By Michael Woyton
Wondering this morning what the “uncommitted” movement and those who thought Kamala was the warmonger are thinking about the felon-in-chief’s surprise statement that the United States will takeover Gaza (in addition to Greenland, Panama and Canada).
Also wondering what they think about the mayor of Mar-a-Lago saying all 2 million Palestinians should move to countries like Egypt and Jordan.
I’m sure developing beachfront property is the Middle East would enrich the adjudicated rapist’s family.
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But there are still problems closer to home, like the plundering of our government by the world’s richest man and his hench-kids.
Lawsuits have been filed and are being tracked.
Just Security, an online forum “for the rigorous analysis of security, democracy, foreign policy, and rights,” is tracking the lawsuits currently filed against the numerous executive orders being pumped out of the White House. Find the tracker here.
The suits range from birthright citizenship and punishing sanctuary cities and states to establishing the “Department of Government Efficiency” and the deferred resignation offer to federal employees. There is much, much more.
But lawsuits are not an immediate resolution.
Fred Wellman points out that the “rush to destroy things like USAID and other agencies before lawsuits can stop them is to make it moot. When our stupidly slow judicial system finally moves to stop them it will be far too late. If all 10,000 USAID employees are home and projects abandoned it’s done. It’s evil.”
David Rothkopf, writing for the Daily Beast, said that Jan. 6 was “nothing compared to the current mob of thugs intent on tearing apart our country’s very system of government.”
He said it’s as if the coup attempt four years ago has never stopped.
Rothkopf blames a “supine media, timid Democratic leaders, Republican sycophants and the obliviousness of an electorate apparently unbothered by the slow-motion destruction of their own democracy.”
He offers no hard and fast solutions, but reminds us that “our interests … are put at risk when the White House illegally stops funding programs created and funded by the Congress to serve us.”
That is even made worse by Musk and his merry band of techies, who hold who knows what allegiances to what other countries, are setting up ways to control how our government pays its bills and all of our financial data.
I still believe it is up to us to keep pressuring our senators and representatives. Find your representative here and your senator here.
Commentator Dean Obeidallah, writing The Dean’s Report, quoted boxer Mike Tyson as saying, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.
“That is exactly what Democratic leaders need to do to Donald Trump — from a political point of view, that is. Every single day Democratic leaders need to ask themselves: What can we do to punch Trump in the face today?!” Obeidallah wrote.
I might add that if you have Republican senators or representatives you should contact them as well, letting them know if you are not happy about what is going on.
If don’t tell our elected officials that we don’t think they are doing enough, then it’s highly likely they won’t.
We don’t have to re-elect them, you know. And they know that.
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