Sorry, Trump isn’t a lame duck (yet) The comforting story that Trump's power is fading obscures the risks facing us

"Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, has also warned that far from being a lame duck, Trump “doesn’t care who he burns” as he tears down the country to stay in power." https://www.salon.com/2025/12/02/sorry-trump-isnt-a-lame-duck-yet/

More illegal actions by the corruption king.

Great. Just killing people.

Hegseth, with White House help, tries to distance himself from boat strike fallout As Congress vows accountability, the Trump administration emphasized it was a top military commander — not the defense secretary — who directed the engagement.

Hegseth tries to throw an Admiral under the bus (or boat): wapo.st/4oyWISF

I assume she means everyone who isn’t white.

Brit will blame Biden for it tomorrow.

What are we even doing here? I can’t find common ground with people who get off on the suffering of others. Don’t just kill the people we haven’t even proved are criminals, bring them pain. I can’t relate to this. This is inexcusable to me. I’m sickened.

Another grifter. How can right minded folks ever believe her?

Whoever they list as fake are precisely the ones to check out. No one should listen to WH propaganda. Always gaslighting America.

Sex Crimes. State Crimes. War Crimes. We’re detecting a pattern with this administration.

"We have an utterly lawless administration at home and abroad. Do we just have to live with it for at least three more years?" Well, *someone* could do something. A few hundred folks in the Capitol.

Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

The Republican chairs of both the House and Senate Armed Services committees signed a letter yesterday stating that they requested specific info many weeks ago on these strikes and the WH & Pentagon have refused to provide it. If the story is fake news, then turn everything over.

YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger Why the Venezuela Boat Strike Could Become the Trump Admin’s Biggest Scandal

I think this Venezuela double strike story could be massive…. And it’s just getting started

Why the Venezuela Boat Strike Could Become the Trump Admin’s Biggest Scandal
youtu.be/pYkx4dD0hk4

Note two things about GOP Rep. Mike Turner's solid remarks on Hegseth's reported order:

1) Turner: "I agree that that would be an illegal act."

2) Implicitly confirms the Washington Post's reporting that this information has been kept from Congress

"… in the present instance, it was perfectly clear to the accused that killing defenceless people in the life-boats could be nothing else but a breach of the law. As naval officers by profession they were well aware …."

Let’s hope so. These leaders and the troops who followed through with murder deserve punishment.

So Noem just admitted to knowingly and personally violating/ordering the violation of a judge’s order.

Going to be an interesting hearing

Pete Hegseth is finally getting investigated GOP-led committees are looking into a report alleging Hegseth gave an order to "kill everybody" aboard a boat.

GOP-led committees are looking into a report alleging Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” aboard a boat in the Caribbean.

War crime? Murder? Distinction without a difference. More on Substack. substack.com/@thefrankfig...

Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.

Run on *that*

How egotistical. She thinks she is above laws and orders. Ignores courts, abuses migrants and citizens, takes our tax dollars for her personal pleasure. Then Hegseth murders non-combatants. Wastes dollars to rename the DOD. Attacks women soldiers. There has got to be accountability.

Exhibit 926 in criminal contempt proceedings. Noem’s declaration is due Friday to Judge Boasberg.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?

@cnn.com, keep inviting Katie Miller on your shows. Have her on every night with Scott Jennings and Abby Phillip.

Let people listen to her, unfiltered.

Trust me, this is how you own the libs and destroy the woke. Katie is TOTALLY normal and effective, and the majority LOVES her.

I swear!

So disappointed the media platforms propaganda. How is a debate about the merits of murder (without trial/conviction) appropriate? Americans believe in the Bill of Rights. Rights were intended for everyone. While citizens have the additional right to vote, human rights are unalienable.

Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge The ABC7 I-Team is taking a closer look at a trove of videos ordered released by a federal judge in her explanation of the preliminary injunction she issued earlier this month restricting use of force...

“In nearly all of the examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the Department of Homeland Security narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras.”

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

We went from a country that defended others from being invaded for their natural resources, to a country that is now threatening to invade others for their natural resources.

Systems of governance are only as good as the people you elect to uphold them.

Trump approval at 37%

Way too fucking high

What is the matter with fucking people?

www.nationalreview.com/corner/we-in...

1/ Remember:
THE GOP MAJORITY in Congress could STOP this insanity at any time.
THEY CONDONE:
*Brutalizing immigrants and American citizens
*Useless tariffs that YOU pay.
*The alienation of our allies
*Bonding with our enemies
*The war crimes of SECDEF
*The invasion of sovereign country