{"id":71423,"date":"2025-10-06T14:39:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=71423"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:39:26","slug":"americas-heel-turn-celebrated-with-its-own-loonie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2025\/10\/06\/americas-heel-turn-celebrated-with-its-own-loonie\/","title":{"rendered":"America’s heel turn celebrated with its own Loonie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2022 The Trump administration is rendering unto Caesar<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Treasury Department is considering minting a $1 coin bearing President Donald Trump\u2019s likeness on both sides to honor him and commemorate the United States\u2019 250th birthday next year.<\/p>\n

A first draft of that coin, which will mark the semiquincentennial anniversary of the nation\u2019s founding, depicts Trump\u2019s head in profile on one side, above the words \u201cIN GOD WE TRUST\u201d and the dates 1776 and 2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Canada has the Loonie<\/a>, and soon America will have a Loonie of its own.<\/p>\n

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Is this ridiculous egomania? Obviously. Is it legal? Goodness, no \u2014 not even if the six corrupt Supreme Court justices invent some new doctrine to claim it might be.<\/p>\n

My guess is this coin won\u2019t actually happen, but that immense resources will be spent to mock up some samples to stroke the tender feelings of the Mad King\/ Because the lackies he has installed throughout the government find it easier to pretend to follow his weird whims than they do to ever tell him \u201cNo, the law doesn\u2019t allow that.\u201d<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to watch this play out among Trump\u2019s most-devoted followers in white evangelicalism. They\u2019re not usually big on church history and \u201ctradition,\u201d but this will have them reviving centuries old distinctions from the Iconoclastic Controversy, seeking cover in the claim that they are venerating, but not technically worshipping, their idol. Or maybe they won\u2019t even bother with that.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Federal goons ransacked an apartment building in Chicago<\/a>, detaining everyone \u2014 citizen and immigrant alike \u2014 and stealing their stuff. The \u201cHomeland Security\u201d pretext for the raid was suspicion of Venezuelan gang activity in the building, and \u201cHomeland Security\u201d officials say they arrested two people in the raid who belonged to a gang. \u201cHomeland Security\u201d officials also claim that those two arrests justified breaking down every door in the building, dragging naked zip-tied children into U-Haul vans, and detaining dozens of citizens at gunpoint in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n

Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours.<\/p>\n

When he got home from work, Jones said he entered his unit to find all of his electronics and furniture missing, and all of his clothes and shoes thrown on the floor. Jones said he had no idea who took his belongings and hadn\u2019t received answers from Chicago police. \u2026<\/p>\n

In the South Shore raid, neighbors said federal agents used flashbang grenades to burst through the building and several drones and helicopters were deployed.<\/p>\n

Ebony Sweets Watson, who lives across the street, said it \u201clooked like hundreds\u201d of agents were outside her front door.<\/p>\n

Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was heartbreaking to watch,\u201d said Watson. \u201cEven if you\u2019re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watson said she went into the building to help one of the residents and was shocked by what she saw.<\/p>\n

\u201cStuff was everywhere,\u201d said Watson. \u201cYou could see people\u2019s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The local news station has more horrifying details<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just treated us like we were nothing,\u201d Fisher said.<\/p>\n

Fisher said she came out to the hallway of her apartment complex on the corner of 75th and South Shore Drive in her nightgown around 10 p.m. Monday only to find armed ICE agents yelling \u201cpolice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face,\u201d Fisher said. \u201cThey asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, \u2018No,\u2019 I didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.<\/p>\n

\u2026 Neighbors like Eboni Watson say they ducked for cover as they heard several flash bangs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other,\u201d Watson said. \u201cThat\u2019s all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where\u2019s the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, \u2018f*** them kids.'\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Venezuelan immigrants seized in the raid by federal slavecatchers were \u201cillegal immigrants.\u201d We know they are \u201cillegal\u201d because the Trump administration stripped away the legal status of Venezuelan immigrants by imperial fiat<\/a>. Hundreds of thousands of people who came here legally and were obeying the law had the law changed out from under them. Because \u201cf*** them kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

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