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Yah, okay. Trump is mucked up.

ESPECIALLY in his ideas of deporting illegal invaders and putting tariffs on one-way "Free Trade" policies.

The Party Line of Defenders Of The Status Quo, duly noted.
 
If it's really Total Chaos, it's because the cause has been the cause, for more than three months.
 
searcher said:
This is from one of my radio sources. In my opinion it's worth 6 minutes of your time. jm2c

Message to My American Viewers​

Mar 4, 2025
Making videos has become difficult for me.

6:28
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Update. Have to give this guy credit. Takes some guts to post this and he has nothing to gain. Just expressing his own views / opinions.

Special Message to All My Viewers and Subscribers​

Apr 22, 2025

My subscribership more than doubled after I posted a short unusual video that went viral. If you are one of these new subscribers, I want you to understand that my channel is really about fixing old tube radios. If you are a long time subscriber, be assured I will continue to post radio videos nearly every day as I have been doing for over ten years. I will post the occasional 'stand and deliver' video where I talk about Canada-US relations.

7:43
 

Trump Is Attempting to Use Wartime Powers in the United States​

Immediately after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed an “invasion” and invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Under that law, the Roosevelt administration held more than 31,000 non–U.S. citizens of Japanese, German, and Italian descent in internment camps over the course of World War II. The great majority of them were detained as “dangerous” enemy aliens, a designation made by the government based primarily on their citizenship or place of birth and without anything approaching due process of law.

Today, we are seeing alarming echoes of this history. Deported under the same statute, a group of 137 Venezuelan immigrants is being held indefinitely in a Salvadoran prison notorious for human-rights abuses. Although the Trump administration claims that they are members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang, they have had no hearing to test that claim. The government has conceded in court filings that “many” of those removed under the Alien Enemies Act “have no criminal record in the United States”; some appear to have been targeted at least in part for having common tattoos, such as roses or crowns.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin...S&cvid=f67b99261b3e47cfa0cfe78e2411b5be&ei=15
 
This one is an opinion piece by The Lord's Servant........DJ Manning (aka the righteous one.) Take it fwiw and definitely dyodd.

When MAGA Wakes Up​

Apr 24, 2025

6:26
 
I watched the first half of it, and jumped through the rest.

What he's saying, is essentially an argument for MAGA. Yes, most of us all know of Globalism, and how government Mission Creep on the WOT led to military adventurism by the little-penii people in two fraudulent Administrations.

What is the cure? Me, I think it's obvious, twofold - and impossible, political.

First SEAL THE BORDERS. No goods, no people. Severely limit - AND ENFORCE - tourist visas.

Second, CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT. CLARIFY the President's power over use of military (for force or any other purpose). STRICT requirements that any response to a sudden situation, need be APPROVED by a floor vote of Congress.

And, secondarily, we need term limits, and clarify States' rights to prosecute Congressional insider-trading stawk-millionaires.

None of these are going to happen.
 
60 Minutes Australia

Mastermind or madman? Inside Donald Trump's return to the White House | 60 Minutes Australia​

Apr 29, 2025
Donald Trump's first 100 days as US President have shaken the world, but what does he have planned next?

44:57
 

The Veto With No Override

<p>As often happens when you only have a half-hour and there's 50 different news items to discuss <em>keeping the focus in one place is nearly impossible.</em> Such as it is with Chief
market-ticker.org
 
Rolling Stone

Trump, Who Owes His Freedom To Due Process, Is Destroying It for Everyone Else​

Donald Trump owes his continued freedom - and very likely his second term as president - to the fact that he was allowed to exploit the fundamental American right and hard-won tradition of due process, which is designed to protect an individual from arbitrary, weaponized prosecution and state terror.

But as he celebrates his 100th day back in the Oval Office, Trump and his administration are working overtime to ensure that those very same due process rights are gutted or taken away from everyone who is not named Donald John Trump.

Trump has already shipped hundreds of immigrants, without due process, to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. And he's argued several times now on social media that America simply cannot give everyone a trial, no matter what the Fifth Amendment says. The irony would be comical, if it weren't so lawless and sick.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...S&cvid=ae3c3191f04843939ae60f7ab67b0cfb&ei=32
 
Nothing special, just an opinion piece I thought interesting. Take it fwiw and dyodd.

Do You Believe In Magic?

In our fragile society, what other hope is there?
aurelien2022.substack.com
 
Interesting, at least at first.

The writer seems to be arguing that government should not simply set the conditions - not just simply provide law and order, sound money, clear and just laws on corporate responsibility and ownership - but should "do something." He mocks Thatcher and the Conservatives; and calls Trump's tariff plans "incomprehensible."

Maybe they are, to him.

How many MOAR times do we need to see what activist government can "do"? Given the mindset of government apparatchiks, contemptuous of those under them; given how government programs are NOT dependent on profit/loss constraints and often work with unlimited finances; given the twisted worldview and moral bankruptcy of today's modern Power Elites...what we see is not Great Works but Plandemics, Final Solutions, Great Leaps Forward, and Five-Year Plans.

I can do without all of that. If there is no driving force of profit, in a project, then it's probable the people it is intended for, do not want it. Like, say, EV Mandates, or ethanol in gasoline, or the Internet of Things. Or CBDCs. Those are things government is "doing" - not to help us, but doing TO us.
 
Yes, many of the Congressclowns are sick in the head.

Another demented sufferer of terminal TDS.
 
The typical Mind-Control tactic is to get the Stupids to react, Pavlov-style, to the photos and the mindless emotion such as Neil Young wanted to wallow in.

Anyone who's bothered by Kent State...I urge, to dig. Deeply. Focus on what the Ohio National Guard was doing that month, JUST prior to deployment at Kent.

And try to learn what the "protest" movement was up to, prior to various Weathermen agitators whipping things up with exhausted, angry NG troops.

Read, for example, the already-planned Incident Control strategy the Kent Chamber of Commerce had in place. It was commonsense, if a little bit not-PC. The first strategy was for the bars and clubs of downtown Kent to just offer free draft beer to any demonstrators, potential demonstraters...anyone. It was to immediately diffuse things - and two nights prior to the shooting, it did work.

The protesters quickly quaffed the free beer, while a city crew, working at midnight, was replacing a burned-out stoplight unit. In a cherry-picker - and a drunk driver hit the truck, leaving an employee hanging off the cable the traffic light was on. Three "rioters" improvised a rescue, involving a tall stepladder and a pickup truck someone had, and got the city worker down safely. To a round of applause by kids who were minutes earlier, preparing a riot.

Have another beer, peeps.

Kent State was caused, in the end, by two factors: IMPROPER actions by the State government - calling in the NG troops (Gov. James Rhodes wanted to make a show of keeping the campus open) when the Highway Patrol had both authority (State property) and training (Riot Control was a new aspect of their duties, and they had been trained only months earlier). That the outside agitators provoked the NG troops, was to be expected. It's what they DO. Those who cannot build, must destroy.

The second factor was, Rhodes' reluctance to just close the campus - the way California state campuses were closed when the same series of threats of violence, emerged. Lock them down, send the brats home, let the parents deal with their problem children.

FWIW, the coed kneeling over a prone body there...she was not a student. She was a 17-year-old runaway who was crashing with some hippies in the Kent area, and had come out to see the sights.
 
Title made me smile. Kinda what I believe anymore. It's become a show.

Stop worrying, America. Just keep watching The Trump Show​


A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.

On Tuesday’s episode of the Donald Trump reality TV show, the president of the United States teased “a very, very big announcement… like, as big as it gets” in the coming days.

“I won’t tell you on what, but it’s… very positive,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “It’ll be one of the most important announcements that have been made in many years about a certain subject, a very important subject.”

He initially hinted that it may be a trade deal, but also said it may not be a trade deal. Later, speaking at a Milken Institute event, Trump said, “It’s not about trade…it’s going to be a truly earth-shattering and positive development for this country.”

So, not a trade deal. But it’s big. And it’s coming soon. This Thursday or Friday. Or Monday, Trump said.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...S&cvid=d29db9400b1348ab82e10c66e7fe1f57&ei=18
 
More of a rant than anything else. I found it interesting but ymmv depending on how you look at things. Serfs up......(cannon fodder and more)

Your government will hide behind civilians (you)​

22:50
 
Opinion piece from The Atlantic. Take it fwiw and dyodd.

The Disturbing Rise of MAGA Maoism​


China may well come to dominate the next century—because President Donald Trump is taking a page from the most famous Chinese leader of the previous one.

The United States remains the world’s preeminent soft power. It’s a financial and cultural juggernaut, whose entertainment and celebrities bestride the planet. But as an industrial power, the U.S. is not so much at risk of falling behind as it is objectively behind already. A recent essay in the journal Foreign Affairs by Rush Doshi and Kurt Campbell, both China experts who served in the Biden administration, made the case with alarming specificity. China makes 20 times more cement and 13 times more steel than the U.S. It makes more than two-thirds of the world’s electric vehicles, more than three-quarters of its electric batteries, 80 percent of its consumer drones, and 90 percent of its solar panels. China’s shipbuilding capacity is several orders of magnitude larger than America’s, and its navy will be 50 percent larger than the U.S. Navy by 2030.

More: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...S&cvid=b9d2fdbbf4b3407d8aa5843c9f622193&ei=28
 
Absolutely.

Freedom is slavery. MAGA is Maoism. Liberty is dangerous, and populist political movements, threaten democracy.

So says CNN and other media parrot-whores who repeat what they're paid to repeat.
 
This one will make you laugh (if you have a sense of humor)

 
searcher said:
This one will make you laugh (if you have a sense of humor)

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Sorry. I guess I'm humorless.

I get the pretend-grilling. Kennedy was establishing facts. It was obvious Patel, if he understood it, didn't much like it. Theatre, but IMHO, necessary.

But the answers were unsatisfactory. Some, the FBI Director cannot rectify - like the $2 million settlement to the two literal traitors after their EARNED dismissals.

To Epstein: Patel could have shown some independent thought there, if he has any.
 
No clue how true this is as of yet. Will be following and posting more as things surface.

 
The upcoming budget will add between $2.5T - $5T to the deficit! There was a congressman on Fox Business this morning and Maria tried to corner him about the spending. He replied they were finding some cuts, but overall the conflict between the House and Senate is causing the spending in order to get something passed.

That means fiscally nothing has changed, so keep buying PMs.
 
Podcast I think is interesting but ymmv.

You Don’t Know Until You Go: Views of the US From European Capitals​

Persistent reports indicate that the Trump Administration will de-emphasize the US commitment to European security in favor of an emphasis on defending the US homeland and shifting resources to the Indo-Pacific. This follows a long-running critique of America’s European allies for investing too little in their own defense, a critique that predates both Trump Administrations, but one that has gotten louder, especially in the second Trump Administration.

But what is the view in European capitals of the emerging US policy toward Europe, and what might its effects be on Transatlantic relations? To discuss these questions, Dr. Michael Neiberg of the US Army War College, recently returned from a visit to Estonia and Germany, joins Bob Hamilton on Chain Reaction.

 
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