Idiot FOTUS fires six NSC staff on advice from conspiracy idiot, Laura Loomer...

 

and other insanity from the idiot king:

It was a remarkable spectacle: Ms. Loomer, who has floated the baseless conspiracy theory that the Sept. 11 attacks were an “inside job” and is viewed as extreme by even some of Mr. Trump’s far-right allies, was apparently wielding more influence over the staff of the National Security Council than Mr. Waltz, who runs the agency. A longtime supporter of Mr. Trump who has frequently spoken of her desire to work with him, Ms. Loomer was one of Mr. Trump’s most vicious online enforcers during the 2024 campaign.

Thomas Friedman, NYTimes:

"Donald Trump is not known for doing his homework — he’s more of a go-with-my-gut kind of guy. What I find most terrifying about what Trump is doing today is that he seems to be largely relying on his gut to bet that he can radically overturn how America’s institutions have operated and the way the nation relates to both its allies and enemies — and get it all right. As in, America will become stronger and more prosperous, while the rest of the world will just adjust. Next question. 

 Well, what are the odds that Trump can get all of these complex issues right — based on trusting his gut — when on the same day that he was announcing his huge tariff increases on imports from the world over, he invited into the Oval Office Laura Loomer, a conspiracy theorist who believes that Sept. 11 was an “inside” job. She was there, my Times colleagues reported, to lecture Trump about how disloyal key members of the National Security Council staff were. Trump subsequently fired at least six of them. (No wonder so many Chinese asked me in Beijing last week if we were having a Mao-like “cultural revolution.” More on that later.) 

 Yes, what are the odds that such a president, seemingly ready to act on foreign policy on the advice of a conspiracy theorist, got all this trade theory right? I’d say they’re long. 

 What is it that Trump, with his grievance-filled gut, doesn’t understand? The time we live in today, though far from perfect or equal, is nevertheless widely viewed by historians as one of the most relatively peaceful and prosperous in history. We are benefiting from this pacific era in large part because of a tightening web of globalization and trade, and also because of the world’s domination by a uniquely benign and generous hegemon called the United States of America that is at peace and economically interwoven with its biggest rival, China. 

 In other words, the world has been the way the world has been these past 80 years because America was the way America was: a superpower ready to let other countries take some advantage of it in trade, because previous presidents understood that if the world grew steadily richer and more peaceful, and if the United States just continued to get the same slice of global G.D.P. — about 25 percent — it would still prosper handsomely because the total pie would grow steadily larger. Which is exactly what happened."

The Idiot King gives the finger to what he called "suckers & losers."

These soldiers were serving their country when they lost their lives. Trump chose playing golf over respecting them.

"NOBODY EVERY HEARD OF [TRUMP'S] FORMULA."

 

This was less than 3 months ago:

#ETTD

 

AMERICA HAS A MAD MAN RUNNING THE COUNTRY

 

BREAKING:

DETROIT, April 3 (Reuters) - Stellantis NV, maker of Ram trucks and Jeeps, said on Thursday it was temporarily laying off 900 workers at five U.S. facilities after President Donald Trump's tariffs were announced. 

YAHOO FINANCE NEWS: "Trump's first 50 days mark one of the worst starts for the S&P 500 under any presidency 

The Trump 2.0 stock market is off to one of the worst starts of any presidency since 1950. 

New data crunched by SunDial Capital Research strategist Jason Goepfert on Wednesday shows the market's response to President Trump since the inauguration is among the bottom of all presidents since 1950. 

In the first 50 trading sessions since Inauguration Day, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) has dropped about 6.4%.  

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Trump just imposed, by executive order, the single largest tax increase on consumers in American history.  

I don't understand why Trump so proudly calls this "Liberation Day". 

The only liberating that will be going on is trillions in stock market losses and billions in new taxes charged to US citizens. 

 As far as I know, no tariffs on Russia .

"Susan Crawford elected to Wisconsin Supreme Court..."

"...cementing 4-3 liberal majority. Backers painted Crawford's victory as a resounding defeat for President Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk, who showered more than $20 million on her opponent."

 

Elon tried with his million dollar bribes to buy a win in the Wisconsin election. He failed.

The Wisconsin election is a substantial victory for the liberal candidate in Wisconsin — a state Trump won in November.

Democrats recently flipped Republican-held state legislative seats in special elections in Iowa and Pennsylvania. In Louisiana on Saturday, voters rejected four proposed constitutional amendments backed by the Republican governor, Jeff Landry.

Kudos to the people of Wisconsin. I only wish the midterms were closer because the carnage will continue. Trump's lie of "a dictator for only one day" gets lost among his many other lies. 

Retribution is happening through every sector of society, public and private. So good, let's enjoy a victory. But please contact your representatives. 

Protest and push back through every legal means possible. Don't be cowed into silence. If it hasn't already, Trump's lunacy will eventually find you.

GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER

 

Message Body

A Deliberate Flouting of the US Constitution

Take a few moments out of your life and read this account of what has happened to the life of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Garcia is one of the 260 [we cannot be sure how many because the Trump Administration does not have firm numbers themselves.] or so suspected gang members the administration recently deported to a penal colony in El Salvador. 

It’s from Bill Kristol of The Bulwark…

Last night, Nick Miroff of the Atlantic reported that Trump administration lawyers admitted, in a court of law, that immigration officials mistakenly deported an individual with protected legal status to El Salvador’s “Terrorism Confinement Center.”

Kilmar Abrego Garcia fled gang threats in his native El Salvador in 2011, when he was 16 years old, and came to the United States. He has lived here since, has no criminal record, works full time as a union sheet-metal apprentice, is married to an American citizen, and is the father of a five-year old child who is a U.S. citizen. He was accused by an informant of being a member of MS-13, which his lawyer has strenuously denied and for which there seems to be no proof. He was never convicted of or even charged with any crime.

In 2019, Abrego Garcia filed an application for asylum and an immigration judge granted him legal protection from being sent to El Salvador based on legitimate fears of persecution and torture.

The [Trump] administration admits in its court filing that it “was aware of this grant of withholding of removal” at the time it violated that court order and sent Abrego Garcia off to prison in El Salvador anyway.

And yet, the administration now claims that there is nothing a U.S. court can do to rectify their willful mistake. 

Let what you are reading sink in.

The Trump Administration, with full knowledge and forethought, deported a known innocent man, after depriving him of his Constitutional rights. Further, the Trump Administration  was aware that this innocent man had a legal “grant of withholding of removal.”

And now the administration claims there is nothing they can do to rectify the situation.

Oops, so sad, too bad.

Not a single GOP leader has spoken up to condemn the administration for this obvious miscarriage of justice and violation of the Constitution. Nor have many leaders from the Democratic Party.

Certainly not one member of the administration is resigning over this and not one of them is expressing remorse.

Joe Biden, Barack Obama, indeed all of our presidents have made mistakes. Then they’ve admitted wrongdoing, apologized and helped our country make amends. Perhaps Ronald Reagan apologizing for Irangate and the Japanese internments during WWII, comes to mind. 

I have to say, way too often these days, that I’ve never seen anything like what has happened to Garcia in my lifetime from a US Presidency.

I’ve also never seen the indifference from so many everyday US citizens before. 

Maybe we’ve just become too inured to the everyday chaos, ugly reality and violence that is the Trump Administration to notice… or care.

I sure hope not.

NOTICE

 

Trump talked about NOT preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution. IOW he's planning on violating his Oath of Office.

President Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.” 

 “A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call with NBC News, referring to his allies. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.” 

 “I’m focused on the current,” Trump added, in some of his most extensive comments to date about serving a third term.

 

So Trump says he's considering a 3rd term, even though it is prohibited by the Constitution, the law of the land. 

Imagine former President Obama, or ANY POTUS, saying anything like this! The sailors on the Mother Ship; every FAUX NOOZ talker and viewer; and the entire MAGA universe would have their hair on fire. But here we have Trump threatening to break the law and become a dictator: *crickets* 

Question to the Who's Your Daddy lurkers and to skudrunner, -FJ, Joe Conservative, and Thersites who often visit here:

What do you have to say about Trump's threat to violate his Oath of Office? Also, are you okay with this kind of treasonous threat from Trump -- to ignore a law and break a solemn vow in order to stay in power? Would you be okay with this if it were coming from a Democrat?

You, skudrunner, -FJ, Joe Conservative, Thersites, and Lisa of WYD are Americans, just like my P.E. readers and me. Is this how an American president should behave? Threaten to upend the Constitution and commit a high crime and misdemeanor to retain power? Does this bother you the way it bothers me, a fellow American?

I would like to know your reaction to this unprecedented threat from an American president.

"Under the law, it may be considered treason or a high crime to betray a sworn oath of office. In many cases, the oath is performed using an oath book, typically religious scripture such as the Bible. The word 'oath' and the phrase 'I swear' refer to a solemn vow."