There seems to be a strategy that Donald and the rest of the Trump administration has adopted, which reads, “Do anything you want, regardless of whether or not you think it’s legal, the courts will then straighten it out and you may even get a couple of things that you had no right to get.”
Unfortunately, that seems to be exactly what Trump’s doing most of the time.
The most egregious of these moves is his attempt to strip the membership of the FBI based on their inclusion in the investigation of the Jan 6th rebellion. This is a move based solely on retribution folded in with an attempt to replace the current FBI membership with his own minions in an attempt to build a power base that will listen only to him. It’s what he did with the judiciary during his first term. Coming at a time when we are vulnerable to all sorts of foreign and domestic terror, it is a direct challenge to our national security.
It takes about a year and half for an FBI agent to progress from job interviews to functional agent. That means it would be mid-2026 before the Agency would be back up to strength, all that time facing severe threats of international terrorism. I want to say that even Trump can’t be stupid enough to weaken our national security that much, but the facts say differently.
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George Stephanopoulos usually likes to steer clear of controversy, but it exploded in his face on This Week, when he let Reince Priebus expound on the values of killing DEI. Unfortunately for Priebus, Donna Brazile was seated right across from him, and she ripped him a new one, attacking Trump’s condemnation of the control tower work at the Reagan airport crash this week and his laying blame based on DEI controller hiring, a declaration completely without fact or proof.
Priebus tried to make a point based on the opinion that Trump knew what he was talking about, but Brazile just wouldn’t accept it and came at him like a tornado, almost sweeping hm off the stage and leaving him speechless and humiliated.
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Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Atatürk, Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump. What did they all have in common? They all believed that power comes from acquiring territory. That’s why Caesar swept across most of the known world in his day and why Putin invaded Ukraine a couple of years ago. It’s also why Trump has announced the desire to accumulate Greenland, Panama, the Gulf of Mexico, and now Gaza, all of which are bad ideas. America learned a long time ago that manifest destiny is a loser. It costs money, the lives of our young people, and wastes energy that could be better used in diplomacy and industrial programs that add production to our GDP.
Trump’s babbling about Gaza is especially disastrous because it is really nothing but a shot at ethnic cleansing, which is not acceptable on any level. If you throw the Palestinians out of Israel, ethnic cleansing is exactly what you are doing. That is their homeland and like it or not, the Israelis have to find a place for them, or they are guilty of exactly what they suffered at the hands of Adolph Hitler. Trump’s idea sucks, precisely because it is founded in his background as a sleazy real estate developer. He’s already counting the second-class hotels he can build on the Mediterranean beaches, as well as the money he’ll save when he takes them into bankruptcy.
Here’s the problem. The only real solution to the Palestinian problem is a two-state solution and no one wants anything to do with that. Not even, it appears, the Palestinians, certainly not the Israelis or any of the Arab nations. The reason by this time should be abundantly clear. Hamas is not going to go away, and it isn’t clear who is going to get rid of them. The Palestinians are a pathetic group, lacking leadership. They have proven themselves to be weak and unable to govern the West Bank themselves or to keep religious terrorists from controlling them.
No one in the Arab states wants the problems that Gaza brings with it and no one in America wants to see our kids put in danger protecting what comes down to a Trump real estate investment.
So, what to do? Trump keeps talking tough especially for a sleazy draft dodger who didn’t have the guts to go when he was called. Eventually, he’s going to have to bribe the Arabs to take over Gaza and hold off Hamas, but even that won’t work for long because the only type of government the Arabs recognize is a religious dictatorship and Iran is busy proving that even under the best of conditions that doesn’t work, certainly not long term.
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So, we elected a criminal to the Presidency and now he’s busy proving that not only was he a criminal then, but he continues to be one by trying to get a criminal case dismissed against Mayor Adams of NYC so that Adams will overlook ICE’s human rights violations in getting immigrants out of NYC.
It was expected that Trump would continue to be a crook while he was President, but this is far worse. This is an attack on the entire criminal justice system, a boldfaced attempt to break it and leave nothing but Trump’s twisted logic to protect the people of the United States from organized criminal elements and even more from Trump and his flunkies.
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The Americans and the Russians plan to meet this week on the war in Ukraine. But here has been no mention of Ukrainian President Zelensky, How can this be possible? After all, it’s his country that was invaded. When Trump speaks of Ukraine, he talks about what will have to be given up to the Russians without even considering what Zelensky is willing to give up. Right now, Russia occupies almost 20% of Ukraine. Does Zelensky want to give up that much of his country when he knows that if we supported him all the way he could beat Russia and drive them out of the occupied territories. If we supported Ukraine with our air superiority, not to mention what we could add if we went all-out, we could, in fact, end this war almost overnight. Putin knows this and we know he knows this, so why is Trump giving up this position before the talks even start? He’s the one who loves to be regarded as a tough guy. So let him be tough. Let him push Putin into a corner by showing the Russian our capabilities, and by backing them up with demands of a complete return of the occupied territories to Ukraine.
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On the panel on This Week, Reince Priebus enthusiastically hammered home the point that this country is now trillions of dollars in debt. What he conveniently failed to mention is that the largest part of that debt was accumulated during the first Trump administration.
Priebus wants desperately to be a spokesperson for the administration, but he has never mastered the talent of winning arguments with facts not manufactured by him. It’s not very difficult. You just have to pick the right side of the argument.