Republicans only want power over the people. They don’t want the people to have power over them.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
This is really sad.
Robert Redford was a great humanitarian and conservationist. He will be dearly missed. He took fame seriously. We were better for it.
I have to agree, it is sounding like murder.
When President Obama was in office there was military targeting of terrorists. The process to carry out those missiles strikes was arduous. The military only carried out the “errand” upon orders by the President.
This seems rather difficult to classify and when it is obscurely conducted it boils down to homicide. Maduro may have the identities of the people who died. The UN could validate Maduro’s facts.
But, this is a bit bizarre. The USA Coast Guard has the right to board boats within USA waters (frequently half subs) and remove any of the illegal substance headed toward the USA. This power paradigm is very different. This can be noted as in use when a ship is boarded to remove military weapons, especially Iranian missiles headed for the Houthis. But, this wasn’t on a trajectory to other terrorists.
The proof of the illegal cargo lies at the bottom of the sea in ashes. That is reckless.
Hegseth has no immunity. Trump touts his lawlessness as permission from the Supreme Court. The USA Supreme Court decisions do not carry weight in such dealings internationally without treaties.
Monday, September 15, 2025
Speaking of the Alt Right
They are one of Putin’s favorite complaints. Now, Vance has them at the White House. It is perfect propaganda for Putin.
I wish the Former Chancellor Angela Merkel were a special Russian Envoy for NATO. She had a rapport with Putin unmatched by anyone else (click here).
It couldn’t hurt.
The radical right gets more radical.
(Click here)
MAGA policies are creating economic instability globally. How nice for Bannon’s attack on Europe.
While the cat’s away…the mice violate the Hatch Act.
Inflation increased in July, AGAIN!
(Click here)
Tampa Bay, Florida lead the country with a 3.3 rate. I don’t recall a debate about that so much as the social fabric of the country.
If Vance wants to ride the coattails of a dead MAGA…
…he can resign the Vice Presidency and compete with Joe Rogan.
The MAGAs don’t know what respect is. They are always on the hunt for power. None of this mess should be going on. Vance should be conciliatory and eliminate the fire that is now politics in the USA, instead of throwing gasoline on an already out of control political party.
MAGA is way too radical.
Vance is in violation of The Hatch Act.
Vance wants controlled speech.
Wrong.
The MAGAs need to be behind bulletproof glass.
Basically, that needs to be the new standard in this democracy. Every candidate without exception holds rallies and makes speeches from behind bulletproof glass.
In the case of assassins disguised as police or anyone else, identification and advance notice must proceed the arrival at the door.
If autoglass companies and utility workers can provide that level of ID and security of arrival so can police or anyone else coming to the door of any candidate or judge.
We need political security legislation. This is all a no brainer.
People fired from their jobs because of their expression of a highly charged political speaker should be allowed redress. It is not possible to feel passionate about our democracy one day and turn it off the next. The folks that got in trouble weren’t calling for violence. They were in most instances defending our democracy.
Mr. Kirk was reckless in some of the discussions that brought about feelings by others in feeling hated. He was also reckless with his is own safety. He was receiving death threats. He needed to be behind protective layers if security including bulletproof glass and magnetometers. Kirk was keeping company with Trump at the White House. Hello?
Vance has no right to inhibit speech. If MAGAs are feeling guilty over the death of a 30 something it is their problem in their free wheeling judgement of other Americans.
This situation needs mandatory security legislation with funding. There needs to be a huge return to civility and humanitarian values. The radical nature of MAGA is showing and they need to deal with themselves.
Earth is an amazing planet.
However.
I am probably not alone, but, Earth’s surface ocean waters are getting very warm. Hurricanes occur to cool the air of the troposphere. It is all physics. As the surface waters warm Earth can lose its dynamics for hurricanes.
What happens then?
More tornadoes. That is what is occurring. The occurrence of tornadoes is increasing. As the oceans no longer support strong hurricanes, the land takes over.
As the natural inhabitants of Earth, it is on us to stop abusing it. That is a moral statement.
No doubt there will be more hurricanes this year, which is supposed to end in November, but the concern is the trend and not the individual storm.
The trend is for lower velocity storms with large volumes of rain. The reason is the lower velocity delivers rain over less land traveled as they stall. The drought monitor proves that out.
September 9, 2025 map (click here)
Vance’s White House politics is very unethical.
The Hatch Act
His promotion of a civilian’s political clout invites others to seek the power of the White House. The President of the Senate should be reviewed for an ethics violation.
The provocation is bigger than drugs.
This administration has “ a thing” about oil. I think it can be linked to Space X, but, it isn’t really clear. This administration has coveted Canada, Greenland, and now Venezuela. They all have oil.
China is conducting offshore oil drilling for Venezuela. (Click here)
So, if Hegseth is declaring war on Venezuela he may be underestimating the opposition. Those big jets sitting on Venezuela’s tarmac can be serviced by China as well as Russia. I am impressed by Maduro’s calm confrontation of Hegseth’s ambitions. That cool demeanor can be linked to a rather unpleasant reality if Hegseth takes his war on drugs too far.
Where is the proof?
This type of work is usually and professionally conducted by the USA Coast Guard once the foreign ship has entered USA sovereign waters. Hegseth has this taking place in international waters.
The NORMAL method of any taking of drug trafficking EVIDENCE is to display it to the public. I am not aware that has happened yet because the evidence hasn’t reached USA shores.
I hate to think Maduro might be correct in that Hegseth is more a provocateur than Secretary of Defense, but if this administration is declaring war, they need to make their case.
This could be similar to Reagan’s Grenada.
Sunday, September 14, 2025
No one subverts the USA Constitution.
If the Supreme Court has no backbone to honor the Constitution over their own politics, there may be no respect due them.
(Click here)
The ego driven statements about judicial power ends when the Supreme Court doesn’t bother to explain their own movements away from long established precedent.
I can’t count the number of times this court has abandoned stare decisis.
Racketeering’s permission
That permission reverberates through all of governance, especially if those in power look the other way. This is an example. Who in their right mind would sign onto a health care policy that can pull the rug out from under the subscriber?
That is pretty damn ruthless no matter how one sees it. It is from a monthly statement of a Medicare Advantage policy. Yeah, RFK.
Oh, you say they won’t do it? They already have in playing musical tiers ENFORCED by those in DC.
Ask yourself what your Congressman is doing to end exploitation of the consumer?
Myopic
The Breitbarts of the world, including Bannon and Musk, only see the world through the lens of greed. So, if immigrants are forced out of the USA there will be more for the greedy. If the USA middle class can be eliminated and the people have to forage for food they will die or survive, but, won’t require public services like education. Who cares if a woman dies in childbirth, it is one less loser to sap the ruthless dry?
I sincerely believe the sea change of the people placing greed before humanity confounded other leaders, especially autocrats. Autocrats are sort of like Wall Street, “certainty” is security. What if this new wave of greed politics was actually a long term plan to defeat autocrats and rob them of their power? What if it is? What does a self-respecting autocrat do?
See, Bannon has turned democracy on its head and allowed the dark side of human nature to overrule the benevolence of the USA. It is why it lends itself so well to racketeering. Bannon created the permission to destroy benevolence while turning greed into a virtue. He only got so far with it in the USA and then moved on Europe to hack away at its ideas of peace and well being. All was possible through the instrument of elections and propaganda.
The only reason to even discuss this is to realize how a country estranged from its governance can confuse the international venue and escalating tensions full of hatred. Putin probably believes there is so much more to comprehend about the political sea change in the right wing party of the Free World that it is necessary to maintain a formidable facade to maintain some semblance of Russian superiority. Basically, why not destroy what is not understood? Communists see any other resolve as a weakness.
I doubt if those confused by the Anti-American dogma of right wing politics actually care to understand it and seek peace. They rather arm to destroy it. At least the destruction will make sense to them.
One man’s bruised ego endangers the world.
How did the worst leadership known to man ever find this much power?
Will the brinkmanship ever end in peace?
At what point do communists ever decide their game of control is impossible to achieve? When they have destroyed the planet they live on? Does admiration of peace and prosperity matter anymore? Putin’s ideology ends in disaster. The alternatives are so much better. Communists are crazy bastards.
I think this mess actually started with Steve Bannon and Breitbart and the pursuit of billions at any cost. They really did turn the corner on decency. Ethics was discarded when it got in the way of greed. When the West’s civility was being defeated by the ruthless capitalists, Russia experienced fear and turned it into opportunity with efforts like the NRA. I really think when nothing made sense to Putin anymore, the communist party became a security blanket.
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