Trump's honeymoon is over; now he has gone full-blown dictator

With the price of eggs soaring, some families dyed potatoes instead.

 On Easter Sunday, Trump came out briefly with the Easter Bunny.

Donald Trump is on a wild rampage, willfully damaging the US economy, going even further to mete out revenge against enemies, both actual and imagined. Disaster relief is being denied to states he doesn't like and whose officials he believes dislike him. Trump has even vowed to deport native-born citizens who oppose him and seeks to have anyone who has ever criticized him publicly to be criminally prosecuted. He deliberately flouts court orders and laws, including from the Supreme Court, even from justices whom he has named himself. What can they do if he just ignores them? He also has declared serving for as many as four more terms, apparently considering his small mandate a license to become President-for-life.

Trump's modus operandi has been to use surprise and unpredictability, keeping everyone off-guard, pivoting on a dime, then back again, zig-zagging here and there, making it hard even for members of his government to keep up. He has been deporting people to El Salvador based on the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. He considers that sufficient. 

Most of a rather long blog posting scheduled to be posted today simply vanished. I don't know where it went, or how to resurrect it, so this posting will be shorter. Readers will be spared that longer posting. 

Stephen in Nigeria tells me the recession has now spread to his county. 

Thank you very much, madam Barbs.

In fact, our economy is really very bad.

I wish you good luck, Madam Barbs.

Former President Joe Biden is back, giving speeches again, just when many Democrats wish he would  stay home.

The US is paying El Salvador $15 million to house prisoners sent from the US, so that country is not about to release them.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) said Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland man wrongly

deported to El Salvador, has “experienced trauma, he said he’s sad every day.”

García, a father and husband, mistakenly deported 

to a megaprison in El Salvador, was transferred to a different facility after spending weeks in a cell 

with 25 other migrants, Van Hollen said.

Sen. Van Hollen spoke from Washington Dulles International Airport upon his return from El

Salvador, where he was able to meet with Abrego García after being rebuffed by the Salvadoran 

government multiple times. The senator said their meeting was the first time Abrego García — a longtime Maryland resident whose wife and children are U.S. citizens — had spoken to anyone from the outside world since being deported.

Then at the Vatican:

 Vice President JD Vance recently visited Pope Francis in Rome. The 88-year-old pontiff gave Vance 3 chocolate Easter eggs, one for each of his children. 

The Pope's Easter message decried "the logic of fear."

        Whenever I've heard Pope Francis speak, he speaks in Spanish, not in Latin or Italian. 

Wash. Post, IDF says ‘misunderstanding’ led to killings of Gaza emergency workers

Saying "sorry" is not enough.

Missing toddler who walked 7 miles alone through Arizona desert where the temperature overnight dropped into the 40's was found by Buford, a rancher's dog. 

NBC News

16 hours after he went missing, rancher Scotty Dunton found him on his land 7 miles away. The boy was safe and well and had apparently been found by his dog.

With our lovely springtime weather, how about a weekend walk in DC's Rock Creek Park?

Here's a riddle for you:

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps

has a bed but never sleeps?

                                                        A river!

Let's post this now before it vanishes again.