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Riding an impressive wave of false hope, the Agent of Chaos tries to by-pass any and all laws, calling for the arrest of the Chicago mayor and Illinois governor.
Trump Calls for Arrest of Chicago Mayor and Illinois Gov. Pritzker – reason.com
Republican President Donald Trump posted on social media today that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, both Democrats, should be arrested for refusing to assist federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
“Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Firing back on X, Pritzker wrote: “I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”
Way to go Don! You’re making Governor Pritzker sound like one of the Founding Fathers!
It’s not a great state of affairs when the president is calling for the arrest of his political opponents at the same time he’s sending the military into the streets. (Imagine reading the first sentence of this article as if it were another country.) Of course, in 2025 it feels like just another Wednesday in America’s long perambulation toward a militarized police state. (read more)
In more Agent of Chaos news:
Report: Trump Administration Working on Strategy To ‘Eliminate’ Venezuela’s Maduro – antiwar.com
The Trump administration is working on a strategy to “eliminate” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to a report from POLITICO’s National Security Daily.
The report focused on US special envoy Ric Grenell, who was recently instructed to halt his diplomatic efforts with the Venezuelan government. Sources told NatSec Daily that they didn’t think the move meant Grenell was on the outs, but rather that the US was now focused on escalating its efforts to oust Maduro.
“The president is serious. No more mixed messages. No more excuses,” a person familiar with the Trump administration’s thinking told NatSec Daily. “There is now a coherent whole-of-government strategy to eliminate Cartel de los Soles and its leader.”
The “Cartel de los Soles” is a term used to describe a network of Venezuelan government officials allegedly involved in drug trafficking. The group does not actually exist as an organization, but the US has declared it a “terrorist” group and has claimed Maduro is its leader.
Maduro and other Venezuelan officials have strongly denied the US allegations, pointing to data that shows the majority of the cocaine that is produced in Colombia doesn’t go through Venezuela. President Trump has framed the military campaign in the region, which has involved bombing at least four boats, as a response to overdose deaths in the US due to fentanyl, but fentanyl isn’t produced in Venezuela, and it does not go through the country on its way to the US.
The Trump administration appears to be determined to escalate things to the next level, which could involve bombing Venezuela or attempting to seize strategic ports or airfields in the country, steps that would almost certainly provoke a full-blown war with the government.
According to The New York Times, advocates of diplomacy with Maduro within the Trump administration, which includes Grenell, have warned that any attempts to carry out regime change in Venezuela risk putting the US into an extended war. The first Trump administration attempted to oust Maduro by backing opposition figure Juan Guaido and imposing harsh economic sanctions on Venezuela, an effort that failed but exacerbated an exodus of millions of migrants from the country.
And in some actual good news, the Don announced that Hamas and Israel have ‘Signed Off’ on a first phase of a ceasefire deal.
And to think it only cost the U.S. $31 Billion, not to mention the thousands upon thousands of innocent lives forever maimed and lives forever lost to get to this point.
And time will tell what’s to come from this ‘peace plan’ for those who have survived this horror.
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Tonight’s musical offering:
Dispatches from the Asylum 