What Did the Right-Wing Think of “No Kings”?
Republicans had a problem having to say the words "No Kings" in order to denigrate it, as that would suggest there should be a king. So they needed to come up with a different name: the Hate America rally.
Do Trump devotees actually believe that people protesting a president who arrogates to himself the powers of a king hate America when they protest to preserve it? House Speaker Mike Johnson thinks so, and is shameless enough to promote the false name, saying…
"They're going to descend on our capital for their much anticipated so-called 'No Kings' rally. We refer to it by its more accurate description, the hate America rally."
That Johnson and Republicans are against Americans who are rightly alarmed by authoritarian Trump's outlaw actions says it is they who hate America for having no objection to Trump's destroying the nation's institutions.
And they surely do hate Americans. Here’s Johnson again:
”I encourage you to watch what we call the hate America rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you'll see pro-Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types. I bet you’ll see the Marxists in full display, the people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truth of this republic.”
That is exactly what they are doing. There’s Minnesota Representative Tom Emmer:
”We call it the hate America rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up.”
Or Treasury Secretary Scott… Read More »
Military Top Brass Gets Scolded by Hegseth and Stupefied by Trump
In a speech before hundreds of the United States’ top military brass, President Trump delivered the headline at minute :44 when he said, “And I told Pete [Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth], we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.” In the most ominous words we’ve ever heard from a president, he told them:
”America is under invasion from within…no different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take them out. These people don't have uniforms. But we are under invasion from within. We're stopping it very quickly…This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room...”
Trump has chosen Portland, Oregon, as the next city to be invaded, first by his federalizing the Oregon National… Read More »
Did You Enjoy Free Speech? It’s Coming to an End.
The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel in an outright suppression of free speech culminated a week of Republicans campaigning to vilify anyone they could find who had made light of Kirk’s assassination.
Senator Marsha 
Jimmy Kimmel.
Blackburn, who is running to be Tennessee's governor, found deans and professors at three small universities who she said must be fired. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that the pilots grounded by American Airlines for “celebrating” Kirk’s death should be dismissed. South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace, also after a 
Charlie Kirk.
governorship, insisted in a letter to the Education Department that it deny federal funding from any school that did not “take immediate administrative action” against employees who voiced such views. On his X account Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin began doxxing private…
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Will Trump Have to Refund the Tariffs?
His tariffs have settled in against 90 countries, the latest inflation report shows only a modest uptick, he insists, but a looming appellate court case nonetheless has President Trump throwing fits.
In May, a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of International Trade (USCIT) in New York unanimously ruled that Trump went beyond his authority by implementing his vast menu of imposts. Tariffs are the prerogative of Congress is their point, and this special court is the expert on trade law. (The three judges were appointed by Reagan, Obama, and… Read More »
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Wasn’t the Right Against Cancel Culture and Lawfare?
Now they’ve embraced what they hated about the Left
What drove conservatives to anger over recent years was what they regarded as the liberal takeover of the culture, imposing dictates of diversity, equity, and inclusion 
and cancelling anyone who was so gauche as to emit an opinion they viewed as politically incorrect. We wrote of this a month ago, the right-wing's rapid adoption of a cancel culture that took the form of having people fired from their jobs should they have said anything negative about Charlie Kirk. As a footnote, a website called Expose Charlie's Murderers received over 63,000 tips about people judged to be applauding Kirk's death. Urging cancelling peoples' lives came from the top, JD Vance saying,
"When you see someone's celebrating Charlie's murder, call them out. And hell, call their employer."
Perhaps Nick Catoggio at The Dispatch got it right, that conservatives…
"never wanted an America where people don't get cancelled, they want an America where they get to do the cancelling."
law as a weapon
When Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to get busy prosecuting his retribution list, she swiftly obliged…
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What drove conservatives to anger over recent years was what they regarded as the liberal takeover of the culture, imposing dictates of diversity, equity, and inclusion
and cancelling anyone who was so gauche as to emit an opinion they viewed as politically incorrect. We wrote of this a month ago, the right-wing's rapid adoption of a cancel culture that took the form of having people fired from their jobs should they have said anything negative about Charlie Kirk. As a footnote, a website called Expose Charlie's Murderers received over 63,000 tips about people judged to be applauding Kirk's death. Urging cancelling peoples' lives came from the top, JD Vance saying,
"When you see someone's celebrating Charlie's murder, call them out. And hell, call their employer."
Perhaps Nick Catoggio at The Dispatch got it right, that conservatives…
law as a weapon"never wanted an America where people don't get cancelled, they want an America where they get to do the cancelling."
When Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to get busy prosecuting his retribution list, she swiftly obliged… Read More »
media
The Rightwing’s Chokehold on American Media Is Tightening
Many voices across America during the past week insisted on the safeguarding of unabridged free speech after the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show and after no less than the attorney general, Pam Bondi, 
declaring that the Justice Department will “will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech”. That’s the very speech the amendment protects. “Pam Bondi Needs a Free Speech Tutorial” was the title of a Wall Street Journal editorial.
But there is the looming question of where we will be able to hear free speech other than populous ideology and propaganda as ever more media outlets are scooped up by rightwing owners.
ABC, Now TikTok
On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that, still subject to China’s Xi Jinping’s final approval, would move content control of TikTok away from…
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Many voices across America during the past week insisted on the safeguarding of unabridged free speech after the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show and after no less than the attorney general, Pam Bondi,
declaring that the Justice Department will “will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech”. That’s the very speech the amendment protects. “Pam Bondi Needs a Free Speech Tutorial” was the title of a Wall Street Journal editorial.
But there is the looming question of where we will be able to hear free speech other than populous ideology and propaganda as ever more media outlets are scooped up by rightwing owners.
ABC, Now TikTokOn Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that, still subject to China’s Xi Jinping’s final approval, would move content control of TikTok away from… Read More »
war
War Story: A Dramatic Decision in World War II
Pete Hegseth wants to inculcate a war fighting spirit throughout our military, but he has a difficult job ahead if he hopes to return us to the awe-inspiring bravery of our men and women in World War II. While the National Guard major was telling some 800 generals and admirals how it's gonna be, I came upon this story in Craig L. Symonds, "World War II at Sea":
In June of 1944, almost in simultaneity with the D-Day invasion on the other side of the world, the United States invaded the Marianas, the Pacific island chain that runs north-south parallel to the Philippines some 1,500 miles to their east. The largest island is Guam, but the Americans chose to invade Saipan, the northernmost of the fifteen islands and closest to Japan, the objective being for the Seabees to construct airfields for B-29s to attack the Japanese mainland.
Japanese policy had been to conserve their fleet,…
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Pete Hegseth wants to inculcate a war fighting spirit throughout our military, but he has a difficult job ahead if he hopes to return us to the awe-inspiring bravery of our men and women in World War II. While the National Guard major was telling some 800 generals and admirals how it's gonna be, I came upon this story in Craig L. Symonds, "World War II at Sea":
In June of 1944, almost in simultaneity with the D-Day invasion on the other side of the world, the United States invaded the Marianas, the Pacific island chain that runs north-south parallel to the Philippines some 1,500 miles to their east. The largest island is Guam, but the Americans chose to invade Saipan, the northernmost of the fifteen islands and closest to Japan, the objective being for the Seabees to construct airfields for B-29s to attack the Japanese mainland.
Japanese policy had been to conserve their fleet,… Read More »
the founding
Our Constitution In Tatters
Those who think the Constitution is the bedrock of our democracy were aghast when this week 
the Supreme Court decided there is nothing wrong with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents practicing racial profiling, seizing anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job, and detaining them for deportation.
It is yet another instance of either government or the Court chipping away at the grand old document, so we thought to take a look at some of the other provisions that have been ignored or transgressed, beginning with this week's:
Racial profiling has been the practice from the beginning of Stephen Miller's demand that ICE round up 3,000…
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Those who think the Constitution is the bedrock of our democracy were aghast when this week
the Supreme Court decided there is nothing wrong with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents practicing racial profiling, seizing anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job, and detaining them for deportation.
It is yet another instance of either government or the Court chipping away at the grand old document, so we thought to take a look at some of the other provisions that have been ignored or transgressed, beginning with this week's:
Racial profiling has been the practice from the beginning of Stephen Miller's demand that ICE round up 3,000… Read More »
the presidency
What’s Trump Doing? Is It Statist Capitalism, Maoist Socialism, or Mafia Style Extortion?
President Trump has gone rogue, defying GOP orthodoxy, leaving conservatives wondering what they have wrought. Where is this coming from?
taking a cut
You didn't get to build in New York City or New Jersey without dealing with the Mafia back in the years when Donald Trump started out by rehabbing the Commodore Hotel next to Grand Central and going on to build gambling casinos in Atlantic City. The amounts of money he is forcibly extracting from law firms, higher education, and now corporations, says that he learned a lot in those days.
The difference between then and now is scale. In his second term, Trump realized straightaway that, as capo dei capi sitting at the pinnacle of power in the White House, the numbers could be huge — far beyond what he saw change hands in the real estate world of decades ago.
As soon as he decided to run for the presidency ten…
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President Trump has gone rogue, defying GOP orthodoxy, leaving conservatives wondering what they have wrought. Where is this coming from?
taking a cutYou didn't get to build in New York City or New Jersey without dealing with the Mafia back in the years when Donald Trump started out by rehabbing the Commodore Hotel next to Grand Central and going on to build gambling casinos in Atlantic City. The amounts of money he is forcibly extracting from law firms, higher education, and now corporations, says that he learned a lot in those days.
The difference between then and now is scale. In his second term, Trump realized straightaway that, as capo dei capi sitting at the pinnacle of power in the White House, the numbers could be huge — far beyond what he saw change hands in the real estate world of decades ago.
As soon as he decided to run for the presidency ten… Read More »