Showing posts with label make america grape again. Show all posts
Showing posts with label make america grape again. Show all posts

Thursday, December 11, 2025

make america grape again (caution - may contain fragments of pith)

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make america grape again

 

or orange lemon lime apple cherry or ...

...one nation under trump taking liberties and juices for all…

caution — contains artificial flavors colors toxic waste petroleum byproducts rendered meat meal carcinogens ...

 

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

welcome to the time machine

 

 

 

while searching for the ghost of christmas past we accidentally set the controls for christmas in the year 2025 and find a world controlled by the warlike factions of ELONS 


and MURDOCHS 



Friday, December 5, 2025

MAGA's world tour exports Trumpism beyond U.S. borders

 https://www.axios.com/2025/06/01/poland-election-maga-bannon-europe?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

MAGA's world tour exports Trumpism beyond U.S. borders


Illustration of a MAGA hat on a globe.

Illustration: Lindsey Bailey/Axios


 







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    Sunday, November 30, 2025

    Senator Van Hollen questions Secretary Marco Rubio in Senate Foreign Relations hearing

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSAsZhRJRMY

     

    May 20, 2025

    Senator Chris Van Hollen questions Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a Senate Foreign Relations hearing.

     

    Transcript

    CHAIR RISCH: THANK YOU.
    SEN. VAN,
    AND I SERVED TOGETHER IN
    CONGRESS FOR 15 YEARS.
    I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING VALUE, A
    BELIEF IN DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN
    RIGHTS ABROAD AND HONORING THE
    CONSTITUTION.
    THAT IS WHY I CAN CONFIRM YOU.
    I BELIEVE YOU WOULD STAND UP FOR
    THOSE PRINCIPLES.
    YOU HA NOT.
    YOU HAVE DONE THE OPPOSITE.
    YOU USE TO SPEAK WITH CONVICTION
    ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF ORNATE
    TO ADVANCED AMERICAN VALUES --
    THE IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGN AID TO
    ADVANCE AMERICAN VALUES.
    THEN YOU STOOD BY WHY ELON MUSK
    TOOK A CHAINSAW TO OTHER
    ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.
    THAT HAS LEFT A STAGGERING TOLL.
    BROKEN TRUST WITH COUNTRIES,
    OPENING UP FOR CHINA AND OTHER
    ADVERSARIES AND COUNTLESS
    PREVENTABLE DEATHS OF CHILDREN
    AN OTHERS.
    TAKE SUDAN.
    THE FREEZING OF U.S.
    HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE FORCED
    THE CLOSURE OF NEARLY 80% OF THE
    EMERGENCY FOOD KITCHENS THERE.
    2 MILLION FAMINE AFFECTED PEOPLE
    WERE LEFT WITHOUT ACCESS TO
    FOOD.
    PEOPLE DIED CAUSE OF THOSE
    ACTIONS.
    MOTHERS, FATHERS AND CHILDREN.
    TONS OF EMERGENCY FOOD THAT
    COULD HAVE SAVED THEIR LIVES WAS
    LEFT ROTTINGN WAREHOUSES
    BECAUSE YOU AND ELON MUSK
    REFUSED TO LET USAID DO ITS JOB.
    SUDAN IS A COUNTRY WHERE BIDEN
    ADMINISTRATION'S OWN
    DETERMINATION IDENTIFIED IS -- A
    GENOCIDE IS UNFOLDING.
    HERE IS WHERE IT GOES FROM CRUEL
    TO DESPICABLE.
    WHILE CUTTING OFF FOOD AID TO
    SUDANESE FAMILIES LIVING THROUGH
    AN ACTUAL GENOCIDE, YOU ARE FAST
    TRACKING WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS
    FOR REFUGEE STATUS UNDER A
    MANUFACTURED CLAIM THAT THEY ARE
    THE VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE.
    YOU TRIED TO BLOCK THE ADMISSION
    OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD ALREADY
    BEEN APPROVED TO COME HERE AS
    REFUGEES WHILE MAKING BOGUS
    CLAIMSO JUSTIFY GRANTING SUCH
    STATUS TO EFFORT --
    AFTER CANADA -- AFRICANAS.
    WHILE YOU HAVE TURNED AWAY FROM
    A GENOCIDE IN SUDAN AND INVENTED
    D
    UP WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP TO THROW
    THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE UNDERHE
    BUS A HAVE BEEN PLAYED LIKE A
    FIDDLE LIKE VLADIMIR PUTIN.
    NALD TRUMP NOT ONLY SAID HE
    WOULD END THE WAR ON DAY ONE.
    HE ALSO SAID HE WOULD END THE
    WAR IN GAZA ON DAY ONE.
    YET LAST WEEK YOU WERE RUNNING
    AROUND TO GO VOMOUS SNAKES
    GIVING WAY VERY SENSITIVE AI AND
    CHIPS TECHNOLOGY BUTOING
    NOTHING TO END THE WAR IN GAZA
    AND GET THE REMAINING HOSTAGES
    TURNED.
    FOR 78 DAYS THE NETANYAHU
    GOVERNMENT DID NOT ALLOW A SCRAP
    OF FOOD TO REACH OVER 2 MILLION
    CIVILIANS.
    MALNUTRITION AND MORE THANM
    14,000 CHILDREN ARE IN IMMINENT
    DANGER OF DYING OF STARVATION.
    AS SENATOR MCCAIN SAID LAST WEEK
    , FAMILIES IN GAZA ARE STARVING
    WHILE THE FOOD THEY NEED IS
    SITTING AT THE BORDER.
    THAT IS A GROSS VIOLATION OF
    U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL LAW.
    WHAT DID YOU DO?
    NOTHING.
    NOT ONCE DID YOU PUBLICLY CALL
    UPON THE NETANYAHU GOVERNMENT TO
    END THE BLOCKADE.
    FORTUNATELY OTHER COUNTRIES
    SPOKE OUT AND NOW WE SEE A TINY
    TRICKLE GOING IN.
    WHERE HAVE YOU FOCUS YOUR ENERGY
    INSTEAD?
    YOUR FIRST TRIP AS SECRETARY OF
    STATE WAS TO EL SALVADOR.
    NOT TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY.
    BUT TO COZY UP TO THE PRESIDENT
    WHO CALLS HIMSELF THE WORLD'S
    THE RESULT WAS A CASH FOR
    POLLUTION DEAL TO DEPRIVE PEOPLE
    LIVING IN AMERICA OF THEIR
    CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO DUE
    PROCESS.
    THE SUPREME COURT IN A 9-0
    DECISION INSTRUCTED YOU TO
    FACILITATE THE RETURN TO THE
    UNITED STATES OF GARCIA WHO THE
    ADMISTRATION ADMITTED WAS
    WRONGFULLY DEPORTED TO EL
    SALVADOR.
    YOUR RESPONSE?
    YOU HAVE OPENLY FLOGGED JUDICIAL
    ORDERS.
    WHEN ASKED WHETHER YOU HAVE BEEN
    IN TOUCH WITH EL SALVADOR TO
    RETURN GARCIA, YOU BOASTED, "I
    WOULD NEVER TELL YOU THAT AND
    YOU KNOW WHO ELSE I WOULD NEVER
    TELL?
    THE JUDGE."
    CLEARLY YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE
    FOUR AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE
    PROCESS AND YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT
    THE FIRST AMENDMENT EITHER SINCE
    YOU HAVE BEEN VERY BUSY
    SNATCHING STUDENTS OFF OF
    COLLEGE CAMPUSES FOR EXERCISING
    THEIR GHT TO FREE SPEECH.
    YOU DREDGED UP A RELIC FROM THE
    MCCARTHY ERA TO CLAIM THAT
    STUDENT PROTESTERS POSED A
    THREAT TO THE FEIGN POLICY IN
    THE UNITED STATES.
    GIVE ME A BREAK, MR. SECRETARY.
    YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO THIS IS
    NOT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY.
    IT IS ABOUT PUNISHING FREE
    SPEECH.
    YOU KNOW THAT AN AMERICAN OF THE
    GOVERNNT DOES NOT GET TO USE
    ITS POWER TO PUNISH SPEECH IT
    DOES NOT LIKE.
    YET IN MARCH YOU BOASTED ABOUT
    REVOKING STUDENT VISAS SAYING,
    WE DO IT EVERY DAY, EVERY TIME I
    FIND ONE OF THESE LUNATICS, I
    TAKE AWAY THEIR VISA.
    LET'S LOOK UP ONE OF THOSE
    LUNATICS, MR. SECRETARY.
    MS. OSTRICH.
    HER TIME WAS CO-AUTHORING AN
    OP-ED IN HER COLLEGE PAPER ON
    THE RESPONSE TO THE WAR IN GAZA.
    YOUR OWN DEPARTMENT FOUND ZERO
    LINKS TO TERRORISM, NO
    BUT YOU STILL TOOK HER VISA AND
    SHIPPED OFF TO DETENTION IN
    LOUISIANA.
    AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON.
    THE FEDERAL JUDGE IN THE CASE OF
    THE COLUMBIA STUDENT WAS
    AMBUSHED BY FEDERAL AGENTS AT A
    CITIZEN APPOINTMENT SAID, "LEGAL
    RESIDENTS NOT CHARGED WITH
    CRIMES OR MISCONDUCT ARE BEING
    ARRESTED AND THREATENED WITH
    DEPORTATION FOR STATING THEIR
    VIEWS ON THE POLITICAL ISSUES OF
    THE DAY.
    OUR NATION IS SEEING TIMES LIKE
    THIS BEFORE ESPECIALLY DURING
    THE RED SCARE.
    LIKE THE MCCARTHY ERA WITCHHUNTS
    OF THE 1950'S YOUR CAN PAIRING
    OF FEAR AND REPRESSION IS EATING
    AWAY AT VALUES AND DEMOCRACY.
    BACK THEN IT TOOK ONE VOICE TO
    CUT THROUGH THE HYSTERIA WITH A
    SIMPLE QUESTION THAT MARKS THE
    BEGINNING OF THE END OF THAT
    SHAMEFUL ERA.
    HE ASKED SENATOR MCCARTHY DID
    YOU HAVE NO SENSE OF DECENCY."
    I WOULD ASK YOU THE SAME,
    SECRETARY RUBIO.
    YOU HAVE SHOWN THROU YOUR
    WORDS AND YOUR ACTIONS WHAT THE
    ANSWER IS.
    HAVE TO