Regarding the recent arrests of Democrats, I am wondering why they don't hire or bring policeman on such occasions?(Padila for example). Likewise, why don't judges in immigration court do the same? That has become the tactic of ICE now to show up at immigration court to detain. I realize this is an escalation. But police and ICE are at odds in their jobs. Trump loves the confrontations that have been occurring. Lets face it, a scene with ICE and local police is something Trump can't spin.
Re: predicting Trump's next steps on Iran, remember that Trump is mostly about scapegoating; finding other people to blame for problems or failures, real or imagined. He's not a leader, not someone to act boldly, out of conviction or principle, and bear the consequences, for better or worse, without an easy off-ramp.
With that in mind, I expect that Trump will give Bibi the green light for some kind of escalation, e.g. Israeli commando force on the ground at Fordo, or Israeli attacks on Iranian eeconomy to try to bring down the Iranian regime, or some other big Israeli move. But Trump will not strike Iran directly. If Bibi stumbles, Bibi becomes Trump's scapegoat. If Bibi succeeds, Trump can claim credit. In that sense, Trump will use Bibi almost like he used Elon.
Ok Olivia, Charlie, Tim, The Bulwark, Meidas Network, Pod Save America, Joe Walsh, Lincoln Square and everybody else, I am going to try and explain this, again.
These people who support trump have always been here and they have always been this; mean, despicable, deplorable, hateful, cruel, and for lack of a better word, evil. Those who support trump and the republicans who do not share the qualities mentioned in the previous sentence, do so because he is willing to allow the Christian Nationalist to get everything that they have wanted for decades, which literally is Project 2025 and the means to achieve the second coming of Jesus Christ (the end times).
Both categories believe that their beliefs are 100% right and EVERYBODY else is 100% wrong (evil). The ends justify the means regardless of how it is done or who allows them to do it.
It is unthinkable and unimaginable to me that I still hear people on podcasts who say they couldn’t believe that trump, his administration, elected republicans and maga did the unthinkable or the unimaginable, day after day after day after day. It make me scream this at the phone loud and often, “HAVE YOU NEVER SPENT TIME WITH ANY CONSERVATIVE, CHRISTIAN WHITE MEN IN THE SOUTH WHO WERE AROUND OTHER WHITE MEN WHO THEY AUTOMATICALLY ASSUMED SHARED THE SAME BELIEFS????”
I’ve heard people saying how they’ve wanted what trump, his administration and elected republicans are now doing to happen since I was old enough to have memories. And these people were not the exception or the minority, as soooo many people in this country, regardless of political affiliation, have wanted to believe for soooo long.
At some point in my life, I have heard everything that is in Project 2025 and what the Christian Nationals believe. I’ve heard it in line at the grocery store, at every job i’ve ever had, at the gas pump, at church, at the ball fields, at my kids’ and my school from students AND teachers, and all points in between.
And long before social media, they had stacks of photocopied pieces of papers with all of the racism, misogyny, bigotry, hate, conspiracy theories, Christian Nationalist religious beliefs, FASCISM/ANTI-SEMITISM, cherry-picked bible versus, etc.. I’ve been given stacks of business cards with the image of a KKK member on a horse holding a rebel flag/Christian flag/nazi flag/mioak flag/cross/burning torch etc., with things like “The Klan is watching you n****r!” or “You have been paid a social visit by the knights of the Ku Klux Klan don’t make the next visit a business call” or “We don’t allow n****r scum here! Your next visit will be your last!” There were wooden signs along the roads and highways entering counties and towns that said something like “This is a ‘Sundown Town’” or “N****r don’t let the sun set on your a$$ in (name of the town)”. AND THIS WAS THE LATE 70’s ALL THE WAY INTO THE 2000’s!!!
My entire life I have heard people talk about how they can’t wait for the civil war between the whites and the blacks to finally begin. Hearing things like “our ancestors got to play ‘cowboys and indians’ and we’re going to play ‘cowboys and n****rs’!” If I want to hear about it, I can bring up the “second coming” with just about any random person in any setting and somebody will start talking about how it’s going to happen in their lifetime and all the signs are here. I have listened to sooo many impromptu sermons by “experts” on the subject and it is beyond scary to hear what they say and believe. The Christian Nationalist don’t mind if Christians die in this battle of good versus evil, because they are going to heaven, anyway. So, if innocent people have to die to save this country or for Christ to come back, no problem because they are covered. If the “evil” people have to be destroyed to “SAVE OUR COUNTRY” then so be it because they will all be destroyed when Christ comes back, anyway. And this ain’t just the religious fanatics, it is mainstream evangelical Christians. Whatever trump does is justified in their eyes.
These people have been here since the first ships touched the shores of this land. It’s just that until somebody like trump came along who said the quiet parts out loud with no hesitation or shame, they kept it within their circles of people who thought like they did. It isn’t possible for me to count the number of times I was seen somebody say the most absolutely disgusting and vile and EVIL things about a person of color, and as soon as a person of color or a stranger walked up, they would flip the switch. They would act as if they just loved people of color and smile and cut up with them and just be so sweet. As soon as that person walked away, it was right back to saying the disgusting and vile and EVIL things about them.
The people in this country who support trump, his administration and the republican party have the belief that whatever trump and the others have to do to “SAVE OUR COUNTRY” is justifiable. There is nothing that is not acceptable or off the table as long as it facilitates the result they want, which is to “SAVE OUR COUNTRY”.
THERE IS NO BOTTOM. I REPEAT, THERE IS NO BOTTOM. AGAIN, THERE IS NO BOTTOM. Whoever has to die, whichever laws have to be broken, whatever the cost, THEY ARE JUSTIFIED BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO “SAVE OUR COUNTRY” from those who are evil (democrats, liberals, socialist, homosexuals, non-whites, non-evangelical Christians, basically anybody who doesn’t believe EXACTLY what they believe).
With all of that said, I truly believe that even though trump is not mentally capable of doing it himself, the people in his administration and the elected republicans have a “master plan” to achieve their goal of taking over the government and the country and turning it into a dictatorship.
Every time they turn on the firehose of chaos and the absurd, it is to distract from the really horrible, unthinkable and unbelievable thing they are simultaneously doing while everybody is distracted. It’s that, or it is to crush the existing “norm” and establish their “new norm” and then tell everybody it has always been the “norm”. Or, that it’s just temporary and there’s nothing wrong with what they are doing because the previous thing was “bad” and they are just trying “fix” what ever it is.
So, let’s discuss what has been happening since Jan 20th.
He sent 2,000 more NG troops to Los Angeles and is threatening to send the military into the large “blue” cities to stop the “insurrection” and violence that’s happening (there is no insurrection or rioting or violence in LA or the other cities). Sec. Noem says that the military isn’t leaving the city until LA and CA are “liberated” from the Democratic mayor and governor.
The Dept of Homeland Security, the FBI and other agencies have armed, masked “agents” in plain clothes with no badge or identification using nongovernment vehicles abducting people off the streets, at elementary school graduations, foster homes, farms, court houses, etc.. They have also arrested a mayor, US representative, US senator and a candidate for mayor of NYC. Are these actual federal agents or just deputized militias?
Since taking office, trump and his administration and elected republicans have stated that the US should take Canada and Greenland. Trump has said that we need to “liberate” the people of Greenland and make Canada our 51st state and the Canadians want to be part of the United States. This is the same language used by Putin to justify invading Ukraine.
Netanyahu attacked Iran because Iran has threatened Israel for years and could use a nuclear weapon on Israel. There is no proof that Iran is any closer to having a nuclear weapon, now, compared to when the US and other countries had an agreement in place to control Iran’s nuclear program before trump scrapped it. Israel has the right to defend itself, full stop. But, at this point Netanyahu is committing genocide on the people of Gaza, attacking, starving and slaughtering civilians. He then attacks Iran, even though there was no change in the probability of Iran acting on their threats from the day before Netanyahu started bombing them. Netanyahu then plays trump like a cheap fiddle and goats him into dragging the US into this NEW war in the Middle East.
Trump, his administration, republicans, maga, the billionaire tech bros, and who knows who else are planning something “BIG” to happen on our soil. Call me a conspiracy nut or say that I am overreacting, but there is a reason or a purpose, if you will, that trump, his administration, elected republicans, DOGE/musk and even the SCOTUS have allowed ALL of these government agencies involved in protecting the country from external threats to be shut down, dismantled, under staffed, staffed with incompetent loyalist, etc.. They have allowed cybersecurity, election security, anti-terrorism, internal and foreign surveillance teams and departments to be scrapped.
Trump, his administration, republicans, maga, the billionaire tech bros, and who knows who else are planning something “BIG” to happen on our soil. Call me a conspiracy nut or say that I am overreacting, but there is a reason or a purpose, if you will, that trump, his administration, elected republicans, DOGE/musk and even the SCOTUS have allowed ALL of these government agencies involved in protecting the country from external threats to be shut down, dismantled, under staffed, staffed with incompetent loyalist, etc.. They have allowed cybersecurity, election security, anti-terrorism, internal and foreign surveillance teams and departments to be scrapped.
Why? There is only one reason to do this wholesale deconstruction of our security infrastructure, to prevent people outside of the trump “regime” from knowing what they are doing! Why else would they do it? They have removed all of the safeguards that would prevent or discover; actions and operations inside the government and from foreign bad actors. They now control who knows what our government is doing and what information is released concerning external threats. They can blame whoever they want for whatever it is that they do.
They can plan, implement, and execute any actions they want without anybody knowing what is being done. They can be putting the infrastructure in place to any type of “unthinkable” or “unimaginable” things to take over cities and states. They can have their own people carry out “insurrections” and then claim it was the Democrats and immigrants who are doing it to justify enacting the Insurrection Act and then implementing Martial Law. Or, they could do the same and claim it was foreign terrorist cells who are attacking to achieve the same goal. Think I’m crazy??? Why are there almost 5,000 military troops in LA? Why were they all claiming it was an “insurrection” happening in LA? Why was Rep Boebert DEMANDING that what was happening in LA was an insurrection in the House hearing with the “blue state” governors? Why is Homeland Security only carrying out raids and abducting people in blue states?
Oh, and destroying the economy with tariffs, no problem because it will only make it easier to control the middle class and low income people when they lose everything. There, done.
Remember when people like me were called crazy and we were overreacting when McConnell stole those SCOTUS seats? And when we said they are going to overturn Roe and then go after birth control and same-sex marriage? And when we said trump will try to stay in power if he lost in 2020? And when we said they would have “secret” police “disappearing” people off the streets and arresting political officials? When we said that if we didn’t immediately hold everyone involved in the Jan 6 insurrection to overthrow a free and fair election accountable and start arresting ALL of them no later than Jan 20, 2021, they would be successful the next time?
It is the same scenario with Health and Human Services being run by an insane person. They want to increase the possibility of a national health emergency to justify the use Martial Law to control the “outbreak” or whatever form it takes.
It is the same scenario for removing FEMA and gutting the National Weather Service and other agencies that provide information to prevent and respond to natural disasters. What happens when hurricanes hit back to back to back or a CAT4 or 5 hits and causes massive destruction at landfall and continues to cause destruction inland for hundreds and hundreds of miles inland. Hurricane Helene struct Northeast TN, Western NC and Southwest VA, causing a thousand year storm event. Look at how maga reacted to the rumors on social media about FEMA and the Biden administration after the hurricane hit. Now, imagine what society in that area devolves in to with trump and Noem and RFK Jr and Hegseth and Duffy at the controls! What would be the trump admin’s response, Martial Law to take control of the lawlessness.
They want chaos and they are planning to have chaos one way or another. Those who have a platform and are fighting to stop trump from destroying our democracy and our country have to accept the cold hard truth that trump, his administration, the republican party and maga are sinister people. They play to win at all cost.
There have been sinister people in the republican party since Pres Nixon, if not long before. I’m not saying that everyone in the republican party was that type of person, but they were there and there were more of them than the other republicans wanted to see or admit to knowing.
Since Goldwater and especially during and after Pres Reagan took office, there was a significant portion of the republican party who realized that they could use the ignitors of fear; race, crime, immigrants, religion, homosexuality, and ABORTION, to control and manipulate a large section of the people in this country. They were careful to never cross the line or say the quiet parts out loud, so they could claim plausible deniability to the methods and strategies used to sway voters and public opinion/perception in their favor.
Eventually, the “operatives” realized that Democrats were either too naive or lacked the ability to imagine that there were people in politics who could possible do things without having the purest of intentions. Democrats had people in their party who weren’t always above-board on things, but Democrats had integrity and would throw them out when they found out what those individuals were doing. Get offended or pissed off that I made that statement if you choose, buts Democrats didn’t use religion as a way to cloak their behaviors to their evangelical base, as did the republicans.
The hypocrisy and “dirty tricksters” of the republican party did not start with trump or maga or “Benghazi” or the tea party or “Birthers” or W or “Swift boats” or newt gingrich or Ken Start or willie horton or Iran-Contra or the hostages in Iran or Watergate or the Southern Strategy… has always been there. It might not have been called by the same political party name, but the supporters of what the republican party now stands for and believes have ALWAYS been here.
They have something planned. Something terrible. Something that will be so unthinkable or unimaginable, until they have done it. Just like with everything else trump and the republicans have done the past 10 years, after they do it everybody will realize they should have seen it coming.
They are planning something like a “terrorist” attack or some type of “event” and they are going to blame it on the “left” or the “evil socialist marxxist communist” or the “deep state” and use it as an excuse to lock down the country. Or, they will allow a foreign group or government to attack us in some way and then use that to take over the country. I still believe it will involve the military troops in CA, in some form.
I commented about this last week to Joe Walsh. Then, yesterday I saw an “Anonymous” video saying the same thing. That made me want to put my family on a plane headed out of this country as soon as possible. That video was vague on what and when, but somebody has found something that backs up this idea of trump doing something and then using it as an excuse to implement Martial Law.
If you don’t believe me or think that I am full of crap or because I am not one of the political insiders, etc., I’ve been right more often and way earlier than most of the people who were supposed to know everything. That’s not meant to be a shot or a slight, it’s just the truth. And people like me haven’t been able to be heard or seen because politics in this country is just like every other field, when everybody in the room thinks they are the smartest person in the room or that somebody outside the world of politics couldn’t possible know something that they don’t, nobody listens to anybody else so nothing is learned or changed.
We need Democrats who understand that you defeat your opponent by anticipating their moves and taking the fight to them, when they hit you, you hit them back harder instead of expecting your opponent to forfeit because they are cheating. Once your opponent has decided to try and win by fighting dirty and breaking all the rules, we have to take meet them where they are. As I have said for almost a decade, now, you can take the high road, but when the people on the low raid are taking a wrecking ball and dynamite to the columns holding up the high road, you have to send down some “low road” people down to stop them using low road rules!
The women in the Democratic party and the “never trump” movement get it and have shown the courage and bravery to stand up to them and fight. Now, we need the men to step up!!!!
Hell-far, I could and will go on for hours and days about this. But, if people like me can’t get heard and soon, the trump fascist party is going to destroy us. Please, let’s all come together and fight back with greater force than these fascist!!!
ICE has a program encouraging self-deportation for adults that it and a whole lot of other people don't want around.
OMB, apparently not to be out done, now has a program of not discouraging self-destruction for the youths that it and a whole lot of other people would just as soon weren't around.
Jesus said, Suffer the children to come unto me.
OMB says let the queer kids suffer.
Hatefulness and cruelty now officially turned on the most emotionally vulnerable among the children in our country for the sake of political gain.
May God damn all the fucking worthless people involved in this affront to moral behavior right straight to the bowels of Hell. And the sooner the better.
Everyone, this won't be just about immigrants. Or brown people. Remember that Trump intends to go after the enemy within. Who do you think that is? It shines a different light on this whole military in the streets push.
I supposedly have 470 days to my retirement. However, based on the latest news, it looks like I might be working through it. Maybe Congress needs to get rid of that silly $177K cap on collecting SSA and Medicare taxes? Maybe they need to set up an excise tax on earnings greater than $2M to further gather money?
The network needs to cancel the Trump Reality Show! The ratings suck and it needs to be replaced with something competent.
I really loved the justification on why ICE officers wear masks. They face threats to themselves. REALLY!?!?!? I am so totally shocked that is happening when they are using Gestapo-like tactics to gather up anyone that looks like an immigrant and camp out at immigration courts as immigrants legally try to become citizens. All the while the actual immigrant criminals are laughing at ICE and continue their terrorism campaigns.
Yeah, everyone who knows anything says if they get rid of the cap, it would fix the system. Another way is to include at least part of capital gain income as SS earnings. At least for the super rich.
Please always remember to mention St. Patrick’s Day parade EVERY TIME someone complains about a foreign flag. My son played a lot of baseball with great kids who had Irish and Italian surnames and whose dad’s complained about IMMIGRANTS. Really….?
I don’t think he is worried about the base anymore because he already has the power. Now he is listening to the voices of Putin and Netanyahu. He is looking to these guys to give him signals.
It is conscious ‼️the violence and fear is the point. This time in America is new because America has not been authoritarian.
Regarding the recent arrests of Democrats, I am wondering why they don't hire or bring policeman on such occasions?(Padila for example). Likewise, why don't judges in immigration court do the same? That has become the tactic of ICE now to show up at immigration court to detain. I realize this is an escalation. But police and ICE are at odds in their jobs. Trump loves the confrontations that have been occurring. Lets face it, a scene with ICE and local police is something Trump can't spin.
Always fear and intimidation
Mafia type behavior and talk
Thuggery
Re: predicting Trump's next steps on Iran, remember that Trump is mostly about scapegoating; finding other people to blame for problems or failures, real or imagined. He's not a leader, not someone to act boldly, out of conviction or principle, and bear the consequences, for better or worse, without an easy off-ramp.
With that in mind, I expect that Trump will give Bibi the green light for some kind of escalation, e.g. Israeli commando force on the ground at Fordo, or Israeli attacks on Iranian eeconomy to try to bring down the Iranian regime, or some other big Israeli move. But Trump will not strike Iran directly. If Bibi stumbles, Bibi becomes Trump's scapegoat. If Bibi succeeds, Trump can claim credit. In that sense, Trump will use Bibi almost like he used Elon.
Ok Olivia, Charlie, Tim, The Bulwark, Meidas Network, Pod Save America, Joe Walsh, Lincoln Square and everybody else, I am going to try and explain this, again.
These people who support trump have always been here and they have always been this; mean, despicable, deplorable, hateful, cruel, and for lack of a better word, evil. Those who support trump and the republicans who do not share the qualities mentioned in the previous sentence, do so because he is willing to allow the Christian Nationalist to get everything that they have wanted for decades, which literally is Project 2025 and the means to achieve the second coming of Jesus Christ (the end times).
Both categories believe that their beliefs are 100% right and EVERYBODY else is 100% wrong (evil). The ends justify the means regardless of how it is done or who allows them to do it.
It is unthinkable and unimaginable to me that I still hear people on podcasts who say they couldn’t believe that trump, his administration, elected republicans and maga did the unthinkable or the unimaginable, day after day after day after day. It make me scream this at the phone loud and often, “HAVE YOU NEVER SPENT TIME WITH ANY CONSERVATIVE, CHRISTIAN WHITE MEN IN THE SOUTH WHO WERE AROUND OTHER WHITE MEN WHO THEY AUTOMATICALLY ASSUMED SHARED THE SAME BELIEFS????”
I’ve heard people saying how they’ve wanted what trump, his administration and elected republicans are now doing to happen since I was old enough to have memories. And these people were not the exception or the minority, as soooo many people in this country, regardless of political affiliation, have wanted to believe for soooo long.
At some point in my life, I have heard everything that is in Project 2025 and what the Christian Nationals believe. I’ve heard it in line at the grocery store, at every job i’ve ever had, at the gas pump, at church, at the ball fields, at my kids’ and my school from students AND teachers, and all points in between.
And long before social media, they had stacks of photocopied pieces of papers with all of the racism, misogyny, bigotry, hate, conspiracy theories, Christian Nationalist religious beliefs, FASCISM/ANTI-SEMITISM, cherry-picked bible versus, etc.. I’ve been given stacks of business cards with the image of a KKK member on a horse holding a rebel flag/Christian flag/nazi flag/mioak flag/cross/burning torch etc., with things like “The Klan is watching you n****r!” or “You have been paid a social visit by the knights of the Ku Klux Klan don’t make the next visit a business call” or “We don’t allow n****r scum here! Your next visit will be your last!” There were wooden signs along the roads and highways entering counties and towns that said something like “This is a ‘Sundown Town’” or “N****r don’t let the sun set on your a$$ in (name of the town)”. AND THIS WAS THE LATE 70’s ALL THE WAY INTO THE 2000’s!!!
My entire life I have heard people talk about how they can’t wait for the civil war between the whites and the blacks to finally begin. Hearing things like “our ancestors got to play ‘cowboys and indians’ and we’re going to play ‘cowboys and n****rs’!” If I want to hear about it, I can bring up the “second coming” with just about any random person in any setting and somebody will start talking about how it’s going to happen in their lifetime and all the signs are here. I have listened to sooo many impromptu sermons by “experts” on the subject and it is beyond scary to hear what they say and believe. The Christian Nationalist don’t mind if Christians die in this battle of good versus evil, because they are going to heaven, anyway. So, if innocent people have to die to save this country or for Christ to come back, no problem because they are covered. If the “evil” people have to be destroyed to “SAVE OUR COUNTRY” then so be it because they will all be destroyed when Christ comes back, anyway. And this ain’t just the religious fanatics, it is mainstream evangelical Christians. Whatever trump does is justified in their eyes.
These people have been here since the first ships touched the shores of this land. It’s just that until somebody like trump came along who said the quiet parts out loud with no hesitation or shame, they kept it within their circles of people who thought like they did. It isn’t possible for me to count the number of times I was seen somebody say the most absolutely disgusting and vile and EVIL things about a person of color, and as soon as a person of color or a stranger walked up, they would flip the switch. They would act as if they just loved people of color and smile and cut up with them and just be so sweet. As soon as that person walked away, it was right back to saying the disgusting and vile and EVIL things about them.
The people in this country who support trump, his administration and the republican party have the belief that whatever trump and the others have to do to “SAVE OUR COUNTRY” is justifiable. There is nothing that is not acceptable or off the table as long as it facilitates the result they want, which is to “SAVE OUR COUNTRY”.
THERE IS NO BOTTOM. I REPEAT, THERE IS NO BOTTOM. AGAIN, THERE IS NO BOTTOM. Whoever has to die, whichever laws have to be broken, whatever the cost, THEY ARE JUSTIFIED BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO “SAVE OUR COUNTRY” from those who are evil (democrats, liberals, socialist, homosexuals, non-whites, non-evangelical Christians, basically anybody who doesn’t believe EXACTLY what they believe).
With all of that said, I truly believe that even though trump is not mentally capable of doing it himself, the people in his administration and the elected republicans have a “master plan” to achieve their goal of taking over the government and the country and turning it into a dictatorship.
Every time they turn on the firehose of chaos and the absurd, it is to distract from the really horrible, unthinkable and unbelievable thing they are simultaneously doing while everybody is distracted. It’s that, or it is to crush the existing “norm” and establish their “new norm” and then tell everybody it has always been the “norm”. Or, that it’s just temporary and there’s nothing wrong with what they are doing because the previous thing was “bad” and they are just trying “fix” what ever it is.
So, let’s discuss what has been happening since Jan 20th.
He sent 2,000 more NG troops to Los Angeles and is threatening to send the military into the large “blue” cities to stop the “insurrection” and violence that’s happening (there is no insurrection or rioting or violence in LA or the other cities). Sec. Noem says that the military isn’t leaving the city until LA and CA are “liberated” from the Democratic mayor and governor.
The Dept of Homeland Security, the FBI and other agencies have armed, masked “agents” in plain clothes with no badge or identification using nongovernment vehicles abducting people off the streets, at elementary school graduations, foster homes, farms, court houses, etc.. They have also arrested a mayor, US representative, US senator and a candidate for mayor of NYC. Are these actual federal agents or just deputized militias?
Since taking office, trump and his administration and elected republicans have stated that the US should take Canada and Greenland. Trump has said that we need to “liberate” the people of Greenland and make Canada our 51st state and the Canadians want to be part of the United States. This is the same language used by Putin to justify invading Ukraine.
Netanyahu attacked Iran because Iran has threatened Israel for years and could use a nuclear weapon on Israel. There is no proof that Iran is any closer to having a nuclear weapon, now, compared to when the US and other countries had an agreement in place to control Iran’s nuclear program before trump scrapped it. Israel has the right to defend itself, full stop. But, at this point Netanyahu is committing genocide on the people of Gaza, attacking, starving and slaughtering civilians. He then attacks Iran, even though there was no change in the probability of Iran acting on their threats from the day before Netanyahu started bombing them. Netanyahu then plays trump like a cheap fiddle and goats him into dragging the US into this NEW war in the Middle East.
Trump, his administration, republicans, maga, the billionaire tech bros, and who knows who else are planning something “BIG” to happen on our soil. Call me a conspiracy nut or say that I am overreacting, but there is a reason or a purpose, if you will, that trump, his administration, elected republicans, DOGE/musk and even the SCOTUS have allowed ALL of these government agencies involved in protecting the country from external threats to be shut down, dismantled, under staffed, staffed with incompetent loyalist, etc.. They have allowed cybersecurity, election security, anti-terrorism, internal and foreign surveillance teams and departments to be scrapped.
Trump, his administration, republicans, maga, the billionaire tech bros, and who knows who else are planning something “BIG” to happen on our soil. Call me a conspiracy nut or say that I am overreacting, but there is a reason or a purpose, if you will, that trump, his administration, elected republicans, DOGE/musk and even the SCOTUS have allowed ALL of these government agencies involved in protecting the country from external threats to be shut down, dismantled, under staffed, staffed with incompetent loyalist, etc.. They have allowed cybersecurity, election security, anti-terrorism, internal and foreign surveillance teams and departments to be scrapped.
Why? There is only one reason to do this wholesale deconstruction of our security infrastructure, to prevent people outside of the trump “regime” from knowing what they are doing! Why else would they do it? They have removed all of the safeguards that would prevent or discover; actions and operations inside the government and from foreign bad actors. They now control who knows what our government is doing and what information is released concerning external threats. They can blame whoever they want for whatever it is that they do.
They can plan, implement, and execute any actions they want without anybody knowing what is being done. They can be putting the infrastructure in place to any type of “unthinkable” or “unimaginable” things to take over cities and states. They can have their own people carry out “insurrections” and then claim it was the Democrats and immigrants who are doing it to justify enacting the Insurrection Act and then implementing Martial Law. Or, they could do the same and claim it was foreign terrorist cells who are attacking to achieve the same goal. Think I’m crazy??? Why are there almost 5,000 military troops in LA? Why were they all claiming it was an “insurrection” happening in LA? Why was Rep Boebert DEMANDING that what was happening in LA was an insurrection in the House hearing with the “blue state” governors? Why is Homeland Security only carrying out raids and abducting people in blue states?
Oh, and destroying the economy with tariffs, no problem because it will only make it easier to control the middle class and low income people when they lose everything. There, done.
Remember when people like me were called crazy and we were overreacting when McConnell stole those SCOTUS seats? And when we said they are going to overturn Roe and then go after birth control and same-sex marriage? And when we said trump will try to stay in power if he lost in 2020? And when we said they would have “secret” police “disappearing” people off the streets and arresting political officials? When we said that if we didn’t immediately hold everyone involved in the Jan 6 insurrection to overthrow a free and fair election accountable and start arresting ALL of them no later than Jan 20, 2021, they would be successful the next time?
It is the same scenario with Health and Human Services being run by an insane person. They want to increase the possibility of a national health emergency to justify the use Martial Law to control the “outbreak” or whatever form it takes.
It is the same scenario for removing FEMA and gutting the National Weather Service and other agencies that provide information to prevent and respond to natural disasters. What happens when hurricanes hit back to back to back or a CAT4 or 5 hits and causes massive destruction at landfall and continues to cause destruction inland for hundreds and hundreds of miles inland. Hurricane Helene struct Northeast TN, Western NC and Southwest VA, causing a thousand year storm event. Look at how maga reacted to the rumors on social media about FEMA and the Biden administration after the hurricane hit. Now, imagine what society in that area devolves in to with trump and Noem and RFK Jr and Hegseth and Duffy at the controls! What would be the trump admin’s response, Martial Law to take control of the lawlessness.
They want chaos and they are planning to have chaos one way or another. Those who have a platform and are fighting to stop trump from destroying our democracy and our country have to accept the cold hard truth that trump, his administration, the republican party and maga are sinister people. They play to win at all cost.
There have been sinister people in the republican party since Pres Nixon, if not long before. I’m not saying that everyone in the republican party was that type of person, but they were there and there were more of them than the other republicans wanted to see or admit to knowing.
Since Goldwater and especially during and after Pres Reagan took office, there was a significant portion of the republican party who realized that they could use the ignitors of fear; race, crime, immigrants, religion, homosexuality, and ABORTION, to control and manipulate a large section of the people in this country. They were careful to never cross the line or say the quiet parts out loud, so they could claim plausible deniability to the methods and strategies used to sway voters and public opinion/perception in their favor.
Eventually, the “operatives” realized that Democrats were either too naive or lacked the ability to imagine that there were people in politics who could possible do things without having the purest of intentions. Democrats had people in their party who weren’t always above-board on things, but Democrats had integrity and would throw them out when they found out what those individuals were doing. Get offended or pissed off that I made that statement if you choose, buts Democrats didn’t use religion as a way to cloak their behaviors to their evangelical base, as did the republicans.
The hypocrisy and “dirty tricksters” of the republican party did not start with trump or maga or “Benghazi” or the tea party or “Birthers” or W or “Swift boats” or newt gingrich or Ken Start or willie horton or Iran-Contra or the hostages in Iran or Watergate or the Southern Strategy… has always been there. It might not have been called by the same political party name, but the supporters of what the republican party now stands for and believes have ALWAYS been here.
They have something planned. Something terrible. Something that will be so unthinkable or unimaginable, until they have done it. Just like with everything else trump and the republicans have done the past 10 years, after they do it everybody will realize they should have seen it coming.
They are planning something like a “terrorist” attack or some type of “event” and they are going to blame it on the “left” or the “evil socialist marxxist communist” or the “deep state” and use it as an excuse to lock down the country. Or, they will allow a foreign group or government to attack us in some way and then use that to take over the country. I still believe it will involve the military troops in CA, in some form.
I commented about this last week to Joe Walsh. Then, yesterday I saw an “Anonymous” video saying the same thing. That made me want to put my family on a plane headed out of this country as soon as possible. That video was vague on what and when, but somebody has found something that backs up this idea of trump doing something and then using it as an excuse to implement Martial Law.
If you don’t believe me or think that I am full of crap or because I am not one of the political insiders, etc., I’ve been right more often and way earlier than most of the people who were supposed to know everything. That’s not meant to be a shot or a slight, it’s just the truth. And people like me haven’t been able to be heard or seen because politics in this country is just like every other field, when everybody in the room thinks they are the smartest person in the room or that somebody outside the world of politics couldn’t possible know something that they don’t, nobody listens to anybody else so nothing is learned or changed.
We need Democrats who understand that you defeat your opponent by anticipating their moves and taking the fight to them, when they hit you, you hit them back harder instead of expecting your opponent to forfeit because they are cheating. Once your opponent has decided to try and win by fighting dirty and breaking all the rules, we have to take meet them where they are. As I have said for almost a decade, now, you can take the high road, but when the people on the low raid are taking a wrecking ball and dynamite to the columns holding up the high road, you have to send down some “low road” people down to stop them using low road rules!
The women in the Democratic party and the “never trump” movement get it and have shown the courage and bravery to stand up to them and fight. Now, we need the men to step up!!!!
Hell-far, I could and will go on for hours and days about this. But, if people like me can’t get heard and soon, the trump fascist party is going to destroy us. Please, let’s all come together and fight back with greater force than these fascist!!!
Peace.
ICE needs to be taken to court. They are racial profiling. Grabbing everyone they can who looks Latino
Re: the NYC Iran protests, this is one of those odd times where I say "please move there".
In the midst of the darkness, Olivia is a ray of light.
ICE has a program encouraging self-deportation for adults that it and a whole lot of other people don't want around.
OMB, apparently not to be out done, now has a program of not discouraging self-destruction for the youths that it and a whole lot of other people would just as soon weren't around.
Jesus said, Suffer the children to come unto me.
OMB says let the queer kids suffer.
Hatefulness and cruelty now officially turned on the most emotionally vulnerable among the children in our country for the sake of political gain.
May God damn all the fucking worthless people involved in this affront to moral behavior right straight to the bowels of Hell. And the sooner the better.
Everyone, this won't be just about immigrants. Or brown people. Remember that Trump intends to go after the enemy within. Who do you think that is? It shines a different light on this whole military in the streets push.
I don’t think people, like Mike Lee, have always been bad.
2 sayings come to mind:
1) From the Bible-- “Do not be misled: bad company corrupts good character.”
(1 Corinthians 15:33)
2) “If you want to know what you’ll be like in 5 years, look at the people you spend your time with.”
(Attributed to Jim Rohn and his 5 People Theory, except I knew of this saying/theory long before he spoke on it, so I am sure the idea predates him.)
I supposedly have 470 days to my retirement. However, based on the latest news, it looks like I might be working through it. Maybe Congress needs to get rid of that silly $177K cap on collecting SSA and Medicare taxes? Maybe they need to set up an excise tax on earnings greater than $2M to further gather money?
The network needs to cancel the Trump Reality Show! The ratings suck and it needs to be replaced with something competent.
I really loved the justification on why ICE officers wear masks. They face threats to themselves. REALLY!?!?!? I am so totally shocked that is happening when they are using Gestapo-like tactics to gather up anyone that looks like an immigrant and camp out at immigration courts as immigrants legally try to become citizens. All the while the actual immigrant criminals are laughing at ICE and continue their terrorism campaigns.
Yeah, everyone who knows anything says if they get rid of the cap, it would fix the system. Another way is to include at least part of capital gain income as SS earnings. At least for the super rich.
Please always remember to mention St. Patrick’s Day parade EVERY TIME someone complains about a foreign flag. My son played a lot of baseball with great kids who had Irish and Italian surnames and whose dad’s complained about IMMIGRANTS. Really….?
Welcome to America clarity
I don’t think he is worried about the base anymore because he already has the power. Now he is listening to the voices of Putin and Netanyahu. He is looking to these guys to give him signals.
MAGA & Trump reacted the same way to the Pelosi attack, remember?