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A supporter of former President Donald Trump on Tuesday called in to C-SPAN to say she doesn't care that he paid off an adult film star to cover up an affair he had shortly after his third wife had given birth to their son.
During Tuesday morning's edition of C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," a woman identified as Donna from Kentucky dismissed the importance of a hush-money payment that may soon get Trump indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
"It doesn't matter," she said. "President Trump is our salvation!"
The caller then proceeded to cast suspicions upon why so many prosecutors were apparently out to get the former president, who was also impeached in the House of Representatives on two separate occasions.
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"To me it seems like they are attacking this man nonstop from the first time he stepped off the plane!" she charged "It is overwhelming. Ugly!"
In fact, Trump was criticized for his opening campaign announcement because he used it to accuse Mexico of deliberately sending "rapists" into the United States.
After that, Trump continued to engage in race-baiting rhetoric during both his campaign and his presidency, such as when he told four congresswomen of color to "go back" to their own countries even though three of them were born in the United States and the fourth was a naturalized American citizen.
Since then, criticism of Trump has moved beyond his racist remarks and has grown to include his role in inciting a deadly riot at the United States Capitol building on January 6th, 2021.
Watch the video below or at this link.
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I said Friday the best way to understand Donald Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin is to think of the former as the leader of a totally made-up confederacy and the latter as the leader in a totally made-up presidency, who are together in league against the real America.
Trump’s confederacy of the mind and spirit is what I call Realamerica, not to be confused with the real America. Realamericans live there according to God's law, which puts white Christian men on top of society. In Realamerica, the US Constitution was handed down by God, and the real America should stay the same as it was at its founding. The goal of Realamericans is the domination or sabotage of the real America in which their makebelieve confederacy exists.
For Putin, the best way of winning the war in Ukraine is for a Trump victory in 2024. For Trump, the best way to win the presidency of the real America, and therefore escape criminal accountability, is to keep partnering with Putin in an attempted repeat of the 2016 election. I called this pact the Russo-Realamerican alliance. A hostile foreign government hopes to destabilize the real America from the inside, for the purpose of destabilizing European democracies, and the leader of an imaginary confederacy inside that real country wants to help.
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Since Friday, two things have occurred to underscore my thesis. One, the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Putin’s arrest on charges of war crimes related to his country’s invasion of democratic Ukraine. Two, Trump said Sunday he expected to be arrested in connection with a hush-money investigation involving Stormy Daniels. Trump called for mass "protests," as he did on J6.
Not only do these men hold illegitimate power. Not only do they use that illegitimate power to attack, erode and undermine legitimate national governments, like the one in Ukraine and like the one here in the real America. They are outside generally accepted boundaries of the law. They are inauthentic. They are lawless. They are criminal.
Yet we face the prospect of another Trump candidacy. You’d think the Republicans, as rah rah as they are, would have a problem with a candidate openly in league with a hostile foreign government. You'd think they'd reject Trump as the 2024 nominee. But all things being equal, though he may be indicted for crimes committed in New York state, Donald Trump will likely win the Republican nomination.
I put it like this, because for mostpeople, it's difficult to understand how a former president could ever side with Vladimir Putin, who has gone to war with a fellow democratic state (Ukraine) and who threatens the long-enlightened project of the European Union.
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By thinking of Donald Trump as the leader of a makebelieve confederacy, which exhibits nearly all the same attributes of the former Confederate States of America, we overcome the disbelief that’s associated with a former president siding with the enemy.
Trump was illegitimate then, as the president of a real country (America). He's illegitimate now, as the president of a fake country (Realamerica). In neither does Trump ask for the consent of the government for the purpose of governing in their name. In both, he, like Putin, expects loyalty to him above all, even the rule of law.
There’s another reason why I say this confederacy of the mind and spirit is a "nation" inside a real nation – so that normal people can see the United States is not a united nation, never has been, and the United States, in a very real sense, is as fictional as Trump’s confederacy of the mind and spirit. The United States did not emerge organically. They were imagined into being. The difference is that the confederacy is illegal and unmade, the union is legal and made.
The difference is mostpeople chose the latter over the former.
Somepeople, which is to say the inhabitants of Realamerica, will never accept the real America. It would be the end for them if they did. To them, truth, justice, equality and liberty for everyone means robbing them of the same. As long as the real America plays by the rules of Realamerica, all is well. But if the real America does not obey, then Realamericans are free to take the law into their own hands. They are free to sabotage, even destroy, what they cannot control.
Most of us believe that the possibility of the indictment of a former president would be the exception to the rule. But what is the rule when Realamericans reserve the right to commit treason when the real America (that is, a democratic majority) denies their right to rule? What is an exception when for somepeople treason is optional?
The Times reported over the weekend that Jimmy Carter's reelection campaign was sabotaged by a group of Texas Republicans. Carter struggled, right up to Election Day, with a crisis involving American hostages in Iran. These Realamericans, as I'd call them, went to Iran to say that a Republican president would offer them a better deal. The hostages were released, but only after Ronald Reagan's victory.
The Times report has one source, a witness to the conspiracy, whose story was corroborated by others not involved. Whether the trip made the difference for Carter is hard to say. That the trip happened at all, however, illustrates my point – that there exists an imaginary "nation" inside this real nation. Its inhabitants are dedicated to the cause of domination and control. If they can't control, they destroy.
It’s God's law.
Which happens to be whatever Realamericans say.
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Astronomers on Monday warned that the light pollution created by the soaring number of satellites orbiting Earth poses an "unprecedented global threat to nature."
The number of satellites in low Earth orbit have more than doubled since 2019, when US company SpaceX launched the first "mega-constellation," which comprise thousands of satellites.
An armada of new internet constellations are planned to launch soon, adding thousands more satellites to the already congested area fewer than 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) above Earth.
Each new satellite increases the risk that it will smash into another object orbiting Earth, creating yet more debris.
This can create a chain reaction in which cascading collisions create ever smaller fragments of debris, further adding to the cloud of "space junk" reflecting light back to Earth.
In a series of papers published in the journal Nature Astronomy, astronomers warned that this increasing light pollution threatens the future of their profession.
In one paper, researchers said that for the first time they had measured how much a brighter night sky would financially and scientifically affect the work of a major observatory.
Modeling suggested that for the Vera Rubin Observatory, a giant telescope currently under construction in Chile, the darkest part of the night sky will become 7.5 percent brighter over the next decade.
That would reduce the number of stars the observatory is able to see by around 7.5 percent, study co-author John Barentine told AFP.
That would add nearly a year to the observatory's survey, costing around $21.8 million, said Barentine of Dark Sky Consulting, a firm based in the US state of Arizona.
He added that there is another cost of a brighter sky that impossible to calculate: the celestial events that humanity will never get to observe.
And the increase in light pollution could be even worse than thought.
Another Nature study used extensive modeling to suggest that current measurements of light pollution are significantly underestimating the phenomenon.
- 'Stop this attack' -
The brightening of the night sky will not just affect professional astronomers and major observatories, the researchers warned.
Aparna Venkatesan, an astronomer at the University of San Francisco, said it also threatened "our ancient relationship with the night sky".
"Space is our shared heritage and ancestor -- connecting us through science, storytelling, art, origin stories and cultural traditions -- and it is now at risk," she said in a Nature comment piece.
A group of astronomers from Spain, Portugal and Italy called for scientists to "stop this attack" on the natural night.
"The loss of the natural aspect of a pristine night sky for all the world, even on the summit of K2 or on the shore of Lake Titicaca or on Easter Island is an unprecedented global threat to nature and cultural heritage," the astronomers said in a Nature comment piece.
"If not stopped, this craziness will become worse and worse."
The astronomers called for drastically limiting mega-constellations, adding that "we must not reject the possibility of banning them.""
They said that it was "naive to hope that the skyrocketing space economy will limit itself, if not forced to do so," given the economic interests at stake.
© 2023 AFP
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