Tuesday Cartoons: Speed Check
Posted: September 2, 2025 Filed under: just because 10 Comments
I don’t know, I think Trump needs some Fartkontrol! The real fart control.
But seriously…
Check this out, h/t to Boston Boomer:
This brings up some key questions. Also, what the fuck is going on here:
Yes, that is trash bags being thrown out from the second story window of the White House.
Just a couple of more stories. Say so long Jerry…
We lost another fine actor yesterday:
And DeSantis is being a asswipe:
Cartoons via Cagle:
Take it easy today, this is an open thread.
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So, what do you think yam tits will announce today?
It is supposed to be a defense announcement. I think that means he’s changing the name of the DOD to Department of War. It’s just another distraction from the Epstein files.
It will be interesting if he stands and walks in public and how he sounds talking.
He’s trying to turn back time and erase all of the 20th century and 21st century advances to being modern and civilized. Do you suppose he can actually make a statement to the Press?
Guess that’s what I get for skipping tv news these days. We need an “offense”? Does that mean we’re imperialistic again?
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, August 25, the president said, in part, “It just sounded bad to me, ‘On behalf of the Department of Defense?’ Defense? I don’t want to be defense only. We want defense but we want offense, too, if that’s OK. As the Department of War, we won everything, and I think we’re going to have to go back to that.”
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-department-defense-war-announcement-hegseth-live-updates-2123249
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/politics/national-guard-california-trump-posse-comitatus-act-breyer
Judge says Trump administration’s use of US military in Los Angeles violated federal law
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated federal law by using the US military to help carry out law enforcement activities in and around Los Angeles this summer.
US District Judge Charles Breyer concluded that Trump’s use of thousands of federalized California National Guard members and US Marines to provide protection to federal agents during an aggressive immigration crackdown in the Los Angeles area ran afoul of the Posse Comitatus Act, a 19th Century law that generally prohibits the use of troops for domestic law enforcement purposes.
The ruling from Breyer, who held a multi-day trial last month over Trump’s use of the military in the state, comes as the president is weighing whether to send National Guard members to other cities, including ones in California and Illinois.
“President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have stated their intention to call National Guard troops into service in other cities across the country,” Breyer wrote in his 52-page opinion, “… thus creating a national police force with the President as its chief.”
“The evidence at trial established that Defendants systematically used armed soldiers (whose identity was often obscured by protective armor) and military vehicles to set up protective perimeters and traffic blockades, engage in crowd control, and otherwise demonstrate a military presence in and around Los Angeles. In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act,” Breyer wrote.
In an effort to stave off further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act in California, Breyer blocked Trump and Hegseth from using troops there for “arrests, apprehensions, searches, seizures, security patrols, traffic control, crowd control, riot control, evidence collection, interrogation, or acting as informants.”
The judge paused that part of his ruling until next Friday to give the administration time to appeal it.
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Judge Jeanine Extends Losing Streak As Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Woman Accused of Threatening Trump
Judge Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host turned top DOJ official, was dealt another blow by a Washington, DC grand jury.
Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, DC, brought charges against Nathalie Rose Jones in mid-August for allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump, but Jones’s public defender sought on Monday to have her sent home after a grand jury refused to indict.
“Ms. Nathalie Rose Jones, through undersigned counsel, respectfully moves this Honorable Court to modify the conditions of her release in response to the grand jury’s return of a no bill,” read a public court filing on Monday from federal public defender A.J. Kramer.