Everyone in the world now knows about the Reflecting Pool mess. Everyone in the world knows it was Trump's fault. Everyone in the world knows he's delusional when he claims vandals caused this mess. Everyone in the world knows he's lying. Everyone in the world knows he is to blame for the pool, the East Wing, damage to the Kennedy Center, for Iran, for tariffs, for imprisoning brown mothers and their children, for vandalizing historical monuments and buildings. But NO ONE has the balls to tell him he is not allowed to do harm. Harm to people, things and the American Brand.
When will a few pundits or Congressmen say out loud, "What they hell is wrong with you? This must stop. We are taking the keys away from you."
These are unprecedented times. Be LOUD! Trump/the administration/Congress are dangerous for our country/world 💔🤍💙
Resource below to easily contact all of Congress -
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) to contact members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly!
Reach out (beyond your own) to as many in the Senate and House as you can. All of this is bigger than “I only represent my constituents” issues.
Be loud and ridicule this pseudo-president. Laugh out loud at him in all of your posted comments folks, because he is a bad joke. No one believes him any more, and he deserves to be laughed at.
The news on the faux progressive SuperPACs first broke in late May before the NJ07 June 2 primary where they tried to defeat Rebecca Bennett who is running against the still missing (but promising to show up on June 30) Tom Kean Jr. . That is actually something that is potentially worth writing to Congress about, demanding investigations into fraud if any random progressive donated to the SuperPAC. I am not sure that they were set up to accept donations. They got their funding from the Republican Congressional Leadership Fund through some shell companies as I recall when I wrote about it back then.
And in new reporting on Polymarket, that company that brought us the YES resolution to the binary contract of a PERMANENT signed Iran Peace deal by June 15, there is this:
"Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal published an investigation into Polymarket’s deceptive advertising. They found that for months, the site, where you can bet on almost anything, has been paying influencers to post screenshots and videos to X of their most exciting Polymarket wins. One such ad would have you believe that a Polymarket user turned $1,000 into $100,000 by guessing that President Trump would say the word “McDonald’s” at a press conference. But the bets were bogus. The Journal found 118 paid ads in which users had posted misleading clips (old footage, manipulated headlines) suggesting they had won. In some cases, they weren’t even using Polymarket, but a cloned website created by the company — “poiymarket.com.” Influencers who spoke with the Journal said that Polymarket was paying them up to $3,000 per month, and that the company had advised them not to disclose its financial arrangement."
Just a reminder: Don Jr. is an advisor to and investor in Polymarket. Seems he learned marketing from Daddy's Trump University, Trump Mobile, Trump Steaks, Trump... and he is contributing his knowledge to the endeavor. Just a passing thought.
You might consider writing about the regulation of the prediction markets now that Schwab is setting up ETFs based on binary contracts on the price of the S&P 500 as of a given date. They will be sold to retail investors as well as to businesses that want to hedge without turning to the options and futures markets, which are more complex but highly regulated. Just one more mechanism to transfer wealth upward, with just a little forewarning of Trump's market-moving announcements.
The trumps are criminals, nothing more than mobsters and con men. “Waste, fraud and abuse” wasn’t an accusation, it was a confession: it’s their life motto.
Re Blanche Nomination for AG: Liz Oyer, who was the DOJ Pardon Attorney, was on Grounded with former Sen. Jon Tester and Maritsa Georgiou. Oyer said that Democrat Fetterman said he would oppose Blanche's nomination. If true, we'll need four Republicans to join Democrats to defeat Blanche. She cited these Republican senators who may vote with the Democrats: Thom Tillis-NC; John Cornyn-TX; Bill Cassidy-LA; Lisa Murkowski-AK; Susan Collins-ME.
The FBI raid on the Ohio Organizing Collaborative — 100 agents, simultaneous visits to board members' homes, seizure of computers and phones — is the most concrete example in this piece of government power being directed at civic participation itself. Whether or not voter fraud is as rare as critics of the raid contend, the Justice Department has not publicly explained what evidence justified that scale of force against a voter registration organization working in historically disenfranchised communities. A government that deploys its investigative apparatus this way, without a public accounting, makes voter registration work feel dangerous — and suppressing participation through prosecutorial signal rather than ballot restriction is precisely the kind of threat the separation between law enforcement and electoral administration was designed to prevent.
Where was the FBI when the $1.7 Billion fraud transaction was cooked up? By Blanche and Bissent and Trump's personal attorneys.
The Trump Family controls the FBI, DOJ, two-thirds of the Supreme Court, half of the Congress and the Treasury. They can use our military to attack citizens, without fear of prosecution. And steal everything they can get their mitts on.
Hey Kash, send your agents over to the DOJ and look into this.
WE the People remember when the COVID global pandemic was beginning to rage and Cheeto said to the nation, "Don't worry, it'll be over by summer". Confiding to Bob Woodward, Cheeto knew that wasn't true. Then Cheeto decided that he would put Jared in charge of obtaining respirators with his college room mate. Then he mused that with his extensive medical background that bleach could do some "internal cleansing". After the deaths of several whackjobs who tried the bleach trick, the makers of bleach products put out statements to avoid liability. After 1M+ deaths followers of Cheeto were asking for the vaccine before going on respirators and eventually succumbing to a respiratory death. Then there was the horse parasite prescription of Ivermectin, the use of which was debunked by the scientific community. No science just one inappropriate adventure after another.
So now WE the People are experiencing the same unbelievable incompetence, but this time on the global stage with foreign policy. Will the electorate ever learn that it's the Nazi Republicans that create this kind of leadership. Over the decades the party has gradually decided that the only thing that is necessary is gain power, no need to do anything for WE the People or support the country in time of need. As a matter of fact, screw the people, it's the wealthy donor class that we work for.
I used to be opposed to congressional term limits, naively having thought that we could limit their terms by voting. Now I'm trying to imagine how much difference term limits might have made against the GOP members who have refused to do their jobs (checks and balances, power of the purse, advise and consent...) ...especially since many of the GOP members who stand up against Trump's follies only do so when they are near the exit doors.
It's not so much term limits that define each party. It's greed....the American way. There is a crisis in our elected officials....WE the People want morality back in our politics.
Unprecedented corruption. It pains me to see how agencies such as the FBI and the NPS that are supposed to serve the public have become the Trump regime's pliant Orcs. Political corruption has always infected government and like always will, and the evil of slavery and conquest in our nation's history is unmatched, but I think we are seeing strike at the heart of our government more pervasively to pervert the very notion of a republic, a literal effort to destroy what our "4th of July" celebrates and install autocratic plutocracy. There are some bright spots in the legislative branch. and more so in the judiciary, but while there is a time and place for "ours in not to reason why" and I'm not the one risking my job and safety by resisting specious orders, yet so many of the Trumped-up and abusive actions by this administration are so blatantly over the line I don't see how anyone could serve them with a clear conscience. Of course those who direct them have none.
The point of a democracy is that, after you take a vote, *everyone* follows what the majority decided. It doesn't matter what the reasons are. Democrats have been as ineffective as Republicans at stopping Trump, and it doesn't matter if they really really tried their hardest, or if Mikey was being super mean and keeping the toys out of reach. The members of Congress failed us, every single one of them, and at this point I'm not inclined to do anything but ground the lot of them until they've learned their lesson.
Republicans have shown their true colors of hatred, bigotry, and most importantly rascism. From the partisan SCOTUS destroying the Voting Rights Act to Congressional Republicans supporting racism and fanatical policies. And Democrats are guilty of forgetting their worker class base because they are after donor dollars, AiPAC as well as other of their subsidiaries. Democrats have decided dollars over Palestinian genocide. They have lost the electorate.
We need to make our voices heard! I just responded to Adam Schiff that he needs to STOP accepting funds from AIPAC. If enough of us send this message, it will have an impact.
Absolutely! Any person running for Congress who is taking AIPAC $$$ or its unidentified subsidiaries....hidden for a very specific reason....should never be considered for a vote in a general election. So one has to do their due dilgence in sorting out if candidates are supported by Israeli interests.
Before anyone decides to withhold their vote for a candidate around a specific issue in the upcoming elections, please take the time to read Jay Kuo's essay on how to make your decision. I started out in the "no matter who, vote blue" corner, but it wasn't sitting well on my conscience. Kuo's essay put things in a contextual framework that I found really helpful.
Ivermectin is now needed for the New World screwworm that is infecting livestock in this country again, after being eradicated over 60 years years ago.
The Republican Party has been screwing the people for at least 60 years, as well, and should be forced to relinquish the elephant as their logo and mascot, it is too noble and magnificent an animal to represent them. The screwworm is a better representation and image of the MAGA Republican party now.
Yes. Exactly. Ludicrously "mired in its own mistakes."
In a complicated world, we have simpletons – ideological idiots – ruling the U.S.
Not only simpletons, but deeply corrupted criminals such as Donald, his 1500 criminal insurrectionists he pardoned, all the other criminals who paid various millions for their pardons, plus incompetents and only incompetents at every level he appointed to high office.
In a complicated world we should have the best experts, the best scientists, the most experienced legal and diplomatic minds dealing with fellow Americans and others around the world. But criminal Donald and his fellow fools cannot respect science, education, or any of America’s long-allied democracies. Add in his senility and decrepitude furthering his insults, belittlements, and lies.
But, sadly, if we risk 25th amendment, we have a yet pathetic bastard next:
That “pathetic bastard” has no power base, no influence, no ability — and most important of all — no sway over, or within Congress. He has all the charm and charisma of a bowl of small, cold, wriggling eels without any of the magic mojo Trump has over his cult. And he is in so far over you can’t even see his head beneath the ‘full algal bloom.’
Whatever else happens, things aren’t going to go well for Maybeline Wanker Boy. He’s far more likely to end up as chum in shark-filled water than to navigate the ship of state successfully through Scylla and Charybdis.
Buckle your seatbelts, ladies and gentlemen. It’s not just going to be a bumpy flight, but a truly wild and epic transition. Brace yourselves accordingly.
Boy look who’s here again and look who’s kind of deluded again.
He has no power or no sway, says this fool.. What is one the presidency twice and And Glorious fashion this last time. He has passed the big beautiful Bill and has many other accomplishments to his credit. And people like this guy here can do nothing to stop him from doing whatever he needs to do to make America great again which he has been doing successfully from the day he took office
Don’t worry Paul he won’t leave office too early if he does it all and you’ll have 2 1/2 more beautiful years not to have any How did you put itpower base, influence,
Or sway. So obviously, this guy it’s come to this been living in a cave for a year and a half. Which is probably the best place for him to be so he doesn’t have to see how successful Trump has been and his administration.
I see him as opportunistic and ambitious rather than narcissistic. I suspect that he realises he's in deep water and he hasn't done much swimming at that depth.
Yes, the Republicans has given nothing to US working class, except for the 10% increase in average tax return of $3000 , and except for the no tax on tips no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security for the poor. Oh sorry I guess you missed a part.
You are so right, Phil! I would call his whole cabinet a “cadre of crooks and criminals!” His followers were fools and now they are enablers. I do not have a lick of sympathy for any of the fools that voted for him but unfortunately, we and the world are the ones paying the price!
By the way, Phil.. The ignorance of the Democrat party relating to the 25th amendment could possibly be their undoing.
Donald Trump could utilize the 25th amendment for his own purpose. I’d be forever maddening to folks like you and the left.
The 25th amendment that allowed Donald Trump resign his office prematurely to the end of his term and hand, the gavel to JD Vance, without interruption without protestations, without intervention without an election and without permission from anyone. And if JD Vance does a good job in the time allotted to him before Trump’s term would normally end we might just will be elected president in 2028
And the worst moment of all — the physical threats to Iran’s negotiating team in Switzerland. They promptly got up and walked out of the negotiating room as news spread. On the heels of Trump’s murder of the previous negotiating team from Iran earlier — they knew this wasn’t a joke.
Hundreds of millions of us would have thought that threatening to kill people you want something from first was an idea so terrible and so stupid it didn’t even need to be pointed out — it might just make them decide that their lives were far more important than your personal vanity project.
Clearly, hundreds of millions of us were quite wrong about that.
Between the SC slowly gutting the VRA and Trump trying to rig yet another election, I’m hanging onto a thread. I feel they’re all working in tandem to undermine our democracy and our elections. It’s not only infuriating but scary.
Go join your local GOTV group and do the one thing they can't defeat: help organize a turnout to large they can't hack, cheat, or lie their way to victory.
Yes, maybe we can find more than of those 13 million extra votes that Biden receive more than Obama the god. lol.
Hey, by the way to say congratulations I heard they just raised the state sales tax in California 10 1/2 %. And I’m not sure if you’re also a city sales tax as well besides, the highest tax rate on gasoline in the country causing some of the highest prices of the country. besides an exorbitant real estate, tax property tax rate, besides the most expensive state income tax around.
And you wonder why people are moving to Florida or Texas where there is no state income tax ..at the lowest prices on gasoline in the country whose sales tax is 40% lower than Californias. And on the ballot coming up in Florida believe it or not is removing property tax completely. Wowowoow.
People in the US are really going to need that cheaper gasoline when they're fleeing from wildfires and floods caused by your own carbon emissions. You've basically fucked yourselves in the ass.
It is absolutely both infuriating and scary. We're not taking this lying down, I promise. Visit UTW.vote, listen to the teaser episode.
We have a bloodless way out of this. I hope you'll be one of my free subscribers, when I launch next Monday to describe how we can reclaim control of our government while we still have the power to do so.
Sweet Amy, you have it all backwards. The Supreme Court is relinquishing its duties.
Alas, you would love the Supreme Court when it decided on the abortion case but when it decides the abortion case, you hate the Supreme Court. Instead, Donald Trump instilled democracy into the issue which you hate because then you’re not in control. Donald Trump sent it back to the states and let the voters or the representatives decide on the abortion issue rather than nine currently detested human beings on the court. Ooooops.
Your highest court has been corrupted by Trump appointees. Trump has turned the whole edifice of your institutions of government into a foul-smelling swamp like his reflecting pool.
Adam Kinzinger yesterday reported that the title of Trump’s next book is going to be “The Art of the Peel.”
He still has that ridiculous tarp draped over the Kennedy Center, although New York Times photographers have snuck under it and confirmed that his massive, fragile ego has, in fact, been removed.
Watch for it to suddenly appear over the Reflecting Pool instead. Perhaps some intrepid coalition in Congress can co-sponsor a bill renaming the Pool the “Donald J. Trump Memorial Butthurt Reflecting Tarp.”
When Donold said he was going to drain the swamp who could have guessed it would be flowing right into the Reflecting Pool while he siphoned the $millions all to himself.
#shorts - Senator Warren is actively investigating and calling out the DoD's expanding partnerships with private equity. *CONTACT YOUR SENATORS - Urge them to support anti-price gouging measures like the Price Gouging Prevention Act or the Stop Wall Street Looting Act*
She is actively pushing back against military contractors—many backed by Wall Street—that charge exorbitant prices for routine replacement parts (such as a $4,361 charge for a half-inch metal pin that costs $46)
Senator Warren, along with lawmakers like Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Ro Khanna, has pressed the DoD regarding its growing reliance on PE-backed defense contractors. They cited significant risks to taxpayers, opaque ownership structures that pose national security threats, and a track record of bankruptcies.
Who to Contact: Reach out directly to your local Representative and both of your state’s Senators. If they sit on the House or Senate Armed Services Committees, their oversight influence is even stronger. Also the Government Accountability Office (GAO FraudNet) accepts allegations of the mismanagement of federal funds and routes them to congressional investigators.
My favorite was the Trumpist who claimed to have seen an Antifa member throwing algae seeds [sic] into the reflecting pool - that is, it was my favorite until I read the Frum quote you included in your post: “If destruction of government property is a crime, I wonder what they’ll do to the man who tore down the East Wing without a permit.”
As for the Iran War - good Lord. How do we get out of this? And just how does he propose finding $30 billion to give the Iranians in ADDITION to their own embargoed assets. We can’t afford this!!! Maybe the billionaires can donate a percentage of their own untaxed income to pay for his war (plus whatever Jared negotiated as a personal payment to the Trump family).
Oh, heck, one more comment about the pool: He got the idea for blue not from the flag, but because it is currently “in” to paint the bottom of your pool blue in South Florida.
‘Electrification’ Is Everything - Michael Liebreich (6/17/26) He hosts the weekly podcast "Cleaning Up," and interviews global leaders in energy, mobility, and climate finance.
Electrification is everything - not ‘electrify everything’, electrification is everything. Michael Liebreich gives an international tour of where the energy transition really stands, why "primary energy" is a misleading metric, and why electrifying transport, heat, and industry is the fastest, cheapest route to cutting emissions. ❇️ See the last dashboard, at end, to understand why the correct route will make deployment faster.
In this talk, Michael covers:
• The two competing narratives on the energy transition - and which one the data backs
• Why "primary energy" is a fallacy that makes the transition look slower than it is
• China the "electro state" vs. the US "petro state" - and what "most of world" actually chooses
• The growth-based model that forces fossil off the system
• Why electrification is the key to rapid, deep, affordable decarbonisation.
Recorded live at Summer Sessions '26, Modo Energy's flagship industry event - Protein Studios, Shoreditch, London.
Comparitively rare source of fossil fuels support huge, ultra-wealthy monopolies. Diversified and distributed energy sources, not so much,; and therefore unacceptable.
The FBI raids on the Ohio Organizing Collaborative offices and staff homes is most disturbing. More Gestapo tactics by the Trump Junta. What judge issued the search warrant and what was the evidence submitted to obtain what appears to me to be an entirely illegal, unconstitutional search?
The pool was attacked by the terrorist group Algifa.
Everyone in the world now knows about the Reflecting Pool mess. Everyone in the world knows it was Trump's fault. Everyone in the world knows he's delusional when he claims vandals caused this mess. Everyone in the world knows he's lying. Everyone in the world knows he is to blame for the pool, the East Wing, damage to the Kennedy Center, for Iran, for tariffs, for imprisoning brown mothers and their children, for vandalizing historical monuments and buildings. But NO ONE has the balls to tell him he is not allowed to do harm. Harm to people, things and the American Brand.
When will a few pundits or Congressmen say out loud, "What they hell is wrong with you? This must stop. We are taking the keys away from you."
I want to hear someone conduct this interview:
"Little Donny, did you make poo in the pool?"
"I no poo in pool. Obama poo in pool. Dumocrats poo in pool. Aunt Tifa poo in pool. Biden poo in pool. I no poo."
"Little Donny, did you take a bribe plane from Qatar?"
"Plane was gift because Donny was good to Qatar."
"Donny, did you steal $1.7 Billion from mommy's purse?"
"Todd and Scott took money from mommy's purse, not Donny. Todd and Scott gave Donny your $1.7 Billion so I could give it to my friends."
There are more things in Heaven and Earth going on under that muck than you may realize, Horatio…
https://sylvestercat.substack.com/p/the-unibubbler-strikes-again
fabulous!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I heard it was Algaeda. Maybe they and Aligifa worked together.
Lol! 🤣🐊
Oh No! Soon everyone's pool will be invaded!
These are unprecedented times. Be LOUD! Trump/the administration/Congress are dangerous for our country/world 💔🤍💙
Resource below to easily contact all of Congress -
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) to contact members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly!
Reach out (beyond your own) to as many in the Senate and House as you can. All of this is bigger than “I only represent my constituents” issues.
Comments/reactions help keep this bumped ✊
Be loud and ridicule this pseudo-president. Laugh out loud at him in all of your posted comments folks, because he is a bad joke. No one believes him any more, and he deserves to be laughed at.
But he can kill you. As the Nazis did to those who laughed. Ike stopped their smirk
And he HATES being laughed at!
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-joke-is-on-us?r=cb67r
Beware of unintended consequences: perhaps Mr. Hedges most vital warning ever.
The news on the faux progressive SuperPACs first broke in late May before the NJ07 June 2 primary where they tried to defeat Rebecca Bennett who is running against the still missing (but promising to show up on June 30) Tom Kean Jr. . That is actually something that is potentially worth writing to Congress about, demanding investigations into fraud if any random progressive donated to the SuperPAC. I am not sure that they were set up to accept donations. They got their funding from the Republican Congressional Leadership Fund through some shell companies as I recall when I wrote about it back then.
Thank you, Megan, for all you have done and continue to do to maintain this resource for We the People to use and share with others!
Look up your representatives here:
https://civik.us/#representatives
And in new reporting on Polymarket, that company that brought us the YES resolution to the binary contract of a PERMANENT signed Iran Peace deal by June 15, there is this:
"Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal published an investigation into Polymarket’s deceptive advertising. They found that for months, the site, where you can bet on almost anything, has been paying influencers to post screenshots and videos to X of their most exciting Polymarket wins. One such ad would have you believe that a Polymarket user turned $1,000 into $100,000 by guessing that President Trump would say the word “McDonald’s” at a press conference. But the bets were bogus. The Journal found 118 paid ads in which users had posted misleading clips (old footage, manipulated headlines) suggesting they had won. In some cases, they weren’t even using Polymarket, but a cloned website created by the company — “poiymarket.com.” Influencers who spoke with the Journal said that Polymarket was paying them up to $3,000 per month, and that the company had advised them not to disclose its financial arrangement."
Just a reminder: Don Jr. is an advisor to and investor in Polymarket. Seems he learned marketing from Daddy's Trump University, Trump Mobile, Trump Steaks, Trump... and he is contributing his knowledge to the endeavor. Just a passing thought.
You might consider writing about the regulation of the prediction markets now that Schwab is setting up ETFs based on binary contracts on the price of the S&P 500 as of a given date. They will be sold to retail investors as well as to businesses that want to hedge without turning to the options and futures markets, which are more complex but highly regulated. Just one more mechanism to transfer wealth upward, with just a little forewarning of Trump's market-moving announcements.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/polymarket-s-marketing-team-made-some-very-bad-bets/ar-AA26gS8z
https://www.thestreet.com/markets/schwab-plots-sp500-prediction-markets-with-cboe
The trumps are criminals, nothing more than mobsters and con men. “Waste, fraud and abuse” wasn’t an accusation, it was a confession: it’s their life motto.
Thanks to Ted Lieu for writing trump’s name without capital letter. We should all consistently write him in small letters.
I have been doing that for quite awhile. Small p president trump. Amount other nicknames.
Re Blanche Nomination for AG: Liz Oyer, who was the DOJ Pardon Attorney, was on Grounded with former Sen. Jon Tester and Maritsa Georgiou. Oyer said that Democrat Fetterman said he would oppose Blanche's nomination. If true, we'll need four Republicans to join Democrats to defeat Blanche. She cited these Republican senators who may vote with the Democrats: Thom Tillis-NC; John Cornyn-TX; Bill Cassidy-LA; Lisa Murkowski-AK; Susan Collins-ME.
Vote is coming up sometime next week, I hear.
Thank you, Megan.
You named the key: be “unrelenting”. Thank you for that too.
The FBI raid on the Ohio Organizing Collaborative — 100 agents, simultaneous visits to board members' homes, seizure of computers and phones — is the most concrete example in this piece of government power being directed at civic participation itself. Whether or not voter fraud is as rare as critics of the raid contend, the Justice Department has not publicly explained what evidence justified that scale of force against a voter registration organization working in historically disenfranchised communities. A government that deploys its investigative apparatus this way, without a public accounting, makes voter registration work feel dangerous — and suppressing participation through prosecutorial signal rather than ballot restriction is precisely the kind of threat the separation between law enforcement and electoral administration was designed to prevent.
Where was the FBI when the $1.7 Billion fraud transaction was cooked up? By Blanche and Bissent and Trump's personal attorneys.
The Trump Family controls the FBI, DOJ, two-thirds of the Supreme Court, half of the Congress and the Treasury. They can use our military to attack citizens, without fear of prosecution. And steal everything they can get their mitts on.
Hey Kash, send your agents over to the DOJ and look into this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/trump-irs-lawsuit-deal.html?searchResultPosition=1
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-maga-undermined-the-military?publication_id=277517&post_id=203019987&isFreemail=true&r=cb67r&triedRedirect=true
All without fear of consequences
Well reasoned - well said out loud!
When civic participation begins to feel risky, democracy itself becomes weaker, regardless of who holds power.
Yes, whatever you do don’t worry about voter fraud unless it’s by the Republicans. lol
Shades Of COVID Mismanagement
WE the People remember when the COVID global pandemic was beginning to rage and Cheeto said to the nation, "Don't worry, it'll be over by summer". Confiding to Bob Woodward, Cheeto knew that wasn't true. Then Cheeto decided that he would put Jared in charge of obtaining respirators with his college room mate. Then he mused that with his extensive medical background that bleach could do some "internal cleansing". After the deaths of several whackjobs who tried the bleach trick, the makers of bleach products put out statements to avoid liability. After 1M+ deaths followers of Cheeto were asking for the vaccine before going on respirators and eventually succumbing to a respiratory death. Then there was the horse parasite prescription of Ivermectin, the use of which was debunked by the scientific community. No science just one inappropriate adventure after another.
So now WE the People are experiencing the same unbelievable incompetence, but this time on the global stage with foreign policy. Will the electorate ever learn that it's the Nazi Republicans that create this kind of leadership. Over the decades the party has gradually decided that the only thing that is necessary is gain power, no need to do anything for WE the People or support the country in time of need. As a matter of fact, screw the people, it's the wealthy donor class that we work for.
I used to be opposed to congressional term limits, naively having thought that we could limit their terms by voting. Now I'm trying to imagine how much difference term limits might have made against the GOP members who have refused to do their jobs (checks and balances, power of the purse, advise and consent...) ...especially since many of the GOP members who stand up against Trump's follies only do so when they are near the exit doors.
It's not so much term limits that define each party. It's greed....the American way. There is a crisis in our elected officials....WE the People want morality back in our politics.
Unprecedented corruption. It pains me to see how agencies such as the FBI and the NPS that are supposed to serve the public have become the Trump regime's pliant Orcs. Political corruption has always infected government and like always will, and the evil of slavery and conquest in our nation's history is unmatched, but I think we are seeing strike at the heart of our government more pervasively to pervert the very notion of a republic, a literal effort to destroy what our "4th of July" celebrates and install autocratic plutocracy. There are some bright spots in the legislative branch. and more so in the judiciary, but while there is a time and place for "ours in not to reason why" and I'm not the one risking my job and safety by resisting specious orders, yet so many of the Trumped-up and abusive actions by this administration are so blatantly over the line I don't see how anyone could serve them with a clear conscience. Of course those who direct them have none.
What about the Democrats who HAVEN'T done all that?
The point of a democracy is that, after you take a vote, *everyone* follows what the majority decided. It doesn't matter what the reasons are. Democrats have been as ineffective as Republicans at stopping Trump, and it doesn't matter if they really really tried their hardest, or if Mikey was being super mean and keeping the toys out of reach. The members of Congress failed us, every single one of them, and at this point I'm not inclined to do anything but ground the lot of them until they've learned their lesson.
Republicans have shown their true colors of hatred, bigotry, and most importantly rascism. From the partisan SCOTUS destroying the Voting Rights Act to Congressional Republicans supporting racism and fanatical policies. And Democrats are guilty of forgetting their worker class base because they are after donor dollars, AiPAC as well as other of their subsidiaries. Democrats have decided dollars over Palestinian genocide. They have lost the electorate.
I agree. I'm determined to NOT vote for anyone who accepts any AIPAC funding.
Will there be anyone left to vote for?
We need to make our voices heard! I just responded to Adam Schiff that he needs to STOP accepting funds from AIPAC. If enough of us send this message, it will have an impact.
Absolutely! Any person running for Congress who is taking AIPAC $$$ or its unidentified subsidiaries....hidden for a very specific reason....should never be considered for a vote in a general election. So one has to do their due dilgence in sorting out if candidates are supported by Israeli interests.
Just learned that the brilliant Dan Goldman is. Such a shame. He is one of the smartest people in Congress.
So write to him and let him know how this is detrimental to his campaign!
It's very sad -- and it's the reason I'm voting for Lander instead of Goldman.
Before anyone decides to withhold their vote for a candidate around a specific issue in the upcoming elections, please take the time to read Jay Kuo's essay on how to make your decision. I started out in the "no matter who, vote blue" corner, but it wasn't sitting well on my conscience. Kuo's essay put things in a contextual framework that I found really helpful.
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/problematic-political-figures-hegseth-platner
That is why in today's NY primary I'm voting for Lander instead of Goldman.
Keeps me awake at night
Ivermectin is now needed for the New World screwworm that is infecting livestock in this country again, after being eradicated over 60 years years ago.
The Republican Party has been screwing the people for at least 60 years, as well, and should be forced to relinquish the elephant as their logo and mascot, it is too noble and magnificent an animal to represent them. The screwworm is a better representation and image of the MAGA Republican party now.
Yes. Exactly. Ludicrously "mired in its own mistakes."
In a complicated world, we have simpletons – ideological idiots – ruling the U.S.
Not only simpletons, but deeply corrupted criminals such as Donald, his 1500 criminal insurrectionists he pardoned, all the other criminals who paid various millions for their pardons, plus incompetents and only incompetents at every level he appointed to high office.
In a complicated world we should have the best experts, the best scientists, the most experienced legal and diplomatic minds dealing with fellow Americans and others around the world. But criminal Donald and his fellow fools cannot respect science, education, or any of America’s long-allied democracies. Add in his senility and decrepitude furthering his insults, belittlements, and lies.
But, sadly, if we risk 25th amendment, we have a yet pathetic bastard next:
J. D.
At nine, things began to unravel,
as “Hillbilly Elegy” caviled.
So he wrote “Communion,”
as if in hypocrite union
for Republicans giving shaft
to the entire U.S. working class.
That “pathetic bastard” has no power base, no influence, no ability — and most important of all — no sway over, or within Congress. He has all the charm and charisma of a bowl of small, cold, wriggling eels without any of the magic mojo Trump has over his cult. And he is in so far over you can’t even see his head beneath the ‘full algal bloom.’
Whatever else happens, things aren’t going to go well for Maybeline Wanker Boy. He’s far more likely to end up as chum in shark-filled water than to navigate the ship of state successfully through Scylla and Charybdis.
Buckle your seatbelts, ladies and gentlemen. It’s not just going to be a bumpy flight, but a truly wild and epic transition. Brace yourselves accordingly.
Vance rivals Miller for pure cringey-ness.
Boy look who’s here again and look who’s kind of deluded again.
He has no power or no sway, says this fool.. What is one the presidency twice and And Glorious fashion this last time. He has passed the big beautiful Bill and has many other accomplishments to his credit. And people like this guy here can do nothing to stop him from doing whatever he needs to do to make America great again which he has been doing successfully from the day he took office
Don’t worry Paul he won’t leave office too early if he does it all and you’ll have 2 1/2 more beautiful years not to have any How did you put itpower base, influence,
Or sway. So obviously, this guy it’s come to this been living in a cave for a year and a half. Which is probably the best place for him to be so he doesn’t have to see how successful Trump has been and his administration.
Not as narcissistic though, more likely to listen and think before acting.
The bar is pathetically low here.
Touche'
I see him as opportunistic and ambitious rather than narcissistic. I suspect that he realises he's in deep water and he hasn't done much swimming at that depth.
Yes, the Republicans has given nothing to US working class, except for the 10% increase in average tax return of $3000 , and except for the no tax on tips no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security for the poor. Oh sorry I guess you missed a part.
You are so right, Phil! I would call his whole cabinet a “cadre of crooks and criminals!” His followers were fools and now they are enablers. I do not have a lick of sympathy for any of the fools that voted for him but unfortunately, we and the world are the ones paying the price!
By the way, Phil.. The ignorance of the Democrat party relating to the 25th amendment could possibly be their undoing.
Donald Trump could utilize the 25th amendment for his own purpose. I’d be forever maddening to folks like you and the left.
The 25th amendment that allowed Donald Trump resign his office prematurely to the end of his term and hand, the gavel to JD Vance, without interruption without protestations, without intervention without an election and without permission from anyone. And if JD Vance does a good job in the time allotted to him before Trump’s term would normally end we might just will be elected president in 2028
Oh, dear. The criteria are that jd does a good job? Well, that’s a hoot. Nevah happin.
Hey, don’t be so negative even Joy Behar liked him
And the worst moment of all — the physical threats to Iran’s negotiating team in Switzerland. They promptly got up and walked out of the negotiating room as news spread. On the heels of Trump’s murder of the previous negotiating team from Iran earlier — they knew this wasn’t a joke.
Hundreds of millions of us would have thought that threatening to kill people you want something from first was an idea so terrible and so stupid it didn’t even need to be pointed out — it might just make them decide that their lives were far more important than your personal vanity project.
Clearly, hundreds of millions of us were quite wrong about that.
Imagine breaking the system, blaming everyone else for the failure, and then asking for more control as the solution.
That’s not fixing government.
That’s the con.
He’s the “best conman anyone’s ever seen”.
If he was so good, he wouldn't get caught at it all the time.
"There's never been a better conman than me. Everyone says it."
Between the SC slowly gutting the VRA and Trump trying to rig yet another election, I’m hanging onto a thread. I feel they’re all working in tandem to undermine our democracy and our elections. It’s not only infuriating but scary.
Go join your local GOTV group and do the one thing they can't defeat: help organize a turnout to large they can't hack, cheat, or lie their way to victory.
“Too big to rig…”
“Too strong to be conned...”
“Fuck with us and find out...”
Critical because they will try every trick
Yes, maybe we can find more than of those 13 million extra votes that Biden receive more than Obama the god. lol.
Hey, by the way to say congratulations I heard they just raised the state sales tax in California 10 1/2 %. And I’m not sure if you’re also a city sales tax as well besides, the highest tax rate on gasoline in the country causing some of the highest prices of the country. besides an exorbitant real estate, tax property tax rate, besides the most expensive state income tax around.
And you wonder why people are moving to Florida or Texas where there is no state income tax ..at the lowest prices on gasoline in the country whose sales tax is 40% lower than Californias. And on the ballot coming up in Florida believe it or not is removing property tax completely. Wowowoow.
People in the US are really going to need that cheaper gasoline when they're fleeing from wildfires and floods caused by your own carbon emissions. You've basically fucked yourselves in the ass.
It is absolutely both infuriating and scary. We're not taking this lying down, I promise. Visit UTW.vote, listen to the teaser episode.
We have a bloodless way out of this. I hope you'll be one of my free subscribers, when I launch next Monday to describe how we can reclaim control of our government while we still have the power to do so.
Sweet Amy, you have it all backwards. The Supreme Court is relinquishing its duties.
Alas, you would love the Supreme Court when it decided on the abortion case but when it decides the abortion case, you hate the Supreme Court. Instead, Donald Trump instilled democracy into the issue which you hate because then you’re not in control. Donald Trump sent it back to the states and let the voters or the representatives decide on the abortion issue rather than nine currently detested human beings on the court. Ooooops.
This is what Trump's 'democracy' looks like in practice.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/06/us-abortion-restrictions-causing-preventable-deaths
Your highest court has been corrupted by Trump appointees. Trump has turned the whole edifice of your institutions of government into a foul-smelling swamp like his reflecting pool.
Adam Kinzinger yesterday reported that the title of Trump’s next book is going to be “The Art of the Peel.”
He still has that ridiculous tarp draped over the Kennedy Center, although New York Times photographers have snuck under it and confirmed that his massive, fragile ego has, in fact, been removed.
Watch for it to suddenly appear over the Reflecting Pool instead. Perhaps some intrepid coalition in Congress can co-sponsor a bill renaming the Pool the “Donald J. Trump Memorial Butthurt Reflecting Tarp.”
When Donold said he was going to drain the swamp who could have guessed it would be flowing right into the Reflecting Pool while he siphoned the $millions all to himself.
The Artless Dodger
#shorts - Senator Warren is actively investigating and calling out the DoD's expanding partnerships with private equity. *CONTACT YOUR SENATORS - Urge them to support anti-price gouging measures like the Price Gouging Prevention Act or the Stop Wall Street Looting Act*
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren/note/c-280946145?r=kxzps&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
She is actively pushing back against military contractors—many backed by Wall Street—that charge exorbitant prices for routine replacement parts (such as a $4,361 charge for a half-inch metal pin that costs $46)
Senator Warren, along with lawmakers like Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Ro Khanna, has pressed the DoD regarding its growing reliance on PE-backed defense contractors. They cited significant risks to taxpayers, opaque ownership structures that pose national security threats, and a track record of bankruptcies.
Who to Contact: Reach out directly to your local Representative and both of your state’s Senators. If they sit on the House or Senate Armed Services Committees, their oversight influence is even stronger. Also the Government Accountability Office (GAO FraudNet) accepts allegations of the mismanagement of federal funds and routes them to congressional investigators.
Find all your representatives on Civik
https://civik.us
Mirror, mirror on the Mall, who's the absolute worst President of all?
Poor W isn’t anymore
Help! I need an explanation.
1)William Pulte has no intelligence experience. Hence, he is ineligible to be DNI.
2)Jay Clayton has no intelligence experience. Shouldn't he, too, be ineligible to be DNI?
Yes and yes. But since when has lack of qualifications ever stopped trump?
Trump regime is a Fascist Kleptocratic Kakistocracy
My favorite was the Trumpist who claimed to have seen an Antifa member throwing algae seeds [sic] into the reflecting pool - that is, it was my favorite until I read the Frum quote you included in your post: “If destruction of government property is a crime, I wonder what they’ll do to the man who tore down the East Wing without a permit.”
As for the Iran War - good Lord. How do we get out of this? And just how does he propose finding $30 billion to give the Iranians in ADDITION to their own embargoed assets. We can’t afford this!!! Maybe the billionaires can donate a percentage of their own untaxed income to pay for his war (plus whatever Jared negotiated as a personal payment to the Trump family).
Oh, heck, one more comment about the pool: He got the idea for blue not from the flag, but because it is currently “in” to paint the bottom of your pool blue in South Florida.
I suspect a sinister Soros Algae Ray in deep space.
‘Electrification’ Is Everything - Michael Liebreich (6/17/26) He hosts the weekly podcast "Cleaning Up," and interviews global leaders in energy, mobility, and climate finance.
https://youtu.be/TZZgMeWrxks?is=77INXAx19cNc2pR_
Electrification is everything - not ‘electrify everything’, electrification is everything. Michael Liebreich gives an international tour of where the energy transition really stands, why "primary energy" is a misleading metric, and why electrifying transport, heat, and industry is the fastest, cheapest route to cutting emissions. ❇️ See the last dashboard, at end, to understand why the correct route will make deployment faster.
In this talk, Michael covers:
• The two competing narratives on the energy transition - and which one the data backs
• Why "primary energy" is a fallacy that makes the transition look slower than it is
• China the "electro state" vs. the US "petro state" - and what "most of world" actually chooses
• The growth-based model that forces fossil off the system
• Why electrification is the key to rapid, deep, affordable decarbonisation.
Recorded live at Summer Sessions '26, Modo Energy's flagship industry event - Protein Studios, Shoreditch, London.
Comparitively rare source of fossil fuels support huge, ultra-wealthy monopolies. Diversified and distributed energy sources, not so much,; and therefore unacceptable.
This is definitely our Reichstag Pool moment.
Trump is definitely playing dirty pool.
The FBI raids on the Ohio Organizing Collaborative offices and staff homes is most disturbing. More Gestapo tactics by the Trump Junta. What judge issued the search warrant and what was the evidence submitted to obtain what appears to me to be an entirely illegal, unconstitutional search?