Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 4, Week 15 (265 total reports)
14.05.20245-20.05.2025
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. Jerry Goebel
Our lead stories this week are about President 47’s grifting and the Republican Congress’ malfeasance.
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Who profits from poverty? From scarcity? From guns and wars? From chaos? If we “Follow the Money,” it will lead us to who is pulling this President’s strings.
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20.05.2025
Credit rating downgrade triggers warning signs for U.S. economy
This President and the Republican Congress have done what Republican Administrations typically do: create a budget that gives tax breaks to big companies and billionaires, while stripping people of Medicaid, Medicare, and attacking Social Security. In short, robbing the poor and middle income to feed the greedy. The Income Divide avalanche that Reaganomics started is but an inkling of what this administration and this irresponsible Republican Congress call, One Big, Beautiful Bill. Why? Because those are the simple words this President can grasp. And, of course, it is One Big Beautiful Bill if you are among the Nation’s 0.001% or higher. This would be an incredible coup for the President. The people who purchased this presidency will benefit “Biggly.”
19.05.2025
Trump, lawmakers wish Biden well after cancer diagnoses
Joe Biden has lived a life of public service, culminating in the presidency. Along the way, he has known deep sorrow and multiple personal setbacks. Those setbacks and that grief had a lot to do with molding him into the man of service he became. On Friday, his representatives announced he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. People around the world are wishing him well. This morning, that is all I want to do in this column. To the president and his family, we send our best wishes. You will be remembered forever for your service.
18.05.2025
Trump the Grifter
This article looks at the history of the Constitutional Provisions limiting corruption and how important those limits were to the founders of this fundamental US document. The author states, “The drafters made anti-corruption provisions a cornerstone of the new Constitution. Indeed, if the frequency of their attention to a particular issue is a measure of how significant their concern was, then few issues were as alarming to them as corruption, which the original Constitution explicitly addresses in four separate instances—plus a fifth that was later added.” The author, Paul Rosenzweig, is not new to government investigations. He is a principal at Red Branch Consulting. From 2005 to 2009, he was the deputy assistant secretary for policy of the Department of Homeland Security. He teaches cybersecurity at the George Washington University Law School. He previously served as a senior counsel in the investigation of President Bill Clinton. While the US Economy is floundering (see the Moody article from 15.05), this President is accepting gifts from foreign governments and granting favors in return that Congress has both turned a blind eye to or affirmed in the most outlandish of excuses (the $400 million dollar plane from Qatar is no different than Grover Cleveland accepting the Statue of Liberty from France—see the article from 16.05).
17.05.2025
Moody's cuts U.S. credit rating on growing debt burden
If you want to know exactly how negligent this administration and Congress have been in representing the United States, look at this rating from Moody. Between President 47, the Senate, and the House, this administration has acted like a parent refusing to pay court-ordered child support. The primary purpose of the House is to craft a budget that will assure the growth and security of the United States; rather than do this, they have chosen to continue their role as minions of this President and the various interests that own him. The budget they put forward, according to Moody, lowers the creditworthiness of the United States and makes it a greater risk for financial insolvency. When you think of all the businesses this President has bankrupted, why wouldn’t this country be next? We need to get rid of this Congress in November 2026 and this President—whenever they allow us to vote again.
16.05.2025
The Darker Design Behind Trump’s $400 Million Plane
$400 million, $400,000,000, that’s the cost of President 47’s new toy and “gift” from Qatar. Anne Coulter (on X) compared it to Grover Cleveland receiving the gift of “The Statue of Liberty” from France, and 47 reposted that comparison on his own social media network, Truth Social. What they both fail to mention (as this article’s author, Yair Rosenberg), points out: “The receipt of the Statue of Liberty was approved by Congress, and Cleveland did not subsequently ride around the world in it along with the country’s leadership.” Qatar has made huge financial investments in this administration, giving millions to members of the President’s cabinet like Pam Bondi and Kash Patel (Bondi approved the gift from Qatar to 47—how convenient…). What is most apparent is that this Administration under this president has taken graft and greed to a whole new echelon. We can stop this… first we must identify and confront it. Thankfully, there are articles like this one today that look at the history of Qatar’s presence in global affairs (such as buying the FIFA World Soccer championships) and US politics (both Democrats and Republicans). Qatar is flush with money and using it as a weapon in its war against democracy. But this President is one of their paramount players; bought and sold. The list of those who own this president is revealed in more depth daily.
15.05.2025
Produce the Body: Why Habeas Corpus Is the Mother of All Our Rights
Claire Belinski, of Who, What, Why—a non-profit, reader-supported news organization—does an outstanding job in this article of reminding us why Habeas Corpus came into being in 1626 against King Charles I, and why the intentionally offensive little minion, Stephen Miller, is so disgusting in even hinting that it is a “privilege” which President 47 and this administration may decide to discontinue. Belinski goes on to say, “I doubt they’ll really try to suspend habeas corpus — formally, anyway. They’ll just keep ignoring the Constitution and the courts while insisting they’re obeying both.” If you’re tired of the constant attempt to shock us, find a way to resist. Make your voice heard. Democracy is under global threat from this administration, and we must not diminish the threat it is facing.
14.05.2025
The End of Rule of Law in America
This in-depth article by J. Michael Luttig, a former federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, is a primer on the laws broken by this President. It is important to remember that Luttig, a conservative judge, was appointed by President George H.W. Bush. The modus operandi of this President is obvious: break the law and wait for the courts to catch up. He deviously knows this will take years and that—with the support of a spineless GOP Congress—he can get away with a number of indecencies during that period of time. Luttig reminds us of how “contra-constitutional” this President is by pointing to a recent interview where a television journalist asked Trump the simple question, “Don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as President?” Astonishingly, the President answered, “I don’t know.” The interviewer then asked, “Don’t you agree that every person in the United States is entitled to due process?” The President again replied, “I don’t know.” This is the President who said, within his first 100 days, that, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” Luttig’s point is that the US Democracy cannot be restored until President 47 is no longer on the political scene. Only you and I can make that happen by resisting at every bend and using all of our talents to defend the Constitution of the United States of America against this President and the GOP Congress that supports him.
