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The New Style of American Foreign Policy

 Donald Trump has made his decision on Ukraine:  " Hey, there's a guy getting beaten up! Let's offer to help him if he promises to give us all the money in his wallet! "  Everything with Trump has to be transactional, where he (or us) comes out on top.  There is no humanity in this.  Russia attacked Ukraine in order to take it over. Ukrainians are literally fighting for their lives.  Trump rushes in and wants to take over their natural resources or he will stop helping them. Welcome to the new Dystopia.

Some useful reading for the coup

Here are some books that will help you work your way through the coup going on in the USA. Wealth and Democracy, by Kevin Phillips America in the Gilded Age, by Sean Dennis Cashman The Power of the Powerless, by Vaclav Havel How Fascism Works, by Jason Stanley Soft Power, by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Hiding in Plain Sight, by Sarah Kendzior How to Lose a Country, by Ece Temelkuran

Do the poor need less money? Do the rich need more?

  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-republican-budget-tax-cut-medicaid_n_67acd43be4b0239406dec54e   " Republicans have openly acknowledged that despite their furious opposition to big budget deficits, they themselves are making no effort to fully offset the cost of their tax cuts. Instead, they have said their proposed changes would boost the economy so much that tax receipts from increased business activity will make up the difference."  So it's screw the poor, give tax cuts to the rich, and explode the deficit.  And this makes sense how? 

Are national borders important anymore?

  Russia tries to take over Ukraine, and the US says No! China threatens to take over Taiwan, and the US says No! Rwanda tries to take over DRC and the US says No! Now the US wants to take over Panama, Canada, Greenland, and Gaza. Ok?

How one guy can screw up the world

 I mean, we tried. The Constitution divides power into three branches of government so there can be no concentration of power and everybody has a check on their actions.  But now one party under the cultish sway of one man in charge of our Executive Branch is also in charge of the other two branches.  The check and balance system has been turned into accept and promote.  A convicted felon has crowned the richest man on earth Lord of the Bureaucracies, giving him unlimited authority and access to any and all federal government offices.  This is not how things are supposed to work. But let's not just tamper with the United States government, says the felon.  China might take over Panama, so we need that back.  Greenland has a lot of resources, so we'll have to take that.  Canada shares the longest border with us, so let's make that the 51st state.  Gaza was pummeled into dust by an ally of ours, so we need to take that to straighten it out. ...

A coup has begun in the US

  This is a Coup Donald Trump and Elon Musk are engaging in a coup at this time. They are ignoring our Legislative and Judicial branches of government and bypassing bureaucratic rules within federal departments. They are replacing current vetted, nonpartisan, experienced federal employees with sycophants with questionable backgrounds and qualifications. By the time they are done, we will for the first time since before the Revolutionary war be ruled by one person rather than our Constitution. How are they doing this? It's obvious when you look carefully. Distraction Trump has pushed the idea that the United States might take over Panama, Greenland, and Canada, possibly by force (which means, war). There is no logical sense to any of this, since the minor grievances he touts can be handled by negotiation. There is no “emergency” on our borders at this time, but emergency powers Trump declared give him more authority to act unilaterally. These are a distract...

Goodbye acid rain, hello plastic rain

  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/plastic-rain-is-the-new-acid-rain?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us   It further confirms an increasingly hellish scenario: Microplastics are blowing all over the world, landing in supposedly pure habitats, like the Arctic and the remote French Pyrenees . They’re flowing into the oceans via wastewater and tainting deep-sea ecosystems , and they’re even ejecting out of the water and blowing onto land in sea breezes . And now in the American West, and presumably across the rest of the world given that these are fundamental atmospheric processes, they are falling in the form of plastic rain —the new acid rain.   * * * * * Plastic doesn't go away.  It just breaks up and hangs around.  We are so screwing future generations just for our personal convenience.