THE MIDWEEK DECLINE STEEPENS

High ho! Heigh ho! It’s off to work we go!

It’s the middle of Week 34 and the decline steepens - yesterday, Dilbert completely enshittified the Presidential Medal of Freedom when he awarded it poshumously to Horst Wessel... no, it was Nathan Bedford Forrest... wait I got it, gimme a minute... oh yeah, Charlie Kirk. 269 days in, Trump’s net approval rating is -16%, down 0.7 points since last week. 39% approve, 56% disapprove. In every leading issue, in every major cohort of voters, and in 41 states (excluding MT, WY, UT, ND, ID, WV, TN, AR, AL), he is underwater in approval ratings. He has lost ground in every voting cohort except for white males with a high school diploma or less, and even there, he is slightly underwater.

Politico posted a report yesterday, based on review of 2,900 pages of private messages exchanged on a leaked Telegram group chat between Republicans that provides a chilling glimpse into how racist some of the party’s up-and-coming figures act behind closed doors. The chat, complete with 251 slurs - including the N-word, “f----t,” and a declaration of love for Hitler - included “Young Republican” leaders from around the United States. The since-resigned vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans, Peter Giunta, was described as “the most prominent voice in the chat spreading racist messages.” Giunta, 31, texted “I love Hitler,” referred to Black people as “the watermelon people,” and advised chatmates to “scream the no-no word” if they board a plane and see the pilot is a woman with skin “10 shades darker than someone from Sicily.” He also responded to someone asking about an NBA game, “I’d go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkeys play ball.” Giunta was named a “New York City 40 Under 40 Rising Star” by City & State New York in 2019 was chief of staff for New York State Assembly member Michael Reilly. SILive.com reported last Thursday evening that Giunta was fired by Reilly over the texts. As usual, when a Republican gets caught, it’s only because of a fantastic plot against their wonderfulness. When reached by Politico, Giunta said the leaked texts may have been “doctored” and were part of an intra-party rift between him and the New York City Young Republican Club. “These logs were sourced by way of extortion and provided to Politico by the very same people conspiring against me,” he said, And then... wait for it... “I am so sorry to those offended by the insensitive and inexcusable language found within the more than 28,000 messages of a private group chat that I created during my campaign to lead the Young Republicans. While I take complete responsibility, I have had no way of verifying their accuracy and am deeply concerned that the message logs in question may have been deceptively doctored.” Giunta texted in June that those voting against him for chair were “going to the gas chamber.” Two members responded with questionable texts of their own. “Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno, the general counsel for the New York State Young Republicans, while Annie Kaykaty, New York’s national committee member, said, “I’m ready to watch people burn now.” These fucking people... the only “good Republicans” are indeed “pushing up daisies.” William Hendrix - the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair - used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh” more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker - vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans - referred to rape as “epic.” Surprise surprise, Corporal Couchfucker chose to wade in with a dose of hackish whataboutism, pointing to the controversy surrounding Virginia’s Democratic AG candidate Jay Jones who had mused about shooting a Republican colleague. All this is neither new nor surprising to we who have watched the worst of the worst rise to the highest positions of authority in the Greedy Old Party. I saw crap like this from the YAF goons I dealt with 60 years ago.

Dilbert’s bullshit smoke-and-mirrors Greatest Peace Ever is already falling apart. As of Day 2: The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians in Gaza City, killing 5, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement. A Palestinian Civil Defence spokesperson denied the IDF’s claim. Israeli media outlets report that Israel has decided to keep the Rafah crossing closed to Gazans and to scale back humanitarian aid deliveries until Hamas returns the bodies of Israeli captives. Hamas oldiers reappeared above ground and carried out six public executions of rival Palestinian groups as “collaborators.” In the agreement, there is no mention of plans towards a Palestinian State that is recognized by the US, nor clear plans on Gaza’s future governance. As far as Dilbert having the slightest anything to do with all this, The Times of London reports, “The terms of the deal were in place more than a year ago, according to an independent Israeli negotiator, and could have been agreed months ago.” Gershon Baskin, the architect of the negotiations that freed the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011, revealed that Hamas agreed to the exact same terms in Sept 2024, in the last months of the Biden admin: “This deal could have been done a long time ago. Hamas agreed to all of the same terms in what became known as the ‘Three Weeks Deal’ that I had received in writing. But at that point the response of the Israeli negotiators was that ‘the prime minister did not agree to end the war’.” “The reporting (in 2024) is that former President Trump is on the phone with the PM of Israel urging him not to cut a deal right now because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign.” That sounds more like the worthless piece of shit we all know and don’t love.

No Kings Day in San Diego June 14

Tuesday, Trump said Argentina would only get the promised $20 billion in financial aid by reelecting its crazy wingnut leader, Javier Milei, posting a warning on Xitter that “If Milei loses we won’t be generous” just days after approving a $20 billion bailout. The unusual, direct U.S. intervention in Argentina’s economy, which has been the IMF’s largest borrower in recent years, shows how Maladministration II is willing to openly support the political fortunes of an ideological ally outside the usual channels of international finance. The U.S. has historically relied on global financial fire fighters such as the IMF to prop up ailing economies. Diverting from that model comes with plenty of risk. Major hedge funds, including those led by friends of ex-hedgefunder currently cosplaying as Treasury Secretary Bessent, could benefit financially from the lifeline for Argentina. Funds at various investment firms, including BlackRock, Fidelity and Pimco, are heavily invested in Argentina, as are investors who worked with Bessent when he was an investor for George Soros. (Proving his lack of character, Bessent now attacks Soros as “un-American.”)

Pisol Pete Kegstand demanded media outlets agree they would not publish material about the Defense Department unless it was explicitly authorized by DoD officials. He set a deadline of 5:00 last night for them to sign an agreement or hand over their press badges. Every major American news organization refused to do so and will lose their Pentagon access this morning.

Senior District Judge William E. Smith rebuked Maladministration II in a Tuesday order, accusing the administration of violating his previous order and requiring “unlawful” conditions for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants. Smith, who was appointed by former Republican President George W. Bush to the District Court for Rhode Island, wrote the new order after previously prohibiting FEMA from conditioning grants to states over their willingness to assist with immigration enforcement efforts. The judge said said Maladministration II’s “new condition is not a good faith effort to comply with the order; it is a ham-handed attempt to bully the states into making promises they have no obligation to make at the risk of losing critical disaster and other funding already appropriated by Congress.” The conflict in Illinois vs. FEMA adds to a list of legal challenges faced by Maladministration II over efforts to restrict or cut back federal funding. Smith ordered Maladministration II to rewrite the letters it had sent to the states, removing the conditions he had already barred them from implementing, within seven days. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said: “Cities and states who break the law and prevent us from arresting criminal illegal aliens should not receive federal funding. The Trump Administration is committed to restoring the rule of law. No lawsuit, not this one or any other, is going to stop us from doing that.”

Elmo’s Swastikar isn’t cutting it: according to The Verge, “Tesla only sold 5,385 Cybertrucks in Q3, down 63% compared to the same period in 2024, when the automaker delivered over 14,000. The company has sold a little more than 16,000 Cybertrucks so far in 2025 - a far cry from the 250,000 that Elon Musk once predicted would be sold annually. Tesla is now expected to deliver around 20,000 Cybertrucks this year, a steep drop from the estimated 50,000 sold in 2024.” It’s also just come out that the Cybertruck is 17 times more likely to catch fire and kill its occupants than the Foprd Pinto was. The battery explosion that starts the fires locks the doors and nobody knows where Elmo put the manual override. The World’s Smartest Man is actually an ignorant fucking moron. I’m sooo surprised.

DHS announced October 3 that more than 1,000 “illegal” immigrants had been arrested in and around Chicago since September 5, when their invasion began, saying those arrested included “the worst of the worst pedophiles, child abusers, kidnappers, gang members, and armed robbers.” It has produced no evidence for that claim; federal data shows that more than 70% of ICE detainees last month had no criminal convictions. Maladministration II is now upping its claims. Today Fux Snooze reported an allegation that “narcoterrorists in Mexico are reportedly working in coordination with domestic extremist groups to place bounties worth thousands of dollars on the heads of federal immigration officers in Chicago,” calling it “an organized campaign of terror against agents just trying to do their jobs.”

Here’s the reality of what they are doing in Chicago: A U.S. citizen and Chicago resident was reportedly detained by federal immigration agents despite carrying documentation proving her citizenship. Maria Greeley, 44, said she was confronted earlier this month by three federal agents outside her workplace, the Beach Bar on Ohio Street, according to The Chicago Tribune. Greeley told the paper that the agents restrained her, placing her hands behind her back and securing them with zip ties, before questioning her for about an hour. The case has raised questions about how U.S. immigration authorities verify identities and whether racial profiling plays a role in enforcement. As the White House moves forward with one of the largest deportation initiatives in recent history, several U.S. citizens have reported being questioned or detained by immigration agents, prompting scrutiny over the agency’s practices and criteria for targeting individuals. Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic Hospital in Chicago’s Lake View neighborhood and is adopted, said she routinely carries a copy of her passport in case of encounters with federal authorities. She reported that the agents questioned the validity of her passport and told her she “doesn’t look like” her family name, Greeley. “I am Latina and I am a service worker. I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

Airports around the country are refusing to air the video ICE Barbie recorded to be shown at TSA checkpoints blaming Democrats for the shutdown. Most have noted it violates the Hatch Act that prohibits the use of government assets for partisan purposes, and also local regulations prohibiting partisan political commentary on airport communications. Currently, no Southern California airport is using them, as well as over 100 other airports across the country.

Dilbert’s revenge tour continues: Todd Gilbert, the US Attorney who was charged with investigating and prosecuing those attorneys in the DOJ and agents in the FBI who participated in the investigation of his treasonous collusion with Russia in the 2016 campaign. When Gilbert refused to do so, telling cosplaying “Attorney General” Pam Bondi and Dilbert’s personal stooge Todd Blanche that he did not believe there was sufficient evidence to justify a grand jury investigation, Trump ordered the two henchlings to fire Gilbert. Blondie and Toddy-boy blamed Zachary Lee, a veteran prosecutor with more than two decades of experience involving public corruption and narcotics, of convincing gilbert not to follow orders. Pressed to further sideline or remove Lee, Gilbert refused. The henchlings informed Gilbert he would be fired, and he resigned shortly afterward, posting a GIF on social media with a joke from the movie “Anchorman,” in which the lead character exclaims, “Boy, that escalated quickly!” There is now a frantic search in the DOJ to find an attorney, any attorney, who will file a bad-faith indictment against the DOJ attorneys and FBI agents who investigated Russia’s 2016 interference. I’m sure they can find a moron true believer willing to be their Kamakiaz sacrifice, given the general stupidity of Trumpscum

Trump has now threatened to remove the World Cup Tournament from Boston and the Olympics from Los Angeles, though he has no role in either event, and no authority to do anything to change the planned events. Dilbert has decided to demonstrate his lack of power by threatening to remove the events and schedule them in a Red State. Without actual authority, he has threatened to pressure the presidents of FIFA and the IOC to move the venues. Take this as proof of how terrified the senile old scumbag is: nothing in his bag of tricks works anymore to cow his opponents, forcing him to trot out ever more ridiculous threats.

Everybody’s favorite Southern Baptist midget fuckwit decided to say the quiet part out loud as to how the Christian Wrong thinks of women and their abusers. While holding a press conference with House Republican leaders on Wednesday, Squeaker Mike Johnson took the opportunity to comment on the restraining order a federal judge has just issued against Rep Cory Mills - a sitting member of Congress - because he believed Mills caused the woman harm and she was in danger of becoming a victim of an act of dating violence. Mills had threatened to circulate sexually explicit videos of his former girlfriend. In response to a question about this, Squeaker Johnson replied: “He’s been a faithful colleague here. I know his work on the hill. I don’t know all the details of all the individual allegations and what he’s doing in his outside life. You have to ask him about, let’s talk about some things that are really serious.” Yeah, domestic violence is what happens on days ending in “y” for Republican men - how dare you question these upstanding Ammerkins? Remember the rule about Southern Baptists: don’t take one fishing with you, or he’ll drink all your beer; take two, and they won’t drink any.

The ICE goons are following ICE Barbie’s example: On September 9, 2025, CBP goons shot and killed a dog named Chop during a search of a family’s home in El Paso, Texas. According to the family’s account reported by KFOX14 and cited by The Independent, the incident unfolded as follows: The CBP goons arrived to investigate an anonymous tip related to the residence’s previous owner. They were in plain clothes and wearing masks, and asked to search the house. When a family member went outside to retrieve his identification from his vehicle, the goons entered the home and opened the bathroom door where the family’s dog, Chop, had been secured. When he started barking, an agent then shot the dog. The goons refused to render aid and the agent who fired the shot ran outside as the family screamed for help, where he hid and refused to identify himself. Chop bled to death in the family’s kitchen. CBP stated that the incident is under review by the Office of Professional Responsibility. The widely followed WeRateDogs social media account condemned the killing and shared details of the story with its millions of followers on Instagram and Facebook. Unsurprisingly, Widdle Markie has ordered both posts taken down, since they make Nazis look bad. These guys really are peckerwood white trash.

Once again, David Frum gets today’s last word: “If you think Trumpism will simply end in three years, you are naive. Left unopposed, global populism of the sort Trumpism represents could dominate for a generation. This could be the rest of our lives, and our children’s, too. Trumpism, like populism, is more than a set of policies—it’s a culture. Trump offers people a sense of belonging, an identity, status, self-respect, and a comprehensive political ethic. Populists are not trying to pass this or that law; they are altering the climate of the age.”

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