About the $600 million the Trump crime family EXTRACTED from meme coin licensing fees. That total just about equals the sum LOST by gullible investors who bought too high or at the wrong time. Don't look for the Trump Organization to set up a compensation fund to REIMBURSE bankrupted supporters.

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in the SCOTUS FTC decision demolished any legal validity the majority attempted to contrive. Her brilliant 2-sentence summary, appearing about halfway through, read: "The majority thus has very little support in text, history,or precedent. What it does have is a theory."

2016: I could stand in the middle of 5th Ave and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? So trivial and out of date today. 2026: I can destroy entire ancient civilizations in the Middle East and the invertebrate Republican elite who rule the Congress will just cheer me on, OK?

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One Big Beautiful Decision! And One Giant Mess!

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Waiting to hear from Gnome as to the identity of the legitimate criminal illegal immigrant who was the subject of the supposedly "targeted" search in the middle of that intersection where Pretti was filming.

Looking for a statement from ANY Republican politician vouching for Kristi Gnome's credibility.

Where's the Minneapolis killing video that Kristi Gnome shared with Bluster? It certainly can't be the one that all the rest of us have seen.

I wonder if they let Hegseth in on the loop this time. You know -- operational security concerns. @secdef.govpeeps.us @signalchatbot.bsky.social

On 1/1/2026, I am: Bereft of all pride in my government; Straining to retain pride in a USA whose ruling party and too many legal/academic/corporate institutions debase themselves before an ignorant juvenile; Apologetic to the rest of the world; and Aiming to make a difference by 11/3/2026.

Bluster's toilets are always so cleverly disguised.

War criminal apologist Tom Cotton can't rationalize the strikes on alleged drug boats without blatantly lying. Yes, we've had maybe 800,000 drug overdose deaths in the last decade, but those due to cocaine from Venezuela are a mere blip. Yet he accused the "narco-terrorists" of killing millions.

Bluster is attacking Afghans to distract attention from the death and near fatal wounds suffered by the two young WVa National Guards he put in harm's way as a political stunt. If all Afghans are responsible for Sarah Beckstrom's death, then are not all Mormons responsible for Charlie Kirk's death?

Noem repeatedly ducked the issue when asked on Meet the Press why Trump approved asylum for the alleged Afghan assassin. Welker should have one more followup: Was it wrong that Trump was approving asylum all year for applicants vetted under Biden when you have totally disdained that process?

I wonder if WVa's governor will have the gall to console Sarah Beckstrom's parents after he sent her out of state merely to curry favor with Trump.

"You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down?” Mr. Bessent said. “Move from a blue state to a red state.” Scott Bessent's "Let Them Eat Cake Moment" on Meet the Press last Sunday. He forgot to mention that salaries are also much lower in Red states.

Bluster and Bluster Jr. over at the Pentagon are awfully unhinged about a literal quotation from the Uniform Code of Military Justice by several legislators. Quoting from the UCMJ is a crime punishable by death, they say. Would they be so upset if all their orders were clearly legal?

With the end of the sandwich assault trial, it's now clear not only that money is speech, as George Will and the Robert's court maintain, but that sandwiches -- and by extension, food generally -- are speech.

The South Koreans hosted Bluster with mini-burgers and ketchup; it seems that China served TACOs. Facing China's threat to to restrict rare earth magnets, Bluster accepted soy bean import commitments below those in place before his 2018 tariff war (TWI). Looks like TWII is doomed to fail also.

Did you see the one of Bluster emptying his diapers from an F-16?

Since warrior automatons don't have facial hair, why should our soldiers sport beards -- or even stubble? Likewise, since SecWar automatons don't have salons set their wavy hair and slather it with product, why does stubble-free (testosterone-challenged?) Hegseth buy his product tubes by the dozen?

So I googled this and it was confirmed by Reuters, the Guardian, and Al Jazeera but WaPo, NYT, and TV networks were MIA. newrepublic.com/post/200952/...

Remember when Blustered blustered that Russia would never have invaded Ukraine if he was still president? Well, he WAS president the other day when Russia flew drones over Poland, a NATO ally. That was something Putin never dared to do while Biden was president.

Refilling the swamp: NYT: "The Trump administration is quietly dismantling efforts by the Internal Revenue Service to shut down a slew of aggressive tax shelters used by America’s biggest multinational companies and wealthiest people." Just what the MAGA populist base wanted and voted for, right?

About that Department of War: More historical ignorance on the part of Bluster and his co-unqualified minion Hegseth. The original Department of War housed only the U.S. Army. Real traditionalists deplore this demotion of the Navy, the only permanent branch established under the Constitution.

Who knew that South Korean construction workers Hyundai building a factory for Hyundai to manufacture cars in the U.S. were actually vicious criminals? At least this is what I gotta think, seeing that ICE's deportation raids are designed to eliminate the criminal element among illegal immigrant.

Re. G20 meeting to be held at Trump Doral next year: Don't hear too much from Bluster about draining the swamp these days. How many millions of taxpayer dollars will this decision send straight into the coffers of the Twamp Organization. Can't wait to hear Squeaker Johnson's rationalization.

NYT: President Trump will sign an executive order on Friday renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War. That nails it. Bluster is now a shoo-in for the Nobel Prize.

First principle for John Roberts and his SCOTUS minions (or is it the other way around): "Let’s first assume Donald Trump is an angel, and then let’s work from there." Ezra Klein.

Bluster is bluster and will not change. And he won't lose many of his diehard cultists. Time to shift the blame game to his enablers in the Congress and the Supreme Court. They are the true villains responsible for the failure of the Constitution's balance of power safeguards. Let's have at it!

NYT: "Mr. Trump has threatened tougher sanctions [on Russia] but has so far not followed through." TACO Supremo.

A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. That's why we must protect the right of a troubled 23-year-old to buy a smorgasbord of lethal weapons, given how essential he was to Minnesota's militia.

SCOTUS facing dilemma: Apply logic of its Chevron Deference demolition (Executive Branch merits no deference to interpret ambiguous Federal law) to the statute governing the Federal Reserve Board and deny Bluster the right to define the meaning of "cause"; or drop deeper into its inconsistent fog.

Border wall to be far more effective thanks to POTUS scientific expertise. "That's specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb," Noem said.

Hey, Bluster! Do you know that Russia's GDP is lower than those of Germany, Britain, France, and Italy? Not to mention that of California, Texas, and New York? They have a lot of empty territory and hardly need more. Oh, and a few nukes. Is it the nukes that you're afraid of?

Dateline Anchorage: About those sanctions Bluster promised if Putin doesn't go along with a ceasefire. TACO.

Why doesn't Bluster just slap some tariffs on all that smoke Canada is exporting to the States?

“ ... Powell is a disaster,” Trump wrote. “DROP THE RATE! The good news is that Tariffs are bringing [in] Billions of $$$!” Surely even someone with mental faculties as deficient as Trump's knows that foreign goods arrive, U.S. importers pay tariffs to the U.S. Treasury. NO $$ COMING FROM OUTSIDE!

I trust the KKK and other white supremacist groups pulled out the red carpet and are now making sure that these foreign MAGA refugees are supplied with the 7-day-a-week household help, gardeners, and 24-hour residential guard service they were accustomed to back in their persecuted homeland.

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At first I thought it might be a cabinet meeting in some long-ago banana republic. But isn't it amazing how the day care providers managed to get these pre-schoolers to line up their cute little caps so neatly in front of them? But why do the kids look so OLD?

But I'm sure this was all accounted for during the careful planning stage that typifies all of Bluster's initiatives. MAGA!! www.mitrade.com/insights/new...

Bluster got such great praise for his Easter greetings that he's had a go at updating the Lord's Prayer. Here's his first draft:

What Bluster liked most about Commerce's tariff formula was that the ancient Greek capital D in front of T could stand for Donald Trump. And while the "i" could stand for Israel, Iraq, Iran, India, etc., or even countries not beginning with "i", what I like is that it could stand for pure idiocy.

Tariffs are killing Bluster's own "Drill, baby, drill" campaign, as economic uncertainties the tariff war drop oil prices to a level U.S. oil companies can't profit from new wells. Oops! Of course that will also lower gas prices, a good thing given how much more we will now be paying for cars.