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11/10/2025

🕊️ La-dee-da, La-dee-da... Goodbye, Diane. 🕊️

Diane Keaton has died. And the world just got a lot less cool.
Diane Keaton — the woman who taught a generation of women how to wear pants with personality and feel feelings without apology — has passed away at the age of 79.

Let that sink in: Annie Hall, Kay Corleone, mom from Father of the Bride, the one who somehow pulled Jack Nicholson, and let’s be honest — the only person on Earth who could make turtlenecks look emotionally complex — is gone.

According to a statement released Saturday, she died in California with loved ones nearby. No cause has been disclosed, just a tidal wave of grief from fans, friends, and film lovers who didn’t realize how much Diane Keaton meant to them until this very moment.
She Didn’t Just Act — She Diane Keaton’d

You couldn’t copy her even if you tried (and, let’s admit it, we did). She mumbled her way into our hearts in Annie Hall, danced awkwardly in vests and slouchy trousers, and made neurosis an aesthetic. She wasn’t just the girl in the movie — she was the girl we wanted to be (or date, or at least have lunch with).

She played Michael Corleone’s long-suffering wife in The Godfather, gave feminist real estate energy in Baby Boom, and made aging look chic and s*xy in Something’s Gotta Give — a rare rom-com where she ends up crying naked and still getting Jack Nicholson in the end. That’s power.

Her Resume Was Wild

Academy Award for Annie Hall
Nominations for Reds, Marvin’s Room, Something’s Gotta Give
Lifelong muse to Woody Allen and frenemies with Al Pacino
She never married, adopted two kids in her 50s, and once said that men were “a nice idea” but not an essential one. Relatable queen.
She was also an author, photographer, singer (remember that?!), and occasional director.

Oh — and she turned her obsession with architecture into bestselling coffee table books. The woman was basically a walking art project.

“This Is Something.”

That’s what she said when she won her Oscar in 1978, grinning and awkward as ever. That was Diane: endlessly self-effacing, wildly talented, and allergic to BS.

She didn’t want to be a bombshell. She wanted to be a Broadway star. But she ended up doing something bigger: She carved out a space for women to be weird and romantic and angry and stylish and soft — all at once.

So Now What?

Now we queue up Annie Hall, The First Wives Club, or Father of the Bride, pour a big glass of red, and toast the woman who made it cool to talk with your hands, love without dignity, and age without Botox.

As she once said:
“A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.”

Thanks for the freedom, Diane.
Thanks for the mess, the charm, the pants.
You were something — and so much more.
🖤

08/10/2025

"Tariffs, Trillions & Trump’s Billion-Dollar Backfire", Remember when Trump said tariffs would fix the economy? Spoiler alert: They broke it worse.. He claimed “billions in revenue.”
Turns out? That money was illegally collected.
As in—SCOTUS may make him refund up to ONE. TRILLION. DOLLARS. And while everyone’s waiting for the Epstein scandal to finally stick...
Turns out his real downfall might be math. These tariffs raised YOUR prices—groceries, shoes, appliances.
They tanked jobs.
They did nothing to China.
And now? They might blow a trillion-dollar hole in the budget. And who got hit hardest?
Blue cities.
This wasn’t economic policy.
It was a political hit job.
Chicago today. Detroit tomorrow. Your town next? Trump’s economy is a pyramid scheme—
And now the base is crumbling.

Re-elect this guy?
Might as well light your wallet on fire and call it patriotism. 🗯️ Follow News for more political whiplash, sarcasm, and truth bombs.

08/10/2025

💸 TRUMPONOMICS: THE MAGA PLAN TO MAKE YOU PAY MORE FOR LESS — AND THEN REFUND IT… MAYBE
By Pigsfly News – Bitter Sarcasm Division

Ever since Donald Trump first tripped over the Constitution and landed squarely in the Oval Office, America’s political discourse has been trapped in a Kafkaesque loop: Surely this will be the thing that finally breaks the spell! The lies, the scams, the impeachments, the s*xual assault verdict, the bankruptcies, the Stormy Daniels hush money, the Russia mess, the criminal convictions.

You’d think somewhere in that Greatest Hits reel, the magic would wear off. Spoiler alert: It hasn’t.

Because for MAGA, Trump is simultaneously the victim of the deepest witch hunt in U.S. history and the savior-warrior who alone can fix it. Just ask him. Or Fox News. Or your aunt who thinks chemtrails are turning the frogs gay.

And now, with the Epstein smoke thickening and the "Who flew to the island?" questions swirling, you'd think maybe, just maybe, the walls would finally close in. But don’t bother holding your breath unless you’re looking to pass out from disappointment.

No, Trump’s biggest problem might not be the company he kept. It could be his “economic genius”—specifically, his absurd tariff strategy that may now be poised to implode in spectacular, trillion-dollar fashion.

Let’s recap: Trump’s tariffs were supposed to bring foreign countries to their knees, magically lower prices, reduce unemployment, and make America rich again. Instead, they made toys, shoes, fridges, and just about everything else more expensive, all while doing squat for jobs or inflation. But hey, at least your patriotic lightbulb cost $12.

Now, in a move straight from the “You Can’t Make This Up” files, the Supreme Court is considering whether Trump has to cough up up to $1 TRILLION in illegal tariff revenue that he unilaterally slapped on foreign imports like a kid throwing tantrums with stickers.

Even his own Treasury Secretary—Scott Bessent, a man whose main job seems to be not spontaneously combusting on live television—admitted the consequences could be “catastrophic and devastating.” And that’s his word, not ours.

Lower courts have already ruled that Trump’s tariff cash-grab was a gross overreach—because, minor detail, presidents don’t get to play Congress when they’re bored. If SCOTUS agrees, the government might be legally obligated to issue refunds. As in: Refunds to the tune of $750 billion to $1 trillion.

And here’s the kicker: this isn’t hypothetical anymore.

Importers are getting their legal ducks in a row. Trade lawyers are working overtime. Third-party firms are buying up refund rights like Wall Street buzzards circling a wounded wildebeest. If the ruling goes south for Trump, Customs and Border Protection will have to process refunds on cash it already spent. Think the DMV meets Enron.

But don’t worry—this is the same team that said Mexico would pay for the wall. What could go wrong?

And if you’re thinking, “Well, it’s just some complicated trade stuff,” let’s be clear: You, the consumer, are already footing the bill. Tariffs aren’t some invisible tax. They're a “Made in MAGA” surcharge on your groceries, appliances, shoes, and literally everything that wasn’t whittled out of American hardwood by a bald eagle in Ohio.

And guess which cities bear the brunt of it? That’s right—Blue Cities. The ones Trump routinely mocks as hellscapes, dumps, and warzones—like Chicago, New York, Portland, and basically anywhere that doesn’t have a Confederate statue in the town square. The tariff blowback isn’t just economic; it’s intentional punishment against urban America. You know, the ones that didn’t vote for him and therefore deserve to suffer.

This is no accident. This is political vengeance disguised as policy. And if the courts don't stop it, Detroit today, Chicago tomorrow, maybe your town next.

Meanwhile, Trump still insists that he's the man to "fix the economy"—despite having torched it with a match made of tax breaks, tariffs, and Twitter rants. And let’s not forget: his re-election pitch is basically, "Remember how I broke it all? Let me try again."

But here's the faint, flickering light at the end of this scorched-earth tunnel: If SCOTUS rules against him and he’s forced to refund even a fraction of the illegal tariff money, the central pillar of Trump’s economic mythology collapses. No more lies about tariff revenue. No more tough-guy bluster about making China pay. Just one big, embarrassing, fiscal faceplant.

And that, dear readers, is a narrative Democrats might finally be able to run with. The GOP gave Trump the keys to Congress’s purse strings. He bought nonsense. And now the bill is due.

So don’t lose hope entirely. The truth has a habit of resurfacing—even if it has to claw its way through a trillion-dollar mess to get there.

Inspired by the original post by SE Cupp. Adapted for the hopelessly optimistic, terminally exhausted, and deeply sarcastic audience of Pigsfly News.

06/10/2025

🔎 “It’s a Minor Issue,” Said the Man Who Never Learned What Words Mean (or What Consent Is)

Ah yes, the “minor issue” of Jeffrey Epstein — minor, apparently, in every way Trump wishes we’d interpret it.

This unfortunate choice of words comes from a man who’s spent more time around Epstein than most convicted felons spend in a courtroom —

but sure, keep pretending it’s all media hype and not, you know, an international s*x trafficking operation involving the elite, the wealthy, and the politically untouchable.

📣 Meanwhile, back in “Justice, Sort Of” news: The Supreme Court, in a rare moment of semi-spine, declined Ghislaine Maxwell’s desperate appeal to overturn her conviction for trafficking minors.

No explanation given — just a quiet “no,” which in this era feels like a full-throated scream.

Of course, Maxwell is still enjoying her extended stay at the Tennis & Chardonnay Correctional Facility for the Mildly Inconvenienced, but hey — let’s all clap politely because at least she’s still technically behind bars.

Survivors and their families, somehow still fighting for actual justice while the powerful keep lawyering up and trading favors, issued statements reminding us what’s at stake: children's safety, not reputations.

And yet, as this cartoon perfectly captures, some people still don’t get it — or worse, they do, and they just don’t care.

01/10/2025

‘Lethal Delusions’: Veterans Roast Pete Hegseth’s Big Boy Lecture to the Military Brass

Because nothing says “combat readiness” like flying 800 top military leaders into the same room for a speech that could’ve been a chain email — from a guy endorsed by a man who bankrupted casinos.

By Troy Matthews, with enough sarcasm to fuel a fighter jet
Pigsfly News – Bitter Sarcastic Edition

In a move that truly captures the spirit of 2025 — where governing is cosplay and ego is policy — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gathered over 800 generals and senior military officials into one room for a lecture so condescending, so unnecessary, it’s amazing the roof didn’t cave in from the collective eye-roll.

Of course, the man who put Hegseth in charge is none other than Donald J. Trump — a man so successful, he managed to bankrupt not one, not two, but multiple casinos — you know, those businesses that are literally designed to take your money and never give it back.

And let’s not forget his other crowning achievement in leadership: Trump University, the educational Ponzi scheme that bilked working Americans out of their savings and ended in a cool $25 million fraud settlement.

Trump never admitted wrongdoing — because of course he didn’t — but he paid up anyway.

Oh, and speaking of that Trump University grift — remember the $25 million settlement for defrauding students out of life savings with nothing more than "Success 101" binders and pushy upsells? That wasn’t even the shadiest part.

Florida’s Attorney General at the time, Pam Bondi, was reportedly considering joining a multi-state investigation into Trump University.

But right after her office announced that — Trump’s “charitable” foundation cut her a $25,000 donation for her reelection campaign. Illegal, unethical, and sleazy as hell. Magically, Florida’s investigation into Trump University… disappeared.

Most people missed this little episode — maybe because the news was too busy covering his daily Twitter tantrums — but the IRS didn’t. Trump got fined for that “donation,” and his so-called “charity” was later shut down for, quote, “a shocking pattern of illegality.”

You know, just oversights. Happens to every stable genius billionaire.

And now, this dynamic duo wants to lecture the U.S. military — the most professional force on earth — about ethics, leadership, and lethality?

You can’t make this up.

Hegseth, who once threw an axe on live TV and narrowly missed a guy (which feels like a metaphor for his current job), took the stage to school 4-star generals and admirals on the "warrior ethos."

Because nothing screams credibility like getting your military philosophy from a man whose last real battle was for screen time on Fox & Friends.

“A lot of the words that are coming to me aren’t fit to print,” said Naveed Shah, a veteran with Common Defense. Which is polite veteran-speak for: “What the hell was that?”

He and other veterans rightly questioned the national security brilliance of flying the entire upper echelon of the armed forces into one enclosed space. Sure, it's strategic genius — if the goal is to take out the U.S. chain of command with a single sneeze.

Warrior Cosplay and Testosterone Flashbacks
Retired Army General Dana Pittard called the spectacle “insulting” and “egotistical,” which is like calling a forest fire “a bit smoky.” He warned about the dangerous politicization of the military — a trend this administration seems to be treating like a design aesthetic.

And Senator Mark Kelly, who’s been both a Navy pilot and an astronaut (you know, actual accomplishments), reminded the country that Hegseth isn’t exactly bringing precision to the Pentagon.

“This is what you get,” Kelly said, “when you install the Saturday morning news guy as Secretary of Defense.”

Then came the part where Hegseth dipped into 1990-era locker room talk, declaring the military must return to “the male standard” — a totally made-up concept that exists only in insecure group chats and reruns of Top Gun.

“There has never been a separate male and female standard,” said former fighter pilot Amy McGrath, likely while resisting the urge to hurl her flight helmet.

“You can either do the job, or you can’t. Period.”

Marine veteran Jojo Sweat added what should be obvious: women have been meeting that standard — the standard — for years, in combat, in command, and in real-world operations.

But sure, let’s ignore that in favor of Hegseth’s dude-bro fantasy of a military full of pull-up kings and beard oil brand ambassadors.

Morality According to the Guy Who Cheered on War Crimes
Hegseth also reportedly called for a “loosening” of use-of-force standards — the kind designed to protect innocent civilians in war zones. Because if there’s one thing the military needs, it’s more bad headlines about civilian casualties, right?

“Basically, he’s saying people join the military to break things and kill people,” said Tamara Stevens, a Navy veteran.

“He’s not even qualified to be on Fox News, much less run the Department of Defense.”

And in case it wasn’t clear this isn’t just bad policy — it’s dangerous ideology — Air Force vet Gretchen Klingler warned that this administration is rebuilding the military in its own image: hyper-political, hyper-masculine, and completely out of touch with the democratic ideals that once made it a global force for good.

“These are not serious people,” added Retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton. “And they are making us less secure — not more lethal.”

And Eaton wasn’t done. He highlighted that at a time when military families are struggling with inflation, Pete Hegseth spent millions to fly in the entire Pentagon to hear him talk about facial hair, pull-ups, and whatever low-budget Rambo fantasy he’s cosplaying.

Closing Salvo
This wasn’t a strategy session — it was a vanity project.

A TED Talk with camo. A taxpayer-funded flex by a secretary of defense whose most lethal experience is throwing bad takes on morning TV.

And all of it propped up by a president with a long history of defrauding Americans, bribing prosecutors with charity money, and somehow still getting a standing ovation from the base every time he says “China.”

So no — this wasn’t about restoring lethality.

This was about restoring insecurity to American leadership, fragility to military policy, and giving the world one more reason to wonder if the United States still knows what the hell it's doing.
But sure, let’s salute that.

09/09/2025

The Washington Post and update on the Epstein consortium of S **** P****rts and Pe******es you fill in the missing words - Photographs, hand-sketched drawings and images digitally composed by contributors to the book are loaded with references to s*xually explicit behavior. A photograph appears to show Epstein holding what looks like a gold gun next to someone wielding what appears to be a knife. Both of them are wearing black masks. The caption, which references only Epstein and a “Mr. Brown,” says that the financier’s “plan” was that “the first victim,” whose name is redacted, “be attacked and brutally plundered.” “The dastardly thieves were never caught,” the paragraph concludes.

In another drawing, a male figure is pictured in an inset labeled “1983” giving balloons to three female children in skirts and pigtails. In the accompanying image, labeled “2003,” he is drawn receiving massages from topless blond women in the foreground of a tropical locale above a caption that reads: “what a great country!”

“Jeffrey, the idea behind the book was simply to gather stories and old photographs to jog your memory about places and people and different events,” says a note opening the book that appears to be from Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 of helping Epstein groom, traffic and abuse dozens of underage girls. “Some of the letters will definitively achieve their intended goal — some well … you will have to read them to see for yourself.” Photographs, hand-sketched drawings and images digitally composed by contributors to the book are loaded with references to s*xually explicit behavior. A photograph appears to show Epstein holding what looks like a gold gun next to someone wielding what appears to be a knife. Both of them are wearing black masks. The caption, which references only Epstein and a “Mr. Brown,” says that the financier’s “plan” was that “the first victim,” whose name is redacted, “be attacked and brutally plundered.” “The dastardly thieves were never caught,” the paragraph concludes.

In another drawing, a male figure is pictured in an inset labeled “1983” giving balloons to three female children in skirts and pigtails. In the accompanying image, labeled “2003,” he is drawn receiving massages from topless blond women in the foreground of a tropical locale above a caption that reads: “what a great country!”

“Jeffrey, the idea behind the book was simply to gather stories and old photographs to jog your memory about places and people and different events,” says a note opening the book that appears to be from Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 of helping Epstein groom, traffic and abuse dozens of underage girls. “Some of the letters will definitively achieve their intended goal — some well … you will have to read them to see for yourself.”...., The dialogue between “Donald” and “Jeffrey” appears inside the contours of a woman’s body. “We have certain things in common, Jeffrey,” “Donald” says. “Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?”

“Happy birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret,” “Donald” ends the note.

The “birthday book” has become a controversial aspect of the Epstein saga. The Wall Street Journal first reported on its existence in July, and the paper said it contained a note from Trump along with a sketch featuring the outline of a n**e woman. The president denied having written the note or having drawn the image, and he has sued Dow Jones, the newspaper’s publisher, for defamation. The case is ongoing.

“The Oversight Committee has secured the infamous ‘Birthday Book’ that contains a note from President Trump that he has said does not exist,” Rep. Robert Garcia (California), the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, wrote in a statement. “It’s time for the President to tell us the truth about what he knew and release all the Epstein files. The American people are demanding answers.”

When asked for comment on the note, the White House referred The Washington Post to a social media post written by press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday in response to a new report from the Wall Street Journal that featured the reported sketch.

Leavitt called that report “FAKE NEWS” on X, and added, “As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it. President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation.”

The committee received the “birthday book” as part of documents it subpoenaed from Epstein’s estate. The committee, under pressure from Trump’s Republican base, is investigating the two-decades long probe into Epstein’s activities.......

Also delivered to the panel was a version of Epstein’s will, a non-prosecution agreement between Epstein and the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of Florida — where Epstein was first investigated for improper behavior with underage girls — and financial records. In addition to the “birthday book,” the committee released the will, the 2008 non-prosecution agreement from Florida and a list of Epstein’s contacts from his address book. The financial records were not released; in his statement, Comer said the committee “will pursue these bank records.”

Among the records the committee requested were any documents that could be “reasonably construed” as listing clients who may have been complicit in Epstein’s s*xual crimes.

Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, attorneys for the estate’s executors, wrote in a letter to the committee that they had no documents responsive to that part of the subpoena, saying, “We are not aware of the existence of a ‘list of clients involved in s*x, s*x acts, or s*x trafficking facilitated by Mr. Jeffrey Epstein.’”

Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested the Department of Justice was in possession of such a “client list” naming powerful men who may have been complicit in Epstein’s crimes in February, telling Fox News the list was “sitting on my desk right now to review.” But the department said in a July memo that no such list exists. That statement drew intense criticism from several right-wing pundits and conspiracy theorists, who have accused the federal government of a cover-up and demanded more information.

08/09/2025

Committee releases Trump’s b***y birthday note to Epstein: A suggestive birthday letter allegedly from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein – which the president denied existed — has been publicly released.

The note written within the outline of a woman’s body was included in a book of messages from friends, compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell for the pa******le financier’s 50th.

The birthday book’s existence was first revealed by the Wall Street Journal, but Trump had insisted no such letter from him existed.

“HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist,” the House Oversight Committee’s Democratic minority wrote in a post on Tuesday (AEST).

The letter posted by the committee appears to show Trump’s signature in the crotch area of the woman’s body.

It reads as an imagined conversation between Trump and Epstein in which Trump states: “We have certain things in common, Jeffrey”.

“Jeffrey: ‘Yes we do, come to think of it’.”

The imagined conversation continues until the final line from Trump: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.” A birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, allegedly signed by Donald Trump. Photo: US Oversight Committee

The X account for Oversight Democrats posted an image of the letter, adding, “Trump talks about a ‘wonderful secret’ the two of them shared. What is he hiding? Release the files!”

The US House Oversight Committee received the book in a bunch of files from Epstein’s estate after a subpoena was issued last month.

“The Oversight Committee has secured the infamous ‘Birthday Book’ that contains a note from President Trump that he has said does not exist,” said Democrat Robert Garcia.

“It’s time for the President to tell us the truth about what he knew and release all the Epstein files. The American people are demanding answers.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded: “President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it. “President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation.”

Court rejects presidential immunity
In other Trump-related news, a US federal appeals court has rejected that Trump had presidential immunity in his bid to throw out a $US83.3 million defamation verdict against him.

Trump was found guilty of damaging the reputation of the writer E Jean Carroll in 2019 when he denied her r**e claim.

The US President sought to have the matter overturned, claiming that he deserved presidential immunity from Carroll’s lawsuit.

However, three judges of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan unanimously rejected Trump’s argument.

“The jury’s duly rendered damages awards were reasonable in light of the extraordinary and egregious facts of this case,” the judges wrote in their opinion.

The same court on June 13 upheld Carroll’s separate $US5 million ($7.6 million) jury verdict against Trump in May 2023 for a similar defamation and for s*xual assault.

Carroll, 81, a former Elle magazine columnist, accused Trump of attacking her around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room.

Trump first denied her claim in June 2019, telling a reporter that Carroll was “not my type” and concocted the story to sell her memoir What Do We Need Men For?

He essentially repeated his comments in an October 2022 Truth Social post, leading to the $US5 million ($7.6 million) verdict, though the jury did not find that Trump r**ed Carroll.

The larger award included $US18.3 million ($27.8 million) of damages for emotional and reputational harm, and $US65 million ($99 million) of punitive damages.

In his latest appeal, Trump argued that the US Supreme Court’s July 2024 decision providing him with substantial criminal immunity shielded him from liability in Carroll’s civil case. https://pigsfly.info/2024/01/27/jury-orders-trump-pay-carroll-83-3-million-following-years-intentional-malicious-insults/

He also said he spoke about Carroll in 2019 in his capacity as president, and that failing to immunise him could undermine the independence of the Executive Branch.

Trump also said US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw both trials, made other mistakes, including by striking his testimony that in speaking about Carroll: “I just wanted to defend myself, my family, and frankly the presidency.”

In June, Carroll released another memoir, Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President, about her legal battles against Trump.

20/08/2025

🕳️ **WE CRAWLED INTO OUR SHELL — NOT FROM FEAR, BUT FROM DISGUST** 🐢

Let’s be clear: our recent retreat wasn’t about fear of retribution. No, no. It was about something *far more corrosive*: disappointment, edging right up against full-blown revulsion.

Because it’s hard to keep screaming when the audience seems to be cheering for the collapse of democracy like it’s a Fourth of July fireworks show.

And nothing spells “collapse” quite like the ghoulish fever dream that is **Project 2025**, proudly engineered by the Heritage Foundation’s own ventriloquist, Russell Vought — the guy who’s got his hand so far up Trump’s back, he probably flosses with his spinal cord.

Yes, we’re talking about **Donald Trump**, the man who thinks diplomacy means giving hats to world leaders and declaring victory in wars he didn’t fight and couldn’t name.

In a recent Mother Jones editorial — which we’ve left untouched because, frankly, you can’t improve on this level of jaw-drop — the delusion is on full display:

Donald Trump's recent string of high-profile diplomatic meetings could give one the impression that peace in Ukraine is within grasping reach. But read any analysis of these so-called negotiations and you quickly see that this is not true; progress remains ever-elusive.

*Still, I wouldn't fault you for wondering right now if Trump is suddenly invested in peace. (Trust me, I wish he were.) But let his own comments disabuse you of that hopeful thinking. As I recounted in a quick piece today:*

*Amid starvation imposed by Israel on Gaza and deadly bombings in Ukraine, President Donald Trump’s narcissism is reaching new heights.*

*“I’ve done six wars, I’ve ended six wars,” he claimed on Monday in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders, taking credit for settling conflicts that the US began or saw little to no American involvement in their resolutions. Elsewhere in the Oval Office meeting, Trump forced guests to endure a viewing of hats emblazoned with “4 more years.”*

*Such stunning self-regard was once again on display Tuesday as Trump praised accused war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “war hero” over his approval of Israel’s June airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites, and then gave some love to himself. “I guess I am, too."*

*Those were just two instances of startling egoism as death rages on in Ukraine and Gaza. So what's he so proud about?

I speculate here that it might have to do with successfully elbowing the Jeffrey Epstein scandal out of the frame.

That and watching his dream police state unfold.*
*—Inae Oh*

It’s like watching a demolition derby with nukes — except the crowd thinks it’s a halftime show and the car in flames is the Constitution.

We’ve been covering the Project 2025 freakshow in detail here 👉 [https://pigsfly.info/category/trump/project-2025](https://pigsfly.info/category/trump/project-2025) — but in case you still think this is politics-as-usual, let us remind you: this isn’t about policy anymore. It’s about a full-blown ideological coup wrapped in red, white, and MAGA hats.

And the “puppet” everyone’s watching?

He doesn’t even know there are strings attached.

But Vought and the Heritage henchmen do.

They’re orchestrating a government hollow-out job with all the grace of a chainsaw in a church.

So if we seem a little quieter these days, it’s not because we’ve given up — it’s because we’re trying to figure out how to scream *louder* without bursting a blood vessel.

💀 Stay awake. Stay angry. Stay tuned.
— *Pigsfly Editorial Team*

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