Monday, January 12, 2026

We're Really Doing Another Year of This?

Rex Huppke: Less than two weeks into 2026, President Donald Trump's administration has killed a 37-year-old mother of three in Minneapolis and launched an unauthorized invasion of Venezuela, claiming control of the nation's oil and killing upward of 100 people. The administration has done nothing to help make your life better.

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"The president is fulfilling zero promises, and now he seems to have marched America into a costly occupation of a foreign country," writes columnist @rexhuppke.bsky.social. bit.ly/4qYeRer

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-- USA TODAY Opinion (@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com) Jan 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM

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Trump has threatened to launch attacks on Mexico, Colombia and Cuba and enraged our NATO allies by suggesting a hostile takeover of Greenland. He has told The New York Times that international law doesn't matter: "My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me."

He has done nothing to make your life better.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has continued his anti-vaccine crusade by radically slashing the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule and loosening U.S. dietary guidelines on alcohol consumption, hurling parents and the medical community into chaos.

Certainly, none of that makes anyone's life better.

#1 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-11 01:51 PM

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Unity? Peace? Not in 2026 if Republicans let Trump continue.

Again, we are less than two weeks into the new year, and what we have seen from a president and a Republican Party ostensibly put in control of the country to lower food prices and improve the lives of hardworking Americans is chaos and death.

At his 2025 inauguration, Trump said: "Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable."

Bandying about like pirates snatching other nations' oil and gunning down Americans in the streets doesn't jibe with stopping wars or nurturing a new spirit of unity. It's all divisiveness, all the time.

The killing of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 is example No. 1 of the epidemic of cruelty Trump has unleashed. Before we even knew the name of the person who was killed, Trump and his soulless minions had declared that she was a "domestic terrorist" and had justified the agent's actions in the court of public opinion.

Then after we knew the victim was a mother of three, a loving Christian, a person whose last words to the man who killed her were "I'm not mad at you," and after we saw the video that showed the administration was lying about her actions and nothing justified lethal force, the cruelty from Republican leaders kept coming.

Yep.

The cruelty from Republican leaders kept coming.

Not to mention from the usual suspects here

#2 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-11 01:57 PM

Whites and Latinos still will not admit their mistake.

#3 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-01-11 08:13 PM

4 people have died in ice custody since the new year

#4 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-01-11 08:19 PM

Mistake?

Trump said he'd be a dictator on day one.

BEFORE THE ELECTION.

No Mistake.

They want a Fuhrer.

#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-01-12 12:03 PM

Unity? Peace? Not in 2026 if Republicans let Trump continue.
Again, we are less than two weeks into the new year, and what we have seen from a president and a Republican Party ostensibly put in control of the country to lower food prices and improve the lives of hardworking Americans is chaos and death.

At his 2025 inauguration, Trump said: "Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable."

Bandying about like pirates snatching other nations' oil and gunning down Americans in the streets doesn't jibe with stopping wars or nurturing a new spirit of unity. It's all divisiveness, all the time.

The killing of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 is example No. 1 of the epidemic of cruelty Trump has unleashed. Before we even knew the name of the person who was killed, Trump and his soulless minions had declared that she was a "domestic terrorist" and had justified the agent's actions in the court of public opinion.

Then after we knew the victim was a mother of three, a loving Christian, a person whose last words to the man who killed her were "I'm not mad at you," and after we saw the video that showed the administration was lying about her actions and nothing justified lethal force, the cruelty from Republican leaders kept coming.

Yep.
The cruelty from Republican leaders kept coming.
Not to mention from the usual suspects here

#2 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-11 01:57 PM | Reply | Flag:
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You conveniently left out that he was also elected to clean up the illegal immigration that Biden left him, that the left is trying to prevent. Not doing anything to help the economy here? Inflation under Biden was 9%, what is it now? GDP was 1.8% under Biden, now it's 4.3%. Plus he's cleaning up all the fraud that the left created.
And speaking of the fraud, the GOP votes to provide charity to those that need it, the left steals it before it gets to them. So which party is the one that wants to kill little children?

#6 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-01-12 12:54 PM

"Inflation under Biden was 9%."

Unemployment under Trump was 15%.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-12 12:57 PM

"So which party is the one that wants to kill little children?"

The one that cut childhood cancer research.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-12 12:58 PM

So which party is the one that wants to kill little children?

The GOP supports---------- and school shootings.

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-12 01:02 PM

Anyone who calls what happened in Venuzela "an invasion" isn't worth listening or reading.

The government isn't here to "make your life better". It exists to set the conditions SO YOU CAN MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER.

The Federal government isn't supposed to be so involved with a citizen's life. That's up to local government.

But people like Hans and Snoofy need the federal government to give them a life.

That's the way progressives are.

#10 | Posted by boaz at 2026-01-12 02:00 PM

The government isn't here to "make your life better". It exists to set the conditions SO YOU CAN MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER.

The Federal government isn't supposed to be so involved with a citizen's life. That's up to local government.

#10 | Posted by boaz

So why did trump tell everyone that biden was making their lives worse and that he would make it better?

#11 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-01-12 02:06 PM

Plus he's cleaning up all the fraud that the left created.

#6 | Posted by fishpaw

Is that why he's selling pardons to all the drug kingpins?

#12 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-01-12 02:07 PM

#10 So says the government retiree, Major DEI Boaz.

He needed the federal government to give him a life.

#13 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-12 02:12 PM

Anyone who calls what happened in Venuzela "an invasion" isn't worth listening or reading.

What would you call it?

Colonization?

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-12 02:13 PM

#14,

No, a law enforcement action.

#15 | Posted by boaz at 2026-01-12 02:14 PM

which party is the one that wants to kill little children?
#6 | POSTED BY FISHPAWN

The party of the 2nd amendment.

The party that believes a few gun deaths are an acceptable risk in order to ensure every mentally unstable person receives a gun.

The party of "Thoughts and Prayers".

#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-12 02:16 PM

a law enforcement action.
#15 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Which laws were being enforced?

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-12 02:17 PM

#10 Major DEI Boazo says, "The Federal government isn't supposed to be so involved with a citizen's life."

And, yet, there are defense dollars being spent in all 435 Congressional Districts across this land.

And those defense dollars get into the pockets of citizens everywhere, from actual defense employees, down to the diner on the corner, whose employees are paid when those actual defense employees dine there.

Give it a rest, Major DEI Boazo **

** What boaz' white "friends" call him behind his back and then laugh and laugh and laugh.

#18 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-12 02:19 PM

#14,
No, a law enforcement action.

#15 | Posted by boaz

You are one of the stupidest motherf*&^ers here.

There is nothing you won't swallow from this administration.

#19 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-12 02:34 PM

Three more years of manufacturing decline?
Make America Great Again!

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-12 04:00 PM

Give the 300 lb sack of---------- credit for tanking the economy and getting his fat ass gaped by Putin.

#23 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-12 04:06 PM

US factory sector contracts for 10th straight month in December

www.reuters.com

Daddysfist gets dragged again.

#26 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-12 04:10 PM

"Lower gas price"

If this materially affected your quality of life, you must not have much of a life:
"Indeed, even as inflation rises, Americans are paying a few cents less at the pump than they were a year ago, according to AAA."

"Nutted CAFE and EVplan"

Less efficient cars will negatively affect most people's bottom line.

"Began cleaning up foreign trash"

America engaging in systemic racism harms America, though it's understandable that it makes the racists happy.

"Boogeyman'd commies"

I guess this means deposing Maduro. There's no benefit to America from that. Building up a foreign country's oil infrastructure is a strange demand from the Drill Baby Drill crowd. All it does is make America less competitive.

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-12 04:14 PM

#28 Or pardoning Juan Orlando Hernandez.

#29 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-12 04:20 PM

"There's some latency in the system."

Now you're just making excuses.

"Manufacturing will build back after decades of offshore trade corruption."

No it won't. Manufacturing has declined for ten straight months because Trump is making America a ---- stain nation. Nobody wants to buy American if they have less fascist options.

"I'm initiating new manufacturing op this year with US made tools."

Hyundai tried that and they got deported. So unless you're spending $4B and creating 8,500 American jobs, America is still behind where we would be without Trump.

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-12 04:23 PM

No, it means triggering leftists such as your DR hoi polli
#28 | Posted by john_savage1

That's a boon for America?
What's the dollar value on that, for working families?

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-12 04:27 PM

The administration has done nothing to help make your life better.
Except:
-Lower gas price
-Nutted CAFE and EVplan
-Began cleaning up foreign trash
-Boogeyman'd commies

#22 | Posted by john_savage1

Crashing the economy lowers gas prices therefore crashing the economy is good! Quitting the race to create the industries of the future is good! Focusing on imaginary communists is awesome! I drink paint and I approve this message!

#32 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-01-12 05:37 PM

the only people happy with Trump's presidency are billionaires and stupid people.

#33 | Posted by moder8 at 2026-01-12 09:07 PM

No, it means triggering leftists such as your DR hoi polli

#28 | POSTED BY JOHN_SAVAGE1

How does that Glorify the Lord?

Guess I have pray about a tent spike for you too brother.
(judges 4:21)

#34 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-13 10:14 AM

- triggering leftists

Yes, after suffering such horrors as Civil Rights, Women's Rights, and the Obama Presidency, rwingers found that the Trump Cult provided them the most solace and payback they were ever going to get; the promise that one day, if they are good little Cultists for their billionaire President, they may enjoy the prospect of somehow, 'owning them a lib!".

It's not much, but it's all they've got.

#35 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-13 10:37 AM

"You are one of the stupidest motherf*&^ers here.
There is nothing you won't swallow from this administration."

He's an Uncle Tom. Maybe one day he'll live out his dream when the white supremacists fully take over and enslave him and drag him to a southern plantation. If he's a good boy, he'll get to work in the house.

#36 | Posted by dibblda at 2026-01-14 03:59 AM

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