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(Dave Whamond, caglecartoons.com, Canada)
(Bart van Leeuwen, Oedipoes.com, Netherlands)
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(Steve Greenberg, steve@greenberg-art.com)
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(Matt Davies, Newsday; context here)
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(Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune)
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"... Trump doesn’t deserve the respect of the office he holds, so it is fine to make jokes about him pooping in the beverage cart in the bed of the catering truck.
"Also, he is a coward who’s scared of everything, who’s building a bunker so he can hide from the fruits of his own late-stage emperor syphilis brain destruction of the world, so that is some context.
"Also, Trump is currently declaring that we’ve got Iran right where we want ‘em! That we are “low-keying” it with them, letting them run out of money while we don’t attack them, you betcha! Meanwhile Iran is explaining that it’s gonna just wait to negotiate with the US until there’s somebody in office who isn’t totally braindead, let’s pencil it in for 2029 or so..." -- Evan Hurst, in "Wonkette," writing about "Why Is The Airplane's Catering Truck Farting, Mommy? Because The President Is In It, Dear." This story has so many legs on so many levels that it could become The Metaphor/ Meme of the Malignant Fascist's second go-around. But we promise to move on ... eventually.
Operation Epic Fail: Hormuz nuz, movin' on, you lost --
> @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/gulf-s...
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) August 11, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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Trump may want to “move on,” may be eager to “declare success,” and be trying to “impose his will.” But his missteps have been disastrous, leaving Iran in a far stronger position (and the U.S. weaker) than it was before he started this war of choice with Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...
— Larry Glickman (@larryglickman.bsky.social) August 11, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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A quick lesson on winning and losing a war. If you start a war of choice, blow through masses of your weapons stocks so that you cannot escalate effectively, and find the country you attacked dictating negotiating terms while in a stronger strategic position. You lost.
— Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 5:59 AM
We could have just not done any of this. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) August 11, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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Operation Catering Truck --
STUNNING: Trump left the White House press corps in Turkey as a decoy to be attacked by Iran—and instead flew out on a secret plane: wapo.st/4i1OByh
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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I’ll have the chicken. Youre in luck, there’s one left.
— David Waldman (@kagrox.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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the press corps just held a dinner in his honor
— shauna (@goldengateblond.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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The catering cart memes are doing me in ☠️π Please add any I missed in the replies. We need this laugh.
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) August 11, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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The depraved Malignant Fascist's political war on childhood illnesses --
Trump trying to shore up the MAHA base ahead of the midterms.
— Walker Bragman (@walkerbragman.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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"States, rather than the federal government, generally set vaccination requirements for children attending school. Many states have already said they no longer follow vaccine recommendations from the federal government and instead follow those from the American Academy of Pediatrics..."
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Who's holding the cards now? Slava Ukraini! --
U.S. President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy he had 'no cards' in the war against Moscow's invasion. Then Kyiv took the fight to Russia.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) August 11, 2026 at 6:15 AM
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Drones reportedly attacked an oil refinery in Orsk,Russia’s Orenburg region. Orsknefteorgsintez is one of Russia’s largest oil refineries, with a processing capacity of around 6 million tonnes of crude oil per year.It produces gasoline, diesel,fuel oil,bitumen,jet fuel, other petroleum products.
— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) August 11, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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Kiss of death, or ETTD --
Kiss of death.
— Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.com) August 11, 2026 at 5:40 AM
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Worth remembering --
EVERYTHING this man does is to divert the focus from the EPSTEIN Files. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.
— Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) August 11, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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Epstein died 7 yrs ago; happy anniversary to all who celebrate. If Trump & Blanche have nothing to hide, there's an astonishingly easy way to prove it: stop breaking your own law to hide the damn files. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/the-gops-l...
— John Fugelsang (@johnfugelsang.bsky.social) August 11, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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Such a happy marriage (compared to Abdul El-Sayed's !) --
Melania’s face just hit CtrI+Alt+Delete.
— ππ¦ππππ πΎπ¦π£π (@sundaedivine.lol) August 11, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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Several states are having their primaries for various offices. Here's a McPaper summary:
Major battles in Wisconsin and Minnesota highlight a six-state primary field on Tuesday, Aug. 11. And much like in Michigan's Aug. 4 Democratic Senate primary, a progressive upstart candidate is making headlines in the Upper Midwest.
Outspoken state Rep. Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, leads polls in a chaotic Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor despite being publicly ridiculed for her questionable past social media comments. Outgoing Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat who endorsed her rival Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, is publicly questioning if Hong could win the general election.
And in Minnesota, President Donald Trump is putting his winning endorsement record at stake by backing controversy-prone former MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for governor in the Republican primary. The winner will face Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a likely lock in the Democratic primary, to replace embattled Gov. Tim Walz, who is not seeking a fourth term amid a [weaponized] federal investigation into widespread welfare fraud in the state. [snip]
And in South Carolina, U.S. Senator Darline Graham, two congressmen and a former governor are among the 10 Republicans competing in a special primary election to replace her brother, the late U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, on the Palmetto State's general election ballot in November.
Even though Trump endorsed Graham, who was sworn in last month and became the first woman to represent South Carolina in the U.S. Senate, to complete the remaining months of her brother’s current term, she's not a lock to win the special contest. The crowded field could lead to a runoff if no candidate captures 50% of the vote.
Three other states, Alabama, Connecticut, and Vermont, will hold primaries ranging including congressional, state house seats and governor's races in the two New England states...
Wisconsin is the big focus for Dems today; South Carolina for the Republican cult. We hope if you're in any one of today's primary states that you exercise your right to vote.
The Malignant Fascist's regime has been the most anti-science, anti-medicine administration in U.S. history, and yesterday's issuance of a MF executive order on vaccines for children just underlined that fact. In a dangerous and potentially lethal change from medically-approved practices, the junk science advocate MF's order provides for spacing of childhood vaccinations, rather than administering them in combination. From the Associated Press:
"President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.
The order advocates separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different single-disease shots and administering all childhood immunizations at separate appointments whenever possible. It also directs the nation’s health department to improve research on vaccines, which are already extensively studied, and present a plan to offer separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines for children, since that is not currently an option in the United States. [snip]
Public health experts have raised concerns that spacing out shots as Trump suggests can lead to an increased risk that children become infected with a vaccine-preventable disease before returning for another visit. Childhood vaccines — and how and when to give them in combination — go through rigorous studies, and safety tracking continues for years as the shots are used." [snip]
Dr. Andrew Racine, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the announcement spreads uncertainty, fear and confusion where 'there doesn’t need to be any of that.' He disputed Trump’s recommendations and said previous ones should stand.
'Science about vaccines and their efficacy has not changed,' he said. 'The distribution of viruses and other pathogens in our environment has not changed. Children in this country have not changed in the last 48 hours.'" (our emphasis)
The MF's flaky Health and Human Services Secretary Bobby Brainworm has long been an advocate of few to no vaccines, spreading the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism in children. Vaccines and other medical practices are a popular target for far-right, conspiracy promoting ignoramuses, who favor Facebook medicine, home remedies, and snake-handling over a physician's care. This is a serious setback for children's health.
BONUS: As expected, the presidents of both the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have issued statements blasting the MF's EO. The American Pharmacists Association and American Public Health Association followed suit. But, one could choose to believe the narcissistic psychopathic moron and Bobby Brainworm instead.
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You might recall when the Malignant Fascist was leaving the NATO summit in Turkey last month with his tail between his legs, opting not to fly on his Omani bribe jet because of an assassination threat from Iran? Well, the plot just thickened:
President Donald Trump is facing criticism for using the press and others aboard Air Force One as decoys last month when he faced a threat from Iran ― all while reportedly dodging that threat himself.
The Washington Post and The New York Times on Monday reported that last-minute travel changes on July 8, as the president left a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, were far more extensive than the public had been led to believe.
Trump had arrived in Turkey on his new plane, a $400 million gift from Qatar. On departure, however, he sent that plane ahead to a U.S. military base in the United Kingdom. Trump, his staff and the media then boarded an older Air Force One plane.
But Trump was not on that older Air Force One plane when it took off.
Right after boarding, he hid in a catering container truck, which took him to a third aircraft ― a U.S. military C-32A ― while the press and some of his staff stayed aboard the previous Air Force One, all while letting them remain under the impression that he was aboard as well.
Once all three planes were on the ground in the U.K., Trump secretly returned to the older Air Force One aircraft and exited as if he had been there the whole time. Everyone then returned to the Qatar-gifted jet to complete the journey back to the United States, according to the reports.
Trump not only didn’t disclose the ruse to the media on the plane he left behind, but later made light of the situation when reporters asked why they had to keep the shades down when the plane was in Turkey. He said it was because they had been aboard a “dangerous flight” due to the threats he was facing from Iran... (our emphasis)
The MF using the air crew, press, and others as human decoys -- priceless. The MF hiding in a catering truck to avoid detection -- that's the first place we'd expect the Bulbous One to be!!
LOL:
π¨π¨π¨EXCLUSIVE. Meidas has obtained footage of Trump hiding in the catering truck while switching planes.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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Somehow this is less "Mission Impossible" than "Mission Impossible Burger," but totally on-brand for our brave Cadet Bone Spurs!
BONUS: More here.
"... Each member of the trio brings something valuable to the deal. Pakistan has nuclear weapons, Saudi Arabia has more money than Croesus and Turkey has the second-biggest standing army in Europe. This is a formidable team.
"This story has flown a bit under the radar, but anything involving war and peace in the Middle East clearly has potential to affect U.S. politics. For starters, Saudi Arabia no longer has to count on the U.S. for its defense. If Iran were to attack the Kingdom, the large, modern, and well-equipped Turkish army would be there for the Kingdom of Saud, backed up an implicit threat from Pakistan to go nuclear if things began looking bad. That won't make the U.S. irrelevant in the Middle East, but it does reduce its power. If Trump were to give MbS an order he didn't like and MbS disregarded it, Trump might say: 'I won't defend you anymore.' MbS can now reply: 'My friends will.'
"Fundamentally, the agreement says that an attack on one of them is an attack on all of them. The agreement also strengthens military cooperation among the three countries in other ways. Among these is work on a maritime defense coalition. Turkey is also a major producer of military equipment, which the other two countries could start buying instead of U.S. equipment. Clearly this pact is aimed at Iran, but it is also a warning to the U.S. that it is not the only game in town anymore.
"It is also a model for the E.U. If Trump pulls out of NATO, the members (which include Turkey) could also form a new defense pact. Japan, South Korea and other countries in Asia could also agree to form defense pacts. There could end up being half a dozen or more of them, the result of which would be a greatly reduced role for the U.S. in the world, something the next president would not be able to put back together. Trump would then have succeeded in his goal in changing the U.S. from a dominant world power to just another regional bully. That genie is not going back into the bottle." -- Andrew Tannenbaum, Electoral-vote.com, on the formidable new alliance between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. Under the Malignant Fascist, any hope that America would continue to project power through its alliances is fading fast. When that power was used to forward democracy and prosperity around the world, as it is not under the MF, it was clearly a good thing. No longer. Now it's every country, every bloc, for themselves in a world that is measurably less stable, less secure, less peaceful now that the MF is running his worldwide grift and extortion racket. Sic effing transit gloria, America.
Operation Epic Fail / Trump's awesomeness has limits --
Iran is now publicly talking about what I’ve been saying since this war started: They’re trying to Jimmy Carter him, and he’s letting it happen while telling everyone he’s winning.
— Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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"Trump is accustomed to surrounding himself with sycophants whose only skill is assuring Trump that Trump is the greatest. More, Trump is accustomed to relentlessly refusing to absorb or understand anything that contradicts his own fantasies of his own overweening awesomeness."
— Shola Hoon (@sholahoon.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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TRUMP, IN JUNE, to BBC regarding Netanyahu: “If I tell him to do something, he does it.” NETANYAHU, IN AUGUST:
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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Trump's crooked princeling son-in-law / tyro "diplomat" --
“A letter from 2 years ago written by villagers from an Albanian peninsula where Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner plan to build a luxury resort has undermined their assertion they were unaware of claims the land was stolen...” π€ So many corrupt lies. www.thedailybeast.com/bombshell-le...
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) August 9, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Two words you don’t see in most of the recent stories about the quagmire in Iran: “Kushner” and “Witkoff” As for Jared, his wife has been posting cutesy photos of their family vacation in Iceland.
— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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Trump's ICE thugs ramping up terror --
Employing new tactics, ICE arrested more people in July than in any previous month of the Trump administration. via @stateline.org www.newsfromthestates.com/article/new-...
— States Newsroom (@statesnewsroom.com) August 10, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Meet Whiskey Pete Hegseth's spiritual advisor --
This is the white supremacist, domestic terrorist, religious wack job that Hangover Hegseth worships. Its time to start putting these people in Supermax prisons where they belong so they spend the rest of their lives in solitary confinement and can't spread their poison anymore.
— Veterans Against Trump (@vetsat.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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Incompetence and worse at Interior --
Remember when Doug Burgum was touted as one of the sensible Republicans? At the Dept. of Interior, he's surrounded by a toxic, hyper-ideological leadership team, paranoia & secrecy & document shredding are rampant, career staff are stampeding out the door, & incompetence rules the day.
— David Roberts (@volts.wtf) August 9, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Looming Medicaid crisis thanks to Trump / Republicans' "Big Beautiful Bill" --
Things are atrocious rn on this front but I do not think we are prepared for what happens after January, if we’re indeed on track for what Republicans and trump have planned for medicaid
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Body- shaming is appropriate in Trump's case --
The Leaning Tower of Feces has got to be one of the best descriptions of Trump.
— The Sgt Joker (@thesgtjoker.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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Maybe stick with the Nazi salute, "Leon"? --
the falling robot danced better than this
— Nitish Pahwa (@nitishpahwa.com) August 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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Amen! --
Can I get an amen?
— God (@thegodshow.com) August 9, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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While working families can't afford gas, groceries or health insurance, and as the war with Iran simmers and threatens to expand, the increasingly deranged and decaying Malignant Fascist was at his Bedminster golf club this weekend working hard at .....golf. Observers also noted what appeared to be bruises on his right forearm (from shaking hands?). The obese Captain Cankles is suffering from chronic venous insufficiency in his legs, but these arm bruises are very curious. From MSN:
"Donald Trump looked a little worse for wear as he bared his bruised arms during a golf outing.
The 80-year-old president was captured in Bedminster, New Jersey on Saturday, attending the LIV Golf New York tournament at his own Trump National course.
Not one to spend too much time on foot while golfing, Trump was photographed slouching in a golf cart, decked out in his bright white, heavily-branded presidential merch.
With his forearms exposed by a polo shirt, Trump revealed bruises of varying sizes, alongside what looked to be a couple of scrapes.
Trump also sported Band-Aids on a couple of fingers of his right hand, which he rested on his knee while squinting forward at the route ahead.
While Trump is known for suspicious bruising, usually it’s the president’s hands—not arm—which draw attention.
Previously, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed a career of frequent hand-shaking for the bruising on his right hand, which is often slathered in a shiny layer of makeup." (our emphasis)
His corrupt and dishonest team won't level with the American people about his mental and medical problems. Meanwhile, the out-of-touch MF has spent the first two weekends in August golfing. He's spent 126 confirmed days golfing out of 567 days in office (22% of his time). Recently the New York effing Times' Maggie Haberman estimated that the MF is spending 70% of his time building monuments to himself / building a gilded ballroom, etc., so that leaves only 8% of his time left for shitposting on his failing "Truth" Social and grifting.
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The cast of characters in the corrupt and addled Malignant Fascist's circle are grotesque, from Box Wine Pirro, to nutty former heroin addict Bobby Brainworm, to performance artist Whiskey Pete Hegseth, and pedophile protector and grifting facilitator Blanche. Of course at the top of the dung heap is the MF himself, who's gotten himself into a mess with Iran and a sinking economy at home. Along with their venality and cruelty, they're just plain stupid too.
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New rumblings are emerging about a new political party being concocted by betrayed MAGA luminaries, but according to the D.C. insiders at Pod Save America, these rumors actually pose a disaster for President Donald Trump and his allies, as well as "a gift to Democrats like you cannot imagine."
In the latest episode of the "Pod Save America" podcast, former Obama administration officials Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer touched on the emerging rumors that ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson might be plotting a run for president, as well as the rumors about a new political party that might coalesce around him. The rumors went into overdrive after former congresswoman-turned-Trump critic Marjorie Taylor Greene shared a photo to X of herself at Carlson's Maine compound, alongside Rep. Thomas Massie and Joe Kent, along with the caption, "The movement has begun."
"MAGA was betrayed. We all were. It's time for a new path forward," she added in another post.
While Carlson has denied any presidential ambitions, he did last week release a "10-point plan for America," outlining his vision for the future of the country, something that Favreau, Obama's one-time director of speechwriting, said "sounds pretty 'I'm going to run in 2028.'"
The hosts of Pod Save America, especially former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vieter, have long despaired about the possibility of Carlson running for president, given that his established popularity with the GOP base and his well-honed media skills could make him a highly effective "demagogue." In light of this news, however, Pfieffer, Obama's former senior communications adviser, argued that Carlson's political threat to Democrats was entirely neutralized and that he would instead become a major threat to MAGA Republicans.
"There's been a lot of talk of Tucker Carlson being a formidable presidential candidate because of his media skills, mainly because of his media skills," Pfeiffer explained. "That was always under the assumption he would be the Republican nominee, right? Tucker Carlson, a third-party candidate, is a gift to Democrats like you cannot imagine."
He continued: "There aren't a lot of potential John Ossoff, [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro voters who are voting for Tucker Carlson, but there are a lot of disillusioned Trump 2024 voters who might vote for Tucker Carlson. That's how you win. So that would be very good news. Like, we should encourage this. This would be great... It does speak to how much the MAGA coalition has truly fractured under Trump's second term, right? Because of Epstein, apparently because of the war, there are these incredibly prominent people with large audiences who have soured on Trump."
Every day that the bastards are fighting amongst themselves and splintering is a good day, for Democrats and for democracy.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected President Trump's 15-point peace plan for Gaza, saying Israeli forces will not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas is "genuinely disarmed."
"We are talking about genuine disarmament, not fictitious disarmament," he said at a meeting with government ministers Sunday.
Netanyahu's comments come just over a week after President Trump announced that his Board of Peace had reached a deal with the Palestinian militant group to completely give up its weapons.
"Today, the Board of Peace reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza. This is a monumental step toward lasting PEACE and SECURITY," Trump wrote on social media in late July.
Under Trump's proposed peace deal, Board of Peace officials said Hamas and other militant groups would hand their arms over to a vetted international policing force.
But a senior Hamas official previously told NPR that the group would only hand over their weapons if Israel withdrew from parts of Gaza first...
Given that the Malignant Fascist is a pathological liar without the slightest knowledge base about the Middle East or skill in negotiation, combined with a toddler's attention span and attention to detail, it wasn't hard to imagine that the HISTORIC agreement he rashly trumpeted was just a creation of his desperate, diminished mind. At best, he thought he could bum rush Netanyahu into agreeing to an agreement by making a premature announcement -- a classic Shart of the Deal move by him. But he ends up looking like he got played like a fiddle (which he was). He puts American prestige and lives on the line every day just to make his worthless orange self look as good as he can. That this disgraceful behavior isn't called out for what it is every day in our credulous, broken media is another scandal of our times.
President Donald Trump has found a new way to go after politicians he doesn’t like: dragging their marriages into his political feuds.
On Saturday, the 80-year-old president unleashed a flurry of posts on Truth Social, including one targeting Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, 41, and his wife.
The post paired a photo of Trump and Melania Trump, 56, with one of El-Sayed and his wife, Dr. Sarah Jukaku, putting the two couples side by side beneath the typo-riddled caption: “Two VERY DIFFERENT America’s.”
Trump also singled out El-Sayed’s full name, identifying him as “Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed”—a pointed choice that echoes his repeated emphasis on Barack Obama’s middle name, “Hussein.”
When asked about Trump’s post on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, El-Sayed agreed that the two marriages represented “two very different Americas,” but turned the president’s jab back on him. He contrasted what he described as a marriage between “two people who don’t like each other” but are united by their shared interest in making “billions of dollars off of you” with his own relationship with Jukaku, which he said is rooted in genuine love, family, and even enjoying “some pancakes together.”...
The MF's completely on-brand racist, Islamophobic post got many more pointed rebukes from social media pointing out truths about his third wife and marriage, but JFC what a piece of shit we have representing our country, always in the most despicable ways possible. Two very different Americas, indeed.
"... The sexual and physical violence against women and children documented in OIA’s report is not an aberration — it is a reflection of the agencies’ culture. The report finds that misogyny is not merely tolerated but embedded in the institutional DNA, from the lowest-ranking agents to the highest levels of national leadership. The Guardian reported that at least six CBP officers had personal relationships with Jeffrey Epstein and were involved in facilitating group travel to and from his private island.
"Also, the current Trump administration is using white nationalist propaganda to recruit ICE agents, and administration officials at the highest levels are speaking about immigrants in dehumanizing and racist ways.
"Finally, the administration has adopted an “above the law” attitude that empowers and excuses agents who do bad things. A judge said ICE has developed “a troubling culture of lawlessness.” The report describes how ICE agents are increasingly using the tactics of criminals to arrest people on American streets — unmarked cars, masks, aggressive vehicle pursuits, and physical force — and criminals are also impersonating ICE agents to rape, kidnap, and rob victims..." -- from a summary of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance's (OIA) report "They Walk Among Us" (pdf), released in July, of 59 ICE and Border Patrol Agents involved in sexual and physical violence against women and children, and of the utterly lax vetting, hiring and training policies employed by the two agencies that have become essentially the Malignant Fascist's SA (Sturmabteilung).
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(Christopher Weyant, caglecartoons.com)
(Ann Telnaes, anntelnaes.substack.com)
(Rick McKee, caglecartoons.com; context here)
(David Horsey, The Seattle Times)
(Ella Baron, The Sunday Times, UK)
(Daniel Boris, @danboriscreates)
(Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator, Canada; context here)
(Mike Smith, Las Vegas Sun)
(Dennis Goris, @dennisgoris)
(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
(John Deering, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
(David Sipress, @dsipress)
"The American Dream has become an American Nightmare. It’s too expensive to buy a home. It’s too expensive to get married and have kids. It’s too expensive to retire comfortably.
People are working hard every day, they're playing by the rules of today, but those rules weren't written for us. They were written for billionaires. We can't afford a home, but Jeff Bezos has at least a dozen. We can't afford to fill up our tank, but Mark Zuckerberg is launching helicopters off of his mega yacht. One in five Texas children live in poverty, but one of our own residents became the world's first trillionaire. Those three men now own more wealth than the entire middle class. The top 1% put the American Dream behind a paywall." -- Dem candidate for the Senate in Texas James Talarico, speaking recently in Arlington, TX, where he picked up the endorsement of the city's independent mayor Jim Ross. While the polls in Texas show a tight race, Talarico has the lead and the momentum, as his felonious and adulterous opponent Ken Paxton can't shake his history.
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The Very Stable Genius and con man the Malignant Fascist bumbled his way into a war with Iran that has backfired spectacularly on him. Munitions shortages, including precision missiles, are now in extremely short supply, and the Strait of Hormuz remains essentially closed to traffic. A second front has opened in Yemen with the Houthis attacking Saudi shipping in the Red Sea. Iran, as the MF would say, holds a lot of cards. From the Associated Press:
"The Strait of Hormuz is, by some accounts, named for a Zoroastrian deity destined to emerge victorious after a 9,000-year standoff with an adversary.
Iran’s leaders feel their own victory is at hand and won’t require the same epic patience.
They are betting that military pressure will ultimately force the United States to accept their control over the crucial waterway for global energy — and that time is on their side.
They know about the diminishing stockpiles of key U.S. weapons such as advanced missile interceptors. They know the war is deeply unpopular with Americans. They know that as long as the strait is largely closed, the price of gas and other goods will stay high ahead of U.S. congressional elections in November. They know that trying to open it by force would be costly and may require American ground troops. They know their Houthi allies in Yemen could widen the war and disrupt another major trade route." (our emphasis)
They clearly know, too, that the MF is a dangerous moron, who can't be trusted and who is desperate to find a way out of the mess he and his war whisperer Netanyahu got into. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine is also reported to be urging an "exit ramp" from the debacle, as the war degrades U.S. military capabilities in the event of another national security crisis.
A "deal" seems to be evolving that is patterned after the 14 point Memorandum of Understanding developed earlier, but Iran, knowing they have the orange MF over an oil barrel, is now demanding war reparations, an end to the blockade of Iranian ports, and an end to the war with it and its allies (Hezbollah, Houthis) before any negotiations proceed. In weighing this "deal," the MF will also have to contend with an aggressive Netanyahu, who would see it as a disaster for Israel's security and his own political future. The next few days and weeks will see if the MF caves or not.
