The bodyguard was placed on administrative leave 16 Jan, days after Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer's two top aides were suspended over a probe into the secretary's travel and conduct at work that allegedly includes at least one inappropriate relationship with a DOL staffer.

~snip~

From Empty Suit Marco Rubio to shyster John Ratcliffe to good-for-nothing Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel to filthy mega-oligarch Scott Bessent to sociopath Kristi Noem to sycophant Pam Bondi to cult member Tulsi Gabbard to harridan Linda McMahon to vile racist billionaire Doug Burgum, this is absolutely the most dysfunctional US Presidential Cabinet in history. Ever. Just the absolute worst. Horrendous. Hideous. Period.

Young master Talarico has the same message as Canada's Jagmeet Singh and NYC's Zohran Mamdani.

And all three speak to the people without talking points.

Zohran showed up at an LGBTQ disco in Brooklyn at 0100 hours to applause and cheers the weekend before the election while Andrew Cuomo was home reviewing his AIPAC-given Islamophobic attack points to slime the Bronx High School of Science graduate with.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani was still taking the subway to work every day from Astoria to City Hall the last I saw. He sips his coffee and talks to commuters about issues (all under the watchful of his NYPD PSD, all Detectives First Grade).

Hi Corky:

Strange bedfellows indeed. You can't go wrong citing the Immortal Bard.

MTG is also against AIPAC, unlike many of her GOP colleagues and many Democrats.

She also hollered for ACA subsidies like a Democrat and said NO to war against Iran.

Endnote:

The Tempest is Shakespeare's "swan song" and considered by many to be his finest play. For his last work, the Bard of Avon reverts to classical Greek theater by having the entire comedy take place in one [long] day.

"Gentle Will" also eschewed violence in the play. Even though Caliban talks about it, no one is killed or wounded, something the London audience used to expect from earlier Shakespeare plays like Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, or Richard III.

Written after the death of Queen Elizabeth (1603), The Tempest also takes subtle sophisticated swipes at the deceased monarch that the English hoi polloi didn't catch, like the references to the dead witch who is mother of the grotesque Caliban.

#274 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-26 10:17 PM | Reply | Flag: Yup. Us versus Them. Time to pick a side.

"The real fight in this country is not left versus right. It's top versus bottom," Talarico said. "We will not win this race in November with the same old politics of division."

[Zohran Mamdani] ran on incredibly popular, progressive policies and won.
He ran on taxing the rich, and won.
He had the DNC and GOP and several billionaires fighting desperately to get Andrew Cuomo elected and beat them.
The problem isn't progressive policies or taxing the rich.
The problem is both parties are owned by the rich.

#273 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-26 10:03 PM | Reply | Flag: Yes indeed.

And this pledge resonated well with New Yorkers.

The pistol looks like a .357 Magnum Centennial hammerless five-shot revolver which I used to discreetly carry last century.

I think a .357 Magnum round will accidentally collide with the back of Greg Bovino's skull one day.

In 2024, intelligent people in Mexico voted for climate scientist Dr Claudia Sheinbaum to be their President.

In 2025, intelligent people in Canada voted for economist Dr Mark Carney to be their Prime Minister.

And in America, look what 77,302,580 imbeciles did to us on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024.

FIFA 2026 commences soon and California will host the 2028 Summer Olympiad.

Which foreigners are going to come to a dangerous sh*thole country with death squads running around?

Poor Alex Pretti might have appeared to be a Jew to these murderous Sturmabteilung.

I'll never understand the hardworking American taxpayer sending billions of dollars every year to a wealthy, nuclear-armed Israel, which offers universal world class healthcare to all its residents, a social security system ranked at "B+" compared to America which is ranked at "C+", and a GNI of $52,940, almost exactly on par with Germany ($54,960).

How this generous American largesse to Israel helps a school teacher in the South Bronx, a truck driver in Oklahoma, a struggling farmer in Mississippi, a homeless person in Detroit, a police officer in Sacramento, a plumber in Chicago, a single mother of three buying food for her children from the Dollar Store, a court clerk in Alabama having trouble paying rent, or a firefighter in Boston saving money to send his kids to MIT, I have absolutely no clue.

Keine ahnung.

The link in @9 is only available to subscribers.

Below, are these members of America's ICE or El Salvador's death squads?

Can you tell the difference?

Thanks to 77,302,58 morons who voted for Dummkopf Trumpf on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024, Amnesty International now rebukes the US as a vicious banana republic or despotic Third World country.

Obligatory.
bsky.app

#20 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-26 03:08 PM | Reply | Flag: Yup.

Like POTUS Jimmy Carter on 20 Jan 1977 immediately pardoning Vietnam War draft evaders and ordering a review of all court-martial cases related to that hideous war, the next non-Republican POTUS must immediately abolish DHS and ICE on 20 Jan 1929.

The document will have been readied by his/her transition staff in Nov 2028.

After the traditional post-Inauguration Luncheon at the White House, POTUS can sign it at the Resolute Desk circa 1530 hours and by 1600 hours the Executive Order abolishing DHS and ICE will be posted in the Federal Register.

Following the Holocaust, European (Ashkenazi) Jews were given some measure of justice by the Nuremberg Trials and the promise of a homeland in the Middle East. The unfortunate displacement of Arabs already living there has led us to where we are today in the Middle East.

Be that as it may, following the Ottoman Empire's 1915 genocide of the Armenians, there were no international tribunals seeking justice for the victims. During local trials in Armenia in the early 1920s, some Ottoman functionaries and army officers eagerly testified about the atrocities committed by their comrades. They were aghast and appalled by what they witnessed.

But the Ottoman criminals didn't face justice and lived in exile in post WWI Germany, Austria, and other parts of Europe.

So the Armenians organized a list of the organizers of the 1915 genocide and successfully deployed assassins against them.

After the Trumpf junta falls on Tuesday 7 Nov 2028, if no justice prevails for the victims of ICE in 2029 or 2030, I imagine some junta apparatchiks like Stephen Miller or Greg Bovino may suffer similar consequences.

*** ICE Assassinations in Minnesota Rankle Two GOP Governors: Ron DeSatan (R-FL) and Phil Scott (R-ME) ***

One speaks from a moral position; the other bleats out of self-preservation for the diabolical Trumpf junta:

Dummkopf Trumpf, American oligarch and Kremlin asset, is in league with Russian oligarchs and Middle Eastern oil despots. The writer calls them "hyper-elites."

This is the perfect example of the time-honored struggle between the masses versus the wealthy.

This Manichean conflict was previously softened by the US social safety network and a framework for advancement into the next economic class.

The clumsiness of the Trumpf junta and the oligarchs in stripping away the safety nets and mechanisms for life-improvement have exposed the US for what it has always been: A Potemkin Village.

The battle is, and has always been, Us versus Them.

*** Venezuela's Acting President: "Basta! Enough US Orders! ***

Trump is appearing to be conciliatory and willing to work with Gov Walsh in his latest online rant, err, post.
After Democrats threatened to block funding for ICE.

But I suspect JPW is right. Republicans will promise to vote on better accountability for DHS. Later. As long as funding is fully approved. And then do exactly nothing. Or the exact opposite.
But of course.. They will have the "framework of a plan" in 2 weeks!

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-26 12:44 PM | Reply | Flag

There is an old mafia expression: "Nothing weighs less than a promise."

How did any of the 2025 government shutdowns work?

Do we have our ACA subsidies?

You cannot train or retrain morality, decency, or grace, to wit:

Landis: [interviewing Elaine for a job] Not many people have grace.

Elaine Benes: Well, you know, grace is a tough one. I like to think I have a little grace. Not as much as Jackie O...

Landis: You can't have a little grace. You either have grace or you don't.

Elaine Benes: Okay, fine. I have no grace.

Landis: And you can't acquire grace.

Elaine Benes: Well, I have no intention of getting grace.

Landis: Grace isn't something you can pick up at the market.

Elaine Benes: [annoyed] Alright, alright, look, I don't have grace, I don't want grace, I don't even say grace, okay?

Landis: Thank you for coming in.

Elaine Benes: Yeah yeah right.

What separates Israel's present day colonization over the West Bank and Gaza from historical imperialism is funding and taxation.

19th-century imperial conquests (e.g. America's Indian Wars, Russia's eastward expansion, the African land grab) were conducted by the Great Powers before the income tax and were self-funded.

The Great Powers did not morally condemn their rivals for seizing colonies, they envied the prizes of their rivals. Imperial Germany entered the game late and took the scraps of Africa. The US entered the overseas expansion game late in 1898, but picked on weak Spain and America got an instant empire with the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and other islands.

All of this occurred before the establishment of the income tax.

Israel's internal expansion is not self-funded. Other countries like the US and Germany officially send Israel weapons and funds to colonize "Judea and Samaria."

That means that taxpayers of the US and Germany are now complicit in the colonization of another territory.

Since 1968 or 1969, Canada unofficially sends funds to Israel by allowing their taxpayers a huge tax-deduction for such a contribution. In this way, Ottawa keeps its hands clean of ethnic cleansing, even though the Canadians did their share of it against the indigenous peoples in the west.