Happy 250th

 

This is how the world sees the US under the Criminal President:

Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw shows the Statue of Liberty covering her eyes in shame in Roubaix, France. 

This is where we rate:

This is MAGA fascism:

Fox News personality and “Outnumbered” co-host Emily Compagno said this about James Talarico, the Democratic candidate in Texas for U.S. Senate.  “(Talarico) is not just some Democrat. This person is a demon in human skin."  

Trump's white supremacist, neo-Nazi "Patriot Front" in DC. Naturally they have a Confederate flag.

This is how fascists and tyrants rule.

This is MAGA racism:

This is MAGA corruption:

An anonymous MAGA racist had this to say, “Who really cares if he is a Racist or not As long as he’s a good president for the country.”

This is who, and what, they are.

This is MAGA hypocrisy:

This is MAGA oligarchy:

Much of the Declaration of Independence is relevant today:

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us...

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." – Declaration of Independence 

This is true patriotism and loyalty to our Constitution. Active-duty Air Force Major Jason Watson was arrested for protesting Trump. He is a hero, bravely taking a stand against the corrupt Criminal President and his authoritarian white nationalist regime. 

Major Watson should be the role model for all patriotic Americans. Trump and the entire MAGA cult is obsessed with punishing and inflicting pain on everyone they hate. The words that describe this extreme ideology are "fascism" and "evil".

Time to wake up and resist the evil, America. If you don't, it is finished.

MAGA = Racism...

 

 

…And sexism.

…And corruption.

...And crime.

...And greed.

...And cruelty.

No wonder they hate the "RINO" who dared to show some sanity. Thomas Massie observed, "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

Before the 2024 election the Criminal President and his allies spread the vicious racist lie that LEGAL Haitian immigrants were “eating the dogs in Springfield”. Despite the blatant racism, enough ignorant and racist Americans voted the criminal back into power. Can’t have no brown woman for a president now, can we?

On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 majority to allow the Department of Homeland Security to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for roughly 350,000 migrants from Haiti and Syria.

They have a higher employment rate than the general population, so they are clearly not hear to “take free money and handouts”. Corporations and billionaire oligarchs get most of that loot anyway.

Yeah, it’s the racism again. The “eating the dogs” smear was just setting the stage for the white nationalist purge and to keep punishing people of color. In case I haven’t made it clear by now, fascists are known by their extreme hate, racism, and eagerness to harshly punish anyone they hate. This is MAGA at its core.

A while back I wrote:

These are indeed the glory days for 21st Century American racists and “Christian” nationalists. Their white privileged minority rule has just become set in concrete; thanks to the serial criminal they TWICE installed into the Oval Office.

White Christian Nationalists have their racist criminal president. They own Congress. And they own the Supreme Court, abetted by their token black White Nationalist. They have won their decades-long engineered coup by taking control of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of our federal government.

These despicable racists deserve as much hate in return as they dish out. But I won’t play into it. Hating them does no good. Only justice will. Trump deserves to be in prison, as do his criminal cronies, murderous ICE thugs, and war criminals running the Pentagon. And speaking of justice, the six racist MAGA Supreme Court Justices have all committed impeachable offenses, from lying to Congress to accepting bribes from rich benefactors whom they side with in their cases brought before the Court.

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.

Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.

Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.

Got a problem with that? Then YOU should be in JAIL!

The Criminal President threatened our right to free speech and dissent with, "These people should be put in jail, the way they talk about our judges and our justices, trying to get them to sway their vote, sway their decision”.

The word for this is “tyranny”, folks. 

I won’t wallow in hate, but I will express my anger at racism and racists, at thugs and bullies, and at every Trump supporting racist, oligarch, and ignorant dupe. But I repeat myself.

I’m not wasting any more words. I’ll let others continue to get the message across.

Vance

 

Vice President Vance had the nerve to appear on the View. And that’s all the credit he deserves. He apparently left his integrity back in the green room, or what was left of it after he sold his soul to his oligarch sponsor Peter Theil and to the Criminal President.

Trump’s surrender to Iran and being shunned at the G7 summit the next day quickly overshadowed Vance’s grilling by the ladies hosting the show. The Criminal President told the world how he was making America great again. "Nobody plays rougher than the United States. Look, our elections are totally rigged. We have rigged elections." 

Vance came to the rescue:

Q: Colleagues that you served with in the U.S. Senate Republican Conference have criticized this deal. What is your message back to them? 

Vance: "Have a little faith in the President of the United States. The idea that he is going to strike a deal that's bad for the American people is preposterous."

Yes, indeed. Higher inflation, higher gas and food prices, and national humiliation is very good for the American people.

Whoopie Goldberg asked the vice president about the treatment of people of color in America, wondering what they’ve done to the Trump administration “that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color…When you see the Emmet Till stuff coming down and them doing all kinds of removal of information of Black heroes, how does that sit with you?”

After Vance pretended he didn’t understand the question, Sonny said, “I’m talking about Black history getting erased from public spaces, Black voter districts are being dismantled. Black leaders are being sidelined from our ranks. Where do Americans of color fit in this vision? Because it doesn’t seem like we fit.”

Anna Cabrera added the fact that white South Africans are almost all of the people allowed to immigrate, based on false “anti-white racism”.

Confronted by a panel with three women of color, the VP needed to play his "white victim card".

Vance falsely accused Whoopie, “You say that we’re anti-minority or anti-black.” 

Goldberg immediately corrected Vance. “No, I didn’t say that! I asked — see? Don’t start any stuff with me, man. Don’t get me in trouble.” 

He later repeated his white nationalist lie to Greg Gutfield, “I gotta say, I thought Sunny [Hostin], the woman to my left, was going to call me racist. In reality, it was Whoopi, the woman to my right, that called me racist. Expectations defied."

Vance was terrified of addressing the suppression of Black history and gerrymandering away their representation, let alone the re-glorification of Confederate generals. And never mind his boss always accuses Black women journalists of being “low IQ”.

Yes, they ARE a bunch of whitewashing racists, doing their best to erase Black American history. The Atlantic reports that Gen. Daniel "Chappie" James Jr. the first Black four-star general in American history has recently had his portrait quietly removed from the Pentagon. Yes, their message is Black history is too "woke" and nothing but unpatriotic "DEI".

As he did with questions on the Epstein files and the economy, Vance deflected from their suppression of Black history with another lie. “Look at Washington DC…it has seen a radical decrease in violent crime, sexual assaults, and in murders.”

This was his best cover line to show how much they cared for Black Americans.

The “radical decrease” actually started under Biden.

Homicides 2023: 274

Homicides 2024: 187 (87 fewer, 68.25%)

2024: 187 

2025: 127 (60 fewer, 32%)

2026 Year-to-Date Crime Comparison

As of June 17, 2026

Violent Crime Total      

2025: 1,227

2026: 1,204 (-2%)

Poor Vance didn’t have to wait long before his boss also put him in his place. After signing his surrender to Iran, Trump declared, “If the deal works, I'll take the credit. If it fails, I'll blame JD Vance.”

Birthday Rally

Will the outrage over this racist's remark be as widespread as it is over Graham Platner's tattoo? Probably not. EVERYTHING is OK for Republicans. Sorry, that's the Only Rule in America that matters.

A Marine who got a tattoo matching Platner's told Zeteo in June 2026 that he and Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner did not deliberately choose Nazi symbols, stating "We just got matching skull-and-crossbones tattoos that we thought looked cool."

He has since covered it.

To all the pearl-clutching voters who think Platner is a Nazi because he got a skull and crossbones tattoo as a drunk 23 year-old, I politely ask, “What makes him a Nazi? 

Did he praise Hitler? Does he hate Jews and Blacks? Does he praise the Criminal President and his J6 thugs? Does he hate liberals? Is he a racist? Does he want non-violent people and minorities in concentration camps? Is he even pro-ICE?

Their reaction was quite similar to Trumpists when asked for evidence Trump lost a rigged election in 2020. They had nothing but their feelings to fall back on.

Nazis were all about secret police rounding up non-violent people they hate and putting them in concentration camps. Nazis were all about prosecuting and punishing critics and opponents. Nazis are the type who would form a violent Putsch mob to overturn an election.

I’ve yet to hear or read of any Nazi rhetoric or behavior from Platner.

For that, we turn to the Felonious Fuhrer and his 80^th birthday celebration. 

Josh Hokit ended his post-fight speech at the White House UFC event by yelling, “And lastly, Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right, America?”

The racist birther birthday boy smirked in response.

Let’s call it for what it really was.

It was nothing but a glorified Klan rally brought to you by Trump, Bud Light, and Larry Ellerson’s Paramount Plus.

Let’s denounce and boycott all fascists and fascist adjacent corporations and billionaires.

Am I right, America?

Dana White offered an insincere remark meant as damage control of the event and participants. Hokit will be rewarded, honored, and well paid despite his racist slur. It IS the MAGA way.

"I understand that the Obama’s are public figures but I’m completely against saying nasty and false things about people’s families... everyone knows my position on free speech but I hate that kind of nonsense.”

Calling it "nonsense" instead of condemning it as outright racism is a business calculation from a MAGA elite.

White is an enabler of all of this. He has aided and abetted the racist criminal who is ALWAYS "saying nasty and false things about people’s families".

"Honest Rational Conservatives”.

 

I’m a sucker for seeking out the views of an ”honest rational conservative”, or “HRC”.

Yes, it’s utterly futile, but I love to tear them apart to expose their devious dishonesty and absurd sense of victimhood.

One such self-anointed “HRC” introduces himself with:

Hi, I’m Ken LaCorte. I spent 20 years behind-the-scenes at Fox News and now host “Elephants in Rooms”.

Here, we jump into topics that many people avoid and that the mainstream narrative often vilifies. Even when they’re true.

If you’re looking for true insight into issues – without straw men or sensationalism – you’ve found the right place.

"True insight"? We'll see about that.

He can certainly SEEM to be reasonable. He even declared FOX News has abandoned its “fair and balanced” motto. La Corte has since made his own pretensions to adhere to that deception.

Wiki: (In March 2019, Jane Mayer reported in The New Yorker that Fox News reporter Diana Falzone had the story of the Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal before the 2016 election, but that LaCorte told her, "Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert [Murdoch] wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go," and the story was killed. In 2022, LaCorte defended his decision, saying that Daniels and Falzone were not interested in publishing the scandal but were using the media to extort Trump. According to him, Daniels refused to go on record and, after Trump paid her, avoided media outlets. He said the criticism directed at him and Fox was unjustified and pointed to other outlets that did not cover the story. He added that Trump was innocent and that Daniels should be in prison.)

So there’s that.

La Corte’s youtube subjects “Why Democracies Fail” and “What Happened to the News” drew my interest. He even made valid historical points, albeit lacking in serious in-depth analysis and pertinent information. I made a point of ignoring his odd clickbait subjects like “Why Do Black Men Like Big Butts” and “Why Does Kevin Spacey Keep Getting Off, Accusers: 30, Convictions: 0”. For some reason he’s not very interested in the accusations by Trump and Epstein survivors.

In “What Happened to the News” he mentioned without specifics the issue of declining trust in institutions due to “no shared reality” in the news. And that was his “fair and balanced” conclusion offered without analysis. Not a peep about baseless accusations of “fake news”, a “stolen election”, or the endless regurgitation of Trump’s lies. Yes, his point being Trump’s propaganda network and established journalism are identical in accuracy and disinformation. From bothsiderism to reductio ad absurdum in one twist of reality.

OK. Now we know where this guy is coming from, even after he left FOX(R).

I’d like to discuss his presentation most relevant and concerning to present day America, titled “Why Democracies Fail” by Ken “HRC” La Corte, Aug 13, 2025.

It comes as no surprise that “both-siderism” raises its ugly head in his narrative.

“We have a system under stress with many people convinced the other side is corrupt beyond repair, and that they’re the ones defending democracy itself.”

That would have been a good time for me to click out of his youtube videos. Yet I persisted.

And he proceeded to go exactly where I suspected he’d go.

His “One side” v “Other side” case was unbalanced and both-sided with these examples.

“One side” asserts, “Trump’s refusal to concede in 2020 and a mob storming the Capitol”.

My stars! Those libs are so easily triggered! Trump did nothing wrong at all, but the fake news and lying libs made a mountain of a molehill. Same with his mob of “patriotic” thugs he pardoned. (Note how La Corte conveniently avoided the words “lie” and “election denial”, as well as WHO sent the angry mob to overturn a fair election. He Ignores the fact Trump whined and LIED relentlessly about a “rigged election’. And he ignores the fact it was the Criminal President who SENT his mob to overturn the election. To say nothing of ignoring the fact that many of Trump’s pardoned thugs have since been arrested for more heinous crimes.)

The “Other side” (his side) asserts, “Abuse by intelligence agencies to gin up a false Russian collusion narrative”.

Oh, no! The “Deep State ®” HORROR of it all!  (Never mind, “Russia, if you’re listening” and numerous campaign staff contacts with Russians, even in Trump Tower. Never mind how much Russian money went to the Trumps.)

And if you think that’s bad, there’s the “Other Side’s” blatant projection of “weaponization of the legal system to jail the leading opposition candidate for president”. (Never mind the troves of evidence and testimony in the criminal indictments. Never mind the special services rendered by his corrupt legal defense team on the Supreme Court with their obstruction, delays, and granting the Criminal President immunity from the rule of law.)

See? “Both sides” are “defending democracy”, but the “Other side” seems to be the “real victims” of “abuse and weaponization” by “One Side”. Just ask any “HRC” how their “Other Side’s alternative facts” can be anything close to a shared reality. Yeah, there’s your problem, all right. Surely democracies never fail when a Criminal President denies elections, says they're "rigged", and sends a mob to overturn it. Both sides do that all the time, right?

Let’s look at the actual vindictive weaponization of law enforcement by Trump that Mr. La Corte needed to IGNORE at the time he produced this propaganda.

The list of the “Other Side's’” unshared realities is growing.

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Retaliatory Actions Tracker

APRIL 9, 2025: Trump issued an Executive Order directing agency investigations of Miles Taylor, Former Chief of Staff of DHS.

POLITICAL INTERFERENCE

Miles Taylor was the anonymous author of a statement warning the public about President Trump’s official behavior during his first term. He has since come forward as an outspoken critic of President Trump and his administration. Miles Taylor was subsequently named on Kash Patel’s “enemy list.”

SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT

There is no public evidence that Miles Taylor committed a federal crime.

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APRIL 9, 2025:  Trump issued an Executive Order directing agency investigations of Chris Krebs, former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS.

POLITICAL INTERFERENCE

As CISA Director, Mr. Krebs played a role in correcting disinformation about 2020 election fraud alleged by President Trump. President Trump fired Mr. Krebs via twitter. Mr. Krebs has since been an outspoken critic of President Trump and his administration.

SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT

There is no public evidence that Chris Krebs committed a federal crime.

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MAY 9, 2025: Ras Baraka, Newark Mayor and Democratic Candidate for Governor of New Jersey was arrested and detained by federal agents for trespassing.

Body camera evidence reveals a special agent saying “We are arresting the mayor right now, per the deputy attorney general of the United States. Anyone that gets in our way, I need you guys to give me a perimeter so I can cuff him.”

MAY 19, 2025: Charges dropped.

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MAY 18, 2025: The FBI publicly confirmed an investigation of New York Attorney General Letitia James around alleged mortgage fraud.

AUGUST 8, 2025: The DOJ issued two subpoenas as a part of a criminal investigation into her activity as Attorney General prosecuting Trump and the NRA.

OCTOBER 24, 2025: Ms. James filed a Motion to Dismiss the Indictment Based on Unlawful Appointment and Enjoin the Prosecution.

NOVEMBER 7, 2025: Ms. James filed a Motion to Dismiss Indictment for Vindictive and Selective Prosecution.

NOVEMBER 24, 2025: Senior District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie dismissed the indictment based on the unlawful appointment of Lindsey Halligan.

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JULY 8, 2025 (Reported): The F.B.I. launched an investigation of Former C.I.A Director John O. Brennan apparently arising out of James Comey and Brennan’s respective roles in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

There were already two Trump-instigated investigations of the conduct of the 2016 Russia investigation, one by the DOJ inspector general and one by Special Counsel John Durham. Neither of those investigations disclosed criminal wrongdoing by Brennan.

A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee conducted an extensive investigation that concluded that Russia did, in fact, interfere in the 2016 election for the purpose of helping Trump’s candidacy, which was the same conclusion reached in the investigation conducted by the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

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AUGUST 5, 2025: The DOJ launched an investigation of California Senator and Former Chair of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff around alleged mortgage fraud.

AUGUST 13, 2025: Trump publicly called on the DOJ to investigate Schiff for his work investigating Trump previously.

Before the investigation even began, Trump posted on Truth Social alleging fraud. He later posted on Truth Social an apparent demand that Pam Bondi prosecute Sen. Schiff, saying he was “guilty as hell.” It has been reported that prosecutors “have been hesitant to proceed with charges against” Sen. Schiff because the investigation has “not produced enough evidence to bring charges.”

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Wow. That’s a LOT of the “Other Side’s” unshared reality, aka Trumped up bullshit charges, demonization, persecution, retribution, and projection.

While we’re at it, let’s note more cases of Trump’s vindictive and authoritarian abuses by his PERSONAL law enforcement agencies:

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NOVEMBER 24, 2025: Pentagon announced a review of “serious allegations of misconduct” against Democratic Arizona Senator, former U.S. Navy Captain and NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, pursuant to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The announcement stated that further actions could include “recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures” and referenced 18 U.S.C. 2387, which it described as prohibiting “actions intended to interfere with the loyalty, morale, or good order and discipline of the armed forces.”

JANUARY 5, 2026: Pete Hegseth announced that the military has begun taking administrative action against Mr. Kelly, including a censure letter and a retirement grade determination proceeding.

POLITICAL INTERFERENCE

Kelly, a Democratic Senator from Arizona, appeared in a video with other Democratic members of Congress who had either served in the military or worked in the intelligence community. The video advises military members that they are not required to follow unlawful orders. Kelly had previously expressed concern about legal exposure for troops involved in strikes on boats in the Caribbean. President Trump responded to the video by suggesting that the people in it had engaged in “sedition” and that they should be jailed or possibly executed. “Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand,” Trump wrote. He also re-posted a call to “Hang them.” Defense Secretary Hegseth called the video “despicable, reckless, and false,” and referred to the lawmakers as “the Seditious Six.”

SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT

Military Justice experts have advised that retired servicemembers are not typically recalled to face punishment for actions committed after their retirement. Furthermore, Kelly’s comments mirror information active duty soldiers are given in training.

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NOVEMBER 2025: Jeanine Pirro approved a criminal investigation into Chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell and his involvement with and official statements about the central bank’s renovation of its headquarters. 

JANUARY 11, 2026: The U.S. attorney’s office in DC publicly opened a criminal investigation into Mr. Powell.

MARCH 13, 2026: Judge Boasberg quashed the subpoenas issued to the Federal Reserve, which were related to the investigation into Mr. Powell.

APRIL 3, 2026: Judge Boasberg denied the government’s motion for reconsideration and reaffirmed his decision to quash the subpoenas.

APRIL 24, 2026: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro dropped the investigation into Mr. Powell.

POLITICAL INTERFERENCE

President Trump has made many public statements about Jerome Powell, saying that he has “mental problems” and that he would love to “fire his ass” for refusing to heed the president’s demand to lower interest rates. However, the president does not have the power to fire a member of the board of an independent federal agency except “for cause.”

SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT

Since taking office, Trump has repeatedly attempted to target leaders of independent agencies who he disagrees with, including leaders at the Federal Trade Commission, National Labor Relations Board, and Lisa Cook of the Federal Reserve Board.

VALIDATION

Top bipartisan leaders are speaking out against the investigation into Mr. Powell, with one saying that it “could undermine this and future administrations’ ability to make sound monetary policy decisions.” Republican Senator Dave McCormick stated that “the Federal Reserve renovation may well have wasted taxpayer dollars, but the proper place to fix this is through Congressional oversight.” Thom Tillis, Republican member of the Senate Banking Committee even went as far to say “if there were any remaining doubt whether advisers within the Trump Administration are actively pushing to end the independence of the Federal Reserve, there should now be none. It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question.”

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Former Military and Intelligence Community Lawmakers

Rep. Jason Crow

Rep. Maggie Goodlander

Rep. Chrissy Houlahan

Sen. Elissa Slotkin

Rep. Chris Deluzio

JANUARY 13, 2026: Sen. Elissa Slotkin announced she was being investigated by federal prosecutors for her participation in a video urging members of the military to disobey illegal orders.

JANUARY 14, 2026: Rep.Jason Crow, Rep. Maggie Goodlander and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan announced they were also under investigation for their participation in the same video.

FEBRUARY 10, 2026: A grand jury refused to indict the lawmakers.

FEBRUARY 24, 2026: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro dropped the investigation into the former military lawmakers.

POLITICAL INTERFERENCE

In addition to Mark Kelly, these four other Democratic members of Congress who had either served in the military or worked in the intelligence community appeared in a video. The video advises military members that they are not required to follow unlawful orders. President Trump responded to the video by suggesting that the people in it had engaged in “sedition” and that they should be jailed or possibly executed. “Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand,” Trump wrote. He also re-posted a call to “Hang them.” Defense Secretary Hegseth called the video “despicable, reckless, and false,” and referred to the lawmakers as “the Seditious Six.”

SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT

Military Justice experts have advised that retired servicemembers are not typically recalled to face punishment for actions committed after their retirement. Furthermore, their comments mirror information active duty soldiers are given in training.

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Minnesota Democrats

Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota

Jacob Frey, Mayor of Minneapolis

Kaohly Her, Mayor of St. Paul

Keith Ellison, State Attorney General

Mary Moriarty, Hennepin County Attorney

JANUARY 16, 2026: The DOJ reportedly launched a criminal investigation into these Democratic elected officials for allegedly conspiring to impede federal agents.

JANUARY 20, 2026: DOJ reportedly served subpoenas on the five officials.

POLITICAL INTERFERENCE

Before the investigation even began, President Trump threatened Minnesota Democrats with a “DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION” and Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, publicly accused Mr. Frey and Mr. Walz of “encouraging violence against law enforcement” and referred to their actions as “terrorism.”

SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT

After the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent, Minneapolis became a symbol pushing back on the administration’s immigration enforcement. Each of the subpoenaed individuals have been outspoken against the administration’s tactics. The Minnesota officials sued the administration to block the Department of Homeland Security from executing a planned surge of federal immigration officers to the Twin Cities. Federal investigators did not cooperate with local officials when investigating the shooting, prejudged Ms. Good’s actions, and ultimately decided to not investigate the shooter, Jonathan Ross, despite a longstanding practice of comprehensive DOJ reviews of death-resulting uses of force by law enforcement officers.

VALIDATION

Rather than announcing charges against Jonathan Ross, the DOJ reportedly pushed internally for an investigation into Renee Good’s wife. Once this was announced internally, six Minnesota prosecutors resigned from their position.

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APRIL 21, 2026:  Southern Poverty Law Center indicted and charged with wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering based on payments to informants who infiltrated white supremacist groups.

POLITICAL INTERFERENCE

The Southern Poverty Law Center (“SPLC”) partnered with federal law enforcement agencies for decades on efforts to monitor and mitigate hate crimes and domestic terrorism. But in October 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel criticized SPLC as a “partisan smear machine” and announced that the FBI was severing ties with the organization and would no longer accept or use intelligence and data from SPLC. Director Patel further claimed that SPLC had a “disgraceful record” and that its research identifying hate groups “has been used to defame mainstream Americans.” This announcement was made two days after SPLC criticized the Trump Administration for ending federal funding for hate crime prevention and amidst the Administration’s broader effort to roll back civil rights enforcement and increase focus on “reverse discrimination.”

In December 2025, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) convened a House Judiciary hearing focused exclusively on SPLC, titled “Partisan and Profitable: The SPLC’s Influence on Federal Civil Rights Policy.” The hearing featured extensive criticisms by Rep. Roy, other Republican members of the committee, and their witnesses that SPLC’s advocacy unfairly targeted conservative groups and that its collaboration with federal law enforcement harmed those groups as well.

In an unaired video clip from the April 26 filming of a 60 Minutes interview, President Trump stated that the SPLC was “financing the KKK and lots of other radical, terrible groups” and that the alleged funding of far right groups “was done to make [him] look bad.”

SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT

The tactics forming the basis of the indictment – financial payments to informants to procure sensitive intelligence about the inner workings of groups engaged in suspected criminal activity – appear to be similar to tactics long-employed by the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies.

VALIDATION

SPLC had been providing federal law enforcement with information on hate groups for decades, including intelligence gathered from SPLC’s informants, according to public reporting.

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There you have it. The unshared reality of a Criminal President and his corrupt regime bent on revenge and punishment for people he hates or who tried to hold him accountable to the rule of law.

La Corte promised to post a "whole piece on the 2020 election because a lot of people need to hear that". 

If you're as excited as I am to hear his version of that election, you'll have to keep waiting along with me. It's been NINE MONTHS since he told us he'd let us in on what "a lot of people need to hear".

Liberalism

 

So, what is liberalism again? Is it really that different from progressivism? Democrats need to reclaim both terms because they represent what the radical Right hates almost as much as they despise a Black man kneeling for the National Anthem protesting police brutality. Trump's racists gutted the African Room at the Kennedy Center, and its works of art are missing. "Degenerate art" is what the OG Nazis called it.

This is not liberalism or even conservatism. It is con-servatism.

Later I will define progressive liberals by the words of individual leaders their opponents have vehemently hated.

Teddy Roosevelt was called a progressive. FDR was called a liberal. It requires a lot of nit-picking and quibbling to differentiate between the terms, which have far more overlap than differences. This is why the propagandists of the far Right need to smear and redefine both terms in efforts to divide opposition.

There are no absolute definitions or applications of any political ideology except as dictated by authoritarian leaders. Soviet and Chinese Communism were defined by their dictators. National Socialism was defined by Hitler. MAGA is whatever Trump says it is.

The radical Right must redefine language itself to suit their bigotry and bias.

“Woke” is now whatever the radical Right hates and says it is, from Democrats to drag queens, to trans people, to universities, to the military, or to anyone different from them who wants to live their lives how they choose. The authoritarian personality cannot mind its own business. It must dominate and control everyone else. All of their targets are “woke”. (Governor Ron DeSantis’ lawyers were forced by the court to define “woke.” The lead lawyer described it as “The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”)  Authoritarians need to redefine terms in order to keep moving the goalposts and demonizing opposition.

Naturally, they needed to redefine the word “liberal”. It’s now “woke”. And “woke” is very, very bad. Like communism. Like progressivism. Like Democrats.

Since the Clinton Presidency radical Right propagandists met with considerable success in demonizing the word “liberal” to smear everyone to the left of Dick Cheney or Trump. This is the real reason for the Left embracing the term progressive. Nevertheless, the propaganda worked because intelligence is limited and ignorance and stupidity are infinite.

And this is why the Right Wing Authoritarians are now trying to further divide the Left by claiming “Classic liberalism” or corporate neo-liberalism, is fine, but modern liberalism and progressivism are both socialism and communism. Or even fascism. Yes, the desperate lying fanatics of the radical Right go so far as to claim Hitler was a “socialist” because the NAZI Party used the term. Right, as in North Korea is actually the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? 

No president has used Hitler’s playbook more than Trump with his demonization and scapegoating of minorities, white nationalism, his Big Lie, violent coup, and use of secret police and unjust politicized law enforcement. Hitler and Trump share the distinction of being two notable racist criminals who rose to power in flawed democracies. Both Trump and Hitler share the same immorality that imprisons non-violent human beings in unaccountable, cruel, and dehumanizing concentration camps.

The fundamental characteristic of all fascists is the desire to inflict as much punishment as they possibly can on people they hate. This is their idea of “law and order”.

And that is nowhere to be found in progressive liberalism, where law and order is for criminals, not political or personal enemies. We don’t want to imprison non-violent immigrants. We want them to pass citizenship tests and be productive members of society. This is the dreaded “replacement theory” lurking in the white nationalist amygdala. They fear becoming a minority because of how THEY have treated minorities.

At any rate, Liberalism/progressivism must be viewed as a terrible form of tyranny to be hated so much by MAGA, racists, bigots, neo-Nazis, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Christian nationalists, vulture capitalists, and greedy oligarchs. This is why the far Right needs a massive propaganda network to reinforce their hate and lies. 

The "con-servative conscience": ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who fatally shot US citizen Renee Good is now a millionaire thanks to a series of online fundraising campaigns launched in the aftermath of the the shootings. He's their kind of guy, as their Dear Leader sets an example of praising, pardoning, and rewarding THUGS for violently attempting a coup for him.

Communism and fascism’s new incarnation in MAGA are the opposite of the ideals of progressive liberalism.

(Just imagine what Lincoln would say of his party falling under the thumb of a cruel racist criminal. "What, did the Confederacy win?)

This paranoid and racist opposition by the far Right is significant in defining progressive liberalism. The RWA’s are antithetical to equal rights, equal justice under law, individual freedom, democracy, and voter rights. In other words, the American ideal of government by, for, and of the people. 

Here’s some news for those “con-servative” authoritarians. With notable exceptions like the antidemocratic Senate, electoral presidential elections, and slavery in particular, progressive liberals are more conservative in the sense of supporting our Constitutional provisions for the rule of law and general welfare.

The MAGA Mob will whine about liberal progressives supporting Constitutional public healthcare, public education, public services, taxes, and regulation of commerce as being "socialist evil".  Yet they enthusiastically support the most authoritarian, corrupt and criminal president in history. They’re all in with their heroic sex offender and pedophile protector who would deny healthcare and food for the poor as he cuts taxes for billionaires and praises and pardons crooks, thugs, and swindlers like himself. 

The Criminal President Trump has pardoned over 70 people convicted of massive fraud against Americans, because he is ONE of the THEM.

Crime pays, especially in service and LOYALTY to the authoritarian regime of the Criminal President.

The proof is in the pudding, folks. This has been the inevitable trajectory of con-servatism since Nixon, who would be dumped into the RINO bin with Reagan were they both alive today. Hell, even the Bushes would be squeezed out of the MAGA party today. 

MAGA Con-servativism and deregulated cutthroat capitalism are quite compatible with fascism. The Krupps, BMW, Ford, and other mega-capitalists did well under Hitler’s rule…until it all came down in flames.

And if you indulge me in one more reference the Nazi Fuhrer, let’s note his worst enemy was the very liberal Franklin Delano Roosevelt. That wasn’t very liberal, progressive, or socialist of him, was it?

His presidency is a foundation of American liberalism, found in his New Deal and in his Second Bill of Rights.

I’ll suggest FDR and JFK have defined American liberalism as best as anyone has since their presidencies.

FDR’s Second Bill of Rights:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

The right of every family to a decent home.

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

The right to a good education.

JFK on being liberal:

“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”

The next time a fascist MAGA supporter whines about “woke liberals” and “commie libs”, demand they address the reality of what progressive liberalism actually is. Tell them it’s rooted in our Constitution. And watch them squirm and twist into gaslighting pretzel monsters.