WEEKEND KRAYZEE CONTINUES

What it will take to stop all the Krayzee

And Yes, everything is still batshit krayzee.

Want to know just how seriously over-the-cliff SECDRUNK Kegstand really is? Read this transcription of a speech he gave this week as part of the Conference of the Americas yoy didn’t know they were holding. Read it all the way through. He’s absolutely batshit krayzee and, simultaneously, he’s absolutely as serious as a heart attack: https://www.war.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/4424673/remarks-by-secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-at-the-americas-counter-cartel-confere/

Reading that, you will note the crazed chode gives a shoutout to “Stephen” - that would be Stephen Miller, who said this crazy-ass shit at the conference jut before Hogsbreath spoke: Stephen Miller raised eyebrows this week after telling Latin American military leaders they effectively have permission to ignore legal advice while confronting drug cartels. Miller argued that criminal justice tools alone cannot defeat powerful trafficking organizations and instead called for beefing up military force. “What we have learned after decades of effort is that there is not a criminal justice solution to the cartel problem. But just as we fought al-Qaida and fought ISIS with the tip of a very lethal spear, the reason why this is a conference with military leadership, and not a conference of lawyers, is because these organizations can only be defeated with military power. I see some heads nodding up front because they understand you’re dealing with a lot of lawyers in your own country, I’m sure. You have my permission not to listen to them.” My old friend Steve Benen said: “When Donald Trump’s most controversial aide starts advising officials not to listen too much to attorneys, it’s best not to look away,”

In case you don’t have a fully-complete understanding of the word “Kafkaesque,” this is the embodiment of the term: A Colombian reporter working in the United States while seeking political asylum here was detained in Nashville this week and quickly shipped off to Louisiana for allegedly missing two meetings with ICE, one of which was cancelled by the January ice storm and the other of which she claims ICE told her she didn’t have to attend.

Yes, we did do this: U.S. military investigators “believe it is likely” that the United States was responsible for Saturday’s strike on a girls’ school in southern Iran, Reuters reports, citing two unnamed U.S. officials. The NYT’s own analysis indicates the school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as U.S. attacks on an adjacent naval base operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Despite SECDRUNK telling us a few days ago that we don’t need to worry about “smart” weapons anymore since we have moved past that stage of the war and have plenty of (what he didn’t say were) “dumb bombs,” Trump and Hogsbreath have told US defense suppliers to quadruple their output of precision weapons. This suggests that the military has finally gotten through to these dimbulbs that the high rate of consumption of expensive precision missiles with no end in sight is a problem. Trump met with CEOs of major defense industry companies at the White House on Friday. After the meeting, he revealed in a spew on Lies Anti-Social that “we discussed Production and Production Schedules” and “they have agreed to quadruple Production of the ‘Exquisite Class’ Weaponry in that we want to reach, as rapidly as possible, the highest levels of quantity. Expansion began three months prior to the meeting, and Plants and Production of many of these Weapons are already under way. We have a virtually unlimited supply of Medium and Upper Medium Grade Munitions, which we are using, as an example, in Iran, and recently used in Venezuela. Regardless, however, we have also increased Orders at these levels.”

While Trump expressed a desire not to see “boots on the ground” in his NBC interview this past week, he also gave an interview to CNN saying the opposite. This is more of his “ambiguity” in war planning - “Ido/I don’t.” He is merely setting things up so he can say “I told you so” whatever choice he does make. The business with the headquarters of the 82nd Airborne is still proof of this strategy because he may well deploy the paratroopes to a base in the Middle East - but whether they “go” or not will still depend on what he sees he needs to declare himself a winner. This is just more of his “smoke and mirrors” to generate chaos and confusion, his two favorite things. He can get away with this given that 97% of Americans have no military experience to use in listening to him. In other words - don’t get your knickers in a knot... at least not yet.

Russia is providing intelligence information and arms to Iran. In return, Krasnov just lifted some sanctions on his case officer so that Russian sell oil to India. The Russian assistance includes targeting data for U.S. bases and installations to improve Iranian attacks and impose a higher cost to the U.S. for increasing involvement in the war. Iran may not have regular access to high-quality satellite imagery, even from commercially available sources, and may be relying on Russia to get such imagery. Russian intelligence sharing, thus, may be supporting Iranian strikes on US military assets. Multiple people familiar with US intelligence stated that China may be preparing to provide Iran with financial assistance and missile components. They’

re our enemies - what the hell did the morons in Maladministration II expect?

House Republicans are pressing the TrumpDOJ to bring criminal charges against Cassidy Hutchinson, who became the star witness of the Jan. 6 Committee’s hearings, CNN reports. In recent days, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) - who gave a guided recon tour of the capitol to J6 traitors the weekend before the assault and is as deep a part of the congressional J6 conspirators as they get - made a bogus criminal referral of Hutchinson case to the TrumpDOJ, accusing her of lying in her congressional testimony.

One small step for sanity: Virginia Democrats passed a bill last week that Gov. Abigail Spanberger is expected to sign that would bar schools from teaching that the Jan. 6 attach was a peaceful demonstration or that there was massive fraud in the 2020 election. We need to do this countrywide.

Another small step, not really done for the cause of justice: While the dark sex scandal around Rep. Tony Gonzales dragged out for weeks, the end came rather quickly. Tuesday, he was forced into a runoff in the GOP primary. Wednesday, the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into Gonzales, and he admitted to the affair with a former staffer who took her own life. Thursday, the House GOP leadership yesterday called for him to end his re-election campaign. He did finally end it late last night and announced his retirement from congress at the end of this term.

The new Jobs Report is the kiss of death to the GOP in November: “Nonfarm payrolls fell by 92,000 for the month, compared to the estimate for 50,000 and below the downwardly revised January total of 126,000. February marked the third time in the past five months that payrolls declined, following a sharp revision showing a drop of 17,000 in December. At the same time, the unemployment rate edged higher to 4.4% as jobs declined across key areas. A broader measure of unemployment that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time positions for economic reasons moved lower, to 7.9% or 0.2 percentage point below the January level.” That 7.9% is still waaaaay high.

Chuck Shumer on that report: “Today’s jobs report is a blaring alarm that Donald Trump’s economy is deteriorating rapidly. The data from January and February shows our economy was already weak before Donald Trump’s reckless, cost-spiking war. 2025 was the worst year for jobs outside of a recession in more than 20 years. Now we’ve seen job losses in two of the last three months and an economy teetering on the edge of recession.Tariffs are increasing costs, gas prices are spiking, and jobs are evaporating: The Trump Republican agenda is failing the American people and without immediately changing course the economy may go over the cliff.”

The DC Press Corpse of over-educated, under-intelligent, otherwise-unemployables from the shallow end of the white upp-middle-class male DNA pool has outdone themselves for their usual star-fucking bullshit at the Prom Night For Failing Nerds, er, I mean the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner tonight: their guest of honor is that well-known defender of press freedom and the First Amendment, Dilbert J. Anusmouth. Here’s his response to the invitation, as posted this week on Lies Anti-Social: Trump said the WHCA had asked him “very nicely” to be the event’s honoree and promised to turn what is typically dubbed “nerd prom” into the “GREATEST, HOTTEST, and MOST SPECTACULAR DINNER, OF ANY KIND, EVER!” They’re so craven they opted not to have a comedian who might poke fun at the Orange God King, choosing instead to invite a less provocative “mentalist.” Every last one of them should be thrown out of a C-130 mid-Atlantic with an anvil tied to their ankles.

Let’s just review what all the WHCA is saying doesn’t matter, by making this invitation:

Maladministration II has seen an extraordinary series of actions targeting the press. They pushed the Associated Press out of certain events after the outlet refused to adopt Trump’s preferred name for the Gulf of Mexico; stripped the WHCA of its traditional authority over the press pool; exiled all major news organizations from the Pentagon; and waged legal warfare against major media organizations, including CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. The TrumpDOJ has pursued aggressive leak investigations, including a search and seizure targeting a Washington Post journalist’s devices, and arrested Don Lemon. FCC chairman Brendan Carr has publicly targeted broadcasters, threatening regulatory action against news arms as well as late-night hosts such as Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. They have defunded public broadcasters, while installing election denier Kari Lake to dismantle the U.S. Agency for Global Media and turn its outlets into MAGA mouthpieces. Along the way, Trump has continued his long-running campaign against journalists, singling out female reporters with sexist insults and publicly ridiculing members of the press corps. He habitually refers to the news media as “the enemy of the people,” “fake news,” “dishonest,” “corrupt,” “human scum,” and “some of the worst human beings you’ll ever meet” He attacks individual reporters and critics: “rude, terrible person” (Jim Acosta), “pathetic trainwreck” (Stephen Colbert), and “low-life” (Carol Leonnig). His rhetoric has led to reporters being booed and harassed at rallies, and some have received death threats or required private security. But let’s all join hands and sing Kumbaya tonight.

Yesterday, at Jesse Jackson’s funeral, President Obama said: “We are living in a time when it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback the idea of the rule of law. An offense to common decency. Every day you wake up to things you just didn’t think were possible. Each day, we’re told by those in high office to fear each other, and to turn on each other. And that some Americans count more than others. And that some don’t even count at all. Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated and bullying and mocker masquerading as strength. It’s hard to hope in those moments. But this man, Rev. Jesse Jackson, inspires us to take a harder path. His voice calls on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope.”

A 25 country Pew Research Study reports: “The United States is the only place we surveyed where more adults (ages 18 and older) describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad (53%) than as good (47%).” So, what do you do when 77 million of your “Fellow ‘Murrikins” vote for a fascist scumbag dedicated to the destruction of our democratic constitutional republic?

The price of gasoline went up 10 cents a gallon in DC yesterday. (Cue menacing scry music)

Susie Wiles is telling advisers to bring ideas to the Oval Office to lower gasoline prices in the wake of the U.S. attack on Iran, according to two energy industry executives familiar with the conversations. Maladministration II is “looking under every rock for ideas on improving energy prices, especially gasoline prices,” said one of the executives, who was granted anonymity to describe internal administration discussions. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and other advisers focused on energy policy, including a council led by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, “are getting screamed at to find some good news” on bringing down prices, the same executive said. The next time you fill up your car’s gas tank, thank Dilbert and the Republicans, who created this fakakte.

Judge Richard Eaton of the U.S. Court of International Trade will meet with lawyers representing the customs agency responsible for reimbursing more than 300,000 importers that paid the tariffs, which were struck down last month as unconstitutional. The meeting behind closed doors is to hammer out a process to refund up to $166 billion in illegally collected tariffs, a meeting a court official described as a “settlement conference.”

A group of 24 U.S. states sued Maladministration II on Thursday in the first legal challenge to his newly imposed 10% global tariffs, alleging that the president cannot sidestep a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that invalidated most of his previous tariffs on imported goods by citing new legal authority. The Democratic-led states, including New York, California and Oregon, argue the new tariffs, which Trump announced immediately after the high court ruling on February 20, are also illegal. The tariffs were imposed for 150 days under the Trade Act of 1974, which is meant to address short-term monetary emergencies, not routine trade deficits that arise when a wealthy nation like the United States imports more than it exports, according to the states’ lawsuit filed in the New York-based U.S. Court of International Trade.

“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

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