If you have any doubts about whether or not Trump is working with Putin, read Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack. The History of Russian agreement with Ukraine after Ukraine surrendered their Nuclear weapons!
The February (Jobs Report) will show whether or not TRUMP and MUSK are being transparent, as they claim, with all the firings they have administered, the unemployment rate should jump to @ least 15%! Or will they fudge the numbers?
And so is Musk! I heard 1 of his speeches pre election. He repeated over an hour time, "All Democrats are Communists" He is a racist, a crook, a liar and a fraud. DO NOT BUY TESLAs or anything else he makes. Never forget Musk is an Afrikaner and a far right extremist!
He's not just meddling in Germany's upcoming election in order to move far right (Nazi) candidates forward, he's doing the same thing in about 7-8 other countries as well. (Where DOES he get the time? the tesla, spacex, starlink employees must be finally enjoying their work & getting stuff DONE, like many of us do when the boss is away..)
I have nothing to add, except noticeable by their absent are the posters that were so devoted to calling President Biden, genocide Joe and blaming the U.S. for Russia's aggression all America imperialist while rationalizing Putin's imperialism. Almost to a person they disappeared on November 6th, anyone but myself notice the departure.
I'm still not ready to let go of a strategy that has seemed logical to me for decades now. (Apologies to those who have seen this already.)
"What legislation (if any) has the GOP ever proposed OR supported that was intended to HELP middle-class, middle-income, working-class Americans, anytime in the past 75 years?"
It's a serious question, and one I've been asking for years. I only know of one correct answer, and that's the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act). The GOP didn't propose it, but neither did they fight it, which speaks VOLUMES to the mistake the GOP will make if they kill services for Americans with such great needs.
Obviously, the list of legislation from Dems that fits all the criteria would fill pages. And what's also significant is that almost EVERY law passed by Dems to help working Americans has faced bitter battles from the GOP. (The ACA comes to mind...)
Have you heard of the Great Migration, mostly blacks from Mississippi, that were recruited by great lakes manufacturers, because they would work for less wages than whites.
That created racial and animosity of white blue collar workers against blacks., that racism has been institutionalized, especially since blacks, in part due to red lining, but also because birds of a feather and people congregate with those with whom they are familiar, comfortable and accepted,have produced and us vs them mentality and local society.
Working class and union proud identify with the anti DEI, anti woke culture war, not with their own economic well being, that seems counter intuitive, but it reflects on the priority of ones identity.
The right wing has accused the left of identity politics, but the right wing has been playing identity politics since 1619 when 20 Africans, were sold on the quay at Elizabeth City, as indentured servants.
At that time the class structure was freeman or indentured servant, in 1661 by act of House of Burgess it became racial as well.
inter racial cohabitation between black and white indentured servants was so common that the 1661 law specified that the status of the child (free or white) depended on the status of the mother, it then went on to declare that black and white marriages and breeding were illegal, this resulted in court cases,where people filed to be recognized as Indian not mulatto, the same act also legalized slavery, where here to for ownership of a person was determined only by adjudication (see johnson v. Casor).
In reality, while 100% true, there may be complications.
For example, what constitutes a law to help middle-America? To MAGA, it would likely be the reintroduction of slavery, but in EVERY state.
And I can see countless suggestions from the right that don't begin to help middle-America, and it could easily turn into a battle to exclude each and every example they offer, and to "prove" each and every one of ours.
There must be SOME REASON it's never (to my knowledge) been done.
Still, it just feels POSSIBLE to me.
I had another idea, and I actually had the chance to "pitch" this one to one of Biden's "handlers" years ago at one of the few existing "stump meetings" still taking place in the south. (I like to think that it might perhaps have actually been considered, had that pitch been made in the past decade.)
It was to REMIND Americans of what Dems have done. "Providing social security to elderly American immediately lifted 25% of America's elderly out of poverty, almost certainly including beloved matriarchs and patriarchs of your own family. How wonderful that the Democratic party was able to help families survive, even through the worst of times."
Or, "Prior to the Affordable Care Act, the only way to receive coverage for pre-existing conditions was to be rich. And if you were a cancer survivor, good luck! But thanks to Obama and the Democrats, almost everyone in America now has a level of health care not previously available, even for those not on Obamacare."
You get the idea. I'm sure there are hundreds of very legitimate little "guilt trips" that can logically and realistically be packaged into some sort of, "We were there for your family. It would sure be nice if America can now consider the world we will be living in once all these common-sense social safety nets are gone forever, and please allow Democrats to CONTINUE being there for America's families."
All of the points you make are valid.The Dems have done more for the low income.middle income Americans than any Republican in 200 yrs.The problem is,when you present facts to the people who voted for Trump,they do not believe those facts are correct. They listen to the Republicans who tell them those verifiable facts are not true.How do you deal with that?
I don't think large numbers of people under 60 who are voting now were interested enough in government to realize what is true or false. We need a lot of adult education in U.S. Govt. and economics. Many people mostly get news on social media, apps on their phone, or listen to someone that looks and sounds like them on a podcast. They fell into the mind trap of believing news is mostly fake news even A.P. and the only real news is Fox guys and gals.
Yes, the regime will collapse from within, due to it's hubris and stupidity. All the EU and NATO, and China has to do is have patience and wait.
The Reserve currency of the near future will be the Yuan or something comparable to it from the BRICS. Musk and his wife Trump are killing the goose that laid the golden egg, and we are collateral damage.
The GOP tells a LIE about a cultural issue, and MAGAs simply prefer any lie that gives them power over any truth we would try to replace the lie with. NOT our fault.
It wasn't high prices that MAGAs latched onto, it was LIES about high prices, after America was the FASTEST industrialized nation on Earth to recover from global Covid inflation. (And price gouging made up 53% of that inflation.)
It wasn't even ABORTION that cost Dems votes so much as LIES about abortion, "Dems abort babies AFTER birth." Dems didn't make people THAT remarkably, incredibly, unbelievably STUPID. Trump convinced them to choose ignorance over knowledge, and they could not possibly be happier.
It wasn't TRANS KIDS that gave Trump votes, it was LIES about trans kids.
It wasn't the LGBTQIA+ community, it was LIES about the LGBTQIA+ community.
It wasn't WOKENESS or DEI that gave Trump the edge, it was LIES about both.
We have GOT TO STOP blaming Dems for things that are caused by the WORST ASPECTS of human nature, which are ALL things that Dems would never manipulate for power.
But the GOP will never STOP manipulating evil for power, no matter how many people get badly hurt.
and what is it with his bringing small children to extremely serious, ADULT situations all about??? the continual marching through crowds with a toddler on his shoulders, then allowing that toddler to roam around the Oval? is he trying to present a "warm fuzzy" aspect to his personality? is he simply trying to belittle the decorum of the presidency (and its occupant) and the offices of those high level senate/house and other officials representing us? or does he hope to thwart anyone with an interest in doing him harm? ALL of the above? I am sick of it. . he needs to go back to teslaland or even better, his homeland, and horse around there.
Only way to be certain to completely control the narrative...
Being present for EVERY WORD spoken to Trump.
(Much like book bans are actually nothing more than a tool to control the narrative, so (for example) the LGBTQIA+ community will never be seen as just regular folks. They will ONLY be seen the way the right(sic) present them.
How about this narrative: Red Riding Hood, ignoring warnings, went to bed with the wolf. She became a whore, and is now waging a campaign against the very hunters who tried to protect her.
John - perhaps he's read and is a fan of Ayn Rand, who would probably agree that democrats are communists because they believe in the common good, and believe that gov't can provide the means to accomplish, for the common good, what individual efforts cannot. I've not read her, but privatization of the commons seems to me to be one step towards slavery for all. The planet hasn't seen true communism since the first attempts of beginning christians to live together communally. For those christians who might want to learn about their communal roots, the Acts of the Apostles in the new testament is worth reading. Since that time, communism has never had a chance, and the theory always morphs into repression and authoritarianism.
"He told the council what MAGA has stood for since Trump returned to office last month:
“MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for resegregation and racism. MAGA stands for censorship and book bans. MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing. MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal. MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide. MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children.” "
If this doesn't provide at least a speck of hope, I fear we may never find better.
foofaraw & Chiquita, you won't see that on any news feed! Anyone who speaks out is silenced! Chris Kluwe spoke truth to power but those that need to know will never hear it. We need more and more people like Chris Kluwe to speak up and loudly!
There is a way to make the story appear higher up in the news feeds people see: click on the huff post link here, search for "Chris Kluwe arrested" or similar, post the story, including versions from other news outlets, on social media sites you frequent. And repeat.
The same technique the MAGAs and their predecessors use(d).
Last night Maddow spent nearly her full hour highlighting incidents just like this!! It was so uplifting. Anyone like her with a big audience should consider doing the same. It feels empowering and shows that even on small levels we each can do similar (Rachel's point).... And I think it was she who showed feedback from the the elected officials hosting recent townhall meetings around the country where HUGE numbers of people, FAR exceeding organizers' expectations, showed up in person. and TENS OF THOUSANDS participated by phone or zoom per meeting .... in one case 19,000 (no lie).
Today’s topic was in the subtitle, “Make the world safe for Oligarchy” and basically that is ultimately the goal and end result of capitalism.
Capitalism as it has evolved from the late middle ages has caused much suffering across the whole planet and ultimately is the root cause of oncoming climate collapse. When the accumulation of wealth and power are the highest ideals of an economic system, all morality and ethics that are part of a healthy human society are cast aside in order to fulfill an insatiable appetite for greater and greater wealth accumulation.
Capitalism is a mixed bag. Capitalism is a system that enables a person to invest their money and labor in an endeavor that it may return a profit.
It is because of capitalism that you can even sit in a warm comfortable chair, in a warm comfortable house, and pontificate on a keyboard, or drive a car, to a store and buy food and what ever else you want and need
In fact Capitalism is the reason that there is a United States of America.
In 1606 a bunch of London merchants and some lesser nobility,pooled their resources and prevailed upon King James to grant them a charter for a corporation, to explore the east coast of what they then called Virginia (from the latitude of Roanoke to Maine), it was called the London Company of Virginia and it was a capitalist adventure.
The problem isn't capitalism, but the greed of men, and the golden rule, He who has the most gold, rules.
The problem is mankind, regardless of the economic system, it always devolves into authoritarianism, autocracy.
Milovan Djilas, a Yugoslavian official, wrote a book called the New Class, about the formation of a New Class of privileged, nobility, which was also hereditary .
Economic democracy encourages small-scale capitalism. It does not allow for outrageous wealth accumulation. When a business becomes quite large, it transitions into an employee owned cooperative. So under economic democracy, I can sit in my warm chair in my warm house but I would not be permitted to sit in my warm chair in one of my five mansions driving one of my 10 cars while others are dying for lack of food.
but William, the roots of capitalism are essentially free labor and free resources. by free i mean slavery and the theft of other peoples' resources. it started when rome and the catholic church joined into a ruling theocracy, and this institution raped, pillaged, and looted europe for a thousand years, then they sent ships out when the technology advanced enough to rape, pillage, and loot the rest of the world, all with theocratic approval, of course. the mentality hasn't changed, and the whole financial services industry and the tech industry are extreme examples of this mindset. If one follows the money far enough, we (the rich nations) are always benefiting at the expense of others.
What we are experiencing now is not just the concentration of wealth and power in the world, but the concentration of evil. This evil has no care or compassion for the suffering of others on the planet. This evil cares not for the suffering of the children who are forced to mine lithium for the profitable manufacturing of batteries nor does it care for the suffering of the people who are dying prematurely from the pollution caused by factories to feed the insatiable appetite for wealth. This is the ultimate expression of capitalism unbound, whether it occurs in communism or democracies. Current capitalism eventually destroys all in its path all for the insatiable appetite for wealth and power. It is for a goal it cannot deliver on, the goal for inner happiness and fulfillment.
This is why I believe that the only solution to our current misery is the adoption of Economic Democracy which is embedded in the Progressive Utilization Theory which stands on the moral and ethical foundation of Neohumanism. Neohumanism is care for all the life forms on the earth and including the health of the planet itself. Until we do away with our support of capitalism, we will continue to come closer and closer to the precipice of climate collapse and the suffering it is now causing.
MONEY is our god. Congress, like the rest of us, worships MONEY. What will it take to own one of those legislators, a million, 100 million, 500 million??? It is just math! . . . entries on a spreadsheet!
Take a long hard look in a mirror. Are you seeing a mask? Who's fooling who? Monotheism has won the theology argument! The problem is that we have chosen the wrong GOD! We don't have the courage to remove that mask and its platitudes. History will do that for us, and it hurts!
Marc,I agree 100%. Capitalism In the last 20 yrs.we have seen the greed spiral out of control.The stock market is laugable,earnings have no relationship to the price of stock. Analysts cozy relationship with the companies they follow,getting payoffs from cos to write glowing reports. Wall Street has become totally corrupt.
You're right, Gregg! The problem is those of us who never ever voted the orange man into office will suffer, too! I count on my social security check for half of my monthly income! I use it to pay my bills and then my retirement check takes care of groceries and incidentals. Without my Social Security, my goose is cooked!
How EXCITING can it really be to sleep until noon, and then play golf EVERY day? I'm sure he finds it "rewarding", since most of that money flows right back into his pockets, as he plays his own courses, and CHARGES the Secret Service ungodly amounts to PROTECT his own worthless life.
Oddly, that may be one of the few Trump actions that may not be an absolute disaster. Although seeing Fox News broadcasts presented daily as "culture" will be a bit hard to accept.
If Trump says he'll do something, it's almost certain 1) to be horrible, and 2) he WILL do it.
If Trump says he WON'T do something, it's almost certain 1) to be horrible, and 2) he WILL do it.
The only things we can safely ignore seem to be things he has no awareness of. Such as logic, honor and kindness. (Jesus, maybe?)
Never mind. That's how we got here in the first place...logic, honor and kindness. And strangely enough, Jesus. (But I mean the NEW ONE, not that "woke" immigrant-lover who won't even be referenced in the Bible for much longer. " "Do unto others"...PULEASE!!!")
Yes, I like that you're figuring out how a narcissist works. Everything is a lie, even the lies. The entire purpose is to get what the liar wants, and they will say anything to get it.
Other than a lack of interest in politics, my brother was substantially a mirror to everything I've seen in Trump since Day One.
And as far as just HOW narcissistic? He was raised by my father as a first-born GOD, incapable of flaw or misjudgement. (I once asked Dad if he had ever disciplined my brother. He said that the had, once when he was caught driving home drunk. Meaning, while many of my earliest memories are of this big man wailing on me with a leather belt, the only time he ever even raised his voice to my brother was after he was old enough to have a full drivers license.) And THAT is how narcissists are created.
And he became a pilot, which is equal only to surgeons (or NYC real estate "tycoons"?) in the god-like egos of those involved. But that allowed him to continue spreading his narcissism all over the world, and permitted it to maintain the geometric progression of ego that is necessary to sustain the illusion of "greatness".
So when he had to retire, and nothing like geometric ego growth would EVER be a possibility again (and he clearly saw this), he spent a year drinking himself to death. He is not missed, not even by the father who ADMITTEDLY created the monster.
And had Trump not won this past election, I can see him melting down in a similar fashion.
No. He said he would be a dictator on day one. That was the truth. He said he likes the uneducated and he will make more uneducated. He said Putin was a genius.
The fools are us who knowing all this enabled his takeover.
Now the challenge is to take seriously our own prediction that if he won the election, it would have been the last election.
We must not just look at what happened in the last month but project into the near future and be prepared. I look at 1933 Germany and other dictators to get the gameplay…..purging of the judiciary, attacks on the truthful journalists, further demonizing of lbgtq, immigrants, non Christians…some obvious things too, interference in local issues like congestion pricing, public schools, more book banning, attacks on peaceful protests, and finally the calling off of elections. Meanwhile AI will be used with all the data that DOGE has collected for nefarious purposes. There will be no one to call if checks don’t arrive.
On the global stage, we can expect a new age of colonialism.
Just for the record, and totally useless but I have to say it, I love immigrants, I love LGBTQ people, I love books, and I love education. These are but a few of the things that make life worthwhile. These MAGA idiots don't know what they're missing.
It has both a narcissistic personality disorder AND is a pathological liar! Remember when Bunkerboy lies about small, unimportant things like adding 10,000 people to one of it's hugbox rallies??? SYMPTOMS.
The power of the lie is greater than ever with trump as with putin, and he keeps using bigger ones just like madmen old and new as his inner circle of hardliners reinforces them daily. Now Zelensky is the dictator, and Putin will dispose of this "Nazi" and bring lasting peace and whiteness to Europe. Don't forget that this entire pack of thugs lied and bludgeoned their way into dictatorship, and that free and fair elections were out of play in this. Take note of the absolutely vicious political attacks being made on some Democratic candidates in upcoming elections by the trump juggernaut, as in the far right's campaign for the Wisconsin SC election coming up in April.
Whether they cheated or not, right now we need strong leaders on our side to get off their asses and stop this crap right now!! I am so angry that NO ONE is sounding the alarm! Congress is allowing this to happen! I feel like I am living in the absolute worst nightmare of my life!!
Bernie is putting out messages daily. I realize that doesn't help much but the lowly magats are starting to feel the hurt. Hopefully, it won't take much longer.
As much as I love Bernie, it is going to take way more than just Bernie to stop this madness! Where is the line that should never be crossed? If this isn't it, then what the hell is? I simply cannot fathom that the majority of America is going along with all of this! Am I in the minority? Do more people agree with that orange asshole than believe in this country? I am just sick with anger!
The majority was muffled by election hacking and vote suppression. there are polls that actually show that the majority want their freedom back, to decide when or if they will be parents, for example. The majority want to see the billionaires pay their fair share of taxes. We want clean air, water food and elections. We want our children to be educated, not indoctrinated by right wing fascists. We want genuine justice and we do not want tRUMP. They cheated 'just' because they can. they have bought and/or threatened the media. They block the ratification of the ERA. They are hateful and hated by most.
I am afraid that people have elected to disconnect from the news,have no stomach for fighting,want to act like this is the new norm. Americans have no stomach for confrontation.
he's not alone-but the people who need to listen aren't-i hope you're right,tho-musk's cutting of jobs makes theoretical sense in industry,where salaries can approach 50% of costs-but in the fed.gov't,it's 4%-minuscule-it only makes sense if you want to replace competent workers with trump loyalists-and the repubs in Congress are complicit-they're all traitors-and supporting putin-that's even worse
Congress is afraid,they have no guts,are not up to the challenge of fighting back against the Nazi takover.Don't expect any help from them.It is up to those who challenge the Nazi's in gov't. to do something.Must have a gameplan.
(When I call THE OUTRAGE "Incomparable", I mean that very seriously. LOTS of progressive jewelry items, finger puppets (of which i have MANY!), and even BOOKS!!!)
I should add that anytime purchases are made from a political site (such as this, or HRC. or many others) the prices will be higher than elsewhere, often by as much as 100%.
But that's part of helping a cause that may have a LOT of overhead..
I am having a hard time believing that our election was an Honest Election !
Additionally, It's just unfathomable that Our Country is being destroyed by the Trump/Musk Gang, my family fought Hitler in World War 11 and the Korean Wars,
It's hard to see that the USA is losing their Freedoms
I'm still trying to figure out why ANYONE could be stupid enough to think that an election that wasn't even that close was stollen(sic), while the more recent election (with a MUCH smaller margin of victory) was not.
(Well, other than the obvious: Daddy-GAWD told them he loved them for being stupid.)
There MUST be a way to use this...
Can we simply lie, and tell them we love them for being SMART?! (We KNOW they aren't generally anywhere remotely smart enough to know the difference. Heck, I have a relative here who LITERALLY thinks we EAT BABIES, but apparently also that none of the parents of these murdered babies has ever filed a police report.)
"just" because they can. That is why we are in the current predicament, with threats to NATO, and the entire world. There should be a way to stop the lies and misinformation.
Trump not only lies, he also can't be trusted to honor agreements. He unilaterally tore up the USMCA free trade agreement, which he signed in his first term. Zelenskyy should work with Europe to prevent Trump from throwing Ukraine under the bus.
He is a fucking crook! That is all and all the little cockroaches that hang on his dick will be very hard to get rid of. You’d better wake up America.!!!!! We have the obligation now to impeach the whole bunch of treasonous traitors.
How proud of America are you now that you are allowing a jailbird to live in our house!
We are still waiting for the translated coversation with that first meeting between trump and putin . This collaboration has been going on since trump's first term.
In working FOR Putin, Trump has finally gone too far for some Republican senators. When asked if Zelensky was a dictator, Josh Hawley managed, " I wouldn't say that."
Senator Tillis said that the invasion of Ukraine "was the responsibility of one human being on the face of the planet, that was Vladimir Putin."
Foghorn Leghorn Kennedy said, "Vladimir Putin started the war. I also know from bitter experience that Putin is a gangster. He's a gangster with a black heart."
Sen. Roger Wicker (chair of Armed Services Comm.) said, "Putin is a war criminal who should be put in jail for the rest of his life, maybe even executed."
I find this encouraging. Perhaps members of Congress are also starting to think that they will soon be irrelevant. Once all the nominees are approved and the tax cuts for the rich passed, Trump/Musk will have no need for them. Independent agencies created by Congress have been moved to the executive branch and their power of the purse usurped. They all caved to Trump/Musk to keep their jobs which are quickly becoming obsolete. Self preservation should be kicking in.
Self preservation should also be kicking in at the Supreme Court. If Harlan Crow and the other oligarchs have gotten rid of the regulators and received their tax cuts, no more sweet perks for Thomas, Alito and Roberts. A king has no need for a Supreme Court. A king decides what the law is.
Self preservation is what gives me hope that there will be elections. Congress derives its power from the people.
I've been fixated on the unemployment spike myself, wondering if that alone will wake people up. States like Virginia with a HUGE population of federal workers are going to be crushed, since they do not have enough alternative job opportunities to offer the newly terminated. The ripple effect across the country is going to be massive because it's not only the terminated federal employees out of work, but the impact on businesses that make their money off those federal employees..... could it be that this new administration & its p2025 handlers, in their determination to implement p2025 at breakneck speed, have overlooked some major ramifications could backfire on them? Hmm...
Keith,of course they will fudge the #s. They have been doing it for yrs.There is little question that Trump is a Nazi. We are unfortunately living through the emergence of Nazi America,the mainstream media is not going to sound the alarme shame on the them. Going to boycott CNBC,they are major supporters of Trump.Getting list of advertisers today.
Keith - So it seems like dictators still only have a concept of a plan while the rest of us watch our governments burn down around us. Putin has definitely gotten his money’s worth and then some. He played the long game better than the republicans did apparently. What happened to the republicans being so anti communist just a few months ago?
Of course they will LIE! All the savings they're touting... lets see...fire FFA personnel, then re-hire; fire scientists working on the bird flu, then re-hire; fire nuclear saftey personnel, then re-hire: fill in the blanks ........
On MSNBC earlier, I think it was on Stephanie Ruehl, the 'Nam Vets for America guy; apparently there has been polling about American general citizenry support for Ukraine, and it's overwhelming: over 80%. I think that's a hint. "You know when you are in a dictatorship when: ..." When the government is doing what over 80% of its citizens are against.
Hold AM and PM WE THE PEOPLE Rally's with our best leaders - use Paul, Mayor Pete, Wes Moore, Get Politics Girl, AOC, Jasmine Crockett. Give em HELL. Do it again at night. Let people see how united we are, Give people hope, get them inspired, get them engaged and caring. Like we did during Covid to start every morning and every evening WE THE PEOPLE rally's that are broadcast everywhere. Make them riveting, citizen inspiring - get musicians, celebrities - create a national movement. Announce every weekend where to meet.
Show how many millions are NOT having this... hear your neighbor, experience that this dismantling is NOT going to stand. THIS is Our Country - for WE the People.
No more calm tones - BE LOUD, BOLD, Audacious and speak with fierce uncompromising clarity.
*Can we find a 2025 Robin Hood to not only derail them - to blow up the tracks, the train.
To bring the people together in unity to overwhelmingly take them away???
*Can WE extradite Musko and the Hackers and take them to California and put them in jail?
He's a clear and present danger to the world - to ALL OF US.
DO something radical. GET someone from California or another state to sue on behalf of the millions of their citizens whose privacy has been violated, file counts on behalf of each citizen been Hacked by Musko and Big Balls. States rights and human rights are being violated in plain sight. Just like on January 6th. Make it a stealth Manhattan project - and then just DO IT. Send the California National gaurd. guys and serve them warrants at night - and speed them to extradition plans. Push the envelope for some kind of ACTION.
Thanks so much for spelling Rieckhoff! Looking at it afresh, I'm thinking that's Dutch, not Deutsch. Especially with the i before the e. Anyhow, he was doing a sample of what you are calling for: a passionate speech partly directly to the rest of the world, please don't think we the American People are condoning Trump!
Make no mistake, Trump’s endgame is to abandon NATO, make a pact with Russia and carve up the world. Trump gets most of the Western Hemisphere. Putin gets most of Europe. President Xi gets much of Asia. And then they will use their economic and military power to control whatever is left. Think it’s too far fetched? Keep watching!!!
You know, Putin and Xi may see that big picture, but Lokhi B. above reminds us that T. is still steaming on Zelensky for stiffing the petty Biden scandal scheme. I figure that's as big as Trump thinks. Just a mean little bully in a long, long tie made in China.
With all due respect, I don't believe it matters how big or small Trump thinks; he was merely the vehicle that Musk and the oligarch cohort rode to power on. Trump will soon diminish; his role has been fufilled. I fear the world now belongs to Musk, Putin, and Xi.
Chilling, for all that is holy, I hope you are wrong, but my gut says you are not. May all of Europe come to the aid of Ukraine!! America is an EVIL empire with too much power.
He wants the Nobel Peace Prize: that's what this is about. His preposterous intervention in Gaza is another attempt to secure peace in the Middle East by infuriating regional governments and bemusing allies. He hopes that if he grants significant concessions to Russia in a future peace deal he can then seek Putin's support in persuading Iran (with whom Russia has recently formed a military alliance) to agree a new nuclear deal. That's three major areas of conflict sorted within 100 days of his presidency. The probability is that he will achieve no lasting peace anywhere. Remember his peace deal with North Korea in his first term - "the deal of the century"? It fizzled out into an exchange of grotesque 'love letters' with the murderous Kim Jong Un.
He's got a bee in his bonnet about this, especially because Baarck Obama was awarded the prize in 2009. Here's just one of many examples of his fatuous indignation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6MheKboIzU
Michael, if those morons think they will take over the world, they should rethink it. We will go nuclear and all of us will have to pay for their greed, hunger for power and corruption. Those that will not concede to these idiots would be the trigger for these pieces of shit to push the nuclear button and we all pay.
We'll see. France has their own independent nuclear force. If push comes to shove, I think they'll use it. They remember what Nazi Germany did to them. The UK has a nuclear force too, but i don't know if it's independent of the US.
What more to we have to see from trump, musk, and vance to arrest them and bring them up on charges of treason? Are we going to allow them to not only destabilize America, but to bring about the same for our long-time allies?
Exactly. I think the time has come to at least ask the question, where does the US Army stand? Sad that we have come to this point, but there is nothing to be gained by pretending this is business as usual
I think the US army and the rest of the armed forces are solidly with the regime. Maybe not high ranking officers - they're usually highly educated - but the bulk of the troops. I think they despise the intelligencia, the educated, academia and the experts just as most of MAGA does.
When they see veterans’ benefits cut, they will change their minds in a hurry. I do not believe that the military signed up for a dictator to be commander in chief. Trump sees them as tools to use to increase his power. He has made it clear over and over again of how he thinks of those who are killed, badly wounded, and POW’s. He thinks that they are “suckers, disgusting, and fools.”
a Pew Research Center survey found that about 61% of military veterans supported Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Additionally, over 200 retired U.S. military generals and admirals endorsed Trump for president in 2024
Over 700 national security and military officials endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president. This group included not only retired generals and admirals but also former secretaries of state and defense, ex-ambassadors, and other high-ranking officials1. Axios
I would like to see the states arrest them when they set foot there. Not that they'll come to blue states anymore but why not? Especially Musk, who has stolen our data.
If some states want to join the Soviet Union 2.0, they should be allowed to. They may regret the decision but maybe the price of eggs can regulated for them. Or, was it vodka and bread?
America, with Trump at the helm, has become the new Titanic heading for the iceberg. How much more of his destructive behavior are the Republican members of Congress going to allow? In light of his pardons for all of the January 6,2021 criminals, Trump has made the pardon power of the president a regrettable mistake by the authors of the Constitution!
Our Congress has to unite to save our democracy by getting this maniacal disgrace out of the White House! America has to come together as one!
E pluribus unum
Pro- American people have to fight against this madness!
Keith ; how much longer are we going to allow bought traitors on our Supreme Court who have given this menace so much power? the sycophant 6 are all disqualified and disabled to serve on the highest (or any) Court in the land. The Constitution clearly states this in the 14th amendment section 3 disqualification clause. It maight as well be Santa Clause. Let's clean up the Court and the House!!!!
Laurie, why can't the states say that as a court found that T did engage in insurrection, he's not entitled to hold federal office and they don't recognize him as president? Or sue? Just because the Supreme Court said that a state couldn't take him off the ballot doesn't mean he hasn't violated the Constitution.
We need to get rid of the crime boss and his friends. In the present state of lawlessness, which is worse than it was during the first impeachment, it does not look possible to get justice. Hopefully, this regime will get so much rope to screw up, they may hang themselves, or even start attacking each other. If the Republicans and those few Democrats who voted in some very bad people, can find their way to actually follow the Constitution, there may be a glimmer of hope. Otherwise these foolish criminals will ruin our environment to the point where climate disaster will do most of us in. Including them. It will not be much longer anyway, as anyone who has been paying attention can see.
Paula B. What a good, sensible idea, and it supports the Constitution and our freedom of self rule. The billionaires apparently did not like it, and their Federalist Society judges did what they were told. The Heritage foundation most likely approved. So it was, and is in our "Democracy" "land of the free and home of the brave".
I suppose it comes with the territory of being the world's only superpower which is why we are all rather concerned that you have elected a president who hasn't read the manual on how the boat works. At the time of the Wall Street crash it used to said that America sneezes and the world catches a cold. One could amend that now to say that when Trump farts...etc.
Worse than Chamberlain. As bad as Pearl Harbour. He just erased 70 years of the world order. So angry with all those that were too busy to voted for him.
Flabbergasted is what I felt after yesterdays' comments from Trump -- that went beyond Vance or Hegseth. One could have claimed the latter two were only pushing perhaps in an unsubtle way for Europe to increase defense spending --but Trump? !! He bears a grudge against Zelensky since the Hunter Biden affair when he had asked Z to look inot HB's affairs in Ukraine.
He is saying white is black, blue is red, day is night or whatever. He is a sick man to say the exact opposite of what happened, but then everyone knows that he's a sick man. The republicans continue to look the other way and that too is pretty sick. I don't think anyone believed he would go this far...even his supporters.
The irony is that those who support tRUMP because they think it will enhance their bottom line will learn that ignoring climate disaster will ruin the value of their dollars or other financial gain, whether it is real estate or gold. A trillion dollars will not be worth much if Ebola circles the globe. If crops will not grow, if fires keep us unhoused because there is no insurance that allows rebuilding, and clean water is scarce. To say nothing of civility when we all live in armed camps.
Laurie, you've hit on the most important issues of the day and they've all been put on a back burner and allowed to grow. No one is paying attention to them, not even the liberal media.
The "liberal media " is a sick joke. It is owned by the billionaires, and tRUMP gives them cover by openly threatening to shut them down. By ending their licenses to broadcast, if they don't stop making him look bad.. B S. ,They want to make money and get tax breaks, and need deniability. Like tRUMP. It's all a "reality" show." That misinforms.and helps him and his buddies.
Time to discuss what to do about Trump. He is a twofer: he is a malignant narcissist AND he is failing into senile dementia. He will not likely finish his current term as president. Will we?
saying Ukraine started the war is suggesting Ukraine invaded itself 3 years ago and that Russia
stepped in to save Ukraine ...from itself
not a single day without a stupid comment or decree by that pathetic fat orange nobody whose place should be in a psychiatric hospital with a strait jacket...
Bill Clinton is in poor health, and George Bush is simply a zero, but what is Obama's excuse? He seems consumed with his "billion dollar" Presidential library while the country is being destroyed by Trump!
Professor Reich: gee, and here i thought that ameriKKKa is already a fascist plutocracy -- torn down by the likes of an immigrant-with-dubious-legality south african greedmaster and his bootlickers.
i'm still wondering what we all will do when we are serfs, or slaves, or just plain dead, as a result of this fateful election? especially since one of the main policies of these three *cough* *choke* *vomit* "great nations" is to completely destroy this planet and all life on it.
Colonized by capitalism. What will they do when they have extracted everything from us and the planet? Eat each other? Like survivalists' world, not one I want to live in.
I HATE WHAT IS HAPPENING!!!!! How dare that piece of orange shit say Ukraine was at fault over that gas bag pootin attacking them! HOW DARE HIM!!! That POS from russia attacked Ukraine for no other reason than to enlarge his own country!! WE DO NOT SIDE WITH RUSSIA!!! Can't anybody see what is happening here? Where the hell are the powers on our side that can put a stop to this? Are we going to sit meekly like damn sheep and let that piece of putrid orange stain do this to our country? Are we going to allow that fetid, rancid carcass with no brain turn our country into another dictatorship like pootin's is? What the hell is wrong with this damn country? Have we given up every damn thing that we believe? We no longer believe in helping other countries achieve Democracy, being allies with those countries that share our goal of helping one another, standing together against dictators and authoritarians and preventing them from taking what isn't theirs. Now we have become one of the evil axis! We are perceived now as a dictatorial country and the enemy! Oh my God, I am sick! I wish every single one of those evil bastards were wiped off the face of the earth!!!
Peggy,great piece,you are right on. We can begin to fight back by boycotting the fnancial markets that support Trump. Get the advertisers on CNBC,call them and let them know we are boycotting their cos and products. Money is the only thing they understand.
There are emotionally damaged misfits in charge right now.
The fact they were put in charge says much of the electorate wasn't in a good emotional place either to elect them. That is part of it.
A lot of the country has not given up its beliefs on who our friends are internationally.
There are rumblings from the Senators about the past 2 days.
They continue to vote in favor of shackling themselves.
I keep wondering if they will figure out that the risk of continuing to support an insane President is higher than the risk of their opposition, and whether they will figure it out in time to prevent dictatorship.
We may not be able to wait to Jan 6th for another Jan 6th.
We made a grave mistake back in the 70s, and Reagan accelerated it in the 80s: We allowed the disparity in wealth to grow between the rich and the poor. It has now become a disparity between the wealthy and the 90%, with 9% being merely better off. The orange menace is the outcome of that mistake, with strong notions of making that gap even wider. That is his only goal. Russia compromised him because, in the end, all you need is to dangle money in front of his face and he caves. Muskrat recognized that character flaw, which is why narcissism gave way to greed. Putin recognized the same flaw a lot longer ago, perhaps Ivana suggests Thom Hartman. The way to stop these two crime bosses, and their minions, is to stop the money flow. Don't use X. Don't buy Tesla. Don't buy Amazon. Don't read the WaPost. Don't use PayPal. Don't use anything owned by Meta. Don't buy from people who advertise on any of them. Do buy local. Keep your economy local. Yes, it will hurt. Yes, the 1% own everything, but we have to make them listen. They only listen to their wallets, which are firmly attached to their butts and only get kissed when we buy their stuff. Boycott, boycott, boycott, resist, resist, resist.
Who owns Paypal now? I know that Muskrat helped in the beginning but not now. I "think" Bezos will come to his senses at some point, (I could be wrong but hope not). He used to be pretty liberal, same with Zuckerberg. I'm hoping at some point they will realize that they do have balls and act like it!
It's all interwined. Unless one is living in a cabin totally self-sufficent we all are "complicit" in a strict sense. But there are levels of complicity!
I guess this means that all over the world, newly married couples will be forced to accept "droit de seigneur". Corporate feudal lords will rule us in their fiefdoms. We'll either be forced to work for six days per week at minimum wage or be robotized out of our jobs. Stasi will be spying on us. I'm not exaggerating. It's a f**ked up world coming for our children and grandchildren until we get out into the streets and put a stop to this fascist/oligarchist future. Everywhere.
It has been proven that Russia helped Trump to get elected in 2016, and now it is clearer than ever why. This is not a new plan, this has been orchestrated for some time, the 2020 USA election result got in the way (and this is why Trump and co. fought it so intensely). Trump-Putin and co. appear to have now a free hand to govern and decide fates without any respect to democracy, the UN or independent institutions, making plans on how to split the wealths of the world for their own (countries' -they say-) benefit. As a European, this is all very very chilling. I only hope that Europe will unite and resist, and that the American people will revolt and won't let this happen for the sake of their own country and the world.
If you have any doubts about whether or not Trump is working with Putin, read Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack. The History of Russian agreement with Ukraine after Ukraine surrendered their Nuclear weapons!
The February (Jobs Report) will show whether or not TRUMP and MUSK are being transparent, as they claim, with all the firings they have administered, the unemployment rate should jump to @ least 15%! Or will they fudge the numbers?
Trump is a liar. Nothing he says has any credibility.
And so is Musk! I heard 1 of his speeches pre election. He repeated over an hour time, "All Democrats are Communists" He is a racist, a crook, a liar and a fraud. DO NOT BUY TESLAs or anything else he makes. Never forget Musk is an Afrikaner and a far right extremist!
Musk is a nazi. Not a neo-nazi. Just a nazi.
He's not just meddling in Germany's upcoming election in order to move far right (Nazi) candidates forward, he's doing the same thing in about 7-8 other countries as well. (Where DOES he get the time? the tesla, spacex, starlink employees must be finally enjoying their work & getting stuff DONE, like many of us do when the boss is away..)
I have nothing to add, except noticeable by their absent are the posters that were so devoted to calling President Biden, genocide Joe and blaming the U.S. for Russia's aggression all America imperialist while rationalizing Putin's imperialism. Almost to a person they disappeared on November 6th, anyone but myself notice the departure.
I'm sure he's hired sympathetic people to help.
so true.Itis time we called Musk,Trump,the entire Republican party Nazi's.
I'm still not ready to let go of a strategy that has seemed logical to me for decades now. (Apologies to those who have seen this already.)
"What legislation (if any) has the GOP ever proposed OR supported that was intended to HELP middle-class, middle-income, working-class Americans, anytime in the past 75 years?"
It's a serious question, and one I've been asking for years. I only know of one correct answer, and that's the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act). The GOP didn't propose it, but neither did they fight it, which speaks VOLUMES to the mistake the GOP will make if they kill services for Americans with such great needs.
Obviously, the list of legislation from Dems that fits all the criteria would fill pages. And what's also significant is that almost EVERY law passed by Dems to help working Americans has faced bitter battles from the GOP. (The ACA comes to mind...)
Thoughts?
Dems are for people, GOP are for business
Exactly what our parents told us decades ago. It's amazing how people who grew up working-class and union-proud have been replaced by the MAGA crowd.
Have you heard of the Great Migration, mostly blacks from Mississippi, that were recruited by great lakes manufacturers, because they would work for less wages than whites.
That created racial and animosity of white blue collar workers against blacks., that racism has been institutionalized, especially since blacks, in part due to red lining, but also because birds of a feather and people congregate with those with whom they are familiar, comfortable and accepted,have produced and us vs them mentality and local society.
Working class and union proud identify with the anti DEI, anti woke culture war, not with their own economic well being, that seems counter intuitive, but it reflects on the priority of ones identity.
The right wing has accused the left of identity politics, but the right wing has been playing identity politics since 1619 when 20 Africans, were sold on the quay at Elizabeth City, as indentured servants.
At that time the class structure was freeman or indentured servant, in 1661 by act of House of Burgess it became racial as well.
inter racial cohabitation between black and white indentured servants was so common that the 1661 law specified that the status of the child (free or white) depended on the status of the mother, it then went on to declare that black and white marriages and breeding were illegal, this resulted in court cases,where people filed to be recognized as Indian not mulatto, the same act also legalized slavery, where here to for ownership of a person was determined only by adjudication (see johnson v. Casor).
So true.
The GOP is for "people" only in the Citizens United sense that corporations are people.
"Corporate People" as defined by the USSC.
Yes. If I remember correctly, Dems are for people, Republicans are about land holdings.
Ah! Ownership! Dominance! Being in charge.
They don't propose legislation to help the people because they're against the people. That has always been true. They are the party of selfishness.
Great point.Let's get this out there.
David,
In reality, while 100% true, there may be complications.
For example, what constitutes a law to help middle-America? To MAGA, it would likely be the reintroduction of slavery, but in EVERY state.
And I can see countless suggestions from the right that don't begin to help middle-America, and it could easily turn into a battle to exclude each and every example they offer, and to "prove" each and every one of ours.
There must be SOME REASON it's never (to my knowledge) been done.
Still, it just feels POSSIBLE to me.
I had another idea, and I actually had the chance to "pitch" this one to one of Biden's "handlers" years ago at one of the few existing "stump meetings" still taking place in the south. (I like to think that it might perhaps have actually been considered, had that pitch been made in the past decade.)
It was to REMIND Americans of what Dems have done. "Providing social security to elderly American immediately lifted 25% of America's elderly out of poverty, almost certainly including beloved matriarchs and patriarchs of your own family. How wonderful that the Democratic party was able to help families survive, even through the worst of times."
Or, "Prior to the Affordable Care Act, the only way to receive coverage for pre-existing conditions was to be rich. And if you were a cancer survivor, good luck! But thanks to Obama and the Democrats, almost everyone in America now has a level of health care not previously available, even for those not on Obamacare."
You get the idea. I'm sure there are hundreds of very legitimate little "guilt trips" that can logically and realistically be packaged into some sort of, "We were there for your family. It would sure be nice if America can now consider the world we will be living in once all these common-sense social safety nets are gone forever, and please allow Democrats to CONTINUE being there for America's families."
All of the points you make are valid.The Dems have done more for the low income.middle income Americans than any Republican in 200 yrs.The problem is,when you present facts to the people who voted for Trump,they do not believe those facts are correct. They listen to the Republicans who tell them those verifiable facts are not true.How do you deal with that?
I don't think large numbers of people under 60 who are voting now were interested enough in government to realize what is true or false. We need a lot of adult education in U.S. Govt. and economics. Many people mostly get news on social media, apps on their phone, or listen to someone that looks and sounds like them on a podcast. They fell into the mind trap of believing news is mostly fake news even A.P. and the only real news is Fox guys and gals.
I seriously doubt that the word "Civics" has any meaning today, not like it did when we actually learned about government that way.
Maybe we need to go back to 3 minutes catchy songs between cartoons on Saturday morning...
(We do still HAVE "Saturday morning"...don't we?")
foof here is an answer, btw, it is DEIA, and Musketeer Trump has killed it
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/20/stay-strong-cat-ladies-after-first-month-back-personal-defiance-matters-more-than-ever/?lh_aid=112154&lh_cid=l7yl9kfq4l&lh_em=myocicats%40gmail.com&di=7055e2bfa3db2cf9b5ad906cac7b4b28
"All Trump can do is make Americans poorer, sicker, and less safe — including his own voters. "
Yes, the regime will collapse from within, due to it's hubris and stupidity. All the EU and NATO, and China has to do is have patience and wait.
The Reserve currency of the near future will be the Yuan or something comparable to it from the BRICS. Musk and his wife Trump are killing the goose that laid the golden egg, and we are collateral damage.
fuckers
R's find a cultural or abstract issue to arrack D's on. And unfortunately, D's fall for it
No, richard.
The GOP tells a LIE about a cultural issue, and MAGAs simply prefer any lie that gives them power over any truth we would try to replace the lie with. NOT our fault.
It wasn't high prices that MAGAs latched onto, it was LIES about high prices, after America was the FASTEST industrialized nation on Earth to recover from global Covid inflation. (And price gouging made up 53% of that inflation.)
It wasn't even ABORTION that cost Dems votes so much as LIES about abortion, "Dems abort babies AFTER birth." Dems didn't make people THAT remarkably, incredibly, unbelievably STUPID. Trump convinced them to choose ignorance over knowledge, and they could not possibly be happier.
It wasn't TRANS KIDS that gave Trump votes, it was LIES about trans kids.
It wasn't the LGBTQIA+ community, it was LIES about the LGBTQIA+ community.
It wasn't WOKENESS or DEI that gave Trump the edge, it was LIES about both.
We have GOT TO STOP blaming Dems for things that are caused by the WORST ASPECTS of human nature, which are ALL things that Dems would never manipulate for power.
But the GOP will never STOP manipulating evil for power, no matter how many people get badly hurt.
Hardly a fair comparison.
And WTF, Muskrat is by Orangelini's in the Oval at all times.. Again, WTF?
and what is it with his bringing small children to extremely serious, ADULT situations all about??? the continual marching through crowds with a toddler on his shoulders, then allowing that toddler to roam around the Oval? is he trying to present a "warm fuzzy" aspect to his personality? is he simply trying to belittle the decorum of the presidency (and its occupant) and the offices of those high level senate/house and other officials representing us? or does he hope to thwart anyone with an interest in doing him harm? ALL of the above? I am sick of it. . he needs to go back to teslaland or even better, his homeland, and horse around there.
All of the above, and I think he is trying to portray a "dad" figure, who will take care of everything, just do what I say.
I think he's trying to show that he's "human." Not working, Muck.
The kid is being used as a shield. Who would attack a nice dad? There are so many, on both sides, that appear to detest him.
"Elon Musk the Dadfluencer? The Billionaire Is Leveraging His Son to Rebrand Himself as a Father Figure"
https://open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/elon-musk-the-dadfluencer-the-billionaire?r=ntqz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Interesting. I hope the mothers can make it stop. (That kid will hate him when he's older if it doesn't.)
Only way to be certain to completely control the narrative...
Being present for EVERY WORD spoken to Trump.
(Much like book bans are actually nothing more than a tool to control the narrative, so (for example) the LGBTQIA+ community will never be seen as just regular folks. They will ONLY be seen the way the right(sic) present them.
Musk seems to be doing much the same, perhaps.
How can this be? Come on Congress, Natl Dem Party, OBama, Kinzinger, Cheney, Raskin, Jeffries, ..come on, ROAR!
How about this narrative: Red Riding Hood, ignoring warnings, went to bed with the wolf. She became a whore, and is now waging a campaign against the very hunters who tried to protect her.
This metaphor would still work if RRH became a werewolf and leave out the mysogyny.
Victor, please!
We're Democrats! She's a "self-empowered sex working entrepreneur"!
But yeah. RIGHT-WING on the nose...
Yes! He is also a Drug addict. He is a ketamine addict.
John - perhaps he's read and is a fan of Ayn Rand, who would probably agree that democrats are communists because they believe in the common good, and believe that gov't can provide the means to accomplish, for the common good, what individual efforts cannot. I've not read her, but privatization of the commons seems to me to be one step towards slavery for all. The planet hasn't seen true communism since the first attempts of beginning christians to live together communally. For those christians who might want to learn about their communal roots, the Acts of the Apostles in the new testament is worth reading. Since that time, communism has never had a chance, and the theory always morphs into repression and authoritarianism.
A very thoughtful post.
Totally agree with you, Rose, however, his lies are believed by all of those magas without question!
I just found my "Hero De Jure"!!!
"Ex-NFL Player Hauled Out Of City Meeting After Railing Against 'Nazi' MAGA Movement
Former punter Chris Kluwe spoke out against a MAGA reference on a city plaque."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-kluwe-arrested_n_67b69201e4b050f805a0e92b
"He told the council what MAGA has stood for since Trump returned to office last month:
“MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for resegregation and racism. MAGA stands for censorship and book bans. MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing. MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal. MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide. MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children.” "
If this doesn't provide at least a speck of hope, I fear we may never find better.
foofaraw & Chiquita, you won't see that on any news feed! Anyone who speaks out is silenced! Chris Kluwe spoke truth to power but those that need to know will never hear it. We need more and more people like Chris Kluwe to speak up and loudly!
There is a way to make the story appear higher up in the news feeds people see: click on the huff post link here, search for "Chris Kluwe arrested" or similar, post the story, including versions from other news outlets, on social media sites you frequent. And repeat.
The same technique the MAGAs and their predecessors use(d).
Mary,great comment. Time to go on the offense,so what the nazis are doing.
Mary,great idea.
It's British but I love it: . https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1itsoo3/thursdays_front_page_of_the_british_daily_star/?rdt=55820
Oh, my...
I just saw this headline, and in my dyslexia, misread it to mean that Trump had issued instructions to "set fire to 7,000 workers".
"IRS reportedly set to fire 7,000 workers at the height of tax-filing season – US politics live"
In that first instant, either interpretation felt equally probable...
Thank you,that is excellent,think we should post this everywhere.If you have a facebook page,I hope you post it there. I do not.
Nor do I, David.
Still, a solid plan, since others may.
We need thousands of these brave souls. What will become an underground resistance.
Exactly!
"ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online
ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet."
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/11/ice-immigration-social-media-surveillance/
Like this (but better)...
ICE! You SUCK!
Last night Maddow spent nearly her full hour highlighting incidents just like this!! It was so uplifting. Anyone like her with a big audience should consider doing the same. It feels empowering and shows that even on small levels we each can do similar (Rachel's point).... And I think it was she who showed feedback from the the elected officials hosting recent townhall meetings around the country where HUGE numbers of people, FAR exceeding organizers' expectations, showed up in person. and TENS OF THOUSANDS participated by phone or zoom per meeting .... in one case 19,000 (no lie).
Thank you!
I need to look that show up!
Yup!
Today’s topic was in the subtitle, “Make the world safe for Oligarchy” and basically that is ultimately the goal and end result of capitalism.
Capitalism as it has evolved from the late middle ages has caused much suffering across the whole planet and ultimately is the root cause of oncoming climate collapse. When the accumulation of wealth and power are the highest ideals of an economic system, all morality and ethics that are part of a healthy human society are cast aside in order to fulfill an insatiable appetite for greater and greater wealth accumulation.
Capitalism is a mixed bag. Capitalism is a system that enables a person to invest their money and labor in an endeavor that it may return a profit.
It is because of capitalism that you can even sit in a warm comfortable chair, in a warm comfortable house, and pontificate on a keyboard, or drive a car, to a store and buy food and what ever else you want and need
In fact Capitalism is the reason that there is a United States of America.
In 1606 a bunch of London merchants and some lesser nobility,pooled their resources and prevailed upon King James to grant them a charter for a corporation, to explore the east coast of what they then called Virginia (from the latitude of Roanoke to Maine), it was called the London Company of Virginia and it was a capitalist adventure.
The problem isn't capitalism, but the greed of men, and the golden rule, He who has the most gold, rules.
The problem is mankind, regardless of the economic system, it always devolves into authoritarianism, autocracy.
Milovan Djilas, a Yugoslavian official, wrote a book called the New Class, about the formation of a New Class of privileged, nobility, which was also hereditary .
Economic democracy encourages small-scale capitalism. It does not allow for outrageous wealth accumulation. When a business becomes quite large, it transitions into an employee owned cooperative. So under economic democracy, I can sit in my warm chair in my warm house but I would not be permitted to sit in my warm chair in one of my five mansions driving one of my 10 cars while others are dying for lack of food.
but William, the roots of capitalism are essentially free labor and free resources. by free i mean slavery and the theft of other peoples' resources. it started when rome and the catholic church joined into a ruling theocracy, and this institution raped, pillaged, and looted europe for a thousand years, then they sent ships out when the technology advanced enough to rape, pillage, and loot the rest of the world, all with theocratic approval, of course. the mentality hasn't changed, and the whole financial services industry and the tech industry are extreme examples of this mindset. If one follows the money far enough, we (the rich nations) are always benefiting at the expense of others.
What we are experiencing now is not just the concentration of wealth and power in the world, but the concentration of evil. This evil has no care or compassion for the suffering of others on the planet. This evil cares not for the suffering of the children who are forced to mine lithium for the profitable manufacturing of batteries nor does it care for the suffering of the people who are dying prematurely from the pollution caused by factories to feed the insatiable appetite for wealth. This is the ultimate expression of capitalism unbound, whether it occurs in communism or democracies. Current capitalism eventually destroys all in its path all for the insatiable appetite for wealth and power. It is for a goal it cannot deliver on, the goal for inner happiness and fulfillment.
This is why I believe that the only solution to our current misery is the adoption of Economic Democracy which is embedded in the Progressive Utilization Theory which stands on the moral and ethical foundation of Neohumanism. Neohumanism is care for all the life forms on the earth and including the health of the planet itself. Until we do away with our support of capitalism, we will continue to come closer and closer to the precipice of climate collapse and the suffering it is now causing.
For more information see https://crisistransition.substack.com/
MONEY is our god. Congress, like the rest of us, worships MONEY. What will it take to own one of those legislators, a million, 100 million, 500 million??? It is just math! . . . entries on a spreadsheet!
Take a long hard look in a mirror. Are you seeing a mask? Who's fooling who? Monotheism has won the theology argument! The problem is that we have chosen the wrong GOD! We don't have the courage to remove that mask and its platitudes. History will do that for us, and it hurts!
Marc,I agree 100%. Capitalism In the last 20 yrs.we have seen the greed spiral out of control.The stock market is laugable,earnings have no relationship to the price of stock. Analysts cozy relationship with the companies they follow,getting payoffs from cos to write glowing reports. Wall Street has become totally corrupt.
So what then is the solution David. Communism? That hasn't worked out too well either.
Maybe Denmark is he answer, a social democracy, a blend of state regulated capitalism and socialism.
Let's see what they think when they lose their Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, SNAP... That may not be too far away.
You're right, Gregg! The problem is those of us who never ever voted the orange man into office will suffer, too! I count on my social security check for half of my monthly income! I use it to pay my bills and then my retirement check takes care of groceries and incidentals. Without my Social Security, my goose is cooked!
We do too, Peggy. Losing it will be a big hit.
It certainly bears repeating since he lies almost every time he appears before journalists.
Fer shur! Like this one...
"Still, Trump said that being the U.S. president is the “most exciting job in the world.” "
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-election-victory-lifeline_n_67b7089ae4b0df8bc42388ef
How EXCITING can it really be to sleep until noon, and then play golf EVERY day? I'm sure he finds it "rewarding", since most of that money flows right back into his pockets, as he plays his own courses, and CHARGES the Secret Service ungodly amounts to PROTECT his own worthless life.
I am waiting to see what he's going to do as chair of America's premier cultural institution. I can't see him sitting through an opera or ballet.
And of COURSE, he chose "the gay guy" to run it.
Oddly, that may be one of the few Trump actions that may not be an absolute disaster. Although seeing Fox News broadcasts presented daily as "culture" will be a bit hard to accept.
That's both his superpower....and ours.
Let's think about it, Rose.
If Trump says he'll do something, it's almost certain 1) to be horrible, and 2) he WILL do it.
If Trump says he WON'T do something, it's almost certain 1) to be horrible, and 2) he WILL do it.
The only things we can safely ignore seem to be things he has no awareness of. Such as logic, honor and kindness. (Jesus, maybe?)
Never mind. That's how we got here in the first place...logic, honor and kindness. And strangely enough, Jesus. (But I mean the NEW ONE, not that "woke" immigrant-lover who won't even be referenced in the Bible for much longer. " "Do unto others"...PULEASE!!!")
Yes, I like that you're figuring out how a narcissist works. Everything is a lie, even the lies. The entire purpose is to get what the liar wants, and they will say anything to get it.
Indeed, Bev,
I lived with one for much of my life.
Other than a lack of interest in politics, my brother was substantially a mirror to everything I've seen in Trump since Day One.
And as far as just HOW narcissistic? He was raised by my father as a first-born GOD, incapable of flaw or misjudgement. (I once asked Dad if he had ever disciplined my brother. He said that the had, once when he was caught driving home drunk. Meaning, while many of my earliest memories are of this big man wailing on me with a leather belt, the only time he ever even raised his voice to my brother was after he was old enough to have a full drivers license.) And THAT is how narcissists are created.
And he became a pilot, which is equal only to surgeons (or NYC real estate "tycoons"?) in the god-like egos of those involved. But that allowed him to continue spreading his narcissism all over the world, and permitted it to maintain the geometric progression of ego that is necessary to sustain the illusion of "greatness".
So when he had to retire, and nothing like geometric ego growth would EVER be a possibility again (and he clearly saw this), he spent a year drinking himself to death. He is not missed, not even by the father who ADMITTEDLY created the monster.
And had Trump not won this past election, I can see him melting down in a similar fashion.
Ah, dreams....
That is all very sad, foofaraw. And I hear stories like this much too often. We are not an advanced species.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I was planning on a different route. (There must be more than one!)
More 1950s motels and stuff...
No. He said he would be a dictator on day one. That was the truth. He said he likes the uneducated and he will make more uneducated. He said Putin was a genius.
The fools are us who knowing all this enabled his takeover.
Now the challenge is to take seriously our own prediction that if he won the election, it would have been the last election.
We must not just look at what happened in the last month but project into the near future and be prepared. I look at 1933 Germany and other dictators to get the gameplay…..purging of the judiciary, attacks on the truthful journalists, further demonizing of lbgtq, immigrants, non Christians…some obvious things too, interference in local issues like congestion pricing, public schools, more book banning, attacks on peaceful protests, and finally the calling off of elections. Meanwhile AI will be used with all the data that DOGE has collected for nefarious purposes. There will be no one to call if checks don’t arrive.
On the global stage, we can expect a new age of colonialism.
Just for the record, and totally useless but I have to say it, I love immigrants, I love LGBTQ people, I love books, and I love education. These are but a few of the things that make life worthwhile. These MAGA idiots don't know what they're missing.
show trials
Great post,so well said.
It has both a narcissistic personality disorder AND is a pathological liar! Remember when Bunkerboy lies about small, unimportant things like adding 10,000 people to one of it's hugbox rallies??? SYMPTOMS.
How anyone can believe such nonsense is baffling to me. It's so transparently ridiculous.
He’s a demented Sociopath
The power of the lie is greater than ever with trump as with putin, and he keeps using bigger ones just like madmen old and new as his inner circle of hardliners reinforces them daily. Now Zelensky is the dictator, and Putin will dispose of this "Nazi" and bring lasting peace and whiteness to Europe. Don't forget that this entire pack of thugs lied and bludgeoned their way into dictatorship, and that free and fair elections were out of play in this. Take note of the absolutely vicious political attacks being made on some Democratic candidates in upcoming elections by the trump juggernaut, as in the far right's campaign for the Wisconsin SC election coming up in April.
He has always been
Absofukenlutley! He did not use the bible on Inauguration Day. That’s a BIG tell. Now he can LIE all he wants.
I'm old enough to remember when the Republican Party would have already arrested Trump as a commie.
The outright blatancy & self-assured arrogance from ALL of them is mindblowing. Probably not a good move.
They'll fudge them, Keith, because they have control over what is said about anything and everything!
Just as they did with the election. I still do not believe that Kamala didn't win.
Whether they cheated or not, right now we need strong leaders on our side to get off their asses and stop this crap right now!! I am so angry that NO ONE is sounding the alarm! Congress is allowing this to happen! I feel like I am living in the absolute worst nightmare of my life!!
Bernie is putting out messages daily. I realize that doesn't help much but the lowly magats are starting to feel the hurt. Hopefully, it won't take much longer.
As much as I love Bernie, it is going to take way more than just Bernie to stop this madness! Where is the line that should never be crossed? If this isn't it, then what the hell is? I simply cannot fathom that the majority of America is going along with all of this! Am I in the minority? Do more people agree with that orange asshole than believe in this country? I am just sick with anger!
The majority was muffled by election hacking and vote suppression. there are polls that actually show that the majority want their freedom back, to decide when or if they will be parents, for example. The majority want to see the billionaires pay their fair share of taxes. We want clean air, water food and elections. We want our children to be educated, not indoctrinated by right wing fascists. We want genuine justice and we do not want tRUMP. They cheated 'just' because they can. they have bought and/or threatened the media. They block the ratification of the ERA. They are hateful and hated by most.
I am afraid that people have elected to disconnect from the news,have no stomach for fighting,want to act like this is the new norm. Americans have no stomach for confrontation.
That's the power of right-wing media. Propaganda works.
he's not alone-but the people who need to listen aren't-i hope you're right,tho-musk's cutting of jobs makes theoretical sense in industry,where salaries can approach 50% of costs-but in the fed.gov't,it's 4%-minuscule-it only makes sense if you want to replace competent workers with trump loyalists-and the repubs in Congress are complicit-they're all traitors-and supporting putin-that's even worse
Tina,
I would NEVER bet against Bernie!!!
Congress is afraid,they have no guts,are not up to the challenge of fighting back against the Nazi takover.Don't expect any help from them.It is up to those who challenge the Nazi's in gov't. to do something.Must have a gameplan.
Tina, sometimes when I'm too agitated to sleep, I pretend that Kamala was elected and it calms me down.
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I am having a hard time believing that our election was an Honest Election !
Additionally, It's just unfathomable that Our Country is being destroyed by the Trump/Musk Gang, my family fought Hitler in World War 11 and the Korean Wars,
It's hard to see that the USA is losing their Freedoms
I'm still trying to figure out why ANYONE could be stupid enough to think that an election that wasn't even that close was stollen(sic), while the more recent election (with a MUCH smaller margin of victory) was not.
(Well, other than the obvious: Daddy-GAWD told them he loved them for being stupid.)
There MUST be a way to use this...
Can we simply lie, and tell them we love them for being SMART?! (We KNOW they aren't generally anywhere remotely smart enough to know the difference. Heck, I have a relative here who LITERALLY thinks we EAT BABIES, but apparently also that none of the parents of these murdered babies has ever filed a police report.)
What are we missing?
Unfortunately, this IS who we’ve become.
"just" because they can. That is why we are in the current predicament, with threats to NATO, and the entire world. There should be a way to stop the lies and misinformation.
Fudge? Of course.
If by 'transparent' you mean that any fool can easily see what they're really up to, then I agree.
Glad to be counted among the fools then
Jim, I hope you didn't think that I was calling you a fool. I'm mortified that you took my comment for an insult and apologise unreservedly.
Nope I followed your thread well.
Trump not only lies, he also can't be trusted to honor agreements. He unilaterally tore up the USMCA free trade agreement, which he signed in his first term. Zelenskyy should work with Europe to prevent Trump from throwing Ukraine under the bus.
He is a fucking crook! That is all and all the little cockroaches that hang on his dick will be very hard to get rid of. You’d better wake up America.!!!!! We have the obligation now to impeach the whole bunch of treasonous traitors.
How proud of America are you now that you are allowing a jailbird to live in our house!
He did that the entire career he had as a "good businessman."
We are still waiting for the translated coversation with that first meeting between trump and putin . This collaboration has been going on since trump's first term.
In working FOR Putin, Trump has finally gone too far for some Republican senators. When asked if Zelensky was a dictator, Josh Hawley managed, " I wouldn't say that."
Senator Tillis said that the invasion of Ukraine "was the responsibility of one human being on the face of the planet, that was Vladimir Putin."
Foghorn Leghorn Kennedy said, "Vladimir Putin started the war. I also know from bitter experience that Putin is a gangster. He's a gangster with a black heart."
Sen. Roger Wicker (chair of Armed Services Comm.) said, "Putin is a war criminal who should be put in jail for the rest of his life, maybe even executed."
I find this encouraging. Perhaps members of Congress are also starting to think that they will soon be irrelevant. Once all the nominees are approved and the tax cuts for the rich passed, Trump/Musk will have no need for them. Independent agencies created by Congress have been moved to the executive branch and their power of the purse usurped. They all caved to Trump/Musk to keep their jobs which are quickly becoming obsolete. Self preservation should be kicking in.
Self preservation should also be kicking in at the Supreme Court. If Harlan Crow and the other oligarchs have gotten rid of the regulators and received their tax cuts, no more sweet perks for Thomas, Alito and Roberts. A king has no need for a Supreme Court. A king decides what the law is.
Self preservation is what gives me hope that there will be elections. Congress derives its power from the people.
Hawley (my so-called rep) has a bit of a spine. Who knew?
I've been fixated on the unemployment spike myself, wondering if that alone will wake people up. States like Virginia with a HUGE population of federal workers are going to be crushed, since they do not have enough alternative job opportunities to offer the newly terminated. The ripple effect across the country is going to be massive because it's not only the terminated federal employees out of work, but the impact on businesses that make their money off those federal employees..... could it be that this new administration & its p2025 handlers, in their determination to implement p2025 at breakneck speed, have overlooked some major ramifications could backfire on them? Hmm...
Maryland and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, too.
Keith,of course they will fudge the #s. They have been doing it for yrs.There is little question that Trump is a Nazi. We are unfortunately living through the emergence of Nazi America,the mainstream media is not going to sound the alarme shame on the them. Going to boycott CNBC,they are major supporters of Trump.Getting list of advertisers today.
They will fudge the numbers. That’s what they do well — lie!
If there even ARE numbers released, no doubt someone in the new super-group "ICKY and the STOOGES" will likely make it a PRIME NUMBER, to honor Bezos.
Of course, that will be meaningless to Thumper.
Fudge is Facts and they don’t even Wipe
Keith - So it seems like dictators still only have a concept of a plan while the rest of us watch our governments burn down around us. Putin has definitely gotten his money’s worth and then some. He played the long game better than the republicans did apparently. What happened to the republicans being so anti communist just a few months ago?
Absolutely. I have been following Richardon for years and have all her books and sometimes watch podcast. She has kept me grounded.
They will fudge the numbers, no question about that.
Of course they will LIE! All the savings they're touting... lets see...fire FFA personnel, then re-hire; fire scientists working on the bird flu, then re-hire; fire nuclear saftey personnel, then re-hire: fill in the blanks ........
On MSNBC earlier, I think it was on Stephanie Ruehl, the 'Nam Vets for America guy; apparently there has been polling about American general citizenry support for Ukraine, and it's overwhelming: over 80%. I think that's a hint. "You know when you are in a dictatorship when: ..." When the government is doing what over 80% of its citizens are against.
I think it was Paul Reichoff (sp?) good man.
Paul Rieckhoff has been absolutely stellar and has cut right to the heart of things. https://iava.org/people/paul-rieckhoff
Hold AM and PM WE THE PEOPLE Rally's with our best leaders - use Paul, Mayor Pete, Wes Moore, Get Politics Girl, AOC, Jasmine Crockett. Give em HELL. Do it again at night. Let people see how united we are, Give people hope, get them inspired, get them engaged and caring. Like we did during Covid to start every morning and every evening WE THE PEOPLE rally's that are broadcast everywhere. Make them riveting, citizen inspiring - get musicians, celebrities - create a national movement. Announce every weekend where to meet.
Show how many millions are NOT having this... hear your neighbor, experience that this dismantling is NOT going to stand. THIS is Our Country - for WE the People.
No more calm tones - BE LOUD, BOLD, Audacious and speak with fierce uncompromising clarity.
*Can we find a 2025 Robin Hood to not only derail them - to blow up the tracks, the train.
To bring the people together in unity to overwhelmingly take them away???
*Can WE extradite Musko and the Hackers and take them to California and put them in jail?
He's a clear and present danger to the world - to ALL OF US.
DO something radical. GET someone from California or another state to sue on behalf of the millions of their citizens whose privacy has been violated, file counts on behalf of each citizen been Hacked by Musko and Big Balls. States rights and human rights are being violated in plain sight. Just like on January 6th. Make it a stealth Manhattan project - and then just DO IT. Send the California National gaurd. guys and serve them warrants at night - and speed them to extradition plans. Push the envelope for some kind of ACTION.
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Thanks so much for spelling Rieckhoff! Looking at it afresh, I'm thinking that's Dutch, not Deutsch. Especially with the i before the e. Anyhow, he was doing a sample of what you are calling for: a passionate speech partly directly to the rest of the world, please don't think we the American People are condoning Trump!
Make no mistake, Trump’s endgame is to abandon NATO, make a pact with Russia and carve up the world. Trump gets most of the Western Hemisphere. Putin gets most of Europe. President Xi gets much of Asia. And then they will use their economic and military power to control whatever is left. Think it’s too far fetched? Keep watching!!!
You know, Putin and Xi may see that big picture, but Lokhi B. above reminds us that T. is still steaming on Zelensky for stiffing the petty Biden scandal scheme. I figure that's as big as Trump thinks. Just a mean little bully in a long, long tie made in China.
With all due respect, I don't believe it matters how big or small Trump thinks; he was merely the vehicle that Musk and the oligarch cohort rode to power on. Trump will soon diminish; his role has been fufilled. I fear the world now belongs to Musk, Putin, and Xi.
Chilling, for all that is holy, I hope you are wrong, but my gut says you are not. May all of Europe come to the aid of Ukraine!! America is an EVIL empire with too much power.
Everybody has an opinion. What is happening sucks, and it is all brought to us by the billionaires.
I agree with you !
Trump's is just the Puppet for Musk and the Goons of Oligarchs
John,it looks like you may be right.Sad commentary.
Exactly, John S.
Putin calls the shots. It doesn't matter what trump thinks.
If trump isn't a Putin agent, he certainly acts the part. No difference that makes a difference.
And we send little Marco to the table of vipers...... OMG, this is going down fast!
I hope that's all it is.
He wants the Nobel Peace Prize: that's what this is about. His preposterous intervention in Gaza is another attempt to secure peace in the Middle East by infuriating regional governments and bemusing allies. He hopes that if he grants significant concessions to Russia in a future peace deal he can then seek Putin's support in persuading Iran (with whom Russia has recently formed a military alliance) to agree a new nuclear deal. That's three major areas of conflict sorted within 100 days of his presidency. The probability is that he will achieve no lasting peace anywhere. Remember his peace deal with North Korea in his first term - "the deal of the century"? It fizzled out into an exchange of grotesque 'love letters' with the murderous Kim Jong Un.
That's what a normal person might want. Trump ain't normal. He's insane.
He's got a bee in his bonnet about this, especially because Baarck Obama was awarded the prize in 2009. Here's just one of many examples of his fatuous indignation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6MheKboIzU
But you are right, he is insane.
Remember he negotiated a deal with the Taliban that didn’t include the Afghan government.
The Taliban were amongst the first foreign leaders to congratulate him on his election victory (but no love letter from Kim Jong Un apparently).
Trump wants to be the first trillionaire and dictator for life.
Musk will beat him to it and Trump knows this.
Michael, if those morons think they will take over the world, they should rethink it. We will go nuclear and all of us will have to pay for their greed, hunger for power and corruption. Those that will not concede to these idiots would be the trigger for these pieces of shit to push the nuclear button and we all pay.
If not nukes, the destruction of our environment.
That's exactly what's happening.
Already saw it - this is His Story now
We'll see. France has their own independent nuclear force. If push comes to shove, I think they'll use it. They remember what Nazi Germany did to them. The UK has a nuclear force too, but i don't know if it's independent of the US.
I don't think it's far fetched at all,Michael. Sort of a modern day blitzkrieg without military force, yet.
Not far fetched at all
What more to we have to see from trump, musk, and vance to arrest them and bring them up on charges of treason? Are we going to allow them to not only destabilize America, but to bring about the same for our long-time allies?
Exactly. I think the time has come to at least ask the question, where does the US Army stand? Sad that we have come to this point, but there is nothing to be gained by pretending this is business as usual
Yes, I have read that our military might is tasked with the duty to "protect and defend us from enemies, foriegn and domestic" here we have both.
I think the US army and the rest of the armed forces are solidly with the regime. Maybe not high ranking officers - they're usually highly educated - but the bulk of the troops. I think they despise the intelligencia, the educated, academia and the experts just as most of MAGA does.
When they see veterans’ benefits cut, they will change their minds in a hurry. I do not believe that the military signed up for a dictator to be commander in chief. Trump sees them as tools to use to increase his power. He has made it clear over and over again of how he thinks of those who are killed, badly wounded, and POW’s. He thinks that they are “suckers, disgusting, and fools.”
Most of the military supports trump. They've always backed republicans.
not quite that simple. Anyway, these are not Republicans, they are Trumplicans.
You know or you assume? Genuine question
a Pew Research Center survey found that about 61% of military veterans supported Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Additionally, over 200 retired U.S. military generals and admirals endorsed Trump for president in 2024
Over 700 national security and military officials endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president. This group included not only retired generals and admirals but also former secretaries of state and defense, ex-ambassadors, and other high-ranking officials1. Axios
True, but still 61% support him. The 700 includes a much wider group of people.
They took an oath to protect the Constitution and to protect the United States of America, not to any president.
I'll ask again: who will carry out the arrests, and if there were warrants issued who will enact and enforce them?
The judges will order the Federal Marshalls to arrest them.
I would like to see the states arrest them when they set foot there. Not that they'll come to blue states anymore but why not? Especially Musk, who has stolen our data.
Russia's 'Sleeper Agent' in the USA is now fully activated!!
If some states want to join the Soviet Union 2.0, they should be allowed to. They may regret the decision but maybe the price of eggs can regulated for them. Or, was it vodka and bread?
America, with Trump at the helm, has become the new Titanic heading for the iceberg. How much more of his destructive behavior are the Republican members of Congress going to allow? In light of his pardons for all of the January 6,2021 criminals, Trump has made the pardon power of the president a regrettable mistake by the authors of the Constitution!
Our Congress has to unite to save our democracy by getting this maniacal disgrace out of the White House! America has to come together as one!
E pluribus unum
Pro- American people have to fight against this madness!
Keith ; how much longer are we going to allow bought traitors on our Supreme Court who have given this menace so much power? the sycophant 6 are all disqualified and disabled to serve on the highest (or any) Court in the land. The Constitution clearly states this in the 14th amendment section 3 disqualification clause. It maight as well be Santa Clause. Let's clean up the Court and the House!!!!
Laurie, why can't the states say that as a court found that T did engage in insurrection, he's not entitled to hold federal office and they don't recognize him as president? Or sue? Just because the Supreme Court said that a state couldn't take him off the ballot doesn't mean he hasn't violated the Constitution.
We need to get rid of the crime boss and his friends. In the present state of lawlessness, which is worse than it was during the first impeachment, it does not look possible to get justice. Hopefully, this regime will get so much rope to screw up, they may hang themselves, or even start attacking each other. If the Republicans and those few Democrats who voted in some very bad people, can find their way to actually follow the Constitution, there may be a glimmer of hope. Otherwise these foolish criminals will ruin our environment to the point where climate disaster will do most of us in. Including them. It will not be much longer anyway, as anyone who has been paying attention can see.
"People" were not following their oaths of office, and instead seriously violated them .
Paula B. What a good, sensible idea, and it supports the Constitution and our freedom of self rule. The billionaires apparently did not like it, and their Federalist Society judges did what they were told. The Heritage foundation most likely approved. So it was, and is in our "Democracy" "land of the free and home of the brave".
Trump is the iceberg.
And the entire planet is the Titanic.
That is another way of looking at it. America is the Titanic, full steam ahead amongst the ice floes.
I suppose it comes with the territory of being the world's only superpower which is why we are all rather concerned that you have elected a president who hasn't read the manual on how the boat works. At the time of the Wall Street crash it used to said that America sneezes and the world catches a cold. One could amend that now to say that when Trump farts...etc.
Depending on who is steering the ship of state. Does not look good, Donnie boy.
He is certainly cold enough.
When Trump heard that his long-time lawyer and closest friend, Roy Cohn had AIDS he shunned him. Cohn was quoted as saying: "Donald pisses ice water."
Yes, just used that analogy below— we are definitely on the Titanic.
Worse than Chamberlain. As bad as Pearl Harbour. He just erased 70 years of the world order. So angry with all those that were too busy to voted for him.
Angry? Pfft……HATE
I have so much HATE for every person who cast a vote for him EVER.
That’s a lotta HATE…with a bunch of contempt thrown in
NEVER FORGIVE…NEVER
HATE is tRump's true legacy. He's made us all hate each other.
Flabbergasted is what I felt after yesterdays' comments from Trump -- that went beyond Vance or Hegseth. One could have claimed the latter two were only pushing perhaps in an unsubtle way for Europe to increase defense spending --but Trump? !! He bears a grudge against Zelensky since the Hunter Biden affair when he had asked Z to look inot HB's affairs in Ukraine.
He is saying white is black, blue is red, day is night or whatever. He is a sick man to say the exact opposite of what happened, but then everyone knows that he's a sick man. The republicans continue to look the other way and that too is pretty sick. I don't think anyone believed he would go this far...even his supporters.
The irony is that those who support tRUMP because they think it will enhance their bottom line will learn that ignoring climate disaster will ruin the value of their dollars or other financial gain, whether it is real estate or gold. A trillion dollars will not be worth much if Ebola circles the globe. If crops will not grow, if fires keep us unhoused because there is no insurance that allows rebuilding, and clean water is scarce. To say nothing of civility when we all live in armed camps.
Laurie, you've hit on the most important issues of the day and they've all been put on a back burner and allowed to grow. No one is paying attention to them, not even the liberal media.
The "liberal media " is a sick joke. It is owned by the billionaires, and tRUMP gives them cover by openly threatening to shut them down. By ending their licenses to broadcast, if they don't stop making him look bad.. B S. ,They want to make money and get tax breaks, and need deniability. Like tRUMP. It's all a "reality" show." That misinforms.and helps him and his buddies.
The liberal,or legacy media have been neutured.
We get some real news here, for sure, on this Forum with Robert Reich.
Time to discuss what to do about Trump. He is a twofer: he is a malignant narcissist AND he is failing into senile dementia. He will not likely finish his current term as president. Will we?
And what to do when the Oligarchy installs the next puppet..Vance, etc. etc
Hamlet comes to mind
there are rumblings among people who supported him. Or rather, there is a quietness of unease.
Which will only grow as his "policies" affect them.
saying Ukraine started the war is suggesting Ukraine invaded itself 3 years ago and that Russia
stepped in to save Ukraine ...from itself
not a single day without a stupid comment or decree by that pathetic fat orange nobody whose place should be in a psychiatric hospital with a strait jacket...
Where are our ex-presidents?
Every one of them should be speaking out....loud, now!
Bill Clinton is in poor health, and George Bush is simply a zero, but what is Obama's excuse? He seems consumed with his "billion dollar" Presidential library while the country is being destroyed by Trump!
Obama was never Paul Revere so why think he is one now? But I do expect he is doing things under the table, where much needs to be done.
Professor Reich: gee, and here i thought that ameriKKKa is already a fascist plutocracy -- torn down by the likes of an immigrant-with-dubious-legality south african greedmaster and his bootlickers.
i'm still wondering what we all will do when we are serfs, or slaves, or just plain dead, as a result of this fateful election? especially since one of the main policies of these three *cough* *choke* *vomit* "great nations" is to completely destroy this planet and all life on it.
Colonized by capitalism. What will they do when they have extracted everything from us and the planet? Eat each other? Like survivalists' world, not one I want to live in.
Boom.
Shazam!!!!
I HATE WHAT IS HAPPENING!!!!! How dare that piece of orange shit say Ukraine was at fault over that gas bag pootin attacking them! HOW DARE HIM!!! That POS from russia attacked Ukraine for no other reason than to enlarge his own country!! WE DO NOT SIDE WITH RUSSIA!!! Can't anybody see what is happening here? Where the hell are the powers on our side that can put a stop to this? Are we going to sit meekly like damn sheep and let that piece of putrid orange stain do this to our country? Are we going to allow that fetid, rancid carcass with no brain turn our country into another dictatorship like pootin's is? What the hell is wrong with this damn country? Have we given up every damn thing that we believe? We no longer believe in helping other countries achieve Democracy, being allies with those countries that share our goal of helping one another, standing together against dictators and authoritarians and preventing them from taking what isn't theirs. Now we have become one of the evil axis! We are perceived now as a dictatorial country and the enemy! Oh my God, I am sick! I wish every single one of those evil bastards were wiped off the face of the earth!!!
Peggy,great piece,you are right on. We can begin to fight back by boycotting the fnancial markets that support Trump. Get the advertisers on CNBC,call them and let them know we are boycotting their cos and products. Money is the only thing they understand.
There are emotionally damaged misfits in charge right now.
The fact they were put in charge says much of the electorate wasn't in a good emotional place either to elect them. That is part of it.
A lot of the country has not given up its beliefs on who our friends are internationally.
There are rumblings from the Senators about the past 2 days.
They continue to vote in favor of shackling themselves.
I keep wondering if they will figure out that the risk of continuing to support an insane President is higher than the risk of their opposition, and whether they will figure it out in time to prevent dictatorship.
We may not be able to wait to Jan 6th for another Jan 6th.
We made a grave mistake back in the 70s, and Reagan accelerated it in the 80s: We allowed the disparity in wealth to grow between the rich and the poor. It has now become a disparity between the wealthy and the 90%, with 9% being merely better off. The orange menace is the outcome of that mistake, with strong notions of making that gap even wider. That is his only goal. Russia compromised him because, in the end, all you need is to dangle money in front of his face and he caves. Muskrat recognized that character flaw, which is why narcissism gave way to greed. Putin recognized the same flaw a lot longer ago, perhaps Ivana suggests Thom Hartman. The way to stop these two crime bosses, and their minions, is to stop the money flow. Don't use X. Don't buy Tesla. Don't buy Amazon. Don't read the WaPost. Don't use PayPal. Don't use anything owned by Meta. Don't buy from people who advertise on any of them. Do buy local. Keep your economy local. Yes, it will hurt. Yes, the 1% own everything, but we have to make them listen. They only listen to their wallets, which are firmly attached to their butts and only get kissed when we buy their stuff. Boycott, boycott, boycott, resist, resist, resist.
Who owns Paypal now? I know that Muskrat helped in the beginning but not now. I "think" Bezos will come to his senses at some point, (I could be wrong but hope not). He used to be pretty liberal, same with Zuckerberg. I'm hoping at some point they will realize that they do have balls and act like it!
Vanguard Group, BlackRock, and State Street Corp. Peter Theil was a cofounder and still has a large share. Muskrat sold his to finance Tesla.
Vanguard owns PayPal? S_ _t!
It's all interwined. Unless one is living in a cabin totally self-sufficent we all are "complicit" in a strict sense. But there are levels of complicity!
So true. I keep trying to stay non-complicit, but what a web.
Wayne,you are 100% correct. Boycott ,boycott,boycott.We should have one intense week,when we boycott all the places you mention.Only buy local.
I guess this means that all over the world, newly married couples will be forced to accept "droit de seigneur". Corporate feudal lords will rule us in their fiefdoms. We'll either be forced to work for six days per week at minimum wage or be robotized out of our jobs. Stasi will be spying on us. I'm not exaggerating. It's a f**ked up world coming for our children and grandchildren until we get out into the streets and put a stop to this fascist/oligarchist future. Everywhere.
It has been proven that Russia helped Trump to get elected in 2016, and now it is clearer than ever why. This is not a new plan, this has been orchestrated for some time, the 2020 USA election result got in the way (and this is why Trump and co. fought it so intensely). Trump-Putin and co. appear to have now a free hand to govern and decide fates without any respect to democracy, the UN or independent institutions, making plans on how to split the wealths of the world for their own (countries' -they say-) benefit. As a European, this is all very very chilling. I only hope that Europe will unite and resist, and that the American people will revolt and won't let this happen for the sake of their own country and the world.
Make oligarchs great again (MOGA)?
MoGA- more GA. No More MAGA hats