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Trump, Musk and the DOGE crew have been hard at work creating as much chaos as possible and slashing and burning the federal government, but the liar Larry Kudlow and Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins Americans are trying to blame the bad news in the upcoming jobs report on Joe Biden.

We saw this routine from Newt Gingrich the other day where he blamed the upcoming Trump recession on Biden and Congress not getting their tax cuts passed quickly enough.

Now we’ve got this gaslighting where they’re pretending what Trump has been doing has been a positive for the economy instead of him destroying the strong economy that he inherited.

LARRY KUDLOW: You know, Brooke, the other part of this, and I appreciate what you’re trying to do on the egg story. It’s a hard story. You inherited that story.

USDA SECRETARY BROOKE ROLLINS: That’s right.

LARRY KUDLOW: Some very, very smart people are telling me that the jobs number that’s coming at the February jobs number that’s coming out Friday could be flat, even negative, Brookie!

The GDP now tracker from the Atlanta Fed is showing, I mean, for the first quarter, a minus two and a half or -2.8%, and we’ve had lousy numbers on things like housing and business investment.

My generic point here, with respect to affordability and the economy, is we’re going to have to suffer through some bad news!

This has nothing to do with Trump. Trump’s programs not in yet!

And I’ve got people on the left who are blaming Trump. How can you blame Trump when he wasn’t president when these seeds were planted?

USDA SECRETARY BROOKE ROLLINS: Well, you couldn’t be more right about that because we’ve only been here 30 plus days. You can’t turn an entire economy around in 30 days.

You can’t “turn an entire economy around in 30 days,” but as we’re finding out, you sure as hell can destroy one in that amount of time.

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu clapped back at Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar, who doesn’t understand the US Constitution, after he claimed Democratic mayors are against comprehensive immigration reform if they refuse to help ICE agents round up and deport migrants.

The Boston Mayor quickly bashed Republicans during Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on “Sanctuary Cities” led by QAnon Klan Mom Marjorie Taylor Greene for not doing anything to help the country outside of grandstanding and viciously cutting veterans, much needed cancer research and Medicaid.

GOSAR: How can you get a comprehensive immigration policy when you’re defying it from the very get-go? You’re building it on false premises and false tenets.

WU: Respectfully, Congressman, you could pass bipartisan legislation and that would be comprehensive immigration law.

The false narrative is that immigrants in general are criminals or immigrants in general cause all sorts of danger and harm.

That is actually what is undermining safety in our communities.

If you wanted to make us safe, pass gun reforms.

Stop cutting Medicaid.

Stop cutting cancer research.

Stop cutting funds for veterans.

That is what will make our city safe.

Bravo!

State and local authorities are not required to work with federal ICE agents or any federal authorities within the U.S. Constitution. WU is correct. MAGAts have created the false narrative that undocumented migrants are the only purveyors of crime in the country.

Here is the full exchange.

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Senator Lindsey Graham, who once appeared to be a respected Senator, has now joined the MAGA cult, full stop.

Graham was Sen. John McCain’s right-hand man for many years and attacked Trump when he himself ran in the Republican presidential primaries. As a new CNN poll showed, the public abhored and rejected last night’s 99-minute Trump fiasco.

But in Lindsey Graham’s world, Trump should get a third term. Hey Lindsey, that’s illegal.

My take on President @realDonaldTrump’s address tonight: Inspiring, funny, compelling and the Democrats’ worst nightmare.

Trump 2028!

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 5, 2025

Trump has done nothing to aid the American people and instead is causing chaos, derision, prices to skyrocket and the stock market to collapse, while giving access to the public’s private data to the richest man in the world.

All the while, Trump insists he is a more fantastic president than George Washington. This is sick.

Buffoons like Graham stroke his ego and promote this insidious propaganda.

The selling of Graham’s soul to the Devil is complete.

Kenyatta: Trump in just six weeks has made life more expensive, has made America sicker, has made us weaker. And he got up on that stage and just lied to the American people. The only American energy that was unleashed was the full gaslighting that we saw in front of our face. pic.twitter.com/lLLLhmHDV2

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 5, 2025

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Rep. Drunken Van Orden (MAGA-The Insurrection Inn) did an interview with Meg Ellefson on her podcast. They were talking about the protests by Republicans at Republican town hall meetings. At least I think it was DVO, but it might have been the alcohol talking:

DVO: Well, it’s not just Glenn there over uh… they’re disrupting Fitz’s meetings and uh… they did a whole bunch of Republicans around the country. And I just people have to understand you know I, I uh… well history buff and people in in uh… all people associated with the communist movement and the national socialist movement uh… used to get their way politically is they would do stuff like this. And they were called agitators. So, this is a time tested proven method or very far left and very far right groups to get their way and what I say very far right, I mean actual national socialists. So, here’s what I told everybody, we’ve been getting harassing calls. I just got more death threats last week, me personally. Uh… if anybody’s coming to any of these meetings that we have and they act in an unlawful manner by harassing people or if they’re being disruptive, refusing to leave the venue, we will have them arrested and charged with the Class B misdemeanor. I’m not going to put up with these agitators going disrespect and acting in unlawful manner to their fellow Wisconsinites or my staff, period.

ELLEFSON: FAFO

DVO: All right, well, but we’re not doing it. Republicans are too nice

First off, DVO owes me a new monitor because I had a spit take on the Republicans are too nice line.

Secondly, it’s not surprising that DVO would call out the misdemeanor classification since he’s probably been warned about that when he was screaming at a teenage girl working in a public library because of a PRIDE book display or when he drunk raged at a group of teenaged pages in the Capitol building.

However, the surprising part is that he was whining about the town hall meetings in the first place, especially considering he’s never even held one. He recently skipped a meeting with the Farmer’s Union. And when there was supposed to be a town hall last week, he cancelled it because too many people showed up:

📺 LA CROSSE: Derrick Van Orden hastily moves meeting across town to hide from his own constituents.

“Van Orden’s staff changed the location … which some of those who signed up say their registration was removed and they were not told about the location change.” pic.twitter.com/OZWHUHR7yR

— Joe Oslund (@joe_oslund) March 2, 2025

But there’s more. There’s always more.

DVO was supposed to have another town hall meeting, but abruptly changed the location and rescinded people’s tickets – without even notifying them:

📺 EAU CLAIRE: @derrickvanorden office cancels a meeting with constituents.

“Staffers cancelled after learning more than 100 people were interested in going. They say they only agreed to a meeting of 24.” pic.twitter.com/rvtyrwtK74

— Joe Oslund (@joe_oslund) February 27, 2025

Here’s a pro tip for DVO: First, you gotta at least make an honest attempt at holding a real town hall before you can whine about them.

And as a bonus pro tip: You can’t complain about Nazis when you act like one.

H/T Heartland Signal for the top video

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MAGA scumbag (but consummate liar) Peter Navarro resurfaced on Fox News Wednesday and proclaimed that Mexican drug cartels have taken over Canada.

Navarro, with a straight face, blamed our neighbor to the north for overdose deaths in the US.

It’s Interesting that jailbird Navarro was nowhere to be found throughout Trump’s election and transition. Too crazy for Trump is an accomplishment.

“What I want to say to every world leader who gets up in arms when all we’re asking for is fairness and to have them stop killing our people is, please, listen to us,” Navarro said.

Fairness? WTF is he talking about?

The Trump/Musk administration is changing their tariff tune from economic fairness into a war on drugs. Imposing massive tariffs helps no one. It raises prices to Americans and will not stop the flow of drugs into the country. If we had an easy solution, Nancy Reagan’s “just say no to drugs” would have been successful 40 years ago.

NAVARRO: Canada could do a lot more.

Canada has been taken over, Brett, by Mexican cartels. They bring up these pill presses and printers and the medicines that they fake.

You can’t tell the difference.

Farmer companies can. You need a spectrographer to do it.

Canada is now being considered, ya know, fentanyl gang murderers. This man is as delusional as he’s ever been.

MAGAts come up with bogus talking points that are then fed through Fox News and other MAGA outlets and soon the cult will label all Canadians as murderers

Canada is forcing our people to ingest fentanyl.

Gotcha.

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Four senior members of Yambo’s administration have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, coincidentally, just as Trump aligns with Putin in seeking to push him out of his job! Via Politico:

The senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a remorselessly ambitious former prime minister, and senior members of the party of Petro Poroshenko, Zelenskyy’s immediate predecessor as president, according to three Ukrainian parliamentarians and a U.S. Republican foreign policy expert.

The discussions centered on whether Ukraine could hold quick presidential elections. These are being delayed in line with the country’s constitution because Ukraine remains under martial law. Critics of holding elections say they could be chaotic and play into Russia’s hands, with so many potential voters serving on the front lines or living abroad as refugees.

The Trump aides are confident that Zelenskyy would lose any vote due to war fatigue and public frustration over rampant corruption. Indeed, his poll ratings have been in decline for years, although they have picked up in the wake of last week’s Oval Office brawl, when the Ukrainian leader was shown the door after being berated by President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance. The most recent poll shows Zelenskyy still comfortably ahead in the race for the presidency.

The official line from the U.S. administration is that Trump is not interfering in Ukraine’s domestic politics. This week, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick denied his boss was “weighing into Ukrainian politics,” adding all that Trump wants is a partner for peace.

Nope, he wouldn’t DREAM of it.

Is it just a coincidence that already-debunked claims of Zelenskyy corruption are popping up all over again in MAGA and Russian propaganda outlets?

Ha, ha! What a kneeslapper! “Partner for peace”! That’s all what Putin wants, amirite?

Dear God, I hate these people.

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In a February article of her Reframing America newsletter, Antonia Scatton wrote, “For sixty years, a billionaire-funded network of corporations, politicians, PACs, news networks, churches, foundations and think tanks have demonized ‘Washington’ and government itself – public attacks that we [on the left] have abjectly failed to counter. For this reason, too many Americans see drastic action as justifiable. Some even see Trump’s willingness to break the law to do it as the actions of a uniquely great leader.”

I’ve “only” been blogging about Fox News and the right-wing for 20 years, but I can attest to that.

Scatton has a number of suggestions to reframe the debate. She offers talking points to be used on social media, a letter to the editor or just talking to your neighbors. The topics include Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, crypto as the real Ponzi scheme, and my favorite: Elon Musk and his DOGE bro billionaires.

Say this, she writes:

Elon Musk is a CORPORATE RAIDER. He bought a MAJORITY SHARE of Donald Trump. This is a HOSTILE TAKEOVER of the U.S. Gov’t. He’s DOWNSIZING the workers and STRIPPING IT FOR PARTS.

Elon Musk is OUTSOURCING BUSINESS to other companies he owns and acquiring PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGY and SENSITIVE CONSUMER DATA. He will SADDLE IT WITH DEBT and LEAVE IT BANKRUPT.

I like this one even better: Paint the billionaires as the parasite class. Instead of sharing immigrant Elon Musk’s smear of Americans using their government’s services, we should say again and again who the real parasites are. For example:

The richest corporations and individuals have a moral obligation to pay their fair share for the public resources and services provided by the American people, from which they have gained the lions’ share of the benefit.

Tax cuts for the rich KILL JOBS and DESTABILIZE THE ECONOMY. They already have more money than they can sensibly or productively use.

More money for the already rich and corporations enables mergers, job cuts, outsourcing and AI worker replacement, and fuels speculation that causes market bubbles and crashes! You know what creates jobs? Higher wages, tax cuts for workers, and public investment. This drives demand and creates job growth!

Trump’s tax cuts for the rich blew a giant hole in the revenue side of the federal budget equation. Now he wants to do it again.

Elon Musk is not just an immigrant but a likely illegal immigrant who already makes many BILLIONS from existing contracts with the federal government, as I recently wrote. None of those contracts have been deleted in his DOGE purge. Instead, he just gave himself a new one that could be worth a few more BILLION.

I hate to quote Steve Bannon but he was not wrong when he called Musk a “parasitic illegal immigrant” last month. “He wants to impose his freak experiments and play-act as God without any respect for the country’s history, values or traditions,” Bannon also said. Of course, Bannon probably wants to play-act as God with his own misguided vision for the country’s history, values or traditions, but I digress.

The bottom line is that instead of complaining about what Musk does, it’s time emphasize what he is: He’s a parasite extraordinaire (as our own Karoli Kuns put it) sucking the taxpayer-funded blood out of our federal government and our life-saving and life-enhancing services for the sake of enriching himself and his other billionaire bros further.

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Remember the story a few weeks ago where Trump lawyers tried to gin up a criminal investigation and freeze EPA grant funds from the Biden administration? And not one, but two career prosecutors resigned and refused to pursue the case?

Ed Martin, the MAGAt who helped organize the Stop The Steal movement, is now the head of the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, and he was the man behind this fake scandal. Many prominent attorneys were so shocked by this attempted frame up, they suggested Martin should be disbarred.

See if you can connect these dots in this letter that’s going around in D.C.:

“Hi DC lawyer friends:
Trump/Pam Bondi loyalists are currently making a bid to take over the DC Bar: Her brother is running for President and Alicia Long (who I believe is US Attorney Ed Martin’s chief deputy right now) is running for Treasurer. The bar has a big role in licensing and discipline, so very worth paying attention to, and if, like me, you have never thought about DC Bar elections before, this may be the year to cast your vote/tell a friend. Voting opens April 15, here’s what the website says about it:

The 2025 D.C. Bar general and Communities elections will run from April 15 to June 4.

Voting is exclusively online. Eligible voters (all active D.C. Bar members in good standing as of February 28) will receive an email link to the general election ballot, as well as to the ballots for their D.C. Bar Communities, from Direct Vote (via Survey & Ballot Systems), an independent vendor administering the 2025 D.C. Bar elections.”

Basically, if you know any attorneys in the D.C. Bar, please forward this to them. Let’s stop these evil bastards.

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Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee subcommittee on Social Security yesterday announced three new pieces of legislation aimed at protecting our safety net:

John B. Larson, Richard E. Neal, Danny K. Davis, and Steven Horsford unveiled the Keeping Our Field Offices Open Act, the Protecting Americans’ Social Security Data Act, and a Resolution of Inquiry into Trump’s and Musk’s attempts to destroy these programs.

This would be a great idea. Unfortunately, the legislation won’t make it out of committee without a Republican co-sponsor. And the horrendous Jason Smith is the committee chairman, so unless pigs fly?

Maybe Dems should just stop trying to be so well-behaved.

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Trump’s legal counsel, Alina Habba, told reporters that recently fired veterans from the government by Trump/Musk may not have been fit to have their job at all.

Wow, just wow.

There are many veterans and Republicans who are now unhappy they voted for Trump after he unceremoniously cut and fired federal government employees with a heavy hand that included many veterans.

Habba was asked in a presser if Trump had any second thoughts about firing our military veterans that served this country and were happy to work in the federal government — if the administration can do something to help them.

How she replied was shocking.

REPORTER: Is the president starting to think about maybe some of those veterans who worked for the federal government and maybe what the administration can do to at least help salvage their lives?

HABBA: Well, as you know, we care about veterans tremendously. I mean, that’s something the president has always cared about. Anybody in blue, anybody that serves this country.

But at the same time, we have taxpayer dollars, we have a fiscal responsibility to use taxpayer dollars to pay people that actually work.

That doesn’t mean that we forget our veterans by any means. We are going to care for them in the right way. But perhaps they’re not fit to have a job at this moment or not willing to come to work.

And we can’t, you know, I wouldn’t take money from you and pay somebody and say, sorry, you know, they’re not going to come to work.

It’s just not acceptable.

There was no rhyme or reason for the mass firings and enforced retirements caused by co-Presidents Trump and Musk.

No job evaluation was done to determine if a veteran was qualified for their job. When Habba says they may be unfit, is she talking about their mental state?

How would a bullshit algorithm know about their mental and physical health?

It’s just like a MAGA cultist to denigrate those they’ve hurt in the worst possible way.