The Racism and Class Prejudice of Maria Corina Machado’s Followers Fully Exposed

Actor and Singer Carlos Baute calls Venezuelan president Delcy Rodríguez a “Monkey.” It was at a rally in favor of María Corina Machado in Madrid. He later apologized, undoubtedly because campaign experts on the right confronted him with the fact that this was going to hurt Machado’s erroneous claim of representing a majority of Venezuelans. But the way he screamed out “Monkey” shows Baute’s true colors.

And not only Baute. Machado’s follows screamed out the words “MONEY GET OUT” in unison. This is Déjà vu. The Venezuelan opposition to Chávez used the same language and even worse in the first years of Chávez, clearly demonstrating their class and racial origins. Then U.S. publicity advisors told them to knock it off, knowing full well that they couldn’t use that kind of language and expect to win elections at the same time. History repeats itself. And it never hides the truth.

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Lady Liberty detained at the Los Angeles No Kings protest: A symbol of what is happening in USA

 

What ever happened to the "Cancel Culture" touted by MAGA right-wingers? The same thing that happened to the prudish Republicans who were horrified by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and the QAnon people who warned about the Washington-based child sex ring, and now support the pedophile running the government. And the same thing as the far-right people who hated the federal government to the extent that they refused to investigate the blowing of the Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City in 1995 (Yes, I’m talking about you Newt) and now support the centralization of power in the hands of the Executive. And how about the Republicans who in the name of fiscal conservativism supported the strategy of “starve the beast” in order to reduce government spending and now support a President who boosts the federal debt and boasts of a trillion-dollar military budget. The bottom line here is do and say anything to make the rich richer.

Third No Kings Protest in Washington DC, March 28 2026

 

Some media commentators state that Trump will not pay any attention to these protests because as a sitting duck president he has nothing to lose. This line of thinking is misleading. And we’ve seen this before. I remember the 1969 anti-Vietnam War March on Washington past the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue when President Nixon told the press that he wasn’t aware of it because he was watching a football game, which after all, was more important. Watergate demonstrated just how obsessed he was with the protests (the obsession is also depicted in Oliver Stone’s movie “Nixon”). The main danger now is that the protest movement gets absorbed into the campaigning for Democratic Party candidates in the midterms. Something similar happened with the Black Lives Matter protests leading into the Biden presidential campaign in 2020. The protest movement needs to be independent of, and on occasions critical of, the Democratic Party, if for no other reason because the Democratic Party establishment approximates the pro-war positions of the Republicans.  

Does the Trump Administration Really Believe People are so Brainless?

In the face of Trump’s steady decline in approval ratings, White House spokesman Davis Ingle claimed: “The ultimate poll was November 5th 2024 when nearly 80 million Americans overwhelmingly elected President Trump to deliver on his popular and commonsense agenda.” OVERWHELMINGLY? Trump received under 50% of the popular vote and only 1.5% more than Kamala Harris. Does that make his triumph “overwhelming?” Of course not, but that doesn’t deter Trump and his allies from constantly conflating the popular vote and the electoral college vote in order to claim that 2024 was a landslide victory.

 

No Kings Rally is Building Momentum but Needs to Raise the Issue of Washington's War Mongering

Momentum is building for the March 28 massive nation-wide No Kings rally. But as reflected in this sign “No War on Venezuela,” the protests should focus as much on the aggressive regime-change moves by the U.S. and the resultant death and destruction, as on issues on the domestic front. These photos are from today’s protest in Germantown MD, which are taking place every Saturday and are getting positive, enthusiastic responses from cars passing by at this busy intersection. 

 

Trump Recognizes that his Embargo on Cuba Represents a “Humanitarian Threat”

The U.S. embargo (really a blockade) on Cuba is a “humanitarian threat.” Those aren’t my words. They’re Trump’s very words. Basically, what Trump is saying amounts to this: Someone puts a gun to some else’s head and tells the person to pull down their pants. He then says, if you don’t do what I'm telling you to do, I’m going to kill you and it’ll be your fault.

 

Pam Bondi Shirks Responsibility for Criminal Neglect

Pam Bondi gets the award for coming up with the worst excuse ever made in all of history. At the hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, various Democratic Representatives asked her if she would apologize for the Justic Department’s failure to redact names of Jeffrey Epstein victims who were sitting just in back of her. She shouted back at the Democrats asking ‘have you apologized for the criminal charges you leveled against the greatest president in U.S. history for supposedly attempting to rig the 2020 presidential elections?’ Anybody who doesn’t see the pathetic nature of Bondi’s response, let me recommend an undergraduate course in “Introduction to Logic.”