Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week
Reign of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:
- SNL Weekend Update: Трамп defends January 6 pardons, Musk criticized for Nazi salute
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп’s Disgusting Tragedy Response ♬
- The Late Show: How Google Maps is changing during the Трамп administration
- Ross Childs: First interview with VP JD Vance
- Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп blames DEI for tragic plane crash, Kookie Kash Patel & Jimmy chats with RFK Jr. JUNIOR
- Stephen: You’re not crazy, Трамп is & Noem glams up for Bronx raid & ICE is detaining American citizens
- Michael Kosta: Трамп blames D.C. plane crash on DEI and dwarfism
- Christopher Titus: The Felon Von Shitzenpantz’s executive orders, week II:
- Seth Meyers: Трамп faces backlash after disastrous funding freeze & Bernie rips RFK Jr.
- Rachel Maddow: How Americans ended up without an FAA administrator as Трамп came into office
- Tommy Campbell: Jim Acosta QUITS CNN and BLASTS Трамп in final message
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Heil to the Chief! (The New Трамп Presidential Song) ♬
- J-L Cauvin: The Dotard blames DEI Black helicopters for air disaster
- LegalEagle: Трамп broke the government AND THEN CHANGED HIS MIND (and then changed his mind AGAIN)
- Michael Kosta: RFK Jr. dodges receipts & ignores his weird past at Health Sec. confirmation hearing
- Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп comes to LA and rambles about fires & Musk moonlights for Germany
- Lauren Mayer: ♫ This Too Shall Pass (Like a Kidney Stone) ♬
- Stephen: Autocratic moves & Трамп’s CDC gag order & record high egg prices
- Liberal Redneck: Трамп’s insane (second) first week in office
- Jonathan Mann: ♫ DEI Pooped My Pants ♬:
- The Late Show: Трамп’s plan to lower the price of eggs
- Robert Reich: Biden built it. Трамп will claim it. Don’t let him
- Lawrence O’Donnell and Chris Hayes: the thing Трамп most wants from you—and what you can do about it
- Steve Shives: Toilet paper, sushi, and The Dotard’s war on expertise
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ As Proof of Fealty, Republican Senators Confirm Hegseth ♬
- Seth Meyers: The Dotard causes “crisis” with Denmark and Colombia, illegally purges watchdogs
- LegalEagle: Трамп’s first executive orders are a mess
- Jimmy Kimmel: RFK Jr.’s day to crazy it up, team Трамп’s big self-made mess & Newsom on The Dotard’s fake water pump
- Stephen: Caroline Kennedy says Bobby’s a predator & Bernie rips RFK Jr. over antivax onesies
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Pete Hegseth Urged to Fire Pete Hegseth ♬
- SNL: Founding Fathers
- Bad Lip Reading: Inauguration 2025:
- Jon Stewart: On whether Dems’ “Трамп is a Fascist” accusations are warranted
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп—Not Godly, but God Awful ♬
- Stephen: White House backtracks on grant freeze & the danger of Трамп’s federal worker buyout scheme
- Michael Kosta: Трамп orders trans military ban & pardoned Jan 6ers are in legal trouble…again
- Puppet Regime: Трамп renames EVERYTHING
- SNL Weekend Update: Giselle, a concerned businesswoman, on Трамп’s executive orders
- Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп could not finish his first week as president without violating the law
- Seth Meyers: Трамп backs down amid national outcry over funding freeze that caused chaos
- Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп saves California with WATER, plans to build an Iron Dome & people want him on Mount Rushmore!?
- Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian: Coping & hoping in the time of Трамп 2.0
- Stephen: JFK, RFK, MLK files declassified & Трамп trolls Davos & Musk targets the penny
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship
The Felon Fetish Flock:
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ MsAGA—Making Sexual Assault Great Again ♬
- Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ King of the Dorks ♬
- The Late Show: Трамп wants you to snitch on your coworkers
- Ari Melber: Shadow POTUS? Uneven Трамп overshadowed by “mighty Musk” & his many conflicts
- Steve Shives: MAGA parishioner heckles Christian pastor
- Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Elon Musk—Party in the USA ♬:
- ScaredKetchup: Elon musk’s Nazi salute explanation will change everything
- Parody Project: ♫ We Put The Dumb in Freedom ♬
- Hitler Rants Parodies: Hitler phones Leon Musk
- Parody Project: ♫ Bobby Kennedy ♬
- Steve Shives: Right-wing reporter scrambles to rationalize Fascist salute
- Tommy Campbell: Jacob Chansely BBC interview fail—“American Shaman” tries British accent
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
The DEI Black Helicopter thing, 30 years ago it was just Black Helicopters. Although some of the latter fly around Tacoma, although easily explained. 4/160 SOAR.
Low-information dumbshits posted on Xitter (here) that the Army helicopter involved in the crash was flown by a transgender pilot (and named her).
Typical of stupid Trumper fuckwads who never fact-check anything, they didn’t know what they were talking about, or were lying. The pilot they called out, who is very much alive, called them out.
When you publicly make an ass of yourself on the internet in front of millions of people, you should feel embarrassed. But Trumpers are as incapable of feeling shame or embarrassment as they are of getting facts straight. She should smack these asswipes with a defamation lawsuit.
Hillary Clinton was right, Trumpers are a basket of deplorables.
Looks like the FBI is quietly dropping an ongoing criminal investigation of a scandal-plagued GOP congressman.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/federal-prosecutors-withdraw-investigation-targeting-gops-andy-ogles-rcna190197
Looks like we’re gonna be living under a corrupt regime that prosecutes innocent Democrats and doesn’t prosecute guilty Republicans. All because some people wanted cheaper eggs.
California farmers voted mostly for Trump. Trump just wasted their water reserves for summer drought on a publicity stunt, and flooded their farms.
Tulare County. “Yeah you just ordered the corp of engineers to drain the reservoir farmers here use all summer for crops AND we already paid federal government for into a lower reservoir that isn’t connected to the LA Aqueduct so unless you’ve got plans for spending billions on some kind of pumping system…
Oh and see you in court.”
Tulare County 2024
Trump 60%
Harris 38%
Senate:
Garvey 61%
Schiff 38%
‘We the Democratic Party thank you for the two Republican House pickups in 2026.”
@4,5
Oh STFU in my decades of experience selling real estate no one knows as much about water as me. I could farm 6000 corn bushels per acre if I had a farm. I know more about this than anyone alive.
Stop whining. There will never be another fire.
A Republican paramilitary team kidnapped a family in Milwaukee, including a young toddler, bound their hands, forced them into the back of a rental van and drove them outside the city to be held in makeshift cages.
They were grabbed for being observed speaking Spanish.
They are all citizens born in the United States to US citizen parents.
Sting joined Stevie Wonder at the Fire Aid concert to perform ‘Higher Ground.
Stevie Changed his lyrics
Someone who said he knew Elmo Musk well claimed that, well depending on your perspective, Elmo is NOT a Nazi.
From this person’s perspective, a Nazi believes a certain race is better than everyone else.
Elmo otoh believes ELMO is better than everyone else.
So remember when MAGA was calling for the the DEI head of the FBI to be fired because of failures on the day The Messiah was hit in the ear by a piece of shrapnel?
Man, that team must have been totally incompetent to let a shooter get a clean line like that.
The new acting FBI head is the former head of his personal detail from that day. There’s a picture of him. He’s the one grabbing his left arm and trying to drag him away when Donnie was fist pumpinb.
Of COURSE he’s white.
I’m sure Naddler will be all over that someone gifted 26,000 shares of DJT:US to Kash Patel on January 28th, 2025.
@4 Thank God. We need him to really piss off many people in order to get rid of the scourge. Let him do more damage. We need less ATC and more plane crashes. We need more tariffs and higher prices. We need more of everything bad, it’s the only way he goes.
We need dead cows and dead birds and eggs @ $40.00 per dozen.
The Repukes that voted for him with their wallet and disregard for justice, equality, and freedom really need to be afflicted.
@5 They won’t need the water when there’s no farm labor.
I did not post #7, and that story is a thus-far unverified internet rumor.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-denies-report-officers-detained-190548988.html
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2025/01/30/telemundo-report-of-ice-detaining-puerto-rican-family-in-milwaukee-draws-concern/78058292007/
@9 And if he believes in a god, and prays to that god, he probably thanks his god every day that he wasn’t born black.
@11 What Securities and Exchange commission? Securities won’t be regulated anymore. See #12 above for further clarity.
@13 I think we should all agree to withhold aid, comfort, and sympathy from Trumper wrist-cutters. After all, they’ve afflicted not only themselves but also the rest of us.
‘You are making it hard for us!’ Black Americans for Trump member rips president on CNN
@18 Refer to #18 above, which is sufficient for now, and save the “go fuck yourself” for later, when he finds himself in a cage for driving, walking, or shopping while black.
Prices were a key issue in 2024, but Trump makes clear they’re not his top priority
Senior career administrators at the federal OPM have reported that access to data bases of federal employment records have been taken over by Republican operatives from outside the government and they have been locked out.
Hochul tells Louisiana to fuck off.
Interstate compact does not apply. The Doctor was in New York performing a service that is 100% legal in New York. Louisiana and other states are trying to claim that the laws of THEIR state apply to people not within. The claim is analogous to the idea that a DA in Lynchburg TN, famous for a product that is illegal to consume there can haul a bartender in Kentucky on charges of violating the law because they served someone from Lynchburg a drink.
Local law enforcement behaving with honor and integrity.
https://abcnews4.com/news/local/man-arrested-faces-multiple-charges-after-racist-tirade-on-sullivans-island-goes-viral-michael-emmrich-johnson-huger-wciv-abc-news-4-01-31-2025
Probably the last of its kind we’ll see.
Trump has an itch to kill, so I just assume that hiding in every policy of his, someone’s gonna die. I wasn’t wrong this time; I found this in an AOL News article (lifted from CNN) titled, “Your complete guide to tariffs”:
https://www.aol.com/finance/everything-know-trump-tariffs-were-100046716.html
While this might not seem on the surface like a bad thing, given Trump’s antagonism to due process and his track record of wanting innocent people executed, this goes well beyond any Charles Bronson scenario. It amounts to Trump is ordering China to kill people, and he’s not fussy about who they kill. If China fulfills his quota with randomly selected political prisoners, that’s fine with him.
The rate of deportation has declined since the Republican Party seized control and the percentage of criminals being deported has also declined.
Republicans are corrupt, incompetent, rapists and drunks.
Something curious about the break that lead to the closure of this long running cold fugitive case. Is it routine for funeral homes to fingerprint those who die from natural causes?
https://youtu.be/HAd7T9_aNKE?si=p6rdeK8SWkWxbncP
Alberta should investigate any cold cases they have, in case she went for the trifecta while in Canada. Turns out authorities had been searching in the wrong place, after she escaped from a Mexican prison.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Ynqj6WveeBs?si=o7ogETIS4NS8sN3g
Aside from shooting America’s own balls off with his tariffs, Trump’s spokes twit’s claim that fentanyl has killed “tens of millions” of Americans is an exaggeration by a factor of 100-plus times the actual number:
https://www.addictiongroup.org/resources/fentanyl-statistics/
She’s not exactly covering herself in glory. She’s as big a liar as her boss. I thought Kayleigh McEnany was a ninny, but this one’s even dumber.
More fun and corruption.
The CDC official account today posted that the will no longer distribute information via email and all info would be posted to their official Twatter account.
Alberta’s premier calls on her country to “fast track” coast-to-coast Canadian pipelines for oil and gas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D166MH-UmA
You know what this means, right? Nearly all Canadian oil and gas exports come to the U.S., but all-Canadian pipelines to seaports can mean only one thing: In the future, Canada will sell its oil and gas to other countries, and America can go screw.
“Canada’s crude oil
hasused to have an increasingly significant role in U.S. refineries”“Canada’s crude oil exports to the United States
amounted toused to amount to 24% of U.S. refinery throughputinas of 2023 ….”“The price per barrel of Western Canadian Select crude oil (WCS)
isused to be typically lower than the U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI).”https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62664
Kiss goodbye to 4.2 million bpd from Canada and Mexico!
https://boereport.com/2025/01/31/how-much-crude-oil-does-the-us-import-by-country/
“B-b-but I thought Canada and Mexico would pay the tariffs, just like Mexico paid for my wall!” — D. J. Trump
Kiss goodbye to 47.7% of America’s aluminum imports.
https://www.worldstopexports.com/us-aluminum-imports-by-supplying-country/
In earliest human history, rugged individualism wasn’t a viable survival strategy. Our ancient ancestors lived in hunter-gatherer bands based on cooperation and sharing. These early societies were a primitive form of communism. Thus, communism probably was the first type of government, without which we wouldn’t be here. I’m not saying it’s a good system for today; we outgrew communism millennia ago. Modern technological civilization has also outgrown Republican conservatism; like communism, it’s an outmoded form of social organization unsuited for our times; a throwback to anterior times. Some people just don’t realize it yet.
Booyah!
We’re going to war against Africa!
WHITE POWER!
The Tariffs shall continue until you agree to be annexed.
Wall Steet lobbying group who backed Trump for reelection now pleads with Trump to stop all the tariffs he’s tossing around.
Tariffs are awesome.
This procession occurred numerous times while Canada fulfilled Article 5 following 9/11.
https://youtu.be/pCzBx5Ope5w?si=zeIUz9Wwgz_sMFx9
CNN headline: “With tariffs signed, Trump warns of ‘pain’ to come for Americans”
Is this a promise made, promise kept? I sure don’t remember Trump promising “pain” during his campaign. Maybe I missed that, but I thought he was promising lower gas and egg prices. Is it possible he was lying?
@34 We are? Which African country? Or maybe all of them?
@38 In the world wars, Canadians were fighting long before Americans joined the frays. They’re more reliable allies than we are. Now, we’re the enemy.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5121413-frank-luntz-trump-voters-tired-accused-racism/
Then stop supporting for a racist pussygrabber.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5121382-vance-defends-trumps-dei-comments-after-dc-plane-crash-trump-wasnt-blaming-anybody/
Jaydee is telling “stories” again. His stories, of course, are fiction. Many people now realize his best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” is partly fiction, and all of his political speeches are fiction. Like his boss, Jaydee is an epic liar.
He apparently didn’t watch the press conference in which Trump’s airhead press secretary blamed the crash on Biden and the Democrats, because that sure as hell was finger-pointing and blame-shifting.
You didn’t really expect Trump to cut your taxes, did you?
“House Republicans are considering treating work benefits such as employer-provided transportation, free food and on-site gyms as a new source of taxable income to help pay for President Trump’s tax cuts” for the very rich.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/02/to-help-pay-for-trump-tax-cuts-new-taxes-on-work-perks-are-gop-target.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/02/to-help-pay-for-trump-tax-cuts-new-taxes-on-work-perks-are-gop-target.html
Yep, take it out of the workers’ pockets. Which, of course, was the GOP’s plan all along.
There’s nothing new about Republican plans to massively shift tax burdens from the rich to the working class. They’ve long advocated for eliminating income taxes on capital gains, dividends, interest, and rents, which comprise nearly all the income of the very rich, and replacing those taxes with a federal value-added tax, which would amount to a roughly 30% to 40% sales tax on everything the working class purchases. The upshot of these GOP tax schemes is that wage earners would pay all the taxes while the billionaire and millionaire classes skate tax-free.
If you vote for Republicans, this is what you’re voting for.
The SEC will no longer be policing insider trading and financial fraud by Republican politicians, donors, and supporters:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/02/secs-republican-led-commission-tightens-oversight-of-probes-sources-say.html
I don’t mean to offend your sensibilities, Trump voters, but facts are facts: You are all very gullible and very stupid.
Trump’s first education secretary told employees to attend diversity training. Now those employees are being kicked out of their jobs for attending that training. A union official calls it “entrapment.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/02/education-department-employees-placed-on-leave-after-dei-training.html
Let’s say Trump and Musk illegally fire 500,000 civil servants, they all sue, and five years from now courts reinstate them with back pay and benefits averaging $150,000 a year. That would cost taxpayers, um, $375 billion, all of it constituting “waste, fraud, and abuse” by Trump and Musk.
But that actually doesn’t sound like a lot to me. It’s possibly less than Musk’s space ventures will take from the Treasury during Trump’s second term.
Oh, and one more thing, destroying 500,000 high-paying jobs probably will push the economy into a recession, with massive trickle-down impacts on the kinds of jobs held by Trump voters.
41)Up Tgere, probably not the time to remind Conservatives they started the decline of the RCAF. Still a few bitter over Diefenbaker cancelling the CF-105. It has spawned a few conspiracy theories saying it was cancelled on orders from Eisenhower, because Douglas, McDonnell, Lockheed, and North American were jealous . Who just happened to be waiting with job offers for employees.
Since one of Metro’s suppliers is a Canadian company, I was wondering if Canadian sourced parts become more expensive, probably going to see more authorized vandalism of buses for parts to keep others running. New Flyer’s US Assembly plants are in Minnesota and Alabama. Heard wherever possible, Metro insists Minnesota.
@51 It won’t matter to Trump, Vance, or Elon, because they don’t like public transportation anyway. I’m waiting to see if they outlaw bike lanes and jail those who built them.
52)Then I guess if New Flyer decides they can’t afford 2 US facilities, Anniston, Alabama won’t miss the jobs, and investment they put into the place. Probably shouldn’t have built their Vehicle Innovation Center in a state run by a party opposed to Electric vehicles. Although since they have to competitive bid tge contracts, the operator in the city where their Minnesota plant is, has bought from their California based Competitor. Gillig has always been willing to innovate, if they didn’t, they would have stuck with horse-drawn buggies.
The National Association of Home Builders, whose membership prayed daily for Trump to win and SaVe AmUrIkA, has written a long letter to Fat Hitler begging to exempt building products from his trade wars with the world.
@54 Nope. Everyone must share the “pain.”
Yep, take it out of the workers’ pockets. Which, of course, was the GOP’s plan all along.
Oh my what ever happened to:
TEA
as in “taxed enough already”???
old hat eh pants shitter sicko-phants?
What the fuck?
https://www.aol.com/turmoil-inside-usaid-doge-reps-220400007.html
My understanding is DOGE is a citizen advisory board, and Elon and its staffers are not government employees, so how can they take over and run a government agency? They have to be federal employees, and go through an appointment or hiring process, before they can do that. This doesn’t look legal or legitimate to me.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/
The non-DEI Hires. The most cpable! No incompatency her!
THOSE NIGGER’S STOLE MY EMRALDS!
She’s definitely not a diversity or inclusion hire, but she appears to be intellectually disabled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDW7xxYGdEo
“Covid may have very well came [sic] from a lab in China”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/98KLd6PhYGA
When the president of your country is a moron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-18E6hcSU
41)Back on Canada Day, they interred their second Unknown Soldier from WWI, because since Newfoundland wasn’t part of the Dominion of Canada at the time, the one in Ottawa doesn’t represent Newfoundland’s fallen.
https://www.youtube.com/live/JMMcfD4B1Vg?si=TC5HIW7-MuqPiN0U
Also in Afghanistan, a reservist from the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was killed in action, the unit’s first since WWI.
Musk Says DOGE Is Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors
So weird payments were stopped to the Boeing space program.