"The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both..." – John Adams
Checks and balances, baby!
Let's hear it for the judicial branch, which so far (at least on the levels below SCOTUS), the judiciary is the one saving us from the executive and legislative branches' merry journey to authoritarianism.
The Tangerine Palpatine has been having judicial humiliations handed to him left and right this week.
Humiliation #1
A judge ruled that his name is to be stripped from the Kennedy Center immediately and that they 2-year closure "for improvements" be reversed.
Traitor Tot is pissed.
Fine! Congress can have it. No president has been treated as unfairly as me. Booo hooo hooo.
Humiliation #2
Get this. You know that one-sided dealing where he filed a $10 billion lawsuit against his own IRS, then settled for the $1.8 billion slush fund?
A judge just reopened the $10 billion case. She wants an investigation. She has questions, the main one being: was there fraud against the court?
Southern District Judge Kathleen M. Williams was urged by a bipartisan group of 35 former federal judges to reopen the case and look at the question of SCROTUS's "candor toward the court and manipulation of the judicial system."
Oh snap!
It's a pretty big deal.
Given that the original case had the same entity as plaintiff and defendant, and that it was "settled" so quickly and quietly, it really seems all of it was for the purpose of using the courts to perpetrate a smoke and mirrors show for the citizens of the United States.
Or, as the 35 former federal judges' brief stated:
“The parties have used this lawsuit—which was never an adversarial proceeding over which the Court even had jurisdiction—as a means to allow a “commission” controlled by the President to dole out $1.776 billion in taxpayer dollars without constitutional or congressional authority to do so, and to confer unlawful private benefits to the President and his family by purportedly prohibiting the United States from prosecuting any and all claims against them.And the parties have plainly tried to shield this conduct from necessary judicial scrutiny by short-circuiting this Court’s inquiry into whether the lawsuit is in fact an actual case or controversy by [seeking to dismiss the case] before they announced the “settlement”—clearly in hopes of preventing the Court from ever completing that inquiry, which, if it comes out against the parties, will undo their collusive “settlement.” ….Accordingly, because “[t]he parties’ ‘collusive’ activity perpetrated a fraud on the judicial machinery itself, by fostering an appearance that the litigation involved adverse parties, when, in fact, it did not,” the Court should void its prior dismissal and reopen the case to assess in due course whether a fraud occurred.”
How are you going to esplain this, Lucy?
Humiliation #3
As for the $1.776 billion slush fund that came out of that T**** v. T**** scam, it is also on hold. A different judge, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia, had put a temporary halt to any disbursements from the fund. She will hear arguments on June 12, the same date that Judge Williams will hear arguments about the $10B IRS dealio, about if the hold should be extended.
Besides the Kennedy Center ruling and the investigation of the IRS suit, other judges have stepped up to put a stop to this fast train to hell.
- A federal judge halted the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, citing "selective or vindictive prosecution." This is a rare ruling, but a just one.
I hope that Garcia and his family can move forward with their lives now that his scapegoat days are (presumably) over.
- The lead prosecutor on the Comey indictment for the seashell message withdrew from the case. No reason was given, but we can surmise because he has actual morals and ethics.
- A federal judge refused to dismiss charges against Oath Keepers leader Stuart Rhoads for his part in January 6. The DOJ moved to dismiss all charges, but the judge refused, saying, "I dare say, Mr. Rhodes – and I never have said this to anyone I have sentenced – you pose an ongoing threat and peril to our democracy and the fabric of this country.... I dare say we all now hold our collective breaths when an election is approaching. Will we have another January 6 again? That remains to be seen."
- And a judicial humiliation to come. The corrupt DOJ, in its Creamsickle-led crusade against his enemies, has opened an investigation into E. Jean Carroll, who you'll remember, garnered $80+ million dollar judgments from her trials against him for sexual assault and defamation.
I am certain that a judge that hears her case, either in whatever charges the DOJ wants to dream up or in her eventual case against them for wrongful prosecution, will have no choice but to rule for right.
Other Humiliations
Humiliation #...? I've lost count
Babyhands had his mind set on have a big honkin' party at the National Mall, with it's freshly-streaked swimming pool. The idea was that, as part of America's 250th birthday celebration, performers would perform over several days in "The Great American State Fair."
He was calling it "Freedom 250" and advertised it thusly:
Great line up, huh?
The thing is, most of these performers found out that they were on the lineup the same way we did, when this poster hit.
In the days since, all of the performers, with the exception of Vanilla Ice (natch) have declined to perform.
Fine! Baby Hands cried. See if I care! I'll take my game and go home and play by myself. I'm bigger than Elvis!
And later that day, this screed.
Da Memes
Big Sister Resister Pagrs requested this for after viewing that last one.
Humiliation #x+1
This one will come in November: a Democrat Texas Senator. There hasn't been a Democrat from Texas in the Senate in over three decades.
Dems and The Donfather agree on one thing: Ken Paxton is the best Repug candidate for Texas Senator. He's going to be trounced by the charismatic, smart, non-vegan James Talarico.
How it happened: Bootlicker incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (in office for 24 years) was just a fraction less sycophantic than the uber-corrupt Paxton, so Dear Leader's golden endorsement was bestowed upon Paxton. MAGAts fell into line and did what they do, and they voted Kenny onto November's ballot.
To say Paxton was "uber-corrupt" is a woeful understatement. The guy is black scum on the underbelly of green scum.
Why do Dems consider Texas attorney general Ken Paxton the best Repug candidate? These reasons (and these are just a few):
- Two felony securities fraud indictments.
- Corruptive use of his office for his own enrichment.
- Retaliation against whistleblowers who uncovered his criminal corruption.
- $6 million in taxpayer dollars to in awarded damages to said whistleblowers.
- Voter suppression: he prosecuted an overwhelming number of people of color for voter fraud.
- 2020 election denial and lawsuit to try to stop election results in four states, none of them Texas.
- Twenty impeachments by the Texas House (the overwhelming vote was 121-23). Some of the twenty articles of impeachment were for bribery, abuse of office, obstruction of justice, false statements to the legislature, and dereliction of duty.
It's really hard to fathom all the dirty dealings this slime ball has done. To get the full depth and breadth of this worm's corruption, I point you to The Paxton Record.
The larger Texas election is bright! With Paxton facing off against wunderkind James Talarico, there is a good chance that Texas will have a Democrat Senator heading to Washington in January!
MAGAts, of course, are trying to paint Talarico as the devil. Their best insults? That he is *the horror* transgender (he's not) and that he is *gasp* vegan (he's not) .
Here is Talarico's shady reaction to that nonsense.
The response to Stepheratu Miller's transphobic post, which read, "The Democrats made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender senate candidate," is golden.
The Democrats' official social media account posted this in response to Miller's post:
Katie Miller, the vampire's wifey, put on her outraged mask and shot back, insulting and doxxing Paulina Mangubat, who runs the Dem's socials. Mangubat was unfazed, doubling down:
This garbage is just the latest in MAGA's contribution to Talarico's meteoric rise. The FCC's dust up about him appearing on Colbert this spring gave Talarico a world more publicity and name recognition than the few minutes he would've appeared on The Late Show.
MAGA. They are super good at shooting themselves in the foot.
The Dementia Diaries
I would also call this a humiliation, but dementia is a real neurological disease and any disease is not shameful in and of itself.
What is shameful, though, is for him to continue in the office, obviously disordered and unhinged, and for everyone around him who props him up and praises the Emperor's New Clothes.
Let's look at the latest for Dementia Don.
The Annual Physical Exams Keep Piling Up
He had another "annual" physical, the third in just 13 months.
Show of hands. How many of my readers in "excellent health" have three physical exams per year?
As before, Trumplethinskin ghost-wrote the medical findings, which read in part: "President Donald Trump remains in excellent health, demonstrating strong cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, and overall physical function."
My ass.
The Orangekopf has been bragging about it, posting, "Just finished my 6 month physical at Walter Reed Military Medical Center. Everything checked out PERFECTLY. Thank you to the great Doctors and Staff!"
And two days later, he was compelled to continue his embarrassing brag about "acing" the MOCA for a cringe-worthy fourth time.
Jim Acosta takes the MOCA
Recently, Jim Acosta, former CNN anchor, met with a physician and took the MOCA.
I have some issues with the way this test was administered here. I acknowledge that the news program ran this for entertainment, but I studied Evaluation and Diagnosis for hundreds of hours, and watching this makes my brain twitch.
Protocol is important for the reliability and validity of the instrument, and the way the doctor instructs the items to Acosta is not to protocol. He instructed and scored one of the items completely wrong.
I just had to say that as a Speech-Language Pathologist.
As if you haven't heard enough of my howls that this exam is a very basic, quick screening instrument of basic cognitive functioning, maybe this video will drive it home for you.
The Orange Delusion continues.
TweetMania
This man has been tweeting nonstop over the last few weeks, much of it AI slop and all of it unhinged. Sundowning, disinhibition, poor judgement.... all driven by his dementia.
For example, just yesterday he posted 54 times during what was described as "executive time" on his official schedule.
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Aaron Parnas lays out those tweets here:
And this, posting the exact same tweet 8 days apart:
His son Dum Junior had a wedding a few days ago. Big Dum declined to attend.
Was the reason that he was scared of being vulnerable to another "assassination attempt," being out in the open?
Was the reason that he simply doesn't love his namesake?
Was the reason that the wedding was held in the Bahamas, which doesn't allow adjudicated rapists to land?
Or was it, as he wrote, because he had "circumstances pertaining to Government?"
This, my friends, were those important circumstances:
Here’s what Trump did today instead of attending his son’s wedding: pic.twitter.com/mal4akcevU
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 24, 2026
The Satirists
I love these lip-synchers and performers, who lay bare the insanity of what comes out of the orange anus. Brilliant satire that isn't even satire. It's simply the truth. We have no satire anymore.
I couldn't decide which of these clips from branhattan were my favorite, so here's a compliation (six months old, though! Go follow him for the recent stuff!)
Your Moment of Mirth
