We need STATE Laws that prohibit detaining ANYONE without a valid arrest warrant.
Any ‘agent’ with such a warrant must NEVER be masked when apprehending a person. They must identify themselves and have their badge and name prominently displayed.
Any action by an ‘agent' other than what is explicitly allowed by law, should subject the ‘agent’ to criminal charges, arrest, and due process prosecution.
If convicted, the President has no pardon power, only the State Governor would have such power.
Any pardon would have to be reviewed by an independent, non-partisan group of lawyers, to determine if a justification (e.g., terminal disease, inappropriate verdict) exists to grant a pardon.
Only after such a review and determination would a Governor have the authority to pardon a convicted ‘agent.’
“Agent" = ALL Federal and Federalized personnel, as well as, authorized State personnel.
I agree wholeheartedly! I don’t understand why Governors aren’t jumping on this! I recently wrote to mine letting him know that it is his responsibility to protect us! Hopefully enough people are doing this! ✊🏻🌹
The corruption isn’t behind anything, it’s right out there for everyone to see. And I think they should hold hearings on all of the unconstitutional activities of this regime.
I always thought that if we wanted to build an extra small room to our house in our lot, we would need a building permit. And our house is really not a historical jewel. Who granted permission for the demolition of the East Wing? trump does not own the White House, the PEOPLE own it!
Absolutely. I was horrified and am now outraged that this has happened to OUR House. All who have stood by and watched it happened have been complicit and should be judged and held accountable as such.
You nailed it—"symbolic of the destruction of our democracy"—this is exactly what I have been feeling after seeing those horrific photos of the demolition. Why didn't he just go ahead and have the East Wing imploded? Or would the optics of actually blowing it up have been too graphic even for him?
My dad, an Army officer, planned a summer trip for my brother and I to simply see the White House; when my son was six my dad planned another trip to see the White House, this time we took a tour of the elegant building. It is/was an American iconic symbol… what part of that does Trump and his “TEAM” not understand, tho they dont pretend to care about America as they aggressively shred it🖤🖤🖤
The answer to your question is absolutely no one. He even related one of those imaginary conversations he has with himself, "sir, you can do anything you want; you're the president." This was after he theoretically asked about what it would take to do it. Every time he claims someone prefaced a comment to him with "sir," it double underlines that it's a lie.
Yeah, I don’t know where to begin! I’ll give a date of when the corruption began: January 20, 2025. We could also go back to the insurrection, January 6, four years earlier. (We could go back to January 20, 2017, but I don’t think we have the resources to tackle the crimes trump and his minions have committed since that far back.)
I SO agree. But how do we get the opposition to hold hearings. For now they are out oof session kind of, and they have persistently refused to hold hearings we ask for.
SO. MUCH. CORRUPTION. I think the East Wing debacle is pushing the end of the regime. People are very upset...shocked, actually. I'm sick about it. Very happy to see Elizabeth Warren taking some action. :(
Thank you, Suzanne for posting this Ferlinghetti poem, which I haven’t thought about in years. I just shared it with a politically active poetry group I’m in as a reminder of what we’re all about.
I believe that all those who are giving large sums of money for the “ballroom” are negotiating impressive deals for themselves. Basically they are pledging fealty. I think this will come to light. I would like to see the Democrats have a meeting to explain why there are so many of them staying quiet. Now is the time to stand up and be heard.
SO SHOCKING‼️. And threatening to go “On Land” in Venezuela … he’s declaring WAR… remember he’s the numbskull who said, LYING OF COURSE‼️ NO WARS‼️‼️. SO FAR HE’S FINANCED BOMBING GAZA, stopped, for Daddy PUTIN, ALL HELP TO UKRAINE,incl just refusing long distance missiles, BOMBED IRAN and bombed approx 10 small VENEZUELAN BOATS (overreacting by sending worlds largest aircraft carrier that carries 90 planes) He;s OUT IF HIS MIND😱😱😱
Need to share these 3 lists of the donors who paid to have the East wings removed and a bunker ? Installed.
This is a list of donors to Trumps demolition of the East Wing where in the new monster of a building he announced would be his bedroom!!!!!!!!
I copied this list and excerpts from an essay by Steven Beschloss (link attached below)
⬇️
…”While specific dollar amounts were not noted, the list includes:
Altria Group, Amazon, Apple,
Booz Allen Hamilton,
Caterpillar, Coinbase, Comcast
J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul,
Hard Rock International,
Google,
HP,
Lockheed Martin,
Meta, Micron, Microsoft,
NextEra Energy,
Palantir,
Ripple, Reynolds American,
T-Mobile, Tether America,
Union Pacific Railroad,
Adelson Family Foundation,
Stefan E. Brodie,
Betty Wold Johnson Foundation, Charles and Marissa Cascarilla, Edward and Shari Glazer,
Harold Hamm,
Benjamin Leon Jr.,
The Lutnick Family,
The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation,
Stephen A. Schwarzmann,
Konstantin Sokolov,
Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher,
Paolo Tiramani
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.
…”This list includes tech and AI giants, arms manufacturers, crypto financiers and wealthy individuals committed to funding Trump’s grotesque abuse of our history, traditions, values and democratic processes.”
…”While he has demolished the East Wing without explicit official approvals and with indifference to the will of the people, their money gives him cover and support.”
“Their money tells him that he can continue to act as he sees fit.”
It might be easier to list companies and individuals who HAVEN'T contributed. I'm sure it would be much shorter and might even be counted on the fingers of one hand!
Of course there are corrupt deals going on. That's all this regime does. Dems need to hold more hearings on the corruption as well as the damned ICE activity.
It’s ALL TRUMP IS ABOUT…MONEY for HIMSELF.. MAGAS ARE His COWS (basketball + mafia betting call them FISH) and THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW IT…..still haven’t FIGURED IT OUT🤷🏼♀️. sorry,no more caps…just so frustrated as we all are!
tRump has put the power of the Federal Government up for sale to the highest bidder. I really hope whoever runs next time runs to demolish his gaudy ballroom and rebuild the East Wing. I hope The People are starting to see the carnage he is wrecking on the US Body Politic and finally see that a 'Unitary Executive' is the terrible idea most of us could have told anyone who would listen, that it is. We need a new Constitution with a completely rethought Executive Branch, Supreme Court and liberation of the DOJ and The Inspectors General from the Executive Branch. We need mechanisms for dissolving a Congress - either one house or both which is judged to be working (or not working) to the disadvantage of We The People.
I sincerely hope everyone in the current administration is held accountable for their illegal actions at some point. And hopefully no one comes in behind that and pardons them again!
It is very worrisome that he said what he said, but not at all surprising. But he WILL leave the WH, and it’s looking like this will happen quite soon - not the way he wants though, with his health as it is!
47 is on a downhill slide intellectually, he can't run basic numbers, remember who was in office and when, and can't even answer a journalists question without digression and lies. He had a left cortex stroke over labor day, that hemisphere controls his right side and also speech, it wasn't his first stroke. Another stroke might seriously diminish his remaining abilities. He may not even make it to the midterms, he has kidney and heart disease as well.
Wild times when “shadow hearings” sound more transparent than official ones. Power’s always building new ballrooms while justice holds meetings in borrowed rooms. Still, light sneaks in through the cracks. Blessed be the ones who rebuild truth from rubble.
Destroy the East Wing? Where are the Epstein Files? Run for a third term? Where are the Epstein files? Bomb innocent boats and murder over 30 (but who's counting?) people with no evidence? Where are the Epstein files? Start a war with Venezuela? Where are the Epstein files? Continue the government shut down so that it's unsafe to fly? Where are the Epstein files? What's the next thing you are going to come up with? Nuclear? Where are the Epstein files?
Good on you Max!!! Just how hot are the Epstein files that he is kicking up all of these things to divert our attention. I would say RED HOT!!! :-) Perhaps all of the so called 'ballroom donors' also have their names in the Epstein files along with a good number of the GOP!!! :-)
This is another thing that the Dems could be running a shadow hearing on!!!
I absolutely think the ballroom is being constructed on quid pro quo’s.
I think we need hearings on the perpetual recess in the house, murder on the high seas, crypto deals, pardons and that’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
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Hi Scott,
We need STATE Laws that prohibit detaining ANYONE without a valid arrest warrant.
Any ‘agent’ with such a warrant must NEVER be masked when apprehending a person. They must identify themselves and have their badge and name prominently displayed.
Any action by an ‘agent' other than what is explicitly allowed by law, should subject the ‘agent’ to criminal charges, arrest, and due process prosecution.
If convicted, the President has no pardon power, only the State Governor would have such power.
Any pardon would have to be reviewed by an independent, non-partisan group of lawyers, to determine if a justification (e.g., terminal disease, inappropriate verdict) exists to grant a pardon.
Only after such a review and determination would a Governor have the authority to pardon a convicted ‘agent.’
“Agent" = ALL Federal and Federalized personnel, as well as, authorized State personnel.
Thank you,
I agree wholeheartedly! I don’t understand why Governors aren’t jumping on this! I recently wrote to mine letting him know that it is his responsibility to protect us! Hopefully enough people are doing this! ✊🏻🌹
Excellent! More should do as you did, Laura - write and call their Governors irrespective of whether they are a D or and R.
My hope is that Scott, Ben (MeidasTouch), Jim Acosta, and others will speak directly to various Governors since they know and have access to them.
That’s a great idea! I’ve contacted the R congressional leaders, but, haven’t thought about the governor’s. I’ll have to get started on that! 🌹✊🏻
Super!!! Thank you Laura
FYI Scott, I've now sent the recommendation to AG Rob Bonta, AG Nick Brown, AG Kwame Raoul, AG Dana Nessel, & AG Letitia James.
Wow! Excellent work - thank you!!
Thank you Richard.
Trump is losing it over the fact Reagan would never support him this week. And it’s hilarious.
LOL
I was not a Reagan fan, but he would never condone what is happening now!
We need MORE courageous ones speaking in solidarity!
He's always a taco, a baby, trying to hide the EPSTEIN FILES.
It never gets old!!!! lol.
He 'lost it' a long time ago, and has never realized it's even missing!
The corruption isn’t behind anything, it’s right out there for everyone to see. And I think they should hold hearings on all of the unconstitutional activities of this regime.
I always thought that if we wanted to build an extra small room to our house in our lot, we would need a building permit. And our house is really not a historical jewel. Who granted permission for the demolition of the East Wing? trump does not own the White House, the PEOPLE own it!
Absolutely. I was horrified and am now outraged that this has happened to OUR House. All who have stood by and watched it happened have been complicit and should be judged and held accountable as such.
The demolition feels like a punch in the gut and symbolic of the destruction of our democracy.
You nailed it—"symbolic of the destruction of our democracy"—this is exactly what I have been feeling after seeing those horrific photos of the demolition. Why didn't he just go ahead and have the East Wing imploded? Or would the optics of actually blowing it up have been too graphic even for him?
OUTRAGED, fire coming out of ears!!
Release the Epstein Files.
It really seems that at some point (but not likely in public), that some MAGA followers will be saying to themselves, 'I am done with this madman.'
MAGA is a cult, but not all cult followers are alike - some retain hope, and some of them recover it, and then some of them help others...
My dad, an Army officer, planned a summer trip for my brother and I to simply see the White House; when my son was six my dad planned another trip to see the White House, this time we took a tour of the elegant building. It is/was an American iconic symbol… what part of that does Trump and his “TEAM” not understand, tho they dont pretend to care about America as they aggressively shred it🖤🖤🖤
The answer to your question is absolutely no one. He even related one of those imaginary conversations he has with himself, "sir, you can do anything you want; you're the president." This was after he theoretically asked about what it would take to do it. Every time he claims someone prefaced a comment to him with "sir," it double underlines that it's a lie.
True!
Yeah, I don’t know where to begin! I’ll give a date of when the corruption began: January 20, 2025. We could also go back to the insurrection, January 6, four years earlier. (We could go back to January 20, 2017, but I don’t think we have the resources to tackle the crimes trump and his minions have committed since that far back.)
I agree! Where to begin? I still want Trump accountable fir J6. But so many crimes. So much treason. So much disgrace.
Yeah, it’s overwhelming!
I totally agree. Anything less is not justice but complicity.
I SO agree. But how do we get the opposition to hold hearings. For now they are out oof session kind of, and they have persistently refused to hold hearings we ask for.
We can’t, they control the government
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
It’s essential that everyone VOTES…+ I’m talking specifically to the 400,000 DEMOCRATS WHO DiD NOT PARTICIPATE IN 2024!
❤️🤍💙. PLEASE 🇺🇸 VOTE. 🇺🇸 VOTE 🇺🇸. VOTE 🇺🇸
SO. MUCH. CORRUPTION. I think the East Wing debacle is pushing the end of the regime. People are very upset...shocked, actually. I'm sick about it. Very happy to see Elizabeth Warren taking some action. :(
Yes. I so agree.
The demolition of the East Wing may be the straw that broke the camel’s back. People are seriously angry.
I continue to be, well, speechless about it. And you know I always have something to say! He is the center of all that is vile and evil.
A BLACK HOLE 🖤.
I hope people see this demolition as a corollary to what he is doing to our democracy.
DITTO!! Well said, Susan!
I needed this good news today.
Thinking of this poem …
“PITY THE NATION”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (After Khalil Gibran) 2007
Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
Except to praise conquerors
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
By force and by torture
Pity the nation that knows
No other language but its own
And no other culture but its own
Pity the nation whose breath is money
And sleeps the sleep of the too well fed
Pity the nation oh pity the people
who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away
My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!
copyright Lawrence Ferlingetti
May our pity be transformed into action that will create more good news. Thanks, Scott.
Thank you, Suzanne for posting this Ferlinghetti poem, which I haven’t thought about in years. I just shared it with a politically active poetry group I’m in as a reminder of what we’re all about.
Thank you
Fabulous, scarily spot-on poem. Thank you for sharing, Suzanne.
WONDERFUL. THANK YOU!!!
Release the Epstein Files.
Thank you for this. Art and beauty have a place in our world, and it does not
require gold paint or garish medallions - just the trueness that nature displays in
all its wonder. This is poem is a treasure.
I believe that all those who are giving large sums of money for the “ballroom” are negotiating impressive deals for themselves. Basically they are pledging fealty. I think this will come to light. I would like to see the Democrats have a meeting to explain why there are so many of them staying quiet. Now is the time to stand up and be heard.
And investigations into the killings in the oceans on those fishing boats.
SO SHOCKING‼️. And threatening to go “On Land” in Venezuela … he’s declaring WAR… remember he’s the numbskull who said, LYING OF COURSE‼️ NO WARS‼️‼️. SO FAR HE’S FINANCED BOMBING GAZA, stopped, for Daddy PUTIN, ALL HELP TO UKRAINE,incl just refusing long distance missiles, BOMBED IRAN and bombed approx 10 small VENEZUELAN BOATS (overreacting by sending worlds largest aircraft carrier that carries 90 planes) He;s OUT IF HIS MIND😱😱😱
Love this pic of Elizabeth Warren. I’m giving her a high five!🙌
Boom
Stay strong Sen. Warren!
Need to share these 3 lists of the donors who paid to have the East wings removed and a bunker ? Installed.
This is a list of donors to Trumps demolition of the East Wing where in the new monster of a building he announced would be his bedroom!!!!!!!!
I copied this list and excerpts from an essay by Steven Beschloss (link attached below)
⬇️
…”While specific dollar amounts were not noted, the list includes:
Altria Group, Amazon, Apple,
Booz Allen Hamilton,
Caterpillar, Coinbase, Comcast
J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul,
Hard Rock International,
Google,
HP,
Lockheed Martin,
Meta, Micron, Microsoft,
NextEra Energy,
Palantir,
Ripple, Reynolds American,
T-Mobile, Tether America,
Union Pacific Railroad,
Adelson Family Foundation,
Stefan E. Brodie,
Betty Wold Johnson Foundation, Charles and Marissa Cascarilla, Edward and Shari Glazer,
Harold Hamm,
Benjamin Leon Jr.,
The Lutnick Family,
The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation,
Stephen A. Schwarzmann,
Konstantin Sokolov,
Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher,
Paolo Tiramani
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.
…”This list includes tech and AI giants, arms manufacturers, crypto financiers and wealthy individuals committed to funding Trump’s grotesque abuse of our history, traditions, values and democratic processes.”
…”While he has demolished the East Wing without explicit official approvals and with indifference to the will of the people, their money gives him cover and support.”
“Their money tells him that he can continue to act as he sees fit.”
From Steven Beschloss Essay
https://america.substack.com/p/gold-greed-and-cowardice?r=v5mzk&utm_medium=ios
Disgusting. Thanks for the list of who to boycott, Alexia!
Thank you for reading and responding Wis
💙🇺🇸💙
It might be easier to list companies and individuals who HAVEN'T contributed. I'm sure it would be much shorter and might even be counted on the fingers of one hand!
Release the Epstein Files.
(I’m sadly LOLing…!)
Good comment
Of course there are corrupt deals going on. That's all this regime does. Dems need to hold more hearings on the corruption as well as the damned ICE activity.
It’s ALL TRUMP IS ABOUT…MONEY for HIMSELF.. MAGAS ARE His COWS (basketball + mafia betting call them FISH) and THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW IT…..still haven’t FIGURED IT OUT🤷🏼♀️. sorry,no more caps…just so frustrated as we all are!
tRump has put the power of the Federal Government up for sale to the highest bidder. I really hope whoever runs next time runs to demolish his gaudy ballroom and rebuild the East Wing. I hope The People are starting to see the carnage he is wrecking on the US Body Politic and finally see that a 'Unitary Executive' is the terrible idea most of us could have told anyone who would listen, that it is. We need a new Constitution with a completely rethought Executive Branch, Supreme Court and liberation of the DOJ and The Inspectors General from the Executive Branch. We need mechanisms for dissolving a Congress - either one house or both which is judged to be working (or not working) to the disadvantage of We The People.
I sincerely hope everyone in the current administration is held accountable for their illegal actions at some point. And hopefully no one comes in behind that and pardons them again!
Worried about what Steve Bannon has said. They have a plan to get trump in 2028. We need to figure out that plan to thwart it
Are they going to mummify his remains? That is the only way that monster will run again.
I’m uncertain if Trump will live until 2028! He’s almost 80, overweight, with swollen ankles. Not healthy!
It is very worrisome that he said what he said, but not at all surprising. But he WILL leave the WH, and it’s looking like this will happen quite soon - not the way he wants though, with his health as it is!
47 is on a downhill slide intellectually, he can't run basic numbers, remember who was in office and when, and can't even answer a journalists question without digression and lies. He had a left cortex stroke over labor day, that hemisphere controls his right side and also speech, it wasn't his first stroke. Another stroke might seriously diminish his remaining abilities. He may not even make it to the midterms, he has kidney and heart disease as well.
Wild times when “shadow hearings” sound more transparent than official ones. Power’s always building new ballrooms while justice holds meetings in borrowed rooms. Still, light sneaks in through the cracks. Blessed be the ones who rebuild truth from rubble.
Amen.
good comment!
Destroy the East Wing? Where are the Epstein Files? Run for a third term? Where are the Epstein files? Bomb innocent boats and murder over 30 (but who's counting?) people with no evidence? Where are the Epstein files? Start a war with Venezuela? Where are the Epstein files? Continue the government shut down so that it's unsafe to fly? Where are the Epstein files? What's the next thing you are going to come up with? Nuclear? Where are the Epstein files?
Good on you Max!!! Just how hot are the Epstein files that he is kicking up all of these things to divert our attention. I would say RED HOT!!! :-) Perhaps all of the so called 'ballroom donors' also have their names in the Epstein files along with a good number of the GOP!!! :-)
This is another thing that the Dems could be running a shadow hearing on!!!
Ab-f...ing-solutely. The situation is urgent, and I'm old and not prone to hysterics.
I absolutely think the ballroom is being constructed on quid pro quo’s.
I think we need hearings on the perpetual recess in the house, murder on the high seas, crypto deals, pardons and that’s all I can think of off the top of my head.