Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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General John Kelly: "He said that, in his opinion, Mr. Trump met the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if allowed, and had no understanding of the Constitution or the concept of rule of law."

Sunday, February 16, 2025

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 




“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” --Albert Camus






Saturday, February 15, 2025

SATURDAY NIGHT COMEDY

 


Because we need to laugh:




TRUMP/MUSK REGIME SHOOTING OFF THEIR MOUTHS BEFORE FINDING OUT THE FACTS.

 “GIVE BACK THE MONEY, NOW!” Trump posted to Truth Social on Thursday.

Who? Reuters! The international news wire service founded in London, that has thousands of contributing journalists reporting from around the world.
Trump and Musk are raging that "radical left" news publication Reuters was given a was given a $9 million defense contract in 2018. And Musk's DOGE boys just discovered it!!!
“Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for ‘large scale social deception,’” Musk wrote in a post he’s since pinned to his profile. “That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam. Just wow.”
WHAT CORRUPT IDIOTIC TRAITOROUS GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL WOULD AUTHORIZE SUCH A THING????
Um. Donald J Trump. He was president in 2018.
So, the contract was not a nefarious plot by a Democrat administration run Pentagon, to have Reuters to write nasty articles against Trump, as Musk is suggesting.
The contract, from the TRUMP Pentagon, went to Thomson Reuters Special Services, which is separate from the newsroom, and specializes in countering fraud and cyber threats. That is why it was a DEFENSE contract, that stipulated the mission was to COUNTER ‘large scale social deception."
Just like it says.
Trump and Musk are following the Dictator handbook, which says to prioritize muzzling, slandering and crushing the Free Press.
They already misrepresented payouts to POLITICO and the New York Times by USAID. No, they were not to commission bad articles against Trump either. They were government-wide SUBSCRIPTIONS to special wire news services over the course of 8 YEARS. Including the time TRUMP was President.
And The Associated Press, another international wire news service, was kicked out of the Trump/Musk news conference Tuesday, because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America", which Trump has decreed ALL news organizations must do. Trump may tell America what to do, but the world will still call it the Gulf of Mexico, as it has been officially named for over 500 years.

Friday, February 14, 2025

BLACK HISTORY MONTH -- THE BATTLE OF BAMBER BRIDGE












In 1943 Black American soldiers faced off with white American military police during World War II on British soil. 

Black American soldiers had to fight their own white American soldiers while in England where they were fighting the world war. 

Why? Because the town, Bamber Bridge in Lancashire, was not segregated so they treated the black soldiers like all other races, but back in America segregation still existed so essentially the American army went to someone else’s country and demanded they adopt their racist practices 

When the American military police found out that their own black soldiers were drinking at the same pubs as white people, they went in to arrest them. The people in the town got mad about that treatment and decided to then turn their pubs into “BLACKS ONLY DRINKING PUBS”   

This pissed off the American military so guns went blazing and when word spread back at camp that black soldiers had been shot, scores of men formed a crowd, some carrying rifles and by midnight more American military police arrived with a machine gun-equipped vehicle.








The black soldiers also had no choice but to get rifles from British stores while others barricaded themselves back on base, so now it was American white soldiers verses American black soldiers This led to the death of one solider, the injury of seven, and 32 convictions.  

Back in America the battle was hushed up because they didn’t want the country to find out that they were fighting their own soldiers which would anger the black population and weaken the morale in the country.



General Ira C. Eaker, commander of the Eighth Air Force, placed most of the blame for the violence on the white officers and MPs because of their poor leadership and use of racial slurs. 

To prevent similar incidents happening again, he combined the trucking units into a single special command. The ranks of that command were purged of inexperienced or racist officers, and the MP patrols were racially integrated. Morale among black troops stationed in England improved, and the rates of courts-martial fell.  

Although there were several more racial incidents between black and white American troops in Britain during the war, none was on the scale of that of Bamber Bridge

Thursday, February 13, 2025

COURAGE, INTEGRITY, RULE OF LAW:

 

Federal prosecutors in New York and Washington resign after refusing to drop Adams charges 

AS I'VE STATED, HE'S GONE MENTAL:

 


Donald Trump moments ago in the Oval Office: “Canada is going to be a very serious contender to be our 51st state." 



Canada’s Ambassador to France said “These continued threats to our sovereignty violate international law”.



 





  “Yes Mr. Trump we will definitely do that” * 

*Putin and Xi glance at each other with a knowing smirk.

REMEMBER HOW THEY MADE FUN OF JOE BIDEN? LOOK AT THIS:

 

Trump, visibly confused and rambling, forgot why he was in the Oval Office—to swear in Tulsi Gabbard as DNI. 

Instead, he tried to leave without doing it, leaving even Newsmax stunned.

At almost 79 years old, the decline is undeniable. This is not normal.


 

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

MUSK DOESN'T LIKE OUR CONSTITUTION...

 


and demands the judiciary branch obey his dictates.


Stunning. 

Musk, a civilian no one voted for and who's never been vetted, wants to reinterpret our constitution so he can go about his work bending our country to his will.

Am I the only one who is slack-jawed in disbelief, watching this mountebank plunge America into a constitutional crisis?


Musk calls for ‘wave of judicial impeachments’ 

Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Wednesday called for judges to be impeached for checking the power of the Trump administration, as some of its efforts to overhaul the government get bogged down in legal fights. 





MUSK HAS NO AUTHORITY TO CALL FOR ANYONE'S IMPEACHMENT. HE SHOULD HAVE HIS TRAITOROUS ARSE KICKED TO THE CURB. 

IMMEDIATLEY.












Musk's kid speaks for all of us:



I FORGOT TO MENTION...

 


that Trump is an insecure, petty little worm of a tyrant:


Trump Orders NASA to Purge All Mentions of Women in Leadership On Its Websites

WE SUSPECTED THIS

 

It appears that Trump's co-president, Musk, is destroying government agencies that he and his fellow Trumpublican marauders have been salavating over for years to destroy.

Their destruction has nothing to do with saving money for the American people. It has to do with hurting the most vulnerable and marginalized among us -- and the world.

If Americans actually believe that the richest man in the world cares about saving American taxpayers' money and not making himself more powerful and richer, then I'll have a health care plan that is bigger and better than the ACA ready for you in two weeks!





Musk cuts based more on political ideology than real cost savings so far 

 WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - "The first phase of the rapid-fire effort by Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, and President Donald Trump to cut waste from government agencies appears driven more by an ideological assault on federal agencies long hated by conservatives than a good-faith effort to save taxpayer dollars, according to two veteran Republican budget experts." 

Since Trump's inauguration on January 20, Musk has dispatched members of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to scrutinize sensitive personnel and payment information in government computer systems and led a successful drive to dismantle two agencies - one that provides a lifeline to the world's needy and another that protects Americans from unscrupulous lenders.


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 But Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Republican director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), said the agencies Musk and Trump have targeted to date account for a tiny fraction of the overall federal budget, which is projected to reach $7 trillion this fiscal year, according to the CBO. 

"They are not going to go into agencies that are doing things they like. They are going into agencies they disagree with," Holtz-Eakin, who has participated in past tax and spending negotiations in Congress, told Reuters."

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

TRUMP IS OUT OF HIS MIND!



JUST RECENTLY IN THE WH, WITH JORDAN'S KING AND THE SECY. OF STATE RUBIO: 


Trump: "We don’t have to buy Gaza. We’re going to take it.” 

Reporter: “Under what authority?” 

Trump: “Under the U.S. authority.”

(NOTE:  There is no "U.S. authority" to take someone else's land and kick the inhabitants out of it. That's called an Act of War.)

 







THAT FEELING YOU GET WHEN YOU REALIZE THE MAN YOU WORK FOR IS INSANE:





MAGA loyalists, particularly Vice President J.D. Vance, have begun to suggest they will not abide by the rule of law,

 

Heather Cox Richardson:

MAGA loyalists, particularly Vice President J.D. Vance, have begun to suggest they will not abide by the rule of law, but before Trump and Vance took office, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts called out Vance’s hints that he would be willing to defy the rulings of federal courts as “dangerous suggestions” that “must be soundly rejected.”

Today the American Bar Association took a stand against the Trump administration’s “wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself” as it attacks the Constitution and tries to dismantle departments and agencies created by Congress “without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law.”

“The American Bar Association supports the rule of law,” president of the organization William R. Bay said in a statement. “That means holding governments, including our own, accountable.” He cheered on the courts that “are treating these cases with the urgency they require.”

“[R]efusing to spend money appropriated by Congress under the euphemism of a pause is a violation of the rule of law and suggests that the executive branch can overrule the other two co-equal branches of government,” Bay wrote. “This is contrary to the constitutional framework and not the way our democracy works. The money appropriated by Congress must be spent in accordance with what Congress has said. It cannot be changed or paused because a newly elected administration desires it. Our elected representatives know this. The lawyers of this country know this. It must stop.”





From Talking Points Memo:


Trump's DoJ appears to be disorganized and incompetent:




Overnight, the Justice Department had to file two separate corrections in pending court cases to clean up misstatements of fact they made to federal judges in open court. It’s an excruciating thing for any lawyer to have to do, but especially for the Justice Department which has prided itself on being a reliable narrator and has earned, for better or worse, the benefit of the doubt in federal court.
The impact and significance of the admitted errors isn’t entirely clear yet, but they undermine the Justice Department’s credibility and make it clear to the judges involved that these are not careful, considered, prudent government actions that deserve to be treated as regular or normal.
In the Treasury-DOGE case, the Justice Department now says it was mistaken when it told the court that since-resigned DOGE associate Marko Elez was a special government employee. He was in fact a Treasury Department employee.
In the USAID case, the Justice Department admitted it was wildly wrong when it told the court that 500 employees were placed on leave. The actual number was 2,140. It also mistakenly told the court that only future USAID contracts had been frozen when in fact existing contracts had been frozen as well.
The pace of the destruction unleashed by the White House combined with its disorganization, its ham-handedness, and the lack of involvement from lawyers at the front end has created an enormous mess for the Justice Department to try to clean up in real time in court. It’s not been pretty.
Trump being sloppy and non-strategic is neither new nor a surprise, but it might provide an opening to fend off some of his worst actions in his first three weeks in office.

Monday, February 10, 2025

AND THERE IT IS






Trump says no judge “should be allowed” to rule against his administration . 



Trump is telling us he is above the Constitution and that no law applies to him.

Trump said he'd be dictator, but only for one day. But, we know Trump is a lying liar. He meant for his entire presidency.

Trump has no intention of obeying the courts.

When you put a convicted felon -- a law breaker -- into office, expect him to break the law.




This is what authoritarianism looks like. It’s taken 249yrs to come to America. It’s up to the American people to resist it. To defeat it. I hope we do.
 



 Just In the last few hours, Trump has: 

 -Signed an executive order directing the DOJ to halt enforcement of anti-bribery laws for foreign officials. 

 -Pardoned ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, convicted on corruption charges. 

 -His DOJ ordered NY prosecutors to drop corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. 

 Donald Trump IS the swamp.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

 

NEW: Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old employee of Elon Musk’s DOGE, known online as “Big Balls,” has been appointed senior adviser at the State Department, The Washington Post reports. Some U.S. officials expressed alarm about Coristine’s new perch at the bureau, which serves as the IT department for Washington’s diplomatic apparatus.
All of the department’s IT and data management functions were centralized at the bureau during an overhaul before President Donald Trump returned to office, making it a treasure trove of information.
“This is dangerous,” said one of the U.S. officials, noting Coristine’s age and a report by Bloomberg that he was fired for leaking a data security firm’s information to a competitor.







 WIRED investigative reporters have confirmed that Elon Musk's 19-year-old staffer is deeply involved in an online community of cybercriminals who steal state and corporate secrets and trade them on the dark net to terrorists and foreign operatives. This is who Elon gave your Social Security information to and now just handed the keys to the State Department: a cybercriminal teenage punk who sells classified material to our enemies. It's time for a national rebellion.