Yesterday's "I'm a Catholic, JD Vance is not a Catholic" resulted in huge feedback from
Catholics. The chief point was that, like me, they were tired of
non-Catholics in the media covering Catholic issues when they clearly
did not know a damn thing that they were writing about. JD Vance is
not a practicing Catholic. Trina's pointed that out and C.I. has
pointed it out and I have pointed it out. I am a cradle Catholic
meaning I was born in the Church and raised in the Church. Hillbilly
trash JD became a Catholic at the age of forty or so. He doesn't know a
damn thing.
There's a saying that Catholic converts are like freshly lit candles—burning bright, but sometimes melting the wrong way.
JD
Vance proves it. Though he has been Catholic for only five years, the
newly minted vice president clearly thinks he's better suited to preach
on the tenets of the faith than priests and bishops who've ministered
longer than he's been alive.
On
Sunday, Vance launched a scathing critique of the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops—an umbrella organization of the bishops
who lead the Catholic Church in America—accusing them of having
financial motivations for their opposition to the administration's new
immigration policy, which permits ICE raids in churches and schools.
The
wild claim that Catholic bishops are getting rich in the migrant and
refugee business is, in the words of a former Catholic president, "total
malarkey."
The
bishops, long defenders of immigrant rights and human dignity, rightly
condemned the new policy as a violation of sacred spaces that would
instill fear among vulnerable populations and erode trust between
pastors and their communities.
[. . .]
By
accusing the bishops of prioritizing financial interests over spiritual
principles, Vance's remarks signaled a troubling willingness to dismiss
the Church's moral teachings when they conflict with MAGA priorities.
The
tension between Trump's White House and the Catholic Church is not
limited to immigration policy. Vance's combative tone was emblematic of
the broader MAGA cultural agenda, which prioritizes division over unity
and power over mercy.
Catholic
teaching calls for dialogue, humility, and the pursuit of the common
good. The Gospel's beatitudes—blessed are the meek, the merciful, and
the peacemakers—stand in stark opposition to the movement's rhetoric of
anger and grievance.
Hale
is exactly right. And JD is not a Catholic. "Bastard." That term has
only appeared at THE COMMON ILLS by C.I. (I may have used it in one of
my reviews) when it comes to JD because C.I. thinks the term is sexist.
But you have to use it with regards to JD's children. By not marrying
Usha in the Church, JD is not married. His children are bastards. They
are not part of the Church (they practice some version of Hindu). They
will not be going to heaven per the teaching of the Church.
Now
if you were really Catholic, would you not be doing everything to make
your children and your marriage legitimate and to ensure that you could
all spend eternity together?
He's not a Catholic and he needs be exiled from the Church.
“I
just want to say that I’m so sorry. All my people are getting
attacked,” the Mexican American singer cried in a now-deleted post on
Instagram on Monday (January 27). “The children. I don’t understand. I’m
so sorry I wish I could do something but I can’t.
“I
don’t know what to do. I’ll try everything, I promise,” she concluded,
captioning her video, “I’m sorry” with a Mexican flag emoji.
Gomez
swiftly deleted the video but was met with immediate backlash from
Trump’s supporters, including U.S. Senate candidate Sam Parker, who
called for the singer to be removed from the country.
Parker
is from Utah and he's not a Senate candidate. He was, in 2018, in a
Republican primary which he lost by a huge margin -- Mitt Romney won the
primary and then ran in then ran for the seat. Parker never made it to
the general election. A hateful and forgotten man. In 2018, he
filed on April 9th and was kicked out of the primary race on April
21st. Meanwhile, Selana's sang lead on 21 top forty pop hits. That
must kill him. He's a failure and so old that there's no second act for
him. But Selena's a success and a beloved figure. I don't think
anyone's ever felt love towards Parker.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025. Unless you want the GOP to retain the White
House in the 2028 election, you better be identifying the 2024
backstabbers right now.
Donald Trump referred to out MSNBC host Rachel Maddow as “the enemy of the people,” along with the networks MSNBC and CNN.
He wrote in a post to Truth Social this weekend: “Wow! Rachel Maddow
has horrible ratings. She’ll be off the air very soon. MSNBC IS CLOSE TO
DEATH. CNN HAS REACHED THE BOTTOM. This is a good thing. They are the
Enemy of the people!”
We started with
Rachel because she's under attack. Under attack from Chump. And from
Dump. You know her, judging by the e-mails hitting the public account,
the worthless Krystal Ball. She went on THE VANGUARD because that's
where she could do her MSNBC attack. The hosts are young kids, still
feeling their way. They're not apt to hold her to her record -- in part
because they also endorsed Jill Stein. And at one point, they were
also on The Cornel West Train. Their excuse is that they're young. The
only thing young about Krystal Ball is her husband. So they're not
going to call her on much of anything and certainly not all the damage
her crap ass program does.
"Media: How Amy Goodman harmed immigrants and helped elect Chump"
is what Ava and I wrote Sunday because we realized (and were tipped
off) that Amy Goodman was going to try to portray herself as the
defender of immigrants this week after what went down last week. She
was going to lie to the uninformed freaks that are her fans -- check
BLUESKY, you'll find them whoring and saying she has integrity -- and
pretend like this was one of her big issue and 'Dig me, the elderly red
from Brooklyn with my token 'co-host' of Latino descent, this is my
issue and I cover it all the time.' But she didn't cover it all the
time as Ava and I noted:
It's worth noting that while Amy Goodman could only do
five segments on immigration policy (again, two slamming Kamala, two
saying Kamala and Chump were the same and one focusing on what Chump did
in his first term), she had plenty of time for other topics during that
same three month period.
105.
That's
the number of segments she did on Gaza during the same three month
period, 105. Many of those trashed Kamala. In fact, those same three
months featured at least 33 segment with Uncommitted (at least 33, many
of her guest didn't disclose on air that they were part of the
Uncommitted 'movement' that urged people not to vote for Kamala).
So
now Chump's been president for a week. And the biggest issue right
now? His attacks on immigrants. Again, in the three month lead up to
the election, Amy Goodman did 105 segments on Gaza. She only did five
segments on the immigration policies of the two candidates -- four of
the five slammed Kamala.
I
don't know how you can see these raids going on and not hold Amy
Goodman responsible. She's part of the reason they're taking place.
She ignored the issue on DN except to distort it four times with regards
to Kamala. Three months and it's an hour long broadcast -- although
one week it expanded to two hours a day -- five days a week.
33 segments on Uncommitted.
She
failed the immigrant community. I've never understood why but she is
the least liked person on the left. Wait, I understand that. She's a
glory hog who didn't even come up with DEMOCRACY NOW! and who sent the
plethora of people who did -- some on airs -- packing to hijack the
show. Now she makes millions off it. But what I didn't understand was
why everyone was so scared to call her out?
Even
Danny Schechter, when he was alive, was scared to call her out. He
called me the day he did her awful program. He was supposed to be
talking economic issues but Amy insisted that her audience was "too
dumb" (her words per Danny) to understand and that they needed to talk
about other things.
I told him I'd write about it and I did. At his own NEWSDISSECTOR blog, he wrote about it himself but didn't name her.
And
left voices I know loathe her as a person but are afraid to say so.
Ones I don't know flood the public e-mail account with horror stories
and, of course, I've paid her interns for a lot of information over the
years.
She has no integrity. And she actively
worked to destroy Kamala's campaign which, yes, does mean she worked to
elect Donald Chump. We can't have garbage like that hidden. If we make
it as a country to 2028, we can't risk this woman yet again tanking the
Democratic Party's presidential nominee as she did last year and as she
did in 2000.
So Krystal Ball got put on hold.
We
may pick her up this weekend, Ava and I, for our topic. But what I
will note now as Krystal attacks MSNBC is that (a) she's a disgruntled
former employee because she couldn't deliver an audience and (b)
BREAKING POINTS is not a news program and it does not qualify as public
affairs programming -- not even mediocre public affairs programming. It
is performative nonsense that's about as real as Friday night wrestling
on basic cable.
I don't blame the kids of THE VANGUARD. They're young and they can be foolish on the job while they learn.
But our country can't afford Krystal Ball's nonsense. We can't afford what she normalizes on her hideous program.
And
I'm not young enough to pretend that her 'brave' moments on the program
she started are in any shape or form actual acts of bravery. She's a
grifter. When Jon Stewart rightly called out this kind of grifting and
how it hurt our country, CNN cancelled CROSSFIRE.
So let's all stop pretending that BREAKING POINTS is any shape or form informative or helpful.
And
any choice that asks me to pick a Rachel or Chris or Lawrence over a
Krystal Ball? I'm going to go with any MSNBC host. I'm not going to go
with grifter and liar Krystal Ball.
Grifters
like Krystal and Amy actively work to harm the Democratic Party. I'm
not spending my time online letting them get away with it. Our country
is in serious trouble right now because Chump is in the White House and
those on the left and 'left' who helped put him there need to be called
out and called out regularly. They need to be exposed so that next go
round, if they don't believe the nominee is sufficiently left and they
do their usual stunt of attacking the Democrat with left voices (who all
turn out to be Socialists even though the grifters don't mention that),
people will know what's going on.
Again, no
problem with Socialists or with Communists on my part. I'm a Democrat
we see issues differently from time to time and we see solutions
differently from time to time.
If we didn't, we'd all be Democrats or Socialists or Communists.
But where I do have a problem is when a Socialist is attacking a Democrat and pretending to be a Democrat. That's a problem.
And
sadly -- check out BLUESKY -- some people are so stupid that they don't
understand the difference between the three groups. Like the
self-identified 'independent' who wanted me to know that Bernie Sanders
is a Democrat. Why, he's a Democratic Socialist! -- she insisted.
He's
a Socialist. As Laura Flanders noted on air on AIR AMERICA RADIO when
he got elected to the Senate, the next morning she didn't want to pick
up a paper and see "independent'" Bernie Sanders elected to the Senate.
She wanted see Socialist Bernie Sanders elected to the Senate.
Because, like her, he's a Socialist.
And she rightly knows that the truth there can break down taboos.
It's
the idiots like the BLUESKY 'independent' who fall for the con games of
people like Amy Goodman and Krystal Ball. It has to stop.
Kamala
was not a centrist Democrat. But had the choice been between Chump and
a centrist Democrat, I would've chosen the Centrist Democrat. In 2023,
I stated here that I would be voting for the Democrat whomever it was
and I meant that. Because Chump was and is a threat to democracy.
I'm
not trying to relitigate 2016 or any other election. And I don't
endorse in the presidential race. Not here. But this wasn't the usual
election. This wasn't a Dem up against Mitt Romney or John McCain or
whomever. Donald Chump, a convicted felon, was a known factor. We knew
what he'd done in his first term.
This wasn't some roll the dice and find out.
Which
is why I said here in 2023 that it would be the Democratic Party
nominee that I'd be voting for regardless of who that nominee was. I
repeated that over and over in 2023 and in 2024.
I
also noted that the days of being fair were over. I wasn't going to
waste my time, as I did during previous elections, posting and writing
about laughable candidates as though they were serious or had a chance.
I used to try to be so fair.
2024 was a
monumental election and those on the left who tricked and lied need to
be identified so that they cant get away with it next time -- if we're
lucky enough to have a next time.
Let's note Jesse Dollemore
Yes,
putting Chump back in the White House doomed the Palestinians. And
that's only a surprise if you're a damn fool or a stupid idiot.
And
now we're going to back it up a moment. The snapshots are dictated and
I generally put in videos or whatever beforehand and dictate around
them. I just found out that Krystal Ball is rightly being called out by
POST-LEFT WATCH so we're going to include that here now if I'm able to
explain how to do it over the phone.
Okay, I'm told the Bluies (?) are in. I'll
pick back up with Krystal to also note that she tries to play the
feminist card. She's not a feminist. Please do not buy into that 70s
false media stereotype that all feminists are ugly. They aren't. And
all ugly women aren't feminists. Krystal's one of the uglies who is not
a feminist.
And now we're way
behind. To get this up on time, I'm not dictating around the following
things I had put in earlier for us to note. We'll just call it
snapshots of how Chump's immigration policies are destroying the
country.
President Trump's promise of mass deportation is now in full swing as immigration agents sweep through communities.
The White House posted pictures of men shackled before a flight to Guatemala.
"Deportation
is going very well. We're getting the bad, hard criminals out. These
are people that have been as bad as you get, as bad as anybody you've
seen. We're taking them out first," President Trump told reporters.
[. . .]
Immigration advocates are urging people to fight fear with facts, while emphasizing the importance of knowing your rights.
"There's
a lot of rights that you have regardless of immigration status in this
country people need to exercise them," Heiser said.
It
used to be that immigrants who earned U.S. citizenship could only see
it taken away if they hid their Nazi past, had ties to terrorists, or
lied on their application – fewer than a dozen people per year.
That
changed during President Donald Trump's first administration when he
led a campaign to denaturalize thousands of immigrant U.S. citizens –
though it never met its goals. Last week, Trump rebooted the effort,
ordering "adequate resources" be spent to denaturalize some U.S.
citizens as part of his broader plan to restrict immigration.
Tucked among the priorities listed in his Day 1 executive orders was a one-line reference to enforcing a section of immigration law under which the government can revoke an immigrant's U.S. citizenship if it was "unlawfully procured."
President
Donald Trump owes his re-election in part to some gains among
working-class Latino voters who rolled the dice on a change in economic
policy — but that change is likely to hit them worse than anyone else, wrote former Congressional Hispanic Caucus communications strategist Kristian Ramos for Salon.
The
fact is, he wrote, Trump's policies will actually worsen everything
that has been squeezing these voters — something he appeared wholly
unconcerned with even on the campaign trail.
"The nation’s affordability crisis has uniquelyimpacted Latinos," wrote Ramos. "As reporter Jack Herrera notes,
'80% of Latinos are working class. Their experience of the economy the
past four years — COVID shutdowns, inflation, gas prices, housing costs —
was rough. That put the incumbent Democrats at a disadvantage.'"
Trump
capitalized on this, blaming inflation on the Biden administration. But
in reality, under Democrats, "employment is up, wages are growing, manufacturing jobs are higher than ever, and inflation has dropped significantly"
— and when you actually look at his plans, they are uniquely targeted
to worsen affordability on nearly every level, Ramos continued.
For
starters, he said, there are all the cuts to vital programs and
services Republicans plan, including "changes to Medicare, the
Affordable Care Act, and popular climate measures. These cuts alone
would deeply hurt Latinos who live in climate change frontline
communities and have benefited from the cost-saving energy rebates in
the Clean Energy Plan. Worse yet, nine million Latinos are insured through the Affordable Care Act and 6.5 million Latinos use Medicare — roughly 10% of all enrollees."
And all of this is to pay for big tax changes that will make
lower-income workers pay $800 more on average while cutting taxes on the
rich.
But
that's just the beginning, Ramos wrote, because Trump's aggressive
tariff proposals will raise the prices of goods all around the country —
as will his plans for large-scale deportation of workers.
Selena Gomez broke
down in tears on Monday morning (Jan. 27) in an Instagram post in which
she promised to do anything she can to help undocumented Mexican
nationals in the midst of the new Trump administration's nationwide
crackdown on undocumented non-citizens.
According the People magazine,
the Texas-born singer whose grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from
Mexico without proper documentation posted a since-deleted Instagram
Story in which she weeped alongside the caption, "I'm sorry" and a
Mexican flag emoji. "All my people are getting attacked, the children,"
Gomez added in the video that can be seen here.
"I don't understand. I'm so sorry, I wish I could do something but I
can't. I don't know what to do. I'll try everything, I promise."
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids were reportedly conducted across South Florida on Sunday as President Trump begins to make good on his promise to increase the deportation of undocumented migrants.
One man exclusively told CBS News Miami his wife was taken during one of these raids.
One
man, who did not want to be named, told CBS News Miami that ICE had
taken his wife during one of these raids in the Miami neighborhood of
Brownsville.
"It's despicable what they're doing right now," he said. "It's very embarrassing."
The man told CBS News Miami that he wanted Mr. Trump to let his wife stay in the U.S., as their 11th anniversary is on Friday.
When
asked if she was in the process of getting her U.S. citizenship, the
man told CBS News Miami that she was right in the middle of it. The
man's wife, who's Venezuelan and has lived in the U.S. for a few years,
had a court date set up and "everything was good" until that moment.
Costly, cruel, and chaotic — that’s how three immigration experts characterized the Trump administration’s new policy aimed
at removing undocumented immigrants from the United States. The experts
argue that the fallout is not limited to the human toll but extends to a
massive economic burden: an estimated $26 billion to fund the policy,
along with billions more in lost productivity across industries and
sectors that rely heavily on immigrant labor.
At a Friday press conference,
Nayna Gupta, policy director for the American Immigration Council,
outlined the scope and implications of the executive orders signed by
President Trump. “The Trump administration has claimed in recent months
that it will target ‘criminal immigrants’
but what Trump’s executive orders make clear is that they are outlining
immediate action to hurt all immigrants,” said Gupta, who argued that
the Trump administration had taken the election as a mandate for
“cruelty on immigration.”
Gupta
argued that the key to halting these measures lies in members of
Congress and elected officials taking a stand against the policies,
which she said “are expensive and have absolutely no effect in improving
this broken immigration system.” The policy director said that there
will be pushback to this anti-immigration measures. “It will be up to
other elected officials and organizations like us to be prepared to put
forward a vision and solutions that get us to a better place because
Americans want something that is effective, efficient, fair and also
humane. And that is, in fact, quite doable,” said Gupta.
Rally attendee Cheryl Flores spoke to KXAN about how the Austin ICE operations impacted her family.
“They
are the epitome of the American Dream,” Flores said. “They’ve come here
and worked hard. They have a right to be here just like anyone else who
has fled a country that doesn’t provide the needs of the citizens.”
At
least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported
being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by
federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during
immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation
officials.
The reports, which have caused panic amongst tribal communities in both states, come amid the Trump administration’s attempt to
ramp up undocumented immigrant arrests nationwide and amass a larger
force to carry out the president’s deportation pledge. CNN has reached
out to the White House for comment.
The
reported raids and the exact number of Diné/Navajo and other Indigenous
tribal citizens who were apprehended are still under investigation,
Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley told CNN. It is unclear
if Immigration and Customs Enforcement or other law enforcement entities
were conducting the apprehensions. ICE has not responded to CNN’s
request for comment.
Navajo
Nation officials have contacted the Department of Homeland Security,
the governors of Arizona and New Mexico, and ICE to address the reports,
the Office of Navajo President Buu Nygren said in a news release Friday.
Native Americans were in the Americas before anyone -- hence the term "Native." And they are US citizens as Lucy Strathmore (2 PARAGRAPHS) notes:
The
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which granted U.S. citizenship to all
Native Americans born within the United States, was signed into law by
President Calvin Coolidge.
It was enacted partially in recognition of the estimated 12,000 Native Americans who
served in the US Armed Forces during World War I and the tens of
thousands of Native Americans who “supported the war at home by working
in war industries, purchasing war bonds, and assisting in war relief
efforts.”
At least 15 Native people in New Mexico and Arizona have reported that
they’ve been stopped, questioned, or detained by federal law
enforcement officials during immigration roundup efforts since
Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials. They were asked to
provide proof of citizenship despite being Indigenous to the United
States.
In
a news release, the Navajo Nation said its officials contacted the
governors of Arizona and New Mexico, the Department of Homeland
Security, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to follow up on
the reports.
“My
office has received multiple reports from Navajo citizens that they
have had negative, and sometimes traumatizing, experiences with federal
agents targeting undocumented immigrants in the Southwest,” said the office of Navajo President Buu Nygren.
One
Navajo woman was reportedly questioned by ICE after her workplace in
Scottsdale, Arizona, was raided Wednesday morning, and was asked to show
proof that she was Native, Arizona state Senator Theresa Hatathlie, who
is Diné/Navajo, told CNN. The woman and seven other Indigenous people
were lined up behind white vans and questioned for two hours without a
way to contact their families.
