Monday, April 27, 2026

PUT THE LEGISLATION ON THE FLOOR!

YOU’RE THE FUCKING SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE! Get the bill through the House if it means that much to you! Sure, people can’t afford groceries or gas, but the President who caused that needs a huge, ugly ballroom! Put the bill on the floor now! In time for the midterms! Is the President going to travel in this ballroom wherever he goes?
Blanche: "Many people in this room have done it as well. They're just as guilty as a lot of people on X. When you have reporters, when you have media just being overly critical and calling the president horrible names for no reason and without evidence, it shouldn't surprise us that this type of rhetoric takes place."
"Rhetoric”? Or “violence”? Wait, is aphasia contagious? Is it spreading through the Administration? That sounds like very poor time management. And they’re still going to find a way to fuck it up.
Q: You mentioned you think Allen fired at least one shot, but it doesn't say that in the affidavit. Can you explain the discharging of weapons charge?

BLANCHE: I'm the acting AG. I'm not on the ground doing the investigation, so I'm telling you what I've been told and if that information changes I'm sure we'll let you know
See? Probably not getting enough sleep. So he is going to take his ballroom around the country with him? Or isn’t the argument now that with a ballroom, Trump can hunker down at the White House?
Yeah, that’s clearly the argument. Except when he’s at MAL. Or playing golf. ⛳️ 

I’m just gonna add this, because “rhetoric” is the new Beltway black:
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Old Guy Humor

I remember when each of them said it. What can I say?
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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 🤑

Introduce the legislation and shepherd it through Congress. The court opinion makes it clear that’s the way to go. And while you’re at it, make the funding transparent, so Trump can’t pocket the “donations” (a/k/a bribes).
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When Clients Take The Wheel

Trump cannot be safe outside the White House fortress (which is what it is) because Reagan was shot 40 years ago. But Trump can go to rallies (despite being shot at one), and can go to MAL as it suits him, and party there; or even play golf (despite a would be shooter being apprehended at one); but he can’t party outside a vanity project on White House grounds because… the Secret Service did their job?*

About as coherent as this:
Trump: "What happens is that line explodes from within. Both mechanically and in the earth, something happens where it just explodes and they say they only have about 3 days left before that happens. And when it explodes, you can never rebuild it the way it is. It's a very powerful thing that takes place sort of having to do with nature."
He always sounds like someone tried to explain quantum mechanics to a dog. 

He’s the dog.

*As much as they were allowed to:
I’m not interested in more conspiracy theories. But as this reads, Markwayne Mullin was supposed to make the declaration of a “National Security Event” with most of the Cabinet there. Did he know that? Was he told not to? Was he incompetent, and the rest of the Administration as clueless as well? Is there another reason?

Inquiring minds want to know.
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Sunday, April 26, 2026

Brave, Brave Sir Robin

He really wanted that salad.
“PS,” Allen said in the manifesto, “Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? … No damn security. Not in transport. Not in the hotel. Not in the event.” He said that if he had been an Iranian agent, he could have brought in a machine gun, which he referred to as “Ma Deuce,” and no one would have noticed.
And yet, while he reportedly got off several shots, he was apprehended without law enforcement firing a shot. That was then; this is now:
O'DONNELL: In his manifesto, he wrote that 'I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.' What's your reaction?

TRUMP: I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you're horrible people. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. I'm not a pedophile. Excuse me. You read that crap from a sick person. I was totally exonerated. You should be ashamed of yourself, reading that. You're a disgrace.
What a difference a day makes. Isn’t everything about Trump?  That’s sure what it looks like. Probably not, then; but it should.
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“Something A Random Nut Does”

About that “random nut:”
The New York Post claimed Sunday to have obtained a copy of a manifesto written by the suspected shooter who disrupted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) Saturday night, in which the gunman names every Trump administration official as a target – except for one, and without explanation as to the lone exclusion.

The suspected gunman was soon identified as 31-year-old California resident Cole Allen, who police said had rushed through a Secret Service checkpoint at the event bearing a shotgun, a handgun and several knives. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche later said Allen was believed to be targeting Trump administration officials.

On Sunday, the Post published what they claimed to be Allen’s manifesto in full, which Allen had sent to family members 10 minutes before the shooting, according to the Post.

“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” the suspected shooter wrote in his manifesto, an apparent reference to President Donald Trump, according to the Post.

Allen then went on to name his list of targets, which excluded just one Trump administration official: FBI Director Kash Patel.
As the man said, there’s no accounting for taste. 

Still, “pedophile, rapist, and traitor;” isn’t that the language of Q-Anon? The people who demanded Trump release the Epstein files until he finally promised to? Until he won the election, and suddenly they were a “Democrat hoax”? Mostly because of all the pictures and letters and documentation of a decade long (at least) relationship between Trump and Epstein?

I don’t know who this guy is, but pedophiles in government has been the central obsession of Q-Anon for a decade or so. And Q-Anon was never confused with “the Left.” Well, until it was convenient to do so. Which is now, I guess.

And while Stephen Miller has blamed the Democrats for immigration and non-white people and people who don’t think like Stephen Miller still living here, and said Democrats are trying to replace the “right” white people and destroy America, I’ve yet to hear a prominent Democrat call Trump a pedophile (although he is an adjudicated rapist). So I’m still unclear how Democratic rhetoric led to this “random nut” storming the magnetometer last night.*


*Clearly confusing carefully choreographed action movie sequences with real life, which is somewhat forgivable. Lots of non-“nuts” think possessing a gun makes them the hero of their own action movie, too. Fortunately, few such ever find out how wrong they are. What makes you a nut is thinking you can take on the Secret Service and law enforcement.
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“Jeanine Pirro’s Team Will Prosecute”

In DC federal court, initial appearances tend to happen in early afternoon. 1pm hour

Magistrate judge handles initial appearance. Then the case is placed in the “wheel”… in which a judge is randomly assigned

New arrestees (once they depart hospital, if applicable) go to Central Cell block … a lockup beneath police HQ

For longer term pretrial detention, they’re often held in DC jail.

Federal defenders will be available to serve. (They’re very very good)

Jeanine Pirro’s team will prosecute
Something tells me they’ll fuck this up.
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And God Said:

"Dammit! Missed again!”

(It’s the punchline to an old joke that I can’t remember the set up for, anymore. Which is okay: it was funnier when I was 10, anyway. But the Chief of Protocol for the White House is a not very funny joke, too.)
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Astroturfing

Who do they think they’re influencing? Congress? The courts? Faceless followers who are probably mostly bots, too?

I’m sure the same people persuaded by the White House that inflation is down and gas prices are not high, are persuaded that what Trump needs is a ballroom.
Chip Roy is in the runoff for the GOP nomination to be Texas AG. He ain’t coming back. Who in DC is going to listen to him now? Especially since the ballroom is a Trump vanity project (and there all the GOP’s troubles start), and the shooter was looking for Cabinet members for target practice. Maybe the Cabinet has better things to do than gather in one place for a party?
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I Am NOT Going To Get Tired Of This

"...people." As defined by Stephen Miller.

And that’s just within the last 48 hours. Miller spews this kind of venom every time he gets on camera. He’s Trump’s deputy Chief of staff.  Miller is being paid to literally “generate hate.”

How about we investigate him? Should be easy; just search the FoxNews archives.

Oh, and Todd Blanche has pulled Jordan’s statement like a bad tooth:
So Trump needs a lavish, high security ballroom so his Cabinet can party in a secure location?

This story is going to age like milk.
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All Day Long?

In what, the polls? Which, like the DJIA, are just a marketing device selling the services of the pollsters?  Polls cannot be verified, certified, audited, or recounted, and have no legal authority. And ballots arriving at late hours are a common practice of vote counting. Something Trump never paid attention to, because it never involved him.

The man’s as self-centered as a two year old.

And by the way: thanks.
I paid that much in back of beyond bumfuck Egypt East Texas. So it’s not just a “high state gas tax” thing.

The struggle is real.
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He’s Really, Really Bad At This

BRENNAN: The alleged shooter had multiple weapons. In DC, open carry is not permitted. You just said he traveled from California across the country by train. How did he do that?

BLANCHE: This isn't about in my mind changing the law, or making the laws more restrictive around firearms

BRENNAN: I'm asking about crossing state lines with firearms

BLANCHE: I don't think that's something we should be focused on
Ballrooms! We should be focused on unauthorized ballrooms! The Capitol is a more secure facility than a hotel. But it’s not as missile proof as a ballroom! The way Trump describes it, the ballroom will be an above ground bunker. Or he can just stay in his imaginary ballroom.

Let’s see: about 5 months (give or take) until Election Day. Tillis is talking up an AUMF to authorize the war on Iran (belatedly). Will that include the $200 billion for more bombs? And there’s the optics of the lavish dinner last night, as gas prices rise and the economy contracts (thanks to that war in Iran, which most of the country doesn’t support. And an AUMF does what? Make the war more popular? Justifies the deaths of soldiers when we have to invade because now Congress has authorized military action and bombing is not opening the Strait? Trump freaked out so badly when two airmen were down in Iran, aides had to sideline him so recovery efforts could be planned. Trump was terrified of having his own “Blackhawk Down.” There’s a reason he’s stopped bombing Iran, and stopped talking about sending in troops.) DHS is still short of funding for TSA (are the lines still long? Or is that just not “new” anymore?) So what are the odds Congress takes up a funding bill for a ballroom nobody in the country wants? When the GOP is already less popular than prickly heat and cold sores.
Forget what Trump’s saying there; it’s the usual blather. Pay attention to the images.
Trump: "As you know, we're building a big, beautiful, very very secure ballroom in every way, with massive bulletproof glass and all of the different elements that you need, like drone-proofing. It was designed in conjunction with the military. The one good thing is now everybody knows how badly needed it is."
Rich people having a rich night and getting the piss scared out of them in a rich setting, is not exactly the visual message that says the President needs an opulent, and huge, ballroom.
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The LAW Must Go On!

It just means we need a very expensive, vanity project ballroom, built without public oversight or accountability. Because, you know, national security (are you listening, courts?). Heh-heh. Also, too, as well: Meanwhile:
BASH: As the top law enforcement official, you're comfortable with the notion of vacating sentences of people who were convicted of the attack on the Capitol on January 6? Convicted through the court system

BLANCHE: They were convicted, but President Trump as is his duty commuted or pardoned those individuals
The President has a duty to undermine the justice system? As the individual charged with seeing the laws are faithfully executed, he has a duty to pardon and commute the people who rioted at his instigation?

I must have missed that day in ConLaw.
Frankly, I only presumed he was trying to make an argument to the courts. I didn’t expect him to be so explicit about it. (And no, he still doesn’t overcome the central problem, that Congress has not authorized this construction. Nor does he yet seem interested in seeking that authority, which would negate the lawsuit.) "...a lady walking her dog, who has absolutely No Standing to bring such a suit….” 

Pointing a finger at someone, means three more point back at you.
Oh, shove it up your overpaid ass: "...people." As defined by Stephen Miller.

Suck it, Bash.
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2/3rds Of The Country Clears Its Throat

My thought on looking at that is: “Who the fuck is paying for this? And why?” 2/3rds of the country doesn’t like Trump as President. But 2/3rds of the country are not crazed shooters. So blaming “the Left” is, effectively, blaming 2/3rds of the country.

Might want to check your math, there.
Anybody else find it weird Trump’s reaction to this is to promote his vanity project? One for which the only accounting is his public statements? Considering the painting of the reflecting pool was a no bid contract, and all we know is the price tag, and Trump screamed about that getting out, we have reason to not be excited about his ballroom.
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Interrupting The Banquet

The WHCD is not a state event. And this seems to be the equivalent of a shooter rushing a White House gate. So, if that happens, the POTUS never leaves the bunker? Is that the reasoning here? I thought he was barely seated before he was rushed from the room. MS NOW was reporting before anyone knew anything that Trump was taken back to the White House, and if the dinner went on (no one knew then), it would be without him.

Brave, brave Sir Robin.

Or who doesn’t have a brain. They can make a world of trouble.

They really make this too easy. What is going to deter you, then? I should have just started with that.
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Saturday, April 25, 2026

It’s like a wall, it’s like a snake, it’s like a fan….

Happiness is a warm gun. Or not: The top journalists in DC, and it’s the blind men describing an elephant.  MS NOW said there were just loud noises, though someone said there were gunshots in the room above. Then again: And again: Also, too , as well: All’s well that ends well: Let the show go on without him. He was safely back in the White House by then.  As for the show, isn’t that up to the people holding the dinner?* No joke, but I’m calling a lid.


*I’m also wondering about the Secret Service. How did someone with a gun get in that building?
Ah, the gun didn’t get into the building. Or not very far, anyway. He tried to get a rifle past a magnetometer? As my CrimLaw professor (may he rest in peace) said: “They don’t catch the smart ones.”
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It’s A Miracle!

It’s a sign from God! Another sign of divine intervention!* God will give him a sign! 🪧  Are you the person to talk to about the photo problem?

*Or maybe after spending $17 million on a project that the Biden Administration estimated at $3.3 million (a contract that wasn’t open to bidding, and is not publicly available), there wasn’t any money left for a new photograph.
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“The First Thing We Do…”

... let’s kill all the lawyers.” That was a cliche already worn out when I was in law school in the 80’s.  Few thought about the context. Shakespeare was not advocating the death of lawyers; he was warning against corruption.  Which depends on who the lawyers left are, too.
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Running The World

During a phone call earlier with Reuters, U.S. President Donald J. Trump said that Iran plans to make an offer that would resolve demands set by the United States as a new round of peace talks are expected to take place in Pakistan, stating that, “We're dealing with the people that are in charge now,” though refusing to elaborate who specifically they were negotiating with in the Islamic Republic.
Or ... not.
Trump: “I just cancelled the trip of my representatives going is Islamabad, Pakistan, to meet with the Iranians. Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work! Besides which, there is tremendous infighting and confusion within their ‘leadership.’ Nobody knows who is in charge, including them. Also, we have all the cards, they have none! If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Or:
Donald Trump has been humiliated on the global stage yet again.

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, left Pakistan exactly as he said he would—without meeting with Steve Witkoff or Jared Kushner.

Despite that, the Trump administration claimed negotiations were happening—claims that were false.

Araghchi left. No meetings. No negotiations.

Now Trump is scrambling to explain it, saying he personally canceled the meetings.

But the reality is clear: the promised talks never existed.
I still think this 👇 is why Trump is no longer threatening destroying the entire civilization. In related news:
The Trump Administration is considering using the Defense Production Act as part of a strategy to save the beleaguered Spirit Airlines, who has declared bankruptcy for the second time in two years as the Iran War drives up jet fuel costs for all domestic and international airlines, according to U.S. officials familiar with the discussions who spoke to CBS News.

Under the bailout plan being discussed, the government would lend Spirit $500 million at a reasonable rate interest, and become the top debtor in the bankruptcy pecking order. The loan would be protected by Spirit assets that would exceed the government's costs, while providing taxpayers with a warrant - the right to own 90% of the company after it emerges from bankruptcy, then likely being sold to another carrier, potentially American or Delta.
Somebody eventually benefits; but it won’t be taxpayers. Or ICE will benefit. No doubt. Miller still thinks there are too many people who don’t belong here. "...people."

Keep that message going. It’s a sure winner.
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Because….

... when Democrats say it, it’s damaging to Democrats because the person who starts it is a dangerous outlier (“Dems in disarray “). If Republicans do it, especially after a “Democrat” celebrity starts the ball rolling, it’s a “concern” with no discernible, or even necessary, locus. The celebrity is enough. After that it’s “some people say,” and then “everyone knows.”

And yet people still fret over CBS News and “legacy” media. I still remember when Cronkite turned against the Vietnam War. Of course it was over by then, and he’d retired. The media has always been a shill for the powers that be, and since Reagan, they’ve seen those powers (and the “adults”), as Republicans.  Trump is finally taking a sledgehammer to what remains of Reagan’s party’s reputation.  And what will change? What will fundamentally change?

Not a damned thing.

(And no, the media is never going to report on Trump the way they did Biden. Falling asleep is nothing. Compare his statements and actions. Trump is openly demented and incompetent. And yet… 🦗🦗🦗)
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