AMERICA HAS A MAD MAN RUNNING THE COUNTRY

 

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

 

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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."

 

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC

 

Project 2025/Trump's plans for America!

AND THIS:

THIS IS HEARTBREAKING.

 Max Dashu, Founder and Director at Suppressed Histories Archives:

"Canada just walked away from the United States. We ended our economic and security ties with Trump’s America, but it was historically stunning nonetheless. Not in some passive, “we’re disappointed” way. Not a strongly-worded letter. Not a polite diplomatic eye-roll. No — Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a full break-up speech on live TV.

“The era of deep economic, security, and military ties between Canada and the United States is over.”

And just like that, 150+ years of the world’s most peaceful, "mutually beneficial, boring-but-beautiful border relationship... done - dismantled by one orange blowhard/rapis/felon cosplaying as a capable President when he’s just a Russian asset in a fucking diaper.

"This comes after Trump allegedly tried to set up a phone call with Carney, to which Carney said “nah.”

"Donald Trump — in what might be the most unhinged foreign policy week since “buy Greenland” — slapped a 25% tariff on Canadian auto imports, called Canada a “national security threat,” and floated the idea of annexing us as the 51st state.

"Yes. Annexing. Like Putin-lite. Except fatter and with worse grammar.

"Then, when Canada pushed back by deepening economic ties with the European Union, Trump jumped on Truth Social and typed this out with his whole chest:

“CANADA IS TRYING TO UNDERMINE AMERICA. IF THEY THINK THEY CAN PARTNER WITH THE EU AGAINST US — THERE WILL BE HARSHER SANCTIONS. CANADA AND EUROPE BE WARNED.”

"Carney called that bluff today most soberly and seriously. Canada isn’t taking a break for it’s economic and security alliance - we’re torching it and betting on ourselves with a few other deomcratic superpowers not led by a fucking dotard Putin Puppet.

"Today, Mark Carney made the most consequential announcement of any Canadian Prime Minister in modern history. Visibly pissed but composed, he said enough was enough:

“We have to look out for ourselves. And we will do that.”

“He [Trump] wants to break us so America can own us. And it will never ever happen.”

“We will defend our workers. We will defend our companies. We will defend our country.”

"It felt less like a press conference and more like Churchill with better lighting. That wasn’t a press conference. That was world history in the making. A moment that will come to define us as the world’s biggest energy superpower, and it will be done in an unimaginably short period of time because it has to be. Canada will do things not thought possible. And we’re here, so it has to get done.

"Trump did this. Not Canada. Not Mark Carney. HOWEVER, maybe we should think about sending him a gift basket because the butterfly effect of having the dumbest fascist alive be the 47th president of the United States

"The Global Fallout. This wasn’t just a press hit — it was a geopolitical earthquake. Here’s what’s happened in just 12 hours:

The Canadian dollar surged as markets responded to Carney’s leadership and a pivot toward Europe.

The Dow dropped 700 points after U.S. automakers panicked over retaliatory tariffs and global realignment.

EU leaders released a joint statement backing Canada and fast-tracking trade + defense integration.

American allies from Germany to Japan are quietly freaking out — not because Canada left, but because it finally did what they’ve all been thinking.

“Canada is now the first country on Earth to formally sever close ties with Trump’s America.”

Musk, like his co-president, Trump, breaks laws.

From the post below: 

 MORE ELECTION-BY-BRIBERY BY THE NAZI-SALUTING CO-PRESIDENT: 

This is illegal: "Musk announced in an overnight post on X that he’ll hand out million-dollar checks at a Sunday night event in Wisconsin—but only to those who voted in the state’s Supreme Court election. Why is Elon so invested in this race? Tesla is facing legal challenges in Wisconsin." 

 MADISON (WKOW) -- Attorney General Josh Kaul (D-WI) filed a lawsuit on Friday against Elon Musk and his political action committee America PAC, claiming the billionaire tried to buy votes in Wisconsin's Supreme Court election.

I'm just putting this here...

 

as an example of the utter madness that has gripped this country.

Guess whose children will be subjected to this Dickensian-age regression in child labor laws.

HINT: It won't be DeSantis's kids, nor the children of other rich people.