The Big Fool Says To Push On -- Better Yet, Push Back Against Him
Donnie Trump -- what a joker, huh?
Remember his promise to end Russia's war against Ukraine on Day One of his presidency? No joke, he bragged: "It'll be done within 24 hours. You watch."
Well, here we are at Day One Hundred, with the war still raging. So, President Donald Trump either lied ... or failed. But The Donald had a Joker up his sleeve -- he now claims that "when I said (Day One) it was in jest."
Horsefeathers. First, it was a core campaign promise, which he talked about at length in at least 53 of his widely publicized events (including two nationally televised debates). Second, he repeatedly assured his MAGA devotees that he was not joking but literally would end Putin's war in a day.
He became the joke because he knows nothing about war and has surrounded himself with Fox News blowhards who know even less. I don't mean that as an idle put-down, but as a screaming civil-defense warning of incoming danger. Unbeknownst to nearly all of us, Commander Trump and his menagerie of macho ne'er-do-wells are quietly but rapidly pulling America once again into the Big Muddy.
They've blundered into another "forever war," dumping billions of our dollars into high-tech bombing raids against Houthi militia. Who? Houthis are tenacious guerrilla fighters in the small, impoverished nation of Yemen. Like the Viet Cong some 60 years ago, they are clever and resilient. They're confounding arrogant White House and Pentagon autocrats who keep thinking they can bomb their way to world domination.
As Pete Seeger put it in his Big Muddy song, "The big fool says to push on." But we don't have to obey. To push back, go to PeoplesAction.org
AMAZING DISCOVERY: SOME WASHINGTON LOBBYISTS AND LAWMAKERS HAVE SLUDGE FOR BRAINS
Like locusts swarming a wheat field, corporate lobbyists are all over our nation's capital this spring, trying to get special favors, handouts and insider deals from the White House huckster-in-chief.
It's a corrupt-money sleazefest with lobbyists blatantly offering high-dollar political donations in exchange for presidential and congressional favoritism. Hundreds of these corporate requests are so selfish and unfair that it's been hard to single out any one as exceptionally sleazy. Until now.
Meet the "Coalition of Recyclers of Residual Organics." Well, recycle and coalition sound sort of positive, right? But what are "residual organics?" Uh ... poop. Specifically, sewage sludge includes human waste. Piped from our homes, it goes through sewer systems to utility plants, which treat it and filter out the water, leaving a thick sludge of "biosolids."
And what does "recycling" mean? Corporate giants like Synagro (which is owned by Wall Street financier Goldman Sachs) buy it and simply rebrand the stuff as "fertilizer." They reap huge profits selling the sludge to unsuspecting farmers and ranchers, not mentioning that it can contain deadly levels of "forever chemicals." Millions of acres across America have already been contaminated -- along with water sources, livestock and families.
So now, lobbyists for sludge peddlers are demanding that Trump's government intervene. Not to help victimized families, but literally to take away the legal right of those families to sue the corporate profiteers that poisoned them.
Unsurprisingly, Republican lawmakers are siding with the poisoners. Meanwhile, Synagro continues to sell sludge as fertilizer, and Trump officials are even pushing the EPA to stop designating "forever chemicals" as hazardous.
Has everyone gone crazy!?! To find sanity in this mess, go to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: peer.org
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