Pickled Pete has a problem accepting personal responsibility.
So, endless blame-shifting.
It's who he is.
Secretary of Defense.
U S of A.

"And the money kept rollin in from every side ... ."

#8
Careful with that link: you don't want to disclose sources and methods - lol.

I think it's reasonable to seriously question the degree to which Tom Homan or anyone working for him possesses, much less acts upon, accurate information concerning these gangs and how to identify their members.

Values are like morality ... fungible.
~ John Barron
Alias

Seems to share points of similarity to the way the Ukrainians took out Gen. Igor Kirillov and an aide in Moscow last December.

#13
Such a cynic! Why, I have it on excellent authority - John Barron, who else? - that deals have already been cut with Atlantis, Brobdingnag, Dinotopia, and Freedonia.

#13
Yup. And that makes me wander back to the first time I saw the Vietnam War Wall in D.C., thirty-some years ago. It was early of an autumn Sunday morning, eerily foggy, quiet. Walking along, I watched that architectural testament to lives shattered emerge slowly, shadowlike, upcoming from the earth. Wandering alone I looked for a couple of names, did a bit of thinking, and left. And I thought, what a shame LBJ, McNamara - and all the others who bore responsibility for why that monument existed - couldn't have been there, on regular rotation, on their hands and knees, with toothbrushes and buckets of soapy water, scrubbing to keep spotless that monument to the horrible thing they did.

#8
Ready, willing, and possibly able.

In the real world, Pete Hegseth would have a hard time getting a job valet parking members' rides at Mar-a-Lardo.

TwinPac noted the other day that the CECOT is Trumpf's "gas chamber" [sic].

Didn't see that, but it certainly rings true. The way Trumpf and his thugs talk, these people are clearly being disappeared. Which is what Trump asked Bukele to do when he told him to build more prisons for America's "homegrown."

Only MAGAts and mutes will be immune from the Trumpfites' "aiding and abetting" charges.

The damage Trump, his goons, investor-backers, and enablers have wrought is stunning.
The youngest poster on the DR could live a long life and, at the end, never see the US come close to repairing the damage.
If you voted for this, please don't say, "But I didn't vote for this."
Of course you did.
Voting to replace an American Dream with an American Nightmare?
It's called shared responsibility and, brother, do you ever own it.

Correction: Not "gringo looms" but "gringo loons." As in lunaticos.

Ooooooh, warrrrrrrrrrfightaaaaaaaaah, grrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Hernandez Romero's tattoos freaked out the gringo looms. "During a physical exam ... an officer flagged the crown tattoos he has on each wrist " one with the word "mom" and the other with the word "dad" " and he was sent to Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, run by the private prison company CoreCivic."

As NBC News has reported, Hernndez Romero's tattoos were inspired by his desire to honor his parents and his love of his town's annual Three Kings festival. "He would design and sew his own costumes, and he would do the makeup for all the women in the parade," a childhood friend told NBC, which noted that crown tattoos were a local trend. But two private contractors at Otay Mesa determined that the tattoos marked him as a gang member.

That was apparently enough to consign Hernndez Romero indefinitely to a black hole. (Later, USA Today would reveal that one of the two contractors was Charles Cross Jr., a "disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues" who'd been fired for driving his car into a home while drunk.) "The fact that that is the sole evidence that they have ever produced that landed Andry in that prison cell in El Salvador should shock the conscience of everyone," said his lawyer, Lindsay Toczylowski of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center. "It's the reason that due process protections are so important. Because had that evidence gone before an impartial judge, and that was all they produced, and we were given an opportunity to refute it, it would have been so easy to do."

I think it's kinda cute, the way the current Mrs. Pete Hegseth is so much a part of his professional life.
The leash barely even shows.
(Drunks and dry drunks are terrible hobbies and bosses, btw.)
What a guy, grrrrrrrr.

Hysterical

#15
Trump, for example, is the MAGAt Liberace.

In Trump's corroded mind, it was all part of the Great Game as played by the Greatest Gamester of All Time Ever Forever and Ever Amen.

Something to do with my Grand Plan to drive wedges between Russia and China and China losing and Russia not and then Russia and the US of A acting together to ... to ... Hey, did you know that there's something amiss, afoot, betwixt and between with my strawberries? Yes, the strawberries. Mine. My strawberries. They're not where ... Where was I? Oh, right, the colors on my new Air Force One ...

Bondi comes from that mob of attention seeking sociopaths scrambling to get their names out front with ludicrous blather about persecuted Christians in the US. It's deliciously ironic that they are precisely the sort of folks I've long thought Jesus probably found the toughest, most hypocritical nuts to crack.

As usual, with the expected and unexpected hiccups, barring a loss of Heaven's Mandate, China goes about its business.

Should the Mandate be withdrawn, China will, after some interruption, again go about its business.

There are consequences when the wildly overvalued frontman glued to your brand like bug-eyed, ketamine huffing Leon to Trump's rump is, in fact, bug-eyed, ketamine huffing Leon glued to Trump's rump.

Bill O'Reilly?
Oh, really?