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.
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.
Reagan i felt was a con man in his own right he did things like discount the Aids Epidemic therefore helping to kill thousands of inocent men, eventually it passed to women and children. He committed treason with the Nic War in secret. He was no martyr! He was cruel and ignorant. My opinion. It doesnt surprise me it started a lot of this greed and self interest in the r party nut Nixon did an awful good job of it as well! When he was pardoned it was if we were stabbed in the back because justice didnt get served and never forgot when that happenned.! Im 74 it was a time of ugliness as well! But today i never thought we would see the sickness in our country we are experiencing!!!
Unfortunately, it seems to be a facet of human nature that we attend more to the sensational, horrific, disturbing ... than we do to the pleasant, nutritional and satisfying. The media, being, (or so it seems to me), mostly concerned, (as is the way of almost all in society today), with the 'bottom line', inevitably therefore make that their focus.
Education, which was revered and understood, at one time, as a freeing of thought and encouragement to question, has long since been replaced by schooling, which, although misnomered as 'education' is actually about socialisation, i.e. conforming with social norms and rules ... 'without questioning'.
Dictatorships and autocracies, of course, have well understood how powerful this is and have implemented the brain-washing quite blatantly. Democracies have had to do it more subtly but it is clear, nonetheless, and has been so for a long long time. (I recommend anyone who does not understand or disagrees with what I write to read: The Children's Story, by James Clavell.)
The result of this is, of course, that we have a dumbed-down population. That dumbness is maintained by fast-food and so-called 'reality' television, celebrity, wealth, exotic locations, 'beautiful' people and ... the subservience, innocent obedience and simplistic understanding that goes with it - and which feeds the populism engendered by Trump - the Messiah.
Oh that I knew how to change this. I don't. I live in Australia where the same ethos applies, the only difference is that we are a little further behind for, Australians have always followed, first England and then the USA.
Significant critiquing, intelligent debate, intellectual endeavour, all are now 'on the nose'. Even our highest institutions of learning have degenerated to the level of businesses, as or even more concerned with their bottom line than with the quality of teaching and perspicacity of learning. Where, once, a master's degree was an imprimatur of readiness to engage in real study of a field, it is now largely of less value than was previously the worth of an undergraduate degree.
No, I am not an academic writing from an ivory tower. I am just a low income man from a working-class, (literally), background, raised in a slum environment but taught to respect others and to care for all, particularly those in need or distress, as well as to ask questions and expect my answers only to produce yet another question.
Trump is a narcissistic, self-aggrandising fool. Sadly, good and well-meaning people who are frustrated by their disadvantage but unable to understand what causes it, provide the fertile environment for Trump's noxious and fraudulent rhetoric.
One can only hope that expensive legalese and influential power-brokers don't trump any substantial calling to account of a man who is worthy of no public office, let alone yet another stint as POTUS.
The Democrats need to hire a very good public relations firm and start an advertising campaign. If the mainstream media is constantly looking for a non-story for their "balance", such as Biden's dogs biting people at the White House. What the hell does that have to do with Biden being the President? And yet, that was all the media talked about until the Israeli conflict. I can't believe the Lincoln Project is doing more in the way of advertising to try to show people what Trump really stands for. We can whine and complain about the corrupt Republican Party and Trump, but we're only screaming to ourselves. We need to start reaching the people that are just too tired at the end of a 12-hour workday to really learn about what Biden has done and is doing for them. And seriously, put Trump and his kids in jail already!
We’ve lost a lot of good people in the fight. People like Russ Feingold and Claire McCaskill, casualties of red state politics in Wisconsin and Missouri. It’s hard to believe that George McGovern came from South Dakota. Harder to still to remember that Carter and Clinton were Democratic governors of Georgia and Arkansas. Millions of Trump voters simply don’t understand the cause and effect of a Trump presidency. Our evaporation as a world leader was caused by Trump. His presidency enabled Putin’s boldness, and China’s continuing aggression towards Taiwan. As American soft power shrinks under Republican government, the world becomes a much more dangerous place. Gullible people who believe a blowhard when he says that only he can fix things are exactly like Germans of the 1930’s. There wasn’t much left of their country when their beloved Fuhrer was finished.
I blame the news media for continuing coverage of Trump and his shenanigans. Trump is not big news, in fact he is bad news. Media, stop talking about Trump's antics. Ignore him. If the media ignores him it will take the wind out of his sails. Let's talk about the good things that the Biden Administration is doing not the crap that comes out of Trump's mouth.
The MSM get more click-bait headlines from Trump t the dysfunctional GQP than Biden and the Dems, so, as their news services are expected to make money instead of being carried as a public service, they run more articles a on Trump and the GQP.
The things Biden does--basically doing his job and doing it well despite opposition from both the House GQP and the Supreme Court--don't make such click-bait headlines, so they give him less coverage. Frankly, we need more Dark Brandon to generate click-bait headlines.
The question is how to promote Biden’s successes in the media in a way that brings this message to the attention of the public, clearly and consistently.
The irony is that those proposing that government is the problem and its involvement in our lives must be reduced to almost elimination seek to become part of the “government” and then impose measures that make government more restrictive and authoritative. Democracy is much harder, requires negotiation and open dialogue, consideration of all citizens. Authoritarianism is like an abusive parent who squeezes the uniqueness out of the children with strict constraints in order to make them conform to his/her way and that way only. Really, you hate the government so much that you run for office to become part of the government.
Thank you for this, Professor. It's good to see that Covid has not messed with YOUR brain. I would say more, but it's almost 3 a.m. here, and I woke up anxious, and I'm going back to bed. Thank you for standing watch.
I live in a small Midwestern city. I have 12 relatives, nine of whom are Republican, and won’t listen to a word I have to say about the dangers of Trump. They are not MAGA wearing rally crazies. Even worse, they’re fairly well off middle class, college educated people who come across as intelligent, well-informed people. This scares me more than all of the Yahoo!’s out there.
When I bring up Trump, I get a threat of, “you would support him if you knew what was good for you,” whatever that’s going to translate into. Then I get the rundown fake accomplishments by Trump, followed by how Biden has ruined America. Total FOX plants. They can’t turn the channel. My 87 year-old mother keeps sending in those checks to pump Trump’s pump campaign of further hatred , lies, and Tom Fu@kery.
My family are people who state with complete belief that success of the stock market lies with Trump. They’re heavily invested, and they believe his success will reap them further financial gains! Fools! They will eventually go down with his ship if that happens. He will take their every last cent.
I currently have no relationship with any of these MAGA relatives in town, with the exception of my mother. The rest think I’m insane! This is where the rubber meats the road I’m sure in many families nationwide, and if it’s this scary now, think of what it will turn into if Cheeto gets another term.
Lately I’ve been receiving phone calls and texts from the RNC candidates. I’m a registered Democrat. For some reason when I look up my name online, it says Republican. Maybe that’s where they’re buying names now. I’m doing my best to waste their time, before they waste my life.
So glad you are recovering-and so grateful to you for your push to share truth in the midst of all the blather. Mr Reich, you are a national treasure and I’m deeply grateful for your insights, knowledge, and willingness to share them. Health and peace be yours.
professor reich: it saddens me greatly that government is seen as the enemy of the people. shortly after i set out for university, i remember having this very same argument with the people whom i grew up amongst, and telling them, in no uncertain terms, that they were WRONG. telling them of all the nice things we as a people, as a community, and i as an individual, have, thanks to government. they remained silent. not sure if they were silently disagreeing with me or if they -- momentarily, probably -- had an eye-opening moment. (there was a gang of them against me, so my guess is they were actually thinking about what i'd said.)
anywho ... the chicken soup sounds wonderful. except as a nearly løife-long vegan, i wonder if there is a chicken soup equivalent for vegans to enjoy and to aid our recovery? mushroom soup, perhaps? shiitake mushroom soup? (shiitakes always make me feel better.)
Professor, In my view, your brilliant dissection of the problem is begging for a show of the decisive leadership this moment demands from President Biden. Clearly, Biden (and Democratic principals) must go to where the trouble is in this country, the trouble that Donald Trump and the GOP are stoking, the trouble that they are making worse, and show that they (Democrats) can work on legitimate issues and grievances. Contrary to Trump who presents himself as the savior, the Biden team must show an alternate, admittedly arduous path that portrays presidential empathy not just as relating to what others are going through but also as having the will to do something about it. Ultimately, 2024 could land primarily on how effectively Biden and Democrats manage the upheaval that Trump feasts on.
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.
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.
Reagan i felt was a con man in his own right he did things like discount the Aids Epidemic therefore helping to kill thousands of inocent men, eventually it passed to women and children. He committed treason with the Nic War in secret. He was no martyr! He was cruel and ignorant. My opinion. It doesnt surprise me it started a lot of this greed and self interest in the r party nut Nixon did an awful good job of it as well! When he was pardoned it was if we were stabbed in the back because justice didnt get served and never forgot when that happenned.! Im 74 it was a time of ugliness as well! But today i never thought we would see the sickness in our country we are experiencing!!!
Unfortunately, it seems to be a facet of human nature that we attend more to the sensational, horrific, disturbing ... than we do to the pleasant, nutritional and satisfying. The media, being, (or so it seems to me), mostly concerned, (as is the way of almost all in society today), with the 'bottom line', inevitably therefore make that their focus.
Education, which was revered and understood, at one time, as a freeing of thought and encouragement to question, has long since been replaced by schooling, which, although misnomered as 'education' is actually about socialisation, i.e. conforming with social norms and rules ... 'without questioning'.
Dictatorships and autocracies, of course, have well understood how powerful this is and have implemented the brain-washing quite blatantly. Democracies have had to do it more subtly but it is clear, nonetheless, and has been so for a long long time. (I recommend anyone who does not understand or disagrees with what I write to read: The Children's Story, by James Clavell.)
The result of this is, of course, that we have a dumbed-down population. That dumbness is maintained by fast-food and so-called 'reality' television, celebrity, wealth, exotic locations, 'beautiful' people and ... the subservience, innocent obedience and simplistic understanding that goes with it - and which feeds the populism engendered by Trump - the Messiah.
Oh that I knew how to change this. I don't. I live in Australia where the same ethos applies, the only difference is that we are a little further behind for, Australians have always followed, first England and then the USA.
Significant critiquing, intelligent debate, intellectual endeavour, all are now 'on the nose'. Even our highest institutions of learning have degenerated to the level of businesses, as or even more concerned with their bottom line than with the quality of teaching and perspicacity of learning. Where, once, a master's degree was an imprimatur of readiness to engage in real study of a field, it is now largely of less value than was previously the worth of an undergraduate degree.
No, I am not an academic writing from an ivory tower. I am just a low income man from a working-class, (literally), background, raised in a slum environment but taught to respect others and to care for all, particularly those in need or distress, as well as to ask questions and expect my answers only to produce yet another question.
Trump is a narcissistic, self-aggrandising fool. Sadly, good and well-meaning people who are frustrated by their disadvantage but unable to understand what causes it, provide the fertile environment for Trump's noxious and fraudulent rhetoric.
One can only hope that expensive legalese and influential power-brokers don't trump any substantial calling to account of a man who is worthy of no public office, let alone yet another stint as POTUS.
The Democrats need to hire a very good public relations firm and start an advertising campaign. If the mainstream media is constantly looking for a non-story for their "balance", such as Biden's dogs biting people at the White House. What the hell does that have to do with Biden being the President? And yet, that was all the media talked about until the Israeli conflict. I can't believe the Lincoln Project is doing more in the way of advertising to try to show people what Trump really stands for. We can whine and complain about the corrupt Republican Party and Trump, but we're only screaming to ourselves. We need to start reaching the people that are just too tired at the end of a 12-hour workday to really learn about what Biden has done and is doing for them. And seriously, put Trump and his kids in jail already!
We’ve lost a lot of good people in the fight. People like Russ Feingold and Claire McCaskill, casualties of red state politics in Wisconsin and Missouri. It’s hard to believe that George McGovern came from South Dakota. Harder to still to remember that Carter and Clinton were Democratic governors of Georgia and Arkansas. Millions of Trump voters simply don’t understand the cause and effect of a Trump presidency. Our evaporation as a world leader was caused by Trump. His presidency enabled Putin’s boldness, and China’s continuing aggression towards Taiwan. As American soft power shrinks under Republican government, the world becomes a much more dangerous place. Gullible people who believe a blowhard when he says that only he can fix things are exactly like Germans of the 1930’s. There wasn’t much left of their country when their beloved Fuhrer was finished.
I blame the news media for continuing coverage of Trump and his shenanigans. Trump is not big news, in fact he is bad news. Media, stop talking about Trump's antics. Ignore him. If the media ignores him it will take the wind out of his sails. Let's talk about the good things that the Biden Administration is doing not the crap that comes out of Trump's mouth.
Trump desperately wants to be #DonaldDuce but every time he opens his mouth, we realize that there needs to be an N in that moniker…
#DonaldDunce
The MSM get more click-bait headlines from Trump t the dysfunctional GQP than Biden and the Dems, so, as their news services are expected to make money instead of being carried as a public service, they run more articles a on Trump and the GQP.
The things Biden does--basically doing his job and doing it well despite opposition from both the House GQP and the Supreme Court--don't make such click-bait headlines, so they give him less coverage. Frankly, we need more Dark Brandon to generate click-bait headlines.
The question is how to promote Biden’s successes in the media in a way that brings this message to the attention of the public, clearly and consistently.
The irony is that those proposing that government is the problem and its involvement in our lives must be reduced to almost elimination seek to become part of the “government” and then impose measures that make government more restrictive and authoritative. Democracy is much harder, requires negotiation and open dialogue, consideration of all citizens. Authoritarianism is like an abusive parent who squeezes the uniqueness out of the children with strict constraints in order to make them conform to his/her way and that way only. Really, you hate the government so much that you run for office to become part of the government.
Thank you for this, Professor. It's good to see that Covid has not messed with YOUR brain. I would say more, but it's almost 3 a.m. here, and I woke up anxious, and I'm going back to bed. Thank you for standing watch.
I live in a small Midwestern city. I have 12 relatives, nine of whom are Republican, and won’t listen to a word I have to say about the dangers of Trump. They are not MAGA wearing rally crazies. Even worse, they’re fairly well off middle class, college educated people who come across as intelligent, well-informed people. This scares me more than all of the Yahoo!’s out there.
When I bring up Trump, I get a threat of, “you would support him if you knew what was good for you,” whatever that’s going to translate into. Then I get the rundown fake accomplishments by Trump, followed by how Biden has ruined America. Total FOX plants. They can’t turn the channel. My 87 year-old mother keeps sending in those checks to pump Trump’s pump campaign of further hatred , lies, and Tom Fu@kery.
My family are people who state with complete belief that success of the stock market lies with Trump. They’re heavily invested, and they believe his success will reap them further financial gains! Fools! They will eventually go down with his ship if that happens. He will take their every last cent.
I currently have no relationship with any of these MAGA relatives in town, with the exception of my mother. The rest think I’m insane! This is where the rubber meats the road I’m sure in many families nationwide, and if it’s this scary now, think of what it will turn into if Cheeto gets another term.
Lately I’ve been receiving phone calls and texts from the RNC candidates. I’m a registered Democrat. For some reason when I look up my name online, it says Republican. Maybe that’s where they’re buying names now. I’m doing my best to waste their time, before they waste my life.
So glad you are recovering-and so grateful to you for your push to share truth in the midst of all the blather. Mr Reich, you are a national treasure and I’m deeply grateful for your insights, knowledge, and willingness to share them. Health and peace be yours.
professor reich: it saddens me greatly that government is seen as the enemy of the people. shortly after i set out for university, i remember having this very same argument with the people whom i grew up amongst, and telling them, in no uncertain terms, that they were WRONG. telling them of all the nice things we as a people, as a community, and i as an individual, have, thanks to government. they remained silent. not sure if they were silently disagreeing with me or if they -- momentarily, probably -- had an eye-opening moment. (there was a gang of them against me, so my guess is they were actually thinking about what i'd said.)
anywho ... the chicken soup sounds wonderful. except as a nearly løife-long vegan, i wonder if there is a chicken soup equivalent for vegans to enjoy and to aid our recovery? mushroom soup, perhaps? shiitake mushroom soup? (shiitakes always make me feel better.)
Professor, In my view, your brilliant dissection of the problem is begging for a show of the decisive leadership this moment demands from President Biden. Clearly, Biden (and Democratic principals) must go to where the trouble is in this country, the trouble that Donald Trump and the GOP are stoking, the trouble that they are making worse, and show that they (Democrats) can work on legitimate issues and grievances. Contrary to Trump who presents himself as the savior, the Biden team must show an alternate, admittedly arduous path that portrays presidential empathy not just as relating to what others are going through but also as having the will to do something about it. Ultimately, 2024 could land primarily on how effectively Biden and Democrats manage the upheaval that Trump feasts on.