Random Thoughts.
Sounds like an extremely well thought out, detailed plan. No one does policy like Trump!
Trump: "What I want is instead of going to the insurance companies, I want the money to go into an account for people where the people buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out and negotiate their own health insurance. Call it Trumpcare."
This man is dumber than a million door knobs
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1988036197873316234?s=20This degree of delusional gaslighting will sink the GOP in 2026. His Laura ingraham interview was complete bonkers
Let them eat freaking cake!
Trump proudly shows off all the gold he has added to the Oval Office.
"You can't imitate gold, real gold. There's no paint that imitates gold. This is not Home Depot."
Oh yes, voters so happy looking at all this tacky gilded crap when they've lost their healthcare.... What is wrong with him?
https://x.com/amconmag/status/1988262537528324392?s=20According to his defenders, this aberrant behavior appears normal to them.
TRUMP IS GOING TO KILL YOUR GRAND CHILDREN!!!
"New reports paint picture of an ‘extremely dangerous’ future with warming expected to blow past key limit"
"Megacities flooded by surging seas. Mountains bare of the glaciers that once perched on their craggy peaks. Ice sheets crumbling into the ocean. The seafloor carpeted in ghostly skeletons of dead coral reefs."
"Three decades of global climate action (Which Trump is Reversing) have slowed the rise of planet-warming pollution, but it is far from enough. The world is on track for catastrophic warming and, in an alarming twist, the worst impacts of the climate crisis are unfolding decades earlier than scientists predicted.
Countries agreed in Paris in 2015 to make every effort to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. But their plans to reduce climate pollution to achieve that goal and prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change fall woefully short, according to the recent flurry of reports.
On Wednesday, the International Energy Agency concluded that the 1.5-degree pledge has now “slipped out of reach,” as an energy-thirsty world continues to rely on fossil fuels. The United Nations reached the same conclusion in its annual “Emissions Gap” report published last week, which found the world was on course for 2.3 to 2.5 degrees of warming over this century if governments follow through on their latest pledges. If not, we’re looking at reaching around 2.8 degrees, with a 20% chance of breaching 3 degrees." - With Trump's latest policies, it will end up being worse.
AND THIS IS WHAT YOUR GRAND KIDS HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO
"Warming above 2 degrees Celsius could trigger catastrophic and potentially irreversible tipping points in the climate system, such as the collapse of large portions of the ice sheets leading to devastating sea level rise that would swallow cities.
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, categorized a 2- to 3-degree-warmer world as a “catastrophe.”
“A 3-degree-warmer world — just to give a few specific tangible pictures of what that looks like — that’s a world where the sea level is feet higher than it currently is today, where global megacities that are within a few feet of sea level, their viability is seriously threatened,” Swain said on a media call last week.
“This is a world where we see widespread, frequent occurrence of historically unprecedented flood and drought events. It’s a world where we lose almost all of the mountain glaciers, and we start to see massive destabilization of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets. And that’s just a short list,” Swain said.""
Subscribers Only - https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/climate/ … ed-nationsHere is a random question - Why does MAUGA love the Insulter-in-chief.
Trump snaps at reporter’s Epstein questions: ‘Quiet, piggy’ - WHAT AN EMBARRASSMENT HE IS.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/us/video … ggy-digvidAnother random thought that needs to be in the forefront of EVERYBODY's mind.
Analysis: Trump keeps lying while accusing others of lying
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/politics … lse-claims
For example:
"“The problem with the Democrats: they lie. They do it so well. They talk about affordability, but I’m the one that’s getting the prices down,” he told reporters Sunday, though overall prices were 3% higher in September than they were in September 2024 and 1.7% higher than they were in January 2025, the month he returned to office. “More than anything else, it’s a con job by the Democrats,” since “costs are way down,” Trump falsely said last week on Fox News."
And his defenders here keep aksing for more - they love it.Even though Donald "the felon" Trump has escaped accountability for his many, many crimes, a FELLOW DICTATOR did not.
"Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was detained on Saturday at his residence in Brazil’s capital to prevent a possible “attempted escape,” days before he was due to begin a prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, according to Brazil’s Supreme Court."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/americas … ested-intlHere is a random thought. I was working on my book about Conservatism in America and found my thinking how often I find the sins of the past being repeated today. For example, one sentence I have in the section bridging the gap between the end of Reconstruction and the Civil Rights era is this:
"The conservative right merged ethnonationalism with economic protectionism and moral panic—positioning itself as the last line of defense against an imagined collapse."
That is precisely the methodology being employed by Trump's terrorism of American cities today in trying to eliminate the brown scourge. The main difference between then and now is back then, their target was Blacks.Conservatives and conservatism are immutable. One excuse is the idea of managed change rather than precipitous ones. I find more often that their brand of patience and delay meant endless resistance to change. I would not say that sins were repeated as more that they have never really been expunged by them. I would say that they simply adjusted and accommodate to changing circumstances. It is still basically a struggle between the have and the have nots, not much different than the attitude of the Bourbons and Romanovs, the divine right of kings.
The oligarch is quite clever having to compensate for its lesser numbers by leveraging its influence at societal key pressure points.
WEB DuBois spoke of the wages of whiteness. While the capitalist was exploiting everyone, the oligarch created a schism based of race and perceived privileges or lack of same between them so that even the poor whites had access to what were denied blacks. The poor and working class whites accepted those “wages” in lieu of better pay and working conditions. So, why not blacks and whites both work together toward that end? That is why so much of the terror was to continued for so long.
Happy Thanksgiving.
It is advised that ALL Afghans, regardless of status, move to Canada or Mexico because CRAZY Trump is coming after each and every one of you even though [u]he granted the shooter asylum[/b].
It is very sad to realize, however, that had the shooter been a White American citizen that shot those national guard troops, they wouldn't have to fear his wrath in the slightest.
It is sadder to realize they didn't need to be there at all.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/us/dc-na … uspect-hnk
RIP US Army Spc Sarah Beckstrom and keep fighting US Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew WolfeThat thought made me ask ChatGPT what the overall impact of the hugely costly, in terms of money and lives, "surge" of federal law enforcement.
* What seems to show some short-term effect
After the deployment in August 2025, initial crime-data analysis by CBS News found that violent crime in D.C. dropped nearly 50% over a roughly three-week span compared with the same dates the prior year. Burglaries reportedly fell ~48% and car-thefts ~36%.
CBS News
Officials have also cited hundreds of arrests and the dismantling of dozens of homeless encampments during the surge.
PBS
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The Guardian
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These numbers are often presented by supporters of the deployment as evidence that the surge “worked.”
* Why many experts — and recent data — question its real impact
According to a detailed analysis by The Trace, the fall in shootings began before the troop deployment: the downward trend started in mid-April 2025, months earlier. Their modeling estimates that over the eleven weeks since deployment, the presence of troops likely prevented fewer than one additional shooting victim than would have occurred anyway.
https://www.thetrace.org/2025/10/dc-sho … hatgpt.com
Some crime categories (e.g. certain assaults or burglaries) did not see consistent declines, suggesting the drop was uneven and possibly more about broader crime-trend cycles than the surge itself.
FactCheck.org
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Deployment effectiveness is also heavily questioned on legal, civil-rights, and long-term deterrence grounds. Observers warn that militarized deployments — especially after a federal takeover of local police — risk erosion of local control, increased community distrust, and potential abuse.
Human Rights Watch
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Brennan Center for Justice
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Finally, a recent federal court ruling declared the deployment “likely unlawful,” which casts a large legal and legitimacy shadow over any claimed successes.
AP News
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* What this suggests — and what we still can’t say
What it suggests:
There was a short-term dip in certain reported crime categories following the surge.
The heavy deployment may have had a temporary deterrent effect or changed reporting / arrests in ways that show up in the data.
What we still can’t say (yet):
Whether the drop was caused by the surge — or by pre-existing downward trends, seasonal variation, or other factors.
Whether crime rebounds once troops leave, undermining claims of long-term safety.
What the social costs are: civil-liberties, community trust, displacement of vulnerable populations (e.g. homelessness), racial disparities, etc.
* My (ChatGPT) assessment: It’s an unclear “success story”
At best, the surge looks like a short-term, maybe cosmetic success — a drop in some types of crime, some arrests, and a conspicuous show of force. At worst, it’s a temporary stabilization riding on earlier trends — not a structural solution — with serious risks to civil rights and local governance.
So the answer appears to be NOT MUCH and certainly not worth the cost of a soldier's life. If Trump had spent just 50% of the money he wasted on this effort on giving D.C. the money it had requested to expand its own police force, the results would have been much better (or at least not worse) and Spc Beckstrom would be alive.These are the only factual quotes I found from Trump regarding his plans to handle this problem. All sound very reasonable and legal.
“We must now re-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden.” President Trump
Yahoo
“We must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien … who does not belong here or add benefit to our country.” President Trump
Newsweek
“If they can’t love our country, we don’t want them.” President Trump
PBS
That is a far cry from “telling all Afghans to go to Canada or Mexico.” The statement you quoted attributing mass-expulsion and threats to all Afghans appears to be an exaggeration — or a fabrication — not grounded in Trump’s actual public remarks.Oh, I guess you didn't read these factual quotes from Trump
"The animal that shot the two National Guardsmen … will pay a very steep price.”" - Untruth Social
“I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions … and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.” - BTW - Trump gave the shooter refugee status. Did you know that?
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-say … hatgpt.com
“We must now re-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden… and take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien … who does not belong here or add benefit to our country.” - WHO DECIDES THAT?
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/ … fghanistan
In response to the shooting, he pops off with this false jewel "“Lax migration policies are the single greatest national security threat facing our nation - wasn't HE the one who granted the shooter refugee status?.” HE is the greatest national security threat facing our nation!!
https://apnews.com/article/trump-nation … hatgpt.com
Trump has declared himself judge, jury, and executioner. This is not America - it is Iran or Russia or China or North Korea or any of the other countries led by his fellow dictators.
Here is another line in my book on Conservatives:
For conservatives, the Religious Right offered a different moral vocabulary: each man and each family is an island, responsible before God for their own fate; government help easily becomes “dependency”; attempts to correct structural injustice look like unfair “special treatment.” Once that vocabulary took hold, policy debates about taxes, welfare, health care, and education could be reframed as contests between “virtue” and “vice,” not between competing views of justice.
That underlined phrase is exactly the argument Conservatives make about DEI. They take a good thing and make it look bad.When Trump feels neglected, he holds a "cabinet" meeting so he can hear his praises sung by his lackeys. Then he insults them by FALLING ASLEEP earning him the title of Sleepy Don. ROFL.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/politics … rump-bidenDonald "the felon" Trump LIES and LIES and LIES and LIES and LIES and then LIES SOME MORE!! And MAUGA believes every word of it, that is how strong a hold he has over his cult.
Here is his latest WHOPPER:
"Fact check: Trump denies saying something he said on camera five days ago"
Which of the 30,000 LIES is this one? He said he supports the release of the videos showing the murder of the two people clinging to wreckage in the Caribbean ON CAMERA and then yesterday he told a reporter "He Never Said That"- Isn't that a clear sign of Dementia that the Right used against Biden?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/politics … rike-videoCan someone please tell me why Trump and his minions are so intent on KILLING AMERICANS? Here is their latest attempt -
"FDA intends to put its most serious warning on Covid vaccines, sources say"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/health/f … id-vaccine
It will take three Democratic administrations in a row to repair the horrible damage the unhinged and mentally deficient Trump has wrought on America. And they will never be able resurrect the lifes Trump and RFK Jr. have cost.I think the FDA’s move toward putting its strongest warning on the COVID vaccines makes sense when you look at the full picture of what recent studies and FDA monitoring have shown. The agency isn’t doing this because these reactions are common, but because the rare but serious risks, mainly myocarditis and pericarditis, have shown up consistently in surveillance data, especially in younger males. The FDA has already updated the vaccine labels this year to spell out the risk more clearly, noting that myocarditis and pericarditis occur in about 8 cases per million doses overall, with noticeably higher rates in males around ages 12–24. They also pointed to follow-up imaging that showed a portion of people with vaccine-associated myocarditis still had signs of heart injury months later, even though researchers still don’t fully know what that means long-term. To me, the FDA is essentially saying: “
This effect is rare, but real, and doctors shouldn’t miss it.” At the same time, public-health agencies like the CDC still maintain that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks for most recommended groups, especially since COVID infection itself carries a higher overall risk of myocarditis. They’ve also suggested that longer intervals between doses may reduce the myocarditis risk.
So I look at this as a push for transparency: the FDA wants providers and patients discussing the real, documented risks with the same level of clarity as the benefits.
My sources
https://www.reuters.com/business/health … hatgpt.com
https://www.fda.gov/safety/medical-prod … hatgpt.com
https://www.fda.gov/media/186580/downlo … hatgpt.com
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biol … hatgpt.com
https://www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/vaccine-c … hatgpt.com
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/f … hatgpt.comIf the mere existence of rare but serious adverse reactions is enough to justify a black-box warning, then almost every widely used vaccine—and a huge chunk of common medicines—would qualify.
The FDA, until RFK Jr., has never applied that standard before.Historically, black-box labels are reserved for drugs with unusually high or hard-to-manage risks, not just ‘has some rare serious side effects,’ which all vaccines do. The COVID vaccine is not that!
So if COVID vaccines get a black box on that basis, it looks less like a consistent safety standard and more like a political outlier.”
Trump's business failures (along with his presidency failures) have been widely reported. Well, here are a few more:
"These Trump bets boomed. Now they’re huge busts"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/business … oin-cryptoThe TRUMP EFFECT
"Inside the White supremacist compound hiding in plain sight"
"TELLICO PLAINS, Tennessee
—
In east Tennessee, at the end of a winding dirt road, a mother glances into the woods she roamed as a child. It’s a deep and dramatic vista: a patchwork of pines and oaks disappearing into an endless Blue Ridge mountain range.
“We used to ride four wheelers all through the woods,” said the woman, who spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity due to fears for her safety. “We had secret hiding places, we’d just be gone for hours … our parents wouldn’t even know where we were.”
But things are different now.
“I’m afraid to let my own kids do the same things I did,” said the mother of three, who sternly warns her kids: “Whatever you do, don’t go to that side. Because I don’t know what they’re going to do.”
“(They’re) making us all scared to leave our houses.”
The woman is fearful of her new neighbors: a collection of White supremacists associated with the group Patriot Front.}
The group is one of the most active White nationalist societies in the US. Members of the organization – which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a hate group – hold rallies with hundreds of people in cities across the country wearing masks, brandishing riot shields and waving Confederate flags.
Now CNN has tracked the group’s progress in building an Appalachian base, on a 124-acre compound outside the picturesque town on Tellico Plains.
Over the course of that months-long reporting, a picture has emerged of the radical characters involved with the property, including a notorious neo-Nazi family and a pagan mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter.
But our reporting has also highlighted the deepening divisions their presence has stirred among nearby residents, and the persistent threat of White supremacist activism across the county. Only three states – Texas, Alabama and Pennsylvania – saw more White Supremacist events last year than Tennessee, according to data compiled by the Anti-Defamation League.
“They’re part of a broader network,” said Daryl Johnson, a former senior analyst at the Department of Homeland Security and domestic extremism expert, told CNN of Patriot Front. “Whether it’s at rallies, or whether they have closed meetings (or) fight clubs, (members) can rub shoulders with members from other groups.”
In a worst-case scenario, Johnson said, “that’s how a secretive terrorist cell could form.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/us/patri … -tennesseeIn my view, the article is ridiculous. Hopefully, CNN will fold soon. Such rhetoric is harmful to our nation.
I’ll critique the journalism, not as an argument about whether extremism exists in the U.S., because those are two very different questions. In my view, this piece reads far more like narrative advocacy than fact-driven reporting, and that is where its credibility problems begin. As do the majority of the CNN articles. Most share all the issues I will cite.
The article opens with an anonymous, emotionally charged anecdote that cannot be verified by the reader in any meaningful way. The mother is unnamed, her exact location is vague, no police reports are cited, and no concrete incident is described, only fear. Fear, by itself, is not evidence. When a national news outlet builds its premise on “someone feels unsafe” without documenting a single crime, threat, or confrontation, it is asking the reader to substitute emotion for facts.
The reporting never establishes direct causation between Patriot Front and any harm to local residents. There are no arrests tied to the property, no violent acts attributed to the group at that location, no testimony from law enforcement confirming criminal activity, and no court records cited. Instead, the article repeatedly uses conditional and speculative language, “could form,” “worst-case scenario,” “has stirred divisions, which signals conjecture rather than documentation. In my view, this is storytelling designed to imply danger without proving it.
CNN relies heavily on ideologically aligned organizations and experts while presenting them as neutral authorities. The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League are cited without any acknowledgment that both organizations have been criticized for broad or politically motivated classifications. Whether one agrees with those critiques or not, responsible journalism would at least disclose that these are advocacy organizations, not law enforcement agencies or courts. CNN presents their conclusions as settled fact rather than opinion.
The article uses guilt-by-association techniques rather than substantiated findings. Terms like “notorious neo-Nazi family,” “pagan MMA fighter,” and “broader network” are introduced without explaining what crimes, if any, these individuals have committed. The inclusion of religious beliefs, hobbies, or aesthetic markers (masks, shields, flags) functions more as character painting than evidence of wrongdoing. That is a classic propaganda technique: make the subjects feel dangerous without showing danger.
The statistics are selectively framed. Saying Tennessee ranks behind only three states in “White supremacist events” sounds alarming until the reader realizes events are not crimes, are often defined broadly, and are compiled by an advocacy group using its own criteria. There is no comparison to population size, no historical trend line, and no distinction between lawful assembly and criminal behavior. Context is missing, and missing context is misleading.
The article never meaningfully engages with countervailing evidence. There are no interviews with local law enforcement downplaying the threat, no residents who are unconcerned, no legal analysis of what can or cannot be done because no laws are being broken. The story moves in one direction only, which is a strong indicator of confirmation bias.
In my view, this is not a rigorously sourced investigative piece. It is a fear-based narrative built on anonymity, speculation, advocacy-group data, and worst-case hypotheticals. That doesn’t mean every claim is false, but it does mean the article fails the basic journalistic test of showing verifiable facts that independently justify its conclusions. Without that, it reads much closer to fiction than reporting.Sharlee, I find your post appalling and must push back.
First, the fact that CNN protected the mother’s identity doesn’t make her fear “fiction.” Anonymous sourcing is standard practice when people reasonably fear retaliation, especially around organized and violent extremist groups. Saying “we can’t verify her” ignores the reality that people living next to militant white-nationalist compounds do have rational reasons to be afraid of being named publicly.
Second, I don't know if you are sympathetic to groups like the Patriot Front or not, but your decision to bracket off “whether extremism exists” from your media critique is part of why I read your response so differently. Patriot Front and similar extremist groups are not just another Boy Scout troop; the way you frame them risks making them sound like ordinary neighbors rather than an explicitly white-nationalist organization known to be violent. Pointing out that they haven’t yet racked up a body count at this specific property doesn’t erase the larger, big picture pattern or the risk that compounds like this are meant to cultivate.
I understand you’re aiming to critique CNN’s journalism, not to defend extremism. But when every part of your comment attacks the reporting and none of it acknowledges the danger posed by Patriot Front itself, the end result looks a lot like a defense of the group. Whether that’s your intention or not, it functions as a shield for them and a club against anyone who reports on them.
It’s also worth noting that, yes, SPLC and ADL are advocacy organizations and should be read with that in mind. But they’re not random bloggers – their designations are widely used by researchers, journalists, and law enforcement as starting points. Treating their data as inherently illegitimate, while accepting your own assumptions as neutral, is its own kind of bias.
You’re absolutely right that journalism should distinguish clearly between what is documented fact and what is speculation. But calling this piece “ridiculous” and hoping CNN “folds soon” feels less like media criticism and more like dismissing any attempt to report seriously on organized white supremacism as inherently untrustworthy. Given the history and the stakes, I don’t think that’s a fair or responsible way to look at it.
This is more positive proof of Trump's sick, deranged, and demented mind, Can you imagine this coming from a same person?
"“A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS,” the president wrote on Truth Social."
Now, Trump defenders, twist that into something good. (and you got upset with what was said about Kirk and his hate speech).It is as I always have said, TRUMP IS An IDIOT
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald … rcna249320
That is something to think about in lieu of all the fuss over the death of Charlie Kirk.
Is this the most CORRUPT DOIJ in a long while working directly for the MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT[/] in American history? I think so. I bet a whole bunch of judges think so to.
[b]"As DOJ seeks to recharge Comey, judge deprives prosecutors from accessing key evidence for now"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/politics … related.en
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