When ICE becomes as it is now ... a paramilitary internal special army, there's a big jump in the protection of Americans from its own military.

What's worse than this paramilitary organization being suited up in camo combat gear and face masks makes them more like Hitler's brownshirts or Mussolini's blackshirts. There seems something completely unconstitutional going on here.

Trump's Internal Military creation: America's expanded DHS special police (ICE) program.

Famous lessons they will teach all recruits for this national paramilitary force:

1. "Show us your papers!"
2. "Get out of the car, or you will be shot dead (3x)!"
3. "We don't care if you have a green card or are otherwise here legally, we can deport (or disappear') anyone Trump we want to."
4. Capstone project: "Legalizing cruelty, prejudice, and ignoring court orders 101."

Historical perspective: Himmler's SS and Gestapo were worse, but they had to have a model to start with. Under Trump's new "America First Nationalist Republican Party" this is a start. What a Party!

("If you're not on board yet, you soon will be!" RINOs, Liberals & fence-sitters all will be rounded up, branded as "communists", or terrorists and charged with "treason" by the MAGA Reich,)

Ugh!

(Hint: read the above with emphatic sarcasm as Arte Johnson's Laugh-In character Wolfgang would for best effect.)

Trump's Internal Military creation " his DHS program.
"Show us your papers!"
"Get out of the car, or you will be shot dead (3x)!"
"We don't care if you have a green card or are otherwise here legally, we can deport (or disappear') anyone Trump wants us to."

Maybe Himler's SS and Gestapo was worse, bur they had to have a model to start with. This is America's under the New ("America First Nationalists") Republican Party. What a party! Ugh!

The insurrection act is a predecessor to invoking restrictions on the press and potentially martial law. Given Trump's desire to become King (read dictator) any step toward suppressing dissent can morph into shutting down any media he declares seditious and to invoking the need to suspend elections.

Ancient inteliigence didn't hit ISIS. It hit a town that's been ISIS free for a while.

Communism and Fascism were related in that both were totalitarian and repressive tyrannical centralized government solutions. It's odd to see PRC referred to as "fascist", but it is definitely a surveillance state. So is Russia.

"Birds of a feather flock together!"

Trump's been "befriended" by Moscow's former KGB assets since the 1970s. Of course he's been brainwashed!

Witkoff & Kushner are scammers using peace negotiations as cover for spending time touring Moscow to plan to score hundreds of billions for them when Russia gets money (from USA?)to revitalize Russia's postwar economy.

How Sovereign Wealth Funds Grease Trump's Kleptocracy:

Very persistent blizzard from Cleveland to inland New England and Toronto to West Virginia.

Very significant blizzard from Ohio to inland New England, and from Ontario to West Virginia.

Nothing justifies ambushing Domestic deployed National Guardsmen ever! Was this a false-flag incident? Or the act of some random lunatic? Neither is justifiable but we must wait for more details. As we wait, some thoughts to consider:

Trump knows that sending National Guards from other states into cities is controversial, provocative, and possibly incendiary. His decisions have been made with the intent to incite something, anything, that would allow him to stoke more protests and tension to justify even more repressive actions.

Ultimately, IMHO, DJT would like nothing better than to provoke (or to false flag) an incident that his cabinet will consider bad enough to invoke the Insurrection Act. His 2020 team of insiders plotted to invoke the Act back then, and now his current gaggle of extremist, pro-authoritarian advisors would be thrilled to see Trump become dictator. Right out of the authoritarian how-to guide-book that led 1933 Germany to empower its own one-party dictatorship.

Dumbkopf -------- Witkoff! A travesty.

Never before in US history has a president tried to sabotage a free nation to impress an anti-democracy dictator. Welcome to Trump world.

monomaniac |
noun
a person exhibiting an exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing:

Example: self-obsessed monomaniacs.

In this case the shoe fits for the top duo, Peter Thiel, Vance's demigod, and whole cast of self-possessed billionnaires & multi-millionaires, and "Little Marco"" and witless Witkoff, the freakin' "--------".

Completely rational! This administration is the most vile anti-American cluster of selfish monomaniacs ever. Keep away & stay away you freaks!

Megyn Kelly has a point. Sexual consent laws have been all over the board throughout time and place.

In 1880, American ages of consent were set at 10 or 12 in most states, with the exception of Delaware where it was 7.

Today, 23 US states or territories set the "restricted" age of sexual consent at 15 or lower. (In 3 of those jurisdictions, the younger age is 14 and in 10, it's 13.) But the age difference between younger & older partner is very restricted. And the unrestricted age of consent is primarily between 16 & 18.

He says he's 6'4" and 180 # and in better health than any president before him! What's not to believe??

It'll be closer to a $1 billion boondoggle when finished. And who knows how badly bugged it'll be by Russia, China & who knows who else?

It'll be closer to a $1 billion boondoggle when finished. And who knows how badly bugged it'll be
Trump's lying strategy versus democracy:

First deny deny; then admit only a fraction of the planned acts vs democratic rules & deny everything else, while boasting how super-great the deed will really be; then continue to under-estimate what the final cost will be even as actual costs are rising.

Of course keeping boxes of TS materials you've repeatedly been asked to return & leaving them in a ballroom bathroom next to a high speed scanner/copier is just nothing, right?

At least 20,000 along a 3 mile stretch in Albany, NY from noon to 2pm. 10,000s more across the Hudson Valley from West Point to Lake George.