Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 4, Week 20 (270 total reports)
18.06.2025-24.06.2025
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. Jerry Goebel
President 47 needed to distract the American public from his policy failures and solidify support for his OBBB. He autonomously decided that initiating a war would be his best bet at doing that.
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When controlling men with adolescent maturity have access to the world’s most powerful weapons, you can bet the question most asked is, “Does This Make Me Look Strong?”
Top Links of the Week
24.06.2025
The True Impact of Trump’s Strike on Iran
As “Senator Hiram Johnson once stated, “The first casualty when war comes is truth.” Truth has never been a strong point for this Administration. In fact, you can just about guarantee that this President will lie daily. The Washington Post says that he lies, on average, fifty times per day. This is part of the reason it is so hard to ascertain exactly what the situation in the Middle East looks like. It certainly doesn’t help that the other major players—Netanyahu and Khomeini—also have propensities to seek out “alternative facts” (so named by Kellyanne Conway). All of these power players decide upon their own truth and then seek out information that will support their opinions. The relative “death of information” (as this article calls it) is directly related to the solo initiation of this action. President 47 wanted a “Black and White” war. Something that would tickle his fancy for power and distract people from his domestic failures (especially his breakup with Elon, his pitiful parade, his invasion of California, and his plummeting poll numbers). What 47 wanted was a distraction, not a war. At this point, we have no ability through the U.S. government to determine whether that is the case or not. If we seek truth, we will have to seek it elsewhere.
23.06.2025
Attacking Iran Without Congress’s Blessing Leaves Citizens With No Recourse
A radical religious fanatic has taken over this country, and no… I’m not talking about Speaker Mike Johnson, I’m speaking about Ali Khamenei, the religious leader trying to take Iran back to the 15th century (what he perceives as the time when Iran was great). Some say that Iran’s nuclear threat needed to be dismantled. Obama had a treaty to do just that, before President 45 broke it. The nuclear consequences we face anew with Iran in that region now, are directly attributable to largely solo actions he took then. This “The Atlantic” article points out that 47’s action is unconstitutional and unethical. No single person has the right to commit the U.S. to a potential long-term war without some involvement by its citizens. Yet, that is exactly what this President did; in his continuing attempts to undermine the U.S. Constitution and create a dictatorship. This article analyzes the trip that a former Republican president, George W. Bush, took us on when Iraq was accused of having nuclear warheads. The difference being, Bush sought congressional approval and the result was that many politicians paid a political price for the quagmire that resulted from the Middle Eastern war with Iraq and Iran. Now, with no input, this writer argues, citizens have no recourse. This is all Trump’s war, plain and simple. If it escalates, it’s all on him. If the global economy plummets because oil is prevented from flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, it is all on him. It is all on him, because… the decision was all by him.
20.06.2025
The story behind the arrest of 87-year-old veteran John Spitzberg at the Capitol
This is a true sign of how weak this administration is, arresting an 87-year-old veteran and throwing away his walker while zip-tying him in the process. Every US citizen should watch this incident and then try to justify the direction that Project 2025 is going. There is no excuse for this unconscionable behavior.
19.06.2025
June 18, 2025 (Wednesday)
This is another stellar commentary from Heather Cox Richardson, this time, a brief history of Juneteenth. Juneteenth has been an important holiday—and now all the more important as Project 2025 tries to wipe out the role of minorities in U.S. history. Minorities, and their vital role in the world (and in this case, particularly in the U.S.), frighten conservatives. Their existence and contributions threaten their goal of a substratum of labor in a mudsill economy. In particular, they feel White males have been undervalued and want a pity parade (much like President TACO’s catastrophe in front of the White House last week). Resist their efforts, have a fantastic Juneteenth, and… tell the story.
18.06.2025
June 17, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson, in her commentary yesterday, reviewed the events of the G7 and essentially wants us to know that organized crime has a new face in the U.S., and it is the current president. She examines both his language and his actions, preceding and during the event, and her takeaway is frighteningly valid. As with the first Trump administration, the Grifter-in-Charge has been released in this term. He has no guardrails, the Republican Congress is complicit in his behavior, and the White House simply ignores the Judicial—even the Supreme Court. This is mob boss behavior, pure and simple, just with all the tools of the United States Government to support it.
