Dominic Lawson: Republicans who think the US president will fight for Taiwan are deluded. read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who met with U.S. Vice President JD Vance in Germany on Friday, said Ukraine was not invited to the talks in Saudi Arabia and Kyiv would not engage with Russia before consulting with strategic partners. read more
Trump on Saturday posted on social media a single sentence that appears to encapsulate his attitude as he tests the nation's legal and constitutional boundaries in the process of upending the federal government and punishing his perceived enemies. read more
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Mexico's president has accused the US of harboring drug cartels and American citizens of working with organized crime groups in Mexico, in a riposte to Donald Trump's allegation of an "intolerable alliance" between traffickers and her government. "There is also organized crime in the United States and there are American people who come to Mexico with these illegal activities," Claudia Sheinbaum said during her morning press conference on Thursday. "Otherwise who would distribute fentanyl in the cities of the United States?" read more
The clownish outfit Trump created for his dinner with the queen of England remains a classic source ofchilarity: www.esquire.com
"In 1954, army counsel Joseph Welch famously responded to the demagogue Senator McCarthy, "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." Welch followed up with a gut-punch, one that has stood the time of history: "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"" writes Sasha Abramsky in "The Most Disgraceful Foreign Policy Spectacle in US History" at The Nation(www.thenation.com).
We know that Trump and Vance have no decency, but I ask that question now of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Have you no decency, Mr. Secretary of State? How could you have sat in that room watching Trump and Vance doing their Hitler-Goebbels imitation, and not immediately gotten up and resigned? I ask every foreign policy and military expert, every diplomat who has decided to sweat it out and keep working for this foul administration, at what point do you curdle your moral core beyond repair by staying with this mobster-like government?
I ask you, Senators McConnell, Murkowski, Collins, and every other senator who knows exactly how destructive these events are to America's position in the world, how can you remain in this party? How can you continue to advance, with your votes, the Trump agenda? I ask you, supposedly moderate GOP congresspeople (wherever you may be hiding), how can you live with yourself as this train wreck gathers pace? How can you not immediately make moves to work with the Democrats to impeach this president and his gangster colleagues?
Make no mistake, history is watching what is unfolding. Trump and Vance crossed a giant moral Rubicon today. They showed the entire world the full fetid awfulness of their vision. Now it is up to us, the American people, to work out how to respond.
Musk then argued that if you're not committing genocide, then you can't be called a Nazi.
"What's relevant about Nazis is like, are you invading Poland? And if you're not invading Poland, maybe you're not" a Nazi, he said. "You have to be committing genocide and starting wars."
Leon lies.
A lot.