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@#3 ... Trump may be needing one as well, after the boat massacres.

I agree.

... They're both guilty of war crimes. ...

But, but, but... if Congress has not declared a war, how can there be war crimes?

imo, what Pres Trump has been doing is murder, not a war crime. Murder, plain and simple.

Why not release that second video?

Even our closest ally has backed away from Pres Trump's actions.

UK pauses intelligence-sharing with US on suspected drug vessels in Caribbean
www.theguardian.com

... Britain has suspended the sharing of intelligence with the US on suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean amid concerns information supplied may be used to engage in lethal military strikes by American forces.

Such a decision " a rare rupture between the normally close military allies " would indicate that the UK does not believe the Trump administration's controversial practice of sinking boats allegedly used by drug traffickers is legal. ...



Axios Explains: Inside ICE's superpowers (June 2025)
www.axios.com

...The images of masked, heavily armed immigration agents snatching people off the streets and taking them away in unmarked cars have shocked many Americans -- and led to a simple question: Is all of this legal?

- - - It is -- at least for now.

Why it matters: Since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was created after the 9/11 attacks, its agents have operated with vastly more enforcement power, less transparency and fewer guardrails than local police. ...


Dummkopf Trumpf blatantly lied in front of a smirking Benjamin Netanyahu who darned well knows the truth.

  • 138 Israeli and American hostages were released through the hard work of USSECSTATE Tony Blinken, D/CIA William J. Burns, D/Mossad David Barnea, and Qatari interlocutors during President Joe Biden's administration. Silence is complicity and Joe Biden must have been p___ed.

  • President of Israel Isaac Herzog's office almost immediately issued a response: "There has been no conversation between President [Isaac] Herzog and President [Dummkopf] Trumpf since the pardon request was submitted."
    Israeli AG Gali Baharav-Miara would be p___ed if Netanyahu was pardoned.

    Link: No Discussion Between Herzog and Trumpf

    Wealthy, nuclear-armed Israel has a top ten universal healthcare system for all its residents, a social security system ranked at "B+" compared to America which is ranked at "C+", and Israeli GNI is $52,940. This is almost exactly on par with NATO ally Germany (Europe's largest economy) whose GNI is $54,960.

    Hardworking American taxpayers and antiwar Samaritans are sick and tired of the odious Benjamin Netanyahu, an ICC-indicted war criminal, despoiling the US with his frequent unwelcome visits and getting Dummkopf Trumpf to bomb Iranians or Houthis for him, or extracting more US military or economic aid for Israel.



  • Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator (1981)
    www.youtube.com

    Lyrics excerpt

    genius.com

    ...
    [Chorus]
    I'm the operator
    With my pocket calculator
    I'm the operator
    With my pocket calculator

    [Verse]
    I am adding
    And subtracting
    I'm controlling
    And composing

    [Chorus]
    I'm the operator
    With my pocket calculator
    I'm the operator
    With my pocket calculator

    [Verse]
    I am adding
    And subtracting
    I'm controlling
    And composing

    [Bridge]
    By pressing down a special key
    It plays a little melody
    By pressing down a special key
    It plays a little melody
    ...


    @#6 ... Putin gapes pedo 47's fat ass for the Epsteinth time. ...

    Looks that way.

    Then there's this ...

    Putin says Russia will achieve its Ukraine aims by force if Kyiv doesn't want peace
    www.cnbc.com

    ... Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine was in no hurry for peace and if it did not want to resolve their conflict peacefully, Moscow would accomplish all its goals by force.

    Putin's remarks on Saturday, carried by state news agency TASS, followed a vast Russian drone and missile attack that prompted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to say Russia was demonstrating its wish to continue the war while Kyiv wanted peace. ...


    @#4 ... Does that "eight" include the war he claims to have stopped between two non-fighting countries 4,000 miles apart? ...

    Trump claims he ended a war - between countries that are 4,000 miles apart (September 2025)
    www.yahoo.com

    ... If you haven't heard of the Armenian-Cambodian conflict, that's okay, because neither has anyone else -- other than President Donald Trump, who claims to have ended the supposedly brewing clash.

    During the American Cornerstone Institute's Founders' Dinner at the Mount Vernon estate in Virginia Saturday, Trump again rattled off his peacemaking resume, the latest push in his desire to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

    One of the wars he mentioned ending was a conflict between "Cambodia and Armenia."

    The president did not elaborate on what allegedly set leaders in capitals Phnom Penh and Yerevan -- which are 4,150 miles apart -- against each other, but he assured the crowd that war "was just starting, and it was a bad one."

    There has been no conflict between Armenia and Cambodia. ...




    More from the article ...

    ... Previous law required that a nursing home that accepts state funding to care for indigent people generally admit new residents from its waiting list in the order the applications were submitted.

    The new law adds an exception requiring a nursing home to admit a veteran regardless of the waiting list if the nursing home has a contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to provide care for veterans, and the veteran applicant meets eligibility requirements.

    ...

    The new law also allows children in military families to stay enrolled in their current school for an additional school year when a service member relocates on orders.

    The law requires local and regional school boards to take steps to ensure a minimally disruptive transition of a military-connected student who enrolls in a school after the school year begins, or has an individualized education plan for special education services from a prior school year.

    This applies when the student enrolls due to an armed forces member's military orders or other documents directing the service member to the state.

    For these students, the law requires districts to at least transfer records and evaluations, perform a reevaluation, and within 30 school days of enrollment, hold a planning and placement team meeting or a meeting to establish an individualized education plan.

    Under the law, a service member's child must be allowed to remain enrolled in a school until the end of the school year if the service member relocates on orders and remains in the armed forces. However, a child enrolled in grade 11 may continue to be enrolled in school for an additional year while the service member remains in the armed forces.

    ...

    Under the new law, the governor is required to proclaim November of each year as Veterans' Month in recognition of the service and sacrifice of those who have served in the armed forces to protect the country and state.

    Suitable exercises can be held in the state Capitol building and other sites if the governor chooses. ...


    @#21 ... Vance has the personality of a dead moth. ...

    Speaking of moths ...

    Aimee Mann - The Moth (2008)
    www.youtube.com

    (not sure of the date, I've also seen 2002 attributed to this video ...)

    Lyrics excerpt ...

    genius.com

    ...
    [Verse 1]
    The moth don't care when he sees the flame
    He might get burned, but he's in the game
    And once he's in, he can't go back
    He'll beat his wings till he burns them black
    No, the moth don't care when he sees the flame
    No, the moth don't care when he sees the flame

    [Verse 2]
    The moth don't care if the flame is real
    'Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal
    And nothing fuels a good flirtation
    Like need and anger and desperation
    No, the moth don't care if the flame is real
    No, the moth don't care if the flame is real
    ...


    (reminds me of the MAGA moth's attraction to the flame of Pres Trump)

    Back Home

    [volume up]

    Yet the Republican majority in the House has elected him.

    Interesting tidbit, the Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of the House, according to the Constitution.

    Can a non-member of Congress be speaker of the House? (2023)
    www.cbsnews.com

    ... As Republicans in the House of Representatives debate who should lead the lower chamber, it's notable that the House speaker -- who is second in line for the presidency -- doesn't have to be a member of Congress.

    The House has never been led by a non-member in its 234 years of existence, according to the Congressional Research Service, and experts say a non-member speaker is still unlikely. But it is possible. ...

    The Constitution has very few requirements to be House speaker. The person must be nominated by a member of the House, then chosen by a majority of the full membership of the House. For a House with 435 members, that's 218 votes, although there are two vacancies right now.

    "The House of Representatives shall chuse their speaker and other officers," the Constitution reads.[1] ...


    Wow, yeah, it says "chuse."

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    1 - constitution.congress.gov


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