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Hastert’s reign and eventual downfall happened in a previous era of American politics. In the Trump era, it has been said, the old rules no longer apply. Predatory crimes no longer need to be kept secret. They’re no longer disqualifying for a political career. Just look at how precisely similar Trump’s rap sheet is to Hastert’s — civil liability for rape, criminal conviction for fraud and for covering up hush money payments. Hastert spent 13 months in prison. Trump got a get-out-of-jail-free card from the justices he appointed.

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"When is a whistleblower not a whistleblower? The easy and obvious answer is this…"

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Russians Don’t Like It When You Fight Back

It seems, that Russians don’t like it when you fight back. Mister Putin phoned his best friend Donald Trump, apparently, and warned of his retaliation against Ukraine for their temerity in laying waste to the Russian air force. The thing is, you see, Putin views his illegal invasion of Ukraine as a part of the natural order but any incursions by Ukraine as blatant terrorism. Putin’s narrative is that Ukraine is not a country, despite its official status as such since 1991. Vlad and Donnie see the war in Ukraine as a matter for them to come to an understanding over and no place for uppity Ukrainians like Zelenskyy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aukyzgAGHM4

The Russian Pact Making Corruption Great Again

America is in the grip of the biggest bunch of lowlife tossers ever to put on a suit. They aint the good guys anymore, if they ever truly were. Russia is a thug’s paradise, a fascist state, where might is right, white and wanting to expand territorially. Trump and Putin are a couple of mob bosses carving up their spheres of influence.  Billionaire oligarchs thick on the ground with their hands so far up the arses of the ordinary people that you don’t know where to look. Especially as the secret police, ICE and homeland security are on the rampage picking up school kids, mums and longtime residents and detaining them before deporting them. Authoritarians like to have a pretext for their heavy handed approach. Making America Russian Trump’s America wants to become like Russia, where oligarchs and their minions rule the roost. It is a return to the Viking values of brutalising the weak and condemning anyone outside of the straight and narrow. The Vikings seeded Russia, if you didn’t know. at the very beginning. Might is right, white is right, and take what you want from the vulnerable. Trump’s Great Big Beautiful Bill is a 5 trillion dollar tax cut for the super-rich at the expense of the poor and sick. The new America only looks after those that can look after themselves. Trump’s regime are cutting their losses, or cutting off the loss making folk, and rewarding the billionaires with largesse for years to come. What did Elon Musk call it – a disgusting abomination! This from the richest man in the world and formerly Trump’s DOGE chainsaw. Viking raiders in suits and ties are coming for your entitlements. Russians don’t like it when you fight back, so watch out Mister Musk. Souring The Milk Of Kindness Pete Hegseth, the Trump Secretary of Defense, is renaming a naval ship because it was too gay! The USNS Harvey Milk may be full of seamen, but it will no longer proudly bear the name of a gay warrior icon gunned down in the pursuit of social justice. Hegseth is a piece of shit stuck to the sole of Donald Trump’s shoe, as he walks over the graves of real American heroes. Russians don’t like it when you fight back. The drunken former Fox News hack, Hegseth, is about as low as you can go in the US political stakes. I sincerely wish for all the bad things that life can present to manifest upon Mister Hegseth. You have to have purposeful intent; I reckon in all things. The Trump regime are taking down black, gay, and female honoured achievements to boost their Viking ethos, where white men only rule the waves. “The first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California when he became a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Milk was assassinated in 1978. “ - (https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5333156-harvey-milk-sean-penn-hegseth-navy-pride-month/) Russia Wins In The End The Russians have won the cold war, in the end, because they have their asset in the White House for the second time in 10 years. America thought that the cold war ended in 1991but they were sadly mistaken. It was only a reinversion, where sides swapped hats for a period and then back again. Evil can wear any number of ethnicities and hats. The ugly, power grasping proclivities are not the exclusive domain of any nation. Trumpist America has sunk into a kleptocracy that Putin would be proud of. Meme coins and gifts of luxury jet liners are lining the pockets of America’s leading mob boss family. “If you dispassionately look at things, it is pretty clear, that the US has been taken over in a Russian coup. I mean, Vladimir Putin is directing Donald Trump in negotiations re-Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and any sort of cease fire/peace deal. Economic sanctions have been applied to every nation in the world except Russia. Investigations into and monitoring of Russian influence have been disbanded under Trump. Dear America,  The Russians have won and their asset is running your country in 2025.” - (https://www.midasword.com.au/dear-america-the-russians-have-won/) Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump. ©MidasWord

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White House Seeks New Defense Secretary Amid Hegseth Controversy

Following allegations that Pete Hegseth shared sensitive military information through private messaging apps, the White House has begun its search for a new Defense Secretary. Here's what we know so far and what it could mean for national security.

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The Dangerous Hypocrisy of Pete Hegseth

There’s a special kind of audacity in Pete Hegseth’s behavior—arrogant, reckless, and now fully exposed. He’s been caught not once, but twice using the encrypted Signal app to conduct sensitive government business outside official channels. The first time, he denied everything. But then the truth came out, forcing a reluctant walk-back laced with Clinton-esque word games. And now? He’s been…

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Pete Hegseth Accuses Pentagon Leakers of Sabotaging Trump’s Agenda.

Pete Hegseth Accuses Pentagon Leakers of Sabotaging Trump’s Agenda. In a heated development that has sparked widespread debate, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused former Pentagon staffers of leaking sensitive information to undermine President Donald Trump’s agenda. The allegations, reported on April 22, 2025, by ABC News, center on claims that fired aides, including Dan Caldwell, Darin…

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Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi is demanding the resignation of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth after he allegedly disclosed classified U.S. military plans on an unsecured messaging app.

Pelosi states: "By disclosing classified U.S. military plans on an unofficial and unsecure messaging app, the Secretary of Defense demonstrated that his incompetence led to recklessness. It is TIME NOW for the Secretary of Defense to resign."

Do you agree with Pelosi’s call for resignation?

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America The Unreliable Ally

The US is the laughing stock of the international world. In a new low, the fools appointed by Trump and the GOP to his cabinet are messaging war plans on unsecured apps and accidentally including the editor of The Atlantic magazine in their group chat. Incompetent does not do justice to this it is totally stupid. Meanwhile, this flow of information, which would in normal times be top secret and highly classified is likely being spied upon by foreign intelligence services like Russia and China. Indeed, one of the members of the group chat was in Moscow at the time. America the unreliable ally continues to be a major embarrassment.

Stupid Americans Running The Show

Stupid Americans voted for Trump and he appointed a bunch of really stupid individuals to his cabinet. These right wing media darlings are so dumb it is mind boggling. These folk are more concerned with not being busted by their fellow Americans, not aligned with their whacky dismantling of the government than they are at being manipulated and played by Russian agents and other foreign intelligence operatives. The Trump regime is a chaotic, slipshod and largely illegal body of whack jobs. This US is fast becoming a huge embarrassment. America the unreliable ally is not a nation responsible governments could share intelligence with. American National Security A Laughing Stock In the words of a Late Show comic presenter, “dumb is outpacing evil in this race to the bottom.” Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, like a child caught out doing something naughty lashed out in denial and blamed the reporter they stupidly included in their illegal group chat. The calibre of these Trump appointees is zilch and in some ways I feel sorry for them being put in positions they are totally ill equipped to cope with. These people are not experts they are tawdry right wing media personalities. They have not passed proper security checks and their behaviour already is letting the nation down bigtime. This would be funny if they weren’t responsible for the national security of America.

Trump’s Ship Of Fools Historians always ask how empires and civilisations crumble. Look no further than Trump’s ship of fools for the answer to this one. Stupid people elected a stupid President and he appointed a really stupid cabinet. America the unreliable ally is already at the deep end and none of these folk can swim. Imagine being so dumb that you share classified war plans on an unsecured app and don’t even notice that a reporter is included in the group chat list. Security chiefs around the globe and in NATO especially will be reevaluating their plans when it comes to Trump’s America. “It was shocking that their incompetence was so fortuitous – that the person they included, seemingly accidentally, in their unsecured group chat about war plans was someone so uniquely equipped to broadcast their idiocy to a large audience. But it was in no way surprising that members of the Trump administration are behaving with such recklessness, shortsightedness, indifference to responsibility or peevish sadism. Of course they’re planning overseas bombings in a group chat, I thought when I first read Goldberg’s account. Because we live in an age where the people with the superlative power are those who are least temperamentally suited for it; because the stupidity of this White House outpaces any attempt at parody; and because these guys are exactly as dumb in real life as they look on television.” - (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/26/trump-signal-chat-middle-east-opinion)

Photo by Brett Jordan on Pexels.com Signal Is That Dumb Is In The House Dumb and evil go hand in hand at the White House under Donald Trump. Could the former be some sort of saving grace, as far as the world is concerned? Responsible democratic nations around the world, former allies of the United States, will have to immunise themselves until this farce is over. Stupid Americans taking over the place is a recipe for disaster. The lies that these folk spout is a disgrace – their kids must be so ashamed. I predict that these people are going to meet a bad end. Stupid is as stupid does. Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump. ©WordsForWeb

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