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Karoline Leavitt Resigning as White House Press Secretary

BillJ as office manager:

"Tell the girls in the typist pool to prepare that report for me, and I want that cute boy in the mailroom to deliver it to the 'back office.'"

Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-15 10:08 AM | Reply

Nobody dislikes Trump more than me but that dislike does not automatically include people on his staff.
By any fair evaluation of Karoline Levitt, I think she did her job exceptionally well. Z as he fielded very tough questions from the Press quite often she did a very good job of defending the indefensible things President Trump did and said. To me it seems obvious that such a demanding job just wasn't right for her right now. I am glad that Trump showers respect for her in his comments.

Posted by danni at 2026-08-15 10:05 AM | Reply

What's actually creepy is the way the video's narrator is unable to hear the word "girls" without making it into something sexual.

#3 | Posted by BillJohnson

It's difficult not to put it in that context considering we are talking about a person who the conservative, Murdoch owned, Wall St Journal ran an article that detailed how Trump continued to sex traffic teens to Epstein through the Mar-a-lago spa even when Epstein was not a member of the club.
Spa management knew what was going on, had alerted Trump to it, and would warn new employees about Epstein.

You support a sex trafficking rapist.

Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-08-15 09:42 AM | Reply

USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard

" BILL is sick, morally and intellectually. It's not that he's the last person to know"

If you missed the classic, last week BillJ misrepresented the findings of a study, and was quickly met with multiple postings linking to the authors warning idiots NOT to misinterpret in that manner.

Instead of retracting and apologizing, BillJ doubled down, as if his FEELINGS superseded the findings of the actual researchers.

Posted by Danforth at 2026-08-15 09:39 AM | Reply

Reminder we spend a trillion dollars in defense every year. You'd think that would be enough to keep our troops fed

#57 | Posted by truthhurts

In Russia, when the troops aren't fed, that means that some powerful person is stealing the lunch money.

Posted by Zed at 2026-08-15 09:35 AM | Reply

Poland Thwarts Russian Plot to Kill American Citizen

Anonymous.

No name, no details, no reasons.

Just some random person targeted?
Was it Jason Bourne?

Posted by Petrous at 2026-08-15 09:34 AM | Reply

Democratic Voters Are Making Clear They Just Want Change

Maga is still subject to the Judiciary.

Even SCOTUS leaves a vast majority of lower courts and State Supreme Court cases alone.

DSA wants the US House over the Executive and Judicial branches.

Thats drastic and if the MAGA had that power the DSA wants?

What parts of the MAGA platform has been passed and is in the works? What destruction?

Posted by Petrous at 2026-08-15 09:20 AM | Reply

USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard

Aside from the submarines, why aren't we hearing about sailors jumping off all the other ships in the task force?

Posted by Petrous at 2026-08-15 09:10 AM | Reply

Stinky’s disastrous ceasefire set to expire

It's all been one "ceasefire" since the signing of the MOU between the US and Iran. Absent an agreement on control over the Strait of Hormuz and a boatload of other dicey issues, the MOU (and the non-ceasefire "ceasefire") expires after 60 days, either tomorrow (Aug. 16) or the following day.

Ding! End of the warmup for Round 1. For a preview of what comes next, perhaps someone in the White House might consider taking a peak at Seyed Abbas Araghchi's The Power of Negotiation: Principles and Rules of Political and Diplomatic Negotiations. The author is Iran's foreign minister and, boy, does he have some things to say about the subject.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-15 09:02 AM | Reply

Three More Congressmen Violated the STOCK Act

Relevant Frank Zappa material (not a song):

www.amazon.com

Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-15 09:00 AM | Reply

Hormuz Traffic Remains Low as World Burns Up Stockpiles

MAGATS don't care if Trump crashes the global economy as long as it personally enriches him and his family. MAGATS will gladly lose their homes and go hungry if it pleases the cult leader.

Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-08-15 09:00 AM | Reply

Democratic Voters Are Making Clear They Just Want Change

BJ making exotic excuses for his Cult Leader is ...

#11 | Posted by Corky

BILL is sick, morally and intellectually. It's not that he's the last person to know, it's that he will be the last person to believe it. Just like any Trump lover.

Posted by Zed at 2026-08-15 08:56 AM | Reply

"If you think the DSA platform is impossible to pass, ask this question.
Maga or DSA candidate"

Is that where America is now? Are we a new two-party system? Republicans are only MAGA, and Dems are moving socialist (though many aren't)?

Well, MAGA is destroying the United States, so maybe being a "republic" (that hollowed term, which I'll leave alone, because I think it leads to BS arguments) isn't that important anymore, in view of the MAGA alternative.

I'd rather live in a country that I think is helping its citizens and the world, if it wants to, than anything MAGA has wrought. The labels are unimportant.

Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-15 08:56 AM | Reply

Karoline Leavitt Resigning as White House Press Secretary

Wouldn't it be weird if Leavitt's baby was the spitting image of little Donnie?

#17 | Posted by Danforth at

Why would that be weird at all?

Trump didn't stop his financial sociopathy when he got into office. Why expect that he ceased the sexual sociopathy?

Posted by Zed at 2026-08-15 08:53 AM | Reply

Western Weakness Is Encouraging Putin to Test NATO

Poland should never trust other countries.

Germany invades Poland!

WAR! Declare war on Germany!!

Russia invades Poland.

Russia is beneficial to Europe. Let them have it.

Europe should kick out the US and just boost their own defense budgets.

Europe has one major problem. A Draft.

If they send all their men 18-30 to war, the men that remain behind that are 18-30 aren't citizens.

Posted by Petrous at 2026-08-15 08:50 AM | Reply

Stinky’s disastrous ceasefire set to expire

BJ making exotic excuses for his Cult Leader is ... very sad indeed.

Posted by Corky at 2026-08-15 08:49 AM | Reply

How can anyone tell if these are ceasefires?

Posted by Zed at 2026-08-15 08:44 AM | Reply

Trump Ends Anti-Corruption Rule for Shell Companies

White and Hispanic males own all of it.

Posted by fresno500 at 2026-08-15 08:44 AM | Reply

Poland Thwarts Russian Plot to Kill American Citizen

Meanwhile poles are full participants in genocide on the African continent.

Posted by fresno500 at 2026-08-15 08:42 AM | Reply

Election Deniers Coming to a Swing State Near You

Trump may be the best thing that ever happened to Iran.

#13 | Posted by madbomber

He advanced Iran from a regional to a world power.

Posted by Zed at 2026-08-15 08:40 AM | Reply

Globalist Clinton? How many wars did Bill start?
How many wars now for Trump?

Posted by danni at 2026-08-15 08:40 AM | Reply

USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard

Reminder we spend a trillion dollars in defense every year. You'd think that would be enough to keep our troops fed

Reminder the Gerald ford was subjected to sabotage (reportedly) due to an overlong deployment

Posted by truthhurts at 2026-08-15 08:40 AM | Reply

Dearborn Chief tells Public 'stay home' Ahead of Right-Wing Agitator Visit

Where is the police show of force, harassment and sending a message?

Why surrender the town?

This is amerikkka.

Posted by fresno500 at 2026-08-15 08:39 AM | Reply

USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard

3. You're really stretching.

"Anyone ever heard a phrase used like, 'the boys in the Army'?"

Not since about World War II. How would you feel about sending "boys" to be slaughtered?

And in today's volunteer army / job corps, I'm presuming they are hardly boys, but (warning: cynicism alert) humans alert enough and with enough agency to have chosen the armed services as the best route to whatever they think their future holds.

I've not heard all the troops in Afghanistan, Iran, etc., over the years referred to as "boys."

>> Both "boys" and "girls" are commonly used to indicate gender, not necessarily age.

Really? Call a 40-year-old woman a girl these days and see what happens. (And please don't use your very useful wife as a one-person cohort.)

Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-15 08:37 AM | Reply

Could the food shortages be because the ship is operating somewhere that makes it too dangerous or difficult to safely resupply?

#42 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

This ladies and gentlemen is the question of a simpleton

Now bill consider why we can't send the ship into one of the many bases we have nearby

I think u can get it just think real hard

Posted by truthhurts at 2026-08-15 08:37 AM | Reply

Karoline Leavitt Resigning as White House Press Secretary

Rats deserting the ship. They're all hoping their names will be forgotten by January.

Posted by fresno500 at 2026-08-15 08:36 AM | Reply

Trump Brushes Off Concerns About Sailors Living in Squalid Conditions

Europe did not send their best or brightest.

Posted by fresno500 at 2026-08-15 08:32 AM | Reply

The 24-hour news cycle, a timeless headline:

"Suffering a mental health crisis, President Donald Trump bleated an insulting lie from his mindless piehole."

Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-15 08:31 AM | Reply

Democratic Voters Are Making Clear They Just Want Change

"Little did voters realize just how catastrophic Trump would be to America and the world."

Reading the DSA platform, America would no longer be a Republic.

If you think the DSA platform is impossible to pass, ask this question.

Maga or DSA candidate.

To the party line voter, it's a straight ticket. Nobody gives a damn about their platform.

Independents must choose which wrist to cut.

Every ballot needs a blank line for every office position offered.

When ballots only have one or two boxes to check, the people aren't choosing a person as much as a party.

Posted by Petrous at 2026-08-15 08:29 AM | Reply

Trump Brushes Off Concerns About Sailors Living in Squalid Conditions

Not since a venerated ancestor fled a European military draft, establishing himself as a Klondike cathouse operator during the Alaskan gold rush, has a Trump served in the American armed forces.

His war? Not his problem.
The troops? Props.

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot ...

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-15 08:25 AM | Reply

DOJ Could Be Held in Contempt over Unredacted Epstein Files

Ooooooo.

I bet they're worried.

Posted by Angrydad at 2026-08-15 08:11 AM | Reply

German Firefighting Robots Now Battling Blazes in Ukraine

"None of our Trump supporting contributors can name a single thing Trump has done to make life better for working class Americans."

He has brought pain and chaos to brown people and liberals. Their suffering has made his "working class" supporters very happy. This has greatly improved their pathetic lives.

Posted by Angrydad at 2026-08-15 08:07 AM | Reply

(The Wikipedia reference above takes you to "wheelbarrow" but there is a relevantreference in Wikipedia if you type in "wheelbarrow robot")

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-15 08:01 AM | Reply

German Firefighting Robots Now Battling Blazes in Ukraine

Our firefighter son took one look at info on the robotic beast and said, "I'll take five!"

The bomb disposal reference I made above was to the Wheelbarrow robot that saw extensive use in Northern Ireland - en.wikipedia.org(robot) - eyes and tools on wheels. Its use doesn't remove the human element, but it does mitigate against their injury or destruction.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-15 07:59 AM | Reply

Stinky’s disastrous ceasefire set to expire

"The fragile monthlong ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran appears set to expire Monday absent a last-minute deal to extend it and potentially end the war between the two nations"

Interesting, but that's not how America's Forever Wars end.

Admittedly, that term "forever" may at first glance appear a bit over the top. But those wars ended because the US, tiring of a quagmire, threw in the towel and skedaddled.

For Trump? Just another bankruptcy, business as usual.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-15 07:45 AM | Reply

Karoline Leavitt Resigning as White House Press Secretary

Must have hurt to realize that you were the sacrifical lamb to deflect from the fact he FLED and left you ALL on that plane to die,

Posted by gypsydiane8177 at 2026-08-15 07:35 AM | Reply

Trump is a creep.

Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-08-15 07:29 AM | Reply

Repug Says Congress Needs To Do More For The Rich

Why did the kids caught up in the Trump-Epstein orbit of incessant paedophilia call Trump "Daddy Nips"?
Seems weird, but I think I probably heard it somewhere from someone, sometime (allegedly).

Second question, this one specifically for MAGAts: TRUMP's EPSTEIN COVERUP: WHY?

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-15 07:18 AM | Reply

Oops, missed a stitch.
~ Madame Defarge
Tricoteuse & Diligent Knitter

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-15 07:09 AM | Reply

Trump Ends Anti-Corruption Rule for Shell Companies

One can readily understand how thefictional "Madame Defarge" and real-life tricoteuses got to be the people (both fictional and real) they became.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-15 07:04 AM | Reply

FDA Chief: 'America Has Safest Food Supply in the World'

"Governing" ranks low, if at all, on the Trumpniks' to-do list.
In this, they mimic the behavior of their MAGAJeebus..

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-15 06:58 AM | Reply

Trump has Amassed Staggering Wealth in 'most openly corrupt' Presidency

What stupidity to think Graft and Grift hasn't plagued America for decades at this point.

#9 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

We've actually lived her for decades unlike troll farm s*^%bags like you.

Posted by jpw at 2026-08-15 06:39 AM | Reply

FDA Chief: 'America Has Safest Food Supply in the World'

At this point, I don't believe one damn word from anyone linked to the Trump debacle. I am sure, behind the scenes, corruption is pretty much all this is going on.

Posted by Hughmass at 2026-08-15 06:35 AM | Reply

CT: AIPAC Congressman John Larson (D) Loses Primary

Imagine with me, that AIPAC loses power and America once and for all finally sees that Israel is not the 51st state...and we walk away from the entire insane asylum called the Middle East.

Posted by Hughmass at 2026-08-15 06:34 AM | Reply

Trump Orders the Navy to Return to an Older Launch System

This is one crazy country in one crazy time. We vacillate between people like Barack Obama as President, the best in my book, and Donald Trump as President, not only the worse but, writing as one as old as he, utterly without the capacity to learn to even care that he is destroying our country.
I do know one thing though...there is no such thing as a good Republican in this time of Trump...they are profiting off his greedy and hate.

Posted by Hughmass at 2026-08-15 06:31 AM | Reply

Trump Ends Anti-Corruption Rule for Shell Companies

As empires fall, those who are the most greedy and without any ethical concerns, loot the people's treasury and hide their criminality behind insane foreign wars.
Well, here we are...falling, falling, and not in love but instead, into whatever late stage capitalism presents to us.
We the poor, one thing is certain, no one is looking out for us.

Posted by Hughmass at 2026-08-15 06:27 AM | Reply

CLOWN

Or, from another angle, maybe it wasn't JUST a rumor.

They don't call him Nutty Netanyahu for nothing. He's dead set on throwing a monkey wrench into the "negotiations" between the U.S. and Iran. Netanyahu doesn't want peace. He wants the U.S. proxy war on Israel's behalf to wipe Iran off the face of the earth - at any cost.

Trump (meh) not so much, especially since Trump is the one who will suffer the consequences of a prolonged, very unpopular and totally unnecessary war of choice.

Israel has put Trump between a rock and a hard place, so to speak. especially with so much AIPAC money on the line. Trump can't go forward (lack of ammunition) and he can't go backwards. (embarrassing loss of face)

And the Media is kicking him the --- 24-7.

It isn't easy being a feckless loser (LOL)

Posted by Twinpac at 2026-08-15 05:39 AM | Reply

USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard

#11

No kidding, Trump may be the best thing that ever happened to Iran.

Posted by madbomber at 2026-08-15 04:21 AM | Reply

I agree but that fails to account for absence of why.

Posted by et_al at 2026-08-15 04:15 AM | Reply

Trump Orders the Navy to Return to an Older Launch System

#10

I guess I didn't know that Trump was an engineer or expert on Naval ship building.

Posted by madbomber at 2026-08-15 04:12 AM | Reply

Trump Orders the Navy to Return to an Older Launch System

We were talking about this in the office yesterday. Our consensus was that someone in the Trump clan is going to make money off of this. No other reason.

Posted by madbomber at 2026-08-15 04:10 AM | Reply

Western Weakness Is Encouraging Putin to Test NATO

#21

I do a lot of work with Poland and Finland. I sometimes feel like they want Russia to do something. Something they could justify going exact revenge on that country.

Poland is by far the most aggressive country I work with.

Posted by madbomber at 2026-08-15 04:08 AM | Reply

USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard

CLOWN

"The world is laughing"

And for good cause.

It was very clever of Araghehi to let Israel's "assassination" rumor blow up in Netanyhoo's face.

Posted by Twinpac at 2026-08-15 04:07 AM | Reply

I'm out for a week for an out of town long trip (for our 46th anniversary) to a deceased friend's rural home now owned by her daughter that we've known since her birth.

Posted by et_al at 2026-08-15 04:06 AM | Reply

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REDIAL

"I would assume they didn't want to get fired."

***** Newsworthy stars for that reply.

Contradicting Trump isn't a good career move in the military these days.

Posted by Twinpac at 2026-08-15 03:52 AM | Reply

USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard

#51 Then the author(s) should have accounted for that variable.

Posted by et_al at 2026-08-15 03:36 AM | Reply

Flock CEO Says 'Goal Isn’t a Dystopian Future'

Okay, how about flock introduce a code change that automatically deletes any image after 24 hours? If necessary Congress require it.

Posted by et_al at 2026-08-15 03:21 AM | Reply

USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard

why senior officers failed to perform there fundamental duty to their subordinates?

I would assume they didn't want to get fired.

Posted by REDIAL at 2026-08-15 03:15 AM | Reply

USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard

@annazarves

This is a reminder that Donald Trump, who has kept the USS Abraham Lincoln at sea for more than 240 consecutive days, has never served a day in his life.

Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-15 03:13 AM | Reply

Reporter: "Trump is saying Iran tried to assassinate him in Turkey."

Araghchi: "No. There is absolutely no need for it."

Reporter: "Why?"

Araghchi: "Trump is already ruining America himself. We have no wish to remove him."

The world is laughing while Trump destroys America.

Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-15 03:03 AM | Reply

US Army grounds all Apache helicopter training missions

Reporter: "Trump is saying Iran tried to assassinate him in Turkey."

Araghchi: "No. There is absolutely no need for it."

Reporter: "Why?"

Araghchi: "Trump is already ruining America himself. We have no wish to remove him."

The world is laughing while Trump destroys the America.

Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-15 03:01 AM | Reply

It was a maintenance test flight.

This is usually were things can go wrong.

Posted by oneironaut at 2026-08-15 02:57 AM | Reply

USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard

US Sailors: We want food.

Trump: The best I can do is put my name on the Kennedy Center.

~ Alex Cole ~

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-15 02:57 AM | Reply

USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard

The article touches on all but one of WWWWW journalism standards. Why?

Where does the article attempt to explain why senior officers failed to perform there fundamental duty to their subordinates? Kinda important information doncha think?

Posted by et_al at 2026-08-15 02:56 AM | Reply

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Lfthndthrds,
Again...where do you and the author disagree?
#21 | POSTED BY DANFORTH

Turds didn't read the article and won't be able to answer your question.

He was trying to troll.

None of our Trump supporting contributors can name a single thing Trump has done to make life better for working class Americans.

Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-15 02:36 AM | Reply

Reveal Crisis on Second Navy Carrier

The simple truth is, the USN has overextended itself. There are only four deployed carriers. Lincoln is obviously over extended and is going home. They claim that Washington was always planned to rotate in to replace her. It's about 7,00 miles from Japan to the Gulf, a trip that would take about 15 days. Washington left Japan 83 days ago. It's not exactly in a hurry. Lincoln's original replacement was Roosevelt, which is currently in San Diego. Where will she go? To replace Washington in Japan? Or to relieve Bush, which has been at sea since May?

USS Photo Prop is at Newport News for a Mani-Pedi and to get her hair done, so that's no help. Three other carriers are in for multi-year fuel replenishments. The rest are in refits or training.

Posted by REDIAL at 2026-08-15 02:11 AM | Reply

USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard

Heartbroken Loved Ones Reveal Crisis on Second Navy Carrier

www.reddit.com

Here's more of the winning pedo 47 promised.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-15 01:45 AM | Reply

"Are you serious?"

Are you schitttt-faced?

Posted by Danforth at 2026-08-15 01:30 AM | Reply

Kennedy Center Votes to Restore Trump's Name

It's math and reporting, dumfuq. Where do you disagree with their analysis of the turning of this macro dial?

Posted by Danforth at 2026-08-15 01:29 AM | Reply

" What reasoning does a Judge have to override the board of the foundation?"

He laid it out in the decision. Basically, he pointed out even if Trustees aren't subject-experts, they're still required to do the basic fiduciary and managerial duties of Trustees. These folks didn't.

For the record, these are the same folks who sued an artist for the Breach of a Contract that never existed, and now are on the hook for over $250,000 in his legal fees.

It doesn't take Solomon to realize these hand-picked slurpers are morons.

Posted by Danforth at 2026-08-15 01:26 AM | Reply