Worried about Losing Elections? Let's Cancel them, says the Moron

"Trump-Kennedy Center" doing very poorly compared to "Kennedy Center"? Let's demolish it.

The As-h-le in chief knows he will be losing big next November. His own people are sick of him, and many are peeling off the MAGA tattoo to look good on election day. But many others, the cowardly and the racist types, are still hanging on to his coattails.

So, he begins NOW to announce that elections slated for next November are already "rigged". He did it in 2020: He'll accept the results only if he is elected. Otherwise, if he is defeated, that means they were rigged. "Rigged" elections, acccording to the Orangutan, have nothing to do with the HOW elections can be rigged. They have to do with the results of the elections. I lose, they're rigged. I win, they're not rigged. That is how a 7-year old thinks.

Why do morons not understand his dirty game? They are morons, wad'yya expect?
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Trump’s plan for the Kennedy Center is a preview for what he wants to do with American elections
Andrew Feinberg
Wed, February 4, 2026


[The Great Leader and Big Brother, the likes of which has never existed in recorded history, except maybe Xerxes, Hitler and Gengis Khan, looking lovingly at his adoring people down below]

To understand why President Donald Trump is shutting down one of America’s premier cultural institutions — and why he’s urging what would be an illegal takeover of the basic machinery of democracy in places where his party doesn’t win — one has to turn back the clock four years.

At this time in 2021, Joe Biden was president, Trump was at his Mar-a-Lago home and was very much a pariah in much of polite society after he fomented a riot at the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to stay in power after losing the 2020 election. Staring down what would become four years of political exile in Florida, Trump spent much of that time stewing over not just his defeat at the hands of Biden but a laundry list of slights accumulated over the course of his first four years in the White House — and plotting revenge.

Besides his refusal to accept that he’d lost convincingly, Trump was nursing another grievance over the failure of America’s cultural establishment — music, theater, film and the like — to embrace him as a cultural icon in the way they had his predecessor, Barack Obama.

Trump has spent years venting about Hollywood and its stars, especially those who speak out against him. So it's no surprise that when he returned to the White House, he quickly put the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in his crosshairs. He quickly took over the center’s operation and made himself the chair. He gutted the staff. He changed the performance schedule. He alienated artists.

The Center is now just a shell of its former self, and will soon be just a physical shell as Trump has now announced plans to gut the center for renovations.

If you thought his plans to remake the Kennedy Center were extreme, Trump is floating a similar makeover for the entire American election system. His Kennedy Center plans have upset the arts world; his election plans, however, could change the course of history.

When Trump took over the Kennedy Center, he fired the well-regarded president of the Kennedy Center, philanthropist David Rubenstein, and installed himself atop the organization. He also removed most of the board and replaced the departed members with sycophants and allies from across Washington, while his handpicked executive director for the center, ex-acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, set about purging the organization of anything deemed too “woke.”

At the very core, the takeover was designed to let Trump get even for how he felt he’d been unfairly denigrated during his first term at every turn by cultural elites — think Robert de Niro’s ‘f**k Trump’ speech at the 2018 Tony Awards — while Obama, the first Black president, had been undeservedly venerated.

But the revenge tour at the Kennedy Center has not gone well, to say the least.

Ticket sales began to dip in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s takeover. Performers also began to cancel performances and seek alternative venues in Washington, with the producers of the hit musical Hamilton scrapping plans for a 2026 visit to the center due to what producer Jeffrey Seller called the “recent purge by the Trump Administration of both professional staff and performing arts events at or originally produced by the Kennedy Center.”

Seller also said the decision was a business move meant to hedge against the new-look Kennedy Center management trying to renegotiate the terms of the musical’s contract.

The sorts of luminaries who normally grace the center’s stages still haven’t embraced Trump — and they’re staying away for good now that he’s grafted his own name onto the building above Kennedy’s as a show of dominance.

So he’s now shutting the center down, ostensibly for renovations — even though the building underwent significant renovations and an expansion within the last ten years — in what preservationists fear will be a re-run of his demolition of the East Wing just four months ago. It was a hastily announced move that even caught board members off guard.

It’s the equivalent of a disgruntled chess player upending the entire board when he starts to lose rather than make any adjustments to his strategy.

And it’s exactly what he’s threatening to do with America’s elections.

Ticket sales have dropped at the center since Trump took it over and now he has announced plans for a new renovation, with few details about the changes being made public (Getty Images)

Trump is now also talking about the federal need to take over elections from the states. He has long complained about past voting results (Getty Images)

Five years after his blatant lies about the conduct of the 2020 race in key swing states led to a deadly riot among his supporters at the U.S. Capitol, Trump is once again threatening to illegally put the federal government in charge of elections that the Constitution specifically puts in the wheelhouse of each of America’s 50 states.

In the U.S., elections are run at the county or city level, and because of differences in how different states allow postal ballots and early vote results to be counted, Trump and his allies have been arguing for years that elections that end with Democrats winning on the strength of those votes are per se illegitimate.

During one recent interview with podcaster (and former FBI Deputy Director) Dan Bongino, Trump claimed investigations into the 2020 results would show there were “states that I won that show I didn’t win” and claimed to have thrice won electoral votes from Minnesota, a state where no Republican has won since Richard Nixon carried the Gopher State in his 49-state romp over George McGovern in 1972.

Yet he still told Bongino he “won the state three times” but “got no credit” because it’s a “rigged state” that is “really rigged badly with the Somalians” even though the number of Somali-Americans living there is fewer than the margin by which he lost the state in 2024, 2020 and 2016.

The president also argued that the GOP “should take over the voting in at least 15 places” and “nationalize” voting in defiance of the Constitution because those places “are so crooked.” That is why, he thinks, the federal government should take over elections. It would be against the Constitution and a major shift from the nation’s 250 years of elections.

It’s unclear what authority Trump would have to carry out such a move, which would be in blatant violation of the nation’s founding document. And there’s no evidence that any of those elections in the places he lost five years ago are “crooked” — because those results were confirmed by multiple recounts demanded by Trump’s own team.

But that’s not the point.

The point is that the president, with the unyielding backing of a supine GOP-controlled Congress and acquiescence from many of the wealthiest and most powerful people and institutions in the country, is now unwilling to countenance not getting his way, whether it’s from pesky theater kids or from voters.

If he can bend the elections to his will by browbeating Congress into passing legislation to make it harder for Democrats to vote, or by bullying GOP-led state governments into taking over elections in Democratic-led cities, that’s what he’ll do.

But if that doesn’t work and his party loses the midterms, he is equally likely to try what he’s trying at the Kennedy Center by pushing to throw everything out and remake it as he sees fit.

For Trump, the Obamas are Apes

 

 

White House Defends AI Video Of Obamas As Apes Posted On Donald Trump’s Truth Social Account

Jake Kanter

Fri, February 6, 2026

UPDATED WITH WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT: Karoline Leavitt has defended an apparently AI-generated clip portraying Barack and Michelle Obama as apes shared on Donald Trump’s Truth Social account.

In a statement sent to Deadline, the White House Press Secretary said: “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from The Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”

Overnight, the U.S. president’s verified account twice posted a minute-long video about voting machine anomalies, which features the PatriotNewsOutlet.com watermark. In the final moments of the video, a two-second clip flashes up showing the Obamas as apes, dancing in a jungle setting to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”

The clip of the Obamas features an “@XERIAS_X” watermark, and it appears that the account originally posted the video in October last year. The 55-second video portrays Trump as a lion, while Hillary Clinton and Zohran Mamdani are depicted as a warthog and hyena respectively.

The @XERIAS_X account has a profile photo of Pepe the Frog dressed as Trump. The account claimed credit for the “fighter jet poop” AI video posted by Trump during the “No Kings” protests last year.

The White House did not respond to Deadline questions about whether Trump personally shared the post on Truth Social, or if he was aware of the Obama clip inserted into the voting machine video.

The post was condemned by Trump’s critics. California Governor Gavin Newsom’s X/Twitter account said: “Disgusting behavior by the President. Every single Republican must denounce this. Now.”

Disgusting behavior by the President.

Every single Republican must denounce this. Now. https://t.co/X09h1mcj74

— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) February 6, 2026

The post came amid a flurry of updates on Trump’s Truth Social. Other clips shared on the president’s account included a dog magically appearing from behind a kitchen counter when hearing the sound of whipped cream being squirted.

Trump’s Truth Social account has previously shared posts that have been condemned as racist. Last year, the account shared a video that showed the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, with a fake mustache and sombrero.

Jeffries denounced the memes at the time and has done the same with the Obama post. “President Obama and Michelle Obama are brilliant, compassionate and patriotic Americans. They represent the best of this country,” he said. “Donald Trump is a vile, unhinged and malignant bottom feeder. Why are GOP leaders like John Thune continuing to stand by this sick individual? Every single Republican must immediately denounce Donald Trump’s disgusting bigotry.”

No one in the US has mocked white trash Americans like Trump as swine. That is because they are authentic pigs.

For Trump, KKK Assassins are not Racists

Donald Trump is refusing to label a Ku Klux Klan member convicted of murdering a civil rights leader  a "racist". The demented senile convicted criminal has directed the National Park Service to remove any mention of racism regarding the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi.

White supremacist and KKK member Byron De La Beckwith shot Medgar Evers in the back - racists and cowards too - in his drivewayn June 12, 1963. Trump has ordered that the grisly description of Evers lying in his blood be deleted from all literature pertaining to the crime. This is similiar to what the racist fascist Zionists have decided last month: They told all historians and keepers of records to delete all mentions of the Gaza genocide. Distorting history is, of course, a staple of racist criminals who think that deleting truth and reality is sufficient to remove the stain of their criminality for the rest of history. It's so stupid and desperate. 

Idiots like Trump handle things by their tail. He thinks that all these petty alterations of history he is mandating will efface the past. He also thinks that if he takes an existing prestigious entity (Penn Station, Kennedy Center, etc...) and adds his name to it - even though he has no credit or merit in the entity - the glory of it will simply become his. The entire United states is becoming Trump this and Trump that. Only the MAGA fools continue to believe this moron.

Medgar Evers' wife Myrlie spent 30 years fighting for justice for her husband and later served as NAACP board chair, delivering the invocation at Barack Obama’s second inauguration. There were several assassinations of civil rights advocates by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi during the civil rights era. Many of those crimes went unpunished, including Evers’ murder. Beckwith was acquitted twice by all-white juries and welcomed back into society. He was later convicted of bombing the home of a Jewish leader in New Orleans. 

It seems that Black lives don't matter as much as Jewish (because white) lives. Funny that Trump and his racist goons claim to love Israel and Jews, when their deep ideology is fundamentally antisemitic. How do these two partners in racist crime against Blacks, Arabs,  immigrants, Catholics, and anyone who is not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant reconcile this difference is beyind logic. White American supremacists and evangelical "Christians" do love Jews to death, literally. They support Israel not out of love for Jews, but out of antisemitic hatred of Jews: Israel is for these barbarians the place where the End of Times will take place, at which point Jews MUST convert to Christianity, accept Jesus as the Messiah, or else be killed by the very Evangelicals that claim to love them.

“Nig-ge-rs are beasts. It says so in here in the book of Adam,” Beckwith said in a 1990 interview, where he praised white supremacy and the Jim Crow era.

But while Beckwith may be a racist by his own admission, the federal government under Trump is insidiously racist. It doesn't dare say what it really thinks. But it should be judged by its actions: All mentions of black African American heroes are being deleted from all literature, monuments, cemeteries, history books, government websites.... You really have to be an idiot to think that you can delete facts and events in an age where everything is recorded a million times a day. This will pass. Once this assh o o l e is out, any president with decency will restore and reinstate sanity and truth to the history of the United States.

Even though Beckwith was finally convicted of Evers’ murder in 1994—more than 30 years after the killing—Trump's executive order in March 2025 titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” was essentially a detailed roadmap on how to erase all contributions by African Americans, women and all non-white Americans to the country. Together with his barbaric anti-immigration policies, Trump is clearly trying to "bleach" America of its other colors. 

The order directed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to scrutinize public monuments, memorials, statues, and other similar properties that “perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history.” Just weeks ago, National Park Service staff took down slavery exhibits at Philadelphia’s Independence Mall, detailing the history of nine people enslaved by President George Washington.

Bob Dylan wrote a magnificent song about the murder of Edgar Evers in which he not only laments the murder, but makes the brainwashing of white imbeciles by racist leaders like Trump an even greater crime. 

Here are the lyrics:

A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers' blood
A finger fired the trigger to his name
A handle hid out in the dark
A hand set the spark
Two eyes took the aim
Behind a man's brain
But he can't be blamed
He's only a pawn in their game

A south politician preaches to the poor white man
"You got more than the blacks, don't complain
You're better than them, you been born with white skin," they explain
And the Negro's name
Is used, it is plain
For the politician's gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game

The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid
And the marshals and cops get the same
But the poor white man's used in the hands of them all like a tool
He's taught in his school
From the start by the rule
That the laws are with him
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
So he never thinks straight
'Bout the shape that he's in
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game

From the poverty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks
And the hoof beats pound in his brain
And he's taught how to walk in a pack
Shoot in the back, with his fist in a clinch
To hang and to lynch
To hide 'neath the hood
To kill with no pain
Like a dog on a chain
He ain't a-got no name
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game

Today, Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught
They lowered him down as a king
But when the shadowy sun sets on the one that fired the gun
He'll see by his grave
On the stone that remains
Carved next to his name
His epitaph plain
Only a pawn in their game

Between Trump's No-Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence: Dismal Economic Outlook

Planned and announced layoffs reached their highest level for January since the Great Recession.

There were more job-cut announcements last month than in any January since 2009.

“Generally, we see a high number of job cuts in the first quarter, but this is a high total for January.” Andy Challenger said, adding, “It means most of these plans were set at the end of 2025, signaling employers are less-than-optimistic about the outlook for 2026.”

The transport sector has 31,243 planned cuts, essentially all due to UPS’s plan to remove 30,000 people from its payroll. 

Amazon plans to axe 16,000 roles, after cutting 14,000 jobs in October last year.

Citi said in January it plans to cut around 10% of its workforce, or 20,000 employees. 

Hiring is also in the doldrums, with just 5,306 new hires announced in January.

While AI is projected to cost jobs in the coming years, this drop appears to have little to do with the new technology. Experts attribute the job losses to "contract loss," "market and economic conditions," and "restructuring", all driven by Trump's chaotic management of the economy, with AI responsible for around 7% of the cuts. 

Healthcare was the third biggest loser, with 17,107 job cuts announced. It is the largest monthly cut in the industry since April 2020.

The White House, meanwhile, continues in its fake "positive wishful thinking" typical of Trump's standard operating procedure of never admitting failure or blaming ancient admministrations for bad news. One spokesperson for Trump said, "As trillions of investments continue pouring in to make and hire in America, and as GDP growth continues to accelerate, Americans can rest assured that the best is yet to come.” In other  words, as they struggle every day with every aspect of the economy, Americans are being sold hot air and future hypothetical prosperity destined only to prop up his and his MAGA gangsters' chances next November. The question is, have the fools and morons who believed his lies in 2024 learned their lesson not to do it again in 2026 and 2028? 

Trump's deceitful exuberance about a booming economy under his stewardship - in January he said that it had been the “greatest first year in history.” But the vast majority of Americans are tired and exhausted of empty promises  that seem only leveraged to keep Trump in power and enable billionaires and the elite class to enrich themselves even more, while the middle class and the poor are drowning. 

MAGA republicans are worried. They ought to be. They created and enabled the monster and are unable to tame it. The GOP-MAGA priest Karl Rove went so far as attacking Trump and accusing him of “making the same mistake” as Joe Biden by telling people that they were doing better financially than they really felt they were. In short, Trump believes - and has publicly declared - that his MAGA base is stupid and will believe any horse manure he hurls at them, even when they are hurting real bad. Watching him treat them like a herd of cattle, and watching them "keep the faith" with him, verges on the a sado-masochistic relationship: He's the sadist who tortures them, and they are the masochists who enjoy it. 

For his part, doomsday predictions seem to be Elon Musk's favorite pasttime. He is bluntly telling Americans that saving for retirement is futile because AI and robotics will dismantle today’s labor market. According to Musk, white-collar workers such as lawyers, accountants, analysts, marketers, coders, and other jobs long considered “safe” because they were cognitive rather than physical are the most immediately vulnerable to AI systems that can reason, write, analyze, and iterate at superhuman speed.

Blue-collar work is next, Musk says. Humanoid robots, paired with highly capable AI models, will replace much of physical labor. Manufacturing, logistics, construction, and even service work would eventually follow. His estimate for this transition is strikingly aggressive: three to seven years. 

Musk puts a positive spin on all of this, while ignoring the suspicious stench wafting all over the economic future: he says that if AI and robots can produce goods and services at near-zero marginal cost, then food, housing, transportation, energy, and manufactured goods all become dramatically cheaper. Productivity explodes, not because humans are working harder, but because machines are doing nearly all of the work. But Musk sidesteps the most obvious elephant on the room: If people have no jobs because robots replace them, where are they going to find the money to buy all this cheap junk?

His answer is disguised Communism, without naming it: Musk suggests that the government provides “universal income” to people regardless if they work or not so that they never stop consuming and driving the economy. He says that the cost of living will drop so sharply that most people will be able to afford a high standard of living regardless of whether they hold a job. But isn't putting people on what sounds like glorified welfare a "leftist", "socialist", "Marxist", etc... platform? 

Musk then takes another fantasmogorical leap - like his twilight zone fictions of living on Mars - and tells Americans not to worry about saving money for retirement, “It won’t matter. You won’t need to save for retirement. If any of the things we’ve said are true, saving for retirement will be irrelevant.” If work disappears, he’s arguing, then the entire concept of retirement disappears with it. There’s nothing to “retire” from, and no need to stockpile capital to survive old age.

When crowds are out of work because machines replace them, idleness leads them to become demanding of other intangibles besides the work-money formula. Social "luxury" issues then take precedence, which is what Communism promised and failed to provide. Are we headed to a place where Communism makes a comeback - Let the machines do the work, and since humans are less  involved in production, there is less territoriality: No private property, no private enterprise, production by machines can be centralized by the state and hence equally distributed, since no one is producing more than his/her neighbor due to absence of competition.  

More Bad News for US MAGA Farmers Who Voted For Trump's Tariffs

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. 

(Voltaire)

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Migrants who pick fruits and vegetables in the US are now persecuted. Farmers are suffering because of lack of workforce AND Trump's tariffs that have dried up foreign demand for US farm products.

 So, if they are the fools that Voltaire refers to, then they will, again, vote for Trump.

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Farmers leave staple crops to rot following unexpected crisis: 'It's horrible … when so many American families are struggling'

Christine Dulion

Tue, February 3, 2026

Photo Credit: iStock

California farmers say they're facing a painful reality this growing season: watching food go unharvested as financial pressures make it harder to bring crops to market. As trade disputes and labor shortages collide, growers say it's pushing some farms to the brink.

What's happening?

Sacramento County farmers said federal tariffs and trade disruptions have cut demand for agricultural products, including wine grapes — historically the county's top crop.

Canada, for example, has slashed its demand due to costly tariffs. As a result, vineyards are struggling to sell their harvests. "You don't see a bottle of California wine in Canadian stores, and they were 40% of our exports," said Ken Oneto, director of the Sacramento County Farm Bureau, to KOVR.

In 2025, wine grape sales in Sacramento County generated more than $167 million, but growers said profits have dropped so steeply that farmers have been forced to leave grapes unpicked on the vine. Other crops are also going unharvested.

U.S. Rep. Ami Bera, who met with farmers to hear their concerns, said, per CBS13: "It's horrible that crops would go to waste when so many American families are struggling to put food on their table."

Making things worse is a shortage of farm labor, exacerbated by immigration policy changes and uncertainty over the future.

Why are these farming challenges concerning?

Agriculture generates more than $500 million annually in Sacramento County, supporting farmworkers, truck drivers, processors, and rural communities. When farmers can't afford to harvest, those economic effects spread beyond the farm itself.

The waste is also concerning. Unharvested crops mean lost water, energy, fertilizer, and labor — all used to grow food that ultimately feeds no one. This mirrors what's happening in the Mississippi Delta, where rice farmers face a crop surplus. At the same time, many households have seen rising grocery bills and are even struggling to put food on the table.

"I hear from folks every day that they're going to the grocery store, they're spending the same amount of money, but now they've only got a [half] bag of groceries," Bera said, per CBS13.

If farmers don't see relief, it could push them to sell their land to developers, reduce planting in future seasons, or exit agriculture altogether. Ultimately, that affects our food security and increases our reliance on imports.

What's being done to help farmers?

Lawmakers said they're working to address the crisis, though relief may take time. Bera said passing a long-delayed federal farm bill is a priority. Local farm groups are urging federal officials to reconsider trade policies that disproportionately affect agricultural exports, warning that farmers are often the first casualties in trade disputes.

In the meantime, individuals can help by supporting local farms at farmers' markets and pushing for policies that protect growers. While no solution will fix the issue overnight, growers warn that if nothing changes, more food could continue to go to waste.

How the World Now "Respects" the US

 

This image released by the Hamburg State Opera shows, from left, Eric Jurenas as Tuckey, Andrew Watts as Mickey, Georg Nigl as The King-President and Kristina Stanek as Bampi during a rehearsal of Olga Neuwirth’s “Monster’s Paradise” at the Hamburg State Opera on Jan. 28, 2026. (Tanja Dorendorf/Hamburg State Opera via AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Tobias Kratzer spoke in disbelief ahead of the world premiere of “Monster's Paradise” by Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek, which features a gluttonous, ravenous, insatiable President-King, lampooning U.S. President Donald Trump.

“The metaphor has become a reality,” the Hamburg State Opera artistic director said in his office Sunday morning. “I’m really hoping in — what is it, eight hours? — the piece is not completely outdated because up until now it has always gone closer and closer to not being a satire but being reality.”

Jelinek, 79 and winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, collaborated with Neuwirth for the first time in two decades, the Austrian duo combining on a German-language libretto. The 57-year-old Neuwirth won the 2022 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, three years after she became the first woman composer with a work presented at the Vienna State Opera.

Chorus members dressed as zombies and roamed the foyers before the opera and during the intermission, along with Disney-styled princesses and dancing hot dogs. The opera began with a Las Vegas-style LED sign and action on a passerelle.

A 19th-century satire was the starting point

Alfred Jarry’s 1896 play “Ubu Roi” was the inspiration, a profane, scatological work that had a one-performance run in Paris, cut short by an angry audience response.

Aspects of Jarry’s King Wenceslas and Ubu characters were adapted into The President-King for what Neuwirth and Jelinek call a Grand Guignol opera, which has a six-performance run through Feb. 19. It moves to the Zurich Opera from March 8 to April 12 and next season to Austria’s Oper Graz. An audio recording is planned.

The President-King entered in a gilded Oval Office with a Coca-Cola filled refrigerator. A golden crown sat on his desk along with a red button that jettisoned visitors such as an Elvis Presley impersonator in the manner of a TV game show as a trio of red X-shaped lights flashed. A woman resembling Melania Trump lurked in the background.

“I have long known Jarry’s play, but when Trump came to power, I instantly thought of it,” Jelinek said in an emailed response to questions translated from German.

Vampi and Bampi, a pair of pun-prone vampires sung by Sarah Defrise and Kristina Stanek, are avatars of the authors during five scenes that unfold over 2 hours, 45 minutes, and they frame action in the manner of Wagner's Rheinmaidens and Norns. The President-King (sung by Georg Nigl) is opposed by Gorgonzilla (Anna Clementi), a monster spawned by a nuclear accident. One of the early titles was “Godzilla,” but it was changed because of a rights issue.

Mickey and Tuckey, the President-King's adjutants sung by countertenors Andrew Watts and Eric Jurenas, were patterned after Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, according to Kratzer, who directed the production. They sing lines such as: “Nobody has such high numbers as you.”

Charlotte Rampling, in several projected videos, portrays a character called The Goddess who defends nature and civilization. Gorgonzilla devours the The President-King, but the creature also becomes an authoritarian. The opera ends with video of the vampires drifting on a platform along the Elbe while playing Schubert on a Bösendorfer piano, worrying the Earth has been destroyed by its leaders.

Outlandish portrayal of Trump-like character

The President-King grows to huge dimensions while wearing a diaper and golden necktie in Rainer Sellmaier's set and costume design, and he plants a golf club on Gorgonzilla's rock, much like the White House AI photo of Trump landing on Greenland. The President-King boasts of winning “Ohoho” and “Tuxus,” and his lead in “Pennsilfania” isn't even close.

Wearing Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy masks, the vampires attack The President-King with sledgehammers and saws, which have no impact. The one resembling Miss Piggy mimics missing with a rifle, prompting The President-King to raise a fist in defiance.

“People of power are always afraid of humor,” Neuwirth said. “For example, Hitler was so afraid of Charlie Chaplin’s `The (Great) Dictator' — he watched it secretly in his room in Berlin — because they are afraid to be laughed at. They have this ego, which is not allowed to be questioned.”

Neuwirth composed for a Mozart-sized orchestra adding an electric guitar and a drum kit, as characters often used Sprechstimme — spoken-word singing. Conductor Titus Engle melded Neuwirth's many musical genres.

“I’m not playing the American president, but it’s very close,” Nigl said. “I am playing a misogynist. I am playing a braggart. I am playing a fraudster, a despiser.”

Nigl portrayed Russian President Vladimir Putin last year in Gordon Kampe’s “Die Kreide im Mund des Wolfs (The Chalk in the Wolf’s Mouth).” Nigl said his most important words in this opera are when he sings: “He who has millions does not need voters.”

Trump's reaction is on their minds

Neuwirth vowed “I’m never going to write an opera again,” adding she will reveal her reason at a later date.

She is aware she could face repercussions from the U.S. administration.

“I’m kind of a little bit afraid because I want to still enter the United States,” she said.

Jelinek remained unconcerned.

“I am not afraid. I am a small, unimportant European woman,” she wrote in her emailed responses.

Hindu State Senator Files Virginia bill Defining Hinduphobia as hate crime in assault cases

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Jewish state senator introduces Virginia bill defining Judeophobia as hate crime in assault cases 

An Israeli-American state senator from Virginia has introduced a bill to criminalize Judeophobia.

The bill, introduced by state Sen. Benjamin Netanya Shomo, would define "Judeophobia" "as it relates to the crime of assault and battery as malicious prejudice or hatred directed toward Judaism or Jews."

The summary for Shlomo’s bill says that the Judeophobia definition "applies regardless of whether the victim is actually a practitioner of Judaism, provided that the perpetrator targeted such victim based on a perceived adherence to such faith. The bill also clarifies that religious conviction includes Judaism."

The bill "directs the Department of State Police, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, to include the bill's definition of ‘Judeophobia’ in its hate crime reporting central repository."

Shlomo represents Virginia's district 37, which includes all of Fairfax City and Falls Church City, and parts of Fairfax County.

Shlomo currently serves on several high-profile Virginia studies and commissions, including the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) Blockchain Advisory Committee, Joint Commission to Oversee the Transition of the Commonwealth into a Retail Cannabis Market, Virginia Child Support Guidelines Review Panel, Electric Vehicle Rebate Program Advisory Council, Information Technology Advisory Council, Virginia Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation, and the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission. He represents Virginia's district 37, which includes all of Fairfax City and Falls Church City, and parts of Fairfax County.

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Muslim state senator introduces Virginia bill defining Islamophobia as hate crime in assault cases

A Bengali-American state senator from Virginia has introduced a bill to criminalize Islamophobia.

The bill, introduced by state Sen. Saddam Azlan Salim, would define "Islamophobia" "as it relates to the crime of assault and battery as malicious prejudice or hatred directed toward Islam or Muslims."

The summary for Salim’s bill says that the Islamophobia definition "applies regardless of whether the victim is actually a practitioner of Islam, provided that the perpetrator targeted such victim based on a perceived adherence to such faith. The bill also clarifies that religious conviction includes Islam."

The bill "directs the Department of State Police, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, to include the bill's definition of ‘Islamophobia’ in its hate crime reporting central repository."

Salim represents Virginia's district 37, which includes all of Fairfax City and Falls Church City, and parts of Fairfax County.

Salim currently serves on several high-profile Virginia studies and commissions, including the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) Blockchain Advisory Committee, Joint Commission to Oversee the Transition of the Commonwealth into a Retail Cannabis Market, Virginia Child Support Guidelines Review Panel, Electric Vehicle Rebate Program Advisory Council, Information Technology Advisory Council, Virginia Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation, and the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission. He represents Virginia's district 37, which includes all of Fairfax City and Falls Church City, and parts of Fairfax County.

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________ state senator introduces Virginia bill defining _______ phobia as hate crime in assault cases

A _______-American state senator from Virginia has introduced a bill to criminalize _______phobia.

The bill, introduced by state Sen. ______ _______ _______, would define "_____phobia" "as it relates to the crime of assault and battery as malicious prejudice or hatred directed toward ______ or _______s."

The summary for ______’s bill says that the ______phobia definition "applies regardless of whether the victim is actually a practitioner of ______, provided that the perpetrator targeted such victim based on a perceived adherence to such faith. The bill also clarifies that religious conviction includes ______."

The bill "directs the Department of State Police, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, to include the bill's definition of ‘______phobia’ in its hate crime reporting central repository."

_______ represents Virginia's district 37, which includes all of Fairfax City and Falls Church City, and parts of Fairfax County.

_______ currently serves on several high-profile Virginia studies and commissions, including the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) Blockchain Advisory Committee, Joint Commission to Oversee the Transition of the Commonwealth into a Retail Cannabis Market, Virginia Child Support Guidelines Review Panel, Electric Vehicle Rebate Program Advisory Council, Information Technology Advisory Council, Virginia Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation, and the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission. He represents Virginia's district 37, which includes all of Fairfax City and Falls Church City, and parts of Fairfax County.

In Backward Texas, Racism Can't Get Any Worse: Even Democrats Are Infected

VOTE FOR CROCKETT. DUMP TALARICO.

WITH RACIST WHITE DEMOCRATS, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?

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Texas primary between Crockett, Talarico turns ugly

Caroline Vakil

Wed, February 4, 2026

The Senate Democratic primary in Texas has taken an ugly turn, with the increased infighting threatening to complicate the party’s chances of flipping the seat in November.

The most notable incident came this week when former Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas), the Democratic nominee for Senate last cycle, ripped state Rep. James Talarico (D) for allegedly calling him a “mediocre Black man.” Talarico said the allegation was a mischaracterization and that he had referred to Allred’s method of campaigning as mediocre, not Allred personally.

Yet the escalating feud between Talarico and primary rival Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) — who quickly threw her support behind Allred in a statement without mentioning Talarico by name — is rattling some Democrats, who view it as an unhelpful distraction ahead of the March 3 primary.

“We’re taking our eye off the ball,” Texas Democratic consultant Joel Montfort said. “But that this is what Democrats are very good at doing. … We become distracted and we start infighting over things that aren’t particularly beneficial to winning races.”

The race for the Democratic nod for Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) seat has started to ramp up in recent weeks amid heated conversations around electability and polling suggesting the primary is getting tighter.

Crockett, a Black former Texas state lawmaker and civil rights attorney currently serving in the House, is seen by some as a controversial Senate candidate, given some of her online and viral exchanges, including referring to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who is in a wheelchair, as “hot wheels,” and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) as having a “bleach-blonde, bad-built butch body.”

Last month, two comedians apologized after they said on a podcast not to support Crockett over Talarico, a white Presbyterian seminarian and former middle school teacher.

The discourse has irked some members of the party, who believe the conversation is aimed at discouraging voters from backing the Black candidate in the race.

“You’re running in the Democratic primary against U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett and there’s been a lot of discourse around her electability, and some would say that is code for they don’t think a Black woman can win statewide,” “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin told Talarico during his appearance on the show Monday.

Talarico said during that appearance he would fully back her if she became the nominee and believed she could win statewide in Texas, calling her a “friend” and saying he had “deep love and respect for her.”

Meanwhile, Punchbowl News reported last week, citing a top Crockett supporter, that the House member’s campaign is planning a rollout of attack ads targeting Talarico.

Although Crockett’s team has not confirmed the reporting, Talarico responded with a statement stressing that the primary “should be a positive race” focused on their records.

The back-and-forth came just days after the Democratic rivals squared off in their first debate, a largely cordial event that saw both sides emphasize points of agreement.

Both Democrats are seen as ideologically similar, making the race more about approach and tone, with Talarico perceived to be more measured and Crockett cast as a firebrand.

“It becomes … seemingly inevitable that almost all of these things start devolving into some sort of negative vein as we get closer to the elections,” Montfort said.

Although voters do respond to negative primary material, there’s “a huge risk” it could backfire in the general election, he argued.

“It can completely undermine their campaign. You’ve got to be very careful what you do in the primary, because it can come back in the general with your real opponent.”

The primary took a surprising turn this week when a TikTok user posted a series of videos alleging Talarico described Allred as a “mediocre Black man” and Crockett as a “formidable” and “intelligent Black woman” during a private conversation last month. The influencer said she didn’t have a recording of the conversation but defended the accuracy of it.

The comments angered Allred, who slammed the Texas state lawmaker and said he would endorse Crockett in the race.

“First of all, let me just give you some free advice, James: If you want to compliment Black women, just do it. Just do it,” Allred said in a video. “Don’t do it while also tearing down a Black man.”

Talarico in a statement argued the remarks mischaracterized his comments, saying he was referring solely to Allred’s campaign strategy.

“It’s unfortunate that at the start of Black History Month, this is what we’re facing,” Crockett said in her statement supporting Allred.

Monique Alcala, a former executive director for the Texas Democratic Party who worked closely with Allred’s Senate campaign last cycle, thought Talarico’s comments were “in poor taste.”

Yet she suggested Democrats could still keep themselves competitive heading into November “as long as we’re focused on working together and not all … this petty infighting and letting influencers drive the discourse.”

Democratic strategist Caitlin Legacki also suggested the recent infighting was unlikely to make a dent among voters in the fall.

“I have a hard time believing there are any voters — persuadable or otherwise — who are going to make their voting decisions in November based on [a social media] spat in February,” she told The Hill in a text message.

Recent polling has shown an increasingly tight race between the two Democrats as they vie for the nomination next month. An early January Emerson College Polling/Nexstar Media survey found Talarico up 9 points over Crockett in the primary, with 15 percent undecided.

A Texas Public Opinion Research poll released last week found the Democratic rivals neck and neck, with 38 percent supporting Crockett and 37 percent for Talarico. Another 21 percent were undecided.

Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) also appear to be in a dead heat on the GOP side.

In hypothetical general election match-ups, the Emerson poll found Cornyn bested Talarico by 3 points and Crockett by 5 points. Talarico and Crockett both tied Paxton in their respective match-ups.

The infighting couldn’t come at a worse time for Democrats, who were riding high after flipping a Trump-won state Senate seat in Texas over the weekend, making them more bullish about their chances there in November. The results have raised concerns among Republicans about what it could mean for them in the fall.

“It’s going to be really up to these candidates to be able to really draw a distinction with themselves,” said Matt Angle, a Democratic strategist who founded the Democrat-focused Lone Star Project.

“There’s something to be said for a competitive primary in order to really suss out the stronger candidate, and a part of that is being able to take a punch and throw a punch. And so I think that’s what we’re going to see over the next several weeks.”

Despicable Crimes by White Americans Keep Piling Up

[Updated Feb. 4, 2026] 

None of the US-Born White American criminals are migrants or immigrants. They are all bred and raised in the family-values conservative states of the union. Some are evangelical "pastors". Underage girls in the US are under constant threat from white American male predators, in what experts say is an epidemic, perhaps incited by the Epstein Files and by Donald Trump's own salacious lifestyle of adultery and sexual abuse, and his friendship with the notorious pedophile.

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Two White American Men from Illinois Tried to Kidnap a Kentucky Teen and Take Her to Texas for Sexual Abuse


Gabriel Waibel - Laurel County Correctional Center

The two men appeared in a Kentucky courtroom after police arrested them for trying to kidnap a teenage girl right from her home. The two men — Gabriel Waibel, 19, and Chad Goffinet, 43 — were arrested on Saturday, January 31, after getting a call from the teen's mother. The mom told county dispatchers Waibel and Goffinet showed up at their London home before 6 a.m. and informed her that they would be leaving with her daughter.

Waibel even told the mother that her child was his girlfriend, according to a statement from police.

The mother said that she told the two men to leave, which they did — in a silver vehicle. She then called 911 with a description of their car.

Within minutes, deputies caught up with the men — who are both from Peoria — in a nearby business' parking lot and questioned them.

Other deputies arrived at the home to find footprints in the snow leading up and away from the home. The same footprints were found around an accessory building and other areas of the property, police explained in the statement.

Investigators eventually learned that the girl, who is 17, had been communicating online with Waibel for the last two months.

Police said that they believe the two suspects were planning on traveling to Texas with the teen. It was unclear what they planned on doing once they arrived there, but are suspected to wanting to sexually abuse the underage girl. 

Waibel was formally charged with attempted kidnapping of a minor, first-degree unlawful transaction with a minor, illegal sex act with a minor under 18, and first-degree sexual abuse.

Chad Goffinet - Laurel County Correctional Center

Meanwhile, Goffinet, who was driving the silver car, was charged with complicity in the kidnapping of a minor and possession of marijuana.

Waibel is being held on a $75,000 bond while Goffinet has been remanded on a $50,000 cash bond. It was unclear how the two men knew each other. It was also unclear what led to the sexual abuse charge.

Waibel is facing a serious amount of jail time if convicted. First-degree unlawful transaction with a minor is punishable by up to 12 months in jail. He could be sent to prison for up to 20 years if he's convicted on the attempted kidnapping count.

Meanwhile, a Long Island white man kidnapped and 11-year-old girl and she was found naked in his bed.

A kidnapped 11-year-old girl was found naked in the bed of a Long Island, New York, man after he met her online. Prosecutors in Suffolk County say that Nicholas Wieber, 28, entered not guilty pleas to two counts of kidnapping and one count of child endangerment during his arraignment on Friday, January 9.

Investigators say that Wieber drove more than an hour and close to 40 miles to Queens to meet with the victim, who he met through the communication and gaming application Discord. Wieber had been grooming the underage girl since last December 2025. Wieber's messages to the girl "quickly became sexual in nature", say the investigators in the case.

According to police, the victim's mother went to pick her daughter up from the bus after school on December 12, only to realize that the girl wasn't even on the bus. The victim's mother frantically started calling her daughter's friends to see if the girl was with them. But they all told her that the girl had left in a car that was being driven by an older man. The mother then called New York State Police and officers began searching for the girl. Several hours later, police would learn the girl had been chatting with Wieber online and that he had allegedly driven the female victim back to his home in Bay Shore.

Police showed up at Wieber's residence on December 13, 2025 and officers forced their way in and immediately arrested Wieber after they discovered the girl in naked in his bed. The young girl has been reunited with her family and it remain unclear if the girl has been raped or suffered injuries of a sexual nature.

Wieber is being held on $250,000 cash, $500,000 bond, or a $2.5 million partially secured bond. Prosecutors said that he is due to face a judge on February 17. If he is convicted on the kidnapping count alone, Wieber could be sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

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13-year-old Wynter Wagoner went missing from Kentucky for over two months. She was found in Maryland after a tip led authorities to a home in Silver Spring where she was located with Christian Alexander Delgado, who has been charged with her kidnapping.

Delgado was arrested at the scene and has been formally charged with Wagoner's kidnapping. Police were dispatched to the residence — on Dalewood Drive — around 6:00 p.m. on December 26 after receiving a tip. Wagoner had called her aunt to share the address she was at in Maryland, and her aunt then called the U.S. Marshals. When they arrived at his home, officers and U.S. Marshal deputies found Delgado, 37, inside with Wagoner.

Delgado told officers that he had met Wagoner online and said that he drove from Florida to Kentucky to pick her up. He then claimed that he took her back to Florida before they eventually ended up in Maryland.

Before she was found safe, Wagoner was last seen by her foster parents on October 14 in Rockcastle County. Her disappearance sparked an extensive search effort, which involved her family and several volunteers who worked hard to make sure people knew what she looked like as the search for her continued.

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Hearing held for West Virginia pastor accused of sexually abusing girls for years
Joey Rather
Tue, February 3, 2026



Video is previous coverage.

WESTON, W.Va. (WBOY) — Tuesday marked the first hearing in Lewis County court for John Radcliff, a former pastor accused of sexually abusing young girls over a period of several years.

Tuesday began the pre-trial motion hearing. Prosecutor Christina Flanigan moved to continue the case until the June term and informed the court that the investigating officer has learned of another named alleged victim who lives out of state.

Flanigan requested that the prosecution be given time to track down this new alleged victim to potentially pursue additional charges against Radcliff. The defense did not object to this motion, which was granted by Judge Jacob Reger.

The next pretrial hearing in Radcliff’s case is scheduled for June 3 at 9:15 a.m. Jury selection is set for June 15 at 9 a.m.

Radcliff was indicted in Lewis County in July 2025 on 47 felony charges against eight victims, including sexual assault, sexual abuse and incest. During Tuesday’s hearing, the charge count was reduced to only 42, pending the addition of more by the alleged victim, who lives out of state.

Criminal complaints filed at the time of Radcliff’s arrest list some of the victims as being as young as 3 or 4 years old at the time of the alleged abuse. Multiple victims told investigators that Radcliff has forced them to touch his genitals and perform oral sex on him, the complaint said.

Radcliff is also facing charges in Braxton, Harrison and Nicholas counties.

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Texas Sen. Candidate Tells the Truth: Atheists are more Christ-like than Christians

American "Christians" believe in competition and the laws of the jungle. They are Darwinian to the bone, but reject Darwin's Law of Evolution by Natural Selection. But one of Christ's main teachings is counter to Darwinian principles: Do nor pursue money and wealth (Evangelicals do love money and wealth). Keep politics separate from religion (Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's), but Evangelical pseudo-Christian criminals, like their Muslim Taliban or Iranian Mullah counterparts, want religion to superseed and manage politics. Love your enemy, says Christ. Hate your enemy say the Evangelical barbarians. And so on and so forth. Love the poor, the stranger and the destitute, says Christ; Hate the poor, the migrant and the destitute, say the American Evangelical Christians.

So, when a Texas Senate candidate says that people from other religions and people without religion are better "Christians" than those who claim to be Christian, he's onto something. Religion did not discover ethics and morality. In fact, religion was - and still is - more often than not used against ethics and morality. The human species discovered the "Golden Rule" long before the emergence of religions in human societies: Humans discovered that "cooperation" is a better formula for survival than warmongering, violence and plunder and mayhem. The only reason the human species has been so successful is because of cooperation and living together, the hallmarks of all morality and ethics.

I don't need God, Allah, Dieu, Gott, Dios...or whatever the name of the Big Zombie in the Sky is to understand the basis of all human morality: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

American Christians are Christian only in name. Don't believe them. Believe what your heart and your mind tell you.

Texas Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico is being praised for his courageous comments on God and faith after saying on a podcast that atheists are "more Christ-like than" some of his Christian colleagues in the Texas House. Naturally, the barbarian fake Christian conservatives and white supremacists are not happy. Like their Muslim counterparts of the Taliban or the Iranian Mullahs, they cannot accept dissent from the pernicious religious dogmas they want to impose on people in order to maintain their control of the "herds".

"Instead of putting the 10 Commandments in every classroom, instead of forcing school children to read the Bible against their wills, why don't we, all of us, look inward and figure out how we can be more Christ-like, even when it's uncomfortable," Talarico, a Democrat in the Texas House, said on the "Politics War Room" podcast published Friday. The podcast is hosted by journalist Al Hunt and Democratic strategist James Carville.

"I have met so many Hindus, Buddhists, Sikh Jews, Muslims, atheists, agnostics who are more Christ-like than some of the Christians I serve with in the Texas legislature," Talarico said. "It is about how you treat other people."


State Rep. James Talarico addresses the crowd during a campaign rally after launching his Senate campaign for the seat held by John Cornyn in Round Rock, Texas, Sept. 9, 2025. (Getty Images)

The Texas Democrat is running to serve as a U.S. senator by unseating Republican Sen. John Cornyn. "There is a backlash growing in Texas against the extremism and the corruption that we're seeing at all levels of our government, and I'm seeing it everywhere I go," Talarico explained of what he's seeing from the campaign trail to flip the seat blue.

Talarico is a former school teacher and Presbyterian seminarian. He says he leans on his Christianity as he works in the "halls of power" while taking aim at conservatives. "Christian nationalism, you see people's faith growing out of their politics, right?" he said. "They're baptizing their partisanship, and they're calling that Christianity. And it's why it doesn't resemble the life, death and teachings of Jesus Christ, right?

"These Christians in Congress, these Christian nationalists, they want a Christian nation unless it means providing health care to the sick, unless it means funding food assistance for the hungry or raising the minimum wage for the poor."

His remarks were welcomed by large swaths of American citizens who feel oppressed by the obscurantist resurgence of Trump's ultra-religious barbarians who are Christian in name only, but have nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus Christ. Most Americans can tell a phoney from a genuine human being. Unfortunately, an ignorant illiterate segment of Americans have fallen for the lies and the bigotry, and were instrumental in bringing the fake Christian criminal and cheater Donald Dumb to power.

Talarico has a long history of speaking the truth about God, Jesus, Christianity and religion in general. He's an educated Christian seminarian and he knows more about Chrustianity than any of the criminal Evangelical bigots who take offense at his telling the truth.

State Rep. James Talarico, a Democrat from Texas and U.S. Senate candidate, joined Joe Rogan’s podcast in September 2025, where he also claimed the Bible permits abortion.

In an interview with a New York Times podcast in January, Talarico said that his Christian faith has grown "by learning more about Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism," adding that "these beautiful faith traditions are circling the same truth about the universe, about the cosmos. And that truth is inherently a mystery. He is still entrenched in the cocoon of religious supersititions, but he has taken a major step toward liberating the poor MAGA morons from the grip of Evangelical oppression and control. We need him to liberate backward Texas from the jail of ultra-barbarian religion.

MAGA Co-Founder Marjorie Taylor Greene: MAGA "Was" All a Lie

 

Nothing cleaner than the truth from the mouth of former liars. If Marjorie Taylor Greene has changed her mind, and has only now discovered that Trump's MAGA was one big lie, doesn't she bear any responsibility for having believed the lie in the first place?

Isn't it the job of a politician to know in advance what is good and what is bad for their constitutents and for the country? If they can't have a long term view on the consequences of their actions or affiliations, then why become politicians? If any jackass citizen can jump into the arena of politics, make tragic mistakes, then turn around and say, "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know...", then why have these expensive and long campaigns? Why not elect our representatives with a coin toss or a lottery?

Marjorie Taylor Greene was a big enabler of Donald Trump during his two terms. She now is telling the country she was wrong and Trump was a big liar. Fine. But many of her rivals and adversaries were telling her all through the past ten years that Trump was a criminal, a liar, an idiot, and all she had to do was to look at his political actions - the seditious attack on Congress, his "partnerhsip" with Vladimir Putin, etc. - and his own personal life of crime, adultery, cheating.... Couldn't she foresee, like many average citizens did, that he was unfit  to the office? 

You can't judge a politician by his/her campaign promises because delivering on these promises requires the convergence of many factors that are often outside the reach of the politician. That is why voters should judge candidates on the basis of their history, character and integrity. With the first of these three criteria as a guide, we all knew that Trump had the character of a thuggish and stupid adolescent who lacked the slightest shred of integrity. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene should be held responsible for her part in bringing Trump to power. If she runs again for office, voters should remind her of that fact. You can't ride the easy part then bail out when the ride becomes rough, and claim you didn't know. It's like all these Epstein friends who now say they didn't know.  
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Bluntly Declares MAGA ‘Was All a Lie’ in Scalding Take on Trump’s GOP
Sean James
Sun, February 1, 2026

Former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene went absolutely nuts on President Donald Trump in a new interview, branding his Make America Great Again movement a “big lie” and accusing the president of ignoring U.S. citizens so that he can focus on waging “war on behalf of Israel.”

The ex-lawmaker shared her eyebrow-raising thoughts in an interview with political commentator Kim Iversen on YouTube on Thursday.

“MAGA is — I think people are realizing it was all a lie. It was a big lie for the people,” Greene said.

She said Trump has completely turned on his base and is more worried about serving the “big big donors” who send money to his PACs and have pitched in for his new ballroom.

“Those are the people that get the special favors, the government contracts, they get the pardons,” Greene said. “And it’s the foreign countries that are running the show here. It’s the major big corporations and what is best for the world. That’s really what MAGA is.”

Greene then accused the president of caring more about Iran than what’s going on in the USA.

“I’m sorry, we’ve got civil war practically breaking out in Minnesota, can we not care about that?” she said.

Greene then moved to bashing Israel, which she said Trump is fixated on. She accused him of overlooking “murdered” Gazans so that he can eventually build a new Trump hotel.

“We’re seeing war on behalf of Israel,” Greene fumed. “We’re seeing the people in Gaza — innocent people in Gaza, hundreds of thousands of them completely murdered, so that they can build some new real estate development and money can pour in and everyone can get rich there in New Gaza.”

Her comments come a few weeks after Greene resigned from Congress. She announced she was leaving public office last fall amid her feud with Trump, which largely stemmed from her accusing the president of not moving fast enough to release files on dead sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump in return gave her the nickname Marjorie “Traitor” Greene and said his former ally had “some sort of act going on.”

Watch via The Kim Iversen Show.

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This is What Trump's Economy is Doing to US Farmers

They voted for Trump who promised them heaven and earth. Now they find themselves stuck with crops they can't sell because no one wants to buy from the country that has a vulgar, hostile, inimical and stupid president. It's the tariffs, idiot. And beneath the tariffs is a president who hates and bullies the rest of the world. If you have two suppliers, one that works with you and operates honestly within the rules, while another spews hateful comments, issues threats and makes sneaky deals, which one would you work with?

Contrary to what the Moron-in-Chief says, the world is abandoning the US because of Trump. All countries are developing their workarounds in all aspects of life, trade and the economy to avoid having to deal with an erratic unstable US. And who pays the price? Not the MAGA pedophile-protector billionaire elites who run Trump's government. Those who pay the prince are the farmers, small businesses, hotels, manufacturers, and restaurants whose businesses are shrinking because tourists no longer come to the US, because tariffs send buyers and suppliers elsewhere, to other countries. The Europeans, the UK and Canada have recently struck free trade deals with China just to avoid having to deal with a country led by thugs and criminals.

Trump's stupid America First might have worked in the late 19th century and early 20th century. It doesn't work anymore. In this 21st century, America First means America Alone. And that is not good for business.

Ignorant, racist and xenophobic US farmers of the hinterland who voted en masse for the dumb criminal seem to prefer to be beggars on the welfare rolls of a US government they despise. When will they ever learn?




Farmers consider leaving staple crops to rot following unexpected crisis: 'What am I supposed to do with 2.2 million pounds of [this]?'
Noah Jampol
Mon, February 2, 2026


Photo Credit: iStock

Farmers in the Mississippi Delta are dealing with a nightmarish 2025 with an unsolvable problem. They simply have too much of their rice crops with nowhere to sell them.
What's happening?

The New York Times reported on the confluence of factors leaving farmers in Mississippi unable to sell their rice, despite many betting heavily on the crop.

Prices reached $7 a bushel last spring, which led farmers like Jack Westerfield to commit additional land to the crop. That decision backfired quickly. Global rice prices have tumbled 30% to around $5 a bushel. India lowered restrictions on exports, raising supply. Meanwhile, Latin America, a key market, is choosing other countries' rice over American varieties.

That is leading farmers in the Delta to store unheard-of quantities of rice in grain bins.

"What am I supposed to do with 2.2 million pounds of rice?" Westerfield asked the Times rhetorically.

Westerfield is far from alone in this quandary for American farmers. This situation parallels challenges faced by soybean producers dealing with trade tensions, as they are compelled to offload surplus produce.

At a Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation meeting, attendees proposed the idea of a government-backed program where farmers would get compensated for simply getting rid of their surplus rice. [But I thought they hate government interfering with their business, or is it hate government when you can and love it when you must?].

Why are the struggles of Mississippi Delta farmers important?

The financial prospects for farming remain bleak, and the appeal for newcomers to come in is waning.

"Who wants to come out here and work as hard as you have to work and climb this mountain of debt you might not see the top of until the end of your life?" Westerfield asked.

Meanwhile, established farmers are questioning the future, wondering how many more years in the red they can take. At the core of the problem is that American farmers, including those in the Delta, rarely grow food that gets sold on the U.S. market. That means that they're at the mercy of demand overseas, which can be impacted by tariffs, rival production, and changing market preferences. In years where demand doesn't match supply, acres of farmland are wasted on crops that can't sell. That means all of the fuel, water, and labor go to waste.

What's being done about Mississippi farmers' struggles?

Farmers are getting a lifeline through a $12 billion bailout, with rice growers compensated on the higher end. Still, the $132-per-acre buyout for rice falls well short of the roughly $1,000-per-acre price to cultivate the unsold crops.

Another proposed idea is changing over crops to higher-priced ones that Americans eat like fresh fruit, vegetables, and nuts. The problem is that doing so will require a paradigm shift for American agriculture.

Everything from university research, federal government insurance, financing from banks, the supply chain, and a network of buyers would need to be reworked to support a transition.

That's too tall an ask, according to some farmers.

"We could grow strawberries or whatever, but there is nowhere to take it," farmer Wayne Dulaney told the Times.

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Read about Canada's irreversible divorce from the US: 

https://www.businessinsider.com/canada-moment-mark-carney-reshaping-economy-2026-2