This article should be required reading for every one involved with the welfare of the American people, but especially those who have some responsibility for and capability of stopping it, namely members of Congress and the Senate and the federal judiciary. What you describe is sort of a Russian dolls version of ponzi schemes, one inside of the other, but given the predilections of our so called President, a Russian theme for this enterprise is appropriate, no?
Drump, Mukz, and Wanze are the brutal, inhumane minions of the modern 'Ivan the Terrible' and have no compunction with leaving throngs of their antagonists bleeding in the streets.
Setting aside the fact that Musk is autistic and Trump is a malignant narcissist, both lack empathy (a prerequisite for millionaires and billionaires, one only beomes rich by climbing over bodies), neither are capable of forward thinking, nor willing or able to listen to any voice that is not a confirmation of their own ideas and desires.
Thus not realizing that the path that they have set out upon, that is killing the goose that laid the golden egg, both are pursuing their own self centered goals, and as I said, killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
Musk is driven by his childhood fantasy of being The Elon of Mars. His father was raised by a NAZI loving fascist, and read Wehrner von Brauns book, The Mars Project as if it were the Bible. He named his son after the Leader of Mars, the Elon.
Musk is not a genius, he is not even a savant, he was born on third base with a silver spoon in his mouth, and has used his inherited wealth to achieve power in pursuit of his real goal, to be the Elon of Mars.
He used his inherited wealth to buy Tesla, and paradoxically became wealthy because of eco liberals. I remember when you could drive around and spot a liberal because they were driving a Tesla.
He buys companies and he buys people, to build the things he using to pursue his narrow vision.
His purpose for America is to strip it of all unnecessary and extraneous activities, except those that will get him to Mars. Money spent on USAID in his mind, will be better spent on developing technology and rockets that will get him to Mars via SpaceX.
Trump's goal is simple, wealth, fame, power. I think we can agree that his vision is to be co ruler with Putin, Xi, and a Caliphate
I'm in agreement with what you're saying except for the connection between Musk's autism and his lack of empathy. Musk has no empathy because of his narcissism and consequent entitlement. Most autistic people are capable of empathy and many have hyper-empathy but often are perceived as non-empathetic because of affect and because they may express themselves in a literal way. He may indeed be autistic but he acts the way he does be he is an entitled asshole.
How do we know Musk is autistic? Have we seen a doctor's report. And are we using that possible diagnosis for his loose cannonball behavior? If so, that is a complete insult to people with autism.
Correction - Musk claims to be autistic as an excuse for his outrageous behavior. He is tarnishing people who actually live with autism and he should be held accountable.
I agree totally - My heart is racing about this & our elected do not seem to get it or at least or not screaming loudly enough. I've been reading Dave Troy's work on BlueSky (america2.news, recently "The Four Memos", also the Wide Angle, The Washington Spectator) - The Dark Enlightenment, TechBros NX - Neo Reactionaries - Tech States; this is a HOSTILE TAKEOVER - the courts are not designed for this & too slow -- we need to intervene NOW -- IT'S ILLEGAL -- Is anyone else reading this -- this is a 5-alarm fire; we're trying to patch this mess up, putting bandaids on something we need to absolutely TAKE BACK -- Academia and everyone we can find needs to go to Congress -- storm the Capitol and EXPLAIN FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES WHAT IS GOING ON AND WHAT THE STAKES ARE. Caravans to the Capitol -- educate first and bring everyone along that we can!
More importantly, Peggy, don't forget those who voted for Trump but are now feeling the effects of their mistake. They are the ones that we most need to enlist in the fight.
Too many Progressives are self-righteously proclaiming that all Trump voters are just getting what they deserve. That's not helpful.
We should be extending an empathetic hand, inviting them to join the struggle. We need every ally we can get, and there's no more committed believer than a convert.
You are absolutely right, Dennis. That's why we have to do more than file lawsuits and make speeches. You can't stop an arsonist with Temporary Restraining Orders; you have to remove him from the streets.
There's only one way to stop this out-of-control train of disasters: Impeachment
We need to lead our "leaders", and work to bring about the impeachment of the President and Vice President, as well as the removal and replacement of Speaker Mike Johnson.
Stop believing that it can never happen just because Republicans have the majority. Not every Republican Senator and Representative is MAGA. Most are actually moderates who've been too timid to act. That is changing.
Do Not Surrender In advance. The stakes are too high.
To learn more details about removing the Speaker and Impeaching the President and Vice President, please see these posts from FeathersOfHope.net :
The government in El Salvador continues to buy bitcoin. They had to do something to satisfy the IMF but in the future if bitcoin continues to go up the government will end up holding alot more money. Bitcoin is not the same as altcoins or meme like doge.
Unregulated cryptocurrency will be their undoing as well, but they're too stupid to see the danger. They think they're too smart to ever be taken advantage of which makes them the easiest of marks.
A fool and his money are soon parted. Billionaires have so much money they know not what to do with it, and many of them acquired it so fast they are still hungry for more. Crypto is a gamble guaranteed to be a loser because of its high energy consumption.
"Important information concerning fraud for every US taxpayer who pays into or receives Social Security Benefits, whatever your political inclination. This is every bit as much a local issue as it is an issue for every US taxpayer, having to do with public policy. If you either pay into Social Security or receive Social Security benefits, this pertains to >you<. It pertains to >all< of us.
Thanks for posting the link to Hartmann report. I just listened to it. It is terrifying and makes sense. Yes, Russian can win a war against America without firing a shot. I'm going to do what I love everyday--walk amongst the trees and dance--while I still can. Nothing I have read has made me focus on being in the present moment and feeling gratitude for everything in my entire life that has given me joy and meaning as after reading this by Hartmann. I feel like our days are numbered. I feel nauseated and so sad that due to our ignorance and clinging to false values of money and power and insatiable greed, we elected this inhumane POTUS.
Surprisingly, I've posted a couple of these pieces on Facebook successfully. (I'm Canadian and we are forbidden from posting any news on FB because of Zuck's war with the Canadian government over royalties)
My post lasted 9 hours before it was suppressed almost immediately after I appealed it having been hidden while citing the rule showing it was clearly within content guidelines.
Marlo, I just listened to this. I'm shivering. Shivering because it fits so completely with what I posted earlier today when Lagardered asked: "So, what is DOGE's real goal?" I answered: "there are three:
1) Eliminate any agency that has proved bothersome to Musk's endeavors.
2) Cement existing and expand new contracts for Musk's companies
[[[ - - but THIS is my answer that has me even MORE frightened
now with the context provided in the Hartmann Report]]]
3) Provide Musk with complete and unencumbered ownership of the largest, most robust, finely granular datasets in the world. These, coupled with his ownership of communications dissemination (X) and communications transmission mechanics (Starlink internet) will give him control over all aspects of modern wireless communications".
I'd like to see my post reposted to as many Nextdoor.com forums as possible. So if anyone here is on Nextdoor.com, please consider reposting the post I've included here, or your own version of the same thing. Writing your senators is good, but the voters are arguably the most important. I'm tryin' to reach the voters in the ruby red state of Ohio, where the legislature likes to ignore its own conservative state supreme court rulings and disregard grassroots voter issues.
Good, Doreen. I'm sending to my Senator Baldwin (D-WI), and to (not ) my Sen. Ron "fake electors" Johnson (R-WI). Scott and Johnson are members of the 'seditonist's fan club' who seduced millions of voters into Drump's camp. Congressman Bryan (R-WI) also is worth a lambast, and listen, fascist clowns Tom Tiffany and the hideous Derrick van Orden.
Dork Scott is so corrupt; he made huge profits off fraud before he became Governor in his nursing home business and was investigated but somehow the charges were dropped -- don't know how that happened though.
We should send to ALL the Republican Representatives and Senators. But maybe they wouldn’t open it thinking it could have something malicious attached? I wonder if they have been instructed not to… Are you just sending the URL?
The dRump administration is destroying Medicaid and Social Security because they "believe" the poor and the elderly are a drag on the government. They are purposely trying to kill us.
I got kicked off for RESPONDING to a Republican political comment. Apparently it’s perfectly okay to make comments if you are Republican as long as you don’t oppose them. Nextdoor is run by Republicans.
I was invited to return, but I am much happier among more the much more informed intellectual community on Substack:
Robert Reich
Timothy Snyder
HCR
Joyce Vance
Thom Hartmann
Georgia Fisanick
Olga Lautman
And of course Rachel Maddow & Larry O’Donnell.
THESE are the people that should be running the government in place of Trump’s whackos!
Nextdoor is run by one of the Silicon Valley IT companies but they also have local monitors so if you live in a Red District, some comments that might pass will be flagged in those areas.
The semi-literacy rate is the downside. Spelling and punctuation skills are virtually non-existent. But that doesn't mean comprehension is as bad. Many people who can read adequately couldn't write their way out of a wet paper bag!
This, on "curated failure," RINGS TRUE to me: "Jess Piper of The View From Rural Missouri notes that what seems to be a deliberate attempt to crash what was, when Trump took office, a booming U.S. economy, is a feature of the administration’s plan, not a bug. It creates “curated failure” that enables oligarchs to buy up the assets of the state and of desperate individuals for “rock-bottom prices.”
I believe this is their goal. Eliminate the middle class entirely and the billionaire boys club can rule the peasants. What a giant leap backwards we're experiencing.
Then we can be like Russia! I think we actually have a quartet with Trump, Musk, Vance, and Putin aiming to take us back to the Middle Ages politically, with oligarchs running the military and information technology, and everyone else gets to be a serf.
Exactly what happened in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Lots of bad guys got really rich, buying up government services that were being privatized. And then, of course, the rich bad guys started falling out of windows.
The welfare of the American people is what these people don’t want. It is expensive.
Their solution is to cut programs that make Americans healthy and live longer (cancer research, for example, Medicaid, ) so they die younger and not collect social security and Medicare benefits. It sounds crazy, but connect the dots. They want Americans to die.
DK Brooklyn ; I think there is some truth to the idea that tRUMP wants to kill as many of us who will collect Social security benefits as possible. Look at what he said during The worst of Covid. His followers in red states were dying like flies as he recommended Ivermectin and bleach , for example, and told people to avoid vaccines and masking. There were reefer trucks used as portable morgues in his old neighborhood in New York City, because there was no room in the hospital morgues. In the red states, the mortality was much higher than in blue states where people were advised to follow the advice of the CDC and experts on pandemics, like Dr. Fauci. Today he still wants to jail Dr. Fauci. He places RFK jr in charge of the Health and human services agency. The man is a vaccine denier. there are already kids dying in Texas from measles, which was a rare condition thanks to vaccination programs. Polio was coming back where vaccinations were not required. American Samoa, an island, was used as an experimental site to discontinue vaccinations, and the results are that these diseases are coming back, infecting young children. Who knows how many people died when vaccines were denied or not recommended in those red states? tRUMP killed those people. He harmed and killed migrants at the Southern border, too. A young father who learned that his baby daughter was taken, and he was likely never to see her again, committed suicide. Putin kidnaps children from Ukraine, too. tRUMP is not an American who believes in Democracy nor does he honor those who fought for the freedom of humans to have self rule.
True, many of the wealthy despise the poor and want them gone, especially if thy are dark skinned. This is why they hate Bill Gates; his philanthropy makes them feel uncomfortable.
the problem, Adam, is that the threats of violence have started against congresspeople. We need to remember that the republican party is a terrorist organization that promotes violence to resolve political differences. dumpster has been promoting violence since the first day of his 2015 candidacy rollout. he has given "permission" to white men to reassert their supposed supremacy over women, children, minorities, and any "other" of the moment. Further, we live in a surveillance state with enormous power to monitor our keystrokes, our phone calls, our faces and locations (AI augmented facial recognition). If you have a gov't issued id - drivers license, passport, etc. you are automatically in a facial recognition program. It's that simple. Organizing will very soon be impossible to do with any safety. Cherish these last moments.
Important reminder, Paul. Keep also in mind that all IT items you use keep track of your activities and location. Even your credit card may contain a homing devise. Assume that you are naked and nearly transparent.
A very small percentage of Americans, even, (tragically) those in congress, are equipped to understand the depths of Musk’s involvement in our systems, and/or the potential he has, through the tools at his disposal, for whatever he chooses to break or “fix.” We are literally at his mercy.
"Nick-bot" could be the SMARTEST MAGAt on Earth, and still have trouble pouring water out of a boot with the proverbial instructions written on the heel.
Read this then. It explains the Tariffs and how they will decimate the economy along with crypto, and Trump's new proposed "Sovereign Wealth Fund". Talk about scary.
To these people, anything with actual punctuation tends to be "woke" and "elite" (as they follow billionaires into their tombs, having been told "could you please carry this, then come right back out? ...snicker, snicker...).
“Nick” is likely a Russian bot who leaves these similiar dismissive comments across many Substack blogs with no facts or follow ups. Substack needs to check this….
Nicky,Nicky – is that the best you can do? It reads like a junior-high-school drive-by sound bite with no truth to it at all, no facts either? It’s a sad day for trolls when Nickie is on the job, trying his underwhelming 80.4 IQ pitted against Robert Reich, one of the best minds in America today.
Bob, Adam, all you wrote is more than correct, only also here I have a 'but'... You write about the destruction of the social structure of the US in terms of money. The language may be readable, only the way to think about it, is not distant enough of the Ponzi-scheme.
It is not a financial problem, but a way to consider our society, our human existence, our solidarity and decency. I mean: Havel ans Mandela and King did not live in vain, did they?
We are genetically programmed to respect courage and moral integrity. Don't let temporary setbacks discourage you, even if these setbacks may be long-lasting.
I wish I felt your optimism. Today, this morning, I feel downcast. Where are the crowds in the streets opposing Trump 2.0? Where are the boycotts bringing pain to the uncaring corporations? Where are the folks resisting the beginning desecration of our natural world, our public parks? Where is the unified resistance?
Maybe it’s just the hour of this morning that has me so low. But right now, I need a good dose of your bright light and your hope.
Right there with you, buddy, in a state of shock and resignation like I’ve never experienced in my lifetime. No crowds in the streets, because everyone knows that Trump’s militias are recruiting, armed, anxious to fight, and ABOVE THE LAW. He knows he can deploy them with a simple social media call-to-arms. And where are the Democrats? What future is there for our children?
But there ARE crowds in the streets! Even in Idaho, for heaven's sakes! Rachel Maddow showed, I don't know: a dozen of amazing crowds across the country! You and Michael are putting pillows over your heads "surrendering in advance!" ps Rachel also ran a litany of how Trump/Musk have backpedalled and backpedalled on one bungle after another: was it Monday? Golly come up for air!
I will never surrender. I have children. I can’t afford to surrender or go quiet. I will fight back until I die. But it isn’t easy when I see the resistance fragmented and floundering.
I honor and love Rachel and others at MSNBC. But we need boycotts, demonstrations and other protests so large that the other media corporations that are doing their best to ignore us have no choice but to cover the resistance. Those in the so-called heartland for the most part don’t watch MSNBC.
The problem is with the mainstream media who seem to be almost totally subservient to Trump. They are not covering the protests or any of the random actions, podcasts, pressers, etc. of those elected Democratic politicians who are speaking out and making good trouble.
To find out what going on, join Indivisible, or other organizing groups. Democracy Docket, Scott Dworkin's Substack always has a GREAT list of actions. Jessica Craven, Jess Piper and many other very informative sites. Dworkin, Meidas, and many other independent news sources are proving to be much better at covering Dem protests than the traditional channels.
You seem to be forgetting that the point is also to get people who are doom scrolling and doom posting their surrender in advance to wake up and see what is happening and stop that.
Thank you. It is amazing to me that folks are not aware of what ordinary Americans are doing and aware of the Democrats who are speaking truth to power daily. What are there daily news sources?? If they are stuck on Fox, all they will get is the “Trump Liar Squad.” and MAGA Republican apologists.
The 'militias' are, maybe, 10,000 cosplay maggots nationwide; not too worrying and would not stop a peaceful protest. My worry is the entire US Military that trump is working hard to co-opt: 'Pete's gestapo'.
My experience in the rural Deep South for 60 years...
They're cowards alone, but dangerous anytime several are found in close proximity to each other.
I think it involves 1) a minimal number of brain cells and 2) close proximity, and the result is a "vector of hate and violence", with all Trump's lies about "I'll pay your legal fees" bouncing around in the center.
And, of course. the DADDY-LOVE from Trump is also a huge factor.
I don't doubt some of these fools would LITERALLY give their lives to get a shout-out from Hater-In-Chief. After all, they already sacrificed their elders to the Trump/Covid pyre, and they seem to still have no regrets.
"In addition to the linked example above, my far-right neighbors and many relatives (yes, my family has been in this very South Carolina county long enough to have received a land grant from the king) went all-out celebrating on the day after the Kyle Rittenhouse “verdict” was delivered in November 2021. To the far-right, Rittenhouse’s self-defense acquittal (while being too young to legally own the assault rifle he used to murder two unarmed, peaceful, legal protesters, and maim a third) was a loud shout to each Trump worshipper that killing Americans they disagree with politically would forevermore be deemed “justified”, and they seemed dedicated to giving Trump all the credit. To honor what they saw as their new “Kill at Will” freedom, several dozen armed white men alternately spent the entire day (until several hours into night) shooting their many guns in the closest possible field to the “local liberal”, while staying just within the law. (I’ll let you guess who that particular liberal is…)"
And what I described happen more than 3 years ago. I try not to think too much about how it will be in the rural Deep South for people like us over the next 4 years. (This wasn't even an "official" militia...)
The democrats seem to be complicit? They are supposed to be our representatives, they certainly are not showing any leadership. WHERE is Harris? She had huge energetic crowds! Did she simply disappear? Where is Bush? Clinton? Obama?
Bush is old school Republican not Democrat. Please look up Democrat Jasmine Crockett on You Tube and read about Bernie Sanders touring against Oligarchs— tour is drawing large crowds.
Our Media is Trump media. Americans have not realized it yet. We no longer have freedom of speech. Speech is for Trump when it comes to our media.
Our media is Trump and Trump alone. Also former presidents are right to be quiet. Their silence allows you to focus on what Trump and Trump Republicans are doing. Trump and his Fox Liar Squad can only lie about Joe Biden for so long. Please remember that there are people in this country that want all that Trump is doing.
Where the Democrats always are, fighting back in every way they can, though the voters yet again made sure that one of those ways was NOT going to be legislatively by putting Congress completely in the control of the GOP.
Democrats have held meetings they could not call oversight or hearings, because those are reserved for the majority party, but meetings that were public so the info on what is happening gets out there.
Democrats have been publicly calling on the GOP to join them in votes to stop this cr@p that is going down -like Jeffries describing a piece of legislation they have put together and having a press conference talking about it and calling on "just three of the House republicans" to join them in voting aye. And THAT is ALL that they can do. Don't yell at them for the voters' stupidity in hogtying them. Get people to call their GOP MOCs nonstop, every day, telling them to GD oin in those votes.
I’ll tell you why I’m not out in the streets…yet. There’s ice and snow in our streets in the Midwest. But I’ve been taking part in the boycotts and have signed up to participate in a march at the end of the month.
Also, I was having a long conversation with my sister last night about what to do if the economy goes into freefall. We’re both on Social Security and have modest retirement accounts. If the stock market fails, banks close, and we no longer get SS, any or all of those things, how will we live? What will happen to our families? Will Trump destroy farming with his tariffs and deportations? Will there be food shortages? How bad could it get, and how can we protect ourselves, our family, our friends and neighbors?
When the Great Depression happened in the 30s, did people know it was coming?
I’m going to do everything I can to prevent the national financial crisis I see us headed for at the hands of Trump and Musk, but I want to have a plan if things go south. I’m pretty sure we aren’t the only people thinking along these lines.
Although I’m now in the northeast, I lived in the Midwest for a long time and I understand about the snow and ice. If (or is it when) we lose SS, if or when the banks collapse, I have no idea what I will do, what my children will do. I wish I had a plan.
I can't help reflecting on my own experience: how did Mom and Dad install a "new" house in the woods without a safe wood-burning heat stove? I always thought, well, if I got truly snowed in and the gas ran out, I could get back to the old pioneer place and start up the old stove. But I'm too old to figure on that now. But heating with wood would be my first thought.
I wish I could say you can come to my house and live since currently I got 8 acres to grow food on and I know how to do it after 47 years of doing it. Except I’m 82, still shucking’ in wood to keep warm in the winter and since my husband died I can’t do it alone. It gives me real pause to have to divest myself of this place at a time like this but take heart, there are cooperative ways of survival and I think in times like this you know who your friends are. On Social Security- well I get this too and I feel like I hold my breath every month to see if it’s there in my bank account. Since it’s automated Must so far as I know has not monkeyed with it yet. So far Trump is after Medicaid. -which Steve Bannon ( of all people!) has advised Trump not to do since a wide swath of Trumpers are recipients of that program. There is a move on to deluge the White House with postcards mailed March 15. Your choice of statements on the front of the cards. I chewed out My senator - a Democrat- in an email yesterday for appeasing Trump. Albeit that was so exhausting I had to take a nap afterwards but any avenue, any crack in the wall, any opportunity can be put into action.
Its good to plan for the worst, while still fighting to prevent it. Tomorrow begins the boycott of Amazon, March 7-14--don't shop Amazon or Whole Foods.
I live simply and hardly shop for anything except what I need for my health. I stock up on healthy staples that are easy to prepare and cheap.
They’re happening, the news doesn’t show them because they’re owned by the damn conservative groups that bend the knee to the orange chimpanzee and his ghouls!
Yup, my sleep habits have changed too. When I lived in Alaska in a cabin I had a wood burning stove and an outhouse. I hauled my own water and when I came home it didn't take long for that little cabin to warmup. It was a simple way of life. I always slept well from just the lifestyle. Now I'm older so it would be more challenging if everything collapsed. I do still go to a well to haul water. It's so fresh and sweet. I have a stove outside to burn yard wood but in the house I'd have to bundle up to stay warm. All this does bring appreciation for what we have now.
People tend to lured by warmer weather before they really get rolling for protests. Part of the problem, too, is that the regime is hitting us from so many directions that there hasn't been one area to coalesce around.
Something will happen to galvanize a massive response. It's just a matter of time.
The issue that drove protesters to show up in Los Angeles was immigration as their are so many immigrants in LA County The people blocked one of the main freeways which goes into downtown LA. They have been showing up in droves for a month or so.
You are right about the weather, LA is in the fifties and sixties even in winter, spring will get people out around the whole country.
Rachel Maddow reported on a lot of "crowds in the streets" anticipating and reaction to Trump's speech, across the country including Idaho! Re: boycotts, haven't you heard about the market for Teslamobiles crashing around the world? I even heard it on the car radio that Elon is announcing some new "reorientation" of Tesla's business model, whatever I don't have a clue about tech stuff. But click around just a little more, Michael, and you will definitely see lots of folks showing up to support/protest in the National Parks. I encourage you to widen your view! There are folks out there for you to join up with!
Yay! Hadn't heard that one. There was something today (I run down google News) about Teslamobile orders in CHINA crashing???? Maybe shipments from China?? I can't absorb all of it. So now Elon is like, Fox and Grapes (see under Aesop) never cared about those silly cars anyhow.....
I have read and watched and I will participate in every boycott that I can. Every protest. But we need such a groundswell, like during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, that we can’t be ignored. And even leaders as powerful as MLK weren’t able to completely overturn the repression. We are still fighting that battle.
I’m not sure we have enough time to stop the creation of a fascist state in our country. What will be left if it takes 10 years, 20 years?
There’s even been protests in Arkansas! Protests are happening. Some are small which is why all Americans are needed.
There are many local protests and some nationwide. Too many to list. A big one for democracy is March 29.
Get plugged in to find a protest near you or organize one. Remember Greta Thunberg started out protesting alone. Then a friend joined her and eventually it became a movement.
Malcolm Gladwell, in his book The Tipping Point, says it takes about 150 people to start a revolution. That’s all!!
Case in point: The Tea Party which has morphed into…MAGA. Well, so maybe it only takes 150 to start a mass psychosis…but it should give us here great encouragement.
(I’m now reading David and Goliath by Gladwell. Amazing!
Protest are building! I live in rural America and I haven't protested for years. But I just bought posterboard for making signs. I'm joining the Women's March on Saturday and the Tesla Tuesday protests in town. As more people are hurt by Musk/Trump/Putin, more will join.
See the "50501 Movement" . People are protesting, there were organized peaceful demonstrations March 4th, and will be again March 15th. Find one in your state
Indeed Michael, while where the hell is your bloody Democratic Party (despite Chris Murphy) and the frankly 'showtime' (further to that Hollywood-isation performance culture which has ensnared your country) carry-on at Citoyen Trump's SOTU further to 'them' holding up their pathetic little signs in the chamber? Absolutely gutless, while there was more resistance from Kagan J. following the disdainful look she gave the self appointed king as he shook her hand.
Take some heart, Michael, from the fact that opposition to Agent Orange and the Muskrat IS growing. It’s even growing in places that voted Red in 2024: Utah, Idaho and Arizona all saw large crowds turning out in recent days to protest the tRUMP regime.
I missed nothing. Good first steps but insufficient of themselves. We need hundreds of thousands, millions to actively oppose this autocratic regime. It may come.
Trump is neither smart enough nor sufficiently disciplined to have planned all this or be managing the execution. Who are the active ones making it happen, inside and outside of the cabinet. Give them names and faces and backgrounds. Democracy dies in darkness…
As horrifying as the idea is, Trump and his popularity with the MAGAts are the only things standing between us and their technocratic utopia in which a few technocratic oligarchs will own and run everything and the rest of us will be serfs.
💙✨🕯️🗽⏰🇺🇸 Maureen & ALL, please help us voters fight back: It appears Kamala did win! Please see & help Election Truth Alliance & see their newest update: https://youtu.be/yhz5kePQhEs?si=1_MbSWeKWBiUYPyU . Trump, Musk & Putin, of course, very likely WIDELY CHEATED in our election, too. Please pitch in any amount for their crucial 2-week sprint of lawsuits & more targeted audits like I did & tell them their new follower Janette is referring people as a volunteer to help. We the People elected President Harris & my MN Governor Tim Walz for VP. We must give them the proof so they will believe it & act with others! ETA has an FAQ & is also now on Facebook if you search their full name. Thanks!
If you are unable to physically protest, make calls, write op eds, donate to organizations. If you can’t physically protest, buy one of those garage sale signs, put your own message, and put it in front of Tesla on public property
seems pretty reasonable to assume the cult of personality whack jobs we see in the headlines and social media etc are not really the ones ....ain't that usually how they do these things
I don't think it's the loonies in the cabinet and def agree rump is a non thinking money grabbing idiot so the who seems more like ..aside from people who's names we don't know.... probably oil barons and who knows plus it seems like those psychos that disappeared during Biden and seem to pop up and then don't have major influence like Miller and bannon..but who knows....I'm sure the military industrial complex and private war profiteers tend to run everything in the end ....
This gives the prospective of the billionaires wanting to run the country like a business. It came out 3 months ago but talks about the tariffs and firing government employees. It seems Ray was privy to the plan that no one else is telling us about.
Another reason the Social Security trust fund has seen difficulty is that the government has borrowed from it. It currently is reported to owe Social Security $2.788 trillion. Are republicans interested in trying to get rid of it because they owe this much money and most Americans don't know this?
mukarat has corroded brain cells oozing self loathing racist sexist drivel and a mess of random ideas from getting high and watching bad tv.....someone put him in a padded cell with pleasant music a breeze machine and give him some plush dogs to snuggle and tell him he's doing a Great job and be done with him
Professor Reich: i am astounded at how many people willingly hand over their hard-earned funds to online scam artists in exchange for worthless crypto. in view of all the freely-available information (and testimonials of those where were scammed into abject poverty) ameriKKKans are wilfully -- PROUDLY -- ignorant in pursuit of their boundless greed. i knew white men like this, in fact: they always had an "angle" or an "insider tip" on how to invest, yet they could barely afford rent on a single room in a house. if this man is any example, i'd say investing is a gambling addiction where the only thing that registers in these peoples' brain stems is the single-mined pursuit of fabulous riches, of gold, of beautiful babes, at the expense of all else. it's truly depressing that average (non-addicted) americans will end up impoverished: homeless, hungry, uneducated and without adequate healthcare.
Those same boys in men's bodies who are spending hundreds of dollars per month of their tiny earrnngs on Draft Kings (and now crypto) are the same ones who hate women because those "beautiful babes" want nothing to do with them. They can't understand why life is so unfair. Joe Rogan says, "I'm with ya, pal!" Then, they vote accordingly.
That is simply musk's excuse for why SSec should be got rid of - of course they will use any pretext to do anything moneywise that benefits the plan they have to take ownership of EVERYTHING. There are millions of Americans for whom SSec is their only income - how are we all supposed to survive if they kill it ??? I am scared to death of these people !
Simply an extension of the KOCH BROTHERS long-running plan to eliminate soc sec entirely.
At the time, each of the (then both living) brothers was earning about $15,000,000 PER DAY, yet it still wasn't enough.
I guess they didn't like paying the employer match to each employee's PERSONAL SOC SEC CONTRIBUTION (something that seems not to get mentioned much by MUMP.) So for years they've been sponsoring literally HUNDREDS OF PAPERS claiming that soc sec cannot remain solvent.
All because they (apparently) think their ex-employees should spend their retirements STARVING TO DEATH.
Please explain the rationale for the cap income for paying social security taxes. Why would a person earning above $176,100. NOT be subject to social security tax?
It seems to me that the more one earns, the more that individual would be able to contribute to those who do not earn enough for basic needs like health care, food, housing and education. I just don’t understand…
I suspect that, at least in America, most "woke" people understand that it's America's richest that BUY American tax laws. (One of the reasons "they" hate the concept of WOKE so irrationally, be my guess.)
And while we're on the topic of MONTY PYTHON, this clip could be the basis for an entire graduate-level field of study on economics and politics.
Seriously, 3 minutes of anyone's time will prove VERY educational, in the context of the past few weeks on Planet Earth...
over population is one of humanities biggest problems ...it's why the systems don't work. governments can't govern. the earth has a human population issue ..on and on ....musk is worthless
But what's also true is that MUSK has been going off for YEARS about the "dangers of Earth's declining population" , and claims that's the reason he has SO MANY CHILDREN, and he encourages everyone to do the same.
If he's correct (and he has been, or rare occasions) a continuing downward trend should be GREAT for soc sec., even if not for the planet. (Though not everyone agrees.
Seems to many that THE PROBLEM is too many people. (Obviously, what's bad for billionaires wanting nothing but CASH is very different from what's bad for an already overpopulated planet with declining resources.)
Sure, BILLIONAIRES only care about selling things, so THE MORE THE MERRIER! Mother Earth may tend not to agree...
elon's dumbass claims that earth has a declining population -- a BIG FAT LIE -- is elon-speak for "declining WHITE population relative to those people with pigments in their skins".
But I can also imagine Musk calculating the value of increasing the size of markets for his products, and weighing that against the millions of people that will have to die for his "shock and awe" to hit with maximum effectiveness.
I'd not be surprised if "Big Balls" (or some other teenager in thrall to Musk) could make a pretty accurate guess as to just how much "population decline" will still (over time) make Musk the most "richer than rich", and that number is perhaps large enough to count as "global population decrease".
So of course, Musk wants a huge market share, and at this moment in time, racism-based hatred seems to be the path to that greater market share. (Seemingly, almost no matter the "product.")
The real problem is all those "RICH RESOURCE-SUCKING POLLUTING DESTRUCTIVE WHITE AMERICANS HAVE TOO MANY BABEEEZ!" for example, every american born today will require 3.07 MILLION POUNDS of minerals, metals and fuel in their lifetimes to pursue their increasingly selfish and greedy lives.
how to combat this? besides not having and kids at all, the research clearly shows again and again that educating girls and women is the best way to downsize families -- https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/05/07/family-size-among-mothers/ -- data that will absolutely piss off white male "christian" nationalists to their dying day, since they clearly want their women and girls to be compliant, subservient and uneducated.
in a world where the massive natural wealth of one continent, Africa, is looted and stolen from its peoples by white "god fearing" americans and (to a lesser degree) europeans, this has destructive and far-reaching social impacts in a society where local wealth rarely ends up in local hands -- https://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/18/africa/looting-machine-tom-burgis-africa/index.html
ah yes true over population..people we don't really want more of tend to breed ..look at mukarat..and many people just pop em out and whine about it ..and yes global politics are incredibly unfair and disgusting...and there's something extra depressing in knowing that as u say Europe to a lesser extent well that's now when centuries ago the same self serving hoarding at the expense of others they did they passed onto the new empires....maybe as this one is collapsing something different will happen
It's 4:19am. I never had insomnia. Now I do. How can we impeach this Maniac? He has literally gotten away with EVERYTHING! Insurrection, pardoning the thugs from Jan 6th, Not paying E. Jean Carrol fir Sexual Abuse & Defamation, 34 Counts of Felony with barely a slap on his little Hands, Cozying up to Russia while tales of Trump being recruited by the KBG as an assest no longer seem like Conspiracy nonsense but reality, having a drug addicted Maniac Wielding a chain saw destroying our government hap hazards, putting Kennedy Quack in charge of Health while yet another Measles outbreak in Florida is happening....and on and on while the Cult of Maga And Syncophants cheers his madness on( Lindsay Graham).
Obviously our Supreme Court is compromised for certain after hearing Trump thank a Judge for helping him and he will never forget it! Trump is a criminal and we let him run for President. We need to change our constitution so that Felons are not allowed to run for office. Trump was a friend of Epstein. Does anyone really think Epstein killed himself in jail??? Come on! Trump has money in Russian assests like any other Russian Oligarch. Trump ignored our own CIA saying Russia was interfering in Elections and other serious matters...Trump ignored it because he was part of it all. It is unbelievable why no one is investigating Trump's Russian ties. He could be hung for treason. But instead the Powerful Democrats stand back and allow a Sociopath to destroy the literal fabric of our Democracy and Justice system with nothing more than speeches. We need those in power on the Democrats side to do their own investigations and get this evil shit out. Because I really need some sleep.
I haven’t had more than 4 hours sleep since the inauguration. The new normal. I suspect if Social Security goes the suicide rate in this country will rise accordingly. Sad, but too many of us live off of that EARNED benefit, and while we’re not wealthy, thanks to it we get by.
I so get you! It's now 4:30 a.m. here. I've been up for 2 hours. You hit the nail on the head with your post. It was cathartic to read it! There's so much evil swirling around Trump and his minions but his followers continue to pledge their loyalty. I find it sickening. It's like watching a tsunami in slow motion. I'm exhausted from all the chaos.
Well....the good news ( if any) as it is now 6am here in VA and I am wide awake...is that Democratic Senators are starting to ask GOP Senators...IS TRUMP A RUSSIAN ASSEST??? Because our US Intelligence found that Russia had indeed compromised our Elections and Trump did NOTHING about it and the MAGA MORON Senators were too WIMPY ( Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell I am looking at you) to push back and address it seriously! Fiona Hill a Russian Specialist WARNED EVERYONE and here we are now...with Putin Loving Dictator who is taking great Glee in dismantling and weakening our Government under the LIE of Trimming off the Fat while Brutalizing our Sweet Neighbor Canada, Intentionally Humiliating a War Weary President Zelensky, telling Denmark in his Senate Address he is going to basically take other Countries Property ( Panama Canal, Greenland, The Gaza lands and Declared out loud The Gulf if Mexico is The Gulf of America) It is a playbook out of Putin's Russian Playbook. So I think in order for me to actually ever sleep normally again...Trump needs to be investigated for Treason. He must have Russian Assests Hidden in Swiss Bank Accounts that our Intel who was fired can find. And with that money the Son of a Bitch can pay E. Jean Carroll the money he owes her for Sexually Assaulting her and Defaming her and buy Zelensky a Saville Row Suit. Trump is a Russian Asset. ☠️ It is ridiculously clear. Even two of his wives were/are Soviet Block Babes.
Just try watching Trump's speech to the Congress and that is guaranteed to induce sleep. It was like one of those interminable, dreary speeches by Soviet leaders to meetings of the Communist party.
It was thrilling for the people - his voters - who believe his lies. He’s doing so much for them! He is getting rid of “ the swamp”, etc. . . Easy for them to believe his lies b/c he is their fact check.
I understand and appreciate the quagmire the Democrats are in: how do you counter lies when people refuse to believe or accept, facts?
Rising prices are going to be a fact that they can't ignore. So will the loss of benefits and for many so will the loss of their jobs in the federal government. Even Trump has acknowledged that his economic policies (if that's an appropriate term for his tariffs) will create a 'disturbance' that he hopes people will understand. They won't - that's his problem and you can see that intolerance at those angry town hall meetings held by Republican members of Congress that have recently gone viral. That's probably why the day after he imposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico his commerce secretary said that they wouldn't last long and that a deal with both countries would be forthcoming and insisted there would be no pause in the application of tariffs until that transpired. Yet today, the administration announced the tariffs would be paused for American automakers. Trump pays attention to the markets and on both occasions they have reacted badly to his threatened tariffs. To add to this, his policy has now twice been called 'dumb' in editorials in the Wall Street Journal. None of this will impact his loyal base but believe me it will infuence him.
The Constitution expressly states in the the third clause of the 14th Amendment that those who broke an oath of office to the constitution by engaging in rebellion are disqualified from holding further office unless Congress exempt them by a two-thirds vote. This has not happened. The Supreme Court kicked this issue back to Congress when it considered Colorado’s high court ruling that it was not self effectuating. Congress needed to act. Why aren’t we pushing Congress to act??
The text: “Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
I think there’s real outrage over Medicaid but touch Social Security and people will take to the streets. I’m on SSDI and Medicare and a small pension that helps me pay my mortgage and I’m pissed that an apartheid POS wants to play with Americans future never mind the destruction he’s been causing especially to the VA. Military members should be angry knowing what is going on since it affects them and family that are on these benefits. This country belongs to us, not some failed TV game show host and apartheid a**holes.
YOU SAID A MOUTHFUL SAL! I know there are many families who feel the same way. I have veteran friends who are beside themselves. 'This Country Belongs To Us' is going to be on my next carrying sign!
When they take away the money that we worked all our life for and healthcare to give a tax break to the top 1% who don’t need it and don’t pay taxes as it is, we WILL take our country back and believe me, these billionaires will be jumping on their jets to get the hell out of here. This isn’t a game they’re playing. I don’t know how Republicans don’t see that if they do the right thing, it’s possible for some to get re-elected but being afraid of a primary??? Makes no sense because they will lose to the primary and the primary will lose to the Democrat running against them. It’s mind boggling what’s going on.
I can truly appreciate your passion! (And I seriously doubt, at least in these discussions, that I stand alone.) Care for a little more ammo?
(I apologize if you've seen this before, but each day presents a largely new audience, eager to explore any and all new "realities".)
I've been asking this question online for several years now, and I've yet to receive what turns out to be a correct response. (And few people have even ventured guesses.)
Can anyone come up with...
1) ANY legislation the GOP has either proposed or supported...
2) For the purpose of helping middle-income, working-class Americans...
3) Within the past 75 years.
Simple, right?
The only example I'm aware of is the Americans With Disabilities Act (ACA). The GOP didn't present it, but neither did they fight it. One would think this reality about who makes up much of their base might have some impact currently.
We can hope, I suppose.
The Dems have enough laws fitting all these criteria to fill pages (ACA, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act(OOPS!) unemployment insurance, FEMA, etc.) And in every case, the laws to help middle-income, working-class Americans were fought tooth and nail by the GOP.
It just MIGHT seem as though for some reason (perhaps such as anger over being successfully ridiculed over his fake bone-spurs since youth(?)) Donnie seems absolutely OBSESSED with what might best be described as a commitment to CRUELTY toward people (both living and dead) who are/were dedicated to protecting America from foreign enemies. Almost as if THE KILLER WAIL wanted to be considered single-handedly responsible for crippling America's military readiness...
Hmm. Once again I ask a question SO STUPID that answers itself before I even finish typing. Could this be a sign of something?
(A bit wordy, but maybe a 2 or 3-person "sign"? Sorry, Dee, not getting much sleep...)
This guy explains it all. They're crashing the economy on purpose so they can buy it all up at firesale prices. Very informative. Long but so worth the read.
The whole of the western world now operates under the guise of a giant Ponzi scheme, while it's as much endemic to my country as it is to the US, with this being part of that natural progression that which is the now post-neoliberal project, with this being expressive of the real 'trickle down' as that pertains to the revised social stratification which has been consequential to the oligarch revolution. Fight on America, and this while taking inspiration from the epic struggle which was Michelangelo's life further to today being the 550th anniversary of his birth, while we must, all together, overcome!
It is NOT transgender mice. It is, in reality, trans genic mice. They are altering their genetics and using them to experiment with treatments for Altheimer's, cancer, and heart disease research. trump is simply so amazingly stupid that he hears "trans" and thinks it MUST be sexual.
I understand, and I apologize for not providing appropriate clarity.
To me, my post was ONLY about this apparent "tell" from Trump. That for some reason, he wished to place a greater...emphasis(?) on the "truth" of this lie.
I can't but wonder what makes this lie "special" in Trump's mind (for lack of a better term than "mind".)
I'll attempt to express myself more clearly in future.
I wasn't correcting you. I was simply pointing out the real story for people that might not know, and to point out that trump is a total moron that can't understand basic English.
I think it fair to say that your reply had more intelligence, awareness and significance than anything/everything Trump has said or written since he was...born/hatched/mitosis-ed?
(Hmm. Well, at least I never claimed to be smart. Stay safe, Mark!)
Can we please start a citizen's initiative to impeach Trump and JD now?(1)
Why a Citizens' initiative to impeach? Well, for one thing, our Democratic leadership seems intent on doing nothing outside of ineffective hand-waving and low-key tut-tutting. For another, I don't see anywhere in the Constitution that says Citizens can't impeach a sitting president.
On what grounds should such a thing be required, you ask?
Lemme see, they're working hard for one of our biggest adversaries (Putin), breached numerous security firewalls protecting highly sensitive personal information, usurped the legislative branch's powers (funding allocation), vindictively and illegally fIred highly trained professional civil servants who skills are essential, bankrupting the federal government by refusing to pass just and equitable taxation to protect the solvenc and credit of the US, and in many other ways great and small, acted to destroy the federal government in contravention of the Constitution, law and long-standing precedent.
Moving to impeach now, even if Republicans manage to block such a move, would at least set the stage for impeaching the entire Republican caucus at some future date for their failure to remove Trump and JD when called on to do so with such overwhelming evidence of their high crimes and misdemeanors.
I am well aware that Speaker Johnson would be next in line for the Presidency if the Don and JD get removed from office, but I believe he is as desirous of attaining the Presidency as any normal politician, and would cooperate in the impeachment if that were to be the obvious result. Should Johnson prove equally perfidious as Don and JD, he 'd face removal by the same route.
What, you want to spend the rest of all our lives pointlessly burrowing into the deep bench of Repub. evil? You know some way to "fast track" impeachment? Fuggedaboudit, already!
The Presidential line of succession is a Russian nesting doll of Trump/Vought/Yarvin sycophants. Impeachment is less of a solution than people think it is.
I’m willing to risk expending the effort to dump Trump and Vance, and deal with a President Johnson, rather than do nothing, but would welcome someone with a better idea.
They're crashing the economy on purpose so they can buy everything up at firesale prices. This guy explains it all. Very informative. Long but so worth the read.
Let's not forget the horrible "GET RICH AS F*#K QUICK" plan of another Texan, around 1980.
Bunker Hunt decided it would be FUN to PHYSICALLY POSSESS a huge % of the world's silver. It did NOT end well...
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"On March 27, 1980—a date that became known as "Silver Thursday"—the Hunt brothers finally missed a margin call and the market plunged; silver led the way, dropping to under $11 from its high of $50.42.
The Aftermath of the Hunts' Plan
Government officials considered a bailout to prevent systemic chaos. The action was vetoed, however, because the government agencies didn't want to be seen as underwriting dangerous financial speculation. In the end, the Hunt name held true, and the brothers arranged a private bailout from a consortium of banks and companies.
The Hunts were dragged in front of Congress, scolded, charged with manipulation, fined, fined again, and forced into bankruptcy. It took nearly a decade for them to unwind all their silver holdings and satisfy creditors, and the final bill left them billions poorer—although still wealthy by most standards.
I fear it's entirely possible that the ONLY GOOD that will come of this (for us at least) is when Musk's DEMAND that he possess all the MONEY in the world conflicts with the Putin/Trump DEMAND for all the POWER in the world..
That may actually border on the new definition of "fun", as Trump bounces back and forth...
Good point. I think Trump and Elon will have a falling out eventually. There can only be one top dog and Trump doesn't like to share the spotlight as we know. Fingers 🤞🏼.
This article should be required reading for every one involved with the welfare of the American people, but especially those who have some responsibility for and capability of stopping it, namely members of Congress and the Senate and the federal judiciary. What you describe is sort of a Russian dolls version of ponzi schemes, one inside of the other, but given the predilections of our so called President, a Russian theme for this enterprise is appropriate, no?
HCR and Jess Piper are making almost the same points in their posts today - very worrisome - but essential - reading indeed.
Unregulated cryptocurrency will destroy us, and Muskrat, Trump and all their in minions will foist their scam currency on us.
Drump, Mukz, and Wanze are the brutal, inhumane minions of the modern 'Ivan the Terrible' and have no compunction with leaving throngs of their antagonists bleeding in the streets.
Don't forget their supporters.
Setting aside the fact that Musk is autistic and Trump is a malignant narcissist, both lack empathy (a prerequisite for millionaires and billionaires, one only beomes rich by climbing over bodies), neither are capable of forward thinking, nor willing or able to listen to any voice that is not a confirmation of their own ideas and desires.
Thus not realizing that the path that they have set out upon, that is killing the goose that laid the golden egg, both are pursuing their own self centered goals, and as I said, killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
Musk is driven by his childhood fantasy of being The Elon of Mars. His father was raised by a NAZI loving fascist, and read Wehrner von Brauns book, The Mars Project as if it were the Bible. He named his son after the Leader of Mars, the Elon.
Musk is not a genius, he is not even a savant, he was born on third base with a silver spoon in his mouth, and has used his inherited wealth to achieve power in pursuit of his real goal, to be the Elon of Mars.
He used his inherited wealth to buy Tesla, and paradoxically became wealthy because of eco liberals. I remember when you could drive around and spot a liberal because they were driving a Tesla.
He buys companies and he buys people, to build the things he using to pursue his narrow vision.
His purpose for America is to strip it of all unnecessary and extraneous activities, except those that will get him to Mars. Money spent on USAID in his mind, will be better spent on developing technology and rockets that will get him to Mars via SpaceX.
Trump's goal is simple, wealth, fame, power. I think we can agree that his vision is to be co ruler with Putin, Xi, and a Caliphate
Musks world: The Technate of North America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement#:~:text=The%20Technate%20will%20encompass%20the,%2C%20self%2Dsustaining%20geographical%20unit.
Fits in with Trump and Putin's vision of Oceania, Eurasia, east Asia and the Caliphate
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1984%27s_Geopolitics.png
I'm in agreement with what you're saying except for the connection between Musk's autism and his lack of empathy. Musk has no empathy because of his narcissism and consequent entitlement. Most autistic people are capable of empathy and many have hyper-empathy but often are perceived as non-empathetic because of affect and because they may express themselves in a literal way. He may indeed be autistic but he acts the way he does be he is an entitled asshole.
How do we know Musk is autistic? Have we seen a doctor's report. And are we using that possible diagnosis for his loose cannonball behavior? If so, that is a complete insult to people with autism.
Correction - Musk claims to be autistic as an excuse for his outrageous behavior. He is tarnishing people who actually live with autism and he should be held accountable.
I agree totally - My heart is racing about this & our elected do not seem to get it or at least or not screaming loudly enough. I've been reading Dave Troy's work on BlueSky (america2.news, recently "The Four Memos", also the Wide Angle, The Washington Spectator) - The Dark Enlightenment, TechBros NX - Neo Reactionaries - Tech States; this is a HOSTILE TAKEOVER - the courts are not designed for this & too slow -- we need to intervene NOW -- IT'S ILLEGAL -- Is anyone else reading this -- this is a 5-alarm fire; we're trying to patch this mess up, putting bandaids on something we need to absolutely TAKE BACK -- Academia and everyone we can find needs to go to Congress -- storm the Capitol and EXPLAIN FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES WHAT IS GOING ON AND WHAT THE STAKES ARE. Caravans to the Capitol -- educate first and bring everyone along that we can!
If the above definition of autism were actually true, it sounds like the previous writer also suffers from it.
More importantly, Peggy, don't forget those who voted for Trump but are now feeling the effects of their mistake. They are the ones that we most need to enlist in the fight.
Too many Progressives are self-righteously proclaiming that all Trump voters are just getting what they deserve. That's not helpful.
We should be extending an empathetic hand, inviting them to join the struggle. We need every ally we can get, and there's no more committed believer than a convert.
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Jerry, you are right, and we must pay special attention to women who voted for Trump.
Their supporters will most likely be left holding the empty bag.
Their supporters will be robbed
The women already have.
You are absolutely right, Dennis. That's why we have to do more than file lawsuits and make speeches. You can't stop an arsonist with Temporary Restraining Orders; you have to remove him from the streets.
There's only one way to stop this out-of-control train of disasters: Impeachment
We need to lead our "leaders", and work to bring about the impeachment of the President and Vice President, as well as the removal and replacement of Speaker Mike Johnson.
Stop believing that it can never happen just because Republicans have the majority. Not every Republican Senator and Representative is MAGA. Most are actually moderates who've been too timid to act. That is changing.
Do Not Surrender In advance. The stakes are too high.
To learn more details about removing the Speaker and Impeaching the President and Vice President, please see these posts from FeathersOfHope.net :
Feb. 12, https://jerryweiss.substack.com/p/to-stop-the-coup-impeach-the-traitor
Feb. 18, https://jerryweiss.substack.com/p/impeachment-is-imperative
Feb. 25, https://jerryweiss,substack.com/p/remove-impeach-impeach
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I don’t have a subscription, but I’ve heard the story in the past. El Salvador tried to go to crypto, looks like it didn’t go well.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/03/02/el-salvadors-wild-crypto-experiment-ends-in-failure
Joining was one thing I could do to directly support the righteous cause we are supporting.
The government in El Salvador continues to buy bitcoin. They had to do something to satisfy the IMF but in the future if bitcoin continues to go up the government will end up holding alot more money. Bitcoin is not the same as altcoins or meme like doge.
Virtual wealth may turn out to be a mirage. There is a good, solid reason why real estate is called that.
And if it crashes???? A nation's wealth up in smoke!
Unregulated cryptocurrency will be their undoing as well, but they're too stupid to see the danger. They think they're too smart to ever be taken advantage of which makes them the easiest of marks.
A fool and his money are soon parted. Billionaires have so much money they know not what to do with it, and many of them acquired it so fast they are still hungry for more. Crypto is a gamble guaranteed to be a loser because of its high energy consumption.
Then don't buy crypto. The value of BTC in government is that it's an unbreakable ledger.
The energy consumption cost of crypto makes it unsustainable.
What's the energy consumption of PayPal or Chase or the Federal Reserve? What is the cost of institutional fraud?
I posted Dr Reich's essay on Nextdoor.com. I'm wonderin' how many days it'll last before it's denounced and subsequently suppressed.
Here's what I'm posting:
"Important information concerning fraud for every US taxpayer who pays into or receives Social Security Benefits, whatever your political inclination. This is every bit as much a local issue as it is an issue for every US taxpayer, having to do with public policy. If you either pay into Social Security or receive Social Security benefits, this pertains to >you<. It pertains to >all< of us.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-ponzi-scheme-of-all
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Let me know how it goes with Nextdoor. Post this also:
Read/listen to Thom Hartmann’s excellent but SHOCKING Substack article:
“Could Russia Win A War Against America Without Firing A Shot?”
https://hartmannreport.com/p/could-russia-win-a-war-against-america-608
Wel, I've gotten two thank you's already in under a half-hour since I posted it. One advising others to take time to read and understand it fully.
That was a great idea to post it there! And it’s encouraging to see the response so far.
Thanks for posting the link to Hartmann report. I just listened to it. It is terrifying and makes sense. Yes, Russian can win a war against America without firing a shot. I'm going to do what I love everyday--walk amongst the trees and dance--while I still can. Nothing I have read has made me focus on being in the present moment and feeling gratitude for everything in my entire life that has given me joy and meaning as after reading this by Hartmann. I feel like our days are numbered. I feel nauseated and so sad that due to our ignorance and clinging to false values of money and power and insatiable greed, we elected this inhumane POTUS.
We didn’t. The election was rigged. Help Nathan (see videos) and watch Vigilantes, Inc. (Greg Palast.com) and help stop vote purging
https://youtu.be/CtQiMwJcdq0?si=QzUl4fh6kUWSNqPm
https://youtu.be/xyFj3pU7WI0?si=G3Wa_co3903gEquS
https://youtu.be/mR5KDY_zNgA?si=bqDRudTu4Ld_BlNf
Yes, there is a beautiful world out there. Enjoy!
Remember when Khrushchev said "We will bury you?" Looks like we are burying ourselves.
Yes we are David.
No, David. We are killing ourselves. The Mexicans will bury us.
😓
Without firing a shot, they're winning it.
they are well on their way when you have GOP MOC reciting Russian viewpoints.
Surprisingly, I've posted a couple of these pieces on Facebook successfully. (I'm Canadian and we are forbidden from posting any news on FB because of Zuck's war with the Canadian government over royalties)
already happened. they won. well, the oligarchs won, now they get to divide up the spoils and that could turn violent.
My post lasted 9 hours before it was suppressed almost immediately after I appealed it having been hidden while citing the rule showing it was clearly within content guidelines.
Marlo, I just listened to this. I'm shivering. Shivering because it fits so completely with what I posted earlier today when Lagardered asked: "So, what is DOGE's real goal?" I answered: "there are three:
1) Eliminate any agency that has proved bothersome to Musk's endeavors.
2) Cement existing and expand new contracts for Musk's companies
[[[ - - but THIS is my answer that has me even MORE frightened
now with the context provided in the Hartmann Report]]]
3) Provide Musk with complete and unencumbered ownership of the largest, most robust, finely granular datasets in the world. These, coupled with his ownership of communications dissemination (X) and communications transmission mechanics (Starlink internet) will give him control over all aspects of modern wireless communications".
I'm sending to my senators in Florida: Rick Scott and Ashley Moody.
I'd like to see my post reposted to as many Nextdoor.com forums as possible. So if anyone here is on Nextdoor.com, please consider reposting the post I've included here, or your own version of the same thing. Writing your senators is good, but the voters are arguably the most important. I'm tryin' to reach the voters in the ruby red state of Ohio, where the legislature likes to ignore its own conservative state supreme court rulings and disregard grassroots voter issues.
Good, Doreen. I'm sending to my Senator Baldwin (D-WI), and to (not ) my Sen. Ron "fake electors" Johnson (R-WI). Scott and Johnson are members of the 'seditonist's fan club' who seduced millions of voters into Drump's camp. Congressman Bryan (R-WI) also is worth a lambast, and listen, fascist clowns Tom Tiffany and the hideous Derrick van Orden.
I wonder if Steve Bessent should read it?
Good …but they are guaranteed to IGNORE it.
Dork Scott is so corrupt; he made huge profits off fraud before he became Governor in his nursing home business and was investigated but somehow the charges were dropped -- don't know how that happened though.
I also read that he is at least one of, if not, the richest member of the Senate. What needs to be done to these people, I'm not at liberty to say.
Money doesn't just talk.
It SCREAMS!!!
We should send to ALL the Republican Representatives and Senators. But maybe they wouldn’t open it thinking it could have something malicious attached? I wonder if they have been instructed not to… Are you just sending the URL?
The dRump administration is destroying Medicaid and Social Security because they "believe" the poor and the elderly are a drag on the government. They are purposely trying to kill us.
Excellent!
Thank you DZK!
I got kicked off for RESPONDING to a Republican political comment. Apparently it’s perfectly okay to make comments if you are Republican as long as you don’t oppose them. Nextdoor is run by Republicans.
I was invited to return, but I am much happier among more the much more informed intellectual community on Substack:
Robert Reich
Timothy Snyder
HCR
Joyce Vance
Thom Hartmann
Georgia Fisanick
Olga Lautman
And of course Rachel Maddow & Larry O’Donnell.
THESE are the people that should be running the government in place of Trump’s whackos!
Paul Krugman is good too.
Nextdoor is run by one of the Silicon Valley IT companies but they also have local monitors so if you live in a Red District, some comments that might pass will be flagged in those areas.
Fascinating. Well played. People there tend to be very reactionary!
The semi-literacy rate is the downside. Spelling and punctuation skills are virtually non-existent. But that doesn't mean comprehension is as bad. Many people who can read adequately couldn't write their way out of a wet paper bag!
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Punctuation perfect or not, the message is important.
Please tell us when your post gets taken down, I'm curious! Thx
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Go get 'em. Need to blast this far & wide. Good job!
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Not very many, DZK, I'm sure!
With a little luck, enough to get the word out to a significant number of people. Fingers crossed! 🤞
Young investors especially need to see it my son was doing a little crypto for awhile, then became more informed before getting burned.
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Please let us know how long it lasts there.
This, on "curated failure," RINGS TRUE to me: "Jess Piper of The View From Rural Missouri notes that what seems to be a deliberate attempt to crash what was, when Trump took office, a booming U.S. economy, is a feature of the administration’s plan, not a bug. It creates “curated failure” that enables oligarchs to buy up the assets of the state and of desperate individuals for “rock-bottom prices.”
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I believe this is their goal. Eliminate the middle class entirely and the billionaire boys club can rule the peasants. What a giant leap backwards we're experiencing.
Then we can be like Russia! I think we actually have a quartet with Trump, Musk, Vance, and Putin aiming to take us back to the Middle Ages politically, with oligarchs running the military and information technology, and everyone else gets to be a serf.
Ah..the plan is obviously the destruction of the county and thus, this explains why.
https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exactly-what-they-are-doing
Exactly what happened in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Lots of bad guys got really rich, buying up government services that were being privatized. And then, of course, the rich bad guys started falling out of windows.
Yes, thanks. I’m going to post a link to Jess piper’s here. Hope you don’t mind. https://open.substack.com/pub/jesspiper/p/i-know-exactly-what-they-are-doing?r=a0kl7&utm_medium=ios
Here is additional insight from economist Paul Krugman:
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-planning-the-biggest-heist
Exactly and on talk shows across the country except Fox of course as if they even would share it.
So on the nose, I threw up a bit in my mouth.
The welfare of the American people is what these people don’t want. It is expensive.
Their solution is to cut programs that make Americans healthy and live longer (cancer research, for example, Medicaid, ) so they die younger and not collect social security and Medicare benefits. It sounds crazy, but connect the dots. They want Americans to die.
DK Brooklyn ; I think there is some truth to the idea that tRUMP wants to kill as many of us who will collect Social security benefits as possible. Look at what he said during The worst of Covid. His followers in red states were dying like flies as he recommended Ivermectin and bleach , for example, and told people to avoid vaccines and masking. There were reefer trucks used as portable morgues in his old neighborhood in New York City, because there was no room in the hospital morgues. In the red states, the mortality was much higher than in blue states where people were advised to follow the advice of the CDC and experts on pandemics, like Dr. Fauci. Today he still wants to jail Dr. Fauci. He places RFK jr in charge of the Health and human services agency. The man is a vaccine denier. there are already kids dying in Texas from measles, which was a rare condition thanks to vaccination programs. Polio was coming back where vaccinations were not required. American Samoa, an island, was used as an experimental site to discontinue vaccinations, and the results are that these diseases are coming back, infecting young children. Who knows how many people died when vaccines were denied or not recommended in those red states? tRUMP killed those people. He harmed and killed migrants at the Southern border, too. A young father who learned that his baby daughter was taken, and he was likely never to see her again, committed suicide. Putin kidnaps children from Ukraine, too. tRUMP is not an American who believes in Democracy nor does he honor those who fought for the freedom of humans to have self rule.
True, many of the wealthy despise the poor and want them gone, especially if thy are dark skinned. This is why they hate Bill Gates; his philanthropy makes them feel uncomfortable.
the problem, Adam, is that the threats of violence have started against congresspeople. We need to remember that the republican party is a terrorist organization that promotes violence to resolve political differences. dumpster has been promoting violence since the first day of his 2015 candidacy rollout. he has given "permission" to white men to reassert their supposed supremacy over women, children, minorities, and any "other" of the moment. Further, we live in a surveillance state with enormous power to monitor our keystrokes, our phone calls, our faces and locations (AI augmented facial recognition). If you have a gov't issued id - drivers license, passport, etc. you are automatically in a facial recognition program. It's that simple. Organizing will very soon be impossible to do with any safety. Cherish these last moments.
Important reminder, Paul. Keep also in mind that all IT items you use keep track of your activities and location. Even your credit card may contain a homing devise. Assume that you are naked and nearly transparent.
A very small percentage of Americans, even, (tragically) those in congress, are equipped to understand the depths of Musk’s involvement in our systems, and/or the potential he has, through the tools at his disposal, for whatever he chooses to break or “fix.” We are literally at his mercy.
oh FFS...it's a dumb article. Reich does not know what he is talking about.
Reich is a former Department of Labor
secretary and one of the most honest public servants I have ever seen and you are a stupid MAGAt! Blocked!!!
Respectfully,
"Nick-bot" could be the SMARTEST MAGAt on Earth, and still have trouble pouring water out of a boot with the proverbial instructions written on the heel.
I blocked him too.
Why ? Showing the world what a complete idiot “Nick” is (or “Igor”, the Russian Psyops officer behind the screen name ) is half the fun !
Me too.
Read this then. It explains the Tariffs and how they will decimate the economy along with crypto, and Trump's new proposed "Sovereign Wealth Fund". Talk about scary.
https://open.substack.com/pub/longmemo/p/the-great-american-fire-sale-tonights?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2o7uvb
Lisa,
It's OK.
To these people, anything with actual punctuation tends to be "woke" and "elite" (as they follow billionaires into their tombs, having been told "could you please carry this, then come right back out? ...snicker, snicker...).
Poor Nick...living to troll is not a profession worth anyone's time.
I suppose you know Reich's background. If you had half of his experience, you still wouldn't be qualified to comment.
He is wrong. End of story.
Go fuck yourself. . . AGAIN!!!
What story, Nick?
FFS, Really? That’s your whole rebuttal?
Pithy but pointless.
“Nick” is likely a Russian bot who leaves these similiar dismissive comments across many Substack blogs with no facts or follow ups. Substack needs to check this….
Nice rebuttal.
rebuttal to what? You didn;t say anything.
Nick is a MAGA TROLL
Or...
Simply a MAGA-bot, as TOO MANY of us give him our valuable time.
Nicky,Nicky – is that the best you can do? It reads like a junior-high-school drive-by sound bite with no truth to it at all, no facts either? It’s a sad day for trolls when Nickie is on the job, trying his underwhelming 80.4 IQ pitted against Robert Reich, one of the best minds in America today.
Reported, and Retorted, stupid troll!
GO FUCK YOURSELF, "NICK," AND DRAG DONALD TRUMP OUT WITH YOU, ASSHOLE!
Whoa…you need to take your meds.
But you do, good for you! Tell us about how you see it!!!
He knows a whole lot more than you do!
Nope. I’ll school him on this topic.
And you do? Please share.
And you do, you jackbooted red hat hillbilly MAGA Nazi ? Prove it. Tell us exactly how Robert Reich is wrong here. Dare ya ! #Crickets #MAGAMorons
Who wrote that for you Nick, the FSB? A-hole!
Are you a troll?
What members of congress?????????? Repubs a cult, Dems weak.
Economic Matryoshka dolls anyone?
post this on any bulletin board to can find.... flyers....
Headline it on a billboard...
Bob, Adam, all you wrote is more than correct, only also here I have a 'but'... You write about the destruction of the social structure of the US in terms of money. The language may be readable, only the way to think about it, is not distant enough of the Ponzi-scheme.
It is not a financial problem, but a way to consider our society, our human existence, our solidarity and decency. I mean: Havel ans Mandela and King did not live in vain, did they?
We are genetically programmed to respect courage and moral integrity. Don't let temporary setbacks discourage you, even if these setbacks may be long-lasting.
I wish I felt your optimism. Today, this morning, I feel downcast. Where are the crowds in the streets opposing Trump 2.0? Where are the boycotts bringing pain to the uncaring corporations? Where are the folks resisting the beginning desecration of our natural world, our public parks? Where is the unified resistance?
Maybe it’s just the hour of this morning that has me so low. But right now, I need a good dose of your bright light and your hope.
Right there with you, buddy, in a state of shock and resignation like I’ve never experienced in my lifetime. No crowds in the streets, because everyone knows that Trump’s militias are recruiting, armed, anxious to fight, and ABOVE THE LAW. He knows he can deploy them with a simple social media call-to-arms. And where are the Democrats? What future is there for our children?
But there ARE crowds in the streets! Even in Idaho, for heaven's sakes! Rachel Maddow showed, I don't know: a dozen of amazing crowds across the country! You and Michael are putting pillows over your heads "surrendering in advance!" ps Rachel also ran a litany of how Trump/Musk have backpedalled and backpedalled on one bungle after another: was it Monday? Golly come up for air!
I will never surrender. I have children. I can’t afford to surrender or go quiet. I will fight back until I die. But it isn’t easy when I see the resistance fragmented and floundering.
Michael ; there has been some powerful pushback actually covered in the mainstream media, like MSNBC lately.
I agree. Wednesday night on her show, Maddow showed huge demonstrations in RED states.
I honor and love Rachel and others at MSNBC. But we need boycotts, demonstrations and other protests so large that the other media corporations that are doing their best to ignore us have no choice but to cover the resistance. Those in the so-called heartland for the most part don’t watch MSNBC.
The problem is with the mainstream media who seem to be almost totally subservient to Trump. They are not covering the protests or any of the random actions, podcasts, pressers, etc. of those elected Democratic politicians who are speaking out and making good trouble.
To find out what going on, join Indivisible, or other organizing groups. Democracy Docket, Scott Dworkin's Substack always has a GREAT list of actions. Jessica Craven, Jess Piper and many other very informative sites. Dworkin, Meidas, and many other independent news sources are proving to be much better at covering Dem protests than the traditional channels.
All good, BUT the people watching mainstream news or FOX believe the shit they say. How do you “make” them watch or read legitimate reporting?
You seem to be forgetting that the point is also to get people who are doom scrolling and doom posting their surrender in advance to wake up and see what is happening and stop that.
Thank you. It is amazing to me that folks are not aware of what ordinary Americans are doing and aware of the Democrats who are speaking truth to power daily. What are there daily news sources?? If they are stuck on Fox, all they will get is the “Trump Liar Squad.” and MAGA Republican apologists.
The 'militias' are, maybe, 10,000 cosplay maggots nationwide; not too worrying and would not stop a peaceful protest. My worry is the entire US Military that trump is working hard to co-opt: 'Pete's gestapo'.
My experience in the rural Deep South for 60 years...
They're cowards alone, but dangerous anytime several are found in close proximity to each other.
I think it involves 1) a minimal number of brain cells and 2) close proximity, and the result is a "vector of hate and violence", with all Trump's lies about "I'll pay your legal fees" bouncing around in the center.
And, of course. the DADDY-LOVE from Trump is also a huge factor.
I don't doubt some of these fools would LITERALLY give their lives to get a shout-out from Hater-In-Chief. After all, they already sacrificed their elders to the Trump/Covid pyre, and they seem to still have no regrets.
Ignorant people are fated to be in tribal default mode.
Exactly. Turning our military against our people is the real concern.
Yep...
"In addition to the linked example above, my far-right neighbors and many relatives (yes, my family has been in this very South Carolina county long enough to have received a land grant from the king) went all-out celebrating on the day after the Kyle Rittenhouse “verdict” was delivered in November 2021. To the far-right, Rittenhouse’s self-defense acquittal (while being too young to legally own the assault rifle he used to murder two unarmed, peaceful, legal protesters, and maim a third) was a loud shout to each Trump worshipper that killing Americans they disagree with politically would forevermore be deemed “justified”, and they seemed dedicated to giving Trump all the credit. To honor what they saw as their new “Kill at Will” freedom, several dozen armed white men alternately spent the entire day (until several hours into night) shooting their many guns in the closest possible field to the “local liberal”, while staying just within the law. (I’ll let you guess who that particular liberal is…)"
https://medium.com/@foofaraw/many-more-people-will-die-because-of-trump-i-hope-i-wont-be-one-of-them-41b2f1493036
And what I described happen more than 3 years ago. I try not to think too much about how it will be in the rural Deep South for people like us over the next 4 years. (This wasn't even an "official" militia...)
Oh...
Also this, which is even MORE true, 4+ years later:
"South Carolina is now Trump HELL For Liberals"
https://medium.com/@foofaraw/south-carolina-is-now-trump-hell-for-liberals-dc5c2926ce7b
Then they will discover that Trump is no friend of theirs.
Maybe stop "worrying" & save ypur country!
The democrats seem to be complicit? They are supposed to be our representatives, they certainly are not showing any leadership. WHERE is Harris? She had huge energetic crowds! Did she simply disappear? Where is Bush? Clinton? Obama?
Bush is old school Republican not Democrat. Please look up Democrat Jasmine Crockett on You Tube and read about Bernie Sanders touring against Oligarchs— tour is drawing large crowds.
Our Media is Trump media. Americans have not realized it yet. We no longer have freedom of speech. Speech is for Trump when it comes to our media.
Our media is Trump and Trump alone. Also former presidents are right to be quiet. Their silence allows you to focus on what Trump and Trump Republicans are doing. Trump and his Fox Liar Squad can only lie about Joe Biden for so long. Please remember that there are people in this country that want all that Trump is doing.
Yes, especially the children.
Hang in there. We’re all in this together, and we can lean on one another and the wisdom of Robert Reich, a true 🇺🇸 hero.
He is!
Yes.
The children who will judge us...for having failed each of them so miserably.
https://www.newamerica.org/the-thread/holding-onto-hope-under-trump/
Thank you. Reading it now.
Great article. Thanks for posting.
Seriously where have you been ??? There are protests in every state day after day. We have participated in several 💙💙💙💙
Where the Democrats always are, fighting back in every way they can, though the voters yet again made sure that one of those ways was NOT going to be legislatively by putting Congress completely in the control of the GOP.
Democrats have held meetings they could not call oversight or hearings, because those are reserved for the majority party, but meetings that were public so the info on what is happening gets out there.
Democrats have been publicly calling on the GOP to join them in votes to stop this cr@p that is going down -like Jeffries describing a piece of legislation they have put together and having a press conference talking about it and calling on "just three of the House republicans" to join them in voting aye. And THAT is ALL that they can do. Don't yell at them for the voters' stupidity in hogtying them. Get people to call their GOP MOCs nonstop, every day, telling them to GD oin in those votes.
I’ll tell you why I’m not out in the streets…yet. There’s ice and snow in our streets in the Midwest. But I’ve been taking part in the boycotts and have signed up to participate in a march at the end of the month.
Also, I was having a long conversation with my sister last night about what to do if the economy goes into freefall. We’re both on Social Security and have modest retirement accounts. If the stock market fails, banks close, and we no longer get SS, any or all of those things, how will we live? What will happen to our families? Will Trump destroy farming with his tariffs and deportations? Will there be food shortages? How bad could it get, and how can we protect ourselves, our family, our friends and neighbors?
When the Great Depression happened in the 30s, did people know it was coming?
I’m going to do everything I can to prevent the national financial crisis I see us headed for at the hands of Trump and Musk, but I want to have a plan if things go south. I’m pretty sure we aren’t the only people thinking along these lines.
Although I’m now in the northeast, I lived in the Midwest for a long time and I understand about the snow and ice. If (or is it when) we lose SS, if or when the banks collapse, I have no idea what I will do, what my children will do. I wish I had a plan.
I can't help reflecting on my own experience: how did Mom and Dad install a "new" house in the woods without a safe wood-burning heat stove? I always thought, well, if I got truly snowed in and the gas ran out, I could get back to the old pioneer place and start up the old stove. But I'm too old to figure on that now. But heating with wood would be my first thought.
I wish I could say you can come to my house and live since currently I got 8 acres to grow food on and I know how to do it after 47 years of doing it. Except I’m 82, still shucking’ in wood to keep warm in the winter and since my husband died I can’t do it alone. It gives me real pause to have to divest myself of this place at a time like this but take heart, there are cooperative ways of survival and I think in times like this you know who your friends are. On Social Security- well I get this too and I feel like I hold my breath every month to see if it’s there in my bank account. Since it’s automated Must so far as I know has not monkeyed with it yet. So far Trump is after Medicaid. -which Steve Bannon ( of all people!) has advised Trump not to do since a wide swath of Trumpers are recipients of that program. There is a move on to deluge the White House with postcards mailed March 15. Your choice of statements on the front of the cards. I chewed out My senator - a Democrat- in an email yesterday for appeasing Trump. Albeit that was so exhausting I had to take a nap afterwards but any avenue, any crack in the wall, any opportunity can be put into action.
The 1930s didn't have social media, just radio and newspapers. Also, don't forget there isn't just ice and snow in the streets, there's also ICE.
Its good to plan for the worst, while still fighting to prevent it. Tomorrow begins the boycott of Amazon, March 7-14--don't shop Amazon or Whole Foods.
I live simply and hardly shop for anything except what I need for my health. I stock up on healthy staples that are easy to prepare and cheap.
They’re happening, the news doesn’t show them because they’re owned by the damn conservative groups that bend the knee to the orange chimpanzee and his ghouls!
BINGO I watch Meidas Touch, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Nicole Wallace, Andrew Weissman on Youtube. Haven’t watched mainstream media for 2 years
Cheer up. "It's always darkest before it's complete black," as they say.
I got up yesterday morning, looked at myself in the mirror and said to myself:
"Self! Cheer up. Things could be worse." So I cheered up and sure enough, things got worse! 🤪 😏 😉
I needed that 😂! Thanks
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You encapsulated how I woke up yesterday and why I think I can't sleep tonight. . .
Yup, my sleep habits have changed too. When I lived in Alaska in a cabin I had a wood burning stove and an outhouse. I hauled my own water and when I came home it didn't take long for that little cabin to warmup. It was a simple way of life. I always slept well from just the lifestyle. Now I'm older so it would be more challenging if everything collapsed. I do still go to a well to haul water. It's so fresh and sweet. I have a stove outside to burn yard wood but in the house I'd have to bundle up to stay warm. All this does bring appreciation for what we have now.
People tend to lured by warmer weather before they really get rolling for protests. Part of the problem, too, is that the regime is hitting us from so many directions that there hasn't been one area to coalesce around.
Something will happen to galvanize a massive response. It's just a matter of time.
This is encouraging, thank you!
The issue that drove protesters to show up in Los Angeles was immigration as their are so many immigrants in LA County The people blocked one of the main freeways which goes into downtown LA. They have been showing up in droves for a month or so.
You are right about the weather, LA is in the fifties and sixties even in winter, spring will get people out around the whole country.
Rachel Maddow reported on a lot of "crowds in the streets" anticipating and reaction to Trump's speech, across the country including Idaho! Re: boycotts, haven't you heard about the market for Teslamobiles crashing around the world? I even heard it on the car radio that Elon is announcing some new "reorientation" of Tesla's business model, whatever I don't have a clue about tech stuff. But click around just a little more, Michael, and you will definitely see lots of folks showing up to support/protest in the National Parks. I encourage you to widen your view! There are folks out there for you to join up with!
Some people are calling them Nazicars. The Tesla dealership here in my city is on my list of places to protest.
Swazzticars. Wankpanzers
The Space Nazi hates that.
I have to wonder how the Cybertruck fits into our military preparedness. Does the Pentagon expect the enemy to laugh itself to death?
Yay! Hadn't heard that one. There was something today (I run down google News) about Teslamobile orders in CHINA crashing???? Maybe shipments from China?? I can't absorb all of it. So now Elon is like, Fox and Grapes (see under Aesop) never cared about those silly cars anyhow.....
I have read and watched and I will participate in every boycott that I can. Every protest. But we need such a groundswell, like during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, that we can’t be ignored. And even leaders as powerful as MLK weren’t able to completely overturn the repression. We are still fighting that battle.
I’m not sure we have enough time to stop the creation of a fascist state in our country. What will be left if it takes 10 years, 20 years?
That one day blackout on Feb 28 apparently cost Target and Walmart a combined $120 billion in sales. When we work together, we have a voice.
Boycott Amazon starts tomorrow til March 14. Don't shop Amazon or Whole Foods
Been wondering if we produced any results. Yea! Let’s keep it up!
Here's something good to start the day. (Hopefully, an attempt to raise hopes won't get me into trouble...again.)
"This trans woman was insulted at work for years. She just won $900K & is giving back in a surprising way
“Fight for your rights,” Diana Portillo says. “And do not allow anybody to humiliate you.” "
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/this-trans-woman-was-insulted-at-work-for-years-she-just-won-900k-is-giving-back-in-a-surprising-way/?utm_campaign=daily-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_edition=202503050100&utm_source=newsletter
There’s even been protests in Arkansas! Protests are happening. Some are small which is why all Americans are needed.
There are many local protests and some nationwide. Too many to list. A big one for democracy is March 29.
Get plugged in to find a protest near you or organize one. Remember Greta Thunberg started out protesting alone. Then a friend joined her and eventually it became a movement.
Big protest planned in DC for March 14.
Malcolm Gladwell, in his book The Tipping Point, says it takes about 150 people to start a revolution. That’s all!!
Case in point: The Tea Party which has morphed into…MAGA. Well, so maybe it only takes 150 to start a mass psychosis…but it should give us here great encouragement.
(I’m now reading David and Goliath by Gladwell. Amazing!
Protest are building! I live in rural America and I haven't protested for years. But I just bought posterboard for making signs. I'm joining the Women's March on Saturday and the Tesla Tuesday protests in town. As more people are hurt by Musk/Trump/Putin, more will join.
See the "50501 Movement" . People are protesting, there were organized peaceful demonstrations March 4th, and will be again March 15th. Find one in your state
Also Indivisible has many. If you don’t have a group in your area, they can help you start one.
Indeed Michael, while where the hell is your bloody Democratic Party (despite Chris Murphy) and the frankly 'showtime' (further to that Hollywood-isation performance culture which has ensnared your country) carry-on at Citoyen Trump's SOTU further to 'them' holding up their pathetic little signs in the chamber? Absolutely gutless, while there was more resistance from Kagan J. following the disdainful look she gave the self appointed king as he shook her hand.
10 Democrats voting to censure Rep. Al Greene. I’ve posted the list.
Take some heart, Michael, from the fact that opposition to Agent Orange and the Muskrat IS growing. It’s even growing in places that voted Red in 2024: Utah, Idaho and Arizona all saw large crowds turning out in recent days to protest the tRUMP regime.
They are out there daily. Whatever news you are watching doesn't bother to let you see. Try watching Rachel Maddow.
So...you missed the Feb 28th boycott, the protestors outside of various state and federal offices, and so on?
I missed nothing. Good first steps but insufficient of themselves. We need hundreds of thousands, millions to actively oppose this autocratic regime. It may come.
Trump is neither smart enough nor sufficiently disciplined to have planned all this or be managing the execution. Who are the active ones making it happen, inside and outside of the cabinet. Give them names and faces and backgrounds. Democracy dies in darkness…
Good question.
The Washington Post is dying under the darkness Bezos is bringing. Beyond the obvious ones, who are the members of the cabal?
I'd say Vance, Musk, Thiel, and the other Tech Bros who are influenced by Curtis Yarvin.
See: https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas
As horrifying as the idea is, Trump and his popularity with the MAGAts are the only things standing between us and their technocratic utopia in which a few technocratic oligarchs will own and run everything and the rest of us will be serfs.
Reading about Yarvin was so disquieting. Anyone who hasn’t at least briefly sampled this extremely dangerous reactionary might try this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
I think these are the people really pulling the strings
it would be stupid to be up to their kind of devicous dangerous things and court the public eye and these aren't the stupid people.... terrifying
That's why they use Trump as their front.
I totally agree except that I think "disquieting" is too weak a word, given the powerful people who are his followers.
Indeed! There really are no adequate words for the fear, disgust, anger, trepidation, gut-churning emotions I feel, that so many of us feel.
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I just came across this article which gives new light to current mindset.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-macho-violent-culture-of-italian-fascism-was-prophetic
Thanks for the link. Sounds like a bunch of guys with small penises and gender anxiety--pretty scary when they get power.
Isn't Trump enabling them?
Well actually, you could get off your backsides & stand up for your country.
If you are unable to physically protest, make calls, write op eds, donate to organizations. If you can’t physically protest, buy one of those garage sale signs, put your own message, and put it in front of Tesla on public property
seems pretty reasonable to assume the cult of personality whack jobs we see in the headlines and social media etc are not really the ones ....ain't that usually how they do these things
It’s a project 2025 group and a bunch of billionaires.
"It's dead, Jim."
Democracy dies in darkness... is, ironically the motto of The Washington Post, wholly owned by the 2nd richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos!
Don't forget to boycott Amazon March 7-14, cancel prime, Audible, Kindle,etc!
I don't think it's the loonies in the cabinet and def agree rump is a non thinking money grabbing idiot so the who seems more like ..aside from people who's names we don't know.... probably oil barons and who knows plus it seems like those psychos that disappeared during Biden and seem to pop up and then don't have major influence like Miller and bannon..but who knows....I'm sure the military industrial complex and private war profiteers tend to run everything in the end ....
Jabba the Hutt, Baron Harkonnen, etc.
ah yes them and of course there's the joker doesn't he always make problems and the Kardashians too don't forget them
This gives the prospective of the billionaires wanting to run the country like a business. It came out 3 months ago but talks about the tariffs and firing government employees. It seems Ray was privy to the plan that no one else is telling us about.
https://youtu.be/O14xSX9bqwE?feature=shared
Project 2025 and its authors. Like the Heritage Foundation.
Another reason the Social Security trust fund has seen difficulty is that the government has borrowed from it. It currently is reported to owe Social Security $2.788 trillion. Are republicans interested in trying to get rid of it because they owe this much money and most Americans don't know this?
mukarat has corroded brain cells oozing self loathing racist sexist drivel and a mess of random ideas from getting high and watching bad tv.....someone put him in a padded cell with pleasant music a breeze machine and give him some plush dogs to snuggle and tell him he's doing a Great job and be done with him
If we only could. But we can dream, can't we?
we gotta
Professor Reich: i am astounded at how many people willingly hand over their hard-earned funds to online scam artists in exchange for worthless crypto. in view of all the freely-available information (and testimonials of those where were scammed into abject poverty) ameriKKKans are wilfully -- PROUDLY -- ignorant in pursuit of their boundless greed. i knew white men like this, in fact: they always had an "angle" or an "insider tip" on how to invest, yet they could barely afford rent on a single room in a house. if this man is any example, i'd say investing is a gambling addiction where the only thing that registers in these peoples' brain stems is the single-mined pursuit of fabulous riches, of gold, of beautiful babes, at the expense of all else. it's truly depressing that average (non-addicted) americans will end up impoverished: homeless, hungry, uneducated and without adequate healthcare.
Those same boys in men's bodies who are spending hundreds of dollars per month of their tiny earrnngs on Draft Kings (and now crypto) are the same ones who hate women because those "beautiful babes" want nothing to do with them. They can't understand why life is so unfair. Joe Rogan says, "I'm with ya, pal!" Then, they vote accordingly.
So MUSK is saying TWO things...
1) That social security is a "PONZI SCHEME", and...
2) The world's population is dangerously declining.
Isn't a declining population the BEST POSSIBLE NEWS for future soc sec recipients?
Doesn't it mean "more money into soc sec now, less people to collect in the future"?
What am I missing?
That is simply musk's excuse for why SSec should be got rid of - of course they will use any pretext to do anything moneywise that benefits the plan they have to take ownership of EVERYTHING. There are millions of Americans for whom SSec is their only income - how are we all supposed to survive if they kill it ??? I am scared to death of these people !
Simply an extension of the KOCH BROTHERS long-running plan to eliminate soc sec entirely.
At the time, each of the (then both living) brothers was earning about $15,000,000 PER DAY, yet it still wasn't enough.
I guess they didn't like paying the employer match to each employee's PERSONAL SOC SEC CONTRIBUTION (something that seems not to get mentioned much by MUMP.) So for years they've been sponsoring literally HUNDREDS OF PAPERS claiming that soc sec cannot remain solvent.
All because they (apparently) think their ex-employees should spend their retirements STARVING TO DEATH.
Please explain the rationale for the cap income for paying social security taxes. Why would a person earning above $176,100. NOT be subject to social security tax?
It seems to me that the more one earns, the more that individual would be able to contribute to those who do not earn enough for basic needs like health care, food, housing and education. I just don’t understand…
Jane,
Regrettably, I think this answers your question all too well...
"He hasn’t got shit all over him - Monty Python and The Holy Grail"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a360Afe267U
I suspect that, at least in America, most "woke" people understand that it's America's richest that BUY American tax laws. (One of the reasons "they" hate the concept of WOKE so irrationally, be my guess.)
And while we're on the topic of MONTY PYTHON, this clip could be the basis for an entire graduate-level field of study on economics and politics.
Seriously, 3 minutes of anyone's time will prove VERY educational, in the context of the past few weeks on Planet Earth...
"Monty Python - Repressed Citizen"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYU87QNjPw
They do pay SS tax. But they pay tax only on $176,100 of their income. Say they make $450,000–they don’t pay any SS tax on the amount above $176,100.
ME TOO!
over population is one of humanities biggest problems ...it's why the systems don't work. governments can't govern. the earth has a human population issue ..on and on ....musk is worthless
Stephen,
Yes, that's true.
But what's also true is that MUSK has been going off for YEARS about the "dangers of Earth's declining population" , and claims that's the reason he has SO MANY CHILDREN, and he encourages everyone to do the same.
If he's correct (and he has been, or rare occasions) a continuing downward trend should be GREAT for soc sec., even if not for the planet. (Though not everyone agrees.
Seems to many that THE PROBLEM is too many people. (Obviously, what's bad for billionaires wanting nothing but CASH is very different from what's bad for an already overpopulated planet with declining resources.)
Sure, BILLIONAIRES only care about selling things, so THE MORE THE MERRIER! Mother Earth may tend not to agree...
elon's dumbass claims that earth has a declining population -- a BIG FAT LIE -- is elon-speak for "declining WHITE population relative to those people with pigments in their skins".
it's racist talk, and nothing more.
No doubt you're exactly right.
But I can also imagine Musk calculating the value of increasing the size of markets for his products, and weighing that against the millions of people that will have to die for his "shock and awe" to hit with maximum effectiveness.
I'd not be surprised if "Big Balls" (or some other teenager in thrall to Musk) could make a pretty accurate guess as to just how much "population decline" will still (over time) make Musk the most "richer than rich", and that number is perhaps large enough to count as "global population decrease".
So of course, Musk wants a huge market share, and at this moment in time, racism-based hatred seems to be the path to that greater market share. (Seemingly, almost no matter the "product.")
Terrifying...
The real problem is all those "RICH RESOURCE-SUCKING POLLUTING DESTRUCTIVE WHITE AMERICANS HAVE TOO MANY BABEEEZ!" for example, every american born today will require 3.07 MILLION POUNDS of minerals, metals and fuel in their lifetimes to pursue their increasingly selfish and greedy lives.
how to combat this? besides not having and kids at all, the research clearly shows again and again that educating girls and women is the best way to downsize families -- https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/05/07/family-size-among-mothers/ -- data that will absolutely piss off white male "christian" nationalists to their dying day, since they clearly want their women and girls to be compliant, subservient and uneducated.
in a world where the massive natural wealth of one continent, Africa, is looted and stolen from its peoples by white "god fearing" americans and (to a lesser degree) europeans, this has destructive and far-reaching social impacts in a society where local wealth rarely ends up in local hands -- https://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/18/africa/looting-machine-tom-burgis-africa/index.html
Collapse is the likely outcome. See Jared Diamond's book by that title.
ah yes true over population..people we don't really want more of tend to breed ..look at mukarat..and many people just pop em out and whine about it ..and yes global politics are incredibly unfair and disgusting...and there's something extra depressing in knowing that as u say Europe to a lesser extent well that's now when centuries ago the same self serving hoarding at the expense of others they did they passed onto the new empires....maybe as this one is collapsing something different will happen
It's 4:19am. I never had insomnia. Now I do. How can we impeach this Maniac? He has literally gotten away with EVERYTHING! Insurrection, pardoning the thugs from Jan 6th, Not paying E. Jean Carrol fir Sexual Abuse & Defamation, 34 Counts of Felony with barely a slap on his little Hands, Cozying up to Russia while tales of Trump being recruited by the KBG as an assest no longer seem like Conspiracy nonsense but reality, having a drug addicted Maniac Wielding a chain saw destroying our government hap hazards, putting Kennedy Quack in charge of Health while yet another Measles outbreak in Florida is happening....and on and on while the Cult of Maga And Syncophants cheers his madness on( Lindsay Graham).
Obviously our Supreme Court is compromised for certain after hearing Trump thank a Judge for helping him and he will never forget it! Trump is a criminal and we let him run for President. We need to change our constitution so that Felons are not allowed to run for office. Trump was a friend of Epstein. Does anyone really think Epstein killed himself in jail??? Come on! Trump has money in Russian assests like any other Russian Oligarch. Trump ignored our own CIA saying Russia was interfering in Elections and other serious matters...Trump ignored it because he was part of it all. It is unbelievable why no one is investigating Trump's Russian ties. He could be hung for treason. But instead the Powerful Democrats stand back and allow a Sociopath to destroy the literal fabric of our Democracy and Justice system with nothing more than speeches. We need those in power on the Democrats side to do their own investigations and get this evil shit out. Because I really need some sleep.
I haven’t had more than 4 hours sleep since the inauguration. The new normal. I suspect if Social Security goes the suicide rate in this country will rise accordingly. Sad, but too many of us live off of that EARNED benefit, and while we’re not wealthy, thanks to it we get by.
Same here Judy. I dont sleep much either and I won't make it without Social Security. God help us. 🙏😪
Current SS recipients are not likely to suffer before 2030.
I so get you! It's now 4:30 a.m. here. I've been up for 2 hours. You hit the nail on the head with your post. It was cathartic to read it! There's so much evil swirling around Trump and his minions but his followers continue to pledge their loyalty. I find it sickening. It's like watching a tsunami in slow motion. I'm exhausted from all the chaos.
Well....the good news ( if any) as it is now 6am here in VA and I am wide awake...is that Democratic Senators are starting to ask GOP Senators...IS TRUMP A RUSSIAN ASSEST??? Because our US Intelligence found that Russia had indeed compromised our Elections and Trump did NOTHING about it and the MAGA MORON Senators were too WIMPY ( Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell I am looking at you) to push back and address it seriously! Fiona Hill a Russian Specialist WARNED EVERYONE and here we are now...with Putin Loving Dictator who is taking great Glee in dismantling and weakening our Government under the LIE of Trimming off the Fat while Brutalizing our Sweet Neighbor Canada, Intentionally Humiliating a War Weary President Zelensky, telling Denmark in his Senate Address he is going to basically take other Countries Property ( Panama Canal, Greenland, The Gaza lands and Declared out loud The Gulf if Mexico is The Gulf of America) It is a playbook out of Putin's Russian Playbook. So I think in order for me to actually ever sleep normally again...Trump needs to be investigated for Treason. He must have Russian Assests Hidden in Swiss Bank Accounts that our Intel who was fired can find. And with that money the Son of a Bitch can pay E. Jean Carroll the money he owes her for Sexually Assaulting her and Defaming her and buy Zelensky a Saville Row Suit. Trump is a Russian Asset. ☠️ It is ridiculously clear. Even two of his wives were/are Soviet Block Babes.
Merrick Garland was incompetent as AG. Proof= trump is still a free slob
Just try watching Trump's speech to the Congress and that is guaranteed to induce sleep. It was like one of those interminable, dreary speeches by Soviet leaders to meetings of the Communist party.
It was thrilling for the people - his voters - who believe his lies. He’s doing so much for them! He is getting rid of “ the swamp”, etc. . . Easy for them to believe his lies b/c he is their fact check.
I understand and appreciate the quagmire the Democrats are in: how do you counter lies when people refuse to believe or accept, facts?
Rising prices are going to be a fact that they can't ignore. So will the loss of benefits and for many so will the loss of their jobs in the federal government. Even Trump has acknowledged that his economic policies (if that's an appropriate term for his tariffs) will create a 'disturbance' that he hopes people will understand. They won't - that's his problem and you can see that intolerance at those angry town hall meetings held by Republican members of Congress that have recently gone viral. That's probably why the day after he imposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico his commerce secretary said that they wouldn't last long and that a deal with both countries would be forthcoming and insisted there would be no pause in the application of tariffs until that transpired. Yet today, the administration announced the tariffs would be paused for American automakers. Trump pays attention to the markets and on both occasions they have reacted badly to his threatened tariffs. To add to this, his policy has now twice been called 'dumb' in editorials in the Wall Street Journal. None of this will impact his loyal base but believe me it will infuence him.
The Constitution expressly states in the the third clause of the 14th Amendment that those who broke an oath of office to the constitution by engaging in rebellion are disqualified from holding further office unless Congress exempt them by a two-thirds vote. This has not happened. The Supreme Court kicked this issue back to Congress when it considered Colorado’s high court ruling that it was not self effectuating. Congress needed to act. Why aren’t we pushing Congress to act??
The text: “Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
If the proposed cuts to both Medicaid and Social Security happen, I won’t be able to survive unless I leave the country.
So believe me I fully understand the dread that you feel Mr. Reich.
I think there’s real outrage over Medicaid but touch Social Security and people will take to the streets. I’m on SSDI and Medicare and a small pension that helps me pay my mortgage and I’m pissed that an apartheid POS wants to play with Americans future never mind the destruction he’s been causing especially to the VA. Military members should be angry knowing what is going on since it affects them and family that are on these benefits. This country belongs to us, not some failed TV game show host and apartheid a**holes.
YOU SAID A MOUTHFUL SAL! I know there are many families who feel the same way. I have veteran friends who are beside themselves. 'This Country Belongs To Us' is going to be on my next carrying sign!
When they take away the money that we worked all our life for and healthcare to give a tax break to the top 1% who don’t need it and don’t pay taxes as it is, we WILL take our country back and believe me, these billionaires will be jumping on their jets to get the hell out of here. This isn’t a game they’re playing. I don’t know how Republicans don’t see that if they do the right thing, it’s possible for some to get re-elected but being afraid of a primary??? Makes no sense because they will lose to the primary and the primary will lose to the Democrat running against them. It’s mind boggling what’s going on.
Sal,
I can truly appreciate your passion! (And I seriously doubt, at least in these discussions, that I stand alone.) Care for a little more ammo?
(I apologize if you've seen this before, but each day presents a largely new audience, eager to explore any and all new "realities".)
I've been asking this question online for several years now, and I've yet to receive what turns out to be a correct response. (And few people have even ventured guesses.)
Can anyone come up with...
1) ANY legislation the GOP has either proposed or supported...
2) For the purpose of helping middle-income, working-class Americans...
3) Within the past 75 years.
Simple, right?
The only example I'm aware of is the Americans With Disabilities Act (ACA). The GOP didn't present it, but neither did they fight it. One would think this reality about who makes up much of their base might have some impact currently.
We can hope, I suppose.
The Dems have enough laws fitting all these criteria to fill pages (ACA, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act(OOPS!) unemployment insurance, FEMA, etc.) And in every case, the laws to help middle-income, working-class Americans were fought tooth and nail by the GOP.
Any thoughts, Sal?
Dee,
Just came across this...
"Veterans Fired From Federal Jobs Say They Feel Betrayed, Including Some Who Voted For Trump"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bc-us-trump-doge-fired-veterans-betrayed_n_67c9af61e4b07a45b4c32f83
You know, if someone were cynical enough...
It just MIGHT seem as though for some reason (perhaps such as anger over being successfully ridiculed over his fake bone-spurs since youth(?)) Donnie seems absolutely OBSESSED with what might best be described as a commitment to CRUELTY toward people (both living and dead) who are/were dedicated to protecting America from foreign enemies. Almost as if THE KILLER WAIL wanted to be considered single-handedly responsible for crippling America's military readiness...
Hmm. Once again I ask a question SO STUPID that answers itself before I even finish typing. Could this be a sign of something?
(A bit wordy, but maybe a 2 or 3-person "sign"? Sorry, Dee, not getting much sleep...)
That could come at any time. MSN was just warning of the possibility that SS deposits could be up to 90 days late soon.
Musk's 14 children are a Ponzi scheme gone wrong.
Bammm! Good one!
So which one came first, dogecoin (since 2013) or DOGE? Inquiring minds want to know!
I don’t know, but they’re equally dodgy.
This guy explains it all. They're crashing the economy on purpose so they can buy it all up at firesale prices. Very informative. Long but so worth the read.
https://open.substack.com/pub/longmemo/p/the-great-american-fire-sale-tonights?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2o7uvb
He published another one right after the speech, too. Those two essays are required reading.
Ok thanks Gregg!! 😊
My interpretation of that was that it’s the same coin today as it was 12 years ago, but now it has a new name.
good point.
The whole of the western world now operates under the guise of a giant Ponzi scheme, while it's as much endemic to my country as it is to the US, with this being part of that natural progression that which is the now post-neoliberal project, with this being expressive of the real 'trickle down' as that pertains to the revised social stratification which has been consequential to the oligarch revolution. Fight on America, and this while taking inspiration from the epic struggle which was Michelangelo's life further to today being the 550th anniversary of his birth, while we must, all together, overcome!
Trump and musk should be locked up. They’re nothing but con-artists.
" “This is real,” Trump said of the mice."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-issues-head-scratcher-of-a-defense-for-trumps-transgender-mice-claim_n_67c8b5cae4b0e50d686ac02b
What does it even mean for Trump to make the claim that something "is real"?
More real than his last lie? His next lie?
It is NOT transgender mice. It is, in reality, trans genic mice. They are altering their genetics and using them to experiment with treatments for Altheimer's, cancer, and heart disease research. trump is simply so amazingly stupid that he hears "trans" and thinks it MUST be sexual.
Mark,
I understand, and I apologize for not providing appropriate clarity.
To me, my post was ONLY about this apparent "tell" from Trump. That for some reason, he wished to place a greater...emphasis(?) on the "truth" of this lie.
I can't but wonder what makes this lie "special" in Trump's mind (for lack of a better term than "mind".)
I'll attempt to express myself more clearly in future.
Thanks, Mark.
I wasn't correcting you. I was simply pointing out the real story for people that might not know, and to point out that trump is a total moron that can't understand basic English.
Mark,
I think it fair to say that your reply had more intelligence, awareness and significance than anything/everything Trump has said or written since he was...born/hatched/mitosis-ed?
(Hmm. Well, at least I never claimed to be smart. Stay safe, Mark!)
Trump is a narcissist, a form of derangement that is characterized by endless self-gratification, ego gratification in his case.
How can we overcome this?
Can we please start a citizen's initiative to impeach Trump and JD now?(1)
Why a Citizens' initiative to impeach? Well, for one thing, our Democratic leadership seems intent on doing nothing outside of ineffective hand-waving and low-key tut-tutting. For another, I don't see anywhere in the Constitution that says Citizens can't impeach a sitting president.
On what grounds should such a thing be required, you ask?
Lemme see, they're working hard for one of our biggest adversaries (Putin), breached numerous security firewalls protecting highly sensitive personal information, usurped the legislative branch's powers (funding allocation), vindictively and illegally fIred highly trained professional civil servants who skills are essential, bankrupting the federal government by refusing to pass just and equitable taxation to protect the solvenc and credit of the US, and in many other ways great and small, acted to destroy the federal government in contravention of the Constitution, law and long-standing precedent.
Moving to impeach now, even if Republicans manage to block such a move, would at least set the stage for impeaching the entire Republican caucus at some future date for their failure to remove Trump and JD when called on to do so with such overwhelming evidence of their high crimes and misdemeanors.
I am well aware that Speaker Johnson would be next in line for the Presidency if the Don and JD get removed from office, but I believe he is as desirous of attaining the Presidency as any normal politician, and would cooperate in the impeachment if that were to be the obvious result. Should Johnson prove equally perfidious as Don and JD, he 'd face removal by the same route.
(1) (I like two-fers, very economical)
As a political rallying point it might not be the worse idea out there.
Citizens can not impeach but we might help move others to do so.
It's what we want, isn't it. Let's move the overton window.
https://freespeechforpeople.org/over-200000-people-urge-congress-to-begin-impeachment-investigation-against-president-trump/
an old action from Common Cause https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-impeach-president-trump?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=
What, you want to spend the rest of all our lives pointlessly burrowing into the deep bench of Repub. evil? You know some way to "fast track" impeachment? Fuggedaboudit, already!
The Presidential line of succession is a Russian nesting doll of Trump/Vought/Yarvin sycophants. Impeachment is less of a solution than people think it is.
I’m willing to risk expending the effort to dump Trump and Vance, and deal with a President Johnson, rather than do nothing, but would welcome someone with a better idea.
that's the trillion dollar question. And will there be anything left if we do overcome it.
So MUSK is saying TWO things...
1) That social security is a "PONZI SCHEME, and...
2) The world's population is dangerously declining.
Isn't a declining population the BEST POSSIBLE NEWS for future soc sec recipients?
Doesn't it mean "more money into soc sec now, less people to collect in the future"?
What am I missing?
They're crashing the economy on purpose so they can buy everything up at firesale prices. This guy explains it all. Very informative. Long but so worth the read.
https://open.substack.com/pub/longmemo/p/the-great-american-fire-sale-tonights?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2o7uvb
Let's not forget the horrible "GET RICH AS F*#K QUICK" plan of another Texan, around 1980.
Bunker Hunt decided it would be FUN to PHYSICALLY POSSESS a huge % of the world's silver. It did NOT end well...
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"On March 27, 1980—a date that became known as "Silver Thursday"—the Hunt brothers finally missed a margin call and the market plunged; silver led the way, dropping to under $11 from its high of $50.42.
The Aftermath of the Hunts' Plan
Government officials considered a bailout to prevent systemic chaos. The action was vetoed, however, because the government agencies didn't want to be seen as underwriting dangerous financial speculation. In the end, the Hunt name held true, and the brothers arranged a private bailout from a consortium of banks and companies.
The Hunts were dragged in front of Congress, scolded, charged with manipulation, fined, fined again, and forced into bankruptcy. It took nearly a decade for them to unwind all their silver holdings and satisfy creditors, and the final bill left them billions poorer—although still wealthy by most standards.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/optioninvestor/09/silver-thursday-hunt-brothers.asp
I'd love to see something similar happen to MUMP.
Fascinating!! I remember that now. Thanks for the link. So glad they were stopped. I pray we can stop Elon and Trump too. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank YOU, Lisa.
I think there may be a law of physics about "conflicting greed motives".
(Or there WILL be...)
Lisa,
I fear it's entirely possible that the ONLY GOOD that will come of this (for us at least) is when Musk's DEMAND that he possess all the MONEY in the world conflicts with the Putin/Trump DEMAND for all the POWER in the world..
That may actually border on the new definition of "fun", as Trump bounces back and forth...
Good point. I think Trump and Elon will have a falling out eventually. There can only be one top dog and Trump doesn't like to share the spotlight as we know. Fingers 🤞🏼.
"Bouncy Balls"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikmZrobAzU4
Thank you, Lisa.