The courts should stop screwing with the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. No more! Call federal officials as witnesses. Put them under oath.
My fear is Garcia is dead. Has been dead and the federal government does not know how to explain it.
The District Court Judge has been tough. Could have been tougher. Call witnesses to the stand!
The Supreme Court sounded as if it sided with Garcia. Could have been tougher. Its meager statement (not a decision) weak. Should have pounded the nails in where they belonged. Trump is making a fool of the Supreme Court.
June 14th may turn out to be a day of days. It is a day of national celebration. Flag Day as always. Also the birthday of the U.S. Army. This year of special significance as it is the Army’s 250th anniversary.
Turns out it is also Donald Trump’s birthday. His 79th. He was born June 14, 1946.
Rumor has it Donald wants a big European military parade. The type the U.S. does not do. Not part of our nature. The type Hitler did. The type that Russia, North Korea and China do today. As well as France. Europeans love military show off events.
Trump has frequently commented how he likes them also. He went crazy once during his first term while in France and seated next to Macron at one. Returned home and in due course suggested one for his birthday which also fell on Flag Day. His idea went over like a lead balloon when it was discovered the event would cost $91 million.
Things must have changed since Trump’s first term. Money must abound, be all over the place. Can waste what would probably cost more than $100 million today. At a time when Medicaid is being cut and Social Security is under attack. At a time when Trump’s Tariff War is increasing prices and inflation.
Trump denies he wants or is pushing such a military parade. Should we believe him? In his present autocratic nature, anything is possible. The military parade probable.
Trump loves to threaten war. Now, it’s Iran. Iranian nuclear weapons the issue. Negotiations beginning. Trump says if negotiations fail, war possible. Some day someone is going to take Donald seriously and such will occur. This could be the time. Or, perhaps China.
Appreciate a war would involve destruction on our shores also. Missiles, bombs and ground troops. The ocean a meaningless barrier today. If it is Iran, such a war would involve other Middle East nations also.
Trump will not have to worry about Donald Jr. and Eric going off to war as they are too old. However, Barron is not. He is at the exact age to fight.
This time there will be no bone spurs. Americans will accept no excuses. Melania will suffer the pain all mothers do.
Two giants in a tariff war. Crazy. One money. The other an actual shooting war.
What is Trump up to? You don’t fuck with China. It looks like Trump wants a shooting war. God forbid!
We are pushing towards a recession. Prices and inflation will be up.
Thank you, Donald. Me thinks you have made an error in judgment.
The bond market a fearful sign. The strength of the U.S. economy measured by it. Now in a crisis mode. The U.S. will have to pay buyers a higher interest rate on a shorter term bond.
Credit always a concern. Governments no different than people when it comes to credit. Napoleon worried about credit even as he was conquering Europe. Lincoln tracked the price of Union bonds as intensely as the movement of Union troops. Even in 1939 as World War II was beginning, the bond markets signaled that the U.S., Britain and France were stronger than Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. Which proved true in the final analysis.
As expected, RFK Jr. is going to make a mess of things. Beware!
I am ashamed of the major law firms that are capitulating to Trump. They are bending the knee for economic reasons. Sad because they are one of the two last U.S. bastions of freedom. Lawyers always stood firm in defending rights and respecting people. The trend is contrary now.
The other guardian of our rights are the people themselves. The protests speak well that a growing number of Americans do not support Trump’s tactics in general.
Education is under attack. Getting rid of federal oversight of public education is one thing. Even worse is Trump’s attack on colleges and universities. Thinking minds mut be left free to think. Simply stated. My college years did more to develop my mind than anything else. Many bugs of thought planted during college and university years become the ways our society will live tomorrow. Education at the highest levels must not be managed, controlled or dictated.
I was contemplating a European trip in a few months. No more. The world too uncertain.
Would you believe, the U.S. once banned sliced bread? Yes, during World War II.
We banned it January 18, 1943. The reason was to preserve the nation’s supply of alloyed steel which was used to build slicing machines and wax paper which was required in a thicker wrapper in order to preserve bread.
American mothers, who had given up their sons and everything else to help the war effort, said “No way!”
God bless mothers!
The Civil War began this day in 1861 when the Confederates opened fire on Union held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. The bombing lasted 34 hours, involved 50 Confederate guns and mortars which launched more than 4,000 rounds on the Fort.
At the end, the American flag remained flying. However, the Civil War had begun.
I close with my last night.
Enjoyed Corolla, dinner and watching the Masters at Brady’s Irish Pub. Plus a number of friends I had not seen in a while.
Tonight, I plan on watching Mamma Mia at the Key West High School. Hope I make it!
Enjoy your day!
Yes, prices are still high, even on things that have nothing to do with tariffs. Eggs as an example. The wholesale price came back down to where it had been before Bird Flu, but the retail price hasn’t dropped at all. Now Gas prices are going up – a lot. I’ve seen other prices, also not imports, beginning to rise.
Trump promised to do something about that, even on the “first day of his presidency. But he hasn’t done that and isn’t even commenting about it.
I think we’ve been had, yet again.
Prices will not go down until we have a major world wide depression
Or a major revaluation of the currency, period.
The left has been lied to by so many of their trusted sources. Chuck Todd saying Biden is mentally with it, Rachel Maddow and years of Russian collusion, key west Lou claiming someone attacked the capital with a gun, Fauci saying the virus came
From a pangolin in the wet market, hunters laptop is Russian disinformation and on and on. The left no longer can figure out what is fact and what is fiction! So sad!
Nonsense and Bullshet from a desperate to change the subject, troll who got caught lying on Lou’s blog about his family, now trying to divert the heat with a litany of rightwing talking points with no basis in truth. Not one of which he can offer up with any actual facts.
Talk about sad? What a pathetic looser.
Our government is under the complete control of Republicans, from the presidency, to the congress, to the supreme court, to the FBI, etc., etc. Yet, suddenly they are very quiet on the Hunter Biden laptop issue and have not produced it, let alone talk about it in any way, shape or form.
Yet there are still those gullible ditto heads who insist on bringing it up as proof of something wrong with Democrats, even though no one (even EYW) knows what is on that computer, asuming it actually existed.
You’d think that now there is no one anywhere to keep it hidden any more, that they would have produced it by now, to justify their obsession about it for the past decade.
But no, not a word. That is because it does not exist and never did, at least not in any nefarious way. It has always been a toothless weapon and even now people like EWY are still trying to weaponize it without dawning on them that smarter people knew/know that it is not now nor ever was an honest issue. Even though FOX News made a lot of money on that subject.
Lou, that was my first thought and concern, this young man being deceased. Trump has floated sending US citizens who are incarcerated to similar prisons. There is no long a need to wait for a Constitutional crisis, it is on the daily.
*longer.
Drop the amateur blather about Biden’s brain and look at the actual numbers from his term.
it’s not about the facts, only about what they want you to feel/remember, truth be damned!