FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Commander shouts and fumes: Is it possible that Vladimir Putin is getting tired of all the winning?
We start with the pair of headlines which have just appeared atop the front page of the online New York Times:
Trump-Zelensky Meeting Turns Into a Shouting Match
'You Either Make a Deal or We Are Out,' Trump Tells Ukrainian Leader
Those are not good headlines.
The dual headline shown below also doesn't seem good. Online, it sits atop a report which appeared in this morning's print editions:
Trump Says Canada and Mexico Tariffs Will Go Into Effect Next Week
The president also said he would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on China as he tries to force other countries to take more action on drug shipments.
Question! Should we all apologize and tell the commander that it actually is the Gulf of America? That it has been all along?
At this point, we turn to a second question: Is it possible that something is "wrong" with President Trump?
We know! Mainstream journalists have persistently agreed that they must never wonder or ask.
Still, as that question floats in the air, we return to some of the unusual things Trump said at Wednesday's cabinet meeting. In this morning's report, we posted one part of this chunk:
REPORTER (2/27/28: Mr. President, have you just made a decision on what level you'll seek on tariffs in the European Union?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We have made a decision. We'll be announcing it very soon, and it'll be 25%, generally speaking, and that'll be on cars and all of the things. And European Union is a different case than Canada, different kind of case. They've really taken advantage of us in a different way...
Now, I love the countries of Europe. I guess I'm from there at some point a long time ago, right? But indirectly—pretty directly too, I guess. But I love the countries of Europe. I love all countries, frankly, all different.
But the European Union's been—it was formed in order to screw the United States. I mean, look, let's be honest. The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States. That's the purpose of it. And they've done a good job of it. But now I'm president.
REPORTER: What will happen if these countries or the EU retaliate?
TRUMP: They can't. I mean, they can try...They can try, but the numbers can never equal what ours, because we could go off. We are the pot of gold, we're the one that everybody wants. And they can retaliate, but it cannot be a successful retaliation because we just go cold turkey, we don't buy anymore. And if that happens, we win.
If the Euros try that, we get the win! For now, could it be Putin who's winning?
"The European Union was formed to screw the United States?" As far as we know, you shouldn't assume that any of the statistical claims in that full presentation are accurate. But that assessment of the EU's foundational purpose doesn't sound like a very good sign.
The cabinet meeting crawled with factual claims by President Trump which have been debunked a million times. That doesn't seem like a very good sign—and journalists are still failing to treat this relentless trafficking of widely discounted factual claims as a stand-along point of concern which ought to rate stand-alone coverage on a daily basis.
Then too, there's what we saw Tim Miller say on yesterday's Deadline: White House.
We've never seen anyone refer to the possibility that Musk may be exhibiting some sort of problem with drugs, but that's a possibility to which Miller alluded.
We have no idea if that speculation is accurate. On the other hand, we have no way of knowing it isn't.
Long ago, Dr. Bandy X. Lee, the Yale psychiatrist, said this was going to happen. In an assortment of ways, she was eventually shown the door.
She wasn't allowed to raise such concerns. As for ourselves, we continue to recommend pity and concern for people who may somehow be afflicted. That said, is it possible that Dr. Lee possibly got it right way back when this spiral began?
If we accepted Bob's thesis that there is something wrong with Trump, how would we act differently?
ReplyDeleteDon't think we would. So not sure why this is an important point.
The issue with Trump and Musk (yes, he is openly addicted to Ketamine, among other drugs) is not that they are mentally impaired and what the proper terminology is, the issue is that these are corrupt people engaging in crimes.
ReplyDeleteSociety has a way of dealing with criminals like Trump and Musk via our justice system, but they had an end-around by essentially buying the presidency.
Somerby never focuses on the real issues, just diddles away with his smug finger wagging at Dems, blaming the victims, as usual.
I don't see any finger wagging at Dems in Somerby's post. Is this just a canned comment you post regardless?
DeleteWhat do you call Somerby telling us we lost the war, as he predicted we would? And he continues to insist that the press has never talked about something being wrong with Trump, while referring to the press as the blue media and We Blues and Blue America. He's been telling us we're doing it all wrong, since 2015.
Delete@7:41, did you just arrive today and is this the first post of Somerby's that you have read? You need to place this post in the context of all of the others he has written, which express this as an ongoing, endlessly repeated theme against Dems.
He blamed the Dems for Biden and then he blamed the Dems for Harris and then he blamed the Dems for Trump's victory and now he is blaming the Dems for whatever Trump has been doing, except that he hasn't talked about most of Trump/Musk's campaign against the government but has been narrowly focused only on Gutfeld since 1/20. That is the part about not focusing on real issues.
Somerby during the campaign: It is like the Illiad and a few Dylan songs, Biden seems oooooold, Dems are to blame for everything, including right wing corporate media, it is bad to call out racism and sexism, it's fine to ban books and history that triggers our overly sensitive Republican friends, I don't care about Trump's serial sexual assaults - that's his private life, ugh prosecuting Trump is so gauche
ReplyDeleteSomerby after a month of Trump: OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT
Best comment ever
DeleteExcept for its complete disconnect from reality.
DeleteI haven't heard Somerby express any remorse at all over Trump's win. I haven't heard him complain about a single thing Musk has done. It has been all Gutfeld 24/7.
Delete@5:21 claims Trump and Musk were "essentially buying the presidency." However, the Harris campaign spent 3 times as much as the Trump campaign. If anyone was trying to buy the presidency, it wasn't Trump.
ReplyDeleteI've seen how all politicians lying upset's your delicate, sensitive feelings so much.
DeleteHave you tried telling fucking assholes, like David in Cal, who think Trump lying is great political strategy, to stuff their nonsense up their asses?
David your comment is false and misleading; officially Harris spent about $2 billion, Trump spent about $1.5 billion, and there are significant differences: Harris mainly raised money through small donations, whereas Trump mostly raised money through a handful of billionaires - Musk in particular because he was not merely throwing money at Trump but also engaging in various dirty tricks and voter suppression. Furthermore, the contributions to Trump came with expected strings attached, favors etc., whereas Harris, again, mostly got money from people with small, individual donations, only expecting her to keep her campaign/policy promises.
DeleteHarris ran a clean campaign, Trump ran on cronyism and we really don't know how much he raised or spent, recall Trump is a convicted felon due to campaign finance violations.
Musk is essentially an un-elected de facto president; Trump is bought and paid for.
That you have to lie, and obfuscate the circumstances, indicates you are either massively ignorant (and really bad at math) or operating in bad faith - or both.
Forbes reported "Trump Vs. Harris Fundraising: Harris Outraises Trump By Nearly 5-to-1 Among Last Minute Big Donors...
DeleteThe Biden—now Harris—campaign committee raised $997.2 million and Trump’s campaign committee raised $388 million in total between Jan. 2023 and Oct. 16, 2024, "
I didn't find final figures, but these partial results do show Harris spending 3 times as much.
"I didn't find", you didn't look, you lying moron.
Deletehttps://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race
5:47, its bad faith, all the way down. David seems hell bent on embarrassing himself here daily.
DeleteTo be fair, David is really bad at math, which comically belies the phony stories he makes up about his personal life.
Delete"...I didn't find final figures..." = I found numbers that supported my false narrative and used them hoping nobody would fact check me. By the way, did you know that 1.5 million have been killed in the war in Ukraine?
DeleteSomerby used to say "I didn't find..." and then those of us in comments would do the google search and list the links that Somerby said didn't exist.
Delete"Harris Outraises Trump By Nearly 5-to-1 Among Last Minute Big Donors..."
DeleteThis is a limited statement. She outraises by 5-to-1 only among big donors and at the last minute. This is not about overall campaign funds, but only last minute ones who are big donors. What about the earlier fund raising (non-last minute) and small donors? And 5-to-1 says nothing about actual figures. If Trump had one big last minute donor for $250 million (i.e., Musk) and Harris had 5 big last minute donors for $100,000 each, who would have raised the most money? Trump. So such statements are somewhat meaningless.
Dr Bandy Lee is routinely featured and interviewed on independent media outlets, notably she often appears on the MeidasTouch network, which has the number one podcast in the world, and also has at least one channel that is fully and solely dedicated to discussing Trump's mental impairments.
ReplyDeleteSomerby is full of shit.
Foreign leaders keep playing Trump like a fiddle, they have his number, and he is raging.
ReplyDeleteHilarious!
Trump was on fire today. The US is no longer a cowering, apologizing, weak country in decline.
ReplyDeleteAh so this is what cope looks like.
Deletewomp womp
Trump's hair is on fire (and his pants too) because his lies and incompetency are catching up with him.
DeleteIt is fun to observe, nearly a laugh, but its really a cry.
Bad day for Trump/Musk/Putin (our anti-American co-presidents).
DeleteGood day for the US and Americans!
Trump showed abject weakness today. If you can’t see that, 5:51, then I pity you.
DeleteThe EU will reduce its military reliance on the US, now finding it an unreliable ally, and with that will disappear goodwill that will spillover elsewhere, including in trade. Maybe Trump and Vance should go to the UN and demand thank yous from NATO member states with the threat to pull out of that organization.
DeleteSomerby's buyer's remorse over Trump is fucking hilarious!
ReplyDeleteWhat's hilarious is your attempt to brace up your ridiculous theory that Somerby is right-wing when it is disproven every day.
DeleteI’m just wondering how many more times Somerby urges pity for Trump. At this point, he makes himself a laughing stock by urging such appalling bullshit.
DeleteWhat has Somerby said today that disproves he is right wing?
DeleteMaking an effort to end a war and failing is not much different from not trying to end the war at all. Either way, the result is that the war continues.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't an effort to end the war, it was an effort to extort money from Ukraine, which thankfully failed, because Trump is so transparently corrupt and really bad at making deals.
Delete@6:12 -- "An effort to extort money from Ukraine" seems to me to be a fair description of what Trump did. I don't know why you're happy that the effort failed. The benefit would have gone to you and me and other Americans.
DeleteDiC,
Deletewhat are we to make now of the campaign promise to "end the war on day one."
Are you stlll willing to say it was just an exaggeration, or given that the talks have collapsed, and that Trump/Vance are clearly not competent to negotiate a peace, can we call it a lie?
Why is “extortion” a good thing? Is there any principle other than selfishness here? Like helping a democratic ally fighting for their home stand up to an authoritarian invader who would like to take over other countries?
DeleteFair question, Hector. If the treaty gets done, I would call it fulfilling a campaign promise. We all knew that Trump didn't literally mean "Day 1", Trump meant early on.
DeleteIf the treaty doesn't get done, I'd call it an unfulfilled promise and a promise that shouldn't have been made. Trump would deserve a tiny bit of credit for making a sincere effort to fulfill his campaign promise, but it rightfully be regarded as a Trump failure.
I am wondering if Zelinskyy really doesn't want to make peace, and if so, what will Trump do about it? Trump said "You saw what I saw today — that was not a man that wanted to make peace." My guess FWIW is that if Zelenskyy keeps resisting a peace agreement, Trump will try to get him replaced as the leader of Ukraine.
P.S. a promise about the future can't be a "lie", provided that the promiser makes a real effort to fulfill the promise. Nobody can guarantee the future.
P.P.S. You may be right that Trump and Vance lack the skills to negotiate a decent peace agreement. But who does have the skills? Neither Biden, nor Harris nor Blinken ever demonstrated those skills.
"We all knew that Trump didn't literally mean "Day 1", Trump meant early on."
DeleteOh? At one point, he even went so far as to say he'd get it done before Day 1--ahead of his inauguration.
DiC,
DeleteSo if I borrowed $20 and never paid you back, you wouldn't say I welched, you'd say I made an unfulfilled promise I should never have made.
Hector -- If you had every intention of paying me back, and you tried to pay me back, then I would say you welshed. But I wouldn't say you lied.
DeleteP.S. I'm glad to see you using "politically incorrect", non-woke language..
Do you think Trump has every intention of … oh never mind.
DeleteRemember that the extortion hand was already played once by Trump and he was impeached for it after Zelensky refused to play that game, being an honest man. No doubt, being a vindictive SOB, Trump has that history foremost in his mind while trying to humiliate him publicly. What an embarrassment, except to rubes like DiC who support extortion as a form of diplomacy as long as money can be transferred to the US as a result. There is an expert on rare metals named Jack Lifton who gives a lesson on the mining them on YouTube that debunks the narrative being sold here by Trump and his minions. Namely, that mining the deposits in Ukraine is economically fruitful. Of course that doesn't matter when there is a narrative to be sold to the public about what a great fucking deal maker Trump is, even while he is failing miserably.
DeleteMOSCOW — The Kremlin dismissed the idea of talks with President Biden to end the war in Ukraine on Friday, and defended its repeated attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure as "inevitable."
DeleteOn Thursday, Biden said he would be willing to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin "if in fact there is an interest in him deciding that he's looking for a way to end the war."
treasonous bastard fascist trump cultists like Dickhead in Cal repeat the lie that President Biden never tried to negotiate an end to the Russian invasion. It is very easy to talk to Putin when you agree to stab your ally in the back and give Putin everything he wants.
Hey Dickhed in Cal, how did that peace agreement in Munich with Hitler work out?
It can't be selfishness, because Trump would get no personal benefit from the minerals deal. Pressuring Ukraine to make a deal isn't nice. But, recall Leo Durochre's quote, "Nice guys finish last."
ReplyDeleteSexual predation isn't nice, but recall Donald Trump's quote, " I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything."
DeleteIt’s selfish if the only consideration is what does the US directly gain? It helps us if Ukraine successfully defends against Putin, because we used to believe in democracy over tyranny, which is a principle that sometimes can’t be measured in mineral rights or direct monetary payments to the US.
DeleteAnd the Ukrainians are willing to stake their lives for their home and for this principle. It’s crass to try to extort monetary gain from them.
Delete@7:25 wrote "if Ukraine successfully defends against Putin" Tragically, that's out of the question. Russia is gradually gaining more and more Ukrainian territory. Ukraine is not getting territory back militarily. At some point, one must recognize reality and do the best thing possible. Or, more exactly, do the least bad thing possible.
DeleteThat Durocher quote? He actually said, "Nice guys finish seventh." You could look it up. Casey Stengel said that.
DeleteYou got it wrong. Go figure.
DiC - Actually, you don't have enough knowledge to know how this war ends. Russia is gaining ground gradually; so did America in Vietnam, and so did Russia in Afghanistan. Russia is mired in a quagmire, and nobody knows what will happen. But, objectively, Trump is publicly helping Putin.
DeleteTrump is a disgrace.
DeleteEveryone knows what will happen. It was known from the outset.
DeleteUkraine will be lucky to have ANY part of their country with a disaster like Zelenskyy “leading” them.
Quaker - I knew that. But your comment takes me back to my youth when there two leagues, each of which had 8 games.
DeleteBTW you can see Durochre's wife Larraine Day, starring in Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent." I love that movie.
So why did nice guys finish seventh?
Delete"....two leagues, each of which had 8 games..." Are you one of those 150 rear old Social Security beneficiaries Musk keeps talking about? Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in a 154 game season in 1927. WTF are you talking about?
Deleteit is spelled Leo Durocher, not Durochre.
DeleteIn spite of all the cope, Zelinskyy did himself in today and he was begging to stay, then to come back for a redo.
ReplyDeleteZelenskyy just gave Trump a golden ticket. Trump was obviously ready for this and that’s why he in Vance were a well oiled machine the second Zelenskyy stepped out of line. They were ready for that contingency and had already decided if he pulled this he would be boxed out.
Now Trump has the optics to shut down all aid to Ukraine, turn up the heat on the investigation into the money laundering, and negotiations with Putin just got easier.
This was a massive turning point for public perception of Ukraine, and I’d argue we are now closer to peace, now that Trump no longer has to worry about being seemingly supportive of Ukraine. He can come to terms with Putin, and Zelensky will remain at the kid’s table while the adults determine his fate.
Today, the veil was lifted.
“ Today, the veil was lifted”
DeleteJoin the club. Many of us already knew that Trump is a disgrace who sides with Putin, but now everyone knows.
It was a massive turning point for the public's perception of Trump (and Vance), who showed themselves to be bumblers and not particularly serious in establishing peace.
DeleteWe were supposed to have peace in Ukraine on day one? How's that working out?
My God, did you see our supposed Secretary of State "Little Marco" melting into the couch while that little hideous ignominious cabaret played out right in front of his appalled eyes? John Bolton suggested "This is the point you resign", but there is no honor or pride left in these hollow pathetic men.
DeleteMaddow did a great show last night gathering together all the clues of how this treasonous boy king has aligned us with the Russian dictator. It is horrifying, but undeniable. A Russian reporter from TASS was live streaming that fucking oval office travesty for fuck sakes. How the fuck did he get in there?
At the end, orange chickenshit summed it all up by saying it was "good television", because he knows his cult, and sure enough, like a trained seal our boy DiC was here clapping for the entertainment. We are so fucked and there is not a damn thing we can do about it.
Yesterday I watched on the news FBI agents were putting all the boxes of stolen documents back on a plane headed to his golf resort as Kash Patel claimed he was just returning trump's property. I am sure our trained seal, DiC, will applaud that also.
President Zelensky apologizes at the end of his interview with Fox's Bret Baier, says he thinks he can repair his relationship with Trump.
ReplyDeleteBaier: "Do you think your relationship with President Trump after today can be salvaged?"
Zelensky: "It can be. Yes, of course... This is very very important and we are thankful and sorry for this."
Nope. I watched the whole interview.
DeleteBaier asked Zelenskyy twice directly if he would apologize and Zelenskyy didn't say yes. The 'sorry for this' was for how badly the meeting went; it was not an apology.
I watched and he did indeed apologize. He also begged to come back to the White House and Trump said "Not today, dictator." From here, the dictator will wait by the phone.
DeleteTrump didn't say that. It was Sam Kinnison who said it. I know, because i believe it, and I wouldn't believe anything the long-time failed businessman, adjudicated rapist says, especially after watching him make a career out of stiffing his contractors.
DeleteI pity Bob Somerby, and I’m concerned about him.
ReplyDeleteWe all get old, if we are lucky. Somerby is older than Biden. He just needs a rest and a new hobby.
DeleteIt's interesting to watch Democrats hate their country so openly, siding not with the US and with peace but with a corrupt billionaire dictator who wants to get more Ukrainian and Russian men slaughtered. Men who have been forced to fight and die in this useless war by their respective dictators including the disgraceful Zelenskyy.
ReplyDeleteThe good and decent people want peace. Zelenskyy and Democrats want more dead bodies.
Nice try Putinbot.
DeleteWe should not be funding any wars. We should only be attempting to broker peace deals.
DeleteSmart businesses don't hire shitty white men. Instead, they hire honest, hard-working immigrants.
Delete"Zelenskyy and Democrats want more dead bodies."
DeleteYou nailed it. Zelenskyy should never have invaded Russia.
This spat increases polarization. Trump's supporters value him more. His opponents hate him more. A bunch of European countries made statements in support of Ukraine, but that's just words. None of them offered to fully fund Ukraine's defense if the US stopped.
ReplyDeleteConsider the possibility David that trump never intended to make a deal with zelensky. He always favored Putin. So Trump promises to end the war on day one, makes a phony offer and bad deal to zelensky, whom he then berates and throws out of the White House. Now Trump can claim it was zelensky’s fault and Trump will attempt to give Putin everything he wants, which is all of Ukraine.
DeleteAs far as Europe’s support being “just words”, kindly get your head out of your ass. Europe is directly threatened by Putin, they have been providing massive support, and we just helped Putin. It’s disgraceful that you see it in partisan Trump centric terms, rather than the principle of what is right.
You are a disgrace, David.
Trump knew Zelenskyy was going to screw the pooch on national television?
DeleteWhat skills doesn’t this man have?
Trump screwed the pooch, asswipe.
DeleteThe appropriate term is "Fannywipe."
DeleteSpat? Dickhead, go fuck yourself. Fuck you and people like you who did this to my country.
DeleteNo matter what the outcome, you would be here praising the brilliance of orange abomination. You "value him more" after watching him go on a 5-minute tirade defending Putin ending in Donny J Chickenshit spitting out something about Hunter Biden's bathroom and insulting three of our past presidents including Bush, Obama and Biden. What the fuck is wrong with you?
To quote James Carville, "That boy ain't right". Carville suspects late state syphilis is eating trump's brain.
This reminds me of the time Joe Biden won a landslide Presidential election, and a whole slew of Republican voters (bigots) tried to overthrow the U.S. capitol, just because black people's votes were counted.
DeleteTrump gave him some fatherly advice. “If there’s no deal we are out and if we are out, you’ll keep fighting, but you don’t have the cards.”
ReplyDeleteZelenskyy decided to blow up the deal anyway and now he’s screwed six ways from Sunday.
Trump blew up the “deal”, asswipe. Trump never intended for there to be a deal.
DeleteThe number of commenters servile to Putin here may only be DiC and one but it smells like more. No amount of Soviet style propaganda will turn Zelensky into the villain here but they can try and in doing so embarrass themselves as the communist loving anti American assholes that they are.
DeleteTrump says he was trying to grab Zelensky by the pussy, but missed.
DeleteTrump is still trying to hide his latent homosexuality. As if we forget that his dream "girl" is the flat-chested, 11-year old daughter of his, who he thinks is "fat" now that she's an adult.
Why are there so many pro-putin pro-Trump trolls here? Makes you wonder what attracts them to Bob’s lowly website.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we can discount what Zelensky owes the US now that he helped us remind the world who we are. It will be a long time before anyone tries to jack around the president again. Unless another weak Democrat is somehow elected.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, Trump reminded the world who he is: a weak, pathetic bully in thrall to Putin, selling out our country to Musk and Putin.
DeleteIts high time that US foreign policy joined the ranks of Russia, North Korea and Belarus but Trump and the ignorant anti American cult that anointed him have gotten us there.
DeleteMaybe Trump promised Zelensky he'd pay him after he does the work, and because Zelensky isn't a mouth-breathing moron, who craves Trump's bigotry like a standard-issue Reagan Republican voter, Zelensky turned him down because he's not a sucker.
DeleteSounds reasonable.
“ is it possible that Dr. Lee possibly got it right way back when this spiral began?”
ReplyDeleteIs it possible that Somerby’s criticism of the attempts to bring Trump to justice was ill conceived, since it conflicts with Dr Lee’s recommendation that Trump be brought to justice?
No. Your argument contains a false premise.
DeleteSomerby criticized, not the attempts to bring Trump to justice, but blue media's obsession with the attempts to bring Trump to justice.
Somerby falsely claimed there was a blue media.
DeleteFacts have a liberal bias, so neutral media appears liberal.
DeleteWe should not be funding wars. Our main focus should be brokering peace deals.
ReplyDeletePutin should not be starting wars, and he shouldn’t be rewarded for doing so.
DeleteAmerica’s first real exposure to Zelensky was during Trump’s first term. You know, the one before he started the war during Biden’s term. That was when he stood up to Trump who threatened to withhold shipments of arms if he didn’t help Trump smear Biden. He said no with great foresight that a war was going to break out under Biden , one that he was going to need the arms for. He knew this because he was planning on starting the war. Later he made the mistake of pissing off the North Koreans and is now fighting them. Trump, being a great humanitarian who should have already won the Nobel Prize wants to save a lot of lives if and only if he can get his hands on some expensive minerals. Saving lives and ending the war was not a priority during Trump’s first term because Zelensky hadn’t started the war until the feckless Biden came into power. Trump would like to remind us that Zelensky is a dictator, which is a bad thing unless you happen to rule North Korea or Russia, in which case he is very polite and friendly. Vance and Rubio are in training and learned a lot about negotiation yesterday. The are too young to have been taught by Roy Cohn. He was a great man, a truth seeker, much like his protege, Donnie.
ReplyDeleteZelensky has wanted the war to end and was rebuffed under Biden. Russia had to pay for election interference.The US was bullying Ukraine just as much as Russia. In the sense they didn't attempt to negotiate.
ReplyDeleteNow that the payback isn't following its correct path, Trump is getting flack for blocking peace, which he probably is, but doing so in a way that piles more bodies on the wrong national lines.
(Contd)
DeleteThe working class has no country. The left wing has been silenced so all we see is oligarchy fighting over which imaginary national lines the working class bodies fall.
When the Right says they want the war to end, they really mean they want white Christian, men to run the world, and for everyone else to know their place.
ReplyDeleteSame as when they were complaining about inflation and electric vehicles.
Give Gaza to the PLO = Mideast peace.
ReplyDeleteOf course, war hawks on the Right would never agree to end the killing.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has approved a major nearly $3 billion arms sale to Israel, bypassing a normal congressional review to provide the country with more of the 2,000-pound bombs that it has used in the war against Hamas in Gaza.
DeleteIn a series of notifications sent to Congress late Friday, the State Department said it had signed off on the sale of more than 35,500 MK 84 and BLU-117 bombs and 4,000 Predator warheads worth $2.04 billion.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio “has determined and provided detailed justification that an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale to the Government of Israel of the above defense articles and defense services in the national security interests of the United States, thereby waiving the Congressional review requirements,” the department said.
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This is where we are now. Trump should just dismiss the Reichstag, it appears he doesn't think it has any role in our government anymore.
Congress will let Trump push them around. Trump won't be as lucky with the populace.
DeleteEventually someone will start picking him and his cronies off with 2nd Amendment rights.
This is the reason Biden wouldn't take our guns away.
@8:48 This arms sale was legal, wasn’t it?
DeleteWhere have you been, Dickhead in Cal, of course if was legal. Anything orange chickenshit does now is legal. By definition. If the president does it then it must be legal. Fuck the constitution, he has declared emergency powers.
DeleteFuck the Congress and fuck the judicial branch also. All power is vested in King Chickenshit. Fuck you too, Dickhead. Fuck you straight to hell for what you have done to my country.
DeleteHaving banned the AP and Reuters from yesterday's oval office press conference, Trump's crack team somehow allowed a reporter from TASS in, who live streamed Trump and Vance berating an ally on Soviet television. These two are traitors.
ReplyDeleteI'm not ready to call them "traitors", until David in Cal approves it. I'm pretty sure he will say you can't call them traitors, because they are victims of Putin's blackmail. But we'll see.
DeleteAnyone who believes it was an accident to allow a TASS reporter to live stream that disgraceful and ignominious performance by orange chickenshit and Peter Thiel's fascist boy-toy, JD "eyeliner" Vance, I have some property in central Florida for sale.
DeleteHow long did it take the Jews living in 1933 Germany to decide it might be a good time to get out of Dodge? Asking for a friend.
ReplyDeleteState Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine energy grid restoration
ReplyDeleteOrange Chickenshit is just trying to negotiate peace, right Dickhead in Cal?
ReplyDeleteHa-ha. The poor Ukro-clown is confused about who his puppet-masters are.
He appears to be under the impression that idiot-Democrats still are his puppet-masters. Too much coke, I'm afraid.