Writing this blog could be a full-time job, but LSR loves her dilly-dally time too. We must persist in our battle!
When last we met, we discussed the SICK administration. Stupidity, Incompetence, Corruption, and Kingship. There's more SICK to slog through.
S is for Stupid ...and also for Sleepy
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Trump is having a hard time keeping his eyes open in Saudi Arabia pic.twitter.com/t465VZicR6
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 13, 2025
But mostly S is for Stupid.
I missed this one last post.
Wait. So is Mattel a country or an individual?
He is still going on about the "old fashioned word" groceries. This time, he is explaining groceries to the president of the United Arab Emirates.
Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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After the grocery bit, he blathers on with whatever words and numbers come flitting through his cavernous skull.
What an embarrASSment.
He also had a breakfast meeting in Qatar. It was the best, most tremendous nonsense ever.
Part of his comments included this string of words:
"When you look at what's happening with Russia and Ukraine the drone is killing tremendous numbers of people. You hide behind a tree and the drone comes down and it circles you with fire. You don't have a chance and the tree comes down also by the way.
It's so intense the— I mean you see these trees being knocked down like... Like they're being sawed down by a top of the line, uhh, timberman like... Like... You know who? Sean... Duffy.Do you know that Sean Duffy, the head of the Transportation Department, who's working right now on the airports and getting a system because Biden didn't do a thing for four years and Pete Buttigieg was the head and he goes bicycling to work.He takes a bicycle to work, can you believe it? He's head— He's running the biggest air system in the world and he takes a bicycle to work. What a— And they say he's going to run for president, I don't see it. Who knows right? But I don't see it.But, uh, when I look at what they've done uh, it's so horrible what they've done and the work they did do they wasted billions of dollars. They tried to hook up air systems to... To copper. They tried to hook up copper to glass and the glass doesn't work with the copper and...Uh they had 30,000 different contractors doing 30,000 jobs and when they put it all together they spent billions of dollars. It didn't even come close to working and we're going to be giving out a brand new system.It's very important. We'll have the best system. And we think we know who that system is but we have a lot of bidding.But we want one check. We want a unified system. We don't have, uh, 5,000 contractors and all different places, some digging ditches and some not doing ditches because they want to go by satellite. Satellite seems to be the way to go. We're going to be giving that out pretty soon.But what people don't know about Sean cause I mentioned lumberjacks that Sean — you probably didn't know this that uh — I'm not talking about this Sean, this Sean no, not, this is not... This is a different Sean.Sean Duffy, the head of Transportation. He's a great Sean though, I have to tell you but Sean Duffy was the world champion for five years climbing trees and down, up and down, world champion! So that's what you call a serious a lumberjack.And he's doing a fantastic job too, a really respected guy and terrific guy and I mentioned the champion because when somebody's the champion — he's the world champion for a long time — he came down, when you come down those trees, coming down at a rapid... He said that started getting your back. You will often break your back! You... You miss... You miss a shot and you're coming down a lot faster than the human body was meant to come down. But he's doing a fantastic job at Transportation. But this has been a very, uh, historic trip."
Okayyyyyyy........
Let's get you to bed, Grampy.
Here's the full video. The hard breathing makes me think he's about to have a cardiac event, but that was the least of it. The word salad above is served starting at 10:02.
His dementia is getting worse. This is not normal!
In Other Stupid.....
Health and Human Service Secretary RFK Jr (words that should have never been allowed to be next to each other) took his grandkids swimming in a creek notorious for sewage pollution. He can do what he wants – go ahead, gulp a gallon, you weirdo – but leave the babies out of it!
He's no stranger to putting little ones in danger. His daughter (the "Kick" in the above not-tweet) reported that when she was a child, he sawed off the head of a beached whale, lashed it to the roof of the car, and when the whale goo started dripping onto his kids, he put plastic bags over their heads.
Gee, I wonder how he ever got a worm inside his brain?
So incredibly stupid.
I is for Incompetent ...and also for "I don't know."
At least we're in a different stage of Dunning-Kruger?
The Daily Show:
HuffPost:
Jen Psaki at MSNBC:
Air Traffic Controllers in the Literal Dark
Newark went dark again.
For a second time, air traffic controllers experienced another 90-second terror session with no visual or audio connection to airplanes flying in and out of the airport. DO NOT FLY INTO NEWARK AIRPORT!
Denver air traffic controllers had at least 90 seconds without communication to air traffic on Thursday.
What the hell is going on?
Eat the Tariffs!
Walmart stated that their prices would increase due to tariffs.
The Moron-in-Chief responded:
Wait....! I thought China was going to pay for them?
He certainly can't have the Walmart shoppers of America turn against him.
C is for Corruption
Remember when I said we could not get more corrupt when I described Don the Con forcing countries into deals with Musk's Starlink? This week, we've leveled up on the Corruption Assessment Scale.
Qatar wants to make a "gift" of a $400 million plane to King Wannabe. The 🚼 doesn't wike his widdle pwane dat he already has. It uglyyyy!!!
When people went ballistic over this obvious bribe, Baby Hands got all whiney:
He also said, "I could be a stupid person and say, ‘Oh no, we don’t want a free plane.’ We give free things out, we’ll take one too. And, it helps us out because … we have 40-year-old aircraft. So, I think it’s a great gesture from Qatar, I appreciate it very much. I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer. I could be a stupid person and say, ‘No we don’t want a free, very expensive airplane,’ but I thought it was a great gesture."
First of all, sir, (she says with tears in her eyes), you are a stupid person already. Secondly, ...well, uhhh, there is no 'secondly.' That's all.
What's so wrong with taking a "free thing?"
- Corruption!
Obviously! It's so blatant that only a moron would say that it's not a bribe.
Oh yeah. MAGA World is full of morons.
- Security!
My thought, just after, "Just what does Qatar expect in return?" was: "Just how will Qatar bug this aircraft?"
If this plane is accepted, in order for it to be up to security standards, it would have to be torn down to its studs and rebuilt entirely, at a cost of up to $1billion, and it would take years.
- Boeing has a contract!
Boeing already has a couple new 747 aircraft in the works, as contracted by the American people, to work as Air Force One for the president's use. They have been building safe and secure Air Force One aircraft for as long as there have been Air Force One aircraft.
The planes are a little behind schedule, but they will be the right machine for the job.
- It's a junker that they can't unload!
The Qatari government has been trying to get rid of this particular airplane for years. It's yuge, uses too much fuel, and no one wants it.
We're not the only one who is pissed about this type of corruption. This two-faced weasel is pissed, too.
Crypto Deals
More about the corrupt crypto capers.
The corruption is so out of control
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) May 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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By the way, what ever happened to the TikTok ban? It just magically went away without another thought?
The Atlantic:
The Real Trump Family Business Is Crypto: The president's side hustle is proving to be very, very lucrative. By Will Gottsegen
K is for Kingly
The ICE atrocities
This awful ICE behavior has got to stop. This happened down the road from me. ICE arrested a man in Oxnard at a gas station. His kids, one who was an adult but not able to drive, were left behind in the car.
It's been a tactic of ICE to arrest people leaving their cars. That wasn't the only time it happened in my community. Is it happening in yours?
Ras Baraka, Mayor of Newark New Jersey, was arrested by ICE outside an immigration detention facility. He was there with some Congressional Democrats to inspect the facility and the ICE agents did not like that very much.
WTAF is happening in our country?
ICE Barbie Don't Care
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem responded cooly with questions about separating children – children who are citizens – from their parents in deportation efforts.
She faced Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA) in a House Homeland Security Committee hearing. She didn't blink her cold dead eyes when questioned about the administration's knowledge of the photoshopped "MS-13" tattoos on Adrian Abrego Garcia:
Kristi Noem disgusts me.
James Comey Under Fire
Former FBI Director and unapologetic SCROTUS critic posted (and then deleted) this:
Now the MAGAts are calling for an investigation for his use of death threats.
LSR ponders this for a while sipping from her 2018 hand-thrown mug by an amazing sister resister potter.
Side note: Someone found this gem posted in 2022 by MAGAt Jack Posobiec. Hmmmmm....
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| Fresh from the Land of Hypocrisy |
McSANDwich
Saudi Arabia knows just the way to Dear Leader's heart. Let's hope the direct cholesterol infusion therein does its work.
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| From FAUX News |
Ethnic Cleansing
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| Lalo Alcarez |
While the administration is trying hard to deport millions of brown people, they not only allowed but facilitated the arrival of a bunch of Afrikaners to the country, calling them "refugees."
Why bring in immigrants when they are trying so hard to deport? Cuz they're white! Duh!
On the Legal Front
Legal Battles! There be legal battles!
And in general, democracy is winning. Read about the hundreds of court cases in Bloomberg.
Huh?? SCOTUS Does Right?
SCOTUS ruled that the Aliens Enemy Act may not be invoked to disappear immigrants in a 7-2 ruling. Of course, you may guess that the dissenters were the enablers themselves, Justice Samuel "Flagstaff" Alito and Justice Clarence "Venal" Thomas.
"Kids these days!"
John Roberts laments the lack of respect for the Judicial Branch and cries that the "rule of law" is endangered.
Gee, I wonder how that happened, Chief Justice Make-a-King!
Hands Off New Mexico!
El Pork-Choppo tried to charge immigrants with trespassing charges in New Mexico. He declared that 180 miles of land at the border with Mexico was suddenly and magically an Army base.
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About 400 migrants who were found in that area were arrested and charged with trespassing. Really?
A judge summarily dismissed charges, saying that the migrants had no way of knowing the designation of the land.
The administration is trying to grab up New Mexico lands for their nefarious purposes. The military designation was supposed to be 60 feet, and it now extends three miles. Nobody knows where or how much land has been usurped. Is it off limits to hikers? Hunters? Other recreational users?
Get out of New Mexico, you weasel!
The Resistance
The AltNPS is still leading the charge. And guess what? They now have their T-shirts in stock! Support them and get a cool shirt (or sticker! or magnet!) Go here.
Library of Congress Librarians
After Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden was permanently archived, King Ketchup appointed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to serve as the acting agency director.
When two other DOJ officials arrived to the building as part of the takeover, the remaining librarians said "Shhhhhhh!" and barred entry. They rightly want Congressional guidance.
Before this, a Librarian of Congress had not been fired in more than 100 years.
In another entry to the Stupid Files:
Karoline Leavitt clearly does not understand that the Library of Congress is a repository of every book published in the United States and does not check them out to children or anyone else.
Chinese Factory Workers?
Remember the Chinese-made watches the Grifter-in-Chief decided to sell last year? Well some mischievous person performed a small act of resistance:
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was excoriated in last week's Congressional hearing.
Enjoy these videos.
I repeat the video of Rep. Eric Swalwell's (CA) questioning here:
Secretary Noem appears to not want to say if the picture of Abrego Garcia’s hand is doctored Swalwell: I have a 7 year old, a 6 year old, and 3 year old. I have a bullshit detector. I’m just asking you a question
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) May 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Rep. Delia Ramirez from Indiana used her five minutes to tear Noem a new one.
Rep. Bennie Thompson did not shrink during his turn.
Finally, take a look at Rep. Julie Johnson's (TX) questions.
The Lincoln Project
They've been at it for years, and they continue their brilliant mocking.
A Few Memes 'n Toons
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| Ann Telnaes |
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| Bill Bramhall |
A conspiracy theory to consider
I've not wholeheartedly subscribed to this one, but it does make some sense.
Enter the rabbit hole at your own risk. It's all about the "assassination attempt" at the Pennsylvania rally last July.
Lastly, LSR is unapologetic about how much she misses Mr. Obama.
