President Shit’s First 100 Days: Day 90…

April 21, 2025 12:36 pm EDT Tiff Editorial (Open Thread) 1

It’s Monday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

Monday, April 21 2025
9:00 AM
In-Town Pool Call Time
In-Town Pool
10:30 AM
The President and The First Lady participate in the White House Easter Egg Roll
Pre-Credentialed Media

Pope Francis

This morning the Vatican announced that Pope Francis passed away at the age of 88.

The special report is 58 minutes long.

President Shit offered condolences via “Lies” social.

Former President Joe Biden.

Show more =’s For decades, he served the most vulnerable across Argentina and his mission of serving the poor never ceased. As Pope, he was a loving pastor and challenging teacher who reached out to different faiths. He commanded us to fight for peace and protect our planet from a climate crisis. He advocated for the voiceless and powerless. He made all feel welcome and seen by the Church. He promoted equity and an end to poverty and suffering across the globe. And above all, he was a Pope for everyone. He was the People’s Pope – a light of faith, hope, and love.

The President of Mexico.

Google translate: Pope Francis has died. A humanist who stood for the poor, peace, and equality. He left behind a great legacy of true love for one’s neighbor. For Catholics and non-Catholics alike, this is a great loss. Knowing him was a great honor and privilege. May he rest in peace.

What happens next?

As a non-Catholic, I turned to the Washington Post (gift link) to explain what happens next.

The announcement

The pope’s death is certified by the Vatican’s director of health and hygiene, under the supervision of American Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who serves in the role of the “camerlengo” and facilitates the papal transition. In accordance with tradition, Farrell will direct the sealing of the pope’s apartments with a red ribbon, wax and a Vatican stamp. It also falls to the camerlengo to arrange for the destruction of the lead papal seal and the papal ring, which are unique to each pope. That destruction prevents forgeries and symbolically signals that the church has entered a period of “sede vacante,” when the throne of St. Peter is empty.

The tolling of the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica accompanies the public acknowledgment of the death of the pope.

Washington Post (gift link). 04/21/2025.

The viewing

The body of Pope Francis, dressed in red, will remain in his private chapel until a public viewing in the basilica. Previous popes were placed on a raised bier during the viewing period, but Francis did away with those guidelines, and his body will lie directly in a zinc-lined coffin.

Washington Post (gift link). 04/21/2025.

The funeral

A pope’s funeral typically takes place four to six days after his death and marks the start of nine days of mourning. The Mass for Pope John Paul II in 2005 was three hours long. But the Mass Francis led for Pope Benedict XVI in 2023 was 90 minutes. Church watchers expect Francis — although a sitting pope and not a retired one — would have requested a similarly reduced service for himself.

Washington Post (gift link). 04/21/2025.

The burial

The new guidelines stipulate use of a single coffin rather than the three nested coffins that previous popes have been buried in. And although St. Peter’s Basilica is the most common choice for papal burials, with more than half of popes interred there, Francis told an interviewer in 2023 that he wished to be buried at Rome’s Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica instead. That church held personal significance for him, and he prayed there in front of the icon of the Virgin Mary after returning from his overseas trips.

Washington Post (gift link). 04/21/2025.

The conclave

Fifteen to 20 days after the pope’s death, red-cloaked members of the College of Cardinals will gatherin the Sistine Chapel, beneath Michelangelo’s painted ceiling, to choose the next pontiff. It’s an exercise cloaked in secrecy, though sometimes depicted in popular culture, most recently in the film “Conclave.”

Washington Post (gift link). 04/21/2025.

He offered an Easter message on Sunday.

The video has subtitles.

This was posted about 30 ish minutes ago…

May he Rest in Peace.

Another Day Another Signal Scandal…

Yesterday, the New York Times reported…

New York Times (gift link) 04/20/2025:

I’m gonna skip to the middle of the article…

Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was mistakenly included, the newly revealed one was created by Mr. Hegseth. It included his wife and about a dozen other people from his personal and professional inner circle in January, before his confirmation as defense secretary, and was named “Defense | Team Huddle,” the people familiar with the chat said. He used his private phone, rather than his government one, to access the Signal chat.

The continued inclusion following Mr. Hegseth’s confirmation of his wife, brother and personal lawyer, none of whom had any apparent reason to be briefed on operational details of a military operation as it was getting underway, is sure to raise further questions about his adherence to security protocols.

The chat revealed by The Atlantic in March was created by President Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, so that the most senior national security officials across the executive branch, such as the vice president, the director of national intelligence and Mr. Hegseth, could coordinate among themselves and their deputies ahead of the U.S. attacks.

Mr. Waltz took responsibility for inadvertently adding Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, to the chat. He called it “Houthi PC small group” to reflect the presence of members of the administration’s “principals committee,” who come together to discuss the most sensitive and important national security issues.

[snip]

In the case of Mr. Hegseth’s Signal group, a U.S. official declined to comment on whether Mr. Hegseth shared detailed targeting information but maintained that there was no national security breach.

“The truth is that there is an informal group chat that started before confirmation of his closest advisers,” the official said. “Nothing classified was ever discussed on that chat.”

Sean Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesman, did not respond to several requests for comment before this article was published.

New York Times (gift link) 04/20/2025

Sean Parnell went to Twitter to comment after he failed to respond to the request for comment prior to publication.

The statement:

Another day, another old story—back from the dead. The Trump-hating media continues to be obsessed with destroying anyone committed to President Trump’s agenda. This time, the New York Times — and all other Fake News that repeat their garbage — are enthusiastically taking the grievances of disgruntled former employees as the sole sources for their article. They relied only on the words of people who were fired this week and appear to have a motive to sabotage the Secretary and the President’s agenda.

There was no classified information in any Signal chat, no matter how many ways they try to write the story. What is true is that the Office of the Secretary of Defense is continuing to become stronger and more efficient in executing President Trump’s agenda.

We’ve already achieved so much for the American warfighter, and will never back down.

Sean Parnell Twitter. 04/20/2025.

I found this part interesting:

While the Signal chat created by Mr. Waltz for senior officials was criticized for sharing details of a military operation on an encrypted but unclassified app, the participants — other than Mr. Goldberg of The Atlantic, who appears to have been added accidentally — were senior government officials with reason to track the progress of the attack.

But some of the participants in the group chat created by Mr. Hegseth were not officials with any apparent need to be given real-time information on details of the operation.

Jennifer Hegseth has drawn attention for the access her husband has given her. Mr. Hegseth brought her into two meetings with foreign military counterparts in February and early March where sensitive information was discussed, a development first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Parlatore, who has been Mr. Hegseth’s personal lawyer for the last eight years, was commissioned as a Navy commander in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps about a week before the Yemen strikes were initiated.

New York Times (gift link) 04/20/2025

Nestled in the story is an Opinion Piece written by John Ullyot; it was published in Politico Magazine.

John Ullyot is former chief Pentagon spokesman and led communications at the National Security Council and the Department of Veterans Affairs in President Donald Trump’s first term. He resigned from the Pentagon last week. He was a senior communications adviser on Trump’s 2016 campaign.

It’s been a month of total chaos at the Pentagon. From leaks of sensitive operational plans to mass firings, the dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president — who deserves better from his senior leadership.

President Donald Trump has a strong record of holding his top officials to account. Given that, it’s hard to see Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth remaining in his role for much longer.

Opinion Piece written by John Ullyot; it was published in Politico Magazine. 04/20/2025.

That’s how the opinion piece opens. Ullyot, goes on to slobber all over President Shitshow, but doesn’t hold back in tea spilling on the total chaos of the Defense Department.

So, here he talks about the supposed lie detectors given to find “leaks”…

The latest flashpoint is a near collapse inside the Pentagon’s top ranks. On Friday, Hegseth fired three of his most loyal senior staffers — senior adviser Dan Caldwell, deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, chief of staff to the deputy secretary of Defense. In the aftermath, Defense Department officials working for Hegseth tried to smear the aides anonymously to reporters, claiming they were fired for leaking sensitive information as part of an investigation ordered earlier this month.

Yet none of this is true. While the department said that it would conduct polygraph tests as part of the probe, not one of the three has been given a lie detector test. In fact, at least one of them has told former colleagues that investigators advised him he was about to be cleared officially of any wrongdoing. Unfortunately, Hegseth’s team has developed a habit of spreading flat-out, easily debunked falsehoods anonymously about their colleagues on their way out the door.

On Friday, POLITICO reported that Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, was leaving his role. Kasper had requested the investigation into the Pentagon leaks, which reportedly included military operational plans for the Panama Canal and a pause in the collection of intelligence for Ukraine.

Hegseth is now presiding over a strange and baffling purge that will leave him without his two closest advisers of over a decade — Caldwell and Selnick — and without chiefs of staff for him and his deputy. More firings may be coming, according to rumors in the building.

In short, the building is in disarray under Hegseth’s leadership.

Opinion Piece written by John Ullyot; it was published in Politico Magazine. 04/20/2025.

Ullyot says he was not part of the purge. He decided to leave voluntary.

Here he lays out the scandals that have bogged down the Defense Department.

First there was Signalgate, where the secretary shared detailed operational plans, including timelines and specifics, about an impending military strike on the Houthis in Yemen over an unclassified Signal chat group that happened to include a member of the news media.

Once the Signalgate story broke, Hegseth followed horrible crisis-communications advice from his new public affairs team, who somehow convinced him to try to debunk the reporting through a vague, Clinton-esque non-denial denial that “nobody was texting war plans.” This was a violation of PR rule number one — get the bad news out right away.

His nebulous disavowal prompted the reporter, Jeffrey Goldberg, to release Hegseth’s full chat string with the detailed operational plans two days later, turning an already-big story into a multi-week embarrassment for the president’s national security team. Hegseth now faces an inspector general investigation into a possible leak of classified information and violation of records retention protocols.

That was just the beginning of the Month from Hell. The Wall Street Journal and other outlets reported that Hegseth “brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed.”

Next, the Pentagon set up a top-secret briefing by the Joint Chiefs of Staff on China for Elon Musk, who still has extensive business interests in China. After learning about it, the White House canceled that meeting.

Then came the purges. And the news keeps coming. On Sunday night, The New York Times reported that Hegseth shared details about the Yemen strike in another Signal chat that included his wife and brother.

There are very likely more shoes to drop in short order, with even bigger bombshell stories coming this week, key Pentagon reporters have been telling sources privately.

Opinion Piece written by John Ullyot; it was published in Politico Magazine. 04/20/2025.

This is the biggest suck-up to President Shitshow in the piece…

One reason the American people gave Trump a conclusive victory last November is that he’s not a go-along, get-along creature of the Beltway like many of his recent predecessors, but rather a shrewd businessman who expects results and holds his team accountable for serious mistakes that occur on their watch. Just ask Cabinet Secretaries Jim Mattis, Mark Esper, Rex Tillerson, David Shulkin, Tom Price and Ryan Zinke. They, like Hegseth, are all good men and patriots whom Trump dismissed in his first term when he found their performance wanting.

Biden did the opposite. From his Defense secretary’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and disappearing for six days telling neither his staff nor the White House, to his Transportation secretary’s weeks-long refusal to visit the site of a major railroad derailment and catastrophic chemical spill, to his secretary of State’s allowing Chinese officials to lecture him about race relations, Biden held not a single one on his team accountable and just let them skate.

In Trump’s first term, he produced more national-security wins than any president in a generation or more. Trump countered Communist China’s aggression, strengthened our Indo-Pacific partnerships, began America’s long-awaited departure from Afghanistan, eliminated the ISIS caliphate, and killed its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, among other big wins.

Opinion Piece written by John Ullyot; it was published in Politico Magazine. 04/20/2025.

In ends with this…

The president deserves better than the current *mishegoss at the Pentagon. Given his record of holding prior Cabinet leaders accountable, many in the secretary’s own inner circle will applaud quietly if Trump chooses to do the same in short order at the top of the Defense Department.

Opinion Piece written by John Ullyot; it was published in Politico Magazine. 04/20/2025.

*I had to look up the word. It’s Yiddish and google says it means: craziness, senseless behavior, or activity*

At the Easter Egg roll at the White House, Pete Hegshit blamed “disgruntled” employees and the media for being out to get him.

Show more =’s This is what the media does. They take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees and then they try to slash and burn people and ruin their reputations.”

Yeah, just so it’s clear, Parnell in his statement did not deny the chat with Hegshit’s wife, brother, and lawyer existed, he simply said “no classified information” was shared.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell…

As you can imagine the stock market is not a fan of his attacking Powell.

I have seen a lot of MAGA on twitter demanding Powell be fired if he doesn’t lower rates.

Here’s the bottom line: We can’t lower rates now, that would be economic suicide. The tariffs are currently “paused” mostly. The fallout from the tariffs is unknown right now.

This is a self-inflicted economic wound by President Shitshow.

Powell, can’t bail him out of this, only he can.

Yes, eventually Powell will have to lower rates; if nothing changes.

Yes, eventually Powell will have to talk about QE whatever number it will be; if nothing changes.

Remember all of this was avoidable. It didn’t have to happen.

Easter…

Yesterday, was Easter Sunday, I hope everyone had a good day.

President I suck at life offered the following Easter Messages…

A few hours later…

I want to be very clear. I don’t know if Garcia is an “innocent” man; though there is more evidence against the twice impeached convicted felon President, than there is that Garcia is a MS-13 member.

I decided at the last minute (I know I’m late enough already) to share this not that you missed it…

Show more =’s and two Highly Respected Courts found that he was a member of MS-13, beat up his wife, etc. I was elected to take bad people out of the United States, among other things. I must be allowed to do my job. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

The MS-13 on his knuckles was AI generated above his faded ass tattoos.

Community notes says “no note is needed” because that addition was just to explain what each symbol on his knuckles meant…

We live in the stupidest of times…

Garcia’s guilt or innocence is not the point; due process is.

Getting this off my chest…

I’m not sure how to explain what’s on my mind, so I’m gonna show and tell…

I read the article, Senator Mike lee however didn’t. Or if he did he failed to comprehend a key point in the story.

Fox News: Two Mexican nationals in the U.S. on nonimmigrant visas were arrested during a traffic stop in Colorado last month while transporting 180,000 rounds of ammunition, authorities said Wednesday. Caesar Ramon Martinez Solis, 41, and Humberto Ivan Amador Gavira, 24, both of Mexico, were pulled over in Canon City on March 26, the U.S. Attorney’s Office – District of Colorado said in a news release.

Point one: They were here legally.

They go on to say: Martinez Solis told authorities that he and Amador Garcia, whom he claimed was his brother-in-law, had traveled from Mexico to Denver a day earlier to purchase a vehicle before driving to Salt Lake City to look at another vehicle he was interested in buying.

Point two: They came into the country on March 25th, 2025; something I confirmed using the Fox News article that directed me to the Canon City Daily Record that wrote: During the interview, Martinez Solis said he and Amador Gavira, whom he claimed to be his brother-in-law, traveled from Mexico to Denver on March 25, 2025, to purchase a vehicle. The next day, they traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah, to look at another vehicle that Martinez Solis was interested in purchasing.

Another example:

These are random people commenting to Aaron’s first post in a thread of more posts…

Now, see, in the post Aaron shared first there is what we call a “quote tweet”…

When clicked it looks like this…

When you click that post it takes you to the article being shared…

AZPM.org: 19-year-old Jose Hermosillo, who is visiting Tucson from Albuquerque, says he was lost and walking near the Border Patrol headquarters when an agent arrested him for illegally entering the country. Hermosillo was not carrying identification. Court documents say a Border Patrol agent arrested Hermosillo “at or near Nogales, Arizona, without proper immigration documents” and that Hermosillo admitted to illegally entering the U.S.

They go on to say: His girlfriend’s aunt Grace Layva says she and her family made numerous calls looking for him before they found out he was being detained in the Florence Correctional Center, which Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses to detain people.

They added: The family later provided officials with his birth certificate and social security card. “He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn’t believe him,” Layva said. “I think they would have kept him. I think they would have if they would have not got that information yesterday in the court and gave that to ICE and the Border Patrol. He probably would have been deported already to Mexico.” A magistrate judge in Tucson dismissed his case on Thursday, and family says he was released much later that night.

The rando’s conversation continued…

The rest of Aaron’s tweets…

So see, rando didn’t even need to go that far to understand what happened, but instead of clicking shit, rando decided to think out loud.

These are only two examples that I decided at the last minute to include in the post, because this shit is getting absurd.

Reading the article is not hard, many of them aren’t even very freaking long, and they answer questions that you might have. But nope, clicking the link shared, (sometimes, yes, it takes more effort cause someone might just comment on a story without providing the link) is just a step too far for some.

Most of the time, it’s not fucking hard. Click the link, read the information, and get mad or don’t. I give no shits either way.

But, for the love of all things good and decent, read the information provided.

It’s the same shit with the Garcia case.

They keep focusing on his two denied bonds in April; ignoring that his withholding of removal was granted that same year in October!

I don’t expect everyone to deep dive; not everyone is crazy like me, and finds reading government reports or court documents a “fun” way to spend a Saturday night. But nobody is asking that. I am asking that you read before commenting and sharing, or if you haven’t just say that. Say “I didn’t read the article but the headline is whacked.”

I’m gonna end there; it really has been bugging me for weeks now.

This is an open thread

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