If what people who still support DJT haven't been rattled a wee bit yet, maybe this will jostle the feng shui a smidge. This bit of joy comes from our new US attorney general and rabid loyalist MAGA Ed Martin, a brand new DoJ prosecutor in Washington, DC:
Martin threatened to prosecute anyone who tries to interfere with Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). He's the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Martin was appointed as the interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia by DJT on January 20, 2025, just minutes after he was sworn in as president. Martin publicly shared a letter he wrote to Musk on Monday, February 3, 2025, where he stated, "Any threats, confrontations, or other actions in any way that impact their work may break numerous laws," and assured Musk that his office would "pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people."
So, as Musk and DOGE blithely break laws and commit kleptocracy and dictatorship, people who try to stop the illegality will be prosecuted. This is the new normal for federal law enforcement. And anyone in the executive branch who objects WILL BE IMMEDIATELTY FIRED!
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Everyone is reporting that just after her swearing in, our brand new US Attorney General Pam Bondi promised directly to DJT, "I will make you proud and I will make this country proud." She did not promise to uphold the rule of law or the constitution. Bondi breaks laws for DJT. The IRS determined that her donation to DJT violated laws against political contributions from nonprofit organizations. DJT was ordered to pay a fine and reimburse the foundation, but neither Bondi nor her PAC were criminally charged. DJT also breaks laws and gets away with it.
New Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday ordered a review of the federal prosecution of Donald Trump as she unveiled a series of directives designed to overhaul a Justice Department the president claims is biased against conservatives.Hours after she was sworn in at the White House, Bondi called for the creation of “weaponization working group” that will examine the work of special counsel Jack Smith, who charged Trump in two criminal cases. The group will also review the “pursuit of improper investigative tactics and unethical prosecutions” stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, among other things, according to the memo.Bondi has said that politics will play no role in her decision-making, but she also refused at her confirmation hearing last month to rule potential investigations into Trump’s adversaries. She also has repeated Trump’s claims that the prosecutions against him amounted to political persecution, telling senators that the Justice Department “had been weaponized for years and years and years, and it’s got to stop.”
Unethical prosecutions? Seriously?? Bondi whining about ethics is the height of hypocrisy. Her track record makes it clear that ethics is not a concern for how she is going to do business. For example, she falsely claimed that DJT had won Pennsylvania despite the fact that nearly 1 million absentee ballots had yet to be counted, and she continued to support that lie even after it was clear Trump had lost the state. She would not even acknowledge that she made that false claim, commenting "I will not be bullied." Also, she defended Trump's baseless claims of "massive fraud" in the 2020 election. She even suggested that DJT's comments were taken out of context when asked about his call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" 11,780 votes.
Ya' gotta hand it to her. She's a shameless liar and hyper-partisan hypocrite without one shred of moral qualm. Not one shred.
This is the new normal for federal law enforcement. Prosecutions will be partisan persecutions and all DJT and MAGA crimes will be ignored. But if the DOJ is pressed too hard for answers after a really whopper MAGA crime, it will be denied, downplayed or otherwise dismissed as inconsequential partisan whining and hypocrisy. Crimes falsely alleged against DJT's hit list will be persecuted. Crimes committed by most of the rest of us will probably mostly be handled more or less as usual. The fair and balanced conclusion:
FOR DJT AND MAGA, THE RULE OF LAW IS DEAD!! GET OVER IT.
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Disappearing Palestine
Trump’s Gaza Plan Reflects Broader Push for Annexation of Palestinian Land
Right-wing officials in Israel, evangelical Christians in the United States and Trump appointees have become increasingly outspoken in calling for Israel to take more territory
President Trump’s statements on Tuesday about an American takeover of the Gaza Strip and displacing millions of Palestinians were immediately dismissed by many as reckless and half-baked pronouncements, a provocative threat that Mr. Trump was unlikely to enforce.
At the same time, his comments are the latest example of how government officials on the right in both the United States and Israel now speak publicly about a shared goal: the takeover of Palestinian land.The question of whether the West Bank and the Gaza Strip — territories captured and occupied by Israel in 1967 — might become the foundation of a future Palestinian state has been at the center of decades of failed diplomacy, bedeviling American presidents, Palestinian leaders and Israeli prime ministers.
Days after Mr. Trump’s election, Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister, whom Mr. Netanyahu has given broad authority over the West Bank, said Mr. Trump’s return to the White House meant that “the year 2025 will, with God’s help, be the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria,” using the biblical name for the territory that makes up the West Bank.
On his first day in office, Mr. Trump signed an executive order reversing the Biden administration’s sanctions against a group of Israeli settlers responsible for violence and land grabs against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Israeli annexation of the West Bank is a goal shared by both ultranationalists in Israel and many evangelical Christians, including Mr. Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, who see the conflict in the Middle East — and the power struggle over the land itself — as a sign of the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Mr. Huckabee has said that “there’s no such thing as a West Bank.” He said that Israeli settlements in the territory, which are considered illegal under international law, are not settlements but “neighborhoods.”
“There’s no such thing as an occupation,” he said during a visit to the West Bank in 2017.
So there we have it foreign policy fans. Israel policy based on encouraging the second coming of Christ to pave the way for the rapture, or at least a huge war in the region. The idea of Palestinian statehood is dead. It arguably it has been dead at least since May 14, 1948. Or, maybe it died on November 2, 1917, day the British government issued The Balfour Declaration. The Balfour Declaration sowed the seeds of the Arab-Israeli conflict by promising a national home for Jews. At the time, the population was majority Arab. Depending on how one defines war in this context, that would make it a 118 year war!! [1]
Note the population shift in 1947-1948. What do you think happened then? Lots of Arabs went on extended vacation?
Footnote:
1. Or, maybe the war started with Theodor Herzl's publication of "The Jewish State" in 1896, which provided a formal recognition and energized the Zionist cause. That would make it a 129 year war!!
The rapture, a religious vision
The rapture, a secular vision
