I Didn't Say It ...

Barack Obama, my President, speaking at Reverend Jesse Jackson’s funeral last week:

“We are living in a time when it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback is the idea of the rule of law. An offense to common decency. Every day you wake up to things you just didn’t think were possible. Each day we’re told by those in high office to fear each other, and to turn on each other. And that some Americans count more than others, and that some don’t even count at all! Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength! We see science and expertise denigrated, while ignorance and dishonesty, and cruelty, and corruption ,are reaping untold rewards! every single day we see that and it’s hard to hope In those moments. So it may be tempting to give to get discouraged, to give in to cynicism. It may be tempting for some to compromise with power, and grab what you can, or even for good people to maybe just put your head down and wait for the storm to pass. But this man, Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, inspires us to take a harder path. His voice calls on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope, to step forward and say, ‘Send me!’ wherever we have a chance to make an impact, whether it’s in our school, or our workplaces, or our neighborhoods, or our cities. Not for fame, not for glory, or because success is guaranteed, but because it gives our life purpose. Because it aligns with what our faith tells us God demands. And because if we don’t step up, no one else will. How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him. May God bless Reverend Jackson. May he rest in eternal peace. God bless you.”

This is how a president marks the passing of a Civil Rights legend.

Sadly, our current regime failed to even acknowledge the man’s passing, didn’t lower a single flag to half-mast, though they afforded that honor to racist Charlie Kirk.

I cannot help to think it’s because Jackson was a Black man, plain and simple, and our current president is a racist.

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Ruben Gallego, Democrat Senator from Arizona, on funding Cankles’ illegal War of Distraction:

“Americans are being told we can’t afford lower drug prices, affordable childcare, or relief at the grocery story, but somehow we can afford a pointless way that costs $1 BILLION every single day. What the fuck happened to America  first?”

A war where schoolchildren are killed by American bombs. Is that America first? While people cannot afford food, or gas, or their energy bills, or their healthcare, but we can afford billions to bomb children?

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Melanie Stansbury, New Mexico Democrat Representative, calling for DUI hire Pete Hegseth’s removal from office for his incompetence, cruelty, and illegal actions:

“I wanna just address the elephant in the room. And that is that it is time for Pete Hegseth to go. Now, whether the Secretary of Defense resigns of his own accord or whether he is removed, it is way overdue … because we have seen over the last year, nothing but death, destruction … and the unauthorized, illegal, and reckless use of the United States military to wage unauthorized wars, civilian deaths, and the dismantling of the agency that is meant to safeguard American national security …. So let's lay out the case. Today, it was confirmed by NPR that the US Department of Defense is not investigating if a US Tomahawk led to the death of 165 school children and teachers in Iran, but why? That means that the agency that is intended to secure national security used American munitions to murder 165 children and did not have appropriate safeguards in place to prevent that from happening. Now, how did this happen? What we know is that Pete Hegseth was personally responsible for downscaling the office that is intended to prevent civilian casualties. And so because they were operating with a skeleton crew for whatever reason, the fact that that target was incorrect was never flagged inside the system. And so a US bomb was allowed to be used to kill school children. Now, in addition to that, seven American service members have now died in this war. And it is reported that up to 150 American soldiers have now been injured. And this is a war of choice, a war that has not been authorized by Congress, a war that the president and the secretary of defense cannot even explain to the American people, a war that they do not seem to have an exit strategy for …. In addition to that, Secretary Hegseth has gutted the fundamental legal checks inside of Department of Defense that are designed to make sure that the U.S. military is following the rule of law, not just domestically, but internationally. We know that they have now engaged in three separate military actions that have not been authorized by Congress, including strikes in the Caribbean that have led to the death of over a hundred civilians. [We know that] secretary, Hegseth, misappropriated $93 billion, not million, but billion dollars just a couple of months ago on lobster and king crab and cable TV and furniture for the Department of Defense. These are your taxpayer dollars that he went on an absolute blowout, spending spree at the Department of Defense. While these folks at the administration are telling you that they don't have enough money for American healthcare and food assistance and housing for the American people … Pete Hegseth has $93 billion to waste on furniture and crab and lobster … This is absolutely disgustingly unacceptable. They have issued purges … some of the most distinguished members of our military have been asked to leave their posts. They have erased the history of our proud service members who have served this country generation after generation. And they have misappropriated American taxpayer dollars to fight wars that they told you they would not fight. And so it is time for Pete Hegseth to be gone. It is time for him to go. So whether he resigns or whether it requires congressional action, it is time for Pete Hegseth to go.”

She is absolutely right. Get this insecure alcoholic Christian extremist man-child out of office before more innocent civilians die in illegal wars.

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Irene Maria Montero Gil, Spain’s Member of the European Parliament, with a suggestion for Cankles:

“Send your son, [Cankles]. If you want war, send your own people to the front line. We in Spain want our children, our daughters and our loved ones at home, safe. We don’t want war. Those who want war should send their own children.”

Barron, anyone?

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Pete Buttigieg, Afghanistan War veteran, former Secretary of Transportation and future President of the United States, takes on Cankles and his “war of choice" against Iran:

“This nation learned the hard way that an unnecessary war, with no plan for what comes next, can lead to years of chaos and put America in still great danger. When you get ready to deploy, you of course are constantly thinking about the worst-case scenario, and the scenario that you pray hard is never going to happen is that your loved ones get the knock on the door. That has now happened to six families that we know of. And the people who serve [are] patriots, they’re ready to go wherever their chain of command tells them they are needed. In exchange for them making that promise, putting their lives on the line, they are supposed to be assured that their commander in chief would never put their lives on the line unless it was absolutely necessary. Unless there was no alternative. Billions of taxpayer dollars are now flowing to the Middle East instead of going toward pressing needs at home. Prices will rise. The debt will grow. The economy will become even less stable, and Washington will be even less capable of facing urgent needs at home.”

Enough is enough. Listen to those who have actually served; read your history books about Vietnam. End the war.

And to be clear, it is a war, a war for oil, and a war for distraction from the fact that the current president is a pedophile.

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