Trump's stated plan to commit genocide against Palestinians by forcefully removing all of them so he and his fellow oligarchs can enjoy making money building a "Riviera of the Middle East" is evidence of his demented and psychopathic ambitions. The terrible LACK OF PUSH BACK from our Allies hopefully was just because of the shock of this horrific plan. Trump only cares about himself and people with more money than he has.
America really needs the Democracies of the world to BOYCOTT ALL OF THE OLIGARCHS' COMPANIES, and impose economic sanctions against the BOARD MEMBERS and EXECUTIVE Leadership of them, Trump’s Cabinet; MAGAts in Congress and in US Governorships, ALL the oligarchs (especially Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Thiel), the Heritage Foundation, FOX Network, Netanyahu, Orban, and Bolsonaro.
Trump's plan to take over Greenland is to satisfy Peter Thiel who created the monster we now know as V. D. Vance. Trump's plan to take over the Panama canal is to please Putin. Trump's plan to cede Ukraine to Putin is obviously to please his puppet master. He has no respect for the law, for societal norms and etiquette, and no respect for people who follow the rules. Our Democracy brought a knife to his gun fight and we lost.
We need our ALLIES to help us STOP THIS COUP before we are forced to use violence to restore US Constitutional order. Violence in America will be unavoidable to stop this criminal assault on our democratic republic, but it could be much less violent if our Allies will IMMEDIATELY hit the SUPPORTERS of Putin’s puppets in the pocketbooks, which is all they care about truly.
Price gouging, and disinformation campaigns about Democrats, the economy, climate change, immigrants, LGBTQ people, reproductive rights, education, inflation, COVID, and more have created a public stage for white nationalists, so called “christian” nationalists, bigots of every ilk, NAZIS, domestic terrorist groups, sexual assault, and rampant misogyny to be normalized by Trump’s CULT. Trump's complete disregard for law and order was ignored, discounted, or considered justified by his supporters. The CULT is slowly shaking off the mass psychosis because a growing number of them, their family and friends are being harmed already by this TSUNAMI of illegal and un-Constitutional actions within the Federal Government and Red States.
In the blink of an eye, Musk could DRAIN the US Treasury to attack ALL Americans. He has access to ALL of our private financial data INCLUDING OUR PERSONAL BANK ACCOUNTS. Musk could use this data to target dissenters and vocal members of the Resistance, or to attempt to enslave all Americans. That will trigger a full out war on American soil, so PLEASE make it clear to Trump, Musk and Putin, WE THE PEOPLE of Democracies are not afraid and will fight for our freedom, rights, and dignity, Please make it clear to the WORLD that our ALLIES and NATO have our backs and see the criminal actions of the Trump Administration and its supporters, and will hold them accountable.
America is now a Russian puppet state and for that reason should not be allowed to be a member of NATO until democracy is restored and the COUP leaders have been held accountable according to international and American laws. America is now the WEAKEST NATION in NATO despite our gigantic military because of the incompetence of our Federal Government’s actions! Right now, we still have a majority of senior military in place to prevent ILLEGAL ORDERS from being followed, but talking head, Hegseth plans to fire many of them soon. This truly appears to be the intentional destruction of America’s social, economic, health, education, and emergency management resources. Musk is making stupid and unjustifiable decisions about the Federal government and now is claiming he is neither an employee, or an appointee, just a South African billionaire wrecking ball pursuing his self-serving interests at the expense of America and our allies. Musk's young son told Trump on live television "You are not the President" and "I want you to shush your mouth and go away". He sat there impotent and silent before the world, knowing this was true.
Musk has focused his baseless assaults on Federal programs, bureaus, and agencies that were either investigating him and his business ventures, or WHO REGULATED his businesses. This is both criminal and un-Constitutional violations of the sovereignty of the United States of America. Everything Trump says is either a lie or a confession when he attacks others, and all he wants to do is let Musk carry out his self-serving oligarch takeover of the United States so he can play golf and stay out of prison. Now that Trump divided and conquered us Musk’s attacks are easily supported by the Republicans who place their political power with MAGA ahead of Americans and our US Constitution.
If our allies do not impose stringent economic sanctions and take immediate actions to FREEZE THE ASSETS of this COUP’S leadership, it is possible that Putin will absorb the MAGA forces inside of our US Military, and weapons of mass destruction, jets, ships, drones, and more. If our Allies allow that to happen, it will be a preventable travesty that the FREE WORLD will not survive. As everyone knows, he US military is the largest in the world and much more lethal than it was in World War 2, Korea, Viet Nam, and Iraq.
In his first term, Trump’s face lit up as if he was seeing a favorite lover when Putin entered the room, and he told the world, he “fell in love” with North Korea’s dictator (who had "beautiful coast line that could become resorts" in his delusional mind. Trump has consistently supported the authoritarian strong men and their disinformation campaigns around the globe. His next move to cement his destruction of our Democracy and avoid prison, seems likely to join BRICS at the expense of NATO. NATO currently has the edge in military power because of the US, with advanced technology, strong alliances, and quick deployment capabilities Russia finds threatening. At this time, NATO holds great influence economically, but BRICS is catching up with its growing GDP and large population. PLEASE PREVENT THE TIPPING of that balance. Freeze the criminals' assets as soon as possible. They need to know they are NOT more powerful that the world's Democracies.
What can you say about a human being that is willing to throw an entire nation into the desert and/or the sea for personal gain? One response comes to mind, there’s a special place in Hell waiting for him. Him equals Trump and Netanyahu. It’s not just Gaza, it’s the West Bank also. Disgusting!!! It will come back to roost!!!
Very insightful articulation of our current situation. Your words have highlighted some big issues. Hannah Arendt in revealing the totalitarian assault said,
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule…people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
The original 1940’s African American word ‘woke’ was ‘to wake’ people up to the racism they experienced. We need to ‘wake up’ to World history that has revealed a long practice of ‘tiptoeing around’ the facts-“And yet, for the longest time, the West refused to see the facts.”
Trump is an unstable, vindictive, dictator, who is disrupting world order for some self serving weak unfulfilled Napoleon like desire for himself to be great. Not public interest but self interest. Little respect or regard for humanity is shown - he is not a man of peace but negotiator of fear (Gaza, Greenland, economic aggression, imperialist/colonialist goals).
US Vice President Wallace in “The Century of The Common Man”(1942) said,
“There can be no privileged peoples. We ourselves in the United States are no more a master race than the Nazis.” “The demagogue is the curse of the modern world, and of all the demagogues, the worst are those financed by well-meaning wealthy men…”
While you may be critical of Netanyahu's reaction to the Oct 7th attacks, you haven't dealt with the alternative. Should Israel simply leave the hostages in the hands of Hamas -- an organization dedicated to genocide and the destruction of Israel -- and let Hamas continue to attack Israel? Netanyahu's intent was clear -- to destroy Hamas. It is a genocidal organization. And, you cannot protest genocide by calling for genocide. Sympathy for Hamas is simply a genocidal call for the death of Israelis, because Hamas has no other mission or purpose. Surely, their mission has not been the betterment of the people of Gaza, who could have created a thriving economy and maintained free trade with their two neighbors, Israel and Egypt. But, no, Hamas pursues one path -- endless war -- and so neither of its neighbors, including the Mulsim one, would let the Palestinians escape Israel's wrath.
Nobody likes to see children suffering. So, why aren't you criticizing Hamas?
Charlie: I appreciate your framing this as the world resistance to Trump. I goes far beyond our Government devising defenses against tarriffs or Trumpusk designs on Canada (important as they are). There are opportunities for Canada and Canadians to take a lead in defending the legal order, with allies around the world!
It looks as if Housefather and the other Ottawa agents of the Israeli government are getting just what they wanted. Strange that the Hogue commission and all the hand wringing about China, Russia, India was totally silent about Israel ...
"... and the prophet sings not of the end of the world but of what has been done and what will be done and what is being done to some but not others, that the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore..:
Netanyahu is a war criminal, the ICC is totally correct. What Hamas did on October 7th was horrific and unjustifiable. I am still stunned that Israel, with all their intelligence and high tech surveillance, etc. ever let it happen. But the mass murder and maiming of tens of thousands of civilians and the total destruction of the Palestinians' land was in no way a "proper response". This Hamas attack was Netanyahu's "in" to wage war, commit a little genocide and and stay out of jail. Netanyahu made no real attempts to get the hostages back, he just proceeded with great glee to kill as many as he could. Telling people to go south and then bombing entire refuge camps filled with innocent civilians because he claimed Hamas fighters were hiding there? Well, if you KNOW that Hamas fighter are hiding there, presumably you have some knowledge of their whereabouts --- so why not send in your highly trained snipers or drones to take out those individuals rater than mutilating a bunch of innocent civilians?
I was glad to see Biden stop sending some of the larger bombs to Israel, but he didn't go far enough, he should have stopped sending them any weapons when it became clear that this was about some sick political agenda and Netanyahu's desire to wipe out the people in Gaza - and stay out of jail.
I believe the rest of the world will stand up and not allow this ridiculous land grab by this demented buffoon. And I also wish that people in Israel would stand up and denounce Netanyahu for being a wannabe Hitler. I find their silence disturbing but then maybe they are denouncing their wanna-be Hitler and we aren't hearing about it?
Let’s stop the war in Gaza. How about the Terrorist group Hamas releasing all the hostages, that would be a great place to start. apilgrimsresponse.substack.com
Keep spreading the word! Well the resistance here in the US might still be in shock over the atrocities at this orange turd and his minions are doing, we will rise up and support the rest of the world. The rest of the world needs to stand up against this orange turd. Impose their own tariffs on the US, stop buying goods from the US, and above all, do not take your vacations here. Show this orange turd the might of the rest of the world!
The problem is not “will” we be complicit but acknowledging that we have been complicit for more than 75 years. The answer to the “what about ..” deflection is that Israel was created by our support in the UN and its repression of the Palestinian people ever since has brought no meaningful rebuke since then. We even have a free trade agreement with Israel, refuse to accurate label goods produced in occupied Palestinian land by Israel and our Parliament have labelled the nonviolent BDS protest of Israeli violations of international as antisemitic. The genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza and institutionalized violence against Palestinian in the West Bank is intensifying. Is this what it takes for the public to recognize what has been happening step by step for decades?
Fascism is on the rise. We can avoid it in Canada if we select a new leader that understands how to optimize our economy and make the US less of a threat. We need a new playbook.
Trump is not reasonable and doesn't value relationships. He believes its OK for him to break everything around him. American leadership doesn't stand up to him. He should have hung for treason for Jan 6th but wasn't even tried.
Charlie, check out CBC’s breaking news at 6pm EST today about Mango Mussolini breaking the 30 day tariff reprieve and announcing they are back on Canada starting later this week 🤬
Trump's stated plan to commit genocide against Palestinians by forcefully removing all of them so he and his fellow oligarchs can enjoy making money building a "Riviera of the Middle East" is evidence of his demented and psychopathic ambitions. The terrible LACK OF PUSH BACK from our Allies hopefully was just because of the shock of this horrific plan. Trump only cares about himself and people with more money than he has.
America really needs the Democracies of the world to BOYCOTT ALL OF THE OLIGARCHS' COMPANIES, and impose economic sanctions against the BOARD MEMBERS and EXECUTIVE Leadership of them, Trump’s Cabinet; MAGAts in Congress and in US Governorships, ALL the oligarchs (especially Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Thiel), the Heritage Foundation, FOX Network, Netanyahu, Orban, and Bolsonaro.
Trump's plan to take over Greenland is to satisfy Peter Thiel who created the monster we now know as V. D. Vance. Trump's plan to take over the Panama canal is to please Putin. Trump's plan to cede Ukraine to Putin is obviously to please his puppet master. He has no respect for the law, for societal norms and etiquette, and no respect for people who follow the rules. Our Democracy brought a knife to his gun fight and we lost.
We need our ALLIES to help us STOP THIS COUP before we are forced to use violence to restore US Constitutional order. Violence in America will be unavoidable to stop this criminal assault on our democratic republic, but it could be much less violent if our Allies will IMMEDIATELY hit the SUPPORTERS of Putin’s puppets in the pocketbooks, which is all they care about truly.
Price gouging, and disinformation campaigns about Democrats, the economy, climate change, immigrants, LGBTQ people, reproductive rights, education, inflation, COVID, and more have created a public stage for white nationalists, so called “christian” nationalists, bigots of every ilk, NAZIS, domestic terrorist groups, sexual assault, and rampant misogyny to be normalized by Trump’s CULT. Trump's complete disregard for law and order was ignored, discounted, or considered justified by his supporters. The CULT is slowly shaking off the mass psychosis because a growing number of them, their family and friends are being harmed already by this TSUNAMI of illegal and un-Constitutional actions within the Federal Government and Red States.
In the blink of an eye, Musk could DRAIN the US Treasury to attack ALL Americans. He has access to ALL of our private financial data INCLUDING OUR PERSONAL BANK ACCOUNTS. Musk could use this data to target dissenters and vocal members of the Resistance, or to attempt to enslave all Americans. That will trigger a full out war on American soil, so PLEASE make it clear to Trump, Musk and Putin, WE THE PEOPLE of Democracies are not afraid and will fight for our freedom, rights, and dignity, Please make it clear to the WORLD that our ALLIES and NATO have our backs and see the criminal actions of the Trump Administration and its supporters, and will hold them accountable.
America is now a Russian puppet state and for that reason should not be allowed to be a member of NATO until democracy is restored and the COUP leaders have been held accountable according to international and American laws. America is now the WEAKEST NATION in NATO despite our gigantic military because of the incompetence of our Federal Government’s actions! Right now, we still have a majority of senior military in place to prevent ILLEGAL ORDERS from being followed, but talking head, Hegseth plans to fire many of them soon. This truly appears to be the intentional destruction of America’s social, economic, health, education, and emergency management resources. Musk is making stupid and unjustifiable decisions about the Federal government and now is claiming he is neither an employee, or an appointee, just a South African billionaire wrecking ball pursuing his self-serving interests at the expense of America and our allies. Musk's young son told Trump on live television "You are not the President" and "I want you to shush your mouth and go away". He sat there impotent and silent before the world, knowing this was true.
Musk has focused his baseless assaults on Federal programs, bureaus, and agencies that were either investigating him and his business ventures, or WHO REGULATED his businesses. This is both criminal and un-Constitutional violations of the sovereignty of the United States of America. Everything Trump says is either a lie or a confession when he attacks others, and all he wants to do is let Musk carry out his self-serving oligarch takeover of the United States so he can play golf and stay out of prison. Now that Trump divided and conquered us Musk’s attacks are easily supported by the Republicans who place their political power with MAGA ahead of Americans and our US Constitution.
If our allies do not impose stringent economic sanctions and take immediate actions to FREEZE THE ASSETS of this COUP’S leadership, it is possible that Putin will absorb the MAGA forces inside of our US Military, and weapons of mass destruction, jets, ships, drones, and more. If our Allies allow that to happen, it will be a preventable travesty that the FREE WORLD will not survive. As everyone knows, he US military is the largest in the world and much more lethal than it was in World War 2, Korea, Viet Nam, and Iraq.
In his first term, Trump’s face lit up as if he was seeing a favorite lover when Putin entered the room, and he told the world, he “fell in love” with North Korea’s dictator (who had "beautiful coast line that could become resorts" in his delusional mind. Trump has consistently supported the authoritarian strong men and their disinformation campaigns around the globe. His next move to cement his destruction of our Democracy and avoid prison, seems likely to join BRICS at the expense of NATO. NATO currently has the edge in military power because of the US, with advanced technology, strong alliances, and quick deployment capabilities Russia finds threatening. At this time, NATO holds great influence economically, but BRICS is catching up with its growing GDP and large population. PLEASE PREVENT THE TIPPING of that balance. Freeze the criminals' assets as soon as possible. They need to know they are NOT more powerful that the world's Democracies.
What can you say about a human being that is willing to throw an entire nation into the desert and/or the sea for personal gain? One response comes to mind, there’s a special place in Hell waiting for him. Him equals Trump and Netanyahu. It’s not just Gaza, it’s the West Bank also. Disgusting!!! It will come back to roost!!!
Very insightful articulation of our current situation. Your words have highlighted some big issues. Hannah Arendt in revealing the totalitarian assault said,
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule…people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
The original 1940’s African American word ‘woke’ was ‘to wake’ people up to the racism they experienced. We need to ‘wake up’ to World history that has revealed a long practice of ‘tiptoeing around’ the facts-“And yet, for the longest time, the West refused to see the facts.”
Trump is an unstable, vindictive, dictator, who is disrupting world order for some self serving weak unfulfilled Napoleon like desire for himself to be great. Not public interest but self interest. Little respect or regard for humanity is shown - he is not a man of peace but negotiator of fear (Gaza, Greenland, economic aggression, imperialist/colonialist goals).
US Vice President Wallace in “The Century of The Common Man”(1942) said,
“There can be no privileged peoples. We ourselves in the United States are no more a master race than the Nazis.” “The demagogue is the curse of the modern world, and of all the demagogues, the worst are those financed by well-meaning wealthy men…”
I could ramble on….
While you may be critical of Netanyahu's reaction to the Oct 7th attacks, you haven't dealt with the alternative. Should Israel simply leave the hostages in the hands of Hamas -- an organization dedicated to genocide and the destruction of Israel -- and let Hamas continue to attack Israel? Netanyahu's intent was clear -- to destroy Hamas. It is a genocidal organization. And, you cannot protest genocide by calling for genocide. Sympathy for Hamas is simply a genocidal call for the death of Israelis, because Hamas has no other mission or purpose. Surely, their mission has not been the betterment of the people of Gaza, who could have created a thriving economy and maintained free trade with their two neighbors, Israel and Egypt. But, no, Hamas pursues one path -- endless war -- and so neither of its neighbors, including the Mulsim one, would let the Palestinians escape Israel's wrath.
Nobody likes to see children suffering. So, why aren't you criticizing Hamas?
Charlie: I appreciate your framing this as the world resistance to Trump. I goes far beyond our Government devising defenses against tarriffs or Trumpusk designs on Canada (important as they are). There are opportunities for Canada and Canadians to take a lead in defending the legal order, with allies around the world!
It looks as if Housefather and the other Ottawa agents of the Israeli government are getting just what they wanted. Strange that the Hogue commission and all the hand wringing about China, Russia, India was totally silent about Israel ...
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"... and the prophet sings not of the end of the world but of what has been done and what will be done and what is being done to some but not others, that the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore..:
Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
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Thank you for this Charlie. It is time to stand up and be accountable for our own lives.
Don’t let any of this become normal.
Put it on record.
Thank you for this, Charlie. Spot on across the board.
The only answer is to leave that territory alone, & help the Palestinians rebuild. Any other answer is criminal.
Netanyahu is a war criminal, the ICC is totally correct. What Hamas did on October 7th was horrific and unjustifiable. I am still stunned that Israel, with all their intelligence and high tech surveillance, etc. ever let it happen. But the mass murder and maiming of tens of thousands of civilians and the total destruction of the Palestinians' land was in no way a "proper response". This Hamas attack was Netanyahu's "in" to wage war, commit a little genocide and and stay out of jail. Netanyahu made no real attempts to get the hostages back, he just proceeded with great glee to kill as many as he could. Telling people to go south and then bombing entire refuge camps filled with innocent civilians because he claimed Hamas fighters were hiding there? Well, if you KNOW that Hamas fighter are hiding there, presumably you have some knowledge of their whereabouts --- so why not send in your highly trained snipers or drones to take out those individuals rater than mutilating a bunch of innocent civilians?
I was glad to see Biden stop sending some of the larger bombs to Israel, but he didn't go far enough, he should have stopped sending them any weapons when it became clear that this was about some sick political agenda and Netanyahu's desire to wipe out the people in Gaza - and stay out of jail.
I believe the rest of the world will stand up and not allow this ridiculous land grab by this demented buffoon. And I also wish that people in Israel would stand up and denounce Netanyahu for being a wannabe Hitler. I find their silence disturbing but then maybe they are denouncing their wanna-be Hitler and we aren't hearing about it?
Let’s stop the war in Gaza. How about the Terrorist group Hamas releasing all the hostages, that would be a great place to start. apilgrimsresponse.substack.com
Keep spreading the word! Well the resistance here in the US might still be in shock over the atrocities at this orange turd and his minions are doing, we will rise up and support the rest of the world. The rest of the world needs to stand up against this orange turd. Impose their own tariffs on the US, stop buying goods from the US, and above all, do not take your vacations here. Show this orange turd the might of the rest of the world!
The problem is not “will” we be complicit but acknowledging that we have been complicit for more than 75 years. The answer to the “what about ..” deflection is that Israel was created by our support in the UN and its repression of the Palestinian people ever since has brought no meaningful rebuke since then. We even have a free trade agreement with Israel, refuse to accurate label goods produced in occupied Palestinian land by Israel and our Parliament have labelled the nonviolent BDS protest of Israeli violations of international as antisemitic. The genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza and institutionalized violence against Palestinian in the West Bank is intensifying. Is this what it takes for the public to recognize what has been happening step by step for decades?
Fascism is on the rise. We can avoid it in Canada if we select a new leader that understands how to optimize our economy and make the US less of a threat. We need a new playbook.
Well said. We need to bring all free nations together with one voice on messaging Trump.
Trump is not reasonable and doesn't value relationships. He believes its OK for him to break everything around him. American leadership doesn't stand up to him. He should have hung for treason for Jan 6th but wasn't even tried.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Charlie, check out CBC’s breaking news at 6pm EST today about Mango Mussolini breaking the 30 day tariff reprieve and announcing they are back on Canada starting later this week 🤬