Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 5, Week 01 (303 total reports)
31.03.2026-05.04.2026
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. Jerry Goebel
This president verified his insanity this week, and Congress must use the 25th Amendment to impeach both him and his cabinet; otherwise, they are complicit in whatever actions he takes.
Visual Stories!
This melodic rap song focuses on those who supported putting MAGA in control of the U.S. The world has lost trust in this country. You are complicit whether you actually voted for him or stayed home and let others do your dirty work. This song says, “This is Your Guy.” https://youtu.be/KIWkHMVHc8I?si=9EpKLoSTKKLp-b-1
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05.04.2026
Congress Can End Trump’s Unconstitutional War in Iran
I’m pulling an article this morning from a conservative source because I want to show how widespread the alarm over the President’s sanity has become. This article examines the constitutional reasons that James Madison and the other writers of the Constitution decided to separate the powers of the congressional purse from the powers of a wartime president. Congress can—and must—stop this president from carrying out his illegal actions in Iran. Even threatening to bomb civilian targets can be considered a “war crime,” and that is exactly what this president and his “Secretary of War” are doing. There can only be a few reasons why so many respected military leaders are being fired or deciding to quit; they are being asked to make their troops do something illegal. Whether this is bombing civilian targets with tactical nuclear weapons or starting a ground war without congressional approval, the reasons are dire, and this president must be stopped. More than stopped, his powers must be taken away from him, and his cabinet dissolved. His propensity for violence and retribution will not go away just because his actions are curtailed in Iran. He has already shown that he is willing to continue his wars against other targets—both internally and externally. Replacing Pam Bondi with Todd Blanche is merely painting over the deeper issues at the Department of Justice (will they rename that to the “Department of Presidential Retribution”?) Blanche will simply continue doing the bidding of the Madman-in-the-White-House. Bondi was let go because she wasn’t corrupt enough—and she will be remembered as a model of corruption. Stopping the war in Iran isn’t enough. It’s just the immediate issue. It needs to be done, but it’s only treating a symptom, not the cause. The cause is T.R.U.M.P. He must be removed, and his sycophants with him. Unless Congress acts, they are complicit. They are as much responsible for this president’s actions as the madman himself.
04.04.2026
The War in Iran Is a Failure of Intelligence
It is reported that many of the MAGA far right are increasingly open to using the 25th Amendment after this week’s Easter tirade by the president. Nothing else is working in Iran, so T.R.U.M.P. decided an expletive-laced post on his Truth Social was the best method for getting the Iranian leaders to surrender and open the Strait of Hormuz. The result is that it undermines the credence of articles like this that look at the lack of rational intelligence within the walls of the White House at this time. This article compares the intelligence provided to George Bush in the Iraq War compared to the intelligence provided to this administration. The point of the author, Shane Harris, is that Bush 43 had horrible intelligence leading him to war, while this president had excellent intelligence that he ignored. I see that as less a failure of intelligence, than an example of stupidity, perhaps (given Sunday’s post) an example of insanity.
03.04.2026
Trump Is the Most Dangerous Man in the World | Common Dreams
Reading foreign journalism is very important. It gives us a broader perspective of how the world views the United States and often without the bias of the increasingly small panoply of billionaires that own the media in the U.S. This article, written by two foreign experts, C. J. Polychroniou (a political economist/political scientist), is interviewed by Alexandra Boutri, reminds us of how dimly others see—not only this president—but those who elected him. In one paragraph, discussing Trump’s free-ranging, emperor-like tendencies, Polychroniou reminds us, “What else can one expect from people who believe that explosive conflict in the Middle East will trigger Christ’s return and see Trump as the man God has chosen to defeat the satanic forces in the United States and Christianize it?” The world outside the U.S. sees it as a country that swings on a whim, and that—if elections are allowed—the country might vote liberally again in 2028 for a president whose viewpoints and intellect are similar to Barack Obama, only to be followed by a newer version of T.R.U.M.P. and a renewed, angrier Project 2025. After what this administration—and those who supported it—have done to the global reputation of the U.S., it may never again be able to gain the trust of the foreign nations it needs to thrive.
02.04.2026
Five takeaways from President Trump’s address on Iran
If it was the president’s goal to reassure the U.S. public and stock markets that the war in Iran was going well, then this journalist and others think he should’ve not said anything. The top takeaways that most are pulling from this speech are that this administration has nothing new to say and no new insights to offer as to why Iran was invaded and what the end goals are. If anything, the president looked tired and old (probably because he is both). This commentator, Neall Stanage, from “The Hill,” said that the speech was notable for its lack of relevance. T.R.U.M.P. let us know that the precipitous rise in gas prices is “Iran’s fault.” That if Iran doesn’t do what he wants (whatever that is), he is going to “hit them very hard,” and, “Bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong.” Once again, if this speech was meant to answer questions or ease concerns about this invasion, it backfired. Stock market prices dropped sharply after the speech, declining—according to Stanage—by 1 percent and Brent Crude oil jumped another $6 per barrel.
01.04.2026
Lions Led by Donkeys
This evening, Donald T.R.U.M.P. is holding a press conference at which he will likely announce that 1) he will tell us he is going to decimate Iran for not doing what he wants or 2) the U.S. has accomplished its objectives and declare victory in Operation Midnight Hammer (for those of you unfamiliar with this administration’s Orwellian double-speak, this is the non-war, war that was declared arbitrarily on the country of Iran by Netanyahu and T.R.U.M.P.). We won’t know which objectives were accomplished (or need to be accomplished) because they change on almost an hourly basis and depending upon whom is standing in front of the mic at any given time. The truth is, this president is getting bored of this adventure and has been watching his ratings take a shellacking at the polls. This The Atlantic article, by Eliot A. Cohen, examines how no leadership in U.S. history has been more poorly prepared to lead the military forces of the country. It has been a complete waste of lives and other resources. MAGA cult followers and Republicans, this is on you, this is your guy, and your guy is bored with Iran because he has too many battles back on U.S. soil to fight and he still wants to invade Cuba. T.R.U.M.P. is at war, not just with foreign governments, but domestic powers as well. He is at war within his own cabinet, with MAGA, with the Supreme Court, with voters, with the media, with higher education, with lines at airports, a crashing economy and stock market, and with the price of well, almost everything in the U.S. economy… he also has to make sure the Epstein files aren’t closer to being revealed and continue with his retribution campaign (now expanded to judges that don’t rule in his favor) to make matters worse, all of this is cutting into his golf time, his new ballroom, his Nobel Peace Prize, and parties at Mar-a-Lago.
