Sunday, November 17, 2024
The MAGA Sh-t Show is Coming to D.C. Be Afraid, It is Happening Here
Florida Representative Matt Gaetz for Attorney General.
National Guardsmen Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem for Homeland Security.
Tulsi Gabbard for National Intelligence Director.
Robert F Kennedy for Health and Human Services Secretary.
From The Atlantic
These are several of the cabinet picks Mr. Donald Trump has made since winning the Presidency last week.
This is definitely not the best and brightest.
It is actually repulsive and nauseating.
Matt Gaetz is one of the most unpopular House Representatives in the country who has earned the wrath of both Democrats and Republicans for his bombastic personality, suspicion of sex with minors, and showcasing cell phone videos of him in the act after taking ED medication.
Pete Hegseth has no government experience, and his claim to fame is being a news host on Fox News blasting women in combat roles, thinks Putin had justifiable reasons for invading Ukraine, wanted accused war criminals pardoned, and tried to sanitize what happened at the Nation's Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Robert F. Kennedy, the one who said he had worms in the brain, is a prominent anti-vaxer.
America's enemies in Russia, China, and Iran are smiling right now.
Kristi Noem has no experience dealing with Homeland Security matters whatsoever.
Tulsi Gabbard has no experience whatsoever in dealing with matters of National Intelligence and she has been accused of coddling too much to Russian interests.
The reason these and other grotesquely unqualified individuals were chosen. They have sworn loyalty to the incoming American Duce. Not the Constitution.
Voters, more worried about the price of bread and happy that Donald Trump personally signed a Pandemic check for them, were warned what would happen if he was given the keys to the Executive Branch again.
They are about to reap what they sowed.
The MAGA Circus-Shit Show is coming back to Washington D.C., and it is going to be worse for the country than anything that happened during the first Trump merry-go-round.
It is Happening Now.
People need to do their part through the political process by contacting their Senators to try and prevent these calamities from being confirmed.
Do not let the Republic and the American Ideal die.
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Is Ukraine About to Become the Next Czechoslovakia
For readers who may not be aware of Pre World War Two History.
After defying the Versailles Treaty by taking back the Rhineland, expanding German armaments, and achieving a union (Anschluss) with Austria, Adolph Hitler and his NAZI Government set its eyes on the German speaking Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, threatening invasion of that nation unless it surrendered that territory.
With treaty obligations to defend Czechoslovakia, Britain and France instead took the route of appeasement and concluded with Hitler, and Mussolini as a mediator, the Munich Pact/Agreement which gave Hitler the Sudetenland in exchange for assurances that he would not launch a war.
The Czechoslovakians were not invited to the conference.
Neville Chamberlain, upon landing back in Great Britain, proclaimed in he had achieved "Peace in Our Time."
Hitler thought of the spineless appeasers as “Our enemies have leaders who are second rate. I saw them in Munich, they are little worms."
Fast forward 86 years later and people should be asking is Ukraine about to become the next Czechoslovakia?
Is Trump the spineless Chamberlain about to sacrifice Ukrainian territory to appease his friend Putin in Russia.
Remember Hitler swallowed up most of the rest of Czechoslovakia months after taking the Sudetenland and promising there would be no more acts of aggression. A few months after that, he and Stalin invaded Poland to reclaim once German and Russian territories.
Are people so naive to think that Putin, when people are not looking, will take the first presentable opportunity to swallow up the rest of Ukraine and perhaps other former Soviet held territories if spineless appeasers like Trump, who has been repeatedly on record saying how much he despises N.A.T.O., turn a blind eye on the obligations of collective security.
The current President of the Czech Republic was quoted in a social media post.
Sources say that the first call between Trump, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, along with Elon Musk, following the election, went well.
However, two days later in Budapest, Zelensky dismissed Trump's calls for a quick peace, saying that would hurt Ukraine.
Earlier today (November 10, 2024,) Donald Trump Jr. mocked the Ukrainian President, writing on social media "Was 38 days from losing your allowance."
Americans should be very concerned if Trump sacrifices Ukraine on the alter of appeasement.
The last time that happened, World War Two started in Europe a little over a year later.
People need to remember and learn from history and prevent something like this from happening again.
Do not repeat the mistakes of Munich.
The Last Election Proves the Point "Those Who Do Not Learn From History Are Doomed to Repeat It"
It is quite evident that voters in this last election, both Trump ones and those who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but either switched their vote or did not show up for Kamala Harris did not learn from or remember the history of the last eight years.
They did not learn or remember what happened on January 6, 2021.
They did not learn from what happens when Presidents make consequential nominations to the United States Supreme Court and lower federal benches that affect women's lives.
They did not learn or remember from the experiences of the COVID 19 Pandemic when the Trump Administration, aside from Operation Warp Speed, botched the response, causing the deaths of thousands of Americans and the tanking of the United States economy.
They did not remember that the great majority of Mr. Trump's cabinet and staff, including his own Vice President did not support him in his 2024 run.
They did not remember that Mr. Trump and his MAGA lieutenants offered a cesspool of lies and misinformation including memorable ones like "Mexico will pay for the wall," "Inject bleach to ward off COVID," "There's good people on both sides," and "I have a health care plan that will be better than Obamacare."
They did not learn from Trump's two impeachments, 34 criminal convictions, 91 indictments, and judgements for sexual assault and failed business practices.
They did not learn and remember that Democrats have rescued the economy after Republican Presidents tanked it in 2008 and 2020.
They did not learn from or notice the economic recovery the Biden/Harris Administration launched that saved the country (record unemployment and jobs created, Bipartisan Infrastructure, a Manufacturing Renaissance, CHIPS Act, Reduced Drug Price for Seniors, Expansion of Internet to rural areas, removing lead pipes from impoverished neighborhoods, massive investments in Clean Energy, a Record number of women and minority judicial appointments to the federal bench) and made the United States the envy of the world.
They did not learn or remember that Republicans, four times, over the last 18 years, have stymied bipartisan immigration reform causing the problem to fester.
They did not learn or notice that in many of Joe Biden's and Kamala Harris's economic speeches that they understood that inflation was causing hardship and they had plans (like universal pre-k, free community college, free school lunches, expanded child tax credit, extending the prescription drug benefit, paid family and medical leave) to help combat it that Republicans and Conservative Democrat Joe Manchin resisted.
They did not learn or notice when Bill Clinton, at the Democratic National Convention, told the audience that the Democratic Presidents advantage in Job Creation since 1989 was 50 million in the Clinton, Obama, and Biden years to one.in the Bush I, Bush II, and Trump eras.
There is a reason Donald Trump said this in 2016.
Mr. Trump's re-election and the election of those who subscribe to his beliefs is further proof of the need for more history, government, and economics education in the nation's schools.
All high schoolers should have four years of history education along with a year in both government and economics.
Children should be taught to beware of Fascist Demagogues who scapegoat others, engage in false advertising, and promise the moon of prosperity without actually delivering.
The old saying, attributed to several, of "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it" is on point after the elections.
The voters in Tuesday's election just proved that adage true.
Hopefully, American resilience can overcome the doom the majority of the people, who did not learn or remember history, may have set us on the path towards.
Republicans Now Claim to be the Party of the Working Class; Time to Put Their Policies Where Their Mouths Are
In the recent election, many working class voters shifted their votes to the Trump/Vance ticket with the belief that their positions were more aligned with theirs.
It is now time for Trump/Vance to present their agenda for working class voters that will help lift them up.
Will it include:
- A rise in the federal minimum wage?
- Paid family and medical leave?
- An expansion of the Earned Income and Child Tax Credits?
- A doubling of apprenticeships for good paying blue and green collar jobs.?
- Plans to make housing affordable?
- Stimulus for small business start ups?
- Increased Tax Credits or other funding to send children to child care or pre-school?
- An increase in Pell Grants?
- Going after price gougers engaged in massive corporate greed?
- Expanding the prescription drug benefit to non seniors.
During the campaign, the Trump/Vance ticket, outside of a call to eliminate taxes on tips and overtime (which honestly probably had a lot of appeal,) did not present an agenda for working class people.
It is time for Trump/Vance and those Republicans that subscribe to be for the working class to present their agenda, in addition to their tax ideas, to help them.
it is time to put their policies where their mouths are and deliver for the people that put their trust in them.
Let us see if they deliver.
What the Hell? Americans Return a Twice Impeached-Convicted Felon to the White House Over the Price of Bread
Hi Everyone. I do not know exactly what to say about last night's elections results. I am astounded that millions of people, acting like modern Judases, potentially sold out the nation's Democracy over the price of bread, including millions who the now President-Elect's and his surrogates called "trash" and "garbage." Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (who, unlike her opponent, ran, in my opinion, an excellent and near flawless campaign) did great service to this country delivering valuable investments for the people like reduced drug costs and vital infrastructure. And millions of people rewarded that service by bringing back a convicted felon, twice impeached, adjudicated rapist and failed first term President who mismanaged a global pandemic and tried to stage a coup when he lost. Talk about rewarding bad behavior.
Great thinking PEOPLE. Like Barack Obama said on the campaign trail. "You really think Donald Trump cares about you."
They are probably about to find out the hard way again.
I will have more to write later.
Like the first Trump term, we will survive him again.
There are still outstanding Arizona contests that still may go Democrats way and voters should be cautiously hopeful that Democrats take the House of Representatives.
It is just amazing that so many people forgot last night what Mr. Trump is and what he did during his first term and afterward.
Shame on them.
It says a lot about the need to have more history, government, and economics education in our public schools.
God save the Republic.
Bless this nation and help us get through these next four years.
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