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DONALD T**** IS WATCHING YOU

If this kind of deep, covert government surveillance doesn’t scare you, nothing will:

(AP, May 5) –  “The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

“The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an AI algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going and which route they took. Federal agents in turn may then flag local law enforcement.

“Suddenly, drivers find themselves pulled over — often for reasons cited such as speeding, failure to signal, the wrong window tint or even a dangling air freshener blocking the view. They are then aggressively questioned and searched, with no inkling that the roads they drove put them on law enforcement’s radar.

“The Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections instead of simply targeting wanted suspects.” 

This is T****’s secret police in action: They know where you come and where you go, how you get there, presume to know what you are doing, and can arrange to have your ass stopped, harassed and even hauled away. And it’s all done by computers.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. 

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MAKING AMERICA WHITE AGAIN

This past December, U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS), the federal agency that handles immigration benefits and applications, issued a mew policy memo that halted asylum requests broadly and put a “hold” on any type of immigration process for people from over a dozen countries bringing the total number of effectively banned countries to 39.

The reason was concern for national security. “This order aims to safeguard U.S. citizens from aliens who may seek to commit terrorist acts, pose threats to national security, promote hateful ideologies, or exploit immigration laws for malicious purposes,” the December 2025 memo said. A breakdown of the list of 39 is instructive. 

Seven of these countries, Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), Iran, Laos, Syria, Turkmenistan, and Yemen are Asian. Six countries, Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Dominica, Haiti, and Venezuela are from the Western Hemisphere. Tonga is an island in Oceania. The rest of the countries on the list are African; there are twenty-five of them. 

It takes only a cursory look at this list to see that all these nations have one obvious thing in common: The people who live there are either Black or Brown, or non-Christian. Or both. The countries listed include Somalia and Haiti — nations that T**** has referred to as “garbage” and a “shithole,” respectively. 

The total population of these nations is just over a billion people. With a few well-aimed strokes of a pen, T**** has almost casually eliminated over 12%, some one in 8, of the world’s population, all people of color, from being among the tired, the poor, the homeless, huddled masses yearning to breathe free for whom we no longer lift our lamp beside his gold-plated door. 

It is clear that T****’s brand of racial bigotry knows no bounds.

Yet for Donald T****, Ronald Reagan’s vision of America as the world’s “shining light on the hill” still holds true.

As long as you’re white. 

                                        FUBAR SUMMIT

T**** just flew to China to meet with President Xi. He did not bring diplomats. He did not bring Politicians. He did not bring policy wonks. Instead, he brought Elon Musk. Tim Cook. Goldman Sachs. BlackRock. Boing. Visa. Mastercard. Yes, he brought his billionaire CEO buddies. .

These are top-of-the-heap financial players. They do not represent us; they were not elected by nor are they accountable to the people. Instead, ostensibly on behalf of the United States of America, they can easily be presumed to have negotiated in their own best interests. And we footed the bill for all of it; our tax dollars put them on Air Force One and paid for who knows what else?

For in truth, this was not a government mission at all. It was a corporate business meeting with a foreign government held under the cover of the American flag with the American President as front-man. With the whole world watching, it was Donald T**** selling out the American people to China and his oligarch buddies. 

His own accomplishments? Laughable at best. 

What he did do politically is throw Taiwan under the bus. He has already refused to commit to signing the Consolidated Appropriations Act which included $1 billion for security assistance to Taiwan. And he refused to authorize $150 million to replace defense articles already sent to the island. And when asked about the U.S. government’s relationship to the Republic of Taiwan, he equivocated. Just can’t tell the truth, probably doesn’t even know it.  

For his part, Xi calmly asserted this to the clueless America president: If you can mess with Venezuela and Cuba in your hemisphere, don’t preach to us about what we can or cannot do with Taiwan in ours.

And, of course, T**** got nothing on Iran, either. Iran still insists on controlling access to the Strait of Hormuz, they are not going to simply give up their nuclear ambitions, and no matter what Xi says, it’s an open secret that China has been funneling military hardware to Iran through North Korea for years. 

So T**** comes home with virtually nothing to show for it after his rich biddies make their deals in total secrecy and he goes on telling us his usual lies. And for all of this, he probably thinks he’s the world’s greatest diplomat even though he didn’t get to make his  “deal.” And he certainly doesn’t get that Beijing’s pomp and ceremony was nothing special just for him, only China’s standard showcase layout for foreign dignitaries. Our president, simpleton that he is, believes his own hype.

And is such an idiot.

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NO CAKEThis is MAGA moral depravity in full view:

(Huffington Post, May 9) “Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has ‘good news’ to share with you: As a result of her oversight at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 4.5 million people have been kicked off food stamps in the past year. Rollins bragged about the move in an appearance on Newsmax Thursday night.

‘The good news: In just one year alone, we’ve already moved 4.5 million people off of SNAP,’ Rollins said, referring to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as she predicted more hunger to follow.
‘We’re going to be pulling more and more people off,’ she added.

Rollins then struck a religious tone, ignoring how many people on public assistance do work, but still have trouble making ends meet.
‘Frankly part of this is the dignity of work, right?’ she said. ‘This is a great, American, biblical, foundational principle that people should work unless they’re very old or disabled or a child.’

Rollins is no stranger to dubious assertions, having once claimed that food prices have fallen when they were actually rising, and that a meal consisting of ‘a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla and one other thing costs only $3.00.’

And that’s it. SNAP benefits go to low-income households. USDA sources report that roughly 40 percent, or 1.8 million SNAP participants are children. And for MAGA, it is a biblical imperative that they go hungry if they are poor.

And although she claims that even the poor can eat well, you just know that this sorry excuse for a human would consider a meal consisting of a drumstick, a broccoli floret, a tortilla and some beans as beneath her dignity and station, even as she pounds down her ribeye with potatoes au gratin, sautéd wild mushrooms and asparagus with hollandaise.

But then, don’t forget, MAGA shut down USAID for tens of millions of children worldwide. Heartless SOBs just left them to starve. And that’s MAGA for you.

They all have to go, every last one of them.

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

In our primary system, only the top two vote-getters move on to the November finals. With eight Democrats running and only two Reeps, if we don’t play or cards right we could get shut out and both of those could be Republicans. So please, let’s all get on the same bandwagon. Here’s the plan:

Do NOT Vote Early. Wait until after the last debate on May 5. Watch the polls and wait for a clear frontrunner among the Democratic candidates to emerge. Then, no matter whom you prefer, we suck it up and all consolidate behind that candidate. We must absolutely NOT split our votes across multiple Democratic candidates.

Imagine the embarrassment and humiliation of having our beautiful California, the most progressive state in the Union (with the possible exception of New York), being fronted by some mealy-mouthed, lying, MAGA Republican POS.

We simply cannot let that happen.

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The 2026 G20 Leaders’ Summit will be held in Miami, Florida, USA, at the T**** National Doral Miami resort, on December 14–15, 2026.

Wait, what? A major international summit is going to be held at T****’s own resort? Just exactly what’s up with that? That’s not even close to diplomacy. It’s shameless self-serving on a global scale.

Because It will funnel tens of millions of taxpayer dollars straight into his pocket and turning it into little more than a money-making bonanza for Donald T****, hosting the world’s most powerful leaders at his private property diminishes the event almost to the point of absurdity.

The G20 is supposed to be about global cooperation, not personal aggrandizement and greed. Holding it at the host’s private resort makes America look less like a gracious host and more like a personal business venture and branding operation of the president.

And most glaringly, it exposes significant questions of conflict of interest, corruption and graft.

The leaders of the world’s most powerful nations have no delusions about Donald T****. They know him for what he is. It is hard to imagine how they must feel about being made part of this shabby operation fronted by a shameless grifter. But the G20 is an important international event. So they’ll come.

Even if it makes them look debased and a little soiled.

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

This is the United States of America,. And in this country, it is the people who are sovereign. And only the People. That is the basis of the covenant between the people of this country and their government as secured by the Constitution of the United States. 

First and foremost, we are a nation governed by the rule of law. No-one, not even the highest official in the land, is above the law. That is part of the covenant. 

One of the historic rallying cries of the American Revolution was “No taxation without representation.” The essence of this bedrock assertion is that the government cannot do anything to its citizens, without their approval. That approval, those laws, come from the voice of the people through their elected representatives. No civic leader up to and including the president, can declare that anything is law simply because they say so. 

Equally important as our political sovereignty are the personal freedoms guaranteed to us by the Bill of Rights. From the First Amendment we are free to think, believe and with certain restrictions say as we wish. Period. In the words of Justice Robert H. Jackson in 1943, “If there is any fixed star in our Constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”  

Having just thrown off the “yoke of tyranny,”  and with a profound suspicion of a strong central authority, our Founding Fathers created a government consisting of three equal branches, each with checks and balances on the others.

That, too, is part of the covenant between the People and their government. 

With the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what kind of government they had created. His famous reply: “A Republic. If you can keep it.” Our founding Fathers presumed this would be possible as long as the government was run by honest and honorable men. And indeed, for almost two-and-a-half centuries, this has been the case. 

Our democratic institutions rely on the compliance of its citizens and leaders with and within the law. They are not capable of dealing with the existential threat of tyrannical defiance. Our nations founders presumed and relied on the intentions of good men to hold the reins of power and authority. Alas, this is no longer true.

Donald T**** is not good man. 

He is a 34-count felon convicted of business fraud. Several of his businesses and charities have been terminated as little more than scams. He is a deadbeat, thief, grifter, compulsive liar, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic narcissist. Ignorant of culture and history, unschooled in letters or the arts, he is crude and totally lacking in any of the social graces. Such a creature has no business anywhere near the reins of power. 

A comprehensive assessment of T****’s presidency does not suit the purpose of this missive; a brief compendium will suffice. Donald Trump has among other things used a secret police organization to kidnap people off the streets and drag them from their homes, incarcerate them in foul concentration camps and deport them without any pretext of due process. He has made war on a country which posed no threat to us, bombed and destroyed its elementary schools, hospitals and universities and killed thousands of innocent civilians.

He has blown up fishing boats for sport, torpedoed and captured ships in international waters, killed survivors and left others to drown. He has withheld food and medication from tens of millions of the world’s most vulnerable, blockaded fuel to a country with the intent of precipitating mass starvation and dedicated the Department of Justice to protect himself and his rich friends and purveyors of an international sex trafficking ring from prosecution.  

In all these things Donald T**** is unabashedly guilty. And since he holds in his hands what he believes is the power to corrupt or even cancel upcoming national elections, there are no assurances that the cancer of Donald T**** presence in government can be removed by Constitutional means.

But that does not mean the people are without options. It does not mean we must submit. We are sovereign in this country, Donald T**** is not. In spite of what he may believe, this is our country. Not his.

If he will not relinquish his grip on the nation according to the Constitution’s mandates, we can take back from Donald T*** what is ours and ours alone. That path forward was described eloquently over 60 years ago by a young graduate student in Berkeley, California. His name was Mario Savio: 

“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who own it, to the people who run it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all

There will be risk involved. There will be violence and most likely even death. To quote Thomas Jefferson, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Dictators do not go quietly, and there is truth in the words of Sun Tzu when he said “An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.”

No matter. If we love our country and our freedom, we must accept that risk. It is on us, the People, to redeem the promise of our Founding Fathers and sanctify the sacrifices of those patriots who, in the cause of freedom, pledged in the Declaration of Independence their ”lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.” Can we do any less? 

Freedom isn’t free.

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

The next two federal elections will be neither free nor fair. In fact, they may never even happen at all. This is because Donald T**** has made the subversion of the electoral process essential to his political career and his lust for power.

He began in 2016 by lying about whether Barak Obama was even eligible to be president. He has claimed without evidence that every election since 2012 that Republican’s lost was rigged. He even insisted, again without a shred of evidence that that his 2016 margin of victory would have been bigger if not for alleged fraud.

This campaign of lies culminated after his 2020 loss when he illegally attempted to remain in power and sparked an insurrection aimed at stopping the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, 2021.

Since taking office, T**** has installed loyalists into key positions at all levels of government. He has MAGA operatives in virtually all federal election offices in the country. In the twenty-three states with both Republican-controlled legislatures and governors, these reach down even to the precinct level, where MAGAs will be counting the votes. Their role, up to and including the state’s highest election officials, is to challenge and/or simply refuse to certify results which favor Democratic candidates in close elections.

On March 25, T**** issued a sweeping executive order aiming to allow the president to directly override state state election laws. And this despite the fact that presidents have almost no Constitutional role or legal power in the administration of elections. For T****, however, the law has never been an impediment.

The order directed that states require voters to show proof of citizenship in order to vote. On the alleged grounds of identifying fraud, it ordered the Department of Homeland Security to obtain full voter files from every state, including names, addresses, party affiliation and Social Security numbers. Ostensibly, this is so that the Federal government can scour the voting rolls and eliminate fraudulent voters. Concurrently, it will allow the government to open files on all registered voters in the country. The order also aims to eliminate mail-in voting altogether and attempts to forbid the use of voting machines.

These actions are being used to set the stage for future lies about election integrity and attempts by the White House to control or to change the outcome of upcoming elections. Judicial rulings in lower courts have temporarily halted some of these actions. However, there is no reason to assume that the Supreme Court will reject his plans to subvert the voting process.

And should the Court rule against him, T**** has not shied away from breaking the law to do what he wants. There are a number of instances where federal courts, up to and including the including the Supreme Court, have found his administration’s actions have been in violation of court orders.

Even more sinister is the connection between the elections and Donald T****’s instance on deploying soldiers on the streets of so-called “blue”cities. In furtherance of his plans, he ordered the extension of the deployment in Los Angeles until November. That order was later vacated by a Federal judge.

He has told a meeting of the military bass that they should consider American cities “training grounds” for military operations. The election scenario has been understood for quite some time. T**** will create an “emergency.” The uprising in Minneapolis over ICE occupation was an indication of what he is prepared to do. This, then, will give him the excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act, declare martial law, order regular Army into the cities with the goal of subduing the population.

The fact of having soldiers in camouflage, standing with weapons at port arms, lined up in front of a polling place, will have a major intimidating factor on civilian voters waiting to cast their ballots. The tension alone could lead to violence, which is what T**** is hoping for in order to validate their deployment in the first place.

There will also be squadrons of unidentifiable ICE agents on the streets as well. Hispanic voters will not be comfortable going to the polls and likely stay home now that the Supreme Court has allowed ICE to profile and arrest suspected illegal immigrants based solely on racial characteristics and the language they speak.

Now. Whether or not the military brass will comply with this order is open to question. But no matter how events unflod, it could easily mean the upending of the democratic process that has sustained this country for two and a half centuries.

What Donald T**** wants is perfectly clear: the autocratic power to suppress and corrupt the election process to the point where he controls the winners and losers from his desk in the oval office. And if the Republicans lose the 2028 election, does anyone honestly believe that Vice-President Vance will certify electoral votes that will allow the Democrats to win? Or, for that matter, that T**** will deign to leave office on January 21, 2029? He already talks openly, and is raising funds, for an illegal third term.

Much as contemporary dictators leaders like Putin, Jung Un, Erdoğan and Bukele, T**** aims to stay in power by controlling national election results. And it is important to remember that all of these contemporary dictator/tyrants were originally legally elected to office. For that matter, so was Adolph Hitler.

Much of the power Donald T*** needs to accomplish this perversion of the electoral process is already in his hands. The rest is in the works. He will have it all if he is not stopped. There is only one path forward: Resistance.

And there is not much time left.

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Last April, faculty and staff members at Barnard College were asked to respond to a list of 10 questions in an email from the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The Commission is the federal civil rights agency responsible for enforcing laws that make it illegal to discriminate against employees because of the person’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

The questions specifically asked if respondents “practice Judaism, have Jewish ancestry, are Israeli, and/or are associated with an individual(s) who is Jewish and/or Israeli?” And if so, had they been subject to “unwelcome comments, jokes or discussions” or “antisemitic or anti-Israeli protests.”

Many people, Jews and Gentiles, found it more than a little scary that the federal government wanted to find out who the Jews are on the faculty as well as those who associate with and/or are sympathize with Jews.

One Barnard professor said it reminded her of the 1930s Italy, when lists of Jews were put together by the government. “We’ve seen this movie before, and it ends with yellow stars,” she said.

Nor is this an isolated incident. Just recently, a similar demand was sent to University of Pennsylvania. Again, the T**** administration requested the names and contact information for Jewish faculty and staff, and again as part of an alleged EEOC antisemitism investigation.

The university’s response was that it does not collect that information.

There are a number of interpretations besides an EEOC investigation as to what T****’s real motivation for these demands are. The most obvious is that this is little more than an attempt to ferret out information that could be used to advance President T****’s political agenda. And just exactly what is that agenda? There are several possibilities of note.

One is that this allows T**** to frame himself as aggressively fighting antisemitism. The belief is that this would appeal to some Jewish voters and broader MAGA conservatives who want universities pressured on campus politics.

Another is to use an antisemitism investigation as broad leverage against “elite” universities. The administration has previously pursued investigations, funding threats and settlements against numerous universities. Such perceived schools are frequent and popular targets in T****-era culture-war messaging about DEI, progressivism, protest, and free speech.

Still another interpretation involves identifying communities connected to politically sensitive activism. The intent is to build cases that equate certain protest activity with discrimination. These actions are also designed to deter future protests through intimidation, close scrutiny, active surveillance, and even legal action.

Furthermore, these “investigations” turn alleged antisemitism on campuses into a major national political issue with the Administration framing universities as failing to protect Jewish students and faculty. This allows the Administration to position itself as being strongly pro–Jewish safety and pro-civil rights, as opposed to the universities. As such, it appeals to specific voter coalitions and donors.

These actions by T**** also fit into a broader shift in how civil rights law is being used. Specifically, this includes expanding federal investigative power in novel ways, testing how far anti-discrimination law can go in practice, and potentially reshaping precedent for future administrations.

Many critics note the chilling effect on recipients of these requests. Faculty at both universities have reported the outreach felt “incredibly sinister” or invasive. Some comparisons (controversial, but widely voiced) invoke historical fears about lists of Jews.

Such fears can be politically useful to T**** by discouraging participation in controversial speech or activism which T**** disapproves of, and increasing self-censorship in academic settings and among faculty communities. These deterrent effects align with T****’s broader political goals around campus activism.

And because these investigations have explicitly referenced campus incidents tied to Israel/Gaza tensions, these requests also serve to identify networks around those conflicts, not just victims of discrimination. Thus, some faculty have described the effort as fishing expeditions rather than narrowly tailored civil-rights probes.

And then there is the obvious fact that the tactic functions as crass political theater, which T**** revels in. It creates a tough-on-campus-activism image his followers will cheer even as critics argue it does little to protect Jewish faculty and can clearly intimidate them.

It is abundantly clear that the Administration’s assertion it is simply undertaking an innocuous investigation into possible campus anti-semitism is at least disingenuous, and beyond that, wholly dishonest.

But the exact reasons for these intrusive demands, including the Administrations official version, are ultimately of secondary consequence. After all, this is still America; a person’s faith is their own business and none of the government’s concern.

For in truth, this version of a midnight knock on the door from the government trolling to find out who is a Jew is un-nerving at best for those who still believe in basic America civil liberties. And for Jews, it has historically deep and terrifying implications. as well.

“Hello? Hello? We’re just here to ask, are you a Jew? You can tell us. We’re from the government, so it’s OK.”

For the record: Yes, I am. And also for the record, the hell it is.

And I don’t give a damn who you are.

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“If you import The Third World, you become The Third World! — AND THAT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS LONG AS I AM PRESIDENT.” Donald T**** posted this bit of racist crap to his web page on 4/4.

Donald, of course, is not smart enough to think up something like this on his own. This brand of race-hatred mongering was initially expressed by Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, in a 2024 appearance on Fox News. 

In that interview, Miller said  “Speaking tonight as private citizen Miller, this is your choice America. If you import the Third World, you become the Third World, simple as that. Elect Joe Biden and America becomes the Third World. Elect Donald Trump and America remains America. That’s it. Two paths America, two choices, choose your future. Third World or an American century.” 

Translating this into standard English is not rocket science. Substitute the wordS “Black or Brown” for Miller’s ‘Third World’ and “White” for his second use of ‘American,’ and Stephen’s meaning is perfectly clear: 

“Elect Joe Biden and America becomes Brown. Elect Donald T**** and America remains White.” And then, “Two paths, America…[a] Black and Brown or White American century.” It’s pretty obvious which path Stephen is on. 

Since the days of Jim Crow and the KKK, people in public office would never have thought to speak openly like this. Until T****. Today, this is the voice of the bigoted scum who are running our country. Running it and ruining. 

They have to go. 

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

Soon enough it will be time to pay the Butcher’s Bill, over billion more every day, to pay for T****s war for which the raison d’étre changes almost every day, There will be no clear-cut defining moment to show when it’s over any more than there was for it’s inception.

At his whim it was begun,
At his whim it will be won.

It most certainly won’t make us any safer or the world better off.

Boots on the ground? A mealy-mouth euphemism to obscure a bloody, dirty reality: dead and maimed Americans. There are some 50.000 of them deployed in the Middle East already: soldiers loaded up as cannon fodder to feed T****s fragile ego. And he’s already set his unhinged mind on Cuba.

Another war just 90 miles away? Or perhaps only an “incursion”? T**** says he doesn’t want to call them wars so he doesn’t have to go through Congress. Stupid idiot. It doesn’t matter what it’s called, a turd by any other name is still a turd. But for him it’s all just a word game. None of it touches him.

Somebody else’s children will have go.
Somebody else’s children will have to die.

Cuba as another “war of choice”? This is certainly not something America wants or needs. But T**** does. He needs war to satiate his ghoulish lust for power, his twisted desire to kill. Sad that the lives of our soldiers who proudly volunteered to defend our democracy are treated like so many cheap pawns by someone who sees them as suckers and losers.

It all feels like a distraction, a brutal and corrupted version of “bread and circuses,” courtesy of Donald T****. And so it is. We are enjoined to ignore the economy, ignore the Epstein files, ignore his lies, ignore his stupidity and ignorance, his painted red face, his insanity and dementia, and absolutely ignore the war on our own streets created by T****’s private army of ICE brownshirts.

Ignore it all while he attempt to prove his fading manhood by dropping bombs on people halfway around the world. Ignore it all.

Watch him kill.

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 explicitly calls for TSA to be privatized. However, this cannot happen until unionized TSA agents are eliminated and their unions abolished. This plan is already in the works.

Here’s the play…

First, defund DHS. TSA agents without pay will, in larger and larger numbers, call in sick; ultimately they will begin to quit. The result: Airport security breaks down resulting in thousands of people standing for hours in lines stretching out the doors. There is chaos and massive delays, which is the intent.

T****’s countermove: Send in ICE, his private army of Brownshirts, to “help.” Then begin pushing the narrative that the crisis can be permanently resolved only through privatization, framed as the no-cost solution to taxpayers.

And because those who give can also take away, T****’s offer to pay the TSA agents with an executive order simply means that whether or not they get paid depends, not on the strength and promise of a union contract, but on the whims of Donald T****.

Enter the private contractors, offering a permanent fix. And because for T**** it’s all about corruption and graft, there will be winners and losers in his contest to see which one can funnel the most cash into T****’s private PACs and businesses. Then they set up shop and take orders from T**** on how to run airport security. ICE is there to enforce the regime’s new rules.

The result: The Project 2025 pledge is redeemed. TSA unions are eliminated. Airport security is now a function of the wishes and whims of T****’s demented mind. And ICE is a permanent presence in American airports.

Welcome to the happy skies, America.