Trump has turned the Oval Office into the front room of a New Orleans whorehouse circa 1885

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Two gold eagle tables.

Check out the gold filigree he added to the fireplace — available at Home Depot, attached to the fireplace with 3M double-sided tape.

Then all the gold, gold, gold shit everywhere.

The White House has access to some of the finest art, sculptures, fabrics, furniture, designers, and craftspeople in the world and it looks like they have gone to a yard sale sale for the decorations.  Those gold plated metal scroll things (filigrees) are really bad — $20.00 for all of them at a garage sale.


Here is a photo from the interior of a New Orleans whorehouse in the late 1800’s.  Notice the similarity with Trump’s Oval Office?  Seems fitting.

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Vote for Trump, this is the result.

Martin County, nestled in northeast North Carolina, had 24,500 residents in 2010. By 2020, that number had dropped to 22,000. Like much of rural America, its population is steadily declining.

Politically, it’s followed a familiar trajectory. President Barack Obama carried the county twice by 5 points. In 2016, President Donald Trump edged out Hillary Clinton, 49.2% to 48.8%. And by 2020, Trump’s margin grew to 52% to President Joe Biden’s 47%. Last year, he won it by 55% to Vice President Kamala Harris’ 45%.

Now the county faces a very different kind of loss: its only hospital shut down in August 2023 due to financial strain, making the nearest emergency room 22 miles away—a 30-minute drive that, for some, is fatal. It’s even farther for more advanced medical services.

There were plans to reopen the hospital, but then Trump’s proposed cuts to Medicaid—framed as a crackdown on “fraud and waste”—shattered that possibility.

According to The New York Times, the impacts are felt acutely by Martin County residents, more than a quarter of whom are older than 65. The nearest hospital is in Greenville 40 minutes away.

Verna Marie Perry, 66, a former worker in the county’s adult and aging services department, told the Times that she now fields calls from friends in medical crises.

“Neighbors have called me crying moments after someone close to them died while being transported to the nearest hospital,” she said.

It’s a tragic reality made worse by the fact that some residents still can’t—or won’t—see the connection between their vote and the disaster now unfolding.

Cathy Price, 72, a lifelong Williamston resident and former nurse at the shuttered Martin General, told the Times that while she still backs Trump’s efforts to trim Medicaid, “we’re in a life-and-death crisis. People’s lives are on the line because of the hospital not being here.”

There it is: She voted to hurt other people, not herself. And even now, she clings to the fantasy that all of that “fraud and waste” must be happening somewhere else.

But the harsh reality is that there’s nothing remotely efficient about a hospital serving just 22,000 people. Rural hospitals aren’t profitable. They can only exist because of subsidies from urban areas—in effect, from liberals.

And for years, that was the deal: Blue America paid the bills so red America could have hospitals, schools, broadband, and clean water. In return, rural voters have voted to burn the country down.

Okay, then.

I feel for the 45% of Martin County voters who backed Harris. They tried to do what was best for their country and their county. As for Price and her fellow Trump voters?

Trump was asked about his “90 tariffs in 90 days” — his answer: Gibberish

Donald Trump was asked by a reporter on Monday to explain what had happened to his administration’s promise to seal “90 deals in 90 days” with trading partners.

Instead of outlining the dozens of deals with foreign countries that he previously boasted would be completed by Wednesday — the 90-day mark since his so-called Liberation Day in April — the president just waffled, talked about a couple of frameworks and possible deals in place and then appeared to suggest his plan now mainly involved sending letters to foreign governments and telling them the tariffs that their products will now be subject to when they are imported into America.

 

One reason why Trump will never release the Epstein files

COMMENTS:

“Katie Johnson” is a pseudonym.

Yes, she dropped the suit.  Trump told her that if she ever told anyone, she and her entire family would be killed.

Her original lawsuit was filed as a Civil Rights case in CA in April 2016, under the name “Katie Johnson”

She filed the June, 2016 lawsuit in New York City under the name “Jane Doe” and she had an eyewitness named “Tiffany Doe” to verify her story.
After her attorney, Lisa Bloom, arranged for a press conference, it was suddenly cancelled.

She filed that first lawsuit against both Trump and Epstein without an attorney, and it was “dismissed for technical errors.”

Johnson claimed she begged Trump to no avail to wear a condom, the complaint states.  “Trump grabbed his wallet and threw some money at” the plaintiff and suggested she get an abortion.

Let’s be clear, the Attorney General of the Unites States has this file, the logs, everything. She knows he is a child rapist, criminal and a pervert. Yet she does nothing.

Senator Rafael Cruz (R, TX) vacationing while Texas drowns

Sen. Rafael Cruz, Republican of Texas, must have had flight miles expiring soon, otherwise it’s hard to explain the extreme inopportune timing of his luxe family vacation.

Cruz was spotted on a relaxing tour of the Greek Parthenon Saturday as his constituents continued to suffer from deadly flooding, which has claimed at least 95 lives as of Monday—including 27 young girls from a nearby summer camp.

Meanwhile, while on vacation in Athens, Cruz was allegedly approached by a woman who said, “20 kids dead in Texas and you take a vacation?”

“He sort of grunted and walked on. His wife shot me a dirty look. Then they continued on with their tour guide,” she told The Daily Beast.

As for his timeline in Europe, Cruz reportedly jetted across the pond the day after a state of emergency was declared in Texas on July 3, and he returned on July 6.

Of course, as soon as he hit the ground, Cruz was quick to hop on Fox News to pretend that nothing happened.

“In the face of disaster, Texans come together. This is every parent’s nightmare, but we will come through this,” he wrote on X alongside a clip of him on Fox.


COMMENT:  Rafael Edward Cruz (born December 22, 1970, in Canada) is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz was the solicitor general of Texas from 2003 to 2008. Since 2025, Cruz has chaired the Senate Commerce Committee.

RFK Jr is murdering people

There have been 1,267 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. this year, almost 4.5 times the total for all of last year and on track to pass the highest annual count since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Why it matters: While the disease isn’t consistently spreading due to immunization campaigns, there have been outbreaks well beyond West Texas, where low immunization rates and high school exemptions stoked spread of the highly contagious virus early this year.

Driving the news: There have been 27 outbreaks reported in the U.S. so far this year, accounting for 88% percent of the cases. In comparison, there were 16 outbreaks across the entire year in 2024 and 69% of cases were associated with those outbreaks.

  • There have been three confirmed deaths.
  • Measles cases have been confirmed in 38 states.
  • Of the 1,267 cases, 360 (28%) were in kids younger than 5 and 464 (37%) were in kids between the ages of 5 and 19 years old.
  • In 92% of the confirmed measles cases, the individuals were unvaccinated or their vaccination status was unknown.