Five Reasons Why It's Logistically Impossible To Forcibly Deport 20 million Immigrants

 

                            Caravan of Haitian migrants approaching U.S. border 3 yrs. ago

Angst is blowing up across immigrant districts in Blue states and it's because Trump the Top Thug has threatened ICE raids and mass deportations of as many as 20 million immigrants.  But as with most planned power grabs, Dotard hasn't thought this one through. Here are five reasons the mass deportations will remain a brain fart nestled in Trump's amygdala.

1-  Immigrants in the U.S. can't be illegally deported without court hearings. 

Once they touch U.S. soil they are entitled to due process, in an immigration court where they have the chance to seek asylum or seek another avenue to remain in the country.  The problem is our immigration courts are so backlogged (according to the WSJ, Jan. 2, p. A5) hearing are now being scheduled as far ahead as 2029.  As noted by the WSJ piece ('Immigration Plan Faces Big Roadblocks):  

 "Outside experts estimate that Congress would have to hire at least 5,000 immigration court judges, given the system now has barely 500."

This will never happen barring a large infusion of cash.  Maybe Trump can ask his Billionaire bud Musk for it.

2- There Aren't enough ICE Agents:

This was kind of a shocker given the level of bombast one has heard the past few weeks regarding Trump planning to "declare a state of emergency" on day one etc.  But if he wants to confirm he's a total fool, let him go ahead and try it but minus the manpower to carry it out.   As the WSJ piece notes again (ibid.):

"The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency currently has roughly 6,000 agents on staff and funding to jail about 40,000 immigrants at any given time.  It doesn't have nearly the fleet of planes needed to deport millions of immigrants back to their home countries.".

The Reeps - we learn (ibid.) are hoping to use a budget process called reconciliation to get the needed ICE money.  But it still would need final sign off by the House where Reeps have tenuous majority.  Good luck getting it through.  And btw you also may want to check the next item.

3.  Immigrants can no longer be deported to one country:

In the past deportation was easy -peasy,  ICE agents usually just sent them back to Mexico. No longer.  As The Financial Times recently noted, the last few 'tidal waves' of migration have featured migrants from up to 65 nations - every place from Ecuador, to China, to Bangladesh, to Sudan and in between.   As the WSJ piece notes:

"Over the past few years immigrants crossing into the U.S. illegally have come from record numbers of countries such as China, India, Mauritania and Uzbekistan. The U.S. today can't simply load all migrants onto a flight heading to the same place.  It would now have to orchestrate a complex dance of flights, choosing where to send its limited number of planes and fighting with the governments  about when - and whether- they'd accept these flights at all."

 Is Trump ready to implement dozens of different jet flights daily  over YEARS- at the cost of billi0ns-  to deport  those migrants back to all their respective homelands?  I doubt it. Nor will they get that much funding even if they wanted to do it.  (Apart from the logistical nightmares).

4. Blue States Will Not Just 'Roll Over' For Capt. Bonespurs

The Blue states (CA, NY, MD etc.) have large enclaves of immigrants but they will not sit quietly and just allow Trump Storm Troopers to barge in and drag them out. A number (e.g.  Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson) have already said they would not be cooperating with federal immigration authorities.  This is especially if that segment of valid immigrants - who deserve an immigration court hearing- have not been granted their court dates yet. (Which as I noted may not be until the year 2029 unless the currently backlogged courts are expanded.  As the WSJ piece observes (ibid.): 

"While it is still possible to arrest people living illegally in blue -led cities, it is far more challenging without local cooperation....Without local cooperation ICE would need to post officers on watch outside jails for hours or days to catch a release.  Neighborhood raids are also possible but - unlike regular police officers- they do not have warrants to make an arrest."

Trump officials have publicly bruited pursuing criminal prosecutions of all the officials enforcing sanctuary policies. But good luck on that scheme if you've already skipped legitimate immigration court hearings.

Which brings us to:

5. Legal Challenges:

Many of the forcible changes and fantasies proposed by Trump and his incoming deputy (and Goebbels look-alike) Stephen Miller, can only be done through congress - or by constitutional amendment.

Good luck on either of those given Reeps simply lack the majorities in either Senate or House to get that done.  Oh, let me also quickly add that Trump's fantasy of ending birthright citizenship (as the WSJ notes)- can't be done by congress or by any executive order.

In the end, it appears Dotard Trump will be more in the position of the dog that caught the car, than as the powerful autocrat he fancies himself and who runs the country by dictate.

But anyone with more than air between the ears would know he's blowing nothing but brain farts.  This is given he also claimed yesterday he plans to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America". Oh, and "annex" Canada as a 51st state. The two-legged cockroach troll also hasn't ruled out military force to take over the Panama Canal as well as Greenland. Is reducing inflation anywhere on his agenda - after making that promise to the gullible, low IQ "economic" voters?  Not at all. Only grabbing headlines and media attention with the most outrageous brain caca the roach can muster.

See Also:

Mass Global Migration Will Never Be Stopped By Laws - Because It's Fueled By Overpopulation

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Trump’s Monsters’ Playbook: Lies, Fear, and the Cult of Dehumanization

by Thom Hartmann | January 7, 2025 - 6:11am | permalink

— from The Hartmann Report

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche

To get the public to go along with the kind of radical social change that strips people of rights and privileges — and, eventually, their wealth — requires a shock to the political system which can then be exploited by a cynical political leader, his party, and their media allies.

In the second month of his reign, for example, Hitler had his Reichstag Fire, which pushed the German Parliament to pass “emergency” laws expanding his executive power and limiting the reach of parliament and the rights of average people. It ended the rights of assembly, freedom of speech and the press, protections against unlawful search and seizure, and gave him the power to designate persons and organizations as terrorists by decree.

Somewhat similarly, George W. Bush had 9/11 during his first year, which enabled him to push through the PATRIOT Act and other laws that expanded our government’s ability to surveil Americans, engage in warrantless wiretaps, access personal records, and monitor financial transactions.

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Revisiting Differential Geometry (Pt. 4): Parametric Angle Variables for Surfaces

 To deal with surfaces and curves on them we start with a real, single-valued vector function and parametric angle variables using superscripts such that we have:  u¹ ,  u ² , whence:

(1)               x ( u¹ ,  u ² )  =

{ x ₁  ( u¹ ,  u ² ),  x ₂ ( u¹ ,  u ² ) , x ₃ ( u¹ ,  u ² ) }

With the two angular variables  u¹ ,  u ²  defined in a bounded domain B of the u¹  u ² -plane   Then by equation (1) to any point ( u¹ ,  u ² )   in B  there is associated in  R ₃  a  point  with position vector x (u¹ ,  u ²). Then the point set in  R ₃  obtained when u¹ ,  u ²  vary is called a parametric representation of the set and u¹ ,  u ²   are the parameters of this representation.

In these descriptions we will also make use of the Jacobian matrix of rank 2:

 J =

(¶ x ₁ /¶ u¹     ¶ x ₁ /¶ u ²  ) 

(¶ x ₂ /¶ u¹     ¶ x ₂ /¶ u ² ) 

(¶ x ₃ /¶ u¹     ¶ x ₃ /¶ u ² ) 

Partial derivatives of x ( u¹ ,  u ³ )  can then be denoted:

x ₁   = ¶  x/ ¶ u¹      And: x ₁₃   = ¶ ² x/ ¶ u¹  ¶ u³          

Which can also be more generally denoted:

x _a  = ¶  x/ ¶ u¹      

 And:

x _ab = ¶ ² x/ ¶ u_a¹  ¶ u _b³          

Or in the 2^nd case:

 x _ab = ¶ ² x/ ¶ u ^a¶ u ^b          

Note there are three determinants of 2^nd order in the Jacobian J which bear components of the vector products , i.e. of the vectors:

x ₁   = ¶  x/ ¶ u¹        and  x ₂   = ¶ x/ ¶ u²        

These are different from the null vector IFF  x ₁  and x ₂   are linearly independent vectors . 

The assumption that the matrix for Jacobian J is of rank 2 is thus the necessary and sufficient condition that said vectors are linearly independent.

Note the x ₁ x ₂ - plane can be represented in one of two forms, Cartesian:  

(i)                x ( u¹ ,  u ² ) =   (u¹ ,  u ²,  0),   

or polar

(ii)              x ( u¹ ,  u ² ) = ( u¹ cos u ² , u¹ sin u ², 0), 

For which the respective matrices are:

(i) J =  

(1   ....0)

(0 ......1)

(0......0)

And (ii), 

 J =

( cos u ² , -u¹  sin u ² )

( sin u ² ,  u¹  cos u ² )

(0 ....................    0  )

Recall the sphere can be obtained by extending the circle by one dimension ( x ₂ ), i.e. to obtain:

x ₃  = + Ö( r ²   -   x ₁ ² -   x ₂ ²)

Depending on sign this is a representation of one of two hemispheres,  x ₃  >  0  or   x ₃  <   o. The parametric angular representation of the preceding can be expressed:

x ( u¹ ,  u ² )  =  (r cos u ²  cos u¹, r sin u ² sin u¹ , r sin  u ²)

or writing out in terms of  x ₁ ,  x ₂ , x ₃ .

x ₁ = r cos u ²  cos u¹,  x ₂  =  r sin u ² sin u¹ 

x ₃ = r sin  u ²

The geometrical configuration is shown below:

    The similarity to the celestial sphere of astronomy will not be lost on many readers, i.e. the angular parameter u¹  plays an analogous role to Right Ascension while  u ²  plays a role analogous to the zenith distance (z) which is related to the coordinate of declination ( d  = 90 - z). Via this analogy we can also see the corresponding Jacobian matrix at the poles is:

J =

(-r cos u ²  sin u¹        -r sin u ² cos u¹)
(r cos u ²  cos  u¹        -r sin u ² sin u¹)

(0 .......................r cos u ²)

 

Example 2: A cone of revolution with apex x= (0, 0 ,0) and with x ₃ - axis as axis of revolution i.e.

Can be represented in the form:

a ( x ₁² +   x ₂ ²) -  x ₃²    = 0  

And:   x ₃    = + a Ö(x ₁ ² +   x ₂ ²)

represents one of two graphics, x ₃  >  o   and  x ₃    <  0 of the cone depending on the sign of the square root.  In the case shown then we have;  x ₃  = aÖ(x ₁ ² +   x ₂ ²).  The parametric representation can be written:

x ( u¹,  u ² )  =  ( u¹  cos u², u¹ sin u ² , au ²) 

Note the curves u¹  = const. are curves parallel to the x ₁ x ₂ - plane while the curves u¹  = const. are the generating straight lines of the cone.

Suggested Problems:

1) For the given cone of revolution (Example 2) write the corresponding Jacobian (matrix).

2) Find a parametric representation for each of the following:

a) Ellipsoid:  x ( u¹,  u ² )  =   (a cos u² cos u¹ , b cos u² sin u¹, c sin u ²)

b)    Hyperbolic paraboloid:  

x ( u¹ ,  u ²)  =  (au¹ cosh u²,  bu¹ sinh u²,  (u¹ ) ²)

Remembering That Day Of Infamy Four Years Ago

 

                                                                                 

As congress assembles to certify the election of a traitor and 34-times convicted felon it is important that his insurrection four years ago not be whitewashed or forgotten. To that end I have assembled the following pertinent links - lest too many forget Trump's atrocities like they forgot most of his original 4 year term when they voted him back in again.

Beware of an Impending Sedition Shitshow Tomorrow As Reep Traitors Object To Electoral College Results

Excerpt:

We have since learned that - in addition to Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri -   12 other  Reep Senators have vowed to be the traitors who, with some 147 Reeptard House seditionists,  plan to try to thwart Biden's electoral certification.  Thereby orchestrating an indecent, undignified challenge to what ought to be a simple pro forma ratification of the Biden win.   See e.g.

The Senate’s coup-staging ‘Dirty Dozen’ shouldn’t be allowed to hold office

Egging them on is the orange -hued fungal putrescence, traitor and sewer scum -in -chief,  who may yet have to be dragged bodily out of the White House on Jan. 20th by the FBI or the Capitol police, e.g.

But in the meantime this criminal degenerate is still wreaking havoc and ready to sow civil unrest and possible bloodshed to try to remain in the office he was just kicked out of.  By nearly 81 million voters no less.

• Where Was Security As Trump's Terror Apes Stormed the Capitol?
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Trump the Traitor then barked  louder for his conned terror apes to march on the Capitol (he vowed to go with them but didn't) ,  creating  a scene evocative of coups and uprisings associated with authoritarian countries around the world.  

Within minutes of the terrorists arriving they breached the walls of the Capitol building, smashed windows and crawled inside, violating even the inner sanctum of the People's house.  One ape was even seen carrying a Confederate flag into Statuary Hall - desecrating it on the spot.  This as shots were fired and the Capitol police were overrun and overwhelmed and lawmakers ordered to shelter in place. 

 The Capitol was put on lockdown and tear gas was deployed inside the once citadel of American democracy - now defiled by a raging, brain-fucked mob of  QAnon lunatics and white nationalist terrorists incited to insurrection by the Traitor-in-chief.  Meanwhile Metropolitan police officers guarding the House chamber drew their pistols in an armed standoff but knew it was a losing wicket without the National Guard to back them up.  Others, incredibly, had selfies taken with the MAGA traitors and insurrectionists.

                   Trump's savages (top) and insurrectionists

Where was the National Guard in all this?  Who knew?  We kept seeing tweets from Kayleigh McEnany over CNN that they were "on the way"-  but all Janice and I saw was more bedlam on the screen.  Later,  Daily Kos and other media  reported that Trump ordered the Guard to stand down.  Also, he ordered his traitor toady defense secretary to prevent the Guard from other states (.e.g Maryland) from coming in. Which comports with his subsequent praising of the rabble as "patriots".   Can't have  white racist bigots and "patriots" getting shot or gassed now can we? After all, they ain't black or brown folks.  Like the unfortunate peaceful protesters pepper -balled and flash-banged into submission when Trump pulled his bible prop stunt near Lafayette Square back in June. 

• Why The Insurrection Of January 6th Must Not Be Lost In The News Cycle.
• Excerpt:

• Those who know their American history - not including the Trump MAGA terror tribe - recognized it had been more than 220 years since the U.S. Capitol  was ransacked.  That was in 1814, just 14 years after the building opened.  Then British forces in the War of 1812 tried to burn it down. The invaders looted the building first, and then set the southern and northern wings ablaze — incinerating the Library of Congress. A sudden rainstorm prevented its total destruction. 

   But that event stands in stark contrast to the terrorism carried out by our own people on Wednesday.  Hundreds violating the citadel of our democracy, invading offices, terrorizing lawmakers, rifling through drawers, smashing furniture, pawing historic artifacts and stealing documents - and oh yeah, leaving chewing tobacco spittle behind -- along with 11 Molotov cocktails, two pipe bombs and other paraphernalia, e.g. assault rifles fully loaded.  

  Who are these people?  Steve Schmidt - former GOP strategist provided his insights last night on MSNBC 'Last Word':

  "These people are like the blackshirts of Italy, and brownshirts of Germany in the 1930s.  They are society's losers. They're on society's fringe.  This is an army of the aggrieved and the incited."  

  Adding that whenever one sees such losers, there are always those in the background manipulating them - like chess pawns - in the name of power.  In Schmidt's view  "they are more dangerous than all the criminals and terrorists that stormed the Capitol."  

  Why?  Because they engineered and created the memes and propaganda the MAGA losers imbibed -but which they were too stupid to see through.  Schmidt names two of the "seditious elites" manipulating the mob -  Josh Hawley, a Yale Law school grad, and Ted Cruz - a Harvard law grad. Two who theoretically ought to know better than to stir the "beast" - but find power more enticing. In Schmidt's words, driven by: "The cynicism, the sociopathy, the sickness in their souls, to incite this."

• Should Trump Be Held Accountable For Fomenting Terror Strike On Capitol? Yes - No Less Than the 9/11 Terrorists

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  • The insipid  - and at once insidious - question,  posed in The Sunday Denver Post header: Should the president  be held accountable?  had the same ring as asking:  Should The Terrorist Osama Bin Laden Have Been Held Accountable for the 9/11 Attacks?  Hyperbolic comparison?  Histrionic?  Excessive? Not at all.  Bin Laden had orchestrated a vicious Al  Qaeda attack on the capital of American finance, while Donald J. Trump had orchestrated a domestic terror attack on the nation's Capitol - its abiding symbol of democracy.   Yes, many more were killed in the first, but as we've since learned, many more could have been slaughtered in the second, e.g. from the NY Times (Sunday):

    "It was such an embarrassingly bad failure and immediately became an infamous moment in American history,” said R.P. Eddy, a former American counterterrorism official and diplomat who now runs a private intelligence firm. “But it could have been so much worse.”  

    Eddy was referring to the mass of weapons subsequently seized including styrofoam- laden Molotov cocktails designed to act like napalm, pipe bombs ready to activate, assault rifles and the vow of many of the invaders to execute lawmakers.  As one ABC security specialist put it yesterday morning "We narrowly averted a mass casualty event."

    So let's cut the crap and admit - even as more images and evidence emerge from the Capitol insurrection- that what Trump did was unconscionable and differed from Osama bin Laden's external terror strike only in degree.   As I noted in my January 7 post:  

    "As for the chief terrorist he ought to have been hung by now.  But at the very least he needs to be impeached again to ensure he can never again hold a public office.  Yes, this is what it has come to and how far our nation has descended into the abyss under this detestable, depraved criminal rat."

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  • Donald Trump
    A Day That Shall Live in Infamy, As Should Donald J. Trump

    by Robert Reich | January 6, 2025 - 6:39am | permalink

    — from Robert Reich's Substack

    

    Friends,

    The man who instigated a riot at the U.S. Capitol four years ago tomorrow to stop the certification of Joe Biden as president will be certified president.

    The peaceful transfer of power lies at the heart of American democracy, but Trump sought to overturn the result of the 2020 election and has not been held accountable.

    We must never forget his treachery.

    When Vice President Mike Pence walked into the Capitol four years ago tomorrow, on January 6, 2021, he faced a withering pressure campaign by Trump, who had already twisted the arms of governors and election officials around the country to change the result of the election in his favor.

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Solution To Mensa Magic Square

 The  solution to Dec. 30th Magic Square puzzle:

Each row, each column, and both diagonals have the same sum: 34

Elected Traitor and Felon Stokes Hate & Division Using 'Immigrant' Lies In New Orleans Terror Attack

                                                                            Capt. Bonespurs blows a gasket after Tesla truck blows up outside his hotel in Vegas

Donald Trump – aka Dotard, nee Captain Bonespurs- ended his New Year's Day going on a social media rampage after the  horrendous attack in New Orleans in the early morning followed by a Tesla Cybertruck blowing up in front of his Las Vegas hotel.  Together the events seem to have rattled him, the Tesla explosion a thousand times more than the New Orleans terror attack. I mean, the orange fungus was so rattled that he demanded the CIA become involved in domestic affairs.  Does he even know what that means?  Does he mean like the way the agency got involved with taking out JFK in November, 1963?  Anyway, I will align my sympathies with the N.O. victims (see link to victims at end of post.)

Taking to his Truth Social account late in the evening, the first ever president-elect felon pointed fingers in multiple directions and (true to form) blamed everything going wrong in the country on Democrats and the country's law enforcement apparatus.  This was after the explosion of the Tesla vehicle outside his Vegas hotel was likely too close for comfort.  It was not about New Orleans or helping the victims there – which the lying fucker blamed on the N.O.  terrorist “invading from Mexico”.  (In fact Jabbar was a U.S. citizen and even served in the Army.)

On Truth Social, he wrote, "Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World!

Of course it’s a laughing stock "all over the world" after millions of muddle-headed bumpkins and MAGA termites put you back into office.  The world, frankly, can't believe a majority of 'Muricans were so stupid and gullible as to put this elderly orange maggot criminal back into the White House. As my brother-in -law Anthony asked: "What on God's green Earth are American voters smoking?"

Had to inform him they're imbibing Trump's lies (like him bringing down inflation) like crack.

The Orange traitor aging on:

“This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership. The DOJ, FBI, and Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their job. They are incompetent and corrupt, having spent all of their waking hours unlawfully attacking their political opponent, ME, rather than focusing on protecting Americans from the outside and inside violent SCUM that has infiltrated all aspects of our government, and our Nation itself."

 What a pile of overripe Caca!  The lawful establishment has more than done its job, apart from one major error: not disqualifying YOU from ever running as president again after that January 6th insurrection you fomented.  Hence, for the first time allowing a traitor to hold the highest office.  My Revolutionary War ancestors are rolling over in their graves about now, especially in the wake of your victim scaping bloviations.

Then adding more caca to the stew:

"Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen to our Country. The CIA must get involved, NOW, before it is too late. The USA is breaking down - A violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy is taking place all across our Nation. Only strength and powerful leadership will stop it. See you on January 20th. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

Democrats ashamed?  YOU are the one who ought to be ashamed bamboozling millions with your lies and horse shit into voting you back into power.  As for the "violent erosion in safety, national security, democracy" - and yes civility and decency- that has grown like a cancer since your arrival on the political scene.  You are an orange pestilence that cares only about its own glorification and power, not about the citizens of this once great land.

 Which may ascend to greatness once more after you finally croak from stuffing your  fat face with all those Mickey D burgers, fries and KFC chicken.  As for your inauguration, I would not desecrate my TV by tuning it in to such an atrocity.

See Also:

List: New Orleans NYE Bourbon Street attack victims | Crime/Police | nola.com

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Trump Stokes Hate With False Insinuations About New Orleans Truck Attack Suspect

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‘Doesn’t Historically Work Out’: Trump Mocked Over Social Media Meltdown

by Maya Boddie | January 3, 2025 - 6:37am | permalink

— from Alternet

Donald Trump was slammed over one of his latest social media rants claiming that the "world" is "laughing" at the United States after the New Orleans truck attack that occurred on New Year's Day, leaving at least 14 people dead.

"Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World!" Trump proclaimed. "This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership. The DOJ, FBI, and Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their job. They are incompetent and corrupt, having spent all of their waking hours unlawfully attacking their political opponent, ME, rather than focusing on protecting Americans from the outside and inside violent SCUM that has infiltrated all aspects of our government, and our Nation itself."

The president-elect added, "Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen to our Country. The CIA must get involved, NOW, before it is too late. The USA is breaking down - A violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy is taking place all across our Nation. Only strength and powerful leadership will stop it. See you on January 20th. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

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Donald Trump | Republicans

New Year, Same Trump: MAGA Pounces on New Orleans Tragedy To Spread Disinformation

by Amanda Marcotte | January 4, 2025 - 6:29am | permalink

— from Salon

In the hours after a mass murderer killed 10 people in New Orleans with a combination car and gun attack only hours into the new year, there was much that was unknown about the killer, his motive(s) or potential co-conspirators. However, one thing was as certain as the sun rising in the east: Donald Trump would take to Truth Social to lie about it, pumping as much disinformation as possible into the discourse before the facts had a chance to percolate. Wednesday morning, at least an hour before the name of the suspect was even publicly released, Trump sure enough was lying about it on his social media website.

"When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true," he ranted. It did not turn out to be true.

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Liz Cheney Shuts Down Trump's 'Malicious Lies' With Blunt Jan. 6 Reminder

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Government

Will America Die Gradually, Then Suddenly?

by Thom Hartmann | January 1, 2025 - 7:19am | permalink

— from The Hartmann Report

As we look at the upcoming year this New Year’s Eve, the most urgent question facing us is whether the assault Putin, Orbán, Trump, Musk, and Vance have planned for our political system in 2025 will succeed.

In 1926 Ernest Hemmingway published his novel The Sun Also Rises, which has this extraordinary bit of dialogue about how change happens in most aspects of life — and how governments rise and fall.

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
”Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
”What brought it on?”
“Friends,” said Mike. “I had a lot of friends. False friends.”

For some unfathomable reason, Democrats insist on calling their Republican colleagues their “friends.” They are not friends.

With few exceptions, they are systematically destroying American democracy with the clear objective of replacing it with strongman authoritarianism, a new and American version of what Benito Mussolini called fascism.

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Author Details Prep for ‘Full-On Societal Meltdown’ As Trump’s Second Presidency Draws Closer

by Alex Henderson | January 1, 2025 - 6:36am | permalink

— from Alternet

President-elect Donald Trump's second term is less than a month away. And when he is inaugurated on January 20, 2025, Congress will have small Republican majorities in both of its chambers.

In an article published by The New Republic on the last day of 2024, journalist/author Liza Featherstone describes a New Year's resolution: closer bonding with friends and neighbors in case 2025 and the second Trump Administration bring civil unrest.

"Normally, just like everyone else, I just resolve to spend more time at the gym," Featherstone says of her New Year's resolutions. "But as the first Trump inauguration loomed, in early January 2017, my New Year's resolutions were higher stakes than usual. I knew that I would have to volunteer more of my time to local politics. I would also try to look after my own sanity: I would read more novels, spend less time online and more time outdoors. But, while I was concerned about bettering the world without losing my mind, I wondered even more how to prepare for the impending societal collapse I feared was coming."

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