Day: August 11, 2025

So It Begins!

Donald the Orange has been flexing his muscle to the tune of lies and misinformation…..while the people of this country suffer with slashes to their health care and rising food costs as well as rent going out of sight….the idiot in the room has decided  to takeover the nation’s capital on a LIE.

President Trump is deploying the National Guard onto the streets of Washington, DC, and placing the district’s Metropolitan Police Department under temporary federal control, reports the Washington Post, which describes the moves as an “extraordinary flex of federal power.”

  • “I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse,” Trump said in a Monday morning news conference.
  • One big part of the initiative is clearing out DC’s homeless population, and the White House already had mobilized FBI agents to aid local law enforcement. Now it plans to activate about 800 members of the Guard as well, reports Politico.
  • Before his announcement, Trump declared that DC “will be liberated today!” in a Truth Social post. “I will make our capital great again!” he added, in all caps. “The days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people, are OVER!”
  • Earlier this year, the US Attorney’s Office in DC trumpeted a stat that seems to contradict Trump’s narrative of crime run amok, notes the New York Times: Violent crime is at a 30-year low in the district.
  • Last week, a high-profile member of the Department of Government Efficiency was car-jacked in DC, and Trump called attention to the attack on Monday. He was “savagely beaten by a band of roving thugs,” said Trump. “Can’t believe that he’s still alive.”

Liberated from what?  Crime has been down for 3 years running….what is this asshole’s desire here?

But the best stuff coming from motor mouth himself is about the homeless….

President Trump has ordered homeless people to move out of Washington, DC, “immediately.” “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital,” he wrote Sunday morning on Truth Social, not long after arriving at his Virginia golf club from the White House, the Guardian reports. Trump shared photos that appeared to be taken from his motorcade, showing a handful of tents near a highway on-ramp about a mile from the White House and one person sleeping on the steps of the American Institute of Pharmacy Building.

Trump then teased Monday’s press conference, where he vowed to address crime and the “beautification” of the capital. “The Crime Numbers get worse, and the City only gets dirtier and less attractive,” he wrote. “Before the tents, squalor, filth, and Crime, it was the most beautiful Capital in the World. It will soon be that again.” Data released in January shows violent crime in DC was actually down 35% in 2024 for its lowest level in 30 years, per the Guardian. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Sunday that violent crime has declined another 26% so far this year, and that overall crime is down 7%, per MSNBC.

Homelessness, though a visible problem, is not an epidemic. About 800 unsheltered people sleep outside in the city of 700,000, according to the Community Partnership. Another 3,275 use emergency shelters and 1,065 are in transitional housing. As president, Trump controls only federal land and buildings in DC. It’s unclear what legal authority he plans to use to evict homeless people. “The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong,” he wrote as he reportedly prepares to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, per Reuters.

He also said he would find them a home far from DC….that translates into another gulag deep in the disease infested Everglades….

Nothing about any of this should sit well on the stomachs of Americans….if it does then you are NOT an American you are a Nazi looking for blood from those you hate.

Was that plain enough for you MAGA d/bags?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Is It Too Late?

There is lots of talk on social media (so I am told) that we are losing the democracy that we all care so dearly about….the GOP has worked tirelessly for over 50 years to take the people out of any decision making situations

Now with Donny in charge their true colors are exposed and they can move as quickly as possible before the next election.

The one thing that makes democracy so desirable is….the people….

When the ancient Greeks came up with the concept of democracy, they envisioned a form of government in which the power rested with many, and not just a monarch or some other potentially despotic tyrant.

That’s quite literally what “democracy” means — “rule by the people.”

Of course, “the people” only meant Greek free men. After all, who knows what kind of craziness women, slaves and non-citizens would have come up with if they had been given a say in running ancient Greece.

Therefore, it is a bit unfair to criticize Republicans as “threats to democracy.”

Sure, when viewed through the lens of modern democracies, that label is certainly valid. After all, they are methodically trying to destroy the type of democracy that took more than 200 years to establish and improve in the United States until it was mostly inclusive (with more work to be done all the time).

However, the GOP very much embodies the spirit of the ancient Greeks by constantly trying to limit who gets a say in the government… and it ain’t “the people.” At least not if they vote for stuff Republicans don’t like.

Take Missouri, for example

Last year, voters there emphatically backed Proposition A, a ballot initiative that increased the state’s minimum wage, indexed it to inflation, and required employers to provide paid sick leave.

While these are the kind of policies Republicans like to dismiss as “socialism,” the people in the deep-red state (Donald Trump won it by 18 points in 2024) liked them quite a bit and passed the initiative by a wide margin.

As it turns out, they shouldn’t have bothered, or gotten excited about a minimum wage increase that was going to benefit a quarter of the state’s workers. That’s because Republican legislators in the Missouri General Assembly swiftly passed a bill to reverse the changes.

The GOP Is Working Overtime to Take the People Out of Democracy

Such tactics as gerrymandering….where the party picks its voters not the voters picking the party…..and now we have a full body assault on voting.

So the question now is….is it too late to repair the damage that the GOP and Donny are doing to this country?

Will the voter finally see what many of us have seen coming for many years?

Can this democracy be saved?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Damn! I Agree Again!

Once again I find myself, not leaving a good taste in my mouth, with MTG on the political dominator, AIPAC.

My agreement with her is becoming disconcerting….

Just look at their power over Congress….and the White House…..Israel is being allowed to totally wipe out Gaza and has turned its thugs on the West Bank.

MTG has made a pronouncement…..

Far-right US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene declared on Monday that she was “not controlled” by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful pro-Israel lobby group, in a statement posted on X.

The Republican representative made the comment after expressing support for the release of Edan Alexander, a dual US-Israeli citizen and Israeli soldier, who was the latest captive to be freed from Gaza.

“This is wonderful news! Let’s also hope to see an end to that war,” Greene wrote, quoting former President Donald Trump’s announcement of the release during his visit to Saudi Arabia.

“I’m not controlled by big pharma, the military-industrial complex, or AIPAC. And I’m not suicidal nor depressed, and I never have been. I’m actually very happy and extremely healthy and I love my life,” she added.

The remark drew backlash online, with many pointing out that if she hadn’t been influenced by AIPAC, then her support for Israel’s brutal onslaught on Gaza was a matter of personal conviction.

“That’s kinda worse, since it means you’ve voted to fund Israel’s genocide out of conviction,” an X user replied, while others questioned why such a statement was necessary.

AIPAC has increasingly come under fire for targeting elected officials critical of Israel, especially those who opposed military aid or called for a ceasefire during Israel’s war on Gaza. The group launched an ad blitz last month against US senators who voted to block a multibillion-dollar arms package for Israel.

Since October 2023, Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 61,700 Palestinians and left the Gaza Strip in a state of humanitarian collapse. Aid agencies report that emergency supplies of food, fuel, and medicine have been blocked for over two months.

https://www.newarab.com/news/republican-marjorie-taylor-greene-says-not-controlled-aipac

AIPAC is a foreign entity that is buying our political system…..no way to justify their existence.  Period.

AIPAC should be used to illustrate the evil of PACs….this influence has turned the Congress and the presidency into a group of subservient clowns.

I know it will not happen any time soon but the Lobbying industry needs to be shutdown and remove any influence from the decision making process.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”