{"id":176605,"date":"2021-01-11T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=176605"},"modified":"2021-01-06T05:16:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T05:16:48","slug":"madman-trumps-last-ditch-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/01\/madman-trumps-last-ditch-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Madman Trump\u2019s Last Ditch Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>8 Jan 2021\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/trump.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-176606\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/trump.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/trump.png 631w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/trump-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>A\u2013W<\/strong> options already exhausted<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Remaining Desperate Options:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>X<\/strong> \u2013 Resign and have Mike Pence pardon him<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Y<\/strong> \u2013 Flee the Country (to Saudi Arabia, Israel)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Z<\/strong> \u2013 Initiate War with Iran and invoke emergency war powers to declare Martial law and retain power indefinitely, or leave more chaos for Joe Biden.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2021\/01\/04\/his-biggest-and-likely-most-disastrous-stunt-yet-experts-warn-desperate-trump-may\" >https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2021\/01\/04\/his-biggest-and-likely-most-disastrous-stunt-yet-experts-warn-desperate-trump-may<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/12\/trump-could-still-start-last-ditch-war-iran\/617530\/\" >https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/12\/trump-could-still-start-last-ditch-war-iran\/617530\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Are Trump\u2019s Most Reckless Actions Yet to Come?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Just what we need in the midst of a global pandemic!<\/em><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Iranian officials are aware of intelligence suggesting the Trump administration is engaged in a \u201cplot to fabricate a pretext for war.\u201d Israeli and US nuclear submarines and other warships including the USS Nimitz carrier strike force are in position. The US has recently deployed 2,000 additional troops and an extra fighter jet squadron to Saudi Arabia. US B-52 bombers have been sent on missions to the Persian gulf three times in recent weeks.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mourn all victims of violence<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Reject war as a solution<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Defend civil liberties.<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ground the Drones!\u00a0 Say No to War!<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Seek peace by peaceful means through justice in Hawai\u2019i and around the world.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Jan. 15, 2021 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet \u2013 week<\/strong><strong> 1007 \u2013 Fridays 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>___________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/jim-albertini-james-e1554387634304.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-54387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/jim-albertini-james-e1554387634304.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Jim Albertini is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>, a former Catholic School teacher, and long-time social justice activist since the US war on Vietnam. He has done research on the use of depleted uranium at Pohakuloa Military Training Area and is the author of <\/em>\u201cThe Dark Side of Paradise: Hawai\u2019i in a Nuclear World.\u201d<em> Jim is the founder and director of\u00a0<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.malu-aina.org\/\" >Malu &#8216;Aina Center for Non-violent Education &amp; Action<\/a>, <em>a spiritual community based on peace, justice and sustainable organic farming on Big Island, Hawai\u2019i &#8211; P.O. Box 489 Ola\u2019a (Kurtistown), Hawai&#8217;i 96760. Phone (+ 808) 966-7622 Email: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:ja@malu-aina.org\">ja@malu-aina.org<\/a> &#8211; website: <a href=\"http:\/\/malu-aina.org\" >malu-aina.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/malu-aina.org\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 malu-aina.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 Jan 2021 &#8211; Are Trump\u2019s Most Reckless Actions Yet to Come? Just what we need in the midst of a global pandemic!  Iranian officials are aware of intelligence suggesting the Trump administration is engaged in a \u201cplot to fabricate a pretext for war.\u201d Israeli and US nuclear submarines and other warships including the USS Nimitz carrier strike force are in position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":176606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[867,120,249,70],"class_list":["post-176605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-anglo-america","tag-conflict","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}