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Abolish DHS. Many of its essential functions could be carried out by separate, apolitical agencies. We always knew harnessing that many powerful government agencies under the supervision of a single political appointee accountable only to the President carried the danger of despotic rule.

So much for the theory that all it takes to stop a murder is a good guy with a gun.

Fair enough. I’m not sure what to make of that, though. In a way the KKK members should have known better.

Some of the Proud Boys have other jobs and prefer to remain part-time vigilantes. Hobby thugs, you might says. That model worked for a long time for the KKK.

Typical bully response. When a bully’s manhood is challenged, he finds someone weaker to kick around. When U.S. presidents get kicked in the nuts at home, they flex muscle in Latin America.

And THEN what?! I’m getting fed up with all these judicially imposed deadlines that the Trump administration just blows off. Send someone to jail already! Hold Bondi in contempt and lock her up until DOJ delivers the documents.

We also don’t know whether these are genuine ICE agents, or Proud Boy paramilitary thugs posing as ICE just to beat people and terrorize them. You can’t tell. Anyone could get a camo outfit, mask, and tactical weapons and pose as ICE. They display no ID and hide behind masks. COWARDS!

Experts say it would take $100 billion and 10 years to get (low quality) oil flowing from Venezuela’s deteriorated infrastructure. Meanwhile Big Oil is cutting back on capital expenditures in the face of a global oil glut. Trump’s anschluss may amount to nothing but empty political theater.

Mark my words, Cuba is next. Venezuela was just a dress rehearsal. Little Marco has been dreaming about re-taking Cuba his entire life, along with the entire Miami Cuban-American population. Meanwhile they’ll choke off Cuba’s oil supply, coming mostly from Venezuela. Bay of Pigs II, anyone?

Trump just fired dozens of top career diplomats, including many in highly sensitive posts. He plans to replace them with people “aligned with the administration’s priorities.” In short, hacks, ideologues, and sycophants. U.S. influence abroad is already at a nadir. Now it’s falling off a cliff.

How nice for them! Here’s an idea. While the rest of us are struggling to buy groceries, how about we eat the rich?

Fighting Woke-ness on all fronts!

I just had this depressing thought: we’re still less than a year into Trump’s term of office. How much more of this can I endure? Sorry for the interruption. Now back to your regularly scheduled program.

Not even “Thoughts and prayers”?

Donald Trump calls the affordability crisis a “hoax”. Try telling that to the bill collectors.

The Roberts Court is systematically dismantling any semblance of ‘checks and balances’ and co-equal branches—much less Article I supremacy. We’re well down the road to Article II autocracy. But if a Democrat ever occupies the White House, it’ll all be about “executive branch overreach” again.

I wish I could believe this. Unfortunately many Dems seem to spend too much time stuck in ‘N’.

Exactly. He’s a stone cold CIA killer who was employed in a paramilitary death squad. Who wouldn’t have PTSD and other mental health issues after that?

As a Medicare recipient, I’m no longer so keen on Medicare for all. We need something better: a true National Health Service that covers 100% of hospital and medical care.

Love it! Can’t the DC City Council rename Pennsylvania Avenue “Obama Avenue”? I’d love to see Trump have to print new White House stationery with the address “1600 Obama Avenue”. (Nothing against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, mind you, but they’ve had their moment in the sun).

It will never actually happen and Trump knows it This is purely performative politics, another stunt for the TV cameras. But there’s a real danger that Trump’s vicious, reckless words will incite some of his unhinged supporters to take matters into their own hands. He’s playing with fire.

Trump’s name will forever be associated with graft and corruption in the nation’s highest office, at one of the lowest points in U.S. history. “Unbelievable graft, like you’ve never seen before! Some say more graft than any President in history. Maybe more than all the Presidents put together!”

This makes all photographic, video, and voice recordings suspect as evidence. How would you prove it’s not an AI-generated fake?

Time for us to step up to the plate and be the Next Greatest Generation, defeating Fascism on the home front.

Sen. Slotkin is 100% correct. “Just following orders” is NEVER a legitimate defense to a crime, whether in uniform or out of it. Surely the Nuremberg trials established that principle as applied to war crimes, but under U.S. law it applies to lesser crimes as well.

He’s always bern a creep and a sexual predator. He actually boasted about it. That much is obvious. I guess the MAGA crowd just didn’t care.

Double entendre?

I wonder if China is manipulating the soybean market with its on-again, off-again import bans. Futures are up 10% in the last month on news China will resume buying U.S. soy—a purely discretionary matter. They could have bought low & now either take delivery on the cheap or sell high at a profit.

Modern technology could allow creation of “ICE Alert” networks in cities targeted for immigration crackdowns. People would phone in ICE sightings, location data then automatically transferred to real-time online maps, thus alerting potential targets to ICE presence in their communities. Yes or no?

Trump seeks to force universities to bend the knee and pledge ideological fealty in exchange for priority treatment in federal funding. This is extortion. It’s also a violation of Constitutionally protected freedom of speech and bedrock principles of academic freedom. This hill is worth dying on.