Thursday, December 4, 2025

Donald Trump: In his dreams

 
Headline:  National News Desk, 12/3/2025

Ray Lewis reports:
The Democratic Party expressed optimism that the election results are a positive sign for it less than a year before the midterms. Behn won 45% of the vote, nine percentage points less than Van Epps, but Trump won the district by 22 points last year. Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin said in a statement that Tuesday’s results show Republicans are “on the ropes.” 
“The fact that Republicans spent millions to protect this Trump +22 district and still lost so much ground should have the GOP shaking in their boots,” Martin said.  [emphasis added]

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Senators Norman Bates say the killing of defenseless people is "highly lawful"

 
Headline:  New York Times, 12/4/2025

Megan Mineiro, Julian E. Barnes, and Dave Philipps reports:
Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called the attack “righteous” and “highly lawful and lethal.” He said the video showed two survivors trying to flip a boat “loaded with drugs bound for the United States.” The follow-up missiles were “exactly what we’d expect our military commanders to do,” Mr. Cotton added.  [emphasis added]
 
What a closeted guy to do?
 
Not the first time that Cotton's sexuality has been questioned, you know.
 
Back when it was Twitter

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Pam Blondi spends all of 2025 keeping certain Epstein files under wraps

 
Headline:  The National Memo, 12/4/2025

Lisa Needham reports:
A bipartisan group of congressional leaders has asked Attorney General Pam Bondi for a briefing on when, exactly, she’s going to get around to releasing the Epstein files.  They picked a good day to send a letter to Bondi, as the House Oversight Committee Democrats just released a trove of pictures and videos from Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, including an incredibly creepy photo of a room with what appears to be a dentist’s chair and multiple deeply weird wall hangings.  [emphasis added]



They also reportedly plan to release records from J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank soon.   
The administration is no doubt incandescent with rage that two Republicans—Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky— signed onto this letter. But it’s not surprising, given that they were two lead sponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

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December 2025
What are Trump and his lackeys at DOJ and FBI hiding?  (12/2)

November 2025. 
Why is Donald Trump acting like a cornered rat? ("But his emails" edition).  (11/13)
September 2025

August 2025

July 2025
More evidence that Donald Trump is in full panic mode (tanking poll numbers edition).  (7/25)
Donald Trump to Jeff Epstein in October 1997:  "YOU ARE THE GREATEST!".  (7/25)
The Epstein Files: "A pal is a wonderful thing" (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 5).  (7/19)
The Epstein Files:  Donald Trump as con artist AND sketch artist (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 4). (7/18)
The Epstein Files:  Trump doesn't understand, but everyone else does (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 3).  (7/16)
And no doubt for some very good reasons (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 2).  (7/15)

June 2025

2024
 
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Epstein files coverup: While Donald Trump was sleeping, Ghislaine Maxwell announced she's looking for a get-out-of-jail-free card


Headline:  New York Times, 12/3/2025

Ms. Maxwell has already been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security camp in Texas. The move occurred about a week after she was interviewed over two days about the Epstein case by Todd Blanche, the Justice Department’s second-in-command and one of President Trump’s former lawyers. 
Mr. Blanche met with Ms. Maxwell amid a firestorm of criticism from Trump supporters who called for the administration to release all federal files related to Mr. Epstein. 
Mr. Markus’s letter suggests that Ms. Maxwell, in her habeas petition, will challenge her December 2021 conviction, which came after a monthlong trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The jury found her guilty of sex trafficking conspiracy, sex trafficking of a minor and other counts. 
The Epstein matter has become a consistent headache for the Trump administration. The president and Mr. Epstein knew each other socially, and Mr. Trump has alluded to Mr. Epstein’s involvement with young women. [emphasis added]



Related posts
December 2025
What are Trump and his lackeys at DOJ and FBI hiding?  (12/2)

November 2025. 
Why is Donald Trump acting like a cornered rat? ("But his emails" edition).  (11/13)
September 2025

August 2025

July 2025
More evidence that Donald Trump is in full panic mode (tanking poll numbers edition).  (7/25)
Donald Trump to Jeff Epstein in October 1997:  "YOU ARE THE GREATEST!".  (7/25)
The Epstein Files: "A pal is a wonderful thing" (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 5).  (7/19)
The Epstein Files:  Donald Trump as con artist AND sketch artist (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 4). (7/18)
The Epstein Files:  Trump doesn't understand, but everyone else does (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 3).  (7/16)
And no doubt for some very good reasons (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 2).  (7/15)

June 2025

2024
 
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Donald Trump and the Art of the Nap

 
Headline:  New York Times, 11/25/2025

Katie Rogers and Dylan Freedman report:
Still, nearly a year into his second term, Americans see Mr. Trump less than they used to, according to a New York Times analysis of his schedule. Mr. Trump has fewer public events on his schedule and is traveling domestically much less than he did by this point during his first year in office, in 2017, although he is taking more foreign trips. 
He also keeps a shorter public schedule than he used to. Most of his public appearances fall between noon and 5 p.m., on average. 
And when he is in public, occasionally, his battery shows signs of wear. During an Oval Office event that began around noon on Nov. 6, Mr. Trump sat behind his desk for about 20 minutes as executives standing around him talked about weight-loss drugs. 
At one point, Mr. Trump’s eyelids drooped until his eyes were almost closed, and he appeared to doze on and off for several seconds. At another point, he opened his eyes and looked toward a line of journalists watching him. He stood up only after a guest who was standing near him fainted and collapsed.


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GET ME REWRITE: Going inside the minds of MAGA Team Drool

 
Photo and headline:  AlterNet, 12/4/2025

MAGA movement's motivations as presented in the AlterNet article:
  1. Fused identity
  2. Moral self-righteousness
  3. The right to dominate other groups
  4. Aggressive followership



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GET ME REWRITE: Are MAGA Team Drool Stepford Wives ready to give up their hard-earned right to vote?

 
Photo and headline:  AlterNet, 12/4/2025

Alex Henderson reports:
Dale Patridge, a far-right evangelical Christian nationalist pastor, said, "I think we should repeal the 19th Amendment because I love America." Manosphere influencer Andrew Tate called for the U.S. to "stop letting women vote," and anti-feminist Hanna Pearl Davis repeatedly calls for women to lose their voting rights. Another opponent of women's suffrage is Idaho-based pastor Doug Wilson, an ally of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. 
In a column published on December 4, The Guardian's Moira Donegan warns that the movement to repeal the 19th Amendment is quite real among Christian nationalists and MAGA Republicans.


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GET ME REWRITE: You are probably not enjoying a high-end shopping experience this holiday season


 Unless you're part of the 10%

Photo by Retiring Guy
Headline:  New York Times, 12/3/2025

Jenny Gross reports:
The results highlight a key feature of the U.S. economy: While some shoppers are seeking discounts and cutting back on discretionary purchases, the highest-income consumers are spending relatively freely at more upmarket stores like Bloomingdale’s, which Macy’s owns. 
The top 10 percent of households in the United States make up nearly half of all spending, according to Moody's Analytics.

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Meet Pete Hegsseth, Ssecretary of War

 
Ss.... as in snake.

Headline and partial photo:  Snopes, 12/3/2025
  
Nur Ibrahim reports:
Snopes readers shared an image of Hegseth seated behind the apparently misspelt placard and asked us to ascertain whether the error was real. Some readers even suggested the "SS" was "giving Nazi."
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December 2025

November 2025

August-October 2025
Military fitness and grooming head case Pete Hegseth comes up for air and spouts some scary stuff.  (10/1)
June 2025
West Point graduate Lucien K. Truscott IV gives Trump's bonehead defense secretary Pete Hegseth a much-needed history lesson.  (6/27)Mimbo news bulletin:  When Trump sycophants go off the deep end (Pete Hegseth edition) .  (6/27)
Excuses, excuses:  Why these Republicans aren't attending Trump's birthday party military parade in Washington DC.  (6/14)

March-May 2025
CARRIER OVERBOARD!!!!  This is your U.S. Department of Defense under the woefully incompetent leadership of Pete Hegseth.  (5/2)

February 2025

January 2025

December 2024

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Above the law and all of those pesky building codes: Trump tries to steamroll his way through the White House ballroom planning process

 
Rendering:  New York Times
Headline:  Independent, 12/1/2025

Ariana Baio reports:
Since announcing the project in July, Trump’s ballroom has become larger, costlier and more destructive than initially thought – raising concerns about whether the president is following historical rules when it comes to a White House addition. 
The ballroom’s capacity, initially thought to be 650, has been raised to 900. Its cost has nearly doubled from $200 million to $350 million. Its construction, which Trump initially said would not interfere with the integrity of the current White House, has led to the destruction of the East Wing. 
But to ensure the new ballroom is erected, the president has installed loyalists into positions that would approve the new design and reportedly told teams they do not need to follow the same permit and zoning rules as other properties, the New York Times reported. 
At an October event to raise money for the ballroom project, Trump touted to potential donors that he was told he didn’t need to follow the traditional conditions.

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November 2025
White House Ballroom oversight gaps emerge: Let us count the ways  (Part 1:  National Capital Planning Commission).  (11/18)
What did Donald Trump know about the demolition of the East Wing of White House and when did he know it?  (11/2)
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White House Ballroom correction: This is not construction; it's demolition and site preparation

 
The video was taken on November 15th, and it looks like there's still at least 19 days of demolition and site preparation left to do.  
 
Screengrab:  YouTube

And why would a crew be pile-driving when Trump and his architect James McCrery II can't agree on the size of the ballroom?

Retiring Guy has found nothing to contradict this AI summary.
 


This appear to be some sloppy reporting from The Hill:


Ashleigh Fields reports as though she's writing the first draft of a children's book:
President Trump said Tuesday that first lady Melania Trump isn’t happy about the ballroom construction process on the White House grounds where the East Wing once stood. 
“I wouldn’t say my wife is thrilled. She hears pile drivers in the background, all day, all night,” the president told reporters. 
He said Melania often asks, “Darling, could you turn off the pile drivers?” 
President Trump said he responds by saying, “Sorry, darling, that’s progress.”
Wikipedia description of a pile driver:
A pile driver is a heavy-duty tool used to drive piles into soil to build piers, bridges, cofferdams, and other "pole" supported structures, and patterns of pilings as part of permanent deep foundations for buildings or other structures.

If there still isn't a final design of the ballroom, why is anyone pounding piles into the ground?  How do they know where they go?

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MISCREANT PREACHERS: Teen meet-up in the Name of the Lord (#209 in a series)

 
Screengrab and headline:  Fox 11 Los Angeles, 12/2/2025

Gina Silva ports:
The Brief 
  • Pastor James Stockton of South Bay Church of God in Torrance faces felony charges after allegedly attempting to meet a minor for lewd purposes in a sting operation. 
  • The sting was conducted by the online citizen group "Caught Fished," which claims Stockton knowingly communicated with someone posing as a 16-year-old. 
  • Stockton, who has ties to a Florida church and a past congressional run, was released on his own recognizance and is due back in court on December 12, 2025.

 "Or do you not know that the unrighteous1 will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."  (1 Corinthians 6:9–10)


Other miscreant preachers (which cover a multitude of sins}:
December 2025
Michael Martin.  (12/2)

November 2025 (16):
Mark Vega.  (11/28)
Stephen Santeli Castro.  (11/26)
Yersson Solarte.  (11/23)
Jason Allen.  (11/21)
Glenn Rosenbaum.  (11/17)
Adolfo Castillo.  (11/16)
Quintilo Segrero.  (11/14)
Matthew McGinley.  (11/11)
Eli Regalado.  (11/7)
Andrew Ervin.  (11/6)

October 2025 (15)
Robert L Carter.  (10/23)
Xamie Reyes.  (10/20)
Luis Sosa.  (10/19)
Silas Shelton.  (10/17)
Adrian David.  (10/9)
Virgil Mozee.  (10/7)
Robert Morris.  (10/3)
Ryan McElrath.  (10/2)

September 2025 (10)
Macario Garcia.  (9/26)
John McKinzie.  (9/20)
Isaac Tilden.  (9/19)
Diego Fuller.  (9/17)

August 2025 (7)
Neal Creecy.  (8/22)
Shelton Burkart.  (8/15)

July 2025 (11)
Eli Regalado.  (7/23)
Kenneth Flowers.  (7/18)
John Gibson.  (7/15)
Roy Andrews.  (7/3)

June 2025 (11)
Justin Rhodes.  (6/26)
Dominic Foor.  (6/14)
Ryan McElrath.  (6/10)
Jim Mustain.  (6/7)
Nathan Roach.  (6/3)

May 2025 (11)
Daniel Lamppin.  (5/30)
Alan Buresh.  (5/29)
Daniel Champ.  (5/13)
Paul Dyal. (5/11)
Leo Parker.  (5/8)

April 2025 (7)
Brad Swink.  (4/12)
Jaime Arriaga.  (4/10)
Darren Day.  (4/8)

March 2025 (17)
Joshua Lucero.  (3/26)
Jeffrey Summers.  (3/24)
Sergio Guardia.  (3/22)
Marvin Upton.  (3/21)
Rodger Strong.  (3/20)
Britt Taylor.  (3/19)
Daniel Menelaou.  (3/15)
Robert Morris.  (3/14)
Jose Saez Jr.  (3/12)
Waymon Jordan.  (3/8)

February 2025 (9)
Jesse Santos.  (2/26)
Ruel Barbee.  (2/16)
Lee B. Patrick.  (2/14)
Timothy Nall.  (2/7)

January 2025 (14)
John Fiedler.  (1/26)
James McMillan.  (1/25)
Jeffrey Merrow.  (1/18)
Johel LaFaurie.  (1/17)
Jeff Taylor.  (1/16)
Dallas Majewski.  (1/15)
Bruce Hollen.  (1/14)
Timothy Nall.  (1/9)
 
December 2024 (14)
Edward Monk.  (12/23)
Joshua Lough.  (12/22)
Ignazio Medina.  (12/20)
Anthony Odiong.  (12/19)
Vincent Bishop.  (12/9)
Arturo Alarcon.  (12/8)
Hunter Eubanks.  (12/7)
Roy Shoop.  (12/5)

November 2024 (19)
James McMillan.  (11/30)
Stephen Melton. (11/29)
Charles Sulivant.  (11/24)
Geoffrey Carter.  (11/22)
John Radcliff.  (11/21)
Garrett Harmon.  (11/20)
Edward R. Monk.  (11/16)
George Bell.  (11/14)
Jose Mora.  (11/13)
William Pounds.  (11/12)
Charles Randall.  (11/9)
Jackson Gatlin.  (11/7)
Charles Goff.  (11/1)

October 2024 (25)
Stephen Johnson.  (10/27)
Josh Howerton.  (10/26)
Craig Stone.  (10/26/2024)
Steven Lawson. (10/25).  
Scott Crenshaw.  (10/25)
Byron Copeland.  (10/25)
Josiah Anthony.  (10/25)
Ronald Goines.  (10/24)
Tony Cammarota.  (10/24)
Robert Morris.  (10/24)
Mike Buster.  (10/23)
Tony Evans.  (10/23)
Terren Dames.  (10/23)
James Randolph.  (10/23)
Matt Queen.  (10/18)
Roy Shoop.  (10/12)
Gabriel Mills.  (10/3)

September 2024 (16)
John Raymond.  (9/27)
Juan Barrios.  (9/23)
Demiro Johnson.  (9/22)
Glen Dean McCoy.  (9/22)
James Swanson.  (9/21)
William Dunfee.  (9/21)
Steven Lawson.  (9/20)
Rocky Goodwin.  (9/19)
William Johnson.  (9/17)
Tim Ballard.  (9/13)


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