Donald Dumb's Accusing Opponents of Treason and Sedition is a Confession

Judge for yourselves if whatever crimes Donald Dumb has committed fit the below definitions. He constantly accuses anyone who bothers him of TREASON and SEDITION, which means HE KNOWS HE IS THE TRAITOR and the SEDITIOUS, because Roy Cohn taught him to turn rightful accusations against him against his accusers.

TREASON:

Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution says "treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." It adds that "no person shall be convicted of treason" unless two witnesses testify to "the same overt act" or the defendant confesses "in open court."

That stringent definition of treason was a response to historical abuses, which extended the concept to include thought crimes, offensive remarks, religious dissent, and other nonviolent conduct that did not entail armed rebellion or siding with the nation's wartime enemies. The statutory definition of treason tracks the language of the Constitution.

Donald Dumb is the traitor. He gave aid and comfort to the Russian enemy by praising Putin, withholding aid to Ukraine, and encouraging him in attacking Ukraine. Donald Dumb has repeatedly accused his Democrat opponents of treason, particularly last November, when six members of Congress posted a video reminding U.S. military personnel of their duty to "refuse illegal orders." That well-established principle, clearly stated in the Defense Department's Law of War Manual, is legally uncontroversial. Yet, the jackass wrote in one of his posts, "It's called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL ... Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.... [because they] had engaged in "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR which is punishable by DEATH!"

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SEDITION:

Federal law defines "seditious conspiracy" as a plot to "overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof." 

The January 6, 2021 events during which Donald Dumb levied a mob against Congress with the stated objectives of executing all the underlined items above. 

Reparations to Palestine by Europe Should Match Numbers of Exterminated Jews during WWII

According to [https://247wallst.com/special-report/2023/08/25/countries-with-the-highest-percentage-of-jewish-deaths-from-the-holocaust/], below is a list of European countries that murdered the highest percentage of their own Jewish citizens during WWII who, in turn, fled to Palestine where they have been murdering Palestinian citizens and stealing Palestinian lands. THE PRESENT TRAGEDY OF PALESTINE HAS, THEREFORE, BEEN PERPETRATED BY PROXY BY THE EUROPEAN JEWISH CITIZENS WHO FLED THEIR OWN EXTERMINATORS IN EUROPE.  

Because the creation of Israel in 1948 at the expense of the sovereignty and security of the State of Palestine came as a result of the Holocaust, and since these murderous antisemitic European countries have spent most of the past 70 years “atoning” for their crimes against their own Jewish citizens and paying compensations to present-day Israelis, they have a direct responsibility in the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people by the European Jewish Holocaust survivors. Europe murdered its Jewish population and dumped the survivors in Palestine.

Palestine must officially demand compensations from the EU for its historic role as the bedrock of antisemitism leading to the Holocaust and to the subsequent rape and attempted elimination of the State of Palestine. If Jews are eligible for compensations from their European butchers, shouldn’t Palestinians be eligible for compensations from those same European butchers who dumped their remaining unwanted Jews on Palestine?

Compensations don’t have to be monetary. They could potentially include re-settlement in Europe for those Palestinians that Israel is displacing as it steals more land from the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza. Israelis are proceeding in their ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people; but who is ultimately responsible for the tragedy of Palestine? If it is not the Israelis who claim they created Israel as a refuge for the European Holocaust survivors, then shouldn’t the responsibility fall on those European countries that perpetrated the Holocaust, murdered 6 million European Jews, and evicted the remaining survivors to Palestine where these former victims of European barbarity themselves became the butchers and rapists of Palestine?

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 6.6 million Jews perished in the Holocaust – some 63% of the 10.4 million in Europe at the time. Germany and 22 other colluding European Nazi nations implemented their “Final Solution” to the Jewish question – the complete extermination of the Jewish population.  Under international law, the responsibility of each criminal European state that participated in the Holocaust should be proportionally reflected in the amount of compensation paid to their victims. By extension, the compensations owed the Palestinians for losing their country to the fleeing Jewish survivors should be proportionally required of both Israel and the former Jewish-killing European countries, now Israel’s guilt-ridden allies.  Despite being victims of European fascism and antisemitism, the Israelis have now themselves become fascists butchers in their own mass-murder of the Palestinian people.

According to the report cited above, the information gathered is for the period 1937-1941 and is based on estimates and does not take into account the unknown number of Holocaust victims whose bodies were never recovered or for whom there were no records. Hence, the prejudicial stealing and rape of Palestine by those Jewish survivors of the Holocaust remains an underestimate as well.

In nine of the countries on the published list, the percentage of Jewish deaths exceeded 68%. Six of these nations were in Eastern and Central Europe, where antisemitism was prevalent long before WWII and where Jewish pogroms were ongoing from the Middle Ages up to at least the middle of the 19^th century. In fact, a majority of Ashkenazi Jews who became fascist Zionist settlers and ethnic cleansers of Palestine came from Eastern and Central Europe.

The list is in ascending order, beginning with the “least” murderous antisemitic European country whose hands are soaked in Jewish blood.

19. Denmark
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 0.69%-1.55% (52-116)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 7,500
> Total pre-war population: 3.8 million

Denmark put up little resistance to the invading German forces in 1940. The Danish government was a strong ally of Nazi Germany that planned to deport and exterminate the country’s 7,500 Jews. Their usual practice in other countries was to raid Jewish homes around the Jewish holidays.

18. Italy
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 13.5% (7,858)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 58,412
> Total pre-war population: 43.4 million

Benito Mussolini’s fascists took over Italy a decade before the Nazis seized power in Germany. Italian antisemitism was rooted in ancient Catholic Church’s anti-Jewish hatred. Mussolini imposed racial laws in 1938, and by 1943 his fascists began confiscating Jewish property and deporting Jews to the death camps.

17. Estonia
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 21.4% (963)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 4,500
> Total pre-war population: 1.1 million

Soviet Estonia deported about 10% of its Jewish population to Siberia just before the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Many of those who remained fled Estonia after the German invasion. The Estonian Nazis – through their Home Guard and Auxiliary Police – executed nearly all the Jews in the country. The Germans were so satisfied with Estonia’s efficient persecution of Jews that the Nazis declared Estonia to be Judenfrei – free of Jews.

16. France
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 24.3%-22.4% (72,900-74,000)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 300,000-330,000
> Total pre-war population: 42 million

Despite granting in 1791 its Jews equal rights under the law, antisemitism was rampant in Catholic France, as exhibited by the way the Dreyfus affair was conducted in the early 20^th century. French antisemitism flourished when France was overrun by the German army in 1940. From that point forward, the Nazi Vichy government targeted Jewish refugees for arrest, murder, deportation and property confiscations.

15. Belgium
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 27.10% (24,387)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 90,000
> Total pre-war population: 8.4 million

Same as France. Belgium officially recognized Judaism as a religion while popular sentiment was definitely antisemitic. With the German occupation in May 1940 that undercurrent antisemitism became official policy.  

The Belgian Nazis started deporting their Jews to internment camps in southern France then to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp.

14. Romania
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 28%-34.4% (211,214–260,000)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 756,930
> Total pre-war population: 15.6 million

Fascist leader General Ion Antonescu took power in 1940 and Romania officially became a Nazi bastion. Antonescu began implementing the antisemitic laws passed by prior Romanian governments. His regime seized Jewish businesses, restricted travel, excluded Jews from professions, and banned them from owning property. The Romanian Nazi army and police forces tracked down and murdered thousands of Jews and in July 1941, Romania opened its first concentration camp.

13. Luxembourg
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 34.3% (1,200)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 3,500-5,000
> Total pre-war population: 300,000

The Jewish population in tiny Luxembourg numbered 5,000 at the most, some of them refugees from other countries. Germany occupied Luxembourg in May 1940 and between August of that year and October 1941 more than 2,500 Jews fled while the remaining Jews were deported to concentration camps in Lodz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Theresienstadt between October 1941 and April 1943.

12. Austria
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 35.4% (65,459)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 185,026
> Total pre-war population: 6.8 million

In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria in the so-called Anschluss. In November, pogroms began in Vienna on the same day that Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass” took place in Germany. Austrian mobs destroyed synagogues and vandalized Jewish businesses, and thousands of Jews were arrested and deported to concentration camps. Between 1938 and 1940, 117,000 Jews fled the country. Then mass deportations from Vienna became systematic as of October 1941. About 35,000 Jews were deported from Vienna to ghettos in Eastern Europe, and many were executed by the Einsatzgruppen, or death squads, shortly after their arrival.

11. Norway
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 42.2% (758)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 1,800
> Total pre-war population: 2.9 million

Norway was invaded by Germany in April 1940. Restrictions on Jews existed but were not strictly enforced until Germany invaded the Soviet Union, when arrests and assassinations of Jews became commonplace. At the hands of Norwegian police and paramilitary Nazi groups. Norwegian Jews were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.

10. Soviet Union
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 44.3% (1,340,000)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 3,028,538
> Total pre-war population: 167 million

The German invasion of the Soviet Union began on June 22, 1941. In the Nazi ideology’s western version, the southern and eastern Slavs were deemed an inferior people. The Soviet Union was home to more than three million Jews before the war who were a central target of the Germans in their invasion plans of Russia.

The Germans and their local Nazi death squads known as the Einsatzgruppen conducted mass shootings of Jews, communists, and others deemed undesirable. The systematic slaughter of Jews during the invasion of the Soviet Union was the first stage in Germany’s “Final Solution” for eliminating all the Jews in Europe. Almost half of the more than 3 million Jews in the Soviet Union would perish.

9. Hungary
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 68.5% (564,507)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 825,007
> Total pre-war population: 9.2 million

Hungary was a devout Nazi state and ally of Germany. In 1941, the Hungarian government deported about 20,000 Jews to Ukraine where they were murdered by Ukrainian Nazi death squads. In March of 1944, Adolf Eichmann, SS officer and one of the chief organizers of the Holocaust, was sent to Hungary to carry out the extermination of the country’s Jewish population of over 800,000 people. Together with the Hungarian Nazis, Eichmann set up more than 200 camps and ghettos. More than 437,000 Hungarian Jews were deported in 56 days between May and July 1944, mostly to Auschwitz. Three quarters of them were killed on arrival.

8. Germany
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 69.5% (165,200)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 237,723
> Total pre-war population: 68.6 million

In January 1933, there were 523,000 Jews living in Germany, half of them in the 10 biggest German cities. By 1939, after restrictive laws, pogroms, destruction of synagogues and Jewish businesses, deportations of thousands of Jews to concentration camps, the Jewish population in Germany fell to less than 238,000. In 1942, top German officials met in Berlin to discuss how the so-called “Final Solution” would address “the Jewish question” through the establishment of a network of concentration camps in Germany and other countries including Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald, and Ravensbrück. Almost 70% of Germany’s Jews died in the Holocaust.

7. Netherlands
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 72.8% (102,000)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 140,245
> Total pre-war population: 8.7 million

Netherlands was seized by the Germans in May 1940. They banned Jews from civil service and required them to register their business assets. The systematic deportation of the Jews began in the summer of 1942 and continued until September 1944. Most of the 107,000 who were deported were sent to Auschwitz and Sobibor, where they were murdered. Nearly 73% of the Jews in the Netherlands were killed.

6. Czechoslovakia
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 73.5% (260,000)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 354,000
> Total pre-war population: 10.5 million

Parts of Czechoslovakia were taken over by Germany before the start of WWII, and other sections of the Central European nation were annexed by Hungary and Poland. After the German takeover, Jews became subject to the discriminatory laws that mirrored those in Germany. In November 1941, SS officer Reinhard Heydrich ordered the creation of the Theresienstadt Ghetto north of Prague to serve as a transit camp. About 88,000 people were deported from there to Auschwitz, and another 33,000 died from the unsanitary conditions and starvation in Theresienstadt. Nearly three-quarters of Czechoslovakia’s Jews died in the Holocaust.

5. Latvia
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 74.9% (70,000)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 93,479
> Total pre-war population: 1.9 million

 In 1935, about 94,000 Jews lived in Latvia – about 5% of the total population – roughly half of them in the capital city of Riga, and they were well integrated into Latvian society. After the Germans invaded in 1941, Einsatzgruppen death squads began murdering Latvian Jews with the aid of Latvian and Lithuanian Nazi auxiliaries. Thousands of German and Austrian Jews were interned in the Riga ghetto in 1941 and were exterminated there. In 1944 the Red Army returned to Latvia and expelled the Nazis.  In 2021, Latvia’s parliament voted to pay $46 million to the country’s Jewish community for property stolen from it during the Holocaust.

4. Yugoslavia
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 81.8% (67,228)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 82,242
> Total pre-war population: 16.1 million

After Yugoslavia was invaded by Germany in 1941, the Nazis partitioned it into Serbia and parts of Slovenia; Italy annexed southern and eastern Slovenia; Croatia became a separate fascist state backed by Germany and Italy; and other areas of Yugoslavia were occupied by Bulgaria and Hungary.

Jews in all parts suffered. German military and police authorities in Serbia interned most Jews in detention camps during the summer of 1941, and in one episode, the German military shot virtually all male Serbian Jews, about 8,000 of them. Between March and May 1942, they killed around 6,280 people, virtually all Jews and mostly women and children. By the summer of 1942, the only Jews remaining in Serbia were in hiding. The brutality in fascist Croatia was just as terrible. By the end of 1941, Croat authorities had incarcerated about two-thirds of the roughly 32,000 Jews of Croatia in camps throughout the country. The fascist Ustashe regime murdered between 12,000 and 20,000 Jews in the camps 60 miles outside of the Croatian capital of Zagreb.

3. Greece
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 82.2%-90.1% (58,800-65,000)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 71,611
> Total pre-war population: 7.1 million

Jews have been in Greece since at least 1492 when they were expelled from Spain and came to the city of Thessaloniki. The community, 72,000 strong, was almost wiped out after the Germans invaded Greece in 1941.  Under German occupation, Thessaloniki was home to 43,000 Jews, of whom 40,000 died at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

2. Poland
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 82.7%-89.6% (2,770,000-3,000,000)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 3,350,000
> Total pre-war population: 35.1 million

As many as three million of Polish Jews died during the Holocaust, far more than those of any other nation. About 10% of Poland’s pre-war population was Jewish, one of the highest in Europe. It became home to the most notorious concentration camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. The systematic slaughter of Jews in the country did not start until June 1941. It was in German-occupied Poland that the Nazis first began killing Jews in gas vans. More Jews were murdered in Poland, where they had lived for 1,000 years, than anywhere else. Just 10% of Poland’s Jewish population survived.

1. Lithuania
> Share of Jewish population who died in the Holocaust: 85.0% (130,000)
> Pre-war Jewish population: 153,000
> Total pre-war population: 2.4 million

Lithuania did not have the largest Jewish population in Europe – before World War II, Jews made up only about 7% of the country’s total – but relative to the country’s small size, more Jewish people were killed in this Baltic nation than anywhere else during the Holocaust.  After Germany invaded the Soviet Union and the Baltic states, detachments of Lithuanian death squads backed by German Nazis began murdering the Jews of Lithuania. By the end of August 1941, most Jews in rural Lithuania had been slain. Three months later, most of the Jews herded into ghettos in larger cities were massacred. Some Lithuanian Jews were also deported to labor camps in Latvia and Estonia. Others were sent to killing centers in German-occupied Poland. Even as German forces were reeling from Soviet offensives on the Eastern Front, they deported Lithuanian Jews to concentration camps in Germany. By the time the Soviet Union had expelled the Nazis from Lithuania in 1944, at least 85% of Lithuanian Jews had been killed.

In conclusion, reparations to the Palestinians for losing their country and millions of their fellow citizens should be commensurate with the proportion of Europe’s total Jewish population that was murdered in each European country. There is a mathematical logic to this, since the more Jews a European country murdered, the more responsible it is for the extermination and displacement of Palestinians by that country's surviving European Jews who fled to Palestine. Bottom of Form

The Zionist Colony in Palestine Officially on List of Sexual Predator States

They've successfully hidden their despicable past of perpetrators of terrorism, violence, ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestine over the past century. But no more. Zionists and their colony in Palestine have now been officially inducted into an international Sexual Violence Blacklist. 

Israel is now like the filthy dictatorship surfing on crimes Putin's Russia. Better yet, Israel - a pretend-state - is now on a par with its own enemy, the non-state terrorist Hamas organization whose sexual violence on October 7 has been amply promoted while that of Israel has been desperately hidden. 

Do not fall for Zionist propaganda that says one cannot equate a state like Israel with an organization like Hamas. But the prejudice to justice is ten-thousand-fold more grave when it is carried out by a state that continues to claim its lawfulness. Indeed, with its state sponsorship of terrorism, brutality and violence against the indigenous people of Palestine, Israel has not changed: It only has exposed its true, long occulted nature: A predator, a genocider, an ethnic cleanser, a land thief and a rapist whose sole raison d'être is to kill Palestine and eliminate it from existence despite its millennial history. The continued existence and resistance of indigenous Palestine against its invading Zionist settler rapists negate the very existence of the foreign implant and colonial artificial state of Israel. 

Congratulations to the Chosen Ones and the Blight Unto Nations. They keep accumulating awards for criminality against humanity.
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UN places Israel and Russia on sexual violence blacklist
By David Brunnstrom and Olivia Le Poidevin
Fri, May 29, 2026 


Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Danny Danon addresses members of the United Nations Security Council on resolutions on the situation in Iran and the Middle East at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., March 11, 2026. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton.

May 29 (Reuters) - The United Nations on Friday added Israel and Russia to a U.N. blacklist of countries suspected of committing sexual violence in conflict zones, a move that prompted Israel's foreign ministry to say it would sever all ties with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Guterres' annual report to the U.N. Security Council on ‌conflict-related sexual violence goes a step further than last year, when he put Israel and Russia "on notice" that they could be added to the list of parties "credibly suspected of committing or being ‌responsible for patterns of rape or other forms of sexual violence."

The latest report does that and contains harrowing descriptions of abuses at the hands of Israeli and Russian armed and security forces.

Israel's arch enemy Hamas, whose October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel triggered ​the war in Gaza, was already on the blacklist and in a post on X on Thursday, Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon said ranking Israel with the militant group marked a "new low".

"This is a political decision! Disconnected from the facts and reality!" Danon said in another post by the Israeli mission to the U.N. which said he was informed about it during a phone call with Guterres.

Russia's U.N. mission did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report, which Ukraine's foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, welcomed in a post on X.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, posted on X that it was "ridiculous for the UN to put a democracy ‌like Israel — with robust rule of law that conducts investigations and holds criminals ⁠accountable — on the same level as terrorist organizations like Hamas." [Yet, has never Israel published any report of its fake investigations into its own crimes, nor has it ever condemned a single soldier or security member for their crimes of murder, abuse, torture and rape of Palestinians]

REPUTATIONAL DAMAGE

Being added to the list does not automatically carry specific punitive measures such as sanctions, although public naming and shaming can cause significant reputational damage for the states involved, and those repeatedly listed are barred from U.N. peacekeeping operations.

Danon said Israel had responded in detail to ⁠each allegation and had invited U.N. representatives to visit and examine the situation, but that they had chosen not to do so.

"Given that Antonio Guterres has chosen to violate every standard of honesty, integrity and professionalism, Israel has decided to sever all ties with the Secretary-General’s Office and will wait until a new U.N. Secretary-General is appointed,” Israel's Foreign Ministry posted on X.

A new U.N. secretary-general is due to be appointed later this year.

The report's compiler, Pramila Patten, Guterres' special ​representative ​on sexual violence in conflict, confirmed at a news briefing that there had been an invitation from Israel, but referred ​also to disagreements about the scope of the visit and related issues of access ‌and cooperation, and said it ultimately had to be suspended due to the war in Gaza.

'VERY DISTURBING TREND'

She said cases of conflict-related sexual violence verified by the United Nations globally rose by more than 100% in 2025 over 2024 and called it a very disturbing trend that was still only the "very tip of the iceberg."

Asked about Danon's comments at a regular briefing on Thursday, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said: "From the Secretary-General's point of view, his door remains open to Israeli representatives, as to the other 192 member states and the two observer states."

This year's report said that in 2025, "the United Nations verified multiple incidents of conflict-related sexual violence, including as a form of torture, inflicted against 14 men, seven women, nine boys and one girl from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank."

It said 13 of the cases occurred in 2025, and 18 in 2023 ‌and 2024.

"Violations consisted of rape, including with objects, gang rape, attempted rape, physical violence to the genitals, instances of targeted ​shooting of the genitals, touching of breasts and genitals, strip and cavity searches conducted without apparent security justification, forced nudity and ​threats of rape," it said.

'RAPE AND GANG RAPES'

"Rape and gang rape, in some cases repeated, were ​perpetrated against nine victims, the majority from Gaza," it said, adding that perpetrators included Israeli armed and security forces and occurred primarily during detention and interrogation and across several ‌sites, including military camps and also at checkpoints and during Israeli military operations ​in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

It said survivors included journalists and ​human rights defenders and that in some cases, the violations were filmed or photographed, including one case of rape.

The report added that sexual violence against female detainees included mostly threats of rape, forced nudity, unwanted touching, and humiliating or degrading strip searches without justification, while men and boys were targeted with rape, attempted rape and violence to the genitals.

This resulted in five male victims suffering ​severe rectal bleeding or swelling for multiple days or weeks, it said.

The report ‌said the U.N. human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine had verified 310 cases of conflict-related sexual violence perpetrated by Russian armed and security forces.

It said the cases, including rape, gang ​rape, genital mutilation, electric shocks and beatings to the genitals, affected 280 men, 26 women and four girls.

(Reporting by David Brunnstrom and Olivia Le Poidevin; Additional reporting by Rami Ayyub ​in Jerusalem and Yuliia Dysa in Kyiv; Editing by Ros Russell, Don Durfee, Daniel Wallis and Nick Zieminski)

Texas: Vote Talarico, not the Adulterer Corrupt Fake Christian, Sleepy-eye Paxton

Talarico is young, energetic, free-minded and, unlike the barbarian racist GOP-MAGA Paxton, he quotes the bible without bigotry.

Haven't you yet tired of Trump's hypocrites and bigots who break the very "biblical laws" (i.e. Christian Sharia laws) they are trying to force down the throats of Texans and Americans? Paxton is a serial adulterer and corrupt. If we were to implement his "biblical laws", he should be publicly stoned to death for betraying his own wife, then coveting and fornicating with a married woman.

Rid yourselves of these super-rich elitist crooks and liars who allow themselves what they prohibit others, who claim they are defending the average American when all they are doing is preserve their own positions of power which they use to break the law and conduct their illegal lucrative business. How can you not see that Trump and his cronies continue to lie to you just so you vote for them, then turn around and do whatever suits their own interests, not yours?

In the midterms, vote for Talarico. Dump Paxton.
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Talarico leads Paxton in first Texas Senate poll after GOP runoff
Mateo Rosiles, USA TODAY NETWORK
Fri, May 29, 2026

Just days after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated Sen. John Cornyn in the Texas Senate Republican runoff, a new poll finds that he is trailing the Democratic challenger, but only narrowly.

A new poll by the Texas Public Opinion Research showed that Democratic candidate state Rep. James Talarico is pulling ahead as Paxton and he vie to become the next senator from Texas in November.

Talarico is trying to become the first Democrat to hold the seat since Sen. Bob Krueger in 1993. Paxton is trying to maintain Republican control of the seat

The poll comes as both campaigns work to consolidate their parties for the November general election.

Talarico leads Paxton within the poll's margin of error

The poll was conducted from May 27 to May 28, polling 1,670 likely general election voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.

It found Talarico leads Paxton 47% to 44% in the U.S. Senate general election, aided by 72% of moderates and 64% of independents.

Another key finding was that Paxton did not gain prospective voters who voted for Cornyn in the runoff.

Nearly a third — 30% — said they would vote for Talarico, while 44% would vote for Paxton. The remaining 23% are either undecided or say that they will not vote.

Among the GOP runoff voters who plan to support Talarico, 51% cite Paxton's criminality or corruption as their primary reason.

For context, Paxton was indicted on three felony counts of securities fraud in 2015. The case was dismissed in March 2024. Paxton was also impeached by the Texas House in 2023 but was acquitted by the Texas Senate later that year.

HOUSTON, TEXAS - MAY 27: Democratic Senate Candidate James Talarico waves to people during a meet-and-greet after a rally at Rich's Houston on May 27, 2026 in Houston, Texas. Talarico held the rally after the primary runoff and to explain his plan on how he will take on Republican nominee Ken Paxton.

Only 10% gave a positive reason for supporting Talarico, with another 10% describing themselves as reluctant voters — supporting Talarico because they see no acceptable alternative. An additional 7% cite Paxton’s alignment with Donald Trump and 5% express broader disillusionment with the Republican Party.

Talarico holds higher favorability than Paxton or Trump

According to the poll, 38% of Texans view Paxton favorably. As the poll noted, he is the second most unpopular major political figure tested after John Cornyn.

When it comes to Trump, 48% of Texans approve of the president.

Talarico, by comparison, is viewed favorably by 47% of Texans.

Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at an election night watch party held by the Lone Star Liberty PAC at the Dallas/Plano Marriott at Legacy Town Center on May 26, 2026 in Plano, Texas.

Affordability ranks as the top issue for Texas voters

The poll found that Texans rank affordability and the cost of living as their top concern, with 23% of voters citing it as their priority — more than double any other issue.

That is followed by democracy and voting rights at 11%, immigration at 10%, health care and access at 9%, and economic growth and job creation at 7%.

Mateo Rosiles is the Texas Connect reporter for USA TODAY and its regional papers in Texas. Got a news tip for him? Email him at mrosiles@usatodayco.com.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Talarico leads Paxton in Texas Senate poll after Republican runoff

When a Drunkard Womanizing Jesus-Saved Pete Hegseth Meets with Communists...

...while persecuting the not-even Socialist Democrats in the US.



American Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Vietnam’s Communist president and defense minister on Friday in Singapore and praised them as a "stabilizing force in the region". What region, I wonder? For decades, American Republican administrations used the phrase of "stabilizing force" to refer to the Stalinist Assad dynasty dictatorship's occupation of Lebanon and praised the Syrian dictator as a "man of his words", while placing his Syria on top of the State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism!

Trump Caved: His Non-Nuclear Iran Demand Down from No.1 to Last on List

Because the American Imbecile-in-Chief had no idea what quagmire he was falling into by listening to his Zionist Whisperer Ben-Yamin Netanyahu, he is now stuck: If he backs down, he will lose both against Iran and the many (Zionist, MAGA, GOP) votes in the US, and if he continues his headless warmongering to please the Zionists, he will lose his Gulf Arab allies and continue exhausting his struggling American people. When a senile demented old geezer is stuck, he lashes out uncontrollably: He is already parting ways with the Zionists, and he is threatening his Arab allies to force them into signing his Abraham accords under the duress of war. He needs something, anything, to pretend this war was of any use.

He continues to spew the lie that the midterms are NOT affecting his retreating policies on Iran, but we all know that such denials coming out of a brainless bovine idiot are exactly the opposite of what is going on. If he and his GOP-MAGA minions lose the midterm elections in November, he becomes a sitting duck president, liable to be prosecuted by a Democrat-dominated Congress thirsty for revenge for all the illegal, corrupt and unethical crimes the Imbecile-in-Chief has committed so far. Just like Ben-Yamin Netanyahu who also faces courts of justice once he stops his warmongering.

Of particular interest in this charade of a war is the case of Lebanon. All previous Republican administrations have sold Lebanon when it came to pleasing other wealthier, more powerful stakeholders: Syria, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt, etc. You'd think that these self-declared "Christian" presidents (Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr., Bush Jr) would have at least tried to rescue the Christians of Lebanon, one of the most beleaguered community in the mosaic of the region, out of the clutches of the Syrian Stalinist dictatorship of the Assad dynasty. But no, instead they handed Lebanon to a Syrian occupation of 30 long years out of love for Saudi oil. Or out of the claws of a foreign Zionist implant south of the border whose survival can only be ensured with warmongering and territorial expansion, but no, the US allows Israel to rampage, kill and destroy because peace is anathema to a colonial Jewish supremacist ultra-religious barbarian regime.

At this time, Iran pretends to want to include Lebanon as part of its impending deal with Donald Dumb. One of Iran's cards in the region if the ultra-religious Islamist terrorist organization of Hezbollah who is genotypically Iranian while pretending to be phenotypically Lebanese. If Donald Dumb agrees to a ceasefire in Lebanon, he would give Hezbollah a "victory" of having survived Israel's attempts at eliminating it, though Israel would have occupied - and presumably annex - much of the Lebanese south. If Donald Dumb refuses and allows Israel to continue its destruction of the Lebanese south, he would have shafted the Lebanese Christians who, unlike 1975, refuse to take up arms and fight another war (in 1975 against the Palestinians, and now against Hezbollah) relying instead of the supposed "goodwill" of the US, Europe, and the international community.

Many in the Lebanese Christian community, both at home and in the diaspora, love Donald Dumb because he is "ballsy", i.e. reckless, braggard mindless brawler with gonads not brains. They've done it before. They love strong men, criminals, warlords... like Michel Aoun or Samir Geagea or the feudal Gemayel and Frangiyeh clans. And every time, they lose, both with the strongman they choose to follow and the Americans who impale them on the altar of geopolitical interests.

The Lebanese Christians have literally nothing to offer to potential friendly countries - no oil, no minerals, no trade advantages, no technology or industry - only corruption, incompetence, and an abject and archaic ultra-religiosity (saints roll out of the Maronite Church like Henry's Ford Model T car out of the assembly chain that is irking even the Vatican) along with falafel, tabbouli and Kibbi, and a few ancient ruins they can barely preserve. It is understandable that they'd be the cheapest commodity to trade in the region, but they do exist, they are free-minded and terrified at being swamped by the crushing advances of fanatic Islam and Judaism around them. Regardless of their ineptitude, they deserve the right to be left alone in neutrality and not be dragged by the Arabs and Israel into futile wars as has been the case for some six decades.

My bet is that Donald Dumb, like all his predecessors, will sell Lebanon in order to strike a deal with Iran. Lebanon is likely to come out of this umpteenth round of warmongering amputated of its south and dominated by either Hezbollah's residual influence (maintained as part of the Iran deal) or Syria's new and improved Al-Qaida/ISIS regime of Al-Sharaa whose task would be to crush Hezbollah in a sinister alliance with Israel, just like its Baath Assad predecessor regime crushed the Palestinian PLO of Yasser Arafat. Both Hezbollah and Al-Sharaa's Al-Qaeda would be highly inimical and dangerous to the Lebanese Christians.

To the so-called Lebanese Lobby in Washington DC, a heterogenous hodge-podge of miserable wannabes mined with internal infighting and whose "lobbying" over the decades has failed over and over again at improving the lot of the old country and its Christians, is again sticking its head up the rectum of another criminal imbecile, Donald Dumb who, they think, likes them because they are "Christian". They haven't learned anything from their failures and continue to wager on the pity of being a minority. Taken all together, the US will always prefer Israel's Jews to Lebanon's Christians as its favorite pet: The Israelis at least have something to offer and a lot of leverage in American domestic politics. Back in the 19th century, it was the Christians of Lebanon who served the West as the pretext of a minority to protect. Now it is Israel's Jews who define the "Question d'Orient", not to forget the up-and-coming Arab Muslims of the Gulf who, while not Christians, have a lot of oil and cultural ass-kissing to give the Americans.

Mark my words, Lebanon will - again - be the ultimate biggest loser in America's warmongering in the Middle East, this time it is the turn of Donald Dumb's Iran war. Reuters reports that eleven children are killed and injured every 24 hours in Lebanon, according to the UN, as Israel has expanded strikes across the country despite ​a ceasefire.

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5 things to know about tentative US-Iran ceasefire deal
Sophie Brams
Thu, May 28, 2026 



A tentative agreement has been reached between the U.S. and Iran to extend a fragile ceasefire in the three-month conflict by 60 days, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and establish a framework for broader talks on Tehran’s nuclear program, according to U.S. sources.

Negotiators have been working to finalize the terms of the memorandum of understanding (MOU), which is awaiting President Trump’s sign-off, as tensions continue to flare in the Persian Gulf. Iranian state media says the deal is not yet finalized on its end either.

Tensions in the Persian Gulf escalated this week after the U.S. launched what it called “defensive strikes” in southern Iran; Tehran, in turn, targeted Kuwait with ballistic missiles.

If approved, the agreement would mark the biggest breakthrough on a permanent deal to end hostilities since the war began in late February. However, it falls well short of Trump’s stated goals in the war.

Here are five things to know about the emerging deal:

Strait of Hormuz reopens

The memorandum would reopen the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping traffic, according to U.S. sources, a step that would help ease the economic pressure on both sides.

The strait emerged as a flashpoint early in the war, with the U.S. and Iran locked in a struggle for control of the strategic waterway through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply flows daily.

The channel was fully open to commercial shipping traffic before the start of the war, but Iran closed it off as one of its first retaliatory acts, implementing a blockade that has roiled the global market for oil and related industries like fertilizer.

Axios reported that “unrestricted” transit would be restored under the deal, with Iran committing not to impose tolls on ships attempting to pass through. Tehran would also be required to remove all its mines from the strait within 30 days.

The U.S. would gradually lift its naval blockade in exchange for Iran loosening its grip on the strait. Sanctions waivers would also be issued, allowing Tehran to resume selling its oil.

“The strait’s got to be open to everybody; it’s international waters,” Trump told reporters during a Cabinet meeting Wednesday. “We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s going to control it. That’s part of the negotiation that we have.”
Oil prices falling

Oil prices dipped Thursday as reports of a tentative deal began to emerge.

Brent crude, the international benchmark, was trading at about $94 per barrel as of Thursday afternoon, down from about $96 per barrel earlier in the day. U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude was around $89 per barrel, down from about $91 per barrel.

Oil prices have spiked since the start of the U.S.-Iran war following the effective closure of the strait, which has strained global supply and pushed domestic gas prices to near record-highs.

Drivers were paying an average of $4.43 per gallon for gas nationwide as of Thursday afternoon, according to AAA, down about 12 cents from the previous week.

“Much of the decline came after renewed optimism surrounding a potential U.S.-Iran agreement pushed oil prices lower, easing geopolitical pressure on energy markets,” Patrick De Haan, the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, wrote in a Tuesday blog post.

“While uncertainty remains elevated, the market appeared more confident that immediate worst-case supply scenarios may be avoided,” De Haan added. “That said, volatility remains firmly entrenched, with oil prices still reacting sharply to every new headline tied to negotiations and regional developments.”

High gasoline prices have been a major source of political pressure on Trump and Republicans ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

A Quinnipiac University poll conducted last month found that more than half of registered voters blamed Trump “a lot” for rising gas prices, while 14 percent blamed him “some.”
Nuclear specifics TBD

The proposed memorandum leaves some open questions about the fate of Tehran’s nuclear program and stockpiles, which has long been a sticking point in the negotiations.

Senior Trump administration officials justified the war from the outset as primarily being about stopping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, arguing that the country posed an “imminent threat” to the U.S.

Iran has continually rejected demands to halt uranium enrichment, insisting that its program is intended for peaceful purposes, such as energy production.

Sources said the MOU would include a pledge from Tehran that it will not seek to develop a nuclear weapon, while opening a new round of talks to negotiate the matter further.

Addressing Iranian enrichment and how to dispose of its existing stockpile of highly enriched uranium would be the first issues discussed during the 60-day ceasefire extension window, according to Axios.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters in a Thursday briefing that there would be no sanctions relief until “Iranians agree that they have to turn over the highly enriched uranium.”

Trump in a Truth Social post said Monday the “nuclear dust” could either be turned over to the U.S. or destroyed “at another acceptable location.”

Both sides say deal not done

Though negotiators have agreed to terms of the 60-day deal, both sides are leaving some wiggle room, saying neither Trump nor Iranian leadership have officially signed off yet.

Trump said over the weekend that a “largely negotiated” proposal was on the table and an announcement should be coming soon. But Secretary of State Marco Rubio hinted at delays while speaking to reporters in India on Tuesday, saying it could be “a few more days” before the details are ironed out.

“I mean, when you get down on some of these things, you’ve got to hear back, and it takes the Iranians – takes them a little while longer to get back,” Rubio said at Palam Air Base in New Delhi.

The Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported Sunday that there were still a few unresolved issues in the possible memorandum, according to Iran International.

Tasnim quoted officials Thursday saying Iran would announce a deal through Pakistan, which has been mediating talks.

Reuters also reported this week that the release of billions in frozen Iranian funds had been a point of contention standing in the way of a final agreement.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has reportedly said that no major decision would be made without the approval of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since he was injured in a strike on the first day of the war.
Unclear if Congress will have say

The prospect of a deal has received mixed reactions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and it remains unclear whether Congress will ultimately get a say in what happens.

Some more hawkish Republicans have expressed skepticism about the terms of the memorandum, arguing that any deal that allows the current Iranian regime to remain intact and in power could undermine the U.S. military operation and embolden the country’s theocratic leaders.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Saturday that Trump’s decision to strike Iran in February was the “the most consequential” of his second term, raising concerns that the “extraordinary military results” it achieved could all be for naught.

Others, meanwhile, have urged their colleagues to be patient and allow the president time to work out the details.

“War virtually always ends with negotiations,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), an outspoken critic of the war, wrote on Sunday. “Critics of President Trump’s peace negotiations should give President Trump the space to find an American First solution.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has called for any peace deal to be brought before Congress for a vote, saying the process used to “test the Obama Iranian deal is a sound way forward.”

“Fair and challenging questions with a full opportunity to explain, and a healthy dose of sunlight is generally the right formula to understand any matter,” he wrote in early April.

Congressional involvement in approving the deal likely hinges on what exactly it stipulates.

The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 “prevents the president from waiving or suspending [existing statutory] sanctions before Congress has the chance to vote on an agreement, if one is reached, and allows Congress to permanently remove these authorities if it disapproves of the deal over a presidential veto,” according to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

It also requires the president to submit within five days a proposed nuclear agreement with Iran to Congress for review.

Trump in Disarray at Apparent Ignorance of Iranian Enemy

Opinion - Is Trump fleeing Armageddon?
Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet, opinion contributors
Thu, May 28, 2026 



President Trump is struggling to understand modern asymmetrical warfare. He keeps trying to define victory in Iran as the defeat of the country’s conventional navy, air force, and army, as if they were the only source of the regime’s power.

They are not, yet Trump keeps trying to prematurely declare victory on those terms. He did it again on Tuesday, with a word-for-word reposting of his May 18 rant on Truth Social slamming the media and his opponents for claiming Iran is winning its war against the U.S. and Israel.

Conventionally speaking, Iran is not winning. Nonetheless, Iran –– as it has for decades –– defines winning differently.

For 47 years, Iran has predicated its regional and global military defense by aggressively expanding its proxy armies, including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and other Shia militias across the Middle East. These are designed to push the front lines of any future war with Israel or the U.S. away from Iran itself.

However, their primary purpose was always to protect the development of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, including its production of intermediate-range ballistic missiles –– and its pursuit of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Now, under immense economic and political pressure at home, Trump is in danger of fleeing without resolving Iran’s nuclear Armageddon-in-the-making. Yes, he keeps denying that is the case, as when he said on Memorial Day that Iran “will never have a nuclear weapon.” But his negotiating tactics are beginning to suggest otherwise.

Initially, Trump said that all of his negotiating redlines stem from destroying Iran’s nuclear weapons program. That is what he claimed on March 15 aboard Air Force One, when he declared, “There were will be no nuclear weapons. That’s where it starts.”

Trump is now apparently willing to initially enter into a memorandum of understanding that starts with reopening the Strait of Hormuz, provides potential sanctions relief for Iran and leaves the nuclear issue unaddressed, save for some vague Iranian assurances that they will not pursue a nuke.

Iran, in that vein, has flipped Trump’s negotiating script. He appears to be in danger of falling for it. Up until Vice President JD Vance walked away from Islamabad on April 12, Washington had controlled the narrative. That is no longer the case. Iran, in the aftermath of Trump’s latest offer, is defining the narrative, at least within the media ecosphere.

Yesterday, Iranian state media claimed that the memorandum of understanding, before it takes effect, must be ratified into a binding agreement by the United Nations Security Council. Likewise, it stated that U.S. forces would have to pull back from Iran and that the regime, alongside Oman, would control maritime shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. The White House was forced to shoot this idea down, calling it a “complete fabrication.” But it is represents just one more example of how Iran is on offense and Team Trump is stuck on defense.

Nor, alarmingly, is Iran’s offense limited to media disinformation. Last week, Iran struck the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the United Arab Emirates. Tehran wasn’t just thumbing its nose at Trump — it was also messaging to Gulf allies of the U.S. that Trump cannot protect them as he chases an elusive peace deal.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is limiting itself to defensive military operations. On Tuesday, U.S. Central Command announced that it had destroyed four Iranian boats attempting to lay mines in the Strait of Hormuz. It also hit Iranian air defense systems in nearby Bandar Abbas that had threatened U.S. air assets.

Trump must recognize that he is being played by Iran. Its leaders are attempting to avoid further military action by asymmetrically creating new regional lines of defense.

Blockading the Strait of Hormuz was one way. Threatening its Gulf State neighbors, including irreplaceable water desalination plants, is another.

Demanding Israel stand down in Lebanon to protect Hezbollah –– the indispensable member of Iran’s Axis of Resistance –– is yet one more way that Iran is attempting to get Trump to abandon his efforts to end Tehran’s nuclear weapons program.

So too is Iran offering to down-blend its stockpiles of enriched uranium. The facilities needed to do that were likely destroyed by U.S. and Israeli strikes on Isfahan. If Trump agrees to this, Iran will simply run out the clock out until he leaves office.

Trump, if he is to truly defeat Iran and put a permanent end to its quest for nukes, must not prematurely exit the fight. Unless, and until, there is true regime change in Iran, that threat will never go away no matter what memorandum or peace deal Tehran may sign.

Plus, if Trump flees, he will create a strategic opening for China, which would effectively end or severely weaken U.S. hegemony in the Middle East. If that happens, Iran will become America’s greatest strategic defeat.

Mark Toth writes on national security and foreign policy. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Sweet served 30 years as a military intelligence officer and led the U.S. European Command Intelligence Engagement Division from 2012 to 2014. They are the cofounders of INTREP360 and the INTREP360 Intelligence Report on Substack.

Where in the World are Trump's Board of Piss and Gaza Stabilization Force?

Remember Donald Dumb's Board of Piss, which he established by lumping together many of the countries he labels as "shithole countries", and which he intended to be his own private security council to replace the UN and its Council that he constantly berates and undermines because they do not submit themselves to Zionist and American Fascism and warmongering? Many of these shithole countries are now reluctant to follow through on the much hyped bullshit because of the war on Iran.

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Iran war has complicated plans for an international force in Gaza that has yet to materialize
DAVID RISING, DAVID RISING
Updated Thu, May 28, 2026 

FILE - President Donald Trump stands with other World leaders before a Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Feb. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

FILE - Members of the committee monitoring the Lebanon-Israel ceasefire, the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major General Aroldo Lazaro Saenz, of Spain, center, US Maj. Gen. Jasper Jeffers, right, and Gen. Guillaume Ponchamp, of France, left, meet with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, at the government palace in Beirut, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

BANGKOK (AP) — The International Stabilization Force for Gaza was announced with great aplomb at the inaugural meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace in February. The American general tapped to lead the 20,000-strong force said it would ensure “future prosperity and enduring peace” after the devastating Israel-Hamas war.

Three months on, he still has no force to lead as none of the five countries that pledged troops have come through with any significant contributions.

Efforts to shore up the fragile ceasefire have stalled as Hamas has refused to disarm and Israel has seized more territory while continuing to strike what it says are militant targets, often killing civilians.

The Iran war has meanwhile made it more difficult for Arab and Muslim leaders to openly cooperate with the United States and Israel, which many in the region view as aggressors, and the resulting global energy crisis has sapped their resources.

Indonesian commitment of 8,000 troops on indefinite hold

The biggest blow to the planned force came about a week after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, when Indonesia put its commitment of 8,000 troops on indefinite hold. Some 1,000 were to have been sent in April, followed by the remainder in June.

Indonesian's pledge was by far the largest of the group, which also includes Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo and Albania. U.S. Maj. Gen. Jasper Jeffers, who spoke at the Board of Peace event, was to command the force.

Indonesia suspended its plans over what Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin said last week seemed to be a lack of commitment from a distracted Washington, saying “we have not yet received any implementation guidelines.”

“New dynamics have emerged,” he told parliament. “Because the intensity of the conflict between U.S. and Iranian forces remains very high, the BoP has tended to be left behind. Since the BoP has been left behind, the ISF has also been left behind.”

US attack on Iran influenced Indonesia's decision

Domestic issues may have factored into Indonesia's decision, said Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, director of the Indonesia-Middle East/North Africa desk at Jakarta's Center for Economic and Law Studies.

The Iran war is extremely unpopular in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country. The economy is suffering from soaring prices as a result of the conflict, and there is widespread skepticism of the Board of Peace.

“If you talk to the people on the street, I don’t think they believe that the Board of Peace will actually help the people of Gaza,” Rakhmat said. There are also concerns about sending troops to the Middle East when the economy is faltering, he added.

Indonesia lost four peacekeepers who were part of the United Nations mission in Lebanon during fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah. That has further soured public opinion on such international commitments, he said.

Board of Peace blames stalled ceasefire on Hamas

The U.S. military’s Central Command declined to comment or make Jeffers available for an interview, referring all queries to the Board of Peace.

Board of Peace spokesman Brad Klapper also declined to comment on Indonesia's decision or the future of the stabilization force, pointing instead to May 21 remarks made at the U.N. by Nickolay Mladenov, a former Bulgarian defense minister who Trump appointed director of the Board of Peace.

Mladenov said the international force would not be able to begin operations until there was agreement and implementation of a second phase of the ceasefire, which would see Hamas disarm and Israel begin to withdraw. Israeli troops control some 60% of Gaza.

Mladenov has blamed the deadlock on Hamas, saying its disarmament is “non-negotiable” and is holding up progress on other fronts, including Israel's withdrawal and reconstruction.

“You cannot build a future with armed groups running the streets, hiding in tunnels and stockpiling weapons,” Mladenov said in Jerusalem this month. “You cannot deliver reconstruction with militias on every corner.”

Hamas blames delays on Israel

Hamas says Israel has repeatedly violated the ceasefire, holding up its further implementation, and has accused Mladenov of siding with Israel.

Israeli strikes have killed more than 880 Palestinians since the ceasefire, according to local health officials. Israel says it was responding to violations of the truce.

Hamas is also demanding Israel withdraw from areas seized since the start of the ceasefire, according to an Egyptian official with knowledge of the discussions, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss closed-door talks. Egypt has long served as a mediator with Hamas.

Many of the countries that have pledged forces have refused to send troops without a deal on Hamas disarming, the official said.

Token forces committed and none yet known to be on the ground

Kazakhstan has said its support for the stabilization force would be limited to “the humanitarian component,” including sending medical units with a field hospital. Its Foreign Ministry did not respond to a request for comment.

Albania's Defense Ministry also declined to comment on its troop commitment, saying it was a “dynamic and ongoing process.”

Earlier this month, its chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Arben Kingji, told reporters that while the military had “participated in reconnaissance activities,” no troops had yet been sent. He said only a few would be dispatched as part of the stabilization force headquarters, without giving numbers, adding that further contributions would be considered.

Kosovo, which is expected to send 20 troops, said in April that it was in the “final phase of preparations.” The Defense Ministry did not reply to a request for an update.

Morocco's Foreign Ministry also did not reply. At the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said it would deploy “high-level military officers to the joint military command of the ISF.”

Indonesian turnaround can't be ruled out

Despite the delays from Indonesia, Rakhmat said it was too early to rule out eventual participation in the stabilization force.

President Prabowo Subianto is a former army general who has been keen to raise Indonesia’s profile on the world stage and wants to avoid jeopardizing economic ties with the U.S., Rakhmat said.

“Prabowo wants to strengthen ties to Washington and sign different agreements with the U.S., so to completely withdraw and completely cancel the plan, I don't think it's on the table,” he said.

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Associated Press reporters Samy Magdy in Cairo, Edna Tarigan in Jakarta, Yuras Karmanau in Tallinn, Estonia, Akram Oubachir in Casablanca, Morocco, and Zana Cimili in Pristina, Kosovo, contributed.

 

Trump's Constancy: Every Statement/Accusation is a Confession

The Great White Trash Moron says he can outwait Iran. Which means he knows he can't.

He says he's not under midterms pressure. which means he is scared shitless about them.
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Trump says he can outwait Iran, dismisses midterm election pressure
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Gram Slattery
Thu, May 28, 2026 


U.S. President Donald Trump points his finger during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 27, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci

WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was unconcerned about the political fallout of an ‌extended conflict with Iran, and that Iranian leaders had miscalculated if they thought ‌the November midterm elections would force him into a deal.

"They thought they were going to outwait me," Trump said ​at a White House cabinet meeting, referring to Iran's leadership. "You know, 'We'll outwait him. He's got the midterms.' I don't care about the midterms."

The president had initially said the war would last four to six weeks, but it is now approaching its fourth month. At times, he ‌has suggested the conflict could end ⁠within days only to later suggest it could go on for some time.

Trump made the comments on Wednesday as he discussed how to ⁠end the conflict. His dismissal of midterm pressure could add to concerns among Republican allies already uneasy with earlier remarks downplaying the economic impact of the war on Americans.

Growing voter disquiet about ​high ​prices, especially for gasoline, has added to political ​pressure on Trump’s Republican Party, which ‌is widely expected to struggle to keep control of the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate.

That unease was amplified by Trump's decision to endorse Ken Paxton, a scandal-plagued primary challenger, over incumbent Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas.

Paxton, who was indicted for felony fraud and is being divorced by his wife on biblical grounds, handily beat Cornyn in a ‌Tuesday party primary after securing the president's endorsement. Democrats ​now view the Senate seat in the solidly ​Republican state as competitive in November.

"Look at ​what happened last night," Trump said, referring to Paxton's win. "That was ‌a prelude to the midterms."

During the cabinet ​meeting, Trump also referred ​to his construction projects in the U.S. capital. Some Republican lawmakers say these are a distraction from the more pressing economic issues.

A Reuters review of his public ​statements since January showed that ‌the president has increasingly mentioned the White House ballroom, renovations of the Reflecting ​Pool and plans for a giant arch.

(Reporting by Trevor Hunnictt and Gram ​Slattery, editing by Ross Colvin and David Gregorio)

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...And, now, ladies and gentlemen, introducing the Bengali Donald Dumb: An albino buffalo that is smarter and more civilized than the real dumb one in the Outhouse in Washington DC.


A sacrificial albino buffalo named after U.S. President Donald Trump is pictured at an agro farm in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, May 20, 2026. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

DHAKA, May 28 (Reuters) - A rare albino buffalo in Bangladesh - nicknamed "Donald Trump" for its distinctive blond ‌tuft - has been spared from Eid al-Adha sacrifice ‌after a last-minute government intervention, a Home Ministry official said on ​Wednesday. The US embassy in Dhaka had complained to the Bengali authorities that DOJ might investigate them for attempted murder-by-proxy of the president because of the uncanny resemblance between the real Donald Dumb and a cow.

The nearly 700-kg (1,543 lb) animal, weighing slightly more than his human animal homonym, had already been sold for ritual slaughter when authorities stepped in, citing security concerns after a surge of public interest ahead of Thursday's ‌festival. Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed ⁠ordered the buffalo be spared, the buyer refunded, and the animal moved to the ⁠national zoo in Dhaka. "Donald Trump" will thus spend the rest of his days among his equals, though he will have no authority to issue executive orders.

"At the last moment, the decision was taken to spare the buffalo from sacrifice due to ​security concerns ​and the unusual level ​of public interest," a ‌ministry official said. Crowds gathered at the farm where the Bengali jackass cow was held, with visitors travelling from far afield to see its blond fringe. 

Albino buffaloes are rare in Bangladesh, where most cattle are dark, making it a standout ​during the ‌peak Eid livestock season - though it was the ​nickname that likely saved its life. The real Donald Dumb had complained that this "white" buffalo had been discriminated against by the darker-skinned Bengalis, and offered to grant it asylum in the US like he has done for the white human animals of South Africa, the Apartheid racist neo-Nazi Afrikaners. The DOJ of moron Todd Blanche had threatened to sue the Bengali authorities for billions of dollars on grounds of slander and defamation.

Imprison the Mediating Translator = Deny Due Process for DHS Targets

Meenu Batra, a courtroom interpreter who was detained by DHS for over six weeks in Texas. - Meenu Batra

This interpreter helped migrants navigate immigration court. Then she was detained by DHS
Zoe Sottile, CNN
Tue, May 26, 2026 

As a courtroom interpreter in Texas’ immigration system, it was Meenu Batra’s job to make sure migrants understood the proceedings of immigration court – the good and the bad.

In March, Batra was exposed to the other side of the immigration system when she was detained by the Department of Homeland Security after decades spent living and working in the United States.

Batra, a mother of four US citizens who transitioned to interpreting in other courtrooms after years spent in immigration court, was detained for more than six weeks – a harrowing experience from which she says she’s still recovering.

She came to the US in 1991, she said, a fragile 18-year-old traumatized by the killing of her parents in a spate of anti-Sikh violence in India. She rejoined her older siblings who were already in the US and applied for asylum.

Batra declined to give details about how she entered the US but was given a final order of removal by an immigration judge in 2000, under President Bill Clinton, according to DHS, her attorney and a judge’s ruling in her current case. But the same day, she was granted withholding of removal, a legal protection similar to asylum that says she cannot be deported to India. The government never appealed that decision, and she was released and spent the last 25 years without any formal interactions with immigration authorities, she says.

That’s until March 17, when she was detained at an airport while on her way to interpret Punjabi for a trial in Milwaukee.

DHS called Batra an “illegal alien” and said she was arrested during a “targeted enforcement operation.”

“We will continue to fight for the removal of illegal aliens who have no right to be in our country,” an agency spokesperson said in a statement when asked for comment about Batra.

The Trump administration has continually said officials are focused on deporting the “worst of the worst,” migrants with serious criminal records. But President Donald Trump’s sweeping deportation campaign has seen people with no or minor criminal records detained for weeks on end or deported, too. Many of them have spent years building lives, careers and families in the US, like Batra, whose attorney said has no criminal record.

Batra said her experience in detention has given her even more insight into the experience migrants face in the American court system. In detention, she said, she fought to help other detainees understand their legal rights and advocate for themselves.

Now she hopes her experience will help highlight the ordinary people detained by DHS – and “how we are denying the basic human rights to people who have been and who are part of this society and this country.”

“I’m just hoping that this brings some attention to those who don’t have a voice,” she said.

Hope for a better life

Batra came to the US like many immigrants do: hoping for a better life.

In 1984, Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards. The killing prompted organized pogroms against Sikhs across the country. Batra’s parents were among those killed, she says.

“I just became numb” after the killings, she said. When she came to the US, “I was leaving everything that was familiar to me, my friends. I didn’t get much chance to say goodbye to many of them.”

Batra spent a few years living on the East Coast before relocating to Texas in 2002. It was in the Lone Star State she first took advantage of her language skills and began working as an interpreter. She lived just 30 minutes from the US-Mexico border, where there were several DHS detention centers – and, she discovered, a need for interpreters of South Asian languages.

Batra with her children. - Meenu Batra

Her first experiences working in immigration court were disorienting enough that she considered quitting outright. “You have to go through security. It was always nerve-wracking,” she said. “And then you see the detainees coming. Sometimes they will be in chains. And you wonder, ‘Why are they in chains?’”

But she came to see the importance of making sure migrants were able to understand the proceedings and meaningfully participate in their own cases. “It was always satisfying when I was able to give them good news,” she said.

She became the only certified Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu courtroom interpreter in all of Texas, she said, and interpreted for countless immigration cases before transitioning to work in district and state courts just before Trump took office for his first term. Her work as an interpreter instilled a deep sense of respect for the American legal system, she said, a feeling that “there’s a right way to do things, and that’s exactly what I’ve been trying to do for 35 years.”

Falling ‘into a black hole’

When Batra was arrested at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas, she said she felt like she was falling “into a black hole.”

“Fear” and “numbness” poured through her body as an officer asked her to step outside of the Transportation Security Administration line and later handcuffed her outside the airport.

And on her mind, too, was the Milwaukee jury trial for which she was hired to interpret: “It had never happened before that I was ever late for my work, and now I’m going to be a no-show,” she remembers thinking. The scarcity of certified interpreters of South Asian languages across the US often leads Batru to travel out of state for work.

Until she arrived at the detention center, she had kept a hope that “this was just a big mistake” – that officers would look at her Real ID and her work authorization documents and let her go.

Instead, she was processed at the El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville, Texas, where she would spend 45 “long, strange days.”

Batra’s attorney, Deepak Ahluwalia, said he believed she was targeted at the airport based on the flight’s manifesto. He cited a Reuters review of internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement data that found TSA shared over 31,000 traveler records with ICE for immigration enforcement, leading to over 800 arrests. DHS didn’t respond to questions from CNN about whether TSA shared her information with ICE but repeated Batra was targeted for being in the US “illegally,” putting the word in bold in its reply.

The process of being arrested, processed and detained was “humiliating,” Batra said.

“You just become smaller and smaller with each moment. Even way before I was in a cell, you start feeling imprisoned already.”

As a fluent English speaker who understood immigration laws from her years spent working as a courtroom interpreter, Batra said she saw herself as a person of “privilege” in the detention center, with a responsibility to help other detainees understand their rights and advocate for themselves. Some detainees had been behind bars for years, she said.

Because she was granted withholding of removal to India, Batra said, she was scared she would be deported to a conflict-ridden country to which she had no ties – like South Sudan or Congo, to which the US has deported people.

A federal judge ruled the administration’s practice of third-party deportations unlawful in February. The State Department, which negotiates agreements for countries to accept third-country deportees from the US, has broadly defended the practice, according to The Associated Press.

‘A new reality’

In the days after she was detained, Batra called her adult daughter – a challenging reversal of her usual role as a single mom who prided herself on providing support and stability for her children – who quickly hired an immigration lawyer to fight for her mother’s release. The legal team filed on March 26 a petition for habeas corpus, a form of relief whose use has skyrocketed in immigration cases since Trump took office again.

Federal judge Rolando Olvera granted Batra’s request for a temporary restraining order on April 30, ordering DHS to release her and not detain her again “until they have provided her with notice of the reasons for re-detention and an opportunity to respond.”

The judge wrote that Batra “was arrested and detained for no discernible reason, with no identified change in circumstance bearing on the likelihood of removal.”

Batra said she didn’t quite believe she was really free until her daughter was driving her away from the detention center. She broke down crying – the culmination of weeks spent away from her family.

The temporary restraining order preventing Batra from being detained is set to expire May 27. Ahluwalia, her attorney, says he expects the habeas petition will be ruled in their favor, keeping Batra out of detention.

But the ramifications of her detention are long-lasting. Batra said her daughter has struggled to sleep through the night in the days since her mother returned home. She jumps when a car passes on the street out of fear that “somebody is coming to get mom,” said Batra.

“It’s a new reality we’re living in,” she said. Living close to the border, DHS vehicles and officers are a frequent sight – and a potent reminder of Batra’s ordeal and her still uncertain future.

One of Batra’s sons joined the military months before her detention, which may provide a pathway for the interpreter to pursue a green card through the parole-in-place program, according to Ahluwalia.

Ahluwalia said he was “shocked” by the government’s efforts to detain and deport Batra. “I do believe that we need to bring, you know, compassion and the human element back to immigration enforcement,” he said. “Otherwise, we’re going to lose ourselves.”

Batra, meanwhile, said she has kept her faith in America’s ideals.

The country “is based on people who want to work hard, and that is a fundamental human right — that we can dream and make attempts to live a better life for ourselves,” she said.

“I believe we must stand up for those ideals, to protect those and to make sure that they are there for other generations that are coming.”

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