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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Non-Partisan CRFB Watchdog: Nation's Finances in Dire Straits Under Trump


‘The nation’s finances have deteriorated’ since Trump took office, CRFB says, gaming out the scenarios up to a $28.5 trillion deficit
Nick Lichtenberg
Updated Thu, August 21, 2025

“The nation’s finances have deteriorated” since President Trump took office, driven by sweeping legislative and trade policy changes, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB). The nonpartisan watchdog noted that the Congressional Budget Office’s January 2025 budget outlook “already showed a worrisome fiscal outlook,” but developments since mean a widening deficit. The CRFB gamed out several scenarios, including an adjusted baseline which accounts for “most legislative and administrative changes but not economic and technical changes.” The CRFB also included an alternative scenario in which the U.S. Trade Court’s ruling that many of Trump’s tariffs are illegal is upheld; temporary provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are made permanent; and yields on Treasury securities remain at their current level.

The adjusted baseline shows cumulative deficits are forecast to reach $22.7 trillion, amounting to 6.1% of GDP, with annual deficits climbing from $1.7 trillion in 2025 to $2.6 trillion in 2035. Meanwhile, it sees debt held by the public rising from about 100% of GDP—currently $30 trillion—to 120% of GDP ($53 trillion).

Under the CRFB’s alternative scenario—where key OBBBA provisions are made permanent, tariff revenues fall owing to legal setbacks, and interest rates remain elevated—debt could climb to 134% of GDP by 2035 and the 10-year deficit would exceed $28.5 trillion. Over fiscal years 2026 through 2035, net interest payments alone are set to total $14 trillion over the decade, nearly doubling from $1 trillion this year to $1.8 trillion by 2035.


Expenditures are expected to grow, totaling $88 trillion (23.6% of GDP) for the decade, while revenues—spurred on by tariffs replacing some lost tax receipts—will reach $65 trillion (17.5% of GDP). This persistent gap between spending and revenue underpins the widening deficit. The CRFB has previously weighed in on the tariffs’ impact on deficits, calling them both “significant” and “meaningful.”
 
Policy changes: OBBBA and tariffs feed fiscal imbalance

Central to the deteriorating outlook is enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which the CRFB projects will increase deficits by $4.6 trillion over the next decade and push debt up by more than 10% of GDP by 2035.

Meanwhile, a surge in tariffs following administration policies is expected to offset some costs, saving $3.4 trillion in deficits and reducing debt by 8% of GDP over the same period. These savings are, however, at risk: The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled much of the tariff regime illegal in May, and if that decision stands, tariffs could produce less than $1 trillion in deficit reduction—adding $2.4 trillion to the federal deficit and increasing debt by 5.7% of GDP.

Under the alternative scenario, annual deficit growth would be exacerbated by extensions of tax cuts and spending increases, combined with higher interest on the rapidly rising debt load. Also under this scenario, interest payments on the national debt, already surging from less than $500 billion in 2022, could hit $2.2 trillion (5.1% of GDP) annually by 2035 if interest rates stay high. The CRFB warns the outlook could be even worse if offsets built into OBBBA are delayed and new deficit-increasing proposals—like tariff rebates—are implemented, or if economic headwinds slow revenue collection. A recession or financial crisis over the next decade could further deepen deficits and add to the debt burden.


The CRFB calls for lawmakers to prioritize revenue and spending options that put the federal budget on a sustainable path, emphasizing that any changes to tax and spending policies should be paid for at a minimum under a “pay-as-you-go” approach, and ideally under its own bespoke recommendation of “Super PAYGO,” which would require offsets that exceed new costs twofold. With debt heading toward record levels, the group argues for proactive solutions to trust fund solvency and corrective fiscal action.

Republican leaders and Trump officials argue the OBBBA will reduce the deficit via two mechanisms:

“Historic spending reductions,” credited in GOP Senate and administration releases with $1.5 trillion to $1.6 trillion in mandatory spending cuts, mainly in social programs.

Economic growth projections: The White House and GOP claim the bill’s “pro-growth tax reforms” will unleash enough economic expansion to boost tax revenues by $4 trillion, turning a static deficit increase into a dynamic deficit reduction.

No concrete detailed plan has been laid out that would balance the budget if the bill’s tax cuts are extended and the dynamic growth does not materialize.

For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com

One Day in the Life of the American Dictatorship

 
Reporter’s Notebook: I stopped for gas and witnessed an ICE arrest. Then, I spent days looking for the man who was detained
Chelsea Bailey, CNN
Sat, August 23, 2025 

I was on autopilot last Thursday when I pulled into a gas station in Takoma Park, Maryland, and annoyed with how the pit stop would add time to my commute to CNN’s office in Washington, DC.

But as I placed the pump in the gas tank, I noticed a man running full tilt toward me. I’d barely registered that he looked panicked – Maybe he was going to miss the bus? – when several things happened at once.

As he skidded to a halt in front of pump 1, a black Kia peeled into the station and pulled up level with him. Instantly, the passenger door opened and a man in khakis, a full-face balaclava and a tactical vest jumped out.

“Why were you running?” he asked repeatedly in Spanish. He continued to fire off questions, but I only heard the man he was chasing clearly give one answer.

“What’s your name?” the masked man asked.

“Samuel,” he replied.

I glanced over the roof of the Kia to see the driver had stepped out and was standing there with a rifle. As we made eye contact, he slid a gaiter over the bridge of his nose. Still, it took my brain a few beats to process what I was seeing:

This was an ICE apprehension.

‘The new world we live in’

My morning commute had just placed me in the middle of President Donald Trump’s immigration and deportation crackdown.

I’d never seen an ICE arrest in person – only on the news and in videos online. And while it’s true I didn’t know anything about Samuel – or witness the interaction that led to him sprinting through the parking lot – nothing about this encounter felt official.

ICE agents apprehend a man at a gas station just outside Washington, DC. - Chelsea Bailey/CNN

For one, the masked men were driving a Kia – a family car I don’t typically associate with law enforcement. And the SUV had generic Maryland flag license tags. Though they appeared to be law enforcement, I didn’t hear them identify themselves. Their tactical gear said “police,” but they didn’t seem to be linked to a particular department or agency, and I couldn’t see any badges.

While I watched the driver stash the rifle in the trunk of the SUV, I considered grabbing my phone to start recording. But almost as soon as the thought occurred to me, I pushed it away.

I’m a Black woman in America. I’ve seen how filming the cops can escalate even the calmest of situations – and this already felt charged.

So, as the first agent cuffed Samuel and demanded to know whether he was “legal or illegal,” I stood between the pumps and decided to make it overtly clear that I was watching.

I rankled when they asked to see Samuel’s papers. There was once a time when masked men could’ve cornered my grandparents and demanded they prove they had a right to be in their own neighborhood. The entire scene felt like history repeating.

The pop of the pump disengaging startled me, and I noticed the driver of the only other car at the station had started recording. Emboldened, I slid into my driver’s seat, cranked the car and pulled around to take my own pictures.

But within seconds, the agents had put Samuel into the back of the Kia and sped away.

I got out of my car and walked over to the other witness. Suffice it to say we were both stunned.

“I think he said his name was Samuel?” I said.

The man, who told me he was an attorney with a public defender’s office, scribbled the name on a legal pad. We both stood there for a beat before he said, “This is the new world we live in.”

I forgot to ask the lawyer his name.

What I saw of the arrest lasted less than five minutes, but it felt terrifying and surreal. I never heard the agents tell Samuel why he was being detained. As the masked men put him in the back of the blacked-out SUV, I felt like I was watching someone being kidnapped.

I dictated notes on my phone as I drove to work and then immediately told my editor and colleagues what I’d seen. We agreed it would be a good idea to get the footage from the lawyer and that’s when reality began to set in.

In my panic and fear, I’d forgotten to ask any of the normal journalistic follow-up questions. I only knew the detainee’s first name, where he was apprehended and that the other bystander said he was a public defender.

With little to go on, I began searching for Samuel.

‘Everybody is scared’

I reached out to ICE to see if they could confirm whether their agents had been active in the area that morning and if they’d detained a man named Samuel.

I also emailed the public defender’s office for Washington, DC, the state of Maryland and nearby Montgomery County. They all agreed to ask around and see if my description of the attorney matched a colleague.

Then, I drove back to the gas station. Until recently, I’d lived less than 5 miles from where Samuel was apprehended. This side of Takoma Park is a suburban, close-knit, predominately immigrant community. It’s also not far from where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was once apprehended at a local Home Depot.

The gas station is the kind of place where the attendants warmly greet their regular customers and there’s a table for locals to sit and chat while they play the lottery.

But the people I spoke to inside weren’t aware that ICE had been in the area or that someone had been arrested at pump 1. I drove to the U-Haul rental center across the street and asked two day laborers nearby if they’d heard about the incident.

“Yes,” they said.

Although neither man felt comfortable sharing his name with a reporter, both told me they’d heard ICE had apprehended three people in the area that morning. One man was buying coffee when agents stopped him, they said. Another was “just looking for work.”

“Everybody is scared – everybody,” one of them told me. The other showed me a grainy photo of the arrests that were circulating online. Neither knew Samuel.

As I drove away, I was struck by the fact that Samuel probably had family and friends in the area who might not hear from him for days or even weeks.

He’d left home that morning and essentially disappeared.

ICE agents detain the man. - Sagar Vyas

A masked ICE agent stands at a gas station in Takoma Park, Maryland. - Chelsea Bailey/CNN

‘An extraordinarily abnormal thing to witness’

On Friday, I returned to the station to see if the manager had any surveillance footage of the incident. That’s where I met Solomon, an Ethiopian immigrant who won the State Department’s diversity visa program lottery 25 years ago and emigrated to America on a green card.

CNN agreed not to share his last name because of his concerns about the current climate toward immigrants. But since arriving in the US, Solomon said he’s earned a master’s degree and now owns a business. That, he added, is the beauty of America.

“If somebody comes (and) by chance they can get into this land, let’s properly treat them like a human being,” he said, adding some people who seek refuge in the US are fleeing war, starvation and poverty.

“They don’t have any hope,” Solomon said, “but this is a great country – it’s big (on) hope. If people are disciplined and stay away from trouble, you can benefit from that.”

Later that afternoon, my phone rang. Although I didn’t recognize the number, I instantly recognized the man’s voice. It was the attorney I’d met at the gas station, Sagar Vyas.

After a proper introduction this time, we began comparing notes on what we’d seen.

“It definitely seemed like – one of those old terms from the post-9/11 time – like a rendition was happening,” Vyas said, referring to the government’s extrajudicial practice of capturing and transferring suspects to foreign locations during the war on terror.

Vyas told me he typically sits in the driver’s seat while he’s filling the tank, and he only noticed the men in neck gaiters and camo when he went to hang up the pump.

As he grabbed the pen and paper from his briefcase, Vyas said he, as a South Asian man, also debated whether to record the incident.

But Vyas said he felt a sense of responsibility.

“Your parents say when you grow up, ‘When you see an injustice, stand up for them,’” he said. “Those sort of soft voices were in the back of my head.”

Still, he said he was deliberate about every move he made. While I was moving my car, Vyas said he’d asked Samuel for his name, but the agents scolded him.

“The two agents said something to each other, and they decided to just throw him in the car and take off,” he said. “It’s an extraordinarily abnormal thing to witness.”

But, Vyas said, later that night he and his wife agreed there is power in simply bearing witness. It’s like the adage, “a watched pot never boils,” he told me.

“We all need to be pot watchers – as a community, as a people, as citizens of this country,” he said.

If someone’s not monitoring the situation, he said, it’s going to boil over.
‘Targeted enforcement operations’

When I got to my desk on Monday, I had an email from an ICE spokesperson.

It read, in part, “Samuel Antonio Garcia Apilcano, 35, is an illegal alien from Honduras.”

According to ICE, he’d entered the country in 2023 and, after he’d failed to appear at a court date, a judge ordered his removal in absentia. ICE did not state if Samuel had any criminal history, or previous interactions with law enforcement. A CNN public records search didn’t return any information on him either.

“ICE is conducting intelligence-based, targeted enforcement operations in and around the district in an effort to make Washington, D.C. and surrounding communities safe and beautiful again,” the statement said.

ICE and other federal agents take a delivery driver into custody on August 16 at Union Station in Washington, DC. - Andrew Leyden/Getty Images

It took a few days, but it was a small comfort to know ICE officials had located Samuel, given the sparse information I gave them. And ICE impersonations have also been on the rise, so I found it reassuring to know the men I saw were, in fact, DHS agents.

But the encounter has made me more curious about ICE enforcement tactics, immigrant rights and what bystanders are legally able to do when they’re caught in the middle.

As the Trump administration continues its immigration crackdown, it’s becoming increasingly likely that more Americans could have the same experience I did in their own neighborhoods.

Candidly, I’m still shocked by what I witnessed. Though I live just outside the district – where it’s not uncommon to see armed federal agents – no one expects to see masked men in an unmarked car chasing and detaining someone on their morning commute.

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Genetic Morons Cannot Mask their Declining Health with Makeup

"Uncle Cankle" is doing cosmetics now. Not yet lipstick on a pig, but he keeps trying to hide the blemishes of his falling health. While he might succeed in camouflaging his "physical" blemishes, he is unable to keep pretending he is still mentally vigorous: He needs a functioning brain to lie and pretend, but aging separates the brain from its man. 

Again, it is sad to watch a braggard who built his entire life on lies to slowly but inexorably deteriorate to the point where he can no longer lie and hide his false pretenses. Trump is a tragic figure like William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus [https://medium.com/common-sense-world/the-tragedy-of-coriolanus-pride-power-and-the-rejection-of-compromise-75434d39e8b3].

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Trump, 79, Smears Right Hand In Makeup Amid Cankles Cover-Up
Sarah Ewall-Wice
Fri, August 22, 2025


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President Donald Trump’s hand was coated in a thick layer of makeup on Friday as he ventured out from the White House amid ongoing health questions.

The president, 79, has been using makeup to cover bruising on his right hand on multiple occasions since he retook office.

But its appearance and lack of blending during his Friday stop at The People’s House exhibit down the street from the White House were particularly noticeable.

President Donald Trump's hand was slathered in makeup

“President Trump is a man of the people and he meets more Americans and shakes their hands on a daily basis than any other President in history,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in a statement Friday.

“His commitment is unwavering and he proves that every single day,” she added.

It was a similar line from the White House, which had previously attributed the bruise to the president’s serial handshaking.

Just last night, the president was out in Washington, D.C., shaking hands with law enforcement officials as he stopped by for some pizza amid his crime crackdown on the nation’s capital.

But while the White House has touted its transparency, it has been evasive at times about the president’s health when pressed with questions about his swollen ankles and bruised hand.

Last month, the White House revealed the president had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). It’s a common condition in people of the president’s age.

The White House was forthcoming with the diagnosis, but it has not made the president’s doctor available to answer questions despite initially suggesting that it was a possibility.

President Trump's swollen ankles on display during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. / Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty

Asked about the chances of speaking with Trump’s doctor again last week, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was “certainly something we can look into” and claimed there is “nothing to hide.”

It has not shared any treatment plan or even lifestyle changes, such as the use of compression socks, to address his swollen ankles.

“There have been no adjustments made to his lifestyle,” Leavitt said last week.

In April, the president’s physician released results of his annual physical, touting his golfing and declaring Trump to be “in excellent cognitive and physical health.”

The president’s makeup-slathered hand stood out on Friday as he made his way through DC, but it appeared the president was somewhat self-conscious of it when he gave remarks Friday afternoon at the White House.

President Donald Trump largely covered his right hand with his left while speaking in the Oval Office on Friday, August 22, 2025. / Jonathan Ernst / Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Make-up covers the back of the right hand of President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 22, 2025. / Jonathan Ernst / Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Trump largely kept his right hand hidden under his left hand while he had them folded on the desk in front of him as he spoke that afternoon in the Oval Office. But when the president stood up, the bright makeup stood out against his skin just as it had earlier in the day.

Donald Dumb Prepping Ground for "President-for-Life" Rule

Just like his Russian, Chinese, and North Korean buddy dictators, the Moron-in-Chief is laying the groundwork, or at least doing a dry run, for a military takeover of the country by which he will declare the "need" for himself to remain indefinitely in power.

As of now, Washington DC has been militarized. Today Trump said he will declare a national emergency to keep the troops he already deployed in Washington beyond the initial 30 days of their deployment. He has After DC, Chicago is next, followed by other large cities in "blue" states.

This scenario is being tested as a prelude to declaring the same national emergency to control the 2026 legislative elections campaign and voting process. This, in his mind, will ensure MAGA retains control of a subservient Congress. He already has implemented a gerrymandering re-districting decision in Texas thanks to the MAGA-controlled state legislature to completely sway the 2026 elections into his favor, a step to be followed by other MAGA-controlled state legislatures.

Beyond the 2026 elections, there is no reason to doubt that the Orangutan wannabe dictator might want proceed similarly in view of the 2028 presidential elections. By accustoming the American people with emergency conditions in their lives, he would have achieved the official status of a dictator. Look around the world and you'll find that dictators, despots, military juntas and such always pretend that a national emergency exists in the country to maintain their militaries in the streets, control the press and the media, establish special courts, repress dissenters (e.g. Bolton and many many others) and essentially subvert the entire spectrum of what makes a democracy work. 

Ladies and gentlemen, you are witnessing the birth of the first military dictatorship in the United States of America 250 years after the birth of the country. By constantly flooding the zone with distractions - Epstein, fake peacemaking, on-and-off tariffs, etc. - Donald Dump is making sure that the American people become inured to "abnormal" policies and departures from norms and laws evolved over the past 250 years. 

Like in all other autocracies and dictatorships, the rapist uses the mechanics of democracy to make it to power, albeit with lies and distortions aiming at swaying the opinion of large chunks of otherwise ignorant voters, along with putting in place mechanisms to prevent opponents from participating in elections. Elections remain their top priorities: either they win or if their opponent wins, they declare the results fraudulent.

From: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/18/1046648461/decades-before-trumps-election-lies-mccarthys-anti-communist-fever-gripped-the-g ]: 

The baldest and most provocative presentation of Trump's demand to date appeared on his campaign website, Save America, on Oct. 13: "If we don't solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented), Republicans will not be voting in '22 or '24. It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do." That statement from the former president suggests his party's leaders must match their priorities to his or face a mass defection by party loyalists — whom he plainly regards as Trump loyalists first.

Two things are working against his plans:

- His age and mental and physical deterioration. He won't be getting better or younger by 2026 or 2028 or beyond. But dictators have been known to cling to power well into their nineties, assuming they are still alive. I already imagine a hunched over bald Dear Leader, Big Brother Donald Dump suffering from diabetes and other ailments, driveling like a broken record, swollen feet, age spots all over, being wheelchaired by his faithful bimbo blonde idiot Leavitt to deliver his State of the Union speech in 2039 when he'll be 93. 

- A semblance of serious opposition is building. While the American people are worrying about tumbling house prices, groceries, inflation, jobs, and the imminent shock repercussions of the demented asshole's tariffs, voices are growing louder about standing up to this rape of American democracy. California and other states are fighting back by doing their own gerrymandering sleights of hand. If the opposition manages to at least secure one chamber in Congress in 2026, it will have some sway into events leading to 2028.

Previous neanderhal white conservatives have tried before but never to the same extent as Donald Trump who is now pushing the rape of democracy one step further than any other white conservative politician before him. Examples include John Adams who waged war on the national press of the early republic; in the 1910s, Woodrow Wilson modernized, popularized, and nationalized Jim Crow laws; in the 1970s, Richard Nixon committed criminal acts that flowed from his corrupt ideas about presidential power, a precursor to Trump; 

As presidential historian Jon Meacham told NBC News in May 2018, Sen. Joe McCarthy "was never president" or nearly as powerful a figure as Trump, but McCarthyism is "the clearest analogy we have" to what Trump is already doing: dragging dissenters and opponents to courts, raiding their homes and planting fake evidence against them, subpoenaing them to appear before Congressional "hanging panel" hearings....

There is still time to counter the rape of American democracy. A surge of conscience must arise first and foremost from within the ranks of the conservative lump of MAGA vassals. Many of these, unfortunately, have signed in blood: They understand Trump's ultimate objectives and support them, namely to keep America a White Supremacist Christian republic that feigns to be a democracy, in a perfectly identical, albeit oxymoronic, notion of the "democracy-for-Jews-only" that war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu wants Israel to be. Trump and his predecessor rapists of American democracy are nativist xenophobic morons who want the United States to be a "democracy-for-white-assholes-only". But time, demographics, and evolution are against them

For interesting forays into previous domestic threats to democracy and the constitution, see:[ https://www.wnyc.org/story/five-leaders-who-threatened-democracy-get-political/ ].

Elon Musk Assembles his Ugly Trucks with Glue that Melts in the Sun

He ruined his life by playing lap poodle to Donald Trump. And now he's trying to salvage the debris of his businesses by using cheap glue to assemble his ugly trucks that no one wants to buy.

Advice: Instead of vandalizing Tesla products, just don't buy them. It's less criminal and more punitive.
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Tesla Cybertruck remorseful buyer finds his truck falling apart after he took it to a ride in the desert. Reason? "They rely too much on glue".



A California Cybertruck owner took his electric truck to a hot desert and noticed signs of it falling apart. The Cybertruck's light bar, attached with glue, began to detach as he was hand-washing his vehicle. He noticed the vehicle's light bar hanging halfway off while cleaning it after a desert road trip.

He was disappointed to discover his $100,000 electric vehicle falling apart and possibly unable to withstand high temperatures. He is now fearful to hand-washed it or take it through an automatic car wash.

In response to a query he posted on a forum, other Cybertruck owners agreed that they have been dissatisfied with Tesla's use of glue in the EV's assembly. "I have wondered why Tesla didn't design the lightbar to be glued like it is but also with simple snap-in tabs on the ends that make it snap into place on the windshield," one forum member commented.

High-quality materials are essential in building new EVs because they support the vehicles' safety, longevity, and performance. But Tesla's Musk's business is falling apart and he seems to have fallen back on cheaper flimsy ways to make his disgusting trucks to save money. Perhaps his DOGE experience of saving money by destroying the lives of dedicated civil servants gave him ideas. 

Especially given our planet's steadily rising temperatures, EVs must be able to withstand high heat and extreme weather conditions. Unlike with Tesla, drivers need to feel confident in their EVs as solid practical transportation conveyances worth the investment. Tesla Cybertrucks must be safe to drive and reasonably repairable and maintainable when damage occurs. But for now, their reputation continues to deteriorate.

Bottom line: Don't buy cheaply made but very expensive "toys" made by so-called geniuses who are also racist assholes.

Another Pro-Slavery South Carolina MAGA Imbecile Flops at Town Hall

It's sad to see the flagrant signs of the MAGA decomposition ahead of 2026. Under the leadership of their super-moron Donald Dumb, they are flailing about, getting booted out of town hall meetings, led by the nose by the likes of Vladimir Putin, mocked by countries far and wide for the stupid "deals" they sign, demonstrating their lack of intelligence by relying on armed national guard on the streets, destroying the economy of the country like children because they are saving pennies in a piggy-bank, revealing their true racist white supremacist ideology, exposing their bigoted so-called Christianity, and now making a sweet deal with convicted child sex trader Maxwell to exculpate Trump from his devious friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

And this is only an overview of all the flip flops and the TACO turnabouts of the supreme moron who genuinely believe that his idiotic American cheap-marketing antics will earn him the Nobel Peace Prize. The man is a con artist, a convicted criminal himself, who  has placed his country as the only supporter and co-criminal with the genocidal colonial Zionist Jewish Disneyland in Palestine that is about to perpetrate the most barbaric ethnic cleansing crime against an indigenous people in recent history. 

MAGA is a dying breed of neanderthals whose brains are stuck in somewhere between the 16th and the 19th century and with no future. Their refusal to evolve out of the swamps of the Jurassic while the world moves forward is a reflection of their primitive belief that you can make people love you while you are pointing a gun to their neck. Tragic.

The worst part of it is that 52% of Republican-identifying voters in the backward boonies of South Carolina are still undecided about whether to vote for this racist genitals-obsessed moron to become their governor.

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Nancy Mace Cancels Speech After Almost No One Shows Up

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) canceled a speech in South Carolina on Thursday after just eight people showed up to an event that was billed to have 100-plus people in attendance, local news site MyHorryNews.com has reported.

Mace — who is running for South Carolina governor — was expected to lead a “parental rights” rally in Myrtle Beach hosted by the Horry County chapter of the far-right, anti-trans Moms for Liberty group.

But, as MyHorryNews put it, “plans seemingly changed” once she walked into a room of mostly empty chairs. The speech was scrapped, with a member of her team telling reporters that Mace would take questions from the media before she met individually with the attendees.

In remarks to reporters, she declared that the county “makes presidents” before claiming that her campaign is “winning by double digits everywhere, but particularly with folks who support the president,” per Charleston’s ABC affiliate.

Earlier this week, her campaign shared internal poll numbers showing her leading the South Carolina GOP gubernatorial field among Republican primary voters, figures that Donald Trump — who has notably yet to endorse a candidate in the race — later shared to his Truth Social platform.

Mace “personally put her poll” on the president’s “radar,” sources told NBC News, and her team shared the results with Trump officials prior to the post.

GOP primary polling conducted prior to Mace announcing her gubernatorial bid showed 16% of Republican-identifying voters supporting the South Carolina congresswoman, a slight edge over South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson (15%).

At the time, 52% of respondents indicated that they were still undecided.

The speech cancellation arrives just weeks after Mace —who has used her time in the House, in part, to obsess over trans women using the women’s bathroom — kicked off what she called the “Mother of All Town Halls” tour in Myrtle Beach, an event that reportedly packed the Veterans Café and Grill.

In her remarks, she claimed that she would “debate anyone” although those who arrived at the event with shirts “reflecting their opposition” to her were asked to leave before she started her speech, NBC News reported.

 

Friday, August 22, 2025

How Did Trump's Elite Friend Ghislaine Maxwell Get her Wealth?

She was Jeffrey Epstein's "roper" of little girls, and a wealthy member of the New York elite who rubbed shoulders with the likes of fellow elite member Donald Trump. 

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The Monsters Behind Ghislaine Maxwell’s Missing Millions
The Swamp
Wed, August 20, 2025


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They weren’t married, had no children, and dated for less than three years before their relationship took an altogether darker turn. Still, Jeffrey Epstein was sufficiently enamored with Ghislaine Maxwell to buy her a fancy five-story $13 million Beaux Arts-style New York townhouse. Eh, voila! The brokea-s heiress was suddenly the proud owner of Maxwell’s House. Just add money. Instant wealth.

Located on 65th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues, the 7,000-square-foot home had eight wood-burning fireplaces and a servants’ entrance. Maxwell also owned a $2 million mews house in London (where Prince Andrew was allegedly snapped with Virginia Giuffre in 2001) and a hideaway 156-acre estate in New Hampshire, bought for $1.5 million through a mysterious LLC in December 2019.

116 East 65th Street was Maxwell's Upper East Side pad, which she used as a hostess to ingratiate herself into society. / New York Daily News Archive / Andrew Savulich/NY Daily News/Getty Images

Maxwell's empire included the New Hampshire home where she was arrested in 2020 after hiding for months. / Reuters/Drone Base

She’s since sold the New York manse for $15 million, and the Live Free or Die state retreat is up for grabs at $2.5 million and includes a master bedroom with a stone fireplace, walk-in closet, and a large soaking tub.

Financial documents filed in Manhattan Federal Court showed that transfers totaling more than $20 million were made from Epstein’s bank accounts to Maxwell’s and vice versa.

So, where did Ghislaine get all this cash? And what has she done with it?

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. / Patrick McMullan via Getty Image

The answer, according to sources once close to Ghislaine, lies with the other domineering, scandal-plagued man in her life; Maxwell’s late father. These sources suggest shamed media baron Robert Maxwell’s ill-gotten millions were laundered by Epstein and filtered through to his favorite daughter. (He even named his superyacht the Lady Ghislaine).

Overweight and overleveraged, Maxwell Sr. fell off the side of his yacht in the Canary Islands in 1991 and drowned. It was never known for sure whether it was suicide, an accident, or murder, but his business affairs quickly unraveled, and it emerged that he had robbed the pension fund of the Mirror newspaper group he owned in the UK to the tune of $460 million. According to a British documentary, Ghislaine was on board the yacht when her father died and immediately ordered the crew to shred all paperwork linking him to Epstein.

Media proprietor and fraudster, Robert Maxwell (1923 - 1991) at a party on his yacht with daughter Ghislaine and wife Elisabeth (1921 - 2013) circa 1990. / Mirrorpix/Getty Images

“I was in the City [of London] and I had some friends who worked on Wall Street during that time, and they heard that Jeffrey Epstein and Robert Maxwell had entered into an agreement before Robert Maxwell’s death, whereby certain funds had been syphoned off,” said a former friend of Ghislaine. “That is what Jeffrey Epstein was doing at the time, he was helping very rich people park their money offshore, to avoid tax.”

Her father was a crook, and her boyfriend was a pedophile. Both destroyed lives while conniving to make Ghislaine rich.

Prosecutors uncovered more than 15 different bank accounts associated with Ghislaine, and it wasn’t small change. The balances ranged from hundreds of thousands of dollars to over $20 million.

How did she get it? Only two other people truly know. And dead men don’t tell tales.

"Saved-by-Jesus" Womanizer P. Hegseth's Security Budget for former WIVES (yes, plural)

He hates Muslims. He said it many times. He may be jealous that they can have multiple wives while his "Jesus-saved-me" ideology allows him only one. So unfair! 

Hegseth is not part of the elite. He's not part of the Deep State. HE IS THE ELITE. HE IS THE DEEP STATE, with a security detail that more expensive than the other MAGA morons running the country, which is making Trump jealous. Why does he need so many security personnel around him? They might need to lift him into his car after he gets drunk.

So Trump is jealous that a lesser idiot than him is spending all that money.

Meanwhile, JD Dance is on his 7th vacation in 7 months. Overseas, mind you. The US seems like a boring place for him and his family as tourists. Unless, of course, he thought that by escaping from the US, he will avoid the "Town Hall"-like welcome receptions. He, in fact, wants to shield his family from the trigger-happy white Americans [https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2025/08/domestic-white-american-terrorism-white.html]
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Trump Refuses to Pay for Hegseth’s Huge Personal Security Demands
Ewan Palmer
Wed, August 20, 2025


Pete Hegseth - Umit Bektas / REUTERS

The Trump administration is refusing to provide additional funds to cover Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s unusually bloated personal security arrangements, according to a report.

Documents obtained by The Washington Post show that the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID), the agency tasked with protecting Defense Department officials, has been pleading for more money to cope with the intense strain caused by Hegseth’s expanded security details.

Hegseth reportedly demanded that hundreds of CID agents be reassigned from their usual roles investigating serious crimes within the Army to provide personal protective duty for the defense secretary and his family, including his former wives.

The Trump administration—which has made reducing federal spending one of its top priorities—has so far shown an “unwillingness” to do so, reported The Post.

Hegseth and his first wife, high school sweetheart Meredith Schwarz, divorced in 2009 after he admitted to having several affairs.

Hegseth’s second wife, Samantha Deering, filed for divorce in 2017, one month after her husband welcomed a child with Jennifer Rauchet, a Fox News producer who would become his third wife.

Hegseth and Deering’s divorce was finalized in 2018 after eight years of marriage amid reports of abusive behavior by him. The defense secretary’s former sister-in-law, Danielle Hegseth, alleged in an affidavit that her sister was so scared of Hegseth that she once hid in a closet from him and had a code word among friends to indicate when she was in danger. Both Hegseth and Deering deny the claims.

Multiple CID officials also complained they are unable to carry out their normal investigative duties because of Hegseth’s unprecedented arrangements.

“I’ve never seen this many security teams for one guy,” one official told The Post. “Nobody has.”

Under typical operations, about 150 of the CID’s 1,500 agents are assigned to VIP security details. Since Hegseth joined the Pentagon in January, officials said the number of agents on personal protective duty has jumped to “400 and going up,” with another source putting the figure at “over 500.”

One reason for the rapid increase is that agents are now tasked with guarding not only Hegseth and his current wife, Jennifer Hegseth, with whom he has one child and three stepchildren, but also his two former spouses and the three children he shares with Deering.

This has required CID agents to be dispatched for weeks at a time to locations such as Minnesota and Tennessee, where Hegseth’s second wife lives. One official vented to The Post that the assignments amounted to pulling investigators off cases just to “sit in the cars on the driveway.”

“It is literally taking away from [CID’s] law enforcement mission,” the official said. “You are taking hundreds of people out of the field to provide this level of protection.”

Hegseth’s personal choices have also strained the CID further. In July, for instance, he and his family attended a Washington Nationals baseball game but opted not to purchase seats in a private suite that would have been easier to secure, according to sources.

The Trump administration’s has resisted the Army’s request for additional funding to help cover Pete Hegseth's security demands. / Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images [Please note the different military salutes of these morons]

Instead, by sitting in a general section of the stadium without private access, the protective detail had to cover a larger and more exposed area, and were forced to frantically create a barrier while the group walked through a crowded concourse.

In a statement, a senior CID official told the Daily Beast that Hegseth has “never requested additional protection for his former spouses” nor has he ever “affected CIDs recommended security posture.”

The official added that the CID “operates within existing resource constraints” but that “specific details regarding threat assessments, security protocols, resource allocation, and budgetary matters related to either investigative or protective operations are considered sensitive and cannot be publicly disclosed.”

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell hit out at the report, telling the Daily Beast it is “astonishing” that The Post is “criticizing a high-ranking cabinet official for receiving appropriate security protection.”

“Any action pertaining to the security of Secretary Hegseth and his family has been in response to the threat environment and at the full recommendation the Army Criminal Investigation Division,” Parnell said.

MAGA Confirms: Trump's Health - Mental and Physical - Rapidly Declining

For the rest of us, it's good news. For the billionaire criminals, it's not. But even his dumb MAGA supporters admit to the decline of their alpha neanderthal.

It is very hard to find comfort in the declining health of an old man. But with Trump, it is with glee that we welcome his deterioration. He has insulted so many people, showed absolute cruelty to the poor anf the meek, engaged in crude conduct, pretended to be a Christian, made money his only master, etc... He's a criminal felon. Period. He should be rotting in jail and not among us.

In a recent conversation, Trump was attempting to brag about his fake peacemaking, but he could not remember the names of the two countries he had in mind.  “You saw the "Aber … baijan" (he meant Azerbaijan). That was a big one going on for 34, 35 years with, uh, "Albania" (he meant Armenia). Think of that,” the president said.

Trump confused Armenia for Albania, and stuttered trying to pronounce Azerbaijan, bungling the country’s pronunciation as, “the Aber … baijan,”. Even the AI transcript of the conversation produced “Arab ... Bhaijaan”.  Without natural intelligence, Trump's brain appears immune to even artificial intelligence. The poor sap should be retired.

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Alex Jones Warns Trump’s Cankles ‘Collapse’ Is Imminent

William Vaillancourt
Thu, August 21, 2025 



Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is sounding alarm about what he dubbed Donald Trump’s health “crisis”—and the consequences the 79-year-old president faces if he “doesn’t take his foot off the gas pedal.”

The Infowars host pleaded Wednesday, the day after Trump’s comments about “heaven” intensified concerns about his condition, that “if the people around him could just get him to take off one day a week—if he could just go play golf and watch movies and have some fun—he deserves it.”

But “at the current trajectory,” he warned, the president “is going to have some sort of collapse within the next 12 months.”

Trump is like a “light bulb starting to go out,” Jones went on.

“I’ve seen a lot of signs of Trump declining,” he said. “And so he’s on a lot of the time, but like a light bulb is starting to go out. It gets brighter, it gets dim; it goes in and out.”

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty

Jones also pointed to the president’s chronic venous insufficiency, which isn’t linked to cognitive abilities but does cause blood circulation issues and—in Trump’s case—swollen ankles.

“That’s not a good sign for the heart and the rest of the body, because the rest of him—he’s lost weight, he’s not that fat,” Jones said. “For everybody that you’ve known that’s having heart problems, that’s not good right there, OK? And they’re getting bigger and bigger.”

Trump is also working too long during the day, according to Jones.

“I know we have a crisis," he said.

“He’s hyper-competitive and hyper-aggressive. So, you talk about in the zone, folks. It’s fair to say that Trump is unconscious, basically, for periods of the day now,” he continued. “Because there are times where I’m exhausted and working entirely on adrenaline, up for two days, and I make pretty good decisions—sometimes better than when I’m conscious—but I think back and I don’t remember what I did.”

Jones then said Trump performing well at diplomatic events is because “it’s 2 o’clock, 3 o’clock in the afternoon.”

“But you can watch the decline into the evening, and then also these morning interviews,” he said. “So it’s late at night, he sounds like he’s drunk. He doesn’t drink, obviously. He’s exhausted. And then it is early in the morning, he doesn’t sound too hot.”

Trump has chronic venous insufficiency, which has led to swollen ankles. / Andrew Harnik / Getty Images

During a Fox & Friends call-in Tuesday morning, for instance, Trump seemed unable to name the ocean that separates the U.S. from Europe and Russia.

“And this is just one of many things I’ve been hearing and seeing him do that send up red flags,” Jones said.

Nobel Economics Laureate: Deportations will Hurt More than Tariffs

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Paul Krugman Warns This Trump Policy ‘Will Hurt More Than People Realize’
Lee Moran
Updated Thu, August 21, 2025 

Famed economist Paul Krugman has warned how President Donald Trump’s administration is “about to ICE the economy” with its ramped-up crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

Concerns about “the economic impact of mass deportations are definitely second-tier” to the fear created by the expansion of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, Krugman acknowledged in the latest edition of his newsletter published on Wednesday.

“But they’re still important, and a subject I know something about,” the 2008 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences continued in the piece subtitled, “Mass deportations will hurt more than people realize.”

Undocumented immigrants constitute circa 5% of the U.S. workforce but are “strongly concentrated in certain industries and occupations” ― like agriculture, meatpacking, senior care and others — which could be essentially crippled, leading to further inflation, meaning “ICEing the economy will make native-born Americans substantially worse off,” Krugman said.

“In fact,” he concluded, “my guess is that arrests and deportations will eventually do even more economic harm than tariffs.”

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Israel Prepares for Grand Genocide Fiesta of the 21st Century

It will be the sequel to the very successful First Genocide Fiesta of the 20th century with the colonial invasion by illegal European migrants (1920-1940), the forced expulsions of the indigenous Palestinian population from their ancestral lands by rape, killings, massacres, terror, and home and village demolitions (1940-1947), followed by the grand finale of dismembering historic Palestine with the creation of an artificial colonial entity known as the State of Israel (1948).

Millions of indigenous Palestinians were expelled from their lands, both within Palestine and outside where they have been living in squalid refugee camps. The aftermath of that catastrophe has been an unending series of a massive campaign of repression by the colonial authorities of attempts by the indigenous Palestinians to oppose and resist the slaughter, the dispossession, and the continued rape of Palestine by more and more European settlers. More lands were seized by the Europeans by either wars or under Israeli occupation in a programmed systematic campaign of demonization (All Palestinians are terrorists), dehumanization (All Palestinians are savages, subhuman animals, etc.), dispossession (home demolitions, villages razed to the ground, olive groves uprooted or burned), denial of identity (Palestinians, we are told by the colonial propaganda, are all "Arab" squatters who moved to Israel from Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon; The colonial prime minister Golda Meir, who was herself an illegal migrant to Palestine from Ukraine, once said, "there is no such thing as a Palestinian people").

The colonial European atrocities against the indigenous Palestinian population are too many and diverse, but the entire colonial project is premised on two absurd propositions, one religious, the other political-colonial:

1- RELIGIOUS: The land of Palestine, the colonial settlers say, belongs to them because their god, Yahweh, gave it to them some 3,000 years ago when their supposed ancestors were a band of stinking nomads wandering the Arabian desert. Indeed, if one is to believe the mythology and garbage written by these supposed ancestors on their goat-skin parchment, they claim to have been chosen by Yahweh as his favorite pet people who gave them license to invade and massacre all the indigenous Palestinian Canaanites that lived in Palestine back when the Bronze Age was turning into the Iron Age.

If people were to believe such garbage mythology, they should also believe the garbage of the Epic of Gilgamesh or the Scandinavian Sagas or the Hindu Vedas, Itihasas and Puranas, or the Greek Illiad and Odyssey or any other now-abandoned mythologies from around the world. In our time, only the Hebrew garbage mythology of the Torah is still considered "the word of the divine" by millions of people. Why? Because all three garbage mythologies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are related by the cultural inbreeding of Semitic people in the Near East under the banner of monotheism, the belief in one god only rather than a multitude of gods. 

Many idiots consider this evolution to be a major achievement when the fact itself of believing in any "gods" is a mark of primitiveness: As human cultures better understood the world thanks to the growing intelligence embedded in the human cerebral cortex, their thousands of gods (very ancient cultures) became hundreds of gods and demi-gods (Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans etc.) who were then gradually winnowed down to a handful and eventually stopping at one. Those of us who use their brains can already predict the next step in this trajectory: No god, which is the truth that is already spreading across all human cultures, as knowledge and science make us understand the real world and dispense with garbage myths from our past.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is a series of adventures and stories from Mesopotamia that is antecedent to the garbage of the Torah, the books of the colonial ancestors known as Hebrews whose wanderings in the desert started from the heart of Mesopotamia in what is today Irak. In writing the Torah and developing its fantastic fictional self-serving stories, some of the contents of the Epic Gilgamesh were palgiarized by the hallucinating shamans of the nomadic Hebrews.   

Along with stories from the Epic of Gilgamesh, the wandering Hebrew bedouins also carried other myths and fictional fantasies from around the region. In the Torah, Yahweh - who had many names like El and Baal, is said to have demanded that one of his so-called prophets by the name of Abraham sleep with his maid, miraculously impregnate his 100-years-old wife, take her son and slit his throat as proof of loyalty. Stories like Cain who killed his brother Abel because El-Yahweh favored Cain who offered him meat while disapproving of Abel who offered his vegetables. I guess El-Yahweh was a carnivore and not a bio-oriented vegan. El-Yahweh then decided to kill all people on earth, except a few of his favorites, so he caused a flood that drowned all life. Then Yahweh splits an ocean to allow his pet people to flee their enemies on whom he rained frogs and killed thousands of their innocent babies. The relevant story in all this garbage is that Yawheh ordered - like Donald Trump today orders - that his pet Hebrew people go massacre another innocent people, the Canaanite Palestinians, and take their land. 

The religion of Judaism organized the garbage of the Hebrews into a religion. Then a Jewish sect, the Christians, emerged to say that it has found a new prophet called Jesus who is Yahweh's son, who was mysteriously conceived without physical semen or penetration inside the uterus of a virgin, and whom Yahweh sent to be tortured and killed, only to resurrect him from the dead. All of this is because, hear this, humans are creations of Yahweh himself in his own image, i.e. who look like him, but who for some reason are also filthy sinners. (Is yahweh then a sinner, would ask a Socratic Greek?). Then Yahweh deliberately sent this mythical son to be tortured and killed, then resurrectied from the dead to save us from his own creation, ourselves. Despite millennia of this garbage running around in human cultures, nothing has changed. We still kill and steal and cheat despite all the claims that religions will make us better. We still have not seen one evidence of eternal life, much promised to those who believe the garbage. Religions never made us better and they never will. In fact, religion poisons everything; it is used to brainwash people into hating other people; and is more often than not the direct cause of atrocities and wars.

Then a third manifestation of the same monotheistic crap emerged in a third religion known as Islam. Here, the self-proclaimed prophet Mohammed came out of the city of Mecca, not far from Ur and Jerusalem - I tell you this monotheistic trash was all composted in the desert, in a small restricted area of the world. What a coincidence! Mohammed thought 'Ok, all these prophets who preceded me are fine. I believe in them. I get their garbage. But I'm gonna improve on it' and he launched his new religion which was more of a military-political campaign to conquer and subdue by force of arms. There is less mysteries, metaphysics, supernatural, miracles and fantasy in Islam than there are in its Jewish and Christian siblings, although it does claim that Mohammed rose to the heavens on a winged horse from Jerusalem. 

Sociologically, Islam is a copycat rebranded version of the Jewish religion: It kept intact all the rituals and beliefs of Judaism (one god, circumcision, no pork eating, dual texts - Torah-Talmud in Judaism, versus Koran-Hadith in Islam, memorizing scriptures while bobbing one's head.... etc.) The reason is that Mohammed himself grew up in an environment where all people were Semites belonging to different tribes, but who believed the same things. He might as well have been a Hebrew himself or at least he grew up bathing in a Hebraic-dominated culture. Pre-Islam Arabs were essentially Hebraic in their traditions: They did not eat pork, they circumcized their sons, etc. Islam altered very little in the lives of these otherwise Hebraic "Jewish" people. 

Mohammed particularly hated the new religion, Christianity, because he felt it departed too far from its Hebraic roots, including its "association" of God with other deities, i.e. a return to polytheism. He couldn't accept that God had now a wife, a mother, a son and a whole court of saints and disciples. In fact, he was right: Christianity is what it is because it escaped the Semitic world. It was born inside, but on the fringes of, the Roman empire and was quickly exported to the political capital of the empire, Rome, where it was westernized by adopting the polytheisic structure of the Roman religion. As he saw it from the middle of his Arabian peninsula, Mohammed felt that these polytheist "Mushrikun" (i.e. "associative" in that they associate other deities with the one God) of the Christian Byzantine empire were encroaching on his territory and threatening his Judaic-Hebraic traditions. Note that there already was a Christian Bishop in Mecca at the time, circa 600 AD, which explains in part that Mohammed's mission was less on dogma and more on politics. Islam is thus a political return to Judaism which Mohammed felt was threatened by the new Christian religion.

Enough of this history of the monotheistic garbage.

2-  POLITICAL: The political genesis of the colonial project in Palestine begins with wealthy bankers in the late 19th century central Europe. It was fashionable at that time for a wealthy European to join in the orgy of colonizing the rest of the world with the mission of "civilizing the primitive savages". Wealthy bankers lived in the midst of Empires: the French Empire, the British Empire, the Belgian Empire, the Dutch Empire, the Spanish Empire, the Turkish Ottoman Empire... Leopold II of Belgium absconded with the entire country of the Congo in central Africa and turned it into his own hunting ground and sadistic playground: He'd kill elephants, then cut the hands of the indigenous Africans who wouldn't obey. The wealthy bankers met in the Swiss city of Basel and decided to have their own little colony somewhere in that uncivilized third world: Not only could they run amok with the natives but they could steal their resources and make lots of money. They hesitated between Argentina, a huge largely uninhabited expanse in South America with lots of land, but which was far and had no indigenous people to mistreat, Uganda in central Africa with lots of people to torment and lots of resources to steal but there were too many colonial competitors, and lastly Palestine which was densely inhabited by lots of indigenous people to torment but not many resources, except that it was a few hundred miles away from the recently disovered oil fields in the Arabian peninsula.

And the cudgel fell on Palestine. At the time Palestine was occupied by the declining Turkish Ottoman Empire. Soon, however, the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and the British colonial crooks took it over. During the 1914-1918 war, the British needed money to fund their war machine. The wealthy bankers from Basel made a deal with the British: We'll give you money, you give us Palestine. And so a crook minister by the name of Balfour declared in 1917, one year before the final Ototman retreat from Palestine, that Palestine will be given to the wealthy bankers from central europe. And the invasion began, mostly illegal migrants arriving by boats and landing on the shores of Palestine. On the surface, the British pretended to interdict these illegal migrations while encouraging them in secret per the deal. The indigenous Palestinians began a movement of resistance, which led to a civil war between the natives and the illegal colonial settler terrorists for most of the 1920s and 1940s. But the bankers had lots of money and were sophisticated upper class crooks with means and weapons, and they had the backing of the occupying British. The civil war ended in 1948 when the illegal migrants perpetrated a wholesale massacre of the indigenous Palestinians and sent millions of them into refugee camps inside Palestine and outside Palestine in the neighboring countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. 

Unlike all these countries that had obtained their independence from the Turkish Ottomans, the Palestinians were denied that independence and their country was ravaged by the incoming colonial settlers who created the Jewish colony in Palestine known as Israel. 

As we write these lines, the colonial settlers of Palestine are preparing for a final onslaught on the remaining indigenous Palestinians who have continued to resist the theft and occupation of their ancestral lands by foreign migrants. After bombing Gaza and exterminating 65,000 Palestinian men, women and children, then starving the remaining 2.2 million hemmed inside a large concentration camp, Benjamin Netanyahu is about to launch yet another war of extermination, which he hopes will be the last since he is also plundering the West Bank. 

The Grand Genocide Fiesta II of 2025 will be aired lived, unlike its first 1948 version. Back then the European settlers had a monopoly on the information: Pro-settler newspapers turned savagery and extermination into a civilizing mission: They said the Palestinians were uncultured peasants who did not take good care of their land, but we the European settlers will develop the land and turn the desert green. Netanyahu to this day continues to claim that his genocidal colony's ultra-religious Jewish barbarity is somehow better than the ultra-religious barbarity of the Palestinians, and he is doing a service to the Christian West by "civilizing" the backward Arabs with missiles, bombs, starvation and other refined Jewish peace traditions. 

It is unfortunate that all those countries, nations and organizations that enabled the rape of Palestine over the past 100 years are only now taking action. Why wasn't a Palestinian state recognized by France, the UK, Canada etc. 10, 20 or 30 years ago? Why show some courage only now, when it is almost too late, in the face of the vicious moral blackmail that Zionists have perpetrated by investing all their barbarian marketing ploys in the Holocaust. 

It is indeed too late, and the time for making a difference no longer exists.

Palestine will soon be erased from the maps, the Palestinian people will be a shredded nation dispersed in hundreds of refugee camps, and the world will spend the next 100 years hypocritically and academically discussing if the rape of Palestine by the last colonial criminals was technically a "genocide". Will Israel at some point admit to the genocide? Or will it, like Turkey, continue to reject claims that it caried out the Armenian genocide.?

Domestic White American Terrorism: White Man Stabs People inside Walmart.

NRA: He is exercising his 2nd amendment rights to bear arms.

Should Trump invade Michigan with the National Guard and the Marines?

Newly released surveillance video captures Mr. Bradford Gille stabbing people inside a Traverse City, Michigan Walmart on July 26th. Eleven people were injured in the attack.  Gille has been charged with one count of terrorism and 11 counts of assault with intent to murder and pleaded not guilty on all charges, according to the Detroit Free Press. 

Michigan authorities released footage showing the chilling stabbing spree that left 11 people injured at a Traverse City Walmart last month.

On July 26 at about 4:43 p.m. local time, a white American man wielding a standard folding-style knife approached and attacked multiple people near the store's checkout counter. Disturbing footage released by the Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Office shows the horrifying moment the suspect, wearing a large green bag, spiraled across the store, attacking others. Frantic customers are seen watching the chaotic scene unfold and fleeing, with some tumbling to the ground after seemingly being jabbed. 

Security video also captured the moment bystanders intervened to help subdue the attacker ahead of police arrival. One customer is seen slamming a grocery cart toward him outside the store. On July 27, Grand Traverse County Sheriff Michael Shea credited bystanders for being "absolutely instrumental" in preventing further injuries.

A total of 11 people were hurt in the attack, though every victim survived, the sheriff's office confirmed. "At first, it was disbelief. I thought maybe it was like a terror attack," Steven Carter, who delivers customer orders from Walmart, told The Associated Press. "And then it was fear, disbelief, shock. And that was, it was just amazing. And it all happened fast. Like he was totally subdued on the ground by the time police arrived." 

Officials identified the suspect as a white American man, 42-year-old Bradford James Gille, who was later charged with one count of terrorism and 11 counts of assault with intent to murder. While authorities have not determined a specific motive, Shea said on July 27 that Gille has precedents, but he was never investigated because authorities feared that the Trump Administration might accuse them of targeting white people under a woke and DEI culture. In Trump’s world, white people should never be accused of anything, even when they commit vicious crimes; this is indeed the case with Trump himself who has committed untold numbers of crimes, found guilty and sentenced as a criminal felon. But since he is white, the sentence was never implemented and he even became president. Even child sex criminal friends of Donald Trump, like Ghislaine Maxwell who is white and a crime associate of child rapist Jeffrey Epstein, and who was sentenced to 20 years in prison, was moved by Trump from a medium security prison in Florida to a resort-like prison in Texas because she is white. Trump is expected to pardon her or commute her sentence.

White Judge from Backward State of Kentucky Killed by Sheriff in Sex-for-Justice Trade

This is how those God-fearing, family-values, Christian patriots, former slave owners and African slave lynchers - morons nonetheless - of the southern united states run their affairs. 

A Kentucky judge by the very Irish name of Kevin Mullins was killed in his own court by his own Sheriff. He has now been found to have traded sexual favors for influence at wild parties with much bourbon flowing. 

The rural (understand: moron peasant) Kentucky judge who was gunned down in his chambers last year by a local sheriff possibly ran a scheme by which he demanded sexual favors from women to get them out of trouble.

Hollywood producers are already writing the script for a western movie portraying the happy, wholesome life of southerners as an homage to President Donald Dump, the resuscitator of the glorious 1800s' American traditions of big-balls, gun-toting, KKK racists whose pasttime included slave owning, native Indian killing, African slave lynching, moonshining, drunkenness, curing their residual one-tooth, inbreeding and incest partaking... all based on this story of the Judge and the Sheriff.  In fact, I suggest the movie title be "Bluegrass Pervert Judge and his Sheriff". It will top the charts beyond anything attained by movies like "12 Years a Slave", "The Help", "The Birth of a Nation", "To Kill a Mockingbird", and many others. The story of Judge Mullins and Sherrif Stines combines racism, sex parties, adultery, corruption, justice and murder.... It's a unique story.

Tya Adams says she would attend sex parties for District Court Judge Kevin Mullins and his friends in the small rural town of Whitesburg in exchange for money or to get offenders out of trouble. She says that Mullins had warned her to keep quiet about what was taking place.


Beautiful "pig-face" District Judge Kevin Mullins (left) was killed by Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines in Mullins's chambers.

She said she felt she couldn’t say no because she feared retribution from the legal system and Child Protective Services would upend her life.

"They would make sure to make you feel as small and degraded and belittled as possible to take your power away," Adams said. "It was consensual. But it was the thing that we were so young, and then they used it against us and to destroy our lives later. She couldn't say if fornicating on the side of his dispensing justice to the ignorant inbred moonshiners of his district was part of rural family values or Christian values so dear to her people.

"That was just a given," she added. "And who would believe it anyway? Because the whole town was doing it. Nobody cares. They’re all swingers. It’s all a big party to them. It was just so normal."

Sarah Davis, a former deputy at the Letcher County jail, told the news outlet she had never seen anyone initiating sex, but that the stories she heard were "nasty and sickening."


Judge Kevin Mullins, sitting at his desk dressed in a suit, hands his phone over to Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines shortly before being shot dead in his own chambers. An accuser said the judge demanded sexual favors from women.

"Pretty much everybody in the county knows," she said. "But it was confirmed to me after working in the county jail, especially after being invited to a party myself."

She described the lockup as a "brothel" where otherwise Christian and conservative staffers had sexual encounters with each other and with inmates. Mullins invited Davis to a sex party once, but she said she declined. 

Mullins, 54, was shot and killed on Sept. 19, 2024 inside his chambers by Letcher County Sheriff Shawn "Mickey" Stines. Stines, who is no longer a sheriff, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

Video footage of the shooting captured Stines shooting Mullins as he sat at his desk. The sheriff, the judge's longtime colleague and friend, continued to fire after Mullins fell to the floor.

A Kentucky State Police trooper and former Letcher County Sheriff's deputy, a friend of Mickey Stines, tries to calm Stines down during questioning.

Thus Spake the Moron-in-Chief. Thank you for Your Attention to this Matter!

Thank you, Governor Newsom for turning the tables on the criminal morons of this country. We need you as the next president of the United States.

A couple of suggestions: 

- Order Mexico to change the name of their Baja California to Baja Mexicana because California is American and not Mexican. AMERICA FIRST!

- Order the state of New Mexico to change its name to New America. We are in America Goddamn it! 

- Order all states with Spanish names (Nevada, California, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, and Texas) to change their names to, respectively, Snowy, Furnace, Arid, Blushy, Flowery, and Friendly). 

- Declare that as long as Donald Trumpet (see below) is in the White House, the place shall be known as the Golden Outhouse. 

- Order that ALL PLACE NAMES IN SPANISH BE TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH. For instance, Los Angeles will be called Angel City. San Diego will be Saint James. San Francisco will HENCEFORTH be known as Saint Francis, etc. Go! AMERICA FIRST!

-  Order that, as of 2026, all non-English names of people in California be changed officially to the English language. For example, if Marco Rubio shows up in California, he will be deported unless he has identification with the name Mark Blond.

I have many more suggestions, but I'll let your people do it, they are doing a great job by the way.  

We must erase those parts of our history that show Spanish influence. Only yesterday the Stable Genius Moron in the Golden Outhouse erased all references to slavery from American history.  

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! 

By the way, the word/name Trump has two origins, one German "Trumpf", which means Trumpet, the other French "Trompe", which means to cheat and deceive OR the trunk of an elephant. So obiously the genes that created the criminal imbecile reigning in the white house descend from a unique combination of vapid high-talk bullshitters AND criminal cheaters.

AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS VERY IMPORTANT MATTER!

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How Gavin Newsom trolled his way to the top of social media

Adam Wren
Wed, August 20, 2025


Meg Kinnard/AP

With an inescapable, smashmouth, all-caps-laden and meme-filled X account, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is holding a mirror up to MAGA — and MAGA doesn’t like what it sees.

There’s Newsom on Mount Rushmore. There’s Newsom getting prayed over by Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock and an angelic, winged Hulk Hogan. There’s Newsom posting in all caps, saying his mid-cycle redistricting proposal has led “MANY” people to call him “GAVIN CHRISTOPHER ‘COLUMBUS’ NEWSOM (BECAUSE OF THE MAPS!). THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.”

If this genre of social media post provokes deja vu, there's a good reason for that.

“He’s trying to mimic President Trump,” MAGA vanguard Steve Bannon tells POLITICO. “He’s no Trump, but if you look at the Democratic Party, he's at least getting up there, and he's trying to imitate a Trumpian vision of fighting, right? He looks like the only person in the Democratic Party who is organizing a fight that they feel they can win.”

For a decade, President Donald Trump has blazed trails online. And now, Newsom has found that by replicating Trump’s posts to the point of outright parody and trolling, he’s effectively gamed social media algorithms and colonized X’s typically right-coded “for you” tab.

In doing so, Newsom is not only getting on Republicans’ nerves, but also potentially redefining how Democrats function as the opposition party in the age of Trump.

Michelle Obama famously advised Democrats to live by a dictum: “When they go low, we go high.” Newsom has approached it a bit differently: When they go low, we go low, and — backed by lots of AI-generated slop — end up high in the algorithm.

"I’ve changed,” Newsom told Fox LA when asked about his new media approach in an interview that posted overnight. “The facts have changed; we [Democrats] need to change.”

Newsom’s MAGA-flavored posts have birthed an organic outburst of user-generated memes — not dissimilar to the dynamic Trump has inspired (and from which he has drawn over the years in posts on his @realDonaldTrump accounts). There’s Newsom riding a raptor into battle, a tattered Old Glory rippling in the wind behind him. There’s Newsom riding a different dinosaur while shirtless and sporting an eight-pack of abs, raising pistols in the air. (Newsom’s office tells POLITICO they don’t use AI to generate written content, though lean on it to create visuals.)

Newsom “isn’t just trolling MAGA; he’s proving to Democrats that stepping off your digital high horse and entering the fray is both messy and worth it,” says Stefan Smith, a digital strategist who was online engagement director on Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 campaign. “The man was political roadkill a few months ago but, with a shift in strategy, he’s become a cause célèbre of the Resistance 2.0. No doubt the rest of the 2028 shadow primary entrants are taking notes.”

In some ways, it’s like peering into the near future of what a post-literate presidential campaign might look like. (In case you have trouble imagining who might occupy such a race, look no further than the side-by-side post of Newsom and fellow meme lord Vice President JD Vance, which has been seen on X at least 54 million times.)

“Newsom has entered the digital dojo, and he’s performing the sort of memetic jujitsu that’s scaring Republican white belts unused to actual competition,” Smith tells POLITICO. “For too long, Democrats have been posted up in the parking lot, too afraid of getting it wrong to throw a jab. This should energize folks to get into the octagon.”

Voices on the right are noticing, too. “If I were his wife, I would say you are making a fool of yourself,” Fox News’ Dana Perino said, speaking of Newsom’s antics on X. “He's got a big job as governor of California, but if he wants an even bigger job, he has to be a little more serious.”

In private, staffers in Newsom’s press office smiled. Perino said nothing about the leader of the free world’s own social posting — the very thing Newsom is emulating.

“ALMOST A WEEK IN AND THEY STILL DON'T GET IT,” the account responded. The next morning, “Governor Newsom Press Office” again flickered to life. “FOX IS LOSING IT BECAUSE WHEN I TYPE, AMERICA NOW WINS!!!”

Perino responded to Newsom’s post during Tuesday’s episode of “The Five” on Fox News. “I thought they hated Trump, but they’re trying to be more like him and they have to pay people to do it. The thing is, what I was saying yesterday is that I believe that everybody needs to find their own way,” Perino said.

She continued, drawing a parallel to New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “If you think about Mamdani, his authenticity is what rocketed him to the top. And now you have Cuomo trying to copy him, and it’s just cringe. And that was my point. Is that if you’re doing this and it’s not authentic and you’re trying to do somebody else who you say is Hitler and you think that we don’t get the joke, oh no, we get the joke, it’s just not funny.”

Newsom’s press office says that Trump has used all-caps less in his own posts of late. White House communications director Steven Cheung is posting about the account, and recently said that Newsom is a “coward and Beta Cuck” for not fielding questions at a press conference. (He was, in fact, as a livestreamed video showed.) Newsom’s press office shot back: “Steven Cheung (incompetent Trump staffer) doesn’t know how to use his computer. SAD!” White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson called Newsom’s posts “weird and not at all funny.”

Newsom’s staff count these critiques as wins. In their minds, the Trump aides are, in an indirect way, critiquing their own boss when attacking Newsom’s tactics.

“I hope it’s a wake-up call for the president of the United States,” the California governor said recently, breaking character when asked about his X posts. “I’m sort of following his example. If you’ve got issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns about what he’s putting out as president. … I think the deeper question is how have we allowed the normalization of his tweets, Truth Social posts over the course of the last many years, to go without similar scrutiny and notice?”

Asked for a comment, the White House sent POLITICO an original meme, referencing a famous scene from the show “Mad Men.” (It is, to our knowledge, the first official White House press statement delivered exclusively in meme form.)

Added Abigail Jackson: “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

The “Governor Newsom Press Office” account has humble origins. The handle, @GovPressOffice, was created by aides to Jerry Brown — a man more given to Zen Buddhism than the fever swamps of the internet — and belongs to the California governor’s office. Because of that, just as Brown’s aides passed it off to Newsom in January 2019, Newsom will hand it off to his successor in January 2027; he won’t be able to take what he built with him when his term ends.

And what his team has built is substantial. As of this writing, the “Governor Newsom Press Office” account has 408,000 followers on X. Since the beginning of August, it has gained more than 250,000 followers and earned more than 225 million impressions, according to Newsom’s office.

Though some online observers speculated that Newsom digital director Camille Zapata primarily steers the effort, POLITICO has learned that the account is helmed by a team of four or five people — a sort of "brain rot" trust that includes Newsom communications director Izzy Gardon and rapid response director Brandon Richards. Newsom’s office declined to describe the governor’s level of involvement, but told POLITICO that he leads the effort.

No other prospective 2028 candidate — Democrat or Republican — is breaking through in the online attention economy like Newsom. And it’s not just his press office’s account: His campaign X account tops 2.4 million followers. On his campaign accounts alone, since 2025 began, Newsom has gained 2.96 million followers across TikTok, Instagram, X and Substack. All of that has earned him a billion-plus views and impressions, his team tells POLITICO.

Still, AI slop and dinosaur memes don’t vote in Democratic primaries. But Democrats who are way more offline — and who hail from far beyond the Golden State — are also noticing Newsom.

“I’ve heard a lot of people say how happy they are to see a Democrat fighting back,” says Jim Demers, a former New Hampshire state representative and member of Stand Up New Hampshire, a group organizing town halls in the early primary state. “There’s this feeling that Democrats are not fighting hard enough, and he's showing the fight people are looking for."

“People in the MAGA movement and the America First movement should start paying attention to this, because it’s not going to go away,” Bannon tells POLITICO. “They’re only going to get more intense.”