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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

So, this is what the world gets when the US elects an insane, power-mad real estate developer.

President Trump floated two bombshell ideas Tuesday about Gaza that has Palestinians, Israelis, and the wider Middle East scrambling.

The first: that the U.S. would take over the territory. “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip,” Trump said in a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We’ll own it…We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal…the Riviera of the Middle East.”

The second: that Gaza’s entire population would relocate to other countries. “ We should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts, and there are many of them that want to do this, and build various domains that will ultimately be occupied by the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, ending the death and destruction and, frankly, bad luck,” he said.
(source)
Anyone else getting  removal to reservations vibes here?

This has been the plan all along apparently. Trump’s precious daughter’s husband said as much, big and fucking bold, in March of LAST year.

Liz Climo

Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable … if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner told his interviewer.. Kushner also lamented “all the money” that had gone into the territory’s tunnel network and munitions instead of education and innovation.
It’s a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but from Israel’s perspective I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up,” Kushner said. “But I don’t think that Israel has stated that they don’t want the people to move back there afterwards.” (source)

 “It’s a little bit of an unfortunate situation there”????!!!! Motherfucker, would YOU call it a little bit of an unfortunate situation if you and your family were forcibly removed from your home and dumped in a foreign land? All this done just so some rich, genocidal, asshole real estate fucks can build luxury resorts and condos where your home used to be?

A little later, Trump was questioned on what authority he has to remove the population of 1.8 million people from Gaza. 

He replied: “I do see a long term ownership position, and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East, and maybe the entire Middle East, and everybody I've spoken to, this was not a decision made lightly. 

Everybody I've spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent in a really magnificent area that nobody would know.” (source)

NB: He didn’t answer the question. ON WHOSE MOTHERFUCKING AUTHORITY IS HE GONNA REMOVE 1.8 MILLION PEOPLE FROM THEIR HOMES!!!!!!!

That maniacal orange pool of greedheaded, fuckwadian insanity has just painted the largest target it possibly could on American and Israeli citizens. If we thought 9/11 and Pearl Harbor were bad, just wait to see what comes next. Sadly, we will deserve it for electing Trump/Musk.

Here’s a link to Amnesty International's Civil Disobedience Toolkit: A guide to civil disobedience by Amnesty International.

This toolkit is aimed at organizations who are contemplating the use of civil disobedience. It sets out key principles when engaging in civil disobedience and the steps to use civil disobedience effectively, including planning, risk assessment, decision-making, implementation and evaluation. It also provides guidance on when and how to engage in acts of civil disobedience in a way that maintains the organization’s duty of care to those acting on its calls for civil disobedience and mitigates reputational, financial, legal and other risks. (source)
Meanwhile, the FBI agents who participated in the investigations into Captain Cockwomble’s January 6th coup are suing the Justice Department over its efforts to compile a list (and undoubtedly leak it to Trump’s unhinged, violent followers). Yeah, the revenge obsessed psycho wants to delete every last one of them.

Two things:

  1. I never thought I’d be rooting for the FBI but…this world’s a funny old place.
  2. To paraphrase Henry II of England: will someone PLEASE rid me of this troublesome president and his henchman?

FYI: I need a stronger word than "fuck."

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