Last Week At The Sh*t Show–16Mar25

Another week passes and the Sh*t Show keeps crapping along.

Clueless leader continues to circumvent the Congress with his magic Sharpie and EOs. over 50 in less than 2 months, his newest is to create another ‘reserve’….

President Donald Trump’s decision to establish official government cryptocurrency reserves in the US has drawn criticism from industry watchers.

He has signed an executive order creating what he calls a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve as well as a Digital Asset Stockpile, which will consist of other forms of digital currency.

The funds will be stocked with coins forfeited to the federal government as part of criminal or civil proceedings.

White House AI and crypto tsar David Sacks likened them to a “a digital Fort Knox for the cryptocurrency”, drawing comparison to the Kentucky military base that stores a significant portion of US gold assets.

However, some crypto enthusiasts have criticised the government for not being bolder, while others have raised question marks about the lack of transparency over the process.

Sacks has ordered a full accounting of the federal government’s existing crypto reserves, which he estimated at 200,000 Bitcoin alone. That’s worth $17.5bn (£13.6bn) at today’s prices.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx0g1py5v0o

If you are truly interested in the BS then go to the White House link…..https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-establishes-the-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-and-u-s-digital-asset-stockpile/

Was this truly a necessary move at this point in his administration?  Would it have anything to do with his crypto holdings?

Those ‘amazing’ deportations that the Trump Administration is carrying out around the country….it has been in the news nightly but how are they doing number wise?

ICE arrests spiked to around 800-1,200 per day during Trump’s first week in office, then fell off as detention centers filled up and officers surged to target cities returned home.
“It’s going to be like turning a supertanker for the first few months,” Isacson said. “The civilian part of the U.S. government can only do so much.”
During Trump’s first month in office, ICE doubled arrests of people with criminal charges or convictions compared with the same period a year ago, according to data provided by DHS.
While arrests have risen, ICE detention space remains a limiting factor. The agency currently holds around 41,100 detainees, with funding to hold 41,500.
About 19,000 of those detainees were arrested by ICE while about 22,000 were picked up by U.S. border authorities, according to agency data published in mid-February.
Of the 19,000 arrested by ICE, around 2,800 had no criminal record, according to the same agency data. The figure was up from 858 in mid-January, before Trump took office.
The Republican-led U.S. Senate on Friday passed a bill to provide $340 billion over four years for border security, deportations, energy deregulation and additional military spending. But the party remains divided on how to move forward with the funding plan, with Trump pressing for the funding to be combined with tax cuts.
I am sure that these numbers will make some very happy….personally I had rather see the resources being used to help eliminate some of the problems that face our seniors and poor.
Trump accuses a Jewish lawmakers as being a ‘Palestinian”….

President Trump on Wednesday called Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) a “Palestinian” while criticizing the Democrats for not supporting the GOP’s spending plan.

“Schumer is a Palestinian, as far as I’m concerned,” Trump said in the Oval Office while hosting Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin. “He’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore.”

Trump began using “Palestinian” as an insult while on the campaign trail and even called President Biden a “bad Palestinian” during their debate. Trump first labeled Schumer a “Palestinian” while campaigning, apparently criticizing the Jewish senator for calling for elections in Israel

Trump recently referred to Schumer as a Palestinian when discussing his plans for the US to “take over” the Gaza Strip.

(antiwar.com)

I wish this garden slug would put that same energy into solving pressing problems instead of insulting anyone he has a problem with….

Does Israel control our government?

To answer that question I offer up one of their hit pieces….

Jewish Insider magazine ran a story saying that the White House tapped retired Lt. Col. Danny Davis for Deputy Director of National Intelligence, working under the newly confirmed DNI Tulsi Gabbard. It was a hit piece by a pro-Israel platform that primarily focused on Davis’s critical views — published only in articles and on his popular podcast — on Gaza and Iran.

Within hours, he was informed there would be no job, Responsible Statecraft has confirmed. “Investigative journalist” Laura Loomer celebrated. We are sure neoconservative radio jock Mark Levin, who helped spread the Insider story to his 4.9 million followers on Wednesday, celebrated. We should not. President Trump should not.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/daniel-davis/

Trump is pilling out all stops even tom,use an act from 1798….

President Trump on Saturday invoked the seldom-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a law giving the president broad power to detain or deport nationals of an enemy nation in wartime. Trump said the US is being invaded by a Venezuelan gang in a proclamation on using the law to order the deportation of five men, the AP reports. Legal scholars said the administration could use the authority against immigrants in the US legally, as well, per the Washington Post, as it carries out Trump’s promise of mass deportations. Use of the law “may be the administration’s most extreme measure yet,” an ACLU lawyer said.

Trump said during his campaign that he would invoke the act, which has not been used since World War II. The law allows for deportations with little due process, per the New York Times. Legal experts said any use of the law is likely to face more court challenges, since the US is not at war. Only Congress can declare war.

That does it for this Sunday….I hope everyone has a great day and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….

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6 thoughts on “Last Week At The Sh*t Show–16Mar25

  1. Since Trump’s family came from Germany, and he’s quite happy to get rid of legal citizens, maybe he’ll be on a list somewhere to go. Not before a trial for treason though. Musk must not escape a trial and imprisonment before being deported too. Russia might get a sudden influx of ex_politicians at that point.

  2. This whole immigration thing would be a public fiasco if people knew what was really going on behind the scenes when one ignores all of the hype coming out of the WH. They recently deported a young woman to Laos here. The problem with that is that she’s never been to laos in her life. She’s lived here in the US since she was 3 years old. they confiscated all of her money, all of her credit cards, all of her identification papers, and just dumped her in Laos where she knows no one, doesn’t understand the language, has no money, and no legal identity at all. nothing. Meanwhile her family back here in the US are desperate. The only reason her child and partner know anything at all is because a reporter caught wind of it and has been following what’s going on. There have been several hundred cases of ICE agents arresting US citizens, apparently based solely on skin color. And ultimately this new administration has actually been deporting fewer people than Biden did.

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