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From: JoJoFromJerz

Dear Ma & Pa MAGA,

You say that Donald Trump “loves our troops.”

So, I want to know why that is.

Is it because he received 5 deferments from the draft for military service during the Vietnam War?

Is it because he demeaned a POW, attacked a Gold Star family and told a military widow that her deceased husband “knew what he had signed up for.”

Was it the time he downplayed the traumatic head injuries suffered by our troops after a missile attack as “not real” because they weren’t ‘missing hands and limbs.’

Is it due to all the years he tried to slash benefits for our veterans, the time he said he didn’t want to be seen with war-wounded amputees, and to keep them forever out of his sight, or the time he called our fallen heroes of war “suckers” and “losers”?

Is it the all the times he called our military leaders “dumb” and “overrated” while calling terrorists like the Taliban & Hezbollah “very smart”?

Was it the time he demanded the flags after McCain’s death be returned to full mast, or the time he demanded that a ship bearing his name be blocked from view?

Was it when he stole, hid and lied about our national security secrets, potentially imperiling countless men & women in uniform all over the world?

Or was it when he suggested that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff deserved to be executed?

Maybe it was when he asked Gen. John Kelly (who lost his son in combat) at Arlington National Cemetery, why anyone would sign up for service because as far as he saw it, there was “nothing in it for them.”

Perhaps it was hearing him say that as President he would allow our adversary to attack the same allies this county’s Greatest Generation fought beside and died defending?

Or was it when he insulted Nikki Haley’s husband for currently serving our country overseas?

Which of those things was it that made you believe he loved our troops?

Because I’d really love to know.

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As the Klamath River dries, tribal nations and farmers come to rare agreement

After decades of fighting over a drying Klamath Basin, tribal nations and farmers reach an agreement to repair the damaged ecosystem.

Excerpt from this story from Grist:

Indigenous nations, farmers, and ranchers throughout the Klamath Basin in the Pacific Northwest reached an agreement on Wednesday to collaborate on ecosystem restoration projects and to improve water supply for agriculture. 

The memorandum between the Klamath Tribes, Yurok Tribe, and Klamath Water Users Association, which represents agricultural producers across 17,000 acres in both California and Oregon, serves as a major step in a long-running battle over access to water as the Klamath River dries up and federal officials cut flows to tribes and producers.

Drought in the region has often pitted Indigenous peoples and endangered fish against more than 1,000 farms that rely on the same water for their crops. In 2001, the Bureau of Reclamation shut off irrigation water to farmers in the midst of a drought, prompting protests from farmers and illegal water releases. Two decades later, amid another drought, the agency cut water to farmers to preserve endangered suckerfish, again heightening tensions. ”It’s not safe for Natives to be out in farmland during a drought year,” Joey Gentry, a member of the Klamath Tribes, told Inside Climate News after the 2021 water cuts. 

In 2022, tribes won a long-running campaign to convince the federal government to remove four dams that stopped salmon from reaching their spawning grounds, marking a major win for Indigenous communities that rely on the Klamath. Now, Clayton Dumont, chairman of the Klamath Tribes, says the new agreement goes even further.

Klamath Tribes were forced to cede 23 million acres in Oregon and California to settlers in exchange for a reservation, but an 1864 treaty gave the tribe the right to hunt and fish on those ceded lands forever. However, fishing hasn’t been consistently possible with drought and conflicting demands for water. 

In the next month, tribes and agricultural producers will meet to decide on restoration projects that could be completed within the next two years and supported through existing federal or state programs. After the priorities are decided, officials from the U.S. Department of the Interior will identify both existing funding and new funding sources for the projects. The agency also plans to release more than $72 million to modernize agricultural infrastructure and restore the ecosystem in Klamath Basin.

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America could have all kinds of great things if we just decided to have them. It's just that simple.

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True words were never more spoken 💯

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Tulips

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“Trump’s supporters have bought into his nightmare vision of an America in which politically correct elites are destroying our traditional culture and allowing our country to be overrun by foreigners from the south who are taking our jobs, bringing crime and disease, and “tainting our blood.” And Trump loyalists have come to believe that their leader must be defended against the threats he faces from law enforcement, the courts, and media because they accept his boast that he, and only he, can save America from devastation and the chaos of the apocalypse.”

— This Armageddon Election Won’t Be Like the Others

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Jack Ohman

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“No, people don’t need to wake up before you end up with Trump as your candidate. People needed to wake up years ago – probably in the immediate aftermath of January 6, when public approval of Trump was at its lowest. But it didn’t happen then for the same reason it didn’t happen before that and hasn’t happened since: Trump-averse Republicans know that the base adores him, so they don’t want to end their careers as Republicans by opposing him.”

— No More Mister Nice Blog

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“Why do Republicans see Swift as a threat? The simple answer: She is a powerful young woman who challenges the traditional social hierarchy.”

— Why Taylor Swift terrifies Republicans

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“Now, imagine the version of Taylor Swift that Trump’s Republicans would support. They’d fawn over a pop star who embraced bigotry and prejudice, and who urged her followers to reject science and embrace conspiracy theory. A Republican version of Swift would deny the reality of climate change, militate against abortion rights and urge women to embrace subservience to men. A red-pilled wannabe Taylor would rave against Joe Biden while donning a red hat and endorsing Donald Trump.”

— Why Taylor Swift terrifies Republicans

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What do you mean you can’t hear it?

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