Donald Trump spins the wheel...Who gets dumped next?

 

Kristi Noem was the epitome of being unqualified, leading to major incompetence from the beginning, resulting in Donald Trump's first Cabinet Secretary dumped. In Noem's tenure, 53 people died due to the violent tactics of ICE. She will go on to one of Dufus Rump's insignificant positions in his administration and will be replaced by Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin. He is, of course, another Trump loyalist. Here are comments from Mullin...

Mullin told reporters at the Capitol on Thursday that he was “super excited about this opportunity” and that it was “not a complete surprise.”

He added, “The president and I, as you guys know, we’re great friends, and we get along great. I look forward to working with him in his Cabinet. Of course, we’ve still got to go through this little thing called confirmation, and we’re going to get started on it right away.”

NBC News places Noem "at the forefront of Trump’s signature policy agendas: deporting immigrants, restricting immigration and clamping down on the U.S.-Mexico border." She may be the one with the flair to bolster her image and spend a lot of money, some personally, other unnecessarily, but there is no doubt that it has been Stephen Miller who has put together Donald Trump's violent anti-immigration movement. Miller has almost unbridled range as White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor.

But it was Pam Bondi's firing from the extremely important position of Trump's Attorney General where the Oval Office lunatic used the legal system to carry out prosecutions of retribution. Like Letitia James and James Comey. Here's the scenario...

Federal Judge Cameron Currie dismissed federal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James in November 2025. The cases, brought by special prosecutor Lindsey Halligan, were tossed after the judge found Halligan was improperly appointed, rendering her actions unlawful. Both face potential re-prosecution as the dismissals were without prejudice.

Bondi's biggest Trump letdown was the screwing up of the issue of Donald Trump's pal,

Jeffrey Epstein, the massive predator, in overseeing the case. How it came down...

Pam Bondi was fired as U.S. Attorney General on April 2, 2026, following mounting criticism over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case files. Despite promising transparency, her Justice Department failed to release significant documents, provided misleading information about a "client list," and heavily redacted files, creating a political liability for President Trump.

So, what's next? 

This headline from Daily Beast could provide a clue, "Fuming Trump Secretly Plots Firing Top Goon Who Embarrassed Him." He's talking about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, but insiders say another firing so soon after Noem and Bondi could cause a concern by the public of 'what the hell is going on?' Nevertheless, this is the situation...

"Gabbard reportedly rankled Trump when she refused to condemn Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, who resigned over his opposition to the Iran war. Sources told Fox News that Gabbard declined to fire Kent despite being the White House urging her to."

It is beyond me how anyone who works for Dufus Rump can make a move without wondering if it will be their last one. And here's a late happening on Monday...

Stetson Law alumni call on school to revoke former Attorney General Pam Bondi's awards.

They apparently want nothing to do with her anymore by saying they would like to "distance" themselves from Bondi. Is a disbarment next? One can only hope. 

There are others standing on the sidelines just waiting for the hook. Trump has mentioned dumping several senior officials, including FBI Director Kash Patel, according to Times of India. In addition to Patel, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, and Labor Secretary Lori Cha. Patel is a certified moron, as is Pete Hegseth, the latter not mentioned recently but known to be in Dufus Rump's sights. Insiders say Hegseth is firing all his top people because he fears Trump will fire him, replacing him with one of them.

Buzz Feed says, "Trump Is Now Throwing His Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt Under The Bus, And It's Exactly What We Expected." With a "laugh," the site said...

"President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is to blame for media outlets’ unfavorable coverage of him in a wild moment in the Oval Office."

There was never any need for having Leavitt speak for him since she never really interpreted her boss' output, rather, just mimicked everything he said. Aside from being an airhead, Leavitt was both obstinate and arrogant in her dealings with the press. Trump added this in his press conference...

 "He continued by awkwardly, and seemingly playfully, pointing out his press secretary as she watched on, 'Maybe Karoline’s doing a poor job? I don’t know. She’s my repre — you’re doing a terrible job. Should we keep her? I think we’ll keep her.'”

How would you like to work in this kind of environment? The revolving door is bad enough but when you put an insane Donald Trump at the controls, it's like working in the snake pit.

 

Donald Trump used Robt. F. Kennedy Jr. to destroy Americans' healthcare

RFK Jr. says NO  to vaccines

We know Donald Trump doesn't care about the health of Americans. His body is falling apart from head to toe so fast it's a wonder he can get up in the morning. But the U.S. Constitution clearly provides Congress the checks and balances that should have been used long ago to halt Robt. F. Kennedy's destruction of America's healthcare system. Democrats have opposed the Health Secretary from the beginning, based on his long-standing opposition to vaccines. The Week has a running list of RFK Jr.'s controversies

Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens is drafting articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. Here's the scenario...

She pointed to Kennedy’s reckless cuts to medical research, vaccine access, and skyrocketing health care costs under his tenure. Stevens declared, “Secretary Kennedy has violated his oath of office and proven himself unfit to serve the American people. Congress must act to hold him accountable, and I intend to lead the charge to remove him from office.”

The push to get RFK Jr. out is justified by several factors including recent developments that could end up causing more outbreaks, even pandemics, as reported by CNN Health...

One: Riff Raff Kennedy has conditioned the American public with so much negativity on vaccines and medical science in general that doctors across the nation are alarmed that this skepticism is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other proven, routine, preventive care for babies.

“When you look at a child who’s innocent and vulnerable — and a simple intervention (Vitamin K shots) that’s been done since 1961 is refused — knowing that baby’s going out into the world is super worrisome to me,” said Dr. Tom Patterson, who’s been a pediatrician for nearly three decades.

Two: Independent says, a "New Covid variant has been identified and is already

spreading in 25 states." The word is it could be possible that current vaccines will not protect against the variant, known as BA.3.2. It was detected using nasal swabs taken from four American travelers and clinical samples from five patients in four unidentified states. "It’s also been found in three airplane wastewater samples and 132 wastewater samples taken in more than 20 states."

"Its evolution was similar to the variant BA.2.86, which emerged in 2024 and later evolved into JN.1: the dominant Covid variant in 2024.But the new strain is “genetically distinct from the JN.1 lineages that have circulated in the United States since January 2024.”"

Who knows where either will go but it is clears with a moron leading the healthcare industry in the U.S., with constant urging of the American public to stay away from the science that can keep them alive, we are in trouble. And that is an understatement. RFK Jr. must go! Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say...

Recent decisions made by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), are “unacceptable” and “should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings.”

Beyond alarming, it is inherently frightening. And here's more from these nine former directors...

"Over the past few months, they noted, Kennedy announced the end of U.S. support for global vaccination programs; pushed for legislation that will cause millions of Americans to lose Medicaid coverage; and fired thousands of federal health workers, including CDC director Susan Monarez, after she refused to back what the authors called Kennedy’s 'dangerous and unfounded vaccine recommendations.'”

RFK Jr. has been nixed

Stanford researchers created a computer model to learn "how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available." They started with before vaccines were available to illustrate how diseases covered dropped but...

"When immunization rates drop, however, plagues from the past can come roaring back, as measles has in American communities where parents decided not to vaccinate their children."

As of March 26, 2026, the CDC reported 1,575 confirmed measles cases in the United States with 94% of them linked to outbreaks. These cases were reported across 32 areas, driven largely by low vaccination coverage, with over 90% of cases in unvaccinated individuals. Doesn't this scream the fact that Robt. F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine movement is crap. He, validated by Donald Trump, has become the biggest killing machine since the Covid pandemic.

The Stanford Model Report goes on to cover polio, German measles and diphtheria. I urge you to read this study if you want the full picture of how Robt. F. Kennedy Jr. has totally devastated the U.S. system of healthcare.

Donald Trump said: "Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead."

Trump celebrates Robt. Mueller death 

There are no words to describe the despicability of this statement, coming from a head of state. A world leader for ages, the United States is now scorned because of Donald Trump's comments since returning to the White House just a year ago. Dufus Rump is glad Robert Mueller s dead because the special counsel led a two-year investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and potential obstruction of justice by Trump. Here's the scenario according to AlterNet's Roxanne Cooper...

"The investigation lasted nearly two years and resulted in the Mueller Report, which detailed extensive Russian interference efforts and numerous contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russian operatives, though it stopped short of making a prosecutorial judgment on obstruction charges."

Mueller had a stunning career in the Marines where he received a Bronze Star for his service. This kind of service continued in law enforcement, serving as a federal prosecutor and later as head of the FBI's Criminal Division before becoming director. His investigation resulted in a number of indictments, including Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, national security advisor Michael Flynn, and Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen. Here are the results...

"The 448-page Mueller Report, released in April 2019 with significant redactions, found that Russia conducted a "sweeping and systematic" interference campaign aimed at helping Trump's candidacy. It documented over 100 contacts between Trump campaign officials and individuals with ties to the Russian government."

Mueller decided not to prosecute Trump, a move questioned by many in the political

community, who thought he had the ammunition to proceed. The Trump gang, of course, thought it took their boss off the hook. A host of political pundits shared their thoughts on Dufus Rump's comment, including...

Ed Krassenstein, a prominent liberal political commentator with over 1 million followers on X, responded swiftly to Trump's post. "This is disgusting and despicable," Krassenstein wrote. "Trump literally just celebrated Robert Mueller dying. Mueller did so much good for America."

Ken Dilanian, a justice and intelligence correspondent for MS NOW, highlighted the contrast between Mueller's military service and Trump's Vietnam War history. "In an era when many young men – including President Trump – were trying to avoid serving in Vietnam, Mueller not only volunteered for the Marines after graduating from Princeton – he spent a year waiting for an injured knee to heal so he could serve," Dilanian wrote on X. "I have always found that [to] be the most compelling fact about him."

And here is an unbelievable comment from  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent who...

"asked for empathy, telling NBC’s Meet the Press that while the comment was made, it is hard for others to understand what Trump and his family have been through regarding various investigations."

Bessent completely ignores the fact that Donald Trump has been responsible for all the upheaval caused him and his family by his repeated lies, misbehavior and corruption. He is a lunatic who has brought the United States to the point of complete disruption leading to potential Armageddon. I did a post last Tuesday, "Donald Trump...The anti-icon," with examples of how the White House maniac has moved this country from a democracy to a dictatorship. I said...

"there is no doubt Trump has an effect on how certain people think, a sordid group of double-digits who can't think for themselves, nor do they have the ingenuity to act as a responsible individual. A group this country can do without. There is some of this gang who are turning against the Oval Office lunatic, as well as many congressional Republicans."

This, I believe, is the most important factor in Donald Trump's malicious reign in the Oval Office. He couldn't do it without his gang of misdirected miscreants who adore him unconditionally and follow his every move and command. Dufus Rump initiated the robot age when he created MAGA. Just push a button and they fall in line like a military parade. Here's a comment from former President Barack Obama in NPR commenting on Robert Mueller...

"one of the finest directors in the history of the FBI, transforming the bureau after 9/11 and saving countless lives."

"But it was his relentless commitment to the rule of law and his unwavering belief in our bedrock values that made him one of the most respected public servants of our time,"

But there is no doubt Trump is still trying to divert attention from his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein in the largest case of pedophilia this country has probably ever seen. First he starts illegal immigration raids that kill at least two innocent people. Then he starts the Iran war he apparently recently concluded was the wrong thing to do, unwinnable. If both of these die down, you can bet the grifter has another ace up his sleeve. And you can be sure his minions will be right in stride with him. Closing with another Robert Mueller fact...

NPR says, Mueller, throughout his career, ran toward tough assignments.

Maybe he saw the writing on the wall, seeing Trump as the Teflon Don, with Republican support that ignored all the hideous things he was doing. All we know is that Robert Mueller gave it the old college try and at some point put the brakes on. But guess we'll never know why. 

Donald Trump...The anti-icon

An icon, when referring to an individual, is a person who is a widely recognized symbol of a specific set of beliefs, era, or lifestyle, embodying traits like consistency, influence, and uniqueness. They are looked up to with admiration for their accomplishments, someone with integrity. They have cultural impact, affecting how people think. Although some of this ideology, like widely recognized, specific beliefs, even influence, can be attributed to Donald Trump, we completely lose Dufus Rump when it comes to integrity.

Still, there is no doubt Trump has an effect on how certain people think, a sordid group of double-digits who can't think for themselves, nor do they have the ingenuity to act as a responsible individual. A group this country can do without. There is some of this gang who are turning against the Oval Office lunatic, as well as many congressional Republicans. And, when you are cornered with no other way out, you resort to any desperate moves you can make. Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor said...

it was “highly likely” Trump, 79, will exercise his pardon power to protect himself and his close circle from scrutiny.

“And then you know what our challenge will be, and I hope we’re up to the challenge,” Kirschner said. “We have to go into court, and we have to fight corruptly delivered pardons.”

Robert Davis says Trump is "sweating" over a new legal Epstein settlement...

"Bank of America is reportedly in talks with victims of disgraced financier Jeffrey 

Epstein to settle claims concerning the bank's connection to Epstein's sex trafficking operation."

Dufus Rump is still reeling from the testimony given by a victim who apparently bit his penis when he tried to force her to do oral sex. B of A is apparently trying to reach a settlement regarding it liability. Legal expert Joyce Vance says,,,

"That settlement should "raise the temperature" in the Trump White House because it shows the investigation is moving one step closer to shining a light on whatever it is Trump wants to hide."

And, as all these events occur and are covered in detail daily by the media, Donald Trump, completely lost in his thoughts of power and corruption, once again turns maliciously on the press as he proceeds with the Iran war. Margaret Sullivan in the Guardian says, "There’s nothing completely new in Donald Trump’s latest attacks on reporters." Adding...

"But they’re more extreme now and ever more indicative of what he wants: a docile press that provides propaganda – not factual journalism – for everything he does, including for his misguided war in Iran.

"He even suggested this week that news organizations could be charged with treason for, as he baselessly sees it, spreading false information and thus helping America’s enemies."

Trump isn't alone. Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, " threatened that media companies could lose their licenses if they didn’t get in line." This reeks of George Orwell's 1984 which...

"portrays media as a totalitarian tool used by Big Brother to enforce conformity, rewrite history, and manipulate reality via telescreens."

Do we really want to go down this road? And the answer from a sane population is obviously no. This all is somewhat diminished when we return to the White House maniac's Iran war. And although Dufus Rump has regularly tried to promote his war against the Iranians, at the same time minimizing its disastrous effect on Americans, as well as Middle Easterners, the Daily Beast says experts are warning...

"that President Donald Trump’s war in Iran could rattle the energy market for months to come because of a strike on a critical facility in the Middle East.

"An Iranian missile hit Ras Laffan in Qatar, home to the largest liquefied natural gas, or LNG, export facility in the world. In total, Ras Laffan supplies about a fifth of the world’s supply."

As a measure of reference, Ras Laffan has extensive damage and took three decades to complete. Gas prices in the U.S. and Europe have skyrocketed and could climb even more. 

Just recently Sen. Mark Kelly from Arizona revealed that Trump is selling ‘private’ national security briefings and presented receipts to confirm his charge. United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Ratcliffe were questioned about the Iran war, reported by Mary Sue. And then the subject was turned to Donald Trump’s corrupt practices in government. Followed by this...

"A particular moment that has been gaining significant attention online, especially on X (formerly Twitter), involves Senator Mark Kelly asking Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe to confirm whether they had seen the circular Trump sent to his donors, promising them access to classified briefings."

Both said they had not. while at the same time defending their boss over something they were supposedly unaware of. The whole thing escalated when both Ratcliffe and Gabbard further denied that Trump had even done what they were accusing him of. Kelly said that the document had been made public six days earlier and offered to provide a copy. The question was never answered whether Dufus Rump should profit from offering classified briefings to donors.

 

Donald Trump's diversion of Iran War won't hide Epstein, immigration murders and mixed economy

Epstein and Trump

You couldn't miss the new bronze statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein entitled "The King of the World," on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 10, 2026. What' more it has become impossible to ignore the fact that Dufus Rump will do anything take away the attention of the American public on Epstein, immigration murders and mixed economy going nowhere. Here's the scenario...

"Dubbed Operation Epic Fury, the Trump administration’s military campaign against Iran has been routinely mocked as “Operation Epstein Fury,” a reference to the ongoing scandal that has rocked Trump’s second presidency."

 Senator Chris Murphy, Connecticut Democrat, Trashes Trump as ‘Senile Old Man’  after secret war briefing. He said...

“This is the most incompetent, incoherent war America has fought in the last 100 years, and that’s saying a lot,” Murphy said, with his comments at the Capitol aired on CNN’s NewsNight on Thursday.

“This administration has no idea what they are doing. There is no viable war plan. They change their goals and their aims every single day,” Murphy added.

Of course, Donald Trump has never been accused of knowing what he is doing, embarking 

on whims that have placed America in a precarious position both domestically and internationally. Thomas Kika says in AlterNet, "Trump nosediving as his presidency is dragged down by 'failure after failure': analysis." He has basically lost control due to a combination of blunders launched solely to satiate his enormous ego and line his pockets where possible. And here are the results...

"Gas prices surging. Unemployment climbing. War with Iran threatens to engulf his presidency," Cheney wrote. "The fracturing of his political coalition. The collapse of his signature trade-negotiations-by-tariff strategy. Relentless scrutiny of the Epstein files. A public backlash to his agenda that could swamp Republicans in the midterms. Failure after failure to criminalize the conduct of his political adversaries."

And apparently Trump's co-conspirator in the Iran War, Netanyahu, has his own problems. Iran has threatened to assassinate Netanyahu, although there is a question if he is still alive, according to a suspicious video. Iran calls him a "child killer," but directs attention to a clip of the Israeli PM's national address that went viral. In his speech...

"there's an unusual moment in the video where Netanyahu appears to develop six fingers all of a sudden, sparking a lot of people online to wonder if the stream was generated using artificial intelligence and that the PM is actually dead."

As an example of Dufus Rump's stupidity and egotistical resistance to advice,...

"Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine told Trump in multiple briefings that U.S. officials long believed Iran would deploy mines, drones, and missiles to close the critical shipping lane."

It appears that Donald Trump was well aware of the risk but decided to proceed anyway, in my opinion as a result of an ego that constantly tells him that he is the king of the world. And, of course, we know what has happened, he recently demanded  NATO and China police the Strait of Hormuz. So far they aren't joining;  France and Italy have opened talks with Iran amid the oil scandal, leaving Trump humiliated; but here is the kicker, Iranian attack on US soil likely...

“It’s not a matter of if — it’s a matter of when,” retired Top Gun Navy fighter pilot Matthew “Whizz” Buckley told The New York Post, warning that Americans were vulnerable to Iranians hungry to retaliate after the US killed the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader and unleashed war across the Middle East.

Chief among the dangers are scores of Iranian agents who “likely” slipped into the US over the southern border and could be waiting for orders from handlers in Tehran to strike, Buckley said.

“There is probably thousands, if not tens of thousands of Iranian agents and sleeper cells in this country,” he said, adding that sources in Customs and Border Protection have ominously told him, “You wouldn’t believe how many Korans and prayer rugs we find in the desert.”

Elizabeth Warren says, "After Helping Convince Trump to Attack Iran, Kushner Solicits Billions for His Private Equity Firm." She continues...

“While US servicemembers die in another forever war in the Middle East, Donald Trump’s ‘peace envoy’ is raising money for his private equity firm.”

Kushner has been quietly working with Saudi Arabia in the background of Dufus Rump's shenanigans

Twins of corruption

since the first term of the Oval Office maniac. If Donald Trump eventually goes before war trials, Kushner's co-conspiring corruption with Donald Trump should also put him in line for conviction. Here's the scenario...

"Citing five unnamed people with knowledge of the talks, the Times reported that 'Affinity’s representatives have already met with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund,' Affinity’s largest investor. Saudi Arabia’s leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reportedly played a significant role in the behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign urging Trump to attack Iran—Saudi Arabia’s top regional rival."

And to cap it all off, the White House maniac said last Saturday that he "may strike Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub ‘just for fun’" Do you voters who put this moron in the White House, and you Republicans in Congress who are keeping him there heat this. Apparently stupidity reigns in this country under the letters G-O-P.

Is American democracy dead?

Let's start at the top. We know Donald Trump will never change, only get worse. The Republican Congress has made it clear they will not give up support for the Oval Office lunatic. The MAGA maggots are firmly entrenched in their following of Trump. And there is a combination gang out there like the apathetics, the double-digit voters who chose the White House maniac in 2024, and finally those who are completely clueless about politics and political parties. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Trump has been working on the destruction of our democracy since day one of his second term.

The Crew site says Donald Trump has been "dismantling our democracy, one piece at a time," and that it is important to keep a record as a reminder of the damage that has been done. Dufus Rump is changing democracy gradually so as not to alert those who aren't keen on current issues. Here's an AI analysis...

"Approximately 67% to 70% of Americans cannot name all three branches of government, and over 70% fail a basic civic literacy quiz. Furthermore, 27% of Americans follow national political news "not too closely" or "not at all," while about two-thirds feel exhausted by politics."

So when you combine the percentages who don't know what's going on with those who don't care what's going on, there is only a small group out there voting who place their votes with the knowledge of what they actually voted for. Based on these scary figures, we have ended up with Donald Trump in the White House and a Republican Congress so cowardly in their fear of Dufus Rump that any of his utterances becomes their goal. Here are more AI facts...

According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, more than 70% of Americans fail a basic civics test.

Gallup News indicates that 27% of Americans follow political news "not too closely" or "not at all".

Pew Research Center notes that 22% of Americans cannot identify a single strength in the nation's political system.

Looking at the above, either the educational system has failed at teaching political science in schools, or

a majority of Americans are just turned off by their government. With 27% of the public virtually ignoring the political news, you end up with a large block of misinformed voters. And the Pew finding that 22% of Americans cannot identify a single strength in the nation's political system, indicates to me another large block that has basically given in to the destruction of the Donald Trump administration. All three items considered are competent confirmation that Americans have lost their dream.

Getting back to how Crew explains how Dufus Rump is dismantling our democracy, one piece at a time, there are four core main categories used to identify the onslaught Trump is making on U.S. freedom and justice. They are, Corruption, Weaponization of the Department of Justice and U.S. military, Regulatory Retaliation and Hiding or Distorting Legally Required Information. Starting with the first...

Corruption, "Trump's abuse of entrenched power for private or personal gain. Over the past 10 years, despite some attempts to fight corruption including the creation of a National Strategy on Countering Corruption, we have seen a precipitous worsening of corruption in the United States." This has expanded to enormous proportions during both Donald Trump administrations. Corruption, in my opinion, is one of the worst factors in the overthrow of democracy,

Weaponization of the Department of Justice and U.S. military, When the dictator looks inward to shore up his strengths, the first move is to make sure the legal arsenal is in place that will loyally support his every move. "Strong democracies have a robust civil society, including an active and engaged opposition. A network of constitutional and statutory laws, as well as executive branch policies rooted in the First Amendment, are designed to prevent politically motivated investigations and prosecutions and ensure that government law enforcement and military resources are not used to suppress dissent." Trump, however, has made the Executive Order (EO) the new way of governing, his ploy to eliminate Congress from the process. He relies strongly on the Dept. of Justice to back him up on every move.

Regulatory Retaliation, To begin with, Dufus Rump has taken away the independence of government agencies, "an independence which has all but evaporated thanks to a series of Supreme Court shadow docket decisions permitting the indiscriminate firing of independent agency heads." Donald Trump, using as an example the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to enact regulatory retaliation. If the White House maniac doesn't like what you are doing, vengeance and retribution will follow you everywhere you go.

Hiding or Distorting Legally Required Information, "Transparency is the currency of democracy, because it allows people to know that their government is acting honestly and with their best interests at heart." Add to that the fact that anything that does come from the Trump administration is misinformation...lie after lie, after lie, after lie, after lie...into ad infinitum. And transparency to Donald Trump is the release only of that information that both pleases and honors him. What we should expect: "This category therefore tracks government attempts to hide or misrepresent information that is supposed to be lawfully available, obscure reliable data or make government decisions in secret outside of the eye of the American public." 

Unless you are living under a rock, you know the latter couldn't be farther from the truth. This all screams the question of why anyone would want to live with an authoritarian government. Here's an AI answer...

"Some Americans express a desire for an authoritarian government or strongman leader primarily as a response to perceived threats to their economic stability, social status, and traditional way of life. This mindset is often driven by a need for order, safety, and conformity in a society seen as increasingly chaotic, unstable, or threatening."

My opinion is that many of these ne'er-do-wells and apathetics are just too dumb or too lazy to make a good life for themselves. That leaves those of us who still have the will to be free to fight on, and I do mean fight hard, in the war against autocracy. I urge you to read the Crew article for the extensive timeline it contains on all of the above categories.

American democracy is not dead...it's just snoozing,

Donald Trump administration Incompetence reincarnated from the Keystone Kops

Keystone Kops

Remember the Keystone Kops, a group of fictional, humorously incompetent, and bumbling policemen from the 1910 silent slapstick comedies? The big difference between these guys and the Trump gang is that the Keystone Kops created their comedy for the purpose of entertaining us. On the other hand, Donald Trump and his minions can be hilarious with their stupidity, but they are dead serious with their plan to destroy this country. Between Trump and his top honchos, the chaos and confusion in the American government today is completely unprecedented.

For starters, we're at war again, an unconstitutional move by Dufus Rump bypassing the legal way of going through Congress. He did it to satiate his ego and to appease another country's leader who is also out of control, Benjamin Netanyahu. Although the Democrats are voicing their opposition--but some say too little, too late--the jellyfish Republicans in Congress continue to maintain their silence while covertly supporting Trump the whole time. Will it take something like Lyndon B. Johnson's "Daisy" ad to shake the radical right loose?

And, just yesterday in The Daily Beast Donald Trump...

"claimed that the Iran War was “very complete” after reportedly discussing his plans for peace with Vladimir Putin."

Okay, starting in March, Trump and Putin are once again communicating, with the Kremlin describing

Trump...Putin

their relationship as "businesslike, pragmatic and trustworthy". Neither trusts each other, never have, never will. They have been vacillating on Ukraine for over four years, a situation Dufus Rump promised at the beginning of his second term in office, he would end in 24 hours. One might wonder now, will this end up in another TACO incident, 'Trump Always Chickens Out.' Should this happen in the Iran war, not only does the U.S. lose face, we also expose a completely incompetent Trump administration.

On Monday, the White House maniac said...

“I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no navy, no communications, they’ve got no Air Force.”

Weijia Jiang, senior White House correspondent for CBS News added,,,

"that the U.S. is ‘very far’ ahead of his initial 4-5 week estimated time frame.”

The Daily Beast likened this comment to the claim...

"of President George W. Bush’s boast of “mission accomplished” on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, six weeks after he launched the Iraq War. The conflict lasted another eight years before the U.S. finally withdrew in 2011."

As of March 10, 2026, the war involving Iran, the United States, and Israel has escalated into a multi-front conflict spanning several countries in the Middle East. The war has spread and also covers Lebanon, Gulf Countries (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar), Iraq, Maritime Routes (Strait of Hormuz & Indian Ocean), and Turkey. And has the Trump administration either forgotten, or is it just ignoring the fact that Iran has two very strong allies, Russia and China. Not sure what it will take for these two to step in but when it happens...annihilation and decimation.

And then there is Pete Hegseth, an American Army National Guard veteran, former second-rate Fox News host, who, by the grace of Donald Trump became head of the largest defense system in the world as Sec. Defense. He and Dufus decided the word "Defense" wasn't threatening enough so now they call it Sec. War. Hegseth graduated from Princeton so you might think there is some gray matter. Now wouldn't an educated man know that he is committing murder when he blows up innocent people, killing 157 off the coast of Venezuela. Of course, it was all ordered by Trump.

Yet, during all of Trump's war mayhem, including his continuing adoration of Vladimir Putin...

"The Washington Post reported last week that Russia is providing key intelligence about the location and movements of U.S. assets to its Iranian allies."

Indubitably, is there any way to address this with any kind of reasoning or common sense? To add some clarification to the dilemma, Donald Trump became the oldest U.S. president inaugurated at age 78, with concerns regarding his cognitive health by multiple medical care professionals, political commentators, and observers. Here's an observation from The New York Times...

"Throughout [Donald Trump's"] political career, critics, opponents, and some observers have used terms like 'nuts,' 'crazy,' 'unhinged,' or 'dangerous' to describe his behavior, speeches, and decision-making."

MAGA, the cowardly Republicans of Congress and a host of his minion supporters still think the man is sane, doing a great job, responsible for a good economy and numerous other accolades only a gang of double-digits could dream up. It is simply inexplainable how anyone could be allowed to continue on their job when they were a major fuck-up from day one. I am talking about Kristi Noem, the former Sec. Homeland Security. It is beyond me how Dufus Rump could have hired this imbecile to begin with. It's really obvious, loyalty is sacred to Trump.

And that brings up the Oval Office lunatic's new nomination for Noem's old job at DHS. Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) a strong Trump loyalist, will take over the shambles from a completely incompetent Kristi Noem. Among other drawbacks, Mullin fully supported Dufus Rump's war on Iran. He voted against certifying 2020 election results and jumped on Trump's bandwagon about election fraud. Mullin is taking over a department that is currently shut down, in large part due to Noem's mishandling, including the deaths of two innocent American citizens by ICE.

We could use a round of the Keystone Kops to to get a laugh or two in all this misery.

When conservatives turn against their own

 I have followed Wm. Kristol for years and it wasn’t very long ago that I considered him an ultra conservative that would never chastise the Republican Party, especially a GOP president. Enter Donald Trump to the political arena with his lies, sexual improprieties, corruption and a fascist appetite to consume America. Kristol has been after Trump for some time now and, if Democrats had adopted his passion to rid the country of the Oval Office lunatic, the left could be celebrating by now.

In Kristol’s recent piece in THEBULWARK, he pulls words from Lewis Carroll’s poem, “Jabberwocky,” in Through the Looking Glass. The words are “O Frabjous Day,” to represent the success of the No Kings protests against the Donald Trump administration on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. The conservative praised the seven million people who turned out to march across the country. Here it is straight from Wm. Kristol…

You might think that I’m too old and too experienced—dare one say, too jaundiced—to have been moved by the “No Kings” protests. To be honest, I rather doubted I’d really be moved by them.

But moved I was. And as we milled around in the party atmosphere in “downtown” McLean—with inflatable characters prancing and witty signs waving and drivers’ horns honking—I thought of these lines from Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem, “Jabberwocky,” in Through the Looking Glass:

“O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”He chortled in his joy.

This, from a man who is a dedicated conservative but, at the same time, loves his country too much to allow a fellow-conservative to destroy it. When I think of the Republican Congress that is supposed to be one of the checks and balances in our democracy, and the way they are not only ignoring Donald Trump’s vagaries, but these morons are supporting him to the hilt. And when the House or Senate cannot bail out Trump, SCOTUS comes to his rescue.

Kristol says the No Kings protesters “assembled peacefully and patriotically to protest Donald Trump and reaffirm their allegiance to the American idea.” Then he quotes one of my favorite writers…

“That idea was nowhere better stated than by Thomas Paine in Common Sense: ‘For as in absolute governments the King is Law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.’”

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense argued for American independence from Great Britain and was crucial in swaying public opinion during the Revolutionary War. Not that Trump has any common sense but the forces in motion in those days are very similar to the No Kings Protests today. And what is horrifying is the White House maniac wants to stay where he is forever with Elon Musk and Robert F Kennedy, Jr. even talking about how to preserve him for eternity. This from the Daily Beast…

“Donald Trump has made no secret of the fact that he likes the idea of a third term, but he’s

 

now hinted that he might have something even more permanent in mind.

“The president posted about his eternal leadership in a video on Truth Social Sunday, showing him ruling for thousands of years beyond the original 2028 cutoff.”

Trump is currently selling 2028 hats at his official merchandise store. That should be a clue. If that isn’t enough, Trump biographer Michael Wolff told the Daily Beast that he believed a Trump third term could be a “very real possibility.” Here’s what Wolff said…

Speaking on the Inside Trump’s Head podcast, Wolff suggested that the president would do whatever he had to in order to retain his position.

“The problem with this is that an authoritarian breaks so many rules and makes so many enemies that in order to avoid retribution, he has to stay in power. That is the nature of the game that is being played,” he said.

There are so many things that could happen between now and 2028, even before the midterms next year. I don’t really have much hope that Republicans will ever change their spots as long as Donald Trump is around. There are, however, some cracks in the framework of the Oval Office lunatic’s malicious blueprint. Miles Bruner says he was an “accomplice” of the Republican Party for the last twelve years. The term “accomplice” is defined as a person who helps another commit a crime.

Bruner did a piece in THEBULWARK titled: “My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party.” The sub-headline was: “Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.” Yes, that is hope, but you have to consider the position at which Bruner worked, compared to members of Congress and what they have to lose compared to him. Bruner quit his job in protest. Congress would most likely lose their jobs if they crossed Trump.

The former Republican writes about a cult in the GOP that has clearly turned to an authoritarian regime, “the worst of the last one hundred years.” The words from the man’s mouth…

"For over twelve years, I worked inside the Republican ecosystem, helping the party advance its goals in several fields, ranging from grassroots voter outreach to digital fundraising. I worked inside GOP circles through Trump’s takeover of the party, his initial downfall, and his resurgence in 2023–2024. At every step along the way, I rationalized, compartmentalized, and found excuses to stay tethered to the party, even as I grew to believe it was undermining the foundations of our constitutional republic. But over the last few months, the compartmentalization and coping stopped working to silence my conscience.

"And now, after more than a decade, I have decided I have finally had enough.

"I quit. I quit the Republican party and my job as an accomplice to the party in the throes of an authoritarian cult. Today, I resigned from my career as a senior fundraising strategist for one of the leading Republican digital fundraising firms in Washington, D.C."

WOW! I probably should stop right here and let you read his letter in THEBULWARK but I can’t resist pointing out more about why he did what he did. Bruner is not the first and he mentions Tim Miller and his book, Why We Did It, with the following blurb on Amazon…

“Former Republican political operative Tim Miller answers the question no one else has fully grappled with: Why did normal people go along with the worst of Trumpism?”

Miller worked at the Senate and presidential level, Bruner on state-level campaigns, so between the two there are perspectives from both ends of the spectrum. I strongly suggest you read his letter in THEBULWARK. You might also want to get a copy of Miller’s book, Why We Did It. Now I’ll leave you with this from Bruner…

“MY GOAL IN QUITTING the party and writing this piece is twofold: first, to shed light on why someone would continue to work for an increasingly corrupt and authoritarian political party despite their divergent ethical and political beliefs; second, to convince any number of consultants, staffers, and former colleagues to follow their consciences and leave with their integrity still intact.”

My guess is it will take many turncoats like Wm. Kristol, Miles Bruner, and Tim Miller to defeat Trumpism. But at least it’s a start.

There is someone who could bring down the Trump administration

This was No Kings Day Oct. 18, 2025

No one can say it like Robert Reich, the man and his rhetoric, who could send Donald Trump and his minions packing.  Here's what he said on X to kick off the No Kings Protests...

"As we resist tyranny, America gains solidarity. As we gain solidarity, we build courage. As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime. Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief today at No Kings Day 2.0."

One can only hope that these protests will produce a decline in t-Rump's power, leading to a return to democracy. Millions of Americans hit the streets last Saturday in peaceful protest against a dictatorial government "in the spirit of a street party," as The Guardian described it. The idea was to counteract the balderdash from a moron sitting in the U.S. House Speaker's seat by the name of Mike Johnson. He called the No Kings Protest the “hate America” protests and was seconded by another moron, Steve Scalise, House majority leader. Not enough brains between these two to come in out of the rain.

Reich did a piece in The Guardian early in October professing leverage by the Democrats because of the shutdown of the U.S. government. Here's what's happened...

Agencies and departments designed to protect consumers, workers and investors are now officially closed, as are national parks and museums.

Most federal workers are not being paid – as many as 750,000 could be furloughed – including those who are required to remain on the job, like air-traffic controllers or members of the US military.

So-called “mandatory” spending, including Social Security and Medicare payments, are continuing, although checks could be delayed. The construction of Trump’s new White House ballroom won’t be affected.

The former Labor Secretary expresses his experience with shutdowns but claims this one is different. One reason, "Republicans used an arcane Senate procedure called 'reconciliation', which allowed the big ugly (Trump's big beautiful) to get through with just 51 votes rather than the normal 60 required to overcome a filibuster." The bill barely made it with J.D. Vance breaking the tie with no Democrat votes. This put everything in motion for a shutdown which started on October 1. Results of the shutdown...

"The big ugly fundamentally altered the priorities of the United States 

Robt. Reich and Trump's "Big Ugly"

government. It cut about $1tn from healthcare programs, including Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, meaning that health insurance premiums for tens of millions of Americans will soar starting in January.

"The big ugly also cut nutrition assistance and environmental protection, while bulking up immigration enforcement and cutting the taxes of wealthy Americans and big corporations."

The big ugly was inevitable with Donald Trump in the White House, but what is not inevitable is Trump staying in the White House. Here's the scenario...

Senate Democrats refused to sign on unless most of the big ugly’s cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act were restored, so health insurance premiums won’t soar next year.

Even if Senate Democrats had obtained that concession, the Republican bill to keep the government going would retain all the tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations contained in the big ugly, along with all the cuts in nutrition assistance, and all the increased funding for immigration enforcement.

Enter the Trump troika, Stephen Miller, Russell Vought and J.D. Vance. Vought, and Elon Musk before him, have irresponsibly fired thousands of federal employees, then found it was necessary to hire many of these people back immediately. As Reich puts it, they are firing those in jobs they don't value like the   Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. They have seized appropriations approved by Congress which the experts say is unconstitutional. What will happen...

"All of this is illegal, but it seems unlikely that courts will act soon enough to prevent the administration from harming vast numbers of Americans."

So here is Robert Reich's answer to this fiasco...

"If tens of millions of Americans lose their health insurance starting in January because they can no longer afford to pay sky-high premiums, Trump and his Republicans will be blamed."

Democrats have won political battles on healthcare in the past...

"Over the last two decades, Democratic political wins on healthcare include the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the expansion of ACA premium tax credits, and the Inflation Reduction Act's provisions to lower prescription drug costs."

January isn't that far away but, in the meantime, the left must keep up and increase their efforts like the No Kings Protests. 

Be sure and see the documentary, 'The Last Class' examines the legacy of professor Robert Reich."

Don't miss the No Kings Protests tomorrow

U,S. House Speaker, Mike Johnson, has branded himself as a certified idiot and the GOP as scared beyond comprehension of tomorrow's No Kings Protests by saying, "We refer to it by its more accurate description, 'The Hate America Rally.' I'm not sure how anybody can refute that." Only a double-digit IQ would make a statement like that in view of what Donald Trump has done to destroy this country. And also the work desperate and sincere Americans have achieved to demonstrate the fact they are fed up with Donald Trump and his minions.

The points made by Johnson in the above article are so preposterous and pathetic that it shows they clearly understand the No Kings movement as being something that can bring down the Trump administration and the radical right with it. So be sure and check for your protest location here, and then turn out on Saturday for the big day.

All hail the Republicans of the future...Racists, Anti-semetics, Rapists, Homophobics...

 

Young Republicans are caught

...And all of them are Trump minions, coming from all over the country,  including New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont. There are 15,000 of these Trump wanna-bes in a political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old. In this instance, they were connecting through the social media site, Telegram. Here's what Telegram is all about...

"Although Telegram's web interface does not favor violent posts, but its platform has been used to host and spread them due to its past history of light content moderation and focus on user privacy. While Telegram's terms of service prohibit calls for violence, the platform has been criticized for being a hub for extremist groups who share violent content in private or semi-private channels that are harder for moderators to police effectively."

Just wanted to set the stage for what I described in the headline, young people who are racists, anti-semetics, rapists, homophobic and much, much more. It was a Politico exclusive with the Headline, ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat, that exposed what we can expect from the future GOP. I have been blogging for several years, have seen Republicans say and do things that were incorrigible, to say the least, but never have I witnessed an admission like this. This shows just how stupid Republicans are; they were hoping they wouldn't get caught.

As Politico described it, "Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape." And J.D. Vance's reaction to the Young Republicans, "Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’" Here is some of what he said...

“The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys,” Vance said on “The Charlie Kirk Show.” “They tell edgy, offensive jokes. That’s what kids do. And I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke — telling a very offensive, stupid joke — is cause to ruin their lives.”

Here's a scenario of the incident...

"The messages, more than 2,900 pages of which were reviewed by POLITICO, included more than 250 slurs, an instance in which rape was called 'epic,' and one person saying 'I love Hitler.'”

How do you justify Racists, Anti-semetics, Rapists, Homophobics in any sense of these words? This is not the America I signed up for and not the America I wish to live in. It is Donald Trump's America, one that has consistently spiraled down since he returned to the White House. There was hope that, from t-Rump's actions the left would regain the House and Senate in 2026, the Oval Office in 2028 but then SCOTUS decided to come to the aid of Republicans, again, by eliminating...

"The last remaining piece of the 1965 Voting Rights Act – section 2, which empowers the federal government to protect voters from racial gerrymandering meant to dilute Black political power..."

 The gist of SCOTUS' actions is...

"A neutering by the Supreme Court of the Voting Rights Act’s last remaining major provision would potentially trigger a political avalanche — an event that starts narrow but gathers momentum as it spreads across the national map.

"In this case, the benefit would be to Republicans seeking to maintain a majority in the House of Representatives, perhaps for many years to come."

I have said this before and I will say it again, the only way Republicans know how to win elections is to cheat, but, in this case SCOTUS will throw this and future elections in their lap. But back now to Republican desecration of our democratic ideologies. Inside the office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-Ohio), was an American flag altered to include a swastika. You can see it here in another Politico piece. There's more...

"The flag is pinned to what appears to be a cubicle wall behind Angelo Elia, one of Taylor’s staffers. Alongside the flag — with altered red and white lines in the shape of a swastika — are pinned images, including a pocket Constitution and a congressional calendar."

Angelo Elia

Taylor claims he knows nothing about the flag but the X post, above, "the flag" clearly shows a young man in the insert. Taylor's explanation...

“I am aware of an image that appears to depict a vile and deeply inappropriate symbol near an employee in my office,” Taylor said in a statement. “The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms.”

Before closing this post, I want to show you what these young American Nazis said in their tirade, but, first, reactions from  a top Republican...

The Chair of the Kansas GOP party, Danedri Herbert, announced Tuesday that the state's Young Republicans chapter has been deactivated.

"These comments do not reflect the beliefs of Republicans and certainly not Kansas Republicans at large, who elected a Black chair a few months ago," the statement read in part. "As of today, the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive."

Here's one of the leaders of the Kansas Young Republicans, the group that was officially deactivated...

William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”

Giunta was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he should become chair of the Young Republican National Federation, the GOP’s 15,000-member political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old.

And now some actual quotes from this dangerously misguided group...

...we are officially under consideration for a Trump endorsement.

I’m ready to watch people burn now.

you're giving nationals to much credit and expecting the Jew to be honest.

Great. I love Hitler.

I’d go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey (Black person) play ball.

But, within all the above quotes...

If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr.

The Politico piece is well worth reading to illustrate the horrible and vicious state of the Republican Party, a situation clearly orchestrated by Donald Trump.