What’s the point of Donald Trump’s nonsensical carrying on over Greenland? The fat fool in the White House babbles about security, but that’s nonsense. We have all the security we need right now. We’ve had it since WWII, when the bases in Thule were the launching point of the American air invasion of Europe. At the conclusion of the war, Greenland became the principal launching site of our contention with the Soviet Union. Our presence there was reduced in 1965, when technology replaced guys in mukluks. So, the security that Trump is babbling about is already there in the many Greenland locations where we currently have bases.
The people of Greenland don’t particularly want to be Americans, especially while Trump is in office, so what makes anyone not named Trump think the Greenlanders will be happy to become part of America, and why would our taxpayers want to pay for it when we are already getting the benefits for nothing. One thing is for sure, and that’s that Trump better figure out whether he wants Greenland or Iceland before someone locks him in a padded room.
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Kristie Noem, minus the cowboy hat, was on Face the Nation trying to justify an ICE agent’s murder of a citizen, while no one was looking into what actually happened. The DOJ, it seems, is interested in investigating everyone associated with the incident except the shooter.
Look! It’s way past time for Trump and his pathetic yes-men to give ICE the basic training they obviously never received. It’s great that they got big bonuses for joining up, but that money is wasted if they never receive instruction in crowd control.
I watched Mike Turner trying desperately to find a way to explain the whole mess without coming up with one reasonable scenario. The guy in the White House is so busy stabbing his own people in the back that guys like Turner have almost no room to maneuver. Turner is already one of the most erudite of the GOP cabal. If he can’t figure out a way to interpret Trump’s stupidity so it looks okay, no one can.
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Did you know that right now, in this country, the convicted criminal who was elected president is making decisions that have no relevance to any of the moral principals on which this country is based.
Right now, in this country, that president has unilaterally ordered U.S. military into another country, where they killed foreign nationals and kidnapped the criminal who ran that place, and transported him inside our borders.
Right now, in this country, an armed masked Gestapo called ICE is kidnapping and killing American citizens under the guise that these citizens are illegal immigrants. They are doing it without warrants or anything that gives them a legal excuse for their actions, and they are using infants to facilitate their sub-human plan.
Right now, in this country, the criminal president is threatening to destroy the organization that has been a major force in maintaining the peace in Europe ever since WWII so he can gain control over the mineral wealth of a peaceful island that has guarded our northern border since the Nazis threatened us in 1940.
Why is all this going on? Because the citizens of this nation chose to ignore the legal, moral, and intellectual presentments of the man they chose to run our country, and voted for a proven liar, cheat, and traitor, whose only goal as president is to increase the wealth of his family and build a glaringly false image of himself as an American hero. The bizarre fact is, everything he does to inflate this goal makes him look more foolish. Maria Corina Machado also made a fool of herself and Trump by offering him her prize in exchange for the leadership of Venezuela, and he made both Machado and himself look even more foolish by taking the medal and delivering nothing for it, even as he blabbed about the eight wars that no one but himself knows about, and that he claims he stopped.
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Another murder in Minnesota. This time ICE had what they thought was an excuse. The victim had a gun on him. Why? Why was this man, a seemingly law-abiding citizen, carrying a gun into an already dangerous situation? The fact that you have a right to carry a weapon doesn’t mean you should. It was an extremely stupid move and because he wasn’t dealing with sufficiently-trained ICE, he is now dead.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara was on Face the Nation this Sunday, calling out the federal storm troopers of ICE for their incredibly amateurish handling of the crowds of protesters in his city. He was followed by Senator Steve Scalise, who backed Trump’s Gestapo despite the observable facts that they are exceeding their power and assisting in the murder of the citizenry.
Look! ICE has a tough job, and one that was created by a former administration that just didn’t observe the borders, but it is incontrovertible that they aren’t doing their job well or correctly. You don’t cut down on illegal aliens by grabbing five-year-olds, who are rarely involved in criminal activity, even in Minnesota. ICE needs to understand that the Gestapo tactics currently employed by them are not legal or functional. Armed thugs wearing masks and breaking into people’s homes without warrants are the antithesis of everything America stands for. It must be stopped immediately and replaced by constitutional law enforcement.
One of the biggest problems with the whole situation is the Federal government’s immediate involvement in the form of an accusation, specifically that both Good and Pretti were identified as terrorists, despite the fact that neither, as seen in the videos, did anything to inspire gun play. Why is Washington getting involved? Why are they leaving these ICE forces in Minneapolis instead of getting them as far away as possible? It will be almost impossible for anyone to believe anything that the Border Patrol or ICE produce as evidence after the way that this whole parody on justice has been mishandled.