Last Week At The Sh*t Show–16Aug26

Good morning my fellow bloggers!

Another week of total crap falling from the mouth of Donny and the Toads that work for him.

There was the assassination attempt and Donny hides in a caterer’s truck….the plot was discovered by Israel….(if you believe that then I have a bridge for sale)….

He argued recent national security threats suggest the project must proceed without delay, as the ballroom is also set to include a below-ground military complex and a drone port.

“President Trump has been the target of a growing number of recent assassination attempts,” the solicitor general wrote in his appeal, citing the July 8 “threat of a missile attack against Air Force One” and other previously reported incidents.

This admission follows a report from The Washington Post this week, which revealed that the president was covertly transferred from the old Air Force One plane to an alternate aircraft via a catering truck due to a threat from Iran in July.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6031052-doj-refers-to-air-force-one-threat-as-assassination-attempt-in-ballroom-appeal/

Seriously?  The Israel thing was a fake and now it is because of his gaudy ballroom?  How stupid do they think we are?

But wait there is more….Donny has flexed his sagging muscles and now he extends his hubris to the Strait of Hormuz…..

In yet another remark that triggered alarm around the world, President Donald Trump said Friday that he planned to declare the Strait of Hormuz—which Iran has blockaded for much of the past five months over his and Israel’s illegal war—a US territory.

Just two days after the latest inflation figures demonstrated, in the words of one expert, “Trump’s catastrophic mismanagement of our economy,” the president ignored the economic fallout from his war, which led Iran to restrict ship traffic through the strait, driving up fuel prices worldwide.

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(this is my favorite part)

Trump admitted that gasoline has soared due to his war, but said: “For you to pay a tiny little bit more for your gasoline, just remember, you’re doing it so that a very evil country cannot have a—a country, really it’s the No. 1 state sponsor of terror in the world—we don’t want to have them have a nuclear weapon. So, remember that when you have to pay a little bit more, you’re at $4, it’s OK. I’ll never apologize. I did the right thing.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/donald-trump-strait-of-hormuz

Donny’s lunacy knows no bounds….because he is an arrogant (or should that be ignorant) SOB.

Remember all those dead people that voted?  Now Donny gets help from dead people…..

An investigation has uncovered how one of President Donald Trump’s top priorities was made to look more popular by getting an artificial boost from people who had died.

More than 12,000 comments submitted to the Department of Labor in support of a plan that would fulfill Trump’s executive order expanding Americans’ retirement investments into private equity and crypto appear to have been manufactured to create the illusion of grassroots support, according to a Bloomberg report.

The submissions were devoid of personal details, such as signatures, and showed little variation in language, according to Bloomberg. Nor did they include a city, state, or email address, information included in nearly all 30,000 comments opposing the plan.

Most damning of all, some of the supposed supporters of the Trump-backed measure were no longer alive.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-busted-getting-boost-dead-002153610.html

ICE will get a new way to abuse protesters….

The next tool in ICE’s enforcement kit may be a pair of gloves that double as a hidden stun device, the Guardian reports. The agency plans to spend up to $20 million on thousands of “GLOVE” units—electrified gloves made by Kentucky-based Compliant Technologies—by March, according to a Homeland Security notice. The gear works like standard patrol gloves until an officer flips a switch, allowing them to deliver a sharp electric jolt when pressed directly against a person’s skin. The name stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter. Some jails and police departments already use them, the AP reports.

Supporters say the short, bee-sting-like shock can quickly gain compliance and avoid visible injuries. The Hill, citing KFOR, reports the device is similar to a Taser but not as high in voltage. But civil rights advocates, including the ACLU, warn that arming ICE agents with a nearly invisible pain-delivery tool invites abuse, especially amid ongoing criticism of the agency’s use of force. The manufacturer says the gloves shouldn’t be used as punishment for mere “verbal defiance or belligerence,” nor should they be used on vulnerable people including those who are pregnant, elderly, disabled, or children.

Do the fascist twats in ICE really need further opportunities to abuse protesters?

Once again Donny proves what an unfeeling a/hole he really is….

Military families expressing concerns about their loved ones aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln received a blunt public response on Friday from President Trump. Asked by journalists about reports that relatives are worried about deteriorating conditions on the aircraft carrier—deployed in the Arabian Sea since November—Trump cut off the question with, “No, they’re not,” the Washington Post reports. He added that the ship is either on the move or will be “very shortly” and will be swapped out with “a very similar ship”; the USS George Washington is on its way to relieve the Lincoln.

Pressed on whether the nearly nine-month deployment is too long, Trump replied it was “not nearly long enough.” Families have described food shortages, moldy showers, water problems, broken toilets, and mail delays that keep care packages from arriving. The Navy Times and Stars and Stripes have reported on suicide attempts. The Navy has not publicly detailed any corrective measures in response to the complaints. Democratic Rep. Jason Crow, who served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, criticized Trump’s comments in a post on X, per the AP. “President Trump does not care about our servicemembers or their families,” Crow wrote. Democratic and Republican lawmakers want an investigation of the conditions aboard the Lincoln, per Axios.

Spoken like someone who has no idea what it is like in long deployments and yet he still says he supports our amazing troops….hogwash (is the most polite term I could think of)….

Donny finally concedes on the Pool fiasco (sort of)….

President Trump is now allowing that the Reflecting Pool mess wasn’t solely the work of supposed vandals. After weeks of insisting that someone tore the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s blue lining, Trump said Sunday that “some contractor error” from rushing the renovation for a July 4 opening also played a role in the damage, the New York Times reports. After the contractor began work earlier this year, the liner began to peel and an algae outbreak turned the water green.

Prosecutors had charged at least seven people, including former Olympian David Hearn, before dropping some cases. Trump still did not let his vandalism claim drop, per ABC News. “There was substantial other damage to the Reflecting Pool, also but, unfortunately, there is no video or proof, other than the damage, itself,” he posted Sunday on social media. The pool remains drained, though Trump said it will reopen “shortly.” Hearn’s lawyers said Monday they’re “reviewing all legal remedies” for what they described as “continued harassment.”

What an idiot….period!

I am exhausted trying to make sense out of the stupidity around Donny….so I shall shut it down for this edition of the Sh*t Show.

Now that I have bummed everyone out I hope I can make amends by this video…

That Was The Week That Was

I hope everyone has a lovely Sunday and all is well….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

IST Saturday News Dump–15Aug26

Once again Saturday has come around and all the news that was forgotten by MSM is here at your finger tips….enjoy.

Local–I am writing this at about 3 am and the temp outside is 92 and I anxiously await cooler temps.  Not much happening locally most sane people are in the A/C.

Personal–I had my infusion on Thursday so I am still fighting off the side effects….a visit to the cancer doctor is happy with my tests the prostrate cancer is almost into remission (for now) and the lung cancer is still there and being treated but the treatments are working (for now) so she was happy but more tests will be needed (of course there are).

 

As someone who is fighting 2 cancers I am always looking for items that could change treatment for those that suffer from this hideous disease….

New possibilities for the treatment of colon cancer….

Dr. Stacy Norton was only 7 years old when her mother died of colon cancer, one of several family members struck by aggressive tumors at unusually young ages. Decades later, Norton rolled up her sleeve to help test if a new kind of vaccine might protect her and her own children from cancer. The Houston doctor is among an estimated 1 million Americans who have Lynch syndrome, a faulty gene passed from a parent that puts them at extremely high risk of colorectal cancer and more vulnerable to certain other cancers, too, explains the AP. They’re often urged to get yearly colonoscopies—far more often than usual—that can spot and remove precancerous growths called polyps.

Now scientists are creating vaccines that aim to go further, teaching the immune system to intercept this type of brewing colon cancer before it turns into a full-fledged tumor. At least three potential Lynch syndrome vaccines are in development, including two in early clinical trials in the US and a third beginning in Britain. The shot that Norton helped test appears promising enough that its lead researcher, Dr. Eduardo Vilar-Sanchez of the MD Anderson Cancer Center, expects a larger study to begin early next year.

“It gives me hope,” said Norton, 59, of Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital. She had already survived a different Lynch-caused cancer and has two children in their 20s who inherited her mutation. If a vaccine pans out, “perhaps they won’t have to have a colonoscopy every single year for the rest of their lives.” And for the first time since 2014, Norton’s own colonoscopies one and two years after vaccination were polyp-free. Read the full story for more on the disease and the potential vaccines.

This could be a game changer for those at high risk.

Then there is the ugly side of cancer….Kalshi will allow betting on cancer…..

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket have long garnered a reputation for allowing users to make all kinds of ethically dubious bets, from the outcomes of deadly conflicts to mass famine.

As the New York Times reports, Kalshi will now even allow users to bet on whether clinical trials for potentially lifesaving drugs will succeed.

To critics, the move will effectively allow betting on the lives of patients trying a final intervention in the face of a lethal diagnosis. There’s even risk that those enrolled in these trials could choose to drop out if the market were to bet against a positive outcome.

“Turning loose a betting market in an ongoing randomized clinical trial really is a breach of scientific conduct,” Robert Califf, who served as FDA commissioner in the Biden administration, told the NYT.

https://futurism.com/health-medicine/kalshi-defends-bet-drug-trials

How freakin’ sick is that?

Keeping with the health stuff….I spend a lot of time at the hospital with treatments, labs, doctors and other assorted fun things to do so when I read this it makes one a bit concerned….

A little-known fungus is quietly racing across the US, and doctors say the tools to stop it are thin. Candida auris, first spotted in the country in 2013, has now been confirmed in 23 states and is spreading fast, especially in hospitals, per CDC data cited by People. The agency logged 3,348 cases last year; as of July 18, this year’s tally had already reached 3,130, putting 2026 on pace to set a record.

The yeast mostly threatens people who are already extremely ill, especially those using ventilators, feeding tubes, or catheters—the Hill notes that C. auris can survive for quite some time on surfaces—or those who’ve had heavy exposure to antibiotics or antifungal medications. It can pass from people who show no symptoms, and when it does cause illness, the Cleveland Clinic notes it can trigger fever, chills, lethargy, low blood pressure, rapid heart rate, and certain ear infections.

The bigger problem: Strains often rebuff standard antifungal drugs. “Many strains are resistant to azoles [a major antifungal drug class] … and some are also resistant to amphotericin B, which is often considered a drug of last resort,” says UT Health’s Nathan Wiederhold. Texas currently leads this year’s tally with 706 cases, followed by Michigan at 503. “The public should definitely not panic but should be concerned,” Dr. Peter Chin-Hong of UC San Francisco tells Healthline.

Just a little FYI.

This maybe good news for those suffering with that peanut allergy….

A single course of capsules containing gut microbes from healthy donors raised the amount of peanut protein that six people with severe peanut allergies could tolerate during supervised food challenges.

The finding comes from a small, early-stage trial involving just 15 adults. But it’s the first published human evidence that deliberately reshaping the gut microbiome might influence food allergy.

https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/fecal-transplant-capsules-may-offer-a-new-way-to-treat-peanut-allergy/

This one is for men trying to get their mojo back….remember when masturbation could make you go blind….well keep thinking….

A major study involving nearly 74,000 men has found that erectile dysfunction medication is associated with a significantly heightened risk of developing glaucoma, a potentially blinding eye condition.

Researchers at the National Taiwan University Hospital examined data from 73,854 men aged 40 and over, half of whom had been prescribed tadalafil — marketed as Cialis — or similar phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE5i) over a period spanning 2012 to 2022.

Those taking the drugs, which belong to the same pharmaceutical class as Viagra, were 22 per cent more likely to be diagnosed with glaucoma than men not using the medication.

https://www.gbnews.com/health/erectile-dysfunction-blindness-eye-condition

Louisiana has a problem with flesh eating bacteria….

Five Louisiana residents have died from Vibrio vulnificus, a dangerous and rare flesh-eating bacteria infection found naturally in warm coastal waters. Four more patients are in the hospital, the Louisiana Department of Health reported Thursday.

All nine patients had underlying health conditions when they were infected, LDH said.

During the same period over the last decade, Louisiana reported an average of seven cases and one death.

https://www.nola.com/news/healthcare_hospitals/five-dead-in-louisiana-from-flesh-eating-bacteria/article_65f5a47e-be5a-4415-ac5f-9c57e518886d.html

More on the ‘diarrhea lettuce”…..

Authorities are struggling to get the outbreak of an explosive diarrhea-causing parasite under control. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are more than 18,000 cases that have been confirmed or are being investigated across 45 states.

There had been 423 reported hospitalizations, but at least no deaths — until this week. On Monday, Michigan health officials confirmed that there are now two fatalities linked to the outbreak, an intestinal illness called cyclosporiasis which is caused by the microscopic parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis.

However, it’s important to note that both individuals had “significant underlying health conditions that may have been impacted by cyclosporiasis and dehydration,” according to an update by Michigan Health and Human Services. In other words, both people didn’t die purely because they were infected by the parasite.

https://futurism.com/health-medicine/diarrhea-lettuce-killing-people

Could all this food problems we face here in the US have anything to do with the gutting of the FDA by Donny and his sycophants?

Enough with the health issues….

Well go figure but there is more alien stuff….

Astronomers studying the moon claim to have captured possible evidence of a technologically advanced nonhuman civilization.

Scientists at Ukraine’s Main Astronomical Observatory reported observing more than 20 unidentified objects moving near and across the moon several months in 2025.

Some of the disc-shaped objects were estimated to measure between 15 and 25 miles across.

In a new study that has not been peer-reviewed, the team said they identified two categories of UFOs: ‘atmospheric’ objects that appeared stationary and ‘continental’ objects that appeared to move across the moon’s surface.

The objects also appeared to display unusual changes in brightness and rotation.

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16028077/scientists-ukraine-ufo-fleet-moon.html

Take that with a grain of salt.

I apologize it seems that health issues have taken over today’s News Dump….but I think they are worth reporting on….

Have a wonderful day and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

More MAGA BS

I post these articles not because I agree with them but rather that I want to illustrate the lengths the Right will go to to instill fear into the voting public.

This is another bunch of manure from a MAGA rag that should be labeled propaganda not news….

Democratic socialism is a lie — it’s just communism with better branding

Speaking of better branding….if we want to go that far then the policies of Donny and the MAGA morons is nothing more than fascism…..you see two can play that game.

So to say that this rag stretches the truth then that would be more accurate reporting than  what they call reporting.

Do not fall for the bullsh*t….we have a nation to win….let’s get busy.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Some Thoughts On Israel

You guys know that I am a political history buff….so I feel it necessary to include a bit of history from time to time….thanx for indulging me.

We will start with 1948 and Truman….

In 1948, with war raging in Palestine, Harry Truman found himself trapped.

On one side were Zionist lobbyists and the president’s domestic political advisers, who were urging him to support the establishment of a Jewish state in as much of Palestine as possible. On the other were his top foreign policy and national security officials, led by the secretary of state, George C Marshall. Their unanimous recommendation was to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state, which they believed would trigger war in the Middle East and endanger the future of US relations with the Arab and Muslim world.

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In the mid-1940s, Marshall pushed quietly but steadily against the Zionist movement’s proposals to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. He was concerned that American support would open opportunities for the Soviet Union to exploit Arab anger, put Middle Eastern oil supplies at risk in the event of a war between the Soviet Union and the United States, and require the deployment of unavailable American troops to prevent bloodshed and instability in Palestine. These were, indeed, the strongly held views of virtually all of Truman’s most important military and foreign policy advisers.

Truman was personally and deeply moved by the suffering of Jewish survivors of the Nazi “Final Solution”, but also irritated by and at times furious with the constant hectoring to which he was subjected by campaigners for recognition of a Jewish state in Palestine, including the World Zionist Organization and a host of other Jewish delegations, friends and politicians. Despite his personal exasperation, he could not ignore them. Coming in an election year that would pit him against Governor Thomas Dewey of New York, pressures from the Zionist lobby forced him into an excruciating and embarrassing position.

With Palestine engulfed by civil war, Arab states threatening to invade and the last British soldiers about to leave the country, Truman called a meeting of his top advisers on 12 May 1948. According to Marshall’s own account of the meeting, he warned Truman against adopting the policy strongly advanced by Clark Clifford, his main political adviser, to recognize the state of Israel before it was established.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/02/pro-israel-lobby-presidents

As you can see not everyone was thrilled with the idea of Israel….but things worked out in Israel’s favor.

Now fast forward to the modern day….

The US holds states responsible for their supposed actions, Asad of Syria, Chavez of Venezuela to mention only a few and yet Israel can do as they please with impunity matters not what it is…..killings Americans, devastating Gaza with death and destruction, terrorizing the West Bank, etc. etc.

Why can’t we hold Israel accountable for their actions in Gaza?

The easy answer is money and the media…..

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry released the report on June 23. Titled “The Essence of Childhood Has Been Destroyed,” it was the first to focus on crimes and violations against Palestinian children in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Vijay Prashad at CounterPunch called it an “accusation of extraordinary gravity.” In 100-pages, the investigation documents Israeli security forces’ direct killing, degrading, and inhumane treatment of Palestinian children, including sexual and gender-based violence and torture. The report also documents the destruction of schools and civilian infrastructure and amounts to a gruesome compendium of how Israel is destroying Palestinian childhood and denying the Palestinian people a future and self-determination. As the human rights lawyer Srinivasan Muralidhar, who chaired the UN commission and led the press conference that announced its findings, bluntly summarized, “By targeting children, Israel is attacking the very capacity of the Palestinian people to exist.” This is genocide.

The UN report flatly contradicted the claims made by President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace that conditions in Gaza were improving. The UN report stated that the amount of available aid is woefully inadequate to meet the needs of hungry, wounded people, living in appalling conditions, who are being squeezed into 30 percent of what was once the Gaza Strip. The UN report further noted the admission of one Israeli soldier: “It feels like a game. You can sit in some basement of a house, safe, with your helmet off, scratching your balls, half-dressed, and kill Palestinians.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/11/why-cant-we-hold-israel-accountable-for-its-genocide-in-gaza-its-the-media/

The damage done to Palestinian children is just one aspect of Israel’s conflict but there are so many more….

It is time to get this dark money out of our system…..probably not gonna happen considering how deep that well is but it should be attempted.

I Read, I Write, You Know

‘lego ergo scribo”

Onto Yemen

Yemen has been a thorn in the US presidents since GW and the US has taken upon itself to help bomb this nation back into the stone age…..GW did it, as well as Obama, Trump (first term), Biden and now looks like Donny wants to add to his bloodlust even further.

In July of 2026 Donny made it clear….

President Trump on Tuesday suggested he could restart a bombing campaign in Yemen in response to the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, enforcing a blockade on the Red Sea.

Trump’s comments came after Ansar Allah announced a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia, which came a week after the Saudis bombed Yemen’s Sanaa airport to prevent the landing of a plane carrying a Yemeni delegation from Iran to enforce its long-standing blockade on the country that was eased under a 2022 ceasefire deal but never fully lifted.

his part, Trump downplayed the blockade, claiming it hasn’t started yet. “So far, it hasn’t happened, might happen, but we take care of things,” Trump told reporters while meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in the Oval Office.

“If something like that happens, we take care of it. You know, we’ve done that with the Houthis before, and we haven’t heard from them in a while since we did what we did originally,” he added.

Trump launched a bombing campaign in Yemen on March 15, 2025, a few days after Ansar Allah announced it was renewing its blockade of Israeli-linked shipping in the Red Sea in response to Israel violating the January 2025 Gaza ceasefire deal by imposing a full blockade on the Palestinian territory.

The US bombing campaign lasted about a month and a half and involved major civilian casualties, including the bombing of the Ras Issa Fuel Port in Hodeidah, which killed 84 people, all civilians, according to the monitoring group Airwars. A few days after the strike, the US bombed a migrant detention facility in Saada, killing 68 African migrants.

(antiwar.com)

I rehash this because he has started yet another use of US military force…..

he Pentagon has quietly tallied a deadly civilian cost for a short, intense US campaign in Yemen. A new Defense Department review says three American strikes in April 2025 killed 153 civilians and wounded nearly 250 others, the Trump administration’s first public acknowledgment of large-scale noncombatant casualties since returning to office, reports the Washington Post. Two of the incidents—an April 17 strike on Ras Isa Port that killed 80 people and injured 171, and an April 28 attack that killed 68 people in Yemen’s northwest, including migrants held in a detention site—are among the deadliest US strikes since 2001, rights advocates say.

The 50-day operation, launched after Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, followed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move to dismantle a Pentagon office devoted to reducing civilian harm. The review, required by Congress and not yet released publicly, comes as the AP reports that concerns are rising “over civilian casualties during military campaigns.” The report says none of the three Yemen cases warranted condolence payments, a conclusion some experts call premature. Fifteen other Yemen incidents remain under review, even as the number of civilian-harm investigators has been cut by more than 90%. Human rights groups have labeled the Yemen attacks possible war crimes and also question the Pentagon’s assertion that US operations against drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere have produced no civilian casualties.

The US does not care about civilian deaths as long as they can flex that anemic muscle they call ‘force’…..

It is time for the lazy pricks in Congress to step forward and do something, anything no matter what as long as they try to stop the civilian deaths.

This is getting out of hand…..DO SOMETHING!

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Want To Get Involved?

Note: This is my last post of the day for it is 7 am and my chemo starts at 8 and as I have said in the past afterwards I am in no mood….I will try to answer replies as best I can.

We have at our disposal several ways to get involved in the government…we can write letters, send emails, call our Reps ans sign petitions….

This is a petition to try and force the government to be honest with the voters….

 

https://usafacts.org/data-we-depend-on/

 

If you would like feel that you are involved in  some sort of change then by all means sign this petition.

Personal note:  I like the idea of having my desires known to the government…..I am not sure that they will pay attention to no matter type of communication you choose.

It has been my experience that the ones involved ignore these attempts of people to try and help instigate change.

Personally, I do believe they give a shit what we thing or what we want. (Just my opinion).

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

This Is A Scary Thought

Under normal circumstances if anything were to happen to the president then the VP would step in to keep the government moving…..in that case logically Vance would graduate to the “big chair’.

But there are some think Donny would take a different route….a it is a scary scenario….

As questions continue to swirl around Donald Trump’s health, political analyst David Rothkopf believes the president is preparing to shift power to one of his most loyal sycophants.

Appearing on The Daily Beast Podcast, Rothkopf argued that one of the president’s most trusted aides—not Vice President JD Vance—could take charge of the White House if Trump can no longer handle the job; he identified that person as Stephen Miller.

“This is an 80-year-old guy who is obviously not physically or mentally healthy or up to the job he’s got,” the political analyst told host Joanna Coles. “Trump’s schedule is so micromanaged these days, and he does a couple of hours a day, he doesn’t appear on TV, he does fewer of these open press things than he used to do, and it’s because people are sort of easing him away.”

“This happened with Biden, by the way, where they just sort of don’t put you center stage. And it does raise a question, which is: If he declines further, if he is less capable of handling the job, who’s going to handle it for him?” he added.

Rothkopf said Miller taking charge like that wouldn’t be unprecedented, explaining that similar situations occurred during the Reagan and Nixon administrations.

“We have had multiple times in our history—after Eisenhower’s heart attacks, when FDR was in his declining health at the end of his term, when Woodrow Wilson was bedridden after a stroke—where other people did the job of president,” he continued.

“And I’ve got to tell you, you look at Donald Trump, you look at the bruises, you look at his behavior, you look at his age, you look at his family history, and we could be heading for one of these periods where somebody other than Trump is actually, behind the scenes, the acting president.”

Though Vice President JD Vance would become president if Trump were to resign or die in office, Rothkopf said that’s not exactly how it works in the White House.

“Power flows from the president, from the people closest to the president, from the people who control his schedule, from the people who send out his statements,” he explained, saying that Vance is not involved in any of that.

(yahoo.com)

Is it possible that the cue ball fascist could get the power if anything were to happen to our beloved leader?

This is something to think about…..Miller carves the power and he would be a horrible choice IMO.

Anyone have any thoughts about this?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

It’s Good To Be A SCOTUS Associate

We all have seen the reports about the underhanded money making of our Supreme Court judges and now a new one has come up….this one is about conserv judge Alito…..

The supreme court justice Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from his fossil fuel interests between 2005 and 2024, a new review of financial disclosures shows.

The analysis from the non-profit advocacy group and judicial watchdog Court Accountability, shared exclusively with the Guardian, found that even at the lowest range of estimates, Alito gained almost $400,000 from his oil and gas interests since being tapped for the high court by George W Bush in 2005.

The findings come as the supreme court prepares to take up a case in which the oil companies Suncor Energy and Exxon asked the justices to find that federal law prevents subnational governments from filing lawsuits against fossil fuel producers for the climate-warming effects of their products.

The supreme court said this month it will hear oral arguments in the case on 5 October, the opening day of its new term. The Trump administration, which is siding with the oil companies, has asked for 10 minutes of argument time. Court Accountability and other groups have called for a Senate committee to investigate Alito, the sole supreme court justice with holdings in energy companies, and said he should recuse himself.

He and the court rejected those calls.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/samuel-alito-oil-gas-assets-supreme-court-analysis

And he sits on the highest court in the nation and makes judgements on any legal actions brought against oil companies….this puts him up there with the corruption of Thomas.

SCOTUS is getting more corruptible by the session….and in doing so is destroying most modern laws….

When rationalizing its alarming injection of politics into legal decision, conservatives on the John Roberts Supreme Court are dumping years of legal analysis and precedent in favor of historical arguments. In essence, legal theory appears to be taking back seat to what law in America used to look like, says Florida International University philosophy Associate Professor Eric Scarffe.

They’re using history, said Scarffe, to do what judicial philosophy long has not: remove judgment from judging.

“Rather than promoting judicial restraint, … key cases reveal how the ‘history and tradition test’ has been weaponized to enable one of the most radical revisions to this nation’s constitutional order since the New Deal,” argued Scarffe. “It has been used not only to overturn previous decisions and precedent, but also to fundamentally shift the way the Court engages in judicial review.”

Courts traditionally weigh interests, assess evidence, and openly confront competing constitutional values. But cases like the Wolford v. Lopez, which the court used to strike down Hawaii’s restrictions on carrying firearms on private property that is open to the public, the court made a decision based entirely upon whether a sufficiently similar restriction existed at some point during the nation’s founding.

https://www.alternet.org/roberts-court-reform-politicized/

The judges now are nothing more than political hacks and do not deserve the positions they have been given…

It is beyond time for some massive Supreme Court reforms and changes.

Or we continue to have these hacks destroy the Constitution one ruling at as time.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Drop All Pretense

Any FYI series on what to expect from MAGA bullshitters.

I post this story because it is part of series on the lies spread by the idiots in MAGA to try and sway the less intelligent to vote against any progress.

The New York Post is one of these outlets that spreads disinformation constantly…..

 

https://nypost.com/2026/08/10/opinion/fresh-proof-that-democratic-socialists-will-act-like-communists-once-elected/

 

Getting rid of the Electoral College is not destroying the Constitution….it is just good common sense…..the rest of the accusations are painted with a broad brush that is more propaganda than facts.

Remember this is FYI not an endorsement of the lies.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Donny Pulls A Switch-A-Roo

US intelligence was given a tip that Iran was planning to assassinate Donny and he was to go to Turkey for a NATO summit….the Secret Service came up with the bright idea of using a dodge to keep him safe…..

Donald Trump secretly swapped planes as he left a Nato summit in Turkey last month, as part of an elaborate ruse in response to a possible Iranian threat, US media report.

The US president boarded Air Force One in view of television cameras before being transported to a military aircraft with the help of a catering truck, according to the Washington Post. Journalists and some White House staff on board did not know he had been smuggled out.

Officials told the BBC’s US partner CBS News that the US had detected a credible Iranian threat to fire a missile at the plane. The White House has not confirmed the secret switch.

Trump had earlier said he was Iran’s “number one target” during the summit in Ankara.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-used-catering-truck-air-force-one-decoy-evade-iran-threat-report

Now some are calling the ‘hot’ tip about the assassination as a fake report…..

Turkish officials suspect that an Israeli intelligence report about an Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara last month was a ruse designed to derail diplomacy between the US and Iran, Middle East Eye reported on Tuesday.

The Washington Post first reported on Monday that the US thought there was a credible enough threat against Trump that he secretly swapped planes when he departed Turkey. The president flew into Ankara on a new version of Air Force One donated by Qatar, but made a public show of departing on the older Air Force One, saying he was doing so for “old time’s sake.”

According to the Post report, after boarding the older Air Force One, Trump was then moved to a third plane, an Air Force C-32A, via a catering truck. Some White House staffers and reporters on the older Air Force One thought President Trump was also onboard as they flew to the UK, making them unwitting decoys.

Missing from the Post report was where the intelligence about a plot against Trump came from. According to Middle East Eye and also a report from The Wall Street Journal, it came from Israel, which aligns with reports from the time.

Sources told MEE that the Israeli intelligence report warned that Iranian covert forces could target Air Force One at the airport in Ankara using shoulder-fired rockets, known as MANPADS, from just one kilometer away. Due to the alleged threat, the Secret Service moved the departure point from Ankara Airport to Esenboga Airport and wanted to switch from the new Air Force One to the old one.

The report said Turkish officials believe that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu devised the plot to make it appear that Israel was protecting Trump, further derail diplomacy between the US and Iran, and also strain relations between Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom the US president repeatedly praised during the summit. Israel has strongly opposed the idea of the US selling F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, something Trump has said he’s strongly considering.

Another source, described as an Ankara insider, told MEE that it was ironic that the Secret Service’s decision to move Trump has been leaked just one month after it happened. “I guess they need heroes for an attack that never happened and, most likely, was never planned,” the insider said.

(antiwar.com)

After years of watching the Israeli government I tend to agree with Turkey….this does sound like a load of crap for Israel wants Donny to keep up his attacks on Iran and they will do anything to preserve the attacks now that they finally got a president dumb enough to believe their lies.

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