This is a watershed moment for the 2024 election. It is correct to say Trump’s remark amounted to treason. Beau of the Fifth Column posted a video explaining why what Trump said matches the Constitution’s definition of treason (link below).
But what matters to me is WHAT THE NEWS MEDIA DOES WITH THIS STORY. It MUST become the cornerstone …
This is a watershed moment for the 2024 election. It is correct to say Trump’s remark amounted to treason. Beau of the Fifth Column posted a video explaining why what Trump said matches the Constitution’s definition of treason (link below).
But what matters to me is WHAT THE NEWS MEDIA DOES WITH THIS STORY. It MUST become the cornerstone story of the election! Biden’s age is NOTHING compared to Trump’s stated threat to destroy NATO … the greatest gift to his “friend” Putin imaginable… greater than giving Ukraine to Putin, to me.
In any other year, this would be DISQUALIFYING to Trump, and all news organizations would treat him as an enemy to America as well as to NATO going forward. Sadly, I don’t expect that to happen on the force of Trump’s statement alone.
I hope the Biden campaign realizes this is the opening they need to destroy Trump. As Steve Schmidt says, the election will turn on who it’s about. If it’s about Biden’s age, he will lose. If it’s about Trump as a threat to world peace and stability, he will lose.
How can we help insure this election is about Trump? I think it’s up to each of us to answer that question for ourselves. But make it about Trump we must!!!
Trump's comment about being able to do anything he wanted to women would have been disqualifying. His Stormy Daniels payoff would have been disqualifying. His mocking a disabled reporter would have been disqualifying. His behavior with respect to the Latino Judge would have been disqualifying. The court case loss with regards to Trump University would have been disqualifying. His loss of the court case with respect to his "family charity" would have disqualifying. His behavior at press conferences would have been disqualifying. Hugging the American flag should have been disqualifying. Have you ever seen a grown adult do that? No it doesn't show the proper respect. His comments about McCain should have been disqualifying. All of his comments about veterans should have been disqualifying. The fact that he didn't pay attention during the presidential daily briefs should have been disqualifying. The fact that he didn't listen to any of the experts around him should have been disqualifying. The fact that he didn't listen to the State Department protocol briefings before he met with foreign dignitaries made him an embarrassment to the country. I'm too depressed to go on.
With you, Paula. Depressed and frightened. The worst part? He’s a sick, vile, evil ignoramous-but SO MANY people here in Fla and around the country think he’s the key to better. The absolute degeneration of our society-or at least the normalizing of the worst that we can be-that he has unleashed is incomprehensible to me. I worry for my kids and my kids’ kids-how can what has been unleashed ever be tamed? I fear the murder of democracy in our lifetime.
Hang in there, Jen. Down in Florida you’re surrounded. Try to maintain your sanity for nine more months and see if things aren’t looking a bit brighter. The 2024 election will be the great sifting and I think the neo-fascists who pull the lever for Donald Trump will provide around 35% for the Mussolini/Hitler ticket. That won’t be enough. I expect that election to mark the beginning of the end of this nine year national nightmare.
All my kids and grandkids live in Florida. A drive through central Florida is depressing as is a drive on I-10 through the Panhandle. Trump country. Those folks don't understand that tfg would not have anything to do with them. If he did business with them, he would try to cheat them out of money owed. The creep is running for president TO STAY OUT OF JAIL!!! He doesn't have any ideas for the country other than revenge and project 2025, which is a billionaires' project to return the US to the kleptocracy of the Gilded Age.
The one I always think of first was that he said he could murder somebody on a busy street in broad daylight and get clean away with it.
In my secret heart the reply I hear is "Karma is a Bitch!" or "What goes around, comes around" because we should not be made to suffer such speech and behavior in a civilized society. Little kids hear those things as well as the rest of us.
If trompy were to win the immunity case (he won't, or at least shouldn't,) I can picture Dark Brandon shooting him in Times Square and getting away with it, because, immunity. The traitor must be treated as such.
Swear words. Young Kyle was 17 when he travelled from Illinois to Wisconsin, where he used an AR15 combat assault rifle (I was was not a grunt, but we all carried an M16 in Vietnam, in case we needed it some day -- there is a switch that changes between fully automatic and semi-automatic. There is very little difference between auto and semi-auto -- if you know or meet a grunt, ask him his opinion about the difference between automatic and semi-automatic -- sometimes they used semi-auto to save ammo, or so I was told). Rittenhouse, in his 17-year-old minor's immature mind, no doubt in my mind, went to Kenosha hoping to shoot somebody. He murdered two people in the street, and seriously injured a third. The jury found him not guilty, due to "self-defense". Many people believe justice was not served. Maybe 45 would be exonerated under similar circumstances. It ain't right. Note that I may be a little extra indignant about that incident because it occurred about three city blocks from the house where my Mother grew up in Kenosha.
My Dad worked in Kenosha until he retired. One of my sisters was born in Kenosha. I lived in Kenosha while attending UW-Parkside. Growing up in Kenosha County, when we "went to Town", we went to Kenosha.
Most of us have seen pictures of men standing around, all decked out like they belong to a "well-regulated militia", sporting their semi-auto long guns, or wearing a pistol on their hip, advocating for "open carry". I always thought that somebody would take it too far and shoot somebody in the street, like tffg said, thinking they would get away with it. Well, it never occurred to me that a person in Kenosha, who was legally a child, would be inspired by tffg to shoot somebody in the street and ultimately got away with it.
A punk from Illinois, an out of state punk, crossing state lines to commit murder, driven in a car by his mother. Not only was he not convicted, the MAGAs lionized him.
We humans have a very long history of being unable to find justice in various instances. So we have invented concepts like "Hell" and eternal damnation to try to help us feel better about being denied justice in this world.
So true. Just look at the history of what the conservatives have done in the last 50 years from Nixon, Reagan, HW Bush, GW Bush and then orange face. Every dirty trick they could some up with in the shadows and we would only find out after nothing could be done. They twisted the law to their favor. All of those administrations ran on ethics, law and order while violating them all.
Rickey, what makes you call them "conservatives"? I understand that Fascism is conservative by definition, but they want to roll back the treatment and support of women, children, underprivileged and people of color. They want to bring back slavery and reduce benefits we paid into our entire lives.
Funny how things get turned upside down. Like the term 'the gay nineties' for example. A 'gay' period of time. Now, a 'lifestyle'. Personally, I wish those humbug "conservative" would recognize and appreciate the "gaiety" that embodies our nation and quit trying to dumb it down by burning library books, enforcement of biblical scribbling, and impolite behavior. Like.., try to be nice, don't fake it.
He's gotten away with it because the GQP has manifested into a criminal entity. Since Leonard Leo and the gang of alt-right Billionaires groomed a couple of Supreme Court Justices to give them Citizens United. It's been balls to the walls floodgate of dark money. They own the Court and they own many parts of our MSM. Charles Koch loves Putin. They go way back. The fucking Billionaires will have their knees on all our throats.
By the way, per Project 2025, funding for Ukraine and any other country for that matter will be shut down.
Well, I don't know how old you are, but your memory is excellent, and what you recall is sickening. Makes me want to send a copy of this to every Republican I know.
We do... I see a lot of emojis here, but I don't know how to catch them. Most of them are too OTT anyway - rolling around, full of teeth and tears and sweat. If I could just use that little face with a wink. But I can't make it "take".
...and so many other disqualifying events. He should have been impeached immediately, permanently disqualified from holding any political office, and eternally ostracized by every American citizen, for his behavior at the 2018 Helsinki summit alone.
Actually, Jeri, being depressed is a choice. How we react to the events in our life is up to us. We do not control the events themselves but we do control how we react to them. NOTE: I am not referring to personal attacks, of course. If someone shoots you, you've going to be upset with them... unless you're the Pope, who famously forgave the man who tried to assassinate him. But Trump's assault on our systems of government doesn't "require" a depressed mental mood reaction. It can also cause a creative positive response as you look for a way to construct a counterbalancing response (think Tai Chi... where you use the force of the opponent against them). This is what I do most days. I think of how I can (long term) counteract the forces of evil that Trump has added fuel to since entering the world of politics.
Just a little "tough love" support... admittedly unsolicited by you... so, feel free to ignore it.
Been doing Tai Chi for a year. I do try to "counterbalance" the evil of what I currently describe as my opponents. It's the reason I'm not in a funny farm. Still waiting for that million-man-march.
When Trump's recorded words about grabbing... came out, I knew right there that I could never vote for him. I already knew that I could never vote (again) for Hillary the blood-soaked Butcher of Libya.
The problem is that so many voters don't pay the remotest attention to presidential elections until maybe September. Team Biden needs to keep hammering Trump between now and then to stay in practice, then release the kraken from Labor Day to Election Day.
Many people are going to be part of the postcard project that very successfully increased democratic voting in the last several elections, enough to win against predicted red sweeps. A number of us are doing the post cards this year for the time. More specific information will be available around early May.
If you can afford to donate to some of these letter/postcard campaigns, they supply the postages and supplies to people willing to help who cannot afford the cost of doing so.
A fascinating project, the postcards. It's the one piece of mail someone might pay attention to because it's micro-short, doesn't have to be opened, and sent by someone you might know.
Yes, please write!!!! I had someone ask what I hoped to accomplish with writing the postcards. My response: if receiving a handwritten card gets folks to look at a candidate again and go vote, then my time and money has been so worth the effort!!! I'm into year 3 of writing cards. Looking forward to all of you joining me!
Well, every news source in the world has reacted to this treasonous declaration today with shock and horror - after all, it amounts to a declaration of war. His cult fans ought to consider that for a minute.
They considered it--and loved it. ("Them cheese-eating surrender monkeys in Yewrope is too uppity by half. But Lord Trump told 'em, "Pay or slay, bitches.")
I swear Trump could poop on his cultists' front porches and they'd be out there cleaning it up and asking for another load.
It sounds so pre WW2. Hilter told everyone what his plans were. And they didn't believe him. Humanity is capable of bringing hell to our doorsteps. As we are witnessing first hand in the middle east.
So true, Anne-Louise. Our evolution is a very slow process. The players change but the games remain this same. Those who want control and those who desire basic dignity.
I marvel at the poet Robert Burns. Everybody knows that second line, it's easy to relate it to wars (war: bad, religion: good), but the first line is never quoted. Too close to the bone. It's a bitter indictment of the hypocrisy of those who profess to believe they are made in the likeness of a god whose son taught universal love and forgiveness. And he does it in ten words. Nine, if you count "heav'n-erected" as one.
Quite the metaphor. Im not sure equating the saner part of the American electorate with a fabled sea monster is quite the best idea. Then, I'm remembering the 50s British sci-fi thriller "The Kraken Wakes" !
Watching the vid. now. Thank you. Let us all just laugh at Trump as if he were a clown. Belittle him mercilessly. Like the 1930s, the emergence of misrule by the cognitive under-class involves the complicity of many advanced degrees. EDIT: this gentleman brings me up short. Looking at him and hearing him speak, I would assume he is a M.A.G.A.-type. Of course, he is not and, so, shame on me. The lesson for me comes down to what Dr M.L. King said all those years ago that burned itself in the impressionable memory of a future moderate-to-conservative voter (i.e., me): judge a (wo)man not by the color of his or her skin; by the fashion of his or her garb; the look of his or her appearance and bearing; or, the sound of his or her voice. Judge that (wo)man by the content of his or her character.
Thank you for watching Beau’s video. He lives in rural northern Florida with his wife, kids, horses, dogs. I think he’s also ex- military intelligence. And he has a large network to help him understand foreign and national affairs. Yes, he looks like a “red neck” MAGA type. Then you listen and learn the point you said Dr King made. Thanks again for watching. I hope you subscribed too! He’s very concerned about the Middle East.
Thanks, Steve. I have watched several of Beau's videos but did not know anything about his background. I like his plain-speak deliveries that gets to the point. I consider him an added voice to what we need to accomplish come November.
Without question, Trump's comments yet again for the umpteenth time are on the outer edge of sanity, responsibility and civilization. He is without doubt, a Seditionist Sociopath who indeed should be disqualified based upon the 14th Amendment in a legal and constitutional sense, and based upon everything he has said and done in a political and common sensical sense.
Yet, his outrageously dangerous, stupid and irresponsible comments "encouraging Russia" to do whatever it wants to whatever (fill in the blank} "delinquent" NATO country are not an example of treasonous conduct. He obviously did not levy war against the US, nor did this statement consist of giving aid and comfort to an American enemy.
Russia, as horrendously backwards and homicidal a State as it is under Trump's puppet-master Putin, is NOT an enemy of the United States. We have neither declared war against Russian, nor severed diplomatic relations with them. Their criminal acts of aggression in Ukraine are violations of various international laws, but not of any American law.
So his "encouraging" Russia, an adversary of ours on political principle and declared policy yet not an enemy, is not an act of treason.
What his statement does demonstrate yet again however ,is that he is wholly disqualified to run for and serve as President, because he has yet again, called for the specific non-execution and rejection of American law, i.e., the NATO treaty to which we are a signatory.
The irony here is that mere days after the oral arguments before the Supreme Court wherein his disqualification for the Presidency under the 14th Amendment was heard, he explicitly declares himself disqualified for the Presidency by making clear he cannot swear an oath to "faithfully execute the laws of the United States", which of course, include all treaties we have entered into.
The silver lining in the long, never dissipating dark cloud that is Trump and Trumpism, is his sheer idiocy
But if no one points out the sheer idiocy his cultists think it's normal and he descends further into his personal hell and they follow. You are relying on them to make a rational decision to quit the cult.
Proclaim the dangerous idiocy from the rooftops and some may hear.
The MAGA-t's don't read "this crap" ..., we do. And it's good that we do. What ever is pasted on here is open comment. Sure, comments can be heavily opinionated and just as heavily critiqued. Politeness seems to prevail. We all benefit.
Trump's idiocy is why Trump needs Joe "mashed-potato brain" Biden as his opponent. Both of them should be locked up in a minimum security nursing home.
Oh c'mon John..., the country has done pretty well the past three years. Could we have done better? Surely you'd agree. But,given the forces at work, I only wonder how. I guess we can throw the blame on"capitalism" or "Democracy" , althjough I'm not personally equipped to present anything better. Can you. I mean, what ever you might come up with, could it have been effectively implemented in three years to have been accepted by everybody as the way to go? This blather aboutBiden's fitness, or claimsof poor decisions, age, ad infinititum (sp), are pointless..., like WE own the car, and it's the only car we want to be riding in for the next 4 years. So, to me, the die is cast. I'dlike to see the same kind of strength put forth for Biden, for the Country as well as the world, to see. Biden's fate is determined in no small part by Israel supporters and support of those who havehad enough of Israel. Try playing to those two audiences. How the heck do you play that game without losing your balance. What'dayou think?
This is why mainstream media will not cover this threat (pulled from Wikipedia, Sinclair Broadcast Group):
"Sinclair, Inc. (doing business as Sinclair Broadcast Group) is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith. Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb of Cockeysville, Maryland,[3] the company is the second-largest television station operator in the United States by number of stations (after Nexstar Media Group), owning or operating a total of 193 stations across the country in over 100 markets (covering 40% of American households) and is the largest owner of stations affiliated with Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, MyNetworkTV, and The CW. Sinclair also owns four digital multicast networks (Comet, Charge!, The Nest, and TBD), sports-oriented cable networks (Stadium, Tennis Channel, and Bally Sports Regional Networks), and a streaming service (Stirr). On June 2, 2021, it was announced that Sinclair is a Fortune 500 company, having annual revenues of $5.9 billion in 2020."
This is why our support of independent journalists/historians like Prof. Richardson is so important -- we must each become independent discerners of truth if we want to keep our democracy.
Beau is important 'because' he looks and sounds like a MAGA supporter. He's more likely to penetrate those closed off red neck ears because first impressions are apparently a big part of building or not building trust . Go Beau! And thanks Steve for sharing.
Let local people read what others are saying about the BLOAT, who is also a traitor.
Funny I told my financial guy that I wouldn't go so far as calling repubs traitors, but each and everyone of them who comes out and makes excuses for the orange shit gibbon is a traitor. It's that simple.
I found Beau a year or so ago, and maybe six months ago discovered his second long format "The Roads with Beau" (posted every Thursday and Sunday)
What I don't understand is why his numbers aren't increasing. I saw the worthy Brian Tyler Cohen's go up about a half million in six months.
I encourage everyone reading to check out Beau, and to hit the subscribe button. It is free, but more importantly, it builds the algorithm which will put his common sense explanations into more feeds. I don't know about BTC, but Beau IS watched by MAGA types, as he often reads the comments they send him.
Thank you for supporting Beau of the Fifth Column. I wonder about his numbers too, and the only think I can figure out is that he is not interested in playing the "promote your channel through advertising" game. He never has "sponsors," for example. This is just a guess on my part. Perhaps I will submit that question and it will be answered during one of his "Roads with Beau" videos.
Let us also not forget Rep. Clay Higgins who threatened a sitting judge on social media. If I ever threatened a sitting congressman on social media I would (hopefully) have a visit from law enforcement.
"Giving Ukraine to Putin"? As if we can win, without or WITH nuclear weapons?
Ukraine's oppressive far-right thug regime, enslaved by the International Monetary Fund, precipitated Russia's invasion by deliberately un-freezing the civil war in the Donbass.
The United States, with Biden as a point man, built up the military of Ukraine’s corrupt far-right thug regime where Interior Minister Avakov, political boss of the neo-Nazis, controlled the police stations, precipitating rebellion in Ukraine’s Russian-speaking areas (about half the country). Ukraine in 2022 built up its troops on the line of contact in the Donbass, preparing to invade. Russia then signed mutual defense treaties with the breakaway Donbass republics. As Ukrainian oligarchs fled (draining the Kyiv airport of rental jets) and Lloyd's stopped insuring Ukrainian cargoes, Ukraine began its pre-invasion bombardment, and Russia intervened.
... and this from Louis Navellier ... how to profit from tragedy of the times ... with Newsom wrapped up in the presidency, that would open California to elect a new governor ... I wonder who might want to control the 5th largest economy in the ... wait for it ..., the world ...?
I'm so happy you enjoyed watching Beau's video! Yes, he presents information in a very thoughtful and unrushed manner. He rarely shows emotions (but sometimes he does). He's a very much "Here are the facts people are not seeing clearly" kind of guy. I hope you become a regular watcher now. And thanks again for writing!
This is a watershed moment for the 2024 election. It is correct to say Trump’s remark amounted to treason. Beau of the Fifth Column posted a video explaining why what Trump said matches the Constitution’s definition of treason (link below).
But what matters to me is WHAT THE NEWS MEDIA DOES WITH THIS STORY. It MUST become the cornerstone story of the election! Biden’s age is NOTHING compared to Trump’s stated threat to destroy NATO … the greatest gift to his “friend” Putin imaginable… greater than giving Ukraine to Putin, to me.
In any other year, this would be DISQUALIFYING to Trump, and all news organizations would treat him as an enemy to America as well as to NATO going forward. Sadly, I don’t expect that to happen on the force of Trump’s statement alone.
I hope the Biden campaign realizes this is the opening they need to destroy Trump. As Steve Schmidt says, the election will turn on who it’s about. If it’s about Biden’s age, he will lose. If it’s about Trump as a threat to world peace and stability, he will lose.
How can we help insure this election is about Trump? I think it’s up to each of us to answer that question for ourselves. But make it about Trump we must!!!
Beau of the Fifth Column's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz9n2KWw214
Trump's comment about being able to do anything he wanted to women would have been disqualifying. His Stormy Daniels payoff would have been disqualifying. His mocking a disabled reporter would have been disqualifying. His behavior with respect to the Latino Judge would have been disqualifying. The court case loss with regards to Trump University would have been disqualifying. His loss of the court case with respect to his "family charity" would have disqualifying. His behavior at press conferences would have been disqualifying. Hugging the American flag should have been disqualifying. Have you ever seen a grown adult do that? No it doesn't show the proper respect. His comments about McCain should have been disqualifying. All of his comments about veterans should have been disqualifying. The fact that he didn't pay attention during the presidential daily briefs should have been disqualifying. The fact that he didn't listen to any of the experts around him should have been disqualifying. The fact that he didn't listen to the State Department protocol briefings before he met with foreign dignitaries made him an embarrassment to the country. I'm too depressed to go on.
With you, Paula. Depressed and frightened. The worst part? He’s a sick, vile, evil ignoramous-but SO MANY people here in Fla and around the country think he’s the key to better. The absolute degeneration of our society-or at least the normalizing of the worst that we can be-that he has unleashed is incomprehensible to me. I worry for my kids and my kids’ kids-how can what has been unleashed ever be tamed? I fear the murder of democracy in our lifetime.
I fear it too, but keep hoping that enough people are getting sick and tired of wrestling with the pigs.
Hang in there, Jen. Down in Florida you’re surrounded. Try to maintain your sanity for nine more months and see if things aren’t looking a bit brighter. The 2024 election will be the great sifting and I think the neo-fascists who pull the lever for Donald Trump will provide around 35% for the Mussolini/Hitler ticket. That won’t be enough. I expect that election to mark the beginning of the end of this nine year national nightmare.
Let us hope!
William-thank you. I hope you are right! As someone smarter than me coined on here-from your keyboard to God’s inbox. Thank you.
In 2004, I visited DC and thought that W didn’t have a chance. Texas was right. Silly me.
2024 is the year of reckoning.
All my kids and grandkids live in Florida. A drive through central Florida is depressing as is a drive on I-10 through the Panhandle. Trump country. Those folks don't understand that tfg would not have anything to do with them. If he did business with them, he would try to cheat them out of money owed. The creep is running for president TO STAY OUT OF JAIL!!! He doesn't have any ideas for the country other than revenge and project 2025, which is a billionaires' project to return the US to the kleptocracy of the Gilded Age.
Murder of democracy. It's happening now. We may be too late.
We're experiencing "Death by a Thousand Cuts" with Trump.
I fear for our adult children, but I also, selfishly, fear the coming instability will wreck my 401K.
I wish poverty on chump, not the rest of us.
My 1st thought was, "isn't she being too kind?"
(Edit: I had to correct 2st to 1st. I guess I'm not qualified to run for president)
That’s a legit fear.
No mystery here, in plain sight.
The one I always think of first was that he said he could murder somebody on a busy street in broad daylight and get clean away with it.
In my secret heart the reply I hear is "Karma is a Bitch!" or "What goes around, comes around" because we should not be made to suffer such speech and behavior in a civilized society. Little kids hear those things as well as the rest of us.
If trompy were to win the immunity case (he won't, or at least shouldn't,) I can picture Dark Brandon shooting him in Times Square and getting away with it, because, immunity. The traitor must be treated as such.
Or do you mean Kyle Rittenhouse?
Swear words. Young Kyle was 17 when he travelled from Illinois to Wisconsin, where he used an AR15 combat assault rifle (I was was not a grunt, but we all carried an M16 in Vietnam, in case we needed it some day -- there is a switch that changes between fully automatic and semi-automatic. There is very little difference between auto and semi-auto -- if you know or meet a grunt, ask him his opinion about the difference between automatic and semi-automatic -- sometimes they used semi-auto to save ammo, or so I was told). Rittenhouse, in his 17-year-old minor's immature mind, no doubt in my mind, went to Kenosha hoping to shoot somebody. He murdered two people in the street, and seriously injured a third. The jury found him not guilty, due to "self-defense". Many people believe justice was not served. Maybe 45 would be exonerated under similar circumstances. It ain't right. Note that I may be a little extra indignant about that incident because it occurred about three city blocks from the house where my Mother grew up in Kenosha.
Much of my significant other's family lived in and around Kenosha at that time. (Four of them are now deceased).
My Dad worked in Kenosha until he retired. One of my sisters was born in Kenosha. I lived in Kenosha while attending UW-Parkside. Growing up in Kenosha County, when we "went to Town", we went to Kenosha.
Most of us have seen pictures of men standing around, all decked out like they belong to a "well-regulated militia", sporting their semi-auto long guns, or wearing a pistol on their hip, advocating for "open carry". I always thought that somebody would take it too far and shoot somebody in the street, like tffg said, thinking they would get away with it. Well, it never occurred to me that a person in Kenosha, who was legally a child, would be inspired by tffg to shoot somebody in the street and ultimately got away with it.
A punk from Illinois, an out of state punk, crossing state lines to commit murder, driven in a car by his mother. Not only was he not convicted, the MAGAs lionized him.
We humans have a very long history of being unable to find justice in various instances. So we have invented concepts like "Hell" and eternal damnation to try to help us feel better about being denied justice in this world.
So true. Just look at the history of what the conservatives have done in the last 50 years from Nixon, Reagan, HW Bush, GW Bush and then orange face. Every dirty trick they could some up with in the shadows and we would only find out after nothing could be done. They twisted the law to their favor. All of those administrations ran on ethics, law and order while violating them all.
Rickey, what makes you call them "conservatives"? I understand that Fascism is conservative by definition, but they want to roll back the treatment and support of women, children, underprivileged and people of color. They want to bring back slavery and reduce benefits we paid into our entire lives.
Aren't they really repressive regressives?
Conservative is the name they chose for themselves, and for the past 50 years they’ve made a mockery of it.
Funny how things get turned upside down. Like the term 'the gay nineties' for example. A 'gay' period of time. Now, a 'lifestyle'. Personally, I wish those humbug "conservative" would recognize and appreciate the "gaiety" that embodies our nation and quit trying to dumb it down by burning library books, enforcement of biblical scribbling, and impolite behavior. Like.., try to be nice, don't fake it.
He's gotten away with it because the GQP has manifested into a criminal entity. Since Leonard Leo and the gang of alt-right Billionaires groomed a couple of Supreme Court Justices to give them Citizens United. It's been balls to the walls floodgate of dark money. They own the Court and they own many parts of our MSM. Charles Koch loves Putin. They go way back. The fucking Billionaires will have their knees on all our throats.
By the way, per Project 2025, funding for Ukraine and any other country for that matter will be shut down.
SFB (#45).., a'wanted man'. Rikers is ready.
Well, I don't know how old you are, but your memory is excellent, and what you recall is sickening. Makes me want to send a copy of this to every Republican I know.
He did play a lot of golf.
And cheated infamously.
We need a laugh emoji!
We do... I see a lot of emojis here, but I don't know how to catch them. Most of them are too OTT anyway - rolling around, full of teeth and tears and sweat. If I could just use that little face with a wink. But I can't make it "take".
Cheating is not playing golf. It’s something, but not golf.
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Yay! I've got a new skill! Thank you, VermontGirl.
I did it! Then I tried to do it again! This is going to take work, but I'll get it.
...and so many other disqualifying events. He should have been impeached immediately, permanently disqualified from holding any political office, and eternally ostracized by every American citizen, for his behavior at the 2018 Helsinki summit alone.
I didn’t mean to depress you.
How can one not.,,
Actually, Jeri, being depressed is a choice. How we react to the events in our life is up to us. We do not control the events themselves but we do control how we react to them. NOTE: I am not referring to personal attacks, of course. If someone shoots you, you've going to be upset with them... unless you're the Pope, who famously forgave the man who tried to assassinate him. But Trump's assault on our systems of government doesn't "require" a depressed mental mood reaction. It can also cause a creative positive response as you look for a way to construct a counterbalancing response (think Tai Chi... where you use the force of the opponent against them). This is what I do most days. I think of how I can (long term) counteract the forces of evil that Trump has added fuel to since entering the world of politics.
Just a little "tough love" support... admittedly unsolicited by you... so, feel free to ignore it.
Been doing Tai Chi for a year. I do try to "counterbalance" the evil of what I currently describe as my opponents. It's the reason I'm not in a funny farm. Still waiting for that million-man-march.
Hey, you could write a book with this theme, but you probably couldn’t survive the depressive funk…
Gosh, Paula…i am so with you!!!
When Trump's recorded words about grabbing... came out, I knew right there that I could never vote for him. I already knew that I could never vote (again) for Hillary the blood-soaked Butcher of Libya.
The problem is that so many voters don't pay the remotest attention to presidential elections until maybe September. Team Biden needs to keep hammering Trump between now and then to stay in practice, then release the kraken from Labor Day to Election Day.
Many people are going to be part of the postcard project that very successfully increased democratic voting in the last several elections, enough to win against predicted red sweeps. A number of us are doing the post cards this year for the time. More specific information will be available around early May.
I'm in, Karen!
I'm supposed to get some this week from Reclaim Our Vote.
Can I do write/mail from France where I live? I need to see how to help. I was last living in VA. But I want to help swing swingier (?) states
If you can afford to donate to some of these letter/postcard campaigns, they supply the postages and supplies to people willing to help who cannot afford the cost of doing so.
that's a nice twist. I could do that.
A fascinating project, the postcards. It's the one piece of mail someone might pay attention to because it's micro-short, doesn't have to be opened, and sent by someone you might know.
Yes, please write!!!! I had someone ask what I hoped to accomplish with writing the postcards. My response: if receiving a handwritten card gets folks to look at a candidate again and go vote, then my time and money has been so worth the effort!!! I'm into year 3 of writing cards. Looking forward to all of you joining me!
Postcards to Voters at : https://postcardstovoters.org/
You do need to supply postcards and postage, but an easy way to be involved.
Well, every news source in the world has reacted to this treasonous declaration today with shock and horror - after all, it amounts to a declaration of war. His cult fans ought to consider that for a minute.
They considered it--and loved it. ("Them cheese-eating surrender monkeys in Yewrope is too uppity by half. But Lord Trump told 'em, "Pay or slay, bitches.")
I swear Trump could poop on his cultists' front porches and they'd be out there cleaning it up and asking for another load.
It sounds so pre WW2. Hilter told everyone what his plans were. And they didn't believe him. Humanity is capable of bringing hell to our doorsteps. As we are witnessing first hand in the middle east.
Robert Burns wrote these lines in 1784:
And man, whose heav'n-erected face
The smiles of love adorn, -
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
So true, Anne-Louise. Our evolution is a very slow process. The players change but the games remain this same. Those who want control and those who desire basic dignity.
I marvel at the poet Robert Burns. Everybody knows that second line, it's easy to relate it to wars (war: bad, religion: good), but the first line is never quoted. Too close to the bone. It's a bitter indictment of the hypocrisy of those who profess to believe they are made in the likeness of a god whose son taught universal love and forgiveness. And he does it in ten words. Nine, if you count "heav'n-erected" as one.
Yupperr... "human nature". Keep yer guard up :))
Hope better than news sources in US
Exactly...instead of running with the news of citizen trumps shout out to Putin, US news media focused on age and memory.
since Biden cannot dispute his age, they will keep it up.
“ release the kraken …”
Indeed, yes!
Quite the metaphor. Im not sure equating the saner part of the American electorate with a fabled sea monster is quite the best idea. Then, I'm remembering the 50s British sci-fi thriller "The Kraken Wakes" !
Watching the vid. now. Thank you. Let us all just laugh at Trump as if he were a clown. Belittle him mercilessly. Like the 1930s, the emergence of misrule by the cognitive under-class involves the complicity of many advanced degrees. EDIT: this gentleman brings me up short. Looking at him and hearing him speak, I would assume he is a M.A.G.A.-type. Of course, he is not and, so, shame on me. The lesson for me comes down to what Dr M.L. King said all those years ago that burned itself in the impressionable memory of a future moderate-to-conservative voter (i.e., me): judge a (wo)man not by the color of his or her skin; by the fashion of his or her garb; the look of his or her appearance and bearing; or, the sound of his or her voice. Judge that (wo)man by the content of his or her character.
Thank you for watching Beau’s video. He lives in rural northern Florida with his wife, kids, horses, dogs. I think he’s also ex- military intelligence. And he has a large network to help him understand foreign and national affairs. Yes, he looks like a “red neck” MAGA type. Then you listen and learn the point you said Dr King made. Thanks again for watching. I hope you subscribed too! He’s very concerned about the Middle East.
Thanks, Steve. I have watched several of Beau's videos but did not know anything about his background. I like his plain-speak deliveries that gets to the point. I consider him an added voice to what we need to accomplish come November.
He makes me a better man, though I do not know him. Why? Because he makes me think.
Beau is great.
BEAU OF THE FIFTH COLUMN - 12/12/24
https://m.youtube.com/c/BeauoftheFifthColumn/videos
Let's talk about Egypt withdrawing from a peace treaty with Israel....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nBoWva2OLm8
Chump is a clown with a flame thrower (stole that from somebody, but sure fits).
Let's not get carried away, Steve.
Without question, Trump's comments yet again for the umpteenth time are on the outer edge of sanity, responsibility and civilization. He is without doubt, a Seditionist Sociopath who indeed should be disqualified based upon the 14th Amendment in a legal and constitutional sense, and based upon everything he has said and done in a political and common sensical sense.
Yet, his outrageously dangerous, stupid and irresponsible comments "encouraging Russia" to do whatever it wants to whatever (fill in the blank} "delinquent" NATO country are not an example of treasonous conduct. He obviously did not levy war against the US, nor did this statement consist of giving aid and comfort to an American enemy.
Russia, as horrendously backwards and homicidal a State as it is under Trump's puppet-master Putin, is NOT an enemy of the United States. We have neither declared war against Russian, nor severed diplomatic relations with them. Their criminal acts of aggression in Ukraine are violations of various international laws, but not of any American law.
So his "encouraging" Russia, an adversary of ours on political principle and declared policy yet not an enemy, is not an act of treason.
What his statement does demonstrate yet again however ,is that he is wholly disqualified to run for and serve as President, because he has yet again, called for the specific non-execution and rejection of American law, i.e., the NATO treaty to which we are a signatory.
The irony here is that mere days after the oral arguments before the Supreme Court wherein his disqualification for the Presidency under the 14th Amendment was heard, he explicitly declares himself disqualified for the Presidency by making clear he cannot swear an oath to "faithfully execute the laws of the United States", which of course, include all treaties we have entered into.
The silver lining in the long, never dissipating dark cloud that is Trump and Trumpism, is his sheer idiocy
But if no one points out the sheer idiocy his cultists think it's normal and he descends further into his personal hell and they follow. You are relying on them to make a rational decision to quit the cult.
Proclaim the dangerous idiocy from the rooftops and some may hear.
The MAGA-t's don't read "this crap" ..., we do. And it's good that we do. What ever is pasted on here is open comment. Sure, comments can be heavily opinionated and just as heavily critiqued. Politeness seems to prevail. We all benefit.
Trump's idiocy is why Trump needs Joe "mashed-potato brain" Biden as his opponent. Both of them should be locked up in a minimum security nursing home.
Oh c'mon John..., the country has done pretty well the past three years. Could we have done better? Surely you'd agree. But,given the forces at work, I only wonder how. I guess we can throw the blame on"capitalism" or "Democracy" , althjough I'm not personally equipped to present anything better. Can you. I mean, what ever you might come up with, could it have been effectively implemented in three years to have been accepted by everybody as the way to go? This blather aboutBiden's fitness, or claimsof poor decisions, age, ad infinititum (sp), are pointless..., like WE own the car, and it's the only car we want to be riding in for the next 4 years. So, to me, the die is cast. I'dlike to see the same kind of strength put forth for Biden, for the Country as well as the world, to see. Biden's fate is determined in no small part by Israel supporters and support of those who havehad enough of Israel. Try playing to those two audiences. How the heck do you play that game without losing your balance. What'dayou think?
This is why mainstream media will not cover this threat (pulled from Wikipedia, Sinclair Broadcast Group):
"Sinclair, Inc. (doing business as Sinclair Broadcast Group) is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith. Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb of Cockeysville, Maryland,[3] the company is the second-largest television station operator in the United States by number of stations (after Nexstar Media Group), owning or operating a total of 193 stations across the country in over 100 markets (covering 40% of American households) and is the largest owner of stations affiliated with Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, MyNetworkTV, and The CW. Sinclair also owns four digital multicast networks (Comet, Charge!, The Nest, and TBD), sports-oriented cable networks (Stadium, Tennis Channel, and Bally Sports Regional Networks), and a streaming service (Stirr). On June 2, 2021, it was announced that Sinclair is a Fortune 500 company, having annual revenues of $5.9 billion in 2020."
This is why our support of independent journalists/historians like Prof. Richardson is so important -- we must each become independent discerners of truth if we want to keep our democracy.
Beau is important 'because' he looks and sounds like a MAGA supporter. He's more likely to penetrate those closed off red neck ears because first impressions are apparently a big part of building or not building trust . Go Beau! And thanks Steve for sharing.
You’re right on the mark!
Sadly, the fourth estate is now a fifth column.
Beau is worth listening to. Thank you for the link.
Lots of letters to the editors come to mind.
Let local people read what others are saying about the BLOAT, who is also a traitor.
Funny I told my financial guy that I wouldn't go so far as calling repubs traitors, but each and everyone of them who comes out and makes excuses for the orange shit gibbon is a traitor. It's that simple.
I found Beau a year or so ago, and maybe six months ago discovered his second long format "The Roads with Beau" (posted every Thursday and Sunday)
What I don't understand is why his numbers aren't increasing. I saw the worthy Brian Tyler Cohen's go up about a half million in six months.
I encourage everyone reading to check out Beau, and to hit the subscribe button. It is free, but more importantly, it builds the algorithm which will put his common sense explanations into more feeds. I don't know about BTC, but Beau IS watched by MAGA types, as he often reads the comments they send him.
Thank you for supporting Beau of the Fifth Column. I wonder about his numbers too, and the only think I can figure out is that he is not interested in playing the "promote your channel through advertising" game. He never has "sponsors," for example. This is just a guess on my part. Perhaps I will submit that question and it will be answered during one of his "Roads with Beau" videos.
Wish the MSM was on our side
Let us also not forget Rep. Clay Higgins who threatened a sitting judge on social media. If I ever threatened a sitting congressman on social media I would (hopefully) have a visit from law enforcement.
"Giving Ukraine to Putin"? As if we can win, without or WITH nuclear weapons?
Ukraine's oppressive far-right thug regime, enslaved by the International Monetary Fund, precipitated Russia's invasion by deliberately un-freezing the civil war in the Donbass.
The United States, with Biden as a point man, built up the military of Ukraine’s corrupt far-right thug regime where Interior Minister Avakov, political boss of the neo-Nazis, controlled the police stations, precipitating rebellion in Ukraine’s Russian-speaking areas (about half the country). Ukraine in 2022 built up its troops on the line of contact in the Donbass, preparing to invade. Russia then signed mutual defense treaties with the breakaway Donbass republics. As Ukrainian oligarchs fled (draining the Kyiv airport of rental jets) and Lloyd's stopped insuring Ukrainian cargoes, Ukraine began its pre-invasion bombardment, and Russia intervened.
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Trump needs Biden as his opponent.
A movement among party leaders is getting ready to throw the Biden campaign under the bus, in favor of Gavin Newsom.
Here's an article that is already rehearsing talking points against Newsom:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13070637/gavin-newsom-las-vegas-biden.html
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Please do not feed the troll.
If Biden goes under the bus, then Beth Cobb is out of a job.
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... and this from Louis Navellier ... how to profit from tragedy of the times ... with Newsom wrapped up in the presidency, that would open California to elect a new governor ... I wonder who might want to control the 5th largest economy in the ... wait for it ..., the world ...?
https://secure.thefreeportsociety.com/?cid=MKT779437&eid=MKT787171&tid=7fdbf2ddeab94b19bb703caa56d8c829&assetId=AST327192&page=2
I'm so happy you enjoyed watching Beau's video! Yes, he presents information in a very thoughtful and unrushed manner. He rarely shows emotions (but sometimes he does). He's a very much "Here are the facts people are not seeing clearly" kind of guy. I hope you become a regular watcher now. And thanks again for writing!