Message to the 77 million MAGA Morons who Voted for Donald Dumb

He lied to you so you dumb idiots vote for him, but once you voted for him, he's dropping you like a dirt bag. To him, you are prostitutes to be used then dumped. He's not even paying you. In fact, he's taking the miserable taxes you pay and giving them to himself and all his billionaire buddies.

His plan all along was to Make America a Gutter Again. Did you notice that the only thing he mentions as his motive is MONEY. When he says WE're gonna be rich, he means his billionaire corporate buddies, not you.

He did after all call dead US soldiers and prisoners of war (John McCain) dumb suckers & losers for losing their lives in defense of the country. 

Believe me: You'll live to regret your vote until the day you die.

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Opinion

Trump rode MAGA voters to victory. Now he's abandoning them.

Trump no longer needs MAGA voters, so he's gutting Medicaid and laying off veterans
Rex Huppke, USA TODAY
Updated Wed, February 26, 2025

Dear MAGA voters:

President Donald Trump thanks you for your service, but he has determined you are now expendable. Please enjoy your Denny’s omelet surcharge and keep buying MAGA merchandise and Trump family cryptocurrency!

If Trump was capable of honesty, that’s the note his supporters would be getting. It would be better than the “So long, suckers” message the president is sending via his administration’s priorities and reckless actions.
Trump promised you a rose garden, MAGA. Instead you'll get dirt.

Outside of some draconian actions on immigration and transgender rights, the kind of cruelty he promised his base, consider where we’re at since Trump has taken office.

An unelected billionaire – Elon Musk – is ripping though the federal government like he owns the place, firing workers right and left, including thousands of veterans while the Republican Congress just watches.

Elon Musk holds up a chainsaw onstage during the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, D.C., on Feb. 20, 2025.

Trump has been musing about taking over Gaza and Greenland and the Panama Canal and Canada while siding with Russia and alienating America’s strongest allies in Europe. His scattershot tariffs have created economic uncertainty, rattling the stock market and leading to economic reports like this, from Reuters:

“The Conference Board said consumer confidence deteriorated in February at its fastest pace in three-and-a-half years, with estimates for 12-month domestic inflation surging amid worries that U.S. tariffs on imports would raise prices for households.”

Layoffs, jittery markets aren't going to help your grocery prices

On Tuesday, the head of Alcoa, a Pittsburgh-based aluminum company, said Trump’s tariffs on aluminum imports could result in 100,000 job losses in the industry. CEO William Oplinger said: “It’s bad for American workers.”

Demonstrators gather outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2025 to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

I’m sorry, but I was told electing Trump would be good for American workers. In fact, I was told specifically that food prices would swiftly go down and that the country would waltz into a new Golden Age.

Well, it’s looking increasingly like that was – GASP! – a lie, and once Trump won the election and was able to do away with his myriad legal issues, he immediately abandoned the “forgotten men and women” he so sincerely promised to champion and went straight to helping himself and his fellow billionaires.

For proof of Trump's priorities, look at the billionaires lining his Cabinet.

Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts summed it up on the House floor Tuesday while speaking out about a GOP budget that will, among other things, gut the Medicaid program many Trump voters rely on:

“We all saw this coming. ... Last month, Trump’s inauguration, who was in the front row? It wasn't people on Medicaid. It wasn't factory workers. It wasn't nurses or teachers or firefighters. It wasn't even his own Cabinet. It was the richest people in the world.”
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: Meta and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Founder of Amazon and Blue Origin Jeff Bezos, CEO of Google Sundar Pichai and Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk attend the Inauguration of Donald J. Trump in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC.

For any forgotten men and women of America, that should have been a red flag. Trump had won on the backs of Americans who bought into his dishonest populist message. And since he got what he wanted, since he saved his own hide, the people who matter are clearly the ones with money.

So in comes Musk, deemed brilliant by virtue of wealth. His smug talk of “wokeness” and diversity, equity and inclusion might trigger the pleasure centers of MAGA supporters. But they’re learning Musk’s ax is swinging for necks that include their own.
Wait a minute, I didn't know DOGE might fire people I don't hate!

Consider what Fox News’ Jesse Watters, a Trump toady if there ever was one, said after realizing that a friend of his – “a guy I met at a shooting event in New Jersey” – who is a 20-year military veteran about to get laid off from the Pentagon by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE:

“He texted me and he said, ’Jesse, you know, this isn't good. I’m upset. This is really sad.’ And this guy is not a DEI consultant. This guy is not a climate consultant. This guy is a veteran. So when you’re talking about DOGE-ing people, veterans should get priority. Because if you’re going to go out there and kill enemies, put your life on the line for this country, you shouldn't be in the same category as people that are doing DEI.”

A demonstrator holds a sign reading "Who Voted for Elon Musk? Nobody!" as people protest against President Donald Trump and DOGE Elon Musk's anticipated plan to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in front of the CFPB headquarters in Washington, DC, Feb. 10, 2025.

Previously on Fox News, Watters had squawked excitedly about the DOGE firings, saying things like “DOGE is dishing out spankings like ‘Daddy Daycare’ ”; “There was a huge exodus over at the National Archives, persnickety librarians were getting DOGE’d silly”; and “DOGE is a blessing from the heavens above.”

You see how that works? It’s all good when it somehow relates to Watters’ definition of “others,” but not when it involves someone he knows – one of those “real Americans,” I suppose.

And of course he overlooks the fact that veterans have long been considered a part of the “diversity” in DEI. Trump's con was apparent. Those who didn't see it are about to feel it.

As the tens of thousands of federal layoffs continue, Trump voters are going to feel the impact more acutely in their own communities and social circles.

We’re talking about an enormous number of people about to be out of work, and there will be veterans and MAGA supporters among them, cast off from their jobs and forced to reckon with food prices that haven’t gone down and federal services – like Medicaid – that may well dry up.

Trump got what he needed out of his voters. And assuredly, he’ll still do his best to fleece the diehards with dodgy crypto investments and any other thing he can slap his name on and sell.

But for all intents and purposes, he’s done with you all. He cares only about the billionaires who line his Cabinet and his own personal fortune.

And you’re stuck with an extra charge on your Denny’s omelette.

Follow USA TODAY columnist Rex Huppke on Bluesky at @rexhuppke.bsky.social and on Facebook at facebook.com/RexIsAJerk

The Trump Penny-Pinch Effect: Reverse Brain Drain from US to Europe, China

The inane grocery store owner who squats in the white house is saving mountains of pennies by destroying the infrastructure that made the US what is is. Somehow, this self-claimed business genius has forgotten that you have to spend money to make money. 

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Meta's chief AI scientist says US-based researchers may look abroad as Trump tries to freeze funding

Lakshmi Varanasi

Sun, February 23, 2025

• Meta's Yann LeCun warned there could be an exodus of US-based scientists due to funding cuts.

• The Trump administration wants to slash NIH funding, causing concern in the scientific community.

• LeCun said Europe should be recruiting them by offering more favorable research conditions.

The United States could soon see an exodus of tech talent, according to Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun.

"The US seems set on destroying its public research funding system. Many US-based scientists are looking for a Plan B," LeCun wrote in a post on LinkedIn on Saturday.

The Trump administration has issued several executive orders to reduce funding, sparking concern among the US-based scientific community.

It announced drastic cuts to the National Institutes of Health that would effectively end billions in federal funding for biomedical research. A judge on Friday extended a temporary block on the cuts as lawsuits filed by states and universities who say the cuts are illegal make their way through the court system.

"A sane government would never do this," former Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier said of the funding cuts in a post on X.

Elon Musk's cost-cutting DOGE squad has also been deployed to federal agencies, including the NIH, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and NASA.

The executive order that Trump signed against diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates has also caused concern that it could threaten scientific research at universities.

"At least one university is telling its researchers to refrain from terms like "biodiversity" to steer clear of detection by AI-based grant review systems, " Scientific American reported.

LeCun — who earned his bachelor's and Ph.D. in France — said the changes in the United States should be a wake-up call for European institutions and companies.

"You may have an opportunity to attract some of the best scientists in the world," he wrote.

He shared seven things he believes talented researchers want to see at any university, company, or public research agency they're joining:

His message to Europe: "To attract the best scientific and technological talents, make science and technology research professions attractive."

Trump's Purge of "DEI Hire" African-Americans from the US Military Underway

 ASSOCIATED PRESS

Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and two other military officers

By  TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR

Updated 5:30 AM GMT+2, February 22, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign led by his defense secretary to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown speaks during a press briefing, April 26, 2024, at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)

The ouster of Brown, only the second Black general to serve as chairman, is sure to send shock waves through the Pentagon. His 16 months in the job had been consumed with the war in Ukraine and the expanded conflict in the Middle East.

“I want to thank General Charles ‘CQ’ Brown for his over 40 years of service to our country, including as our current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is a fine gentleman and an outstanding leader, and I wish a great future for him and his family,” Trump posted on social media.

Brown’s public support of Black Lives Matter after the police killing of George Floyd had made him fodder for the administration’s wars against “wokeism” in the military. His ouster is the latest upheaval at the Pentagon, which plans to cut 5,400 civilian probationary workers starting next week and identify $50 billion in programs that could be cut next year to redirect those savings to fund Trump’s priorities.

Trump said he’s nominating retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next chairman. Caine is a career F-16 pilot who served on active duty and in the National Guard, and was most recently the associate director for military affairs at the CIA, according to his military biography.

Caine’s military service includes combat roles in Iraq, special operations postings and positions inside some of the Pentagon’s most classified special access programs.

However, he has not had key assignments identified in law as prerequisites for the job, including serving as either the vice chairman, a combatant commander or a service chief. That requirement could be waived if the “president determines such action is necessary in the national interest.”

More Pentagon firings

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a statement praising both Caine and Brown, announced the firings of two additional senior officers: Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti and Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Jim Slife.

Franchetti becomes the second top female military officer to be fired by the Trump administration. Trump fired Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan just a day after he was sworn in.

A surface warfare officer, Franchetti has commanded at all levels, heading U.S. 6th Fleet and U.S. Naval Forces Korea. She was the second woman ever to be promoted to four-star admiral, and she did multiple deployments, including as commander of a naval destroyer and two stints as aircraft carrier strike group commander.

Slife led Air Force Special Operations Command prior to becoming the service’s vice chief of staff and had deployed to the Middle East and Afghanistan.

He told The Associated Press on Friday: “The President and Secretary of Defense deserve to have generals they trust and the force deserves to have generals who have credibility with our elected and appointed officials. While I’m disappointed to leave under these circumstances, I wouldn’t want the outcome to be any different.”

Trump has asserted his executive authority in a much stronger way in his second term, removing most officials from the Biden administration even though many of those positions are meant to carry over from one administration to the next.

The chairman role was established in 1949 as an adviser to the president and secretary of defense, as a way to filter all of the views of the service chiefs and more readily provide that information to the White House without the president having to reach out to each individual military branch, according to an Atlantic Council briefing written by retired Maj. Gen. Arnold Punaro. The role has no actual command authority.

Trump acted despite support for Brown among key members of Congress and a seemingly friendly meeting with him in mid-December, when the two were seated next to each other for a time at the Army-Navy football game.

The firing follows days of speculation after a list of officers, including Brown, to be fired was circulated on Capitol Hill — but notably was not sent via any formal notification to either of the Republican chairmen of the House or Senate armed services committees.

Sen. Roger Wicker, GOP chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, didn’t mention Caine’s name in a statement Friday.

“I thank Chairman Brown for his decades of honorable service to our nation,” Wicker said. “I am confident Secretary Hegseth and President Trump will select a qualified and capable successor for the critical position of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.”

Congressional Democratic leaders called out the firings as a direct attempt to politicize the military.

“A professional, apolitical military that is subordinate to the civilian government and supportive of the Constitution rather than a political party is essential to the survival of our democracy,” Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement late Friday. “For the sake of our troops and the well-being of every American, elected leaders — especially Senate Republicans — must defend that enduring principle against corrosive attempts to remake the military into a partisan force.”

Brown risked discussing race

Brown’s future was called into question during the confirmation hearing for Hegseth last month. Asked if he would fire Brown, Hegseth responded, “Every single senior officer will be reviewed based on meritocracy, standards, lethality and commitment to lawful orders they will be given.”

Hegseth had previously taken aim at Brown. “First of all, you gotta fire, you know, you gotta fire the chairman of Joint Chiefs,” he said flatly in a podcast in November. And in one of his books, he questioned whether Brown got the job because he was Black.

“Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter,” Hegseth wrote.

As he walked into the Pentagon on his first day as defense chief on Jan. 27, Hegseth was asked directly if he planned to fire Brown.

“I’m standing with him right now,” said Hegseth, patting Brown on the back. “Look forward to working with him.”

Brown, who spent Friday visiting troops at the U.S.-Mexico border, drew attention to himself for speaking out about the death of George Floyd in 2020. While he knew it was risky, he said, discussions with his wife and sons about the killing convinced him he needed to say something.

As protests roiled the nation, Brown posted a video message to the Air Force titled, “Here’s What I’m Thinking About.” He described the pressures that came with being one of the few Black men in his unit. He recalled pushing himself “to perform error-free” as a pilot and officer his whole life, but still facing bias. He said he’d been questioned about his credentials, even when he wore the same flight suit and wings as every other pilot.

Brown’s path to the chairmanship was troubled — he was among the more than 260 senior military officers whose nominations were stalled for months by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. But when the Senate vote was finally taken in September 2023, Brown easily was confirmed by a vote of 89-8.

It had been 30 years since Colin Powell became the first Black chairman, serving from 1989 to 1993. But while African Americans made up 17.2% of the 1.3 million active-duty service members, only 9% of officers were Black, according to a 2021 Defense Department report.

Brown’s service as chairman made history in that this was the first time that both the defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, and the Joint Chiefs chairman were Black.

Musk and Trump Destroying US Science: Prefer RFK Jr.'s Voodoo Shamanic Charlatanism

Post-WWII, European scientists (including many Nazis like Kurt Debus, a former V-2 rocket scientist who became a NASA director, or Wernher von Braun who built rockets for NASA, and 1600 other Nazi scientists relocated to the US in Operation Paperclip) migrated to the US. The boorish amateurs Trump and Musk are now reversing that trend: By destroying the foundations of US science - defunding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and shutting down the National Science Foundation (NSF) - they are pushing US scientists to look elsewhere in Europe and China to continue their research.

More than 50% of US scientists and engineers are foreign-born H-1B visa entrants to the US. By curtailing immigration of scientists and frontally attacking domestic science, the imbecile numskulls Trump and Musk are essentially gutting the foundations that make the US a strong powerful country. His moronic grocery store owner's mindset makes Trump believe that America's greatness lies only in having money and nothing else. His stupidity and ignorance cannot conceive of any other criterion for "greatness" than gold-laced toilets, shiny buildings, and a bimbo wife, all acquired with money.

But wealth does not mean greatness: Look at all the wealthy oily Arab monarchies; they're rich but they stink when it comes to greatness. The billionaires Trump and Musk, who think they are the elite because they have money, reduce the "American people" to the ignorant corn-producing riff raff peasants of the midwest, the plains, and the south who are easily manipulated into submission with stupid superficial slogans of patriotism and love of country. Trump and Musk hate intellectuals: they can't and won't tolerate smart educated dissenters and thinkers who bother them with new ideas, people like journalists, scientists and academics. That is how you build a Big Brother Dystopia.

By the way, read about how abysmal are the so-called "intellectual achievements" of the neo-Nazi South African illegal immigrant, Elon Musk, in [ https://www.yahoo.com/news/author-upcoming-elon-musk-biography-040538098.html ]. I have long argued that Americans foolishly equate wealth with intelligence: The reality is that very smart people are rarely wealthy (because they know that money doesn't buy you meaning and happiness in life), while most wealthy individuals are glorified black-market smartass dealers who fooled the system or other people. but are othwerwise basically stupid.
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DOGE shut the funding spigot for medical research overnight. Scientists are calling it ‘the end of science’ in America
Stuart Dyos

Updated Fri, February 21, 2025

Former federal workers protest against cuts to government agencies in Washington D.C. (DOMINIC GWINN—Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images)

The Trump administration’s vow to cut $4 billion in medical research targets so-called indirect funding, which he claims to be wasteful. But these costs are key to allowing medical institutions to exist, with scientists decrying the budget moves as a death blow that could lead top American scientists to jump ship to China and alter the scientific exchange of data.

Recently, the medical research communities saw their livelihoods flash before their eyes as the Trump administration announced the world’s leading benefactor in medical research grants was being put on a diet.

World’s richest man Elon Musk, who initially claimed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could cut $2 trillion in government spending but has waffled on that figure since then, has been busy trimming federal agency budgets across the country in recent weeks. The National Institute of Health is up next: Last week, it announced DOGE will cut more than $4 billion from the NIH budget—which equates to 11% of its 2023 budget—impacting major research institutions nationwide.

The National Institute of Health is the paramount government agency in the U.S. when it comes to conducting and supporting medical research. In 2023, the NIH yielded more than $35 billion in funding to disease-related research projects.

The budget cuts trimmed facility and administration expenses, known as indirect costs, to 15%. These funds cover overhead costs for institutions, including their electricity bills, equipment, and rent.

“I think it’s the end of science as we know it for the United States if that really goes through,” Richard Huganir, director of the Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, told Fortune.

The Trump administration is levying NIH’s indirect funding budget to play on par with private philanthropic organizations. Entities like the John Templeton Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation carry the highest level of indirect cost coverage of private philanthropic organizations at 15%.

Formerly, the NIH did not have a cap on indirect fund support. On average, indirect costs from the NIH reached 27.5%, and many times allocated administrative overhead up to 50% or 60%.

In an X post, the top receivers from were Harvard, Yale, and Johns Hopkins, who received indirect rates of 69%, 67.5%, and 63.7%, respectively. When asked about the NIH budget cuts, Trump said, “Why are we giving money to Harvard when it’s got a $50 billion endowment, 50 billion and yet they don’t use that endowment to help their students.”

Dwight Bergles, a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, refutes the notion that the NIH should be on the same playing field as private philanthropic organizations.

“That 15% doesn’t cover the cost necessary to do the research,” Bergles told Fortune.

Funding from private foundations only makes up a small portion of the research that goes on at universities, and universities take that on as a liability, Bergles said.

“They (universities) say, ‘You know what, this money that’s coming in, we realize it doesn’t support all of the infrastructure necessary to do it, but it’s investment into further research and the lifeblood of the lab to have support coming in,’” Bergles said.

Universities have to plan on other ways to balance out the indirect costs of a project that private foundations lack supporting, he added.

Bergles rejects this idea, saying university donors “don’t want that money going to support indirect cost.”

“You can’t impose upon universities to tap endowments for this,” Bergles said.

Bergles emphasized it's important to be fiscally efficient in the world of scientific research, but the expedited manner in which NIH funding was cut “has been very, very disruptive and could have long ranging impacts on the future of science in this country and our ability to want to understand biology, to develop new therapies, to provide ways of improving the lives of our citizens.”
Immediate effects

While the NIH funding cuts may cause long-term impediments to scientific discovery in this country, they also pose more immediate risks for some patients and their families.

Huganir said Johns Hopkins is currently developing a solution for children who are “severely intellectually disabled, autistic” and plan to send it to clinical trials in a few years—but that agenda could now face setbacks.

Huganir said in order for this therapy to work, “we have to treat them very young.”

“Any delay in research is going to be, you know, tragic,” said Huganir. “I’ve gotten to know the families and the families are desperate, you know, they know there’s a window of time so it’s a race to develop these therapeutics to treat their kids.”

Johns Hopkins currently has 600 clinical trials in progress and all will be impacted, according to Huganir.

Huganir said the NIH cutting indirect costs will affect everyone, and treatment for things like mental health and cancer will be “severely compromised if this goes through.”
Expect a youthful brain drain in American scientific discovery

The United States is the worldwide leader in science, according to the AD Scientific Index. Although the U.S. has a major foothold in talent recruitment, some think the next generation of scientists will either go abroad or pick a different career path.

“I see this as a huge part of it, you’re talking about some of the most gifted, creative (people) that I’ve seen, and you're sort of telling them that there’s no outlet for you, there’s no future for you here,” Bergles said.

Since 1946, the U.S. has been able to dish out grant funding for “neglected areas of research in the health sciences,” according to its website, which has attracted top talent from all over the world.

“My lab looks like the United Nations,” Bergles said.

Bergles hopes a future for scientists remains in the United States, but if funding runs dry, “they will leave and go somewhere else,” and many scientists think they might move into Chinese research and development (R&D) labs.

“China in particular has emerged, due to tremendous investment in their research enterprise, as a major force in our field of neuroscience,” Bergles said. “That work that’s being done in China is exceptional.”

While the U.S. still funds more R&D than China as a whole, Chinese R&D spending within universities and government institutions beats American spending, according to the OECD reported by The Economist.

"I think they will be able to recruit some of the best Chinese,” Huganir said. “But even Americans that really want to do science could be recruited to China.”

“That’s an imminent danger.”  How will NIH cuts change how research is conducted in the private sector?

Major universities focus their attention on basic research, which, as it relates to medicine, is all about exploring the fundamentals of medical processes.

Bergles said basic research that often goes on at these universities is the foundation for outside organizations to develop new therapies.

“They (private companies) take the knowledge that is developed by basic science scientists, and then try to apply it to create a new therapy or treatment,” Bergles said.

If university-based research were to be cut out, “you’re not going to have any of the information that you’re going to need to develop new therapies to treat disease,” Bergles said.

Huganir says the private and publicly funded sectors are two different ways to practice science.

“In general, [the private sector] can’t duplicate the kind of research that NIH does,” Huganir said. “Biotech and pharma are mostly not doing the sort of basic research, which really is the engine for discovering novel ways to develop therapies.”

Huganir said if NIH research funding fades, there’s not enough positions in the private sector for every scientist.

“I don’t think it’s going to give a boost to the private sector, it’s just not,” Huganir said. “The magnitude of people moving is not that great.”

Chief executives in the health-care industry warn of a trickle-down effect into the private medical sector as major universities exchange data findings with private medical companies to expand R&D. OMNY Health CEO Mitesh Rao told Fortune a cut in funding would change the manner in which research is conducted and funded. But in a world without NIH funding, Rao believes scientific research will adapt, and industry sponsorship and partnership will be the next up to fill holes in the billion-dollar budget.

“I think we will see a lot more of the private sector step up to drive the cost and the alignment to unlock those pieces,” Rao said.

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com

Trump's 24-Hour Bull$hit End to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

The Liar-in-Chief repeatedly said during his campaign that he's the only one who can end the Russian war on Ukraine, and that he'll do it in 24 hours... 

Now that the bull$hit entertainement segment of his burlesque show is over and the real work begins, Trump is revealing himself to be a deceiver, reneger, a perfidious, untrustworthy, faithless, dishonest gutter politician: Someone who has betrayed the trust of his stupid herd of voters by knowingly making promises he knew he could not not keep, just to get elected. Unfortunately for those who voted for him, he is a veteran con man who can peddle his horse manure only to a bunch of dumbass morons, many of whom are now realizing the mistake they made.

Not two days after his election, the moron-in-chief backtracked on his promise to bring grocery prices down by admitting that "it is very hard, you know".

Yesterday, as Trump's Foreign Affairs henchman, donkey-eared Marco Rubio, was working diligently to wreck the Western alliance betweeen Europe and the US, and make an ally of the criminal Russian dictatorship, he divulged the fallacy of one more of Trump's lies and false promises: Trump is backtracking on his deceitful promise of ending Russia's aggression against Ukraine "in 24 hours". 

In Saudi Arabia, jackass-eared Rubio gave the assasssin dictator of Russia everything he wanted before his "negotiations" with him even get underway: Ukrainian territories savagely conquered by Putin will remain his, Ukraine will not be be able to join NATO and the EU to escape the miserable neo-Soviet Gulag, and even if it is willing to make sacrifices by conceding to these two earlier demands, Ukraine will not be given any security guarantees that would prevent Putin from resuming his aggression at a later time and taking over ALL of Ukraine.

The Art of the Deal, my ass!

When asked after 4 hours of discussions - 4 hours means Putin is playing very hard to get - with Putin's team, Rubio looked pale and wan and blatantly declared that the 24-hours of Trump have turned into months and years of arduous and seemingly futile waste of time. In his own words, Rubio, the donkey-eared son of Cuban immigrants, admitted talks with Russia are a "first step of a long and difficult journey" to ending Russia's war on Ukraine.

And to add insult to injury, the John Wayne cretin nostagics Trump and Rubio think they "alone" and "by themselves" can convince Putin of their plan, which ironically is really to concede everything to him. No need for the Ukrainians or the Europeans to join this "long and difficult journey" to failure and disaster. Why is that? Because the only real objective of the moron-in-chief is to "appear" like the Lone Ranger who can fix anything without really fixing anything. The flash of the news and the image of him shaking hands with Putin later, again in Saudi Arabia, is all that he needs to fool his MAGA herd into believing his lies. 

He did it twice with his criminal autocrat equal of North Korea, Kim Jong Un: The picture was great of Trump stepping over the line between the two Koreas, and later meeting in Singapore. But in substance: NOTHING was achieved. North Korea is today the exact, if not more dangerous, place it was 5 years ago. Just as Iran is much more dangerous after Trump abrogated the US's commitment to the nuclear deal during his first term.

The senile demented moron in the White House is of a worse cloth than Neville Chamberlain's naive "peace for our time". Trump blends criminality with ignorance: He is deliberately pretending to seek peace when in fact he is pushing Putin to wage war on all of Europe. Right now, Trump and Rubio are appeasing Putin at any cost for the primary reason that Trump can turn around and say he kept a (false deceitful) campaign promise. Keeping a promise is a good thing in principle, but when the promise is pure bullshit, what is the point of keeping it?

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Nobel Economist Warns How Donald Trump’s Policies Could Spectacularly Crash

Lee Moran

Updated Tue, February 18, 2025

Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz called out President Donald Trump’s economic policies, warning they risk causing stagflation — otherwise known as high inflation, rising unemployment and stagnant economic growth.

In an interview published by The Guardian on Monday, Stiglitz also argued the United States is becoming “a scary place to invest” because of Trump’s mission to slash public spending, which is shredding established contracts with the government and prompting fears of the risks of doing business in America.

Trump earlier this month announced a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% on imports from China. The tariffs on Canada and Mexico were almost immediately paused but could still be reimposed in March. Last week, Trump unveiled reciprocal tariffs on other countries globally, with each nation’s levy to be decided on an individual basis.

“Almost all economists agree that the tariffs will increase prices,” said Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University and former World Bank chief economist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001.

“I could certainly see a scenario where we get to stagflation — we get inflation and a weak economy,” he added. “I cannot see a really robust economy because I just see the global economy suffering so much from the uncertainty that Trump poses.”

Paul Krugman, the winner of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize, expressed similar fears over Trump’s plan “to raise tariffs but cut taxes on high income” last month.

A “lot of people” who voted for Trump last year “are going to get brutally scammed,” he warned.

Last week, the annual inflation rate was reported to have risen to 3% in the three months since Trump’s election win over Democratic rival Kamala Harris.

Trump repeatedly, during his 2024 campaign, promised that he would bring down prices on the first day of his administration.

 

Hilarious Anti-Palestinian Hysteria in Dumb US: Jews Shoot "Palestinian-looking" Jews

It is easy to confuse Jews and Muslims, or Israelis and Palestinians. They're supposed to all be Semitic and hail from the same ancestor. Scientifically, the founding Arab genetic stock in the Arabian desert split into several branches as geographic and other obstacles separated various nomadic tribes. Where there was once one people, several "peoples" now exist.

In the garbage mythologies of ignorant nomads, the equivalent to the scientific version is the story myth of Abraham. According to the torah-bible fiction, one Arab by the name of Abraham left the city of Ur, today a suburb of Baghdad, and like all Arab nomads of his time, he and his "tribe" lived off the desert with their camels and sheep, moving about in search of watering holes and oases.

Because of this space and time separation from their hometown of Baghdad, their dialect changed from the proto-Semitic Arabic to become what is known today as Hebrew, though modern Hebrew is far removed from the Hebrew of antiquity because it hybridized with other languages and gained new features and lost others. For example, the fake Jews of Israel (most are Eastern and Central Indo-Europeans who recently converted to Judaism and have no genetic or historical relationships whatsoever with the Semitic Hebrews of old) are unable to pronounce the authentic guttural sounds of the original Hebrew, sounds which remain alive in Arabic. Spoken modern Hebrew is a bastard of authentic Hebrew, German, Arabic and eastern European slavic dialects.

Since a minority of modern Jews hail from Arab countries and non-European stock, they cannot be physically distinguished from other Arabs. Hence, the fallacy of the "Jewish people". There is no such thing as a "Jewish people", just as there is no such thing as a Muslim people or a Christian people. The monotheistic cults (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) continue to desperately try to constitute "nations". These cults are religions, ideologies, belief systems and cannot be construed as homogenous ethnic or racial populations.

Islam still claims to constitute a "nation" or "Umma". But this is ludicrous and actually points to the fanaticism embedded in every religion which, by definition, divides humans into "us" versus "them". There is nothing cultural or ethnic or racial that ties a Muslim Uyghur in Central Asia to a Muslim Senegalese in Westen Africa: The only tie is a religious one. But Daesh, ISIS and Al-Qaeda have tried to resurrect an artificial nation - the Islamic Umma - based on the single criterion of the Muslim religion and they failed. The Catholic Church in Europe tried for a thousand years (circa 800 - 1800 AD) to manufacture one "Christian" nation (the Holy Roman Empire) out of a multi-ethnic complex of territories in Western and Central Europe, but that too has failed.

Israel today is the personification of that same desperate but deadend ideal of gathering various ethnic, racial and linguistic groups under the banner of one religion, and if it seems to have succeeded so far in a uphill battle of violence, it is only a reflection of historical circumstances: 19th century European colonialism, European xenophobic barbarity against "lesser races" including, but not limited to, European Jews, western guilt translated into ignoring the savagery of the European Jewish settlers of Palestine in their ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population of the land. It also reflects a deep-seated religious and exclusivist fanaticism embedded in all three primitive monotheistic cults where each one claims to hold the "true" message of the same god they all worship, and to be the "real" people that that god favored over the other cults, and such racist and exclusivist self-serving idiocies from the Bronze Age. The Israel experiment is unlikely to survive on the long term, just like its predecessor colonial enterprise known as the Christian Crusades some 1,000 years ago. "Veni, vici, perdidi et fugi" should be the motto of all colonial enterprises.

The creation of this artificial state of Israel may arguably have been a situational artifact of European anti-semitism that either killed or expelled its own Jews. In contrast, Arab, oriental and African Jews lived for millennia in harmony within their own Arab, African and eastern societies, including Moorish Spain, until Western Jews, driven by a colonial me-too impulse of 19th century Europe, drove a wedge between Arab Jews on one hand and Arab Christias and Muslims to force the Arab Jews to migrate and boost the fallacy of Israel as a homeland for Jews.

I know from personal experience how Lebanese Jews (our neighbors, teachers, pharmacists, bankers, shoemakers...in our neighborhood in Beirut) came to tearfully bid us farewell because they were being harassed by the Jewish Agency to pack up and leave, with substantial monetary incentives to settle in the budding colony south of the border. Go to the Harvard University Library and look up its collection of the Lebanese Jewish Arabic-language newspaper "Alliance Israelite" from the 1920s and 1930s to learn about how the thriving Lebanese Jewish community was bulding synagogues and schools, and lobbying the French mandatory power for representation in the recently established Lebanese parliament post WWI.

Why would a community so well integrated in the multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-linguistic society of Lebanon decide one day to leave? Because the western colonial fake Jews wanted to grow their undermanned colony in Palestine and needed to increase the numbers of their herd by importing any Jew they could find. Today, there are two High Rabbis in Israel, one for westerners and one for  easterners. Not a good sign of unity within the so-called "Jewish people": Red-haired, blue-eyed, dressed in Russian hats and long coats suitable for eastern european winters, not for warm and dry Palestine, together with pitch black-eyed, black haired, dark-skinned Yemeni or Iranian Jews in Arab dress. What else besides religious fanaticism and colonial brainwashing could bring such people together?

Finally, this anecdote below that shows the fundamental stupidity of religion-based "identity". One Jew in Florida (here, his American dumbness blended with his Zionist fanaticism) sees two Jews on the street and thinks they look like Muslim Palestinians, and he shoots them like a good 2nd amendment-proud American does. It also demonstrates how far the Zionist hatred - and natural fear - of its own indigenous Palestinian victims has gone, and how exacerbated the anti-Palestine hysteria drilled by Zionist propaganda has become in an otherwise dumb and ignorant American society. I recall how after 9-11, dumb Americans attacked Sikhs and Hindus who wear turbans because they "looked" Arab.

And that is not the worst part of the story: The Jewish victims of the Jewish shooter also thought their assailant was an Arab Muslim, so they brandished the standard "antisemitic" canard by posting on their social media account the hilarious statements, “My father and I went through a murder attempt against antisemitic background" and "Death to the Arabs". 

Hahahahaaaa....Tragic but funny.
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Jewish man mistakes two Israeli tourists for Palestinians and opens fire on them in Miami
Edward Helmore
Mon, February 17, 2025


The suspect reportedly told police after the shooting that he ‘shot and killed’ two Palestinians.Photograph: Jason Koerner/Getty Images

A Jewish man in Miami Beach is facing charges of attempted murder following accusations that he opened fire on two men he believed were Palestinians but reportedly turned out to be Israeli visitors.

According to arrest documents, at 9.30pm on Saturday surveillance video appeared to show Mordechai Brafman, 27, getting out of his truck and opening fire with a semiautomatic handgun at a vehicle as it passed. Brafman allegedly fired 17 times, striking one victim in the left shoulder and grazing the other’s left forearm.

While in custody, Brafman spontaneously told detectives that while he was driving his truck, “he saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both”, arrest documents said.

Law enforcement officials did not confirm if the victims were in fact Palestinians and the Miami Herald reported that they were actually two vacationing Israelis, naming them as Ari Rabey and his father.

Facebook posts after the shooting show Rabey at Miami’s Jackson memorial hospital and his Hyundai with several bullet holes and markings.

The outlet reported that as of Monday afternoon, Brafman, the alleged shooter, was being held at the Miami-Dade correctional center on two counts of attempted second-degree murder.

Further complicating the incident, one of the injured men reportedly posted “death to the Arabs” in a message on social media after the shooting. “My father and I went through a murder attempt against antisemitic background,” he wrote.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Florida chapter has called for federal hate crime charges in the shooting.

“It is deeply ironic and telling that both the alleged pro-Israel perpetrator and the pro-Israel victim in the Miami Beach shooting reportedly hold racist anti-Palestinian views,” said Cair’s national executive director, Nihad Awad, on X.

“This just the latest example of the hate targeting the Palestinian-American community in this country and Palestinians in their homeland. Policymakers in our nation should stop fomenting the anti-Palestinian hate that led to the genocide in Gaza and to hate crimes in America.”

The Pretext for Violence Paradigm: Why Israel Always Violates Truce Agreements

Zionists are creeping land stealers and annexationists. They'd like to steal everyone's lands around them. But just like neighbors who get offended by a tree limb falling on their side of the fence or some other excuse to make problems, the Zionists need pretexts.

In Gaza, they signed off on the ceasefire but keep pounding civilians. What do they get out of it? By riling up their enemies, they push them to the limit and force them to react, a reaction the Zionists then use comfortably with dumb blackmailed hostage western audiences to claim "self defense" or "fighting terrorism". Netanyahu's ultra-religious barbarians, with minds fermenting straight in a Bronze Age primordial soup of nomadic backwardness, want and need Hamas to respond with violence. They want Hamas to break its own commitment to the ceasefire. Without Hamas's response to the provocations, the Zionists would have no pretext to continue waging their genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

Since the 1960s, the Lebanese long advised the Palestinians not to use violence and terror against Israel because the Zionist colony feeds off the excuse to do more damage and steal more land and expel more of the indigenous population. It's common sense: If you are a colonial invader, you want more land for your fresh-off-the-boat illegal migrants, and you need to explain to the civilized world why you "must" use violence to ethnically cleanse the land. Nothing better than the violence you provoke in your victims. 

That has been the threadline of the history of the rape of Palestine.

In Lebanon, same approach. Right now, Israel has signed off on a ceasefire with Hezbollah in which the latter  should withdraw north of the Litani River (it has) in exchange for Israel to withdraw its troops (it hasn't. This is its tenth occupation of south Lebanon; it never succeeded in achieving any objective there over decades). Why? The Zionists are either masochists (consistent with their beloved eternal status of victims of everyone and everything), or they again apply the pretext loop strategy to steal more land and cause havoc.

If the Israelis withdraw COMPLETELY from the few square kilometers (of useless barren land) they keep occupying on the Lebanese side of the 1949 armistice line, there would be no pretexts for Iran's Hezbollah to pretend to fight a war of resistance against the "occupation". Absent such pretext of "occupation" and "resistance" bullshit, this stupid and endless low-level warfare now in its sixth decade would come to a stop. The Lebanese state and army would take control of the border area and deny anyone the pretense of "resistance".

But again, Israel is either a masochist or an addict that needs its daily shot of violence. It also needs to perpetuate its myth as a "victim" as a way to induce pity and sympathy in its western sponsors burdened by their own genocide of European Jews back in the 1940s. With every flareup in the violence in south Lebanon, followed by a ceasefire or a truce, Israel somehow cannot let go. It abides by 90% of the agreement, but violates 10% of it, sufficiently enough to provide its "enemies" with the pretext of fighting and resisting, thus perpetuating the eternal cycle of violence and counter-violence. 

Right now, Hezbollah has withdrawn north of the Litani River. The Lebanese army has entered most of the Lebanese villages along the border, and Israel should be completely withdrawing by tomorrow February 18 ( which is itself an extension of the originally agreed upon deadline of late January that Israel refused to honor). But Israel is refusing to "completely" withdraw. It wants to retain five hilltops inside Lebanese territory because of its stale pretexts of wanting to "fight terrorism" and "self-defense". But its retention of these territories is the very fuel that Hezbollah desperately needs to keep pretending to be a resistance and remain relevant. Not only is Israel's control of these hilltops a flagrant violation of the agreement, but it is a guaranteed investment for future violence. Israel literally offers its enemies what they need to justify their existence as enemies of Israel - "occupation" - which these enemies use in turn to justify their "resistance", itself a usurpation of the Lebanese state's control over its land.

What is standing as an obstacle to this Zionist-managed cycle of violence is the refusal of the Lebanese to fall in the trap of a domestic civil war, which Israel (and the US behind it) are dreaming of. The Lebanese have learned from their 1975 experience in which the same game prevailed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) at the time. The Lebanese tried to rein in the PLO (like King Hussein of Jordan did in 1970) but failed, mostly because the Americans and the Israelis wanted the Lebanese state to fail and Yasser Arafat's PLO to take over the country and turn it into a substitute Palestine. Imagine how happy the Zionists would be if Lebanon became Palestine: No Right of Return of the Palestinian refugees to the homes, village, and towns from which they were ethnically cleansed by the foreign colonial Zionist settlers in 1948. By killing Lebanon and erecting a fake Palestine on its ashes, the Americans and the Israelis would bury the Palestinian Cause for good.

Israel thrives on violence, and its needs excuses to wage violence, and the excuses have become so stale - "self-defense" against its own victims: Israel is the only colonial state in history that continually demands protection from its own occupied and traumatized victims - and "fight terrorism": In all wars throughout history - no exception - your enemy is always branded a terrorist. French resistance fighters against German occupation were terrorists, so were Algerians fighting French colonial settlers, so were American minutemen fighting the English occupation, so are Ukrainians fighting Russian colonialism.... 

But the blackmail of Europe and the West with the Holocaust shame keeps Europe and the West unable to overcome their guilt and see where justice really lies in the heartache of Palestine, and who are the real victims and the real perpetrators in this 19th-century vintage colonial enterprise that Israel is.

Private Corruption vs. Public Corruption: Donald Dumb's Alternative Boundaries

In banana and lemon republics, like the old country of Lebanon, billionaires gain access to power by literally buying stupid people's loyalty: They hold wads of cash in their (or their cronies') hands and distribute them to voters at the rate of $100 bill per voter.  Then, once in power, the billionaires become little dictators stealing public money for their own lavish lifestyle and engrossing their safes with more billions. I never thought I'd see US public figures, politicians and officials do this sort of scam out in the open, without them getting caught and dragged to courts. But every time you smell Donald Dumb around, there's suspicious money and suspicious criminals lurking about.

Yes, Donald Dumb is one of those vintage corrupt feudal lords and his coterie of republican MAGA submissives who dare not stand up to him. He has now made the US just another banana republic where the dictator, Big Brother Dear Leader, can splurge taxpayers' money on his own self-serving lifestyle.

On Sunday, Donald Dumb took a ride on the Daytona International Speedway track in the presidential limousine ― ahead of the Daytona 500 opening event of the Nascar series.

People quickly denoucned the hypocrisy and double standards on social media. And Donald Dumb also made Air Force One do a flyover of the track. In the shriveled minds of ignorant idiots like him, this is what a "great" president does: He merely "appears" great with a shiny albeit slimy sheen. He doesn't have to actually "be" great in a meaningful substantive way.

Critics slammed the stunts’ cost to taxpayers. They also recalled the money that would have been spent on Trump’s trip last weekend to watch the Super Bowl.

And they noted the stark contrast with those costs and how the president himself has tasked tech billionaire, the South African-born neo-Nazi, Elon Musk with slashing public spending as part of the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency. 

Donald Trump is once again blowing millions of taxpayer dollars on another self-serving trip, this time to the Daytona 500. Trump burned $25,000 in jet fuel, doing laps around Daytona in Air Force One, which will be paid for out of grandpa’s social security benefits [pic.twitter.com/AmQijITrtC]

And then this: Amazon's Jeff Bezos buying up the insufferably pathetic bimbo Melania's new documentary about a topic that could make a huge difference in the daily lives of millions of Unitedstatesians:  her return to the White House. Price tag for Bezos: $40 million out of the billions he siphons out of your online orders. She, the first lady, personally pockets 70% of the $40 million (i.e. some $28 million). All of this not because of the value of the documentary, but in order for Bezos to please the Dear Leader, make  profitable future deals thanks to his loyalty to Donald Dumb, prostrate himself before him on all fours, and kiss his ring at Mar-a-Lago.

That's how feudal vassals bought access, land and serfs in the Middle Ages. Why not in the "Beacon on a Hill" democracy of the United States in this 21st century?
 

Opinion

Here’s How Much Money Trump Has Made Off the Presidency So Far
Hafiz Rashid
Fri, February 14, 2025
 

Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, have been making deals and raking in money ever since Trump won the election, including a cool $40 million to license Melania’s documentary about returning to the White House as first lady.

That’s just one of Trump’s numerous moneymaking schemes since his return to office, which have netted him and his family nearly $80 million so far, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. That includes donations to his future presidential library and a hefty $10 million settlement with Elon Musk’s X. That sum doesn’t include the millions the president and first lady have each netted from “meme coin” cryptocurrency ventures, a blatant means of scamming MAGA supporters.

Melania’s upcoming Amazon documentary may be one of the most obviously corrupt deals. The Journal reports that the first lady, the president, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, all had dinner at Mar-a-Lago in December, where Melania sold Bezos on her movie. Two weeks after that dinner, Amazon agreed to shell out the $40 million, nearly three times as much as the next best offer and the most the company has ever spent on a documentary.

The first lady is reportedly getting over 70 percent of the $40 million, and her agent is trying to sell “sponsorships” to executives and billionaires for the movie, with $10 million as the starting price. In return, these sponsors would get thanked in the credits and be invited to the premiere.

Some of Amazon’s competitors weren’t even interested in the film. Netflix and Apple declined to field offers, while Paramount only bid $4 million on distribution rights. The only other company that showed some interest was Disney, but their offer was just $14 million.

According to an Amazon spokesperson, “We licensed the upcoming Melania Trump documentary film and series for one reason and one reason only—because we think customers are going to love it.” [Yeah, sure. Customers may find in it how the price of eggs is NOT going down and how rising inflation is not what the Dumb moron-in-Chief promised them]

That seems hard to believe. Amazon and Bezos are shelling out money not because they love the documentary but because they are cozying up to the president to stay on his good side and hopefully get some favorable decisions from the Republican-controlled government. In Trump’s second term, it’s all about cash for favors, with no concern about appearing corrupt.

[That is in fact what the South African neo-Nazi Elon Musk is doing: trashing his competitors' federal contracts in the name of fighting waste and corruption, but not his own hundreds of millions in federal contracts. Welcome to United Banana Republic of America.]

English Couple Decides to Bike in Iran: How Stupid Can English Crooks be?

English couple arrested as they travel through Iran on a motorbike ride


Look at their silly faces: Craig and Lindsay Foreman were biking in Iran at the worst time possible in recent history and against the advice of their own government. How stupid can some people be? They look like a profitable investment in the Iranian Foreign Hostage Fund.

Apparently, they were heading to Australia for a "positive psychology" conference. Unfortunately they might have to be trained in daily seminars in "very negative psychotherapy" by their Iranian jailers, including wearing the veil for Mrs. Foreman and growing a beard for Mr. Foreman.

Mrs. Foreman, a "life coach" with a doctorate in psychology, and Mr Foreman, a carpenter, were planning on reaching Australia, but were detained last month after they crossed into Iran from Armenia. I would never hire an idiot as a life coach because I'd be on the receiving end of very bad and potentially deadly advice.

Now, their family did not reveal anything new by saying that they are in a “distressing situation”. The numskull couple, in their early 50s, have been showing their wherebaouts and travels on social media, to facilitate their location and detention by the Iranian "International Friendly Hostage Kidnappers" arm of the Islamic government.

Typical of condescending westerners who bend over backwards to lick the boots of people they fundamentally disagree with, Mrs. Foreman said she was “having an amazing time” in Iran while Mr. Foreman described “lovely people” in a “lovely country”. They are about to have painfully amazing times and meet friendly people in the intimacy of the Iranian slammer.

Photographs released by the Englsih government show the husband and wife meeting Hugo Shorter, former English ambassador to Lebanon and now to Iran, at the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Kerman.

The stupid couple were aware of foreign office advice not to visit Iran. “Yes, we’re aware of the risks,” the "doctor in psychology" wrote on social media. “But we also know the rewards of meeting incredible people, hearing their stories, and seeing the breathtaking landscapes of these regions could far outweigh the fear.” Naturally, they will be meeting incredible jailers and prison guards, and see breathtaking landscapes of Iranian toilets and prison wards. They will also give a major headache to their government as it tries to make a deal with the ayatollahs which might include exchanging them for detained Iranian terrorists in England, or reducing UK sanctions on Iran, or even making concessions to Iranian terrorist arms in the region like Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The English government has reiterated its advice to its nationals to avoid all travel to Iran. But some adults have the brains of ten-years old and don't listen to advice.

The Foremans will now join the club of European nationals in Iranian detention, collectively known as CRETINS (Candidate Reclacitrant Europeans To Iran Incarceration). The New Age-Persian fusion nation known as the Islamic Republic is "amazingly hospitable" to foreigners and has been known to welcome and seize stupidly heroic dual and foreign nationals as hostages to be traded in prisoner swaps or otherwise bartered for concessions from their home countries.

Trump Wants to Pressure Chinese Tik Tok by Changing its Name to Tic Tac

On Thursday the demented senile moron-in-chief had a verbal slip that revived one of his most memorable but disgusting gottcha moment.

While speaking to reporters, the idiot-in-chief twice referred to the social media platform TikTok as “Tic Tac,” the brand of breath mints. He declined to admit that this was an intentional jab - one of his "Art of the Deal" maneuvers - against the Chinese-owned Tik Tok platform, but experts say by belittling the platform with name-calling, Tump might be trying the same tactic he is using to humiliate Mexico by changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. 

In his ignorant stupidity, the moron-in-chief does not understand or even know that the name "America" does not belong to the United States, while the United States itself belongs to America, hence "United States OF America". America is the name of the entire continent from Baffin Bay to Tierra del Fuego. By changing the name of the Gulf, this isolationist idiot is humiliating his own country by recognizing the entire continent as more preeminent than either Mexico or the US.

Now, in 2005, the Unitedstatesian imbecile-in-chief also talked about Tic Tac when speaking supposedly over a silent microphone on the Access Hollywood TV program some years ago. In that footage before the 2016 election, Trump told the show’s host Billy Bush that he needed Tic Tacs before greeting “Days Of Our Lives” actor Arianne Zucker. “I better use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her,” the irresistible cazanova moron said. Then he bragged about how his celebrity status allows him to sexually do whatever he wishes with women, "Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”

Tic Tac for Tik Tok is perhaps a Freudian way for Trump to stick a finger to the Chinese. But he's too dumb to actually plan such a slip. With him, stupidity is spontaneously natural.

 

Me Thinks Will Change Blog Name from Lebanon Iznogood to US Iznogood

Now that Lebanon seems to be regaining its sovereignty and independence after 40 years of a US-imposed Syrian, Iranian and Israeli gulags and occupations - for realpolitick they'll tell you - and now that Donald Dumb is destroying the US and making enemies of allies because he's a very deranged man (imbecile, moron, stupid, dumb, ignorant, etc. you choose from the lexicon his own associates have developed to describe him), it might be time to change the name of this blog to "US Iznogood".

Obviously, the American people will not wait 40 years as the Lebanese have done, it might take 2 years till the November 2026 elections or the 2028 elections to rid themselves of the moron wannabe dictator.

Simmering this one.

Hanibaal Atheos

Can Germany Ever Atone for her Double Crime of the 20th Century?

Crime one: The Holocaust

Crime Two: The Creation of Israel and the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine with Germany's American and English allies.

Elon Musk said that Germany must forget its guilt for Crime 1. Perhaps he's right. The Holocaust lasted 4 years and stopped, and since that time its victims have not stopped milking this golden goose and blackmailing the world because of it, as if no other human suffering can ever surpass that of the victims of the Holocaust.

But Crime 2 - committed by Germany's victims of Crime 1 - has been ongoing for 80 years. Palestinians have been suffering so much more and for a much longer time, and their suffering has no end in sight. Israel is even considering a FINAL SOLUTION to the "Palestinian Question", not unlike the German FINAL SOLUTION to the "Jewish Question", replacing the crematories with 2,000-pound American-made bombs to kill innocent children, mothers and fathers and wipe out entire families.

Given this experience, Germany should be the repository of so much wisdom, the depth of which no other nation has acquired from bitter experience. Shouldn't it be using it somehow to help the Palestinians avoid what happened to European Jews some 80 years ago?

Will "Kennedy Center for Performing Arts" become "Trump Center for Con Arts"?

[Updated -See last page]

The Kennedy Center's full name is:

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

It has long been one the US's major soft power institutions. Unfortunately, Donald Dumb, the illiterate ignorant convicted criminal has appointed himself Chairman of the Kennedy Center in a coup against the Center's Board. Imagine an idiot pretending to lead one of the United States' leading cultural institution around the world.

He will in all likelihood turn it into his own narcissistic personality cult by re-naming it "The Trump Center for the Con Arts".

But Americans are fighting back:

Stars flee Kennedy Center Groups after Trump Seizes Chair
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stars-flee-kennedy-center-groups-003444033.html
 

Meanwhile:


Actors Equity Condemns Trump-Run Kennedy Center for Canceling Children’s Musical ‘Finn’: ‘Beyond Appalling’
Jacob Bryant
Fri, February 14, 2025



The dumb, senile, ignorant and criminal idiot in the White House

The Actors’ Equity Association is “outraged” and “disturbed” over The Kennedy Center’s choice to cancel the upcoming tour of “Finn.”

“Finn” is a coming-of-age story about a shark that with dreams of following in the family footsteps by joining the Shark Guard. The underwater musical explores themes of self-discovery and friendship and appeared at the Kennedy Center in November and December 2024. Now, the national tour of the children’s musical is off.

“We are outraged at the news that The Kennedy Center has canceled the upcoming tour of ‘Finn’, a musical for young audiences that just concluded an acclaimed run at the theatre,” the statement read. “Since its founding, the Kennedy Center has represented the full breadth of American culture; It is disturbing to see the new leadership of this institution move so swiftly to suppress viewpoints they do not agree with. And it is beyond appalling that the art they find so dangerous is a joyful children’s musical encouraging young people to be true to themselves and follow their dreams.”

The statement continued, “Actors’ Equity Association stands with the company of this production and is watching developments carefully. The union intends to fully enforce our contracts with The Kennedy Center. Equity reminds its members that if they experience any difficulty with their contracts at the Kennedy Center, they should reach out to their business reps immediately.”

News of the canceled tour comes only a day after President Donald Trump was “unanimously” elected as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The move came after sitting president Deborah F. Rutter was fired from her post.

Since Trump’s installment of himself as chairman, a number of prominent resignations were announced. The first was singer-songwriter Ben Folds who resigned as artistic advisor of the center’s National Symphony Orchestra. Shortly after, Shonda Rhimes resigned from her post as an officer on the board, where she served as treasurer. Rhimes was appointed to the position by President Barack Obama.

Issa Rae also announced today that she was cancelling her upcoming spotlight event at the Kennedy Center citing recent events as placing “an infringement on” its artistic values.

“Unfortunately, due to what I believe to be an infringement on the values of an institution that has faithfully celebrated artists of all backgrounds through all mediums, I’ve decided to cancel my appearance at this venue,” Rae wrote on her Instagram stories.

The post Actors Equity Condemns Trump-Run Kennedy Center for Canceling Children’s Musical ‘Finn’: ‘Beyond Appalling’ appeared first on TheWrap.

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[Update]:

Cancellations, resignations follow Trump's move to reshape the Kennedy Center

With President Trump in charge, the Kennedy Center is facing a crisis as artists like Issa Rae and Low Cut Connie, along with key board members, are walking away.

David Artavia

Reporter

Fri, February 14, 2025

Following through on a pledge made earlier this month, President Trump ousted 18 members of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ board, replacing them with a Trump-aligned majority that on Wednesday appointed him chairman “effective immediately.”

The fallout from the changes has been swift, with prominent artists opting to cancel performances and some board members resigning in protest.

Philadelphia-based rock and soul band Low Cut Connie announced Thursday it was canceling a scheduled March 19 performance.

“I was very excited to perform as part of this wonderful institution’s Social Impact series, which emphasizes community, joy, justice and equity through the arts,” band founder Adam Weiner wrote on Instagram. “Upon learning that this institution that has run non-partisan for 54 years is now chaired by President Trump himself and his regime, I decided I will not perform there.”

Similarly, Issa Rae canceled her sold-out show, An Evening With Issa Rae, at the venue after hearing about Trump’s new role.

“Unfortunately, due to what I believe to be an infringement on the values of an institution that has faithfully celebrated artists of all backgrounds through all mediums, I’ve decided to cancel my appearance at this venue,” she wrote on Instagram.

Musician Ben Folds, a longtime artistic adviser to the National Symphony Orchestra, resigned his post immediately following Trump’s installation as chairman. He was soon joined by Renée Fleming, the world-renowned soprano who had served as an artistic adviser at large at the center.

“I’ve treasured the bipartisan support for this institution as a beacon of America at our best,” Fleming said in a statement. “I hope the Kennedy Center continues to flourish and serve the passionate and diverse audience in our nation’s capital and across the country.”

Shonda Rhimes, the producer behind the television hits Grey’s Anatomy and Bridgerton, had served as treasurer of the Kennedy Center’s board after being appointed by President Barack Obama. She resigned within hours of Trump’s takeover.

How Trump took over the Kennedy Center

In early February, Trump announced on Truth Social his plan to “immediately terminate” board members appointed by President Joe Biden, saying they “do not share” his vision. He then replaced them with a roster of White House officials, administration insiders and wealthy donors. On Wednesday, the new board appointed him chairman.

“It is a Great Honor to be Chairman of The Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing Board of Trustees,” Trump responded in a statement. “We will make The Kennedy Center a very special and exciting place!”

Trump’s new Kennedy Center board members include [his immediate entourage of sycophants]:

• Usha Vance, second lady of the United States

• Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff

• Cheri Summerall, Wiles’s mother

• Dan Scavino, White House deputy chief of staff for national security

• Sergio Gor, White House director of presidential personnel

• Allison Lutnick, wife of commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick

• Pamela Gross, former White House adviser to the first lady

• Patricia Duggan, major Trump donor

• Emily May Fanjul, wife of sugar magnate and Trump donor Pepe Fanjul

• Dana Blumberg, wife of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft

• Mindy Levine, wife of New York Yankees president Randy Levine

Perhaps the most dramatic move was Trump’s appointment of Richard Grenell, his former ambassador to Germany and former acting director of national intelligence, as interim president of the Kennedy Center — ousting long-serving Kennedy Center president Deborah Rutter months before her planned departure.

The Kennedy Center board has historically been evenly divided between Republican and Democratic appointees, according to the New York Times. Board members typically serve six-year terms, and it is unusual for an incoming president to dismiss appointees en masse.

Trump’s allies are likely to reshape the Kennedy Center’s programming to align with the president’s values, steering away from what he views as “woke culture,” sources told CBS News. Already, the Kennedy Center has removed an LGBTQ Pride concert scheduled for May from its website.