Tuesday, January 28, 2025

We all hate the dangerous and insane Junior

I told Elaine I'd grab Junior so she could note something else.  Robert Kennedy Junior is a joke.  Chump wants to make him the Secretary for Health and Human Services because who needs an education or a brain that a worm hasn't eaten away at?  Jordan King (NEWSWEEK) reports:


Kennedy has said he is not against all vaccines but is critical of vaccinations. He is on leave as the chair of the anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense and has repeated the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism. He also told podcaster Lex Fridman that there are no safe and effective vaccines, breaking from the overwhelming scientific consensus.

He has said he would not ban vaccines if confirmed as HHS secretary, telling NBC News in November 2024 that "if vaccines are working for somebody, I'm not going to take them away."

"People ought to have choice and ought to be informed by the best information, so I'm going to make sure that scientific safety studies and efficacies are out there and people can make individual assessments about whether that product is going to be good for them," Kennedy said.

A clip of Kennedy on CNN in March 2024 posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday by user The Intellectualist has been viewed 2.9 million times. During the interview, Kennedy denied saying there were "no" safe and effective vaccines.

Journalist Kasie Hunt then plays a clip from Fridman's podcast, in which Kennedy says: "What I'm saying is that none of 72 vaccines has ever been tested in a safety study pre-licensing."

When pushed on other comments about vaccinating children, Kennedy said: "I had three vaccines when I was a kid, and I was fully compliant. My kids got 72. The current recommendations are, I think, around 77." He then clarifies that he means "72 doses of 16 vaccines."

On Monday, infectious diseases doctor Neil Stone shared a chart on X tracking measles cases before and after vaccines were introduced. Stone wrote: "Someone should show this chart to Kennedy at his confirmation and ask him whether he thinks vaccines are effective."

He also shared a post that Kennedy wrote in January 2023 about the HPV vaccine. In it, Kennedy shared a link to a Children's Health Defense article with the caption: "Gardasil HPV vaccines appears to be increasing the risk of cervical cancer in vaccinated groups just as COVID vaccines raise the risk of COVID."

Stone wrote: "I hope this blatant lie is brought up at his confirmation hearing HPV vaccine PREVENTS cancer. Literally the opposite of what this man says is true."


Junior's a liar and an idiot and a menace.  And I'm not the only one who feels that way:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is a hypocritical “predator” who is “addicted to attention and power,” his cousin Caroline Kennedy warned senators ahead of the activist’s confirmation hearings on Wednesday.

“I have known Bobby my whole life; we grew up together,” Kennedy, a former U.S. ambassador to Australia and Japan, said in a letter and accompanying video statement. “It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator."

The letter accuses Kennedy, an activist who has helped spread doubt about vaccines and other widely accepted public health measures, of being a cynic who launched a “crusade against vaccination” for money and attention despite allegedly vaccinating his own kids.

It also alleges that Kennedy, who has been open about his past use of drugs and recovery, lured other family members “down the path of substance abuse” and that they subsequently “suffered addiction, illness, and death while Bobby has gone on to misrepresent, lie, and cheat his way through life.”




“His basement, his garage, his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.”

She commended Kennedy for “pulling himself out of illness and disease” but lamented that “siblings and cousins who Bobby encouraged down the path of substance abuse suffered addiction, illness, and death while Bobby has gone on to misrepresent, lie, and cheat his way through life.”


[.  . .]

In Tuesday’s letter, she cited a New York Times report that her cousin would keep his financial stake in litigation against a manufacturer of a vaccine that protects against the human papillomavirus, or HPV. The vaccine, which is administered to adolescents, can prevent cervical cancer.

“In other words, he is willing to enrich himself by denying access to a vaccine that can prevent almost all forms of cervical cancer and which has been safely administered to millions of boys and girls,” Caroline Kennedy wrote. She also referenced her work in Australia working on the QUAD Cancer Moonshot, where she learned that cervical cancer is a top form of cancer among women in a majority of countries.

Kennedy is among Trump’s most vulnerable Cabinet nominees. Former vice president Mike Pence and his conservative advocacy group have raised concerns about his past support for abortion. Several Republican senators, including Bill Cassidy (Louisiana), who chairs the Senate’s Health Committee, have said that he has wrongly questioned the safety of vaccines. Sen Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), a polio survivor, does not appear to have granted a meeting with Kennedy, raising questions about whether he will vote to confirm him, and other Republican senators have also not said where they stand on the nomination.



The New York Post is pleading with Republican senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services. In a lacerating editorial published Monday, the Post quoted Trump’s own critical comments about Kennedy made during his presidential campaign. “He’s a Radical Left Lunatic,” Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time, adding: “No Republican can vote for this guy.” The Post said Trump was “right” at the time—months before he apparently got over his misgivings about the anti-vaccine advocate and decided to appoint Kennedy to his Cabinet.


Here's C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"


Tuesday, January 28, 2025.  Unless you want the GOP to retain the White House in the 2028 election, you better be identifying the 2024 backstabbers right now.






Donald Trump referred to out MSNBC host Rachel Maddow as “the enemy of the people,” along with the networks MSNBC and CNN.

He wrote in a post to Truth Social this weekend: “Wow! Rachel Maddow has horrible ratings. She’ll be off the air very soon. MSNBC IS CLOSE TO DEATH. CNN HAS REACHED THE BOTTOM. This is a good thing. They are the Enemy of the people!” 


We started with Rachel because she's under attack. Under attack from Chump.  And from Dump.  You know her, judging by the e-mails hitting the public account, the worthless Krystal Ball.  She went on THE VANGUARD because that's where she could do her MSNBC attack.  The hosts are young kids, still feeling their way.  They're not apt to hold her to her record -- in part because they also endorsed Jill Stein.  And at one point, they were also on The Cornel West Train.  Their excuse is that they're young.  The only thing young about Krystal Ball is her husband.   So they're not going to call her on much of anything and certainly not all the damage her crap ass program does.  

"Media: How Amy Goodman harmed immigrants and helped elect Chump" is what Ava and I wrote Sunday because we realized (and were tipped off) that Amy Goodman was going to try to portray herself as the defender of immigrants this week after what went down last week.  She was going to lie to the uninformed freaks that are her fans -- check BLUESKY, you'll find them whoring and saying she has integrity -- and pretend like this was one of her big issue and 'Dig me, the elderly red from Brooklyn with my token 'co-host' of Latino descent, this is my issue and I cover it all the time.'  But she didn't cover it all the time as Ava and I noted:


It's worth noting that while Amy Goodman could only do five segments on immigration policy (again, two slamming Kamala, two saying Kamala and Chump were the same and one focusing on what Chump did in his first term), she had plenty of time for other topics during that same three month  period.


105.


That's the number of segments she did on Gaza during the same three month period, 105.  Many of those trashed Kamala.  In fact, those same three months featured at least 33 segment with Uncommitted (at least 33, many of her guest didn't disclose on air that they were part of the Uncommitted 'movement' that urged people not to vote for Kamala).  


So now Chump's been president for a week.  And the biggest issue right now?  His attacks on immigrants.  Again, in the three month lead up to the election, Amy Goodman did 105 segments on Gaza.  She only did five segments on the immigration policies of the two candidates -- four of the five slammed Kamala.  



I don't know how you can see these raids going on and not hold Amy Goodman responsible.  She's part of the reason they're taking place.  She ignored the issue on DN except to distort it four times with regards to Kamala.  Three months and it's an hour long broadcast -- although one week it expanded to two hours a day -- five days a week.

33 segments on Uncommitted.  


She failed the immigrant community.  I've never understood why but she is the least liked person on the left.  Wait, I understand that.  She's a glory hog who didn't even come up with DEMOCRACY NOW! and who sent the plethora of people who did -- some on airs -- packing to hijack the show.  Now she makes millions off it.  But what I didn't understand was why everyone was so scared to call her out?

Even Danny Schechter, when he was alive, was scared to call her out.  He called me the day he did her awful program.  He was supposed to be talking economic issues but Amy insisted that her audience was "too dumb" (her words per Danny) to understand and that they needed to talk about other things.  

I told him I'd write about it and I did.  At his own NEWSDISSECTOR blog, he wrote about it himself but didn't name her.  

And left voices I know loathe her as a person but are afraid to say so.  Ones I don't know flood the public e-mail account with horror stories and, of course, I've paid her interns for a lot of information over the years.

She has no integrity.  And she actively worked to destroy Kamala's campaign which, yes, does mean she worked to elect Donald Chump.  We can't have garbage like that hidden.  If we make it as a country to 2028, we can't risk this woman yet again tanking the Democratic Party's presidential nominee as she did last year and as she did in 2000.

So Krystal Ball got put on hold.

We may pick her up this weekend, Ava and I, for our topic.  But what I will note now as Krystal attacks MSNBC is that (a) she's a disgruntled former employee because she couldn't deliver an audience and (b) BREAKING POINTS is not a news program and it does not qualify as public affairs programming -- not even mediocre public affairs programming.  It is performative nonsense that's about as real as Friday night wrestling on basic cable.

I don't blame the kids of THE VANGUARD.  They're young and they can be foolish on the job while they learn.  

But our country can't afford Krystal Ball's nonsense.  We can't afford what she normalizes on her hideous program.

And I'm not young enough to pretend that her 'brave' moments on the program she started are in any shape or form actual acts of bravery.  She's a grifter.  When Jon Stewart rightly called out this kind of grifting and how it hurt our country, CNN cancelled CROSSFIRE.  

So let's all stop pretending that BREAKING POINTS is any shape or form informative or helpful.

And any choice that asks me to pick a Rachel or Chris or Lawrence over a Krystal Ball?  I'm going to go with any MSNBC host.  I'm not going to go with grifter and liar Krystal Ball.

Grifters like Krystal and Amy actively work to harm the Democratic Party.  I'm not spending my time online letting them get away with it.  Our country is in serious trouble right now because Chump is in the White House and those on the left and 'left' who helped put him there need to be called out and called out regularly.  They need to be exposed so that next go round, if they don't believe the nominee is sufficiently left and they do their usual stunt of attacking the Democrat with left voices (who all turn out to be Socialists even though the grifters don't mention that), people will know what's going on.

Again, no problem with Socialists or with Communists on my part.  I'm a Democrat we see issues differently from time to time and we see solutions differently from time to time.  

If we didn't, we'd all be Democrats or Socialists or Communists.  

But where I do have a problem is when a Socialist is attacking a Democrat and pretending to be a Democrat.  That's a problem.

And sadly -- check out BLUESKY -- some people are so stupid that they don't understand the difference between the three groups.  Like the self-identified 'independent' who wanted me to know that Bernie Sanders is a Democrat.  Why, he's a Democratic Socialist! -- she insisted.

He's a Socialist.  As Laura Flanders noted on air on AIR AMERICA RADIO when he got elected to the Senate, the next morning she didn't want to pick up a paper and see "independent'" Bernie Sanders elected to the Senate.  She wanted see Socialist Bernie Sanders elected to the Senate.  Because, like her, he's a Socialist. 

And she rightly knows that the truth there can break down taboos.

It's the idiots like the BLUESKY 'independent' who fall for the con games of people like Amy Goodman and Krystal Ball.  It has to stop.

Kamala was not a centrist Democrat.  But had the choice been between Chump and a centrist Democrat, I would've chosen the Centrist Democrat.  In 2023, I stated here that I would be voting for the Democrat whomever it was and I meant that.  Because Chump was and is a threat to democracy.  

I'm not trying to relitigate 2016 or any other election.  And I don't endorse in the presidential race.  Not here.  But this wasn't the usual election.  This wasn't a Dem up against Mitt Romney or John McCain or whomever.  Donald Chump, a convicted felon, was a known factor.  We knew what he'd done in his first term.  

This wasn't some roll the dice and find out.

Which is why I said here in 2023 that it would be the Democratic Party nominee that I'd be voting for regardless of who that nominee was.  I repeated that over and over in 2023 and in 2024.  

I also noted that the days of being fair were over.  I wasn't going to waste my time, as I did during previous elections, posting and writing about laughable candidates as though they were serious or had a chance.  I used to try to be so fair.  

2024 was a monumental election and those on the left who tricked and lied need to be identified so that they cant get away with it next time -- if we're lucky enough to have a next time.


Let's note Jesse Dollemore




Yes, putting Chump back in the White House doomed the Palestinians.  And that's only a surprise if you're a damn fool or a stupid idiot.  


And now we're going to back it up a moment.  The snapshots are dictated and I generally put in videos or whatever beforehand and dictate around them.  I just found out that Krystal Ball is rightly being called out by POST-LEFT WATCH so we're going to include that here now if I'm able to explain how to do it over the phone.




Okay, I'm told the Bluies (?) are in.  I'll pick back up with Krystal to also note that she tries to play the feminist card.  She's not a feminist.  Please do not buy into that 70s false media stereotype that all feminists are ugly.  They aren't.  And all ugly women aren't feminists.  Krystal's one of the uglies who is not a feminist.


And now we're way behind.  To get this up on time, I'm not dictating around the following things I had put in earlier for us to note.  We'll just call it snapshots of how Chump's immigration policies are destroying the country. 




President Trump's promise of mass deportation is now in full swing as immigration agents sweep through communities.

The White House posted pictures of men shackled before a flight to Guatemala.

"Deportation is going very well. We're getting the bad, hard criminals out. These are people that have been as bad as you get, as bad as anybody you've seen. We're taking them out first," President Trump told reporters.

[. . .]

Immigration advocates are urging people to fight fear with facts, while emphasizing the importance of knowing your rights.

"There's a lot of rights that you have regardless of immigration status in this country people need to exercise them," Heiser said.

 


It used to be that immigrants who earned U.S. citizenship could only see it taken away if they hid their Nazi past, had ties to terrorists, or lied on their application – fewer than a dozen people per year.

That changed during President Donald Trump's first administration when he led a campaign to denaturalize thousands of immigrant U.S. citizens – though it never met its goals. Last week, Trump rebooted the effort, ordering "adequate resources" be spent to denaturalize some U.S. citizens as part of his broader plan to restrict immigration.

Tucked among the priorities listed in his Day 1 executive orders was a one-line reference to enforcing a section of immigration law under which the government can revoke an immigrant's U.S. citizenship if it was "unlawfully procured."



President Donald Trump owes his re-election in part to some gains among working-class Latino voters who rolled the dice on a change in economic policy — but that change is likely to hit them worse than anyone else, wrote former Congressional Hispanic Caucus communications strategist Kristian Ramos for Salon.

The fact is, he wrote, Trump's policies will actually worsen everything that has been squeezing these voters — something he appeared wholly unconcerned with even on the campaign trail.

"The nation’s affordability crisis has uniquelyimpacted Latinos," wrote Ramos. "As reporter Jack Herrera notes, '80% of Latinos are working class. Their experience of the economy the past four years — COVID shutdowns, inflation, gas prices, housing costs — was rough. That put the incumbent Democrats at a disadvantage.'"

Trump capitalized on this, blaming inflation on the Biden administration. But in reality, under Democrats, "employment is up, wages are growing, manufacturing jobs are higher than ever, and inflation has dropped significantly" — and when you actually look at his plans, they are uniquely targeted to worsen affordability on nearly every level, Ramos continued.

For starters, he said, there are all the cuts to vital programs and services Republicans plan, including "changes to Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, and popular climate measures. These cuts alone would deeply hurt Latinos who live in climate change frontline communities and have benefited from the cost-saving energy rebates in the Clean Energy Plan. Worse yet, nine million Latinos are insured through the Affordable Care Act and 6.5 million Latinos use Medicare — roughly 10% of all enrollees." And all of this is to pay for big tax changes that will make lower-income workers pay $800 more on average while cutting taxes on the rich.

But that's just the beginning, Ramos wrote, because Trump's aggressive tariff proposals will raise the prices of goods all around the country — as will his plans for large-scale deportation of workers.


 


Selena Gomez broke down in tears on Monday morning (Jan. 27) in an Instagram post in which she promised to do anything she can to help undocumented Mexican nationals in the midst of the new Trump administration's nationwide crackdown on undocumented non-citizens.

According the People magazine, the Texas-born singer whose grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico without proper documentation posted a since-deleted Instagram Story in which she weeped alongside the caption, "I'm sorry" and a Mexican flag emoji. "All my people are getting attacked, the children," Gomez added in the video that can be seen here. "I don't understand. I'm so sorry, I wish I could do something but I can't. I don't know what to do. I'll try everything, I promise."





U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids were reportedly conducted across South Florida on Sunday as President Trump begins to make good on his promise to increase the deportation of undocumented migrants. 

One man exclusively told CBS News Miami his wife was taken during one of these raids.

One man, who did not want to be named, told CBS News Miami that ICE had taken his wife during one of these raids in the Miami neighborhood of Brownsville.

"It's despicable what they're doing right now," he said. "It's very embarrassing."

The man told CBS News Miami that he wanted Mr. Trump to let his wife stay in the U.S., as their 11th anniversary is on Friday.

When asked if she was in the process of getting her U.S. citizenship, the man told CBS News Miami that she was right in the middle of it. The man's wife, who's Venezuelan and has lived in the U.S. for a few years, had a court date set up and "everything was good" until that moment.





Costly, cruel, and chaotic — that’s how three immigration experts characterized the Trump administration’s new policy aimed at removing undocumented immigrants from the United States. The experts argue that the fallout is not limited to the human toll but extends to a massive economic burden: an estimated $26 billion to fund the policy, along with billions more in lost productivity across industries and sectors that rely heavily on immigrant labor.

At a Friday press conference, Nayna Gupta, policy director for the American Immigration Council, outlined the scope and implications of the executive orders signed by President Trump. “The Trump administration has claimed in recent months that it will target ‘criminal immigrants’ but what Trump’s executive orders make clear is that they are outlining immediate action to hurt all immigrants,” said Gupta, who argued that the Trump administration had taken the election as a mandate for “cruelty on immigration.”

Gupta argued that the key to halting these measures lies in members of Congress and elected officials taking a stand against the policies, which she said “are expensive and have absolutely no effect in improving this broken immigration system.” The policy director said that there will be pushback to this anti-immigration measures. “It will be up to other elected officials and organizations like us to be prepared to put forward a vision and solutions that get us to a better place because Americans want something that is effective, efficient, fair and also humane. And that is, in fact, quite doable,” said Gupta.



In Austin, people protested.  KXAN reports:

Protestors gathered at the Texas Capitol Sunday afternoon after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations were conducted in Austin. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed to NewsNation affiliate KXAN that it assisted in those operations.

Rally attendee Cheryl Flores spoke to KXAN about how the Austin ICE operations impacted her family.

“They are the epitome of the American Dream,” Flores said. “They’ve come here and worked hard. They have a right to be here just like anyone else who has fled a country that doesn’t provide the needs of the citizens.”




At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.

The reports, which have caused panic amongst tribal communities in both states, come amid the Trump administration’s attempt to ramp up undocumented immigrant arrests nationwide and amass a larger force to carry out the president’s deportation pledge. CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.

The reported raids and the exact number of Diné/Navajo and other Indigenous tribal citizens who were apprehended are still under investigation, Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley told CNN. It is unclear if Immigration and Customs Enforcement or other law enforcement entities were conducting the apprehensions. ICE has not responded to CNN’s request for comment.

Navajo Nation officials have contacted the Department of Homeland Security, the governors of Arizona and New Mexico, and ICE to address the reports, the Office of Navajo President Buu Nygren said in a news release Friday.



Native Americans were in the Americas before anyone -- hence the term "Native."  And they are US citizens as Lucy Strathmore (2 PARAGRAPHS) notes:



The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which granted U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans born within the United States, was signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge.

It was enacted partially in recognition of the estimated 12,000 Native Americans who served in the US Armed Forces during World War I and the tens of thousands of Native Americans who “supported the war at home by working in war industries, purchasing war bonds, and assisting in war relief efforts.”






At least 15 Native people in New Mexico and Arizona have reported that they’ve been stopped, questioned, or detained by federal law enforcement officials during immigration roundup efforts since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials. They were asked to provide proof of citizenship despite being Indigenous to the United States.

In a news release, the Navajo Nation said its officials contacted the governors of Arizona and New Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to follow up on the reports.

“My office has received multiple reports from Navajo citizens that they have had negative, and sometimes traumatizing, experiences with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants in the Southwest,” said the office of Navajo President Buu Nygren.

One Navajo woman was reportedly questioned by ICE after her workplace in Scottsdale, Arizona, was raided Wednesday morning, and was asked to show proof that she was Native, Arizona state Senator Theresa Hatathlie, who is Diné/Navajo, told CNN. The woman and seven other Indigenous people were lined up behind white vans and questioned for two hours without a way to contact their families.



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Doo-Doo DeSantis remains the national joke

Doo-Doo DeSantis got kicked back to Florida wearing nothing but humiliation last spring.  If you think he's handling his return to relative obscurity well, you are mistaken.  Doo Doo DeSantis is yet again pitching a fit:



With Donald Trump now in the White House, Gov. Ron DeSantis wanted Florida to be the state that led the nation in enacting the MAGA agenda.

But it seems the normally compliant Florida Legislature has other ideas.

Monday will kick off a special session in Tallahassee, where DeSantis is facing his biggest hurdle since ending his 2024 presidential campaign in trying to work with fellow Republicans. He wants legislators to pass measures on illegal immigration to support Trump’s executive orders and mass deportation plans, and to enact sweeping changes that could make ballot initiatives more difficult to pass.


But he had to force lawmakers to travel into town as GOP legislative leaders said the work could wait until the regular policymaking period in March. And once lawmakers get to Florida’s capital, it’s still not clear they’ll do what DeSantis wants — or instead opt to publicly push back against the governor.

It’s a staggering turn of events for a governor used to getting his own way — and a test of his national staying power as he stares down the end of his term in two years.

Faced with resistance, DeSantis has dug in. On Thursday, he warned that anyone who stood in his way would pay the price politically. And he said that if he didn’t get what he wanted this week, he would just call another special session.


“I’m not letting go,” DeSantis said. “I‘m not going to wait six months.”

But the strategy hasn’t worked so far. 


The doo-doo has hit the grass and everyone's stepping on him.  As they should.  He was a bully who lied and broke the law and thought it would get him in the White House.  His run only exposed how short he was and that he wore high heels to pretend to be taller.  A short little bully who flamed out like a flamer.  And 2028 will be here in three years.  But Doo-Doo DeSantis will not be the KKK hope for the GOP then.  He'll be a failed governor and a failed candidate for president.  He'll have to compete with JD Vance who'll be the vice president so the obvious front runner.

Doo-Doo's days are over.  The bloom has left the rose and he's left covered in s**t.   Casey should leave him the way all his supporters have.  He's a joke and he's done.  Done as in 'stick a fork in him' time.

And how did that special session go for Doo-Doo today?  Richard Luscombe (GUARDIAN) explains:


Republicans in the Florida legislature on Monday delivered a humiliating rebuke to Ron DeSantis by shutting down the governor’s planned crackdown on immigration in the state and moving ahead with their own proposals.

Lawmakers in the Florida House and Senate abruptly “gaveled out” a special legislative session that DeSantis had called to seek their approval for measures he drew up in support of Donald Trump’s hardline immigration agenda.

[. . .]

The Miami Herald said the Republican lawmakers’ action amounted to a “kneecapping” for DeSantis, who previously commanded their absolute loyalty until his failed challenge to Trump for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination.


Daniel Perez, the Republican House speaker, had previously said that DeSantis’s early summoning of lawmakers to Tallahassee, and demands they approve his proposals ahead of the regular 60-day legislative session that begins next month, was “overreach”.


It's over.  Doo-Doo thought he had lasting power.  He only had temporary power and that's because they wrongly thought he had a political future.  Keep waiting for the other shoe to drop -- it'll probably be Casey leaving him. 

Here's C.I.'s "The snapshot:"


Monday, January 27, 2025.  Trump voters are finding out how they were lied to and they're outraged.  Be nice if, over here on the left, we could be outraged by how our pathetic beggar media (DEMOCRACY NOW, THE NATION, THE PROGRESSIVE, COMMON DREAMS and IN THESE TIMES) could be held accountable for how they ripped up Kmala Harris for three months with lies about how she was no different than Trump -- lies that basically all came from Socialists pretending to be Democrats because if they'd been honest that they weren't Democrats then their commentary would have been taken far less seriously. 


This morning DEMOCRACY NOW! discovers the immigration policies.  But, first, Gaza.  First and always Gaza.




Just three days into President Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation operation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have already arrested a U.S. citizen who served in the military.

About 10 or 12 ICE agents raided a Newark, New Jersey, seafood wholesaler and restaurant on Thursday and arrested three people, including the Puerto Rican warehouse manager, Ocean Food Depot owner Luis Janota told PIX11 news. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.

“I asked [the agents] what documentation they were looking for, and they said it was a license or a passport. I thought, who walks around with a passport?” Janota told PIX11, noting that the agents didn’t ask him for his white workers’ documentation.

“One of the guys was a military veteran, and the way he looked to me was because he was Hispanic. He is Puerto Rican and the manager of our warehouse,” he said. “It looked to me like they were specifically going after certain kinds of people—not every kind, because they did not ask me for documentation or my American workers, Portuguese workers, or white workers.”

The ICE officers also didn’t have a warrant, in “plain violation” of the Fourth Amendment, Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka said in a statement.

“One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned,” he said. “Newark will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized.”


That was last week.   This morning, Amy Goodman does her best Christopher Columbus and discovers immigration policies as a news topic.  This morning.  Last week, Chump's immigration policies went into effect and many Latinos and Latinas took to social media expressing disbelieve with some admitting they had voted for the Convicted Felon and now regretted it.  Ava and I noted last night in "Media: How Amy Goodman harmed immigrants and helpe...:"


And how did the program  handle immigration from August through the end of October?  That would be the general election campaign.  How did they handle it?


In August, they did three stories on immigration policy.  Two attacked Kamala Harris and the third one attacked Kamala and attacked Chump stressing that they were no different.  In September they did no segments on immigration policy.  In October?  


Two.


They did two stories on immigration policies.  One stressed that Kamala was competing with Chump for who could be the worst on immigration.  The other was showing some of the documentary SEPARATED -- about what Donald did his first term as president.  Neither Amy nor her two guests brought up what Donald was saying he would do if re-elected.


There was no noting, for example, that he was saying he would deport immigrants, round them up and deport them, that he would deport American citizens with them (to keep families together, you understand), that he would end birthright citizenship.  

[.  .]

It's worth noting that while Amy Goodman could only do five segments on immigration policy (again, two slamming Kamala, two saying Kamala and Chump were the same and one focusing on what Chump did in his first term), she had plenty of time for other topics during that same three month  period.


105.


That's the number of segments she did on Gaza during the same three month period, 105.  Many of those trashed Kamala.  In fact, those same three months featured at least 33 segment with Uncommitted (at least 33, many of her guest didn't disclose on air that they were part of the Uncommitted 'movement' that urged people not to vote for Kamala).  


So now Chump's been president for a week.  And the biggest issue right now?  His attacks on immigrants.  Again, in the three month lead up to the election, Amy Goodman did 105 segments on Gaza.  She only did five segments on the immigration policies of the two candidates -- four of the five slammed Kamala.  


Is it really the Tik-Tok voter's fault?


Or is it the crap ass, beggar (send money, send money!) media?


Immigrants are being targeted and as Ava and I noted at THIRD and as I noted here, you couldn't implement what candidate Chump was proposing without also wrongly picking up Americans because his plan required profiling.


We covered that repeatedly.


But Amy Goodman didn't.  She covered Gaza repeatedly -- as though it were the most important issue facing the United States.  It wasn't.  It isn't.  


And she only did five segments in the three month lead up to the election on immigration policies.  Two of those segments slammed Kamala by herself.  Two more said she was no better than Chump.  The fifth segment noted a documentary on what Chump did in his first term as president with regards to immigration but that segment made no attempt to note what he was campaigning on right then.  They just treated it as historical from pre-2020.


We warned about it.  The ACLU warned about it.


Amy Goodman and DEMOCRACY NOW! didn't have time to even cover the issue. 


She couldn't cover it and still attack Kamala constantly.  That's what our left did -- our no-Democratic Party left.  They worked overtime to trash Kamala, to destroy any enthusiasm over the historic nature of her campaign (which went far beyond race and gender), their goal was to steer voters elsewhere and/or to make them stay home.


Voting can be difficult.  You can be stuck standing in a long line, you have to rearrange your schedule.  Any roadblocks -- many or major -- are excuses for some to not to vote.  So when you spend forever attacking the Democratic Party nominee -- as Amy did, as THE NATION, et al did -- and telling your audience that there's no difference between her and Chump, you are deprssing and suppressing voter turnout.


That's the issue too hot for so many of your brave voices on YOUTUBE and at various websites too touch.  But it is reality and until you address this reality, you are welcoming it to destroy the 2028 election.  


The 'left' media had Socialists and others passing themselves off as Democrats and ripping into Kamala constantly.  Had consumers of THE NATION, DEMOCRACY NOW!, THE PROGRESSIVE, IN THESE TIMES, COMMON DREAMS and others known these critics weren't Democratic Party members, they could have factored that in.


That's another issue the YOUTUBERS don't want to deal with.


Amy and others brought on Socialists and paraded them as Democrats to send the lie that even Democrats didn't approved of Kamala.


When FOX "NEWS" does that to smear the Democratic Party, we all call it out.  But when our own 'left' does it, we apparently look the other way.


Continuing to avoid that topic puts every upcoming election t risk.


In the three months leading up to the election, DEMOCRACY NOW! just wasn't into Democrats.  In fact, the most extreme guest they brought on was a Socialist whose father deserted the US military and fled to Canada where she was born many years later.  And there she was trashing Kamala.  


Viewers weren't told, "Hey, Naomi Klein isn't a Democrat."  Let alone about her other history.  


Yesterday, Miss Sassy appeared on CBS's FACE THE NATION and it did not go well for him. David Edwards (RAW STORY) reports:


CBS host Margaret Brennan challenged J.D. Vance on President Donald Trump's failure to lower prices despite making scores of executive actions during his first days in office.

"You campaigned on lowering prices for consumers," Brennan noted in a Sunday interview on Face the Nation. "We've seen all of these executive orders. Which one lowers prices?"

"Well, first of all, we have done a lot, and there have been a number of executive orders that have caused, already, jobs to start coming back into our country, which is a core part of lowering prices," Vance opined.

Vance argued that Trump's executive actions would "raise wages so that people can afford to buy the things that they need."

"So, grocery prices aren't going to come down?" Brennan pressed.

"No, Margaret, prices are going to come down, but it's going to take a little bit of time, right?" Vance insisted. "The president has been president for all of five days. I think that in those five days, he's accomplished more than Joe Biden did in four years."


Liar.  Or fool.


I have no idea which. 


When these lies were being repeated during the campaign, we noted here and Trina noted at her site that these were lies.  Grocery prices were not coming down. You'd have to be an idiot to believe that grocery prices were coming down.  And a lot of voters were idiots.  Blame that in part on the media.


The price of milk and the price of eggs may flucuate a bit.  


But those aren't "groceries" for most Americans.  Groceries are Campbell's soup or this or that frozen meal, canned vegetables, etc.  Those prices are not coming down because they never do.  Not in American history.  No company has ever said to themselves, "We're price gouging and we need to stop."  That's as common as them saying, "We need to share these huge profits with the workers." Just doesn't happen. 


Now they are elected and they're continuing to lie.


Increased wages wasn't the promise they made.  And I doubt any significant wage increase is going to take part via the party that thinks $7.25 an hour is a living wage.  Can you even buy a McDonald's meal with that?


Let's check DOOR DASH.  You can't buy a lunch meal with that.  You can't even get their chicken mcnuggets meal with that. You'd actually have to work two hours to afford a lunch meal -- remember you're taxed on your wages and they also hold out Social Security.  


I'm sympathetic to voters for a lot of misinformation.  But not on this.  Before taxes and withholdings, the GOP has long argued that an American earning $290 a week was making a living wage.  $290 a week is what forty hours at $7.25 actually is.  That's -- before withholdings -- $1160 a month.  


How can anyone live on that?


Currently, the cheapest state for rent is said to be West Virginia . The average rent there for a one bedroom apartment  is $831.  In terms of cities in other states, Oklahoma City is said to have an average of $850.  But the GOP thinks that $1160 a month in wages before taxes and withholdings is a living wage.


So, sorry, I don't feel sorry for voters who fell for the lie that Chump would lower grocery prices.  And look at what was said on FACE THE NATION -- again, Miss Sassy doubled down insisting that he and Chump would lower grocery prices.


So if you bought that lie during the campaign, you were an idiot.  There's no kind way to put it.  You were an idiot and your stupidity hurt us all.


Ruth's written repeatedly about one such idiot.  I don't know if her name's Linda or if I'm just using that.  I believe Ruth called her Linda but noted in the first post about her that she was using Linda but it wasn't the woman's real first name.


Linda voted for Chump.  And hectored Ruth for supporting Kamala.  She bought into the grocery costs being lowered lie.  And costs matter to Linda because she's a fifty year old woman living at home with her parents.  She's a lazy ass who hasn't worked since 2020.  She's a fat ass of over four hundred pounds who has not used her time away from working to walk or do anything to lose weight which is why she's now nearing 500 pounds.  Guess what?  Her kidneys can't keep up with it.  She now tries to use dialysis as her excuse not to work.  Oh, I'm sorry, did I not note that the free loader free loads off her parents and off us -- the US taxpayer.  We cover her health insurance and we cover her lost wages. 


In return, the gets fatter and fatter, buys a ton of Miss Kitty crap and frets what happens when her parents die -- one has cancer, the other just had a stroke and don't, for one minute, think that means Princess gets up off her lazy ass and does a damn thing to help her parents.


When they pass, they've explained to her that whatever they have will be split three ways -- they have Linda and two other daughters.


This is your MAGA voter.  Fat and lazy.  


She could work from home.  Before she quit her job, she was working from home.  (Medical coder.) 


She just takes her parents money and our money and lays in her bed all day watching true crime TV. 


There are people with real disabilites and then there are the White MAGA who work the system.  Leeches on the people around them and leeches on the American people. 


These are also the same people who attack others on assistance and try to paint it as some scheme by Black people.  These are the same people from states that pay far less in taxes than my state (California) does.  But they leave in those fact-free zones and lie to themselves and others.


So, no, if you thought Chump was going to lower grocery prices, I really don't have sympathy for you because you feel for something that never happens in this country.  That's how stupid you were.  The odds were not in your favor because it never happened before.


Lastly, those Americans who just couldn't vote for Kamala because of Gaza, how's that working out?  Betsy Klein and Lex Harvey (CNN) report:

            

 President Donald Trump indicated Saturday that he had spoken with the king of Jordan about potentially building housing and moving more than 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries, a remarkable proposal from a sitting US president.

Trump said he asked Jordan’s Abdullah II, a key US partner in the region, to take in more Palestinians in a Saturday phone call.

“I said to him that I’d love you to take on more, because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it’s a mess, it’s a real mess,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One.

[. . .]

             Trump, who noted there have been centuries-long conflicts in the region, said Saturday, “You’re talking about a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing.”

He continued: “I don’t know, something has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished, and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location where I think they could maybe live in peace for a change.”

The president, a former property developer, said the potential housing “could be temporary” or “could be long term.”     

     

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