YOU SEE, WE’RE AT A BIT OF A LOSS BECAUSE WE DON’T UNDERSTAND YOU, MR BURNHAM.
Presumably you want our trust? Presumably it would be helpful if you took us with you on your ‘great journey’, if you had our support, wouldn’t it?
I think we’re presuming too much because you don’t terested in us or our opinions. Just like your predecessor you’re totally ignoring us - and particularly when it comes to Israel.
Are you that afraid of the Israel lobby? Is it the shekels? What gives, Mr Burnham?
We’re getting more than a little bit angry. You won’t stop supporting Israel. You can’t bring yourself to call a genocide a genocide, and you continue to arrest thousands of peaceful protesters, decent people, who have the temerity to do the right thing and support the Palestinians and protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Might I suggest you take note of what’s happening in America? The country where once it was considered un-American not to support Israel, has flipped. We flipped a long time ago, but you don’t seem to have noticed.
It’s probably time you removed your head from the place where the sun doesn’t shine and took a look around. We’re angry, Mr Burnham, and we’re angry with you and your party. You betrayed us over Israel and you’re continuing to do so.
Party or people, honesty or complicity? Time to choose. We’ve already chosen. You have very little time to change our minds.
@andyburnham @labourlewis @Ed_Miliband @UKLabour @andrewfeinstein
Presumably you want our trust? Presumably it would be helpful if you took us with you on your ‘great journey’, if you had our support, wouldn’t it?
I think we’re presuming too much because you don’t terested in us or our opinions. Just like your predecessor you’re totally ignoring us - and particularly when it comes to Israel.
Are you that afraid of the Israel lobby? Is it the shekels? What gives, Mr Burnham?
We’re getting more than a little bit angry. You won’t stop supporting Israel. You can’t bring yourself to call a genocide a genocide, and you continue to arrest thousands of peaceful protesters, decent people, who have the temerity to do the right thing and support the Palestinians and protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Might I suggest you take note of what’s happening in America? The country where once it was considered un-American not to support Israel, has flipped. We flipped a long time ago, but you don’t seem to have noticed.
It’s probably time you removed your head from the place where the sun doesn’t shine and took a look around. We’re angry, Mr Burnham, and we’re angry with you and your party. You betrayed us over Israel and you’re continuing to do so.
Party or people, honesty or complicity? Time to choose. We’ve already chosen. You have very little time to change our minds.
@andyburnham @labourlewis @Ed_Miliband @UKLabour @andrewfeinstein
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WORDS FAIL ME!
Do I have faith in the wisdom and fair-mindedness of the Supreme Court judges? After they did their best to prevent the petitioner’s lawyers from making their argument by interrupting 107 times, the answer is an emphatic NO!
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Do I have faith in the wisdom and fair-mindedness of the Supreme Court judges? After they did their best to prevent the petitioner’s lawyers from making their argument by interrupting 107 times, the answer is an emphatic NO!
#SupremeCourt
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Ooops! No wind!
No wind, lots of fog and all of a sudden the grid’s short of 800 megawatts. Oh dear! Nuclear backup?
Hinckley Point C? Not happening until 2030.
Sizewell C? 12 years away.
So much for forward planning! Now they’re firing up those oh so expensive gas fuelled get the bill soon enough.
Oh, and has anyone given any thought to what happens when some volcano erupts in Iceland and blanks out the sun for a year and all we get is an occasional light breeze? Solar would be compromised and, according to weather scientists, wind would drop by at least 10%.
We would be totally stuffed!
(Do these eruptions happen? One happened in 1783/84 when the Laki fissures in Iceland erupted. It blanked out the sun for 8 months. Crops failed, people starved. A contributing factor to the French Revolution some say)”
No wind, lots of fog and all of a sudden the grid’s short of 800 megawatts. Oh dear! Nuclear backup?
Hinckley Point C? Not happening until 2030.
Sizewell C? 12 years away.
So much for forward planning! Now they’re firing up those oh so expensive gas fuelled get the bill soon enough.
Oh, and has anyone given any thought to what happens when some volcano erupts in Iceland and blanks out the sun for a year and all we get is an occasional light breeze? Solar would be compromised and, according to weather scientists, wind would drop by at least 10%.
We would be totally stuffed!
(Do these eruptions happen? One happened in 1783/84 when the Laki fissures in Iceland erupted. It blanked out the sun for 8 months. Crops failed, people starved. A contributing factor to the French Revolution some say)”
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IF LABOUR MPs THINK THEY WERE PRESSURED INTO VOTING TO PROSCRIBE PALESTINE ACTION THEY KNOW WHAT TO DO!
It was the dufus Starmer, the ‘Zionist without qualification’, who put his MPs under pressure. Such a pity so many of them didn’t have the guts to tell him where to get off.
waning as the Burnham bounce looks like becoming a dead cat bounce. And one of the main reasons is Labour’s continued support for Israel and the arrest of nearly 5,000 peaceful protesters; decent people who are justifiably appalled by Israel’s genocide in Gaza and disgusted by Labour’s apparently unshakable support for one the most vile, evil regimes on the planet.
Is this issue a vote loser for Labour? You bet it is! A glance across the Atlantic would inform any doubters, that support for Israel is now a toxic issue when it comes to elections. Labour needs to change its tune - and quickly.
It was the dufus Starmer, the ‘Zionist without qualification’, who put his MPs under pressure. Such a pity so many of them didn’t have the guts to tell him where to get off.
waning as the Burnham bounce looks like becoming a dead cat bounce. And one of the main reasons is Labour’s continued support for Israel and the arrest of nearly 5,000 peaceful protesters; decent people who are justifiably appalled by Israel’s genocide in Gaza and disgusted by Labour’s apparently unshakable support for one the most vile, evil regimes on the planet.
Is this issue a vote loser for Labour? You bet it is! A glance across the Atlantic would inform any doubters, that support for Israel is now a toxic issue when it comes to elections. Labour needs to change its tune - and quickly.
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IT ALL STARTED WITH THATCHER AND REGAN…
Neoliberalism - it’s extractive capitalism. It’s sucked value out of everything, stuffed it into the pockets of the few and took inequality to new heights.
AND YOU THINK THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING?
It all started as sold as a way to a share owning democracy. It wasn’t. Public utilities, water, gas, electricity and the railways were soon in the hands of large corporations, many of them foreign. Profits spiralled, services deteriorated, prices rose.
AND YOU THINK THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING?
We were sold the lie of ‘trickle down’. We were told wealth generated at the top would naturally "trickle down" through higher labour demand and rising wages. It didn’t. The opposite happened. Jobs were cut, wages stagnated.
AND YOU THINK THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING?
We’ve been taken for a ride. There has to be a reckoning. Privatisation has to be ‘reversed’, neoliberalism binned, and wealth ‘repatriated’. It’s time to make it happen!
Neoliberalism - it’s extractive capitalism. It’s sucked value out of everything, stuffed it into the pockets of the few and took inequality to new heights.
AND YOU THINK THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING?
It all started as sold as a way to a share owning democracy. It wasn’t. Public utilities, water, gas, electricity and the railways were soon in the hands of large corporations, many of them foreign. Profits spiralled, services deteriorated, prices rose.
AND YOU THINK THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING?
We were sold the lie of ‘trickle down’. We were told wealth generated at the top would naturally "trickle down" through higher labour demand and rising wages. It didn’t. The opposite happened. Jobs were cut, wages stagnated.
AND YOU THINK THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING?
We’ve been taken for a ride. There has to be a reckoning. Privatisation has to be ‘reversed’, neoliberalism binned, and wealth ‘repatriated’. It’s time to make it happen!
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs:
"How many wars has China🇨🇳 been in, in the last 40 years? Let me count them…zero. Not one war in 40 years.”
The US has been at war and bombing other countries for approximately 229 years out of 250 years of its existence.
92% of the time throughout its een bombing, pillaging, stealing, and invading.
"How many wars has China🇨🇳 been in, in the last 40 years? Let me count them…zero. Not one war in 40 years.”
The US has been at war and bombing other countries for approximately 229 years out of 250 years of its existence.
92% of the time throughout its een bombing, pillaging, stealing, and invading.
Brandon Weichert: ‘The US🇺🇸 was NOT supposed to be an adventurous IMPERIAL POWER going abroad in search of monsters to destroy.’
‘The reason I wrote the book is because last year, the Trump administration announced in their National Security Strategy memo and then again in their gy memo: judge us by the wars we don’t fight, not the wars we do fight. That’s what they said.
And we were going to be focusing, they said, on the Western Hemisphere.
Now, obviously, the Donroe Doctrine is not what I had in mind, but the idea that we were going to be doing Western Hemispheric defence on top of focusing on domestic issues here in the United States, that was what I thought was the Trump agenda, the Trump doctrine, if you will.
But then by February 28th, as you know, the whole thing changed. It’s as if the President didn’t even read his National Security Strategy memo.
So I felt compelled to write a book that reminded readers why we are not supposed to be this expeditionary, adventurous imperial power, going abroad in search of monsters to destroy, as John Quincy Adams once famously said, and we are supposed to be focused much closer to home.
And now it’s a tripolar system internationally, trending multipolar. You could already say it is multipolar, but really there’s three main powers right now that are military and economic, and that’s the United States, China, and Russia.
We need to have a better strategy than the one we’ve been using since 1991, because that one was predicated on hegemony. Well, we can’t be a hegemon anymore.
We have spheres of influence, and we’re going to need to enforce the spheres of influence. China’s doing that in their part of the world. Russia’s doing that in their part of the world. We haven’t been doing it in our part of the world.
And the key thing here is when I say enforce the sphere of influence, it’s not military first. It’s not send CIA paramilitaries to a country we don’t like in Latin America and knock off the country. The whole currency of the realm in 21st century international affairs is geoeconomics. It’s trade.
First and foremost, it’s the economy, and so you have to be able to make your first point of contact in terms of foreign policy the economic front. The United States used to be good at this.
This was what the founders wanted us to do. I quote George Washington effusively in the book. This goes back to the founding, a commercial republic, and that’s what we need to go back to. And unfortunately, under this President, we’ve lost sight of that completely.’
—@WeTheBrandon, Author of ‘Fortress Americas: A New Monroe Doctrine’
Watch the full interview in the quoted post below 👇
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Zack Polanski, a Jewish anti-Zionist, is making waves in British politics!
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You will NEVER convince me that there is one single valid justification for sending arms and military support to Israel.
You will NEVER convince me to vote for a party that does.
You will NEVER convince me to vote for a party that does.
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IT’S TIME THE GRAVY TRAIN HIT THE BUFFERS!
You have to be a very naive dumb cluck to think that political donors don’t want something in return. You have to be on the far end of the stupid spectrum not to realise that these donors are not ‘average Joe’s’, but a small minority of who want their best interests to be on top of the pile or they’re big corporations who need their path to greater profit to be cleared of unhelpful regulations that cramp their style.
And then there are those corrupt and all to often evil regimes who want to be seen in a better light, who want special treatment and to have opposition to their frequent malfeasances smothered and swept under the carpet.
Sitting in the gravy train are our elected representatives on a journey of self-advancement and self-enrichment, swathed in self-importance, their egos pulsating, their focus on anything but the people who elected them.
All gravy trains hit the buffers eventually when neglect and inequality reach intolerable levels. We’re fast approaching that time. It can be avoided, there is a better way, but it’s seldom taken because greed and self-interest predominate.
UNTIL MONEY IS TAKEN OUT OF POLITICS, POLITICS IS A WASTE OF TIME.
Will it happen? A week ago I would said that the chances of anything happening were slim, but since the midterm’s blue wave, there are signs in America, where political corruption is off the scale, of a groundswell of public opinion against corrupt politics, which could bring about change in how America funds politics. Our politicians need to take note and sharpen their antennae. The gravy train is fast approaching a set of points. One way leads to the buffers, the other to…hopefully to a politics free of the corrupting influence of money.
You have to be a very naive dumb cluck to think that political donors don’t want something in return. You have to be on the far end of the stupid spectrum not to realise that these donors are not ‘average Joe’s’, but a small minority of who want their best interests to be on top of the pile or they’re big corporations who need their path to greater profit to be cleared of unhelpful regulations that cramp their style.
And then there are those corrupt and all to often evil regimes who want to be seen in a better light, who want special treatment and to have opposition to their frequent malfeasances smothered and swept under the carpet.
Sitting in the gravy train are our elected representatives on a journey of self-advancement and self-enrichment, swathed in self-importance, their egos pulsating, their focus on anything but the people who elected them.
All gravy trains hit the buffers eventually when neglect and inequality reach intolerable levels. We’re fast approaching that time. It can be avoided, there is a better way, but it’s seldom taken because greed and self-interest predominate.
UNTIL MONEY IS TAKEN OUT OF POLITICS, POLITICS IS A WASTE OF TIME.
Will it happen? A week ago I would said that the chances of anything happening were slim, but since the midterm’s blue wave, there are signs in America, where political corruption is off the scale, of a groundswell of public opinion against corrupt politics, which could bring about change in how America funds politics. Our politicians need to take note and sharpen their antennae. The gravy train is fast approaching a set of points. One way leads to the buffers, the other to…hopefully to a politics free of the corrupting influence of money.
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DOES THE LEFT HAND KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT HAND’S DOING?
There’s old ‘Bus fare Burnham’ telling us that addressing the cost of living crisis is his top priority, while Tinker Healey and Bozo Bailey are busy pulling the rug from under his feet!
They’ve just raised interest rates. decision. Virtually all the inflation we are suffering is because of rising oil prices caused by Netanyahu and Trump’s idiotic war against Iran.
THEY KNOW DAMN WELL THAT RAISING INTEREST RATES WILL DO NOTHING TO REDUCE THOSE PRICES.
Using some bizarre and unfathomable logic the B of E believes demand elsewhere has to be suppressed to compensate for the rise in energy costs. THIS IS CRAZY!
So what’s this going to do?
It’s going increase mortgage costs, squeeze household spending even more, and shrink the economy. On top of that it’s going to increase business costs which will feed through to increased prices. IT’S GOING TO INCREASE INFLATION NOT REDUCE IT. The dumbclucks are using the wrong remedy and exacerbating the cost of living crisis.
Oh, and one other unwanted consequence, it’s going to make the wealthy wealthier because their money attracts more interest, and the banks will benefit too.
If Tinker Healey knew what the f*ck he was doing, he would have gripped Bozo Bailey and prevented him from being such a fuckwit. What he really needs to do is to reverse this ludicrous decision and revoke the Bank of England’s independence.
@andyburnham @JohnHealey_MP @UKLabour
Air traffic control has picked up no pigs on its radar!
There’s old ‘Bus fare Burnham’ telling us that addressing the cost of living crisis is his top priority, while Tinker Healey and Bozo Bailey are busy pulling the rug from under his feet!
They’ve just raised interest rates. decision. Virtually all the inflation we are suffering is because of rising oil prices caused by Netanyahu and Trump’s idiotic war against Iran.
THEY KNOW DAMN WELL THAT RAISING INTEREST RATES WILL DO NOTHING TO REDUCE THOSE PRICES.
Using some bizarre and unfathomable logic the B of E believes demand elsewhere has to be suppressed to compensate for the rise in energy costs. THIS IS CRAZY!
So what’s this going to do?
It’s going increase mortgage costs, squeeze household spending even more, and shrink the economy. On top of that it’s going to increase business costs which will feed through to increased prices. IT’S GOING TO INCREASE INFLATION NOT REDUCE IT. The dumbclucks are using the wrong remedy and exacerbating the cost of living crisis.
Oh, and one other unwanted consequence, it’s going to make the wealthy wealthier because their money attracts more interest, and the banks will benefit too.
If Tinker Healey knew what the f*ck he was doing, he would have gripped Bozo Bailey and prevented him from being such a fuckwit. What he really needs to do is to reverse this ludicrous decision and revoke the Bank of England’s independence.
@andyburnham @JohnHealey_MP @UKLabour
Air traffic control has picked up no pigs on its radar!
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OH, DID YOU THINK WE WOULDN’T NOTICE?
With a great flourish, ‘Tinker Healey’ (a moniker he earned after his budget non event) announced that he was going to apply an additional tax on the banks - for a whole 15 months no less.
Tinker’s daring and swinging tax was going to show , he was on the side of less well off. So what was this new tax going to yield? A paltry £1.45 billion - but oh how the banks squealed!
Yesterday, the banker’s friend, the Governor of the Bank of England, Bozo Bailey, came to their rescue. He increased interest rates.
Now, the banks have £641 billion on deposit with the Bank of England and the government pays them interest on that money. The increase in interest rates means they will receive an extra £1.6 billion in interest, which will more than cover Tinker Healey’s paltry little tax.
Tinker? You’re a waste of rations. Perhaps after this you might realise that the B of E needs to have its independence revoked? You must have realised it’s not on your side.
@andyburnham @JohnHealey_MP
With a great flourish, ‘Tinker Healey’ (a moniker he earned after his budget non event) announced that he was going to apply an additional tax on the banks - for a whole 15 months no less.
Tinker’s daring and swinging tax was going to show , he was on the side of less well off. So what was this new tax going to yield? A paltry £1.45 billion - but oh how the banks squealed!
Yesterday, the banker’s friend, the Governor of the Bank of England, Bozo Bailey, came to their rescue. He increased interest rates.
Now, the banks have £641 billion on deposit with the Bank of England and the government pays them interest on that money. The increase in interest rates means they will receive an extra £1.6 billion in interest, which will more than cover Tinker Healey’s paltry little tax.
Tinker? You’re a waste of rations. Perhaps after this you might realise that the B of E needs to have its independence revoked? You must have realised it’s not on your side.
@andyburnham @JohnHealey_MP
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Derbyshire is a DISGRACE!!
BBC - Bibi’s Broadcasting Corporation.
BBC - Bibi’s Broadcasting Corporation.
Victoria Derbyshire has faced a wave of criticism after defending the Israeli government’s position when Bernie Sanders described it as 'extremist' during an appearance on BBC Newsnight
Watch the extraordinary exchange in which Sanders pushes back 👇 thenational.scot/news/26700873.…
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The BBC is speaking on behalf of the Israeli government.
IT’S TIME TO DECOUPLE ISRAEL FROM THE BBC.
IT’S TIME TO DECOUPLE ISRAEL FROM THE BBC.
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IF YOU’RE SERIOUS ABOUT REDUCING THE COST OF LIVING, TRY REDUCING INEQUALITY.
In New York, Mayor Mamdani has made the link between the cost of living and inequality. Burnham needs to do the same. When it’s hard to put food on the table, when just plain existing is a struggle, rices are unreasonably high – it’s also because pay is unfairly low, benefits and allowances are inadequate, good paying jobs are few and far between, neoliberal cuts have disabled essential support services and the tax burden on the less well off is too high.
All of this exists because of the political choices that have been made.
Neoliberalism has been the driver of inequality. It has extracted value from practically everything and filled the pockets of the wealthy. It’s been a political choice.
The wealthy are undertaxed. Not to tax them properly and fairly is a political choice.
Taxing wealth properly would yield £90 billion in extra revenue and could be used to significantly reduce the cost of living. Not to access this revenue is a political choice.
The poorest 20% of Britons pay a higher proportion of their income in combined direct and indirect taxes than the richest 20%. That’s a political choice.
Brexit has had a significant impact on the cost of living. Not to undo Brexit and relieve its pressure on the cost of living is a political choice.
Tax thresholds have been frozen to pay for the shortfall in revenue caused by Brexit. It yields £55 billion a year. By the time thresholds are meant to be unfrozen it will have cost the average taxpayer £5,000. Not to unfreeze tax thresholds is a political choice.
If Burnham is serious about reducing the cost of living he needs to address these fundamentals and tackle inequality. If his first budget is anything to go by, we’ll get tinkering round the edges and not much else; there will be no real change.
He needs to try harder.
@andyburnham @UKLabour
In New York, Mayor Mamdani has made the link between the cost of living and inequality. Burnham needs to do the same. When it’s hard to put food on the table, when just plain existing is a struggle, rices are unreasonably high – it’s also because pay is unfairly low, benefits and allowances are inadequate, good paying jobs are few and far between, neoliberal cuts have disabled essential support services and the tax burden on the less well off is too high.
All of this exists because of the political choices that have been made.
Neoliberalism has been the driver of inequality. It has extracted value from practically everything and filled the pockets of the wealthy. It’s been a political choice.
The wealthy are undertaxed. Not to tax them properly and fairly is a political choice.
Taxing wealth properly would yield £90 billion in extra revenue and could be used to significantly reduce the cost of living. Not to access this revenue is a political choice.
The poorest 20% of Britons pay a higher proportion of their income in combined direct and indirect taxes than the richest 20%. That’s a political choice.
Brexit has had a significant impact on the cost of living. Not to undo Brexit and relieve its pressure on the cost of living is a political choice.
Tax thresholds have been frozen to pay for the shortfall in revenue caused by Brexit. It yields £55 billion a year. By the time thresholds are meant to be unfrozen it will have cost the average taxpayer £5,000. Not to unfreeze tax thresholds is a political choice.
If Burnham is serious about reducing the cost of living he needs to address these fundamentals and tackle inequality. If his first budget is anything to go by, we’ll get tinkering round the edges and not much else; there will be no real change.
He needs to try harder.
@andyburnham @UKLabour
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Brilliant @EdwardGLuce on this fabulous turning point in US history and the Democrat tidal wave
"This is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump." My column on tonight's astonishing results.
ft.com/content/0a9d5d…
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Totally agree!
Is neoliberalism reaching its tipping point? US election results might hint at that, but there is something much bigger going on. youtu.be/PW-rKVmFYqM?si…
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The UK does not have a welfare crisis. It does, instead, have politicians who want to scapegoat the most vulnerable people in our society. Unscrupulous neoliberal politicians and commentators are our problem. Those in need are not. youtu.be/C89jDlwF1vs?si…
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THE WORLD BREATHES A SIGH OF RELIEF!
Now Congress needs to get busy!
It needs to put an end to Trump’s illegal Iran war before it turns into a world conflict.
It needs to stop all arms sales to Israel, something which will sort out the men from the boys.
It needs to disband ICE.
AND IT NEEDS TO IMPEACH TRUMP.
What will Republicans do? They’re going to blame Trump for this catastrophe and then get rid of him and his band of corrupt incompetents. The 25th Amendment? Probably. But even with dementia fogging is addled brain Trump’s going to be super vengeful. I would think there are conversations being had and plans being made to silence him.
And more to celebrate…Elon Musk just lost the $460 million he spent on bankrolling Republican candidates. Hooray!
And hats off to the indefatigable Bernie Sanders for his tireless campaigning, which helped to bring this result.
Not a silver lining, but the clouds have cleared a little. Interesting times lie ahead!
Now Congress needs to get busy!
It needs to put an end to Trump’s illegal Iran war before it turns into a world conflict.
It needs to stop all arms sales to Israel, something which will sort out the men from the boys.
It needs to disband ICE.
AND IT NEEDS TO IMPEACH TRUMP.
What will Republicans do? They’re going to blame Trump for this catastrophe and then get rid of him and his band of corrupt incompetents. The 25th Amendment? Probably. But even with dementia fogging is addled brain Trump’s going to be super vengeful. I would think there are conversations being had and plans being made to silence him.
And more to celebrate…Elon Musk just lost the $460 million he spent on bankrolling Republican candidates. Hooray!
And hats off to the indefatigable Bernie Sanders for his tireless campaigning, which helped to bring this result.
Not a silver lining, but the clouds have cleared a little. Interesting times lie ahead!
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