See, Trump listens to the critics of his administration to know where he has it wrong. That is why there is so much, very, very wrong. John Stewart was able to catch the “idiot phenomena” that pervades Trump’s day to day showmanship.
Thursday, March 26, 2026
We would like to laugh, but Trump is dangerous in a bad way.
Trump hasn’t a clue as to what he is doing. His inner circle doesn’t either. All they know is how to project Trump’s brand.
A neutral party needs to step in with Iran.
Oman comes to mind, but, it does not have normalized relations with Israel. That still does not disqualify Oman as a real candidate for negotiations.
Israel and the USA are not in line with any Zero Sum outcome. They are invested in what they want while they still have the upper hand militarily.
Add to that the huge mistake Trump and Hegseth made with Cuba in redirecting a Russian oil tanker and basically the USA is setting the world on fire. I would be very surprised if Putin continues to allow a blockade of Cuba when there are profound human rights occurring. By refusing to allow an unarmed Russian oil tanker to dock, it opened the door to Russian military assistance to allow the tanker to enter the port. Trump gave Putin a reason.
But, with Iran, there is no fairness. Israel and the USA cannot negotiate honestly. They believe they have the upper hand and do not see themselves clear to step back from what they have done and bring about a more conciliatory tone.
There is a lot of hate of Iran growing among the countries in the Middle East. That’s Trump and MBS. Trump is a champion fomenter of hate. The drum beat is growing and Don is in his element. The conflict with Iran probably serves to keep whatever is left of his political constituents agreeing with him. Netanyahu simply wants Iran destroyed. Neither Trump or Netanyahu have any idea what happens in Iran following the deaths of any and all leaders of the people, so it mostly disqualifies them as negotiators.
To be noted Trump has raised the recruitment age for the Army to 42 years old. Trump is having a difficult time recruiting soldiers because it is obvious to everyone in the USA that Hegseth has no clue how to lead the military while being the worst Secretary of Defense on record. It takes real talent to kill your own soldiers while destroying the country’s military infrastructure.
In New York City a wrinkle has developed with Maduro. He had no representation. Venezuela is more than willing to pay for lawyers but a rather impossible hurdle has manifested and the case may be dismissed because Due Process cannot go forward. Never in a million years have I witnessed such a global circus as that of Donald John Trump.
But, as to Iran? There needs to be a neutral third party. Preferably a country on good terms with Israel and Iran. I don’t see how it proceeds otherwise.
(click here)
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Trump is a bully.
Trump is Commander and Chief in name only. He stated himself that decisions are made from whatever his own brain settles on.
Let’s see what he settled on, anything? Not really. He nearly ran the USS Ford aground in the Caribbean Sea. Trump set up an oil embargo to steal Venezuelan ships laden with oil. Then after damaging two of Ford’s escort ships Trump decided to sent the battle group to the Middle East only to have three jets shot time with Kuwaiti friendly fire. Then crashed midair fueling jet in Iraq in a ball of flames that is still burning. I hope the jets expecting to fuel in midair didn’t run out of fuel.
Let’s not forget the extrajudicial killings, and illegal use of high intensity sound deployments to capture Maduro. That was a human rights violation. And if that wasn’t bad enough he assassinates a Shi’ite Supreme Leader taking out entire school of girls as well.
Then there is this huge vacillation with Putin. Trump places sanctions on Russia to bring it to the peace/ceasefire tables with Ukraine. Then when Trump realized he royally screwed up the oil supply out of the Persian Gulf he removes sanctions in hopes that Russia will wildly pump oil to aid Trump in handling USA inflation.
Are we impressed with what comes out of Trump’s mind yet? Because Russia isn’t about to increase production to assist Trump in his dilemma. Russia is bringing a tanker of oil to help the world understand how incompetent Trump’s administration actually is. What I am wondering is what is Putin bringing to near shore USA in Cuba other than just oil?
Donald Trump and Hegseth are actors on a stage that the Republicans are bewildered to end. Three crashed jets, a crashed fuel jet, dead soldiers, stranded Free World citizens and the USA majority Republicans look the other way? What do they need a seeing eye dog?
If Former Democratic Presidents were this blindly ambitious with the casualties that currently exist and the Middle East was on fire; the Republicans would not be saying, “Ya’all fight nice, now.”
Trump must be stopped from putting USA troops in harms’ way.
How many dead USA soldiers are the American people willing to accept? There will be plenty. Iran is not Iraq, the neighboring Shi’ites. Iran is absolutely not Afghanistan. Vietnam was 11 years and more than 50 thousand deaths with 19 year old drafted to serve only to come home in a pine coffin.
They will be slaughtered.
Iran is not Afghanistan. Afghanistan didn’t own one, not one missile. Afghanistan never knew what a drone was until the USA got there. Half those paratroopers won’t make it to the ground alive. I suppose those are acceptable losses? For what?
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
There was nothing to guess. Trump is a criminal. Not just once but 24 times in ONE investigation. The Mueller investigation was getting to close to Trump and Barr shut it down. Jack Smith was simply picking up where others left off.
by Ryan Teague Beckwith
Maria Butina (click here) at the NRA Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, April 2015.
Since his appointment in May of 2017, (click here) Special Counsel racked up a lengthy record of court wins, but none of them answered some of the central questions the public had about his investigation into potential collusion between President Donald Trump or his campaign and Russia.
Along with a team of experienced prosecutors and attorneys, the former FBI director has indicted, convicted or gotten guilty pleas from 34 people and three companies, including top advisers to President Trump, Russian spies and hackers with ties to the Kremlin. The charges, which Mueller referenced during his opening statement to the House Judiciary Committee on July 24, range from interfering with the 2016 election and hacking emails to lying to investigators and tampering with witnesses....
Did Russia seek to influence the election to benefit Trump?
You betcha it did. Ask the NRA.
Mueller made it too hot for Russia so Putin passed the baton to Orban.
Mueller was inside the GRE's online records. He had open access to the corruption being conducted and why. Mueller simply walked right into those records without being detected. He got the information directly from the horse's mouth.
The business interests of Trump were reviewed and realized by the Late Robert Mueller in his investigation to the relationship between Trump and Russia. Perhaps, Jack Smith realized what the Late Mueller knew. The charges dropped by Barr that Mueller had settled on was about the business interests of Trump. Reversing the legitimate charges brought by Mueller is purely corruption. These charges accumulated long before the classified documents were hauled to Florida. Trump was actively pursuing business interests while in the presidency.
March 19, 2020By Barbara McQuade
Another curious filing by the Department of Justice (click here) should not be lost amid news about COVID-19. In yet another reversal in a case initiated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, DOJ filed a motion this week to dismiss charges against two Russian businesses.
The Justice Department has already filed revised memoranda seeking more lenient sentences for associates of President Donald Trump. And now, it has filed a motion to dismiss the charges against Concord Management and Consulting LLC and Concord Catering, companies run by a man known as “Putin’s chef.”
In 2018, Mueller indicted the two businesses along with 13 Russian individuals and the Internet Research Agency, alleging conspiracy to defraud the United States by engaging in a disinformation campaign to interfere with the 2016 presidential election....
Fast forward to today:
...Some of the classified documents (click here) were also "so sensitive that only six people in the entire U.S. government had access to them," while one box of documents was scanned, stored on a Trump aide's laptop for nearly two years and uploaded to a cloud, raising further security concerns, Raskin added.
The newly released information also showed that Trump apparently took classified documents on board a June 2022 flight to his New Jersey golf club and showed a classified map to then top campaign official Susie Wiles and potentially others, according to his letter. Wiles now serves as White House chief of staff....
Donald Trump finds it very convenient to be president and having control to instill fear internationally and domestically. There is absolutely no reason to trust this administration by anyone. They are corrupt to the core and impossible to call honest negotiators in peace or ceasefire talks.
Trump doesn't care about international standards or laws, he wants what he wants in the way he wants it. He is always looking for leverage rather than common ground. He has to be stopped. He is turning the world into the hell he believes is essentially to his best outcome.
There is no looking the other way and waiting out his years left in office.
Jack Smith was too much a patriot for Trump do deal with at the level of corruption Trump enjoys. Jack Smith knew the truth and was putting the pieces of the puzzle together opened by the Late Robert S. Mueller.
Imagine loving nature so much there is joy in bird song.
The Boreal Forest (click here) is one of the last great intact forest systems on Earth and the heart of North America’s bird nursery. Spanning from Alaska to Newfoundland, it supports nearly half of the continent’s common bird species during nesting and migration.
Today, Indigenous governments and organizations are advancing visionary efforts to protect these lands and waters across Canada. Their leadership could conserve more than 100 million acres of Boreal habitat, ensuring this essential ecosystem continues to sustain birds for generations to come.
Visit www.sealriverwatershed.ca to learn how you can support the Seal River Watershed Alliance in their effort to conserve the watershed....
No one cared until they did.
By Annie Knox
...An updated lawsuit (click here) filed in November names House Speaker Mike Schultz as a defendant, along with more than a dozen other current and former state officials. The suit alleges Schultz worked with fellow state lawmakers and officials at SITLA and the Utah Department of Natural Resources to keep the land in state hands and to pass a new law “in retaliation” against the tribe.
The lawsuit contends Schultz, while House majority leader in 2019, threatened a trust lands employee, telling him, “sell it to the Tribe and see what happens to you.” That employee, Tim Donaldson, went on to become director of the Utah Land Trusts Protection and Advocacy Office.
In 2022, Donaldson filed a complaint alleging the sale process was rigged and was terminated from his job the following day, the lawsuit states.
The 2024 state law allows the Department of Natural Resources preferential treatment in the sale of other large blocks of school trust land topping more than 5,000 acres. Its sponsor, Rep. Casey Snider, R-Paradise, is also a defendant in the suit....
...An updated lawsuit (click here) filed in November names House Speaker Mike Schultz as a defendant, along with more than a dozen other current and former state officials. The suit alleges Schultz worked with fellow state lawmakers and officials at SITLA and the Utah Department of Natural Resources to keep the land in state hands and to pass a new law “in retaliation” against the tribe.
The lawsuit contends Schultz, while House majority leader in 2019, threatened a trust lands employee, telling him, “sell it to the Tribe and see what happens to you.” That employee, Tim Donaldson, went on to become director of the Utah Land Trusts Protection and Advocacy Office.
In 2022, Donaldson filed a complaint alleging the sale process was rigged and was terminated from his job the following day, the lawsuit states.
The 2024 state law allows the Department of Natural Resources preferential treatment in the sale of other large blocks of school trust land topping more than 5,000 acres. Its sponsor, Rep. Casey Snider, R-Paradise, is also a defendant in the suit....
By Jessica Kutz
Two years ago, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, a Catholic congregation, had approached the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, a part of the Ojibwe Nation, and the original caretakers of the land, with an unheard of proposition: Would they like a piece of their land back?
The question took the tribe by surprise, said Araia Breedlove, their public relations director. They had never had a private property owner offer up a piece of land, much less Catholic sisters. But after ironing out the details, the two parties were able to close the deal last Friday....
By Oliver Waite
...The first white people (click here) to encounter the Coeur d’Alene’s were French trappers and traders. It was one of these Frenchmen who found the tribe to be vastly experienced and skilled at trading, thus the name “Coeur d’Alene,”meaning “heart of the awl.”...
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – The Coeur d’Alene Tribe (click here) announced on Tuesday that 12,750 acres of land have been returned to Tribal ownership following their recent purchase from Stimson Lumber.
In the past two years, 42,000 acres of Tribal land have been re-acquired from Stimson Lumber....
In the past two years, 42,000 acres of Tribal land have been re-acquired from Stimson Lumber....
This is blatant racism.
We recognize Christopher Columbus as a wayfairing founder of the immigrant population of Americas. The first European to move beyond the square/flat earth theory.
We gave the guy a national holiday. The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
But, this statue is a political demand by the racists loyal to Trump. They are scared Native Americans actually can claim all the land for themselves and erase the USA from history. Such an act by any other people would be considered genocide. What a shame the modern world conquered Small Pox, huh?
The entire political movement Trump represents is full of hate of the other.
The move against the Kennedy Center for the Arts is about the same myopic political view. What President would not stand for racism and dared to move equality further? Yep. The late John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was assassinated in 1963. The Voting Rights Act passed into law under Johnson in 1964.
All of this mess by Trump is an attempt to erase history to Pre-Revolutionary War when a King ruled 13 colonies. That is what the statue is all about as well as the Kennedy Center. This mess was conceived by The Federalist Society. It is rather amazing to me to realize how often the conservative judges find solace in “The Federalist Papers (click
here). What are they afraid of?
The USA military is not a mercenary unit.
The USA military is a sophisticated and able defense force. It isn’t or ever intended for mercenary work. Trump is using the USA military to do favors for those as corrupt and cruel as he is.
Mercenary soldiers receive their pay directly. In the case of Trump he is showered with gifts, money , and corruption in exchange for American people’s defense force. It was very easy for Hegseth to become the Secretary of War. The work has already done for him.
The USA military is hijacked by a racketeer who would like everyone to believe his aggression is necessary for world peace.
Trump is do very wrong. What he is conducting is genocide and racism.
The USA, as many other nations, has a no assassinations policy. I don’t care the ignorant justification for any of Trump’s killings. Trump has used the USA military to assassinate Iranian leaders with bombs. That is murder.
The real insult to the American people is that Trump never paid taxes, but, yet he finds our military a convenient tool to his global racketeering.
Trump has no right to use our military for his private wars of vengeance.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Leave the Democrats alone
They are doing important but, unpopular with MAGA, work. The party members are under attack and the result is violence. Until the violence stops unnecessary criticism should be met with ethical balance. I am certain if Senate Minority Leader has peers that are unhappy; he most certainly knows about it. It isn’t necessary to inflame the situation further. If violence was not erupting in such deadly ways I could understand the public display of offenses, but, that is not the case.
Senators Schumer is a well seasoned leader and knows what he is doing. I am certain his office and staff in DC receive more than their ample share of email and otherwise. Perhaps Senator Schumer would consent to an interview about the work they are doing and their goals to protect human life. I am sure there is a lot he has to say about popular topics like the Trump tirade in the Middle East, the entanglement of MBS in the demands for the USA to escalate the conflict, the cost of living in the USA, housing and the failing job rate. Simply criticizing him without a chance for him to answer those criticisms only gives him the appearance of hiding something.
I ask media outlets to be cognizant of the dangers Democrats are facing everyday and measure the way that is approached without inhibiting free speech.
He is doing a great job.
Consider the source of the criticism. They are afraid of Senator Schumer. The man from New York.
Very wise decision.
It is time to pass sincere immigration reform including Dreamers. Human beings are not political fodder. Patriotic Americans using their First Amendment rights to enforce the U.S. Constitution are not targets.
The immigration reform act will be titled “The Renee Good and Alex Pretti Act.”
ICE detention centers will be shuttered and reassigned as welcome education and health centers where proper processing of asylum claims will occur with exclusive judicial courts on site.
(Click here)
Monday, March 23, 2026
Detention Centers are no place for parents.
There is no funding for these facilities. They should be shuttered. Legislation should be introduced to use county jails for immigration detainees. Basically, any immigration agent making an arrest of an illegal immigrant would be required to remand them to local authorities for due process proceedings. It would reduce the enormous budget currently enjoyed by ICE.
Sunday, March 22, 2026
It is called racketeering.
The California vote was overwhelming. The California process is so beautiful. It is truly the will of the people.
In Texas on the other hand the Republican majority was too scared to allow a vote of, by, and for the people (click here).
The Republicans absolutely hate the USA Constitution. It is so much work pushing back in any way possible. The Republicans want the Constitution and Americans out of the way to financially exploit the land.
(Click here)
TSA agents vs. ICE?
They handle people completely differently.
Their focus is not the same.
TSA have capacity to handle arrests, etc. on the rare occasion it is necessary, but, ICE are instigators of confrontation.
I would not be surprised if there will be demonstrations and whistles at airports, too.
Good luck with that.
This is what Republicans call genital mutilation.
If one is too ignorant and unsophisticated to know this man, then look it up.
I have no patience for this level of idiotic stupidity!
It is a lie. The Republicans are stating the one true reason for the oppression of The Voting Rights Act is the radical agenda of the Democrats, such as genital mutilation. The arguments Republicans are making is fear and ignorance based while attempting to fill the faithful full of fear.
The Republicans that tolerate the incredibly high incompetence of the Trump administration are using fear based propaganda with absolutely no basis of truth to rob Americans of their voting rights.
Sex Reassignment Surgery has been around since the 1920s. All of a sudden the sexual urges of Americans will be driven by those who want a different gender identity. The Republicans believe propaganda is so powerful it drives the tiny brains of the majority of Americans.
Therefore, American children will be prescribed a sexual identity to satisfy the sexual desires of the LGBTQ community ONLY. That is not only bizarre idiocy, it is an insult to every member of the LGBTQ community.
The Nazi Party of Germany became so controlling of “the message” it became truth to them and they removed Dr. Hirshfeld’s license to practice and shuttered his research.
There is a descriptor of genital mutilation that Republicans simply ignore.
…non-medical reasons…
Genital mutilation is a crime.
Sex reassignment ANYTHING is therapeutic.
I don’t know about anyone else but for all my life I have been who I am and NEVER CAUGHT THE GAY GENE. At least Republicans believe gender is based in genetics.
MAGA has been around since Reagan and they have always believed the wealth of a person proves the intelligence of a person. The Democrats as a political party have been around since before Reagan and have always believed every human being has the potential to aspire to the American Dream if they chose to achieve it.
One party is about control of personal wealth hidden in Biblical teachings (I do believe Jesus said, “Give to Caesar what is his.” Doesn’t sound like valuing of wealth to me.) and the other party is about the quality of life of the entire population of the USA and what is possible to achieve goals to that end.
The SAVE Act is unconstitutional, full of propaganda and lies to make it appear legitimate and should be shelved for the hideous attempt to throw the 2026 Midterm elections into so much chaos proper determination of elected representatives is impossible.
Republicans are so demented in their values they no longer believe in democracy or freedom. They believe in Donald Trump to carry out his racketeering and deliver the country into the possession of a hate filled king with a global military tirade stolen from American Taxpayers.
Republicans are amoral. Their only god and deserving citizens are money.
(Click here)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)