Trump will not be acting president January 20, 2026

 

Trump will not be acting president January 20, 2026

 

Karma is coming for President Trump. June 16 marks 10 years since he descended the Trump Tower escalator and defiled the American presidency by running on a platform to rid America of imaginary rapists and murderers invading America.

 

Trump’s pathology and delusion, never before seen on the American presidential stage, resonated with enough disaffected voters to achieve the presidency. It was on display thruout his term. Two stark examples. He dismissed, indeed disdained Covid science which likely led to over 100,000 unnecessary Covid deaths.

 

His deranged campaign pledge to not leave office if defeated, resulted in an attempted coup that nearly destroyed American democracy.

 

Both put his pathology and delusion were on irrefutable display for all to see and comprehend.

 

Yet his diabolical charismatic genius for not only holding his cult together, but widely expanding it, enabled him to avoid prison for a multitude of crimes, and win an even larger reelection victory.

                                                                                               

But 8 years after first taking office, Trump’s mental decline has accelerated noticeably. His pronouncements and actions are causing chaos on every aspect of American governance including the economy, law enforcement, adherence to the Constitution, immigration, administering the commons, foreign policy to name six.

 

There are 2 likely scenarios for Trump to be out of office by the end of his first year, January 20, 2026. Neither involves his death or physical incapacity such as stroke, heart attack or debilitating disease, tho both are possible.

 

The first involves his removal as acting president under the 25th Amendment.

 

It is foreseeable that Vice President Vance and a majority of the cabinet will seek to remove Trump as acting president under that Amendment due to his deteriorated mental condition making him unfit to serve. If so this will mark the first time this drastic measure to save America from presidential governing collapse  would be invoked since its passage in 1967.

 

There is one other scenario that could occur before the end of year one. Trump himself could comprehend he is so mentally debilitated that he will resign the presidency. This could be facilitated by a family intervention. He would have nothing to lose as he’s virtually immune from ever facing indictment, prosecution imprisonment for any crimes past, present or future. With Vance in the presidency possessing pardoning power, Trump will never will get the justice he deserves.

 

If either scenario comes to pass as predicted, January 20, 2026, will dawn with the most dangerous man of the 46 who have served the presidency, thankfully and finally off the public stage he has defiled every day of his 5 years in office.

Durbin successor must not be co opted by the Israel Lobby

 

Durbin successor must not be co opted by the Israel Lobby

My outgoing senator Dick Durbin spent his entire 29  year Senate career beholding to the Israel Lobby. In the past 25 years alone he’s received $1,131,900 in campaign cash to ignore Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza, transformed into a genocide after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack. His support for a 2 state solution (Palestinian statehood) is worthless virtue signaling as he’s done nothing of substance to achieve that goal along with making America the 148^th nation out of 193 to recognize Palestinian statehood.

We need to replace Durbin with a principled candidate not ensnared by Israel Lobby money. Alas, the 5 Illinois House members mentioned as possible successors are all in the tank to remain mum on truly promoting Palestinian statehood and seeking end to US enabling Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL 8) $269,530

Nikki Budzinski (D-IL 13)         $187660

Darin LaHood (R-IL 16)            $112,687

Robin Kelly (D-IL 2)                  $187,272

Lauren Underwood (D-IL 14) $  75,593, 

Tho not mentioned as a possible candidate, we of peace should encourage Congresswoman Delia Ramirez (D-IL 3) to seek Durbin’s open seat next year.

Her take from the Israel Lobby since her election in November 2022? Zero, nada, zilch.

That allowed Ramirez to push back against US billions funding the Israeli genocide, saying this in October, 2023: “The death toll in Gaza continues to rise. Gazans are starving. Over 1.5 million people have been displaced. Hostilities between the U.S. and Iran are escalating. And just this morning, The New York Times reported that one-fifth of the hostages still in captivity since the start of the conflict have likely died. We must change course. Under no circumstances could I have voted for today’s H.R. 7217 to provide $17.6 billion in unconditioned military funding for Israel. The supplemental funding proposed, which includes no humanitarian aid for Gaza, supports weapons of war and destruction that further jeopardize Israeli hostages and Palestinian civilians. Each U.S.-made or funded bomb dropped in Gaza further jeopardizes the chances of long-lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it now: I will only support actions that bring us closer to peace.”

Come on Krishnamoorthi, Budzinski, LaHood, Kelly, Underwood, either drop accepting Israel Lobby money to ignore the genocidal ethnic cleaning of Gaza, or drop any consideration of replacing the Lobby’s million dollar Senator Dick Durbin.

NATO leaders as delusional as Zelensky on lost Ukraine war

 

NATO leaders as delusional as Zelensky on lost Ukraine war

Thruout the 3 year, 3 month Russo Ukraine war, Ukrainian President Zelensky has steadfastly ignored battlefield reality of Ukraine’s destruction and impending defeat.

His delusions started in April, 2022 when he swallowed US and UK demands he walk away from the negotiated peace deal that would have cost Ukraine no new lost territory, albeit no NATO membership for Ukraine and neutrality between East and West.

Since then he’s lost roughly a fifth of his land, a hundred thousand plus casualties, a shattered economy…and no chance of prevailing.

Yet, Zelensky won’t budge on his goals of reclaiming all captured territory including Crimea, lost 5 years before his presidency. Nor will Zelensky give up his delusional goal of NATO membership.

But outside of US realism under Trump, Zelensky is not alone in his war delusions.

Recently, retired Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe Sir Richard Shirreff advised that Europe will build up its troops, ships and planes if America pulls back from European defense against imaginary enemy Russia, “if only Europe has the will.” Shirreff appears clueless that due to European economic decline from supporting a lost war, most Western European people only have the will that it end.

Current NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is even more Zelensky-like. He trumpet’s Russia’s casualties of a thousand troops daily and that “Ukraine is not losing…and we must ensure Russia does not capture even one more square kilometer of Ukraine territory.” Rutte is oblivious that his intransigence to supporting Trump’s peace plan costs Ukraine more square kilometers of land every single day. Rutte is channeling delusional Baghdad Bob talking about “the mother of all victories” during the second Iraq war.

The oddity of all this delusion is that on just about every domestic and foreign policy issue, Trump is the poster president for delusion. On the Ukraine war he’s the only realist in the war room.

Kustra’s misunderstanding of Trump’s Afghan pullout colors his misunderstanding of Ukraine war.

 

Kustra’s misunderstanding of Trump’s Afghan pullout colors his misunderstanding of Ukraine war.

Bob Kustra’s Chicago Tribune op-ed “Donald Trump caved to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Will he repeat in the Russia-Ukraine talks?” deserves comment.

Kustra claims Trump’s 2020 Doha Agreement with the Afghan Taliban that ended the US war there under Biden in 2021 “guaranteed US failure in Afghanistan, paving the way for the ignominious Afghanistan pullout and the harsh and absolute rule of the Taliban to follow.”

To the contrary, Trump’s Doha Agreement paved the way to end America’s senseless, 20 year lost war in Afghanistan in which 2,382 US soldiers were killed and tens of thousands injured. Kustra calls the war “unsuccessful” when he should have deemed it illegal, immoral and criminal.

Kustra laments Trump excluded the Afghan government from the peace talks when that move was crucial to ending the war. The Afghan government was a US puppet regime that had near zero credibility and support among Afghanistan’s 44 million citizens. Trump negotiated the scheduled May, 2021 withdrawal with the Taliban who never ceased being the de facto Afghan government.

Kustra further agonizes that Doha “paved the way for the ignominious Afghanistan pullout and the harsh and absolute rule of the Taliban to follow.”

Kustra implies that the war could have been won on American’s terms and maybe even worth another 20 years and another 2 trillion dollars.

Kustra’s compliant that the Afghan pullout was chaotic ignores the reality that no withdrawal from a lost war zone goes swimmingly. Kustra missed the irony his piece was published a day after the 50th anniversary of America’s calamitous withdrawal from Saigon ending the similarly lost 16 yearlong Vietnam War.

Kustra’s revisionism of Trump’s single foreign policy peace accomplishment furthers his claim a similar catastrophe is occurring with his Ukraine peace initiative. Again, what is Kustra seeking to accomplish? Another 100,000 dead and wounded Ukrainian soldiers? Another 45,000 square miles lost to Russia? Another $175 billion in US treasure squandered furthering Ukraine’s destruction? Another 3 years of failure?

Trump’s erratic, intemperate nature may yet derail his stated goal of ending America’s senseless proxy war against Russia killing only Ukraine proxies. But instead of brickbats, Trump deserves our support and encouragement, including that of Bob Kustra and the Chicago Tribune.

Trump’s orange legacy may be worse that his fake orange hair

 

Trump’s orange legacy may be worse that his fake orange hair

 

Ask someone to comment on Trump and orange and you’ll likely get a snarky reference to his hilarious orange hair

 

But Trump may go out with an infinitely more dubious connection to orange: the president who dumped US efforts to eradicate Agent Orange in Vietnam, still disabling over 3 million there 50 years after the war ended.

 

The half century acknowledgement of America’ skedaddling from Saigon, April 30, 1975, has brought renewed interest in the Agent Orange nightmare US imposed on the hapless Vietnamese in that senseless war.

 

To remove cover from advancing Viet Cong and North Vietnam troops, the US poured down nearly 20 million gallons of defoliants to lay barren the Vietnam landscape. Over 10 million gallons were Agent Orange, a benign moniker that contained cancer causing dioxin. Agent Orange leached into food and water supplies in 58 of Vietnam’s 63 provinces. Nearly 3% of its population suffers serious health issues associated with its use.

 

America was slow to recognize the human and environmental catastrophe they unleashed upon Vietnam. It wasn’t till 1991 when US Viet Nam vets were provided benefits related to Agent Orange disabilities. It took another 16 years to acknowledge and begin funding cleanup in Vietnam.

 

But Trump’s cuts to US AID and other foreign aid have put US assistance to Vietnam, impossible without aid, in doubt. Most US AID staffers in Vietnam are scheduled to be out this year. That would leave nobody to administer the cleanup even if that project remains funded which is doubtful. An estimated 70% of the 650,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil remain untouched.

 

 

Trump trumpets his America First mantra which implies the other 194 countries are a distant second. But if he does cut off the Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam, it will mean America First, Vietnam Last…dead last.

For second time in 3 years Zelensky sabotages Ukraine war peace deal

 

For second time in 3 years Zelensky sabotages Ukraine war peace deal

 

Does Ukraine President Zelensky enjoy watching his citizens die needlessly in a US provoked war he could have ended twice?

 

Zelensky helped ensure Russia would invade February 22, 2022 by pushing NATO membership for Ukraine and massing 60,000 elite troops on the Donbas border to finish off the Russian leaning Donbas Ukrainians seeking independence from Kyiv destroying their culture along with their lives.

 

But Zelensky sensibly negotiated a peace agreement with Russia in the first two months (Istanbul Agreement) that would have ended the war with no loss of Ukraine territory albeit with no Ukraine NATO membership and independence for the beleaguered Donbas Ukrainians. That was statesmanship of the highest order.

 

But the US and UK saw a golden opportunity to weaken Russia if not change out the Vladimir Putin regime. What to do? Got it. Send US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Kyiv to disabuse Zelensky of making peace. Hey, with a couple of hundred billions in US/NATO weapons but no soldiers, you can win Zelensky and go out the George Washington of Ukraine..

 

The result? Three years on Ukraine is largely destroyed with millions fled, over a hundred thousand casualties, 45,000 square miles gone forever and a shattered economy.

But new sheriff in town Trump brokered a new peace deal which would have ended the war with no further casualties or lost territory. Astonishingly, Zelensky rejected it again, this time of his own free will. He cited both his desire to reacquire Crimea, lost 5 years before he became president, and his goal of Ukraine joining NATO.

 

So despite a 3 day Russian truce in in the offing over its May celebration of its WWII victory, the dying soldiers and expanding Russian buffer zone in Ukraine to prevent further long range Ukrainian missile attacks will go on till Ukraine simply collapses.

 

Maybe Zelensky has a nationwide death wish. Maybe he’s delusional or too stupid to realize h’s leading Ukraine to certain destruction. Or maybe it’s simply his way of telling the US and UK that he’s capable of blowing up a sensible peace agreement all by himself.

 

Why is No. 1 US bombing No. 137 Yemen?

 

Why is No. 1 US bombing No. 137 Yemen?

Is there a bigger bully in the world than President Trump?

Trump’s current effort is bullying the hapless innocents in Yemen. Trump will never war against anyone his own size. His No. 1 $30.5 trillion economy singled out for destruction No. 137, the $17.4 billion economy of Yemen.

Trump has launched 750 airstrikes against Yemen since March 15, killing and injuring over thousand innocents. His latest strike on Yemen’s Ras Isa fuel port in Hodeidah Province killed 95 and injured 192. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a nod to America’s all time premier warmonger Teddy Roosevelt, has dubbed the bombing campaign Operation Rough Rider. Ouch.

As with every US bombing campaign against innocents in weak countries, Congress simply rolls over allowing these grisly, unconstitutional wars to proceed without an iota of pushback.

Why is Trump bullying pitifully poor Yemen? Because Yemen is interfering in the ongoing Israeli/US genocide in Gaza. Yemen has largely shut down vital (tho not to US) Red Sea shipping with drone attacks to degrade Israel’s Gaza genocide campaign. Trump’s futile bombing campaign, which will never stop the Yemeni Houthis from opposing genocide, has no connection to US national security interests whatsoever.

That is unless our national security interests include enabling Israel to complete their genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza so Trump can kick off his dream real estate development, creating Trump Gaza Mediterranean to expand Greater Israel.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL

Luckovich Ukraine cartoon fails the history test

 

Mike Luckovich gets a failing grade in history for his cartoon (April 26 Chicago Tribune). It criticizes Trump for telling Ukraine President Zelensky he must gift Russia with his kitchen, guest bedroom and den for breaking into his house and refusing to leave.

The metaphor ignores the decades long history of US/NATO provocations and encroachment against Russia that made the invasion, tho illegal and immoral, inevitable.

This is not just my take. Many wise historians, political scientists and retried diplomats repeatedly warned US presidents that their endless disregard of Russia’s red lines not to add Ukraine to NATO on Russia’s border would inevitably provoke a Russian response.

Besides expansion provocations, both supported Ukraine massing of 60,000 elite Ukrainian troops on the Donbas border to finish off the Russian leaning Ukraine separatists being abused by their Kyiv government. When Russia pleaded with the US in November 2021 to call a halt to Ukraine NATO membership and the Donbas operation, the Biden administration refused to even discuss Russia’s valid and serious security concerns. The US knew Russia would invade but believed foolishly, Ukraine could prevail.

That may eventually be viewed as the costliest military blunder in American history.

To raise his failing history grade to a B or even an A+, Luckovich needs to draft a cartoon using the long, sorrowful history of US, NATO machinations that resulted in the lost war destroying Ukraine.

Some dare not call it genocide

 

Some dare not call it genocide

Folks following the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, fully enabled by America, are of two views.

Those of us in the peace community instantly recognized that Israel’s response to Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack was a genocidal ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians from Gaza.

We didn’t have to guess. Israeli leaders made clear thru word and deed that return of Israeli hostages was secondary to their primary goal of killing and clearing out all 2,300,000 Palestinians so Gaza could be redeveloped to expand Greater Israel.

It was also clear that the US, under both Biden and Trump, were and are in complete accord with Israel’s grisly, murderous policy. Biden feigned sympathy for the tens of thousands of dead Palestinian innocents on his watch and the decimated 139 square miles of Gaza rubble. But he kept mum while delivering over $20 billion in weapons allowing Israel to rain down on Gaza over 50,000 tons of American bombs dropped from American planes.

Trump, no surprise, gloried in the worst genocide this century. He invited indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to the Oval Office to discuss which African countries they could intimidate to take in the roughly 2.2 million remaining starving, sick, traumatized Palestinians. Trump is eager to kick start his biggest real estate project ever, expanding Greater Israel into Gaza once the Palestinians have been cleared out. That is grotesque, not something to champion.

Then there are those who refuse to believe or admit that genocide is occurring before their eyes and ears in real time.

Reasons likely many.

Some simply view it not as genocide but simply a war between Israel and Hamas.

Some argue that the Palestinian destruction, no matter how horrible, does not rise to genocide which they equate to the Nazi horrors of WWII.

Some are in complete sympathy with Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign, indeed, cheering it on. Mike Huckabee, Trump's new Ambassador to Israel, claims there is no such thing Palestine or even Palestinians, so let the ethnic cleansing proceed unabated to expand Greater Israel.

There is a near total blackout in mainstream media of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Whether conservative or progressive, the talking heads go mute when it comes to the informing the public of the most horrific US policy in their lifetime.

None in Congress dare cross the Israel Lobby by calling it genocide. To do so risks having millions in Lobby campaign funds dry up or worse, going to a pro Lobby Primary opponent. Some are horrified by the violence crushing the Palestinians but cannot embrace the moral imperative to call it out and demand its end.

To his credit, Sen. Bernie Sanders tried twice to pass Senate Joint Resolutions to cut off the flow of genocide weapons to Israel but only garnered 17 votes from the other 99 mostly genocide supporting Senators. But tho Sanders calls Israel's conduct "ethnic cleansing", he refuses to call it what it truly is, genocide.

Representing Sanders' Senate opposite is colleague John Fetterman who supports Israel cutting off all food, medicine, water to Gaza till the hostages are released. Horrifying.

Israel breaks the January ceasefire with daily bombings killing dozens of Palestinian innocents while most Americans turn away.

Collectively, American genocide deniers enable President Trump to fund, supply, cheer on arguably the most murderous, destructive and tragically bi-partisan foreign policy in American history.

Book Pick: ‘Stomp Off Let’s Go’ by Ricky Riccardi

 Book Pick: ‘Stomp Off Let’s Go’ by Ricky Riccardi


Not too many under 50 have any idea who Louis Armstrong was or his titanic impact on the trajectory of 20th century American music And those over 50 mostly know the former from his performing pop tunes ‘Hello Dolly’ and ‘What A Wonderful World’ on Ed Sullivan and other variety shows.

That’s a shame which is why ‘Stomp Off, Let’s Go’ is an important addition to the American cultural music story.


Amazingly, Louis Armstrong, a desperately poor black boy in 1900 Jim Crow New Orleans, broke out of a near hopeless future to become among the most recognized music artists on the planet while changing the music forever. That’s the saga told in Riccardi’s bio of Louis’s first 28 years subtitled ‘The Early Years of Louis Armstrong.’


Born most likely Aug. 4, 1901, Louis always claimed and celebrated his birthday July 4, 1900. Father Willie deserted his family early leaving his mom Mayann, Louis and sister Mama Lucy to barely survive in a one room apartment. Mayann was a loving mother whom Louis idolized but also an alcoholic prostitute, one of the few New Orleans occupations available for struggling poor black mothers. Frequently arrested, she’d spend a week or two in jail each time being unable to pay the $2.50 fine.


Louis brushed off his hardscrabble life, forming a singing quartet with his buddies about age 8, busking on street corners for nickels and dimes. That led to his first arrest at age 9 for disturbing the noisy peace.


He also worked for the Karnovsky’s, a Jewish family that ran both a junk and coal business. Louis worked in both, even got his first horn from the Karnovsky’s who treated him as a son. Picking up junk and delivering coal developed an incredible work ethic that lasted seven decades. No Karnovsky’s maybe no Louis Armstrong.


Pops’ caught a big break Dec. 31, 1912, arrested for firing a gun to celebrate the New Year. Sent to the Colored Waifs Home, Louis found another angel, the band director who gave him a cornet to play in the Home’s band. Got so good he was made their leader. A year later Louis came out determined to join the jazz scene just emerging from ragtime.


But poverty continued to stalk Louis’ family. At 15, he even tried his hand at pimping which backfired when his first sex worker stabbed him for not responding to her romantic overtures. Two years later 17 year old Louis fell in love and married Daisy Parker, a prostitute he was frequenting.. Not a good choice as Louis lamented all they did was “fuck and fight.” When he woke up to see Daisy holding a knife to his throat, he decided to move on.


Divorced at 21 Louis escaped Daisy, the collapsing New Orleans music scene and segregation by accepting second cornet slot in his mentor King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band at the Lincoln Gardens on Chicago’s South Side Stroll. No King Oliver maybe no Louis Armstrong.


Louis might have been just another of dozens of great cornet players who faded out early due to booze, womanizing, poor career management, etc. But he struck gold with second wife Lil’ Harden, the Oliver band pianist who forced Louis to leave Oliver to fulfil his destiny as the greatest of all time. Lil’ relentlessly promoted his musical ascendancy negotiating each next step up the musical ladder. Once again, no Lil’ maybe no Louis Armstrong.


Hard to imagine but while Pops was creating revolutionary jazz modernism with his hot Five and Seven recordings from ’25 to ’28, white America outside of jazz fanatics, had no idea he even existed. That’s because the record industry relegated him to their ‘race records’ division which were only sold in black neighborhoods. But he was so good, Okeh Record producer Tommy Rockwell took a chance and released his first mainstream pop recording ‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’ from March 5, 1929 to the general public. Bingo. His crossover to white America established, Armstrong blazed on for 42 more years, even knocking the Beatles off No. 1 with ‘Hello Dolly’ in ’64.


‘Stomp Off, Let’s Go’ most fascinating music bio I’ve read. Can’t’ wait to get Volume 2 in Riccardi’s Armstrong trilogy ‘Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years’. Then on to Volume 3 ‘What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years’.

Time for Conclave to consider woman Pope?

 

Time for Conclave to consider woman Pope?

 

The death of Pope Francis presents a golden opportunity for the Catholic Church to leap all the way from before the Middle Ages to the 21st Century. They could so do by considering electing a woman Pope.

 

That is not as preposterous as it sounds. Unbeknownst to most Catholics, the College of Cardinals Conclave, set to begin between 15 and 20 days from Francis’ April 21st death, can elect “any baptized man” to become Pope. That has happened 6 times in the 266 Papal selections (tho none since 1378).

It would take just 1 tiny rules change…replace the word ‘man’ with ‘person’ in the eligibility list. Voila, all those intelligent, compassionate, modern Catholic women become eligible to be Pope No. 267.

 

A woman Pope might just save the dying Catholic Church, at least in Europe and America where Catholics are abandoning an out of touch Catholicism. Much stems from the Church still resistant to popular lay Catholic beliefs supporting birth control, gay marriage, women priests and married priests, whether formalized or not.

 

If by some earthly miracle women will be into the mix when the voting starts, one more change would be cool. A new pellet should be added to the burning of the ballots, one that would display pink not white signaling election of the first woman Pope.

King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Gennett Records and the KKK

 

King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Gennett Records and the KKK

 

Many black and white Chicago jazz greats in the early 20’s had to pile in their jalopies and motor 255 miles to Richmond, IN to record at the Stark Piano Co. campus. Stark Piano created a record company division Gennett Records which didn’t discriminate, recording every type of music from early jazz to KKK songs. One reason for the latter, Richmond was in the heart of KKK territory rampant in Indiana.

Louis Armstrong made several trips there to record with Joe ‘King’ Oliver's Creole Jazz band. His first of almost a thousand recordings occurred April 5, 1923

 

Exactly 6 months later the band returned to Richmond on October 5 for another session. Like before, they arrived by train and weren’t allowed to stay in Richmond which was a Klan stronghold. The found rooms in Goose Town, the black enclave just a few miles from the Gennett recording studio.

 

Thru a bad coincidence Richmond was holding a gigantic KKK parade October 5, attended by over 35,000 people. Worse, it occurred just a few blocks from the Gennett Record studio. King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band, waxing groundbreaking American art form music, faced a life threatening dilemma…record or bail out before the nearby Klan parade. King hustled his crew into the studio, laid down 4 tunes still revered a century on, then skedaddled his musicians to the train depot for a hasty exit ahead of the Klan parade. 

 

Great art is a challenge under perfect conditions. But upon hearing ‘Workingman’s Blues’ or Krooked Blues’ recorded that day, one can ponder the fear that motivated the King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band to get them right on the first take

On Ukraine war and Israeli Gaza genocide, Trump playing Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde

 

On Ukraine war and Israeli Gaza genocide, Trump playing Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde 

We in the peace community welcome any leader who seeks peaceful resolution to ongoing wars. That is why we welcomed Trump’s break with predecessor Biden’s senseless war with Russia in Ukraine. 

Trump wisely campaigned to end the war and swiftly started negotiations to do that upon returning to power. Astonishing as Biden not only prosecuted the war endlessly for his last 29 months, he refused to even recognize the existence of Russian leaders much less communicate with them. 

Trump quickly sidelined Biden’s war puppet Zelensky who stupidly believed the BS Biden fed him that Ukraine could prevail with endless US weapons but not one drop of US blood. 

Negotiating peace will be daunting since Trump has no cards to play in achieving any semblance of Biden’s unrealistic war objectives. But he can shift the onslaught of blame that will erupt from the US war party where it rightly belongs…on Joe Biden. 

Concerning Ukraine, Trump is channeling the wise and kindly Dr. Jekyll. But when it comes to Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza, Trump’s ingesting some bad medicine which turns him into the murderous Mr. Hyde. 

He’s ecstatic over the prospect of a colossal Trump real estate development to expand Greater Israel into Gaza after 2,300,000 Palestinians (less the hundred thousand already expired) are dead and gone. To that end he’s keeping the genocide weapons train rolling along, winking ‘A OK’ to Israel’s cutting off of all food, water, medicine, and electricity prodding Palestinians to leave ‘voluntarily’. 

Then, instead of arresting indicted war criminal Netanyahu when he visited the Oval Office, Trump bragged about how they’re working furiously in tandem to find nearby countries to absorb the displaced Palestinians so the Trump Gaza project can commence.

 All things considered, we in the peace community prefer Trump’s Ukraine Dr. Jekyll to his Israeli genocide Mr. Hyde.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL