Why not give Elon Musk an earful? You can respond to his email!
Musk demanded that every federal employee Write an email saying what they've done in the last week. You can tell him what you have done in the last week— let's jam Elon's inbox with 5 million emails!
Thanks for the update. Germans should no better than to go Nazi again. It didn't work for them the first time. I still know some folks who came to the US from Germany after living there through WWII
Oh my gosh, Kathleen! That is an excellent, stellar idea! Flood the Capitol with calls and jam up the musk-rat's inbox with every single one of us listing what we have done this past week!! I LOVE IT!!
Exactly, Gordon! All of this is total bullshit on the orange man and musk-rat! They never intended to help the American people. They are grifters and right now are bringing in their biggest haul in their lifetime!
He spent 10 weekdays playing golf the past month instead of "working". Trump charges the government very high rates to keep the Secret Service at his Palm Beach "resort." Just as he did the first go-around.
I don't get why we're paying anything extra for security for him compared to other Presidents, except he thinks he now requires extra security after the "scare" of the crazy guy in the bushes at his golf club to where they had to extend the protection parameter.
Why not just have him pay for a high fence around his golf site, then after he's impeached we won't have to see him at all.
That's actually a very salient point, if I may say so. Who exactly would be reading and assessing those hundreds of thousands of responses generated on what appears to be a whim of Elon Musk ostensibly in response to a rhetorical exhortation by Trump to speed up the 'reform' process. Musk and his minions clearly have no idea what any federal worker actually does so they would presumably have had to enjoin other federal workers to do it for them. What could possibly go wrong?
I feel fairly certain that we will SOON see some new words (many likely to be portmanteaus) added to common usage, and perhaps even the OED.
How else to effectively communicate something so carefully thought out and planned for > 65 years, yet still appearing so totally accidental and chaotic?
And based on this EXCELLENT article, PUTIN could scarcely be happier.
Every dream PUTIN has even dared to dream over the past decades is becoming reality! (You may wish to ignore the weak headline, but the article seems perhaps critically important to understanding Putin's plans for Ukraine):
"Putin plays the long game. He has punished Ukraine – and he won’t stop there"
Great summation Russell. Scholars and libraries better be prepared for all of the books that will be written about this Kindergarten administration, whether it lasts 6 months or 4 years.
No one will read the emails, but he will have AI sniff the emails for keywords., and that takes microseconds. We who use google search should know that.
The SUCCESS is in the questions, paranoia and doubts created.
And getting some directors to say no to the email request is just more of the same well-thought-out process..
William, respectfully, they DON'T CARE about keywords, or what anyone typed, or even if any of it is even true or not (though I CAN imagine the responses being saving for some unknown eventuality.)
It's JUST confusion that's the goal. No one at any level ever expected anyone do do more than waste type worrying.
Perhaps if MUSK had to pick up a letter carrier's bag and deliver mail ( oh, and have to WALK the route, not drive it - like they did for 100+ years prior to getting "mail trucks" ) - he might get a CLUE.. then again, probably not...
He's now claiming that the intention of the email was only to establish whether federal employees were capable of responding to an email - disingenous, supercilious and downright irresponsible.
He's a little busy right now, using his new position for what may just be its MOST VALUABLE PURPOSE, lying about unbelievable ridiculous things he claims to "find" in the government computer system.
And he's sure to soon ask "to be able to dig just a LITTLE BIT DEEPER..."
Yes, Eileen, Muskrat will not get a clue, since he is too drunk with illicit power like his co-chairman drumpf. Our national redemption will be to dump them and their entire cadre of clowns. Robert's reference to "Chainsaw Al Dunlap" says it all. The 'skump' regime will lead us not to Mars but to a Moscow satellite.
It appears that you're right. Six departments and agencies have instructed staff not to respond and Musk himself appears to be backing down claiming disingenuously that the email was only intended to establish whether federal employees were capable of responding to an email.
Musk and his minions have no idea what any federal worker actually does... maybe that's the main reason for his email. Muskrat and mango mussolini don't know what these people are doing. Instead of looking stupid by asking (not that they need to ask something to accomplish that) they try to find out this way 🤣
He just wants to get them on their back foot momentarily, and afraid they may lose their jobs. Their superiors are telling them not to respond. Much of what they do is classified, and none of it is his business at all.
They found out pretty quickly what the federal workers responsible for the nuclear arsenal and for monitoring the bird flu were supposed to be doing - that's why they're scrambling to rehire them! The hubris and incompetence of the whole culling exercise has been nothing short of astounding.
I am not sure whether Musk cares about what people think of him since he's so rich and has now been thoroughly MAGA-fied (this was in some doubt following his spat with Steve Bannon who still thinks of himself as the keeper of the flame). However, popularity is vital to Trump's fragile sense of self-esteem. If HIS approval ratings tank then a number of people will potentially be in his line of fire (no pun intended).
Realizing that I am going to offend some. I have to state that Musk is autistic, and autistic people are generally inured as to the feelings and opinions of others. In other words they don't care what they do to others. I don't know if Trump is on the spectrum, but he is a sociopath, a narcissitic sociopath, and like Ayn Rand's role model, William Edward Hickman, he enjoys inflecting pain.
I don't think that Musk enjoys inflecting pain, he just doesn't care, he is oblivious.
unless trump investigates his status himself he will only know what his minions care to tell him - hence he appears to not yet know that his populaiity is in fact tanking as we speak !
He seems to be backtracking now in the light of several departments telling their staff not to respond. He now claims that the email was only intended to establish whether federal workers were capable of responding to an email. This is a degree of hubris ill-suited to such a jackass.
True, Maureen, but the sheer volume of these e-mails would keep him from viewing those he probably should see! Anyway, he has staff that will wade through them anyway, but we will be getting our message across!
It will still be effective. Chaos back in his face. Send it repeating spam style with lots of words asking him why he wants to hurt and destroy the lives of so many innocent Americans. cc all congress and senators ,demanding an answers with a deadline attached.
UPDATE: The Trump administration has told federal agency leaders that they can ignore the public decree from Elon Musk to effectively fire employees who do not send in bullet-point summaries of their work last week, according to three people familiar with the matter, a break with the billionaire who has exerted significant power to slash the 2.3-million-person federal workforce.
@Kathleen. I wrote to that email address as you suggested, as follows:
Re: Musk. I am likely to personally sue you for disrupting my Social Security benefits and administration. Also, I am a veteran and I am looking into what standing I have to oppose your actions.
Musk is not elected.
Musk has not been affirmed by Congress.
DOGE is not a department of the government, and has no authority.
Government employees must not respond in any way to illegal and in-secure messages from external servers.
I just sent my list--I had several bowel movements; did not smear them on the walls; did not take Ketamine; did not shoot any dogs; and remained sober.
I hope that address is FLOODED with this kind of thing.
That's a good one! I was just saying to my husband that the whole idea is ridiculous. How many federal employees are there? Who's going to read those emails, if they were sent, and who's going to verify them? No one of course, but they would claim that it exposed just how much nothing was getting done. Idiotes!!
Great idea. In fact, let's every American start flooding the email with what they did last week! Heck, online e-greeting card companies should offer a "what did I do last week" option that will CC this email address!
“Trump will not be defeated by politicians inside the D.C. Beltway,” Sanders said. “It will only be defeated by millions of Americans…in every state in this country, who come together in a strong grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to authoritarianism, no to kleptocracy.”
I hope your Right divine intervention is an alternative prayers are some time answered but I’m counting on the boozes to overreach and cause the R to collapse on the whole group. Politicians have an inherent self interest in preserving their own butts.
Trumpets 🎺 not a team player you can only threaten people for so long before they rebel .
I’m thinking the massive big bill that covers everything being stalled in committee in Congress ..,
Musk has created a house of cards miraculous savings pretty to behold but unable to withstand actually of functioning in the real world .
Trumpet 🎺 will blame musks (created) lies for all error and trumpet 🎺 will be long gone building the first presidential Hotel ( Library) on a site like Rikers Island having made tones of money on merch . And Successfully stolen from the workers ( poor) and giving to the Rich …
Good morning, foofaraw & Chiquita! Are you ready to jam up the switchboard at the Capitol today? I love getting assignments! I am also going to email the musk-rat with a list of everything I did this past week! I was talking to my sister this morning and we believe we have a solution to eliminating departments in the government. We need to eliminate those departments that actually do absolutely nothing! For example, did you know there was a Department whose sole purpose is to measure the methane expelled in a cow's fart? I'm not making that up! There are a lot of unnecessary and trivial departments that can be eliminated so there is absolutely no need whatsoever to go after our Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP and those programs that actually help and support the American citizen! Honestly, is Congress so brain-dead they didn't figure this out?
Actually, measuring methane "emissions" is pretty important right now, methane being a critical greenhouse gas. (And, both Dems and the GOP had to have supported it to at least some degree, or it would not exist. Sorry, Peggy, I haven't done appropriate research on this yet, so I may not be 100% correct.)
And, of course, MUMP (Musk/Trump) has no genuine concern about DEFICITS (except that it can be a measure of how much money is available to GIVE to "Trump's billionaires".)
The point is simply CHAOS, and in that context, THE BIGGER (and noisier) THE BETTER! All this confusion about agency heads telling employees to ignore the emails from Musk? Quite possibly, all part of the CHAOS PLAN. If people actually refuse to respond, that gives MUMP another path by which to wreck their lives later. And for today...CHAOS!
And as long as PUTIN continues to use his "pat Trump on the head" button on his email generator, Trump has EVERYTHING he has ever dreamed of or wanted...the love of a father figure even more evil and cruel than himself.
Well said, foofaraw & Chiquita! Alright, how about this. Instead of one whole department designed to measure methane in a cow's fart, couldn't that be incorporated into another department? That would slim things down without going after essential programs. I would like a list of all departments in our government. Viewing the list could help us consolidate some departments into others thereby streamlining the government! Yes, the orange man's and the musk-rat's mission is to cause as much chaos as possible while following the orders of pootie in the background. If federal employees ignore the musk-rat's email and then they wreck their lives for it, when a sane administration takes over, they will rescind any wreckage the orange man and musk-rat incurred!
There will never be any money, no matter how many agencies are shut down and employees fired, since "making Billionaires happy" is the third most important aspect of the "feature" of chaos.
Of course, PUTIN won't need American money to be happy ("Putin happy" very likely being goal #2)., but I doubt he'd refuse any of it.
DOGE is NOT a legal Department! The musk-rat is NOT doing all of this in order to "trim back the government", he is doing this to create chaos and destruction. I do agree the government is in need of trimming back excessive spending but NOT at the expense of American civilians! If the orange man and musk-rat were honestly trying to do that, they can start by examining those departments that work on small items for one or two states like PFOA in the water, cows belching methane and the waste in the federal prison system to name a few. Why not work on consolidated some of these agencies under one umbrella department? Please do not tell me that the musk-rat is doing that because he is not. He has targeted those programs and departments that actually do help the American people and has claimed they are unnecessary and leaving the departments that are wasteful, potentially vulnerable to fraud and corruption and mismanagement alone to continue to muck up the works. Also, if they want to help the American people "as they claim" by implementing a 2% tax on wealthy billionaires that would be $250 billion that could go to help the homeless, reduce hunger for children and keep programs going that are beneficial to working middle class and lower class citizens. That is NOT propaganda, that is fact. Do the research. There are so very many different options this administration could pursue without making everything so very difficult for average American citizens. Also rather than using all that money on this mass deportation scam which is completely and totally inhumane, why not find alternatives that don't separate families and incarcerate innocent immigrants?
It is a legal department. Obama set it up as the USDS (US dept of digital services). Trump just renamed it. See, propaganda. Reich lies and you believe him.
Steve, that is what I was thinking when I woke up this morning, but more for the recently freed insurrectionists and the one who freed them. Give them all a nice long vacation in the Caribbean. Then Trump can get a real tan!
SELLING deportees (or any prisoners) is a huge financial greed temptation. Your referenced article, not surprisingly, shows living human beings packed in like dead sardines in a can. Must be getting paid by the head count.
It's a little surprising since building prisons is a multi-billion dollar enterprise in the States. It's sometimes referred to as the Prison Industrial Complex. I doubt Trump will want to interfere with these wealthy corporations. However, he is committed to his deportation policy. It was a chilling report by CBS.
Remember February 28 is don’t spend any of your money day. Don’t buy anything. And call your representatives in Congress and the Senate and bitch like hell about musk and his dumb ass. Crazy shit. I am sick of this clown!!!
I call people in Congress EVERY SINGLE DAY, asking them what the hell they are doing about Drumpet and Musk. Today I already called a senator and told him that if THEY don't get their shit together, someone out here in America WILL STEP UP TO BECOME THE ANTIDOTE TO TRUMP!!! Citizens are marching, protesting, making phone calls galore, AND BUYING UP GUNS!!!
No guns. No talk of guns. The levers of command and control may be wobbly. Unrelenting, peaceful, lawful calling it what it is. And yeah he lives in FL, so why does he have to use face paint for a tan?
Most people stick with their expertise. Expecting insurance claims to rise as unemployment rises and homes and businesses become targets of speculators. I definitely notice the repeat corona virus effects on people’s stamina and subsequent secondary illness rates. Anti-masking is even prevalent at health care facilities. Not a single cancer patient or staff masked at my facility. I may need to change facilities. The high ranked teaching hospital still masks in wards with vulnerable patients. Maternity, pediatrics, dialysis, and cancer. Who wants to get an elective surgery and come home with RSV or Covid or another hospital acquired infection? The regulations for reporting were reduced. Why?
1) I'd rather not be visited by ANY Secret Service...especially not THIS ONE!
2) I want to watch Trump when he has no spray tan, no "hair fixer", no "Diet Coke button". I want him to s-l-o-w-l-y die a broken man, with ALL OF THE WORLD WATCHING!
The slower & more painful the better. If there was a way to inject him with fibromyalgia, I’d totally support that!! It won’t kill you, but some days you wish it would. (And make sure the DEA regulates all of his meds: antidepressants and meds for seizures ONLY.)
Sadly-it affects mostly females, so our medical system has zero idea of the true cause. Lots of theories, but zero facts.
Thank you for all your hard work!! Can I ask if you’re in a “red state”? I’m not, it feels like calling/writing/emailing my reps is just a mindless exercise that goes nowhere. They send back lovely responses each time, but my mailbox is already too full of Substack brilliance that I don’t have time to read…
Thankfully there is a phone town hall on Wednesday where I can clarify if I call every day- or they’ve firmly got my message & can add my name to every single idea this Nazi regime puts out there.
I’ve already planned my Friday 2/28: I’m catching up on Substack & will try to read a novel I’ve downloaded to kobo-after cancelling my Amazon kindle… maybe clean my car…
I live in a Red state with reps and senators that are fully MAGA. They have been almost completely MIA. People are starting to protest outside their offices, and local news stations across the state are starting to report on their inaccessibility.
Well do try to get the word out like on the league of women voters page about the voter registration law that would affect any married woman or divorced woman whose birth certificate name does not match their Federal or state ID. If you are wealthy and have a passport? No problem. It’s millions of lower income married women who will not be able to vote. If you kept your name? No problem.
And make sure you can vote. A voter registration law crafted by republicans would make many married or divorced women unable to vote. On the surface it just sounds like “migrant and immigration enforcement” but it would affect millions of seniors with old birth certificates and women with name changes.
I think the Buy Nothing Day is a great action symbolically - I will do it - but if everyone spends twice as much the next day it isn't effective as a threat to cut off economic support for corporations.
A week would be better, but we both know most Americans won't do that.
Consumers consume and it’s the outside the SS wall monies invested in government contract winners (like space x and Starlink) that is the kind of influence that brought down Musk’s beloved apartheid in South Africa. Investors are just watching this coup and letting their financial planners and robo money think for them. Congress is old or filling their pockets. We have no leader stepping up to fight for the constitution. Systematic obedience to the power of money. Would you expect your 3 bath 4 bed nice 401k pediatrician to pick up arms or defend a broken government? They are not rocking their own boat no matter what opinion they might have on public health care or lack thereof.
I thought it was a one week challenge! And i prepared.
I think we should go for it, challenge ourselves and one another. Why write people off before giving them the opportunity? You don’t know how far people will rise to combat an evil—until you place the opportunity before them.
Feb. 28 is one day but then March 7-14 is one week to boycott Amazon. About whether one day is only symbolic I believe it can show them what it is possible for we the people to do, which does matter, and as you say it is only the beginning--it can grow and grow.
Chip Roy of Texas and the Save act. There was a Newsweek article. It’s a disturbing piece of legislation. I did not realize my own certificate had to be reissued at vital records to properly indicate where my father worked. 75.00 but passport fees for many people are not in the budget. It specifically will not allow a marriage license or the name change documents as proof the way an employment office does. That is what is so wrong.
"Perhaps a helpful “get out the vote” strategy for future Dems might be, “When life on Earth no longer exists, neither will the KARDASHIANS. VOTE as if their show depends on it!”
"Tragically, We Now Know Exactly What “American Exceptionalism” Means to the Monsters of the Far-Right, Including White Evangelicals"
As long as SOME Americans feel deserving of MORE FREEDOMs than someone else, we will still be dealing with what might be considered the WORST of "welfare cheats", thinking themselves more deserving than others (one presumes based on skin color and gender.)
"...(T-cultists) went all-out celebrating on the day after the Kyle Rittenhouse “verdict” was delivered in November 2021. To the far-right, Rittenhouse’s self-defense acquittal (while being too young to legally own the assault rifle he used to murder two unarmed, peaceful, legal protesters, and maim a third) was a loud shout to each Trump worshipper that killing Americans they disagree with politically would forevermore be deemed “justified”, and they seemed dedicated to giving Trump all the credit. To honor what they saw as their new “Kill at Will” freedom, several dozen armed white men alternately spent the entire day (until several hours into night) shooting their many guns in the closest possible field to the “local liberal”, while staying just within the law. (I’ll let you guess who that particular liberal is…)"
To simply "fire" Musk is not sufficient. Musk has three citizenships--US, Canadian--and South African. There is reason to believe that Musk acquired US citizenship through fraud, by lying on his application. There is an application circulating on Facebook to have the Canadian Government revoke his Canadian citizenship because his activities so seriously injure Canada. If we can revoke both his US and Canadian citizenship, that leaves him with only South African citizenship. If you are a Canadian citizen, I urge you to sign the application for Canadian revocation. If you are a US lawyer, I urge you to explore how to get Musk's US citizenship revoked. After Musk's comments about Africa and Blacks, I would love to see Musk deported to South Africa. What about you?
Really, just vicious humor. Which he richly deserves. If you read the heartbreaking stories in the Fed reddit posts (sorry I forget the specific subreddit but it's probably easy to find on google), my mean humor is no match for Elon's cruel behavior.
Love this Legal channel to strip Musk of 2 illegal citizenships. 2 out of 3 ain’t bad - but 1 is and if South Africa revokes him as well he can only bore a deep hole
Please reach out to a legal entity such as Democracy Forward, or an investigative media organization such as ProPublica with a request to investigate this idea. I believe you can also start a petition on MoveOn.org
Professor Reich: musk is not only a greedy psychopath, but he's a drug addict and he's insane. but i'm confused as to how he actually reached this position in our government since he was never appointed & hired, nor vetted by congress nor voted into any office. (i know, i know: i watched this happen with my own eyes, but i STILL have no idea how he got where he is.)
I don't understand why Congress has not taken action. This cannot be legal. A private citizen can ransack our government without any oversight—and so much for his benefit!
Have you seen Republicans stand up to Trump on anything? Insurrection? Siding with Putin? Insane cabinet picks? They have either sold their souls and are corrupt or are afraid of being “mean tweeted” and/or faced with a primary challenger heavily financed by Musk. The thing is - if they got him out of there and charged him with the crimes he is guilty of they would be free of him.
There is a Canadian petition to ask the government to revoke Musk’s Canadian citizenship as well as a large group of people asking our elections officials to investigate him for election interference.
In fact, buying the prez, was the reason he bought Twitter, and kept it, when it plummeted from $44K down to $20K in a year. He was buying influence. With influence, he can force you and me to subsidize his lucrative gov contracts and grants, for his entire X family of companies. Since your taxes go thru the gov, you don't even have to buy any of his companies' products: He still robbed you to pay himself.
hell, as far as I'm concerned they're all insane to support Trump's madness. It's no doubt part of a genetic predisposition + cultural influences to rally around a leader perceived as being strong, as providing security. There is no safety in supporting Trump anymore than there was in supporting Hitler.
Some people are just impervious to any consequence other than physical pain; look how much paperwork & legal billing those is being generated by The Second Coming (who would want to be thought of that way?)...
Well - it is certainly 1984, just 40 years late; when the VP & JD of a Law Skool says “illegal alien” can apply to a US Citizen. In the Musk case - Vance is actually correct !
Trumpet 🎺 will blame musks (created) lies for all error and trumpet 🎺 will be long gone building the first presidential Hotel ( Library) on a site like Rikers Island having made tones of money on merch . And Successfully stolen from the workers ( poor) and giving to the Rich …
Musk may be a genius but he sure is stupid! That AI would work wonders if every federal worker took that survey - but then nobody did and he has mania 1 plus other mental disorders
Precisely ! He sees the books for disenfranchised men at Barnes & Noble that cheer him on a a great man and it puffs him into a dough boy man child. Joe Rogan idolizes Musk and smoked weed with him on podcast tvs - not a great look for foreign governments regimes or Tesla shareholders. He is about to get a class action jump suit
An overdose of KETAMINE 500mg was forcefully administered by EMTs to a gentle, neurodivergent soul named ELIJAH MCCLAIN, who was just walking home from the store minding his own business when he was stopped by cops, during the first Trump administration. Later, when a PEACEFUL gathering was being held for him in a park, complete with violin music, it was broken up by goons with teargas canisters and billy clubs... no doubt directed by the biggest DEI hires of all, Donald Trump.
THAT'S who I think of when KETAMINE is mentioned.
In Trumps case, DEI means DIABOLICAL EGOTISTICAL INCOMPETENT!
I still have the shirt that Elijah's mother approved to raise money for legal costs. It's one of my very favorites (out of well over 100), and I wear it proudly, and in honor of a great human being.
She took them both - and had risk factors that would have suggested caution, to say the least. Ditto Musk, if legend holds true.
PS: The 'King of Rock' & 'The King of Pop' both - and "The 27 Club" all died young too; less a "celebrity" issue than knowing that The Muse (per the nature of passion) is dangerous.
Uh, *alpha*-misinformation; everyone - uh - nose that.
PS: They are doing the things they are doing, publicly, because they aren't only *not* different but because they honestly believe they can convince others of being square (they never were - and wouldn't do what they are doing if, deep down, they didn't have a pang of shame & self-loathing, i.e. a tiny little beast inside to keep feeding that crap). Basically, that's what makes all of this so difficult - who could possibly feel sorry for them now?
These past 5 weeks feel like a nightmare unravelling in slow motion, and we are powerless to wake up and end it. Thank you Robert Reich, Mary Trump, and so many others who are helping coalesce a national response, and also sounding the 5-alarm fire call to the world about the inner workings of how a democracy is systematically dismantled, and these early stages when so many seem frozen in time with indecision and fear.
Fear is the Foundation of Trump’s rise and why The People are so slow to respond. It is not precisely Apathy or Fear when we talk about 300+ Million individual Citizens - but once the Herd Mentality does channel down such a narrow gauntlet the Power of The People will be beautiful to behold.
(But then I don't know why more people didn't hand write and address well over 1,000 postcards to swing state voters either, so I really don't know much.)
Finally Resistance is beginning to coalesce. “We the People” are beginning to speak out. Unfortunately the Dems as a Party are still trying to figure out their next move. It’s time for them to “Shit or get off the pot.” Apparently as a united front they are unable to do either.
I used to have just a little faith in how our government of supposed checks and balances was limping along. However now it is being proven to us that it is not only possible to remove the “guardrails” around capitalist democracy but to put them into the shredder and send the scrap steel to Moscow. The old guardrails are gone so again it is up to us. Congress has defaulted on its duty to us the citizens, so now it is up to us to coalesce the resistance. RESIST!
Marc, it is puzzling why the Democrats do not organise resistance. They have not functioned like a political party should, I think. (organising raalies and donations and funds is only half of what is necessary)
Or is it fear for a civil war in which the Democrats ar seen as one side? Or is it something else? Anyway, they are too late now to do something.
I agree Tom, they have abrogated their responsibility. Personally at this point I am no longer a supporter of the Democratic Party. Where is Biden? Where is Kamala? Where is Clinton? Why are they all so silent? Bernie, Elizabeth and a few brave governors are speaking up but they are not speaking for the party; they are lone voices bravely speaking up and risking King Trump’s wrath.
Rachel, part of it is fear of retribution, but the worst reason the Dems are not speaking out is that they are simply afraid of losing their jobs and the perks that come with them.
Yes, that is true of members of Congress or state Governors, etc. But what about Biden, Obama and Hilary Clinton? Bill Clinton was in the hospital a few days ago and I don't expect him to risk his health. But the others just don't care enough. Bernie is even traveling to red states and speaking truth to power, laying it fully on the line about the coup of musk/trump. The others are doing what they want for themselves; Bernie sacrifices for the people. Kamala has hired a big PR firm or Career enhancement firm to help her plot her next career moves. She takes care of herself while fascism may take over.
But why is he there in the first place? Why is he doing what he does? I try to find out and to explain. Milosz wrote "the Captive Mind" in which people identify with history and enthousiastically align themselves with a system that denies them freedom of expression.
Who has seen and talked to a "marxist", the feared enemy of the USA? Where is the freedom of mind, in the land of the free? Good to remind us: the captive mind was produced in the communist regimes, that the Trump cabal is afraid off.
Yes Marc, it shows us the power of the "droit divin". King George found out it did not protect him. But that is the only hope I have. Thinking about it: the Russians freed themselves as well. But drunkard Yeltsin arranged a transition to a gangster regime and locked the civilised Russians again in their own captive minds.
Tom, the Russian people may have freed themselves but no one had been giving thought to how to create a better form of government and economy after the fall of Soviet Communism. There was a huge vacuum and the gangsters who were already operating the black market stepped right in. We cannot be caught off-guard like the Russians were. WE NEED A PLAN. Some of us have to look ahead to a better future with an economy and governance that works for the people. That has been my own personal focus. Out of crisis comes opportunity. Let’s not this opportunity slip past us.
Not true--- there were people who gave a thought to that, but got it wrong IMO. But you are right a better vision of the economy and governance are crucial.
George III even then was subject to reign with Parliament’s advice and consent, and much of the intolerable behavior was due to the Tories and Parliament’s failure to care for the Americans and their interests.
It is the progressive democrats who are the most visible and who are speaking out forcefully. It's their time - progressives are poised to win over an increasingly deflated population that has "had it" with tax cuts for billionaires. As a Canadian, I hope they dominate the next election and look forward to the time when Americans finally get to enjoy universal health care, affordable education, gun control, and all the other benefits that progressives stand to deliver. Once you attain it, you will never give it up.
Both of Connecticut senators, with Chris Murphy being in the forefront, as has representative Jim Hines have been speaking out. Remember though, the Democrats have no power because the Republicans are in charge of all branches of government. So my question is, why are they not speaking out? Because they are afraid of losing their job by Musk’s threat to primary them? Or are they literally afraid of being attacked by the MAGA crowd?
Carol, the reason “the Democrats have no power” is because they do not utilize the power they have. When the Republicans were soundly defeated by Obama they jumped into action immediately. They called themselves “the party of NO!” they also vowed to make Obama a one term president. They failed at that short term goal, but now they have worked long and hard to create Project 2025 and unfortunately for us, it worked.
Nice, I did not hear that: but "the party of no" is exactly right. You'll wonder how you get a political vision with only "NO" but that is why we are in this mess.
Yesterday I looked TV about the German elections: a rightwinger said, answering about the why of his vote: "they should listen to us".
He is doing something, but the silence from the current leaders is deafening. DLC old line leaders don’t realize we aren’t in the Clinton and GW Bush years. The younger members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett and David Hogg (now elected to a DLC position) know the party must change to real opposition and listen to bread and butter issues. They also know they can’t rely on the MSM.
Both of Connecticut senators, with Chris Murphy being in the forefront, as has my representative Jim Hines have been speaking out. Remember though, the Democrats have no power because the Republicans are in charge of all branches of government. So my question is, why are they not speaking out? Because they are afraid of losing their job by Musk’s threat to primary them? Or are they literally afraid of being attacked by the MAGA crowd?
The Dems are not a thing to coalesce after a decade of Trump lumping us together as one group. Now Americans can stand up to this Wannabee Jackass Emporer King or whatever he thinks of himself. The American People do not much care for either party or trust them - We want positive change
Both of Connecticut senators, with Chris Murphy being in the forefront, as has representative Jim Hines have been speaking out. Remember though, the Democrats have no power because the Republicans are in charge of all branches of government. So my question is, why are the Republicans not speaking out? Because they are afraid of losing their job by Musk’s threat to primary them? Or are they literally afraid of being attacked by the MAGA crowd? Or are they just cowards?
I am finally finding Hope in how rapidly this Trump II is derailing itself with self inflicted over reach; Patience is paying off and it only took a month for the wheels to come off! Now these jokers have exposed how important Government actually is and how Drain the Swamp is now Them. Now I can relax and enjoy the show and help guide the phoenix that emerges from this ass
Trump is sucking up to Putin, Musk is sucking up to Trump and the Congress so far is afraid to act on its constituents behalf because they are afraid of losing their own jobs. Oh yes, and Musk is showing his admiration of the Nazis. Just who is in charge of this circus? Some are giving much credit to Putin. Finland is telling its citizens to be prepared for a possible war with Russia after Trump hands over the Ukraine on a silver platter to Moscow. Taiwan is shaking in its shoes for without American support its future is bleak.
Deb, you are correct. What ever they are, they are demonstrating just how our government can be taken over by a few madmen who are at the beck and call of the Billionaires. While we are distraught at the whole mess, we must also look ahead as to how we want to rebuild after this tsunami has turned Washington into rubble. Out of the ashes a Phoenix can fly. I’n giving thought to what would be a better form of governance and economy after the current one crashes (and I am confident it will.) So far Economic Democracy looks the most promising. Does anyone else have thoughts about how to shape a brighter future after this economy crashes?
There is a term for this - Social Capitalism. The problem is that the Media has demonized both of those words but maybe it can now become a double negative ! Capitalism is not inherently bad nor is Socialism - we simply need effective Government
Richard, actually Economic Democracy has a place for capitalism particularly for entrepreneurs who are starting and maintaining small businesses. But primarily it relies on employee owned cooperatives. Research shows that cooperatives outperform non cooperatives in their success rate.
Might they have forgotten the time Trump invited RUSSIANS ONLY into the Offal(sic) Office, gave them CLASSIFIED info about Israel (at the very least), and we only learned of this "meeting" because there WAS a photographer there, but like everyone there except for Trump, the photog was RUSSIAN, and Putin authorized the release of the photos to embarrass America.
"Reports: Trump Gave Classified Info To Russians During White House Visit"
When Trump made his outrageous statement that Ukraine should not have started the war with Russia, he followed up by saying: "He [Zelensky] coud have made a deal". Well, the Ukraine HAD a deal when they surrender the nuclear arsenal to Russia in return for the Crimea peninsula. This deal was guaranteed by the USA.
Likewise, Canada and Mexico had a deal, still have actually: The USMCA, negotiated during Trump's first presidency, at the time praised by Trump himself as the best deal ever negotiated.
Well, what did it get those countries? If deals can be so easily ignored by the President of the United States, what is the point of having them? One thing that has been established now is that the USA, through Trump, can no longer be trusted. That sentiment will long outlast the Trump presidency.
Yes to all except "circus" misleads as to the seriousness of this deadly situation we are all in. It's time to drop that term when talking about this gangster take over. I know, who am I to tell people how to talk? Just my view.
Here’s a way to phrase our current state of affairs:
“With all the firings at the top and bottom of just about all agencies, #MuskROT is eating away at all the underpinnings of a fairly benevolent government, honed over the decades to find as many ways as possible to help people.“
I can't believe this is happening, and Musk hasn't been arrested for impersonating a federal employee and causing mayhem. Trump sic'd him on the federal government, as sure as he set his election denying vigilantes on Congress on January 6. He doesn't want guardrails and Musk doesn't want guardrails and they want billions. So they drive democracy into the ground. The number of Americans who remain loyal to the deceivers is shocking. I overestimated people's intelligence and ethical formation for all these years. It's all so pathological! And hateful!
The application of the law is broken, ineffective or can be easily sidestepped with an infusion of payola, bribery, intimidation and "delay". By the time the courts get around to addressing all the illegalities, much damage will be done.
"Justice delayed is justice denied" is a legal maxim. It means that if legal redress or equitable relief to an injured party is available, but is not forthcoming in a timely fashion, it is effectively the same as having no remedy at all.
I have to share my sadness that Joy Reid is apparently off the lineup at MSNBC. Maybe some "surrendering in advance." Trump recently posted nasty about MSNBC. New top manager. I mean, really, the star - black - female.
Fire Musk? Not good enough. Deport this disgusting, self-serving a-hole. After all, he once was working here illegally on a student visa, but he never attended a single class.
Unfortunately the gov't and the Pentagon seem to feel they really need his SpaceX and Starlink services. SpaceX may be used to transport military weapons since it is capable of moving much faster than present modes of delivery. Our country may be afraid he could end up selling his services to Russia or China.
On it. When Robert Reich wakes me up with an assignment, I listen.
Why not give Elon Musk an earful? You can respond to his email!
Musk demanded that every federal employee Write an email saying what they've done in the last week. You can tell him what you have done in the last week— let's jam Elon's inbox with 5 million emails!
Email Elon Musk here: hr4@opm.gov
For more info, see: https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/muskrat-droppings-2
Besides, I'd guess Musk needs a little cheering up right now...
"Elon Musk’s Bid to Propel Germany’s Far-Right Party to Victory Has Failed
The AfD party scored historic numbers, but won’t be a part of government."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-germany-afd-election-results/
Thanks for the update. Germans should no better than to go Nazi again. It didn't work for them the first time. I still know some folks who came to the US from Germany after living there through WWII
You again, being bad. Here's a gift for you -- a wake-up: What Can I Do? https://lorian.org/community/2025/2/14/what-can-i-do
Oh my gosh, Kathleen! That is an excellent, stellar idea! Flood the Capitol with calls and jam up the musk-rat's inbox with every single one of us listing what we have done this past week!! I LOVE IT!!
Maybe we could ask why playing a months worth of golf would cost $10.7M. How efficient is that?
Exactly, Gordon! All of this is total bullshit on the orange man and musk-rat! They never intended to help the American people. They are grifters and right now are bringing in their biggest haul in their lifetime!
All talking points should be centered on the (f)Elon. See:
https://organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-and-the-rise-of-the-ai-industrial-complex/?ref=
And now celebrating sexual predators?! I suppose anything a sane, or
or normal, or reasonable person would have strong concern about,
their approach is to go against...
He spent 10 weekdays playing golf the past month instead of "working". Trump charges the government very high rates to keep the Secret Service at his Palm Beach "resort." Just as he did the first go-around.
I don't get why we're paying anything extra for security for him compared to other Presidents, except he thinks he now requires extra security after the "scare" of the crazy guy in the bushes at his golf club to where they had to extend the protection parameter.
Why not just have him pay for a high fence around his golf site, then after he's impeached we won't have to see him at all.
I tired to call but it is saying it has been disconnected. Maybe they got so many calls that they got rid of the phone number.
Or fired the answering service people.
One wag suggested that every billionaire have to write an essay on what he's done to benefit the country in the last week.
He's not going to actually READ any of them.
That's actually a very salient point, if I may say so. Who exactly would be reading and assessing those hundreds of thousands of responses generated on what appears to be a whim of Elon Musk ostensibly in response to a rhetorical exhortation by Trump to speed up the 'reform' process. Musk and his minions clearly have no idea what any federal worker actually does so they would presumably have had to enjoin other federal workers to do it for them. What could possibly go wrong?
"DOGE Email Throws Federal Agencies Into Chaos and Confusion"
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk-federal-workers-chaos-confusion/
Also known as "PERFECT" SUCCESS...for Putin.
There's a certain magnificence about the sheer chaotic stupidity of this new Trump administration.
INDEED, Russell!
I feel fairly certain that we will SOON see some new words (many likely to be portmanteaus) added to common usage, and perhaps even the OED.
How else to effectively communicate something so carefully thought out and planned for > 65 years, yet still appearing so totally accidental and chaotic?
Russell,
And based on this EXCELLENT article, PUTIN could scarcely be happier.
Every dream PUTIN has even dared to dream over the past decades is becoming reality! (You may wish to ignore the weak headline, but the article seems perhaps critically important to understanding Putin's plans for Ukraine):
"Putin plays the long game. He has punished Ukraine – and he won’t stop there"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/24/putin-ukraine-russia-war
Thank you.
Malfeasance is a better description, along with cruelty and harm to those serving US.
Great summation Russell. Scholars and libraries better be prepared for all of the books that will be written about this Kindergarten administration, whether it lasts 6 months or 4 years.
A perfect sentence
No one will read the emails, but he will have AI sniff the emails for keywords., and that takes microseconds. We who use google search should know that.
The SUCCESS is in the questions, paranoia and doubts created.
And getting some directors to say no to the email request is just more of the same well-thought-out process..
William, respectfully, they DON'T CARE about keywords, or what anyone typed, or even if any of it is even true or not (though I CAN imagine the responses being saving for some unknown eventuality.)
It's JUST confusion that's the goal. No one at any level ever expected anyone do do more than waste type worrying.
Perhaps if MUSK had to pick up a letter carrier's bag and deliver mail ( oh, and have to WALK the route, not drive it - like they did for 100+ years prior to getting "mail trucks" ) - he might get a CLUE.. then again, probably not...
He's now claiming that the intention of the email was only to establish whether federal employees were capable of responding to an email - disingenous, supercilious and downright irresponsible.
He's a little busy right now, using his new position for what may just be its MOST VALUABLE PURPOSE, lying about unbelievable ridiculous things he claims to "find" in the government computer system.
And he's sure to soon ask "to be able to dig just a LITTLE BIT DEEPER..."
Yes, Eileen, Muskrat will not get a clue, since he is too drunk with illicit power like his co-chairman drumpf. Our national redemption will be to dump them and their entire cadre of clowns. Robert's reference to "Chainsaw Al Dunlap" says it all. The 'skump' regime will lead us not to Mars but to a Moscow satellite.
Musk and Trump are just jerking people around. No one is going to read all those responses.
what they might do is pull a couple of responses and use them for propaganda purposes. But mostly it's to screw with the Fed workforce.
It appears that you're right. Six departments and agencies have instructed staff not to respond and Musk himself appears to be backing down claiming disingenuously that the email was only intended to establish whether federal employees were capable of responding to an email.
SERIOUSLY, Russell.!?!? But why should I be surprised.
With MAGAs running everything even the most basic tasks will be "just a BIT too difficult for the "under-educated" ".
But I'm sure PUTIN will come to terms with the resulting CHAOS very quickly...
He will have a program sniff the emails for key words, kind of like google search
Musk and his minions have no idea what any federal worker actually does... maybe that's the main reason for his email. Muskrat and mango mussolini don't know what these people are doing. Instead of looking stupid by asking (not that they need to ask something to accomplish that) they try to find out this way 🤣
no he is not intersted in what they are doing. This is not about any normal rational reasons.
He just wants to get them on their back foot momentarily, and afraid they may lose their jobs. Their superiors are telling them not to respond. Much of what they do is classified, and none of it is his business at all.
They found out pretty quickly what the federal workers responsible for the nuclear arsenal and for monitoring the bird flu were supposed to be doing - that's why they're scrambling to rehire them! The hubris and incompetence of the whole culling exercise has been nothing short of astounding.
Yeah, that was one of my first thoughts.
But that implies that ANYONE: Trump, MAMA ot Putin, actually WANTS things to work smoothly.
HARHARHARHAR...
Not important he reads them. Important he knows we don’t like him.
I am not sure whether Musk cares about what people think of him since he's so rich and has now been thoroughly MAGA-fied (this was in some doubt following his spat with Steve Bannon who still thinks of himself as the keeper of the flame). However, popularity is vital to Trump's fragile sense of self-esteem. If HIS approval ratings tank then a number of people will potentially be in his line of fire (no pun intended).
Realizing that I am going to offend some. I have to state that Musk is autistic, and autistic people are generally inured as to the feelings and opinions of others. In other words they don't care what they do to others. I don't know if Trump is on the spectrum, but he is a sociopath, a narcissitic sociopath, and like Ayn Rand's role model, William Edward Hickman, he enjoys inflecting pain.
I don't think that Musk enjoys inflecting pain, he just doesn't care, he is oblivious.
They are a perfect pair
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BjrRePprg/
unless trump investigates his status himself he will only know what his minions care to tell him - hence he appears to not yet know that his populaiity is in fact tanking as we speak !
He will have someone else do the " firing". As usual.
Apparently there were 2.3 million emails sent. I assume that he will be using his AI to assess them. What could possibly go wrong?
He seems to be backtracking now in the light of several departments telling their staff not to respond. He now claims that the email was only intended to establish whether federal workers were capable of responding to an email. This is a degree of hubris ill-suited to such a jackass.
Just like google search, an algorithm can search hundreds of thousands for keywords in a nano second.
IN theory, the workers are supposed to copy them to their supervisors, who I doubt want to read them either.
And who do the supervisors copy theirs to? In any event, one would hope the supervisors will already be abreast of what their teams are doing.
This seems like a good way to generate an enormous amount of WASTE time, effort, and emails--maybe so he can find some.
A logical or realistic response was NEVER the point.
Only chaos.
And that is at just about 100% right now.
It will make any emails that he receives from federal employees much less usable.
Absolutely!
Not really, his algorithm and AI will be searching for keywords, not content.
This is precisely what Russell Vought is dung at the OMAB.
That's true.
But we can clog up his email box
True, Maureen, but the sheer volume of these e-mails would keep him from viewing those he probably should see! Anyway, he has staff that will wade through them anyway, but we will be getting our message across!
No but if the box is bombed with millions of comments like "This week I took a crap," it could drive them crazy. Crazier.
It will still be effective. Chaos back in his face. Send it repeating spam style with lots of words asking him why he wants to hurt and destroy the lives of so many innocent Americans. cc all congress and senators ,demanding an answers with a deadline attached.
UPDATE: The Trump administration has told federal agency leaders that they can ignore the public decree from Elon Musk to effectively fire employees who do not send in bullet-point summaries of their work last week, according to three people familiar with the matter, a break with the billionaire who has exerted significant power to slash the 2.3-million-person federal workforce.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5305269/tesla-state-department-elon-musk-trump?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Gee, I wonder why that happened.
@Kathleen. I wrote to that email address as you suggested, as follows:
Re: Musk. I am likely to personally sue you for disrupting my Social Security benefits and administration. Also, I am a veteran and I am looking into what standing I have to oppose your actions.
Musk is not elected.
Musk has not been affirmed by Congress.
DOGE is not a department of the government, and has no authority.
Government employees must not respond in any way to illegal and in-secure messages from external servers.
Good!
I just sent my list--I had several bowel movements; did not smear them on the walls; did not take Ketamine; did not shoot any dogs; and remained sober.
I hope that address is FLOODED with this kind of thing.
Others have had the same idea. I may or may not have sent the following:
1. Protested the banning of books
2. Advocated for health care at my state capitol
3. Protested the firing of public employees to line the pockets of billionaires
4. Read British news media and various substack newsletters to get the truth - not the nonsense that comes out of the White House
5. Wrote a letter to the AP thanking them for their stance on the illegal renaming of an international body of water
Did I mention that I'm retired, and never worked for the federal government? Have a nice day!
That's a good one! I was just saying to my husband that the whole idea is ridiculous. How many federal employees are there? Who's going to read those emails, if they were sent, and who's going to verify them? No one of course, but they would claim that it exposed just how much nothing was getting done. Idiotes!!
The email probably originated with the 19-year-old muskateer.
Words of caution responding from your email to this account. Data Collection. I am not techy, so this is always on my mind. Maybe not a problem?
Done. As I’m retired, it was a challenging assignment
Many are doing just that. Though I wonder how he expects to read millions of them.
A little bird told me that the Reply to: email is hr4@opm.gov
Great idea. In fact, let's every American start flooding the email with what they did last week! Heck, online e-greeting card companies should offer a "what did I do last week" option that will CC this email address!
Good Idea
Done and copied to social media.
Love this idea. On it, Kathleen!
... and aren't required to submit a summary with bullet points (which makes all the difference). +1!
= )
Amazing that we live in a time where Right Is Wrong ; Wrong is Right; up is Down, Down is up; Truths are Lies , And Lies are Truth.
“1984” the book 📖 has become our new Reality.
George Orwell George Orwell , George Orwell,
What do we do now?
“Trump will not be defeated by politicians inside the D.C. Beltway,” Sanders said. “It will only be defeated by millions of Americans…in every state in this country, who come together in a strong grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to authoritarianism, no to kleptocracy.”
I hope your Right divine intervention is an alternative prayers are some time answered but I’m counting on the boozes to overreach and cause the R to collapse on the whole group. Politicians have an inherent self interest in preserving their own butts.
Trumpets 🎺 not a team player you can only threaten people for so long before they rebel .
I’m thinking the massive big bill that covers everything being stalled in committee in Congress ..,
You’re being gaslit, America…
Fer shur, Rishi!
Good morning, Rishi.
Musk has created a house of cards miraculous savings pretty to behold but unable to withstand actually of functioning in the real world .
Trumpet 🎺 will blame musks (created) lies for all error and trumpet 🎺 will be long gone building the first presidential Hotel ( Library) on a site like Rikers Island having made tones of money on merch . And Successfully stolen from the workers ( poor) and giving to the Rich …
We have been trumped by another Ponzi scheme…
Exactly!
Hey there, Peggy!
Good morning!
Good morning, foofaraw & Chiquita! Are you ready to jam up the switchboard at the Capitol today? I love getting assignments! I am also going to email the musk-rat with a list of everything I did this past week! I was talking to my sister this morning and we believe we have a solution to eliminating departments in the government. We need to eliminate those departments that actually do absolutely nothing! For example, did you know there was a Department whose sole purpose is to measure the methane expelled in a cow's fart? I'm not making that up! There are a lot of unnecessary and trivial departments that can be eliminated so there is absolutely no need whatsoever to go after our Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP and those programs that actually help and support the American citizen! Honestly, is Congress so brain-dead they didn't figure this out?
Actually, measuring methane "emissions" is pretty important right now, methane being a critical greenhouse gas. (And, both Dems and the GOP had to have supported it to at least some degree, or it would not exist. Sorry, Peggy, I haven't done appropriate research on this yet, so I may not be 100% correct.)
And, of course, MUMP (Musk/Trump) has no genuine concern about DEFICITS (except that it can be a measure of how much money is available to GIVE to "Trump's billionaires".)
The point is simply CHAOS, and in that context, THE BIGGER (and noisier) THE BETTER! All this confusion about agency heads telling employees to ignore the emails from Musk? Quite possibly, all part of the CHAOS PLAN. If people actually refuse to respond, that gives MUMP another path by which to wreck their lives later. And for today...CHAOS!
And as long as PUTIN continues to use his "pat Trump on the head" button on his email generator, Trump has EVERYTHING he has ever dreamed of or wanted...the love of a father figure even more evil and cruel than himself.
The Worst part is the clowns 🤡 show won’t bat an eye lash if we end up eating out of trash cans …
It’s king trumpet and his band of Large Scale Crooks Versus the Working Poor and the soon to be Working Poorer…
We Need a Creditable Robin Hood , Mark Cuban comes to mind but he is unwilling to climb into the sewers to fight it out…
CJ,
They may not bat an eye, but they just might get some of those specialized wrinkles caused by smiling too much.
Well said, foofaraw & Chiquita! Alright, how about this. Instead of one whole department designed to measure methane in a cow's fart, couldn't that be incorporated into another department? That would slim things down without going after essential programs. I would like a list of all departments in our government. Viewing the list could help us consolidate some departments into others thereby streamlining the government! Yes, the orange man's and the musk-rat's mission is to cause as much chaos as possible while following the orders of pootie in the background. If federal employees ignore the musk-rat's email and then they wreck their lives for it, when a sane administration takes over, they will rescind any wreckage the orange man and musk-rat incurred!
Like with the Department of Homeland Security😵💫
There will never be any money, no matter how many agencies are shut down and employees fired, since "making Billionaires happy" is the third most important aspect of the "feature" of chaos.
Of course, PUTIN won't need American money to be happy ("Putin happy" very likely being goal #2)., but I doubt he'd refuse any of it.
Sure.
At the very least, that might force MUMP to come up with another reason for creating CHAOS. Might slow them down for most of a day, or possibly more.
But the chaos isn't a bug, it's THE feature.
it is incorrect that cows emit methane from farts. Cows emit methane primarily by belching. Just so you know....
https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/climate-and-weather/understanding-carbon-and-emissions/livestock-methane-and-nitrogen-emissions#:~:text=Ruminant%20livestock%20(cattle%2C%20sheep%2C,that%20is%20then%20belched%20out.
Thanks, Tim! Good information to know!
What do you think DOGE is doing? Man, you have bought the propaganda hook line and sinker.
DOGE is NOT a legal Department! The musk-rat is NOT doing all of this in order to "trim back the government", he is doing this to create chaos and destruction. I do agree the government is in need of trimming back excessive spending but NOT at the expense of American civilians! If the orange man and musk-rat were honestly trying to do that, they can start by examining those departments that work on small items for one or two states like PFOA in the water, cows belching methane and the waste in the federal prison system to name a few. Why not work on consolidated some of these agencies under one umbrella department? Please do not tell me that the musk-rat is doing that because he is not. He has targeted those programs and departments that actually do help the American people and has claimed they are unnecessary and leaving the departments that are wasteful, potentially vulnerable to fraud and corruption and mismanagement alone to continue to muck up the works. Also, if they want to help the American people "as they claim" by implementing a 2% tax on wealthy billionaires that would be $250 billion that could go to help the homeless, reduce hunger for children and keep programs going that are beneficial to working middle class and lower class citizens. That is NOT propaganda, that is fact. Do the research. There are so very many different options this administration could pursue without making everything so very difficult for average American citizens. Also rather than using all that money on this mass deportation scam which is completely and totally inhumane, why not find alternatives that don't separate families and incarcerate innocent immigrants?
True. And this is why at this point in time, all talking points should be centered on (f)Elon. See:
https://organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-and-the-rise-of-the-ai-industrial-complex/?ref=
It is a legal department. Obama set it up as the USDS (US dept of digital services). Trump just renamed it. See, propaganda. Reich lies and you believe him.
What propaganda are you speaking of?
You mean which Lie ???
I do too! I called.
👍. “ He should be fired. ” by whom? By the military?! Sarcasm …
He should be renditioned to Gitmo.
Steve, that is what I was thinking when I woke up this morning, but more for the recently freed insurrectionists and the one who freed them. Give them all a nice long vacation in the Caribbean. Then Trump can get a real tan!
He should be hung for treason. No question.
= O
That would be... "extraordinary"...
Unfortunately, that would still be "incredible".
in=not
credible=believable
But perhaps not forever!
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/solipsism
Or CECOT. - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inside-el-salvador-notorious-cecot-mega-prison/
SELLING deportees (or any prisoners) is a huge financial greed temptation. Your referenced article, not surprisingly, shows living human beings packed in like dead sardines in a can. Must be getting paid by the head count.
Kudos to CBS, for exposing this.
It's a little surprising since building prisons is a multi-billion dollar enterprise in the States. It's sometimes referred to as the Prison Industrial Complex. I doubt Trump will want to interfere with these wealthy corporations. However, he is committed to his deportation policy. It was a chilling report by CBS.
"Karma is a b..."
No, actually karma is simply...karma.
And sending MUMP to El Salvador might help MANY American expand their knowledge of the English language.
Maybe they could each be sold. Referring to the story, here:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inside-el-salvador-notorious-cecot-mega-prison/
And this is among the many reasons why at this point in time, all talking points should center around (f)Elon Muskrat. See:
https://organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-and-the-rise-of-the-ai-industrial-complex/?ref=
They'd have to first get him tattooed from head-to-toe just for his own safety.
I'm guessing a HUGE glass of Diet Coke for his chest...
Remember February 28 is don’t spend any of your money day. Don’t buy anything. And call your representatives in Congress and the Senate and bitch like hell about musk and his dumb ass. Crazy shit. I am sick of this clown!!!
I call people in Congress EVERY SINGLE DAY, asking them what the hell they are doing about Drumpet and Musk. Today I already called a senator and told him that if THEY don't get their shit together, someone out here in America WILL STEP UP TO BECOME THE ANTIDOTE TO TRUMP!!! Citizens are marching, protesting, making phone calls galore, AND BUYING UP GUNS!!!
Thank-you Klaire. I agree with all you are doing... except for the guns.
No guns. No talk of guns. The levers of command and control may be wobbly. Unrelenting, peaceful, lawful calling it what it is. And yeah he lives in FL, so why does he have to use face paint for a tan?
There has been much speculation about this. His appearance during the garbage truck photo op looks like a bronze version of Al Jolson - https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/donald-trump-fake-tan-stress-bronzer-instagram-b2641517.html
Most people stick with their expertise. Expecting insurance claims to rise as unemployment rises and homes and businesses become targets of speculators. I definitely notice the repeat corona virus effects on people’s stamina and subsequent secondary illness rates. Anti-masking is even prevalent at health care facilities. Not a single cancer patient or staff masked at my facility. I may need to change facilities. The high ranked teaching hospital still masks in wards with vulnerable patients. Maternity, pediatrics, dialysis, and cancer. Who wants to get an elective surgery and come home with RSV or Covid or another hospital acquired infection? The regulations for reporting were reduced. Why?
I’m thinking pain and cruelty for humans that aren’t billionaires IS the point of this admin. After all, we’re just disposable, they’ll get more…
And that is among the many reasons why (f)Elon should be centered in all talking points, at this point in time. See:
https://organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-and-the-rise-of-the-ai-industrial-complex/?ref=
Exactly.
No one can hold more than 2.
The guns are for use on Trump!
I can respect that, Klare.
Except for two things...
1) I'd rather not be visited by ANY Secret Service...especially not THIS ONE!
2) I want to watch Trump when he has no spray tan, no "hair fixer", no "Diet Coke button". I want him to s-l-o-w-l-y die a broken man, with ALL OF THE WORLD WATCHING!
We've earned it.
The slower & more painful the better. If there was a way to inject him with fibromyalgia, I’d totally support that!! It won’t kill you, but some days you wish it would. (And make sure the DEA regulates all of his meds: antidepressants and meds for seizures ONLY.)
Sadly-it affects mostly females, so our medical system has zero idea of the true cause. Lots of theories, but zero facts.
Thank you for all your hard work!! Can I ask if you’re in a “red state”? I’m not, it feels like calling/writing/emailing my reps is just a mindless exercise that goes nowhere. They send back lovely responses each time, but my mailbox is already too full of Substack brilliance that I don’t have time to read…
Thankfully there is a phone town hall on Wednesday where I can clarify if I call every day- or they’ve firmly got my message & can add my name to every single idea this Nazi regime puts out there.
I’ve already planned my Friday 2/28: I’m catching up on Substack & will try to read a novel I’ve downloaded to kobo-after cancelling my Amazon kindle… maybe clean my car…
I live in a Red state with reps and senators that are fully MAGA. They have been almost completely MIA. People are starting to protest outside their offices, and local news stations across the state are starting to report on their inaccessibility.
Wonder where their equivalent of the golf club is? We need surveillance.
They are the enablers.
I am in a red state and call nearly daily and hae never received a response. Keep calling anywa. We are not aline! There is power in numbers
Yes, there is power in numbers, and even more power when the numbers are organized.
Well do try to get the word out like on the league of women voters page about the voter registration law that would affect any married woman or divorced woman whose birth certificate name does not match their Federal or state ID. If you are wealthy and have a passport? No problem. It’s millions of lower income married women who will not be able to vote. If you kept your name? No problem.
Good point!
I'm calling daily as well in regards to Musk, federal department cuts, & tax bill
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽All of us are!!! FIRE the muskrat!!!! Keep your money in your pockets on the 28th 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
And make sure you can vote. A voter registration law crafted by republicans would make many married or divorced women unable to vote. On the surface it just sounds like “migrant and immigration enforcement” but it would affect millions of seniors with old birth certificates and women with name changes.
This is the scariest , it cannot pass
If they have “fixed” the immigration/migrant problem as they brag they have done, why do they need to enact new laws regarding voting?
I did not know of this.
https://theonecalledjai.com/
thepeoplesunionusa.com
Learn more about the 24 hour blackout.
I think the Buy Nothing Day is a great action symbolically - I will do it - but if everyone spends twice as much the next day it isn't effective as a threat to cut off economic support for corporations.
A week would be better, but we both know most Americans won't do that.
It’s more than symbolic. If boycotting grows, we could one day halt the business of this country. Game over once we find our muscle. No need for guns!
Consumers consume and it’s the outside the SS wall monies invested in government contract winners (like space x and Starlink) that is the kind of influence that brought down Musk’s beloved apartheid in South Africa. Investors are just watching this coup and letting their financial planners and robo money think for them. Congress is old or filling their pockets. We have no leader stepping up to fight for the constitution. Systematic obedience to the power of money. Would you expect your 3 bath 4 bed nice 401k pediatrician to pick up arms or defend a broken government? They are not rocking their own boat no matter what opinion they might have on public health care or lack thereof.
It’s all about making a start and growing the group!
Just do it!
We don’t know that.
I thought it was a one week challenge! And i prepared.
I think we should go for it, challenge ourselves and one another. Why write people off before giving them the opportunity? You don’t know how far people will rise to combat an evil—until you place the opportunity before them.
Feb. 28 is one day but then March 7-14 is one week to boycott Amazon. About whether one day is only symbolic I believe it can show them what it is possible for we the people to do, which does matter, and as you say it is only the beginning--it can grow and grow.
Now you do!
It's pretty recent.
Chip Roy of Texas and the Save act. There was a Newsweek article. It’s a disturbing piece of legislation. I did not realize my own certificate had to be reissued at vital records to properly indicate where my father worked. 75.00 but passport fees for many people are not in the budget. It specifically will not allow a marriage license or the name change documents as proof the way an employment office does. That is what is so wrong.
The power of the purse trumps consumers in aggregate because most Americans are apathetic and just want their mucky Ds
"Perhaps a helpful “get out the vote” strategy for future Dems might be, “When life on Earth no longer exists, neither will the KARDASHIANS. VOTE as if their show depends on it!”
"Tragically, We Now Know Exactly What “American Exceptionalism” Means to the Monsters of the Far-Right, Including White Evangelicals"
https://medium.com/@foofaraw/tragically-we-now-know-exactly-what-american-excellence-means-to-the-monsters-of-the-far-right-e06dd8b1b3df
As long as SOME Americans feel deserving of MORE FREEDOMs than someone else, we will still be dealing with what might be considered the WORST of "welfare cheats", thinking themselves more deserving than others (one presumes based on skin color and gender.)
Like driving their ATV down the walking trails? Apparently it’s ok if you wear a MAGA hat and a pistol.
Yeah, I've seen some of that sort of thing...
"...(T-cultists) went all-out celebrating on the day after the Kyle Rittenhouse “verdict” was delivered in November 2021. To the far-right, Rittenhouse’s self-defense acquittal (while being too young to legally own the assault rifle he used to murder two unarmed, peaceful, legal protesters, and maim a third) was a loud shout to each Trump worshipper that killing Americans they disagree with politically would forevermore be deemed “justified”, and they seemed dedicated to giving Trump all the credit. To honor what they saw as their new “Kill at Will” freedom, several dozen armed white men alternately spent the entire day (until several hours into night) shooting their many guns in the closest possible field to the “local liberal”, while staying just within the law. (I’ll let you guess who that particular liberal is…)"
https://medium.com/@foofaraw/many-more-people-will-die-because-of-trump-i-hope-i-wont-be-one-of-them-41b2f1493036
I do hate to be quite so cliche, but it's really NOT like pie. EVERYONE can have a slice, and there's still PLENTY left over!
Maybe not. We have lost faith in one another. Just what the dictator wants and needs. Deny him.
Great idea!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHAAAAAA!
Calling is a great idea, "don't spend your money" is laughable.
Only a clown if you're thinking of the movie "Killer clowns from outer space"
And cancel subscriptions day… or at least pause them on dominant shipping and sales platforms.
DELUSION. Every single penny withheld is a penny that will shortly be spent anyway.
Richard,
That's hardly the point.
The point is that EVERYONE committed to getting rid of MUMP (collectively) will be counted on 2/28.
And, if nothing else, it will BUG THE SHIT out of Trump to have yet another "poll" strongly AGAINST him/them, and everything he/they stand for.
(Obviously, MUMP is Musk-Trump. I'd prefer it reversed, but...whatcha gonna dew?)
Nobody will be counted because there is no way to do it, and nobody has any interest in the first place.
Innocent child.
except that any great change of resistance was meant with cries of "delusion".
True, many have failed, like the Warsaw uprising in 1944.
Not if you cancel subscriptions.
To simply "fire" Musk is not sufficient. Musk has three citizenships--US, Canadian--and South African. There is reason to believe that Musk acquired US citizenship through fraud, by lying on his application. There is an application circulating on Facebook to have the Canadian Government revoke his Canadian citizenship because his activities so seriously injure Canada. If we can revoke both his US and Canadian citizenship, that leaves him with only South African citizenship. If you are a Canadian citizen, I urge you to sign the application for Canadian revocation. If you are a US lawyer, I urge you to explore how to get Musk's US citizenship revoked. After Musk's comments about Africa and Blacks, I would love to see Musk deported to South Africa. What about you?
I'd like to see him dropped by parachute into Soweto wearing a "Mandela Was a Fraud" t-shirt super glued to his skin.
Cruel but hilarious.
Really, just vicious humor. Which he richly deserves. If you read the heartbreaking stories in the Fed reddit posts (sorry I forget the specific subreddit but it's probably easy to find on google), my mean humor is no match for Elon's cruel behavior.
"More than 150,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk’s citizenship
Parliamentary petition launched due to billionaire’s link to Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to conquer Canada"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/24/canada-elon-musk-citizenship-parliamentary-petition
Maybe he can get canned from every country. Deport him to Mars, which seems to be where he wants to go, anyway.
Love this Legal channel to strip Musk of 2 illegal citizenships. 2 out of 3 ain’t bad - but 1 is and if South Africa revokes him as well he can only bore a deep hole
Maybe he can get canned from every country. Deport him to Mars, which seems to be where he wants to go, anyway.
"Boring" shouldn't be difficult for Leon(sic), regardless of the choice of definition...
https://www.boringcompany.com/
You are one step ahead of my logic - but don’t fall in! It goes to Hell in a Tesla Truck
Dave,
Thank you for pointing this out. I did not know about the petition before your post and I have just signed it. Here is a direct link to the petition: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-5353
I will post the link to the Canadian petition in Notes.
Please reach out to a legal entity such as Democracy Forward, or an investigative media organization such as ProPublica with a request to investigate this idea. I believe you can also start a petition on MoveOn.org
Absolutely!!! 👍🏽 ✅💯
Professor Reich: musk is not only a greedy psychopath, but he's a drug addict and he's insane. but i'm confused as to how he actually reached this position in our government since he was never appointed & hired, nor vetted by congress nor voted into any office. (i know, i know: i watched this happen with my own eyes, but i STILL have no idea how he got where he is.)
Because he bought the presidency, essentially. And who knows what else…
I don't understand why Congress has not taken action. This cannot be legal. A private citizen can ransack our government without any oversight—and so much for his benefit!
Have you seen Republicans stand up to Trump on anything? Insurrection? Siding with Putin? Insane cabinet picks? They have either sold their souls and are corrupt or are afraid of being “mean tweeted” and/or faced with a primary challenger heavily financed by Musk. The thing is - if they got him out of there and charged him with the crimes he is guilty of they would be free of him.
There is a Canadian petition to ask the government to revoke Musk’s Canadian citizenship as well as a large group of people asking our elections officials to investigate him for election interference.
Keep calling your reps every day!
If it were legal then Congress could pass a law against it tomorrow.
In fact, buying the prez, was the reason he bought Twitter, and kept it, when it plummeted from $44K down to $20K in a year. He was buying influence. With influence, he can force you and me to subsidize his lucrative gov contracts and grants, for his entire X family of companies. Since your taxes go thru the gov, you don't even have to buy any of his companies' products: He still robbed you to pay himself.
He and the Rapist President are verrrrrrry good buddies???????
Or, at the very least...
Members of the world's smallest MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) agreement.
Trumpets 🎺 Report To Musk On What I Did Last Week as a Federal Employee .
1. Lied To The American People
2. Betrayed My Country (USA) for
personal Gain .
3. Betrayed All of NATO for personal
Gain.
4. Betrayed The Ukrainian Freedom
Fighters for personal Gain
5. Betrayed All of The Principles that
US Populace fought for and some died
for Since the Civil War up Now 2025
EXTRA CREDIT
6. Licked Putin’s Ass
7. Licked Putin’s Ass Again
8. Violated My Oath of Office.
"Personality goes a long way."
HAR!
Perfect! (As someone dealing with minor levels of autism myself, I have NO sympathy for Musk. He can afford all the HELP he needs.)
hell, as far as I'm concerned they're all insane to support Trump's madness. It's no doubt part of a genetic predisposition + cultural influences to rally around a leader perceived as being strong, as providing security. There is no safety in supporting Trump anymore than there was in supporting Hitler.
I hope every programmer and systems analyst at SSA responds to that mail. In COBOL.
Then have them send another one in FORTRAN. Have each email contain a DO-LOOP sending the emails in both languages over and over again ad infinitum.
BRILLIANT!
Some people are just impervious to any consequence other than physical pain; look how much paperwork & legal billing those is being generated by The Second Coming (who would want to be thought of that way?)...
Musk is not ordinary or extraordinary- he could be an alien or mutant
We know Musk is an alien, if only because he can impregnate SO MANY women, and from such distances!
Originally, an "illegal" alien as well...
Well - it is certainly 1984, just 40 years late; when the VP & JD of a Law Skool says “illegal alien” can apply to a US Citizen. In the Musk case - Vance is actually correct !
Richard,
As we say in the south (and my post is not intended to make use of negative stereotypes of either the BLIND, or of PIGS)...
"Even a blind pig finds an acorn every now and then."
This is who is actually responding to Musk...
"Neo-Nazi group plots rebuild as Trump’s FBI chief takes helm, audio reveals
Exclusive: Terrorist group the Base appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/neo-nazi-trump-fbi-chief
I defy anyone to act surprised...
Trumpet 🎺 will blame musks (created) lies for all error and trumpet 🎺 will be long gone building the first presidential Hotel ( Library) on a site like Rikers Island having made tones of money on merch . And Successfully stolen from the workers ( poor) and giving to the Rich …
We have been trumped by another Ponzi scheme…
Yep.
And none of it should come as a surprise to anyone (except the ENTIRE GOP, of course.)
Musk may be a genius but he sure is stupid! That AI would work wonders if every federal worker took that survey - but then nobody did and he has mania 1 plus other mental disorders
I suspect he may not so much be a genius, as his autism has found a very specific outlet.
How many simple human actions is Musk seemingly incapable of to any notable degree?
Precisely ! He sees the books for disenfranchised men at Barnes & Noble that cheer him on a a great man and it puffs him into a dough boy man child. Joe Rogan idolizes Musk and smoked weed with him on podcast tvs - not a great look for foreign governments regimes or Tesla shareholders. He is about to get a class action jump suit
Yes and no, Richard.
At this point in time, I'm not sure I could fully trust anyone who has NEVER smoked weed.
Musk is drunk with ketamine, aka Special-K, a 🐴 tranquilizer that killed Matthew Perry.
"Musk is drunk on power." Actually, he's high on ketamine. Who is his psychiatrist?
Some guy being paid very very well to give Musk whatever he asks for.
He has several - but they are all in his own mind!
Michael Jackson also had a "caring" doctor.
An overdose of KETAMINE 500mg was forcefully administered by EMTs to a gentle, neurodivergent soul named ELIJAH MCCLAIN, who was just walking home from the store minding his own business when he was stopped by cops, during the first Trump administration. Later, when a PEACEFUL gathering was being held for him in a park, complete with violin music, it was broken up by goons with teargas canisters and billy clubs... no doubt directed by the biggest DEI hires of all, Donald Trump.
THAT'S who I think of when KETAMINE is mentioned.
In Trumps case, DEI means DIABOLICAL EGOTISTICAL INCOMPETENT!
Terri,,
I still have the shirt that Elijah's mother approved to raise money for legal costs. It's one of my very favorites (out of well over 100), and I wear it proudly, and in honor of a great human being.
I never knew him, but I miss him...
Thank you for mentioning him, Terri.
He has a prescription, whopee (better that he be in treatment than doing whatever else, apparently)...
How many celebrities have prescription drugs killed? Carrie Fisher said key to legal drugs was taking them in very illegal manner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Fisher#Bipolar_disorder_and_drug_use
She took them both - and had risk factors that would have suggested caution, to say the least. Ditto Musk, if legend holds true.
PS: The 'King of Rock' & 'The King of Pop' both - and "The 27 Club" all died young too; less a "celebrity" issue than knowing that The Muse (per the nature of passion) is dangerous.
Musk is not even on anything but his own bizarrely. His buddy Donnald don’t even smoke weed !
Uh, *alpha*-misinformation; everyone - uh - nose that.
PS: They are doing the things they are doing, publicly, because they aren't only *not* different but because they honestly believe they can convince others of being square (they never were - and wouldn't do what they are doing if, deep down, they didn't have a pang of shame & self-loathing, i.e. a tiny little beast inside to keep feeding that crap). Basically, that's what makes all of this so difficult - who could possibly feel sorry for them now?
How many poor Americans were killed by the combination of the FDA, and the Sackler Family? (ALso known as oxycontin.)
Had it been POOR people victimizing the RICH for great profit, it would NOT have taken 20 YEARS to do something...
More like 20 MINUTES!
That’s a good one. He probably would be making more mini me’ s or worse
These past 5 weeks feel like a nightmare unravelling in slow motion, and we are powerless to wake up and end it. Thank you Robert Reich, Mary Trump, and so many others who are helping coalesce a national response, and also sounding the 5-alarm fire call to the world about the inner workings of how a democracy is systematically dismantled, and these early stages when so many seem frozen in time with indecision and fear.
Fear is the Foundation of Trump’s rise and why The People are so slow to respond. It is not precisely Apathy or Fear when we talk about 300+ Million individual Citizens - but once the Herd Mentality does channel down such a narrow gauntlet the Power of The People will be beautiful to behold.
I don't know why so many didn't vote.
(But then I don't know why more people didn't hand write and address well over 1,000 postcards to swing state voters either, so I really don't know much.)
Finally Resistance is beginning to coalesce. “We the People” are beginning to speak out. Unfortunately the Dems as a Party are still trying to figure out their next move. It’s time for them to “Shit or get off the pot.” Apparently as a united front they are unable to do either.
I used to have just a little faith in how our government of supposed checks and balances was limping along. However now it is being proven to us that it is not only possible to remove the “guardrails” around capitalist democracy but to put them into the shredder and send the scrap steel to Moscow. The old guardrails are gone so again it is up to us. Congress has defaulted on its duty to us the citizens, so now it is up to us to coalesce the resistance. RESIST!
Marc, it is puzzling why the Democrats do not organise resistance. They have not functioned like a political party should, I think. (organising raalies and donations and funds is only half of what is necessary)
Or is it fear for a civil war in which the Democrats ar seen as one side? Or is it something else? Anyway, they are too late now to do something.
I agree Tom, they have abrogated their responsibility. Personally at this point I am no longer a supporter of the Democratic Party. Where is Biden? Where is Kamala? Where is Clinton? Why are they all so silent? Bernie, Elizabeth and a few brave governors are speaking up but they are not speaking for the party; they are lone voices bravely speaking up and risking King Trump’s wrath.
Perhaps they are afraid of retribution?
Rachel, part of it is fear of retribution, but the worst reason the Dems are not speaking out is that they are simply afraid of losing their jobs and the perks that come with them.
Yes, that is true of members of Congress or state Governors, etc. But what about Biden, Obama and Hilary Clinton? Bill Clinton was in the hospital a few days ago and I don't expect him to risk his health. But the others just don't care enough. Bernie is even traveling to red states and speaking truth to power, laying it fully on the line about the coup of musk/trump. The others are doing what they want for themselves; Bernie sacrifices for the people. Kamala has hired a big PR firm or Career enhancement firm to help her plot her next career moves. She takes care of herself while fascism may take over.
See my post, further down...
This was my post.
Of course: fire him ans prosecute him.
But why is he there in the first place? Why is he doing what he does? I try to find out and to explain. Milosz wrote "the Captive Mind" in which people identify with history and enthousiastically align themselves with a system that denies them freedom of expression.
Who has seen and talked to a "marxist", the feared enemy of the USA? Where is the freedom of mind, in the land of the free? Good to remind us: the captive mind was produced in the communist regimes, that the Trump cabal is afraid off.
I wonder why Dems would be afraid right now?
"Trump names conservative podcaster Dan Bongino as FBI deputy director
Selection of former Secret Service agent and author means two staunch Trump allies lead the principal federal law enforcement agency"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/dan-bongino-trump-new-fbi-deputy-director-podcast-host
Oh...yeah.
the madness continues. I just love those hard rock chords that tell me it's the........ Dan Bonginooooo show.
Dems could learn from that.
Yes Marc, it shows us the power of the "droit divin". King George found out it did not protect him. But that is the only hope I have. Thinking about it: the Russians freed themselves as well. But drunkard Yeltsin arranged a transition to a gangster regime and locked the civilised Russians again in their own captive minds.
And Bernie and Elisabeth are treasures to guard and protect...
Tom, the Russian people may have freed themselves but no one had been giving thought to how to create a better form of government and economy after the fall of Soviet Communism. There was a huge vacuum and the gangsters who were already operating the black market stepped right in. We cannot be caught off-guard like the Russians were. WE NEED A PLAN. Some of us have to look ahead to a better future with an economy and governance that works for the people. That has been my own personal focus. Out of crisis comes opportunity. Let’s not this opportunity slip past us.
Marc, we agree on that. My message was: never underestimate the thinking of a gangster...
Getting rid of Elon is not so difficult, but a regime is not one man, or a bunch of idiots. You are right:
- how should the USA be governed?
- who should get what protection?
- what is a just income distribution?
And the PLAN, how can we work on these questions, with the smithereens we already have? Like I wrote: we need an emergency exit
Marc, you are surrendering the Constitution all too soon.
Not true--- there were people who gave a thought to that, but got it wrong IMO. But you are right a better vision of the economy and governance are crucial.
My belief is that American Capitalism can be that form - if we simply Transform Government into a machine that manages Greed.
George III even then was subject to reign with Parliament’s advice and consent, and much of the intolerable behavior was due to the Tories and Parliament’s failure to care for the Americans and their interests.
Britain never got it right - because they turned a blind eye to Greed and Savagery to expand the Crown Jewels
It is the progressive democrats who are the most visible and who are speaking out forcefully. It's their time - progressives are poised to win over an increasingly deflated population that has "had it" with tax cuts for billionaires. As a Canadian, I hope they dominate the next election and look forward to the time when Americans finally get to enjoy universal health care, affordable education, gun control, and all the other benefits that progressives stand to deliver. Once you attain it, you will never give it up.
Both of Connecticut senators, with Chris Murphy being in the forefront, as has representative Jim Hines have been speaking out. Remember though, the Democrats have no power because the Republicans are in charge of all branches of government. So my question is, why are they not speaking out? Because they are afraid of losing their job by Musk’s threat to primary them? Or are they literally afraid of being attacked by the MAGA crowd?
Carol, the reason “the Democrats have no power” is because they do not utilize the power they have. When the Republicans were soundly defeated by Obama they jumped into action immediately. They called themselves “the party of NO!” they also vowed to make Obama a one term president. They failed at that short term goal, but now they have worked long and hard to create Project 2025 and unfortunately for us, it worked.
Nice, I did not hear that: but "the party of no" is exactly right. You'll wonder how you get a political vision with only "NO" but that is why we are in this mess.
Yesterday I looked TV about the German elections: a rightwinger said, answering about the why of his vote: "they should listen to us".
But what do you wish? Strangers out.
Not a social society? No...
Chris Murphy has entered the chat.
He is doing something, but the silence from the current leaders is deafening. DLC old line leaders don’t realize we aren’t in the Clinton and GW Bush years. The younger members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett and David Hogg (now elected to a DLC position) know the party must change to real opposition and listen to bread and butter issues. They also know they can’t rely on the MSM.
https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-tiktok-farmer
on Jess Piper conversations with Ken Martin new DNC chair.
Rural is not equal to farmers y'all.
Topic: Respect Voters Coalition Toni Easter w/Jess Piper
Time: Feb 26, 2025 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Both of Connecticut senators, with Chris Murphy being in the forefront, as has my representative Jim Hines have been speaking out. Remember though, the Democrats have no power because the Republicans are in charge of all branches of government. So my question is, why are they not speaking out? Because they are afraid of losing their job by Musk’s threat to primary them? Or are they literally afraid of being attacked by the MAGA crowd?
The Dems are not a thing to coalesce after a decade of Trump lumping us together as one group. Now Americans can stand up to this Wannabee Jackass Emporer King or whatever he thinks of himself. The American People do not much care for either party or trust them - We want positive change
Both of Connecticut senators, with Chris Murphy being in the forefront, as has representative Jim Hines have been speaking out. Remember though, the Democrats have no power because the Republicans are in charge of all branches of government. So my question is, why are the Republicans not speaking out? Because they are afraid of losing their job by Musk’s threat to primary them? Or are they literally afraid of being attacked by the MAGA crowd? Or are they just cowards?
cowards and hypocrites.
I am finally finding Hope in how rapidly this Trump II is derailing itself with self inflicted over reach; Patience is paying off and it only took a month for the wheels to come off! Now these jokers have exposed how important Government actually is and how Drain the Swamp is now Them. Now I can relax and enjoy the show and help guide the phoenix that emerges from this ass
I think the market will speak.
Trump is sucking up to Putin, Musk is sucking up to Trump and the Congress so far is afraid to act on its constituents behalf because they are afraid of losing their own jobs. Oh yes, and Musk is showing his admiration of the Nazis. Just who is in charge of this circus? Some are giving much credit to Putin. Finland is telling its citizens to be prepared for a possible war with Russia after Trump hands over the Ukraine on a silver platter to Moscow. Taiwan is shaking in its shoes for without American support its future is bleak.
Personally, I do not think Congress is powerless, I think most of them are GUTLESS!
Deb, you are correct. What ever they are, they are demonstrating just how our government can be taken over by a few madmen who are at the beck and call of the Billionaires. While we are distraught at the whole mess, we must also look ahead as to how we want to rebuild after this tsunami has turned Washington into rubble. Out of the ashes a Phoenix can fly. I’n giving thought to what would be a better form of governance and economy after the current one crashes (and I am confident it will.) So far Economic Democracy looks the most promising. Does anyone else have thoughts about how to shape a brighter future after this economy crashes?
There is a term for this - Social Capitalism. The problem is that the Media has demonized both of those words but maybe it can now become a double negative ! Capitalism is not inherently bad nor is Socialism - we simply need effective Government
Richard, actually Economic Democracy has a place for capitalism particularly for entrepreneurs who are starting and maintaining small businesses. But primarily it relies on employee owned cooperatives. Research shows that cooperatives outperform non cooperatives in their success rate.
They still have power. At least for now.
Isn't it just SO CUTE how HuffPo seems to think Trump's 40-year BROMANCE with PUTIN indicates a "policy shift"?!
"Republicans Just Can't Seem To Condemn Trump's Policy Shift Toward Putin"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-condemn-trump-policy-putin-ukraine_n_67bba650e4b0249e5d5afa6b
Might they have forgotten the time Trump invited RUSSIANS ONLY into the Offal(sic) Office, gave them CLASSIFIED info about Israel (at the very least), and we only learned of this "meeting" because there WAS a photographer there, but like everyone there except for Trump, the photog was RUSSIAN, and Putin authorized the release of the photos to embarrass America.
"Reports: Trump Gave Classified Info To Russians During White House Visit"
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/528511980/report-trump-gave-classified-information-to-russians-during-white-house-visit
WAKE THE FORG UP, HUFFPO!
But IS Trump still sucking up to Putin?
Or is Trump perhaps thinking, "With this UNLIMITED power, perhaps I won't need to rule the world side-by-side with Putin OR Xi..."
"I can dominate them AND THE WORLD!"
I suspect Trump can't think in any other patterns.
When Trump made his outrageous statement that Ukraine should not have started the war with Russia, he followed up by saying: "He [Zelensky] coud have made a deal". Well, the Ukraine HAD a deal when they surrender the nuclear arsenal to Russia in return for the Crimea peninsula. This deal was guaranteed by the USA.
Likewise, Canada and Mexico had a deal, still have actually: The USMCA, negotiated during Trump's first presidency, at the time praised by Trump himself as the best deal ever negotiated.
Well, what did it get those countries? If deals can be so easily ignored by the President of the United States, what is the point of having them? One thing that has been established now is that the USA, through Trump, can no longer be trusted. That sentiment will long outlast the Trump presidency.
Yes to all except "circus" misleads as to the seriousness of this deadly situation we are all in. It's time to drop that term when talking about this gangster take over. I know, who am I to tell people how to talk? Just my view.
This is why Intel is being carved in 2 - so Taiwan Semiconductor can keep investing in US capacity and Taiwanese people can move here
It’s been building for ages, the news is finally reporting on it.
careful, news is fickle and has been bought
And in fact, proven their profit motive is basically their ONLY motive.
Walter Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley, and John Chancellor are spinning in their graves.
Relax. Let the Dems coalesce around the actual will of the People.
The only thing the Dems are coalescing around is a united front of inaction!
Here’s a way to phrase our current state of affairs:
“With all the firings at the top and bottom of just about all agencies, #MuskROT is eating away at all the underpinnings of a fairly benevolent government, honed over the decades to find as many ways as possible to help people.“
This is one reason I think our current system of capitalist dominated democracy will fall. It will occur very fast so we should be prepared.
I can't believe this is happening, and Musk hasn't been arrested for impersonating a federal employee and causing mayhem. Trump sic'd him on the federal government, as sure as he set his election denying vigilantes on Congress on January 6. He doesn't want guardrails and Musk doesn't want guardrails and they want billions. So they drive democracy into the ground. The number of Americans who remain loyal to the deceivers is shocking. I overestimated people's intelligence and ethical formation for all these years. It's all so pathological! And hateful!
Perhaps he’s trying to do to the U.S. what the Gupta brothers did in South Africa and walk off with the national wealth?
The application of the law is broken, ineffective or can be easily sidestepped with an infusion of payola, bribery, intimidation and "delay". By the time the courts get around to addressing all the illegalities, much damage will be done.
"Justice delayed is justice denied" is a legal maxim. It means that if legal redress or equitable relief to an injured party is available, but is not forthcoming in a timely fashion, it is effectively the same as having no remedy at all.
Who benefits most in the end? Putin, with no more America The Great to compete against.
Hopeful, you may be on to something here. Impersonating a federal employee is a crime. See the link below . . .
https://www.google.com/search?q=is+impersonating+a+federal+employee+a+crime&sca_esv=fb875f67547db07d&sxsrf=AHTn8zrmKldr8jR1_ICyKpza1t04-4nKkQ%3A1740392237254&ei=LUe8Z-uiD862wN4P2rjZ2Qw&oq=is+impersonating+a+fed&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
I have to share my sadness that Joy Reid is apparently off the lineup at MSNBC. Maybe some "surrendering in advance." Trump recently posted nasty about MSNBC. New top manager. I mean, really, the star - black - female.
Meidas has offered her a VERY public invitation.
(And that may offer her an even BIGGER audience!)
GOOD MORNING, Mmerose!
I am very upset about Joy Reid not being in the line up on MSNBC. I just love her, and her point of view.
My mom texted me about Joy, because she knows I am a huge fan. She read about it in the NY Times. 😟
What???? Where did you see this??
"A Message to Joy Reid from Meidas"
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/a-message-to-joy-reid-from-meidas?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3078900&post_id=157771915&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=ntqz&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
At last look, there were > 750 comments!!!
My question exactly Linda. Ive been awake all night!
I am disappointed in the MSNBC cancellation her program.
Congress is spineless
Republicans in Congress are spineless.
Excellent and precise description of the horror show. Thank you, Robert. Call early and often!
Trumpets 🎺 Report To Musk On What I Did Last Week as a Federal Employee .
1. Lied To The American People
2. Betrayed My Country (USA) for
personal Gain .
3. Betrayed All of NATO for personal
Gain.
4. Betrayed The Ukrainian Freedom
Fighters for personal Gain
5. Betrayed All of The Principles that
US Populace fought for and some died
for Since the Civil War up Now 2025
EXTRA CREDIT
6. Licked Putin’s Ass
7. Licked Putin’s Ass Again
8. Violated My Oath of Office.
Boy you must look at my posts and cringe for professional reasons.
I’m dyslexic, but it’s nothing to hide behind and I can’t spell some things and others I can only through years and years of repetition.
Thank You. “J”
Oh it’s 4 am and I’m not really awake!!!
Fire him and ARREST HIM!
Then secure the treasury from the rest of Orange Julius and the criminals
Keep calling keep the heat on and prepare for their responses. Stand together.
Focus our remaining true patriots leaders energy on getting back the Military, FBI and treasure. If we don’t have those. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS!
Fire Musk? Not good enough. Deport this disgusting, self-serving a-hole. After all, he once was working here illegally on a student visa, but he never attended a single class.
Unfortunately the gov't and the Pentagon seem to feel they really need his SpaceX and Starlink services. SpaceX may be used to transport military weapons since it is capable of moving much faster than present modes of delivery. Our country may be afraid he could end up selling his services to Russia or China.
In Illinois Governor Pritzker’s State of the State address he said , “ “It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.” https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/full-text-illinois-gov-jb-pritzkers-state-of-the-state-address/3678119/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
I am e-mailing this post to my representatives.