Trump tells Iowans he hates Democrats, everybody yawns

And we've got more boots on the ground...on American soil

So after the obligatory performative chin-pulling and hand-wringing, all the little bitches (minus 2) in the House - dispensing with pretending they had a principle or a conscience or that they gave two shits about anything other than kissing their dear leader’s ample ass - predictably fell in line and voted for the bill that will screw their constituents by taking away their healthcare, increasing their energy bills, starving their cousin’s kids, closing their hospitals, and putting Grandpa’s nursing home out of business. The bill also, as The Bulwark points out, enables ICE (and all its insidious masked agents) to become the proprietors of the largest prison system in the world, where some of their neighbors will soon be confined. What kind of monster votes for this shit? No answer needed since we know: the cowardly quislings who now comprise the whole of the Republican party.

I hope craven asshole Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, whose alleged “plan” for her voting for the bill she says she is totally against was that the House would fix all the horrible stuff in it, is having the worst day of her miserable life. As Charlie Sykes put it in his newsletter: “And so ends Murkowski’s brief stint cosplaying as a Woman of Principle. And I would argue that makes her even worse than other collaborators and toadies. She pretended to be better; and might have been. But it was all bullshit. She could have been a John McCain. Instead, she chose to be a low-rent Lindsey Graham.” Ouch. But eminently fair. And have we noted lately: F her.

The cretins are all such easy marks. The pathetic-ness (okay, not a word) of the ostensible holdouts (as if) in the House was on florid display in the New York Times, who quoted dipshit Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett as he was leaving the White House after the (needless) arm-twisting meeting: “The president was wonderful, as always. Informative, funny, he told me he likes seeing me on TV, which was kind of cool.” (Excuse me for a minute while I clean up the vomit on my keyboard.)

Burchett drooled to the Times that his name was misspelled on his sign put in front of him at his place in the meeting room but that Trump (what a guy!!!!) corrected it with his I guess ever-present Sharpie (OMG I am swooning, aren’t you?) and gave it to him as a souvenir. Burchett told the Times that Trump also sent along souvenirs for Texas Congressman Chip Roy’s kids, because if a free T-shirt isn’t worth fucking over millions of people out of health care what is? JFC. Our country is going down the shitter thanks to this felon gifting some cheap shit made in China to a couple of moronic Congressmen who couldn’t get hired to run a freaking Dairy Queen. God help us.

Trump takes questions at Andrews Air Force Base as he’s getting ready to board Air Force One to schlepp to his celebratory performance at the Iowa State Fair. He’s sporting a white USA baseball cap, which is, I guess, what he wears now when he dresses up. What a dork. He is in all his grotesque glory and opines that the biggest difference between his first and second terms is “I think I have more power now.” Tragically, he is right.

More tragically, Trump comments on his call with his boss Vlad Putin earlier today, the sixth long phone call they have had since Trump resumed office. Why on God’s green earth is the mainstream media not talking about how wildly abnormal this is???

From the New York Times: “We also talked about the war with Ukraine, and I'm not happy about that ... I didn't make any progress with him today at all." Oh dear God this is such abject bullshit. Trump, who is so far up Putin’s ass he could be an intestinal tumor, just yesterday pretty much cut off military aid to Ukraine. Also worth noting, as CNN points out, that it’s been more than a month since Trump gave Putin a 2-week (drink!) deadline to determine if he was serious about wanting to make peace. Infinitely more importantly, Putin, who knows he can operate with complete impunity, has been viciously bombing civilian targets in Kyiv all day. What a horror show.

As Trump is winging his way to Iowa, his cultists are in place there gearing up for the hate rally.

Some crazy sweaty dude named Jeffery Hoffman, one of the warm-up acts, wails about the transgenders and especially those one or two who are, gasp!!!!, possibly winning a third-place medal in some obscure women's swim or track meet somewhere because that shit is clearly the biggest scandal in the Republic. Dude looks like he’s about to stroke out as he screams that “we’re protecting every woman’s right to compete fairly.” Well, except when it comes to reproductive rights or employment or voting but sure.

Loathsome Iowa Senator Jodi Ernst bloviates that Trump is “working for you” and “stopping waste, fraud and abuse,” adding “right folks? Make them squeal!” OMFG

And for those who were missing the most vile, hideous, rancid, and ridiculous drivel that came out of Trump’s piehole in the most insidious hate rallies during the campaign, well, they’d come to the right place. Wheeee!!

The two most heinous lowlights from Trump:

The head of the administration which is chock full of antisemites and who hosts antisemites for dinner yet cynically uses antisemitism as an excuse to go after colleges uses a gross antisemitic trope, describing some bankers as “shylocks.” Can you imagine if Obama…oh never mind.

And there’s this from the President of the United States who (ostensibly) represents all of us (although this POS doesn’t even pretend), talking about half of the country, speaking of Democrats: “I hate them too. I really do. I hate them. I cannot stand them, because I really do believe they hate our country.” For the love of God!!! I’m old enough to remember when the country went into a months-long apoplectic meltdown because Hillary Clinton referred to a subset of racist Trump voters as deplorables but I guess it’s all now just Trump being Trump, scamp that he is.

Meanwhile, more troops are shipping out….on American soil. Just as we were chatting about yesterday, the building of the police state is in full swing. ABC News reports today that “the Trump administration is sending 200 Marines to Florida to aid federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, according to a statement by U.S. Northern Command.” ICE, apparently, “will determine what the Marines will do and where they work, according to NORTHCOM.” Well that’s comforting.

Extra Credit:

The New York Times reports that the free speech warriors in the Trump Administration today placed 144 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency on administrative leave and “opened an investigation” into them (how charmingly Soviet) because the employees signed a letter accusing the administration (duh) of politicizing the agency.

From the article: “In the letter that prompted today’s action, which was sent on Monday to Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, the employees voiced concern that the agency had made decisions based on a political agenda, not on science and the law. Recent E.P.A. news releases and newsletters have echoed some of President Trump’s comments on the environment, the letter said, citing agency statements describing coal as ‘beautiful’ and ‘clean.’ Coal is the dirtiest of the fossil fuels and is a significant source of greenhouse gases.” Okay, then. Truth is apparently no longer allowed. If you’re not peeing yourselves you’re not paying attention.

Finally, move over $250 bill, Dulles Airport, and all other manner of things that the wingnuts want to put Trump’s name on and get ready for a transformed Mt. Rushmore. Trump, of course, has made no secret of the fact that he wants his ridiculous mug carved on that thing and, earlier this year, the repulsive Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna proposed legislation to do just that. Today, The Hill reports, Tennessee nincompoop Congressman Andy Ogles chimed in, sending a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum urging him to get cracking on the project. As to the sudden urgency of getting Trump up there, Ogles cited “the scale and scope of recent achievements,” specifically citing the disgusting and inhumane bill passed today which decimates the social safety net. USA! USA!

Thanks so much for reading and stay safe and healthy everyone!!!! Remember we are not the crazy ones!!!