David Tsubouchi

Democratic Plan: Protect Social Security, Medicare and Veterans Benefits. https://lnkd.in/g_5Gn88d GOP Plan: Steal All The Money and Give it to The Super Rich.

https://lnkd.in/gyAB_vbf #Anti-Mask #Laws #Target #Gaza #Protests, But They Threaten All Progressive Movements Several states are considering expanding bans on public masking as a means to repress protest. By Lewis Raven Wallace ..."Across the United States, right-wing legislators are targeting protesters who oppose the genocide in Palestine by resurrecting laws against wearing face masks in public. In North Carolina, the Republican-backed “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals Bill” was approved by the state Senate last week and headed to the state House this week. Fresh anti-mask efforts are also underway in Ohio, Texas and Florida. These laws threaten to effectively criminalize anyone attempting to protect themselves — whether from political repression or airborne illness. The North Carolina law would expand the state’s existing anti-masking law by removing the exception for public health. That means people could be prosecuted for protecting themselves from COVID — and of course, implicitly, it means that police will have another excuse to target Black and Brown people, poor people and activists. And, while it can already be unsafe for disabled and immunocompromised people to participate in public demonstrations, this change would essentially criminalize the ability for people with escalated COVID risk to go out in public at all. “This bill also threatens the lives of many who are disabled and living with chronic illness,” said Quisha Mallette, an attorney with the North Carolina Justice Center, at a public hearing on the bill last week. “If I were not permitted to wear a mask in public it would greatly limit which spaces I could visit. For me this is an access issue.” ... These laws also make protesters more vulnerable to facial recognition technology, doxxing, and an often irresponsible news media that publishes people’s faces without their consent. Anti-racist advocates including the Southern Poverty Law Center have opposed mask bans even when they targeted the KKK, because they limit freedom of speech and expression. The history of anti-masking laws only reinforces why criminalization will never uproot police or white supremacist violence. Sweeping efforts like this reveal our collective interest in disability justice, police and prison abolition, queer liberation, and the vigilant protection of the right to protest — and exist — dressed exactly as we wish. This should be a clarion call to all communities who are targeted to stand together in collective opposition."...

Kamala and the Gaza test [..]Osita Nwanevu: ‘Harris can win. She must’ The paeans being written to the heroism and courage of Biden are extraordinary ⁠– it’s rare to see history being so quickly and blatantly rewritten. The truth is that today marks the end of one of the more shameful and ridiculous sagas in American presidential politics ⁠– a crisis made and extended by the fecklessness and inertia of the Democratic party as an institution and the bullheadedness of a man who should have understood his own limits and the risks a re-election campaign would pose to the country years ago. It’s been reported that Biden’s own staffers were informed mere moments before his decision to withdraw was publicly announced on X ⁠– one final illustration of the remarkable insularity the last month has revealed within the White House and Biden’s inner circle. For weeks they charged ahead, questioning the integrity of their critics and ignoring all contrary data until Biden’s position became fully untenable. And one has to wonder now the extent to which their behavior has been reflective of how this administration has handled substantive policy matters behind the scenes, perhaps most especially the war in Gaza, which Biden has backed with an implacability that has baffled and troubled even experts who’ve become accustomed to American deference to Israel. Well before June’s fateful debate, that war fundamentally tarnished what might have been remembered, on the basis of Biden’s domestic policy record, as a respectable and even transformative presidency. Unavoidably now, Biden’s arrogance and solipsism will be part of his story. If she obtains the nomination, as seems likely, what will Harris’s story be? Thanks substantially to the administration’s own efforts to sideline her, we know very little about her as a leader. Thanks to her time as California’s attorney general, her record in the Senate and her last presidential run, we know a bit more about the policies she’d probably support in office ⁠– all told, she offers progressives both much to hope for and much to be wary of. A key test in the weeks ahead will be how she handles the Gaza question ⁠– substantively, a break from Biden there is absolutely necessary. And politically, she could do with an even broader break ⁠– the public has been down on this administration for ages and the campaign’s efforts to refocus attention on Trump’s negatives and the threat he poses to democracy simply hadn’t been working. It’s unclear what will, but removing Biden from the ticket has given the Democrats the opportunity for a full reset. Donald Trump has never won the support of even a plurality of the American public in an election. He has never been viewed more favorably than unfavorably. And he’s never looked more beatable than he did at this year’s Republican national convention. Harris can win. She must. Here’s hoping she does. –By Osita Nwanevu, Guardian US columnist - Sun 21 Jul 2024 17.58 EDT

NCIS Special Agent Gibbs Inspired Me to Create Rules for Writers "Rules to Remember" If you have ever watched an episode of NCIS, you are familiar with the main character, NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, played by Mark Harmon. During the first few seasons, Gibbs would reveal his own set of “rules” to live by. Some of those included: ·        "Never mess with a Marine's coffee... if you want to live." ·        “Clean up the mess that you make.” ·        “Sometimes you’re wrong.” ·        “Never go anywhere without a knife.” All of those rules made sense in the context of the storyline each week. (There are 36 rules in all!) While I won’t list them all here, you might want to search online and review them. (Just in case you decide to get a job as a Special Agent with NCIS!) https://lnkd.in/gaPZJFfW

July 16, 2024 HEATHER COX RICHARDSON JUL 17, 2024 https://lnkd.in/e3Zw-zZj ..."The speakers at the #convention have largely been #MAGA extremists, and the picture they painted of the United States echoed #Trump’s. They portrayed a country in decline from the heady days of the Trump presidency, but their image was not based in reality. Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin, for example, claimed that “Women, Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans all saw record low unemployment under Donald J. Trump,” when in fact those record lows have come under Biden. Former CEO of Yammer, South African David Sacks, echoed Russian talking points when he blamed Biden for provoking Russia to invade Ukraine. Tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn attacked “racist DEI requirements.” CNN fact checker Daniel Dale has been kept busy correcting the Republicans’ repeated lie that there is a violent crime wave in the U.S. under Biden; the opposite is true. Both violent crimes and property crimes have plummeted since the Trump administration. Republicans are also saying that Democrats “have eroded the American energy dominance that President Trump delivered.” In reality, while Biden is trying to shift the U.S. to renewables, Dale noted that “the U.S. under Biden is producing more crude oil than any country ever has… the U.S. is setting fossil fuel world records under this administration. The U.S. produced a global record 12.9 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2023, easily beating the Trump-era high of 12.3 million barrels.”   ... Trump has appeared at the convention with a large bandage on the ear he says was pierced by a bullet on Saturday. Journalists have begun to note that there has been no medical report of Trump’s injuries, an odd omission after the intense recent scrutiny of President Biden’s health. "...

To talk about Socialism that is invading, seizing foreign lands, and having genocide and threatening to kill innocent humankind, and becoming to tyrant, which is why the United States Congress, Democratic Party, secretly builds socialism in the American Democracy. In fact, the United States, Democratic Party, has sold the Republic of Vietnam to mainland China while North Vietnam hasn't approved the sovereignty like South Vietnam that had not only approved by four multilateral and the thirty-seven bilateral treaties and so many international Relations of protocols that is why the United States, Democratic Party has betrayed its close Republic of Vietnam ally. How do we evaluate loyalty, just cause, and justice of a great powerful America while the Democratic Party has been ruling for the great powerful America? Bright Quang.

To talk about Socialism that is invading, seizing foreign lands, and having genocide and threatening to kill innocent humankind, and becoming to tyrant, which is why the United States Congress, Democratic Party, secretly builds socialism in the American Democracy. In fact, the United States, Democratic Party, has sold the Republic of Vietnam to mainland China while North Vietnam hasn't approved the sovereignty like South Vietnam that had not only approved by four multilateral and the thirty-seven bilateral treaties and so many international Relations of protocols that is why the United States, Democratic Party has betrayed its close Republic of Vietnam ally. How do we evaluate loyalty, just cause, and justice of a great powerful America while the Democratic Party has been ruling for the great powerful America? Bright Quang.

To talk about Socialism that is invading, seizing foreign lands, and having genocide and threatening to kill innocent humankind, and becoming to tyrant, which is why the United States Congress, Democratic Party, secretly builds socialism in the American Democracy. In fact, the United States, Democratic Party, has sold the Republic of Vietnam to mainland China while North Vietnam hasn't approved the sovereignty like South Vietnam that had not only approved by four multilateral and the thirty-seven bilateral treaties and so many international Relations of protocols that is why the United States, Democratic Party has betrayed its close Republic of Vietnam ally. How do we evaluate loyalty, just cause, and justice of a great powerful America while the Democratic Party has been ruling for the great powerful America? Bright Quang.

Why do the American people and Community Standards worry about the true events of the United States in the Vietnam War? Vietnam is assimilated from mainland China by the United States has torn four multilateral and the thirty-seven bilateral treaties signed with its close Republic of Vietnam. Therefore, the Vietnamese people have not claimed to the Vietnamese communist leaders when our weak people and nation were trafficked in person by a great powerful America. Because the United States has applied its Neo-Colonialism in Vietnam and the whole world. In conclusion, that is why the American community standards have never discussed to the Vietnam when their American leaders have defamed to its former close Republic of Vietnam because the Article Third of the United States Constitution has allowed its American Ambassador that has the right to sign many bilateral treaties with its foreign nations like the Republic of Vietnam which is why the United States has torn all multilateral and the thirty-seven bilateral treaties with its close Republic of Vietnam ally- however, the Vietnamese American refugees have frankly not dared to directly struggle with their allies when they keep their head down. Bright Quang

In his opinion that the United States should be avoided the polarizing in the social American that is, the media and the United States Congress, expressing for "Unmitigated Punishment for offenders," which is why they have disrespected their Constitution when they always contorted their Constitution-therefore, the American society has polarized without having welded. In fact, even though Republicans or democratic could not contort their Constitution when they ruled the United States. That is why when they ruled the United States, they distorted their Constitution-for example, the law of vote and the law of foreign. They didn't carry out the correct Constitution. In condition, the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified December 6, 1865, said, " Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duty convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." That is why the United States Congress enacted to force the South Vietnamese officers and troops who made slavery war by the H.R. 7885 Pub. L. 88-205 Approved December 16, 1963, if the United States Congress didn't enact this Act, the Vietnam Armed Forces wouldn't have become enslaved to war by the modern American Age when we, the Southern Armed Forces, didn't have wage from the Government of the United States which is why the United States has not only betrayed us but also sold us and our nation to socialism without having compensated any pennies while the United States has earned good money by our sacred national Vietnam. As a result, the social polarization of the United States has taken place by the United States Congress when the American media have followed with the powerful to push the United States's wrong way Bright Quang

https://lnkd.in/g66WcGtb Is this really a humanitarian effort by the US military? Or is the US establishing control of the Gaza Marine Gas Field? A natural gas field off the coast of Gaza was discovered in 2000 by the BG Group and it is estimated to contain more than 1 trillion cubic feet (28.32 km3) of natural gas.  The Palestine Investment Fund (PIF) held the license for the field as of 2023. Will there be another Oil-for-Food Programme planned for the people of Gaza, as in Iraq when the US and the UK gained control of the Iraqi oil fields in exchange for food, medicine, and other humanitarian needs? "An Israeli military division is charged with ensuring the security of US military personnel and civilian truck drivers in the area and a US C-RAM air defense system capable of intercepting mortars provides an extra layer of protection." "Humanitarian aid operations in Gaza have been severely hampered by an increase in Israeli military operations" Why do the Israelis need to protect US military personnel? Can't the US Military protect itself? The US watches genocide for 3 months from the sidelines then tries to deliver humanitarian aid, when they can easily drop it from planes and helicopters. Is the public really that gullible?