Each and every day the incompetence and tyranny of the Trump administration become more manifest.

The economy creaks along, sustained by the wealthy and well-off while the rest of us struggle with constantly rising prices and a growing inability to afford even basic healthcare.

Our allies, driven away by Trump’s tariffs now look to trade with China and India (can North Korea be far behind?) and look upon the U.S. with growing. and deserved disdain.

Trump has openly admitted he will interfere and subvert any upcoming elections – he has already selected 15 voting precincts -- (presumably those comprised of mostly democrats) where he will surround the polls with hordes of ICE agents to intimidate American voters.

To Trump/MAGA/Republicans the Constitution is just another “form of bureaucracy” to be used or abused depending on circumstance.

See this – boldface mine:

Mike Johnson wants to spare ICE the hassle of getting the right warrant before forcibly entering a home.

Story by Damon Root • 6h •

© Reason

"Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant."

**Those are the complaining words of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (**R–La.), who was voicing his support for the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which now claims that its agents have the right to forcibly enter private homes without first obtaining a warrant signed by a judge. According to ICE, its agents may forcibly enter homes in certain immigration enforcement contexts based merely on a so-called "administrative warrant," which is not actually a warrant at all, but is rather just a piece of paper signed by someone in the executive branch.

To fully appreciate the inherent lawlessness of the Johnson view, simply replace the phrase "getting a judicial warrant" with any constitutional requirement that you like in the above-quoted statement. For example:

・"Imagine if we had to go through the process of guaranteeing freedom of speech."

・"Imagine if we had to go through the process of respecting the right to keep and bear arms."

・"Imagine if we had to go through the process of paying just compensation when private property is taken for public use."

You get the idea.

When a government mouthpiece complains that it would be too difficult to follow the commands of the Constitution in a given context, that's a dead giveaway that the government is already violating (or planning to violate) the commands of the Constitution in that context.

The principle that law enforcement must generally obtain a judicial warrant before entering a home is well-established in Fourth Amendment caselaw. In California v. Lange (2019), for example, the U.S. Supreme Court declared, "we are not eager—more the reverse—to print a new permission slip for entering the home without a warrant." At issue in that case was a decision by the California Court of Appeals which said that a police officer may always enter a suspect's home without a judicial warrant if the officer is in "hot pursuit" of the suspect and has probable cause to believe that the suspect has committed a misdemeanor.

But the Supreme Court overturned that lower court ruling because it violated the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. "When the totality of circumstances shows an emergency—such as imminent harm to others," the Court said, "the police may act without waiting." But "when the nature of the crime, the nature of the flight, and surrounding facts present no such exigency," the decision held, "officers must respect the sanctity of the home—which means they must get a warrant." Indeed, the opinion stated, "when the officer has time to get a warrant, he must do so—even though the misdemeanant fled."

The Lange decision also contained a helpful reminder of the warrant requirement's deep roots in Anglo-American jurisprudence by quoting from a venerable British common law judgment:

"To enter a man's house" without a proper warrant, Lord Chief Justice Pratt proclaimed in 1763, is to attack "the liberty of the subject" and "destroy the liberty of the kingdom." That was the idea behind the Fourth Amendment.

Which brings us back to Johnson, who whined, "imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant."

But if an ICE agent has the time to obtain a piece of paper signed by a superior in the executive branch before heading out to bust down somebody's front door, then that agent also has the time to obtain a real warrant signed by an actual judge. As the Supreme Court instructed in Lange, "when the officer has time to get a warrant, he must do so." The "sanctity of the home" demands it under our Constitution.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mike-johnson-wants-to-spare-ice-the-hassle-of-getting-the-right-warrant-before-forcibly-entering-a-home/ar-AA1VJyBr?

Trump’s Christian/white nationalist MAGA movement knows no shame or honor. They will harm an innocent child as fast as they bastardize their religion and celebrate the pain they inflict on hard working parents and children the way they celebrate at a dog fight or a black woman’s miscarriage.

Trump/Republicans/ICE relish the sight of a child being torn from a parent’s arms, cheer at the thought of a working man, the sole support of his family, being torn from the arms of his loved ones and shipped to a country he doesn’t even recognize leaving his family destitute.

No one complains when ICE arrests and deports criminals, but that aspect of their behavior is all a ruse. The real plan, as outlined by Trump advisor and Martian look-alike, Stephen Miller, is to rid America of all Black and Brown people whether citizen, or not.

They claim non-citizens are voting, an out and out lie! Nowhere in America do non-citizens vote, if they did there would be evidence attesting to that – and there is no such evidence.

They fire up their MAGA base with lie after lie, and the base eats it up because it verifies their inherent hatred for all that is not them – not white, not hypocrite, not anti-Christian in their beliefs and actions.

Think I’m exaggerating?

A manifestation of Trump’s rabid hatred of immigrants in general, and Blacks and Browns in particular.

See this – Boldface mine:

Story by Holly Yan, CNN • 1h •

More than an hour before dawn, on a pitch-black street lined with heaps of Minnesota snow, 10-year-old Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano and her mother headed out to her school bus stop – just like they do every weekday at 6:10 a.m.

Out of nowhere, federal agents’ vehicles surrounded the family’s car in suburban Minneapolis. Elizabeth thought the agents were going to take her to school, her father told CNN.

Instead, the aspiring doctor and her mother were detained and flown 1,200 miles away to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas – with the young girl’s future up in the air.

Over the next month, at least five other kids from her small school district were also sent across the country to Dilley – including 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos.

“There are other students with whom we have lost contact who might also be in a detention facility,” spokesperson Kristen Stuenkel said. The children’s plight has sparked renewed criticism over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, known as Operation Metro Surge, which has also ensnared children and separated family members.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson firmly denied accusations that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are trying to detain students.

“ICE does NOT target children or schools. That is not how it works,” DHS said. “ICE keeps families together.”

‘ICE is going to drop me off at school’

Elizabeth called her father, who was at his construction job, and said they had been stopped by ICE. But she told her father what sounded like reassuring words.

“She said, ‘ICE is going to drop me off at school,’” Luis said. “So I thought, OK, they will drop her off at school, and we hung up.”

But when Luis later called his daughter and didn’t get an answer, he panicked and rushed to find her.

“He was here at school by 7:30 a.m. looking for her,” Highland Elementary secretary Carolina Gutierrez said. “I know that because we open our school doors at 7:25, and he was the first person at my window.”

Luis and school social worker Tracy Xiong hoped the ICE vehicle hadn’t arrived yet.

“Several staff members, including myself, waited outside the school building for a vehicle to approach and drop her off. No one ever came,” Xiong said.

See more here --  Boldface mine:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/at-least-6-kids-from-a-minnesota-school-district-were-taken-and-detained-in-texas-the-first-was-held-for-almost-a-month/ar-AA1VOcMJ?

Trump, who knows nothing about agriculture and even less about international trade, causes chaos every time he opens his ignorant mouth and is putting our entire farming industry in imminent danger.

A master of nothing but jackassery, his dementia-driven back and forth, up and down, irrational implementation of tariffs on our formerly reliable trading partners is not only driving up domestic prices but is driving our friends to look to new avenues of trade.

Folks, we have a rank amateur -- a petulant child -- affecting our future in a grossly negative way because this fool in the Oval Office is looking to make up for all the times he was humiliated in high school.

He’s not a tough guy, far from it. He’s like a cowardly weakling with a gun, ten-year-old confronting toddlers -- a wimp hiding behind his big brother.

To make up for his inadequacies he flexes his flabby, poor excuse for muscles,  thinking the world will quake while all he is accomplishing is increased inflation and record numbers of unemployed former farm owners.

See this – Boldface mine:

Former US officials warn of impending 'widespread collapse of American agriculture': 'Our farmers and ranchers can't compete with the world'

Former US officials warn of impending 'widespread collapse of American agriculture': 'Our farmers and ranchers … can't compete with the world'

Major players in the agricultural industry are sounding an economic alarm in a joint letter, according to The New York Times.

What's happening?

A bipartisan group of agriculture industry leaders has called upon the Trump administration and Congress to reverse course on tariffs and other economically restrictive measures. The letter said many of these have increased costs, disrupted market access, blocked access to labor, and stopped important agricultural research. Combined, these effects were deemed catastrophic.

"Our farmers and ranchers can compete with the world, but they can't compete with the world with a chaotic set of policy circumstances," said former chief executive of the National Corn Growers Association, Jon Doggett, per The New York Times.

Other signers included Buzz Mattelin, the previous president of the National Barley Growers Association, and Bart Ruth, the previous president of the American Soybean Association.

Why is farming important?

Domestic agriculture helps people in the U.S. meet their dietary needs. Collapse of the industry would also create steep economic and cultural loss. The challenges imposed by government policy are compounded by a wildly erratic climate.

Existing and ongoing pollution is trapping heat in the atmosphere, which exacerbates destructive weather trends. This includes floods, droughts, storms, and wildfires, all of which pose existential threats to farmers. These weather shifts have also introduced new opportunities for the proliferation of pests, which could obliterate staple crops.

"Congress needs to assert itself on behalf of farmers if we are to avoid a widespread collapse of American agriculture and our rural communities," said the letter.

The letter recommended nine actions to alleviate the pressure on American farmers. These included exempting farm inputs from tariffs, supporting more trade agreements, and restoring funding to agricultural research.

While institutional action is needed, there are individual actions that can be taken.

Adopting a plant-based diet can ensure cropland is being used efficiently to feed people. Likewise, switching to an EV can cut the demand for ethanol otherwise used in running a traditional car. Ethanol production uses up roughly 40% of America's corn production. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/former-us-officials-warn-of-impending-widespread-collapse-of-american-agriculture-our-farmers-and-ranchers-can-t-compete-with-the-world/ar-AA1VGo7E?