"OUR PETTY, HOLLOW, SQUALID OGRE-IN-CHIEF"

 

After reading this post, I suggest you go to THIS BUZZFEED SITE to see what Trump has done to his so-called "Presidential Walk of Fame" at the White House. It is difficult to believe that Trump, our hollow, squalid ogre-in-Chief, could outdo himself in pettiness, but go to the site and see that he absolutely did. It is appalling!

Conservative opinion columnist, Bret Stephens

"There is, as Adam Smith said, 'a great deal of ruin in a nation,' by which he meant that there are things in almost any country that are going badly wrong but can still be mended. Foolishly imposed tariffs can be repealed. Hastily cut funding can be restored. Ill-thought-out national security strategies can be rewritten. Shaken trust can be rebuilt between Washington and our allies.

 But the damage that cuts deepest is never financial, legal or institutional. As one of Smith’s greatest contemporaries, Edmund Burke, knew, it lies in something softer and less tangible but also more important: manners. 'Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us,' Burke wrote. It is, he warned, through manners that laws are either made or unmade, upheld or corrupted.

 Right now, in every grotesque social media post; in every cabinet meeting devoted, North Korea-like, to adulating him; in every executive-order-signing ceremony intended to make him appear like a Chinese emperor; in every fawning reference to all the peace he’s supposedly brought the world; in every Neronic enlargement of the White House’s East Wing; in every classless dig at his predecessor; in every shady deal his family is striking to enrich itself; in every White House gathering of tech billionaires paying him court (in the literal senses of both 'pay' and 'court'); in every visiting foreign leader who learns to abase himself to avoid some capricious tariff or other punishment — in all this and more, our standards as a nation are being debased, our manners barbarized. 

I wonder if we are ever getting them back — and if so, what will it take."

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"This is not a country on the cusp of its 'Golden Age,' to quote the president, except in the sense that gold futures are near a record high as a hedge against inflation. It’s a country that feels like a train coming off the rails, led by a driver whose own derangement was again laid bare in that contemptible assault on the Reiners, may their memories be for a blessing."

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Trump's disgusting Truth Social post about the Reiners is as bad as anything he has done, and he will expose himself as the depraved person that he is again. As hard as it will be to witness another one of his travesties, I believe his next outrage will need to be reported and broadcast widely because this is how all this will end. 

The resistance, the pushback, the organizing must continue; but at this point, I think it's become clear that we are witnessing Trump's inevitable self-destruction. The sooner that is complete, the sooner the country can start to heal.    

The great Italian director and screen writer, Federico Fellini, supposedly said about television that "it is the mirror in which we see the complete defeat of our culture." 

For America, Donald Trump is the mirror in which we see an ongoing debasing and mockery of our culture. He is what the tyranny of the minority adores. They elected him twice, and it appears that he will never lose substantial support from many of them, although some deterioration in that support is happening. 

He is them; they are him. 

And now, they're getting what they have clamored for, good and hard.

MY RESPONSE

 

SAM HUNTINGTON OF GEEEZ BLOG: "I don’t know what prompted Joe to bring the disruptions to your attention yesterday; I hope it wasn’t out of meanness. But I am not surprised by what I saw printed there, nor by those who participated in their childish banter. What are they most upset about? It’s that many of us are no longer willing to turn the other cheek or let bygones be bygones. And we now have certain limitations in our tolerance. We are not willing to accept decadence as America’s standard."

"...decadence as America's standard."

The man they support for POTUS is a convicted felon, adjudicated sexual assaulter/rapist, serial adulterer who cheated on all 3 wives, and the present one with a porn star and playmate bunny; a man who bragged openly about grabbing women's genitals because he thinks he's "a star." Trumps was also a close friend of two notorious child sex traffickers/rapists for years. Trump AND his wife, Melania partied at Epstein's mansions in New York and Palm Beach many, many times. Trump even sent an affectionate birthday card to Epstein and signed his name in the crotch section of a drawing of a young female's body. Trump bragged about being the owner of a teen beauty pageant so that he was able to intrude on the teenage girls when they were half naked because, as he said, he was the owner of the pageant, and he could do it.

Trump appeared on shock jock radio, Howard Stern's, show and had no problem when Stearns described Trump's daughter, Ivanka, as "a piece of ass." Trump was proud that Sterns saw his daughter as something to be ogled at and objectified by men.

Trump denigrates women on almost a daily basis calling them names for the way they look and for doing their jobs.

I could list more about Trump, but what I have posted here is common knowledge and has been widely reported about him for years.

So, to counter what "Sam Huntington" wrote about his and his confrere's inability to "accept decadence as America's standard," I say this to him:

You don't just ACCEPT decadence, you proudly support, vote for, and relish it because you put it in the White House, Sir!

GET RID OF THEM!

"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."

 

 "After WWII, there was significant American sentiment, driven by racism, economic fear, and wartime hysteria, that wanted to prevent Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans from returning to the West Coast or gaining full citizenship rights, leading to post-war anti-Japanese activism and policies, though the U.S. Supreme Court eventually struck down some of the most extreme measures like indefinite detention. 

While many Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans) were loyal citizens, the desire to keep them out was strong, with groups lobbying Congress and state officials fearing economic competition and cultural threats, even pushing for legislation to strip citizenship from those who renounced it during the war. 

Following Pearl Harbor, Executive Order 9066 led to the forced removal and incarceration of over 100,000 Japanese Americans, fueled by fear, prejudice, and political pressure from the West Coast, as documented by the National Archives

 

"The more things change; the more they remain the same."

The comments below were taken off the public blog "Geeez." I assume most of the people who comment there see themselves as good Christian Americans who believe and practices what is in the Bible. Although reading their comments on Muslim Americans, and in particular Minnesota Rep. Ilan Omar, belies that assumption.

"When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress or mistreat him. But the stranger who resides with you shall be to you like someone native-born among you; and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God."

GET RID OF THEM!

"SHOULD ICE JUST KEEP STOPPING PEOPLE, KEEP ARRESTING, CONTINUE WHAT THEY’RE DOING?   How do we convince Americans that WE NEED THESE PEOPLE GONE?  AND THAT WE DON’T WANT TO BE ANOTHER UK WITH MUSLIM MAYORS IN SO MANY CITIES ACROSS THIS COUNTRY?

1. jess says:

   December 16, 2025 at 4:17 am

   People ignore the efforts of an enemy. Why? They’re afraid and don’t want to engage them in war. Until the enemy is recognized as the enemy, drastic measures are taken to remove their ability to cause harm, and the avenues of their infiltration are removed, they become stronger, and the inevitable outright war will cause the deaths of those that ignored the reality of their predicament.

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2. Ed Bonderenka says:

   December 16, 2025 at 5:35 am

   To add to Jess.

   We are at war. Most of us just don’t want to admit it, it’s too unpleasant, or requires a response and effort. But they are at war with us.

   This is true of China and it is true of these unassimilating heathens.

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3. Jeffrey Guy says:

   December 16, 2025 at 6:01 am

   Agreed with Jess and Ed. Plus the Liberals and MSM are pushing for the illegals, the Muslims, and people that have come in that are on government assistance to stay. All of these should be gone as they break our laws and the Muslims want to take over following Sharia Law, which is not allowed as it against US Constitutional Law.

   Our country is based on Judeo-Christian Law and religions. The Elites on the Left are ignoring what is happening with the flood of lower class Muslims taking over Europe and seeing what is happening in other countries. This flood was done by Biden with not just Muslims but other countries and group

 this tendency to bow to figures like Ilhan Omar was predicted by writers such as John Cunningham, who, in 1947, demonstrated how to recognize cowardice in his short story that became the Hollywood film High Noon.  All Omar has going for her is the race card, and when all you have is the race card, you have nothing.  We can despise Omar because she deserves our negative feelings toward her.  Still, shouldn’t we acknowledge the fact that she is the result of an insidious plan by Obama to “fundamentally change the complexion of the United States of America?

I have questions, though.  Since when does ICE pull over anyone?  Was there an immigration checkpoint?  That would make more sense.  Now, if ICE asked for proof of citizenship, is that a form of discrimination?  Answer: No, not if the questions were asked of everyone regardless of skin color or hairstyle.  Maybe he was detained because he couldn’t provide proof of citizenship, which is nearly impossible in Minnesota.  In Minnesota, even extraterrestrials can obtain proof of citizenship.  That leaves one more possibility: When a woman gives birth to her brother’s child, it’s entirely possible that the offspring is a fool and shouldn’t be allowed out of the house, much less wander through an immigration checkpoint."

jess says:

December 16, 2025 at 11:25 am

Ice has no record of Omar’s son being pulled over. Otherwise, the Islamic acceptance of using deceit, and any other method, including murder, to promote their goal was well used by Omar. She needs to go.

Who to believe? Who to believe? The people who work for a known liar, Donald Trump, and Kristi Noem, who's been brought before a Congressional Oversight Committee for breaking the law? Or Ilhan Omar and her son, whom Trump publicly denigrated by calling them "garbage?"

I'll believe Rep. Omar, since Trump and Noem have a reputation for being dishonest.

Words fail me.

PALATE CLEANSER

 

In social media parlance, the story below is known as a "palate cleanser," and that term is used when a poster wishes to inject something of beauty, wisdom, or human decency into horrendously bleak reports on current events.

As Dave Miller noted in the comments below, this past weekend was one of unrelenting news of tragedies:

Three Americans shot and killed in Syria by lone gunman. 

Two killed and 9 others injured in the Brown University shootings.  

Fifteen dead and 40 injured in Australia shooting aimed at Jews attending a Hanukkah celebration. 

Four people injured in a shooting in Greenville, NC. 

Six people injured in a shooting in Brooklyn, NY. 

One killed and 3 injured in a shooting in Cleveland, OH. 

I needed to read something that reaffirmed human decency, and I found this:

"On May 30, 2015, Barack Obama walked into the Oval Office and found Joe Biden sitting alone, staring at a family photo with tears streaming down his face—it was just fifteen days after Biden's beloved son Beau had died from brain cancer at age forty-six, and what Obama did next became one of the most profound moments of friendship ever witnessed in the White House.

He sat beside Biden, held his hand for nearly twenty minutes without saying a word, and then whispered something that Biden later revealed in his 2017 memoir: 'You gave Beau the best life any son could ask for, and now you have to let yourself grieve like the father you are, not the Vice President everyone expects you to be.' 

What makes this moment absolutely soul-crushing and beautiful is that Obama had cleared his entire afternoon schedule without telling anyone why, instinctively knowing that his Vice President and friend needed permission to fall apart, and according to senior advisor Valerie Jarrett's 2019 book, Obama told his staff, 'If anyone needs me today, tell them the President is exactly where he needs to be—with his brother.' 

The depth of their bond was forged not in policy victories but in shared understanding of devastating loss—Obama had lost his mother to cancer, his grandmother days before his 2008 election victory, and he recognized the specific hell of watching someone you love slip away despite all your power and resources. 

Biden later told Stephen Colbert in a heartbreaking 2015 interview that Obama offered him something extraordinary during those grief-stricken months: 'Barack told me to take all the time I needed, that the Vice Presidency could wait, that America could wait, because being Beau's father was more important than being Vice President, and he meant it—he actually meant it.' 

In a 2017 email, Jeffrey Epstein wrote: "I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."

From Occupy Democrats:

BREAKING: Obama delivers a powerful tribute after Rob Reiner’s murder as Trump spits on his grave — and Americans are stunned by the contrast.

In a moment that called for basic human decency, America got a side-by-side contrast so stark it felt like a morality play.

Barack Obama responded to the deaths of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, with empathy, humility, and class.

“Michelle and I are heartbroken by the tragic passing of Rob Reiner and his beloved wife, Michele. Rob’s achievements in film and television gave us some of our most cherished stories on screen. But beneath all of the stories he produced was a deep belief in the goodness of people—and a lifelong commitment to putting that belief into action. Together, he and his wife lived lives defined by purpose. They will be remembered for the values they championed and the countless people they inspired. We send our deepest condolences to all who loved them,’ the former president posted on X.

His message centered on grief, love, and legacy. He spoke about Reiner’s belief in the goodness of people, about a life lived with purpose, and about the inspiration Rob and Michele gave to others. It was a reminder of what leadership looks like when it understands that words can heal. No politics. No ego. Just humanity.

Then came Donald Trump.

While Obama offered condolences, Trump used the deaths of two people to settle scores. In a rambling Truth Social post, Trump mocked Reiner as “tortured” and “struggling,” smeared him with the made-up slur “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” and somehow managed to turn a tragedy into a self-congratulatory rant about his own “Golden Age of America.” Even the obligatory “rest in peace” landed like an afterthought, tacked on after a barrage of cruelty.

This wasn’t just bad taste — it was a window into character.
Obama spoke to the country. Trump spoke to his resentments. Obama honored a life and a marriage defined by creativity and values. Trump reduced two deaths to an excuse for ridicule and grievance. One man showed respect for the dead and compassion for the living. The other showed that even grief is no barrier to his appetite for insult.

The American people have seen this pattern before. When tragedy strikes, Obama’s instinct is empathy. Trump’s instinct is always about attacking his perceived enemies and protecting himself.

And that’s the real comparison voters should sit with. Leadership isn’t about who shouts the loudest or who insults best. It’s about who knows when to be silent, when to be kind, and when to rise above hatred.

In this moment, one former president acted like a statesman. The other acted exactly as America has come to expect — cruel, petty, and incapable of grace.

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

“Be where you are, otherwise you will miss your life.” — Buddha

SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC

 

Appropriate for what our country has experienced over this past week (and the past 11 months) because of the convicted felon in the White House:

"WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IS NOT NORMAL POLITICS."

Conservative David Brooks wrote this in an Op-Ed in the NY Times in April of this year:

"Trumpism… is primarily about the acquisition of power — power for its own sake. It is a multifront assault to make the earth a playground for ruthless men, so of course any institutions that might restrain power must be weakened or destroyed. Trumpism is about ego, appetite and acquisitiveness and is driven by a primal aversion to the higher elements of the human spirit — learning, compassion, scientific wonder, the pursuit of justice. …

What is happening now is not normal politics. We’re seeing an assault on the fundamental institutions of our civic life, things we should all swear loyalty to — Democrat, independent or Republican.

It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power. …

I’m really not a movement guy. I don’t naturally march in demonstrations or attend rallies that I’m not covering as a journalist. But this is what America needs right now."

 DAVID BROOKS WRITING FOR THE ATLANTIC: 

"There’s a question that’s been bugging me for nearly a decade. How is it that half of America looks at Donald Trump and doesn’t find him morally repellent? He lies, cheats, steals, betrays, and behaves cruelly and corruptly, and more than 70 million Americans find him, at the very least, morally acceptable. Some even see him as heroic, admirable, and wonderful. What has brought us to this state of moral numbness?"

AMERICAN CITIZENS KIDNAPPED, ABUSED, AND BRUTALIZED BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

 

How much longer will we Americans allow this brutal administration to continue their reign of terror?

The US is lost. As lost as it was when it decided to intern Japanese Americans. All the people in this administration and those enabling this will spend the rest of their lives denying they played a role in this horror.

They will be the shame of their children and grandchildren, and the ones who fought it will be the heroes.

 

Another innocent American citizen kidnapped and brutalized by his own government!

Testimony of an American citizen, George Retes, who was kidnapped and brutalized by the Trump administration. Full testimony below.

 

GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER

 

Freedom of the Press 2.0… the post Constitutional Era

 

Let’s go back to November 2024 and pretend that Kamala Harris won the election.

 

Then let’s fast forward to February 2025, the first full month of her presidency.

 

Let’s suppose President Harris started publicly complaining about FOX News coverage of her, calling it unfair, biased and full of lies. She sues the network and cites the upcoming license renewal which her administration must approve, all in order to get more favorable coverage and personally receive millions of dollars.

 

Now fast forward a few more months into her presidency. In the late fall we see two major entertainment companies desiring to merge, a process that needs government approval. Again, not pleased with the news coverage she is getting, President Harris demands a say in the future news coverage of her administration in order for her administration to approve the merger.

 

Questions…

 

Is there anything inherently wrong with either of these two scenarios?

 

Should a POTUS be able to intervene in the editorial decisions of independent news agencies?

 

Would the involvement of a POTUS in the hiring and editorial decisions of an independent news agency impact the Constitutional right to a free press?

 

Clearly these examples are based on how President Trump dealt with CBS News and 60 Minutes and the proposed merger of Warner & Netflix or Warner & Paramount.

 

Paramount, the parent of CBS. Larry Ellison and his son David, both Paramount leaders have a strong relationship with President Trump and approved the payments made by CBS directly to Trump. Additionally, President Trump has publicly said he will be involved in the Paramount deal to acquire Warner, the parent company of CNN. Trump’s son in-law Jared Kushner is also a major player in the prospective deal.

THE SHAME OF AMERICA:

 

The Scots (bless them) have a name for Trump:

 Blatherskite

DISGUSTING!

Had Trump, been POTUS when my father and mother applied for their citizenship, they would have been stopped by his administration because they were immigrants from Sicily. People from Sicily and other southern Italian regions were perceived as an "undesirable" population.

"Italians encountered widespread discrimination rooted in nativist prejudices, racial stereotypes, and economic anxieties. Perceived as culturally and racially inferior, Italian immigrants faced exclusion, violence, and systemic marginalization. 

Southern Italians looked unlike any other European group to arrive to the Americas before: Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, and so on. All Norther European. However, Mediterranean Italians are generally darker, and easier to stand out in a crowd—so they were easy targets to begin with.

Sensationalized media coverage, including newspaper illustrations, reinforced the association of Italians with organized crime, violence, and laziness. These stereotypes ignored the diversity of the immigrant population, 99% of whom were laborers seeking honest work."

The Trump administration is engaging in the same type of discrimination against an entire population because of a few "bad apples" and Trump's and his administration's racism.

Here is a partial list of Italians Trump's goons would have kept from achieving their American citizenship had he been POTUS when southern Italians and Italians from other regions were considered undesirable immigrants.

Frank Sinatra's parents

Enrico Fermi

Fiorello LaGuardia's father

Dean Martin's father

Joe Dimaggio's parents

Joe Montana's parents

Lee Iacocca's parents

Anthony Fauci's parents

Jill Biden's grandparents

My father came to America through Ellis Island and eventually landed in Boston where he worked as a barber in Scollay Square.

We lived in Boston and eventually moved to a Boston suburb where, through hard work and savings, he eventually built our family home, bought the building in which his barbershop was located, and sent his children to college. All this was achieved by a Sicilian immigrant, and this story was duplicated by millions of others from southern Italy.

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Abrupt Cancellations: Immigrants across the U.S. reported arriving at their scheduled ceremonies, only to be "plucked out of line" by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers who asked their country of origin. 

 Affected Countries: The policy impacts nationals from countries including Afghanistan, Haiti, Iran, Venezuela, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, and others. 

 Reasoning: The administration cited the need for a "thorough re-review process" to assess national security and public safety threats, following a recent incident involving an Afghan national. 

Impact: This pause has put thousands of individuals, some of whom had held green cards for many years, in limbo, despite having completed all prior steps for citizenship.

Immigration lawyers have confirmed these incidents and expressed serious concerns about the abrupt nature of the cancellations, which occurred just as applicants were set to take their final oath.

The irony of this disgusting story is that Trump, who is denying citizenship to targeted immigrant groups, would be denied US citizenship BECAUSE TRUMP IS A CONVICTED FELON AND ADJUDICATED SEXUAL ASSAULTER/RAPIST WHOSE HISTORY INCLUDES PARTYING FOR YEARS WITH CONVICTED CHILD SEX TRAFFICKERS AND RAPISTS, EPSTEIN AND MAXWELL.

Any country that cares about the quality of immigrants becoming a naturalized citizen would NEVER allow a low-life criminal like Trump into its borders.  

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC

 

TRUMP RECEIVES THE FIRST (AND ONLY) FIFA "PEACE PRIZE."

 

Imagine being mocked by the biggest (and most corrupt) sport franchise on the planet and being completely unaware that you're the mark:

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

IT APPEARS TRUMP'S SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, PETE HEGSETH, COMMITTED A WAR CRIME -- OR MURDER.

  MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The WSJ confirms that in the leadup to Pete Hegseth's serial war crimes in the Caribbean, he made clear to commanders that our military code *was not to be followed*—no questions were to be asked of any orders. It led to the resignation of the top commander in the Caribbean.

Graphic depictions of two survivors being killed by a second US military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug ferrying boat have provoked outrage where previously there was none – or at least relatively little.

 A firestorm of controversy has greeted a recent Washington Post report which suggested that a deadly attack on a vessel carrying 11 people in the Caribbean was followed with a second assault after the initial strike failed to kill everybody onboard.

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"The rationale has been widely rejected by most legal experts, who have pointed out that the US is not in conflict with an armed group involved in attacking its territory or its assets abroad." 

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 “Even if we buy into their framing that the individuals on these vessels are combatants, it would still be unlawful to kill them if they are hors de combat, which means they’re incapacitated,” said Rebecca Ingber, a professor at Cardozo law school and a former legal adviser to the state department. 

 “It is manifestly unlawful to kill someone who’s been shipwrecked. This is such a longstanding textbook principle of the law of armed conflict. 

 The prohibition is made explicit in the Pentagon’s own Law of War manual." 

 'Members of the armed forces and other persons … who are wounded, sick, or shipwrecked, shall be respected and protected in all circumstances,' it says. 'Such persons are among the categories of persons placed hors de combat; making them the object of attack is strictly prohibited.'

 Significantly – given the allegation that the second strike was conducted in accordance with Hegseth’s order to kill everyone onboard – the manual also addresses the question of illegal orders."

GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER

 

Not enough people are talking about…

 

Venezuelan airspace being closed... Yes, somehow the Trump Administration has determined the US has a right to unilaterally close any sovereign nation’s airspace we want. Under what authority? Why? No news yet, but stay tuned, I’m sure President Trump will let us know.

 

Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case… Somehow as drug trafficking has become so important we need to bomb single boats in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and close the airspace over Venezuela, it’s okay to pardon a drug trafficking felonious Ex-President who worked alongside Chapo Guzman of Mexico to supply cocaine to Latin American and the US.

 

Sec Def/War Pete Hegseth orders survivors of US air strike bombed again to make sure they are dead… If this is being reported correctly, Hegseth is guilty of war crimes. The Geneva Conventions clearly state that survivors are to be captured and treated humanely. And the US has signed on to and agreed to this. This is one of the major safe guards in place to protect US military personnel abroad.

 

Some Trump voters are struggling to square compassion, Trump’s words and reality… Here’s a story of a conservative Trump supporting mom who is working to care for peaceful immigrants in her town, while the Trump Admin lies about their criminality and works to deport them.

 

President Trump is continuing to cut tariffs… The big question is why is the Trump Admin cutting tariffs? They continue to insist prices are not up. So why sacrifice the income for the US? They continue to say tariffs do not raise prices, so what effect on the US economy can cutting prices possibly have?

 

Regarding the Afghani shooter… Fox News is reporting that National Guard shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal was an elite CIA operative, vetted multiple times across two US Administrations and was legally in the US because the Trump Administration approved him for residency. Many conservatives, including apparently President Trump, are unaware of these facts, as evidenced by him calling a reporter who questioned him about the apparent conflict of his words with reality, stupid.

 

Vinyl Records… Vinyl records, known for years as LPs, are in a bit of a resurgence. In a change of pace, check out the great story I linked above on vinyl recordings of all types. It may be just the tonic you need to forget about politics for a few moments.

 

6 - 7… Are you aware of this? In the last two weeks after returning to the US, I’ve spent some time around middle schoolers and all they talk and dream about is 6-7. Check it out in this crazy clip.

 

Finally… who knew the great John Williams of Star Wars fame, wrote the original theme music for Gilligan’s Island? It’s true and here it is.

I’m sure some here will quibble with these stories, or the sources. You cherry picked them, they’ll say, and it shows your bias. Maybe so, but each and every story I’ve highlighted here can be found on traditional news sites, conservative sites, progressive sites and independent sites.

 

Except maybe 6 - 7, but who knows.

 

Enjoy, on to the comments.

I AM SICKENED BY THIS

 

This is what racists and bigots all through history have said about immigrants coming to America. 

We've known for a long time that Trump is an unrepentant racist. 

Listen to how the president of the United States talks about a certain group of immigrants to our country.

I am ashamed to be an American while Trump is president. He does not represent what a majority of my fellow Americans think about immigrants, nor does he share my or my fellow human beings ' human values. There is something desperately wrong with Trump's brain.

 I'm sickened by this.

‪Mark Jacob‬ ‪@markjacob.bsky.social‬

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I wish there was a precedent for what happens when a demagogue picks out a vulnerable minority group and labels them as subhuman. I wonder what the next step is and whether any innocent people get hurt. And I wonder whether the demagogue's followers go on trial when the whole thing is over.

Trump ATTACKS Ilhan Omar as “garbage” in a full-blown racist tirade from the White House podium.

BREAKING: Trump ATTACKS Ilhan Omar as “garbage” in a full-blown racist tirade from the White House podium.

In a jaw-dropping meltdown that showcased the ugliest instincts of his presidency, Donald Trump used his press briefing today to unleash one of the most openly racist rants ever delivered by an American president—attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar, Somali Americans, and Somalia itself in language that would make George Wallace blush.

Yes, this was the rhetoric of ethnic cleansing coming straight from the mouth of the President of the United States.

Standing at the presidential podium, Trump didn’t even pretend to hide it. He called Somalia “barely a country” and smeared Somali immigrants as people who “run around killing each other,” bringing “nothing” to America. Then he crossed into full-blown white-nationalist fantasyland, declaring, “I don’t want them in our country… their country stinks… we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage.”

Yes—the President of the United States called a sitting member of Congress “garbage.”

And his message to millions of Somali Americans? Get out.

Trump ranted about Minnesota as if it were an occupied territory, accusing Somali families—without evidence—of stealing “billions” and contributing “nothing.” He smeared Omar as hating America, hating the Constitution, and hating “everybody.” He even demanded she “go back” to where she came from—his oldest, most recycled racist applause line.

Let’s be clear: Trump wasn’t talking about policy. He wasn’t talking about security. He was talking about race. About who he thinks deserves to be American—and who he thinks doesn’t.

This is the same Ilhan Omar who came to the U.S. as a refugee, became a citizen, built a life, and rose to Congress. Meanwhile, Trump—whose grandparents came here fleeing poverty—spent the morning ranting about “garbage people” while standing in a taxpayer-funded mansion he’s covered in gold plating.

The cruelty, the racism, the projection—it’s all the same Trump playbook. But today, he ripped the mask off completely.

And every Republican who says nothing owns every word of it.

I recommend that you listen to this former Navy Seal Officer:

 

 

 AND THIS.

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Former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy:

 "If this happened as described in the Post report, it was, at best, a war crime under federal law. I say 'at best' because, as regular readers know, I believe the attacks on these suspected drug boats — without congressional authorization, under circumstances in which the boat operators pose no military threat to the United States, and given that narcotics trafficking is defined in federal law as a crime rather than as terrorist activity, much less an act or war — are lawless and therefore that the killings are not legitimate under the law or armed conflict," the attorney wrote.

McCarthy goes even further, suggesting that, "even if you buy the untenable claim that they are combatants, it is a war crime to intentionally kill combatants who have been rendered unable to fight. It is not permitted, under the laws and customs of honorable warfare, to order that no quarter be given — to apply lethal force to those who surrender or who are injured, shipwrecked, or otherwise unable to fight."

THANKSGIVING 2025