Trump sucks the oxygen out of our week because we allow it. And the Republican Party is a rudderless ship loaded with spineless pseudo-leaders babbling right wing nonsense because Republicans do not demand coherence, leadership, and decency.
Daniel Solomon; I saw/ heard a report that someone is launching a lawsuit in Florida to enforce the 14th Amendment to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. He is disqualified to run for President, according to the Constitution. I believe that the domino effect will take place and most of the states will follow suit. Especially the blue ones. I think it is 48 states that have secretaries of state who determine qualification.
Donald Trump vs. Alphonse Capone--These two men could have been family members of a sort. Both men are crooks or one was in life. Both lived their lives bathed in the glory of dishonesty. Trump wouldn't know the truth if it hit the fool square between the eyes. Trump is in no way to be considered an American. Donnie Boy is a German of the 1930's plain and simple. He respects nothing that this country stands for in fact Trump would love nothing more than to burn it down, in his own words. As for the idiots on that debate stage, except for a couple of them that understand that Trump is an ass, the group basically came right out and said that even if Trump was convicted they would still support him in his sick bid to return as our inapt President for the second time. The fools would make Mr. Capone proud to think members of our society would support a criminal over any of the others standing on that stage. Mentally speaking Donald Trump is seriously ill. No one who is considered mentally competent would consider the destruction of a country to further their own needs. Trump exists to further his own special interests and he considers nothing else. He lies, cheats, abuses women, spits on our constitution, and laughs while he wipes the drool from his chin. Yet there are people who call themselves Americans who still support the man. That to me is the definition of stupidity.
Oh my, that mug shot: Dangerous Don the Mobsta. “Donnie Four-times”? I tried, god knows, to be terrified, but when I first saw it I was roaring so hard with laughter while fighting for bladder control that it was an impossibility. Word on the street is that Trump broke every restroom mirror aboard Trump Force One on his way down from Bedminster practicing that glare, even the big deck-to-overhead job in his personal lavatory…. you know, the one way up front with the solid gold XXXL toilet seat? They had little choice on where to locate that privy, by the way, due to weight and balance restrictions on the Boeing 757. And as it is, when he has Louie the Squat raise that seat so he can go tinkle, they have to transfer fuel from the left wing tank to the right. Whatever are we to do with this bad boy?
LeMoine--The court official that took the mug shot of trump should be fired. Trump has no place dictating the conditions that make up the mug shot. He should have been told to look straight into the camera with an expressionless look on his face, similar to the look wanted in a pass port photo. The look of defiance would have been unacceptable. The man is ugly to start with, lets not give him a picture with which to acquire donations from his admiring fans.
Google the Winston Churchill photo after his "Never, never, never give up speech. Trump was doing his best impression, even down to the "Never Surrender" message on the booking photo t-shirts he's hawking. ($34 for the faithful.) 🙄
It's gonna be curtains down on his little 'defiance party' once we CONVICT him,God willing,he'll have no one to complain to,the audience will have already fled.
Yes, Donald, his behavior fits in with those who suffer mentally with a narcissist disorder and his seems to be at the high end; whether he could legally be held incapacitated with this mental state I don’t know but someone should try and use his condition to stop him. I am a poet not a mental health professional, however, from the outside I think there are hundreds of examples of his behavior to try and declare him unfit.
I think they are puzzled by his behavior and disgusted but if they think about it as a mental illness their comments about him would change to more empathy. Having experienced family members who must confront their mental affliction of schizophrenia, I have had to come to terms with a different view of their disease and behaviors. I don’t have the luxury others have to not confront a mental disease, like we have had had with my son for example who suffers.
Christie demonstrated why he was elected Governor twice in a blue state- let it rip Jersey boy! And when are the wonks and media gonna grow a pair and stop calling 35809 a front runner? He’s running - only from his consequences (more like staggering- big boy can’t even jog).
But Christie lost his credibility after bashing Trump when he meekly half raised his hand in saying he would support him for President if he was the Republican nominee!
I'm betting that a huge bunch of us will breathe so much better once we 'deal' w/ him properly,even the cowards that seem to possess undying loyalty.Besides Capone,we dealt w/ John Gotti very well and others.It's OUR BELOVED NATION!!!
For the folks that read at a sixth grade level and look no further than fox, they only know the propaganda they consume. Trump is a mobster but I hold the right wing media accountable for the poison they spread.
The sentence in your comment that says, ''Mentally speaking, Donald TUMP is seriously ill'' says it all. He should have been committed to an institution for the criminally insane, in a padded cell with an XXXXXXLARGE straight jacket years ago.
I'm not confident on "single plays for a touchdown" "hail Mary" as too much can go wrong. However, this adds pressure to Trump.
IMHO he is cracking. Trump transferred ownership of Mar-a-Lago to avoid consideration as one of his personal assets. The beneficiary, according to records, is Donald Trump Jr – and the listed price of $422 million dollars is grossly "inflated”. Trump purchased in 1985 for $2 million dollars. Fraud against his NY creditors?
In Florida, marital property is protected as is "Homestead" property. Florida has liberal trust rules. Sounds like not only is he running scared, he also has lousy legal advice.
You are a wishful thinker. So far, the R's and trump have gotten away with murder. I lay at their feet the Covid deaths and the Ukraine deaths. Obama, a black democrat, used the plan made by Bush, a white republican, to keep Ebola out of the US; European leaders followed Obama's lead. Trump could have done something similar. Please don't tell me that trump didn't know. Obama told him on inauguration day that a pandemic was coming and that there was a plan. Obama said it loud enough so the mics picked up his words and people like me heard the warning too. Also, if trump wasn't in bed with Putin, Putin would never have dared invade Ukraine. I hope you are correct; I don't think the US or the world can survive more of trump.
Gallus en tres partes divisio est, if I can remember my Latin. Only Trump, Never Trump and everybody else. If we can make nice with some of the everybody else and get them to vote with us...that sounds like a democracy to me!
I absolutely agree. Every post about Trump is soul-sucking. We all know he is a full-on fascist; we all know he wants to be dictator, and we all know he will absolutely unleash the dogs and have people killed if he gets the chance. We also know what we have to do: vote, get out the vote, donate, march, write letters postcards, and knock on doors. How about YOU stop shoving him in our faces and talk about something--anything--else for a change?
I would say why does mainstream media keep throwing him in our face. Rebutting his or Vikrams lies as a method of showing hes wrong, we are beyond establishing the fact that he lies. .I dont see why him and any ilk like him arent labeled as liars and fascist and ignored accept to say, X had a rally today and lied. No reason to fact check him anymore. Mainstream media wise not really any reason to report on him anymore. "A Florida man was indicted today". As for what Robert is doing he is giving us the unstated truths which then become the stated truths. That I see use for.
The GOP officially jumped off a cliff in 2016. Today they’re the party of nonsense, insanity, and abuse.
Yesterday I tried to call social security to ask a question that I really needed an answer about after what I thought was the busy hours of the day. I was put through 31 minutes of elevator music interrupted occasionally with messages of “we really care” before I gave up. The lack of enough government employees to meet basic needs is completely and totally on the GOP and their policy/screams to have smaller government by cutting back departments and employees.
A tip on calling any government office for anything...lol...never on Friday, I know I worked for the US Government, best paycheck but worst experience, Here’s the scenario Monday, don’t bother, employees still on weekend, Tuesday all day and Wednesday morning probably prime time by Wednesday afternoon there is a slide beginning that happens and picks up momentum until Friday- don’t come to me, don’t ask me anything, don’t expect my tired head to even shift from my computer screen into which I am staring blankly because effectively there is no brain activity going on here. Trumps decimation of these agencies, of course, has put the above scenario on steroids. Don’t get me wrong - there is no laziness here, just overwork, over stress. ( I sat in a broken chair for years- just for starters) I’d try calling first thing on a Tuesday when the phone times open. Best chance.
And not only that, I love the postal service. The stamps are pretty, my mailman knows me when he sees me. He pats Mt dog, I give her a bottle of water in the summer and a Christmas card in the winter. See if FedEx or Amazon can do that.
My mail lady is a hard core, MAGA, TUMP fanatic. I learned that 3 years ago when i criticized TUMP in a conversation with her, and she lit into me saying i was wrong, and that TUMP didn't have anything to do with what i was talking about. I haven't spoken to her since then.
Far earlier than that. And even if actually going off the cliff only happened seven years ago, it’s a cliff they’ve been eagerly racing towards for at least 40 years.
Their answer is to outsource to their donors. The donors then have more money to buy more power to cause the outsource of more to donors and so on. And their donors will try to cherry pick or prioritize services to the customer base in a way to make more money.This is how it works. Not saying that outsourcing is bad, but a nuanced impartial approach is needed. Seen anything nuanced from Republicans lately ?
Good point, Daniel. The DNC is useless under current leadership. All they're good for is begging for money. If the Democratic Party had any sense. they'd fire them all and replace with younger staff educated in public relations and advertising. A decent knowledge of how to recruit, train, and maintain qualified candidates would also help.
And cats do like to walk with their humans, not on a leash, but companionably. I had a cat who loved to take long walks with me after dark, when the dogs were all in their houses or confined to their yards.
What we see in the current Republican Party is the culmination of about 50 years of increasingly “win at all costs” mentality. I’ve been on the planet for many decades and have never seen anything like this. They were able to shame McCarthy in the 1950’s and end his vendetta and they even forced Nixon to resign. But once he was pardoned, Pandora’s box was opened……
I’ve been around a while myself. The whole country has lost its sense of accountability, at the same time as it lost its sense of shame and its memory. How it keeps electing Republicans after they drive our economy off a cliff is beyond me. Why Bush and Cheney were never held accountable for lying the country into a foreign invasion is shocking. Democrats like Franken and Cuomo are shamed into resignation and Trump and Clarence Thomas and Ryan Zinke and Rick Scott act like no laws or propriety have anything to do with them. You’d think a mentally healthy country would be at least as aroused about missing weapons of mass destruction as they were about missing emails, but then it’s not a mentally healthy country.
Codependents -- excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically one who requires support on account of an illness or addiction. Their existence depends on pleasing Trump the enabler.
The woman was armed and on the side of the insurrectionists. She was climbing through a busted window, I think, with her weapon drawn.Had a military background. Ashli Babbit was armed and on the attack.
Daniel H Laemmerhirt : you are right; our police officers are important. Some were killed and some very much harmed: physically, and mentally/emotionally. There is no 'just' about it.
E. A collection of infantile panderers to the lowest common denominator of libertarian white nationalists, while retaining enough hypocrisy to attract the campaign funds of America’s corporate overlords.
Kerry, the corporate overlords actively seek out these people because they are so easily manipulable. Also, these deplorables actively seek out the corporate overlords like flies to
Ramaswamy who recently proposed raising the voting age to 25, is prepared to pour over $100 million of his own money into his presidential campaign according to
The fact that there are WOMEN and NON-WHITE people that are Trumplicans is baffling! You want to feel sorry for them and again, I think our education system failed them.
No one with ANY sense supports those that would GLADLY murder/far worse to get an extra SINGLE PENNY. Or for the joy of watching suffering in the case of Dear Leader and his boyfriend, Putin.
Probably nothing. Just promising to give them good jobs in the future. Look at MTG. Boebert, and some of the Blacks and other people of color who hold signs at his rallies or run for office.
Anyone remember that White House lawn scene when he was there,a large crowd of folks w/ red tshirts on and the matching MAGA hat.They were paid to do that.
Many women and non-whites are just trying to survive. Many are not sure of what is going on. They don't know economics, and are easily misled by propaganda, and scared by outright lies. Most do not have the means to live with dignity, independently. Imagine putting up with a ketchup throwing abusive boss! I often wonder what Else he does to them?!
We are in an abusive relationship with Trump and mainstream media, who are his enablers. Our lives and those of our children are now at risk. What would a good therapist tell a woman in such a relationship?
Padma Wick ; The good therapist would advise her to leave. I hope there is success in bringing lawsuits to enforce the 14th Amendment, because if he runs for President and wins, there is no where to run to.
From my experience you have picked the perfect metaphor for the nation’s relationship with Trump. She would say get out. Because he is suffering mentally and taking out on us his frustration and anger he should be disqualified for his illness.
Carol A. Heasley ; You nailed it ; That is what the Disqualification clause is. It covers this very situation ; tfg is unqualified to be in government, period. It is in our Constitution ; crystal clear.
Lord of the flies", about a group of British schoolchildren marooned on an island 🏝. Things got very bad, indeed. Until they were rescued by adults. Actually, the abandoned kids were not as bad as the current 'GOP'.!
The GOP (including Trump) babble nonsense because these politicians' main goal is to please the wealthy individuals and corporations with lower taxes in order to get millions in campaign financing as well as guidance from the lobbyists who tell them what lies they can get away with and how to fan culture wars to keep people divided and easy to fool. When they try to sell things that are against people's and our country's best interests, what can we expect except rubbish. Lower taxes on the wealthy results in increasing the federal deficit and Republicans want to cut necessary social programs to make up for it. The GOP babbling is a master class in deceit.
Dear Mr. Reich, it would lift our spirits tremendously. If you would give us the nuts and bolts of what is behind the build back better legislation, because most of us are not aware of how it is actually being implemented, and programs for the green new deal concerning solar wind, and alternative energy. And anything else we can look forward to in the near future that are going to put this country on the right track! Last week a journalist, I’m not sure in which paper discussed the actual workings of what is getting funded and some of the progress in the supposed IRA. I found myself actually feeling optimistic for once. This I think we need more! This is where we may have a hope of getting rid of these crazy Republicans that are screaming: global warming is a sham. To me this was the lowest of the low, during the horrendous Republican debates which I felt was on the scale of insanity at times, and was very disappointed in the new younger rendition of Trump and his histrionic theatrics. Totally bummed that this is what was impressing people like Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, who has become Trump like after covering him for so many years, I feel the New York Times is getting more and more deeply depressing and that you as an economic expert should help us out of the deep well of doldrums. We’re in as a country especially us old are baby boomers, who are about to give up on any hope !Thank you again for all you do.
"WASHINGTON − Since becoming law a year and a half ago, President Joe Biden's infrastructure package has led to 32,000 projects announced across 4,500 communities totaling $220 billion in planned spending, according to the White House.
"The Biden administration released the updated figures Friday ahead of "Infrastructure Week" − a moment on the calendar that is also Biden's punchline to mock former President Donald Trump's inability to pass a bipartisan infrastructure law when he was in office.
"Mitch Landrieu, White House senior adviser and infrastructure coordinator, said the infusion of projects from Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure law − including roads, bridges, railways, broadband internet and electric car charging stations − is "arguably bigger than what happened in the New Deal," referring to Franklin D. Roosevelt's signature public works programs in the 1930s."
"In the one year since CHIPS was signed into law, companies have announced over $166 billion in manufacturing in semiconductors and electronics, and at least 50 community colleges in 19 states have announced new or expanded programming to help American workers access good-paying jobs in the semiconductor industry. In total, since the beginning of the Biden-Harris Administration, companies have announced over $231 billion in commitments in semiconductor and electronics investments in the United States. This week alone, the Department of Commerce announced the first round of grants under CHIPS to support the development of open and interoperable wireless networks, and the National Science Foundation and Departments of Energy, Commerce, and Defense announced progress toward establishing the National Semiconductor Technology Center, which will help advance America’s leadership in semiconductor research and development."
Don't lose hope. We boomers have much to do in helping get the vote out! Focus on what you can do locally and don't let the national clamor (Haberman, Will, et al) discourage you.
Here in my little corner of NE Ohio, autoworkers whose plant closed are being reinvigorated with a contract to build electric vehicles. In the southern part of the state (solidly red with attitude - many worked in the coal industry) are getting a battery factory. Well paying jobs for those without a college degree. Gonna be a while til they realize "coal ain't comin back" but as their ghost towns reblossom, much of the anger will dissipate.
Agree with you that fear is warranted as rabid right wingers try to install a king, but the guardrails will hold. Our basic foundation and identity as Americans will prevail.
Rudderless AND right wing nonsense, ask designed to fool the Fox masses into thinking they care about anything beyond their own bank accounts and fame.
But the majority NEVER elects the President. ONLY 55 % vote and one side has a few more votes. So maybe 27% of us elect a President. Never hear this from the media. We need compulsory voting just as it is done in many other countries.
Compulsory voting is part of being American or it should be. Of course you need to rewrite the constitution and everybody left and right in the middle are scared to death of that possibility
I must take a few minutes out of my very busy Saturday to disagree with your cat comments. My three cats love me so much that they are always under my feet and will probably cause me to fall and break a hip one day. In other words, TOO MUCH LOVE!! It’s my fault though because I love them just as much. Also, my cat has brought me a bird :( and a few lizards who somehow got into the catio. I’m told that cats think humans are incapable of hunting for themselves and want to help. My girl kitty does not appear to have the hunting instinct but brings me her favorite toy mouse. I think dogs are for extroverts and cats are for introverts, and there may be something to that ego theory. Loved the klatch today. Happy weekend to you both!
I've wanted that man's name out of my head for years, so for me he's PO1135809 from now on. As for the debate I thought Nikki Haley made the smart choice to distance herself from the others, possibly appealing to actual conservative Republicans. All I know is we have to reelect Joe Biden at all costs.
Trump sucks the oxygen out of our week because we allow it. And the Republican Party is a rudderless ship loaded with spineless pseudo-leaders babbling right wing nonsense because Republicans do not demand coherence, leadership, and decency.
"Because we allow it." In the long run Trump's odds of winning 91 counts are slim to none.
Republicans lose support daily. 4 of his co-defendants in Hotlanta already say he made them do it. That means they accept guilt.
Daniel Solomon; I saw/ heard a report that someone is launching a lawsuit in Florida to enforce the 14th Amendment to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. He is disqualified to run for President, according to the Constitution. I believe that the domino effect will take place and most of the states will follow suit. Especially the blue ones. I think it is 48 states that have secretaries of state who determine qualification.
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Donald Trump vs. Alphonse Capone--These two men could have been family members of a sort. Both men are crooks or one was in life. Both lived their lives bathed in the glory of dishonesty. Trump wouldn't know the truth if it hit the fool square between the eyes. Trump is in no way to be considered an American. Donnie Boy is a German of the 1930's plain and simple. He respects nothing that this country stands for in fact Trump would love nothing more than to burn it down, in his own words. As for the idiots on that debate stage, except for a couple of them that understand that Trump is an ass, the group basically came right out and said that even if Trump was convicted they would still support him in his sick bid to return as our inapt President for the second time. The fools would make Mr. Capone proud to think members of our society would support a criminal over any of the others standing on that stage. Mentally speaking Donald Trump is seriously ill. No one who is considered mentally competent would consider the destruction of a country to further their own needs. Trump exists to further his own special interests and he considers nothing else. He lies, cheats, abuses women, spits on our constitution, and laughs while he wipes the drool from his chin. Yet there are people who call themselves Americans who still support the man. That to me is the definition of stupidity.
Oh my, that mug shot: Dangerous Don the Mobsta. “Donnie Four-times”? I tried, god knows, to be terrified, but when I first saw it I was roaring so hard with laughter while fighting for bladder control that it was an impossibility. Word on the street is that Trump broke every restroom mirror aboard Trump Force One on his way down from Bedminster practicing that glare, even the big deck-to-overhead job in his personal lavatory…. you know, the one way up front with the solid gold XXXL toilet seat? They had little choice on where to locate that privy, by the way, due to weight and balance restrictions on the Boeing 757. And as it is, when he has Louie the Squat raise that seat so he can go tinkle, they have to transfer fuel from the left wing tank to the right. Whatever are we to do with this bad boy?
LeMoine--The court official that took the mug shot of trump should be fired. Trump has no place dictating the conditions that make up the mug shot. He should have been told to look straight into the camera with an expressionless look on his face, similar to the look wanted in a pass port photo. The look of defiance would have been unacceptable. The man is ugly to start with, lets not give him a picture with which to acquire donations from his admiring fans.
Google the Winston Churchill photo after his "Never, never, never give up speech. Trump was doing his best impression, even down to the "Never Surrender" message on the booking photo t-shirts he's hawking. ($34 for the faithful.) 🙄
Mr. Trump, you are no Churchill!
They should have taken his mug shot in front of a lineup wall. If that was done, he couldn't get away with exaggerating his height anymore.
The look on his face suggests the pic was taken right after his cavity search!
It's gonna be curtains down on his little 'defiance party' once we CONVICT him,God willing,he'll have no one to complain to,the audience will have already fled.
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He has characteristics much like John Gotti.
LaMoine--I hope the PHd thing does stand for "Pile it Higher and Deeper."
Mr H, Let them have their fun. This stuff just adds to his negative image.
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No A&E here, Mark. Just did a little flying in my time. Glad a few like yourself got it :-) Thank you.
Maggie Haberman mentioned that the pose he gave was 'that he didn't want to appear weak'!
Ain't no fix Fer ugly.
Yes, Donald, his behavior fits in with those who suffer mentally with a narcissist disorder and his seems to be at the high end; whether he could legally be held incapacitated with this mental state I don’t know but someone should try and use his condition to stop him. I am a poet not a mental health professional, however, from the outside I think there are hundreds of examples of his behavior to try and declare him unfit.
Carol, why can't others see the truth as clearly.
I think they are puzzled by his behavior and disgusted but if they think about it as a mental illness their comments about him would change to more empathy. Having experienced family members who must confront their mental affliction of schizophrenia, I have had to come to terms with a different view of their disease and behaviors. I don’t have the luxury others have to not confront a mental disease, like we have had had with my son for example who suffers.
Yes Carol - he is mentally ill - a psychopathic narcissist. Anyone who has never experienced or interacted with one, count yourself blessed.
Christie demonstrated why he was elected Governor twice in a blue state- let it rip Jersey boy! And when are the wonks and media gonna grow a pair and stop calling 35809 a front runner? He’s running - only from his consequences (more like staggering- big boy can’t even jog).
But Christie lost his credibility after bashing Trump when he meekly half raised his hand in saying he would support him for President if he was the Republican nominee!
You mean Christie?
Yes- he tells it like it is, even if he gets booed. And I meant Dumpsterfire as staggering towards jail, not being a front runner because he’s a felon
Way to go, Donald (Hodgins that is, not Trump) You have nailed a description of Trump.
I'm betting that a huge bunch of us will breathe so much better once we 'deal' w/ him properly,even the cowards that seem to possess undying loyalty.Besides Capone,we dealt w/ John Gotti very well and others.It's OUR BELOVED NATION!!!
Red--We do have an assortment of idiots to choose from.
For the folks that read at a sixth grade level and look no further than fox, they only know the propaganda they consume. Trump is a mobster but I hold the right wing media accountable for the poison they spread.
Brad---Here,here.
The sentence in your comment that says, ''Mentally speaking, Donald TUMP is seriously ill'' says it all. He should have been committed to an institution for the criminally insane, in a padded cell with an XXXXXXLARGE straight jacket years ago.
We can take comfort in knowing they got Capone on tax evasion and he died in prison.
Mimi--Death by syphilis is a terrible way to go.
At least 4 secretaries of state are ready to go.
I'm not confident on "single plays for a touchdown" "hail Mary" as too much can go wrong. However, this adds pressure to Trump.
IMHO he is cracking. Trump transferred ownership of Mar-a-Lago to avoid consideration as one of his personal assets. The beneficiary, according to records, is Donald Trump Jr – and the listed price of $422 million dollars is grossly "inflated”. Trump purchased in 1985 for $2 million dollars. Fraud against his NY creditors?
In Florida, marital property is protected as is "Homestead" property. Florida has liberal trust rules. Sounds like not only is he running scared, he also has lousy legal advice.
Donut shop type atty's.
You are a wishful thinker. So far, the R's and trump have gotten away with murder. I lay at their feet the Covid deaths and the Ukraine deaths. Obama, a black democrat, used the plan made by Bush, a white republican, to keep Ebola out of the US; European leaders followed Obama's lead. Trump could have done something similar. Please don't tell me that trump didn't know. Obama told him on inauguration day that a pandemic was coming and that there was a plan. Obama said it loud enough so the mics picked up his words and people like me heard the warning too. Also, if trump wasn't in bed with Putin, Putin would never have dared invade Ukraine. I hope you are correct; I don't think the US or the world can survive more of trump.
Yes, their audiences boo at coherence, leadership, and decency.
Good. Julius Caesar: divide et vince.
Gallus en tres partes divisio est, if I can remember my Latin. Only Trump, Never Trump and everybody else. If we can make nice with some of the everybody else and get them to vote with us...that sounds like a democracy to me!
Caesar was ambitious. Not democratic.
But he knew how to win.
The party of delusions, lies, and toxic behavior.
Well said!!
I absolutely agree. Every post about Trump is soul-sucking. We all know he is a full-on fascist; we all know he wants to be dictator, and we all know he will absolutely unleash the dogs and have people killed if he gets the chance. We also know what we have to do: vote, get out the vote, donate, march, write letters postcards, and knock on doors. How about YOU stop shoving him in our faces and talk about something--anything--else for a change?
I would say why does mainstream media keep throwing him in our face. Rebutting his or Vikrams lies as a method of showing hes wrong, we are beyond establishing the fact that he lies. .I dont see why him and any ilk like him arent labeled as liars and fascist and ignored accept to say, X had a rally today and lied. No reason to fact check him anymore. Mainstream media wise not really any reason to report on him anymore. "A Florida man was indicted today". As for what Robert is doing he is giving us the unstated truths which then become the stated truths. That I see use for.
The GOP officially jumped off a cliff in 2016. Today they’re the party of nonsense, insanity, and abuse.
Yesterday I tried to call social security to ask a question that I really needed an answer about after what I thought was the busy hours of the day. I was put through 31 minutes of elevator music interrupted occasionally with messages of “we really care” before I gave up. The lack of enough government employees to meet basic needs is completely and totally on the GOP and their policy/screams to have smaller government by cutting back departments and employees.
A tip on calling any government office for anything...lol...never on Friday, I know I worked for the US Government, best paycheck but worst experience, Here’s the scenario Monday, don’t bother, employees still on weekend, Tuesday all day and Wednesday morning probably prime time by Wednesday afternoon there is a slide beginning that happens and picks up momentum until Friday- don’t come to me, don’t ask me anything, don’t expect my tired head to even shift from my computer screen into which I am staring blankly because effectively there is no brain activity going on here. Trumps decimation of these agencies, of course, has put the above scenario on steroids. Don’t get me wrong - there is no laziness here, just overwork, over stress. ( I sat in a broken chair for years- just for starters) I’d try calling first thing on a Tuesday when the phone times open. Best chance.
Jane Forth, bless you for your honorable civil service under such great pressure of ragged resources! And thanks also for your eloquent tips.
That’s very kind of you. Thank you.
Thank you.
And not only that, I love the postal service. The stamps are pretty, my mailman knows me when he sees me. He pats Mt dog, I give her a bottle of water in the summer and a Christmas card in the winter. See if FedEx or Amazon can do that.
My mail lady is a hard core, MAGA, TUMP fanatic. I learned that 3 years ago when i criticized TUMP in a conversation with her, and she lit into me saying i was wrong, and that TUMP didn't have anything to do with what i was talking about. I haven't spoken to her since then.
“The GOP officially jumped off a cliff in 2016.”
Far earlier than that. And even if actually going off the cliff only happened seven years ago, it’s a cliff they’ve been eagerly racing towards for at least 40 years.
Absolutely true. And Donnies boy put a freeze in hiring gov employees for 4 years.
Their answer is to outsource to their donors. The donors then have more money to buy more power to cause the outsource of more to donors and so on. And their donors will try to cherry pick or prioritize services to the customer base in a way to make more money.This is how it works. Not saying that outsourcing is bad, but a nuanced impartial approach is needed. Seen anything nuanced from Republicans lately ?
Don't let them mess any more with Medicare...
Why not make an add with the Fox business news about the benefits of Bideneconomics for rural areas and target adds on swing states?
Best idea I've heard this week. The DNC could take our donations,(which they constantly request via email), and buy some air time.
Why didn't the DNC sue Fox for taking their ad money only to use it against them as established in evidence in the Dominion Voting Systems case?
Good point, Daniel. The DNC is useless under current leadership. All they're good for is begging for money. If the Democratic Party had any sense. they'd fire them all and replace with younger staff educated in public relations and advertising. A decent knowledge of how to recruit, train, and maintain qualified candidates would also help.
Can we trust the DNC?
NO
sounds like a winner
Of course you get love from a cat!!
I think Reich was being provocative. Or he has the wrong cat.
Robert is smart enough to have a pet he does not have to follow in public picking up its poo! And cats don't bark!
And cats do like to walk with their humans, not on a leash, but companionably. I had a cat who loved to take long walks with me after dark, when the dogs were all in their houses or confined to their yards.
Mine cook,bake and do lite housework,I trained them young.
Ha Ha made me laugh!
Ha haha!
Hahaha, Steveandjanreed!
But dogs Can be very loyal and so glad to see you!
I would observe: it's love as defined by a cat!
It's a more reserved love
Yes! I love dogs too, but cats are my favorites.
Unfortunately cats give me asthma and hives. My dog is an excellent conversationalist and looks at me adoringly.
What we see in the current Republican Party is the culmination of about 50 years of increasingly “win at all costs” mentality. I’ve been on the planet for many decades and have never seen anything like this. They were able to shame McCarthy in the 1950’s and end his vendetta and they even forced Nixon to resign. But once he was pardoned, Pandora’s box was opened……
I’ve been around a while myself. The whole country has lost its sense of accountability, at the same time as it lost its sense of shame and its memory. How it keeps electing Republicans after they drive our economy off a cliff is beyond me. Why Bush and Cheney were never held accountable for lying the country into a foreign invasion is shocking. Democrats like Franken and Cuomo are shamed into resignation and Trump and Clarence Thomas and Ryan Zinke and Rick Scott act like no laws or propriety have anything to do with them. You’d think a mentally healthy country would be at least as aroused about missing weapons of mass destruction as they were about missing emails, but then it’s not a mentally healthy country.
Excellent observation, Kerry.
Excellent divide and classification of our governments process.
Kerry ; Well said!
GOP is a bunch of gutless wonders. So afraid of losing their positions that they won't oppose their fearless leader.
Codependents -- excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically one who requires support on account of an illness or addiction. Their existence depends on pleasing Trump the enabler.
They'll do anything to avoid abandonment.
Or getting killed
Tell that to the Insurrectionists of January 6th! I know at least ONE was killed, right? . . . or was it JUST Our police officers?
The woman was armed and on the side of the insurrectionists. She was climbing through a busted window, I think, with her weapon drawn.Had a military background. Ashli Babbit was armed and on the attack.
What else could the officer do? But these creeps tried to make her a martyr,that's sick,we saw the footage.
tfg still tries to pose as a victim /martyr. Pathetic!
Daniel H Laemmerhirt : you are right; our police officers are important. Some were killed and some very much harmed: physically, and mentally/emotionally. There is no 'just' about it.
So will my dog.
Unafraid to end Democracy and even the world as we know it ; no concern for climate destruction even!
E. A collection of infantile panderers to the lowest common denominator of libertarian white nationalists, while retaining enough hypocrisy to attract the campaign funds of America’s corporate overlords.
Kerry, the corporate overlords actively seek out these people because they are so easily manipulable. Also, these deplorables actively seek out the corporate overlords like flies to
Right, hidden behind the curtain.
Identify all contributors. E.G. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article276790476.html
Ramaswamy who recently proposed raising the voting age to 25, is prepared to pour over $100 million of his own money into his presidential campaign according to
@politico
I guess spending limits for campaigns ended a while ago.even before Citizems United?
The fact that there are WOMEN and NON-WHITE people that are Trumplicans is baffling! You want to feel sorry for them and again, I think our education system failed them.
No one with ANY sense supports those that would GLADLY murder/far worse to get an extra SINGLE PENNY. Or for the joy of watching suffering in the case of Dear Leader and his boyfriend, Putin.
I wonder how much he is paying the women and Blacks who "support" him.
Probably nothing. Just promising to give them good jobs in the future. Look at MTG. Boebert, and some of the Blacks and other people of color who hold signs at his rallies or run for office.
Anyone remember that White House lawn scene when he was there,a large crowd of folks w/ red tshirts on and the matching MAGA hat.They were paid to do that.
Many women and non-whites are just trying to survive. Many are not sure of what is going on. They don't know economics, and are easily misled by propaganda, and scared by outright lies. Most do not have the means to live with dignity, independently. Imagine putting up with a ketchup throwing abusive boss! I often wonder what Else he does to them?!
We are in an abusive relationship with Trump and mainstream media, who are his enablers. Our lives and those of our children are now at risk. What would a good therapist tell a woman in such a relationship?
Padma Wick ; The good therapist would advise her to leave. I hope there is success in bringing lawsuits to enforce the 14th Amendment, because if he runs for President and wins, there is no where to run to.
Therapist? Call the lawyer. Trump is like Stash at the Dew Drop Inn, drinking up his paycheck.
Call the cops!! Get a "peace bond" a court order to avoid any further harm?
In the old days, before there were abuse statutes, alternatives were get a big boyfriend. Get a gun and shoot him.
or both!
Yes; lawyers are expensive l.
Hah. Mostly legal services. Free.
"If you don't leave he will kill you and your children."
Look what his policies are regarding the planet! Cancels the Paris Accord!
I agree Gloria Picchetti: He must be stopped. And he will!
From my experience you have picked the perfect metaphor for the nation’s relationship with Trump. She would say get out. Because he is suffering mentally and taking out on us his frustration and anger he should be disqualified for his illness.
Carol A. Heasley ; You nailed it ; That is what the Disqualification clause is. It covers this very situation ; tfg is unqualified to be in government, period. It is in our Constitution ; crystal clear.
Todays Republican Party is Nihilistic and Craven.
Nihilistic in the sense that they refute truth and fact, but exalt conspiracies and lies.
And Craven because the majority refuse to refute Trump and hold him accountable for his egregious offenses.
They are like the kids in "the
Lord of the flies", about a group of British schoolchildren marooned on an island 🏝. Things got very bad, indeed. Until they were rescued by adults. Actually, the abandoned kids were not as bad as the current 'GOP'.!
To cat or to dog that is the question? We, humans think we pick them. I think they pick us out to help us learn what we need to learn.
My son learned everything he knows about how to be a good puppy from the dog.
Hi Mimi, I am going to presume that you are not being facetious, but even if you are, I'll laugh with you! :-)
The GOP (including Trump) babble nonsense because these politicians' main goal is to please the wealthy individuals and corporations with lower taxes in order to get millions in campaign financing as well as guidance from the lobbyists who tell them what lies they can get away with and how to fan culture wars to keep people divided and easy to fool. When they try to sell things that are against people's and our country's best interests, what can we expect except rubbish. Lower taxes on the wealthy results in increasing the federal deficit and Republicans want to cut necessary social programs to make up for it. The GOP babbling is a master class in deceit.
Dear Mr. Reich, it would lift our spirits tremendously. If you would give us the nuts and bolts of what is behind the build back better legislation, because most of us are not aware of how it is actually being implemented, and programs for the green new deal concerning solar wind, and alternative energy. And anything else we can look forward to in the near future that are going to put this country on the right track! Last week a journalist, I’m not sure in which paper discussed the actual workings of what is getting funded and some of the progress in the supposed IRA. I found myself actually feeling optimistic for once. This I think we need more! This is where we may have a hope of getting rid of these crazy Republicans that are screaming: global warming is a sham. To me this was the lowest of the low, during the horrendous Republican debates which I felt was on the scale of insanity at times, and was very disappointed in the new younger rendition of Trump and his histrionic theatrics. Totally bummed that this is what was impressing people like Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, who has become Trump like after covering him for so many years, I feel the New York Times is getting more and more deeply depressing and that you as an economic expert should help us out of the deep well of doldrums. We’re in as a country especially us old are baby boomers, who are about to give up on any hope !Thank you again for all you do.
"WASHINGTON − Since becoming law a year and a half ago, President Joe Biden's infrastructure package has led to 32,000 projects announced across 4,500 communities totaling $220 billion in planned spending, according to the White House.
"The Biden administration released the updated figures Friday ahead of "Infrastructure Week" − a moment on the calendar that is also Biden's punchline to mock former President Donald Trump's inability to pass a bipartisan infrastructure law when he was in office.
"Mitch Landrieu, White House senior adviser and infrastructure coordinator, said the infusion of projects from Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure law − including roads, bridges, railways, broadband internet and electric car charging stations − is "arguably bigger than what happened in the New Deal," referring to Franklin D. Roosevelt's signature public works programs in the 1930s."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/05/12/biden-infrastructure-law-infuses-220-billion-in-announced-projects/70208352007/
"In the one year since CHIPS was signed into law, companies have announced over $166 billion in manufacturing in semiconductors and electronics, and at least 50 community colleges in 19 states have announced new or expanded programming to help American workers access good-paying jobs in the semiconductor industry. In total, since the beginning of the Biden-Harris Administration, companies have announced over $231 billion in commitments in semiconductor and electronics investments in the United States. This week alone, the Department of Commerce announced the first round of grants under CHIPS to support the development of open and interoperable wireless networks, and the National Science Foundation and Departments of Energy, Commerce, and Defense announced progress toward establishing the National Semiconductor Technology Center, which will help advance America’s leadership in semiconductor research and development."
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/09/fact-sheet-one-year-after-the-chips-and-science-act-biden-harris-administration-marks-historic-progress-in-bringing-semiconductor-supply-chains-home-supporting-innovation-and-protecting-national-s/
Thanks!
THANKS!
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Susan
Don't lose hope. We boomers have much to do in helping get the vote out! Focus on what you can do locally and don't let the national clamor (Haberman, Will, et al) discourage you.
Here in my little corner of NE Ohio, autoworkers whose plant closed are being reinvigorated with a contract to build electric vehicles. In the southern part of the state (solidly red with attitude - many worked in the coal industry) are getting a battery factory. Well paying jobs for those without a college degree. Gonna be a while til they realize "coal ain't comin back" but as their ghost towns reblossom, much of the anger will dissipate.
Agree with you that fear is warranted as rabid right wingers try to install a king, but the guardrails will hold. Our basic foundation and identity as Americans will prevail.
Thanks!
Rudderless AND right wing nonsense, ask designed to fool the Fox masses into thinking they care about anything beyond their own bank accounts and fame.
90% are net losers from Trump economic policies, and they vote against their own economic and physical well being.
But the majority NEVER elects the President. ONLY 55 % vote and one side has a few more votes. So maybe 27% of us elect a President. Never hear this from the media. We need compulsory voting just as it is done in many other countries.
Compulsory voting is part of being American or it should be. Of course you need to rewrite the constitution and everybody left and right in the middle are scared to death of that possibility
I must take a few minutes out of my very busy Saturday to disagree with your cat comments. My three cats love me so much that they are always under my feet and will probably cause me to fall and break a hip one day. In other words, TOO MUCH LOVE!! It’s my fault though because I love them just as much. Also, my cat has brought me a bird :( and a few lizards who somehow got into the catio. I’m told that cats think humans are incapable of hunting for themselves and want to help. My girl kitty does not appear to have the hunting instinct but brings me her favorite toy mouse. I think dogs are for extroverts and cats are for introverts, and there may be something to that ego theory. Loved the klatch today. Happy weekend to you both!
I've wanted that man's name out of my head for years, so for me he's PO1135809 from now on. As for the debate I thought Nikki Haley made the smart choice to distance herself from the others, possibly appealing to actual conservative Republicans. All I know is we have to reelect Joe Biden at all costs.
Amen!!!!