THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

“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. 

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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.

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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.

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3/27/26. “WASHINGTON (AP)—President Donald T**** on Friday signed a promised executive action that will pay Transportation Security Administration employees after a bid to end the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly fell apart in Congress.”

Did I read this right? T**** is going to sign an order to pay the furloughed TSA workers? The story says this will include all their back pay and future salaries. This means that he has had the power to pay these people for the last seven week and did NOTHING?

Un Freaking Believable.

All this time, tens of thousands of TSA workers have faced horrendous consequences for the DHS shutdown and T****’s studied inaction. We hear stories of evictions, repossessions, lost medical care, savings wiped out, lives upended and families choosing between food and virtually everything else.

And now we find out that Donald could have stopped it anytime he wanted to with the stroke of a pen. Apparently he just didn’t want to.

I suspect this has something to do with T****’s demonic lust for power. Clearly, he enjoys tightening the noose and watching people twist in the wind. Perhaps he just likes creating pain and chaos for its own sake.

Question is, what kind of sick, twisted, demented, soulless SOB pulls this kind of crap? And of course, we have that answer: Donald T****.

That’s what kind.

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During the current DHS shutdown fight, Democrats have repeatedly tried to pass bills that would fund most of the Department of Homeland Security (TSA, FEMA, Coast guard, etc.) while excluding or separating funding for ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Senate and House Republicans have consistently opposed these “partial” DHS funding efforts, insisting instead on a single bill that includes full funding for immigration enforcement agencies.

Fact is that this whole TSA catastrophe could be avoided if the Republicans simply agreed to let the rest of DHS function normally while they ironed out the problems with a pair of rogue agencies.
It’s really simple.

The Democrats want crazy things like following 4th Amendment, visible ID’s on ICE officers’ uniforms, no masks on Federal enforcement officers, adequate training in the use of firearms, crowd control, the use of force, and the law. These are things virtually all other law enforcement officers across the country are abundantly trained in and adhere to as a matter of principle. But not ICE and CBP.

Meanwhile, Republicans continue to bend their knees to T**** and his insistence on an all-or-nothing vote so that the DHS be allowed to field his private army of loyal Brownshirts. There can be no other reason.

So. If you are blaming the Democrats for the current national emergency being created by the lack of TSA agents, and you are still in favor of the rule of law, just listen to the Republicans mealy-mouthing their way around this one.

Truth is, you are blaming the wrong people.

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The American air attack on Iran’s Kharg Island oil facilities is the only strategic move that makes any sense. Cutting off 90% of Iran’s oil exports should effectively strangle the country’s economy and force it to submit. No other scenario comes close to achieving any realistic military objective that looks like victory.

But bombing the island is not the same as controlling it, nor would it serve any rational purpose to simply blast it all to hell. That is most likely why we see Marine divisions moving into the theater of war. The Marines are America’s assault forces. And the euphemism “boots on the ground” is an obfuscation of the reality: combat forces going into battle. 

I would seem evident that T****, Hegseth and the Joint Chiefs are preparing for a ground assault on Kharg Island. And once they point the gun at Kharg, they pretty much have to pull the trigger. Otherwise, America will be seen as a paper tiger: all talk, no action. Iran does not respond to idle threats.

If T**** invades Kharg Island, Iran will fight back with everything it’s got. There will be major American casualties. Hellfire will rain down on the Middle East. However, in the eyes of the world, T**** will not be held to blame. 

The American people will be. 

Donald T**** is the 34-count convicted felon, bigot, racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, narcissistic, ignorant, depraved, anti-semitic, mush-for-brains pedophile we as a nation knowingly elected president. This is the truth that most of the rest of the world cannot comprehend.

The assault on Kharg island is in the planning stages and there is no clear path forward to stop it. It is T****’s last gasp at a conventional victory. After that, all that’s left is nukes. 

We are so screwed. 

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Time to wake up, people. Those of you who are still just siting there, those who are still just watching. After everything he’s said and done, are you just too blind to see what’s coming? Are you afraid to say it out loud? Domestic chaos? The travesty in Minneapolis? This stupid war? They aren’t accidental. They’re fuel. It’s a setup.

This Iran thing is a farce. He had a “feeling,” so he threw the world into chaos? Don’t believe a word of it. He doesn’t know what he’s doing and he doesn’t care. His horrid little war super-charges his sick lust to kill, that’s about all. Otherwise, it’s all part of the plan. 

Iran is just a side hustle. The people he’s really got his eyes on are us. Massive demonstrations? Civil disorder? Violence in the streets? It’s what he wants and needs. When streets burn and institutions crack, that’s when dangerous men make their move. 

And Donald T**** is all kinds of dangerous. He doesn’t fear domestic disorder. He needs emergency powers, martial law, suspended rights. Because suddenly, no midterms, or at least  no fair elections. He seizes power. That’s the plan. Because then, the 2028 election is in the bag. 

Think this is extreme? So is canceling democracy to save yourself from prison. You think a man staring down impeachment and handcuffs, who is willing to bomb the crap out of a country that has done us no harm is going to play fair? Just watch. T****’s not trying to win elections, he probably can’t, anyway. He’s trying to save is sorry ass. 

And do not believe for a cold minute that he will voluntary leave office in 2029 if his MAGA candidate loses. He already tried that once and we got the January 6 Insurrection. But even that pales compared to his real more insidious plan and it’s 100%, iron-clad legal. It’s the 12th Amendment. 

Suppose the Republican candidate for president, probably Vice President JD Vance, loses in 2028. Don’t forget, as vice president, Vance ratifies the electoral ballots. Does anyone honestly believe he will do what Mike Pence did? Remember: Pence is a patriot. Vance does what he’s told, especially if it means he gets to be president. 

All he has to do is shank enough electoral votes to throw the election into House. And with 28 state delegations under Republican control, the Democrats can win the election by a huge margin; the Republicans take the election. And it’s all legal. That’s why T**** needs the midterms. Without a majority in the House in 2028, he’s toast. 

People. If you just keep watching, if you just keep pretending that what you’re seeing isn’t really happening or that what he wants cannot come to pass, get your heads out of the sand. Because if you don’t, pretty soon you’re going to wake up one morning with soldiers in the streets and no ballots, no freedom and no democracy.

The threat is real and the stakes are high. We have no choice but to fight back. To take back our streets. To take back our future. We have no choice. It’s time. 

RESIST 

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Terrible polling numbers? Losing all but MAGA support? Rising prices across the board? Tanking economy? Blue wave approaching in November? Declining mental capacity?

All of this and more is threatening to bring Donald T****’s presidency to ruin within the next several months. But is the Tdrumpfenfùhrer worried about any of this? Will it have any effect on what he wants to do? The answer is most likely “no.” And here’s why:

First and foremost, he still has his Republican House and Senate majorities. And up to now, members of his party haven’t shown any backbone or sense of shame; they’re not prepared to vote against him. That’s because his hardcore MAGAs are still with him and he still controls the party apparatus. He also controls hundreds of millions of dollars with which to “primary” those who exhibit any opposition.

Hopefully, that will change after the November mid-terms. But of course, that’s the problem. If it looks like he’s going under, there most likely will not be free and fair mid-terms. Or presidential election in 2028, for that matter. And T**** has already made that clear.

In a January 11 interview with the New York Times, T**** said he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 election defeat. He said he “should have” used the National Guard to seize machines in support of his false claim that the election was rigged.

The American people, along with the U.S. Congress, need to understand this means that T**** will seize voting machines in the next two elections if Republicans lose. He will alter the vote totals and he will claim victory.

And in 2028, does anyone honestly believe that JD Vance will do his constitutional duty to ratify all the Electoral College votes if it means the Republicans lose the presidential election? Remember: Mike Pence acted as the Constitution requires. He is a patriot. But JD Vance?

Vance will refuse to ratify the electoral votes that defeat his party. Instead, by refusing to accept the results from just a few states, he can insure that there is no winning majority of electoral votes. That will throw the election into the House, where each state gets one vote and there are 28 Republican-majority state delegations. Democrats win the votes. Republicans win the election. Plain and simple.

Nor can we forget that T**** has his own private army of over 20,000 ICE agents as well as the National Guard and the 82nd Airborne he can call into the streets after declaring a National Emergency and Martial Law. We can assume he believes he has the power to subdue the population in the same way the Iranian Republican Guards did just last month.

And since there’s a good chance he will be going to jail if the nation elects a Democratic Congress and president, we cannot believe for a moment that he won’t try.

There is no reason to assume that this is not precisely what he has in mind because the plan is already in the works. That is why bad polling, a bad economy, and everything else doesn’t matter. When T**** assumes dictatorial power, the great American experiment in democracy dies a cold, hard death.

On one side of this tragedy in the making is Donald T****. On the other side is us: the people. And it is only We the People who are sovereign in this land. So the question is,

What are we going to do about it?

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DONALD’S WAR, OUR DIME

Why war against Iran? That country poses no real threat to the U.S. Unless, perhaps, you consider possible terrorist attacks. But if that were the criterion, there’s already a half-dozen countries and organizations lined up in front of Iran.

No, Iran poses no great threat to us. But it does pose a threat to a number of countries in the Mid East. That includes several Arab oil states and, of course, Israel, and this is plainly obvious as T****’s war expands to engulf the entire Saudi peninsula.

Remember Watergate’s Deep Throat? What was his advice to Woodward and Bernstein? If you want to get to the truth, follow the money. And we should be doing so here. Because then it all comes clear. And it was all about rich Arabs giving tons of it to you-know-who.

Qatar gave T**** a $400 million Boeing 747, a flying palace that the Constitution says he may not accept but that he plans to keep after he leaves office.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a federation of seven emirates including Abi Dhabi and Dubai, routed $2 billion through a crypto transaction into the T**** family’s financial firm.

The Saudis parked $2 billion with Jared Kushner the second he left government in 2020. And who was running America’s Iran negotiations right before the bombs fell? Why, it was Jared Kushner, with pockets lined by Iran’s avowed enemy.

And that’s not even to mention the hundreds of millions of dollars the Saudis and the UAE have spent on hotels and accommodations at dozens of T****-owned facilities in the last decade. Or the expensive gifts. Geez.

The truth is that we are spending American treasure and sacrificing American lives fighting other country’s wars that they’ve paid Donald T**** to fight on our dime.

Then there’s Israel. Netanyahu wasted no time joining in on T****’s war. With Israeli elections coming in October, a military campaign against Tehran is a huge political gift from his buddy, Donald. Netanyahu gets to play wartime leader while T**** plays tough guy in a baseball cap while he golfs and parties at Mar-a-Lago. A match made in hell? You betcha.

And because he and Hegseth are both idiots, they didn’t really plan anything and have no idea where they’re going with any of this. The bombing could stop tomorrow or go on for weeks. Specific goals? They change almost hourly. Exit strategy? What’s that? In the meantime, untold thousands will die.

There will be a lot more blood on Donalds’s already blood-stained hands before this catastrophe is over. And if he wasn’t already, he is clearly an international criminal now. But Donald doesn’t care.

For him, it’s all about his fat wallet.

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I have had it up to here with the MAGAs, Evangelicals and Christian Nationalists whose almost apostatical hypocrisy defies belief. For them it’s always some like “America was founded on Christian principles,” or “America is a Christian nation.” Both of these are lies. And in their shallow souls, it goes no farther than that, because when it comes to actually following the teachings of their faith, all bets are off.

From them there is never a word about welcoming the foreigner or healing the sick. There is no sense of an obligation to the poor and the needy. There is never an acknowledgement of their Savior’s command to “love thy neighbor.”

They want prayer in public schools but aren’t interested in feeding hungry kids. Jesus spoke against public prayer but fed the hungry.
And there is never a word or thought about living in peace, as in: “Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” (Isaiah 2:4)

And since they conveniently ignore it, Jesus never told his followers to hate anybody, either. He made no exceptions for where they come from, what they look like, who they love or how they worship. But Evangelicals and Christian Nationalists do and their list is long. It is Islamophobic, xenophobic, homophobic, misogynist and racist, and their hatred is almost palpable.

And since they are all experts at picking and choosing isolated passages from the Bible to support their hateful agendas, I suggest they re-read Leviticus 19:33-34, Matthew 22:39 and 25:35-40. Then sit on it and twirl.

So here is what I have to say to the MAGAs and the (White) Christian Nationalists. You are commanded to feed the hungry, heal the sick, tend to the needy and welcome the foreigner. Those are not suggestions. If you don’t like that, be honest, and admit that you don’t care what your faith requires. You have your own agenda and you are just using it as cover.

So no, I have no truck with these people who wave their apostasy around as a badge of honor. Their hateful and corrupt vision of Jesus’ teachings is beneath contempt.

And they can just forget about any Rapture.