RIGHT/TRITE

He doesn't distract. He just adds to the anger. The proof is in his under water negative favorability poll number in all categories.

Gov.Walz has already put the Minnesota National Guard on notice to deploy. (With Trump's approval)

If ICE doesn't leave and come to loggerheads with the National Guard, my question is:

Who has rank?

Anybody know?

DONNER

Homer doesn't have to change anything. It isn't a matter of discretion. He just has to do what Trump tells him to do.

If Stephen Miller, of all Trump's Nazi cohorts, can read the writing on the wall, thus losing any chance of holding onto power, he'll tell Trump to get those ICE agent the hell out of Minneapolis . . and fast!

Trump holds the bribery case over his head. .He'll do what best serves Trump's interests.

Hopefully, it will be to put Trump's Gestapo into full retreat.

Obviously, the optics of what Trump voters are seeing on TV is seriously affecting his poll numbers. Trump asking them to believe him instead of their lying eyes isn't working.

Small wonder there.

On the other side, Congress, both Republicans and Democrats are voicing their refusal to vote for the billions of dollars allocated to DHS for ICE. An increase, in fact that would give Homeland Security a bigger budget than the FBI (so it's reported)

Trump, OTOH is once again threatening to shut down the government. He seems to be losing that advantage as more and more pressure is coming from his own corporate GOP supports and the Catholic Church.

His short term solution could be to fire Kriste Nome, Directo of DHS and her loyal sidekick, Cory Lewandowski. (sprry if I spelled their names wrong, but you get the drift).

Trump's problem is, if DHS is defunded, Trump is out of business and his hired thugs of marauding Gestapo pretending to be ICE agents are reduced to collecting unemployment.

NIXON

Maybe. But Trump has agreed with Governor Walz about sending in the State National Guard.

You don't suppose Trump plans for ICE agent to shoot it out with the militarized National Guard, do you?

No, I think not. I think ICE is going to sneak out the back door with only a few left behind so Trump can save face.

DOC

Somebody has to organize the retreat.

Trump's plan to use Minnesota as a test case to cower American citizens to servility by use of force, intimidation, fear and murder has failed . . . not that Trump would ever admit defeat.

The burden of creating another plan falls on the shoulders of Mr. Nazi himself, Stephen Miller. The midterms are right on their heels.

Miller almost has no choice but to announce the presence of ICE agents around polling stations to scare people away from voting . . . for fear of being yanked out of line and hauled away to who-knows-where.

One would hope that cities and towns would pass an ordinance to keep ICE agent 500 feet from polling stations AND their parking area. (using the State National Guard as enforcers.)

I'm sensing a slight sliver of hope for Minnesota. With "hope" being that Homan has been sent to Minnesota to do nothing but supervise the withdrawal of ICE agent from Minnesota. (Some might call it a Trump retreat).

Plus, Governor Walz has ordered the dispatch of 1,500 State National Guard with their Army tanks and other high tech military resources to . . . what shall we call it (lol) . . . assist.

This, after now former ICE commander, Gregore Bovino, was retired (none dare call it fired) back to California to collect his pension.

DBT2

For now, yes. But once he gets booted out, he's fair game.

I'm not sure how the statute of limitations might play a part, if at all.

Also . . . .

Florida's Judge Cannon's ban on disclosing the classified documents case is due to be lifted in February. That could open up another whole can of worms if allowed to proceed against "civilian" Trump and his co-conspirators at Mar-a-Lago who would probably rush to "Make A Deal" to save themselves.

It's no small wonder why Trump is pursuing his enemies list with such abandonment. With his poll numbers so far under water, he's facing the real possibility of impeachment if he doesn't find a way to stop the midterms in the next 10 months.

In short, he's fighting for his life which is, right now, flashing before his eyes. With a horned prosecutor wearing red leotards who looks a lot like Jack Smith leading the parade.

Trump won't be wasting his time on this lost cause for much longer

He's going to need all his brain power to use a blockade to stop all imports of oil to Cuba.

That doesn't appear to be legal. But then, when did that ever matter to Trump?

Or, will this be the straw that breaks the camel's back in the Senate.

But, but, but . . . she's beautiful, has long hair and what about those audacious headlights? LOL

Maybe Trump will start his own polling service and give himself 100% approval in all categories.

Isn't that the way he usually does things?

He might as well sue FOX News, too, because they also have him under water in everything except border control.

As an aside, I hardly think any lawsuit, ever if he could get a lawyer to put their license on the line for filing a frivolous lawsuit, would get past a judge's initial "Denied."

Trump is running true to form, i.e. IT'S ALWAYS SOMEBODY ELSE'S FAULT.

It's called a Persecution Complex.

LAMP

Well said. Odd that it took so long to sink in.

But January 6 isn't going to be the final straw that breaks Trump's back. There's much more to come and it will probably be something central to interfering with the midterms which he can't afford to lose . . . the risk of which is growing more urgent every day.

I'm sure Stephen Miller has a dastardly plan already in the hopper.

Have no fear GOPers. You get another chance to practice your deceit next month when Judge Cannon's ban on discussing Jack Smith's second indictment about the classified documents case is lifted.

The GOPers will get another shot at Jack Smith in a public hearing once the ban is lifted. That is, if they dare. They're slow learners.

TRUTHY

He was reading a teleprompter. It's a little known fact that Trump wears glasses. But he's too vain to wear them in public because he thinks they make him look weak. (or old)

Add that to his already cognitive decline and, frankly, I'm not even sure he's aware that he's making mistakes.

The other thing is that somebody else (probably Stephen Miller) is doing all his thinking so Trump just says words without any thought or reasoning. He's like a windup toy.

ZED

"Psychotic" fits."

Otherwise known as the Terrible Two's temper tantrums.

Trump apparently doesn't know the meaning of the word "DECIMATED.

I watched the whole hearing this morning and Jack Smith was more than ready to hold his own against the Trumpers on the dais. If they were following Trump's orders to force Smith into a perjury trap, he outsmarted them. (No surprise there.)

Smith was cool, calm, polite and every inch a professional. While the Trump GOPers on the dais were getting hot under the collar.

If Trump and Bondi were scouring the testimony today, searching for something they could use to indict Smith for lying to congress, they misjudged Jack Smith. (No surprise there, either.) They all sounded like a bunch of bumbling fools who were trying too hard to nick Jack Smith with something . . . anything . . . regardless of the stretch. IT DIDN'T WORK!

President Putin paid his membership fee of $1 Billion.

Trump, who never takes responsibility for anything, will deny he ever made that mistake and blame it on what he calls a "radical left conspiracy." . . . . who, incidentally, is also responsible for him losing the 2020 election which he still claims (to this very day) that he actually won.

Trump seems to be neurotically fixated on that subject, and the psychotic need to punish America for rejecting him.

REDIAL

"Stephen Miller is running the government."

True, for now. But if Vance inherits the presidency (by succession or otherwise), Stephen Miller will have to compete with Peter Thiel who runs Vance from the shadows.

Another recent problem is USHA's revenge who just announced that she is preggers with a baby boy due in July . . . . news that reportedly sent Erika Kirk into a tailspin.

The question is" Can J.D. Vance run for President in 2028 with a Hindu wife who flatly refuses to switch to Christianity?

"Don't forget that both Hitler and Trump are/were on stimulants when they led their country"

#22 | Posted by LauraMohr

I agree. Those dark bruises on the back of Trump's hand told us that doctors were pumping something narcotic into those veins.