If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.

If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal.

Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 9, 2025

“South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY. It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention. A massive Human Rights VIOLATION is happening, for all to see. The United States won’t stand for it – We will act. Also, because of this, I will be cutting off all aid to South Africa until further notice!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Sunday morning, obviously working on Elon Musk’s orders.

The fat fucking idiot of course didn’t do his homework, as the South African state media reported last week that the “much talked-about Expropriation Act is something that should be looked at in the context of its painful past wherein land was a commodity not afforded to the majority. Last week, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law the Expropriation Bill, which sets out how organs of State may expropriate land in the public interest for varied reasons. In a statement, The Presidency said the new legislation, which repeals the pre-democratic Expropriation Act of 1975, aligns expropriation processes with the Constitution. Section 25 of the Constitution recognises expropriation as an essential mechanism for the state to acquire someone’s property for a public purpose or in the public interest, subject to just and equitable compensation being paid.”

Meaning that no land has been seized yet, it could be some time before any of it is, and the whole point is to undo land seizures that occurred during Apartheid. So the usual bullshit from Trump.

A new analysis by Kay Leadfoot (probably not a real name) at FuelArc finds that, at the 14.52 fatality rate per 100,000 units on the road, eclipsing the 0.85 of the notorious death trap Ford Pinto during the 1970s, the Tesla Cybertruck is 17 times deadlier to drive than the poorly-designed economy car.

“An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 occurred north of Honduras at 7:23 PM AST on Saturday, February 8, 2025. Based on all available data, there is a tsunami threat to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands of sea level fluctuations and strong ocean currents that could be a hazard along coasts, beaches, in harbors, and in coastal waters. The earliest estimated time that hazardous sea level fluctuations and strong ocean currents may begin in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands is 9:46 PM AST on Saturday, February 8, 2025. Actions to protect human life, safety, and property should be taken immediately. The generation of tsunami waves has not yet been confirmed. The tsunami forecast does not show a threat for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. However, we are still waiting for sea level data to confirm the forecast,” says a bulletin from the US Tsunami Warning System.

“So typical. The Democrats predict gloom and doom endlessly, then claim consumer sentient dropped because of the President. Now, it is clear that all the Democrat fear mongering was for naught. Trump’s policies haven’t had time to cause inflation yet – Biden owns if for the next 6 months to a year” – The top comment on the Breitbart article headlined “Near-Term Inflation Expectations Surge on Democrat Tariff Fears, Consumer Sentiment Drops,” posted Friday afternoon.

Holy shit, lol. This asshole is mad at Dem respondents to the University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment (not “sentient,” dumbass) survey for taking Trump at his word that he would impose tariffs on Canadian, Mexican, and Chinese imports – the last of which he actually did not cave on and now clothes, toys, electronics, sporting goods, and a whole shit ton of other stuff is going to cost 10 percent more than it did last month. Freaking inflation increased in November specifically because antsy consumers were buying up said goods anticipating that prices would rise due to tariffs.

So it’s going to be hard to credibly put the blame on Biden well before the self-imposed expiration date, but it’s not like they won’t try. Or just ignore that date and still be blaming him in 2028 for whatever goes wrong. “Obama left the cupboards empty” was the MAGA company line early on in the COVID pandemic, three years after he left office when Trump could’ve refilled them.

That convicted felon President Trump on Friday filed an amended complaint against CBS News in his complete bullshit $10 billion “election interference” lawsuit against them over innocuous edits to their interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris is probably a decent indicator that parent company Paramount is at least for now not any closer to settling with the fat fuck.

Maybe the fascist shit that FCC Reichsminister Brendon Carr has been saying publicly snapped them out of it, that settling with the Orange God Emperor will bring them no mercy from his regime.

“Crooked Joe’s MANDATE, ‘NO PLASTIC STRAWS, ONLY PAPER,’ IS DEAD! Enjoy your next drink without a straw that disgustingly dissolves in your mouth!!! Our Country is coming back faster than anyone thought possible. We are respected all over the world, like never before. ENJOY!!!” wrote President Trump on Saturday in a two-part post celebrating a major accomplishment.

In December 2021 Joe Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to reduce purchases of single-use plastics by 2035. That’s literally the only thing that comes anywhere close to a “MANDATE” for paper straws which, by the way, are not the only alternative.

Virginia Republicans are gearing up to run pretty much the same campaign this November as they did in 2021 when affable suburban dad vest guy Glenn Youngkin defeated Dem former Gov Terry McAuliffe as Lt Gov Winsome Sears gets ready to take on her most likely Dem opponent, former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, NBC News reports, writing that they’re more or less just going to swap out Critical Race Theory for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in a “parents’ rights” campaign.

“It will be a big part of their campaign, just as it was in 2021,” said Virginia GOP strategist Zack Roday, sounding extra confident. “It first nicely into the ‘common-sense arguments.’ It fits nice in there with ‘kitchen-table issues.’ It’s a great way to put Democrats on defense.”

The thing about the whole Critical Race Theory scam is that it was just the MAGA icing on a real cake of legitimate frustration with school closures on the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was by then the third school year in a row of disruptions to young lives caused by closures and masking, shit that had a severe impact on families. People were beyond fed up and wanted to take it out on Democrats, right or wrong. “We’re going to fix our schools” was the message spoken. Independent voters heard “We’ll stop closing entire schools every time a kid gets the sniffles” while the MAGA scumbags heard “WE’RE BANNING WHITE GUILT FROM THE CLASSROOM! FUCK YEAH!”

And this is before another nine months of convicted felon President Trump doing everything he can to piss off the hundreds of thousands of federal government employees that live in Northern Virginia, to say nothing of how things are going to go with the economy and the inflation his fuckery is going to cause. So yeah, Republicans probably have their work cut out for them in this race.

Future FBI Director and shitty children’s book author Kash Patel got paid $25,000 last year to participate in pro-Kremlin filmmaker Igor Lopatonok’s six-part “documentary” All the President’s Men: The Conspiracy Against Trump that aired in November on fellow pro-Kremlin propagandist Tucker Carlson’s network, the Washington Post reports, citing Patel’s disclosure form.

Tremors has too many direct-to-video sequels. One of them’s a prequel that takes place in the Wild West where Burt’s great-grandfather was a sheriff or whatever. Never actually seen it. Someone should make a different prequel about Edgar’s final hours stuck up on the transmission tower where it’s like The Snows of Kilimanjaro except he’s a homeless derelict out in rural Nevada. A Tremors prequel that’s profound and artistic that the tremor monster underground is a non-symbolic metaphor for Edgar’s alcoholism, always lurking beneath the surface of everything in his life.

“There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information. Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden’s Security Clearances, and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings. He set this precedent in 2021, when he instructed the Intelligence Community (IC) to stop the 45th President of the United States (ME!) from accessing details on National Security, a courtesy provided to former Presidents. The Hur Report revealed that Biden suffers from ‘poor memory’ and, even in his ‘prime,’ could not be trusted with sensitive information. I will always protect our National Security – JOE, YOU’RE FIRED. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Friday, enjoying one of the spoils of his lie-filled victory.

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— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 7, 2025

Trump-appointed DC federal Judge Carl Nichols on Friday blocked 2,200 USAID employees from being put on administrative leave as was scheduled later tonight and could order that the 500 USAID employees already on leave be recalled, CBS News’s Jake Rosen reports.

Noting that they don’t know what the fuck sexual assault prevention training is supposed to have to do with the whole anti-DEI circlejerk, the Los Angeles Times reports that nonetheless at least both the Navy and Marine Corps have halted all such training, citing a Marine memo ordering “the fleet to PAUSE on all [Sexual Assault Prevention and Reporting] training due to recent changes within the White House to remove diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from all federal policies.”

A US Navy spokesperson confirmed this as well in a statement to the Times, saying “The Navy is working to fully execute and implement all directives outlined in the Executive Orders issued by the President, ensuring that they are carried out with utmost professionalism, efficiency, and in alignment with national security objectives.” The Army, Air Force, and Space Force did not respond to requests for comment, possibly due to a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy specific to this matter.

The trainings now on pause include lessons focused on the nature of consent and sexual harassment, as well as instructions on how to safely report abuse within the military.

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He will be brought back.

To err is human, to forgive divine. https://t.co/TV6SJIb5P6

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2025

Venezuela’s foreign ministry on Friday loudly accused Secretary of State Marco Rubio of being an aircraft thief, denouncing “the brazen theft of a plane belonging to the Venezuelan nation,” after the former Florida Senator supervised the seizure of a Caracas-owned plane stored in the Dominican Republic, AFP reports, the second such “theft” after Rubio’s predecessor Tony Blinken did the same last year to a different aircraft the Maduro Regime had also left in the Carribbean island nation.

“Marco Rubio, from mercenary of hate to aircraft thief!” the ministry said, vowing to “take all necessary actions to denounce this theft and demand the immediate return of its aircraft.”

So much for all of that shit about keeping it under American control, as convicted felon President Trump is willing to allow Nippon Steel to buy US Steel after like a few hours of meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, CBS’s Jennifer Jacobs reports.

“Thank you for the referral of individuals and networks who appear to be stealing government property and/or threatening government employees. After your referral, as is my practice, I will begin an inquiry. Please let me reiterate again: if people are discovered to have broken the law or even acted simply unethically, we will investigate them and we will chase them to the end of the Earth to hold them accountable. We will not rest or cease in this. No one should abuse American taxpayer dollars nor American taxpayer workers. Noone is above the law. I am proud that we have been able to assist local law-enforcement in protecting the DOGE workers and others over the past week or so. A safe DC is a priority for President Trump and all of us. Please keep in touch and continue to refer matters to me as soon as possible,” writes Acting DC US Attorney ED Martin in another ballsucking missive to his overlord Elon Musk, apparently vowing to chase journalists to the ends of the earth for exposing that Musk put a racist freak in charge of the US Treasury’s code base.

In related news, JD Vance publicly called on Musk to rehire the “kid.”