Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

Sunday, February 1, 2026

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 


Greg Bovino works for Trump, and Trump's supporters are okay with this:






If he talks like one, dresses like one, and believes in detaining babies, then he is one:




33 comments:

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...yes, leave all children abandoned by their parents crying in the streets!

Shaw Kenawe said...

I love how you show up and show us what you are.

BTW, what kind of a brutal administration uses five- year old babies as bait to grab their parents ? Got an excuse for that too?

skudrunner said...

And now the democrats voted to shut down the country and punish the people who are citizens because illegals are far more important.

Shaw Kenawe said...

“The Trump administration has gone to great lengths to arrest and detain as many people as possible during its immigration crackdown. But in recent weeks, a deluge of court cases has led federal judges to release hundreds of immigrant detainees back into the country, and threatens to overwhelm the court system.

In case after case, federal judges have found that the Trump administration has been ignoring longstanding legal interpretations that mandate the release of many people who are taken into immigration custody if they post a bond.”


You support a rogue administration that regularly breaks the law.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Excellent news!!

”Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans
A Democrat won a state legislative special election in a district that President Trump carried by 17 percentage points, unnerving Republicans in Texas and beyond.”

Shaw Kenawe said...

”This is a presidency that is, by any measure, failing. Trump is unpopular; his brutality and his tariffs have turned immigration and affordability, once among of his strongest issues, into liabilities. Trump’s opposition is increasingly united and mobilized; Democrats are besting Republicans in elections all across the country and disciplined, brave, beautiful protest movements have emerged in the cities ICE has sought to occupy. I cannot do better here than to quote Adam Serwer’s dispatch from Minnesota:

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive — because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
We are watching an administration that is not only retreating in key areas — dropping its demand for all of Greenland, sending Greg Bovino back to Border Patrol’s El Centro region, meekly backing off its trade war with China — but finding itself cornered by its own cruelty and lies. Miller’s slander of Pretti as a “domestic terrorist” and an “assassin” could not stand even the barest contact with the video of Pretti trying to protect a nearby woman or the quiet heroism of his daily life.”
— Ezra Klein

Shaw Kenawe said...

”Mr. Trump’s behavior during a recent address to the nation suggests he is aware of cooling public sentiment. He shouted at times, as though he felt fewer people were listening. He repeated old lines about fixing the messes of others and newer lines about being a peacemaker, but the magic that brought so many to him may be dissipating. “Confidence fading. Can’t lie through the reality anymore,” Owen Shroyer, a former Infowars host whom Mr. Trump pardoned for his activities on Jan. 6, commented on X. “His base has turned. He knows it. Ego damaged. Swagger lost.”

It is well documented that strongmen are at their most dangerous when they feel threatened. That is why, as popular discontent with the Trump administration’s actions deepens, Americans should brace for heightened militarized domestic repression and more imperialist aggression abroad.

The rules of autocratic backfire are clear. Even if a struggling strongman manages to stay in power, once his carefully crafted image is tarnished, a collective reckoning can begin with the costs of his corruption and lying. Once a leader proclaims, “I am the only one that matters” and sits alone at the top of the pinnacle of power, it is hard for him to escape blame, no matter how many officials and former friends he purges. He is more vulnerable to being removed or, at the very least, judged — by lawmakers, by courts, at the polls and, perhaps most lastingly, by history.”
. —Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Grey One talks sass said...

Now what you just said -FJ can be construed as the text book definition of Virtue Signaling.

What do I mean? Oh you silly human. You don't care if children are left alone in the streets; not if they aren't YOUR specific flavor of human. You see the rest of us as NPC's in an egocentric game of your own devising. You and only you created this pinnacle of intellect and physical prowess.

It is comforting to me to know your ways are the old ways. Your streets are crumbling, your houses dropping pieces like leaves on an autumn tree.

Can't leave you in the pit of despair because there is hope and I'm not that cruel with the nonconsensual.

The next phase coming as detailed by the Mayan mathematicians of old is found in that which you can't touch but still know exists. It's Love and is illustrated between the existence of nothing and the creation of one resulting in universes of possibilities. It is the grey between the black and white. It is the force every human and many nonhumans know to their toes exists and yet no one can touch it.

first step in getting help is acknowledging there is an issue. second is asking for help. third is accepting it even if walking outside the comfort zone feels scary. and from there one learns to walk.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Good lord. Humans!!!! Humans are far more important. Not all the humans ICE has detained and put in detention centers and abused are “ illegals!” They’re human effing beings! Our country has descended into savagery to satisfy the ego of a man who’s failed every test of what makes a living being human.

PS. Even your “ illegals” deserve humane treatment. It’s what distinguishes us from beasts.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Trump could help make this right by expediting their asylum application if he were a decent human being. But he’s not.

BB-Idaho said...

Who is that unmasked man in the oversized trench coat kemo sabe? BTW Kash, go steal the Georgia 2020 election records, I need, uh 11,780 votes!
Send in the Clowns.

possumlady said...

If you haven't seen it yet, there is an incredible video of part of the 1980 republican presidential debate with GW Bush and Reagan talking about immigration. Granted we are no longer in 1980, but boy, how far the republican party has fallen since then...

https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/user-clip-reagan-and-bush-on-immigration-in-1980/4610381

Dave Dubya said...

Skud thinks immigrants he despises are "illegals" despite the fact Trump has a CRIMINAL RECORD longer than 90% of the HUMANS he's sending to corporate MAGA concentration camps for abuse and neglect.
There's a term or two for that kind of mentality...

Dave Dubya said...

Nothing to see here, right, Skud?

Rep. Morrison on conditions at Whipple: "She said, 'they are treating us like animals in here. The women that are in this cell with me, we slept on a cold concrete floor last night. We were begging for a blanket, & guards were cruel'".

Les Carpenter said...

Reagan and Bush were often misguided in their political and social positions. But unlike the goons Trump, Loving, and -FJ et all they were decent people.

Dave Miller said...

-FJ is an interesting guy. Here's one of his favorite philosophers, Slavoj Žižek [thanks for the intro -FJ], sharing his thoughts on Trump. Something clear and concise, of which -FJ is unable to do...

If there is a political leader who again and again demonstrates that he is full of shit, it is Donald Trump. The fact that such a leader can hold in thrall the entire world tells a lot about the moment in which we live. Since his last big piece of shit we are all compelled to smell is usually characterized as a brutal exercise of recolonization of sovereign countries, it seems natural that the analysis of Trump’s colonial politics should be designated as colonoscopy. The time to do it is now, on the anniversary of Trump’s second term. Colonoscopy is a procedure in which a doctor uses a flexible tube with a camera on one end to look inside your rectum and colon, showing irritated and swollen tissue, ulcers, polyps, and cancer links. To understand why Trump is doing (and not doing) what he is doing, we have to take a closer look at all the irritated tissue and polyps that flourish there. Let me emphasize the disgust I feel in doing this: analyzing assholes is not my favored occupation, especially not Trump’s asshole.

The most concise characterization of Trump is that he is an authoritarian without authority... The fact that Trump has no authority is rendered palpable by his obsession with his self-image: he is not just a spontaneous bully, he closely follows how his words and acts are perceived by the public, and reacts brutally, taking revenge on his enemies.

“To paraphrase Stanislav Lem’s personoid Adan 900: Any god [Trump?] that demands our worship doesn’t deserve it.”

Dave Miller said...

Wrong again Skud... the Dems decided not to fund one apart of the government. That's a regular practice of the reconciliation process. It is not the "government" at all. Just DHS, you know, the group that has already been funded at record levels. The group that is arresting and incarcerating US citizens and people here with permission from various agencies of the US government.

If they just did their work humanly, admitted errors, deported illegal criminals, apart from their immigration status, we would not be where we are today.

But quiet efficiency is not the goal of the Trump Admin. They want maximum show, maximum pain and don't care if they break the law, as they are still currently doing in Minnesota, to do it.

Question... should a political party fund parts of the government that are openly flaunting judicial orders and breaking the law?

I'll plead for the Yes or No response I know I'll never get.

Les Carpenter said...

Naw, skudwad, the democrats did exactly the right thing. Something you'll never understand because, well, it's apparently way up there in the dark room and your lights have been turned off.

Dave Dubya said...

The fact that Skud can blame only Democrats during Trump's one-party dictatorship tells us just how authoritarian he really is.

Watch for his prevarication and inner MAGA again.

Skud,
Trump lost a fair election to Biden, lied about it being rigged, and criminally tried to overturn it to stay in power.

Agree or disagree?

"Biden won" isn't an answer. It's used by MAGA, just before they say, "a rigged election".

BB-Idaho said...

TDS works both ways. The people who study psych note that disagreeing with
Dr. T is perfectly logical - agreeing with him is true derangement. His legacy is a dying Republican Party and a sadly damaged country. There is a book called 'Orwell Still Matters' - the prescient one imagined the unimaginable.

skudrunner said...

Dube, What does your response have to do with my post on 2/1. I do not deny biden won but don't you wonder why the actual votes won't be shared, what are the democrats trying to hide by not producing them.
Timmy drops out of the governors race because he is trying to hide his corruption. Are the dems doing the same thing in GA.

Dave Miller said...

Dave, or Biden is/was the president. Never the legitimate one though. Why is that?

Shaw Kenawe said...

Where’s the evidence that Governor Walz is corrupt?

BTW, the 2020 election was certified by the House as well as the secretaries of state in blue AND RED STATES. No one’s hiding anything. You get your information from propaganda mills. It’s quite evident. Otherwise you wouldn’t have asked what are the Democrats hiding. It’s a silly and uninformed question. As I said above, the secretaries of state of red states and blue states certified the electoral votes, which are the votes that got Joe Biden, elected.

Dave Miller said...

Skud... what vote counts are not being shared? Be specific please as to the state and/or county.

Grey One talks sass said...

Shaw, I understand now what Gov Walz meant when he said he could defend against the accusations of corruption or he could run for Governor but couldn't do both, especially since MAGA has been reportedly going after his family, specifically his kids.

Because they are the party of "family values" and only they "care about the kids" /S Well, unless you are a demon that is. Then only death will cleanse you of Satan's evil touch (or some such rhetoric that has been hurled at me and mine for more than a decade).

skud's been into the propaganda cupboard again. Actual votes. What are the Democrats (sic) hiding? Producing what skud? You sound more fragmented than usual skud.

skuds claims are absolute crap and I know because if fraud is suspected in this country there is a place to address such issues - it's call the court of law. There is no innuendo in courts, only facts and if (and it's a huge if) the Republican party had proof of wrong doing they'd present those facts in a court of law. The Democratic side of things brought over 400 cases challenging the Trump admins overreach. That's because using the law is how we fight here in the states.

Here's a hint skud - either your heroes brought a suit about the voting issues and it's still running through the system or they lost (which they did in 2021, over sixty times). That's how I know the GOP has no facts, just a sincerely held belief that someone somewhere is cheating and because they are not self aware they've no clue the cheating is being performed by themselves.

Added note: both my mother and I did a lot of follow-up in regards to the 2020 election. I followed every MAGA story where the person accepted a position as a vote counter and recounter certain they would find fraud only to find out that the people they served with were just as dedicated as they were to ensure a fair election. Short speak? No fraud detected. And for their service they were attacked by their former MAGA friends for not holding the line for their dear leader Trump.

There was no fraud in 2020 aside from the lies that Trump knowingly told his followers. That skud is repeating these lies all while denying his MAGA membership is a lot like watching a toddler tell their mother they didn't eat the cookie as there is evidence on their face that yes, they ate the cookie. It's cute the first time with a toddler. With skud who has been provided all the evidence and grace time and again only to pop up again today to spew the lies of yesterday? Gets tiring to be honest.

Dave Dubya said...

Finally!
Skud confirms he fell for Trump's Big Lie. Does he buy into ALL of Trump's lies? I wouldn't doubt it.

He believes Trump is telling the truth and this is all "wrong".

Trump lost, lied, and criminally tried to steal the election.
By ALL counts, recounts, certifications, audits, Trump’s DOJ & Homeland Security, and 61 courts:
Biden 51.3%
81,283,501 Popular votes 306 Electoral
Trump 46.8%
74,223,975 Popular votes 232 Electoral

But you can't fool Skud and Trump. No siree. Trump would never tell such a lie or criminally try to overturn a fair election. For he is an honest man. Obama and Biden are the real crooks.

Skud is MAGA.

Les Carpenter said...

Facts are unimportant to Trump, his sycophants in office, or his MAGA cult of Maya worshiping fools. Their only goal is to force all to comply with their rigid Empire centered Christianity as their filthy cult leader attempts to embark on some kind of American colonialism while creating as much division at home as possible.

While there is no actual Satan (merely a concept created by Judaiam/Empire Christianity), Donald J. Trump represents the concept perfectly in real time.

The SOB is now talking about rethuglicans nationalizing elections. Gee, I wonder why? An attempt to set up the same system as Russia? Insuring goons like Trump and his fascist party remain in power forever?

If that should happen we will never again see a free and fair election in this nation.

Yeah, I know, everyone figures it can't happen here. Folks in Germany (and Europe) might have a different view.

This nation is edging ever closer to the tyranny it once overcame. But the Empire Evangelical Christians with their Prosperity Gospel, racism as well as anti women and LGBTQ rights have the power of the Trump regime and the federal government behind them right now. With the filthy Trump following the Hitler Nazi playbook (and it has worked for him) this nation could very well soon be finished.

skudrunner said...

Dube, What is illegal about asking for a recount of votes. You and your media are all about shaping facts to fit their narrative. Biden is competent, biden and is running the country, jefferies has a clue. All of these things you bought into and there are many who believe biden was competent for the four years he was in office and harris actually accomplished something.

I do agree with you that obama and biden are the real crooks but to say trump is an honest man is a stretch.

Shaw Kenawe said...

"I do agree with you that obama and biden are the real crooks..."

The dictionary defines "crook" as a criminal or a lawbreaker.

Please tell us when former presidents Obama and Biden were indicted and convicted of breaking the law.

Just because your propaganda mills say so, it doesn't make it so.

Would you be happy with people calling you a crook just because they don't like you? Without evidence of your breaking any laws? I wouldn't think so. Why do you continuously besmirch former presidents Obama and Biden with lies then?

It's a simple question. Can you answer it?

PS. The Republican Party put an ACTUAL CROOK, LAWBREAKING CROOK in the White House. That is a fact. Trump is also a sexual assaulter, according to the law.

But here you are, labeling former presidents Obama and Biden as ""the real crooks."

Insane, isn't it.

Les Carpenter said...

LMAO!!

As skud continues to be skud living in Maya with his presnit Fuhrer Trump.

skudrunner said...

Ms. Shaw, I was just agreeing with Dube so you need to ask him. I'm sure he has an answer and a reference. Of course he also thought biden was competent so I would question his references.

Dave Dubya said...

It's surprising to no one that Skud needs to deflect and project right out of the gate:

What is illegal about asking for a recount of votes.
(There were numerous recounts. How many recounts does Skud need?)

You and your media are all about shaping facts to fit their narrative.
Not ONE sliver of evidence. But Trump's word is gospel. We actually shape the narrative to fit the facts. Skud and Trump do the opposite.

Skud actually believes FOX(R) is impartial. He BELIEVES the Criminal President is telling the truth.

Trump is actively interfering with the upcoming election by demanding and seizing state records and ballots.

Now he said, "We should take over the voting", and Skud remains silent or whines about Biden.

People like Skud have voted for fascism. These authoritarian personalizes have no sense of shame or conscience. It is who and what they are.

Les Carpenter said...

You should question your own rigtwing references skud. Deeply question them.