THANKS DON: If Trump Gets His Way, Democrats Will Win a Big Majority in the Senate This Year

Posted by Mark NC on January 13, 2026 at 2:21 pm. 0 Comments :

The upcoming midterm elections in November are going to present some compelling opportunities for Democrats. In 2025 they enjoyed some strong victories across the nation in races that were predicted to be close. And in many other races where they fell short, they narrowed the margin significantly.

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Now most polls are showing that the Democratic Party is favored to win a majority in the House of Representatives. That advantage is the result of a combination of factors. First, Democrats have been taking the lead on the issues that matter most to the American people. And secondly, Republicans are saddled with Donald Trump, a mentally impaired megalomaniac who is only interested in himself.

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While Democrats are working hard to lower the cost of housing, healthcare, groceries, and other expenses that folks encounter on a daily basis, Trump and his MAGA comrades are are squarely focused on building ballrooms, invading other countries (Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, Mexico, etc.), imposing inflationary tariffs, suppressing the Epstein files, and cutting government programs that help middle and lower income citizens, in order to enrich Trump and his wealthy benefactors.

That’s a political recipe for GOP disaster. But despite how bad that is as a strategy, Trump is going all in on it. On Tuesday morning Trump was asked about his vindictive and meritless persecution of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell. His response reveals just how devoted he is to – – – electing more Democrats?

Question: Sen. Thom Tillis says that the grand jury subpoena to the Federal Reserve chairman [Jerome Powell] was a little excessive. What do you think?
Trump: Well, that is why Thom is not going to be a Senator any longer, I guess. Right?. But I like Thom Tillis. He’s a nice guy. But he’s not gonna be a senator any longer because of views like that.

Q: “Sen. Thom Tillis says that the grand jury subpoena to the Federal Reserve chairman was a little excessive. What do you think?”Trump: “That is why Thom is not going to be a Senator any longer.”

— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2026-01-13T19:08:30.357Z

Trump’s reaction to news that a Republicans senator considers the probe by Trump’s “Justice” Department to be only “a little excessive,” is to celebrate the end of that senator’s political career. Which Democrats will surely appreciate. Tillis represents the purple state of North Carolina that currently has a popular Democratic governor, Josh Stein. Tillis isn’t running for reelection this year, but former Democratic governor Roy Cooper is running for that seat, and holds a substantial lead over his likely GOP opponent.

Trump went on to demonstrate his ignorance of economics by stating that…

“We have a bad Fed chairman. He’s bad in a lot of different ways. But he’s bad because his interest rates are too high. And today we had a great inflation report. And today we had a really great growth report. So we have great growth and low inflation. And we’re doing very well.”

First of all, the Fed chair is just one vote on the Board, so he alone does not determine the interest rates. And true to form, Trump is lying about how great recent economic reports are. However, more to the point, Trump’s analysis that a strong economy warrants lowering of interests is the exact opposite of proper fiscal policy. Interest rates are generally only lowered to juice an economy that is troubled. Doing so with a strong economy is more likely to trigger inflation.

As for Trump’s political analysis, his embrace of losing this incumbent Republican senator is just the start of his strategic foolishness. He also came out against five other GOP senators who had the audacity to vote against his aspirations for unilateral tyranny over American war powers. He commented on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social, that…

“Republicans should be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Todd Young should never be elected to office again.”

Trump’s opinion that these Republicans “should never be elected to office again” will be welcomed by Democrats, who only need to net four seats in order to become the majority. Flipping these five seats, along with Tillis, would do that with a two seat cushion. So once again, the more that Trump talks, the better things get for Democrats.

More Republicans are starting to defy Trump. Several recently did so to pass bills to extend the Obamacare subsidies, and to reign in his military aggressions. We are reaching a tipping point where the GOP are becoming more afraid of voters than they are of Trump. And the result of that will be that he lashes out more at members of his own party out of pure spite. And Democrats will be the beneficiaries.

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Does Trump’s Latest Truth Social Post Constitutionally Disqualify Him From Serving as President?

Posted by Mark NC on January 12, 2026 at 1:39 pm. 0 Comments :

The evidence that Donald Trump has committed an ever growing number of high crimes and misdemeanors that would justify his being impeached for the third time is abundant and readily available for all to see. He isn’t even bothering to disguise it anymore, or to excuse it as inappropriate for an aspiring authoritarian like himself.

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Trump’s recent impeachable escapades include his invasion of Venezuela, his investigation of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, his illegal and inflationary tariffs, his targeting Democratic led states for funding cuts, his failing to release the Epstein files, his conducting business with foreign, adversarial governments, hid selling pardons, his suppressing free speech and the freedom of the press, and too many more to enumerate. It’s a record that illustrates just how dangerous he is to American national security.

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On Sunday night Trump posted a comment on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, that may be his most blatant breach of presidential ethics yet, and poses a real question about whether he can continue to serve in the office of the presidency. What he posted was a graphic in which he declared himself to be the “Acting President of Venezuela.”

Trump posts that he’s “Acting President of Venezuela”

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-12T01:25:18.958Z

That declaration poses a troubling constitutional problem for Trump. Not that he cares. But Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, of the Constitution (within the Emoluments Clause) states that…

“No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State”.

By declaring himself the acting president of Venezuela, Trump is accepting a “Title” from a foreign state. That’s a crystal clear example of the sort of conflict of interest that the Founding Fathers sought to prohibit when they drafted the Constitution. Trump’s coronation of himself as Venezuela’s president implies accepting a foreign office “without the Consent of the Congress.” And accepting such a foreign role under those circumstances could make him constitutionally ineligible to continue in U.S. office.

The questions of where Trump’s loyalties lie are inescapable. He is already claiming to be taking over Venezuela’s oil industry and he posted that “This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me.” Which isn’t exactly a pledge of allegiance to America.

Technically the Emoluments Clause does not trigger an automatic removal from office. but it does present legitimate grounds for impeachment. Trump cannot reasonably perform the duties of the president of Venezuela while occupying the White House here at home. Hell, he can’t perform the duties of president of the United States even without the added burden of Venezuela.

Trump either needs to resign one of those offices, get an approval from Congress, or be removed involuntarily. The latter could be accomplished by either impeachment or the invocation of the 25th Amendment. But that would require a combination of courage and patriotism on the part of Congress. And that isn’t going to happen without pressure from the people. So once again, we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. 8647! NOW!

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Herr Trump Is Trying to Quash the Netflix Deal to Buy Warner Bros as a Favor to His Oligarch Pals

Posted by Mark NC on January 11, 2026 at 3:34 pm. 0 Comments :

The boots of Donald Trump – swollen cankles, bone spurred feet and all – are once again stomping down on matters where they don’t belong. They have already trampled on everything from the Kennedy Center, to the Caribbean shores of Venezuela, to American cities with Democratic leaders that he regards as “the enemy within.”

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The latest victim of Trump’s tromping is the pending merger of media giants Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) and Netflix. The WBD board has already accepted the bid from Netflix that it deemed superior to the one by the Paramount-Skydance conglomerate. But unsatisfied with not having having his tiny thumb pressed firmly into the pie, Trump is openly lobbying against Netflix. That wouldn’t be because his friends David and Larry Ellison are the owners of Paramount and have promised to make make changes that Trump wants, would it?

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Setting aside the fact that it is both legally and ethically improper for Trump to interfere with the business affairs of these companies in a free market economy, Trump’s favoritism is transparently biased and aimed at benefitting himself and his wealthy comrades. On Sunday he posted a comment on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, that said simply “Stop the Netflix Cultural Takeover.” The post linked to an article disparaging the pending merger on the ultra right-wing website, One America News Network (OAN), by disgraced attorney John M. Pierce. The article said that…

“Netflix’s bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is not simply another Hollywood deal. It is an attempt to consolidate unprecedented cultural power inside one of America’s most ideologically aggressive corporations — a company that has repeatedly used its global platform to elevate progressive narratives while suppressing dissenting viewpoints.”

That is, to use a technical term, bullshit! There is no evidence that Netflix has any political ideology, much less one that is “aggressive” and is “suppressing dissenting viewpoints.” That’s an opinion that even Trump disagrees with. Trump recently met with Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos in the Oval Office and came away saying that Sarandos is “fantastic” and that “I have a lot of respect for him. He is a great person.”

The article’s main argument against the Netflix/WBD merger is that it would would weaken competition. That’s true, But it’s just as true – if not worse – if WBD were to merge with Paramount. The article’s position that WBD accepted the Netflix bid due to some ideological bias is ridiculous. First of all because the Netflix bid is markedly better. Secondly because the real bias would be if the Trump regime forced Netflix to accept the bid from Paramount, whose owners are devoted Trump fluffers. Then the article claimed that…

“Handing this machine control over Warner’s franchises and future output would allow one company to rewrite characters, retell history, redefine social norms, and control which ideas reach audiences. […] It is time to say no to a woke media monopoly before the damage becomes impossible to reverse.”

For the record, Paramount would be the “machine” that could “control which ideas reach audiences.” It already owns Paramount Pictures, Paramount Television, CBS Entertainment, CBS News, Showtime, MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, TV Land, BET, Country Music Television, and 46 owned-and-operated TV stations across the country. Netflix is primarily a program producer and distributor. It doesn’t own any TV stations or, more importantly and unlike Paramount, any news networks.

Paramount has already demonstrated that it will bend the knee to Trump in its CBS News reporting. They recently censored CBS’ 60 Minutes, nixing a segment on the El Salvador gulag that Trump has been sending migrants to. They hired a right-wing blogger, Bari Weiss, to run their nightly news program with a decidedly more conservative bent. And they also canceled Stephen Colbert’s top rated late night comedy program. Just think what they would do if they acquired CNN, which is currently owned by Warner Bros and would be part of the merger with Paramount, but not with Netflix.

This would be a good time to examine the character of the OAN article’s author, John M. Pierce. He is an disreputable attorney with a long history of supporting Trump. He has been accused of making “threats against Department of Justice personnel.” And in September of 2021 NPR reported that…

“Pierce, a controversial lawyer with pro-Trump politics, has taken on more defendants related to the [January 6th] Capitol breach than any other attorney.”

[And that] “Court records from his divorce show that he has dealt with substance abuse and mental health problems for several years. His ex-wife has previously obtained two domestic violence restraining orders against him.”

That’s the caliber of author recruited by OAN to write this article attacking Netflix. And it’s why the article is so blatantly biased and counterfactual. There are some good reasons to oppose a WBD merger with either Netflix or Paramount. Corporate consolidation often harms both consumers and employees. But in this case the author leans heavily to one side, which invalidates his arguments entirely.

In the final analysis, Paramount would be far worse than Netflix as a partner for Warner Bros. It would cater to the whims of Trump, and deliver more conservative programming in both the entertainment and news divisions. And Trump’s cheerleading for Paramount is further proof of his bias and ignorance of proper conduct as president.

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Trump On Why He Can’t Be Trusted With Government Data: ‘When People Give Me Things I Post Them’

Posted by Mark NC on January 10, 2026 at 3:07 pm. 0 Comments :

One of the most peculiar and annoying things about any period of time when Donald Trump has occupied the white House, is that not a day – or an hour – goes by without him seeking to inject himself into the weary and unwilling minds of the American people. He unleashes a non-stop barrage of idiocy, anger, and self-exaltation in order to control his cult followers and satisfy his ego.

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Ironically, another consequence of that social vibe bombing is that Trump often exposes the underpinnings of his motives in a manner that undermines his own purposes. He literally admits what is evil about his intentions in the most public way possible. In many cases confessing his own ignorance. For instance…

SEE THIS: What Trump Admits He Doesn’t Know: 13 Examples of His Failing Mental Acuity – or Blatant Lying

On Friday Trump answered some questions from the press during a meeting with oil company executives on how they will profit from his taking over Venezuela. As usual, his inability to maintain focus on the issue at hand resulted in some detours into wholly unrelated matters. So naturally he weaved off course revealing more than any mentally stable person would want to. And he began with a real doozy, responding to Kaitlan Collins of CNN, who asked him about an inappropriately early release of economic data…

Collins: You posted some numbers on Truth Social last night. People are saying you posted the jobs data early when you’re obviously not supposed to share it until the next morning. Did you do that on purpose?
Trump: No, no. I don’t know. If they posted them, I said post them whenever you get a chance. I don’t know. They gave me some numbers. When people give me things, I post them. But the numbers are amazing.

REALLY? First Trump tries to claim ignorance. Then he veers off to make a bizarre excuse, saying that he routinely just posts what ever he is given. Which seems like a bad policy from a national security perspective. Maybe people should stop giving him things.

TRUMP: "When people give me things, I post them."That doesn't seem like a particularly good policy from a national security perspective. Maybe people should stop giving him things. #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-01-10T11:51:30.376Z

As for the jobs numbers being “amazing,” that’s another Trump claim that bears no resemblance to reality. There was a paltry 50,000 jobs created in December. And there were big downward revisions for the two months prior. In response to that, Trump’s National Economic Council Director, Kevin Hassert, said that the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) numbers are not reliable. Never mind that Trump had fired the career BLS officials five months ago and installed his own people. So he’s insulting Trump’s chosen analysts. Maybe it isn’t really the numbers’ fault.

What’s more, the reason there isn’t a new BLS director is that the one that Trump tried to appoint was so unqualified, and a downright despicable person, that he couldn’t get confirmed by the GOP Senate and Trump withdrew the nominee. Hassert also claimed that “the unemployment rate went down quite a bit.” It went down from 4.5% to 4.4%. Which may have been due to holiday season hiring, and more people leaving the workforce.

After yet another bad jobs report, Trump's National Economic Council Director says the BLS numbers are not reliable.Trump fired the career BLS officials 5 months ago and installed his own people. And they still aren't reporting reliable numbers? Maybe it's not the numbers' fault.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T18:22:17.798Z

Trump also addressed his preposterous obsession with occupying Greenland. The reason he offered up was tacked onto an open threat…

Trump: I would like to make a deal the easy way. But if we don’t do it the easy way, we’ll do it the hard way….But the fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn’t mean they own the land. I’m sure we had lots of boats go there also.

WTF? "The fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago does not mean they own the land," could apply to the U.S. #TrumpIsAnIdiot

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-01-10T11:53:21.414Z

Of course we – the U.S. – did not have “lots of boats” go to Greenland 500 years ago, because there was no “we” at the time. Trump went on to brazenly lie that “if you take a look outside of Greenland right now” you’ll see Russian and Chinese destroyers “all over the place” who are going to occupy Greenland “if we don’t.” So he’s admitting to wanting to occupy Greenland. The easy way, or the hard way.

Furthermore, Trump’s argument that Denmark has no jurisdiction over Greenland just because they had a boat land there is more than a little odd. Because it could just as easily apply to the United States who had a boat land in the “New World” about 500 years ago (1492). So we don’t own that?

Remember, this was a meeting with oil executives on the future of Venezuela. But Trump also wandered off to threaten Iran, where there is an uprising against the ruling regime. He warned that if they “start shooting, we’ll start shooting too.” So he’s threatening to start yet another war? This isn’t gonna help his campaign for a Nobel Peace prize.

Trump warns Iran that if they "start shooting, we'll start shooting too."On the other hand, Trump's pal Putin in Russia has been killing tens of thousands of civilians in Ukraine, but he is going to sell them Venezuela's oil to further fuel their slaughter,

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-01-10T11:58:19.576Z

Trump’s feigned concern that Iranian protesters might get killed is curious considering that his pal Vladimir Putin in Russia has been killing tens of thousands of civilians in Ukraine for three years. But Trump’s punishment for that is that he will sell them Venezuela’s oil to further fuel their slaughter.

Finally, Trump told the New York Times that the only limit on his power, the only thing that can stop him, is “My own morality. My own mind. [and that] I don’t need international law.” And that’s another admission of his deranged, authoritarian aspirations. Which he has made a point of admitting in many ways – overt and covert – for several years. And his cowardly, sycophantic Republicans, along with the MAGA media, still seem to be fine with it.

Trump says that the only limit on his power, the only thing that can stop him, is "My own morality. My own mind."For the Record: #Trump has no morality. He's a malignant narcissist whose 80 year old mind is severely impaired. And admits that he only "consults" with himself.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T18:08:22.012Z

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Fox News Senior Misogynist Says Women Are ‘Little Creatures’ Who Shouldn’t Be Taken Seriously

Posted by Mark NC on January 9, 2026 at 3:17 pm. 0 Comments :

The Fox News roster of hosts and correspondents has always been a confederacy of liars and Olympic-grade ignorati. They faithfully carry out the network’s primary mission of pumping up Donald Trump and the Republican Party. And they do it on a daily basis with the emotional maturity of a delinquent seven year old.

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Generally the Foxies are pushing ultra conservative propaganda in support of the right-wing’s vile and exclusionary political agenda. But they also disseminate vicious and insulting cultural dogma aimed at maligning Democrats and liberals and anyone they regard as “woke.” And perhaps the worse purveyor of that rancid bullshittery is Jesse Watters.

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On Thursday’s episode of Fox’s “The Five.” Watters had something he needed to get off his chest about women. And true to form, it was unflinchingly contemptuous and chock full of hate. He led it off as if it were a criticism of men, saying that…

“Here’s the problem with guys: They take women too seriously. You don’t really listen to these women. They will say things. Just goes in one ear and out the other. We are toxic? Here is a drink, babe. That’s done. They love that. They are beautiful little creatures. We just have to adore them and shower them with love and attention. That is really all they want…You love attention and drinks.”

HOLY CRAP! Jesse Watters says that women are "little creatures" who only want "attention" and shouldn't be taken "too seriously."

And Fox News gives this misogynistic cretin a primetime show? https://t.co/CeHIobzoce

— News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) January 9, 2026

You have to wonder how the “little creatures” at the table with him – and those watching at home – felt about that description. He believes that women are brain dead wind-up dolls that can be – and should be – manipulated by flattery and alcohol. Which shouldn’t surprise anyone who remembers that Watters slashed the tires of a much younger former coworker to get her take a ride home with him. He later left his wife and children to marry her.

It is particularly offensive for Watters to express these despicable thoughts at time when a couple of profoundly troubling stories are in the news that involve women. There are the files of child sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, that Watters has defended Trump for refusing to release. And there is the ICE agent who murdered a young mother, that Watters believes deserved to be killed, despite the video evidence that she posed no threat.

The views that Watters expressed are consistent with those of many other men at Fox News. Their former president, Roger Ailes, was fired for sexual harassment. So was their biggest star, Bill O’Reilly. Even Trump’s current Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, had an inappropriate relationship with a younger Fox co-worker, which eventually broke up his marriage to his second wife.

It’s fair to say that a pattern is apparent. And that pattern fits the example made by Trump, the Pussy-Grabber-In-Chief. It seems like sexual misconduct is a prerequisite to work for either Trump or Fox News. It would be nice if the women there – particularly those on the same show as Watters – would speak out against that gross behavior. Because he surely doesn’t deserve the platform he’s exploiting to disparage women while he’s spewing partisan political nonsense.

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Fox News Hack Jesse Watters Criteria Justifying ICE Killing US Citizens is Insane and Dangerous

Posted by Mark NC on January 8, 2026 at 12:18 pm. 1 Comments :

In the aftermath of the horrendous murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis, the Trump regime has been spinning furiously to justify the shooting by an ICE officer of a U.S. citizen who posed no threat to him or anyone else.

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The arguments by the Trumpists are wholly removed from the reality that everyone can see for themselves in the videos of the incident. They are asserting that Good is a “radical leftist” who deliberately “ran over” the ICE officer and put him in the hospital. None of which is true. And the the chief dispenser of these gaslighting lies was, of course, Donald Trump himself.

SEE THIS: Trump Weighs In On the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis With a Flurry of Blatant Lies

On Wednesday night Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News, went all in on support for the regime’s dishonest misrepresentations of what occurred. That’s to be expected from a network that exists only to back up Trump and the Republican Party. However, Fox’s Senior Doofus, Jesse Watters, went farther than many of his lying colleagues. He enumerated what he thinks are the criteria to justify the regime’s police thugs murder of United States citizens…

Jesse Watters: “The woman who lost her life was a self-proclaimed poet from Colorado with pronouns in her bio. A 37-year-old White woman named Renee Good. The Daily Mail says she leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage. She was a disruptor, though she considered herself a legal observer. But there’s no evidence she had a law degree.”

Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-08T03:49:34.494Z

Get it? In order to be executed by the police in Trump’s America, all you need to be is one or more of the following…

A poet.
A user of pronouns.
A lesbian.
A single parent.
A legal observer.

That criteria, of course, would put millions of Americans at risk for extrajudicial killings. And it doesn’t matter if they had committed any crime. Your death would be instantly validated by the heads of the law enforcement agencies, the Justice Department, the FBI, and even by the president.

The grotesque callousness of that position is hard to comprehend. Watters himself is “guilty” of some of those criteria. He has children from a prior marriage. And he has used pronouns many times.

In recent developments, Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, has announced that the investigation of the shooting will conducted solely by the FBI. She has explicitly forbidden the state from participating. That is highly unusual as these sort of investigations are almost always done jointly. This stinks of the regime plotting out a way to cover up the crimes of the officer, or others at the scene of the crime.

How can anyone take the results of such a probe seriously. It would be coming from the same people who insisted that Haitians in Ohio were eating cats and dogs. They are proven liars and flagrant racists. But this is where we are today as Trump and his cronies try to remake America in their perverse image.

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Trump Weighs In On the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis With a Flurry of Blatant Lies

Posted by Mark NC on January 7, 2026 at 1:53 pm. 1 Comments :

On Wednesday morning a horrific, yet predictable, tragedy took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Donald Trump had just deployed his latest brigade of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to harass and intimidate peaceful protesters. The result was a shooting that left an innocent woman dead.

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Trump’s goon squads are notoriously untrained and ill-prepared for the duties they are being asked to perform. Consequently, when a situation arises that calls for calm and expertise, it rapidly escalates into a catastrophe where citizens are the sad victims of the violence perpetrated by alleged law enforcement personnel. And it’s particularly disturbing that a new example of this has occurred the day after the five year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection where Trump’s supporters stormed the United States Capitol, causing great harm and sending 140 police officers to the hospital

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The incident in Minneapolis involved a woman driver who was approached by an ICE officer and ordered to get out of her car. Fearing for her safety, she tried to drive away. Whereupon the officer shot her point blank through her window, killing her.

For what? She had not committed any crime. She was not threatening the officers. There was literally no valid reason for the use of deadly force. But that didn’t stop Trump’s Homeland Security flunky, Kristi Noem, from getting in front of the nearest flank of media cameras to spread some deliberate disinformation, and labeling the deceased woman a “domestic terrorist.”

It didn’t take long for Trump to offer his opinion of what happened, And to no one’s surprise, he spewed an elaborate litany of lies in the comment that he posted to his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth social. He said that…

“I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.”

Every word of that is, to use the technical term, “BULLSH*T.” To break down Trump’s lies…

While there were citizen witnesses nearby who were screaming that ICE officers. the woman who was shot cannot be heard screaming at all.
There is no evidence that she was a “professional agitator.” In fact, there are reports that she was a legal observer.
She was not driving in a “disorderly” manner.
She was neither obstructing nor resisting, which isn’t relevant because she was not under arrest.
She clearly did not “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer.” He was standing unharmed at the side of the vehicle after the shooting.
There can be no claim of self defense since she had no weapon and was not using the car as one either.

However, Trump’s raging dishonesty had only just begun. He continued saying that…

“Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital.”

Once again, that is utterly and flagrantly false. The officer was not hit by the car. Neither was anyone else. Not even close. If he went to the hospital it could only be as a tactic to be able to later make a false claim of injury. Contrary to Trump’s babbling, his own video that he attached to the comment shows that the officer was off to the side of the vehicle immediately after he fired. The vehicle then coasted to a collision with a parked car. Here is a better video of the incident…

Video of the ICE shooting Minneapolis shows that they murdered an innocent woman who posed no threat to them whatsoever. She was driving away.What a horrible tragedy. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blatantly lied about it. She and the officer must be prosecuted!

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-01-07T19:58:43.026Z

The officer was not only standing unharmed after the shooting, but he quickly walked away, without any sign of injury, and fled the scene in another vehicle. That is not standard operating procedure at a crime scene. What was he afraid of? Was he ordered to get out of there in order to effect the cover up?

Trump closed his comment by blaming the victim, and lying that the left is responsible for violent rhetoric and actions. Which in untrue, and was proven to be untrue in a report by Trump’s own “Justice” Department. Although they tried, and failed, to destroy that report. He continued saying that…

“The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!”

Trump’s version of “studying” any situation is just a means of manufacturing lies to make himself look good, and to cover up his crimes. And his commitment to law enforcement officers can be seen in his pardons for 1,500 rioters, many of whom were convicted of assaulting the police. The fact that he rushed to judgment in this case is further proof of his rank disrespect for the law and the office that he holds. Hopefully the poor woman who needlessly lost her life, and her family, will get justice in the days and weeks ahead.

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Fox News Flunkies that Once Condemned Trump’s January 6th Rioters Have Totally Abandoned Reality

Posted by Mark NC on January 6, 2026 at 2:40 pm. 0 Comments :

It has now been five years since Donald Trump incited a mob of rioters to storm the United States Capitol, causing millions of dollars in damage, and sending 140 police officers to the hospital, five of whom died. All in a treasonous effort to undermine Democracy and overturn the results of a free and fair election.

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That day is a black mark on American history that is recalled by patriots with sorrow, anger, and shame. And it was made all the worse when glassy-eyed voters with short-term memory loss returned Trump to the White House last year. The result has been more horrendous than even the most pessimistic advocates of democracy predicted. For instance…

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Immediately following the events of January 6, 2021, most of the nation was appalled and stricken by the audacity of Trump and his out of control supporters that he refused to call back for more than three hours. There was nearly unanimous condemnation of the lawlessness and violence that the StormTrumpers engaged in. And remarkably, that was even true of Trump’s fawning sycophants on Fox News.

On this solemn anniversary it is a good time look back on some of the most striking examples of hypocrisy by the Fox News propagandizers. Let’s begin with one that came from Fox’s Greg Gutfeld, who unleashed a stirring rebuke of the rioting Trumpists. On his afternoon program the following day, “The Five,” Gutfeld said that…

“What pisses me off is what happened yesterday. We’re supposed to be the gate against the barbarians. and yesterday we looked like the barbarians. And it doesn’t help anybody. But you will not see Republicans bailing out those who were arrested. See, that is a vital contrast. And Americans know this. Americans do not need lectures from hypocrites.”

just a reminder of the initial, in the moment, right wing reaction to jan 6 my favorite is greg gutfeld saying republican condemnation of the jan 6 rioters is an example of their moral superiority over the leftwww.mediamatters.org/media/4018641

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) 2026-01-06T14:58:55.879Z

Seriously? Gutfeld exploited the tragedy to lavish praise on his fellow right-wingers for being so adamantly devoted to peaceful protests and the rule of law. He presented that as a criticism of Democrats who he asserted were less respectful of those principles.

However, it was Trump who later did “bail out those who were arrested,” and even convicted after pleading guilty to charges ranging from assaulting the police to seditious conspiracy. In fact, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 of them indiscriminately. And Gutfeld has never bothered to revisit his remarks of January 7th. Instead, he has reverted to the standard Fox News stance of gushing adulation of Trump.

Gutfeld, though, was not alone. Pretty much the entire Fox News roster was critical of the Trump insurrectionists. But today they are slathering the same sugary sappiness on Trump, and excusing him and his marauding hoards of any wrongdoing. Media Matters compiled some of the commentaries from Fox Newsers before they they fell back into their state of Trump worship…

Sean Hannity: “All of today’s perpetrators must be arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
Laura Ingraham: “But those who breached the Capitol Hill security today, whoever they were, they were criminals.”
Jesse Watters: “You can’t smash windows, spray police with chemical agents, assault police officers, loot, and vandalize.”
Mark Levin: “What they did was criminal. I want to know who these people are. I want to know if they’re going to be charged. Because they should be. They broke the law. What they did was criminal.”
Jeanine Pirro: “The actions at the United States Capitol three days ago were deplorable, reprehensible, outright criminal.”

Today, all but one of those people are still on the air at Fox News. And each and every one of them have dispensed of all of those opinions that the rioters were criminals. The one no longer with Fox, Jeanine Pirro, is now Trump’s U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

For his part, Trump has sought to persecute everyone involved with bringing the January 6th rioters to justice. He has fired the prosecutors and prosecuted members of Congress. And on this anniversary Trump posted a timeline of the day’s events that is wholly removed from reality. In a blatant rewriting of history, Trump’s website states that the protesters were peaceful, that it was the police who escalated the violence, and that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him.

As we remember the horror of that day, we must also be conscious of the future. Trump wanted to violate the law in order to cling to power five years ago. And he still wants that today. In a speech to Republicans he fantasized about running for a third and, far more troubling, canceling the upcoming elections. So we have been warned. And we must be prepared to defend American democracy. Because Trump and Co. are preparing to terminate it.

Trump fantasizes about canceling elections. And he admits that the only reason he won't say that is because the press will call him a dictator.Not because it's grossly unconstitutional and undemocratic. #TrumpIsADictator

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-01-06T20:09:34.828Z

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Fox News Finally Admits that Republicans Have No Healthcare Plan, Then Blames it on Democrats

Posted by Mark NC on January 5, 2026 at 2:32 pm. 0 Comments :

From its inception thirty years ago, the mission of Fox News has been to promote the Republican Party and its right-wing principles. With the advent of a populist cult leader in Donald Trump, Fox News adjusted their role from political ally to glassy-eyed loyalists, performing the function of Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda.

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Fox News isn’t just an arm of the MAGA media machine, it actually employs Trump’s Daughter-in-lawlessness, Lara Trump, as a primetime weekend program host. That’s just one example of how closely Trump and Fox are intertwined. More examples are readily available. Such as how Fox News gushes over the alleged physical and mental superiority of Trump, despite all the evidence that both are in severe decline.

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However, the latest example of how devotional Fox News is toward their Dear Leader came in Monday’s episode of Trump’s favorite Fox News morning show, Fox and Friends. In a segment intended to bash Democrats for not supporting Trump’s illegal war against Venezuela, co-host Brian Kilmeade, detours to the valid criticism of Trump that he isn’t paying attention to the things that matter most to the American people. And high on that list is the crisis over healthcare availability and affordability. Unfortunately for Kilmeade, his strategy just affirms how out of touch the GOP is. And how dishonest Fox News is.

Kilmeade: “I have news for you. The Republicans don’t have a health care program. They can’t have a crisis. It’s your program that’s in crisis. And you can, as a president, have a foreign policy and a domestic policy.”

Brian Kilmeade: “I have news for you. The Republicans don't have a health care program. They can't have a crisis.”

— Media Matters for America (@mmfa.bsky.social) 2026-01-05T16:51:31.766Z

Okay then. Democrats have long denounced the Republican Party for not having a healthcare plan. The GOP has raged about the Democrat’s Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) for fifteen years, promising to repeal and replace it. But in all that time they have never managed to deliver an alternative. Nevertheless, they insisted that they were ready to go forward with their imaginary plan that they assured was better and cheaper. If only it existed.

Kilmeade then concluded that the GOP’s lack of a healthcare plan means that any healthcare crisis is therefore the fault of Democrats. WTF? It is Republicans who have tried to hobble Obamacare which, by the way, is broadly popular with the majority of the American people across political lines.

Kilmeade also points to Democrats and says that “It’s your program that’s in crisis.” No it’s not! It’s the people’s program. And it’s Republicans who are deliberately putting it in crisis by refusing to extend the premium subsidies, without which costs will double or triple or worse. But to Fox News that’s the Democrats’ fault? Also, Kilmeade says that a president can “have a foreign policy and a domestic policy.” That’s true. And Trump has neither.

This is familiar behavior by Republicans. They can’t take responsibility for anything. They currently control the House, the Senate, the presidency, and the Supreme Court, but still say that Democrats are to blame for the hardships being thrust on the nation that is being governed by Republicans.

Fortunately, later this year there will be an election that looks to be trending in favor of the Democrats. And when they have the upper hand, they will show Republicans, and the nation, that progress can be made when you have the people’s interests at heart, and the intelligence and compassion to act on their behalf. Rather than the GOP cowards who are beholden only to Herr Trump.

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Trump Didn’t Notify Congress of His Venezuela Attack to Avoid Media Leaks – Then He Leaked It

Posted by Mark NC on January 4, 2026 at 2:42 pm. 1 Comments :

There are many enemies plotting to destroy Donald Trump and his MAGA movement. At least in his sickly mind. That sort of paranoia frequently accompanies the symptoms of malignant narcissism that he clearly suffers from. It creates a psychotic loop of mental impairment that feeds on its own perversity.

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Chief among Trump’s perceived enemies is the media. Although it’s a complex love/hate relationship wherein he despises the very same free press whose attention he lusts after. What he calls “the enemy of the people” is also his best friend. And he milks it relentlessly in a futile attempt to juice his standing in the polls.

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In the latest episode of the daily Trump soap opera, “Days of Our Lies,” we find our star lashing out manically at those who he is convinced are fiendishly conspiring against him. Following his illegal attack on Venezuela, and the kidnapping of its nefarious and illegitimate head of state, Nicholas Maduro, Trump was asked by the press about why he failed to comply with the law that requires him to inform Congress and get their consent before conducting such an operation. He replied that “Congress has a tendency leak. This would not be good.”

First of all, there is zero evidence of any such tendency by Congress. Particularly the members of the “Gang of 8” leaders of relevant committees. And secondly, that wouldn’t be a valid reason to violate a law that is spelled out in the Constitution. If any president could simply ignore the Constitution simply by claiming that complying with it would be inconvenient, then what good would the Constitution be? “Sorry,” President Waterboard might say, “But if we don’t torture a confession out of that suspect he might not be convicted.”

What makes Trump’s remarks all the worse is that, after whining about leaks that didn’t happen he, or someone in his regime, actually leaked information about the Venezuela operation to the press. As reported by Semafor…

“The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops, two people familiar with the communications between the administration and the news organizations said.

“The decisions in the New York and Washington newsrooms to maintain official secrecy is in keeping with longstanding American journalistic traditions.”

So the Trump regime told two national news organizations about the Venezuela mission in advance, but withheld that information from the people’s representatives in Congress, who he is required by law to tell. And they weren’t even news organizations that were predictably pro-Trump, such as Fox News or Newsmax. So why would he spill to the New York Times and the Washington Post? Perhaps to get some positive press in the aftermath of the attack. Semafor also noted that…

“Trump celebrated Maduro’s capture in a phone interview with The New York Times at 4:30 a.m. Saturday,” [and that] “the Washington Post editorial board came out strongly in favor of the move, praising the Trump administration’s decisiveness and declaring the move a ‘major victory for American interests.'”

That makes sense since Trump already knew that MAGA media like Fox News was already going to report nice things about anything he does. And while the Times and the Post have been trending rightward, they might be encouraged if he threw them a juicy scoop.

Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, completed the contradictory stance by the Trumpists that the media couldn’t be trusted. In fact, he admitted that the media are trustworthy custodians of sensitive info. He told George Stephanopoulos of ABC’s This Week (another non-MAGA news outlet) that…

“Frankly, a number of media outlets had gotten leaks that this was coming and held it for that very reason. And we thank them for doing that or lives could’ve been lost.”

So not only are they not distrustful of the press, they are thanking the media for their integrity and patriotism. Which is a measure of respect that they wouldn’t afford to members of Congress, despite their legal obligations. Yet they will still bash the press and Congress because they believe it earns them political points to do so. And then they will do whatever the heck they want, because that’s how authoritarians roll.

UPDATE: Trump didn’t tell Congress about the attack on Venezuela, but he did tell the oil companies. So it really was all about oil after all. And that is, by definition, the behavior of a fascist oligarchy.

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