Weasels Я Us
“… it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.” ― Teddy Roosevelt
Sunday, July 13, 2025
Donald Trump & Jim Jones: MAGA today vs. "Jonestown People's Temple" in 1978
Monday, June 23, 2025
New DHS Counter Terrorism Chief: A 22-year old Former Gardener and Grocery Clerk
22-year old appointed as DHS Counter-Terrorism Chief
The main story follows from the DAILY MAIL here with this headline: The headline and details: "Trump puts a 22 year-old former gardener and grocery clerk as DHS top anti-terrorism chief following the Iran bombing." Thomas Fugate earned the counter-terror role after graduating from a Texas college.
Specifics: A 22-year-old counterterrorism official's ability to help defend the U.S. amid heightened tensions with Iran has sparked new worries about the Trump administration's personnel decisions.
Fugate is a former gardener and grocery clerk who just graduated from college last year, is reportedly overseeing a main U.S. counterterrorism hub.
He now holds title of special assistant, effectively running the DHS Center for Prevention Programs Partnerships (commonly referred to as CP3).
And as federal officials warn about the increased likelihood of a terror attack on the U.S. homeland after American strikes in Iran, Fugate's role is coming under scrutiny.
Connecticut Dem Sen. Chris Murphy raised the Trump official's sparse resume in terrorism prevention, saying: "Fugate recently worked as a landscaper and grocery clerk. He never worked a single day in any government or counter-terrorism position. But he’s BIG Trump fan. So he got the job."
Close-up of Thomas Fugate:
More from the article: Trump didn’t appoint Thomas Fugate to protect Americans from Iran or terrorism. He appointed him to ensure his loyalty. This 22-year-old has no qualifications. No expertise. But he does have one thing Trump prizes above all else: obedience. A spokesperson for DHS dodged the Daily Mail's questions about Fugate and declined to make him available for interview arguing that his hiring is part of broader personnel reforms within the DHS counterterrorism program.
"Unfortunately, under the Biden administration, CP3 was weaponized against political opponents and its main purpose was to funnel money to progressive groups," the DHS spokesperson said.
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My 2 Cents: You want totally to see disgusting and insanity at work within this administration - well, this is probably it.
Hands down this is a horrible choice for this high-level key and critical anti-terrorism position at DHS.
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Monday, June 16, 2025
HHS Secretary RFK Jr: Needs to be Replaced ASAP as Threat to Public Health & Safety
Thursday, June 12, 2025
AG at DOJ & FBI Director: Two Biggest Lying Turncoats in Our Political History
Monday, June 2, 2025
"Art of Con" Just Blinded Us: Trump Latest Gimmick is Most Dangerous to All of Us
ARTICLE HEADLINE FROM NEWSWEEK:
Trump's Reported Database Move Sparks Alarm as "Dystopian"
Trump allegedly plans on developing a database of Americans' private information, according to The New York Times.
The Times reported that the White House had contracted Colorado-based data analytics and technology firm Palantir, co-founded by longtime Trump backer and billionaire, Peter Thiel, for assistance in compiling a database of all American citizens.
Citing unnamed government officials and Palantir employees, the newspaper said the company had been in talks with various government agencies regarding the project, that included the SSA and the Education Department.
When approached by Newsweek for comment on the Times report, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said without confirming the report: "President Trump signed an executive order to eliminate information silos and streamline data collection across all agencies to increase government efficiency and save hard-earned taxpayer dollars."
Palantir has partnered with the government in the past, but the reported expansion of its work with Trump's team has has raised concerns that this could be the precursor to surveillance of Americans on a massive scale, and accusations online that the plan mimics the actions of authoritarian states and China's "Social Credit System."
Palantir has been deepening its partnership with the government in recent years, its software being employed by the Army and, last year, through a co-partnership with Microsoft delivering its AI-powered data analytics capabilities to the intelligence community.
The company saw its government revenue grow 45% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2025 for a total of $373 million.
The company's stock price is up over 80% since Trump took office in January, and was trading at $131.78 ahead of markets opening on Monday.
As The New York Times reported, the company's software is already being employed within the DHS; HHS: and other Agencies.
Both WIRED and CNN have reported previously that Palantir had been enlisted by DOGE to craft a database of undocumented immigrants and to expedite their deportations.
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My 2 Cents: So, who is next on the list to be snatched and grabbed, cuffed, and locked up and then shipped to God knows where. Maybe, El Salvador, or even to Siberia (if Putin were asked and approves - just my hunch).
The bottom line is simple enough: Trump, and those around him, are totally out of control with their DHS ICE gang - just that simple. Outcome - hell who knows since this gang still has 3 years left in power or less if the Midterm election next year were to wing Democrat control (fingers crossed).
Hope for America - I honestly have to say it's in the hands of the 2026 voters - believe me and trust them.
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Thursday, May 22, 2025
The "Big Beautiful Bill" Passes House: Label Aside It's Ugly, Nasty, and Mean-Spirited
Sunday, May 18, 2025
AG Bondi Insider: Report Says Deal Worth Millions Before Trump Announcement
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Trump-DOGE Hits VA & Now Vets: Targets Vet's Safe Biden Era Mortgage Program
From the MORNING STAR this Veterans Related story headline article:
A VA program helped thousands of struggling veterans keep their homes. Trump is ending it.
One Vet like Bob Johnson said: "You're going to have a lot of veterans who are going to be on the street."
BACKGROUND: A year and half after Robert Johnson bought his four-bedroom home in Texas in 2022, he lost his job. The 49-year-old military veteran and father of four was in a senior management role at a technology company until February 2024.
Finding another role at the same level and pay was tough. At first, he was able to make his mortgage payments.
But after seven or eight months, when his severance package ran out, he couldn't do it anymore. Johnson asked his mortgage servicer for a three-month forbearance while he was looking for a job. He eventually found another role, but with less pay, he had to find a way to make his monthly payments a lot more manageable.
Luckily, he found one through the Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase (VASP) loan program, signed into law and implemented by President Joe Biden.
It offer VA mortgage holders a last-resort option to avoid losing their homes. Since May 31 of last year, the Veterans Affairs has helped more than 17,000 struggling veterans with their mortgages by buying up their loans through the special foreclosure-prevention program.
For Robert Johnson, the program has been a lifeline. Having his mortgage rate lowered from 5.5% to 2.5% will save him $1,500 a month, he told MarketWatch in an interview last month.
He said: "If VASP were eliminated, you're going to have a lot of veterans who are going to be living on the streets."
VA Press Secretary Pete Kasperowicz said: "The program will stop accepting new enrollees on May 1. VASP "was unilaterally created by the Biden administration and lacks congressional authority. This change is necessary because VA is not set up or intended to be a mortgage-loan restructuring service. The end of VASP will not impact any homeowners currently on the program or those who enroll in it before May 1."
The announcement comes at a time when tens of thousands of veterans across the U.S. continue to struggle with their mortgage payments.
Many with VA-backed loans have missed multiple payments and are in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure, according to recent data from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).
Foreclosure starts, which refer to the start of the foreclosure process, were up 34% in February compared with the same month a year earlier, according to ICE, stemming in part from defaults on VA-backed mortgages.
Bob Broeksmit, president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association said: "Against this backdrop, halting the VASP program will increase the number of veterans facing foreclosure unless the VA and Congress implement a permanent partial-claim option as soon as possible."
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My 2 Cents: Key points: Republican lawmakers who had sought to end VASP called its shuttering the "Right move by VA Secretary Doug Collins and the Trump administration to protect the integrity of the VA home-loan program."
This program was implemented by President Biden and that is why Trump hates it.
The program offers VA mortgage holders a last-resort option to avoid losing their homes. Since May 31 of last year, the VA has helped more than 17,000 struggling veterans with their mortgages by buying up their loans through this foreclosure-prevention program.
For Vets like Bob Johnson, the program has been a lifeline. Having his mortgage rate lowered from 5.5% to 2.5% will save him $1,500 a month.
Retribution from Trump at play bigtime is the name of this game.
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Friday, April 4, 2025
Trump & MAGA Aim at Dual Citizens: The Inmates are Now Running the Insane Asylum
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Mar-a-Lago Doc Case: Dismissed Awaiting S/C Smith's Report to AG Garland
Major story from USA TODAY with this ongoing battle over the Mar-a-Lago classified documents
case with this headline:
“Trump seeks to prevent release of Jack Smith's special counsel report”
WASHINGTON – Trump and his two co-defendants, Walt
Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, are trying to block DOJ’s special counsel Jack
Smith from releasing a report before Inauguration Day about his investigation
that led to criminal charges that have now been dismissed.
The report is expected to provide the fullest description
yet about the investigation that led to two federal indictments against Trump,
one for allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2020 election and the other
for allegedly mishandling 100's of classified documents after
leaving the White House.
A public release of the potential bombshell report could
come within days. But a court battle over whether to release the report will
play out over the remaining two weeks before Trump returns to the White House
on January 20.
Judges dismissed both
cases at Smith’s request under longstanding DOJ policy against prosecuting
sitting presidents. Neither case could be concluded before Trump
starts his second term as president.
But special counsels
typically write reports explaining their investigations and the decisions about
whether to bring charges. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report released in
April 2019 about the investigation into Russian interference caused another firestorm
because of his decision not to even consider charges against Trump as a
sitting president.
Smith acknowledged in a court filing Monday that he has prepared a two-volume report, one for each of Trump’s two federal indictments. The report is being “finalized” and AG General Merrick Garland would not release the report before Friday at 10 a.m., and Smith wrote he could transmit the report to Garland after 1 p.m. Tuesday.
Trump meanwhile asked Garland on Monday to halt Smith’s preparation and release of the report.
Trump's two co-defendants in the classified-documents case asked the same of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon and sought a public hearing to debate the issues.
Smith said he would
reply formally to the request by 7 p.m. Tuesday. Nauta and De Oliveira, who
were staffers at Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, where they were charged with
conspiring to hide the classified records, argued they could still face charges
after Trump’s dismissal of the case.
Nauta and De Oliveira
argued that Smith’s report: “Promises
to be a one-sided, slanted report that has a single purpose: convincing the
public that everyone Smith charged is guilty of the crimes charged.”
In a letter to Garland, Trump’s lawyers argued that the dismissal of the cases represented: “Trump’s complete exoneration, but that Smith’s report would perpetuate false and discredited accusations. The release of the report would be both imprudent and unlawful.”
AG Garland declined to comment.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) who helped lead the congressional
investigation of the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, said: “Garland has a duty to release the report and
“prevent its evidence from being destroyed.” Smith's team obtained
testimony and evidence from Trump's advisers including former VP Mike Pence, and
Cheney
wrote on X: “The truth must prevail.”
Trump was indicted in federal court in Washington on charges
he conspired to overturn the 2020 election with baseless claims of widespread
fraud.
He was also charged with obstructing Congress form counting
Electoral College votes on January 6, 2021, when a riot of his supporters at
the Capitol temporarily halted the count.
Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed the case at Smith’s
request after Trump won the November election.
Trump was also indicted in Florida on charges he unlawfully
retained national defense documents after leaving the White House at the end of
his first administration. FBI agents found more than 100 classified documents
during a search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022.
Cannon dismissed the charges by ruling that Smith was appointed and funded illegitimately, despite special counsel regulations being upheld in previous cases.
Smith appealed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals but the court dismissed the appeal at his request after Trump’s election.
Nauta and De Oliveira asked the appeals court to return
jurisdiction over the case to Cannon so she can hear their arguments.
My 2 Cents: The worse possible outcome of the classified docs case
against Trump and his two charged Mar-a-Lago co-defendants, Walt Nauta and
Carlos De Oliveira is a crying shame against equal justice for all and still is
a threat to national security.
For example what leverage remains with any missing docs that Trump holds for various reasons (e.g., favors, threats, blackmail, etc.) over those nations mentioned in the docs – at least in my professional view.
We shall see later as developments in fact are uncovered and developed. I'm sure they will be forthcoming over time.
All in all this was an
awful decision and remains harmful to the nation.
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Sunday, December 29, 2024
Major Headline: Civil War in the Trump, Musk & Ramaswamy Camps Over H1B Visas
From NEWSWEEK “Civil War” within the Trump, Musk
camp with this headline:
“MAGA Civil War Erupts
as Trump Backers Turn on Vivek Ramaswamy Over H-1B Visas”
Ramaswamy drew backlash from Trump and self-declared MAGA
voters when he voiced his support for bringing “highly skilled workers from
other countries into the U.S. via the H-1B program,” which focuses on foreign
workers in specialized occupations.
Ramaswamy wrote on X (formerly Twitter):
“The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation
engineers over 'native' Americans isn't because of an innate American IQ
deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation), A key part of it comes down to the
c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we're really
serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH: Our American
culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least
since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn't start in college, it starts
YOUNG.”
Nikki Haley didn't
mince words when responding to Ramaswamy's X post writing: “There is nothing wrong with American
workers or American culture. All you have to do is look at the border and see
how many want what we have. We should be investing and prioritizing in Americans,
not foreign workers.”
Mike Cernovich, a
longtime right-wing media personality and provocateur, also chimed in saying:
“The Woodstock generation managed to build out aerospace, the one before went
to the moon, America was doing great. Underlying your post is that we were all
living in squalor until being rescued by H-1B's. Then why did everyone want to
come here?”
Ramaswamy responded:
“That version of America, the one that used to embody unbridled exceptionalism,
is exactly what we want to return to. That's a point about culture, not
immigration policy.”
Others on the right have also voiced support for restricting
foreign workers from entering the country.
The prominent
right-wing influencer Jack Posobiec wrote on X: “Why would America recruit foreign talent
rather than recruit own on talent right here at home? Imagine how many
more JD Vance’s
are out there.”
What Others Are
Saying:
Laura Loomer,
far-right firebrand and staunch Trump loyalist, commented on H-1B policies after Trump tapped
Sriram Krishnan as White House senior policy adviser for AI posted: “@VivekRamaswamy knows
that the Great Replacement is real. So does @JDVance. It's not
racist against Indians to want the original MAGA policies I voted for. I voted
for a reduction in H1B visas. Not an extension.”
Billionaire Mark Cuban wrote in response to Ramaswamy's
post: “How do you feel about people who say college is over-rated? In order
to have more homegrown engineers, don't we need more kids going to college?”
Many immigrants have voiced concerns about the second Trump
administration and whether the president-elect will try to restrict H-1B visa
program like he did at the end of his first term. Trump and many of his
anti-immigration allies, previously said they would work to make cuts to the
programs.
Related to the above article is also this article from THE HILL with this headline: “Musk calls some MAGA supporters contemptible fools
as H1B visa row intensifies.”
(Note: There may be some duplication between the
two excellent articles – sorry for that).
My 2 Cents: In simple terms Musk & Ramaswamy have to get out of
any government decisions that influence Trump with their DOGE unofficial policy
ideas and plans and such.
The sooner they are gone
the better for the nation as a whole. Those two characters are truly a hazard
to all that we as a nation stand for.
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Sunday, December 15, 2024
Plea to New GOP Majority: Put the Brakes on Elon Musk to Save Our Democracy
First watch this MSNBC introductory part of the story that lies ahead for the country vis-à-vis the Trump and Elon
Musk partnership that has formed that is hair-raising to the say the least with
this headline:
“GOP faces test with Elon Musk's threat to fund primary challengers for
Trump detractors”
We have a conjunction of massive wealth and massive political power
with the absence of accountability. Will anybody stand up and say, “Stop?”
The main story follow below:
From ALTERNET
an excellent article on Elon Musk and this startling yet true story headline concerning
money & power (with a few minor edits
and formatted to fit the blog):
“Here's what happens when the world's richest man buys the presidency |
Opinion”
Billionaires slash SS,
Medicare, and Medicaid programs to fund their own tax cuts: GOP legislators are
toying with reducing payouts under the system, including raising the retirement age and other benefit cuts.
A GOP representative recently told Fox Business Network: “We’re going to have to have some hard decisions on Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare.”
Trump’s GOP will be
making “hard choices,” meaning they will be cutting benefits, in order to
fund tax cuts for wealthy donors.
Trump tapped Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, to slash government programs and regulations through a
not-yet-existent
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Musk and Ramaswamy went to Capitol Hill last week to talk up
their plans under DOGE, after which GOP lawmakers publicly
confirmed that “everything, including Social Security and Medicare,
is now on the table.”
What’s not on the GOP’s table is fairly taxing billionaires like Musk and Ramaswamy,
including requiring them to pay their fair share of social security taxes.
During America’s “golden” years, the wealthy paid their
fair share in taxes: Many voters do not understand that oligarchs, CEOs,
heirs, and the uber-rich pay far lower taxes today than they used to. From the
1930s until the mid-1980s, America’s top earners paid over 60% of their income
in taxes, and the percent fluctuated according to federal need. On social
security alone, if they paid into social security at the same rate as the lower
& middle classes, the fund would remain solvent and be able to expand
benefits instead of slashing them.
At present, social security taxes are capped for the wealthy, meaning, they stop paying social security taxes at a certain level which is far below their actual earnings.
In 2024, the Social Security tax cap is set at $168,600,
meaning income over that amount is not subject to any social security tax
whatsoever.
What happens when the
world's richest man buys the presidency: For billionaires like Musk and
Ramaswamy, only $168,000 out of their millions & billions in annual income is
subject to social security taxes, and the rest is social security tax free. Although
tax-adverse conservatives would beg to differ, subjecting full, high wealth
income to SS taxes would stabilize the fund.
Musk bought the
presidency to write his own rules:
1. Musk, with a
reported annual income of $141,475,524,215, spent over $250 million to get Trump elected through
dubious means including that short lived fraudulent lottery of $1 million a day.
2. Musk pays an effective tax rate of 3.27%. Musk paid $44 billion to purchase Twitter, which he then used to
amplify far right messaging and weaponize election disinformation.
3. Musk now manipulates algorithms on X to boost his own
opinion, and had special code written to force his posts into more people’s feeds whether they want them or not.
4. Musk’s own AI program identified him as the chief disinformation super
spreader of the 2024 campaign (according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate).
5. Musk’s false pro-Trump
election claims resulted in over 1.2 billion views on X.
6. Musk spending billions
to spread election disinformation and funding Trump PACs was just the cost of
doing business.
7. Musk has received at least $15.4 billion in federal
government contracts over the past ten years.
The snag is that lucrative federal contracts come with
not-so-lucrative regulatory oversight, as his SpaceX, Neuralink, and Tesla
have discovered.
When Space X discharged polluted/toxic water into nearby bodies of
water in Texas, for example, Musk found out that even in MAGA-crazed Gov. Greg
Abbott’s state, where they’re itching to build concentration camps for immigrants, some people still
prefer clean water.
For Musk, spending $250m to choose his own low-information
boss, re-write pesky regulations, and set his own tax rate was an obvious
bargain.
For the rest of us the oligarchy is firmly in charge, and we should brace for
program cuts and policies enriching the super-wealthy at everyone else’s expense.
But, the silver lining is
that economic disaster will make the 2026 election a cakewalk for Democrats,
but that assumes an exhausted population will still be paying
attention.
· What Bezos and Musk really want from Trump
· Chief
shareholder in the presidency: Musk on Trump-Zelenskyy Mar-a-Lago call fuels
fears
· Michigan
Secretary of State investigating Elon Musk Super PAC
· Problem for Tesla as Dems flee over Musk’s Trump endorsement:Sales may have peaked
· Horrified
Tesla owners feel embarrassed as anti-Musk sticker sales boom
My 2 cents: A good closing based on fine article and headline now
fits perfectly as I’ve said since Trump gave Musk carte blanc to run the nation
– which proves just how duped the Trump voters were when they believed he would
save us from all sort of disasters – oops!!!
All the above is a reminder
about Musk and Trump running the nation into what I see as gloom and well, just
more gloom and doom for us while those two gain more massive wealth for the
Trump family and Musk, USA. So, hang on tight the worse is yet to come.
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