Irony is not dead

 

JFC

 

But wait!  It gets more insane...

Fucking numbskull

 Scott Bessent has been saying some really batshit stuff lately.  Here's one...

No they don't.  They're not debating a referendum on leaving Canada, buffoon.  The "rumor", if one exists, will have been started by Bessent (or another Trump lacky).  

It's possible that Minnesota would have a referendum on whether they want to stay in the US, however.

DEEPLY embarrassing

And despicable, as well.

If Macron and Merz don't stand up to Trump, the French and German people will dump them on their heads.  They are not compliant cowards like Americans.

UPDATE 01/19/2026:

UPDATE 01/20/2026:

I guess he's no longer a soybean farmer

 

Jesus Fucking Christ

The "soybean farmer" is high again.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made a bizarre claim on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo that proved to be a head-scratcher for some on social media.

Bartiromo asked Bessent about a comment made by the CEO of Omaha Steaks who claimed Americans are heading for $10-a-pound ground beef.

“Well, Maria, the beef market is a very specialized market,” Bessent began. “It goes in long cycles. And this is the perfect storm, again, something we inherited.”

Bessent went on to make the strange claim that migrants have been bringing diseased cattle with them across the border.

And there’s also, because of the mass immigration, a disease that had been — we’ve been rid of in North America made its way up through South America, you know, as these migrants brought some of their cattle with them. So part of the problem is we’ve had to shut the border to Mexican beef because of this disease called the screw worm. So we’re not going to let that get into our supply chain. And, again, I don’t want to focus on one product. It’s a very important product. And if we are laser-focused on this product —

[...]

Although Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins did suspend Mexican cattle imports to the United States due to screwworm concerns, there’s no information to suggest that South American immigrants have been bringing cattle across the U.S. border.

  Mediaite

Really? JFC.

And, speaking of Soybean Scott..

I didn't bother posting about the claim that everybody was going to get $2,000 from the government because I figured it was more bullshit.  And, guess what?

Desperate measures

 

At least it used to b be illegal

 

Fucking dickheads

 Little Princess Scottie has all the power.

“Charlie’s death is like a domestic 9/11,” Bessent said. “Just as after 9/11, and Osama bin Laden, the ultimate culprit, was captured, we are operationalizing the Treasury, and we are going to track down who is responsible for this.”

  TPM

We know who. And he's in prison, asshole.

The Treasury Secretary added that the Department has “started to compile lists, put together networks.”

“We don’t know how much of the support is coming in from overseas, how much is being supported by U.S. nonprofits” and 501(c)3s that give money to 501(c)4s, he said. “This is mission-critical for us now.”

Mission critical.

The remarks are the clearest statement yet from a senior Trump official that the administration intends to use the aftermath of Kirk’s assassination as a pretext to investigate and, potentially, charge progressive advocacy groups.

If we had an honest Supreme Court, this would not be happening.

As if the Trump admin gives a fig for the law.

Bessent

I hope they told him to shove his arrogant prissy face up his a-hole.

I cannot abide this prissy, arrogant asshole.  Should Putin, god forbid, march into Boston - or wherever Bessent lives - I hope the first house they go to his.

UPDATE 09/25/2025:

Bessent, who made a fortune in finance, is not dumb. Nor is he, having once backed Al Gore and worked for George Soros, a MAGA cultist. He even appears to have held some principles, as demonstrated by his reported teenage decision not to seek appointment to the US Naval Academy because he wouldn’t lie about his homosexuality.

[...]

Bessent pronounced the president’s feckless Alaska summit, where he applauded Vladimir Putin like a fan-boy, a “show of force.” He praised Trump as “probably the most economically sophisticated president we’ve had in 100 years, maybe ever.”

Go ahead and laugh. It’s really dumb, since Trump quite obviously is an ignorant, destructive, pathologically insecure buffoon mimicking the autocrats he admires.

But acknowledging reality out loud precludes service in Trump 2.0. As Doug Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office and aide to President George W. Bush, “The punishment for failure to tell lies in this administration is extremely high.”

[...]

With [Argentina's] economy struggling and currency weakening, Bessent pledged robust American financial support to help assure that “Argentina will be Great Again.”

[...]

Trump’s erratic tariffs cloud business planning while imposing inflation-boosting taxes on American companies and the working class. His deportations constrain growth by reducing labor supply. His tax cuts for the wealthy put upward pressure on interest rates by ballooning budget deficits. [Bessent] won’t admit that tariffs tax Americans, not foreigners.

He touts a Trump-sparked manufacturing revival, even as manufacturing employment falls.

He claims the president inherited a “financial shambles” from Joe Biden and pulled the economy “back from the edge.”

That’s dumb. The Economist magazine last year pronounced America’s post-pandemic recovery “the envy of the world.” Now, says Moody’s analyst Mark Zandi, we stand “on the edge of a recession - in fact, we may already be in one.”

[...]

MAGA zealot Steve Bannon told the Washington Post that Bessent called Elon Musk a “total fraud” in a White House confrontation over the Department of Government Efficiency’s failure to identify much wasteful spending.

Politico recently reported that Bessent angrily accused Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, of bad-mouthing him to Trump. “I’m gonna punch you in your fucking face,” Bessent threatened. (Since then, he’s gotten more cause for fisticuffs. Pulte, acting as a White House henchman, has been trying to drum up mortgage fraud prosecutions against several Trump political adversaries. It turns out that the misconduct Pulte has alleged – identifying two different homes as a “primary residence” on mortgage documents – is something Bessent himself has done, according to a Bloomberg report.)

  Zeteo

Okay, wait a minute. I have to comment on the face punching comment. Can you see Mr. Priss convicingly saying that, much less actually throwing a punch?

“His job is to make sure that the markets don’t freak out,” observes Betsey Stevenson, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers in Barack Obama’s White House. “Keeping people happy without getting elites to revolt is the entire trick of a populist government.”

[...]

The crude White House challenge to Federal Reserve independence endangers that [...] . Trump routinely berates Chairman Jerome Powell, his own 2017 appointee, for failing to offset administration errors with interest rate cuts. Pulte ginned up allegations of “mortgage fraud” as a pretext for Trump to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook, though for now, courts have blocked the firing.

Bessent has piled on to the Fed while trying to look high-minded about it. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed earlier this month, he indicted the central bank in MAGA-friendly terms by likening its monetary policy to the “gain of function” viral research that right-wingers insist caused COVID.

[...]

Bessent’s handling of the search [for a Fed chair replacement] will test his ability to safeguard our economic stability.

[...]

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has accused Bessent of “running interference for pedophiles” by refusing to provide Congress with Treasury financial records related to Epstein’s sex-trafficking.

[...]

When Treasury, at Trump’s behest, asked the IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status, [former Treasury Secretary] Larry Summers wrote on social media that “any self-respecting Treasury Secretary would resign” rather than go along.

Kind of obvious Bessent has no self-respect.

Denied

 

UPDATE 09/16/2025:

UPDATE 09/17/2025:

And kudos to Lisa Cook for not bending the knee and stepping down.

They're eventually going to get Social Security privatized

 

And, yes, it WOULD be a game changer if "all of a sudden you have hundreds of thousands of dollars for your retirement," but privatization will not make that happen.

Cosplay at the top

 

Ninja.  HAHAHAHA

It's magic money

 

LOL Bullshit

 

The Chinese delegation walked out.

UPDATE 02:41 pm:

And, delusional Donnie Two Dolls bleats...

The greatest deals

 

Shouldn't the greatest dealmaker of all times be there to personally make the deal? Oh, yeah, Scott Bessent is the designated scapegoat.  Under the bus, Scott.

The buck does not stop here

 

LOL.  Not my fault.  

On the other hand, whatever happened to 110%.  Someone has pointed out to him that China is not in the least concerned with his ridiculous tariffs and will not back down.  How long before "Scott B" removes all - or nearly all - China tariffs?

The ignorance will destroy us

 

Trump 2.0 - Failure everywhere

 

"Subdeals."  How embarrassing.

Bessent looks right out of central casting for a prissy lacky whom a large mouse could send scuttling for cover.

He doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who'd care.  He'd just think he was Mr. Smooth for being one of the chosen in the regime.  (This assessment seems to be borne out by his response to the letter.)

Mr. Priss.

Prissypuss.

Uh-oh