A Fine Mess. A Terrible Way To End 2025.

Hope for the best. Expect the worst.

That is exactly what we got from Donald Trump and the shameful Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem this year.

Here are just a some of the images from this sleazy administration:

 

 1) Protesters face off with US Border Patrol agents as federal immigration agents carry out a raid at a legal marijuana farm in Camarillo, California, on July 10. Jaime Alanis, a 57-year-old farmworker, fell from a greenhouse roof during the raid and later died from his injuries. He is the first known person to die during one of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations.
(NOTHING on their uniforms indicating ICE, Police, Sheriff, etc. Just shields and combat gear.)

2) An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer yells and waves his finger at Monica Moreta-Galarza after shoving her into a wall and then pushing her to the ground at an immigration court in New York City on September 25. Her husband had just been detained by ICE and they were being wrestled away from each other. Moreta-Galarza and her family had open asylum claims, according to US Rep. Dan Goldman, whose district includes the courthouse. The ICE officer who pushed her was later “relieved of his current duties,” an official said. He was placed back on duty days later after a review of the incident, two US officials familiar with the matter told CBS News

3) Margelis Tinoco, a migrant from Colombia, reacts in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, after learning that her appointment to seek asylum through US immigration courts had been canceled on January 20. It was inauguration day for President Donald Trump, and his administration moved with lightning speed to roll out his immigration agenda and effectively close off the southern border to asylum seekers.

4) Detained migrants sit on a US Air Force plane as they wait for a removal flight to take off in Tucson, Arizona, on January 23. Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump signed a spate of executive actions on immigration. Incoming refugee flights were canceled, troops were moving to the border, federal authorities were given permission to arrest people in or near schools and churches, and the pool of undocumented immigrants eligible for quick deportation without a judicial hearing was expanded. 

5) Two officers with the California Highway Patrol try to dodge rocks being thrown near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles on June 8. President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to the city after protests over immigration raids turned into violent clashes between protesters and law enforcement. 

6) Protesters are reflected in a helmet visor in downtown Los Angeles on June 8. Law enforcement officials, including members of the National Guard, were trying to disperse protests that had begun in response to immigration raids.
(She looks petrified... as she should.)

7) Law enforcement officers in El Salvador escort a man who had just arrived on a deportation flight from the United States on March 15. Hundreds of mostly alleged Venezuelan gang members were deported from the United States and sent to a prison in El Salvador with the Trump administration invoking wartime powers to speed up removals despite a court ruling halting the move. The administration said it would pay El Salvador $6 million to house the deportees.

8) A federal agent wears a mask at an immigration court in New York City on July 16. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons has said federal officers are covering up to protect their families after some have been publicly identified and then harassed online, along with relatives. 
(In regards to this photo, well, maybe if they were acting in accordance WITH the law instead of against it, WE THE PEOPLE wouldn't feel compelled to "doxx" them.)

9) Protesters clash with law enforcement outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, on June 19. The building was the center of almost constant protests throughout the summer. Most of the protests outside the facility have been peaceful, but occasionally they have ended in the deployment of tear gas and the facility being closed for several days. In September, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum announcing 200 members of the Oregon National Guard would be “called into Federal service effective immediately for a period of 60 days.” The city of Portland and the state of Oregon then filed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration had overreached its mandate in federalizing the Oregon National Guard in response to unrest. 
(You remember Portland, Oregon, right?  The Naked Bike rides? Yup, that's us! )

10) Finally, the serpentine border wall, separating Mexico from the United States, ends abruptly on the outskirts of Fort Hancock, Texas, on January 23.  So much for "build a wall!"

Christmas 2025

Seems someone, The Great Orange Fat One, hasn't gone completely scorched earth yet, but he's working on it.  It was revealed this week that the East Wing of the White House was simply demolished in order to make way for his "Mausoleum/Grand Gold Beautiful Ballroom" that he swears presidents have been talking about for 150 years.

Oh, no. Much more sinister than that. Under the rubble. Under the asbestos. Under all of that concrete, and those pipes and wires and stuff.... the White House bunker is the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), The Bunker, built during World War II at the direction of President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

It was constructed in order to keep the President of the United States safe and secure and act as a command communications center following a disaster, natural or man-made.

So, why would Trump insist on tearing down the East Wing just for a ballroom... one that he's not likely to live long enough to see and/or even use?  

He wants a BIGGER, BETTER, STATE-OF-THE-ART bunker... with a shiny new shrine on top of it. Just, you know... because.

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I really don't want to get into the Epstein bullshit. We know Donald's name is all over that mess, so we'll move on.

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And then again, just because, he stood behind a podium, looking like Grumpy Grandpa, screaming at butterflies, off-his-rocker. Everything was Joe Biden's fault (even though Donald and Klan have been there for nearly a year now).

 

(From CNN.com) 

It felt like at times, that if he shouted and screamed long and loud enough, he could almost get himself to believe the pablum he was puking out. 

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We made it through Year 1. Pat yourself on the backs. Chin up.

We can do this. Together!

Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year 2026!  

 

Just a friendly little reminder...

 Boys and girls, moms, dads, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles just a friendly reminder of who our "fearless leader, the omnipresent, fat, orange blob, man-baby" truly IS and whence he came.

He is the spawn, the bad seed of one, Fred Trump:

 

 All is not lost, however.  'Tis the season, right?  

So, ho, ho, ho. Enjoy!

Be merry and bright. And may all your Christmas wishes come true!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, 

Happy Hanukkah and an amazing Kwanzaa! 

Built by slaves, demolished by Trump

 

The White House was built between 1792 and 1800; in 1814, it was burned by the British army when they invaded the city during the War of 1812. After the war ended, the White House was rebuilt in the 1820s and has been expanded over the years, including major internal reconstruction from 1949 to 1951.

October 13, 1792. Built by enslaved people.

And then, in mid-October 2025, just because he insisted that the White House "needed a grand ballroom", construction crews began demolishing the East Wing of this grand old structure, The People's House.

Sad. Stupid. Ironic.

He won't be around long enough to ever even see it complete or use it. 

... just because, ya know, TACOS!

T. = Trump

A. = Always

C. = Chickens

O.  = Out

Just a fact that after each and every "deal" Donald backs away because he knows he's defeated. 

... and finally, this little gem:

 

 

Gives "Taco Tuesday" a whole new meaning! 

Happy Birthday, Sir Paul!

 Happy Birthday, Sir Paul McCartney!

 

 

Wish you the best birthday ever! 

Secrete of Homeland Scrutiny, Krusty Gnome

This is the seal of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or DHS.

This is the Secretary/Director of the 
Department of Homeland Security, 
Kristi Noem, a.k.a. Krusty Gnome.

 You may not recognize Gnome because she's 
not wearing one of her many cosplay outfits put together by 
her team of "hair, makeup and lighting."

Maybe one of these will refresh your memory:

As far as we know that's not the late Cricket next to Gnome.

Note the $60,000 Rolex, a necessary accessory

I think this one is a much more fitting 
picture of her "non-serious" mug:

"Krusty Gnome"

 

And yet for all of that bullshit "cosplay", we're expected to take her seriously. 

She doesn't take any of the harm she's doing seriously 
so tell us again why we should do so?  

Belated Birthday Greetings, Don-OLD (*raspberry sound*)

Failing health

Temporal Frontal Dementia

White Supremacists

Misogynist

Oh, and weeping, crying at his 79th birthday/military parade 

The "turn-out", attendance in Washington D.C. apparently was a "pretty average Saturday". 

And then there was the crazy security measures, because, ya know, Don-Old.

 Apparently there were tons of drones, too. I bet those things caught a bunch of empty, open spaces.

 

 

Ah, but wait. There's more:

 As if that's not enough, widdle Donnie is still fuming angry about the turn-out for HIS birthday celebration.  

 

 

 

I almost forgot the most important thing -- the price tag:

a measly, paltry bit of pocket change

$45,000,000   

only the thumb

...only the teeny, tiny fat orange grubby hand holds that delicate thumb:

 

 

 

And, yes, feel the love.

"Legacy Media" Has A Staffing Problem

“Legacy Media”, traditional broadcast news orgs, have a major staffing problem:

They continue to send the pink slip/fire/terminate/let go some of their most seasoned, long-time journalists.

Get rid of them rather than discuss the issue(s) or problem(s) internally. 

Former ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross, along with his team, reported on the issue of dangerous and recalled products being sold on Craigslist. In November 2014, they aired a segment on "20/20" called "Recall Roulette" that highlighted the problem. Ross attempted to interview Craig Newmark, but Newmark, who claimed to be retired and only a customer service representative at the time, refused to answer questions. The report described Craigslist as "morally irresponsible" for not implementing stricter filters to prevent the sale of recalled items. 

Brian Ross's departure from ABC News in 2018 was linked to a significant error in a report about Michael Flynn and his alleged contact with Russian officials during Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Ross initially reported, during a special report, that Flynn had been instructed by Trump to make contact with Russian officials during the campaign, which was later retracted and corrected. While Ross was suspended for four weeks without pay after the error, The New York Times reported that he and his longtime producer ultimately left ABC News. 

Here's a brief breakdown:

The Erroneous Report:

Ross reported, citing a source, that Trump had directed Michael Flynn to contact Russian  officials during his 2016 campaign. 

The Suspension:

ABC News issued a four-week suspension without pay to Ross after he made the error on the air, according to The New York Times and ABC News President Ben Sherwood apologized. 

The Departure:

While Ross was suspended, he and his producer, Rhonda Schwartz, subsequently left ABC News. 

Other Notable Errors:

Ross also had a previous error where he incorrectly linked the Aurora, Colorado shooting to the Tea Party. 

But he’s not alone.  More recently, they let go yet another one,  Senior National Correspondent, Terry Moran over a Twitter/X post:

Terry just recently completed an interview in the Oval Office with Trump.  One of the questions was in regards to the Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, his alleged "gang" affiliation and his subsequent Supreme Court order to return Mr. Garcia to the U.S. promptly.

ABC News’ solution, again, can him, fire him, send out a pink slip.

Now, I don’t know the “process” for what specifically, exactly gets or causes a journalist to be removed in 2025, but it seems very arbitrary, very random, and very hap-hazard. 

Kinda sloppy from the outside looking in.

It seems like a pretty simple solution, yet it’s doubtful ANY OF THESE NEWS ORGS will heed any of this: 

1)     Allow your journalists/reporters/correspondents to exercise their 1^st Amendment right to free speech.  Then, IF THERE’S AN ISSUE WITH IT,

2)     Have that person(s) add a disclaimer to it. You folks in the media are great at those.

"These comments reflect the views and opinions of the writer exclusively and not ABC News, The Walt Disney Company or any of its subsidiaries."

That seems like a pretty simple fix. 

But if that’s still not enough, how about some re-training or re-education or something more along those lines rather than just simply DUMPING VALUABLE ASSETS?