The Midwest Informational

*** tMI *** Johnson: Congress Incapable of Approving Tariffs

Republican House leader Mike Johnson has gotten very lazy when it comes to doing his job. He has perfected the process of abdicating responsibility for almost everything the House of Representatives is supposed to be doing.

As third in line to be President should something happen to Trump and Vance, one would think that he would be more inclined to exercise his authority to show he has an interest in governing, but once again he passes at another opportunity to shoew he.is ar least partially independentnof the self-annointed king, but once proved that he is still Trump's little lap dog.

After the Supreme Court's John Roberts read the Constitution aloud in his finding that Trump's tariffs are illegal, in order to help the poor illiterate Trumpie understand.--but it was a pointless effort. If you don't agree with Trump, he is not interested in the reason, he just wants you to admit you're wrong.

John Roberts said it is Congress's responsinility to establish and approve tariffs.

That's all, nothing complicsted. but Johnson just kneecapped the notion that Congress is qualified to do its job and approve or disapprove of new tariffs.

Congress is incompetent. That is what Mike Johnson admits, seeing as how he says Trump's tariffs are too complicated for Congress to handle.

This guy does not qualify as a legitimate and competent congressman, let alone Speaker of the House.

Donald Trump has emasculated this man so much, he cannot say or do a damn thing without checking Trump Social first to see if he did OK.

*** tMI *** Where's My Refund?

All corruption has a cost. These as****es aren't going to jail for at least 3 more years, when a Democrat could possibly re-enter the Whitehouse. But the Supreme Court has spoken. The Republican congress who support this fraud of a President know what he is up to. But they don't speak up. They never speak up, because they benefit from his graft even as they practice their own, because it overshadows whst they are doing, which is why they continue to support him.

These illegal tariffs were strsight-up fraud, to the tune of $170 billion. The businesses who were hurt will get paid back, no matter what the no-good Republicans or Trump are saying now. Business connections are ALL REPUBLICANS HAVE. So it may take a while, but before the midterms, they will be refunded.

But we the people were defrauded too, by Trump and his merry band of sycophants and greedy, lying con artists. This is the point. This is the reason you cannot vote for Republicans--because they all think the same way, and this is always their central theme:

There is no reason to help the voters, because the voters never help us, because it is not enough that you foolishly voted for them.

Did you ever notice that when avoidable disasters strike during a Republican administration, we the people are those who suffer most? Examples: 911 during Bush administration, COVID during Trump administration. Trump's illegal tarrifs pushing millions further into poverty in his second term--all avoidable disassters on Republican watches. Of course, this time under Trump the disasters are numerous and will only grow in number.

For some reason many, many people continue to vote for a party that says EFF YOU everytime they make a budget or take a vote.

Republican voters need to wake up.

“I would never call a President of the United States of any party a f**king piece of sh*t on a podcast, until today. He is a f**king piece of sh*t. This is where we are. I want to go back to an America where I can’t make the case that the president is a f**king piece of sh*t.”

*** tMI *** Kash Patel Had Serious Business in Milan

It was only a coincidence when Kash Patel showed up in the Team USA Hockey locker room minutes after the USA's thrilling overtime victory over Canada to give the Americans hockey gold for the first time since 1980.

We all know the hard-working and constantly serious FBI Director would not leave the 15-day-old investigation in Arizona for the missing Guthrie woman for nothing, and he said as much yesterday. The Milan trip was ALL BUSINESS, so we can only infer that there must be an investigative process which could only be facilitated by Patel being in that locker room swigging a beer and doing jumping jacks with ebullient and celebratory players.

Was the kidnapper actually there, or perhaps he was tracking down a clue which could only be found in Milan?

Whatever. We know he will solve this crime even if he has to go to the ends of the Earth to figure it out.

He's a very intuitive man and a top-notch FBI investigator, despite being rather new to the job.

We know this because Donald Trump told us so. The FBI is so lucky to have him

*** tMI *** Holding ICE Accountable

Mayors in New York, Boston, LA, Oakland, Chicago and Seattle have all signed executive orders restricting how and where ICE can operate in their cities.

The restrictions seek to keep ICE from parks and city property, and establish ICE-free zones in areas like hospitals, courthouses libraries, and other public places, although this is not posdible if ICE has a judicial warrant.

Local prosecutors in Philidelphia, Austin, Dallas, Tucson, as well as Fairfax and Arlington counties in Virginia have pledged to arrest, charge, and prosecute ICE agents under local laws if they break laws there.

Larry Krasner, the Philidelphia District Attorney, explains how this might be done. We see how federal prosecutors are intentionally NOT performing their duties to uphold state laws when ICE or other federal agents violate them.

Mary Moriarty, Minnesota DA, has run headlong into this problem trying to prosecute the murderers of Alex Peretti and Renee Good. The feds continue to refuse to hand over key evidence in the brutal shootings, even though she has followed the official process for procuring this evidence.

But it is still possible to proceed without this evidence, especially with the powerful video evidence of their murders on hand.

According to Krasner, a proactive process must take place as soon as ICE is observed violating the law, arrests and gathering of evidence must take place. If the federal government witholds evidence, several formal requests using specific process forms must be submitted to give the federal government a chance to follow the law. if they do not--and they probably won't--the state DA must proceed without the withheld evidence. The federal government cannot prevent the state from proceeding with an investigation and prosecution.

It is important to undrrstand how adversarial this process is with the federal government attempting to flout the law, while the state seeks justice.

As in Minneapolis, Trump and his minions got their narrative condemning the victims out quickly, and did not investigate the crimes until bad PR forced them to at least make fake, token attempts to appease the media and casual observers, but maintaining their concocted stories, modifying them as it became apparent nobody halfway objective believed them, like criminals with poor legal representation.

They are evil and incompetent, but they are dangerous with almost unlimited resources. Fortunately the state cases, if there are convictions, are something they cannot legally overcome, as Trump cannot pardon those with state convictions.

With a new commitment to actually making arrests and taking judicial action against illegal immigration enforcement actions, the city of Philadelphia may be a test case now, as ICE has moved into the area and there are ICE raids taking place in the suburb of Berwyn.

We will see how things go.