Someone on the web made a photo-shopped image of Trump placing the Presidential Medal Of Freedom on the neck of the QAnon Shaman.
Trump uses the word 'lightweight' to describe people he doesn't like. Yet he selects a lightweight to run the Pentagon because he likes that he was a host on the weekend version of Fox & Friends.
Jack Smith has a limited time to compile a report critical of Trump and submit it to the AG if he wants any of it to be disclosed to the public by the current AG before Trump starts his second term. Jack Smith’s Final Report On Trump Criminal Cases: What To Expect excerpt: "While special counsels’ reports are directed to the attorney general rather than the public, per the federal statute, Attorney General Merrick Garland has traditionally released them, with redactions if required—but it’s unlikely a Trump-appointed attorney general would make the filing public if it doesn’t get submitted and approved before Inauguration Day, given the incoming president’s animosity against Smith and the fact the report will undoubtedly be critical of Trump."
Trump Voters Hanging on Promise to Fix Economy Are in For 'Rude Shock', Top Economist Warns excerpt: "(Inflation) is in the rear view mirror now, but people are still annoyed at how much things cost. And yet, Trump's economic program, as far as we can tell, is the most inflationary program, probably, that any American president has ever tried to implement," Krugman said in a podcast published by The New York Times, where he also writes a column. Krugman also pointed at Trump's plan to carry out the "largest deportation operation in U.S. history" as an inflationary factor, detailing that a smaller workforce will lead to price increases. "The food on your table is largely put there by immigrants, many of whom will end up being deported," he said. "What's going to happen is that farm owners are going to have to pay much, much higher wages to get people to do those jobs, which the farmers will have to pass on in the form of higher prices."
Melania was a no show at the White House today where should could have met with Jill Biden for tea. The way the situation is looking, she may be a general no show at the White House during Trump's second term. https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/13/politics/melania-trump-white-house/index.html
Not to despair. Elon Musk has become known as First Lady Elonia. He could have had tea with Jill Biden today.
Trump selects Matt Gaetz for Attorney General. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/13/matt-gaetz-trump-attorney-general-pick-00189377
In October 2019, Matt Gaetz essentially broke national security laws by raiding a House hearing that was taking place in a SCIF room where lawmakers were discussing Trump's first impeachment. Gaetz and about thirty others in the GOP were trying to stop a hearing that involved testimony from a Pentagon official. Total SCIF Show: The GOP's Raid Puts National Security at Risk excerpt: "Let’s start with the SCIF (pronounced skiff), since it’s an unfamiliar acronym for many. It stands for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. These are rooms that are outfitted to be effectively spyproof by conforming to a stringent list of security standards. There’s a SCIF at Mar-a-Lago, for instance, kitted out to accommodate briefings for Trump during his frequent southerly sojourns. Barack Obama traveled with a SCIF tent during his presidency that could be set up on short notice inside, say, a hotel room."
................................................................................................................................. Like the idea of Gvmt sanctioned homeless camps. Where people would not be hasseled. services could be delivered. Improved sanitation and potable water facilitied. Perhaps public restrooms. Perhaps on-site medical personel. donations delivered. Give it a try,
The raid by Gaetz was a forerunner to Trump's insurrection at the Capitol. When Trump and his cohorts are upset that they can't control events that proceed based on law and order, they use coercion and violence to try to obtain what they want.
Conservative Judge Luttig: American voters ‘do not care’ about Trump’s misdeeds ...Middle East excerpt: “They don’t care, in this instance, what this man has done for the past eight years,” he said. “They could care less that he’s the first American president ever to be indicted for grave crimes against the United States of America…They do not care about his views on women. They do not care about any of this.” It’s one of many lessons to be learned from the presidential election, he said, explaining that Republicans successfully convinced the American electorate that “nothing mattered” from Trump’s previous term and he ran on a “clean slate.” “And the American people bought it,” he said. “Hook, line and sinker.”
Or maybe Americans do care what Trump has done and they like it, such as his efforts to commit crimes to overturn the 2020 election and a 34 felony count fraud conviction.
A tribute to Matt Gaetz whom Trump has selected to be the next Attorney General of the United States, the highest law enforcement position in the country. image:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/gaetz-gabbard-hegseth-trump-appointees.html excerpt: “We ought to have a full-court press against this WEAPONIZED government that has been turned against our people,” Mr. Gaetz wrote on social media on Wednesday. “And if that means abolishing every one of the three letter agencies, from the FBI to the ATF, I’m ready to get going!”
Matt Gaetz being a clown on the House floor during the deadly Covid pandemic that killed one million Americans and also caused one million excess deaths. image: