For Trump's second term, he wasn't going to put up with any pesky advisors. No expertise need apply. He assembled a cast of sycophants, yes men and women, whose requirements were no deeper than their appearance.
Last week Trump put the last nail in our coffin with Europe. He undid alliances going back to the First World War. Europe knew Trump was deficient before last week, but then Britain actually wanted an apology about NATO losses in Afghanistan. Trump apologized to the British, but not to other NATO members. Our next president is going to have a job on his hands just restoring trust with our former allies.
Most consequential to American health is Kennedy, whose anti-vaccine ignorance is reviving dormant diseases. Most consequential to American defense is Hegseth, who has turned our Navy into pirates. Most consequential to our democracy are Noem and Bondi, who defend Americans being killed for protest. Although this recent shooting by ICE is under investigation, with mixed reports about the sequence of events, it is clear that ICE is doing the country more harm than good at this point. Republicans will have to decide if they put party or country first.
tRUMP has a terminal case of hoof and mouth disease
ReplyDeleteOffer something significant, anything significant. Address policy, or program, or alternatives. Leave the playground and join the conversation.
DeleteThe latest shooting is a is a issue with sig saur as a well documented wit the gun manufacture. The sig goes off itself putting our military at risk as they are the manufacture of our new side arm instead of the tried and true trusted m9. That goes to who did negotiation to trade our weapon?
ReplyDeleteThe question is should the U.S. be safe haven for the world, quarantined sustenance, housing, education and health care. Or does the country have the right to decide who and how many enter the country.
ReplyDeleteIt seems many, we can assume it is n their interest, believe we should be the homeless shelter for the world.
Of course it is all about ICE and abuses but the reality is many want the disintegration from within that is underway.
A few obvious lessons to be learned here:
ReplyDelete1). Don’t interfere with law enforcement operations.
2). Even if you’re legally allowed to carry a handgun, don’t interact with or/and resist law enforcement. That’s asking for trouble. Law enforcement has no idea that you’re legally allowed to carry and will assume the worst.
3). If you feel the need to take your personal firearm to a “peaceful protest”, maybe you should rethink your decision on going.
anon@8:15: At best for the undertrained officers, it appears that they panicked after hearing the word "gun".
ReplyDeleteAt best for Noem and the administration, she blindly determined the victim's guilt before knowing the facts.
Comments such as 8:51 will be limited here. You can save them for the Republican picnic this spring.
“Comments such as 8:51 will be limited here.”
ReplyDeleteOf course you will limit opposing comments.
Can’t have anything getting in the way of your anti-Trump diatribe. But I’m sure the leftist mob that you play to will love it.
anon@10:18: the issue isn't left and right, but right and wrong. Perhaps some officer saw part of a holstered gun, and yelled "Gun", and another officer panicked and shot him. It appears to have been a wrongful death by any guidelines. The ICE army doesn't have proper leadership, from the top down.
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DeleteWith all due respect, you don’t know anything about the laws around the perceptive of threat and the use of force continuum.
This incident was a tragedy but it was justified under the circumstances.
The officer will not be prosecuted.
MM, in your civilian Monday morning world view a LE officer should be shot before any other officer can use deadly force.
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Noem must resign. Her arrogance outweighs her own ignorance. Yes, she looks the part of being a “Trump Woman” but she has proven to be incapable to serve the American people after killing two of them and lying to the American people about what happened vs. what they saw happen. Trump even needs to get in front of this and get his head out of the gold ballroom clouds and get a capable secretary of homeland security in place. This woman has been a drag on Trump from day one.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is that the people being shot are not innocent “protestors”. They are part of several organized groups working together whose mission is to disrupt and provoke law enforcement personnel and prevent them from doing their jobs..
ReplyDeleteThere are plenty of videos of these violent, coordinated mobs descending on law enforcement members even when they’re not on duty. They’ve also stormed churches and harassed innocent civilians.
I realize you can’t see the larger issue here because of your hatred for Trump, but what you are supporting is the breakdown of lawful society.
This is an intentional attempt to undermine the law with mob rule. That is not American, and it is not protected speech. It is criminal conduct that needs to stop.
We witnessed evidence of this Mob Rule conducted on Cedar Crest Blvd outside Lehigh Valley Hospital late last year. Very vocal but non violent as of yet. Are we next?
Deleteanon@1:38: As we both know that was a No Kings demonstration outside of Mackenzie's office, which stretched past the hospital, and down toward Hamilton Blvd.
DeletePeople have been demonstrating there off and on for a few decades now.
Deleteanon@4:15: Your comment is nonsense. The protests are there because of Mackenzie's office, and opposition to Trump. I only printed your comment to announce that I have received other nonsense comments which I have not printed. Comments which are blatantly untrue will not appear.
DeleteYou have to remember that Trump is not a republican. Ronald Reagan was a republican. Richard Nixon was a republican. The Bushs were republicans.
ReplyDeleteTrump is trying to turn the republicans into his party.
What you need to do is look at the Congress. Now a lot of the republicans in the congress are pretty spineless because they are afraid of being "primaried" and lose their seats to the MAGA activists who will likely vote in the primary election. Remember, primary elections do not have high levels of voter participation, and usually the activists in each major party vote in them.
It is the same way on the Democratic side. Usually the radical leftists will push a canidate who appeals to the leftist fringe, rather than a moderate democrat who doesn't appeal to them.
What you need to watch is the Senate, and which senators will push back against Trump because they aren't up for re-election.
Trump actually is pretty wishy washy. He will make outlandish statements, then if he recieves resistance, like he did from the Europeans when he pushed and then backed off with regards to Greenland. It is the people in Trump's administration, such as Steven Miller, J D Vance and Hegseth that were all in favor and pushing Trump on that issue.
Now with a few people dead in Minneapolis, none of which have been actually reviewed with investigations, all we have are numerous videos, you need to see who is pushing Trump and ICE to continue hard here, or is there another way to remove the criminal illegal ailens from our population.
It is the Democrats that are stirring up the crowds and getting the professional organizers out, the same way we saw the George Floyd distrubances a few years ago. You need to look at the hard liners like Kristi Noem and some others.. probably the same Steven Miller and Vance... who do not want ICE to have warrants, or to stop the home invasions, and some other tactics that go further than what civil police departments can legallly do. Or even want Trump to declare the Insurrection Act and have Federal Armed Forces patrolling the streets instead of just protecting federal buildings.
That is when all this is going to come to a real head and Trump will lose even more suppport from the public.. Although even now he is running about 38% approval.
This is why mid-term congressional elections matter
Brent@4:26: Trump certainly had coat-tails, but I think his influence for the mid-terms is reduced. After the mid-terms, I think the surviving Republicans will really abandon the Trump ship to secure their re-election in 28.
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