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Malignant Fascist to reward his January 6 seditionists by stealing taxpayer money --
Even by Trump standards, reading his “settlement” with the IRS made me feel insane. Every lever of this thing is controlled by Trump, or some lackey he controls. A diabolicial little Rube Goldberg machine of corruption, to the tune of $1.8 billion in public resources. Vile stuff.
— Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) May 18, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Trump's $1.8 billion theft, made simple: Lawsuits are supposed to be real. His lawsuit against the IRS was fake. "It is illegal, because Congress has said you can use this money only to settle real cases," @harrylitman.bsky.social tells me. Much more on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2106...
— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) May 19, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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JUST NOW: Trump defends stealing $1.7 BILLION from taxpayers for himself and his fellow allies/lawbreakers Also notice “1.776 Billion” — because he wants to seem patriotic as he robs taxpayers blind
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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At least 78 people pardoned for participating in the US Capitol riot have been arrested for unrelated charges, @wendling.bsky.social reports. That's more than twice as many as has been previously reported. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-jan-6t...
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Trump wants to give money to the people who beat up cops on Jan. 6 because he wants them to beat up any cops in the future who oppose his ongoing coup.
— Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Couch molesting JD Vance blurts out the truth. Clumsiest stiff ever --
JD Vance: "If you want to rebuilt the American dream for the next generation, vote against the crazy leadership in Washington DC"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 18, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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The rot is spreading --
This crew is the picture of health
— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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The MF really wants Rep. Massie defeated for forcing him to release Epstein files --
Trump released a last minute video against Thomas Massie. He really wants to defeat the guy who forced him to begin releasing the Epstein files.
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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From the "no stupid wars" President, another stupid war --
A military invasion of Cuba is really on the table and the reason is to distract from the military fiasco that is the Iran War. "Now Iran has gone sideways, and the Cubans are proving much tougher than originally thought. So now military action is on the table in a way that it wasn’t before."
— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) May 19, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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The MF suggests he, Putin and Xi undermine the International Criminal Court. Naturally. --
According to anonymous sources, President Trump himself suggested that China, the U.S., and Russia work together to fight the International Criminal Court. trib.al/83esZud Trump apparently thinks he is unbound by any international laws.
— The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) May 19, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Answer: Yes of course --
Could the Administration be any more horrible? www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
— John Sipher (@johnsipher.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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"...At this point Trump and his MAGA minions have stolen so much, committed so many crimes — not just theft but taking America to war illegally, abusing ICE detainees, and much more — that if and when they lose power many of them will face personal ruin at best, years of jail time at worst. This would happen even if they stopped committing more crimes.
"So there’s no incentive for them to end their criminality, or to end the attempts to bribe others to go along. Either they succeed in destroying America as we know it, or they won’t. And until that’s resolved, they may as well engage in even more corruption and criminal acts.
"Think of it this way: The gravity of what the Trumpists have already done has created a sort of black hole at the center of American political life — and the Trumpists have already crossed the event horizon, the boundary beyond which there is no escape. So they will do ever more terrible things, because they have nothing more to lose." -- Paul Krugman, concluding his Substack essay on "The Looting of America" by the Malignant Fascist and his MAGA minions. It's been noted that the looting of America is all part of the "me first" MF / MAGA DNA. And as the post below discusses, the Orwellian "Anti-Weaponization Fund" created to reimburse the MF's worst, most violent and un-democratic shock troops is just the latest openly corrupt outrage. Krugman predicts (and we agree) the regime's criminality from top to bottom will continue and quite probably accelerate because there's no incentive for them to do otherwise.
Not long ago, the hugely corrupt and vicious Malignant Fascist filed a $10 billion lawsuit against his own IRS for not stopping the leak of his income tax papers, with his own corrupt Justice Department "defending" the Government. The court was expected to toss the frivolous and self-dealing lawsuit, so the MF ordered his flunkies to settle out of court. The illegal settlement was for $1.776 billion, which would allegedly go to pay off the January 6 violent seditionists and others impacted by the MF's big lie. From PBS:
"The Trump administration on Monday announced the creation a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies of the Republican president who believe they were mistreated by the Biden administration Justice Department.
The 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' was announced by the Justice Department as part of a deal to resolve President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in announcing the fund in a statement that it was 'a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress.'
Democrats and government watchdogs immediately pledged to fight what they called a 'corrupt' and unprecedented resolution, warning that the arrangement would unjustly enrich people close to the president with taxpayer dollars and open the door to meritless claims of political persecution. [snip]
The fund would represent not only a highly unorthodox resolution but also a further demonstration of the administration's eagerness to reward allies who before Trump came to power were investigated and in some cases charged and convicted. Most notably, the president on his first day back in office pardoned or commuted the sentences of supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His Justice Department since then has approved payouts to supporters entangled in the Trump-Russia investigation and investigated and prosecuted some of his perceived adversaries." (our emphasis)
The depravity of rewarding the violent goons that stormed the Capitol, beat up police causing 140 to be treated for injuries and several to die, wrecking the building, stealing property, and smearing their feces on the floor of the Capitol, is breathtaking. There's no question that the MF will find a way to pay himself for being "mistreated" by the Biden Administration. Imagine how many Federal agencies the felonious MF could sue and then have his Justice Department settle before the case goes to trial. This action is also being seen as the MF buying his own militia for future thuggery on his behalf.
The settlement was so obviously corrupt that the Treasury Department's General Counsel Brian Morrissey, an appointee of the MF, resigned yesterday in apparent disgust. More should do so, but won't, just as the corporate media will shrug and treat this as a one-day story, if that. The theft continues.
BONUS: Senate Dems plan to make Republicans go on the record on the MF's "Anti-Weaponization Fund."
(photo: These violent rioters may soon be a lot wealthier. AP Photo/John Minchillo)
As Stephen Colbert enters the last week of his glorious 11-year "Late Show" run, he decided to show all the worst bits that didn't make it onto air for whatever reason. Here's his introduction to the show; the full extended episode (an hour and 10 minutes) is here.
"... One can retain whatever sympathy one wants for the ordinary folks who were snookered by Trump or, for whatever reasons, believe something had to be done to arrest what they viewed as America’s decline.
"But
no such nuance or too-clever-by-half analysis of the motives and goals
of this president, his administration nor the current Trump-abetting,
MAGAfied GOP is necessary, nor helpful. Make America Great Again is best
understood as a punchline, a sick inside joke among Trumpworld elites,
who callously and often seemingly gleefully preside over worsening
conditions of life for ordinary Americans, while stuffing their own bank
accounts, nursing their preferred grievances and sabotaging the
institutions that might at least give us a fighting chance to have a
better future. It’s not America First. It’s a particularly deranged and
vicious version of me first, America and its people be damned." -- Jonathan Weiler concluding his essay, "The Ultimate Irony of MAGA." In the intervening ten-years-plus since the Malignant Fascist descended his "gold"-trimmed escalator, anyone who believes in the clownish demagogue deserves no sympathy at all, because they haven't been "snookered;" they're with him for the reasons that make him so odious and dangerous to the rest of us. That aside, it's of course deeply ironic that the MF's "brand" is "Make America Great Again," given the reality of his path of destruction though our Constitution, rule of law, basic norms, and world standing, all the while enriching himself, his corrupt family, and his Epstein class cronies.
“He’s saying it brings back 1964, 1963, 1892,” Abrams said, when “race neutral” laws made it harder for Black Americans to vote.
“The race neutral laws that were in place prior to the Voting Rights Act said that you could have poll taxes and literacy taxes that diminished participation, but were race neutral,” Abrams said.
She said Johnson is from the South and should understand as well as anyone that “this is bollocks, that this is hogwash. They are very clear that race and partisanship sit side-by-side.”
Abrams continued, saying the “remarkably racist behavior” that was thwarted by the Voting Rights Act has now returned. “And so what he is celebrating is the return of Jim Crow to the South. And that is a terrible thing for America.”
Racist MAGAt Republican mfs.
(h/t democraticunderground.com)
Operation Epic Epstein Fury's unpopularity --
“.. Nearly two-thirds of voters said that going to war had been the wrong decision, including almost three-quarters of politically crucial independents.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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Trump's kowtowing misadventure in China --
A perfect encapsulation of Trump’s ridiculous trip to China by @davidlurie.bsky.social in @atrupar.com’s PN:
— Susan McPherson (@susanmcp.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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Trump's all-encompassing corruption--
Sometimes, a scandal is so big you have to pick off one piece of it. So in the case of Trump's insane stock trading, pick this: He did 6 trades of Intel stock. That company now counts the US government as a $9 billion stakeholder, thanks to Trump's intervention. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) May 17, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Trump's white Christian nationalists rally ... while he golfed --
Trump sent in a pre-recorded video for the Rededicate 250 blasphemy fest instead of speaking in person, and he still could barely read it cogently (also, note him covering up the disfigured back of his right hand)
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 17, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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The president spoke via video to a sea of empty seats.
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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He played golf today, though.
— Anthony Zurcher (@zurch.bsky.social) May 17, 2026 at 7:19 PM
A Simple Prayer for MAGA's Gospel Grifters, Holy Hypocrites and Blaspheming Bubbas johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/a-simple-p...
— John Fugelsang (@johnfugelsang.bsky.social) May 17, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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More rube- grifting; Trump's $500 Chinese phones --
Trump’s finally sending the rubes their golden phones and it looks like they’re obsolete Chinese deals that retail at Walmart for $136.
— Joshua Holland (@joshuaholland.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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Explaining the Republican gutting of the Voting Rights Act --
The VRA *has always* been there to stop racial vote dilution, not to give Black people some kind of bonus districts. The reason we have the VRA (especially the 1982 version) is because Southern white politicians reliably define the political parties in such a way as to make sure Black voters lose.
— Joey Fishkin (@fishkin.bsky.social) May 17, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Anybody want to take a wild guess who "the right people" are?
— David Roberts (@volts.wtf) May 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Overcoming the Republican racial redistricting blitz --
📌BREAKING: -Trump’s approvals are at an all-time low 37% in NYT polling. -Dems lead 50%-39% among registered voters. -This would easily overcome the Republicans’ redistricting advantage. -The Senate is in play. -Democrats hold a 14-point lead among voters “almost certain” or “very likely” to vote.
— D. Earl Stephens (@dearlstephens.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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"Fine" people in the rotted out Republican Party/ cult --
It truly is astonishing how many low character reprehensible creatures have been elected and appointed to the highest positions in America through the endorsement and backing of Trump throughout our federal and state governments.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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Mount St. Helens, 5/18/1980 --
Loowit Awakens: March 20–May 17, 1980 Before May 18, there were 60 days of warning signs—earthquakes, ash bursts, and a growing bulge on the mountain’s north flank. Here’s the story of Mount St. Helens in 1980—up to today—condensed into two minutes.
— Mount St. Helens Archive (@mountsthelens1980.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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Yesterday, a few thousand zealous right-wing Christian nationalists gathered on the Mall in Washington, D.C., to proclaim that the U.S. was conceived as a Christian nation, contrary to the history of our founding. They heard from a number of political pastors like the far-right Franklin Graham and the MF's "spiritual advisor" and "prosperity gospel" heretic Paula White-Cain. From the Associated Press:
"Against the backdrop of the Washington Monument, worship music blared from a stage that made clear the event’s Christian focus. Arched stained-glass windows, set underneath grand columns resembling a federal building, depicted the nation’s founders alongside a white cross.
Most speakers celebrated Christianity’s ties to American history, a blending of ideas that critics flagged ahead of the prayer gathering as supporting Christian nationalism.
President Donald Trump read a passage of Scripture in a video shown at the rally. Filmed in the Oval Office, it was the same footage used during a marathon Bible-reading event last month. The verses from 2 Chronicles are often cited by those who believe America was founded as a Christian nation. [snip]
The event was organized by Freedom 250, a public-private partnership backed by the White House. Congressional Democrats have questioned the nonprofit’s structure and finances, which they see as a Trump-controlled end run around a separate commission charted by Congress a decade ago to prepare semiquincentennial events." (our emphasis)
It's worth noting that the MF was at his golf club in Sterling, VA, while his taped, edited message was being shown, a typical Sunday for the irreligious con man and a sign of his veiled contempt for his hypocritical religious cultists. He's not worried in the least about losing them. His cultists will always make excuses for his disrespectful and sinful behavior as they erect statues to him and create AI slop of him as Jesus. For them, it's not about religion. It's about temporal power.
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The "invisible hand of the free market" is currently slapping the orange face of the deranged Malignant Fascist, as he pursues a disastrous war that's driving up prices everywhere, dismantles voting rights for African Americans, and commits other outrages. Offering his support is the obsequious bell hop, a.k.a. JD "Junior Dictator" Vance, who meets with the MF's contempt.
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A proposal to fund $1 billion in security additions for the White House campus and the president’s new ballroom fails to meet procedural rules, according to the Senate parliamentarian, dealing a blow to Republican plans to include it as part of a bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies for the next three years.
The parliamentarian’s ruling, described late Saturday by Senate Democrats, said that funding for a project as large and complex as President Donald Trump’s massive East Wing renovation is too broad to be included in the narrow GOP budget bill, which cannot be filibustered and only needs a simple majority to pass.
It’s unclear if Republicans will be able to immediately salvage any part of the billion-dollar Secret Service proposal, which would fund security for Trump’s ballroom along with other parts of the White House, including a new visitor screening center, additional training for agents and extra reinforcements for large events. Republicans said Saturday night that they are revising the legislation based on the parliamentarian’s advice. [snip]
Democrats have seized on the security request, accusing Republicans of dedicating precious federal resources to the ballroom effort instead of focusing on helping Americans with rising costs. Republicans have insisted that private donations will be used to build the ballroom and that the federal dollars are focused just on much-needed security enhancements.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., took credit for the ruling after Democrats argued to the parliamentarian that the security money doesn’t belong in the bill.
“Republicans tried to make taxpayers foot the bill for Trump’s billion-dollar ballroom,” Schumer said Saturday evening. “Senate Democrats fought back — and blew up their first attempt.”
Schumer added that Democrats “will be ready to stop them again” as Republicans say they will revise the bill.
The ruling from the Senate parliamentarian is just advisory, but such rulings are rarely if ever ignored when lawmakers put together legislation that can pass with a simple majority. Most bills are subject to a filibuster and thus need 60 votes for passage — meaning Republicans must find some Democratic support in the 53-47 Senate.
The Malignant Fascist-subservient Senate Republicans will try to find a way to satisfy the parliamentarian's objections in order to give their cult leader his golden ballroom. Democrats need to stop this waste of taxpayer dollars; but regardless, any such monstrosity (along with any triumphal arch) that the MF may have built needs to be demolished as soon as there's a Democrat in the White House.
The World Health Organization declared the Ebola disease outbreak caused by a rare virus in Congo and neighboring Uganda a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday, after more than 300 suspected cases and 88 deaths.
WHO said the outbreak doesn’t meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency like COVID-19, and advised against the closure of international borders.
WHO said on X that a laboratory-confirmed case has also been reported in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, which is about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the outbreak’s epicenter in the eastern province of Ituri, suggesting a possible wider spread. It said the patient had visited Ituri and that other suspected cases have also been reported in North Kivu province, which is one of Congo’s most populous and borders Ituri.
On Sunday, the rebel government of Goma, eastern Congo’s largest city, said in a statement that the first confirmed case of Ebola was detected in the city. The infected person traveled from Ituri province and was currently under isolation, the statement said. Goma was the site of a rapid rebel offensive in early 2025, and the conflict between the Congolese armed forces and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel paramilitary group has displaced hundreds of thousands.
Ebola is highly contagious and can be contracted via bodily fluids such as vomit, blood or semen. The disease it causes is rare, but severe and often fatal.
WHO’s emergency declaration is meant to spur donor agencies and countries into action. By WHO’s standards, it shows the event is serious, there is a risk of international spread and it requires a coordinated international response...
Ebola. Hantavirus. Measles. Aren't we a fortunate nation in these perilous times to have the competent, well-informed leadership of Bobby Brainworm and the moron MF!
President Donald Trump appeared to fall back to another genocidal threat against Iran on Sunday, as the ceasefire between the Islamic Republic, the United States and Israel grows increasingly shaky.
"For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won't be anything left of them," Trump posted on Truth Social after a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who separately told his Cabinet on Sunday that "we are prepared for any scenario."
The threat came after a drone strike the United Arab Emirates described as an "unprovoked terrorist attack" that sparked a fire on the edge of its only nuclear power plant, leading the International Atomic Energy Agency's director-general to express "grave concern."
The UAE did not blame any party for the strike, but has previously accused Iran of attacking Western-allied Gulf Arab states with drones and missiles as tensions rise over the Strait of Hormuz's fate. With diplomatic talks breaking down – likely made worse by Trump's pattern of threatening to wipe out an entire civilization – Iranian officials and state media appear to be preparing the public for a ground war.
Another day, another erratic move, another ugly genocidal threat. The MF's flailing, dangerous amateur hour is going to end up costing lives.
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An example of active cloud destruction is toward the top of the head-shaped area with two “horns.” Bright yellow gas streams upward where gas and dust are being destroyed.
Thicker dust appears dark brown, like mud. In the far-right corner, which is nearly pitch black, the dust is the densest.
Fully formed stars (bright orange orbs) are scattered across the scene. Their light and stellar winds have also cleared the immediate areas around them.
Over millions of years, the gas and dust that make up this nebula (also known as Messier 20 or M20) will disappear and only stars will remain.
[Image description: A tightly cropped Hubble view of a vast star-forming region known as the Trifid Nebula. The top left is bright blue. Brown and amber colours run from top right through the center in irregular, overlapping lines to the bottom-center. At bottom right, the view is almost black. Tiny, amber-coloured stars appear throughout the scene. Toward the left there is a prominent brown shape that looks like a head with two horns. The left horn points left and is wavy. The right horn is triangular and points up. The brown dust continues, flowing down, as if along a back, and up toward the top right. A prominent line, about the same length as the left horn, appears below the middle of the body, and changes from orange to red. A small, separate semi-transparent pillar is left of the head. A few slightly larger, blue foreground stars with four diffraction spikes appear in the bottom half.]
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI. Image processing: J. DePasquale (STScI)
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The deranged and flailing Malignant Fascist and his corrupt friend Israel Prime Minister Bibi "Bomb Bomb" Netanyahu are reportedly planning an assault on Iran's oil transfer facility Kharg Island as well as a raid on Iran's enriched uranium supply, both of which would necessitate ground troops. From Gulf News (Dubai):
"According to reports by The New York Times and Israeli media outlets, the United States and Israel are carrying out some of their most intense preparations yet for a possible return to war, with discussions reportedly centering on what some officials are calling “Operation Epic Fury 2.0”.
The reports said military planners are examining a range of options, including expanded bombing campaigns against Iranian military and nuclear infrastructure, operations targeting underground uranium sites, and even a possible assault on Kharg Island.
According to The New York Times, one option under discussion involves deploying commandos into Iran to retrieve highly enriched uranium believed to be buried beneath damaged nuclear sites. Military officials told the newspaper such an operation would be extremely risky, requiring thousands of supporting troops to secure the area and potentially engage Iranian ground forces." (our emphasis)
As a clear indicator that he didn't gain the support he wanted for getting Iran to negotiate from Chinese President Xi on his recent junket, the MF is now reverting to a military operation with Israel that will surely cost many lives and will prompt retaliation by Iran against the U.S., Israel and facilities in the Gulf states. It will further strengthen the hardliners in the Iranian regime and deepen the influence of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Most importantly for the international community, it will mean the Strait of Hormuz will remain essentially closed and oil, gas and fertilizer products will be bottled up in the Persian Gulf. A new clusterf*ck initiated by the MF and his cynical, manipulative partner Bibi.
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The mentally unstable, would-be dictator Malignant Fascist was up last night/ early morning on his failing social media platform railing against Republicans who've stood up to him at one time or another. He took particular umbrage at Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, running for reelection, whom he's never forgiven for voting to impeach his seditious, fat ass for inciting an insurrection on January 6, 2021. His problems with Reps. Massie and Boebert stem from their voting to release the Epstein files (where his name is mentioned 38,000 times) which the convicted sexual abuser is determined to keep hidden from the public and posterity. Here are his unbalanced, un-presidential rants, full of projection and consciousness of guilt:
Cassidy lost his party primary yesterday and aimed some well-justified barbs at the Malignant Fascist:
“When you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn’t turn out the way you want it to,” he told dozens of supporters in Baton Rouge. “But you don’t pout. You don’t whine. You don’t claim that an election was stolen from you.”
Without naming Mr. Trump, Mr. Cassidy expressed his view that America’s leaders should be focused not on “one individual” who demanded absolute loyalty but rather on the general welfare of the public.
“And if someone doesn’t understand that and attempts to control others through using the levers of power, they’re about serving themselves,” he said. “They’re not about serving us. And that person is not qualified to be a leader.”
Messages entirely lost on the MAGAt voters in Louisiana yesterday.
