WHY IS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SUPPORTING A "NO LONGER FULLY DEMOCRATIC" STATE?

 

Rubio plugs Orbán’s bid for another term in Hungary’s elections

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday enthusiastically endorsed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ‘s bid to serve a fifth straight term after the April elections, emphasizing during a visit to Budapest the strong personal relationship between the nationalist leader and U.S. President Donald Trump. 

Trump and Rubio are supporting this: 

"Hungary is widely considered by international bodies, including the European Parliament and Freedom House, to have transitioned from a democracy to a hybrid regime or "electoral autocracy" due to significant democratic erosion under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party since 2010, with concerns over media control, weakened judiciary, suppression of opposition, and attacks on civil liberties. 

While it still holds elections, democratic norms have been undermined, leading to its "Partly Free" rating and classification as no longer a full democracy.

Why is Trump supporting a "no longer a full democracy" state?

Rubio was not always an Orban fan:

In the May 2019 letter to then-President Trump, Marco Rubio and his colleagues (Sens. Jim Risch, Bob Menendez, and Jeanne Shaheen) detailed several specific areas where they believed democracy in Hungary had 'significantly eroded.' 

The senators argued that the election process under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had become less competitive. They observed increasing state control over the judiciary.

The letter pointed to a decrease in press freedom, mentioning discouragement of advertising for independent media and consolidation of media ownership under a foundation exempt from antitrust regulations. 

The senators were troubled by Hungary's close ties with Russia, including its reliance on Russian energy and Russia's alleged use of Hungary's 'golden visa' program to bypass U.S. sanctions. 

They criticized Hungary's refusal of a U.S. extradition request for two Russian arms dealers, who were instead sent to Moscow by the Orbán government. 

The relocation of the Russian-controlled International Investment Bank to Budapest was seen as an assertion of Russian influence within a NATO member country." --AI mode

ARE MAGA REALLY THIS UNINFORMED?

 

Why yes, yes they are. 

The Captain of the Mother Ship admits she is a devoted FAUX NOOZ fan. That's why she wrote this inaccurate and grossly uninformed comment:

” All I write here nearly every day is how the Left’s speech writers shoot down everything the Trump Admin does, but thanks for the reminder. Of COURSE they shoot down everything Trump does..(as do most judges and grand juries, the latest Grand Jury rejected the lawmaker indictments for telling our servicemen to ignore their superiors, did you hear that yet?)..if we had Republicans as sharp and articulate as the Dems, we could fight that.

In November 2025, Senator Mark Kelly and five other Democratic lawmakers released a video advising U.S. service members to refuse illegal orders, not all orders. This action prompted a Pentagon investigation, accusations of "sedition" from Donald Trump, and a subsequent lawsuit by Kelly against a January 2026 censure by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Key details: 

The Content: The video featured Mark Kelly, alongside Reps. Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Chrissy Houlahan, Maggie Goodlander, and Sen. Elissa Slotkin, advising troops to uphold their oath to the Constitution and ignore directives they believe are unlawful.

The Context: The message was released amid concerns regarding the legality of potential military actions within the U.S. and in South America.

The Backlash: President Trump and then-Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused the group of "seditious behavior," with the Pentagon opening a review into the lawmakers' conduct.

Legal Action: A federal judge in February 2026 temporarily blocked the Pentagon from punishing Senator Kelly, citing potential violations of his First Amendment rights. 

 The lawmakers emphasized that they were reminding military personnel of their legal obligations under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to disobey unlawful, not all, orders.

"On February 10, 2026, a federal grand jury declined to indict the lawmakers on charges of seditious conspiracy or interfering with military discipline. 

Court Injunction: On February 12, 2026, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Pentagon from punishing Kelly. 

The judge ruled that the speech was 'unquestionably protected' by the First Amendment and that the government had unconstitutionally retaliated against him."

Current Status: As of February 17, 2026, the Department of Justice has been urged by Kelly's attorneys not to seek a second indictment. Kelly remains a retired Navy captain while the legal battle over his rank and pension continues.

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There is no shame in being ignorant on some issues, only in willfully staying that way. The Captain apparently chooses to stay that way.

TRUMP'S SECOND TERM WILL BE DEFINED BY THE EPSTEIN SCANDAL

 

The only pedophile who's in prison is a woman, Ghislaine Maxwell.

The Trump DoJ hasn't arrested, indicted, nor put anyone else in prison for their heinous crimes against children by this country's and the world's elites, billionaires, and oligarchs.

Trump's second term will be defined by this horrendous scandal.  He knew. And according to the emails that have been published, he was, in some way, involved.

Epstein ordered a “Snow White” costume for the little girls on his island so they could “entertain” elite guests older than their grandfathers, dressed up as little Snow Whites.

And Jes Staley, who later became CEO of Barclays Bank and who previously spent more than three decades at JPMorgan Chase, where he served as head of its Investment Bank and later CEO of its Asset Management division, thanked Epstein for the “Snow White fun.”

But don’t worry. During his long tenure at JPMorgan Chase, Jes Staley would help oversee the bank’s relationship with Epstein, ensuring that his financial affairs continued to be handled.

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Leon Black, billionaire investor, and known Jeffrey Epstein associate and likely co-conspirator is in the files for having raped multiple young girls, and was even sued for having raped a 16 year old girl with down syndrome. What did Donald Trump do about it? He awarded him by giving his son a position in his administration. We're done f**king around, these people are all Satan worshipping pedos, and they need to be put in prison.

I don’t remember where I found this quote.

Do you agree or disagree?  

Please tell me why, either way  

“The fundamental problem of America is not Trump, but America. 

Trump is a creation of America, and this type of delirium, this sort of figure can only emerge and rise to ultimate prominence in a certain kind of society - a society in collapse. 

What we're witnessing now is an accelerated decline of the American empire, massively expedited by Trump's galloping insanity.”

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC

 

Tracy Chapman

"Change"

JUST A REMINDER:

 

This is the sick creep MAGA chose to have as alternate entertainment for last week's Super Bowl, because they couldn't deal with a Puerto Rican American singing in Spanish.

They chose this piece of living dirt. 

This is just ONE example of why powerful rich men felt no shame in being pals with and enjoying whatever they could get from Jeffrey Epstein. This kind of "humor" is considered "funny" in a sick male's world, and condoned not by just an American, but by a worldwide cabal of men who felt they would be legally untouchable while sexually assaulting/raping little girls.

Disturbing video of Kid Rock has resurfaced, as he wonders why American men were waiting for the then-14 year old Olsen twins to turn 18. "if there's grass on the field, play ball!"

 

If your hair isn't on fire, you're not paying attention!

 

Listen to Senator Kelly. He's not the canary in the coal mine; he's the alarm/fog horn/siren warning us all to wake up and understand the authoritarian/fascist regime in front of our noses!

"Pam Bondi is the product of a diseased system."

 

Pam Bondi is a disgusting embarrassment to our country. She's protecting pedophiles and ignoring Epstein's victims.  Bondi, it is clear, does the bidding of Trump, who's named in the Epstein emails/files over a million times. Her loyalty is to a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter, not to the law and the Constitution or her country. All she has is bluster, bullying, and tantrums.

Bondi's a failure. Her fall from power will be epic.

BREAKING: “You washed-up loser lawyer!” Pam Bondi throws a FURIOUS tantrum after Rep. Jerry Nadler confronts her on letting Epstein’s cronies walk free!

Attorney General Pam Bondi was called before the House Judiciary Committee this morning to face the music for orchestrating a cover-up of the Epstein files and protecting the powerful pedophiles whose identities are hidden within…and when confronted with the facts, she blew her top in a transparently Trumpian projection of guilt.

Nadler got right down to the point, and immediately made it clear that he wasn’t going to put up with her deflection shenanigans.

NADLER: “How many of Epstein's co-conspirators have you indicted? How many perpetrators are you even investigating?”

BONDI: First, you showed it. I find it—

NADLER: How many have you indicted?

BONDI: *angrily* Excuse me! I'm going to answer the question.

NADLER: Answer my question.

BONDI: No, I'm going to answer the question the way *I* want to answer the question.

NADLER: No, you're going to answer the question the way I asked it.

BONDI: Chairman Jordan, I'm not going to get in the gutter with these people, but I'm going to answer the question.

NADLER: How many have you indicted?

BONDI: I think it's very interesting. I think it's very interesting that he talks about they indicted— The president said they indicted him twice —

JAMIE RASKIN, INTERJECTING: Mr. Chairman, please stop the clock and restore his time.

BONDI: Oh, okay. Here we go with these theatrics!

RASKIN: You can let her filibuster all day long, but not on our watch. Not on our time. And I told you about that, Attorney General, before you started.

BONDI: YOU DON’T TELL ME ANYTHING YOU WASHED UP, LOSER — not even a lawyer.

NADLER: All right. My time. The answer to my question, how many of Epstein's co-conspirators has she indicted, is zero.

Bondi and the rest of the Trump team have no explanation and no possible justification for what they’ve done and are continuing to doing on behalf of powerful pedophiles — so bluster, bullying, and tantrums are all they have.

What a disgraceful show by our nation’s most senior law enforcement officer. She must be impeached as soon as possible. and brought to justice — along with every single one of the pedophiles she's protecting.

"These are Epstein's victims who raised their hands when asked by the Congressional Democrats who has NOT been contacted by Pam Bondi's DoJ to give their first-person evidence of who the powerful rich men were who sexually abused them."

WHY HASN'T SHE INTERVIEWED THE VICTIMS SO THEY CAN TELL HER WHO SEXUALLY ABUSED THEM? IS BONDI PROTECTING PEDOPHILES?

‪Skye‬ ‪@simplyskye.bsky.social‬

· 52m

Pam Bondi gave a disaster-class in how NOT to testify to Congress — combative, smug in the presence of survivors, & likely perjuring herself in the process — she’ll be resigned to the annals of worst AGs in history

Amee Vanderpool‬ ‪@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social‬

· 39m

Pam Bondi refused to acknowledge the Epstein victims who stood up behind her calling it "theater." Nothing more infuriating than watching a woman attempt to demean and degrade other women all to serve the agenda of sexual predators who she allows to control her.

Just Jack‬ ‪@just-jack-1.bsky.social‬

· 7m

Pam Bondi is the product of a diseased system. A system that is so corrupt and beholden to the wealthy class, it cannot hold them accountable no matter what they do, even if it’s raping little girls on private islands. This is why the oligarchs got behind Trump. To reside safely above the law.

BONDI: The stock market is doing great under Trump! We should be talking about that instead of the worst worldwide sex trafficking and rape of children scandal which emails from the Epstein files include Trump's name over a million times!

GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER

 

Faith, Family, and Immigration Double Standards

Facts… The Trump administration and several allies in Congress have called for ending or restricting birthright citizenship, despite the 14th Amendment’s long-standing interpretation by courts as guaranteeing citizenship to nearly all people born on U.S. soil. Supporters argue—contrary to settled precedent—that the Constitution allows exceptions for children of undocumented immigrants.

President Trump has framed immigration as an existential threat, warning that the nation cannot survive if children born to undocumented immigrants become citizens. He has also spoken with open contempt about immigrants from certain regions, referring to some countries as “shithole countries” and questioning why the United States should accept people from them.

A significant share of Trump’s most loyal political support comes from self-identified Christians, particularly white evangelicals. Also part of this coalition are Catholics, Mormons and Jews.

At the same time, Trump has used language claiming immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country and has portrayed outsiders as a danger to America’s identity. That rhetoric echoes America’s nativist past and poses a profound moral challenge for people of faith who profess commitments to human dignity and love of neighbor.

Now consider… Melania Trump, born Melania Knauss, first entered the United States on a visitor visa, which generally does not allow paid employment. Reporting later showed she earned money from modeling shortly after arriving, before obtaining a work-authorized visa. While her representatives deny any wrongdoing, critics have pointed to her case as an example of how immigration rules can be applied unevenly.

Melania later received permanent residency through the EB-1 “extraordinary ability” visa category, often associated with elite scientists.

The Trump administration, ICE and MAGA supporters have argued that immigrants who violate visa conditions or enter under false pretenses should face removal, and have questioned birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants, calling them “anchor babies”.

The parents of Usha Vance immigrated to the United States under legal pathways expanded after 1965—pathways that the Trump administration and allies like Vice President JD Vance have repeatedly criticized and sought to restrict. JD Vance’s marriage to a woman of color who practices a different religion has drawn criticism from the fringes of the MAGA right. Many evangelical churches teach the biblical call to avoid being unequally yoked, instructing believers not to marry outside the faith, and some far-right interpreters, who are MAGA supporters, extend this principle to race and ethnicity.

Bottom line… There is a well-documented impression, based on public actions, statements, and policies, that President Trump, Vice President Vance, and their administration are hostile to immigrants. Yet many of the policies they promote stand in stark contrast to their personal lived experiences, which include close family ties to immigrants and communities that their rhetoric and proposals often portray as threats.

This is what most people would call hypocrisy.

 

BREAKING

“A federal grand jury on Tuesday refused to indict six congressional Democrats who drew President Trump's ire last year by taping a video telling members of the military that they must reject ‘illegal orders,’ according to three sources familiar with the matter, including one within the Justice Department.”

I'm posting one more take...

 

on Bad Bunny (Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio), since his performance at Super Bowl LX is still in the news, and I think it is worthwhile to read Alisa Valdes Rodriguez's post from Facebook:

Alisa Valdes Rodriguez:

"I haven’t written about Bad Bunny because I’m tired. Tired of saying the same things for 30 years. Tired of screaming things like “Puerto Rico is part of the United States” for thirty [effing[ years. First, as a reporter at the Boston Globe, where my editor, Nick King, a Harvard graduate, did not realize Puerto Rico was part of the United States nor that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by birth. Then again at the LA Times, where I was the first mainstream US reporter to cover the Latin music industry, and the first to cover the Latin Grammys, back when Ricky Martin was “exploding” and I had to explain, yet again, to millions of readers, that Puerto Rico is part of the United States. 

Then again as a novelist, where I wrote the Nick King incident into fiction in my bestselling novel THE DIRTY GIRLS SOCIAL CLUB, a book that was optioned by Jennifer Lopez but for which I would have to explain over and over in Hollywood meetings that, yes, Puerto Rico is part of the United States. And again, and again, and again, in book after book after book, in meeting after meeting after meeting. To now live in a country where public insight and discourse has not only NOT progressed, but regressed to absolute idiocy, is exhausting. I’m exhausted. 

I’ve been screaming into the same well, but most of the nation remains stupid. Even those who shouldn’t be stupid about Puerto Rico are stupid about Puerto Rico. I love Josh Johnson. I do. But his bit, which went viral, about racists being mad about Bad Bunny while eating guacamole was stupid, because guacamole is not from Puerto Rico. Guacamole is Mexican. I am exhausted by the endless conflations of these distinct and different cultures by Americans who should not be this [effing] stupid. 

Arroz con gandules, cuchifritos, habichuela, tostones, cocquito, pernil — Puerto Rican food. New York is a Puerto Rican city. So is Boston. Hartford. New Haven. There is no excuse for the nation to be so clueless, except the gatekeeping done by Hollywood.

 Americans only know what they’ve seen in a movie or TV show. And for 25 years voices like mine have been systematically shut out. So, I’m tired of saying this. I’m tired of writing books about it that sell well to American Latinos, only to have my voice silenced beyond a certain group. Tired of the lies. Tired of the racism. The racism. 

The United States colonized Puerto Rico and forcibly sterilized its women, dropped nuclear bombs on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques for practice, took all the natural resources, hurt the Puerto Rican people in every way imaginable, only to have the conman felon racist piece of shit president posting insults about Bad Bunny, who is more American than Trump is. 

I’m effing exhausted. Tired of people forgetting Lolita Lebron. Tired of MAGA celebrating Colombus and never realizing the first place he effing landed was Puerto Rico, where he was met by the Taino people, who welcomed him and fed him and were kind, and Columbus, who landed there FOR SPAIN, enslaved and murdered most of the native people of that island. 

Tired of the ignorance. Tired of the ahistorical nonsense. Tired of Kid Rock’s ass crack and all their noses stuck in it for a whiff of “freedom.” Tired. Tired of being told every 20 or 30 years that Latinos have finally made it, only to have them trample us again. 

Before Bad Bunny, it was Ricky Martin. Before Ricky Martin, it was Jose Feliciano. Before that, it was Iris Chacon. Hector Lavoe. Ismael Rivera. Tito Puente. How quickly this United States forgets its own geniuses. How easily it squeezes the lifeblood out of Puerto Rico yet erases its people. Its culture. The Puerto Rican culture is incredible. It tells the entire story of the Americas, if you listen. 

Tired of you not listening. Tired of the way this country erases us all, all Latinos, over and over and over again, perpetually portrayed as outsiders in our own nation. Tired of having my song stolen from me the moment it leaves my mouth. Tired of singing."

THE CAPTAIN OF THE MOTHER SHIP HAS THOUGHTS ABOUT BAD BUNNY'S PERFORMANCE AT SUPER BOWL LX

 

The Captain of the Mother Ship is big mad because a Puerto Rican American sang songs in Spanish during the Super Bowl half time show. She says that it was an INSULT to America.

She doesn't explain how it is an insult; she just knows it is. Which means, IMO, she has no idea of how singing a song in Spanish by a Puerto Rican American at a football game's half time is insulting to America. These people's patriotism is so fragile that they're triggered by a fellow American's singing songs in another language at a ballgame. Quick, get her a sofá desmayado! Bad Bunny sang songs in SPANISH!!

(Before this land became the USA, the languages spoken were Native American languages, SPANISH, English, French, Dutch, German, Swedish, and various African languages. Bad Bunny was just respecting the ancient language history of the USA!)

I’VE decided America should be completely INSULTED by the ALL SPANISH SHOW…..you don’t get the HUGE honor of performing IN AMERICA and doing it in YOUR LANGUAGE, PAL. I just wish SO MUCH he’d worn the dress he’d warned about….maybe Americans would have awakened (most, anyway). I’m insulted….You do a couple songs in your language, FINE, but NEVER EVER insult our country….and you don’t honor YOURS when you got this big spotlight, pal.

"NEVER EVER insult our country....and you don't honor YOURS when you got this big spotlight, pal."

The Captain doesn't know that the "our country" (America) reference is actually Bad Bunny's country as well? The "and you don't honor YOURS" reference is rather shocking and sad because she's saying that Puerto Rico is a "country" and not part of the United States. How could she not know this? I understand she taught school!

Oh well, would we expect better from xenophobes and bigots?

Super Bowl LX

 

This is a wonderful review of the Super Bowl half time show that bitter old Trump trashed last night.  

Am I disappointed that the Pats didn’t win? Sure. But I enjoyed watching the half time show and the exuberance and love Bad Bunny brought to it   

Michael Garrett, NC Senate

I watched Bad Bunny deliver the most American halftime show I have ever seen. Then I came home and watched it again. And I am not okay. In the best possible way.

He sang every single word in Spanish. Every. Single. Word. He danced through sugarcane fields built on a football field in California while the President of the United States sat somewhere calling it “disgusting.” Lady Gaga came out and did the salsa. Ricky Martin lit up the night. A couple got married on the field. He handed his Grammy, the one he won eight days ago for Album of the Year, to a little boy who looked up at him the way every child looks up when they dare to believe the world has a place for them.

And then this man, this son of a truck driver and a schoolteacher from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, stood on the biggest stage on the planet and said “God bless America.”

And then he started naming them.

Chile. Argentina. Uruguay. Paraguay. Bolivia. Peru. Ecuador. Brazil. Colombia. Venezuela. Panama. Costa Rica. Nicaragua. Honduras. El Salvador. Guatemala. Mexico. Cuba. Dominican Republic. Jamaica. The United States. Canada. And then, his voice breaking with everything he carries, “Mi patria, Puerto Rico. Seguimos aquí.” My homeland, Puerto Rico. We are still here.

The flags came. Every single one of them. Carried across that field by dancers and musicians while the jumbotron lit up with the only words that mattered: “THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE.”

I teared up. I’m not ashamed to say it. I sat on my couch and I wept because THAT is the America I believe in. That is the American story, not the sanitized, gated, English-only version that small and frightened people try to sell us. The REAL one. The messy, beautiful, multilingual, multicolored, courageous one. The one that has always been built by hands that speak every language and pray in every tongue and come from every corner of this hemisphere.

That is the America I want Jack and Charlotte to know. That when the moment came, when the whole world was watching, a Puerto Rican kid who grew up to become the most-streamed artist on Earth stood in front of 100 million people, sang in his mother’s language, blessed every nation in the Americas, and spiked a football that read “Together, we are America” into the ground. Not with anger. With joy. With love so big it made hate look exactly as small as it is.

And what did the President do? He called it “absolutely terrible.” He said “nobody understands a word this guy is saying.” He called it “a slap in the face to our Country.” The leader of the free world watched a celebration of love, culture, and everything this hemisphere has given to the world, and all he could see was something foreign. Something threatening. Something disgusting.

Let that sink into your bones.

The man who is supposed to represent all of us looked at the flags of our neighbors, heard the language of 500 million Americans across this hemisphere, and felt attacked. That’s not strength. That’s not patriotism. That is poverty of the soul.

And then there was the Turning Point show. Kid Rock in a college arena in North Dakota. Three million viewers watching a man who once wrote a song about liking underage girls perform as the “family-friendly” alternative to a Puerto Rican artist celebrating love. They called it the “All-American Halftime Show”, as if America has a velvet rope. As if this country belongs to some of us and not all of us. As if you need to sing in English to count.

Here’s what I want to say to everyone who posted about that show tonight, who shared it proudly, who turned away from Bad Bunny’s celebration because it was in Spanish and the flags weren’t only red, white, and blue:

Your children will see those posts. Your grandchildren will find them. The internet doesn’t forget. And one day, when the history of this moment is written, when our kids and their kids look back at 2026 the way we look back at the people who stood on the wrong side of every bridge and every march and every moment that mattered, they will know exactly where you stood. They will see who chose Kid Rock over a hemisphere of flags. They will see who called love “disgusting.” And they will carry that knowledge the way all of us carry the knowledge of what our ancestors did when they were tested.

I don’t say that with anger. I say it with sadness. Because hate is an inheritance nobody asks for, and yet it gets passed down just the same.

Bad Bunny didn’t say “ICE out” tonight. He didn’t need to. He just showed the whole world what America looks like when we are not afraid of each other. When culture is shared, not policed. When language is music, not a threat. When a flag from every nation in this hemisphere can walk across a football field together and the only words you need are the ones he gave us:

The only thing more powerful than hate is love.

Over 100 million people saw that tonight. 

And no Truth Social post can take it away.

HERE'S SOME VIRTUE SIGNALING FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH:

 

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

This is the half-time entertainment that TPUSA is billing as an "All American Show," and is offering to compete with Bad Bunny, whom they criticized for not being an American (he is) and who is the official half-time entertainment for the Super Bowl.

The jokes just keep writing themselves!

Kid Rock: The choice for Super Bowl half time by TPUSA. Apparently, Erika Kirk approves:

NOTE:  The Captain of the Mother Ship wrote that she couldn't wait for the TPUSA Super Bowl half time entertainment. And on her Sunday Faith blog! She really did! See above for what she eagerly looks forward to hearing from Kid Rock!

THE CAPTAIN OF THE MOTHER SHIP: "(And I’m sorry most of you’ve said you’re not interested in professional sports because I can’t wait till SUPER BOWL!  And the TPUSA Halftime!)"

SATURDAY NIGHT SINGING

 

Dedicated to all those who participate in covering up pedophiles in Epstein files:

Dr. Stacey L. Spencer

 

I don't know this man's work, but his words ring true today:

I’m struggling to find words today—but silence isn’t an option.

When racist imagery comparing Black people to apes is circulated and amplified by those with the President of the United States it’s not just offensive—it’s dangerous. This isn’t coming from the shadows of the internet; it’s being normalized at the highest levels of public life. And that should alarm every person of conscience.

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama represent what is best in this country: intelligence, discipline, integrity, public service, love for humanity, and commitment to the common good. They are patriots. They are leaders. They are builders.

Racist dehumanization—no matter who shares it—has a long, violent history in America. When it’s excused, minimized, or defended because of political loyalty, we’re no longer talking about policy disagreements. We’re talking about moral failure.

BREAKING

 

Because he is a cowardly little worm, Trump blamed a staffer for the depraved racist meme about former President Obama and former First Lady, Michelle Obama he posted on his Truth Social platform.

Cowardly little worm is too good a label for what Trump is. 

REPORTS ON ICE BRUTALITIES

I'm going to virtual-signal the eff out of these stories because it illustrates the depraved and barbarous behavior of ICE and the convicted criminal currently living in the White House. Their vicious and murderous attacks belie their claim that they're deporting only "the bad ones."

Marc Prokosch, a lawyer representing Liam Ramos's family, said the father and son "did everything right" when they came into the country from Ecuador in 2024.

Liam's father is not an illegal alien and was in the process of seeking asylum at the time of his detention. Prokosch said that the family entered the United States in 2024 through a port of entry and has been following the law.

Can we imagine what other legal immigrants and American citizens have suffered at the hands of the convicted criminal in the White House and his ICE goons?

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Dear MAGA Americans,

Is this really what you voted for? Beating and killing American citizens in their streets so the convicted criminal in the White House gets his deportation quotas every month? 

Are you asking God to bless America as you watch this brutality take place in our country?

U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says

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"A woman who’s a U.S. citizen needed medical help Thursday, Jan. 29, after federal agents pulled her from her car after demanding to see her 'papers,' one of the state’s largest unions said Saturday. 

Service Employees International Union Local 503 said the woman, a union member, was driving to run errands when four agents stopped her on a Salem street. agents identified themselves as federal law enforcement, according to the union’s statement."

"Trump’s goons tear-gas a seven-year-old girl at a memorial bike ride for Alex Pretti! 

The people of Portland, Oregon, held a memorial bike ride for the ICU nurse murdered by ICE agent Jesus Ochoa and Border Patrol agent Raymundo Gutierrez. 

Pretti loved riding and racing bikes, and so people came together to honor his memory and join in solidarity against the Trump administration’s reign of terror. 

Organizer Jarrod Alder said the aim was to “show the world that righteousness and good and moral value holds against the evil that's happening.” 

The Trump regime responded by deploying federal agents to throw chemical munitions at children. Video footage shows a child crying in pain and being assisted by a medic to get the irritating gas out of her eyes. 

Just completely indefensible, sadistic violence meted out against peaceful protestors over and over again. They all need to be held accountable. 

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Based on investigations, over 170 U.S. citizens were detained or held against their will by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the first nine months of the second Trump administration in 2025. 

ProPublica identified more than 170 instances where U.S. citizens were detained, including cases involving roughly 20 children. 

Nature of Incidents: Citizens have reported being handcuffed, having guns pointed at them, being pepper-sprayed, and being held for days without being allowed to contact the outside world. Injuries and 

Fatalities: There is no comprehensive official count of injuries caused by ICE agents, but recent reports highlight a surge in violent encounters: 

Fatalities in the Field: At least 8 people were reported killed or caused to die by agents in the field between July 2025 and late January 2026. 

Deaths in Custody: During that same six-month window, 35 people died while in immigration detention. 

Assaults on Officers: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported a 1,300% increase in assaults against its own officers, which they attribute to the chaotic nature of recent enforcement operations. 

Record Population: As of mid-January 2026, ICE was holding a record 73,000 people in detention, a 75% increase in one year. 

Non-Criminal Majority: Data leaked to the Cato Institute indicates that roughly 73% of current detainees have no criminal convictions.

SOURCE:  AI Mode