You have No Rights ICE is bound to Respect

Giant Pupils = most likely MDMA

  

Even though it's Summer - ICE never left.

Every time I start trying to finish this post about ICE and their unconstitutional actions, their wildly unlawful use of force violations, and horrific treatment of people in the United States a new story about the depravity and viciousness of this organization comes to light.

The news story about the electro-shock gauntlets garnered a lot of social media attention and interaction.

I saw less coverage of the fact ICE and the Private Prison Industry are making billions from Traitor trump's fascist regime, 

America's two largest private prison companies, CoreCivic and GEO Group, are reporting a combined $1.4 billion in quarterly revenue over the spring as immigration detention closes in on record levels.

Those revenues announced Thursday do not include net proceeds of $1.6 billion made by CoreCivic after the recent sale of four of their facilities to the Department of Homeland Security. Patrick Swindle, CoreCivic's President and CEO, told investors on an earnings call that that works out to an average rate of $307,000 per bed.

The earnings — from April through June of this year — come as the U.S. is holding almost 66,000 people in immigration detention, nearing record levels not seen since January, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan research center. Both companies say they're also finding other revenue opportunities, like ankle monitors for Haitian immigrants who recently lost their protected immigration status.

"Revenue Opportunities"...

A short video of woman being taken forcibly from a Juice Bar in Halladale Beach, Florida is meet by thousands of fuck yeah, thank you ICE comments from white people on Instagram, Facebook, and other social media sites.  Sure you could claim some are bots and fake accounts but, the tenor of trump supporters has been 100% in support of all manner of violence directed at people whom they deem illegal.

Read any news story showing ICE acting with impunity and with tacit and explicit support of this government and you will see so many racist whites get orgasmic satisfaction at seeing brown people suffer.  Whites in the United States are more than willing to suffer all the greed, theft, corruption, failure overseas, and cons from Traitor trump because he's giving them so much torture porn.

Not even the slightest pretense of due process or constitutional rights and if you ever unluckily find yourself in a "debate" with one of these violent rightwing drones they simply claim "Illegals" have no rights.  

I've pointed out many times on this blog that white people view Hispanic or Latino peoples (and of course, all black people) as a priori guilty of crimes.  It's how Traitor trump, Just Despicable Vance, and their bevy of podcast propagandists are allowed to speak of immigrants in terms of blaming all of them for the actions of one or a few.  Think back to how many times a Republican will scream the name Laken Riley to demonize every person with a last name ending in S or Z.  And every right-winger on-line has ready made "lists" of illegal immigrants ready to spam any Facebook post decrying the actions of ICE.   

This Collective Guilt is then used as a defense mechanism by rightwingers to justify all manner of mistreatment and unlawful acts done by the government and its' agents against anyone meeting the Republican criteria of "illegal immigrant".  Additionally, white people abrogate their innocence when they protest the actions of ICE thus deserving their fate and deaths at the hands of these untrained are therefore justified.

Even the most raw rookie knows
you don't present your weapon
through a window where it can 
be taken from you, especially by
the supposedly "worst of worst"

Eventually people in this country are going to realize they have no rights MAGA or the treasonous Republican Party are bound to recognize.  And if you dare to assert those rights get ready for state-sponsored terrorism and a complete abrogation of your rights by the Department of Injustice including the extrajudicial executions enacted by ICE thugs on the streets, which are then immediately accompanied by the lie from the government the person "weaponized their vehicle" and tried to run them over or interfered with legal ICE operations.  Which on-line agitators and propagandists immediately adopt as epistemological proof and then proceed to slander the deceased and present unequivocal support the murderous ICE Agents. (This is of course nothing new and has been the standard rightwing reaction after every murder, including those by non-law enforcement persons like George Zimmerman, Kyle Rittenhouse, Daniel Penny is to demonize the victim, comb through the persons life for negative information and craft false narratives about them, in order to paint the victim as "No Angel", all while claiming the Officer feared for their life).

And now we find out after ICE Agents murdered Daniel Perry in the most clear cut violation of 2nd Amendment rights in modern US History, Department of Homeland Terrorism infiltrated and began collecting "intel" on groups to try and prove their fevered dreams of a broader country-wide "Antifa" Network; 

Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents to observe a climate group and into churches, and obtained financial records for labor unions, as they sought to crack down on mass protests in Minneapolis following the Trump administration’s surge of federal officers into the city, attorneys alleged in a new filing.

The effort began in earnest four days after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti. On Jan. 28, Homeland Security Investigations, ICE’s investigative arm, started what it called “Operation Puppet Master,” the filing says. That investigation was targeted at “an organized network of conspirators operating through online and in person who are providing material support to violent opportunists and agitators involved in impeding federal law enforcement, rioting, destruction of Federal property and assaults on Federal agents and Officers.”

Much of this is just the most egregious and well-known incidents.  There are thousands of people being treated inhumanely and being buffeted cruelly about in the gears of this concentration camp machine Stephen Miller and Vance and other members of the criminal traitor trump administration have pushed into overdrive; 

Beata Siemionkowicz spent her first night in Kentucky’s Campbell County Detention Center in a cell with black mold covering the air vents and dead bedbugs lingering in the room’s corners. There was blood smeared above the doorway.

Siemionkowicz shared that pod with 60 other women, many of whom, like herself, were immigrants in the United States detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

The Poland native, a green card holder of more than two decades, was arrested days earlier in Des Plaines. Her first night in Campbell County was Aug. 4, 2025. She has remained incarcerated in northern Kentucky since, for the last 51 weeks.

There's thousands of cases like this.  And no your rightwing uncle doesn't know about them.  And no even if you point them out he'll simply say this case or that one are tragic and he's sure it'll be sorted out and maybe they deserve it for "breaking the law" and besides which it pales in comparison to the millions of brown rapists and murderers trump is getting out of the country because Joe Biden let them all in to replace white people.

I'm not trying to spread doom and gloom and depress the efforts of the incredibly brave people protesting or fighting these cases in court.  But, my feeling right now is most of the agents in the field will face no repercussions and of course the Architects of this monstrous machine will get off scot free as well as being lauded for decades by rightwing propagandists.  But, I am gladdened to see an occasional ICE Nazi get convicted for his criminal actions.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of battery for throwing a protester to the ground while he filmed the agent on his phone.

Adam Saracco, 41, entered the plea during a court appearance in Maywood and was sentenced to one year of supervision.

Saracco is thought to be the first and only immigration agent charged in Cook County in connection with conduct toward protesters and civilians during Operation Midway Blitz. 

Everything every conservative ever told you about Liberty, Freedom, the Constitution or Tyranny was a lie.  

Bored of War & Peace 23: Republicans are covering up the scope of America's defeat in Iran

"We shot down almost all the missiles; one leaked through.” - Secretary of State Micro Rubio celebrates the deaths of US service-members.

One reason I don't believe Don Junior or Eric will go anywhere near the Presidency or explore any Presidential ambitions is because the next President is going to have to clean up so many messes and will inherit a devastated Nation, a depleted an worn out mission incapable military, and massively unpopular foreign relations.

Asleep dreaming of himself
as an AI WAR HERO

No, those two fail sons will spend their lives hinting at a run for office (in order to make money) and running around the Faux News and rightwing talk circles extolling how great and incredible their dad was and everything in America was fine and dandy when he was in charge, in exchange for very modest speaking fees.

Instead, Republicans everywhere are hoping a Democratic candidate wins the Presidency because then the rightwing Wurlitzer can back into high gear blaming everything on the Democrats, especially the damage wrought by Donnie Dumbass.  For the past 50 years, Republicans have been successful in blaming Republican failures and perfidy onto Democratic Administrations.

Chris Christie week onto CNN and called Traitor trump "Jimmy Carter", this is of course bullshit, Donnie Don't Care could never measure up to a man the stature of President Carter and the only reason you vaguely associate Jimmy Carter with being a "bad" President is because of decades of ceaseless rightwing propaganda.  

But, it's quite obvious Republicans in the Congress, and those criminal co-conspirators in the Executive Branch are covering up the strategic and now tactical defeat the United States has suffered from Donnie Don't Care's thoughtless attack on Iran.

And this is manifesting itself in very obvious ways;  everyone knows Donnie and Hegseth are shooting off the expensive missile systems we have in a vainglorious attempt to topple the Iranian Regime.  A plan doomed to fail but, calling anything Donnie Don't Care and his War Department a fucking plan is a generous overstatement.  Traitor trump thought this would be over in a matter of hours.  Remember within one fucking week this stupid asshole was already proclaiming victory, his cabinet of grotesqueries were smugly asserting this wasn't Iraq and Republicans everywhere were taking Victory Laps and shitting on everyone who said this was a mistake.

And now having entered this fucking catastrophe on a whim and urging from Bloody Netanyahu it's quite clear no operation, strategic, or tactical considerations were even fucking considered!

Imagine being stuck out at sea for over 250 days
because the fat brain damaged traitor and his 
drunken tv sidekick forgot to plan ahead

TREASONOUS REPUBLICANS MADE NO FUCKING PLAN TO ROTATE OUT THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

More than 5,000 sailors and Marines set sail from San Diego on the Lincoln on Nov. 21, but the deployment — originally set to end in May — has been extended as the Iran war continues.

If this was in anyway tied to a Democratic Administration, Republicans would spend the next 30 years talking about this situation and tying every single Democratic candidate and serving politician to this ceaselessly! It's unbelievable!  It's shameful!  It's not being addressed by the "War Department" and Traitor trump and the Republicans who fucking refuse to enforce the War Powers Act of 1973 aren't even mentioning it to anyone.

Because Republicans DO NOT FUCKING CARE.

Republicans have always, always, always viewed the US Military as a cudgel; to murder people overseas and to be a rhetorical device to attack liberals and Democratic politicians at home.  And the fucking US Corporate Media has always been more than glad to aid Republicans in this bullshit.

I saw it first hand for years while I was in the Marine Corps, people weren't allowed to question Rumsfeld, Cheney, and W(orst President) about their wars,  and their rightwing propagandists attacked everyone declaring you can't say anything bad about the Afghanistan War or Iraq War conduct otherwise you don't support the troops.

Deployment after deployment.  Stop Loss.  Abu Ghraib.  Mission Accomplished.  Pat Tillman.  Anyone who didn't celebrate the unending Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom hated America and the media let every Democrat know this would be the entirety of the coverage they would receive whilst chickenhawk, cowardly Republican Warmongers could celebrate their Supportin' the Troops while they did everything in their power to ensure there was no end in sight.  And fuck you when you came home and suffered because U Signed the Motherfuckin' Contract (USMC).  Until President Joe Biden made all those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan eligible for VA Care but, nah no one credits him with that...

But make no mistake, Donnie has no way out and thus the United States has no way out of the morass and decades worth of damage, this criminal pile of treasonous shit and his enablers and co-conspirators have caused the Nation.  It's going to take years of careful diplomacy for us to regain the trust of our former allies and at every step of the way the Republicans and their Epstein Class allies will attempt to thwart and stymie any progress.

In the meantime, Donnie Dumbass continues to post on TraitorSocial that Iran has begged for a deal, a deal is done, the Strait of Hormuz is Open, and ships and oil are flowing freely!!!

A poor job protecting Greenland from whom?

Intrepid Danes fought off Nazis in
Greenland before...

"Denmark hasn’t done a good job at keeping Greenland safe,” U.S. Vice President JD Vance told service-members at the Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, March 2025.

Traitor trump has apparently low-key invaded Greenland.  Last year in March, Just Despicable Vance and Drunken Pete Hegseth accidentally included The Atlantic reporter in a Signal chat room in which those two assholes and others discussed how effeminate and girly Europe was and how they were the big strong Nation defending the World.  This included back and forth messages where like pre-pubescent children they giggled about invading Greenland.

"Invade Greenland?" "LOL!!! "Europe", right???

Laugh cry kissie face emojis - Prayer hands 

You've probably forgotten this amongst the thousands of other Traitor trump scandals.  Certainly, the US Corporate Media has; because their job is to forget to follow-up, sweep under the rug, transcribe and sane-wash Donnie Dumbasses insane diatribes all whilst chuckling to themselves, Oh what a guy!

Vance and Hegseth lambasting "Europe" about their quote-unquote PATHETIC response to the Houthis is especially ironic these days, since Donnie stuck his mushroom dick into the Persian Gulf and now the Houthis are fucking up shipping in the Red Sea while Iran declares they will simply keep things in a state of war until trump is no longer President.

However, Donnie Don't Care has looooooong since bored with his ill-advised, asinine, illegal Iran War (and while Republicans will continue to violate US law in order to shield Traitor trump and his treasonous co-conspirators from justice) Donnie is looking forward to his next unlawful international misadventure.

The Invasion of Greenland.

As an aside it's amazing and a despicable irony that Vance and Republicans made (with the eager assistance of their US media allies) Kamala Harris will start World War 3, one of their major campaign points, and yet all we've seen from this collection of traitors is one war after another.  And then bragging from Traitor trump about how great he is and how he won every war in hours and how he'd have won every other war in American history in a matter of minutes.  Also never forget Traitor trump is so fucking stupid he's "Mercator-pilled" about the actual size of Greenland and would be baffled by a more accurate display.

So, Greenland Energy, a subsidiary of the Traitor trump administration used a Danish shipping company to off-load a massive amount of equipment.  But, these initial 15 containers are just the beginning; 

 The US company has repeatedly stated that it plans to ship 300 containers and a drilling rig from Canada to Jameson Land in September, after which it will begin drilling in the autumn.  

Greenland Energy, acquired drilling leases originally granted to White Flame Energy (a British subsidiary of 80 Mile) which were granted prior to the 2021 ban on all drilling in Greenland.  The Greenland Ministry on Mineral Resources has stated the logistics and everything associated with this potential drilling operation is not approved but, Donnie Don't Care doesn't wait for approval when he does things.

Trump's Oil Imperialism is Stupid

As always with Donnie, he does whatever he wants and dares people to try and stop him.  If, he has the slenderest disputed legal authority all the better, but his entire history is one of destroying things and presenting the destruction as a fait accompli to the horrified people who follow rules, laws, traditions.  Think the East Wing of the White House.

Ridiculously Dr. Phil, still beaming after his ride along with ICE Nazis, is tasked with spearheading the propaganda push to make the illegal extraction and violation of Greenland a cool documentary of stalwart wild-catters.

So, the question is whether Greenland Energy will start transporting armed workers (and US defense contractor security details) into Greenland and dare the Danish Government to do anything about it.

It really appears Donnie's calculations are NATO wouldn't dare do anything to his oil company, especially since he bullies Europe around with threats of monetary sanctions.  And his brutish cult is just happy once again to scream, 'TRIGGERED!  TRIGGERED!  TRIGGERED!' at their friends and relatives as Traitor trump yet agin violates international law and pushes the United States into declining Empire pariah status.

Bored of War & Peace 22: Republicans routinely shit on active duty service-members and Veterans and now deny they were even killed or wounded

But did you die? 

Do you remember when Traitor trump said soldiers hit and wounded by Iranian missiles in 2020 were malingering and they just had "headaches"?

Do you remember when Donnie Dumbass sent in a Special Forces unit into Niger, with no back-up, no QRF, no plan, no hope, and even the locals told US command staff they shouldn't go into that area because of insurgent activity?

Do you remember Donnie Don't Care dancing and twerking on the grave sites of Arlington National Cemetery?  While his obese thug Steven Cheung and others pushed the National Park employees around?

Well, of all the despicable crap, Traitor trump and his cabal of criminal co-conspirators have pulled and subjected Veterans and active duty to, removing and hiding US service-members from being recorded as killed or wounded due to his ridiculous and negligent Iran War is most likely the worst.

THE PENTAGON IS using a new method of tallying the number of U.S. soldiers killed and wounded in the Iran war that a U.S. government official said was “designed to obscure the count.”

Since the start of the conflict, the Department of War has posted the official count of casualties on the website of the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS, which tracks “deceased, wounded, ill or injured” service members for Congress and the president. This official total of dead and wounded personnel, as documented over months of reporting by The Intercept, has been a gross undercount, stemming from what that same official previously called a “casualty cover-up.”

And Donnie Don't Cares' record of insulting, belittling, and using the military for his own personal gain is unmatched in American History.  Even the biggest grifters and abusers of the U.S. military have never done and gotten away with shitting on American Veterans, as much as Traitor trump has.  But, Republicans have never viewed military service-members as human beings but, as a rhetorical club to bash the left and as little wooden RISK tokens;

Morale is plummeting on an American aircraft carrier that's running short of food and other supplies as its exhausted crew wages President Donald Trump's war against Iran, worried family members say.

Sailors and Marines serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln have told relatives about being served a half-cup of rice and two tortillas for a meal, and said the ship's store often lacks soap, deodorant and toothpaste, MS NOW reported Wednesday.

Crew members are also worn out by working long, grueling shifts, with some rarely getting a day off, and described broken toilets, moldy showers without hot water and no laundry service for weeks at a time, relatives said.

Traitor trump sent the U.S. Navy into the region months ago, with no fucking broader war plan, let alone a proper in theater rotation and downtime for the men and material!  Because Donnie is an incurious buffoon who is stupider than you could possibly imagine and in his mind the Navy can just loll ivo the Persian Gulf shooting off missiles at his whim indefinitely.  That is until we run out of the long-range missiles he's blowing on a fantasy of toppling the Iranian Regime.

I am aghast and have been for some time about this fucking pile of shit but, whenever these stories get airtime, Donnie's army of rightwing podcast propagandists declare it lies and attack anyone reporting it as having Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) or claim you want Iran to have a nuclear bomb to attack America or Whatabout President Biden looking at his watch during a return of KIA?

Yet, again Trump and Republicans shit all over military members only to be able to mulligan their absolute disrespect and utter disregard of active duty service-members because Republicans Support The Troops.

And how does the Corporate Media know trump loves the troops?  Well, Republicans keep saying it!  Therefore, it's axiomatically true then!  Republicans are big strong pro-military heroes who love and support Veterans despite their every action, despite fighting legislation to help injured service-members battling chronic injuries and excluding and demonizing anyone who doesn't identify as a white christian pyscho.  Despite deliberately miscounting those killed and injured in Donnie Dumbass' on-going misadventure in Iran.

I just don't know how to combat this bullshit about Republicans and the military.  It's a moldy chestnut that's over 50 fucking years old now.  The Reactionaries who pushed it as an election strategy for Nixon to use to counter the Sixties are long since in the grave.  In case you didn't know much of the Republicans are the pro-military people started with the evil Nixon administration latching onto and expanding the bullshit cult of the POW/MIA Flag.  Then it accelerated when Ronnie Raygun swooped into Office with his Hollywood crafted image as a WW2 Hero and his Alzheimer's riddled war crimes and treason, including ordering the deaths of 241 soldiers, sailors, and Marines in Beirut Lebanon.

But, Vietnam is over 50 years ago and Iran-Contra and Raygun's admission he committed crimes as President is also 40 years ago.  So while I know Republicans co-opted and perverted Patriotism, the Flag, and Supporting' the Troops aided and abetted by their adoring Corporate Media allies, the likes of David Broder and his hatred of the Clinton's for "wrecking the place" are long dead.  And after the failures of Republican foreign war policies in Iraq and Afghanistan (much of which was sown by Ronnie Raygun's criminal tenure in office) why does the US Corporate Media still give so much sway and deference to Republicans as the Party of the Military?  I know why the Corporate Media fawns over Traitor trump, they just love the guy and quite openly want his fascist agenda to succeed.  

Hell, the media invited him back to the White House Correspondents Dinner so Traitor trump could insult them to their faces!  He "joked" about running a fourth time for his third term!  He said Kaitlin Collins looked like trannie comparing her looks to Dylan Mulvaney!  He gave his standard speech reveling in violence, threatening more violence against Americans who dare defy him, and railing against immigrants, Democrats, and all the enemies of the Nazi Republican Party.  And all the US media could do is chuckle and shake their heads, and silently intone, there he goes again!!!

Well, now you can add in Traitor trump, Whiskey Pete Hegseth, and the Republican Party simply undercounting casualties from the capricious Iran debacle they started with no strategy except to keep the U.S. Navy in the area lobbing missiles from time-to-time while Donnie declares Victory and his criminal sycophants claim a Deal is Imminent.  Over and Over and Over and Over.

Additional:

It's even worse than I fucking thought, CNN is reporting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine “is looking for an off ramp,” one of the sources said bluntly.

Over the last few weeks, Gen. Dan Caine has privately made clear to other top Trump advisers that the US needs to find an off-ramp from the war with Iran — because the military options on the table to escalate the conflict could backfire and airpower alone is unlikely to achieve President Donald Trump’s stated objectives, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

Bored of War & Peace 21: Plenty of AI Slop - Few Munitions - No Plan

 If you want to know the Republican and trump strategy for the Iran Debacle all you have to do is peruse the mounds of AI slop produced by the Traitor in the White House.

When he's not bragging about winning another golf tournament (with an incredulous score of 70) because of his inherent talent, Donnie Dumbass is posting gobs of AI slop at hours of the night,

That's not jack-ass Doug MacArthur on the right
It's Marine Corps legend Dan Daly

Just a few weeks ago Traitor trump posted an image of himself in his teenage cosplay uniform juxtaposed against a young President Obama.  Now he's taken to giving himself a fantasy version of a WW2 4-star General's uniform, replete with incorrect gear, an indecipherable salad stack of medals on his left breast, and a svelte waist Donnie has never had.  He's getting real, real close to parading around the Nation in a military uniform mock-up as a Generalissimo.

It would just be ridiculous if not for the fact that Donnie Dumbass has embroiled us in a fiasco in Iran.

A fiasco he's already lost strategically and now is in the process of losing the United States tactically as Dumbass Donnie and his henchmen burn through munition stores.

Does anyone have a counter page up to count the number of times Traitor trump has announced a political deal?  The number of times he's declared Victory?  The number of times he's said Iran was defeated?

Blame Biden!!!

I'm certain Republicans see no political pitfalls because all they have to do is Blame Biden for "destroying" the military before Donnie and Drunken Pete Hegseth got control, 

“Inherited a depleted situation from not only Ukraine, but also the ongoing fight with the Houthis under the Biden administration and a depleted military under the Biden administration,” US Secretary to the UN Mike Waltz said.

Kristen Welker clarified that indeed the U.S. is running out of armaments and Waltz simply pivoted and claimed falsely the military has all the munitions it needs and anyone saying otherwise "deserves to be in jail."

Invariably when Republicans are out of the White House they will simply go back to their repulsive playbook of bashing the left and claiming Democrats don't support the troops, whilst the US Corporate Media lavishes effusive praise onto Republicans who most definitely Support the Troops and you know this is true axiomatically because Republicans say they do!

Fuck... I'm old enough to remember Mitt R-Money attacking President Obama for not having enough ships during their debates in 2012.

Understand the whole Iran War debacle from start till now (and who the fuck knows when this will be finished because Traitor trump and his cabal of criminals has no fucking plan) should be an impeachable offense.  But, I don't know why I get myself worked up over Donnie disrespecting veterans yet again.  Or cowardly treasonous Republicans starting yet another unjustified War.

Certainly, once they lose control of the Federal Government the Republicans and their media allies will blame the Democrats for their careless and stupid wars and additionally rightwingers will blame any Democratic President for ending the Republican War, just like they did with President Obama in 2008 when he ended the Iraq debacle and President Biden in 2021 for ending the Republican Afghanistan boondoggle. 

I've wanted to believe for years his blatant and repeated incidents would be disqualifying just like I'd like to believe this image of Traitor trump as some hero festooned with a chest full of awards would earn him some negative coverage, some reprimand from the American Foreign Legion or the VFW, or all those Stolen Valor Nazis who attacked a Naval Petty Officer for wearing his cover titled whilst attending a Hillary Clinton Rally, would apologize but I know nothing Traitor trump does will lose him his control over these people.  

If all the previous disrespect, dishonorable, and desecration Donnie Don't Care has shown to active duty service members, veterans, and those interned at Arlington National Cemetery didn't persuade them of the character of this treasonous, racist, rapist conman nothing will.  Whites, including many white Veterans have fully descended into the MAGA Cult.  There's no coming back from what they are now.

Bored of War & Peace 20: The Iran "War" will be Over by Christmas!

It's amazing to see the collapse of the Rule of Law in real time.

No...  I'm not talking about the unenforced Epstein Files Release Law.  Nor am I referring to the fascist ICE Stromtroopers goose-stepping around the Nation, wantonly and willfully violating the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th 6th Amendments with the tacit support of the Republicans in Congress and the Supreme Court and the explicit support and defense of Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and Traitor trump himself.  No, I'm referring to The War Powers Act of 1973;  the text of which is explicit but, when Republicans in Congress, the Treasonous trump administration, and Corporate Media get together to declare Not a War, therefore no war powers act.  So, in keeping with his petty cheating golfing ways Traitor trump was given a mulligan on the The War Powers Act!

Malingering

We back at "War" with Iran after the ridiculous Memorandum of Understanding signed with so much self-congratulatory fanfare by the big fat fucking asshole in Versailles feel to pieces in days.  As everyone who bothered to look at the stupid document knew it would.

Now, tough-talking Donnie Don't Care is back to his bluster about defeated Iran will be defeated soon, by being defeated and they've already been totally defeated by their defeat which is days away from being a total defeat.

But, unlike here in the United States of America where the Corporate Media sane-washes Traitor trump's verbal diarrhea and everyone pretends what he says has some semblance to the truth, the reality is Iran has damaged numerous bases ivo of their Nation, continues to have rocket and missile projection capability and continues to strike both US targets and others in the wider Gulf Region.

So, I was saying, we have an aircraft carrier, which is one of the most beautiful in the world. It's one of the biggest. The Abraham Lincoln. And two months ago — I told this story yesterday — we had 111 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan. They were shot at the aircraft carrier over a period of about one hour — 111 missiles going to a very expensive ship. And every one of those missiles was knocked down, pretty much most by Patriots, but by other means also, as you know. Other less-expensive means, it's even better when you do that.  

Wow!  A totally defeated and obliterated military still managed to launch over 100 missiles at the US Navy?  And yes whilst Donnie Dumbass was talking about how beautiful his aircraft carrier, he called it the Islamic Republic of Japan...

It sure would be nice if there was a larger discussion by the Media, not only about Traitor trump's ignorant rambling missives about warfare, but also about the broader goals and conduct of this conflict in general.  Instead Traitor trump and the Republicans are allowed to get away with "First off, Iran can never have a nuclear weapon..." and then zilch, zero, follow-up on what that exactly means and entails.

Nope.  That the United States is in a state of conflict with Iran should be a huge nightly story.  But, the US Corporate Media can barely be fucking bothered to cover the missile strikes, service members deaths, and wide destruction of U.S. bases in the region!  The only reporter who questioned why Iran is still launching strikes despite Republicans claiming for five months they've been completely obliterated was republican lunatic Maria Bartiromo!!!

"I don't understand how it's possible that Iran has the capabilities to fight this way and continue to try to lash out at Gulf countries and U.S. military bases.  Because the U.S. has obliterated Iran's military, and the president continues to reiterate that."  

Yeah, why is that?  Why would the MSM cover a war which is going badly for the Untied States, strategically, tactically, and operationally?  They don't and they won't.  Because the media is compliant and complicit in the goals of Traitor trump and the larger goals of the Republican Party, their rightwing mobs, and the inhuman Billionaire bastards; who have conspired to destroy the Untied States and replace it with a Totalitarian Neo-Confederate Ethno State.

"I'm a Winner! Take that OBummer!

President Obama's negoiated JCPOA plan was an incredible piece of 21st century Diplomacy and it was immediately undermined by the treasonous Republicans in the Federal Government and then destroyed by Donnie Don't Care for capricious whimsy and because someone asshole or assholes told him what a big strong big swinging dick he will be if he bombs Iran and it'll be so easy!

And even now 5 months later, Traitor trump's cabinet of buffoons, thieves, racists, and grifters is telling him just a few more aerial bombardments is going to bring Iran to their knees any... day... now...

And dysregulated Donnie Dumbass, who can never be wrong about anything, has said officially 50 times over Iran has been defeated and we've won, and the not a war war is over anyway, and there are no problems in the region except for NATO not doing their part so when reality ignores and disputes his lies in a way contrary to fawning adulation he gets here in the United States well he's left with going back to bombing.  He's got another unofficial official 50 days into the War Powers Act ostensibly comes into force again...

I've included some of Traitor trump's remarks at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit.  Listen to him speak and don't turn it off, reading the comments doesn't give you the full horror of the barely intelligible cable from Donnie Dumbass

In less than two years ago, we were a dead country. I say it all the time. The King of Saudi Arabia told me — I was with him two years ago — he said, “You know, it’s amazing. Just a little while ago, you were a dead country, and now you’re the hottest country anywhere in the world.”

Every leader — I just got back from NATO — every leader said the same thing. “You’re the hottest country anywhere in the world.” And they treated me like that. They’re not treating me — they’re treating me because of the country. We’re the hottest country anywhere in the world. And a year ago, two years ago, we were a dead country. It was an embarrassment.

And they said, “Affordability. Affordability.” They go — that’s a fake word that they use. They caused the affordability problem. It’s called high prices. They came up with this word. They’re good at coming up with words, but we came up with a good word too.

They’re Democrats — dumb. You take the b out. Most people don’t know that dumb has a b. Okay? But the u replaces the e, and you have a Democrat. And I just don’t understand because their policy is so dumb

We built an aircraft carrier for $19 billion, which is crazy. The price is crazy. It started off — I came in, one of the first things I wanted to see was the Ford aircraft carrier. It was way over budget, and it had things on it that you didn’t need. Like, it had magnets to lift up the elevators with ten and twelve planes on them. Think of it. It had all sorts of modern day things that were — instead of using steam for the catapults, they used electric. “Let’s have an electric catapult.”

And so when I went to the ship — because I came into office and the ship was way over budget, built in Newport News unfortunately — it was way over budget. It was going to cost $3 billion. It was up to like $18, $19 billion. It was terrible. And I said, “I want to meet the catapulter.”

And a man came over along with four of his assistants, and I said, “What’s better? Electric catapult or steam?” He’s been there for twenty-five years. He said, “Steam is better, sir. We can fix it with a hammer and a blowtorch. When the electric goes bad, I have to send to MIT to get geniuses over here.”

I said, “Steam is better?”

“Yes, sir. It’s better.”

“So why do they do electric?”

“Because you can have the catapult go like this, but you can’t put planes on it, sir. It takes you thirty-nine seconds. By the time the thirty-nine seconds is up, you have a full head of steam. And I love breathing that steam, sir. That’s the cleanest air you’ve ever seen.”

But I said, “So you’re saying we spent billions of dollars extra to build electric catapults instead of using — ” And I said, “What else do you hear?”

He said, “The elevators are no good, sir. They’re lifted up by magnets.”

So we’re not letting any — Pete, we’re not letting any more ships be built with the ridiculous billions of dollars more they spent on electric catapults, and they’re not good. They’re not nearly as good, too complex. And by the way, we had to call the ship in twice because the catapults didn’t work, and I predicted that was true.

And the same thing with the magnetic elevators. We want them to be made hydraulic, which — it can be hit by lightning, it can be hit by anything. When a little water touches the magnets, it doesn’t work anymore. And you’re in the Atlantic Ocean with waves that are 60 feet high, and the Pacific Ocean with waves that are 70 feet high, and they’re talking about magnets — that makes you want to get sick.

I actually called in the architect of the ship and I said, “Have you designed a ship before?”

“Well, I haven’t spent a lot of time on that, sir.”

Even the cab — you know, the tower — they have it in the back instead of in the middle. It’s supposed to be in the middle where you have more room. I said, “Why’d you move it there?”

“Well, we thought it was very good.”

“Why did you do it? And why is the ammunition under the — where the admiral is, the tower? They have the tower and they have the ammunition under the tower.” I say, if I’m the enemy, I know where I’m aiming. These people — and the thing cost like $20 billion. It’s ridiculous.

Alright. So we’re changing all of that. Right, Peter? You’ll be fired so fast if you don’t. But a lot of this is common sense stuff, really. I mean, I hope I’m not boring anybody, but it’s all common sense. This isn’t exactly part of my speech, but I gotta tell you — I’m getting it all out now and all the anger I have when I hear about electric catapults that don’t work...

Thank goodness Climate Change isn't Real

The Sun as seen in the western suburbs
That doesn't look like a G2 star...

    Fortunately, while Traitor trump is making the world less safe for Americans with his stupid and capricious foreign policy of bombing the infrastructure of Iran or murdering fisherman in international waters for the crime of being from South or Central America, and while RFK Jr is making food uneatable due to cutting programs to keep feces off our lettuce and parasites out of our beef, we still have breathable air.

Oops!

CHICAGO (WGN) — Chicago has logged its worst air quality in the city’s history and new data showed Chicago had the worst air quality in the world among major cities.

So, living ivo Chicago we are on the trailing edge of the wildfire smoke from the burning Canadian fires.  Just recently I was in Denver which was experiencing wildfires in the Rocky Mountains in late June and early July.

Now that these wildfires are naturally occurring function of these great forests of the North American continent isn't going to stop rapaciously ignorant Republicans from threatening Canada,

Republican members of U.S. Congress are slamming Canada's federal and provincial governments over what they claim is inaction in preventing the wildfires currently spreading smoke and poor air quality across much of the northeastern U.S., in addition to Central Canada. 

The criticism comes in a sharply worded letter from four Michigan members of the House of Representatives, addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney. 

It accuses Canada of failing to conduct adequate forest maintenance to reduce the risk of wildfires and warns that the U.S. "will look elsewhere, and act on our own" if more action isn't taken.

"This is the third consecutive year we have had to write to Canadian officials about a crisis that Canada has the tools to prevent and has chosen not to," write the four Michigan Republicans — John James, Jack Bergman, John Moolenaar and Lisa McClain — in a letter dated Wednesday.

"Our hospitals are once again treating children, dialysis patients and older residents for the effects of smoke that did not originate anywhere near them." 

The Republican lawmakers say they are "done accepting apologies in place of action," and float the idea of taking cross-border fire prevention into U.S. hands. 

Masked Republicans en route

Cross-border action?  Will Donnie Dumbass rattle his teeny saber at Canada again and threaten to invade turn Canada into the 51st State and enslave Canadians to rake their forests to stop the fires?  Also I thought masks and breathing problems weren't real?  But, then Republicans only deem to wear masks to hide their faces when they go on White Supremacist Ramages.

Bored of War & Peace 19: Hegseth resegregating the United States Military and Republicans are Genital obsessed weirdos

Remaking the Military into Lethal Whites instead of Lethal Weapons and trading in OD Green for White Power.

Well...  Drunken Whiskey Pete Hegseth just issued a directive about testing for Testosterone levels in military service members...

Every Republican is a panty-sniffing genital obsessed weirdo.

This test is for women as well as men.  I actually think this is a backdoor way of getting a test ensconced which Republicans plan to then use on other people (forcibly if necessary) to prove they are a "Transgender" and thus put them into camps and psych wards for reprogramming. (I'm sure bad faith rightwingers will declare, You forced us to get Covid tests so we are going to force you to get Low-T tests!) 

Besides wanting to fondle service men's balls and sniffing women's panties to see if they are producing High-T Warriors, and of course issuing illegal and immoral war crimes orders, the other thing Hegseth has been focused on is stopping women and minorities in the US military from advancing up the ranks.

For a long time the enlisting in the United States military was a good move for financial stability and a base level of respect for black and brown people in the United States.  Advancement was, ostensibly, color-blind and medical benefits, base pay, basic housing, and TDY pay provided a stable floor to try and break the shackles of generational poverty.

The White Power Military
Hegseth is building

When I was in the Marines in the early 2000's many senior enlisted personnel were African-Americans.  Including my first Sgt Maj, a man from Belize, who was coming up on 30 years service.  The reason has always been that for the most part many of the prerequisites for promotion (in the enlisted ranks) are based on color-blind merit and evaluations free from the bigotry.  One of the ways Hegseth is specifically targeting black service members is his draconian no beards policy.  Black men shaving everyday is a quick way to get Pseudofolliculitis barbae commonly known as "razor bumps".  There are many other skin irritation and infections caused by shaving in unsanitary conditions which don't matter to Hegseth, it's just a way for him to target black men.

Officer promotions are, of course, different and at the higher levels are a political chess game.  Remember the only senior high ranking Officer to face repercussions for Abu Ghraib was a Female Brigadier General Janis Karpinski.  But, Hegseth has taken it upon himself to not let women or blacks into the door.

The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, stripped nine navy officers including women and Black service members from a promotion list last month, according to a person familiar with the matter, resulting in an all-male, overwhelmingly white slate of 22 advancing as nominees to become one-star admirals.

Sexual Violence jokes
from a Sexual Predator

 This isn't the first time Hegseth has stopped the advancement of women and persons of color.  And he's also pushed those already in positions out.  Most notably, he fired General Charles Q. Brown, the military's highest-ranking Black officer. He also removed Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to hold that most senior position in U.S. Navy history.  The goal is of course to produce a genocidal evangelical endtimes focused military which will be more than happy to engage in warcrimes and xenophobic wars against the other to ensure Armageddon.

It's hard to pin-point which Traitor trump co-criminal is the worst.  Stephen Miller certainly might be, Just Despicable Vance wants to be, Mirco Rubio is pushing more and more for the invasion of Cuba, but the long-term damage Hegseth is doing to the U.S. military, senior structure, and physical and moral damage to the U.S. Navy, to say nothing of the fracturing of NATO with this constant drumbeat about Greenland are going to have lasting impact and require decades of careful diplomatic work...  which I don't think the current United States can muster.