“Another Day, Another Donald Trump Pernicious Pendejada”
Trump’s tariffs charade: One day they’re on, the next day their off.
Another day, another Donald Trump pendejada. Another unethical, illegal and abominably dangerous pendejada.
At the moment, we’re reeling from the pernicious multiple pendejadas surrounding Trump’s tariffs charade. One day they’re on, the next day their off. The latest is there’s a “pause” on some of them. All of this has plunged the global economy into chaotic uncertainty. Hey, I’m certainly no economist, but like any other reasonable person I can clearly see that this is madness.
On the afternoon he announced his “pause” on most of the tariffs, he had an impromptu meeting with reporters outside the White House. (He was hosting a gaggle of race care drivers.) He defended his actions/inactions on tariffs while the cameras rolled. It was vintage Trump tonteria. If you were ever at a party or some kind of gathering and you witnessed some absolutely drunk or stoned guy in the corner pontificating emphatically about nonsense, you get some idea of what the Trump rambling was like. He sort of, kind of half-way explained his turnabout on tariffs. He managed to mention, apropos of nothing, his claim that his election loss in 2020 was rigged. He pulled pseudo facts and figures out of his culo to defend his decision. He rambled and rambled. Oh, and he lobbed his usual attacks at the “fake news media.” Classic, neurotic Trump. He’s like a spoiled little kid in the sandbox.
This is the state we’re in, some 90 days into the second term of the Trump presidential circus. It would be outrageously, fall-on-your-ass hilarious if it weren’t so pathetically dangerous.
He’s like a spoiled little kid in the sandbox.
Dangerous for whom? Well, let’s start with the working -class people of the United States. But it certainly goes beyond that. Practically every person living in this country, except the tiny group of millionaires and billionaires at the very top, is endangered by Trump’s blatantly corrosive, dreadful and unconstitutional policies and actions. And on and international scale, onetime allies in Europe and elsewhere are beginning to suffer, particularly as Trump’s pendejadas threaten global recession. And on the homefront, it seems there’s no Constitutional requisite, civil protocol, or ethical/moral norm Trump and his sycophants haven’t violated, putting this country perilously close to authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is the word pundits are using to sound the alarm. I prefer the word “fascism” – it’s more appropriate I believe. It’s all just too weird and just plain evil. It’s a dark laundry list of idiocy.
An what a laundry list of crazy, harmful, fascistically pernicious actions it is.
Deporting immigrants, just because. Trump claims hundreds of so-called Venezuelan “criminal gang members” are “terrorists” who want to destroy this country. Remember, he has painted immigrants as “vermin who suck the blood of the country.” (What a statesman!) He’s invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as justification for mass deportations. He declared a wartime emergency, even though, as far as you and I can tell, we’re not at war. (Well, clearly the guy is at war with the truth, but that’s a different cosa.) You’ve seen the pictures of them dragged to a Salvadoran prison from hell, being brutalized and shorn. Reminds me of scenes from Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
Deporting law-abiding Green Card holders exercising their rights to freedom of speech, such as Mahmaud Kalil, the Columbia University graduate student who had the temerity to protest the actions of the Israeli military in Gaza. (Hey, I was once a Columbia University graduate student.) And the plans for the wholesale deportations of millions of immigrants. And then there’s the story of Kilmar Armando Abrejo García. He’s an immigrant here in this country who’s not a criminal, yet he was summarily rounded up and sent to that prison camp in El Salvador along with all those hundreds of others. Trump told us he was going to do stuff like this – and he’s in the process of doing it.
Kilmar Armando Abrejo García, an immigrant here in this country who’s not a criminal, was summarily sent to that prison camp in El Salvador along with hundreds of others.
And the hits just keep on coming. What are we to make of the gigantic pendejada of tapping arrogant billionaire Elon Musk to slash and burn his way through the federal civil service, firing thousands of employees for no good reason, other than to satisfy Trump’s avarice? Musk and Trump invented the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” and pulled out that P.R.-inspired job-cutting chainsaw. I guess that’s what happens when you donate 278 million dollars to Trump during the election campaign. There is no such federal department as DOGE. Is there any other way to describe this than to call it insanity? But that’s not all, as they used to say in the K-tel late night TV commercials.
What a laundry list of outrage! Let’s destroy valuable government agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Education, the National Parks Service, the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Health and Human Services, just to name a few. Oh, and let’s go after public schools throughout the country, threatening to withhold federal dollars if they don’t stop teaching U.S. history that includes the stories of people other than white folks. And let’s attack so-called Diversity, Equity and Inclusion wherever we find it, including at the respected Smithsonian Institution. That place has the temerity to highlight the full gamut of the history of African-descendent people in this country.
Linda Mc Mahon’s stated goal is to eliminate the department itself.
Trump has packed important federal departments and agencies with cronies whose only goals and desires are to kiss the Pendejo-in-Chief’s ass. He has put the foxes in the henhouses—Big Time. He has told them not to worry too much about enforcing regulations – regulations intended to protect the safety and well-bring of the public. This runs the gamut from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the Environmental Protection Agency. Incredible as it may seem, Trump has held out antojitos for industrial polluters who want to be spared the inconvenience of following regulations and following the law. He has offered “waivers” to polluters in exchange for million-dollar contributions to organizations of his choosing. Amazing. Hard to believe. And he has put that wacky professional wrestling maven in charge of the Department of Education. Linda Mc Mahon’s stated goal is to eliminate the department itself. En serio. It’s irrelevant than many of its programs are aimed at helping poor and working-class communities. Then, again, maybe it’s not so irrelevant. Trump seems to care only about billionaires and their salivating desire for tax cuts from the feds.
And let’s not forget the folly of appointing Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services. In the face of extensive scientific evidence to the contrary, Kennedy persists in his vague notion that routine vaccines for children are harmful. The wild “vaccines-cause-autism” has long been demonstrably debunked. Yet, he persists with his dangerous ideas, all with the acquiescence of El Trompudo. (Boy, Bobby Kennedy, Sr. must be spinning in his grave.) The damaging effects of these practices are already being felt across the country. He has put the ass-kissing foxes in charge of the henhouses. And it’s Trump’s nalgas they are intent on kissing.
But that’s not all.
Kennedy persists in his vague notion that routine vaccines for children are harmful.
We haven’t even touched on the fiddling with the Very Big and Important Departments of the federal government. The demonstrably unqualified Fox TV host Pete Hegseth is the Secretary of Defense. I guess Soupy Sales wasn’t available. Oh, he’s dead. So what? unqualified That was made clear with the pendejada involving that Signal phone chain fiasco that blew up in Hegseth’s face and in the face of the national security sycophants of the Trump administration. You know, a solid journalist was inadvertently included in the phone conversation.
Nobody seems to know how he was included. Such dangerous incompetence. The issue isn’t that a seasoned, responsible journalist (the editor of the Atlantic magazine) was somehow included in the hook-up. The issue is that highly sensitive stuff about bombing a foreign country was discussed so casually on what security experts call “an unsecured line.” And what’s worse is the typical Trump denial/obfuscation baloney response to the matter. Increible.
Shortly after this fiasco was revealed, Trump was asked about it by reporters at the White House. He said, “I don’t know anything about it.” Pressed further, he said, “It’s a witch-hunt.” What else are we to expect from this guy? Long ago, Senator Bernie Sanders said it—and it still holds—“He is just a pathological liar.”
But, sabes que, you’ve read all about this stuff in the newspapers or saw it on the news
He and his cronies told us what he was going to do and he is doing it.
And to head the Department of Justice he appoints the ultimate toady sycophant. Pam Bundi (sounds like a hairstyle of a type of puff pastry). He caressed her on the night he made a bizarrely unprecedented speech in the halls of that once-respected institution. Beyond wacky. But more on that a bit later on. The guys and dolls he has appointed to high-level positions in the administration are right out of a Big Top circus clown car.
He just couldn’t help himself. He blamed everything he could on Joe Biden and his administration.
These are some of the frightening pendejadas he unleased when he spoke at the Department of Justice. By the way, in the long history of this country, presidents don’t routinely go to the DOJ to make speeches. Pundits kept calling it “unprecedented.” We have to come up with a new word or “unprecedented” with this guy at the wheel of the clown car. And the histrionic harangue was really a rally spiel. Here’s some of the lies and threats and accusations he hurled, while the Attorney General and other groundings stood by.
The nerve of the guy to say: “We begin a new chapter in the chronicles of American justice, we’re turning the page on four long years of corruption, weaponization and surrender to violent criminals.” He just couldn’t help himself. He blamed everything he could on Joe Biden and his administration. “These are bad people—they tried to turn America into a corrupt communist and third world country.” He actually said that. (I listened and transcribed the speech so you don’t have to.) He wasn’t finished with his diatribe while speaking at the Department of Justice. “A corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of the American government obliterated trust and goodwill.” Of course, Trump was really talking about himself and what his actions would represent. Irony is hardly the word. But he wasn’t finished: “There could be no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the law to terrorize the innocent and reward the wicked.” Talking about himself again. This is a very big deal. When it comes to federal agencies, the Department of Justice is about as important as it gets, when we’re talking about the rule of law and, dare I say it?, democracy.
Trump laid out what he was going to do in that bizarre, barely-to-be believed speech to a joint session of Congress. (If you smoked a joint, maybe the speech would have made some sense, but I doubt it.) I recorded the speech and listened to most of it a couple of times—so that you don’t have to. What bombast! What scary nonsense! What bullshit! What fascism!
I have a transcript. Here’ some of what the maniac said that night.
Trump believes his presidency, is the most successful in the history of our nation. number two is? George Washington!”
“It has been stated that the first month of our presidency, it’s our presidency, is the most successful in the history of our nation. And what makes it even more impressive is that, do you know who number two is? George Washington,” he said. Yeah, he believes this stuff. (And, by the way, who stated that?) Delusional.
Trump also said on that night: “So while we take out the criminals, killers, traffickers and child predators, who are allowe3dd to enter our country under the open border policy of these people, the Democrats, the Biden Administration, we’ll allow in the most successful job creating people from all over the world to have a path to U.S. citizenship.” All they have to do is pay millions, literally, for a chance to come to the United States. Talk about pay to play. Talk about extortion. Talk about Trump.
And, by the way, have you noticed that he always talks in absolutes and superlatives? It’s the greatest ever. It’s the biggest ever. The most/best/biggest in the whole history of the country—the history of the world. That kinda crap. That approach is in keeping with his scheme to have polluters avoid regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency if they ask Trump for a waiver and agree to pay dough into one of his political action funds.
He headed for the finish line of his meandering talk by saying: “My administration will reclaim power from this unaccountable bureaucracy. And we will restore true democracy to America again. And any federal bureaucrat who resists this change will be removed from office immediately. Because we are draining the swamp. It’s very simple. And the days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over.” Oh yeah, and how does Trump describe his billionaire lacky Elon Musk? And the list goes on. We must resist.
He is Looney Tunes personified. As former Republican Congressman Kinziner put it, “What do you expect when you elect a 78-year-old toddler?”
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