GOP Rep. Steve King: Pro Rape and Pro Incest Republican?

His stance on rape and incest has for some years now made the US Republican Party being ridiculed as the “Rapepublican Party”, is there any “method” to GOP Rep. Steve King’s “madness”?

By: Ringo Bones

Just when everyone expects that the insane cruise that is called the Trump Administration couldn’t get much crazier, the US Republican Party’s nexus of the rape and incest insanity Rep. Steve King made a statement on his absolute opposition to abortion even with the rape and incest exception clauses and stated that whether there would be any population left on Earth if not for rape and incest – a remark that has drawn condemnation from both Democrats and Republicans.

Back in Wednesday, August 15, 2019, GOP Rep. King reasoned that: “What if we went back through all the family trees and pulled those people out that were products of rape and incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that? Considering all the wars and all the rape and pillage that has taken place…I know I can’t certify that I was not a product of that.” King said and also added that “I’d like to think that every one of the lives of us are as precious as any other life.” he added. Given that Steve King is a US Republican Party congressman – and not some Game of Thrones fanatic posting an online review of some newly released directors cut – only makes the comments even that much crazier to the average political observer.

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 House Republican, said in a Tweet that the remarks were “appalling and bizarre” and called on him to resign. Back in January 2019, House Republicans stripped Rep. Steve King of committee assignments, an action that took place after an interview in which he appeared to lament that the term “white supremacist” is considered offensive. Maybe the more relevant question to ask is “Who are the ones voting for these terrible people like Steve King or that paedophile Roy Moore into office?”

Could The Hong Kong Pro Democracy Demonstrations Be Avoided?

Despite of the escalation of violence and demands that now include universal suffrage, could the Hong Kong pro democracy protests be avoided?

By: Ringo Bones

Despite projecting an “aura of efficiency” since the 1990s, it seems that the Beijing Government’s relatively unplanned action against existential political threats could well be the reason behind the escalation of the Hong Kong pro democracy protest marches that started as an opposition to the controversial extradition bill back in June 2019. If Beijing planned its operations against potential political unrest that it had dealt since the 1990s akin to that of Sun Tsu’s Art of War, the 10-week long Hong Kong unrests could have fizzled out like the 2014 Umbrella Movement and Joshua Wong would have been relegated as an obscure Hong Kong dissident rather than a global heroic activist who stood up to Beijing. And given that Beijing has since been wary of repeating the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, a little planning could have done much good on the current situation.

Even though some eagle eyed operatives at Amnesty International cite that Beijing’s crackdown on ethnic Uyghurs in its “restive West” probably have started as early as the 1990s, the political exigencies of the post-9/11 world should have given the powers-that-be at Beijing to deal the situation with “refinement” – as opposed to forcibly sending Uyghurs to internment camps to undergo forced indoctrination in the name of quelling global Islamism. During the past few years, evidence emerged, via satellite photos and testimonies of Uyghurs now in political asylum in neighboring countries that what Beijing did to them was tantamount to ethnic cleansing, thus forming part of the raison d’être on the vehement opposition of a majority of Hong Kong residents on the controversial extradition bill.

Remember those staff at the Causeway Bay Books that were allegedly kidnapped by Beijing from Hong Kong to “black sites” in Mainland China? If Beijing didn’t execute this questionable action back in October to December 2015, the controversial extradition bill would have been approved into law while passing below the radar of ordinary Hong Kong residents without a peep. And Beijing appointed Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam would have carried out her rather “boring” and uneventful cushy job and the world at large would have been none the wiser. Too bad Beijing just have to flex its muscles like some bodybuilder overdosing on steroids.

Larry The Cat Versus President Trump?

Even though he served as the “Chief Mouser” of Number 10 Downing Street since 2011, did Larry the Cat managed to successfully put a damper to Trump plans where London protesters failed?

By: Ringo Bones

Ever since serving as Number 10 Downing Street’s “Chief Mouser” after being recruited from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home for his exceptional mouse hunting skills since 2011, Larry the Cat has kept the official residence of the Prime Minister of Great Britain free from furniture and document destroying mice for almost a decade now. And yet, back in June 4, 2019 - the intrepid feline has managed to do what thousands of London based protesters has set out to do – to put a damper on the U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s packed itinerary during his official U.K. state visit.  

By hiding under the underside of “The Beast” – the president’s official armored limousine, it seems like Larry the Cat is not shy at expressing his disdain against President Trump. Maybe Larry the Cat is no fan of white supremacists who do not give a rat’s ass on the less fortunate. Given that President Trump is too fat to reach down under The Beast to shoo the cat away by himself, it looks like Trump finally met a pussy that he can’t grab by himself. Earlier that day, Larry the Cat managed to photobomb the U.S. President’s photo-op with U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May, it looks like this cat doesn’t like President Trump and his politics.

Donald J. Trump’s Diplomatic Pornography: His Guiding Principle In “Making America Great Again”?

A term first coined by Thomas Friedman on US President Donald J. Trump’s ill-advised Jerusalem embassy show, but has diplomatic pornography all along been the guiding principle behind Trump’s “Make America Great Again” plan?

By: Ringo Bones

The world’s top political and diplomatic analysts are probably bemused by Thomas Friedman’s description of US President Donald J. Trump’s Jerusalem embassy show as “diplomatic pornography” when Trump made serious appeasements and concessions with regards to moving the US Embassy in Israel from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem – as in the May 14, 2018 reclassification of the US consulate in Jerusalem as the US embassy in Jerusalem -  despite Jerusalem wasn’t recognized by everyone as the state of Israel’s capital because it is a disputed territory claimed by both Israelis and Palestinians.

It was Thomas Friedman who was the first to use the term “diplomatic pornography” after he tells it like it is during his guest spot on Fareed Zakaria GPS over the issue of Hamas, Israel and President Trump and his  Administration’s decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In hindsight, Donald J. Trump’s diplomatic pornography could be described as an ill-advised policy of making political and material concessions without making a corresponding leverage. President Trump could have negotiated for a landmark renewed Israel-Palestinian peace process that the Obama Administration had never achieved in exchange for going along with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s green light on allowing those countries who do so the ability to move their embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Back in the middle of May 2018, Thomas Friedman managed to capture the zeitgeist of this fiasco by stating that “The whole thing is a tragedy. It’s like two bald men fighting over a comb.” And “The embassy event was really just a Republican mid-term prep rally disguised as a diplomatic event…This was meant to fire up the far-right religious base of the Republican Party.”As someone made famous for his iconic business how-to book, The Art of the Deal, Friedman can’t hold back on his bemusement of this ill-advised policy by saying “Trump didn’t do the ‘Art of the Deal’, he did the art of the giveaway…Trump gave away the most valuable diplomatic real estate in the Middle East treasure-box of the United States and gave it away for free. Believe me, in Jerusalem they are laughing at him. In the Arab world they are laughing at him. They can’t believe what a sucker he was to take the bait and give this away for free when he could have used it for a leverage to truly advance the peace process.” Unfortunately, Trump’s “Jerusalem Embassy Diplomatic Pornography” maneuver can also be applied to his lackluster diplomacy on North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un.

United States National Butterfly Center to be Bulldozed For Trump’s Wall?

If putting migrant children in cages is not cruel enough, would President Trump give the green light to bulldoze the US National Butterfly Center?

By: Ringo Bones

The center’s director Marianna Wright compares the site to Disney’s Fantasia and more than 200 wildlife species, not just butterflies, make their homes at America’s most diverse sanctuary. But if President Trump had his way, all of it could be bulldozed to oblivion. On any given day at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, visitors can see more than 60 varieties of butterflies. In the spring and fall, monarch butterflies and other species can blanket the center’s 100 acres of subtropical bushlands that extend from the visitor center to the banks of the Rio Grande river, where the wildlife center and US sovereignty ends.

The Trump administration could now bulldoze the National Butterfly Center to oblivion in order to build Trump’s so-called border wall because back in December 2018, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling allowing the Trump administration to waive 28 federal laws, including the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Air Act and begin construction on 33 new miles of border wall in the heart of the valley – and right through the National Butterfly Center.

According to the National Butterfly Center’s director Marianna Wright “Environmental tourism contributes more than $450-million to Hidalgo and Starr counties.” referring to the adjacent counties in the valley. “Many of the properties people choose to visit to see birds, butterflies and threatened and endangered species are all going to be behind the border wall. For us, the economic impact is potentially catastrophic.”

More than 200 species of resident or migrating butterflies make homes at the butterfly center over the course of the year, including the vibrant Mexican bluewing, the tiny vicroy’s ministreak and the black swallowtail which carpets the wild dill at the property with its eggs each spring. The center opened in 2003 and is the flagship project of the North American Butterfly Association. Sadly, Trump has expansive powers to construct the border wall on both public and private land because since 2005, the Department of Homeland Security has had the power to waive numerous environmental laws in the name of national security.

Do Walls And Barriers Between Nations Still Work?

With President Trump’s debacle over the funding of his “ego wall” have resulted in the longest government shutdown so far, do walls and barriers between nations still work?

By: Ringo Bones

For those old enough to remember, the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 13, 1961 have left me somewhat bemused given that during that time, there are military jet aircraft that can fly around 3 times the speed of sound that could make any wall irrelevant. Even though that the Berlin Wall is now a distant memory after the Cold War thaw that relegated it to the dustbin of history back in November 9, 1989 declassified documents that have been revealed back in 2004 have shown that the then East German government already has plans to “automate” the wall with computer guided guns said to make the wall ready for the year 2000. Given their somewhat checkered history in the 20^th Century, are walls nothing more than a Medieval solution to a 21^st Century problem?

After reading The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World by Tim Marshall, it seems like walls more or less offer mixed results to the problems it intends to solve. The Israeli Wall that formed the barrier between the Israeli and Palestinians seems to be almost 100-percent effective when it comes to its intended function - i.e. stopping militants from conducting suicide bombing attacks on major metropolitan areas in Israel. Consequently, such walls are also referred to as “Apartheid Walls” and are not winning Israel new friends elsewhere on the planet anytime soon.

Another “effective” wall is the so-called Moroccan Wall or more properly known as the Moroccan Western Sahara Wall that separates the Moroccan occupied west from the Polisario controlled east. The structure stretches for 1,700 miles or 2,700 kilometers and is actually more like a combination between a “berm” and a minefield. It was created back in August 1980 and was deemed to be very effective in its intended function as it ended the violence of the border dispute around 1991. Unfortunately, this “uneasy peace” is currently costing Morocco 40-percent of the country’s GDP. Would Donald J. Trump’s U.S. – Mexico “ego wall” prove to be more “economically viable”?