Bring it

As we prepare our battle plans for the upcoming capture of Greenland and the re-capture of the Panama Canal, I think that it is a proper time to thank the lord for putting Donald Trump in office. This should be very entertaining, if nothing else. Already we have a prospective Secretary of Defense who wants to throw gay people out of the military, an administration that is ready to cut the cord with vaccines and get us back on raw milk. Louis Pasteur, like what did he really know? Bye bye fluoride too. There is also talk about abolishing the Department of Education and denuding both the FDA and EPA. January sixers are in line for pardons and Ukraine will get its aid cut off as soon as Trump gets the word from his pal in Moscow. Women's reproductive choices will be fair game again and birth control and gay rights have to be in the future crosshairs. Obamacare will be killed and insurance rates and the ranks of the uninsured will rise again. There is already talk about taking the knife to Social Security and Medicare. Deportations will commence and United States citizens, albeit very young ones, will be deported. It's a way to keep families together... We are about to institute tariffs that should alienate most of the other countries in the world, Canada and Mexico included. Sovereign nations love being dictated to, should be very interested and many of these tariffs are going to affect things we Americans use in our businesses and that we use in our own cars and manufacturing plants. Brilliant. 

My feeling at this point? Who cares? If this is what you want America, this is what you get. And with Republicans controlling every branch of government, Senate, Presidency, House and the Supreme Court, if things get squirrelly they will not be able to blame anybody but themselves. 

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However we know that the doomsday scenario is probably not going to occur. Why? Because if there is anybody the GOP hates more than the democrats it is each other. Remember Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy? Major disruptive change might not be so easy in reality. Even if half of your cabinet was picked out of the Fox News cartoon universe. These guys want to get re-elected again someday. In the last two weeks the House has tabled the Trump/Musk budget shutdown/debt ceiling debacle and not allowed Lara Trump to waltz in and grab the Florida Senate seat.

There is a razor sharp GOP hold in the house and we have already seen Trump going after a stalwart supporter, Chip Roy for not towing the line. He is talking about primarying anyone who dares go against him. Methinks that people like Roy and an embattled Speaker Mike Johnson have long memories and will not allow themselves to be slaughtered like lambs on the Trump sacrificial pyre. But we shall see.

They may even show a little backbone and stand up for their principles, something rarely seen in their quarter in recent memory. Johnson will most probably have to go to the democrats if he wants to see any actual laws passed.

Of course they will still blame the Dems for not playing ball, but theoretically such whining is a non starter because the Republican party has the numbers and power to do it all on their own at present. So do it, lets see what happens. Of course already we have heard that grocery prices will not be coming down, a major campaign promise. What the heck happened there and how does Trump get off that one so easily?

It is easy to sit on the sidelines and snipe, governing and passing laws is another matter entirely. 

All on you.

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Great article at the Guardian - Major Trump donors who complained of immigrant ‘invasion’ used Mexican workers illegally, sources allege

...Uline – a giant Wisconsin-based office and shipping supply company controlled by billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein – shuttles in its own workers from Mexico, who are using tourist visas and visas meant for employees who are entering the US temporarily to receive professional training, known as B1 visas. But instead of being part of a dedicated training program, the Mexican employees stay for one to six months and – sources with direct knowledge of the matter allege – perform normal work in Uline’s US warehouses.

Lawyers and immigrants’ advocates told the Guardian they believed the alleged practice is likely illegal and could be exploitative of the workers enrolled in the program.

The company has allegedly used employees without proper work permits even as Dick Uihlein’s Super Pac, Restoration Pac, supported Trump’s presidential campaign with a TV advertisement attacking his opponent Kamala Harris for allowing an immigrant “invasion” at the US-Mexico border. The Uihleins have emerged as a major force in rightwing politics, spending tens of millions of dollars supporting candidates, including president-elect Trump and other rightwing politicians, who have called for a mass deportation of immigrants. They were the second-largest political donors in this year’s election, giving more than even Elon Musk, the world’s richest man.