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ICE ICE Baby

****I have doctors today starting at 0800 until well after lunch so this will mostly likely be my only offering today.****

There has been much written about ICE especially it’s tactics when it rolls into cities and begins their brand of ‘enforcement’…..some even have compared them to the Brown Shirts or the Gestapo….but is that accurate?

As the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement have intensified over the past year, politicians and journalists alike have begun referring to ICE as a “paramilitary force.”

Rep. John Mannion, a New York Democrat, called ICE “a personal paramilitary unit of the president.” Journalist Radley Balko, who wrote a book about how American police forces have been militarized, has argued that President Donald Trump was using the force “the way an authoritarian uses a paramilitary force, to carry out his own personal grudges, to inflict pain and violence, and discomfort on people that he sees as his political enemies.” And New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie characterized ICE as a “virtual secret police” and “paramilitary enforcer of despotic rule.”

All this raises a couple of questions: What are paramilitaries? And is ICE one?

As a government professor who studies policing and state security forces, I believe it’s clear that ICE meets many but not all of the most salient definitions. It’s worth exploring what those are and how the administration’s use of ICE compares with the ways paramilitaries have been deployed in other countries.

The term paramilitary is commonly used in two ways. The first refers to highly militarized police forces, which are an official part of a nation’s security forces. They typically have access to military-grade weaponry and equipment, are highly centralized with a hierarchical command structure, and deploy in large formed units to carry out domestic policing.

https://theconversation.com/ice-not-only-looks-and-acts-like-a-paramilitary-force-it-is-one-and-that-makes-it-harder-to-curb-274580

AS the old saying goes….”if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be a duck”….

There are some that are comparing ICE to the Klan….

The country is witnessing the revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremacist, far-right hate group in the United States, through ICE and Border Patrol officers terrorizing our communities. The group is infamous for using terrorism, violence, and intimidation to promote white supremacy and oppress minority groups, particularly Black Americans.

The KKK has existed in three distinct iterations and time periods throughout U.S. history, each with similar core beliefs in white nationalism and racial subordination, but also with varying targets and political focuses.

First Klan (Reconstruction Era, (1865-1872): Founded by six Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee, as a social club that quickly evolved into a paramilitary force. Its primary goals were to resist the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies and reestablish white control of Southern governments through violence, lynchings, and intimidation of Black Americans and their white allies.

Second Klan (1915-1944): Revived by William Joseph Simmons near Atlanta, Georgia, this iteration was inspired by the film The Birth of a Nation, which glorified the original Klan. It became a nationwide political force, expanding its hatred to include immigrants, Roman Catholics, Jews, and organized labor, in addition to Black people. The Klan introduced the burning cross as a symbol.

Third Klan (Mid-20th Century-Present): Resurging during the Civil Rights Movement, this iteration continued the use of violence, including bombings of Black churches and schools, to oppose desegregation and civil rights activism.

The archetype of the Third Klan is found in ICE and Border agents, primarily terrorizing and killing people of color with Hispanic-sounding names, immigrants of color, and their white allies.

ICE in Our Communities: The New Ku Klux Klan

That is an interesting take on the events of the past year.

Is all this chaos necessary?

I have said that I thought that this type of situations are what Donny had planned the whole time…..his actions and then the reactions make him look strong.

Can anyone doubt now that Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want chaos in American streets? I submit to you that at this point, there is no other conclusion that may reasonably be drawn. Consider: It was less than three weeks ago that their thuggish agents executed a woman, a U.S. citizen, in cold blood. If for no other reason than the fact that it sparked international controversy, a normal democratically elected government that felt the normal degree of humility toward public and world opinion would have sent out a memo telling their armed agents to go easy for a little while until things cool down. The elected leader would issue the usual calls for calm.

Yet 17 days after the execution of Renee Nicole Good at the hands of an ICE agent, border patrol officers carried out another execution of an American citizen a mere two miles away. Trumpers can carry on all they want about Alex Pretti’s gun—which he was allowed to carry legally because the state’s Republicans decided back in 2003 that passing such a law was a grand idea—but the different videos make it obvious that at the time of his death, Pretti was on the ground, had been disarmed, and posed no mortal threat to anyone. That’s when they put 10 holes in him. With Good, I noted at the time, we could, maybe, bend over backward and grant a smidgen of ambiguity around the first bullet. But there was nothing ambiguous about the second and third ones, fired from point-blank range through an open car window. Likewise, about 10 shots, there is nothing ambiguous. This too was an execution.

https://newrepublic.com/article/205655/trump-ice-chaos-minneapolis-power

This chaos is the vehicle that Donny and his thugs are using to justify martial law….it is that simple.

With the shake up within the group there is new orders from the Biggies….

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Minnesota have been ordered not to “COMMUNICATE OR ENGAGE” with “AGITATORS” during future operations, according to new internal guidance from the agency’s top brass.

The new instructions, circulated on Wednesday and exclusively reviewed by Reuters, also limit ICE activity to immigrants with criminal charges or convictions in a departure from the broad sweeps that have sparked fierce backlash, legal challenges, and street protests.

The email, from a senior agency official, reads in part:

DO NOT COMMUNICATE OR ENGAGE WITH AGITATORS. It serves no purpose other than inflaming the situation. No one is going to convince the other. The only communication should be the officers issuing commands.

Under the new approach, Reuters reported that ICE officers will be equipped with megaphones and instructed to clearly announce each step of an arrest, an effort to impose order after the volatile scenes previously seen.

The guidance offers the clearest picture yet of how the Trump administration is recalibrating its immigration crackdown following intense political pressure in Minnesota, following the shooting death of two US citizens by federal officers.

The new order comes days after President Donald Trump handed control of Minnesota operations to border czar Tom Homan.

Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol commander who had been leading the operation, has been demoted and is expected to retire.

ICE Agents Get Stunning New Order From Top Brass About Engaging Protesters, Internal Email Shows

Is this a softening of policy ir just another game being played?

Any thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You KNow

“lego ergo scribo”

Last Week At The Sh*t Show–13Jul25

Another week of absolutely batcrap crazy stuff oozing out of DC….it seems to get worse and more authoritarian by the week.

For me the most disturbing idea from the tiny brain of Little Donny was an idea to control a major city by the government.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his administration was considering taking over governance of Washington, D.C., and suggested he could take similar action in New York because of his distaste for the leading candidate for mayor there.
Trump has made a similar threat regarding Washington before, but has not followed through even as he criticized crime rates and bashed other institutions there.
The president, speaking during a cabinet meeting at the White House, said his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, was in close touch with Mayor Muriel Bowser, who favors making the city a U.S. state.
“We have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to. We could run D.C. I mean, we’re … looking at D.C.,” Trump said. “Susie Wiles is working very closely with the mayor.”
Bowser’s office declined to comment.
The District of Columbia was established in 1790 with land from neighboring Virginia and Maryland. Congress has control of its budget, but voters elect a mayor and city council, thanks to a law known as the Home Rule Act. For Trump to take over the city, Congress likely would have to pass a law revoking that act, which Trump would have to sign.
I want to hear some semi-literate d/bag defend this proposal and please leave the stupidity of ‘sanctuary’ cities out of the defense if you have one.
Then there is the new tariffs on Brazil….what did they do to invoke the ire of Donny?

First, the supposed “Witch Hunt” against his friend Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing former president of Brazil, who is currently being prosecuted for allegedly initiating a coup following his electoral loss in 2022.

Second, recent rulings by Brazil’s Supreme Court have sought to cast greater responsibility for content moderation on social media companies.

And, third, a supposed trade deficit with Brazil caused by “many years of Brazil’s Tariff, and Non-Tariff, Policies and Trade Barriers.”

(rawstory.com)

Basically he is re4taliating for the nation picking on his buddy Jair….pathetic!

Donny’s 20 year feud has him threatening all sorts of things….but this one is the most disgusting….

Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland days before President Trump began his second term—and Trump, who has been feuding with her for almost 20 years, doesn’t want her to come back to America. In a post on Truth Social on Saturday morning, the president threatened to revoke her citizenship, though he doesn’t have the authority to take away the citizenship of somebody born in the US, Deadline reports.

  • “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her.”
  • “US citizens can relinquish their citizenship voluntarily, and federal courts can strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship if there is proven fraud or misrepresentation or other major cause,” said Julia Gelatt of the Migration Policy Institute, per the New York Times. “But US-born citizens cannot have their citizenship taken away.”
This idea is bullshit!
This is what you get when you get an infantile d/bag that pouts and gets butt hurt so easily.
But the best most ignorant stuff comes out of the mouths of the idiot supporters of Donny….like Taylor-Greene….
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced this week that she plans to introduce a bill that would make weather modification a felony offense.
The Georgia Republican wants to ban “the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity.” Greene said anyone who does this would face serious criminal charges.
Greene has not been shy about her views on weather modification in the past. She has suggested that certain political groups might be using technology to control the weather. Her new bill appears to be a response to these long-held beliefs about government weather programs.
This is a absolutely worthless waste of time and just adds to thye stupidity of conspiracy theories.
Then there is Donny’s SecAG who has an answer to all the jobs that are being opened with the ICE raids….
President Donald Trump‘s Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins spoke today with GOP governors including Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders about how the administration plans to “protect U.S. agriculture from foreign threats.”
As seen below, Rollins addressed the deportation of undocumented farm laborers. She said: “There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce towards automation and 100% American participation, which again with 34 million people, able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do that fairly quickly.”
Some GOPers are pouting because of the smoke from raging wildfires in Canada….
Six Republican members of Congress from Wisconsin and Minnesota have sent a letter to Canada’s ambassador, complaining that smoke from Canadian wildfires is drifting south and spoiling outdoor summer activities for their constituents. The lawmakers, including House Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota, say residents are dealing with “suffocating” smoke and dangerous air quality, limiting their ability to spend time outdoors, per the BBC. The letter—also signed by Minnesota Reps. Brad Finstad, Pete Stauber, and Michelle Fischbach, and Wisconsin Reps. Tom Tiffany and Glenn Grothman—asks the Canadian government what steps it plans to take to mitigate wildfires and the resulting smoke.
The lawmakers also criticize what they see as Canada’s “lack of active forest management.” “With all the technology that we have at our disposal, both in preventing and fighting wildfires, this worrisome trend can be reversed if proper action is taken,” the letter states, per Global News.
Typical waste of time and energy by the GOP.
These fools are not part of Little donny’s circle but they are supporters of MAGA…..and just plain stupid…..these morons are acting on a conspiracy theory….
An “anti-government militia” called ‘Veterans on Patrol’ told News 9 on Tuesday that it is “targeting” Oklahoma weather radars, days after an individual vandalized News 9’s weather radar. 

The group, which the Southern Poverty Law Center called an “anti-government militia,” shared with News 9 that they believe weather radars control the weather.

In an interview, News 9 asked Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, the founder of Veterans On Patrol:

“Is it true that Veterans On Patrol [is] targeting Oklahoma Weather Radars?”

“Absolutely,” Meyers responded.

News 9 confirmed that a sign posted near an Oklahoma weather radar warns that Doppler radars are being targeted.

That is all the silliness I have for this Sunday….do not fear it ain’t over ’til it’s over….
I hope everyone has a great remainder of the weekend and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”

What About Project 2025?

With all the chaos around Donny’s tariff stuff the implementation of Project 2025 has gone under-reported, an agenda that Donny disavowed during his campaign saying he had no idea what it was or what it was about, but so far under his leadership parts of it are being put into place just the way the Heritage Foundation wanted.

But what do we have so far?

As Trump begins his second term, his administration is rolling out Project 2025 — a detailed playbook aimed at reshaping the federal government, U.S. policy, and global posture. Developed as a sweeping roadmap during his first term’s aftermath, Project 2025 is now the blueprint driving his administration. Every agency, from Homeland Security to the EPA, is involved. The strategy? Systematically undo Biden-era policies, reduce regulatory oversight, centralize executive power, and instill a more conservative agenda across federal operations.

Here’s where things stand so far:

The Trump administration has wasted no time. By early 2025, dozens of Project 2025 objectives were marked “completed,” fundamentally shifting U.S. policy in critical areas:

Civil Rights and DEI Rollbacks

  • Eliminated the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the Treasury.

  • Revoked Biden’s Gender Policy Council.

  • Abolished DEI offices across federal agencies including the Pentagon and EPA.

If you want to check on what else is happening or what is on tap then there is a tracker for Project 2025….https://www.project2025.observer

Trump’s Project 2025 Is Already Changing America — See What’s Done, What’s Next, and What Could Be Coming

There is one part of this authoritarian plan that is not fairing so well….

If it’s not enough that Elon Musk’s DOGE has been taking a chainsaw to the federal labor force, about three weeks ago, the Trump administration announced that it is going to begin implementing “Schedule F,” the creepy huxleyan name for the Executive Order they produced at the end of the first term to make it easier to fire civil service employees deemed disloyal. President Biden threw it in the trash, but, as expected, it’s back. After all, it’s part of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought‘s tools of the trade, and now that he’s back at the Office of Management and Budget he’s been itching to use it.

It’s estimated that 50,000 people will be subject to the law once they are re-classified from civil service protections to “at will” policy employees. It’s pretty obvious that a witch hunt for personnel that any rando MAGA appointee suspects of being a turncoat (or just a Democrat) will soon be fired. The whole idea was to fill the jobs with the kind of people Russell Vought thinks have America’s best interests at heart. That means white, Christian nationalists.

https://www.salon.com/2025/05/14/one-major-part-of-project-2025-is-falling-apart/

Sadly that seems to be about the only part that is not popular with the supporters….seriously….the only part?

You there still part of the public that like what this plan is doing to this country and the rights of its citizens.

This plan needs a plan to stop this erosion of rights.

Time to become a ‘citizen activist’….get the Hell involved…..NOW!

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Last Week At The Sh*t Show–04May25

May The Fourth Be With You  (In honor of Star Wars Day)

This past week has seen some of tricky Donny’s greatest brain farts…..considering he actually uses the grey matter between his ears….there are times when I doubt that he does….

After all he stated on national interview….

The Atlantic is out with a deeply reported piece on President Trump to mark the first 100 days of his second term, a story that incorporates an interview with him. And in that interview, Trump makes a remarkable statement:

  • “The first time, I had two things to do—run the country and survive,” he says when asked to contrast this term with his first. “I had all these crooked guys,” he said. “And the second time, I run the country and the world.”

Sounds like TDS to me (look it up)

Lots happening at the seat of power….

Looks like the beginnings of a secret force force….

The Trump administration has secretly allowed immigration agents to invade homes without a warrant for over a month, according to a leaked internal memo.

The memo, obtained by USA Today and issued by Attorney General Pam Bondi March 14, orders Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to break into the homes of suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua without a warrant.

It stated that ICE can curb the “proactive procedures” put in place to obtain a warrant, since they “will not always be realistic or effective in swiftly identifying and removing alien enemies.”

“Given the dynamic nature of enforcement operations, officers in the field are authorized to apprehend aliens upon a reasonable belief that the alien meets all four requirements to be validated as an alien enemy,” it read.

It added: “This authority includes entering an alien enemy’s residence to make an [Aliens Enemies Act] apprehension where circumstances render it impracticable to first obtain a signed notice and warrant of apprehension and removal.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/leaked-memo-donald-trumps-ice-breaking-into-homes-without-warrant/

For a couple of weeks there were worries that Donny would declare martial law….it did not happen but could this be just a preview?

More legal stuff….Donny’s poll numbers are dismal and now he wants them investigated….

US President Donald Trump hit out Monday at “fake polls” showing dismal approval ratings for the Republican less than 100 days after returning to the White House.

A Washington Post-ABC News survey last week revealed just 39 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s job performance, while a New York Times poll put that figure at 42 percent.

More than 40 percent of Americans “disapprove strongly” of Trump, The Post found.

“Great Pollster John McLaughlin, one of the most highly respected in the industry, has just stated that The Failing New York Times Poll, and the ABC/Washington Post Poll…are FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.

McLaughlin is a close supporter of the president and a Republican researcher who has consistently published survey results favorable to Trump.

The president, who has long seen the mainstream press as an enemy, accused pollsters and news organizations of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

https://nordot.app/1289557900762874157

“Election fraud”?  seriously?

From this point on I will be listing the absolutely stupidity performed by Little Donny….

First there is golf….did you know in his first 100 days he has spent 25% of the time chasing that little white ball?

As he approaches 100 days back in office, the extraordinary amount of time Donald Trump has spent on the golf course might suggest where his priorities lie.

…

This also comes with a financial cost, borne not by him, but by American taxpayers. Since officially taking the oath as the 47th President of the United States on January 20, Trump has hit the golf course an astonishing 24 times in just 99 days in office.

This means a staggering 24.24 percent of his second term has been spent on the greens, according to Trump Golf Track, a website that monitors his golfing frequency.

Trump, despite his presidential powers, is drawing criticism for actions that don’t exactly enhance his image. Since returning to office, he’s made bold moves like slapping tariffs on nearly every nation and facilitating massive layoffs with the aid of billionaire Elon Musk.

(the mirror.com)

After the order to arrest a sitting judge Donny’s blonde bimbo press secretary had this to say….

On Monday, a reporter asked Leavitt if the administration would ever “arrest somebody higher up on the judicial food chain, like a federal judge or even a Supreme Court justice?”

“Anyone who is breaking the law or obstructing federal law enforcement officials is putting themselves at risk of being prosecuted, absolutely,” Leavitt stated.

The question was in relation to Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County circuit judge who was arrested last week after she “intentionally misdirected federal agents away” from an immigrant whom they were intending to detain at her courthouse.

(tag24.com)

If that happens then you can say that you are now a citizen of an authoritarian regime…..happy now?

A Trump health adviser blames children’s diseases on demons….you read that right.

Calley Means, one of President Donald Trump‘s top health advisors, blamed “demonic forces” for the rise of chronic diseases among children in the US, and put his faith in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“When Secretary Kennedy is in a meeting with various people or stakeholders, I see a light behind him of MAHA moms,” Means said during a Thursday appearance on the Steve Gruber Show.

“Let’s be clear, there are demonic forces against children in this country,” he said. “A child that is sick, and depressed, and is getting gender transition surgery, and in fear, that child’s extremely profitable.”

He went on to claim that “A sick, addicted, depressed child is a gold mine” for the pharmaceutical industry, and claimed that how the health system treats children is “evil.”

https://www.tag24.com/politics/politicians/donald-trump/trump-health-advisor-blames-demonic-forces-for-childhood-disease-3380366

“Demonic forces”  really?

Is this the attitude you want the health of your children to be in the hands of?

Speaking of health….Donny will host a guy that pushes bleach as a cure for cancer and covid….

Donald Trump’s private golf resort in South Florida will next week host one of the world’s leading purveyors of chlorine dioxide, a potentially life-threatening form of industrial bleach that is claimed without evidence to be a cure for cancer, Covid and autism.

Andreas Kalcker is among 50 listed speakers at the “Truth Seekers Conference”, a two-day event opening on Thursday at the US president’s resort, Trump National Doral Miami. The event features several anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy theorists who have been brought together by the far-right commentator Charlie Ward.

Kalcker, a German national thought to be living in Switzerland, markets the bleach under the brand name “CDS”, for chlorine dioxide solution. His online brochures claim that the toxic chemical, which he admits is a disinfectant, can “eliminate pathogens” that cause disease.

He boasts it is “possibly the greatest medical discovery of the last 100 years”.

Government health authorities in the US and Spain have denounced the remedy as fraudulent, saying it is no different from drinking bleach. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned that it can cause serious and even life-threatening side-effects, including dehydration, diarrhoea and kidney injury.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/27/trump-golf-club-speaker-bleach

Little Donny seems to have a hard on (if that is possible) for canals….

President Donald Trump is making the bottom-line case for free U.S. access to two of the world’s most vital shipping lanes — a move that could save American companies hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

Posting on Truth Social Saturday, Trump declared, “American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel, free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would not exist without the United States of America.”

“I’ve asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio to immediately take care of, and memorialize, this situation!”

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-calls-free-passage-us-ships-through-panama-suez-canals-would-not-exist-without-usa

Are you one of those people that laughed at the idea that Donny will try for a third term….thinking it was all a ploy….well hang on to your hat….

For anyone still doubting whether Donald Trump is contemplating a third term, consider that the president is currently selling “Trump 2028” hats.

The red caps were spotted on the online Trump store retailing for $50 a pop.

“Make a statement with this Made in America Trump 2028 hat. Fully embroidered with a snap closure in the back, this will become your new go-to hat,” the item description reads.

Trump has been continually suggesting the idea of running for a third term since he was on the campaign trail last year, but last month, the president insisted he was actually “not joking” about staying in power.

https://newrepublic.com/post/194372/donald-trump-new-merch-threat-2028

 

 

Democrats, The Joke That Just Keeps Giving

It is regular for me to talk down the Dems in Congress and elsewhere….to me they are as useless as tits on a boar.  They have rhetoric and that is about it….there is no fire in their bellies to actually work for the people they pretend to speak for.

Every election we get a plethora of ideas that they say they will fight for and then when the election is over they go back to the silliness of bi-partisanship.

It is not working and yet they hang onto the pipe dream.

So far all they have done is talk….one Dem senator broke the filibuster record….he talk for 25 hours and all he did was set a record nothing has changed since his long boring speech.

Dem loyal are starting to see just how useless the Dems in Congress have become….and the survey shows their disdain for these spineless toads….

Active progressive and Democratic-leaning voters are interested in seeing primary challengers to Democrats who represent the “status quo” and are “failing to meet the moment,” according to a survey from the group Our Revolution, which polled more than 4,100 voters meeting that description between April 18-20.

According to survey results published Wednesday, 92% want primary challenges to status quo Democrats who aren’t generating enough grassroots energy—and 96% support “transforming the party from within,” which Our Revolution defines as electing Democratic challengers who reject corporate political action committee (PAC) money and are “ready to take the fight directly to [President Donald] Trump and his enablers.”

Our Revolution, a progressive political organizing group launched as a continuation of Sen. Bernie Sanders‘ (I-Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign, said in a statement Wednesday that the results reveal a deep frustration with Democratic Party leadership.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/our-revolution-primaries-democrats-david-hogg

Even when the Dem loyal tell them it is time to abandon this moronic centrists BS….they still are stuck in the center where nothing of substance ever gets done.

A survey taken by Harvard’s Center for American Political Studies and Harris between April 9-10 found that 72% of Democratic voters supported politicians like Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), “who are calling on Democrats to adopt a more aggressive stance towards Trump and his administration and ‘fight harder’,” rather than leaders who are willing to “compromise” with President Donald Trump.

Just 28% of Democratic voters said they support a so-called “moderate” approach. Across the political spectrum, 53% of respondents said they favored politicians who are willing to work with Trump—down two percentage points from the Harvard/Harris March survey.

Dems are such monumental losers….but why?

One indication is the youth vote…..they young do not trust Dems to get the things they promise done.

The Dems over the past 20-25 years has lost the support of the working class no matter how much crap they promise they still screw them every time…

The Dem shave their hands full between now and 208 to prove the working class that they have their best interest at heart.

Can they convince them that they will fight for their desires?

The problem is the party is in the hands of the old farts that are nothing but fat cats…..there needs to be a shake up…..and possibly that is on its way….

David Hogg was elected as one of five vice chairs of the Democratic National Committee earlier this year after promising to win back young voters who had drifted to the GOP—but some Democrats are angry about what he has planned. The 25-year-old says a separate group he heads, Leaders We Deserve, will spend $20 million in primary battles in safe Democratic districts to combat a culture of “seniority politics” and elect younger lawmakers who will take on President Trump more effectively.

  • “People say they want change in the Democratic Party, but really they want change so long as it doesn’t potentially endanger their position of power,” Hogg told the New York Times this week. “That’s not actually wanting change. That’s selfishness.” “This is going to anger a lot of people,” he said of the effort, predicting there would be a smear campaign against him.
  • He was right about the anger. Axios spoke to House Democrats who called Hogg’s plan “counterproductive,” saying it would divert money and attention from the party’s effort to retake the House. “What a disappointment from leadership,” said Democratic Rep. Hillary Scholten, who represents a swing seat in Michigan. “I can think of a million better things to do with $20 million right now.”
  • Democratic strategist James Carville, who helped Bill Clinton get elected in 1992, called Hogg’s plan the “most insane thing I ever heard,” Fox News reports. On CNN, he said, “I’m not part of the hip generation. I’m not very au courant. But I actually thought our job was to beat Republicans? How quaint, how quaint of me.” On NewsNation, the 80-year-old called Hogg a “contemptible little twerp” and said he should be sued, the Independent reports.
  • Hogg, who started out in politics as a gun control activist after surviving the 2018 Parkland school shooting, told the Times that the goal is to “make room for a new generation to step up and help make sure that we have the people that are most acutely impacted by a lot of the issues that we are legislating on.” He said age isn’t the only criteria, naming 85-year-old former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and 80-year-old Rep. Jan Schakowsky as two effective older lawmakers who deserve to be re-elected. “More than anything, it is: Do you want to roll over and die, or do you want to fight?” he said. “And too many people look at our party right now and feel like we want to roll over and die.”

I am with Hogg on this….please get rid of the do-nothing old farts and return the party to the people.

We need a firebrand one with guts and vision…..I waited to see how the DNC would react…..and now the wait is over….

The Democratic National Committee is going to force David Hogg to decide: Get out of the primary game or lose his DNC post.

During a member call on Thursday, DNC Chair Ken Martin is expected to announce a proposal to change the party’s rules to mandate all DNC officers stay neutral in all Democratic primaries, according to a person directly familiar with the plan and granted anonymity to describe private discussions. The move comes after Hogg pledged last week to spend millions of dollars funding challenges to “asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats in primaries, igniting a firestorm inside the DNC.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/dnc-gives-david-hogg-an-ultimatum-00307113

Just as I thought….the DNC has no intention of updating their party….they want to stick to the spineless tactics they continue to embrace.

The party needs a transfusion for their blood now is stale, old and tainted and they will do everything to keep it that way…..they remain the impressive losers they have been for 40+ years.

The people of this nation deserve a party that works for them and not the parasites from K Street.

82% want the Democratic Party to stop accepting “Big Money” from billionaires and corporations, 70% said they are not confident Democratic leaders will do what’s needed to stop Trump, and 72% support moving away from a “cautious, centrist approach” in confronting Trump and the far right.

Heed the words of the faithful and stop what you are doing or we will find a better place for our support.

Even Dem governors are calling the party out for their lack of guts….

JB Pritzker gave the keynote address at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner Sunday night, and the Illinois governor was not pulling punches—against his own party. Instead of listening to their actual constituents, Pritzker said, Democrat lawmakers heed the words of “a bunch of know-nothing political types, … flocking to podcasts and cable news shows to admonish fellow Democrats for not caring enough about the struggles of working families.” Pritzker spoke to an audience of more than 800, the largest the dinner has seen since 2020, NBC News reports. Past presidential hopefuls have been known to attend the dinner, and Pritzker is widely seen as a potential 2028 presidential contender, the AP reports.

“Those same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on our defense of Black people, of trans kids, of immigrants, instead of their own lack of guts and gumption,” the governor, a billionaire heir to the Hyatt fortune, continued. (California Gov. Gavin Newsom, also seen as a 2028 contender, recently swung to the right on trans issues and called the case of wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “distraction” from the issue of Trump’s tariffs, but Pritzker didn’t name names.) Pritzker, who is Jewish, also criticized Trump’s deportation efforts against students who have participated in pro-Palestinian protests. “Stop tearing down the Constitution in the name of my ancestors,” he said, to a standing ovation. Pritzker did not comment on his 2028 prospects, saying in an interview that he has not yet decided on whether to seek a third gubernatorial term in Illinois.

There has been much written about the troubles the GOP has been having with their town halls…..don’t be fooled the Dems are having a similar problem….

A Washington state Democrat came under fire during a town hall after backing a bill that would require voters to prove their citizenship when casting a ballot.

On Thursday, U.S. Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez walked into a town hall attended by hundreds of her constituents in Vancouver and was met with resounding boos.

Voters were upset she’d voted for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act and other pieces of legislation.

The second-term congresswoman struggled to speak over the disturbances during the hour-long event, according to KOIN 6.

Attendees told the outlet they wanted their representative to know they were outraged, even though Gluesenkamp Perez had told them the bill wouldn’t pass in the Senate.

“Americans believe that only US citizens should be determining the outcome of American elections. And any idea that I am standing to disenfranchise people is patently false,” the representative said at the meeting.

Anna Brouns, who lives in the congresswoman’s district, said: “I came here to hear what she has to say. Unfortunately, it always sounds like the same thing.”

She said she wants the representative to be angrier than she is and get more done.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/democrat-booed-washington-state-b2739695.html

It took a UK paper to bring this story to the US…..why is that?

Apparently the party cannot see how pathetic the voters view them for they are too dam,n busy counting all that special interests cash that is thrown at them.

If you have any thoughts please by all means voice them.

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Donny/Elmo At Warp Speed

In the lead let me say that this is an op-ed from a site known as “Public Catholic”….not my personal opinion….although I see some similarities….

Trump is set about dismantling the very government that most of us pretend to support…..Personally I do not see any benefit in what he is doing except for Trump personally…..

It took Hitler six months to completely destroy German democracy. Trump is moving much faster than that. Many of the things he and Elon are doing are flat-out illegal. But no one raises that question because no one believes that the law applies to Trump or Elon or any of the gang of thugs who are now running our country.

They are dismantling our country and setting up an absolute dictatorship.

it’s too much to discuss in detail and too obvious to deny. I don’t see any reason except MAGA fantasies, to doubt that Trump plans to use the military, the FBI and the CIA against the American people, to control and oppress us.

What Trump and Musk are doing is completely illegal. Going into sensitive government systems and unilaterally canceling appropriations passed by Congress, doing away with whole government agencies that were created by laws passed by Congress just by personal say-so, putting an unelected billionaire in control of our whole government and letting him just say “this agency is gone, we won’t honor these contracts, I’m firing these thousands of people” on his say-so is open dictatorship.

Every time you read about Elon Musk firing people and shutting down agencies, you are reading about a clear violation of the law and an equally clear action by a dictator. Every. Time.

We the People are losing our country. It is being destroyed right in front of our eyes.

If you aren’t worried, you’re either not following what is happening, or you are a MAGA who is under such strong demonic influence that you can’t comprehend what is right in front of you.

The Trump/Musk Dictatorship is Coming at Warp Speed

Once again this is an op-ed from another site that I posted purely as FYI for people to see.

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Will Georgia Be Ground Zero?

Many people are saying that Trump will unleash his minions to bring chaos to the 2024 election if he does not win….

A sizable minority of Americans said they would try to invalidate the presidential election results depending on which candidate wins, according to a new poll. In the latest World Justice Project survey, 14% of Republicans said they would “take action to overturn the 2024 election based solely on who is declared the winner.” Eleven percent of Democrats said they would do the same.

The survey — which is completed annually — also found widespread distrust in elections and the courts that arbitrate them. “Today, trust in many U.S. institutions, government accountability, and overall rule of law is considerably lower than it was ahead of the 2020 election,” Elizabeth Andersen, the executive director of the World Justice Project — which works to advance the rule of law around the globe — said in a statement.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article292616804.html#storylink=cpy

….and it is shaping up that Georgia may be the ground zero that they are looking for.

There have been several reports of the antics by Trump loyalists in the background in Georgia.

A network of county election officials in Georgia is strategizing behind the scenes to help Donald Trump in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

The Guardian, along with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, obtained emails through a public records request from a group calling itself the Georgia Election Integrity Coalition, which includes election officials from at least five counties in the state. The emails show favoritism by the group toward Trump, as well as efforts by the group to show fraud in the 2024 elections, despite no vote yet having been cast.

Emails were sent between the officials, as well as election deniers in Georgia and around the country. These included groups like the Tea Party Patriots, or TPP, and the Election Integrity Network, or EIN, a group founded by former Trump adviser Cleta Mitchell. Members include Michael Heekin, a Republican member of the Fulton County board of elections, and his colleague Julie Adams, Debbie Fisher of Cobb County, Nancy Jester of DeKalb County, and Roy McClain of Spalding County. All of them have a history of refusing to certify election results, and Adams works directly for the TPP and EIN.

In the emails, members discuss how to combat scrutiny, in one case regarding a letter from a Democratic attorney warning officials against refusing to certify election results. Adams sent a different email under her Tea Party Patriots address with a meeting agenda including an item about a “New York Times reporter traveling to several counties in Georgia.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/186116/emails-georgia-election-officials-trump-chaos

The chaos has already started with early voting….in Georgia….

Georgia is one of the battleground states seen as crucial to deciding the next president, but don’t be surprised if the state can’t report results on election night. The state board of elections on Friday voted 3-2 to require all counties to hand-count ballots to verify the machine count, reports USA Today. As the Washington Post notes, that has the potential to delay results for days or weeks because only the smallest counties will be able to get the count done by the next day, as mandated. “Military ballots have already been issued,” complained Ethan Compton, elections supervisor in the state’s Irwin County. “The election has begun. This is not the time to change the rules. That will only lower the integrity of our elections.”

Voting rights advocates were similarly irked, saying the late change has the potential to not only delay the count but “lay the groundwork for spurious challenges,” per Reuters. The board is controlled by three members approved by Donald Trump, who has previously praised them as “pit bulls,” notes USA Today. One of them, Janelle King, has said her mission is “to ensure that every vote is counted accurately and every election is conducted correctly going forward.” NPR has called the state a “must-win” for both Trump and Kamala Harris.

For a more detailed analysis then this article would help….

https://www.commondreams.org/news/georgia-hand-count

If you recall Georgia was a Trump favorite to find and disqualify a number of ballots making him the winner….so I would expect nothing less than a similar attempt in 2024.

Great stuff, huh?

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The Paralysis Of American Politics

This poor country is in the death grip of political paralysis….one side offers ideas for moving the country forward and the other side is pulling the country into the past.

Nothing gets accomplished by our government other words and promises and lies….and it is both sides that play this hideous game….the more we try to move on the more we become stuck in the mud of political paralysis.

There’s an old saying, the more things change, the more they stay the same. But perhaps a more apt description of the modern-day United States might be the more things don’t change, the worse it gets.

That’s certainly true for wealth inequality. The average net worth of the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans was 15 times greater in 2022 than it was in 1982, according to the Institute for Policy Studies. Indeed, the richest one percent of Americans now owns more than half of all stock and mutual fund investments.

Meanwhile, the top five executives at the largest S&P 500 U.S. corporations held $8.9 billion in tax-deferred retirement accounts as of 2021. Hyatt Corporation’s chief executive held $91 million in his 401(k), while 36 percent of Hyatt employees had nothing in their accounts. Walmart’s CEO held more than $169 million in his retirement plan. Walmart employees? Nearly half had nothing in their 401(k)s.

That’s the American Dream in digest form, a paradise of wealth for the corporate elite but elusive prosperity for the many millions of working Americans who actually create that wealth. Welcome to the “rich” nation where nearly 25 percent of the population regularly experiences food insecurity, the ranks of reported homeless persons is over half a million, and close to 38 million people live in official poverty.

Along with the growth of poverty, since 2019 life expectancy in the United States has also been on the decline, registering the largest two-year drop in a century. The United States now fares worse in maternal, infant, and youth mortality rates compared to many other high-income nations. The poor public health response to the Covid-19 pandemic, lack of universal health care coverage, and a fragmented health system infrastructure are key factors driving this decline.

The Paralysis of Modern Politics: A Socialist Perspective

We have an election on the horizon and we have a chance to change the backward slide in the past.

Political ignorance will prevent any progress this time around (yet again).

Keep in mind that democracies die because of a failing civic culture.

And do we have a major failure going on!

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House GOP–Rudderless Ship–Day 2

“When you elect clowns….you get a circus”

Welcome to the Greatest Sh*t Show On Earth.

Two days into the historic move by the GOP to remove their man from the office of the Speaker of the House.

All this drama is making the MSM slobber like hungry sharks.

So what is going on in the House these days?

Kevin McCarthy has said he won’t run again for the coveted House speaker gavel, after being ousted in a historic 216-210 vote Tuesday thanks to a rebellion of far-right Republicans led by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who joined with all the House Democrats in booting McCarthy. Now, that unprecedented vote in the nation’s history—McCarthy is the first House speaker ever kicked out of the job—sends the chamber into “a period of unpredictability and paralysis,” notes the Washington Post. More analysis, and a glimpse at what may be coming down the pike:

  • No help from Dems: NPR lists some takeaways from Tuesday’s events, including that “the Democrats chose not to save McCarthy.” Time quotes some of them, including Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger. “I think he’s likely the most unprincipled person to ever be speaker of the House,” Spanberger said before the vote. “He’s disdainful, he lies about us, he lies about the process of governance. It’s not even a question of whether or not we should take any particular action.”
  • More Dems react: The New York Times, which describes a now “ungovernable GOP,” details how McCarthy failed to not only unite Republicans, but also how he “deeply alienated” lawmakers on the other side of the aisle. “This is someone who betrays his word on pretty much a daily basis,” California Rep. Adam Schiff says. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland adds, “This is a somber day for America as the chickens come home to roost for Kevin McCarthy.”
  • Temporary fill-in: The Washington Post dives deep into North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry, who was appointed as speaker pro tempore after McCarthy was removed. The 10-term lawmaker, 47, has limited powers, though he opted Tuesday to use his new role as an opportunity to remove former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from her “hideaway” office at the Capitol.

Who’ll fill in for good: The New York Times notes there “isn’t a clear candidate in waiting,” though McHenry’s name does make the short list. Others being mentioned include Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota, and New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, the top woman in Republican House leadership. The AP also mentions Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who heads up the House Judiciary Committee, and Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern, chair of the Republican Study Committee. Democrats, meanwhile, will almost certainly position House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries as their choice for speaker.

  • Perception: So how does all this bode for Republicans heading into a big election year? Politico deems the GOP a “rudderless ship,” with one Republican lawmaker noting that what went down Tuesday was akin to “stepping on a rake.” “Asked how voters are viewing the party’s speakership debacle, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito [of West Virginia] offered a guess,” per the outlet. “‘Are you guys nuts?’ she said. ‘That’s what they are thinking.'”

  • A Failed state’: That’s how John Harris, also for Politico, frames the modern-day GOP, though he notes that McCarthy isn’t alone in the “optical illusion” of his speakership. “For a quarter century, every Republican to ascend to the speakership has descended from it with his standing diminished,” he writes. “It’s a line that travels from Newt Gingrich to Dennis Hastert to John Boehner to Paul Ryan to McCarthy.” Harris also asserts that “authority and order” Republicans have fallen into a state of “nihilism.”
  • Gingrich’s take: The 80-year-old, who served as GOP House speaker from 1995 until 1999, railed on the eight Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy, calling them “traitors” who made an “astonishingly destructive” decision and should “all be driven out of public life,” per the Daily Beast. Gingrich reserved special ire for Gaetz, who he says should be expelled for being “actively destructive to the conservative movement,” per an op-ed in the Washington Post. “Some behavior crosses the line,” Gingrich writes. “And when it does, there has to be consequences.”
  • Final word from McCarthy: In a tweet announcing he wouldn’t seek the gavel again, the former House speaker delivered a message to the nation. “I may have lost a vote today, but I fought for what I believe in—and I believe in America,” McCarthy wrote Tuesday night. “It has been an honor to serve.”

See what I mean….rudderless.

But not to worry one of the Trump faithful has thrown his hat into the ring….Rep. Gym Jordan of  Ohio….

The list of those officially seeking the gavel formerly held by Kevin McCarthy now has one name on it. Rep. Jim Jordan on Wednesday announced he’ll run to be the next speaker of the House. In a letter seeking his GOP colleagues’ support, Jordan described being “at a critical crossroad in our nation’s history. Now is the time for our Republican conference to come together to keep our promises to Americans. The problems we face are challenging, but they are not insurmountable. We can focus on the changes that improve the country and unite us in offering real solutions. But no matter what we do, we must do it together as a conference.”

Politico predicts the move will “prompt praise from House conservatives,” but that it will also likely pit him against Majority Leader Steve Scalise, “who is also considering a speakership bid and has worked to court conservatives.” Jordan is chair of the House Judiciary Committee, which has had Jordan heavily involved in the impeachment inquiry into President Biden. CNN reports speaker candidates are expected to speak Tuesday, meaning a House-wide speaker vote could come as soon as Wednesday.

Think about this a Trump faithful, Gaetz, brought this whole thing down and a Trump faithful, Jordan, is the first to run for the nominating table…..is it possible that Trump could have somehow orchestrated this whole thing?

Just wondering.

As I was writing this word has come down that there is another big mouth wanting the job of Speaker…..

Rep. Jim Jordan was the first Republican to announce a bid to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker Wednesday, but he wasn’t in the race alone for long. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise announced his bid hours after Jordan, telling fellow lawmakers, “We all need to come together and pull in the same direction to get the country back on the right track.” The 57-year-old, who has been undergoing treatment for blood cancer, is seen as more conservative than McCarthy, reports Reuters. Republicans are expected to hear from candidates Tuesday and vote the next day.

Then there is the threat of Trump being put up for the job…..(shivers running up my spine)

Two Republicans announced their bids to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker Wednesday, and a third appeared to rule himself out. Donald Trump, speaking to reporters outside the Manhattan courthouse where his civil fraud trial is taking place, said he is “totally” focused on his presidential campaign, the Hill reports. “If I can help them during the process, I would do it,” he said of House Republicans. “But we have some great people in the Republican Party that could do a great job as speaker.”

The speaker of the House does not need to be a member of the House, and Republican lawmakers including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have suggested bringing Trump in, the AP reports. Asked about Greene’s support, Trump said: “I think she’s a wonderful woman. I’ll do whatever it is to help, but my focus, my total focus is being president and, quite honestly, making America great again.”

A silly notion….why would he want the number 3 job when he can have it all?

Watch for Ukraine to play heavy in the vote.

I think Ukraine will be the deciding factor on who gets the gig as Speaker.

One of the Republicans who announced he’s running for speaker, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), has said he’s opposed to additional funding for Ukraine. Jordan has voted against aid for Ukraine going back to the $40 billion package in May 2022, the only stand-alone Ukraine aid bill.

Because of his position, Jordan has earned a grade of “F” from Republicans for Ukraine, a neoconservative project that was launched to rally GOP support for the proxy war. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) has also announced his intention to run for speaker. Scalise has supported arming Ukraine, earning himself a grade of “B” from Republicans for Ukraine.

I love this stuff….as a political historian this situation is pure gold.

Anticipation!

Turn The Page!

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The Coming Civil War

This may be my only post today for my best friend died yesterday and I need some time to process the loss.

You may think this is a dead topic…..but look around there is still plenty of life left in the old girl.

We all have heard it before that the US is heading for a new civil war thanx to the Orange Man from Florida….actually that is a bit of a bullsh*t piece of rhetoric.

In reality this ‘civil war’ has been brewing for many decades….it got a little closer with the rise of the Tea Party in 2010 and then the shots were fired with the rise of Trump and his minions of sickos.

And now it is here and here to stay for many years until the hatred for others is diminished….and when we start acting like the country we all know we deserve.

This civil war will be fought over political ideology.

There remains an argument that the United States is tragically headed for a second civil war – this one fought over political ideology.

It is seen literally as a war that could be fought between the left and right in this country.  (This is manure!  There is no Left in this country only in the minds of idiots.  All there is is a Right and a moldy old Center.)

“American politics turned hyper toxic several years ago, and ever since commentators have raised the specter of a second civil war. No other historical parallel, it seems, captures so viscerally today’s national division into two hostile camps, each convinced the other poses a mortal threat to the republic,” the Council on Foreign Relations noted in a piece looking at how today is not like the 1850s – the years leading up to the Civil War.

It argued that we are not all that close to the same type of open conflict we witnessed 160 years ago. There are several factors at play that need to be considered.

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America simply isn’t headed for Civil War because we’re 21st-century Americans. A few hotheads will continue to make trouble – and they should be punished accordingly if they go too far, as they did on January 6, 2021. But an actual American Civil War 2.0 won’t happen because we like our conveniences just too much, while the checks and balances are in place. 

Instead, we are likely to remain in an uncivil war where we just do not like each other all that much. 

A Second American Civil War?

I agree that there will be nothing like our first Civil War….but that does not mean that this one will not be bloody, not in the sense of gunshot wounds but rather in the sense of the loss of rights.

Will you be a spectator or will you be on the front lines to protect and preserve all Americans rights?

Will you sit idly by while group after group loses its way and its privileges?

Will you be a true American can  stand-up for what is right and just?

Will you?

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“lego ergo scribo”