Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics here and it is bad enough that we have a “president” who was/is a pedophile but his ICE goons like to torture children! There will be a reckoning after this shitshow and the ICE goons should remember what happened to the NAZI goons at the Nuremberg trials after World War 2!!! The defense I was just “doing my job” resulted in the NAZI goons being hanged until dead!!!
I admire your optimism but question your historical analogy. The Nazi "goons" got their deserved fate only after the Allies had crushed them militarily.
Our own "goons" operate within a Monarchy. No outside force is coming to the rescue, and the King has all the levers of power --- including the SCOTUS --- at his fingertips.
For all the commentary on the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and the Vought "float" idea of Centralized Executive Powers, let us remember that the whole idea of increasing executive power (first power grabs, then as a written document to codify and "justify" those grabs into fake law), . . .
. . . the WHOLE IDEA of increased and centralized executive power is ANTI-AMERICAN because it is already in total conflict with The U.S. Constitution and its tri-part system of government of shared powers in the government; AND in a point-by-point rejection of everything legal and social that has flowed from centuries of following it and the rule of law that comes from it. To comply with any of Project 25 as a matter of law or even custom is to fly in the face of the idea of MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. There is no "AGAIN" about it. America was/is about a BALANCE OF POWER and NEVER about most or all power being in the executive or in the executive branch.
So let anyone complain about the details of Project 25, but all along we should all regard its supporters as destructors of the U.S. Constitution and so as clear examples of "THE ENEMY WITHIN." This includes Russel Vought and Stephen Miller, both of who, from my view, like Trump, are probably working out some old childhood grudge--they are just too careless and even gleeful about harming people for their attitudes to come from a well-developed, even civilized, human being.
Our story has yet to be written completely! Watch the “No Kings” protest on October 18th. The U.S. Kangaroo Court is certainly worrisome but it also can be fixed if we elect enough Democrats in 2026!!
I agree about this nation (the South) not getting over the Civil War. My first visit to the Deep South in 1982 I picked up some local tourist guides at the hotel and learned about the “war of northern aggression”! Which states seceded from the Union and fired the first shots at Fort Sumter? My great great grandfather was a Confederate and slave holder and I condemn his treason and holding humans in bondage! My grandmother on the same side of the family had a freed slave as a nanny as a baby! Remember, the first time a Confederate flag made it to the U.S. Capitol was on 01-06-2021!!!
Do we need to invoke the Nazis? Much of this was business as usual in the U.S. under Jim Crow, and during the Palmer Raids that followed World War I. I could also mention the crackdown on labor organizers in the late 19th century and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
And about the Nazis -- many of the instigators (those who were caught and tried) were indeed convicted and hanged, but most of the "goons" who did the work were not.
Susanna, I will tell you a story that my deceased Uncle told me about his Army service from North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, and the total defeat of NAZI Germany! My Uncle Gene told me after the massacre of 150 American POWs during the Battle of the Bulge by SS units that when they captured regular German soldiers they were sent to a POW camp but the SS were taken into the nearest woods and were shot! I was an idealistic 18-year old at the time and asked my Uncle if killing the SS was against the Geneva convention? His eyes hardened and he told me that we had fought Germany twice in 30 years and they killed the SS so that my generation would not have to fight them a third time!!!
With all due respect the seeds of authoritarianism has been present in the U.S for a long time. African Americans, Native Americans, Asian and Southern European immigrants were all treated as less than human in our country long before Hitler appeared.
The United States has never been the shining city on a hill or exceptional.
We were not, BUT we were getting better. There was hope that the "times, they are A-changin'." We were getting better right up until the time that a Black man was elected to the White House, and the mold that is racism and fascism, experienced a new growth. It grew so rapidly, that now we are where we are. I will never see us improve again, I'm old and sick. I can only hope that perhaps my great grandchildren can have the world I had hoped to see, when I was in my 20s.
Ellie- I have said the same. There would be no Trump if there was not an Obama. His presidency blew the lid off of Pandora's Box, and allowed an outrageous growth of racism, fascism, and authoritarianism. It allowed the growth of Christian Nationalism and a deep hatred, seen before in our country, began to find new converts to racism. Many people were so pissed that a Black man won the presidency that they literally lost their minds. What I find extraordinarily interesting is that his opponent, John McCain, became Obama's treasured confidant and friend, often visiting each other in the Oval, debating policies, and Obama was asked to give a beautiful eulogy at McCain's funeral. McCain had experienced horrible deprivation and beatings during his confines as a Vietnam POW, literally making him somewhat of a crippled individual, but found it in his heart and character to continue his "better self". Obama had nothing but praise for McCain: his character, his humor, sometimes his lability, but always, his fairness. All of that has been with lost with this horrible caricature of a "president" and his kamikaze cabinet members. Their treatment of Hispanics and their attempts at military control of our Democratic cities is wholly unconstitutional, legally demanding arrest for treason. I can't wait.
Agreed -- ALEC went on red alert in 2009 and both the Tea Party election and the Citizens United decision happened in 2010. However, we were heading in this direction after the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s (when the Southern Democrats mostly became Republicans), which led to Nixon, which led to Reagan, which led to all of the above.
I agree that we were getting better. Obama 's presidency apparently triggered Americans who were profoundly uncomfortable about a Black man as president.
bitchy: I have often thought that about the Obama (being Obama while black) factor and have a bunch of anecdotes to draw from for at least some evidence . . . that, and the history of racism/biases lead me to think there is a concerted informal, partly conscious, group of people in the USA who are still in total shock over having had a black president, twice.
One of those folks is an Indian American, almost full blooded, who cannot seem to understand that he, himself, is also the object of such thinking by huge numbers of people whose racism/group bias (of all kinds) defines their psychic order and who think their whiteness somehow puts them and other white people at the top of some truly delusional hierarchy in their thinking that never goes self-questioned.
In my view, and though it's no guarantee of generational change away from such biases, it's about education, education, education, from the cradle and by parents and caregivers and a culture who, themselves/ourselves, have become enlightened to the corrosive influence of harboring such interior shackles that, in fact, hold everyone back from our collective but yet unknown human potential. Trump, the king of racists, knows that and that much of his power is centered on keeping racism/etc., alive. It's why he and those other defunct human beings he surrounds himself with want to control everything 'education.'
Michele: Most of the folks reading this blog saw the fascist tendencies of the Orange Monster during his first term! 1-06-2021 should have confirmed it for everyone but you just cannot fix stupid in the MAGA!!!
M3333: At the time, i remember trying to talk to a Trump voter in my neighborhood whom I have had a generally friendly relationship with for several years. You probably know what I mean, but the Trump/Fox News Wall went up in our conversation like it was controlled by some sort of electronics. That was the end of that.
Yes. And there is a history in United States after the Civil War of not pursuing accountability and after World War II in France and in Italy of not prosecuting perpetrators in the interest of National unity. Major mistakes in my view
I grew up with Tom Lehrer's song about Wernher von Braun: "Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun / a man whose allegiance / is ruled by expedience . . ." https://youtu.be/TjDEsGZLbio?si=SNfA1d-EePhfhOWJ
Catherine Beck: I think science is like that--it's a totally difference set of principles--intelligence and its pursuit rather than reducing everything to its tribal/political/group elements. This can be both in service of, and detrimental to, humanity, however, which points to what is normative about being human and which, as normative, anything can be violated--it's our choice.
Johnson, the slavery sympathizer, had much for which to answer, when he went to meet his maker...blanket pardon for all traitors. Major mistake, indeed.
We should always invoke fascism. Jim Crow was fascism. Fascism is like mold, it's there, even when it isn't noticeable, and Naziism, is just one form. BTW, the Nazis aren't the ones who called themselves "Nazis." That was an old derogatory term for .... maybe "hillbillies" would be the American comparison? Hitler hated the word and banned it.
Yes, we do. If you read Project 2025, you'll find that among other brutalities, they intend to institute eugenics to "weed out" those they deem to be "useless."
Bad science though it was, and is, eugenics was very popular in the early to mid 20th C. Japanese scientists experimented on Chinese people in occupied Manchuria (China) in the 1930s, freezing their limbs, for example. The US conducted sterilizations, among other steps to "improve" the human "race". The Nazis did numerous experiments on women in concentration camps and did mass exterminations - of disabled persons, for instance.
When I was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School in the late 1980’s, we were called to a special meeting and given a copy of a scientific manuscript that our department head suspected contained “data” from NAZI human “experiments”! We were told to review the manuscript and offer our opinion which resulted in the authors of the manuscript being found in violation of the Helsinki Accords and their scientific careers were terminated!!!
It's been popular here, also. It's been popular many places, but fortunately, some of our ancestors came to their senses, and didn't pursue it as did Hitler.
I agree, Susanna. Comparing the Trump regime to Nazis is hyperbolic and highly inaccurate. What is bound to happen is that people will become desensitized to such rhetoric, if they haven't already. And of course, the news media is, if anything, making Trump sound like a grouchy old grandpa instead of having the courage to report accurately on the destruction of America's democracy.
People are still laughing at Trump and his regime, which is actually more dangerous than calling them Nazis. Trump is becoming ever more extreme, which is why we must not allow him to remain in office, and we cannot allow ourselves to believe the midterms will be a magic bullet.
All American fascists need to be removed from positions of influence and power in government and other institutions. But we don't want to perpetuate the culture of vengefulness that is at the root of the president's ethos.
Sorry, but you rape and beat up children you deserve to spend the rest of your miserable life in prison! You terrorize children and separate them from their parents in your ICE “raids”, you deserve a long prison term!
Romans 12:19 (KJV) - "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."
No matter what we try we'll never see perfect justice. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all favor forgiveness over revenge because with our imperfect insights and motives, we may not be achieving justice at all with our "eye for an eye" ethos. Our society seems to prioritize punishment over prevention.
Donna, I agree in general with your sentiments but in this case I don't think they apply. As M3333 points out, we aren't avenging ourselves. This regime has made a habit (or goal) of attacking and mistreating the poorest and most vulnerable in our society. We want to avenge THEM. When you do what the Trump administration has done and continues to do, I believe you forfeit forgiveness.
And, unfortunately, prevention is out the window since they've already done many bad things and are trying to do even worse ones. If it somehow comes to pass that we, as a society, manage to find a way to prevent similar atrocities in the future, great! But these people will still need to be punished. Let's call it a teachable moment. They believe in punishment, let's show them what that actually means.
Yes thank you bbb. Accountability is not equivalent to vengeance. And so far though not in question that what those folks are doing warrants accountability and punishment it seems they have not yet faced it in any proportion to their crimes. This comment also meant for others in this conversation.
Marian: "Accountability is not equivalent to vengeance," however, it does tend to help satisfy vengeance if it is present in one's mental archives. I think they call that "justice."
With all his losses in court, with the ongoing shutdown and the refusal of Democrats to cave, with the growing criticism of his public performances, he will become more angry, more defiant, more unhinged. Then there is his ally Secretary of Commerce Lutnick giving us more fuel to add to the Epstein fire. President Pinocchio will make one Big Beautiful Mistake after another, one worse than the last, until even Republican members of Congress will need to acknowledge the unfitness. Responding to Congresswoman Dean's plea to "Do something" last week, Speaker Johnson seemed taken off guard and shaken. How long can this president's dangerous state of unfitness be tolerated?
How long, donna...??? With respect, sadly...just as long as the " puppet masters of Project 25 ( Vaught, Miller, et al ) call the shots...control...the onslaught of distractive ploys to keep the real issue of import to be THE banner headline :
...EPSTEIN...EPSTEIN...EPSTEIN !!! Smoke & mirrors abound ! How many of these Project 25 ( White...Yale...Male !) quietly toiling billionaires to keep their names...the names of degenerate cronies..from seeing their.names listed in Epstein's " memoires ??? Hubris ...greed...money...control...??
Is that what this tyranny , cruelty , a total void of humanity / conscience...is all about , I.ponder??
A majority of Americans need to resist and object. Call your reps. demand release of the all the Epstein files - unredacted except for survivors' names.
A general strike where most of the nation walks off their jobs has to be the next phase. No kings marches etc, while they feel good, will more than likely trigger the insurrection act.
Why are we not asking, "Where are the Republicans" regarding all the egregious acts of the administration? The Republicans are the ones in control and have the power to STOP all this mayhem. Of course, we know they have sold their soul to the devil, but the onus needs to be put on THEM for not upholding their oath to the Constitution.
Exactly! Any Republican that does not speak up regarding these crimes against humanity being performed by the Trump regime are complicit. Just a few need to grow a spine and all this can be stopped.
What I would like to know is why inept Republicans are not aware that it is Satan Miller and Russell Vought who are running the show while propping up a demented trump as the front man. They are keeping him out on the golf course and it's working--it has been shown that trump doesn't know half of what's going on. This is scary sh*t....
THIS!!! We need to be loud and clear that if just a handful of Republican Senators would step up and question this reign of terror, it could be mitigated if not stopped. And sadly, to the extent that citizens voted for them, the blood of the innocents IS on their hands as well. In Missouri, Senator Schmitt has come out full White "Christian" Nationalist, asserting that no one not descended from "the Christians who founded our nation" has any claim to being an American. Governor Kehoe has invited the US SS to come and kill people in Kansas City. And I think Hawley is laying back looking to let chaos reign and then step in when it will do (himself) the most good. I'm betting in 2027. Y'know?
At this point I think that if you are what we call "white" and do not assert yourself as an atheist, an agnostic, or a member of any non-Christian religion, Schmitt feels you are allowed to be considered an American. Here's a link to his words.
Ironically, Schmitt says his ancestors came here in the 1840s to kill "Indians" and claim the rest of the continent for America, suggesting (as best I understand it) that they qualify as Americans too...let's face it, when Schmitt says "descendants of the Christians who founded the country," he means "White People." In his story, there just weren't any black people, and the Indigenous people from whom we stole the land don't count because they were "perfectly capable" of violence among themselves.
It wasn't that long ago that some hoped Rubio would be the voice of reason. He is as repugnant as the rest. I keep wondering how low will they go. and is there a bottom? Shameful and disgraceful.
I, too, thought Rubio would be the voice of reason. Boy, was I wrong. Shameful as shit. Has ruined his career, big time, for allying himself with these treasonous, criminalistic, hateful, racist "people".
What is the Avenue to impeach SCOTUS when it’s Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh? SCOTUS is acting like a Terrorist Court projecting fear and enabling Terrorism while ignoring the rule of law repeatedly. What is the Avenue to remove Trump, the VP and the entire Terrorist cabinet from their terrorism as a severe domestic Security Threat? It appears that our Military is cowering and shaking incapable of doing the removal themselves. How do We, the People accomplish this? Will THIS Protest be enough? I don’t think so. The vast majority of Americans would have to March, swallowing their fear of being shot, maimed, arrested or tortured whether the protest is peaceful or not. Not to mention if you are black, brown or highly tanned or not a blue eyed blonde. Most Americans need a Guidebook and the trampled Constitution is the only one we have and most of US have never read it at all. Please offer your expert guidance before October 18th! Thank you for your knowledge-it really is Power.
YES! At last someone has said what is obvious to any person still able to think clearly. NO KINGS OCTOBER 18. I expect to see plenty of posters making this connection. I'd suggest there is an entire gang and their pictures should be prominently displayed...the usual suspect along with maybeline jd, ratface miller, ratface2 vought (vote), fatlips gnome, doop blondi,ICE,
eyeseeitkra$sh,muck,thiel,zuck,bezos,eelison,littletimmyapple, the scotus 6...deadhead thune, minimikey....what a list of criminals. Never since I began voting 60 years ago did I ever believe we'd be battling fascists right here. I guess some of us are not as clever as we thought...sigh
Linda, I tried to get through your list of rogues, sycophants and incompetents, but the stench drove me away. I find myself coming back to the eternal question: How could the American electorate have been so blind and stupid? How can the Republican Congress be so utterly spineless? As Donald Trump might say, "It was a nice democracy you had here". Every American who loves this country should be out on the streets for No Kings 2.0, October 18th.
I experience the same sensations Charles! My nose rebels. Another reason the ICE thugs cover their faces...they cannot stand their own stink or the stench their slogging through. We just had our septic system cleaned...a fitting image for this crowd. OCTOBER 18 and every day until they're defeated.
The American electorate wasn't blind and stupid. Look again at how close the result was. Without Musk's electronic interference, Kamala Harris would have done more than keep Project 2025 at bay.
Anne-Louise, I can't agree with you. Yes, the election was close but common sense says it should not have been close at all. We elected a convicted felon who organized an attempted coup to keep himself in power. Project 2025 told us what he planned to, and once he took office, he has implemented the plan. Too many voters were not paying attention.
I actually wonder whether musk managed to gin the system in the swing states. According to some analysis of voting the numbers trump won by was just over 10,000 in every state, just outside the number that would trigger an automatic recount. This analysis from a prof at the Uni of Michigan.
Too many fell for the con. Does that make American voters dumb. Yes. Still I suspect that Faux "News" played a role and russian disinfo ginned by musk...there may be a stat. I wish more Americans were able to think critically. Plus 90 million who might have voted did not cast a ballot. Sigh...
I am a Chicago resident. Operation Midway Blitz is named after the WW II Battle of Midway, a major U.S. attack carried out in the Pacific Theater of Operation. Now, a military battle is being waged in the Chicago Theater of Operation as part of the War of the Enemy from Within.
The apartment raid by militarized federal agents marked a turning point in the trump regimes take over. Pretenses are no longer necessary. They feel no need for them. Any rules that were previously used have been discarded. The attack in the South Shore neighborhood apartment building was carried out because some Tren de Aguau (sp ?) gang members were said to “frequent” the building. Let that sink in. The government never alleged the gang members lived there, just that there “frequented” the building.
The violence from militarized federal agents is rising at a frightening pace. Several weeks ago they killed an immigrant who ran from them. What was the immigrant’s “criminal offense”? He had several past moving vehicle violations! These agents are using smoke grenades and other chemical agents along with rubber pellets against protesters on a daily basis. A minister has been thrown to the ground and put in a chokehold. Now militarized agents have been lobbing chemical agents out of their moving vehicles toward protesters in an indiscriminate manner. On regular city streets where there is no large protest. Over the weekend they snot another protestor. They have also confronted and cuffed a non immigrant citizen under the pretext of helping out at the scene of an auto accident.
This will all escalate further once the National Guard is in place. This is what the trump regime wants- chaos, violence, raw brute show of force and power. This is the beginning of the War of the Enemy from Within.
Sue...having witnessed WWII, Sue....your words make me weep for our country and all who seek to raise our families in peace. There is an overriding sordidness.runrampant.in our current administration today....the stench of authoritarian " Gestapoism " fills every atom of our chaotic existence...
I weep....yes. But will never give up the fight for an HONORABLE ADMINISTRATION.once again. DO NOT CEASE TO FIGHT ...EVER !
" ICE’s raid on a Chicago apartment building and the ensuing ICE violence against civilians make clear that Trump has initiated an unconstitutional, brutal war against ordinary Americans."
It makes clear that the REPUBLICAN party has initiated an unconstitutional, brutal war against ordinary Americans. We must continue to emphsize the point that Republicans are (all of them) are responsible for everything Trump and his administartion says and does.
Until Republican "leadership" steps up to control this unconstitutional attack upon Americans, they are all complicit in abetting the attack. They are responsible.
"Republican"? I don't see any politics here. This is an armed coup. And yet the population is over 300 million, all heavily armed. What does it say: "Well-armed militia"? Meaning what?
We arre dangerously close to a contemporary civil war. Federal troops against state militias, and our own citizens. How do we stop federal troops contyrol;led by a delusional president?
Rise up. Organize. Hold a country-wide strike for a month, for instance. And/or engage in that old and powerful stand-by, used by the relatively powerless throughout history = numerous forms of sabotage. At the far edge of possibility, consider welcoming a military coup that supports the restoration of effective contitutional democracy and fair elections.
Of course I do not expect any help from the governor of Texas. Abbott sent people against their will, based upon lies, to Massachusetts. He has no problem grabbing people and sending them somewhere. So why would he worry about what another governor thinks about sending the Texas National Guard to terrorize citizens of another state.
Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem making up and then pursuing the "enemy within" must be the fulfillment of their childhood fantasies. Military dominance unleashed. The heck with those stinking American citizens. We are the rulers. You are the subjects. Get over it.
Thune and Johnson and Cornyn, I hope, have moments of doubt about the wolves of hell they have unleashed. Do Miller and Noem have families they have to answer to?
I can't believe the Miller's and Noem's of this administration don't have the foresight to realize their lives are going to suck once trump is gone. Miller's family has spoken out recently in disgust of what he's doing.
ICE offered $50,000 as a signing bonus. A couple of months ago I overheard a heated conversation in a parking lot at a nearby wildlife conservation area. The man was on the phone with someone trying to persuade him to do something the man was uncomfortable doing. The unhappy looking man finally said, “I’m not interested in treating people that way.”
Why are Democratic states not using the power of the purse to stop Trump.
Democratic states’ federal tax receipts largely fund the government and are now being used to fund Trump’s cruel vindictive attacks on us, the American people. Democratic governors should be holding urgent discussions on withholding federal taxes and as a matter of urgency approving the withholding of federal taxes receipts from this criminal administration.
By starving this administration of the funds it needs to carry out its plan, the faster democracy can prevail.
Its a very complicated thing to do, but It’s not going fast enough, every month banks throughout the U.S. send hundreds of millions of dollars in federal taxes to the government from W2 withholdings, retiree pensions, quarterly business taxes etc. Trump has had access to those for 9 months and counting.
We can’t afford to wait until October 18th. We need to be out there on street corners with signs and putting signs in our front yards to let the uninformed public know what is happening. The fact that Congress has failed to rein him in need to be emphasized in all signage. Legacy media need to be called out forcefully and loudly as well as their sponsors, for enabling the lack of truth telling to the public.
This ramping up of overpowering force (supposedly for the purpose of immigration enforcement) is shocking beyond belief. Imagine your home being broken into in the middle of the night by masked, armed men. Our taxes are paying for this abomination. It is time for the Congressional Republicans to demonstrate that they actually believe in our Constitution which expressly forbids this kind of treatment to ANYONE. It is time to impeach Trump and his lawless cabinet.
Let us not forget the timing of all these whackamole items in relation to the potential release of ALL of the Epstein files, including videos. Also, Trump will have to pardon Giselle, unless she doesn't realize that she has "all the cards."
PLEASE be careful when you make a statement like this one: "On Saturday, an ICE agent shot and wounded a motorist." It is true, but it is incendiary and does not mention she and her companion both had guns. I do not excuse the Federal agents from shooting her, but the situation was more complex than your statement suggested. I am a regular peaceful protester in the Chicago area and on a rapid response team - we stress the PEACEFUL aspects of our work, the need to record what we see to provide documentation, and the importance of helping our community.
If this is what you are referring to, the charging document does not say she had a gun. I would not trust any statements coming from ICE or any federal mouthpieces.
I certainly agree that our protests must be peaceful, but reporting what we see must be a part of that. From all the reports that I have read, an ICE agent did shoot a motorist. I am not sure why you must be “careful” about making that statement. We cannot simply write things down and hope this goes away. Protesting peacefully does not mean holding your tongue. Shouting the truth is still peacefully protesting. Now if you were ramming an ice vehicle with your own, that is something altogether different. I certainly do not condone that even if the actions of ICE are cruel, unlawful, and despicable actions in a democratic country under siege by a government that has gone rogue.
Reporting- loudly - is part of our job as protesters and responders. My problem here is that there are questions about how the incident unfolded. Coming to a peaceful protest with a gun is a problem. I'm unclear from the report exactly how she was shot or why. Her companion who also had a gun (I believe they both have FOID cards, so not illegal) and he was arrested at the site. The woman apparently tried to drive herself to a hospital after being shot, but the reporting has been vague about how/there she was shot or why she was driving. Again - I absolutely condemn the ICE agent for shooting her.
I read repeated accounts saying the Chicago police reports they found the injured woman some distance from her car which remained where it was, and one video showing that the car was immobilized. The difference in accounts is piquant. For years all over the country I have read of situations where "Law enforcement" official reports contradict what is eventually determined in a court of law under rules of evidence. What I have read of official reports has included the allegation that the officers were "surrounded" by ten vehicles, that the woman rammed the officers' vehicle, and that the officers shot her because she had rammed their car and had a gun. And as I am an anti-gun activist, and agree from more than one perspective that NO ONE should bring a gun to a peaceful protest (the violent resistance is exactly what the regime wants)--another disregard of the Consititution here: now, you can be shot and presumably killed...for having a gun! Where are our Second Amendment folks now? (Some sarcasm here, sorry)
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics here and it is bad enough that we have a “president” who was/is a pedophile but his ICE goons like to torture children! There will be a reckoning after this shitshow and the ICE goons should remember what happened to the NAZI goons at the Nuremberg trials after World War 2!!! The defense I was just “doing my job” resulted in the NAZI goons being hanged until dead!!!
I admire your optimism but question your historical analogy. The Nazi "goons" got their deserved fate only after the Allies had crushed them militarily.
Our own "goons" operate within a Monarchy. No outside force is coming to the rescue, and the King has all the levers of power --- including the SCOTUS --- at his fingertips.
For all the commentary on the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and the Vought "float" idea of Centralized Executive Powers, let us remember that the whole idea of increasing executive power (first power grabs, then as a written document to codify and "justify" those grabs into fake law), . . .
. . . the WHOLE IDEA of increased and centralized executive power is ANTI-AMERICAN because it is already in total conflict with The U.S. Constitution and its tri-part system of government of shared powers in the government; AND in a point-by-point rejection of everything legal and social that has flowed from centuries of following it and the rule of law that comes from it. To comply with any of Project 25 as a matter of law or even custom is to fly in the face of the idea of MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. There is no "AGAIN" about it. America was/is about a BALANCE OF POWER and NEVER about most or all power being in the executive or in the executive branch.
So let anyone complain about the details of Project 25, but all along we should all regard its supporters as destructors of the U.S. Constitution and so as clear examples of "THE ENEMY WITHIN." This includes Russel Vought and Stephen Miller, both of who, from my view, like Trump, are probably working out some old childhood grudge--they are just too careless and even gleeful about harming people for their attitudes to come from a well-developed, even civilized, human being.
C, you're right...hurt people ,hurt people
As a former acting Director of Domestic Policy* for The Heritage Foundation, let me say you are EXACTLY RIGHT.
*Heritage offered me the job permanently but I took an offer from the Bush Administration instead.
Our story has yet to be written completely! Watch the “No Kings” protest on October 18th. The U.S. Kangaroo Court is certainly worrisome but it also can be fixed if we elect enough Democrats in 2026!!
That is assuming that we have an election in 2026. I am not so sure that we will.
I agree about this nation (the South) not getting over the Civil War. My first visit to the Deep South in 1982 I picked up some local tourist guides at the hotel and learned about the “war of northern aggression”! Which states seceded from the Union and fired the first shots at Fort Sumter? My great great grandfather was a Confederate and slave holder and I condemn his treason and holding humans in bondage! My grandmother on the same side of the family had a freed slave as a nanny as a baby! Remember, the first time a Confederate flag made it to the U.S. Capitol was on 01-06-2021!!!
Thank you for your expertise and commentary re: these horrific actions by the rump regime!! Please keep speaking out!
Do we need to invoke the Nazis? Much of this was business as usual in the U.S. under Jim Crow, and during the Palmer Raids that followed World War I. I could also mention the crackdown on labor organizers in the late 19th century and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
And about the Nazis -- many of the instigators (those who were caught and tried) were indeed convicted and hanged, but most of the "goons" who did the work were not.
Susanna, I will tell you a story that my deceased Uncle told me about his Army service from North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, and the total defeat of NAZI Germany! My Uncle Gene told me after the massacre of 150 American POWs during the Battle of the Bulge by SS units that when they captured regular German soldiers they were sent to a POW camp but the SS were taken into the nearest woods and were shot! I was an idealistic 18-year old at the time and asked my Uncle if killing the SS was against the Geneva convention? His eyes hardened and he told me that we had fought Germany twice in 30 years and they killed the SS so that my generation would not have to fight them a third time!!!
With all due respect the seeds of authoritarianism has been present in the U.S for a long time. African Americans, Native Americans, Asian and Southern European immigrants were all treated as less than human in our country long before Hitler appeared.
The United States has never been the shining city on a hill or exceptional.
We were not, BUT we were getting better. There was hope that the "times, they are A-changin'." We were getting better right up until the time that a Black man was elected to the White House, and the mold that is racism and fascism, experienced a new growth. It grew so rapidly, that now we are where we are. I will never see us improve again, I'm old and sick. I can only hope that perhaps my great grandchildren can have the world I had hoped to see, when I was in my 20s.
Ellie- I have said the same. There would be no Trump if there was not an Obama. His presidency blew the lid off of Pandora's Box, and allowed an outrageous growth of racism, fascism, and authoritarianism. It allowed the growth of Christian Nationalism and a deep hatred, seen before in our country, began to find new converts to racism. Many people were so pissed that a Black man won the presidency that they literally lost their minds. What I find extraordinarily interesting is that his opponent, John McCain, became Obama's treasured confidant and friend, often visiting each other in the Oval, debating policies, and Obama was asked to give a beautiful eulogy at McCain's funeral. McCain had experienced horrible deprivation and beatings during his confines as a Vietnam POW, literally making him somewhat of a crippled individual, but found it in his heart and character to continue his "better self". Obama had nothing but praise for McCain: his character, his humor, sometimes his lability, but always, his fairness. All of that has been with lost with this horrible caricature of a "president" and his kamikaze cabinet members. Their treatment of Hispanics and their attempts at military control of our Democratic cities is wholly unconstitutional, legally demanding arrest for treason. I can't wait.
Agreed -- ALEC went on red alert in 2009 and both the Tea Party election and the Citizens United decision happened in 2010. However, we were heading in this direction after the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s (when the Southern Democrats mostly became Republicans), which led to Nixon, which led to Reagan, which led to all of the above.
I agree that we were getting better. Obama 's presidency apparently triggered Americans who were profoundly uncomfortable about a Black man as president.
bitchy: I have often thought that about the Obama (being Obama while black) factor and have a bunch of anecdotes to draw from for at least some evidence . . . that, and the history of racism/biases lead me to think there is a concerted informal, partly conscious, group of people in the USA who are still in total shock over having had a black president, twice.
One of those folks is an Indian American, almost full blooded, who cannot seem to understand that he, himself, is also the object of such thinking by huge numbers of people whose racism/group bias (of all kinds) defines their psychic order and who think their whiteness somehow puts them and other white people at the top of some truly delusional hierarchy in their thinking that never goes self-questioned.
In my view, and though it's no guarantee of generational change away from such biases, it's about education, education, education, from the cradle and by parents and caregivers and a culture who, themselves/ourselves, have become enlightened to the corrosive influence of harboring such interior shackles that, in fact, hold everyone back from our collective but yet unknown human potential. Trump, the king of racists, knows that and that much of his power is centered on keeping racism/etc., alive. It's why he and those other defunct human beings he surrounds himself with want to control everything 'education.'
So instead we are fighting our own government.
Michele: Most of the folks reading this blog saw the fascist tendencies of the Orange Monster during his first term! 1-06-2021 should have confirmed it for everyone but you just cannot fix stupid in the MAGA!!!
M3333: At the time, i remember trying to talk to a Trump voter in my neighborhood whom I have had a generally friendly relationship with for several years. You probably know what I mean, but the Trump/Fox News Wall went up in our conversation like it was controlled by some sort of electronics. That was the end of that.
Yes. And there is a history in United States after the Civil War of not pursuing accountability and after World War II in France and in Italy of not prosecuting perpetrators in the interest of National unity. Major mistakes in my view
The US government welcomed Nazis into their space race and nuclear armaments manufacturing after WW2.
I grew up with Tom Lehrer's song about Wernher von Braun: "Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun / a man whose allegiance / is ruled by expedience . . ." https://youtu.be/TjDEsGZLbio?si=SNfA1d-EePhfhOWJ
I met Von Braun as a 7th grader when he came to Emporia State University in Kansas and gave a lecture on space exploration!
We loved that album as kids. When we lived in Italy for a year when I was 10-11, it was one of my parents’ albums we each memorized.
Catherine Beck: I think science is like that--it's a totally difference set of principles--intelligence and its pursuit rather than reducing everything to its tribal/political/group elements. This can be both in service of, and detrimental to, humanity, however, which points to what is normative about being human and which, as normative, anything can be violated--it's our choice.
Johnson, the slavery sympathizer, had much for which to answer, when he went to meet his maker...blanket pardon for all traitors. Major mistake, indeed.
Which Johnson are you talking about, Andrew or Lyndon?
I am not aware that LBJ gave a blanket pardon to all traitors, or that he supported slavery, as did Andrew.
We should always invoke fascism. Jim Crow was fascism. Fascism is like mold, it's there, even when it isn't noticeable, and Naziism, is just one form. BTW, the Nazis aren't the ones who called themselves "Nazis." That was an old derogatory term for .... maybe "hillbillies" would be the American comparison? Hitler hated the word and banned it.
Yes, we do. If you read Project 2025, you'll find that among other brutalities, they intend to institute eugenics to "weed out" those they deem to be "useless."
Bad science though it was, and is, eugenics was very popular in the early to mid 20th C. Japanese scientists experimented on Chinese people in occupied Manchuria (China) in the 1930s, freezing their limbs, for example. The US conducted sterilizations, among other steps to "improve" the human "race". The Nazis did numerous experiments on women in concentration camps and did mass exterminations - of disabled persons, for instance.
When I was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School in the late 1980’s, we were called to a special meeting and given a copy of a scientific manuscript that our department head suspected contained “data” from NAZI human “experiments”! We were told to review the manuscript and offer our opinion which resulted in the authors of the manuscript being found in violation of the Helsinki Accords and their scientific careers were terminated!!!
Racism is bad science, period.
I'm very aware of that. Japan also had a very active chemical and biological weapons program.
It's been popular here, also. It's been popular many places, but fortunately, some of our ancestors came to their senses, and didn't pursue it as did Hitler.
I agree, Susanna. Comparing the Trump regime to Nazis is hyperbolic and highly inaccurate. What is bound to happen is that people will become desensitized to such rhetoric, if they haven't already. And of course, the news media is, if anything, making Trump sound like a grouchy old grandpa instead of having the courage to report accurately on the destruction of America's democracy.
People are still laughing at Trump and his regime, which is actually more dangerous than calling them Nazis. Trump is becoming ever more extreme, which is why we must not allow him to remain in office, and we cannot allow ourselves to believe the midterms will be a magic bullet.
All American fascists need to be removed from positions of influence and power in government and other institutions. But we don't want to perpetuate the culture of vengefulness that is at the root of the president's ethos.
Sorry, but you rape and beat up children you deserve to spend the rest of your miserable life in prison! You terrorize children and separate them from their parents in your ICE “raids”, you deserve a long prison term!
Romans 12:19 (KJV) - "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."
No matter what we try we'll never see perfect justice. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all favor forgiveness over revenge because with our imperfect insights and motives, we may not be achieving justice at all with our "eye for an eye" ethos. Our society seems to prioritize punishment over prevention.
Donna, I agree in general with your sentiments but in this case I don't think they apply. As M3333 points out, we aren't avenging ourselves. This regime has made a habit (or goal) of attacking and mistreating the poorest and most vulnerable in our society. We want to avenge THEM. When you do what the Trump administration has done and continues to do, I believe you forfeit forgiveness.
And, unfortunately, prevention is out the window since they've already done many bad things and are trying to do even worse ones. If it somehow comes to pass that we, as a society, manage to find a way to prevent similar atrocities in the future, great! But these people will still need to be punished. Let's call it a teachable moment. They believe in punishment, let's show them what that actually means.
yes...all the congress members who voted to change the election in 2020 should have been banned from holding office.
another failure of Biden/Garland...because they were too old ?? YES
...and just one more check in the " win " column for that detestable traitor
whose name will go down in historical.infamy...
MITCH Mc CONNELL.!
Joe Biden “worked” with the RepubliCON Senators too long and they took advantage of him! Garland was an atrocious choice as AG!
We will need to pursue accountability for people such as Vought, Vance and Milker who are actively undermining our country.
Yes thank you bbb. Accountability is not equivalent to vengeance. And so far though not in question that what those folks are doing warrants accountability and punishment it seems they have not yet faced it in any proportion to their crimes. This comment also meant for others in this conversation.
Marian: "Accountability is not equivalent to vengeance," however, it does tend to help satisfy vengeance if it is present in one's mental archives. I think they call that "justice."
God, let's hope there's a "reckoning". This has gotten out of control. It's a nightmare and Congress better wake up!
With all his losses in court, with the ongoing shutdown and the refusal of Democrats to cave, with the growing criticism of his public performances, he will become more angry, more defiant, more unhinged. Then there is his ally Secretary of Commerce Lutnick giving us more fuel to add to the Epstein fire. President Pinocchio will make one Big Beautiful Mistake after another, one worse than the last, until even Republican members of Congress will need to acknowledge the unfitness. Responding to Congresswoman Dean's plea to "Do something" last week, Speaker Johnson seemed taken off guard and shaken. How long can this president's dangerous state of unfitness be tolerated?
Johnson is useless, scared of his own shadow. He’ll continue to kiss Trump’s ass until the GOP loses the House. Hopefully, 2026.
How long, donna...??? With respect, sadly...just as long as the " puppet masters of Project 25 ( Vaught, Miller, et al ) call the shots...control...the onslaught of distractive ploys to keep the real issue of import to be THE banner headline :
...EPSTEIN...EPSTEIN...EPSTEIN !!! Smoke & mirrors abound ! How many of these Project 25 ( White...Yale...Male !) quietly toiling billionaires to keep their names...the names of degenerate cronies..from seeing their.names listed in Epstein's " memoires ??? Hubris ...greed...money...control...??
Is that what this tyranny , cruelty , a total void of humanity / conscience...is all about , I.ponder??
Lynn Cook: It's CYA on steroids.
A majority of Americans need to resist and object. Call your reps. demand release of the all the Epstein files - unredacted except for survivors' names.
The critical number is 3.5%. Somewhere around 10-11 million.
We don't need 50%. We have too many who don't or can't vote.
We just need enough to make failure inevitable.
Agents should face child abuse charges from the state.
We can only hope there's a reckoning. Our record on that score ain't great.
Time to go on strike.
Epstein Justice.
https://epsteinjustice.com/
Boycott the companies paying off the trump regime? Their support is anti-democracy!
Show them who is in charge of their profit-filled businesses!
Amazon/Bezos! FaceBook/Zuckerberg! Musk! Google! Peter Thiel/Palantir Tech!
A general strike where most of the nation walks off their jobs has to be the next phase. No kings marches etc, while they feel good, will more than likely trigger the insurrection act.
Good point.
Why are we not asking, "Where are the Republicans" regarding all the egregious acts of the administration? The Republicans are the ones in control and have the power to STOP all this mayhem. Of course, we know they have sold their soul to the devil, but the onus needs to be put on THEM for not upholding their oath to the Constitution.
Exactly! Any Republican that does not speak up regarding these crimes against humanity being performed by the Trump regime are complicit. Just a few need to grow a spine and all this can be stopped.
Alan: And then there is SCOTUS and its Rubberstamp Roberts.
What I would like to know is why inept Republicans are not aware that it is Satan Miller and Russell Vought who are running the show while propping up a demented trump as the front man. They are keeping him out on the golf course and it's working--it has been shown that trump doesn't know half of what's going on. This is scary sh*t....
THIS!!! We need to be loud and clear that if just a handful of Republican Senators would step up and question this reign of terror, it could be mitigated if not stopped. And sadly, to the extent that citizens voted for them, the blood of the innocents IS on their hands as well. In Missouri, Senator Schmitt has come out full White "Christian" Nationalist, asserting that no one not descended from "the Christians who founded our nation" has any claim to being an American. Governor Kehoe has invited the US SS to come and kill people in Kansas City. And I think Hawley is laying back looking to let chaos reign and then step in when it will do (himself) the most good. I'm betting in 2027. Y'know?
I am descended from people who arrived on the second sailing of the Mayflower.
I am also a lifelong believer in democracy and a (fairly rabid) Democrat.
What is Schmitt going to do about that?
At this point I think that if you are what we call "white" and do not assert yourself as an atheist, an agnostic, or a member of any non-Christian religion, Schmitt feels you are allowed to be considered an American. Here's a link to his words.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/02/schmitt-what-is-an-american/
Ironically, Schmitt says his ancestors came here in the 1840s to kill "Indians" and claim the rest of the continent for America, suggesting (as best I understand it) that they qualify as Americans too...let's face it, when Schmitt says "descendants of the Christians who founded the country," he means "White People." In his story, there just weren't any black people, and the Indigenous people from whom we stole the land don't count because they were "perfectly capable" of violence among themselves.
It wasn't that long ago that some hoped Rubio would be the voice of reason. He is as repugnant as the rest. I keep wondering how low will they go. and is there a bottom? Shameful and disgraceful.
I, too, thought Rubio would be the voice of reason. Boy, was I wrong. Shameful as shit. Has ruined his career, big time, for allying himself with these treasonous, criminalistic, hateful, racist "people".
Thank you for your powerful words and thoughts in defense of democracy. I am so proud to be a Contrarian!
What is the Avenue to impeach SCOTUS when it’s Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh? SCOTUS is acting like a Terrorist Court projecting fear and enabling Terrorism while ignoring the rule of law repeatedly. What is the Avenue to remove Trump, the VP and the entire Terrorist cabinet from their terrorism as a severe domestic Security Threat? It appears that our Military is cowering and shaking incapable of doing the removal themselves. How do We, the People accomplish this? Will THIS Protest be enough? I don’t think so. The vast majority of Americans would have to March, swallowing their fear of being shot, maimed, arrested or tortured whether the protest is peaceful or not. Not to mention if you are black, brown or highly tanned or not a blue eyed blonde. Most Americans need a Guidebook and the trampled Constitution is the only one we have and most of US have never read it at all. Please offer your expert guidance before October 18th! Thank you for your knowledge-it really is Power.
I believe that Congress can suspend the Supreme Court. I’d like to know more about that.
Not this Congress. That won’t happen in a MAGA Congress.
Absolutely not.
Unless, of course, Trump decides to do it if he gets tired of them only rubber stamping most but not all of what he wants to do.
As Elon might tweet: interesting!
One would hope that it was an oversight that you did not mention Barrett in your impeachment question.
Yes it was
YES! At last someone has said what is obvious to any person still able to think clearly. NO KINGS OCTOBER 18. I expect to see plenty of posters making this connection. I'd suggest there is an entire gang and their pictures should be prominently displayed...the usual suspect along with maybeline jd, ratface miller, ratface2 vought (vote), fatlips gnome, doop blondi,ICE,
eyeseeitkra$sh,muck,thiel,zuck,bezos,eelison,littletimmyapple, the scotus 6...deadhead thune, minimikey....what a list of criminals. Never since I began voting 60 years ago did I ever believe we'd be battling fascists right here. I guess some of us are not as clever as we thought...sigh
Linda, I tried to get through your list of rogues, sycophants and incompetents, but the stench drove me away. I find myself coming back to the eternal question: How could the American electorate have been so blind and stupid? How can the Republican Congress be so utterly spineless? As Donald Trump might say, "It was a nice democracy you had here". Every American who loves this country should be out on the streets for No Kings 2.0, October 18th.
I experience the same sensations Charles! My nose rebels. Another reason the ICE thugs cover their faces...they cannot stand their own stink or the stench their slogging through. We just had our septic system cleaned...a fitting image for this crowd. OCTOBER 18 and every day until they're defeated.
The American electorate wasn't blind and stupid. Look again at how close the result was. Without Musk's electronic interference, Kamala Harris would have done more than keep Project 2025 at bay.
Anne-Louise, I can't agree with you. Yes, the election was close but common sense says it should not have been close at all. We elected a convicted felon who organized an attempted coup to keep himself in power. Project 2025 told us what he planned to, and once he took office, he has implemented the plan. Too many voters were not paying attention.
I can only agree with your closing remark, Charles - I spent at least two years begging people to read Project 2025.
I actually wonder whether musk managed to gin the system in the swing states. According to some analysis of voting the numbers trump won by was just over 10,000 in every state, just outside the number that would trigger an automatic recount. This analysis from a prof at the Uni of Michigan.
we want to think this because we cannot bear to see how dumb americans are...
Too many fell for the con. Does that make American voters dumb. Yes. Still I suspect that Faux "News" played a role and russian disinfo ginned by musk...there may be a stat. I wish more Americans were able to think critically. Plus 90 million who might have voted did not cast a ballot. Sigh...
Actually, check out the court case in New York State.
It is statistically impossible for so many people to vote for Kristin Gillibrand and not one of them to vote for Kamala Harris.
It may not have happened anywhere else, who knows? But something surely is wrong there!
this is a job for the DNC and FEC
Pity, when to trust is foolish.
I am a Chicago resident. Operation Midway Blitz is named after the WW II Battle of Midway, a major U.S. attack carried out in the Pacific Theater of Operation. Now, a military battle is being waged in the Chicago Theater of Operation as part of the War of the Enemy from Within.
The apartment raid by militarized federal agents marked a turning point in the trump regimes take over. Pretenses are no longer necessary. They feel no need for them. Any rules that were previously used have been discarded. The attack in the South Shore neighborhood apartment building was carried out because some Tren de Aguau (sp ?) gang members were said to “frequent” the building. Let that sink in. The government never alleged the gang members lived there, just that there “frequented” the building.
The violence from militarized federal agents is rising at a frightening pace. Several weeks ago they killed an immigrant who ran from them. What was the immigrant’s “criminal offense”? He had several past moving vehicle violations! These agents are using smoke grenades and other chemical agents along with rubber pellets against protesters on a daily basis. A minister has been thrown to the ground and put in a chokehold. Now militarized agents have been lobbing chemical agents out of their moving vehicles toward protesters in an indiscriminate manner. On regular city streets where there is no large protest. Over the weekend they snot another protestor. They have also confronted and cuffed a non immigrant citizen under the pretext of helping out at the scene of an auto accident.
This will all escalate further once the National Guard is in place. This is what the trump regime wants- chaos, violence, raw brute show of force and power. This is the beginning of the War of the Enemy from Within.
Thank you for your reporting and your witnessing. The truth must be loud to drown out the lies.
Sue...having witnessed WWII, Sue....your words make me weep for our country and all who seek to raise our families in peace. There is an overriding sordidness.run rampant.in our current administration today....the stench of authoritarian " Gestapoism " fills every atom of our chaotic existence...
I weep....yes. But will never give up the fight for an HONORABLE ADMINISTRATION.once again. DO NOT CEASE TO FIGHT ...EVER !
" ICE’s raid on a Chicago apartment building and the ensuing ICE violence against civilians make clear that Trump has initiated an unconstitutional, brutal war against ordinary Americans."
It makes clear that the REPUBLICAN party has initiated an unconstitutional, brutal war against ordinary Americans. We must continue to emphsize the point that Republicans are (all of them) are responsible for everything Trump and his administartion says and does.
Until Republican "leadership" steps up to control this unconstitutional attack upon Americans, they are all complicit in abetting the attack. They are responsible.
YES!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
"Republican"? I don't see any politics here. This is an armed coup. And yet the population is over 300 million, all heavily armed. What does it say: "Well-armed militia"? Meaning what?
well, they better learn to shoot better...
We arre dangerously close to a contemporary civil war. Federal troops against state militias, and our own citizens. How do we stop federal troops contyrol;led by a delusional president?
That is Stephen Miller's plan.
SPOT ON, MARLISS.!
Miller and the entire Project 25 cabal.!
That’s the bottom line.
He's no longer controlling anything.
Rise up. Organize. Hold a country-wide strike for a month, for instance. And/or engage in that old and powerful stand-by, used by the relatively powerless throughout history = numerous forms of sabotage. At the far edge of possibility, consider welcoming a military coup that supports the restoration of effective contitutional democracy and fair elections.
Of course I do not expect any help from the governor of Texas. Abbott sent people against their will, based upon lies, to Massachusetts. He has no problem grabbing people and sending them somewhere. So why would he worry about what another governor thinks about sending the Texas National Guard to terrorize citizens of another state.
I wish Mexico had fought harder to keep texass...
Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem making up and then pursuing the "enemy within" must be the fulfillment of their childhood fantasies. Military dominance unleashed. The heck with those stinking American citizens. We are the rulers. You are the subjects. Get over it.
Thune and Johnson and Cornyn, I hope, have moments of doubt about the wolves of hell they have unleashed. Do Miller and Noem have families they have to answer to?
I can't believe the Miller's and Noem's of this administration don't have the foresight to realize their lives are going to suck once trump is gone. Miller's family has spoken out recently in disgust of what he's doing.
Cornyn is running ads with “average people” thanking him for enacting T-rump’s agenda.
He's preaching to the uninformed. Or Fox viewers with no contrary programming
Did Fatlips Gnome get another dog?
God I hope not
ICE offered $50,000 as a signing bonus. A couple of months ago I overheard a heated conversation in a parking lot at a nearby wildlife conservation area. The man was on the phone with someone trying to persuade him to do something the man was uncomfortable doing. The unhappy looking man finally said, “I’m not interested in treating people that way.”
Monies for those signing ($50,000) bonuses came from the U.S. tax payers! I resent that. You should also?
Yes, indeed I do resent it!
Why are Democratic states not using the power of the purse to stop Trump.
Democratic states’ federal tax receipts largely fund the government and are now being used to fund Trump’s cruel vindictive attacks on us, the American people. Democratic governors should be holding urgent discussions on withholding federal taxes and as a matter of urgency approving the withholding of federal taxes receipts from this criminal administration.
By starving this administration of the funds it needs to carry out its plan, the faster democracy can prevail.
I’m sure Trump if he’s still lucid is enjoying the irony of using our money against us!
If he can keep his eyes open long enough.
They are. Google "soft secession ".
Its a very complicated thing to do, but It’s not going fast enough, every month banks throughout the U.S. send hundreds of millions of dollars in federal taxes to the government from W2 withholdings, retiree pensions, quarterly business taxes etc. Trump has had access to those for 9 months and counting.
We can’t afford to wait until October 18th. We need to be out there on street corners with signs and putting signs in our front yards to let the uninformed public know what is happening. The fact that Congress has failed to rein him in need to be emphasized in all signage. Legacy media need to be called out forcefully and loudly as well as their sponsors, for enabling the lack of truth telling to the public.
Alene:
Can you give us some guidance here?
By what means should one "call out forcefully" the legacy media?
Can you supply names, addresses, and phone numbers?
\Vince S
This ramping up of overpowering force (supposedly for the purpose of immigration enforcement) is shocking beyond belief. Imagine your home being broken into in the middle of the night by masked, armed men. Our taxes are paying for this abomination. It is time for the Congressional Republicans to demonstrate that they actually believe in our Constitution which expressly forbids this kind of treatment to ANYONE. It is time to impeach Trump and his lawless cabinet.
And SCOTUS
I would like to see the legal credentials of several of them revoked for abuse of the shadow docket and for ethical violations.
Let us not forget the timing of all these whackamole items in relation to the potential release of ALL of the Epstein files, including videos. Also, Trump will have to pardon Giselle, unless she doesn't realize that she has "all the cards."
SPOT ON, C.King !
because ICE is masked, ANYONE who wants to make america white again can participate...
PLEASE be careful when you make a statement like this one: "On Saturday, an ICE agent shot and wounded a motorist." It is true, but it is incendiary and does not mention she and her companion both had guns. I do not excuse the Federal agents from shooting her, but the situation was more complex than your statement suggested. I am a regular peaceful protester in the Chicago area and on a rapid response team - we stress the PEACEFUL aspects of our work, the need to record what we see to provide documentation, and the importance of helping our community.
If this is what you are referring to, the charging document does not say she had a gun. I would not trust any statements coming from ICE or any federal mouthpieces.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/05/federal-agents-shoot-woman-in-brighton-park-causing-tense-scene-with-protesters/
I certainly agree that our protests must be peaceful, but reporting what we see must be a part of that. From all the reports that I have read, an ICE agent did shoot a motorist. I am not sure why you must be “careful” about making that statement. We cannot simply write things down and hope this goes away. Protesting peacefully does not mean holding your tongue. Shouting the truth is still peacefully protesting. Now if you were ramming an ice vehicle with your own, that is something altogether different. I certainly do not condone that even if the actions of ICE are cruel, unlawful, and despicable actions in a democratic country under siege by a government that has gone rogue.
Reporting- loudly - is part of our job as protesters and responders. My problem here is that there are questions about how the incident unfolded. Coming to a peaceful protest with a gun is a problem. I'm unclear from the report exactly how she was shot or why. Her companion who also had a gun (I believe they both have FOID cards, so not illegal) and he was arrested at the site. The woman apparently tried to drive herself to a hospital after being shot, but the reporting has been vague about how/there she was shot or why she was driving. Again - I absolutely condemn the ICE agent for shooting her.
I read repeated accounts saying the Chicago police reports they found the injured woman some distance from her car which remained where it was, and one video showing that the car was immobilized. The difference in accounts is piquant. For years all over the country I have read of situations where "Law enforcement" official reports contradict what is eventually determined in a court of law under rules of evidence. What I have read of official reports has included the allegation that the officers were "surrounded" by ten vehicles, that the woman rammed the officers' vehicle, and that the officers shot her because she had rammed their car and had a gun. And as I am an anti-gun activist, and agree from more than one perspective that NO ONE should bring a gun to a peaceful protest (the violent resistance is exactly what the regime wants)--another disregard of the Consititution here: now, you can be shot and presumably killed...for having a gun! Where are our Second Amendment folks now? (Some sarcasm here, sorry)