Friday, April 18, 2025

I Didn't Say It

Chris Van Hollen, Democrat Senator from Maryland, spoke with El Salvador’s Vice President Félix Ulloa about the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man sent there by The Felon’s regime despite an immigration court order preventing his deportation:

“Why is the government of El Salvador continuing to imprison a man where they have no evidence that he’s committed any crime and they have not been provided any evidence from the United States that he has committed any crime? They should just let him go. We have an unjust situation here. [The Felon’s] administration is lying about Abrego Garcia. The American courts have looked at the facts. I will keep pressing in my remaining time here and I will keep pressing beyond that.”

The Felon will not allow him back because it will make him look like even more of an inept, unqualified, lump of gelatinous flab with no brain cells firing in that fat head of his.

But We The People should remember and use our votes to get the GOP out of Congress and then impeach The Felon and his rag-tag bag of goose-stepping Nazis and imprison them all in an El Salvadoran gulag.

UPDATE: Yesterday Senator Chris Van Hollen met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador last month.

But, moments before Hollen posted his message and image, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele posted three additional photos from the meeting and said:

"Now that he’s been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador’s custody."

Apparently because The Felon is paying Bukele to keep Garcia there.

This is far from over.

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Wilson Cruz, out actor and LGBTQ+ activist, ripping fellow actor Terrence Howard a new for  refusing to play a gay character:

“Let me be very clear. I don’t give a flying fuck if straight actors play Gay roles [but] what we won’t be doing is saying that playing a Gay role makes you less of a man. Being a man has nothing to do with where you put your dick and [is] much more about where you don’t put your hands. It’s about how you use your strength to protect. To build, to stand for what is right and just, for  you. Your family, your community. Worry less about your manhood and worry more about mankind. Be a man.”

It's funny that Howard had no issue playing a drug dealer, an adulterer, a criminal, a murderer, but gay gets him all sweaty and bothered.

Huh.

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Steve Inskeep, American journalist and one of the hosts of NPR’s Morning Edition and Up First, plainly stating The Felon’s stupidity:

“If I understand this correctly, the US president has launched a trade war against the world, believes he can force the EU and China to meet his terms, is determined to annex Canada and Greenland but is powerless before the sovereign might of El Salvador. Is that right?”

Well, El Salvador has a dick-tator and The Felon seems to like dick … tators.

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David Letterman, TV icon, on The Felon:

“If this guy was running Dairy Queen, he’d be gone …so why do we have to be victimized by his fecklessness, his ignorance … Let’s just stop whining about what a goon he is and figure out a way to take him aside and put him in a home.”

Stand up, speak up, resist and vote. Then have him committed.

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Eric Swalwell, California Democrat Representative, on how to ensure that another Felon isn’t aided and abetted while office:

“I don’t say this lightly: when we escape this … Hell there needs to be a Presidential Crimes Commission. It should be made up of independent prosecutors who look at those who enabled a corrupt president.”

All those Republicans to afraid to be primaried or suffer the fate of The Mean Tweet, and who stood by and did nothing but prop up a criminal because they care more about power than country, should be sent to, oh, I don’t know, maybe some kind of maximum security gulag where they can think about what they did.

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Henry Rollins, singer, writer, actor, comedian, and spoken word artist, on immigrants to America:

“Someone who would go across a desert that can kill you, to get to another country? You want to be an American that bad? ‘Cause I’ve never had to lift my damn finger to be an American and I am honored to share a country with you.”

I’d rather share my country with people who come here looking for a better life than those people who are here to keep “others’ down because of language or skin color or gender identity or sexual orientation.

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Scott Galloway, professor at New York University Stern School of Business, on The Felon's tariff mess:

"It would be hard to think of a more elegant way to reduce prosperity this fast. Let's talk about Apple. The notion was we're going to bring back all of those great jobs? The average Apple assembly person in China makes $500 a month. The average Apple employee focusing on more high-value things like design, store management, makes $200,000 a year here. We want to wear Nikes. We don't want to make them. We have outsourced low-wage jobs overseas such that we can create more profits, more investments, and create higher wage jobs. If these tariffs hold, your iPhone's going to go from $1000 bucks to $2,300; to make an iPhone in the U.S. it would cost $3,500. As a result, the threats of these tariffs take Apple's stock down the value of Walmart in three days. If these tariffs hold ... 80% of toys under the Christmas tree are from China so 90% of U.S. households are budget-constrained. So we're talking about half the number of toys. We're talking about a destruction in shareholder value such that your parents can't retire as quickly and we're talking about the entire world rerouting their supply chain around 'brand America,' which, quite frankly, right now is toxic uncertainty—so they can bypass a series of unpredictable, epileptic, sclerotic decisions. What we finally need to acknowledge: We have someone at the wheel of the global economy that is blackout drunk right now.”

The Felon needs to be tried for his fraud, for his manipulation, to make the rich richer and the poor subservient. This whole on-again-off-again, pause on the tariff bull shit is a ploy to increase the wealth of the one percent  while punishing everyone else.

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19 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:23 AM

    Van Hollen is an example many Dems should follow: DOING something. And Bukele is a little man made powerful by corruption. Rings a bell?
    And Swallwell and Galloway are correct.
    Get him, Wilson!


    XOXO

    Sixpence

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  2. Krayolakris8:33 AM

    Oh, these are all so perfect!

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  3. They are all good, but Galloway hits the nail on the head. The truth is that Conservatives want to reduce the standard of living for a certain group of Americans so they will grudgingly accept a low paying assembly job in order to survive.

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  4. All well put. I am not sure that I understand, or did I misread, that some Democrats vote in favour of #47's party's legislation.

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  5. Sadly corruption in politics is nothing new. I was reading an account of a series of trials during the 1960s where the UK Prime Minister put party ahead of country and fixed the result of the first trial, and leaned on the senior judge at the second trial and fell from grace in another. Politicians used to make their fortunes (and may still do - we have to await the history books, if democracy lasts that long) to find out.

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  6. Wilson Cruz gets it. Meanwhile, Swalwell does, too. But the key is going to be coordinating, planning, and building coalitions up and down the ladder - just like the universities and some big law firms. IF we have elections --- real ones --- in '26, the Dems and Independents need to hammer home that the Republicans did ****nothing**** to help save this country. They stood by out of fear and cowardess.

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  7. Great quotations from everyone and now at least we know Garcia is still alive.

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  8. All excellent Quotes today, I couldn't agree more. I'm glad to hear that Garcia is still among the Living, but I also agree that this Administration is paying to continue to commit such atrocities and so the Dictator of a Banana Republic is never gonna release a Cash Cow Inmate and this Regime is never gonna concede, in fact, they'll double and triple down, Americans next, the Homegrowns as he has said and promised to enrich the El Salvadoran President more by sending and building even bigger Prisons there to house even Americans he wants to round up without Due Process and Disappear. We should be very afraid of how quickly this is all progressing in the way of continued atrocities they no longer even try to hide. The Rule of Law means nothing to them and they're ignoring even the Supreme Court that they stacked, but, which is making a feeble attempt to pretend we're still a Law Abiding Country with an Administration that isn't completely Rouge now.

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  9. Cleora Borealis10:40 AM

    🤬🤬 As I read those words of Henry Rollins, I started seething with anger! Not at Rollins, or you, but at the unbelievable number of shit sandwiches all 'Murricans and some Americans were willing to consume to put us in the current situation!! These brainless, soulless "people" ate the shit sandwiches, savored the shit sandwiches, and begged for more shit sandwiches!! I. Hate. Those. "People!"
    Almost 6 years ago, in the desert heat of El Paso in July 2019, Hubby and I marched to the US border to protest the horrific detention camps which had been built in our home city!!
    I admit it wasn't a long march; we live only a quarter-mile from that border. I'm looking at it from my back porch this very moment. And 6 years ago, I marched to protect it, and the people who live on both sides of it, and those who had the determination to make that last step across it! We welcomed and celebrated those steppers and demanded they, and their children, not be CONCENTRATED and/or SEPARATED in cages and tent camps!!
    Hubby carried a "CAGE TRUMP" sign and mine said "WE DON'T LIVE IN TRUMPISTAN!" We weathered the storm and we got a new lease on America, but now, those shit-eating bastards made sure we DO live in Trumpistan!! 🤬🤬
    Trump recently made his case for Canada 51 by saying there's no border, no line, that's just on maps and doesn't really exist. But when it comes to the southern border, my home, he sees a mile-wide, bright-red stripe and invading hordes and gunfire and bombs exploding!! I am so jealous of Trump's lover, Kim Jong-Un. He gets to live next to a de-militarized zone! Trump has taken my home, a peaceful place where "the border line" cannot be discerned unless you live here and know where it is, and he has made it a militarized zone with walls and razor wire and armed troops in helicopters and Strykers patrolling (looking for trouble)! I live in (not on or along, IN) this new DZ and instead of being at peace I now fear 2 things:
    #1--armed forces who go looking for trouble will find it or, more likely, create it
    #2--I am now detained inside Fort Trump and I am supposed to be grateful for my Generalisimo's protection!! I. Am. Not! 🖕

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  10. I don't see how the tariffs increase the wealth of the one percent, though. They hurt everybody. Even the one-percenters have their money tied up in the markets, so their investments are deteriorating too.

    I'm afraid Abrego Garcia is going to have a huge target on his back in that Salvadoran prison. I can easily see other inmates getting jealous that he's garnering so much international attention. I hope Bukele has him in protective custody.

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  11. Anonymous11:05 AM

    the dog's mother
    good collection!
    xoxo :-)

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  12. The American Dream is now an American Nightmare. Democracy has been slaughtered.

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  13. Amen ... amen ... amen to all of these!

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  14. I've never been a fan of Letterman, but he speaks the truth.
    I'm grateful to know that Garcia is alive, and hopefully he will be returned, though I suspect it will take a near miracle to have it happen.
    Because of climate change and political unrest around the world, I believe that North America is going to see an increase of more people attempting to immigrate (legally or illegally) to both the US and Canada. With IQ45's policies, I also foresee more hardship and death as a result.

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  15. It's going to be four more years of him getting away with murder and he'll still got away with it. He will never be tried and he will never see the inside of a jail cell. And this is why I'm over it.

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  16. I'm not Catholic, but I know today is Good Friday, so I'm going to take these as spot on and yep, this is really a good Friday post, sweetpea! (no religious offense intended) xoxo

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  17. Maybe if Trump had attended classes at The University of Pennsylvania and worked hard to achieve his economics degree, he would actually know something about economics and then America and its allies would not be in the shithole that he has dumped us all in through arrogance and sheer ignorance.

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  18. I didn't recognise David Letterman at all. I wonder if El Salvador would agree to a swap of all those prisoners for one Trump? Throw in Skum for good measure.

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  19. So many powerful statements today, but I actually shivered when I read the what Wilson Cruz said. Power!

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