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The ‘acting’ president

Extremist right-wing MAGA people (formerly called Republicans) waste an inordinate amount of breath proclaiming they want freedom. From what they’ve been saying, they don’t know what “freedom” is or how it works.

Freedom is the intent of the founders of our country, Constitution, War Powers Act, and everything in between. It means that the people, all the people, decide the actions and direction of our country: following the rule of the majority, while respecting the rights of the minority (as Mrs. Gittens, third grade teacher, taught me).  

Not some mob boss, Elvis-for-conservatives, king or dictator. We choose, and hire, a president. He or she is our paid employee, hired to carry out the will of the entire people, not his own will, not the will of billionaires, not the will of some questionable religion, not the will of any sub-group. It’s a difficult job, not one for a fool, oaf, liar or charlatan like we have now. The president has the understanding of a 12 year old, and the responses of a 3 year old addicted to having his own way through constant tantrums. He’s pretending to be what he thinks a president is. His only real success in life has been as a reality TV show actor. That tells us something.

This alleged president has single-handedly taken us into war, possibly WW III. Some MAGA’s are fine with this. “Let him be him” they say. He didn’t ask us as a country, as his employer, what do we want. After only Day One of the Iran war, already 73% of people polled don’t support this war.
Those excusing his Iran and Venezuela war actions are giving away their ‘freedom,” all our freedoms, and for what?  Watching a convicted criminal entertain us with his antics? Not a “good deal”; no “art” there either.
A. Martin
Merrifield, Minnesota

World War Epstein

The U.S. and apartheid Israel accuse Iran of being the world’s biggest exporter of terrorism, though the U.S. has attacked 7 countries in the past year, and Israel has attacked at least 6.

Bizarrely, the Secretary of Defense says the U.S. didn’t start this latest war. Say what?

Maybe appointing a notoriously drunken Fox News host to run the world’s largest and most lethal bureaucracy wasn’t a good idea. He and Trump have been played like a violin by the genocidal war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, who has long wanted regime change in Iran.

Israel exercises enormous control over American politics through the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ( AIPAC.) It has pressured Congress to back its genocide in Gaza, and eroded Americans’ free speech rights to protest that genocide.

This latest attack is the second time the U.S. has bombed Iran while negotiations were in progress, and that, along with the murder of Iran’s top religious leader, assures that Iran will not return to negotiations any time soon.

In 1953 the CIA overthrew the democratically-elected leader of Iran because he threatened to nationalize Iran’s oil. Then the U.S. installed the brutal Shah of Iran, who oversaw a murderous secular dictatorship for 26 years. The Shah was overthrown in the revolution of 1979, and replaced by the authoritarian theocracy which runs the country today.

There is no legitimate reason for this new illegal war of aggression, and neither the U.S. nor Israel have any moral high-ground. Israel wants hegemony over the Middle East, and more land for “Greater Israel.” But Israel’s neighbors are oddly reluctant to treat a bronze-age religious text as a legally-binding, current-day land title.

American Evangelicals’ end-times prophecies also center on Israel, though in their interpretation only Jews who accept Jesus will be saved at Armageddon, because Heaven is a private club – Christians only.
The U.S. and Israel are rogue states, alienated from much of the world. Trump is ignorant, demented and weak. Every ass-kissing empty suit in his cabinet is in over their head.

A few wily Fascists pull the strings, but they are few and we are many, and we must stop their World War Epstein.
David A Sorensen
Duluth, Minnesota

What a great president! NOT!

Folks are talking! Doesn’t Donald Trump just have the most impeachable judgment? Wars, tariffs, immigration raids, unconstitutional acts; it just goes on and on. What a president.
Jason Maloney
Washburn, Wisconsin