I wish the rest of the world could just turn their backs on us till we get rid of Trump and his ilk. I know we’ll suffer, but those who either voted for him or didn’t bother voting, must learn.
Yeah???? What about those? Who did vote for Kamala? What about those of us who would not vote for any reason some of us never voted ever in our lives and we voted and we still fucking lost and you motherfuckers always blame that on. Nobody voted but bullshit. It was fucking rigged. It wouldn’t matter who fucking voted who didn’t vote or whatever it was. Read wake the fuck up you stupid accuser.
Lisa: What's the evidence of people rigging machines, etc.?
The "dirty" actions of Republicans and the 1% to keep the Trumpster in power need to be challenged.
Big Money and the 1% care less about democracy and us, and, like the Trumpster, are lawless. The governance by Big Money seem to have won today and since our nation was founded.
Those of us who value democracy must continue to keep atop of the context of governance.
It's my observation that the Trumpster and MAGA have made evil evident to our citizens. The Epstein story is important as an example of corruption while the resistance goes on.
Those who value democracy are in action. It's a long journey to turn the tide; however is a journey which will win in the long run. There's no alternative.
Did you know that there is a program that allows you to take control of a nearby computer, it's more of a virus, but I keep thinking back to when the voting machines went down in one area and someone, I forget who, ran to the rescue...could they have taken control of the voting mechanism at that point? I'm not accusing, but just wondering what might be possible in a case like that.
I'd like to see some pro IT people weigh in on this as my experience is/was a sideline to my main experience. (Payment Card Industry). But AFAIK from keeping up w industry reading, this type of program/virus insertion would not be possible/effective on 'termninal' based devises linked to a system like voting or card systems. ie- we'd see this happening in payment systems before voting. Plus the voting interference WE KNOW happened in 2024 was the 'old fashioned kind'. My own local polling place (heavy blue area) was shut down for hours by a phone in bomb threat the FBI later determined to have originated in Russia, (That's a new story I'd like to see repeated more often especially as DDT's machine is trying to zing Obama & the """fake"" Russia 2016 as fraud.)
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So while I'm not trying to shoot your idea down, and while every/aby egress point should be considered, I think this method is less likely. Rather targeted interference to discourages voting in area mosr likely to vote a certain way seems to be ONE method that local watchdogs and grassroot activists can make a difference.
Right! MY (our?) main beef w/ 'them' is they want to overturn Democracy AND the Rule of Law (The US Constitution) upon which it is based. So going lawless ourselves, 'at this time' would be counter-productive and could trigger the events in which voting could be suspended by martial law.
Too many voices seem to be calling for 'the barricades' too soon. IMHO.
They just hurt his opponents - but now we see the latter on direct video - no guessing - we know how he does it - his crony/ballboy just drops a new golf ball on the fairway.
His MAGA cronies start to not believe his whining and will disregard his selfserving lies.
Maybe so. But as forces 'outside' the USA were, are and have been actively working to end Democracy everywhere and one method is to cast doubts that a Nationwide system of fair voting is 'never possible, so let's end one person-one vote', getting US to discourage voting from within is IMHO not a good plan.
Rather support those working to review and correct any flaws AND encourage a blue wave in 2026 that will wash out local fiddling. That will/should negate the effects of his 'funders' and our voices in the street ARE affecting media coverage.
Lisa, I agree with you. I have heard that there are devices that can change the number of votes for candidates that can be attached to the wires of the machines. Not being a techie, I don't understand how that can happen, but I do believe fraud happened, and in every single swing state. In PA, we got a carpetbagger from Connecticut as our Republican senator, someone who was not at all popular while his opponent was. It is true a lot of people didn't vote, but as many as claimed?
My 1st reaction too. But in looking as 'how they won', THEY seemed to be able to iron out differences AND the more strident negative voices on 'their side'. One thing we forget/didn't see is how those MAGA rallies were FUN and the misled were skillfully bonded together by leaders/planners who spun a web of affection/acceptance.
So I waited and looked into that poster's profiles elsewhere amd she does not seem to be a troll 'from their side', just w/ issues, perhaps extreme disappointment, discouragement over the election. We can learn from our mistakes and the ways our adversaries used INCLUSIVENESS to make a common goal happen. (Right ''include'- ironic ain't it/)
But even as their unity is coming unglued, we need to UP ours. We need every vote, EVEN (especially?) from those discouraged into garbage mouth trolling. That's worth spreading- IMHO.
She seems to have been whomped into a disappointed rage w/ the 2024 election results. I do NOT think she's a random troll forking FOR them to discourage blue people/voters. She might be worth reaching out to. (?)
Are you OK? Your reaction seems so negative; almost designed to deter people from voting 'next time'. I don't think that was your intent and perhaps I misread you.
You're probably right there were isolated spots of machine interference and there definitely was some planned efforts to discourage voting in some blue areas. But those at the top w access to the poll certifications/methodology are not saying 'rigged'.
Rather as DT did NOT win by an overwhelming majority, maybe non-voters or 3rd party "vote wasters" MAY have made a difference, I honestly do not know. There are stat analysts around who can crunch numbers but now, IMHO it's a moot point.
Rather the better plan (now) is to take back both Houses in 2026 AND to not play into the hands of those who'd move to suspend elections.
To replace a Govt that is moving away from Democracy and the Rule of LAW by going lawless ourselves is not the best plan, at this time. And rushing towards a time when that might become necessary could actually cause it.
So yup, while many are working to minimize the NEGATIVE EFFECTS of DT's Machine, on those of us who saw it coming and those caught in the middle: regrettably there are many, a slight majority who NEED to see: "THIS is what I voted for and... I don't like it."
Good points, Peg. And we need to urge our legislators to make concerted efforts to go into red states/cities/districts, share their plans for legislation that would serve *all* citizens, not just their own constituents. Ask the citizens what they want (and *don’t* want) from government and *listen* to their concerns, NOT talk down to them.
Last evening on MSNBC, James Talarico, a young pastor from Texas who’s running for office was interviewed. Talarico was recently interviewed on Joe Rogan’s podcast; apparently Rogan was respectful of him, which likely resounded well with Rogan’s audience. We need more of our legislators, and those who will be running for office in the mid terms, to make the effort to reach a wider audience. Citizens in the red districts need to feel heard, and to understand that the Democratic Party has *their* best interests at heart.
I've been following Joe since I read the demographics on who was following DT & why. I kinda' like him and enjoyed Neil Degrasse Tyson, Bill Murray and some other guest. He's got a curious mind is fairly smart but IMHO a bit naive. He may age into wisdom, although he's in a field where verbal hand-jobs for the lowest common denominator in your audience will keep your ratings & income up.
One HUGE problem we LIBs/DEMs and our REPs all have is that we're inclined to use what my country Gran-Dad called 'high-falutin words' or $5 words when the other guy speaks in Nickels. That comes off, as you said as 'talking down' and that has been feeding into a huge pile of festering resentment which DT tapped into to gather and fuel a bloc of his MAGAs.
I do that myself; see it here. I am trying to change. On Facebook, I shoot for 70 words or less; short sentences and write on WORD 1st to see the grade level. MAGAs are not all dumb but they're WHAT people & respond to short-quick answers, where LIBs are WHY people: we like ALL the details. Usually, we balance out but....WHAT people are easily misled by 'fast talking' Con Men like #47.
Yeah you are the smartest of stupid Americans. You sound just like a trump fan. Blowing out your venom on a person who is on your side. Or are you not?
What did you daddy when trump ran for his second election? Nothing dear I grumbled a lot.
What are you doing now to defeat trump. Waiting for the second coming?
Stop bitching. Revolt. Protest. Unite with those who are doing something.
Your writing is poor. Very poor. Control your anger and think. Read what you wrote word by word before you post as it is illogical.
What happened getting trump elected after his disastrous first term totally shocked me.
When you compare trumps disasters with Covid and the economy with Biden’s recovery what were the voters choosing. A serial bankrupt swindler convicted criminal, misogynist, whose negligence and lying killed 500,000 while his family sold off stored protection gear to foreign countries. What did Biden do to harm the country or its people—not get the economy restored fast enough, not provide enough money for education, not provide enough employment, racial justice? I really cannot understand why anyone would chose trump who loves only hisself and stealing money over a decent diligent Biden who loves the US and Americans.
You don’t know either so you want to blame someone. Why didn’t more people vote for Biden. Did everyone think Harris could not lose and forgot to vote.
To me the pivotal change was trump getting shot by a maga youth. The Manchurian Candidate. Everything that affects US politics is a reality tv show.
Don’t blame others Accept that shit happens. That the gop sells negativity and blame without selling truth of their intentions to the gullible.
So you were lied to. You lost medical insurance, welfare protection, constitutional protection, an honest court system because you didn’t pay attention to the quiet election adds that told you about Project 2025, even though trump denied there was such a plan, but maga knew.
It happened. Now you have one more chance to stop trump from making all Americans his Nazis slaves because if you don’t stop him that is what will have. If you haven’t figured that out by now then that is likely your future. Use the mid term election to take away trump and MAGA s power.
I wish you well from Canada. We see what you don’t because we watch you and think about you a lot. Politicians betrayed us selling out our economy to Regan and his FreeTrade swindlers. Our PM Mulroney was already a US stooge and we couldn’t believe he sold us out. But with trump selling us protection like the gangster he is, we see clearly now. And we are gone.
Good luck to you.
You should read the Handmaid’s Tale. After trump is done you still have the GOP and your exceptional religion.
In your arrogance and acting like you know everything and everyone’s feelings is suffocating. I think you’re an asshole and I don’t care if you don’t like my language I don’t like you either. You can go fuck yourself 85 times if you like.
But sadly, just like in school, sometimes 'some of us' have to wait while others catch up and learn from experience. One of the worse parts of living in a Democracy, is that we must allow the slower kids time to learn as we try to keep them from doing too much damage.
Yup- I just wrote the very 'elitist attitude' that so many MAGAs resent and so many of us LIBs & DEMs project.... AND that's one thing those very clever minds behind MAGA fed & fostered to gain followers. NOW they've joined with other discontented & resentful groups & took over the whole country (and its schools!)
SO yes, while we should not have to suffer for their dumb mistakes, that's a drawback of Democracy. Especially one where a group of billionaire shadow men w/ pro help have been manipulating THEM and US. (They played up our faults too!)
But if we play it smart, minimize the damage while 'they' learn, expose the shadow men, as they feel the effects of their mistake, we can survive and get our Country back on track.
And 'they' really are not that dumb: some people can't spot a con man until they've already been conned, And DT is the biggest & best Con Man ever and he had the best pro help money can buy pulling our (and HIS) strings.
But did you do more than just vote. Did you canvas. Get out and work with the dems starting now for the mid term election. Get out the vote. That is your usefulness to taking trumps power from him. Eliminate his house and senate majority. Why are you lazy Americans so inept at using the vote to make yourselves a better country.
I am a retired professional with two university degrees had a company with 30 employees and am now 80. I believe in democracy and that all authoritarian attitudes must be made equal to hate crimes. I have been a keen observer of US politics for over 65 years as I live in Canada. I totally oppose trumps perfidious poorly understood tariffs as this will destroy the US economy.
A concerned American who for years worked on Democratic issues with my local Democratic Party chapter. I am outspoken and demanding of our Presidents, whoever is in office. I spent YEARS contacting every congressional representative and senator in office on various issues of great importance, including getting Trump out the first term, supporting impeachment, contacting Merrick Garland at the DOJ, trying my damnedest to get him to arrest Trump for treason for staging an insurrection and a coup and causing the deaths of Capitol police officers, stopping what Netanyahu was/is doing to Gaza, trying to get Biden to STOP SENDING WEAPONS AND MONEY TO ISRAEL, to no avail. Biden thought he and "Bibi" were best buds and that we are obligated to support Israel no matter what. I made 650 calls to Congress over a two-year period. I contacted Biden over and over again on the White House Comments Line. He finally wrote me a very curt letter telling me basically nothing about his "strategy" for Ukraine after I urged him over and over to send Ukraine the weapons they needed AT THE TIME and not to hold off on the F-16 planes and the tanks for another however long it was he was trying to hold back because he was afraid of enraging Putin. It . . . Is . . . Exhausting trying to make a difference! I have been flat out sick in bed for over a year now from exerting myself physically from years of choosing to live without a car. I choose to live with the environment always in mind.
I could go on, but I think I have given you a pretty clear picture that I am an unusual person in that I have always tried to BE INVOLVED in doing good for our politics and in other important and meaningful ways.
Think Berlin 1945. Berlin always voted against Adolf with clear majorities, but was overwhelmed by Thuringia, Pomorze, Śląsk, Niedersachsen, etc.
Kinda too bad, but that’s wartime.
Meanwhile Gaza actually voted for Hamas in numbers that Adolf could only dream of. A far more brutal of „you get what you vote for” than our very own Freedom Convoy.
Again, you wonder if the voting process was legitimate in Palestine. I mean, we are talking about a terrorist regime. I have friends who are Palestinian, and they tell stories of Palestinians and Israelis living together peacefully a long time ago. It seems that it's the leaders (duh) who create these conflicts.
Did the schoolchildren in Hiroshima and Nagasaki deserve the atomic bomb? Unfortunately we are part of a society and we are currently represented by a thug. If there was a way to punish Trump and his minions alone, fine, but he and they unfortunately represent all of us thanks to the majority (real or not) that voted him into office.
Even if someone could figure out how to target the punishment, the current regime would find a way to treat the rest of us as hostages and inflict the pain on us.
One way or the other, we will all have to suffer for the way our elected government treats the rest of the world.
We don't. But in a Demo-crazy sometimes that happens. Meanwhile we * work to minimize the damage while THEY learn from experience. What's that old joke about getting a mule's attention? Well Epstein is the hammer that just hit 2 MAGA sub-blocs: the 'Christian' & "conspiracy theorists" on the forehead.
* ie Some women's groups are reforming Jane's friends, for food & healthcare support on the QT of course.
It's hard to blame Japan for making a deal with Trump. The U.S. government holds significant leverage over both Japan and the EU. The American market is the largest consumer market globally; while tariffs harm U.S. consumers and manufacturers, they inflict greater damage on exporters from other countries. The U.S. Supreme Court did not support the Trade Court's decision to immediately revoke unconstitutional tariffs.
Even Democrats didn't oppose the corrupt "GENIUS Act," which only encourages criminal money laundering and tax evasion. Trump's family actually received millions of dollars in bribes from cryptocurrency. And it was American voters who put Trump in the most powerful position in the world, even after the January 6th event.
Rikeijin,your comments about " Genius Act" are so true. Why did any Democrat vote for a crypto bill.Absolutly no one can explain how crypto is used except for money laundering,illegal activities. If anyone of this post has a different opinion of how crypto is used legally,I'd like to know.
People also use crypto to "time the market", that is to bet on or against other cryptocurrencies depending on their trends. Then they can exchange their winnings for real money (keeping in mind that real taxes are due on those winnings, but that losses cannot be deducted)
Columbia has bent the knee, CBS, ABCbent the knee, CNN bent the knee, law firms have bent the knee. Country leaders crawl up to the throne to humiliate themselves, all for money.
Trump believes he is king and can order everyone, including countries around, and why because he has been empowered by them.
He has been empowered because everyone has a price.
Rather than take it in the shorts for a short period of time, thus shoving it up Trump's butt and disempowering him, they choose to empower him, because they are hungry cowards and have no values and/or foresight.
When you are being terrorized by a bully, you fight back, the bully may hit you back, you might get a black eye, and some bruises, but he will respect you and not fuck with you again.
Trump is a bully, but very few have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to Trump
I have a question that has been bugging me, and no one has seemed to raise it.
Sen Tommy Tuberville put a hold on the promotion of Generals and Admirals, why haven't Schumer or a Democratic senator put a hold on Trump's appointments, especially Bove. or is it only Republicans put nominations on a hold.
No they don't, they have a highly motivated and organized minority, that is rallied by incendiaries on TV, Radio and Podcasts.
Actually Democrats outnumber Republicans, but Democrats are factionalized, many of them petulant because there needs and wants aren't prioritized
The Republicans also correctly identified that all power starts local, and got busy taking over the state at the level of animal control and city council on up, while the Democratic party spent their energy and money on the general election, or primarying progressive candidates.
Whether the cause is "deep state", LGBT, male domination,religion the Republicans were able to corral them into a herd.
Democrats are too factionalized, each one thinks their needs are of the greatest priority, be it BLM, education, union, gun control, racism, immigration, they demand that their cause be recognized above all others.
Look at the signs and flags being held up at the demonstrations. Mexican flags, Palestinian flags, I even saw an old Soviet Union flag. and the signs display the disorder and competition. That is the Democratic weakness, even though there are more Democrats and Independents than Republicans,they are too factionalized, and if they don't get their way, as happened in last election (In WI, MI, PA) they cross their arms, pout and sit out the election , flipping the bird .
This was true of the Muslim vote in the three swing states I mentioned, Trump courted them, Imams endorsed him, and the Ummah was peeved because Biden supported Israel. They sure showed the Democrats didn't they?
I agree, but privately I’d venture to say that Betty is definitely not alone in her thinking. Considering the amount of damage Agent Orange is responsible for, not just here, but around the world, we are overwhelmed, sick and tired, and truly, simply human for wanting this to end.
There is a line- it's good to know exactly where & how because I (we) would not wish to do harm or set a wack-a-loon off.
(LOL Oddly remember how Dumbledore used the split hair of 'Dumbledore's Army' to protect the kids & Harry? Yup I know who wrote all that and she'd got a value I despise' But the whole series is a lesson on overcoming fascism. Including how inexperience & bad communication hampered things) When the situation is not funny. sometime irony keeps me going.)
It’s wearisome picking through all the bollox like this about the Donald …
from Instapundit:
„It's horribly misleading and dishonest for AP to run this headline. This wasn't "the Trump administration's efforts" -- this is a judge trying to overrule a law passed by Congress, which they have absolutely no constitutional authority to do.”
Meanwhile, back in 2016, Mark wrote something along the lines of Trump's throwaway quips containing more substance than hours upon hours of Obama's droning.
Canadian here. Countries can't just ignore this tariff fiasco. We have jobs to protect and economies under siege by a vindictive, out of control, mentally compromised "lunatic".
I don't believe the few deals that are supposed to be triumphs for trump are significant wins for the USA. For example Japan, on closer inspection, didn't really cave; the so called deal does little to harm their economy. UK, EU maybe not.
Lest we forget, the trump regime is run by incompetents. What can you expect when the deals are negotiated by "idiots" on the USA side. Most countries understand that, so deals are constructed to appear as "wins" for trump with the underlying goal to minimize the damage by making the nasty bully go away. Countries have few options when there is no will on the part of the trump regime to negotiate in good faith.
The entire world is shocked that republican lawmakers don't put an end to trump's tariff debacle given that it's also wreaking havoc on the US economy and dragging your country into the gutter. Instead, they continue to prop up this "non compos mentis"... cruel, dangerous, demented man who should be in a facility (prison or mental care) instead of thoroughly embarrassing the USA on the world stage at every opportunity.
The GOP (and too many of the Dems, and SCOTUS) are bought and paid for by the wealthy. They’re afraid of losing their riches, but don’t realize they’ve essentially lost their power.
Except that they will have so much new money that they can buy up a small country to be their own king. Trump does for them so they will stay and be his eyes ears and arms.
When you defeat tRump at mid term. Your last chance to stop his destruction. Buy a lot of guns as there will be violence because tRump is going to tell his storm troops that he was robbed again. It will be Jan 6 again. But this time near you. If you don’t fight you will be in the alligators belly.
Do all of them really want that? Would Lindsey Graham welcome the ideas of some 2025 christo-fascists extremists whose bizarre cult doctrine believes that gays should be put to death? Also from their bag of delights: adulterers put to death, women denied the vote, no more divorce, resurgence of child brides, people of colour yoked into slavery (it gets worse).
Most congressional republicans are not a very bright group of human beings having rejected reason, history and science. Do they really understand the depravity at work here?
Some of them have openly confessed that they believe God spared trump from a bullet so he could save us all from 'whatever'?. A shocking level of childlike ignorance, stupidity and naivety. It's a cult, many likely 'afraid', at this point to break away. But, it's gone WAY TOO FAR. I think the greedy, power hungry grifters, are less dangerous than these stupid 'do gooders' who think they're ensuring our salvation with their slavish devotion to their orange blob god. (heavy sigh).
Great reply.They have rejected reason,history,science. The cult follows Trump wherever he goes,too stupid to make their own decisions. Unfortunately the White Christian Nationalists,Neo Nazi groups,Wall Street, have taken over our Gov't.
Absolutely. What nazi did the gop kid going to do. Be prepared to kill those who come to take your neibours because you are next.
Listen to what your own tell you. It is easier to resist now than later when all of you will be more scared and unable to buy arms to protect yourself. Join up with your people with gun clubs because soon you will not be able to do even that. Read what the Nazis did to see your future b
We will get hammered and join the world seeking revenge. Like tRump we can take the agreement and still refuse to buy US garbage. Look for a better price from friends, trade with others and no tariff tax. Work around the Feat agreement. Watch tRump and the governors cry about mean and nasty Canadians.
After tRunp no agree with the US is binding. We have the same rights to default as the US does.
I admit I agree with you & think it's a good thing to know that Other Nations are savvy about Agent Orange. But if our own government can't get rid of him, what can be done?? Some have suggested 'Civil Disobedience' but so far Nothing has stopped him!
If I've said it once, I've said it a bazillion times. You can easily break a single stick. But tie them into a bundle, and it's impossible to break. I can understand universities wanting their research funding returned. But you are correct... one false move, and it's back to Square One. He knows that he holds the Trump cards. The only way to win is to call his bluff. Because he's a big bluffer.
When I was about ten, I read a story about a group of princesses. Their father said that the one who could grow the longest hair would be queen. All the princesses cared for their hair, measured it, nourished it, pampered it. But when it came time to stand before the king, it turned out that all the daughters had exactly the same hair length.
Except for the youngest one. Her maid had cut the girl's hair short and kept it tied in a scarf the entire time. Well, of course, she was out of the running. Her sisters went back to competing for the king's approval again and again. But the youngest one ran off with her maid and traveled the world.
Lesson: Sometimes you can beat these non-win situations if you just don't get involved.
But how would Harvard, Columbia, Paramount, law offices, and other institutions move to another country or island? They're stuck here, having to deal with Trump Tantrums. As a young mother, I learned to ignore the tantrums. It's harder as an institution, especially when you're dealing with a major funding source. But continuing to play the game, knowing you'll never win, is a recipe for disaster.
Donna,I agree with some of your observations,I think the institutions that caved could have put up a good fight. Itis very hard for me to imagine why someone critical of Netanyahu , the assault on the Palestinians, the pictures of Gaza is called Anti Semitic and arrested. When we see the pictures of the starving people,we should have some sympathy for their plight.
I wish I could agree Catherine, but huge Icebergs have been noted floating past our Southern Island. Global warming is global, sadly. The habitat of Southern Penguins is shrinking. The krill that feeds the whales is disappearing. It is indeed, an emergency, just as dealing with a worldwide emergence of bullies is an emergency - and they love to undo the hard work of environmentalists, to add to their sins.
If I had the money I would be gone already. This stress level and corruption is not how I planned to live out the last 1/3 of my life. I just don’t care about this country anymore.
or, how great if all the sisters would have united and grown their hair, but cut it so that at all times they all had the same length, They could have embraced the youngest sister, united through cooperation and demanded that they all share the duties of queen,
I wish to clarify that I don’t think the story of the princesses tasked to grow their hair long enough to earn the crown of kingdom by their father was a lesson in dropping out and walking away in the face of such threats to democracy as we currently confront; it was a metaphor for not assuming every prize offered and on the terms offered made sense to pursue for personal fulfillment or even for its own purposes. What, after all, does long hair, for example, have to do with wise and good leadership? Why have so many embraced the idea that ruthless, selfish, greedy arrogance along with indifference are desirable in a leader and their staff?
‘Just don’t get involved’. I read this as refusing to engage with the corrupt oligarchies and their rigged systems. So many, the world over, under forty, are doing just that. A phenomenon simplistically labelled ‘dropping out’ in 60s America by its reactionaries. In present day Japan it is called Hikikomori, where particularly men refuse to conform to corrupted state imposed societal conventions. They don’t work, never leaving their childhood rooms and if pushed to change, commit suicide. Many in China are taking on poverty and returning to their rural origins rather than accepting the cruelties and false hopes of unregulated hypercapitalism, a movement known as Putong Shenguo. The rising numbers of young in Western democracies who are choosing to no longer vote or engage with their state politics is a similar expression of this increasing, often invisible, exponentially increasing mass civil disobedience.
We may never repair the damage that has already been done to our relationship with our allies, countries we help,and those on the fence, but we still need them. I hope they are still rooting for our America to come out on top, and for Trump's America to fade away into history.
I'd never say never, but it will take a long time. And we Americans will have to take an honest look at ourselves before we can make things better. The MAGAt stench will cling to our country for ages.
Idi Amin was a murderous dictator in Uganda years ago. He used to strut around the rich and famous as if he was untouchable. Until at one reception, he was about to be introduced to Prince Charles, who simply turned his back on the ratbag. I've never forgotten how effective that simple thing ... actively ignoring a fool, made such a difference.
Speaking as an American living abroad, I have to point out that unfortunately the rest of the world will also suffer (or rather is already suffering) from his presidency, so we can't just turn our backs. It's not just his ridiculous tariffs or his unconscionable gutting of foreign aid; the damage he and his minions are doing to the existential fight against the climate crisis threaten to end humanity's last chance at avoiding a catastrophic rise in global temperatures.
I think you will find that we have already. We just tickle his ego when it suits us to let him think he has a win. That maintains a continuing supply of what we need until we find a substitute.
But where is this counterforce? We say here that Mr. Trump is the stupidest President, that he is loosing his mind, that his helpers are incompetent idiots.
Why then do we need the most powerful counter-force possible? And the Constitution is full of counterforces: why don't they work now? Does money nothing but bring up fear?
Blatant lies must be countered, sure. Why can JD Vance get away with the story that it is not true that 10 million Americans will loose their health insurance?
My question might be: what is wrong with the quality of journalism in the US? Is moral fiber missing? Is it the power of money that is listened to? It is not difficult to anticipate the lies, so why seems the news business so unprepared? I would expect turmoil, members of the regime leaving the room, enraged or incompetent to answer questions that had to be put by politicians.
But world peace is at stake, so not turn backs and wait till this country comes to its senses...
Tom,unfortunately the quality of journalism has taken the position they cannot object to what Trump does or says. The New York Times,MSNBC,have all been muted,they are afraid.This is Hungary,Victor Orban,Putin,Hitler in spades. Unless there is significant pushback it will not get better.Peaceful rallies may not work. We just refer to Trump and the Republican party as the " Nazi" party.
Ever since SCOTUS signed off on Citizens United, money, extreme wealth, the power it affords, slowly gutting education, bringing religion to the forefront, calling critical thinking the bane of existence, threatening the media, touting replacement theory, us vs them, making racism and hatred clear weapons of the Christian whites, basically following the dictator’s playbook, our representatives have, for the most part, forgotten their oath to we, the people.
So yes, money (and the power it holds) brings nothing but fear.
The 2028 Summer Olympic Games in LA might be a way for the world to express concerns (FEARS) that DT's policy of unleashing untrained, masked ICE thugs who grab 1st and ask questions later, is NOT a safe place for thousands of young international athletes to gather. I hate to say that and know it's also a chance for a big BLUE state to shine but is this idea worth kicking around?
Dear Heron: The USA population comes from all over the world.
All this people live, marry and dream with one another.
In whatever form and degree of awareness that is an aspiration not only of the whole of humanity but of the planet itself.
Sequoias that like every other tree have their heads in the ground and dream all their lives surely do not dream of nations.
That being so, even the Unions worst moments bring contributions to development and advancement. So it is now as well.
And again in whatever form and degree of awareness that is perceived or at least felt by many scattered and struggling everywhere they may be on the planet and in whatever temporal sequence they may exist.
Therefore there is no necessity of shame or oblivion, methinks. Rather perhaps activism and humility, like the sequoias and others that have been dreaming for quite a while.
Besides, have you seen a picture of the pine Methuselah? Like some trees sometimes do, it seems it tried to turn around. The result is the arrested picture of a dance…
Trying to make a deal with Trump is like trying to baptize a snake and expecting it to behave like a lamb.
He doesn’t honor contracts. He devours them. He feeds on chaos, and every time institutions cave for the sake of short-term comfort, they just reinforce the delusion that he’s inevitable.
We need less appeasement and more collective resistance. Not polite press releases. Not faculty forums. An alliance of spine and solidarity.
Power only bows to greater power. Time to remember ours.
I appreciate the clarity and strength in your words. It’s a reminder that collective courage matters, and that we don’t have to meet this moment alone. Quiet resolve, shared purpose, and standing together, that’s where our power is.
the more people give in, the more they empower him. But any short-term"win"is always at risk with the con man. He knows people play for the short-term avoidance of his pressure point of pain and that as much as anything is how the trump rolls forward.
Well said. Since drumpf honors neither the edicts of the Law nor good business practice, ever, he should be treated like the crime lord that he is. Time for us, his potential victims, to band together with greater power and rebuff his vicious thievery. It is quite clear that his inner circle of loyalists including so-called Republicans is composed of weaklings whose support for him will evaporate when his power is seriously threatened. Employ the nation's motto, "E Pluribus Unum" (From the Many, One). Bet drumpf couldn't translate that!
Here is what is going down on the Epstein saga: Trumps buddy lawyer is down in Florida negotiating a Pardon with Maxwell. The agreement will be that she lies for the Trump administration to swear that Trump was not involved with any underage women and was never at the Island. The pardon will not come until the end of Trumps term so that nobody can try to hold him accountable. Just saying!
Maxwell is a proven, convicted liar, so why would anyone take her testimony as truthful?
The bloggers and off established media have to tell the real truth: Trump has been a close buddy of Epstein for 15 years at least. The documented evidence is well established. No liar's testimony is going to change that truth. So stick to the facts, tell the story and never stop promoting it, regardless of what the toadying, cowardly oligarch-owned established captured press and media publishes.
She is hardly a noble witness, and would be a fool to not get it all in writing .. DT may well not see his four years. He will have to commute her 20 years to four left. If he gets her to lie, and it is uncovered they both sink to the bottom .
Entirely predictable. Mobsters religiously protect their own and Maxwell is a classic mobster’s Moll. Also all rapist’s mentality means if survivors ever try take them on, demanding truth, justice and retrieved human dignity, they will hunt those survivors down to the death, as abusers of power can never ever be guilty because they must always ‘win’.
Reading this, I felt a wave of frustration and clarity wash over me. Columbia University, the EU, Japan — all trying to make the best of a deal with Trump, as if appeasement could ever lead to long-term stability. But anyone who has watched him operate in business, politics, or governance knows he does not honor agreements. He breaks them when it suits him. He bullies. He manipulates. He lies. And still, institutions keep trying to play by the rules with someone who refuses to follow them.
Columbia’s concession feels especially personal. As someone who believes in the transformative power of education and the role universities play in shaping society, it is disheartening to see a place of learning bend under pressure. What message does that send to students who are taught to stand up for justice and truth?
But I also know this is not the end of the story, it is a turning point. One that reminds us we cannot face this alone. The most effective response to authoritarianism is unity. Universities, media, communities, and nations must stand together, grounded in shared values and unwilling to be divided or intimidated.
This moment calls for courage and collective action.
Just like the UK the EU has not signed a deal. In both cases it’s an outline of a deal.
European countries have centuries of experience with negotiations. They have learnt how to deal with Trump: pat him on the head tell him what a a great negotiator he is and promise him an ice cream later if he behaves.
Just take a look at the natural gas deal: it is for more than EU companies would normally buy from the whole world. And the EU itself doesn’t buy that natural gas: companies within the EU buy it. There is no way to force them to buy from the USA.
So very, very true. Those of us who saw him stiff small business contractors (like an upholsterer) who worked on his Atlantic City hotels - he would tell them to sue him for their money and then he’d do lots of appeals, like we’ve seen him do in recent court cases, and they would finally have to give up - we could not imagine how Republicans let this man run for president. Still can’t.
At this point in history I have given up seeing any individuals choices and behaviour as anything other than theirs alone. Inotherwords, political bare plurals like Republican v Democrat or here in the UK, Left v Right, have become not just meaningless to me but seen as a controlling propagandistic terminology which the corporate media uses to engender a false conflict and fake alternatives in every election to effectively cover up all of their ongoing global oligarch bought nation state central politician’s corruption.
The only way I can see to begin to politically fight back and retrieve what is being stolen from all of us is to go radically local and work out from there.
We all have to move now—and into action against a harmful government that sponsors pedophiles and covers up for them. The needy and children are being abused—by our government. We must protest in the streets until we go down or we oust tyrants, outright crooks, and pedophiles. I made 33 protest signs, and will make many more to share. You will see something different in these signs! Help yourself to this first batch, and share them as far as you can. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/free-protest-signs?r=3m1bs
So true. He’ll NEVER honor a deal. Not only will the smallest transgression be his excuse, he needs no excuse. He’ll just make one up…he is, after all, unencumbered by the truth…
Yep. He’s a slippery, slimy snake. Like his niece, Mary Trump said on a podcast I listened to earlier with Katie Couric, he’s never been held accountable for anything in his entire life. He has always gotten off. Good old Teflon Don, some folks call him. I say even Teflon gets scratched up and wears out. I hope Epstein turns out to be the one scandal that destroys that Teflon coating. I hope it’s the one he can’t slither his way out of. Down with MAGA!!!!
I wish the rest of the world could just turn their backs on us till we get rid of Trump and his ilk. I know we’ll suffer, but those who either voted for him or didn’t bother voting, must learn.
I agree. It would be harsh punishment for those of us who didn't vote for him, but well deserved, nonetheless.
Yeah???? What about those? Who did vote for Kamala? What about those of us who would not vote for any reason some of us never voted ever in our lives and we voted and we still fucking lost and you motherfuckers always blame that on. Nobody voted but bullshit. It was fucking rigged. It wouldn’t matter who fucking voted who didn’t vote or whatever it was. Read wake the fuck up you stupid accuser.
You’re right! No way he won every single swing state. Kamala filled every stadium to overflow, and his rallies were pitiful.
He won because it was rigged. He was funded by people who rigged machines and media.
Lisa: What's the evidence of people rigging machines, etc.?
The "dirty" actions of Republicans and the 1% to keep the Trumpster in power need to be challenged.
Big Money and the 1% care less about democracy and us, and, like the Trumpster, are lawless. The governance by Big Money seem to have won today and since our nation was founded.
Those of us who value democracy must continue to keep atop of the context of governance.
It's my observation that the Trumpster and MAGA have made evil evident to our citizens. The Epstein story is important as an example of corruption while the resistance goes on.
Those who value democracy are in action. It's a long journey to turn the tide; however is a journey which will win in the long run. There's no alternative.
Did you know that there is a program that allows you to take control of a nearby computer, it's more of a virus, but I keep thinking back to when the voting machines went down in one area and someone, I forget who, ran to the rescue...could they have taken control of the voting mechanism at that point? I'm not accusing, but just wondering what might be possible in a case like that.
I'd like to see some pro IT people weigh in on this as my experience is/was a sideline to my main experience. (Payment Card Industry). But AFAIK from keeping up w industry reading, this type of program/virus insertion would not be possible/effective on 'termninal' based devises linked to a system like voting or card systems. ie- we'd see this happening in payment systems before voting. Plus the voting interference WE KNOW happened in 2024 was the 'old fashioned kind'. My own local polling place (heavy blue area) was shut down for hours by a phone in bomb threat the FBI later determined to have originated in Russia, (That's a new story I'd like to see repeated more often especially as DDT's machine is trying to zing Obama & the """fake"" Russia 2016 as fraud.)
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So while I'm not trying to shoot your idea down, and while every/aby egress point should be considered, I think this method is less likely. Rather targeted interference to discourages voting in area mosr likely to vote a certain way seems to be ONE method that local watchdogs and grassroot activists can make a difference.
Right! MY (our?) main beef w/ 'them' is they want to overturn Democracy AND the Rule of Law (The US Constitution) upon which it is based. So going lawless ourselves, 'at this time' would be counter-productive and could trigger the events in which voting could be suspended by martial law.
Too many voices seem to be calling for 'the barricades' too soon. IMHO.
Thank you Dr. Reich...
As shown in Nevada and Pennsylvania, and more states in the testing pipe line. [see https://electiontruthalliance.org/ ]
He is a cheat in Politics, just as he is in golf.
They just hurt his opponents - but now we see the latter on direct video - no guessing - we know how he does it - his crony/ballboy just drops a new golf ball on the fairway.
His MAGA cronies start to not believe his whining and will disregard his selfserving lies.
That is why we need international monitors for the next elections, like other banana republics.
How do we do that?
Maybe so. But as forces 'outside' the USA were, are and have been actively working to end Democracy everywhere and one method is to cast doubts that a Nationwide system of fair voting is 'never possible, so let's end one person-one vote', getting US to discourage voting from within is IMHO not a good plan.
Rather support those working to review and correct any flaws AND encourage a blue wave in 2026 that will wash out local fiddling. That will/should negate the effects of his 'funders' and our voices in the street ARE affecting media coverage.
Lisa, I agree with you. I have heard that there are devices that can change the number of votes for candidates that can be attached to the wires of the machines. Not being a techie, I don't understand how that can happen, but I do believe fraud happened, and in every single swing state. In PA, we got a carpetbagger from Connecticut as our Republican senator, someone who was not at all popular while his opponent was. It is true a lot of people didn't vote, but as many as claimed?
I seem to remember Elon Musk saying the election was rigged, and he is techie enough to have had his minions do it.
Don't follow this link.
It would be nice if the Report mechanism actually worked.
Word salads, especially garbage-mouth ones, are a waste of space. Go troll somewhere else, "Sarah Gillian Bower."
My 1st reaction too. But in looking as 'how they won', THEY seemed to be able to iron out differences AND the more strident negative voices on 'their side'. One thing we forget/didn't see is how those MAGA rallies were FUN and the misled were skillfully bonded together by leaders/planners who spun a web of affection/acceptance.
So I waited and looked into that poster's profiles elsewhere amd she does not seem to be a troll 'from their side', just w/ issues, perhaps extreme disappointment, discouragement over the election. We can learn from our mistakes and the ways our adversaries used INCLUSIVENESS to make a common goal happen. (Right ''include'- ironic ain't it/)
But even as their unity is coming unglued, we need to UP ours. We need every vote, EVEN (especially?) from those discouraged into garbage mouth trolling. That's worth spreading- IMHO.
"Sarah Gillian Bower," I swear to God you are a maggoty, faggoty TRUMP TROLL! You sound completely incoherent and INSANE!
Or else high as a kite on some cut-rate street drug.
OK garbagemouth.
Completely uncalled for diatribe.
She seems to have been whomped into a disappointed rage w/ the 2024 election results. I do NOT think she's a random troll forking FOR them to discourage blue people/voters. She might be worth reaching out to. (?)
Can we please have a discussion without cursing every other word? It adds nothing to the conversation.
Are you OK? Your reaction seems so negative; almost designed to deter people from voting 'next time'. I don't think that was your intent and perhaps I misread you.
You're probably right there were isolated spots of machine interference and there definitely was some planned efforts to discourage voting in some blue areas. But those at the top w access to the poll certifications/methodology are not saying 'rigged'.
Rather as DT did NOT win by an overwhelming majority, maybe non-voters or 3rd party "vote wasters" MAY have made a difference, I honestly do not know. There are stat analysts around who can crunch numbers but now, IMHO it's a moot point.
Rather the better plan (now) is to take back both Houses in 2026 AND to not play into the hands of those who'd move to suspend elections.
To replace a Govt that is moving away from Democracy and the Rule of LAW by going lawless ourselves is not the best plan, at this time. And rushing towards a time when that might become necessary could actually cause it.
So yup, while many are working to minimize the NEGATIVE EFFECTS of DT's Machine, on those of us who saw it coming and those caught in the middle: regrettably there are many, a slight majority who NEED to see: "THIS is what I voted for and... I don't like it."
Good points, Peg. And we need to urge our legislators to make concerted efforts to go into red states/cities/districts, share their plans for legislation that would serve *all* citizens, not just their own constituents. Ask the citizens what they want (and *don’t* want) from government and *listen* to their concerns, NOT talk down to them.
Last evening on MSNBC, James Talarico, a young pastor from Texas who’s running for office was interviewed. Talarico was recently interviewed on Joe Rogan’s podcast; apparently Rogan was respectful of him, which likely resounded well with Rogan’s audience. We need more of our legislators, and those who will be running for office in the mid terms, to make the effort to reach a wider audience. Citizens in the red districts need to feel heard, and to understand that the Democratic Party has *their* best interests at heart.
I've been following Joe since I read the demographics on who was following DT & why. I kinda' like him and enjoyed Neil Degrasse Tyson, Bill Murray and some other guest. He's got a curious mind is fairly smart but IMHO a bit naive. He may age into wisdom, although he's in a field where verbal hand-jobs for the lowest common denominator in your audience will keep your ratings & income up.
One HUGE problem we LIBs/DEMs and our REPs all have is that we're inclined to use what my country Gran-Dad called 'high-falutin words' or $5 words when the other guy speaks in Nickels. That comes off, as you said as 'talking down' and that has been feeding into a huge pile of festering resentment which DT tapped into to gather and fuel a bloc of his MAGAs.
I do that myself; see it here. I am trying to change. On Facebook, I shoot for 70 words or less; short sentences and write on WORD 1st to see the grade level. MAGAs are not all dumb but they're WHAT people & respond to short-quick answers, where LIBs are WHY people: we like ALL the details. Usually, we balance out but....WHAT people are easily misled by 'fast talking' Con Men like #47.
If you stayed home...you basically voted for Trump. Are u winning yet?
Yeah you are the smartest of stupid Americans. You sound just like a trump fan. Blowing out your venom on a person who is on your side. Or are you not?
What did you daddy when trump ran for his second election? Nothing dear I grumbled a lot.
What are you doing now to defeat trump. Waiting for the second coming?
Stop bitching. Revolt. Protest. Unite with those who are doing something.
Just what is your point?
Go blow off somewhere else. We don’t want you here unless you clean up your act and actually make sense.
Sarah, you have pottymouth!
powerful use of the word "fuck". Eloquent.
Your writing is poor. Very poor. Control your anger and think. Read what you wrote word by word before you post as it is illogical.
What happened getting trump elected after his disastrous first term totally shocked me.
When you compare trumps disasters with Covid and the economy with Biden’s recovery what were the voters choosing. A serial bankrupt swindler convicted criminal, misogynist, whose negligence and lying killed 500,000 while his family sold off stored protection gear to foreign countries. What did Biden do to harm the country or its people—not get the economy restored fast enough, not provide enough money for education, not provide enough employment, racial justice? I really cannot understand why anyone would chose trump who loves only hisself and stealing money over a decent diligent Biden who loves the US and Americans.
You don’t know either so you want to blame someone. Why didn’t more people vote for Biden. Did everyone think Harris could not lose and forgot to vote.
To me the pivotal change was trump getting shot by a maga youth. The Manchurian Candidate. Everything that affects US politics is a reality tv show.
Don’t blame others Accept that shit happens. That the gop sells negativity and blame without selling truth of their intentions to the gullible.
So you were lied to. You lost medical insurance, welfare protection, constitutional protection, an honest court system because you didn’t pay attention to the quiet election adds that told you about Project 2025, even though trump denied there was such a plan, but maga knew.
It happened. Now you have one more chance to stop trump from making all Americans his Nazis slaves because if you don’t stop him that is what will have. If you haven’t figured that out by now then that is likely your future. Use the mid term election to take away trump and MAGA s power.
I wish you well from Canada. We see what you don’t because we watch you and think about you a lot. Politicians betrayed us selling out our economy to Regan and his FreeTrade swindlers. Our PM Mulroney was already a US stooge and we couldn’t believe he sold us out. But with trump selling us protection like the gangster he is, we see clearly now. And we are gone.
Good luck to you.
You should read the Handmaid’s Tale. After trump is done you still have the GOP and your exceptional religion.
In your arrogance and acting like you know everything and everyone’s feelings is suffocating. I think you’re an asshole and I don’t care if you don’t like my language I don’t like you either. You can go fuck yourself 85 times if you like.
Huh? WHY should those of us who voted Democrat pay??? We voted our hearts for SANITY!
WE SHOULDN'T! BUT....
But sadly, just like in school, sometimes 'some of us' have to wait while others catch up and learn from experience. One of the worse parts of living in a Democracy, is that we must allow the slower kids time to learn as we try to keep them from doing too much damage.
Yup- I just wrote the very 'elitist attitude' that so many MAGAs resent and so many of us LIBs & DEMs project.... AND that's one thing those very clever minds behind MAGA fed & fostered to gain followers. NOW they've joined with other discontented & resentful groups & took over the whole country (and its schools!)
SO yes, while we should not have to suffer for their dumb mistakes, that's a drawback of Democracy. Especially one where a group of billionaire shadow men w/ pro help have been manipulating THEM and US. (They played up our faults too!)
But if we play it smart, minimize the damage while 'they' learn, expose the shadow men, as they feel the effects of their mistake, we can survive and get our Country back on track.
And 'they' really are not that dumb: some people can't spot a con man until they've already been conned, And DT is the biggest & best Con Man ever and he had the best pro help money can buy pulling our (and HIS) strings.
But did you do more than just vote. Did you canvas. Get out and work with the dems starting now for the mid term election. Get out the vote. That is your usefulness to taking trumps power from him. Eliminate his house and senate majority. Why are you lazy Americans so inept at using the vote to make yourselves a better country.
Who are you and WHAT COUNTRY are YOU from???
I am a retired professional with two university degrees had a company with 30 employees and am now 80. I believe in democracy and that all authoritarian attitudes must be made equal to hate crimes. I have been a keen observer of US politics for over 65 years as I live in Canada. I totally oppose trumps perfidious poorly understood tariffs as this will destroy the US economy.
And who are you?
A concerned American who for years worked on Democratic issues with my local Democratic Party chapter. I am outspoken and demanding of our Presidents, whoever is in office. I spent YEARS contacting every congressional representative and senator in office on various issues of great importance, including getting Trump out the first term, supporting impeachment, contacting Merrick Garland at the DOJ, trying my damnedest to get him to arrest Trump for treason for staging an insurrection and a coup and causing the deaths of Capitol police officers, stopping what Netanyahu was/is doing to Gaza, trying to get Biden to STOP SENDING WEAPONS AND MONEY TO ISRAEL, to no avail. Biden thought he and "Bibi" were best buds and that we are obligated to support Israel no matter what. I made 650 calls to Congress over a two-year period. I contacted Biden over and over again on the White House Comments Line. He finally wrote me a very curt letter telling me basically nothing about his "strategy" for Ukraine after I urged him over and over to send Ukraine the weapons they needed AT THE TIME and not to hold off on the F-16 planes and the tanks for another however long it was he was trying to hold back because he was afraid of enraging Putin. It . . . Is . . . Exhausting trying to make a difference! I have been flat out sick in bed for over a year now from exerting myself physically from years of choosing to live without a car. I choose to live with the environment always in mind.
I could go on, but I think I have given you a pretty clear picture that I am an unusual person in that I have always tried to BE INVOLVED in doing good for our politics and in other important and meaningful ways.
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And those of us who didn’t vote for him deserve harsh punishment why?
I see your point. Those of us who didn't vote for Trump don't deserve harsh punishment, although we will get it. I didn't phrase it correctly.
Think Berlin 1945. Berlin always voted against Adolf with clear majorities, but was overwhelmed by Thuringia, Pomorze, Śląsk, Niedersachsen, etc.
Kinda too bad, but that’s wartime.
Meanwhile Gaza actually voted for Hamas in numbers that Adolf could only dream of. A far more brutal of „you get what you vote for” than our very own Freedom Convoy.
News media is to blame for this. How many people are aware that Gaza voters overwhelmingly supported Hamas?
Again, you wonder if the voting process was legitimate in Palestine. I mean, we are talking about a terrorist regime. I have friends who are Palestinian, and they tell stories of Palestinians and Israelis living together peacefully a long time ago. It seems that it's the leaders (duh) who create these conflicts.
That was 2007. There have been no elections since then in Gaza.
Netanyahu, obviously.
Right- and we can use that to help change things.
Did the schoolchildren in Hiroshima and Nagasaki deserve the atomic bomb? Unfortunately we are part of a society and we are currently represented by a thug. If there was a way to punish Trump and his minions alone, fine, but he and they unfortunately represent all of us thanks to the majority (real or not) that voted him into office.
Even if someone could figure out how to target the punishment, the current regime would find a way to treat the rest of us as hostages and inflict the pain on us.
One way or the other, we will all have to suffer for the way our elected government treats the rest of the world.
Exactly why we should get rid of the thug.
We don't. But in a Demo-crazy sometimes that happens. Meanwhile we * work to minimize the damage while THEY learn from experience. What's that old joke about getting a mule's attention? Well Epstein is the hammer that just hit 2 MAGA sub-blocs: the 'Christian' & "conspiracy theorists" on the forehead.
* ie Some women's groups are reforming Jane's friends, for food & healthcare support on the QT of course.
I wonder why
We don't deserve it, but we'll have to live through it regardless.
It's hard to blame Japan for making a deal with Trump. The U.S. government holds significant leverage over both Japan and the EU. The American market is the largest consumer market globally; while tariffs harm U.S. consumers and manufacturers, they inflict greater damage on exporters from other countries. The U.S. Supreme Court did not support the Trade Court's decision to immediately revoke unconstitutional tariffs.
Even Democrats didn't oppose the corrupt "GENIUS Act," which only encourages criminal money laundering and tax evasion. Trump's family actually received millions of dollars in bribes from cryptocurrency. And it was American voters who put Trump in the most powerful position in the world, even after the January 6th event.
There's a key word missing, Rikeijin: "Leading" Democrats. The PEOPLE didn't want the act, but elected Dems are only slightly less greedy than Repubs.
And that's the problem imo (along with factionalization, as William F. says).
Rikeijin,your comments about " Genius Act" are so true. Why did any Democrat vote for a crypto bill.Absolutly no one can explain how crypto is used except for money laundering,illegal activities. If anyone of this post has a different opinion of how crypto is used legally,I'd like to know.
People also use crypto to "time the market", that is to bet on or against other cryptocurrencies depending on their trends. Then they can exchange their winnings for real money (keeping in mind that real taxes are due on those winnings, but that losses cannot be deducted)
Columbia has bent the knee, CBS, ABCbent the knee, CNN bent the knee, law firms have bent the knee. Country leaders crawl up to the throne to humiliate themselves, all for money.
Trump believes he is king and can order everyone, including countries around, and why because he has been empowered by them.
He has been empowered because everyone has a price.
Rather than take it in the shorts for a short period of time, thus shoving it up Trump's butt and disempowering him, they choose to empower him, because they are hungry cowards and have no values and/or foresight.
When you are being terrorized by a bully, you fight back, the bully may hit you back, you might get a black eye, and some bruises, but he will respect you and not fuck with you again.
Trump is a bully, but very few have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to Trump
I have a question that has been bugging me, and no one has seemed to raise it.
Sen Tommy Tuberville put a hold on the promotion of Generals and Admirals, why haven't Schumer or a Democratic senator put a hold on Trump's appointments, especially Bove. or is it only Republicans put nominations on a hold.
the Rs have a majority.
No they don't, they have a highly motivated and organized minority, that is rallied by incendiaries on TV, Radio and Podcasts.
Actually Democrats outnumber Republicans, but Democrats are factionalized, many of them petulant because there needs and wants aren't prioritized
The Republicans also correctly identified that all power starts local, and got busy taking over the state at the level of animal control and city council on up, while the Democratic party spent their energy and money on the general election, or primarying progressive candidates.
Whether the cause is "deep state", LGBT, male domination,religion the Republicans were able to corral them into a herd.
Democrats are too factionalized, each one thinks their needs are of the greatest priority, be it BLM, education, union, gun control, racism, immigration, they demand that their cause be recognized above all others.
Look at the signs and flags being held up at the demonstrations. Mexican flags, Palestinian flags, I even saw an old Soviet Union flag. and the signs display the disorder and competition. That is the Democratic weakness, even though there are more Democrats and Independents than Republicans,they are too factionalized, and if they don't get their way, as happened in last election (In WI, MI, PA) they cross their arms, pout and sit out the election , flipping the bird .
This was true of the Muslim vote in the three swing states I mentioned, Trump courted them, Imams endorsed him, and the Ummah was peeved because Biden supported Israel. They sure showed the Democrats didn't they?
tuberville is so damn ignorant, racist! he needs to retire!
I believe Democrats have put a hold on some nominations, but I honestly don't have time to track it down right now.
Great question!! See below.
did a quick prelim google; this is AI's response. . will see if it can tell me the exact rule.. . https://www.google.com/search?q=did+tommy+tubberville+put+the+hold+on+the+promotions+of+admirals+and+generals+single-handedly%3F&oq=did+tommy+tubberville+put+the+hold+on+the+promotions+of+admirals+and+generals+single-handedly%3F&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTI5ODUwajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
He should have been assassinated years ago before he did so much damage. Ridiculous!
We should not talk about assassination on these sites. It could put Robert Reich (and you) in political danger.
I agree, but privately I’d venture to say that Betty is definitely not alone in her thinking. Considering the amount of damage Agent Orange is responsible for, not just here, but around the world, we are overwhelmed, sick and tired, and truly, simply human for wanting this to end.
There is a line- it's good to know exactly where & how because I (we) would not wish to do harm or set a wack-a-loon off.
(LOL Oddly remember how Dumbledore used the split hair of 'Dumbledore's Army' to protect the kids & Harry? Yup I know who wrote all that and she'd got a value I despise' But the whole series is a lesson on overcoming fascism. Including how inexperience & bad communication hampered things) When the situation is not funny. sometime irony keeps me going.)
Oh suck it up, Donna. I get really tired of you acting like you are "lead author" here!
Betty, like, like, like, like, like!
trump is a psychopath,pathological liar, felon, rapist. This explains everything.
Raise your hand if you don’t think trump sexually abused underage, trafficked girls with Epstein.
Of course he did.
Not just a bully.
And European “leaders” might suck up to him, but the European people despise the monster.
Go Scotland.
Look at the rethuglikkkrussians in congress that kiss his 🍊🫏! Unbelievable!
202 225 3121 or 202 224 3121 will reach any member of congress! Call daily especially the trump 🫏kissers!
The Republicans are either a member of the cult, or afraid of the cult.
The remedy is having Democratic Senators exhibit backbone and put a hold on Trump's nominees, just as Tommy Tuberville did the Generals.
William,you are so right. It looks like noone will ever stand up to this " Nazi" pig.
It’s wearisome picking through all the bollox like this about the Donald …
from Instapundit:
„It's horribly misleading and dishonest for AP to run this headline. This wasn't "the Trump administration's efforts" -- this is a judge trying to overrule a law passed by Congress, which they have absolutely no constitutional authority to do.”
The Associated Press
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BREAKING: A judge has blocked the Trump administration's efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and ordered that it keep getting Medicaid funds. https://apnews.com/article/planned-parenthood-funding-cuts-ruling-343034bc26917049d6d58a8ba8c58c21?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+New+Content+%28Feed%29&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
Meanwhile, back in 2016, Mark wrote something along the lines of Trump's throwaway quips containing more substance than hours upon hours of Obama's droning.
Absolutely true.
Sez the dog humping Trumps leg.
Not surprised he would say that. For some people, memes are the only things they understand. Mostly because they are made of pictures and small words.
"Wearisome," Robert? Nobody forces you to comment.
Feel free to ignore, move on, and take your sycophancy with you.
Don’t misunderstand me, I’m having a lot of fun in the Barad-Dur of the matrix, it’s just it does get a bit repetitive sometimes.
Don’t talk shit with your mouth full. Conspiracies are for the weak minded too lazy to get facts
Canadian here. Countries can't just ignore this tariff fiasco. We have jobs to protect and economies under siege by a vindictive, out of control, mentally compromised "lunatic".
I don't believe the few deals that are supposed to be triumphs for trump are significant wins for the USA. For example Japan, on closer inspection, didn't really cave; the so called deal does little to harm their economy. UK, EU maybe not.
Lest we forget, the trump regime is run by incompetents. What can you expect when the deals are negotiated by "idiots" on the USA side. Most countries understand that, so deals are constructed to appear as "wins" for trump with the underlying goal to minimize the damage by making the nasty bully go away. Countries have few options when there is no will on the part of the trump regime to negotiate in good faith.
The entire world is shocked that republican lawmakers don't put an end to trump's tariff debacle given that it's also wreaking havoc on the US economy and dragging your country into the gutter. Instead, they continue to prop up this "non compos mentis"... cruel, dangerous, demented man who should be in a facility (prison or mental care) instead of thoroughly embarrassing the USA on the world stage at every opportunity.
You’re correct, of course.
The GOP (and too many of the Dems, and SCOTUS) are bought and paid for by the wealthy. They’re afraid of losing their riches, but don’t realize they’ve essentially lost their power.
Lost their power? I think not yet.
Except that they will have so much new money that they can buy up a small country to be their own king. Trump does for them so they will stay and be his eyes ears and arms.
When you defeat tRump at mid term. Your last chance to stop his destruction. Buy a lot of guns as there will be violence because tRump is going to tell his storm troops that he was robbed again. It will be Jan 6 again. But this time near you. If you don’t fight you will be in the alligators belly.
Judith,republican lawmakers do not believe in Democracy,they believe in a " Nazi" gov't,Hitler style.
Do all of them really want that? Would Lindsey Graham welcome the ideas of some 2025 christo-fascists extremists whose bizarre cult doctrine believes that gays should be put to death? Also from their bag of delights: adulterers put to death, women denied the vote, no more divorce, resurgence of child brides, people of colour yoked into slavery (it gets worse).
Most congressional republicans are not a very bright group of human beings having rejected reason, history and science. Do they really understand the depravity at work here?
Some of them have openly confessed that they believe God spared trump from a bullet so he could save us all from 'whatever'?. A shocking level of childlike ignorance, stupidity and naivety. It's a cult, many likely 'afraid', at this point to break away. But, it's gone WAY TOO FAR. I think the greedy, power hungry grifters, are less dangerous than these stupid 'do gooders' who think they're ensuring our salvation with their slavish devotion to their orange blob god. (heavy sigh).
Great reply.They have rejected reason,history,science. The cult follows Trump wherever he goes,too stupid to make their own decisions. Unfortunately the White Christian Nationalists,Neo Nazi groups,Wall Street, have taken over our Gov't.
Absolutely. What nazi did the gop kid going to do. Be prepared to kill those who come to take your neibours because you are next.
Listen to what your own tell you. It is easier to resist now than later when all of you will be more scared and unable to buy arms to protect yourself. Join up with your people with gun clubs because soon you will not be able to do even that. Read what the Nazis did to see your future b
Republicans & Democrats are teaching their children to roll over for bullies. Great lesson!
Got that right! can’t understand why the senate n house republicans kiss his 🍊🫏at every opportunity!
Another Canuck.
We will get hammered and join the world seeking revenge. Like tRump we can take the agreement and still refuse to buy US garbage. Look for a better price from friends, trade with others and no tariff tax. Work around the Feat agreement. Watch tRump and the governors cry about mean and nasty Canadians.
After tRunp no agree with the US is binding. We have the same rights to default as the US does.
I admit I agree with you & think it's a good thing to know that Other Nations are savvy about Agent Orange. But if our own government can't get rid of him, what can be done?? Some have suggested 'Civil Disobedience' but so far Nothing has stopped him!
So why not a goodwill gesture that would benefit Canadian consumers as well: offer to abolish the marketing boards?
Get Quebec to take one for the team for a change.
If I've said it once, I've said it a bazillion times. You can easily break a single stick. But tie them into a bundle, and it's impossible to break. I can understand universities wanting their research funding returned. But you are correct... one false move, and it's back to Square One. He knows that he holds the Trump cards. The only way to win is to call his bluff. Because he's a big bluffer.
When I was about ten, I read a story about a group of princesses. Their father said that the one who could grow the longest hair would be queen. All the princesses cared for their hair, measured it, nourished it, pampered it. But when it came time to stand before the king, it turned out that all the daughters had exactly the same hair length.
Except for the youngest one. Her maid had cut the girl's hair short and kept it tied in a scarf the entire time. Well, of course, she was out of the running. Her sisters went back to competing for the king's approval again and again. But the youngest one ran off with her maid and traveled the world.
Lesson: Sometimes you can beat these non-win situations if you just don't get involved.
Not getting involved might mean moving to a country (or even an island) where the US has no influence.
But how would Harvard, Columbia, Paramount, law offices, and other institutions move to another country or island? They're stuck here, having to deal with Trump Tantrums. As a young mother, I learned to ignore the tantrums. It's harder as an institution, especially when you're dealing with a major funding source. But continuing to play the game, knowing you'll never win, is a recipe for disaster.
Donna,I agree with some of your observations,I think the institutions that caved could have put up a good fight. Itis very hard for me to imagine why someone critical of Netanyahu , the assault on the Palestinians, the pictures of Gaza is called Anti Semitic and arrested. When we see the pictures of the starving people,we should have some sympathy for their plight.
With the penguins?
Yup, they're our neighbours too. Some of them have moved North and made a new home in Christchurch. They didn't want to, mind you.
Living in the Southern Hemisphere might be a safer place for penguins and people.
I wish I could agree Catherine, but huge Icebergs have been noted floating past our Southern Island. Global warming is global, sadly. The habitat of Southern Penguins is shrinking. The krill that feeds the whales is disappearing. It is indeed, an emergency, just as dealing with a worldwide emergence of bullies is an emergency - and they love to undo the hard work of environmentalists, to add to their sins.
If I had the money I would be gone already. This stress level and corruption is not how I planned to live out the last 1/3 of my life. I just don’t care about this country anymore.
Don't choose an island. Our South Sea neighbours are losing more coastline every year.
I'm about ready to do just that.
or, how great if all the sisters would have united and grown their hair, but cut it so that at all times they all had the same length, They could have embraced the youngest sister, united through cooperation and demanded that they all share the duties of queen,
No , we the people have to fight like hell! Our country isn’t perfect . But it beats, russia, hungary, turkey!
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Will reach any member of Congress! The reuthuglicans need to hear from us! All of us!
Start calling! Just no to the 🍊🫏!
I read the same story years ago. Thanks for the reminder.
I wish to clarify that I don’t think the story of the princesses tasked to grow their hair long enough to earn the crown of kingdom by their father was a lesson in dropping out and walking away in the face of such threats to democracy as we currently confront; it was a metaphor for not assuming every prize offered and on the terms offered made sense to pursue for personal fulfillment or even for its own purposes. What, after all, does long hair, for example, have to do with wise and good leadership? Why have so many embraced the idea that ruthless, selfish, greedy arrogance along with indifference are desirable in a leader and their staff?
I never heard that story before. Thinking outside the box!
‘Just don’t get involved’. I read this as refusing to engage with the corrupt oligarchies and their rigged systems. So many, the world over, under forty, are doing just that. A phenomenon simplistically labelled ‘dropping out’ in 60s America by its reactionaries. In present day Japan it is called Hikikomori, where particularly men refuse to conform to corrupted state imposed societal conventions. They don’t work, never leaving their childhood rooms and if pushed to change, commit suicide. Many in China are taking on poverty and returning to their rural origins rather than accepting the cruelties and false hopes of unregulated hypercapitalism, a movement known as Putong Shenguo. The rising numbers of young in Western democracies who are choosing to no longer vote or engage with their state politics is a similar expression of this increasing, often invisible, exponentially increasing mass civil disobedience.
These were the symbols of the power of consuls and carried by guards in front of the consul.
We may never repair the damage that has already been done to our relationship with our allies, countries we help,and those on the fence, but we still need them. I hope they are still rooting for our America to come out on top, and for Trump's America to fade away into history.
I'd never say never, but it will take a long time. And we Americans will have to take an honest look at ourselves before we can make things better. The MAGAt stench will cling to our country for ages.
Idi Amin was a murderous dictator in Uganda years ago. He used to strut around the rich and famous as if he was untouchable. Until at one reception, he was about to be introduced to Prince Charles, who simply turned his back on the ratbag. I've never forgotten how effective that simple thing ... actively ignoring a fool, made such a difference.
Most thoughtful people are yravelling & studying elsewhere. Many are boycotting everything Israeli and American.
They should be,we should all be doing that.
Speaking as an American living abroad, I have to point out that unfortunately the rest of the world will also suffer (or rather is already suffering) from his presidency, so we can't just turn our backs. It's not just his ridiculous tariffs or his unconscionable gutting of foreign aid; the damage he and his minions are doing to the existential fight against the climate crisis threaten to end humanity's last chance at avoiding a catastrophic rise in global temperatures.
I'm not sure those people are teachable.
I think you will find that we have already. We just tickle his ego when it suits us to let him think he has a win. That maintains a continuing supply of what we need until we find a substitute.
This country is too big in too many ways, it can't be ignored, although it should be until that monster is gone.
But where is this counterforce? We say here that Mr. Trump is the stupidest President, that he is loosing his mind, that his helpers are incompetent idiots.
Why then do we need the most powerful counter-force possible? And the Constitution is full of counterforces: why don't they work now? Does money nothing but bring up fear?
Blatant lies must be countered, sure. Why can JD Vance get away with the story that it is not true that 10 million Americans will loose their health insurance?
My question might be: what is wrong with the quality of journalism in the US? Is moral fiber missing? Is it the power of money that is listened to? It is not difficult to anticipate the lies, so why seems the news business so unprepared? I would expect turmoil, members of the regime leaving the room, enraged or incompetent to answer questions that had to be put by politicians.
But world peace is at stake, so not turn backs and wait till this country comes to its senses...
Tom,unfortunately the quality of journalism has taken the position they cannot object to what Trump does or says. The New York Times,MSNBC,have all been muted,they are afraid.This is Hungary,Victor Orban,Putin,Hitler in spades. Unless there is significant pushback it will not get better.Peaceful rallies may not work. We just refer to Trump and the Republican party as the " Nazi" party.
But that is my point. The media should have ethical standaards and integrity.
Of course, I’m not Nazi friend, but the truth should be told
Yes! trump n rethuglikkkrussians are Nazis!
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Call any member of congress! Especially trump 🫏kissers!
Red states. We have to vote every last one out. And to think lil Johnwayne voted to give 🍊💩🫏cover!!!WTF!! We the people pay his salary!
Start calling! Share the numbers!
Ever since SCOTUS signed off on Citizens United, money, extreme wealth, the power it affords, slowly gutting education, bringing religion to the forefront, calling critical thinking the bane of existence, threatening the media, touting replacement theory, us vs them, making racism and hatred clear weapons of the Christian whites, basically following the dictator’s playbook, our representatives have, for the most part, forgotten their oath to we, the people.
So yes, money (and the power it holds) brings nothing but fear.
The 2028 Summer Olympic Games in LA might be a way for the world to express concerns (FEARS) that DT's policy of unleashing untrained, masked ICE thugs who grab 1st and ask questions later, is NOT a safe place for thousands of young international athletes to gather. I hate to say that and know it's also a chance for a big BLUE state to shine but is this idea worth kicking around?
That would surely require a Lot of Cooperation from The World & we're certainly not seeing that right now...
Unfortunately we ALL are suffering for the lack of voting and those that voted for him and are sorry they did. Sad state of affairs!
We are suffering!
Dear Heron: The USA population comes from all over the world.
All this people live, marry and dream with one another.
In whatever form and degree of awareness that is an aspiration not only of the whole of humanity but of the planet itself.
Sequoias that like every other tree have their heads in the ground and dream all their lives surely do not dream of nations.
That being so, even the Unions worst moments bring contributions to development and advancement. So it is now as well.
And again in whatever form and degree of awareness that is perceived or at least felt by many scattered and struggling everywhere they may be on the planet and in whatever temporal sequence they may exist.
Therefore there is no necessity of shame or oblivion, methinks. Rather perhaps activism and humility, like the sequoias and others that have been dreaming for quite a while.
Besides, have you seen a picture of the pine Methuselah? Like some trees sometimes do, it seems it tried to turn around. The result is the arrested picture of a dance…
Absolutely right, Robert!
DITTO!
Trying to make a deal with Trump is like trying to baptize a snake and expecting it to behave like a lamb.
He doesn’t honor contracts. He devours them. He feeds on chaos, and every time institutions cave for the sake of short-term comfort, they just reinforce the delusion that he’s inevitable.
We need less appeasement and more collective resistance. Not polite press releases. Not faculty forums. An alliance of spine and solidarity.
Power only bows to greater power. Time to remember ours.
I appreciate the clarity and strength in your words. It’s a reminder that collective courage matters, and that we don’t have to meet this moment alone. Quiet resolve, shared purpose, and standing together, that’s where our power is.
Why is everyone so afraid of this brain added jerk?! Stop giving in to. Bullies!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
the more people give in, the more they empower him. But any short-term"win"is always at risk with the con man. He knows people play for the short-term avoidance of his pressure point of pain and that as much as anything is how the trump rolls forward.
Well said. Since drumpf honors neither the edicts of the Law nor good business practice, ever, he should be treated like the crime lord that he is. Time for us, his potential victims, to band together with greater power and rebuff his vicious thievery. It is quite clear that his inner circle of loyalists including so-called Republicans is composed of weaklings whose support for him will evaporate when his power is seriously threatened. Employ the nation's motto, "E Pluribus Unum" (From the Many, One). Bet drumpf couldn't translate that!
from Dan Rather, "Calling Out the Con Man in Chief"
https://open.substack.com/pub/steady/p/calling-out-the-con-man-in-chief?r=1l3a85&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Dan Rather’s one to talk. The low IQ epitome of fake news.
Devoid my commentary of your postings, troll!
I love you too, Dennis
Robert, as usual your insights are timely and incisive, thank you.
More like a tick, a flea or a tapeworm than a snake. He's a parasite.
so true,the time has come for collective resistance,time to fight,not talk.
Well said VMB.
Here is what is going down on the Epstein saga: Trumps buddy lawyer is down in Florida negotiating a Pardon with Maxwell. The agreement will be that she lies for the Trump administration to swear that Trump was not involved with any underage women and was never at the Island. The pardon will not come until the end of Trumps term so that nobody can try to hold him accountable. Just saying!
Yes, I am afraid that you are spot on with the whole Maxwell thing. She would say ANYTHING to get out of prison earlier.
As much as I deplore this outcome, I think you've nailed it.
Maxwell is a proven, convicted liar, so why would anyone take her testimony as truthful?
The bloggers and off established media have to tell the real truth: Trump has been a close buddy of Epstein for 15 years at least. The documented evidence is well established. No liar's testimony is going to change that truth. So stick to the facts, tell the story and never stop promoting it, regardless of what the toadying, cowardly oligarch-owned established captured press and media publishes.
She is hardly a noble witness, and would be a fool to not get it all in writing .. DT may well not see his four years. He will have to commute her 20 years to four left. If he gets her to lie, and it is uncovered they both sink to the bottom .
She MUST NOT be pardoned!
Entirely predictable. Mobsters religiously protect their own and Maxwell is a classic mobster’s Moll. Also all rapist’s mentality means if survivors ever try take them on, demanding truth, justice and retrieved human dignity, they will hunt those survivors down to the death, as abusers of power can never ever be guilty because they must always ‘win’.
Reading this, I felt a wave of frustration and clarity wash over me. Columbia University, the EU, Japan — all trying to make the best of a deal with Trump, as if appeasement could ever lead to long-term stability. But anyone who has watched him operate in business, politics, or governance knows he does not honor agreements. He breaks them when it suits him. He bullies. He manipulates. He lies. And still, institutions keep trying to play by the rules with someone who refuses to follow them.
Columbia’s concession feels especially personal. As someone who believes in the transformative power of education and the role universities play in shaping society, it is disheartening to see a place of learning bend under pressure. What message does that send to students who are taught to stand up for justice and truth?
But I also know this is not the end of the story, it is a turning point. One that reminds us we cannot face this alone. The most effective response to authoritarianism is unity. Universities, media, communities, and nations must stand together, grounded in shared values and unwilling to be divided or intimidated.
This moment calls for courage and collective action.
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He does not negotiate! He is an extortionist. And it is never enough. France and Germany should say no.
Did they get "an offer they couldn't refuse"?
Just like the UK the EU has not signed a deal. In both cases it’s an outline of a deal.
European countries have centuries of experience with negotiations. They have learnt how to deal with Trump: pat him on the head tell him what a a great negotiator he is and promise him an ice cream later if he behaves.
Just take a look at the natural gas deal: it is for more than EU companies would normally buy from the whole world. And the EU itself doesn’t buy that natural gas: companies within the EU buy it. There is no way to force them to buy from the USA.
So his outline for a deal is similar to his “concept” of a Health Care Plan to replace Obamacare? Not holding my breath for either.
For Trump it’s the art of No Deal! Nothing will ever satisfy a malignant narcissist, nothing!
Precisely.
So very, very true. Those of us who saw him stiff small business contractors (like an upholsterer) who worked on his Atlantic City hotels - he would tell them to sue him for their money and then he’d do lots of appeals, like we’ve seen him do in recent court cases, and they would finally have to give up - we could not imagine how Republicans let this man run for president. Still can’t.
Well, I can imagine it’s really simple. It’s called this. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
At this point in history I have given up seeing any individuals choices and behaviour as anything other than theirs alone. Inotherwords, political bare plurals like Republican v Democrat or here in the UK, Left v Right, have become not just meaningless to me but seen as a controlling propagandistic terminology which the corporate media uses to engender a false conflict and fake alternatives in every election to effectively cover up all of their ongoing global oligarch bought nation state central politician’s corruption.
The only way I can see to begin to politically fight back and retrieve what is being stolen from all of us is to go radically local and work out from there.
Personally, I wouldn’t enter into an agreement with a convicted felon who was found guilty of dozens of counts of fraud. But that’s just me.
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Pay Him Off.
Demented Donald Trump is very Intrested In Cash 💵 Cash 💷 Cash 💰 .
Additionally ; Trump has other Weaknesses “Wonderful Secrets “ PornStars” Beauty Contestants.
It’s Pay To Play and Now You know His Currency’s.
We all have to move now—and into action against a harmful government that sponsors pedophiles and covers up for them. The needy and children are being abused—by our government. We must protest in the streets until we go down or we oust tyrants, outright crooks, and pedophiles. I made 33 protest signs, and will make many more to share. You will see something different in these signs! Help yourself to this first batch, and share them as far as you can. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/free-protest-signs?r=3m1bs
Robert: in your next missive can you please relate what kind of collective effort you are seeing from universities?
I would think universities would get together and tell the Orange Blob NO
Even The Lady in Red...Nancy Reagan said.." Just say No !
So true. He’ll NEVER honor a deal. Not only will the smallest transgression be his excuse, he needs no excuse. He’ll just make one up…he is, after all, unencumbered by the truth…
Yep. He’s a slippery, slimy snake. Like his niece, Mary Trump said on a podcast I listened to earlier with Katie Couric, he’s never been held accountable for anything in his entire life. He has always gotten off. Good old Teflon Don, some folks call him. I say even Teflon gets scratched up and wears out. I hope Epstein turns out to be the one scandal that destroys that Teflon coating. I hope it’s the one he can’t slither his way out of. Down with MAGA!!!!
So true! Why do so many people not see what has been staring them in the face for Trump’s entire career?
Deals for a degree of stability. While all nations hunt for alternative trading partners.