The Common Ills: 2025-02-09

Monday, February 10, 2025

The Snapshot

Monday, February 10, 2025. South African born Alien Musk continues to control the US government as he tries to destroy it, JD Vance joins Alien in attacking the judiciary, the political closet cases who destroyed the turnout for Kamala and their enablers mistakenly think we can all be friends now, Susan ("Medea") Benjamin applauds Alien Musk online, and much more.

We're starting with Billy Joel.

Dreamt of his "It's A Matter of Trust" and Prince's "Trust" -- the latter of which is a little too upbeat and fast paced for me trying to ease into a Monday morning with blood sugars so bad right now I'm dizzy. So we'll just go with Billy.

It is a matter of trust.

If you go to BLUESKY of late, you'll find some well meaning people and some flat out liars regarding how we move forward this year and the next.

The well meaning people are enablers and idiots. The liars are just liars. They both insist, that we need to come together on the left and work together.

Here's an example of a well meaning person.

let’s heal the divide between the far left and liberals online @whstancil.bsky.social, the petty squabbles of the past are meaningless now from what’s happening in the US. let’s build the iron front against the takeover of the country and internet narratives by the far right
— onion person (@junlper.beer) February 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM

Here's my reply.

We're going to heal it now? Now? After the election? No, the time to come together was before the election. People can't throw their tantrums and then expect us to say, "It's ok little baby, you s**t the country, but we'll just move on." No. Racism and sexism will not be forgotten.
— thecommonills.bsky.social (@thecommonills.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM

Now? After the election? Reminds me of DEATH BECOMES HER.

No, the time to come together was before the election when it mattered.

Uncommitted -- a Socialist movement led by Socialists like Rashida Tlaib, her sister and Norman Solomon -- took the position that they would destroy Kamala Harris' run. That's what they set out to do. And, as sister Layla insists, as the election approached, if they had backed down, the Democratic Party would never take them seriously again.

Again?

Layla, when do you think those of us in the Democratic Party took you seriously?

You lived in a political closet. You and your crowd posed as Democrats. Do you really think we would ever take seriously grown adults who were Socialists but tried to lie to the larger public and pretend that they were Democrats.

You're fakes and frauds. The SEP members (another US Socialist party) do not feel the need to hide in political closets. We take them seriously.

But little liars like yourselves who do nothing but run rat f**k games as you try to destroy us? No, we don't take you seriously.

And that was our mistake.

There is no "now" for a coming together.

The time to come together and work together was when we had a chance to keep Donald Trump out of the White House. And while Democrats, swing voters, independents and Republicans were working to make that happen, you were working to destroy Kamala.

Now? Now we're going to work together.

Why in the world would we work with people we don't trust.

Did you miss this Socialist?

How can someone be this gullible?

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— Post-Left Watch (@postleftwatch.bsky.social) February 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM

Look, there's Susan Benjamin -- stage name Medea -- yet again coming to Donald Chump's rescue.

We don't need you Socialists.

No, we don't.

What's going to happen over the next four years is what happened with Ralph Nader after 2000. We are going to do the verbal and written equivalent of smashing your head against a brick wall or through a plate glass window over and over again.

Now, I didn't take part in that in 2000 (or after the 2000 election). But I did understand it.

And what you and the other traitors to this country will understand is that you're not trusted, you're not wanted and you're not leading a damn thing.

The political closet cases hail from DSA. It is not a Democratic Party organization. It's a small number of Socialists (approximately 80,000 members in this country). And they rat f**ked the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris' election.

They got away with it because they and their enablers pretended there were no Socialists in this country. Which is how, for three months leading up to the election, Amy Goodman could present the lie over and over that Democrats weren't crazy about Kamala. The point of the lie was to suppress turnout. To show how much damage Socialists could do the Democratic Party. So Amy brought on all these Socialists -- and one Communist -- to pose as Democrats and degrade and insult Kamala.

They pulled that off.

And now they're going to pay for it.

In "Media: OWNED finds Eoin Higgins owned by bad journalism," Ava and I take on Eoin Higgins' new book. It's garbage, it's trash. And if someone is recommending it to you in these tough economic times -- recommending you spend your money on it -- they're either someone afraid to do a true critical appraisal or they're part of the hidden, political closet cases.

Eoin himself is a political closet case. As Ava and I note, the book is filled with Republicans, MAGA, Tea Party members and Libertarians. Otherwise? The "left." Never explored never defined. We're all just Democrats apparently. This even though Eoin is citing one Socialist after another that he worked with over the years.

It's lying. It's lying from a political closet case.

We point to an AP poll right before the election, right before. Showing that the Democratic Party was split on Gaza. And that's truth that Socialists worked overtime to hide. Because that reality undercut their "KAMALA IS SO EVIL AND WON'T LISTEN TO US!" She did listen to you, she did meet with you (including Layla) she just wouldn't give you everything you wanted. And when four out of 10 Democrats did not agree with your goals and aims, she would have been stupid to have done so.

But that reality got hidden from the people.

So, no. We can't all get along now.

These people destroyed the country and their actions may bring about the destruction of the Democratic Party. If you think -- and maybe you don't, a lot of these people are ignorant and stupid -- this goes away, you better learn your history.

The Green Party ran Nader in 2000. They not only refused to run him again (he ran on the Reform Party ticket in 2004), the Green Party did a safe-state strategy where they asked people to only vote for them if the voters was in a safe state -- meaning one that would go Democrat.

We are all, in this country, already suffering because of you rat f**kers who posed as Democrats and used that lie to pimp that Kamala was a good candidate.

Socialists want the destruction of the United States system. That is DSA's ultimate goal and what they're working towards. Had voters watching DEMOCRACY NOW! or reading THE NATION, THE PROGRESSIVE, COMMOND DREAMS, et al had that knowledge, they wouldn't have thought there was no difference between Kamala and the Convicted Felon.

However, you've worked this out in your head, you need to replay it because this doesn't end well for you. By tanking our nominee, real Democrats are not going to put up with you, we're not going to tolerate your lies, your games and your bulls**t. You declared war on us.

Sad for you, there are about seventy million of us. And there's only 80,000 of you.

Or there were only 80,000 of you. As the reality continues to sink in on how you harmed our country, you're going to find people walking away from you.

Oh, sure, Kyle and Cenk will get together again (or their equivalents in four more years) and come up with some cute little name like "Justice Democrats" for Socialists to hide behind. But we'll be blasting that wall down, the one you're hiding behind.

So for those who think it's time to give rat f**kers? Step aside or get caught in the crossfire because collectively the Democratic Party is going to protect ourselves. And for those of you who think you can trick us, you can't. You've lied forever and a day. And we looked the other way and indulged you until you put Chump back in the White House. We're done pretending you're not Socialists and we're done pretending like we don't know that you're Socialists.

You attacked the Democratic Party at a time when we needed to rally. That will not be forgotten and it will not be forgiven.

DSA turned on a US House Rep over Gaza. They're also currently struggling with AOC. The smartest thing in the world politically for AOC to do if she wants to be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 2028 is to let the current break with DSA become a permanent break. They can't help her. At this point, the only thing that they can do is hurt her.

I need to pull in Trina before I forget again. Friday, Trina's "A pig boy named Colin King" went up. It speaks for itself but I will first off applaud Trina for calling the bully out. Secondly, DSA is standing on quick sand. They pose as Democrats, yes. And they fool people. And those people then attack Trina, myself or anyone who points out the truth that Rashida is a Socialist. When Trina or I bring up the proof? They vanish. Just like their support for Rashida. You tricked your own supporters. They're not happy about that. And that's why you should never have gone into a political closet to begin with.

Your supporters find out you lied to them. How do you think that makes them feel?

Tricked.

You are standing on quick stand and you are no position to threaten the Democratic Party now or in the next elections. You're getting exposed for what you are.

We've covered this here repeatedly. But for those just walking into the room, I'll note this that Ava and I attached to the end of the book review:

Media: Accountability -- a term beggar media needs translated

Buy a clue (Ava and C.I.)

Media: How Amy Goodman harmed immigrants and helped elect Chump

"2024: The Year of Betrayal From Inside The Left."

Raison d'être (Ava and C.I.)

Media Lessons (Ava and C.I.)

Media: An idiot says he'll sue over art evaluation, two other idiots defend Trump's nominees

Media: Journalistic Malpractice

Media: You apparently can't teach common sense to journalists (Ava and C.I.)

I-I-I-I-I-I Ain't Gonna Tweet on TWITTER (Ava and C.I.)

Media: White supremacy won the 2024 election (Ava and C.I.)

Don't give a dime to the racist NATION magazine

Media: The election winds down

Media: The double standard

Media: Are they trying to elect Donald Trump?

Media: Abusers Donald and JD fit the pattern

Media: The damage done by Dave Zirin and The Gaza Freaks

The death of corporate media has been widely misreported

Media: Broadcast TV and Jill Stein -- two things that always fail to deliver

Media: Hard Truths and Soft Media

Media: A great sitcom, a lousy debate

Media: The stupid on the right and the stupid on the left will doom us all

Media: They don't know any better

Media: The embarrassments of the 2024 presidential campaigns

Media: We usually get our twists and turns from TV

Every day, a few more people learn the truth about what went happened and a few more people get inoculated against DSA. There is no coming together with people you can't trust and, again, you're the new Nader and you're going to live with the same fall out.

These people did their part to put Chump back in the White House. Instead of falling to their knees and apologizing to the American people, you find them online cheering on Alien Musk and his DOGE efforts -- as with the already noted Susan Benjamin. No, there is no forgiveness, there is no healing, we're not going to work together. Ben Makuch (GUARDIAN) reports:

In 2022, the Pentagon proudly announced a committee on diversity and inclusion, with a Marine veteran and senior director at Tesla, serving as a member. The same person, who spent nearly six years at Tesla, also helped push Elon Musk to make Juneteenth a company-wide holiday. But Musk is a notorious recipient of lucrative government contracts and changes with the winds of presidential administrations.

Now in 2025, as a “special government employee” heading up the “department of government efficiency” (Doge), Musk is going to war with those kinds of government diversity and inclusion programs and slashing whatever he sees as a “waste” of public coffers.

But legal resistance is mounting, as Doge faces countless lawsuits alleging everything from privacy concerns to free speech violations, which all leads to one important question: is any of this even legal?

Laurence Tribe, one of the nation’s leading and preeminent constitutional scholars and a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, has already argued that much of Trump’s blitzkrieg of executive orders on the day of his inauguration disregards the US constitution. He told the Guardian he saw Musk’s actions as furthering that culture.

On whether or not Doge and Musk can legally have this much power over an array of government departments, Tribe was emphatic: “NO.”

Musk has applied a buckshot method across the government, offering CIA agents walking papers while appraising the Department of Education – all at the same time.

Tribe said the lack of guardrails being placed on Doge’s maverick initiatives, raises “both” questions of illegality and ethical wrongdoing that can be challenged in court. As for Musk’s status as a federal contractor (such as his StarLink work with the Pentagon) and now a government employee, Tribe sees it as “absolutely” a legal conflict of interest.

But Susan Benjamin supports DOGE!!! As we have argued since 2009, when Susan Benjamin was saying that US troops didn't to remain in Afghanistan (and she was getting called out by ANTIWAR.Com for doing so), it's past time CODESTINK broke ranks with her and forcibly retired her. Tara Suter (THE HILL) reports the latest on Alien Musk:

Tech billionaire Elon Musk called for the annual firing of judges following an early Saturday decision from a judge stating that the Treasury Department should bar access to its payment systems to anyone besides “civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties.”

“I’d like to propose that the worst 1% of appointed judges, as determined by elected bodies, be fired every year. This will weed out the most corrupt and least competent,” the tech mogul said in a post on his social platform X.

The order halts special government employees and those detailed from outside the department from getting into the systems, which includes Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Foreign born Alien Musk of South Africa is currently serving at least two masters -- the governments of the US and China. And considering the rivalry between the two, people need to be questioning how effective this foreign born person is to the US?

Alien Musk is not the only boyfriend of Donald Chump's that is attacking the court currently. The Convicted Felon's little buddy JD Vance is also attacking the courts and insisting that the administration doesn't need to follow the law. Yasmeen Hamadeh (THE DAILY BEAST) notes:

Vice President JD Vance was mocked Sunday for seemingly lacking a fundamental understanding of democracy after he suggested that judges shouldn’t be allowed to “control the executive’s legitimate power.”

Despite graduating from Yale Law School in 2013, Vance questioned the authority of judgeships in an X post Sunday, writing: “If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal.

[. . .]

While some, including Musk, applauded Vance’s comments, others were quick to criticize the vice president’s post for its seeming disdain toward the government’s system of checks and balances.

New York Rep. Daniel Goldman replied to Vance: “It’s called the ‘rule of law’ @jdvance. Our constitution created three co-equal branches of government to provide checks and balances on each other (‘separation of powers’).

“The judiciary makes sure that the executive follows the law. If you do, then you won’t have problems,” he continued.

Others may be noticing as well. Tom McAfee (RAW STORY) reports:

J.D. Vance raised the eyebrows of legal experts on Sunday by suggesting Donald Trump's administration might refuse to comply with a lawful court order. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court probably also noticed, according to a political analyst Sunday.

Anthony Coley, the former chief spokesperson for Attorney General Merrick Garland, appeared on MSNBC over the weekend. At one point, the analyst called a "pause" in the conversation to raise a red flag about Trump's conduct surrounding the Super Bowl.

In talking about Vance's tweet, Coley brought up John Roberts, who was recently put on notice about throwing a "lifeline" to Trump.

"I think the Supreme Court Chief Justice, Chief Justice John Roberts, is also paying attention to this particular tweet from J.D. Vance," Coley said. "And I'm not saying that he is normally following the tweets of a Vice President of the United States, but he saw this coming, the chief justice did."

He continued, noting that, "Back in December, he issued his end of year report, where he warned people of all parties of the necessity of holding themselves to the rulings of courts, even when people disagree with them."

Friday, Senator Elizabeth Warren's office issued the following:

“The millions of families who rely on ED to help them achieve the American Dream deserve answers about reports that an unelected billionaire and his team now have access to some of their most sensitive personal information.”

Text of Letter (PDF)

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) led 16 of their colleagues in sending a letter to Acting Secretary of the Department of Education, Denise Carter, launching a probe into recent reports that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has infiltrated the Department of Education (ED) and that “DOGE staffers have gained access to federal student loan data, which includes personal information for millions of borrowers.”

The letter was joined by Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.).

There are over 40 million federal student loan borrowers in the United States. ED’s student loan database contains millions of borrowers’ highly sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, marital status, and income data.

“This deeply troubling report raises questions about potential exposures of Americans’ private data, the abuse of this data by the Trump Administration, and whether officials who have access to the data may have violated the law or the federal government’s procedures for handling sensitive information,” wrote the senators.

According to public reporting, “a handful of 19-to-24-year-old engineers linked to Musk’s companies, with unclear titles, could be bypassing regular security protocols” during DOGE’s infiltration of federal agencies. The senators also raised concerns that the access provided to DOGE-affiliated staff by the Department may violate the Privacy Act, which generally prohibits the disclosure of such information.

“We are especially troubled by this reporting given President Trump’s stated pledge to abolish the Department,” concluded the lawmakers. “The millions of families who rely on ED to help them achieve the American Dream deserve answers about reports that an unelected billionaire and his team now have access to some of their most sensitive personal information.”

Additional reporting suggests that DOGE has “fed sensitive data from across the Education Department into artificial intelligence software to probe the agency’s programs and spending.” The 18 senators requested answers from Acting Secretary Carter about DOGE’s access to federal student loan data and any other sensitive databases by February 13, 2025.

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Let's note this post LGBTQ NATION has done on BLUESKY this morning:

His orders has sparked lawsuits and protests, with the LGBTQ+ group Immigration Equality joining the battle.

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— LGBTQ Nation (@lgbtqnation.com) February 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM

Immigrants (and those who appear to be) and LGBTQ+ people (especially transgender persons) are the most attacked right now under Convicted Felon Donald Chump and his underlings JD and Alien. And yet Susan Benjamin shows up to declare her support for DOGE?

Are you getting now why we can't afford these non-Democrats posing and pretending to be one of us? Why we can't 'all get along' now? This is about people's lives and even after they tanked the election, these people not only can't apologize, but they're still working to harm immigrants and LGBTQ+ members. They are not our friends. They are not our allies. They are not deserving of our support. We have real people in real jeopardy that we need to be supporting and working with right now. The fake-ass political closet cases are on their own.

New content at THIRD:

The following sites updated:

Trump Screams Victim as Past Comes Back to Haunt Him! Frank Figliuzzi

Conservative Writer Just Got In HUGE Trouble

Trump Voter LOSES IT After BRUTAL TARIFF BILL

Bill Burr RIPS into Elon Musk

Another Maga Troll FAFO

Sunday, February 09, 2025

Roland SCHOOLS immigrant Patrick Bet-David on HOUSING RACISM against Blacks

Chump and his boys wallow in lawlessness

Tara Suter (THE HILL) reports the latest on Alien Musk:

The order halts special government employees and those detailed from outside the department from getting into the systems, which includes Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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“The judiciary makes sure that the executive follows the law. If you do, then you won’t have problems,” he continued.

Others may be noticing as well. Tom McAfee (RAW STORY) reports:

In talking about Vance's tweet, Coley brought up John Roberts, who was recently put on notice about throwing a "lifeline" to Trump.

And that's it. We're finishing at THIRD so I need to stop here.

The following sites updated:

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Senator Murphy Holds Citizens Meeting in West Hartford

Amanda Gorman says a ban on her poetry felt ‘like a gut punch’: Full int...

'Constitutional crisis': Sen. Booker reacts to possibility that Elon Mus...

If it weren't for self-love, he'd have no love at all

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & MIKEY LIKES IT! & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

TECH WEIRDO ALIEN MUSK HAS GOTTEN HIS PANTIES IN YET ANOTHER WAD. THE MAN IN THE MIDST OF A HOMOEROTIC AFFAIR WITH HIMSELF IS NOW CALLING FOR JUDGE PAUL ENGELMAYER TO BE IMPEACHED BECAUSE THE JUDGE RULED IN FAVOR OF THE CONSTITUTION.

"CONSTITUTION SMANCHTATUSION!" SCREAMED ALIEN WHILE THUMBING THROUGH A SERIES OF HIS OWN NUDE SELFIES ON HIS CELL PHONE. "I KNOW THE LAW! I LEARNED IT IN SOUTH AFRICA! AND WHAT I DON'T KNOW GLENNETH GREENWALD TELLS ME. OH! OH! OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!"

THESE REPORTERS -- MUST CREDIT BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & MIKEY LIKES IT! & THE COMMON ILLS -- IMMEDIATELY ASKED HIM IF HE NEEDED MEDICAL ATTENTION?

"NO," ALIEN SAID PANTING HARD. "IT'S JUST THAT PHOTO OF ME, IT'S A REAL THIRST TRAP -- I'VE GOT TO GO!"

WITH THAT ALIEN MUSK DROPPED HIS PHONE WHILE HOWLERING, "YOU NASTY B**TCH! I WANT TO F**K YOU!" TO A PHOTOGRAPH OF HIMSELF.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

People are posting that video and commenting and basically being as inept and stupid as CNN.

Maybe we should do an origin story before we get into the video? It helps explain our take on the above and on the topic after the CNN video.

20 yeas ago, the internet was newer (newish?) and some thought we were going to tackle the media -- which has sold the illegal war on Iraq -- and make it better. And some did try. I said early on that you're going to cut off Cokie Roberts' head and just find 20 more sprout up. I tend to think I called that correctly.

But back in the day, NPR was covering the 2004 election. Bully Boy Bush and Dick Cheney were the GOP side while John Kerry and John Edwards were the Democratic side.

NPR brought on Robert Kagan to 'evaluate.' Kagan is a neocon and was a Bully Boy Bush supporter and some people objected online and to the NPR ombudsperson.

Now there were strong objections made. And that's fine.

The ombudsperson dismissed them. And that's because the wrong objections were made.

"When NPR Fails You, Who You Gonna' Call? Not the Ombudsman" was when a ton of people found us at the end of November in 2004 BUZZFLASH and many others linked to it.

It zoomed in on what NPR didn't tell you -- but should have -- and what the ombudsperson didn't tell -- but should have.

Robert Kagan was brought on to evaluate the two campaigns.

That had been covered.

What had not been covered?

Who Kagan was married to.

Victoria Nuland. Today, a pretty familiar name. Back then, no one apparently knew.

At that time, she was Dick Cheney's right arm. So you had the husband of Dick Cheney's assistant coming on NPR to evaluate Dick Cheney's opponent. And no needed -- REQUIRED -- disclosure was made.

So when I say I don't like political closets, that's what I'm talking about and have been talking about here forever.

Now back to the video. Here's a transcript I'm copying and pasting -- it's from the closed caption and it's not perfect but I'm not honestly in the mood to sit here and fix it. You should be able to follow along and if you can't, e-mail your representatives to demand better closed captioning service:

Jason Carron: Days before the last presidential election, Donald Trump was the invited guest as the Great Commoner Restaurant in Dearborn, MI. Albert Abbas says he extended that invitation, a decision he is now reflecting on. Given all that has happened in the last 24 hours, many in the community are a lot at a loss for words.

Albert Abbas: Last night was a very rough night for most of us.

Jason Carron: Abbas is Arab American and one of a number of Democrats who voted for Trump. Abbas says he hoped Trump would do more than President Joe Biden did to help Palestinians suffering in Gaza.

Donald Chump: The US will take over the Gaza Strip.

Jason Carron: But after Trump said Palestinians should leave Gaza so it can be redeveloped, Abbas says not only does he feel betrayed, he's hearing from a number of people angered over his past support of Trump.

Albert Abbas: People were really, really frustrated and I don't think there's anyone to blame. At the end of the day, as Arab Americans or Muslims, we really didn't have much of a choice.

Jason Carron: Dearborn, a Detroit suburb, is home to the largest Arab American population in the United States community, which helped Trump carry the critical swing state. He won 42% of the vote in Dearborn versus Vice President Harris with 36% and Jill Stein with 18. In 2020, Biden handily carried the city with 69%. Faye Nimmer voted for Trump in 2024 out of frustration over the previous administration support of Israel. Now she is troubled by the president's proposal to move Palestinians out of Gaza.

Faye Nemer: I mean, it's-it's very concerning and it's infuriating.

Jason Carron: You're infuriated but standing by your decision for now to have voted for Trump.

Faye Nemer: Correct.

Jason Carron: And what would move that needle for you to say, "You know what? I made a mistake."

Faye Nemer: Palestine is the red line for this community.

Jason Carron: Nimr says she suspects Trump is bluffing and is using his proposal as some sort of negotiating tactic. That's the same sentiment shared by Omar Czar.

Amer Zahr: First, this is clearly not going to happen, right?

Jason Carron: And real estate broke Ali Al Farajala.

Ali Farajalla: A lot of people are calling me and texting me and saying, "Hey, you know how, how did your vote work out? You know, how is that third party vote?"

Jason Carron: Both were so-called protest voters. Neither supported Trump or Harris. Are there any sort of second thoughts now about having

Ali Farajalla: Absolutely not. And I'll still do it again and again and again.

Amer Zahr: I didn't vote for Trump, so a protest vote, I don't know. I would say it was a targeted vote of conscience to say that the children of Gaza have to mean something. Their death has to mean something.

Jason Carron: And while Arab Americans here were divided in the past, going forward, one point is uniting them opposition to Trump's proposal to move Palestinians out of Gaza.

Wayne County Commissioner Sam Baydoun: The community will be unified. I will tell you this, the Palestinian people would rather die and live in a demolition site than to be ethnically cleansed and being sent out of Gaza to Egypt or Jordan.

What did you think?

I thought: "What a bunch of liars."

We've got other things to do so let's just take on one of the people in the video above -- one besides Jason who clearly does not know how to do journalism.

Albert. He voted for Chump. Yes. But that's not all he did. He campaigned for Chump. Took himself to FOX "NEWS" and to FOX AND FRIENDS WEEKEND. He trashed Democrats to various outlets. He didn't just vote for Chump.

Why be so modest?

You did what you set out to do.

Just voted for Chump, hardly.

So we're in lie mode?

CNN has locked us down in lie mode?

You know I don't play that game, right?

You know I'm not going to let Albert lie to the country.

Albert's a homophobe.

And, let's be clear, Dearborn and Hamtramck, you've got a lot of gutter trash.

You think we're going to forgive you?

Really? Because some on the left want to baby you because you're "Palestinian"? (Albert's Lebanese American.)

CNN might lie for you, trash, but I'm not going to.

October 19, 2022, Max Eden's NEWSWEEK piece "The Book Burners speak out."

Albert, did you forget you were quoted there? Wallowing in your homophobia and trying to hide it behind children?

You're a bigot. You're a trashy bigot.

And you also decided to vote for Chump before Harris was even the nominee. You told friends you were going to when Joe Biden was still in the race. You told people you weren't for voting for Biden back before October of 2023. I know that because I did the work that Jason and CNN didn't. I made the phone calls that they should have.

And like most homphobes in the US, you were never going to vote for a Black woman.

And before any on the left want to rush to rescue him, check out his 2020 school board campaign -- which he lost! -- for his anti-union talk. Yeah, homophobe, anti-union. These are the ones that refused to vote for Kamala. Own what you did. You destroyed the country.

And just as Americans hearing Robert Kagan talk smack about John Kerry had the right to know that Kagan's wife was working for Dick Cheney -- the rival ticket -- CNN viewers had a right to know that the 'Democrat' was an anti-union, homophobe who'd already left the party before October 7, 2023. He'd left before that.

To defeat Kamala Harris last November, it was important that voters turn out in lower numbers. Democrats have the public. If they show up, Democrats win. We also all knew it was going to be a close election.

So we could have rallied on behalf of our country. But instead Gaza Freaks in the media -- liars one and all -- worked to destroy enthusiasm for the ticket. They did that the way Amy Goodman did -- kind of like CNNs report above -- bringing on Democrats who aren't Democrats.

The theme was "even Democrats don't like her." So you got Naomi Klein (who should not have US citizenship -- she was born in Canada and only many years after her father deserted the US military during Vietnam) -- to say hold your nose and vote for her. What a ringing endorsement. From a non-identified Socialist. And that was one of the kinder moments. Usually the "Democrats" (unidentified Socialist -- one time an unidentified Communist) just attacked her.

And they pimped -- over and over -- the lie that Democrats were lukewarm on Kamala.

With all the attacks and all the encouraging people to stay home and not vote and all the encouraging them to vote for Jill Stein -- and this came from the left -- Kamala still got 48.4% of the popular vote to Chump's 49.9%. She had a three month campaign and she came that close.

And she could have made it across the line if Socialists weren't in poltical closets.