History has shown us, more than once, what is ahead. We are watching the Hitler buildup and we know where that took us. Putin is just waiting to make his move. Trump is so insecure he actually thinks Putin likes him--yeah--he's the puppeteer for trump/pinocchio. And the rest of the world doesn't trust the United States which was once a world power, now a laughing stock.
We are 7-8 WEEKS into this debacle, what will this country look like in 25 weeks? I'm ashamed, embarrassed, sad that so many people seem to think this is ok. This country was warned what would happen and now it's here. Do you who voted for trump think he's doing the right thing?
Wait til your rights, freedoms, benefits are taken away--trump won't come to rescue you, he'll have more for himself and that is his goal. You just cannot fix stupid!
The Democrats have NOTHING to offer except doom and gloom because "Trump is literally Hitler!"
Every Republican President since Eisenhower has been called a Nazi by the Democrats. Every one. Obviously the majority who voted for Trump aren't buying it anymore. Ask yourself why your Democrats can't find any valid reason to change peoples' minds - they have nothing.
The Democrat party in DC has no plan for the country, no leader, no policies other than the ones we just rejected after 4 years of horror, and absolutely no credibility. Its favorability rating is sucking canal water.
The Republicans are garnering high favorability ratings for every one of Trump's policies: closing the border, exporting illegal criminals, cutting the size and cost of government, saving women's safe spaces by barring males from women's sports, cutting taxes and regulations to stimulate the economy, focusing on the classroom instead of the bathroom. .
I can't seriously respond to such drivel. When the "magnificent cuts" to federal spending land on your doorstep (like the farmers getting hosed by frozen aid and the nuclear surety workers being "accidentally" terminated) you'll be saying....but it wasn't supposed to be me, just the ubiquitous them.
BTW, I didn't "call you a name". A bit triggered, I see....
I appreciate your support for multimillionaires and Billionaires and the $4.5 trillion dollar tax cuts coming to you soon. As soon as Social Security and Medicare and Medical Assistance are removed you will be “sitting pretty”.
What are you even talking about? I said: "Every Republican President since Eisenhower has been called a Nazi by the Democrats. Every one. Obviously the majority who voted for Trump aren't buying it anymore. Ask yourself why your Democrats can't find any valid reason to change peoples' minds - they have nothing.
....The Democrat party in DC has no plan for the country, no leader, no policies other than the ones we just rejected after 4 years of horror, and absolutely no credibility. Its favorability rating is sucking canal water.
...The Republicans are garnering high favorability ratings for every one of Trump's policies: closing the border, exporting illegal criminals, cutting the size and cost of government, saving women's safe spaces by barring males from women's sports, cutting taxes and regulations to stimulate the economy, focusing on the classroom instead of the bathroom. "
How do you respond to this? You claim I support very rich people. WHERE did that come from?
Clearly you do not read or comprehend what I said. This is a waste of time.
If the Repugnican budget bill passes the Senate, the DC city budget could be cut by around one billion dollars. Your group of Nazis are defunding the police. Hope you don’t expect any public safety when you visit the capitol to worship the J6 insurrectionists! But it doesn’t matter where you live - you will feel the loss of public safety, public health (especially rural hospitals); the loss of public education (except as deemed by each state, or which many are backward, and most of those, Republicans control); and the loss of national security. Bird flu? Deal with it: these clowns have already cut many of the federal employees that would be needed; and cut all the research under way mid-stream. It won’t be long before their Social Security and Medicare. Why? Because the Repugnican budget before the Senate right now calls for $880 Billion of cuts, ostensibly to Medicaid; but everyone except folks like you already know that they won’t succeed is defunding Medicaid. Where do they go to get that kind of money? How about what the Dog Elon calls “the greatest Ponzi scheme of all time”, Social Security! And since the Dog Co-King feels that way about the programs we paid into, it doesn’t really matter what the Would-be Dictator Co-King thinks; he will be forgiven. You and people like you, who put these people into power, will have no one to blame other than yourselves as you watch everything go to hell. And FEMA? It is dealing with over 600 natural (or other) disasters, some 20 years old. Last year: at least 27 natural disasters that cost at least $ one billion each? You think the giant orange turd is going to save you from the next natural sister? He doesn’t even believe in climate change, since sound so would affect his bottom line. So I can assure you, he doesn’t give a rat’s behind for you, me or any of us “NFPs”, as he and the Dog Elon like to call the rest of us behind closed doors. Sieg Heil!
"focusing on the classroom instead of the bathroom", how does one accomplish that without a Department of Education? (Sending it to the states is not the correct answer, as we know how that turned out for much of the Southern States during 75 years of Jim Crow).
When millions depend on social security checks, what then for seniors who can't afford to buy their groceries?
The absence of Public Health is the absence of health security. How's that measles outbreak going? Who is tracking Ebola outbreaks in Africa? We now do not know when travelers flying out of Africa and to the US may have been exposed to Ebola.
How is the crypto scams enriching elected leaders at the expense of the middle-class investors?
Your a lillte mixed up. Biden closed the border last 6 months of his adminstration only allowing about 2500 per week to enter from Mexico. Trump used title 42 during pandemic. Dems had a bi partison plan for the border Trump shot down, there has been no comprehensive immigration policy for over 30 years. Tarrifs only work if said products are made in USA , if they are not the people pay the tarrifs with higher market prices. Biden left Trump low interest rates, 16 000000, created jobs, in going infrastructure projects , chip manufacturing in USA , clean energy jobs. Lower drug prices, and went after corporation cheat. What has Trump done? Crashing the stock market. Raising costs for goods, firing government workers and closing government departments without congress approval, threathening 1st and 14 amendment rights. He is a monster, and he will pay..dearly
Wait until the jackboots sound outside your bedroom door in the. middle of the night. That's starting you know, at least for one green carded resident so far. But if they get away with it they may send me back to England, from where my ancestors departed for America nearly 300 years ago. We can only hope the courts-- the last resort since the R's in congress aren't going to utter a peep-- will put a stop to Adolf Trump right from the get go.
Yeah? Give the reference for the one person you know who MAY have heard jackboots -....come on, tell us the details. It will not have been Trump SS guards after them . He does not have them - and you are hoping like hell that they materialize so your fever dreams come true so you can say "I told you so." What a sad dream of relevance you have for yourself.
UH the SS boots are the military which he will control and do with as he sees fit, whether it is legal or not. Because HE will decide what's legal, much like he decided that it was legal to have a civilian tear up all the government departments he wants to, without any REAL PROOF of WIDESPREAD fraud. I mean actual numbers verified by the people who have worked those departments thru different party admins...OH wait!! He fired them .... aaahhhhh
I don’t know how old you are or where you receive your information but I have not heard every Republican referred to as a Nazi. I have heard most Democrats referred to as communists, I was, ironically called that today. Here’s the thing, for all of my voting life, until 2016, I was an Independent voter. In my lifetime, I have voted for more Republican candidates than I have Democratic ones. In fact I worked for 40 years for elected officials and most of these years my boss was a Republican. I voted for the person, not the party. Today, I don’t agree with every policy of the Democratic Party. However, I have been forced to vote a straight Democratic Party ticket because of the irresponsibility and irrational behavior of the Republican party and its supporters. The single fact that Donald Trump—a serial, lying grifter, who mocked a disabled reporter and bragged about getting away with assaulting women, was the candidate in 2016 was bad enough but to have the feckless Republican Congress members vote against impeachment after January 6 and then make him—a convicted felon—their candidate again, proved to me that they no longer owed allegiance to this country or it’s constitution but to the party and only the party. I want to go back to being an independent. I want to have a choice in candidates again. I want to have faith that while my Republican or Democratic representatives don’t always support what I support, they also still care about all of the citizens in their districts and not just those who voted for them. However, right now, we are in danger of losing our chance for any real elections to occur ever again. We are in danger of losing our country. We have more in common than you think. I wish you well.
What's next? The market is in free fall due to 47's
poorly conceived actions. If social security is attacked, we'll have seniors who were depending on it and who at the same time find their investments in the toilet. They will be joining veterans, park personnel, government workers, educators, and all the other unemployed out of money and looking for relief. IS AMERICA GREAT YET?
Biden finally closed the border? Too little too late, it is why he lost - do you please get that? The market is OF COURSE dropping due to the insecurity of tariffs, which i do not support.
Attacking Social Security is needed , NOT to take away any one's money who deserves and needs it, but because it is rife with fraud. Issue is - how do you know who is defrauding us? I don't know - but "60 Minutes" has uncovered the fraud for years, so there must be a way.
Or do YOU want to leave it alone and allow untold numbers of fraudsters to steal from us forever? I do not. Something must be done, and the DEMS have NEVER done anything except throw insults at Republicans who question the obvious fraud , accuse the GOP of "pushing granny off the cliff" and never try to come up with a plan to overcome it. What about YOU? What is YOUR solution other than criticizing what other people try to think of? You got a better idea? Let's hear it. God knows we need one.
I reiterate - show me the fraud...and if you haven't figured out the algorithym concerning NON people in the SS system that are " collecting" at age 130, maybe you need a computer specialist ( not one of DOGE's) to explain that those are holding # and there are NO payouts...Of course there is fraud and mismanagement in all phases of business everywhere. there are dishonest people all over the place...but NOT AT ALL to the degree the DOGE BOSS said...YET, HE gets to dismantle entire departments , HE who makes millions of of US contracts that WE pay for , HE who WAS being investigated for numerous companies he owned and whose rockets , that we PAY for keep blowing up... does that really make any sense to you??
So, you don’t really know how “rife with fraud” the SSA is? You’re just saying that someone else did. We know about overpayments; the Government Counting Office puts out a report every year or two to highlight the highest risk areas (such as DoD procurement). Do the Dog Elon care to investigate what the GAO says, or work with them? No! They’re cutting the GAO back. Fire the attorneys generals! Fire the JAGs! Fill the DOJ with trash like Kash Patel and Bongino! Kash wants a direct phone line to the Oval Office; why? So he can take his marching orders directly from the Co-King and go around his real boss, Pam Bondi. Fire the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff! Have his henchman, falling-down drunk Pete Hegseth, fire the people who tried to minimize civilian casualties in combat! They stopped cybersecurity operations against Russia! They are getting rid of the people at DOJ who protected us from hackers, scammers and crypto crime! They removed a requirement for banks to determine the true owners of shell companies! These people are planning to go to war, and not with Russia or China, our new masters of the universe aligned together against freedom and democracy everywhere. Manifest Destiny: if you’re my next door neighbor, and you have something I want, and I’m well-armed, then give it to me now. Of course, that wouldn’t bother you, you don’t seem to care what happens to anyone else.
We didn't really get voted out, Bonnie. Please give some facts a thought:
1. Gerrymandering since 2020 has been first and foremost in the 4 year agenda of the Ex-President who never accepted he lost (pschological tactic - keep repeating stop the steal and weak people will believe it). He continued with Project 2025, yes it was in place that long ago, you can also reference CPI (Conservative Partners Institute) an organization whereby real estate has been bought by MAGA devotees to train folks for Project 2025 agenda.
2. Voter Suppression has eliminated many voters who did/would have voted and been counted, had it not been for the ongoing conservative judges that turned a blind-eye to this agenda, yes it happened.
3. Trump himself brazenly & publicly thanked the richest man in the world for having his Muskites - acolyte "techies" tamper with PA voter registry and outcomes. "He's really good with that computer stuff"
Yes, he is doing everything he said he would, appalling as it is. I agree with those saying wait until it shows up at your doorstep, buyers remorse can be very painful. THINK. he is cutting our money and education. He likes penniless, uneducated folks who like to be told what to do without thinking for themselves.
Agree completely. Another point: many of those eligible to vote chose not to, for whatever reason is beyond me. The point being: Trump only got around one-third of the votes that were cast. He did not win the popular vote; he only one a plurality of something like 49.8 of the votes; third party candidates won some votes. So the Repugnicans are ramming their Project 2025 right down every citizen’s throat, whether they like it or not (it seems that you like it). This without any real “mandate”, given that he got only one-third of eligible voters who actually voted. Gee, thanks?
So, you don't mind having an education department that teaches ONLY what the government wants taught. Or, having to work without benefit of ANY assistance when you are old ( social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, senior social services.) I guess you are SURE that neither you or anyone you love will get Alzheimer's or Parkinson's or even Cancer going forward, because the National Institute of health that helps with research and development of cures and drugs and monitors cases etc)are cutting research thanks to Musk and Trump. Also, I KNOW you couldn't possibly;y be a veteran or even know one, because they are really hurting with slashes in the Va in ALL area of workers- from Md's right down to receptionists. I guess what Im saying is it SURE IS A Good thing you're super wealthy because you won't have to worry about food costs, transportation costs, airline safety ( private plane, anyone) or anything else we commoners have to worry about.
Destroying our economy is part of “the plan”. Read Shane Almgren’s excellent Substack newsletter where he ties Musk and JD Vance with Curtis Yarvin’s shocking philosophy (he wants to DESTROY democracy.
“We Are Headed For a Tech CEO DICTATORSHIP”
“Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Peter Thiel are executing a long-planned agenda to take over the government. Donald Trump is just a dementia-addled old man along for the ride, ranting about windmills and magnets and taking over canals, and content to just sign large pieces of papers for the TV cameras all day.”
Curtis Yarvin has been the prominent influencer of what is currently occurring in the exponential dismantling of our government and democracy.
Excerpts from Wikipedia about Curtis Yarvin:
"If Americans want to change their government," he said, "they're going to have to get over their dictator phobia."[46]
Yarvin's ideas have been influential among right-libertarians and paleolibertarians, and the public discourses of prominent investors like Peter Thiel have echoed Yarvin's project of seceding from the United States to establish tech-CEO dictatorships.[50]
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, an informal adviser to Donald Trump, has spoken approvingly of Yarvin's thinking.[51] Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work.[16]
Vice-president JD Vance has cited Yarvin as an influence, saying in 2021,
"So there's this guy Curtis Yarvin who has written about these things," which included "Retire All Government Employees," or RAGE, written in 2012. Vance said that if Trump became president again, I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'"[17][52]
“…Hey, Congress, give me absolute power, or I'll take it anyway.”
[His] relationship with the investor-entrepreneur Thiel is his most important connection."[15]Thiel was an investor in Yarvin's startup Tlon…
In 2016, Yarvin privately asserted to Milo Yiannopoulos that he had been "coaching Thiel"
Yarvin has pointed to a 2009 essay by Thiel, in which the latter declared: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible... Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women—two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians—have rendered the notion of 'capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron."[55]
In a May 2021 conversation, Anton said Yarvin was arguing that a president could "gain power lawfully through an election, and then exercise it unlawfully."
Yes, Trump is the frontline frightening Clown, but a look a Vance confirms there is a much deeper menace, like Trump's selections for his administration top level positions. Kind of like a bad movie come to life.
The IMPORTANT thing is to call/email the House Republicans and READ Georgia Fisanick’s excellent Alternative CR’ that the Democrats should suggest (below).
"Curtis Yarvin has been the prominent influencer of what is currently occurring in the exponential dismantling of our government and democracy."
Who the he-- is Curtis Yarvin? I have never heard his name in any of Trump's speeches or any of trump's cabinet members describing their own objectives. He sounds like a fever dream of the Left who thinks they can blame for all Trump's alleged and utterly fanciful intentions to become a dictator. BOY would you LOVE to see Trump do that!
Instead Trump is actively declining power and sending it out to the individual cabinet members (to define who is excess to needs and what directives are irrelevant to the departments' mandates) and to the States, - eg abortion ,education. He is actively declining to tell any department what to do, leaving it to each nominated department head to carry our their duties themselves, THIS is NOT the sign of a dictator.,
Why then does he bring in an unelected bureaucrat who stinks with conflicts of interest, who was under 32 separate investigations by the agencies he is gutting, and whose companies have received $38 Billion of our taxpayer funds? And who bought the presidency for his bro with )288 billion cash on the barrel head! Because he is so remarkably feeble that he just decided to outsource all decision making to the Dog Elon and his tech bro tweenies! The cabinet? Shmabinet! They’re scared of being called out: they’re scared of their own shadow as well as JD, giant turd and the Dog. The damage has already been done: the GOP and the giant orange turd has relinquished control of the federal government to a secret cabal of tech billionaires. The “theories” of Yarvin have been implemented and the dictatorship is behind consolidated.
We must all be concerned and vocal about the abuses to our 1st Amendment right of freedom of speech. Keep the protests up in the streets. This is not what anyone voted for.
Spot on again today...and I'm thinking the dementia is key. In the first administration Ivanka was supposed to be the secret power of control...Susie Wiles was advertised to be in the control tower this time...no wonder she likes to be out of sight
Ok good, let's also hang Dems for violating the Constitution by replacing an elected President ( Biden) with out one single vote from Democrat constituents, and replacing him with Kamala Harris without a single vote from Democrat constituents.
And the DC Dems say it is Republicans who are threats to democracy??
A trade war is happening, or not, depending on an aging, unsteady, and increasingly incoherent President. And once it is begun, and I don't think the Canadians are going to fold their tent and accept the rants and threats of Trump, the US economy will slump and well... it doesn't look good. Regarding the Palestinian supporter: they have no business trying to deport him. The Palestinians have good reasons for their continued rebellion and desire for a State of their own.
"Regarding the Palestinian supporter: they have no business trying to deport him. The Palestinians have good reasons for their continued rebellion and desire for a State of their own."
They stupidly elected HAMAS who then banned all further elections. If you make peace with terrorists, you deserve it when they build tunnels beneath your mosques and force the Israelis to bomb you to get at the guilty, and then blame the Israelis. Like I say, stupid.
After WW1, the British had a lot of influence in the mid-east. Historically, the Balfour Agreement was the organizing document that designated Palestine to be a home/state for the Jews who wished for a homeland of their own. The Palestinians were to have shared their lands, but would have one of their own. Henceforth, the deal never was fulfilled. No homeland for the Palestinians and a deadly conflict for the Jewish State.
Any Presidential administration is supposed to govern the whole country, not just those parts that supported them. Obama did so despite being under constant attack. Biden created a lot of jobs in red states. But I just read that Musk is restoring cuts to MAGA districts if their reps call him and complain. I'm confused, why would he allow fraud and abuse in red districts? Doesn't it matter there?
It continues. The Trump administration has weaponized all agencies in the Federal government. Because of Trump's own criminal behavior and ultimate conviction, he has been successful at convincing his MAGA base that his own criminality had been a fabrication created by the previous administration's weaponization of the DOJ. Never mind that he was found guilty of criminal behavior by State government prosecutors. He also fails to mention the execution of all legal proceedings brought against him were approved by grand juries comprised of American citizens. He has now weaponized the DHS through the use of infringing on the first amendment rights covering free speech. One more of his numerous impulsive moves to violate the Constitution and the law.
Just wondering if Trump's anti-Sematism edict includes possession of the New Testament with it's frequent anti-Jewish statements such as the blood libel preached by Peter in Acts or the anti-Jewish remarks of Paul in 1 Thessalonians 2:14-15 where he condemns Jews for all time?
“Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Peter Thiel are executing a long-planned agenda to take over the government. Donald Trump is just a dementia-addled old man along for the ride, ranting about windmills and magnets and taking over canals, and content to just sign large pieces of papers for the TV cameras all day.” ~ Shane Almgren
Yes, I agree with Shane, as far as he goes. And I think HCR has missed one significant reason as to "Why is he (Trump) doing this?" I think PUTIN is pushing Trump to destroy America. And it happens to coincide with the oligarch's plan, at least for the moment. But we'll see how that plays out when Putin, with Trump's help, finishes off Ukraine and sends troops here to buttress Hegseth's Martial Law. Maybe the oligarch's won't be so happy then.
Trump is following the Chicago school of economics playbook. Destroy the current economic structure as they did in Chile then rebuild it with Freidman economics out of the Chicago school. Supporters of this system destroyed other countries around the world, imprisoned and tortured the opposition and “disappeared” many Argentinians. It’s a system that directs money to the rich and concentrates power in one person.
History has shown us, more than once, what is ahead. We are watching the Hitler buildup and we know where that took us. Putin is just waiting to make his move. Trump is so insecure he actually thinks Putin likes him--yeah--he's the puppeteer for trump/pinocchio. And the rest of the world doesn't trust the United States which was once a world power, now a laughing stock.
We are 7-8 WEEKS into this debacle, what will this country look like in 25 weeks? I'm ashamed, embarrassed, sad that so many people seem to think this is ok. This country was warned what would happen and now it's here. Do you who voted for trump think he's doing the right thing?
Wait til your rights, freedoms, benefits are taken away--trump won't come to rescue you, he'll have more for himself and that is his goal. You just cannot fix stupid!
The Democrats have NOTHING to offer except doom and gloom because "Trump is literally Hitler!"
Every Republican President since Eisenhower has been called a Nazi by the Democrats. Every one. Obviously the majority who voted for Trump aren't buying it anymore. Ask yourself why your Democrats can't find any valid reason to change peoples' minds - they have nothing.
The Democrat party in DC has no plan for the country, no leader, no policies other than the ones we just rejected after 4 years of horror, and absolutely no credibility. Its favorability rating is sucking canal water.
The Republicans are garnering high favorability ratings for every one of Trump's policies: closing the border, exporting illegal criminals, cutting the size and cost of government, saving women's safe spaces by barring males from women's sports, cutting taxes and regulations to stimulate the economy, focusing on the classroom instead of the bathroom. .
You just had your chance and you got voted out.
Oh my, Bonnie Beresford, you are a talking trump head.
Call me names - yes - THAT is all you got? Seriously?
I can't seriously respond to such drivel. When the "magnificent cuts" to federal spending land on your doorstep (like the farmers getting hosed by frozen aid and the nuclear surety workers being "accidentally" terminated) you'll be saying....but it wasn't supposed to be me, just the ubiquitous them.
BTW, I didn't "call you a name". A bit triggered, I see....
I appreciate your support for multimillionaires and Billionaires and the $4.5 trillion dollar tax cuts coming to you soon. As soon as Social Security and Medicare and Medical Assistance are removed you will be “sitting pretty”.
I’m looking forward to my “Tariff Rebate” checks start coming in from China, Canada, and Mexico. !!!!!!!
I’m trying to decide what I should spend it on. How about you? What do you have planned for your “Tariff Rebate Checks?
What are you even talking about? I said: "Every Republican President since Eisenhower has been called a Nazi by the Democrats. Every one. Obviously the majority who voted for Trump aren't buying it anymore. Ask yourself why your Democrats can't find any valid reason to change peoples' minds - they have nothing.
....The Democrat party in DC has no plan for the country, no leader, no policies other than the ones we just rejected after 4 years of horror, and absolutely no credibility. Its favorability rating is sucking canal water.
...The Republicans are garnering high favorability ratings for every one of Trump's policies: closing the border, exporting illegal criminals, cutting the size and cost of government, saving women's safe spaces by barring males from women's sports, cutting taxes and regulations to stimulate the economy, focusing on the classroom instead of the bathroom. "
How do you respond to this? You claim I support very rich people. WHERE did that come from?
Clearly you do not read or comprehend what I said. This is a waste of time.
That’s what Trump does! I mean, seriously?
I am talking to YOU. - I respect intelligent opposition.
If the Repugnican budget bill passes the Senate, the DC city budget could be cut by around one billion dollars. Your group of Nazis are defunding the police. Hope you don’t expect any public safety when you visit the capitol to worship the J6 insurrectionists! But it doesn’t matter where you live - you will feel the loss of public safety, public health (especially rural hospitals); the loss of public education (except as deemed by each state, or which many are backward, and most of those, Republicans control); and the loss of national security. Bird flu? Deal with it: these clowns have already cut many of the federal employees that would be needed; and cut all the research under way mid-stream. It won’t be long before their Social Security and Medicare. Why? Because the Repugnican budget before the Senate right now calls for $880 Billion of cuts, ostensibly to Medicaid; but everyone except folks like you already know that they won’t succeed is defunding Medicaid. Where do they go to get that kind of money? How about what the Dog Elon calls “the greatest Ponzi scheme of all time”, Social Security! And since the Dog Co-King feels that way about the programs we paid into, it doesn’t really matter what the Would-be Dictator Co-King thinks; he will be forgiven. You and people like you, who put these people into power, will have no one to blame other than yourselves as you watch everything go to hell. And FEMA? It is dealing with over 600 natural (or other) disasters, some 20 years old. Last year: at least 27 natural disasters that cost at least $ one billion each? You think the giant orange turd is going to save you from the next natural sister? He doesn’t even believe in climate change, since sound so would affect his bottom line. So I can assure you, he doesn’t give a rat’s behind for you, me or any of us “NFPs”, as he and the Dog Elon like to call the rest of us behind closed doors. Sieg Heil!
"focusing on the classroom instead of the bathroom", how does one accomplish that without a Department of Education? (Sending it to the states is not the correct answer, as we know how that turned out for much of the Southern States during 75 years of Jim Crow).
When millions depend on social security checks, what then for seniors who can't afford to buy their groceries?
The absence of Public Health is the absence of health security. How's that measles outbreak going? Who is tracking Ebola outbreaks in Africa? We now do not know when travelers flying out of Africa and to the US may have been exposed to Ebola.
How is the crypto scams enriching elected leaders at the expense of the middle-class investors?
And I could go on and on and on...
Your a lillte mixed up. Biden closed the border last 6 months of his adminstration only allowing about 2500 per week to enter from Mexico. Trump used title 42 during pandemic. Dems had a bi partison plan for the border Trump shot down, there has been no comprehensive immigration policy for over 30 years. Tarrifs only work if said products are made in USA , if they are not the people pay the tarrifs with higher market prices. Biden left Trump low interest rates, 16 000000, created jobs, in going infrastructure projects , chip manufacturing in USA , clean energy jobs. Lower drug prices, and went after corporation cheat. What has Trump done? Crashing the stock market. Raising costs for goods, firing government workers and closing government departments without congress approval, threathening 1st and 14 amendment rights. He is a monster, and he will pay..dearly
Wait until the jackboots sound outside your bedroom door in the. middle of the night. That's starting you know, at least for one green carded resident so far. But if they get away with it they may send me back to England, from where my ancestors departed for America nearly 300 years ago. We can only hope the courts-- the last resort since the R's in congress aren't going to utter a peep-- will put a stop to Adolf Trump right from the get go.
Yeah? Give the reference for the one person you know who MAY have heard jackboots -....come on, tell us the details. It will not have been Trump SS guards after them . He does not have them - and you are hoping like hell that they materialize so your fever dreams come true so you can say "I told you so." What a sad dream of relevance you have for yourself.
Mahmoud Khalil
Who and where? Never heard of him, why is he so special?
He's the topic of the last third of the episode. Why are you here if you don't even listen?
Hmmm, head in the proverbial sand? The story about Mahmoud Khalil is all over the news...even Fox.
UH the SS boots are the military which he will control and do with as he sees fit, whether it is legal or not. Because HE will decide what's legal, much like he decided that it was legal to have a civilian tear up all the government departments he wants to, without any REAL PROOF of WIDESPREAD fraud. I mean actual numbers verified by the people who have worked those departments thru different party admins...OH wait!! He fired them .... aaahhhhh
I don’t know how old you are or where you receive your information but I have not heard every Republican referred to as a Nazi. I have heard most Democrats referred to as communists, I was, ironically called that today. Here’s the thing, for all of my voting life, until 2016, I was an Independent voter. In my lifetime, I have voted for more Republican candidates than I have Democratic ones. In fact I worked for 40 years for elected officials and most of these years my boss was a Republican. I voted for the person, not the party. Today, I don’t agree with every policy of the Democratic Party. However, I have been forced to vote a straight Democratic Party ticket because of the irresponsibility and irrational behavior of the Republican party and its supporters. The single fact that Donald Trump—a serial, lying grifter, who mocked a disabled reporter and bragged about getting away with assaulting women, was the candidate in 2016 was bad enough but to have the feckless Republican Congress members vote against impeachment after January 6 and then make him—a convicted felon—their candidate again, proved to me that they no longer owed allegiance to this country or it’s constitution but to the party and only the party. I want to go back to being an independent. I want to have a choice in candidates again. I want to have faith that while my Republican or Democratic representatives don’t always support what I support, they also still care about all of the citizens in their districts and not just those who voted for them. However, right now, we are in danger of losing our chance for any real elections to occur ever again. We are in danger of losing our country. We have more in common than you think. I wish you well.
What's next? The market is in free fall due to 47's
poorly conceived actions. If social security is attacked, we'll have seniors who were depending on it and who at the same time find their investments in the toilet. They will be joining veterans, park personnel, government workers, educators, and all the other unemployed out of money and looking for relief. IS AMERICA GREAT YET?
Biden finally closed the border? Too little too late, it is why he lost - do you please get that? The market is OF COURSE dropping due to the insecurity of tariffs, which i do not support.
Attacking Social Security is needed , NOT to take away any one's money who deserves and needs it, but because it is rife with fraud. Issue is - how do you know who is defrauding us? I don't know - but "60 Minutes" has uncovered the fraud for years, so there must be a way.
Or do YOU want to leave it alone and allow untold numbers of fraudsters to steal from us forever? I do not. Something must be done, and the DEMS have NEVER done anything except throw insults at Republicans who question the obvious fraud , accuse the GOP of "pushing granny off the cliff" and never try to come up with a plan to overcome it. What about YOU? What is YOUR solution other than criticizing what other people try to think of? You got a better idea? Let's hear it. God knows we need one.
I reiterate - show me the fraud...and if you haven't figured out the algorithym concerning NON people in the SS system that are " collecting" at age 130, maybe you need a computer specialist ( not one of DOGE's) to explain that those are holding # and there are NO payouts...Of course there is fraud and mismanagement in all phases of business everywhere. there are dishonest people all over the place...but NOT AT ALL to the degree the DOGE BOSS said...YET, HE gets to dismantle entire departments , HE who makes millions of of US contracts that WE pay for , HE who WAS being investigated for numerous companies he owned and whose rockets , that we PAY for keep blowing up... does that really make any sense to you??
So, you don’t really know how “rife with fraud” the SSA is? You’re just saying that someone else did. We know about overpayments; the Government Counting Office puts out a report every year or two to highlight the highest risk areas (such as DoD procurement). Do the Dog Elon care to investigate what the GAO says, or work with them? No! They’re cutting the GAO back. Fire the attorneys generals! Fire the JAGs! Fill the DOJ with trash like Kash Patel and Bongino! Kash wants a direct phone line to the Oval Office; why? So he can take his marching orders directly from the Co-King and go around his real boss, Pam Bondi. Fire the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff! Have his henchman, falling-down drunk Pete Hegseth, fire the people who tried to minimize civilian casualties in combat! They stopped cybersecurity operations against Russia! They are getting rid of the people at DOJ who protected us from hackers, scammers and crypto crime! They removed a requirement for banks to determine the true owners of shell companies! These people are planning to go to war, and not with Russia or China, our new masters of the universe aligned together against freedom and democracy everywhere. Manifest Destiny: if you’re my next door neighbor, and you have something I want, and I’m well-armed, then give it to me now. Of course, that wouldn’t bother you, you don’t seem to care what happens to anyone else.
We didn't really get voted out, Bonnie. Please give some facts a thought:
1. Gerrymandering since 2020 has been first and foremost in the 4 year agenda of the Ex-President who never accepted he lost (pschological tactic - keep repeating stop the steal and weak people will believe it). He continued with Project 2025, yes it was in place that long ago, you can also reference CPI (Conservative Partners Institute) an organization whereby real estate has been bought by MAGA devotees to train folks for Project 2025 agenda.
2. Voter Suppression has eliminated many voters who did/would have voted and been counted, had it not been for the ongoing conservative judges that turned a blind-eye to this agenda, yes it happened.
3. Trump himself brazenly & publicly thanked the richest man in the world for having his Muskites - acolyte "techies" tamper with PA voter registry and outcomes. "He's really good with that computer stuff"
Yes, he is doing everything he said he would, appalling as it is. I agree with those saying wait until it shows up at your doorstep, buyers remorse can be very painful. THINK. he is cutting our money and education. He likes penniless, uneducated folks who like to be told what to do without thinking for themselves.
Agree completely. Another point: many of those eligible to vote chose not to, for whatever reason is beyond me. The point being: Trump only got around one-third of the votes that were cast. He did not win the popular vote; he only one a plurality of something like 49.8 of the votes; third party candidates won some votes. So the Repugnicans are ramming their Project 2025 right down every citizen’s throat, whether they like it or not (it seems that you like it). This without any real “mandate”, given that he got only one-third of eligible voters who actually voted. Gee, thanks?
So, you don't mind having an education department that teaches ONLY what the government wants taught. Or, having to work without benefit of ANY assistance when you are old ( social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, senior social services.) I guess you are SURE that neither you or anyone you love will get Alzheimer's or Parkinson's or even Cancer going forward, because the National Institute of health that helps with research and development of cures and drugs and monitors cases etc)are cutting research thanks to Musk and Trump. Also, I KNOW you couldn't possibly;y be a veteran or even know one, because they are really hurting with slashes in the Va in ALL area of workers- from Md's right down to receptionists. I guess what Im saying is it SURE IS A Good thing you're super wealthy because you won't have to worry about food costs, transportation costs, airline safety ( private plane, anyone) or anything else we commoners have to worry about.
You need to start listening to the truth instead of repeating propaganda. Sorry Bonnie, but don’t believe a word you say.
Are you living here and watching whats going on ?
Destroying our economy is part of “the plan”. Read Shane Almgren’s excellent Substack newsletter where he ties Musk and JD Vance with Curtis Yarvin’s shocking philosophy (he wants to DESTROY democracy.
“We Are Headed For a Tech CEO DICTATORSHIP”
“Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Peter Thiel are executing a long-planned agenda to take over the government. Donald Trump is just a dementia-addled old man along for the ride, ranting about windmills and magnets and taking over canals, and content to just sign large pieces of papers for the TV cameras all day.”
~ Shane Almgren
https://open.substack.com/pub/shanealmgren/p/democracy-is-done-the-rise-of-corporate
Curtis Yarvin has been the prominent influencer of what is currently occurring in the exponential dismantling of our government and democracy.
Excerpts from Wikipedia about Curtis Yarvin:
"If Americans want to change their government," he said, "they're going to have to get over their dictator phobia."[46]
Yarvin's ideas have been influential among right-libertarians and paleolibertarians, and the public discourses of prominent investors like Peter Thiel have echoed Yarvin's project of seceding from the United States to establish tech-CEO dictatorships.[50]
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, an informal adviser to Donald Trump, has spoken approvingly of Yarvin's thinking.[51] Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work.[16]
Vice-president JD Vance has cited Yarvin as an influence, saying in 2021,
"So there's this guy Curtis Yarvin who has written about these things," which included "Retire All Government Employees," or RAGE, written in 2012. Vance said that if Trump became president again, I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'"[17][52]
“…Hey, Congress, give me absolute power, or I'll take it anyway.”
[His] relationship with the investor-entrepreneur Thiel is his most important connection."[15]Thiel was an investor in Yarvin's startup Tlon…
In 2016, Yarvin privately asserted to Milo Yiannopoulos that he had been "coaching Thiel"
Yarvin has pointed to a 2009 essay by Thiel, in which the latter declared: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible... Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women—two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians—have rendered the notion of 'capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron."[55]
In a May 2021 conversation, Anton said Yarvin was arguing that a president could "gain power lawfully through an election, and then exercise it unlawfully."
Read the entire article about Yarvin below:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
Yes, Trump is the frontline frightening Clown, but a look a Vance confirms there is a much deeper menace, like Trump's selections for his administration top level positions. Kind of like a bad movie come to life.
The IMPORTANT thing is to call/email the House Republicans and READ Georgia Fisanick’s excellent Alternative CR’ that the Democrats should suggest (below).
https://open.substack.com/pub/georgiafisanick/p/a-cr-democrats-could-vote-for
I already called Hakeem Jeffries.
(202) 225-3121
Simply put, Yarvin and his sycophants are Anarchists, including the GQP and its MAGAT army. Any guesses on how that'll work out? HA, HA, HA!
"Curtis Yarvin has been the prominent influencer of what is currently occurring in the exponential dismantling of our government and democracy."
Who the he-- is Curtis Yarvin? I have never heard his name in any of Trump's speeches or any of trump's cabinet members describing their own objectives. He sounds like a fever dream of the Left who thinks they can blame for all Trump's alleged and utterly fanciful intentions to become a dictator. BOY would you LOVE to see Trump do that!
Instead Trump is actively declining power and sending it out to the individual cabinet members (to define who is excess to needs and what directives are irrelevant to the departments' mandates) and to the States, - eg abortion ,education. He is actively declining to tell any department what to do, leaving it to each nominated department head to carry our their duties themselves, THIS is NOT the sign of a dictator.,
"Who the he-- is Curtis Yarvin?" If you actually want to know, please read the substack Marlo provided a link to. Here it is again:
https://shanealmgren.substack.com/p/democracy-is-done-the-rise-of-corporate?triedRedirect=true
Trump is just the frontman. Musk and JD are the implementors.
Why then does he bring in an unelected bureaucrat who stinks with conflicts of interest, who was under 32 separate investigations by the agencies he is gutting, and whose companies have received $38 Billion of our taxpayer funds? And who bought the presidency for his bro with )288 billion cash on the barrel head! Because he is so remarkably feeble that he just decided to outsource all decision making to the Dog Elon and his tech bro tweenies! The cabinet? Shmabinet! They’re scared of being called out: they’re scared of their own shadow as well as JD, giant turd and the Dog. The damage has already been done: the GOP and the giant orange turd has relinquished control of the federal government to a secret cabal of tech billionaires. The “theories” of Yarvin have been implemented and the dictatorship is behind consolidated.
I agree with you.
Can you also have a transcript of this available so I don’t take up my spouse?
Just tap your CC button for closed caption, quiet.
There's a button labeled "Transcript" next to the "Share" button, at least on Substack.
We must all be concerned and vocal about the abuses to our 1st Amendment right of freedom of speech. Keep the protests up in the streets. This is not what anyone voted for.
Spot on again today...and I'm thinking the dementia is key. In the first administration Ivanka was supposed to be the secret power of control...Susie Wiles was advertised to be in the control tower this time...no wonder she likes to be out of sight
Susie who?
Wiles - his chief of staff
Trump should hang for his unconstitutional actions and the GOP should hang with him for refusing to defend the constitution from his attacks.
Ok good, let's also hang Dems for violating the Constitution by replacing an elected President ( Biden) with out one single vote from Democrat constituents, and replacing him with Kamala Harris without a single vote from Democrat constituents.
And the DC Dems say it is Republicans who are threats to democracy??
There is nothing in the constitution that specifies how a party chooses a candidate. It's entirely an internal matter. Have you read the constitution?
A trade war is happening, or not, depending on an aging, unsteady, and increasingly incoherent President. And once it is begun, and I don't think the Canadians are going to fold their tent and accept the rants and threats of Trump, the US economy will slump and well... it doesn't look good. Regarding the Palestinian supporter: they have no business trying to deport him. The Palestinians have good reasons for their continued rebellion and desire for a State of their own.
"Regarding the Palestinian supporter: they have no business trying to deport him. The Palestinians have good reasons for their continued rebellion and desire for a State of their own."
They stupidly elected HAMAS who then banned all further elections. If you make peace with terrorists, you deserve it when they build tunnels beneath your mosques and force the Israelis to bomb you to get at the guilty, and then blame the Israelis. Like I say, stupid.
After WW1, the British had a lot of influence in the mid-east. Historically, the Balfour Agreement was the organizing document that designated Palestine to be a home/state for the Jews who wished for a homeland of their own. The Palestinians were to have shared their lands, but would have one of their own. Henceforth, the deal never was fulfilled. No homeland for the Palestinians and a deadly conflict for the Jewish State.
Looking at you, Republicans. When are your children going to be deported because they demonstrated?
trump's cheese has long since fallen off his cracker, that dog don't hunt no more!
Any Presidential administration is supposed to govern the whole country, not just those parts that supported them. Obama did so despite being under constant attack. Biden created a lot of jobs in red states. But I just read that Musk is restoring cuts to MAGA districts if their reps call him and complain. I'm confused, why would he allow fraud and abuse in red districts? Doesn't it matter there?
Heather, thank you. Please take care and get well🌺
It continues. The Trump administration has weaponized all agencies in the Federal government. Because of Trump's own criminal behavior and ultimate conviction, he has been successful at convincing his MAGA base that his own criminality had been a fabrication created by the previous administration's weaponization of the DOJ. Never mind that he was found guilty of criminal behavior by State government prosecutors. He also fails to mention the execution of all legal proceedings brought against him were approved by grand juries comprised of American citizens. He has now weaponized the DHS through the use of infringing on the first amendment rights covering free speech. One more of his numerous impulsive moves to violate the Constitution and the law.
Just wondering if Trump's anti-Sematism edict includes possession of the New Testament with it's frequent anti-Jewish statements such as the blood libel preached by Peter in Acts or the anti-Jewish remarks of Paul in 1 Thessalonians 2:14-15 where he condemns Jews for all time?
“Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Peter Thiel are executing a long-planned agenda to take over the government. Donald Trump is just a dementia-addled old man along for the ride, ranting about windmills and magnets and taking over canals, and content to just sign large pieces of papers for the TV cameras all day.” ~ Shane Almgren
Yes, I agree with Shane, as far as he goes. And I think HCR has missed one significant reason as to "Why is he (Trump) doing this?" I think PUTIN is pushing Trump to destroy America. And it happens to coincide with the oligarch's plan, at least for the moment. But we'll see how that plays out when Putin, with Trump's help, finishes off Ukraine and sends troops here to buttress Hegseth's Martial Law. Maybe the oligarch's won't be so happy then.
Trump is following the Chicago school of economics playbook. Destroy the current economic structure as they did in Chile then rebuild it with Freidman economics out of the Chicago school. Supporters of this system destroyed other countries around the world, imprisoned and tortured the opposition and “disappeared” many Argentinians. It’s a system that directs money to the rich and concentrates power in one person.
How do I get a notification of an upcoming YouTube talk? Often the FB post doesn’t show up in my FB posts until after it is over.