A Call to Arms

Two very different Americas

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President Donald Trump has found a new way to go after politicians he doesn't like: dragging their marriages into his political feuds.

On Saturday, the 80-year-old president unleashed a flurry of posts on Truth Social, including one targeting Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, 41, and his wife.

The post paired a photo of Trump and Melania Trump, 56, with one of El-Sayed and his wife, Dr. Sarah Jukaku, putting the two couples side by side beneath the typo-riddled caption: "Two VERY DIFFERENT America's."

The man on the left was able to transfer into UPenn's Wharton School in part because his older brother asked one of his best friends in admissions to interview the man on the left. In addition, transfer acceptance rates were high in 1966, the man on the left did NOT graduate with honors and was NOT on the dean's list the year he graduated.

The man on the right has an MD from Columbia University. He also won a Rhodes Scholarship, which enabled him to get a DPhil in Public Health from Oxford.

The man on the left has spent his life focused on accumulating wealth and power any way he could, including by lying and conning people. His far-right policies as president have hurt many Americans, immigrants and people around the world, while enriching himself, his family, and his billionaire buddies and corporate donors.

The man on the right devoted his early career to teaching and research and his later career to public health.

The woman on the left dropped out of college after a few months, worked as a model, and once posed for nude photos.

The woman on the right has an MD from Columbia University and a master's degree from Oxford, and she works as a psychiatrist.

The woman on the left looks like a "trophy wife" or "arm candy" in that dress.

The woman on the right is dressed modestly and is wearing a hijab or shayla. The hijab can be controversial to non-Muslims. However, it has many meanings for Muslim women, and those Muslim women who live in the West often choose to wear it out of modesty and/or as a symbol of their faith.

The couple on the left looks emotionally and physically distant from each other, even though they are holding hands.

The couple on the right looks physically and emotionally comfortable with each other.

Is it true? probably not.

I simply say probably because a few accusations have been made over the last few years but no proof has been offered. There was the idea that Musk altered votes in swing states by giving Harris a threshold and then giving Trump about 75% of the rest of the votes? As far as I know, no one ever proved that.

I only point this out because if there was cheating we as Americans really do need to know. Not because I want Harris as president (though that would have been infinitely better), but because if it was carried out successfully once, it will be done again and even if we peacefully try to change things, it won't happen.

Even with that being said, I do not doubt that somewhere down the line this could become a reality. Be vigilant, be ready, but don't feel the need to spread rumors that aren't true to make the situation feel worse. Crying wolf now will only get people to ignore you when the wolf does start eating you.

BREAKING: Insiders Reveal Karoline Leavitt Was Burned Out Long Before Announcing Her Exit

Karoline Leavitt's decision to step down as White House press secretary wasn't a sudden one, according to new reporting, and insiders say it had little to do with the family focused explanation she gave publicly.

Sources told the Daily Mail that Leavitt realized within her first week back from maternity leave in July that she was done. One insider said she spent the following weeks quietly figuring out how to step down with Trump's blessing rather than making a clean break right away. Another described her as dealing with real burnout, adding that she barely slept while trying to balance the job with two young children, all while refusing to let her performance slip.

Trump reportedly kept calling her even during her maternity leave, according to CNN's Alayna Treene, leaving little room for the kind of break most new parents get. When Leavitt finally announced her departure, she framed it around wanting to be present for her kids, a sentiment that's certainly understandable, but insiders paint a fuller picture of a job that ground her down long before that announcement.

One source close to Leavitt summed it up simply: "It's a thankless job." Trump, for his part, reportedly didn't want her to go, trusting her more than he trusts bringing someone new into his circle this late in his term. A replacement has not yet been chosen.

I don't think I've seen a party with such a huge disconnect between elite/leadership and their voters/members.