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retired systems analyst
on farms and hotels.”

The ag industry has voiced concern about worksite raids and inspections that have ensnared immigrants working at farm operations and a meatpacking plant. Part of that concern derives from ICE arresting workers beyond those for whom they have warrants.
June 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Thursday.

After days of confusion over whether President Trump had carved out an exception for farms and hospitality operations, including hotels and restaurants, Homan told reporters, “The message is clear enough that we’re going to continue doing worksite enforcement operations even
June 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
fuel producers under the Renewable Fuel Standard.

1. Ag Operations on the Hot Seat, but ‘Criminals Come First’
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will continue to conduct inspections of ag operations but will focus on criminal activity, White House border czar Tom Homan said
June 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
in recent weeks, especially when it comes to their farmworkers, uncertainty over new trade deals, and the MAHA movement. The Trump team also delivered some good news for farm country in the form of new investments to eradicate deadly screwworm, and favorable blending targets for
June 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
him vast power to do harm. He will use that power to hurt people because, as a dysfunctional Child and monstrous Adult, it’s the only transaction he understands. And that, brothers and sisters, is what we have to live with.
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
him in. The horrors and injustices he visits on the townsfolk he lives among are beyond the reach of nightmares.

. . .
Again, Trump is what happens when you combine the worst of the Adult with the worst of the Child and give
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
business of the presidency as Adults. Trump never has. I don’t believe he ever will. His Adult is dead, if it existed at all.

Trump is like Anthony from the Twilight Zone episode of “It’s a Good Life,” a Child with far more power than any Parent but without the restraint of a mature Adult to reign
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
an Adult in the White House. Instead we have a mewling, thin-skinned, immature, hateful, vindictive man-baby with more power at his command than anyone else on the face of the earth.

Say what you will about the presidents in my lifetime, from Eisenhower to Biden they mostly transacted the
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
real or imagined. And with Trump they invariably do come out when he goes off script.

From the standpoint of Transactional Analysis, Trump is the most dangerous possible combination of traits at their worst for a president of the United States. We need
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
monster who unlawfully usurped the White House has ever been in an Adult state. Even when Trump is reading a speech from a teleprompter, you can tell that his inner Monster (the Parent at its worst) and inner Brat (the Child at its worst) are bursting to come out and hurt someone for some insult,
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
from which we get tyrants and abusers. When the Parent at its worst is combined with the Child at its worst, we get a pouty, whiny, vindictive, hateful monster.

You see where I am going with this. I cannot think of a single instance when the pouty, whiny, vindictive, hateful
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
and professional responsibilities and our child state when we play. Misuse occurs when the Parent is vindictive or cruel, when the Adult is cold, indifferent or arbitrary, and when the Child is more childish than child-like.

The unloveliest human impulses live in the Parent, and it is the Parent
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
screwdriver can be used to fix an appliance or scratch a neighbour’s car, they can be used in good ways and not so good ways.

Simplistically, we use our Parent state when we discipline or teach, our Adult state when we discharge our personal
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
types, Parent, Adult and Child. We are said to be in a Parent or Adult or Child state of being when we exhibit certain behaviours.

These three states of being are neither good nor bad in and of themselves, but tools we all employ to negotiate interactions with other human beings. Just as a
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
stage the entire time to a sparse audience, as most of the attendees perused the various offerings, hoisting their children up into the massive tanks and turrets sitting on the mall for pictures.
June 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A crowd that was well under the administration’s projected 200,000 peppered the National Mall Saturday in a festival style event featuring Army info sessions, military fitness challenges, weapons exhibits, and other activities prior to the parade. Military members spoke on
June 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
everyone who showed up was even a fan of his.
Donald Trump looks down as he walks on the White House lawn.

Three dozen horses, 28 Abrams tanks, 6,700 soldiers, and millions of taxpayer dollars later, and Donald Trump’s military birthday parade was still a flop at best.
June 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
a stochastic terrorist. He continues to confirm himself in that role. I hate to acknowledge this inevitability, but Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark will not be the last victims of his rhetoric of violence. For this alone he should be impeached and cast out of office and into the outer darkness.
June 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
was one that was, I am pleased to report, poorly attended, and unenthusiastically attended by those who bothered to come at all.

. . .
Trump was and still is a sociopath, a vulgarian, a disloyal and craven traitor, an idiot, a fool, a conman, a rapist and
June 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
due to economic difficulties and low enrollment.

While Boelter was murdering human beings, Trump was preparing for the ultimate expression of his violence fetish. He was holding an obscene parade of weapons and merchants of human slaughter, a military parade. It
June 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
What makes Boelter a little different from your everyday MAGA lunatic is he’s a soft spoken man with a PhD. His doctorate comes from a now defunct private Catholic college called Cardinal Stritch University. Stritch appears to have been legitimately accredited, but it closed its doors in 2023
June 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM