The Trumpanyahu Administration
Honestly at this point they should just get #Netanyahu his own room in the White House and a desk in the Oval Office.The prime minister of #Israel is taking his third trip to the White House in the five months since Trump has been back in office. I have immediate blood family members who I love with all my heart and visit less often than this.
This comes as the #Trump administration revokes the #US visas of British punk rap duo Bob Vylan ahead of a US tour for chanting “Death, death to the #IDF” at a concert in the #UK. Trump’s sycophantic supporters who spent years complaining that their free speech rights were under assault appear fine with their government deciding what words Americans are allowed to hear in their own country.
This also comes as Trump actively intervenes in the Israeli judicial system to prevent Netanyahu’s corruption trial from moving forward.
The president has repeatedly taken to social media to demand that Israel abandon its corruption case against the prime minister, at one point even implying that the US could cut off arms supplies if his trial isn’t canceled.
“The United States of America spends Billions of Dollar a year, far more than on any other Nation, protecting and supporting Israel,” Trump said. “We are not going to stand for this. We just had a Great Victory with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu at the helm — And this greatly tarnishes our Victory. LET BIBI GO, HE’S GOT A BIG JOB TO DO!”
It’s so revealing what the US government is and is not willing to threaten conditioning military supplies on, and what it’s willing to interfere in Israel’s affairs to accomplish.
Ever since the #Gaza holocaust began we’ve been hearing lines like “Israel is a sovereign country” and “Israel is a sovereign state that makes its own decisions” when reporters ask why the White House doesn’t leverage arms shipments to demand more humanitarian treatment for civilians in the Gaza Strip. But the president of the United States is willing to leverage those same arms shipments to directly interfere in Israeli legal proceedings which have nothing to do with the US government in order to get Netanyahu out of trouble. ....
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The Trumpanyahu Administration
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"By striking down nationwide injunctions, the Court furthered its determination to free up this President to exercise virtually unlimited power. More than a unitary executive, this conservative Court imagines an unfettered executive. …
I take no pleasure in saying this. But it is clear that we have our very own 'Reconstruction Supreme Court.'”
~ Sherrilyn Ifill
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #autocracy #authoritarianism #corruption #fascism #immigrants
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Between 1873 and 1896 the Supreme Court so devastated and battered the 14th Amendment – sometimes directly, sometimes through tortured interpretation and sleight of hand, that they birthed a system of legal apartheid that rendered Black people second-class citizens for generations to come. We have no reason to believe that this Court is not doing similar damage to the power and promise of the 14th Amendment."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #autocracy #authoritarianism #immigrants
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"And our very democracy, along with the lives of real, actual people are being devastatingly affected as a result."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #autocracy #authoritarianism #immigrants
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Prior to 1933, Jews in Germany were full citizens, protected by the Constitution of 1919. That changed after Hitler came to power. A law passed in 1933 authorized the denaturalization of East European Jews who had become German citizens since World War I and Jews who had already fled from Germany. The laws were vague."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #SupremeCourt #immigrants #BirthrightCitizenship #Nazis #Jews #denaturalization
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