The CAFFinator
@calfinator.bsky.social
Software Engineer. Cat person.
Usually a smart-ass
Usually a smart-ass
Reposted by The CAFFinator
Ukrainian soldier Vitalii Ovcharenko has a question:
December 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Ukrainian soldier Vitalii Ovcharenko has a question:
Reposted by The CAFFinator
One thing that's evident over at Xitter is the extent to which Trump's $12B donation to farmers is being used as a propaganda vehicle by farm state right wingers to lie about Trump "saving" these farmers.
Tractor maker Deere has warned that US President Donald Trump’s tariffs are backfiring on American farmers, prompting cash-strapped producers to delay replacing aging equipment. Deere has had to cut production and workers and says it is likely to cut more jobs in 2026. www.ft.com/content/523a...
Donald Trump’s tariffs intensify strain on US farmers, Deere warns
Farming equipment giant is scaling back production at flagship tractor plant in Iowa
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
One thing that's evident over at Xitter is the extent to which Trump's $12B donation to farmers is being used as a propaganda vehicle by farm state right wingers to lie about Trump "saving" these farmers.
Reposted by The CAFFinator
The US is now just the drunk crank at the end of the bar waving a gun around
Trump on the president of Colombia: "He's gonna have himself some big problems if he doesn't wise up ... he better wise up or he'll be next. I hope he's listening. He's gonna be next."
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The US is now just the drunk crank at the end of the bar waving a gun around
Reposted by The CAFFinator
just incredible optics here, the president yelling at you about how you should buy less and like it, three weeks before christmas, while standing in front of a bunch of stupefied moronic dipshits holding BIGGER PAYCHECKS signs
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
just incredible optics here, the president yelling at you about how you should buy less and like it, three weeks before christmas, while standing in front of a bunch of stupefied moronic dipshits holding BIGGER PAYCHECKS signs
Reposted by The CAFFinator
Here's a pro tip to the marginal R +5 Congressman/Senator: read the fucking room.
Miami + Georgia last night again confirmed you will be extinct if you dont wake up, dump Trump, and get on board today with preserving health care affordability (for a start)
Miami + Georgia last night again confirmed you will be extinct if you dont wake up, dump Trump, and get on board today with preserving health care affordability (for a start)
December 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Here's a pro tip to the marginal R +5 Congressman/Senator: read the fucking room.
Miami + Georgia last night again confirmed you will be extinct if you dont wake up, dump Trump, and get on board today with preserving health care affordability (for a start)
Miami + Georgia last night again confirmed you will be extinct if you dont wake up, dump Trump, and get on board today with preserving health care affordability (for a start)
Reposted by The CAFFinator
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Reposted by The CAFFinator
Nothing to see here, just the President of the United States having absolutely no idea who he is pardoning, nor why.
POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
December 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Nothing to see here, just the President of the United States having absolutely no idea who he is pardoning, nor why.
Reposted by The CAFFinator
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
Reposted by The CAFFinator
He can't because he's dying.
Brian Kilmeade thinks that Trump should go on the road and promote his administration as if he was running for office. The president hasn't messaged well on the affordability crisis. He might find lying to voters about things like grocery prices won't help win over voters.
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
He can't because he's dying.
Reposted by The CAFFinator
I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.
April 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.
Offering a donation/subscription to the first reporter who asks, "Is Trump going to pardon them like the other J6 attackers?"
Patel on J6 arrest: "When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life."
December 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Offering a donation/subscription to the first reporter who asks, "Is Trump going to pardon them like the other J6 attackers?"
Reposted by The CAFFinator
They’re calling him the world’s most sober man:
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
They’re calling him the world’s most sober man:
Reposted by The CAFFinator
Was genuinely surprised to see the auto CEO buy-in yesterday, absolute failing by media if none of them gets asked about why they sat through the racist rant.
December 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Was genuinely surprised to see the auto CEO buy-in yesterday, absolute failing by media if none of them gets asked about why they sat through the racist rant.
Reposted by The CAFFinator
Commander in Sleep
December 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Commander in Sleep
Reposted by The CAFFinator
Absolutely disgraceful and dangerous.
He and his supporters constantly talk about rhetoric that gets people killed…that’s what this is.
He and his supporters constantly talk about rhetoric that gets people killed…that’s what this is.
Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."
December 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Absolutely disgraceful and dangerous.
He and his supporters constantly talk about rhetoric that gets people killed…that’s what this is.
He and his supporters constantly talk about rhetoric that gets people killed…that’s what this is.
Reposted by The CAFFinator
Reposted by The CAFFinator
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
Reposted by The CAFFinator
Sooooooo this is another interesting wrinkle that I don't think any other media org has pulled on yet
TEA can be and often is delegated, but it also can be kept at a very high level...and if pete did indeed keep it with him without being delegated at least for the first strike, hoo boy
TEA can be and often is delegated, but it also can be kept at a very high level...and if pete did indeed keep it with him without being delegated at least for the first strike, hoo boy
December 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Sooooooo this is another interesting wrinkle that I don't think any other media org has pulled on yet
TEA can be and often is delegated, but it also can be kept at a very high level...and if pete did indeed keep it with him without being delegated at least for the first strike, hoo boy
TEA can be and often is delegated, but it also can be kept at a very high level...and if pete did indeed keep it with him without being delegated at least for the first strike, hoo boy
Reposted by The CAFFinator
They’re definitely not making this any better!
FOX: You said the follow up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors?
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
December 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
They’re definitely not making this any better!
Technically speaking, *all orders are lawful and binding* simply by being issued by a judge - you're welcome to appeal them after the fact.
So this reads as: "We didn't like that order, so we didn't comply with it"
So this reads as: "We didn't like that order, so we didn't comply with it"
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Technically speaking, *all orders are lawful and binding* simply by being issued by a judge - you're welcome to appeal them after the fact.
So this reads as: "We didn't like that order, so we didn't comply with it"
So this reads as: "We didn't like that order, so we didn't comply with it"
Reposted by The CAFFinator
Russia is far too poor to make America as a whole substantially richer. But it’s definitely got enough to make the president and his friends richer.
“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Russia is far too poor to make America as a whole substantially richer. But it’s definitely got enough to make the president and his friends richer.
Reposted by The CAFFinator
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Reposted by The CAFFinator
Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
Reposted by The CAFFinator
Straight-up sociopath.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Straight-up sociopath.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Reposted by The CAFFinator
He continues to treat Russia like it didn’t start the war
REPORTER: What kind of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?
TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
He continues to treat Russia like it didn’t start the war