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Trump and national security

Trump has charged the DoJ and FBI to focus on his political enemies. That means that the focus of these “law and order” agencies will be on Trump’s political security and not our national security. Expect terrorist attacks and domestic violence, which will then be used as an excuse for martial law. Trump has pardoned […]

Paranoia “Striking Deep” Early on In This Administration with Immigration

Early this morning I stepped outside into the thirty-degree weather we are experiencing in the Arizona desert. My across-the-street US Citizen Mexican neighbor was loading up his pickup truck to go do some landscaping work. His is one of the few pickup trucks I have seen with the backend box filled with the essentials needed […]

The Vladimir Putin national security access exemption

The White House Counsel to provide the White House Security Office and Acting Chief Security Officer with a list of personnel that are hereby immediately granted interim Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearances for a period not to exceed six months and that these individuals shall be immediately granted access to the facilities and […]

TikTok Goes the Clock

One Hour until the dread January 20th. 23 hours into the strange TikTok banned January 19th. Trump says he will delay the law banning TikTok by executive order. Can he do that???? Don’t ask me. I’m not a lawyer. However, I do have a first amendment right to play a lawyer on the web. Do […]

 “They’re Back”

And I do not mean Poltergeist II “TikTok’s back: App thanks Trump as it returns for US users” As taken from POLITICO‘s Christine Mui AB: Can Trump legally turn this around. There can be legal liabilities to users of Tik Tok. Trump’s proposal exerted pressure on the entire tech ecosystem that makes TikTok available to […]

Tok Tik

I write 15 hours before the TikTok ban. I know almost exactly nothing about Tik Tok (I just installed the app as an act of … well it might not be available the day after tomorrow). I know almost nothing about social media or modern tech. That never stopped me before. The story is that […]