Also during one of those ICE raids in CA in all the chaos some migrant farm worker fell to his death from a greenhouse roof. Will Tom send his condolences?
I didn't vote for ANY of this. To those who say you knew and we warned you no I didn't know Trump wanted to strip Rosie O'Donnell of her US citizenship. It never came up.
ICE agents continue to chase migrants through the fields of farms in CA. Don't know if this causes cancer but the whole thing gives off a Monty Python/Benny Hill kind of vibe. No reports of the raping of cattle but the thought occurred maybe ICE is afraid to go after the real criminals. Better to go after some Tufts University Muslim woman who wrote an op-ed critical of Israel for the student newspaper. Maybe Charlie Kirk can afford $40 for a head of lettuce. I can't.
Continuing fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein Non-Files. The Justice Department would have you believe they were the Snapchat of sex trafficking. Data just vanished after 10 seconds or so. User profiles all gone. Nada zilch zippo. Deputy Director of the FBI Dan Bongino is thinking of resigning and Kash Patel might join him. Homan is still going strong however. It's clear the man enjoys his work.
You can't make this shit up;)
So I can't make heads or tails out of this now. Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk says the push is on for Trump to pull a Reagan and grant amnesty to 25 million illegal aliens or whatever the number is. Pressure from the business community. Trump is working on the legislation now or else it's somewhere in the big beautiful bill. The calculus is it would help the midterms which don't bode well for Republicans. In MAGAville even such talk is considered A Bad Thing. Meanwhile Homan continues to bother the livestock in CA. Maybe Homan's real purpose is to create a shitshow thus the need for amnesty. Is Trump at heart an ideologue or a pragmatist? Will he betray MAGA? All I know is that in 10, 15 years we won't remember a damn thing.
Someone should crack open a dictionary for him. The news it's hard to keep pace anymore. Musk forming his own political party. Fringe activist Laura Loomer now an unofficial national security advisor. God help us! Flooding in TX. They're saying the Trump cuts didn't help they made things worse. Dunno are we still working on cancer? Homan is out of control but he goes to church every week. Wreak social havoc and then take your soul to the cleaners every Sunday. A president being mediocre is not the issue for me it's the sheer weirdness of this Administration. All you can do is take up a hobby in the meantime and hope it passes quickly. Not sure why he still has fans.
It's like all those federal workers lost their jobs for nothing. No rhyme or reason. It's a philosophical contradiction and politically incoherent. It'd be like a household with a strict budget scrimping and saving and cutting barely able to pay the mortgage and property tax but then decides to subscribe to cable or satellite TV and add five new credit cards. I know there are actually households like that. Big difference is we don't have a government printing press.
Trumpism is not conservatism. It's just a bunch of mad fantasies. The weird Right is already selling Alligator Alcatraz merch. Ron DeSantis is the creepy flavor of the month. Hello big blue wave come next year. Cults always fail in the end.
Small but growing rift among conservatives. A realization that many of Trump's latest actions suck for lack of a better way of putting it. Joe Rogan has come out against the ICE raids. Not sure if technically he's a conservative. MTG has been busy blasting Trump over the bombing of Iran's nuclear sites. Candace Owens told Piers Morgan that she is now embarrassed she told other people to vote for Trump. Then there's Tucker. OK.
What I'm seeing on some of the more liberal YouTube channels is gloating among the Left ("We told you so") and even anger at those who voted for Trump but who now have regrets. It was all out there in the open they say. Not really. Trump's first term was fairly normal as a frame of reference. Re the ICE raids JD Vance was directly asked, what was it during the VP debate what the plans were for the majority of illegal aliens who are not criminals. He pointedly would not answer the question. The overwhelming emphasis during the campaign was always on the criminal element. As for bombing Iran Trump campaigned on the exact opposite no foreign wars ot entanglements in the Middle East. America First. Now to the real bone of contention. Many libs take issue with having been called crazy and exaggerating for the things they said about Trump during the campaign, the whole TDS thing. Yes because they used specifically Hitlerian rhetoric. Technically though while Trump is many things technically he's still not a Hitler. Has a ways to go if you know your history.
At least give those of us credit and some points for now admitting mistakes no? That's how you grow. Not hearing the same regrets about Biden.
This too shall pass.
The latest examples being "Alligator Alcatraz" and those racist conservatives who want to deport NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. My friend has imbibed deeply of the Fox News propaganda. For him Iran was on the verge, the very cusp of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead to hit NYC. For Mark Levin if you opposed Trump bombing Iran's nuclear facilities you're an unpatriotic American. Levin gives off this vague creepy psycho vibe and said to MTG after their recent dust-up "you're on my radar." Hmmmmm......Hannity is somewhat milder but his aging blockhead fills the screen as he constantly beats the drums for war in the Middle East or at least a bomb here and there. The Senate now seems okay with Trump's giant sausage of a bill thus mortgaging our future and our children's future. Musk continues to attack the bill and he is right for once. At this rate the midterms may turn out to be a big blue tsunami. The rise of Mamdani represents a left-wing populism not to be ignored.
It's all very depressing but this too shall pass. Hopefully next time we'll get somebody better.
Why not put one in the Grand Canyon too?
Former and disgraced Governor of NYS Andrew Cuomo refuses to accept the fate of the politically damned. Despite a healthy second place showing in the recent NYC Mayoralty Primary voting he lost to the Zohran. The groper is very ambitious. He now plans to run against Mamdani as an independent. Mamdani has rocked the political establishment. Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk thinks he's a terrorist and some Republicans want him stripped of his US citizenship and deported. Could be Homan's next project. Special assignment for Homan's Raiders. Trump is looking into ways of disqualifying him for being a communist. Sweet McCarthyism! All for not being a Zionist. For his part Cuomo is willing to serve on Benjamin Netanyahu's legal defense team before the ICC should it come to that. You can't cancel Mamdani out though. As even my rock-ribbed conservative friend says give the people what they want.
How best to describe Trump's second term? Conservative Candace Owens who voted for Trump as did I recently told Piers Morgan Trump is "a chronic disappointment. " That about fits.
But Trump promised to be different so why throw rocks at a junkyard dog? Trump campaigned as an anti-neocon non-interventionist America Firster. Instead we get a saber-rattling Israel First foreign policy, impulsive interventionism. Trump has claimed on his Truth Social overwhelming success in totally obliterating Iran's three nuclear facilities. He has ignored the advice of his own Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard who recently testified before Congress that Iran was really not that close to developing an actual nuclear weapon. She's probably on her way out. Now we have to worry about a protracted conflict with Iran and possible terrorist reprisals. Pakistan has just nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize why I don't know. Troubling times but kind of took Homan off the front pages.
It's all so confusing. Just the other day President Trump directed all ICE offices to NOT conduct workplace raids at agricultural sites, hotels and restaurants. Now CNN reports ICE will continue doing just that. Is Trump's whole term going to revolve around chasing down the illegals? That's not feasible or practical or cost effective. Now I go on YouTube and Homan is holding yet another press briefing urging the aliens to go on the app and self-deport. Get your affairs in order the stern one warns. Nothing constructive. You can't make this shit up. How many illegals are buried in cemeteries? Does he want to dig them up too and send them home? What would Jesus do? No immigration reform, no path to citizenship just paleo-conservatism at its most rabid. Why do I get the impression ICE enjoys their work a little too much? Do they need a shaving of Prozac?
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Trump now says we have to use lots of common sense about the illegals. The migrant farm workers and those in the hospitality and leisure industries are essential workers hard to replace they're telling him. Will we see a change in direction, of tone? So Trump is still lagging behind Biden's deportation numbers this is not a sports contest. Homan and crew should be helping them pick the vegetables and ask them how their day is going not loading them into paddy wagons. Homan laying down the law at a press briefing. There's no grayscale with him just be a hardass. Watched some NYC ICE footage last night on the news. The always masked ICE agents lack simple basic professionalism and seem to have an apelike intelligence. Dr. Phil has sure taken a hard turn to the Right but he's from Texas. As they used to say in the Old West f#@k you and the horse you rode in on.
Are we EVER gonna get to the cost-of-living?
Musk has expressed misgivings, deleted some tweets and says he may have gone too far. Trump says he might be open to a reconciliation. Defense Sec'y Hegseth says the US has contingency plans to occupy Greenland if necessary. Israel attacked Tehran targeting their nuclear facilities and chain of command. ICE agents are chasing farm laborers through strawberry fields and going into meat production plants. Big military parade tomorrow. Trump's birthday. DHS Sec'y Kristi Noem doesn't like to be interrupted. What's up with Dr. Phil?
It might be any day now Marines come up the Hudson River to land at the Yonkers City Pier. As I said in my last post the majority of today's conservatives ain't that freedom loving to begin with. Yes I'm looking at you Hannity. They have no issues with the Trump Administration censoring pro-Palestinian speech on campus. They're ok with the Administration monitoring the social media posts of foreign students. They're down with the possible militarization of major US cities in response to the growing ICE protests. No libertarian concerns whatsoever.
One of the first things any would be dictator/fascist does is go after freedom of speech. MAGA is just a bunch of gutless wonders, a cult at this point. In my view Trump is a hater and a joyless prick no matter how FOX News and Dr. Phil try to spin it.
I guess the National Guard isn't good enough. I thought they were troops. Trump wants to militarize more US cities in response to the growing ICE protests coast to coast. ICE is actually a kind of rogue agency created in the wake of 9/11, an offshoot of DHS. Basically what Trump wants to do is set up a police, a military state with a vast ai surveillance system, an Orwellian database of every single living American courtesy of Palantir Tech. Laura Loomer is down with this. So why do the vast majority of conservatives still support Trump despite these existential threats to freedom and privacy? They're not really that libertarian to begin with. This is not to say they need to be full-blown libertarian but they should be more libertarian than they are. More stuff should bother them but it doesn't. Instead they constantly fall back on blaming the media and the Democrats. So what happens if Trump gives the go-ahead for Marines to shoot rioters in US cities? Will Charlie Kirk cheer?
Dark days ahead. I hope I'm wrong.
He just loves to agitate the population doesn't he. Bypassing CA state and local government he sends in the National Guard to quell the LA riots/protests. On top of that he sends in a few hundred Marines - the few the proud. Folks are rightly upset over Homan's goon squads and their operations in LA and ICE protests have now gone coast to coast. Trump wants American citizens to get used to a military presence in American cities. He wants to set up a police, a military state that's what this is about. An AI advanced surveillance system to go along with that and too many Americans are already willing to give up their rights and freedoms for added security and safety. Govern me harder Daddy!
Maybe one of these days Trump will get around to tackling the cost-of-living but I doubt it.
Trump has made it a cornerstone of his presidency that he hates the immigrants. Biden deported his fair share of illegals to be sure, Obama even more but they never talked about it much or made a show of it. Now the ICE Capades in LA and the accompanying protests some of them violent Trump has sent in the Nat'l Guard (w/the Marines as backup?). Trump lives for these moments and they help define his presidency. ICE has become a kind of rogue agency something you see in a bad action flick. No name badges. Masks. Kidnapped people in broad daylight at times. Where's Jason Statham? What are we a Third World country? Trump and Homan - alpha males without the sex appeal.
Here's hoping the next presidency is a calmer administration. We don't need the drama.
You can pursue certain goals but I kind of like to uphold the Constitution. He doesn't like birthright citizen. He doesn't like habeas corpus. I don't think he likes people. He's so anal about everything. As a serious species this Trump worship is unbecoming. I don't get it.
Still aways away but closer than you think. Dems currently in disarray and panic mode but they really don't have to do much if President Trump continues on his present course. Every time I go to the grocery store it hurts. Bought a few things today and it came to just under $100. Didn't even buy cat food. Trump is focused on other things though. He changed the name of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He's fighting Harvard. Changing geographical names. A bloated budget bill with ai deregulation. Tariffing the world. Building more ICE centers and a laundry list of other things. Cultural tangential stuff with no real impact on the average American. No trans soldiers. Scale back the Jackie Robinson walks through history. Just let Trump be Trump. MAGA becomes a historical footnote. Maybe a future category on Jeopardy.
Conservatives got everything they ever dreamed of but didn't know what to do with it. No focus or narrow pragmatic workable agenda just Righties gone wild. The freakoff should end around the midterms. Patience. They'll blame the immigrants in the end;)
They'd be getting the bulk of the proposed tax cuts according to the CBO. The bill would also explode the deficit and national debt. Proposed millions or billions to build ICE infrastructure read detention facilities for illegals. Also making it harder for folks to access Medicaid and food stamps thereby amounting to cuts without technically calling them cuts. More Republican opposition in the Senate where the bill may not pass or stall. Musk is against the bill saying it would undermine the whole work of DOGE. He's not wrong. Democrats have no power at the moment and can't seem to get back on track. Still hard for me to process that a cognitively impaired old guy with cancer was in the WH for 4 years. Budget bills are usually boring topics but merits some discussion. So that's it for today.
