Hence my snark about it.
It was ironic that their idea was “make the rich pay for it”, even if it wasn’t via taxes.
Monty
June 13, 2025, 12:10am
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I thoguht if you’re moving at the speed of light, you’re not moving through time at all.
Well there’s that whole relativity balderdash, not to mention the train that left Philadelphia at 1630 traveling 60 mph toward your couch. But enough math, my head hurts.
I’m confused. ICE is taking away the good people and now criminals, who I heard were to be deported first, are taking the jobs that Americans won’t do? How will the rich job creators manage this? What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
I’m just spitballin’ here but, maybe it’s time to reconsider the other Reconstruction Amendments .
Monty
June 13, 2025, 2:55am
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Just in case you thought felon47 had any idea whatsoever of what he’s doing, I give you this amazing report .
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said he plans to make changes to his administration’s aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration to protect migrant farmers, hotel workers and others in the leisure industry who have been among those deported.
Trump promised the changes in a June 12 Truth Social post that acknowledged Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have expanded arrests beyond just migrants convicted of violent crimes , who Trump officials have said are the primary targets of raids and deportations.
“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace,” Trump wrote on the social media platform he owns.
He added that in many cases “Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy” are applying for these jobs.
“This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!” Trump said.
The president did not specify what changes could be in store to address worker shortages caused by his immigration crackdown. Critics of Trump’s mass-deportation agenda have long said migrants ‒ who tend to provide cheap labor by working for low wages ‒ are an essential part of the country’s agriculture workforce.
About 42% of farm workers in the United States between 2020 and 2022 lacked legal status, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security .
“Our farmers are being hurt badly,” Trump said during an event in the White House East Room when asked about his position. “You know, they have very good workers. They’ve worked for them for 20 years. They’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be, you know, great.”
So the people who supported him got their faces bitten by a leopard and they’re biting back at him. Now he’s TACOing yet again. Of course he’s also the one who created this entire situation and thus he’s blaming himself as he should Biden!
Monty:
The president did not specify what changes could be in store to address worker shortages caused by his immigration crackdown.
Of course, he doesn’t ever actually have to do anything. All he has to say is that he is going to do something. And then forget about it.
Pass the TACOs.
He doesn’t manage to stand very well, his posture is not great. Not particularly stable, either.
So yes, your analogy seems to be correct.
Monty
June 13, 2025, 5:09am
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The felon speaks to troops at Fort Bragg. And the grift was a-bonespurred-foot.
The Army is reviewing how pro-President Donald Trump merchandise wound up being sold on one of its bases this week at a service-sponsored event orchestrated by the White House and the president’s supporters.
Earlier this week, Trump spoke at Fort Bragg in North Carolina in celebration of the Army’s 250th birthday. At the event, vendors were spotted selling Trump merchandise – including “Make America Great Again” hats and other “America First” swag. The practice is likely at odds with long-standing Defense Department policy, which prohibits troops from wearing political garb such as hats or flags or expressing their political opinion while in uniform.
The policy is intended to preserve America’s tradition of apolitical military forces, serving at the behest of a democratically elected president regardless of party.
Prepare to attack Greenland!
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to acknowledge that the Pentagon has developed plans to take over Greenland and Panama by force if necessary but refused to answer repeated questions at a hotly combative congressional hearing Thursday about his use of Signal chats to discuss military operations.
Democratic members of the House Armed Services Committee repeatedly got into heated exchanges with Hegseth, with some of the toughest lines of questioning coming from military veterans as many demanded yes or no answers and he tried to avoid direct responses about his actions as Pentagon chief .
In one back-and-forth, Hegseth did provide an eyebrow-raising answer. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., asked whether the Pentagon has developed plans to take Greenland or Panama by force if necessary.
“Our job at the Defense Department is to have plans for any contingency,” Hegseth said several times.
It is not unusual for the Pentagon to draw up contingency plans for conflicts that have not arisen, but his handling of the questions prompted a Republican lawmaker to step in a few minutes later.
“It is not your testimony today that there are plans at the Pentagon for taking by force or invading Greenland, correct?” said Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio.
As Hegseth started to repeat his answer about contingency plans, Turner added emphatically, “I sure as hell hope that is not your testimony.”
Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans have to leave.
MIAMI (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that it has begun notifying hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that their temporary permission to live and work in the United States has been revoked and that they should leave the country.
The termination notices are being sent by email to people who entered the country under the humanitarian parole program for the four countries, officials said.
Since October 2022, about 532,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela were allowed to enter the U.S. under the program created by the Biden administration . They arrived with financial sponsors and were given two-year permits to live and work in the U.S.
Maybe they should have gotten a job as a farmworker or hotel staff instead of, get this, being in the country legally and working legally .
The cluster…I mean administration cannot deport Mahmoud Khalil just because Rubio says to do so.
A federal judge ruled Secretary of State Marco Rubio can’t detain or remove Mahmoud Khalil from the United States for now.
In a June 11 ruling , District Judge Michael Farbiarz, of New Jersey, granted the 30-year-old Palestinian Columbia University graduate’s request to temporarily block federal officials from deporting him.
Khalil, who is a lawful permanent resident, has been held in a detention facility in Louisiana since he was detained in his university-owned New York City apartment building lobby in March . His lawyers have fought for his release to be with his wife and newborn son, Deen.
The Trump administration has said it stripped him of his legal status for his role in pro-Palestinian protests at the Ivy League campus in New York City.
Rubio had cited an obscure provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. It allows the secretary of state to remove someone if there was reason to believe the person’s activities or presence in the country affects American foreign policy interests.
Farbiarz ruled against Rubio’s authority to remove Khalil, citing harm to Khalil’s career and reputation, and that it was chilling his right to speech. “This adds up to irreparable harm,” he said.
Neither the Justice Department nor the State Department immediately returned requests for comment.
“This vindicates what Mahmoud has maintained since day one — that the government cannot detain or deport him based on Rubio’s say-so,” Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer for Khalil and a law professor at the City University of New York, said in a statement.
Miller lies; a real leader corrects him.
Gavin Newsom ’s office has lashed out at the “stupidity” of Stephen Miller after he misrepresented how the state’s sanctuary policies work.
The White House deputy chief of staff posted on X during the Los Angeles protests against federal immigration raids that California’s Sanctuary State law means that “every criminal alien arrested” by local police is “set free back into the community instead of being handed over to ICE.”
The California governor’s team fired back, writing : “Yes, we seek sanctuary from your stupidity.” The post included a 2020 Washington Post review of the book Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda .
Twisting the knife, Newsom’s office also referred to Miller as “Voldemort” —the villain from the Harry Potter franchise, a nickname critics use for the Trump ally—while citing data showing California’s prison system has coordinated with ICE to transfer 10,588 inmates into federal custody since Newsom took office in 2019.
American citizen deported to Mexico still in dire straits.
Let it rain, Let it rain, Open the flood gates of Heaven, Let it rain, Let it rain, Open the flood gates of Heaven, Let it
President Donald Trump’s upcoming $45 million parade will most likely get rained on, according to current weather forecasts.
As of Wednesday, the National Weather Service has predicted that there is a 60 percent chance it will rain Saturday after 2 p.m. with a probability of thunderstorms in the evening, potentially foiling Trump’s stacked parade itinerary.
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Depending on the severity of the weather, certain events, such as the Army’s Golden Knights parachute jump and fireworks at the end of the night, could be canceled.
Rain, don’t go away
It’s almost impressive, for someone who reportedly sports a baby mushroom nub, he still manages to keep slamming it in a door.
Monty
June 13, 2025, 7:52am
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and trotting on it like it’s a treadmill!
@Monty Thank you again for doing this. I know I couldn’t without needing a larger bottle of booze than my liver can handle.
This seems as good a place as any for this:
In other news, i was talking to a guy who is a square dance caller in Texas. He says all the gay student clubs in universities are closing, and he’s looking to get out.
I saw Treadmill Penis in concert not too long ago. They opened for ETF (the ExtraTerrestrial Ferrets).
What a triumph! Those gangsters came to the US to get rich off the drug trade and murders, but in only five months, Lord Emperor Trump has so destroyed the drug trade, and the murder trade, that these thugs are reduced to accepting back-breaking labor jobs in awful working conditions! And the ever-modest LET, of course, hasn’t bothered to mention this great success!
Monty
June 14, 2025, 1:56am
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The USMC. The few. The proud. The complicit.
LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Marines deployed to Los Angeles temporarily detained a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
The incident took place at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles where Marines took charge of the mission to protect the building earlier on Friday, in a rare domestic use of U.S. troops after days of protests over immigration raids.
Reuters images showed Marines apprehending the man, restraining his hands with zip ties and then handing him over to civilians from the Department of Homeland Security.
Asked about the incident, the U.S. military’s Northern Command spokesperson said active duty forces “may temporarily detain an individual in specific circumstances.”
“Any temporary detention ends immediately when the individual(s) can be safely transferred to the custody of appropriate civilian law enforcement personnel,” a spokesperson said.
Speaking to reporters after he was released, the civilian identified himself as Marcos Leao, 27. Leao said he was an Army veteran on his way to an office of the Department of Veterans Affairs when he crossed a yellow tape boundary and was asked to stop.
Leao, who gained his U.S. citizenship through military service, said he was treated “very fairly.”
“They’re just doing their job,” said Leao, who is of Angolan and Portuguese descent.
Just grift it!
President Donald Trump continues to enjoy income streams from scores of luxury properties and business ventures, many of which are worth tens of millions of dollars, according to a financial disclosure form filed late Friday .
Released by the Office of Government Ethics, Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure spans 234 pages in all, including 145 pages of stock and bond investments, and is dated Friday with Trump’s signature.
One of the largest sources of income on the form is the $57,355,532 he received from his ownership stake in World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency platform launched last year. The form shows that World Liberty’s sales of digital tokens have been highly lucrative for Trump and his family. Trump’s three sons, Donald Jr., Eric, and Barron, are listed on the company’s website as co-founders of the firm .
Separately**,** Trump’s meme coin, known on crypto markets simply as $TRUMP, was not released until January and is therefore not subject to the disclosure requirements for this form, which covered the calendar year 2024.
It was a lucrative year for Trump when it came to royalty payments for the various goods that are sold featuring his name and likeness.
Among the royalty payments:
Save America (coffee table book) — $3,000,000
Trump Sneakers and Fragrances — $2,500,000
Trump Watches — $2,800,000
The Greenwood Bible — $1,306,035
“45” Guitar — $1,055,100
NFT licensing and royalties — $1,157,490
The filing also includes a listing of liabilities, including at least $15,000 on an American Express credit card and payments due to E. Jean Carroll, the woman who successfully sued Trump over sexual abuse and defamation , though the president is still seeking to appeal the decision .
Remember when elected officials used to transfer their assets into a blind trust to keep everything honest?
Hey, Trump has realized that scaring away all the illegal aliens might actually be bad for the economy. At least, the parts of the economy he gives a shit about.
The abrupt pivot on an issue at the heart of Mr. Trump’s presidency suggested his broad immigration crackdown was hurting industries and constituencies he does not want to lose.
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