Day: January 28, 2025

“Forget” The Holocaust?

Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day and I thought I would let all those staunch supporters of Trump and his minions know that their hero has some dicey people in his group…..like Musk who recently has given support to Germany’s far right party and also gave this salute that sent shiver up many spines….but his comments about the Nazi days should send more shivers….

Billionaire enterpreneur Elon Musk insisted at a far-right rally in Germany over the weekend that the European country must move “beyond the past” and leave behind the memory of one of the deadliest genocides in history—but as leaders on the continent marked the 80th anniversary of the Auschwitz concentration camp liberation on Monday, several made clear that Musk’s advice was not welcome.

Musk’s comments on “‘the need to forget German guilt for Nazi crimes’ sounded all too familiar and ominous,” said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Sunday. “Especially only hours before the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.”

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on the social media platform X, “I couldn’t agree more.”

The country’s ambassador to Israel said that while Musk claimed German children are treated as “guilty of the sins” of the Nazis during World War II, the government simply wants “them to grow up informed and responsible and to apply the lessons of Germany’s past.”

As Common Dreamsreported, the Tesla CEO and key adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump made the remarks at a rally for Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Saturday, five weeks before Germans are set to vote in federal elections.

AfD is currently polling at 19%, trailing the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which is in first place at 28%. But leaders across Europe, including Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Scholz have warned that Musk appears to be angling for the spread of far-right ideologies—including neo-Nazism—in European countries.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-europe

I find it interesting (not so much more like pathetic) that Trump supporters love Israel and all its parts and yet also support a d/bag like Musk who seemingly is a closet Nazi.

Stupid is as stupid votes.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Praying For A Third Term

Most people know that Trump would love to have another shot at the presidency after this 4 years is up….and now a boot licker from Tennessee has tried to get the ball rolling….

The 22nd Amendment is pretty clear: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” A GOP congressman from Tennessee, however, wants to tweak those numbers so that a president—Donald Trump, in particular—can run for a third term, reports the Hill.

  • Amendment: Rep. Andy Ogles, part of the House Freedom Caucus, introduced a constitutional amendment on Thursday that would allow a president to run for no more than three terms, with an addition that “no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice” (that last part says “more than once,” not “twice,” in the current incarnation of the 22nd).
  • Ogles’ take: Trump “has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to accomplish that goal,” Ogles says in a release. “This amendment would allow President Trump to serve three terms, ensuring that we can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”
  • Trump’s take: The president has previously said he wouldn’t push for a third term, though he “joked” about it with GOP lawmakers shortly after he won the 2024 election, telling them, per the Hill: “I suspect I won’t be running again, unless you do something. … Unless you say, ‘He’s so good, we have to just figure it out.'”
  • An Obama vs. Trump matchup? Don’t get too excited that former President Obama could then make a run for his own third term, as that’s not happening in Ogles’ proposal: He’s added in that a president can’t run again “after being elected to two consecutive terms,” meaning the remaining living ex-presidents—Obama, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush—wouldn’t be eligible for Term No. 3.
  • Constitutional commotion: It’s not yet clear how constitutional “originalists” who’ve insisted that the Second Amendment can’t be adjusted for modern times in an effort to stem America’s gun violence would square Ogles’ plan to upend the 22nd Amendment, or Trump’s latest bid to nix birthright citizenship, which would essentially subvert the 14th Amendment.

So far I have seen nothing to show me t5hat the working people were nothing more than a tool for an election….I see no concern for their plight….

I this what the idiots voted for?

Wake up and smell the manure you are being fed.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Accountability Down The Toilet

I have always thought that the government needed more accountability and the inspector general position had the possibility of making it so…..but thanx to special interests and lobbyist cash their reports were issued to blind eyes.

I wrote about another failed War Department audit recently…..

No Accountability

That is sad….but thanx to trump more inspectors have been fired….the number is at least a dozen and includes inspectors general at the departments of State, Agriculture, Interior, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Education, Labor and Defense, as well as the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Energy Corp., and the Environmental Protection Agency.

President Donald Trump fired multiple independent federal watchdogs, known as inspectors general, in a Friday night purge, removing a significant layer of accountability as he asserts his control over the federal government in his second term, according to two people with knowledge of the dismissals, granted anonymity to share details they were not authorized to speak about publicly.

The ousters set up what will likely be one of Trump’s first major court battles since taking office. At least one of the fired inspectors general — the State Department’s Cardell Richardson Sr. — has told staff he plans to show up to work on Monday, arguing that the firings are illegal, according to a person familiar with the situation who requested anonymity to reveal the internal discussions. A State Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

One of the two people briefed on the dismissals said the number is at least a dozen and includes inspectors general at the departments of State, Agriculture, Interior, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Education, Labor and Defense, as well as the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Energy Corp., and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Together, those agencies make up large swaths of the federal government, with control over billions of dollars in taxpayer money and broad global reach.

The inspectors general at the Department of Justice, Office of Personnel Management, the Federal Communications Commission, the Export-Import Bank and the Department of Homeland Security remain in place, according to the person.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/25/donald-trump-inspectors-general-firing-00200611

Thanks to the Lord High Executioner there will be no one to try and hold these dickheads in check….there will be NO accountability….and billions will be sucked into the coffers of some of the more unscrupulous players.

Is this what you idiots that voted for Trump want?  Then you will bitch about wasted money and try to blame someone who is no longer in power….

Day One plus 7 and I am still waiting for that magic formula to kick in that will Make America Great Again.

And I wait.

You know you people are idiots, right?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”