Sunday, May 17, 2026

A Racist Runs Through It

Apologies to Norman Maclean.




Racism is a stain running through the length of the fabric of our country.
The "again" in "Make America Great Again?" It's always been the Jim Crow era.

It's absolutely outrageous and disheartening to face the judicial decisions that have come down, now, in literally the middle of election season, to disenfranchise Black voters. 

Jim Crow is giddy with excitement. He's been hiding in the shadows and is now pouncing. 

Those who would love for us to return to the "again" of a century before Jim Crow are also cheering for the actions that express their hatred of Black people. 

Led by the Racist-in-Chief and carried out by the corrupt Supreme Court of the United States, laws protecting voter rights have been demolished. 

SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the South is pouncing.  They are falling over themselves to redistrict their states expressly for the purpose of disenfranchising Black voters. 

They want to do it in time for the 2026 midterm elections, for which primaries are already underway. 

Can't win an election because you are universally hated? Draw the lines so that those few who love your racism can have more power. Simple! 

Welcome to the United States of AmeriKKKa.

Already, nine states have redrawn their maps, including California who redistricted in response to Texas's move to pick up more red seats. A few more are in the pipe. 

Stateline.org has an excellent summary of the changes so far. In summary:
"A total of nine states — Alabama, California, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Utah — have redrawn their maps since last year. At least three other states — Georgia, Louisiana and South Carolina — appear likely to follow suit, though Georgia’s new maps would not be in effect for the upcoming midterm elections.

As things currently stand, Republicans are likely to gain up to 17 seats, while Democrats are likely to gain up to six seats."

Let's pause to review the history of the Voting Rights Act, and why it is (was) so important. Here's the New York Times to tell you more (gift article). Please read/watch.

But guess what, motherfuckers? Too many Black people have bled and died for their rights. Another bunch of folks are standing with them. We are not going to give up rights very easily. This shit is getting ugly.

Here is one response from Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones. 


Please look at these maps of Tennessee's representation through the decades. 

In the 1930s, Tennessee's representation looked like this.


By the 90s, it was still pretty equal. 


In the years since 2013:


A comparison of now, just before the redistricting decision, and after.




Low-IQ individuals
Sir, Sir, they say, tears welling in their eyes. Your eloquence is unmatched, but you can't call them the N-word. Just say "low IQ person" instead. Everyone will know you mean N-word.



Side note: he likely misheard "cisgender" and ran with "six genders." What a maroon!




Rep. Roger Williams (R-Tex.) is saying it out loud. We want the right people white men voting.

Rep. Roger Williams on the SAVE America Act: "We want the right people voting"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 8, 2026 at 6:06 AM

A Rester Runs Through It
The Nodfather has been doing his public napping thing again. Here are several moments in a recent Oval Office Meeting:

 




Here he is about three weeks ago, with white men in suits:
Disgraceful!

A Grifter Runs Through It
The Phone Grift
Remember back in June of last year when the T**** phone grift appeared? I wrote about it in this post. 

Earlier this week it was reported that the phone grift was complete. New terms on the website indicated that there were no plans to ship them at all, and the 600,000 $100 pre-order deposits were nonrefundable. From Android Authority: "The preorder deposit 'provides only a conditional opportunity if Trump Mobile later elects, in its sole discretion, to offer the Device for sale.' It also adds that a preorder deposit is 'not a purchase.'"

As of this writing, there are new promises to ship them "this week," but who believes it?


The Ballroom Grift 
He swore up and down that "no taxpayer money" was going to go toward construction of the ballroom. Yet here we are, with a bill before Congress asking for $1 billion to pay for it. The gall!

Thankfully, not many are on board with it, even Republicans. The funding bill is finally dead in the water. 


The IRS Grift
This is the absolute pinnacle of corruption. This man is going to steal billions right from under our noses.

He wants to sue his own IRS for $10 billion in damages for leaks of his tax information to news organizations. 

A judge is trying to determine if the lawsuit is valid or not. It may not matter, though, because now his own DOJ is talking about settling the case and giving 1.7 billion of our dollars to this corrupt grifter. 


A Cluster (f*ck) Runs Through It
He returned from China like a toddler who had all his toys taken from him.

It was humiliating. He will never feel the humiliation because he is incapable. The 200 million of the rest of us, though? We feel it intensely.

From Chinese media


He was mocked in the most subtle ways.

Like a child, he loved the pomp and circumstance. There was a lack of seriousness about the whole visit. 

Xi played him like the malleable piece of poo-colored playdough that he is, and Kermit the Fraud was clueless.

Take for example this post. A year and a half into his term, and he is still trying to blame Biden. We, who are living the decline, agree with Xi. How sad is that?



The visit to China's version of the rose garden and how Xi stroked his ....ego.

Watch this moment when Xi showed him the Beijing version of the Rose Garden. Emperor Cheetohito's biggest question about it was Do you bring your other boyfriends here?


The parting gift: rose seeds to plant in the Rose Garden. 

Oh snap! There is no Rose Garden! 

Look at these nonsensical and immature comments.

Talkin' about what is most important to this superficial, racist, transactional asshole: Xi's physical stature. In talking to Hannity, Dr. Jesus said:
“He’s central casting. You couldn’t find a guy like him. Even his physical features, you know. He’s tall, very tall. And especially for this country, because they tend to be a little bit shorter. You look at the military. I mean, the military today was incredible. That military marching was incredible. But no, if you went to Hollywood, you would not find that. You aren’t going to find a guy to play the role who’s good.”

Talkin' about second most important: fast food. 

"Chinese restaurants outnumber the five largest fast food chains in the United States, all combined."

First of all, no, that is not true. Secondly, WTF? Why?

The issue of Taiwan was strongly dictated by Xi. It is Xi's main sticking point with the U.S., and it was obvious that he had the upper hand over SCROTUS.




International media characterize the meeting with these headlines:
Asia Times: Trump-Xi summit: no grand bargain, only managed instability
Australian Broadcasting Company: Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are meeting in China but only one has the upper hand
Le Monde: 'Trump does not appear to have the upper hand in his talks with Xi'
Iran International: Xi may help Trump on Iran, but at a price

For more takeaways from the Summit, read in NPR. 


A Rakehell Runs Through It
Many miscreants mar our motherland.

The level of corruption of this regime is astounding. I'm sure to miss some of the nefarious dealings, but here are a few from the last month.

The DOJ has leveled an indictment against James Comey for his silly post on social media:


It feels so stupid to have to explain this, but let's look at it. 

"86" is a common phrase, most often used in kitchens, to communicate that a dish has run out. It can also mean to "get rid of something/someone," for example the idiot at the end of the bar who won't stop running his mouth, or the idiot at the Resolute Desk who won't stop destroying our democracy.

What it doesn't mean, but which the corrupt DOJ wants you to think it means, is to "kill" or "bring violence against" a person. 

The stupidity runs so deep with this one. For some reason, they thought this was a brag:


And when asked if the DOJ will be going after every person who has posted an "86 47" meme or image, Acting DOJ Director Todd Blanche indicated that it would be "ill advised" to compare images from different sources and "every case is different."

This statement in itself will be cause for the case to be thrown out for selective prosecution. I don't think he really cares if the case goes forward or not. Blanche cares that his nose is suffiently brown. Clog up the courts for stupid cases? Why not, if it gets you a li'l snuggle from тяцмр?

Know this, though. We will immediately 86 47 after a new Congress is elected this year and we can get an impeachment going. 


Effing guy is worth $320 million:


The FCC continues to threaten ABC's broadcast license in order to force a cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel. The most recent "offense" was a joke about Melania. Three days before the armed gunman stormed the Correspondents' Dinner, Kimmel quipped, "Our first lady Melania is here. So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow." 

Lay. Off. Our. Satirists.

In a related note, Stephen Colbert's final four shows are this week. It wasn't a direct FCC pressure-play, but we all know that CBS is jockeying for position in the nether regions of the Don Father.

The OG Late Show host David Letterman joined Colbert to say goodbye:



Trumpenstein installed a 15 foot golden statue of himself at his golf club in Florida. 

Did he get the idea from this September, 2025 art installation a the National Mall?


...or was it other inspirations?
Note: this is AI enhanced; not all of these statues are so golden, but all of them were erected by the men themselves.


Meanwhile, our Navy sailors and Marines are starving. The images below have been shared of their meals aboard ships deployed to the Iran War Excursion Conflict War Won War War. 

Note: Snopes is calling this report "unrated," as they could not verify the veracity of the reports, but these images were shared in USA Today.




A Moron Runs Through It 
He was a narcissist and an idiot to begin with, and now we are also plagued with his dementia. Hard to tease it all apart, but let's look at all the cognitively impaired shit that has floated to the top of the water:

More about the MOCA
He keeps bragging that he took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA – a screening instrument for dementia) three times. His confabulations/memory lapses about the test are getting wild.

The latest shows he really can't recall the very test that he is bragging about. Let's look at this clip from his ramble at The Villages in Florida. 

He was riffing on Governor Newsom's dyslexia – which is not at all comparable to his dementia – and he had to brag once again about "acing" this 10-minute exam that measures the very basic cognitive functions and orientation to time and place.

It's not the flex you think it is, Donny. 


Let's break it down.

The only president to take a cognitive test. 
Sir, she said with tears in her eyes, you are the only president where the concern of dementia is so great that the physicians feel the need to screen you over and over. 

You know, the first question is very easy. It’s a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark. They say, which one is the bear?
It's the fourth item, and no, Sir, there are only three animals, and you are asked to name them. It's a word recall screen, not an auditory comprehension screen. If they asked you to identify them, then they not only broke the exam's protocol, but they dumbed it down for you.

Thirty questions. 
Sir, the test consists of 30 points, not 30 questions. 

The last 10 questions are very tough. 
Sir, sir, may I correct you again. The whole instrument consists of, depending on how you count them, 11 or 22 "questions" (we call them "items") consisting of 30 points, and the last six points – 20% of the possible score – are given for today's day of the week, date, month, year, place, and type of place you are sitting in. 

Five doctors lined up. 
OK, Sir, wow, you had five doctors in the room. You are really in bad trouble, honey. This is serious. I don't know of many situations where five doctors would be in the room together.

These are tough questions. You know, they say, take a number, any number. Okay, I’ll take 99. Multiply times nine. Okay. Divide it by three. Good. Add 4293. That’s good. Divide by two. Subtract three. That’s good. Divide by two. Subtract 93. Divide by nine. What is your answer? 
Sir, sir, sirrrrr she says with tears streaming down her eyes from trying not to laugh. There is no test with such an item on it, let alone the MOCA. There are cognitive exams with number problems, but they are focused on functional math, like is used in daily living. And those instruments have a hell of a lot more than "30 questions."

The item on the MOCA that contains arithmetic is "serial sevens," where you are asked to serially subtract seven, starting from 100. The instruction from the examiner is, "Subtract seven from 100 and keep subtracting seven from your answer until I tell you to stop." 

The patient is stopped after four or five subtractions, for a possible point score of 1 (got one correct), 2 (got two or three correct), or 3 (got four or five correct).

We don't need a screener to know know he is numbers-impaired; he has shown us frequently with his creative math skills whenever he brags about lowering the cost of something "400 - 500 - 600%."

Everyone said, "It's good, he's smart."
Again, Sir, this is a cognitive screen for dementia, not an IQ test. If you can name three common animals, remember five words after five minutes, and can name today's date and date and that you are at Walter Reed Hospital, you are halfway there. 

In any case, this moron has demonstrated over and over that he is not smart. "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!" is how he was famously described by a Penn professor who taught at the Wharton School of Business. DonOld has had his academic records concealed – under threat of lawsuits, natch – for forever. 

The sundowning tweets at all hours
No wonder he's dozing during meetings and press conferences. He is up at all hours non tweeting up a storm. Sundowning is a hallmark of dementia, and boy does this guy do it.

Here are just a couple recent nights' activity.




The King and Queen of England Visit 
Look at what this shit-for-brains did as the esteemed visitors from Great Britain went to meet members of the cabinet.

WTAF.


Apparently Iranians are miracle workers. They can make soldiers able to walk around with no legs!


The Reflecting Pool
What a shitshow.

The Weirdo-in-Chief, for some godforsaken reason, wants to paint the National Reflecting Pool like a swimming pool, or as he calls it, "American Flag Blue." 

Take out the reflecting in Reflecting Pool. He does not know how to reflect. He acts on toddler impulse. So, this awful project begun suddenly, at the last minute for the Independence Day celebration, and has already racked up more than $15 million in costs.

The reason? Gawd only knows. Why does this person do anything? 

The cost? Upwards of $15 million, a far cry from its initial $1.5 estimate. The project comes after another several-million-dollar makeover during the Obama administration that repaired actual functional and structural problems in the 100-year-old pool. 

The contractor? Likely to be stiffed. Babyhands has said that he handpicked a contractor, saying early on that he has a "guy who’s unbelievable at doing swimming pools. He looked at it. He called me up. He said, ‘Sir, we can do something on it.'" No doubt a big burly man with tears in his eyes. 

Now Trumplethinskin is saying, "I didn’t give out the contract, ‘Interior’ did, to a contractor I did not know, and have never used before."

The workmanship? So far, looks shitty. There are reports of concerns over the paint choice and its adherence. Not only workmanship, but workers' health and wellbeing may be in peril for the sake of rushing to finish before the July 4 celebration.

The lawsuit? Is happening. A group called Cultural Landscape Foundation is suing the National Park Service, saying: "The dark grey, achromatic basin was not incidental to the design. It was the design.... The dark color of the tile created the illusion of greater depth and a more profound reflection."

Reflection? Something this gnat brain knows nothing about. 

In the meantime, the area is cordoned off, and tourists and citizens cannot access the area, let alone sit and reflect. USA Today reports on the pool's current status

This is what the idiot posted:

Again, it feels stupid to point out that swimming in the Reflecting Pool is prohibited. And this is just gross. 


That time he accidentally told the truth.
When asked how much he considers Americans' financial straits in his decisions about Iran, he replied, "Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody."



Listen to the below, on the way back from China. I wonder. What other secrets did he give away?

More Morons Run Through It
He has surrounded himself with a clown car filled with bumbling idiots. I don't have the time or bandwidth to post all of the instances of jaw-dropping incompetence, but let me just give you a few. 

This idiot, Duh'g BurgDum, astoundingly serving as Secretary of the Interior.


What in the fresh teenage sperm count is this?

And relatedly..... here's about the doctor who is overseeing the response to the recent shipboard hantavirus outbreak.


Whiskey Pete quoting a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction. You can't make this shit up!!


A Swiller Runs Through It
Multiple swillers.

We know about Whiskey Pete, but now FBI Director J. Edgar Boozer's drinking problem has been bared for all to see and oooooh did he get spicy about it in front of Congress.



SNL to the rescue.


Not only is Krazy-Eyes drinking in excess to the extent that staff cannot rouse him to work on, oh I dunno, important FBI stuff, the Director of the Federal Booze Ingesters got Woodford Bourbon Company to put his name on bourbon bottles so that he can give them away to his boozy pals down at the ol' J. Edgar Hoover Shot n' Shield Memorial Pub.


Snorkeled where exactly?!
We have learned that while on a trip to Hawaii last year, Krazy Kash decided to snorkel in the waters around the deeply hallowed site of the USS Arizona, which was sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor and was left underwater as a memorial to those who perished. 

Shameful.

This joker needs to be 86ed. Now. 


A Schemer Runs Through it
"Assassination Attempt #3" at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

It was just a few weeks ago, but it's just a side note now. 

Was it staged? 
I do not want to be a conspiracy theorist. I work on facts. But this regime has lied and deceived so damn much in the last 10 years that it is hard not to succumb.

It is beyond belief of a rational person, for example, that someone would sacrifice lives for political points, but this orange rot has raped women and children and has not one iota of a moral compass. He is surrounded by terrified yes-men who have warped their own minds to justify doing his bidding without a second thought. 

It stands to reason that yes, lives would be sacrificed for political points.

If the assassination attempts weren't staged, then the complete incompetence at every level has paved the way for some otherwise-normal Joe Schmoes to die and/or become incarcerated for some very stupid actions.

This is also not out of the realm of possibilities.

I'm not the only one to think at least one of them was staged. I'm in the company of millions of others. 


CUBA
Traitor Tot is hellbent on decimating this Caribbean nation that doesn't have much room for it. 

I was fortunate enough to visit Cuba in the spring of 2017, and it opened my eyes to exactly what the people face day to day. Of course then, after decades of corrupt Communist control and heavy U.S. sanctions, they were eking out an existence. The Communist government is supposed to meet their needs, but the people's food rations are meager. Rice and beans a-plenty; fresh fruits and vegetables, less so; fish and meat, rare. 

What the farmers and their oxen can squeeze out of the land goes to the government. It is used to feed the elite and the tourists. 

The infrastructure is crumbling. You can see glimpses of Cuba's grandeur before Communism. Now, it's all crumbling right before your eyes. Garbage piles up; plumbing is tricky; the power grid is fragile; internet – when you can make it to a wi-fi location – is spotty at best. That was in 2017; it is worse now.

Many Cubans have been guided to believe that it is all America's fault. El bloquado has caused the nation's decline. That was largely, but not completely, true in decades past. Now, it is 100% true. 

Not only had Pendejo Naranja began choking the island nation in earnest, but the action in Venezuela, who supplied Cuba with oil, and the war in Iran has cut off Cuba's oil supply completely. People are hurting. After seeing the state of Cuba nearly a decade ago, I cannot imagine more suffering for the beautiful people of Cuba.

China has recently stepped up to help, and a huge solar infrastructure is being built. It cannot come fast enough.

Some Cuban citizens are also striving to save the day. That ol' demon capitalism may be the thing that gets some folks through. This excellent article from the LA Times (if there's a paywall, use this link) goes into depth about some small independent businesses that the Communist government has allowed. 

Now, the Pricktator is threatening to indict Cuba's leader, Raul Castro. There is no doubt, the Castro family has done great damage to the nation. Communism does not work. The powerful steal, like they do everywhere. But his ham-fisted beat-down of Cuba does not help the people come out from under that. Obama made good inroads to connecting with Cuba; 45 destroyed it, and Biden didn't seem interested. Now, it is extremely dire there, and so sad. 

I hope to write a more expansive piece about Cuba someday soon.

A Rapist Runs Through It
Have we forgotten about the Epstein Files? 
No. 

We. Won't. Forget.






Hope Runs Through It
Things seems extra dire again, friends. But we must not give up hope. As the eloquent Jess Craven quotes Czech dissent and president Vaclav Havel, 
"I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us or we don’t; it’s a dimension of the soul; it’s not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed."


More hope: there are many resisters working to change things!

Hawaii passed a law fighting to dismantle Citizens United! This is so heartening! 

Montana is poised to start implementing a similar law, and if more states can get involved, perhaps there will be a blueprint for Congress to shut the shit down for once and for all.

I've been convinced for a long time that this one law has been the core issue of our nation's woes. We must obliterate Citizen's United!


Let's cheer Marshawn of Louisiana who expressed his outrage over the new redrawing of Louisiana's congressional districts.


Burn.
@nowthisimpact

Louisiana resident Marshawn, who went viral for his passionate speech about voting maps, had the perfect response to this GOP senator.

♬ original sound - NowThis Impact
Alabama Protests
Alabamans turned out last week to rally for voting rights in Selma and Montgomery.



Alligator Alcatraz was shut down!


InfoWars/The Onion
The Onion is very close to closing the deal to take over InfoWars. For now, InfoWars is off air.


Young scientists persevere and will change the world.

Resisters like this.

Young resisters strike again.

Beauty Runs Through It
Your Moments of Beauty

Grasp these tight. We are muchly in need of beauty.

Butterfly eggs. How beautiful is this?



This is so cool!


💗💗💗

What a beautiful moment.

Whoa.


It's been a month – a month! – since I've been here. It's hard to go a single day without reporting on all the crap that we face, so I'm sure I've missed stuff big and small. 

Watch for an accompanying meme post to help us laugh through our tears. 


'Til next time, #RESIST!






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