Promoting the Truth in May of 2024.

 

One of the cruelest political stories I have heard in my life is that Ron DeSantis (Governor of Florida) signed a law that stops municipalities in Florida from requiring employers to provide shade and water breaks for outdoor workers. There is a study proving that heat related deaths in Florida increased by 88 percent between 2019 and 2022. This is beyond cruelty from DeSantis. It shows evil and vindictiveness from him. This is why I am not a Republican. DeSantis is part of the MAGA cult which is the most powerful cult of the 21st century. There is no debate now. This act from DeSantis violates human rights, and what he did should be legally repealed forever and ever.

The Judge in the Donald Trump hush money trial heard many witnesses. Madeleine Westerhout, Trump's personal assistant, when he was President testified about how Trump preferred to work. Stormy Daniels has testified against Trump, and she faced cross-examination from Trump attorney Susan Necheles. This trial is accelerating rapidly while the other trials are being blatantly delayed. The hush money payment and how it was reimbursed to Cohen is a major part of the charges of Trump, who has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records and has denied the affair. The Trump defense in trying to go against Stormy Daniels's credibility, but a trial is about all of the evidence being evaluated. Donald Trump attacked the judge presiding over the case again. Judge Juan Merchan denied two defense motions, one for a mistrial based on the argument that Daniels' changed her story about the situation. The trial will continue.

President Biden telling Netanyahu that he won't send bombs and artillery shells to Israel if Israel invaded Rafah is not new. It is not a secret that the Bush Sr. administration with Baker criticized some Israeli policies. Even Reagan didn't want Begin to blow up a hotel. This is a crossroads in the conflict in the Middle East. This is the first significant conditioning of American military assistance since the start of the war on October 7, 2023. Biden said that a full-scale invasion of Rafah would cause more civilian casualties on a level even greater than the 34,000 Palestinian people always killed since the start of the conflict. Now, hospitals are overstretched as Palestinians have died in the Israeli attacks. Still, many Israeli hostages remain. So, this Netanyahu policy isn't even working to free Israeli innocent hostages. The civilian deaths in Gaza have caused outrage globally and protests domestically in America (in universities, media conferences, in the streets, etc.).

The House of Representatives end the motion to vacate Johnson from the speakership. Majorie Taylor Greene wants Johnson out of his position, because she disagrees with Johnson compromising with Democrats on various issues. Greene was booed on the House floor, because people are tired of a mostly do nothing Congress in our generation. People want policies to enrich all Americans, not just super wealthy Americans. Greene shouldn't be glorified as a hero politically and Johnson. Johnson is still a MAGA supporter who Trump has praised for many months. The vote to allow Johnson to maintain the House Speakership in a vote of 359-43. The vote had much help with Democrats. Judge Cannon indefinitely delayed the documents case. Cannon is a Trump appointee. The Judge Cannon obviously has a clear bias in favor of Trump in trying to delay the case. We have conclusively evidence of Trump's wrongdoing, and this reality should make us aware of Trump's sick attempt to do what he desires with impunity.

GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania said that the KKK is the military wing of the Democratic Party. Not only is that comment offensive, but it is a lie. No political party has a monopoly on racism, and since 1965, more progressives joined the Democratic Party and more conservatives joined the Republican Party. This came after the passages of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act that was opposed by many far-right people. Perry said that migrants coming to America have no interests in becoming Americans which is overt xenophobia. I'm not shocked at Perry's comments, because this is what many MAGA Republicans believe in. Perry spoke about anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic replacement theory views before. The problem with conservatives is that they lack nuisance on many issues, and many of them want to suppress the rights of minorities to promote an authoritarian agenda overtly in society. In life, there are complexities that must be analyzed and dealt with excluding bigotry and oppression.

By Timothy