So many days of unprecedented corruption in the Trump administration, and lots of people don’t care or are in denial.

So many days of unprecedented corruption in the Trump administration, and lots of people don’t care or are in denial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVK1OjKTUEk

Interviewing ICE Agents

ICE officer reports discrimination against him by ICE and other ICE officers. An ICE officer said that criminal investigations, including reports of pedofilic activity, were dropped to focus on deportations. An officer said that many Border Patrol agents are not properly trained and led to do internal deportations. An officer said that connections in surge cities were damaged by deportation surges, making criminal investigations more difficult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkjvJRiHEq4

North Korea is Trump-Proofing its Regime

North Korea has put into law that if its leader is killed in an attack, it will start launching nukes.

North Korea is still building more nukes and their nuclear missiles can reach the US. North Korea is determined to keep its nukes to defend the regime’s survival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlkCC4d3_Po

Does Anybody Know How to Solve an American Debt Crisis? | Plain English

For a long time, a lot of people who really just wanted a smaller government pretended to care about debt (or fooled themselves into thinking they cared about debt).

Three quarters of US government spending make the federal government an insurance company with an army. As a percentage of the total spending, waste fraud and abuse is very small. DOGE was a failure because it didn’t understand the US federal government. If you want to significantly reduce spending, you have to stop sending Americans checks (like Medicare and Social Security), or/and have to weaken the military, although the check cutting part is much bigger than the military spending part.

Republican politicians used to lie, or be misinformed, by saying that tax cuts pay for themselves; now they lie, or are misinformed, by saying Trump won the 2020 election (he did not). It’s hard to make a tough compromise under such politics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXKAfcgl7eU

The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Think | Plain English

If Thailand maintains its low fertility rate for 200 years, it will have a population of 2 million. That’s smaller than Houston right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F7_qa-XLBg

Growing Calls to Go All In Against Iran

During the war and the following cease fire blockades and operations…the US has not been communicating well with the Gulf States. 

Some Iranians ships continue to make it through the blockade. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIpguXCcTSc

Is It Time to Break the Two-Party System? | The Ezra Klein Show

Gerrymandering has existed for a long time. It is an act of disenfranchisement where politicians choose their voters rather than voters choosing their representatives. A few states created independent commissions to have neutrally drawn maps, but many draw them to maximize one party’s success, biasing elections against what people actually voted for.

Trump escalated gerrymandering by pushing Republicans in states they control to gerrymander shortly before an election, rather than after a census brings new data. This is Trump trying to win the midterm elections by way of changing lines on maps rather than by convincing people to vote for his party. Democrats retaliated by also gerrymandering before the mid-terms. For the midterms, Republicans are predicted to net 7 to 10 extra seats due to changing the maps, rather than convincing voters to vote for them.

Proportional representation may be a better way to elect representatives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWN4Gsk9Ms0