ATTENTION U.S. MILITARY: Active Duty, Reservists, National Guard, Veterans, & Constitutional Loyalists

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U.S. $tax $paying voters that are or were in U.S. military service take an oath of fidelity to the United States Constitution *.

§502​

(a) Enlistment Oath.—Each person enlisting in an armed force shall take the following oath:

“I, ____________________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”

10 U.S.C.
United States Code, 2011 Edition
Title 10 - ARMED FORCES
Subtitle A - General Military Law
PART II - PERSONNEL / CHAPTER 31 - ENLISTMENTS
From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg...11-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap31-sec502.htm
https:/ /www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title10/html/USCODE-2011-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap31-sec502.htm

Obligations of citizenship include:
- Obeying the laws of the land.
- Payment of taxes.
- Jury Duty.
- Vote.

There's still time to consider best voting options, not voting not among them. Election day's not until November.
But there is abundant evidence Republican presidential candidate Trump, a convicted felon, is according to our Constitution's 14th Amendment ineligible to serve an additional term as U.S. president.

UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION ARTICLE #14 SECTION #3: Ratified July 9, 1868
"No person shall ... hold any office, civil or military, under the United States ... who, having previously taken an oath ... as an officer of the United States ...
to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

[Trump] "summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing. ... There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution."
Rep. Liz Cheney Republican Conference Chair 21/01/12, authenticated by Cheney 21/02/07 FNS

Thus those sworn to uphold the Constitution would perjure their oath to vote for Trump.
Such perjury would not only be an affront to the People, to our laws, and to each oath-taker, it's even a betrayal of god. "So help me God.” 10 U.S.C. / United States Code, 2011 Edition

Is voting for a traitor, a criminal so high a priority, lying to god, and undermining your own sworn integrity worth the cost?

* As did President Trump:
ARTICLE 2. SECTION 1. 7
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm)that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

 

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"I spent 90 years on planet Earth. In my lifetime I've seen progress and disturbing changes. We humans are harming the natural world. And so my birthday wish is simple.

Please vote.

Choose leaders committed to protecting our natural world. My fear is that candidates who don't care about our future could win.
Together we can make a difference." primatologist Jane Goodall

"Vote", but not for Trump. Why not Trump?

Donald Trump’s promise to “drill, baby, drill” probably won’t change much — least of all in Texas

Texas is producing so much natural gas right now companies are losing money.

www.texastribune.org

Jane Goodall​

English primatologist and anthropologist (born 1934)

Dame Jane Morris Goodall (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist. She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years' studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. Goodall first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to observe its chimpanzees in 1960.
She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. As of 2022, she is on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project. In April 2002, she was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Goodall is an honorary member of the World Future Council.
More from Wikipedia / Wikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license

 

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"Ukraine is gone. It's not Ukraine anymore. ...
Any deal, even the worst deal would have been better than what we have right now." candidate Donald Trump 24/09/25

"These [Trump's] proposals are the same as those of Putin.
And let us be clear. They are not proposals for peace.
Instead, they are proposals for surrender." VP Kamala Harris 24/09/26



Trump claims he will bring peace to Russia's War in Ukraine. But Trump's "peace" plan is precisely as VP Harris describes: "surrender".
To surrender Ukraine to Russia would richly reward Russian military aggression, vastly increasing the likelihood of the U.S.
fulfilling its treaty obligations as a key member of NATO, defending the next domino to fall.

A 2nd Trump administration would threaten Cold War II or worse, against a Russian madman that's already threatened first use of nuclear weapons.

 

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"We're seeing what I think is a very, very broad Harris coalition.
I mean a coalition that includes like Dick Cheney and AOC is a big coalition.
Most Americans see themselves somewhere between AOC and Dick Cheney.
And if you're between AOC and Dick Cheney on the number line you're in the Harris coalition.
And if you like J.D. Vance you're in the Trump coalition." Rachel Maddow PhD 24/09/18

 

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If you're a $fiscal $conservative, don't even think of voting for Trump.

Trump to propose making interest on car loans tax deductible​

By Nora Eckert and David Shepardson / October 10, 2024 12:48 PM GMT-5
DETROIT/WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday will propose making all interest on car loans fully tax-deductible and taking steps to prevent Chinese automakers from selling vehicles in the United States, according to excerpts of a speech seen by Reuters ahead of remarks in Detroit.
Trump will say at the Detroit Economic Club he plans to impose new tariffs to prevent Chinese automakers from building cars in Mexico and exporting them to the United States, part of an effort to appeal to autoworkers in the battleground state of Michigan.

Trump to propose making interest on car loans tax deductible

The deeply offensive part of this for conservatives is, we are all for cutting taxes, rah rah ! BUT !!

Cut spending farther FIRST ! $Balance the $Budget !! The U.S. spends over one third of the solar system's military budget. And the U.S. spends more on interest on its own debt than it does on military.
The MAGAs thrive on criticizing Biden.

Trump added twice as much to the national debt as Biden: Analysis by Tobias Burns - 06/24/24 11:12 AM ET​

Trump voters evidently either don't understand, or don't care: Government cannot give citizens anything it has not first taken from them. And when government spending is already in deficit, further tax cuts merely increase deficit and debt, now at $35 $Trillion.

"...everyone's for big government. The American People say we hate big government, but we like our social security and medicare. That's 38% of government right there. The biggest components of government are the most popular components of government."
"What's pernicious about deficits for conservatives is this. It makes big government cheap. What we're doing, we're turning to the country, the"conservative" administration turns to the country and says: We're going to give you a dollar's worth of government,
we're going to charge you seventy five cents for it. And we're going to let your kids pay the other quarter." George Will Nov 30, 2003

 

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The Harris campaign broadcast the following 60 second campaign ad.

RACE
FOR THE
WHITE HOUSE
NBC Brian Williams: "One hundred Republicans who worked in national security for Presidents Reagan, both Bush's, and for President Trump now endorsing Harris for president."
General Stanley McChrystal (Ret): "She came up as a prosecutor, an attorney general, into the senate. She has the kind of character that's going to be necessary in the presidency."
Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney: "Vice President Harris is standing in the breach at a critical moment in our nation's history. We have a shared commitment as Americans to do what's right for this country. This year I am proudly casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris."
Former generals, secretaries of defense, secretaries of the army, navy, and air force, CIA directors, and national security council leaders under Democratic and Republican presidents, Republican members of congress, and even former Trump administration officials agree. There's only one candidate fit to lead our nation, and that's Kamala Harris.
Vice President Kamala Harris: "I'm Kamala Harris and I approve this message."


"The use of U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) visual information does not imply or constitute endorsement of the U.S. military, any military personnel or the Department of Defense."

 

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NBC Brian Williams: #6

Clarification: announcement from years ago, 2021

Longtime anchor Brian Williams leaving NBC after 28 years
NBC News › news › us-news › longtime-anchor-brian-williams...


Nov 10, 2021 ... MSNBC host and former “NBC Nightly News” anchor and managing editor Brian Williams is leaving NBC at the end of the year to “spend time with ...

Search news with the NBC News archive - NBC News

Go to NBCNews.com for breaking news, videos, and the latest top stories in world news, business, politics, health and pop culture.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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If you have a commission, or had one, vote for Harris / Walz .
Harris / Walz are in a very close race against a candidate ineligible to serve.
See United States Constitution: Amendment #14

United States Constitution: ARTICLE#14: Ratified July 9, 1868
SECTION3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.



Vote Harris / Walz. It is your sworn duty.

 

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There are extremists on both sides of the anthropogenic climate change issue, deniers and conservatives alike.
But many of the dire, ostensibly alarmist warnings, predictions made years or decades ago, have been surpassed.

Presidential candidate Trump has expressed intention to "drill baby drill", and undo some / many environmental protections currently in place.

On Sept. 13, 2019, the Trump administration announced plans to open the environmentally sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas exploration, picking what the Washington Post called “the most aggressive development option for an area long closed to drilling.”
A few days later, Trump announced on Twitter that the administration was revoking a federal waiver that allows California to set stricter emissions standards for cars than the national standard, which NPR called part of “a broader effort by the White House to roll back efforts to combat climate change.”
Both moves reflected the Trump administration’s dismissive attitude toward climate change and its impacts on human health and the environment. Both were denounced by environmental advocates as irresponsible actions that would worsen the effects of climate change.
https://www.peoplefor.org/trumptastrophe-drill-baby-drill

Perhaps seemingly ironically, some Republicans that would otherwise support Trump's candidacy oppose Trump on this issue. Why?
Because such Republicans opposed to Trump on this issue recognize the benefit of Harris / Walz environmental policy, including benefits to business, the economy.

If daily living for the average U.S. citizen were dystopian agony, mind-clouding starvation, desperate chronic supply shortages, rampant violent crime, etc.
we might in such chronic catastrophe understand an intensifying desire to sacrifice the prosperity of future generations for a little relief.

The reality is hardly that.
The Harris / Walz agenda appears to offer continuing the prosperity that has attended recent Democrat presidential administrations.

Slashing taxes on $Billionaires to skyrocket the U.S. federal $Debt may seem worthwhile,
to $Billionaires.
Are you a $Billionaire?

"Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush 41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. Obama halved it to $600 billion. Trump’s got it back to a trillion."
https://www.politifact.com/factchec...ican-presidents-democrats-contribute-deficit/

• President Trump approved $8.4 trillion of new ten-year borrowing during his full term in office, or $4.8 trillion excluding the CARES Act and other COVID relief.
• President Biden, in his first three years and five months in office, approved $4.3 trillion of new ten-year borrowing, or $2.2 trillion excluding the American Rescue Plan.
• President Trump approved $8.8 trillion of gross new borrowing and $443 billion of deficit reduction during his full presidential term.
• President Biden has so far approved $6.2 trillion of gross new borrowing and $1.9 trillion of deficit reduction.

https://www.crfb.org/papers/trump-and-biden-national-debt

Some may naïvely believe if U.S. federal policy on global warming is wrong, it can be reversed. Problem:
The policy can indeed be reversed. BUT !!
The affects of such detrimental policy may be vastly more persistent, potentially irreversible.

Environmental scientific realities aside, modernizing the power grid, upgrading to phase out fossil fuels is good for the economy. Republican governors have expressed opposition to Trump's environmental troglodytism for this Republican fundamental economic reason. Harris / Walz modernization is good for the economy.

Thus voting against Trump this November is not only a defense of the United States Constitution.
It's also support for the prosperity of our posterity. Vote Harris / Walz this November !

also see:

Trumptastrophe: "Drill, Baby, Drill!"

www.peoplefor.org

 

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Economy | US Election 2024

Trump US rallies leave behind unpaid dues, again and again​

Donald Trump owes US cities for costs associated with putting on a rally including security expenses and police overtime.
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's failure to meet payment deadlines stands out as part of a long-term pattern

By Andy Hirschfeld / Published On 21 Oct 202421 Oct 2024
In the United States, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump faces a growing pile of missed payments for rallies and legal bills during his current bid for the presidency, previous campaigns, and in the private sector.
This comes only weeks before the 2024 general election, where he is set to face off against Democratic presidential candidate and US Vice President Kamala Harris, who holds a tight lead in several key polls. A Marist poll out on Wednesday shows her leading the former US president by five points, four points from a Morning Consult poll and four points from an Economist/YouGov poll.

Harris just surpassed $1bn in fundraising and has, in the past three months, raised nearly twice as much as the Trump campaign. The Trump team is experiencing a decline in small-dollar donors, ...

Unpaid costs at rallies​

Trump owes cities across the country for costs associated with staging a rally, including security costs, public safety expenses, allocation of resources and, in some cases, facility rentals.
One of the bills he owes is to the City of Prescott Valley in Arizona. City officials told Al Jazeera that Trump’s campaign has not paid the full costs of his local rally in 2022. The city said it is still owed $25,737.32.
A city spokesperson told Al Jazeera that they had asked the campaign to pay up front for the most recent rally held earlier this month.

This is far from the only outstanding bill the Republican nominee owes in this swing state of Arizona. The city of Mesa invoiced the campaign for an October 2018 rally. Its attorney followed up a few months later, in December, for payment of $64,477.56, but with no success.
“We believe the Trump 2020 campaign should reimburse our city for those taxpayer dollars, and we have invoiced the campaign accordingly,” a spokesperson for the City of Mesa told Al Jazeera.

“Once we learned about the nighttime event at Gateway Airport [in 2018], we took it upon ourselves to implement every measure necessary to secure the area surrounding the airport to keep everyone safe. That included setting up temporary parking infrastructure for over 12,000 people, setting up barricades, setting up temporary lighting and hiring a towing company. The invoice we sent the campaign reflects that,” the spokesperson told Al Jazeera.
The city says the campaign is not legally obligated to pay this invoice.
Mesa’s Mayor John Giles, a Republican, is among several GOP members who have crossed party lines this election cycle to endorse Democratic nominee Harris, including Wyoming’s former US Congresswoman Liz Cheney.


The city of El Paso, Texas, says the Trump campaign still owes it $569,204.63 for a 2019 rally, much of which is supposed to go to the city’s police department, according to invoices obtained by Al Jazeera. In 2020, the city hired a law firm to send notice of these back payments, but their efforts to pressure the campaign have yet to be successful.
“The city continues to seek the payment of these past due expenses, so city taxpayers do not continue to bear the cost,” an El Paso spokesperson told Al Jazeera.
The city of St Cloud, Minnesota told Al Jazeera something similar. The Trump campaign failed to pay an outstanding invoice due earlier this month. The balance, which totals $208,935.17, covers overtime pay for first responders and relocating road construction to accommodate his motorcade for a rally in the city this past July.

The city of Lebanon, Ohio, confirmed to Al Jazeera that an outstanding invoice from 2018 is still unpaid. While the rally took place when Trump was in the White House, the city has yet to receive its payment of $16,191.
The city of Spokane, Washington, told Al Jazeera that the Trump campaign owes it $65,124.69 for a rally in 2016. The unpaid invoice covers a combined 955 overtime hours for members of the city’s police force. Spokane added that two other campaigns from the 2016 presidential cycle have outstanding invoices, including the Hillary Clinton campaign, which owes $2,793.28 and the Sanders campaign, which owes $33,318.73.
Given Trump’s track record, several jurisdictions now require his campaign to pay for services up front, including Asheville, North Carolina and Tucson, Arizona, where his campaign still owes more than $81,000 for a rally in 2016.
A spokesperson for Grand Rapids, Michigan told Al Jazeera the Trump campaign owes the city $32,771.45 for its rally in July. The balance – due by October 23 – includes overtime pay for first responders. The city added that the campaign had paid outstanding balances for other campaign events held there.

Decades overdue​

This all comes as former President Trump racks up legal bills for multiple court cases facing him and his campaign, including reportedly a $2m payment to Rudy Giuliani. The former New York mayor and Trump’s former personal lawyer is one of his biggest defenders in numerous court cases where Trump falsely alleged election interference. The since-disbarred lawyer faces legal fees of his own and is required to pay $148m in damages to two Georgia election workers.

In December 2023, Giuliani filed for bankruptcy protection. In July, a New York bankruptcy judge denied the request.
Giuliani did not return Al Jazeera’s request for comment.
Trump has used campaign funds to pay more than $100m in legal fees even as he continues to rack up penalties in his growing list of lost court cases.
Trump has a long history of failing to pay his outstanding invoices even before entering politics. In 2016, a USA Today investigation found 3,500 lawsuits against him over the course of three decades related to unpaid bills and compensation disputes.
Roughly two dozen lawsuits allege the former president’s companies failed to pay overtime or minimum wage to workers, similar to the complaints from cities Al Jazeera spoke to in its reporting that show that Trump’s undue payment in large part covers overtime pay.

As of 2020, Trump still owes contractors, unpaid for decades, involved in the construction and maintenance of the Taj Mahal Hotel in Atlantic City, which opened in 1990. Trump owed $70m to more than 250 contractors, many of whom hired workers of their own to fulfil services ranging from installing plumbing to guardrails. The hotel closed in 2016.
The Trump campaign did not respond to Al Jazeera’s request for comment.
Source: Al Jazeera

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Why vote for Trump? This convicted felon doesn't seem to have many redeeming qualities.
Some of Trump's most strident critics are former Trump administration officials. See post #6 of this thread
Trump is not fit for the U.S. presidency. Vote Harris / Walz this November.

 

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Trump once called Jan. 6 a 'heinous attack.' Now he calls it a 'day of love.'​

The former president has increasingly defended his supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, most recently referring to them as "we."

Trump once called Jan. 6 a 'heinous attack.' Now he calls it a 'day of love.'

The former president has increasingly defended his supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, most recently referring to them as "we."

www.nbcnews.com

Trump calls it a 'day of love.'​

"Love", that sounds nice.


And the human life lost? Trump loved them to death?