Reading Time: < 1 minute President Donald Trump said he plans to sign an executive action on Wednesday that would end the administration’s policy of separating migrant families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. This is contrary to his previous position that only Congress could fix the problem, thus functionally an end to extorting Congress for wall funding with the lives of children.
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Make No Mistake, Russia is Behind the Shift In Our North Korea Policy
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 4 minutes Russia has been one of North Korea’s very few allies since the Cold War. Maybe it’s because of that tiny shared border. Maybe it’s because they share similar totalitarian political viewpoints.
Almost everyone concedes nothing was gained for the U.S. in this sham of a summit. While some believe it was a run-up of political theater intended to distract from other issues that threaten Trump’s Presidency, there might be a more ominous answer to the why question.
The military isn’t jumping at the words of our Commander in Chief. While they have their own logic for putting the breaks on, I’m left wondering who our Commander in Chief is. Who does Trump take direction or even orders from? We know he’s not taking direction, input, or guidance from our international allies who’ve been in this game with us for a long time. We know he’s flying in the face of long-held U.S. foreign policy under both Democrat and Republican administrations.
We also know that Russia wanted the U.S. to stand down regarding North Korea and has wanted that for a very long time.
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Trump and Kim Jong Un: We Will Be Known By the Company We Keep
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 4 minutes I wish we could send out an SOS to the international community begging for help. My prayer is that they recognize what’s happened to us and that someday someone will send help. My fear though is that we will be judged by our president as if we chose him and that history will not smile on that choice.
2018 will go down in history as the year that decided the fate of our democracy. The congressional races at hand matter more than we can predict at this point. There is no excuse for apathy. The price of apathy is way too high. The most effective and quite possibly only SOS we can send to the world is a 2018 election cycle that rejects Trump and what he stands for. As the world watches, we need to show them without question that we did not choose this and we never will.
Reading Time: < 1 minute President Trump alienates allies at the G7 Summit by insulting their leaders, defending Russia and taking an aggressive stance against longstanding trade policies with Canada.
Reading Time: < 1 minute White evangelicals are scared, and their support for Trump will not diminish until we address the root cause of their fears.
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After the Worst Week of His Presidency, Trump Gets His Military Parade After All By Bombing Syria
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 4 minutes War is a thing. Missiles are real. What happened on Friday happened, but it wasn’t shock and awe. It was a well-executed distraction. The media has to cover it, but we don’t have to buy it. What we have to do is get to the polls and vote in numbers like we’ve never seen before. November 2018 isn’t that far away. You might start making a plan to get to the polls to vote now in case you have to do it in the dark.
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Collusion Isn’t a Crime – And Other Things You Need to Know Because Words Matter
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 4 minutes We’ve already seen charges for Conspiracy Against the United States in the Russia probe. Chances are very high that is a foreshadowing of bigger things to come. Robert Mueller and his team are likely in the process of unraveling the largest conspiracy against any government in history.
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The One Person Who’s Not Upset About the Media Coverage of Trumps Affairs is Donald J. Trump
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 3 minutes Do not be misled by any coverage that says Trump is upset by the shitstorm of media coverage of his affairs. He’s not. Trump is secretly or not so secretly proud. He’s patting himself on the back that now everyone knows he can bang beautiful porn stars. He’s stewing in the soup of his narcissism and unfortunately, now so are we because he is our President.