Aside from being charged hourly for the fence around the Portland federal building because it blocks the street ($192,000 at last count), federal forces will be withdrawn beginning Thursday. Trump apparently hasn’t gotten the memo. “We're not leaving until they secure their city … if they don't secure their city soon, we have no choice —…
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Sensing Americans are not yet dumb enough, Trump threatens university funding
Yes, I remember the field trip we all took to Weather Underground HQ. It was eye-opening, and some of us got ice cream afterwards as a reward for making the best fertilizer bombs. So let’s go after the universities now! You know, if all those eggheads who invented these annoying COVID tests had worked at…
Michigan's Man of the Year threatens funding to Michigan while floods hit a Michigan town
Trump: “I was honored as the Man of the Year in Michigan… 5 or 6 years before I even thought about running for President.” x Here's my old fact check about “Man of the Year in Michigan.” Former GOP Rep. Dave Trott called me up to solve the mystery of what Trump is probably talking…
more government policy by tweet: Trump threatens Michigan because it's free haircut protest day
Likely Trump tweeted because of the haircut protest, much like his comment yesterday that Virginia needed to use the Second Amendment to protect its potatoes. Trump is spreading lies about voting (again). ▶️Michigan is sending vote by mail applications, not ballots.▶️This is exactly what several GOP secretaries of state are doing. ▶️It is completely legal…
Trump Threatens to Sue His Own Campaign Manager Over Bad Poll Numbers
CNN just posted a story about yet another Trumpertantrum, as the Great Orange Shitgibbet goes increasingly and noisily and totally insane: Trump erupts at campaign manager as reelection stress overflows As he huddled with advisers on Friday evening, President Donald Trump was still fuming over his sliding poll numbers and the onslaught of criticism he…
Trump threatens to tie federal relief for states to 'sanctuary-city adjustments'
“I want you to do me a favor, though.” Attention blue states! If you want your people to live, be more racist! So Donald Trump, because he’s an irredeemable asshole, apparently wants states to follow his racist lead on sanctuary cities before they can expect to receive federal aid as a part of COVID-19 relief…
Trump Threatens Schiff, Who Is Not Impressed
A WaPo story just out: Trump makes veiled threat toward Schiff over classified briefing on Russian 2020 election interference President Trump on Sunday made a veiled threat toward House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff, claiming without evidence that the California Democrat had leaked information from a classified briefing in which a senior U.S. intelligence…
Trump threatens NPR in wake of Pompeo outburst
It’s no secret that Donald Trump hates media outlets that challenge him and his administration. In the past, he’s singled out The Washington Post and CNN, corruptly using his office to try to punish them and their parent companies. Now he appears to be threatening NPR’s funding following a recent dustup between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo…
only a psychopath threatens to bomb 52 places in your country, then orders you not to kill anyone
Because “enemies of the people” like the press should roam free. And even the US Secretary of Defense knows nothing about the “four embassies” supposedly targeted by Soleimani. “The only problem is he doesn’t want them to roam free in the U.S., because he says to us a free press is the ‘enemy of the…
Trump threatens war while at the golf course
Over sixty hours of golf over the past two weeks. His ‘head’ is worth less than his federal golf expenses, but enough to buy a lottery ticket for everyone in Iran Trump now on the golf course; his 257th day at a Trump golf club and 338th at a Trump property since taking office in January…
Florida Congressman Threatens Georgia Governor, Who Ignores Him
Master Bootlicker and All-Around Toady Matt Gaetz, whom GQ calls the “Trumpiest Congressman in Washington,” is out there again lighting fires for his master. Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) wants to appoint Kerry Loeffler, a local finance executive and owner of the local WNBA franchise, to replace Sen. Johnny Isakson when he steps down at the…
Trial balloon blows away as Trump threatens to fire the Intel Inspector General for “disloyalty”
So many underlings doing their jobs, so much disloyalty. Mr. Trump first expressed his dismay about Michael Atkinson around the time the whistle-blower’s complaint became public in September. In recent weeks, he has continued to raise with aides the possibility of firing him, one of the people said. The president has said he does not understand…
“cмерть шпионам” (death to spies) Trump threatens US diplomats as more is known about Whistle-Blower
Trump threatened by association the diplomatic corps even as the NY Times got closer to identifying the Whistle-Blower as a male CIA officer formerly assigned to the WH. “You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? Right? The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little…
Kurdistan, Part II: The Middle East threatens to fall apart. More.
Yesterday, I posted a diary with a long (but still staggeringly incomplete) history of Kurdistan. Which brings us to more recent events… When 2017 began, Iraqi Kurdistan was maybe the most-autonomous region in the world which was nevertheless not truly independent. Kurdistan had its own military, its own police force. It had the right to engage in…
