The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

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See, this is (one reason) why I could never be a politician…

…I figured it was self-evident that China (and probably Mexico, and any other country that had the least indication that Trump might target them) would have spent the last four years and more taking steps specifically to lessen the potential impact of US tariffs, simply because it wouldn’t hurt in a Biden win and it really wouldn’t hurt in a Trump win.

Granted, Trump threw a bit of a curve ball by lashing out at the entire world rather than specific targets, but still.

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Trump and Rubio take credit for ceasefire. India and Pakistan do not agree.

This is a picture because the Times of India does not let you copy text out of their articles.

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Being more stupid than your opponents planned for can definitely confuse them, but it rarely actually gives you any advantage.

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“She was… putting inappropriate books in the library for children…”

And not one person pointed out that a) the Library of Congress receives copies of most every book published in America*, and b) it’s not a fucking lending library; to access the collection one has to be at least 16 to get a card… The White House isn’t even trying to come up with plausibly non-racist justifications.

*Even if they don’t keep them all.

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Hart was briefly a speechwriter for Nixon. But later in life, he opposed George W. Bush and supported both Kerry and Obama. In spite of the racism in that op-ed, he doesn’t seem like he would have supported Trump. But yeah, the current head of the Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, was the editor of the Dartmouth Review while an undergrad, and Hart created that publication and modeled it after Buckley’s National Review. Anyway, while she was editor, they ran an article comparing the treatment of conservatives at Dartmouth to the Holocaust. And the President of Dartmouth at the time was Jewish, so it didn’t go over very well.

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Happy Mother’s Day/Christmas I guess.

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Not even teying to put a fig leaf on it anymore. Holy shit…

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The emoluments clause was cremated.

I’m sure the fitted it out with surveillance tech - and a self destruct remote.

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And they can stop shipping all the guns while they’re at it.

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John Cleese Jokes About Hanging Stephen Miller ‘By The Neck’

Updated May 11 2025 4:09AM EDT
…BIT EXTREME?

The British actor pulled no punches tearing into the white supremacist turned White supremacist turned White House aide over proposed rollbacks on constitutional protections for vulnerable migrants.

Veteran British comedian John Cleese went to a pretty dark place responding to a White House aide’s proposal for nixing constitutional rights afforded to migrants in custody.

“I see Stephen Miller says he is actively thinking about suspending ‘habeas corpus,’” Cleese posted on X. “As this has been the keystone of the Rule of Law for centuries, I’d like to suggest that we actively think about suspending Stephen Miller.”

“Preferably by the neck,” he added.

The message has since been removed from X.

“removed from Xitter” because they realize that with stephen miller it requires a wooden stake through his non-existent heart?

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Stopped clock and all. I expected Cleese to side with Miller.

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Please someone trip and fall on the button while TFG is aboard.

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yes indeed. i ~know of Cleese’s not so good political alignment. curious how often we witness the most ‘clear’ attacks on the right from folks we’d likely associate as ‘from the right’. no caution for political correctness, perhaps? -sigh-

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I’m really reaching here, but I think the only tiny benefit from these things will be that the practices they promote are likely to kill you more quickly than the coronary disease, diabetes, and cancer that a lot of the overprocessed “food” will result in?

I say this, because of course, they will promote raw milk|water|meat, etc, but they won’t restrict business interests selling the things causing many of those chronic illnesses.

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He’s an asshole, but not even your average asshole thinks Stephen Miller deserves more than scraping off the bottom of your shoes.

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