Trump boasts about billions from Venezuelan oil, but lawmakers are still fighting to learn where the money is, who controls it, and who’s getting paid…
The whole Trump regime is so evil, it is impossible to find words that adequately describe it, let alone condemn it. They are not only destroying democracy, they are destroying the notion of the nation-state. All wealth and power, in their minds, should reside not in governments in the service of their peoples, but in individuals and families bold enough to just take it. Will civilization survive this era of oil-igopoly? I hope so, but it's a forlorn hope.
#VOTE to indict Merrick Garland for dereliction of duty
#FORCE Jared to refund 2,000,000,000 to the Saudis since we no longer provide protection
#MAKE Pre-Presidential Kiddie Rape a felony
#DEFINE Crypto as a crime of economic sabotage against the nation
#NOT "high IQ" enough to throttle AI, this raving Pill-Popper cannot even throttle an iPhone
*A brigand is a member of a group of criminals who rob/attack people, esp. in remote mountainous or forested areas. Just outlaws. Ambushing. Mere roadside bandits are what we've become. As well as high-seas homicidal maniacs.
His real goal has been to steal Iranian oil,, that is why he talks about, and hasn't forgotten, Kharq Island.
Kharq Island is the pumping station for Iranian oil. He has bombed Queshm Island (the one that looks like a shark), Larak Island, the one that looks like a fish that the shark is about to eat, but not Kharq Island. Destroy the pumping station and refinery on Kharq Island and it will take years to rebuild.
I am sure that the IRGC has plans to blow up Kharq island as a Sampson option.
"Smitty" Trump takes, or steals, everything. Look at his personal conduct with women. But he who takes will, eventually, get taken. In more ways than one.
Ergo, all that money from oiljacking Venezuela has not only failed to benefit Amerikans, it has cost them. Dearly so. Because, you see, by choking off almost 30% of the global energy supply by his "excursion" (what an idiot) into Iran he has forever changed the region. Two crucial straits from which global energy flows are closed. Ukraine and Russia are attacking energy infrastructure, thereby further stressing global energy supply. Diesel is at the highest price in history. Trucks that carry goods run on diesel. Winter looms.
The United States is being squeezed like an orange by a handful of traitors, led by a super traitor that make Benedict Arnold look like a piker. And all of this enabled by insecure twerps who think big trucks . flag bandan's and bikin's are proof of manhood.
"Drill baby, drill!" Instead of woking up that the weather extremes of the past few years are signalling the danger of fossil fuel drilling, refining, and burning, Trump calls climate change a hoax and ends all limits to fossil fuel exploitation - even drilling in federal parklands. Venezuela is just his cut of the action. Doubtless he plans eventually to extort oil money from the entire Middle East as the ruthless Saudis are now getting sabotaged by Houthis and war is breaking out everywhere.
It is worse, Trump is using the economic might of the US to blackmail the world into shutting down wind and solar farms, not just in the US but in the world, starting in Ireland and Scotland.
Do you remember the story of The Man Without a Country. It was part of my brainwashing in school. That's us. I didn't leave my country, my country has left me. This is not the country I was born into, it is not the military from which I retired.
Interestingly, that story was partially based on a real person, Clement Vallandigham, a Representative from Ohio who vehemently opposed the Civil War and emancipation. After he lost his seat in the 1862 election a military court convicted him of disloyalty to the Union. Given his prominence, Lincoln ordered that he be expelled to the Confederacy. Eventually he was allowed back. But I agree with you, this is not the U.S. I grew up in, but the roots are still there, and it can grow again. Maybe when it does, and before the warrants are issued some of the top members of the current administration will expel themselves from the U.S.
The damage has been done, Humpty Dumpty can not be put back together again.
I do want the roots to be still there, but the forces behind Trump and Trumpism, has sprayed Round up.
MAGA did not arise full grown. It has been simmering since Andrew Jackson if not before.
The Puritans looked at the people who taught them to grow maize and fed them as heathens, my ancestors in the James River Community thought of the Powhatans the same.. all less than human, the other.
This mentality is essential (otherism) to dispossession, oppression, enslavement and slaughter.
We even other each other on the basis of accent, dialect, brogue. or what part of the country we live in, "left coast", "heartland", East coast" the south.
It is what humans do, and there is no solution, no remedy, as it is universal, even in Africa among black Africans.
In the Amazon among tribes, in the Mideast, even among Arabs.
The Ming dynasty exterminated the Bo ethnic group,and communist china wants to exterminate the Uyghers and the Hui.
He is in for a shock when he gets to Austria - they must have 1,500 wind turbines or more across their farmland. Driving down the autobahn they are everywhere.
I keep scratching my head - I know there are lies on both sides. Mr. Trump gets away with so much and I don't understand how the R, I and D legislators can't or will not do anything. It's so clear how corrupt he is and everyone around him eventually pays the price. Where are the sane people that follow the law? How can folks be this afraid - especially those in power? We the USA can do better.
I'm about to damage my molars from grinding my teeth. Thanks for including Liz Warren's bold question about Trump&Co's too-obvious criminal grifting. IMO she should be on the Dem ticket in '28. Love her. And you *if you know what I mean* wink-wink, nudge-nudge. (When I worked in child psych in Maryland we used to try to place needful kids in Salem). If you are what a human being can be like, put me on the list of your biggest fans.
Food for thought. Russia has an oligrachy, America a broligarchy but above them a Globarchy. it runs on oil, finance and international trade. It is so powerful that it doesn't even have or need passports or licenses.
We must all remember that drugs and sex-trafficking — as per Epstein — are part of all this TOO. And that there are children being harmed globally by this cabal.
We, you and I and every American have been made accomplices in major international crimes. This must be shouted from the damned rooftops. To remain silent is to acknowledge guilt.
Note To Billionaires: You Will Not Buy Our Elections
The Muskrat tried to buy the Republcans a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court with $20m and it didn’t work. Wisconsin voters said, “not a chance in hell will you buy our elections”,
"Fascism is corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" Benito Mussolini(1945)
It is now clear that the American wealth gap is so wide that Cheeto has begun to take advantage of the gap to disenfranchise the middle class and turn over the country to the billionaires. Voters be damned!! Cheeto with his federal power will just rig the elections. Gil Duran in his The Nerd Reich asserts that AI is not the immediate danger....the real danger to American are the billiionaires themselves.
Last year Cheeto announced that he got a “donation” from billionaire nutjob Timothy Mellon to pay the military because of the shutdown but clearly wouldn’t be enough to help. But think about that. Cheeto has bypassed Congress and their fiscal responsibility. The president doesn’t need the Congressional approval for spending money…only dictators do that.
Cheeto knows that with enough money he can build a Black House ballroom from private donations, he can buy elections, he can buy off Nazi senators and representatives, he can even buy off in time, wait for it, SCOTUS and maybe even the lower judiciary. Cheeto is going to the bank with his billionaire buddies….you give me cash and I’ll make things happen for you because of your “donation”. Corruption? No, just making an honest transaction..
It’s just going to get worse. SC decisions, the economy tanking, unnecessary and failed wars, in the hip pocket is the insurrection act or another shitload of executive orders. There is no one or agency or branch that will stop him. It’s hard to face this. This is why I think Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden ( if able) lock arms and drag him out of the WH and let the Capitol Police do their job.
The whole Trump regime is so evil, it is impossible to find words that adequately describe it, let alone condemn it. They are not only destroying democracy, they are destroying the notion of the nation-state. All wealth and power, in their minds, should reside not in governments in the service of their peoples, but in individuals and families bold enough to just take it. Will civilization survive this era of oil-igopoly? I hope so, but it's a forlorn hope.
So, basically 47 is a War Criminal, a pirate and serial murderer.
and rapist, sex trafficor, pedophile. He is the scourge of humanity.
Exactly, it is an unending list of atrocities. He must be removed by any means necessary. IMO
A Band of Brigands.*
All that separates him from John Gotti is the Ravenite Social Club.
We've come undone under these amoral loons, these Russian whores.
For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wj4Wp4W5gA
#VOTE to indict Merrick Garland for dereliction of duty
#FORCE Jared to refund 2,000,000,000 to the Saudis since we no longer provide protection
#MAKE Pre-Presidential Kiddie Rape a felony
#DEFINE Crypto as a crime of economic sabotage against the nation
#NOT "high IQ" enough to throttle AI, this raving Pill-Popper cannot even throttle an iPhone
*A brigand is a member of a group of criminals who rob/attack people, esp. in remote mountainous or forested areas. Just outlaws. Ambushing. Mere roadside bandits are what we've become. As well as high-seas homicidal maniacs.
Is Tempertantrump cutting off mid-east oil in hopes of increasing Venezuela oil profits - for himself?
GEE. COULD THAT POSSIBLY BE?
His real goal has been to steal Iranian oil,, that is why he talks about, and hasn't forgotten, Kharq Island.
Kharq Island is the pumping station for Iranian oil. He has bombed Queshm Island (the one that looks like a shark), Larak Island, the one that looks like a fish that the shark is about to eat, but not Kharq Island. Destroy the pumping station and refinery on Kharq Island and it will take years to rebuild.
I am sure that the IRGC has plans to blow up Kharq island as a Sampson option.
"Smitty" Trump takes, or steals, everything. Look at his personal conduct with women. But he who takes will, eventually, get taken. In more ways than one.
Ergo, all that money from oiljacking Venezuela has not only failed to benefit Amerikans, it has cost them. Dearly so. Because, you see, by choking off almost 30% of the global energy supply by his "excursion" (what an idiot) into Iran he has forever changed the region. Two crucial straits from which global energy flows are closed. Ukraine and Russia are attacking energy infrastructure, thereby further stressing global energy supply. Diesel is at the highest price in history. Trucks that carry goods run on diesel. Winter looms.
FITFO.
The United States is being squeezed like an orange by a handful of traitors, led by a super traitor that make Benedict Arnold look like a piker. And all of this enabled by insecure twerps who think big trucks . flag bandan's and bikin's are proof of manhood.
"Drill baby, drill!" Instead of woking up that the weather extremes of the past few years are signalling the danger of fossil fuel drilling, refining, and burning, Trump calls climate change a hoax and ends all limits to fossil fuel exploitation - even drilling in federal parklands. Venezuela is just his cut of the action. Doubtless he plans eventually to extort oil money from the entire Middle East as the ruthless Saudis are now getting sabotaged by Houthis and war is breaking out everywhere.
It is worse, Trump is using the economic might of the US to blackmail the world into shutting down wind and solar farms, not just in the US but in the world, starting in Ireland and Scotland.
Do you remember the story of The Man Without a Country. It was part of my brainwashing in school. That's us. I didn't leave my country, my country has left me. This is not the country I was born into, it is not the military from which I retired.
Interestingly, that story was partially based on a real person, Clement Vallandigham, a Representative from Ohio who vehemently opposed the Civil War and emancipation. After he lost his seat in the 1862 election a military court convicted him of disloyalty to the Union. Given his prominence, Lincoln ordered that he be expelled to the Confederacy. Eventually he was allowed back. But I agree with you, this is not the U.S. I grew up in, but the roots are still there, and it can grow again. Maybe when it does, and before the warrants are issued some of the top members of the current administration will expel themselves from the U.S.
The damage has been done, Humpty Dumpty can not be put back together again.
I do want the roots to be still there, but the forces behind Trump and Trumpism, has sprayed Round up.
MAGA did not arise full grown. It has been simmering since Andrew Jackson if not before.
The Puritans looked at the people who taught them to grow maize and fed them as heathens, my ancestors in the James River Community thought of the Powhatans the same.. all less than human, the other.
This mentality is essential (otherism) to dispossession, oppression, enslavement and slaughter.
We even other each other on the basis of accent, dialect, brogue. or what part of the country we live in, "left coast", "heartland", East coast" the south.
It is what humans do, and there is no solution, no remedy, as it is universal, even in Africa among black Africans.
In the Amazon among tribes, in the Mideast, even among Arabs.
The Ming dynasty exterminated the Bo ethnic group,and communist china wants to exterminate the Uyghers and the Hui.
I hear that Mars is open.
He is in for a shock when he gets to Austria - they must have 1,500 wind turbines or more across their farmland. Driving down the autobahn they are everywhere.
I keep scratching my head - I know there are lies on both sides. Mr. Trump gets away with so much and I don't understand how the R, I and D legislators can't or will not do anything. It's so clear how corrupt he is and everyone around him eventually pays the price. Where are the sane people that follow the law? How can folks be this afraid - especially those in power? We the USA can do better.
I'm about to damage my molars from grinding my teeth. Thanks for including Liz Warren's bold question about Trump&Co's too-obvious criminal grifting. IMO she should be on the Dem ticket in '28. Love her. And you *if you know what I mean* wink-wink, nudge-nudge. (When I worked in child psych in Maryland we used to try to place needful kids in Salem). If you are what a human being can be like, put me on the list of your biggest fans.
I already have damaged my teeth from grinding and the last two years have made it substantially worse.
We're getting down to the nubs!
politically divisive cultural clashing has lost the anchor of sanity.
repeatedly crashing common-sense into the rocks of insanity.
capitalism infected by the defect of greed is on trial for global genocide.
oligarchism has become a ruthless suicidal cancer upon the countryside.
embracing our equality is the end of us and them, the road to reason.
an awakened and informed citizenry, the only cure, is not just a right,
but a most sacred and hallowed responsibility, to right the ship of state,
a country-loving duty to keep democracy and freedom alive for all.
.............
the open-minded multicultural citizenry of oneness is on the march.
awaking to see only the one, the immutable holy connection to everyone.
the united citizenry of oneness, united against oppression of anyone.
all for one and one for all, a USA of, by and for the people, not the few.
diversity is our blest destiny, E pluribus unum, out of many, one.
.............
citizens have become statistical data points, digital algorithms.
voiceless powerless consumers, disenfranchised and hoodwinked.
so many people just eat, sleep and defecate and live empty angry lives,
in a milieu of hateful mangled mental mirages, fed to them by charlatans.
voters are warned to fear the “other”, to “Make America Great Again”.
be not so easily deceived, divide and conquer is the tyrants oldest scam.
to be free people, the patriotic citizenry must know this ultimate truth,
We the People are democracy’s heart and soul, the vote is the antidote.
.............
the broad-minded humanitarian citizenry of oneness is the true church.
awaking to see only the one, the inviolable holy alliance with everyone.
the unified citizenry of oneness, unified against repression of anyone.
all for one and one for all, a USA of, by and for the people, not the few.
variety is our blissful fidelity, E pluribus unum, out of many, one.
………………..
Bob Bradley 9/9/26
Food for thought. Russia has an oligrachy, America a broligarchy but above them a Globarchy. it runs on oil, finance and international trade. It is so powerful that it doesn't even have or need passports or licenses.
We must all remember that drugs and sex-trafficking — as per Epstein — are part of all this TOO. And that there are children being harmed globally by this cabal.
Sex trafficking, pedophilia, child porn and I would be surprised if snuff porn was not the glue that binds them together
We, you and I and every American have been made accomplices in major international crimes. This must be shouted from the damned rooftops. To remain silent is to acknowledge guilt.
Note To Billionaires: You Will Not Buy Our Elections
The Muskrat tried to buy the Republcans a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court with $20m and it didn’t work. Wisconsin voters said, “not a chance in hell will you buy our elections”,
"Fascism is corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" Benito Mussolini(1945)
It is now clear that the American wealth gap is so wide that Cheeto has begun to take advantage of the gap to disenfranchise the middle class and turn over the country to the billionaires. Voters be damned!! Cheeto with his federal power will just rig the elections. Gil Duran in his The Nerd Reich asserts that AI is not the immediate danger....the real danger to American are the billiionaires themselves.
Last year Cheeto announced that he got a “donation” from billionaire nutjob Timothy Mellon to pay the military because of the shutdown but clearly wouldn’t be enough to help. But think about that. Cheeto has bypassed Congress and their fiscal responsibility. The president doesn’t need the Congressional approval for spending money…only dictators do that.
Cheeto knows that with enough money he can build a Black House ballroom from private donations, he can buy elections, he can buy off Nazi senators and representatives, he can even buy off in time, wait for it, SCOTUS and maybe even the lower judiciary. Cheeto is going to the bank with his billionaire buddies….you give me cash and I’ll make things happen for you because of your “donation”. Corruption? No, just making an honest transaction..
After the midterms, this must be on the agenda. But first of all the nexus between Epstein (let's not forget) Trump, Putin and Netanyahu sw
It’s just going to get worse. SC decisions, the economy tanking, unnecessary and failed wars, in the hip pocket is the insurrection act or another shitload of executive orders. There is no one or agency or branch that will stop him. It’s hard to face this. This is why I think Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden ( if able) lock arms and drag him out of the WH and let the Capitol Police do their job.
Just another reason we absolutely must take the House and then make sure we can seat our duly elected representatives!
Interesting.