Sickophants

[GoCubsGo]

They're becoming more emboldened.

Of course the trumpaloons will tell us he's waving to his mommy and it doesn't mean anything.

"Not found".

Weird, it was the Bannon salute.

[Vrede too]

Weird, it was the Bannon salute.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1892785593442029712

This would have ended careers not very long ago. Between MAGA/other white supremacists and Palestinian allies America is not a very comfortable place for Jews these days.

[O Really]

Remember when wearing blackface at a Halloween party 25 years ago was a career-killer? Not saying that was reasonable, but man, what a difference in the world.

[Vrede too]

Remember when wearing blackface at a Halloween party 25 years ago was a career-killer? Not saying that was reasonable, but man, what a difference in the world.

Hopefully, literal or figurative orangeface will be just as reviled in a few years.

HabbaDabbaDoo strikes again:

Being run like X you say? That's encouraging...

They’ve both done terrible jobs at each.

That's exactly why the rest of the world is concerned.

O Really's twin sister:

Governments should not be run like corporations. Governing, legislating, Congressional budgets and appropriations are completely different than for profit corporations.

Running it like the Trump Organization? Multiple bankruptcies, lawsuits, and chaos? Like X under Musk—plummeting value and constant dysfunction? Hard pass.

So, into the ground?

Trump had to file for bankruptcy multiple times after failing miserably in his business. That's not the best way to run a business and certainly not a country.

Damn, she's dumb.

[Vrede too]

These people have no principles apart from what Murdoch or erratic PINO tells them to believe at any given time.

Tammy Duckworth Torches Pete Hegseth For Flip-Flopping On Russia And Brings Receipts
The Illinois Democrat countered Hegseth's curious refusal to name Russia as the aggressor in the Ukraine war with his own work as a former Fox News host.



Ironic that our Sec of Defense has no spine.

[Vrede too]

Flip-flopping explained:

Authoritarianism Expert Unmasks Donald Trump’s 'Diabolical' Move That Broke Republicans

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Thursday asked authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat to explain why some of President Donald Trump’s “most harsh critics” — such as his now-Vice President JD Vance and former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson ― have become his biggest backers and enablers.

Ben-Ghiat talked about a “moral collapse” in the GOP and Trump’s domestication of the party until it’s “become his personal tool.

Trump “tried to overthrow the government” following his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, noted the author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,”

And “the genius of what he did, seen from a diabolical authoritarian perspective, is that he targeted Republicans as well as Democrats,” she continued.

Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, went after his own then-Vice President Mike Pence and it showed “from an authoritarian perspective, is that no one was off-limits,” said Ben-Ghiat.

“Republicans were calling their family members, they thought they were going to die that day, and then they have had to kind of forget that trauma and publicly debase themselves by popping up and saying, ‘Yes, we’re here for you, leader,’” she added. Authoritarianism “doesn’t only require you to betray others, it requires you to lose your own conscience,” she said.

Watch from the 7-minute mark here:


'Aww': Nicolle Wallace reacts to Trump saying him and Putin went through the 'Russia hoax' together

Cowards. This is what appeasement looks like.

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Article

Grow up, communications director Cheung.

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Grow up, communications director Cheung.

There are petulant children running around the Whitehouse.

These are not serious people.

[GoCubsGo]

Yep.

Not serious people.

[Vrede too]

Yep.

Not serious people.

https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski ... bt2imp2s2d

Serious as a heart attack, I'm afraid.


‘Appalling’: Pentagon press secretary faces calls to resign over antisemitic posts

[GoCubsGo]

Twenty six years old.

Deputy press secretary for the freaking Pentagon.

What the everloving fuck?

Not serious people.

[Vrede too]

‘Appalling’: Pentagon press secretary faces calls to resign over antisemitic posts

Twenty six years old.

Deputy press secretary for the freaking Pentagon.

What the everloving fuck?

Not serious people.

Jewish groups condemn deputy Pentagon press secretary over X post

The American Jewish Committee and Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned deputy Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson over social media posts they described as antisemitic.

“Anyone who posts antisemitic conspiracy theories lifted right out of the neo-Nazi playbook should not be in public office,” the American Jewish Committee wrote in a Wednesday post on the social platform X.

“Kingsley Wilson, newly appointed @DepPressSecDOD, is clearly unfit for her role,” they added.

However:

The Trump Administration Is Learning to Ignore Their Employees’ Scandals
The silence around a Pentagon press secretary tells a bigger story.



... The response from the White House and the Pentagon has been notable: near-complete silence. With Wilson, as with other recent controversies involving Trump administration officials, the White House and federal agencies are making a clear and somewhat novel choice to ignore them entirely....

Several other examples are cited besides Kingsley Wilson. During Trump1 such scandals often led to resignations or firings.

... This time, though, most scandals are seemingly passing with little public comment from the White House, Trump himself, or the agencies involved. Coupled with the White House’s promotion of a new state media, a group of ultra-conservative outlets and influencers who are granted unusual degrees of access if they cheer the administration’s every move, a clearer picture is emerging.

The administration, it seems, feels empowered to ignore news they don’t like, lavishly reward pseudo-coverage that paints them in a flattering light, and avoid public accountability for issues that would be messy or embarrassing to deal with. It’s another irony for an administration that has dubbed itself “the most transparent administration in history,” and it’s unlikely to be the last.

An admin* full of known creeps.

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Trump Pardons Tennessee Republican Who Pleaded Guilty To Campaign Finance Scheme

President Donald Trump has pardoned Brian Kelsey, a former Tennessee lawmaker who pleaded guilty to a campaign finance scheme in 2022, after the Republican served just two weeks of his 21-month prison sentence.

Kelsey said on social media after his release Tuesday that he believed “God used Donald Trump to save me from the weaponized Biden DOJ.”

“May God bless America, despite the prosecutorial sins it committed against me, President Trump, and others the past four years,” he added. “And God bless Donald J. Trump for Making America Great Again!”

Kelsey pleaded guilty in November 2022 to illegally transferring money from his state Senate campaign committee to a national organization that supported his failed 2016 bid for U.S. Congress, including filing false campaign finance reports to conceal the transfer.

In March 2023, the Georgetown University-educated attorney attempted to reverse his plea, telling the judge he “was in a confused state mentally” when he pleaded guilty “and unable to fully consider the ramifications.”

Gee, I thought Georgetown was a good school.

The motion was denied.

Kelsey initially dismissed the indictment as a “political witch hunt” and indicated he’d take the case to trial. But after a co-defendant pleaded guilty and began cooperating with federal authorities, he changed his tune.

Sounds like he made an informed and rational choice.

In a related development, earlier this week the Trump administration gutted the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, according to NBC News. The unit prosecutes politicians accused of corruption....

DonOLD's ongoing criminal enterprise marches on.

[GoCubsGo]

This shit would sink any official in any other administration not too mention do irreparable damage to the administration itself.

Outrage fatigue.

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This shit would sink any official in any other administration not too mention do irreparable damage to the administration itself.

Outrage fatigue.

The GQP challenge - Will cowardice or practicality win out?

The GOP’s Fears About Musk Are Growing

'Don't mess with Alaska,' U.S. senator warns, even as state Republicans affirm friendship with Canada

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"Untethered" MAGAt throws foot-stompin' tantrum, threatens to hold hostage 70M retirees:

Social Security Chief's 'Turn It Off' Comment Is Latest Insane Turn For Beleaguered Agency
"I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency," acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek actually said.

Or, just follow the law, moron.

[Whack9]

"Our kid dying was a sacrifice we were willing to take"

[GoCubsGo]

Lock them up in a padded room.

[GoCubsGo]

[Whack9]

I don't have the source handy but I think some internet sleuths found some social media posts by his wife and she was also highly supportive of Trump. Lmao.