In the last several months, the chips have been falling in Trump’s favor to a level that probably astonishes this convicted felon. Consider the following:
1. Three of the four serious state and federal criminal lawsuits have been delayed by Trump’s lawyers and judges, so it is unlikely there will be trials until after the November election. The one case in New York where the jury pronounced him guilty of 34 felonies is awaiting the presiding judge’s sentence on July 11th. The betting in legal circles is that he won’t even sentence Trump to a short prison term.
At the same time, Trump used his conviction to motivate his loyal supporters to send his campaign over 52 million dollars within 24 hours after the verdict. In his ego driven, long and repetitive speeches, Trump takes no responsibility for his crimes and mocks the rule of law.
2. Month after month, Trump is leading Biden in the six swing states, except Wisconsin. The Biden campaign, still vulnerable to another Electoral College defeat despite winning a majority of votes nationally, is facing the risk of a dangerously large number of voters staying home on election day. Trump attacks Biden daily, slanderously and with the usual nickname “crooked Joe Biden,” repeated and reliably reported by the mass media. Where are the Democrats’ nicknames for Der Führer, the dangerous, unstable, lying, convicted felon a.k.a. Donald Trump? Biden once did use “Sleepy Don” to describe Trump’s drowsy state during the trial in New York.
Joe Biden and Democratic operatives need to re-double their meager efforts in the name game. Trumpty Dumpty gets a free ride: there are no “lock him up” chants at Democratic rallies.
So rare is anyone high on the Democratic Party ladder giving blowhard bully Donald his own medicine that when one politician, Governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, does just that, he is featured in the New York Times as an outspoken maverick. (See New York Times, June 13, 2024, “This Top Democrat Is Leading His Party’s Attack on Trump as a Felon”.)
3. Fox News, which Trump castigated for not being Trumpian enough, has fallen fully back in line. The rest of the mainstream media reports his lies (often corrected to no avail) and repeats his bombastic, delusional self-evaluations and grandiose promises.
The “Trump Media & Technology Group” (DJT stock), which features, Truth Social the social media platform, is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. DJT is the ultimate meme stock with tiny revenues, huge debts, propped up by his fan investors, giving him a share value of some 2-4 billion dollars (though restricted for another four months from sale.)
4. Trump pays no political price for his omnicidal “drill baby drill” cry for coal, oil and gas interests to further the present and coming climate violence. He’s gone so far as to ask a group meeting of energy barons for a billion dollars in campaign contributions as a payoff.
5. The labor unions continue, with few exceptions, to lie low, fearing the third of their members who are Trump supporters. The deafening silence of labor leaders continues, not withstanding Trump’s active hatred of labor unions and multiple anti-labor policies as a failed businessman and as president, including freezing the $7.25 per hour federal minimum wage and corporatizing OSHA, the Labor Department and the National Labor Relations Board.
6. Hoping for a repeat of Trump’s 2016 Electoral College presidential campaign victory, several big money contributors from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, including some big bankers are lining up to support Trump. Worse, Trump is picking up small extra percentages in the polls from Black and Hispanic voters who have been devastated by Trump policies and largely excluded from Trump’s government appointments during his tenure as president.
7. Last week insurrectionist Trump returned to Capitol Hill to a triumphant display of obsequious hand-kissing including from Republicans who were stand-offish and sharply critical of the Presidential outlaw and inciting election-denier. Among them were sleazy Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, and Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.
8. It is worth noting that not all Republican voters are MAGA Trumpsters. A large number are traditional Republicans going back generations who would vote for any Republican nominee, even if he were, as Michael Bloomberg once said, Leon Trotsky. So inbred is their hatred of the Democrats, that, in his worst moments, Trump could not provoke them to defect from the GOP nominee.
9. Despite Trump’s ongoing shafting of all Americans in their roles as workers, consumers, parents, students, patients, children, women, seniors, and targeted voters he wants blocked from voting, Trumpty Dumpty’s base, still in the minority of likely voters nationally, sticks with him, as he adds more new adherents.
When asked why? The answers come fast and furious. “He is a strong leader,” “He’s rich so he can’t be bought,” (but he could be sold) “I like his stand against abortion.” Other conservative voters like his tax cuts for upper income people and big corporations, never mind the massive deficits piling up as a result on their descendants. “He wants to protect our borders from hordes of immigrants.” “He will fight inflation.” Really? According to ProPublica, “The growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according to a calculation by a leading Washington budget maven, Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.”
Have they forgotten his disastrous mocking inaction early in the Covid-19 pandemic that cost over 350,000 American lives?
Women who support Trump forgive or don’t care about his serial abuse of women, his infidelities, or his anti-women economic policies. “I don’t support Trump to learn my family values,” said one fervid woman backer, neglecting to recognize how Trump destroys family values.
Much of the business community likes Trump’s relentless tax-cutting, advantageous to his own family of course, and his radical deregulation of critical consumer, labor and environmental protections. Big Business CEOs want their profits even as more of them experience the ravages of megahurricanes, uncontrollable wildfires, rising sea levels, and unbearable heat waves. They want Trump’s rubber-stamp approval of corporate mergers and they want to “defund” the federal cops on the corporate crime, fraud and abuse beat. They also want to muzzle agencies such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission.
Trump boastfully rejects the rule of Law. He repeatedly said, “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as President.” This often-repeated dictatorial declaration doesn’t bother his supporters who say all presidents break the law. Many presidents have broken the law, but none have broken as many laws, including obstruction of justice and defiance of Congressional subpoenas, as often as Trump. And none have been indicted on felony charges for working to overturn the results of a presidential election. Remember, Trump encouraged the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 and tried to block the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
So, it will all come down to two things: One, who gets the most non-voters (there are estimated to be as many as 100 million non-voters this year) to the polls, especially in the six or so swing states and two, who will motivate their voting base to show up in big numbers.
Instead of wasting huge amounts of money on unmemorable TV and radio ads, which net their corporate-conflicted media consultants a rich fifteen percent commission, the Democratic Party leaders would be well advised to read Bishop William Barber’s just published book WHITE POVERTY and learn how his ground game can get out more votes from low-wage workers.
What Nader writes is true and lays it out well. What he says in much of his criticisms is generally true in my opinion. I am also remembering that he is complicit in where we are now for his spoiler third party runs. Many, including Nader himself, have made arguments to the contrary, that there were many reasons for the loss to Republicans, particularly the loss of Gore to Bush. This comes up now only as an example of how a decent candidate should concede when he/she loses. What harm was done though; Bush led to Trump and much else beyond domestically-- internationally... climate. I wish now that Gore had fought on instead.
You don't quote- this whole article is Nader ? Thank you.
I voted for Nader in 2000 because I lived in Alaska, where there was no doubt that Bush would win. Had I lived in Florida, or in another toss-up state, I'd surely have voted for Al Gore, but I doubt that Nader cost the election for Gore.
Thank you for your response. What you are saying though is had you lived in Flordia you would have voted for Al Gore. To me that means you did think Nader was doing harm to Gore. For me he was blatantly, especially saying there was no difference between Bush and Gore. Nader was then sort of exiled from politics by the barrage of blame he got. For sure there were other factors, including the SCOTUS interference. This election made a huge difference and leads to today's issues. Although I agreed a lot with Nader, he had no chance of winning and could only be a spoiler. We have this going on today with RFK, Jr. and a more dire situation.
I have heard Nader since, a very hurt man, having to hang in the shadows ( Chris Lydon here: https://radioopensource.org/ralph-nader-one-citizens-view-from-winsted-ct/) I commented there a few years ago. I think this analysis you post should be read and appreciated by voters. Again he is correct. But he made this fatal mistake.. fatal in more ways than one. There were other reasons that led us to this day- including Gore's lack of fight ( though admired to this day). Unfortunately to gain the presidency one has to be very strong savvy intelligent likable and somewhat ruthless.
Judge Judy said on national TV “Trump was a good businessman,” ‘just look at “The Apprentice !” ‘ and said Trump was convicted in NY “because NY didn’t like him. She must not only NOT have a very high emotional intelligence, she must NOT be very intelligent OR informed to make those remarks.
It’s scary because as a celebrity “judge” she can influence many people who are not informed themselves. She is spreading MISINFORMATION.
We need to educate her so she can retract her statements. How can we get in touch with her?
Someone like this is beyond education, beyond reform, and beyond hope. We need to get her removed from her show, and then jailed for making false statements. You might as well attempt to educate a lobotomized sow. What we could do is contact the network, to, first, get the statements retracted, and second, get her fired. But she herself is long past the point of no return.
I am not an Amazon Prime member so I can’t get to first base. I encourage those who are to call in and complain. Or make a complaint on Twitter (now “X” - I don’t do that either)
Apparently she is on Amazon Prime (streaming). You know who is in charge of that - a pro Trumper!
“she’s bringing her latest project back to a broader audience, signing a multiyear deal to air “Judy Justice” across more than 100 U.S. broadcast markets this fall, while continuing to premiere new episodes on Freevee and Prime Video.”
I felt like a bit of a rascal when I posted so long a text on this thread, and not even one in my own words. But I've gotten an unusual number of thanks from others who apparently don't hear from Ralph as often as I do - because, I suppose, the mainstream press ignores him. The email address nader.org gets you to his website, and ralphnaderradiohour.com is the address where the column I pasted into this thread first appeared. I have an app on my phone that lets me listen to the Radio Hour, and Ralph's organization sends me the text to my inbox. Rarely do I hear so much good sense, and so little bombast, from a committed political activist as from Nader. At 90+ he's still sharp as a tack.
Ralph Nader writes:
June 21, 2024
In the last several months, the chips have been falling in Trump’s favor to a level that probably astonishes this convicted felon. Consider the following:
1. Three of the four serious state and federal criminal lawsuits have been delayed by Trump’s lawyers and judges, so it is unlikely there will be trials until after the November election. The one case in New York where the jury pronounced him guilty of 34 felonies is awaiting the presiding judge’s sentence on July 11th. The betting in legal circles is that he won’t even sentence Trump to a short prison term.
At the same time, Trump used his conviction to motivate his loyal supporters to send his campaign over 52 million dollars within 24 hours after the verdict. In his ego driven, long and repetitive speeches, Trump takes no responsibility for his crimes and mocks the rule of law.
2. Month after month, Trump is leading Biden in the six swing states, except Wisconsin. The Biden campaign, still vulnerable to another Electoral College defeat despite winning a majority of votes nationally, is facing the risk of a dangerously large number of voters staying home on election day. Trump attacks Biden daily, slanderously and with the usual nickname “crooked Joe Biden,” repeated and reliably reported by the mass media. Where are the Democrats’ nicknames for Der Führer, the dangerous, unstable, lying, convicted felon a.k.a. Donald Trump? Biden once did use “Sleepy Don” to describe Trump’s drowsy state during the trial in New York.
Joe Biden and Democratic operatives need to re-double their meager efforts in the name game. Trumpty Dumpty gets a free ride: there are no “lock him up” chants at Democratic rallies.
So rare is anyone high on the Democratic Party ladder giving blowhard bully Donald his own medicine that when one politician, Governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, does just that, he is featured in the New York Times as an outspoken maverick. (See New York Times, June 13, 2024, “This Top Democrat Is Leading His Party’s Attack on Trump as a Felon”.)
3. Fox News, which Trump castigated for not being Trumpian enough, has fallen fully back in line. The rest of the mainstream media reports his lies (often corrected to no avail) and repeats his bombastic, delusional self-evaluations and grandiose promises.
The “Trump Media & Technology Group” (DJT stock), which features, Truth Social the social media platform, is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. DJT is the ultimate meme stock with tiny revenues, huge debts, propped up by his fan investors, giving him a share value of some 2-4 billion dollars (though restricted for another four months from sale.)
4. Trump pays no political price for his omnicidal “drill baby drill” cry for coal, oil and gas interests to further the present and coming climate violence. He’s gone so far as to ask a group meeting of energy barons for a billion dollars in campaign contributions as a payoff.
5. The labor unions continue, with few exceptions, to lie low, fearing the third of their members who are Trump supporters. The deafening silence of labor leaders continues, not withstanding Trump’s active hatred of labor unions and multiple anti-labor policies as a failed businessman and as president, including freezing the $7.25 per hour federal minimum wage and corporatizing OSHA, the Labor Department and the National Labor Relations Board.
6. Hoping for a repeat of Trump’s 2016 Electoral College presidential campaign victory, several big money contributors from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, including some big bankers are lining up to support Trump. Worse, Trump is picking up small extra percentages in the polls from Black and Hispanic voters who have been devastated by Trump policies and largely excluded from Trump’s government appointments during his tenure as president.
7. Last week insurrectionist Trump returned to Capitol Hill to a triumphant display of obsequious hand-kissing including from Republicans who were stand-offish and sharply critical of the Presidential outlaw and inciting election-denier. Among them were sleazy Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, and Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.
8. It is worth noting that not all Republican voters are MAGA Trumpsters. A large number are traditional Republicans going back generations who would vote for any Republican nominee, even if he were, as Michael Bloomberg once said, Leon Trotsky. So inbred is their hatred of the Democrats, that, in his worst moments, Trump could not provoke them to defect from the GOP nominee.
9. Despite Trump’s ongoing shafting of all Americans in their roles as workers, consumers, parents, students, patients, children, women, seniors, and targeted voters he wants blocked from voting, Trumpty Dumpty’s base, still in the minority of likely voters nationally, sticks with him, as he adds more new adherents.
When asked why? The answers come fast and furious. “He is a strong leader,” “He’s rich so he can’t be bought,” (but he could be sold) “I like his stand against abortion.” Other conservative voters like his tax cuts for upper income people and big corporations, never mind the massive deficits piling up as a result on their descendants. “He wants to protect our borders from hordes of immigrants.” “He will fight inflation.” Really? According to ProPublica, “The growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according to a calculation by a leading Washington budget maven, Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.”
Have they forgotten his disastrous mocking inaction early in the Covid-19 pandemic that cost over 350,000 American lives?
Women who support Trump forgive or don’t care about his serial abuse of women, his infidelities, or his anti-women economic policies. “I don’t support Trump to learn my family values,” said one fervid woman backer, neglecting to recognize how Trump destroys family values.
Much of the business community likes Trump’s relentless tax-cutting, advantageous to his own family of course, and his radical deregulation of critical consumer, labor and environmental protections. Big Business CEOs want their profits even as more of them experience the ravages of megahurricanes, uncontrollable wildfires, rising sea levels, and unbearable heat waves. They want Trump’s rubber-stamp approval of corporate mergers and they want to “defund” the federal cops on the corporate crime, fraud and abuse beat. They also want to muzzle agencies such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission.
Trump boastfully rejects the rule of Law. He repeatedly said, “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as President.” This often-repeated dictatorial declaration doesn’t bother his supporters who say all presidents break the law. Many presidents have broken the law, but none have broken as many laws, including obstruction of justice and defiance of Congressional subpoenas, as often as Trump. And none have been indicted on felony charges for working to overturn the results of a presidential election. Remember, Trump encouraged the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 and tried to block the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
So, it will all come down to two things: One, who gets the most non-voters (there are estimated to be as many as 100 million non-voters this year) to the polls, especially in the six or so swing states and two, who will motivate their voting base to show up in big numbers.
Instead of wasting huge amounts of money on unmemorable TV and radio ads, which net their corporate-conflicted media consultants a rich fifteen percent commission, the Democratic Party leaders would be well advised to read Bishop William Barber’s just published book WHITE POVERTY and learn how his ground game can get out more votes from low-wage workers.
What Nader writes is true and lays it out well. What he says in much of his criticisms is generally true in my opinion. I am also remembering that he is complicit in where we are now for his spoiler third party runs. Many, including Nader himself, have made arguments to the contrary, that there were many reasons for the loss to Republicans, particularly the loss of Gore to Bush. This comes up now only as an example of how a decent candidate should concede when he/she loses. What harm was done though; Bush led to Trump and much else beyond domestically-- internationally... climate. I wish now that Gore had fought on instead.
You don't quote- this whole article is Nader ? Thank you.
So where is Nader writing this?
It's all Nader. You'll find him at Nader.org and ralphnaderradiohour.com. He's always worth listening to.
I voted for Nader in 2000 because I lived in Alaska, where there was no doubt that Bush would win. Had I lived in Florida, or in another toss-up state, I'd surely have voted for Al Gore, but I doubt that Nader cost the election for Gore.
Thank you for your response. What you are saying though is had you lived in Flordia you would have voted for Al Gore. To me that means you did think Nader was doing harm to Gore. For me he was blatantly, especially saying there was no difference between Bush and Gore. Nader was then sort of exiled from politics by the barrage of blame he got. For sure there were other factors, including the SCOTUS interference. This election made a huge difference and leads to today's issues. Although I agreed a lot with Nader, he had no chance of winning and could only be a spoiler. We have this going on today with RFK, Jr. and a more dire situation.
I have heard Nader since, a very hurt man, having to hang in the shadows ( Chris Lydon here: https://radioopensource.org/ralph-nader-one-citizens-view-from-winsted-ct/) I commented there a few years ago. I think this analysis you post should be read and appreciated by voters. Again he is correct. But he made this fatal mistake.. fatal in more ways than one. There were other reasons that led us to this day- including Gore's lack of fight ( though admired to this day). Unfortunately to gain the presidency one has to be very strong savvy intelligent likable and somewhat ruthless.
Thank you for bringing this from Nader here.
The re-election of Trump would lead to great strengthening of the Axis of Evil. That is why he must be stopped, by any means necessary.
Thanks Nicholas! Well done.
Great job Nickolas
Judge Judy said on national TV “Trump was a good businessman,” ‘just look at “The Apprentice !” ‘ and said Trump was convicted in NY “because NY didn’t like him. She must not only NOT have a very high emotional intelligence, she must NOT be very intelligent OR informed to make those remarks.
It’s scary because as a celebrity “judge” she can influence many people who are not informed themselves. She is spreading MISINFORMATION.
We need to educate her so she can retract her statements. How can we get in touch with her?
Someone like this is beyond education, beyond reform, and beyond hope. We need to get her removed from her show, and then jailed for making false statements. You might as well attempt to educate a lobotomized sow. What we could do is contact the network, to, first, get the statements retracted, and second, get her fired. But she herself is long past the point of no return.
I am not an Amazon Prime member so I can’t get to first base. I encourage those who are to call in and complain. Or make a complaint on Twitter (now “X” - I don’t do that either)
Apparently she is on Amazon Prime (streaming). You know who is in charge of that - a pro Trumper!
“she’s bringing her latest project back to a broader audience, signing a multiyear deal to air “Judy Justice” across more than 100 U.S. broadcast markets this fall, while continuing to premiere new episodes on Freevee and Prime Video.”
https://cordcuttersnews.com/judge-judy-sheindlins-judy-justice-returns-to-broadcast-tv-while-continuing-on-amazon-freevee/
Let’s do it! Can you please provide the contact information for us to get it accomplished?
The Amazon Prime customer service phone number is 1 (888) 280-4331
There is nothing like a proxy war.
I felt like a bit of a rascal when I posted so long a text on this thread, and not even one in my own words. But I've gotten an unusual number of thanks from others who apparently don't hear from Ralph as often as I do - because, I suppose, the mainstream press ignores him. The email address nader.org gets you to his website, and ralphnaderradiohour.com is the address where the column I pasted into this thread first appeared. I have an app on my phone that lets me listen to the Radio Hour, and Ralph's organization sends me the text to my inbox. Rarely do I hear so much good sense, and so little bombast, from a committed political activist as from Nader. At 90+ he's still sharp as a tack.