Why do ICE agents have the need to hide, to cover, to mask, to not be forthcoming in their identity? If one has the absolute moral conviction in their abiding to, the vows by, and for the U.S. Constitution and how its citizens have rights to demonstrate peaceably their grievances against the (Trump) government in all branches (Renee Nicole Good was NOT a threat to any federal agent)… then WHY on Earth would you feel the need to hide your identity? It is a very legitimate question! It is also very telling.
It is not a stretch to argue that IF you think/feel the need to HIDE your facial and personal identity, then it is equally assumed that YOU (the persons hiding their true identity) are involved in, associated with, and/or committing illegal acts… or are an accessory to unconstitutional behaviors and acts. If you are doing nothing wrong and all you do is uphold and abide by the U.S. Constitution for legal residents of the United States, then there is no reason whatsoever to hide your identity. Right?
And yet this is precisely what most all ICE agents do under the authorization of Trump and Trump’s loyalists. Period.
There is something rotten, very evil going on from the White House that is violating all kinds of illegal behavior and actions in this Union of States in (no surprise whatsoever) every city or state that is “Blue” or not aligned with extremist Red Trump authoritarianism. Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Stalin, Kim Jong Un, and a long list of dictators in history that enacted the exact same ‘marshal law’ to wipe out and remove (permanently) their political opposition. This is precisely what Trump and MAGA Repubs are following to a tee in this country.
Wake up American voters, citizens, and true patriots of democracy. Your entire country and federal government have been removed from the core principles our Founding Fathers designed and ratified for this country. This is NOT by any means a legitimate republic democracy of the people, by the people, or for the people. It is slipping away, fast.
Live Well – Love Much – Laugh Often – Learn Always – Remove MAGA
I have been a big fan of Ken Burns and his many exceptional, award-winning historical documentaries on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) over the last few decades. The biggest reason? He does not skimp or cheat his audiences from historical accuracy, historical facts, historical context, or how history always, always applies today. This is never more true than with modern history—everything after the end of the Middle Ages, c.1500 CE, to the present—and how much we Americans are still living it, in fact, it can never be ignored nor should it be. Ever!
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“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, circa 69 BCE
Cicero’s famous oratory as a Roman constitutionalist made him a statesman with no loyalties to either nobility, patrician, or plebian. He was a well-educated citizen for all the people of the empire. His work should echo in Washington, D.C. every single day and as far south as Palm Beach, Florida, and Mar-a-Lago.
Do Americans Know Enough About Their Own National History?
The short answer is no, and the age gaps are very telling: around 40% of older Americans (65+ years old) are able to show proficiency. Sadly, only 19–27% of those under the age of 45 showed proficiency in modern American history [Institute for Citizens & Scholars]. This translates to just 4-in-10 Americans passing basic history and civics tests (2019). And today it is worse, much worse. This has been an American downward trend the last several decades. To say that the United States has been raising and educating ignorant citizens of American history, not teaching their civic origins and/or their present livelihoods, is a gross understatement. “Houston, we have a problem,” a critical event-horizon problem.
“I’m embarrassed that, as a country, we don’t grasp our history. Everyone approaches it from the arrogance of the position of how it turns out. We are all in the grip of the present, but if you point out the parallels, they are dated immediately. People are always trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.”
What Burns, Richardson, Goodwin, Foner, McCullough, and so many other top American expert historians are alarmed about is the same thing, the same alarm I’ve been sounding since at least 2010 not just here on WordPress, but in my school classrooms when I was a Social Studies/History teacher for several years here in Texas. Drawing from the past and present Ken Burns could not be more unambiguous in his current dismay of Americans. The parallels of his newest docuseries, TheAmerican Revolution on PBS, and speaks to current incompetence of our civic knowledge, duties, and privileges and how it applies right now, whether he intended it or not when making the series. He states:
“…President Donald Trump’s romanticising executive order signed earlier this year to remove “revisionist” interpretations in museums and on monuments that question the “unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights and human happiness”.
Trump’s Department of Education has forged a partnership with more than 40 rightwing organisations, including the America First Policy Institute, Turning Point USA and the Heritage Foundation — “dedicated to renewing patriotism, strengthening civic knowledge, and advancing a shared understanding of America’s founding principles in schools across the nation” — as part of celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary in July. On the White House’s official America 250 website, Larry Arnn, president of the conservative Hillsdale College, compares Trump to Abraham Lincoln in his desire to make America great again.”
— Ken Burns, ibid.
Burns and most all American history scholars, myself humbly included, label our current buffoon in the White House as “an insult to our [American] history” and its authentic contextual history and verifiable facts. And I feel these words are too polite and obtuse for the fake President.
Should any of you like to revisit or read some of my WordPress blogs on this troubling subject, I recommend the following from older to newest:
There are several more to be listed, but this is just introductory and relative to your interest, time constraints, and possibly much more in-depth education on American history, civic privileges/duties, and an American sociopolitical landscape past and present.
Live Well – Love Much – Laugh Often – Learn Always Your Nation’s History!
Just as former President George W. Bush forced the United States and its allies into an unnecessary, illegal invasion of Iraq in March 2003, falsely justifying the attack based upon bogus, fabricated WMD weapons inside Iraq, President Donald J. Trump today has gone several steps further and more illegally attacked Iran for even less bogus reasons than the Bush Administration invented 22-years ago.
Many, many serious concerns come to mind after this unprovoked attack on Iran. Very serious ones come to mind that I am quiet sure President Dumb-Rump never considered, much less his incompetent Cabinet.
This is what President Dumb-Rump and his imbecilic MAGA Republicans have now opened up as a Pandora’s Box against Americans and American interests abroad for the next decade or two:
Likely/Assured rising or skyrocketing oil/gas prices across the Western hemisphere. Iran and her oil-producing allies will hit the U.S. and its allies with all sorts of retribution in oil-production, like closing the Straits of Hormuz and convincing other Iranian allies to jack-up Western oil price distributions.
Attacks on American military bases and/or businesses across the globe and in the Far East, Middle East, and Near East causing unnecessary death to American personnel and lifetime despair for their family members.
Likely/Assured rallying of radical Islamic groups and nations to aid and/or attack U.S. interests around the globe and probably inside the U.S. borders. More American and allied casualties!
Number 3 above causes these Iranian allied nations, e.g. China, Russia, and North Korea (to name only three), to aid further in weakening U.S. bases, interests, and the West to help desperately fighting nations like Ukraine and Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine because Dumb-Rump is easily played and manipulated by foreign dictators such as Benjamin Netanyahu to get sucked into another long, drawn out Iraq 2 War.
And the worst possible scenario Dumb-Rump has opened up and flamed are more radical Islamic groups (who hate the U.S., like Al-Qaeda) to plan horrendous attacks on the U.S. like the 9/11 attacks!
Dumb-Rump did NOT first obtain Congressional approval to start a war against Iran like all previous Presidents have done in our 250-year national history! This is grossly UNconstitutional!
Back in July of 2015 a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action known as the Iran Nuclear Arms Deal set in motion a solid agreement between Iran and China, France, Russia, the U.K., and U.S.—plus Germany, along with the European Union to assure PEACE in the Middle East free of nuclear risks. Dumb-Rump destroyed that agreement in May 2018 by withdrawing the U.S., essentially making all bets off! What an EFFIN MORON that buffoon Trump is, truly! 😡🤬 Now the idiot goes and attacks Iran! WTF!? 😡🤬
Now this idiotic decision and attack by Dumb-Rump will fuel perpetually more and more Islamic terrorist groups to form-up against the United States for decades to come.
And these eight (8) concerns above are just the beginning. Who knows what domino-effects Dumb-Rump has started for this country and our military personnel and ordinary citizens in the coming decades.
Americans, mark my words this day, the coming weeks, months, and years are going to be a deadly, horrible, economically unnecessary hardship on us that we never had to shoot ourselves with in the foot and head. Bad, bad, BAD move Dumb-Rump!
I am beginning to get quite tired of Americans bitching and moaning about how horribly Donny J. Trump is ruining this country, both domestically and in foreign affairs. It is getting annoying and nauseating to keep listening to and reading about American voters getting angry, publicly protesting, and just giving lip-service to what SHOULD have been voiced and acted upon back in October–November 2024.
The fact is, that bitching, protesting, fighting HAD to be waged back in April 2023 when Project 2025: The Conservative Mandate was published for ALL American voters to read… precisely what Trump and his MAGA sycophants said they were going to do to our entire federal government and our Constitution. Surprise! No… no surprise.
But how many Americans actually read the MAGA Republican’s 790-page blueprint to trash the country? No one. Did anyone prepare for their overhaul of our Charters of Freedom and trashing of our Constitution? No one. And NOW they are starting to bitch, moan, and whine far too late? WTF people!
I am getting very tired of listening today to Americans complain to what Trump and his MAGA sycophants said they would do if he got voted back into office. He and the MAGA-eots are doing it. And how many lazy ass, indifferent, apathetic, non-patriotic Americans did NOT vote last October–November? I’ll tell you, almost 90-million Americans did not vote last autumn. That was more than enough American voters to keep Trump out of the White House! Plenty of No-Votes against Trump!
Quit your bitching, moaning, and whining Americans, THIS is what YOU allowed to happen by not participating in protecting our democracy, our Charters of Freedom, and letting a fascist dictator back into the White House! 😡🤬 So shut tha hell up with non-stop whining about what the Orange Orangutan is doing to this nation. Yes, he is ruining it, he is trashing it, and he is indeed a shameful 4th-grader embarrassment that behaves like an immature spoiled, bullying brat! But voting Americans… YOU let him back into the White House. So show some accountability, belly-up, and STOP your god damn effing whining already!
We deserve this. Period.
Live Well – Love Much – Laugh Often – Learn Always
By now everyone has likely heard and gotten wind about the shameful, disgraceful tiradeVice-president J.D. Vance and President Trump went on with and against President Zelensky of Ukraine. To say this childish behavior from the White House was unprecedented is to wrongly identify the facts of the last 4-years (Feb. 22, 2022) and the last 11-years (Feb. 20, 2014).
US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky listen to Vice President JD Vance (R)as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 28, 2025. Zelensky on February 28 told Trump there should be “no compromises” with Russian President Vladimir Putin as the parties negotiate to end the war after Moscow’s invasion. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Trump and Vance wrongly accuse Zelenskyy and Ukraine of ‘not wanting peace’ in their illegally occupied country. This is classic Trump diversion tactics of historical, contextual facts and “foolish” naive American Trump-Vance supporters. One simple question to Americans, particularly MAGA Republicans, will easily make light of their idiotic fallacy about the war in Ukraine made by Russia and Vladimir Putin. That question is this:
If North Korea invaded the United States and seized huge swathes of American soil, reducing our 50-states to say… 34 states, would loving patriotic Americans stop fighting and defending their country’s borders because China accuses America of not wanting peace, in negotiation attempts between Kim Jong Un and President Trump?
The answer is GLARINGLY obvious. Duh.
So why should President Zelenskyy and Ukrainians drop their weapons and let Putin and Russia have whatever they want in Ukraine (and the Crimea?) “for the sake of peace”? Would Trump, Vance, the U.S. Armed Forces, and real patriotic Americans just let Kim Jong Un and North Korea have whatever they want?
Exactly.
And THAT is why Trump, Vance, and all MAGA Republicans are dead wrong today praising our Commander-in-Chief and V.P. for their humiliating, childish tirade on President Zelenskyy today. Duh!
An excellent read from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American on just how dead wrong Trump, Vance and MAGA Republicans truly are and how they are taking the USA down a very dark, dangerous road, fast.
I have zero expectation that anything I ever say will end someone’s belief in their God. Not my goal or purpose. That alone belongs to the individual. ~ Zoe
'Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it' - Terry Pratchett
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