Dept. of Left-Leaning Sanctions (DOLLS) convenes

 

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Leaked Minutes from the Nov. 3, 2025 meeting of the Dept. of Left-Leaning Sanctions (DOLLS) 

Chair: As we convene the first meeting of this task force one year before the 2026 elections, it is critical that we clarify publicly the purposes of the task force. It is clear that the radical left is preparing to undermine America’s sacred election process. They already have in place cities filled with dangerous illegal immigrants who are being recruited to vote by mail and to keep lawful citizens from going to the polls. They have conspired to blanket late night television with the support of rich celebrities and Hollywood. Studies show that 97% of the guests and hosts are left wing radicals who are intent on polluting the airwaves with Marxist, trans, gay and anti-family propaganda that mirror decades of attempts to distort public school and college curricula. 

Our agenda today is to flesh out strategies that neutralize the radical left and that are road tested to succeed by building on the ground tactics that are in place. Democracy is at stake. 

We have only one person to thank for the vision to take on this awe inspiring mission and that is our fearless leader, the gilded Donald Trump. He is with us this morning to weave the charge for our task force and the nation. 

 Member 1: You are our great and noble warrior. / Member 2: We honor you as you prepare to contest the Nobel Peace and Pretense Award that will not be presented until Dec. 10. / Member 3: You are a man who has never lost a golf game. Not even close. / Member 4: You are a hunk, I dare say, who gets my juices flowing. / Member 5: On a personal level, you are a thoughtful leader who donated your own money to buy my cat her pajamas. / Member 6: You are a strong, strongman who could have invaded Greenland had he wanted to. / Member 7: You are the only president to have ever had all the nation’s generals in rapt attention. / Member 8: You are a man who can smell a stolen election when it’s cooked up. / Member 9: You are a paragon whose face will finally adorn both the one dollar coin, emblazoned with Fight, Fight, Fight and the $100,000 H1B note, under the motto: In Sanity We Trust / Member 10: You are a humble leader who prefers Generalissimo to the Fuhrer. 

[A collective Amen rings out] 

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Trump: Please stand and take your seats. I came up with the idea for the Dept. of Left-Leaning Sanctions out of holy cloth. No one had ever thought of it. I made sure that the acronyism, the abbrevization is something memorable, not like DOGE, your predecessor task force, which was an unqualified success in that almost no one remembers that Elon Musk pledged to reduce federal spending by $2 trillion, and just as few have followed up to check on the 20 million people who’ve received Social Security past age 100 or the $2.7 trillion in improper Medicaid and Medicare payments to people overseas. Data that doesn’t exist shows that more unneeded federal employees were eliminated to save costs than necessary employees were eliminated and then rehired by a ratio of 20:∞. It is also not the case that Musk made more in personal investments from his government work than I did. On the other side of the ledger, I improved on the name to avoid clever comebacks like calling the task force Doggy. To counter that shortfall, this task force shall be named DOLLS for the Dept. of Left-Leaning Sanctions. All those in favor say “Dolls.” 

Chair: Motion carried. 

Trump: I want you to be the first to know that Congressional leaders and sycophants have agreed that attempts to open up the so-called Epstein files have terminated. As the good contributors at Lays Potato Chips once wisely said, “They tried, but they couldn’t do. Nobody can have just one.” They included me in their commercials back in the late ‘60s. 

To commemorate the occasion, I named this task force DOLLS. The sick Democrats will no longer be able to claim that I once surrounded myself with underage girls. Just look at the DOLLS I surround myself with now. I call them the MAGA cougars. They are the finest cougars. You don’t find cougars like them on late night TV. We have Nancy Mace, Lauren Boebert, Kristie Noem, Kari Lake, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Katie Britt, Asley Moody, Anna Paulina Luna, Pam Bondi, Jeanine Pirro, Karoline Leavitt, Kimberly Gilfoyle, Vanessa Trump, Lara Trump and Tiffany Trump. We’re so close, some are like family. I added Marjorie Taylor Greene when she agreed to drop the Epstein nonsense. You can call it a harem. I call it a woke-proof catalog. The left can’t touch them. They wouldn’t dare gang up on them. Imply that a woman isn’t qualified because of her looks? Three-D checkmate. Silence is golden. The best part is they fly below the polling radar. Why do you think we won the male youth vote so convincingly? Biden stole the election in 2020, claiming 56% of young men voted for him. In 2024, when the election wasn’t rigged, 56% voted for me. Young white men are horny, as they should be. I was. Fake pollsters are clueless. At least Newsweek is paying attention. 

Just look at the polling on our big beautiful government shutdown. Democrats blame the Republicans. The Republicans blame back. The pollsters made up that the public blamed me. My favorability is sky high. With the government closed, we’re emptying offices, firing dead weight, more of the worst of the worst. We get sued. We lose in one court, lose in another, the court actions are stayed, the cases get up to the Supreme Court. We win. Open and shut cases. Shadow dockets are like ICE in masks. See no evil. Hard to speak evil. 

If evil is spoken, we shut it up quickly. That’s why I love big business. The bigger, the better to leverage what’s needed. To them, millions is chump change and they’re the chumps. Corporate chumps, law firm chumps, university chumps. Media chumps, I love them. 

We’ve done our homework 20-25 times over. 

The Jews love us. Anti-Semitism is MAGA’s gold-plated issue. And we get to replace college curriculums. fund the Presidential library, gild the White House lillies in its name. Bibi does what he wants. I scold him. I sound tough. I am tough. We’re two peas in a knish. He won’t let Palestinians speak in the Middle East, I won’t let them speak here. 

I called in the military to Quantico to feel them out. Can we trust them like we can trust ICE and the Homeland Security Task Forces (HESTAFO) reinforcements? ICE agents make $50,000-$90,000 a year, not counting overtime, benefits and bonuses. Recently hired HESTAFO agents are entitled to hiring bonuses of $50,000 to go with the overtime, benefits and a chance to meet Kristi. No costs or college needed, and we fast track background investigations. 

I trust each and every one of them. They know that because of the government shutdown, they won’t get any of that money unless I know they’ve done the job we ask them to do. That’s why I trust Tom Homan. He knows if he doesn’t do the job we ask him to do, there’s that $50,000 in a cash bag he’ll need to account for. I love employees like Tom. 

But the military - the collection of dudes in dresses, or females who can’t keep up, or the fat generals and admirals. We called them in to prepare them for the war from within, the radical left in the cities. The cities are the training grounds for wars around the world, particularly for now in and around Venezuela. Hear that, Greenland. Sanctuary cities have a bullseye on their churches and schools. I call it the grand Trump invasion. Unprecedented. For the generals and the military too, if they don’t agree with the program, they can resign and give up their rank and security. We are taking over the cities to bring the violence rates down to keep pace with the reductions in violence already happening, to deport animals and to give this department the boost it needs to break out more left-leaning sanctions. 

The fake polls don’t matter. They claim to show problems with the economy when the stock markets are going through the roof. Boo hoo for Americans when 62% of the people own stocks. You don’t have to believe me. Even Gallup says so. You don’t read that in the fake media. 

All fake news reports on is Medicare this and Medicaid that. People don’t know the difference and they don’t care. No matter how much the media calls our policies setbacks, it’s child’s play to paper over it. What Americans care about is gas, food, and money in their pockets. We’re even covered on Social Security. The government shutdown doesn’t stop those checks from rolling in. 

We can ride the tail of AI and hold out for months. Smart families can rake in billions in plain sight. Let the primaries play out, watch the dominoes fall, let the radical left and the Democrats claw at each other and spend money, they have no issues. They’ll keep calling me names and put all their eggs in an economy basket. 

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Then around Easter egg time, as Americans are thinking about their income taxes, and we ratchet up America 250, we’ll drop a big beautiful rebate on people, carefully selected for optimal election return. If that doesn’t move the numbers and silence any remaining critics, you at DOLLS can dig in and go into voter integrity mode. Have a good meeting. 

Chair: Thank you, Mr. President. We know you have your work cut out for you over the next month to contest The Noble Prize elections. You know the drill. 

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My revelation about ICE and their masks: Is ICE Today’s Klan?

I have been associating ICE and their growing posse of Homeland Security Task Forces (HESTAFO) reinforcements with the GESTAPO in Nazi Germany and Poland, where my grandparents and two of their children were rounded up, transported and executed. They were considered animals, dangerous and illegal by Nazi law. 

Yesterday I had a revelation that at first made me deeply embarrassed that my understandable association apparently blinded me to a parallel, more obvious and closer to my American home. The epiphany came when I heard the powerful dirge Is ICE Today’s Klan? sung by Louise, whom I don’t know, as part of the regular podcast Thom Hartmann’s Daily Take. 

The parallel to the Klan was even more chilling in that the Gestapo didn’t wear masks when they did their armed roundups with governmental impunity and societal acquiescence. ICE and the Hestafo do. So did the Klan. Why? As Republicans have maintained and Fox News drives home, because their identities need to be concealed and their personal safety needs to be protected, especially in this era of social media and doxxing. But how are those arrested, harassed and rounded up supposed to know if the masked, armed, unidentified folk are authorized federal agents or marauders? After all, as Trump keeps saying and Fox News reinforces, the cities are violent, lawless, “burning hell holes,” plagued by non-stop violent crime and homelessness. Odd. Have gang bangers and drug dealers turned to using tear gas, kidnapping and disappearing community people. Maybe they get even surlier when the community chants USA, USA. At this point in Trump’s invasions, communities no longer confuse federal agents with violent gang members or drug dealers. The fear of violence in the cities is of the agents. 

It is tricky, though. How are communities and their locally elected officials to document when masked or unidentified federal agents act beyond their authorization to physically abuse people or spew profanities and racist barkings? Trump and federal agents are disinclined to welcome protesting to get points across. Cameras and videos help, even in an era of deepfakes and fabricated images. Hard to tell who the domestic terrorists are. Kristi Noem has even said: “Violence is anything that threatens [agents] and their safety, so it is doxxing them, it’s videotaping them where they’re at when they’re out on operations, encouraging other people to come and to throw things, rocks, bottles.” No wonder there’s violence in America’s cities with masked, armed agents skulking about. 

This is not the first time Chicago has been invaded by federal troops following orders. In 1850, in the aftermath of congressional passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, compelling cities to help capture and return Black people fleeing slavery, the federal government deputized local officials to enforce slavery. The City Council denounced the law as “cruel and unjust,” ordering police not to assist in its enforcement, as noted by Claudia Fegan and Linda Rae Murray in the Oct. 13 Chicago Sun-Times. As they put it, “Chicago made a choice. It chose justice over compliance. It chose to defend the humanity of those the federal government deemed ‘fugitives.’ Today, that moral tradition is being called upon again.” And the Trump administration is treating it as violence. 

The Hartmann report is eye opening and includes historical analogs to the Ku Klu Klan. “Both [ICE and the KKK] used legal or quasi-legal authority, masked identities, and violent or coercive tactics to carry out their missions, all without individual accountability while targeting vulnerable minorities and subverting legal norms to do so.” To this day, the masked anonymity of the KKK has kept the identities of all but a few KKK leaders hidden, with no accountability. The masks are perpetual care shields. 

The societal result was that almost 20 states made it a crime for a law enforcement officer or anybody else to appear disguised and armed. Many of the laws are still on the books. Interestingly, in 1999, the Indiana law was overturned by a federal court which found that forcing Klan members to remove their hoods could subject them to harassment and impinge on their “right to anonymity when past harassment makes it likely that disclosing the members’ [identities] would impact the group’s ability to pursue its collective efforts at advocacy.” 

In California, Gov. Newsom signed a bill into law recently that bans state and federal law enforcement from wearing masks on the job. Trump’s response? “We don’t need to abide by this garbage,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said on social media, according to Fox News. Seems consistent with the administration party line and attitude. In her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Pam Bondi told the committee that she was hearing for the first time about reports of immigration officials hiding their faces with masks during roundups. 

All this registered with me, and was reinforced when I listened to the haunting dirge that the report included at the end. Can’t get it out of my head. 

Click here to go to Louise’s substack site 

“They knock on the doors where the weary hearts hide and the wind carries whispers of those who have cried”… 

 “The say it’s the law but whose law is it now? The same law that once wore a hood and a vow. 

'Is ICE today’s Klan? Beneath a new command. They hide behind badges, they hide behind claims. If justice is blind, then who leads her hand?”… 

'They say it’s protection they say it’s the law. But mercy’s the first thing they ever withdraw”… 

 

'They say you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, but the masked men are coming and they’re already here”… 

'The mask never lifts, it just learned how to plan.” 

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Yiddish dictionary redefines chutzpah: Nobel Peace Prize goes to Venezuelan

The most authoritative source on Yiddish has revised its classic definition of chutzpah. 

For years, Leo Rosten’s The Joys of Yiddish defined chutzpah as “gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible ‘guts,’ presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to.” In this sense, chutzpah expresses both strong disapproval and condemnation. 

The definition now simply says Donald Trump, followed by the fuller definition, a photo, and the following examples: 

• People, usually male, who assume they deserve an award for showing up, no matter what they do when they do. 
• People who campaign for awards as if they’re a movie studio hawking for an Oscar, boasting repeatedly of settling 5, 6, 7, 8 wars, in case a prize committee has lost count. “Nobody in history has solved eight wars in a period of nine months. And I’ve stopped eight wars. That’s never happened before.” 

• People who fill the airwaves with sycophantic pretty boys who do their bidding for them. 

• People who’ve mastered self-serving hyperbole. In its opinion piece, The Daily Beast wrote: “His biblical comparison for the Middle East peace deal proves he can’t quiet his own Trump-et blast. Nearly 3,000 years ago, the Old Testament predicted the coming of the ‘Prince of Peace.’ (Isaiah 9:6). And on the 9th day of October 2025, President Donald J. Trump came close to suggesting he might have been who Isaiah had in mind. The whole world has come together, but the Middle East has come together for the first time in 3,000 years…. “When he says to anybody who will listen that he is bringing peace to the Middle East after 3,000 years, he is more histrionic than historical.” 
• People who put their face on a coin in violation of federal law that prohibits the image on both sides of the coin and provides that only the deceased can appear on U.S. currency. No such provision exists for Nobel Prize commemorative coins.

Doctored photo of a mythical Nobel Prize commemorative coin
with Maria Corina Machado on it 

• A person who orders the “lethal kinetic strikes” of presumed drug boats off the coast of Venezuela, killing multiple people on board, according to Fox News, demonstrating that there are apparent alternative paths to a peace prize rather than one for “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” 
• People who order invasions of cities, like Portland and Chicago, in their own country. 
• A person who changes the name of a cabinet department from the Defense Department to the War Department and stakes out a claim for a peace prize. 
• The 1992 book by Alan Dershowitz that had the chutzpah to be named Chutzpah opens with “American Jews need more chutzpah.” American Jews know where they can find it; in the author, his confidant and client Joseph Epstein, and Trump, all who share the secrets of a sex pedophile scandal. 
• One of chutzpah’s most ardent practitioners, Texas Senator Ted Cruz who knows whereof he speaks and at whom to point the finger, uses the term frequently. 
• A person who is touted for a Nobel Peace Prize by a leader who is accused by the International Criminal Court of the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare, of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population, and of the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts. 
• A man whose advisers complain of not winning an award because the awards committee “placed politics over peace,” using those very words, as if scripted. Roll call - White House communications director Steven Cheung; Katie Miller, the former White House staffer and wife of deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller; Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump; and Vladimir Putin. “No one deserves it more than President Trump. But we know these people who establish who wins the Nobel Peace Prize hate Donald Trump. They suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. And in our hearts, he will be winning the Nobel Peace Prize. We know that for sure,” Lara Trump said. 

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Someone taught GOP Congressman Richard Hudson’s staff how to use AI and they went to town and placed bootlicking over both politics and peace. 

In public, Trump, flashing the characteristic humility of a self-proclaimed runner up, did not complain about not getting the prize. He said that the person who received the award called him to thank him and tell him she’s accepting the award in honor of him because he really deserved it. “I didn’t say ‘then give it to me,’” he joked, adding that he’s been helping her along the way. Forever the jokester. 

Postscript: In response to the Nobel Peace Prize announcement, the recipient, Maria Corina Machado, in hiding from the Venezuelan government, tweeted her appreciation to the Venezuelan people and to Trump:

In response to the White House’s complaints that Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Prize Committee stated, “The Venezuelan regime’s rigid hold on power and its repression of the population are not unique in the world…We see the same trends globally: rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarisation.” 

On its official website, the Nobel Prize wrote, “It was a choice of ballots over bullets”. 

And as I wrote in another post the other day, the award won’t be presented until Dec. 10. Trump has plenty of time to mobilize his people to contest the award in ways only he knows how. 

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