If at first you don’t succeed, fail, fail, again.
Maybe some day he’ll get it down.
Perhaps.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/mike-waltz-venmo
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Long version:
A report on a recent meeting between Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, by a WHITE HOUSE REPORTER, someone who was present in the room quoted below…
“ I’ve covered a lot of Donald Trump press conferences over the years. I’ve seen him lie, deflect, and embarrass himself in countless ways. But what I just witnessed in the Oval Office may have been the most off-the-rails, unhinged display yet.
Trump sat down with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte — a serious figure there to talk about security and alliance unity — but Trump wasn’t interested in that. No, Trump used the opportunity to fantasize about annexing Canada. He actually said, “Canada only works as a state,” and gushed about how the U.S. would look on a map if we just erased the border and took Canada as our own. This wasn’t satire. This wasn’t a joke. This was the president rambling about absorbing another sovereign nation — while the NATO secretary general sat there watching this clown show unfold.
And it didn’t stop there. Trump started pushing the idea of conquering Greenland too, saying NATO might need to get involved in helping the U.S. take it over — as if it’s a game of Risk. He literally said we “need it for international security” and tried to rope NATO into his imperial fever dream. The look on Rutte’s face said it all.
Then, Trump pivoted to his usual bigotry. Instead of talking about defense cooperation or global security, Trump bragged about how he uses transgender people as political pawns to rile up his base before elections — saying Republicans should “bring it up a week before the election” to win votes. In other words, he openly admitted he sees cruelty and manufactured culture war nonsense as a campaign strategy. Despicable.
When asked about American small businesses hurting from tariffs, Trump did what he always does: lie and bluster. “You’re going to be so much richer,” he said. Meanwhile, Medicaid is being gutted, Social Security is under threat, and Trump’s billionaire cronies are cheering as the safety net burns.
Oh, and then Trump suggested we start sending drug dealers to the Netherlands — yes, you read that right — in a bizarre attempt at humor that landed more like a diplomatic insult, especially considering the NATO secretary general used to be the prime minister of the Netherlands.
He kept rambling about how the U.S. doesn’t need anything from Canada, said the European Union is “very nasty,” claimed we can’t sell cars in Europe (not true), and then told an utterly deranged story about how he “invaded Los Angeles” to turn on the water — another lie pulled from his fantasyland. What actually happened was that he diverted water from Northern California, destroying farmland and hurting his own voters in the process.
To top it off, he said our allies shouldn’t worry about Putin, brushing off any concerns about Russian aggression with a shrug.
Let me be blunt: This is not normal. This is not politics-as-usual. This is a dangerous, unstable person with authoritarian fantasies, spewing nonsense in front of our closest allies while the world watches.”
Keep speaking up. Don’t accept any of this as normal.
Ben Meiselas
https://www.facebook.com/claudia.scholand/posts/10165155546228345
The Trump administration is discussing plans to try to block certain colleges from having any foreign students if it decides too many are “pro-Hamas,” senior Justice and State Department officials tell Axios.
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- A senior State Department official called the demonstrators it’s targeting “Hamasniks” — people the government claims have shown support for the terror group.
- More than 300 foreign students have had their student visas revoked in the three weeks “Catch and Revoke” has been in operation, the official said. There are 1.5 million student visa-holders nationwide.
- “Everyone is fair game,” the official said.
Exclusive: Trump’s “pro-Hamas” purge could block foreign students from colleges
Give the bozo a drink, and don’t expect him to remember anything when he’s sober!
She was walking to break her fast. Five-foot-two, unarmed, carrying a phone and a backpack. Her name was Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student at Tufts University, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Turkish national studying child trauma.
Then the black SUV pulled up.
Three masked men jumped out. No badges. No uniforms. One of them snatched her phone. Another cuffed her. She was surrounded, overwhelmed, dragged off the sidewalk like a package being intercepted. A bystander yelled, “Who are you?” One of them grunted, “Police.”
And then she was gone.
That wasn’t an arrest. That was a state-sponsored abduction.
The video is a damning indictment.
There’s no need for speculation. The video is public. Watch it. Stomach it. Feel the dread settle in. This isn’t an overseas intelligence op. It’s not Kabul. It’s not Tehran. It’s Somerville, Massachusetts. A U.S. college town. And the Department of Homeland Security is operating like a black-bag unit.
No knock. No warning. No Miranda rights. Just masks, muscle, and silence.
You expect this in dictatorships — not next to a Dunkin’ Donuts.
Homeland security says, “Trust us.” They don’t deserve it.
The feds claim her visa was revoked because she allegedly provided “material support” to Hamas. They won’t say what that means. No evidence has been presented. No charges. No trial. Just one word: terrorist — tossed like chum into the water so no one asks questions.
Then came the kicker: a federal judge issued a court order hours later demanding she not be moved out of Massachusetts without 48 hours’ notice.
ICE said, “Oops — too late.” She was already on a plane to Louisiana.
A scholar studying child psychology at Tufts. Shipped to a for-profit detention center like she was a threat to national security.
No lawyer. No hearing. No rights.
What’s the real crime here? Being Muslim? Being foreign? Supporting the wrong cause?
The university barely whispered.
Tufts President Sunil Kumar issued a safe, neutered statement. He called it “distressing.” Students called it what it was: a kidnapping. Thousands of them flooded Powder House Square in protest, holding signs that said “Free Rumeysa” and “We Are Not Safe.”
Because they’re not. Because none of us are.
Not if this country is going to treat political dissent like terrorism. Not if immigration law is just a tool for erasing inconvenient voices.
This isn’t law enforcement. It’s political cleansing.
Let’s drop the bullshit. This wasn’t about security. This was about sending a message — loud and brutal — to every international student, every Muslim woman in a hijab, every academic who dares speak up for the wrong side.
This is what authoritarianism looks like in America in 2025. No jackboots. No gulags. Just a clean press release, a vague accusation, and a plane ticket to nowhere.
They won’t call it fascism. But it moves like fascism. It hides behind national security, weaponizes fear, and disappears people in plain sight.
And now they’ve done it to someone with credentials, with visibility, with institutional protection.
Imagine what they’re doing to those without.
This is a litmus test. Who’s going to fail it?
If you’re not enraged, you’re not paying attention. This wasn’t just about Rumeysa Ozturk. This was a dry run. A systems check. A test balloon to see how much backlash the regime gets for disappearing a foreign student from a liberal university.
The answer? A few statements. Some protests. No consequences.
So here’s the question: who’s next?
Because the SUV will roll again. The masks will come again. And next time it won’t be a child development scholar. It might be a journalist. A protester. A teacher. A neighbor.
Or you.
THEY TOOK HER LIKE A GHOST: HOW THE U.S. GOVERNMENT VANISHED A TUFTS SCHOLAR IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/643354738333832
The video is really chilling. And this should matter to every single American. Okay, first of all the president doesn’t need the Alien Enemies Act in order to remove from this country. People who pose a threat to the nation, people who have engaged in criminal behavior or who have coordinated with terrorist groups, he has that power under existing law to remove from the country non-citizens. So he doesn’t need this authority.
What he is trying to do is put America on a war footing. This is an act that has only been exercised three times in American history. During the war of 1812, during the First World War, and during the Second World War. It is a wartime authority, and what you really worry about is the president continuing to move forward in exercising wartime powers in order to suspend additional elements of the constitution.
He, of course, has shown affection for something called the Insurrection Act, which would put the military in charge of everyday law enforcement in this country.
You are watching along multiple channels this massive slide away from democracy and democratic norms. And so that video is chilling because a the president doesn’t need that act to be able to remove a threat, but it speaks to his willingness to try to put America in a kind of quasi-martial law that ultimately will come to be a threat, not just to green card holders, but to American citizens as well.
So it’s a really worrying time and everybody in America should care what’s happening.
Chris Murphy: Trump ‘Putting’ U.S. Under ‘Quasi-Martial Law’
