A Call to Arms

> The UFC cage fighting match on the White House lawn was as White Trash as it gets. The damaged lawn is not being repaired but turned into a paved helipad despite 70 years of helicopters landing at the White House without incident.

>The Reflecting Pool was not vandalized. The shitty paint job is delaminating either because the spray was not intended for the underlying surface; the surface was not properly prepared; the paint was not cured before water was added; and/or the cavalcade of cars that rode over the pool damaged the paint. If the paint is actually industrial strength a box cutter would only scratch and not shred it. Algae is naturally occurring regardless of who sits in the Oval Office.

> The so-called State Fair was pathetic. The booths looked slapped together by a high schooler who waited too long to complete the assignment and never studied in the first place. The unique characteristics and history of each state were ignored, trivialized, and in some cases replaced with outright propaganda.

> The "Temu Arch" was a clap trap piece of crap. Printed plastic sheeting stapled around a plywood base, oozing glue and spray foam filler, was suposed to represent a future monument. Laughable and yet fittingly symbolic.

> The masked goons marching around with flags in the sweltering heat and humidity were ridiculous, demanding that we fear their power but too dumb to understand how to use the DC Metro turnstiles. Sad Iittle minds but dangerous precisely because they lack personal and cultural awareness.

> The historically significant White House is not only physically damaged but violated in the worse sense. Federalist architecture of minimalist elegance, clean lines, proportion and balance has been trashed. It's now part junk heap, part cheap motel, and an interior decorated like an Eastern Bloc whorehouse.

The whole thing is like a weird movie, surreal and psychologically confounding. Each bizarre scene unfolds so quickly that we barely have time to process what we are witnessing before the next outrage smacks us in the face. Is this by design or is Trump just completely insane and his posse of sycophants are pretending not to notice?

I believe in this country. I am proud to be an American. This nation is a complex equation with many variables, but the answer should expand with our growing understanding of decency, equity, and aiding the conditions of our citizens. We must work to restore our collective dignity.

President Donald Trump’s massive immigration crackdown has made headlines for what many view as Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s aggressive tactics and alleged inhumane conditions at detention centers.

But what is less talked about are the hundreds of thousands of children navigating the immigration court system as they face deportation.

Peter Ticktin, in his words, a boyhood "best friend" of President Trump's from boarding school is one of a number of Trump allies pushing him to go further with an executive order to effectively seize federal control of the upcoming midterms by declaring a national emergency based on alleged foreign interference through electronic voting machines. https://cnn.it/3QTgnlC