Now, it seems, the DoJ feels it has to lie to enforce a MAGA world … one in which obeying the law, and the courts, has become optional. What kind of strong government needs to deceive?
One that I will not accept. I am just a 64 year old, happily married white woman from the south. I have a beautiful daughter that I would like to see grow older and enjoy the life that I have had and I’m not done yet. I swear to God, I will die fighting for our freedom and democracy to see that through. These crazy, power obsessed bastards are not going to rob us and murder innocent immigrants along the way.
Demetria: That should be the spirit of EVERY AMERICAN. YOU GO, LADY: OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN DESERVE A BETTER PLACE, THE ONE WE LOST WHEN TRUMP AND THE BILLIONAIRES HIGHJACKED OUR COUNTRY
We lost this nation when Reagan was elected and put the Powell "memo" into "high gear." Trump is just the culmination of a right wing/corporate destruction of every part of the New Deal and Great Society they possibly have been able "delete." (For lack of a better word - ie Roe, Voting Right's act, etc. etc.) We have evolved into an "Oligarchy." The foundation of a fascist government is a corporate/government partnership. (ex: Elon Musk throwing Sieg Hiels at Trump's inauguration) It has been easy for them to destroy "we the people's" rights and institutions - and, it will be much more difficult for us to get them back! We should all be praying for a HUGE "blue wave" in November (as a start) and that Trump is unsuccessful in his attempts to "rig" the election. I'm a 79 year old happily married white male and I share Demetria's commitment to fighting for the sake of this nation, our children, our grandchildren and, in this case, our undocumented friends and neighbors!
Lewis Powell's notorious memo was written in August 1971. It laid the foundation for so much else. If you're as old as I am, you'll also recall Art Laffer's trickle down economics theory. Let's not fail to give Newt Gingrich the credit he is due. Or Grover Norquist.
Back in the 1990's, we actually started paying down some of our national debt, before the Norquist Doctrine of slashing the top marginal tax rates really began to trickle down through our nation's finances. It has given us Billionaire welfare and $38 trillion in national debt: hint: this is money owed to investors.
You didn’t “lose this country” in the 1970s or at any other time. Nobody’s surrendered to anything yet. Cynicism fobbing itself off as wisdom never won anybody anything. The fight is now, the arena is today, and there’s work to be done. Each generation gets re-tested anew, it would seem. It has always ever been like that. Stop playing at amateur historiography, get down off your pillar of self-righteousness and join the good fight going on in front of you right now.
"We lost this nation when Reagan was elected and put the Powell "memo" into "high gear." Trump is just the culmination of a right wing/corporate destruction of every part of the New Deal and Great Society they possibly have been able "delete.""
Absolutely correct - American Capitalism became horrified that the lefty middle class that grew up in the 60s and 70s started to have influence right across the spectrum - so they turned on it with a vengeance and a brutality that is very hard to over-estimate.
I don't quite know what you do - without a total Bolshevik Revolution ... I'm reasonable convinced that the Democrats won't do anything - they like the black cars and Georgetown cocktail parties - just ask Chuck and the rest of the comfortable gang.
We simply CANNOT be afraid of these idiots. That’s exactly what they count on. They are cruel but weak in the long run.
Speak up! Speak out! Wear the T-shirt that says you “didn’t vote for him” or that “voting is a right, not a privilege”. People will talk to you and appreciate seeing you making the statement. It will inspire them to do the same and you will feel empowered. We have to work together to run these cowards out of our local, state and federal government.
Trust in government has to be restored for our country to continue to be a success. Blanche and Patel are not the way. Trump and Miller are not the way. Hegseth and Lutnick are not the way.
I agree … and with Veronica below … but why does the outrage I am reading here only belong to us old farts? Where is our Hungary, our Albania, our Minneapolis?
"We all know the story: Trump gave a $16 million no-bid contract to one of his Mar-a-Lago buddies to resurface the Reflecting Pool. But it began to turn green and the liner buckled almost as soon as it was painted, with algae and paint chips floating on the surface. "
The OBVIOUS question: why is Trump not calling his contractor to find out what went wrong? Shouldn't that be the FIRST course of action?
One of the numbers I’ve heard bandied about is they want to remove 20,000,000 people… these people are integrated into the economy and do useful work and pay taxes. Besides budgeting $70 billion to eliminate these people, the economic consequences will be awful. The human consequences will be untold cruelty which I presume gets MAGA all hot and bothered.
You can refuse to believe it, but if you want to avoid it, better be making sure every single person you know is registered and will be voting blue every election from now on.
I take heart from the historical fact that we've been here before. We managed to abolish slavery, but it rose again as Jim Crow. We defeated *that* but it too managed to come back in the form of the Reagan administration, which used racism to achieve what it *really* wanted: a rollback of all the rules, regs, and tax burdens that kept Big Money from undermining democracy. Which it's been doing ever since. We are *so* ready for a new, improved New Deal, with people of color included this time.
David, Trumplandia! It seems there is very little negative they have not contemplated and possibly been planning. They are well on their way to full-time permanent concentration camps and maybe turning at least some of them into "death camps." They prete3nd global warming isn't happening and keep giving their fossil fueler buddiees huge subsidies when the oil companies knew for nearly 50 years what burning fossil fuels was doing to our planet. For 50+ years, Republicans have been putting sycophants into our legislatures across the country, ones who have been brainwashed to hate everyone who is not rich white and male. Even their women hate other women. Since McCain and Dole left the scene, I cannot think of a single Republican I would trust to do the right thing on a regular basis in any legislature.
In my state, our Assembly (lower house) has passed some positive legislation for the benefit of the people, with a tiny Democratic majority. In nearly every instance the Republicans in the Senate have quashed that legislation, often assigning it to a committee it will never leave. We know that is going on in our federal Congress too. We the People have a lot of work to do.
Star Chamber. I was thinking that this trial by TV, as is typical for Trumpists, is not a formula to ensure continued respect in the Western World, the one most of us grew up in. You can't trust the DOJ anymore to use regular order. Sensation, slander, and checking in with Stephen Miller seem to have become the important guidelines for any prosecutor to rise to the top.
This is another nauseating murder by ICE. It is in cold blood. Mark Wayne Mullin is a quiet monster who is now head of ICE and is continuing to murder citizens and making up stories about the worst criminals
If as expected the case against Hearn goes south there ought to be a way to sue Jeanine Pirro personally for directing this malicious prosecution and to make her personally liable for all the court costs incurred. Something needs to be done to deter Trump-appointed attorneys and officials from launching spurious investigations and indictments.
Disbarment. Criminal and civil prosecution. Prison. Fines. Public shaming and humiliation. All of the above all the time for all these traitors. Anything that can override the pardons they're likely to get from Trump and a GOP successor.
Pirro runs a kangaroo court that caters to the Flake-in-Chief, who can't even take responsibility for the blue flakes in the Reflecting Pool. I am amazed she managed to get an indictment in this wacko case against a clearly innocent person. Did she hand pick a grand jury? What kind of instructions were given to them that resulted in an indictment? No doubt Norman Eisen will want to examine the grand jury instructions on this whopper.
Polly, I would like to get the movement against ICE/CBP going by getting Steve Miller out of government and holding him accountable for what is happening to immigrants. It is his quotas that had our congressional Republican sycophants "donating" $70 billion more for those despicable paramilitary groups, wanting 3,000 immigrants gone every day. We are nearly at 2,000 already, and for what. It is costing us billions just for the concentration camp prisons and that money going to for-profit prison corporatins, an entity that should never even exist. And all that money is coming our of our taxes while they drive up the debt.
Miller was elected to nothing by no one (who would want a mentally ill, scared whiny white boy for anything? Well, our Baby Donnie and his white house toddler pool just love Miller because when this whole show is over, they can blame Miller, a nut who hates his Jewish heritage, hoping he can do massive harm to people he thinks are inferior to him. That is ironic because he is inferior to all of them, just right now having too much power. Congress could kick him out, even arrest him for overstepping his position as deputy chief of staff, but that is unlikely because there is not a single patriotic bone left among the Republicans of Trumplandia, not one!.
We will be next. He said the other day we have a problem with communism in our country. He is also making it clear that democrats are communists. He claims we need more detention facilities in our country. This is what happened in Germany, he imprisoned not only Jews but people who disagreed with him. That would be all of us, I pray I’m wrong.
Only in a mad king’s court would 10 cars, by my count, drive down the Reflecting Pool. This is how the court of King George supported his madness. Sane-washing? Where does this all go? Is there no end to this madness? This is truly pathological. Not at all normal.
Norm Eisen is smart: those images of trump in his super weight limo and his whole party driving on the unset base of the pool is exhibit one through 24! No jury will convict!
share your outrage with your congress critters even if they are red hat nabobs. i didn't hold back about the ICE murders, Markwayne, concentration camps and Trump's Adjudicated rape conviction.
Wonder if anyone here watched the Black Man Spy (Malcolm Nance, retired Navy Senior Chief with deep deep experience in intelligence and warfare) piece from Saturday where he read parts of the Declaration of Independence and explained how he feels about it and our current state ( and why he feels that way.). Strong language; strong emotions. It captures the way i feel when i read pieces like Professor Vance’s today. Can’t decide whether i’m sadder or madder. About 16 minutes; listen to the end.
I did. Malcolm has integrity and you can tell he absolutely loves the women in his life as well as this country. He should definitely be the next Secretary of Defense or Chief of Staff.
Thank you, Professor. The power of hatred in an ignorant person’s hands. I don’t know what could be worse. Peace and love everybody. I do believe one day this scourge will be washed away from the Earth.☮️❤️🌻
Now, it seems, the DoJ feels it has to lie to enforce a MAGA world … one in which obeying the law, and the courts, has become optional. What kind of strong government needs to deceive?
Lying for them is not optional. It’s the only way now. This CANNOT continue. I refuse to believe that this is how our country will be from here on.
It is a very harsh reality!
One that I will not accept. I am just a 64 year old, happily married white woman from the south. I have a beautiful daughter that I would like to see grow older and enjoy the life that I have had and I’m not done yet. I swear to God, I will die fighting for our freedom and democracy to see that through. These crazy, power obsessed bastards are not going to rob us and murder innocent immigrants along the way.
Demetria: That should be the spirit of EVERY AMERICAN. YOU GO, LADY: OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN DESERVE A BETTER PLACE, THE ONE WE LOST WHEN TRUMP AND THE BILLIONAIRES HIGHJACKED OUR COUNTRY
We lost this nation when Reagan was elected and put the Powell "memo" into "high gear." Trump is just the culmination of a right wing/corporate destruction of every part of the New Deal and Great Society they possibly have been able "delete." (For lack of a better word - ie Roe, Voting Right's act, etc. etc.) We have evolved into an "Oligarchy." The foundation of a fascist government is a corporate/government partnership. (ex: Elon Musk throwing Sieg Hiels at Trump's inauguration) It has been easy for them to destroy "we the people's" rights and institutions - and, it will be much more difficult for us to get them back! We should all be praying for a HUGE "blue wave" in November (as a start) and that Trump is unsuccessful in his attempts to "rig" the election. I'm a 79 year old happily married white male and I share Demetria's commitment to fighting for the sake of this nation, our children, our grandchildren and, in this case, our undocumented friends and neighbors!
Lewis Powell's notorious memo was written in August 1971. It laid the foundation for so much else. If you're as old as I am, you'll also recall Art Laffer's trickle down economics theory. Let's not fail to give Newt Gingrich the credit he is due. Or Grover Norquist.
Back in the 1990's, we actually started paying down some of our national debt, before the Norquist Doctrine of slashing the top marginal tax rates really began to trickle down through our nation's finances. It has given us Billionaire welfare and $38 trillion in national debt: hint: this is money owed to investors.
You didn’t “lose this country” in the 1970s or at any other time. Nobody’s surrendered to anything yet. Cynicism fobbing itself off as wisdom never won anybody anything. The fight is now, the arena is today, and there’s work to be done. Each generation gets re-tested anew, it would seem. It has always ever been like that. Stop playing at amateur historiography, get down off your pillar of self-righteousness and join the good fight going on in front of you right now.
"We lost this nation when Reagan was elected and put the Powell "memo" into "high gear." Trump is just the culmination of a right wing/corporate destruction of every part of the New Deal and Great Society they possibly have been able "delete.""
Absolutely correct - American Capitalism became horrified that the lefty middle class that grew up in the 60s and 70s started to have influence right across the spectrum - so they turned on it with a vengeance and a brutality that is very hard to over-estimate.
I don't quite know what you do - without a total Bolshevik Revolution ... I'm reasonable convinced that the Democrats won't do anything - they like the black cars and Georgetown cocktail parties - just ask Chuck and the rest of the comfortable gang.
We simply CANNOT be afraid of these idiots. That’s exactly what they count on. They are cruel but weak in the long run.
Speak up! Speak out! Wear the T-shirt that says you “didn’t vote for him” or that “voting is a right, not a privilege”. People will talk to you and appreciate seeing you making the statement. It will inspire them to do the same and you will feel empowered. We have to work together to run these cowards out of our local, state and federal government.
Trust in government has to be restored for our country to continue to be a success. Blanche and Patel are not the way. Trump and Miller are not the way. Hegseth and Lutnick are not the way.
I agree … and with Veronica below … but why does the outrage I am reading here only belong to us old farts? Where is our Hungary, our Albania, our Minneapolis?
I couldn't agree with you more!! We need to get rid of all of them!!
"We all know the story: Trump gave a $16 million no-bid contract to one of his Mar-a-Lago buddies to resurface the Reflecting Pool. But it began to turn green and the liner buckled almost as soon as it was painted, with algae and paint chips floating on the surface. "
The OBVIOUS question: why is Trump not calling his contractor to find out what went wrong? Shouldn't that be the FIRST course of action?
Or am I being the obtuse one here? WTF?
One of the numbers I’ve heard bandied about is they want to remove 20,000,000 people… these people are integrated into the economy and do useful work and pay taxes. Besides budgeting $70 billion to eliminate these people, the economic consequences will be awful. The human consequences will be untold cruelty which I presume gets MAGA all hot and bothered.
You can refuse to believe it, but if you want to avoid it, better be making sure every single person you know is registered and will be voting blue every election from now on.
I take heart from the historical fact that we've been here before. We managed to abolish slavery, but it rose again as Jim Crow. We defeated *that* but it too managed to come back in the form of the Reagan administration, which used racism to achieve what it *really* wanted: a rollback of all the rules, regs, and tax burdens that kept Big Money from undermining democracy. Which it's been doing ever since. We are *so* ready for a new, improved New Deal, with people of color included this time.
David, Trumplandia! It seems there is very little negative they have not contemplated and possibly been planning. They are well on their way to full-time permanent concentration camps and maybe turning at least some of them into "death camps." They prete3nd global warming isn't happening and keep giving their fossil fueler buddiees huge subsidies when the oil companies knew for nearly 50 years what burning fossil fuels was doing to our planet. For 50+ years, Republicans have been putting sycophants into our legislatures across the country, ones who have been brainwashed to hate everyone who is not rich white and male. Even their women hate other women. Since McCain and Dole left the scene, I cannot think of a single Republican I would trust to do the right thing on a regular basis in any legislature.
In my state, our Assembly (lower house) has passed some positive legislation for the benefit of the people, with a tiny Democratic majority. In nearly every instance the Republicans in the Senate have quashed that legislation, often assigning it to a committee it will never leave. We know that is going on in our federal Congress too. We the People have a lot of work to do.
A FASCIST government!
Star Chamber. I was thinking that this trial by TV, as is typical for Trumpists, is not a formula to ensure continued respect in the Western World, the one most of us grew up in. You can't trust the DOJ anymore to use regular order. Sensation, slander, and checking in with Stephen Miller seem to have become the important guidelines for any prosecutor to rise to the top.
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
--- Aristotle
I'd go with elephants, or maybe whales, myself.
Big fan of both. They have characteristics we lack
Smiling....thanks
"Laws are born from despair of human nature"
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Beaumarchais said that man is the only animal that eats when they're not hungry, drinks when they're not thirsty and fucks all year round.
That has become very clear.
Heart breaking. USA: Trump has turned us into a banana republic. A "shit hole" country , as he refers to any country that does not kiss his ass.
Karma: are you asleep? Wake up, please. WE NEED YOU!!
This is another nauseating murder by ICE. It is in cold blood. Mark Wayne Mullin is a quiet monster who is now head of ICE and is continuing to murder citizens and making up stories about the worst criminals
Lor, you are right about Mullins, a monster. Ironic isn't it that he is turning out to be one of those worst criminals.
I’m from Oklahoma and I don’t find it ironic at all. This position is exactly where I’d expect him to feel perfectly at home.
If as expected the case against Hearn goes south there ought to be a way to sue Jeanine Pirro personally for directing this malicious prosecution and to make her personally liable for all the court costs incurred. Something needs to be done to deter Trump-appointed attorneys and officials from launching spurious investigations and indictments.
Disbarment. Criminal and civil prosecution. Prison. Fines. Public shaming and humiliation. All of the above all the time for all these traitors. Anything that can override the pardons they're likely to get from Trump and a GOP successor.
Definitely, “All of the above.”
Pirro runs a kangaroo court that caters to the Flake-in-Chief, who can't even take responsibility for the blue flakes in the Reflecting Pool. I am amazed she managed to get an indictment in this wacko case against a clearly innocent person. Did she hand pick a grand jury? What kind of instructions were given to them that resulted in an indictment? No doubt Norman Eisen will want to examine the grand jury instructions on this whopper.
That is another thing that needs to be changed. DOJ liable for all court costs and defendant attorney fees for cases of malicious prosecution.
"Where law ends, tyranny begins."
— William Pitt the Elder
There are no words to describe my feelings about this atrocity. When, who and how will this come to an end?
Who will be next?
Polly, I would like to get the movement against ICE/CBP going by getting Steve Miller out of government and holding him accountable for what is happening to immigrants. It is his quotas that had our congressional Republican sycophants "donating" $70 billion more for those despicable paramilitary groups, wanting 3,000 immigrants gone every day. We are nearly at 2,000 already, and for what. It is costing us billions just for the concentration camp prisons and that money going to for-profit prison corporatins, an entity that should never even exist. And all that money is coming our of our taxes while they drive up the debt.
Miller was elected to nothing by no one (who would want a mentally ill, scared whiny white boy for anything? Well, our Baby Donnie and his white house toddler pool just love Miller because when this whole show is over, they can blame Miller, a nut who hates his Jewish heritage, hoping he can do massive harm to people he thinks are inferior to him. That is ironic because he is inferior to all of them, just right now having too much power. Congress could kick him out, even arrest him for overstepping his position as deputy chief of staff, but that is unlikely because there is not a single patriotic bone left among the Republicans of Trumplandia, not one!.
I totally agree with you!
That is the million dollar question. Nobody is safe. It could happen to anybody.
We will be next. He said the other day we have a problem with communism in our country. He is also making it clear that democrats are communists. He claims we need more detention facilities in our country. This is what happened in Germany, he imprisoned not only Jews but people who disagreed with him. That would be all of us, I pray I’m wrong.
Only in a mad king’s court would 10 cars, by my count, drive down the Reflecting Pool. This is how the court of King George supported his madness. Sane-washing? Where does this all go? Is there no end to this madness? This is truly pathological. Not at all normal.
Agreed without hesitation.
Norm Eisen is smart: those images of trump in his super weight limo and his whole party driving on the unset base of the pool is exhibit one through 24! No jury will convict!
Eisen is a gem
share your outrage with your congress critters even if they are red hat nabobs. i didn't hold back about the ICE murders, Markwayne, concentration camps and Trump's Adjudicated rape conviction.
Wonder if anyone here watched the Black Man Spy (Malcolm Nance, retired Navy Senior Chief with deep deep experience in intelligence and warfare) piece from Saturday where he read parts of the Declaration of Independence and explained how he feels about it and our current state ( and why he feels that way.). Strong language; strong emotions. It captures the way i feel when i read pieces like Professor Vance’s today. Can’t decide whether i’m sadder or madder. About 16 minutes; listen to the end.
I did. Malcolm has integrity and you can tell he absolutely loves the women in his life as well as this country. He should definitely be the next Secretary of Defense or Chief of Staff.
Malcolm is the real deal.
Thanks for the rec
Mapping the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE: Check the facts with this StoryMap
https://thedemlabs.org/2026/07/09/lorenzo-salgado-araujo-ice-murder-storymap/
Thank you, Professor. The power of hatred in an ignorant person’s hands. I don’t know what could be worse. Peace and love everybody. I do believe one day this scourge will be washed away from the Earth.☮️❤️🌻
May the Universe hear you and evil be deaf.
How long will it take, I wonder, for anyone to trust the US government again?
Either here, or abroad.
My guess is decades!!!
I dont understand why we are calling him a ‘former’ Olympian. Won’t he always be an Olympian, regardless of this silliness?
The no-visible-damage to the ICE van puts me in mind of the no-visible-damage to President Trump's ear.
Do not touch anything in DC. Better yet, do not go there until the bulldozers come after [t]rump.