Liam Gee

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-Omissions in news coverage are important to call out! -Crypto is for Money Laundering & Bribes. -Privatizing Public Services, destroys functioning institutions and creates Billionaires. Billionaires are failures of policy

NewsPolitics With Charles P. Pierce Follow Politics With Charles P. Pierce My Feed Turns Out We Blew Up All Those Boats in the Caribbean for Nothing As if we needed more confirmation that Pete Hegseth and our defense department are both psychotic and ineffectual. By Charles P. PiercePublished: Jul 28, 2026 4:21 PM EDT Save Article Share ArticleOpen share options bookmarks 64 SASC DOD Budget Hearing in Washington DC Anadolu//Getty Images Granted, it is a few dozen bungled policies ago, but remember when we were blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean as part of the administration’s Operation Dude Bro antidrug strategy? Well, the results are in, and they are sadly predictable. From The Washington Post: In a recent assessment reviewed by The Washington Post, DEA analysts found the strikes had failed to affect the supply or price of cocaine in the United States and had led traffickers to diversify beyond go-fast boats and to avoid international waters, opting instead for larger boats and hemming close to coastlines, where U.S. forces are less likely to open fire. In a closed-door briefing last month, Pentagon officials told lawmakers the strikes in international waters off South and Central America had not reduced its purity. On the one hand, it’s somewhat comforting. We now know that this misbegotten band of boobs and yahoos has formulated an antidrug policy that’s as futile and dumbassed as those of every other administration that killed people with promiscuous glee, blowing fishermen out of the water and claiming, utterly without evidence, that they were all drug couriers. The psychopathy is the difference.
I wrote a short piece about it on my now-defunct online magazine in July of 2017, under the title “Worst Americans: Mitch McConnell.” It read: Rather than participating in the governance of the country through the time-honored tradition of compromise, he spent eight years as a living, breathing roadblock. The current Senatorial system of obstructionism has his fingerprints all over it. When debriefed on the extent to which malignant Russian intelligence forces were compromising the presidential campaigns and the election, he threatened to accuse Obama of playing partisan politics if he went public with the bombshell.... His wife, Elaine Chao, is the daughter of the Taiwanese shipping magnate James S.C. Chao, who is responsible for both personally enriching his son-in-law and for contributing to his campaigns, which would be fine if not for the big cocaine bust nobody paid any attention to. Elaine Chao serves in Trump’s cabinet, because of course. He censured Elizabeth Warren for attempting to read a letter by Coretta Scott King at the confirmation hearing of inveterate racist and Putinist collaborator Jeff Sessions. He is the prime mover in the Senate of the campaign to repeal Obamacare. The toxic healthcare bill he’s floated would throw 23 million people off insurance and lead to thousands of deaths and bankruptcies. It would also have a deleterious effect on the economy, as many thousands of jobs would vanish if the ACA were repealed. He doesn’t care. At all. The story of his recovery from polio being financed by the government is bogus, but he did suffer from the disease as a child, and he did recover thanks to a program put in place by FDR. That he is actively seeking to deny medical care to so many sick children (that’s who’s on Medicaid, mostly: children) speaks volumes about his loathsome character. He’s sympathetic to the Confederacy. -abbreviated from Greg Olear on substack
Is Mitch McConnell Dead?
Donny invented an imaginary problem where none existed, and then bragged that he was the only person in the world who could solve it. without bothering to consult a single expert, he handed a juicy contract worth millions to an incompetent crony, who did a slapdash job that went way over budget. then, without waiting to see what the actual results were, he praised himself and took a victory lap. when it all blew up in his big, dumb pumpkin face, he hired some other unqualified crony to implement a ‘fix’ that just made the everything worse — at which point he started blaming everyone else -Jeff Tiedrich
“This is out there,” one of the officials told the group in the Situation Room. “They’re going to make a huge scene of this, even though it’s not true and everybody knows it.” As the president tried to redirect everyone away from Epstein on social media, members of both parties began to push the other way, adding to the political pressure on the president’s team…. The vice president said he thought the president would be OK with releasing the nipple-related documents, arguing that Trump had been accused of worse. “I think we should put it out,” he said. “It would cause people to say we’re going further than we need to.” Wiles quickly responded that the president would not, in fact, be OK with it. It was a point no one wanted to continue debating. One official would later describe it as a “surreal” experience to be discussing nipples in the White House Situation Room. Full article: https://open.substack.com/pub/charliesykes/p/trumps-war-of-whim-ends-witha-whimper
Image of Trump and Elon Musk as 18th century French aristocracy, surrounded by Ivanka and billionaires re-enacting famous moment when Marie Antoinette when told of the peasants starving is rumored to have said, "Well if the peasants don't have bread, let them eat cake." Elon Musk is pictured as Marie Antoinette.
It’s not unusual for a protest movement to involve absurd-looking symbols. Unions deploy giant rat inflatables to picket companies using non-union labor, people at “No Kings” protests don puffy frog or dinosaur costumes, and Gen Z protesters worldwide can be seen waving a cartoon pirate flag from the show One Piece to symbolize anti-authoritarianism. In Albania, the latest image of popular revolt against billionaire excess is the flamingo. For the past week, Albanians have protested Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s plan to pave a protected nature reserve and turn it into a luxury resort—a plan which, protesters say, could put the pink birds in jeopardy. Albania’s prime minister, Edi Rama, told Reuters Monday that he plans to continue backing the project. -Mother Jones
Is Donald Trump At A Higher Risk For Alzheimer'S Disease? Donald Trump is at an elevated risk for Alzheimer's disease and dementia, due to both genetics and family history. His late father, Fred Trump Sr., was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at the age of 86, highlighting the potential hereditary risk. A 2020 medical journal suggested that Trump faces a familial risk of late-onset Alzheimer's, contributing to concerns about his health as he ages, particularly with the possibility of him completing his second term, ending when he is 82 years old. Medical experts estimate he has a significantly reduced chance of serving that full term, speculating he might suffer from mid-stage vascular dementia or early effects of Alzheimer's. Reports, including one from journalist Will Neal, suggest that Trump exhibits multiple signs of dementia, including unusual speech patterns and a notable gait, indicating cognitive decline. His nephew, Fred Trump III, has publicly recognized signs of dementia similar to those seen in his grandfather. In response to these concerns, Trump took a dementia screening test in 2020, aiming to dispel doubts about his cognitive abilities. Despite his efforts, experts maintain that Trump shows "unmistakable" signs of dementia, leading to claims about his fitness for office. The combined evidence from mental health professionals and family observations paints a concerning picture of Trump's cognitive health, prompting discussions around the implications of his lifestyle on Alzheimer’s risk and serving as a cautionary tale for others. link: https://aliyahealthcare.com/how-old-was-fred-trump-when-he-got-alzheimer-s.html
Bezos & other sycophants worshipping at the feet of Trump. Cartoon by Ann Telnaes
the Criminal President of the US sitting dozing in front of cameras as people around him engage in conversations during another Press Conference. Republicans in Congress and the Senate have yet to move to remove the obviously failing president from his office due to his criminal -Stock Manipulations, -Insider Stock Trading, -(assumed) Trading of National Secrets, -multiple ethics violations, -Mountain of easily debunked False Public Statements, -His inflammatory remarks, -multiple threats to end an entire civilization, -illegal Military actions, -a War unsanctioned by Congress, -friendliness with enemies of the U.S. -general inability to understand his daily briefings, -unwillingness to separate himself from his business interests, -behavior unbecoming a President, -his decade long friendship with close a convicted trafficker of underaged women, -various accusations of sexual assault, -inability to stay awake during Press Conferences. and terrible hygiene, amongst other failings... . The only brave Republican in 2026 is a Republican that Trump has either recently fired, or has lost their seat. Republicans only find their balls as they leave politics, and as Scott Galloway recently stated on his show Pivot, "That is not when they need their balls!"
Image shows Elon Musk with one of his many children by one of his many former employees. This pic was taken in the weeks & months following the public shooting of a Millionaire accused of keeping sick Americans from obtaining the Health Care they were owed because in the US Healthcare Insurers are monetized to not allow medical procedures to be covered. Elon Musk then suddenly stopped wearing his small child at public events after the excitement of the isolated shooting died down, (probably a coincidence and not a case of a Billionaire using a small child as a human shield which has been accused by many)
Iran War Cost 2026: At $1.43 Billion a Day, the Financial Clock Is Ticking For Global Markets The military operation against Iran is expensive. Extraordinarily, jaw-droppingly expensive. And according to figures published by the New York Times, the financial meter is running at a pace that should alarm anyone with exposure to global markets, government bonds, or the US dollar. The numbers break down as follows: $6 billion in operations, $4 billion in munitions — a combined daily burn rate of $1.43 billion. That is not a typo. The United States is spending more than a billion dollars every single day on a military campaign that Congress has not authorised a single dollar to fund, with no coherent endgame publicly articulated and a timeline that keeps extending with each passing week. link: https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/the-iran-war-is-costing-1-43-billion-a-day-and-nobody-knows-when-it-ends/
A war torn & bedraggled Trump arrives to meet with a calm Xi Jinping for Chinese Summit. Trump says" After my Military Success, comes my Diplomatic Success."
Via The Atlantic: A personalized bottle of Woodford Reserve bourbon engraved with the words “Kash Patel FBI Director,” as well as a rendering of an FBI shield, obtained by The Atlantic. But FBI Director Kash Patel is definitely NOT NOT a blackout drunk working in Trump's govt. overseeing potential threats to the Nation, ...that would be so dumb!