Donald Trump gets on Truth Social at midnight to announce that the reports about our munitions stockpile are completely false, and also that the leakers who leaked these completely false reports are "being hunted down" and will be seeking "long term jail sentences."
Let that sit with for a second. You cannot hunt down the leakers of a thing that never happened. There is no federal statute against the unauthorized disclosure of fiction. This shriveled orange gasbag confirmed the entire story in the same breath he denied it, because it was midnight and every adult on the comms payroll had gone home and nobody was left to wrestle the phone out of his tiny hands.
So meanwhile: CNN says we've burned through nearly 80% of the THAAD interceptors and half the Patriots. Reuters says "virtually all" of ATACMS and PrSM. the Payne Institute counted 11,300 munitions in sixteen days.
Lawrence O'Donnell had Mark Hertling (Army LG) on last night and the numbers he gave for the cost of those weapons was staggering. Get you wallets out folks.
Yes, it is and what's really a mind fuck is we have wasted all these expensive weapons because Trump listened to BiBi and then told P Keg-stand to shoot away, and all they had to do is keep the JCPOA in place and not one of those weapons would have had to been used. So, all this turmoil and acting tough is reaching deeply into everyone's pockets across the globe and especially us.
And there’s rubble in Iran that wasn’t there before, and lots of dead and people with “life-changing” injuries on both sides of the war. And Iran’s desire for revenge amplified by the killing of the leader’s family.
Not only that, but Zelenskyy offered to provide us with much less expensive drone tech that has been very effective against the very Iranian strikes that we're encountering. Because the Russians are using Iranian drones against Ukraine. But because Donnie can't possibly accept that Zelenskyy has any cards, he and Petey rejected his offer.
Daniel, I find it hard not to blame BiBi since he has been wanting the US to attack Irian all the way back to Obama. I assume it's because he doesn't have the military capability to do that and who better to throw his weight around but enlist Trump, it's been his MO all his life..........attack and through him we are all involved at our detriment and expense.
Actually Lindsay Graham went over to Israel three times, to tell Bibi what to say to trump to get him involved, the Wall Street journal covered it. Lindsay bragged about it. I can't link to the WSJ because it is paywalled but this writer covered it well.
So you don't assign any blame to trump? You blame Bibi? If yes, then you absolve trump of all of his lies and actions. Isn't that what trump always does--blame others?
Been watching Malcolm Nance's daily Irancast, on Substack with his regular guests being Jacob Kaarsbo and Wajeeh Lion, two of them experts on intelligence in the region, one expert on the region. From time to time they give us weapons counts. I am someone who has asked for them. I want to keep track. Also, saw a weapons count of China and Russia together, because supposedly they are filling in each others gaps as they unite in military planning. Lucky us. Lucky Taiwan. Taiwan is hopefully making a lot of their own drones and then buying them from Ukraine too.
I'm not terribly worried about the US being invaded, however I am worried about China taking attacking Taiwan or North Korea attacking South Korea or any one of other aggressive actions that could be made by a hostile nation about which the administration would be completely unable to to do much of anything besides say "tut, tut" and have the military scowl ferociously.
They probably dont tell him the truth about anything. They tell him 2 seconds before he speaks to the press to say one sentence and then he goes off on some word salad that the press ignores.
Separately from Jeff's 'What the fuck is wrong with you' Pulitzer earning question...I have one I'd love just one Press person to ask him when he makes these incredibly outrageous statements (example: VANDALS attacked the Reflecting Pool!) 'Would you testify to that under Oath'? Point of fact, he's NEVER testified under oath whether in Civil OR Criminal cases, whether he sued others or they sued him. Not once! He can't. As an inveterate liar, he's bound to fuck up so any attorney he has would refuse to allow him to do anything but take the 5th - which he's done. Stephanie Griffin (Griffith?) was IN THE ROOM when he ranted that he 'can't believe I lost to that fucking guy' (Joe Biden in the 2020 election) and he was SO furious he couldn't force himself to concede. His aides assuaged his hurt little feefees as he convinced himself he hadn't lost after all. Stephanie testified UNDER OATH to the Jan.6th Committee and left because she was so disgusted by what happened ON J6th, especially about the attack on the Capitol and calls to hang Mike Pence. We know his magat cultists never watched any of the Committee's footage. I'd be interested if releasing it AGAIN to those now turning against him would be a nice way to show them whole truth about his horrid behaviour and streams of lies?
There was a survey and the United States has roughly 120 to 121 civilian-owned firearms for every 100 residents. This rate far exceeds every other Western nation. For comparison, Western countries with high relative ownership like Canada have about 35 guns per 100 people, and Switzerland has about 28 per 100 people. We live is dumbest place in the world and we are armed. Fuck!
While we have 120-121 owned guns for every 100 residents, that is because some people spend all their money on guns. It is best illustrated by this Italian Photographer Gabriele Galimberti in his book, "Ameriguns"
I was showing these images to a Syrian fiberoptics installer at our home to give him a sense of MAGA culture. This ratio means that a lot of people have a lot of guns, but we cannot all fire them because we don't have them. Instead there are people with 1000 guns, which they cannot use all at once.
Well, we know for sure then that the whole thing is true. I heard it from Adam Kinzinger. Trump blew a gasket with Kegseth, & he in turn blamed it on his second in command is what I think Kinzinger said. He also said that the first then they teach you in the military is not to pass the buck. Kegseth SHOULD HAVE KNOWN! Everyone around Trump is learning how to do the Trump Dump!
Tomahawk Cruise Missiles: Takes 18 to 24 months to produce a single unit, and full inventory recovery may take until 2030.
Patriot and Interceptor Systems: Requires roughly 30 months to manufacture individual units, with overall stock replenishment estimated to take 3 to 5 years.
Meanwhile if any bad actors want to attack us, we're up for grabs!
We’re still in the Hillary emails/ Hunter Biden’s laptop era when it comes to Republicans. Meanwhile they’re stinking up the joint with their own scandals, incompetence, and corruption.
You still do. It's a bit untested whether someone who's been pardoned can assert the right to remain silent when faced with this kind of bad faith perjury trap. However, by holding him in contempt for asserting his right rather than challenging his right to assert based on the pardon, they pretty much show their bad faith.
It's all performative, though, since to actually hold him in contempt, 60 members of the full Senate would have to vote yes, and that will not happen.
And if Fauci hadn’t taken the Fifth, they would have scrutinized every word he uttered to try and claim that he perjured himself.
Not to mention that he has already testified to Congress about this topic dozens of times. The only “new” information were Fauci’s diary entries, which speak for themselves.
David Schertler is hardly a lightweight, but Fauci will need more than one attorney. Deathsantistan, Lousyiana, and Alliebama are all trying to put the screws to the good doctor.
While Fauci is worth a good amount of money, why the fu** should he have to spend it on legal fees or for security detail after vindictive POtuS pulled it from him. And while no small tab, imo the $$ is the least of it given the abuse he's endured. I'm guessing Fauci has family and significant social ties here but if i were him i'm say sayanora to this country, give his tormenters the middle finger and live peacefully abroad somewhere exceptionally beautiful.
We need to erect very high and sturdy walls to keep out republicans. And we have snip**s to *hoot anyone who comes across. The rest of the country won't gave goddamn bans all over the place.
This is absolutely sickening. What they’re doing to this man is beyond unconscionable. And now I see anti-vaxxers taking victory laps all over social media. The damage these Trump sycophants are doing to this country will take generations to reverse.
Sadly, one of my best friends, who is NOT a MAGA, is one of those. Because she has complex medical conditions that probably DID give her complications from the vaccine, she believes there is a vast number of people — millions — who suffered from myocarditis and other "vaccine injuries." She was gloating about their persecution of Fauci and saying he was a mass criminal. I have to change the topic after simply saying I have gotten all my vaccines and suffered nothing except one I was a little tired for half a day after getting. I sympathize with my friend because she does have real, relatively unique, issues, but I have to keep reminding her that not everyone has her issues.
Most of the early dead from COVID had pre-existing conditions -- the same with cyclosporidium. People of all ages. And then it was coming for us all. The persecution of Dr. Fauci has me nauseated with contempt for these morons. I'm sorry any of them survived the pandemic.
Who's next on these assholes' re-write-factual-history list? Jonas Salk for inventing the polio vaccine? People forget that many of the MAGA anti-vaxxers were begging to be given the vaccine on their deathbeds.
Not entirely true. A lot of early casualties were due to unsafe, repeated exposure: the so-called "essential" workers who had to work in public. It was why the community I grew up in had such a high death rate early in the pandemic. It's now lower middle class Black with lots of people who work as grocery clerks and health care aides. Once the vaccine came out, the death rates plummeted there and all over Chicago, while they soared in downstate Illinois (the term "downstate" refers to everything outside the Chicago metro area) which is heavily MAGA and where people refused the vaccine. Too bad! Chicago metro, with 80% of the state's population, already easily outvotes them.
Maybe we should have thought about the evolutionary benefit of not insisting people get vaccinated for Covid. Let the anti government deniers stay vaccine free. See how that works for them. And for us.
I loved how that worked in Illinois. Early on some rural idiots insisted COVID was just a "Chicago problem" (hint of racism there?) so they shouldn't have to shut down their bars. Once the vaccine came out, death rates in Chicago plunged and eventually the highest toll by percentage was in red rural Illinois.
I grew up on the North Side, but moved years ago to Southern California. The vaccine distribution was excellent. Very organized and free. I did get Covid on a trip to Las Vegas, but it was very mild and I spent almost all my time sitting in isolation on my deck while reading.
I grew up in South Shore, which was very hard hit early on. It's not ultra-poor but it does have a lot of nursing homes and social services facilities, which spread Covid widely.
I feel so sick for Dr. Fauci, whose leadership saved millions of lives in both the AIDs pandemic and probably millions more during Covid. Trump _has_ to be removed from office for both dementia and dangerousness. I feel like we are running out of time...
If I were the Secretary of Defense, 1) I'd say nothing re the said reports on munitions stockpiles, 2) consider this an opportunity to up production of drones, 3) be pissed that the US is at odds with Ukraine, as they are the leaders in innovative drone production, so I want their expertise. But no, the reports will be denied, yet the GOP will want to up the DOD budget AGAIN.
History sometime works itself out in ways that are not immediately obvious at the time. Major doctrine changes came about in the military after WWII, and then after Vietnam. Military art and science is never static. The bigger-is-better mindset has been discredited. The US just depleted massive levels of ammo and assets against $35,000 drones operated by ghosts who could be anywhere. The exact same thing is happening in Ukraine, at the same time.
I doubt very much if this experience has gone unnoticed by the Army and Naval War Colleges. Not only is the nature of power projection by major powers different now, so is the very definition of what it means to be a major power and what it's relevance is in the future.
But the Democrats could win every election as long as they stay united and form a solid block against fascism. But the Democrats thinks it best if we split the Democratic Party. I bet it was Steve Miller who came up with the idea of funding the Democratic Socialists. (who I agree with, but not to the extent that I want the Republicans to win.)
If thats true then why did the Democrats split the Michigan senate primary. Polls show Haley Stevens winning the senate race against Mike Rogers the Republucan by 8 points. But El Sayed got lots of money to run against her and got the nomination. Polls show him losing to the Republican by by 5 pnts.
It was a unique race, and both other candidates endorsed El-Sayed immediately meaning there his no intra-party "division." Unfortunately, El-Sayed has glaring pockets of weakness and it remains to be seen whether he can acquire enough Black and Jewish voters to win the general. I'm dubious, and think we should focus on more winnable races such as Sherrod Brown's in Ohio or even Talarico's in Texas.
Yes, you're right. Its too bad because I think, even though Stevens was a 4 time State Rep and very effective, she was a middle aged, overweight, and kind of loud mouth woman. No one admits it but there is a lot of disregard for women like that.
Stevens and El-Sayed are basically the same age (he is two years younger.) She is on the very young side of middle age. I am afraid that being awkward and not that attractive does influence people. Look at all the people gushing about AOC running for president in 2028. She is drastically under qualified, has a thin record in Congress and has never administered anything bigger than her own office at a time when the next president will have to repair then entire government. It's solely based on her being young and pretty ( and of course, saying things we agree with, although she has not been a leader in pushing that agenda.)
Love Telerico, I hope a Democratic Socialiist doesn't pop up and siphon off votes. Although I would NOT put it past Paxton to start giving money to the Dem Socialist.
Hell? Heaven? In a rehab center? Who cares? If he isn’t in the Capitol, he can’t cast a vote. He can’t be temporarily replaced with a Democrat by the Governor, only a Republican can take his place.
So the Republicans are short a vote and their margin has narrowed. That’s a net gain. Let’s leave well enough alone.
When you’re taking a multiple choice exam, they always tell you to narrow it down by eliminating the most unlikely answer. So I’m gonna strike out Heaven as one of the possibilities.
I've been saying that all along and getting yelled at for supporting Beshear. They think he isnt replacing McConnel with a Democrat because he is afraid. Where do come up with stupid ideas?
G, no I don't suspect anything, but I don't doubt anything either. This is the craziest time we are living in. You know Trump has all of those preachers that surround him and talk to God on the phone, LOL, so, anything is possible. "Hey God, Lindsey is a terrible golfer..........he's got to go" and bang it's done! 😂
Most people nowadays are too young to remember, but the line "Francisco Franco is still dead" was so hilarious at the time because we'd been through months of hearing on the news "Francisco Franco is still in a coma"
There's a whole floor of nurses somewhere - three shifts worth even - who know the real situation. Surely *one* of them has the courage to meet a reporter anonymously in a remote forest clearing and dish?
He’s dead, on life support, now moved home to make the lies easier to tell when they eventually pull the plug and claim he had a massive heart attack and died. They think we’re stupid, gullible, and will believe their lies. One of these days, someone involved will anonymously leak the truth.
In 2022, Trump pleaded the Fifth more than 450 times during a civil fraud investigation, but sure..let’s attack the doctor who was awarded a Presidential Commendation by Trump himself for his efforts during COVID. Release the rest of the Epstein files.
Thank you , Jeff for sharing images of Claudia. I have my husband' s pic beside my bed. I then say Good Night & Good Morning. It is 7 years without my sweet William. I understand.
I lost my son not my spouse- but everyday I also say good morning and good night Bud. I also text him what’s going on and it goes into the notebook app. Just want him to know!♥️
Wig-gate (forgive me) is the story du jour and the first thing I thought was "I hope Jeff has seen this." Makeup, wigs, heels, purple satin shirts - the alpha males are struttin.
I'm thinking that Natalie made a new wig for him from her very own hair! She is so creepy that it makes me cringe every time she's in the background of his pictures.
His plan undoubtedly kills Medicaid and probably Medicare. It's a way to 600% deregulate the health care industry, so insurers can go back to denying claims based on pre-existing conditions, bilking customers, selling shit insurance policies that offer no coverage. It gets government out of healthcare and puts corrupt corporations like United Healthcare in charge.
The hair...lots of columns about that today. I hope they bury him in it.
Looks like Whiskey Pete is in trouble...we have no more missiles with which to defend this "great nation." He shot his wad and lied to the felon about it. Too busy doing personal testosterone checks. 😆 You cant make this shit up.
Claudia looks amazing and relaxed in those pics...and patient with you as you keep clicking away! 💙
Or the people somehow prefer it, despite the fact that anyone who's ever interacted with it knows that it's noxious and toxic and flammable, dissolves paint, etc. Yet up until recently it was the only option available.
If you tried to explain risk pooling - the entire statistical/mathematical basis for insurance - to that fucking senile old bastard - the tapioca would volcanically erupt out of both of his no intake ears. We are so fucked, ‘Murica.
Preznit Fucktangle rides again. It must’ve been a side effectfrom the rejuvenation as acting five star general Elvis. That’s quite a head of hair. Plucked from the pubes of several orangutans.
No small dog on my head! Great post on this disgusting “human being” who needs a mop on his head! I had not seen the spray painted head on Nosferatu McGoebbels…EEK! Great post Jeff! Claudia looks content and beautiful!
I’m looking forward to seeing the new Iranian LEGO videos with T💩p’s stupid hair as the star. They do a masterful job making him look like the fidiot he is. My favorite lately is the one with a diaper over his pants. Whadda putz!
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
"Senate Committee Votes to Hold Fauci in Contempt of Congress"
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/06/us/trump-news-fauci?smid=nytcore-android-share
performative nonsense assholes. this is what they fixate on, when Donny's own nominees won't answer the question 'who won the 2020 election'
Meanwhile elsewhere, Jeff,
Donald Trump gets on Truth Social at midnight to announce that the reports about our munitions stockpile are completely false, and also that the leakers who leaked these completely false reports are "being hunted down" and will be seeking "long term jail sentences."
Let that sit with for a second. You cannot hunt down the leakers of a thing that never happened. There is no federal statute against the unauthorized disclosure of fiction. This shriveled orange gasbag confirmed the entire story in the same breath he denied it, because it was midnight and every adult on the comms payroll had gone home and nobody was left to wrestle the phone out of his tiny hands.
So meanwhile: CNN says we've burned through nearly 80% of the THAAD interceptors and half the Patriots. Reuters says "virtually all" of ATACMS and PrSM. the Payne Institute counted 11,300 munitions in sixteen days.
Fuck them.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-like-oj-simpson-trump-is-going-to-find-the-real-leakers
Lawrence O'Donnell had Mark Hertling (Army LG) on last night and the numbers he gave for the cost of those weapons was staggering. Get you wallets out folks.
Saw that piece. The cost of these weapons is mind blowing 🤯
Yes, it is and what's really a mind fuck is we have wasted all these expensive weapons because Trump listened to BiBi and then told P Keg-stand to shoot away, and all they had to do is keep the JCPOA in place and not one of those weapons would have had to been used. So, all this turmoil and acting tough is reaching deeply into everyone's pockets across the globe and especially us.
And there’s rubble in Iran that wasn’t there before, and lots of dead and people with “life-changing” injuries on both sides of the war. And Iran’s desire for revenge amplified by the killing of the leader’s family.
Not only that, but Zelenskyy offered to provide us with much less expensive drone tech that has been very effective against the very Iranian strikes that we're encountering. Because the Russians are using Iranian drones against Ukraine. But because Donnie can't possibly accept that Zelenskyy has any cards, he and Petey rejected his offer.
Stop blaming Netanyahu. He's horrible, but no one forced Trump to do what he did. This is all on him.
Daniel, I find it hard not to blame BiBi since he has been wanting the US to attack Irian all the way back to Obama. I assume it's because he doesn't have the military capability to do that and who better to throw his weight around but enlist Trump, it's been his MO all his life..........attack and through him we are all involved at our detriment and expense.
Actually Lindsay Graham went over to Israel three times, to tell Bibi what to say to trump to get him involved, the Wall Street journal covered it. Lindsay bragged about it. I can't link to the WSJ because it is paywalled but this writer covered it well.
https://martindvasquez.substack.com/p/lindsey-graham-started-a-war-bragged
So you don't assign any blame to trump? You blame Bibi? If yes, then you absolve trump of all of his lies and actions. Isn't that what trump always does--blame others?
Been watching Malcolm Nance's daily Irancast, on Substack with his regular guests being Jacob Kaarsbo and Wajeeh Lion, two of them experts on intelligence in the region, one expert on the region. From time to time they give us weapons counts. I am someone who has asked for them. I want to keep track. Also, saw a weapons count of China and Russia together, because supposedly they are filling in each others gaps as they unite in military planning. Lucky us. Lucky Taiwan. Taiwan is hopefully making a lot of their own drones and then buying them from Ukraine too.
Well, Putin would like it very much if the US could be totally disarmed. That makes Vlad's plans a helluva lot easier. Thanks, Agent Krasnow.
Yes, that is what I am afraid of. It will be easy for any country to invade us.
I'm not terribly worried about the US being invaded, however I am worried about China taking attacking Taiwan or North Korea attacking South Korea or any one of other aggressive actions that could be made by a hostile nation about which the administration would be completely unable to to do much of anything besides say "tut, tut" and have the military scowl ferociously.
Except Putin is burning through his on Ukraine. But Flamingoes will soon find their nests.
They probably dont tell him the truth about anything. They tell him 2 seconds before he speaks to the press to say one sentence and then he goes off on some word salad that the press ignores.
Would you tell a cognitively impaired man with the impulse control of a toddler anything you didn’t want the whole damn world to know?
True. But it would be good, as Jeff says, for someone to ask, "What is wrong with you?
WHAT THR F IS WRONG WITH YOU?? Hahahahahahahaha!!
Pulitzer !!
Yeah just waiting for that day!
Separately from Jeff's 'What the fuck is wrong with you' Pulitzer earning question...I have one I'd love just one Press person to ask him when he makes these incredibly outrageous statements (example: VANDALS attacked the Reflecting Pool!) 'Would you testify to that under Oath'? Point of fact, he's NEVER testified under oath whether in Civil OR Criminal cases, whether he sued others or they sued him. Not once! He can't. As an inveterate liar, he's bound to fuck up so any attorney he has would refuse to allow him to do anything but take the 5th - which he's done. Stephanie Griffin (Griffith?) was IN THE ROOM when he ranted that he 'can't believe I lost to that fucking guy' (Joe Biden in the 2020 election) and he was SO furious he couldn't force himself to concede. His aides assuaged his hurt little feefees as he convinced himself he hadn't lost after all. Stephanie testified UNDER OATH to the Jan.6th Committee and left because she was so disgusted by what happened ON J6th, especially about the attack on the Capitol and calls to hang Mike Pence. We know his magat cultists never watched any of the Committee's footage. I'd be interested if releasing it AGAIN to those now turning against him would be a nice way to show them whole truth about his horrid behaviour and streams of lies?
Disgusting what happened in Louisiana… Your quote on “ordinary courtesy”…this should happen every damn day!
There was a survey and the United States has roughly 120 to 121 civilian-owned firearms for every 100 residents. This rate far exceeds every other Western nation. For comparison, Western countries with high relative ownership like Canada have about 35 guns per 100 people, and Switzerland has about 28 per 100 people. We live is dumbest place in the world and we are armed. Fuck!
I feel very sick now. We are our own worst enemy.
“We have seen the enemy and he is us”
The only other nation with more firearms than people is Yemen. Perhaps not by coincidence, Yemen has been in civil war for over a decade.
While we have 120-121 owned guns for every 100 residents, that is because some people spend all their money on guns. It is best illustrated by this Italian Photographer Gabriele Galimberti in his book, "Ameriguns"
https://gabrielegalimberti.com/projects/the-ameriguns/?i=0
I was showing these images to a Syrian fiberoptics installer at our home to give him a sense of MAGA culture. This ratio means that a lot of people have a lot of guns, but we cannot all fire them because we don't have them. Instead there are people with 1000 guns, which they cannot use all at once.
We need gun control. This is crazy.
How many boom-booms did the DUI hire make in five months that he depleted the entire fucking stockpile of missiles?
DUI hire!!! Good one - and it has the added benefit of being true
Well, we know for sure then that the whole thing is true. I heard it from Adam Kinzinger. Trump blew a gasket with Kegseth, & he in turn blamed it on his second in command is what I think Kinzinger said. He also said that the first then they teach you in the military is not to pass the buck. Kegseth SHOULD HAVE KNOWN! Everyone around Trump is learning how to do the Trump Dump!
And to replace these munitions?
Tomahawk Cruise Missiles: Takes 18 to 24 months to produce a single unit, and full inventory recovery may take until 2030.
Patriot and Interceptor Systems: Requires roughly 30 months to manufacture individual units, with overall stock replenishment estimated to take 3 to 5 years.
Meanwhile if any bad actors want to attack us, we're up for grabs!
Excellent , Wendy
I suggest the Senate Committee hold themselves in contempt for the contemptible way they spoke to Dr. Fauci
Dr. Fauci's a great scientist
Who rethugs have repeatedly dissed
Holding him in contempt
Is another taint-licking attempt
To keep Fat Fuck from being pissed
Ewwwww, funny but gross!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Helps to keep our minds off the famous Eppstein files, HaHa
“Taint-licking” is especially vivid a descriptor! 😜😜😜
Brilliant, Doc
Dr. Fauci invoked his rights, and they cited him for contempt. Jim Jordan totally blew off a subpoena, and nothing happened.
MAGAts are hypocrites. Anyone surprised?
Nope, they are totally predictable.
This is so they don't have to actually govern.
Yes! For they are contemptable!
We can not move forward in this country with Trump and the Republicans . It’s always back to 2020. What morons.
1820. FIFY
1620 if you're a woman and Smarmy Alito has any say in the matter.
Answer is FoFum.
They are arguably morons, but first and foremost they are greedy,fascist liars.
We’re still in the Hillary emails/ Hunter Biden’s laptop era when it comes to Republicans. Meanwhile they’re stinking up the joint with their own scandals, incompetence, and corruption.
So you do not have the right to remain silent.
Only if your name is Trump.
Only he never remains silent. I wish he would.
You still do. It's a bit untested whether someone who's been pardoned can assert the right to remain silent when faced with this kind of bad faith perjury trap. However, by holding him in contempt for asserting his right rather than challenging his right to assert based on the pardon, they pretty much show their bad faith.
It's all performative, though, since to actually hold him in contempt, 60 members of the full Senate would have to vote yes, and that will not happen.
This will be on my marching sign. Luv it!!!! 😘👍🥳
I hope Pirro isn't stupid enough to pursue this. She would be laughed out of court.
Huh. You can get a Contempt of Congress for pleading the 5th, huh?
Yeah this was a predetermined outcome. This is what the unreconstructed party is elected for, they're here to hurt Americans, not actually legislate.
And if Fauci hadn’t taken the Fifth, they would have scrutinized every word he uttered to try and claim that he perjured himself.
Not to mention that he has already testified to Congress about this topic dozens of times. The only “new” information were Fauci’s diary entries, which speak for themselves.
These fuckers need to leave Fauci alone.
This is just another example of the party of predator protectors crapping on the Constitution. What does the Fifth Amendment actually exist for, FFS?
He's going to need a Norm Eisen or some other great constitutional lawyer to advocate for him. Because this is bullshit.
David Schertler is hardly a lightweight, but Fauci will need more than one attorney. Deathsantistan, Lousyiana, and Alliebama are all trying to put the screws to the good doctor.
While Fauci is worth a good amount of money, why the fu** should he have to spend it on legal fees or for security detail after vindictive POtuS pulled it from him. And while no small tab, imo the $$ is the least of it given the abuse he's endured. I'm guessing Fauci has family and significant social ties here but if i were him i'm say sayanora to this country, give his tormenters the middle finger and live peacefully abroad somewhere exceptionally beautiful.
And with sluggish extradition process or none at all.
We need to erect very high and sturdy walls to keep out republicans. And we have snip**s to *hoot anyone who comes across. The rest of the country won't gave goddamn bans all over the place.
This is WHY his lawyers advised him to take the 5th.
Yep, that’s the plan per their guide and manual, Project 2025.
Absolutely
Spot on, Seth!
This is absolutely sickening. What they’re doing to this man is beyond unconscionable. And now I see anti-vaxxers taking victory laps all over social media. The damage these Trump sycophants are doing to this country will take generations to reverse.
Sadly, one of my best friends, who is NOT a MAGA, is one of those. Because she has complex medical conditions that probably DID give her complications from the vaccine, she believes there is a vast number of people — millions — who suffered from myocarditis and other "vaccine injuries." She was gloating about their persecution of Fauci and saying he was a mass criminal. I have to change the topic after simply saying I have gotten all my vaccines and suffered nothing except one I was a little tired for half a day after getting. I sympathize with my friend because she does have real, relatively unique, issues, but I have to keep reminding her that not everyone has her issues.
Most of the early dead from COVID had pre-existing conditions -- the same with cyclosporidium. People of all ages. And then it was coming for us all. The persecution of Dr. Fauci has me nauseated with contempt for these morons. I'm sorry any of them survived the pandemic.
Many of them survived the pandemic because of those who were vaccinated.
Who's next on these assholes' re-write-factual-history list? Jonas Salk for inventing the polio vaccine? People forget that many of the MAGA anti-vaxxers were begging to be given the vaccine on their deathbeds.
And when will we know for sure how many of these idiots ARE vaxxed, just like dear leader?
Not entirely true. A lot of early casualties were due to unsafe, repeated exposure: the so-called "essential" workers who had to work in public. It was why the community I grew up in had such a high death rate early in the pandemic. It's now lower middle class Black with lots of people who work as grocery clerks and health care aides. Once the vaccine came out, the death rates plummeted there and all over Chicago, while they soared in downstate Illinois (the term "downstate" refers to everything outside the Chicago metro area) which is heavily MAGA and where people refused the vaccine. Too bad! Chicago metro, with 80% of the state's population, already easily outvotes them.
Do those "complex medical conditions" have cognitive impacts?
Asking for a friend.
But she doesn't know what would have happened had she not been vaccinated. Perhaps COVID would have killed her.
Fauci did not develop those vaccines and he wasn’t in charge of that part of Trump’s mindless response
Maybe we should have thought about the evolutionary benefit of not insisting people get vaccinated for Covid. Let the anti government deniers stay vaccine free. See how that works for them. And for us.
I loved how that worked in Illinois. Early on some rural idiots insisted COVID was just a "Chicago problem" (hint of racism there?) so they shouldn't have to shut down their bars. Once the vaccine came out, death rates in Chicago plunged and eventually the highest toll by percentage was in red rural Illinois.
I grew up on the North Side, but moved years ago to Southern California. The vaccine distribution was excellent. Very organized and free. I did get Covid on a trip to Las Vegas, but it was very mild and I spent almost all my time sitting in isolation on my deck while reading.
I grew up in South Shore, which was very hard hit early on. It's not ultra-poor but it does have a lot of nursing homes and social services facilities, which spread Covid widely.
I didn't get COVID until 2024. Fully vaxxed. Immediately went on paxlovid. No problem.
Statistics bear out that death rates from COVID were higher in areas where Trump won the popular vote.
Darwin in action.
and we ain't gonna have generations
The Inquisition has arrived, only it's not a Monty Python script.
well it sorta is
I have to admit I didn't quite expect this...
So which Government account do you suppose he charged his new rug to? You know he never pays for anything out of his own pocket if he can use OPM...
This Congress is clearly contemptible; they should give Dr, Fauci an award.
I mean, who doesn't have contempt for these Repub assholes?
I feel so sick for Dr. Fauci, whose leadership saved millions of lives in both the AIDs pandemic and probably millions more during Covid. Trump _has_ to be removed from office for both dementia and dangerousness. I feel like we are running out of time...
Remind me again how many times the orange magat pled the 5th!
Most people on the planet now have contempt of Congress,I'm phoning Rand Paul's neighbor for advice.
- run out that clock (so there’s no time to deal with the serious stuff)
- completely downplay everything questionable thing Rs are doing / have done
- connect NO dots
If I were the Secretary of Defense, 1) I'd say nothing re the said reports on munitions stockpiles, 2) consider this an opportunity to up production of drones, 3) be pissed that the US is at odds with Ukraine, as they are the leaders in innovative drone production, so I want their expertise. But no, the reports will be denied, yet the GOP will want to up the DOD budget AGAIN.
History sometime works itself out in ways that are not immediately obvious at the time. Major doctrine changes came about in the military after WWII, and then after Vietnam. Military art and science is never static. The bigger-is-better mindset has been discredited. The US just depleted massive levels of ammo and assets against $35,000 drones operated by ghosts who could be anywhere. The exact same thing is happening in Ukraine, at the same time.
I doubt very much if this experience has gone unnoticed by the Army and Naval War Colleges. Not only is the nature of power projection by major powers different now, so is the very definition of what it means to be a major power and what it's relevance is in the future.
Trump and Hegseth rejected help from Ukraine, remember.
Perhaps our military can recover once this civilian bureaucratic moron Hegseth is gone in a couple years?
Please use Hegseth's proper title: Secretary of War Crimes.
Not reassuring that this is how federal lawmakers spend their time. Performative assholery from beginning to end.
But the Democrats could win every election as long as they stay united and form a solid block against fascism. But the Democrats thinks it best if we split the Democratic Party. I bet it was Steve Miller who came up with the idea of funding the Democratic Socialists. (who I agree with, but not to the extent that I want the Republicans to win.)
"Democrats" don't think that is best: the media does. They are totally in love with their "Democrats in disarray" narrative.
If thats true then why did the Democrats split the Michigan senate primary. Polls show Haley Stevens winning the senate race against Mike Rogers the Republucan by 8 points. But El Sayed got lots of money to run against her and got the nomination. Polls show him losing to the Republican by by 5 pnts.
It was a unique race, and both other candidates endorsed El-Sayed immediately meaning there his no intra-party "division." Unfortunately, El-Sayed has glaring pockets of weakness and it remains to be seen whether he can acquire enough Black and Jewish voters to win the general. I'm dubious, and think we should focus on more winnable races such as Sherrod Brown's in Ohio or even Talarico's in Texas.
Yes, you're right. Its too bad because I think, even though Stevens was a 4 time State Rep and very effective, she was a middle aged, overweight, and kind of loud mouth woman. No one admits it but there is a lot of disregard for women like that.
Stevens and El-Sayed are basically the same age (he is two years younger.) She is on the very young side of middle age. I am afraid that being awkward and not that attractive does influence people. Look at all the people gushing about AOC running for president in 2028. She is drastically under qualified, has a thin record in Congress and has never administered anything bigger than her own office at a time when the next president will have to repair then entire government. It's solely based on her being young and pretty ( and of course, saying things we agree with, although she has not been a leader in pushing that agenda.)
Love Telerico, I hope a Democratic Socialiist doesn't pop up and siphon off votes. Although I would NOT put it past Paxton to start giving money to the Dem Socialist.
It's too late for anyone to "pop up." Field is set. And the idea of a Democratic Socialist running statewide in TEXAS is side splitting.
Mamdani seems to have got lots of at least black voters
El-Sayed is not Mamdani, and Michigan is not New York City
Mamdani was running against human scum.
They cannot resist the circular firing squad.
Where is Mitch McConnell?
Hell? Heaven? In a rehab center? Who cares? If he isn’t in the Capitol, he can’t cast a vote. He can’t be temporarily replaced with a Democrat by the Governor, only a Republican can take his place.
So the Republicans are short a vote and their margin has narrowed. That’s a net gain. Let’s leave well enough alone.
When you’re taking a multiple choice exam, they always tell you to narrow it down by eliminating the most unlikely answer. So I’m gonna strike out Heaven as one of the possibilities.
Satan didn't want the competition, so where's Moscow Mitch?
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I've been saying that all along and getting yelled at for supporting Beshear. They think he isnt replacing McConnel with a Democrat because he is afraid. Where do come up with stupid ideas?
Did the Turtle Man go bye-bye
To that Great Shell in the Sky
Or as some wags allege
He is still just a veg
Either one is a big GOP lie
Yes where is the little fucker? I bet once convenient for their little plans, “Mitch has died peacefully in his sleep.”
he died doing what he loved: nothing
Obstructing the proper workings of government. He loved that and did it with aplomb and without remorse. Fuck him
But he’s still getting a paycheck! Elaine is laughing all the way to the bank.
She must wonder why she didn't think of this years ago. Melania's taking notes.......
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Bingo
You got me with that one, great zinger.
Mitch is in freezer mode and trumps hair reminded me of Captain Kangaroo and his hair which was real. Long live 5th Avenue candy bars!
Trump's Fallen souffle hair has been replaced by Muffin Top hair.
HA! Yes!
If he's dead, it certainly wasn't peaceful. He probably had something to do with Lindsey's passing too. Trump should think about that.
You suspect foul play? Juicy!
G, no I don't suspect anything, but I don't doubt anything either. This is the craziest time we are living in. You know Trump has all of those preachers that surround him and talk to God on the phone, LOL, so, anything is possible. "Hey God, Lindsey is a terrible golfer..........he's got to go" and bang it's done! 😂
"It was Lindsey that told me to attack Iran..."
Mitch on the half shell?
Latest news reports is that he's going home. Still no public statement.
Who cares? As long as he's missing, they are down a vote.
I was going to ask the same thing!
He must be getting freezer burn by now as he's long past his expiration date.
Is he an ex-Mitch? Or being a Demonic Blue, just pinning for the fjords of the river Styx?
Either/or, soon he'll be singing with the Choir Infernal
in cold storage waiting for Aug 8th then they will announce his glorious funeral plans
Having a very nice chat with Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
Most people nowadays are too young to remember, but the line "Francisco Franco is still dead" was so hilarious at the time because we'd been through months of hearing on the news "Francisco Franco is still in a coma"
He’s stiff as a board.
In hell I suspect.
There's a whole floor of nurses somewhere - three shifts worth even - who know the real situation. Surely *one* of them has the courage to meet a reporter anonymously in a remote forest clearing and dish?
Where are the Epstein files?
I’d like to say in hell but I have no proof
Pining for the fyords.
He’s dead, on life support, now moved home to make the lies easier to tell when they eventually pull the plug and claim he had a massive heart attack and died. They think we’re stupid, gullible, and will believe their lies. One of these days, someone involved will anonymously leak the truth.
In 2022, Trump pleaded the Fifth more than 450 times during a civil fraud investigation, but sure..let’s attack the doctor who was awarded a Presidential Commendation by Trump himself for his efforts during COVID. Release the rest of the Epstein files.
- tbd
(one more time):
IN 2022, tRUMP PLEADED THE FIFTH MORE THAN 450 TIMES DURING A CIVIL FRAUD INVESTIGATION.
*MORE THAN 450 TIMES*
dems could hammer this or nah…
And another thing…
“Every time tRump asks a reporter “Who are you with?” Reporters need to answer “The United States of America. Who are you with sir?”.
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Love that!!! 🤩👍
But Trump can do no wrong. Does Fauci have the nerve to think that he deserves the same leeway?
Thank you , Jeff for sharing images of Claudia. I have my husband' s pic beside my bed. I then say Good Night & Good Morning. It is 7 years without my sweet William. I understand.
Yes, lovely photos.
27 years I have been saying Goodnight and Good Morning to my love’s photo. “I’ve got an Angel on my shoulder “.
I totally understand ! We women feel a loss so deeply! Thank you for sharing
I lost my son not my spouse- but everyday I also say good morning and good night Bud. I also text him what’s going on and it goes into the notebook app. Just want him to know!♥️
Love fom Ingrid
Wig-gate (forgive me) is the story du jour and the first thing I thought was "I hope Jeff has seen this." Makeup, wigs, heels, purple satin shirts - the alpha males are struttin.
I'm thinking that Natalie made a new wig for him from her very own hair! She is so creepy that it makes me cringe every time she's in the background of his pictures.
That's very well trained Pomeranian he's got sitting up there.
I hope they didnt harm the the dog to get that hair.
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Oh goodness Ann now that’s stuck in my brain…. Nightmares tonight‼️
I'm so sorry.
Thank you Ann~ some days are better and then it’s not.
Let's see...giving money to the people by taking it from corporations? Isn't that Socialistic Communism?
either that, or Communistic Socialism
His plan undoubtedly kills Medicaid and probably Medicare. It's a way to 600% deregulate the health care industry, so insurers can go back to denying claims based on pre-existing conditions, bilking customers, selling shit insurance policies that offer no coverage. It gets government out of healthcare and puts corrupt corporations like United Healthcare in charge.
Wherein government will have a very loud voice in its operation...with a little grifting "taste" each quarter!
"I named it the one big "
WHAT? 😂😂😂
The hair...lots of columns about that today. I hope they bury him in it.
Looks like Whiskey Pete is in trouble...we have no more missiles with which to defend this "great nation." He shot his wad and lied to the felon about it. Too busy doing personal testosterone checks. 😆 You cant make this shit up.
Claudia looks amazing and relaxed in those pics...and patient with you as you keep clicking away! 💙
Why won't orangeshitstain just die already?!
Right?! I ended up drinking my bottle of champagne last night!🤷🏻♀️ (anniversary!) lol
😂😂😂 Life's too short to save the good stuff!
But not Trump’s life.
Unfortunately, the same thought process applies to all the millionaires and billionaires who continue to rape this earth for their benefit Susan…
There’s more where that came from although, a few Dom Perignon, Moët Chandon and Piper Heidsiek years are costly Tess. Hope it was enjoyable!
YES
There wasn't much publicity about this but apparently his helicopter came mighty close to colliding with another one yesterday: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/us/politics/trump-helicopter-jet-marine-one.html?
How is that he always escapes justice and death? Oh yeah, only the good die young.
Am I the only one questioning that gasoline hasn’t been around for a thousand years?!
He’s confusing it with the original Turd Reich, run by his idol, which was supposedly going to last a thousand years but only made it to 12.
No. You’re not alone. 🤦🏻
Or the people somehow prefer it, despite the fact that anyone who's ever interacted with it knows that it's noxious and toxic and flammable, dissolves paint, etc. Yet up until recently it was the only option available.
That was my first thought!
If you tried to explain risk pooling - the entire statistical/mathematical basis for insurance - to that fucking senile old bastard - the tapioca would volcanically erupt out of both of his no intake ears. We are so fucked, ‘Murica.
Would somebody please restrain him and explain it, then? The tapioca eruption is long overdue.
Preznit Fucktangle rides again. It must’ve been a side effectfrom the rejuvenation as acting five star general Elvis. That’s quite a head of hair. Plucked from the pubes of several orangutans.
I really hate this timeline
My thought was baby orangutan carcasses. New ones everyday.
Oh those tiny jazz hands! And Stephen Goebbels Miller has a new Eddie Munster doo! Thank you Jeff!
Eddie was likable. Nosferatu Miller is completely contemptible.
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The first paragraph is magnificent. So true, so sad.
A Pulitzer Prize runner up award to the first reporter who asks him, “What’s up with the hair, dude?”
Or just a polite “I like your hair” and the room titters.
I love the idea of a smarmy “Nice ‘do, bro” with a coupla finger guns! 🤣🤣🤣
And from now on whenever he starts ranting someone can say “keep your hair on”. 😂
No small dog on my head! Great post on this disgusting “human being” who needs a mop on his head! I had not seen the spray painted head on Nosferatu McGoebbels…EEK! Great post Jeff! Claudia looks content and beautiful!
WTF is that thing on his head
Some small animal that's dead?
Nothing obtunds
His waste of taxpayer funds
Each day fills me with new dread
Come here, diaper nurse
Get a wig for my bald head
No one will notice
Obtund is my new favorite word. Beautiful. I love learning new words! Thanks. 👍🏻
He swaps hair helmets like the world's most malevolent LEGO minifig.
I’m looking forward to seeing the new Iranian LEGO videos with T💩p’s stupid hair as the star. They do a masterful job making him look like the fidiot he is. My favorite lately is the one with a diaper over his pants. Whadda putz!
Now when he posts his unhinged and ludicrously self-aggrandizing shit, we can truly say he's wigged out
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Ahahahhahahahahaha!
Trump's cabinet and entire administration are one giant Faustian bargain.