-Does Trump help Putin defeat Ukraine? “ Lil Marco Rubio announced yesterday that the Trump administration was about to simply put Ukraine to Russia, if Putin does not accept the so-called peace agreement that Trump offered. Zelenskyy has accepted it, even if the price is huge (not NATO, Russia keeps the land they have, no security guarantee of the United States at all, any mineral / petroleum transactions), but Putin clearly does not intend to stop until it has captivated the whole nation, setting up its next training in the Poland and the Baltic States. To make things worse, Zelenskyy practically begged the United States to sell it patriotic anti-aircraft missiles because they are on the only system available in the world that can stop Russian hypersonic sliding missiles.
Phillips Obrien has an excellent summary of the situation in his substack newsletter.
Zelenskyy came here with at least $ 30 billion out of $ 50 billion that European countries have given him as subsidies and loans for this bizarre meeting of the oval office, but Trump and Vance, in addition to behaving like courtyard intimidators, simply refuse to sell the systems. Even if it will be a stimulus of $ 30 billion in the American economy, would help defense-donor companies of the GOP and would help defend a democratic ally that was promised by the United States in the Budapest memorandum in 1994 in exchange for the abandonment of their nuclear weapons. It seems that Trump is completely, naked, dancing openly on Putin’s melody here.
Will Europe be able to fill the gap left by the abandonment by Trump of our ally? And if Putin pushes stronger or even try to participate in Poland or Estonia, will Trump sabotage the guarantee of article 5 of NATO in the name of Putin? It seems that all these scenarios are viable scenarios, and does not equal for world peace or the future of democracy in Europe or America. Trump is either the most stupid president that we have ever had, or he is, in fact, the Manchurian candidate often predicted, eager to destroy America and put our people and our resources to the dictators of the world.
– Our government used to follow lies and disinformation from Russia. Marco Rubio has just closed this agency. Most Russian and Chinese propaganda designed to bring Americans to hate themselves or destroy our interior country appears first on right -wing websites and social media sites. They were so successful that when Yougov asked the Americans, they found that about a third of us believe at least ten are purely and that Russia has promoted via our media, including things like “the president of Ukraine, the approval rating of President Zelensky is down to 4%” and “Ukraine sold Hamas who were reversed to Ukraine UNITED STATES”.
Our federal government has created an agency in the State Department, the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and HUB Interference (Cfimih)Who regularly documented these thousands of daily efforts to damage America, but Trump and his friends are indignant that the CFIMIH continues to point lies, deep butters and pure and simple propaganda appearing on the right -wing media, websites and xitter. Thus, “Lil Marco removed the agency this week. As The New York Times Reported yesterday:
“Secretary of state Marco Rubio and his collaborators closed an office of the State Department which follows and against the global disinformation of foreign actors on Wednesday, including the governments of China, Russia and Iran,” said US officials, “said.
“The office had followed disinformation campaigns by rival powers from the United States, as well as terrorist groups, and publication reports about them. Some Republican legislators have accused federal employees and non-governmental political experts working on monitoring the disinformation of channels. “”
So here we are. GOP, right -wing media ecosystem and Trump administration are all very good with Russian efforts to influence our elections, foment hatred and cause the collapse of the American soft power in the world. Apparently, they all hate democracy as much as Putin, and are determined to put an end to the rule of law – and to any semblance of honest dialogue and debate – in our nation. In any other time and circumstance, the media would call it for what it is: betrayal.
– Can Trump really draw the president of the Fed, Jerome Powell, as he claimed yesterday? In fact, the law and the previous one of the Supreme Court say that he cannot, but his lawyers work hard trying to overthrow this. In 1935, President Roosevelt attempted to fire the head of the FTC, but was blocked when the Supreme Court, in a case known as Humphrey’s executorsaid he didn’t have the power to do so. This precedent applies to the Fed, as well as other agencies such as the Labor Department, where Trump has just illegally fire some NLRB democrats. The case was accepted this week by Scotus this week and, if they govern to reverse their own preceding (as Thomas and Gorsuch have already called it publicly) the work of Jerome Powell could disappear the next day.
Which, of course, could cause a massive international crisis of confidence in the American financial system, overwhelming markets, the dollar, and perhaps even start the end of the dollar as a global reserve currency. If this happens, hang on to everything you have because all bets are turned off; It will be the beginning of a major impoverishment of the United States at all levels and dozens of different ways.
– The Idaho Republicans gave families $ 50 million for private schools – and have eliminated $ 30 million used for public education … Say what?!? An eternal truth about the GOP dates back to the end of the 19th century (with the exception of the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt) is that they hate public education. David Koch ran for VP in 1980 on a platform calling not only at the end of the Ministry of Education, but also when closed all America’s public schools and ending compulsory education; His ideas have now become a doctrine for the Trump administration.
He should therefore only surprise anyone that the Idaho Legislative Assembly, controlled by the Republican, managed to cough $ 50 million to give $ 5,000 per year to families rich enough to send their children already to private schools (which invariably costs more than $ 5,000) while partially paying by removing $ 30 million from public schools. The subsidies will be sufficient for 6,000 families of upper middle class and rich to benefit, but means the reduction of support for 24,000 students from public schools.
As we learned from our experience with the GI bill after the Second World War, the most productive investment that a nation can make is to educate its young people; For every $ 1 that we spent sending young soldiers returning to university, America recovered $ 7 in lifetime tax revenue in addition to what we would have obtained if they had not had this collegial education. The figures for primary school are even more fraudulent. But do not try to say it to the GOP: there are campaign contributions to collect in the private for -profit school industry!
– JD Vance says that if the British cannot use the word N and the insults against gays in public sites, they cannot conclude a trade agreement with America. Seriously. The United Kingdom has the same kinds of laws on hatred speeches that existed in most of the rest of Europe and the developed world, and it is really pissing off white male supremacists that direct the Trump administration. Echoing the classic arguments put forward by the Klan over the years, Vance refers to direct European Christian men as the carriers of “Western civilization” and, if they are not allowed to intimidate publicly, to harass and to hate non -white, non -Christian and queer and women, he wants to retain favorable commercial conditions.
As he recently said in a speech in Germany, “the threat that I am most vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, not China, it is not another external actor. What worries me is the threat of the interior, the retirement of Europe of some of its most fundamental values. ” From the 19th century KKK to today’s GOP, hatred is a basic “fundamental value”. Disgusting.
– Have your miscarriage fabrics have funeral worthy in an establishment approved by the state? Otherwise, prepare for prison if the Republicans have their way. Do you remember last month when a young georgia woman was arrested for eliminating a miscarriage in the trash behind her apartment? She was released from prison and the charges were abandoned after a few days of indignation in the media, but this scenario could soon become much more common in America in the red state. One in four pregnancy ends with a miscarriage, and often they are so early that they look like a very hard menstrual period.
Nevertheless, the Republican legislators of Nebraska are the first in the country to demand that women give tissues expelled during these false layers a funeral of $ 9,000, with coffins and burials; If they rinse or have fabric otherwise, they may take prison. The Senator of the Democratic State, Megan Hunt, asked the sponsor of the bill “How many blood must be on the PAD?” Before the law begins, but never obtained an answer; Apparently, the answer is: “any amount”. If it passes and is implemented at Nebraska, expect what happens in a red state near you. The GOP War against women is rolling …
– Crazy alert! The GOP has adopted new family values: you can now offer DM to offer women you don’t know! Did Elon sent you a DM on Xitter offering to inseminate yourself? If so, as Wonkette notes, you would be one of the many. In what should be considered one of the most scary articles ever published by The Wall Street JournalThey told his obsession to produce as many descendants as possible to improve, apparently, the genetic pool of humanity. As the newspaper’s play notes it on Musk’s interactions with social influencer Tiffany Fong:
“Musk’s interactions have accelerated while Fong has published more political content in support of Trump, and Musk followed it last summer.
“This kind of attention from Musk on X, where he has 219 million followers, sent mass of followers to Fong, which was a financial boon. More commitment meant more benefits for her as part of an income sharing program for creators on X.
“At the height of its interactions with the billionaire owner, Fong gained $ 21,000 on the platform in a period of two weeks in November, according to a screenshot it published.
“It was more or less when Musk sent her a direct message asking if she was interested in having her child, according to people familiar with the issue. The two had never met in person.
It takes adjectives like “weird” and “scary” at a whole new level …
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