Apparently Trump not only thinks the president can do anything he wants, but also thinks he can make anyone in the world do whatever he wants!
“The United States originally built the canal and opened it to commercial traffic in 1914. In 1977, the US and Panama signed a treaty that called for the gradual transfer of control of the canal to Panama. The transfer was completed on December 31, 1999.”
“President-elect Donald Trump threatened to reassert U.S. control over the Panama Canal, accusing Panama of charging excessive rates to use the Central American passage, which allows ships to cross between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
“In a Saturday evening post on Truth Social, Trump also warned that he would not let the canal fall into the ‘wrong hands,’ and he seemed to warn of potential Chinese influence on the passage, writing that the canal should not be managed by China.”
Last night Trump posted on his own social media: “To all Senate Republicans: NO DEAL WITH DEMOCRATS TO FAST TRACK NOMINATIONS AT THE END OF THIS CONGRESS. I won the biggest mandate in 129 years. I will make my appointments of Very Qualified People in January when I am sworn in.”
He is so deluded!! He got LESS than 50% of the vote. Hardly the “unprecedented and powerful mandate” he has claimed!
Plus, as usual, it’s okay for HIS party and administration to do it, but nobody else better do it!
I have always felt that the opinions of the nominee to head public health were dangerous. Like an actual danger to the public health of the American people.
Now 77 Nobel Prize winners have asked the Senate to reject Kennedy’s nomination!
“The letter, published Monday by the New York Times, said putting Kennedy in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees agencies handling food and drug safety, disease epidemics and health insurance would ‘put the public’s health in jeopardy.’
“The authors pointed to Kennedy’s opposition to the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and the polio vaccine. Kennedy is a leading proponent of the discredited theory that childhood vaccines cause autism. President-elect Trump said Sunday he would ask Kennedy to look into what is causing autism because ‘something is going on.'”
“The transition team is preparing a list of countries to which migrants might be deported when their home countries refuse to accept them, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
“The countries include but may not be limited to Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Panama, and Grenada, the sources said.
“The plans could mean that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of migrants would be permanently displaced in countries where they do not know any of the people or the language and have no connection to the culture.”
In other words, the economy worldwide was already improving, and will continue if the new administration doesn’t ruin it.
“Rising trade tensions and further moves towards protectionism might disrupt supply chains, raise consumer prices, and negatively impact growth,” the OECD said.
He “told Trudeau that if Canada cannot handle his tariffs and secure the northern border, then it should simply become the 51st American state with Trudeau as its governor. A wildly insulting and condescending thing to say to one of our closest allies, Trump appears intent on isolating America and ruining our foreign relationships right from the get-go.”
“The meeting came days after the president-elect threatened a blanket 25 percent tariff on “all products” entering the US from Canada and Mexico – and an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods.”
Back in 1986, Frank Zappa was on the TV show “Crossfire” and he described — way back then — how the United States was headed toward a fascist theocracy.
“When you have a government that prefers a certain moral code derived from a certain religion and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very, very right-wing, almost toward Attila the Hun,” then you are headed for a fascist theocracy. – Frank Zappa
“President-elect Donald Trump is looking to grant massive tax breaks to America’s wealthiest individuals and corporations, beginning with an extension and expansion of his 2017 tax cuts, which primarily benefited the rich. In order to offset the loss of tax revenue, Trump’s economic advisers are considering a plan that would punish the poorest Americans by making it even harder to access Medicaid, food stamps, and other federal programs, according to a Tuesday report from The Washington Post.”
Of all the insane picks Trump has made, this one has the greatest possibility of seriously hurting the American people, and right away, not just in the long term.
RFK Jr. has been nominated to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. That would mean he would oversee HHS, the CDC, the NIH, the FDA, and more.
Why is this a problem? Because RFK Jr. is totally unqualified, believes vaccines are dangerous and ineffective, and he has spread plenty of DEBUNKED conspiracy theories about vaccines and medicine in general. He is anti-science and anti-vax. He directly contradicts the science-based research of most scientists and medical experts. He said that chemicals in the water were turning children gay! And he claimed that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Jewish and Chinese people!
He has already said he wants to fire 600 people in the National Institutes of Health. Regarding the CDC, Trump was bad enough, undermining their research and preventing them from saying what needed to be said. RFK Jr. would ruin the CDC.
“The mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.”
RFK Jr. stands OPPOSITE this mission!
Here are a few quotes from people who understand:
“Robert F Kennedy Jr is a clear and present danger to the nation’s health. He shouldn’t be allowed in the building at the department of health and human services (HHS), let alone be placed in charge of the nation’s public health agency.”
“Donald Trump’s bungling of public health policy during the Covid pandemic cost hundreds of thousands of lives. By appointing Kennedy as his secretary of HHS, Trump is courting another, policy-driven public health catastrophe.”
“He’s a vaccine denier and a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist. He will destroy our public health infrastructure and our vaccine distribution systems. This is going to cost lives.”
“It is hard to overstate what a terrible decision this is. RFK Jr has no medical training. He is a hardcore anti-vaccine and misinformation peddler. The last time he meddled in a state’s medical affairs (Samoa), 83 children died of measles.”
And he claimed that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Jewish and Chinese people! 