PRESENTING “I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS DELUSIONAL SHIT DAY”

There are 81 days to the midterms.

Yesterday, Delusional Dilbert posted this insanity on Lies Anti-Social:

“The U.S.A. has total conrol over the Strait of Hormuz. I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT!Our Naval Blockade is being called, by everyone, “A WALL OF STEEL” and there is nothing Iran can do about it. They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, their remaining soldiers are unpaid, the IRGC is decimated and fleeing, and their “Leadership” is uncertain, at best. They have No Money - Their country is “shot.” All they have is FAKE NEWS AND 300% inflation, and getting worse! Iran is all talk and no action, the Bully of the Middle East No Lonfger. Praise be to Allah! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

Every word of this delusional bullshit is a lie - including “and,” “the,” and “of.”

However, it’s Dilbert who has no Navy or Air Force he can put to use because he shot up all the fireworks and now what’s left ranges from 40% to 20% of what any Pentagon not run by a dimbulb alcoholic too stupid to know shit from shinola, who sees his primary responsibility being the removal of anyone not a white male from any command level in the armed forces and their replacement with incompetent Christianist losers who know how to click their heels and shout “Jawohl, mein Führer!” as they rush off to carry out the latest assigned war crime and revel in the title Bullies Of The Middle East.

National security reporter David Rothkopf wrote: “The man who cowered hiding from the Iranians in a catering truck and who has personally done more to increase Iran’s strategic influence than anyone in its own government ever has, is now blathering nonsense via social media. The world sees him more as an impotent fool today than ever before.”

Hours after Trump said his forces had “total control” over Hormuz, Iranian officials said his remarks “do not change the reality” of its closure.

A newly-filed lawsuit accuses Trump of selling access to something he doesn’t actually own. Both The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation are suing Trump and the White House social media team, arguing that the president selling early access to his market-moving Truth Social posts violates both the the First and Fifth Amendments. Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) - the parent company of Lies Anti-Social - recently started selling a product called Truth API. For a subscription fee of $60,000 to $100,000 per month, customers get Trump’s posts a few milliseconds before everyone else sees them. TMTG says it’s already signed more than ten deals, mostly with high-frequency trading firms. Trump regularly uses Lies Anti-Social to announce new executive orders, personnel changes and war updates. That means Truth API users could get a preview on market-moving news before the rest of the country.

There’s also a deeper argument to consider. The plaintiffs claim a sitting president’s official statements aren’t his private property. According to their filing, the Presidential Records Act puts those statements squarely in the public domain. If the courts agree with that argument, Trump would be liable for auctioning off something that belongs to the American people.

The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed in the Middle East since November, was supposed to head home back in May. Instead, Trump’s War has kept the carrier in the region indefinitely, with no return date in place yet for the 5,000 people aboard. The Military Times reported this week that multiple sailors have tried to jump overboard, only to be stopped by fellow crew members. Family members say the ship is in midst of a rapidly unfolding crisis. One military spouse said her husband recently texted her saying he hoped he wouldn’t wake up the following day. At town halls with Navy leadership, military families have pushed back hard against Maladministration II. One woman in San Diego told acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao she couldn’t feel proud of her relative because he’d told her he felt guilty about killing civilians.

Conditions aboard ship have gotten increasingly grim. Photos of sparse, barely edible meals have been circulating on social media. Some reports described how water on the carrier is contaminated; others have revealed plumbing failures and even an inability to get mail through. All that still pales in comparison to the strain those on board are feeling who still have no idea when they’re going home. Trump has responded to these claims by bragging on Lies Anti-Social about his Naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. He has yet to offer any comforting words to the sailors aboard the Abraham Lincoln or their families. Life aboard ship isn’t skittles and beer; I remember back to my time on the old USS Rustbucket - we counted the days till we would be relieved and head home. And we weren’t putting up with chow like these guys are - they’re rivaling the record of the carrier Essex back in 1944, where for two months breakfast and dinner (forget lunch) was canned asparagus and spam. Those sailors on the Abraham Lincoln can understand now what it means to have a “Commander in Chief” who thinks those who serve, and who fight and die for America are “Suckers and losers.” They are being kept on pointless deployment for one reason only, the ego of the moron in the White House who has created the situation where there is no strategic reason left for his war, but is incapable of admitting failure and that he lost, so they are expendable. God damn that worthless motherfucking draft-dodging coward and Russian traitor all to hell.

The WaPo reports that Winebox Jeanine Pirro has reportedly convened a special grand jury. Such special grand juries are used for complicated criminal investigations that are expected to take longer - a special grand jury is impaneled for 18 months and can be extended six months at a time for up to 36 months, as opposed to the six-month term of a regular grand jury. The idea is to provide a grand jury with plenty of time to focus on a long-term investigation. While there are no subject-matter limits, special grand juries are often used for complex matters like major trafficking cases or public corruption. While it’s mandatory to use special grand juries in federal districts with a population of more than 4 million people, D.C. falls outside that purview. A few commentators have suggested his means “a potentially big attempted prosecution is afoot.” That may be true. We don’t know the subject matter of this proceeding because grand juries are supposed to work in secrecy. Prosecutors, grand jurors, and court personnel are obligated to maintain confidentiality, but witnesses are not, which means there are often hints about a grand jury’s work based on public commentary. So far, there is none. Whether any subpoenas have gone out or the U.S. Attorney’s Office has simply asked the court to impanel the special grand jury and is waiting for the grand jurors themselves to be selected and sworn in is still a mystery. But There is speculation Pirro may be interested in one aspect of the special grand jury process: it permits a special grand jury to issue a report even without indictments. If the special grand jury is not going to issue indictments, it doesn’t become a vehicle for a U.S. Attorney to write and publicize a burn book. A majority of the special grand jury must vote to issue a report. Its content must be tailored to the requirements of the statute. It must focus on noncriminal conduct by public employees or officials that merits discipline or removal but falls short of criminal prosecution, and both sides of the story must be told in the report. And because special grand juries are long-term projects, it’s unlikely to deliver fast results. Whether Pirro has impaneled this special grand jury for some nefarious Trump revenge play is unclear, but with MAGA, assuming the worst is always the best defense.

Sally

Trump continues to insist that voters are angry not at him, but at Republicans for not passing the measures he demands. But a new Economist/YouGov poll released yesterday found Trump’s job approval ratings dropping even further than the numbers the same poll had shown the previous week. Now, only 33% of Americans approve his performancem while 60% of Americans think he is “not honest and trustworthy,” and 69% feel that the country these days is “out of control.” On top of that, 53% think Trump is too old to be president.

The corruption and criminality continues unabated: The Washington Post reports the renovations Trump is making to the White House campus will cost at least $927 million, with that money coming primarily from taxpayers. The administration has bypassed Congress to find the funding by channeling money from other agencies and private donors and sending it to an account typically used for routine maintenance. Sunday, reporter Scott MacFarlane of MacFarlane News reported that more than $323 million has been funneled from the National Park Service to Trump’s vanity projects on the White House grounds, even as Trump’s own Interior Secretary, Doug Burgum, estimates a $30 billion backlog of deferred maintenance in the parks themselves. MacFarlane notes that the number is a nearly 5,000% (not a typo) increase over the $7.5 million spent at the White House in 2024, the last year of Joe Biden’s presidency. Another $100 million has been allotted to the National Mall this year. The $423 million allocated this year for projects at the White House and the National Mall is more money than had been allotted to Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Mammoth Cave, Zion, and Joshua Tree National Parks, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and the Statue of Liberty complex combined. And this just happens to be unconstitutional. Only Congress can allocated funds under the Power of the Purse in Article I; the Article II executive may not move appropriated money from one account to another without congressional approval; this was litigated 50 years ago when Nixon tried it - Nixon lost 9-0 at the Supreme Court.

House Democrats Jared Huffman of California, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, and Maxine Dexter of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, are launching an investigation into possible insider trading over Trump’s 90% reduction of the national monuments Bears Ears and Grand Staircase–Escalante.

Ross Bhappu, president and chief executive officer of Energy Fuels, and board chair Bruce Hansen bought the largest amount of company stock purchased by an insider in the company’s history just days before Trump’s announcement, which opened nearly 3 million acres of federal land to uranium mining that would benefit Energy Fuels, just as the company had been asking for since Trump’s first term in office. Energy Fuels is a giant Canadian mining conglomerate whose leadership has boasted to investors about its close ties to Maladministration II. It has also received a $725 million loan from the Department of Defense to expand a uranium-processing facility near Bears Ears National Monument. That mill has become a radioactive dumping ground, taking in waste from Superfund sites, the Manhattan Project, and even foreign countries, all while storing more than 700 million pounds of toxic material in outdated, single-liner pits that threaten nearby tribal communities and groundwater. Americans are rightfully outraged that spills have occurred along a school bus route and that the mill continues emitting radon and other dangerous pollutants linked to lung cancer, all without modern safeguards or meaningful transparency. Once we have regained control of congress, Democrats are going to be working 27/7 to open invesitgations into the Criminal Trump Regime.

The U.S. military is in worse shape than it has been at any point in the past 81 years, since V-J Day in 1945. It is no longer the world’s premier fighting force that it once was. A good example of how bad things are came when U.S. Army troops faced off against Ukrainian drone operators at a military exercise in Germany earlier this year. It didn’t go well for the Americans. During the exercise, called Combined Resolve, Ukrainian drone units easily spotted and defeated U.S. troops and armored vehicles on rotation from Fort Hood in Texas, according to people familiar with the events. US forces were said to have suffered a “drubbing” at the hands of the Ukrainians. Faith in US weapon systems, doctrine and training has repeatedly been shown to be hollow in 2026. The lack of adequate protection from Iranian unmanned platforms has already caused a US withdrawal from much of the Persian Gulf. Now stories are coming out about the inability of US ground forces to fight effectively in the modern battlefield environment. US arrogance seems to have slowed down the process of needed change as the third-raters now in charge under the bible banging drunk in the Secretary’s office know that reports of how many non-whites and women have been tossed out are considered more important, and that anything saying the American military are less than super amazing warfighters who kick ass wherever they go will be denounced as “unpatriotic” and “woke”. The facts are that the US military is in terrible shape, which will continue to worsen under the present leadership. This is the greatest scandal in US history. The US has spent $9 TRILLION on defense since 2016, to create this deeply flawed, deteriorating force, which will have to be entirely rebuilt going forward (along with everything else in the country). I really do believe my books now describe a different country and a different people - a country and people that used to be - now foreign to what we are.

Remember, you are not the crazy ones, and we were made for these times. Regardless of what you may feel right now, act as if you believe that and redouble your efforts.

“Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty, as we understand it.” - Abraham Lincoln

Nigel

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