The last time Trump was in office there was disaster after coastal disaster along the shores of the Great Lakes. Trump doesn’t care. He sees the Great Lakes as a reservoir, not as lakes.
Friday, March 14, 2025
The reason is clear. It is a conspiracy.
Representative Larson, why stand up to Trump and lose political funding if it will all be over in 90 days?
Congress has been groomed to be the Duma and they seem to like it that way.
The Freedom Caucus is awfully quite.
The worst of the Duma propagandists is Iowa’s Ernst. She has been parroting Trump for sometime now.
No one asked The Heritage Foundation about Trump’s Shock and Awe Campaign.
Funding bills need to be written by the Democrats, the Republicans are untrustworthy.
The bill doesn’t matter if there are no guide rails for Trump and DOGE is left in place.
It is a slave labor bill.
Waste, fraud, and abuse cannot define slavery.
This bill clearly states the federal workers are necessary, but, won’t be paid. That is illegal and violates minimum wages standards as well as UNION CONTRACTS.
The bill reflects ideology and acceptance of Project 2025.
Lock them up!
Trump is a communist intent on destroying this country and using its military for Trump’s own “special military operation.” The bill increases military spending with no guide rails for Trump it is nothing but a gigantic OCO bill.
Democrats get a back bone!
It will fund 90 days of global hell.
Stop them.
The bill must clearly define spending with appropriate salaries for everyone. Move the additional military spending to union contracts and currently the unfunded federal workforce.
This bill is outrageous. Congress is conspiring with Trump for military use to kill innocent people that basically stand unarmed.
Trump has propagandized Hegseth for a reason. He wants to instill nationalization to BEGIN seizure of other countries resulting in posture changes to all other countries and aggression toward the USA. It will be interesting to see a global alliance against the USA.
Chuck, Trump is openly talking about invasion of Greenland and Panama. Get over it, he must be stopped.
It is about damn time.
He and she only is NOT biologically correct. It is the truth.
Court martial for hate crimes!
Thursday, March 13, 2025
It is all about corruption and kick back to his friends.
CK Hutchinson Holdings is selling to US investors. That will create “American interests,” and an excuse to muscle the area with USA military.
Who are the two million/billionaires Trump is lending our military to? This is not a legitimate use of the USA military. The million/billionaires having a little trouble with the sale at an affordable price?
The USA military is not part of a salesman errand. This country is not going to displace the Panamanian military because of a sales venture. That would be an act of war.
These circumstances require talks leading to a treaty and/or an alliance with Panama if there are USA interests. If American troops are to be permanent that is an alliance, not just a treaty. It is a function of the State Department, not the Defense Department. Now, I know the people involved aren’t that confused.
Hegseth is being played as a powerful man to fear. The astronauts were returned after a new space crew deployment was postponed and the rescue took place. The rescue occurred because Hegseth had a conversation with the astronauts and wished them Godspeed. Evidently, the talk between the three moved Musk to rearrange a crew deployment. So, getting results is who you know and not what you know.
This is such bullshit. Melodrama sprinkled with histrionics. I guess Hegseth can be bully extraordinaire with the weight of the USA military that took decades to assemble.
I can see the commercial playing in Wall Streets’ heads, “Simply give Don millions and he’ll roll out the military to make it happen.” Canals in Panama and oil in Greenland is not a problem, the USA grunts will make it happen at the authority of the commander and chief.
It is good the astronauts are back. But, what was everyone thinking to leave them there for so long.
Rockets take quite sometime to build, perfect, and launch, but, such emergencies should take a degree of priority. The private space industry has issues. They need to address them. Their issues shouldn’t be answered with taxpayer money. If they are going have these problems then they need to pay NASA for a ready rescue rocket dedicated for that purpose so there is no interruption in NASA’s programs.
Yes, NASA should have had a reliable ride for stranded astronauts standing by paid for by the private space industry. The astronauts could have been rescued in days, not months.
Just one more time for emphasis, the USA military does not roll out plans for invasion to suit Wall Street venture capitalists. Don is NOT everyone’s Godfather just because he likes the feeling.
We have a defense force regardless of “the show” starring Hegseth.
It is an amendment.
Number 14 to be exact.
Bondi is corrupt and refuses to serve up reality to Trump. She is his puppet. There is no respect for an Attorney General that seeks to corrupt federal judges. Bondi should be arrested for racketeering.
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Khalid Abdalla is married to an American citizen as well as having a legal Green Card.
Having a Green Card (click here) (officially known as a Permanent Resident Card allows you to live and work permanently in the United States. The steps you must take to apply for a Green Card will vary depending on your individual situation.
A terrorist act is broadly defined as the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence to create a climate of fear and achieve political, religious, or ideological goals, often targeting civilians to instill widespread insecurity and influence decision-makers.
A person from Syria, one of the most dangerous countries in the world, comes to the USA, is accepted into an Ivy League University, marries the love of his life, and is abused by the Trump White House. ICE has no right to export a person that did NOTHING WRONG!
His wife is waiting for Khalil to return in time for their baby's birth.
Being removed out of one's established life to be imprisoned for no reason is a violent act.
This act is having a profound effect on Green Card holders. That is one of the purposes of this mischief. Green Card holders are now looking at their status far differently and feel threatened. That is a terrorist act by President Donald Trump.
March 13, 2025
By Patrick Smith
...In her first public comments since her Syrian-born husband's detention Saturday, Noor Abdalla told Reuters on Thursday that just two days before his arrest, Khalil had asked her if she knew what to do if Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers came to the door.
"I didn’t take him seriously. Clearly I was naive," said Abdalla, who is a U.S. citizen and pregnant with the couple's first child due next month.
Khalil, a 30-year-old with a green card, played a major role in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University last year. Those protests helped the spread of similar action on campuses across the country.
According to a document seen by NBC News, President Donald Trump’s administration has said Khalil is "subject to removal from the United States."
"The Secretary of State has determined that your presence or activities in the United States would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States," that document said....
...In her first public comments since her Syrian-born husband's detention Saturday, Noor Abdalla told Reuters on Thursday that just two days before his arrest, Khalil had asked her if she knew what to do if Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers came to the door.
"I didn’t take him seriously. Clearly I was naive," said Abdalla, who is a U.S. citizen and pregnant with the couple's first child due next month.
Khalil, a 30-year-old with a green card, played a major role in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University last year. Those protests helped the spread of similar action on campuses across the country.
According to a document seen by NBC News, President Donald Trump’s administration has said Khalil is "subject to removal from the United States."
"The Secretary of State has determined that your presence or activities in the United States would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States," that document said....
Federal employees are being relieved of their employment based in a LIE!
That is criminal. DoGE are criminal in their intent. It harms the USA Constitution, hence, the American people. Criminals do not belong in our federal government.
By Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney
A federal judge on Thursday (click here) ordered federal agencies to rehire tens of thousands of probationary employees who were fired amid President Donald Trump’s turbulent effort to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office to sidestep legal requirements for reducing the federal workforce....
There have always been Donor States and Dependent States
It makes no "COMMON SENSE" the federal legislators are so willing to end financial assistance to their own states. The people of the most dependent states are good people. They are not lazy. The problem is the economy is horrible in these states.
By Ben Kesslen
Most Dependent
1. Alaska
2. Kentucky
3. West Virginia
4. Mississippi
5. South Carolina
Least Dependent
1. New Jersey
2. California
3. Delaware
4. Massachusetts
5. Utah
What is Jack afraid of?
Jack Bergman (click here) Declines Invite To March 22 Traverse City Town Hall As Local Constituents Pressure Lawmakers For Face Time
By Craig Manning
By Craig Manning
March 13, 2025
“Where’s Jack?”
It's become something of a rallying cry for Traverse Indivisible,(click here) the advocacy group pressuring northern Michigan’s Congressional officials to visit Traverse City for in-person town hall events. The group’s goal is to provide an arena where local constituents can voice whatever concerns they have about sweeping federal government changes since President Trump took office in January. But while Indivisible leaders say they’ve had productive conversations with Michigan Senators Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin, they’ve been rebuffed by northern Michigan’s lone voice in the United States House of Representatives, Jack Bergman, who hasn’t held a single town hall in his district since 2017....
“Where’s Jack?”
It's become something of a rallying cry for Traverse Indivisible,(click here) the advocacy group pressuring northern Michigan’s Congressional officials to visit Traverse City for in-person town hall events. The group’s goal is to provide an arena where local constituents can voice whatever concerns they have about sweeping federal government changes since President Trump took office in January. But while Indivisible leaders say they’ve had productive conversations with Michigan Senators Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin, they’ve been rebuffed by northern Michigan’s lone voice in the United States House of Representatives, Jack Bergman, who hasn’t held a single town hall in his district since 2017....
U.S. representative John Larson gets to keep his full salary and expense card.
The Republicans have turned against the people of this country and the USA Constitution. Donald Trump is in office because he promised to carry out every aspect of ideology of MAGA and Project 2025.
The American people need to hear these words clearly.
Elon Musk is in violation. He must be held in Contempt of Congress. These people are criminals with criminal intent.
The words below are from the US House Ways and Means Committee. It is a very nice sentiment, but, complete lie to the actual intention of the Republican members.
We must prioritize the voices (click here) in rooms like this one, and not those of the Washington political class. And the first step is listening to Americans on the front lines of our economy, hearing their stories and their ideas for improving life for their families, their neighbors, and our country.Chairman Jason Smith
Lukashenko to Zelenskyy
I quote:
“There will be a change in America and then where will you be?”
Really?
Russia sees the war (Putin calls it an incursion.) in Ukraine as having been started by Zelenskyy. Russia sees all the Ukrainian officials as human rights violators.
Why? Well, Ukrainians in the eyes of Mother Russia, like any Post Soviet State, is disloyal to Putin. Therefore as special military operation is required to bring Ukrainians to heel.
Of course, being a human rights violator would never apply to Putin who has removed children from Ukraine to raise as Russians.
There are innocent Ukrainian people killed by Russian missile strikes as they waited at train stations to escape the violence. Killing them including Ukrainian children and infants has no meaning. It was an act of terror. Understand that as the truth. Russia committed an act of terror by killing unarmed, innocent people leaving for refuge in another country. The purpose was to stop innocent people from escaping Russia’s wrath. Putin wanted to make a prison of the entire of Ukraine. Putin is not only a murderer, he is a terrorist.
There is a warrant for Putin’s arrest and it must be honored in any peace proceedings.
Ukrainian blood is all over the hands of Vladimir Putin and he will never be washed clean.
The press in the room has not questioned Putin about his return to Syria. Interesting.
Pay Cut
This is a direct attack on the USA national defense.
While Trump is showing off his new set of wheels, Russia is rejoicing.
What else is there to say, except, today was Elon Musk’s big pay day.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Greenland had its elections.
Now, Greenland needs to rid itself of Trump pollution and begin work with Denmark to strengthen its best outcomes.
There may be human rights protections that need to be extended to Greenland regardless of its designation as a territory. Demands for independence occurs because there are unaddressed problems effecting quality of life.
The Greenlanders should be considered for citizen rights. Greenland could become Denmark’s state rather than territory.
I look at the economic strength of Norway and perhaps Greenland can parallel that success to make the EU and NATO even stronger.
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Double down on investment of high tariff countries
Trump exposed a weakness. It is never to occur again. The NATO alliance needs to be made stronger, not destroyed.
Trump touts America First while institutionalizing hubris and hate. That is not a basis for a good economy or a successful society.
There can be the exact same movement throughout the Free World saying Canada First, European Union First, etc. New investment success lies within the success of democracy, not the end of it.
Canadians are staying home. There was a 20 percent drop in Canadian tourism in February. Twenty percent of Canadians did not cross into a once trusted neighbor. The USA is not only becoming a concern to Canadians, it is down right scary.
Mourning the loss of USA consumers in a profit structure isn’t a concern. An increasing number of Americans will be emigrating. These folks are consumers, too.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Reality orientation will never happen with Trump
Trump has created his own world. “Truth Social” is the new normal, except, it isn’t normal.
I remember hearing the words “new normal”
after the attacks of 911 and my gut reaction was one of nausea realizing there were rights of privacy being surrendered and in a way the terrorists had scored a victory. With each new discovery of terrorist activity, the shoes were put in the conveyor belt along with every carry on to prevent attacks on jets. Then the magnetometer was replaced by body scanners that allowed visualization of the body under clothing.
That “new normal,” while injurious to privacy rights, was based in reality. Society and business still lived in the real world, but, a bit compromised. Compare that to today and the new normal Trump is chasing is based in lies.
Elon Musk’s cars have been the focus of anger. I don’t know if any of the perpetrators have been caught, but, Teslas have been graffitied and even set on fire with Molotov cocktails. I am not going to voice an opinion here about it, except to say, “…it is a violation of law.” If I am going to stand up for the rule of law based in the truth then there are no exceptions.
But, since there is no cessation to these random acts of civil disobedience Trump and Elon put their heads together and decided everything would get better if Trump owned a Tesla. So, as a PR stunt, the two went on Truth Social and Musk gifted Trump a Tesla. Trump didn’t purchase one, it was gifted to him. If that wasn’t laughable enough, what were they thinking? Or the better question is, are they thinking?
I guess when issues are presented on Truth Social everything is magically transformed or something. It is a new normal, but, for who?
It seems as though Truth Social is “grievance media.” When Trump wants to complain he does so on Truth Social. Supposedly by Musk gifting a Tesla to Trump the value of the cars would be higher and all nasty attributes due to Musk’s wrong headed DoGE would vaporize. I don’t think that ideology is well founded. That magic isn’t real and the only ones walking through it believes it is real.
The “new normal” Trump lives in is his alone to live in. A growing number of Americans are injured and/or disillusioned by Trump’s actions since taking office. As Trump World snowballs the less and less people will remain loyal to him. His ideology is one he created. It is not based in reality.
Follow?
Putin and Trump may see an ideological way forward, but, simply believing power brokering alone can create their perfect world is foolish. Trump’s new normal isn’t possible, but, he doesn’t know that because the media he uses is his own.
Putin isn’t encouraging Trump to go for the gusto because it will be good for the world, so much it is good for communists. Putin doesn’t care if the USA is destroyed along the ideological spectrum. I really think that is his goal. Basically, blowing smoke up Trump’s skirt is exactly the plan. The problem is that Trump is hugely vested in a strategy approved by Putin thinking it is the best outcome the world could hope for. Trump drank Kool-aid prepared by Putin and loves it.
There is no waking Trump up and instilling patriotic norms. He has sold the farm and along with it the country he was elected to lead.
The longer Congress is patiently waiting for Trump’s methods to bloom into something ingeniously wonderful, the more damage to relationships with allies will be realized and a delicately balanced global economy will sink into disrepair it cannot recover from.
“Wait and see” will become, “what the heck happened here?”
The anger with Musk is not going to vaporize because Trump says do, and Trump’s extremism won’t make magic because Elon keeps throwing money and gifts at it.
There are far more serious problems in the world other than burning Tesla’s; like; arresting a Palestinian man legally in the USA and practicing freedom of speech in protest of a war where tens of thousands of Palestinians have died. The legally Green Card Palestinian man was carrying out a demonstration for real life reasons. He wasn’t in a fantasy. However, I am certain he is beginning to hope he wakes from his new nightmare soon.
We are headed down a black hole named Trump and Congress needs to wake up now and not wait until the next election. It will be too late.
The USA is in real trouble.
This aggression by Trump is ridiculousness. The government is moving in opposing directions. This nonsense is unsustainable. Congress is seeing very real reasons to fund this government, yet, Trump is attacking the USA economy to destroy it. In destroying the USA economy he destroys its tax base. We have real problems with the White House.
These tariffs will destroy the USA economy. It will make automobiles too costly for people to buy except for the very wealthy. This makes no sense.
Canada is our ally since the USA declared independence in 1776. Our allies are strong because of trade agreements. We don’t turn on our allies like this. Congress has to end the hatred oozing out of Trump’s White House.
There is no sustainable future for the USA currently on this path.
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Monday, March 10, 2025
“Anora”
(Click here for trailer)
If folks are saying Anora, like Pretty Woman it is promoting prostitution, they are wrong.
Anora is about broken lives and the reality some find themselves when life has failed them. No one wants their child to grow up to be a stripper. No matter the movie about women that use their nakedness to get by in the world there are always tradeoffs and sad realities.
Wasn’t Jennifer Lopez in a movie about stripping?
But, as to Anora, there is not one character that lives a good life. Not one.
The film takes place with a twenty something that strips and allows men to touch her body in private booths otherwise known as lap dances. She makes money with the tips she receives. Of course, the men give her tips to encourage her nakedness and erotic movements.
With that understanding the film turns into a roller coaster ride with a young Russian man suffering from multiple substance abuses. The facilitator to the roller coaster ride is Russian Oligarch money.
The portrayal of the young son of a million-billionaire Russian is accurate. The property, the wealth, and the wild lifestyles some of the oligarchs live. If that seems unbelievable, then look up all the Russian real estate in the world while realizing governments like the UK would take them back as sovereign property in a heartbeat.
Ask young women who were taken for pleasure the kind of lives these Russian men live. Then when the oligarchs are finished with these young women recreationally they are turned loose to return to a life of poverty.
In Anora, the mother to the young Russian man is spot on. Beautiful women that rely on power to carry out their lavish lives.
Anora actually believes she has found something wonderful and special in the young Russian when she consents to marry him. After the marriage a power struggle ensues and of course the wealthy parents win in the end spending money like water to return their arrogant social standards.
But, then what of Anora? The money she is paid in the end leaves her raw and vulnerable. The Russian man looking
after her safe return home, is not her usual client. He actually cared about her and the last scene where she cries in his arms with a broken heart clearly illustrates the pain of young women who find themselves simply a toy to wealth and power.
Anora is a great film if the viewer knows what they are looking at and seek the human side of the film rather than plugging into titillating sex scenes.
If one saw the film and “didn’t get it.” Then go back to see it again with new insights and judgement.
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