weekend at the beach and took a terrifying stroll, Biden and Trump are scheduled to meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday to ensure a smooth peaceful transfer of power, Team Trump has missed multiple deadlines for signing the ethics pledge, we are starting to learn about the cabinet secretaries who will soon be hired and then fire by Trump including Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA, Tom Homan as Immigration Czar, Stephen Miller as Deputy Chief of Staff, and Susie Wiles as Trump’s Chief of Staff, Elon Musk has been spending all of his time at Mar-a-Lago, there has been a lot of gloating from “celebrity” Republicans, Donald Trump Jr. reposted a video mocking President Zelensky of Ukraine, Trump wrote that the NFL should get rid of the “ridiculous” new Kickoff rule, Monkeys are on the loose in South Carolina and it’s right out of a movie, more than 10,000 troops from North Korea have been deployed to Russia and have reportedly been gorging in pornography, Mattel made special dolls for the new Wicked movie and they accidentally listed the website to a porn site on the box, and we sent a team out to Hollywood Blvd to ask pedestrians about some of the most important people in history.
Attribution: Tariffs and the price of eggs by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
BB, thanks for your last thread’s comment “Brig. Gen. Harriet Tubman – American Hero with a capitol H. She was a black woman in the Union Army. Wow. She was wonderful. What an inspiration for so many people”
here’s something from that link that caught my attention:
whattaya wanna bet DOTUS-elect will see fit to cancel honoring her on the $20 so he can continue honoring his favorite general, mass killer of native americans and slave owner, Andrew Jackson.
I expect he’ll discover Nathan Bedford Forrest and try to put him on the penny.
Trump picks Kristi Noem to serve as his Homeland Security secretary
DOJ Told Go MAGA Or Get Lost
Here we go, the official mission statement politicizing the Department of Justice, ending decades of independence from the president, reverting to pre-Watergate White House control.
An ominous message from Trump’s DOJ transition director, Mark Paoletta…
https://x.com/MarkPaoletta/status/1855977334106390915
United States Department of Homeland Security – Wikipedia
[click link for all agencies the pistol packing puppy killer will control and imagine you are or are related to an undocumented immigrant]
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/trump-congress-agenda-lame-duck/index.html
[Orange Adolf] “…won’t arrive back at the White House until January. But the president-elect will have fingerprints over every piece of the lame-duck session of Congress.
Trump and his team haven’t yet informed GOP leaders how he wants to proceed on those key issues, including the December 20 government spending deadline, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
While many Republicans would prefer Johnson strike a spending deal with Democrats during the lame-duck Congress, plenty of conservatives are urging the GOP to punt everything until Trump has the reins in 2025 – a fight that could complicate Johnson’s road to the speakership in January if Republicans hold the House.
If Republicans decide to punt on that sweeping spending package, it will cut into critical floor time, which the Senate will need to confirm Trump’s nominees next year, and could interfere with the GOP’s plans to pass a sweeping tax and economic package.
The funding fight isn’t the only outstanding issue for the end of the year. Congress faces a jam-packed to-do list of critical legislative items, including the annual defense policy bill. While members in both parties expected to finish the defense bill this year, they believe the more contentious farm bill will be pushed into 2025, according to two people close to leadership, most likely through some kind of a stopgap extension. Congress will also have to deal with the question of disaster relief for the deadly hurricanes earlier this fall.”
Hmmm, if there’s a government shutdown on December 20th, it still happens on Biden’s watch (even though it’s Adolf’s doing), but then it eats into his time in the other side. What to do? What to do?
That farm bill is gonna be an early heads-up if they follow Project 2025.
ps – Adolf’s 2018 government shutdown cost the economy about $11 billion, and that was mostly reduced spending by impacted workers. My company couldn’t get paid by clients who were filling orders for the government; this hit heavily for clients in Guam and Puerto Rico.
If the DOJ is infested with MAGAts, to Liz Cheney, Adam Kirtzinger, and others need to move abroad? Would Adolf have them extradited?
HOUSEKEEPING: In case anyone noticed our brief crash this morning and yesterday, due to higher traffic causing that I just bought some extra memory capacity (updated file permissions is the technical term).
That’s always a balancing act — need enough to handle traffic without overbuying. I’ve been plugging our comments on X and in emails a bit more lately, so traffic is up.
We still have the interesting phenomenon of so many more lurkers than commenters. I’ve been told we are intimidating to some who might otherwise join in, which seems so silly since we really are a fun and welcoming bunch.
How to create comment links:
By the way if you ever want to create links to any comment, just click the Date/Time Stamp under the author’s screen name to get the url address for that comment.
The entire administration will be a Rogues’ Gallery.
Craig, I have some places where I lurk-only for that very reason, they would eat me alive. But this is a safe place with real folks, thanks to you.
Our “humor” can be inside stuff and goes off the rails occasionally (maybe it’s just mine) but that is a minor character defect for which we readily make amends.
today’s meme…
because this is who we are… so if you’re lurking… jump right in…
Craig – I lost the house intertube over a week ago, tech is supposed to install “upgraded” router Thursday, as support told me, we (Verizon) don’t sell what you have anymore, it is obsolete”. Then, the cell phone tower was damaged by a wind blast a week ago, leaving me with very limited anything. Nice and peaceful. So the answer to your ponder is, nah I did not notice anything. I have a rig set up until I get home intertube again, but it is very limited to access the world.
HA!
Craig – You should see a donation filter through, shortly. Thanks for all you do to keep our community together.
Military To Round Up Migrants Into Camps
Incoming Trump “border czar” Tom Homan on Fox Business says “we will absolutely need the military and special ops” involved in mass detentions of migrants.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1856352692299301150
Thank you very much, BiD. Always appreciated.
My peeps expect to be immune, i hope to god they/we are. Everybody thinks “it” won’t apply to them until it does. I have no such illusions thanks to his first go-round in the Oval Office.
Hopefully the demonstrations of depravity will be all for the shit show and then it will be quickly shut down.
Not to minimize the harm that will be done.
For those who thought they were voting for lower grocery prices wait till they find out after mass deportations lettuce is $6 a bunch.
And that’s not even the fancy stuff that will make you sick.
If I was one of the guard dogs of the border patrol agents I would be a bit nervous when Kristi comes down to inspect the border.
Wait until Project 2025 hurts farm subsidies/crop insurance. Might wanna give each other canned and dry goods for the holidays. I’ve been saving seeds all summer and will get some more. We will all need to plant WWII-type “victory gardens.”
Yep, the California part of the family who would mostly likely be profiled because they don’t look like me are all tRUMPers of the church-going variety.
How folks with advanced degrees have changed from “love thy neighbor” Christianity to everything-is-evil/end times dogma (which has nothing to do with Jesus) is beyond me. Our grandparents would be ashamed of them.
Double whammy, not only will they not be here to pick the lettuce, you won’t want to pay the cost of the lettuce you’re not getting.
Time for victory gardens and backyard chickens.
My Normandy uncle brought home a “rescue dog” surrendered by a German officer. We kids hated that dog, meanest thing ever.
He kept it going and somehow there were puppies and those were no nicer.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fetterman-hails-rubio-strong-choice-secretary-state-says-he-vote-confirm-him
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., has called Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who President-elect Donald Trump is expected to tap to serve as secretary of state, a “strong choice” for the cabinet-level role.
“Unsurprisingly, the other team’s pick will have political differences than my own,” Fetterman wrote in a post on X. “That being said, my colleague @SenMarcoRubio is a strong choice and I look forward to voting for his confirmation.”
If Rubio does take on the job next year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will be able to appoint a temporary replacement to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat until a special election is held for the seat.
* Do I feel a tiny bit calmer by Fetterman’s reaction? Not sure.
Question: Since Orange Adolf is not one to forgive, and since Little Marco made fun of Adolf’s tiny hands and disagreed with him on many past policies, and since Adolf’s last cabinet had a revolving door…did Adolf get Rubio to give up his Senate seat just so he can then fire him as SOS and leave him unemployed…and maybe unemployable in MAGAtland?
https://www.newsweek.com/jen-psaki-kristi-noem-kim-jong-un-1897647
I’ve never worked for somebody who shot their puppy in the face, so let’s start there,” Psaki said. “I’ve also never worked for somebody who’s lied about a foreign leader they’ve met with.” Psaki said that only a handful of people have met with Kim. “It’s very knowable,” Psaki said.
Noem wrote in the book that when she served in the House Armed Services Committee during her time as a congresswoman is when she met him. “I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. I’m sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants (I’d been a children’s pastor, after all).”
*Ladies and gentlemen, Your Secretary of Homeland Security: Puppy killer, liar, and hater of children (as is the norm in church?), Kristi Noem.
No Landslide
Votes still being counted, but Trump is on track for the smallest margin in the popular vote (in percentage-point terms) by a winning candidate since Jimmy Carter 48 years ago:
—2024: Trump, +2.2 percentage-point difference.
—2020: Biden, +4.4.
—2016: Clinton (lost), +2.1.
—2012: Obama, +3.9.
—2008: Obama, +7.2.
—2004: Bush, +2.4.
—2000: Gore (lost), +0.5.
—1996: Clinton, +8.5.
—1992: Clinton, +5.6.
—1988: Bush, +7.8.
—1984: Reagan, +18.2.
—1980: Reagan, +9.7.
—1976: Carter, +2.1.
Doug Jones also gave lil’ Marco the 👍
But will he have to stop selling fake back pain medicine?
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee named U.S. ambassador to Israel.
Surely Huckleberry won’t be pushing born again Christianity on the children of Moses.
Should have made it a dual ambassadorship, Huck and spawn huck of governor seat.
And the world goes on.
From the military news website, Task and Purpose
I was “frozen out” for most of the afternoon. Glad we’re all back.
Evangelical support of Israel is about themselves. They still hate Jews.
And now the military purge begins. Orban did exactly this in his second term comeback: The Trump transition team drafts executive order that establishes a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three- and four-star officers and to recommend removals of any deemed unfit for leadership. https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-draft-executive-order-would-create-board-to-purge-generals-7ebaa606?st=nsEDtn
Ivy – You are correct. They have to do their part to trigger the second coming of Jesus. Faithless, anti-semitic, white supremacists.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/climate/methane-rule-biden-trump/index.html
The Environmental Protection Agency just finalized one of the Biden administration’s only outstanding climate rules, aimed at cracking down on leaks of methane — a potent planet-warming gas with an outsized impact on the climate.
The rule, proposed nearly a year ago, was mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act, which could make it more difficult for the second Trump administration to dismantle.
The new rule charges high-emitting oil and gas producers a fee for wasting methane above a certain threshold by venting or flaring it into the atmosphere instead of capturing it. The methane fee will be charged by the federal government until the companies fix the leaks.
This fee was paired with financial incentives for oil and gas companies to fix leaky pipelines or infrastructure.
The rule could prove tricky for the incoming Trump administration to overturn because the program was included in Biden’s climate law, which passed Congress in 2022. Undoing it would take another act of Congress; while not impossible if Republicans take the House of Representatives, it could be an uphill climb and take longer than if the Trump administration were acting on its own.”
*Couldn’t Adolf, in this instance or any other, issue an EO until it can be undone?
*Same for Adolf’s underlings doing his bidding. He writes an EO for “whatever the hell he wants” to do, including the military, and they carry it out because SCOTUS gave him total immunity, and he can bring them up on charges and/or fire them if they don’t comply?
He names a FOX TV host Secretary of Defense — Pete Hegseth
“Hegseth is an Army National Guard officer and former executive director of political advocacy groups Vets For Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America. The latter, a conservative advocacy group funded by the Koch brothers, advocates greater privatization of the Department of Veterans Affairs.” -Wikipedia
BID, they lack faith that God can do His job without their “help.”
It wouldn’t need to be called “crypto” if it was any good.
None of these folks will last very long. Then it can be Fox’s Fault.
Haven’t heard many peeps from Martin O’Malley since he was the commencement speaker at my post-grad graduation.
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/national-politics/martin-omalley-dnc-chairman-R3RIF4N7GRBW5G7XCAKCNWO5N4/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-department-of-government-efficiency-trump/index.html
“Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead new ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ in Trump administration”
“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump said in a statement.
The statement quoted Musk as saying that “this will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!”
Elon and Vivek to run the Department of Government Efficiency
The various media, especially those complicit is pushing the sfb campaign, are now putting the stables together of the next sets of Dems who could be running in 2028 (if we still have elections). They want to start the horse race now. I am not going to bother with all the names, we have plenty of time for that later on.
There is one name which is often listed, Wes Moore gov of Maryland. He is going to be a force in 2028 or 2032.
Elon, the Mighty Favog!
lol
His military review board is particularly ominous. The President has always had the ability to fire a general i.e. MacArthur. Elevating it to some sort of loyalty review hints of dictatorship.
They are privatizing the government. Welcome to the oligarchy. Everyone is on their own. Hope Elon OD’s on ketamine, and MAGAts turn on Vivek because white nationalism.
When Adolf is gone, whether it be by #25 or illness or lightning strike, is JD gonna keep the dictatorship going or are the fascists going to eat each other scrambling for power?
https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-nikolai-patrushev-donald-trump-russia-1984360
Vladimir Putin aide has warned Donald Trump that he is “obliged” to fulfill promises he made during his presidential campaign to bring peace to Ukraine.Patrushev said: “To achieve success in the elections, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. And as a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them.
*Huh? Does “relied on certain forces” to win the election mean there was tampering beyond misinformation? Was that Adolf’s “secret” and why he said he already had all the votes he needed before Election Day? Now, he is obliged to withdraw aid and let Putin do “whatever the hell he wants.”
Biden is still POTUS, and SCOTUS says he is immune from everything he does as President. Biden took an oath to uphold the US Constitution, and it is clear that tRUMPsky and his MAGAt lackeys are already stepping on it, and have every intention of destroying it. (They weren’t kidding about taking away a woman’s right to vote, either.).
President Biden should direct the generals to protect our country from them, and stay in power and hold a new election.
Don’t care who it is or how it happens, but someone needs to do us a solid with Putin’s puppets.
Adolf’s deadline for Elon & Vivek to destroy the country is July 4, 2026. We had a good run. 250 years.
It’s a small world, though, and this will destroy the world economy.
If the shutdown in 2018 cost $11 billion because federal workers had no money to spend, and businesses who contract with the government couldn’t get paid in order to pay their bills, what in the eff do they think will happen when they start firing thousands of workers permanently?
I realize Elon & Asshat don’t give a flip about human cost, but it’s going to destroy the economy. The damage will trickle down from federal workers to everyone else.
Businesses will fail because their customers are now unemployed.
Don’t bother building vehicles, gas or EV; nobody will be buying cars.
No vacations; tourism fails.
Americans not traveling abroad; business overseas are impacted.
Start hoarding canned goods and toilet paper now folks, because things will be nonexistent or unaffordable.
Late at night, I miss Bink and a good song.
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