Tag: noem
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TAPA # 174 THE ROGUES’ GALLERY
Maureen Dowd’s attached opinion piece is simultaneously humorous and sad. The story of Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski is a microcosm of Trump World, people in it for themselves, looking for every opportunity to gain power, position, and pleasure at America’s, or anyone else’s, expense; life or death be damned. What ultimately triggered Trump to…
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TAPA # 163 VOTE FOR CHAT!!!
Trump claims he is merely enforcing existing immigration laws that prior administrations failed to enforce for a variety of reasons. Immigration was elevated as a political issue to motivate voters, often by invoking claims of increased crime, despite FBI data showing that violent crime declined in the post-COVID period. Trump promised to pursue violent criminals,…
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TAPA # 160 MURDERS IN MINNEAPOLIS
Trump has no bottom to his depraved indifference to citizens’ rights. What we have witnessed in the Trump-directed invasion of Minnesota and the murders in Minneapolis confirm his fundamental inability to lead or protect the public, indeed, even our most basic right to life itself. His coterie of loyalists Noem, Patel, Bessent, Bovino, and Blanche…
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TAPA # 159 A JAN 6TH REDUX
This morning, I dreaded reading the papers. The murder of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive-care nurse and U.S. citizen living in Minneapolis, by federal agents sworn to protect us was revealed in bystander video. There is no question about what happened. You can read it, watch it, and see it for yourself. Pretti was coming…
THE AMERICAN POSEIDON ADVENTURE 