The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

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Good morning! It’s hard to know where to start on a day like this. The Marines are in Los Angeles. Israel and Iran are at war. A U.S. Senator was handcuffed for asking a question. And somewhere in the middle of it all, Donald Trump is rambling about rerouting Pacific Northwest water to save Los Angeles from wildfires and reopening Alcatraz as some kind of dystopian Airbnb-meets-Gitmo reboot.
Welcome to Friday the 13th, 2025, authoritarian style. The horror movie is real. And this one doesn’t end with a jump scare it ends with a boot.
Yesterday, Senator Alex Padilla, senior Democrat from California and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, was forcibly removed, thrown to the floor, and handcuffed by federal agents after he dared to ask puppy killer and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question. Not a rhetorical one, not a protest chant. A question about the unauthorized deployment of the National Guard and now, reportedly, the Marines on the streets of LA.
Padilla, wearing a U.S. Senate-branded shirt, escorted by the FBI, sitting quietly behind reporters in a secured federal building, identified himself multiple times. “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the Secretary.” His reward? A knee to the floor, wrists in cuffs, and a press statement from DHS that accused him of “lunging” at the Secretary and engaging in “political theater.”
If this administration can manhandle a sitting Senator like he’s trespassing at Mar-a-Lago, imagine what it’s doing to farmworkers in Oxnard, day laborers outside Home Depot, or kids outside LAUSD schools. Actually don’t imagine it. Just look outside. According to Padilla, ICE and National Guard raids are now sweeping through communities with flashbangs and masked men in unmarked vans, the kind of imagery that used to make Americans gasp when it came out of Venezuela or China.
And in case you were wondering whether this military escalation was spontaneous, it wasn’t. A federal judge ruled earlier this week that the Trump administration’s federalization of California’s National Guard was unconstitutional, calling it an abuse of power that bypassed both state consent and congressional oversight. The ruling cited clear evidence of premeditated escalation dating back to February, aligning with a CNN investigation that revealed internal planning documents and communication logs outlining the move months in advance. But today, a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit issued a temporary stay, allowing the Guard to remain under federal control while the administration appeals, meaning that for now, Trump’s occupation of Los Angeles continues, even as its legality hangs by a thread.
And if that’s not chilling enough, let’s revisit what Kristi Noem actually said to justify it all:
“We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country.”
This is a clear attempt at regime change. This is the Wilmington coup playbook, dressed in khaki and tactical gear, aimed squarely at the largest, most diverse state in the union. In 1898, white supremacist Democrats in North Carolina overthrew the multiracial, democratically elected government of Wilmington, murdering dozens of Black residents and forcing local officials to resign at gunpoint. It was the only successful coup in U.S. history, until now. What Trump, Kristi Noem, and their uniformed enablers are staging in Los Angeles isn’t just an abuse of federal power. It’s an echo of violent authoritarianism, repackaged for the 21st century and broadcast live on cable news. Only this time, they’re calling it “liberation.”
And let’s not forget who’s allegedly at the helm of all this: a man whose cognitive state is deteriorating faster than his global favorability ratings. According to the latest Pew survey, U.S. favorability has plummeted in 15 of 24 countries since Trump clawed his way back into office, including a staggering 91% disapproval in Mexico, the nation he now taunts with border raids and racial slurs dressed up as policy. The international stage is watching a once-global leader unravel in real time. This is a man who recently claimed California borders Canada, who thinks wildfires can be stopped by simply “turning the water on,” and who suggested reopening Alcatraz because it “represents something strong and miserable and beautiful and weak.” Yes, all of that came out of his mouth, and he’s now dispatching Marines to Los Angeles like it’s Fallujah.
Governor Gavin Newsom wasn’t being rhetorical when he said, “He’s lost it.”
But let’s be very clear: this isn’t just dementia with a motorcade. This is authoritarianism with a press office and a flag pin. As historian Heather Cox Richardson reminds us, fascist regimes don’t begin by targeting senators. They begin with the marginalized, the immigrants, the poor, the powerless, because they’re easiest to crush before moving up the food chain. What happened to Senator Padilla wasn’t a misunderstanding, it was a signal. If they can body-slam a sitting U.S. senator for asking a question, imagine what’s happening to the day laborers and cooks and farmworkers whose stories Padilla invoked while still visibly shaken on MSNBC.
And the world is catching on. In Canada, former MP Charlie Angus took to the podium ahead of the upcoming G-7 summit to deliver a blistering warning about Trump’s visit.
“We are witnessing a man who has threatened our nation’s sovereignty, who is proud to have overturned the rule of law, who brags about being a sexual predator — and he is being welcomed into Canada,” Angus said, calling on Canadian authorities to bar the convicted felon from crossing the border.
“You want to know what we are dealing with? We are dealing with a fascist.”
That’s what standing on the right side of history sounds like.
Padilla knows it, too. In a raw and emotional interview with MSNBC, he described the moment he hit the floor, and how he immediately thought of his parents: immigrants from Mexico, a cook and a house cleaner, who never dreamed their son would be cuffed by his own government for demanding oversight. “If they’ll do this to me,” he said, “just imagine what they’re doing to everybody else.”
We don’t have to imagine, we’ve seen the vans, we’ve seen the raids. And we’ve now seen what happens when a Senator asks the wrong question at the wrong press conference.
But just when you think things can’t get worse, we pan east to the Middle East where all-out war has broken out between Israel and Iran. Airstrikes, counterstrikes, and rapidly aligning regional powers are threatening to spiral into a broader, more catastrophic conflict. And how is the United States responding under Commander-in-Chief Trump? Disjointed. Contradictory. Alarming. Trump took to Truth Social to claim he had spoken directly with both “Bibi and the Ayatollah”, a statement so unconfirmed it has U.S. intelligence and international reporters openly laughing into their hands.
Meanwhile, his administration can’t even agree on whether to send humanitarian aid or additional firepower. There’s no doctrine, no diplomacy, just vague threats, a lot of shouting, and whatever Jared Kushner texted from his Riyadh villa.
This is the same man who campaigned on ending the war in Ukraine “on day one”, and instead, cut military and humanitarian aid, torched alliances, and left Ukraine exposed while Putin regrouped. Now, faced with a second war, he’s resorted to imaginary phone calls and incoherent press briefings, all while militarizing Los Angeles as if street medics and teachers were Hamas operatives.
We’re teetering on the edge of a multi-front global crisis led by a man who just last week thought he could reroute rainfall.
And yet, somehow, even amid this chaos, Trump still found time to rehearse for his vanity parade in D.C. tomorrow, the kind where tanks roll past war memorials while the commander-in-chief waves from a platform surrounded by flags, marble, and carefully curated minorities.
But nature might have its own thoughts. Thunderstorms are forecast for the capital tomorrow, and the latest radar shows a decent chance that Trump’s parade will get rained out by the very heavens he keeps invoking on Truth Social. It would be poetic if it weren’t so terrifying, the empire, damp and confused, lurching across the lawn while the republic buckles beneath it.
So here we are: war abroad, martial law at home, and a leadership structure that punishes oversight while promoting delusion. It’s not just that the mask has slipped, it’s that they’ve taken it off and dared you to call it what it is. Authoritarian. Unconstitutional. And accelerating.
Stay loud. Stay visible. Stay peaceful, because, as Senator Padilla said, that’s exactly what they’re afraid of. Oh, and pray for rain!
 
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TACO man just changed his mind again, and in theory will stop pushing deportations of farm & restaurant labor and hotel workers. Hard to say how long that lasts before Dementia DonOld changes his mind again.
 

Trump curbs immigration enforcement at farms, meatpacking plants, hotels and restaurants​


WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration directed immigration officers to pause arrests at farms, restaurants and hotels, after President Donald Trump expressed alarm about the impact of aggressive enforcement, an official said Saturday.

The move follows weeks of increased enforcement since Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff and main architect of Trump’s immigration policies, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would target at least 3,000 arrests a day, up from about 650 a day during the first five months of Trump’s second term.

Tatum King, an official with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations unit, wrote regional leaders on Thursday to halt investigations of the agricultural industry, including meatpackers, restaurants and hotels, according to The New York Times.

A U.S. official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed to The Associated Press the contents of the directive. The Homeland Security Department did not dispute it.

 

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Very well written. We did not see the parade outside of a few clips on the news, but the protests got much more coverage in our area than Tangerine Taco’s birthday party flop too. Good job everyone, we can do this.

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Amidst one of the most tumultuous weeks in U.S. history where we witnessed a president deploy troops to a US city against the expressed demands of state and local officials, a major escalation in the conflagration in the Middle East, and a political assassination, Trump's big day finally arrived.

What transpired can only be described as a Greek comedy. His face foretells impending dread...

The parade in DC was forced to start a half hour early because of incoming weather. DC residents were saying online the air was even more humid than usual. The Swamp settled into a thick rainy haze just as the parade was scheduled to begin.

But the real problem wasn't weather— it was crowd size.

DC is an absolute ghost town. As the parade began, news outlets on the ground all reported the crowd—predicted to be 200,000 people—was a mere fraction. One New York Times reporter described the energy as 'desultory.' The tepid and unenthusiastic attendees that did show up couldn't muster as much as a cheer, exhausted and drained from standing in the hot steaming rain for hours.

The US Army's speaker system blared John Fogerty's 'Fortunate Son', a famous song about the working class people who are forced to go to war and sacrifice everything while draft-dodging, silver spoon rich kids like Trump simply pay for a phony doctor's note. The irony was likely unintentional, yet another symptom of a decaying empire unable to maintain a coherent narrative. Speaking of incoherence, the bored troops marched in the sloppiest lines that would make U.S. Army George S. Patton slap a haux.

A video of the parade widely circulating on social media depicts an ancient 80-year-old tank plodding down Constitution Ave, the crowd so eerily quiet the only thing you could hear is the rusty tank treads squeaking, no less diminished than the man it was intended to honor. The video continues for several agonizing minutes with the only audible sound the squeaking of the rusty tank and the soldiers' heads peeping out of holes gasping for air trying not to suffocate.

Trump basically used $50 million of our tax money to humiliate himself. Outside the 10 miles of tall fencing and concertina wire wrapped around DC's buildings, and the empty streets now degraded from 30 ton tanks, a nationwide rebellion was afoot.

More than 9 million people came out today for #NoKings in the largest protest against an American president in history.

The thousands of photos and videos online from #NoKings showcase how many millions hit the streets, how positive our energy was, how peaceful and organized we are, that no amount of right-wing disinformation could obscure the stark reality: that our movement has the Juice and MAGA ain't got shit.

Today we found our voice. Today we found each other. Today we reclaimed our beloved Stars and Stripes.

Today we birthed a great and mighty social movement dedicated to saving our democracy from the predator oligarchs who are robbing all of us blind, while they buy politicians and redirect our rage towards oppressed groups, like immigrants and trans people.

Today was the day we begin to turn the tables, not just on Donald Trump, but on the billionaire takers who contribute nothing to our society but an organized system of wealth extraction and widespread deprivation, bolstered by a rickety coin-operated fascist presidency.

"Rise like Lions after slumber. In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew. Which in sleep had fallen on you – Ye are many – they are few.
 
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The flip-flopper in chief has earned his reputation. BUT !

This signals a broader more ominous warning.

It appears Trump's xenophobia lead him to perceive any visitor that over-stayed a visa to be a dangerous criminal,
and that any "illegal" alien is best deported.

Now at long last, after more than four years in the white house, reality is setting in on the orange eminence.

a) These workers do labor native U.S. citizens aren't interested in.

b) They do a magnificent job.

c) They're irreplaceable, and permanently thoroughly removing them from the U.S. economy would surely result in $inflation in the labor sectors they formerly occupied.

It appears Trump has not yet learned the difference between a viable election strategy, playing to the biases of an under-informed electorate,
and presiding over a thriving economy.

And so the OJT continues.
 
It appears Trump's xenophobia lead him to perceive any visitor that over-stayed a visa to be a dangerous criminal, and that any "illegal" alien is best deported.
Just an observation - the majority of "illegal" immigrants are not "border jumpers" - instead they entered legally and didn't leave when they were supposed to.

As an point of fact there are two "crimes" here - one is actually a misdemeanor (much like a parking ticket)

 
Sounds like tinfoil hat territory.

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"The missing votes uncovered in Smart Elections’ legal case in Rockland County, New York, are just the tip of the iceberg—an iceberg that extends across the swing states and into Texas.

On Monday, an investigator’s story finally hit the news cycle: Pro V&V, one of only two federally accredited testing labs, approved sweeping last-minute updates to ES&S voting machines in the months leading up to the 2024 election—without independent testing, public disclosure, or full certification review.

These changes were labeled “de minimis”—a term meant for trivial tweaks. But they touched ballot scanners, altered reporting software, and modified audit files—yet were all rubber-stamped with no oversight.

That revelation is a shock to the public.

But for those who’ve been digging into the bizarre election data since November, this isn’t the headline—it’s the final piece to the puzzle. While Pro V&V was quietly updating equipment in plain sight, a parallel operation was unfolding behind the curtain—between tech giants and Donald Trump.

And it started with a long forgotten sale.

A Power Cord Becomes a Backdoor

In March 2021, Leonard Leo—the judicial kingmaker behind the modern conservative legal machine—sold a quiet Chicago company by the name of Tripp Lite for $1.65 billion. The buyer: Eaton Corporation, a global power infrastructure conglomerate that just happened to have a partnership with Peter Thiel’s Palantir.

To most, Tripp Lite was just a hardware brand—battery backups, surge protectors, power strips. But in America’s elections, Tripp Lite devices were something else entirely.

They are physically connected to ES&S central tabulators and Electionware servers, and Dominion tabulators and central servers across the country. And they aren’t dumb devices.

They are smart UPS units—programmable, updatable, and capable of communicating directly with the election system via USB, serial port, or Ethernet.
ES&S systems, including central tabulators and Electionware servers, rely on Tripp Lite UPS devices. ES&S’s Electionware suite runs on Windows OS, which automatically trusts connected UPS hardware.

If Eaton pushed an update to those UPS units, it could have gained root-level access to the host tabulation environment—without ever modifying certified election software.
In Dominion’s Democracy Suite 5.17, the drivers for these UPS units are listed as “optional”—meaning they can be updated remotely without triggering certification requirements or oversight. Optional means unregulated. Unregulated means invisible. And invisible means perfect for infiltration.
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Enter the ballot scrubbing platform BallotProof. Co-created by Ethan Shaotran, a longtime employee of Elon Musk and current DOGE employee, BallotProof was pitched as a
transparency solution—an app to “verify” scanned ballot images and support election integrity.

With Palantir's AI controlling the backend, and BallotProof cleaning the front, only one thing was missing: the signal to go live.

September 2024: Eaton and Musk Make It Official

Then came the final public breadcrumb:

In September 2024, Eaton formally partnered with Elon Musk.

The stated purpose? A vague, forward-looking collaboration focused on “grid resilience” and “next-generation communications.”

But buried in the partnership documents was this line:

“Exploring integration with Starlink's emerging low-orbit DTC infrastructure for secure operational continuity.”

The Activation: Starlink Goes Direct-to-Cell

That signal came on October 30, 2024—just days before the election, Musk activated 265 brand new low Earth orbit (LEO) V2 Mini satellites, each equipped with Direct-to-Cell (DTC) technology capable of processing, routing, and manipulating real-time data, including voting data, through his satellite network.

DTC doesn’t require routers, towers, or a traditional SIM. It connects directly from satellite to any compatible device—including embedded modems in “air-gapped” voting systems, smart UPS units, or unsecured auxiliary hardware.

From that moment on:

- Commands could be sent from orbit
- Patch delivery became invisible to domestic monitors
- Compromised devices could be triggered remotely

This groundbreaking project that should have taken two-plus years to build, was completed in just under ten months.

Elon Musk boasts endlessly about everything he’s launching, building, buying—or even just thinking about—whether it’s real or not. But he pulls off one of the largest and fastest technological feats in modern day history… and says nothing? One might think that was kind of… “weird.”

According to New York Times reporting, on October 5—just before Starlink’s DTC activation—Musk texted a confidant:

“I’m feeling more optimistic after tonight. Tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix.”
Then, an hour later:
“This isn’t something on the chessboard, so they’ll be quite surprised. ‘Lasers’ from space.”

It read like a riddle. In hindsight, it was a blueprint.
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The Outcome

Data that makes no statistical sense. A clean sweep in all seven swing states.

The fall of the Blue Wall. Eighty-eight counties flipped red—not one flipped blue.

Every victory landed just under the threshold that would trigger an automatic recount. Donald Trump outperformed expectations in down-ballot races with margins never before seen—while Kamala Harris simultaneously underperformed in those exact same areas.

If one were to accept these results at face value—Donald Trump, a 34-count convicted felon, supposedly outperformed Ronald Reagan. According to the co-founder of the Election Truth Alliance:

“These anomalies didn’t happen nationwide. They didn’t even happen across all voting methods—this just doesn’t reflect human voting behavior.”

They were concentrated.

Targeted.

Specific to swing states and Texas—and specific to Election Day voting.

And the supposed explanation? “Her policies were unpopular.”

Let’s think this through logically. We’re supposed to believe that in all the battleground states, Democratic voters were so disillusioned by Vice President Harris’s platform that they voted blue down ballot—but flipped to Trump at the top of the ticket?

Not in early voting.

Not by mail.

With exception to Nevada, only on Election Day.

And only after a certain threshold of ballots had been cast—where VP Harris’s numbers begin to diverge from her own party, and Trump’s suddenly begin to surge. As President
Biden would say, “C’mon, man.”

In the world of election data analysis, there’s a term for that: vote-flipping algorithm.
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And of course, Donald Trump himself:

He spent a year telling his followers he didn’t need their votes—at one point stating,

“...in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote.”
 
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