Kimberly Guilfoyle Asked to Resign
Nepotism at its finest, Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly solicited a foreign dignitary for $100k to payoff her credit card in exchange for future political favors. Par for the course in this administration that pisses me off. I know this happens all the time in governments around the world, the old “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine” ideology.
Read more here: The Disappearing Women of the Trump Administration – New York Times
and here: Zacharia says White House asked Guilfoyle to resign – CNN
Katie Zacharia, newest flunky in Trump Administration
Well, what can you say nice about someone reading from a script poorly? Repeating the same nonsense inaccurate statements to the point that nothing she said was actually believable. At least I didn’t believe anything she said. The part about Trump being the awesome president doing awesome things (paraphrase) was laughable. My own eyes and personal experience contradict everything this man says about the economy and inflation.
Read more here: Katie Zacharia, Trump’s new White House press secretary, makes a brief appearance before reporters – AP News
Mid-Term Election Campaign Financing
You know when you see millions of campaign financing be directed from red states to deep red states, the GOP is starting to get concerned. States where Trump led +10 and +15 are now getting levels of financing that usually would go to even contests. It’s their own fault, backing candidates like Ken Paxton, the people aren’t so stupid to not see the fleecing.
Read more here: Elon Musk emerges as the top booster for Republicans with $276 million in donations – CNN
Bipartisan Opposition to Russian Diesel
Probably the dumbest move by this administration is buying diesel from a country the US and several other countries are actively sanctioning. The amount of diesel he is purchasing is barely enough to cover a full days usage unlikely to lower prices even a fraction of a percentage. I’m glad to see that Congress is actively opposing this purchase as it can only serve to bolster a war effort that is wholly unpopular with most of the world. Let this administration keep doing stupid crap like this, it’ll only help with the mid-terms.
Read more here: Why Trump’s Diesel Deal With Putin Won’t Knock Down High Prices – New York Times
Public Execution Not Being Televised
A no brainer here. There’s a reason we no longer allow for public executions let alone ones that are attended or televised for the world to see. I am not opposed to execution but do take opposition to those forms that are inhumane. A public firing squad is straight out of a John Wick or Equalizer movie and just isn’t appropriate. If the guy chose this form of execution, then so be it, but we don’t need to televise the spectacle for vanity or to prove a stupid point that the GOP is the “law and order” party even though they break the law… a lot.
Read more here: Trump calls off livestream of Fort Hood shooter’s firing squad execution – CNN
Federal Search Warrant on Ilhan Omar’s Home
You know the administration is getting desperate when they start to attack the other side. In this case, Ilhan Omar is a muslim woman that is extremely popular with her constituency. I doubt they will find anything in this borderline illegal search but will claim all kinds of baseless facts about her. I’m having flashbacks to the box cutters on the reflecting pool liner that turned out to be, shocker, poor installation. I doubt this search is anything more than trying to prove a point that Democrats are evil, but in the end, the GOP will have egg on thier own faces when it backfires in November.
Read more here: House Democratic leaders condemn the search of congresswoman’s home as an ‘abuse of power’ – PBS News
Starlink Shutdown in Ukraine
We all know Starlink is owned by Tesla, aka, Elon Musk. The decision to limit Starlink access, that just happened to be just ahead of a Russian attack and Ukraine utilized its access for drones, is not a coincidence. It feels almost as if the US is saying out loud they support Ukraine, but behind the curtains contradicts that with stupid maneuvers like this. The fact Ukraine has fought off a superior force for almost 5 years is testament to Ukraine and their “nothing to lose” attitude. I’m not a Starlink customer nor do I own a Tesla, so I definitely do not support anything tied to Elon Musk. I use X on this blog only because I refuse to give up gobs of personal information to other services….. I’m looking at you Facebook.
Read more here: Ukrainian drones are forced to slow down by sudden restrictions on use of Starlink – Associated Press
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