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Impeachment coming? Sure, bring it!

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Let’s assume for a moment that the political smart money is telling us the truth, that the next Congress is going to flip to Democratic control and that the House of Reps is going to launch an impeachment against Donald Trump.

We all have heard that Democrats might gain 30 seats on the Republicans who now control Congress. I can’t say whether the pundits think the 30-seat gain is at the top of their projection, at the bottom … or somewhere in the middle. If Trump continues on his slap-dash course it well could exceed the 30-seat turnover by a significant margin.

Is an impeachment necessary? I will allow my bias to peek through the haze and declare: Damn right it’s necessary! I will offer this caveat: I want Democrats to assure us that they can more than one thing at a time, that they can proceed with impeaching Trump and resume their constitutional role of making laws.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York is likely to be elected speaker and he ought to take a page from the book followed in Texas by then-Speaker Pete Laney. The West Texas cotton farmer said he always simply allowed “the will of the House” to have its way. And so it went during the years that Laney served as the Man of the House.

The will of the U.S. House should be allowed to play the hand it is dealt. If most members believe — as I do — that Trump has committed an impeachable offense or three, then it should act. It also should not allow the legislative process to get caught in a political vise that will clamp down around the White House.

We’ve all heard them say that lawmakers can “do more than one thing at a time.” Impeaching a president is serious business. So is legislating.

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Hold it, masked men!

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Ask yourself this question, which I believe is pertinent to the issues discussion we are having these days in the U.S. of A.

How would I feel if I were stopped by a burly dude, armed to the teeth, wearing a flak jacket, with the word “ICE” emblazoned on his chest … and all the while he is hiding his face behind a pullover mask that only reveals his eyes?

My first response? I would be scared feces-less at the sight. I wouldn’t know what to say to any question this fellow might pose.

Now, look, under normal circumstances I couldn’t care less what a law enforcement professional is wearing. These days it’s different, so I am going to comment briefly on the public relations image these ICE agents are presenting to a public that has grown angry at their presence.

ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It has become a stand-alone word, kinda like MAGA and FUBAR.

These agents charged with finding undocumented immigrants, arresting them and then deporting them present a frightening image not just to those on their target list but to anyone, even those with nothing to fear.

It’s the masks, man, that give these guys their intimidating image.

I guess it must be the type of image Donald Trump wants to project, given his own stated admiration for world leaders who govern with an iron hand. He wishes he could do so in the United States, except for the Constitution that limits the power of the president.

As one of millions of Americans who are paying for this dog-and-pony show, I just have to declare my own disgust at the image these ICE agents are projecting while terrorizing fellow human beings. Those who are being terrorized deserve to see the faces of those who are bullying them.

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What and when did Trump know about Epstein?

Donald Trump’s refusal to release for public view all the files contained about Jeffrey Epstein — the late sex trafficker and abuser of underage girls — compels me to circle back to a point I have made on this and other issues.

Which is this: If the president of the United States is as clean as Trump says he is, then he should release the files untouched by redactions and allow the public full access to information that can answer a key question about Trump. What did POTUS know and when did he know it?

I do not believe Trump was involved directly in the crimes for which Epstein was convicted and jailed. I am one American patriot who wants to know if the future president knew in real time whether Epstein and his girlfriend, Gyslane Maxwell, were rounding up girls and subjecting them to Epstein’s desire to be pleasured by them.

Trump says there’s nothing to see in those files. Really, Mr. Liar in Chief? Release the damn files and let us determine whether you’re right, that there’s nothing in them that implicates Trump. Fine … but Trump and Epstein once were besties. Therefore, did Trump know about the hideous crimes Epstein was committing?

Trump eventually would run for president. He won in 2016 and in 2024. It would have been important for Trumpkins to know whether their guy was hobknobbing with a sex trafficker. That’s kind of important, don’t you think?

Trump and the Justice Department are refusing to let us see those files. That leads to believe the files contain something in there that is going to cause the POTUS some serious grief.

I believe we might be witnessing a White House coverup.

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Trump denigrates Reiner’s memory

ruth be told, I cannot bring myself to offer any analysis of the hideous message Donald Trump posted on the deaths of Rob and Michelle Reiner.

It was ghastly, profoundly boorish, stated in the worst taste imaginable. I will share it here. You be the judge: “Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”
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Bombing boats: self-defeating ‘strategy’

A whole lot of top U.S. military brass is weighing in on Donald Trump’s decision to order missile strikes on speed boats that allegedly are carrying lethal drugs into the United States of America.

You know the drill. We have sent an aircraft carrier strike force into the Caribbean Sea to look for boats that the Trump administration says are loaded with fentanyl. They’re killing people at sea, basing their actions on the aim of protecting U.S. citizens against the drug horror that allegedly is coming to this country from the speed boats.

The brass is saying: What a minute. Let’s rethink this nonsense!

What I am hearing is that retired general-grade officers are saying the better strategy is to board the boats, seize what they’re carrying, take the operators into custody and then interrogate them to get information on the drug networks for which they are working.

But … no-o-o-o-o! Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth want to shoot first and ask questions later. What they are doing is destroying evidence they could use to prosecute the drug runners!

We have this ridiculous strategy that also has encountered allegations that the administration is committing a war crime by launching these “double-tap” air strikes to kill survivors of the initial missile strikes against the speed boats. And, get this: Donald Trump — who claimed to have bone spurs to avoid service in the Vietnam War — is talking openly about sending U.S. troops into Venezuela to launch a ground combat operation to root out the drug dealers. What the hell … ?

This fraudster in chief is out of ever-lovin’ control!

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Museum always breathtaking

DALLAS — It doesn’t matter how many times I have come to this exhibit — or how many times I will see it in the future — every visit fills me with awe about one of this country’s most profound tragedies.

I came here this week with a dear friend to tour the Sixth Floor Museum, which commemorates the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Sixty-two years have passed since that horrifying day and I continue to be struck by how that single senseless act sent a great city’s emotional psyche spiraling into the sewer.

I saw for the first time on this visit a copy of the Dallas Morning News editorial page published on the day of JFK’s visit. The editorial referred to the city’s “partisan cleavage” that would disappear hopefully that day as it welcomed the 35th president of the United States. Indeed, there had been fear that right-wing activists might protest the president’s visit, accusing him of being “soft” on the Soviet Union.

Well, it turned out the world was looking in the wrong direction. Lee Harvey Oswald turned out to be an avowed Marxist who two days later met his own end when a night club owner, Jack Ruby, shot him in the gut as he was being transferred from the city jail to the county lockup.

I continue to be struck by the quietness of the large crowd of museum-goers who were milling around the sixth floor, looking at the artifacts, reading the text on the walls explaining JFK’s legacy, his record, his accomplishments and even where he fell short during the 1,000 days of his presidency. I found myself whispering information into the ear of my friend; I didn’t want to make any sort of unwanted noise. I felt as though we were in a church sanctuary.

I likely won’t ever buy into the notion that John Kennedy should rank among the nation’s great presidents. One thousand days doesn’t give anyone much of a chance to carve out a lasting legislative legacy. He had some success and he fell short a time or two during his time in office.

He did bring a huge wellspring of hope to a nation that needed it in the moment. That hope was blown to bits by the gunman aiming his rifle from the sixth floor of a building that reportedly was destined to be torn down.

I’ll be back again someday. I cannot get enough of that exhibit.

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Closer to the tipping point?

Every day, it seems, we appear to be creeping closer to the tipping point in which Donald J. Trump says something that will spell the end of his failed presidency.

He crossed another huge line this week by saying out loud and in public that six Democratic members of Congress are guilty of sedition, a crime that carries a punishment of death. That’s right. The POTUS has declared that six opposing members of Congress should be executed for speaking out against the orders that Trump is issuing.

What in the world is happening to this nation? Why are we allowing this moron to get away with these sorts of idiotic pronouncements? Here’s the worst of it: Not even a president of the United States who calls for the execution of political opposition could be convicted by a Senate controlled by members of his own political party … because they are in tacit agreement with this dipshit!

Public opinon polling suggests that Trump’s support among Americans is collapsing as he continues to scarf up more power for the executive branch. The polls aren’t “fake,” as Trump contends. They are real and they suggest that Trump’s MAGA base is shrinking before our eyes. When the likes of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, D-Ga., turn on Trump then you know you are witnessing a sea change.

Suppose there was a chance to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which contains a clause about removing the president who is deemed incompetent. Does anyone believe that a majority of this executive branch comprising diehard Trump loyalists is going to sign a document declaring the boss to be unfit for the office? It won’t happen.

That’s why I believe we’re only getting a lot closer to some tipping point that will spell the end of this moron’s time in office.

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A new phase awaits Trump

Donald Trump appears to be losing his vise grip on the Republican Party, which to my way of think portends a new phase in Trump’s term in the White House.

It well might mean — and I am not going to predict this will happen — that sooner or later Trump is going to realize he is just taking up space in the Oval Office … and he might just pack up and leave the people’s house for good.

The House of Reps voted 427 to 1 to call for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files that contain the names of many officials with apparent knowledge of the hideous conduct Epstein was engaged in with underage girls. Is there a more bipartisan vote than that?

Furthermore, we see the likes of Rep. Marjorie Taylore Greene, R-Ga., declaring she is divorcing herself from the MAGA movement, which she believes has strayed way too far into the weeds. She recently declared an end to the hateful rhetoric she has spouted and has taken a solemn vow to be more issues-oriented in her criticism of policies with which she disagrees.

For that, I salute her. She has taken a sharp turn away from the path being blazed by Trump.

I have vowed to avoid diagnosing Trump’s blathering, pretending to be able to detect dementia. But, damn! Dude keeps saying some really weird stuff that makes me scratch my own noggin, wondering if the guy’s got it all up there. There well might be others in a position to act if they, too, determine he is unfit to make command decisions.

The courts are standing firm against the autocratic tide that keeps sweeping against our government. Trump-appointed judges are realizing that their benefactor doesn’t know the law, doesn’t care to learn about the law and that he must be held accountable for his ignorance.

That’s a good sign that the Constitution is doing what the founders set it up to do.

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Release Epstein files now! All of ’em!

Where do we stand today in the yammering of the Epstein Files, which contain the names of some the nation’s biggest political hitters and their potential relationship with one of the more infamous pedophiles any of us have seen since The Flood?

Congressional Democrats have gotten the name of the final member of Congress to sign a discharge petition that would require release of the files. OK! What’s with the delay?

I am one patriotic American who wants to know whether the president of the United States had more than a passing aquaintance with the late Jeffrey Epstein. That’s the sole issue for me. I also do not believe that Donald Trump engaged in illegal sexual activity with one of Epstein’s underage female victims. Then again, I am basing my belief on the hope that we don’t have pedophile serving as POTUS.

Releasing all the Epstein files should tell us what we need to know. We have received dribs and drabs of info on Epstein, and many of his relationships. They include names like Trump, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.

We need to understand fully whether Donald Trump knew about the illegal deeds being done at Epstein’s behest … and then looked the other way.

Release the files … now!

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MAGA festers in ignorance

The ignorance of the morons who comprise many of Donald Trump’s MAGA base continues to astonish me in ways I never thought possible.

New York City voters elected a Muslim, a democratic socialist as its next mayor. What was the reaction among some of the MAGA cultists who heard this news?

One of them, a member of Congress, said out loud that he wants Zohair Mamdani deported. Yep. He wants to banish him to the country of his birth. I believe it’s Sudan.

One little problem with that idiotic notion. Mamdani has been a naturalized U.S. citizen since he was boy. You can’t deport a U.S. citizen. Good grief, the man wants to live in the United States. He wants to pay his taxes here. He wants to educate his children here. He wants to govern the nation’s largest, most sophisticated, most cosmopolitan city.

This MAGA idiocy reminds of when Nikki Haley, the Republican governor South Carolina, agreed to take down the Confederate flags in her state, drawing calls for her deportation. Wait! She was born in South Carolina to parents of Indian descent. I guess her parentage made the all-American governor a deportation target.

You cannot negotiate with a political movement that comprises so many of these morons!