Update Aug. 27: In regard to yet another mass shooting, this time at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minnesota in which the victims were children attending chapel, the fact that Kash Patel is calling this a “hate crime” against Catholics should be taken for what it is, another attempt to politicize crime in this country in order to justify Trump’s war against Democratic states and cities.
The shooter is apparently a transgender individual, but while it shouldn’t be a “surprise” that someone seems to have been pushed to the “edge” given the Trump administration’s attempts to dehumanize the LGBTQ community in general with its anti-DEI campaign, one shooting involving someone from this community rather makes it an “unusual” case. But give Trump and the religious right time; they will find a way to turn this into a something more than a “mental health” issue.
But even adding this to Wiki’s list of mass shootings with at least four victims, over 60 percent have occurred in states that voted for Trump in 2024. Just looking at this map demonstrates this fact (yes, Pennsylvania also gave its electoral votes to Trump):
But Trump isn’t sending National Guard troops to red states, which have homicide rates 33 percent higher than blue states, and where at least 25 red states have “permitless” open carry laws, meaning people who are “legally” allowed to have guns do not need to obtain a permit to carry them.
This means, of course, that red states are more violent than blue states. But is in blue states where those protests are, and Trump of course considers protest against himself and his violent policies to be “violent” because it is happening right in front of his face, turning his face more “orange” with rage every time.
Update Aug. 25: Only brain-dead MAGA types believe this anti-matter version of history…
…and here 1 we see two far-right Supreme Court justices threatening lower court judges instead of supporting them when their rulings are being openly defied, completely unmindful of the fact that as Thom Hartmann points out here 2 they are as responsible for the fact that it has taken just six months for this country to devolve into tyranny and fascism as is the Republican Party which not that long ago claimed to oppose unbridled executive authority. The Federalist Society allegedly supports “individual freedom” and “separation of powers,” but that is not what at least five of their hand-picked far-right justices believe in.
Trump, meanwhile, has just signed an “executive order” to make burning the American flag a “crime” in open defiance of the Supreme Court's own ruling that it is protected “speech.” Trump and his stooges defile and destroy the meaning of this flag daily, but you can’t expect this Supreme Court to tell him he is “wrong.”
In fact what we are seeing is not just shameless hypocrisy, but what these people truly believe in is not about the law or the Constitution (“originalism” is just an excuse to make things up as they go along), but that they see in Trump with the “immunity” they have given him from actions that would be deemed unconstitutional and criminal if anyone else was doing this as the easiest and fastest way to impose their fascist vision on the country.
Anyone who actually thought that these far-right justices were simply bringing law and civil rights back to the “center” were clearly mistaken in that belief. This court will be judged by history as harshly as the Taney court (or as the Nazi courts were, which the 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg addressed) was.
And this just in: The New York Times is reporting that "President Trump directed the Defense Department on Monday to take a larger role in domestic law enforcement, including by 'quelling civil disturbances,' as he threatens to broaden deployments of the National Guard in cities run by his political enemies." That means, of course, protesting, which this action is in violation of the First Amendment's freedom of assembly and speech.
This is also in clear in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, but the Supreme Court gave Trump “immunity” from violating any law if it gets in his way, so what can it do?
Update Aug. 24: If you need more evidence that failure follows those who left it behind (such as will be the case of Trump to this country’s economy and international reputation), just take into consideration the actions of former USPS head Louis DeJoy, whose “reforms” included shutting down and “consolidating” distribution centers, causing delays of ground deliveries well beyond the “expected” delivery date until trucks are “full”—meaning so-called “Ground Advantage” deliveries are to the consternation of customers who are at the mercy of sellers (such as on Ebay) who use the service (often even when you pay for “Priority Mail”) and packages can sit in one state for as long as five days on the other side of the country before they actually “move.”
Meanwhile, Trump’s pathetic lapdog, J.D. Vance (what’s that “couch” business about anyways?) was seen on a morning news program defending Trump’s failure to achieve “peace” after he served as Putin’s lapdog in Alaska. Putin thinks so little of Trump that he rightly believes that sending him an autographed photo of themselves together will please Trump enough for him to forget about that "peace" business (but he still thinks he should get that “prize” for “trying”) while women and children are being killed by Putin’s stepped-up bombing of civilian neighborhoods (why does Putin think that it is “OK” to do this every time he “talks” to Trump?).
I have little respect for mainstream broadcast news “journalists” who are just there to look telegenic and not aware enough to challenge Vance on Trump’s non-existent pressure on Putin. Vance blamed Biden of course, but he had some trouble thinking of anything that Trump had done to "pressure" Putin (in fact the red carpet treatment was the opposite of "pressure").
Wracking his empty brain Vance finally came-up with those tariffs on India’s oil purchases from Russia, but that occurred before that “summit” and still had no effect on either Putin or India’s purchases. Trump’s motivations were purely “personal” anyways: he wants India to purchase more expensive U.S. oil, and he’s “mad” at India for not doing so. Of course the interviewer seemed "satisfied" with that "answer."
Also, we see Trump intending to send the “troops” to Chicago, New York and likely San Francisco. As I mentioned in likening a recent meeting between Hegseth and military, DHS and ICE officials as this country’s version of the Wannsee Conference held by senior Nazi officials to coordinate the “Final Solution,” the psychopathic Hegseth is going full throttle, now saying that he will arm the National Guard troops in Washington D.C. and use them for civilian law enforcement.
Let's remember also what really instigated this--the "attacks" on Kristi Noem (that stolen handbag with $3,000 cash in it) and on former DOGE employee "Big Balls," and Trump is fearful that others in his hated administration will be targeted too.
Of course this all for “show” to make people believe that things are worse than they actually are. These actions are "technically" illegal according to the Constitution, but where are those military leaders who are protesting that they are not “upholding” the Constitution by obeying Trump and Hegseth’s illegal orders?
Update Aug. 23: So now we know why Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted of sex-trafficking of minors—you know, the “worst of the worst” in Bondi and DHS’ lingo—was sent to a minimum security prison in Texas: because she told DOJ deputy AG and Trump’s personal attorney Todd Blanche (so he can’t divulge “personal” communications) that she had no “knowledge” of “inappropriate” activities by Trump, or of any "lists" that Jeffrey Epstein may have kept in his safe along with those "incriminating" images that Michael Wolff claimed that Epstein showed him.
Now, that doesn’t mean that Trump is “innocent”—or anyone else she went out of her way to defend, like Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton; after all, we know that Trump and Epstein had “private” parties that Maxwell may not have been invited to. So let’s not let Trump off the hook so quickly now. Maxwell is clearly lying for a pardon. I mean this is a win-win for both Trump and Maxwell—especially for Maxwell, since if Trump pardons her (obviously because he doesn’t give a damn about “victims” unless he thinks he and his friends are), she likely will not be prosecuted for making false statements.
Update August 22: Like I said, Trump, Hegseth and Gabbard are trying to conceal information vital to national security while the administration thugs conduct war on this country. Now we learn that the completely unfit, unqualified and conspiracy fanatic so-called FBI Director, Kash Patel, is licking Trump’s behind by sending FBI agents to the home of John Bolton in search of “evidence” that he is “misusing” classified information.
From Bolton’s statements on Trump’s foreign policy incompetence we may presume he knows more than he is letting on, but there is nothing in his statements that suggests he is “misusing” that information. The “misuse” is in fact in the form of the Trump administration endangering this country by continuing to be the tool of both Russian and Chinese intelligence operations--or simply pretending it isn't "important" enough given this administration's racist, fascist "priorities." Instead, Trump is conducting "operations" of vengeance and retribution against those who reveal his incompetence, which should be obvious to all.
Update Aug. 21: A few days ago there was a shooting in Golden Gardens Park in North Seattle in which a man who was hosting a baby shower for his pregnant wife was shot four times by a man they did not know. The shooter ran to a car with two other people and drove off, but stopped some distance away after they got their story “straight” and called 9-1-1, when they told police that the shooter shot in “self-defense.” According to the police blotter the shooter was originally to be booked for “assault,” but instead was taken to a detective unit for “questioning” and then released back onto the street without charge.
Family members, who were Hispanic, were outraged by this result. Predictably on Reddit there was a discussion page for people who claimed to be there, and every “witness” had a different interpretation of what they saw, not to mention differing “facts”; naturally no one admitted to knowing anything from the attendees of the party’s point of view.
According to a report from KOMO News, the daughter of the victim said a man unknown to them approached the pregnant woman and pointed his finger at her belly in an aspect of a gun, as if to imply killing the baby. The daughter said first her uncle then her father confronted the man, who then pulled out a gun and shot him; a trauma center doctor was at the scene and provided medical aid before the police arrived, and the man supposedly will survive.
But what is interesting about this is that the shooter ran off to a car where two other people were waiting for him—thus suggesting that the incident was premeditated; apparently he told detectives that he just happened to be passing by, and they chose to believe that. Of course what the alleged witnesses “saw” was obviously flawed because they didn’t know the relevant facts, or made them up.
But a friend who was present noted that the family didn’t speak English well (save for the daughter) and didn’t trust the police given the current anti-immigrant political climate—and at first glance they are correct in this assumption.
On other matters of importance to me, while I order international packages mainly from European Amazon sites which ship mainly DHL, I have been notified by a company I made a couple of video disc purchases from based in the Czech Republic about how it is being affected by Trump tariffs and how USPS is changing its international delivery rules to try to dissuade American customers from purchasing EU products.
It notes that customs clearances will become longer and more complicated, and that since the shipper has yet to receive “clear guidance” from USPS on what the new “rules” will be to insure that the paperwork required is “correct” so that packages won’t be refused at customs, they are no longer accepting orders going to the U.S. for the time being, with the exception of “gifts” under $100 which is all that is known to be permitted with the end of the “de minimis exemption” of purchases under $800 starting August 29.
Update Aug. 20: The BBC is now reporting that Trump doesn’t think that Putin wants a “deal” after all. What was that phone call about then, the one that Trump left the room with Zelenskyy and European leaders because he wanted to be “respectful” to Putin? Apparently Putin was asking Trump what the hell he was talking about. He didn’t “agree” to any of the things he was telling them. Putin gave him nothing at that Alaska Summit save maybe massage his sense of “victimization.” We are told that Putin may consider meeting Zelenskyy in Moscow; to “negotiate”—or to put him in prison as a “war criminal”? The upshot is that everything we have been told by Trump before has been revealed to be a self-serving lie--except of course that a "ceasefire" was off the table.
Update Aug. 19: The only reason why the unfit and incompetent talking Barbie Tulsi Gabbard is revoking 37-count-them-37 security clearances on the orders of Trump is to avoid the question of what this administration is trying to hide and what they don't want the public to know about—very likely about continuing threats posed by Russia and what the administration is not doing to combat external threats generally.
Our allies are withholding sensitive information from U.S. intelligence because they can’t trust what Trump will do with that information—at least they care about the danger of carelessness to their own national security while Trump endangers this country all by himself by making war on his own people.
In regard to the latter, Republican governors are slobbering all over Trump’s odorous fundament by sending National Guard troops to Washington D.C., likely in the hope that he will do them “favors,” like cutting their low-income, low-benefit states a “break” on Medicaid and SNAP payments—mostly funded by blue state taxpayers.
Update: Aug. 18: Trump threatens to send the military into Mexico again, because the U.S. cannot control its own drug addicts, calling them "victims" now.
Meanwhile pro-Russia dictatorship MAGA are up in arms because European leaders dare to question if Trump is stabbing Ukraine in the back again. Some will even accompany Zelenskyy to the U.S. so he isn't sandbagged like he was the last time he had a "meeting" with Trump.
Update Aug. 17: In exchange for not "federalizing" the Washington D.C. police force, Mayor Muriel Bowser made a "pact" with the devils in the Trump administration: Leave "my" people alone, and you can do what you want with those brown-skinned people--and we'll help you, too.
Claims that tariff revenues will continue to be high seem to forget something: high tariffs leading to decreased imports due to falling consumer purchasing means less money coming in from tariffs than expected. This is why high tariffs did not work during the Great Depression.
Update Aug. 16: Five weeks after a 57-year-old migrant farm worker was killed falling off a greenhouse during an ICE raid on a cannabis farm, now we learn here 24 that an ICE raid on a Home Depot resulted in the death of a 52-year-old migrant day laborer when he was hit by a vehicle on a California highway. In both instances DHS falsely claimed that he was not “targeted,” which is what they say about “collateral” arrests or if they can’t find any “criminal history” on the deceased.
Frankly, I blame these killings on ICE, because these wouldn’t have happened if they were not there on their racial profiling operations, which I thought a California judge ruled was illegal. Sorry to harsh your lies. By the way, the horrific conditions in ICE detention facilities, according to The Guardian, will likely lead to a record number of deaths while in ICE custody in a single year in 2025.
Meanwhile, a day after the red-carpet treatment Trump gave Putin (apparently in the "hope" that he would be "nice" to Trump in return), not only is there no promised "ceasefire," but when Putin acted "dumb" when asked at the brief "press conference" whether he would stop killing civilians (you know, that war crimes business he has an international arrest warrant for), it was for a reason (overnight, it was more of the same).
Trump, made a fool again, now claims he isn't interested in a "ceasefire" but a "peace deal" entirely on Russia's terms. I found it something less than amusing when Putin claimed that if Trump was president in 2022 there would be no "war." Of course what he "meant" was that Trump would have told him to just go take it and not aided Ukraine in the least. And let's not take anything the incompetent "envoy" Steve Witkoff says seriously unless Putin himself actually says what he says he "agreed" to,
Update Aug. 15: While the mainstream media is flailing about trying to determine what exactly was “accomplished” at that “summit” between Trump and Putin, here 23 The Advocate rightly mocks the event, attended on one side by a man who has an arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and another man who is making literal war against his own people like a third-world dictator. What was anyone "expecting"? Recall the result of that "summit" meeting with Kim Jong Un that led to nothing but North Korea becoming even more dangerous.
The phony "deal maker" suffering from dementia was again made the fool, and now he is looking for scapegoats, mainly Zelenskyy. Trump shamelessly insults Ukraine’s fighters by claiming the country would have already been overrun if not for him (after over three years holding off the military of a country with more than six times its own population), and that even when after every “talk” Trump has with Putin leads only to more intensive attacks against Ukraine (why?). And still the Ukraine army is hanging on despite the fact Trump refuses to send the offensive weapons that were approved by Congress last year.
I got news for Trump: history will judge him half the man that Zelenskyy is, and maybe not even close to that. Maybe that is what really irritates about him about Ukraine's leader. On the "domestic" front, Pam Bondi can threaten to arrest half the country and throw Trump "haters" in concentration camps like the Nazis did of opposition politicians in Dachau and Buchenwald, but her place in history is already set in stone, so she can “ponder” that in her spare time, since she doesn’t spend much time on the job she is supposed to be doing.
I was walking down Fourth Ave. in Seattle last week when I encountered this Tesla “Cybertruck”:
I suppose someone (Musk) has this idea that they look “futuristic,” but you see these so rarely that you chuckle at the sight of one, because who would be numbnuts enough to purchase one of these as a “pickup truck” when they can purchase a real one like the Ford F-150 for $25,000 less. The beds of these Tesla “trucks” are designed in such a way that regardless of the rated “weight,” for “real world” use they barely have enough room for the two dog crates as we see here, and perhaps the occupants are none too happy about being stuck there:
But at least they are free to “talk” about their problem. Isn’t “odd” that no one asks migrants why they are in this country, or why they felt compelled to leave their home countries? They are not even asked why they can find those jobs the “natives” can’t or won’t find to do. No, they are just here to bide their time, and do what Tom Homan says they are here to do, which is wait for the “right time” to rip off their human skin and expose themselves as “aliens” to destroy the world—well, OK, rape white women and kill white children, or so we see Homan declaring in John Oliver's latest show, finally deciding to talk about ICE thuggery:
But of course, as The Intercept points out here 20 there is nothing "subtle" about the "Gestapo-style" tactics of ICE agents. "Armed gangs of officers, often masked and anonymous, are openly engaged in a white nationalist mission to kidnap many thousands of people — stalking court houses, farms, construction sites, and retail stores, and ripping apart the fabric of communities nationwide."
Yet the Trump administration wants us to be stupid enough to accept that taking videos of or verbally challenging these masked and increasingly unidentifiable thugs are to be counted to help bring up that "assault" number against ICE thugs to that "800 percent" rise or whatever; after all, these armed gangsters are the ones deserving of our support and "sympathy," not defenseless working people and their children.
And I am frankly sick of MAGA types who keep using the hypocritical refrain "just come in legally" when this country has made it impossible to do that, after it did what it should never have done in the first place, which was end the Bracero program in 1965, or re-institute it when it became clear that their labor was not being replaced by the "natives." The belated temporary work visa program was not just too little and too late, but deliberately onerous for employers to apply for.
Sometimes it is not the people who are actually living in the country where the nightmare is occurring who see it most clearly, but those who can see it happening from the outside and have no motivation to minimize it if it is something they have lived through. Thus we Americans (or those allowed to be one) can view the Netflix documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics and can (perhaps with a slight touch of hypocrisy) recoil at how Brazil was swept-up in far-right evangelical Christianity (first “introduced” into the country by Billy Graham) led by the perpetually angry at anything televangelist Silas Malafaia, who played “kingmaker” in fueling the rise of a formerly far-right fringe ex-military officer with authoritarian impulses, Jair Bolsonaro, who we see, knowing that this huge crowd…
…was waiting for his “blessing” to speak from Malafaia (wearing glasses):
The support of these fanatics was not enough to get Bolsonaro elected, however. It was only after the favorite to win, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was removed from the race when a federal judge, Sergio Moro, indicted and convicted him and others of “corruption.”
Moro was for a time “applauded” by the world for his fight against what he claimed was rampant corruption which also targeted top business leaders—until it was revealed that Moro was himself just another corrupt judge with a far-right political agenda, as the Brazilian news magazine CartaCapital accused him of being:
It is not hyperbole to say that Moro is the greatest enemy to Brazilian democracy since the country emerged from dictatorship in 1985. The former judge’s misconduct was not the result of negligence or incompetence. It was a sustained plot to override the will of voters and the foundations of democracy through judicial tyranny, by which the right of 220 million people to be self-governed was replaced by the ideological will of a single corrupt judge.
But even “Lula,” when released from custody, felt compelled to at least speak and pray with those in the evangelical movement who were disenchanted with Bolsonaro’s extremism. Although he eventually won the election in 2022 by less than 2 percentage points, it represented a significant 12-point swing from the 2018 election, that made clear that many voters were not prepared for the reality of Bolsonaro’s fascist ideology.
What followed was Bolsonaro refusing to concede his defeat, and his “Christian” supporters went on their own version of January 6…
…and showing MAGAmaniacs that they can one-up them on the damage-causing scale:
Political scientist Roberto Amaral wrote in the same magazine about Trump’s attempts to strangle Brazil into submission with tariffs over the charges of insurrection and the violent overthrow of the 2022 election by Bolsonaro and his henchpersons:
The US is carrying out a veritable act of bullying against humanism and peace—values that are always secondary to authoritarianism that transfigures into fascism, the fate to which capitalism in crisis always condemns us. The rise of the far-rights, is therefore, a product of the historical process, and Brazil presents itself, through its economy, its population, its territory, and its leadership, as an important element to be preserved as a territory of security.
In this context, the rule of the strongest replaces dialogue; force takes precedence over ideological persuasion, which requires time to bear fruit: the submission of the colonized to the interests and will of the colonizer. Discourse proves ineffective.
Its connection to the Brazilian far-right, and more specifically, to Bolsonarism, now a mass movement, is therefore no coincidence. Much less can its embrace of Zionism and its association with the genocide of the Palestinian people seem unreasonable. The US is carrying out a veritable act of bullying against humanism and peace—values that are always secondary to authoritarianism that transfigures into fascism, the fate to which capitalism in crisis always condemns us. The rise of the far-right is, therefore, a product of the historical process, and Brazil presents itself, through its economy, its population, its territory, and its leadership, as an important element to be preserved as a territory of security.
Isn’t it amazing that Brazil has political analysts who seem intellectually competent to talk about what is happening in their own country without Trump speaking for them? Amaral ends by pointing out what should be obvious to all looking at what the U.S. is turning into not just from the outside but the inside, that history repeats itself it people just don’t want to learn from it. It is very simple problem:
Those who want to learn from history can learn from history.
The question is do people in this country want to learn from history? As I pointed out in my last post, this is not altogether clear with a majority of people in this country—although some have pointed out that Noem’s call for 18-year-olds to sign-up for those $50,000 bonuses to become ICE thugs having shades of Hitler Youth is bad enough, but putting guns in their hands too, as if this was some shooter videogame?
Another Brazilian commentator named Milton Rondo wonders if “Caution has long since left the vocabulary of the far right”:
Hypocrisy and self-interest are hallmarks of the far right. The motto "God, Country, and Family" is nothing more than a slogan to deceive the unwary. Caution, however, has long since left the vocabulary of the far right.
He notes that Trump, played for a fool by Putin and toyed with by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (remember him, who the West once regarded as more “moderate” than Putin?), allowed a “simple argument” over his ceasefire “ultimatum” to turn into a nuclear confrontation. “We can see,” observes Rondo, “then, how a simple argument can turn into a nuclear holocaust, at the mere whim of a dictator.”
And then of course Trump is throwing around accusations of “anti-Semitism,” which he finds useful as an excuse not only to browbeat major universities into submission, but
Worse still: this theater of horrors is set against an international backdrop in which the US's vassals in the Middle East—the State of Israel practicing state terrorism—commit genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
He goes on to note that while “Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Western countries for a ‘regime change’ in Russia…the West remained silent.”
Why should it be surprising? Isn't this what the US did throughout Latin American history? Didn't colonial powers like France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, and Germany follow the same script in Africa? Why should that be surprising? The dictatorial will seeks to control everything, like a false god, manipulating bodies and peoples in its own image.
The U.S. has seen wannabe dictators before, although never coming this far into the abyss before. American Heritage (not to be confused with the Heritage Foundation) examined 1 the rivalry between FDR and Louisiana’s populist governor and U.S senator Huey Long before that latter’s assassination by the disgruntled son of a political opponent in 1935. FDR understood the appeal of Long’s “share the wealth” rhetoric and attacks against corporations like Standard Oil had in a country still in the grip of the Great Depression, and used some of that rhetoric in his 1936 Madison Square Garden speech—which helped him win re-election by a (real) landslide.
Nevertheless, unlike Long, FDR respected the Constitution and democratic government, and not simply power for its own sake:
Roosevelt was one of many who feared that, unless certain social changes were made peacefully, they would ultimately be made violently and democracy might not survive. For the president and his circle, the threat to democracy came from two sources: the Old Guard conservatives who resisted change and the men like Huey Long who would exploit popular discontent if change was not achieved.
To the New Dealers, Long’s Louisiana served as a model for the kind of despotism the country might experience if they did not succeed, for in that state Huey was unabashedly creating a personal dictatorship. He bullied the legislature, intimidated the courts to the point at which their independence all but vanished, and kept a squad of tough—and sometimes savage—bodyguards around him at all times.
Long should be considered to be the flip side of the same populist coin as Trump, and that is to say that (unlike Trump) he not only favored the redistribution of wealth in the country, but refused to engage in the racist rhetoric typical of Southern politicians, and saw nationalist propaganda as a divisive strategy. But he was similar to Trump in the fact that he had authoritarian tendencies, filled government offices with sycophants who did as they were told, and he controlled the legislature through pressure and threats—and if that didn’t work, bribes.
But that was on the state level, and although there was questionable chance Long was going to bring that to the national level, if he did live to run as a third-party candidate, it was speculated that he could have split the left enough for the Republican candidate to win the 1936 election. This is only speculation, however; the centrist Alf Landon did not put up a serious fight during the campaign and FDR probably would have survived the vote split, given that he eventually won by one of the biggest landslides in presidential election history.
But that was “yesterday.” What will future historians tell us about today? What will they say about someone like current HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? The man is a lawyer by training, he knows nothing about medicine or science (or at least he has “forgotten” the effects on health from environmental damage). He knows (or he thinks he does) the “right” foods to eat, but like anyone with money he just assumes “everyone” has the means to eat as “well” as he does.
And he is doing this as the Trump administration and the Republican Congress are cutting SNAP and food assistance for low-income school children, and deporting farm workers who keep food prices from becoming more unaffordable in the lower-income brackets. Based on junk science and conspiracies, Kennedy (who admits people should not be taking medical advice from him) is condemning millions to an early death by killing off funding for health research and mRNA vaccines. Here, we learn that this just the tip of iceberg that Kennedy is sending us toward:
That isn't all, of course. The NIH director, Jay Bhattacharya, has a medical degree but has never actually practiced medicine. Yet this career contrarian against those who have far more scientific expertise than he does, like all those in this administration starting with Trump himself, is withholding already passed funding for vital health studies and programs simply for reasons of juvenile personal pettiness and vindictiveness against his betters.
And here 12 we are told that Medicare for seniors is under threat by an AI-generated “pre-authorization” program that will be allowed to “decide” if an 80-year-old senior is “authorized” to receive emergency treatment for a heart attack, and here 14 we learn of the “sneaky” ways Republicans are still trying to “kill” the Affordable Care Act; why does the media keep calling it “Obamacare” when calling it by its right name exposes more truthfully to the public what Republicans are up to?
Trump, of course, is now claiming how he is "strengthening" Social Security for "generations to come," although as CNN points out here 21 this is just him saying that he personally hasn't "touched" it yet. Trump has actually done nothing to keep it from insolvency by 2033, which isn't that far away. Not that Congress has helped any; besides passing a bill last year that allows people who have never paid into the Social Security fund (unlike, say, undocumented immigrants who are prohibited from receiving it)--but do not qualify for full government pension benefits--to receive full Social Security benefits, Congress still has not addressed how to "fix" the coming shortfall--but it does have time to pass trillions of dollars worth of tax cuts for billionaires.
For some of us (I won’t say “most” of us, yet) know how future historians will judge this now. The problem is that Trump and his henchpersons’ antics are attacking us from all angles and at any time. Everyone in the Trump administration has their own pet peeve and radical agenda that should be seen by rational people as cruel, crazed and untenable. Most people who think "something" should be done about this merely feel "helpless" and the victim of fate (at least until the midterms)...
...with that last lifeline--the court system--seemingly capable of little more than hand-wringing, hoping the fascist Trump and his henchpersons will take their orders seriously enough to actually "consider" if they should abide by them.
But with a president who seems to relish the idea that there are people seemingly more demented and radical than even himself running the show—often without his apparent knowledge, such as Trump yet again being immediately contradicted on the migrant farm worker issue by DHS or the Agriculture secretary—this administration has been reduced to grab bag of lies, threats, bullying, just making shit up, ignoring the law, ignoring courts judgments 1, deleting the habeas corpus sections from the Constitution on the Library of Congress website 2 due to a “coding error” and not by some Trump flunky following “orders” from, say, Kristi Noem with her Botox reconstructed face falling off (from South Park, and no, it was your vanity that was being mocked here)…
…who confidently gave either a knowingly false definition of what habeas corpus was before a Congressional hearing, or demonstrated her lack of basic reading skills. Doubtless by pretending habeas corpus is not a “thing,” this administration is hoping that historians will ignore its implications of lawlessness and deliberate violations of the Constitution which apparently the courts are seemingly helpless to stop.
But keeping people ignorant of what this administration is doing is par for the course, as we see here on this government web page that is supposed to provide public information on what taxpayer money is being spent on in accordance with the budget passed by Congress…
…and likely concealing the fact that grant money to schools is being "transferred" to ICE operations and prison-building.
In this story 6 we learn that ICE deliberately (and illegally) held-up lawmaker oversight of a “processing center” until they emptied it out of it almost all of the detainees. And Trump is wasting taxpayer money by sending out the FBI not to investigate billionaire tax cheats or actual "terrorists," but to expel those "real" threats to “national security,” like homeless people 7 and make them “disappear” too.
So what about those homeless people, anyways? Where are they going to send them? Just tell them to leave, and if they don’t, then what? Just send trucks in to haul away their tents? Then what? Oh, I know, tell them to go out to work in the farm fields. Who will pay for their transportation and eiderdown sheets? But even if they “survive” for more than a few days in 100 degree heat (and if you work in Florida, by law no heat or water breaks required), what do they do after that during the winter?
Again and again, Trump’s “fixes” are not fixes at all, but just make the underlying problem worse. You can’t talk to Trump supporters about this either. How can you hold a “serious” discussion with a Trump supporter if they themselves are not “serious”? Oh sure, send out the FBI to do a dragnet of homeless people in D.C. to “beautify” the city. But how is that supposed to “solve” the problem of homelessness? They always seem to keep “forgetting” that part.
Economically, Trump seems to think that imposing (in violation of the Constitution, of course) high tariffs—which didn’t work during the Great Depression, and won’t work now—is a “one size fits all” solution to an economy that wasn’t “broke” before but is now, simply because Trump (who apparently believes that since this is the “greatest” country in the world, that must mean he is the “greatest” man in the world) doesn’t even understand the dynamics of free markets and free trade.
Furthermore, tariff revenue may not be as "high" as many are predicting; if consumers buy less of those higher-priced imports, then less will be imported--and thus less tariff revenue.
This is a man (or pretends to be one) who still doesn’t understand the rules of the game that caused his many business ventures (6 total) to go bankrupt, and his “brand name” products to fail to find a market. This is a man who thought that opening more casinos would bring in more “customers” and make him richer; instead it just spread thinner the same number of dedicated gamblers, and each of his casinos simply lost even more money. Today he is being allowed to illegally run what is essentially his own “bitcoin” Ponzi scheme, and defying the Emoluments Clause (which he also did in his first term). But Trump flaunts the law out in the open, and people seem to believe that is less criminal than doing it in “secret.”
Trump never does anything “positive” unless he sees a benefit to himself personally. He takes all of the “credit” if something “good” happens, even if he had nothing to do with it, and takes none of the blame if something bad happens because of another ill-thought-out policy. Trump “runs” this country as if it is his own “business”—and as in his bankruptcies, even the people who gave him their votes can't escape getting the shaft.
What Trump thinks is “great” is all smoke and mirrors. It’s like buying a $100,000 car on an income of $15,000 because you think it makes you look “great,” but in reality it is self-destructive. In order to pay the minimum monthly payments, you have to lower your monthly bills to living on peanut butter sandwiches and water, and if unable to afford rent, end-up living in the car. If you have credit cards, you make the payments on them. Eventually you can’t afford to pay even the minimum payment for it, and it is repossessed or you lose through bankruptcy, and you are left with nothing. What Trump is doing is something like this on a national scale.
Trump also seems to have this fixation on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, like Barack Obama was (not that he deserved it, either). He seems to believe that ending the Ukraine war is a simple matter of himself giving in to Putin’s demands which he knows Zelenskyy will not accept, and thus allow Trump to blame Ukraine for not wanting “peace” and just walking away and allowing Putin to do his thing.
Trump of course isn’t really interested in “peace”; look how quickly he got bored with it in his dealings with Kim Jong Un. In fact he revels in his war against America and the violence by his ICE thugs that he is responsible for in the streets of America. He doesn’t want to take a stand supporting Ukraine, and his refusal to provide Ukraine with offensive weapons already paid for in 2024 is allowing Putin to make advances on the battlefield, and you hear that mindless sycophant J.D. Vance, begging for Trump’s “blessing” in 2028, declaring “no more help for Ukraine.” Oh shut up, you moron.
There are those who note that Putin’s demands for a mere “ceasefire” rather than a peace agreement essentially constitute a surrender on the part of every party involved against his aggression (and that no longer includes the U.S. under Trump). 3 He has a willing partner in Trump, who doesn’t care about “peaceful” solutions of problems, never has. He wants to bring “war” to the streets of this country and “liberal” cities, and after his bombing run in Iran, he now has a “taste” for action if it means no real threat of retaliation (at least to himself).
So Trump is threatening to send troops to Mexico to fight the cartels. Of course Latin American has seen over a century of U.S. military intervention into their affairs—usually in support of American businesses establishing virtual slave plantations, particularly in Central America. To quote Gen. Smedley Butler from his book War is a Racket from 1935:
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
1989 saw the invasion of Panama, in which 3,000 Panamanians were killed just to take out Manuel Noriega, who was a CIA “anti-communist asset” when George HW Bush was CIA director, and then during the Reagan administration—before he became a “liability” when the media started reporting his involvement with drug trafficking, and Bush felt he had no choice but to do something about it. Of course the elder Bush was also “friendly” with some guy named Saddam Hussein who was giving Iran something to do other than sponsoring terrorism—until he got too used to the U.S. looking the other way about his domestic activities.
But back to Trump sending in the troops against the cartels and how this relates to bring "manufacturing" back to America." With this country's addiction to illegal drugs, this is one way to do it. It should be pointed out that Mexican cartels grew from third-stringers only after the Colombian cartels were reduced to roving gangs after the first "war on drugs," when their leaders were killed or imprisoned, and their Caribbean routes were disrupted. Even if Mexican cartels are "disrupted," the program will just move elsewhere, perhaps bringing that "manufacturing" back here. After all, fentanyl was first manufactured in this country in 1959, and I'm sure other drugs manufactured in this country or Europe—like cocaine and heroin--can go from "miracle cures" for children sold in the neighborhood drug store or from the Sears catalogue, to new "recreational" drugs in no time.
But what Trump really “got a nut” for is seeing violence on the streets of this country, mainly "blue" cities. He says he is putting National Guard (where were they on January 6?) and FBI “troops” on the streets of D.C. after a DOGE-employed teenager who calls himself “Big Balls” proved himself to have rather smaller ones when introduced to local carjackers. but violent crime has been down since 2022; in D.C., it was down to a 30 year low in 2024 and down 26 percent this year from last.
But such numbers (such as the jobs figures) are “wrong” if they don’t fit the “narrative.” If he doesn't see that violence himself, he will create some of it himself. As The Intercept reports 19 Trump is
Testing the limits of his power — and, by extension, of our democracy. He’s feeling out what the Supreme Court, Congress, and the public will let him get away with. And so far, he’s been able to do what he pleases.
And so we have seen far worse violence in places like Los Angeles, but it is not being committed by the “usual suspects,” but by those operating under the color of “law”—and not necessarily in any way that can be construed as “lawful” if visual evidence is to define it. The media likes to compare the current mass deportation on the streets today to the “mass” deportations during “Operation Wetback” during the Eisenhower administration. But while that administration made use of various media to publicize raids by immigration authorities, often as brutal as we see today, this was more about publicity to convince the public that believed far-right propaganda of the “danger” that “something” was being “done” about it.
But historians believe that at best only a third of what the Eisenhower administration claimed to have either forcibly or voluntarily deported actually occured. What is more, Eisenhower was not blind to reality; he didn’t (as with the fourth time now with Trump) just admit there was a need for migrant farm labor—he actually did something about it instead of letting a racist like Stephen Miller overrule him: Eisenhower substantially increased the number of temporary workers legally allowed into the country under the Bracero program.
Historians—as long as we still live in a free country, and anti-free speech presidents and governors like Trump, Abbott and DeSantis remain the exceptions—will point out that Trump and his largely unqualified, unfit and those previously occupying the far-right fringe of society, mostly mocked and ignored, are now being allowed by an increasingly demented president to institute policies based not on facts, science or simple common sense, but on their own personal grievances and desire for retribution against society.
And these grievances and desire to inflict retribution”—whether it is against “liberals,” Hispanic immigrants or racial minorities in general, or even our allies across the world—there is no sense of consequence, just take a sledgehammer to everything, afterwards saying a few “magic” words and expect (or hope) that everything will somehow turn into something “great.”
That is not happening, of course; some people may “hope” that what Trump is doing actually “fixes” the things he has deliberately broken that were not broken before, like the economy and the rule of law. We are talking about a man who we learn here 22 had a lower-class, poorly educated mother from Scotland who was fascinated by the British royal family and all its pomp and circumstance, which was not the only thing she passed on to her son, and arguably his worst traits:
Her son Donald inherited her obsession with the trappings of class and luxury—and his own insecurity about not being to the manner born. He built himself a miniature Versailles, his gold and marble triplex in Trump Tower—designed by another immigrant with queenly tastes, first wife Ivana Trump. And perhaps because his mother left Scotland with less than a high school education, he has sneered at people with academic degrees.
That means, of course, people who are smarter than he is. Thus it is not surprising that the bully Trump thinks "winning" is not "losing." Trump bullies people and countries and if they just "give up," he thinks he's won, even if that is just a "promise" without substance. Even though Trump doesn't "respect" most people because of his insecurities, he apparently is only learning now that most people don't respect this fraudster either. After all, this is a man who inherited his father's business; he's never built anything himself that survived bankruptcy, outside of his beloved golf courses.
The question is what exactly has did this country "win"? Nothing, basically. The "winners" are far-right fringe groups like the Heritage Foundation (Project 2025) and the Federalist Society (federal judges and Supreme Court justices) who behind the scenes are taking advantage of this destruction and chaos to mold the country into their fascist vision of autocratic government, which is dependent on the U.S. Supreme Court being controlled those with fascist, autocratic tendencies. We discover even now that it may be set to dismantle the Voting Rights Act completely as it hears arguments yet again against Section 2 this fall. Let’s try to remember that this is only happening because the president elected in 2016 had no clue what he was doing, and let others make the "picks" for him.
Of course it is necessary to turn terms like “liberal,” "fairness," "civility" and "compassion" into a dirty words these days, but what that means is not entirely clear; anyone who opposes Trump is accused of being a “liberal” or a "RINO," which is less a “fact” of ideology than it is just how divided this country has become with the far-right fringe which has no room for even the slightest hint of "compromise" now that they having taken control of most of the country.
Of course most of these culture warrior fascists claim to be "Christians." In Brazil, far-right evangelical Christians constituted an oversized voice in the election of the fascist Bolsonaro. In this country, 23 percent of Americans are allegedly “evangelical,” which basically means a majority of so-called “Protestants” and a few Catholics who don’t like rules or “laws” to live by, and simply believe the “promise” that listening to and throwing money at some self-seeking blowhard with autocratic, bigoted impulses will lead them to life everlasting in return.
Trump of course is also put on the same plain as “God” or Jesus or whatever, not because this man who partied with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell has “good moral character,” but because he promises to “smite” all aspects of life that confuse people who want everything to be “black and white” and not anything in between. It isn’t just Trump who is not capable of things like “love,” “compassion” and certainly not “humility.”
Of course some people can be accused of not following the “laws” of their own “law book.” Now, who said that one of the two ideas from a certain “old book” that actually matter is “loving your neighbor as yourself”? That doesn’t mean your neighbor next door, but the complete stranger you meet in the street, or those you don’t want as “neighbors” because they don’t share your skin color.
And who said “good” people need to recognize that even they themselves “sin” and they must be humble enough to admit it? Who said all people must first look at themselves in the mirror and mourn their sinfulness? Who said people must be “gentle, humble and submissive” if they want to “inherit the earth”? Who said that “blessed” are those who desire justice, fairness and love”? Who said those who show compassion for others will receive it themselves? Who said “blessed” are the sincere and pure of heart, and not be hypocrites? Who said blessed are those who actively work towards peace, resolving conflict and fostering harmony? You think any of that describes Trump, his henchpersons and his supporters?
And who said we should
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
Jesus? Isn’t it interesting to note that those “liberals” who don’t profess to any religion follow his “word” more closely compared to the hypocrites on the right who do claim to be “believers”?
Here 4 we are told that the hypocrisy of Christians (like those who support Trump in particular) talk
so much about righteousness and like to appear so morally upright, but underneath that façade, they are liars and cheats. Christian leaders lead lives of extravagant luxury, milking the vulnerable of their meager resources under the guise of “giving to God.” Pastors preach about the sanctity of marriage and then run off with their secretaries, and some even abuse children. Isn’t the Church just full of hypocrites?
Williams Kynes wrote this after the election of Trump, and he is certainly talking about those “Christians” who voted for a convicted felon and serial adulterer who paid a porn actress for her silence, a convicted tax cheat and an adjudicated rapist who attempted to instigate the violent overthrow of an election, someone who espoused racist beliefs and is calling for a “final solution” to rid the country of brown-skinned people simply because they are the most vulnerable to the expression of his race hate.
Kynes points out that unlike those who have “turned away” from God because of the hypocrisy they have seen from those who claim to be “believers,” those who claim to be “faithful” themselves have no right to refer to themselves as “Christians” because they don’t actually follow the “word,” rather making false comparisons between themselves and the “non-believers”:
The Bible declares that we have all turned away from God, and that moral rebellion has distorted everything about us-all our desires are disordered in one way or another. We do not love what we ought to love or hate what we ought to hate-and even when we do love the right things, we love them in the wrong way or to the wrong degree.
We see this in the fact that MAGA “Christians” delight in the cruelty and brutality against working families simply because they couldn’t enter the country “legally,” yet are blind to the crimes against even themselves by the Trump administration and even their own elected lawmakers. But then again, outside the dedicated protesters out on the streets, the vast majority of people who feel Trump brings shame to this country simply feel they can’t do anything about it, and so why even think about it, because, after all, “If hypocrisy means not living up to our own standards, then we are all hypocrites. The only way to avoid being a hypocrite is to have no standards at all” writes Kynes.
But even if there is no God, history will judge humankind by what truly motivates them and the evil in their hearts and minds. The Trump administration is full of people whose demonizing and dehumanizing of other human beings mere reflects the demons that have consumed their souls. History will judge this Trump administration and anyone who follows his path as it deserves to be. It is as simple as that. The only question left for historians to ponder is why voters allowed this to happen, just as historians were left to wonder why a supposedly “cultured” and “civilized” people like the Germans could allow the horrifying atrocities that were committed in their name.
We can go on and on with this. Every day, Trump and his stooges go to bed at night and dream-up a new atrocity to commit on the American public. On rare occasions it may sound “good” to some people, but the reality is that whatever Trump does it is not motivated with the idea of helping people who need help. We see that in his latest brain-fart, to “beautify” the Capitol by simply making things (homeless people) “disappear.”
Of course Trump doesn’t care about the causes of homelessness; this is all another “stunt” to keep his supporters’ minds off the effects on the country that billionaires like himself have wrought. Elon Musk doesn’t need hundreds of billions of dollars (mainly in stocks, admittedly), but an awful lot of people who have quit looking for work because there are none, or are paid too little could use a couple extra bucks (go ahead and take out you calculator and divide $100 billion by $2,000). FDR addressed this gap between rich and poor by instituting a 90 percent marginal tax rate at certain “income” levels to make it too “expensive” for the rich to overpay themselves and leave some of that extra money to give people jobs or raise their pay; after all, it was their labor that actually made the rich “rich.”
Meanwhile we are already seeing the effect of Trump’s tariffs here in the state of Washington, with docks becoming emptier 8 (don’t believe the “old news” dated from back to April and May, when importers were desperately trying to outrun the full effects of Trump’s tariffs), and even “temp” warehouse jobs are becoming scarcer to find because there is less imported goods coming in to be shipped out to retailers—and there is none of that “domestic manufacturing” to replace it with. The result, as we now see, is that the Producer Price Index has "unexpectedly" skyrocketed over previous projections.
As Robert Reich points out in his report concerning Trump’s new BLS counter straight out of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 school, “Businesses are holding back on new hiring because they don’t know what the hell is going to happen once Trump’s on-again-off-again-higher-or-lower tariffs are finally put into place.”
Meanwhile, with Fox News not even pretending to be “fair and balanced” as it propagandizes about bogus claims about “autopens” while remaining silent on Trump’s unconstitutional outrages, fascist Florida is joining fascist Texas to “game” the midterm elections by cheating voters of their right to have a voice if they happen to be sitting on the wrong side of the “fence.” When governors like Abbott and DeSantis say they “represent” the “people,” they are not talking about “all” of the people; those who did not vote for Republicans simply don’t “exist” and do not deserve to have any “voice.”
It’s like when Trump or Leavitt claim that Trump and his policies have a 90 percent “approval” rating. That is demonstrably false, but they are only counting people who voted for him—they are the only people who “count.” People who voted “blue” or are “independent” don’t “count,” which is why Trump is aiming particularly at “blue” states for cuts in federal grants of any kind—paid for by the taxpayers of those states, but who are seeing without their input much of the money they paid in taxes going to prop-up low wage, low benefit red states.
Every day, it’s a variation of the same theme: what new “visual” can Trump and his henchpersons place before the public—regardless of the reaction to them, whether “positive” or negative—that at least keeps their minds off the numbers (job creation is plummeting while inflation is rising again, most deportees have no criminal history). You can’t expect anything else.
It's bad enough that Trump and his henchpersons are the true personifications of unqualified "DEI" as pointed out here 15 two months after I made that observation here 16 , but they just can’t shut up either; they actually brag (particularly Leavitt) about their lawless brutality and cruelty. Does Leavitt even know what she is saying to exasperated listeners? Does she even care? Or does she actually believe the fascist garbage coming out of her mouth? History will judge, and unlike William Barr, she and many others in the Trump administration are young enough that their "legacy" might actually "bother" them.
Even those they claim to be doing "everything" for (the white working class, Trump voters generally) are nothing more than roadkill for spending bills that their own Republican "representative's" gleefully sign off on and see off on the raceway without even knowing what they signed off on, so long as it "pleases" Trump. Does it "shock" you that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down because Republicans fell on their faces and rescinded already approved funding from last year? As mentioned in the last post, it was never a question if mass murder was morally “right” to the attendees of the Wannsee Conference; it was only a question of how to get it “done.”
I think I might just restart that book again, and see if there is anything worth posting from that; in Trumpworld, most of the time I feel like "The Outsider" from that H.P. Lovecraft story. Writing this blog is just more variations of the same thing every day. Maybe by the midterm elections something will happen that changes “everything.” In the meantime, these people here are on fire…
https://www.youtube.com/@MeidasTouch/videos?app=desktop
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZl9z2UMvN9mwpUoU9-E9bA/videos
…but then again Trump and his henchpersons are setting new wildfires by the hour. The news just keeps getting worse every day. from morning to night. Here 9 a former military psychiatrist believes that new ICE recruits are not driven by respect for the law and the Constitution: "New agents may not view themselves as ethical public servants, but rather as followers driven by anger and retribution, which can result in unchecked sadism." As if we don't see ICE Gestapo thugs already acting that way.
Here 10 we learn that a new ICE recruitment poster was inspired by the white supremacist tome Which Way, Western Man by William Simpson and published by a neo-Nazi. In the book, Simpson writes “In the case of a country like the United States, if the original stock and its values are to survive, then all aliens, such as Negroes, Jews, and Orientals, will have to be put out and kept out. Immigration will have to be strictly limited to stocks most closely related, by blood and by tradition, to the stocks by which the country was originally founded.”
I suppose Hispanics (particularly those who were indigenous to this part of the world for tens of thousands of years before the original "Great Replacement" by uninvited Europeans) were a more "recent" addition to the list.
But there can be no doubt that Stephen “America for Americans” Miller is behind this “campaign.” After all, it is well known that he has actively promoted the similarly-themed 1973 French novel Camp of the Saints, which suggested a “dystopian” world where France was inexplicably invaded by millions of Asians who completely subverted France’s “identity.” This racist paranoia remains a popular “read” among France’s fascist right, and even some literary academics still find some “merit” in it.
It is quite remarkable that people like Miller sees other “races” and “ethnicities” who were born and raised in “Western” cultural norms—and that includes all of Latin America—as introducing “alien” culture, when nothing could be further from the truth. The only basis for attitudes like Miller’s is simple race hatred.
Of course all these “aliens” must be put “somewhere” like the “animals” and “vermin” they are. In this story 11 a judge in New York demanded that ICE provide “humane” conditions at a federal detention facility:
In court filings, detainees complained they had no soap, toothbrushes or other hygiene products. They said they were fed inedible “slop” and endured the “horrific stench” of sweat, urine and feces, in part because the rooms have open toilets. One woman having her period couldn’t use menstrual products because women in her room were given just two to divvy up, the lawsuit said.
I just can't stand it anymore. It is just all bad, and even those stories that suggest something "good" are either just more propaganda from fascist media (Fox News), or the "mainstream" media trying to be "fair" to a man and administration that doesn't know the meaning of the word.
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Anyways, the Packers looked horrible in their preseason blow-out loss to the Jets. I see mighty few names on offense that I recall from even last season, and I don’t buy that excuse that you can’t expect them to play well against a team they were “unfamiliar” playing against, because the Jets were playing against a team they didn’t know anything about either. I think I’ll take a break from posting about their games too—after all, they haven’t been to the Super Bowl since 2010 (and thirteen seasons before that, and 29 years before their third SB appearance).
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