Friday, January 30, 2026

Cultist Finds Her Home, for Now


Pete Hegseth. Kristi Noem. Karoline Leavitt. Donald Trump, himself.  This Administration brings to mind the title of one of Al Franken's books, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them."

One of the finest liars in the Trump Administration, however, is the Director of National Intelligence, now in Georgia scouring, probably illegally, for those 11,780 votes from 2020


 

President Biden used an autopen just as have most recent presidents, including Donald Trump himself. This myth began ten months ago by the Liar-in-Chief when he contended about pardons issued by Biden "in other words, Joe Biden did not sign hem but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!"

In a written opinion of July, 2005, the Office of Legal Counsel, argued

The President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill he approves and decides to sign in order for the bill to become law. Rather, the President may sign a bill within gthe meaning of Article 1, Section 7 by directing a subordinate to affix the President's signature to such a bill, for example by autopen.

This may have been an unsound opinion, not unlike that of the same office when it decided that sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted. (Mr. anti-deep state has not specifically criticized either opinion.

If there were any evidence that President Biden didn't know whom he was pardoning- let alone that there was some sort of "Deep State"- there would have been at least a hint of evidence. None ever has been produced, notwithstanding the Republican Party's enthusiasm for condemning Biden and Democrats' avoidance of defending him- because there is no reason to believe J. Sullivan, A. Blinken, B. Obama, or Hr Clinto had any control whatsoever over the 46th President.

However, my favorite Tulsiism is the following because it is not only preposterous but indicative of deep-seated hypocrisy on the part of the DNI.


Fourteen months ago, a Hawaiian news organ explained that in 2015 during her second term in the US House of Representatives 

Longtime political activists here were raising alarms about her connections to the Science of Identity Foundation, an offshoot of the Hare Krishna movement launched in the 1970s by a Kailua surfer, Chris Butler. Gabbard’s family, including her father, Sen. Mike Gabbard, were adherents of Butler’s and Tulsi Gabbard grew up going to schools run by the group.

Over the years, Gabbard has stopped short of denying her membership in the foundation, which many consider a cult. She married a man whose family also was part of the organization. Questions were raised when she hired friends she’d grown up with in the organization to help advise her on policy and run her congressional office. Later, she paid others affiliated with the Science of Identity Foundation to work on her campaign.

Longtime political activists here were raising alarms about her connections to the Science of Identity Foundation, an offshoot of the Hare Krishna movement launched in the 1970s by a Kailua surfer, Chris Butler. Gabbard’s family, including her father, Sen. Mike Gabbard, were adherents of Butler’s and Tulsi Gabbard grew up going to schools run by the group.

Over the years, Gabbard has stopped short of denying her membership in the foundation, which many consider a cult. She married a man whose family also was part of the organization. Questions were raised when she hired friends she’d grown up with in the organization to help advise her on policy and run her congressional office. Later, she paid others affiliated with the Science of Identity Foundation to work on her campaign.

When Gabbard decries Democrats' alleged "hostility towards God," it is not clear what she means by "God."  There was this from six years ago: "Imagine there's no heaven; easy if you try. No sky above us; no religion, too."


 


Gabbard has re-invented herself as a cultural right-winger to a left-winger, now to a right-winger in the Trump orbit (and Administration). She may have found the God of the Old and New testaments, but it's not probable. In either case, it's rich that someone who belonged to a Hindu cult and promoted John Lennon's atheism should now accuse Donald Trump's critics of "hostility towards God."

It may have been sheer ambition that Tulsi Gabbard, after being squashed in her bid to become the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, decided to swithc jerseys. Her afffinity for Vladimir Putin's Russia may have been a factor. And that may not be all. 

At the 50th anniversary gala in 2016 of ISKCON, the International Society of Krishna Consciousness, Gabbard remarked

Real spiritual understanding, or real religion, transcends sectarianism. Each and every one of us, whether we call ourselfves a Muslim, a Christian, a Hindu or any other designation, we each have this intrinsic opportunity to cultivate our own personal loving relationship with God.

Muslim, Christian, Hindu.  It's not surprising that the same individual who  absurdly slams President Biden would omit the party of Jake Sullivan, Chuck Schumer, and J.B. Pritzker. Or maybe Tulsi Gabbard is just generally clueless. 

  

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

No Change in Strategy


There is an obvious answer to Bill O'Reilly's question.


For context, below is the video of the entire interview. At 5:41, the podcaster and ex-Fox News broadcaster remarks

If you continue- and I mean "you" in a general sense- to allow states and cities to not enforce federal law, you don't have a country. It goes. O.K.?   Everybody should understand.

After NewsNation's Leland Vitter asks "so why is Trump backing down," O'Reilly responds

He's not backing down. Why would you say he's backing down? He's trying to diffuse. Do you want a CNN contract? Now, here's the most important part of this whole thing- unreported....



The obvious answer to "why would you say he's backing down" is that Donald frequently backs down. TACO. While he occasionally holds to his position when he sees the tide turning against it, he never diffuses. It would be inimical to everything he stands for. It would run contrary to the goal he hopes to achieve, and there is a very recent example.

Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar held a town halll meting in her Minnesota congressional district on Tuesday evening when a man approached, and sprayed, her with a syring containing a liquid.  He was tackled by her security force, identified as Anthony James Kazmierczak, and charged with 3rd degree assault for evidently/allegedly attacking the congresswoman with apple cider vinegar.  Notably 

Just hours before, at a rally in Clive, Iowa, the president waged another one of his bigoted attacks on Omar — one of countless times he’s fixated on the lawmaker in recent months.

When speaking about supposed violence caused by immigrants, Trump said immigrants must “show that they can love our country, they have to be proud. Not like Ilhan Omar.” The crowd booed.

He went on to make racist remarks about Somalia and Somali people, as he’s done numerous times in recent months, and relished in the idea of committing violence against them.

“They’re good at one thing: pirates. But they don’t do that anymore. You know why? Because they get the same treatment from us as the drug dealers get: Boom, boom, boom,” he said to laughter and applause, referring to his administration’s illegal boat strike campaign. “When we see them going in, ping, that’s the end of that.”

Trump has relentlessly attacked Omar as his administration has unleashed violence on Minnesota, sometimes for days in a row. He has said that she should be “thrown the hell out” of the U.S. while spreading lies about her status as a citizen; repeated false conspiracy theories about her; and, just on Monday, said that his administration is investigating her.

Only the assailant, not the President, is responsible for the apparent assault. However, Donald is responsible for his response to the incident.and

In a phone interview Tuesday evening with ABC News' Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott, Trump said he hadn't seen video of the incident and without providing evidence accused Omar of staging the attack.

"I don't think about her. I think she's a fraud," Trump said. "She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her."

By "diffuse," O'Reilly probably meant "de-escalate," an effort to calm things down, to ease tensions. 
Trump has dropped the extraordinarily nasty comments directed toward Minnesota goveror Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, sent Customs and Border Protection director Tom Homan to Minneapolis to talk to Walz, and himself spoken to the Governor.

But these minor moves reflect only a short-term strategic shift in tactics. Donald will pivot back to his unique (except among dictators) approach, reassert his modus operandi, once he perceives it politically advantageous. Trump may modulate his words, but not his tone. He will not curtail his venom for more than a moment in time. He does not diffuse or de-escalate tensions or any situation. It is not his way.

Establishing autocracy is President Trump's goal and creating, or contributing to, crisis creates the chaotic and tumultuous situation he needs. The finished product is absolute power and creating havoc is a critical step in the recipe.



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Monday, January 26, 2026

Election Theft



It's another "wait, what?" moment from this Administration. We learn that

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Saturday outlined terms to “restore the rule of law” in Minnesota, just hours after a second person was fatally shot by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis.

“You and your office must restore the rule of law, support ICE officers, and bring an end to the chaos in Minnesota,” Bondi wrote in a letter to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) obtained by multiple outlets. “Fortunately, there are common sense solutions to these problems that I hope we can accomplish together.”

In the letter, Bondi pressed Walz to hand over information about the state’s welfare programs amid mounting scrutiny over a massive fraud scandal, and she asked that he get rid of immigration sanctuary policies and let the Department of Justice see voter rolls “to confirm that Minnesota’s voter registration practices comply with federal law.”

“I am confident that these simple steps will help bring back law and order to Minnesota and improve the lives of Americans,” Bondi said in the letter.


One of the three steps the Attorney General proposed is for Minnesota to

allow the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to accesss voter rolls to confirm that Minnesota's voter registration practices comply with federal law as authorized by the Civil Rights Act of 1960. Fulfilling this common sense request will beteter guarantee free and fair elections and boost confidence in the rule of law.

You might wonder what in the world voter rolls have to do with the "chaos in Minnesota."  Allow Connecticult's junior senator to make sense of this:

 

One of those stipulations, Murphy remarks, was

that the state turn over its voter rolls to the federal government. This has never been about public saety. Minneapolis is a much less safe place today because ICE is there. this is likely bout trying to rig and steal the election. Donald Trump is wildly unpopular. He's not committed to democracy and knows the only way his movement is to retain power, the only way that his corporate allies retain power, his billioner allies retain power this November, is for Trump to steal the election and so he's saying to Minneapolis "if you don't give me control of the voter rolls, then ICE isn't leaving and you can see if he gets away with it in Minnesota, he's likely going to try it in places like Philadelphia and Pheoenix, other key cities in swing states.... the underlying game here may be to steal the 2026 election.

Actually, Murphy was being overly generous to the Attorney General. She offered no quid pro quo and no olive branch at all, avoiding a promise, even a wish, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could under any circumstances be withdrwn. She concluded by commenting "Whether state and local politicians stand in the way or not, we will work every day to protect Americans and make Minnesota Safe Again. I request that you joinus in this effort."

Heads we win, tails you lose. However, the Senator correctly identified the Administration's goal as retaining power and its means the acquisitition of voter rolls. In The Guardian, Austin Sarat, a professor jurisprudence and political science, recently explained 

Donald Trump touted his accomplishments and suggested that they were so great that “we shouldn’t even have an election” in November. Not surprisingly, that comment made headlines.

But it is at best a distraction from the real threat: the United States will have elections this year, but they will not be free and fair.

Far more important than his musings about calling off the midterms was what the president told the New York Times in another Oval Office interview. As the Times noted, he said that “he regretted not ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines in swing states after his loss in the 2020 election.”

Talking about the capacity of the national guard to execute that plan, he explained: “I don’t know that they are sophisticated enough … I’m not sure that they’re sophisticated enough in the ways of crooked Democrats, and the way they cheat, to figure that out.”

As the Times observed, “Mr. Trump’s expression of regret … was ... a warning sign that he had not given up on the idea that voting machines were dangerous or that they could be seized in an effort to curb fraud.” We should take that warning seriously.

Sarat pointed out that Robert Kagan, a historian and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, maintains

“There’s no chance in the world that Donald Trump is going to allow himself to lose in the 2026 elections, because that would be the end of his ability to wield total power. Unless they got up on the rooftop and said: ‘We are going to subvert the 2026 election,’ they could not be more obvious about what their intention is"

The administration’s “wide-ranging efforts seek to expand on some of the strategies he and his advisers and allies used to try to reverse the 2020 results”. Moreover, Trump and his allies are much better prepared to rig the 2026 election or discredit the results than they were in 2020.

This unsurprisingly reflects proposals of Project 2025, of which

One was to transfer the responsibility for investigating and prosecuting election crimes to the Department of Justice’s criminal division. Liza Gordon-Rogers, a research associate at the Center for Science and Democracy, argues that his shift would “significantly jeopardize the United States’ multi-racial democracy by changing the focus from interference with voting rights to criminalizing the act of voting itself”.

Project 2025 also called for the federal government to withdraw from arrangements that in the past have helped election officials do their jobs. It recommended what Gordon-Rogers calls “substantive cuts to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which has provided essential cyber and physical security support to election offices across the country to make sure our elections are secure”.

Sarat wrote prior to the killing of Minnesota's Alex Pretti to argue that the Democratic Party has been complacent, evidently confident that the mid-term elections will be business as usual. That may change with the continuing assault on Minneapolis. Senator Murphy concludes

I have been arguing all weekend that the Senate should not pass funding for the Deparment of Homeland Security, first and foremost because this is a rogue agency that's operating outside of the law and it'ss killing American citizens but also because the underlying aim here may be to steal the 202 election. And no Senator, but in particular no Democratic senator, should play a part in that.  



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Saturday, January 24, 2026

Erasing History



It's hard to imagine there is a connection between the Greenland controversy and slavery once common in the American south. Consider, though, that since it first deployed soldiers in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, more than 18,000 Danish soldiers were deployed to Afghanistand and 33 were killed in action.

aA explained a couple of years ago on the 9/11 Memorial & Museum website

On September 12, 2001, the day after the 9/11 attacks, NATO met in an emergency session. For the first and only time in its history, NATO invoked Article 5. All 18 of the United States’s allies stated they would support America’s response to the attacks…

Since 2001, troops from the U.S.'s NATO allies have stood shoulder to shoulder with American soldiers in Afghanistan. More than one thousand of these soldiers have paid the ultimate price. In 2017, NATO inaugurated its new headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Near its entrance, a memorial composed of a piece of mangled steel from the 107th floor of the World Trade Center's North Tower sits atop a pedestal. In front of it, an inscription on a plaque pays tribute to the singular use of Article 5 of NATO’s founding treaty. During a public program at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Jens Stoltenberg, the current NATO Secretary General, reflected on the memorial. He remarked, “It serves as a powerful symbol of the enduring partnership and friendship between the United States and its NATO Allies across Europe and Canada. It is also a daily reminder of the deadly dangers posed by terrorism, the importance of standing together to protect our people and our values.”

And now, this:


This is a case not only of hostility toward allies but also of rewriting history. And so it is that  

Outraged critics accused President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” on Friday after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park in response to his executive order “restoring truth and sanity to American history” at the nation’s museums, parks and landmarks.

Empty bolt holes and shadows are all that remains on the brick walls where explanatory panels were displayed at the President’s House Site, where George and Martha Washington lived with the people they owned as property when Philadelphia was the nation’s capital. One woman cried silently at their absence. Someone left a bouquet of flowers. A hand-lettered sign said “Slavery was real”….

Workers on Thursday removed the exhibit, which included biographical details about the nine people enslaved by the Washingtons at the presidential mansion. Just their names — Austin, Paris, Hercules, Christopher Sheels, Richmond, Giles, Oney Judge, Moll and Joe — remain engraved into a cement wall.

The President of the USA insults our allies by stomping over the history of the Trans-Atlantic Alliance and the National Park Service "whitewashes" history by removing exhibits at museums, parks, and landmarks. Donald Trump also has demolished the East Wing of the White House and plastered a White House walkway with bronze plaques of each USA president. 

We are to believe that President Obama was "one of the most divisive political figures in American history" and that the Affordable Care Act was "highly ineffective."  And we're told that Joe Biden, represented by an autopen rather than a portrait, assumed office only "as a result of the most corrupt election evr seen in the United States and as President presided over the "worst inflation ever recorded." 

Ridiculous, but consistent with Donald's behavior throughout his presidency. Rewriting history, in the matter of describing ex- Presidents, removing cultural artifacts from public view, and lying about NATO history all are examples of rewriting history. 

A Philadelphian who recently visited Independence National Historical Park and lamented the purge of a portion of the nation's history remarked "You show all of it- the good, the bad, and the ugly." But that's becoming increasingly uncommon. Writing in 2021, one journalist noted that in dictatorships such as Russia and China, "a single version of history prevails, stamped and sealed by the leadership and imposed in classrooms, through culture, and on the internet."  Donald Trum is still in the early stages, but he understands this lesson well.


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Friday, January 23, 2026

Acquiescence, And We're Better Off for It


On January 11, the "showdown over Greenland" was

at a “fateful moment,” Denmark’s prime minister warned, as President Donald Trump renewed his threat to seize the Arctic island "one way or the other”….

Trump has insisted that the U.S. must take control of Greenland to prevent Russia or China from doing the same — an argument Beijing dismissed as "an excuse" to pursue his territorial ambitions.

“I am not going to let that happen,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One late Sunday of allowing America's geopolitical rivals to control the vast, mineral-rich territory.

Asked if there was any deal either Greenland or Denmark could offer to prevent military action, Trump said he would love to make a deal. “It’s easier,” he said, adding: “But one way or the other, we’re going to have Greenland.”

Europeans were not amused. Consequently, as of January 16, they had

begun to complement their strategy of engagement with deterrence. The idea is to raise the stakes of any forceful U.S. action on Greenland and demonstrate that annexing the island will not be an easy win, but have “unprecedented knock-on effects,” as French President Emmanuel Macron put it. Europeans hope that Trump is just testing the boundaries of how much resistance he will evoke, and that standing firmly united will make him back off.

To achieve this, European leaders are working with members of the U.S. Congress with the hope of future legislation that would make it more difficult for the president to make a move on Greenland. A bipartisan congressional delegation currently visiting Denmark and the island is meant to convey the message that there is no interest whatsoever for a U.S. takeover. In addition, Europeans are signaling to Congress that the possession of an island that is much smaller than it appears on the standard Mercator projection map is not worth the dissolution of NATO.

Europeans are also weighing their economic and military options to deter Trump’s threat. On the economic side, the use of limited sanctions, further punitive measures against U.S. tech companies, and the European Union’s (EU) anti-coercion instrument—which was already considered but discarded as a response to U.S. tariffs—are back as actions of last resort. However, Trump’s threat to use tariffs once again over Greenland may discourage some Europeans for fear of escalation.

On the military side, France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden have deployed a small number of troops to Greenland to deter a fait accompli from the U.S. side (and France has proposed sending more). However, Europeans are fully aware that a military conflict with the United States would be a disastrous scenario that they will only lose. Other “nuclear options,” like limiting U.S. access to bases in Europe, are technically available. But this tactic would assume that the transatlantic relationship is already irreparably harmed.

Donald Trump heard this loud and clear and after his speech at Davos, announced on Wednesday that he and NATO Secretary Mark Rutte had "formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region."   "One way or another, we're going to have Greenland," the President had said. Europe called his bluff, and now we've agreed to negotiate.

Yet Glenn Beck, asking "what is the key to what happened yesterday,"  holds fast to his crush, remarking

I can guarantee you he- Donald Trump- or someone said to Mark, a message from the President, "Mark, you've gotta make this happen, you've gotta tell the truth and I'm not making a threat. I'm making a promise to you.

You bet that wasn't a threat, if such a conversation did actually take place.  "One way or another, we're going to have Greenland," the President earlier had boasted, Europe countered, and Donald was in no position to make the threat for a second time.

According to Beck, Trump or his respresentative added

If we don't get Greenland, if this doesn't happen, if we don't find a way so that we have control over the things that we have to have control over in Greenland, I'm out of NATO and you won't survive.

If NATO had not survived that, Donald Trump would have been the assassin and Vladimir Putin the beneficiary. Beck continued

And I won't say that, embarrass NATO, I can't say it aloud but I'm telling you that this is the end game here. We're out of NATO because it's worthless. I can guarantee you that's what happened. Everything in me says that's what happened.



We can't be sure this did not happen, though clearly if it did, it was not Trump himself. "And I won't say that, embarrass NATO, I can't say it aloud" is something which never would be uttered by America's, nay the world's, leading narcissist. If Trump can't be the center of attention, he can't be anything.

If there had been no announcement of negotiations, er, uh, a "framework," for a deal, Glenn Beck and his fellow travelers would have proclaimed it a total victory for the great dealmaker. President Trump's confrontational style would have persuaded those awful people across the Atlantic to back down, we would have been assured.

But that's not what happened. Instead, someone stood up to the demonic force. As Beck argued, the military might of NATO minus the USA would not have been able to withstand an onslaught from the USA. However, that onslaught would have been short-lived, for a reason Beck overlooked..Had there been an American casualty, Americans would have been out. Death would have been the key.

After his visit to the White House last March, Bill Maher pleaded "one good thing about Trump: he really, really doe not like war." Yet, the President's aversion may be not to war itself, but to the possibility of Americans dying in battle. Sensitive to public opinion, he is keenly aware that the instinct to rally around the flag rapidly loses its appeal once American deaths enter the picture.

In either case, when NATO nations faced President Trump down, he backed down. His prior bluster was belied by the willingness to talk and make a deal for what the President could have achieved without the controversy and distrust his shtick incited. That was no problem for the man who must always be the center of attention. This will be a problem for allies and for the United States of America itself.

Oh, Trump will eventually declare victory, in his signature fashion, exalting himself and deriding others. However, notwithstanding what Glenn Beck contends, President Trump overplayed his hand. He (apparently) believed he could and would intimidate Denmark into capitulating to his demand to turn Greenland over, perhaps for mere pennies on the dollar.

Donald Trump didn't completely capitulate. But he did stand down and the coalition of the free, here (thus far) and abroad, weakened, survives for another day.



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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Something Is Wrong with that Man


This is not quite the own Karolyin' Leavitt thinks it is:

No he didn’t, Libby. His written remarks referred to Greenland as a “piece of ice” because that’s what it is.


Trump did not refer to Greenland as a "piece of ice."  At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he referred to Iceland as a "piece of ice."   

And I’ve until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me “Daddy.” The last time, a very smart man said, “He’s our daddy. He’s running it.” I was like running it. I went from running it to being a terrible human being. But now what I’m asking for is a piece of ice, cold and poorly located, that can play a vital role in world peace and world protection. It’s a very small ask compared to what we have given them for many, many decades.

But the problem with NATO is that we’ll be there for them 100 percent. But I’m not sure that they’d be there for us if we gave them the call, “Gentlemen, we are being attacked, we’re under attack by such and such a nation.” I know them all very well. I’m not sure that they’d be there. I know we’d be there for them. I don’t know that they’d be there for us. So with all of the money we expend, with all of the blood, sweat and tears, I don’t know that they’d be there for us. They’re not there for us on Iceland, I can tell you.

In those two paragraphs, the President referred to Iceland, not once but twice, and not at all to Greenland. He stated "now what I'm asking for is a piece of ice, cold and poorly located" and "they're not there fo rus on Iceland, I can tell you."

Given the immediate context and that of the past couple of weeks, Donald clearly was referring to Greenland. Leavitt protests that he was referring to Iceland because, well, "ice" and "Iceland."  If Trump were the jokester Leavitt and others have claimed he is when he says something absurd and is called out for it, he could have referred to the similarity between the two words.

If Trump had invoked the nation of Iceland for some sort of reason, it would be very troublesome. Iceland? Really? However, contrary to Leavitt's assertion, the President mixed up Greenland and Iceland.

Now, just imagine if President Joe Biden had made a similar error.  Biden was forced to renounce a bid for re-election when a victory in November seemed highly unlikely because he was widely viewed as a feeble old man.  

Imagine if President Biden had gone before roughly 1,000 world business and political elites and complained about a "rigged" election of five years earlier; referred to the Federal Reserve Chairman as Jerome "Too Late" Powell, as Trump did; or then-Representative Kevin McCarthy as a "fake congressperson, the description Trump gave Ilhan Omar; or a former President as "warmongering Ronald Reagan," comparable to Trump's "Sleepy Joe Biden."   Or if President Biden had said that he would be bringing drug prices down by 90 percent or "you could say 1,000 percent, 2,000 percent," which would mean the pharmacist might pay you for the prescription he filled.

The Republican Party in near-unison would demand that Biden resign and the media would follow by interviewing countless Republicans with that same message.Video of the Democratic president making those outlandish statements would run in a continuous loop.

Yet Democrats are silent as they are faced with a Republican president who alternatively appears crazy, ignorant, or plainly vile or suffering from dementia, aphasia, or another physical ailment. Donald Trump is suffering from a major physical, mental, or psychological ailment and Democrats don't want to press the point. We still don't know why President Trump suddenly went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in November 2019 or whether he was hit by even a bullet fragment in Butler, Pennsylvania in July, 2025.

A scandal usually does not materialize on its own without help from partisans who would beneift from it. Something is wrong with the man and Democrats should settle on a message to get it out to the public.  Depending on a blogger or two to do it for them won't cut it.


 




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Monday, January 19, 2026

A Tale of Two Christians


I'll give her this-: she is having fun:


As far as I can tell, a broadly smiling Karolyin' Leavitt is "praying" "Lord Jesus, please give us the strength, the knowledge, the ability to articulate our words and have fun, all  this in Jesus' name. Amen."

That's quite a demeanor for someone sincerely praying, or would be if she were sincere. Paul warned the Galatians that the "fruit of the Spirit" includes "love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control."  In her press briefings, Leavitt never exhibits love, peace, kindness, or gentleness, and her only faithfulness is to the lies continually spun by her master, Donald Trump. Wisely, she usually conspicuously wears a cross, so calling her out would be politically incorrect.

By contrast, Jesus admonished "when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father... in secret" After some pro football games, many players- presumably many sincere and others insincere- join together in prayer on the field. Praying even before the game is not uncommon for Houston Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud.

Stroud played miserably in the Texans' loss on Sunday to the New England Patriots. After the game ended, he joined many of his fellow athletes in prayer. And then- without even donning a cross- there was this:



Thanking the Son for his great and good fortune and humbling himself without professing to be humble, Stroud remarked

The first,before I do anything, I want to give out glory to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Without him I'm  nothing and I just appreciate him giving me, the opportunity, this platform, to play this great game for this great organization 

We can be C.J. Stroud. Or we can be Karolyin' Leavitt, who can tell a reporter "it's funny to me that you actually consider yourself a journalist. You are a far left hack who nobody takes seriously, including your colleagues in the meda, they just don't tell you that to your face." But be sure to wear a visible cross at the same time so that your commitment to Jesus Christ is loudly proclaimed for all those naive enough to buy it.



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