So, here’s a tale of pettiness we should not soon forget. During racist sweeps of brown people, ICE grabbed up a guy named Kilmar Abrego-Garcia and sent him to a foreign prison with no charges, no trial, no chance to respond to charges or prove his innocence. Prison. He was sent to prison.

People were upset. Things like that aren’t supposed to happen in America. Due process is guaranteed in the Constitution for any person standing on American soil. One does NOT have to be a citizen or even properly documented. If you’re on American soil, you have a right to due process. It says so quite plainly in the US constitution.

But the current regime had taken an action and they intended to stick to it, right or wrong, and in this case, they were wrong. They insisted he was a member of MS-13 and he had the tattoos to prove it. 47 even paraded around a Photoshopped photo of Abrego-Garcia’s hand to prove he was MS-13. Unfortunately for them, it only proved Donny is still as dumb as a brick.

Lawsuits were filed over the illegal act and the regime was trying to defend it’s action. They admitted in court that his deportation was the result of an administrative error but insisted there was nothing they could do about it any more. Abrego-Garcia was gone. (The lawyer who confessed the error was fired for the confession because, honor, you know?)

The courts ordered the return of Abrego-Garcia but the regime demurred. Sorry, no can do. Yes, we sent him there and they’re only holding him because we’re paying them to, but there’s no way for us to get him back because we said so, so there. But it wouldn’t go away. It’s almost as if the regime kept taking guff over the case just because they were absolutely, completely and provably wrong.

So now, the regime has a new idea: they’ll bring him back, despite that being impossible, and they’ll put him on trial for crimes. Genius! So now, Team Evil has complied with the court but still won’t confess they messed up. Instead, they’re going to prosecute him for human trafficking. They’re pretending he was a major mover and shaker in a scheme to transport undocumented people around the country.

Oh, AND, just for good measure, they’ve thrown in that he “solicited nude photographs and videos of a minor…” I mean, if you’re going to smear a guy, there are few ways better than “pedophile.” Ask Elon. That was his angle against The Felon. Sure, it hurts the prosecution of actual pedophiles in the long run, but it will bolster Team Evil’s case today so, there it is: pedophile. No, he’s not charged with that, because that’s the best way to handle pedophiles, I guess – make the claim but don’t prosecute it. Hey, at least they’re consistent. They won’t come after Trump for being an alleged pedophile, either, despite the Epstein files…

Historically, it pretty much sucks to find yourself a pawn caught up in some political fight. There’s always this conflict between decency vs winning, honor vs victory. Kilmar Abrego-Garcia’s life has been turned upside down and will continue to be attacked and devastated just because a powerful person hates brown people but won’t admit it’s only because he hates brown people.

This thing could get very, very ugly for Abrego-Garcia. (As if it hasn’t already, right?) It could cost him everything and ruin his life. He could end up in prison on pretend charges and stay there until the fever passes and the law prevails once again – but that could be YEARS. A decade or so from now – maybe more – some politician will issue an apology to Abrego-Garcia’s family while skirting the idea that he was nothing more than a pawn in a larger game somebody else was playing. I’m sure that will be quite comforting…

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Well, I’m glad he said it. 47 is irritated at the protests surrounding ICE raids in Los Angeles. For the last couple of days, people have been coming out, trying to disrupt the process. It has been quite confrontational. For reasons I can’t understand, when ICE shows up to raid some workplace or people’s homes, the officers are wearing masks. I’ve seen a LOT of cops doing a LOT of work around the country and the world. What I never see is cops hiding their faces. When cops are doing good, legitimate police work, they have no NEED to hide their faces.

But here comes ICE, carefully hidden behind masks. So, Donny has written that “…from now on MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why???” It’s a fair question. Why DO these cops need masks? If the work they’re doing is honorable work, shouldn’t they be PROUD of themselves? Don’t they want their children to see what they’re doing, should they happen to show up on television while doing their job?

I can absolutely understand why protestors want to protect their identity. Look at the Kilmar Abrego-Garcia story just ahead of this one. That guy got thrown into prison because he had tattoos on brown skin. NOW he faces trial for human trafficking just because one deeply troubled moronic narcissist can’t admit a mistake. 47 didn’t even MAKE the mistake and he STILL can’t confess that it was a mistake. That is some deep insecurity. So protestors SHOULD wear masks. They need to keep themselves at least somewhat protected from the retribution this regime might rain down on them.

But the cops? No. I don’t get it. The law recognizes a thing called consciousness of guilt. That comes into play when an accused person is pretending they didn’t mean to commit a crime or they weren’t aware of it – but took specific action to protect themselves from the consequences of their deeds. You know, like the ICE agents are doing when they hide behind masks to make raids.

As the conflict has continued, The Felon says he authorized 2,000 National Guard troops to deploy for crowd control. Later, he thanked the National Guard for their great work supporting the ICE agents in their evil quest. Apparently, the Guard just got there this morning so, I’m not sure how much support they’ve provided, yet.

Hey, who, here, remembers Kent State? Remember when the National Guard – that is, American military – was called out on protesting college students and opened fire, killing four Americans? Sure you do. Neil Young wrote a song about it: ‘Ohio.’ American troops killing American citizens was a bad look then and will be a bad look now. Sure, MAGA will eat it up with a spoon. This state-sponsored violence feeds right into their “culture war” fever dreams. But no loyal American would stand still for deploying the American military against American citizens…

There’s this whole argument being advanced by the right that a single “activist” judge (according to MAGA, an “activist” judge is a judge who rules in a way they don’t like) should not be able to make rules that affect the entire government. It’s one thing, they say, to make a ruling that affects the people before the court, sure. But a ruling that affects people NOT before the court? Like, a CLASS of people?

For clarity, say, for example, some unknown, mythical government was about to deport several hundred people based on little more than a combination of skin color and tattoos, without due process, making the deportations a crime. ONE of them manages to get before a court (somehow) and insist they’re NOT part of a gang and that they’re here legally.

If you’re MAGA, you’re arguing that only that ONE person should be affected by the judge’s ruling. The judge should be barred from, say, noticing that the entire process is a violation of the Constitution and putting a stop to it, even temporarily. Instead, each individual should have to seek justice themselves, on the same issues, over and over again.

Taking things on a case-by-case basis is a very old con trick. It slows the defense. How many can they deport illegally while each individual seeks their own justice? How many have no access to seek that justice in the first place? How frivolous is it, to have judges ruling, over and over again on the same issues, especially when the “issues” in question are so obviously unconstitutional?

Fortunately, nothing like that happened in the United States of America. Stay tuned to see how the world works in this Bizarro America. But when we followed the Constitution, no single judge COULD issue a nationwide order that stood, all alone. That’s because we have – I’m sorry, I’m still getting used to this, HAD – a review process.

You walk into a lower court and make your case. The judge rules against you. “No, you can NOT simply grab people off the streets and send them to foreign prisons without charge, hearing, or trial.” But you hate brown people. Are you stuck? Nope. You file an appeal with a higher court. That’s usually a three judge panel. You can sometimes request a larger panel, but at least three MORE judges are looking over the lower court’s shoulder to make sure the ruling made sense.

If you STILL can’t be openly racist and deport people based on skin color and tattoos alone, you take your case higher – to the Supreme Court. That goes to one Justice and then, maybe, to the whole panel. One to nine MORE judges looking at the question. So at a minimum, by the time the process is finished, the smallest number of judges to review a question is five. It could go as high as twenty. But rarely is the question settled with just one.

See, I wouldn’t want only one judge to have that kind of power, either. I mean, what if said judge was ideological in nature and ruled based on their love of a certain person rather than the words in the constitution? What if THAT happened? One might end up with decisions that rule the exact opposite of the plain English words in the Constitution.

One might read the words that say it takes an act of Congress to remove the “disability” of a person barred from holding public office if they have, say, engaged in insurrection against the United States of America, and then rule that it takes an act of Congress to engage the disability – the exact opposite of the words on the page! I would HATE that.

That would be insanity! We might well end up with a felonious fraudster in the White House, moving from one grift to the next, fleecing the Federal government as fast as their greedy, tiny little hands can shove money into their already overflowing pockets. That would be a terrible, dark, ugly day for the United States of America and I’m glad that we– Aw, crap…

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Well, we’ve finally gotten a glimpse of 47’s brilliant and very easy but secret plan to end Russia’s war against Ukraine: he intends to say, in a very meaningful and strong way, “Stop it, stop it, STOP IT!” If THAT doesn’t work, well, he’s pretty much out of ideas.

One problem with 47 is that he invariably surrounds himself with ass-kissing yes-men who ALWAYS nod in assent and laugh at ALL of his jokes, and THEN decides that “everybody agrees” with him since he will not put up with dissent. In his mind, “Stop it, stop it, STOP IT!” shouted at people NOT on his payroll should work just as well as when he yells at employees paid to take his garbage.

Donny often reminds me of a spoiled six-year-old, laying on the ground, kicking and screaming, shouting and crying, pounding his fists and his feet on the floor and threatening to hold his breath until he turns blue…

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Recently, I mentioned that the government was offering $1,000 dollar “Trump Accounts” to women if they would have a baby. I haven’t seen the fine print, yet, but I’m guessing they mean a white baby. They call that an “incentive.” Ever since I learned that, I’ve been thinking, “That amount will ALMOST pay for one month of day care!” After that? The kid is, entirely, on you. Wow, what a great incentive…

Americans need to engage in a game of “It’s Only Stupid IF…” Hell, the whole world is allowed to play – encouraged even. “It’s Only Stupid IF…” is a game I made up intended to help rational, decent people make some sense of the USA today. No, not the newspaper, the country. It’s easy to play, too. All one does is start a sentence with “It’s only stupid IF…” and finish the sentence with what ethical and honorable people might do.

Here’s an example: on the left, it’s a great laugh line just to mention any or all of the failed businesses 47 has started and destroyed. “He’s so stupid,” they say, “he even bankrupted a casino! A-ha, ha, ha! Oh, isn’t he dumb?” But then you play the game, see? “It’s Only Stupid IF…” he intended to create going concerns in the first place.

But if his goal was to create – and destroy – “bust-outs,” then, really, Donny’s various business ventures, casino included, represent a master class. He forms a corporation and uses it to start a business on borrowed money. He builds it out on empty promises to pay craftsmen later. He hires employees (human beings) to work the business, paying them with that borrowed money, then he fleeces every cent out of that business. Every dollar that comes in flows directly into his own pocket. Eventually, inevitably, the business fails and the corporation files for bankruptcy protection.

The lender loses. The craftsmen lose. The employees lose. The municipality he ran his scam in loses. But HE, personally, pockets lots and lots of lucre! The reason ethical people have difficulty seeing that is because such a scheme is profitable to one or two people and damaging to hundreds, maybe thousands, of others. Every. Single. Time. Profitable for him, harmful to everyone else. But if one doesn’t CARE that they’re harming people… It’s easy money.

He recently started a crypto currency business. Crypto is, essentially, pseudo-money. It has nothing behind it, not even debt. It has value because people agree it has value but the moment that agreement changes, so does the value. Jumping in to such a venture seems stupid. But, “It’s Only Stupid IF…” he intends to make money from the crypto. But he doesn’t. He’s “mining the miners,” as the saying goes. HE makes money from the fees and charges that come from facilitating the hopes and dreams of people who DO intend to make money off the currency itself. 47 doesn’t CARE if his coin makes money or loses money. HE makes money either way.

Let’s think about his on again, off again tariffs. THAT game hurts millions, not just a measly few thousand. Demanding, rescinding, insisting upon, then removing tariffs SEEMS like incredibly stupid economic management, and I mean world-class stupid. He’s destabilizing the world economy, destroying the American dollar, and voluntarily surrendering American hegemony. He’s only been in office a short time, and the US has seen her credit rating downgraded as a direct result of his actions. Not Biden’s. Not Obama’s. Not even Hillary’s. HIS.

But “It’s Only Stupid IF…” he intends the US to have a strong, vibrant economy that works well for as many as possible. You know, like the one Biden left him. If your actual goal is to turn ALL OF AMERICA into one, giant “bust-out,” OMG is doing a good job. Think about it, if you wanted to devastate the financial power of a once-great nation, if that was your goal, what would you do that Donny isn’t doing? He’s covered all the bases, right?

Another round? Okay. He lies as easily as drinking water. No, that’s wrong. He sometimes has difficulty drinking water. The thing is, he’ll look right into a camera that he KNOWS is recording and promise that, say, tariffs will never raise prices on the end consumer. Sometimes as short as a day later, he’ll look into those STILL RECORDING cameras and tell the same people that of course their prices are going to go up because of his tariffs. See, to me, that seems stupid. Does he not realize that someone, somewhere, will show those two clips side by side, proving he’s lying?

But, of course, “It’s Only Stupid IF…” he expects his lies to be a problem, which, for reasons I can’t grasp, they never, ever are. MOST of the time, when he’s talking, he’s not talking to the world. He’s not even talking to Americans. He’s talking to MAGA. He’s feeding soundbites into MAGA media that the complicit broadcasters can play on a loop, all day, every day. Americans know Donny is lying. Hell, the whole world knows Donny is lying. But MAGA does NOT know Donny is lying.

During the campaign, Donny promised he would release the Epstein files so the world can finally see the details of Epstein’s human trafficking crimes. The whole world knows there are names of some very wealthy, very powerful people associated with Epstein’s crimes. We just don’t know exactly whose names we might find on such a list. So the regime is pretending they just can’t seem to get the files together. Those particular files seem to be constantly “under review.” It seems to be little more than stupid incompetence.

Once again, though, “It’s Only Stupid IF…” you DON’T know that the three most prominent names that would likely show in that record are of the very dear friends, ‘Jeffery Epstein,’ ‘Ghislaine Maxwell,’ and ‘Donald Trump.’ But Donny DOES know whose name shows up as much as Epstein and Maxwell and he doesn’t DARE release the details. Sure, he can promise, but he can NEVER follow through. He’s concerned about what MAGA might think if they thought he was knowingly having sex with underage women.

To my mind, this one gets a rare “double stupid.” See, “It’s Only Stupid IF…” MAGA might react badly to the statutory rapes, but they won’t. MAGA will overlook the criminal sex the same way they disregard any – ALL – of his other moral failings. 47 just seems too stupid to realize that. So it’s a pretended stupid, disguised and confounded by an actual stupid.

So there you go, the rules of the game. Now you can play along on your own time and it applies to everything, all the time. EVERY time you hear about some new, apparently “stupid” thing he’s done, play the game. “It’s Only Stupid IF…” then fill in what a decent, moral, honorable person would do. Donny NEVER does what a decent, moral, honorable person might do, so the game helps to clarify his true intent, even as he tells whatever lie is needed to facilitate the current grift at hand. And, sadly, “It’s Only Stupid IF…” it doesn’t work…

The LAST time the low-information, conservative, anti-American crowd came together and started forcing their low-information, conservative, anti-America views on everybody, the battle that ensued was between the Blue and the Grey. THIS time, it looks like it’s going to be the Blue vs the Red. It seems the good guys always get blue. I like that. Blue is my favorite color…

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I suspect 47 thinks he’s being tough when he receives a visit from some other country’s leader, and then attacks them publicly over some pretended “issue.” I guess it plays well in MAGA media. For reasons I can only pretend not to understand, he only seems to do it to darker skinned world leaders, too. The thing is, so far anyway, he attacks dark-skinned foreign dignitaries with false information. That kind of makes him look dumb… everywhere – except MAGA media, of course.

He did it with Zelenskyy when Team Evil was all butthurt that Ukraine hadn’t said “thank you” enough. Now he’s done it with the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa. 47 claimed, falsely, that white farmers are being attacked and killed in South Africa. MAGA loves stories about dark-skinned people killing white farmers. Do you remember when they were telling that exact same story about farmers that lived along the Mexican border here in the US?

They had LOTS of fun with that one – until some wet blanket reporter investigated the charges and proved they were nothing more than a fun story for racists. Farmers were NOT getting their heads chopped off by illegals along the Mexican border. So, you won’t be surprised to learn that white farmers are NOT suffering crime at a much higher rate than other citizens of South Africa. It’s just a fun story for racists.

So, of course, 47 is all in on it. He’s SO sure it’s true, he even went so far as to show a photograph of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo being buried after being murdered. He didn’t SAY it was a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo and, in fairness to him, he likely didn’t know or care that it was a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He believed it for the moment because it fit his story for the moment so he showed it for a moment so he could get his moment in MAGA media.

But if your story depends on showing actual atrocities from the Democratic Republic of Congo and pretending their imagined atrocities in South Africa, your story doesn’t deserve to be told. But maybe someone could check on the women from the Democratic Republic of Congo? Oh, yeah, the US isn’t in the good guy business anymore…

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The left-leaning media is characterizing the discussions among Team Evil as to exactly how much damage they should inflict on defenseless individuals as some kind of ‘Freedom Caucus Revolt.’ Ooh, how did MAGA Mike handle THAT? (He told them to STFU and vote as instructed – and they did.)

Was there EVER any question in your minds that the GOP would fall in line and do as they’re told? Not in mine. They always do as they’re told. I’m not sure they know HOW to stand up, since their spines simply don’t seem to exist. Sure, they’ll say things in public, but they vote dependably.

Donny is out there, promoting his “Big, Beautiful Bill.” He says it’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bolster the US economy. Remember, kids! It’s ALWAYS a safe bet that if 47 says a thing, the opposite is true. It’s almost a fact of life, like sunrise. So when he says the “Big, Beautiful Bill” is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bolster the US economy, you just KNOW the one thing this behemoth nightmare does NOT do is bolster the US economy.

Experts in economics seem to be in a near panic about the US destabilizing their own economy to such a dangerous extent. Our credit rating is down and investors are flocking to other places with their investment dollars. Instability is a bad, bad thing for most investors and the US is very unstable at the moment. Well, at least it’s current “leader” is. Unstable, I mean.

It DOES strip regulations related to buying a silencer for your gun. I mean, obviously. If you’re trying to stimulate the economy, what better way than eliminating some gun regulations?

It also eliminates all of that pesky oversight from the courts the cons hate so much. It never crosses their minds to simply stop breaking the law. They need to silence the people who keep pointing out that they’re breaking the law. The bit they tossed in? It reads: “No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or restraining order…” Sure, you can make a ruling, but you’re not allowed to enforce that ruling.

It should go without saying that they attacked transgender people a little bit more, too. Remember, the goal is to stimulate the economy – and MAGA finds attacking defenseless people one of the most stimulating activities they’ve ever pursued.

They’re trying to bribe women into having babies. Sure, the economy sucks. You could be on the streets in a moment’s notice. Maybe you can feed your kid, maybe you can’t. Need a doctor? Oh, HELL no! Pay no attention to the fear that an actual shooting war becomes just a little more likely, here, in Bizarro America every day. “Have you a baby. Here, we’ll give ya $1,000 dollars.”

They were GOING to call these little baby-bribes “MAGA Accounts.” Apparently, they wanted a little credit for creating the things, and naming the accounts after their cult seemed like a lovely way to make sure people understood, this was a MAGA thing. Alas, that didn’t satisfy the ego of the Precious enough so at the last minute, the accounts were renamed “Trump Accounts.”

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It’s classic GOP. During the campaign, The Felon started claiming – falsely, of course – that FEMA wasn’t on the ground for a natural disaster in South Carolina. FEMA WAS on the ground, helping as much and as quickly as they could. Donny was just lying, as he does so easily. But, it seems he wasn’t JUST lying. He was foreshadowing.

While FEMA worked just fine under – well, every President not named ‘Trump’ since it’s inception – it’s not working now. It turns out, cutting funding and personnel cripples the agency. Who knew? I mean, everybody but MAGA knew but, ignore that part. Now, even MAGA gets to see what it feels like when “government inefficiency” shifts from being a fun taunt to being a real thing.

Here’s what IS true, and I’m not making this up: it looks very much like natural disasters don’t pick and choose between Red Hats and Americans. We ALL get hit at the same time and at about the same rate. Hurricanes aren’t a surprise to anyone. People even refer to “hurricane season,” suggesting it’s a regular event.

They’re coming, like it or not, and FEMA isn’t ready, at least, according to FEMA. In fact, since I know the regime fires ANYBODY who dares tell any truth, I wonder why the director of FEMA hasn’t been fired as well. They should just drag him out of the– wait, what? Oh, he HAS been fired? Yeah. Perfect. That’s certain to make America great again…