Or, as the Christian tv commercials during the Super Bowl this year pointed out, the Lord Jesus and his parents were refugees seeking asylum in Egypt. Amen.

Republican lawmakers asking for smut? Gee how many times have we seen and heard about that before? lol

RIGHT NOW there is nothing great about the United States Federal Governnment. Any greatness to be found in this country currently is in the hearts and actions of a decreasing minority of conscientious American private citizens.

AOC 2028!

Abrego-Garcia may or may not have had the loosest of affiliation with bad guys. But that is all a big smoke screen. The REAL issue and the BIG issue is that Trump's immigration service willfully and deliberately ignored the legal and binding order of multiple US Federal Judges. Trump brazenly has elected to ignore the Constitution and the law.

What every true American should be concerned about is not whether Abrego-Garcia ultimately stays or goes from the US, but rather Due Process and the Rule of Law is obeyed by the sitting President of the US. The Court ruled. Trump completely disregarded it.

Yeah. Trump has gotten in us into a big expensive ugly fight that neither China nor the US can win. ALL OF US are now beginning to pay the financial price and it is only going to get extremely worse. To say nothing about the stock market...

Thanks uneducated, cultist MAGAs sheep.

Stalin and Hitler used to enjoy purging their militaries of Officers they considered insufficiently loyal to them. Now we have Trump doing it.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

Here in SoCal I personally know three Christian Latino Pastors who are in this country illegally. All very sincere and spiritual men with wives and families. And two of them have a fair sized 'flock'.

Cracks me up that it takes something like this to finally get right wingers upset about Trump's draconian deportation policies.

Some nations in South and Central America Banana Republics copied the US Constitution pretty much word for word. And then nobody paid attention to it. Presidents and different Congresses ignored it. The courts of those nations did not enforce it. But it was all on paper as "the law". Just a big farce.

Obviously, instead of them becoming more like us, the US has become a lot more like them.

FINALLY the US Supreme Court does something: 1) Correctly; 2) Constitutional; 3) Moral and Just; 4) Important and Contrary to Project 2025!

And Lord forgive, but I really really despise Alito. What a ------ excuse for a human being.

I'll wait until Molotov Cocktail Monday to make my feelings known.

The Cuban lobby for Florida is almost as strong as AIPAC lobby for Israel. I won't believe Cubans are being deported until I actually see it happen. Because I do not believe Trump will allow it.

Old people are learning to despise Trump. Yet early on they were among his strongest supporters. Trump goes after his perceived enemies with cannons that kill every one, friend and foe, in all directions. And still the sycophants pray to him as they adorn their golden Trump bust buttons.

Trump has turned this into a nation of fear. And MAGAs love it. Nothing more need be said.

Other than stupid people (aka MAGAts) who thinks this clown is doing even a mediocre job? I'll take Biden over Orange Puddin' Pie any day.

I believe that within one year, DOGE as we currently know it will no longer exist. The large bulk of American people will not stand for it. Or put another way, unless Trump Inc. shifts gear, the bloodbath in the 2026 midterm elections will be historic for the number of seats that change Party hands.

We are no longer either a Republic nor a democracy. We are an authoritarian nation where the leaders are free to disregard the rulings of the Federal Courts. We might not yet be Nazi Germany, but we certainly are giving the USSR and China a run for the money.

And MAGAts support this. And worse, they deny it even though it is all playing out right in front of their eyes.

Coriolanus: actually that was very helpful. I just learned more in fifteen minutes about the bond markets than I ever knew before.

There is a lot I do not understand about bond markets. Even if one does not have faith in American economic policies, why would bond values decrease? You buy a bond, it matures, you receive the benefit. How does that go away? Or are they simply saying we would get less benefit than otherwise? Is there a Bond Markets For Dummies guide out there for people like me?

Actually, grossly reducing the number of employees who work for the IRS is certain to grossly increase fraud.

We now definitively know that eggs came before the chicken.

The dollar CAN be replaced as the primary international currency. Claiming that could never happen is naive and shortsighted. Economically we are playing with fire with these tariffs.

Well I did make back $57,000 of the $70,000 plus I lost over the last 30 days. So there is that.

$9.6 Trillion nationally. But let's talk honestly about the middle and middle-upper class. Most people I know have lost well in excess of $50,000 individually on the Wall Street crash over the past several days. Think about that. It will take years to recuperate unless America makes a radical change of course.

We cannot depose Trump soon enough.

I remember when Covid hit and Trump was telling Americans to take Ivermectin pills and bleach shots. Now Trump has just done to America's economy that he did to our national heath when the Coronavirus hit us. We are in so much trouble. So bad in fact that I am uncertain Trump's presidency will be able to ride it out.

Alexandrite: Exactly!!!!!!!!