Clifton on UFC

Looks like the U.S. is plunging headlong into Idiocracy. I expect that Trump's bloodlust will not be sated until they stage some "death matches." Just pull some prisoners from Death Row and let them fight it out to the death. What fun! The ultimate entertainment! (Just in case any MAGAts are reading this, it is SATIRE. Look it up, if you can read.)

by Allen Clifton

Ah, so UFC fighter Josh Hokit wants to showcase what a lowlife, bottom-feeding piece of crap he is by calling Michelle Obama a "man" after his fight at the White House.

What, is he jealous that she's in much better physical shape than he is? This "big, tough" UFC fighter looks like he's about one sandwich away from needing to spend a few weeks on Ozempic to make weight for his next fight.

And what the hell are we doing here? After just winning a UFC fight, one of the first thoughts going through this moron's head is to launch a childish attack against a former First Lady who hasn't been in that role in a decade?

That's what's on his mind at that moment?

Other than talking about the size of Trump's "balls," that is. Because nothing is "manlier" than a dude wearing nothing but a pair of spandex, talking about another man's balls while pushing childish and completely ridiculous lies about the former First Lady being transgender.

Again, this loser had just fought in a UFC cage match — won — and one of the first things he did was verbally attack a woman and our former First Lady.

And these people have the nerve to accuse all of us of having "Trump Derangement Syndrome." They're absolutely obsessed with the Obamas who, just to reemphasize the point, have not been in the White House in a decade.

They all have "Obama Derangement Syndrome."

Wait, no, that wasn't the first thing he did. Before that, he said he wanted to "thank his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" — then he called Michelle Obama a "man."

Because, you know, nothing says your beliefs are rooted in the teachings of Jesus Christ quite like publicly launching a pathetic, petty attack against a woman, a former First Lady, and someone who hasn't even been involved in politics in a decade.

Then again, that's just more of that fake "Christianity" from the MAGA bottom-feeders. Frauds who only claim to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ in name only, trying to make themselves feel like better people when they're absolute pieces of sh*t like Hokit, despite knowing absolutely nothing about Jesus Christ or actual Christian values and principles.

Oh, and then Joe Rogan's Hobbit-sized self laughed when Hokit made this disgusting statement. Maybe if Rogan takes more TRT and HGH, he'll actually be able to act like a man because, clearly, whatever he's taking so far to make himself look almost unrecognizable from what he used to look like before he started taking all that crap isn't working.

There was a lot to be ashamed of at this event, watching the White House be desecrated and turned into a trashy circus for cage fighting while the rest of the world looks at us in amazement at how quickly Donald Trump has turned our government into the movie Idiocracy, but the lowlight was definitely Josh Hokit and his disgusting attack on a woman and our former First Lady, Michelle Obama.

Just another example of a "man" in MAGA "manosphere" who has absolutely no clue what it actually takes to act and behave like a real one.

Clifton on Facebook

humor?

As brutal, cruel and insane as Trump and his goons have been, we still have to remember to laugh. Laughter has a strange positive power. I think Angelo Vincent wrote this Orwellian bit below.

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn't a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was "totally, completely, beautifully obliterated", so they couldn't build the nuclear bomb they weren't building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn't start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

pardon me!

Among the many, perhaps countless, transgressions Trump has perp-ed upon this country is that he is just openly selling pardons. You want someone pardoned? Well, just send the money (how about $1 million? or $5 million) to your faithless president and soon enough, your loved one/partner-in-crime springs free, and you don't even have to pay the remunerations you were supposed to make to your victims. Sweet! What a country! Hey! Who can we swindle next?

What follows is just a FEW of those who have bought their way to freedom. Oh, you'd better not be one of them liberals, ok?

from Josh Helfgott

A woman donated $1 million to Trump's super PAC. Three weeks later, her son a convicted tax criminal was pardoned. His pardon application literally mentioned her donation.

Her name is Elizabeth Fago. Her son, Paul Walczak, had pleaded guilty to federal tax crimes. The pardon application filed on his behalf explicitly cited his mother's million-dollar donation to MAGA Inc. as a reason he deserved clemency. Trump signed the pardon. Walczak walked free and was relieved of more than $4 million in restitution he owed.

That is one entry on a donor list of 58 people who gave a million dollars or more.

MAGA Inc., Trump's super PAC, has now raised over $305 million since the 2024 election five times more than any presidential super PAC in history at this stage. The Brennan Center called it "completely unprecedented." Ninety-six percent of it came from donors giving $1 million or more. Sixty-two percent from those giving $5 million or more. This is not a grassroots operation. It is a pay-window.

Here's what the donor list actually shows.

Crypto. com's parent company, Foris Dax, gave $30 million — while it was under SEC investigation for allegedly trading unregistered securities. The SEC investigation was quietly dropped in March 2025, two months after the donation.

The Winklevoss twins gave $1 million — also while their crypto platform Gemini was under SEC investigation. That investigation was dropped in February 2025.

Energy Transfer, the Texas pipeline company, and its CEO Kelcy Warren gave a combined $25 million — while Energy Transfer was actively suing a federal regulatory agency in court.

OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his wife gave $25 million — as the Trump administration was actively shaping AI policy in Silicon Valley's favor.

Then there are the appointments. Benjamin Landa gave $5 million then became Trump's ambassador to Hungary. Kelly Loeffler and her husband gave $5 million she now runs the Small Business Administration. Warren Stephens gave $2 million now ambassador to the United Kingdom. Jared Isaacman gave $2 million now NASA administrator.

And Isabela Herrera, a 25-year-old self-employed financial consultant whose only prior political donation was $20 to Pete Buttigieg in 2020, somehow contributed $3.5 million to MAGA Inc. Her father a Venezuelan billionaire facing federal bribery charges was pardoned by Trump in January 2026. Campaign Legal Center has filed a formal complaint with the FEC alleging she was a straw donor for her father.

This is not dark money. This is public record.

Every dollar, every favor, every pardon. Filed with the FEC. Sitting in plain sight.

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Josh Helfgott

Maui

And another diversion. I can sympathize with whoever wrote this piece. Our last trip to Maui was about 15 years ago and it was packed with people then. Now? 

MAUI, HAWAIʻI: WARNING!

In regards to all the people wanting to move here from California, Texas, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Canada, Australia, and every influencer with a drone and a ukulele soundtrack…

Before you come to MAUI, you should be aware of what is happening here. There’s a severe housing shortage, locals are being priced out, and tourism numbers keep breaking records. Traffic is getting worse every year and half the island seems to be permanently under construction.

So if you plan on moving here, or just vacationing on our beaches this summer, I think you should know:

The sun here is not the same sun you’re used to. Tourists arrive pale and confident, then leave looking like microwaved hot dogs after “just 20 minutes” at the beach.

The Road to Hana is now approximately 94% rental Jeeps crossing the center line while somebody hangs out the window filming waterfalls for Instagram.

Locals can immediately detect when someone stops in the middle of the road because they saw a rainbow, whale, chicken, surfer, or “really pretty tree.”

Our oceans are full of tiger sharks, Portuguese man o’ war, shorebreak waves that snap boogie boards in half, and sea turtles that will absolutely get you fined if you try riding one for TikTok.

The beaches are covered in tourists who underestimated Hawaiian shorebreak and are now limping back to the parking lot carrying one sandal.

The centipedes here are enormous. Nobody from the mainland believes this until one sprints across the ceiling at 2am moving approximately 40 mph.

Wild chickens and roosters have completely taken over the island. They roam parking lots in gangs and scream outside your condo window before sunrise every single day.

The mosquitoes are thriving, especially after rain, and somehow always know exactly which tourist forgot bug spray.

Parking at beach parks now requires timing, strategy, luck, and occasionally divine intervention.

Our hiking trails are full of flash flood warnings, slippery mud, loose rocks, mosquitoes, and visitors wearing flip flops carrying one tiny bottle of Dasani.

The trade winds are strong enough to relocate beach umbrellas, towels, rental car doors, and emotionally fragile tourists.

Coconuts fall out of trees with alarming force and absolutely zero concern for human life.

Mongoose run around everywhere looking like they’re late for an important meeting.

The humidity guarantees that nothing in your condo, hotel room, or rental car will ever fully dry again. Ever.

Every Costco trip feels like the island population has increased by 600,000 people overnight.

Tourists continue attempting to stand on coral reefs, touch monk seals, climb over safety barriers near blowholes, and swim at beaches locals specifically told them not to swim at. Nature usually handles the situation from there.

The locals are friendly until you block traffic, disrespect the land, complain that things are expensive, ask where the “hidden locals-only beaches” are, or announce you’re “thinking about moving here” after visiting for four days.

And don’t even get me started on the cane spiders. They’re harmless, technically. But emotionally? Spiritually? Absolutely not.

What I’m saying is if you are thinking of coming here… don’t.

Honestly, I hear California is beautiful this time of year though.

Edit: This pile of comments is packed with disgusting racist entitlement and straight-up colonial superiority.

You outsiders flood in with your cash, treat Maui like your personal playground, then throw tantrums when locals finally speak truth about being priced out after fires wrecked homes, cultural destruction, and an economy stacked to enrich outside investors over the actual families rooted there for generations.

The nonstop “don’t bite the hand that feeds you” narrative is pure colonial rot. Locals are not your obedient servants or smiling, grateful natives who must stay quiet while foreign money jacks up costs, turns their ancestral home into a cheap theme park, and leaves them scraping by. That twisted thinking assumes Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders only exist to cater to tourists and property flippers, and any resistance gets labeled lazy, entitled, or anti-white. That right there is the ugly racism on full display.

Dismissing the original post as lies or exaggeration while brushing off the brutal housing shortage, mass displacement, and crushing over-tourism damage is outright gaslighting.

So many of you brag you “just visit,” yet still demand the island contort itself for your comfort, then brand locals grouchy or unwelcoming for naming the problems your presence worsens.

The stereotypes about “bad locals” and “ungrateful natives” come straight from repeated entitled outsiders who trash the ʻāina, ignore every warning, and treat sacred ground like their own Instagram backdrop.

Framing all locals as angry ingrates for daring to defend their home is the same tired dehumanizing language that has been aimed at Native Hawaiians and island peoples for far too long.

Tourism brings money, yes, but that does not erase locals’ right to call out unsustainable traffic, endless construction, environmental damage, and ongoing cultural disrespect. Dismissing those concerns as “hate” or “bad leadership” while benefiting from visits or rental income is peak arrogance and hypocrisy.

You do not get to enter a place, reshape it for your own gain, and then smear the people dealing with the consequences as ungrateful parasites.

If this post makes people uncomfortable, that discomfort is revealing. The racism is obvious in how quickly people jump to “these people are ruining paradise” while still expecting gratitude for showing up.

Locals owe no performance of gratitude for their own displacement, and they do not have to soften their reality to make visitors feel more comfortable.

Show the respect you claim to have, or accept that pushback is part of being a guest in someone else’s home.

Maui belongs to its people.

climate change

And here is another open-and-shut case. Trump promised oil industry fat cats awhile ago that if they gave him a shit ton of money, he would do whatever they wanted. He got the money. One item on their wish list was to deemphasize climate change. How to do that? How about pulling up all the ocean-based equipment that sends massive amounts of data to climate researchers? No info on wave action; no info on warming oceans; no data on how much CO2 is escaping from the ocean floor. And the fossil fuel industry can go along its merry way knowing that scientists will be less able to argue that the climate is changing if they have little to no data. Win, win, especially for Trump, who doesn't give a fuck about much of anything except his own pocket. 

EarthJustice

They said no. Twice. It didn’t matter.

Congress said no to gutting ocean monitoring in 2025. They restored the funding. The Trump administration tried again in 2026. Congress restored it again.

So the Trump administration didn’t go through Congress. They went around it. They control who runs the National Science Foundation. So they simply directed the NSF to start pulling the equipment out of the water anyway — no vote, no approval, no debate.

This week, ships are physically removing a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring network that took decades to build. 900 buoys and instruments — tracking fisheries, weather, tsunami warnings, and ocean currents — pulled from the Pacific Northwest, the Atlantic, Greenland, the Southern Ocean. The system was expected to keep collecting data for another 15 years. Gone.

By the time any lawsuit works through the courts, the buoys will already be gone. Instruments that took decades to build and place, retrieved in a matter of weeks. That’s not an accident. That’s the strategy. Move fast enough that the law can’t catch you.

The official reason? Saving $48 million a year.

But here’s what the Trump administration won’t tell you: what does it cost to remove it?

They are deploying ships globally for 15 months to physically retrieve equipment from the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, North Carolina, Greenland, and the Southern Ocean. Each buoy alone is worth $1.5 million. They’ll tell you what they’re saving. They won’t tell you what the removal costs.

And here’s the part that I believe they really don’t want you to know: this was written into Project 2025 before Trump even took office.

The architects of this administration explicitly named NOAA’s ocean and climate research office as “the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism” and called for its research to be “disbanded.” This isn’t budget math. This is a hit list.

No monitors means no data. No data means no accountability. No accountability means the Trump administration and its fossil fuel donors can drill, dump, and extract — and there’s no paper trail.

And it’s not just the oceans.

The Trump administration’s proposed 2027 budget zeroes out Forest Service research entirely — all $309 million, gone. At least 57 of the agency’s 77 research stations are on the chopping block across 31 states. Scientists in Baltimore have spent years planting white oak saplings that take three decades to mature. You can’t FedEx a forest to Colorado. You can’t manage a Hawaiian ecosystem from a cubicle in Utah. Researchers have told NPR they’ll quit before they relocate — which may be exactly the point.

The “fiscal responsibility” pitch falls apart the moment you look at the numbers. The research station in Hilo, Hawaii sits on 30,000 acres locked in until 2067 — for a one-time fee of one dollar. The Fort Collins office where the Trump administration wants to move everyone? One million dollars a year in rent.

They’re closing dollar leases to expand a million-dollar one. (That seems fiscally wasteful.)

Meanwhile Trump has pledged to ramp up logging on federal land. Gut the scientists who document the damage, and there’s no one left to sound the alarm when ancient forests get clear-cut for profit.

The forests. The oceans. The scientists. The Trump administration is methodically dismantling every system that could document what it’s doing to this planet.

That is not incompetence. That is strategy.

The forests don’t belong to Trump. The oceans don’t belong to his donors. They belong to every American who has ever stood quiet under a hundred-year-old tree, or watched the sun go down over open water, and understood that some things are not for sale.

Congress said no. It didn’t matter — yet. It could matter if enough of us are loud enough.

And to wrap this up:

“Trump said he has nothing to do with Project 2025,” said by someone very close to me a couple years ago. But here we are. It is playing out in rapid time before our eyes (in hundreds of ways beyond the topic of this article) — it can’t be denied if we are paying attention. These actions are not to benefit the whole or the planet that support life. Follow the money trail and those who will massively benefit at the expense of all of us.

Don’t take my word for it. Read it yourself. Share it. Then act.

• Ocean monitoring: http://cnn.com/.../ocean-monitoring-system-amoc-trump...

• Forest Service: search “Forest Service closing offices costs” at npr.org

• Sign Earthjustice’s forest petition: http://earthjustice.org/.../protect-forests-from-massive...

• Call Congress — works for every American: 202-224-3121 — give them your zip code, they’ll connect you. Sixty seconds. They tally every call.

screwworm

Oh boy, another possible screwworm infestation? This is what happens when you mindlessly cut government. According to the GOP, government must be reduced in size, apparently no matter how many may die or how many disease outbreaks may occur. After all, the U.S. health apparatus kept pushing Covid-19, contradicting Trump and making Trump look bad, so all health agencies must be destroyed. It's as simple as that.

Josh Helfgott

BREAKING A flesh‑eating parasite just showed up in Texas cattle for the first time since the 1960s — and thanks to Trump’s budget cuts, it could drive beef prices even higher.

Federal officials have confirmed a case of New World screwworm in a calf in South Texas, near La Pryor, Zavala County. This isn’t a normal fly. Its larvae burrow into open wounds and literally eat living tissue; untreated, an animal can die in a couple of weeks.

Screwworm was once so destructive that the U.S. and Mexico spent decades and hundreds of millions of dollars eradicating it using a sterile‑fly program that released millions of lab‑raised, non‑breeding males along the southern border to keep the pest out of U.S. herds. It worked — until now.

Under Trump, that prevention wall has been quietly dismantled. His administration slashed money for screwworm surveillance and sterile‑fly production, even as scientists warned that climate change and cross‑border livestock trade were pushing the pest north again.

A key USDA program that funded sterile‑fly releases and inspections on the U.S.–Mexico border was downsized and delayed. The White House also pushed for cuts to international cooperation with Mexico and Central America, where the flies are still endemic, bragging about “wasteful foreign programs” being axed. Ranchers and public‑health experts said at the time that this was exactly how you invite screwworm back into Texas cattle country.

Now it’s here — and the economic stakes are huge. USDA modeling suggests a serious outbreak in Texas alone could cost more than $2 billion a year in livestock losses, vet bills, and trade disruptions. Before eradication, screwworm outbreaks forced ranchers to shoot or amputate infected animals; now, with today’s smaller cattle herd and already record‑high beef prices, losing calves to a preventable parasite will tighten supply even more.

One analysis estimated that if screwworm spreads, national beef production could drop enough to push prices up for consumers on top of inflation and drought‑driven herd reductions. Border cattle imports from Mexico have already been restricted over screwworm concerns, shrinking the supply of feeder cattle that feedlots rely on.

And here’s the part the right won’t say out loud: this is what “cutting the deep state” actually looks like in real life. The people Trump smeared as faceless bureaucrats were the ones running the sterile‑fly plants, inspecting cattle trucks, and catching this parasite before it got into a Texas pasture.

When you gut long‑term prevention to score budget talking points, you don’t just hurt agencies. You hurt ranchers, workers at packing plants, and every family standing in front of a meat case at the grocery store.

We’re about to hear a lot of spin that blames “Biden inflation” or “migrant cattle” for every jump in beef prices. But remember: scientists and ranchers warned years ago that slashing screwworm defenses was a time bomb. Trump cut the wires anyway.

The bill is coming due — not for him, but for the people who raise our food and the families already struggling to afford it.