""You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time... unless they are Trump Cultists."

Abraham Lincoln (annotated)

DJT has already just since the Election lost almost 40 points among the Gen Z voters that put him over the top. Many of the rest of the Electorate will not be far behind.

"Trump changes his tune on Signalgate: I always thought it was Mike'

Some military and government officials have expressed concern about the contents of Hegseth's messages saying he leaked sensitive attack details that were "reckless and dangerous."

President Donald Trump tentatively blamed national security adviser Mike Waltz for the Signal leak scandal " while continuing to vigorously defend Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth " during a Wednesday evening executive order signing.

"Mike Waltz, I guess he said, he claimed responsibility," Trump said.

"I would imagine it had nothing to do with anyone else. It was Mike, I guess I don't know. I always thought it was Mike."

On the other hand, Trump questioned why Hegseth was receiving any scrutiny " despite the defense secretary sharing sensitive details about the operation, including launch times.

"How do you bring Hegseth into it? He had nothing to do " look, look, it's all a witch hunt," Trump said."

"The government's removal scheme denies Plaintiffs even a gossamer thread of due process," Millett wrote in a concurring statement.

"No notice, no hearing, no opportunity"zero process"to show that they are not members of the gang, to contest their eligibility for removal under the law, or to invoke legal protections against being sent to a place where it appears likely they will be tortured and their lives endangered."

The ruling upholds a temporary restraining order from District Court Judge James Boasberg, who blocked the Trump administration on March 15 from removing immigrants under the act."

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Your turn, Chief Justice Roberts.

A distraction from his disastrous Signal-Gate National Security Debacle.

He's prolly been saving this one for just such a political disaster.

Liberal Redneck - An All-Time Great Military Blunder from Team Trump

Founder of Signal chimes in....

"In a post on X on Monday afternoon, Moxie Marlinspike, whose real name is Matthew Rosenfeld, poked fun at the group message leak and used it to ironically promote the "many great reasons to be on Signal."

"Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations," the founder of the platform and its former CEO wrote in the post."

"Administration trying to avoid that Signal chat is massive security breach, Goldberg says

Details about U.S. military strikes being discussed on Signal have shocked many in the national security community. But President Trump called the whole episode a "witch hunt" and said Defense Secretary Hegseth "had nothing to do with this."

Geoff Bennett discussed more with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic and moderator of Washington Week."

'Just own it': GOP Rep. Bacon says Signal chat contained classified info

Dr. Ed Weir, PhD, Former Social Security Insider, Live

Low Wages paid by Major Corporations are the Numero Uno cause of poverty in America, Bob's Son.

Look it up. There's an actual factual world outside of your basement.

Turns out that Social Security Admin overhead is WAY UP there... ONE PERCENT.

"In 2016, the Social Security program received $958 billion in income and spent $922 billion for benefits and administrative costs, increasing the trust fund reserved by 35.2 billion. Total administrative costs amount to less than 1 percent of the funds collected each year."

- socialist ideologies.

So, it's true... chimps CAN type!

"Well, Thom, I wish I had better news. But basically " as bad as you think it is "i t's worse. The damage that Elon Musk and his Doge goons have done at Social Security is truly catastrophic.

We're already seeing cascading service failures, and they're not stopping. They keep implementing new changes to collapse the system faster"closing offices, firing people, disallowing many services to be done by phone, and pushing more people into physical offices.

Those offices were already overwhelmed, dealing with 10,000 Baby Boomers entering the system daily, all while staffing is at historic lows. And that was before Musk arrived with his chainsaw.

They've already closed or scheduled 45 offices for immediate closure. They've fired thousands of workers, and they have a mid-to-long-term memo proposing a 50% workforce reduction.

The Doge crew claims they'll replace everything with AI. What they're really saying is: you won't be able to reach anyone when your check doesn't show up."

- instead of chasing big donors.

Republicans made Money Speech and changed the way business is done. Without big money, you can't compete now.

Which is why Campaign Fin Reform with public (see the same corporations and media that now pay for it and profit from it now) financing is a necessary step back to democracy.

Waltz may be a Dem Plant meant to screw up everything they do... or maybe just another typical Trump hire.

#2

More lies, same sad sacka' .....

" According to online sources, his 2025 net worth is estimated to be around $3 million.

Forbes reported that according to his financial disclosures, Sanders made $2.5 million between 2011 and 2023 from book advances and royalties alone. Sanders either wrote or republished six books over the period:"

"No matter how important or urgent the President's DOGE agenda may be, federal agencies must execute it in accordance with the law," Judge Deborah L. Boardman wrote. "That likely did not happen in this case."

In the Social Security Administration lawsuit, Hollander found several DOGE staffers "were granted access to SSA systems before their background checks were completed or their inter-agency detail agreements were finalized."

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"According to a memorandum of understanding detailing Bobba's work with SSA, the Office of Personnel Management and Education Department that was improperly redacted by OPM, Bobba agreed to do any work on Social Security data from the agency headquarters.

But an affidavit from former SSA chief of staff Tiffany Flick said that Bobba was working off-site from OPM where other people "may have also had access to this protected information," Flick wrote.

Not even lawyers for the government can account for when and how DOGE staffers received access to sensitive databases. In a Labor Department lawsuit, Judge John D. Bates notes that "defendants themselves acknowledge inconsistencies across their evidence" regarding DOGE."

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So, wonder why they are trying to get rid of real news services like NPR and PBS?

The article is professional news reporting, not State propaganda.

#82

Still no actual argument. Curious and curiouser.

Just another logical fallacy, much like the first.

This may be a bigger take-over of the media by Gov than we've ever seen in this country.

It IS familiar, howsomever:

"When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the German constitution guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Through decrees and laws, the Nazis abolished these civil rights and destroyed German democracy.

Starting in 1934, it was illegal to criticize the Nazi government. Even telling a joke about Hitler was considered treachery. People in Nazi Germany could not say or write whatever they wanted.

Examples of censorship under the Nazis included:

Closing down or taking over anti-Nazi newspapers;
Controlling what news appeared in newspapers, on the radio, and in newsreels;
Banning and burning books that the Nazis categorized as un-German;
Controlling what soldiers wrote home during World War II.

How did the Nazis use propaganda?"

more

- the 2020 rioters in Portland

Whataboutisms are still logical fallacies last time checked. Indicating possible hypocrisy, real or imagined isn't an argument, it's an evasive action, Major.

Usually because the perp has no argument to the actual point.

#73

"The paper argues that a Progressive VAT, whereby VAT paid on consumption is re-paid to lower-income households in real-time, at the moment of purchase, can effectively eliminate regressivity while minimizing the political economy, cash-flow, and welfare stigma obstacles, thus overcoming the limitations of both the traditional and the modern approaches.

It would also have other significant advantages, particularly in terms of compliance incentives.

The paper concludes that a Progressive VAT would attain the rarest of prizes in tax policy, namely overcoming the standard trade-off between efficiency and equity, by improving equity without significant efficiency losses."

Candida, ha!

He would never attack fungal infections; he and that yeast have too much in common.

Economics were never one of his strong points. The only thing he's worse at is telling the truth... about anything.

He depends on the credulity of the Cult, and the attacks on the Courts and the Media... and attacking Candida, Greenland, and Panama... to distract them and entertain them.

Of course, they are pretty distracted already by trying to make a living while only being given less than half of a good education. At a time when Trump is privatizing that.

Like billionaires did with Health Care once they made Money Speech and bought almost ALL of the Politicians. They made a lot more Oligarchs that way, and you can never have too few billionaires if you are a Republican.

Or just arrest them in Greenland for.... 'trespassing without an Invitation"; Waltz was sniffing around there uninvited to the country, and Greenland said it was a, 'show of ownership', I think it was.

When he wasn't busy giving away classified material concerning actual warfare rather than this political kind.

So, a frozen cell out on the island for the duration of the Coup Attempt against the Gov maybe somewhere way out on the island sounds appropriate.

Are Russians Commies Today?

"With its national identity linked to communism for nearly a century, and its weak foundations of democracy in the 21st century, many will inevitably wonder: Is Russia communist?

The answer is no, Russia can no longer be seen as a communist country. The communist Soviet Union ended on December 26, 1991. Communist ideologies have, however not totally come to an end in the new, capitalist Russia."