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Trump Dismissed Key Aviation Safety Officials Prior To DC Crash At The Behest Of Elon Musk 

Shortly after taking office ten days ago, Grifter-in-Chief Donald Trump dismissed key officials who investigate air crashes such as the one that took place in Washington, D.C. last night and is believed to have claimed the lives of 67 people.

Why did Trump fire or force out those officials? Because Twitter/Tesla CEO Elon Musk told him to, according to a disturbing report from The Daily Beast.

Federal Aviation Administration chairman Michael Whitaker should be on the crash scene right now, but because he dared to impose fines of more than $600,000 against Musk’s SpaceX over safety violations, Whitaker was one of the first people Trump dismissed.

On Sept. 17 of last year, Musk made his disdain for Whitaker clear, posting, “The FAA space division is harassing SpaceX about nonsense that doesn’t affect safety while giving a free pass to Boeing even after NASA concluded that their spacecraft was not safe enough to bring back the astronauts.”

Musk has also criticized Whitaker for blocking his plan to send astronauts to Mars, a mission that would normally be carried out by NASA but appears to have been farmed out to SpaceX.

In a follow-up tweet to his anti-Whitaker posting, Musk argued, “The fundamental problem is that humanity will forever be confined to Earth unless there is radical reform at the FAA!”

Whitaker isn’t the only aviation official Trump pushed out in the first days of his administration.

The heads of the Transportation Security Administration and every Aviation Security Advisory Committee member were also summarily dismissed just a day after Trump took office because, he claimed, they had “misused” resources that belonged to the Department of Homeland Security.

Trump and Musk are also behind an email sent out this week urging 2.3 million federal employees to either dedicate themselves to the MAGA movement or accept a buyout and leave their agencies.

At the moment, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have the blood of at least 60 people on their hands. But rather than apologize, you can expect them to blame others.

 

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Leaked Memo: Trump Officials Want To End Holidays That Don’t Honor White Men

It has long been clear that Donald Trump is a bigoted and racist piece of human excrement, but a memo leaked from a key Department of Defense agency proves that the twice-impeached Trump cannot even stand holidays that honor non-white people.

The memo was circulated inside the Defense Intelligence Agency and clearly states that personnel in the agency are to immediately suspend celebrating holidays for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Black History Month.

Journalist Ken Klippenstein obtained the memo and shared it on social media.

“The Agency is working internally and with the department to implement the Executive Orders, Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions, dated January 20, 2025,” the memo reads. “DIA will pause all activities and events related to Agency Special Emphasis Programs effective immediately and until further notice. Additionally, Special Observances hosted throughout the year by the Command Element, Directorates and Special Offices are also paused.”

The memo even spells out specific holidays and the months they’re celebrated.

The memo lists at least one holiday or special commemoration for nearly every month: Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday in January, Black History Month in February, Women’s History Month in March, Holocaust Day/Days of Remembrance and Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, Pride and Juneteenth in June, Women’s Equality Day in August, National Hispanic Heritage Month in September and October, National Disability Employment Awareness Month in October, and National American Indian Heritage Month in November.

The pause won’t apply to federal holidays for Dr. King or Junteenth, the memo states, though it remains unclear if the ultimate goal is to rescind celebrations of those days, too.

On Monday, Trump signed an executive order ending all diversity programs in the U.S. military and included a full review of the policy on transgender troops and the ultimate goal of eliminating all mentions of race, gender, and sexual, orientation.

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:- Holocaust Remembrance Day- MLK Day- Juneteenth

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) 2025-01-29T15:24:50.383Z

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White House Press Secretary Suggests The Constitution Is ‘Unconstitutional’

White House Press Secretary (i.e. Paid Bullshitter) Karoline Leavitt held her first press briefing on Tuesday, and based on some of the things she said in response to questions from the news media, it’s safe to assume her only qualifications for the job are that she’s got blonde hair and Perv-in-Chief Donald Trump finds her attractive.

At one point, Leavitt told reporters, “This administration believes that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional.”

So the 14th Amendment to the Constitution violates the Constitution? Wow! The sound you hear right now is Thomas Jefferson spinning in his grave at 10,000 revolutions a second.

Here’s what the 14th Amendment says:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

That could not possibly be any clearer. If you’re born in the United States, you’re a citizen. That also applies if you aren’t born here but later naturalized and become a citizen. That’s inviolable. It might just as well be written in stone like the Ten Commandments right-wingers are so fond of forcing down children’s throats even though the same Constitution calls for a separation of church and state.

According to Time, the issue of birthright citizenship has been challenged before.

“The most recent attempt to litigate the issue occurred in 2004, when then-law professor John Eastman co-authored an amicus brief in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, a case concerning the due process rights of an accused “enemy combatant” and U.S. citizen whom the United States military had captured in Afghanistan. Eastman’s brief urged the court to rule that Hamdi was not a U.S. citizen because Hamdi’s parents were foreign nationals who were in the United States on temporary visas at the time of his birth. The argument failed: the first line of the court’s decision described the case as being about “the legality of the Government’s detention of a United States citizen on United States soil as an ‘enemy combatant.’” Eastman, who has served in the past as a legal advisor to Trump, is currently fighting disbarment and facing criminal charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty, relating to his role in seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.”

But despite that and other rulings from various federal courts on the issue of birthright citizenship, the Trump administration seems eager to try yet another challenge to the 14th Amendment. Still, even with a 6-3 right-wing majority on the current Supreme Court, it seems unlikely they’ll succeed.

Leavitt’s bizarre Orwellian declaration drew lots of commentary online.

The Constitution is unconstitutional is quite a gauntlet to throw down.Karoline Leavitt: "The Trump administration believes that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional."

— Mary L Trump (@maryltrump.bsky.social) 2025-01-29T06:11:56.805Z

Guess what? The Constitution>Your Beliefs.

— TrueBlueVA (@ny2va.bsky.social) 2025-01-28T19:57:36.501Z

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Puppy Killer Kristi Noem Gets Hit With A GIANT Dose Of Internet Karma For Cosplaying As An ICE Agent

Having been confirmed by the Senate last week to head the Department of Homeland Security, puppy murderer Kristi Noem thought it’d be a good idea to put on a costume and pretend to be some kind of tough “hombre” so she could send the MAGA faithful into orgasmic spasms of pseudo-Nazi delight.

Noem posted a video of herself wearing the vest of an ICE agent as she told viewers, “Here in New York City this morning, we are getting the dirtbags off these streets.”

Of course, the irony of Noem’s video is that if she really wanted to rid the country of dirtbags, she’d have suited up, marched in, and arrested Felon-in-Chief Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

Also, could anyone be a bigger dirtbag than Noem herself, who proudly confessed to killing her family’s dog simply because he didn’t do exactly what she told him to?

In a book published last year, Noem recalled the murder of her pet, as reported by The Guardian.

Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin”.

When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.

Through it all, Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.

“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.

“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”

Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, got her gun, then led Cricket to a gravel pit.

“It was not a pleasant job,” she writes, “but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realised another unpleasant job needed to be done.”

Dirtbag? That would be none other than Kristi Noem, who should rot in perdition for all eternity after what she did to Cricket.

Social media also had some harsh words for Noem.

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Former Classmate Reports Vivek Ramaswamy Is Now ‘Persona Non Grata’ With Trump

Even though he’s been in the White House for 24 hours, Sex Offender-in-Chief Donald Trump is already stabbing people who helped him get elected in the back.

Such is the case with Vivek Ramaswamy, who was picked to co-chair the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which isn’t a real department because it hasn’t been formally created or funded by Congress, which is required under law.

Politico reported Monday that Ramaswamy has been shown the door, and not in a very friendly manner.

“Just 69 days after Trump announced the team, Ramaswamy is now leaving DOGE and planning to announce a run for Ohio governor next week. Musk’s ability to ice out Ramaswamy, who for a variety of reasons had irked some Republicans in Trump’s circle, is the latest sign of his influence in the incoming administration. And it presages an encore of all of the infighting that marked Trump’s first term.”

“Ramaswamy ‘just burned through the bridges and he finally burned Elon,’ said a Republican strategist close to Trump advisers. ‘Everyone wants him out of Mar-a-Lago, out of D.C.'”

Elon Musk pushed Ramaswamy out, which should come as no surprise because rats placed close to each other almost always wind up fighting to the death, even if they’re from the same sewer.

The main reason Ramaswamy is no longer welcome inside the MAGA tent is because he dared to defend high-tech companies that hire immigrants with in-demand skills, even going so far as to suggest the United States has  “venerated mediocrity over excellence.”

Sportswriter Pablo Torre, a former classmate with Ramaswamy at Harvard, discussed Vivek’s rapid rise and fall as part of the Trump team.

“Vivek’s going back to Ohio, where he’s from, to make the through line clear here, from Ohio to Ohio,” Torre observed on MSNBC. “It’s funny, right, the thing that made him persona non grata in Trumpworld was what he tweeted over the holidays. He had this massive treatise on the H-1B visa and how we need to get immigrants from India and from China to compete, because American culture is essentially soft. We value, quote-unquote, the quarterback over the valedictorian, we praise the wrong characters on sitcoms. We didn’t show enough respect to Urkel, literally a thing that he said, and what it revealed was, I think, a deep disdain for the base that Donald Trump had cultivated, and it revealed this fracturing for the first time in public. Really, the fracturing between the Silicon Valley, part of this strange coalition and the nativist base, and Vivek clearly, clearly is somebody who will give on culture to get what he actually wants, much like all of these Silicon Valley guys.”

“But this take that he tweeted about was the thing he clearly felt most sincerely,” Torre added. “He resents American culture in this way, he resents the base in this way, and for that crime, he is going to go run for governor in Ohio instead. He’s going to be the first part of DOGE to be fired, this being the commission devoted to firing people.”

Oh, the irony!

Here’s the video from MSNBC: