End of DACA?

The Supreme Court heard arguments this week that could put an end to DACA (Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals) and some believe that the Trump and the GOP, who spent the last three years packing the courts and very little else, might even win this case. How Tragic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First of all, this would be a huge betrayal of these young people. When Barack Obama instituted this program through executive order in 2012, he and the United States government issued a call for these young people, who came here as children through no fault of their own, to come out of the shadows and in good faith register with the U.S. government and in return they could go to school and work and contribute to the system. The promise was that if they kept their nose clean, they would not be deported.

It must have been hard for these 790,000 youngsters to do that, but they did so assuming that the US government would honor its word. However, they could not have anticipated was that a lying sociopathy like Donald Trump would ever be elected by America's low-information voters - FOX viewers and Rush Limbaugh-listeners, and thus upend the program.

Let's face it, these young people did go to school and work and created businesses, and now some are employers themselves. Dreamers contribute $42 billion each year to GDP, contribute $1.7 billion in state taxes and $1.4 billion in federal taxes. If they were deported, you can eliminate that revenue and it would also cost remaining taxpayers $10 billion to remove them.

The Supreme Court, despite being tainted by Moscow Mitch McConnell, must do the right thing here, and if they fail to do so, Congress must pass legislation to protect these Dreamers, which 86 percent of Americans agree with. They are good for the country, as are most immigrants, and it would be a monumental betrayal to deport them. The Democrats in the House of Representatives have passed H.R. 6 which would protect the dreamers permanently, but McConnell failed to put it to a vote in the Senate.

I know I say this a lot these days, but I have never felt more ashamed of my country than I do right now. I ask the Supreme Court to please restore order to this Trump-infected and diseased land.

 
Watch the video below for some of the dreamers' stories

Good Bye Truth

Today, Shep Smith, a 23-year veteran of FOX "News" abruptly resigned his position as one of the last real news anchors and journalists reporting the truth on that channel.

Smith, reportedly left, because he had seen enough. Smith tried every day to report the truth based on the facts, and the FOX "news" audience hated him for it. They would rather listen to the likes of Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Mr. Judge Jeanine Pirro and Laura Ingraham (The real fake news No. 45).

The group I mentioned above might as well be working for North Korean state television, better known as Trump TV. They make up the news, leave key points out and when in doubt say things like "what about Clinton or Obama."

There is no liberal media conspiracy against you! You are the conspiracy. I am SOOOO tired of so-called conservatives playing the victim, or calling liberals godless, while at the same time voting for a man to lead the nation who has done enough to earn three seats in hell.

Lou Dobbs had the audacity to say that Donald Trump will gone down as one of the greatest Presidents ever. Are you kidding me old man? Does he earn that distinction for the Wall he has built, or the children he separated from their families at the border, or is it for the GENOCIDE he greenlighted in Syria. You don't need to take my word for it victims. Lindsey Graham is sponsoring a bill in Congress that will receive 98 votes in the Senate. 98!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Condemning this moron's actions.

I know how you feel Shep! You make the argument based on facts, and the low-information voter screams back at you, "fake news". It is like shoveling s*** against the tide. I, for one, Shep am glad you left. FOX "news" is a joke and you are better than that.

Smith was trying to stay on so some of the Fox audience could get a counter to the Dobbs and Pirro's of the world, and I sure he was hanging on because he loved FOX. After all he was one of the originals dating back to 1996. However, different ideas can not survive in the echo chamber of Fox "News" and thus leaving was the right call.

Here is wishing Shep Smith the best. He is a class act and great news man and JOURNALIST. I graduated from Journalism school, and know a good journalist when I see one.

When Shep is ready, I am sure he will have a job within minutes at any of the real news organizations. Shame on you FOX and Rupert Murdoch for allowing this channel to be commandeered by the Alt-Right.

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

After 2 days of the Turkish assault on the Syrian Kurds, more than 300 Kurdish fighters are dead and God knows how many civilians have perished.

The clown who currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., besides doing nothing for us domestically besides pointing out people's differences and make his base angry, has found a way to take a successful situation in Syria and turn it in to an outright defeat. STUPID!!!!!

The U.S. had found a way to keep a small number of U.S. troops on the ground and the Kurds were fighting the terrorists for us. All we had to do was keep Turkey, led by a thug, at bay while the Kurds did their work. Now, not only will terrorists go free because of the Ignorant Mr. Trump, but we will NEVER be able to get any people in the middle east, or around the world, to trust us or work with us.

This "moron" as Rex Tillerson called Trump has done this before. The U.S. agrees to the Paris Climate accords and he pulls us out. NO better answer by the way. The U.S. negotiates TPP free market agreement in Asia. Dummy Donald pulls us out and instead creates a trade war that is killing American farmers and American consumers, raising the cost on all of us. The U.S. had a nuclear agreement with Iran, scumbag Donald pulls us out and now Iran is increasing their nuclear production.

What is Congress waiting for? Are they waiting for this lose cannon (Trump) to destroy the world?

IMPEACHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SYRIAN BETRAYAL

Donald Trump has committed the ultimate act of betrayal of the United States and needs to be removed yesterday. This non-sensical buffoon, who has NEVER read an intelligence briefing or report, decided unilaterally and abruptly to remove the small number of U.S. troops from Syria, and in the process completely destabilized the region.

REMEMBER, this is why General James Mattis resigned his post as Secretary of State in protest. The distinguished veteran resigned after Trump threatened to do this the first time.

Yesterday, Turkey decided, predictably, to move into northern Syria and began what will amount to a genocide of the Kurds (our allies) who helped us fight ISIS successfully. That's correct. The President of the United States is looking the other way as the Turks, led by another dictator, begin an ethnic cleansing of the Kurds. GROSS!!!!!!

Secondly, with the Kurds being slaughtered, and having to defend themselves against this threat, the ISIS terrorists they were holding, are now free to resume their horrific activities. The President who once claimed that President Obama was the "founder of ISIS", is now letting more 10,000 terrorists free. DESPICABLE!!!!!!

EVEN Lindsay Graham, who has been the ultimate sycophant for this uninformed dolt in the White House, among other Republicans came out to thrash the Trump administration for this move. Hey Lindsay, where have you been? You created this monster by allowing him to getting away with murder time and time again, and now you have blood on your hands. The fact of the matter is the blood of our allied Kurds are now on the hands of the Trump collaborators.

If the Republican Party had called out this monster early on when he was ripping babies from their mother's hands at the border, or when he was attacking gold-star families, or when he was forming a love affair with Putin or Kim Jong-Un, maybe we could have stopped this monster.  

TRUMP IS A JOKE and always has been. It was funny, I guess, to some people when he was claiming that anyone who didn't support his criminal activity was committing treason, or funny when he said he had fallen in love with Kim Jong-Un. None of which is actually funny. However, this for me is the final straw. This man needs to be removed immediately because he is a dangerous and reckless individual.

The most disturbing part of this is that he is willing to sacrifice human lives in order to distract the public from his criminal activity, the activity for which he will be impeached. This move in Syria might well be a tactic to get the public to look over there and don't look here where all the criminal activity is.

I do not recognize this America. SHAME on us as a nation if we don't act to defend our allies and our constitution which is losing more and more meaning with each passing hour.

SHAME ON YOU Climate Deniers

It took a 16-year-old from Sweden and other youngsters like her to push the governments of the world and this week's UN Summit to finally start paying some sort of attention to the global crisis that faces humanity. I fear these so called leaders will continue to do nothing as the climate spirals out of control. 

The current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, despite Greta's emotional plea for change on the environment, couldn't be bothered to stay more than 15 minutes. What a sorry excuse for a leader he is. President Obama met with Greta and started taking steps to reduce America's climate footprint, and Trump has since backed out or reversed all those positive steps. He pulled the United States out of the Paris Accords and overturned all the regulations that Obama put in place to protect the environment. 

As recently as last week, No. 45 (the Dumpster fire that is Donald J. Trump), decided that California could no longer have high standards for CO2 emissions. Republicans use to be in favor of states' rights. In fact, they still would perpetuate the myth and have us believe that they are in favor of states' rights, except when it comes to things that they don't like. 

For example, they will tell you it is each individual states' right to decide on abortion, not the Federal government, or that it's each states' right to decide on gun regulation, not the Federal government, or they would tell you that it's each states' right to choose their own health care laws, not the Federal government, but in this case, when their greed is so pronounced, they would have you believe that each state does not have the right to choose on climate regulations for their respective state. 

It is you, Mitch McConnell, and you, Kevin McCarthy, and you, Dumpster fire, that Greta and those of her generation will never forgive for their blatent inaction. SHAME on all of you!   

Kill em all and let the Christian Right sort em out!

Donald Trump and his puppet Bill Barr at the "Department of Justice" - what a joke to call it that - have decided to reinstitute the death penalty in federal cases.

This is the most absurd issue in American politics. It is amazing that in 2019, I still hear people on Washington Journal (C-Span) calling in and saying "let's electrocute them, fry them, or hang them." We are one of the few countries on earth that still do two things that are gross. First, we don't provide health care to all and we pay out of pocket for "health insurance" yet still have a deductible, co-pay and lifetime limits. Secondly, we still have state-sponsored murder in the form of the death penalty.

If you could guarantee me that everyone who was put to death was guilty as sin, well I might buy your old testament argument of "eye for an eye". Old testament, so old, it's before Jesus. However, statistics show that one in nine people on death row are innocent. Hundreds of people on death row have been exonerated either in the nick of time or posthumously - meaning they have already been killed by your government - the same politicians you all claim to DESPISE.

The most mind-boggling thing about this is that I have to hear so-called evangelical Christians tell me that it's okay to put people to death, but yet hear them lament about abortion. Which is it? Are you really pro life or are you just full of it. They make so called Christian arguments like an "eye for an eye" but I would retort with Jesus' teaching of "turn the other cheek". It's not like we are setting criminals lose. They are still serving prison sentences. They are being punished.

The Christian right will also say I am a "bleeding heart" but how do you explain to the family of an innocent person who was executed by a corrupt politician, "oops we made a mistake". Shove your apologies, along with your "thoughts and prayers" every time a gun-toting, second-amendment maniac, murders 59 people at a concert, 49 in a night club, or 26 people in a church just to name a few.

Former Governor Rick Perry (Republican of Texas - highest death penalty state in the union) had a chance to issue a stay of execution in a case in 2004 where a man was put to death for killing his three children in a fire (arson). It turns out the local fire marshal was wrong, it wasn't arson at all, and the science proved it. How do you fix that Mr. Perry? Maybe now that we've established that Mr. Perry is a murderer, we should put him on death row to? Of course, I am being deliberately provocative here to make a point. Politicians get to decide who lives and who dies, but they can act with impunity and without consequences. Regardless of what I think of Mr. Perry's decision, I don't think he should be on death row, after all I am against this antiquated idea of punishment, but instead put governor Perry in jail for life for murder.

The rules apparently only apply to some people. Justice. what a joke. Justice only belongs to the people who can afford it. If you have no money, you have no justice. If you're wealthy though, you get sweetheart deals like the one Jeffrey Epstein got from the federal prosecutors in Florida all those years ago - a 13-month sentence. Outrageous! OJ Simpson cleared of double murder, only because of the legal dream team. Justice belongs to those who can afford it, and it makes me sick to think how many people are currently on death row right now or rotting in prison, claiming their innocence, and no one cares.

Well they got a trial, so the jury must have been correct in their decision. However, how many people got a public defender who has 70 clients and doesn't really care about your case. OJ had Kardashian, Shapiro, F. Lee Bailey, Cochran. Anyone charged with a crime would be happy to have one of those lawyers, he had all 4 among others. Justice belongs to those who can afford it. FULL STOP.

Until we can actually level the playing field in the justice system, we can not have a death penalty. Someone can be in jail for 20 years, and be exonerated by DNA, but at least they are still alive. You can apologize for that, you can give them $20 million dollars - a $1 million for each year we stole from you. After all, money is America's favorite way to apologize. You can't apologize to a grave stone for getting it wrong, you can't fix that.    

An American disgrace.

As if it was not disgraceful enough that the current administration in the White House has adopted a policy of cruelty toward LEGAL asylum seekers, the department of Homeland Security has opened an investigation into a private Facebook page for Customs and Border Protection agents who use the social media platform to spew hatred and post despicable memes.

That's right! The people who are at the border being detained are LEGAL asylum seekers according to the current laws. If you present yourself at a point of entry of the United States, you are LEGALLY claiming asylum. FULL STOP!!!!

If migrant groups of 30,000 people marched through Mexico and presented themselves at the border for LEGAL asylum, according to the law, you do not detain them for more than 72 hours! Now, just because someone claims asylum, does not mean the United States has to grant them asylum, but you do have to give them a hearing (according to current law).

Instead of following the law, 45's administration is slow-walking these asylum seekers, and making sure than they stay on the Mexican side in tent cities. Cruel enough, right? WRONG. The very small number of people each day they are letting cross the border, are being detained. In addition to that, they are being separated from their families to deter future asylum seekers from coming to the United States.

It is disgusting how the administration is handling the crisis at the border, but now he have confirmation of something that I have known for a long time, and that is that a large number of CBP agents are in fact cowboys who hate immigrants. Nearly half of CBP agents in this country belong to this private Facebook group "I'm 10-15", who joked about the sexual assault of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and about the deaths of migrant children at the border, because little children dying is apparently funny to some of these so-called Border Protection agents.

With Congress members present at some of these border facilities, the CBP agents, a large-majority of them men, were less than respectful to the women detainees, and I am being kind in the way I said that, so imagine what they are like when Congressional leaders are not around.

Today is July 1, and as of tonight, the heads of CPB should be fired, and any agent found to be a member of this despicable group on Facebook and has posted any disparaging and hateful remarks should be fired tomorrow. You have freedom of speech in this country and I am using it now, but working at CBP is not a right. If you can be fired from the private sector for posting hateful garbage on your social media, than you definitely should be fired from a government job. It's okay, the cowboys can go bag to the piggly wiggly where they clearly belong working for minimum wage.