Courtesy of CNN:
Pope Francis said Saturday he worries that rising tensions between the United States and North Korea could lead to a wide military conflict that would wipe out a "large part of humanity."
He called for renewed diplomacy using third-party intermediaries and for the United Nations to take a lead role in de-escalating tensions.
The Pope, while returning to Italy from Egypt, took several questions from reporters and one asked him what he would say to world leaders at this critical moment.
Francis said in Italian that the situation "has heated up too much. I always appeal for a solution through diplomatic means."
The pontiff, who has spoken of a "piecemeal third world war" for several years, said increased conflict would be devastating.
"It's piecemeal but the pieces are getting larger, and are concentrated in places which were already hot," Pope Francis said. "Today a wider war would destroy, I won't say half of humanity, but a large part of humanity and culture. It would be terrible. I don't think humanity today could bear it."
You know when a guy who firmly believes in an afterlife, and that he absolutely has a reserved parking place in that afterlife, expresses great concern about the possibility of a war, I think he deserves our attention.
And the Pontiff is right, Trump's ignorance and lack of preparedness for the job of president puts the entire world at risk.
If I were working for the FBI, I would be working around the clock to prove Trump's ties to Russia and get him removed from office before it is simply too late.
Wanda Sykes Drags Donald Trump And His 'Tacky-Ass' Mar-A-Lago Estate
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wanda-sykes-donald-trump-mar-a-lago_us_59018863e4b0026db1de2629?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
ReplyDeleteJerry Falwell Jr. Calls Donald Trump The ‘Dream President’ For Evangelicals
Liberty University president also said GOP moderates “make my blood boil.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jerry-falwell-jr-dream-president-trump_us_5906950fe4b05c3976807a08?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Sure, because Jesus would have advocated sexual assault, greed, taking from the poor, and destroying the planet.
Trump Has Now Spent A Full 20% Of His Presidency Playing Golf
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2017/04/30/trump-spent-full-20-presidency-playing-golf.html
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/trump-ratings-far-below-obama-bush/
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ReplyDeleteUGH.
Trump is Making a Commercial About All the Stuff He Pretended to Do For 100 Days
Trump cites "clear vision" and "resolute leadership," not to mention "uncompromising dedication to the American people" by fighting media bias
...as he robs them of their access to healthcare, turns the oceans over to oil companies and takes away their National Parks and monuments for some more drilling and mining.
He loves us! He even did away with science for us! No more pesky facts to get in the way of our wishful thinking. And his profits.
Notice what else he’s done for us: “fighting back against continued media bias.”
Well, what president before has ever done that for the American people? Truly a historical 100 Days in office we can all be proud of, right?
Yeah, not so much. Donald Trump doesn’t have a presidency. He has a perpetual campaign, holding rallies when he’s not golfing and then popping into the office once in a while to sign a few executive orders.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/01/trump-making-commercial-100-days.html
Donald Trump’s revelation that he is going to take some time off from his golf game to meet with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte at the White House has caused quite a stir, and not because he didn’t bother to notify his own State Department.
...Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte have a lot in common: authoritarianism, a fascination with Adolf Hitler, a disparaging view of human rights, and the love of profits. And that is a recipe that will tarnish America’s image and take her to some very dark, very unpleasant places. And I’m not talking about the kitchens of Mar-a-Lago.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/01/american-foreign-policy-guided-trumps-thirst-profits.html
Will be interesting security wise if Duterte decides to visit. Really, think about the prime opportunity....
DeleteThe media will run 'anything' albeit it lies about Trump on their networks! All for the money!
DeleteI wish every fucking outlet would drop Trump from their airwaves...it would be the best present they could give America!
I too wish all TV stations would stop running the idiot alongside or in place of those speaking. There are not words to describe how repulsive he is and no one needs to be reminded of what he looks like every few seconds. Ban the damnable face unless his speech is being shown, and only do that in rare circumstances.
DeleteEnough!!!!
A prime opportunity for Dutere and Trump, 6:51 AM! They are both comparatively horrid human beings!
DeleteWrite letters or send emails to all the outlets (to especially include cable!) asking them to stop or massively reduce/deminish their constant coverage of the asshole Donald Trump!
DeleteAnd, stop watching their channels (except for movies or hometown news) which will drop their viewership poll figures. I'm doing it and like the fact I'm NOT seeing Trump hour by hour! The idiot is massively deplorable and not good for America and its people!
Give yourself some peace!
If you didn't want WWIII, You should have voted for Hillary?
ReplyDeleteYes. She is NOT a war monger. She did not start any wars as Sec. of State. She did not try to sell us to Russia for oil rights. She scared the crap out of the RW because she is smarter, tougher, and more experienced than any of them, AND she cares about people, not just her bottom line or making sure her kids get a huge piece of the Treasury pie. She also pays taxes to support this nation. What does Trump do? Nada. Cashes in and hides everything offshore. He's pathetic and if your comment was not snark, so are you.
DeleteEnough with the Hillary is a warmonger lie. It so fucking ignorant.
DeleteI voted for Hillary Clinton and so disliked the lies Trump spread about her! He needs to die now and go to Hell - the country/world/earth needs to be rid of him!
Delete8:43 your threat has been verified.
DeleteTrump Gives Raging Anti-Choice Propagandist HHS Public Affairs Job
ReplyDeleteYoest has a long record of undermining women’s access to health care by distorting the facts; her selection shows the administration is pandering to extreme evangelical conservatives.
...Trump has been really, really good and extremely generous to the religious right thus far in giving them unprecedented power and authority over the people by government fiat. He appointed a raging evangelical who claims the Separation Clause in the U.S. Constitution is “unconstitutional” as the attorney general. He chose a “Christian supremacist” running mate as evangelically extreme as he is a liar second only to Trump. And he tapped a filthy rich Christian whose brilliant plan is running the Education Department like an evangelical ministry to “confront the culture and advance god’s kingdom.” Add to that the weekly prayer meetings and bible lessons for Trump’s Cabinet, the House and Senate with an uber-extremist Christian preacher so extreme his own church disowned and disavowed him. One challenges any know-nothing, liberal or conservative, to dare claim the theocrats in Trump’s administration are not a threat to the people.
After promising to give churches tens-of-billions of taxpayer money and the freedom to campaign for religious Republicans from the pulpit, one wondered how Trump would force taxpayers to fund evangelical extremist’s propaganda campaign against women’s autonomy over their bodies and lives. Well the Trump came through and appointed a raging evangelical extremist as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) assistant secretary of public affairs; the person in that top public affairs office is responsible for shaping communications efforts for the entire agency.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/04/30/trump-raging-anti-choice-propagandist-hhs-public-affairs-job.html
Early last year-During the 16' campaign- a die-hard 'tea party' (Rand Paul) man supporter and worker / 30ish GOpeer attended a drumpf rally to ask and observe with 'good' intentions drumpf's message. He was pulled aside by the Evangelicals, they escorted him into a back room and told if it continued they would 'kill him'.
DeleteHe QUIT campaigning own the spot.
The Pope is a very special kinda man. I don't think the powers that be pay any attention to him and let's face it, the religious community embraces Trump. We are doomed if China doesn't do something and soon.
ReplyDeleteU.S. Military Coup? take away his Button -- and not the one that gets him Coke.
DeleteTrump Takes Latest Stab At Historical Analysis: ‘Why Was There The Civil War?’
ReplyDeletehttp://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-why-was-there-the-civil-war
“Had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldn’t have had the Civil War,” Trump said. “He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart.” (Jackson engineered the deaths of thousands of Native Americans while he was in office.)
“He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said, ‘There’s no reason for this,'” Trump continued. “People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, you think about it, why? People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?”
He sounds like a dumb 6 year old.
DeleteHis ignorance and complete stupidity have no bounds.Iam so completely horrified and repulsed by this monster/madman.
DeleteAnd how would he have fixed it? Allow the south to secede?
DeleteWhy is he yakking about the Civil War?
DeleteIs he mixing up North and South Korea with North and South US?
Retired CIA expert: US far-right is getting duped by Russia and it’s ‘part of something bigger’
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/retired-cia-expert-us-far-right-is-getting-duped-by-russia-and-its-part-of-something-bigger/
Guns and religion: How American conservatives grew closer to Putin’s Russia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-republican-right-found-allies-in-russia/2017/04/30/e2d83ff6-29d3-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html
Trump’s first 100 days: The fact check tally
ReplyDeletePresident Trump is the most fact-challenged politician that The Fact Checker has ever encountered. He earned 59 Four-Pinocchio ratings during his campaign as president. Since then, he’s earned 16 more Four-Pinocchio ratings.
But those numbers obscure the fact that the pace and volume of the president’s misstatements means that we cannot possibly keep up. The president’s speeches and interviews are so chock full of false and misleading claims that The Fact Checker often must resort to roundups that offer a brief summary of the facts that the president has gotten wrong.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/05/01/president-trumps-first-100-days-the-fact-check-tally/
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate along with Democratic governors told Politico this week that they see Trump as weak and not in control of his party. Trump, they say, is personally and politically erratic and not worth the risk of compromising with, especially when their constituents are urging them to block the former reality TV game show host’s ever-shifting agenda.
ReplyDelete‘We don’t want to work with him’: Democrats vow to defy Trump and obstruct his agenda at every turn
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/30/democrats-trump-no-compromise-237791
Sorry little donnie, you may have canceled the ceremony, but he still gets the award. JEALOUS
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Trump Cancels Argentine Award Ceremony Honoring President Carter
During President Carter's administration, the oft maligned Democratic POTUS faced impossible criticism and sabotage by the up and coming 'Moral Majority....
President Carter is likely one of the most moral presidents we've ever had, his actions as a great humanitarian create little doubt what kind of person he is. We also know that Trump is perhaps the antithesis of a humanitarian, simply by his actions and words. He just hosted the President of Argentina at the White House, not surprisingly, Trump has business interests in the South American nation.
Prior to his departure from Argentina, President Mauricio Macri planned on presenting la Orden del Libertador San Martín, the highest honor for a non-Argentine citizen. Ex-Argentine-Ambassador to the US, Martin Lousteau, chose the ex-peanut farmer for his work in promoting human rights during Argentina’s last military dictatorship. His plans were revised by this White House.
An anonymous source from Told CNN that the Carter administration's human rights policy was a "decisive accelerator in getting justice and trials against the military that perpetrated crimes." Harris also said that the actions of Carter's human rights policy managed to hasten the end of the regime and was a key factor in achieving "a cascade of justice in Argentina."
The award was announced in the Argentine government’s Official Bulletin in March, and it was later decided that President Macri would preside over an award ceremony during his visit to Washington in April.
The award ceremony was abruptly cancelled days before Macri’s visit. The official explanation for the cancellation was scheduling problems, but a source in the Argentine government who spoke to CNN Español on the condition of anonymity stated that the ceremony was cancelled at the specific request of the Trump administration for a delay.
We can tie together the fate of Jimmy Carter to the fate of this nation to this Republican deception, culminating in the coup de etat of Donald Trump. Those same evangelicals who abandoned Carter and turned to the GOP henceforth helped Trump 'win.' Ironically, one of the tenets the new Religious Right espoused was a vehement opposition to Communism. Funny how the product of Communism has such a foothold on the American government with Vladimir Putin.....
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/04/president-carter-wins-award-argentina
Waiting for enraged tweeting over the budget deal. What? No wall? Planned Parenthood not blown off the face of the Earth? Women are still permitted to choose abortion over death? WTF!! Spicer, get in here!
ReplyDeleteLove that the Pope spoke up about Trump and the chaos he is creating throughout the world.
ReplyDeleteOur United States Congress (contact your Representatives and Senators) needs to impeach Trump.
He truly is the most detestable imbecile and evil doer on this earth. I so hope he dies soon if impeachment does not take place! The world would be a much safer place.
I hope when he is having one of his rants he strokes out. Everyday he is in office he puts the world in danger.
Deleteit really signifies how uninterested and the disdain that he has for people who really are, not just historians, but experts in public policy and in politics and everything that you need to know to actually learn to govern and to be able to run a country.”
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/completely-inept-cnn-pundit-says-too-late-for-trump-to-save-presidency-after-bizarre-civil-war-remarks/
Just like a good russian dictator, little donnie has declared May 1 “loyalty day”.
ReplyDeleteWill he have parades of parades of military hardware too? Who is he being loyal to besides Putin because he sure isn’t loyal to the USA, he can’t even be bothered with American history. Surely Barron must have a history book or two at little donnie’s IQ level.
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‘Like a third-grade paper’: Internet shreds Trump’s historically illiterate Andrew Jackson comments
During an interview with the Washington Examiner published on Monday, President Donald Trump claimed that former President Andrew Jackson was “very angry” about the American Civil War, and he would have stopped it had he still been president in 1861.
“I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldn’t have had the Civil War,” Trump said. “He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was very angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said, ‘There’s no reason for this.'”
Jackson may have been a “very tough person,” but that didn’t stop him from dying in 1845 — or 16 years before the Civil War started.
The internet quickly pounced on the president’s historical illiteracy, and hammered him for not knowing very basic facts about his own country’s past. Some of the top reactions follow below.....
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/like-a-third-grade-paper-internet-shreds-trumps-historically-illiterate-andrew-jackson-comments/
Good God! You'd think the fat ass would be embarrassed at his constant idiocy being shown on a near daily basis.
DeleteFuck Trump! He needs to go and quickly! He is a major embarrassment to our country and is not qualified 'in any way' to be potus!
His minders are keeping all "not nice" press coverage out of his sight. Complicit. Shame on them, but T and his ilk know no shame.
DeleteSpread the word. May it be the first of many. Russian spies are in the White House. Time to shine a light on them.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/RoguePOTUSStaff/status/859032036094431232
POTUS not a trustworthy employer. Aside from payment history, reckless hiring & firing to cover his own mistakes, is a strategy preferred for him.
https://twitter.com/RoguePOTUSStaff/status/859026392356450304
https://twitter.com/RoguePOTUSStaff
"Americans tend to believe in our own exceptionalism." “The straight-on confrontation with the TRUTH is at the center of the fascist worldview. The attempt to undo the Enlightenment as a way to undo institutions, that is fascism.”They name enemies, remove opponents and use blunt slogans and soundbites over and over again."Trump is allowed to soldier on with one failure after another as evidence of his incompetence staggers around the White House in a bathrobe."ike Hitler’s Reichstag fire that is either a war with North Korea, Iran, China, Russia or any of the other countries he’s antagonized over the last 100 days. In fact, Snyder said that it was “inevitable” that Trump and his team would try such an obvious stunt."outlines steps Americans can take to fight back. He anticipates we’ll know within the first year which direction Trump is taking"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/yale-historian-warns-its-inevitable-that-trump-will-stage-his-own-reichstag-fire-to-save-his-presidency/
I agree trump has to be gotten out of office as soon as possible - BUT pence has to go at the same time - pence WANTS the end of the world so he can go straight to heaven (or so he believes) - trump is insane, cruel uncaring, narcissistic, and ignorant, but pence is pure evil and will smile the entire time he is watching the world explode around him after pushing the big red button (and not the one for the White House butler to bring him a coke - the other red button!)
ReplyDeleteDING DING DING-BING BING BING
DeleteBOOM! so saith
Barron 'John' Miller
foretold>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation
Trump seems to think that others will not play as dirty as he does. Cream his ass, Canada! (America's loyal friend!)
ReplyDeletedRUMPf makes GWB look like a fecking genius! I have little hope for the future if dRUMPf is not removed immediately, no matter HOW it is done.
ReplyDeleteWho says the Pope thinks he has a reserved spot? I expect the majority of the Catholic leaders don't have any illusion of a heaven at this stage in their lives (old). It's a powerful gig while here.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/its-getting-worse-joe-scarborough-sounds-alarm-on-trumps-rambling-and-incoherent-speech-patterns/
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.aetv.com/specials/l-a-burning-the-riots-25-years-later/articles/the-l-a-riots-25-years-later-what-have-we-learned
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/us/la-riots-korean-americans/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/18/us/los-angeles-riots-fast-facts/
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ReplyDelete"The case has been a sensation in Germany, not only because of the twists and turns revealed so far about the alleged conspiracy, but because of the questions it raises about how deep and how extensive right-wing extremism runs in the modern German military.
Franco A. had managed to cultivate a reputation as an über-punctual military officer throughout the past year, during which he was stationed in France."
"Police suspect he may have been plotting a “false flag” terror attack that would have been blamed on his alter ego."
"the lieutenant had gone to Vienna to attend a gala “officers’ ball” in the former imperial palace. At some point, according to Die Welt, he decided to hide a loaded pistol in a bathroom at Vienna International Airport. The cleaning crew discovered it, and when Franco A. returned for it, the police picked him up."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/01/was-a-fake-syrian-refugee-a-real-right-wing-terrorist
The Pope would have more effect talking to North Korea than Trump. Even though they aren't Catholic, at least they are SANE.
ReplyDeleteTrump said "I don't know why there was a civil war" Can sara explain to trump why there was a civil war please? The guy is really a mess.
ReplyDeleteIn the mean time we are stuck with their dirty oil pipeline.
ReplyDeleteWe support you Canada. Do it!!!!
ReplyDeleteNo offense, Uncle G, but you are clueless what the Pope believes. You're anti-religion, and you've shown for years that you have a limited understanding of all things existential. He's a Jesuit, which means he's brainier than you can imagine. And what he believes or doesn't believe would shake your pigeon-hole system of labeling people. You haven't read any of his writings. Pope Francis does not subscribe to dualistic beliefs.
ReplyDeleteAlso he takes his papa name from Francis of Assisi, the little poor man, greatest social justice advocate evah!
Trump is a true atheist, as only a narcissist can be. He can't grasp any notion of an existence greater than his present magnificence. He could learn a lot from Pope Francis, but he would never believe that a man who has taken religious vows denying his own needs could teach him anything.