What say you, MAGATS?

 The United States government, of which Donald J. Trump is the chief executive; has seized a legal resident. 

That resident was protected by a court order from 2019 forbidding The United States government from sending him to El Salvador, his native country.

 It is documented he has no criminal record. ICE was aware of his legal, protected status when the U.S. gestapo took him into custody.

This resident has been repatriated to El Salvador, with no due process. He is held in a prison renowned for its grim, primitive, cruel abuses. of which Donlad J. Trump is the chief executive; claims U.S. courts lack the jurisdiction to order his return. This resident is being held in a "Terrorism Confinement Center", although he is not a terrorist, a criminal, nor a threat to the United States. 

OUR government, and by that, I mean YOU and ME have condemned an innocent man, a legal resident to imprisonment, family separation, and possible torture.

I am ashamed. I desire justice in our nation, but I observe acts of theater to pacify the masses as their country is How many innocent, legal residents will be denied due process, the protection of law? Who may be sacrificed to placate the ego of Donald J. Trump? Are you willing to forfeit your rights and those of your family to appease our Narcissist in Chief? 

Today it is Kilmar, tomorrow, Sally. Are you a patriot or a patsy?subjugated in a hostile takeover at the hands of the haves, oligarchs. They distract and deceive while they engorge their purses at your expense. Their lies and deceit hidden by false promises of shared benefit.

This legal resident has a name, he is Kilmar Abrego Garcia. 

Whaduyathink?

Howard who?

I'm certain everyone knows who Howard Lutnick is. He's a cabinet member of the Trump administration. Howard is the Commerce Secr4etary, the guy responsible for making sure your social security check is processed. He's also a big Elon Musk Doge slash and burn fan.

How do those things go together? I'm thrilled you asked. With all those 150+ plus year old folks fraudulently being paid there has to be a reckoning. How can we winnow the chaff from the wheat?

With all the staff cutbacks at SSA, there is a greater than 0% chance your social security payment may be late or not issued at all. To some that may appear to be a bug. However, since it is already a known deficiency, no doubt it will be addressed sooner rather than later.

Well, wwaaiitt just a minute. According to Mr. Lutnick, this may be an opportunity to address all the fraud that Mr. Musk and his DOGE lackies have identified. 

To quote Mr. Lutnick, “Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out their checks this month. My mother-in-law, who’s 94, she wouldn’t call and complain. She just wouldn’t. She’d think something got messed up and she’ll get it next month.” By contrast, he said, “a fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling and complaining". He suggested that only “fraudsters” and people “stealing” from the government would complain if they didn’t get their Social Security checks next month.

Now, Howard and Elon are both billionaires. They, no doubt, are in touch with the common folk, people who actually collect social security benefits. Surely in the search for unity anyone who does not receive a payment next month will be able to keep their displeasure to themselves to allow Howard and Elon to identify all those fraudsters.

So, be honest, be quiet, be happy, even if you're suffering.

Whaduyathink?

Straight up Shake down

 On March 14, 2025, Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Order from the office of the President of the United States. It is entitled "ADDRESSING RISKS FROM PAUL WEISS". . This is an international law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss). . 

In 2021 this firm filed suit against some individuals who participated in the attack on the Capital on January 6, 2021. The Executive Order states explicitly this is the basis for the order. Additionally, the order states prosecution against Donlad J. Trump, personally, was manufactured. Claims were also made the law firm and individuals within or previously associated with the firm makes decisions around “targets” based on race and sex. 

To address such grievances security clearances were revoked, ALL contracts cancelled, even access to Federal property was limited.

Skip to today, March 21, 2025. The Executive Order is rescinded. Here's why, "Paul, Weiss had agreed to "take on a wide range of pro bono matters that represent the full spectrum of political viewpoints of our society," to disavow the use of diversity, equity and inclusion considerations in its hiring and promotion decisions and to dedicate the equivalent of $40 million in free legal services to support Trump administration policies on issues including assistance for veterans and countering anti-Semitism." This is according to the White House. 

I predict that in some manner, The White House will frame this as a savings for the American taxpayer. This is nothing other than blackmail.

Whaduyathink?

He loves the uneducated

 March 14, 2025

President Trump, "We're turning the page on four long years of corruption,..."

Context 

Criminal indictments of appointees in 1st Trump administration: 215

Criminal indictments of appointees in Biden administration:         0

"The American people have given us a mandate, a mandate like few people thought possible. We won every single swing state. We won the popular vote by millions and millions of people. "

Context

Maybe he meant million and million of votes since the difference was actually 2,287, 967.

"And that's why on day one, I signed an executive order banning all government censorship and directing the removal of every bureaucrat who conspired to attack free speech and many other things and values in America."

Context

You can disregard those independent media outlets banned from press conferences and air force one. It's not like a part of the government is muzzling the free flow of information.

"We also terminated the clearances of the Biden crime family and Joe Biden himself. He didn't deserve it. In fact, he was essentially found guilty, but they said he was incompetent and therefore, let's not find him guilty, I guess. Nobody knows what that ruling was, but I didn't want any part of it. I think I would have rather been found guilty than what they found with him."

Context

Refer to above reference to criminal indictments. Nobody knows what the ruling was because there was no such inquiry upon which to rule. He didn't want any part of it because there was nothing to be a part of. At this point Trump is just making up shit to spew.

"They're going to have a crime free capital again. It's going to be cleaner and better and safer than it ever was and it's not going to take us too long. 

Context

Again? No city in the United States has ever been crime free. How long is not too long? Are there any people who listen to this and think, yes, yes that?

"Gasoline has come down, down to a level that we haven't seen in a long time."

Context

Average price of gasoline 1/20/25 $3.08 3/14/25 $3.07. 

"And now you see that, by the way, the price of eggs is down 35 percent in the last week and a half. "

Context

Price of eggs 1/20/25 $4.95, 3/14/25 $4.90. All the exorbitant prices have occurred on Trumps watch. He's claiming same type of victory in being able to rein in his own excesses.

"We had an amazing judge in Florida, and her name is Aileen Cannon, and I didn't know her. I still don't know her. I don't believe I ever spoke to her, even during the trial. "

Context

Well, except that he nominated and appointed her to her position. 

"I think we're doing now well with Russia. We're speaking with President Putin. We want to get the war over. Not only have we spent maybe $350 billion to Europe's -- think of that, $350 billion to $100 billion and yet we're across the ocean far away."

Context

Since 2022 the U.S. has pledged $175 billion to aid Ukraine. Please note a difference of 50% being pledged and the President of the U.S. lying about it. The U.S. has actually provided about $122.2 billion which is slightly more than the EU's $121.2 billion.

"Right now, you have a lot of Ukrainian soldiers that are encircled and in grave danger and I've asked them not to kill those soldiers, please, not to kill those soldiers. We don't want them killed. It's such a shame to see what's happened. A thing like that would have never happened. Inflation would have never happened."

Context

Well, maybe we shouldn't have halted aid and intelligence briefs. And how the hell does that pertain to domestic inflation?

All his speech is available verbatim at rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-department-of-justice-march-14-2025 . If you can read it in its entirety and come away believing the U.S. is secure and democracy is strong, you have not a smidge of comprehension.

Conceal and betray

 The President of the United States is hiding his actions from other branches of government.

He is acting in concert with President Bukele of El Salvador. Trump has used a statute that has only been used during a declared war to deport those he claims are gang members, with no due process.

They will be imprisoned for at least a year in El Salvador and the United States will pay for them to be incarcerated in a country other than that of origin. A federal judge barred President Donald Trump on Saturday from using a wartime powers act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members without a hearing, ordering the administration to turn around any planes that had already taken off.

When they landed in El Salvador, Bukele mocked the judge on X, “Oopsie, too late,” followed by a laughing emoji. A White House official celebrated his post with a meme, saying, “Boom!”. Our Secretary of State, Marco Rubio participated as well, responding, “Thank you for your assistance and friendship, President Bukele,”.

Trump and his administration actually hid this act from the judicial branch and is acting contrary to clear legislative intent in his use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

Who cannot recognize this as dysfunctional and the existential threat it poses not only to democracy but the survival of the U.S. as anything other than a failed state?

There Will be Blood

 D. Earl Stephens, retired managing editor of the military's daily newspaper, Stars and Stripes, issues a warning, not only to the average citizen of the U.S. but, I believe, to rank and file military personnel at home and around the world.

He's exhorting them to consider if they will follow the orders of a madman hell bent on destroying the U.S. or follow the U.S. Constitution. I suspect tens of thousands of troops will disobey orders rather than invade Canada (less so with Greenland or Panama, I suspect). Those will be the first shots of the civil war.

I'm posting the entire text of his piece here and will link to the article in comments.

@followers @highlight

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“It would be helpful if we stopped pretending this terrible chapter in American history won’t close without bloodshed …

It would be helpful if Americans, and our feeble Democratic politicians in particular, stopped implying by their comatose actions that Democracy is some damn American right and has no end date.

America very well might be arriving at hers, because, yes, it really is that bad right now.

Rather than bringing Ping-Pong paddles and groovy, little signs to a fascist hate-fest disguised as a State of the Union speech, it would be helpful if our meek, out-of-touch Democratic politicians at least pretended they understood the perilous moment we are standing in right now.

We are in deep, deep trouble, and now would be a wonderful, necessary time to step in front of your favorite mirror and honestly ask yourself what you are willing to do to fight for our country’s survival.

We are but six-plus weeks into the repulsive, wannabe-king’s second term and the damage he and his party are causing are already at catastrophic levels.

Our air, water, earned benefits, peace, public safety, civil rights, and human rights are all under immediate threat. Worse? This is only the first course of many that will be served by the vindictive, orange madman, and his pathetic party of supplicants.

The insults, the attacks, endless provocations, and thrashing of our Constitution will continue daily. All this carefully planned evil will be aimed at exactly one thing: breaking us.

Everything he is doing is designed to pound us into submission, and he’s having a grand damn doing it.

This was entirely his aim when he and his pet mutt, JD Vance, double-teamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the behest of Boss Putin in the Oval Office on Friday. The idea was to publicly humiliate the man who has done more to defend America’s interests across the globe than any Republican in memory.

Because Zelenskyy has tasted gun powder and breathed the odious smell of death on the battlefield, he wasn't about to be pushed around by some morbidly obese, 78-year-old yacht club bully and his toady, who think swinging a sand wedge to free a golf ball from some bunker is dangerous business.

Zelenskyy punched back and wasn't having it. He told the truth, and didn't back down. The future of his country is on the line right now, and he acted like it.

And therein lies the playbook for dealing with this sadistic bastard — if only the cautious, too-clever Democratic Party and their weak leaders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, bothered paying attention.

While Rome burns, they dither.

They act as if we have all the time in the world, when time is something that is not guaranteed right now. They seem to somehow have no idea how bad things are about to get, or most certainly will be when elections they seem to be pinning their hopes on roll around next year.

Everything changed on November 5th, but by the looks of it, very little has changed in the Democratic Party.

This country will never be the same, and the sooner we come to grips with that, and start acting accordingly the better.

What would you do if everything you had and everyone you loved was threatened? Would you act like Zelenskyy or Schumer?

One of the big mistakes of Joe Biden’s presidency was this notion that everything was going to be OK, and that his idea of America matched the actual circumstances of America.

If I had a dollar for every time he said this, I’d fold up shop and move to Tahiti:

“We are the United States of America – there's nothing we can't do if we do it together. We just have to remember who we are.”

It was a noble statement and magical thinking that would have worked great pre-2016, when we could still believe without being laughed at that our two parties could work together in a crisis to protect America.

When we were attacked by the terrible human being who is now somehow leading us January 6, 2021, that magical thinking needed to go out the nearest window.

Instead, our Justice Department twiddled its thumbs and allowed the America-attacker to build himself back up, so that WE would have to deal with him AGAIN.

I seethe just thinking about this, but it is where we are right now, and the sooner we all understand this the better.

The clock is ticking. The bomb is in place.

Which brings me back around to my original premise: At some point, he will do something so heinous … so anti-America … so dangerous … that the people who truly love our country will be forced into the streets to take a life-or-death stand. Sadly, this is actually the best-case scenario, because the worst case is we just go quietly into the dark, gloomy night and become an authoritarian country, where we have zero rights or say in how we are governed.

Yesterday under the cover of his blankets, the America-attacker shared this with us:

Now read the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES."

He is telling us what he thinks of America and silly things like the Constitution. Kings don’t pay attention to that kind worthless drivel.

And, really, end of the day, it not him who we have most to fear. It’s the stupid, goddam Republicans who are stubbornly in all of our lives. These are the people who have illustrated there is no known pain or sacrifice to our civil liberties or pocketbooks that they won’t absorb just for the satisfaction of watching some poor kid of color going without something they didn’t think she should have.

So the choice is yours: You can continue thinking there is some magical way out of this, or you can begin to take the threat to everything you hold dear seriously, and ACT accordingly.”

— D. Earl Stephens, author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters” and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes

Saved from DEI

Thank you, President Trump and SecDef Hegseth for protecting us from the likes of DEI hires such as PFC Gonsalves.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military to remove diversity-related content in accordance with President Donald Trump's executive order to end diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs across the federal government.

And among those files flagged for removal was a photograph of Pfc. Harold Gonsalves. Gonsalves was born into a Mexican-American family in Alameda, California, on Jan. 28, 1926.

He was barely 17 when he joined the Marine Corps Reserve in May 1943. It was with the 15th Marines that he landed on Okinawa on April 1, 1945. Gonsalves was a forward observer for the battalion, directing fire toward the enemy's mountain stronghold on the Motobu Peninsula. As the group approached the front, a Japanese grenade landed in their midst. Without hesitation or reservation, Gonsalves threw himself on it. He absorbed the full blast and fragmentation, saving his comrades who all emerged unharmed.

President Harry S. Truman awarded him a posthumous Medal of Honor, which was presented to his family in San Francisco on June 19, 1946.