Bending the Knee and Politics in 2025

[Edgy MD]

There are other bulwarks.

The president's fragile ego is one.

If Mr. Musk's actions continue to prove increasingly unpopular, and the president's approval ratings continue to drop. If his posture is constantly one of embattlement, he can well throw Mr. Musk to the wind as he has thrown every other co-conspirator. He can end the project, falsely declare victory, and surrender authority back to Congress.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Musk is just an errand boy. This is President Combover's project -- to whittle spending so that the inevitable self-dealing massive tax cuts to come don't blow up the deficit by as much as the tax cuts could. I doubt he gives a flying fuck about approval ratings anymore. He'll declare bad ratings as fake news and then sue, or worse, prosecute the people or entities that published those ratings. Approval schmapproval. He's a lame duck and can't be reelected. And dictators don't care about the people anyways. Which, in this scumbag's case, should've been obvious to all after observing him for no more than 90 seconds. He's not positioning himself for reelection. He intends to hold onto the White House by brute force.

For all anybody knows, they may have ready stolen 50 billion dollars each from the treasury, delivered the stolen funds to foreign accounts beyond this country's jurisdiction, and then covered their tracks. President Combover's intentions to dismantle the FBI and the CIA is less about so-called retribution but about ensuring that President Combover's massive crimes are never discovered.

There was some terrifying and blatantly dishonest language uttered yesterday by some of the GOP scumbaggery about judges supposedly not having the authority to decide whether the executive branch is acting lawfully or whether the executive branch is enforcing the laws fairly and evenly. If this administration intends to follow those comments to their natural and logical next step ---which would be to willfully disregard and defy court orders -- then make no mistake about it, we are in the midst of an outright coup. Right now, as we speak, and as I type this post.

[Edgy MD]

Oh, he cares. His entire public life has been one long needy and desperate cry for love. It's the most human thing about him, sad as it is.

People power is the strongest bulwark against him.

[MFS62]

From Associated Press (AP)

Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon AP’s reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing. It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism. Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment.

Banning Associated Press
Associated Press
What a fucking petty excuse.

Later

[Chad ochoseis]

Waiting for Trump to unironically post PEACE IN OUR TIME to Truth Social.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co ... 2gzx7o.amp

[batmagadanleadoff]

In the latest report from the CDC, Bird Flu is spreading to humans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2 ... lu-spread/

But with President 31 Felony Convictions in the White House and crackpot RFK, Jr. now confirmed to be the Secretary of Health, this might be the last news we'll ever get of the Bird Flu's spread.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Red states are griping about DOGE's funding cuts. Red states rely on federal funding more so than blue states. Of the 12 or 15 poorest states in the US, all but one (New Mexico) are red states.

[batmagadanleadoff]

President Combover yapping again about Canada becoming our 51st state. The world should take him seriously, at his word, even if this is just a distraction so that he could achieve his real goals -- robbing the treasury. No President should ever utter those words. The world should mobilize against the US. Fuck this country. It shouldn't be trusted. It's insane enough to have elected this unhinged madman in the first place.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Canada would get about as many electoral votes as California. It's not going to happen, but it would be interesting.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Canada would get about as many electoral votes as California. It's not going to happen, but it would be interesting.

If this were more than a fantasy, he'll make Canada a territory instead of a state.

[batmagadanleadoff]

‘We’ve been betrayed:’ Local veterans angry after being laid off by Trump administration

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlant ... 3W7MUQEYA/


Fuck you, veterans! 70% of youse voted for the unhinged madman and now youse are gonna what youse deserve, what youse fucking voted for. And shove it up your fucking asses with your sanctimonious horseshit about your patriotism and serving your fucking country because when the rubber hit the road, when everything was on the line, youse fucking jackasses voted for the draft dodger who got his mommy to write him a note about his fucking phony bone spurs. Go fuck yourselves. Youse won't have jobs anymore. Or benefits. Because Elon Musk and President Combover don't have enough money. They need more money. They need your money and youse fucking voted for this.

He told youse what he was gonna do. Next time, read the NYT and WAPO instead of some right wing moron rag that gets your attention with a stupid carjacking story written for a seven year old.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Republicans move to impeach judges who blocked Trump

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/16/impeac ... cans-trump


And madness sets in. But why bother with impeachment? Can't the Proud Boys simply pull those judges from their homes and shoot them between the eyes on their own front lawns? It's so much easier. And quicker. After that, President Combover could issue pardons for the shooters. Or why even bother with pardons. Bondi and Patel could simply prosecute and persecute anybody that dares to investigate the shooters. Then the red-state retards all hopped up on right wing media and QAnon could cheer this all on because it's so worth it as long as President Combover transfers trillions of dollars from the treasury into his own pocket and that of Elon Musk.

Jeez, and the Nazis in the Senate haven't even gotten around to killing the filibuster altogether, yet. I guess there's no need to do that since President Combover is gonna do whatever the fuck he wants to do anyways no matter what the supine Congress thinks. Will somebody please get Susan Collins a drink of water? I think she's concerned about things again. Not like that matters there. The Dems couldn't take her out in 2020 and they won't do it again when she's up for reelection next year either. They can't even hold a Senate seat in Pennsylvania anymore. That seat, the Dems won't get back for at least six years, barring an unexpected early death or retirement.

[batmagadanleadoff]

President Combover, through DOGE, to get read/write access to the IRS's most sensitive data.

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS

The unusual request could put sensitive data about millions of American taxpayers in the hands of Trump political appointees.

Excerpt:

a memorandum of understanding that would give officials from DOGE — which stands for Department of Government Efficiency — broad access to tax-agency systems, property and datasets. Among them is the Integrated Data Retrieval System, or IDRS, which enables tax agency employees to access IRS accounts — including personal identification numbers — and bank information. It also lets them enter and adjust transaction data and automatically generate notices, collection documents and other records.

According to a draft of the memorandum obtained by The Washington Post, DOGE software engineer Gavin Kliger is set to work at the IRS for 120 days, though the tax agency and the White House can renew his deployment for the same duration. His primary goal at the IRS is to provide engineering assistance and IT modernization consulting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... ayer-data/

In about a month from now, President Steal Everything I Can Get My Short Fingered Vulgarian Hands On While I Maintain my Combover will be getting billion dollar tax refunds from the IRS every single month. Musk, too. Count on it.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Canada would get about as many electoral votes as California. It's not going to happen, but it would be interesting.

If this were more than a fantasy, he'll make Canada a territory instead of a state.

Canada as the 51st State? In Electoral Terms, Trump’s Idea Favors Democrats.

Bringing Canada into the United States, however farcical the prospect may seem, would alter the political map in a way likely to cost Republicans.

Excerpt:

As President Trump looks north and repeatedly presses his case to absorb Canada as the “51st state,” politically minded Democrats who are otherwise outraged by almost everything else about his agenda find themselves contemplating a potential electoral boon should it ever happen.

Few in Washington take the prospect all that seriously, of course. Canada has made clear that it has no interest in joining the United States, and Mr. Trump seems unlikely to send in the 82nd Airborne Division to force the matter. But if the idea appeals to Mr. Trump’s grandiose sense of himself as an empire-building historic figure, it could also undercut his own party’s prospects.

Canada, a land of socialized health care, friendly immigration policies and a commitment to protecting the environment, is not exactly MAGA territory, after all. Making it a state, according to some early studies of popular opinion and voting patterns, would almost surely cost Republicans control of the House, trim their majority in the Senate and make it harder for them to win the White House in future elections.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/p ... state.html

Actually, if this ever happens, Dems won't gain anything because by then, there won't be any elections anymore. And the half of the country that's all hopped up and brainwashed on right-wing media will go along with and cheer whatever President Combover tells them.

[MFS62]

Draftdodger and Putin (along with Saudi Arabia) deciding the fate of Ukraine without their involvement is like having a Judge decide whether a woman can have an abortion.
Oh wait!

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

'I feel so stupid': These 'horrified' Trump voters are having serious buyer’s remorse

https://www.alternet.org/wsj-2024-trump-voters/

'Dang, Why didn’t I just pick Kamala?' Trump voters react to president's first month

https://www.rawstory.com/regretful-trum ... mp-voters/

They voted for Trump. Now some of their jobs are at risk.

https://www.businessinsider.com/federal ... ort-2025-2

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Fuck 'em Fuck 'em all. They dragged everybody else into this fucking nightmare and so let them suffer. Don't shoot. Let 'em burn. Let 'em lose their jobs and their fucking homes and their discounted medicine and their SNAP benefits. Let 'em go homeless and have to choose between getting some insulin or eating a can of cat food for their dinner.

If they were sincerely remorseful, they'd never vote for a Republican again. Red States would turn blue. The Dems would flip 10 senate seats, a dozen senate seats next year. Only don't count on it. It'll be business as usual with Alabama and Mississippi and all the other usual red cruel and sadistic backwards retard states sending more scumbag Republicans to Congress, as always. So fuck them and their fake fucking tears.