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Trump’s Handpicked Joint Chiefs Chairman Once Gushed, ‘I’ll Kill For You, Sir’

Late Friday, Felon-in-Chief Donald Trump, along with his booze-soaked Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, removed the sitting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. C.Q Brown, and replaced him with a man who once eagerly pledged that he would “kill” for Trump if given the order.

The new head of the U.S. military is Air Force Lt. Gen. John D. Caine, whose only apparent qualification for the job is that he’s willing to follow every order given to him by Trump and not ask questions.

Trump announced Caine’s new job on Truth Social, writing, “Today, I am honored to announce that I am nominating Air Force Lieutenant General Dan ‘Razin’ Caine to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staf. General Caine is an accomplished pilot, national security expert, successful entrepreneur, and a ‘warfighter’ with significant interagency and special operations experience.”

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Trump and Caine have a history together, with the convicted felon who now serves as president bragging that Caine once told him, ‘I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.”

Caine also ignored military protocol by once wearing a MAGA hat while on active duty in the Air Force.

The Daily Beast explains why Caine has been chosen to replace Brown:

Prior to his appointment during the Biden administration, Brown had been Air Force chief of staff since 2020, with Trump writing at the time that he was “a Patriot and Great Leader.” In his post on Friday, Trump reiterated that Brown is “a fine gentleman and an outstanding leader.”

Trump’s decision to fire Brown had reportedly been supported by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth since at least November, with the former Fox News host saying on The Shawn Ryan Show that month that Brown had a “woke” interest in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.

A sycophant is now head of the U.S. military, which Trump has previously said could be used domestically if a president gives that order.

“He has pledged to recall thousands of American troops from overseas and station them at the U.S. border with Mexico,” PBS noted in October. “He has explored using troops for domestic policy priorities such as deportations and confronting civil unrest. He has talked of weeding out military officers who are ideologically opposed to him.”

“Trump’s vision amounts to a potentially dramatic shift in the role of the military in U.S. society, carrying grave implications for both the country’s place in the world and the restraints that have traditionally been placed on domestic use of the military.”

Will we see American troops on the streets in the days ahead? If Trump orders that, it sounds like Caine will eagerly comply and say to hell with the Constitution.

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Trump’s Approval Plummets After Just 1 Month In Office: Underwater Like ‘The Little Mermaid’

Today marks the one-month mark for the second administration of Insurrectionist-in-Chief Donald Trump, and based on new polling data, the American people are not impressed with what they’ve seen so far from the current Trump administration.

Four new polls — Gallup, Ipsos, Quinnipiac, and Reuters — show that American voters consider Trump to be a failure after a month in office, especially on a key issue: The US economy.

“The Post-Ipsos poll tested about a dozen different Trump policies and efforts, ranging from mass deportation to banning transgender people from the military to shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to pardoning Jan. 6 defendants. All but two were unpopular, by an average of 25 points,” Aaron Blake of the Washington Post reports.

The massive cuts to federal programs and trade tariffs are especially unpopular, Blake adds.

“A big one is the shuttering of USAID. Americans oppose it by 21 points in the Post-Ipsos poll (59-38) and 25 points in the CNN poll (53-28).”

“Another is Trump’s tariffs. The CNN poll shows Americans oppose his tariffs on aluminum and steel by 15 points (49-34), while the Post-Ipsos poll shows nearly 2-to-1 opposition to his 25 percent tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada. About 7 in 10 Americans think tariffs generally increase the price of products in the United States.”

Even Trump’s policy of mass deportations of immigrants is polling poorly, with Americans saying they oppose deporting “undocumented immigrants who aren’t criminals (57-39), who arrived as children (70-26) and who have U.S. citizen children (66-30).”

In short, CNN polling analyst Harry Enten explained, Trump is “underwater like ‘The Little Mermaid.'”

” Across the four new polls that we have, all of them have Trump in net negative approval rating, and the three in which we have a trend line, we see Donald Trump heading in the wrong direction, swimming upstream,” Enten explained.

Enten also cited the economy, the issue most voters say is their top concern.

“This was one of Donald Trump’s great strengths, now it’s one of his great weaknesses. What am I talking about? Trump’s net approval rating. You go back to his first term, February 2017 – Ipsos, he was at plus-16 points on his net approval, Quinnipiac plus-six. Look at where he is now in Ipsos, he’s eight points underwater on the economy. Quinnipiac four points under on the economy.”

“I honestly never thought I’d see the day in which Donald Trump would be polling so poor on the economy – but that day is here,” Enten added. “As I said last week, inflation ate the Joe Biden presidency alive, and right now it is very much the case that Donald Trump is in danger of inflation eating his presidency alive, because his net approval ratings on the economy are underwater.”

At this rate, Trump will be polling in the 20% range on March 20. And if the trend continues, his approval rating could easily be in single digits by May.

It couldn’t happen to a more deserving asshole.

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Former Social Security Commissioner Warns: Musk’s Meddling Likely To Cause ‘Interruption’ Of Benefits

As unelected POTUS Elon Musk and his cadre of young computer hackers continue to muck around in federal government data systems that control payments from various programs, anyone receiving monthly Social Security benefits should start preparing for the worst-case scenario of not receiving their check in the near future.

That’s the warning from former Social Security commissioner Martin O’Malley, who served in that post during the Biden administration.

O’Malley told the Washington Post that Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is akin to the proverbial bull in a china shop, and something is bound to get broken.

“At this rate, they will break it. And they will break it fast, and there will be an interruption of benefits,” O’Malley said.

O’Malley noted that Sex Offender-in-Chief Donald Trump’s choice of Leland Dudek to be acting commissioner of Social Security doesn’t bode well for what Social Security recipients can expect.

“It’s a shame the chilling effect it has to disregard 120 senior executive service people,” O’Malley added. “To pick an acting commissioner that is not in the senior executive service sends a message that professional people should leave that beleaguered public agency.”

The Trump administration pooh-pooed those warning that Social Security could be facing a crisis that would delay payments, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt telling Fox News that “fake news reporters” were fearmongering and DOGE was merely trying to find and eliminate fraud in the program.

And Harrison Fields, a White House spokesperson, had this to say about Musk and his minions’ intentions:  “President Trump has nominated the highly qualified and talented Frank Bisignano to lead the Social Security Administration, and we expect him to be swiftly confirmed in the coming weeks. In the meantime, the agency will be led by a career Social Security anti-fraud expert as the acting commissioner.”

All of that will be cold comfort to millions of senior citizens if and when the funds they earned and depend on to live are suddenly missing from their bank accounts.

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‘Snowflake’ Stephen Miller Mocked After He Pitches A Screeching Hissy Fit During A CNN Interview

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller had a full-scale meltdown during an interview with CNN host Brianna Keilar, and video of his on-air hissy fit went viral overnight, leading to a torrent of online mockery for the Trump administration official.

Keilar asked Miller about the controversial cuts being made by Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which led Miller to remark, “The American people are exhausted and tired of watching their tax dollars be corruptly spent, abused, wasted and in every sense robbed and stolen from them. This president, for the first time in history, is committed to restoring accountability at every level of the federal government.”

“You may assert there’s no waste in the Pentagon. You may assert there’s no waste in Treasury. You may assert…” Miller continued, his voice getting louder as he spoke.

“Oh, Stephen, I’m not asserting. I don’t think anyone would assert that, Stephen,” Keilar insisted.

Miller then began shouting.

“Then why are you not celebrating these cuts? If you agree there is waste, if you agree there is abuse, if you agree there is corruption, why are you not celebrating the cuts, the reforms that are being instituted? Every day that no action is taken, the entire…”

“But Stephen, let’s calm down,” said Keilar. “Stephen, let’s calm down. We’re not having a debate about whether there are…”

“You may not care about this issue. Your colleagues may not care about this issue. But we care about his issue!” Miller yelled.

Miller’s refusal to directly answer the questions and his overly defensive response to Keilar suggests he and the administration he represents are trying to hide something. Could it be that the only reason DOGE was created is to provide cover for the Trump administration and Republicans as they give the richest Americans another massive tax cut and pay for it by slashing the social safety net of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security?

Viewers of the interview had their own thoughts about Miller’s unhinged response to Keilar’s questions.

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Trump And Musk Whine To Sean Hannity: The Big Bad Media Is Trying To ‘Drive Us Apart’

Fascist-in-Chief Donald Trump and unelected POTUS Elon Musk are upset because they say the media is attempting to drive them apart at a time when their mutual admiration for each other is at its zenith.

The two grifters sat down with Sean Hannity of Fox “News” and went on an extended whine-a-thon when the host asked them, “You’re both aware, you have to be keenly aware that the media and the punditry class – I think you’ve proven they have no power anymore because they threw everything they had at you and they didn’t win. And that was, you know, The New York Times, Washington Post, three networks, every late-night comedy show to cable channels.”

“They just, they threw everything. Lawfare, weaponization. And now I see They want you two – they want a divorce. They want you two to start hating each other. And they try. Oh, President Elon Musk, for example. You do know that they’re doing that to you?”

“I see it all the time. They tried it. Then they stopped. They have many different things of hatred,” Trump complained. “Actually, Elon called me. He said, you know, they’re trying to drive us apart. I said, absolutely. No, they said, We have breaking news. Donald Trump has ceded control of the presidency to Elon Musk. President Musk will be attending a cabinet meeting tonight at eight o’clock. And I say, it’s just so obvious. There’s so bad at it. I used to think they were good at it. They’re actually bad at it because if they were good at it, I’d never be president.”

“Because I think nobody in history has ever gotten more bad publicity than me. I could do the greatest things. I get 98% bad publicity I could do outside of you. Few of your very good friends, Right? It’s like the craziest thing. But you know what I have learned, Elon? The people are smart. They get it.”

“Yeah, they do, actually,” Musk agreed.

Trump: “They get it.”

Musk: “Yeah.”

“They really see what’s happening,” according to Trump, which prompted Musk to again concur, “Yeah.”

There’s an old saying attributed to former president Harry Truman that Trump and Musk should consider before they start whining again: If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Donald and Elon should get the hell out of Washington, DC and go back to doing what they do best: Being assholes and grifters.