Ted, as you say in your profile, nothing we're experiencing is inevitable. We have the power to fix this. The only choice is deciding whether to be worried about it enough to do something. If yes, then we agree. Subscribe to my fee-free newsletter and let's talk. If no, then why all the complaining? Apparently, it's not a big deal.
My latest newsletter describes why the only cure for the authoritarian disease is not even all that difficult, only inconvenient, except a lot less inconvenient than submitting to an authoritarian autocracy.
Where are the voices of Congressional Democrats? Where is the media? Where is the outrage? Where are our young people - organizing, mobilizing, making themselves heard? I'm 82-- did all that for civil rights, and later against the war! If anything this is worse and it seems to me that everyone is standing around and letting it happen as though it were business as usual!
I am very aware that Republicans have the majorities-- but loud opposing voices are needed everywhere so that we inform, educate people about what is really going on! The fact that there is so little speaks to the failure of our educational system and the corruption of our election system. But we are not without voices and we need to use them!
Thank you so much for saying this! Elected democrats have one job right now, and that is to mobilize people. We need to educate and mobilize our young people, who are disengaged and not even aware most of this is happening and how much it will effect them. Let's get off our phones, stand up for justice, and help organize people to RESIST.
There have been demonstrations in all 50 states. It takes a while to organize. Most of the damage was done a few days ago and over a weekend. Have patience.
New procurements for first of a kind contracts require funding appropriations from Congress and there must be room in the budget for such contracts to be let. The distractions by Musk and Trump are to set up those contracts. The programs are not $1 billion. They are hundreds of $ billions. Graft is Donald Trump’s agenda and intention. Legal graft is best, but not the BIG buck$. Everything else is a distraction from what is really in play. How about privatizing the post office? An illegal graft pipeline. How about privatizing schools? An illegal graft pipeline. How about building and operating detention centers? An illegal graft pipeline. How about Medicare privatization? An illegal graft pipeline. How about the Sovereign Trust Fund? An illegal graft pipeline. Kickbacks that you will never see: the bitcoin exchange, the Kushner-Saudi lashup, etc. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/rape-the-us-treasury?r=3m1bs
DEPARTMENT OF OBVIOUSNESS DEPARTMENT: This is clearly the same way that Musk got into the voting machine tallys and delivered the election to Trump in exchange for this "Privilege". "We got conned" - says the WORLD.
I was in the process of transcribing Lawrence O’Donnell’s podcast on my iPhone so I could email it to various media when a big “X” all of a sudden hovered briefly on my screen. I had been writing about Elon Musk! Creepy.
I went ahead and sent it, but after reading what I sent I saw some of the words had been changed and paragraphs were pushed together.
“Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary is the first Treasury Secretary in history that should be IMPEACHED!
Impeached for handing those keys to the Treasury to Elon Musk.
It would be like having the richest customer of a bank tell the bank president, “Hey, I want to see everyone else’s accounts at the bank.” And the bank president opens the books to let the richest customer of the bank see and do whatever he wants.
And to extend this “Exhibit A” a bit, imagine if the richest customer of the bank hates that bank and is fully loyal to another bank. And that bank is in China. And his business and wealth is completely dependent on the good graces of China.
What are the chances that Elon Musk would let his friends in the Chinese government know a little bit more, or a LOT more about the inner workings of the United States Treasury?”
~ an excerpt from “The Last Word” with Lawrence O’Donnell, on MSNBC. Listen to the entire article below.
We have seen subservient conservative politicians rubber stamp Trump's illegal sacking of career public servants. It occurs to me that they have not considered that this may also be their fate if Congress itself becomes irrelevant.
What is the point in a functionless member of a functionless institution?
HCR took more time today to share her stuff with us. I was riveted. It's amazing how I hung on every word and idea. Thank you! We are living through an incredibly trying time.
DEPARTMENT OF OBVIOUSNESS DEPARTMENT: This is clearly the same way that Musk got into the voting machine tallys and delivered the election to Trump in exchange for this "Privilege". "We got conned" - says the WORLD.
I logged in to my social security account to make sure I still could and carefully read the "Terms of Service", which I have to agree to before entering the system. I chose not to enter, now that Musk's minions have control of the entire system.
This line was especially disturbing:
"I agree that the Social Security Administration is not responsible for the improper disclosure of any information that the Social Security Administration has provided to me or any information that is on or from my computer or other device, whether due to my negligence or the wrongful acts of others."
That particular requirement is so poorly written that I'm not really sure what I'm agreeing to, but it sounds like I'm exonerating the SSA for anything "improper" they may do with my information, or with information they may steal from my devices by nefarious means.
Everyone needs to understand that it was the income tax with its high upper marginal rates created our extensive, inclusive middle class. This is proven by the fact that without such a tax, wealth aggregates as seen in EVERY civilization that ever existed including ours up to that point. There no argument to allow aggregation of wealth or that socialism is bad as most of human existence was spent in socialist interpersonal debt economies that controlled wealth and power such that egalitarianism was the rule until money was invented.
The rich do not work for the majority of their wealth, they skim it from the economy and take control over society, just look at EVERY civilization ever that did not control wealth acquisition.
The thing about government is that it is not there to make a profit, but is there to ensure a level playing field and to provide economies of scale for the public.
Someone told me today several things: That Russian ships are not allowed through the Panama Canal; that they are not allowed in Greenland; and that they are not allowed in Canada’s Arctic Ocean areas. Now, I don’t know if this is currently true; but if it is, then doesn’t that mean that all of Trump’s public musings seem to involve Russia not having freedom of movement throughout the West. Exactly who is Donald Trump working for here?
J6 the Capital.
J31 the Treasury.
They don’t need to storm any more buildings. They have control of the purse strings of the entire federal government.
Prepare impeachment of the Treasury Secretary, the nominated OMB Russel Voight, and the President.
Secure the midterms. God help us.
God helps those who help themselves.
Ted, as you say in your profile, nothing we're experiencing is inevitable. We have the power to fix this. The only choice is deciding whether to be worried about it enough to do something. If yes, then we agree. Subscribe to my fee-free newsletter and let's talk. If no, then why all the complaining? Apparently, it's not a big deal.
My latest newsletter describes why the only cure for the authoritarian disease is not even all that difficult, only inconvenient, except a lot less inconvenient than submitting to an authoritarian autocracy.
Here's the link: https://substack.com/home/post/p-156539511
Who was Elons grandfather and why did he immigrant from Canada to South Africa?
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimstewartson/p/technate-of-america-musks-game-of?r=44kjm&utm_medium=ios
Where are the voices of Congressional Democrats? Where is the media? Where is the outrage? Where are our young people - organizing, mobilizing, making themselves heard? I'm 82-- did all that for civil rights, and later against the war! If anything this is worse and it seems to me that everyone is standing around and letting it happen as though it were business as usual!
I am very aware that Republicans have the majorities-- but loud opposing voices are needed everywhere so that we inform, educate people about what is really going on! The fact that there is so little speaks to the failure of our educational system and the corruption of our election system. But we are not without voices and we need to use them!
Apparently, (part of) government was on a 10-day break.
We have heard from some Democrats, but we do need more voices and a unified front from all Dems in office!
Thank you so much for saying this! Elected democrats have one job right now, and that is to mobilize people. We need to educate and mobilize our young people, who are disengaged and not even aware most of this is happening and how much it will effect them. Let's get off our phones, stand up for justice, and help organize people to RESIST.
There have been demonstrations in all 50 states. It takes a while to organize. Most of the damage was done a few days ago and over a weekend. Have patience.
New procurements for first of a kind contracts require funding appropriations from Congress and there must be room in the budget for such contracts to be let. The distractions by Musk and Trump are to set up those contracts. The programs are not $1 billion. They are hundreds of $ billions. Graft is Donald Trump’s agenda and intention. Legal graft is best, but not the BIG buck$. Everything else is a distraction from what is really in play. How about privatizing the post office? An illegal graft pipeline. How about privatizing schools? An illegal graft pipeline. How about building and operating detention centers? An illegal graft pipeline. How about Medicare privatization? An illegal graft pipeline. How about the Sovereign Trust Fund? An illegal graft pipeline. Kickbacks that you will never see: the bitcoin exchange, the Kushner-Saudi lashup, etc. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/rape-the-us-treasury?r=3m1bs
DEPARTMENT OF OBVIOUSNESS DEPARTMENT: This is clearly the same way that Musk got into the voting machine tallys and delivered the election to Trump in exchange for this "Privilege". "We got conned" - says the WORLD.
We are not safe on so MANY levels.
I was in the process of transcribing Lawrence O’Donnell’s podcast on my iPhone so I could email it to various media when a big “X” all of a sudden hovered briefly on my screen. I had been writing about Elon Musk! Creepy.
I went ahead and sent it, but after reading what I sent I saw some of the words had been changed and paragraphs were pushed together.
“Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary is the first Treasury Secretary in history that should be IMPEACHED!
Impeached for handing those keys to the Treasury to Elon Musk.
It would be like having the richest customer of a bank tell the bank president, “Hey, I want to see everyone else’s accounts at the bank.” And the bank president opens the books to let the richest customer of the bank see and do whatever he wants.
And to extend this “Exhibit A” a bit, imagine if the richest customer of the bank hates that bank and is fully loyal to another bank. And that bank is in China. And his business and wealth is completely dependent on the good graces of China.
What are the chances that Elon Musk would let his friends in the Chinese government know a little bit more, or a LOT more about the inner workings of the United States Treasury?”
~ an excerpt from “The Last Word” with Lawrence O’Donnell, on MSNBC. Listen to the entire article below.
https://youtu.be/BIOaxR_UHIQ?si=nSWiLldzn8m9f_fT
(I maintain our election was “rigged” and will continue to do so unless we investigate and put a stop to it. The data is not compatible with reality).
From SmartElections.US https://open.substack.com/pub/smartelections/p/so-clean
We have seen subservient conservative politicians rubber stamp Trump's illegal sacking of career public servants. It occurs to me that they have not considered that this may also be their fate if Congress itself becomes irrelevant.
What is the point in a functionless member of a functionless institution?
HCR took more time today to share her stuff with us. I was riveted. It's amazing how I hung on every word and idea. Thank you! We are living through an incredibly trying time.
DEPARTMENT OF OBVIOUSNESS DEPARTMENT: This is clearly the same way that Musk got into the voting machine tallys and delivered the election to Trump in exchange for this "Privilege". "We got conned" - says the WORLD.
I logged in to my social security account to make sure I still could and carefully read the "Terms of Service", which I have to agree to before entering the system. I chose not to enter, now that Musk's minions have control of the entire system.
This line was especially disturbing:
"I agree that the Social Security Administration is not responsible for the improper disclosure of any information that the Social Security Administration has provided to me or any information that is on or from my computer or other device, whether due to my negligence or the wrongful acts of others."
That particular requirement is so poorly written that I'm not really sure what I'm agreeing to, but it sounds like I'm exonerating the SSA for anything "improper" they may do with my information, or with information they may steal from my devices by nefarious means.
My boyfriend wants my help to set up his SSA online account. I think we will wait!
I did the same. I couldn't agree to those last lines, so, I backed out.
Everyone needs to understand that it was the income tax with its high upper marginal rates created our extensive, inclusive middle class. This is proven by the fact that without such a tax, wealth aggregates as seen in EVERY civilization that ever existed including ours up to that point. There no argument to allow aggregation of wealth or that socialism is bad as most of human existence was spent in socialist interpersonal debt economies that controlled wealth and power such that egalitarianism was the rule until money was invented.
The rich do not work for the majority of their wealth, they skim it from the economy and take control over society, just look at EVERY civilization ever that did not control wealth acquisition.
God (and congress and constitution and courts) help us all!
Ayn Rand wrote: you can believe in fantasy, but you cannot avoid the consequences of believing in fantasy.
Sumter Carmichael Coleman
The thing about government is that it is not there to make a profit, but is there to ensure a level playing field and to provide economies of scale for the public.
There's a very interesting article today in the NYT by Thomas B Edsall about Russell Vought, Trump's nominee to be director of the OMB.(https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/opinion/trump-vought-omb-government.html)
One of doge boys may not be a us citizen. He is from India
Someone told me today several things: That Russian ships are not allowed through the Panama Canal; that they are not allowed in Greenland; and that they are not allowed in Canada’s Arctic Ocean areas. Now, I don’t know if this is currently true; but if it is, then doesn’t that mean that all of Trump’s public musings seem to involve Russia not having freedom of movement throughout the West. Exactly who is Donald Trump working for here?