We can all agree: we've never seen anyting like TOM

 

Apr 27, 2025 (97/1461)

Recall how “we” don’t have an enemies list? Recall that from Ka$h Patel’s confirmation hearing? Appears there is yet one more Pinocchio in the TOM admin. Liar, liar, pants on fire, Ka$h. “FBI director posts photo of arrested Wisconsin judge’s perp walk, possibly violating DOJ policy.” But we don’t have an enemies list. We don’t go after specific people and we certainly don’t seek vengeance. Not us. “According to the Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy listed on the Justice Department’s website, DOJ personnel “should not voluntarily disclose a photograph of a defendant unless it serves a law enforcement function or unless the photograph is already part of the public record in the case.”

I have finally found the one thing that everyone (ok, maybe 98%) in the country can agree upon. We have never seen anything like TOM and his admin. You can spin that statement in anyway you would like. But haters and lovers alike can find common ground with this statement. “In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump exerted his power in a sweep and scale that has no easy historical comparison. To implement parts of his vision, he deployed the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, to dismantle the federal workforce, deciding only after the fact if the cuts had gone too far. Trump also has unilaterally declared the power to remake the post-World War II alliance with Europe that has largely maintained peace for nearly 80 years. The Republican president has made extraordinary emergency declarations to rewrite the rules of global trade, setting off panic in markets and capitals around the world. And he has ordered the removal of migrants to a prison in El Salvador without judicial review. What’s more, he has taken direct aim at law, media, public health and culture, attempting to bring all to heel, with some surprising success.” “Success” – again use your own definition or spin on that one.

The arbiter of public opinion has chosen to define those “successes” as a bad thing. “Donald Trump has the lowest 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, with public pushback on many of his policies and extensive economic discontent, including broad fears of a recession, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll.” Not that he cares or will do anything differently. Maybe impose even more pain upon the subjects of this now-soiled nation. Bullies gonna bully. “Perhaps most threatening to Trump, given his promise of an economic turnaround, is the extent of negative views on the economy: Seventy-two percent said they think it's very or somewhat likely that his economic policies will cause a recession in the short term.” It’s the economy, stupid. Thank you, James Carville. Those words are as true today as they were in 1992. People vote for their pocketbooks not for politicians.

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY! The sleepy Dem’s have finally resorted to something other than wing flapping. I have been advocating for protest sit in’s outside the Oval, but I’ll take this as a good first step. “House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Cory Booker voiced their opposition to the Republican budget plan key to enacting President Trump's agenda as the sun rose on Sunday, holding a sit-in protest on the steps of the Capitol into the morning. Shortly after 6 a.m., the pair began livestreaming their conversation, while Booker warned of a "moment of moral urgency" as Congress is set to return from a two-week recess on Monday. The New Jersey Democrat pledged to sit and discuss the coming fight for "a good number of hours." Yesssss. Let’s get back to old-fashioned peaceful protests and sit-ins at the doorstep of the offender. I wish Booker would chain himself to a chair in the Oval.

“As we prepare to come back into session tomorrow, this is a time to choose," Jeffries, a New York Democrat, said as the conversation kicked off early Sunday. "And we're either going to choose the side of the American people, or we're going to choose this cruel budget that Republicans are trying to jam down the throats of the American people."