Day: June 12, 2026

Birthday Wish From “No Kings”

Sunday is Flag Day…..it’s Donny’s birthday….it’s time to protest.

The anti-Donny movement, No Kings, has had several successful protests and they have another planned for Donny’s birthday, 14 June…..

It’s been more than two months since “No Kings” protests again drew crowds across the U.S. Another event is set to take place in just over a week, but the call to action by organizers is a little different than others before it.

Back in March, millions attended more than 3,000 “No Kings” events held nationwide, marking the third round of rallies since President Trump took office. Rallies last year attracted more than 5 million in June and 7 million in October, according to U.S. organizers.

The next event is scheduled for June 14. The same day, Trump’s birthday, UFC match-ups are set to be held on the White House’s South Lawn as part of a series of celebrations marking America’s 250th anniversary.

Meanwhile, the Committee for the First Amendment, relaunched last year, will be hosting “Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment.

Being held at The Town Hall in New York City, the 90-minute event is set to be headlined by Bette Midler, Patti Smith, and Jane Fonda. It will “celebrate the freedoms guaranteed by our First Amendment … and the people power that both fuels these rights and is essential to guarantee them.”

The No Kings Coalition, which is partnering with the Committee on the First Amendment, says watch parties are being scheduled across the country to stream the event, giving communities space “to sing along, make art, share food, connect with neighbors, and take meaningful action together.”

While previous No Kings events have resulted in rallies, June 14’s event “will serve as a critical opportunity for No Kings supporters to strategize, connect with local organizers, and prepare for the ongoing fights ahead of the midterm elections.”

“… while the President attempts to distract the country with his UFC cage fight spectacle, the No Kings movement will be gathering in living rooms, community centers, and local businesses for public and private watch parties in key cities and rural communities alike,” a press release reads.

Several watch parties have already been scheduled, including events in and around Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco.

(thehill.com)

Let’s wish this fool a happy birthday by protesting his stranglehold on the country and his killer policies…..time for this clown to go away….one way or another.

https://www.nokings.org/ can help make this happen but it will take much more work for a success.

There is an op-ed about this protest….and I agree with it for the most part…..

Americans across the country are banding together to fight the Trump administration. Sort of. Maybe. Well, not really. But many will spend a few hours on June 14 standing in a park, yelling into the air, and then go home wondering why nothing has changed. On the president’s birthday, there will be yet another “No Kings” protest – and it will accomplish next to nothing.

We keep getting calls to protest for a day, boycott for a day, stay silent for a day, wear a color for a day, post on social media one time. There’s a phrase for this kind of action: Doing the bare minimum.

The 1950s Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 13 months. To desegregate a single public transit system in a single city, residents sacrificed for more than a year. They carpooled, walked, watched each other’s kids, left home earlier and got back later. They didn’t ride the bus for a day and pat themselves on the back. The same goes for the lunch counter sit-ins across the South. Those college students didn’t get food dumped on them, get punched and kicked, get spit on and called racial slurs for an afternoon and call it a victory. They went back again and again.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/06/11/no-kings-protest-june-2026-trump-resistance/90422193007/

These protests are a good idea but they are short-term…..for a Saturday protest will be forgotten by the following Thursday.  If you want these protests to have lasting effect then they must be continuous and relentless.

So on one hand the op-ed is correct and should be a long-term strategy.

You thoughts will be appreciated.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

A Damn Great Idea

A couple of Congress people have decided to try and take on Donny and his money making machine….

Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Ro Khanna are introducing a bill Thursday to establish a federal review board for direct foreign investment in the U.S., as President Donald Trump courts global ventures as part of trade deals he makes with nations around the globe.

The bill, shared exclusively with CNBC before it is introduced, would create the “Foreign Investment Review Authority” as an independent executive branch authority. The panel would be responsible for reviewing direct foreign investments and determining whether they are permissible.

It would function as a board, with a chair appointed by the president, subject to Senate confirmation; designees of the secretaries of Commerce and Labor and the attorney general; along with four presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed board members from a political party that is not the same as the president’s. It would also create an Office of the Chief Ethics Officer and a Public Oversight Board to receive complaints.

Baldwin, D-Wis., and Khanna, D-Calif., say the board is necessary to ensure foreign direct investments aren’t undercutting U.S. workers. They also say it would potentially stop corrupt deals, with the lawmakers pointing to investments Trump has secured in his negotiations of trade deals around the globe.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/baldwin-khanna-propose-direct-foreign-investment-board-to-probe-trump.html

Like I said a damn good idea….expose Donny’s manipulations and using his office to make money….

This will probably go nowhere but at least some Dems are trying to fight Donny and spotlight his abuses of office.

A shame that he will not be held responsible or forced to pay back all the cash he and his family have made office the office of president.

The ‘stable genius’ needs to be cut off at the knees….and soon.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Iran–The Usual Rhetoric

Since the US and Iran have started exchanging fire once again…the rhetoric coming from the Lazy Boy recliner in the Oval Office (does it still exist?) is the same as always from the mouth of Donny….

Early Thursday morning Donny starts thumping his chest (but not too hard)….

The renewed attacks between the US and Iran are on track to worsen in a significant way. President Trump on Thursday said the US planned to hit Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT,” before further raising the stakes: “At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela,” he wrote on Truth Social. The threat came after the two sides exchanged strikes for the second straight day, reports the AP.

Kharg Island is major oil terminal off the nation’s coast, seen as the “country’s economic lifeline,” notes the BBC. Its seizure would not only damage Iran economically but could give the US a base from which to carry out military attacks on the mainland. However, seizing the island would likely require ground troops, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Tough talk….(watch the markets)

Then after his lunch of Big Macs and Diet Coke the tune has changed (as if right on schedule)

Hours after threatening a major escalation in the Iran war, President Trump said the bombs are back on pause—and that Iran is on board with talks, reports the Wall Street Journal. In a new Truth Social post, Trump said he called off plans to unleash a new wave of strikes and to seize the Kharg Island oil hub because peace negotiations “have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved.”

Trump said the “final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved, including the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and others.” Iran has not yet publicly commented. Trump added that the US naval blockade of Iranian ports will stay in place until a deal is signed, with time and place to be announced “shortly,” per the BBC. The president has previously announced imminent deals that have fallen through.

This event is all too familiar   (watch the markets)  This is for those too damn lazy to check the markets….

US stocks rallied to their best day in two months, and oil prices fell Thursday, after President Trump called off his threat to bomb Iran in the evening. That raised hopes for a deal that could get the global flow of oil going again.

  • The Dow rose 929.97 to 50,848.75.
  • The S&P 500 jumped 127.31 points to 7,394.30.
  • The Nasdaq rallied 640.16 to 25,809.66.

Apparently Donny is working from an old script….this is the same bullshit he gave about a month ago.

He should hire new writers his present ones are getting tiresome.

BTW the war has made the US the world’s number one oil importer and that means dollars for oil companies….so how long will we play this stupid game?

Any thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”