The One Thing The Far-Right Wingnuts Are Consistent With Is Their Outright Lies And Hatred.
And Trump With His Disgusting Rhetoric About Immigrants Is Par For The Course!
Trump said migrants were "poisoning the blood of our country." The GOP frontrunner is pushing Nazi talking points. Trump and his sheep are spreading disinformation again blaming President Biden for the war between Israel and Hamas! How Low Can You Go you PATHETIC HUMAN BEING?
Remember In 2017, Donald Trump divulged classified intelligence about Israeli’s Mossad spy agency and ISIS to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during a meeting at The White House. Trump admitted to sharing the confidential intelligence, tweeting that he had an “absolute right” to do so.
Trump also met with Vladimir Putin at least 5 times without other officials present during his presidency.
Trump has also endorsed Jim Jordan to be Speaker of the House. Liz Cheney recently said that if House Republicans did elect Jordan, “there would no longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected Republicans could be counted on to defend the Constitution.”
Trump and his radical human Cancer Cells are destroying our country! The longer we allow them to continue their destructive ways the more it will metastasize!
This week Republicans will vote for a new Speaker. Will they defend our Constitution or will they choose a Trump loyalist who worked to raise doubts about the election and erase the voice of more than 81 million Americans who voted for Biden!
The Chair of the RNC Describes Horrific Attack on Israel as a 'Great Opportunity' for Republicans.
Are you as appalled as I am? Ronna McDaniel's response to terror attack reveals how heartless she really is! Unless you are a monster the last thing you would say after a horrific attack is, "This is a great opportunity." That was the first statement McDaniel made in the interview.
As disinformation flooded Twitter, in the wake of Hamas' attacks on Israel, X owner Elon Musk recommended to his nearly 160 million followers that people follow accounts that ENGAGE IN ANTI-SEMITISM and spread disinformation about global events! I’m so glad I never joined TWITTER!
Regarding the attack on ISRAEL From Heather Cox Richardson:
Republicans used the moment to attack President Biden. In an echo of a similar lie from Trump, who falsely claimed the Obama administration had paid $150 billion to Iran for a nuclear agreement, they took to social media in a flood to say that the U.S. had funded the attack on Israel because it had recently “paid” $6 billion to Iran.
The statement was wrong across the board: the U.S did not pay Iran anything. It helped to ease restrictions on Iranian money that had been frozen in South Korea, enabling Qatar to take control of the money and use it for humanitarian aid. In any case, the money has not yet been transferred. Still, it was a surprising decision to attack the U.S. government at a time when the country would normally be united behind Israel.
the latter. Their oil rich billionaire backers LOVE chaos and dysfunctional government. Msiioin accomplished. They have the Supremes. Now they just need to deaden our hearts and minds and they'll be free to get their PR men and groomed lawyers to rewrite the script. So we must vote, And Get Out The Vote. Like our children's live depend on it.
Our children's lives DO depend on it. So do the children of the right wing, mindless followers of the indicted orange traitor who wants to "own" the country.
When will these people realize the orange traitor has no love for and makes no distinction between anyone's children? They could all die, and he would lose no sleep over it.
Celeste, In my view, the objective is to render far-right extremists increasingly irrelevant. One way we do that is by focusing our messaging on persuadables, particularly in battleground states, where elections typically are decided by relatively few votes in a handful of swing districts.
1. All politics is local. It may be more economically feasible to have a national message but in most purple states, that's not effective.
The DNC wrote off Ohio and Florida in the 2022 midterms. It wouln't have taken much brain power to have figured out that Tim Ryan needed a little help and that the BLM support of a repressive Cuban government could't have been fixed.
Here in Florida, the Republicans have an obnoxious incumbent senator who supports sunsetting Social Security, Medicare and other government benefits. Same guy is the poster boy for Medicare fraud. We know that 70% of young people and renters trend Democratic. Where I live we have three majority Democratic Congressional districts represented by Batistinano Republicans
It won't take much to tailor the message to fit the situation.
2. By 2024, 40% of the electorate will be younger voters, and they can overwhelm the vote. 70% trend Democratic. Channel Taylor Swift.
Daniel, I agree with both your points: 1) Strategy needs to be tailored for varying constituencies and 2) The youth vote is critical. I understand, while the percentage that are registered is relatively low, that, once registered, the percentage that vote is quite high.
Biden is losing the youth vote by caving in to Big Oil. Please write to him if you agree, and to the clueless DNC. The issue of our children is the Existential Crisis already destroying their future. They are justifiably appalled at his continued concessions to the powers that be. Russian oil embargo be damned. WE are the world's largest oil producer. WE can stop the killing our their future. Instead, he is folding under pressure which may only be the mistaken idea that we are endangering our security by stopping oil production. BS. The opposite is true. Please help our young people regain their very fragile faith in the difference between the GOP and the Democrats. Pressure Biden to use every power he has to Stop Willow. Stop pipelines. Stop new leases and rescind those he has approved (so many!) and maybe the youth that helped bring him to the White House will vote for him again. Right now? Very unsure. Between supporting the Oiligarchy, continuing Title 42 as long as he did, and now backing Israel and it's 100% with almost no acknowledgement, Ever, of the atrocities committed by its military and leaders, while it starves and bombs the Palestinian People ... well, I can read the room. The youth are throwing in the towel. Wake UP DNC, Biden, all the old Dems. Screw the outdated polls. The youth are Fed Up. I'm done.
Daniel, I like your idea of connecting the young people's vote in some way to Taylor Swift. Look what a potential relationship with a pro football player has done for the NFL. Let's also connect through Hip-Hop, jaz, and other communities. Music can be a mover of people if we choose to use it. We need some pro Biden songs, some anti-Trump songs and maybe Limericks. In short, the crazies have to a great extent taken over social media, the regular media, and they already own the crazy right. The rest of us need to jump in with some protest, pro democracy, anti-fascism songs, poems, couplets, and whatever we can use to get people to pay attention and get their eyes and minds off Fox and the rest of the crap they're wallowing in.
They also seemed to write off even those NY districts, which should never ever have been given up on, or lost, no matter how 'impossibly rightwing red' they may have been deemed.
I mean George Santos, REALLY?!?! What The ever loving F**K!!
Those districts could have been the majority for us, right there, and neutered the effing low life, POS, batshit psychotic NAZI nihilist caucus.
Good points, all, Daniel. It's especially a shame about Ryan in Ohio. While it's true that he ran a truly abysmal campaign, he certainly could have used help and strategy advice from the party.
Barbara Jo, but we also need to push common sense in the red states too. Not everyone in those states has been so brainwashed they can't think at least some of the time. then work must focus on young people, the ones who have the most to lose.
"Increasingly irrelevant," yes, but also use the "all hands on deck" process to let them know that they are outliers, in no way representative of right-minded American citizens, that their ideas do not belong!
Even when he has to sell his plane to pay his bills?
Naw, some Russian oligarch will bail him out.
I’m actually wondering if the banking testimony in his NY fraud trial will reveal that the money Deutsch Bank loaned was actually laundered Russian money. They have a proven connection. And it was the only major bank willing to lend. There was an inkling last week when it was said lower level loan denials were over-ridden by top bank management. The folks on the line said chump was too risky but they were overruled.
However, Trump Organization managed to rework almost all $900 million of the debt it had coming due. Two of its most troublesome Deutsche Bank loans, totaling $295 million, are now off the books. Trump sold his money-losing hotel in Washington, D.C., to an investment shop connected to former Major League Baseball star Alex Rodriguez and retired boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, thanks to help from a firm tied to computer billionaire Michael Dell. Trump also refinanced $125 million of debt against a Miami golf resort and reworked a $100 million mortgage at Trump Tower. https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2022/07/29/donald-trumps-great-escape-how-the-former-president-solved-his-debt-crisis/?sh=4ab08c073970
Daniel, thanks again for making the connections. I had known about each of these pieces to the Trump saga, but had not put them together. How anyone can think of Trump as anything but a cheat and liar and unworthy of being in charge of anything is beyond comprehension.
Peggy, I like to think some of those Trumpers and Trumpettes could be reached if we could figure what it is about him that has captured their intelligence and turned it off. He is not attractive, not smart, not amusing, rude, insulting, totally uncaring of anyone who is not willing to essentially die for him while he gives them nothing but three-word phrases and stupid comments on things he knows little about. Maybe asking them why they like following a puppet controlled by a bunch of rich men who hate them intensely and are gleeful at how easily those people could be conned into going with whatever those rich men want. Most people don't want to be duped. If someone they have even a tiny bit of respect for were to in passing mention those things to them "Wow, I am surprised you have fallen under the spell of that guy who thinks you are ignorant and easily manipulated. I didn't think you would let yourself be treated so badly by someone like Donald Trump and his puppeteers."
Hi Ruth, I have a friend in Alabama who says her neighbors love trump because "he owns the libs" who in their opinion caused all their problems by giving all their tax money to the needy who "everyone knows" is a code name for dark skinned people. Funny, when I was an Eligibility Worker my case load was at least 80% white. Even funnier because we "libs" in California pay more of our taxes to States like Alabama, Missouri and Tennessee than we get back ourselves.
Fay, you have accurately described the carefully cultivated vulnerable MAGA people. Their racism, resentment that they don't have everything they think they deserve, and willingness to see others suffer to salve their own anger make them targets for Trump and Kump and the fascist corps that cares nothing for them beyond their loyalty. Those Alabama etc. folks have not noticed that the jerks they have voted into office at all levels have done nothing to improve their lot. Any improvements have come from the money from the east and west coast states and from Democratic programs that have brought internet to them, repaired their neglected infrastructure, provided food stamps to more white folks than Black ones, and so much more. Their insulated media keep them from understanding any of this, so they get to keep wallowing in their created misery so they happily support, almost worship Trump, the "lib getter" who really has no clue, thinks they are rubes, and spews for them just the right amount of hatred and insulting to keep them grabbing onto his coat tails while they curse at everyone they pass along the way. It truly is sad that so many people who might otherwise be intelligent caring people, choose to ditch intelligence for hero worship of a totally greedy, money and prestige-addicted fool. How terribly sad!
Neita, that is such a hard thing to understand, that so many MAGA Christians have so little connection with their faith that they actually see Trump as anything but the pathetic con artist, jerk that he actually is. He has not been sent by god or anyone else, just raised in an abusive family with an addiction to money and power neither of which he deserves. It will be hard to get the MAGA Christians to see that because they believe they NEED their god-sent Trump to prove they are special and more worthy of everything than anyone else. Of course, they're not, but they can't bear to acknowledge it.
The Trumpers that I know are intelligent people who are single issue voters on the abortion issue. Democrats "kill babies" is their belief. Of course this is not true and what is truly frightening is Trump's disregard for every life, the born and the unborn, and his policies to make life worse (politically, economically and morally) for everyone.
Sadly, if they are all just as cold, cruel, heartless, and sadistic as their putrid orange fuehrer and the fascist oligarchs who support and own him, they simply just do not care about being 'duped rube pawns' at all.
As Fay says, as long as he/they all 'own/BURN the libtards', that is ALL that matters to them, it is their raison d'etre, regardless of any and all consequences even to themselves and their families.
Whether this is something instilled into them by their brain scrubbing/destroying extremist rightwingnut media(s), dogmatized and imprinted into their weak psyches by their fascist leaning (or outright) parents and 'churches', or something inherently in their collective unconscious, I do not know.
Hilary Clinton mentioned they all need to be deprogrammed.Steven Hassan wrote a book cld."The Cult of Trump",he shares his deprogramming course w/other clinicians.
WILLIAM CASH ; There is always that ; But even if they figured out that he is behind their increased misery, It is likely that voting him out will be impossible.
These brain dead, loyal brown shirt fascists somehow think things will be soooo great when their putrid orange fuehrer is installed into power for life!
What they do not realize is that after he persecutes, locks up, and/or murders all of us 'others', he will have his murderous Waffen SS/Gestapo goons turn on THEM, regardless of how; racist, loyal, fascist, ANTI-SEMITIC, xenophobic, cooperative with his REGIME, etc., they are.
This has been shown throughout the history of fascist, despotic 'strong men' to be the inevitable outcome of their abject power and control.
Do these dumb f**k imbeciles realize that the low life scum, orange POS they worship, support so vehemently, and adore so unconditionally, once in totalitarian, unfettered power, can take any of their teenage daughters for his own whims and uses, and there is not a DAMNED THING that they could do about it at that point?!?!?
Is THAT worth their destruction of our democracy, and an implementation of institutionalized, codified racist, fascist, etc. policies?!?
IF they all answer a big YES, to that then we are truly lost as a nation.
I am a conservative and poor Lutheran. I do not idolize Donald Trump nor believe the Pope is infallible. I doubt if listening to your reason or Robert Reichs' would lead to much agreement. I support former President Trump because I believe his policies and leadership are more likely to benefit the USA.
Mr. Pound, please enlighten me as to Mr. Trump's policies. I have not heard him talk about them. Also, do you feel Mr. Trump exhibited good leadership at the beginning of COVID? How does calling our military veterans suckers and losers beneficial to the United States? Calling for Gen. Milley's execution does not make a good leader. I am sorry but running on a platform of shooting shoplifters and imprisoning anyone who said a disparaging word against him does not explain how he will help ALL Americans. Please rethink your stance because only someone who idolizes this man would follow him.
Millions of Americans died of COVID because of Trump. No benefit there. The rich got a tax break, increasing our national debt, no benefit there either. I cannot think of ANY benefits from Trump's so called "leadership", except for the Trump family corruptly ripping off the taxpayers for their own personal gain.
Bill: Blind is he who does not want to see. It appears that you are being blinded by something deep in your subconscious, or is it something that you feel embarrassed to voice?
Since your despotic orange fuehrer equates the USA with himself, yes, in that respect his 'leadership' WILL benefit HIM, and HIM and his oligarchs, ONLY. ;)
Where to begin? Long ago I took a course in technical writing. One exercise stayed with me. Write an essay on a subject of interest. The essays were returned to be rewritten in half the number of words without loss of content or meaning. That was a real challenge. I have wondered if this were repeated would we end up with poetry. Mr. Boatman you must have a lot of time on your hands for such a lengthy comment, or maybe you are one who likes to talk a lot. It's OK, just not me.
My interest in "coming here" is to consider what lifelong Democrats have to say. And also because Robert Reich and some of his friends are part academic who might be open to discussion. Many aren't. One of the primary themes of your comment and many others is a concern for losing our democracy. In the USA, we do have a democracy at local and state levels. We do not have a democracy at the Federal level, we have a Republic "if we can keep it". But your thrust is to remove "DJT and the GOP from our political system once and for all." Leaving the Democratic party and its leader "to become an Autocratic "leader", and for LIFE, while destroying our democracy and our Constitution as bothersome things in his path to absolute power." Your thinking leads to the exact result you abhor but with a leader more to your liking.
I had an interaction with a family Democrat which went something like this,
"I hope Trump ends up in jail".
"OK, well what about Hillary with her private server, classified documents, bleached emails, destroyed phones, and a false dossier designed to discredit and defeat Trump?"
"Well then I didn't care. Now I do."
How's that for justice? But you apparently would agree with my relative.
Trump is and will continue to be a poisonous dart to the heart of America.
With his constant tantrums, filled with bizarre lies, that his followers grab onto, he is shutting down the body of America.
It’s irresponsible to assume he’ll “burn it out.” Or people ( his followers) will get sick of him.
I surely am distressed and tired , tired , tired of his constant frenetic mug being plastered in the news.
I think we need to work as hard as we can to maintain some real talking points maybe three or four to repeat regularly that describe what and who he is.
It would best be delivered calmly and reasonably.
I think it could be impactful if a specific few statements came from people across the country in response to Trumps vile messaging.
I don't think anything short of actually getting what they think they want in governance, then slowly coming to the painfull conclusion that they really DON'T want that type of governance, only when it's too damn late to stop it, will teach them anything!
Celeste, maybe we need to say what you have just said, that their children will suffer too if Trump and Kump are permitted to take over this nation. Those guys care nothing for anyone. They want power, money, and prestige and like bad toddlers want no one to stop them from getting what they want. We the People do need to be the adults and maybe put them in time-out for a while until the rest of us recover from their toddler tantrums.
Tragically, nothing. Psychopathology is assuming plague proportions the world over. This is not a new disease from existential sources; evil and good are entwined in our DNA. Maybe a highly advanced form of Crisper would alleviate some of the pain and by extension, the damage among us.
Patrice, you are right about our children's lives being dependent on their parents and grandparents getting out to vote and all those young people 18 years and older need to get out there and vote too. The current Republican Party is living in some mythical past when white men could rule everyone and harm whoever they wanted with impunity. Let's not allow them to drag us there to their appalling vision of what they want America to be. Ghastly!
Donald Trump loves chaos. When things are in a state of disarray Donnie Boy is in his glory. Fear and confusion are the bedfellows Trump cuddles with at every opportunity. His perverse apatite for all things disreputable gives an eerie look into the mind of a mentally deranged man. How this guy has reached the position he now holds is a mystery to me. A form of mass hysteria has overtaken the minds of good people across our country who have placed Trump on that stupid escalator where he was heading down to Charlie Daniel's vacation spot to visit an old friend. If you seek Trump's happy place just shake up a snow globe and watch as the substance falls over the landscape, it's not snow he envisions covering the scene, it's ash.
With the sneak attack on Israel, the war machines in that area of the world are up and running. Retribution for the slaughter of innocence that occurred a few days ago is understandable but an all-out dismantling of Gaza might prove in the long run to be counterproductive. The Jewish people can't possibly compete with the Muslim religion. To refight the Crusades in our time would lead to a blood bath of historic proportions. In the old days, armies would meet on a pre-arranged battlefield and have at it leaving the civilized areas and the noncombatants free from the horrors of war, at least that was the way it was supposed to work. WWII saw intense bombing raids that destroyed entire cities like Dresden Germany. This attack on the German people was without a doubt a war crime but the entire war was a crime so what difference did any of it make? We slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians as the war came to its conclusion. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was underhanded by nature but it was carried out on military targets for the most part. Putin has opened the door to a new form of war, one where civilians are being targeted intentionally in an effort to cause an atmosphere of utter terror for all concerned. The Middle East is a powder keg of sorts, it is a religious inferno where there is no common ground to speak of. Iran has, no matter what others might say, the ability to produce a nuclear device capable of rendering huge areas unlivable for extended periods of time. This country has said in no uncertain terms that they want to destroy Israel. Putin is smiling as the Middle East is about to burn. Let's see how rapidly this conflict can spread through the region as we usher in the preludes of WWIII
Yes, whether that be thermonuclear fallout ash, democracy burning to the ground ash, or just plain old everything burning due to climate destruction ash, the result is the very same. :( :(
That was Mr. Trump's problem. He thought he had "every right to do" anything he wanted to do. He did not!! He was trying to be an authoritarian in his first stint in the White House. He will try even harder if he is elected again.
Carol F. Yost -- Hamas is a terrorist organization that attacks innocent civilians. Jews and otherwise.
Check with the "Palestinians" who happen to be Christian, Maroinites, Malekites, who have been displaced, who have relatives murdered by Hamas. Gaza was once part of Egypt, and but for Jimmy Carter would not exist as a seperate entity. They have a common border with Egypt. Egypt is not taking any Gazans.
Their policy is the elimination of Israel. Killing all Jews. If they die in jihad, they go to paradise. Use kids as suicide bombers.
Daniel, you are right that Hamas is a terrorist organization and as far as I can tell has nearly always been. They are not much at governing. The conditions so many of the people of Gaza and the West Bank live under are often the breeding ground for resentment. As we have seen in our country, resentment does not lead to good decision-making. Here it led to people blindly supporting Donald Trump an ignorant con artist for, of all things, president and a right-wing insanity. In Palestine, it led to if not embracing, more than tolerating Hamas and other crazies who care nothing for them, just as Trump cares nothing for his followers. Israel and Palestine need to seriously sit down and figure out a two-state solution that will make them trading partners rather than enemies.
Kill, kill, kill, eye for an eye- are we still Neanderthals? So disheartening. I support peace-makers, but haven't read about a lot of effort from the Israeli side to work out a two-state solution. Now too late? What role does (should) the U.S. play? Blind support of Israel hasn't worked.
Your ignorance is astounding. They would have had a deal.... Hamas does not represent "the Palestinians." In 1967, Israel offered "to give up Sinai and the Golan in exchange for peace," an offer that was rejected in September 1967 by the Arab States by the Khartoum Resolution, which became famous for the "Three No's": "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it..."
Crereation of the Palestinian National Authority, which was tasked with the responsibility of conducting limited Palestinian self-governance over parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip; and the international acknowledgement of the PLO as Israel's partner in permanent-status negotiations about any remaining issues revolving around the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Daniel, thank you for the history- I yield to your knowledge. Was not in any way defending Hamas or violence. 30+ years ago I attended a speech in Portland, OR- Shimon Peres, I believe, who stated the only solution was a Palestinian state. Just drags on & on. It seems the expansion of Israeli settlements & Netanyahu's right-wing government is aggravating the situation. Am I way off base here? Patience, please- still learning. Reading your Roadmap for peace now...
The MAGA Trump (MAGATs) “Republicans” have succeeded in making history by ousting one of their own. Albeit Kevin McCarthy may not be as hard core as, say, Matt Gaetz, McCarthy has repeatedly shown his loyalty to Trump. Lying, backstabbing and flip flopping were the norm for McCarthy. Good riddance!
But, now that the Speakership has been vacated, what’s next? There’s talk about nominating Donald Trump to be the next Speaker of the House. Do you recall what happened when Germany attempted to appease Adolph Hitler with a Chancellorship? That went down in history. And not in a good way.
We had an opportunity to prevent these current disasters with both of Trump’s impeachments. Unfortunately the fealty of the Senate of the 117th US Congress failed in its primary purpose of governing. Had that Senate prosecuted Trump, we would not now be in this predicament.
But that is in the past. It is the present and the future we need to focus upon. Rhonna McDaniel was empirically incorrect in her statement of “legitimate political discourse”. What is needed today is for the “true” Republicans to renounce Trump and MAGA Trumpism. It is past time for Republicans to grow a backbone, stand up straight, and take back their party. IF they do this, there is a chance that the US has a positive future. If not, the fascists win.
It is critical to undermine and discredit his "props" - the Gaetz, Jordan, Green, Bobert, et al crowd. As long as their demi-monde way of thinking and living dominate the news and our government, trump has supports. All hands on deck for rebuking, debunking, and showing them for the small minds and amoral punks and hucksters they are.
The possibility that either Jordan or Scalise will become Speaker is just beyond the pale. If you all don't read the Raw Story publication, I recommend that you begin. They have a great run-down of the actual histories of Jordan and Scalise when they stopped into the pawn shop where moral compasses were abandoned. Imagine Jordan running things. It is beyond the powers of tolerance to imagine that.
A horrific thought experiment: somehow they make trump Speaker (he is, after all, telling the world that he would be willing, "if it would help..." - is everybody finished retching?). Remember that would make him THIRD in line for the Presidency. He's a criminal.
Even if his puppet Jordan becomes Speaker, he does trump's bidding.
To quote Bette Davis in "All About Eve": "Fasten your seat belts; it's going to be a bumpy night." (year.....years.)
All who support ot supported insurrection, aided, abetted or gave comfort to terrorists are vulnerable. Our first line of defense should have been the criminal law, but Garland is a wuss.
All of the above are candidates for re election and should be vulnerable under the 14th Amendment solution.
I may be late on this comment, however, Garland just gave a interview on 60 Minutes and came across with a believable statement about the administration of justice in regards to the prosecution of all cases being investigated by the Attorney General’s Office. I too think that the fpotis should be in jail by now. He assured us that the wheels of justice are grinding away and that action is on the way.
I choose to believe him and use his promise as a source of hope and relief that I personally need at this time.
The irony is that Garland's 'wussiness' did NOTHING at all, even for himself, let alone appeasing these effing NAZIS, appearing 'apolitical', or any other hand-wringing/pearl clutching by him.
The fascist brown shirts STILL want to execute him, and all of the rest of the DoJ, ANYWAY, so he might as well have really done his job to save our democracy, 'visuals' BE DAMNED!!
Many people have called in to Trump and asked him to become speaker, says Trump so you know it must be true. Yes if i were Trump with the problems he has then becoming speaker might be the best option for me.
Todd, it would be a horror if Trump were to be selected as Speaker. However, he would not last in the position. He does not want to work, he never has. He would get sick of it and move out as soon as he can figure out how to make it look like Democrats drove him out. I am sure his puppet-masters will figure that out for him and he can lie it all with conviction and his unthinking hoard will go along with it.
You forgot ONE point, my dear friend: The Gop is IMMUNE to irony! Barron Trump is Softcore Melanie's ANCHOR BABY. She ONLY recieved citizenship, (did she?), AFTER he was born! Until that point she was an >GASP!< "EELEEGAL IMMIGRAHNT!!!"
I worry that people don't know these facts - facts like these have become meaningless to MAGA people and many others and our public media doesn't help by trying to be unbiased they create false equivalents
That effing 'media' had better wake the F**K UP 'right quick' (as his MAGAt peckerwoods would say).
THEY themselves will not be around long to keep banking their coin off of the SHITler if SCUMp's REGIME is installed back into power, as it will be a Goebbels-like pure fascist 'dear leader' propaganda network, exclusively, 24/7, and they will lose their usefulness to the putrid orange POS.
His minions and NAZI 'cabinet' members will set up something that will make lil' Kimmie's demanded worship networks seem like child's play, and take over ALL other 'media'.
A US President is arguably the most powerful human on earth, but we still risk missing the forest for the trees when we give them too much credit. Reagan's election as president was the first time I was able to vote. I was 19. I literally cried in my beer. But it already looked to me as if the WASPS had just hired The Great Communicator and fed him the lines they needed as part of their grand decades long scheme to carry out the silent coup they failed to pull off against Roosevelt. The "Wall St. Putsch", featuring GHW Bush's father, the banker for the Nazi financiers, and the Duponts, et al. I grew up on the Main Line, on the wrong side of the tracks. I was Alberta Pew's Downstairs Girl. Trump is a narcissistic psychopath, and I don't think he was their first choice (they loath him,) but the Oiligarchs - and their BigChem, BigAg, BigPlastic, spawn) seemed to know that Putin would lead him around by the nose. Trump is their useful idiot. Their one-man bread and circuses. The best chaos maker to distract from their real work of destroying the only thing standing in the way of More Profits. And it's working. And I'm so glad you are still going strong and speaking truth to power, Mr. Reich. Thank you.
Brava Patrice; you are indeed putting all puzzle pieces together. Reagan, was a puppet, deeply indebted and loyal to his prior savior, General Electric, who saved him from bankruptcy and actual ruin, then nursed his shattered career from a failed "C" actor, to a personal spokesman for GE and commercial aims. I do hope you can fully appreciate the rather low key revelations Bob has made in this essay.
(Nadine is an historian journalist living in San Diego - and a committed Russia watcher) - she's incredibly well aware of a lot of the undercurrents (both sides) in Russia.
Unfortunately he is a successful dummy. What he lacks in intelligent thinking is made up by unethical instincts honed through years of business "deals" (swindles). An actual dummy is not dangerous. Trump is.
The One Thing The Far-Right Wingnuts Are Consistent With Is Their Outright Lies And Hatred.
And Trump With His Disgusting Rhetoric About Immigrants Is Par For The Course!
Trump said migrants were "poisoning the blood of our country." The GOP frontrunner is pushing Nazi talking points. Trump and his sheep are spreading disinformation again blaming President Biden for the war between Israel and Hamas! How Low Can You Go you PATHETIC HUMAN BEING?
Remember In 2017, Donald Trump divulged classified intelligence about Israeli’s Mossad spy agency and ISIS to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during a meeting at The White House. Trump admitted to sharing the confidential intelligence, tweeting that he had an “absolute right” to do so.
Trump also met with Vladimir Putin at least 5 times without other officials present during his presidency.
Trump has also endorsed Jim Jordan to be Speaker of the House. Liz Cheney recently said that if House Republicans did elect Jordan, “there would no longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected Republicans could be counted on to defend the Constitution.”
Trump and his radical human Cancer Cells are destroying our country! The longer we allow them to continue their destructive ways the more it will metastasize!
This week Republicans will vote for a new Speaker. Will they defend our Constitution or will they choose a Trump loyalist who worked to raise doubts about the election and erase the voice of more than 81 million Americans who voted for Biden!
The Chair of the RNC Describes Horrific Attack on Israel as a 'Great Opportunity' for Republicans.
Are you as appalled as I am? Ronna McDaniel's response to terror attack reveals how heartless she really is! Unless you are a monster the last thing you would say after a horrific attack is, "This is a great opportunity." That was the first statement McDaniel made in the interview.
As disinformation flooded Twitter, in the wake of Hamas' attacks on Israel, X owner Elon Musk recommended to his nearly 160 million followers that people follow accounts that ENGAGE IN ANTI-SEMITISM and spread disinformation about global events! I’m so glad I never joined TWITTER!
Regarding the attack on ISRAEL From Heather Cox Richardson:
Republicans used the moment to attack President Biden. In an echo of a similar lie from Trump, who falsely claimed the Obama administration had paid $150 billion to Iran for a nuclear agreement, they took to social media in a flood to say that the U.S. had funded the attack on Israel because it had recently “paid” $6 billion to Iran.
The statement was wrong across the board: the U.S did not pay Iran anything. It helped to ease restrictions on Iranian money that had been frozen in South Korea, enabling Qatar to take control of the money and use it for humanitarian aid. In any case, the money has not yet been transferred. Still, it was a surprising decision to attack the U.S. government at a time when the country would normally be united behind Israel.
the latter. Their oil rich billionaire backers LOVE chaos and dysfunctional government. Msiioin accomplished. They have the Supremes. Now they just need to deaden our hearts and minds and they'll be free to get their PR men and groomed lawyers to rewrite the script. So we must vote, And Get Out The Vote. Like our children's live depend on it.
Our children's lives DO depend on it. So do the children of the right wing, mindless followers of the indicted orange traitor who wants to "own" the country.
When will these people realize the orange traitor has no love for and makes no distinction between anyone's children? They could all die, and he would lose no sleep over it.
What can we say to make them understand?
Celeste, In my view, the objective is to render far-right extremists increasingly irrelevant. One way we do that is by focusing our messaging on persuadables, particularly in battleground states, where elections typically are decided by relatively few votes in a handful of swing districts.
1. All politics is local. It may be more economically feasible to have a national message but in most purple states, that's not effective.
The DNC wrote off Ohio and Florida in the 2022 midterms. It wouln't have taken much brain power to have figured out that Tim Ryan needed a little help and that the BLM support of a repressive Cuban government could't have been fixed.
Here in Florida, the Republicans have an obnoxious incumbent senator who supports sunsetting Social Security, Medicare and other government benefits. Same guy is the poster boy for Medicare fraud. We know that 70% of young people and renters trend Democratic. Where I live we have three majority Democratic Congressional districts represented by Batistinano Republicans
It won't take much to tailor the message to fit the situation.
2. By 2024, 40% of the electorate will be younger voters, and they can overwhelm the vote. 70% trend Democratic. Channel Taylor Swift.
Daniel, I agree with both your points: 1) Strategy needs to be tailored for varying constituencies and 2) The youth vote is critical. I understand, while the percentage that are registered is relatively low, that, once registered, the percentage that vote is quite high.
Biden is losing the youth vote by caving in to Big Oil. Please write to him if you agree, and to the clueless DNC. The issue of our children is the Existential Crisis already destroying their future. They are justifiably appalled at his continued concessions to the powers that be. Russian oil embargo be damned. WE are the world's largest oil producer. WE can stop the killing our their future. Instead, he is folding under pressure which may only be the mistaken idea that we are endangering our security by stopping oil production. BS. The opposite is true. Please help our young people regain their very fragile faith in the difference between the GOP and the Democrats. Pressure Biden to use every power he has to Stop Willow. Stop pipelines. Stop new leases and rescind those he has approved (so many!) and maybe the youth that helped bring him to the White House will vote for him again. Right now? Very unsure. Between supporting the Oiligarchy, continuing Title 42 as long as he did, and now backing Israel and it's 100% with almost no acknowledgement, Ever, of the atrocities committed by its military and leaders, while it starves and bombs the Palestinian People ... well, I can read the room. The youth are throwing in the towel. Wake UP DNC, Biden, all the old Dems. Screw the outdated polls. The youth are Fed Up. I'm done.
Daniel, I like your idea of connecting the young people's vote in some way to Taylor Swift. Look what a potential relationship with a pro football player has done for the NFL. Let's also connect through Hip-Hop, jaz, and other communities. Music can be a mover of people if we choose to use it. We need some pro Biden songs, some anti-Trump songs and maybe Limericks. In short, the crazies have to a great extent taken over social media, the regular media, and they already own the crazy right. The rest of us need to jump in with some protest, pro democracy, anti-fascism songs, poems, couplets, and whatever we can use to get people to pay attention and get their eyes and minds off Fox and the rest of the crap they're wallowing in.
As an Ohioan, I couldn’t agree more regarding the DNC and Tim Ryan.
DeSantis is following the KKK playbook.
They also seemed to write off even those NY districts, which should never ever have been given up on, or lost, no matter how 'impossibly rightwing red' they may have been deemed.
I mean George Santos, REALLY?!?! What The ever loving F**K!!
Those districts could have been the majority for us, right there, and neutered the effing low life, POS, batshit psychotic NAZI nihilist caucus.
Good points, all, Daniel. It's especially a shame about Ryan in Ohio. While it's true that he ran a truly abysmal campaign, he certainly could have used help and strategy advice from the party.
Barbara Jo, but we also need to push common sense in the red states too. Not everyone in those states has been so brainwashed they can't think at least some of the time. then work must focus on young people, the ones who have the most to lose.
"Increasingly irrelevant," yes, but also use the "all hands on deck" process to let them know that they are outliers, in no way representative of right-minded American citizens, that their ideas do not belong!
Annie, I agree the extremist opposition needs to be disqualified.
Barbara, I think you’re right.
Thanks Dorothy for your affirming reply.
I wish I had an answer to that question! Those that idolize Mr. Trump will never listen to reason and will never stop following him.
Even when he has to sell his plane to pay his bills?
Naw, some Russian oligarch will bail him out.
I’m actually wondering if the banking testimony in his NY fraud trial will reveal that the money Deutsch Bank loaned was actually laundered Russian money. They have a proven connection. And it was the only major bank willing to lend. There was an inkling last week when it was said lower level loan denials were over-ridden by top bank management. The folks on the line said chump was too risky but they were overruled.
He owed Deutsche Bank about $330 million, and the loans were supposed to be due in 2023 and 2024. Trump provided a personal guarantee to get the loans, meaning that if he fails to pay them back, the bank can pursue his personal assets. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/trump-deutsche-bank-rosemary-vrablic.html
However, Trump Organization managed to rework almost all $900 million of the debt it had coming due. Two of its most troublesome Deutsche Bank loans, totaling $295 million, are now off the books. Trump sold his money-losing hotel in Washington, D.C., to an investment shop connected to former Major League Baseball star Alex Rodriguez and retired boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, thanks to help from a firm tied to computer billionaire Michael Dell. Trump also refinanced $125 million of debt against a Miami golf resort and reworked a $100 million mortgage at Trump Tower. https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2022/07/29/donald-trumps-great-escape-how-the-former-president-solved-his-debt-crisis/?sh=4ab08c073970
A former Deutsche Bank executive who reportedly signed off on some unorthodox loans to Trump killed himself on November 19, 2019. https://lamag.com/politics/deutsche-bank-death
And also Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s son. Justin...... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/07/12/untangling-the-links-between-trump-deutsche-bank-and-justice-kennedys-son/
Daniel, thanks again for making the connections. I had known about each of these pieces to the Trump saga, but had not put them together. How anyone can think of Trump as anything but a cheat and liar and unworthy of being in charge of anything is beyond comprehension.
May explain his praise and admiration of Putin... almost too obvious that he owed/owes Putin.
What deposits did Deutsch Bank use to fund the loans?
Peggy, I like to think some of those Trumpers and Trumpettes could be reached if we could figure what it is about him that has captured their intelligence and turned it off. He is not attractive, not smart, not amusing, rude, insulting, totally uncaring of anyone who is not willing to essentially die for him while he gives them nothing but three-word phrases and stupid comments on things he knows little about. Maybe asking them why they like following a puppet controlled by a bunch of rich men who hate them intensely and are gleeful at how easily those people could be conned into going with whatever those rich men want. Most people don't want to be duped. If someone they have even a tiny bit of respect for were to in passing mention those things to them "Wow, I am surprised you have fallen under the spell of that guy who thinks you are ignorant and easily manipulated. I didn't think you would let yourself be treated so badly by someone like Donald Trump and his puppeteers."
Hi Ruth, I have a friend in Alabama who says her neighbors love trump because "he owns the libs" who in their opinion caused all their problems by giving all their tax money to the needy who "everyone knows" is a code name for dark skinned people. Funny, when I was an Eligibility Worker my case load was at least 80% white. Even funnier because we "libs" in California pay more of our taxes to States like Alabama, Missouri and Tennessee than we get back ourselves.
Fay, you have accurately described the carefully cultivated vulnerable MAGA people. Their racism, resentment that they don't have everything they think they deserve, and willingness to see others suffer to salve their own anger make them targets for Trump and Kump and the fascist corps that cares nothing for them beyond their loyalty. Those Alabama etc. folks have not noticed that the jerks they have voted into office at all levels have done nothing to improve their lot. Any improvements have come from the money from the east and west coast states and from Democratic programs that have brought internet to them, repaired their neglected infrastructure, provided food stamps to more white folks than Black ones, and so much more. Their insulated media keep them from understanding any of this, so they get to keep wallowing in their created misery so they happily support, almost worship Trump, the "lib getter" who really has no clue, thinks they are rubes, and spews for them just the right amount of hatred and insulting to keep them grabbing onto his coat tails while they curse at everyone they pass along the way. It truly is sad that so many people who might otherwise be intelligent caring people, choose to ditch intelligence for hero worship of a totally greedy, money and prestige-addicted fool. How terribly sad!
They believe he is sent by God, he is a Christian against abortion - LGBTQ - as they are, or they believe the border stories, and so on. 😢
Neita, that is such a hard thing to understand, that so many MAGA Christians have so little connection with their faith that they actually see Trump as anything but the pathetic con artist, jerk that he actually is. He has not been sent by god or anyone else, just raised in an abusive family with an addiction to money and power neither of which he deserves. It will be hard to get the MAGA Christians to see that because they believe they NEED their god-sent Trump to prove they are special and more worthy of everything than anyone else. Of course, they're not, but they can't bear to acknowledge it.
The Trumpers that I know are intelligent people who are single issue voters on the abortion issue. Democrats "kill babies" is their belief. Of course this is not true and what is truly frightening is Trump's disregard for every life, the born and the unborn, and his policies to make life worse (politically, economically and morally) for everyone.
Sadly, if they are all just as cold, cruel, heartless, and sadistic as their putrid orange fuehrer and the fascist oligarchs who support and own him, they simply just do not care about being 'duped rube pawns' at all.
As Fay says, as long as he/they all 'own/BURN the libtards', that is ALL that matters to them, it is their raison d'etre, regardless of any and all consequences even to themselves and their families.
Whether this is something instilled into them by their brain scrubbing/destroying extremist rightwingnut media(s), dogmatized and imprinted into their weak psyches by their fascist leaning (or outright) parents and 'churches', or something inherently in their collective unconscious, I do not know.
Hilary Clinton mentioned they all need to be deprogrammed.Steven Hassan wrote a book cld."The Cult of Trump",he shares his deprogramming course w/other clinicians.
Peggy Freeman ; They won't stop following him until his effects are felt by them personally. It may be too late by then.
They won't stop then either because trump will simply tell them it's someone else's fault and they'll believe him.
WILLIAM CASH ; There is always that ; But even if they figured out that he is behind their increased misery, It is likely that voting him out will be impossible.
True
So right.
I agree!
These brain dead, loyal brown shirt fascists somehow think things will be soooo great when their putrid orange fuehrer is installed into power for life!
What they do not realize is that after he persecutes, locks up, and/or murders all of us 'others', he will have his murderous Waffen SS/Gestapo goons turn on THEM, regardless of how; racist, loyal, fascist, ANTI-SEMITIC, xenophobic, cooperative with his REGIME, etc., they are.
This has been shown throughout the history of fascist, despotic 'strong men' to be the inevitable outcome of their abject power and control.
Do these dumb f**k imbeciles realize that the low life scum, orange POS they worship, support so vehemently, and adore so unconditionally, once in totalitarian, unfettered power, can take any of their teenage daughters for his own whims and uses, and there is not a DAMNED THING that they could do about it at that point?!?!?
Is THAT worth their destruction of our democracy, and an implementation of institutionalized, codified racist, fascist, etc. policies?!?
IF they all answer a big YES, to that then we are truly lost as a nation.
I think that is a good answer Peggy.
His real name is Drumpf.
I am a conservative and poor Lutheran. I do not idolize Donald Trump nor believe the Pope is infallible. I doubt if listening to your reason or Robert Reichs' would lead to much agreement. I support former President Trump because I believe his policies and leadership are more likely to benefit the USA.
Mr. Pound, please enlighten me as to Mr. Trump's policies. I have not heard him talk about them. Also, do you feel Mr. Trump exhibited good leadership at the beginning of COVID? How does calling our military veterans suckers and losers beneficial to the United States? Calling for Gen. Milley's execution does not make a good leader. I am sorry but running on a platform of shooting shoplifters and imprisoning anyone who said a disparaging word against him does not explain how he will help ALL Americans. Please rethink your stance because only someone who idolizes this man would follow him.
Millions of Americans died of COVID because of Trump. No benefit there. The rich got a tax break, increasing our national debt, no benefit there either. I cannot think of ANY benefits from Trump's so called "leadership", except for the Trump family corruptly ripping off the taxpayers for their own personal gain.
Bill: Blind is he who does not want to see. It appears that you are being blinded by something deep in your subconscious, or is it something that you feel embarrassed to voice?
Since your despotic orange fuehrer equates the USA with himself, yes, in that respect his 'leadership' WILL benefit HIM, and HIM and his oligarchs, ONLY. ;)
Where to begin? Long ago I took a course in technical writing. One exercise stayed with me. Write an essay on a subject of interest. The essays were returned to be rewritten in half the number of words without loss of content or meaning. That was a real challenge. I have wondered if this were repeated would we end up with poetry. Mr. Boatman you must have a lot of time on your hands for such a lengthy comment, or maybe you are one who likes to talk a lot. It's OK, just not me.
My interest in "coming here" is to consider what lifelong Democrats have to say. And also because Robert Reich and some of his friends are part academic who might be open to discussion. Many aren't. One of the primary themes of your comment and many others is a concern for losing our democracy. In the USA, we do have a democracy at local and state levels. We do not have a democracy at the Federal level, we have a Republic "if we can keep it". But your thrust is to remove "DJT and the GOP from our political system once and for all." Leaving the Democratic party and its leader "to become an Autocratic "leader", and for LIFE, while destroying our democracy and our Constitution as bothersome things in his path to absolute power." Your thinking leads to the exact result you abhor but with a leader more to your liking.
I had an interaction with a family Democrat which went something like this,
"I hope Trump ends up in jail".
"OK, well what about Hillary with her private server, classified documents, bleached emails, destroyed phones, and a false dossier designed to discredit and defeat Trump?"
"Well then I didn't care. Now I do."
How's that for justice? But you apparently would agree with my relative.
VERY well said!!
Trump is and will continue to be a poisonous dart to the heart of America.
With his constant tantrums, filled with bizarre lies, that his followers grab onto, he is shutting down the body of America.
It’s irresponsible to assume he’ll “burn it out.” Or people ( his followers) will get sick of him.
I surely am distressed and tired , tired , tired of his constant frenetic mug being plastered in the news.
I think we need to work as hard as we can to maintain some real talking points maybe three or four to repeat regularly that describe what and who he is.
It would best be delivered calmly and reasonably.
I think it could be impactful if a specific few statements came from people across the country in response to Trumps vile messaging.
I don't think anything short of actually getting what they think they want in governance, then slowly coming to the painfull conclusion that they really DON'T want that type of governance, only when it's too damn late to stop it, will teach them anything!
We don’t have time for that. I think most would have to die first, or it will take a decade.
A DECADE?!?!
Our, (and WORLDWIDE) democracy may NEVER recover from U.S. turning full bore fascist.
We CANNOT ALLOW these NAZIS to take over, EVER, PERIOD!!!
Exactly! They will take us all down were we to let them.
Celeste, maybe we need to say what you have just said, that their children will suffer too if Trump and Kump are permitted to take over this nation. Those guys care nothing for anyone. They want power, money, and prestige and like bad toddlers want no one to stop them from getting what they want. We the People do need to be the adults and maybe put them in time-out for a while until the rest of us recover from their toddler tantrums.
Tragically, nothing. Psychopathology is assuming plague proportions the world over. This is not a new disease from existential sources; evil and good are entwined in our DNA. Maybe a highly advanced form of Crisper would alleviate some of the pain and by extension, the damage among us.
Patrice, you are right about our children's lives being dependent on their parents and grandparents getting out to vote and all those young people 18 years and older need to get out there and vote too. The current Republican Party is living in some mythical past when white men could rule everyone and harm whoever they wanted with impunity. Let's not allow them to drag us there to their appalling vision of what they want America to be. Ghastly!
Donald Trump loves chaos. When things are in a state of disarray Donnie Boy is in his glory. Fear and confusion are the bedfellows Trump cuddles with at every opportunity. His perverse apatite for all things disreputable gives an eerie look into the mind of a mentally deranged man. How this guy has reached the position he now holds is a mystery to me. A form of mass hysteria has overtaken the minds of good people across our country who have placed Trump on that stupid escalator where he was heading down to Charlie Daniel's vacation spot to visit an old friend. If you seek Trump's happy place just shake up a snow globe and watch as the substance falls over the landscape, it's not snow he envisions covering the scene, it's ash.
You said it. That's Trump. Accurate profile.
Gloria--I'm glad you liked it because I forgot what I said.
The people that still support Trump are comparable to “The Walking Dead “ full stop
Keith--Comparable, what's the difference.
That was a TV show. The other is reality!
Keith--Both realities are filled with people that can't think for themselves.
Keith--Anger is easy to distribute--
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With the sneak attack on Israel, the war machines in that area of the world are up and running. Retribution for the slaughter of innocence that occurred a few days ago is understandable but an all-out dismantling of Gaza might prove in the long run to be counterproductive. The Jewish people can't possibly compete with the Muslim religion. To refight the Crusades in our time would lead to a blood bath of historic proportions. In the old days, armies would meet on a pre-arranged battlefield and have at it leaving the civilized areas and the noncombatants free from the horrors of war, at least that was the way it was supposed to work. WWII saw intense bombing raids that destroyed entire cities like Dresden Germany. This attack on the German people was without a doubt a war crime but the entire war was a crime so what difference did any of it make? We slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians as the war came to its conclusion. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was underhanded by nature but it was carried out on military targets for the most part. Putin has opened the door to a new form of war, one where civilians are being targeted intentionally in an effort to cause an atmosphere of utter terror for all concerned. The Middle East is a powder keg of sorts, it is a religious inferno where there is no common ground to speak of. Iran has, no matter what others might say, the ability to produce a nuclear device capable of rendering huge areas unlivable for extended periods of time. This country has said in no uncertain terms that they want to destroy Israel. Putin is smiling as the Middle East is about to burn. Let's see how rapidly this conflict can spread through the region as we usher in the preludes of WWIII
Gloria--Good morning, you're up early.
Yes, whether that be thermonuclear fallout ash, democracy burning to the ground ash, or just plain old everything burning due to climate destruction ash, the result is the very same. :( :(
David --The clouds on the horizon do look rather dark.
Yes, I often wonder WHY it is that the forces of pure, abject EVIL must always (eventually) prevail. :( :(
Didn't we just CRUSH this very same demonic, fascist BULLSHIT some 80 odd years ago?!?!
David--My sister believes the timing of Hitler's so called death and Trump's birth is significant. If you believe in that sort of thing.
If I believed in any sort of 'EVIL, demonic transference' theories, I would agree. ;) :(
Very well said!
That was Mr. Trump's problem. He thought he had "every right to do" anything he wanted to do. He did not!! He was trying to be an authoritarian in his first stint in the White House. He will try even harder if he is elected again.
What you’re saying makes sense, except that we must not support Israel because it has oppressed the Palestinians from Day One and provoked the attack.
I've read that the attack on Israel is similar to 9/11. I agree more with Thom Hartmann that the situation is more similar to Northern Ireland.
Yes, I think so.
Carol F. Yost -- Hamas is a terrorist organization that attacks innocent civilians. Jews and otherwise.
Check with the "Palestinians" who happen to be Christian, Maroinites, Malekites, who have been displaced, who have relatives murdered by Hamas. Gaza was once part of Egypt, and but for Jimmy Carter would not exist as a seperate entity. They have a common border with Egypt. Egypt is not taking any Gazans.
Their policy is the elimination of Israel. Killing all Jews. If they die in jihad, they go to paradise. Use kids as suicide bombers.
Daniel, you are right that Hamas is a terrorist organization and as far as I can tell has nearly always been. They are not much at governing. The conditions so many of the people of Gaza and the West Bank live under are often the breeding ground for resentment. As we have seen in our country, resentment does not lead to good decision-making. Here it led to people blindly supporting Donald Trump an ignorant con artist for, of all things, president and a right-wing insanity. In Palestine, it led to if not embracing, more than tolerating Hamas and other crazies who care nothing for them, just as Trump cares nothing for his followers. Israel and Palestine need to seriously sit down and figure out a two-state solution that will make them trading partners rather than enemies.
Kill, kill, kill, eye for an eye- are we still Neanderthals? So disheartening. I support peace-makers, but haven't read about a lot of effort from the Israeli side to work out a two-state solution. Now too late? What role does (should) the U.S. play? Blind support of Israel hasn't worked.
Your ignorance is astounding. They would have had a deal.... Hamas does not represent "the Palestinians." In 1967, Israel offered "to give up Sinai and the Golan in exchange for peace," an offer that was rejected in September 1967 by the Arab States by the Khartoum Resolution, which became famous for the "Three No's": "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it..."
Rabin was murdered.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords
Crereation of the Palestinian National Authority, which was tasked with the responsibility of conducting limited Palestinian self-governance over parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip; and the international acknowledgement of the PLO as Israel's partner in permanent-status negotiations about any remaining issues revolving around the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Roadmap for peace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_map_for_peace
Hamas will not negotiate. They do not recognize Israel as a state.
Daniel, thank you for the history- I yield to your knowledge. Was not in any way defending Hamas or violence. 30+ years ago I attended a speech in Portland, OR- Shimon Peres, I believe, who stated the only solution was a Palestinian state. Just drags on & on. It seems the expansion of Israeli settlements & Netanyahu's right-wing government is aggravating the situation. Am I way off base here? Patience, please- still learning. Reading your Roadmap for peace now...
The MAGATs are coming!
The MAGATs are coming!
The MAGA Trump (MAGATs) “Republicans” have succeeded in making history by ousting one of their own. Albeit Kevin McCarthy may not be as hard core as, say, Matt Gaetz, McCarthy has repeatedly shown his loyalty to Trump. Lying, backstabbing and flip flopping were the norm for McCarthy. Good riddance!
But, now that the Speakership has been vacated, what’s next? There’s talk about nominating Donald Trump to be the next Speaker of the House. Do you recall what happened when Germany attempted to appease Adolph Hitler with a Chancellorship? That went down in history. And not in a good way.
We had an opportunity to prevent these current disasters with both of Trump’s impeachments. Unfortunately the fealty of the Senate of the 117th US Congress failed in its primary purpose of governing. Had that Senate prosecuted Trump, we would not now be in this predicament.
But that is in the past. It is the present and the future we need to focus upon. Rhonna McDaniel was empirically incorrect in her statement of “legitimate political discourse”. What is needed today is for the “true” Republicans to renounce Trump and MAGA Trumpism. It is past time for Republicans to grow a backbone, stand up straight, and take back their party. IF they do this, there is a chance that the US has a positive future. If not, the fascists win.
It is critical to undermine and discredit his "props" - the Gaetz, Jordan, Green, Bobert, et al crowd. As long as their demi-monde way of thinking and living dominate the news and our government, trump has supports. All hands on deck for rebuking, debunking, and showing them for the small minds and amoral punks and hucksters they are.
The possibility that either Jordan or Scalise will become Speaker is just beyond the pale. If you all don't read the Raw Story publication, I recommend that you begin. They have a great run-down of the actual histories of Jordan and Scalise when they stopped into the pawn shop where moral compasses were abandoned. Imagine Jordan running things. It is beyond the powers of tolerance to imagine that.
A horrific thought experiment: somehow they make trump Speaker (he is, after all, telling the world that he would be willing, "if it would help..." - is everybody finished retching?). Remember that would make him THIRD in line for the Presidency. He's a criminal.
Even if his puppet Jordan becomes Speaker, he does trump's bidding.
To quote Bette Davis in "All About Eve": "Fasten your seat belts; it's going to be a bumpy night." (year.....years.)
We need to stop playing defense and start playing offense. When we play defense we are following. When we play offense we take the lead.
All who support ot supported insurrection, aided, abetted or gave comfort to terrorists are vulnerable. Our first line of defense should have been the criminal law, but Garland is a wuss.
All of the above are candidates for re election and should be vulnerable under the 14th Amendment solution.
I may be late on this comment, however, Garland just gave a interview on 60 Minutes and came across with a believable statement about the administration of justice in regards to the prosecution of all cases being investigated by the Attorney General’s Office. I too think that the fpotis should be in jail by now. He assured us that the wheels of justice are grinding away and that action is on the way.
I choose to believe him and use his promise as a source of hope and relief that I personally need at this time.
The irony is that Garland's 'wussiness' did NOTHING at all, even for himself, let alone appeasing these effing NAZIS, appearing 'apolitical', or any other hand-wringing/pearl clutching by him.
The fascist brown shirts STILL want to execute him, and all of the rest of the DoJ, ANYWAY, so he might as well have really done his job to save our democracy, 'visuals' BE DAMNED!!
Many people have called in to Trump and asked him to become speaker, says Trump so you know it must be true. Yes if i were Trump with the problems he has then becoming speaker might be the best option for me.
Todd, it would be a horror if Trump were to be selected as Speaker. However, he would not last in the position. He does not want to work, he never has. He would get sick of it and move out as soon as he can figure out how to make it look like Democrats drove him out. I am sure his puppet-masters will figure that out for him and he can lie it all with conviction and his unthinking hoard will go along with it.
You forgot ONE point, my dear friend: The Gop is IMMUNE to irony! Barron Trump is Softcore Melanie's ANCHOR BABY. She ONLY recieved citizenship, (did she?), AFTER he was born! Until that point she was an >GASP!< "EELEEGAL IMMIGRAHNT!!!"
excellent review of important information
I worry that people don't know these facts - facts like these have become meaningless to MAGA people and many others and our public media doesn't help by trying to be unbiased they create false equivalents
Thanks for your comments
That effing 'media' had better wake the F**K UP 'right quick' (as his MAGAt peckerwoods would say).
THEY themselves will not be around long to keep banking their coin off of the SHITler if SCUMp's REGIME is installed back into power, as it will be a Goebbels-like pure fascist 'dear leader' propaganda network, exclusively, 24/7, and they will lose their usefulness to the putrid orange POS.
His minions and NAZI 'cabinet' members will set up something that will make lil' Kimmie's demanded worship networks seem like child's play, and take over ALL other 'media'.
I agree. They are clueless and can’t imagine consequences.
Touché
A US President is arguably the most powerful human on earth, but we still risk missing the forest for the trees when we give them too much credit. Reagan's election as president was the first time I was able to vote. I was 19. I literally cried in my beer. But it already looked to me as if the WASPS had just hired The Great Communicator and fed him the lines they needed as part of their grand decades long scheme to carry out the silent coup they failed to pull off against Roosevelt. The "Wall St. Putsch", featuring GHW Bush's father, the banker for the Nazi financiers, and the Duponts, et al. I grew up on the Main Line, on the wrong side of the tracks. I was Alberta Pew's Downstairs Girl. Trump is a narcissistic psychopath, and I don't think he was their first choice (they loath him,) but the Oiligarchs - and their BigChem, BigAg, BigPlastic, spawn) seemed to know that Putin would lead him around by the nose. Trump is their useful idiot. Their one-man bread and circuses. The best chaos maker to distract from their real work of destroying the only thing standing in the way of More Profits. And it's working. And I'm so glad you are still going strong and speaking truth to power, Mr. Reich. Thank you.
Brava Patrice; you are indeed putting all puzzle pieces together. Reagan, was a puppet, deeply indebted and loyal to his prior savior, General Electric, who saved him from bankruptcy and actual ruin, then nursed his shattered career from a failed "C" actor, to a personal spokesman for GE and commercial aims. I do hope you can fully appreciate the rather low key revelations Bob has made in this essay.
But wait, there's more -
https://nadinbrzezinski.medium.com/further-connections-israel-and-russian-active-measures-929ef1a14266
(Nadine is an historian journalist living in San Diego - and a committed Russia watcher) - she's incredibly well aware of a lot of the undercurrents (both sides) in Russia.
That’s because he’s incapable because he’s an idiot! And a fascist I might add!
Yeah, that's because he's a complete dummy.
Unfortunately he is a successful dummy. What he lacks in intelligent thinking is made up by unethical instincts honed through years of business "deals" (swindles). An actual dummy is not dangerous. Trump is.
True that. Dummy about democracy because all he's ever read is Mien Kompf.