Reality Check: Trump was elected president despite his felony convictions and those election lies that instigated the January 6 insurrection—you know, the one that was conducted by these peace-loving "patriots"…
…and that he would end the Ukraine war on “day one”…
…that there would be “transparency” in his administration…
…end inflation and bring prices lower…
…create manufacturing jobs…
…and focus on deporting violent criminals:
Of particular interest is this “uproar” over the Jeffrey Epstein files, or lack thereof. It was useful as a campaign gimmick, and later to use to stray people’s minds away from other issues. On a slow day Pam Bondi excitedly exclaimed she had a list of “names” right there on her desk (why?), and a warehouse full of “tapes”—although the only person who has admitted to seeing the “evidence” was tabloid journalist Michael Wolff, who recorded hundreds of hours of taped interviews with Epstein (before he “mysteriously” died in the latter part of the first Trump administration), who among many other things claimed that Trump "loved" to commit serial adultery with his friends’ wives.
According to a Daily Beast story Wolff said Epstein (who claimed that he and Trump were “best friends” for a decade before Trump found it convenient to disassociate himself) showed him photos of Trump cavorting with “topless young women”—how “young,” exactly?—and that “in some of the pictures, they’re sitting in his lap. I mean, and, and then there’s one I especially remember where there’s a stain, a telltale stain and on the front of Trump’s pants, and the girls are pointing at him and laughing.” It was also reported by mainstream news organizations that Trump on at least one occasion solicited Epstein’s “services” for a special “event” for his personal pleasure at Mar-a-Lago 1.
So, why are those MAGAmaniacs so up in arms and calling for Bondi’s firing? Are they really that stupid about why the Trump administration wants this story to die? In a word: Yes. The Trump people thought they it would be a good PR move and hurt one or two political enemies in the process by releasing the “list”—except that it seems that Epstein’s best “client” is currently occupying the Oval Office. Of course no one is supposed to “care” about any of that—now.
This country continues to live in a world of fantasy; at least it is easier than being forced to learn facts, which seems to be the problem with the majority on the U.S, Supreme Court about what Trump is doing and what motivates him to do it. Why does Trump want to destroy all of the federal departments that work for the people, like the Department of Education? Because he thinks “genes” are a better “indicator” of “merit” than being educated? Is that why he has Linda McMahon as “head” of the DOE, who needs note cards for reference when she testifies before Congress? Someone who’s regular line of business is to sell faked “performance art” as “real” to the uneducated masses?
But no mind—many people forget everything when Trump starts talking “tough,” because he is “speaking” for them and he has the power to exercise the cruelty and inhumanity they wish they could inflict without being arrested, like kicking a dog around (until it bites back). But most of Trump’s tough talk is all fury and no actual intelligible “sound.” Trump said he was going to end the abuses of the H-1B visa program to insure that—what did Rollins say?—the workforce will be “100 percent American”? Well sure, Trump’s ICE thugs are still raiding farm fields resulting in the death of one migrant farmworker 2.
Oh and you thought that Trump saying there would be a “pause” on farm raids for the third time would be a “charm?” Yeah, like he’s in “charge.” More like three strikes and he’s “out,” this time for good. What’s he been drinking anyways? It’s “Miller Time.”
Kristi Noem—who by the way we can judge her character (or lack thereof) by the fact she was the one who “trained” that puppy to act the way she wanted it to before killing it for learning those lessons too well—claimed that that the deceased farm worker wasn’t actually “targeted.” Oh really, like U.S. citizens who are assaulted by ICE thugs on the sidewalks on their way to office jobs are not being targeted simply because of their brown skin. The dead man wasn’t “targeted” from among the 361 people who were not just randomly “selected” for arrest by ICE thugs at the legal cannabis farm. Right.
Apparently a dozen under-18 individuals were “rescued” during the raid, but who asked them? Did they themselves think they were being “rescued”—or did they think they were being kidnapped by masked, armed thugs? But of course Noem with that inch-thick face powder would employ this as a useful talking point to “justify” the raid, to avoid talking about why they were raiding a farm that left one innocent person dead.
The Trump administration is nothing if not willing to take advantage of such previously unknown or invented “information” to mislead the public about what it is doing; but does the public care if innocent people are killed? Are you kidding me? They might not “like it” according to polling, but generally if it is outside their “experience,” it is “alien” to them. What did woman in Shenandoah, PA say after Luis Ramirez was kicked to death by jack-booted white high school football players? He wouldn’t be dead if he wasn’t “here”? Isn’t that essentially what Noem is saying to hard-working migrants who have committed no crimes?
A judge, meanwhile, ruled on the lawlessness of ICE activities in southern California. According to the Los Angeles Times
U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong on Friday issued a temporary order finding that agents were using race, language, a person’s vocation or the location they are at, such as a car wash or Home Depot, to form “reasonable suspicion” — the legal standard needed to detain someone.
Of course Noem says the “lawlessness” is on the part of the judge and Tom Homan states he has no intention of obeying the order and indeed claims racial profiling is “lawful.” What is “interesting” about this is that previously, ICE was carrying out its activities more or less “lawfully,” detaining only those who it had the “paperwork” on—before Miller had that meeting with ICE officials expressing his anger about them not meeting their “quotas,” demanding that they ignore the law and arrest “anyone.” Violent criminals? Who cares about them? Let them roam free if the innocent ones are “easy pickings.”
But what about all those H-1B visas that are “stealing” jobs in the tech industry from “real Americans” by people from countries that literally look “shit hole”:
It is “understandable” why people would want to live here instead of in that I suppose, but it has been pointed out by the Wall Street Journal and others that the Trump administration in 2019 reduced the filing fee for H-1B visa requests to a mere $10 per person, which allowed “consulting firms” to cheat the visa lottery system by allowing applicants to apply for multiple jobs that don’t exist, and essentially get into the country for “free” if their name is picked out of a hat. There has been a massive increase in H-1B lottery applications since 2019 that isn’t actually “real,” just more instances of the same people having their names put in the lottery so they have a better chance at “winning.”
What is really “unusual” about this is that these H-1B visa requests continue to grow despite massive layoffs in the tech industry. According to an Associated Press story
Andrew Greenfield, a partner at the law firm Fragomen, which represents major technology companies, said the increase in applications is “bizarre” given widespread layoffs in the industry.
Take for instance Microsoft, which has seen massive layoffs in the past year, and the latest cut of 9,000 is drawing anger among those who see an ulterior motive behind the cuts. According to Newsweek
In the weeks that followed those layoff announcements, claims began circulated on X that the company had also applied for upwards of 6,000 high-skilled work visas, or H-1Bs, since October, the start of the current fiscal year. While that number could not be independently confirmed, during the last fiscal year, Microsoft applied for 9,491 H-1B visas. All were approved.
Who approved them when “100 percent Americans” are being laid-off? Of course Microsoft didn’t respond for “comment,” but we can suspect that Indian managers only want to work with other Indians for “cultural” reasons. So much for “assimilating,” which racists like to accuse Hispanics—who share the same religious and Western cultural values as they do—are not doing.
Oh yeah, and what about this “100 percent American” jobs “promise”? It's not like all Americans are stupid, according to managers who only hire those of their "culture":
So what about getting those jobs that Americans actually want to do, meaning not this:
According to this report 4, DHS and ICE are “lots of heat, little action” on bringing fraud and abuse of the H-1B (and B-1) visa system to an end, and for not unexpected reasons:
It’s unlikely that Trump will cut the H-1B program, with him instead focusing on his broader campaign against undocumented immigration, says Jeff Le, who served as a deputy cabinet secretary focused on emerging tech and immigration for former California Gov. Jerry Brown. Trump’s efforts to stop immigration over the US southern border will likely appease his supporter base and ultra-conservative Republicans in Congress, taking the spotlight off the H-1B program, he says.
While they are called “high-skilled,” what many of the people coming in on these visas do is answer phones all day or data entry—and we don’t need more incompetent coders screwing-up computer systems and “fixing” them with yet another this time “critical” update...
...to fix the “update” from a few days before (which must explain these random blue screens). Especially when having a college degree means little when more than half of Americans with bachelor’s degrees or higher can only find jobs that don’t require one.
Visa abuse is also prevalent in the "U-visa" program, which allows immigrants in the country illegally to "cooperate" in the reporting of a crime, particularly if they are the "victims," in order to gain legal residency. The NYT is reporting here 7 that local police chiefs in Louisiana and an Indian manager of a chain of convenience stores colluded in a bizarre scheme to commit visa abuse involving the reporting of fake "crimes" that allowed Indians illegally in the country to apply for a "U-visa."
By the way, the census says there are 5 million people of Indian heritage in this country, two-thirds who are non-citizens—a far cry from the 81 percent of those who are of Hispanic heritage who are U.S. citizens (geez, and you wonder why immigration enforcers make so many “mistakes” and then “justify” it by beating on themselves). The Pew Foundations tells us that 700,000 people of Indian extraction are in the country illegally; that means that 1-in-7 you see on the street are “illegal aliens.”
But as CIO reports, they are “protected” by the Trump administration, probably because Trump employs so many, like an FBI director with numbskull conspiracy theories, the head of the NIH with anti-science beliefs, and a racist heading the civil rights division.
Meanwhile, we recall a Trump executive order telling us that there is a “problem” in the military that he wants to “fix,” because, you know, white men make better soldiers despite the fact this country has essentially lost or quit on every major war since WWII with those mostly white male soldiers (at least they are in the movies). The executive order tells us that
Unfortunately, in recent years civilian and uniformed leadership alike have implemented Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and their attendant race and sex preferences within the Armed Forces
and that
These actions undermine leadership, merit, and unit cohesion, thereby eroding lethality and force readiness. They also violate Americans’ consciences by engaging in invidious race and sex discrimination”
Meaning, of course, “racism” against white people (according to white nationalists) and against (white) males.
Again, this is about preventing racists like Tom Homan from feeling “bad” about being racist, which in his case is pointless because he tells everyone to their faces that he doesn’t care if he is one—which of course is the “problem” since it re-legitimizes racism and discrimination against minorities. This is about re-instituting a “past” that wasn’t all that great, ever.
At a recent conference with the “faithful,” Homan called the lone protester a “loser” as he was dragged out; but you know what ,Homan? When history judges—and it will—you will be the “loser,” and your descendents may well disavow any connection to you. Historians won’t use any previous administration as “reference” to judge you or this Trump administration; they will use as reference Nazi Germany. Bad luck to you, loser.
But back to what Trump and Pete Hegseth think (or don’t think) is a “problem” in the military. In this report in the Indian University Law Journal 4 it is not anti-white “race discrimination” that is the “problem” in today’s military, but the same old garden variety that Trump himself has stoked since his first term. It noted “a chilling sign that the vanguard of the mob that stormed the seat of American democracy (on January 6) either had military training or were trained by those who did” and that it handles domestic white supremacist terrorist groups differently than others:
The federal government takes a different approach to non-Muslim terrorist threats. White supremacists, anti-government militias, sovereign citizens, and other groups present a significant terrorist threat. The FBI investigates these individuals and groups using conventional warrants rather than secret foreign intelligence surveillance orders or other national security tools. While prosecutors pervasively use material support charges to “preemptively” target Islamic extremists, they rarely charge white nationalists or anti-government extremists with material support. Studies suggest that the FBI does not use informants and undercover operations against right-wing threats as extensively or aggressively as it does with Muslims. And local law enforcement officials prosecute many cases under state law, thereby precluding the application of a federal terrorism sentencing enhancement and other potential consequences of federal prosecution.
In a report by the Pentagon a month after Trump was “persuaded” to vacate the White House in 2021 it was admitted it had a neo-Nazi and white supremacist “problem,” although it hadn’t actually taken the time to “measure” it. The Pentagon report admitted that U.S. military personnel and veterans are “highly prized” recruits for extremist right-wing groups, and “leaders of those groups try to join the military themselves and get those already in their groups to enlist. Their goal is to obtain weapons and skills and to try to borrow the military’s bravado and cachet.”
The Pentagon report suggested that “Despite a low number of cases in absolute terms, individuals with extremist affiliations and military experience are a concern to U.S. national security because of their proven ability to execute high-impact events. Access to service members with combat training and technical weapons expertise can also increase both the probability of success and the potency of planned violent attacks.”
But the threat of right-wing extremism is of “unclear dimensions” in the U.S. military because the “study” of it is purely anecdotal. However, there are those who believe that the military doesn’t see racist attitudes as “bad,” since in places like Afghanistan it served as “motivation” to kill people. The military news website Roll Call noted the case of a soldier who belonged to the extremist group Iron March, who thought that being a white supremacist in the military was “easy”:
The guard member said he felt free to be a neo-Nazi in the U.S. Army. “Are you worried at all about being found by your mates or someone, now being in the U.S. military?” he was asked. “You’ll be straight fucked surely.” To that, the soldier replied: “I was 100% open about everything with the friends I made at training. They know about it all. They love me too cause I’m a funny guy.”
The Guardian reported that there was a 55 percent increase in neo-Nazi and white supremacist membership during Trump’s first term; in his second term white supremacist activity in the military is being ignored because it is not “in line” with Trump’s “priorities”—oh wait, maybe it is, according to the Guardian:
An active-duty serviceman in the US army is openly following a proscribed neo-Nazi terrorist group on social media, one that has vowed to recruit soldiers in preparation for a so-called race war. Experts say examples like this shows how under Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon is allowing extremism to go unchecked.
On the surface, following a TikTok account might seem like a minor infraction for a young private in the 1st Infantry Division. But not only has that private followed the Base, a violent neo-Nazi terrorist organization once the target of an FBI investigation, there are directives issued under Joe Biden that discourages that kind of social media activity.
But in February, the Department of Defense issued a memo halting a major counter-extremism initiative rooting out white nationalists and far-right influences among servicemen, citing that it was not in line with Donald Trump’s executive orders. Since then, the efficacy of rooting out the far right within the ranks remains unclear.
I actually wanted to write a post concerning the history of “recreational” drug use which dates back to practically to the “stone age,” the results of this country’s dumbass “war on drugs,” this dumbass Trump imposing 30 percent tariffs on Mexico for not “doing enough” to keep dumbass Americans from using or dealing drugs. But that will have to wait till next time.
In the meantime, for those with any sense, it sometimes feels like you are all by yourself in this world, when there is nothing you can do to stop inevitable fate: