Category: News & Comment

Our Fascist Idiocracy: Amb. Huckabee Welcomed Anti-US Spy Jonathan Pollard to Embassy

White House issues implausble denial that Trump officials were unaware of the meeting

Jon Ponder

Times of Israel: Ambassador Mike Huckabee hosted a meeting at the US embassy in Jerusalem with Jonathan Pollard, the former spy who gave reams of classified American documents to Israel, The New York Times reported on Thursday…

According to the Times, it is unclear whether Huckabee got approval from the State Department ahead of the meeting. It said the meeting “alarmed” the CIA station chief in Israel, and the White House was not informed of it….

“It was a friendly meeting,” Pollard told the NYT. He said “a lot of things that came up in conversation,” while calling Trump a “madman who has literally sold us down the drain, for Saudi gold,” in apparent reference to the president’s recent decision to sell F-35 fighter jets to Riyadh.

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Trump’s War on Affordability

Buck Banks


Maybe it’s just another sign of Donald Trump’s increasing senility,
But he refuses to believe his policies are creating economic difficulty.
Of course, he’s never bought gas or groceries in his life,
And he hasn’t a clue about Americans’ economic strife.
All he knows is, he doesn’t want his aides to talk to him about “affordability.”