Ashley Moody To Fill Florida Senate Seat!

I smell a 2028 potential GOP presidential. Ron DeSantis picks Ashley Moody to replace Marco Rubio.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis selects Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody as the U.S. Senator to replace former senator now Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Moody (R-FL) and Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) were sworn in by Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday.

A Israel-backed, far right supporting DeSantis stooge, the 49 year old who was the state's attorney general. A senator who has a potential to become the "rock star" in MAGAland come 2028.

Moody has spent her career in the justice system, working as a federal prosecutor before being elected at age 31 to the post of circuit judge in Hillsborough County, home to Tampa. She ran for the statewide office of attorney general in 2018, the same year DeSantis won his first bid as governor.

Moody comes from a well-known Tampa Bay family and followed in the footsteps of her father, U.S. District Judge James Moody.

Serving in the Florida Cabinet, Moody has repeatedly advocated for law enforcement. Her husband, Justin Duralia, became a deputy police chief in Plant City in July. Previously, he worked at the Drug Enforcement Administration for 24 years, most recently as a supervisory special agent. Together, they have two sons, Brandon and Connor.

She has a record of coming to Trump’s defense.

Moody has earned a reputation as a defender of the president, notably when she joined 16 other Republican state attorneys general in signing on to a lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to overturn former president Joe Biden’s 2020 election win.

“The integrity and resolution of the 2020 election is of paramount importance,” Moody wrote in a statement at the time.

In December, Moody’s office obtained an arrest warrant for Ryan Wesley Routh, whom federal authorities accuse of trying to assassinate Trump at his West Palm Beach country club in September.

Moody is pursuing criminal charges of attempted felony murder against Routh for a crash that seriously injured a 6-year-old girl after officials shut down traffic on Interstate 95 as they tried to apprehend the suspect.

Moody is poised to become just the second woman to represent the state in the U.S. Senate, and the first in nearly 40 years; Republican Paula Hawkins served in the chamber from 1981-1987.

Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL).

In her first statements after DeSantis announced her appointment Thursday, Moody said her experiences as a woman would shape her work in the Senate.

“First and foremost, I am driven by the fact that I am a mother — and I still have a kid in school,” Moody said.

To date, 63 women have served in the Senate, with 25 currently in office.

Moody’s office unsuccessfully fought to disqualify two measures from appearing on the 2024 ballot: one that would have expanded abortion rights and another that would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state.

Moody accused supporters of the abortion proposal of waging a “war” to protect the procedure. And she argued that the marijuana measure’s language — that it “allows adults 21 years or older to possess, purchase, or use marijuana products” — was misleading because it didn’t clarify that marijuana possession is illegal under federal law.

In April 2024, the Florida Supreme Court rejected Moody’s arguments and allowed the marijuana and abortion measures to go before voters. While a majority of Floridians voted to pass the initiatives, both failed to meet the state’s required 60% threshold to amend the constitution.

Moody, who is a fifth generation Florida native from Plant City, was named the queen of the Florida Strawberry Festival in 1993. Plant City has hosted the famed celebration of the state’s strawberry industry for nearly a century.

Moody can claim another kind of Florida pedigree as well: She’s a triple Gator, earning a bachelor’s, a master’s and a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida.

Moody and Husted will have to defend their seats in a special election. They will strongly hold their seats.

Already School Shooting In Trump Term: Mass Shooting In Nashville, Tennessee!

The first school shooting of 2025.

So thoughts and prayers return.

Only three days into his term, another school shooting. The first media covered mass shooting. 

Y'all voted for this!

President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Gov. Bill Lee, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and the U.S. House members were notified of the mass shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee.

The White House said in a statement that it was monitoring the shooting.

"The President and his team are monitoring the news out of Nashville," the statement read. "As details unfold, the White House offers its heartfelt thoughts and prayers to those impacted by this senseless tragedy and thank the brave first responders responding to the incident."

Lee offered his condolences to the victims and the community.

"I’ve been briefed on the incident at Antioch High School and am grateful for law enforcement & first responders who responded quickly and continue to investigate," Lee said in a statement. "As we await more information, I join Tennesseans in praying for the victims, their families & the school community."

A female student was killed and another student was injured Wednesday in a shooting in a Nashville high school cafeteria, authorities said, jarring the community nearly two years after another school massacre sparked a debate for gun reform in Tennessee.

The shooting occurred in Antioch High School shortly after 11 a.m., according to Metro Nashville Police Department spokesman Don Aaron. Authorities said a male student armed with a pistol opened fire in the cafeteria, fatally shot Josselin Corea Escalante, 16, and left another male student with a graze wound.

Nashville families return to the status quo of life. Gun violence is a symptom made by man and continued on by incompetent politicians.

The suspected shooter, identified as Solomon Henderson, 17, was an active student at the school and was found dead at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police. Metro Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake said it was not clear if the shooting was targeted, or if there was a motive behind it.

The police chief said the suspect rode the bus to Antioch High School Wednesday morning before making his way to the cafeteria, where he confronted and fatally shot a fellow student. The shooter fired several rounds before turning the gun on himself, according to Drake.

Drake said an investigation is underway into the shooting, including a variety of leads.

A fourth student was also transported to the hospital for minor facial injuries from a fall.

The shooting comes nearly two years after three 9-year-old students and three adult staff members were killed in a shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. The shooter then was killed by police.

The school's two resource officers were present in the building, but not in the cafeteria at the time of the shooting and were not able to intervene before the shooter turned the gun on himself, Aaron said.

As authorities seek to determine a motive behind the attack, Drake said police are investigating some online "materials."

Not this again.

Metro Nashville Public Schools Director Adrienne Battle called it a "heartbreaking day" for Antioch High, Metro Nashville Police Department, and the greater Nashville community. 

"My heart goes out to these families as they face unimaginable loss," she said.

Chante Frye said her daughter, a ninth grader, was in a classroom when she heard the gunshots. She texted her mom that the school was on lockdown.

"It was terrifying," Frye said, as she stood across from the Ascension Saint Thomas Antioch hospital where reunification with students was about to occur. "But it's almost not surprising because it's getting worse with the fights and the violence at school."

Student heard 'big pop' on way to the cafeteria.

Brandi Lemons, 18, a senior at the high school, said she was walking into the cafeteria with other students for lunch when she heard gunshots.

“I heard a big pop and we all turned around and tried to find out what it was, and then three more pops after that and we all took off running to the left side of the cafeteria,” Lemons said.

She said she was about to climb over a milk counter to escape when she saw the shooter walk around a corner toward her. Lemons said he then put the gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

Aren't you getting tired of these events?

The shooter was a student at the high school, Lemons said, but noted she had never spoken with him.

Lemons said she ran through the cafeteria’s kitchen and out the school’s back exit, where she called her father from the parking lot to pick her up. She said she and her classmates were all shaken.

“Right now we’re scared and confused,” she said.

The shooting jarred the Nashville community on a cold, clear morning nearly two years after three 9-year-old students and three adult staff members were killed in a shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. The shooter was later killed by police.

It's not the first time a shooting has rocked this particular cross-section of Antioch.

Four people were killed and several were wounded in a mass shooting at a Waffle House along Murfreesboro Pike in 2018. In 2017, one person was killed and six were injured in a mass shooting at Burnette Chapel Church of Christ along Pin Hook Road. Both locations are roughly one mile from Antioch High.

A bullet doesn't care about color. We all bleed red and so many lives are lost to gun violence. Republicans offer no solutions other than "thoughts and prayers" with a touch of "lock em up."

An active shooter doesn't care about the politics, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, your finances, your family, your plans that day, your successes, your failures, and most importantly, your life.

Josselin Corea Escalante was the young victim of this mass shooting.

You're not safe in the school, the concert, the hospital, the church, the casino, the bus station, the subway, the light rail train, the buses, the malls, the local big box store, the political rally, the protest rally, the women's center for reproductive surgeries, the mosque, the synagogue, the state buildings, the workplace, the gas station, the family picnic, the food truck rally, the funerals, the birthday parties, the graduations, the wedding, the televised events, the sporting events and many more events that have some terrorist with a firearm. Domestic violence, suicide, racism, culture war inspired, politically motivated and international operative inspired are types of gun violence.

Gun violence is the number one threat in the United States.

I dismiss this ridiculous notion that criminals are the problem, not the guns. Firearms are often obtained through legal purchases. 

Again, having more security, teachers being armed and offering safe rooms are not solving the problem. The problem is legislators not willing to stop gun violence.

According to the  far right :  White shooters are mentally ill. Black shooters are unrepentant thugs and criminals. Gay shooters are active groomers. Muslim shooters are terrorists. Hispanic and Asian shooters are illegal immigrants. According to the far right, almost all white [or non-white] mass shooters are registered Democrats [or some progressive activist] because they have liked or done one thing common to the left. Of course, they often share or post disinformation by using the "Sam Hyde" meme or make bogus social media platforms with the shooter's image as a way to denounce most mass shooters being white or associated with conservative causes. The far right says a white person should "protect" themselves from thugs, terrorists or protesters. They believe the use of firearms are "justified" if they are protesting or even instigating a conflict. The far right believes if a shooter is a police officer, an active military member, a veteran or a citizen who supports conservative causes, they are considered a "heroes" and use of firearms are justified. If the shooters are teens in urban communities, the far right automatically assumes the gunmen are Black.

The Republicans usually amplify white victims. Anytime a person of color kills a white victim, it is often wall-to-wall coverage on Fox, Twitter and they force it into national news. They make the case to blame Black Lives Matter, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Democrats, Rev. Al Sharpton and rap music for Black on whatever violence. Republican legislators who do not live in urban neighborhoods often troll social media to talk about gun violence or crime in Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee and New York City while not doing a damn thing to stop it. If a white person shoots a Black person, the shooter is given the benefit of doubt. White shooters are given glowing profiles about their perfect lives and how friends noticed something but refused to do something. When it comes to Black shooters, automatic vilification. They don't see mental illness. They see it as gang violence, allegedly fatherless homes, Democratic policies or the need for more firearms. 

Suspect was a 17-year old boy. Expect the far right to demonize, scapegoat and gaslight you into believing gun violence is a product of Black vagrants.

The far right and Republicans exploit gun violence in the Black community for culture wars and racism.

21 mass shootings in 2025. In bold means more than once.

• Los Angeles
• Minneapolis 
• Jackson, TN
• Boynton Beach, FL
• New Orleans
• Houston
• Washington, DC
• Beaver Falls, PA
• Omaha
• Dubberly, LA
• Santa Rosa, CA
• Atlanta
• Tucson
• West Greenwich, RI
• Charlotte
• Lafayette
• Kankakee, IL
• Queens (New York City)
• Dallas

So in closing, expect more (and more).

The website Officer Down is a memorial to those police officers who were killed in the line of duty. Those victims who don't get their names or accomplishments mentioned in the junk food media. Also the website the National Gun Violence Memorial also keeps record of the many individuals killed by gun violence. We are tracking police violence and school shootings as well. 

Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or 988 , or text the Crisis Text Line (text HELLO to 741741). Both services are free and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The deaf and hard of hearing can contact the Lifeline via TTY at 1-800-799-4889. All calls are confidential. Contact social media outlets directly if you are concerned about a friend's social media updates or dial 911 in an emergency. Learn more on the Lifeline's website or the Crisis Text Line's website.

The call number to the White House and US Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the US Secret Service and US Capitol Police. 

Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that we are tired of police officers using immunity when committing death of suspects in custody. Let them know that you are tired of private equity firms getting away with destroying small businesses and long established companies. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-Semitic or in support of terrorism. 

We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and legislators avoid influence from lobbyists. 

Ohio Woman Saw The Digital Dash!

The tears of a Karen. Ohio woman found the digital dash.

DaMichael (Mike) Jenkins, a Black real estate developer turned his life around. 

Michelle Bishop, a white woman who saw the digital dash after she made a false accusation against a Black man. She is a social media influncer who saw her life crumble before her eyes.

Ohio.

The state that voted for President Donald J. Trump has a population of 11.8 million people. It has 72% white population. Columbus, Ohio, a city of 1.03 million resident is the largest city and state capital. Ohio is part of the Great Lakes/Midwest. It has seven other cities. Cincinnati is the only city in the state besides Columbus saw population growth.

Cleveland, Toledo, Akron, Dayton, Youngstown and Canton are Rust Belt cities.

Ohio will still be the same when Trump came in 2017. Still the same when Joe Biden came in. Continues to be the same when Trump returns.

Ohio still has a problem. But don't tell Gov. Mike DeWine, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) or the 11 Republicans that racism exists. 

In Columbus, a Black real estate developer was caught off guard by a white woman with her children. She quickly ran off on him after she questioned him at his own residence. 

The woman ran with her children screaming.

DaMichael Jenkins and his wife posted the encounter from Nov. 2024 to social media. The woman was identified as Michelle Bishop.

Jenkins said he was arriving home at around 6 p.m. and admiring their home’s Christmas lights when he spotted a woman with two kids in his driveway. Despite not thinking much about it, he asked her if she was looking for someone. She allegedly ignored him and booked it to his front porch. He proceeded to park his car while the woman rang his doorbell. That’s when the three-minute viral video starts.

Her words could have killed him.

As DaMichael is walking up, she takes her baby out of the stroller and asks him, “Do you live here?” He responded, “Yeah,” and her reply was, “I don’t believe that.” She repeated it twice before moving to the other side of the porch, away from the garage, before leaving the home running, screaming for “Help” in a distressed voice while the stroller rolled off the porch.

Jenkins and his wife recently discussed the incident on Shannon Sharpe and Chad Ochocinco’s ‘Nightcap’ podcast. Keep scrolling for a breakdown of their comments and what Michelle had to say for herself amid her white tears.

Bishop, a social media influencer and fitness trainer who runs a business made an apology that seems condescending.

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It was a viral rant where she tried to explain why she reacted the way she did.

Bishop even explained that her apology to DaMichael and his wife Michelle was not accepted.

Some on social media thought it was mixed. Some called her "apology" a joke.

Bishop choked back tears as she repeatedly insisted that the incident was not racial-related. She also claimed that her public apologies have not been accepted amid social media continuing to drag her and her family.

As of Tuesday morning, her Facebook apology video had over 8,000 reactions and more than 4,000 comments. The majority of the comments are DRAGGING Michelle and her apparent lack of accountability, but there were a few sympathizers.

Alishia Michelle wrote, “It’s the fact that you are playing victim that is crazy to me. You lied about what happened, and they have it on video. Now think if the police believed you? LIES can kill people.”

“Just apologize and say you were wrong. Stop making excuses.,” Danielle House Empie added.

“Michelle, I have no idea what happened but I know your heart. You are so sweet, kind and loving, and I trust you did right by yourself and your kids. Sending you love!!! Love you,” Dillon Hoover said.

Huge Ratings!

I didn't watch it. Did you?

Y'all voted for this.

President Donald J. Trump had the lowest TV and social media ratings for second inauguration. Trump's first inauguration was low but better than this one. Over 27 million watched it compared to the 32 million in his first one. Former president Joe Biden has 40 million.

The right claims Trump did more in one day than Biden in four years. So I guess he will see a poll bump?

Nah.

Trump’s job approval is currently 46%. He already starts as an unpopular president. 

He pardoned and commuted the Jan. 6 insurrectionists including the controversial ones. It will go down as one of the worst decisions made by a president.

Notable ones:

• Jenna Ryan
• Enrique Tarrio
• Jacob Chansley
• Jay Johnston
• Stuart Rhodes
• Rachel Powell
• Richard "Bigo" Barnett
• Ashli Babbitt (deceased)
• Derrick Evans
• Owen Shroyer
• Steve Bannon
• Peter Navarro
• Adam Johnson
• Riley Williams 

They will not escape lawsuits filed by those injured. Now that they are pardoned, the risk of federal lawsuits will open the floodgates.

And y'all complaining about Hunter Biden!

The president's controversial pardon and commutes only assure that he and Vice President JD Vance will have to watch their backs for the entirety. The U.S. Secret Service will be strained. The U.S. Capitol Police are going to be strained.

They will be stretched to the limits. The fact they will have to protect the lawmakers who support Trump’s decision and those lawamakers affected by the actions of those pardoned by the president.

This is almost Gerald Ford like behavior. The Republicans cannot use "law and order" as an excuse when there is an uprising against injustice. They literally are not the party of the police and military.

On top of that, that Trump is convicted felon himself. The pardoning of criminality allows Americans to justify their actions. They can use it as an excuse. If someone commits an act of domestic terrorism, they can say they did it on behalf of Trump and his causes. The ultimate price of not voting or believing the bullshit that came out of Trump and former president Joe Biden’s mouth.

Biden is solely the reason why Trump is back in office. 

Biden dropped from 14 to 28 in presidential ratings. He will be ranked below average. His handling of the economy, not fighting against the smears, the TikTok ban, immigration and the support of Israel doomed his term. His reelection, Kamala Harris' presidential bid, the House and Senate majorities were wiped out. 

The Supreme Court is now going to be a generation of far right jurists and wasted opportunities for progress.

Republicans hold a three seat senate majority and a electoral college hold on Florida and Ohio. The Republicans have a five seat hold in the House. Due to redistricting in states controlled by Republicans, they will maintain holds  for years. Their unpopular policies and laws will remain in effect.

Why pay your federal and state taxes?

If you are affected by Trump or Republican policies, why should you pay taxes?

Elon Musk

Department of Government Efficiency member Elon Musk did a controversial salute which some saw as Nazism. The Anti-Defamation League did not react to it and it drew the ire of Jewish groups (not supportive of Israel).

The ADL and America Israel Public Affairs Committee are agents of the Israeli regime. The two run hand and hand with the Trump administration and apartheid Israel.

Trump fired Vivek Ramaswamy already. After Ramaswamy made remarks that drew the ire of MAGAland. He was forced to withdraw to now focus on a bid for Ohio governor now that Jon Husted was appointed to the Senate.

Cecile Richards Passed Away!

Cecile Richards.

Planned Parenthood's most recognized figure passed away. The former president of the women's health and reproductive rights organization had passed away from glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

Cecile Richards was an American activist who served as the president of both the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliated Planned Parenthood Action Fund from 2006 to 2018. In 2010, Richards was elected to the Ford Foundation board of trustees. In spring 2019, Richards co-founded Supermajority, a women's political action group.

Richards was born in Waco, Texas, on July 15, 1957, the daughter of Ann Richards (née Willis), an American politician and activist who served as governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. Her father, David Richards, practiced law, and built a practice dealing with civil-rights plaintiffs, newspapers, and labor unions. He also won several landmark cases, including a voting-rights lawsuit that went to the Supreme Court. Cecile Richards was raised in Dallas and Austin, Texas. She initially went to public school, but, in ninth grade, she was disciplined for protesting the Vietnam War, after she wore a black armband. She then attended the progressive St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin for the remainder of high school.

Richards graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from Brown University (1980).

Richards was married to Kirk Adams, a labor organizer with the Service Employees International Union, with whom she had three children: Lily, Hannah and Daniel. Their eldest, Lily Adams, served as press secretary for Tim Kaine, later as an advisor of communications for Hillary Clinton's Democratic presidential campaign, and as communications director for Kamala Harris's presidential campaign.

Richards died Monday at home in New York “surrounded by family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie,” her family said in a statement.

Richards, the daughter of the late Texas Gov. Ann Richards, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in 2023, five years after she left Planned Parenthood.

Though Planned Parenthood also provides birth control, cancer screenings and testing for sexually transmitted diseases at clinics nationwide, its status as the nation’s leading abortion provider has long made it a target of social conservatives. Under Richards’ leadership, the organization gained in membership, donor support and political clout, and she played a prominent role in pushing back against critics.

In 2015, she spent hours answering hostile questions from Republican U.S. House members who later created an investigative panel to probe Planned Parenthood’s abortion and fetal-tissue policies. In 2021, she warned that the U.S. Supreme Court’s inaction on Texas’ restrictive abortion law could signal the end of judicial checks and balances on the issue. And after the court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, she continued to speak out.

“One day, our children and grandchildren may ask us, ‘When it was all on the line, what did you do?’” she said at the Democratic National Convention in August. “The only acceptable answer is, ‘Everything we could.’”

Richards earned a bachelor of arts degree in history from Brown University, where she unfurled a banner from a second floor window during her 1980 graduation ceremony to protest the school’s investments in South Africa.

“One of the more popular buttons of the day was ‘Question Authority,’ and I feel like we did that every single day, and it absolutely set me on my path,” she said in a 2017 address to graduates. “Brown instilled in me the belief that any one of us can change the world and that, in fact, it’s sort of what is expected of us.”

After college, she worked as an organizer for low-wage workers in several states before returning to Texas to help with her mother’s 1990 gubernatorial campaign. In 2004, she was a founder of America Votes, and before joining Planned Parenthood, served as deputy chief of staff for House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Former president Joe Biden gave Richards the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Richards with her husband and former first lady Dr. Jill Biden.

“It was my privilege to work directly with Cecile for many years and to I have a front-row seat to her sharp intellect, strategic thinking and relentless effectiveness,” Pelosi said in a statement Monday. “As she ascended to other leadership roles, we never stopped working together to defend the rights of women and working families.”

Outgoing President Joe Biden, who awarded Richards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November, on Monday called her a “leader of utmost character.”

“Cecile fearlessly led us forward to be the America we say we are,” he said in a statement issued about an hour before Donald Trump was sworn in as president. “Carrying her mom’s torch for justice, she championed some of our Nation’s most important civil rights causes. She fought for the dignity of workers, defended and advanced women’s reproductive rights and equality, and mobilized our fellow Americans to exercise their power to vote.”

After leaving Planned Parenthood, Richards served as co-chair of American Bridge, which supports liberal causes and conducts opposition research on Republicans. Last fall, she launched a project that used social media to emphasize personal stories about the impact of abortion bans and restrictions.

Alexis McGill Johnson, current president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, called Richards an “indomitable force.”

“As we continue to navigate uncharted territory, we will be able to meet the challenges we face in large part because of the movement Cecile built over decades,” she said. “I know, without a doubt, that Cecile would tell us the best way to honor her memory is to suit up — preferably in pink — link arms, and fight like hell for Planned Parenthood patients across the country.”

In her Democratic convention speech, Richards described the joy of becoming a grandmother in 2023 and called Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign a “celebration of women.”

“As my mother, Gov. Ann Richards, would say, ‘I hear America singing,’” she said. “When women are free to make their own decisions about their lives and to follow our dreams, we are unstoppable.

Trump Wants The Gulf Of America! No Talk About Lowering Groceries!

Symbolic dumb shit. The Republicans and Trump are trying to seize 

President Donald J. Trump will be judged by his actions. His actions will impact all Americans. Whether you voted for him or not, you will feel either positive or negative impacts of the policies presented by Republicans and Democrats in Congress.

The symbolic bills, resolutions and executives orders will have some impact on our country. What will it take for the Republicans to stay focused on passing legislation that lowers costs and benefits the working class, the middle class and yes, the poor.

Republicans are trying to pass a symbolic bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. 

The largest bay in North and South America is not owned by the United States or any foreign country. It is a trading and crucial shipping route. It is also the most active for hurricanes.

But since Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization, the trading partners and on the ground spotters will not inform Trump or the U.S. of deadly diseases or a catastrophic weather event.

Trump in his first act signed off over 200 executive orders to rescind former president Joe Biden’s agenda. 

Right now, Trump has not discussed any policies or bills to lower grocery prices, medical costs and insurance costs.

As expected, we get pseudo patriotic bullshit and culture wars.

Trump also expects to push for tariffs on trading partners which could impact supply chains.

Y'all Voted For This!

Trump rescinds Biden and Obama policies.

The Trump era begins again.

When things go bad, don't blame former president Joe Biden.

The Project 2025 (Agenda 47) is taking shape as the country's most polarizing president returns to the White House. No longer Washed Up 45.

He needs a new nickname.

Old Geezer 47

Senile 47

President Donald J. Trump had issued pardons and commuting of Jan. 6 insurrectionists. 

He signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords again 

He signed an executive order to withdraw from the World Health Organization.

He ordered government workers who work remotely or at home to report to their places of work.

Trump placed Cuba back on the state sponsor of terrorism listing again.

Trump issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship. 

Trump issued an executive order rescinded the lowering of prescription drugs for people on Medicare and Medicaid.

Trump extended the deadline on TikTok.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been dispatched in Atlanta, Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco and Philadelphia.

So many things happened and it's only day one of his second term.

The New Trump Show Premieres!

The old fart's official White House picture.

Okay, here we go.

The inauguration of Donald John Trump, Sr. and James David Vance.

The status quo returns to Washington, DC.

White men.

The 47th President of the United States and 50th Vice President of the United States are being sworn in at 12:00pm.

It will not be an outdoor rally like it has previously when Donald J. Trump was a "healthy" 70 year old. Now at age 78, he will succeed again being the oldest elected president.

Sub-freezing temperatures forecast for Monday in Washington mean Trump will take the oath of office from inside the Capitol Rotunda. Almost everyone visiting Washington won’t be able to see the ceremony in person.

It will be the first time in 40 years that the swearing-in won’t take place on the Capitol steps. Plans are underway to accommodate some attendees at the city’s pro basketball and hockey arena.

Here’s what’s known about the arrangements as organizers scramble to adapt:

The Rotunda is prepared as an alternative for each inauguration in the event of inclement weather. The swearing-in was last moved indoors in 1985, when President Ronald Reagan began his second term. Monday’s forecast calls for the lowest Inauguration Day temperatures since that day.

Former president Joe Biden, members of Congress and other dignitaries and notable guests will be able to view the ceremony from inside the Capitol. On Friday, workers were installing a small platform in the Rotunda.

The U.S. Capitol Police said outside ticketed areas at the Capitol will be closed “due to the extremely cold weather,” so even if people wanted to gather there as Trump takes the oath inside, they won’t be allowed to do so.

Monday’s forecast temperature is about the same as it was in Washington 64 years ago, when John F. Kennedy took the oath in a 22-degree chill, and after crews worked overnight clearing 8 inches of fresh snow from the parade route. Kennedy delivered his speech from the Capitol’s east steps without a topcoat, his frosty breath visible as he spoke.

A half-century earlier, William Howard Taft held his 1909 inauguration indoors after 10 inches of snow fell. That’s when the inauguration was still held on March 4, not Jan. 20.

Trump and JD Vance will inherit an economy that is stable but on the bubble.

He will continue the division and divisiveness of partisan politics.

He will have four years to accomplish the goals he failed at doing in his first term.

Trump will bring the chaotic noise once again through social media. He will tell some truthful things and a whole lot of misleading things.

He will immediately blame others for actions when he is the head of the U.S. government.

He will certainly get two or three more Supreme Court nominees.

JD Vance, the gaslighting vice president. 

Trump will be a part of the 21st Century. The first president who is a former reality television media personality with no government experience in his first term. He is returning with some government experience but lack of understanding. The first president to lose the popular vote twice only to win it the third time. A president who may not leave office despite the constitutional amendment declaring an elected president must serve two concurrent or two non concurrent terms.

Grover Cleveland was an unpopular president when he was the 22nd President and 24th President. Trump will enter the White House once again with low job approval.

Cleveland served one term and lost in his bid for reelection. He mounted a campaign of divisiveness to win again. Cleveland was on the phony populism and scapegoating minorities. Trump succeeded in scapegoating immigrants, transgender women, Black women and economic turmoils.

One thing Trump and Cleveland had in common is the fact they were from New York. 

Trump now claims residency in Florida.

JD Vance is one of the youngest vice presidents in modern history. He came from a poor home in Middletown, Ohio to become a millionaire. He wrote the bestseller Hillbilly Elegy which became a feature film. Vance became a mainstream figure on CNN and Fox. He was once critical of Trump and MAGA. He called Trump, "America's Hitler." He won the Ohio U.S. senate seat and soon became an insufferable member. He won over Ohioans with his constant gaslighting of East Palestine, fentanyl and immigration in Springfield.

Vance is married to Usha. She will be the first Indian American to be Second Lady of the United States. He will be tasked with doing ambassador roles, breaking ties in the Senate, preparing for the possibility of Trump dying in office and endless grievances. 

So here's what I am going to do.

Remind the readers about gas prices.

Remind the readers about how inflation still matters.

Remind the readers about how Republicans ruin the economy every time they bring up austerity and bans on freedoms.

Remind the readers about how Republicans will abandon almost every campaign promise to pivot to a culture war.

I want Trump, Vance, Israel, Republicans, MAGA and some of the Democratic members to fail. I want celebrities who back MAGA to fail. I want to see protests and boycotts. I want revolts against Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, McDonald's, Amazon, Walmart, Kroger, Fox, Nexstar, Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, the NFL, the Anti-Defamation League, AIPAC, AT&T, Apsen Dental, UnitedHealthcare, Goya and every entity sucking the life out of the American worker or consumer.

I want private equity firms to fail. They are the reasons why big box stores are closing, a struggling housing market and debt piled on the American taxpayer.

I want chaos. I want the U.S. to see how the policies of Trump, Joe Biden, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan destroyed our reputation.

As far as I am concerned Bill Clinton (despite his personal life issues) and Barack Obama will be my favorite presidents. They managed to do something with endless Republican obstruction. They faced government shutdowns, endless Republican gaslighting and unfortunately paved the way for Trump to become president.

Obama should have used the left to take down Trump's racist birther conspiracies. 

Obama should have took on a harsher approach to Fox, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and Sean "Softball" Hannity. 

But at least Rush Limbaugh dead still. He won't be able to relish in the return of Trump. He is dead and fucking gone. All that's left is Beck, Levin, "Softball" Hannity, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Laura Ingraham, Pat Buchanan, Steve Bannon and Ben Shapiro. May they be at peace once they are gone. Hopefully soon.

Anyway, here's the videos of Trump's inaugurations.

King's Disease!

We shall overcome.

Y'all voted for this. You are going to regret it.

President Donald J. Trump's second inauguration is on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Many are actively protesting and boycotting events in relation to Trump.

Snoop Dogg, Soulja Boy, Nelly, Rick Ross, Waka Flocka Flame and other rappers are being boycotted for appearing at Trump inaugural events. 

Bernice King continues to dismiss Republican and Democratic lawmakers using her father as a symbol to their horrendous acts against humanity.

Republicans continue to use selective quotes from King to justify white supremacy.

Immigration rights activists are filing lawsuits against Trump and the Department of Homeland Security as the kickoff to mass deportation begins.

Pro Palestinian groups continue to press on despite the ceasefire. Israel has already violated the ceasefire despite the agreements to release captured IDF soliders and settlers. Palestinians who were placed in Israeli custody were not given the rock star treatment as the settlers (soliders) being released from Gazan custody.

Alveda King, the cousin of Bernice and Martin Luther King, III will attend the Trump inauguration. She is feuding with the surviving son and daughter of the late civil rights leader. Alveda continues a misrepresentation of King's legacy.

Charlie Kirk is pressing for Republicans to repeal King day. Many of these Republicans are listening to Kirk. 

Kirk calls King a Marxist and racial arsonist who didn’t deserve a holiday.

Several states in the South will celebrate the disgraceful legacymof Robert E. Lee.

Pete Hegseth has promise to return the original Confederate names to military installations in the South.

if King was alive, he would be 96 years old. He would be vilified by the far right like the retired civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, Sr. and National Action Network leader Rev. Al Sharpton. Shaprton is a host on MSNBC.

At the age of 39, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

It came 10 years after a woman tried to stab him to death. Izola Curry, a former housekeeper tried to kill King when he appeared at a book signing in Harlem.

Curry blamed the NAACP and King for her failures as a she tried to find work.

He was there on behalf of striking garbage workers. After a staying at the Lorraine Motel, King and a few of his friends were going to have a dinner.

A gunman fired from a windows in a neighboring motel room striking him in the head and chest.

King was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested on June 8, 1968, at London's Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States and charged with the crime. On March 10, 1969, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary. He later made many attempts to withdraw his guilty plea and to be tried by a jury, but was unsuccessful. Ray died in prison in 1998.

King traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, in support of striking African-American city sanitation workers. The workers had staged a walkout on February 11, 1968, to protest unequal wages and working conditions imposed by mayor Henry Loeb. At the time, Memphis paid black workers significantly lower wages than it did white workers. There were no city-issued uniforms, no restrooms, no recognized union, and no grievance procedure for the numerous occasions on which they were underpaid. During Loeb's tenure as mayor, conditions did not significantly improve, and the gruesome February 1968 deaths of two workers in a garbage-compacting truck turned mounting tensions into a strike.

Many communities have roads, bridges, buildings and monuments named after him.

The King family have repeatedly denounced Trump, particularly as the GOP nominee has continually invoked the civil rights legend’s name. 

Delete this, @MAGAResource. It’s vile, fake, irresponsible, and not at all reflective of what my father would say. And you gave no thought to our family. https://t.co/v03vZmlwfO

— Be A King (@BerniceKing) November 4, 2024

Trump has falsely claimed that his 2020 inauguration speech drew the same number of people to the National Mall as the March on Washington that saw King give his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

So once again why do we honor King when the U.S. is never committed to his legacy?

On the third Monday of January, the U.S. government acknowledged it as a national holiday. It is the only national holiday that celebrates the life of a non government official.

Now honestly, I believe it is a travesty to King by giving him a holiday. I believe the key to honoring his legacy is to eliminate the hate the U.S. continues to fester in. 

King should never be forgotten. His legacy as a civil rights leader was controversial.

Republicans opposed the holiday in the 1980s. It was John Conyers who made the holiday a national law. He pushed for it and then president Ronald Reagan vehemently opposed it on the grounds that he viewed King as a Communist. White nationalists like Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and Trent Lott.

He was vilified by conservatives. Black figures like Malcolm X called him a sell-out or a traitor to his race. Others claimed he was a snake oil salesman, an adulterer and a fraud.

From 1953 until his untimely death in 1968, King led the fight for Blacks in the South. He called for an end to Jim Crow segregation laws, establish voting rights for Blacks, and call for an end to poverty.

So many things happened during his time on earth but most didn't know he was a marked man because he stood up against the system.

Did you know he nearly committed suicide after his grandmother passed away?

Did you know that King did not trust white people at one time hated them for the way they treated his father, brother and mother?

Did you know he survive two assassination attempts before the Memphis encounter?

Did you know Martin Luther King was an independent not a Republican?

Democrats were not all on board with civil rights. Republicans at one time were the champions of civil rights. With the fears of communism and the conservative rise of charlatans like Joseph McCarthy, Strom Thrumond and Barry Goldwater, King was the other enemy to the far right.

King did lead the Montgomery bus boycott, the Albany, Georgia movement and protest in Birmingham. Richard Nixon blew an opportunity to win Black voters. Then vice president brushed off the calls to take on Southern governors attempts to stop desegregation. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts called upon the release of King and asked for his brother Robert and civil rights leaders to aid him. That earned King's endorsement. Kennedy would become the 35th President of the United States. 

Kennedy was cautious about King. He knew the allegations of associating with alleged communists would be damaging to him. Kennedy kept the fight for civil rights but died because of it. 

He was assassinated in 1963 and Lyndon B. Johnson took control. During that time, King worked with Johnson to get the Kennedy agenda to fruition. It took a speech at the Lincoln Memorial to drive the world to King.

King helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

It was an ugly fight in the 1960s in the South. There was the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, the killing of civil rights workers in Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, the arrest of King and his allies.

The Klan was at its strongest during the 1960s. The federal government was pressured to do something.

The SCLC put into practice the tactics of nonviolent protest with some success by strategically choosing the methods and places in which protests were carried out. There were several dramatic stand-offs with segregationist authorities, who sometimes turned violent.

J. Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of the FBI's COINTELPRO from 1963, forward. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, recorded his extramarital affairs and reported on them to government officials, and, in 1964, mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.

King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work. He was there for the signings of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act under President Lyndon B Johnson.

The two would lose favor after Johnson vowed to support Israel during the infamous Six Day War and his commitment to take on the Viet Cong in Vietnam.

King distanced himself from the 1968 Democratic presidential primaries. He didn't endorse candidates. Johnson sought to no longer be president and it led to a lot of tension.

During the striking garbage workers in Memphis, an assassin shot King in April. The Lorraine Motel in Memphis is now a memorial to his passing. 

Since 1983, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday is celebrated in the United States. It was the first holiday to an African American and a non politician. On the third Monday of the month of January, we honor King's legacy and offer a day of service.

I seriously believe that if King was alive, he would be disappointed in the way things are going.

Oh by the way, for those who believe King was a supporter of gun rights, he did own a firearm but refused to use it citing his children accidently shooting themselves if they got a hold of it.

He was a victim of gun violence too. 

Gun violence is the biggest threat to the United States.

Republicans and some Democrats twist his legacy into a partisan agenda.

Republicans are on board with white nationalism and dog whistle politics.

Democrats are on the side of white gentificiation and side piece meal politics.

Both sides are not working in the interest of King.