Hey Democrats, Get With Bernie or Get Out of the Way.

Now is the time for a revolution of sanity. Fix money in politics, Fix the American health care system, tax the rich, invest in research and new technologies and fight climate change.

Trump was elected because people know the system isn’t working for them. To quote Bernie from today’s speech, “Democrats need to stop voting for the status quo.”

This is Criminal

No American President has been brazenly corrupt before. I firmly believe the majority haven’t been corrupt at all. But to do it so openly. It boggles the mind.

Sure, Adam Schiff hates Trump, Trump’s fans will all discount anything he says. But this is all real. Donald Trump’s personal wealth has increased dramatically since becoming president. Is that the leader we want?

This is an absolute shattering of the Emoluments Clause

Trump crypto soars as president offers dinner to top holders

The Cruelty is the Point

So now we don’t even take refugees from communism anymore?

Tampa woman deported to Cuba gets separated from one-year-old and U.S. citizen husband

It’s amazing to me that there is a group of Americans who like the idea of making people who are different from them suffer. There are people who enjoy this. “Yeah, he’s gettin’ it done!”

What? Assuming they never took Philosophy, I hope at least they listened in Sunday school, but I rather doubt it.

Update: Yep. The cruelty is the point.

U.S. citizen children, including 4-year-old with cancer, taken to Honduras on mother’s deportation flight, legal advocates say

Update: Gotta love law enforcement. This is the side of it many poor people get to see all the time and almost no suburban white folks ever see.

ICE Invades Wrong Home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves

Removing the Barricades to Corruption

Just as when Trump fired the Democrats on the FTC board, this removes another barricade to malfeasance. The monitory party members on the board are there to keep an eye on the majority party who runs the show. They can, and do, report on less than kosher deals. Both Republicans and Democrats have been in the minority in the past and both have done this job. This has never happened before that I can recall. We should all be very worried. I like when the government keeps an eye on those who could rip me off. This removes that protection.

Trump administration removes Democratic members of credit union watchdog

Sure We Made a Mistake, But We Don’t Care

It says a lot about a Trump supporter that this is the kind of cruelty they crave. First, they fired the guy who admitted they made a mistake in deporting the man. (Lesson – Never admit wrongdoing or a mistake.) Now, they refuse to repatriate the victim. A Maryland father of three with protected status and no criminal record. A decision so capricious and cruel as to defy explanation. What kind of sicko wants these people in charge? And before any Trump supporters say “Well we didn’t vote for that.” Yeah, you did. You don’t get a pass on anything he does. You were warned.
Trump administration contends it has no duty to return illegally deported man to US

First, they take away food for starving kids from famine stricken countries that cost our government little, but helped U.S. farmers because the government bought their crop. Not to mention the goodwill it bought our country. Then, they take away Medicaid funding that pays for health care for poor children and old people in nursing homes and SNAP funding that gets poor kids food. Now this.

Incompetence, corruption and cruelty. That’s Trump.

Update: Let’s double down on this. Trump’s Immigration Czar Mocks SCOTUS’ Deported Dad Slapdown and… Man Sent to Guantánamo Bay for Biking on Wrong Side of the Road
Yeah I know those stories are from “The Daily Beast” but The conversation was real, and I won’t link to Newsmax.

The Trump Administration Can’t Stop Lying About Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Bush’s “terrorist prison” at Guantánamo Bay cost’s the U.S. taxpayers $450 million per year. Many of the original detainees have been cleared for release. But they’re still there. All of them could be moved to federal supermax prisons for a huge savings. But some people love that we have a “secret” prison.