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And So It Goes

Today is Friday, November 28, 2025, one day after Thanksgiving. As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, I was going to take a break for the holiday. Elliot and I had a marvelous time with our friend “Patricia” having a bounteous Thanksgiving lunch at her West Side Tennis Club, in Forest Hills. I know we are quite privileged in being able to do this when so many families are experiencing food insecurity right now in the richest country in the world. So I’m aware of the situation and I know that costs associated with the holiday have risen because of the idiot in chief’s terrible tariffs. This situation, as everyone must be conscious of by now, is that this inflationary spiral swirling around prices that people have to pay in order to sit down at the dinner table with family members they’d rather not be associated with for more than several days of the year is the work of one man: Donald J. Grump. It’s the economy, stupid!

Some information on that “incendiary” video that prompted the despicable Secretary of Defense (I won’t use the new designation here: “War”) Pete Hegseth to call for Senator Mark Kelly’s court martial. It’s because Hegseth was actually following illegal orders to murder people as Secretary of Defense. This is the program in which the Dump administration gave the orders to murder 80 people so far in those boats in which allegations were made that these individuals were drug traffickers and that there was no direct evidence linking these people to the charges. That’s why Kelly and five other Democratic lawmakers made that video. They were focusing on Hegseth’s direct orders to fire on those “drug” vessels.

This situation is given full coverage in a MeidasTouch column by Ron Filipkowski from November 28. Filipkowski cites a Washington Post article in which the Defense Secretary was overheard giving a spoken directive, “The order was to kill everybody” on board those vessels. One of those missile strikes killed 11 people, but as the smoke cleared, it was apparent that there were two survivors. They were clinging to the smoldering wreck. However, a Special Ops commander overseeing the September 2 attack ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions. Afterward, the two men were blown apart in the water.

In the wake of these illegal attacks, some current and former U.S. officials have said that the Pentagon’s lethal campaign is unlawful and may expose those most directly involved to future prosecution – people like Hegseth and Chump, indubitably. It’s clear that these alleged traffickers pose no imminent threat of attack against the United States and are not, as the Chump administration has tried to argue, in an “armed conflict” with the country. A former military lawyer who advised Special Ops forces at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign, Todd Huntley, said that because there isn’t anything like a legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats “amounts to murder.”

Huntley also said that even if the United States were at war with the traffickers, which it isn’t, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight “would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime.” Huntley is now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law. The elite counterterrorism group SEAL Team 6 led the attack.

Army combat vet and congressional candidate Fred Wellman said, “This is insanely illegal. When you ask what the Democrats were talking in their video about the kind of orders that are illegal . . . this is it. It’s against the law to kill wounded prisoners. Period. This is monstrous.”

Who even heard the jerk’s Thanksgiving Day message? I know I had no desire to hear it, but I’m now reading about what this unhinged maniac spoke about on his social platform. All I know is that in a long, rambling piece of garbage, the idiot in chief called Minnesota Governor Tim Walz “retarded.” What a fucking thing to say? This is totally ridiculous and wholly inappropriate coming from a president’s supposed Thanksgiving message.

Then the idiot in chief held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago after golfing. The subject was supposed to be about thanking U.S. service members on Thanksgiving. Instead, it turned into this where the monumental narcissist talked about winning 38 championships without having to practice very much. Then he rambled on about winning them legitimately (even though people have said he does cheat). Is this the damn message people wanted to hear from their commander in chief to honor a federal holiday? I would dare say, “Hell no!” Who fucking cares about his golf game? Let him play golf in Heaven (?) already!

I’m reading now Grump’s whole Thanksgiving message that was printed in Filipkowski’s column and it’s fucking as unhinged as they come. The message behind it was so negative that it could be called “Trumpian” in scope: nothing good, nothing honorable, nothing positive. This guy is a fucking sob queen, it’s so pathetic!

Just another day under this madman. Hopefully our day will come next year.

Have a great weekend.

And so it went!

And So It Goes

Today is Friday, July 11, 2025. As I’ve already written, this so-called president is suffering from the effects of dementia and today another online article seems to confirm my early suspicions. The Irish Star leads off with an article entitled “Trump sparks dementia worries after confusing old clip of Pete Hegseth as live interview,” by Falyn Stempler, online that depicts how internet users are speculating about Diaper Don’s health after his latest gaffe.

Here the toddler in chief praised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his appearance on Fox News this morning via his ridiculously named “Truth” Social. However, reports confirm that the drunk was not invited onto the show, though an old clip of him was shown on the morning news show. The forced error led many online to question the president’s health.

“Secretary of War [sic] (Hegseth is not Secretary of War, so this is another telling gaffe from the old man), Pete Hegseth was great on Fox News this morning. Talking about modern weapons and warfare. Thank you to Brett Velicovich, who really knows his ‘stuff.” We are really on our war. MAGA!.” What the fuck does “We are really on our war” here means, answer me that. This is another incoherent piece of gibberish from the man who said the immigrants are eating the dogs and cats in Ohio.

Diaper Don appears to be referring to a clip originally posted on Secretary Hegseth’s X account the day before it was shown on Fox and Friends this morning, where he spoke about his efforts to cut through red tape to speed up U.S. military drone production.

Internet users have speculated for months about the state of the 79-year-old president’s mental and physical health, including concerns he has dementia, a degenerative disease that reportedly runs in the family. His martinet of a father, Fred Dump, definitely suffered from it.

A group I never heard of, Verified Republicans Against Trump, replied, “Trump’s cognitive decline is getting hard to ignore.” One member wrote, “I’m not sure Trump knows the difference between live and prerecorded, if we’re being honest.”

Another similarly added, “This man has access to nuclear codes but can’t tell the difference between a broadcast and a repost.”

What is definitely appalling about this tin-plated dictator is a photoshopped image of Dump in a Superman costume that was released by his fucking White House that has left many Americans up in arms. As you should know, the true hero as depicted in the Superman comics for over 80 years is a symbol of hope and the slogan attributed to him is “truth, justice, and the American way.” Do you think for a nanosecond that this convicted felon, adjudicated sexual predator, and overall dumb cluck represents the true American way and the path toward truth, justice, and the American way? Fuck no! is my immediate answer. This idiot doesn’t deserve such a honor bestowed on him even though it’s all a facade! Damn his administration for even releasing such a ridiculous image of their Supreme Leader during the week that this film opens. It will be forgotten long before the Superman film is. And, yes, I still haven’t seen the film. When I do, I’ll let you know.

And this is just wonderful: the news that Dump’s base is furious over the growing Jeffrey Epstein scandal in which Attorney General – another blonde bimbo – Pam Bondi, contradicted her own assertions about releasing the Epstein files and now is pulling back from doing anything about it. Dump’s base was desperately hoping for a wide list of clients including prominent names like Bill Clinton and others on it; of course, it is Dump’s name that his Department of Justice and FBI are scrambling to have concealed in this dossier. So now the maggots are accusing Bondi of telling lies (boy, is that rich!) as well as FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino – both of whom are Chump appointees. Another far-right influencer, maniac Laura Loomer is even calling for Bondi to be fired for her handling of the Epstein matter, and has posted on social media today that Bongino is considering resigning in the wake of this matter. Don’t you just love a rift in MAGA World right now?

Today my anger was aroused when I came back from enjoying my usual Wednesday morning (this time I drove to Royal Collectibles at 12) reading my two comic books and having breakfast at Buen Sabor Latino Restaurant and then browsing the shelves of the North Forest Park Library to examine a new dent on my new car’s fender! I couldn’t believe my eyes! The car was parked on the street on a one-way street and there was still damage done to the car in the rear. Thank God I wasn’t in the car.

So now I’m faced with having to repair the car only after having it eight months. I think it’s better to not report it to my insurance company and just pay to have it fixed on my own. For that, I’m considering telling my garage attendant “Louis” – who took our old Nissan Altima back in August after it was sideswiped by a motorist at Green Acres Mall – about this new dent and taking it to his brother-in-law’s shop. As of now, there’s no problem driving it. And the damage doesn’t look as extensive as it was on the sedan. But I’m still angry. So this date, July 11, is a date that will live in infamy in my book.

Have a good weekend.

And so it went!

Here’s the car with the damage caused to it by an anonymous driver who hit it and ran!








And So It Goes

Today is Thursday, March 27, 2025. In the ongoing blowback over the scandalous leaking of war plans on an unsecured app, a story that Dump would love to go away – and it won’t, thank God! – a federal judge today ordered key Chump administration agencies to preserve messages sent on Signal between March 11 and March 15.

The name of the judge should be familiar to those who are keeping close attention on the fuckup in the White House because he’s the same judge who intervened in the unlawful detention of alleged Venezuelan gang members a little while ago. He’s Judge James Boasberg who made the ruling in a preservation lawsuit brought in the wake of the revelation that Cabinet officials were discussing strike plans on Signal. This breaking development is covered in an online CNN article by Tierney Sneed entitled “Judge orders Trump administration to keep Signal records amid Yemen attack chat controversy.”

Boasberg’s temporary restraining order also directs the “dys-administration” (my own coinage here!) to file a status report Monday, accompanied with declarations from government officials, explaining the steps the agencies were taking to preserve the messages.

The messages in question include exchanges about U.S. military strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. The Atlantic reported earlier this week that just hours before the March 15 strikes, top members of president Donald Chump’s Cabinet discussed detailed operational plans in a Signal group thread.

Here’s more blowback that the Dump dys-administration is terrified of: a day after the disclosure of this leak, a watchdog group filed a lawsuit accusing the Cabinet officials on the chat of violating federal records law. It’s very apparent from the bits that I shared yesterday that the details shared on the group chat were classified, not what the Dump dys-administration contends: that it was not classified.

American Oversight, the nonprofit advocacy group that brought the records-preservation lawsuit, said Thursday’s ruling “marks an important step toward accountability.” The group asked in the lawsuit for the federal courts to force Dump officials to do better record-keeping.

Prior to the hearing, the Treasury Department said it has already tracked down and preserved a “partial” version of the chat for federal record-keeping purposes. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was part of the March 15 Signal chat, and the text of those messages are now preserved, a department official wrote to the court in a sworn statement.

It’s still early to ascertain whether this dys-administration will face accountability over this shocking lack of discretion executed on March 15 in which a magazine editor in chief was accidentally included.

Little Donnie’s niece, Dr. Mary Trump, mentioned in a post today that the new scandal to engulf the Dump dys-administration which is now dubbed “Signalgate,” is a “golden opportunity” for Democrats to hammer the White House on national security practices.

Mary Trump stated that officials who were caught with their apps down tried to deflect from the severity of the situation by attacking the journalist who was accidentally included on the group chat, who was actually there at their invitation, either intentional or otherwise. She said, “They’ve been caught red-handed.” She thinks it will come down to whether repugnicans in the Senate “care enough to do something.” Here I think she has too much faith in these fucking cowards who haven’t done anything ever since he has occupied the White House.

“They know, to a person, how serious this is,” said Dr. Trump. “In a sane world, they understand that every single traitor in that chat would be fired and tried under the Espionage Act.” Too bad we are not in a sane world for a very long time due primarily nnto one person.

Conversely, how Democrats handle the scandal will also make a difference, she said.

“This is a golden opportunity for them to take up this cause and make it clear to the American people that they, and they alone, care about the national security of this country and for the citizens in it.”

As I concluded yesterday, let’s see if Dems step up to the plate of excoriating this fucking incompetent dys-administration under an unserious, amateurish leader and hold them accountable before people are killed because of their ineptitude.

I want Democrats to pounce the Dump Cabinet with cries for the resignations of these officials from today forward. Now is the time to strike back and I’m not writing about striking back at Youthis in Yemen.

And so it went!

And So It Goes

Today is Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Countermanding the Dump administration’s newest scandal involving sharing war plans via an unsecured messaging app called Signal in which the idiot known s Pete Hegseth, the new secretary of defense, downplayed the significance of it, editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg today published excerpts of the chat in which he was an accidental participant in The Atlantic, the magazine where he is employed. Goldberg exposed the administration’s almost-fatal error in sharing war plans with unsecured listeners like himself because Hegseth lied to a Senate investigative panel yesterday, saying, “Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about it.”

The article begins with this quote about national security adviser Mike Waltz which can be generalized to ALL of Dump’s cabinet these days: “Everyone in the White House can agree on one thing: Mike Waltz is a fucking idiot.”

This quote came from an anonymous White House official published on Politico on the day Jeffrey Goldberg published a story of how he accidentally got added to a Signal group chat that contains top U.S. national security officials, who were discussing war plans to bomb Yemen.

Yesterday the people involved in this “glitch,” which was labeled this way by the dimwitted president, sat before a heated Senate hearing to answer questions about this mistake. All of them, including Hegseth and new director of national “intelligence,” Tulsi Gabbard, lied to the panel about how scandalous this “glitch” truly was. The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, also confronted angry senators and lied about the import of what had just happened.

Thus the statements made by these lying members of the Dump administration led Goldberg and Shane Harris to reveal the actual texts of what he was a party to.

Here then is a summary of what is contained in the group chat that Goldberg has disclosed. It is Hegseth who posts true war plans in the message posted to the other readers of this thread. I’m just going to quote a little of it since it’s gobbledegook to me:

At 11:44 a.m. eastern time, Hegseth posted in the chat, in all caps, “TEAM UPDATE.”

The text beneath this begins: “TIME NOW: Weather is FAVORABLE. Just CONFIRMED w/CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch.” (Centcom, or Central Command, is the military’s combatant command for the Middle East.)

“12:15 et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package)”.

“13:45: ‘Trigger-Based’ F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME – also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s).”

If this is not classified information regarding conducting a strike against Houthis, then I have a bridge to sell you real cheap. Hegseth is a fucking liar, just like everyone else in Dump’s inner circle. It’s very clear if this entire text had been received by someone hostile to American interests – or someone merely indiscreet and with access to social media – the Houthis would have had time to prepare for what was meant to be a surprise attack on their strongholds. The consequences for American pilots could have been catastrophic and Hegseth and his witless cronies would have been directly responsible for their deaths.

Other highlights of Hegseth’s text are these:

“14:10: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package)”

“14:15: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier ‘Trigger Based’ targets)”

“15:36: F-18 2nd Strike Starts – also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched.”

“MORE TO FOLLOW (per timeline).”

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” – that is, operational security.

“Godspeed to our Warriors.”

Shortly after, the vanishing vice president JD Vance texted the group, “I will say a prayer for victory.” How revolting!

At 1:48, the national security adviser, Mike Waltz, sent the following text, containing real-time intelligence about conditions at an attack site, apparently in Sanaa: “VP. Building collapsed. Had multiple positive ID. Pete, Kurilla, the IC, amazing job.” Here General Michael Kurilla is the commander of Central Command. IC refers to the intelligence community, which here seems to be not be visible in this group chat. Not too much intelligence here, in sharing this sensitive information on the day of these airstrikes on an open channel, folks.

The bearded lumberjack of a vice president texted “what?” after Waltz’s text apparently confused him as to what multiple positive ID meant. The reference to “multiple positive ID” suggests that U.S. intelligence had ascertained the identities of the Houthi target, or targets, using either human or technical assets.

Waltz then responded that he was typing too fast for the confused vp, further saying, “The first target – their top missile guy – we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed.”

Vance then responded a minute later with “Excellent.” Thirty-five minutes after that, Ratcliffe, the CIA director, wrote, “A good start.” Here Waltz employed juvenile emojis on succeeding text like a fist emoji, an American-flag emoji, and a fire emoji. Boy, isn’t this so masculine?

Later that afternoon, Hegseth posted: CENTCOM was/is on point.” He notably told the group that attacks would be continuing. He added, “Great job all. More strikes ongoing for hours tonight, and will provide full initial report tomorrow. But on time, on target, and good readouts so far.”

So here’s most of the not-classified chat, according to the jerk known as Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard who downplayed the entire episode. Ir is still unclear why a journalist was added to this text exchange, but think about it, folks, if we didn’t have Goldberg there accidentally, we wouldn’t have known about the existence of this terrible, glaring lapse in sanity.

Again, I hope all Democrats loudly call for these officials’ immediate resignations.

And so it went!