I am sure she shared his love of this country and understood the way he contributed to the legislature. It is absolutely wonderful she should be among his memories and staff during a difficult time. I congratulate her. Another lady in the Senate.
Monday, July 13, 2026
Domestically the people of the USA are seeing the same type of blind aggression.
(Click here)
Another death by Immigration, Custom, and Enforcement.
...The Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition (click here) identified the victim as a 26-year-old man from Colombia. Mufalo Chitam, the group’s executive director, told CNN that the man was on his way to work. The group said the man was authorized to work in the US and was issued a social security number....
This type of aggression has to be condemned at the highest levels of government. It is criminal. They literally murdered a man legally in the USA.
Trump has this idea that no matter who it is when it comes to being an immigrant there is no security. The immigration process has evolved over a century if not longer. It is clearly understood when a lawful person is given papers that legally allow them to stay in the USA and build a life, including work and a Social Security card, their future is secure.
This sham of a presidency is seeking to ignore USA policy and laws. Trump is completely lawless and passing along that mind set to the agencies he is supposed to maintain in a reasonable manner among the people of this country. He is negligent of ORDINARY CARE in administering the laws of the USA within it's own borders.
The ICE agents involved as well as their supervisors all the way to the president need to be charged with murder. The Maine Attorney General needs to begin an investigation and a jury to examine the facts.
NATO can breath a sigh of relief.
He needs to take his time in recovery from what is being described as a physically weak moment. He is needed to write and pass legislation that protects the alliance and funds it to the capacity where there is no doubt it is an effective member of our national security.
He looks good. That is not a misdirected smile by a confused man. Admittedly, Elaine Chao looks better than Mitch, but, that is something everyone has gotten used to over the years.
Peace and well being to both of them.
Which side is which?
The entire power playing in the Persian Gulf is out of hand.
Iran closed the strait within three weeks ago (click here) over violations of the ceasefire which was supposed to include Israel's end of violence in Lebanon.
To begin the Persian Gulf is not international waters. The USA has no particular right to even be in the Persian Gulf. Wall Street complaining is not a valid right of USA to act against another country. Profit and loss is a reality, engaging in war to put a thumb on the scale and it is called racketeering.
Iran is acting in it's own interest when closing it's sovereign waters to international traffic. It has a right to do that.
Trump is engaging in an illegal war against a sovereign authority in Iran as it is far beyond 90 days of war without the explicit act of Congress declaring war.
This mess reminds me of a tennis match. Which player has the control of the court and is up next to serve the ball.
There have been commercial ships fired on by the USA causing deaths of the people on board. There have been persons on commercial ships caught in the middle that have died. All these ships are not necessarily informed as to the tensions in the Persian Gulf and who is controlling the waters. These are innocent parties caught in a dynamic that continues to wax and wane. That is not a war. Those are temper tantrums. Trump does not have permission either by the country, the Congress, or the United Nations Security Council.
The USA cannot disrupt shipping lanes and cause violations in maritime and humanitarian laws as well as the international law of sovereign waters. This is not the place for the USA military. The region needs to solve it's own problems and find peace and cooperation, that can't be done so long as Trump is having temper tantrums over Iran's actions within it's own sovereign authority. The laws of blockade belong to Iran as well as any other authority.
How is any kind of peace to begin to form if the USA continually throws it's weight around?
Sunday, July 12, 2026
Aortic dissection
It is a devastating and painful way to die. He was carrying too much stress. The legislature has to be careful about their health and maintain a good relationship with their personal doctors. It is a highly charged and stressful time in this country. I am so sorry to hear about this abrupt passing of Senator Graham. My deepest sympathies to his family and friends. This sudden loss is very difficult to deal with.
Stress is something that is real and at one time was on the minds of Americans. Now. With the angry and dangerous political environment in the USA a complaint about stress is viewed as a weakness rather than a necessary precaution.
He was too young to die.
Saturday, July 11, 2026
No one gets a free ride.
Trump's foreign policies will never work except when it comes to Trump's bank account. Trump's racketeering habits backed up by Hegseth's priorities in USING AND ABUSING the USA military is over.
Trump's administration is demanding all sorts of ideological outcomes without facing the reality that the world recognizes the racketeering Trumps are personally profiting from. They get the money and they keep the money as if they honestly deserve it. The fact is the Trumps have hijacked the USA government and military for their own wealth through the favors they allow and capitalistic plans they have in building resorts that fall flat on their face every damn time.
Maralogo was falling apart when Trump took office. I am not certain where the money came from, but, my guess is the Chinese in anticipation of becoming wealthy themselves while compromising every classified document in the possession of national security. And the Republicans allow it to continue regardless of the facts before them.
Iran has the right of law to protect it's sovereign borders regardless of it's priorities. If Iran is invading others sovereignty the countries involved may have a grievance which they can settle as they please, but, there is no automatic trigger that puts the USA military in the line of fire or as a defense force. Besides, Hegseth has already violated maritime law that INSISTS human life on the seas comes first no matter the issue. He killed civilians on commercial ships because of his inflexible barricade of the ports along the Persian Gulf even if it was Iranian ports. Hegseth set down NO RULES for the blockade. There was and is no respect for human life aboard those ships and that is perfectly fine with him. He and Trump have an unspoken rule, the more dead the better.
You know what really pisses me off, Phil? Decades and decades of Republican majorities in the Legislature DEGRADING every regulation that protects human life and health in the USA. That really pisses me off.
Wars. Illegal wars. Wars that cause the death, not of success by the opposition, but, by homeland neglect of PTSD. PTSD, Phil. Dr. Phil should know something about that. Our soldiers no longer were coming home intact, but, psychologically assaulted by road side bombs and terrorist attacks, death squads and corruption within the countries promised to be improved by nation building. That really pisses me off. Nation building is a lie, ask the Taliban.
So, while Trump and Dr. Phil are tapping into the anger of Americans in hopes Trump is able to come out of his closet and kill as many Americans as possible in his second term, Iran has every right to refuse any and all ships in it's sovereign waters. Considering the assault by Hegseth and the civilian deaths abroad commercial vessels I am certain Iran has no problem in attempting to control and patrol all the waters of the Persian Gulf.
Is there some kind of United Nation Resolution about this mess? Wait. The USA would veto anything anyway. So much for a peace process.
Friday, July 10, 2026
Trump is in sovereign waters illegally in the Persian Gulf.
There is a report on CNN there exists picture evidence Iran is attempting to rebuild their nuclear facilities.
1. It is ONLY picture evidence.
2. Iran has agreed to verification of their facilities as part of the peace initiative. The IAEA should begin their inspections after things have settled following the interments of the Iranian leadership.
3. Iran has every right to protect itself from a USA president that stated he does not see an end to the hostilities and cancelled any form of ceasefire.
4. Trump was supposed to have Israel end hostilities in Lebanon.
5. Iran is a sovereign country and while the world likes to travel the Persian Gulf for commercial expediency, there are problems. They are not minor problems.
6. Iran did not ask for the pain and hardship it is facing. Trump and Hegseth set their sites on Iranian leadership and a school full of girls. It was calculated and deliberate. By every measure between Trump’s first term and this one, there are at least three illegal assassinations of Iranian leadership so far.
7. While Iran was able to develop centrifuges, the country never had a viable nuclear weapon program.
8. Hegseth has violated maritime law in allowing the deaths of personnel of the commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf while hijacked in a blockade.
The USA in its illegal war with Iran has resulted in enormous use of weapons intended for the defense of the USA. Israel has been protected by USA interceptor missiles making Israel’s continuing aggression in the Middle East possible. USA Middle East allies have suffered attacks of USA facilities. The losses of USA military personnel was due to continuous stress of a supposed emergency declaration. The USA soldiers are fatigued and making mistakes resulting in their deaths, loss of assets, and loss of assets in Iranian territory providing state of the art technology to Iran.
IT IS CALLED INCOMPETENCE.
The amount of damage, both physical and in international relationships and reputation, done to the USA by the Trump administration is incalculable.
Nicole Wallace
(Click here)
I was sitting with my son, a forty something dyed in the wool MAGA identifying voter. (I will get into that later because the reasons will astound any rational reader.)
After hearing what Nicole stated about Trump at NATO, my son said, “This is why an
80 year old man should not be president of this country.”
Please pay attention to the statement Trump made about his popularity. “I am number one on TikTok.” He considers his popularity a good thing, not a laughable thing.
This is the insane, indulged, protected, and corrupt man the Republican majority worships as president. The ONLY question that can be legitimately asked is, why?
The 25th Amendment should be invoked as soon as possible. Trump was at a NATO Summit with our friends. It is only reasonable Trump conduct himself correctly or be removed from office. Trump has a very bizarre method of attempting to destabilize world power because he wants to. His demeanor is so far out on the edge he is not reachable by the other sane leaders at the conference.
Trump is an unhinged racist ranting about our allies as if they were bizarre and not him. He hates Spain because of the language they speak and Japan because they have squinty eyes. He is a racist through and through.
Trump believes he is entitled to his idiocy on the world stage where the USA national security is paramount for the reason NATO exists.
Senator McConnell is recovering from an apparent heartache and is an aged adult. What was his priority to Senate Leader Thune? National Security and the military. An aged man recovering from a heartache in a hospital bed is more sane than the idiot in the White House.
McConnell appreciates NATO steadfastness and would never dream of abandoning NATO or insult its leaders. Never. I don’t like Mitch. But, when it comes to national security and NATO he is my best friend. Why? Because we are both Americans that love this country. That’s why.
Many people voted for Trump because they expected a leader of change. My son, along with his friends and his father, a millionaire logistics entrepreneur. He focused on DEI. My son is not a racist and has good friends of every skin color under the sun. When I asked him what the problem of DEI was all about, expecting it to be a denied opportunity of some kind because he is a white guy. Caucasian. That wasn’t it.
Take a seat for this one.
He pointed to the entertainment industry and in particular Harry Potter. My son is a high school graduate, works for a living in physical labor, occasionally has problems in life because of congenital issues that plague him as an adult. He and I are best friends as well as son and mother. He is welcome in my life anytime. He is a kind and gentle man.
As to DEI. Harry Potter. J.K. Rawlings is starting up a new movie from what I understand. The Potions Master Severus Snape is not dead. Alan Rickman had passed away. He was the actor who played Severus in the past movies. My understanding is that the new Severus Snape is a black man. Hence, DEI. According to the crowd in criticism of that decision, “Why didn’t Rowlings just let Snape die?”
That is not the best part of the anger.
Ready?
“Chadwick Boseman died. I hated that he died. But, THEY (the inconsistent media industry, evidently) never replaced the Black Panther with a white guy.”
Now, you can say what you want, but, Americans live media. It is why Trump is successful. Tabloid media. They are attached to a Trump because he plays into their ideology no matter what that ideology is or how it occurs. WWF and alien encounters are all part the Trump’s bullshit and the reasons are not rational, they are bizarrely political and now President Zelenskyy is called Putin while Trump points a finger at him.
GET THE SON OF A BITCH OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!
The dignity of the USA is being bartered away for racketeering.
Enough!
Thursday, July 09, 2026
Mexico is trying to protect the rest of their immigrated citizens in the USA.
Wrongful death? The trend in the USA courts is to uphold the presence of immigrants (legal or illegal) and allow for Due Process. The death of a human being within the sovereign borders of the USA is depriving that person Due Process.
The Fifth Amendment states:
Due Process Clause: Mandates that the federal government cannot deprive any person of "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law". This ensures that legal proceedings must be fair and follow established rules.
By Chantelle Lee
...According to Salgado, (click here) it seemed as though three other people were detained by federal officers after the shooting. Salgado said that one of those men was his uncle.
Araujo had been living in the U.S. for about 35 years and had been working to try to obtain legal status in the country, Salgado said.
“He did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of Mexican man shot and killed by ICE,” Salgado said. “He deserved to live a quiet life as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a husband, a father, and a job creator for dozens of men who also wanted the American dream.”
Democratic Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Texas, who joined Araujo’s family at the press conference on Wednesday, said that Araujo had no criminal record. She demanded a “full,” “transparent,” and “independent” investigation into the incident....
...According to Salgado, (click here) it seemed as though three other people were detained by federal officers after the shooting. Salgado said that one of those men was his uncle.
Araujo had been living in the U.S. for about 35 years and had been working to try to obtain legal status in the country, Salgado said.
“He did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of Mexican man shot and killed by ICE,” Salgado said. “He deserved to live a quiet life as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a husband, a father, and a job creator for dozens of men who also wanted the American dream.”
Democratic Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Texas, who joined Araujo’s family at the press conference on Wednesday, said that Araujo had no criminal record. She demanded a “full,” “transparent,” and “independent” investigation into the incident....
Below is Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's son. The loss is profound and the pain in real. The entire paradigm of authority under Trump was illegal. He assassinated two legally protesting Americans and terrorized communities of the undocumented. The USA Constitution protects their lives in the guarantee of Due Process regardless of their legal status.
Mexico plans to file criminal complaints in U.S. courts (click here) over deaths of Mexican nationals in ICE custody and during anti-immigration operations, signaling a shift from diplomatic protest to direct legal action. The move follows the shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national living in the U.S. illegally for decades, which spurred protests and added to rising fatalities in immigration enforcement. The government frames the effort as seeking criminal investigations rather than formal diplomacy. The timing comes amid a broader crackdown and increasing confrontations over U.S. immigration policy under the current administration. Movements like this could set a precedent for state-to-state legal actions tied to enforcement-related deaths, with the next steps hinging on U.S. prosecutors' responses....
July 8, 2026
Freedom fuel?
Since when is $3.47 for a gallon of gasoline freedom?
I always thought crossing the Delaware was freedom.
The White House announced the first "Freedom Fuel" gas station, which it says is selling gasoline at a below-market rate of $3.47 a gallon....
When Trump took office in January 2025 was $2.958. That price had held since January 2024. Petroleum products are a hardship fuel standard. The USA should have moved on decades ago.
Wednesday, July 08, 2026
Anyone who states…
…a ceasefire and peace treaty are not possible is only interested in genocide.
It almost occurred in the USA with Native American Tribes. The political will is there for all the immoral reasons.
Fear of the other is propaganda.
The fight for land and/or resources is not answered by war, but, by peace and prosperity.
Afghanistan, the generational war and nation building, is proof war only begets resistance and not civilization.
If any country is capable of bringing about a strong and civil policy for the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz it is Oman (click here).
Oman had proven in the past it is capable of governance, finding peace, and enacting agreements of peace. The USA has no right to be involved in sovereign waters of other countries unless invited. There are no international waters in the Persian Gulf. The governance law of the Persian Gulf is administered by local governments and authorities. That is clearly understood as international law.
The strait of Hormuz is only 12 nautical miles.
Trump is trespassing. He is pounding his chest and flexing military muscle out of religious bigotry and self-righteousness.
Or.
Maybe it is time to buy and sell petroleum stocks for his portfolio.
Tuesday, July 07, 2026
Senator Mc Connell needs to bring impeachment forward.
NATO is vital to the national security of the USA and Trump is endangering the alliance and our homeland. Focusing on Greenland as if a new possession is treasonous for pitting one member country against another. It will be an unhappy day when the Ukraine drones visit the White House.
NATO needs to continue to build strength. It won’t be long before a real president will once again live in the White House.
Trump is not trustworthy. He is extremely manipulative and the alliances need to realize he is an enemy to them and democracy. As he loses grip in power and the USA Senate doesn’t act Trump will feel more threatened and be more dangerous.
Trump and Putin are looking to defeat NATO. I think that is important to focus on. NATO and its USA component need to make clear to Congress the problems with their lax attention to details of national security. Soldiers are citizens too. The Republicans are hoping the courts will handle Trump. He is lawless. The USA Legislature needs to live in the real world, not their ideological ones.
Monday, July 06, 2026
Graham Platner is Donald Trump 2.0
(Click here)
The Democrats always freak out at sexual issues. I am not saying it is wrong, but, how much does it really matter in politics? Platner is a criminal but got away with it. There is a person in the Oval Office setting a standard for angry white men. What is do different with Platner?
Spoil - to damage seriously
- to impair the quality or effect
Spoiler - one that spoils
- one (such as a political candidate)
that has little or no chance of
winning but capable of depriving
a rival of success
That is Trump. He is a spoiler. He opens his mouth for control. Or what he thinks is control. He likes to spoil nearly everything he comes in contact with. If he is not spoiling everything he is not in control. There are a lot of American White men like that. Primarily the disenfranchised and impoverished. If life treats them poorly than everyone else must suffer.
I haven’t nor do I care to examine Graham Platner, but. Bill Clinton is worried enough to make a speech that was basically a rebuttal of Trump’s deranged speech at the mountain in Black Hills of South Dakota.
Clinton worries about the rise of the terminology of Democratic Socialist. Trump is continuing his rant in attempts to instill fear of political opponents and characterizes them as communists. As if he himself is afraid of communists while cozying up to Putin.
Clinton believes Trump’s assault on the USA Constitution is proceeding in a way to create enough propaganda to be believable. Clinton has witnessed the power of political hate in the assassinations and assaults on Democrats by angry White Men. He believes there is a small but persistent platform for Trump’s particular type of mess. There isn’t anything else it can be called. Even tabloids and the WWF have more dignity than Trump. A lie is an instrument for Trump, not really a falsehood. That instrument is recognizable and some find his platform of lies helpful.
Quite frankly, the death spiral the economy is experiencing will cause enough gravity for most if not all Americans to find Trump’s criminality appalling in the face of sincere hardship. It is not fun to continually pull one’s self up by the bootstraps over and over while watching abuse of our military and national defense. The suffering is distracting but another war with the majority Republican Congress continuing to throw money at Trump’s plans hoping it will send a message that corruption is cool so grab for the brass ring.
The national debt is mute for Americans looking for an income.
continued…
Saturday, July 04, 2026
July 4, 2026
Born in 1776 with freedom in their hearts. The Revolutionary War was fought with muskets. It would take 85 years before a war would be fought again. It was the Civil War of 1861 which was for a continued expansion of freedom to include all human beings of every race in the country. Slavery was not freedom. It would last for four years causing the deaths of brother against brother. Freedom won and slavery was declared ended in the country.
It would be 122 years before the USA entered a foreign war in the Spanish-American war which lasted eight months. The technology was very different by then with sinking of the USS Maine by a Spanish dynasty diminishing in power. The guns were long guns of several variety. The Maine was in Havana Harbor at the time. Cuba was fighting for it's independence from Spain as did the Philippines at the same time. The Philippine-American War occurred in 1899. The three wars were an expulsion of the Spanish Empire from North America and the Pacific. The controversy was the wisdom of expansionism by a rising power, the USA. The country acquired several island nations including Puerto Rico and Guam. The Spanish-American War lasted eight months and the Philippine-American War took longer 3 years and 1 month.
The first major World War began in 1917, one hundred and forty-one years after the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia. World War I lasted a year and one month. The war technology included tanks, aircraft, artillery, machine guns, and chemical weapons. It was a shift in power primarily in Europe and the USA and Russia fought together for the first time. The Russian Revolution would be occurring at the same time. It was during this time the Balkans would be reaching a boiling point. Basically, the empires fell as a result of WWI. The Russian Empire, German, Austro-Hungary and Ottoman existed no more and replaced with a self-governing ideology by Lenin and the independent states of Poland, Finland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
Kingdom and Empires were replaced by the ambition of a self-governing body called the League of Nations. Woodrow Wilson was president of the USA. The ideology then was to end such massive wars, which also included areas of Asia and Africa. The Treaty of Versailles would document the understandings of the peace to follow.
China was still isolated into it's own wars and is a completely different dynamic resulting in changes in the people that would be victors there resulting in Taiwan and Japan. There are so many arguments still today as to where boundary lines should be drawn. The Chinese Empire lasted far longer than any other form of governance. It would last longer than Rome or Greece. The Chinese Empire is believed to have lasted from 221 BCE to 1912 AD.
The League of Nations would do it's best to herd cats, but, it was ineffective and was dissolved when WWII broke out in 1939, one hundred and sixty-three years after the Declaration of Independence. I think most Americans are aware of the weaponry of WWII and Franklin D. Roosevelt as president of this country. The war would end with Russia in alliance with allies. Russia was also instrumental in the defeat of the Japanese Empire. It fought a two front war. The Yalta Conference of 1945 documented the way forward in dividing Germany and bringing about a stable region. It would be about the same time China now was a republic with a president named Chiang Kai-shek.
WWII marked the first time in human history when a weapon was capable of wiping out the human race. The ideology of nuclear power woke the world to a new struggle for power. Splitting the atom would prove to turn peace into deterrence to war. There were plenty of administrative reconciliations in the Nuremberg Trials and the formation of the United Nations, but, over hanging all that was the nuclear weapons. There had to now be a meeting of global powers to control the outcomes of conflict and find resolutions to prevent the self-annihilation of the human beings.
World War II would lead to the Korean War, 194 years after the Declaration of Independence. The peninsula was divided in half at the end of WWII. Now, for the first time Russia would no longer view the USA as an ally, but, instead would find identity with common interest in communism and the ally of China. North Korea would be allied to Russia and China and South Korea was allied with many countries through the UN but lead by the USA. The final result was a continued divided peninsula with highly diverse forms of ideology and government. That division has lasted through to this day. The difference between communism and democracy has never been more evident as the people of the USA face the betrayal of billionaires.
After WWII the USA entered into the era of illegal wars. Arguably it could be stated the war in Vietnam could be somewhat viewed as a left over form WWII. Southeast Asia was divided into four countries and Vietnam was also North and South. That is a totally separate discussion. In time however, President Kennedy was see the reason for occupation of Vietnam as a mistake and saw no reason to escalate it beyond sending advisors to assist in the settlement of Western ideology. Supposedly it was the new hope for the people, but, the cultures were so different and China viewing the presence of that culture as a threat there was no real settling it. It wasn't until the Gulf of Tokin incident that the USA would find a reason to enter into a war for control. 50 thousand USA troops dead finally ended the occupation of Vietnam.
The Vietnam would last for 10 years and 2 months beginning in 1965, one hundred and eighty-nine years after the Declaration of Independence. The weaponry was sophisticated and the damage and deaths escalated.
The next war was after the attacks of September 11, 2001. It was the Afghanistan War. It was 225 years after the Declaration of Independence. It lasted an entire generation with attempts at nation building. It finally ended abruptly in a similar manner of the exit from Vietnam. Soldiers were lost in the final acts of the USA military.
Shortly after the Afghanistan War an illegal war in Iraq began in March of 2023. Two hundred and twenty-seven years after the Declaration of Independence. It would last 8 years and 9 months. The reasons for the War in Iraq was based in lies. It was said Saddam Hussein was involved in the attacks of September 11, 2001, but, there are no facts leading to that conclusion. It was a war of choice. The lie was a political convenience backed by fear begun by Osama bin Laden. After the deaths of 4,418 American soldiers the plague beset the USA manifested in deaths in the homeland by an invisible killer called PTSD.
The Declaration of Independence was an act of bravery to separate from the imposition of kings and queens. It was the act of bravery that ensconced the idea of freedom. Freedom. The Revolutionary War was fought for the reason of freedom and happiness. It would begin the belief that people could govern themselves far better than any king or emperor. Freedom built the greatest nation of people based in diversity, hope, equality, and opportunity. Freedom grew a country full of people that basically care about each other. Freedom built more than a boundary to a country, it grew a country devoted to the hope that enshrined peace as a goal.
Today, this country is rattled by the power of money. Money. Billionaires willing to dismantle a country that has brought power to the world in a form that shared prosperity and technology that has taken human beings to the moon with aspirations of more. Greed has rattled the foundation of our country on this 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Greed.
Money.
Billionaires.
None will succeed in ending the dreams that started 250 years ago and protected by the spilling of the blood of so many Americans over two and a half centuries. The people of the United States of America are strong and resolute and will continue to protect the dream handed to them so long ago.
Enjoy the celebration of July 4th, but, the challenges are more evident today than ever before, there is also the challenge of protecting not only our freedom and country, but, Earth as well.
Peace.
Friday, July 03, 2026
PJM can’t cut it.
(Click here)
The wind turbines and solar arrays are vital to the energy grid. PJM serves some of the highest energy demands in the country. That really isn’t as much the problem except when that grid is facing the highest heating temperatures in the country. Combine the two and people need to move to cooling centers as a real answer to a deadly heat bubble.
Thursday, July 02, 2026
Trump frames moves as partisan targeting ahead of elections.
There is a lot going on with Trump's efforts to derail the 2026 Midterms. A lot. This is just one aspect of it all.
When an agency director sends out blanket letters to state Attorney Generals it is because they don't know what they are talking about and they are trying a scare tactic to lead to real hardship for voters before the elections. This attack on New York State is simply the beginning. Voters need to remember Ms. James has been assaulted over and over by illegal tactics by Trump and his is just another attempt. She is a first rate Attorney General and she will come out on top with Trump paying not only for Medicaid, but, the interest payments on the money New York State will borrow to fill in the gap.
May 23, 2026
By Bill Hammond...As a two-term incumbent Democrat (click here) in a thoroughly blue state, James might get away with ducking her political opponent’s questions.
But she can’t evade the review recently ordered by the inspector general of the US Department of Health and Human Services, T. March Bell — not, at least, without putting federal aid in jeopardy.
“Noncompliance with your MFCU obligations can take your State’s entire Medicaid program out of compliance,” Bell warned in a May 13 letter to attorneys general nationwide.
“This means your failure to do your job as head of the MFCU has put all of your State’s Medicaid funds in jeopardy.”
One way or another, James will have to defend — or at least explain — the underwhelming performance of her anti-fraud unit, and that should be interesting to watch.
Federal statistics over the past five years show that New York’s MFCU logged almost 3,000 investigations for fraud, abuse and neglect, which was the sixth-highest number in the country....
This isn't his only attempt to derail the vote in 2026. We all know about the fact mail in ballots are now protected by law. What that means to the lawless is anyone's guess.
Recognize this one? The words are in English as is the entire of the USA Constitution and the words in this paragraph are very, very clear. It doesn't matter how clear the words are the Republicans like to twist words into new meanings. It is just that there aren't that many technical words in this paragraph to twist. It is different than the measure of replacing the leadership of independent agencies.
Let me ask this? Why bother having independent agencies if they aren't completely independent, but, instead lead by political appointees. That is what will happen here. The leadership of independent agencies will be replaced depending on the party in the White House. The question is will the appointees have to pass through Congress as any other Secretary of the Cabinet does?
Answer?
No. It is a matter of firing the individual and hiring a crony. Once the person is fired I suppose they can sue to show good cause, but, until that works through the court the merry-go-round of a Banana Republican will occur. Even then it becomes a matter of financial consideration unless the plaintiff demands to be put back on the job and the judge does so.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Then there is this mess about National Security declassification of everything. Remember now, this is the Republican playbook. They put a bozo in charge of National Security for this very reason. Bill Pulte doesn't know the first thing about declassification so he will look for items that may be politically juicy. See, the MAGA crowd are like Pavlov's dogs, they salivate at the opportunity to twist words and lie about everything to create a story. You know. The story then grows into an independent agency controlled by Trump like the Unidentified Flying Object Commission.
I cannot believe we are spending money on UFOs. Did you see the interview the New York Times did with Steven Spielberg about his latest movie about aliens. I loved that interview. One of the questions posed to Spielberg was whether he actually had information about aliens so that he cast them as they are, the bubble heads with big eyes (my description not in the interview). The point being that every movie made about aliens seem to have them all looking like Spielberg's creation.
The great Steven Spielberg said he reads everything he can get his hands on when putting a movie together for the sake of authenticity, but, there was no classified documents that dictated the look of his alien creatures.
They haven't found the remains of Jesus either, but, that is because of his risen status at Easter. Questionably they found Noah's Arch. Not the one that is manmade in Tennessee. It's Tennessee, right? Supposedly there is one on top of a remote mountain somewhere. I am not really into that mess. I figure if God wanted me to know more about his creation he'd make it plan and not keep up guessing about the facts in the Bible.
They didn't put all the books in the Bible either. They left a lot out. It makes ya wonder, ya know?
But, the purpose here is that all the bizarre power plays that can occur will occur with Trump in the White House. He has it timed pretty good. This is July and the elections are three months away, just about the time it takes for things to make their way through the courts before it makes headlines in the media.
Question: Does anyone know if Truth Social actually has the truth about the citizenship issue?
The citizenship issue is almost as though Trump is trying to somehow cleanse his soul of wrong doing. He profited immensely by allowing Putin to send Russian women to his hotels for BIRTH TOURISM. I can't help but wonder if there isn't some kind of weird thing going on with all this grandstanding and political hacking of the Supreme Court. A uniquely Trump spiritual cleansing or something.
But, what about that $2 billion US in profits, huh? I suppose he is giving it all to charity, right? You know, Trump and Melania have their own cryptocurrency. Is it just a fundraiser to replace Medicaid?
Who can blame him about his enormous gift from some emir? The current jet that the USA proudly sends their presidents in is 30 years old. I suppose even with it's immaculate care there is some degree of style and wonder when entertaining in midair. I mean it may not have a state of the art beverage refrigerator. The standard these days is at least 68 can occupancy.
But, all this legal bullshit is just a spillover from Texas trial of demonstrators as terrorists. I mean the gun discharge is way over the top, but, it is Texas. Some of that flash-bang is expected at a Texas demonstration against inhuman treatment of human beings. I fully expect all the cases to be appealed so a reasonable course of action can be found.
I would treat all Trump's mess as political fodder unless otherwise noted.
Don't worry. Be happy. The winds of change are on their way.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
What is it costing?
We Pay these people. Trump, nine justices, the lawyers, the building, etc. What is it costing for Trump to assail the USA Constitution?
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