"You know, we have a life and grass has a life and the grass here died about 40 years ago. " American Politics, August 2026

from:https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/trump-transcripts/transcript-president-trump-visits-park-police-officers-in-washington-82125

If only he would stay on the grass level, as a nature lover or parks and rec officer, also a golfer, a napper, and not think too much about, you know, anything but grass, or anything.

ONLY 30 MONTHS TO GO ON THE DONALD TRUMP CONTRACT

So they dropped the charges against that Olympic canoeist for “vandalizing” the reflecting pool and admitted it was a botched installation. Which of course the entire world already knew.

I bet that Olympics canoeist already accumulated lots of legal fees . But can he sue the government and get them back? I hope so.

More no-bid Trump contracts mentioned by New York Times

Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts
The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the canoeist had plenty of pro-bono offers. anyway he has a great case for malicious prosecution.

To preserve the endless golden chain of US political fuckery, a link to the July thread:

The Saddest of Ferris Wheels - American Politics, July 2026

The canoeist should file a claim with the DOJ “weaponization fund”

I find it all so depressing and defeating - like, even if the Dems win the midterms and defeat Trump (whether or not he's running) in 28 and even expand the courts and get statehood for DC and PR, it feels like if they don't put every single one of these motherfuckers in jail and make them pay for their abundant crimes, they'll just get back in.

The way I avoid depression and defeatism is to get my jollies one step at a time.

i get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

Poor you!

brb going back to my bars, temples, and massage parlours

This morning, Trump reportedly "lashing out" (getting his jollies?) at DOJ for dropping pool charges.

Repeated his lies again about vandals and disagreed with announced findings on Truth Social.

https://apple.news/Afyl5C8yZRM-ANJneve-_rA

was wondering when he was going to pipe up about this

it would be great if someone called him on his lies directly but I don't expect it to happen because it never does and is pointless

The media may not call him on his lies, but maybe this amounts to voters calling him on his bullshit:

A poll released by Quinnipiac University on July 29 showed Trump's approval rating at 32%, while 58% of respondents said they disapproved of the president's job performance. According to the pollster, Trump’s performance in the poll is the worst recorded in either of his terms in the White House.

Only a day after Quinnipiac’s poll, an AP-NORC poll showed similar numbers, as only 33% of respondents approved of Trump’s performance

Also worth noting that the percentage of people who will affirmatively identify themselves as Republicans to a pollster is down to 25%.

Don’t ask me why or how, but I read that entire transcript in dow’s original post, with Trump doing his patented “weave” i.e. spewing whatever flits into his addled brain. Many choice moments, but I actually lolled at this one:

And Pam, thank you very much. What a job. She's -- people don't realize -- they're going to see, she'll go down as the greatest attorney general we've had. I really mean it too. And where's my Kristi? You're there. Thank you very much. She's been incredible and she can ride a horse like nobody. She gets on those horses. She rips those horses around. But I want to thank you very much.

Secretary of Interior Burgum feuding with prosecutor Pirro online today, as Burgum decides to echo Trump and insist it was still vandals at reflecting pool. They're all crazy cult members

apparently Trump is now selling early access to his Truth Social posts, just the most breathtakingly corrupt shit I've ever seen in this country

Slobbering on Trump is their main job description. Insufficient slobber leads to leaving your cushy government job to fill "a very important job in the private sector" that Trump made up out of thin air.

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/01/nx-s1-5912219/trump-truth-social-access-insider-trading

wow. yeah. i mean, every step deeper into this is the frog slowly boiling, the straw that broke the camel’s back, etc

but lol, yeah, it’s like sign up for a service where you can figure out if trump is going to escalate or de-escalate the iran war he started, strait of hormuz insider trading tips, etc.

Trump's media company says customers have already started signing up. Such an offering would give institutional investors a leg up in areas of finance like high-frequency trading, where an advantage of a few milliseconds can mean the difference of millions of dollars. But will the service be widely adopted across Wall Street?

"It's insane," said one Wall Street executive, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation from the Trump administration. "I can say for myself and 200 of my friends in finance, we're not getting anywhere near this. In another administration, this would be considered criminal.”

you gotta love the moment when the wall street executive delivers the hard truths

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Faces New Scrutiny

Increasingly scrutinated

Scrutum

The wrinkled old retainer

Still, even in its new form, Mr. Blanche’s order for the I.R.S. to abandon any audits of Mr. Trump’s previous tax returns is an unprecedented and potentially illegal benefit to a sitting president, worth potentially tens of millions of dollars in lower taxes and avoided penalties

From NY Times re how 2 “holdout “ Republicans are likely now to make Blanche attorney general despite above, because he has supposedly dropped other item that would set up slush fund for J6 ers

lol as soon as he is confirmed he's going to do all the shit he said he wouldn't do

why would Biden let him do that?

Can't spell "slush fund" without "lush fun."

Hey, Biden tried to provide guidance by nominating a worthless, do-nothing AG.

how is Hong's anti-Thanksgiving platform hitting in the wisconsin heartland?

Democratic socialist and former Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong (D) on Monday defended a past social media post urging the country to “cancel Thanksgiving” further leaning into her progressive agenda that’s gained traction for her Wisconsin gubernatorial campaign.

Anchor Kaitlan Collins asked if Hong still stood by her now-deleted post on X from 2021.

“Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621,” Hong previously wrote on the social platform.

“If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed indigenous folx and women, so be it,” the post continued.

I can't imagine that interview with Collins hit all that well for her. And she and the other DSA candidates should stop going on Fox News, they just seem like sitting ducks for mockery.

I really like Hong, but she and others need to stop with the intersectional gibberish language. Most people don't get it. It feels to me like they're talking over most people's heads. Why?

I really like Hong, but she and others need to stop with the intersectional gibberish language. Most people don't get it. It feels to me like they're talking over most people's heads. Why?

Seems to me (and this is why I'm not a politician) it shouldn't be that hard to start your answer to "Do you still want to outlaw Thanksgiving?" with "You realize not everyone in the world is white and Christian, right?"

looking good for el-sayed

intersectional gibberish language

and i think centrists should stfu and sit down.

policing normal language utilized by plenty of non-college educated, non-white people is textbook liberal racism.

but you know some posters here wouldn't know that because they're white and live in mostly white places and never actually interact with non-white people. trust me: everyone knows what colonialism is except dumb fucking honkies, and catering to them doesn't fucking work anyway.

cori bush lost

lol

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Democrats
Projected winner
ABDUL EL-SAYED WINS THE MICHIGAN PRIMARY

now win! there should be law about spending in these matters. now win. i’m so glad he took it. now change the law when it is unfair— or in this case fucking obscene. do we know who forces that? we do. not politicians

if we settle only for better justice for gaza by defunding anything (and that itself is still far away), the necessary steps will be worse than incomplete. it will invite only more injustice for both issues.

one can say “oh it’s scotus who controls much of this matter.” yes it is. my opinion remains.

Meanwhile

Political Polls
@PpollingNumbers

Results - Thomas Smith — the guy who suspended his campaign last month — just defeated Trump-endorsed Amir Hassan in the MI-08 GOP primary.

this might be a bunch of hot air but still doesn't bode well

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told faith leaders he is planning to roll back abortion access even in states that have laws protecting it.

On a private call last week hosted by the White House Faith Office, Blanche told the religious group Intercessors for America that moves to undo the Biden administration’s efforts to protect abortion are “taking longer than we want.”

But Blanche assured them that the Justice Department (DOJ) is “working hand-in-hand” with federal health agencies, the White House and President Trump’s team “to get permanent solutions so the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state.”

important gop adorability discourse

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https://bsky.app/profile/tylerhuckabee.bsky.social/post/3msdrvtms3k2b

regarding the Blanche nomination it appears Susan is concerned

President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, Todd Blanche, faced renewed uncertainty over his U.S. Senate confirmation on Wednesday after Republican Senator Susan Collins said on Tuesday she would vote against him, leaving the former Trump personal lawyer with little margin for error.

xp so fucking weird that the VP of the United States is weighing in on this shit

xp so fucking weird that the VP of the United States is weighing in on this shit

It's always important to keep in mind that JD Vance is a giant fucking loser.

Trump is a poster. Vance is a reply guy.

they don't eat burritos in the White House

just in Trump Tower

Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics! https://t.co/ufoTeQd8yA pic.twitter.com/k01Mc6CuDI

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 5, 2016

Trump is a poster. Vance is a reply guy.

extremely otm

BLITZER: If a Democratic Senate primary were held in Pennsylvania today, do you believe you would win?

FETTERMAN: ... Like, today?

BLITZER: Yeah

FETTERMAN: Uh. Yeah.

lol

lol that is pretty good

“ the White House Faith Office”

LOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi--

TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo*

LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3msed6xkkf42b

jfc

I've been forced to learn in the past few days of the existence of this weird Nashville Zionist influencer. She has a book out called White. Blonde. Jew., which is first of all a creepy fashy title. Then an indie bookstore in Nashville canceled an author appearance by her out of security concerns, because they'd gotten a lot of flak from customers about bringing in a cheerleader for Netanyahu and the IDF (which she is, she posted a "Prayer for the IDF" on her Instagram a few months ago). So now of course she's riding the Canceled Circuit, going on Fox to blame antisemitism and booking paid speaking gigs under the banner "Canceled for Being a Proud Jew."

So anyway I looked at her Instagram. I'd never heard of her. 92K followers, which doesn't seem massive to me but I guess was enough to get a book deal. She appears to be part of a kind of circle of right-wing pro-Israel influencers. She does a lot of Muslim bashing. But what struck me was her affect in her videos. She started as an architecture and design influencer before "reconnecting with her Jewish identity" after Oct. 7, and she has all the breathy ASMR intonations and vaguely uplifting words of Live Laugh Love culture but they're wrapped around really brazen cheerleading for Israeli violence. It's kinda disconcerting. (I'm not even typing her name, easy to find, just wouldn't want any of her trolls to wander in.)

when I’m emperor all “influencers” are going to work in the rice paddies

xp She sounds like a Human Resources manager from hell