STEPHEN MILLER: Scary, Evil, Dangerous

Mr. Burns or Stephen Miller

There is only one thing scarier than Stephen Miller, himself, and that is the possibility that, with Donald Trump's health crisis, the Oval Office lunatic could put Miller in charge of the U.S. government. I have been posting on how scary Dufus Rump's closest advisor is since the administration's first term. This sort of thing was done with Joe Biden in easing him out of the spotlight when it was obvious he was having trouble with dementia. Biden, on the other hand, was not the raging maniac that is Donald Trump.

Daily Beast political analyst David Rothkopf...

"believes the president is preparing to shift power to one of his most loyal sycophants.

"Rothkopf argued that one of the president’s most trusted aides—not Vice President JD Vance—could take charge of the White House if Trump can no longer handle the job; he identified that person as Stephen Miller."

Let's face it, Trump falling asleep on the job is enough to get anyone fired; but of course this can't happen. He could be impeached, and I covered that in a recent post, "How Democrats can take back Congress and the White House by the first quarter 2027." But that isn't what this is all about. Rothkopf is proposing, perhaps, the most daunting idea for this country's future since George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984. Yes, that is precisely where I think we could be headed under the control of Stephen Miller.

In 2021, Stephen Miller was branded an "Extremist" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, where you can find the best documentation of hate groups in the United States. Here is SPLC's take on Miller...

"Stephen Miller is credited with shaping the racist and draconian immigration 

Nosferatu or Stephen Miller

policies of President Trump, which include the zero-tolerance policy, also known as family separation, the Muslim ban and ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Miller has also “purged” government agencies of civil servants who are not entirely loyal to his extremist agenda."

The SPLC and The Daily Beast believe both Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, together, have fomented hate in the administration...

"Stephen Miller, the highly influential advisor to President Donald Trump, is the end result of a shadowy network made up of racist organizations and PAC’s designed to push a white nationalist worldview from the fringes into deep inside the White House."

I did a post back in 2025, "Are you prepared for armageddon...Donald Trump's death?...REVISITED," where I considered what could happen if Trump died. It is worth reading again but here is the way I wrapped the whole thing up...

"And this whole boondoggle won't come to an end until Trump's Cabinet and other doormat bootlickers start their own infighting, which will bring down the government. J.D. Vance has become president, Mike Johnson V.P. Both are borderline smart and think they can control Trump's gang. But this inept crew of morons erupts into dissention, with Stephen Miller ending up as their leader. Miller, who is a white nationalist, decides to round up all Blacks, Hispanics, Orientals, anyone non-white, and put them in a concentration camp. Then Kristi 

Golum or Stephen Miller

Noem calls and says, 'Let's move them to Alligator Alcatraz.'"

Rothkopf says the two Minneapolis murders, "where two U.S. citizens—Renee Good and Alex Pretti—were fatally shot by federal immigration agents," somewhat muted Miller temporarily, but he is back in Trump's saddle again. And it isn't unusual to have an acting president, the author points out...

“We have had multiple times in our history—after Eisenhower’s heart attacks, when FDR was in his declining health at the end of his term, when Woodrow Wilson was bedridden after a stroke—where other people did the job of president," according to Rothkopf.

I don't know the full story, but I dare say the people involved in those incidents were nothing like Stephen Miller.

And when DB contacted the White House for comments, Trump's imbecilic White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said...

“David Rothkopf is a far-left loser who clearly suffers from a severe and incurable disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome that has completely rotted his peanut-sized brain...

Then he added the unbelievable,,,

"President Trump’s sharpness, unmatched energy, and historic accessibility stand in stark contrast to what we saw during the last administration when Democrats and the legacy media intentionally covered up Joe Biden’s serious mental and physical decline from the American people. President Trump is the sharpest and most accessible President in American history who is working nonstop to solve problems and deliver on his promises.” 

The real Stephen Miller

Rothkopf ends with...

“If [Trump] were incapacitated and they had to invoke the 25th Amendment, that would be another story. But that’s not what I think is going to happen here. I think, you know, you may have a slow decline, and you may just have more memos or more decisions going to Stephen Miller, or going to somebody else who’s sitting outside the Oval Office.”

So, there is a chance we aren't destined for the oppressive rule of this federally endorsed hit man. We'll watch Donald Trump's decline and see.

3 scary Republicans worth watching

 

Liz Cheney has bucked the Republican Party by voting to impeach Donald Trump and, although she has taken flack for it in Wyoming, she stands by her vote. But can you believe this?...

"More Americans questioned in a new survey said that they think Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is representative of the Republican Party than Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), underscoring the rightward drift of the GOP."

The Hill reports...

"According to the Quinnipiac University poll out Wednesday, 28 percent of Americans said Greene represents the GOP, while 25 percent said the same of Cheney. Forty-seven percent did not offer an opinion."

Although Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) once approved of calls for the execution of Democrats, Republicans still love her and that's why she bears watching. Greene did lose all of her House Committee Assignments, but Rep. Liz Cheney retains her position as No. 3 leader. Kevin McCarthy's take...

"But as Wednesday's internal showdowns concluded, McCarthy and the House GOP decided against punishing two of their most high-profile women, whose views enrage opposite ends of the party's spectrum. The moves were typical of McCarthy's preference to avoid ruffling feathers as he charts his path to someday becoming House speaker."

God forbid the latter happens. 

Steve Bannon has been scary since the first day he walked into Donald Trump's

White House. I have done a number of blog posts on Bannon, most of which on the dark side. Donald Trump accepting Bannon's political cynicism is one thing; the whole Republican Party just illustrates how deeply troubled the GOP has become. Greg Sargent in the Washington Post describes Bannon' comeback...

"Trump’s former adviser is now elevating his profile as spokesman for the pro-Trump wing in a way that usefully illuminates the ugly depths of the GOP’s ongoing radicalization."

Steve Bannon was pardoned by Trump, but the New York Atty. Gen. has just asked for his financial records and plans to compare them with Donald Trump's, which they just received. The two are talking again as Trump becomes desperate for any hand in the storm. Sargent makes it clear, and most on the left agree, Democrats must demand "a full accounting into Trump’s most recent crime against the country, the effort to incite the violent overthrow of U.S. democracy."

And, in Stephen Miller, one of the scariest of Donald Trump's recent aides; always in the background, always proposing the doomsday. Miller was the nucleus of Trump's immigration program exclaiming re. Biden's moves on the issue, "This is madness!" Here are Miller's words...

"This is a policy choice disguised falsely to the court and to the country as a resource issue!" Miller shouted. "That is a lie and it's a lie that threatens public safety."

Stephen Miller has been branded an "Extremist" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, where you can find the best documentation of hate groups in the United States. Here is SPLC's take on Miller...

"Stephen Miller is credited with shaping the racist and draconian immigration policies of President Trump, which include the zero-tolerance policy, also known as family separation, the Muslim ban and ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Miller has also “purged” government agencies of civil servants who are not entirely loyal to his extremist agenda."

Stephen Miller is an ardent follower of Jared Taylor, a mouthpiece for white supremacist ideology, said, "The races are not identical and equivalent." Miller queries: who will pay for these immigrants, but it is clearly his views on white supremacy that guide his ideology. The Guardian said "Stephen Miller: the white nationalist at the heart of Trump's White House." Trump is no longer in the White House, but the heart of the current Trump movement is still white supremacy.

Is racism still a dirty word, or...just accepted today?

Racism is worse than that old weather saying. People have been talking about it for years, but no one has seriously done anything about it...

My take is that it is definitely a dirty word, even many racists would agree with that, but it is like one of those rogue genes that are the basis for a particular kind of behavior which allows those who have it to justify what they do. I grew up in the South, fighting with racists all my life, even within my own family, and when I finally left in the 1960s, there were still lynchings of black people, their houses being burned to the ground, all orchestrated by the Ku Klux Klan.

Like the Mafia, the Klan slowly faded away, but as is the case for both, there is still evidence of their activity around. Here's a scenario from NPR...

"For the fourth year in a row, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks hate groups, reports that hate and domestic extremism are rising in an unabated trend. The center found a 30 percent increase in U.S. hate groups over the past four years and a 7 percent increase in hate groups in 2018 alone."

NPR adds, "The watchdog group blames President Trump, his administration, right-wing media outlets and the ease of spreading hate on social media platforms for the alarming increase." Trump has promoted and encouraged white nationalism since being inaugurated, hiring people like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, of which the latter is still on his staff. Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project said...

"The numbers tell a striking story — that this president is not simply a polarizing figure but a radicalizing one."

Excellent video on the Trump-Miller relationship...

This added...

"Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project, said in a statement. "Rather than trying to tamp down hate, as presidents of both parties have done, President Trump elevates it — with both his rhetoric and his policies. In doing so, he's given people across America the go-ahead to act on their worst instincts."

"Worst instincts," resulting from that rogue gene that wallows in racism. And here's more on Stephen Miller from the Daily Beast...

"Stephen Miller, the highly influential advisor to President Donald Trump, is the end result of a shadowy network made up of racist organizations and PAC’s designed to push a white nationalist worldview from the fringes into deep inside the White House."

The Confederate battle flag

Now there are even rumbles that Steve Bannon is attempting to work his way back into the White House. The combination of Miller and Bannon, especially should there be a Trump second term, God forbid, and with the White House maniac at his highest level of mental instability since entering office, could turn this country into a national Confederate States of America. What would a new flag look like? Would future elections even be allowed?

Miller was a close ally of John Tanton, an Ophthalmologist from Michigan, founder of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and considered by SPLC the "puppeteer" of the nativist movement and a man with deep racist roots. Stephen Miller, practicing Tanton's ideology, is considered the architect of Donald Trump's immigration policies. The Beast's Mark Potok reports...

"Miller is both a promoter and, to some extent, a product of a much wider racist network aimed at preventing non-white immigration into the United States.”

He also thinks there is little chance of Miller leaving the administration, able to now influence, as I stated earlier, a much more mentally unstable Donald Trump, who is already making the worst of bad decisions. I would surmise when the black community sees this rampant racism originate from the highest office in the land, they feel there is just no hope. And they may very well be right as long as Trump occupies the White House and Mitch McConnell controls the Senate.

Donald Trump responsible for hate crimes

July 22, 2019: TODAY'S NEWS BYTES  

Hate crimes tied to a president unheard of  

Donald Trump-White Supremacist

Many in the media and groups like So. Poverty Law Center have warned of Donald Trump inciting violence with his racist targeting of women of color in Congress. Jim Cavanaugh, a retired ATF special agent-in-charge was interviewed by Anchor Joy Reid on Friday evening’s “The Last Word.” She asked...

“So those threats beginning about two years ago, increases in white nationalist activity. Have you ever heard of these kinds of increases in hate and potential hate crimes being tied to a president of the United States?”

Reid answered, “No,” he replied. “That’s very, very unusual, Joy, to have that happen.” Reid added...

“You know, when you get more power, your words carry more weight. When you get into this undercurrent of the Nazis and the white nationalists and the klansmen, they feed off of this. They feed off of public figures — on the regular media, in the government, congressmen, senators, the president — saying the things they always say,” he explained. “It bolsters them. It gives them strength and power.”

You can't get much more power than that of the President of the United States, so it is safe to say the white supremacists have the capacity of the greatest nation on earth. And that is very, very scary. The Oval Office lunatic has even primed these Nazis recently with his attacks on the four congresswomen, and there appears no abatement for Trump's racism. This country may be doomed to relive the race wars of the 1960s.

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White Supremacists love Donald Trump...

Stephen Miller-Donald Trump's scariest aide

Stephen Miller is a far-right political activist who serves as a senior advisor for policy for President Donald Trump. He took over as the chillingest member of Trump's team when Steve Bannon left. Although I don't consider Fox New generally credible, I do think Chris Wallace, because of his father Mike, to be honest and believable. Wallace adamantly shut down Miller as the latter repeatedly tried to defend T-rump's racism.

Here's an example from Think Progress...

"Wallace also pointed out that Trump has criticized the four lawmakers for comments he deemed critical of America, yet attacked the nation, and Obama, with comments that were far more negative. President Obama is ignorant, this country is killers, on and on.'”

"Miller attempted to spin a 'fundamental distinction' between 'people who think we need to lean into and strengthen American’s core values' and 'people who think we need to turn America into Venezuela.' But Wallace again responded with Trump’s own quotes that were explicit attacks on America."

Chris concluded the interview with...

“I’ve never called any of his tweets racist,” Wallace admonished Miller. “But there’s no question he is stoking racial divisions.”

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The Hill says Trump has nothing to fear from Robert Mueller testimony

There are disagreements with this statement from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., who is convinced that Robert Mueller's report "presents very substantial evidence" that President Donald Trump "is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors." There is no reason to ask who is right since there can be no real right or wrong until a court, probably eventually SCOTUS, interprets sections of the report.

Here's what Mueller said: “The report is my testimony. I would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before Congress.”

Here's what House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said: "Democrats on the committees plan to get around this reluctance by having Mueller read from his report, and by asking him for commentary about what he’s read."

It may even be a strategy welcomed by Robert Mueller.

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Are you prepared for armageddon...Donald Trump's death?...REVISITED

For example, what side of the street do you live on, Democrat or Republican? It will be divisive, you know. Some even believe it could be another Civil War with neighborhoods divided by political ideology. Neighbor against neighbor. Block against block. City against city. State against state. Firearm laws will be moot since everyone will carry a gun. The question is, who will shoot first? Once the fracas begins, all law and order will be confined to the streets. My guess is the Trumpsters will be the strongest, at least initially, because they have been preparing for this for some time. 

The war, and it will be considered a domestic war, will pit families against families, friends against friends, workers against workers; in fact, it will involve any group or order of people. There will be deaths but there won't be arrests. That is because law enforcement has also divided between the left and the right. The Trump administration, although focused on the dictator's pre-death wishes, spirals into complete chaos because there is no one to tell them what to do. Yes, the leader is gone and suddenly we begin to see the startling incompetence of Trump's minions.

Do you know your next door neighbor, acquainted with others in the neighborhood? Remember that recent block party where everyone brought a food dish to the get together? Well, the next time they'll bring their AR-15, loaded with backup ammunition. The conversation quickly digresses into politics and what happens next is anyone's guess. You go to the super market and everyone is carrying assault rifles, and the look you get is pure surly making friendliness a fond memory of the past. Disagree with your butcher and you have a semi-automatic weapon staring you in the face.

And what about relationships? Like when your girlfriend reveals one day that she is a Trumpster, and you have to worship at his altar. You find out your doctor loves Trump and wants to talk about him more than he wants to find out what's wrong with you. Your lawyer is a follower and his interpretation of the law goes off the right side of his desk. You discover the minister of your church is married to an extreme rightist Evangelical who pressures him to worship you know who. But the epitome of it all is when you return home from work one day and your wife tells you she is on the way to a MAGA rally.

This one won't be like the war between the North and the South. Now, the dividing line will be the street

in front of your house; depending who lives across from you, what action you take. The bulletproof glass industry will boom with any window facing the critical demarcation receiving immediate attention. My guess is life and business will go on as usual with violence erupting only when someone makes a derogatory statement about Donald Trump, when the shit will hit the fan. There will be deaths and, where the neighborhood watch used to report intruders, in this case they will remove the dead. 

Silencers for guns, although illegal in this country, will be a necessary part of every arsenal. Let's say you are a Trumpster and go to the movies, see an anti-Trump person you hate. You quietly sit down behind them, and in a blaringly loud scene from the movie, you blow your enemies head off. Or you're trying on clothes and see an adversary; under the cover of a garment, you drop him or her. Whichever side you are on, the reaction of onlookers will be a combination of both shock and curiosity. In either case, there is little or no reaction, allowing enough time for an escape.

And this whole boondoggle won't come to an end until Trump's Cabinet and other doormat bootlickers start their own infighting, which will bring down the government. J.D. Vance has become president, Mike Johnson V.P. Both are borderline smart and think they can control Trump's gang. But this inept crew of morons erupts into dissention, with Stephen Miller ending up as their leader. Miller, who is a white nationalist, decides to round up all Blacks, Hispanics, Orientals, anyone non-white, and put them in a concentration camp. Then Kristi Noem calls and says, 'Let's move them to Alligator Alcatraz.'

America in Conflict

 

Starting a series of random posts illustrating the struggle the United States is going through today, emphasizing the moral drought of our political system.

A president impeached twice with absolutely no remorse for what he did to the United States during four catastrophic years in the White House. Read more...

As one columnist put it, "The United States is visibly in an early stage of disintegration," like Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," only the giant insect is the country we live in.

Evangelicals courted Donald Trump throughout his four years in office despite his despicable behavior, particularly his abuse of women. Read more...

Republican lawmakers proposing laws to prevent liberals from voting, targeting blacks and Hispanics. Read more...

And this is one of those 'can you really believe this?' pieces. The Washington Times suggests replacing Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski with Sarah Palin. Read more...

Here's a whopper, "Conspiracy nuts think Bill Gates helped Biden generate 'synthetic snow' to make Texas look bad." Don't know for sure but do believe we can assume this group supports Donald Trump.

With 390 million guns on U.S. streets in a country of 329 million people, one would expect gun violence. And we got it with a 50% increase in mass shootings in 2020, plus in the first seven weeks of 2021, there have been 63 mass shootings. Read more... 

President Biden appointed more Postal Service Board members, but nothing is done about the arrogant and incompetent Postmaster Louis DeJoy. Why is Biden dragging his feet on this? Read more...

Stephen Miller is the sneaky behind the scenes Donald Trump work master for white supremacy in what the Washington Post's Greg Sargent calls a "shadow war" against Joe Biden. This administration shouldn't let Miller out of its sights. 
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SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas, obviously an ardent Donald Trump follower, seems to be overstepping his bounds by becoming a supporter of the "fixed 2020 election," movement. Read more...

Joe Biden mirrors Donald Trump if he lets Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman get away with the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. We keep warning China's Xi Jinping about human rights in his country. But, then, he doesn't have any oil. Read more...

As you may know the CPAC convention got under way last Thursday, and one of its speakers, Ted Cruz, mocked the wearing of masks when the COVID-19 pandemic has now claimed 524,480 deaths. Maybe he should just go back to Cancun and stay. Read more...

Speaking of CPAC, have you heard of the life size gold metal statue of Donald Trump served up to the emperor during the convention? By the way, it was made in Mexico, probably by the kind of people he described as drug dealers, criminals, rapists. Read more...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the U.S. Representative who was stripped of all of her key House posts due to radical views, is attending CPSC with the rest of the Republican lowlife to praise the recently dethroned dictator. Not sure if she brought her baseless QAnon conspiracy theories with her. Read more...

You can thank Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) for being one of the first-rate idiots in the attempt to overturn Joe Biden's win in the 2020 election. He the epitome of untruth with his ongoing claims of rampant voter fraud rampant voter fraud with absolutely no evidence. Read more...

Matt Gaetz, the moron congressman from Florida, pushes Donald Trump for 2024, by comparing Trump's book, "The Art of the Deal," with Gaetz's new version, 'The Art of the Comeback.' Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said it best, "That guy [Gaetz] is

not an adult". Read more...

Trump suck-ups coming out of the woodwork

It all started with Trump's cabinet selections circling the wagons, preparing their 'resumes' in readiness to pounce on their idol, none other than the dictator-to-be, Donald Trump. If sufficient adoration doesn't accompany these groveling applications, the person would be out on the street. Apparently this group of unqualified, incompetent bumblers have passed the Trump test, after which most had to have a nose job. If any of these bootlickers veers away from the ritual of Donald Trump, they could find themselves waiting tables at Trump Tower.

Here they are, collected in Yahoo!News, in all their glory...

Kristi Noem, the infamous puppy-executing governor of South Dakota with early expectations for Vice President, had to settle for Homeland Security Secretary.

Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) was among the most outspoken critics of the Secret Service in the aftermath of the first attempt on Trump’s life in July. Now, he’s been chosen to be Trump’s National Security Adviser.

Among the most polarizing appointments by Trump has been his choice of Tom Homan to be his so-called “border czar.” Homan has promised to “run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen s--t yet. Wait until 2025.”

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was also considered for V.P., has said, “President Trump will bring back moral leadership to the White House, condemning antisemitism and standing strong with Israel and the Jewish people." Stefanik is also, perhaps, one of the most radical in the new cabinet.

The infamous White Nationalist sympathizer Stephen Miller—who the Southern Poverty Law Center labels an “extremist”---will be Deputy Chief of Staff For Policy. In my opinion. Miller is probably the scariest member of Trump's selections.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), again, once a V.P candidate, will be Trump's secretary of state. Used to hate each other, now they love each other. I don't feel Rubio has the balls to be sec. of state.

Zuckerberg, bezos, Trump

Not mentioned in the Yahoo article but among the biggest suck-ups with their noses aimed at Mar-a-Lago, and reported by Robert Reich's Substack, are Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon's Jeff Bezos...

"Zuckerberg has turned to fawning. During the campaign, he had several private phone calls with Trump. After the assassination attempt, Zuckerberg told Trump he was “praying” for him and told an interviewer Trump looked like a “badass” after pumping his fist to the crowd."

Amazon’s founder and chief, Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, had a rocky relationship with Trump during the first Trump administration. Bezos apparently learned his lesson. After Trump was shot at a campaign event, Bezos called him, and on social media he praised Trump’s “grace and courage under literal fire.” Bezos didn’t allow the Post’s editorial board to endorse Kamala Harris for president.

There is much more in Robert Reich's Substack that is well worth the read. 

The one thing that is the most startling to me is the fact that so many outside politics have done a complete turnaround from Trump's first administration and even into the last couple of years. This, of course, makes Trump's new trip to the White House much more complex. The pressure is on January 20, for the entire world.

Donald Trump spins the wheel...Who gets dumped next?

 

Kristi Noem was the epitome of being unqualified, leading to major incompetence from the beginning, resulting in Donald Trump's first Cabinet Secretary dumped. In Noem's tenure, 53 people died due to the violent tactics of ICE. She will go on to one of Dufus Rump's insignificant positions in his administration and will be replaced by Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin. He is, of course, another Trump loyalist. Here are comments from Mullin...

Mullin told reporters at the Capitol on Thursday that he was “super excited about this opportunity” and that it was “not a complete surprise.”

He added, “The president and I, as you guys know, we’re great friends, and we get along great. I look forward to working with him in his Cabinet. Of course, we’ve still got to go through this little thing called confirmation, and we’re going to get started on it right away.”

NBC News places Noem "at the forefront of Trump’s signature policy agendas: deporting immigrants, restricting immigration and clamping down on the U.S.-Mexico border." She may be the one with the flair to bolster her image and spend a lot of money, some personally, other unnecessarily, but there is no doubt that it has been Stephen Miller who has put together Donald Trump's violent anti-immigration movement. Miller has almost unbridled range as White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor.

But it was Pam Bondi's firing from the extremely important position of Trump's Attorney General where the Oval Office lunatic used the legal system to carry out prosecutions of retribution. Like Letitia James and James Comey. Here's the scenario...

Federal Judge Cameron Currie dismissed federal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James in November 2025. The cases, brought by special prosecutor Lindsey Halligan, were tossed after the judge found Halligan was improperly appointed, rendering her actions unlawful. Both face potential re-prosecution as the dismissals were without prejudice.

Bondi's biggest Trump letdown was the screwing up of the issue of Donald Trump's pal,

Jeffrey Epstein, the massive predator, in overseeing the case. How it came down...

Pam Bondi was fired as U.S. Attorney General on April 2, 2026, following mounting criticism over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case files. Despite promising transparency, her Justice Department failed to release significant documents, provided misleading information about a "client list," and heavily redacted files, creating a political liability for President Trump.

So, what's next? 

This headline from Daily Beast could provide a clue, "Fuming Trump Secretly Plots Firing Top Goon Who Embarrassed Him." He's talking about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, but insiders say another firing so soon after Noem and Bondi could cause a concern by the public of 'what the hell is going on?' Nevertheless, this is the situation...

"Gabbard reportedly rankled Trump when she refused to condemn Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, who resigned over his opposition to the Iran war. Sources told Fox News that Gabbard declined to fire Kent despite being the White House urging her to."

It is beyond me how anyone who works for Dufus Rump can make a move without wondering if it will be their last one. And here's a late happening on Monday...

Stetson Law alumni call on school to revoke former Attorney General Pam Bondi's awards.

They apparently want nothing to do with her anymore by saying they would like to "distance" themselves from Bondi. Is a disbarment next? One can only hope. 

There are others standing on the sidelines just waiting for the hook. Trump has mentioned dumping several senior officials, including FBI Director Kash Patel, according to Times of India. In addition to Patel, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, and Labor Secretary Lori Cha. Patel is a certified moron, as is Pete Hegseth, the latter not mentioned recently but known to be in Dufus Rump's sights. Insiders say Hegseth is firing all his top people because he fears Trump will fire him, replacing him with one of them.

Buzz Feed says, "Trump Is Now Throwing His Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt Under The Bus, And It's Exactly What We Expected." With a "laugh," the site said...

"President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is to blame for media outlets’ unfavorable coverage of him in a wild moment in the Oval Office."

There was never any need for having Leavitt speak for him since she never really interpreted her boss' output, rather, just mimicked everything he said. Aside from being an airhead, Leavitt was both obstinate and arrogant in her dealings with the press. Trump added this in his press conference...

 "He continued by awkwardly, and seemingly playfully, pointing out his press secretary as she watched on, 'Maybe Karoline’s doing a poor job? I don’t know. She’s my repre — you’re doing a terrible job. Should we keep her? I think we’ll keep her.'”

How would you like to work in this kind of environment? The revolving door is bad enough but when you put an insane Donald Trump at the controls, it's like working in the snake pit.

 

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Could there be worldwide drug shortages due to the virus? One example is the popular antidepressant, Prozac, which has some ingredients that come from China that are supplied to other countries to manufacture this medication. They are called active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and China is the lead supplier of these around the world. With the coronavirus outbreak just beginning to slow down there, it is not yet known if there will be shortages...READ MORE...

The White House is in chaos over coronavirus and the staff blames Mike Pence. It seems that Trump's number two cannot "get a handle" on priorities in order to get the process rolling. The reason for that is that he hasn't clue to what he's doing, as was evidenced by his incompetent response to an HIV outbreak in Indian when he was governor. It's like a three-ring circus since there is no one in the Trump administration capable of making competent decisions...
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And if you can believe this, Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller wrote Trump’s coronavirus speech given last Wednesday evening that been deemed a complete wrecking ball to the U.S. response to the disease. To begin with, it "tanked" markets that were already in a nosedive and second, he portrayed the virus as a "foreign" attack, rather than rightfully taking the blame himself. The administration's credibility now looks damaged beyond control...READ MORE...

Old crazy Lamar Alexander

"Unconscionable" is what Moscow Mitch's Senate is being called for allowing Tennessee's Lamar Alexander to block the vote on an emergency paid sick leave bill because "the bill would be an “expensive” and burdensome mandate for employers." The Republican Congress continues to stoop to equal depths as the White House manic that is supposed to be running the show. And this plan even falls "far short of sick leave policies in many other industrialized nations."... READ MORE...

"Computer scientists predict that America will be in lockdown in less than two weeks as the country scrambles to contain COVID-19." The prediction is partially based on the lockdown in Italy last Tuesday, and should prompt the question of whether or not some of the computer's computation might have had something to do with the incompetence of the Trump administration in handling the U.S. coronavirus outbreak. This from Mark Handley, Professor of Networked Systems at UCL in London...READ MORE...

Are You Ready for America's Civil War II

 

Once again Charles M Blow is on top of the latest in the war on democracy. We could have a civil war, he says, which looks like it already started on January 6, at the U.S. Capitol insurrection. He references Texas' violation of the Constitution and federal laws by passing legislation forbidding abortions. 

Then, SCOTUS let the law stand, but with a slight compromise, allowing abortion providers to sue. Here's the scenario...

Anyone who assists in providing an illegal abortion — from the provider down to the person who gives a woman a ride to the clinic — can still be sued. Roe v. Wade has essentially been overturned in the state, and soon that astonishing reality may not only become permanent there but may also spread to other states.

Ridiculous, but that is what we have come to expect from Texas' moron governor, Greg Abbott. Justice Sonia Sotomayor was furious in her dissent...

“This is a brazen challenge to our federal structure. It echoes the philosophy of John C. Calhoun, a virulent defender of the slaveholding South who insisted that States had the right to ‘veto’ or ‘nullif[y]’ any federal law with which they disagreed.”

And who is John C. Calhoun? The answer from Blow...

"I found the invocation of South Carolina’s Calhoun striking. Yes, he was a strong believer in nullification, the idea that states could nullify federal laws, but he was also a raging racist who went further than the slave owners who saw slavery as a 'necessary evil,' seeing it instead as a positive good."

THIS IS SCARY: Kim Iversen: Is CIVIL WAR Looming? Americans SUPPORT Red States, Blue States Seceding From US...

Having grown up in the South, and in the 40s and 50s when the Ku Klux Klan was running rampant, as a very young boy I once witnessed the lynching of a Black man. The experience was ghastly and tortuous as I knew the man had done nothing to deserve this. And I had no prejudice against Blacks since it just didn't make sense to me that I should hate somebody just because of their color. There were many incidents over the years where I disagreed with friends, even family.

That was then, but racism has once again reared its ugly head, somewhat due to Donald Trump's openness for white supremacy, strongly supported by advisers like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller. This has not gone unnoticed by Charles Blow...

"I see too many uneasy parallels between what was happening nearly 200 years ago and what is happening now. I see this country on the verge of another civil war, as the Calhounian impulse is reborn."

As Blow surmises we won't see the number of deaths experienced in the Civil War starting in 1861, lasting to 1865, even though there has already been violence and some lives lost in the current turmoil. Contrary...

"this new war will be fought in courts, statehouses and ballot boxes, rather than in the fields."

And with this less people will die, but more of democracy will be lost...perhaps all of it forever. 

 

 

 

There is someone who could bring down the Trump administration

This was No Kings Day Oct. 18, 2025

No one can say it like Robert Reich, the man and his rhetoric, who could send Donald Trump and his minions packing.  Here's what he said on X to kick off the No Kings Protests...

"As we resist tyranny, America gains solidarity. As we gain solidarity, we build courage. As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime. Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief today at No Kings Day 2.0."

One can only hope that these protests will produce a decline in t-Rump's power, leading to a return to democracy. Millions of Americans hit the streets last Saturday in peaceful protest against a dictatorial government "in the spirit of a street party," as The Guardian described it. The idea was to counteract the balderdash from a moron sitting in the U.S. House Speaker's seat by the name of Mike Johnson. He called the No Kings Protest the “hate America” protests and was seconded by another moron, Steve Scalise, House majority leader. Not enough brains between these two to come in out of the rain.

Reich did a piece in The Guardian early in October professing leverage by the Democrats because of the shutdown of the U.S. government. Here's what's happened...

Agencies and departments designed to protect consumers, workers and investors are now officially closed, as are national parks and museums.

Most federal workers are not being paid – as many as 750,000 could be furloughed – including those who are required to remain on the job, like air-traffic controllers or members of the US military.

So-called “mandatory” spending, including Social Security and Medicare payments, are continuing, although checks could be delayed. The construction of Trump’s new White House ballroom won’t be affected.

The former Labor Secretary expresses his experience with shutdowns but claims this one is different. One reason, "Republicans used an arcane Senate procedure called 'reconciliation', which allowed the big ugly (Trump's big beautiful) to get through with just 51 votes rather than the normal 60 required to overcome a filibuster." The bill barely made it with J.D. Vance breaking the tie with no Democrat votes. This put everything in motion for a shutdown which started on October 1. Results of the shutdown...

"The big ugly fundamentally altered the priorities of the United States 

Robt. Reich and Trump's "Big Ugly"

government. It cut about $1tn from healthcare programs, including Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, meaning that health insurance premiums for tens of millions of Americans will soar starting in January.

"The big ugly also cut nutrition assistance and environmental protection, while bulking up immigration enforcement and cutting the taxes of wealthy Americans and big corporations."

The big ugly was inevitable with Donald Trump in the White House, but what is not inevitable is Trump staying in the White House. Here's the scenario...

Senate Democrats refused to sign on unless most of the big ugly’s cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act were restored, so health insurance premiums won’t soar next year.

Even if Senate Democrats had obtained that concession, the Republican bill to keep the government going would retain all the tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations contained in the big ugly, along with all the cuts in nutrition assistance, and all the increased funding for immigration enforcement.

Enter the Trump troika, Stephen Miller, Russell Vought and J.D. Vance. Vought, and Elon Musk before him, have irresponsibly fired thousands of federal employees, then found it was necessary to hire many of these people back immediately. As Reich puts it, they are firing those in jobs they don't value like the   Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. They have seized appropriations approved by Congress which the experts say is unconstitutional. What will happen...

"All of this is illegal, but it seems unlikely that courts will act soon enough to prevent the administration from harming vast numbers of Americans."

So here is Robert Reich's answer to this fiasco...

"If tens of millions of Americans lose their health insurance starting in January because they can no longer afford to pay sky-high premiums, Trump and his Republicans will be blamed."

Democrats have won political battles on healthcare in the past...

"Over the last two decades, Democratic political wins on healthcare include the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the expansion of ACA premium tax credits, and the Inflation Reduction Act's provisions to lower prescription drug costs."

January isn't that far away but, in the meantime, the left must keep up and increase their efforts like the No Kings Protests. 

Be sure and see the documentary, 'The Last Class' examines the legacy of professor Robert Reich."

Political Satire: Donald Trump makes white supremacy notorious

White nationalism or white supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of all other races, especially the black race, and should therefore dominate society. It's hard to believe this kind of concept could persist in the 21st century. Don't get me wrong, it has been prevalent over the years since the Civil Rights Act of 1968 also known as the Fair Housing Act. There were others before it but Lyndon Johnson thought he was putting on the final touches with his late sixties bill. Although there was some noticeable breakthrough, racism in its purest form still exists.

What we never thought possible in this country is the fact that, even though there have been racists presidents before him, no other administration has ever prided itself in stocking its staff, even its cabinet, with white nationalists. Donald Trump not only welcomes their company, he encourages their participation in the sport by regularly practicing his own. It's like who can one up the other. As Salon's headline expressed...

Donald Trump’s white nationalist “genius bar”: Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Michael “Decius” Anton and beyond

 Further: "Donald Trump’s administration is built around a brain trust of white nationalists." Folks, these crackpots are all proud of a trait that normal, civilized people consider abhorrent. In addition to the above, Donald John's new Atty. General, Jeff Sessions, has been a racist most of his adult life. And according to the Washington Post, half of Trump supporters are racists, proving my earlier point that racism has been prevalent over the years, in spite of targeted legislation. We are a truly pathetic nation that allows these lowlifes not only to exist, but also to proliferate.

Said it once and here it is again, "How about concentration camps for racists?" my headline from an earlier post. May sound far-fetched but wouldn't it be fun to visit their compound and flip them the bird through the chain-link fence...with barb-wire around the top, of course.

The real story...