It has long been a practice for New York sharpies to scam chumps by offering to sell them the Brooklyn Bridge. However, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) tried an even harder scam in selling the idea on Sunday that the collision of the Mexican training ship Cuauhtémoc and the Brooklyn Bridge was the fault of the Trump Administration. Schumer appears to have missed the boat, literally, given the immediate reports of a loss of navigation ability on the vessel. In any case, the suggestion that cuts in staffing led to the crash is just the latest Democratic spin that dispenses with any factual foundation.
Democratic members have been actively spreading unfounded claims from the start of the Administration that tragedies were caused by reductions in staff or programs. That included blaming the Administration for a crash that occurred less than 24 hours after the new FAA commissioner took office as well as a crash in Canada due to bad weather. It simply does not matter if the claims are factually absurd. Democrats are rarely accused of disinformation and rely on a generally enabling legacy media.
The same pattern emerged after the blackout at Newark in a system that was flagged as antiquated during the Biden Administration and should have been replaced years ago. Despite only being in office for just over 100 days, the Democrats blamed the Trump Administration for the system failure.
Schumer pushed some of those earlier false claims. However, his gambit with the Brooklyn Bridge would embarrass the most hardened Brooklyn Bridge-selling grifter.
Unwilling to let any tragedy go to waste, the Democratic minority leader issued a press release declaring
“We know there has been meddling by the Trump administration into USCG staffing, and we need to know how this might have impacted the events of last night — from a command, communication and local coordination level. There are indications that this service [Vehicle Traffic System] may not be fully or adequately functional in light of a hiring freeze. If this were the case, the Brooklyn Bridge accident would be a national harbinger, demanding immediate attention.”
However, there is no such connection or allegation in the accident that killed two sailors and injured 17 others.
The Coast Guard was obviously not amused. It issued its own press release Sunday that said that it immediately responded to the scene of the deadly collision:
“Sector New York immediately launched a crew from Coast Guard Station New York to the scene and established a safety zone from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Manhattan Bridge. New York Vessel Traffic Services suspended commercial traffic in the area.”
President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency eliminated its Logistics Information Management System, which managed configuration, maintenance, supply chain and technical data. It was viewed as ineffective and the cut saved over $32 million. It had nothing to do with the accident.
The hair-trigger attacks after these tragedies only deepen the public’s distrust. Polling shows that the public’s confidence in Democrats in Congress is at a record low of 25%.
On the day of Schumer’s comment, a new poll from the Associated Press (AP) and NORC at the University of Chicago found that only 35 percent of Democrats are optimistic about the party’s future.
That makes sense when your Senate minority leader is trying to sell the public a bridge story that treats them like moronic marks who will buy anything.
TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) is a serious Mental Health Disorder………….
If only James Comey’s head had been chopped off in the collision.
OT
Now we are told Epstein did kill himself.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/patel-bongino-insist-epstein-committed-suicide-stinchfield-remains
I want to believe these two but I still have questions.
What punishment did the sleeping guards from that night get?
What punishment did the person in charge of the broken cameras get?
What punishment did the person who left a sheet that could be knotted in his cell get?
What punishment did the supervisors get?
If it was slaps on the wrists maybe followed by promotions all around, people will still think he was murdered.
Trust in government is at the ‘trust but verify’ stage.
Do better on this one.
Clearly Patel and Bongino are Biden administration stooges.
They are obviously part of the deep state.
They must be fired immediately.
A different view from The Daily Dojo, a meme sight but with come good commentary.
Yeah, I’m sure everything in the file is legit. 👍 Let’s review the guard witness testimony…Oh wait, they weren’t at their posts despite 24/7 surveillance instructions after another Epstein “uuicide” attempt two weeks earlier. Well, at least the video of the suicide is in the file? Oh wait, a technical glitch. Damn those coincidences!
At this point, the Trump administration has zero credibility with me on anything related to the Epstein case and his clients. I still suspect the administration is using the Epstein files as leverage to keep a lot of RINOs in line, whereas they’d be sabotaging his agenda at every turn otherwise. However, I just don’t believe in ends-justify-the-means thinking. It’s led almost all of DC to toss out every bit of the values they might once have had.
Yes, that’s eery.
Jonathan: BREAKING NEWS! DJT has often claimed he is a “stable genius”. Many have questioned that claim. DJT has tried to block the release of his tax records and his grade record at Fordham University. Now we know why. Some enterprising sleuth has obtained DJT’s first semester grades at Fordham and posted them on the internet. His overall GPA was a miserable– 1.28! That’s right. Here’s a break down of DJT’s grades:
English 102 Literature D+
Intro to Management C+
Microeconomics C+
Managerial Finance C-
Statistics F
It’s clear DJT did not do much studying at Fordham. An “F” in Statistics indicates why DJT knows nothing about how tariffs actually work. But for the true MAGA believers it doesn’t matter what grades the leader got at Fordham. Being the leader of a cult doesn’t require some intellectual rigor–only loyalty and obedience!
HaHaHaHaHa
The disinformation about Trump’s grades that you are spreading has been out there since 2019. Six years. Fordham called it a forgery several years ago.
We all get a kick out of watching you beclown every day. Keep trying.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/10/04/trump-fordham-report-card-fabricated-fact-check/75495235007/
Poor Ano. He got fooled again.
The libs never learn
Donald J. Trump is THE greatest president this country has ever had. He will be remembered as such a GREAT man.
Joe Biden will go down as the same POS, crooked-as-hella congenital liar, and self-serving scumbag he has always been. He began his political career as a lying POS. He now ends his career as a lying POS.
YES! Truth! Trump 2028!
Trump 4 Evah!
Dennis,
“DJT, DJT, DJT…………”
I can hear Willie singing,”You were always on my mind, you were always on my mind.”
Perhaps a hobby or a long camping trip where there is no cellphone signal or TV reception?
and yet despite “failing” in school, the man goes on to becomes one of the most wealthy developers in the world’s most competitive developer city: New York
Look, I get it…nothing is acceptable…he’s just not normal.
and THAT is precisely THE POINT.
look around…see all these so called very smart people?
what have they actually done in their lives?
lets start with you. perfect grades you might say…top of the class?
show me your balance sheet.
because if you didn’t book it, it never happened.
shaddup with this worn out low intelligence shade of President Trump. On his worse day, he was more effective than your best 1000 days.
isn’t that really why “he makes you angry”? that you tried to very hard to make the grade, but then this “failure” sets the bar you could not even creatively imagine possible for yourself?
isn’t it true…you hate him, because you life really has no meaning…your children will not have the benefit of a parent who them with real world skills to becomes successful.
isn’t it true, you tell you children…go to school, get good grades and you’ll go far.
that turns out to be awful advice and you know it.
be honest…you hate him, because you really don’t like how your life turned out.
God Bless America
Hey dennis seen this report.. Not good for you libs.
University of Chicago found that only 35 percent of Democrats are optimistic about the party’s future.
35%————- OUCH.
The only breaking news is that you are a dupe who blindly believed this fake.
But people belive this nonsense. A perfectly rationale friend of my posted that Trump is killing people. They here his from Schumer and the MSM and they just believe it without any question.
Agreed. There are enough naive people, who don’t do any research, who believe this nonsense, as to be very damaging to American politics.
schumer is such an embarrassment.. did he just finally allow himself to sink this low or was it always there crying to come out?
Trump: Putin call went ‘very well’, negotiations to start ‘immediately’
“The tone and the spirit of the conversation were excellent. If it wasn’t, I would say so now, rather than later. Russia wants to do large scale TRADE with the United States when this catastrophic “bloodbath” is over, and I agree,”
Similar to what transpired from his visits to Gulf nations Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates last week, Trump emphasized that “there is tremendous opportunity for Russia to create massive amounts of jobs and wealth. Its potential is unlimited. Likewise, Ukraine can be a great beneficiary on trade, in the process of rebuilding its country.”
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trump-putin-call
Gee, that sounds a whole lot better than Biden never talking with Russia for a peace deal, a trade deal where everyone benefits from jobs and wealth. A whole lot better than death and destruction.
Oh! The newly appointed pope would like to host the peace negotiations. Would that ever of happened under the Biden admin? I say “Biden admin” as it is now clear to anyone with any degree of critical thinking, Joe Biden was mentally impaired and not fit for office.
Who was running the country?
1960’s saying during Vietnam: Make love not war
The Trump Doctrine: Make money, not war
OldManFromKS,
You are not wrong. When money is to be made, without the death and destruction, regions, states, nations tend to do better. They will even tend to look past conflicts if there is money to be made. Saw it in Afghanistan.
President Milei of Argentina gave a speech at the UN about that around a year ago – how having trading partners makes war less likely because even if you hate your trading partner, you still want to make money so you won’t try and destroy him.
They should have dropped pallets of money instead of racks of bombs.
It’s not even a close calculation that the result would have been significantly better.
They’re dropping pallets of money on Vietnam now as mutually beneficial trade.
And horrible shrimp … I’ll never eat it again. Foods are contaminated now with listeria. Salmonella, plastic and metal.
No one knows who was running the country. Biden made it clear via gaffs he wasn’t but was being forced.
The Hur tapes are out and suddenly the cancer story? Not a coincidence.
Who knows anymore about anything.
New Yorkers should’ve stuck with Al D’Amato (Senator Pothole). He was better.
“Schumer pushed some of those earlier false claims. However, his gambit with the Brooklyn Bridge would embarrass the most hardened Brooklyn Bridge-selling grifter.”
Sounds like AOC has Schumer running scared.
What files?
You’re such a moron
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⬆Winner🏆
“REMEMBER THE ALAMO!”
Fellow conservatives, don’t let Schumer get to you, every time he shows his face, glasses on his nose, reading without being able to remember any lines at all, never looking up from his cheat sheet, he just turns more Independents and moderates away from the sinking Democrats.
Hey Chuckie, go grill raw burgers with cheese on them you fool.
HullBobby,
Schumer does not get to me. They are losing and they know it. So, they throw whatever they can at the wall to see what sticks and what gullible dupes will still not only listen to them, but believe them. Based off initial reports, it appears the ship had a mishap in the engine room and none of this was linked to anything Schumer is speculating. IF it does in fact turn out it was a mechanical mishap that lead to the incident, will Schumer even acknowledge it? Or just ignore that inconvenient fact like it never happened, he never sent out that dumb tweet?
What is fun, is with each of these pathetic attempts to deflect from all of Trump’s winning, they just come off as losers. Again. And again. And again. Their credibility continues to sink, even with their own members of their own party.
They question is, will they ever have what my wife like to call a, “come to Jesus!” moment and say to themselves,
“This far left, progressive crap is not working. We need to do something else to win back our own base.”
Granted, there are people like my own sister who will continue to vote Democrat, even if it means voting for the stupid and crazy. And ultimately, their own demise as a party.
OT, funny thing, if Democrats and even Republicans actually read some of the good professor’s comments section, they might learn a thing or two.
“Minority Leader Schumer’s accusations that a hiring freeze led to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Vessel Traffic Services not being adequately staffed are FALSE. The US Coast Guard has been fully supported and been exempt from hiring freezes. Additionally, this incident had nothing to do with Vessel Traffic Services— when a ship loses propulsion in a high current area, the vessel needs to engage all capabilities to stop and ideally tugs are nearby to support. We encourage Minority Leader Schumer to get his facts straight before he misleads the American people.”
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) May 18, 2025
Chuck Schumer’s resume reads like his character: long-winded, self-serving, and a menace to clarity. He’s never held a job outside elected office, and after decades in government, his legislative record remains as underwhelming as his personality.
Patel and Bongino, after reviewing all the files, have unequivocally stated that Epstein committed suicide and that there is no evidence of any cover up of murder.
I presume that their MAGA credentials have been revoked, and that they have been excommunicated from the cult.
If Patel and Bongino say there is no evidence of foul play, I believe them.
“At this point, what difference does it make?”
– Hillary Rotten Clinton
___________________________
My question is, “Who created the ‘files’?”
Hillary Clinton? Stefan “The Walrus” Halper? James Comey? Christopher Steele? Chrissy Wray? Buhrack Obongo? Igor Danchenko? Joseph Mifsud? Andrew Weissmann?
Where are the Fact Checkers when you need them?
edward, that’s the great irony hitting Democrats right between the eyes. We now have an entire ecosystem of “fact checkers” born as a direct response to the Democratic party’s endless gaslighting campaign against the American people. You have to really hand it to the Democratic party, they are doing more to improve civics literacy in this country than I ever thought possible. Bravo! 👍
“…just the latest Democratic spin that dispenses with any factual foundation.“
They’re eating cats and dogs.
Now they’re eating their own.
Paramount disposed of CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon. Scott Pelley should be next to “resign”.
Did Chuck’s wife had prostate examined lately?
Really. At this point, you don’t have to be simply partisan to believe our democrats anymore, you have to be preternaturally stupid. Just unbelievable. And there is apparently no low they will not stoop to, nor no lie they will not tell or get behind. This is so absurd . . . I don’t even know what to say anymore. I could not be more thrilled that the modern left is a shrinking minority, and that the majority of sane and healthy people find it off-putting and ridiculous. for Pete’s sake, enough.
They cannot erase the Obama years. They cannot erase the covid years. They cannot erase the Biden years. No one is buying this boosheet, and it is far beyond pathetic. Perhaps Chuck should have looked for seashells instead.
Clown and show. It is beyond past time for accountability for the modern left. Let’s see how well they do without us funding them, and with honest elections.
Instead of chiding Schumer, Democrats and their legacy propaganda machine, I suggest we applaud their efforts to continue educating the American people on how corrupt and unqualified they are to represent them. I would encourage following this maxim attributed to Napolean: In that case,” said Napoleon, “let us wait twenty minutes; when the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him.
OLLY,
I get your meaning but at the same time, watching the hot mess they have become is nearly painful to watch. I do not want a one party rule be it Republican or Democrat. For that matter I would like to see a sane and normal Independent party. Seriously Democrats, you have got to cease your cranial, rectal infusion, get the stupid and crazy out of your party and get back to normal.
I agree with that Upstate. However, I’m reminded of one thing Dan Bongino often asked his viewers; are things bad enough yet? 250 years ago, it took about 12 years for the “sane and normal” Independents to say enough is enough. While I doubt a formal Independent party will rise up to challenge those two, I do believe the base of “Independent” voters will expand to influence their platforms for quite some time. This is a direct and natural response to the “fundamental transformation” Obama inflicted on this country 17 years ago.
Putting David Hogg in as asst. head of the Dem party, was an attempt to get themselves back to normal. They are so messed up, they don’t know what normal is. Next we will hear from Greta Thunberg……..
Jim Johnson,
If that was satire, well done!
@Olly
Yeah, but Schumer is a part of that dying machine. Maybe we should look instead to what we want to create, considering the likes of him as officially irrelevant, because they are.
They are not the way forward and they know it. They would not be engaged of these unfortunately impactful histrionics were that not the case. It really is like herding cats or chiding out of control children. Heaven help Chuck if he has to just be a regular person on earth, like everybody else does, every day. 🙄 Impossible to take seriously. Truly.
Maybe we should look instead to what we want to create,
James, I understand and agree with your point, but look at what is being created by their impactful histrionics. As much as I would like the Democratic party to jettison their radical agenda, I truly believe what it’s doing is what Yuri Bezmenov said needed to happen to those demoralized by ideological subversion: When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that. Whether it’s their abuse of power, or histrionics, they have been kicking the American people in the balls and they aren’t taking it any longer.
OLLY,
The American people can and will only stand getting lied to for so long. And as you aptly point out, they are not taking it any longer. Even Democrats are ditching the lying and dying MSM as is reflective in their falling ratings.
Yes, I looked up bezmenov and it’s plausible
James,
Schumer and others like him, you are correct, they are on the way out. I stated in another one of the good professor’s columns about how then DNC chair Howard Dean said the party needed new blood. And I agreed with him. But now they elected as vice-chair, David Hogg, which is nothing more than adding to the stupid and crazy.
However, looks like they are going to give Hogg the boot after he said he would continue to primary against incumbent Democrats.
What I think we may see is young progressive Democrats going the direction of the likes of Hogg, voting for more stupid and crazy taking the overall party with it as the sane and normal ones ditch their own party.
Some have said the Republican party has been taken over by MAGA. Which is fine. When a party no longer represents their voters, it is the voters right to vote for someone else. The old Mitch McConnles of the Republican party need to go. New, young, conservatives with the MAGA spirit need to be voted in. The old Republican establishment, like the old Democrat one, needs to go. And I think they are on the way out with the second Trump admin, and with a successful Vance admins will get the rest of the old establishment out.
Schumer just doesn’t stop. He needs to retire or at least come up with things to complain about that matter. Better yet — how ’bout coming up with good ideas that actually help Americans.
better yet, how about New York smarten up and kick him tf out of Congress?
-Rabble
Jonathan: While we await the NTSB investigation into the crash of the Mexican ship there are other things we can definitely blame on the DJT regime.
For starters, DJT’s aligned candidates in a number of countries have lost their elections–in Canada and Australia and now in Romania and Poland. It seems DJT’s autocratic policies have less appeal to the voters around the world. Especially as he is now calling for military tribunals for Barack Obama and other of his political enemies. DJT is even asking Pam Bondi’s DOJ to investigate popular entertainers like Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, Bono and Oprah because they have spoken out against him and endorsed Harris in the last election. At 1:34 am today DJT posted this in all caps:
“How much did Kamala Harris pay Bruce Springsteen for his poor performance during the campaign…What about Beyonce?…And how much went to Oprah, and Bono??? I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter”. DJT calls their endorsements of Harris “CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL”. DJT is particularly pissed at Springsteen because the entertainer has been trashing DJT during the entertainer’s European tour. Seems DJT holds long time grudges and is trying to scapegoat just about everyone these days.
Pam Bondi has her hands full these days investigating all of DJT’s perceived enemies. She also has a lot to answer for in her failure to release the Epstein files. Bondi early on promised to release the files. She said she had a “truck load of evidence” on her desk. So where are the files she promised? Only silence after three months. Very suspicious. What does Bondi and DJT have to hide?
We do know Epstein and DJT were close for 15 years. DJT’s name is all over the files as “Doe 174”. We know from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial that Epstein was involved in the trafficking of minors for sex. Virginia Giuffre was 17 at the time she was a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago and recruited by Maxwell. Giuffre alleges she was sexually abused by Epstein and Prince Andrew. Andrew settled a lawsuit with Giuffre for about $12 million. Epstein apparently committed suicide in prison and Giuffre was found dead in her home in Australia last month–again apparently from suicide. A made for TV movie if there ever was one with a lot of intrigue!
The Q is why is Pam Bondi refusing to release the Epstein files? Like the case of Abrego Garcia all DJT would have to do is pick up the phone and order Pam Bondi to release the Epstein files. But he hasn’t done that. Could it be that DJT has actually ordered Bondi to deep six the Epstein files? The silence from Bondi and DJT is deafening. Is this like Nixon’s Watergate tapes?
deflection from the nut job schumer attempting to stay relevant to his base.
Europe admits JD Vance was right, pivots on mass immigration
“In a February speech to European leaders, Vance warned Europeans that they faced serious risks due to what he called “the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values.” Scoffed at by EU intelligentsia at the time, their leadership has come around. So have politically attuned Democrats in the US.”
https://justthenews.com/world/europe/wkdeurope-admits-vance-was-right-pivots-mass-migration
Key group in government censorship project boasted of suppressing Trump message, defunding newsrooms
“Democracy Dies in Darkness? A new memo from the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy shows grantee Global Disinformation Index viewed silencing Trump and toxifying certain news outlets to reduce their revenues as a win. The policy spread to other federal programs.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/key-group-government-censorship-project-boasted-trump-message-suppressed-news
who the f cares.
I had no idea Making America Great again had spread to Romania. It’s absolutely ludicrous the leaps of logic you people come up with. You could qualify for the Olympic Longjump.
-Rabble
The reason you had no idea that MAGA style politics has influenced politics in other countries is because you are a dimwit who does not pay any attention to real news.
There is no dispute that Trump caused the defeat of the conservative in Canada.
The same thing happened in Australia.
Donald Trump may not have been on Australia’s ballot , but his shadow loomed large all the same.
Over his three years as opposition leader, Peter Dutton, the hard-right prime ministerial candidate of the conservative Liberal Party of Australia, embraced MAGA-style politics and bigged up Trump. In February, for instance, Dutton called Trump a “big thinker” and lauded his “art of the deal” negotiation tactics after the American president called for the U.S. to take over Gaza and turn it into a Middle East Riviera.
Dutton’s campaign borrowed heavily from the U.S. Republican Party’s policies under Trump, with the Liberal leader arguing for significant cuts to the public service and championing a DOGE-inspired government efficiency unit. Dutton also unveiled (and then abandoned) a policy to force all public servants in the Australian capital Canberra back into the office full-time.
Dutton’s embrace of MAGA policies backfired spectacularly.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-cost-conservative-australia-election-takeaway/
Not only was Dutton’s conservative party soundly defeated, he lost his own seat in Parliament. His own constituents in an ultra safe conservative district were so disgusted that they gave him the boot.
The same things happened in Romania and Poland.
Your Politico citation is all we need to know about you, libtard.
Trump won, dum dum.
Is there a Romania, Poland, Canada, Australia in MAGA? I had no idea! Well, maybe we should make them our 51-54th states!
P.S. The conservatives in Canada lost because they embraced TDS, hoping it would get them the old foddy vote
dennis.
Will you ever tell the truth?
O-that;s right, libs never do that