Day 172: A Bizarre Circus of Tariffs, Raids, and Incompetence

Donny’s Tariff Tantrum Expands: Japan, South Korea, You’re Next

President Donny Dipshit is back at it - ratcheting up his trade war circus by announcing that tariffs of at least 25% will hit Japan, South Korea, and a grab bag of other allies starting August 1, unless they scramble to cut deals on his terms.

TACO will of course fold, there's no question of that. He just likes to strut around like the big man. Like all pathetic small-minded wannabe dictators.

This is how Trump operates:

• No strategy.
• No plan.

Just more threats, chaos, and “deals” that never materialize.

Remember: He promised 90 trade deals in 90 days. Current scoreboard?

3.

Still, that's up from only yesterday. And now, instead of owning the failure, he’s stomping around like a toddler with a Sharpie, scribbling 25% tariffs across global supply chains.

South Korea and Japan - major U.S. defense and economic partners, have suddenly found themselves in the crosshairs because Donny needs a distraction from his collapsing domestic credibility. And what better distraction than economic blackmail disguised as diplomacy?

This isn’t negotiation. It’s extortion in a MAGA hat.

And while Donny’s ego swells, American consumers and manufacturers are the ones about to take the hit - again.

If this is "The Art of the Deal,", then it's written in crayon, soaked in gasoline, and thrown into the global economy like a lit match.

Glass House, Broken Constitution: Donny Turns Cannabis Farms into Battlefields

In a the latest display of authoritarian overreach, federal agents backed by National Guard troops in military-style vehicles stormed two Glass House Farms cannabis operations in Carpinteria and Camarillo, California, because apparently, under Donny, legal weed is now treated like a national security threat. Because it's in California, and Donny doesn't like blue states.

What followed was pure MAGA-state brutality:

• Demonstrators were met with chemical munitions, fired to disperse crowds.
• Panic and confusion spread through the area as residents and workers were caught in the chaos.

No serious explanation was offered, just a show of force that looked more like a military occupation than a regulatory enforcement.

These were licensed farms. Legal under California state law. But that didn’t stop the Donny's clowns from unleashing militarized raids, complete with armed troops, tactical gear, and chemical dispersal agents, as if they were busting a cartel stronghold.

This is pure political spectacle an unhinged escalation designed to send a message:

Federal law trumps states' rights, and dissent will be gassed.

These weren’t meth labs. No one was smuggling fentanyl. These were state-regulated agricultural operations.

But to the Donny Clown regime, the real crime isn’t what’s being grown - it’s that states are daring to exercise autonomy, especially on issues like drug policy, environmental regulation, or human rights.

And now, legal cannabis businesses are being treated like insurgent compounds, while the administration huffs and puffs about “law and order” from behind a wall of armored vehicles.

This is what authoritarianism looks like in practice. Legal industry. Military response. Constitutional rights? Dispersed with tear gas.

FEMA Paralyzed by Ice Barbie’s Ego - Texas Paid the Price

As Texans clung to rooftops and floodwaters swallowed entire neighborhoods, FEMA sat frozen for over 72 hours, not because they lacked resources, but because Homeland Security Secretary Kristi “Ice Barbie” Noem decided she needed to personally sign off on every disaster contract over $100,000.

That’s right. Three full days of deadly silence from the agency tasked with saving lives - all because Noem wanted to micromanage relief like it was her Instagram brand deal portfolio.

This wasn’t bureaucratic red tape. This was intentional, ego-driven obstruction, imposed at the worst possible moment. And the result?

• Critical Urban Search and Rescue teams sat on standby.
• Lives were lost.
• The response failed before it even began.

This is what happens when you put ideologues and sycophants in charge of life-or-death operations.

Noem’s $100K bottleneck didn’t just delay water rescues and emergency shelter - it paralyzed the entire disaster response pipeline, leaving first responders helpless and communities abandoned.

No explanation has actually been given why Ice Barbie didn't drop everything to approve whatever was needed. Instead we've been treated to a rant from her about how terrible CNN are for reporting it.

This isn’t governance. It’s performative cruelty, dressed up as fiscal discipline. And Texans paid for it with their lives.

Ice Barbie is just a total idiotic fuck up - which is why she fits right in with Donny's clown cabinet.