But as we know by now, or should anyway, Trump doesn't care about the law, domestic or international. He does what he wants, or in this case, he has his military do it for him. Whether it's the ICE brigades on domestic soil, or the active duty military in international territories.

I read that about seven to eight U.S. soldiers were wounded in this attack, and approximately eighty plus Venezuelans and Cubans were killed and wounded. I ask anyone reading this, how many people saw this in their news feeds? I bet very few. I had to dig for it a little myself. According to the one article I found, two Americans ended up staying in hospital as their wounds were significant and the others were treated and released. They got off very lucky.

Meanwhile, the world is in shock, which I'm sure Trump probably had an orgasm over. It sounded like he was with his Truth Social posts. But then, at his age and purported health condition, I have my doubts that he can even get it up anymore. I hope he has an STD from all of his misadventures with his late best pal Epstein.

That's mean, I know, but I'm mad. I'm mad about the American people letting Trump and his people get away with all of this. We have the power to take down a president. We've done it a couple of times already in our history. First there was Andrew Johnson back in the mid-19th century, then tricky Dick Nixon in 1974. We can do it again, if we had the will to do it. But we don't anymore.

Most of us are so broke, we don't have the energy anymore to rise up en-mass to demand that Trump be impeached by the House of Representatives, and convicted by the Senate. We don't have a congress of the people anymore. What the United States has, is an oligarchy along the same lines as Russia. The Russian Duma does whatever Putin wants, for the most part. His ministers have all been bought, or are part of the oligarchy running the country.

Does this sound a bit familiar? In the case of the U.S., it's more like a mafia family with the associates and made men working for the Capo de Capo.

This particular mafia don has pretty much subverted the federal government now, and only an uprising of major proportions might stop this, but not without a lot of bloodshed.

I reposted a couple of today's articles from my feeds on my Substack page today telling anyone who dares to read them, that the people in the U.S. may need to repeat history to take back the country from these gangsters. I explicitly told readers that the people should rise up against the ICE brigades much like our colonial predecessors did at places like Lexington and Concord, when they stood up to the British Red Coats.

These ICE agents apparently have minimal training and discipline as witnessed by the horrific murder of an innocent young woman in Minneapolis yesterday. The worst part, is the denial and lies told to the public that she was a domestic terrorist. From what I could get from the video, she cussed out the aggressive ICE agent, who told her to move her car. And as she was trying to straighten out her car in order to pull out from where she was blocking the street while filming the ICE raid, the agent pulled out his pistol and shot her in the face at near point blank range through her windshield. He was in no physical danger as he was on the side of the car as she was leaving.

On the back side of this, that ICE agent has probably already been quietly evacuated from Minnesota, just like that agent was from Chicago a few months ago. He was eventually found in Maine, and we were told it was a routine PCS (permanent change of station) transfer. I expect the same for this agent in Minneapolis. Some intrepid wannabe detective will eventually find him someday and out him, only for DHS to give him immunity from prosecution.

This is the United States we live in now. Where federal immigration enforcement agents can shoot people with impunity and, so far, no one is able to hold any of them accountable for their actions. The FBI is useless now and we can be relatively sure they won't arrest anyone. The state law enforcement offices will investigate as best as they can, but any physical evidence will be secured by the FBI and Minnesota will be left with nothing but the videos. Governor Walz can yell all he wants and they can even issue arrest warrants based on state laws but DHS will thumb their noses at Minnesota and dare them to do anything about it. Chris Armitage has written about this several time already. The states need to find a way to hold these officers accountable when they break the law in their states. Until that starts to happen, they will continue their deadly rampage across the country. We can expect more deaths going forward. So far, the body count is two dead, with several wounded. All were charged with threatening or endangering a federal officer in the performance of their lawful duties. All lies but it's their story and their sticking to it. I read today that Trump explicitly told Pamela Jo Bondi and Kristi Noem that no ICE agents were ever to be prosecuted for any reported crimes while performing their duties. There you go. What more do you need to see that Trump's mafia enforcers are out of control.

By all of the economic indicators out there right now, the U.S. is entering a recession. Unemployment is ticking up, inflation is going up, wages are stagnating, layoffs are ramping up and people are getting increasingly desperate. Trump doesn't seem to be too concerned about it though. Obviously, he won't be personally affected by any economic downturns, and we all know how little he really cares for the average citizen in the U.S. or any other country for that matter.

We the people can't afford to wait until next November when the democrats will sweep the congress in the mid-term elections. Trump will destroy the country before then. Some of us have been warning anyone who'll listen about how the MAGA republicans are trying very hard to subvert the elections in their favour. We've been reading and listening to news stories about how Trump is determined that MAGA will win the next spate of elections, one way or another. He keeps telling everyone how much he hates to lose elections, so this may be no different in his demented mind.

In my personal space, I am working on saving money to install a solar panel battery back up system in case Dominion Energy suffers a power outage. I had thought of this a couple of years ago but the price tag was very prohibitive and the batteries were reported to be crap.

But now, the battery technology is supposed to be better, and the price tag is also better. They're now offering battery backup storage systems to keep just the essentials going, using rooftop solar panels to keep the batteries charged. In theory, I can install a small system to keep my refrigerator and freezer going during a prolonged outage, and maybe even run an electric heater during cold weather. I don't need to power the whole house during a prolonged outage. I just need to keep the food from spoiling and keep us from freezing to death in the winter. I can use candles and oil lamps for light and shut off the rest of the house until they get the power back online.

I will admit that in the five years I've lived here in central Virginia, I can only remember one or two outages that lasted no more than a couple of hours. That's pretty good, compared to when we lived in central Texas. I hope it stays that way. But after the two brownouts we suffered back in December, I don't want to take any chances, if I can afford the battery kit.

My wife has expressed a desire to go vacationing to an island this year. At first, I thought she meant some tropical island somewhere until she clarified. She wants to spend about five days on some island on the eastern U.S. seaboard near some summer tourist town. Since I plan to install a tow bar kit on my new little truck, I thought, okay, that's doable. We can tow my truck behind the RV and play tourist. I still plan to get out on weekends to take pictures to sell in my website, so maybe I can do both. Not that I think I will sell many pictures but it doesn't hurt to try.

So yes, this is a plug for the online store in this website. Come in and take a look around. You never know, I might have a book or a digital photo that strikes your fancy. The good part, is that you can buy direct from me without issues from anywhere in the world, using most common currencies. With the Google Translator on the home page, language issues shouldn't be a problem.

I'm becoming more and more concerned about the direction the U.S. is going these days. If the U.S. becomes a pariah rogue state that most of the world shuns out of fear, all of us, other than the morbidly wealthy, will suffer greatly. I've been to poorer countries in my military days and I never thought I would be thinking my own country would suffer that fate. It's beginning to look like we will if we don't find a way to get rid of Trump and his government flunkies. We need to to this sooner than later.

Next week's podcast will be about how feckless a large majority of our elected politicians are, from district representatives to state senators, who are failing all of us while they run around in expensive suits, expensive cars, live in expensive houses, sometimes more than one, and ignore the people that voted for them, unless you're a wealthy donor. I'm far from being a wealthy donor and I'm tired of contacting my state politicians to voice my concerns and receiving nothing in return but form emails weeks later telling me now great a job they're doing for their constituents. I plan to call them out on this next week. They all happen to be democrats. Won't that make my younger brother happy. He hates democrats with a passion. If he could line them all up against a wall in front of a firing squad, he would grin from ear to ear as he gives the order to fire.

That's it for this week. I'm sure Trump and company will give us all a lot more to talk about in the week ahead. Sláinte