Daily Despot Update

DoubleEgger

Maybe Rudy will be able to afford some Just For Men now. 

Buckwoody Egger

the new american holy trinity 

white jesus
soda pop santa claus
orange king


how about some propaganda to help continue to soften views about J6??  wonder where some might be found?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

Ozzie_Isaac

Buckwoody Egger said:

the new american holy trinity 

white jesus
soda pop santa claus
orange king


how about some propaganda to help continue to soften views about J6??  wonder where some might be found?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

Holy Sheeate!!  My tax dollars are being used got that propagandist bull.s.h.i.t.

Ozzie_Isaac

I guess when you get $1,776,000,000 from US taxpayers you don’t need to worry about gas prices.

Trump on gas prices:

"This is peanuts. I appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while. But I don't even think about. What I think about is you can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon," Trump told reporters at the White House.

Ozzie_Isaac

Interesting read:

If Trump succeeds in looting $1.7 billion from the Treasury, consider what that money could have been spent on. In round numbers, that cash could:

• fund vaccines for children in developing countries for thirty-three years.

• fund PEPFAR for two and a half years.

• restore funding cut by DOGE for medical research on deadly pathogens like hantavirus and Ebola.

• restore Medicaid funds that were cut in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

• pay the salaries of 7,000 immigration judges for a year.

• employ 40,000 home health care aids for one year.

• buy replacements for some of the munitions Trump burned through in the feckless Iran war.

• purchase 2,600 Stinger missiles or about 6,000 Javelin anti-tank missiles.

• fund research to expand the use of mRNA vaccines (cut by RFK Jr.) which have shown promise against RSV, HIV, and flu (in addition to the aforementioned Ebola).

• fund studies or demonstration projects on mitigating the effects of climate change.

• invest in biotechnology and defenses against future pandemics.

The list of worthy projects that would benefit the public, not just the kleptocrat in the White House, is nearly endless.

Trump’s claim that he would “drain the swamp” is a cosmic joke. His administration is an ongoing shakedown of the American people.

If you want the full read here it is:

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-corrupt-is-trump-here-are-the-numbers-trades-chips-nvidia-pardons-settlement-fund

Botch

Ozzie_Isaac said:

I guess when you get $1,776,000,000 from US taxpayers you don’t need to worry about gas prices.

And tonight the justice department has issued a ban to the IRS against investigating the president's, vp's, and president's sons tax filings.  
Guys, if this regime is flaunting their lawlessness now, 6 months before midterm elections, what are they going to be doing afterwards?  

BuckeyeFork

I still think we're better off now than under that crime family.

JohnInCarolina

Buckwoody Egger

the “future pardon” is the height of absurdity and corruption. that settlement, if it stands, it paves the way for unlimited new opportunities to shepherd while having immunity. “bring us your tax scams we can run them for you”.  

JohnInCarolina

lousubcap

Bruce Springsteen on the Wednesday Steven Colbert show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMrNO6VjqiA

JohnInCarolina

I have a recommendation for the future.  Suppose we just follow the rule that a convicted felon can’t be President of the United States?

JohnInCarolina

You don't say.

DoubleEgger

Ozzie_Isaac

Ballrooms, $250 billion, and another war.  Glad the messiah is focused on making america great again!!

Messiah angry He has to follow laws and can’t just get a billion dollars for a vanity project- especially after he already destroyed half the Whitehouse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/26/courts-congress-have-so-far-created-barriers-trump-ballroom/


Messiah wants treasury to release a $250 bill with His likeness.  Based on inflation it will be as ubiquitous as the $20 bill today

https://archive.ph/2026.05.28-101503/https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/05/28/trump-250-bill-pushed-by-treasury-appointees/


Messiah wants to start a war in Cuba because Iran is boring and ruined His record on invasions and attacks.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/this-could-get-messy-trump-officials-spill-on-plans-for-military-action-in-cuba/

Just another Thursday.

Late add, but election rigging also.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-allows-trump-implement-mail-in-voting-executive-order-2026-05-28/

CPFC1905

Great news that a deal to end the Iran conflict is at hand.
The highlights, as I understand it;
The Straits of Hormuz are open
Iran says it will not build a nuclear weapon 
US will pay compensation

Accepting I am neither a top diplomat nor a fabulously wealthy businessman, isn't that the same or worse than before - and then there's the loss of life on both sides? 

lousubcap

Judge blocks Kennedy Center closure, Trump renaming

article link below:
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5901706-kennedy-center-closure-renamin-halted/?email=467cb6399cb7df64551775e431052b43a775c749&emaila=12a6d4d069cd56cfddaa391c24eb7042&emailb=054528e7403871c79f668e49dd3c44b1ec00c7f611bf9388f76bb2324d6ca5f3&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=05.29.26 Evening Report ED

JohnInCarolina

DoubleEgger

JohnInCarolina said:

At least they aren’t still claiming that he has the same build as Lamar Jackson (6’3” 215lb). 

JohnInCarolina

DoubleEgger said:

JohnInCarolina said:

At least they aren’t still claiming that he has the same build as Lamar Jackson (6’3” 215lb). 

He’s just added a lot of muscle, pumping iron, you see?

lousubcap

From The Atlantic-worth the read:

Trump’s 250th Celebration Is a Fiasco

The president has turned a solemn occasion into a Day of Trump.

By David Frum

Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

May 31, 2026, 11:09 AM ET

“You talk too damn much, and it’s too damn much about you.”

That quote from Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye is a good summary of the fiasco that Donald Trump has made of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

You might have thought that presiding over such a celebration would be an easy success for Trump. He is a showman, after all. He loves parades and extravaganzas. It was all an easy layup, a gimme, a chance for a now-unpopular second-term president to reinvent himself as the leader of all of the American people. The only thing he had to do was—for once in his life—not act like an insane egomaniac.

He couldn’t do it.

As things are developing, we’ll remember the story of America’s grandest commemorations as follows:

• One hundredth: a giant industrial exposition in Philadelphia.
• Two hundredth: a tall-ships regatta in New York harbor.
• Two hundred and fiftieth: a Trump flop in Washington, D.C.

Trump knows he has botched the anniversary. He says so himself. Last night, he posted the following indictment of his own program on his Truth Social platform:

We should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain. Cancel it, just like I canceled my involvement with the failing and unsafe to be in Kennedy Center, because a Highly Conflicted, Crooked Federal Judge, said that I should not be allowed to spend my time and money in order to MAKE THE CENTER GREAT AGAIN, actually, far greater than it ever was before! It would have also been nice to see a Republican/Democrat union bring it back to life. The Kennedy Center is broken, unsafe, and $busted, and has been for many years! Judge Cooper also stated that the highly prestigious Board of the Center was not authorized to add on the name “TRUMP” despite the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars of my time and money will be necessary for its successful reincarnation. So now, the Kennedy Center will collapse, both structurally and financially. Judge Cooper and his wife, Amy Jeffress (obfuscation anyone?), should be ashamed of themselves. Judge Cooper, like numerous other Crooked Judges on my cases, should be IMPEACHED. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Translated into plain English, the president was complaining that seven of the nine acts scheduled to headline the July 4 weekend musical program canceled within 48 hours of one another because they realized that the event was degenerating into a hyperpartisan salute to Trump personally. His proposed solution? Replace the canceled acts with a Trump rally speech! A speech that will focus on Trump’s outrage that a judge blocked him from renaming the Kennedy Center after himself!

On July 4, 1776, Congress declared not only the severance of the political tie between 13 British colonies and their former homeland but also the end of monarchical government in the United States. For 150 years before 1776, the American colonies were ruled by a sequence of queens and kings. The names of those monarchs were inscribed on the American map: Virginia, Jamestown, Charleston, Annapolis, Georgia, and in innumerable King Streets and Queen Streets. Then, on one parchment, the new nation repudiated its political origin, and declared that “all men are created equal.” Whatever those words meant, however much slaveholder hypocrisy attended them, they promised a republican future for the people of the land.

The man who assumed responsibility for organizing the 250th commemoration of those words instead decided to make the day a royalist celebration of himself: seeking to emblazon his face on coinage and currency, displaying his image on banners in downtown Washington, and scheduling the central event of the celebration—a televised cage fight—for his own birthday on June 14. A cage fight may seem to some a barbarous way to honor Thomas Jefferson’s great manifesto. But many Americans will enjoy it, and on an occasion such as this, there’s room for a wide range of activities. There’s no room, however, to elevate the presidency created by the revolution of 1776 into a gaudy cult of personality. Trump’s drive to transform July 4, 2026, into a colossal national Day of Trump instead has triggered a rebellious update of the “Spirit of ’76.”

The Americans alive in 1776 shared and read Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.” That pamphlet denounced, 250 years before the event, the pretensions of Trump’s version of America 250: Government by kings, Paine wrote, “was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The Heathens paid divine honours to their deceased kings, and the Christian World hath improved on the plan by doing the same to their living ones.”

Trump’s effort to rebrand the semiquincentennial as the Day of Trump left no time, budget, or effort available for the true purpose of the anniversary. As his own self-celebration has fizzled, a void has opened between the scheduled roster of events and the true purpose and meaning of the solemnity of July 4, 2026. This powerful date will go unmarked by any act of memory worthy of the nation. The Reflecting Pool will be repainted too blue by an overpaid no-bid contractor. The statues on the Memorial Bridge will be gilded too brightly by another overpaid no-bid contractor. There’s a project to erect an Albert Speer–style triumphal arch overlooking the Potomac. But Trump has failed to deliver the victories that the arch might have memorialized—and as the war in Iran has stalemated, so the plans for the arch have stalled. Most symbolic of all, the White House is flanked by a stop-start construction site where the East Wing used to stand. Trump shook down government favor-seekers for enough money to begin work on a presidential ballroom complex, but he did not shake enough to finish it. Now the taxpayer is being asked to pay the balance. A federal judge has ordered work paused pending a vote in Congress, and Trump has whittled down his majorities in the House and Senate to the point where he apparently cannot pass a funding bill. If he loses control of either house in November, construction is unlikely to resume. Instead of a Trump Ballroom, the most conspicuous feature of the Trump White House in 2026 is a gaping Trump Hole.

The greatest of all Fourth of July orations was delivered in 1852, on the 76th anniversary of American independence, by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York. In the opening passages of that speech, Douglass observed ominously: “The eye of the reformer is met with angry flashes, portending disastrous times.” Yet even as Douglass foresaw the coming Civil War and lamented the nation’s flaws, he still expressed hope that “high lessons of wisdom, of justice and of truth, will yet give direction to her destiny.” Trump has made a pitiful shambles of what should have been a glorious moment. But the nation honored by the glorious moment still retains the power of recovery and renewal praised by Douglass. As we contemplate the farce of Trump Day, we can turn our imaginations to what yet might be for America at 300.

We as individuals may or may not live to see it, but we can believe in it all the same. We can believe in it all the more fervently for this experience of living through a chapter of American history that so flagrantly betrays the Founders’ hopes and so arduously tests the Founders’ legacy.

David Frum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the host of The David Frum Show podcast.

Botch

Here, Robert Reich goes over what's happening to our news media, it's worth a couple minutes of everyone's time:

https://youtube.com/shorts/XFiV5Uq0so4?si=13xGg6v1IPyOZ556
 
Falls directly under #6 and #9 of the "Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism":  https://osbcontent.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/PC-00466.pdf