A Full and Un-redacted List (Unlike the Jeffery Epstein files) of President Trump’s Medications -hum… Maybe
(From my blog)
Representative Jammie Raskin of Maryland has requested from the White House a full list of medicines that has been prescribed by Mr. Trump’s 22 doctors. Although the press spokesperson at first objected to this request, Dr. Oz. Administrator of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid as a stand-in for Karoline Leavitt while she gives birth and nurses a future MAGA bambino, has offered a list which he states is full and complete. The following medicines are:
Antiparasitics for shaking hands with too many parasitic tyrants
Anti flea medicine to keep tics to a minimum
Bleach taken twice a day in morning and evening to clear any vestiges of coronavirus
Benzodiazepine for bipolar mood swings
Finasteride (Propecia) that keeps hair loss to a minimum at the same time reduces testosterone and frustrates the user who is prone to sudden needs for military aggression
As Doctor Oz was about to turn the page and expose some really bd medications President Trump is currently taking, staff hurriedly came out to announce the press conference was ending.
No, no. He has been an absolutely stupid patent medicine dealer since he first showed up on Oprah’s show - used to be a heart surgeon, apparently, but traded that in for a lot of junk science, right up RFK,JR’s alley. The fact he has anything to do with Medicare and our nation’s medical wellbeing is ridiculous.
Between this shill and Dr. Phil and giving a huge platform to Jenny McCarthy (make measles great again!), Oprah has done a lot of harm to this country. No idea why everyone thinks she is somehow royalty.
"Authentic" is one word for it. ;) While it probably can be argued that most of her stuff was neutral or fine, we must also remember that she became a billionaire and helped to start this 'attention economy' by selling her brand and by promoting people she thought people would want to watch. Before it was clicks and views, it was just views. I take EVERYTHING every Talking Head says with a grain of salt (even those I agree with) and I *still* have seen some go bad if the money was right! Another interesting discussion if anyone cares to read it. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1263527101
Oprah and her gal pal Gayle were part of the now infamous Venetian Blind, those who consider themselves royalty attending the Bezo multi multi million dollar/lira wedding extravaganza…flaunting their “let them eat cake” attitude. “O” once was wonderful but somehow somewhere lost touch with the masses she claimed to enlighten and help.
She’s kind of an idiot. Standing on the island of Maui, she said she buys land because gawd’s not making any more of it. Standing on a dormant volcano in a state that is growing from lava flows as we speak. What a dope.
He started out on Oprah as a knowledgeable doctor who helped me navigate options. I still benefit from his knowledge. Around 2015, he changed and became a hawker of nonsense. Big egos make big mistakes. Unless they have Fox to whitewash. Smart can be more dangerously corrupted than dumb. Chump can’t tell the difference.
"Big egos make big mistakes." Mistake or choice to cash in? You might have gotten some useful information from him, but that does not mean that he was not a snake oil salesman long before he went to work for Trump. This article is old and shows that even back then, he was an untrustworthy shill. https://time.com/3642533/dr-oz-advice/
Impressive how the various European countries and leaders have stood up to Trump and his weird-ass surrogates like Wittcough, Kushner and Vance and now to Trump.
Meanwhile NOONE is talking about how Trump, the Republicans and the Billionaires Club are adding over a $trillion in new debt every 5 months.
But hell will freeze over before The NY Times or the WAPO headlines on Page 1 that "Trump is an Asshole."
My song, "Broken Roads and Broken Trails" written during the swearing in of President Joe Biden. The lyrics are about the previous tenant in the White House except one line "Sun up and skies are blue" when the poet laurette performed her poem and the very rainy day the sun came out for a brief moment. Enjoy:
The multi-hued karmic appropriateness of this Greenwater debacle sets me a-cackle every time it does its firefly number on my alleged mind. (And given the caliber of the crime, perhaps now a new suffix for scandal, with, say, "Trumpwater" [or "Pedowater"] at long last retiring the "Gate" suffix.)
"Israel has continued to strike Lebanon." Indeed, Per the BBC, 6/20/26, MONA KHALIL, an ecologist who had refused to leave the Lebanese beach where has spent years protecting a remarkable species of turtles, DIED from her injuries after the Israeli strike.
The far right in Israel don't choose to do anything.
They exhibit themselves instead as just passive reactors to their own scripted, stereotyped, group abstractions. Always with the linear logic which testing pushes all around the world: simple causality, simpleton causality, arithmetically locked-in repetitions only.
Can anyone break these helpless cycles? Yes, if schools served literacies beyond the primitive rationalities of testing.
But why break mindless repetitions when testers, arms dealers and U.S. Rapture evangelicals all so profit from only murder, murder, murder, destruction, destruction, destruction?
It's a wonderful name, isn't it? Maybe they've already won the contract for the water fountains in the new gilded ballroom? After all, the owner is a neighbor down in Palm Bech so it must be just fine. The rest of us are just irrelevant.
No, it’s become a vandalized mess .12 arrested not to mention the 8647. They inscribed on the grass nearby. But by the way, you might wanna know the company that built Obama’s library. Was owned by Stevie Wonder. Omg. Well now you know the news, but you guys never know the news because they never give you all the news here nor in all the liberal media they bury it just like you, Iran buried its USELESS nukes. NOW. THANK YOU, MR. TRUMP.
The $1.7 million no-bid contract awarded to Greenwater Services — a firm whose ultimate owner is a Trump donor, whose wife hosted an event at Mar-a-Lago, and whose Florida corporate address is listed as the contractor's own — is the specific accountability question the reflecting pool story raises. Richardson frames the broader episode as a character portrait of the Trump presidency, but the contracting arrangement is where republican governance has a concrete stake: public funds disbursed through a process that bypasses competitive bidding, awarded to a firm with documented financial ties to the officeholder, for work that has visibly failed within days of completion. The Interior Department's denial that it knew of Cafaro's political support when awarding the contract may be accurate, but the structural condition — a no-bid process with no public competition — is precisely what makes that denial unverifiable by citizens or oversight bodies after the fact. Competitive contracting exists not because contractors cannot be trusted, but because the process itself is what makes public spending auditable and public officials answerable.
The Park Service just attached a garden hose from the Pool into a nearby sewer manhole. You can see photos of the pea-green yuck flowing into it. According to our local reporters, it doesn't smell very nice.
The asshole who promised to drain the swamp swamped the drain instead.
Rube meaning: "a person from the countryside who is considered to be stupid and without experience." This word strikes me as a slur on rural people. I don't think progressives are being true to their desire to have a society where every one thrives when they put down any group of people based on race, gender, or even based on where they live. Where's the inclusivity and diversity in that? Many rural Americans believe, perhaps rightly, that Democrats lack respect for them and this works against Democratic candidates.
Many billionaire, urban, sophisticated, well-educated, people helped Trump get where he is. Let's call them out for their stupidity and willingness to be part of Trump's swamp. and to benefit from it, people like Musk, Scott Bessent(Sec. of Treasury), Zuckerberg, Bezos, Larry Ellison, Carl Icahn and others.
you have to be kidding! Our Washington Democratic Senators are always working to help all the people, urban or suburban or city or whatever, without specifying what party they belong to. Bessent is one of the stupidest persons I have ever heard speak!
And, per Ground News, 0% of right leaning media is reporting the story that the 1.7 million dollar no bid contract was awarded to a Trump supporter and Mar-a-Lago neighbor. You would think they would be all over a story about Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. Apparently, graft, corruption, and cronyism is A-Okay if it is Republicans lining their pockets with tax payers money.
No surprise, if right wing nuts ever told the truth, chump would hsve been in the trash bin at the birther crap. He lies, they swear to it, yet they are called news. Nazis had more integrity. It’s our government that’s been hijacked that allows this travesty.
Exactly why true believers buy the alternative facts. Fox was created to counter Walter and use “fair and balanced” to describe propaganda. I thought people weren’t stupid enough to buy that. Silly me
Agree 100% Civik. The corruption is naked and blatant. In any other time there would be arrests and motions of impeachment. We got a lot of fixing to do. Hope someone’s got a list.
The flagrant corruption is not a flaw in Trump's regime; it is a feature, an open invitation for a free ticket on the Trump gravy train. He is signaling to all his followers that he will reward them for their loyalty, no competence required, no questions asked.
And now he is making it clear that he is going to recycle the reflecting pool opportunity for graft because only the "experts" who created the "perfect" pool that lasted for about 12 seconds can repair the damage done by the evil vandals who destroyed it using KNIVES!
Let's see how this feature of the regime is working on a larger scale. The YES resolution of the question of whether a "permanent" peace deal with Iran was signed by June 15 on Polymarket is still up on their site. Polymarket has not yet paid out the $377,000,000 in bets because the ruling is in dispute. Apparently, "permanent" has a different meaning depending on where you place your bet. Kalshi resolved a similar contract as NO.
On Polymarket, you bet using crypto from anonymous wallets. The Polymarket betting went from 4% YES to 88% yes over a 24-hour period around Trump's birthday. You may recall that Trump claimed he electronically signed the peace deal that nobody had seen on Monday June 15 ahead of the deadline for the bet to resolve to YES.
Don Jr. is a crypto advocate. He is involved and invested in both Polymarket and Kalshi. You can only use crypto to bet on binary outcomes of all kinds of events, like elections, and deals to end wars, and bombing countries. Theoretically you could even bet on the date that the reflecting pool will be blue again. And if you used insider info who would know? Piping the graft through Polymarket would mean he wouldn't even be giving his cronies government money--it would be the dumb money of the suckers who were on the losing side of the bet.
What is scarier is that prediction markets are being used to hedge business risk. There are proposals to allow retail investors to use it to bet in retirement accounts.
From the NYTimes:
The stakes are high. Kalshi has already become the biggest prediction market in the United States, processing $17.9 billion in trading volume last month, largely from individual bettors. And it raised $1 billion last month at a staggering $22 billion valuation — double its appraised amount in December — on the promise that it could supercharge its growth by drawing in hedge funds, brokerages and more.
Polymarket, its chief rival, sold a stake to the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange with a similar aim.
“I think there’s a new Wall Street being formed,” Tarek Mansour, a founder and the chief executive of Kalshi, said in a recent interview."
Schwab is going to start offering options that you can "invest" in in your retirement accounts.
"The company is working with Cboe Global Markets on yes-or-no contracts tied to the performance of the S&P 500, according to reports citing people familiar with the plan. The contracts would function more like binary options than the futures-style event contracts commonly associated with Kalshi or Polymarket, paying a fixed amount if the index finishes above or below a preset level and nothing if it does not."
The question is whether the prediction markets remain crypto- based with anonymous wallets. That is just one more way to transfer wealth to Trump's cronies. Stopping it will depend on regulation, which is a joke these days. Every aspect of Trump's regime, from the huge government no-bid contracts to chump change from college kids betting on whether a looksmaxxer will say a certain word in his next podcast, is based on picking our pockets.
If we were to measure corrupt spending of any administration as a fraction of those 4 years year's annual budget in real dollars on the day of inauguration, would DJT win that 250 year contest? Ian
The fact that the majority of Republican members of Congress still not only support, but cheer on this insanity is truly stunning. History will not be kind…
The only thing criminal Donald has certifiably done re the pool is turn it into algae swamp.
A fetid green algae swap -- perfect expression of his incompetent, self-centered, corrupt administration.
Criminal Donald can't do anything but more criminality, mixed in with major idiot mistakes he makes -- such as Iran war -- only to show all he's alone in his willful idiocy.
I've a Q: are all the World Cup team members from Iran wearing a piece of symbolic accessory bearing only the figure "168"? You know, for all the little girls killed by criminal Donald's U.S. war criminal cohorts at that Iranian elementary school in Iran?
(A few minutes later: I've done search, and find that what I thought I'd heard as true -- that accessory celebrating the U.S.-murdered 168 schoolgirls -- is indeed true. I'd like one myself.)
There is a large swath of people in the USA who believe everyone is out to get Trump and therefore an existential threat to them, too. This is who Trump is signaling when everyone can see the reflecting pond reno is a major disaster while he crows how perfect and beautiful it is. Trump is a vile, contemptible a-hole, indeed. But so are his cult members.
If you want to convince people who are Trump lovers that there’s another way of looking at things calling them. All assholes doesn’t accomplish. Anything I go out of my way to speak to some of them with reason about things we can agree on like how their grandsons are doing in a football game. I know I probably won’t change any of the real rabbit people minds, but I want to teach them that people who think differently.,even Democrats ,may in fact the people who care and are not monsters we need more communication between people and get them out of their information silos
As the National Park Service continues searching for Nessie and other beasties lurking at the bottom of the Green Lagoon, the tweets pinging back from the White House signal our final descent into Full North Korean strait jacket territory.
The reflecting pool survives. The Republic remains in peril.
It's remarkable how quickly this administration can pivot from policy failures to imagined scandals. And the idea that foreign leaders are "begging" for photo opportunities belongs somewhere between fan fiction and late-night comedy.
One hopes there are still Republicans intelligent enough to feel embarrassed by being asked to applaud this nonsense. How they can continue on, in silence, while the rest of us are left wading through the daily flood of tRump's verbal diarrhoea, is mind boggling.
On April 27, 1945, US troops from the 1st Armored Division arrived in Milan to the cheers of thousands of exhausted Italians, securing the liberation of the city from the Nazis two days earlier by Italian partisans. The next day, Mussolini and his wife were hanged upside down by their heels on Milan's Pizzale Loreto. The press captured photos of both events.
On June 20, 2026, the front pages of Milan's Libero newspaper --- "the American President is an asshole."
You couldn't make up a trajectory of pointless downward stupidity like this if you tried.
This is typical Trumpian Autocratic behavior. "Always believe what I tell you, in spite of all video evidence." This MO has permeated his entire cabinet and most of the entire Republican Party.
Who is going to question the Republican political ads this fall and where the money comes from to pay for them?
A couple of days agp, I heard a radio ad for Susan Collins where a (likely) paid actress who isn't a resident of ME tell us that "I will never vote for Graham Platner." Of course she won't because she has never been to Maine. Typically, the Republican PACs take an ad and just change the name of the people in the race and play it in several different states. 97 billionaires so far have given to PACs that support Susan Collins. (Maine is the listed voting residence of zero billionaires.)
I wonder which company will be next to get a no bid contract to fix the pool 🤦♀️
Resource below to easily contact all of Congress - Be LOUD. Trump/the administration is dangerous for our country 💔🤍💙
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) to contact members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly!
Reach out (beyond your own) to as many in the Senate and House as you can. All of this is bigger than “I only represent my constituents” issues.
Megan, maybe the same people that Kristi Noem paid over $200 million to to create her ads. But, I'm sure justice will prevail and the contractor will be forced to refund all of the money he was paid.
And BTW, it came out this week that when Trump first bragged about the WH destruction project was announced Trump had already paid the company from the US Treasury. Even though he said 100% of that money came from private donations.
But, maybe that wasn't a complete lie, because all of us donated through the US Treasury.
David Fahrenthold's summary of the New York Times investigation into the Reflecting Swamp's no-bid contracts to pieces of sleaze loyal to Trump....If you look up J.J. Cafaro Trust and take a peek at the grotesque neighbor with the cigar in his mug who got the contract Trump "knows nothing" about, you'll get yourself a true belly laugh.
It is too fitting that the pool company’s name is Greenwater. And green water is exactly what they delivered.
A Full and Un-redacted List (Unlike the Jeffery Epstein files) of President Trump’s Medications -hum… Maybe
(From my blog)
Representative Jammie Raskin of Maryland has requested from the White House a full list of medicines that has been prescribed by Mr. Trump’s 22 doctors. Although the press spokesperson at first objected to this request, Dr. Oz. Administrator of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid as a stand-in for Karoline Leavitt while she gives birth and nurses a future MAGA bambino, has offered a list which he states is full and complete. The following medicines are:
Antiparasitics for shaking hands with too many parasitic tyrants
Anti flea medicine to keep tics to a minimum
Bleach taken twice a day in morning and evening to clear any vestiges of coronavirus
Benzodiazepine for bipolar mood swings
Finasteride (Propecia) that keeps hair loss to a minimum at the same time reduces testosterone and frustrates the user who is prone to sudden needs for military aggression
As Doctor Oz was about to turn the page and expose some really bd medications President Trump is currently taking, staff hurriedly came out to announce the press conference was ending.
Oz screwed himself snd he will never be respected again. May this future befall anyone who bet their reputation on an alliance with chump.
No, no. He has been an absolutely stupid patent medicine dealer since he first showed up on Oprah’s show - used to be a heart surgeon, apparently, but traded that in for a lot of junk science, right up RFK,JR’s alley. The fact he has anything to do with Medicare and our nation’s medical wellbeing is ridiculous.
By "ridiculous," Cathy, do you mean normal for our age of fat orange criminal stupidities?
Yeah.
Between this shill and Dr. Phil and giving a huge platform to Jenny McCarthy (make measles great again!), Oprah has done a lot of harm to this country. No idea why everyone thinks she is somehow royalty.
She was authentic, I loved Oz and Dr Phil before they sold their souls and became shills for evil.
"Authentic" is one word for it. ;) While it probably can be argued that most of her stuff was neutral or fine, we must also remember that she became a billionaire and helped to start this 'attention economy' by selling her brand and by promoting people she thought people would want to watch. Before it was clicks and views, it was just views. I take EVERYTHING every Talking Head says with a grain of salt (even those I agree with) and I *still* have seen some go bad if the money was right! Another interesting discussion if anyone cares to read it. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1263527101
Oprah and her gal pal Gayle were part of the now infamous Venetian Blind, those who consider themselves royalty attending the Bezo multi multi million dollar/lira wedding extravaganza…flaunting their “let them eat cake” attitude. “O” once was wonderful but somehow somewhere lost touch with the masses she claimed to enlighten and help.
She’s kind of an idiot. Standing on the island of Maui, she said she buys land because gawd’s not making any more of it. Standing on a dormant volcano in a state that is growing from lava flows as we speak. What a dope.
I am not an Oprah fan.
He started out on Oprah as a knowledgeable doctor who helped me navigate options. I still benefit from his knowledge. Around 2015, he changed and became a hawker of nonsense. Big egos make big mistakes. Unless they have Fox to whitewash. Smart can be more dangerously corrupted than dumb. Chump can’t tell the difference.
"Big egos make big mistakes." Mistake or choice to cash in? You might have gotten some useful information from him, but that does not mean that he was not a snake oil salesman long before he went to work for Trump. This article is old and shows that even back then, he was an untrustworthy shill. https://time.com/3642533/dr-oz-advice/
And he was once a respected heart surgeon at Columbia / NY Presbyterian -- and it traded it for scams and graft.
He was respected? When? He’s always been a snake oil salesman.
You have to be smarter than Trump's cabinet and any R lawmaker in Congress to defy him. I guess that means algae is smarter.
Impressive how the various European countries and leaders have stood up to Trump and his weird-ass surrogates like Wittcough, Kushner and Vance and now to Trump.
Meanwhile NOONE is talking about how Trump, the Republicans and the Billionaires Club are adding over a $trillion in new debt every 5 months.
But hell will freeze over before The NY Times or the WAPO headlines on Page 1 that "Trump is an Asshole."
My song, "Broken Roads and Broken Trails" written during the swearing in of President Joe Biden. The lyrics are about the previous tenant in the White House except one line "Sun up and skies are blue" when the poet laurette performed her poem and the very rainy day the sun came out for a brief moment. Enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7KHm3nLzA
The multi-hued karmic appropriateness of this Greenwater debacle sets me a-cackle every time it does its firefly number on my alleged mind. (And given the caliber of the crime, perhaps now a new suffix for scandal, with, say, "Trumpwater" [or "Pedowater"] at long last retiring the "Gate" suffix.)
BBC:
"Israel has continued to strike Lebanon." Indeed, Per the BBC, 6/20/26, MONA KHALIL, an ecologist who had refused to leave the Lebanese beach where has spent years protecting a remarkable species of turtles, DIED from her injuries after the Israeli strike.
*****************************************************************************************
AXIOS:
The wider development yesterday, 6/20/26:
"It says it is closing the Strait of Hormuz, SoH, over Israeli attacks on Lebanon."
Axios' Author, Barak Ravid
The far right in Israel don't choose to do anything.
They exhibit themselves instead as just passive reactors to their own scripted, stereotyped, group abstractions. Always with the linear logic which testing pushes all around the world: simple causality, simpleton causality, arithmetically locked-in repetitions only.
Can anyone break these helpless cycles? Yes, if schools served literacies beyond the primitive rationalities of testing.
But why break mindless repetitions when testers, arms dealers and U.S. Rapture evangelicals all so profit from only murder, murder, murder, destruction, destruction, destruction?
It's a wonderful name, isn't it? Maybe they've already won the contract for the water fountains in the new gilded ballroom? After all, the owner is a neighbor down in Palm Bech so it must be just fine. The rest of us are just irrelevant.
TOUCHE!!!
that part jumped out at me too. can’t make this stuff up.
No, it’s become a vandalized mess .12 arrested not to mention the 8647. They inscribed on the grass nearby. But by the way, you might wanna know the company that built Obama’s library. Was owned by Stevie Wonder. Omg. Well now you know the news, but you guys never know the news because they never give you all the news here nor in all the liberal media they bury it just like you, Iran buried its USELESS nukes. NOW. THANK YOU, MR. TRUMP.
so for you, algae are vandals eh. Stupid even by your usual standards. Ian
Made my day!
Truth in advertising. A first for Trump!
Exactly what I was thinking, Nanci. I was also thinking this is another instance of "The Emperor's New Clothes".
The $1.7 million no-bid contract awarded to Greenwater Services — a firm whose ultimate owner is a Trump donor, whose wife hosted an event at Mar-a-Lago, and whose Florida corporate address is listed as the contractor's own — is the specific accountability question the reflecting pool story raises. Richardson frames the broader episode as a character portrait of the Trump presidency, but the contracting arrangement is where republican governance has a concrete stake: public funds disbursed through a process that bypasses competitive bidding, awarded to a firm with documented financial ties to the officeholder, for work that has visibly failed within days of completion. The Interior Department's denial that it knew of Cafaro's political support when awarding the contract may be accurate, but the structural condition — a no-bid process with no public competition — is precisely what makes that denial unverifiable by citizens or oversight bodies after the fact. Competitive contracting exists not because contractors cannot be trusted, but because the process itself is what makes public spending auditable and public officials answerable.
The Park Service just attached a garden hose from the Pool into a nearby sewer manhole. You can see photos of the pea-green yuck flowing into it. According to our local reporters, it doesn't smell very nice.
The asshole who promised to drain the swamp swamped the drain instead.
We all know he never cared about draining the swamp, that's just what he told the rubes to get elected, so he could drain the treasury.
Rube meaning: "a person from the countryside who is considered to be stupid and without experience." This word strikes me as a slur on rural people. I don't think progressives are being true to their desire to have a society where every one thrives when they put down any group of people based on race, gender, or even based on where they live. Where's the inclusivity and diversity in that? Many rural Americans believe, perhaps rightly, that Democrats lack respect for them and this works against Democratic candidates.
Many billionaire, urban, sophisticated, well-educated, people helped Trump get where he is. Let's call them out for their stupidity and willingness to be part of Trump's swamp. and to benefit from it, people like Musk, Scott Bessent(Sec. of Treasury), Zuckerberg, Bezos, Larry Ellison, Carl Icahn and others.
you have to be kidding! Our Washington Democratic Senators are always working to help all the people, urban or suburban or city or whatever, without specifying what party they belong to. Bessent is one of the stupidest persons I have ever heard speak!
Progressives are also capable of having lazy stereotypes, unfortunately. Ian
OK, ok alright. trump is a "deplorable".
I suspect most people who use the word "rube" don't know its original meaning.
Well said!
funny. thanks.
Bingo. Modern Repubs just turn everything bassackward.
puY, all dekcuF uP.
And, per Ground News, 0% of right leaning media is reporting the story that the 1.7 million dollar no bid contract was awarded to a Trump supporter and Mar-a-Lago neighbor. You would think they would be all over a story about Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. Apparently, graft, corruption, and cronyism is A-Okay if it is Republicans lining their pockets with tax payers money.
No surprise, if right wing nuts ever told the truth, chump would hsve been in the trash bin at the birther crap. He lies, they swear to it, yet they are called news. Nazis had more integrity. It’s our government that’s been hijacked that allows this travesty.
Exactly why true believers buy the alternative facts. Fox was created to counter Walter and use “fair and balanced” to describe propaganda. I thought people weren’t stupid enough to buy that. Silly me
It's their raison d'etre.
Agree 100% Civik. The corruption is naked and blatant. In any other time there would be arrests and motions of impeachment. We got a lot of fixing to do. Hope someone’s got a list.
Captain Queeg is alive!
The flagrant corruption is not a flaw in Trump's regime; it is a feature, an open invitation for a free ticket on the Trump gravy train. He is signaling to all his followers that he will reward them for their loyalty, no competence required, no questions asked.
And now he is making it clear that he is going to recycle the reflecting pool opportunity for graft because only the "experts" who created the "perfect" pool that lasted for about 12 seconds can repair the damage done by the evil vandals who destroyed it using KNIVES!
Let's see how this feature of the regime is working on a larger scale. The YES resolution of the question of whether a "permanent" peace deal with Iran was signed by June 15 on Polymarket is still up on their site. Polymarket has not yet paid out the $377,000,000 in bets because the ruling is in dispute. Apparently, "permanent" has a different meaning depending on where you place your bet. Kalshi resolved a similar contract as NO.
On Polymarket, you bet using crypto from anonymous wallets. The Polymarket betting went from 4% YES to 88% yes over a 24-hour period around Trump's birthday. You may recall that Trump claimed he electronically signed the peace deal that nobody had seen on Monday June 15 ahead of the deadline for the bet to resolve to YES.
Don Jr. is a crypto advocate. He is involved and invested in both Polymarket and Kalshi. You can only use crypto to bet on binary outcomes of all kinds of events, like elections, and deals to end wars, and bombing countries. Theoretically you could even bet on the date that the reflecting pool will be blue again. And if you used insider info who would know? Piping the graft through Polymarket would mean he wouldn't even be giving his cronies government money--it would be the dumb money of the suckers who were on the losing side of the bet.
What is scarier is that prediction markets are being used to hedge business risk. There are proposals to allow retail investors to use it to bet in retirement accounts.
From the NYTimes:
The stakes are high. Kalshi has already become the biggest prediction market in the United States, processing $17.9 billion in trading volume last month, largely from individual bettors. And it raised $1 billion last month at a staggering $22 billion valuation — double its appraised amount in December — on the promise that it could supercharge its growth by drawing in hedge funds, brokerages and more.
Polymarket, its chief rival, sold a stake to the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange with a similar aim.
“I think there’s a new Wall Street being formed,” Tarek Mansour, a founder and the chief executive of Kalshi, said in a recent interview."
Schwab is going to start offering options that you can "invest" in in your retirement accounts.
"The company is working with Cboe Global Markets on yes-or-no contracts tied to the performance of the S&P 500, according to reports citing people familiar with the plan. The contracts would function more like binary options than the futures-style event contracts commonly associated with Kalshi or Polymarket, paying a fixed amount if the index finishes above or below a preset level and nothing if it does not."
The question is whether the prediction markets remain crypto- based with anonymous wallets. That is just one more way to transfer wealth to Trump's cronies. Stopping it will depend on regulation, which is a joke these days. Every aspect of Trump's regime, from the huge government no-bid contracts to chump change from college kids betting on whether a looksmaxxer will say a certain word in his next podcast, is based on picking our pockets.
https://polymarket.com/event/us-x-iran-permanent-peace-deal-by
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/business/dealbook/hedging-prediction-markets-kalshi.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/options/articles/schwab-plans-p-500-prediction-223100187.html
https://www.alphapilot.tech/discover/charles-schwab-partners-with-cboe-to-launch-s-p-500-prediction-market-options
If we were to measure corrupt spending of any administration as a fraction of those 4 years year's annual budget in real dollars on the day of inauguration, would DJT win that 250 year contest? Ian
WHAT $1.7 million contract? We - the taxpayers - paid closer to $16 million for this shoddy work. Of course it’s peeling off - it’s crap.
Transparency is important: https://civik.us
Thank you. Great post!!!
Also as a brake on "inflated" pricing.
The Italians got exactly right. The President is an a**hole.
Headlines here please, at Fox and Newsmax. Be nice if NYT and WaPo quoted them as well
putting it kindly.
The only person guilty of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool is Trump himself.
Free David Hearn!
David H. -- the 67-year-old cyclist arrested by Nat'l Guard troops at the Green Algae Swamp.
Guilty only of having a close-up look at latest in the cavalcade of criminal D. stupidities.
The fact that the majority of Republican members of Congress still not only support, but cheer on this insanity is truly stunning. History will not be kind…
who cares when the present is so unkind? one day at a time...
The only thing criminal Donald has certifiably done re the pool is turn it into algae swamp.
A fetid green algae swap -- perfect expression of his incompetent, self-centered, corrupt administration.
Criminal Donald can't do anything but more criminality, mixed in with major idiot mistakes he makes -- such as Iran war -- only to show all he's alone in his willful idiocy.
I've a Q: are all the World Cup team members from Iran wearing a piece of symbolic accessory bearing only the figure "168"? You know, for all the little girls killed by criminal Donald's U.S. war criminal cohorts at that Iranian elementary school in Iran?
(A few minutes later: I've done search, and find that what I thought I'd heard as true -- that accessory celebrating the U.S.-murdered 168 schoolgirls -- is indeed true. I'd like one myself.)
The "greening" of America.
And I remember, J L, when the Charles A. Reich book by that name came out, Jan.,1970.
There is a large swath of people in the USA who believe everyone is out to get Trump and therefore an existential threat to them, too. This is who Trump is signaling when everyone can see the reflecting pond reno is a major disaster while he crows how perfect and beautiful it is. Trump is a vile, contemptible a-hole, indeed. But so are his cult members.
We don't need these crazies to win elections. We need everyone else to show up. Let's get to work.
If you want to convince people who are Trump lovers that there’s another way of looking at things calling them. All assholes doesn’t accomplish. Anything I go out of my way to speak to some of them with reason about things we can agree on like how their grandsons are doing in a football game. I know I probably won’t change any of the real rabbit people minds, but I want to teach them that people who think differently.,even Democrats ,may in fact the people who care and are not monsters we need more communication between people and get them out of their information silos
"Dumocats". Did he mean "Dumocrats"?
Trump has declined to the point where he misspells fake words that he made up himself.
As the National Park Service continues searching for Nessie and other beasties lurking at the bottom of the Green Lagoon, the tweets pinging back from the White House signal our final descent into Full North Korean strait jacket territory.
The reflecting pool survives. The Republic remains in peril.
It's remarkable how quickly this administration can pivot from policy failures to imagined scandals. And the idea that foreign leaders are "begging" for photo opportunities belongs somewhere between fan fiction and late-night comedy.
One hopes there are still Republicans intelligent enough to feel embarrassed by being asked to applaud this nonsense. How they can continue on, in silence, while the rest of us are left wading through the daily flood of tRump's verbal diarrhoea, is mind boggling.
Don't get your hopes up. I've tried to find a Republican, any Republican, who can feel shame over what has become of our government. No luck yet.
Meloni missed an opportunity to counter the "begging for a photo" assertion. She should have said, "No thanks. He's not my type."
The Black Lagoon thingy held its nose and slowly walked away.
On April 27, 1945, US troops from the 1st Armored Division arrived in Milan to the cheers of thousands of exhausted Italians, securing the liberation of the city from the Nazis two days earlier by Italian partisans. The next day, Mussolini and his wife were hanged upside down by their heels on Milan's Pizzale Loreto. The press captured photos of both events.
On June 20, 2026, the front pages of Milan's Libero newspaper --- "the American President is an asshole."
You couldn't make up a trajectory of pointless downward stupidity like this if you tried.
Yep, had to look that one up. "Trump è un coglione"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwpM6Sijl30
Mussolini's hanging along with his mistress and others.
The president is nuts. And seems to think he can make the rest of us join him in his dotage.
This is typical Trumpian Autocratic behavior. "Always believe what I tell you, in spite of all video evidence." This MO has permeated his entire cabinet and most of the entire Republican Party.
Who is going to question the Republican political ads this fall and where the money comes from to pay for them?
A couple of days agp, I heard a radio ad for Susan Collins where a (likely) paid actress who isn't a resident of ME tell us that "I will never vote for Graham Platner." Of course she won't because she has never been to Maine. Typically, the Republican PACs take an ad and just change the name of the people in the race and play it in several different states. 97 billionaires so far have given to PACs that support Susan Collins. (Maine is the listed voting residence of zero billionaires.)
Close your eyes and imagine Trump in custody. 😎
Occupying a single cell with no communicating devices, a diet of tofu, fake meat hot dogs or somesuch,
only water, etc, and no view at all.
Sadly, I don't even need to close my eyes to have these fantasies anymore. 😱
I wonder which company will be next to get a no bid contract to fix the pool 🤦♀️
Resource below to easily contact all of Congress - Be LOUD. Trump/the administration is dangerous for our country 💔🤍💙
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) to contact members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly!
Reach out (beyond your own) to as many in the Senate and House as you can. All of this is bigger than “I only represent my constituents” issues.
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Megan, maybe the same people that Kristi Noem paid over $200 million to to create her ads. But, I'm sure justice will prevail and the contractor will be forced to refund all of the money he was paid.
And BTW, it came out this week that when Trump first bragged about the WH destruction project was announced Trump had already paid the company from the US Treasury. Even though he said 100% of that money came from private donations.
But, maybe that wasn't a complete lie, because all of us donated through the US Treasury.
Didn’t anyone know that hydrogen peroxide is an aggressive oxidizer used in paint removers? Apparently not😵💫
You're the first I've seen, David, with perfectly good explanation for the peeling paint.
All he does is destroy. When he is gone, we must erase any visible memory of his desecration of D.C.
TOFU - TRUMP ONLY F*CKS UP.
Except for Woke historical monuments.
David Fahrenthold's summary of the New York Times investigation into the Reflecting Swamp's no-bid contracts to pieces of sleaze loyal to Trump....If you look up J.J. Cafaro Trust and take a peek at the grotesque neighbor with the cigar in his mug who got the contract Trump "knows nothing" about, you'll get yourself a true belly laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1Fe3CLeG_Xs