Nothing new, another unqualified scumbagger just like the heroin addict,, the fuckin Intoxicated drunk, the botox bitch fuckin Lewandowski on her plane, and the rest. All unqualified just like trump
If the midterms don’t stop project 2025 and the literal purchase and ownership of our elections and politicians by billionaires using Citizens United Supreme Court ruling from 2010 our Democracy won’t make it to 2028.
Did you know that Bill Pulte does not need a single senator to approve him? He can hold the post for 210 days without one confirmation vote. The Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 lets a president slide someone into an empty top job on an acting basis as long as that person already cleared the Senate for a different position. Pulte cleared it in March 2025 when senators confirmed him to run the federal housing agency. That confirmation, for a job about mortgages, now hands him the keys to the entire intelligence community. And there's more. Trump can stall a permanent nomination and drag the fight deep into next year, which means the Senate may never get to weigh in on whether this man belongs anywhere near the nation's secrets.
Federal statute says a person nominated to be Director of National Intelligence must have extensive national security expertise. That language lives in 50 U.S.C. § 3023, and the statute never spells out whether the same bar applies to someone serving in an acting capacity. A separate provision states that the principal deputy director shall serve during a vacancy, and the word shall is the language of a command, not a suggestion.
What all of this means is that when the DNI job goes empty, one statute (the one tied to the intelligence office specifically) says the principal deputy director "shall" serve as acting director. In legal drafting, "shall" is mandatory language. It's a command, not an option. Compare it to "may," which gives discretion. So read on its own, that provision says the deputy automatically steps up. No presidential choice involved. That deputy is Aaron Lukas, the career intelligence officer, and he was in fact already serving as acting DNI under exactly that logic after Gabbard left.
Then there's the other law, the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, the general statute covering vacancies across the whole executive branch. That one says the president "may" direct someone already Senate-confirmed for a different job to serve as acting officer. That's the provision Trump used to install Pulte.
The tension is this. One law seems to say the deputy must serve. The other seems to say the president can pick someone else. They can't both fully control the same situation, and courts have not cleanly resolved which one wins when they collide for the DNI seat. That unsettled question is the "legal tension" experts flagged. Trump is betting the Vacancies Act overrides the "shall" command, and he's acting on that bet before anyone forces the issue.
CORPORATE COMMUNIST BUSINESS PLAN (It’s not a conspiracy; it is a business plan.)
Russia and China are red states.
Why would anyone feel there is a need for a metaphor about Corporate Communism? The short answer: political marketing.
The fascist Trump MAGA right is using socialist as a bludgeon to attack every bipartisan social progress program of the twentieth century (yes, I mean FDR, Eisenhower, Reagan, Nixon, JFK, LBJ, Obama, Biden, et al). Ninety nine percent of the US population, because of Corporate Communist Fox, has no idea what socialism is other than being the spawn of Satan. It is time to put these liars on their back foot by being forced to defend the lack of free and fair media.
“Corporate Communism” is when oblivious and frequently incompetent corporations own the means of communication aka propaganda which rules the world. All I have to do is to mention any religion and all of you have a visceral reaction no matter what your denomination. Propaganda pervades every aspect of our lives. Show me two religions and I will show you a war, frequently within the same dogma denomination. On the corporate side propaganda is done through the ownership of major corporations that provide us with supposed news. This is a failure on many levels, not only in the slanting and editorializing of the news, but more importantly, the editorial decision of what to cover or what to ignore. Right now, the corporate communist news industry covers only things that support oligarchy. To quote Senator Sanders. “In America today, we have more media concentration than we have ever had. Just six international media corporations control 90% of what American people see here and read. They own the traditional media, newspapers, radio and TV networks and movie studios as well as much of the Internet…three huge Wall Street firms Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street are the major stockholders in 95% of the S&P 500 corporations. And in other words, they have significant influence over many hundreds of companies that employ millions of American workers. And in fact, the entire economy.” This is accomplished by the production of false information via the privatization of Big Brother (Palantir, Google, X aka Gulf of Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, etc.). It is the worst of both utopian fantasies, e.g. altruism is a natural human trait and that the invisible hand is more than a metaphor.
Corporate Communism is anti-capitalism (Adam Smith and Ayn Rand). It is anti-communist, (Marx and Stalin). It is anti-competitive in its core. It hates the free market. Loves big government which it owns. Classic Capitalism and Classic Communism are utopian faith dreams based on the perfectibility of humans. The stunning materialist success of classic Capitalism in remaking the world is that it most closely follows the depraved human (that is us) indifference to consequences. The stunning failure of Russian/Chinese, Stalinist Communism is that it assumed that imperfect dogma dog bureaucrats could manage something other than being dogma dog bureaucrats: Red Guard political officers in every organization.
The Corporate Communist Business Plan Privatizing Big Brother:
• Elect a useful idiot wholly controlled by those with extortion and blackmail skills and evidence. (Trump-Epstein anyone?).
• Neuter Citizen Voting (Citizens United: corporations are people) an armed guard at polling places to demand “your papers please” to prevent non-proven voter fraud.
• Neuter The Free Press Aka the Fourth Estate and free speech while maintaining the fantasy of freedom (Free Speech Absolutist) through bogus litigation, denial of access, and ownership of the means of communication. Consolidation of media.
• A note on Free Speech Absolutism: Free speech is absolutely protected from the government. That’s it, full stop. It does not mean everybody has the right to have their words and speech published, streamed, broadcast, sculpted, painted or sent via smoke signals “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one". A. J. Liebling”..
• Ongoing degradation and subjugation of women via BFFI (BruteForceFuckingIgnorance) and tax-free religion. E.g. Clinton, Harris, Warren, Klobuchar, Ferraro. Compare and contrast with Nixon, Trump, Bush, et al. G$D created man and woman in their own image but no one has ever seen him/her/them yet almost always has a beard. Hell, even Satan has a beard. What, exactly are men so terrified of? Why are G$D’s women frequently covered from head to toe due to the male BFFI (Brute Force and Fucking Ignorance) run societies and religions. Could it be self-awareness by men that they cannot control their most base instincts or perhaps confusing musculature bravado with self-esteem? Currently this is Trumpism writ large. Could not men have come up with a civilization that did not need to stand on the throats of 50% of the world’s population to develop both the A bomb and the Cybertruck? It seems that men have not completely exempted themselves from abusive dogma like mandatory facial hair and celibacy as to women. Good thing we are the top of the food chain.
• Neuter Government Oversight of the economy (Chevron Doctrine), DOGE. and e.g. elimination of the CFPB Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
• Cut Education Funding (eliminate critical thinking and awareness of facts about tiny hands).
• The anti-capitalist mentality: Elimination of Classic Capitalism Free Market Competition via Anti-Customer Service (“Your call is very important to us and the robot will be right with you”), tax funded bailouts. Consolidation of industries to eliminate effective competition.
• Denying that personal information: medical, financial e.g. credit scores, accident, dating, social, religious is actually individual private property like homes, stamp collections, cars, shoes, underwear. This theft of private property is frequently self-inflicted via free shipping and rewards by uploading your life to Big Brother social media or most likely in terms of agreement you signed and never read. Let’s not forget DOGE: since there is no controls or oversight, possibly most Musk minions stolen data will wind up as an Xfile without rewards or free shipping.
• Indentured Servitude (Employee responsible for their pension and medical insurance).
• Permanent Financial Crisis and business bailouts.
• Tax Free Theocracy. Christo Fascism
• Full Unemployment via “The Singularity aka Homo AI”
So charging opponents of mortgage fraud is a consistent pattern of Lies by Dir of Fed Housing, Pulte, in furtherance of a crime (extortion of bribes & emoluments by the admin to avoid such = "protection money") is fraud. Dir of Fed housing Pulte should be charged under STATE laws
"Trump only hires the best" [sarcasm]
Nothing new, another unqualified scumbagger just like the heroin addict,, the fuckin Intoxicated drunk, the botox bitch fuckin Lewandowski on her plane, and the rest. All unqualified just like trump
If the midterms don’t stop project 2025 and the literal purchase and ownership of our elections and politicians by billionaires using Citizens United Supreme Court ruling from 2010 our Democracy won’t make it to 2028.
https://www.aclu.org/project-2025-explained
More food for thought...
Did you know that Bill Pulte does not need a single senator to approve him? He can hold the post for 210 days without one confirmation vote. The Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 lets a president slide someone into an empty top job on an acting basis as long as that person already cleared the Senate for a different position. Pulte cleared it in March 2025 when senators confirmed him to run the federal housing agency. That confirmation, for a job about mortgages, now hands him the keys to the entire intelligence community. And there's more. Trump can stall a permanent nomination and drag the fight deep into next year, which means the Senate may never get to weigh in on whether this man belongs anywhere near the nation's secrets.
Federal statute says a person nominated to be Director of National Intelligence must have extensive national security expertise. That language lives in 50 U.S.C. § 3023, and the statute never spells out whether the same bar applies to someone serving in an acting capacity. A separate provision states that the principal deputy director shall serve during a vacancy, and the word shall is the language of a command, not a suggestion.
What all of this means is that when the DNI job goes empty, one statute (the one tied to the intelligence office specifically) says the principal deputy director "shall" serve as acting director. In legal drafting, "shall" is mandatory language. It's a command, not an option. Compare it to "may," which gives discretion. So read on its own, that provision says the deputy automatically steps up. No presidential choice involved. That deputy is Aaron Lukas, the career intelligence officer, and he was in fact already serving as acting DNI under exactly that logic after Gabbard left.
Then there's the other law, the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, the general statute covering vacancies across the whole executive branch. That one says the president "may" direct someone already Senate-confirmed for a different job to serve as acting officer. That's the provision Trump used to install Pulte.
The tension is this. One law seems to say the deputy must serve. The other seems to say the president can pick someone else. They can't both fully control the same situation, and courts have not cleanly resolved which one wins when they collide for the DNI seat. That unsettled question is the "legal tension" experts flagged. Trump is betting the Vacancies Act overrides the "shall" command, and he's acting on that bet before anyone forces the issue.
HOW WE GOT TRUMP 2.0
CORPORATE COMMUNIST BUSINESS PLAN (It’s not a conspiracy; it is a business plan.)
Russia and China are red states.
Why would anyone feel there is a need for a metaphor about Corporate Communism? The short answer: political marketing.
The fascist Trump MAGA right is using socialist as a bludgeon to attack every bipartisan social progress program of the twentieth century (yes, I mean FDR, Eisenhower, Reagan, Nixon, JFK, LBJ, Obama, Biden, et al). Ninety nine percent of the US population, because of Corporate Communist Fox, has no idea what socialism is other than being the spawn of Satan. It is time to put these liars on their back foot by being forced to defend the lack of free and fair media.
“Corporate Communism” is when oblivious and frequently incompetent corporations own the means of communication aka propaganda which rules the world. All I have to do is to mention any religion and all of you have a visceral reaction no matter what your denomination. Propaganda pervades every aspect of our lives. Show me two religions and I will show you a war, frequently within the same dogma denomination. On the corporate side propaganda is done through the ownership of major corporations that provide us with supposed news. This is a failure on many levels, not only in the slanting and editorializing of the news, but more importantly, the editorial decision of what to cover or what to ignore. Right now, the corporate communist news industry covers only things that support oligarchy. To quote Senator Sanders. “In America today, we have more media concentration than we have ever had. Just six international media corporations control 90% of what American people see here and read. They own the traditional media, newspapers, radio and TV networks and movie studios as well as much of the Internet…three huge Wall Street firms Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street are the major stockholders in 95% of the S&P 500 corporations. And in other words, they have significant influence over many hundreds of companies that employ millions of American workers. And in fact, the entire economy.” This is accomplished by the production of false information via the privatization of Big Brother (Palantir, Google, X aka Gulf of Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, etc.). It is the worst of both utopian fantasies, e.g. altruism is a natural human trait and that the invisible hand is more than a metaphor.
Corporate Communism is anti-capitalism (Adam Smith and Ayn Rand). It is anti-communist, (Marx and Stalin). It is anti-competitive in its core. It hates the free market. Loves big government which it owns. Classic Capitalism and Classic Communism are utopian faith dreams based on the perfectibility of humans. The stunning materialist success of classic Capitalism in remaking the world is that it most closely follows the depraved human (that is us) indifference to consequences. The stunning failure of Russian/Chinese, Stalinist Communism is that it assumed that imperfect dogma dog bureaucrats could manage something other than being dogma dog bureaucrats: Red Guard political officers in every organization.
The Corporate Communist Business Plan Privatizing Big Brother:
• Elect a useful idiot wholly controlled by those with extortion and blackmail skills and evidence. (Trump-Epstein anyone?).
• Neuter Citizen Voting (Citizens United: corporations are people) an armed guard at polling places to demand “your papers please” to prevent non-proven voter fraud.
• Neuter The Free Press Aka the Fourth Estate and free speech while maintaining the fantasy of freedom (Free Speech Absolutist) through bogus litigation, denial of access, and ownership of the means of communication. Consolidation of media.
• A note on Free Speech Absolutism: Free speech is absolutely protected from the government. That’s it, full stop. It does not mean everybody has the right to have their words and speech published, streamed, broadcast, sculpted, painted or sent via smoke signals “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one". A. J. Liebling”..
• Ongoing degradation and subjugation of women via BFFI (BruteForceFuckingIgnorance) and tax-free religion. E.g. Clinton, Harris, Warren, Klobuchar, Ferraro. Compare and contrast with Nixon, Trump, Bush, et al. G$D created man and woman in their own image but no one has ever seen him/her/them yet almost always has a beard. Hell, even Satan has a beard. What, exactly are men so terrified of? Why are G$D’s women frequently covered from head to toe due to the male BFFI (Brute Force and Fucking Ignorance) run societies and religions. Could it be self-awareness by men that they cannot control their most base instincts or perhaps confusing musculature bravado with self-esteem? Currently this is Trumpism writ large. Could not men have come up with a civilization that did not need to stand on the throats of 50% of the world’s population to develop both the A bomb and the Cybertruck? It seems that men have not completely exempted themselves from abusive dogma like mandatory facial hair and celibacy as to women. Good thing we are the top of the food chain.
• Neuter Government Oversight of the economy (Chevron Doctrine), DOGE. and e.g. elimination of the CFPB Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
• Cut Education Funding (eliminate critical thinking and awareness of facts about tiny hands).
• The anti-capitalist mentality: Elimination of Classic Capitalism Free Market Competition via Anti-Customer Service (“Your call is very important to us and the robot will be right with you”), tax funded bailouts. Consolidation of industries to eliminate effective competition.
• Denying that personal information: medical, financial e.g. credit scores, accident, dating, social, religious is actually individual private property like homes, stamp collections, cars, shoes, underwear. This theft of private property is frequently self-inflicted via free shipping and rewards by uploading your life to Big Brother social media or most likely in terms of agreement you signed and never read. Let’s not forget DOGE: since there is no controls or oversight, possibly most Musk minions stolen data will wind up as an Xfile without rewards or free shipping.
• Indentured Servitude (Employee responsible for their pension and medical insurance).
• Permanent Financial Crisis and business bailouts.
• Tax Free Theocracy. Christo Fascism
• Full Unemployment via “The Singularity aka Homo AI”
• Return of a King (Donnie The Dumb)
Joewightman.substack.com “One Eyed King”
This is quite the summary, well done 👏
So charging opponents of mortgage fraud is a consistent pattern of Lies by Dir of Fed Housing, Pulte, in furtherance of a crime (extortion of bribes & emoluments by the admin to avoid such = "protection money") is fraud. Dir of Fed housing Pulte should be charged under STATE laws
WTF? Are Republicans ever going to speak up? This has gotten so out of control!
Will the Democrats speak also??!
I have never seen in my life a country where this amount of incompetence is in leadership positions. Ever.
Trump is running out of morons to appoint.
G-D forbid that the Pretender-in-Thief (partial thanks to Jimmy Kimmel) would ever pick someone to head intelligence who is intelligent. 😯🖕😠🖕🤢
How fucking stupid is that?
Trump Picked a Mortgage Regulator to Run America's Spy Network - Of course he did.
Oh my god! This so called president and his Republican cronies just keep fucking up. He has no clue about anything. Go back to sleep.
Fracking up by malign design.
Trump never chooses someone for expertise only for loyalty. It doesn't matter if they're competent or incompetent.
Incompetence is a requirement.
Sound like we have a Trump Mini Me in charge of intelligence. Sounds about right for this administration
Good point.
Typical Trump puppet. Its all about $$$$ and blackmail