Donald Trump Just Proved He’s an Economic Idiot. Again.

The fiscally conservative GOP-MAGA jackasses claim the higher ground of fiscal conservatism. But the record says that virtually all Republican presidents added to the deficit while all Democrat presidents reduced the deficit during their terms.

Under Republican presidents in the last half-century, the deficit has increased by a total of $3.8 trillion. Under Democrats, it’s gone down by $2.1 trillion. The numbers don't lie, but MAGA criminals and liars do.

• Jimmy Carter added $25 billion to the deficit.
• Ronald Reagan added $74 billion. That seemed bad at the time; just you wait.
• George H.W. Bush added $102 billion.
• Bill Clinton reduced the deficit by $383 billion, leaving a surplus when he left office.
• George W. Bush added $1.54 trillion to the deficit.
• Barack Obama got the deficit down to $585 billion; that is, he reduced it by $825 billion.
• Donald Trump added $2.1 trillion to the deficit.
• Joe Biden reduced the deficit by about $942 billion.

Try to get that through the thick skulls of the MAGA herd. They won't budge because they are for the most part white racist backwood inbred imbeciles who think Trump is going to save them from all these "other" people, you know, all these darkies, immigrants, Spanish speakers, migrants who Trump told them are nothing but drug dealers, criminals, and rapists.
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Opinion

Donald Trump Just Proved He’s an Economic Idiot. Again.
Michael Tomasky
Fri, March 7, 2025



Remember the word “sanewashing” from the 2024 presidential campaign? It referred to the mainstream media’s coverage of Donald Trump’s rallies, and their tendency to pluck out quotes for their stories that made him sound like a normal candidate when he was in fact spouting fantastical lies and gibberish and authoritarian threats. I was apoplectic about it, as were TNR’s Greg Sargent and contributor Parker Molloy.

The media sanewashed a lot of what Trump said, from his hate-filled rhetoric about transgender people to his descriptions of Kamala Harris. But in retrospect, his sanewashing on the economy probably benefited him more than anything else. The economy was voters’ top concern, and the common narrative in the press went like this: The economy’s terrible; inflation is punishing; voters blame Joe Biden, “fairly or not” (a classic dodge of a phrase); the Trump economy was strong until Covid, which wasn’t his fault, and Trump says he’ll bring down prices on day one and protect American workers with his tariffs.

Many of these claims weren’t true, and now we’re starting to see the consequences of the casual lies Trump got away with last year. How many times did we hear him say things like, “Tariff” is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary”? Everybody knew then what’s obvious today. Tariffs are taxes. They raise prices on Americans. A lot of people said it, mostly Democrats, but Trump denied it, and the right-wing media-political complex that exists to support his every lie cranked into gear to say tariffs are great.

That was then. Now we’ve moved from campaign rhetoric to policymaking, and what we’re seeing is even more obvious and embarrassing than I’d imagined. Tariffs were the centerpiece of Trump’s campaign—they were his most important proposal on the most important issue to voters. It doesn’t get more central than that.

And now we’re seeing that it’s a joke. Trump has twice now imposed sweeping tariffs and twice now withdrawn or delayed them almost immediately in the face of criticism and the plunging stock market.

Can you imagine if Harris had done that? If any Democrat had done that? If any other Republican had done that? Imagine that John McCain or Mitt Romney had run on some core economic promise and had won, and then once in office had put forward that core proposal but been hammered by the reaction and reversed course within 24 hours?

Their credibility would have been shot. They would have had their defenders, but even most Republicans at that point would have admitted that it was embarrassing. We’ve had a few Republicans criticize Trump’s tariffs, but most, as usual, are silent. Dear Leader can do no wrong.

And on the broader issue of economic performance, we keep hearing stuff like this:

Peter Navarro: “The economy is in good shape right now because the Trump cavalry is riding to the rescue,” but the “Biden inflation” remains a problem.

Newt Gingrich: “Just as Reagan inherited Carter’s bad economy, President Trump inherited Biden’s bad economy.”

Larry Kudlow: “Right now the economy is doing poorly. This is still the Biden economy.”

Stephen Moore: “These numbers that have come in so far are really the Biden numbers.… This is a bit of the Biden hangover.”

Some of this is just normal partisan swordplay, but where Trump is involved, there is always a sense of a particularly potent Kool-Aid being drunk by all those who go out there and parrot these obvious, blatant lies—who even cheer them.

I mention “cheer” with specific reference to Tuesday night’s address to Congress. It was filled with embarrassing moments, but the biggest laugher was when Trump pledged that “we are going to balance” the federal budget.

I’m glad I wasn’t sipping a bourbon, because I would have spit it out on the dog. A lot of Democrats laughed. But the Republicans, of course, cheered wildly.

Are they kidding? How many times do we have to go over this? In the last half-century of this country’s history—50 years is a long time now—these are the numbers. They’re so lopsided that most Americans wouldn’t even believe them:

• Jimmy Carter added $25 billion to the deficit.
• Ronald Reagan added $74 billion. That seemed bad at the time; just you wait.
• George H.W. Bush added $102 billion.
• Bill Clinton reduced the deficit by $383 billion, leaving a budget surplus when he left office.
• George W. Bush added $1.54 trillion to the deficit.
• Barack Obama got the deficit down to $585 billion; that is, he reduced it by $825 billion.
• Donald Trump added $2.1 trillion to the deficit.
• Joe Biden reduced the deficit by about $942 billion.

See a pattern there? Under Republican presidents in the last half-century, the deficit has increased by a total of $3.8 trillion. Under Democrats, it’s gone down by $2.1 trillion.

It’s a joke. And it’s a crime that Americans don’t know this and still tell pollsters that Republicans are more responsible stewards of the economy. Shame on Democrats for failing to hammer these facts home.

Ronald Reagan left office with a healthy economy. But ever since—for 40 years—the pattern, the clear and obvious pattern, is this: Republican presidents wreck the economy, and Democratic presidents clean up the mess. This is inarguable.

Fine, put an asterisk by Trump because of the pandemic. But the numbers are the numbers. If Hillary Clinton had been president during that economic collapse, do you think Republicans would have been thoughtful enough to say, “Well, in fairness to President Clinton …”

The same thing is likely to happen again, by the way, and on an even grander scale. Trump wants to cut nearly $7 trillion in taxes. Congressional Republicans want to cut domestic spending by $4.5 trillion. Even a Fox News host could do that math, if he wanted to. It equals a massive budget deficit, to say nothing of the pain about to be felt by people—the people Trump professes to love—with cuts to Medicaid and other programs that, as more and more people are learning, actually do some good things.

Can Donald Trump do that math? I doubt it. He’s an economic idiot. Always has been. He ran a good economy? No, he inherited Obama’s economy. If you compare Obama’s last three years as president (taking out a Great Recession that began before he took office) to Trump’s first three (taking out a pandemic-related collapse because the pandemic wasn’t his fault), Obama created around 43,000 more jobs per month than Trump.

These are indelible facts. As is the fact that tariffs are taxes. American consumers will pay them, as will farmers and importers, if Trump ever gets around to imposing them for real. If he keeps “imposing” tariffs and then backing off, well, it will be better for the economy than if he leaves them in place. But Democrats and our free press had better make sure that the public understands that the candidate who supposedly was “in touch” with the working class built his campaign around a proposal that’s about as real as spinning straw into gold. The sanewashing must not continue.

This article first appeared in Fighting Words, a weekly TNR newsletter authored by editor Michael Tomasky. Sign up here.

Penile Whiplash: Donald Dumb Threatens Putin with Sanctions and Tariffs

It's true. But no comment, except: If stragetic ambiguity is his modus operandi, Donald Dumb is more like a tactical dumbfucker (synonyms: stupid fuck, dumbass, moron, stupid fucker...)

Liar, liar...Musk Faces the Wilderness

Elon Musk has lost two rockets on his fantasy trips to the moon and Mars in successive explosions he jesuitically calls "rapid unscheduled dissassemblies", while his cybertrucks keep experiencing "sudden unscheduled combustions" and sales of his Tesla car are being met worldwide with "sudden unscheduled negative transactions". 

To add to his self-inflicted miseries, the "genius billionaire", who by the way is neither a scientist nor an engineer claims to have a physics degree. But his record shows he has lied repeatedly on grant applications by saying that he earned the degree when he in fact did not complete the required coursework. Read about all his lies and cheating in [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-physics-degree/]. You can also see that Musk did not "invent" Tesla but rather "stole" it from Tesla founder Martin Eberhard, who accused Musk of "taking control of the company [Tesla], orchestrating his ouster in 2007 and attempting to 'rewrite history' to take credit for developing the pioneering electric Roadster".

Musk thus appears to be a mini-Trump whose "success" has been acquired through stealing, lying, and cheating other people. This explains the spark that exists between the two men, both of whose careers have been haunted by myriads of lawsuits and bankruptcies. Their so-called "genius" is more likley embedded in their cunning and cheating, rather than straight intellectual smartness. Donald Dumb should write a sequel to his "art of the deal" which should be entitled "the art of the steal".

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Elon Musk is called a “Liar” at Trump Cabinet Meeting

After fermenting quietly inside the chaotic cesspool of the Trump White House, the slime has begun to foam and spill into the open. With Donald Dumb’s unelected lapdog, one Elon Musk, scavenging into the federal government to save money so he can continue receiving $22 billion in federal money for his own failed companies, was targeted by secretaries Duffy and Rubio in an acrimonious clash over Musk’s haphazard cuts and layoffs in the deferral government.

Now Musk is an illegal immigrant who cheated on his student visa to stay in the US. He is from apartheid South Africa, a Nazi Afrikaner who fled his country when apartheid was abolished and the indigenous Africans took power. He uses marijuana, and has had upwards of 15 children with a harem of women. He is, according to Donal Dumb, an outstanding citizen.

In the heated exchange between members of Trump’s cabinet and Musk (who is neither a cabinet member, nor an elected official), Musk was called a “liar” in an extraordinary confrontation in front of the president.

Sean Duffy, the department of transport secretary, was very upset by Musk’s attempts to cull air traffic controllers despite the national shortage, accusing him of firing personnel that should not have been laid off. Duffy apparently slid a spreadsheet across the desk to the president saying that Musk was not telling the truth about the scale and scope of the layoffs.

The exchange ended with the dumb asshole president ordering Duffy to hire staff from MIT as air traffic controllers because the role requires “geniuses”, according to The New York Times. Yup, some MIT astrophysicists or genetic engineering researchers are going to willingly leave their research labs and work as air traffic controllers to compensate for the Musk layoffs. I thought Donald Dumb was himself a “stable genius”, so why doesn’t he take some time off his Golf courses and work as an air traffic controller?

Another cabinet member, Doug Collins, the secretary of veterans affairs, then jumped into the sinking ship and said that surgeries and medical procedures were being cancelled in Veteran Affairs (VA) hospitals because of Musk’s chaotic cuts. As Musk denied this was happening, Secretary Collins demanded that DOGE (Musk’s Dept of Government Efficiency) be strategic about their cuts and not wield a blunt instrument in their sacking of federal government institutions. The dumb jackass president agreed but offered no “MIT alternative”, such as Mayo Clinic physicians to leave their jobs and go perform surgeries at the VA.

Both Collins and Duffy called Musk a liar to his face, in front of the president. The drama in the GOP-MAGA republican cesspool.

Finally, a third cabinet member, the donkey-eared Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, who was reportedly already infuriated with Musk for weeks, brandished his big ears and joined in the assault on Daddy Donald’s favorite pet idiot, after the unhinged tech billionaire accused Rubio of failing to slash his staff at State.

“You have fired nobody”, Musk reportedly told Rubio, insinuating that the only person he had fired was a staff member from DOGE. But Rubio argued back that more than 1,500 State Department officials had been laid off in early retirement buyouts. Musk retaliated by telling Rubio he was “good on TV”. Donald Dumb then intervened to defend Rubio, who he said was doing a “great job”.

The wise asshole president concluded the exchanges by telling his cabinet secretaries that decisions on staffing would be left up to them, not to Musk.

This episode was bound to happen sooner or later. If an outsider like Musk starts pruning and slashing government departments, the heads of each one of these is going to feel the pinch and complain that they lack adequate staffing. Which goes to show how chaotic and unplanned is the Trump administration’s policies and decisions. Just like his first term. The ignorant jerk is consistent, to say the least, even when he has surrounded himself with equally asinine sycophants.

Trump is facing mounting legal disputes over Musk’s actions that bypass the traditional role of Congress. Musk’s team is accused of burrowing into agencies, accessing sensitive data and firing career officials, such as those of the Social Security Administration who abruptly stepped down after refusing to comply with Musk’s team. Tens of thousands of workers accepted an offer to resign early and more are facing potential lay-offs.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House bimbo press secretary, remarked that “President Trump said this was a great and productive meeting amongst members of his team to discuss cost cutting measures and staffing across the federal government, and that everyone is working as one team to help President Trump deliver on his promise to make our government more efficient.”

If unchecked, the current dynamicity in the Trump cesspool will likely continue to exacerbate, and one might reasonably expect some cabinet members to begin slamming the door or be fired and be replaced. The uncertainty remains whether Trump, who has now sided with his secretaries against Musk, will maintain that line and eventually fire Musk himself, or whether he’ll keep Musk on and get rid of the most recalcitrant members of his government.

The World is Beginning to Tire of Trump’s Whiplash Leadership

As my earlier post "Americans are Tiring of Trump" discussed [https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2025/03/americans-are-tiring-of-trump.html], it seems the whole world is also getting tired with the incessant chaos and uncertainty and the unsdisciplined amateurish improvisation at governing that the narcissistic moron Donald Dumb seems to care about, regardless of their impact.

The real scary aspect of all of this chaos is that while the world can weather 4 more years of Trump and hope that a normal US government could return by then, the fact that the world went through this once before during Trump's first term (2016-2020) then recovered normality with Biden reveals a deeply disturbing fact with negative projections for the future: The American people are a dumb ignorant collective that gets swayed by stupid cowboyish arguments and is credulous enough to allow a medicore idiot like Trump to govern it.

Which means that this could happen again. Assuming Trump is booted out of office in four years (he's hinting he wants to amend the constitution to allow him to serve a third term), who's to say that the American people won't elect another moron in his stead. There are so many morons in America that rise to the top - Reagan, Bush Sr. and Jr. were all coward morons who sent tens of thousands of their young men to die in failed wars in order to enrich their corporte buddies and drive the so-called "trickle down" economy. Fact is that the economy always did better under stable and rational Democrat presidents.

Which means that the world is beginning to permanently divorce itself from the US because of its periodic yoyo effect in which insane governments alternate with sane governments. At some point, the might of the US will no longer be sufficient to keep people attached to the idea of America as the last resort of humanity. People might like a soft giant bully, but they will recoil if the bully turns into a violent asshole. 

The French singer Jacques Brel said in one of his songs, "Il n'y a plus d'Amérique": The very idea of America is been sapped by deranged governments like Trump's, and this time faith in it might hit rock bottom. The savages of the American interior might think isolationism is romantic, but if they insist on it and the world gets tired of it, they will have to do without the vanishing moral and political power the US has had so far. Military might and violence alone cannot buy the hearts and minds the US needs to keep its leadership position.
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CNN

The world is beginning to tire of Trump’s whiplash leadership
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN

Thu, March 6, 2025

Government by chaos is back

One day, President Donald Trump imposed a punishing tariff regime against Canada and Mexico. The next, he froze auto duties for a month after suddenly realizing that – as everyone had predicted – they could wreck a quintessential American industry.

Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky came to the Oval Office to sign a rare-earth minerals deal that Trump billed as a triumph for the US. But Zelensky was provoked by Vice President JD Vance and kicked out of the White House. European leaders have spent days trying to fix the debacle.

Elon Musk, meanwhile, is taking his chainsaw to the bureaucracy, indiscriminately firing workers and feeding agencies into the wood chipper – pitching citizens and industries who rely on government payments into uncertainty just as the economy softens and is more vulnerable to such shocks.

At first, Trump’s early-term energy on multiple fronts was a bolt of energy as he scratched his Sharpie across executive orders and chased away the lethargy that marked President Joe Biden’s waning months in office.

Six weeks in, however, as Trump makes gut-check calls to dismantle post-Cold War national security arrangements, the global free trade system, and the federal machine – all of which helped make the US a superpower – a new realization is dawning.

There doesn’t seem to be a plan

Trump’s haphazard efforts to make peace in Ukraine, revive Rust Belt-heavy industry with 19th century-style tariffs and slash government are as improvisational as the “weave” – his name for his stream-of-consciousness campaign screeds.

And the world is once again left hanging on the “America first” president’s whims and obsessions.

“There’s too much unpredictability and chaos coming out of the White House right now,” Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said Wednesday, describing US trade policy as a “psychodrama” her country can’t go through every 30 days.

Trump’s gut-check leadership can get results, but just as often backfires

America’s friends are often left to puzzle over what exactly Trump is trying to do. The president, for instance, said Wednesday that Canada hadn’t done enough to stem the flow of fentanyl over the border – but only minuscule amounts of the drug are involved. Sometimes the White House complains about the flow south of undocumented migrants – but these numbers are also small. Trump also wants manufacturing to leave Canada and move south. No wonder some officials in Ottawa have concluded he’s trying to weaken their country to make it easier to annex.

And Trump might be downgrading the transatlantic alliance that has kept world peace for 80 years – but he’s set off an unprecedented rearmament program among NATO allies that other presidents have demanded for years. But just as often, it’s as if Trump is more interested in brute force personal power than working off any long-term playbook.

Michael Froman, a former US trade representative who chairs the Council on Foreign Relations, told Jim Sciutto on CNN International Wednesday that while the cost of imposing tariffs often outweighs the benefits, they can be a tool that gets other nations to the negotiating table. This is true in the case of Mexico with which the US has far wider border issues than Canada. But, Froman added, “you have to know what it is you want them to do for that leverage to be useful.”

The essence of Trumpism: To some extent, the chaos is the point.

And the theatrics of a president addicted to stunt politics are key to his political appeal. But allied governments have their own politics to worry about – a factor the Trump administration often seems to ignore.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum – who is, like Trump, new in office and keen to make a mark – said Wednesday that her country could consider alternative trade partners to the United States “if necessary.”

On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pointedly paid tribute in the House of Commons to British soldiers who were killed fighting alongside the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan. This followed a comment by Vance on Fox News that Ukraine needed better security guarantees than undertakings from “some random country that has not fought a war in 30 or 40 years.” The vice president’s remark caused great offensive in Britain. He said on X that claims he’d been talking about Britain and France were “absurdly dishonest,” but those are the only allies who have so far publicly volunteered to take part in a post-peace deal reassurance force in Ukraine.

And French President Emmanuel Macron warned his compatriots Wednesday evening the world had changed utterly since Trump returned to the White House, adding that he was considering extending the protection of France’s nuclear arsenal to European allies.

For some MAGA supporters, Trump’s genius for enraging Democrats, the media and foreign governments is an end in itself. And for ideologues on the populist nationalist right, sparking pandemonium in Washington and destroying governing agencies is a way of deconstructing the administrative state.

Trump’s method was honed in his office high up in the skyscraper that bears his name in Manhattan. The future president learned through his real estate career how to push opponents off balance with outlandish demands, verbal confrontations and sudden switches of position. In government, he does the same thing to disorientate adversaries and seeks to impose power amid the mayhem.

But while unpredictability is a real estate superpower, it’s a liability when running a country, an economy and a planet – where continuity and predictability are preferred.

“It’s just constant, and it’s exhausting,” said Julian Vikan Karaguesian, a former Canadian Ministry of Finance official, referring to Trump’s scorched-earth tariff offensive. “It’s almost surreal. Is it real? Is it going to be real this time?” Karaguesian, who now lectures at McGill University in Montreal, added: “Maybe the modus operandi here is uncertainty. It’s not tariffs, it’s not anything else, but intentionally creating a sense of chaos and a sense of uncertainty.”

Trump blinks on auto tariffs

The auto tariffs that the president froze for a month on Wednesday, a day after imposing blanket 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, shows how he sometimes has second thoughts about his own aggression. Perhaps his favorite barometer, the stock market, forced his hand. His concession reversed two days of steep losses on the Dow Jones Industrial Average with a handy near-500-point rebound.

CNN reported Wednesday that Trump relented after conversations with the CEOs of the Big Three automakers. And his press secretary Karoline Leavitt said he was open to “hearing about additional exemptions.” The idea that well-placed CEOs can use their access to the powerful to acquire exemptions and special favors not available to ordinary Americans is the antithesis of an equitable economy. But then Trump has shown little respect for rules-based systems that eliminate the kind of patronage and potential for corruption that thrives in autocratic societies.

Trump’s approach may also mean he likes threatening tariffs more than imposing them. But by constantly threatening tariffs and then creating doubt about whether or when they will be maintained, the president is causing huge uncertainty for businesses that need to establish certainty of costs and supply and consumers who could damage an already-softening economy if they rein in spending.

“There’s so much uncertainty about what the administration is doing that the mere prospect of tariffs is creating a big anchor on the economy,” Bharat Ramamurti, former deputy director of Biden’s National Economic Council, told reporters on a conference call Monday. “The prospect of significant tariffs on our allies has resulted in withholding investments and preemptive price increases that are going to be borne by small businesses and, ultimately, by consumers.”

How Trump’s unpredictability could backfire

Trump’s relentless bullying of America’s friends – while seemingly doing everything he can to advance its traditional adversary Russia in Ukraine – may also drain US power in the long run. “What we have seen this week is that the dollar has suffered a very sharp decline,” Ruchir Sharma, founder and chief investment officer of Breakout Capital, told Richard Quest on CNN International. “It’s revealing that the rest of the world is getting its act together … and I think investors are beginning to notice there are other countries worth investing in, given all this policy volatility that is emerging in the US,” he said.

The danger for the US therefore is that four more years of Trump’s antics could reshape the globe – in a way that does not comply with his vision of US dominance but leaves Americans looking in from the outside. Mexico and Canada, for instance, can’t change the geography that makes it a no-brainer to trade with the mighty US. But both also may see advantages in expanding trade and investment with America’s rising rival China. And the European Union, which is expecting its own barrage of Trump tariffs soon, may examine similar horizons.

America’s Western allies have too much invested in generations with ties with Washington to want it to fail. But they have their own national interests too. Canada can’t win a trade war against its more powerful neighbor. But its patience is thin over Trump’s brinkmanship and bullying.

Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, home to Canada’s largest provincial economy, says the only way forward is for Trump to eradicate all tariffs rather than an a la carte easing of duties industry by industry, as with autos.

“All this gives us is uncertainty again,” Ford told CNN’s Phil Mattingly on Wednesday. “There is one person that’s causing that problem today: that’s President Trump.”

Dumb Applachian JD "Dunce" is a Disgrace and a Clown. Transgenic vs. Transgender

Read below how Europeans are referring to Trump administration officials.

But here are some elements of clarification. What the Trump administration is revealing to anyone who still doubted the genetic stupidity of the white Appalachian stock of Americans is that Trump and his herd of followers are really genuinely dumb. But what distinguishes them from other dumb people around the world is that they are also mean and violent, hence the proverbial "dumb and ugly" American. 

Combining dumbness with violent aggressivity is a purely American invention that manifests itself with the two daily mass shootings that take place in the US. Any idiot can buy a weapon and, after watching a gory blood-drenched Hollywood movie rife with killings, shootings, kidnappings, torturing, and maiming another human being, go and imitate the movie by shooting and killing fellow Americans. Keep in mind that this violence is absolutely wanton and unjustified, unlike the violence that oppressed, occupied and ethnically cleansed people might perpetrate against their butchers. 

For example, the illiterate ignorant MAGA plebe doesn't know the difference between transgender and transgenic. They don't even have an interest (unless they are intellectually dishonest) in Googling the difference before uttering nonsensical drivel to their equally ignorant and illierate "base" out in the peasant boonies of  the American middle and south. 

Like an idiot, Trump said that Joe Biden’s administration spent “$8 million on making mice transgender”, adding, “this is real".

So the dumb criminal moron is telling his herd of mindless barbarians that "we’re spending $8 million to do sex change operations on mice". The reality is that biomedical research routinely uses "transgenic" mice to study human diseases and find cures for them. But morons who can barely read and write, and who want to gut the Department of Education because they don't want their equally illiterate moron voters to become smart, think that "transgender" is the same as "transgenic". They have developed an allergy to the prefix "trans" and they immediately and reflexively react to any word that might contain it.  

Transgender is defined as: Identifying as a member of the opposite sex.

Transgenic is defined as: Pertaining to an organism whose genome has been changed by the addition of a gene from another species; genetically modified. 

But the idiot Midwestern farmers and peasants who live around large Agribusiness corporations should know that the corn they are made to grow is "transgenic" and not "transgender". But they listen to Donald Dumb like he's some kind of biblical prophet who tells them every day that God himself saved him from the assassin's bullet in order to save America and make it great. Being an idiot and not even knowing it it is deeply disturbing.

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel commented that the GOP-MAGA morons think that scientists are spending millions of dollars on “turning Mickeys into Minnies and Minnies into Mickeys", when the fact is that they’re just trying to cure dementia and heart disease, for which the aging and demented idiot Trump is an immediate candidate.

What can you do when you are dealing with inbred white anglo-saxon morons in power? Laugh, of course, but also "Cry, the beloved country" for what has befallen you. 

There is something unique to American "democracy": It has the uncanny capacity of lifting mediocrity to where it should not be. Unlike other democracies that have struck a reasonable balance between elitism in power (bringing smart educated experts to power) and the will of the people, Americans are so raw, unpolished and brutish that they prefer to put absolute medicore morons directly in power then "let's just see what happens". Well, what happens is unfolding before our eyes in the United States.

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From: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/03/05/jd-vance-random-country-comment-britain-and-france/81547338007/

A 'disgrace' and a 'clown': JD Vance's 'random country' comment riles Britain and France
Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY
Updated Wed, March 5, 2025




LONDON − A "disgrace." A "clown" whose "slur" was disrespectful to war heroes. "JD Dunce."

Those were some of the headlines published by Britain's tabloid newspapers Wednesday after U.S. Vice President JD Vance said that an American economic deal in Ukraine was a "better security guarantee" for a potential peace deal with Russia "than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years."

Vance made the comments in an interview on Monday night with the Fox News host Sean Hannity after Britain and France pledged troops to a peacekeeping force in Ukraine. Vance has since insisted he did not "even mention the U.K. or France," adding that both had "fought bravely alongside the U.S. over the last 20 years, and beyond."

He said it was "absurdly dishonest" to claim he disparaged either country, or its troops.

However, the vice president did not specify which "random" country or countries he was referring to in his interview with Fox News and no other countries have publicly offered to send troops to Ukraine.

His comments sparked a strong reaction in Britain and France, with opposition politicians and veterans in both countries saying he was dishonoring hundreds of troops killed fighting alongside U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“JD Vance is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong,” said Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing Reform U.K., an anti-immigration opposition party. Farage is longtime ally of President Donald Trump.

“We stood by America all through those 20 years putting in exactly the same contribution," he said.

James Cartlidge, the "shadow" defense secretary for Britain's opposition Conservative Party, said in a post on social media that Vance's remarks were "deeply disrespectful" to militaries in Britain and France.

Cartlidge pointed out that NATO’s Article 5, which declares an attack against one member state an attack against them all, had been invoked just once in the alliance’s history: after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

He said Britain and France had, at the time, immediately come to America’s aid, "deploying 1,000s of personnel to Afghanistan, including my own brother & numerous parliamentary colleagues, past and present."

In Paris, Sébastien Lecornu, France’s defense minister, received applause when he told lawmakers there on Tuesday that while Vance had "fortunately corrected his statement," the approximately 600 French soldiers who had died while serving their country over the past 60 years or so "deserve our respect and the respect of our allies."

Michel Goya is a former colonel in the French army. He said in a post on X, addressed to Vance, that "British and French soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan alongside the Americans are giving you s**t from where they are."

'Random country' or a 'number of countries'

Vance's comments came as the Trump administration has paused military aid to Ukraine following a heated, and extremely public, spat between Trump, his vice president and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office last week.

In a joint address to Congress on Tuesday, Trump announced Zelenskyy had sent him a letter expressing gratitude for U.S. support in its war with Russia, which began in its current form with Moscow's invasion three years ago. Zelenskyy said he was willing to sign a deal to allow American access to Ukrainian natural resources as a step toward peace. Trump also said Russia indicated a willingness to negotiate an end to the war, a stance that has drawn skepticism from Ukraine and its European allies.

About 150,000 British military personnel served in Afghanistan over a 20-year period − 457 were killed − before its final troops withdrew in 2021, according to the Royal British Legion, a charity that supports the nation's armed forces. Britain was also part of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Its forces there peaked at around 46,000. More than 70,000 French soldiers served in Afghanistan, according to France's defense ministry.

While the Britain and France are the only two nations to publicly commit troops to safeguard any Ukraine peace deal, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said a "number of countries" have also agreed to take part.

He did not name them. Nor have Starmer and France's President Emmanuel Macron addressed Vance's "random country" comments, perhaps underlining the diplomatic challenges they face as they try to persuade Washington to provide U.S. military cover for a plan involving European peacekeeping troops in Ukraine.

Both Starmer and Macron, who lead the only two countries in Europe with nuclear weapons, have argued that a U.S. military "backstop" is needed to deter future Russian attacks on Ukraine.

The Trump administration has not committed to it.

Britain, France and other non-U.S. NATO countries have, under pressure from Trump, vowed to increase their defense budgets. Their militaries currently lack what a recent report by the London-based think tank the International Institute for Strategic Studies called "critical enablers" such as intelligence and surveillance capabilities, and air-to-air refueling. On Wednesday, CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the U.S. has paused some intelligence support to Ukraine following the clash in the Oval Office.

"The reality is there’s not a single country in Europe that has the military resources to meaningfully deter Russia without American assistance. Many of these countries have served valiantly in support of American and NATO missions in the past, but it’s dishonest to pretend those contributions amount to anything comparable to the mobilization that a hypothetical European army would need," said Taylor Van Kirk, Vance's press secretary, in a statement to media Wednesday.

Kemi Badenoch, the leader of Britain's Conservatives, said Vance did not call Britain a "random country." She said "people are getting carried away. They're saying loads of things. Getting quite animated. Let's keep cool heads."

Ultra-Sycophancy to Trump: Musk's Impending Downfall

Tesla sales vertiginously tumbling.

Second Space X rocket explosion and "Rapid Unscheduled Dissassembly", a.k.a. Explosion and destruction by incompetence.

Musk is plateauing. Meteoric rise on Trump coattails appears to have limits.

Success might grant you money, but money is no guarantee of success. Money is no guarantee of intelligence either.

The world of the racist South African Nazi, who fled his native South Africa after the indigneous majority Africans took power away from the minority neo-Nazi Afrikaners' white apartheid rule, appears to have taken a wrong turn. People around the world have discovered what an extremist right-wing buffoon he really is. His joyfulness at dismissing tens of thousands of honest civil servants from their critical jobs in the federal government, his referring to poor Americans as the "parasite class", his description of Americans as dumb and lazy, among other statements he has made as he got drunk from the free-for-all chaos he is creating, all of this has built up into a critical mass of hatred by most people around the world.

So the "beautiful" people who were buying his show-off cars and his exploding cybertrucks have suddenly realized they are backing an elitist billionaire anarchist, just like his master Donald Dumb, and they are saying NO. We will not have any of this criminality with its in-your-eye flagrancy and fuck-you-if you-don't like-it attitude. Tesla sales are fast hitting the asphalt and its shares are tumbling. He soon won't have to worry about rare earth minerals from Trump's abduction of Greenland and Ukraine to power his Tesla fleet.

Meanwhile, the gods and the demons of the fictional supernatural world feel that Musk is competing with them, and they too don't like it. So his Space X rockets are exploding one after the other, just like his dumb and ugly cybertrucks. His hifalutin walk on Mars will have to remain within the confines of a Jules Verne story he can tell to the 15 children he begat from a harem of half a dozen concubines.

Faust's gave up his soul to the devil in exchange for eternal life. Musk seems to have given up the little nasty Nazi soul he has in exchange for an eternity in hell, right here on earth. The early signs of his downfall cannot be mistaken. Keep watching as he divorces himself from Donald Dumb in order to recover a semblance of decency.

By the way, Donald Dumb too may have burned his last stupid candle "faster than any candle has ever burned in the history of the world", and "faster than any candle will ever burn in the future of humanity".  For more, head to:

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5178643-trump-may-have-already-planted-the-seeds-of-his-political-collapse/

Americans are Tiring of Trump

In two months in office, Donald Dumb has upended the lives of Americans and of countries around the world. He is a man without conscience and without a plan other than to be talked about, to be the center of attention, and for this he does anything without an ounce of thinking. During his first term, he had normal people around him who quickly slammed the door after they discovered he is a harmful moron. Now he has surrounded himself with equally abnormal morons who do not dare stand up to him.

That is why he is enjoying the moment. But that is also why people are getting tired of him: Three and a half more years to go with his antics, his threats to the daily lives of average Americans, the chaos and the uncertainty, the ups and downs, one-day tariffs and their exemptions the next day, the backless threats to friend and foe, the cavorting to fellow criminal autocrats like Putin, Netanyahu, Orban ... Forgive the image, but Trump is like a limp dick that easily wags in all possible directions.

One thing is for certain: Donald Dumb's shelf-life is nothing short of miraculous for a convicted criminal who led a sedition against the US constitution to be re-elected. But when his star inevitably sinks, the damage he would have done would be immeasurable.
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Opinion

Trump’s downward trajectory
Mark Mellman, opinion contributor
Wed, March 5, 2025



The worm is beginning to turn on President Trump.

His dishonest blathering notwithstanding, Trump never earned particularly strong support from American voters.

Though he frequently praises himself for winning the popular vote, Trump’s victory was thin by historical standards. Fewer than 50 percent of voters cast their ballots for him while his margin over Vice President Harris was less than 1.5 percentage points.

Only nine presidential elections in our history were won by lesser margins. Nineteen presidential elections yielded true landslide victories of 10 points or more. Trump’s advantage was nowhere close to that.

And he’s still not particularly popular. Using Gallup data, on average, going back to President Eisenhower, presidents earned approval from 60 percent of Americans in their first February. Trump’s February approval rating — 45 percent — is the lowest on record, except for his rating in February of his first term.

More important, the president’s approval rating is deteriorating. Days after his inauguration, the number approving of his performance was 8.5 points higher than those disapproving, according to the RealClearPolitics’ aggregation of all the polling. By Monday, that advantage had narrowed to just 1 point.

538.com, another aggregator using somewhat different methodology, posted nearly identical numbers — an 8.2-point approval margin just after Trump took office, which declined to 7/10ths of a point Monday.

Make no mistake, two things are true at the same time. A narrow plurality approves of Trump’s performance. But that plurality is shrinking as fewer voters approve and more disapprove.

A president’s approval rating is significant because it is one of the most important weapons he wields in political combat. A president’s political power is directly proportional to his approval rating. Members of Congress fear crossing a president with 70 percent approval and fear being seen with a president sporting a 30 percent approval rating.

Trump’s power will diminish less as his numbers fall because he remains extraordinarily popular with Republicans and, for several reasons, Republican legislators mostly don’t worry about general elections, only primaries against fellow Republicans.

Why are Trump’s numbers falling?

Several reasons.

First, his persona is back on daily display. Since he appeared on the presidential stage, voters have been turned off by his demeanor. These days his demeanor makes big, negative news almost daily.

A February YouGov poll found 45 percent disliked Trump personally compared to just 37 percent who liked him. Among political independents, 50 percent disliked him, while just 30 percent liked the president.

Second, one of the strongest findings in public opinion research is that while Americans favor cutting government spending in general, they adamantly oppose cuts in most specific areas. Republicans have moved from the generic to the specific with the GOP supporting massive cuts to education and health care to fund more tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.

(Of course, the cuts to health care, education and other programs don’t fully fund the tax breaks. While Republicans claim to be deficit hawks, they voted to increase the deficit to fully fund the tax breaks.)

We’ve seen this movie before, and it ends with Republicans in deep political trouble.

According to an AP/NORC poll, some two-thirds of Americans say we are spending too little, not too much, on education, health care and Social Security. As Republicans move to make massive cuts to these programs, ratings for Trump and congressional Republicans, will worsen further, assuming Democrats keep the pressure on and the focus clear.

Third, Trump is ignoring the public’s priorities.

According to a CNN poll, just 40 percent believe Trump has had the right priorities, while 52 percent think he hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems. By 45 percent to 39 percent, Americans say Trump’s policies will move the country in the wrong direction rather than in the right one — worse than the response for Joe Biden at the beginning of his term.

Voters remain fixated on rising costs, and they see Trump’s policies increasing prices, not lowering them. IPSOS found 70 percent of Americans, including most Republicans, saying tariffs will lead to higher prices.

Only 37 percent of Americans accept the Trump rationale that “even if prices increase because of tariffs, it’s worth it to get what we want as a country.” Just 32 percent believe tariffs will lead to more American jobs.

Let’s be clear: For most voters, Donald Trump is far from the dangerous monster Democrats see. But if he doesn’t alter his course, his downward trajectory will continue, with his image, and that of his party, continuing to deteriorate.

Mellman is president of The Mellman Group a political consultancy. Mellman served as pollster to Senate Democratic leaders for over 20 years. He is also president of Democratic Majority for Israel.

Netanyahu's Failure to Control Palestine Prompts him to Violate Ceasefire Agreement

Just as Israel has violated every single peace agreement and UN resolution - except the one in 1947 that created it out of colonial nothinghood - Netanyahu is now facing his and his country's own monumental failure at achieving stated objectives in its genocide against the indigenous population of Gaza.

It took several months to reach the ceasefire agreement between the two religious fundamentalist and ultra-violent entities of Israel and Hamas. Despite setbacks, the Phase 1 of the agreement has been implemented.

But the agreement deeply unsettles Israel's barbarity and expansionism. The October 7, 2023 was a golden opportunity for the Zionist settler state to put into execution its long-held plan from 1897 to take ownership of the land from the river Jordan to the Mediterranean sea, void it of its indigenous population and declare the re-birth of a divided barbaric Kingdom from the Bronze Age (circa 2800 BC). 

No one should forget that Palestine is under an illegal and violent occupation by a foreign colonial entity. Palestinians fighting this occupation are not terrorists; they are resistance fighters, just like the French were against Nazi Germany, or just like Algerians were against French colonialism, or the Vietnamese Vietcong were against American occupation, etc.

Having been forced by Trump's desire to score an election campaign victory, Netanyahu reluctantly agreed to the ceasefire to help Trump win the election. His reluctance was because it forced him to pause the systematic ethnic cleansing by his European Jewish settlers of the indigenous Palestinian population. The fact that the West Bank, from which there had been no October 7 attacks for several years, is being subjected to the same Jewish savagery as Gaza should be ample proof of the colonial expansionist plan by the Zionist government. All other pretexts - fighting terror, defending Israel, etc. - are fake slogans.

Now that Phase 1 is over, Netanyahu is facing a choice he really does not want to make but which he had to agree to: To withdraw his own terrorists from Gaza and see Gaza rebuilt. A restoration of Gaza would be a fatal blow to Zionist settlers' plan to annex the territory, as much as it signals that Hamas is still alive and in control, that Hamas may have won and Israel may have failed, and that Netanyahu may have to face his own corruption demons and the wrath of his people. Phase 2 calls on the colonial Jewish army to withdraw from Gaza in exchange for the liberation of the Israeli prisoners still held by Hamas.

So what does he do? He violates the ceasefire agreement. He declares that he wants an extension of Phase 1, i.e. he does NOT want to withdraw his terrorists from Gaza. With the demented moron in the White Outhouse backing him, the objective of the Zionist-American duo is to scuttle the agreement and return to the savage bombing and ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank. On the horizon are 1- the much desired prophetic objective of "purifying" Palestine of its filthy Palestinian human animals, 2- establish a pure Jewish "democracy", and 3- wait for the Messiah to descend and usher the end of times. Meanwhile, Donald Dumb can dream of the beautiful Middle East Riviera he wants to build in Gaza where he, Netanyahu, and their billionaire corrupt oligarch friends can sip martinis and lounge on the beach.

French Senator Malhuret on Trump and European Security

 [English translation. French original follows.]

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04-March-2025

Claude Malhuret, Senator in the French Senate
Speech on Situation in Ukraine and European security
March 4, 2025

Mr. President,
Mr. Prime Minister,
Ladies and Gentlemen Ministers 

Dear colleagues,

Europe is at a critical juncture of its history. The American shield is shirking its responsibility, Ukraine runs the risk of being abandoned, and Russia empowered.

Washington has become the court of Nero. An incendiary emperor, surrounded by enslaved sycophants, and with a Ketamine-sedated buffoon put in charge of the cleansing of public function. It’s a tragedy for the free world, but it is foremost a tragedy for the United States.

Trump’s message is that there is no point being his ally since he will not defend you, he will impose more tariffs on you than on his enemies, and he will threaten to seize your territories while backing the dictatorships that are invading you.

The king of the deal is demonstrating to us the art of the deal on one’s knees. He thinks he can intimidate China by laying flat before Putin. But at the sight of this shipwreck, Xi Ji Ping is undoubtedly accelerating his preparations to invade Taiwan.

Never in the history of the United States has its president capitulated before the enemy. Never has a president backed an aggressor against an ally. Never has a president trampled on the US Constitution, or issued so many illegal orders, or dismissed the judges who could prevent him from doing so, or fired in one sweep the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the military, or weakened all the checks and balances, or taken control of the social media. This is not illiberal abuse; this is the beginning of the confiscation of democracy.

It took one month, three weeks and two days [for Hitler] to bring down the Weimar Republic and its constitution. I have faith in the resilience of the American democracy, and the country is already protesting. But in a mere one month, Trump has caused more harm to America than during the four years of his first term.

We were at war against a dictator [Putin], but now we are fighting this dictator backed by a traitor [Trump]. Eight days ago, when Trump was patting Macron on the back at the White House, the United States was voting with Russia and North Korea against the Europeans. Two days later, in the oval office, the coward draft dodger Trump was lecturing the war hero Zelenskyy on strategy before dismissing him like a stable boy and ordering him to submit or resign.

What to do in view of this treason? The answer is simple: Confront.

But before all else, not make a mistake. The defeat of Ukraine will be the defeat of Europe. The Baltic states, Georgia, Moldavia are already on the list. Putin’s objective is to return to Yalta where half the continent was conceded to Stalin. The countries of the South are watching the outcome of the conflict before deciding if they should continue to respect Europe or if they are now free to trample it.

What Putin wants is an end to the world order put in place by the United States and its allies and whose first principle is to prohibit the acquisition of territories by force. This idea is the very foundation of the United Nations where the US nowadays votes for the aggressor and against the victim because Trump’s vision coincides with Putin’s: A return to the spheres of influence, where great powers dictate the fate of smaller countries. To me Greenland, Panama and Canada, to you Ukraine, the Baltic states and Eastern Europe, and to him Taiwan and the China Sea. In the evening parties of the Mar-a-Lago Gulf oligarchs, they call this “diplomatic realism”.

We are therefore alone. But to say that one cannot resist Putin is erroneous.

Contrary to Kremlin propaganda, Russia is not well. In three years, the so-called second army in the world has managed only to nibble crumbs from a country three times less populated. Interest rates are at 25%. Currency and gold reserves have collapsed, just as its demography. All of this shows that Russia is facing the abyss. The salvatory American nudge is by far the greatest strategic error ever to be committed during a war.

The blow is certainly violent, but it has a silver lining: The Europeans are walking out of denial. In one day in Munich they have understood that the survival of Ukraine and the future of Europe are in their own hands and that they have three imperatives:

Accelerate military aid to Ukraine to compensate for the American retreat. So that it holds the line. But also to impose its presence and that of Europe in any negotiation. It will be costly. We will have to break through the taboo of using the frozen Russian assets. We will have to go around Putin’s accomplices right here inside Europe, through a coalition of only those willing countries with, of course, the United Kingdom.

Second, demand that any deal include the return of the kidnapped children and the prisoners of Ukraine, and absolute security guarantees. After Budapest, Georgia and Minsk, we know the value of these deals with Putin. Those guarantees must rest on sufficient military force to deter a new invasion.

Finally, and this is the most urgent because it will take time, we must rebuild the defense of Europe, neglected because of the American umbrella in place since 1945, and undermined since the fall of the Berlin wall.

It’s a herculean task. But it is on its success or failure that the history books will judge the leaders of democratic Europe.

Friedrich Merz has just declared that Europe needs its own military alliance. Which is to admit that France has always been right for decades in pleading for a strategic autonomy. Now we must build it.

We will have to invest massively, boost the European Defense Fund outside of the framework of the Maastricht sustainability criteria, rationalize armaments and munitions systems, accelerate the entry into the Union of Ukraine whose army is the first European army, rethink the role and terms of the nuclear deterrent on the basis of French and British capabilities, and relaunch the programs of anti-missile shield and satellites.

More will be needed. Europe will not regain its military power unless it becomes an industrial power. Simply put, we must implement the Draghi report. For good.

But the real rearmament of Europe is its moral rearmament. We must convince public opinion against wariness and fear of war, and most of all against Putin’s sidekicks, namely the extreme right and the extreme left. Only yesterday at the National Assembly they were pleading against European unity, against European defense. They say they want peace. But what they or Trump do not say is that their peace is capitulation, the peace of defeat, the replacement of De Gaulle-Zelenskyy by a Ukrainian Petain under the jackboot of Putin. The peace of collaborators who for three years have refused any assistance to Ukraine.

Is this the end of the Atlantic Alliance? The risk is great. But for the past few days, Zelenskyy’s public humiliation and all the mad decisions taken over the past month have finally moved the American people. Polls are heading downwards, elected GOP representatives are shouted down by hostile crowds in their districts. Even Fox News has become critical. The Trumpians are no longer in the forefront. They control the executive, Parliament, the Supreme Court, and the social media, but throughout American history, the partisans of freedom have always overcome the odds and are now beginning to raise their heads.

The fate of Ukraine will be determined in the trenches, but it also depends on those in the United States who want to defend democracy and our own capacity here to unite the Europeans, to find the means of their own common defense, and to remake of Europe the power that it once was but which it is hesitating at reassuming. Our parents vanquished Fascism and Communism but paid the price of all sacrifices. The task of our generation is to vanquish the totalitarianisms of the 21st century.

Long live free Ukraine. Long live Democratic Europe. 

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[French original]

04-Mars-2025

Monsieur le Président,
Monsieur le Premier ministre,
Mesdames et Messieurs les Ministres,

Mes chers Collègues,

L'Europe est à un tournant critique de son histoire. Le bouclier américain se dérobe, l'Ukraine risque d'être abandonnée, la Russie renforcée.

Washington est devenue la cour de Néron, un empereur incendiaire, des courtisans soumis et un bouffon sous kétamine chargé de l'épuration de la fonction publique.

C'est un drame pour le monde libre, mais c'est d'abord un drame pour les États-Unis. Le message de Trump est que rien ne sert d'être son allié puisqu'il ne vous défendra pas, qu'il vous imposera plus de droits de douane qu'à ses ennemis et vous menacera de s'emparer de vos territoires tout en soutenant les dictatures qui vous envahissent.

Le roi du deal est en train de montrer ce qu'est l'art du deal à plat ventre. Il pense qu'il va intimider la Chine en se couchant devant Poutine, mais Xi Jinping, devant un tel naufrage, est sans doute en train d'accélérer les préparatifs de l'invasion de Taïwan.

Jamais dans l'histoire un président des États-Unis n'a capitulé devant l'ennemi. Jamais aucun n'a soutenu un agresseur contre un allié. Jamais aucun n'a piétiné la Constitution américaine, pris autant de décrets illégaux, révoqué les juges qui pourraient l'en empêcher, limogé d'un coup l'état-major militaire, affaibli tous les contre-pouvoirs et pris le contrôle des réseaux sociaux.

Ce n'est pas une dérive illibérale, c'est un début de confiscation de la démocratie. Rappelons-nous qu'il n'a fallu qu'un mois, trois semaines et deux jours pour mettre à bas la République de Weimar et sa Constitution.

J'ai confiance dans la solidité de la démocratie américaine et le pays proteste déjà. Mais en un mois, Trump a fait plus de mal à l'Amérique qu'en quatre ans de sa dernière présidence. Nous étions en guerre contre un dictateur, nous nous battons désormais contre un dictateur soutenu par un traître.

Il y a huit jours, au moment même où Trump passait la main dans le dos de Macron à la Maison-Blanche, les États-Unis votaient à l'ONU avec la Russie et la Corée du Nord contre les Européens réclamant le départ des troupes russes.

Deux jours plus tard, dans le bureau ovale, le planqué du service militaire donnait des leçons de morale et de stratégie au héros de guerre Zelensky avant de le congédier comme un palefrenier en lui ordonnant de se soumettre ou de se démettre.

Cette nuit, il a franchi un pas de plus dans l'infamie en stoppant la livraison d'armes pourtant promise. Que faire devant cette trahison ? La réponse est simple : faire face.

Et d'abord ne pas se tromper. La défaite de l'Ukraine serait la défaite de l'Europe. Les Pays-Bas, la Géorgie, la Moldavie sont déjà sur la liste. Le but de Poutine est le retour à Yalta où fut cédée la moitié du continent à Staline.

Les pays du Sud attendent l'issue du conflit pour décider s'ils doivent continuer à respecter l'Europe ou s'ils sont désormais libres de la piétiner.

Ce que veut Poutine, c'est la fin de l'ordre mis en place par les États-Unis et leurs alliés il y a 80 ans, avec comme premier principe l'interdiction d'acquérir des territoires par la force.

Cette idée est à la source même de l'ONU, où aujourd'hui les Américains votent en faveur de l'agresseur et contre l'agressé, parce que la vision trumpienne coïncide avec celle de Poutine : un retour aux sphères d'influence, les grandes puissances dictant le sort des petits pays.

À moi le Groenland, le Panama et le Canada, à toi l'Ukraine, les Pays-Baltes et l'Europe de l'Est, à lui Taïwan et la mer de Chine.

On appelle cela, dans les soirées des oligarques du golfe de Mar-a-Lago, le "réalisme diplomatique".

Nous sommes donc seuls. Mais le discours selon lequel on ne peut résister à Poutine est faux. Contrairement à la propagande du Kremlin, la Russie va mal. En trois ans, la soi-disant deuxième armée du monde n'a réussi à grappiller que des miettes d'un pays trois fois moins peuplé.

Les taux d'intérêt à 25 %, l'effondrement des réserves de devises et d'or, l'écroulement démographique montrent qu'elle est au bord du gouffre. Le coup de pouce américain à Poutine est la plus grande erreur stratégique jamais commise lors d'une guerre.

Le choc est violent, mais il a une vertu. Les Européens sortent du déni. Ils ont compris en un jour à Munich que la survie de l'Ukraine et l'avenir de l'Europe sont entre leurs mains et qu'ils ont trois impératifs.

Accélérer l'aide militaire à l'Ukraine pour compenser le lâchage américain, pour qu'elle tienne, et bien sûr pour imposer sa présence et celle de l'Europe dans toute négociation.

Cela coûtera cher. Il faudra en terminer avec le tabou de l'utilisation des avoirs russes gelés. Il faudra contourner les complices de Moscou à l'intérieur même de l'Europe par une coalition des seuls pays volontaires, avec bien sûr le Royaume-Uni.

En second lieu, exiger que tout accord soit accompagné du retour des enfants kidnappés, des prisonniers et de garanties de sécurité absolues. Après Budapest, la Géorgie et Minsk, nous savons ce que valent les accords avec Poutine. Ces garanties passent par une force militaire suffisante pour empêcher une nouvelle invasion.

Enfin, et c'est le plus urgent, parce que c'est ce qui prendra le plus de temps, il faudrait bâtir la défense européenne négligée, au profit du parapluie américain depuis 1945 et sabordée depuis la chute du mur de Berlin.

C'est une tâche herculéenne, mais c'est sur sa réussite ou son échec que seront jugés dans les livres d'Histoire les dirigeants de l'Europe démocratique d'aujourd'hui.

Friedrich Merz vient de déclarer que l'Europe a besoin de sa propre alliance militaire. C'est reconnaître que la France avait raison depuis des décennies en plaidant pour une autonomie stratégique.

Il reste à la construire. Il faudra investir massivement, renforcer le Fonds européen de défense hors des critères d'endettement de Maastricht, harmoniser les systèmes d'armes et de munitions, accélérer l'entrée dans l'Union de l'Ukraine, qui est aujourd'hui la première armée européenne, repenser la place et les conditions de la dissuasion nucléaire à partir des capacités françaises et britanniques, relancer les programmes de boucliers antimissiles et de satellites.

Le plan annoncé hier par Ursula von der Leyen est un très bon point de départ. Et il faudra beaucoup plus.

L'Europe ne redeviendra une puissance militaire qu'en redevenant une puissance industrielle. En un mot, il faudra appliquer le rapport Draghi. Pour de bon.

Mais le vrai réarmement de l'Europe, c'est son réarmement moral.

Nous devons convaincre l'opinion face à la lassitude et à la peur de la guerre, et surtout face aux comparses de Poutine, l'extrême droite et l'extrême gauche.

Ils ont encore plaidé hier à l'Assemblée nationale, Monsieur le Premier ministre, devant vous, contre l'unité européenne, contre la défense européenne.

Ils disent vouloir la paix. Ce que ni eux ni Trump ne disent, c'est que leur paix, c'est la capitulation, la paix de la défaite, le remplacement de de Gaulle Zelensky par un Pétain ukrainien à la botte de Poutine.

La paix des collabos qui ont refusé depuis trois ans toute aide aux Ukrainiens.

Est-ce la fin de l'Alliance Atlantique ? Le risque est grand. Mais depuis quelques jours, l'humiliation publique de Zelensky et toutes les décisions folles prises depuis un mois ont fini par faire réagir les Américains.

Les sondages sont en chute. Les élus républicains sont accueillis par des foules hostiles dans leurs circonscriptions. Même Fox News devient critique.

Les Trumpistes ne sont plus en majesté. Ils contrôlent l'exécutif, le Parlement, la Cour suprême et les réseaux sociaux.

Mais dans l'histoire américaine, les partisans de la liberté l'ont toujours emporté. Ils commencent à relever la tête.

Le sort de l'Ukraine se joue dans les tranchées, mais il dépend aussi de ceux qui, aux États-Unis, veulent défendre la démocratie, et ici de notre capacité à unir les Européens, à trouver les moyens de leur défense commune, et à refaire de l'Europe la puissance qu'elle fut un jour dans l'histoire et qu'elle hésite à redevenir.

Nos parents ont vaincu le fascisme et le communisme au prix de tous les sacrifices.

La tâche de notre génération est de vaincre les totalitarismes du XXIe siècle.

Vive l'Ukraine libre, vive l'Europe démocratique.

JD Vance: We are Working with Putin on a Ukraine Plan

There you have it. Dumb morons Trump and Vance are upset that Zelenskyy turned down their plan to exploit his country's mineral resources without giving him any assurances that the US will seriously confront further Russian annexation of his country's territories. Zelenskyy is not some GOP-MAGA weasel who does not dare oppose Trump. He is a wartime leader who must insure his country's interests and survival first before signing a piece of shit contract with Trump and signing his country's surrender to Putin.

Vance is offering Zelenskyy the protection that American corporations supposedly somehow provide by simply being on the ground in Ukraine. Not sure, but can US mineral extracting companies withstand Russian drone attacks or retaliate? Since when have greedy American corporations become a substitute for the US military? 

Even the US military has repeatedly failed in accomplishing its missions since 1945: Vitenam, Korea, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan... have all been disasters. Perhaps, Trump and Vance know that their troops, despite all the technological wizardry they muster in killing hundreds of thousands of people, will flunk a war with Russia and, as the cowards that they are, don't want another military humiliation. Hence, they claim that an American mineral extracting company is the "perfect" substitute for the US military. If that is the case, why waste a trillion dollars each year to fund a bloated and largely ineffectual US military? The answer: The corporations - Trump's billionaire buddies - that manufacture the weapons make lots of money off the back of the US taxpayer.

The imbecile dumb Americans running the White House are so full of themselves that they genuinely believe that theirs is the only worthy country and everyone else - all countries around the world - are SHITHOLE countries they can bully and blackmail to make money: Like the Mafia.

So Trump and Vance are now "working with the Russians" on a Ukraine plan, just as Chamberlain worked with Hitler on a plan to dismember Czechoslovakia in 1938. Moronic weaklings who would sell their own mother for profit if they find a buyer.

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Vance says US working on Ukraine plan ‘with the Russians’ after Trump cuts defense aid to Kyiv
Andrew Feinberg
Tue, March 4, 2025

Vice President JD Vance on Monday said Trump administration officials are already in talks with Russia to end the years-long war Russia launched against Ukraine, and warned that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs to accept Donald Trump’s terms for a mineral rights deal and enter negotiations with Moscow.

Vance’s demand that Zelensky accept the U.S.-backed mineral rights deal follows the Ukrainian leader’s ejection Friday from the White House after an Oval Office shouting match with Vance and Trump.

It also comes just hours after the Trump administration announced it was halting some defense aid to Kyiv at a crucial time in the war as Zelensky’s forces have fought to repel Russian invaders since 2022.

Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity, Vance said the idea of having American economic interests “on the ground” in Ukraine would provide a superior security guarantee to putting American or European troops on the ground to guarantee any future ceasefire with Moscow.

“If you want to actually ensure that Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine again, the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine,” he said.

“That is a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years. The security guarantee, and also the economic guarantee for Ukraine, is to rebuild the country,” Vance said. “You're not going to do that if you come to the Oval Office, insult the president and refuse to follow his plan for peace.”

Asked whether Trump would welcome Zelensky back to sign the deal that was left on the table last week, Vance told Hannity that the Ukrainian leader would be allowed back if he “had a serious proposal for how he was going to engage in the process.”

“There are details that really matter, that we're already working on with the Russians. We've already talked to some of our allies, he needs to engage seriously on the details,” he said.

Vance also told Hannity that Trump has “set a very clear goal for his administration” regarding Ukraine, which is simply wanting “the killing to stop” without regard for whether any peace deal he brokers allows Russia to get away with changing European borders by force for the first time since the Second World War.

Vance claimed that Zelensky had “showed a clear unwillingness to engage in the peace process that President Trump has said is the policy of the American people and of their president” by refusing to accept Trump’s desire to negotiate a peace plan on his country’s behalf.

Vance added: “I think Zelensky wasn't yet there, and I think, frankly, now still isn't there, but I think we'll get there eventually. He has to.”

Trump-Musk Back-date Docs to Claim Biden, not them, Ordered $400 Million worth of Tesla Cybertrucks

Elon Musk is firing dedicated federal civil servants to save money, but then takes that money to help himself and his companies.

For example, selling his Tesla trucks to the government and securing a $2.4 billion telecommunications contract for his Starlink satellite telecommunications company for the Federal Aviation Administration.

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US senator asks Rubio to answer questions on planned Tesla Cybertruck purchase
David Shepardson
Updated Tue, March 4, 2025


Senator Richard Blumenthal speaks to press on Capitol Hill in Washington

By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal on Monday asked U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to answer questions about a reported plan to spend $400 million to purchase armored versions of Tesla Cybertrucks to transport diplomats.

The State Department said Monday the contract was planned during the Biden administration and the Trump administration canceled it. But the senator, who is the top Democrat on a Senate investigations subcommittee, said that account has been questioned.

"The question has been raised whether, after significant public blowback, the Trump Administration created and backdated government documents to make it appear that the idea to spend $400 million in taxpayer money on Tesla Cybertrucks originated with the previous administration," Blumenthal wrote.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a close adviser to Trump and help lead an effort to drastically shrink the federal government and cut numerous government contracts. Tesla did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The State Department told Reuters Monday under President Joe Biden it was asked "to explore interest from private companies to produce armored electric vehicles" and said in response to a request for information in May 2024 only Tesla expressed interest.

"As a next step in that process, an official solicitation would be sent out to vehicle manufacturers to bid. However, the solicitation is on hold and there are no current plans to issue it," the department said, declining to answer questions raised by Blumenthal.

Blumenthal said if the State Department sought to backdate a document it would raise serious questions.

"If that occurred, the Trump administration not only recognizes the tremendous conflicts of interest inherent in Mr. Musk’s dual roles, but is also taking active steps to hide the fact that it is ensuring that Mr. Musk’s position is benefiting his companies," Blumenthal wrote.

Other questions have been raised about other potential conflicts of interest for Musk, including at the Federal Aviation Administration over a $2.4 billion telecommunications contract with Verizon and the potential that the contract could be given to Musk's Starlink satellite telecommunications company, which is part of SpaceX.

(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Chris Reese, Chizu Nomiyama and Nick Zieminski)

Trump Supports North Korea's Troops Fighting for Russia in Ukraine

With his blind support to the criminal dictator in the Kremlin, not only is Donald Dumb trying hard to emulate Putin and make America as totalitarian as Russia, but he also indirectly backs North Korea's dispatch of thousands of troops - against their will - to Russia to fight against Ukraine.

But read below about how North Korea and Russia deal with their soldiers - just as Trump has repeatedly said that soldiers in general, and American soldiers in particular, are suckers and losers: According to this jackass moron, fighting and dying for one's country is stupid! Even John McCain, the Vietnam hero and POW, was berated by Trump because "you're not a hero if you get caught", implying you might as well kill yourself instead of getting caught by the enemy, just like the North Korean soldiers below.

To those veterans who voted for this criminal asshole and have not regretted their vote, F-U-C-K YOU!
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Families of North Korean troops captured in Russia 'will be executed,' former Pyongyang soldier tells ABC News
BRITT CLENNETT and HAKYUNG KATE LEE
Tue, March 4, 2025

A former sergeant in the North Korean military says that few of Pyongyang's soldiers have been captured fighting against Ukraine because they're told their families will be executed if they are caught alive. "Most soldiers will kill themselves before they're killed by the enemy, it's the biggest shame to be captured," the former soldier, Ryu Seong-hyeon, told ABC News.

Ryu defected to South Korea in 2019, running across a minefield in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas.

Pyongyang has deployed more than 12,000 soldiers to Russia to fight in the Ukraine war, according to US estimates, with experts claiming Russian forces have also used North Korean weapons.

An estimated 300 North Korean soldiers have died in the fighting, and over 2,700 have been wounded, Seoul's National Intelligence Service told lawmakers in a closed briefing in January.

South Korea's spy agency told journalists Thursday that an unknown number of additional North Korean soldiers have been sent to the frontlines in Russia's western Kursk region since early February, after a near month-long lull in fighting against Ukrainian troops, who launched a surprise offensive across the border last August.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced in January that his forces had captured two North Korean soldiers, marking the first time that Ukraine had captured Pyongyang's troops alive.

In a nearly 3-minute video released by Ukraine following the capture of the two North Korean troops, one of the soldiers says he wants to remain in Ukraine when asked if he wishes to return home. The Korean translator asks, "Did you know you were fighting in a war against Ukraine?" The soldier shakes his head.

South Korean intelligence assessed that the two soldiers were with the Reconnaissance General Bureau, a key North Korean military intelligence agency.

"If the soldiers are captured and tell information to the enemy, their families will be punished, go to a political prison camp, or worse, they will be executed in front of the people," said another North Korean defector, Pak Yusung.

'They just die like a dog'

Pyongyang's soldiers have struggled to adapt to the modern battlefield, the North Korean defectors suggested, as videos released by the Ukrainian military appear to show North Korean soldiers being chased down by attack drones.

Ryu and Pak defected long before the fighting that's underway in Russia, but they said that, in their experience, most of the soldiers would not have seen a drone in their life.

PHOTO: North Korean defector Pak Yusung in Seoul, South Korea. (ABC News)

"Before they go they don't have any practice in how to defend against a drone or how to fight Ukrainians, that's why they just die like a dog," Ryu said. "They don't have the skill, the language or the information."

Pak and Ryu's analysis lines up with information released by South Korean intelligence, which said North Korea has clearly instructed the soldiers to kill themselves to avoid being captured alive.

Seoul's spy agency also said it attributes the "massive casualties" of North Korean soldiers to their "lack of understanding of modern warfare," including their "useless" act of shooting at long-range drones, based on the agency's analysis of a recent combat video.

Ryu, who was about 110 lbs. at the time of his defection, said if he were still a North Korean soldier, he would also want to go: "If I went to Ukraine, I could eat food, and I could see another country." He said there are also big financial incentives, and the soldiers would have no idea that their chances of dying were so high.
Selling lies

Ryu and Pak said North Korean soldiers were being sold a lie. "From a young age they're told to hate the American 'wolves', and now they are told they are finally killing Americans," the defectors said.

Ryu said in his experience with the North Korean air force, about 50% of the pilots were only trained in theory, and did not have experience flying a fighter jet.

Pak, who is a researcher at the North Korea Institute, said North Korean leader Kim Jon Un would be receiving critical technology in exchange for the manpower, in what should be a deeply worrying sign for the world, Kim also gets more real combat experience in case of a war on the peninsula.

"If Russia wins the war, it will empower the dictator alliance," Pak said.

PHOTO: ABC News Foreign Correspondent Britt Clennett, right, speaks with North Korean defectors Ryu Seong-hyeon, center, and Pak Yusung in Seoul, South Korea. (ABC News)

"This is just the start. If the Ukraine war keeps going, Kim will keep sending soldiers. Inside North Korea more people will start knowing and that could be a threat to Kim."

When asked what they could possibly do about it when living in a dictatorship controlled by fear, Pak said, "Think about it: your sons died on the battlefield and not for your own country."

Ryu added, "You cannot send so many people to the labor camps."

Pak and his team of four North Korean defectors, Voices of North Korean Youth, have been trying to push the international community to condemn Russia and North Korea with one voice, and also called for the International Criminal Court to hold North Korean leader Kim accountable.

ABC News' Karson Yiu contributed to this report.

True Heroes like Lech Walesa Are Horrified by Trump

Lech Walesa is a Polish hero who stood up against the Soviet Union's imperial rule over his country. He was a simple dock worker who led the Solidarity protest movement against the pro-Russian occupation Communist regime in Warsaw and won.

Walesa says he is horrified by Trump's behavior and submission to the Russian dictatorship's annexation of Ukraine. If you were to choose between, on one hand, the words of a convicted felon, a serial adulterer, a coward draft dodger like Trump who thinks soldiers are suckers and losers for risking their lives for their country, and who has turned the US into an ally of the neo-imperialist Russian criminal dictatorship and its impending annexation of Ukraine, and on the other hand, the words of a real fighter against the Communist regime in Poland who liberated his country from Soviet rule and who earned the Nobel Prize for his life's accomplishments for peace and freedom, which would you choose to believe in good conscience?

The coward or the hero?

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Polish democracy hero Wałęsa says Trump's treatment of Zelenskyy filled him with 'horror'
Associated Press
Mon, March 3, 2025


FILE - Poland's former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Lech Walesa, is greeted at parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Dec. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)


WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's democracy hero Lech Wałęsa and dozens of other former political prisoners in Poland have written a letter to President Donald Trump, telling him that his treatment of Ukraine's president at the Oval Office last week filled them “with horror and distaste.”

Wałęsa, who served as president soon after Poland embraced democracy, and the others tell Trump that they found it offensive that he expected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to show respect and gratitude for the material assistance the United States has given Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia's invasion.

“Gratitude is due to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed blood in defense of the values ​​of the free world. They are the ones who have been dying on the front lines," they say.

The White House has demanded that Zelenskyy show more openness to potential concessions in order to bring the fighting to an end, but Zelenskyy has been resistant, saying Monday that any deal with Russia is still “very, very far away," while seeking greater security guarantees from Washington.

Wałęsa posted the letter on Facebook on Monday along with a photograph of himself with Trump. It was signed by himself and 38 other former democracy activists who were imprisoned by Poland's Moscow-backed communist regime before 1989. Among the others who signed are Adam Michnik, Bogdan Lis, Seweryn Blumsztajn and Władysław Frasyniuk.

“We were also terrified by the fact that the atmosphere in the Oval Office during this conversation reminded us of the one we remember well from interrogations by the Security Service and from the courtrooms in communist courts," they wrote.

"Prosecutors and judges, commissioned by the omnipotent communist political police, also explained to us that they had all the cards in their hands, and we had none. They demanded that we cease our activities, arguing that thousands of innocent people were suffering because of us. They deprived us of freedom and civil rights because we did not agree to cooperate with the authorities and did not show them gratitude. We are shocked that you treated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a similar way,” they wrote.

Starting in 1980, Wałęsa spearheaded Poland’s pro-democracy Solidarity movement that nine years later led to the peaceful ouster of communism from Poland and inspired other countries to shed Moscow’s domination.

In 1983 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1990-95 he served as democratic Poland’s first popularly elected president.