Fascism On The MARCH! Let’s handcuff a United States Senator Edition:
When U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a news conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, it was almost as if Donald Trump’s most well-worn talking point came to life:
A bad hombre tried to go after a white American.
All Padilla did was identify himself and try to question Noem about the immigration raids across Southern California that have led to protests and terror. Instead, federal agents pushed the senator into a hallway, forced him to the ground and handcuffed him before he was released. He and Noem talked privately afterward, yet she claimed to reporters that Padilla “lung[ed]” at her despite them being far apart and video showing no evidence to back up her laughable assertion.
The manhandling of Padilla on Thursday and his subsequent depiction by conservatives as a modern-day Pancho Villa isn’t surprising one bit. Trashing people of Mexican heritage has been one of Trump’s most successful electoral planks — don’t forget that he kicked off his 2016 presidential campaigns by proclaiming Mexican immigrants to be “rapists” and drug smugglers — because he knows it works. You could be a newcomer from Jalisco, you could be someone whose ancestors put down roots before the Mayflower, it doesn’t matter: For centuries, the default stance in this country is to look at anyone with family ties to our neighbor to the south with skepticism, if not outright hate.
Might just go looking for a Mexican flag today…
Hey, Let’s Start A War. Trump responds by saying, ‘We’ll see what happens’. He’s now updated his reaction to Israel’s bombing of Iran as ‘excellent’. Rubio searches for his manhood:
US president Donald Trump has urged Iran to make a deal over its nuclear programme, saying in a post on his Truth Social platform that there was still time for the country to prevent further conflict with Israel:
“I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to “just do it,” but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done.
I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come – And they know how to use it.
Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!
There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end.
Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. God Bless You All!
Guess we’re in this war as well. Just in time for that military parade. Oh, Rubio?:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that the United States had no involvement in Israel’s unilateral strikes on Iran but had been told that Israel considered the attack necessary for its self-defense.
President Trump, who has been pushing for a deal with Iran on its nuclear program, was hosting the annual White House picnic on Thursday evening when reports of the strikes emerged from Tehran.
Despite his expressed hopes for a diplomatic breakthrough, Mr. Trump had also acknowledged on Thursday that Israel might attack first.
In a statement, Mr. Rubio said: “We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region. Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense.”
Besides the use of, and I quote, “the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come – And they know how to use it”?
Neither Trump nor Rubio have anything approaching the diplomatic chops to do anything but to cheer-lead from the sidelines. Must be Biden’s fault.
Trump’s Cali Invasion In The Hands Of The Courts Now. By the time we get a final decision, the troops will either have been withdrawn, or they will have escalated what was a completely-manageable situation into a conflagration.
Delaware’s Speaker And House Democrats Demonstrate How Not To Do Crisis Management:
As CoastTV took to Dover on Thursday, paper was placed on the window of a door that leads to Parker Selby’s office.
I could link to yesterday’s video, but I don’t need to do it to demonstrate the complete and total disingenuous ‘defense’ by Speaker Mimi:
As CoastTV took to Dover on Thursday, papers were placed on the windowpanes of a door that leads to Parker Selby’s office. House Speaker Melissa Minor-Brown did take the time talk to Anchor Madeleine Overturf, saying that her solution to Parker Selby’s absence is virtual voting.
“If someone’s been absent for six months and no one’s voting on their behalf, do you think that’s acceptable?” asked Overturf.
“We’re going to focus on getting virtual voting passed to our rules and then that way we can most likely see Rep. Parker Selby.” replied Minor-Brown.
Oh. Let’s see if I’ve got this timeline right:
November 2024: Rep. Stell Parker Selby wins reelection.
Somewhere between November 2024 and January 2025: Stell Parker Selby suffers massive stroke.
January 2025: The General Assembly convenes in Dover without Stell Parker Selby who, it is claimed, is recovering from an unnamed physical challenge.
March 24, 2025: Rep. Parker Selby is finally officially sworn in as a member of the House Of Representatives. The swearing-in takes place at her home in Milton. I may be overthinking it, but the fact that the swearing-in didn’t take place until March 24 suggests that the Representative was incapable of receiving the oath of office prior to then. An idle question–was she being paid for time she was not duly sworn in? I don’t care. My intent is not to trash Rep. Selby, but rather to focus on the continued prevarications and cover-up from the House leadership.
March 31, 2025: The Delaware General Assembly reconvenes following the Joint Finance Committee hearings. No Stell Parker Selby.
This Week: CoastTV Reporter Madaleine Overturf seeks answers as to the lack of representation for the voters in the 20th Rep. District. She is stonewalled.
June 12, 2025: Speaker Mimi Minor-Brown says that ‘virtual voting’ is the solution. Setting aside the question as to why this ‘solution’ didn’t occur to her until halfway through June (the answer, of course, being she hadn’t given it a moment’s thought until confronted by reporters), there’s no way in hell that this could ever be implemented during the remainder of this year’s legislative session, if at all. Virtual voting was implemented for the first time during COVID, and it was rescinded once the legislature deemed it safe to go back to Dover. Virtual voting is not a solution, it’s just an evasion of the truth by the Speaker. Bottom line: The House Democratic leadership has permitted a fraud to be perpetrated upon the voters of the 20th Rep. District.
What do you want to talk about?