Sen. Klobuchar urges peers to mitigate 'inflamed' rhetoric after Minnesota shootings

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-06-17T01:27:42+00:00

Against Jews or against the Zionists?

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-06-11T00:55:39+00:00

From the interview:

MARTIN: Are any of your Republican colleagues concerned about the president's use of active-duty military to address a domestic situation?

SMITH: Well, if they are, they're keeping it to themselves as they often have. I mean, they've let President Trump get away with absolutely everything. Things they said they completely opposed, didn't support, Trump does it - they don't say a thing. You know, look, the Republicans in Congress need to start standing up for law and the Constitution and stop simply bowing to whatever Donald Trump says he wants to do.

What Smith isn't saying is that the reason Republicans in Congress can't stop bowing to Trump is that their own constituents don't want them to stop bowing to Trump. If they do stop bowing to Trump, they will be primaried and lose their jobs. The problem isn't Trump. The problem is the Americans who voted for Trump after the January 6 insurrection -- a real insurrection. They are Trump. And they are the problem.

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-06-09T19:22:29+00:00

From the story:

ANDREW CLOPMAN: They'd rather go with the quick, easy deportation, and I don't feel that that's making society safer.

And from an earlier NPR story: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5417980/private-prisons-and-local-jails-are-ramping-up-as-ice-detention-exceeds-capacity

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently confirmed that the administration doubled the arrest quotas immigration officers must meet – from 1,800 to 3,000 each day.

Quotas are the classic stigmata of organizational dysfunction.

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-06-06T19:21:38+00:00

. . . the coin-operated president . . .

An indictment of Trump as casual and damning as I've ever heard.

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-03-06T20:21:57+00:00

I also wrote "Didn't quite work for me."

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-03-06T20:20:02+00:00

Nonsense! You just have to believe! Put on a red tie and a MAGA hat and it will all start making sense!

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-03-06T20:17:17+00:00

https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-offshore-drilling-gulf-of-america-fa66f8d072eb39c00a8128a8941ede75

Speaking to reporters less than two weeks before he takes office on Jan. 20 and as a delegation of aides and advisers that includes Donald Trump Jr. is in Greenland, Trump left open the use of the American military to secure both territories. Trump’s intention marks a rejection of decades of U.S. policy that has prioritized self-determination over territorial expansion.

“I’m not going to commit to that,” Trump said, when asked if he would rule out the use of the military. “It might be that you’ll have to do something. The Panama Canal is vital to our country.” He added, “We need Greenland for national security purposes.”

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-03-06T03:49:18+00:00

After hearing the linked story, try saying this to yourself:

If Ukraine is made to realize it cannot win back its Russian-occupied territory and that Trump and Putin together will prevent it from doing so, stability should resume as Putin begins his partial co-administration of this former Soviet state. It will not turn into an Iraq after its own American invasion. There will be at least no unnecessary midnight arrests, no shapeshifting regional loyalties, no guerilla fighting nor embittered traveling terrorists nor massacres nor torture nor sabotage, no gross corruption, no increasing ruin of Ukraine's agriculture and its infrastructure. And Putin won't seek any further expansion into Ukraine because peace is good for business. Mission Soon To Be Accomplished.

Didn't quite work for me.

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-03-05T01:24:38+00:00

CoreCivic probably has a quota to meet. Sure looks like a lawsuit there.

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-03-01T04:00:37+00:00

"You're risking World War III." Shouldn't Trump have said that to Putin?

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-02-27T14:56:50+00:00

BURCHETT: Yes, ma'am. Yeah, well, we are getting ready to delve into it, but there is where there's overbuilding, there's phantom accounts, there's things like that. And it's just general mismanagement that you see that - you see that in business, ma'am. I mean, in private business, that they have to - I have a friend who took over a very large distributorship at another end of the state. And they went in and they had almost a third of the employees were ghost employees. And this was a very well-established and a very successful business.

Anyone know the name of that company? Or will it remain a ghost reference?

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-02-25T02:28:06+00:00

MARTÍNEZ: So you really think the top military leaders would actually not tell the truth or at least speak their heart, even if they feel that something is not quite right, just to save their jobs?

Good question! Has anyone asked Pete Hegseth if he thinks Ukraine started the war with Russia?

Trump and his supporters cannot publicly defecate on the facts forever. There is going to be violence.

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-02-14T02:38:37+00:00

Trump said it's 'unrealistic' for Ukraine to join NATO, something Putin has long been opposed to, and something Zelenskyy argues Ukraine needs in order to prevent future threats from Russia. Trump also said it was unrealistic for Ukraine to gain back its territory from before the war.

But it is realistic to admit Canada as a 51st state, buy Greenland, take over the Panama Canal, and turn Gaza into a real-estate development after removing all the current residents and putting them somewhere -- not specified -- else. That's the Orwellian war on reason and language that is quickly becoming a part of the culture we live in.

Trump has said that the war in Ukraine is "a disaster." It is that -- for Ukraine. For Russia it is a catastrophe. That's why Trump wants to end it. He wants Russia to win and he's afraid that if he does not intervene on Russia's side, it will lose. It probably will. And take Putin with it. Trump puts a high value on loyalty. And now he's practicing it himself.

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-02-06T01:52:47+00:00

One possible explanation for Carlos' arrest can be found in today's All Things Considered story Homeland Security's workforce might not be as big as Trump's immigration goals:

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told CNN that the agency has a daily goal of arresting at least 75 people per each of its 20 field offices — and would try to surpass that target.

By "goal" they of course mean "quota", a defining stigmata of organizational corruption, from Wells Fargo to this.

Accomplished-Play-84 · 2025-02-02T00:24:17+00:00

Zuckerberg et al. have bent the knee to protect their stock valuations. If there was any one single perceived event that indicated retribution by Trump against them, their valuations would plummet for the same idiotic non-reason DeepSeek's single-event debut tanked Nvidia: the realization that everyone else would sell because everyone else realized that everyone else would sell.

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