Trump has a new habit: he sleeps at public events, in full view of cameras.
We know he’s not tired from delivering packages to the children of the world. He showed how little he cared about them when he shut down US AID. No more American food or medicine for children who are starving.
Maybe he’s worn out from playing golf.
Maybe he was delivering pieces of coal, “clean coal.”
What else could it be?
Our President extends Christmas wishes to all, even the “radical left scum.” This is his effort to bring the country together, to extol himself, and to mark a day of Peace and Joy! Who better to celebrate and congratulate than himself?
The people who run social media at the Whute House are vile. They think it’s funny to grab someone off the street or in their workplace, throw them to the ground, and imprison them without a hearing. In their twisted minds. Santa is an ICE agent with a gun, ready to help Trump and Miller as they try to Make America White Again.
Trump chose Christmas Week to unveil his gift to the nation.
He suspended five contracts for partially built wind farms on the East Coast. And on Christmas Eve, he revived the coal industry, even though coal is a major source of air pollution.
A day after the Trump administration acted to throttle offshore wind farms, it tossed two lifelines to coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel and a favored industry of the president.
The government ordered two coal-burning power plants in Indiana to continue operating past their scheduled closure dates while it also gave hundreds of coal plants an additional five years before they need to prevent toxic chemicals from leaching into sources of drinking water.
The dual moves late on Tuesday were part of the administration’s sweeping effort to bolster the struggling coal industry and avoid having coal plants close on President Trump’s watch.
The day before, the Trump administration had dealt a devastating blow to clean energy by ordering the suspension of five offshore wind projects that were under construction along the East Coast and poised to deliver power to more than 2.5 million homes and businesses.
Several Catholic churches erected nativity scenes, with the immigrant family–Joseph, Mary, and Jesus–absent. They were picked up by ICE and deported.
Another Christmas song. Remember when Christmas was about love and kindness and welcoming the stranger? We deport the stranger.
Susan Tincher woke up early one day and received an alert about a disturbance in her neighborhood. She dressed, drove a few blocks, and got out of her car, where she encountered ICE. Within seconds, she was thrown to the ground, handcuffed, and taken away. This is her story.
Someone at the White House thinks cruelty is funny.
Merry Christmas!
Since my childhood, I have always thought of Christmas as a day of peace, holiness, and love.
It’s not a happy time for many families.
Robert Reich compares what is happening right now to the Nazi regimes’s treatment of Jews in the 1930s and America’s treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Its plan to warehouse immigrants has shades of Nazi concentration camps and America’s shameful imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
The Trump administration is building or refurbishing huge incarceration centers.
This is the beginning.
Who are we?
I’m confused. Yesterday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump could not send the National Guard to Chicago. Okay.
But a few minutes later, he mobilized the Louisiana National Guard and ordered it to New Orleans, where serious crime is declining. Jeff Landry, the Republican Governor of Louisiana, was delighted that Trump was sending in the Guard.
Questions:
If the president can’t send the Guard to Chicago, why can he send it to New Orleans?
If Governor Landry thought that New Orleans needed the National Guard, why didn’t he mobilize them himself? Maybe it’s because the federal government will pay part of the costs. But if the need was urgent, it seems the Governor would have acted without delay.
Answers?
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