Geheime Staatspolizei-ing These Down, Here

Here's the thing about cops: Probably many, disagree with the methods that ICE is using. They may disagree with the aggressie tctics ICE is using against demonstrators. But they do nothing. They don't interpose themselves between ICE and the protesters. They don't join the protesters. In the struggle against fascism, silence = complicity. If the Nazis are there and the cops are silent, they're also Nazis. A Gestapo agent was a Nazi, whether or not he came from the ranks of professional police or from the party. And so here. There is no middle ground for the cops. They can stand with ICE, whether actively or by their inaction, or they can stand for the Constitution and liberty. The third option is to quit the force.

Good Old Lying Trump Lies About Everything, Demos Historic Building

He said that the existing White House structure wouldn't be touched for his ballroom, but guess what?

He lied.

The White House on Monday started tearing down part of the East Wing, the traditional base of operations for the first lady, to build President Donald Trump’s ballroom.

The Washington Post shared dramatic photos of the demolition work on its website showing a backhoe tearing through the East Wing façade and windows and other building parts in tatters on the ground. Some reporters watched from a park near the Treasury Department, which is next door to the East Wing.

Photo by Joe Flood

There's supposed to be architectural reviews and permits before altering historic structures, but of course, the Orange Demented Führer didn't bother to do any of that. Because he thinks he is the King Shit of the Country.

Also, this:

The first time the Confederate flag ever paraded through the US Capitol was on January 6, 2021. The first time the White House was damaged in over 200 years since the US rebuilt in the 1820s after the British burned it in the war of 1812 was mid October, 2025.

— Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM

The wrecking ball will swing on this monstrosity in January, 2029.

We Know Who Committed the Crime, Don't We

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime in the South American nation, a government official said Monday.

Everybody involved in these attacks, from the flag officer in charge to the sailors loading the missiles on the airplanes, should seek the advice of a criminal defense attorney. "I vas chust follonk orders, mein herrer" has not been accepted as an excuse for war crimes for the last eighty years.

ICE Now Recruiting From Meal Team Six

And they're failing.

President Donald Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency’s training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test.

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

The academy’s standards have already been eased to boost recruitment, he said, and the new parameters “should be the minimum for any officer.” He and others, none of whom were authorized to speak with reporters, told me that agency veterans are concerned about the quality of the new recruits being fast-tracked onto the street to meet Trump’s hiring goals.

Chasing farm workers across a field requires some level of fitness and these Xbox commandos aren't anywhere near up to the challenge. The fear is that, like the old-type fat-assed Southern sheriffs, that these porkers will opt to shoot people and then claim some fictitious justification for doing that.

Marching These Down, Here

Compare and contrast the crowd at the No Kings Rally in DC on Sunday:

With the crowd at Trump's birthday parade:

It does seem to be a white-privilege protests because the cops and the politicians know that the protesters vote and will have no problems with taking legal action if the cops start cracking heads. Also, there were too many people for right-wing agents-provocateur to cause trouble (contrast to the BLM protests of 2020).

And This About the MSM

Very much true. The MSM have normalized Trump's insanity. And as for the NYT, it's pretty much a print edition of Fox News. Their Sunday front page didn't have a blip about the eight million people who protested King Shit Donald.

Let's be clear about it. Saturday was the largest single day protest since Earth Day 1970. It was larger than any of the Vietnam War protests. It dwarfed the Teabagger protests by an order of magnitude (which got almost obsessive coverage). And most of the media shrugged it off.

We all know that Trump is a batshit-grazy loon, even if the MSM is too cowed to address it, you know, the same people who were constantly coverying every verbal misstatement by President Biden.

The bottom line is that if you want to know what is going on in American politics, you may have to look to foreign sources. For one thing, the broadcast news channels are, at best, marginally better than Fox.

Winning the Internet

There was an Internet outage this morning and this response won:

Relying on connected things such as Alexa for alarm clocks or starting your morning cuppa joe isn't a good thing.

Trump is One Sick Fuck

Diarrhea Don posted an AI fake video of him flying a fighter and dumping shit on the American people.

Imagine Obama doing that, showing him dumping shit on the Teabaggers. The Right would have lost their collective minds.

It's a pretty juvenile thing for a president to be doing, but he has the emotional maturity of a child and always has been like that.

As one person put it:

"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements.

Seven million people will soon know that Trump dreams of shitting on them. And that's just those who went to the rallies (many of whom went because of the blathering of Republicans beforehand). Tens of millions more detest Trump and he's now given them a reason to vote party-line against him and his party.

Smart fucking move.

Waving These Down, Here

The peaceful turnout yesterday was seven million people or higher (probably eight million). So Cadet Bone Spurs, Bible Mike and the rest of his ilk can go eat a sack of richards and croak soon. Millions. No wonder they're scared.

Contrast that to those "peaceful tourists" at the Capitol on 1/6/21.

Or this guy:

Your Sunday Morning Rotor Noise

What happens when the tail rotor gives up the ghost:

Heiling These Down, Here