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So it MUST be made public now exactly WHAT intel they had, how reliable was it, how certain were they that the boat was carrying drugs, and where it was bound for. They had no legal authority to blow it out of the water, so they need to provide irrefutable proof that the boat was a legit target.
Regardless of whether or not that boat was carrying drugs and/or smugglers, bombing it out of the water & killing all on board was an act of piracy in international waters. It is no different from the Somali pirates who hijack ships - perhaps worse: the Somali pirates don't usually blow up the ship
Somewhat surprising that RFK Jr is so anti-science, anti-medicine, & anti-sense, given that it was science & medicine that fixed his brain worm for him. Without science & medicine, his brain would have turned to mush. Oh - wait...!
The only way that we'll get rid of RFK Jr from HHS is to make sure that all the negative publicity, blame, anti-science nut-whackery, etc gets deflected back to Trump. Make Trump responsible for the whole mess. That's the only way Trump will fire him. And replace him with another nutjob!
Actually, he and Trump had ZERO authority to invoke that strike in international waters. That was nothing short of piracy, regardless of whether or not the boat was carrying drugs & smugglers. Coast Guard should have stopped & seized the boat, arrested those on board, & checked the cargo.
If Trump were to fire RFK Jr (wouldn't that be good?), who would he pick to replace him? Trump could get some goodwill back by appointing an actual Public Health real expert doctor. Or he could appoint just another anti-vax, anti-science nut-job like RFK Jr. I know which one I think it would be!!
What WAS Trump thinking, apart from getting RFK Jr to drop out of the presidential election? Appointing RFK Jr to head the Dept of HHS was like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank. Or putting the fox into the chicken run & telling it to go for its life RFK has to go - resign or be fired.
This is exactly what you'd expect the Trump cronies to be doing while wasting time by continually releasing the same old set of "files" that have no real data? Nothing new there. But the victims' list of those involved won't be redacted...! sg.news.yahoo.com/undercover-v...
I get the feeling that we're approaching a major waypoint Will the Supreme Court uphold or rule against Trump's use of military in cities? Will RFK Jr survive all the negative publicity once it reflects back on Trump? Will we see a few more GOP break ranks & vote to release ALL the Epstein files?
What are the chances of Trump, Hegseth, & others ever being held accountable for murder, by ordering the military to bomb the crap out of that boat from Venezuela, in international waters, when they could have simply engaged it, stopped it, & arrested those on board, as well as checking the cargo?
That inane-smirking turgid little garden gnome, Mike Johnson, the Speaker, is going to try all sorts of shenanigans to stop the main Epstein files from getting out He will try to change the rules, he will bully GOP reps to cover it up & history will remember him as that little grovelling shit stain
Not having heard the press conference by the Epstein survivors early this morning Aussie time, did anyone ask them straight out if Trump was involved in any of the bad stuff? Or was he just a wannabe, hanging around with the "big boys" pretending to be one of them? If nobody asked - why not?
So Trump disappointed so many people by showing up alive at his press conference yesterday. But then he announced that he would be sending in the National Guard to Chicago & Baltimore - despite a judge ruling that when he sent them into LA it was illegal. Is he just going to defy the court again?
What do you mean - "Is she evil or just an idiot"? Kristi Noem is the personification of both. For the geeks among us, in the binary system, given that choice, she is a 10 ;)
I think where Trump is concerned, "shafting the little guy" must be a euphemism ;)
What sort of democracy is it (yeah, right - I know...!) when a far-right fruit loop called Laura Loomer can (a) influence the government, (b) get to Trump's ear (the uninjured one - oh, wait...) any time she likes, and (c) has the amazing power to tell the government what they can & can't do. Crazy
If the victims' testimony was so harrowing for Nancy Mace, just imagine how harrowing & awful it must have been for the victims to tell it...! Mace had, and took, the option of walking out. The victims had the courage to stay in there and talk.
Given that alleged smuggling of drugs is not a capital offence (doesn't carry the death penalty), what right did the US have to shoot & kill those on board the Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean? Why didn't they disable the boat & arrest those on board, & get proof of their cargo at the same time?
"Stopping crime" in this case actually IS the crime...! The military and the police are two completely separate organizations with completely different purposes. As judges have ruled, it is illegal to use the military the way Trump is using them domestically. So THAT is the crime.
Using the words "unconstitutional" and "retaliatory" is so ironic, coming from somebody who supports Trump...!
Unbelievable - the Secretary of Energy somehow thinks that electricity is not energy! And gets the sums TERRIBLY wrong in terms of what solar would produce if the planet were to be wrapped in solar panels. Trump's problem, as with so many departments, of hiring people who know nothing to lead them.
What would be the outcome if federal ICE, National Guard, FBI, and others on arrival in Chicago were met with the massed forces of the Illinois National Guard who politely but firmly told them to piss off back home? Would they open fire? I suspect not - I think that would be the line not crossed.
But doesn't Pritzker have the authority to mobilize the Illinois National Guard to protect his state from invasion? In which case, he should get them to send packing the unauthorized NG from other states under Trump's illegal command. No gunfire - just round them up back into their trucks & away.
OK who did this?💀😂
Announcing that his right ear transplant rejected him?
I'll just leave this here.
Trump is making "An Announcement by The President" at 2pm Tuesday USA time Anticipation is building - is he going to resign and hand over to the Couch-Shagger-in-Chief? Is he going to announce a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell? Is he going to announce the unleashing of some new horror on the people?
Not just the workers who saved lives during Covid. Don't forget the scientists, doctors, immunologists, etc who developed the vaccines & anti-virals that turned the tide & saved so many lives. Despite what RFK Jr (idiot) tells you...!
Surely the Director of National Intelligence should at least have a somewhat better than average intelligence herself? You'd think? And as for the Secretary of Homeland Security - 'nuff said!
What HAS Noem been smoking? Whatever it was has damaged her few remaining brain cells. Now she spouts that LA wouldn't be standing today if Trump hadn't sent in the National Guard & the Marines. I think Newcom might have something to say about that.
Not a word in public from Trump, who usually can't keep his potty mouth shut, for days now But the team behind him who've been pulling his strings all along are still committing all the same crimes, telling the same lies, appointing cronies to jobs they are not qualified for, etc. Something smells
USAF gives Ashli Babbitt a ceremonial funeral - who gave the order for that? Trump gives Giuliani a POTUS Medal of Freedom The J6-ers get pardoned Ghislaine Maxwell moved to a holiday camp & expecting a pardon Anyone seeing the pattern here? Commit crimes or treason & get rewarded big-time!
Noem, along with Gabbard, Bondi, Patel, Hegseth, & others are WAY out of their depth. They have zero experience, no credibility, warped reality, narcissistic personality disorders all of them, & are psychopaths.
Gov Pritzker has the authority to mobilize the National Guard to protect his state. So he could call out the NG to protect against any NG from other states who are under the command of the Trump admin. National Guard vs National Guard - arrest them on state charges. That would be interesting.
What's with the shyness by Trump to appear in public for the last few days? Has he been ill? Is he still ill? Or is he taking a leaf out of JD Vance's book and taking a vacation? In which case - why wouldn't it be announced? He's taken enough golfing holidays (at taxpayer cost) so far.
When Trump shuffles off the mortal coil (when, not if), who will be the Project 2025 mob's pick for next glove puppet? Vance? Nah - can't see that happening. Won't be a woman. Hegseth? Doubt it. Vought? He's had a charismectomy. Will they panic & implode? Here's hoping...
Can anyone remember anything, anywhere, any time, for which there has been this much anticipation? And I'm not talking about Christmas...! I keep checking the obituaries, but nothing...! :(
Is Trump "mitochondrialy challenged"? Emergency call-out needed to RFK for a diagnosis....!
Now Trump has withdrawn Kamala Harris's security detail, defying all convention & common human decency. Such childish, nasty, vindictive, & dangerous behaviour has become the norm from the orange lunatic & his mob of psychopaths. Trump is not concerned in the slightest if something bad happens!
Trump has signed an EO making burning of the American flag a felony, despite it being protected by the First Amendment. So how would he react to burning of flags that carry a picture of HIM instead? Similar to those gross huge portraits of him hanging from some buildings in DC? You know what to do
In another instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well” This video was deleted from Twitter. So you know what to do. 😏
Gov Pritzker could mobilize the Illinois National Guard, as he is authorized to do, to defend the state from invaders? The invaders being the federal government in this case. In theory, he could do that - but would the NG fight other NG personnel? This is how civil wars start - as Trump wants.
Trump's coup rolls on - he has now appointed one of the most vociferous election deniers from 2020 to head & supervise all US elections! www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
The dismantling of US public health by the MAGA/MAHA bros—RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya, Vinay Prasad, Marty Makary, & Dr Oz—has been absolutely freaking devastating
I thought a Dept head or Secretary - eg RFK Jr - was there to go into bat for his dept for budget etc? Not to pretend they are an expert in their Dept's matters. So RFK firing real experts in science, public health, etc just to push his own crackpot theories is surely outside his remit? Fire HIM!
Is it just my imagination, or does everyone in the Trump administration have personality disorders? We know Trump is a lying narcissist. But what about Hegseth, Noem, Bondi, Patel, Miller (yuk!), RFK, Vought, Gabbard, & the list goes on? Every one of them is a low IQ abrasive annoying ignoramus!!
What will Project 2025 mob do with Trump once he gets dementia so badly they can't hide it any more? His cognitive performance is getting poorer by the day & there will come a time when the glove puppet can no longer be controlled to perform as front man. Is that when they throw him under the bus?
Here's Trump signing something about which he knows nothing, & being told what he wants to hear by whoever has just given him the EO to sign - Miller? Hegseth? This is rule by the unelected telling the elected orange lunatic what they want him to do. Wonder how the National Guard feel about this?
I am in Australia, watching the USA get dismantled by Trump & the Project 2025 mob. I despair at what is happening to a country I once admired. I have spent a lot of time working in, & visiting, USA over decades, & know many lovely people there. A sad, sad history is unfolding before my eyes!
Israel says the attack on the hospital that killed yet more innocent people including journalists was a "major accident" So how does Israel explain the second missile strike timed to hit once first responders got there & that killed many more? One "accident" is careless, two is criminally ruthless
Why don't Pritzker & Newsom talk to the military top brass, about a coordinated military coup, arresting Trump & the entire Project 2025 team (including those on SCOTUS), & declaring true martial law, before Trump does it? There must be a large number of military who do NOT want to work for Trump?
Trump's attempted firing of Lisa Cook from the Fed Reserve Board is not only illegal & unconstitutional - it flagrantly over-reaches his powers. But he just doesn't care - he pushes ahead with it anyway. Just like any dictator...!
Pritzker & Newsom need to team up more visibly & in a coordinated way. Current Dem "leadership" is useless, tokenistic at best, & impotent. Pritzker & Newsom are at least fighting, and seem to be getting under the skin of the orange lunatic & the Project 2025 crew. Also - THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!
Another hypothetical: What would happen in one of the open-carry, stand-your-ground states, if a person was about to be abducted by masked men claiming to be ICE officers but with no ID or warrants, and that person then shot a few of the ICE goons? Is that how civil war starts?
What Trump & the whole Project 2025 crew really want is a civil war. Then they would declare martial law, suspend the Constitution, & Trump would do whatever he is told by the Project 2025 team. A much better option would be a military coup - the Joint Chiefs should arrest Trump & the whole lot...
A hypothetical: What would happen if the Illinois National Guard, under the legal control of IL governor Pritzker, were to be deployed to defend Illinois against an invading force - the NG sent in by Trump and Hegseth? Is that how a civil war would start?
For all those wishing for the end of Trump (including me), please remember that it's not JUST Trump himself that's the problem. It's the entire Project 2025 crew. Every one of Trump's appointees is a disciple and THOSE are the ones that need to go. To jail..!
So Trump's DOJ, through Todd Blanche set up interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell. Do they really, honestly think that the sane world is going to believe an edited & produced recording of the "interviews" in which Maxwell, a proven liar, says Trump is squeaky clean? Just like she said Epstein was?
Trump & his cronies assume that the Epstein "problem" will just fade away over time, as it becomes less currently "newsworthy". In breaking news - EPSTEIN FILES, COMPLETE & UNREDACTED, ARE STILL HOT NEWS. May they haunt the whole MAGAt cult forever. RELEASE THE FULL EPSTEIN FILES NOW...!
If this clip is still up and running, it is well worth watching and listening. Very clever AI and a cutting sound track :) But the creator keeps bumping into YouTube problems - see the comments below the clip. It's hitting a whole lot of sore points...! :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvBI...
So now the administration has got the FBI to raid John Bolton's home, looking for secret documents. He hasn't been involved in government for 7 years. Wonder what they're going to plant there, then miraculously "find"?
What a great takedown of Trump & his cronies by Jack White :) www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Just be aware that unless you actually renounce your US citizenship, the US will sting you for taxes on everything you earn, even when not living in the US. Yes - double taxation. You get taxed by the country you're in, and then by the US. Only the USA and Eritrea do that. Third world countries
If it comes to an all-out war of redistricting to gerrymander votes, can the Dems actually equal or beat the GOP? I thought the GOP could steal more seats & votes nationwide than the Dems could?
While Trump & his cronies are stealing the USA from the majority of the population who are NOT MAGAts, two war criminals ignore the world & continue to commit war crimes. Sly, evil Putin continues to assault Ukraine. That nasty little man Netanyahu is killing people in Gaza. Arrest both of them!
Why do I get the distinct impression that Putin is playing Trump, the entire USA administration, and all the other European leaders for idiots? With the possible exception of Macron who told Trump he didn't believe a word Putin said... One wonders even more strongly what he has on Trump?
So the mainstream media seem to have fallen prey to two things: 1. The natural decay of "newsworthiness" of the Epstein scandal 2. Trump's frantic efforts to distract from the Epstein files COME ON, PEOPLE - KEEP SHOUTING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES! New info is needed to restore newsworthiness.
Pirro is a brainwashed certifiable nutjob!
Why is it that whenever anyone criticizes Israel, or Netanyahu in particular, we are immediately labeled as "antisemitic"? That is a really cheap trick, pulling out the victim card. Israel has committed so many war crimes in Gaza & elsewhere that it has long outgrown victimhood from the holocaust!
I've spent a lot of time in the USA, mainly for work, over the past 40-odd years. Almost everyone I met was a genuinely nice person. So where did all these scumbags come from? That includes the president on downwards? From all the Fox idiots who are way outside their lanes to the thugs in ICE?
The more I gaze on from here in Australia with stunned depression & amazement as the USA crumbles from within, the more I'm struck by previously unimaginable levels of corruption, gross incompetence, crassness, policies & ideologies that should have died out multiple decades ago. From the top down!
Has Trump managed to use Ukraine/Putin/Zelensky meetings, DC militarization, & other outrageous crap to finally distract from the EPSTEIN FILES? They seem to have gone from the media... RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES UNREDACTED. NOW, please..!
With ICE goons showing no ID, masked faces, etc, I wonder what the legal status would be of a victim using a firearm to defend themselves, in a state that has stand-your-ground laws? I'm no lawyer, but how can someone tell if they're being disappeared by ICE thugs, or kidnapped by criminals?
I'm confused - what exactly is Trump's role in this whole schemozzle, & why is he even bargaining on behalf of Russia? What authority does Trump have to tell Ukraine that it's not getting Crimea back, & it can't join NATO? Isn't that up to Zelensky, NATO, & Europe? Trump should now just butt out!
Trump (79), Netanyahu (75), and Putin (72) are all old men with delusions of grandeur. And desperation - they are all desperate. For political reasons as well as due to their collective psychopathy. They are screwing up the world, & risking WW3. This is where Europe & all others need to step up.
Any bets on Trump trying to convince Zelensky at today's meeting, along with so many European & NATO leaders, that Ukraine must surrender to Russia? Either entirely - the whole country - or at the very minimum the eastern Donbas region & Crimea? Trump will be told to go visit the taxidermist..!
That scenario is one of many! Just the "pee tapes" would be enough to remind Trump who holds all the cards! But whatever it was that Putin pulled on Trump, it was powerful, and reduced Trump to a docile ignoramus at the press conference. And his social media rants since then have been telling.
so many European & NATO leaders when he visits Trump today at such short notice? Did Trump's team boot Putin out, or did Putin pull the pin and make the sudden exit after issuing an ultimatum? Who knows? But Trump is now not talking about sanctions against Russia any more. Suspicious indeed!
The more I think about the sudden end to the "summit" in Alaska between Trump & Putin, the more I'm thinking something really bad happened. Maybe Putin gave Trump a real bollocking, and told him he was going to extend the war until he has ALL of Ukraine? Why else would Zelensky be accompanied by
The Alaska "summit" meeting was cut short, lunch was abandoned, and Trump was totally owned by Putin. Remember - this is the guy who convinced all those voters that he would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours... Yeah, right...! Putin is playing Trump like the KGB master puppeteer that he is.
Trump got his dressing down, then his orders, from his boss, Putin, in Alaska. Now he's saying it's all up to Zelenskyy, and that Ukraine must NOT join NATO. Trump is saying exactly what Putin told him to say - that's why Trump looked so cowed, docile, & like a chided child after the meeting. Sad
What is needed to get rid of Trump is to convince a majority of the masses in the middle to vote Dem next couple of times around. That will NOT be achieved by telling them that they're idiots, that they have no empathy for their fellow humans etc. Dems need to play nicer & not preach to them.
right and the middle, to vote for, say, Bernie, or AOC. Doesn't matter that what they say is great common sense. It's the PERCEPTION that they're too far left that will stop the middle masses & those on the right from voting Dem. No amount of echo-chambering in here will convince them.
to vote Dem when they've previously voted either GOP or not voted at all. Trying to lure that large silent majority to vote Trump out is NOT going to be achieved by those who may be PERCEIVED - rightly or wrongly - by the middle masses as being too far left. It's a bridge too far from the
But while I agree with those sentiments, most people, especially the large silent majority in the middle, would feel that those ideas are too far to the left to make the jump. Let's face it: committed Dems are going to vote Dem anyway. What's needed is to convince the majority in the middle ground
I'm starting to feel uneasy about the Dem "echo chamber". What I mean by that is the mutually reinforcing posts that make people feel that getting rid of Trump is a done deal if only people voted "sensibly" There is a creeping attitude of "holier than thou", talking about empathy, rights, etc
Holy Smokes...! If this is true, then no wonder Trump said "Elon knows computers very well. Thank you, Elon". I have no idea if this is true or not, but it certainly warrants further investigation and widespread media attention: thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-th...
Keep up the fantastical work #CamilleZapata 🥊🥊🥊 You make us proud! #GoNewsomGo
Newsom, Pritzker, and the other Dem governors need to get the army onside, then arrest Trump and the whole gang of goons he has installed, from RFK and Hegseth to Bondi and Gabbard (and especially Miller and Homan). Imprison them for multiple breaches of the Constitution. And yes Supreme Court too
What border were the Border Patrol goons "patrolling"? Or were they just Pa-trolling: trolling for their Pa? I didn't know that the USA border, or even the California border, ran through the middle of Los Angeles...
Just LOVE the way whoever is Newsom's social media person is mimicking Trump's posting style & wording. That is really putting it to Trump. Definitely need more of this. No matter how much he protests that he ignores it, it WILL get under Trump's narcissistic skin. Don't forget the Epstein files.
It would be easier to believe this conspiracy theory if an innocent bystander, the fireman, wasn't shot and killed. Apart from that inconvenient fact, everything else smells of a setup job.
One thing bothers me about politics in the USA Why do so many wear their politics on their sleeves, as REGISTERED Democrats or Republicans? Most people here in Australia wouldn't have a clue how others vote, as it is private & confidential. Much less polarizing. Also, voting is compulsory here.
"Make America Great Again" is a furphy. Great in whose eyes? Pretty much the entire rest of the world, from China & Russia, to all those who used to be USA allies, now hold the USA as a laughing stock due to Trump & his corrupted cronies. The whole world is watching the collapse of the USA..!
With Trump's approval rating now down to 37%, what astounds me is that there is still 37% of people - that's over 1 in 3 supposedly sane people - who approve of him & think he's doing "a fine job". Just how many mugs has this conman conned?
As Trump finds ever-increasingly radical ways to deflect & distract from the EPSTEIN FILES, & as he finds they are ineffective, I can't help wondering what absolutely disastrous con job or outrageous move he will try next? This is a seriously deranged & demented psychopath ramping up his MO..!
Trump taking over the Washington DC Police Dept, while deploying National Guard, and now threatening to do the same in Chicago and other Democrat-governed cities, is setting multiple dangerous precedents. This all smacks of the things that are in the lead-up to a Civil War. Watch this space.....
What exactly is Trump trying to achieve by usurping the Washington DC Police Dept and deploying National Guard troops? Also, didn't he say that they weren't deployed on Jan 6th because he didn't have the authority to deploy them? This whole militarization thing feels like the thin end of a wedge!