TOM thinks he's living in Minority Report (and wants to kill the pre-cogs)

 

Dec 14, 2025 (328/1461)

TOM appears to be living out Minority Report in real life. He has the audacity to tell the ICC that there will be consequences if they indict him or his cronies for war crimes. So, he believes they know he’s going to (or already has) committed war crimes and is now threatening them, a la mafioso, to amend the very doctrine that would require them to charge him and others. Following the movie theme, the ICC should toss an extension cord into the pre-cogs’ bath and electrocute them all so they can’t predict the crimes he’s going to commit. “The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document to carve out an exception for President Donald Trump and his top officials ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes.

The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions if they do not amend the Rome Statute, which established the court in 2002, to ensure Trump and his administration’s top officials are never prosecuted, Reuters reports, citing a Trump administration official.

U.S. officials are also demanding that the ICC drop its investigations into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over charges related to Gaza, as well as a probe into potential war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan. “There is growing concern … that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them,” the Trump administration official told Reuters. “That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen.” The official said there is “open chatter” within the international legal community about the possibility of prosecuting Trump and other top officials in relation to international human rights violations. The official did not specify why the administration would be afraid of such charges being issued. “This is the behavior of a man who can hear the footsteps of the defense catching up to him. He’s panicking,” said Casten.” Ya think? I feel like he should’ve taken the beg for forgiveness route on this one. If he’s so worried about the ICC indicting him, maybe he should stop committing crimes. Novel, I know.

Kristi Noem must’ve been a tumbler in a previous life, because the amount of spin she’s putting on screwing over TSA employees is head-spinning (pun intended). “The Department of Homeland Security said Friday it is rescinding a collective bargaining agreement for Transportation Security Administration employees, despite being blocked from doing so earlier this year by a federal judge. The American Federation of Government Employees said it will fight this move by DHS, which affects 47,000 workers. “Our Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) need to be focused on their mission of keeping travelers safe, not wasting countless hours on non-mission critical work,” Adam Stahl, a senior official performing the duties of TSA Deputy Administrator, said in a statement. “Under the leadership of Secretary Noem, we are ridding the agency of wasteful and time-consuming activities that distracted our officers from their crucial work.” Time-consuming activities. Yes, I’m certain that’s how they view their rights. That get protected. Under the CBA.

“Merely 30 days ago, Secretary Noem celebrated TSA officers for their dedication during the longest government shutdown in history. Today, she’s announcing a lump of coal right on time for the holidays: that she’s stripping those same dedicated officers of their union rights,” AFGE National President Everett Kelley said in a statement. “TSA officers, many of whom are veterans, are patriotic individuals who swore an oath to protect the safety of the traveling public in our airports and in our skies, ensuring that another horrific attack like Sept. 11 never happens again. Secretary Noem’s decision to rip up the union contract for 47,000 TSA officers is an illegal act of retaliatory union-busting that should cause concern for every person who steps foot in an airport.” Yup. What he said.

The health debacle of America

 

Dec 13, 2025 (327/1461)

The Ds got shafted. Again. With promises to offer alternatives to tax subsidies that have made health insurance reachable (not affordable) expiring at year’s end, Ds signed onto the CR to open the gov believing Rs said this in good faith. JK JK says Johnson. “The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it’s the House’s turn to show what it can do.

Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a Republican alternative late Friday, a last-minute sprint as his party refuses to extend the enhanced tax subsidies for those who buy policies through the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, which are expiring at the end of the year. Those subsidies help lower the cost of coverage.” Later Friday, though, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said: “House Republicans have introduced toxic legislation that is completely unserious, hurts hardworking America taxpayers and is not designed to secure bipartisan support. If the bill reaches the House floor, I will strongly oppose it.” Time is running out for Congress to act. Democrats engineered the longest federal government shutdown ever this fall in a failed effort to force Republicans to the negotiating table on health care. But after promising votes, the Senate failed this week to advance both a Republican health care plan and the Democratic-offered bill to extend the tax credits for three years.” How many times will the Ds be suckers? And the problem is what they’re betting isn’t something they own. It’s other people’s lives and livelihoods. Don’t come to the table wagering something you don’t have.

TOM thinks having ASL interpreation will harm his image.....

 

Dec 12, 2025 (326/1461)

TOM is so paranoid, he believes that having ASL interpreters at his press briefings will pose a threat to his image. Yes, really. “The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public,” part of a lawsuit seeking to require the White House to provide the services. The National Association for the Deaf sued the Trump administration in May, arguing that the cessation of American Sign Language interpretation — which the Biden administration had used regularly — represented “denying hundreds of thousands of deaf Americans meaningful access to the White House’s real-time communications on various issues of national and international import.” .. attorneys for the Justice Department argued that being required to provide sign language interpretation for news conferences “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public,” also writing that the president has “the prerogative to shape his Administration’s image and messaging as he sees fit.” A White House spokesperson did not immediately comment Friday on the ongoing lawsuit or answer questions about the administration’s argument regarding the damage of interpretation services to Trump’s “image.” I can’t wait to hear what they dream up for this one. This should be a doozy.

The lives of the rich and famous and Epstein may come to light for more than just some house members seeing recently released photos. “Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) on Friday said some of the photos found in the home of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein depict “people engaged in sexual acts.” “Certainly, there is a lot of people involved in some of these acts,” Subramanyam added. Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a batch of 19 photos out of 95,000 from Epstein’s estate. One of the photos show a stack of condoms with a cartoon image of Trump on each package. Below Trump’s image are the words “I’m HUUUUGE!” TOM of course says he never did anything wrong in connection with Epstein.