Pete Hegseth in 'Full Paranoia' Mode, White House Officials 'Troubled' by Pentagon Chaos: CNN

Pete Hegseth in 'Full Paranoia' Mode, White House Officials 'Troubled' by Pentagon Chaos: CNN

CNN is reporting that while White House officials are “troubled by disarray” in the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth is unlikely to be dismissed by President Donald Trump. 

Nevertheless, Hegseth is reportedly troubled by the alleged “total chaos” reported by his former spokesperson and is “in full paranoia, back-against-the-wall mode,” according to a source familiar with Hegseth’s state of mind over the last month

It's so good to be back in the saddle, again. 

Hegseth needs to be fired.

The intel he shared via Signal, including to his wife, was sent to him on a secure channel.

He knowingly exposed our pilots to unnecessary danger with his showboat antics. - Sen. Tammy Duckworth

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin's Effort to Silence Voice of America: 'Direct Affront to the Power' of Congress
• Trump Border Czar Rejects Due Process Argument in Abrego Garcia Case: 'He Got More Due Process Than Laken Riley Got'
• ICE Accused of Lying to School Staff as Part of Bid to Detain Elementary Students
• MAGA Influencer Tells Steve Bannon Trump 'Will Have No Choice' But to Suspend Habeas Corpus
• Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Wife Forced to Hide in Safe House After US Government Publishes Her Address
• Costa Rica Faces UN Lawsuit Over Rights of Deported Migrant Children
• Trump rails against Zelensky over Crimea, calls for ‘fair’ China trade deal
• Vance Urges Ukraine and Russia to Make a Peace Deal or U.S. 'Will Walk Away' From Talks

World Shocked That Trump’s Golf Buddy With Zero Diplomatic Experience Was Unable to End War in Ukraine. - Andy Borowitz

Even A Fox News Editor Questions Trump's Deportation Debacle

Fox News legal editor Kerri Urbahn ripped the Trump administration over its handling of the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case on Wednesday, observing that it’s “taking a big gamble” on it.

Felony convictions:

Abrego Garcia 0

Al Capone 3

Charles Manson 7

John Gotti 13 

Jeffrey Dahmer 15

Donald Trump 34 - Alex Cole

Republican Shenanigans

• House Republican Blasts GOP Senator for 'Peddling Conspiracy Theories' About 9/11: 'Crap'
• 'Big downsizing': GOP plans to snatch health coverage from 'millions of low-income' people
• 'Trump Appears Confused Here': President Raises Eyebrows by Switching Who's Suing Whom in Angry Post About Law Firm
• Santos argues social media posts should not result in harsher sentence
• 'Wait Wait—' Fox News Host Stunned by Wild RFK Rant About Sperm Counts and Teenagers' Testosterone
• Supreme Court justices consider reviving industry bid to ax California clean car rule
• JD Vance Was Among Last to Meet Pope Francis
• Billionaire GOP Megadonor Ken Griffin Warns Trump is 'Eroding' American Brand
• Would $5K 'baby bonus' boost US birth rate?
• Milk quality tests at FDA suspended after Trump cuts
• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant

Trump’s wants white women to start having more “racially pure” white babies because that’s what Hitler did. The Nazis called it Lebensborn. - Lakota Man

 

Purely hypothetical question: shouldn’t the secretary of homeland security be able to secure her own purse? - Andy Borowitz

It’s beyond me why Trump picked Hegseth for Sec Def when he could have just picked up the phone and asked Dennis Rodman. - Andy Borowitz

Florida Republicans Raise An Eyebrow Over Florida's First Lady
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is facing growing backlash in his state over allegations involving an organization linked to his wife.
The controversy concerns a $10 million payment to the Hope Florida Foundation, which is tied to first lady Casey DeSantis’s welfare assistance program Hope Florida and has led to criticism from some state House Republicans. Critics argue this money was inappropriately used to help campaign against a ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state last November.

Who else remembers the PPP covid loan scheme in which millions of dollars were given out to many crooks like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jared Kushner, Devin Nunes, Betsy DeVos and then it was all suddenly forgiven, over $750B worth? I do. - Ricky Davila

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Rock The Voter News

• The next AOC? Young Democrats are aiming to topple incumbents inside their own party
• Jasmine Crockett Declares She's 'Absolutely' Down for Head-To-Head IQ Test with Trump After He Slams Her As 'Low IQ'
• Gavin Newsom says Democrats need to stop looking for a savior on a 'white horse'
• Illinois Senator Dick Durbin retiring, will not run for reelection in 2026 at end of term

Can’t decide which is worse, being afraid of your government, or embarrassed by it. - John Collins

Lipstick On A Pig
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) lost her defamation lawsuit against the New York Times on Tuesday. A federal jury in Manhattan found the Times did not libel Palin in a 2017 editorial on gun control. The jury verdict is the second loss for Palin in the case after an appeals court threw out the 2022 verdict, which also found in favor of the Times.

The whole world is suffering, just so one criminal can stay out of jail--Donald J. Trump. - Paula  Poundstone

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Business/Tech News

• Trump Warned by Walmart, Target, and Home Depot CEOs That Disastrous Tariff Policy Will Lead to 'Empty Shelves'
• Maggie Haberman Mocks Elon Musk's Opposition to Trump Tariffs: 'I Don't Know What He Thought Was Going to Happen'
• Musk Hit With Double Whammy as Tesla Reports BRUTAL Earnings and CEO Says Trump Not Swayed by His Pleas to Lower Tariffs
• Tapper Rips CBS Owner for 60 Minutes Shakeup Amid Trump Pressure: 'Hope the Money’s Worth It, Shari'

1. Trump placed tariffs on China.

2. China went and made trade deals with other countries.

3. Trump is now saying he will reduce tariffs on China.

What chapter is this in "The Art of the Deal"? - Alex Cole

Trump Doesn't Care About Polls

President Trump is seeing a drop in economic approval as concerns rise over his sweeping tariff agenda, which he argues will revitalize manufacturing domestically, according to a survey released Wednesday.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll found that just 37 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s handling of the economy — down 5 points since he returned to the Oval Office earlier this year. It is the lowest figure on the topic spanning both of his presidential terms, the pollster noted.

80% OF MY ARGUMENTS START BECAUSE I HAVEN'T EATEN YET. IF I'M HUNGRY, YOU'RE WRONG. - I'm Not Right In The Head

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Odd News

• NASA’s Lucy Captures Ice Cream Cone–Shaped Asteroid 
• US scientists discover never-before-seen quantum ‘species’ in twisted material
• WATCH: Woman, Kids Narrowly Escape With Their Lives After Huge Manhole Explosion in New York
• 'World's first sperm race' to be held in Los Angeles
• Party animals: Chimpanzees caught on camera sharing alcoholic fruit

Time To Deflate Photo

Floating Market - Thailand.

Peace.

And the beat goes on...

 

Justice Sotomayor with a bone-chilling warning: “The implication of the Government's position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before re-moval. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation's system of laws is designed to prevent, not en-able, their rise."

Ronald Reagan said we were an example for the world.

“A shining city on a hill.”

“And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.”

That was four decades ago.

WHAT THE HELL happened to you, Republicans???? - Bob Warth

When Trump and Musk tout how much money they're saving by gutting cancer research and Social Security services, know this: 

Their IRS cuts will cost $500 billion in tax revenue just this year. That's more than half the Defense budget. 

None of their destruction is actually about saving money. - Hillary Rodham Clinton

 

 

Our founders anticipated a Donald Trump, but they failed to anticipate a cowardly and compliant Republican party. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

If the U.S. government can disappear a person legally residing here with a wife and child who are U.S. citizens and then fart around as if federal court orders are meaningless,  the idea of America is pretty much shot. - Rex Huppke

Trump to Fox: "You know, in the old days -- about 1870 to 1913 -- the tariffs were the only form of money."

People taking 3 pieces of pizza at the party because they think it will run out vs people who take 1 piece for the exact same reason is such a perfect encapsulation of America. - Care2

 

 

Lucerne, Switzerland. FYI: For those interested in leaving the states, Switzerland offers many incentives along with other European countries.

I miss you all!

Peace.

Let's pick up the conversation where we left off...

 

These idiots crashed the best economy in the world in less than three months. - Heath Mayo

Trump claims his tariffs will bring the U.S.  $1 trillion. 

The U.S. has already LOST $10 trillion in stock market value due to Trump’s tariffs. 

So even in Trump’s best case scenario…

NOT A GOOD TRADE!!! - Brett Meiselas

Vladimir Putin is the most successful investor in the history of the world. - David Frum

Btw anyone inside the admin that short sold this should spend the rest of their lives in prison, from interns to the cabinet. - orthonormalist

Sorry I’m a little behind. Was it DEI or a trans athlete that crashed the stock market. - Skyler Johnson

 

 

After the great depression inspired by tariffs and a trade war it took the stock market 22 years to recover. - Anthony Scaramucci

He wants us to be afraid and it is working.

Is there any doubt that the first dollar out the door from companies will be to buy back their stock ? 

It’s the only certain investment available to them. - Mark Cuban

 Let’s be clear: you and I get one vote but billionaires like Elon Musk can spend $270 million to elect Donald Trump.

Billionaires own our political process. 

Does that sound like a real democracy to you? - Bernie Sanders

This is an actual post by the White House

Financial Advisor Recommends Keeping One Bullet In Chamber Just In Case. - The Onion

 

You know how new parents delude themselves into thinking that their babies are saying words when they’re only randomly babbling? That’s how the corporate media covers Trump. - Andy Borowitz

 

 

JD Vance Freaks Out After Tariffs Hike Price of Eyeliner. - Andy Borowitz

In 2018 Elon Musk called the British diver who helped rescue 12 children from a flooded cave in Thailand, a peadophile.

It was a complete lie and it should have been a huge red flag for us all. - Blade of the Sun

That couple on the Titanic who pushed children and servants out of the lifeboats.

Tariffs are clearly working. I’m able to buy my favorite stocks at much lower prices. - Douglas A. Bonepath

My money is safe in my shoe. - Dan Chron

California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

 

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. - Nelson Mandela

 

It is hard to keep the faith. It is downright frightening what he is doing to the world.

Stay safe.

 

Wisteria is primarily a climbing, woody vine, though it can be trained to grow as a tree-like form. 

It is amazing what a human can do when they put their mind to it.

Peace.