I remember reading about Trump’s life in a book by his niece, that awful Mary Trump, and the book was meant to make people like me — resistance libs — hate Trump even more than we already did.
“Nothing they ever said he would do, he did. There are no mass graves or body bags. No one was thrown in jail for protesting. He didn’t start World War III. There are no real “concentration camps.” The case against Trump by the left exists in their collective imaginations. “
But those things are ALL on the list of things they want to do to us, and in many cases already have, (Jan 6th protestors hunted down and tossed into prison, igniting the Ukraine/ Russia war, killing seniors in nursing homes, trying to imprison AND assassinate the president), and they’ll do far worse if they ever taste power again. They’ve said it OUT LOUD themselves.
It is eerie how the projections of the Left work. You are right Suzie that these items are on their list. Heck Hochul and others in NY State suggested camps for those that refused the COVID vaccine. The street violence is already a “feature” courtesy of the Left/Dems/radicals. As is censorship (to wit the Twitter Files and CISA, still underway in Europe btw). The amount of propaganda based on outright lies (Russiagate) as well as lawfare, well heck, President Trump is one tough cookie despite all the attacks. In fact, he looks younger now than he did in Jan 2021.
Notably, even with the Iran War Trump has stopped bombing to pursue peace multiple times, despite the intransigence of the mullahs, IRGC, Basaaj and whomever else is running that country to the sorrow of their citizens.
To hear what real violent fascism is in fact, I recommend listening to “The Rest is History” podcast episodes on the rise of the Nazis. Many echoes of EXACTLY what the Dems/Left are doing. I doubt that the two Brit hosts even grasp how serious an indictment of the globalist/progressive Left their narration provides.
****(I.) "Heck Hochul and others in NY State suggested camps for those that refused the COVID vaccine"***
Trump implements *actual* (not suggested, but actual) camps for illegal immigrants, most of them non-violent offenders
Hochul, NY State and the Democratic party do not do this for anyone--but they are the 'dangerous ones'
***(II.) "As is censorship (to wit the Twitter Files and CISA, still underway in Europe btw)"***
-Trump sues and strongarms into settlement news organizations whose reporting he doesn't like to the tune of billions of dollars, and installs his own hand-picked 'monitor' at CBS news
vs
Biden has the government inform Twitter about disinfo on its platform, and lets Twitter handle its own mod policies.
But *Biden* is the dangerous one
***(III.) "even with the Iran War Trump has stopped bombing to pursue peace multiple times"***
-Trump campaigns on 'no new wars', engages in a war that never needed to happen, and allows the Iranians to expand their standing in power in the region
But *the Dems* are the warmongers for...supporting a fellow NATO ally against an invasion by Russia...
***(IV.) "as well as lawfare"***
Trump uses the DOJ to prosecute:
-Lisa Cook
-Jay Powell
-Letitia James
-Adam Schiff
-Becca Good, wife of Renee Good (murdered by ICE), notably right after Good's death
...among others.
The evidence is so bad that none of these cases are won at court.
This use of the DOJ has *never* been tried before, by any president--
But it's the *Democrats* who are guilty of lawfare
*************
...When you speak of 'the projection done by the left', it would serve you well to peer into a mirror, and note the massive scale of your projections in this little post alone. Accusing others of what you are guilty of is a deft strategy *except* when there is no factual basis for the accusation--and, clearly, there is none on your part.
The constant attacks on Trump are all about Democrat party power. That is all it is or ever was. To get the People to turn on Trump, especially those marginal voters which went for Trump in 2024, the Democrat party media must smear him and paint him as an "existential threat" to America and even pay to bring TDS-infected podcasters like Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens or ex-politicos like MTG, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, into their camp. In reality, all that is threatened with irrelevance is the Democrat Party. This is also the reason the party apparatus now embraces the Far Left, the Marxists and Anarchists it used to disavow / ignore. Now, the Dems need their enthusiastic fringe and so they play to them, pushing aside moderates. We have seen that this round of primary elections, like Leftist Raman catching Karan Bass, herself an avowed Communist, just not adequately extreme for the new party mojo. It seems to me this sprint to the Far Left will fail. There are too many sane Democrats who at some point will say "no mas" to their party's extremism and will either vote for some independent or even secretly for a GOP, who are almost all moderates today.
“The constant attacks on Trump are all about Democrat party power. That is all it is or ever was.”
On one level, yes… But, on a deeper level, it’s all about the potential threats he and his Administration pose to thousands of compromised, corrupt, and/or evil ‘power brokers’ and their sycophantic minions at the upper echelon of every single American Institution, whether they identify as ‘Democrat’, ‘Republican’, or ‘Independent’.
And on the deepest level, it is about the threats he and his Administration pose to the Satanically inspired and empowered Globalist ambitions and schemes, which are far further advanced than the vast majority of people realize.
I suspect we have entered the final phases of an ‘All or Nothing’ battle for the soul of America, in which the United States is perilously vulnerable. What is at stake is not only the prolonging of our precious freedoms, but the fate of all Western Civilization.
I thank God for the blessings of mercy and grace that He has poured out over our nation throughout our past, but particularly in the aftermath of the disastrous Biden (Obama et al) Administration, and believe it is only by His intervening restraint that President Trump has survived, been elected, inaugurated, and able to assemble and empower such a powerful Cabinet of highly-effective patriots.
I hope and pray He continues to bless us in and through the present contest. That said, I believe the greatest threat to His continued blessing and protection over our nation, is the rapid spread of antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Israelism throughout virtually all areas of the American body politic.
Tragically, however, baring a miraculous revival and widespread harvest of salvation, I don’t believe we will be able to successfully stem and recover from that vile sickness.
Hate to break it to you, but a president using his office to make his family billions of dollars isn’t a threat to corruption at all—he is himself an example of corruption, and may indeed be the most powerful swamp creature in the swamp.
Remember, the Devil will approach you posing as a savior. He will gather people around a golden calf—an Arc, perhaps, or a ballroom, or a great pool of reflecting water upon the Capitol—and then he will steal from them everything they believed he was defending. And by the time they realize it, it will be too late—they will have pledged their souls to him, attached themselves to the false savior, and the gates to the Kingdom of Heaven shall be closed to them.
Now do the Democrats who enjoy mutilating children, opening our border to let illegals rape and murder us and get off Scot free, shovel our tax dollars out to fraudsters for votes, and rig elections. And that’s just for starters.
Oh that’s easy. The Devil’s deceptions reliably require a group of ‘heretics’ he can point to as the ‘true threat’ that he will protect the people from; without this putative threat, the people would see no reason to pledge their souls to him, and his gambit would never work.
Who’s “pledging their soul” to Trump? He’s a human being, subject to sin like the rest of us.
That being said, given the plethora of evidence, and the binary choice we are given in this country for a leader, he’s hands down the far better choice in this battle of good vs. evil our country is currently engaged in.
I think the Moderate Democrat voter, over the age of 50, is beginning to realize the bad position that their Party has taken. I think, Dem's in Fly-over Country already voted for Trump after seeing the degradation of and Grift of their tax dollars, illegal immigration, etc., have quietly come over to the side of survival, law and order, Borders, etc.
One does not have to switch their party affiliation to vote differently in the general elections. To actually switch Party affiliation, might open them up to being tracked and harassed by the Party, as was done to Sasha!
I’m not sure they will. But it behooves ALL of us to work to ensure that the D candidates lose. TBH, not every R candidate is terrific, but there is no doubt that the Dem leadership and vast majority of their politicians are pushing for policies that will destroy the country. Only Fetterman is different; at least he will acknowledge truth and occasionally vote with his R colleagues. But usually even he votes with the Ds.
At least we ban together to oust those on our side that are ignoring the citizen voters. The left does not do this. They work to oust the ones that are.
And look how Newscum is projecting today about the DOJ investigating his wife. THEY made the rules and now cry when the tables are turned. The difference is they had to fabricate crimes, exaggerate offenses, and change the laws to get anything on Trump or his family. All WE have to do is turn the light on in their closets of corruption and they are terrified of that. So he accuses Trump of doing exactly what his witch of an aunt, Obama, and the democrats did to Trump. He would know exactly how it’s done, they are experts at it.
The Trump DOJ has more failures to convict (or even secure indictments) at court than every prior DOJ in history, combined, because unlike prior DOJs all it has done is go after people who have displeased Trump.
It went after:
-Jay Powell (wouldn’t lower interest rates)
-James Comey (loudly critical of Trump)
-Letitia James (led a civil fraud case against him)
-Jack Smith (led the investigation into the Jan 6 insurrection)
-Adam Schiff (chief congressional opponent)
-Christopher Krebs (prominently pointed out there was no evidence 2020 election was ‘stolen’)
—and in each case the evidence was so flimsy they either failed to indict or failed to convict.
It is quite clear from its actions that it is simply being used as an instrument of political harassment, not a law enforcement body. So, again—your accusation of projection by others is merely a confession of your own projections, as those living in bad faith must continually insist that others bear the guilt of their own sins.
Evidence wasn’t flimsy, corrupt judiciary is why the convictions were near impossible to get. They were more than guilty - and for more than they were prosecuted for.
“It is quite clear” (it’s really not)
“… it is simply being used as an instrument of political harassment,” (it most definitely is not to harass)
“… as those living in bad faith must continually insist that others bear the guilt of their own sins.” We didn’t expect your autobiography.
Nice narrative. Too bad it’s too early in the show to make your blanket assumptions, (understandable in your desperation,) and the shows not even over yet. Hold on to your corrupt seat, it’s about to get spicy.
“corrupt judiciary is why the convictions were near impossible to get. They were more than guilty - and for more than they were prosecuted for.”
If the judiciary is hopelessly corrupt why did the DOJ have a conviction rate of 98% before this administration, through both Republican and Democratic White Houses ?
Hint: it’s because they never went to court on flimsy evidence.
Failing to secure an indictment, btw, is totally unheard of at the federal level. To fail to secure an indictment means you have *literally* nothing. Yet this DOJ has multiple ‘no bills’ to its name.
Why would you indict someone without evidence to secure an indictment?
The only reason that makes any sense is to harass whoever you’re taking to court.
And, in any case, you have no evidence of this corruption—and the failures were in multiple jurisdictions, amidst multiple juries, and several in front of Trump-appointed judges.
This evidence does not exist because you are attempting to cope with the reality of the DOJ’s transformation from law enforcement body to a means to harass his enemies, and the only way you can do so is by creating fictions—and accusing people telling the truth of spinning fiction while you do so.
Do you remember the refrigerator trucks full of body bags during the onset of Covid, when emergency rooms and hospitals were so full that anything that wasn't a life threatening emergency got put off? Do you remember how proud Trump was of the vaccines until he wasn't adequately getting credit for his role in their development and suddenly the vaccines were bad?
My father’s partner’s son collapsed at 5:00 a.m. The squad came to get him and took him to 5 different hospitals, who all turned him away because they were short staffed and overrun with COVID supposedly. The ambulance drove for hours trying to find a hospital that would take him. When they finally did, it was too late. He shouldn’t have died that day, but he did because of all the COVID craziness. A mother had to bury her son because of a pandemic that never should’ve happened.
And do you remember that the whole "refrigerator trucks with body bags" thing was way way exaggerated... There wound up being surplus ER capacity that was never used..
Stop whining and start enjoying The Golden Age. It's gonna be/already is, great!
Recent investigations by the American Civil Liberties Union and the U.S. Senate reveal severe human rights violations in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. Widespread reports document extreme medical neglect, widespread physical force, unsafe housing conditions in hastily constructed camps, and the punitive use of solitary confinement, resulting in record-high mortality rates in custody.Conditions in these facilities—often termed "warehouses" due to rapid, massive capacity expansions—include the following documented issues:Medical Neglect: Senate investigations and health watchdog reports highlight severe failures to provide adequate health care. Detainees have suffered from untreated chronic conditions, denial of prescribed medications, delayed emergency responses, and preventable deaths.Severe Environmental Concerns: Reports from legal and human rights groups detail severe overcrowding, unsanitary living conditions, extreme temperatures, and limited access to clean drinking water and adequate food.Use of Force: Internal ICE records and civil rights lawsuits indicate an escalating use of physical tactics, chemical agents, and punitive segregation against detainees, including those protesting poor conditions or asking for basic necessities.Systemic Violations: Audits of new mega-facilities, such as the site at Fort Bliss, revealed that sites opened with dozens of violations of detention standards, putting the health and safety of both detainees and staff at risk.For comprehensive data on the rising numbers of deaths and health crises within these facilities, refer to the KFF Health Study on ICE Detention Centers. To track the escalating fatalities, see the American Civil Liberties Union Report on Deaths in Detention.
Much like The Southern Poverty Law Center! Grifters' masquerading as public defenders of Civil Rights!
As legal American/USA Citizens' we are the people who's Constitutional Rights were violated when the BIDEN ADMINISTRATION chose to NOT follow the IMMIGRATION LAWS, NOT GUARD the BORDERS, and NOT DETAIN TESSPASSERS!
These same "so called" detention facilities short comings didn't seem to bother those who traveled through the Darian Gap holding facilities in Panama! Or perhaps, Panama didn't provide them lawyers that want to secure 'yet another big payout' from the U.S. TAXPAYERS!
There are real concentration camps. ICE is busy trying to create more. There are currently 255 facilities that house aliens, the majority of which have no criminal charges or convictions and many of which were lawfully present in the US on a work permit, awaiting determination of their asylum application, or had other lawful status. Many of them were picked up by ICE when they showed up for the periodic check-ins mandated by their lawful status A partial list of the concentration camps can be found here:
Members of Congress, by law, are entitled to make unannounced inspections. They have been delayed, threatened with arrest and maced carrying out that duty. When they have made it in, they have found mass cells with a single toilet serving 50 people, no clean water, no way to shower, food crawling with maggots, and untreated disease, including among children.
Those “concentration camps” are quite comfortable. They are being held until they can be deported. Note that ANY illegal alien has the alternative of taking $1000 and a plane ride home. Why do they decline?
Recent investigations by the American Civil Liberties Union and the U.S. Senate reveal severe human rights violations in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. Widespread reports document extreme medical neglect, widespread physical force, unsafe housing conditions in hastily constructed camps, and the punitive use of solitary confinement, resulting in record-high mortality rates in custody.Conditions in these facilities—often termed "warehouses" due to rapid, massive capacity expansions—include the following documented issues:Medical Neglect: Senate investigations and health watchdog reports highlight severe failures to provide adequate health care. Detainees have suffered from untreated chronic conditions, denial of prescribed medications, delayed emergency responses, and preventable deaths.Severe Environmental Concerns: Reports from legal and human rights groups detail severe overcrowding, unsanitary living conditions, extreme temperatures, and limited access to clean drinking water and adequate food.Use of Force: Internal ICE records and civil rights lawsuits indicate an escalating use of physical tactics, chemical agents, and punitive segregation against detainees, including those protesting poor conditions or asking for basic necessities.Systemic Violations: Audits of new mega-facilities, such as the site at Fort Bliss, revealed that sites opened with dozens of violations of detention standards, putting the health and safety of both detainees and staff at risk.For comprehensive data on the rising numbers of deaths and health crises within these facilities, refer to the KFF Health Study on ICE Detention Centers. To track the escalating fatalities, see the American Civil Liberties Union Report on Deaths in Detention.
I don't CARE! Rules and Laws were not followed by these detainees! Why should we care about their rights when they infringed on our rights, took our jobs, and used our tax money for their illegal activities, medical care, Food Banks, etc.
Our Country is in massive debt, because we allow our Politicians to stray from the Constitution and steal our money to give to Others'. This is part and parcel of using our funds and our Media to entice bad actors into INVADING our Country!
Their Countries would and do worse things to lawbreakers!
Because many of them aren't illegal: They had legal work permits, they had legal asylum applications; and they have families. And bullshit they are comfortable. Not according to the members of Congress who have inspected them, unless you think getting your drinking water out of a toilet is comfortable or having one toilet for fifty people or one shower for fifty people are comfortable.
They are all "illegal" now, whatever bogus documents Biden gave them... The Age of Illegal Immigration and Phony Asylum Claims is over... deal with it...
And ICE doesn't? Not to mention that many of these people were showing up for their regular appointments with immigration judges, so there is no need to hold them at $1,000 per day when they could be out making money and contributing to the economy and the tax receipts instead of treating them like criminals.
They are criminals! Crossing the Border, not within the Border Entry, is a crime. Overstaying VISA's is a Crime! The Biden Administration, Not policing our Borders is also a CRIME! These crimes are being looked at and remedied!
They broke a federal law when they entered our country illegally. That is grounds for removal. This is a simple yes or no situation. Obama understood this problem. And built the detention centers, and used the shit outta them. No one complained and attacked ICE then. Wonder why?
It is legal to come into the country and submit an asylum application. It is legal to come into the country and get a work permit. These are many of the people ICE is snatching and trying to force them to self-deport.
They aren't coming for my Mum, because she entered at the request of an employer. She then interviewed for a job and went back to her country to await the verdict. Once she was officially hired, she moved herself and her meager belongings to the City and State that hired her. She had to obtain a work permit and Green Card, with the documents supplied by her Employer. That Green Card required her to check-in every two years, even after she was legally Married to an American for over 20 years and had 4 American children!
That was how it was done, when our Government paid attention to, and enforced the Laws they created.
I noticed you ignored this part: “Obama understood this problem. And built the detention centers, and used the shit outta them. No one complained and attacked ICE then. Wonder why?”
GREAT! They should have stayed in their own Country until they got the Asylum, or they should have gone to the nearest Country to their own. Without Rules and Enforced Laws, Health Checks, they were allowed in by the Previous administration! Now we are left to clean-up the mess!
Batya has a really great column up today about Europeans, here for the World Cup, are discovering an America (a red America) that is nothing like the America portrayed by the elitists in our (and their) media and they are loving it. Little things like free refills on coffee, biscuits & gravy, Ranch dressing, the vastness & quaintness of flyover America, country music, and of course, the abundance that too many of us take for granted.
In some ways, the Real Trump is like the Real America. When you get to know them, you find that they are not what the opposition want you to believe.
"the abundance that too many of us take for granted", especially Millennials and GenZ, who have never wanted for anything. They think that executive homes and Doordash delivered gourmet food should be guaranteed with no effort required. Us Boomers and GenXers all had to struggle. We entered the work force as America was hit by late 60s dysfunction and then massive inflation which required a deep and long recession to quell. Half of my college graduation class could not find a job. I was fortunate to get a couple offers and took the one paying the most, $22.5K in 1982 (my other offer at an Ad Agency was for $13K). Even in the $ of that era, it was hard to buy a car and pay rent on two of those incomes. We struggled for the next 15 years until I advanced up the ladder to a point where income made us comfortable. That is just the way life is.
Exactly. And our first home, 980 square feet in an old Scrubby Dutch neighborhood in South St. Louis, cost $30,000 with an FHA mortgage at 13%. (That's THIRTEEN percent for you youngsters who think 5 percent loans are a ripoff.)
Yes! And our furniture and furnishings were hand me downs and used at out first 2 or 3 residences (rented, mostly)... It was many years before we could buy new cars and new furniture and appliances.
It took me years to get a TV, and then when I got one, it was a small-screen black & white. I used a milk crate to sit it on, because I didn't have any furniture except a few hand-me-downs from some kind people at work.
Yup, us too. Bought our first stove, a 1950's vintage four-burner gas range with the oven you lit with a match, for 30 bucks at a yard sale. Five years married before we had a new car. etc.
I was born in 1968, so I am child of the 70s and 80s. It was rare if we ate out. We typically had a pitcher of tea or Kool-Aid in the refrigerator, and even getting soda was a rare treat. We had one console TV in the den with a broadcast antenna on the roof. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and the UHF channels. We were at Sunday School and church every Sunday. We had a rotary dial phone that was leased from the phone company. We thought we were hot stuff when we graduated to a push button phone. When I was old enough to understand, we worried about the Cold War. We had plenty. Life seems a lot more complicated now.
We thought we were hot stuff with the push button phone too! 🤣
Our record player was bigger than a coffin, a long console that had an 8-track player on one side of the turn table and a radio on the other. I thought we were rich because it had an 8-track player. I didn’t realize just how utterly poor we really were until I went to college and I needed my dad’s income to apply for school loans. I don’t know how they did it, and I suspect a lot of charity was involved, like that record player console was probably given to them. I do remember we never got new clothes. Hand me downs were given in big garbage bags by neighbors or the church. The first time I had new clothes was in high school after getting my first job, I went to KMart and spent $280 on a whole new wardrobe. (Tacky I’m sure 😆 I had no one teach me style) And we never had one new car in my entire childhood. They were all beaters scrounged up from somewhere.
But still I was unaware and thought we were well to do because I had a canopy bed that all little girls dream of. I learned when older my parents saved monthly for two years to buy one for each me and my sister. I also look back and see how badly the wealthy in our town treated my parents, and by association me. I understand it all now, but I didn’t realize why then.
It’s why to this day I will never treat someone poor any differently than one of my wealthy friends.
I remember getting my first job at 15, the summer after my dad died. From then on, I bought my own stuff. My mom went to work once my dad got sick and couldn'twork. Somehow we got by.
I did the same! When Dad had a Cerebral Aneurism U was 12! I babysat until I was 15-1/2, then with permission and a "work experience permit" from the school Councilor, I worked scooping ice cream after school. I also purchased my clothing, shoes, gas when I it was my turn to use the one car, we had. I usually, bought fabric and made most of my clothing!
I also paid for my tuition and most of my supplies at the local Community College, my Folks scraped enough to help purchase books for the 3 of us that were if college age. We purchased our own, used cars or rode a 10 speed bike that we had received as a Christmas or B-Day gift when we were 12 years-old!
As a child, I wore my older brothers hand-me-down pants as play clothes and Dresses, slips and coats handed down from neighbor's and cousins, to my sister, then to me! At 12, I became the surrogate mother to my 9 year-old- brother, because Mum was at The VA hospital looking after dad and the other Coma patients in his ward.
Today's youth have no character and skewed values because they have not had real hardship and been asked to step-up and participate in the success of the family, and the Country!
Great story and obviously you benefited from overcoming. I just hope those in their teens, 20s and 30s will know that others have done like you and they can, too. No guarantees in life!
Right there with you. We grew up working poor. It was just the era, the post WW2 50s-60s with stay-at-home moms, small 1200 sq ft houses and a single car the norm. My father wanted his own business and leveraged himself into a pharmacy an old friend was selling. But it was in a downtown area that was losing traffic with the advent of malls, so he / we always struggled to pay bills. I wore shoes until there were holes in the bottom and could not play organized sports because equipment and fees were too much. My mom clipped coupons and turned them in for cash at a grocer friend's store (he was not supposed to do that by the rules of the wholesalers, but did). But I loved my life as a youth and don't regret now how tight money was (then, it was tough getting compared to friends whose families had a lot more). Wealth is a state of mind. I wish young people could learn that lesson.
Raising our family in the 90's and 2000's, we were frugal. I finally gave in and got our first cable in 2001 after we moved to a new house and could not get reception for the TV. Our kids did not have game consoles or such unless they saved up and bought it for themselves, because we wanted them to (1) feel the ownership and (2) understand the value.
I really thought we'd done pretty well - and they are all pretty careful with money, but life is still so much easier for them. Food delivery. Grocery pickup. Pocket computers (phones) that could control the first space missions. And, why not? They can afford it because they have good jobs.
But it's definitely different than growing up with no internet, no mobile phones, and more. I traveled for 3 months with a missional singing group at 18, and I maybe talked to people (via my phone card) once a week. They wrote me letters.
But my parent's experiences were even more so. And my grandparents were children of the Depression. My grandmother (who worked and supported herself after a divorce), saved carefully and did well for herself. But she still always wiped off and reused her foil and washed out Ziplock bags. I do not have those habits at all.
More complicated, and maddening. I was born in 1952, so I have a much larger memory of The Before Times than you. Somehow, the Internet, which brings us everything, makes life empty if you pay too much attention to it.
I enlisted in 1980 and started out making $240/mo and after 4 years, was making $1,000/mo. I did one smart thing. I enrolled in the Veterans Educational Allowance Program and saved $75/mo which Uncle Sam would match with $150/mo if I enrolled full-time in college. So, after I got out, I went to Univ. of Alaska in Fairbanks with in-state tuition and a monthly check for $225. That, and working as a house-builder and junior geologist during summers while living in a dry log cabin in the woods got me through graduation without having to take a loan. I've employed over 500 recent grads since then and I am blown away by the amount of student loan debt that many of them are burdened with. Many also have auto loans and considerable credit card debt. Tough way to start out a career. You and I are of an age where our grandparents were starting families during the Great Depression. I think the psychological impact of that experience (to be frugal and be smart about money) was passed onto the subsequent generations, but seems to have really dissipated over time.
Yep! My parents were the Depression Era kids as well. And both my Grandfather's were in the Great War. These were the children of Pioneers, Settlers and Farmers. They developed survival skills. Dad often talked about how fortunate his family was to have chickens on their farm, because the extra eggs were used to barter with neighbors for things they did not grow or have on their farm. Still, with a family of 8, shoes were not affordable, so dad would line his shoes with cardboard, when he could scrounge it, to keep the dirt and pebbles out of the holes.
My grandmother was born in a sod house on a dirt farm in Oklahoma. I have a photograph of her and her four sisters sitting on a horse on their way to school in the morning. Gramma was the oldest and was the only sister with shoes. She said that in those days, the girls typically didn't get shoes until they were 10 or 12 years old. Of course, these were likely hand-me-downs and continued to be hand-me-downs until they could no longer be repaired. She told me that the sod house was cool in the summer, but drafty in the winter and always had bugs dropping from the ceiling.
Jeff, this is a great comment. I agree and it’s so frustrating to me when the leftists claim the moral high ground when they are committing the worst policy and social practices themselves! You put it in such a direct way, thank you!
Europeans idea of the USA is a caricature of reality based on tv and movies. They would learn a lot their betters would rather they don’t by traveling around.
I've done a fair amount of traveling and of all the people I met in Europe, the English were the most stand-offish. Not rude and generally courteous, but most of the time, I felt invisible. Hard to strike up a conversation, even in the pubs. I had long hair and big beard, so maybe they didn't like my looks? Didn't seem to be a problem elsewhere.
I’m still surprised at how people we think are reasonable intelligent professionals who can wish death absolute death and assassination with no concern about who might get in the way of that bullet— and they’re respected and admired local upstanding pillars of their society and it’s just gut wretchedly awful
I always supported Trump people would say oh he’s grass he’s brash he can’t shut up. He gets in his own way and I would say yes, but you know who he is that is who he is and he is a New Yorker that is a New Yorker who has worked in that state building buildings that are phenomenal and gets it done and that’s what you want in a president to work past all of the stuff, the stuff they wanna throw up in your way and get it done. I’m so happy he’s doing the ballroom. I’m happy he’s cleaning up the reflecting pond. I’m happy he’s getting DC cleaned up. Its crime rate is Down normal. People are safer. He’s fixing remodeling the Kennedy center all those people that were cheering the taking down of his name, how many people there had attended the building had expressed their concerns about the disrepair that that building was in nobody cared until he put his name on it now they’re all up in arms. It is it is the height of hypocrisy.
Anyway, your thoughts were right on thank you as always, and I’m thankful to God for people like you who have a voice for people like me who don’t have that audience
Happy birthday President Trump on this wonderful Flag Day
And happy 250th anniversary of the founding of this country. It is a wonderful time.
Thanks for resharing your Trump's Hero Journey. I missed it 2 years ago but it's perfect to celebrate his 80th birthday. I appreciate your creativity in telling good stories.
Washington DC is scoundrel central. Trump hate is purely about him being an outsider. Before running and beating Hillary he was loved by the liberal A crowd. But the Clintons were the Obama's before the Obama's. Bill was "the first black President" before the first half black President. Hillary was Bill's Queen and allegedly the brains behind Bill's winning personality. The Clintons loved to call Trump whenever they needed money for whatever grift they were working on.
Then all of a sudden Trump was not welcome in progressive polite society. He was banished for daring to challenge the queen. One day Oprah is calling just to chat. The next day you're Hitler. What a head twist!
Trump's would be the greatest Presidential memoirs ever written. Probably the only one I will ever buy. Talk about your slings and arrows! I would be curled up on the floor of my cell in some mental institution by now if I had to fend off attacks from the whole of the world progressive media-political elite. He has a lot of FU money and can't be bought unlike Nancy, Hill and Bill. But at one point he was spending 90K per day on lawyers. (some of it donated- but still!) But the boobs only succeeded in getting him re-elected. The problem is who could be trusted to write the story? The publishing houses are snobby, woke asshole central; every bit as bad as Hollywood- maybe worse. He needs someone who writes great crime novels from a police perspective. I don't really know her politics; but Karin Slaughter seems like the right fit. If 6 degrees of separation is real Sasha could probably bring Trump and Karin together.
You should read Eric Trump's book UNDER SIEGE. It's very good. Eric is a devoted, loving son and he sounds like a remarkable person, as well. I was very impressed with his recording of this history.
I once read that before his political life, Trump was invited to a lot of New York charity dinners/parties & even tho the “elites” made fun of him behind his back—they always wanted him to attend because he “made the party when he walked in”— & he, also, was very generous to their cause. When he stopped by his construction sites— the workers treated him like a friend— He talked like them.
Spot on, but I believe it's Hillary who gravy-trained Bill. Hill is 100% idealogue, but it's Bill who has the smarts, and one of the best politicians we've ever seen.
Problem is, they (she!) don't know when to go away.
I agree with the premise that Hillary hitched her wagon to Bill, but she clearly his FIXER! She went after all his Bimbo's, (so much for the Sisterhood of Feminism), She also took the Secretary of State gig over the obvious VP gig, because she needed to pad her WAR Chest for her next Presidential Run and cover up her and Bills Nefarious dealings, prior to her next attempt!
Bill only looks like a master politician, because Newt Convinced him to coopt the Republicans Welfare Reforms! Clinton only became President initially, because the Republican vote was split by a third Party Candidate! Bush Senior was a Deep State Plant and Clinton was a randy-guy with loads of female skeletons in his closet, which allowed the Deeply Entrenched crowd to use him like a puppet!
Historian and Classics Professor, Victor Davis Hanson has a Book on Trump coming out in the Fall of 2026! He is continually having to add to it because Trump is continually Winning and restoring our Liberties!
Jenny Holland, who I now follow thanks to a great discussion she had with Sasha, had a great line today in a Substack interview about Belfast. It basically was said by the other gal, but struck me as perfect for how we have felt about the left since they began to expose themselves. "You know when you are being condescended", not an exact quote but like when Hillary referred to us as deplorables, no ,matter how clever they are with choosing the perfect words or argument, their delivery always reeks of condescension. Trump has never had a hint of that towards all of us, and no matter his human faults, we know he loves America for the same reasons we do. This was a wonderful way to celebrate his birthday and our flag. thank you again Sasha!
Jeez, Louise, why didn’t I follow you sooner? Your video was so impressive. I wish I had watched it in 2024. I have been with President since he knocked out every other contender in 2016 at which point I paid attention, became a staunch supporter and knocked on doors and spoke at a rally on the energy sector. You made my day!
“Nothing they ever said he would do, he did. There are no mass graves or body bags. No one was thrown in jail for protesting. He didn’t start World War III. There are no real “concentration camps.” The case against Trump by the left exists in their collective imaginations. “
But those things are ALL on the list of things they want to do to us, and in many cases already have, (Jan 6th protestors hunted down and tossed into prison, igniting the Ukraine/ Russia war, killing seniors in nursing homes, trying to imprison AND assassinate the president), and they’ll do far worse if they ever taste power again. They’ve said it OUT LOUD themselves.
It is eerie how the projections of the Left work. You are right Suzie that these items are on their list. Heck Hochul and others in NY State suggested camps for those that refused the COVID vaccine. The street violence is already a “feature” courtesy of the Left/Dems/radicals. As is censorship (to wit the Twitter Files and CISA, still underway in Europe btw). The amount of propaganda based on outright lies (Russiagate) as well as lawfare, well heck, President Trump is one tough cookie despite all the attacks. In fact, he looks younger now than he did in Jan 2021.
Notably, even with the Iran War Trump has stopped bombing to pursue peace multiple times, despite the intransigence of the mullahs, IRGC, Basaaj and whomever else is running that country to the sorrow of their citizens.
To hear what real violent fascism is in fact, I recommend listening to “The Rest is History” podcast episodes on the rise of the Nazis. Many echoes of EXACTLY what the Dems/Left are doing. I doubt that the two Brit hosts even grasp how serious an indictment of the globalist/progressive Left their narration provides.
Let's talk projection:
****(I.) "Heck Hochul and others in NY State suggested camps for those that refused the COVID vaccine"***
Trump implements *actual* (not suggested, but actual) camps for illegal immigrants, most of them non-violent offenders
Hochul, NY State and the Democratic party do not do this for anyone--but they are the 'dangerous ones'
***(II.) "As is censorship (to wit the Twitter Files and CISA, still underway in Europe btw)"***
-Trump sues and strongarms into settlement news organizations whose reporting he doesn't like to the tune of billions of dollars, and installs his own hand-picked 'monitor' at CBS news
vs
Biden has the government inform Twitter about disinfo on its platform, and lets Twitter handle its own mod policies.
But *Biden* is the dangerous one
***(III.) "even with the Iran War Trump has stopped bombing to pursue peace multiple times"***
-Trump campaigns on 'no new wars', engages in a war that never needed to happen, and allows the Iranians to expand their standing in power in the region
But *the Dems* are the warmongers for...supporting a fellow NATO ally against an invasion by Russia...
***(IV.) "as well as lawfare"***
Trump uses the DOJ to prosecute:
-Lisa Cook
-Jay Powell
-Letitia James
-Adam Schiff
-Becca Good, wife of Renee Good (murdered by ICE), notably right after Good's death
...among others.
The evidence is so bad that none of these cases are won at court.
This use of the DOJ has *never* been tried before, by any president--
But it's the *Democrats* who are guilty of lawfare
*************
...When you speak of 'the projection done by the left', it would serve you well to peer into a mirror, and note the massive scale of your projections in this little post alone. Accusing others of what you are guilty of is a deft strategy *except* when there is no factual basis for the accusation--and, clearly, there is none on your part.
The constant attacks on Trump are all about Democrat party power. That is all it is or ever was. To get the People to turn on Trump, especially those marginal voters which went for Trump in 2024, the Democrat party media must smear him and paint him as an "existential threat" to America and even pay to bring TDS-infected podcasters like Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens or ex-politicos like MTG, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, into their camp. In reality, all that is threatened with irrelevance is the Democrat Party. This is also the reason the party apparatus now embraces the Far Left, the Marxists and Anarchists it used to disavow / ignore. Now, the Dems need their enthusiastic fringe and so they play to them, pushing aside moderates. We have seen that this round of primary elections, like Leftist Raman catching Karan Bass, herself an avowed Communist, just not adequately extreme for the new party mojo. It seems to me this sprint to the Far Left will fail. There are too many sane Democrats who at some point will say "no mas" to their party's extremism and will either vote for some independent or even secretly for a GOP, who are almost all moderates today.
“The constant attacks on Trump are all about Democrat party power. That is all it is or ever was.”
On one level, yes… But, on a deeper level, it’s all about the potential threats he and his Administration pose to thousands of compromised, corrupt, and/or evil ‘power brokers’ and their sycophantic minions at the upper echelon of every single American Institution, whether they identify as ‘Democrat’, ‘Republican’, or ‘Independent’.
And on the deepest level, it is about the threats he and his Administration pose to the Satanically inspired and empowered Globalist ambitions and schemes, which are far further advanced than the vast majority of people realize.
I suspect we have entered the final phases of an ‘All or Nothing’ battle for the soul of America, in which the United States is perilously vulnerable. What is at stake is not only the prolonging of our precious freedoms, but the fate of all Western Civilization.
I thank God for the blessings of mercy and grace that He has poured out over our nation throughout our past, but particularly in the aftermath of the disastrous Biden (Obama et al) Administration, and believe it is only by His intervening restraint that President Trump has survived, been elected, inaugurated, and able to assemble and empower such a powerful Cabinet of highly-effective patriots.
I hope and pray He continues to bless us in and through the present contest. That said, I believe the greatest threat to His continued blessing and protection over our nation, is the rapid spread of antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Israelism throughout virtually all areas of the American body politic.
Tragically, however, baring a miraculous revival and widespread harvest of salvation, I don’t believe we will be able to successfully stem and recover from that vile sickness.
Am Israel Chai, to the glory of God!
Hate to break it to you, but a president using his office to make his family billions of dollars isn’t a threat to corruption at all—he is himself an example of corruption, and may indeed be the most powerful swamp creature in the swamp.
Remember, the Devil will approach you posing as a savior. He will gather people around a golden calf—an Arc, perhaps, or a ballroom, or a great pool of reflecting water upon the Capitol—and then he will steal from them everything they believed he was defending. And by the time they realize it, it will be too late—they will have pledged their souls to him, attached themselves to the false savior, and the gates to the Kingdom of Heaven shall be closed to them.
Now do the Democrats who enjoy mutilating children, opening our border to let illegals rape and murder us and get off Scot free, shovel our tax dollars out to fraudsters for votes, and rig elections. And that’s just for starters.
Oh that’s easy. The Devil’s deceptions reliably require a group of ‘heretics’ he can point to as the ‘true threat’ that he will protect the people from; without this putative threat, the people would see no reason to pledge their souls to him, and his gambit would never work.
Who’s “pledging their soul” to Trump? He’s a human being, subject to sin like the rest of us.
That being said, given the plethora of evidence, and the binary choice we are given in this country for a leader, he’s hands down the far better choice in this battle of good vs. evil our country is currently engaged in.
I hope there are some sane Ds. Don’t see many LOL
If the sane ones haven’t left the party by now they are not sane after all
I think the Moderate Democrat voter, over the age of 50, is beginning to realize the bad position that their Party has taken. I think, Dem's in Fly-over Country already voted for Trump after seeing the degradation of and Grift of their tax dollars, illegal immigration, etc., have quietly come over to the side of survival, law and order, Borders, etc.
One does not have to switch their party affiliation to vote differently in the general elections. To actually switch Party affiliation, might open them up to being tracked and harassed by the Party, as was done to Sasha!
They will most certainly get back in power which is the scary thing.
Snort— really what year? if you are going to throw out vague silliness then have the balls to be specific.
If that them getting back in is bad, do something! But it is fair to observe that how can you when the game is rigged. And it is SO rigged.
I’m not sure they will. But it behooves ALL of us to work to ensure that the D candidates lose. TBH, not every R candidate is terrific, but there is no doubt that the Dem leadership and vast majority of their politicians are pushing for policies that will destroy the country. Only Fetterman is different; at least he will acknowledge truth and occasionally vote with his R colleagues. But usually even he votes with the Ds.
At least we ban together to oust those on our side that are ignoring the citizen voters. The left does not do this. They work to oust the ones that are.
And look how Newscum is projecting today about the DOJ investigating his wife. THEY made the rules and now cry when the tables are turned. The difference is they had to fabricate crimes, exaggerate offenses, and change the laws to get anything on Trump or his family. All WE have to do is turn the light on in their closets of corruption and they are terrified of that. So he accuses Trump of doing exactly what his witch of an aunt, Obama, and the democrats did to Trump. He would know exactly how it’s done, they are experts at it.
The Trump DOJ has more failures to convict (or even secure indictments) at court than every prior DOJ in history, combined, because unlike prior DOJs all it has done is go after people who have displeased Trump.
It went after:
-Jay Powell (wouldn’t lower interest rates)
-James Comey (loudly critical of Trump)
-Letitia James (led a civil fraud case against him)
-Jack Smith (led the investigation into the Jan 6 insurrection)
-Adam Schiff (chief congressional opponent)
-Christopher Krebs (prominently pointed out there was no evidence 2020 election was ‘stolen’)
—and in each case the evidence was so flimsy they either failed to indict or failed to convict.
It is quite clear from its actions that it is simply being used as an instrument of political harassment, not a law enforcement body. So, again—your accusation of projection by others is merely a confession of your own projections, as those living in bad faith must continually insist that others bear the guilt of their own sins.
Evidence wasn’t flimsy, corrupt judiciary is why the convictions were near impossible to get. They were more than guilty - and for more than they were prosecuted for.
“It is quite clear” (it’s really not)
“… it is simply being used as an instrument of political harassment,” (it most definitely is not to harass)
“… as those living in bad faith must continually insist that others bear the guilt of their own sins.” We didn’t expect your autobiography.
Nice narrative. Too bad it’s too early in the show to make your blanket assumptions, (understandable in your desperation,) and the shows not even over yet. Hold on to your corrupt seat, it’s about to get spicy.
2 hours ago: https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/2067792184753938484/video/1?s=46
“corrupt judiciary is why the convictions were near impossible to get. They were more than guilty - and for more than they were prosecuted for.”
If the judiciary is hopelessly corrupt why did the DOJ have a conviction rate of 98% before this administration, through both Republican and Democratic White Houses ?
Hint: it’s because they never went to court on flimsy evidence.
Failing to secure an indictment, btw, is totally unheard of at the federal level. To fail to secure an indictment means you have *literally* nothing. Yet this DOJ has multiple ‘no bills’ to its name.
Why would you indict someone without evidence to secure an indictment?
The only reason that makes any sense is to harass whoever you’re taking to court.
And, in any case, you have no evidence of this corruption—and the failures were in multiple jurisdictions, amidst multiple juries, and several in front of Trump-appointed judges.
This evidence does not exist because you are attempting to cope with the reality of the DOJ’s transformation from law enforcement body to a means to harass his enemies, and the only way you can do so is by creating fictions—and accusing people telling the truth of spinning fiction while you do so.
BINGO!
Do you remember the refrigerator trucks full of body bags during the onset of Covid, when emergency rooms and hospitals were so full that anything that wasn't a life threatening emergency got put off? Do you remember how proud Trump was of the vaccines until he wasn't adequately getting credit for his role in their development and suddenly the vaccines were bad?
My father’s partner’s son collapsed at 5:00 a.m. The squad came to get him and took him to 5 different hospitals, who all turned him away because they were short staffed and overrun with COVID supposedly. The ambulance drove for hours trying to find a hospital that would take him. When they finally did, it was too late. He shouldn’t have died that day, but he did because of all the COVID craziness. A mother had to bury her son because of a pandemic that never should’ve happened.
Dear Lord! That is horrifying!! utterly heartbreaking!
And do you remember that the whole "refrigerator trucks with body bags" thing was way way exaggerated... There wound up being surplus ER capacity that was never used..
Stop whining and start enjoying The Golden Age. It's gonna be/already is, great!
Recent investigations by the American Civil Liberties Union and the U.S. Senate reveal severe human rights violations in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. Widespread reports document extreme medical neglect, widespread physical force, unsafe housing conditions in hastily constructed camps, and the punitive use of solitary confinement, resulting in record-high mortality rates in custody.Conditions in these facilities—often termed "warehouses" due to rapid, massive capacity expansions—include the following documented issues:Medical Neglect: Senate investigations and health watchdog reports highlight severe failures to provide adequate health care. Detainees have suffered from untreated chronic conditions, denial of prescribed medications, delayed emergency responses, and preventable deaths.Severe Environmental Concerns: Reports from legal and human rights groups detail severe overcrowding, unsanitary living conditions, extreme temperatures, and limited access to clean drinking water and adequate food.Use of Force: Internal ICE records and civil rights lawsuits indicate an escalating use of physical tactics, chemical agents, and punitive segregation against detainees, including those protesting poor conditions or asking for basic necessities.Systemic Violations: Audits of new mega-facilities, such as the site at Fort Bliss, revealed that sites opened with dozens of violations of detention standards, putting the health and safety of both detainees and staff at risk.For comprehensive data on the rising numbers of deaths and health crises within these facilities, refer to the KFF Health Study on ICE Detention Centers. To track the escalating fatalities, see the American Civil Liberties Union Report on Deaths in Detention.
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/deaths-in-detention-ice-is-rapidly-expanding-detention-camps-into-warehouses-despite-record-deaths
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/%E2%80%9Ccruel-inhumane-and-unacceptable%E2%80%9D-attorney-general-bonta-releases-fifth-report
https://phr.org/our-work/resources/endless-nightmare-solitary-confinement-in-us-immigration-detention/
https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/deaths-and-health-care-issues-in-ice-detention-centers-under-the-second-trump-administration/
The ACLU has gone from a principled defender of our liberties to a neo-Marxist propaganda outfit... Anything they say can sagely be ignored... Fail...
Much like The Southern Poverty Law Center! Grifters' masquerading as public defenders of Civil Rights!
As legal American/USA Citizens' we are the people who's Constitutional Rights were violated when the BIDEN ADMINISTRATION chose to NOT follow the IMMIGRATION LAWS, NOT GUARD the BORDERS, and NOT DETAIN TESSPASSERS!
These same "so called" detention facilities short comings didn't seem to bother those who traveled through the Darian Gap holding facilities in Panama! Or perhaps, Panama didn't provide them lawyers that want to secure 'yet another big payout' from the U.S. TAXPAYERS!
There are real concentration camps. ICE is busy trying to create more. There are currently 255 facilities that house aliens, the majority of which have no criminal charges or convictions and many of which were lawfully present in the US on a work permit, awaiting determination of their asylum application, or had other lawful status. Many of them were picked up by ICE when they showed up for the periodic check-ins mandated by their lawful status A partial list of the concentration camps can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_immigrant_detention_sites_in_the_United_States
Members of Congress, by law, are entitled to make unannounced inspections. They have been delayed, threatened with arrest and maced carrying out that duty. When they have made it in, they have found mass cells with a single toilet serving 50 people, no clean water, no way to shower, food crawling with maggots, and untreated disease, including among children.
Those “concentration camps” are quite comfortable. They are being held until they can be deported. Note that ANY illegal alien has the alternative of taking $1000 and a plane ride home. Why do they decline?
Recent investigations by the American Civil Liberties Union and the U.S. Senate reveal severe human rights violations in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. Widespread reports document extreme medical neglect, widespread physical force, unsafe housing conditions in hastily constructed camps, and the punitive use of solitary confinement, resulting in record-high mortality rates in custody.Conditions in these facilities—often termed "warehouses" due to rapid, massive capacity expansions—include the following documented issues:Medical Neglect: Senate investigations and health watchdog reports highlight severe failures to provide adequate health care. Detainees have suffered from untreated chronic conditions, denial of prescribed medications, delayed emergency responses, and preventable deaths.Severe Environmental Concerns: Reports from legal and human rights groups detail severe overcrowding, unsanitary living conditions, extreme temperatures, and limited access to clean drinking water and adequate food.Use of Force: Internal ICE records and civil rights lawsuits indicate an escalating use of physical tactics, chemical agents, and punitive segregation against detainees, including those protesting poor conditions or asking for basic necessities.Systemic Violations: Audits of new mega-facilities, such as the site at Fort Bliss, revealed that sites opened with dozens of violations of detention standards, putting the health and safety of both detainees and staff at risk.For comprehensive data on the rising numbers of deaths and health crises within these facilities, refer to the KFF Health Study on ICE Detention Centers. To track the escalating fatalities, see the American Civil Liberties Union Report on Deaths in Detention.
I don't CARE! Rules and Laws were not followed by these detainees! Why should we care about their rights when they infringed on our rights, took our jobs, and used our tax money for their illegal activities, medical care, Food Banks, etc.
Our Country is in massive debt, because we allow our Politicians to stray from the Constitution and steal our money to give to Others'. This is part and parcel of using our funds and our Media to entice bad actors into INVADING our Country!
Their Countries would and do worse things to lawbreakers!
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/deaths-in-detention-ice-is-rapidly-expanding-detention-camps-into-warehouses-despite-record-deaths
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/%E2%80%9Ccruel-inhumane-and-unacceptable%E2%80%9D-attorney-general-bonta-releases-fifth-report
https://phr.org/our-work/resources/endless-nightmare-solitary-confinement-in-us-immigration-detention/
https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/deaths-and-health-care-issues-in-ice-detention-centers-under-the-second-trump-administration/
ACLU 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Your sources are compromised. Stay blind!
Because many of them aren't illegal: They had legal work permits, they had legal asylum applications; and they have families. And bullshit they are comfortable. Not according to the members of Congress who have inspected them, unless you think getting your drinking water out of a toilet is comfortable or having one toilet for fifty people or one shower for fifty people are comfortable.
They are all "illegal" now, whatever bogus documents Biden gave them... The Age of Illegal Immigration and Phony Asylum Claims is over... deal with it...
God bless you but I totally disagree. The “congresspeople” inspecting all have axes to grind.
Why would they agree to self-deport if they were comfortable? You are talking out of both sides of your mouth, Sparky.
Well, it's true that they are there voluntarily.
And ICE doesn't? Not to mention that many of these people were showing up for their regular appointments with immigration judges, so there is no need to hold them at $1,000 per day when they could be out making money and contributing to the economy and the tax receipts instead of treating them like criminals.
Why on your on this site? I see that you rarely comment.
They are criminals! Crossing the Border, not within the Border Entry, is a crime. Overstaying VISA's is a Crime! The Biden Administration, Not policing our Borders is also a CRIME! These crimes are being looked at and remedied!
I actually know of people who get those "legal" documents by "ILEGAL" and DISHONEST avenues! Primarily sham marriages!
Bahh, u drinking MSN KOOL AID
Highly doubt that story.
Yep, any illegal is just one free plane ride away from going home...
They broke a federal law when they entered our country illegally. That is grounds for removal. This is a simple yes or no situation. Obama understood this problem. And built the detention centers, and used the shit outta them. No one complained and attacked ICE then. Wonder why?
It is legal to come into the country and submit an asylum application. It is legal to come into the country and get a work permit. These are many of the people ICE is snatching and trying to force them to self-deport.
The party is over for illegals.. detention is going to suck... spread the word, don't come...
They aren't coming for my Mum, because she entered at the request of an employer. She then interviewed for a job and went back to her country to await the verdict. Once she was officially hired, she moved herself and her meager belongings to the City and State that hired her. She had to obtain a work permit and Green Card, with the documents supplied by her Employer. That Green Card required her to check-in every two years, even after she was legally Married to an American for over 20 years and had 4 American children!
That was how it was done, when our Government paid attention to, and enforced the Laws they created.
Did she ever choose to become a US citizen?
I noticed you ignored this part: “Obama understood this problem. And built the detention centers, and used the shit outta them. No one complained and attacked ICE then. Wonder why?”
Inconvenient truths
Which law entitles members of Congress to make unannounced inspections?
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GREAT! They should have stayed in their own Country until they got the Asylum, or they should have gone to the nearest Country to their own. Without Rules and Enforced Laws, Health Checks, they were allowed in by the Previous administration! Now we are left to clean-up the mess!
Batya has a really great column up today about Europeans, here for the World Cup, are discovering an America (a red America) that is nothing like the America portrayed by the elitists in our (and their) media and they are loving it. Little things like free refills on coffee, biscuits & gravy, Ranch dressing, the vastness & quaintness of flyover America, country music, and of course, the abundance that too many of us take for granted.
In some ways, the Real Trump is like the Real America. When you get to know them, you find that they are not what the opposition want you to believe.
"the abundance that too many of us take for granted", especially Millennials and GenZ, who have never wanted for anything. They think that executive homes and Doordash delivered gourmet food should be guaranteed with no effort required. Us Boomers and GenXers all had to struggle. We entered the work force as America was hit by late 60s dysfunction and then massive inflation which required a deep and long recession to quell. Half of my college graduation class could not find a job. I was fortunate to get a couple offers and took the one paying the most, $22.5K in 1982 (my other offer at an Ad Agency was for $13K). Even in the $ of that era, it was hard to buy a car and pay rent on two of those incomes. We struggled for the next 15 years until I advanced up the ladder to a point where income made us comfortable. That is just the way life is.
Exactly. And our first home, 980 square feet in an old Scrubby Dutch neighborhood in South St. Louis, cost $30,000 with an FHA mortgage at 13%. (That's THIRTEEN percent for you youngsters who think 5 percent loans are a ripoff.)
Yes! And our furniture and furnishings were hand me downs and used at out first 2 or 3 residences (rented, mostly)... It was many years before we could buy new cars and new furniture and appliances.
It took me years to get a TV, and then when I got one, it was a small-screen black & white. I used a milk crate to sit it on, because I didn't have any furniture except a few hand-me-downs from some kind people at work.
Yup, us too. Bought our first stove, a 1950's vintage four-burner gas range with the oven you lit with a match, for 30 bucks at a yard sale. Five years married before we had a new car. etc.
They want FREE…..
I was born in 1968, so I am child of the 70s and 80s. It was rare if we ate out. We typically had a pitcher of tea or Kool-Aid in the refrigerator, and even getting soda was a rare treat. We had one console TV in the den with a broadcast antenna on the roof. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and the UHF channels. We were at Sunday School and church every Sunday. We had a rotary dial phone that was leased from the phone company. We thought we were hot stuff when we graduated to a push button phone. When I was old enough to understand, we worried about the Cold War. We had plenty. Life seems a lot more complicated now.
We thought we were hot stuff with the push button phone too! 🤣
Our record player was bigger than a coffin, a long console that had an 8-track player on one side of the turn table and a radio on the other. I thought we were rich because it had an 8-track player. I didn’t realize just how utterly poor we really were until I went to college and I needed my dad’s income to apply for school loans. I don’t know how they did it, and I suspect a lot of charity was involved, like that record player console was probably given to them. I do remember we never got new clothes. Hand me downs were given in big garbage bags by neighbors or the church. The first time I had new clothes was in high school after getting my first job, I went to KMart and spent $280 on a whole new wardrobe. (Tacky I’m sure 😆 I had no one teach me style) And we never had one new car in my entire childhood. They were all beaters scrounged up from somewhere.
But still I was unaware and thought we were well to do because I had a canopy bed that all little girls dream of. I learned when older my parents saved monthly for two years to buy one for each me and my sister. I also look back and see how badly the wealthy in our town treated my parents, and by association me. I understand it all now, but I didn’t realize why then.
It’s why to this day I will never treat someone poor any differently than one of my wealthy friends.
You were rich in the ways that truly mattered.
I remember getting my first job at 15, the summer after my dad died. From then on, I bought my own stuff. My mom went to work once my dad got sick and couldn'twork. Somehow we got by.
I did the same! When Dad had a Cerebral Aneurism U was 12! I babysat until I was 15-1/2, then with permission and a "work experience permit" from the school Councilor, I worked scooping ice cream after school. I also purchased my clothing, shoes, gas when I it was my turn to use the one car, we had. I usually, bought fabric and made most of my clothing!
I also paid for my tuition and most of my supplies at the local Community College, my Folks scraped enough to help purchase books for the 3 of us that were if college age. We purchased our own, used cars or rode a 10 speed bike that we had received as a Christmas or B-Day gift when we were 12 years-old!
As a child, I wore my older brothers hand-me-down pants as play clothes and Dresses, slips and coats handed down from neighbor's and cousins, to my sister, then to me! At 12, I became the surrogate mother to my 9 year-old- brother, because Mum was at The VA hospital looking after dad and the other Coma patients in his ward.
Today's youth have no character and skewed values because they have not had real hardship and been asked to step-up and participate in the success of the family, and the Country!
Great story and obviously you benefited from overcoming. I just hope those in their teens, 20s and 30s will know that others have done like you and they can, too. No guarantees in life!
Right there with you. We grew up working poor. It was just the era, the post WW2 50s-60s with stay-at-home moms, small 1200 sq ft houses and a single car the norm. My father wanted his own business and leveraged himself into a pharmacy an old friend was selling. But it was in a downtown area that was losing traffic with the advent of malls, so he / we always struggled to pay bills. I wore shoes until there were holes in the bottom and could not play organized sports because equipment and fees were too much. My mom clipped coupons and turned them in for cash at a grocer friend's store (he was not supposed to do that by the rules of the wholesalers, but did). But I loved my life as a youth and don't regret now how tight money was (then, it was tough getting compared to friends whose families had a lot more). Wealth is a state of mind. I wish young people could learn that lesson.
Raising our family in the 90's and 2000's, we were frugal. I finally gave in and got our first cable in 2001 after we moved to a new house and could not get reception for the TV. Our kids did not have game consoles or such unless they saved up and bought it for themselves, because we wanted them to (1) feel the ownership and (2) understand the value.
I really thought we'd done pretty well - and they are all pretty careful with money, but life is still so much easier for them. Food delivery. Grocery pickup. Pocket computers (phones) that could control the first space missions. And, why not? They can afford it because they have good jobs.
But it's definitely different than growing up with no internet, no mobile phones, and more. I traveled for 3 months with a missional singing group at 18, and I maybe talked to people (via my phone card) once a week. They wrote me letters.
But my parent's experiences were even more so. And my grandparents were children of the Depression. My grandmother (who worked and supported herself after a divorce), saved carefully and did well for herself. But she still always wiped off and reused her foil and washed out Ziplock bags. I do not have those habits at all.
More complicated, and maddening. I was born in 1952, so I have a much larger memory of The Before Times than you. Somehow, the Internet, which brings us everything, makes life empty if you pay too much attention to it.
I enlisted in 1980 and started out making $240/mo and after 4 years, was making $1,000/mo. I did one smart thing. I enrolled in the Veterans Educational Allowance Program and saved $75/mo which Uncle Sam would match with $150/mo if I enrolled full-time in college. So, after I got out, I went to Univ. of Alaska in Fairbanks with in-state tuition and a monthly check for $225. That, and working as a house-builder and junior geologist during summers while living in a dry log cabin in the woods got me through graduation without having to take a loan. I've employed over 500 recent grads since then and I am blown away by the amount of student loan debt that many of them are burdened with. Many also have auto loans and considerable credit card debt. Tough way to start out a career. You and I are of an age where our grandparents were starting families during the Great Depression. I think the psychological impact of that experience (to be frugal and be smart about money) was passed onto the subsequent generations, but seems to have really dissipated over time.
Yep! My parents were the Depression Era kids as well. And both my Grandfather's were in the Great War. These were the children of Pioneers, Settlers and Farmers. They developed survival skills. Dad often talked about how fortunate his family was to have chickens on their farm, because the extra eggs were used to barter with neighbors for things they did not grow or have on their farm. Still, with a family of 8, shoes were not affordable, so dad would line his shoes with cardboard, when he could scrounge it, to keep the dirt and pebbles out of the holes.
My grandmother was born in a sod house on a dirt farm in Oklahoma. I have a photograph of her and her four sisters sitting on a horse on their way to school in the morning. Gramma was the oldest and was the only sister with shoes. She said that in those days, the girls typically didn't get shoes until they were 10 or 12 years old. Of course, these were likely hand-me-downs and continued to be hand-me-downs until they could no longer be repaired. She told me that the sod house was cool in the summer, but drafty in the winter and always had bugs dropping from the ceiling.
Europeans are the most provincial people in the world.
Yep.
Jeff, this is a great comment. I agree and it’s so frustrating to me when the leftists claim the moral high ground when they are committing the worst policy and social practices themselves! You put it in such a direct way, thank you!
Europeans idea of the USA is a caricature of reality based on tv and movies. They would learn a lot their betters would rather they don’t by traveling around.
I've done a fair amount of traveling and of all the people I met in Europe, the English were the most stand-offish. Not rude and generally courteous, but most of the time, I felt invisible. Hard to strike up a conversation, even in the pubs. I had long hair and big beard, so maybe they didn't like my looks? Didn't seem to be a problem elsewhere.
I was backpacking for 2 years and met lots of people. They were clueless about the USA.
Oh, that’s a great story
I’m still surprised at how people we think are reasonable intelligent professionals who can wish death absolute death and assassination with no concern about who might get in the way of that bullet— and they’re respected and admired local upstanding pillars of their society and it’s just gut wretchedly awful
I always supported Trump people would say oh he’s grass he’s brash he can’t shut up. He gets in his own way and I would say yes, but you know who he is that is who he is and he is a New Yorker that is a New Yorker who has worked in that state building buildings that are phenomenal and gets it done and that’s what you want in a president to work past all of the stuff, the stuff they wanna throw up in your way and get it done. I’m so happy he’s doing the ballroom. I’m happy he’s cleaning up the reflecting pond. I’m happy he’s getting DC cleaned up. Its crime rate is Down normal. People are safer. He’s fixing remodeling the Kennedy center all those people that were cheering the taking down of his name, how many people there had attended the building had expressed their concerns about the disrepair that that building was in nobody cared until he put his name on it now they’re all up in arms. It is it is the height of hypocrisy.
Anyway, your thoughts were right on thank you as always, and I’m thankful to God for people like you who have a voice for people like me who don’t have that audience
Happy birthday President Trump on this wonderful Flag Day
And happy 250th anniversary of the founding of this country. It is a wonderful time.
Thanks for resharing your Trump's Hero Journey. I missed it 2 years ago but it's perfect to celebrate his 80th birthday. I appreciate your creativity in telling good stories.
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You are such a good person! Always a delight!
Sasha, you are awesome!
Funny, I always think it’s the left that will put us in concentration camps.
Oh they will. They always talk about what they want to do to MAGA once back in power. It’s horrific they even think much less talk like they do.
They had them ready in Canada, for those who refused the Jab!
Canada is looking grim these days.
Washington DC is scoundrel central. Trump hate is purely about him being an outsider. Before running and beating Hillary he was loved by the liberal A crowd. But the Clintons were the Obama's before the Obama's. Bill was "the first black President" before the first half black President. Hillary was Bill's Queen and allegedly the brains behind Bill's winning personality. The Clintons loved to call Trump whenever they needed money for whatever grift they were working on.
Then all of a sudden Trump was not welcome in progressive polite society. He was banished for daring to challenge the queen. One day Oprah is calling just to chat. The next day you're Hitler. What a head twist!
Trump's would be the greatest Presidential memoirs ever written. Probably the only one I will ever buy. Talk about your slings and arrows! I would be curled up on the floor of my cell in some mental institution by now if I had to fend off attacks from the whole of the world progressive media-political elite. He has a lot of FU money and can't be bought unlike Nancy, Hill and Bill. But at one point he was spending 90K per day on lawyers. (some of it donated- but still!) But the boobs only succeeded in getting him re-elected. The problem is who could be trusted to write the story? The publishing houses are snobby, woke asshole central; every bit as bad as Hollywood- maybe worse. He needs someone who writes great crime novels from a police perspective. I don't really know her politics; but Karin Slaughter seems like the right fit. If 6 degrees of separation is real Sasha could probably bring Trump and Karin together.
You should read Eric Trump's book UNDER SIEGE. It's very good. Eric is a devoted, loving son and he sounds like a remarkable person, as well. I was very impressed with his recording of this history.
Was JUST gonna reply with this! Under Siege is the first must read about Trump.
I once read that before his political life, Trump was invited to a lot of New York charity dinners/parties & even tho the “elites” made fun of him behind his back—they always wanted him to attend because he “made the party when he walked in”— & he, also, was very generous to their cause. When he stopped by his construction sites— the workers treated him like a friend— He talked like them.
Spot on, but I believe it's Hillary who gravy-trained Bill. Hill is 100% idealogue, but it's Bill who has the smarts, and one of the best politicians we've ever seen.
Problem is, they (she!) don't know when to go away.
I agree with the premise that Hillary hitched her wagon to Bill, but she clearly his FIXER! She went after all his Bimbo's, (so much for the Sisterhood of Feminism), She also took the Secretary of State gig over the obvious VP gig, because she needed to pad her WAR Chest for her next Presidential Run and cover up her and Bills Nefarious dealings, prior to her next attempt!
Bill only looks like a master politician, because Newt Convinced him to coopt the Republicans Welfare Reforms! Clinton only became President initially, because the Republican vote was split by a third Party Candidate! Bush Senior was a Deep State Plant and Clinton was a randy-guy with loads of female skeletons in his closet, which allowed the Deeply Entrenched crowd to use him like a puppet!
All valid points, and why the Clintons are still married......in name only.
Historian and Classics Professor, Victor Davis Hanson has a Book on Trump coming out in the Fall of 2026! He is continually having to add to it because Trump is continually Winning and restoring our Liberties!
Jenny Holland, who I now follow thanks to a great discussion she had with Sasha, had a great line today in a Substack interview about Belfast. It basically was said by the other gal, but struck me as perfect for how we have felt about the left since they began to expose themselves. "You know when you are being condescended", not an exact quote but like when Hillary referred to us as deplorables, no ,matter how clever they are with choosing the perfect words or argument, their delivery always reeks of condescension. Trump has never had a hint of that towards all of us, and no matter his human faults, we know he loves America for the same reasons we do. This was a wonderful way to celebrate his birthday and our flag. thank you again Sasha!
Brilliant.
Happy birthday Mr. President.
The worst thing that could ever happen to Mary Trump is that her uncle could die.
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Happy Birthday Mr President!
Jeez, Louise, why didn’t I follow you sooner? Your video was so impressive. I wish I had watched it in 2024. I have been with President since he knocked out every other contender in 2016 at which point I paid attention, became a staunch supporter and knocked on doors and spoke at a rally on the energy sector. You made my day!
Happy Birthday Mr. President and Happy 250th Birthday America.