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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

  • Joseph P. Kennedy Sr was friends with D/FBI J. Edgar Hoover and became an informant for him on Hollywood celebrities with communist tendencies.
  • As a US Senator, JFK never passed one simple purity test from Eleanor Roosevelt. JFK avoided publicly condemning US Senator Joe McCarthy and his hideous communist witch-hunts because these Irish families were both conservative and friends.
  • His entire life, wealthy JFK walked around without a nickel in his pockets to even buy a stick of gum. The Kennedy family scion always borrowed money from friends and classmates who would send a bill to his father. Before he embarked on a trip as POTUS, JFK said: "Gosh, I don't have a cent on me!" His father asked a maid to quickly get him an envelope full of cash.
  • JFK would donate his considerable POTUS salary to charity. Read more


    Tuesday, May 12, 2026

    Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has labelled New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a "parasite sucking on the taxpayer" because she collects a federal paycheck - just as he does. Cruz was guesting on Sean Hannity's Fox News show Monday evening when he lashed out at "radical extremists" like Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and AOC in a warning to viewers about what is at stake if Republicans lose November's midterm elections. "The stakes are, do we hand over the Congress and the country to a bunch of radical extremists?" the senator said.


    In the past, present, and future, machines will take away jobs from humans. You can just hear people saying, "Keep your cotton pickin' machines away from me and my work. Let me work. I have my cotton pickin' hands and that feeds me." Read more


    Iran's Foreign Ministry stated that the US was making "unreasonable demands" that are being shaped by Israel, coming after Donald Trump called Tehran's proposals a "piece of garbage," bleating that the so-called ceasefire is on "life support."

    Illegal War Against Iran Costing American Taxpayers More Than Israeli Taxpayers


    The prestigious title of "Ambassador" remains with an individual even after they have left that position, like "Colonel," "President," or "Your Honor." Kennedy clan patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy Sr insisted on being addressed as "Ambassador" long after he concluded his short tenure at the Court of St James's (8 March 1938 " 22 October 1940). On top of free housing in comfortable and spacious quarters, as well as a generous expense account, the average annual salary for a US Ambassador is $200,431. Donald Trump nominated Kari Lake to be the US Ambassador to Jamaica and election denier PA State Sen. Doug Mastriano to represent the US in Slovakia.

    White supremacist Doug Mastriano spent thousands of dollars chartering buses for the 6 Jan 2021 insurrection against the US.


    Monday, May 11, 2026

    After jolting awake from drowsiness in front of guests in the Oval Office, Donald Trump ranted about an unidentified friend as a "very highly neurotic, very fat-- sort of a fat slob" while discussing the high costs for medications in the greedy for-profit American healthcare industry. Then Trump bleated: "Every person is gonna have autism. That's what's happening. What is this thing that's happening? It's spiked so much. Anything having to do with medical, I always bring in autism."

    Damien "666" Trumpf and his Dead Eyes


    Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, requested that DODIG Platte B. Moring III conduct an investigation after the Trump administration repeatedly awarded lucrative DOD contracts to companies affiliated with the president's family.

    DODIG Platte B. Moring III


    Sunday, May 10, 2026

    The White House released a wide-ranging counterterrorism strategy describing narco-terrorists, Islamist terrorists, and violent left-wing extremists as a triad posing "significant and pervasive" dangers to the homeland.

    Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Not a Terrorism Threat to US


    Doctors have been warned to be on the lookout for "imported" hantavirus cases as American passengers return home from a cruise hit by an outbreak of the deadly disease. New Jersey joined five other states on Friday in announcing it was tracking residents who were onboard the MV Hondius, where eight cases of the illness were confirmed, with three deaths. Seven American passengers left the Dutch cruise ship last month, and 17 more are due to disembark in the Canary Islands on Sunday before being brought home.


    A prominent Baptist pastor told Fox News on Saturday that President Donald Trump has a "better understanding" of the bible than Pope Leo XIV when it concerns the military conflict with Iran. Robert Jeffress, a Fox News contributor, made the comments on "Fox News Live" two days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the pope in Europe. While Jeffress, a megachurch pastor in Dallas, said Leo was a "good man" and "sincere in his faith,' he argued that the pontiff is "sincerely wrong when it comes to Iran."


    President Donald Trump declared Iran's latest peace proposal "totally unacceptable" in a blistering Truth Social post on Sunday, signaling that negotiations to end the Iran war remain deeply deadlocked. "I have just read the response from Iran's so-called 'Representatives,'" Trump wrote. "I don't like it " TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!"


    George Retes woke up on July 10, 2025, hoping the day would change his life for the better. Retes, an Army veteran, worked as a security contractor for a legal cannabis farm in Ventura County, California. After seven months on the graveyard shift, working from midnight to 8 a.m., Retes was eager to move to a daytime schedule and spend more waking hours with his family.


    We gathered a list of the foods that these attorneys will never risk eating. Their top three are below, but other items mentioned include raw oysters (an increasing hazard on a warming planet), raw milk, unpasteurized juice, undercooked hamburger or other meat, raw or undercooked eggs and even hotel waffle batter dispensers.

    ("No way," said personal injury lawyer Mark Hirsch. "Warm, stagnant batter is a breeding ground for foodborne illness.")


    Ousted and disgraced Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino is threatening to start his own mass deportation operation as the white supremacist rages against his old bosses and fumes over "illegal aliens" getting free healthcare in Oklahoma.

    Greg Bovino is Completely Reviled in his Community


    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) " Iran has sent its response to the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal via Pakistani mediators and wants negotiations to focus on permanently ending the war, Iran's state-run media said Sunday. Pakistan confirmed receiving it.


    In Maui, a white tourist (37) from Seattle, WA threw a large rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal which narrowly missed its head, then boasted to the witness who was video-recording him: I don't care. Fine me, I'm rich.'

    This Wealthy Reprobate is Probably a Tesla-owning MAGA


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