GovBrief Today #410

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Trump told reporters today he can do "anything I want" with Cuba, a country of 9.6 million people sitting in the dark because his oil blockade killed their power grid.

He also said, "I do believe I'll have the honor of taking Cuba." It was the same day we learned that the State Department drafted a memo proposing to cut HIV treatment for 1.3 million Zambians unless the country hands its copper and lithium mines to American companies. The memo says the plan depends on a "willingness to publicly take support away on a massive scale."

At the Kennedy Center, Trump told the board their vote on closing the building didn't matter because "we've already announced it." Marble and other materials were purchased before anyone cast a ballot.

The federal government transferred Oak Flat in Arizona to a mining company. This land, sitting on $150 billion in copper, is sacred to the Apache and had been protected by every president since Eisenhower. The mining company is partly owned by a Chinese state entity, and the Apache get nothing while the company loots their sacred land.

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[1] https://go.govbrief.today/cuba-grid
[2] https://go.govbrief.today/zambia-hiv-minerals
[3] https://go.govbrief.today/iran-war-mar16
[4] https://go.govbrief.today/el-salvador-rights
[5] https://go.govbrief.today/apache-oak-flat
[6] https://go.govbrief.today/ford-fire-size
[7] https://go.govbrief.today/caldwell-odni
[8] https://go.govbrief.today/scotus-syria-haiti
[9] https://go.govbrief.today/bomber-pardon
[10] https://go.govbrief.today/bovino-retiring
[11] https://go.govbrief.today/kordia-released
[12] https://go.govbrief.today/enforcement-director-exits
[13] https://go.govbrief.today/wiles-cancer
[14] https://go.govbrief.today/trump-dunn
[15] https://go.govbrief.today/trump-newsom-dyslexia
[16] https://go.govbrief.today/kenctr-closing
[17] https://go.govbrief.today/vax-changes-blocked

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4t0m1c4

Shower thoughts... IF you get tRump and his regime out of power at any point in time, who is going to want a top job in the US government, or even be president? I mean in another 4 years, they will either have to switch sides and go full nazi to keep their jobs, or learn from history and leave the US to prevent retaliation from the next republican fascist government.

bertchstudio

#7 should have veterans and people who CARE about children and grandchildren getting pissed about this

You know this "Chinese" company is just Israel in a shell coat

sundaymondayhippyday

No China have mines all over the world-
Particularly Africa where they displace the native population and ship in Chinese Only workers!
They own large amounts of other countries- and they do it by giving LOANS to these countries, then
When they can’t pay them back. They take their land as payment

ImmatellallyallboutFightClub

It's like they say the quiet part out loud or something. The bright side is they're being so unrepentantly evil that the masses will have no mercy. I just hope the boiling point is soon because damn.

Thanks for your service OP. She hides her face from the horrors.

That's an impenetrable feline ball. I need to learn how to do that. [looks down at stomach] Oh, it's not the learning!

FinancialRavioli

Every single day I find myself surprised that I can hate someone more than I did yesterday.

Trump is cancer and needs to be treated as such.

dalaimickey

Keep doing the thing, George. Thank you.

Will do. Thank you for helping amplify it!

yalczero

Is #8 even supposed to be possible or are the inferior injustices simply doing trump a favor again?

PuzzledCompletely

I think it is both. It makes sense to go straight to SCOTUS if there are several similar cases heading there. But also, it's been mostly the lower courts making the right rulings, only to be overruled by SCOTUS.

floofnmeeps

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rongoins1

Donnie a man of Peace ? what better way to prove it by invading another country.... thanks donnie aka "stable genius"

DidCatchABreak

Yikes. Thank you, George

Tulayne

What I would like to know is should I try to learn Russian or Chinese? Probably Chinese right? Haha, who am I kidding, I'm slated for the camps.

itllquenchya

Mirrormancer

Soooo how long until he takes Greenland and Canada "one way or another"?

What a delusional pedophile

friendsofsandwiches

jesus we are going downhill fast

WorkerLurker

Too fast for the frog not to jump the pot. Word in the south in those new districts is “only vote blue.”

Now we have to keep an eye out for DINOs that are trying to get into position to sabotage.

yeah, we've had that happen up here in AK a few times in the last 20 years.

Kirsten gullibles or whatever TF that bitch's name is, should set off alarm bells. They don't always, be diligent rather than just vigilant.

Capum15

I feel like I've said this a thousand times since January (however many years ago that was), but it's legitimately impressive at how literally every single day is somehow worse than the one before it. Like, yes, this is some of the most awful news I've seen, but not to worry, tomorrow will be worse. Because not only do you have the previous horrors still active, but also somehow just an infinite constant influx of new, different horrors. Sometimes you get previous horror 2: electric boogaloo.

TheFastpaws

The tail!

karashu2000

If Tim Burton created a lizard.

Bam. Perfect. Nightmare fuel was my first thought.

JohnDennis1999

I thought Cuba was a USA territory. Am I thinking of the wrong place?

Read up on Bay of Pigs
it was a very significant time and was thought to led America into despair - Cuba can fight back.

https://www.history.com/articles/bay-of-pigs-invasion

4etherling

Puerto Rico

Oh thanks!

OneMoreLime

Of all the illiterate fucks in the world, I wouldn't have expected Trump to even know what dyslexia is letting allege that not being good at reading or spelling words should disqualify someone from being president, anyway congress should respect his position on this matter and immediately remove any president that is not good at reading or spelling correctly...

I still wouldn't expect him to know what it is, because he tends to spout out shit that other, smarter people in his circle have said. It's like when you see or hear a new word and then you start seeing it "more" shortly after, but only because you're paying attention now. He'll hear some fancy new word, then use it constantly for a week before moving on to something else.

That sounds quite likely.

TheImgurWarsMadeMe

There's no way in hell this doesn't end with the total collapse of the federal government into a permanent, full-scale oligarchy AND WW3. I mean, Jesus Christ, Iran isn't just rolling over, Cuba's could do something desperate, China is getting its way with the global market, and we're threatening yet another civilian population's medical treatment for mining rights. All this and Bovino is getting a Happily Ever After.

Fucking hell.

Lisossoma

That Number 2 is hideous behaviour

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RonnieSoak

Don't dont give me that hope....

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Bovino will not be able to go anywhere in public that isn't Texas or Idaho

As an (unfortunate) resident of the second option: *continues screaming into the void*

I'd like to believe that, I really would, but too many states seem eager to fall over backwards sucking the Regime's mangled cock at this point. Could you pick up every single monster's face out of a day to day lineup. Without State enforcement on their punishment, some are going to skip through the cracks whether we like it or not

elten

Today we have: #1 imperial aspirations and #2 straight up extortion among all the other horrors.

1stDrunkJoe

#2 Helping other countries with HIV epidemics isn't just altruism it's strategic. Diseases don't need visas; the more people that have HIV, the more people will get HIV.

And the more the virus can mutate and murder us all.
This is the nature of a virus!
#DumbDonny

How is #DumbassDonny not a thing either?

MeestowKitty

#11 is why a lot of us disagree with the "let them arrest you and then handle it in the courts. Violence isn't the answer" argument of the Liberals. She lost a YEAR of her life behind bars. Do you feel like being improperly jailed for a year? Spending years defending yourself, and then finally spending further years getting "justice" [read: taxpayer money for pain and suffering]? I sure as fuck don't.

Agree. And through it all I've been pushing on the word "detained". You get detained when the cop runs your plates during a traffic stop or if you're Otis the town drunk on the Andy Griffith Show. What's happening to tens of thousands at a time is jailing.

mjperk

Not to mention that even after you wasted a good chunk of your life, you have probably also emptied your bank accounts for legal defense. So if you get your name cleared and you are found innocent, you're now probably broke or not doing well financially and never recover. Plus you've almost certainly already lost your job/income source. The entire thing will reshape your entire life and future. Some people may be able to afford the hit, but it'd ruin most of us in so many ways.

Most people also lose kids, partners, etc in these situations as well. But remember, ViOlEnCe Is NeVeR tHe AnSwEr.

theinternetkeepsmealive

Does Cuba still have Russia on its side?

Yes, Russia affirmed that on Tuesday.

This will end well then...

TheMurderousCricket

18. Geography - After an intense love-making session between donald trump and greg bovino, microphones in the White House picked up a conversation during which trump confided to bovino that the main objective of the Iran War is to rename the "Persian Gulf" into "American Gulf".

The American Gaffe

-gaffe is an embarrassing mistake or social blunder

This would be an appropriate pseudonym for both tRump presidencies.

damogen

USS Gerald Ford is active in the Iran War, but the military claims the fire had nothing to do with Iran. It was just an accident.

This is Russian levels of lazy propaganda.

Either that or….
it would seem otherwise like upkeep and maintenance were so bad the entire armed forces collapse from neglect and stupidity

L0rdinquisit0r

correct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gerald_R._Ford
Offical story is a dryer vent fire
" While deployed, on 12 March, a fire that began in the vent of a dryer in the ship’s laundry facilities quickly spread to the extent that it took 30 hours to extinguish and injured two crew members. By the time it was finally extinguished, more than 600 crew members had lost their bunks and were forced to sleep on tables and floors."

the shitters are stilled fucked as is tradition on carriers

paulos23124

Good grief, when did Trump have plans for Cuba?

TheWombatStrikesAgain

He's been talking about taking over Cuba for months. Wouldn't go so far as to say he has a plan though.

Obama did a little bit of diplomacy with Cuba. Most Americans still can't travel there, but it was opened up for visiting relatives. But, FOTUS hates everything Obama did, so ...

Church groups too. We sent a couple of those and our congregation got friendly with the then Episcopal Bishop of Cuba.

SchuKadaj

That's kinda what it was for Venezuala as well. Greenland and Canada are also still not outside of his views. Anything to distract from Epstein Files.

We kinda need an invasion to secure only the Epstein files and then leave the country……
Showing their safe capture and ultimately being displayed to the world at large

BlazeMarshall

The files are powerless until they're removed from power anyway, all the people who would do the prosecution regarding the shit in there are in the cult. The rest of the world can work with them, but they're useless to the US right now.

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