Day: July 16, 2025

Up In Smoke

The world, well parts of the world is starving to death and there seems to be no hope for assistance….

The US is about to incinerate 500 tons of emergency food that belonged to USAid.

Say what?

The Trump administration has ordered 500 metric tons of emergency food aid—enough to feed 1.5 million malnourished children for a week—to be incinerated tomorrow rather than be distributed as part of its ongoing purge of USAID. The high-energy biscuits, intended for children under five living in war and disaster zones, are currently being stored in a warehouse in Dubai and were meant to be shipped out this year, but will instead go to waste due to cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effectively halting nearly all forms of foreign aid. Current and former aid workers, speaking anonymously for fear of retaliation, told The Atlantic that the sheer scale of waste is unprecedented. Despite repeated assurances from the administration not to eliminate food aid, U.S. warehouses around the world currently house 60,000 tons of food, including peas and cereal originally bound for famine-stricken Sudan, which the administration is now unable to deliver even if it wanted to after gutting USAID and firing logistical experts. According to The Atlantic, the amount of food set to be incinerated tomorrow would be enough to feed every single child currently starving in Gaza.

A stat that is not reported is that malnutrition is on the rise and these food stuffs slated for destruction could help ease the situation….

More than 5,800 children in the Gaza Strip were diagnosed with malnutrition in June alone amid Israel’s ongoing U.S.-backed siege and annihilation of the Palestinian territory, the United Nations Children’s Fund said Sunday.

According to the UNICEF, at least 5,870 malnourished children in Gaza were hospitalized last month for urgent treatment, including more than 1,000 cases of severe malnutrition, the most lethal form of the ailment. Malnutrition diagnoses have increased in Gaza over each of the past four months. In May, 5,119 children between 6 months and 5 years of age suffering acute malnutrition were admitted for treatment in Gaza, as Common Dreams reported.

This is enough to see just how fucking disgusting the Trump people and their supporters have truly become.

After reading this report I feel I need a shower to get some of the slime off of myself.

What a pathetic bunch of in-bred bastards.

How does this Make America Great Again?

Do tell

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

The Epstein Bullsh*t

The news and the internet has lost its mind over this Epstein file thingy….

To be honest I have not cared one iota about this crap along the Epstein Line….I have had my attention elsewhere and this did not interest make at all….but that was about a week or more ago….now it is getting out of hand.

The MAGA infighting over the Jeffrey Epstein files continues to escalate, and now Democrats are piling on. Axios reports that Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna introduced a resolution requiring the Justice Department to release all files related to Epstein, forcing House Republicans to shoot it down Monday night. Khanna, however, promised to reintroduce the measure “again and again and again.” As NBC News explains, Khanna’s move comes as President Trump is facing a near revolt among MAGA allies who are livid with his administration, particularly Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Bondi has reneged on a pledge to release the Epstein files, instead saying the Justice Department has concluded that he had no “client list” of the rich and powerful and that the sex offender took his own life in prison. While Tucker Carlson, Laura Loomer, Steve Bannon, and others have been going after the Trump administration’s about-face, Democrats are now joining the attacks. “Trump administration officials are either lying about the file and keeping it covered up to protect themselves, or they lied about its existence in a shameless political ploy to get elected,” says Democratic National Committee adviser Tim Hogan. “Either way, it is disgusting, and they have to be held accountable.”

  • In MAGA: Confused about the infighting among Trump allies? Will Sommer of the Bulwark writes that five distinct factions have emerged, and he breaks them down in an analysis. One is the “get over it” crowd, with figures such as Charlie Kirk getting in line behind Trump and urging people to drop the matter. Opposite them are the “Epstein dead-enders” such as Carlson. For them, “Epstein has come to stand for everyone and everything that screws the little guy: mass immigration to depress wages, housing unaffordability, and much more. If the elites can keep abusing girls with impunity, what else can they get away with?”
  • Exit strategies: An Axios analysis suggests three ways that Trump can get out of this mess, starting with the appointment of a special counsel to review the entire Epstein case.
  • Analysis: Shawn McCreesh provides an overview of all this in the New York Times. “It is entirely too soon to know what the revolt will mean or if and when it might sputter out, but the nature of it was stunning to behold,” he writes. “It was like a Mobius strip of paranoia and distrust: a political movement that galvanized and exploded around a conspiracy theory—lies about Barack Obama’s birthplace were central to Mr. Trump’s political rise—cannibalizing itself over the mother of all modern conspiracy theories.” The latter refers to the idea that Epstein had dirt on powerful people and was murdered to make sure he stayed silent.

Everybody is looking for a way to use the saga to some advantage….Dems hoping to cash in on the possibility of something hidden in the files….MAGA looking to discredit anyone who wants to believe that Donny has somehow done something nefarious….

And me I do not give a sh*t!

There is more important stuff than this drama that this country needs to focus on….and yet the simple minds pick this POS.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Russia: Another Ultimatum

After he was elected to his second non-consecutive term as president Donny promised to end the Russia/Ukraine mash-up within 24 hours….(damn that is the longest 24 hours I have spent)….he has issued another of his now famous ultimatums….how will Russia respond?

“I use trade for a lot of things,” President Trump said Monday. “But it’s great for settling wars.” During a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office, Trump threatened to hit Russia with “very severe tariffs” if there was no deal to end the Ukraine war within 50 days, the AP reports. “We’re going to be doing secondary tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days. It’s very simple,” Trump said. “And they’ll be at 100%. And that’s the way it is.” The Washington Post reports that with “secondary tariffs,” Trump was likely referring to tariffs on countries that buy Russian energy, not to Russian exports to the US. A bipartisan group of more than 80 senators has been urging Trump to hit buyers of Russian oil and uranium with 500% tariffs, the New York Times reports.

  • Trump described Vladimir Putin as a “tough guy” who has “fooled a lot of people,” including previous presidents. “He fooled Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden—he didn’t fool me,” Trump said. “I speak to him a lot about getting this thing done. And I always hang up and say, well, that was a nice phone call. And then missiles are launched into Kyiv or some other city, and (I say) strange,” Trump said, per Reuters. “And after that happens three or four times, you say the talk doesn’t mean anything.”
  • Trump said a deal had been reached for other NATO members to buy billions of dollars in US-made weapons to send to Ukraine. “We make the best equipment, the best missiles, the best of everything, the European nations know that, and we made a deal today,” he said, per the Guardian. “We are going to be sending them weapons, and they’re going to be paying for them.”
  • “I have to tell you, Europe has a lot of spirit for this war,” Trump said, per the Times. “When I first got involved, I didn’t think they did, but they do.” He said he wanted to stress that “this is not Trump’s war.”

How will this fiasco end?

Will Russia bow down and kiss Donny’s fat white ass?

In the first six months of his second term, President Donald Trump has demonstrated his love for three things: deals, tariffs, and ultimatums.

He got to combine these passions during his Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday. Only moments after the two leaders announced a new plan to get military aid to Ukraine, Trump issued an ominous 50-day deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire. “We’re going to be doing secondary tariffs if we don’t have a deal within 50 days,” Trump told the assembled reporters.

The threat is unlikely to change Putin’s calculus, however, or bring the conflict to a near-term conclusion. Instead, Trump’s deadline is likely to make his own life more difficult, limiting his future flexibility, putting the settlement he craves farther out of reach, and forcing him to take steps that harm rather than advance U.S. interests.

Trump’s intention to impose “secondary tariffs” on Russia if Putin does not meet his deadline was not well-explained in his press conference with Rutte. Nor was it immediately clear if the planned punishment for Putin’s continued intransigence would include tariffs on Russian trade with the United States or “secondary sanctions” on Russia’s trading partners — or some combination of the two.

Whatever the details, however, looming economic consequences are unlikely to intimidate Putin or convince him to accept an early ceasefire. For starters, if Trump is indeed talking about tariffs on Russian trade with the United States, then his threat is an empty one. The United States imported only about $3 billion in goods from Russia in 2024, meaning that U.S. tariffs will impose little, if any, new costs on Moscow.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-50-day-deadline-russia/

I am sorry but this tariff thing is a cop-out to avoid doing the hard work of finding a good negotiated ceasefire.

We will see what Vlad the Invader has to say.

This is too good to ignore.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”