Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 3, Week 32 (222 total reports)
01.08.2024-06.08.2024
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Advocating for young people as Old DonOLD Trump and Hillbilly Vance make themselves into memes of weird.
Songs to Enjoy
A farcical song for all the people who like to excuse the behavior of the weird, man-toddler, convicted felon, Donald Trump.
Special Adolescent Care Link of the Week
Opinion: Some jobs should never be done by kids. Project 2025 sees things differently
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/31/opinions/project-2025-child-labor-goodman
Yesterday, Republicans blocked expansion of the Child Tax Credit. They are so concerned about fetuses, but—once born—children are on their own. Allowing the Child Tax Credit to continue would mean less money available to the billionaires that support Donald Trump and his GOP lackeys. This is not an isolated incident into the GOP’s propensity for child cruelty. Glance at this article to have a better understanding of the plan “Trumpettes” have for forcing children to work in dangerous situations at dangerous hours. If the Heritage Foundation and Trump’s Project 2025 have their way, children will be working late night shifts in unsafe factories, jobs too dangerous and low paying for even adults to take. The Heritage Foundation continues to make it clear they want a mudsill financial system (permanent underclass of workers) that feed their billionaire economy.
Best Links of The Week
06.08.2024
Project 2025 Creator Has a Devious Plan for If Trump Wins
https://newrepublic.com/post/184563/trump-project-2025-leader-administration-white-house
Trump has already told his followers, that 1) voting doesn’t matter, 2) if Christians vote for him, they may never have to vote again, and 3) he would be a dictator. Donald, known for lying to purport the reality he prefers, has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, even though a number of its creators were either members of his cabinet or among his main funders. Now, there are reports that the primary creator of Project 2025, Russell Vought, will be a high-ranking staff member in Trump’s White House, some even say, Chief of Staff. There is no doubt these people are fascists, they cannot be allowed access to the keys of democracy. The only way to stop them is to vote them out resoundingly and begin the long-term legal process of dismantling their influence in the US government, the courts, the House, key posts abroad, and voting precincts all over the country. Please turn out to vote so that your children and children’s children have that option available to them in the future.
05.08.2024
Trump Brags About MAGA Takeover of Georgia Election Board
Increasingly, pundits are beginning to risk saying that Trump is going to lose the election, the GOP knows this, and some say that even Trump is beginning to realize this. This means two things: 1) Trump, Vance, and the GOP machine will get weirder. 2) Trump, his backers, the Supreme Court, and the GOP will try to turn democracy against itself. Regarding Item 1, Trump—who resorts to name-calling when he has no substance to debate—is focusing on the favorite themes of his followers, race-baiting and immigration fear-mongering. Expect this to get worse as the Harris campaign goes through the normal polling bumps that will result from naming a VP, the DNC, and whatever debates occur after Donny pulled out of the last agreed-upon one. Regarding Item 2, the US Constitution was written to protect minorities against unyielding majorities. The GOP will continue to exploit this through further manipulations of the court system, the do-nothing Republican House, undermining voting rights, and shows of force in local elections. (For a primer in this, look at the recent fixed election of Putin-Supported Madura in Venezuela) Expect more threats of violence and calls to violence as the election closes in and the polls reveal a Trump loss. The singular protection that the United States has will be a resounding defeat of Trump and the GOP on election days. A moderate defeat will not do, remember that Republicans have not won a popular vote since George W. Bush in 2004, but have still stolen the elections through the manipulation of the electoral college. The upcoming election can be no “slim defeat.” It must be a mandate. An overwhelming defeat of racism and threats of political violence all the way up and down the ballot. Only by turning out every vote possible, will llPutin, Trump, and his closet-racists/misogynists, learn that their vitriol, threats, and actual violence are not acceptable in the US.
04.08.2024
The Broligarchs Are Trying to Have Their Way
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/tech-bro-male-billionaire-anti-democratic/679267/
It is important that we know what a “Broligarch” is and just who fits into that multimillionaire or billionaire category. In order to understand the attack on the poor and the middle class, we need to follow the dollar. Who benefits from poverty? Who benefits from war? Who benefits from authoritarianism? Who benefits from child labor, racism, and a permanent underclass of workers (mudsilling)? This article gives us the names as well as the beliefs behind the very small, very powerful, group of people funding the dismantling of democracy in the United States and around the world. Citing a favorite book of the Noblesse Oblige, the author points out that many of these super-rich “bros” see themselves as reincarnations of the pharaohs. They trade in politicians and justices like commodities at a Saturday Market, then use them to pass laws that will concretize their wealth and power. Take a look behind their “Wizard of Oz” veil and see them for the super-manipulators they are. There is a way to defeat them, make sure they don’t have another administration like Trump and the GOP who kowtow to their every whim and pass laws that impoverish the majority of people to serve as their serfs (economic foot soldiers). The upcoming election is not just about democracy in the United States, it is also about preventing this “Broligarchy” from permanently establishing their power.
03.08.2024
The real reason Team Trump keeps trying to call Kamala Harris a ‘DEI hire’
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/team-trump-calls-kamala-harris-dei-hire-rcna164117
What is behind the GOP’s DEI attacks on Kamala Harris? In a commentary for MSNBC, Natalie S. Burke, the president and CEO of CommonHealth ACTION, tells us, “These false racist and sexist attacks seek to reinforce beliefs that the best, and potentially only, people qualified to lead America are white men.” Convicted felon and sexual predator, Donald Trump, is a racist and those who support him are supporting his racism as well as his misogyny. Something dark and malevolent is being affirmed when people choose to support such a blatantly weird, angry, racist, man. It says something about the supporters need for control—and therefore their repressed fear. It is not historically unusual for religious people to want to control others that don’t share their beliefs. It is certainly not new to the Republican playbook to exploit immigrants and people who are diverse. The thinking that “those who don’t look like us, don’t think like us,” works as well in fear-based politics as it does on the playground. Such beliefs belong to a two-year-old brain, locked in a “mine, Mine, MINE,” mentality. Attacking someone’s racial diversity is a cheap shot. It is what happens when you have no substance to debate. Trump—and his followers—have run out of substance (did they ever really have any)? So they are forced to attack the fact that Kamala is biracial and female. They don’t want to be reminded she was a Prosecuting Attorney, the Attorney General of California, and a Senator for California from 2017-2021, before becoming President Biden’s pick for Vice-President. In short, Trump and the GOP are bereft. They continue to be a rudderless boat, tied only to Trump’s desire for more power and revenge. Recent reports that Trump received $10 million illegally from the Government of Egypt are further examples of his willingness to sell the presidency to the highest bidder. Supporting Donald Trump is not a substance-based decision, it is a control-based decision.
02.08.2024
Trump Is Running Scared
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/trump-polls-kamala-harris-vance/679333/
Felon and Sexual Predator, Donald Trump, is falling apart and it “Ain’t Pretty.” Trump, difficult to comprehend in his most lucid moments, has run out of terms to vilify his opponent so he is resorting to an old page in his verbal abuse book, demeaning her heritage. Trump used this on Obama with his birther lies, it bought him a few points then and undermined Obama’s credibility among Trump’s cult followers. Omarosa, a former Trump staffer, tells us that this ploy is close to Trump’s own heritage as his German grandfather, Frederich, used to say he was “Swedish,” so he could rent more low-cost housing units to Jewish survivors of WWII. If it is part of the Democratic strategy to “let Donald speak…” it’s working. The more Donald talks, the more he reveals how mentally unstable (weird), he truly is. Congratulations to the NABJ for having the courage to invite Trump onto their platform and ask him the hard questions Trump normally avoids.
01.08.2024
In forthcoming book, Heritage president rails against birth control, IVF, abortion, childlessness, and dog parks
A quick read of this review of Kevin Robert’s (President of Heritage Foundation) new book, forwarded by J.D. Vance, will give you an insight into just how this group wants to “Make America Gilead Again.” In case you were wondering, Gilead is the fantasy nation in Margaret Atwood’s book, “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Robert’s explains how Trump’s Project 2025 plan for America includes monitoring women’s menstrual cycles, travel, and overseeing birth control. In one section, Robert’s decries birth control because, “it makes having a child look optional…” This book, Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington To Save America, lays the Heritage Foundation’s warped, misogynistic, white, Christian Nationalist agenda out in the open. It is Mein Kampf for english-speaking GOP cult followers.
This Week’s Links
06.08.2024
Project 2025 Creator Has a Devious Plan for If Trump Wins
https://newrepublic.com/post/184563/trump-project-2025-leader-administration-white-house
A Field Guide to the Flags of the Far Right
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/09/us-far-right-trump-flags/679154/
Why Joe Biden Passing the Torch to Kamala Harris Matters for Women in the Workplace
Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, But Something Else Does, Study Says
https://www.sciencealert.com/venting-doesnt-reduce-anger-but-something-else-does-study-says
05.08.2024
Trump Brags About MAGA Takeover of Georgia Election Board
The Real Reason Why Trump Praises Putin’s Prisoner Swap
https://whowhatwhy.org/international/the-real-reason-why-trump-praises-putins-prisoner-swap/
We spoke to 5 people who knew Kamala Harris before she was VP. Here's what we learned
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/05/nx-s1-5052893/kamala-harris-election-2024
04.08.2024
The Broligarchs Are Trying to Have Their Way
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/tech-bro-male-billionaire-anti-democratic/679267/
Jimmy Carter, 99, is holding out to vote for Kamala Harris, his grandson says
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/jimmy-carter-vote-kamala-harris-rcna165019
Scholars on the 'divide and conquer' strategy behind Trump's false claim that Harris ‘turned Black’
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/03/g-s1-15174/harris-mixed-race-trump-black-indian
Trump says he's agreed to Fox debate while Harris sticks with ABC plan
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-kamala-harris-debate-fox-news-abc-news/
03.08.2024
The real reason Team Trump keeps trying to call Kamala Harris a ‘DEI hire’
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/team-trump-calls-kamala-harris-dei-hire-rcna164117
The 2024 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet
Biden has a good idea for fixing the Supreme Court. This is an even better one.
Why it's time for a vice president who happens to be gay (and maybe because of it)
https://www.advocate.com/voices/pete-buttigieg-vp
02.08.2024
Trump Is Running Scared
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/trump-polls-kamala-harris-vance/679333/
Omarosa Exposes How Trump Pathetically Lied About His Ethnicity
https://newrepublic.com/post/184474/ex-aide-omarosa-hypocrite-trump-lied-ethnicity-kamala
White man tells Black journalists his Black opponent is not Black - LGBTQ Nation
01.08.2024
In forthcoming book, Heritage president rails against birth control, IVF, abortion, childlessness, and dog parks
Project 2025’s Impact on Education, Books, & Reading
https://bookriot.com/today-in-books-july-31-2024/
Donald Trump Questions Whether Kamala Harris Is Really Black
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-nabj-kamala-harris/679313/
Trump Goes on Truly Deranged Rant About “Black Jobs” as Crowd Boos Him
https://newrepublic.com/post/184445/trump-black-jobs-nabj-crowd-boos
Speaking to Black journalists, Trump reminded everyone how racist he can be
'The American People Deserve Better': Harris Responds to Trump's Racist Rant
Chuck Schumer rolls out 'No Kings Act' to eliminate presidential immunity
Trump proposed bombing Mexico and it somehow wasn’t a big story
https://www.vox.com/policy/363146/trump-policy-war-mexico-trade-deportation-border
The Mexican women aiding migrants on their perilous journey to the US
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c720vye08y9o
Opinion: Some jobs should never be done by kids. Project 2025 sees things differently
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/31/opinions/project-2025-child-labor-goodman
The Real Reason People Aren’t Having Kids
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/08/fertility-crisis/679319/