Author: rosenjoe1@hotmail.com

Last month, the New York Times conducted a survey that found that nearly half of the respondents who approved of President Donald Trump “had not heard much” about anything Trump has done over his first 100 days back in office. The government-sanctioned kidnapping and false imprisonment of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil? Nope. Trump allowing Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to gut vital departments such as the U.S. Treasury, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Social Security Administration? No idea. Tariff-fueled stock market losses? That was news to these people.  . . .

But with people like Jake Tapper around, news isn’t working the way it’s supposed to. Tapper, the face of an entire news organization, would like you to believe that Biden’s downfall is still news in June 2025. In fact, he’s carrying on as if it were the only news story that matters, even as masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are kidnapping people in plain sight. Even as Trump and his ghouls attempt to pass a bill that will annihilate Medicaid. Even as Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services secretary cancels vaccine research contracts that could save tens of millions of lives. While all of that wanton destruction is going on, CNN’s top anchor is busy telling the world that the “cover-up” surrounding Biden’s health is “worse than Watergate.”

That’s a laughable assertion given not just Trump’s current offenses but all of the offenses he committed the LAST time he was in office. These were scandals so grievous that they have their own names: Charlottesville, the first impeachment, the second impeachment, the insurrection. How many worse-than-Watergates did you and I witness Trump commit those first four years? How many are taking place right now, as I write this? Trump currently has the cognitive abilities of a tadpole and is letting his party burn the fucking house down. So I’m just a touch more concerned about all of that than about example No. 7,856 of Democrats being eternally clueless. . . .

When you remember all of that, it makes perfect sense that this monstrously self-absorbed dipshit wants you to believe that Joe Biden, currently dying of aggressive prostate cancer, is the biggest threat America is facing right now. In 2025. Jake Tapper clearly gives much more of a shit about his book sales than he does the fate of our national education system. And he wears his cravenness in the guise of a Serious Newsman, which makes it all the more insulting.

I’m told that right now Fox News is pretty much The Joe Biden Coverup all the time. This is the alternative reality, with its alternative facts, that so many of those precious swing voters live in, either directly or at least impressionistically and atmospherically.

BTW one thing that isn’t appreciated nearly enough is that the Democrats handled an absolutely horrible situation last July basically flawlessly under the terrible circumstances. It wasn’t enough because we are a nation of incurious morons, in no small part because Jake Tapper et al find it profitable for themselves personally that it should be so.

Remember — “J.D. Vance” is not his real name.

Because Daddy Trump and Daddy Musk are fighting, and he’s going to have to pick a side, and there are no good options—which perhaps is why the extremely online veep has gone very, very, very quiet.

Vance isn’t just the vice president, after all. He’s the vice president to a crazy, unhinged, vengeful sum’bitch who sent a murderous mob after his first vice president and relished their bloodlust.

Surely, at some point in Vance’s decision-making about whether to tether himself to Trump’s fortunes, he must have imagined, for at least half a second—even if he didn’t want to admit it—that perhaps one day an angry crowd could find its way to chanting “Hang JD!” just as easily as it once chanted “Hang Mike Pence!”

So, certainly it is best to side with Daddy Trump.

But on the other hand, Trump won’t be around forever. No matter how much he threatens it. And if Vance still dreams of calling himself president one day, he’s going to need some financial assistance. Perhaps the kind of tech bro billionaire money he’s been so actively courting all these years. And who has more of that money than Elon Musk?

Literally no one.

Meanwhile, Musk has made it perfectly clear in his too-online way what he thinks should happen.

No, the Republican-controlled House isn’t about to impeach Trump, and definitely no, the Republican-controlled Senate isn’t about to convict Trump, and absolutely no, Vance is not going to be replacing Trump now.

If Vance picks the right side now, maybe one day he’ll get his chance, with Musk’s katrillions of dollars helping him to get there. But which side is the right side?

If he wraps himself around Daddy Musk and incurs the wrath of Daddy Trump, will he get the chance to cash in three years from now?

Pity poor Vance, the guy who used to think Trump was Hitler until Trump offered him the super sweet job of being Pence’s replacement.

As the ugliest of ugly divorces rages on between his two masters, no wonder he’s keeping his mouth shut.

Okay, let’s admit, to be scrupulously fair he’s a former grocery clerk and gardener, not that there’s anything wrong with that:

When Thomas Fugate graduated from college last year with a degree in politics, he celebrated in a social media post about the exciting opportunities that lay beyond campus life in Texas. “Onward and upward!” he wrote, with an emoji of a rocket shooting into space.

His career blastoff came quickly. A year after graduation, the 22-year-old with no national security expertise is now a Department of Homeland Security official overseeing the government’s main hub for terrorism prevention, including an $18 million grant program intended to help communities combat violent extremism.

The White House appointed Fugate, a former Trump campaign worker who interned at the hard-right Heritage Foundation, to a Homeland Security role that was expanded to include the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships. Known as CP3, the office has led nationwide efforts to prevent hate-fueled attacks, school shootings and other forms of targeted violence.

Fugate’s appointment is the latest shock for an office that has been decimated since President Donald Trump returned to the White House and began remaking national security to give it a laser focus on immigration.

News of the appointment has trickled out in recent weeks, raising alarm among counterterrorism researchers and nonprofit groups funded by CP3. Several said they turned to LinkedIn for intel on Fugate — an unknown in their field — and were stunned to see a photo of “a college kid” with a flag pin on his lapel posing with a sharply arched eyebrow. No threat prevention experience is listed in his employment history.

Typically, people familiar with CP3 say, a candidate that green wouldn’t have gotten an interview for a junior position, much less be hired to run operations. According to LinkedIn, the bulk of Fugate’s leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club.

“Maybe he’s a wunderkind. Maybe he’s Doogie Howser and has everything at 21 years old, or whatever he is, to lead the office. But that’s not likely the case,” said one counterterrorism researcher who has worked with CP3 officials for years. “It sounds like putting the intern in charge.”

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“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“You don’t have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards”

—Donald Trump to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Oval Office, Feb. 2025

“I’m not playing cards. I’m very serious. I’m the president in a war.”

—Zelenskyy’s reply

In that frigid Oval Office exchange earlier this year, President Trump told Ukraine’s wartime president that he had no leverage. No cards. No power — unless the United States would continue to hand it to them.

What Idiot Child Trump didn’t realize was that Zelenskyy had already anticipated this move after the Biden administration left and was replaced by one hostile to Ukraine’s survival as a nation. While Trump saw a desperate leader begging for help, Zelenskyy was preparing to pivot to a redefinition of modern warfare if his largest ally would be abandoning them.

That pivot in silence is what became Operation Spiderweb.

And it wasn’t just a military operation. It was a message — to Russia, to the world, and perhaps most pointedly, to Trump: I don’t need your cards. I’ve built my own deck

Even as government agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ramp up their arrests and confrontations, the lug nuts on the wheels of the White House bus continue to loosen.

On Wednesday, officers from the Federal Protective Service, which is part of DHS, handcuffed an aide in the Manhattan office of Representative Jerry Nadler (D-NY). Someone sitting in the office captured the confrontation on video.

Federal agents are trying to meet the quotas the administration has set for arrests by detaining individuals outside immigration courtrooms after they show up for their scheduled hearings. According to Christopher Maag of the New York Times, peaceful protestors gathered on Wednesday outside the Manhattan federal building that holds an immigration court and immigration advocates gathered outside the courtroom. As officers detained immigrants outside the courtroom, advocates reminded the immigrants they had a right to remain silent. Officers threatened to arrest the advocates for loitering, and a member of Nadler’s staff invited some of the advocates to Nadler’s office a floor above the court to defuse the situation.

Read the full article here.

It’s one of the greatest preventable mass deaths in modern history: around two people every minute of every day, day and night, week after week, soon to be year after year.

In the time it takes you to read this article, several dozen children will have died because of actions taken — with full knowledge of this consequence — by South African immigrant Elon Musk, Big Balls and his teenage buddies, Donald Trump, and Marco Rubio.

Children who wanted to live as desperately as do yours and mine, whose parents grieve them every bit as much as we would grieve the death of our own kids, are dying as you read these words.

Even worse, Musk and Rubio keep lying about the blood on their hands. Nobody knows if Rubio is drinking himself to sleep to deal with the guilt, but according to The New York Times Musk is taking mind-numbing drugs at a level that would make Charles Manson blush.

Read the full article here.