Lee is venal but I hadn't thought stupid: why would lawful immigrants fear ICE? Mike, why don't you ask Renee Good and Alex Pretti?
Oh.
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Lee is venal but I hadn't thought stupid: why would lawful immigrants fear ICE? Mike, why don't you ask Renee Good and Alex Pretti?
Oh.
In future generations, perhaps the biggest con in the cartoon #47 regime will be their analysis that word "Regulation" = Bad & word "Deregulation" = Good.
The evidence? They said so.
FYI, deaths per mile driven fell by 75% over 50 years due to federal auto safety & local highway rules.
bit.ly/3OcXyIh
Launching new substack. Get ready to cross over into...
open.substack.com/pub/wrecking...
Here is today's new Substack: CAN DEMS GO BIG OR GO HOME TO DEFEAT THE NEW-AXIS-OF-EVIL?
Their favorite M.O. is hiding failure w/Scandal Fatigue:
TeamTrump a) raids election ofdfice after going 0-for-60 in claims of 2020 fraud & POTUS sends the fleet toward Iran to back up threats of war.
Nice. Except religious mullahs don't blink much.
2/ Earlier tragedies have launched mass movements - like Bloody Sunday & John Lewis at Selma...also big was Kent State & George Floyd.
The level of response to this state-sanctioned violence will depend on Trump's Houdini skills, MSM saying "Enough!", whether Indivisible/et al can seize the day.
1/ From destruction of East Wing to Trumping Kennedy Center to shootings of Good/Pretti to snatching of Maduro to flooding MN w/3000 ICE officers, Trump M.O. is fait accompli -- Fire, Ready, Aim.
Then when reality bites, backtrack and declare victory.
Will this time be different?
H. L. Mencken, 1920: "The President represents the inner soul of the people. Some day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron."
25.01.2026 19:24 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Trump-Smith and Jordan-Raskin area distillation of the contrasts in Brexit & 2024 election -- reason/hysteria, facts/innuendos.
Per my book about the last election & Nicolle Wallace's opening yesterday, America is at an "Inflection Point."
Is there a majority for Piracy or Democracy? UP to US.
Talk about a performative presidency!
The Supreme Court is about to conclude that Trump's tariffs are unconstitutional since only the House under Article 1 can initiate tax schemes.
This will deprive him of a key lever allowing him to try to be the boss of the world.
Just before Renee Good's murder, her spouse observed that "we have whistles, they have guns."
So Minn.-St. Paul have 1200 police officers for everything yet ICE already has 2000 there and intend to send more.
Overkill much?
As ICE popularity plunges after MN shooting & videos of Latinos being brutalized, Trump has a choice.
Either he reigns in the Miller, Noem gangster language /policies about ICE...or he keeps egging them on so GOP loses next two elections.
What will Mr. Double-Down-Don do?
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12.01.2026 19:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 02/ Thank you John Roberts, Mitch McConnell, James Comey, Judge Cannon, Thune & Johnson for putting 250 years as a Constitutional Republic in extreme danger.
It's now up to millions of progressive patriots voting, marching + a no-apologies #48th POTUS reversing and extirpating Trumpism.
1/ A Gangster Police State
#47 defends ICE murder..threatens to attack Mexico/ Greenland/Colombia..has bombed eight countries..itching to get into Iranian action..steals VZ oil..seeks to destroy Cuba's economy..Fox Host tries to cashier Mark Kelly..DOJ probes FED Powell.
Only 3 years to go.
...and Hegseth is seeking to demote Senator Mark Kelly + the GOP/States' Rights party is federalizing the MN probe of ICE shooting.
09.01.2026 17:56 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0POLICE STATE:
Trump defends murdering woman..has tripled ICE budget..suggests increasing DOD by 50%..hints at invoking Insurrection Act..says only his "morality" not law will hold him accountable.
How willS SCOTUS, Congress, Media respond to his open Caesarism until Fall elections?
The First Rule of "Fascist Club" is, "The first lie wins."
TeamTrump's immediate coordinated lie that the woman driving away was the villain and the shooter the victim is so obviously grotesque that it might virally trigger GeorgeFloyd-like protests
(which killing happened to occur a mile away).
Trump can destablize Venezuela. So let's destablize Trumpism before it takes root. Here's how Dems can start the extirpation:
bit.ly/4qBCGs6
History is not a law but a guide.
Given how Chamberlin's and LBJ's and W43's earliest reveals were CYA BS -- and that Trump actually lies about the weather -- the chance that TeamTrump is snookering us about Venezuela could be approaching 100%...or, as Donald would estimate, 400%!
Great job @washingtonpost supporting Trump's war-mongering/saber-rattling, informing oil firms beforehand but not Congress.
@RalphNader today quotes 1900 Dem platform " on US-Phillipines: βNo nation can long endure half republic & half empire. Imperialism abroad will lead...to despotism at home."
For only one example of how Dems need to be as polemically blunt as our Pirate President and Marco Goebbels...call them"warmongers" because, though trite, it's true and a word Americans understand.
04.01.2026 21:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's unclear if a draft-dodger who said that womanizing & STD were his "personal Vietnam" in the 1980s fully grasps the metaphor of "quicksand" when it comes to colonial wars.
03.01.2026 19:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0imagine that you're Zelensky - very smart, trying to save your country from being devoured by a Russian megalamaniac - having to cater to an American megalamaniac who only cares about getting credit for stopping the war whatever the terms.
Noble vs. Nobel.
Lee Atwater said in '68 you couldn't say "N". word - so GOP looked for sly euphemisms to signal racists.
Vance is winning Coded Racist award: "whites" needn't "apologize"...ok to resent non-English speaking neighbors ...young GOP Hitler apologists juz goofing around.
Still the Hillbilly.
NEWS: In 4 four days, NYC will be governed by fousmart liberals -- none being a corrupt bully. Progress!
Watch little-known @JulieMenin as Speaker. She is very savvy, experienced, personable & productive.
Crystal Ball: mayoral material post-Mamdani.
Today is apparently TRANSPARENCY DAY
1. Trump refuses to take any Qs on day Epstein Files supposed
to be released & after stapled name on Kennedy Center.
2. DoJ violates law Trump signed to release all files.
3. Partial files do NOT include Trump name after Bondi
/Wiles confirmed Trump in them.
If today's GOP won't stop Trump's speed-grifting (in his remaining 3 years as POTUS, here's the alternative:
^when Dems back in majority, DoJ indicts him for unprosecuted crimes pre-Term II. See Jack Smith.
^Next President creates an Accountability Commission
to document #47 corruption/crimes.