Jilly_in_VA
Jilly_in_VA's JournalI have to wonder
how many of Shitler's Incompetent Corps will be left when (not IF) he dies and Shady McMaybelline is president?
Shall we play a game?
Who will quit (because they can't stand him) and who will he fire?
Your guesses, please.
This is a SERIOUS GAME.
Trump says Venezuela sends US lethal drugs, but data tells different story
President Donald Trump and his top aides have justified lethal military strikes on suspected drug smuggling boats from Venezuela by accusing Venezuela and suspected criminal networks operating on its soil like the Cartel de los Soles of flooding the United States with deadly drugs.
"This mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people," Secretary of War (formally Secretary of Defense) Pete Hegseth posted Nov. 13 on X. He said the military mission has been named Operation Southern Spear.
In August, the United States doubled the reward for information leading to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to an unprecedented $50 million over allegations of drug trafficking and links to criminal groups. Attorney General Pam Bondi explained the bounty at the time by accusing Maduro in a video message of being "one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world and a threat to our national security."
That’s reason enough, Trump and administration officials say, for launching military attacks that have killed at least 87 people in recent months – including two men clinging to wreckage after they survived an initial strike Sept. 2 that killed nine other suspected smugglers. They say it might even warrant an attack on Venezuelan soil, which Trump has implied may be in the offing.
U.S. and United Nations drug data, however, show that Venezuela isn't a producer or exporter of fentanyl, a lab-made synthetic opioid, and that it plays a relatively minor role in the far-less-lethal cocaine trade.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/09/trump-venezuela-drug-trafficking/87573189007/?tbref=hp
Shitler will do anything to distract from the Epstein files, even start a war. He has no clue about the geography of Venezuela. This could turn into another Vietnam.
Officers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse
Officers at the large immigration detention camp located at the Fort Bliss army base in Texas are allegedly mistreating detainees, with accusations including beatings, sexual abuse and clandestine deportations of non-Mexican nationals into Mexico, according to a coalition of local and national US civil rights organizations.
In a 19-page letter, addressed to senior government officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and Fort Bliss military command, the coalition accuses officers at the immigration detention facility on the base, called Camp East Montana, of being “in violation of agency policies and standards, as well as statutory and constitutional protections”.
The advocates called for the immediate closure of the camp, where more than 2,700 detainees are being held in a complex of tents.
“In light of these abuses, we urge the end to detention of immigrants at Fort Bliss,” said the letter signed by eight organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Humans Rights Watch, Estrella del Paso, the Texas Civil Rights Project and Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center.
The letter was addressed to ICE acting director Todd Lyons and others and copied to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) office of inspector general and the Senate armed forces committee.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/09/texas-ice-camp-abuse-immigration
Florida governor declares Muslim civil rights group a terrorist organization
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday designated one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization,” following a similar step by Texas last month.
The directive against the Council on American-Islamic Relations comes in an executive order DeSantis posted on the social media site X. It also gives the same label to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Neither CAIR nor the Muslim Brotherhood is designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government.
The order instructs Florida agencies to prevent the two groups and those who have provided them material support from receiving contracts, employment and funds from a state executive or cabinet agency.
In an emailed statement, CAIR and its Florida chapter said the organization plans to sue DeSantis in response to what it called an “unconstitutional” and “defamatory” proclamation.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-desantis-muslim-group-terrorist-label-7113c982c43fed198cef9eaf85b23679
And here we go, back to the 19th century. Can we just secede from them?
Trump weighing Noem's ouster at Homeland Security
White House officials have grown frustrated with Kristi Noem’s leadership of the Department of Homeland Security, leading to calls for a new secretary to more aggressively support key parts of the president’s deportation agenda, two sources familiar with the situation told MS NOW.
President Trump is considering removing Noem as secretary as early as January, according to a White House official, a current federal official and two former Homeland Security officials.
Noem is on “very thin ice,” a White House official told MS NOW, adding she will likely be replaced early next year. The White House official added that Stephen Miller, President Trump’s deputy chief of staff, is leading the charge to remove Noem.
Frustrations from Miller and other senior White House officials are two-fold. Noem isn’t moving fast enough to build out more detention centers with the money approved in Trump’s big summer spending bill, the White House official and a federal official said. The bill directed $170 billion toward immigration enforcement, with some $75 billion going to ICE alone. That massive cash infusion included $45 billion specifically for detention facilities.
Multiple governors have also called Trump personally and voiced frustration with Noem’s handling of FEMA and disaster relief funds, the White House official told MS NOW.
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-noem-dhs-homeland-security
The key phrase here is "Stephen Miller...is leading the charge". He's the shadow president, as we all know.
How do I post a video from my photo album?
This is one from my niece and it's too good not to share.
Zohran Mamdani tells immigrant New Yorkers about their right not to comply with ICE
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani posted a video to social media on Sunday explaining immigrants’ right to refuse to speak to or comply with agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, days after federal agents carried out a raid in Manhattan.
In the video, Mamdani vowed to protect the city’s 3 million immigrants, saying, “We can all stand up to ICE if you know your rights.”
He explained that people in the U.S. can chose not to speak to federal immigration agents, film them without interfering and refuse their requests to enter private spaces. ICE agents cannot enter spaces like a home, school or private area of a workplace without a judicial warrant signed by a judge, Mamdani said.
“ICE is legally allowed to lie to you, but you have the right to remain silent. If you’re being detained, you may always ask, ‘Am I free to go?’ repeatedly until they answer you,” said Mamdani, who will be sworn in as mayor on Jan 1.
https://apnews.com/article/zohran-mamdani-ice-b9584c354816e9b5a40912075e5e89d8
He's not doing anything illegal, merely reiterating immigrants' Constitutional rights, but Shitler will have an unholy fit over this, you can be sure
Child dies, siblings hospitalized after 'alkaline diet,' parents charged
An Arizona couple faces possible prison time after parenting practices shaped by online misinformation about medical care and nutrition left a 5-month-old child dead and three others suffering from chronic malnutrition, according to police and court records.
Police found Tremaure Stanley, 25, and Janiece Brooks, 26, living in a central Phoenix home where their youngest child was discovered dead in July 2023 after Brooks called 911 because their baby was unresponsive.
Three surviving siblings, ages 2, 4 and 5 at the time, were subsequently hospitalized with rickets, osteopenia, vitamin D deficiency and significant developmental delays, court records show.
The couple was charged with first-degree murder and four counts of child abuse. They met with prosecutors Dec. 1 to discuss a possible plea deal.
Prosecutors said the pattern of harm traces back to an extreme version of the "alkaline diet" the couple imposed on their children, combined with a growing distrust of medical care. For these children, that meant eating mostly vegetables, fruit and plant-based milks, with almost no protein, fats or fortified foods. It was a diet so low in calories and nutrients that doctors who examined the children said it led to severe malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/12/08/arizona-parents-charged-child-death-alkaline-diet/87669909007/?tbref=hp
People who rely on the internet for their own diet advice are crazy at best; if they impose it on their children, they are CRIMINAL
Nicole Russell--Can we just abolish the TSA and start over already?
It's December. That means it's time to head home for the holidays. After purchasing an expensive plane ticket, you pack your bags and arrive at the airport, excited to sip an overpriced latte and join your loved ones.
But before you can get to your gate, you need to pass through an airport gauntlet, where a potential cacophony of catastrophe awaits. Included in that is a long line of tired travelers who are already burdened by bags, strollers and babies − and now are waylaid by the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA.
There, any number of things could happen to you in these lines that snake down halls, distracting, discouraging − or even delaying – your trip, all in the name of safety precautions long since outdated, administered by a group of employees so burdened by bureaucratic bloat that they make an appointment at the Department of Motor Vehicles look like a trip to Disney World.
Alas, it's time for us to admit, as proud, free, exasperated Americans, that we need safety at U.S. airports, but that it should be efficient and cost-effective. The TSA is neither. It should be abolished and replaced with something better.
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From invasive pat-downs and pre-dawn yelling to missing prohibited items in screenings, there have been enough problems over the past 20-plus years to question why such poor security permeates every U.S. airport.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/12/07/abolish-tsa-holiday-travel-airport-security/87586958007/?tbref=hp
ISTM that metal detectors and X-rays could do the job about as well and much cheaper, and avoid the hassles
Pressure grows on 'reckless' Hegseth as twin scandals engulf Pentagon chief
Pete Hegseth is facing the most serious crisis of his tenure as defense secretary, engulfed by allegations of war crimes in the Caribbean and a blistering inspector general report accusing him of mishandling classified military intelligence. Yet despite the long list of trouble and as lawmakers from both parties call for his resignation, Hegseth shows no signs of stepping down and still holds Donald Trump’s support.
The twin crises have engulfed the former Fox News personality in separate but overlapping allegations that lawmakers, policy experts and former officials say reveal a pattern of dangerous recklessness at the helm of the Pentagon. Democratic legislators have reignited calls for his ouster after revelations that survivors clinging to wreckage from a September boat strike were deliberately killed in a “double-tap” attack, while a defense department investigation released on Thursday concluded he violated Pentagon policies by sharing sensitive details via the Signal messaging app hours before airstrikes in Yemen.
The most recent controversy comes as the Caribbean campaign centers on the Trump administration’s extrajudicial strikes against suspected drug smugglers, which have killed at least 87 people across 22 attacks since September. Trump has justified the operation as essential to combating fentanyl trafficking, claiming each destroyed vessel saves 25,000 American lives, though factcheckers, former officials and drug policy experts have called this figure absurd, noting that fentanyl primarily enters the United States overland from Mexico, not via Caribbean boats from Venezuela.
The legality of the strikes came under intense scrutiny after the public learned that two men who survived the initial 2 September attack could been seen amid the wreckage when a lethal follow-up strike was ordered. While Hegseth initially dismissed the reporting as fabricated, he later confirmed the basic facts during a cabinet meeting this week, saying he acted in the “fog of war” but “didn’t stick around” to observe the rest of the mission.
Senator Patty Murray, the Democratic vice-chair of the Senate appropriations committee, called for Hegseth’s firing following a bipartisan briefing on the incident on Thursday. “Between overseeing this campaign in the Caribbean, risking US servicemembers’ lives by sharing war plans on Signal, and so much else, it could not be more obvious that Secretary Hegseth is unfit for the role, and it is past time for him to go,” Murray said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/06/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trump
I'm with Patty---although we'll probably get someone worse.
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