You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

 

Scientist Banned From Entering US Over Opinions About Trump—Minister 

"The space researcher was randomly selected for a search when arriving in Houston, Texas, on March 9, AFP and Le Monde reported. Officers found messages criticizing Trump's policies on his phone and computer following sweeping cuts to scientific research. U.S. authorities saw these messages as "hate and conspiracy messages," which prompted an FBI investigation that was later dropped. 

However, the researcher was sent back to France. CBP's move to deny entry to a foreign national seemingly solely based on their opinion of the president, rather than necessarily expressing ill will or intentions to harm him, comes amid increased scrutiny of those entering the country."

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Welcome to Hungary -- we are no long the "land of the free and the home of the brave" when this sort of intimidation of foreigners happens. What makes any of us think it won't happen to us? To this blog, for example, that has a low opinion of Trump?

When MAGA chanted, "Let's Go Brandon," which meant "F**k Joe Biden," not one of those Trump supporters, foreign or domestic, lived in fear of  being questioned by the FBI or any federal authority about it. But that was under a president whose administration was NOT authoritarian like this one under Felon Trump.

This is what we live under now.

What are we going to do about this assault on US?

ELON DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHY HE'S DISLIKED HERE AND AROUND THE WORLD:

WHY ppl hate him? uhhh pic.twitter.com/gG3ofB1Phl

— ZiMnY 🇵🇱 (@MuTaPuMp2024) March 19, 2025

 

 Musk: "I always thought that Democrats were supposed to be the party of empathy. I’ve never done anything harmful, I’ve only done productive things. This doesn't make any sense. I think there are larger forces at work." 

(Musk literally canceled AIDS medicine and anti-starvation nutrition packets for the world’s poorest.)

Trump is going after the Democratic Party, and wants to destroy it.

 

Is Trump planning to eliminate the Democratic Party and  heading toward a one-party system -- a dictatorship? Everything Trump and the Trumpublicans are doing points in that direction.

This is just another piece of Trump's plan for the Viktor Obanization of America.

With Orders, Investigations and Innuendo, Trump and G.O.P. Aim to Cripple the Left 

The president and his allies in Congress are targeting the financial, digital and legal machinery that powers the Democratic Party and much of the progressive political world. 

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It is not unusual for partisans in Congress or their outside allies to push for investigations into political groups on the other side of the aisle. But using the levers of government to target the opposition has long been considered an abuse of power, sometimes leading to prosecution. Mr. Trump himself was impeached in 2019 for pressuring the Ukrainian government to investigate the Bidens. 

Mr. Trump’s continued willingness to defy that norm — including in a grievance-filled speech at the Justice Department on Friday, during which he name-checked a litany of critics and called them “horrible people,” “thugs” or “scum” — has Democrats sounding the alarm. 

 “The breadth is breathtaking,” said Cole Leiter, executive director of Americans Against Government Censorship, a coalition of progressive groups and labor unions created last year to defend against an anticipated Republican assault. Taken together, Mr. Leiter said, the efforts amounted to an attempt “to cut the legs out from their opposition.”

Felon Trump calls for the impeachment of a judge he doesn't like.

 

TRUMP:   "This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!"   

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement Tuesday rebuking President Donald Trump and his allies for calling to impeach judges who have ruled against the administration. 

 "For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose," Roberts said in a statement.

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In totalitarian regimes, the tyrant gets rid of anyone or anything that interferes with his power to do whatever he wants: Media he doesn't like; judges he doesn't like. 

When will America wake up and see Trump for the anti-democratic totalitarian that he is?

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."

 

The Captain of the Mother Ship:  "BB-IDAHO…….ARE YOU PROUD OF AMERICA?  (how’s that for a question?!)"

BB-Idaho answers with wit and dignity:

BB-Idaho says:

March 18, 2025 at 5:52 am

RE: “BB-IDAHO…….ARE YOU PROUD OF AMERICA?  (how’s that for a question?!) Sort of like “are you still beating your wife?” ! I’ve been proud of the US ever since I was born the day Greece surrendered to Nazi Germany. I was proud when Biden was president (gasp!). But I’m a member of the Silent Generation, so I don’t get all puffed up about it. I’m still proud, but pondering Proverbs – Pride Goeth Before A Fall. Naturally, I am proud of our education system, I like teachers, and when I had to fire someone, I felt that somehow I failed. I live in one of the most Republican states in the country – but they talk to me. – and no, I am still not beating my wife 

PS. Bravo! Well done, Sir!

Dear BB-Idaho,

We here at P.E. would NEVER question your being proud of America.

What the Captain of the Mother Ship (and her sailors) don't understand, and never will, is that one can love one's country and criticize it when it fails to live up to its ideals and laws. She and her Trumper pals will not tolerate anyone who calls out this country when it fails to live up to its promise and elects a convicted felon/sexual assaulter to represent us. They will never understand what it means to live in a democracy where loyalty should be given to our Constitution NOT TO A PRESIDENT!

Right now, we are being tested by a president who doesn't believe in our ideals and laws, and the Mother Ship sailors and Captain love HIM, not the Constitution. 

Mark Twain famously said, "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it," suggesting a distinction between loyalty to one's nation and critical evaluation of its actions. 

Trump is threatening the 1st Amendment. Americans cannot let this stand. He's a threat to our democracy.

 

 

Judges threatened with impeachment, bombs for ruling against Trump agenda

Updated March 14, 2025

Elon Musk salute drawn on Welsh beach in Tesla protest

 

BLACK ROCK SANDS, WALES, UK

#ETTD

Trump is not preserving, protecting, nor defending the Constitution of the United States

  

Trump is a lawless president. What did America expect when it put a convicted felon in office? 

 At 12:35 am ET, the president decreed that he was nullifying President Biden’s preemptive pardons of members of the January 6 committee, an assertion of a power the Constitution does not bestow.

If the courts don't hold these people in contempt for ignoring the court rulings and take action, and if they aren't stopped from doing whatever they have planned around this, then it will be clear we are living in a dictatorship and we do not have a democracy any longer.

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."--Leo Tolstoy

SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC

 

Never forget the power of the people:

THE IDIOT FOTUS:

 

REPORTER: Mr. President, Denmark has repeatedly stated Greenland is not for sale. Are you still pursuing this idea? TRUMP: Look, Denmark is very far away. A boat landed there 200 years ago or something, and they say they have rights to it. I don't know if that's true. I don't think it is, actually. REPORTER: So you’re questioning Denmark’s sovereignty over Greenland? TRUMP: I’m just saying, it’s a big piece of land, beautiful land. A lot of ice, a lot of minerals. Very valuable minerals. And quite frankly, we really need it for national security. REPORTER: How does Greenland factor into U.S. national security? TRUMP: Well, it’s in the Arctic. You know who else is in the Arctic? Russia, China—bad guys. You don’t want bad guys in the Arctic, believe me. And we could do some great things there. Maybe you'll see more and more soldiers go there. We’d be protecting it. REPORTER: So are you proposing to station U.S. troops in Greenland? TRUMP: Well, you know, soldiers love cold weather. You ever see the movie Fargo? They wear those nice hats with the flaps. It’d be perfect. REPORTER: That’s…not how this works. TRUMP: Look, the people of Greenland love me. They would love to be part of America. We could make it great. Maybe call it “Greenland Trump Tower,” I don’t know. We’ll see what happens.

Greenland’s prime minister says island isn’t for sale as Trump seeks control ‘one way or the other’

From Politico

 

Updated: 03/14/2025 05:11 PM EDT

President Donald Trump on Friday walked into the Department of Justice and labeled his courtroom opponents “scum,” judges “corrupt” and the prosecutors who investigated him “deranged.”

With the DOJ logo directly behind him, Trump called for his legal tormentors to be sent to prison.

“These are people that are bad people, really bad people,” the president said in a rambling speech that lasted more than an hour. “The people who did this to us should go to jail.”

In remarks that were by turns dark, exultant and pugnacious, Trump vowed to remake the agency and retaliate against his enemies.

It was, even by Trump’s standards, a stunning show of disregard for decades of tradition observed by his predecessors, who worried about politicizing or appearing to exert too much control over the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency. Trump, instead, called himself the “chief law enforcement officer in our country” and accused the DOJ’s prior leadership of doing “everything within their power to prevent” him from becoming the president

TRUMP BUYERS' REMORSE

 

Trump Buyers’ Remorse:

- 34-Year-old Clinton Township, Michigan Woman who voted for Trump and now regrets it:”I fear that this will eventually turn into a dictatorship.”

- 55-Year-old Commerce Township, Michigan Woman who voted for Trump and now regrets it:"He is acting like a… pic.twitter.com/hiElt25gVa

— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) March 14, 2025

"Is this the real life; is this just fantasy?" I seriously don't know anymore. Do you?

 

Union rages after Elon Musk shares X post that ‘Hitler didn’t murder millions, public sector workers did’

‘Our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians ... are not, as the world’s richest man implies, genocidal murderers,’ fires back angry union president

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, IT'S A DUCK!

Even neutral Switzerland despises him!

 

How universally detestable one must be to have the Swiss demonstrate their hatred of the US Felon-in-Chief:

Trump managed to piss off Switzerland.

The ENTIRE GLOBE hates him. pic.twitter.com/eodkNFSqng

— Mrs. Butters 🥧 (@MrsButters) March 13, 2025

Yale Professor Timothy Snyder

 

This is well worth the time to listen to. Please do so:

Timothy Snyder, "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century"

BREAKING

 

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast · 1h 

The White House has asked the United States military to draw up plans for how it might seize the Panama Canal “by force,” according to a bombshell report.

Yahoo! News: 

"The Trump administration has asked the U.S. military to draw up options for retaking the Panama Canal. President Trump has been pushing for retaking the canal since December, and repeated his desire in a joint address to Congress last week, without any elaboration. 

The rest of the Trump administration hasn’t attempted to explain what he means, either. 

Trump on acquiring Greenland: "We have a quite a few soldiers, maybe you’ll see more soldiers go there. What do you think Pete?"

TRUMP ALSO TODAY: "I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water and the water is now flowing down. They have so much water they don't know what to do ... we broke in to do it."

Trump DID NOT "INVADE" Los Angeles. 

Trump is having a mental breakdown in front of the world. He's gone barking mad! 

He should be in a straight jacket, not the Oval Office!

REMEMBER WHEN TRUMPERS SAID THE FELON IN CHIEF WAS NEVER GOING AFTER SOCIAL SECURITY?

Elon Musk said it clearly: "Social Security and Medicare are waste spending and fraud, a Ponzi scheme, and both should be eliminated."  He plans to steal Americans' retirement savings.

The US government made a deal with taxpayers:  They would hold out OUR money in savings for retirement. We didn't get to elect into the program; it was automatic. 

It's our money!

Elon Musk is another version of Trump, only younger and richer and more avaricious. He knows nothing about our government and how it works. He's a ketamine addicted narcissist tearing down all that we Americans have worked for all our lives and destroying our children's and grandchildren's futures.

From Foreign Policy:

"Musk recently claimed on Joe Rogan’s podcast that Social Security is “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.” In fact, Social Security has been one of the most effective and enduring components of America’s social safety net. It has done more than almost anything else to alleviate the problem of poverty amongst the elderly. While the program has been far from perfect, Congress has continued to improve and strengthen its structure over time when reforms were warranted. The program has become a “third rail” in national politics because it is so central to the lives of families living in states both red and blue. 

 Until recently, President Donald Trump has known enough to stay away from this issue. He has avoided mentioning cuts to the program, most likely sensitive to the fact that doing so has very little appeal to most of the electorate, including with a lot of the voters who brought him into power. 

 But as with his drive to reshape the government workforce with a sledgehammer rather than a chisel, Musk might end up dragging the president into a political quagmire that will consume much of the administration’s energy. Threatening Social Security, which turns 90 this year, will do more than almost anything else to energize Democrats and deflate Republicans, who will perceive this to be a losing issue for their party."

The first lesson in confronting authoritarianism -- what Trump has brought to America: