Iowa Farmers voted for Trump so he bankrupted them

“In case you don’t know it, I’m actually a soybean farmer. So, I have felt this pain too,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said to Martha Raddatz on ABC News, "This Week".  When a Republican says he's a farmer he means he owns land...

In some of the most unsurprising news, DonOld Traitor Trump's brain-dead administration is bankrupting Iowa farmers, 

The trend is continuing. Iowa data through October show 18 farm bankruptcy filings. That's the largest number since 2020, when the state’s farm bankruptcies hit a high of 37, following a six-year agricultural slump. 

Nationally, 181 farmers have filed for bankruptcy protection in the first two quarters of 2025, nearly 60% more than this time last year, according to U.S. Bankruptcy Court filings. Arkansas led the U.S. with 19 farm bankruptcy filings, followed by Iowa at 16; Georgia, 15; California, 12; and Nebraska, 11.

Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Georgia...  Trump... Trump... Trump...  Trump.... Despite 40 fucking years of liberals and leftists scrapping and fighting for them, creating giant benefit concerts like FARM AID, midwestern fucking farmers have not only continued to vote for Republicans but do so more vehemently as they become more and more reactionary. 

For decades, since at least Bill Clinton famously said "I feel your pain", we have been offering compassion, care, assistance, thoughts, and every type of outreach to people who continue to slap our hands away, flick us off, and vote for fucking fascists.

Trump won Iowa in 2024 handily.  He won in it 2020 and in 2016.  What should we make of this?

And yes, I know Iowa went for Barack twice but, that's nearly 15-20 years ago and Iowa has been voting Chuck Fucking Grassley into office for 65 fucking years.  So, there goes the whole demographic destiny being on the side of Democrats.   At some point we have to abandon these people.  

During his first maladministration, Trump bankrupted Farmers and then handed them a big government socialism bailout.  This did not alter their voting patterns.  This did not cause them to re-evaluate their love of Faux News and their hatred of nearly invisible Trans people.  No instead they clung, bitterly, to their white hatred and wedded themselves even more closely to a child rapist conman who fucking sold them out again.  A fucking traitor whose most famous for his sexual abuses and bankruptcies...  Now of course, he's planning on bailing them out again.

Bigoted whites love their racism and hatred more than they love anything including their own lives and livelihoods.  At some point we have to emulate Iowa's favorite son and just let them die...

But, we won't because to Bernie Sanders and his Bros these are the real Americans.  These rural whites are the working class he so valorizes.  He so champions.  The very people who consistently tell him to fuck off with their votes.

Most likely, we will continue with this disgusting charade of Iowa farmers being the quintessential real Americans, and Trump and his Republican Party will continue to say they love farmers (like they do with Veterans, small business owners, first responders, and so many others) whilst their actions are in diametric opposition and their policies destroy the very same people they claim to love.

*- Look I understand food production should not be a for-profit enterprise.  Of all the things which should be under Government control and direction producing food should perhaps be number one.  But, rich people have made agriculture into agri-business and that means the horrors of corrupt capitalism now dominate the production of food stuffs instead of it being a common good.

Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 47: FLOCK used to be called the Panopticon, misuse of the ALPR

     A few years before I retired, the department began using the FLOCK system more extensively.  Originally, as a regular patrol officer I didn't have an account to log in and access the system.  But over the last couple of years or so the department ordered me to get an account but, through managed avoidance and deliberate disobedience I never did.  But, I've seen it in use and know how it works.

Every single vehicle that drives by a Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) is recorded and saved.  Multiple pictures, including details of the vehicle and the driver.  This creates a massive database that anyone with a simple login can access and search statewide.  Of course, this is ripe for malfeasance.  Of course, such a database is going to be misused over and over and over and over both on the small and large scale.

Last year, a Kansas Sheriff used Flock to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend,

A police chief used cameras 228 times over four-plus months to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend's vehicles.  Sedgwick's Police Chief Lee Nygaard used Flock Safety license plate readers to track his ex-girlfriend, according to The Wichita Eagle. 

This year, a Northwestern Chicago suburb, had their account used by CBP or ICE in preparation for the criminal actions hilariously called "Midway Blitz", 

On June 11, 2025, at 4:30 P.M., the Mount Prospect Police Department (MPPD) was made aware of an investigation by the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office into the misuse of Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) data through Flock Safety that violated Illinois state law. Data from Mount Prospect, along with other Illinois law enforcement agencies, was accessed through the Flock Safety “National Lookup” feature by other law enforcement agencies for purposes of immigration enforcement. 

The Illinois Secretary of State’s Office investigation revealed that other law enforcement agencies conducted 262 immigration-related searches on Mount Prospect’s ALPR data. It is likely other Illinois communities with Flock cameras would show similar searches of their local cameras if audited. MPPD was unaware of these searches until being notified by the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office at the end of the day on June 11. 

The Mount Prospect Police Department learned at the end of May that the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department in Texas utilized the Flock Safety “National Lookup” feature, accessing the data from over 83,000 cameras around the country, including Mount Prospect’s. 

And remember the initial scan, digital image, and storage are not post-criminal investigation or after a warrant but simply because you drove by the camera or even if the camera was pointed towards your residence,

Lee Schmidt, a retired veteran, wanted to know more about the license plate cameras tracking him in Norfolk, Virginia, where he lives.  So he sued with a co-plaintiff and a legal nonprofit and got an answer: 176 cameras across the city logged his location 526 times between Feb. 19 and July 2, according to a Monday court filing. That’s about four times per day.

Schmidt’s co-plaintiff, Crystal Arrington, a health care worker who lives nearby, was surveilled even more. Her location was logged 849 times between Feb. 19 and July 3, averaging more than six times a day. 

There are tons of other instances of misuse across multiple states but, fortunately as with lawsuit in Virginia, another lawsuit in Washington State has municipalities and lawmakers scrambling because the ruling is ALL FLOCK data is in the public domain.

In her Nov. 6 ruling, Judge Elizabeth Neidzwski said the cities of Sedro-Woolley and Stanwood could not deny an Oregon man’s public records requests for Flock photos and data because they qualify as public records and can’t be exempt from release under the state’s Public Records Act.

It is not clear whether Stanwood or Sedro-Woolley intend to appeal Neidzwski’s ruling. Stanwood Mayor Sid Roberts and Sedro-Woolley’s City Administrator Charlie Bush declined to comment, citing the ongoing litigation.

But the ruling has already had a chilling effect on some Washington jurisdictions’ desire for the technology and the potentially overwhelming number of public records it could one day burden them with stewarding.

Hilariously, the Stanwood Village attorney tried to argue fulfilling the FOIA request in the lawsuit would violate peoples privacy rights!  Whilst the State, local, and increasingly Federal officials mine the images for use in their unconstitutional actions!

The initial argument has always been you have no expectation of privacy out in public and while freedom of movement is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, driving an automobile is a privilege therefore driving and everything associated with it is not protected from this surveillance.  Of course, as people have questioned this rationale; the arguments changed to safety and law & order.

Think of all those Silver Alerts elderly dementia suffers found by the FLOCK system!  Why just look at all the Hit & Run crashes solved with FLOCK!  Imagine all those over-night burglaries we can wrap up by tying them to this car we tracked!  It used to require some investigation and a warrant to place a tracker on suspected vehicles used by burglary crews!

But, it's too hard for Police to do old-fashioned shoe leather investigation these days or patrol at night because Police are similtanesouly really really lazy and over-tasked with extraneous duties because Villages see a huge portion of their budget go to Police and Fire so just continually expand their duties and of course white people call 911 for everything, so instead let's just set-up a dystopian nightmare and  surveil everyone and sort it out later.

After all if you have nothing to hide... you should be fine with the Child Rapist Trump administration having a complete picture of your comings and goings as well as your associations and any other potentially embarrassing or damaging thing they could use to silence, intimidate, or perhaps incarcerate you for...

In Onion there is Strength...

"I could smell the onions and mustard," Border Patrol Agent Gregory Lairmore cried.

I'm very far behind in writing about this development especially as the Traitor Trump regime and their Department of Homeland Terror continues to commit crimes and tear down every guardrail erected to safeguard the Democracy in the Republican pursuit of rebirth of the Confederacy and Jim Crow America.  

But, as you've no doubt heard Sean Dunn, the famous DC Sandwich Guy, was found not guilty and acquitted of the charges brought against him by the US Department of Injustice.  Pam Bondi and Jeanne Pirro were determined to make an example of this guy and originally sought Felony charges which a Grand Jury declined but, then proceeded to go ahead with several misdemeanor charges.

Personally, I'd be embarrassed to go on the stand and testify I felt the impact of a sandwich on my ballistic vest the way Lairmore did.  He's apparently a 22 year veteran so I worked law enforcement almost as long as he has, but while he knows this should have been a case of RWOC after Dunn was "apprehended" but, the question is was he pressured or expected to bring charges because of the message Treasonous Trump officials demanded it.

Because it seems the SOP and standing orders from higher ups, in newly obtained video Greg Bovino, the lying commander of Customs and Border Patrol, did a football like rally for his "troops" declaring 

“Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to. Those are the general orders...  Everybody fucking gets it, if they touch you, you hear what I’m saying?  It’s fucking ours, it’s our fucking city.”- Proven Liar Gregory Bovino

This is grotesque and more to the point is clear cut evidence of what the true goals of Traitor Trump and illustrates the goals of the ghouls in his regime with these ICE raids;  fear, intimidation, control, and terrorism.

While, Bovino is particularly bad make no mistake the rot and perjury permeates the entire department and structure of terrorist Homeland Security organization.

This is a permanent part of Trump's Fascist America

Because while diversity is the strength of the Democratic Party conversely, Republican strength comes from lying.  

Republican officials have been outright lying for decades now.  Ronnie Raygun made it central to his Presidency, Racist Limbaugh and Faux News broadcast non-stop lies for the last 30 years, Newt Gingrich and the 1990s Republicans spent their careers lying, Dick Cheney and the GWoT Republicans lied about everything during the W(orst Administration) and Donald Traitor Trump 10 years dominating the United States political scene are a non-stop litany of lies, falsehoods, exaggerations, bullshit, and propaganda.

The number of incidents and list of constitutional violations, outrageous abuse of power, unlawful use of force, and outright crimes committed by Trump's band of Domestic Terrorists grows everyday.  ProPublica, however, did a deep dive into one of the worst incidents, the so-called raid at 7500 South Shore Dr in southern Chicago revealed the depth of depravity and the most obvious goals for the fascists; fear, terrorism, pain, and brutality. 

Federal prosecutors have not filed criminal charges against anyone who was arrested. Nor have they revealed any evidence showing that two immigrants arrested in the building belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang, or even provided their names. ProPublica was nonetheless able to identify one of them, Ludwing Jeanpier Parra Pérez, from a press release that did not connect him to the raid. Parra denied that he is a member.

So far, no evidence has been offered publicly for all the Department of Homeland Security, or the evidence they've claimed to have about drugs, guns, and gang members nor any warrants for arrest or deportation.  Instead Traitor Trump officials know all they have to do is claim things which the Corporate Media dutifully regurgitates without question and white people voraciously lap it up.  These decades of lying and inculcation of white grievance and victimhood has had its' desired affect because white people, especially white men, are demonstrably adamant in expressing their contempt for the concepts and customs of Democracy, the Law, and the other pillars of the United States of America.

Understand white men, for the most part, are a lost cause.  They've not only fully accepted lies from Republicans, they yearn to see these snuff films and slickly produced videos of harm being done to Hispanic people.  For years, whites claimed you can't trust the Government but, that as everything a right-winger says was merely a rhetorical device to weaken political opposition to their plans to Make the South Rise Again and institute a Nation of White Power.

Donald Trump had Epstein murdered to cover up their child raping

        It seems an absolute certainty that after sending Bill Barr to question Jeffrey Epstein in 2019, Donald Trump had Epstein killed to shut him up about the multiple child rapes Donald Trump committed.  The question now is will DonOld Traitor Trump start a war with Venezuela to distract from the irrefutable evidence that not only did Trump know about the child exploitation and sexual abuse he was an active participant in all of it.

Let me tell you, MAGA land has already moved past Epstein (Important to note that Megyn Kelly and Batya-Ungar-Sargon are rightwing women who viciously use their sex to defend child rapists) because everything Republicans say they believe in is nothing more than a rhetorical cudgel to Bash the Left, get their Corporate Media allies to amplify their talking points, and get the Democratic Party to surrender and self censor.

Binders full of Trump Victims

Rightwing podcast propagandists like Megyn Kelly, Glenn Beck, Ben Shapiro, Nick Fuentes and any other shit talking conservative you've heard about never gave a shit about the rapes and the abuse of women and children.  Like, James Comer and other elected Republicans they thought this could be a massive smear of Democrats.

Remember how rightwing media chuds paraded the Pam Bondi files when Trump was elected? 

Trump raped little girls and rightwingers are getting very close to explicitly saying,

WE!

DON'T!

GIVE!

A!

FUCK!

I knew this would happen.  I knew very shortly after the Epstein/Trump rapist revelations emerged right-wingers would drop their concern except for their insinuations that actually Bill Clinton is implicated.  Let me tell you, the standard response on Social Media is for Dems to say, 'If he's in there he should go to jail too', well guess what?  I don't think he's in there.  If House Republicans had anything substantial and not so-caleld flight logs, or if Chaya Raichik (Libs of TikTok) picture above had any evidence in that fucking binder she would have released it.

And they haven't...

Great Men like Gaetz and Trump have Great appetites 
We, the People must allow them those appetites
And women (or girls) aren't real people by law 
Therefore, they can't be victims of crimes

I really can not imagine what would be in the files (and who else has copies) which could possibly hurt Trump.  I'm surprised James Comer and Gym Jordan haven't released a report which says Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Hunter Biden did it all and then deny any other revelations as Fake News Democrat Conspiracy.  

There is nothing heinous enough in these Epstein/Trump Files which could possibly hurt DonOld.  Great Men have great appetites, DonOld was undercover working for the FBI to entrap Democrats, it's all lies, and numerous other excuses would be proffered up to excuse the Gross Old Pedophile Party and their leaders. 

 Republicans never cared about the things they claim to care about because what Republicans actually care about is creating a NeoConfederate Nation built upon the twin pillars of White Power and Corporate Hegemony.

I guess Jell-O Biafra, Warren Zevon, and Felt Kuti are about to become relevant again

Ask anyone in the Trump administration what
this means & they won't know nor will they care

        In order to blunt Democratic momentum and steal the media spotlight back onto himself Trump, in a string of barely intelligible verbal diarrhea, announced the United States was preparing military action against Nigeria because of Christian genocide.

In case you hadn't heard Peace Prize Champion Trump issued a deranged threat against Nigeria threatening to go into Nigeria, "'guns-a-blazing' If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet..."to which Rear-Echelon Motherfucker Drunken Hegseth responded with a zealous warmonger's Onward Christian Solider's prayer videos and promised the United States Military would engage in Holy War.  

That Trump and his cadre of criminal co-conspirators have weaponized Christianity is unsurprising, Republicans and rightwingers have slowly co-opted that religion as the majority of Americans have turned their backs on the Church and various fundamentalist variants.  And while Supremacist Justice John Roberts knows Trump is not the Christian King he and other rightwing religious wackos have awaited, they will surely let him engage in a Holy Crusade and pogroms using the United States Military. 

However, Hegseth the Drunken Thompson Gunner doesn't have the same zing as Warren Zevon's original, but anyone who knows any history or geopolitics knows about the Biafra War following the endow the British Colonial Empire in the early 1960's.  Like all colonial holdings, Nigeria had been subjected to European extraction of their resources, Nigeria's oil reserves fell under the Dutch for exploitation who in keeping with the colonial fashion of the time created a subsidiary of Shell to steal the oil and wealth out from under the feet of the Nigerian people and couch it in terms of helping them access their resources.  

When I was in the Marine Corps, I remember seeing pictures Nigerian President Obasanjo walking around with George W. Bush.  I knew of Obasanjo who was one of those military strivers who made it through the Biafra Civil War, hung around and survived the coups, putsch, and counter-coups of the 1970s to institute a Military Junta in the late 1970s.  Obasanjo and his inner circle became fabulously wealthy from oil profits which they of course kept from the people of Nigeria.  I'm not going to claim any geopolitical expertise about post-colonial Nigeria but if you know anything about it eventually you'll listen to Fela Kuti, his amazing music and even more amazing mother.

But, Traitor Trump and MAGA don't know anything and don't have to know anything.  They are manifestation of Pure ID and exist in the eternal now, mewling and fighting and lashing out at everything because they understand nothing.

Of course, disgustingly this isn't some random puerile internet troll or mentally unstable buffoon spouting this crap but, the man (admittedly Trump is a mentally unstable buffoon) in charge of the US War Machine and he is using it as he will.  The Department of War and Department of Homeland Terrorism are wantonly committing crimes daily and then because they are recording it producing Warporn at Home and Abroad in order to keep their rabidly bigoted satiated with violence towards The Other. 

Simply being "affiliated" with Nacro-Terrorists now carries a death sentence from REMF Drunken Hegseth.  Any evidence?  Nope!  Just their say so and in response white corn fed sister fucking fascists in MAGAland cheer and masturbate to images of outright murder of innocent civilians. 

Trump recognized his failure to turn the awesome power of the government against his enemies in 2020 and therefore this time we've seen the Trump and Republicans empower a masked unaccountable Secret Police of paramilitary goons in and around Chicago and while they order illegal extrajudicial killings near the coast of Venezuela.  Traitor Trump is at the point where he blithely doesn't care if he commits crimes because he knows he is UN-TOUCH-ABLE.

Meanwhile, Trump's illegal killings and threats to Venezuela are just what the CIA-backed Fascist María Corina Machado wants to hear, as she openly calls for Trump to bomb her country, in her quest to overthrow the Venezuelan Government.  Overthrowing and installing Machado would open up Venezuela to US exploitation (a timeless American goal).  It's no coincidence Trump is threatening Venezuela and Nigeria as these two Nations have oil reserves he eagerly wants to steal by installing US-friendly dictators, an oddly very old-school Paleo Conservative strategy.  

Traitor Trump and Triple Sec Def Hegseth shit on Marines Trump EO eliminates Male Breast Cancer diagnosis for Veterans

     I was stationed at Camp Lejuene North Carolina (CLNC) in the early 2000s between overseas deployments.  It was only later I learned of the of the bizarre and statistically significant rates of male breast cancer affecting Marines stationed at CLNC.

The documentary Semper Fi: Always Faithful (2012) and internet coverage of Marines who were stationed at CLNC gave a wider audience knowledge of their plight and diagnosis; male breast cancer.

In response, lawsuits against the government resulted in a settlement and a finding for military personnel stationed at Camp Lejeune from 1953-1987 were exposed to toxic chemicals known to cause cancer and under the President Biden PACT Act, several other diagnosed cancers were also covered.

Well, guess who has decided to disrespect and shit on Veterans, yet again;  DonOld John Traitor Trump.

ProPublica obtained a September 30 Veterans Administration memo, which cities and relies on the toxic Trump EO,

Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.

“As of Sept. 30, the department no longer presumes service connection for male breast cancer,” press secretary Pete Kasperowicz wrote in a statement to ProPublica. He noted that veterans who’ve previously qualified for coverage can keep it.  But for the roughly 100 male veterans who are newly diagnosed each year, the path will now be significantly harder. They will have to show their cancer was connected to their military service, a burden that has often been hard to meet.

Men don't have Breasts, libtard!!!  

Remember it's a core pillar of the MAGA ideology that their biological ignorance and bigotry is received wisdom and an unchangeable fact of nature and the universe.  The entire Republican outlook on life for the past 50 years has been a giant exercise in making their violent stupidity, active ignorance, and racist bigotry synonymous with Truth and using the awesome power of the Federal Government to force their fascist beliefs upon us.

As always the malignant Trump maladministration will rely on Corporate Media not covering their actions, the MAGA faithful to say 'Well, that's bad but...  Biden and Obama were worse!!!'

But, remember under Project 2025, dramatically slashing Veterans benefits is one of the sneakier ways Republicans intend to enact "cost-savings" so they can funnel more money to their Billionaire backers.  Already there has been dramatic cuts, to the VA, uncalled for and vile firings of VA workers, but Republicans know all they have to do I say, 'Oh we aren't cutting services!  Actually our cuts and firings are making things better!' and their compliant and complicit media lick-spittles will nod along and dutifully say, 'tis true! 'tis true! Surely this is the best of all worlds."

Who Goes ICE 2? Bang, bang you're dead liberal

Mouth of Shit Sauron

"Bang Bang You're dead liberal!" - a Trump Gestapho member pointed a gun at Chris Gentry's head while a group of peaceful protesters were subjected to unlawful violence from Greg Bovino and others in Little Village on October 23, 2025.

Read the complaint and understand ICE and Border Patrol Agents are simply going to lie about the facts on the ground, they are going to invoke the catch-all Feared for their Lives, and conduct unlawful arrests because they are empowered to do so and even when their lies are demonstrated in Court and cases have been thrown out there will no repercussions for their actions.

As everyone knew Trump’s Secret Police are the mechanism by which he plans to exert Authrotarian control internally.  Trump and his cabal also understood the goal was not only to terrorize Hispanic and Latino peoples but, also to provide violent porn for white corn hole fucks in middle America and the bigots strewn about the Nation to get vicarious thrills from watching them on repeat.

Now, Trump is doing one of his classic maneuvers, by rotating out former leadership with new faces.  This is for a two-fold reason.  1) it allows the heat on Bovino and others to dissipate as the media will dutifully act as though past events never happened and 2) it puts more fascist and more ideologically aligned assholes in charge to conduct operations.

Permanent occupation is the goal.  The tactics and mindset for the Global War on Terror (GWoT) have been brought back home to be used on the American people and migrants here in the United States.  This is in accordance with The Imperial Boomerang Theory, created by Aimé Césaire in his work Discourse on Colonialism, often summarized, 'Fascism is Colonialism turned inwards.'  It's been plain to see for years Republicans looked to the GWoT pacification and occupation strategy and sought to employ it in the United States. 

Remember the fast-rope Blackhawk helicopter raid on a South Side Chicago building September 30th, which subjected innocent men, women, and children to inhumane, undignified, and Unconstitutional treatment as well as being zip-tied and forcibly yanked from their homes and left outside for hours?  Well, Department of Homeland Terrorism had originally claimed in was a hub for Tren de Aragua.  These people's homes were ransacked and afterwards innocent families found themselves apparently illegally evicted and disappeared.

The Department of Homeland Security revised it's claims to only 2 "hardened" gang members arrested but, claimed an additional 35 arrests for "immigration offenses" but, I see no fucking reason to give them the benefit of the doubt nor to believe anything coming out the mouths of Kristi Noem, Tricia McLaughlin, or any of these lying ICEholes.  They know all they need to do is proclaim they are arresting criminals and then move onto their next illegal action and their next grotesque violations of the 4th Amendment and other laws surrounding search & seizure will be forgotten in the flood.  

The steps Nazi Republicans have taken to get us here haven't been some secreted clandestine coup but, I can hope Kavanaugh Stops go down in U.S. history along the likes of Dred Scott;

I am very heartened by the actions of regular people in the face of rising fascism and blatant authoritarian violence.  Because it appears a very great many businesses are cooperating with the Government to provide data without search warrants or subpoenas.  Con Edison, in New York City, is allowing the FBI and DHS to access and search their customer database freely.  But, it's been outrageous how easily and how quickly the so-called rich & powerful rolled over and gave into the Trump Dictatorship.  The bulwarks of society, those educated in law, those invested in the dream that was America.  A Nation of Laws, not Men.  The biggest nothing in history.

Additional:

It's astonishing but not surprising ICE agents and DHS officials are so blatantly lying, they learned from Trump and other Republican officials to simply tell lie after lie after lie after lie, because by the time the the case against the arrested person was dismissed by the Grand Jury or criminal complaints were never filed in the first place, Faux News and Kristi Noem will have spread the total falsehoods of a 1500% increase on violent assaults on ICE and rightwing drones will be utterly convinced and spread their lies everywhere.

Who Goes ICE?

Midway Blitz Commander Gregory Bovino
shows his underhanded Italian tactics

        There is a lot of reporting coming out about the recruits for ICE and Department of Homeland Security being unable to pass physical fitness tests and even open-book final 6 week exams on Immigration law and statutes.

More than a third [of ICE recruits] have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

    All those years of undercutting the Department of Education, to appeal to southern white racists, has come back to bite the Republicans in their efforts to recruit for domestic paramilitary.  Nutritional assistance and a strong K-12 education was seen by the Government as strategic necessity in light of the numerous WW2 recruits found to be too malnourished and uneducated to be an effective fighting force.

    But, being physically unfit isn't really the worst disqualification for Trump's Secret Police.  The rush to flood the United States with a Trumpstapho, an unaccountable paramilitary terrorist organization, is being answered by white domestic terrorist militia members who because they are white are being let through the process without proper background investigations;

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed new recruits into its training program before they have completed the agency’s vetting process, an unusual sequence of events as it rushes to hire federal immigration officers to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy, a current and two former Homeland Security Department officials told NBC News. 

ICE officials only later discovered that some of the recruits failed drug testing, have disqualifying criminal backgrounds or don’t meet the physical or academic requirements to serve, the sources said.

    Of course, the ultimate test every member of ICE and the Trump Department of Homeland Security have failed is the moral one.  This is were we see the vaunted Americans are taught to disobey unlawful orders and swear an Oath to the Constitution is so much nonsense and was only as good as those who earnestly wanted to follow it; all it took was a life-long criminal and scam artist to show Traditions, guardrails, The Law itself were paper tigers. 

    And make no mistake, ICE and the Department of Homeland Security is the Standing Army the Founding Fathers warned the Nation about, and it's acting as an unaccountable domestic terrorist organization unconcerned about Constitutional prohibitions and increasingly unconstrained by laws and court orders.

    Every news story highlighting brutal, inhumane, or illegal Kavanaugh Stops by ICE agents is met with a flood of cheering white people, revealing in the pain and suffering, unconstitutional antics, and smugly chiding woke liberals or whomever all while incanting They Broke the Law.  Republicans have successfully brainwashed several generations of whites to give up Constitutional Rights all on the say so of child rapist President, and by repeating their daily lies of targeting violent criminals and drug-dealers.

    Whites do not believe their will ever be a reckoning after this and who knows, maybe they are correct.  Republicans certainly seem okay with wrecking the Federal Government, Squeaker Mike scat play Johnson has abdicated his role, and effectively disbanded the House of Representatives, with Traitor Trump laughingly declaring, "I'm the Speaker and the President now!"

Ceding so much power and undermining the system of checks and balances, dismantling so many levels of constraint, and tearing up all traditions and norms of the Federal Government points directly to a Trump MAGA Authoritarian Tyranny.

Famously, in 1941 Dorothy Thompson wrote an essay for Harper's Magazine, titled Who Goes Nazi?  In the essay Thomspon outlays fictional characters like young Mr. D and Mr. K and points out very few people are natural Nazis but, come from various disappointments, intellectual positions, and varying class backgrounds.

So, while it might be nice to dismiss ICE and Department of Homeland Security as delving the dregs of racist, bigoted white society those going ICE are coming from all strata of American society.  We have a serious fascist problem in the Nation and ominous signs Trump and MAGA do not intend for their to be free and fair elections anytime soon, and throughout history fascists never cede power willingl especially when they have a zealous domestic army willing to use illegal violence against dissent and with tacit and explicit protections from the State for their unlawful actions;

"To all ICE officers, you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties, and anybody who lays a hand on you, or tries to stop you, or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony,” he said. “You have immunity to perform your duties and no one– no city official, no state official, no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist– can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties.” - Stephen Miller 

The Government is never going to reopen because Republicans no longer need it

"The people who own the country ought to govern it," - John Jay     

        One thing I've been prescient about is what Republicans believe the U.S. Government exists for;  There are only two things the Republican Party believes the U.S. Government should do; 1) have a large domestic law enforcement apparatus to terrorize people and quell dissent, and 2) field a powerful military to murder people and open up foreign nations for US exploitation.  The rest of the Federal Government is superfluous.

Under Donald J. Trump, we see the total fulfillment of this dream and the implementation of the worst aspect of the awesome power of the Nation-State.  

Trump has vastly expanded ICE and Border Patrol into an internal secret police staffed by incompetent but, fanatic adherents to White Supremacy.  They have engaged in blatant violations of State, Federal, and Constitutional Law.  Armed with a vast propaganda machine and staffed by ignorant but, zealous command staff they've taken their role with gusto and have barely acknowledged Court Orders and pushback from State Governments.

Meanwhile, Trump and his Department of War are simply murdering people ivo South America and the Gulf of Mexico.  It's straight murder, and even Trump admits it;

“I don’t think we’re gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war, I think we’re just gonna kill people...  OK? We’re gonna to kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead,” 

As many have pointed out this is not legal either via U.S. Law or international law, but Trump doesn't care because Republicans support him and white people love when the military murders brown people and are overjoyed at watching the snuff films Trump and his regime are producing of blowing up fishermen.

And all of this is happening with the government shut down.  But, not to worry Traitor Trump claims a rich anonymous benefactor has pledged $130,000,000 to pay the military.

The Pentagon confirmed Friday that it accepted an anonymous $130 million donation to help offset the cost of troops’ salaries and benefits during the shutdown. 

“The donation was made on the condition that it be used to offset the cost of Service members’ salaries and benefits. We are grateful for this donor’s assistance after Democrats opted to withhold pay from troops,” Sean Parnell said. 

Trump had announced the donation in remarks at the White House Thursday, saying a “patriot” and “friend of mine” whose name he withheld said he would like to contribute to any shortfall in funds caused by the shutdown.

“He called us the other day and he said, ‘I’d like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I’d like to contribute, personally contribute, any shortfall you have with the military, because I love the military and I love the country.’...And today, he sent us a check for $130 million dollars,” Trump said.

All I call say is what the fuck?  Let's just ignore the petulant lie about Democrats refusing to pay the troops.  How the fuck is this money being collected by the DoD?  A wire transfer?  Gold Krugerands?  How is being dispersed to the Troops?  Pre-loaded Mastercards?  This is a ludicrous unconstitutional swindle and most likely yet other thieving scheme by Trump.  But, for decades, Republicans have been unduly afforded the mantle of "supporting the troops", even while their every action insults, disrespects, and harms service members and veterans.  I'm going to assume this is money from the Binance criminal Changpen Zhao, the one helping Trump make billions off of crypto, Trump just pardoned.

Just like with the ballooning amount of money Traitor Trump is taking in ($350 million now?) for his Ballroom at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, the entire Trump regime is a giant kickback scheme.

But, worse the Rich see the America they've always wanted coming into shape.  No regulatory bodies to stop their rapacious extraction of resources.  No investigative bodies like the IRS to take them to account for their financial crimes.  No NLRB to mediate Union disputes against them.  No healthcare, no social security, no SNAP.  The Rich don't need this because they can pay for all these things.  No Government other than a lawless law enforcement apparatus and a murderous military.  Instead they know the Nation under Trump and Republicans will set right the wrongs of the progressive 20th century and reduce the population to Wage Slavery and Corporate Bondage.

Update:

And just like that Trump and Hegseth are deploying the U.S.S Gerald Ford Carrier strike group to the coast of Venezuela.  Remember the Corporate Media, Faux News, and a lot of on-line dirtbag leftists have consistently proclaimed Trump was the peace candidate.

In response to No Kings Protests, Traitor Trump shits on America and states Yes, King!

Yaaas, King

        I was very impressed by the turnout and the response to the No Kings protest in my small suburban Chicago town.  A lot of energy and a lot positivity.  The turnout in Chicago and elsewhere was massive and undeniable.

In response, Just Despicable Vance posted Damn Right he's a King, and some rightwing chud produced an AI Slop Video in which a crowned Trump flies around in a King Trump jet fighter and literally shits on America.  Traitor Trump, of course, reposted the video and yet again, as is their habit, a right-winger used an artist's music without their permission.

Decades of nihilism and LOL nothing matters, and Republican lying, and media BothSides, and rightwing podcast propagandists pushing every rightwing smear and lie have resulted in a Government of Trolls.

HuffpPost asked KKKaroline Leavitt, who in the White House made the decision for dumbass Donnie to fly to Hungary to meet with Vladimir Putin and she responded, "You mom did."

Steven Chueng, who beat up a National Parks employee at Arlington National Cemetery so Traitor Trump could desecrate graves, gave a more succinct, "Your mom!"  

That's our government.  Trolls & Traitors. 

Remember how Republicans lied about FEMA's response to hurricanes in North Carolina, insinuating President Biden was denying aid to poor rural whites purposefully, well here's Kristi Noem spending $172 millions dollars (not on butt implants, hair extensions, and cheek filler) but on two private jets to ferry her around to stare at men in Chicken costumes.  Oh and this expenditure is occurring even though the U.S. Government is ostensibly "shut down".  Republicans are Looters and Vandals.

Traitors & Trolls.  

Why do you think the Government is shut down?  Republicans don't have policy, they've spent years being a disloyal opposition and standing athwart history yelling NO!  Decades of being against the Government, inculcating bigotry and hatred, and the Republicans are reduced to not being able to do anything other than personally profit off their offices, while ordering rightwing paramilitary goons to beat up people in violation of the Constitution.

Republicans have nothing to offer the American people.  Nothing...  They know this on all levels.  For decades now, Republicans in office provide hatred and negativity.  I'm not going into the bullshit rationale "Conservative political thinkers" have crafted over the years of positive and negative rights, go read the slop at Reason or FIRE for that specious crap.

Instead look at what Republicans are actually doing, the Supremacist Court eliminates 250 years of wetlands protections enshrined in the Constitution, look at the Missouri Republicans refusing to enforce popular referendums voted for by the people of the State and now looking to stop the voters from using their constitutional right to defeat the Republican gerrymander.  And why did Traitor Trump direct Drunken Triple SecDef to personally pay military members despite the shutdown, for the same reason Roman Emperors paid the Legions handsomely, so they would be a personal army loyal to him and not the Nation or Constitution.

Republicans hate America and Republicans hate you.  Viscerally.  Totally. Without Remorse.

This Nation is finished.  Much like the Founding Fathers and original Patriots we are going to have to overthrow and fight for a new one.  And Republicans have no intention of letting that happen.  Don't fool yourself, rightwing domestic terrorism is already here.  It's not a question of If, Traitor Trump orders the military to Shoot to Kill Us, it's When...

In the meantime, Trump will continue to shit all over the Nation and the American people.

Noble Peace Prize Whiner Trump awards himself an Arch de Triomphe for murdering fishermen

Derek Zoolander was a good if dumb person
Trump is an evil racist, rapist, traitor, thief, murderer

     While the hostile occupying army of ICE Nazis conducts a war on the Homefront;  Traitor Trump and Stephen Miller have been busily murdering people in the Caribbean.  There have now been 6 confirmed attacks on unarmed boats nowhere near the US coast and without exigent immediate circumstances warranting the use of lethal force.

In response to questions about the legality of these tactics, as opposed to using the Coast Guard for their created role, petulant Trump lashed out,

"Because we've been doing that for 30 years and it's totally ineffective.  They have faster boats."

What a grotesque slap in the face of the hard-working Officers and Crew of the Coast Guard; who interdict and capture tons of illicit drugs without resorting to murder and there is no fucking boat being used by drug smugglers that is faster than even the aging Coast Guard Cutter fleet.

But, this vile insult by Trump didn't even generate a blip, let alone a scandal as Trump continues to shit on service members without regard and without reprimand by the media or American public.

None of these boats are near the U.S.

In fact, white people fucking love this shit.  White Trump supporters are masturbating furiously to the snuff-films Trump and Hegseth are producing.  Deplorable doesn't even begin to cover the Republican voting base.  And not only do they justify these war crimes because they see no downside;  they denounce anyone pointing out the illegality of these actions.  I believe it's because elected Republicans are certain they will never suffer a consequence for these actions and white MAGA voters can never conceive of a time when some pissant bureaucrat labels them a "nacro-terrorist" and orders their summary execution.

"The fact that US officials describe the individuals killed by the US strike as narco-terrorists does not transform them into lawful military targets.  Labelling everyone a terrorist does not make them a lawful target and enables states to side-step international law." - Prof Michael Becker of Trinity College Dublin told BBC Verify

We now have the first major resignation, seemingly due to the Hegseth policy of blowing up non-military, apparently unarmed vessels in international waters without so much as a detailed policy, let alone a congressional act in authorization. Admiral Alvin Holsey SOUTHCOM commander abruptly retired rather than continue as the head of the command responsible for blowing up these boats.  Now, this is surprising because most persons of color were summarily fired by White boy Hegseth on the basis of race 

I am certain Traitor Trump has told Hegseth and Rubio to blow up the boats and Trump himself has gone so far as to inform some Congressional committees he believes a formal armed conflict with Venezuelan "narco-terrorists" exists.  And the problem with the vaunted trope military personnel are taught from basic training onwards that they can, nay must, disobey an "illegal order" is Trump's military order, acting in capacity as Commander-in-Chief, backed by the Sinister Supremacist Court ruling, are presupposed legal and any Officer or enlisted person disobeying that order is going to be arrested and made an example of as they will have to prove it's illegal.  So, it appears the military has three terrible options; obey these illegal orders and hope to never face prosecution (a very likely outcome), disobey and face all potential negatives alone, or resign.

I know in the very abstract we may expect our military to behave in accordance with what perceive as the law,  but it's a very large ask to expect some individual service member to throw their life away knowing American society will not only not honor their sacrifice but, work to make their lives and their families miserable.

In the meantime, Trump has engaged in major provocation by having three B-52 bombers loiter for hours right off the coast of Venezuela.  Trump complained for years the United States didn't steal the oil from Iraq so when he launches a War on Venezuela to "free them from the dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro" he'll make sure a Bolsanaro or Javier Milei is in charge and bribe them personally.

Traitor Trump will then order himself a military Triumph to pass by his new Arc de Trump...

Update:

Apparently, the Navy rescued two people from the water after their latest attack.  Where are they?  When is the Trump regime going to reveal details and status of these two persons?  What "charges" are the criminal Trump regime going to bring against these survivors of their extrajudicial attacks?

Young Republican = Nazi but, in their defense Older Republicans also = Nazi

“The criticism doesn’t matter to us when you call us Nazis. Nazi this and Nazi that,” Gutfeld said on air. “I’m beginning to think they don’t like us. I’ve said this before. We need to learn from the Blacks.  So from now on it’s: What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi?... - Greg Gutfeld on Faux News July 2025...  meanwhile Young Republicans across the country are saying this to each other unironically. 

        I've been writing for a long time about the Republicans deep disgusting desire to emulate their idealogical forefathers in the Confederacy and Nazi Germany and... apparently so have the Republicans themselves.

Politico obtained hundreds of thousands of messages Republicans shared amongst themselves and it is a

Yes... all Republicans are Nazis

conglomeration of racist, sexist, fascist diatribe from a bunch smooth-bodied, wide-waisted, expansive assed dilettantes who expect to be the pampered political officer class ordering others to do the war crimes and dirty work;

The 2,900 pages of chats, shared among a dozen millennial and Gen Z Republicans between early January and mid-August, chronicle their campaign to seize control of the national Young Republican organization on a hardline pro-Donald Trump platform. Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.

Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders.

Young Republican / Old Republican
It's just a mustache away

While, Republicans from Traitor Tump, to Just Despicable Vance, to Squeaker Johnson, to Kristi Noem down, feign indignation at being correctly called Fascist and then run to Faux News to complain about being called Nazis, Republicans were at the same time communicating with each other in explicit fascist tones, terms, and ideology.  More to the point, I believe the reporting from Politico even underplays the vile nature of what Republicans most ardently believe and the policies they are currently enacting.  

Not every Racist is a Republican but
Every Republican is a Racist

Even now Corporate Media is already trying to downplay, minimize, and bury this story by reporting this as the actions of a "few bad apples".  But, it's not;  the Republican Party is a fully-fascist organization and under Traitor Trump has unleashed state-sponsored terrorism across multiple cities rife with violations of rights and laws and with the utter conviction they are going to get away with it.

Republicans yearn to murder millions of people and their private communications confirm this.

Antifa is Trump's WMDs

Backwards B black eye Girl Redux

I see it all the time, and these are agitators, anarchists and they're paid, and you'll find that out. You'll be finding it out very soon. You should see what we have on these people. These are bad people. These are people that want to destroy our country. - Traitor Trump relies on his old 'You can't believe what we're learning, I'll let you know in two weeks...'

        I am surprised that Traitor Trump and his cabal of mendacious podcast propagandists thought they needed to have a press conference highlighting all the evil actions committed by the nefarious shadow organization simply referred to as "Antifa".

It smacks of the Nayirah Testimony in 1990 or the 2003 Colin Powell presentation to the UN of mobile Iraqi weapons lab.  But, in true Trump fashion it is a tawdry and cheap imitation of the previous Republican efforts to justify the War Crimes and blatant murders they are planning on committing.

Instead of Colin Powell WMD lies we get Jack Posobiec truthfully saying Antifa started in 1932 Weimar Germany to fight the Nazis and... that's a bad thing!

Traitor Trump was also flanked by numerous other rightwing content creators who pouted about their lack of representation on cable news and as Trump simply repeats his lies about all the recent white righting MAGA gunmen are actually leftwing, whilst Noem and Bondi make all sorts of outrageous insertions about Portland and Chicago being hives of Terrorists.  This is the kind of bullshit used to justify invasions of Fallujah and if you don't think Trump is itching to send the Marines into Chicago and raze it like Gaza or Fallujah you haven't seen what he's already done and pushing to do.

Here is the full transcript of the Antifa Roundtable; it's just chock full of unbelievable nonsense and lies from demented Trump and his cabal of evil villains.  Read through some of the preposterous claims and bald-faced lies and understand this is about ginning up a Casus Belli; remember these press conferences are to keep the soybean Farmers, who Trump completely fucked, the bourbon distillers, who Trump screwed, the rural social security recipients who voted for Trump 3 times and yearn to do a fourth, in a constant state of Fear & Anger, to constantly blame Democrats for Republican perfidy, and to justify the crimes and murders MAGA operatives are going to commit.

Everyone knows what Trump is going to do, all the Republican accusations of "Weaponized Department of Justice" were confessions of the Trump/MAGA plan to use the apparatus of Government and the awesome power of the State against their "enemies".

Eventually, Trump will tie everything from George Soros, to Media Matters, to the Democratic Socialists of America, to every single Democratic politician into a giant left-wing conspiracy whom he will designate a "Terrorist Organization", declare illegal, and sic the Department of Justice and ICE Gestapho upon.

"We took the freedom of speech away..." - is just the beginning of the Fascist Trump's Assault on the Nation.

ICE Agents actions are reminiscent of Blackwater in Iraq. Can the Illinois Safe-T act provide relief?

Fascism is just Colonialism turned inward, Aimé Césaire

     The actions of ICE agents in and around Chicagoland are criminal and unconstitutional.  As I watch them here in Illinois and in other states I am struck by their similarity to the actions of Blackwater assholes, actions which I saw firsthand, in Iraq and Afghanistan.  ICE use of force is blatantly illegal and violate state law and much federal law built around the 4th Amendment.

Much of the MAGA doctrine towards people in the targeted cities has been to treat them as a foreign occupied peoples and to ignore all manner of laws including the supreme law the Constitution.

ICE claimed the woman shot them
and had 10 cars ramming and 
blocking them in.
Doesn't appear to be true...

I wonder if the Illinois Safe-T Act could be a recourse to be used against them?  Now, I know the immediate rejoinder is Federal Supremacy and The Kavanaugh Stops doctrine.  So, Faux News Fascists and Republicans will say ICE can do whatever they want to these criminal "illegal aliens" and the protestors who are "threatening" the lives of agents.

But, that's not the angle I'm thinking of;  the Safe-T Act puts an obligation onto Illinois Officers (from patrol all the way to various Chiefs and Sheriffs), a duty to intervene.  Now while this was drafted in the wake of the George Floyd murder and in response to repeated Officer involved extrajudicial killings of mainly unarmed black people, this law is written that Officers must take an active hand to stop excessive force or violations of a person's constitutional rights committed by law enforcement.

50 ILCS 705/6.3)
    Sec. 6.3. Discretionary decertification of full-time and part-time law enforcement officers.
    (a) Definitions. For purposes of this Section 6.3:
    "Duty to intervene" means an obligation to intervene to prevent harm from occurring that arises when: an officer is present, and has reason to know (1) that excessive force is being used or that any constitutional violation has been committed by a law enforcement official; and (2) the officer has a realistic opportunity to intervene. This duty applies equally to supervisory and nonsupervisory officers. If aid is required, the officer shall not, when reasonable to administer aid, knowingly and willingly refuse to render aid as defined by State or federal law. An officer does not violate this duty if the failure to render aid is due to circumstances such as lack of appropriate specialized training, lack of resources or equipment, or if it is unsafe or impracticable to render aid. 
    "Excessive use of force" means using force in violation of State or federal law.

Hessian Trump to send
Foreign Mercenaries
into Sovereign States 

Now, understand I'm not touting this as a "One Weird Trick stops ICE in their tracks" panacea and I'm certain Governor J.B Pritzker, his staff, and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul have been throughly briefed and apprised of this.  But, it might be time We, the People put the onus on sworn Illinois law enforcement to take an active hand to the crimes and unconstitutional actions of ICE occurring directly in front of them.

Let me say no person should want to put some rookie officer to the test on the street in this scenario but, that's what Police training is ostensibly supposed to cover, and no rational sane person would be pushing to have a confrontation between Municipal and/or State police and Federal "Officers" but, this is the Republican Party we are dealing with; everyone in it is certifiably insane or in the grips of full-blown fascist fever.  Like Stephen Miller who spent his weekend screaming racist invective against Judges, elected officials, and the Democratic Party broadly.  One of the Judges, Diane Goodstein of South Carolina had her house burned down severely injuring her husband after Stephen Miller attacked her on Twitter (X).

MAGA and ICE are pushing further and further, Trump routinely suggests murdering Democrats as he did today in one of diarrhea filled rallies this time to have a crowd of Naval Midshipmen forced to listen.  

Fascism never cedes power peacefully and giddy Republicans are a fully-fascist organization which is already unlawfully using force on people here and abroad.  It's only going to increase;  make sure you are ready.

Update:

        I see Traitor Trump's plan to take control of the California National Guard and send them to and fro this time into Oregon was blocked by District Judge Karin Immergut, this shows there is still value in using the tools of the State against the vile fascist traitors in the Trump administration.  In response, dementia riddled Trump again regaled his loving Corporate Media stenographers with tales of Portland having burned to the ground yet again, screaming,

“Portland is burning to the ground.  It’s insurrectionists all over the place. It’s antifa, and yet the politicians are petrified. Look, the politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason that they say like there’s nothing happening, and you’ve seen it. The place is burning down and they pretend like there’s nothing happening.”