MAGA Senator: No Need to Worry About Medicaid Cuts; We're All Going to Die Anyway

Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican MAGA idiot from the peasant backward state of Iowa reminded constituents worried about Medicaid cuts that “we are all going to die” at a town hall she held.

During the meeting in Parkersburg, Iowa, Ernst faced questions from voters concerned about proposed cuts to Medicaid and food stamp benefits. “We are going to focus on those that are most vulnerable,” Ernst tried to assure the crowd. “We will protect them. OK? Medicaid is extremely important here in the state of Iowa. ... Leave those dollars for those that are eligible for Medicaid.”

Ernst then claimed the efforts to roll back Medicaid benefits would only affect people who aren’t eligible for them, which led one woman in the crowd to yell, “People will die.”

The senator had a callous response. “People are not ― well, we all are going to die. So, for heaven’s sakes, folks,” she said while the audience jeered. That's MAGA's "common sense", which seeks to replace science and knowledge with fatalistic religious bullshit similar to Muslim fundamentalists who by deferring to God on everything become lazy bums.

For imbeciles like Ernst, the bible is the only book worth reading. No need for medical bureaucracy, no need for vaccines, just surrender to God's will which is for you to die. There's no point doing scientific research and making new discoveries. No need for all these universities whose scientific discoveries contribute to a woke culture that takes us away from God. According to these barbarians, there's no need for government either; we ought to live the settlers of the 17th century: In a log cabin out in the boonies - like Ted Kaczynski - away from any civilization, and with the trash of the bible as our only fountain of solace. 

I wonder what Joni Ernest will do when she has ovarian cancer: Will she double-down on her biblical crap and arm-raising bigoted prayers or will she go see a doctor whose knowledge and treatments are the cumulation of hundreds of years of scientific research done in the very universities that her boss Donald Dumb is trying to dismantle?

Trump's Anti-Black Racism Exposed

Biographer: This Is What Trump Really Thinks About Black People
Will Neal
Thu, May 29, 2025

Donald Trump’s biographer has given some insights into the way he thinks the president perceives the Black community.

“Clearly, he has some issue with Black people,” Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast on Thursday. “The world is a better place to him without Black people, or without having to be aware of Black people, without Black people somehow in what he considers a zero sum game with white people.”

The president has a long history of incendiary rhetoric and actions described by his critics as racist, though he stringently denies those allegations and even told reporters back in 2018 he was “the least racist person you have ever interviewed.”

In 1973, the Department of Justice sued Trump and his companies for discriminating against Black renters, and under the Obama administration he was one of the most vocal proponents of the “birther” conspiracy theory.

He’s also continued to maintain that the Central Park Five, a group of mostly Black teenagers, were responsible for the rape of a white woman in 1989, despite all five men having been fully exonerated in 2002.

He launched his 2016 election campaign with a speech accusing Mexico of deliberately sending “criminals” and “rapists” across the border into the United States.

The following year, he described participants at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, as “very fine people,” before in 2018 referring to African countries as “s---holes” during an Oval Office meet about immigration.

“Trump certainly regards Black people as profoundly different from white people,” Wolff further said during his sit-down with the Daily Beast. “I mean the word racist now becomes in the Trump world a kind of high praise, because it’s meant to suggest the liberal overreach and the liberals call anybody racist.”

The Fascist Party of America (a.k.a. MAGA) is a Clone of the Chinese Communist Party

The Donald Dumb administration is chasing the smartest, brightest, most educated students on earth out of the US. Who's there to replace them? The MAGA base consisting of the illiterate ultra-religious peasants of the American south and the midwest. All the great inventions, discoveries, vanguard ideas that are produced in the most prestigious of American academies by Chinese, European, Indian, Japanese and other students, will in the future be developed by American peasant students who know the bible by heart, are convinced the earth is 6,000 years old, eagerly await the Apoclalypse and the end of times and the annihilation of all those who are not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Christians, and believe that Black Africans should be returned to bonded slavery because all these elements contributed (between the 17th and the 19th centuries) to America's greatness. Make America Great Again implies re-imposing - by force and coercion - the barbarity and backwardness of these beliefs.

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After Rubio seeks to revoke their visas, Chinese students say U.S. resembles the country they left

Kimmy Yam
Fri, May 30, 2025


[Donkey-eared] Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Capitol Hill on May 21. (Mark Schiefelbein / AP file)

Chinese students say they’re questioning their decision to study in the U.S. after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the federal government will attempt to “aggressively” revoke their visas.

Rubio said Wednesday that Chinese students “with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields” would be targeted.

Chinese students who spoke to NBC News on Thursday said that they came to the U.S. for freedoms they felt they did not have back in China but that now the Trump administration is starting to resemble the strict regime they left behind.

“USA stands for freedom. It stands for democracy. … That’s why we come here to chase our dreams,” said one Chinese Ph.D. student at a New Jersey university, who requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation. “In China, the government can control education, high schools, colleges, universities. We thought that the USA could be different.”

The State Department referred NBC News to comments by spokesperson Tammy Bruce during a news briefing Thursday in which Bruce said the department does not discuss the details of its visa process due to privacy concerns.

“We use every tool that we have to vet and to make sure we know who’s coming in,” Bruce said. “In this particular case, the United States is putting America first by beginning to revoke visas of Chinese students as warranted.”

The Chinese Embassy referred NBC News to comments made by Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Mao harshly criticized Rubio’s announcement Thursday at a regular briefing in Beijing.

“This politically discriminatory move exposes the hypocrisy of America’s long-proclaimed values of freedom and openness, and will only further damage the United States’ international image and credibility,” Mao said.

Questions swirl around the new directive, including what “critical fields” the administration will be looking into and what types of connections to the CCP are under scrutiny. But it has already prompted panic among many Chinese scholars, who make up the second-largest international student group in the U.S. after students from India.

While a temporary nationwide injunction issued last week blocks the Trump administration from revoking international students’ legal statuses amid its mass termination of records, attorneys say that it may not protect Chinese international students.

Jath Shao, a Cleveland-based immigration attorney, said that while the restraining order keeps international students from being arrested or detained, or from losing their legal status, they can still have their visas revoked. Without a visa, Shao said, students cannot return to the U.S. once they’ve left, among a host of other issues.

“If you’re trying to get a job or a study ... that means you’re pretty much out of luck,” Shao said. “You’re stuck here. They’re basically trying to take away all your options.”

Kathleen Bush-Joseph, a policy analyst with the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, said the Trump administration could argue that Chinese students fall under a completely different circumstance compared with those protected by the injunction.

“We’re seeing in various cases that the administration is saying that it’s doing individualized determinations,” Bush-Joseph said. “Even if they’re focusing on a particular nationality, in any given case, they might say this is based on an individual person’s circumstances.”

One Chinese student who is studying economics at an Ivy League institution said that he felt the tactics used by the Trump administration, including harsh, pointed rhetoric and intimidation, smacked of those used by the Chinese government. The student said it was not uncommon for Beijing to withhold funding for certain political research, much like Trump has threatened Harvard University, or use other methods of repression.

“In China, we’re all Chinese, so they cannot revoke our citizenship, but they can revoke the student record,” he said. “That happens when it comes to people involved in political activities.”

“I think they’re just using the CCP to evoke a ‘Red Scare.’ They don’t really care about ideals,” the economics student said, referring to the historical periods of fear in the U.S. around the potential rise of communism and socialism. “We just keep joking that it seems like Trump is learning from the Xi Jinping playbook.”

The Ph.D. student said that at this point, he and his peers are considering either moving back to China or going to another Asian country — a plan that he said was not in the books before.

He said that before coming to America, he envisioned a country that was welcoming of diversity and inclusive of all backgrounds and a place he would put down roots. His thoughts on the U.S. have evolved drastically.

“My family and my best friends, they had a phone call with me to say, ‘Hey, I think maybe you should come back. We think that there’s no reason for you to stay in the U.S.,’” he said.

Gisela Perez Kusakawa, executive director of the nonprofit Asian American Scholar Forum, said the new policy would only serve to harm the U.S. and its own research ambitions.

“We know that many of our best and brightest talents are prominent scientists that have gone on to develop so many innovations that have changed the daily lives of so many Americans,” she said. “They started out as international students. They walked these campuses.”

She also noted that it’s likely policymakers are guided by misconceptions around Chinese nationals. While there’s been a longstanding belief that Chinese international students would take intelligence back to China, research shows that most hope to start their lives in America. From 2005 to 2015, 87% of Chinese Ph.D. students said that they intended to stay in the U.S. A separate survey of more than 1,300 Chinese American researchers found that 89% “aimed to help advance U.S. leadership in science and technology.”

As disappointing as the Rubio announcement was, Kusakawa underscored that it isn’t necessarily surprising. In March, Republican lawmakers introduced a bill that would halt the issuance of student visas to Chinese nationals looking to study at U.S. universities or take part in exchange programs.

“In many ways, there was already this existing fear that this could potentially become a reality,” Kusakawa said. “But perhaps what is surprising is the speed in which it’s happening.”

So far, the announcement has drawn mass criticism from many high-profile Chinese American lawmakers and leaders, including Gary Locke, a former U.S. ambassador to China and the chair of the Chinese American nonprofit Committee of 100, and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.

“The wholesale revocation of student visas based on national origin — and without an investigation — is xenophobic and wrong,” the lawmakers said on social media. “Turning these students away — many of whom simply wish to learn in a free and democratic society — is not just shortsighted but a betrayal of our values.”

MAGA Attacks Against Science Continue: Back to the Stone Age

RFK Jr is ruining the reputation of the Kennedy name. He is a dumb maniac with a proclivity for voodoo charlatanism with an umbilical cord still attached to bullshit healing, astrology, spiritual guidance, and connecting with one's ancestors. He is far from the stature of President JFK and Attorney General Bobby Kennedy.

RFK Jr, who has a worm in his brain and a frog in his throat has been on a campaign of denigrating hundreds of years of established science, as he complies with the edicts of the illiterate ignorant Moron-in-Chief. The latter is denying research funds from prestigious academic institutions (Harvard, Columbia, etc...). He has made deep cuts into the budgets of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is blocking thousands of the best and brightest students around the world from enrolling in US institutions.

RFK Jr has taken a chainsaw to tear through the scientifically-established paradigm of protection through vaccines, casting doubt on their efficacy, recommending dubious diets and vitamins (i.e. untested pills made by corrupt companies) instead. The US is indeed becoming the laughingstock of the entire world of advanced scientific and technological societies.

We all see where this is going: By undermining the trust of the American people in their scientific and technological institutions and diverting it to the primitive ignorance of religions and charlatan beliefs, the RFK Jr-Trump tandem are dismantling the pillars that made the US great to begin with.

The nightmare continues.
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RFK Jr wants to ban government scientists from publishing in top journals and instead create a MAGA-backed publication
Michelle Del Rey
Wed, May 28, 2025

 

Donald Dumb and RFK Jr (who is trying to dislodge the frog from his throat)

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr wants to ban top government scientists from publishing in “corrupt” medical journals and force them to present research in MAGA-backed publications instead.

During an appearance on the Ultimate Human podcast, Kennedy Jr said: “We’re probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and those other journals because they’re all corrupt.” He claimed the journals are under the control of pharmaceutical companies, according to The Washington Post.

The world-renowned journals publish peer-reviewed research and analyze medical findings across the globe. Some of the journals receive millions of visits to their site annually.

More than 1 million people read the New England Journal of Medicine in print each week.

In past remarks, Kennedy has accused government agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, of being “sock puppets” for pharmaceutical giants.

The new government journals would immediately receive credibility because they’d be funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said Kennedy. This is despite NIH funding falling more than $3 billion between President Donald Trump’s inauguration and March, when compared to the same time last year.

“It is anointing you as a good, legitimate scientist,” he said on the podcast episode, which aired shortly after he bypassed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and announced the department would stop recommending the coronavirus vaccine for healthy pregnant women and children.

Last week, the White House released a “MAHA report,” challenging vaccines. Several sections of the report offered misleading representations of findings in scientific papers, the newspaper reported.

The scientific community is becoming increasingly concerned that research efforts are not progressing due to the Trump administration’s actions.

Since Trump’s inauguration, Kennedy’s agency has dismissed 20,000 federal workers, impacting almost every department division.

The Demented Moron Turning Senile: COGNITIVE DECLINE BACCHANALIA

I think DOGE should fire the Moron-in-Chief's speechwriters. They're a waste of taxpayers' money. With his 6th grade literacy level, the idiot-in-chief can barely read the speeches off the teleprompter. And then, when he manages to stutter through a few words, his liquified brain goes on a verbal rampage worthy of the "automatic language" promoted by the French Dada and surrealist movement of the early 1900s. Except that in his case it is more oral fart than art.

As the moron slowly slips into old age senility and mental incapacitation, his MAGA morons are going to see Mr. Trump recapitulating Joe Biden's slide into all sorts of geriatric dodderings. The difference being that Mr. Biden was a respectable wise old man, in contrast to the ignorant hoodlum that Mr. Trump has always been. The shoe is now on the other foot, and I will definitely enjoy the show.
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Opinion

Cognitive Decline? Trump Repeatedly Fumbles in Multiple Weird Rants
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Tue, May 27, 2025


The president and his speechwriters just had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad weekend.

Over the course of 72 hours, Donald Trump droned and dragged his way through stump speeches and interviews with the press, making some critics question whether the 78-year-old was still totally with it.

Trump urged the officer class of West Point Military Academy to “not lose momentum” on Saturday—but while doing so, he went on a long, rambling side note about Cold War–era real estate businessman Bill Leavitt and his “trophy wife,” his yacht, and how he lost it all.

Trump's West Point commencement audience is totally silent as he rants about trophy wives and yachts pic.twitter.com/LRb97OXJ7K

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 24, 2025

At an Arlington Memorial Day ceremony intended to commemorate fallen soldiers, Trump basically alleged that his second term was a gift from God because the nation would experience both the World Cup and the Olympics during the next four years.

“In some ways I’m glad I missed that second term where it was,” Trump said, apparently refusing once again to acknowledge that he lost the 2020 presidential election. “Because I wouldn’t be your president for that—most important of all, in addition we have the World Cup and we have the Olympics.

“Can you imagine, I miss that four years and now I have everything,” Trump continued. “Amazing the way things work out. God did that; I believe that.”

Trump: We have the World Cup and we have the Olympics. Can you imagine, I miss that four years and now I have everything. Amazing the way things work out. God did that pic.twitter.com/VPWjYun5QB

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 26, 2025

(The World Cup and the Olympics are not scheduled by God, as you can imagine. Instead, they are both held every four years, with host countries selected through non-national organizations.)

During the same speech, Trump offered another verbal “covfefe” moment, lazily stumbling over the word “cryptologist” and instead blurting out “cryptolologic” while referring to a technician.

On Sunday, Trump spoke with reporters on the tarmac in Morristown, New Jersey, only to reveal (while boasting) that he actually did not understand the specifics of a deal between U.S. Steel and Japanese company Nippon Steel. Trump had announced the partnership on social media Friday, claiming that it would create “at least 70,000 jobs” and add “$14 billion dollars [sic]” to the economy. But instead of sharing the specifics of the deal on Sunday, the president mistakenly pitched that Japanese carmaker Nissan was involved in the steel arrangement.

“Everybody seems to want it, and we’ll see. We’ll see what the final is, but they’re going to invest billions of dollars in steel, and it’s a good company—Nissan—a very good company,” Trump said. “It’s an investment and a partial ownership but it will be controlled by the U.S.A.”

The Moron-in-Chief is Learning on the Job

Has Vladimir Putin actually "changed" as the Moron-in-Chief just told us yesterday? Really? The jackass Donald Dumb didn't know that Putin was, like him, a convicted veteran criminal who assassinates opponents and threatens everyone with wars and retribution? Isn't Donald Dumb, the "stable genius", supposed to know beforehand - thanks to the multitude of intelligence briefings he receives (but which he is reported to never read) - what blend of corrupt and criminal mettle Putin is made of?

No, the Supreme Jackass at the White House appeared - or pretended - to be surprised by Putin's savagery against Ukraine. Donald Dumb is either an idiot, a hypocrite, or both, which makes him a dangerous loony. Donald Dumb said yesterday that he has a “very good relationship” with Putin, that he was surprised by how the Russian leader has changed and become “absolutely crazy", and that he (Donald Dumb) "doesn't know what has happened to Putin". 

The only reason for this insane drivel is that Donald Dumb has been given a mighty middle finger by Putin. Not only has Putin not agreed to any deal on a ceasfire, but he has elevated his barbarity against Ukraine to unprecedented levels.

It doesn't take a prophet or a nuclear scientist to understand where Putin is coming from and where is going. His resumé is rich in all sorts of criminal activities (annexation of Crimea, poisoning and assassinating dissidents all over the world, etc.), so you don't need a genius to know where Putin's intentions are.

But having failed miserably, and expectedly, at "fixing" the Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours, Trump pretends to be surprised by Putin's barbarity. We thought he knew him well! How could he have not known that Putin doesn't want peace, but only annex more territories tore-create the evil Soviet empire? 

[Update: As of May 29, Donald Dumb has given Putin two weeks to agree to a ceasefire, otherwise "very bad things will happen" to Russia.] Yeah, we've seen these stupid threats before that Trump then gingerly walks back, as if he's never serious about them. It is easy to theaten Yemen then bomb it - Yemen is a raggedy Arab country like Palestine, and killing and bombing are fair game. But Russia is a huge White country of the great north with nuclear weapons; Trump will think a million times before attacking Putin's Russia. So what gives? There are no more sanctions left to be slapping on Russia; Biden and the Europeans have done all the heavy lifting on sanctions at a time when Trump was adulating, praising and literally kissing the "beautiful white skin" of Putin's derrière, and proclaiming that Biden and Europe were stupid for antagonizing the Russian dictator. Only he - Trump - could solve the world's problems with the primate power of his orange Orangutan charm.

But, the Moron-in-Chief likes the "strong man" prototype, and he is nowhere close to penalizing Putin or holding him accountable for not agreeing to a ceasefire in Ukraine. He is madly in love with Putin (who too has "beautiful white skin") and is only saddened because his Russian lover won't agree to a threesome with the Ukrainian, demonstrating to the world that cuckold Trump is impotent. On the other hand, he gathers his inbred dog pack (Vance, Rubio, and all the other oligarch corrupt idiots) in the White Outhouse and ambushes "lowly" politicians like Ukraine's Zelenskyy or South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa.

Bottom line: Out of the demented idiotic impulse of the "Strong man" that he thinks he is, Donald Dumb jumps headfirst in the cesspool of any problem and proclaims that he alone can fix it in 24 hours with the power of his charming personality. But when reality sets is and his magnetism suddenly turns into a gooey cloacal load of fresh manure, he flails around and tries to come out of the cesspool by suspending his threats and his tariffs.

The man is a moron on a galactic scale. He is learning the vicissitudes of political life on the job. He might have learned a few things from his mistakes during his first term, but it is clear that his second term continues to be marked by temper tantrums of a 10-year old, while his empty thick refractory skull doesn't have enough neurons for the lessons of life to settle into some kind of stable caution and wisdom. He thought he could negotiate world affairs like he does when selling or buying a stupid building. As a wannabe dictator politician, though, the man is a failed imbecile who is wrecking his country because of his inexperience and genetic stupidity.

I predict that, given his impotence at dealing with Putin and his fears of confronting the Russian dictator, Donald Dumb will reflexively turn, again, against the easier target, Zelenskyy, out of fear of Putin. Especially with Zelenskyy having an orgy with the Europeans. Donald Dumb will go back crying on his lover Putin's shoulder - please take me back, I didn't mean those things I've said about you .... - and asking for forgiveness, and foregoing his threesome with Zelenskyy.
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Donald Trump grows angrier as Vladimir Putin exposes his impotence
John Bowden
Tue, May 27, 2025

As Washington settled in for a typically sleepy Memorial Day following the passage of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in the House, the president fired off one of his trademark furious rants on Truth Social, but the target was a surprise.

This time, the target wasn’t any of his domestic political foes — like the Democrats who voted in lockstep against the budget package he endorsed, or the handful of Republicans who refused to fall into line. It wasn’t even aimed at the various law enforcement figures who have attempted to hold him to account over the years.

Sunday evening’s rant was aimed squarely at Russian President Vladimir Putin. Despite what he called a “very good relationship” with Putin, Trump in his latest statement on the Ukraine-Russia war blasted the Russian leader as “absolutely crazy.”

“He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “I’ve always said that he wants ALL of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that’s proving to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia!” Trump warned.

He echoed the same thoughts as he spoke to reporters in New Jersey on Sunday ahead of his return to Washington that day.

"He's killing a lot of people," said the president. "I don't know what the hell happened to Putin, I've known him for a long time.”

Donald Trump opens his pie hole as he speaks to reporters on Sunday about the war in Ukraine (AFP via Getty Images)

Trump sudden harsh turn was illuminative, if not for the reason he may have intended. A throwaway jab aimed at Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy (“everything out of his mouth causes problems … it better stop”) in the same post solidified the underlying intention of the screed: Trump was massaging a bruised ego.

With his pride wounded, Trump has turned to lashing out at the Russian leader who is now publicly refuting his repeated claim that he could end the destructive three-year-old conflict in “24 hours.” Four months after Trump took office, supposedly poised to immediately shut down the war, attacks on Ukrainian targets intensified over the weekend, with Russia launching its largest aerial assault of the war thus far.

Loathe as he is to give Zelenskyy any credit for correctly predicting that Russia’s leadership had no real intentions of ending the war, Trump’s emotional outburst comes as he seems to be realizing that the issue could become a major blemish on the “dealmaker” perception he has sought to cultivate.

More importantly than representing a threat to his ability to live up to his own boasting, the attacks also refute many of Trump’s more recent statements about the Russian president and his supposed desire to see the war end. Trump, who famously hates being made to look foolish by his allies, said as recently as last Monday of Putin: “I do believe he wants to end it.”

But France’s president Emmanuel Macron believes Trump is beginning to realize the truth about Putin’s war stance.

"I believe that President Trump has realized that when President Putin told him he was ready for peace, he was lying," Macron said on Monday. He pointed to the severity of Russian offensives as the persuading factor.

"You cannot claim to be ready for negotiations and carry out attacks at the same time. Such double rhetoric demonstrates the insincerity of any statements about dialogue," said the French president.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, flanked by Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron (AFP/Getty)

Now, Washington is already beginning to wonder if Trump will back up his rhetoric with action. He has repeatedly vowed to slap damaging sanctions on Russia if the invasion continues without a resolution, most recently doing so this month in an interview with Fox’s Bret Baier.

But in a press gaggle days after those remarks, Trump also suggested that his administration may “just back away” from the conflict, which would “keep going” without U.S. involvement if a deal was not reached.

Capitol Hill is not keen to let that happen — a bipartisan resolution to impose a new slate of sanctions on Russia hit 81 co-sponsors in the Senate last Wednesday, according to a press release from joint co-sponsors Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal.

The bill, which is designed to be snapped into place if peace talks fall apart, would slap sanctions on a range of Russian top ministers, as well as on businesses and entities that transact with the Russian armed forces.

“Russia has agreed to provide its term sheet for a ceasefire in the next few days. Its contents will speak volumes as to whether or not Russia is serious about peace. We suspect it will be more of the same,” the pair said in a joint statement.

“If it is more of the same, Russia can expect decisive action from the United States Senate.”

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TO WIT:

Wall Street Journal Shatters Core Trump Fantasy In Editorial Urging GOP ‘Revolt’

Lee Moran

Updated Tue, May 27, 2025

The Wall Street Journal on Monday urged Republican senators to take the lead in confronting Russia over its ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It warned that Donald Trump and his allies’ “naivete” on Russian President Vladimir Putin is only allowing the bloodshed to continue.

In an editorial titled “Time for a GOP Senate Revolt on Sanctions Against Putin,” the newspaper’s conservative editorial board slammed Trump’s stalled bid for peace, which he promised to bring on day one of his second term.

“Trump and his advisers fancy themselves steely-eyed realists on foreign policy,” it wrote. “But on Mr. Putin they are starry-eyed idealists, mouthing ‘peace’ as if they can make it happen by wishing it were so.”

The Journal, which has needled Trump repeatedly in recent weeks, said the president, who expressed his surprise this weekend after Russia launched yet another large-scale attack on Ukraine, despite Putin’s lip service to peace talks, is essentially allowing Russia’s authoritarian leader to drag out the invasion.

It called on GOP lawmakers to push a bipartisan bill ― co-sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and signed by dozens of colleagues ― to slap 500% tariffs on products imported into the U.S. from countries that buy Russian oil and gas.

The board concluded, “Energy sales are Mr. Putin’s financial lifeline,” and sanctions may change his “calculations about the price of war.” It added that the Senate Republicans “can act whether or not Mr. Trump approves” and force Trump to “face the hard reality” of Putin’s ambitions.

 

Pernicious and Suspicously Zionist Move by Donald Dumb Against Foreign Students

Always remember that Donald Dumb is a dummy in the hands of his Zionist minders. 

My advice to ALL INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CONTEMPLATING STUDIES IN THE US: DON'T BOTHER. IT'S NOT WORTH IT. NOT ONLY IS AMERICAN EDUCATION HIGHLY OVERRATED, BUT YOU'LL ENCOUNTER DISCRIMINATION AND RACISM THROUGHOUT YOUR STAY HERE.

GO TO EUROPE, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, UK, FRANCE.... THEY HAVE EXCELLENT RESEARCH FACILITIES AND UNIVERSITIES.

When I came to the US as a student, I had a choice between several Canadian universities and several US universities. I chose the latter for the misguided "prestige" and have regretted it ever since. The education that you get is not worth the American bureaucracy and the increasingly instituionalized and grassroots racism. The injection of foreigners into the American bloodstream has contributed much more to the wellbeing and prosperity of America than Americans can ever accomplish on their own. I urge students to not come to the US for their studies: Deny the US your brainpower and let if fend on its own with its ignorant and poorly educated younger generation.

It was a German Nazi (Werner Von Braun) who laid the foundation for American space science and nuclear power. It was a Syrian (Steve Jobs) who invented smart phones. 

“The average immigrant is substantially more productive than the average U.S.-born inventor”, concludes a report you can read on: https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/new-look-immigrants-outsize-contribution-innovation-us

The Moron-in-Chief is either a liar (that's a given) or doesn't understand education (that's a given too). He has no education and he is a veteran liar. Or he is told inaccurate things by his asskissers around him which he blurts out on impulse without a speck of thinking.

The jackass claims that foreign students do not pay anything for their education in the US. He doesn't know that students from foreign countries are not eligible for US government-sponsored financial aid. None of Harvard's undergrads get money from the US. In fact, they pour money into the US economy. Graduate students too (Master's, doctoral candidates, and exchange visitors) do not get any money from the US government.

How do they pay for their education?

For undergraduates, they either pay their own tuition (wealthy parents), or they come here on scholarships and fellowships from their own governments, or from international organizations or from private philanthropic foundations. Foreign undergraduate students are prohibited from working off campus, but they can work part-time on campus doing kitchen work, maintenance work, serving in student cafeterias, serving at the campus libraries, filling drinks at campus sports events or at any of the many other activities on campus.

For graduate students, most are covered like undergraduate students by non-US sources described above. In addition, some graduate students get free tuition in exchange for teaching undergraduate students under the guidance of a professor or by doing research also under the supervision of a professor. For instance, a biology graduate student works in the lab on his/her research dissertation while also teaching undergraduate students in the laboratory on the practical /experimental aspects of their coursework. For example, an undergraduate student taking an anatomy course goes to a lecture by the professor in charge of the course, then spends several hours a week in the laboratory dissecting specimens under the supervision of a graduate student. The professor has other courses to teach and has his/her own research to run; they have no time to spend long hours in the laboratory with undergraduate students, hence the need for "teaching assistants".

I did my own doctoral studies on a scholarship from my government for the first two years of my graduate studies. Under this scholarship I did not work, all my expenses were covered by my government's scholarship. I then applied for a scholarship from a private American foundation with ties to the university I was attending: It paid for my remaining two years of tuition while I taught in the laboratoryand worked in the lab on my doctroal research.

Trump is a liar and a coward. He goes after the most vulnerable segments of the population. Like immigrants, foreign students don't vote and have fewer protections from the American system. Hence, they are an easy target. Especially that his moronic base has been taught and brainwashed to hate all foreigners, so when he attacks foreigners, international students and immigrants, he appeals to the chronic xenophobia of his bastard inbred white trash base of middle America.

The dictator Donald Dumb says he wants the "names and countries" of origin of Harvard's international students. Why? because he wants to persecute them for standing up against the Zionist genocide in Palestine. 

This is not about money as he claims. This is about protecting the foreign Zionist colony in Palestine against the truth. Like a Communist dictator, he wants to blacklist students from foreign countries to prevent them from speaking their conscience and to immunize the otherwise dumb American students against learning anything other than the Zionist feed they have been injected with since birth.

I THEIR WANT NAMES...he says. But Harvard is refusing. Thankfully.
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Trump says Harvard's foreign students are from countries paying 'nothing' for their education
Landon Mion
Sun, May 25, 2025



President Donald Trump on Sunday criticized foreign countries for paying "nothing" toward the education of their citizens who are attending college at Harvard and other U.S. institutions.

This comes amid the fight between the Trump administration and Harvard for its plans to revoke the university's ability to enroll foreign students.

"Why isn’t Harvard saying that almost 31% of their students are from FOREIGN LANDS, and yet those countries, some not at all friendly to the United States, pay NOTHING toward their student’s education, nor do they ever intend to," Trump wrote early Sunday morning on Truth Social. "Nobody told us that!"


President Donald Trump criticized foreign countries for paying "nothing" towards the education of their citizens who are attending college at Harvard and other U.S. institutions.

"We want to know who those foreign students are, a reasonable request since we give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but Harvard isn’t exactly forthcoming," he continued. "We want those names and countries. Harvard has $52,000,000, use it, and stop asking for the Federal Government to continue GRANTING money to you!"

On Friday, a judge temporarily blocked the administration from canceling Harvard's student visa program after the university filed a lawsuit against the federal government.

Harvard argued that the policy would affect more than 7,000 visa holders — nearly a quarter of the student body — and that the administration's effort is a "blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act," according to its court filing.

"It is the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government’s demands to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum, and the 'ideology' of its faculty and students," Harvard wrote in its complaint.

The Department of Homeland Security moved to terminate Harvard's visa program after the university allegedly failed to provide extensive behavioral records of student visa holders the agency had requested.

The records sought include any footage of protest activity involving student visa holders, even if it's not criminal, and the disciplinary records of all student visa holders in the past five years.

Requested records also include footage or documentation of illegal, dangerous or violent activity by student visa holders, any records of threats or the deprivation of rights of other students or university personnel.

DHS had moved to terminate Harvard's visa program after the university allegedly failed to provide extensive behavioral records of student visa holders the agency had requested.

Harvard called the new policy "pernicious" and accused the administration of departing from "decades of settled practice" and coming "without rational explanation." The university also said the policy was "carried out abruptly without any of the robust procedures the government has established to prevent just this type of upheaval to thousands of students’ lives."

At least a dozen Harvard students have had their student visas revoked over campus protest activity. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said before Congress on Tuesday that the administration has probably revoked thousands already and would "proudly" revoke more.

The administration has already frozen close to $3 billion in federal funding to the university, largely dedicated to research, over claims that Harvard has not adequately responded to alleged campus antisemitism in protests and has not moved to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion practices.



"We want those names and countries": Trump rages over Harvard's international student population
Alex Galbraith
Sun, May 25, 2025


Harvard University Getty/Pgiam

Donald Trump is losing his war against Harvard University. And, if a late-night post to Truth Social is any indication, he's not taking it very well.

The Trump administration has gradually escalated attacks on America's oldest institution of higher learning in recent months after the school refused to bow to threats against its federal funding. Earlier this week, the Department of Homeland Security revoked Harvard's certification to enroll international students. A judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the move after Harvard filed yet another lawsuit against the federal government.

It's the third such attack to sputter and falter in the first few months of Trump's term. The president and Penn grad raged against the school on his personal social media platform overnight.

"Why isn’t Harvard saying that almost 31% of their students are from FOREIGN LANDS, and yet those countries, some not at all friendly to the United States, pay NOTHING toward their student’s education, nor do they ever intend to," he wrote. "Nobody told us that!"

Trump ominously asked for more information about Harvard's foreign-born student body, mischaracterizing his admin's attempted blanket ban on enrollment as a request for more data.

"We want to know who those foreign students are, a reasonable request since we give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but Harvard isn’t exactly forthcoming," he said. "We want those names and countries. Harvard has $52,000,000, use it, and stop asking for the Federal Government to continue GRANTING money to you!"

Trump's attacks on Harvard and the anti-immigrant tenor of his second term have left many current students wary of continuing their education at the prestigious school.

Speaking to CNN, Harvard student body co-president Abdullah Shahid Sial said that international students were "extremely afraid" of what the future holds.

"They’re literally like, teenagers, thousands of miles away from their hometowns having to deal with this situation, which lawyers often fear to engage in," Sial said. "As of right now, I’m not sure if I can attend the next semester or not."

Trump's Crusade Against Liberal Universities: Illiterate Moron with an Inferiority Complex

Harvard, Columbia, U. Pennsylvania, etc. are among the best in the world, and definitely THE best in the US. They are incubators of innovation and new ideas that pull the entire country behind them as it changes and evolves for the better. It was the students at these and other university campuses that forced the US government to divest from apartheid South Africa in the mid-1990s. 

Because these same campuses are leading the charge to divest from apartheid genocidal Israel, the illiterate Moron-in-Chief is attacking them for two simple reasons:

- They recruit much much smarter people - professors, researchers and students - from around the world than the rampant mediocrity of MAGA-affiliated institutions of abysmal learning like the so-called "Christian" universities where the bible is taught in lieu of Darwin's "On The Origin of Species", where non-Christian students are rarely admitted, and which produce the intellectually enslaved morons that populate most of the southern and midwestern states of the Union. 

I am specifically referring to Evangelical Protestant institutions like Jerry Falwwell's Liberty University and others of that brand of educational institutions that teach the religious charlatanism known as "Creation Science". There are many Protestant and Catholic universities around the country that adhere to the highest scientific and intellectual standards without succumbing to the same level of backwardness as the Evangelical institutions and, quite the contrary, that encourage academic freedom and open-minded scientific quest for the truth, even if they conflict with their churches' teachings and beliefs. I once attended a seminar at a Jesuit university in the midwest where 90% of the invited speakers frontally attacked the Catholic Church for its painfully slow adaptation to scientific discoveries. The school's administration - clergymen for the most part - was in attendance and no one was offended.  

- The second reason for Donald Dumb's wrath against liberal universities is that he is enslaved by the Zionists around him. Given that he is a moron, he is easily manipulated and brainwashed with ideas that promote the interests of his Zionist minders and handlers. The latest example is how Elon Musk convinced the Moron-in-Chief that South Africa is committing genocide against its white foreign settler population. Similarly, Donald Dumb doesn't understand a thing about the conflict in Palestine, and he is directed to obey whatever his Zionist handlers tell him. 

Liberal universities are powerful agents of change and as such, by default, they go against the fossilized barbarian mindset of conservatism that hates change. All the societal evolutions - women's rights, civil rights, gay rights, workers' rights, etc.. that took place over the past century in an otherwise deeply rural, ignorant, illiterate and conservative American society were the products of vanguard thinkers and students on liberal campuses.

At the present time, the illiterate cognitively-impaired Moron-in-Chief who can barely read from a teleprompter, is being instructed by his Zionist Fascist handlers to attack anything and anyone with a hint of sympathy for the colonized, brutalized, starved, murdered civilian population in Palestine. Students who get their letters-to-the-editor published in their campus newspaper; professors whose research points to a systematic genocide being carried out by the Zionist settlers of Palestine; foreign students who usually are selected from among the best around the world, and who are therefore knowledgeable of the truth in Palestine, etc. All these people are being arrested, fired from their jobs, harassed, exiled in prisons thousands of miles away from their home states.... Just like Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for decades: Kill, exile, assassinate, deport, imprison, demolish homes, destroy indigenous villages, uproot millennial olive groves....

There is no natural convergence between American public opinion and Zionist propaganda. It's all engineered. If you discuss Palestine with the average American, you'll quickly realize that they know the only fake narrative and facts that are allowed in the US: those promoted by the Zionist colonial enterprise. US public opinion is the only public opinion in around the world that doesn't have at least a nuanced or balanced understanding of the conflict in Palestine. 

Qatar, the country that is offering a $400 million Boeing 747 to the Moron-in-Chief and that has been playing the mediator on the Zionist genocide in Gaza, has a flagship television news channel of the highest quality and professionalism: Al-Jazeera. Guess what: Al-Jazeera is prohitibed from broadcasting in the US. Why? Because it does present the Palestinian narrative alongside the Israeli one. But the Zionists don't want the truth, they don't want balance in the information, they fear that Americans might escape from the information gulag in which they are kept. If the average American is informed of the truth and of both narratives, the basic common sense of Americans will immediately win them over to the cause of the real victim, Palestine. Dare say one word against Israel, and you are immediately tasered into submission by the scarecrow of antisemitism that Americans are battered with from the moment they are born. 

That is why the illiterate Moron-in-Chief is very happy to go after the much smarter people (than him) of the best universities and colleges in the US: He is scared shitless of them, for their academic and scientific method are the antidote to the primtiveness and backwardness of American conservatism with its baggage of racism, segregation, and ignorance.

Someone once said that not all conservatives are dumb people, but ALL dumb people are conservative.

Trump’s ban on Harvard foreign students may come at a hefty price to the economy

Lexi Lonas Cochran

Sun, May 25, 2025

The Trump administration’s efforts to block international students from Harvard could come at a hefty price — and not just for the university.

Harvard students are top innovators in the country, with foreign-born alumni leading dozens of successful startups.

Besides their business contributions, international students more broadly make up a sizeable portion of spending in their areas, throwing almost $44 billion into the U.S. economy.

“We turn global talent away at our own expense. Losing international students’ contributions will negatively impact domestic students’ understanding of the world and have dire consequences for the country’s economic strength, security, and global competitiveness,” said Fanta Aw, executive director and CEO of the Association of International Educators, or NAFSA, in a statement.

“These outcomes run counter to the administration’s stated goal of making America safer, stronger, and more prosperous,” Aw added.

Along with saying new international talent cannot come to Harvard, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week demanded that current foreign students leave the school for other colleges.

A judge on Friday temporarily blocked the move and scheduled a hearing for Thursday to consider a longer pause. District Judge Allison Burroughs noted Harvard’s concern “it will sustain immediate and irreparable injury before there is an opportunity to hear from all parties.”

If a later ruling allows the ban to move forward, Harvard would feel the pinch immediately: 27 percent of its student body, or some 6,800 attendees, in the 2024-2025 academic year was made up of international students, who typically pay more in tuition and other costs than domestic ones.

According to NAFSA data, international students at Harvard contribute approximately $383.6 million annually to the area economy, supporting around 3,910 jobs.

In the 2023-2024 academic year, Harvard’s international students made up 54.5 percent of the total spending by foreign students studying in Massachusetts’s 5th Congressional District.

The state sees almost $4 billion a year in foreign students’ spending, with Harvard making up around 10 percent of that.

International scholars spend money on tuition and books, but also on accommodations, dining, retail, health insurance, telecommunication and transportation, NAFSA notes.

Around two-dozen billion-dollar U.S. startups were founded by foreign students who studied at Harvard, according to an analysis from Axios.

And the effects could soon ripple out. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made clear in her announcement of the Harvard ban that other colleges that displease the Trump administration could follow suit, calling it “a warning to every other university to get your act together.”

For every three international students, one job was created in the U.S., according to NAFSA. In total, foreign students supported or created almost 380,000 jobs.

The situation for international students in the U.S. was already perilous, with hundreds seeing their visas pulled, sometimes with little explanation. In many high profile cases, the government has gone after students who were involved in the pro-Palestinian movement on their campuses.

Harvard’s lawsuit against DHS’s move is the second it has filed against the Trump administration; the first last month came after the government froze billions of dollars in federal funding when the university refused to bow to its demands to change its hiring and admissions policies, as well as eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion on campus.

President Trump has also called for the IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status.

The administration accuses Harvard and other schools of failing to protect their students from antisemitism, often specifically regarding last year’s protests amid the war in Gaza.

Even if Harvard does have to replace all its international scholars, it would struggle to do so before the fall semester.

“Harvard can replace all those international students with Americans, pretty easily, but it’s hard to do that on short notice,” said Robert Kelchen, a professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Tennessee.

“I think that other colleges would normally be happy to take students to help them out during a time of need. I think the question is, will the administration issue a threat that if any of these students end up transferring to put that institution’s funding at risk?” Kelchen added, warning Trump could also to go after the school’s ability to receive federal student aid.

“At this point, the only lever that the federal government has not used against Harvard is financial aid for students. And I think that’s quite possible at this point, because basically every other funding source has been cut off,” he said.

 

Trump's Policy Gyrations: Deliberate Corrupt Tool to Enrich the Oligarchy

Just BEFORE the Moron-in-Chief announces tariffs, he tells his clique of GOP-MAGA billionaires (both inside and outside the government) who sell stocks before the market tanks: They profit. A few days later, the Moron-in-Chief informs his buddies that he plans to rescinding or pause the tariffs, so the clique of oligarchs buy up stocks BEFORE he makes the announcement. He makes the announcement, the stock market rallies: They profit again.

Maybe that is the only reason why he makes these economic policy gyrations: He manipulates the market so he, his family and his buddies make money. The man is ruining the US economy just so he can make even more money that he will ever need...or perhaps he needs the money to change his platinum door knobs and toilet seats to gold.
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Over a Dozen Officials Dumped Stocks Just as Trump Crashed the Market
Malcolm Ferguson
Thu, May 22, 2025



Over a dozen officials within the Trump administration conveniently sold off their shares just days before their president crippled the stock market with his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs, according to ProPublica.

Attorney General Pam Bondi sold up to $5 million in her Trump Media shares on Liberation Day. One State Department official sold $50,000 in shares two days before. A White House lawyer sold off shares in nine different companies in February, the day before Trump announced tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sold shares in nearly 36 companies on February 11, two days before Trump teased his Liberation Day reciprocal tariffs. In each of the more than dozen instances, someone high up within the Trump administration sold off large amounts of their stock market shares right before Trump tanked the stock market, and some even bought a similar amount of shares back at much lower prices shortly after.

There is no direct proof that these officials had nonpublic information about policies that would impact the stock market before everyone else, but the administration has clearly created an environment in which the potential for insider trading is incredibly high. And even if this administration isn’t insider trading, it’s doing an awful job at keeping up appearances. Trump himself posted in April, “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,” a mere four hours before announcing a 90-day pause on most retaliatory tariffs except for those on China, yet another market-shocking announcement that caused stocks to shoot up.

“Trump is creating giant market fluctuations with his on-again, off-again tariffs. These constant gyrations in policy provide dangerous opportunities for insider trading,” Senator Adam Schiff wrote on X at the time. “Who in the administration knew about Trump’s latest tariff flip flop ahead of time? Did anyone buy or sell stocks, and profit at the public’s expense? I’m writing to the White House—the public has a right to know.”

The Pious Drunkard & Womanizer Turns the Pentagon into a Christian Church

I didn't know that Trump was annointed president by Divine Grace like the King of England. But this is what a pastor announced this week at the Pentagon during an official prayer service mandated by the pious drunkard and racist womanizer Pete Hegseth. Live and learn how a 250-year old republic is being turned into a Taliban-on-the-Potomac. Pretty soon, in order to be promoted to General, the serviceman must also be a pastor - protestant of course - and white. 

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Hegseth hosts first meeting of what he says will be a monthly Christian prayer service at Pentagon
Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN
Thu, May 22, 2025


Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looking pious and patriotic at the Pentagon - Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosted a Christian prayer service on Wednesday at the Pentagon for employees that included a sermon by his hometown pastor who said President Donald Trump had been “sovereignly appointed.”

The service, which Hegseth told the audience would be a monthly event, was held in the Pentagon auditorium and broadcast live on the department’s internal TV network. Current and former defense officials told CNN it was highly unusual for the secretary to host a religious event during the workday for a particular religion.

“This is precisely where I need to be, exactly where we need to be as a nation at this moment, in prayer, on bended knee, recognizing the providence of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” Hegseth said in opening remarks at the service. “This is something we plan to do on a monthly basis, on a voluntary basis, here in the auditorium. I hope you’ll let those you work with know about it.”

Brooks Potteiger, the pastor of Hegseth’s Tennessee church Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, delivered the sermon after Hegseth introduced him as his longtime “mentor.” A defense official said that no government funds were used to facilitate Potteiger’s visit to the department.

In a prayer opening at the service in the Pentagon auditorium, Potteiger thanked God for Trump and other leaders who have been “sovereignly appointed,” and “the way that you have used him to bring stability and moral clarity to our lands.”

In a statement, acting Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said, “The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) invited DoD personnel to attend a voluntary Christian prayer and worship service this morning.... This service was an opportunity for Believers to appeal to Heaven on behalf of our great nation and its warfighters. Beseeching the Almighty has been an American tradition since George Washington prayed for our cause at Valley Forge. The United States was then, and remains now, One Nation under God. At this time, OSD envisions that these prayer and worship services will be a monthly occurrence. Any participating civilian clergy are responsible for their own travel and accommodations expenditures.”

While the Pentagon offers routine religious accommodations and services to personnel of different faiths, none of them are broadcast live internally, held in the auditorium or hosted by the secretary.

And none of them are advertised like the service held on Wednesday morning – the Pentagon sent an email to DOD employees reviewed by CNN encouraging employees to attend in-person, and to RSVP to a dedicated internal email address for the prayer services. A brochure entitled “Secretary of Defense Christian Prayer & Worship Service” with details of the service was also handed out to employees as they entered the room.

The front page of the brochure featured the seal of the Department of Defense, which retired Air Force Lt. Col. Rachel VanLandingham – a national security law expert and law professor at Southwestern Law School – said was indicative of Hegseth and the government’s sponsorship of the event, and could be a violation of the the First Amendment’s prohibition on the US government endorsing a religion.

A former Pentagon lawyer who left the department in April called the service “incredibly problematic.” They added that the “core of the Establishment Clause is the state not endorsing a particular religion, but having a broadcast event is obviously an endorsement even if they don’t officially say, ‘this is a Pentagon event.’”

The event and Hegseth’s sponsorship of it is a “clear violation” of the Establishment Clause, VanLandingham added.

“I think it’s sponsorship in the true sense of the word, outside of funding – he’s advocating for this, he is putting his weight of the official Office of the Secretary of Defense behind a particular religious event and inviting someone to the Pentagon to conduct it,” she said. “That’s wrong.”

And while the event was billed as voluntary, the involvement and endorsement of the secretary of defense could put pressure on service members and civilian employees to attend. Pentagon policy says that a government act is a substantial burden to a service member’s exercise of religion if it “places substantial pressure on a service member to engage in conduct contrary to a sincerely held religious belief.”

“Of course, folks in a rigidly hierarchical organization like the military think, ‘Oh, it’s optional, but when it’s being sponsored by the [secretary of defense], yeah, I better go’… It’s deeply problematic,” VanLandingham added.

Potteiger peppered his sermon with Pentagon-specific references.

“Our Lord, Jesus said in Matthew 10, not a sparrow will fall to the ground apart from my heavenly Father. If our Lord is sovereign, even over the sparrows’ fallings, you can be assured that he is sovereign over everything else that falls in this world, including Tomahawk and Minuteman missiles, including strategy meetings and war room debriefings. Jesus has the final say over all of it.”

Toward the end of his sermon, Potteiger said “we pray for the secretary’s Christian prayer service as an event … Lord, may this become a place where Christians come together to do just this, and we see you move in power, not just through the Pentagon, but through our nation’s capital and down throughout this great nation.”

Hegseth and Potteiger’s church is highly conservative, part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, whose governing documents state that “it is neither lawful nor honorable for women to be mustered for combat service,” and that “it is the duty of men—not women—to protect their homelands and nations.” Hegseth has also said previously that he does not believe women should serve in combat roles.

Asked about those comments during his confirmation hearing, Hegseth said he “respects ever single female servicemember” and was only concerned about standards being lowered for women.

Deutsche Bank Experts: Trump is Killing the US Economy

There is no doubt that the "transactional" nature of Donald Dumb boils down to essentially the idiot in the Outhouse and his family and billionnaire buddies profiting personally. The Trump oligarchy wants to dismantle everything in the structure of a government that has made America great, and anything left standing to be privatized to themselves. 

This is precisely what happened in the Soviet Union after it collapsed: Anything still standing was stolen by Vladimir Putin's elite buddies who became today's Russia billionnaire criminal oligarchs. 

While in the USSR the collapse happened because the highly centralized economic system under the Communist Party could not be sustained as it faltered and imploded from within, in the US the collapse preceding the projected stealing of institutions and entities is being deliberately caused by crude greedy capitalists like Donald Dumb and his accolytes. 

They are in the process of destroying the federal state by firing employees and depleting it of competences, eliminating many of its regulatory and service entities, and degrading it to the point where they will argue: It is inefficient and therefore must be privatized: Medicare, the Postal Service, Freedie Mac and Fanny Mae, etc. all are on the chopping block and the oligarchs stand ready to pounce to "rescue" the government by owning it themselves. 

The evidence to this scheme is simple: The destruction of the federal government, they say, has the objective of making the government lean, clean out the fat, streamline the process, reduce fraud, and ultimately reduce the national deficit which stands at more than $36.8 trillion.

BUT, Trump's MAGA morons in the Congress are passing a "big beautiful bill" in which they are endorsing Trump's proposed destruction of the federal government by eliminating several critical programs (for example, programs that assist the lower and middle classes like Medicaid etc.) WHILE lowering the tax burden off themselves and their corporate buddies who are raking billions and billions each year in profits. In so doing, Trump is raising the national debt by $2.5 trillion to 41 trillion dollars just so he can enrich himself personally.

The Big Beautiful Bill passed by the House with one vote majority is a 1,000-page package of tax cuts for the wealthy, trims the government's social safety net, raises the nation's debt ceiling by $4 trillion (meaning Trump's government is free to increase the debt even further) and new Washington spending. It still has to pass the Senate where it runs the risk of several republican senators disappointing Trump, to say the least.

Which means the ultra-rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer and the middle class will slowly degrade into the category of the poor.

Hasn't Trump repeatedly said that he wants to lower the national debt? Who is he fooling? His own herd of MAGA morons who like the form (tough guy bullshit) and have no clue about the substance (personal enrichment at the expense of the taxpayer).

Trump's stragety is to fool the poor and the middle class that he is working for them. He succeeded in convincing them that this is his priority. But now that they elected him and he is in office, he is blatantly proving that he lied to them just to get elected. All that he is doing in reality - and much of it under the table - is prepare to retire from the presidency a very very rich man, much richer that he ever was.

Throughout his so-called "businessman" career, Trump concocted illegal schemes and mediocre business ventures (Trump University: Can you imagine an illiterate moron running a university?) that led him to repeatedly declare bankruptcy. 

We have to wait for the American people to wake up and realize what they're in for, that Trump's last con job is unfolding right before their eyes, and that only bankruptcy he is planning this time is that of the US government and the US economy.

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Trump Is Slowly but Surely Killing U.S. Economy, Experts Warn
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Wed, May 21, 2025


[The stable idiot in the Outhouse looking his best]

The Trump administration’s economic plan has dashed America’s credit score, rocking the nation’s lending reputation. And experts warn this could be the beginning of the end.

Credit firm Moody’s downgraded the nation’s score Friday, reporting that it appears increasingly unlikely that the U.S. economy will be able to keep up with its rising debt and interest payments, rattling what was once an unshakable confidence in U.S. growth.

Major international lending entities, such as Deutsche Bank, viewed the score drop as just another indicator that time is running out on solving America’s national debt.

“Yesterday felt like we were somewhere along the line of a ‘death by a thousand cuts’ with regards to the U.S. fiscal situation,” Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid wrote, in a note obtained by Fortune Tuesday. “Hard to know where in that thousand we are but probably much nearer a thousand than at zero even as yesterday saw an initial sell-off reverse as the session went on.

“At the end of the day the loss of the final U.S. triple-A rating late on Friday night doesn’t change anything much immediately but it keeps the drip, drip, drip of poor fiscal news building up against the debt sustainability dam in the background.”

Ratings from Moody’s and other firms inform companies and groups both foreign and domestic regarding how much they need to pay in order to borrow money.

Moody’s was the last of the three major bond-rating agencies to downgrade America’s formerly spotless score, signaling that the nation is a bigger credit risk than it has been in decades. It also indicates that the time in which the U.S. could borrow seemingly infinite sums of money—without the risk of inflation—is coming to a close.

America’s national debt is currently more than $36.8 trillion, as of the time of publishing.

The Trump administration, however, has not yet looked inward for an explanation to the sour score. Instead, it has pushed blame onto the Biden administration, claiming that Republicans are still working overtime to trim the national deficit while they push forward a reconciliation package that would add somewhere between $3.8 trillion and $5.3 trillion to the national debt to afford tax cuts for multimillionaires and corporations.

“I do want to assure everyone that the deficit is a very significant concern for this administration,” top White House economist Stephen Miran told reporters Monday. “We’re determined to bring it down and to undo the damage to the fiscal health of the United States that was wrought by the Biden administration and its reckless policies.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, meanwhile, brushed off the score downgrade as a “lagging indicator” of U.S. performance, urging investors to disregard the news.

Trump enacted his sweeping tariff plan in order to offset the jaw-droppingly expensive extension to his 2017 tax cuts, but America has yet to see any gains from the economic agenda. Instead, the tariffs have destabilized American markets while simultaneously undermining U.S. dominance in the global economy.

Whether or not the deficit actually affects the economy is still in debate. But having investors believe in the health of the economy is critical.

“The government deficit isn’t a problem until investors think it is,” Callie Cox, chief market strategist at Ritholtz Wealth Management, told Axios Monday. “And they’re increasingly telling us that the deficit is a problem.”

Assassination of Israelis in DC: An Act of Terrorism, NOT Antisemitism

The killing of two Israeli diplomats in Washington DC last night was an act of terrorism, and Elias Rodriguez should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Just as the tragic October 7, 2023 attacks against innocent civilians was an act of terrorism. But neither of these two criminal acts rise to the standard of "antisemitic".

But Israeli officials, as is customary, throw their safety blanket of "antisemitism" to shrug off any responsibility they have in provoking such acts of violence by deliberately and savagely slaughtering innocent civilians. They can't have it both ways. They can't continue to wantonly starve and kill, and expect no hysterical desperate reactions from ordinary people in the international community at large. 

Zionist propaganda has been so adept at deeply embedding terrifying guilt in people on account of the Holocaust. To exploit the Holocaust in order to justify ANY barbarity by Israel is really indecent. For decades, Zionists have drilled the trope of antisemitism in world culture that it has become virtually impossible to honestly and candidly criticize Israeli or Zionist actions without the trope of antisemitism being thrown around to trigger fear and guilt impulses - and deter any further criticism no matter how relevant or appropriate it might be. "Antisemitic" is attached to anyone, including to entire Jewish communities, who sees Israel's genocide in Palestine as an inhumane, monstrous act of barbarity against a starved and bombed population. The label of antisemitism has itself become a libel.

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, the Zionist Danny Danon, called the shooting “a depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism". He has no serious argument to make because he knows that what his government is doing in Palestine is indefensible, morally, politically, and legally. So he resorts to the libel of antisemitism as pre-emptive deterrence against those who might suggest a factual link between the assassination of the two diplomats in DC last night and the savagery of Israel in Palestine.

Please Mr. Dannon, keep the antisemitism bullshit out of the picture. As the investigation will in all likelihood show, Elias Rodriguez did not kill the two diplomats because they were Jewish. He did not yell any of the standard antisemitic tropes that might justify your accusation that his act was one of antisemitism.

According to Wikipedia, "antisemitic tropes, also known as antisemitic canards or antisemitic libels, are "sensational reports, misrepresentations or fabrications" about Jews as an ethnicity or Judaism as a religion. Since the 2nd century, malicious allegations of Jewish guilt have become a recurring motif in antisemitic tropes, which take the form of libels, stereotypes or conspiracy theories. They typically present Jews as cruel, powerful or controlling, some of which also feature the denial or trivialization of historical atrocities against Jews."

Elias Rodriguez yelled "Free Palestine" as he was taken away after assassinating the two Israeli diplomats. His terrorist act was not motivated by any of the misrepresentations, conspiracy theories, or fabrications listed above. It was probably, as the investigation will not fail to reveal, motivated by the spectacle of genocide and ethnic cleansing that Israel is methodically, coldly and slowly perpetrating in Palestine as confirmed by thousands of foreign witnesses on the ground and by every other international expert and diplomat. Israel cannot hide the wanton barbarity of this second Nakba like it did with the first Nakba of 1948. Back then, Zionists could control the narrative with a couple of newspapers and get away with murder by brandishing the specter of Jewish victimhood after the Holocaust. But times have changed. 

Information is free today. No one can control it, and the more Israel and the Zionists keep  signing old lying tunes from a century ago, the more they sink in the moving sands they have dug for themselves. Even Holocaust-guilty European countries that have always been Israel's allies and backers have had it enough with Israel's barbarity in Palestine. Could the entire international community be wrong, while Israel (and the US government moron criminals and their only allies like the very weighty Marshall Islands) is the only one to be right?

Israel is perpetrating a genocide in Palestine whose objective is to empty Palestine of its original indigenous Palestinian population and replace it with foreign settlers. That has always been the methodology and the objective ever since Herzl, followed by Balfour and the Jewish terror groups (Haganah, Irgun, Lehi Group, Stern Gang...) violently voided Palestine of its owners whome they exxpelled into refugee camps and declared it as theirs to steal. Gaza is no more than a collective of dozens of refugee camps populated by indigenous Palestinians who were expelled by religious Jewish-Zionist fanatics from Europe and lately from New York. Why? Because, as they say, it is Yahweh's will and design.

I wish Mr. Dannon would give us one - just one - example of even a verbal criticism against Israel that he would NOT qualify as antisemitic. Enough of the antisemitic bullshit as a cover for barbarity and to repress speech critical of savagery and mass murder.

Should the legal pursuits against Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, the three sex trafficking Alexander brothers, Oren, Tal and Alon Alexander, and many others be qualified as antisemitic because these criminals are Jewish? 

Elias Rodriguez is a terrorist. His act is an act of terrorism. But it is NOT an act of antisemitism.