Donald Trump: The Saudi Puppet

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Who does Donald Trump work for?

Trump commits our brave troops for Netanyahu. According to today’s New York Times, the person ostensibly President of the United States now dances for Mohammed bin Salman. The American Paper of Record reports:

Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has been pushing President Trump to continue the war against Iran, arguing that the U.S.-Israeli military campaign presents a “historic opportunity” to remake the Middle East, according topeople briefed by American officials on the conversations.

In a series of conversations over the last week, Prince Mohammed has conveyed to Mr. Trump that he must press toward the destruction of Iran’s hard-line government, the people familiar with the conversations said.

So, dance for the crown prince, Donald. Dance for the crown prince. Dance for Benjamin. Surround yourself with gold, and dance for the murderous crown prince.

Maybe he’ll invite you to a nice party somewhere. Or, you can have a sleepover at your place.

Just get out of our way. Do one thing right in your life.

Resign.

White House Inadvertently Adds Journalist to Group Chat on Houthi Terrorist Strike

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Houthi strikes: President Trump blindfolded with mobile phones in the Oval Office.

TURNINGLEFT—The Trump White House mistakenly included the Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief in a group text chat on Houthi strikes in Yemen.

From The Epoch Times:

The Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief was accidentally added to a Trump administration text chat discussing the renewed campaign of U.S. airstrikes on Houthi terrorists in Yemen in the hours after the first bombs dropped, the White House has confirmed.

In a story published in The Atlantic on March 24, journalist and editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg recounted being added to a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal on March 15, nearly three hours before the U.S. government officially announced that it had resumed a campaign of strikes targeting the Houthis.

Recounting the incident for The Atlantic, Goldberg reported that an individual who he believes to have been White House national security adviser Mike Waltz added him to a group chat at 11:44 a.m. ET on March 15. At 2:29 p.m. ET on the same day, Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to publicly announce the new U.S. strikes on Yemen.

Right-wing pundits and Trump himself would have plastered such a blunder all over the media and Truth Social. In this case? Trump said he didn’t know anything about it.

On Ukraine: Trump cares nothing for human life.

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Ukrainian immigrants in the United States are terrified they might be deported to a war zone. Further evidence of Donald Trump’s complete disregard for America’s allies—and human life.

From NBC News:

Ukrainian immigrants who fled the ongoing war with Russia and now live in the U.S. with temporary legal status told NBC News they are terrified they could soon face deportation back to an active war zone. In Ukraine, life as they once knew it has long been bombed away.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would soon make a decision on whether to revoke temporary legal status of Ukrainians who came to the U.S. during the war. “We’re certainly not looking to hurt them,” he said. “There were some people that think that’s appropriate, and some people don’t and I’ll be making a decision pretty soon.”

Even before his comments, a sense of abandonment and dread had swept through the community given the administration’s targeting of legal programs for immigrants, as well as the growing hostility and withdrawal of support for Ukraine, they said. 

The GOP Is the True Anti-Business Party

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GOP elephant
Source: Republican Party (US), via Wikimedia Commons.

It doesn’t take a genius to realize that the Republican Party cares only about the Republican Party. The party, which once stood in opposition to slavery, now stands in favor only of the next election cycle.

Consider this, from Paul Krugman:

Republican politicians are at odds with corporate America on crucial issues. It’s not just vaccines. Corporate interests also want serious investment in infrastructure and find themselves on the outs with Republican leaders who don’t want to see Democrats achieve any policy successes. Basically, the G.O.P. is currently engaged in a major campaign of sabotage — its leaders want to see America do badly, because they believe this will redound to their political advantage — and if this hurts their corporate backers along the way, they don’t care.

Just to be clear, corporations aren’t being good guys. They support vaccine mandates and infrastructure investment because they believe that both would be good for their bottom lines. They’re still for the most part opposed to the rest of the Biden agenda, including — unforgivably — efforts to fight climate change, because they don’t want to pay higher taxes.

Still, the conflict between the G.O.P. and corporations is a striking new turn in American politics. And I wonder if some corporate leaders find themselves asking, in the privacy of their own minds, “My God, what have we done?”

And that’s the big question: What have they done? Corporations are quickly realizing they have little to no voice now in the party they bankrolled for generations.

When will donors to the GOP finally jump ship and side with the Dems? Like them or not, the Dems listen to everyone.

Universal Healthcare Saves Lives and Money

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Lack of universal health care is killing us.
Lack of universal health care is killing us.

We’re literally being eaten alive with medical bills.

If you can’t afford insurance, you will not get proper medical care unless you can pay up front. If you CAN afford insurance, you pay more per year already than people in other countries WITH universal healthcare pay in a year, AND they live longer, according to statistics tracked for decades with the WHO.

Pay less, get more, no one left out. The math is simple.

Right now MILLIONS are still left out. Why would anyone say no to universal healthcare?

The math and the medicine are in our favor.

Right now, we’re paying money through the nose IF we can afford insurance. If we can’t, we die.

The math and economics are simple. Don’t believe the damn lies industry execs are telling you so they can keep their millions.

Will Trump's Senate Trial Be a Southern "Good Ol' White Boys" Sham or a Real Trial?

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Crazy Donald Trump

The 45th President of the United States has been impeached.

For those who might think this is a “symbolic” gesture because the U.S. Senate might not convict, think again. Donald John Trump has been impeached on two articles of Impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

These articles never expire.

These articles never go away.

This will forever be his legacy.

And the GOP will forever be the party that chose party over country.

The GOP willfully ignored a president who:

  • Shook down a world leader to call for an investigation into his then-likely opponent in the 2020 election;
  • refused subpoenas from the United States Congress and ordered his White House appointees to disregard subpoenas from the United States Congress;
  • he personally and repeatedly instructed the Postmaster General to double shipping rates for Amazon, in an attempt to inflict billions of dollars of new costs on founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post;
  • he referred to African countries as “shitholes” and Mexicans as “rapists”;
  • he called neo-Nazis “very fine people”;

And there’s more the GOP willfully ignored. He was only impeached on the first two bullet points above.

Donald J. Trump deserved to be impeached and he deserves to be removed from office.

Will his trial in the Senate be an actual trial, or will Moscow Mitch McConnell and Spineless Lindsay Graham hold a sham, good ol’ white boys trial?

So far, Moscow Mitch has signaled a show trial only, claiming that it’s not up to the Senate to do the House’s job.

But the House impeaches. That’s an indictment.

Now, the House, the equivalent of the prosecution, must put its evidence before the jury, the United States Senate. Just as prosecutors must prove their cases, this trial before the Senate is the venue for the House to call witnesses and subpoena documents. No prosecution ends with an indictment.

So let’s see and hear it all.

Remember, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court John Roberts will preside, and Justice Roberts is not one to take anything he does lightly.

This is only the third time in the history of our Republic that a U.S. President will stand trial before the Senate.

May the trial be full, complete, open, thorough, and exhaustive, with all evidence and witnesses presented.

Even the president himself.

The Trump Administration’s Plan to Dismantle Climate Science

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melting glacier in Greenland

“Loss of Ice in Greenland, Icebergs in Disco Bay”by GRIDArendal is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

The Trump Administration is not only trying to confuse the truth of climate change; the administration is actively working to dismantle the actual science behind the reality of climate change.

This is a deadly endeavor by men, coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, who will not be alive in a couple of decades as the worst continues to hit.

Essentially, do no projections that go further than 40 years or so. This is akin to what totalitarian regimes put out statistics.

And people laugh when these regimes put out these stats.

Are we laughing?

From Michael Barbaro at the New York Times:

From Day 1, the Trump administration has tried to dismantle regulations aimed at curbing climate change. Now officials are attempting to undermine the very science on which such policies rest. Guest: Coral Davenport, who covers energy and environmental policy for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

Background reading:Parts of the federal government will no longer fulfill what scientists say is one of the most urgent jobs of climate science studies: reporting on the future effects of a rapidly warming planet. Here is a breakdownof the 1,656-page report released last fall that warns of a damaged environment and shrinking economy.

Here’s The Daily on this topic:

Woman Arrested in Poland for Painting Virgin Mary with a Rainbow Halo

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Virgin Mary of Czestochowa with rainbow halo
This artistic depiction of the Virgin Mary of Czestochowa with a rainbow halo could land a Polish woman in jail for two years.

Truly disgusting. Blasphemy is a crime against the state in Poland. An artist has been arrested and faces two years in prison.

From our friends at LGBTQNation:

A 51-year-old Polish woman has been arrested for blasphemy after she painted the Virgin Mary with a rainbow halo.

Polish interior minister Joachim Brudzi?ski announced the arrest, saying she was detained for “carrying out a profanation of the Virgin Mary of Cz?stochowa.” The Black Madonna of Cz?stochowa is a Byzantine icon that is housed in the country’s holiest Catholic shrine.

“Offending religious feeling” is a crime in Poland punishable by up to two years in prison.

“Telling stories about freedom and ‘tolerance’ doesn’t give anyone the right to offend the feelings of believers,” Brudzi?ski said, adding that the paintings are “cultural barbarism.”

How close are we to this happening in the United States under Trump?

Seriously!

Undocumented Immigrants Working for Trump Are Tired of His Abuse & Insults

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Victoria Morales
Victoria Morales.

The undocumented immigrants working for Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf course are fed up with the President’s abuse and insults, according to one woman who works for his club, the New York Times reports.

Victorina Morales has been a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., for more than five years. She’s cleaned Trump’s toilet. She’s made Trump’s bed. She’s dusted his crystal golf trophies. She has worked for him while he’s been President.

Because of the “outstanding” support she has provided during Mr. Trump’s visits, Ms. Morales in July was given a certificate from the White House Communications Agency inscribed with her name.

Think about it. This was a person, an undocumented immigrant, who had Access. That’s a hot word in D.C. Access. Access to the President of the United States.

And who wants to bet that President Trump knew he had undocumented workers at Trump properties?

I’d put money on it.

NBC quotes Ms. Morales, “I told them that I don’t have papers, I don’t speak English and that I was an immigrant. They said, ‘No, it doesn’t matter.'”

Trump’s people deny they knew. I doubt that.

At any rate, Ms. Morales is speaking out, the NYTimes says:

Ms. Morales said she has been hurt by Mr. Trump’s public comments since he became president, including equating Latin American immigrants with violent criminals. It was that, she said, along with abusive comments from a supervisor at work about her intelligence and immigration status, that made her feel that she could no longer keep silent.

“We are tired of the abuse, the insults, the way he talks about us when he knows that we are here helping him make money,” she said. “We sweat it out to attend to his every need and have to put up with his humiliation.”

From NBC again:

The Trump Organization LLC, the primary holding company for the president’s hundreds of businesses, referred NBC News to the White House, which didn’t directly address the Times report. It said in a statement:

“We have tens of thousands of employees across our properties and have very strict hiring practices. If any employee submitted false documentation in an attempt to circumvent the law, they will be terminated immediately.”

Right. And those who knowingly hired and humiliated them?

They’ll be promoted.

Or maybe run for president some day.