Do All Politicians Lie? Why does it feel like the Oval Office is controlled by the Mob, regardless of which party is in control? A quiet voice in my brain answers, "Because they are all Mobsters."
Here are some of Donny "Reality-TV" Trump's promises that fell well short during his first term in the Oval Office.
Promised to cut the deficit but added $8 trillion to it.
Promised to build a wall; completed only 458 miles out of 2,000, mostly repairs & only 53 miles of new wall.
Promised Mexico would pay for the wall; it didn't.
Promised a new healthcare plan; it never existed.
Promised a middle-class tax cut; primarily cut taxes for the rich only.
Promised not to play golf; taxpayers paid $150 million for 250 rounds of golf with security teams.
Promised to increase economic growth 4%; missed it.
Promised an infrastructure plan; had none.
Promised to hire "the best people"; fired 3/4 of them, then labeled them the worst.
Promised to reduce prescription drug prices; didn't happen.
Promised to win the trade war with China; it cost the US a quarter million jobs.
Promised to revive the coal industry; more coal jobs were lost during his term.
Promised the COVID vaccine was safe for us; it wasn't.
Now, here is Donny early in his second Oval Office term, by now anointed by some MAGA hats as the next coming. (Seriously MAGA hats, how slim do the pickings have to get?)
Trump's Claim: "We're Reclaiming the Panama Canal", "My administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal... The Panama Canal was built by Americans, for Americans—not for others", and "China is operating the Panama Canal... we're taking it back, or something very powerful is going to happen."
Panama's President Mulino directly refuted this, stating, "Once again, President Trump is lying. The Panama Canal is not in the process of being restored, and this is certainly not the task that was even discussed... The Canal is Panamanian and will continue to be Panamanian!"
Conclusion: Trump's claim that the U.S. is "reclaiming" the Panama Canal is factually incorrect in the context of current events. The Panama Canal has been under Panamanian sovereignty since the Torrijos-Carter Treaties of 1977, with full control transferred to Panama in 1999. The U.S. is not "taking back" the canal, nor is there any legal or operational basis for such a claim in this instance.
Trump's assertion that "China is operating the Panama Canal" is also misleading. The Panama Canal itself is managed and operated by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), an autonomous Panamanian government agency.
CK Hutchison, a Hong Kong-based company owned and operated the Balboa and Cristobal ports via Panama Ports Company until the recent sale to Black Rock.
Conclusion: China never owned or controlled the Panama Canal. The canal remains under Panamanian sovereignty. CK Hutchison's operation of the ports near the canal was a commercial activity, not a direct control of the canal, and its connection to China is indirect (via Hong Kong's status). Trump's framing exaggerates China's role, which Panama and experts (e.g., web result 3) have clarified as a misrepresentation.
Black Rock, a U.S.-based investment firm, led a consortium (including Global Infrastructure Partners and Terminal Investment) to acquire an 80% stake in Hutchison Ports, including the Balboa and Cristobal ports, from CK Hutchison for $22.8 billion.
However, this deal does not involve the U.S. government "taking back" the canal or its operations. It is a private-sector investment by Black Rock and its partners, not a governmental or national reclamation. The U.S. government is not profiting from Black Rock's acquisition, as the deal is a private transaction between Black Rock's consortium and CK Hutchison.
Just seven weeks into Reality-TV Donny's second term . . . and the lies are flowing. I wonder what else is a lie? Oh wait, there is his threat toward BRICS, and his yet unspoken promise to fund Musk's SpaceX trip to Mars. Stay tuned . . . .
DOGE is NOT saving taxpayers $2 trillion, even tho' that is how it's promoted.
As a Democrat in '08 & '12 Musk funded Obama. Obama said thanks, & taxpayers financed Tesla, making it bigger then the next five auto manufacturers combined.
Now a Republican, Musk funded Trump in '24. Musk says his SpaceX budget to Mars is as much as $10 trillion. Trump will say thanks, & taxpayers will finance SpaceX trips to Mars.
DOGE is the scam to divert the necessary tax dollars to SpaceX. Taxpayers will never know. Do not expect to see refunds, or balanced budgets.
BRICS and Bluster From the Oval Office
BRICS is an acronym that refers to the nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It is a newer economic organization, formed in 2001 by those five countries, and is used to regulate international trade and investment. In 2025, it has the support of many more countries, as we see below.
Recent headlines are telling us that Trump feels threatened by BRICS. You know Trump, when he feels threatened he acts out like a spoiled eight-year old brat on the school playground. Here are a few of his arrogant comments from November 2024, repeated most recently the end of January.
"The idea that the BRICS countries are trying to move away from the dollar, while we stand by and watch, is OVER."
"We are going to require a commitment from these seemingly hostile countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy.
"They can go find another sucker Nation. There is no chance that BRICS will replace the U.S. Dollar in International Trade, or anywhere else, and any Country that tries should say hello to Tariffs, and goodbye to America".
Excuse me? How are sovereign, foreign countries organizing a new trade organization suddenly Hostile? Or a threat to the US? Or somehow subject to US jurisdiction? Who in a clear mind sees the US economy as wonderful? Or the US dollar as 'mighty'? And 'no chance'? Hey Donny boy, never say never. I wonder when diplomacy degraded into finger-pointing, whining, and threatening? Maybe when ignorance replaced intelligence as a prerequisite for an honest politician. Honest you ask? These days an honest politician is one who stays bought. But I digress.
Here is a recent backstory to those BRICS headlines:
On February 26th, 2022, the U.S., EU, UK and Canada, agreed to ban a select group of Russian banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, aka SWIFT. The move was intended to cripple Russia's financial system in an effort to pressure Putin into ending his military operations in Ukraine. Seven Russian banks were denied access to SWIFT, initially causing somewhat of a negative impact on the Russian economy, but this move ultimately backfired on the U.S and its allies when, during a BRICS conference, the bloc of BRICS countries introduced BRICS Pay.
This is one of the biggest economic developments of our time, in spite of a spoiled brat's tantrums. For your information, Donny, it isn't limited to the now ten membership BRICS nations. It isn't a few, it is signed onto by 159 out of 195 countries who trade internationally. Read that again Donny, 159 out of 195 countries do not want the inflated and devalued US Dollar to be their only means of international exchange. And read that to include, they do not want to hold large amounts of it in their banking systems. Those 159 countries will have the ability to bypass the SWIFT system entirely, using a BRICS Pay blockchain-based payment platform. Let that sink in for a moment, Donny, more than 3/4 of the countries in the world are now be able to trade in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar.
In addition to the BRICS Pay announcement, Vladimir Putin confirmed that discussions of creating a gold-backed currency, currently named the Unit, are accelerating in an effort to replace the U.S. Dollar as the International Reserve Currency. Development of the Unit will be discussed in the next (2025) BRICS meeting.
And, of course a backstory to the backstory follows in the next post.
WHAT IS ALL THE HUBBUB ABOUT A WORLD-WIDE RESERVE CURRENCY?
We have to go back to July 1944, when representatives from 44 nations met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. With World War II still dragging out, they arrived to hammer out an improved financial system for the global economy. Out of that meeting came the Bretton Woods Agreement that would set up the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and, most importantly, a new role for the U.S. dollar as the "international reserve currency." It became the main currency the world uses to trade and save.
The representatives came to the agreement to establish a singular gold-backed currency. At the time the US controlled approximately 60% of the world's gold. So the US Dollar was chosen to be the international reserve currency. The US pledged at Bretton Woods to fix the value of the dollar to gold at $35 an ounce. Other countries then fixed their exchange rates to the dollar, making the dollar the hub of a new investment, trade, and banking system that would closely regulate the production of their currencies to maintain fixed exchange rates between countries to easily facilitate international trade.
That was the foundation of the U.S. vision of postwar free trade, which also involved limiting and controlling tariffs and, among other things, maintaining a balance of trade that would be favorable to the emerging socialist economic system. It didn't quite work out as smoothly as planned, socialist policies never do. As the U.S. started racking up huge budget deficits and running out of its gold reserves in the 1960s, the government found it too expensive to maintain the pledges made at Bretton Woods. And so, on 15 August 1971, the Nixon ended the convertibility of the US dollar to gold, effectively bringing the Bretton Woods Agreement to an end, and rendering the dollar a fiat currency. Shortly thereafter, many other countries' fixed currencies also became free-floating, and the subsequent era has been characterized by floating exchange rates.
Floating exchange rates mean the dollar and all other currencies that are not backed by gold or other precious metals, have their values set by a mishmash of political and economic forces, ranging from central bank decisions to the frenetic buying and selling of traders around the world. That bothers the socialist-minded countries around the world, including the US government.
The end of Bretton Woods was formally ratified by the Jamaica Accord in 1976. The accord allows the price of gold to float with respect to the U.S. dollar and other currencies, albeit within a set of agreed constraints. In practice the dollar had been floating in this way since 1971. The Jamaica Accord also made provisions for financial assistance to developing countries representing the Group of Seven (G7) member countries to compensate for lost earnings from the export of primary commodities.
So the original arrangement set at Bretton Woods is long dead, but the dollar still remains the de-facto international reserve currency. That allows the US to continue most of its privilege described earlier, much to the ire of other countries. Why? Because the US uses the dollar's position to establish tariffs and sanctions to control or punish other countries for actions that the US considers adverse. Sovereign people do not like being bossed by foreign countries, do they/we? That is a two-way street, Donny boy.
Donny doesn't care what the leaders of other countries think, nor does he consider what sovereign people of those countries like and dislike. Bretton Woods is dead, the dollar has been nearly inflated to death with over 35 trillion dollars in debt accrued by the US government. Yet, Donny boy believes he can manipulate 159 other countries with his threats and intimidation to keep the dollar as the international reserve currency. America has a Corporate Fascist in the Oval Office who believes the concept of 'might makes right' is more important than the consent of sovereign people.
TWO AFTERTHOUGHTS ON THE BRICS BROUHAHA
Peter Schiff, who discusses economic and political topics on his podcast "The Peter Schiff Show," pushed back against Trump's threatening BRICS comment last year with this wonderfully concise retort.
"You have the relationship backwards. The BRICS nations are the suckers for accepting our fiat currency for their real consumer goods. We get actual products that make our lives better, that we lack the capacity to produce ourselves. All they get in return is our inflation."
Well said . . . did you hear that, Donny?
And if BRICS countries don't obey Trump, Americans do not get imports that make our lives better, imports of things America no longer manfacturers or grows. Trump's action will hurt Americans. Just who is the sucker nation? Just the nations we trade with?
We are also suckered, when we allow our bought politicians to subvert our free market with monopoly money called Federal Reserve Notes, print a bunch of it, then use it internationally, purposefully to cause inflation and destroy the poor and middle classes. Trump isn't serving us, he is using us.
Trump Takes Civil Asset Forfeiture To a New High!!
Disguised in an EO to develop a Bitcoin et. al. Reserve. But it isn't investment in any lawful sense of the word. It amounts to theft . . . something Thugs, Politicians, and Mobsters do [take your pick]. Here is the eight and a half minute story @ Rumble.
https://rumble.com/v6qcjcu-this-is-state-sanctioned-theft-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-bitcoi.html
And The Oval Office Blames China
Fentanyl is a highly synthetic opioid primarily prescribed by doctors as an analgesic or pain-reliever. The US is the world's largest producer and consumer of fentanyl-based drugs, and Americans, who account for 5 percent of the world's population, consume 80 percent of the opioids, including fentanyl, in the world.
Other countries around the world have taken targeted measures to strictly control the sale and use of fentanyl and other opioids while the use of fentanyl in the US has increased and caused more deaths. Recent US administrations have either regarded fentanyl abuse as a "threat" to the US or made opioid control one of their top priorities. But the anti-drug policies introduced by the administrations have been aimed at treating the symptoms rather than removing the root cause of the problem. For example, as a country facing the most serious fentanyl problem in the world, the US has not implemented strict drug control laws or put all fentanyl-like substances under control.
In May 2023, the US Congress introduced a bill to combat the threat of fentanyl, which was intended to subject all fentanyl-related substances to control. Yet the bill failed to become an act due to political polarization. On the other hand, China imposes strict control on the use of fentanyl and fentanyl-like substances, and supports other countries, including the US, in their fight against drugs.
China ratified the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances in September 1989. Since then, it has fulfilled all its obligations under the UN Drug Convention, strengthened legislation and strictly controlled the use and sale of chemicals. Under the convention's framework, China has cooperated with international organizations and other countries, including the US, in combating drug trafficking and abuse, to address the fentanyl crisis.
China and the US reached an agreement in December 2018 to strengthen cooperation in law enforcement and drug control, including the sale and use of fentanyl-related substances. In less than five months after that, that is, on May 1, 2019, China officially added all fentanyl-related substances to its list of controlled chemicals, which far exceeds the scope of 27 fentanyl-related substances under control under the UN Drug Convention.
And yet the US has imposed sanctions on Chinese companies and citizens on suspicion of manufacturing and selling fentanyl and fentanyl-related chemicals, while smearing China by claiming that it is a major producer of "precursor chemicals of fentanyl". Some US politicians have even alleged that "precursor chemicals from China flood North America and stifle international efforts" to combat the drug menace, and that "it is the Chinese chemicals for fentanyl that flow into Mexico and then into the US".
Instead of making China a scapegoat to divert domestic public opinion from the administration's failure to effectively address the fentanyl problem, the US should put its house in order, strengthen law enforcement and take targeted measures to contain the drug menace.
Pretty obvious that China is not to blame for America's Fentanyl "problem", as Trump preaches, and as the writer of this anti-drug rant makes clear. Just maybe America's approach should be up to the States, not the general government. And then, just maybe, a few States will be wise enough to recognise individual Rights and self-governance, then make all drugs legal. That way, rabid users are responsible for their own illness and death, taxpayers are not. AND if treatment is sought, it can be done without worry of criminal charges. There is the ONLY win-win solution!!
And Here Is The Dodge Around DOGE!!
"The only appropriations authority for every one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of idiotic foreign aid contracts that DOGE has exposed and cancelled must by law be recycled and respent on another contract. And therefore spent on projects perhaps only slightly less stupid but in any case no less unaffordable.
We are referring to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 and the passel of UniParty-appointed Federal district judges waiting to pounce in favor of lawsuits claiming funds are being illegally withheld by the executive."
The Constitution delegates the power of spending to Congress, not to the Executive Office. The anti-impoundment provisions of the 1974 Act are consistent with that Constitutional Authority. In other words, "What spending cuts?!!"
What The Oval Office Mob Will Never Say . . And May Not Believe
https://neverhadaboss.com/wp-content/uploads/Trumps-Chances-for-Saving-the-US-Economy%E2%80%94Are-Zilch.pdf
A concise read on the economic realities the USA faces under Trump's lack of leadership . . .
Trump's Economic Ignorance At Work
Auto tariffs will be a disaster for Americans. An auto industry analyst says, "There are very few winners," and "Consumers will be losers because they will have reduced choice and higher prices."
See the link; https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/japanese-carmakers-face-catastrophic-profit-hit-trumps-auto-tariffs
That industry analyst has it right. The average cost of an imported car in America is now $45,000 (see the link). Tariffs will increase that price to $56,250. NICE, HUH? And of course when the foreign competition has forced higher prices, the domestic industry will raise its prices and reap what used to be called windfall profit. And all consumers suffer.
But the industry analyst avoids one point, there is a winner, and that is the Mob in Washington DC raking in all the tariff money for its self interest. Tariffs certainly aren't happening for the well being of American consumers, no matter how Trump's mouthpieces spin it!
Take a look at the first chart, the one with all the blue bars. It says that 80% of the autos that VW sells in America, are imported. So the other 20% are produced in America at facilities VW has invested in.
If I were a member of VW Board of Directors I would look closely at my company's liquidity and consider making two moves. One, stop producing and shipping autos to the US immediately, pay zero tariffs, divert the excess auto inventory to other foreign countries, and retool my facilities to produce non-American standard vehicles. In other words, say good-bye to America as a marketplace.
Two, have VW shut down production of cars made in America, and divert the resources back to Germany for other marketplaces. That would lay off almost 6400 Americans that VW employs. VW can absorb the short-term costs and say good-bye to dealing with the schoolyard bully in the White House. And let the loss of American jobs (including the loss of jobs from shipyards to auto dealerships) rest on Trump's shoulders. Because tariffs WILL result in the loss of jobs.
Whatever Mob is in D.C. does not have the answers to our economic woes because it is motivated for self preservation, and does not serve the public interest. We may as well have Kamala in the Oval Office. Her style of Communism would put variable tariffs on the auto industry so Americans could have the choice of whatever car they wanted, all at the same price! And she'd laugh at the convenience while the Kamala Mob would rake in billions for themselves, just like Trump will. IT IS JUST THE WAY GOVERNMENT WORKS, AND WE PAY THE PRICE.
What would help our economic woes? Pretty simple really, an unregulated free market. End all government control of industry and business; no tariffs, no taxes, no quotas on labor, no minimum wages, no limits on resource extraction/utilization, no import/export regulations, and no price controls. Simply put, keep government out of economic activity. A free marketplace is always self-regulating as supply seeks to satisfy demand. So easy, so basic, so much about the natural order of life . .
The Reign of An Economically Ignorant Man
In Ten Weeks Trump's Tariff Terror has lead to total non-confidence on the part of investors.
Goldman and Yardeni (and many more investment advisors) give up, at least for the short-term.
Goldman Sachs says: "We now expect an S&P 500 3-month return of -5%......Our 2025 and 2026 EPS forecasts are substantially below consensus."
Yardeni Research says: "(We are) upping the odds of a stagflation scenario, which may include a recession, from 35% to 45%. That 45% is also the probability we see that the stock market's correction will deepen into a bear market in coming months."
Non-confidence is the new consensus. Trump's only interest is the Art of the Deal, where world powers kneel to him. And we are going to pay the price, according to the investment world.
Ain't That A Shame . . A Constitutional Crisis That Republicans Deny
Democratic States Sue To Stop Trump's Unlawful Control Of Elections
Read here; https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-un-american-19-democratic-state-ags-sue-stop-trump-blocking-non-citizen-voting
Elections, ALL elections, are organized through State Constitutions, just as the US Constitution has given them authority to do. Constitutionally, we do not have a Federal election in the country. We have a series of State elections.
- The people of each State elect their own Representatives to the House every two years.
- The people of each State (now) elect their Senators every six years (the States used to appoint their own Senators every six years).
- The people of each State vote for their choice of President every four years. Every State has its own Electoral College that then votes for President. And each State has unique rules dictating how the State Electoral College may or may not follow the State's popular vote. Then a nationwide Electoral College tallies the State's votes to elect the President.
- Nowhere does the US Constitution give a sitting President the authority to influence a State election by EO (Executive Order).
In their lawsuit, the 19 Democratic states have argued that Trump's EO violates the Constitution and the National Voting Rights Act, which allows voting as long as a person attests to their citizenship under the threat of perjury. The Democrats are the ones following Constitutional law, in this case. And Trump is violating it. If the Courts agree with Trump, it will mean only one thing, that the Courts are also violating the Constitution.
A Fifth Grader that can read and think, can recognize that. Language is pretty basic, honest, and straight forward. Too bad politics is filled with convoluted dishonesty.
Ending The Buffoonery Is So Easy
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;
peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.
-Thomas Jefferson, from his inaugural speech
Trump Is Lock-stepping Americans Into Authoritarianism
An article from the Honorable Ron Paul M.D. is here: https://ronpaulinstitute.org/real-id-phony-security-real-authoritarianism/
It starts, "Those who hoped the second Trump Administration would reject big spending, war, and restrictions on liberty continue to be disappointed. A new disappointment came when Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced her department would in May begin enforcing the REAL ID law."
So State ID's become Federal ID's. I have to ask, just where does the Constitution give the federal government the delegated authority to impose conditions on State ID's? I also have to ask, exactly where does the State Constitution says State citizens, who have no connection to the federal government, must carry a federal ID when they are not in federal jurisdiction?
The road to mass surveillance and control has become a multi-lane highway.
Never Been Able to 'Get' Newsom, Now Trump Makes Him Sound Good
Honestly, I can't stand the California communist. And now Trump makes him sound logical, hell, even makes him sound constitutional. Here is a brief of the 'troops in the street' dialog.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/newsom-says-california-sue-trump-033957783.html
Newsom said on MSNBC, "Donald Trump has created the conditions you see on your TV tonight. He's exacerbated the conditions. He's, you know, lit the proverbial match. He's putting fuel on this fire, ever since he announced he was taking over the National Guard — an illegal act, an immoral act, an unconstitutional act". NEWSOM RIGHT, TRUMP WRONG.
Asked to elaborate on the lawsuit, Newsom said that under Trump's executive order, "it specifically notes — and under what the [Department of Defense] did — is they had to coordinate with the governor of the state. They never coordinated with the governor of the state." NEWSOM RIGHT, TRUMP WRONG.
Newsom added, "We have no problem working collaboratively in a mutual aid system with local law enforcement. But there's a protocol, there's a process. He didn't care about that. And the worst part, he completely lied". NEWSOM RIGHT, TRUMP WRONG.
What was that lie? The governor pointed to Trump's Truth Social post earlier Sunday, in which he said the National Guard had done a "great job." Newsom said the state forces had not even been deployed at the time the Truth Social post was made.
It is all about the division of power between State governments, and the general government, as established in the Constitution. It appears Newsom understands that better than Trump. The understanding applies to the immigrant situation, in general. Once an immigrant has landed (legally or illegally), in a State, and is considered a State resident, where is the Federal authority to arrest that immigrant-resident? It isn't in the Constitution. But it exists when the Oval Office is run by a Nazi.
Judge Napolitano Agrees With Me . . Nice To Know!!
Read Slouching Toward Authoritarianism here: https://judgenap.com/slouching-toward-authoritarianism/
Here is an excerpt; "Then the president ordered in the federalized National Guard and then — almost unimaginably — he ordered in active-duty Marines. The sight of active-duty armed troops confronting unarmed persons exercising their constitutionally protected freedom of expression, and the declaration of no free speech zones, was and is gut wrenching, un-American and without lawful precedent in modern times.
Here is the backstory. The Constitution makes the president the commander in chief of U.S. troops and of state National Guard units when the latter are called into federal service by Congress or by the president. In numerous statutes, Congress has defined when and under what circumstances the president may command state military personnel . .
Can National Guard troops be used for law enforcement? That depends on who summons them. Congress addressed this in numerous federal statutes, enacted in 1792, 1794, 1795 and again in 1807. The essence of these laws permits the president to declare himself the commander in chief of the National Guard for law enforcement purposes only when asked by a state governor. Short of the gubernatorial request, the Guard may not be summoned by the president for law enforcement purposes, except in the cases of invasion or rebellion.
Who is in charge of law enforcement? The Constitution retains the police power in the states. The Supreme Court has ruled that regulations and enforcement of them for health, safety, welfare and morality are presumptively state functions that were not delegated to the feds when the 13 states formed, and later when the 37 states joined the Union. This is the principle of state sovereignty, otherwise known as federalism."
In 1837 my Great Great Grandfather McCall and his wife moved from Toronto Canada to LaPorte Indiana. They had an ox-pulled wagon with a few possessions, two little boys, and a milk cow. My GG grandfather walked along the ox with a whip to make him work. My G grandfather-to-be was 6 years old and rode in the wagon, holding the reins. My GG grandmother walked behind the wagon, making sure the milk cow didn't stray too far. Oh, she also held her one-year old son in her arms as she walked, nursing him as needed. They crossed the Canadian-American border without papers, without checking in, without any American's permission.
They leased land, had more kids, then moved to Michigan, then to Wisconsin. My GG grandfather followed behind the pioneers who logged the forest and moved on. He pulled the stumps and planted the first crops. Then he used the dense wood of the stumps to hand make ox collars for plowing. A true story, so says the autobiography of my G grandfather's brother John, who fought in, and survived, the War Between the States.
Unless we have Native American bloodlines, ALL our ancestors to this country were immigrants [and some we label 'Natives' were immigrants as well]. Many immigrants checked-in at places like Eliis Island, many more just walked across the border like my McCall ancestors, or slipped over the side of the ship in the night. What makes them illegals?
Not sure how the American government claims immigrants are illegals. Two separate subjects, according to the Constitution. Can anyone show me the actual text of the Article of the Constitution that delegates the authority for ICE or DHS to the national government? Please do, if you find it. I do not care what legislation Congress has passed and a President signed. SCOTUS has stated repeatedly over the generations that any legislation, order, or administrative action that is repugnant to the Constitution has no lawful standing.
Immigrants built this d*mned country! Today, Trump, Homan, Hegseth, and Noem call my ancestors illegals. Flock those Nazis!! They speak of making the country great again. The country is really no more than words on paper, and artificial, political boundaries drawn on maps. They do not speak of allowing people to make their own greatness, to follow their dreams and desires. Our 'leaders' don't give a sh*t about people, they only care for paperwork that makes them wealthy at our expense. And in the biggest picture, we are ALL native to Earth. Why should a line on a map limit that?
Who Owns This Mobster . . . Any Guesses?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/12-key-questions-all-americans-should-ask-about-shameful-attempt-cover-truth-about
Trump punts on Epstein.
A Play On Words: A Path Made Difficult By Political Play
As President, Trump chose to climb a hill to fix America. He thought the hill had a regulatory path up it that he could control. He expected an easy walk, some hand-waving adulation, and when the path got a bit steep he could yell out, "Make a hole, make way for The Sir Donald."
Instead, he found the footing difficult in the loose gravel. It seemed to be a step forward followed by a few Republicans pulling the carpet out from under him. He looked down often to check his footing, then looked up into a Thorny CIA bush that whacked him across the cheek and shoulder from the side of the path. He swore to get even, he still owed them for lies in 2020.
Then he tripped while wiping a little blood from his face and arm, and almost fell. He caught himself and looked back. It was a stubborn old root in the trail, one of the principled conservatives who voted against his Big Beautiful Bill. He screamed to campaign against all of them in their home States.
Then both feet slipped on the damn Republican gravel again, and he went to the ground, scuffing a knee. He cursed them, thinking he should have remained a Democrat. He rose and made a fist pump while he cursed all the world powers that disagreed with his Trump Way.
He dusted himself off and continued his climb. Along the path he decided to use his standard big-business policy of pitting X against Y. It seemed to disorient others. Then move to a position of agreement with Y, only to turn the tables on Y later. Then switch up on X. Again, he thought, 'disorienting others will empower me. It worked on the elementary school playground too, so why not in the world's three-ring, political circus'.
He came to the long, single-log crossing of Elon Creek where his support felt more like a log role as he lost his balance, fell, and soaked his ego. He yelled to the world, "I'll deport him with the others that aren't American."
He hit the trail again with a mop of wet blonde in his eyes, trying to wring water from his shirt. He ran smack into the scaly, Bitter Jewberry bush, and cursed wildly that it would rather dictate to him than listen to him. He murmured to no one in particular, 'maybe I should turn the tables and support the Muslim world's desire for nuclear materials'.
Then just above him, there was a split in the path. Trump took the path up Epstein Grade, the short-cut of course, thinking he could master it even though it is a steep, rutted climb with large rocks lying at every turn, and full of slippery, sticky mud after each rain. He made a major stumble on a big rock. He edged away, visibly limping, his knee was twisted and bruised. He would limp to the top, if he didn't slide to the bottom. It was a big mistake to lie about exposing the Epstein client list to get elected, then claiming there is no client list to expose.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/no-one-believes
To quote the link above: "No one in America - not even the most deranged, spike-faced, pink-haired transtifas - believes the latest Epstein story as played out by Mr. Trump . . . . in this week's cabinet parlay."
He pondered, 'many world leaders are as good at my schtick as I am. I'm losing traction on his hill climb, I've been buffooned by buffoons, my control is gone, and I'm losing MAGA support'. He sat on a large rock to ponder a moment. It started to slide downhill with his weight.
He stood and cursed, watched the rock gain downhill momentum and start a landslide. Then he looked up. He wasn't halfway to the top. He needed help to finish the climb. He could not afford another slip or stumble. He decided the only way to reach the top was to build a bed of false flags, then invoke martial law to quell the resulting civil unrest. He is convinced he can return to greatness. He thought the Bitter Jewberry bush may be his best ally to achieve that false flag event.
Trump Should Be Charged!
How Is He Not Guilty?
Trump has no legal authority to kill drug-war suspects, including foreign citizens. Deadly force can only be used in self-defense against the use of deadly force or the threat of deadly force. In other words, if a U.S. vessel had approached that Venezuela boat and those 11 people who were killed had begun firing guns at the U.S. vessel, the U.S. vessel could have responded with deadly force.
U.S. Code provides that murder of a foreigner by an American citizen on the high seas is a federal criminal offense. See 18 U.S.C. Section 1111, and 18 U.S.C. Section 7).
The U.S. Constitution provides that the president shall be removed from office on impeachment and conviction of "high crimes." It goes without saying that murder is a "high crime."
In other words, Trump should be criminally prosecuted, then removed from office via impeachment, for the murder of 11 Venezuelan citizens on the high seas. Furthermore, military personnel who carried out Trump's orders also be prosecuted and convicted of murder.