Meanwhile, back home, we have DOGE Incels firing people involved with nuclear weapons safety. This is what happens when End of Time Christians collaborate with the Brainless and Feckless: we all end up dead.
The Trump administration now represents a threat to our lives, as John has indicated, through ignorance concerning nuclear weapons.This totally incompetent group of self-obssessed blowhards are also threatening our health and well-being. I believe the Trump administration is currently not informing the public of a widespread outbreak of type A flu. I am one of the victims. Anectodally, as many in my circle of relatives, friends, and acquaintances have suffered from this particularly severe strain of flu followed by weeks of bronchitis, I believe Trump feels knowledge of this epidemic would hurt "his" economy and make him look bad, which makes him look bad:
"As avian flu drives egg prices to record levels and increasingly poses a risk to humans, moves by the White House to cut spending and restrict communications have hobbled public health officials’ response, with the new administration yet to outline a clear strategy on how it plans to stem the spread of the virus.
State and local public health officials have gone weeks without regular updates on avian flu from the CDC after President Donald Trump froze nearly all external communications from the agency, said a person familiar with the situation.
Widespread funding cuts across the government and new restrictions on funding for NIH grants have also created uncertainty among infectious disease researchers and local health officials. Meanwhile, cuts to USAID have limited monitoring of the virus overseas."
The flu is ripping through northern AZ here, too. Many have been sick for weeks and weeks. And there is a large measles outbreak in TX. Every day I am filled with rage. And despair. Wouldn’t it be a special justice if the flu and measles ripped through the WH? I’m sorry you’re sick, Anthony. The flu is terrible. Take good care of yourself. I’m wearing a mask in all public spaces.
No reason why it WOULDN'T "rip through the WH"..... Remember the early days of covid with all the continuous orange lies and gas lighting and cavalier attitudes re masks?? ... .... .... and THEN the orange "denier" got sick with it. Really REALLY sick. Left the hospital when doctors advised him not to. I remember seeing him after the chopper brought him home. He stood on a balcony, preparing to waltz into the private space of his wife, son and Lord knows who else & put them at risk. I think he'd been given drugs very hard for the "ordinary" patient to get. Looked horrifically ill and sounded the same. Maybe the misfits think there'll be time for them to whisk themselves away to Mars before the flu, measles, or whatever else lies in wait can get them. I personally believe that there's a chance that any number of the outright mean-spirited things they're currently doing may backfire on them. They are moving too fast...... and they WILL break things.... maybe themselves.
I remember. I still can’t get my head around all of the voters who looked past their COVID dead relatives and friends and again voted for this sociopath. Yes. He looked sick AF. And when he was still in the hospital, remember how he forced his SS protection and his driver to drive his ass around the hospital to wave at his stupid fans? And yes. He DID receive all of the meds no one else could receive, AND his ass was airlifted to Walter Reed. Now he is killing us all with RFK2 and gutting and silencing the CDC. I hate this fucker. Every day the terrible things he does and his creepy “cabinet” cast a pall on everything. I don’t think we can survive four years of this. Or even four months. It’s all going to come apart.
I owe the IRS a modest amount in taxes on April 15th. There is just no way — not mentally, not physically — that I can hit the Submit Payment button to the kleptocrats. One can, I suppose, view it as a protest. But it is also like a reflex for me. I cannot do it. Cannot do it. Cannot do it.
I’m right there with you. I always owe, and I have always paid my taxes. Not this time. NFW. There are no rules. There are no laws. I’m not giving one more cent to the “government”. Who knows what will be left of the “government” by 4/15? And I’ll go one more: I think we should do a tax strike as a collective. So the “peace” for Ukraine will be held in Saudi Arabia FFS. Europe is not invited. Neither is Ukraine. I’m sure Janice Diane Vance will be there. His eyeliner is off the chain. We are being ruled by malignant, dangerous weirdos and freaks. So no, John. I will not be sending in my tax payment this year. I understand Elon Musk and Big Balls or whoever have accessed the IRS. Firing all around! Fuck these people. Come and get my taxes, Janice.
The measles outbreak in Texas, at 48 cases, is now breaking out in New Mexico. Guess who is getting infected...unvaccinated children. Innocent kids with dumbass parents.
Bird flu, measles, polio...we are fucked! I'm with you, Julie, I can't imagine we survive four more months...or four more weeks of this.
I expect public parks will once again become outdoor morgues. Terrifying!
I hope the Democratic leaders of Europe realize that MAGA represents only 33% of America (and soon probably less). I never wish ill will on anyone, but I fear the only way out of this is an uprising where people will die. Already we are seeing those who voted for Trump question his actions. Once tariffs really hit, food prices go up, Social Security checks stopped, and Medicare payments denied, it's going to get very ugly. It did not end well for Mussolini either.
That's what I thought about COVID. I recall a line from Neil deGrasse Tyson to the effect that if a global pandemic couldn't pull us together in common cause, he had little hope for the future of humanity. We failed the test.
I actually would like to see the orange Hitler /Mussolini hanging that way. He’s simply an evil simpleton! What would bring a person to have voted for this scum? He’s a known liar why would anyone think he’s actually turned over a new leaf? That he’s changed? He’s changed only in that he’s worse than ever. I don’t see what anyone sees in him, a criminal, loser, narcissist who cheated his way through life, that’s admirable? Some Americans have extremely low standards! I have no hope for those people at all, their standards are so low.
Huff po had published a survey of trump supporters asking when their support of him would end. The inhumanity of the answers was truly telling for most. Only a few said they regretted their votes.
The problem isn't the 33% it's that the Republican Senators have gone a complete 180 and are willing to go along with everything no matter the consequences. It hasn't hit the majority of people yet.
Can you picture 71.6 million Americans, whose monthly Social Security checks have been stopped, setting up multiple gallows outside of the White House?
My husband and I are retired. Like most Americans, we worked all our lives and paid into a system that we count on each month to pay our bills. Neither of us were stupid enough to vote for him in either election. We don’t and never have watcher Fox News but we do read and question both parties. I’m sure you all have some family members who believe this charlatan, I do. Sadly, they think he is a ‘strong man’, out to do things that will help them. I simply say, strong men were each of the boys I went to high school with, that served when asked to do so. I don’t know how we will make ends meet without SS or Medicare, we don’t live extravagantly and our house is almost paid off. However, if this it what it takes to wake up the fox fools, then so be it.
BTW, you should consider watching FOXaganda occasionally. It is instructive, knowing the lies and misleading information FOX feeds fraud Trump’s ignorant MAGAt cult members.
Joel, I’m not sure my BP or pacemaker could handle the BS. 😂 However your right, it might help if I knew the BS my brother is being feed. How would I watch this?
No we are and should all be painted with the same brush of shame. Sorry, no more American exceptionalism and no more "but it wasn't me." I doubt any of us here had voted for the junta leader but as Americans we are all to share the responsibility and the consequence. Personally, I think European nations, Mexico and Canada should not let ANY American in. Startle the whole pack with a loss of privilege to get Democrats to finally get up off their butts.
Dear Laura, I did everything I could to stop Trump. I did more than I ever imagined I could. But I am only one person. Shame on the uniformed, stupid people who would not listen to the truth. But don't blame us Americans who are wracking our brains trying to protect democracy.
As though his wife is any less a Nazi? Like Melania, Usha is just as bad as Vance. Melania was a birther along with her husband. She's a lying scum, just like trump. Usha is just as well-educated, probably better-educated, than her husband. She's complicit with all of this, too. Probably sees herself in the White House. How great for the daughter of immigrants. The American Dream for me, but not for thee.
Catering to Jewish votes while antisemites cheerfully join the maga movement and are in positions of mediocre power in trusk White House is more than a little confusing.
I’m not sure any of this is being reported by the MSM. My sister and a good friend (unknown to each other) both winter in Florida. Last week I heard from both of them asking how we were doing in 🇨🇦 with the threat of tariffs and potential annexation of our country. My response was that I was more worried about what was happening in the 🇺🇸 right under their nose. Both responded, everything OK and that all was fine in America. When I listed off the political missteps occurring there, they both replied: “we haven’t heard a word about it”. Ditto for my bro who lives in a small town in BC. If people don’t subscribe to legitimate and honest writings such as Steve’s substack, one ends up being ignorant of important info regarding their government.
Rosie, I agree with you, very well said but with one small difference...to live in ignorance of what [this current administration is doing to the government of the people]..and only then, when as you said, don't wake up until it hits them square in their lives.....btw, nice take on the wives of these two buffoons.
I fear you missed my point. I was speaking about 2 Canadians spending their winters in Florida. I would consider both more than literate, yet neither provided evidence of reporting what is happening at the WH - that is no political reports or analyses in their local FL newspapers. Go figure!
Excellent Question, answer is propaganda from Fox noise and lack of critical thinking. Republicans want stupid voters and low education standards. Republicans have become Nazis!
It isn't just Fox. I think we need to recognize that ABC, NBC and CBS are also compliant. This AM there was a report on ABC about the federal workers getting fired. They described workers "breathlessly waiting to learn if they would be next." No mention at all that it is entirely illegal to fire workers protected under Civil Service rules without cause. No mention that it is not legal for the president or for Trump.
far too many don't even understand what that word means. . . just as they don't really understand "socialism" or "marxism" or "oligarchy" or even "authoritarianism"...but they know they hate it because dear leader told them to.
Dictator Putin has Trump exactly where he wants him. It should be apparent to EVERYONE that Putin has a load of filth on Trump. Trump is well aware of that. Because of that, Trump will do everything he can to appease Putin, to keep Putin from revealing the load of filth he has on Trump.
What is that “load of filth?” Several books have been written about Russian Oligarchs and Russian Mafia laundering money through Trump’s real estate projects. Well prior to entering his quest for office, Trump visited Russia several times. Given Trump’s proclivity for sexual abuse (“I grab ‘em by the pussy”), it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that Putin has the goods on scumbag Trump. It is not difficult, at all, to figure out why Putin invested hundreds of millions to put Trump in the Oval Office. Putin has grand plans to take over Eastern countries, and Trump, our Oval Office traitor, is going to green-light Putin’s plans, destroying the NATO Alliance in the process.
You might ask, “what else is in it for Fraud Trump?” Putin, not Musk is the wealthiest person on Planet Earth. Putin has accomplished that by stealing Russia’s wealth. Trump’s quest is to become one of the wealthiest people on Planet Earth, and he knows he can accomplish that by following the same plan that Putin followed. Everything else Trump is doing is a smokescreen, a smokescreen to hide from Americans his ultimate objective. He’s letting his MAGA cult, now filled with traitorous Republican Senators and Representatives, have their way because doing so prevents them from focusing on Trump’s wealth-grabbing activities.
This is not going to end well for Americans or for our Democracy.
The election of Liar, Fraud, Con, Grifter, Scumbag, Convicted-Felon, Traitor Trump is going to lead to violence in the streets of America.
Everyone on this thread, if you haven't already, needs to go out and read Craig Unger's "House of Trump, House of Putin." The level of entanglement with Trump and Putin is much deeper then generally known, and started way before the 2016 election cycle. Nothing moves in Russia without the Oligarchs giving rasPutin his taste. Drumpf's aspired to that for years. If anyone has any doubts of this entanglement, all you need to know is two words: "Paul Manafort!"
Putin doesn't need dirt on Trump & at this point it probably wouldn't matter if he published it all in the WSJ. Trump is in awe of corrupt strongmen, a role he longs to emulate. I think America has shown that no amount of exposure of egregious details about Trump threatens the hold on his cult and his cowering party.
I hope Vance visited the entirety of Dachau in his visit. I did 6 years ago and it’s truly a place that reminds you what horrible things humans can do to other people. Seeing the ovens and crematoriums just makes you cry. We may not now do the things we did to the Jewish people and others during WWII but we’re still being mean and cruel to many people both here and abroad. Why? Have we not learned what was done to people at Dachau? I’d like to think that most of the American people are not like this. We need to stop the ones who are. Vote them out and take back our country
I never visited Dachau but did visit Auchswitz and it was horrifying there. To think the human mind can dream up such horrors is mind numbing! I honestly think that Trump and company could do it again, he’s such an admirer of Hitler and Nazis and he’s already on the path now. He has no honor for life except his own.
Vance isn't even 40. It's obvious that people his age haven't learned anything about what happened and it to people as stupid as Vance, it is ancient and irrelevant history. It just does not have the same punch of horror that it does to Gen X and Baby boom folks.
I think deep down he knows damned well he is lying but he is sooooo desperate to be seen as someone important & powerful he (like far too many in DC) will do ANYTHING to achieve what he has so far, and to hang onto it. Pretty sure he gets "pep talks" and goes through "training / practice sessions" with his guru............ and then goes out and promptly blows it. What a embarrassment and total disgrace. If he were smart (.......) he'd resign and go practice law with integrity (now there's a wild concept).
I just finished reading a post, actually 17 in total by Gabrielius Landsbergis, former Foreign Minister of Lithuania. This was posted on X. His take on Munich, Trump, Putin and the future, options for Europe. Very interesting. Also read there will be an emergency EU meeting tomorrow in Paris. It appears they are understanding of what is to come.
Also, Trump posted this statement. “He who saves his country does not violate any law”.
US can no longer be relied upon as in the past. Trump & Putin will put together a take it or leave it “peace” deal. If not accepted, US pulls all support from Ukraine. Possibility of various actions leaving a big hole for China to sweep in. He believes China is just waiting.
That is a very simplistic answer. He is very thoughtful with his comments
VERY, VERY INTERESTING and VERY, VERY DISTURBING that White Supremacist Hegseth - Trump's pick for, and now our current, U.S. Secretary of Defense - INVITED White Supremacist, Racist, Scumbag, Antisemite, Neo-Nazi Jack Psobiec to accompany him on his trip to Europe.
"Tuning out may offer a bit of a reprieve, but it leads to a dead end because, in the end, there is no escaping and no hiding from what is coming."
Excellent essay, Steve, as per usual.
My concern is that in these dark, dark days, tuning out could quite literally lead to a "dead end." History is replete with examples of slumbrous people failing to see the warning signs of their own doom. So it is eyes wide open and scanning the horizon. Especially since the world, not just this nation, is indeed "heating up." What Vance did in Europe amounts to diplomatic scorched earth. He destroyed in a matter of hours what it took centuries for Americans to build. And he has left our European allies vulnerable to Russian aggression, and the US, as well. Wherever did the Yanks go?
JD Vance’s Senate.gov page listed him as a former USMC public affairs officer. That was changed quietly when Stolen Valor was alleged against Tim Walz. Very quiet change. Sleaze makes very small squeaky sounds. No one noticed.
Meanwhile, back home, we have DOGE Incels firing people involved with nuclear weapons safety. This is what happens when End of Time Christians collaborate with the Brainless and Feckless: we all end up dead.
The Trump administration now represents a threat to our lives, as John has indicated, through ignorance concerning nuclear weapons.This totally incompetent group of self-obssessed blowhards are also threatening our health and well-being. I believe the Trump administration is currently not informing the public of a widespread outbreak of type A flu. I am one of the victims. Anectodally, as many in my circle of relatives, friends, and acquaintances have suffered from this particularly severe strain of flu followed by weeks of bronchitis, I believe Trump feels knowledge of this epidemic would hurt "his" economy and make him look bad, which makes him look bad:
"As avian flu drives egg prices to record levels and increasingly poses a risk to humans, moves by the White House to cut spending and restrict communications have hobbled public health officials’ response, with the new administration yet to outline a clear strategy on how it plans to stem the spread of the virus.
State and local public health officials have gone weeks without regular updates on avian flu from the CDC after President Donald Trump froze nearly all external communications from the agency, said a person familiar with the situation.
Widespread funding cuts across the government and new restrictions on funding for NIH grants have also created uncertainty among infectious disease researchers and local health officials. Meanwhile, cuts to USAID have limited monitoring of the virus overseas."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trumps-drive-reshape-government-threaten-bird-flu-response-rcna192133
He and his gang of fools are covering up more than the avian flu. They will not keep us informed and will not even suggest public safety messages.
Again all the reasons he should have been assassinated years ago. One injection. No one the wiser. Heart attack. DONE.
Girl, your comment made my day.
The flu is ripping through northern AZ here, too. Many have been sick for weeks and weeks. And there is a large measles outbreak in TX. Every day I am filled with rage. And despair. Wouldn’t it be a special justice if the flu and measles ripped through the WH? I’m sorry you’re sick, Anthony. The flu is terrible. Take good care of yourself. I’m wearing a mask in all public spaces.
No reason why it WOULDN'T "rip through the WH"..... Remember the early days of covid with all the continuous orange lies and gas lighting and cavalier attitudes re masks?? ... .... .... and THEN the orange "denier" got sick with it. Really REALLY sick. Left the hospital when doctors advised him not to. I remember seeing him after the chopper brought him home. He stood on a balcony, preparing to waltz into the private space of his wife, son and Lord knows who else & put them at risk. I think he'd been given drugs very hard for the "ordinary" patient to get. Looked horrifically ill and sounded the same. Maybe the misfits think there'll be time for them to whisk themselves away to Mars before the flu, measles, or whatever else lies in wait can get them. I personally believe that there's a chance that any number of the outright mean-spirited things they're currently doing may backfire on them. They are moving too fast...... and they WILL break things.... maybe themselves.
I remember. I still can’t get my head around all of the voters who looked past their COVID dead relatives and friends and again voted for this sociopath. Yes. He looked sick AF. And when he was still in the hospital, remember how he forced his SS protection and his driver to drive his ass around the hospital to wave at his stupid fans? And yes. He DID receive all of the meds no one else could receive, AND his ass was airlifted to Walter Reed. Now he is killing us all with RFK2 and gutting and silencing the CDC. I hate this fucker. Every day the terrible things he does and his creepy “cabinet” cast a pall on everything. I don’t think we can survive four years of this. Or even four months. It’s all going to come apart.
I owe the IRS a modest amount in taxes on April 15th. There is just no way — not mentally, not physically — that I can hit the Submit Payment button to the kleptocrats. One can, I suppose, view it as a protest. But it is also like a reflex for me. I cannot do it. Cannot do it. Cannot do it.
I’m right there with you. I always owe, and I have always paid my taxes. Not this time. NFW. There are no rules. There are no laws. I’m not giving one more cent to the “government”. Who knows what will be left of the “government” by 4/15? And I’ll go one more: I think we should do a tax strike as a collective. So the “peace” for Ukraine will be held in Saudi Arabia FFS. Europe is not invited. Neither is Ukraine. I’m sure Janice Diane Vance will be there. His eyeliner is off the chain. We are being ruled by malignant, dangerous weirdos and freaks. So no, John. I will not be sending in my tax payment this year. I understand Elon Musk and Big Balls or whoever have accessed the IRS. Firing all around! Fuck these people. Come and get my taxes, Janice.
The measles outbreak in Texas, at 48 cases, is now breaking out in New Mexico. Guess who is getting infected...unvaccinated children. Innocent kids with dumbass parents.
Bird flu, measles, polio...we are fucked! I'm with you, Julie, I can't imagine we survive four more months...or four more weeks of this.
I expect public parks will once again become outdoor morgues. Terrifying!
Schools will become incubators of disease, thanks to the stupidity of a growing number of people in this country.
Measles ripping through the country. Same with bird flu. Today another plane crash. There won’t be a US in 4 months. It’s terrible.
We really are in a health as well as political crisis. Thank you for the kind words. I seem, finally, to be on the mend.
I’m very happy about this.
An example of precedence being placed on egg prices over global health
So perfect John
America has never looked so weak, small and ignorant. Excellent piece, Steve, Thank You, and will reStack ASAP 🙏💯👍🇺🇸
I hope the Democratic leaders of Europe realize that MAGA represents only 33% of America (and soon probably less). I never wish ill will on anyone, but I fear the only way out of this is an uprising where people will die. Already we are seeing those who voted for Trump question his actions. Once tariffs really hit, food prices go up, Social Security checks stopped, and Medicare payments denied, it's going to get very ugly. It did not end well for Mussolini either.
Don't forget--when children start dying from preventable childhood illnesses because of RFKJr.
That's what I thought about COVID. I recall a line from Neil deGrasse Tyson to the effect that if a global pandemic couldn't pull us together in common cause, he had little hope for the future of humanity. We failed the test.
I actually would like to see the orange Hitler /Mussolini hanging that way. He’s simply an evil simpleton! What would bring a person to have voted for this scum? He’s a known liar why would anyone think he’s actually turned over a new leaf? That he’s changed? He’s changed only in that he’s worse than ever. I don’t see what anyone sees in him, a criminal, loser, narcissist who cheated his way through life, that’s admirable? Some Americans have extremely low standards! I have no hope for those people at all, their standards are so low.
They love his outward racism and hate
Yes, the people I know who like him are racist & are worried about transgender bathrooms & politically correct speech.
So proud of themselves, pride; oh,oh that’s one of those ‘bad Christianity words’.
Huff po had published a survey of trump supporters asking when their support of him would end. The inhumanity of the answers was truly telling for most. Only a few said they regretted their votes.
That's probably only because they were still (AT THAT TIME) getting their medicaid or medicare or SNAP or social security, etc.
Agree, it’s 33% and less daily.
The problem isn't the 33% it's that the Republican Senators have gone a complete 180 and are willing to go along with everything no matter the consequences. It hasn't hit the majority of people yet.
"Social Security checks stopped"......
Can you picture 71.6 million Americans, whose monthly Social Security checks have been stopped, setting up multiple gallows outside of the White House?
My husband and I are retired. Like most Americans, we worked all our lives and paid into a system that we count on each month to pay our bills. Neither of us were stupid enough to vote for him in either election. We don’t and never have watcher Fox News but we do read and question both parties. I’m sure you all have some family members who believe this charlatan, I do. Sadly, they think he is a ‘strong man’, out to do things that will help them. I simply say, strong men were each of the boys I went to high school with, that served when asked to do so. I don’t know how we will make ends meet without SS or Medicare, we don’t live extravagantly and our house is almost paid off. However, if this it what it takes to wake up the fox fools, then so be it.
Probably 40 million seniors fit your profile
BTW, you should consider watching FOXaganda occasionally. It is instructive, knowing the lies and misleading information FOX feeds fraud Trump’s ignorant MAGAt cult members.
My Mother is one of those completely brainwashed by Fox even though after January 6 she swore she'd never vote for him again, she did.
Joel, I’m not sure my BP or pacemaker could handle the BS. 😂 However your right, it might help if I knew the BS my brother is being feed. How would I watch this?
Sorry-fed not feed👍
Sign me up!
No we are and should all be painted with the same brush of shame. Sorry, no more American exceptionalism and no more "but it wasn't me." I doubt any of us here had voted for the junta leader but as Americans we are all to share the responsibility and the consequence. Personally, I think European nations, Mexico and Canada should not let ANY American in. Startle the whole pack with a loss of privilege to get Democrats to finally get up off their butts.
Dear Laura, I did everything I could to stop Trump. I did more than I ever imagined I could. But I am only one person. Shame on the uniformed, stupid people who would not listen to the truth. But don't blame us Americans who are wracking our brains trying to protect democracy.
Wow, the best he can do is attack an intelligent teenager working to better our world.
His wife must be proud!
As though his wife is any less a Nazi? Like Melania, Usha is just as bad as Vance. Melania was a birther along with her husband. She's a lying scum, just like trump. Usha is just as well-educated, probably better-educated, than her husband. She's complicit with all of this, too. Probably sees herself in the White House. How great for the daughter of immigrants. The American Dream for me, but not for thee.
I can’t imagine Vance at Dachau
He was probably there looking at design concepts
Cruel, but so funny!
Not a subject which tolerates humor easily, but I understand your reasons and it works. Perfect use of words.
Catering to Jewish votes while antisemites cheerfully join the maga movement and are in positions of mediocre power in trusk White House is more than a little confusing.
I haven’t seen the news reports about it but it had to be an insult to the people who were imprisoned and died there.
I can
The world seems to understand that this is aCOUP. Why don’t most Americans?
I’m not sure any of this is being reported by the MSM. My sister and a good friend (unknown to each other) both winter in Florida. Last week I heard from both of them asking how we were doing in 🇨🇦 with the threat of tariffs and potential annexation of our country. My response was that I was more worried about what was happening in the 🇺🇸 right under their nose. Both responded, everything OK and that all was fine in America. When I listed off the political missteps occurring there, they both replied: “we haven’t heard a word about it”. Ditto for my bro who lives in a small town in BC. If people don’t subscribe to legitimate and honest writings such as Steve’s substack, one ends up being ignorant of important info regarding their government.
I fear the majority of Americans want that--to live in ignorance of what the government is doing, until it affects them personally.
Rosie, I agree with you, very well said but with one small difference...to live in ignorance of what [this current administration is doing to the government of the people]..and only then, when as you said, don't wake up until it hits them square in their lives.....btw, nice take on the wives of these two buffoons.
I fear you missed my point. I was speaking about 2 Canadians spending their winters in Florida. I would consider both more than literate, yet neither provided evidence of reporting what is happening at the WH - that is no political reports or analyses in their local FL newspapers. Go figure!
Excellent Question, answer is propaganda from Fox noise and lack of critical thinking. Republicans want stupid voters and low education standards. Republicans have become Nazis!
It isn't just Fox. I think we need to recognize that ABC, NBC and CBS are also compliant. This AM there was a report on ABC about the federal workers getting fired. They described workers "breathlessly waiting to learn if they would be next." No mention at all that it is entirely illegal to fire workers protected under Civil Service rules without cause. No mention that it is not legal for the president or for Trump.
Yes. People are not being told the whole story by msm. Shut it down, long age.
Sorry ‘long ago”.
far too many don't even understand what that word means. . . just as they don't really understand "socialism" or "marxism" or "oligarchy" or even "authoritarianism"...but they know they hate it because dear leader told them to.
Do you mean the cult? They do realize it and they are enjoying it.
Liar, Fraud, Con, Grifter, Putin’s Puppet, Traitor Trump is America’s Disgrace.
Dictator Putin has Trump exactly where he wants him. It should be apparent to EVERYONE that Putin has a load of filth on Trump. Trump is well aware of that. Because of that, Trump will do everything he can to appease Putin, to keep Putin from revealing the load of filth he has on Trump.
What is that “load of filth?” Several books have been written about Russian Oligarchs and Russian Mafia laundering money through Trump’s real estate projects. Well prior to entering his quest for office, Trump visited Russia several times. Given Trump’s proclivity for sexual abuse (“I grab ‘em by the pussy”), it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that Putin has the goods on scumbag Trump. It is not difficult, at all, to figure out why Putin invested hundreds of millions to put Trump in the Oval Office. Putin has grand plans to take over Eastern countries, and Trump, our Oval Office traitor, is going to green-light Putin’s plans, destroying the NATO Alliance in the process.
You might ask, “what else is in it for Fraud Trump?” Putin, not Musk is the wealthiest person on Planet Earth. Putin has accomplished that by stealing Russia’s wealth. Trump’s quest is to become one of the wealthiest people on Planet Earth, and he knows he can accomplish that by following the same plan that Putin followed. Everything else Trump is doing is a smokescreen, a smokescreen to hide from Americans his ultimate objective. He’s letting his MAGA cult, now filled with traitorous Republican Senators and Representatives, have their way because doing so prevents them from focusing on Trump’s wealth-grabbing activities.
This is not going to end well for Americans or for our Democracy.
The election of Liar, Fraud, Con, Grifter, Scumbag, Convicted-Felon, Traitor Trump is going to lead to violence in the streets of America.
Everyone on this thread, if you haven't already, needs to go out and read Craig Unger's "House of Trump, House of Putin." The level of entanglement with Trump and Putin is much deeper then generally known, and started way before the 2016 election cycle. Nothing moves in Russia without the Oligarchs giving rasPutin his taste. Drumpf's aspired to that for years. If anyone has any doubts of this entanglement, all you need to know is two words: "Paul Manafort!"
Putin doesn't need dirt on Trump & at this point it probably wouldn't matter if he published it all in the WSJ. Trump is in awe of corrupt strongmen, a role he longs to emulate. I think America has shown that no amount of exposure of egregious details about Trump threatens the hold on his cult and his cowering party.
Exactly Correct- Putin is by far the richest man in the world.
I hope Vance visited the entirety of Dachau in his visit. I did 6 years ago and it’s truly a place that reminds you what horrible things humans can do to other people. Seeing the ovens and crematoriums just makes you cry. We may not now do the things we did to the Jewish people and others during WWII but we’re still being mean and cruel to many people both here and abroad. Why? Have we not learned what was done to people at Dachau? I’d like to think that most of the American people are not like this. We need to stop the ones who are. Vote them out and take back our country
I never visited Dachau but did visit Auchswitz and it was horrifying there. To think the human mind can dream up such horrors is mind numbing! I honestly think that Trump and company could do it again, he’s such an admirer of Hitler and Nazis and he’s already on the path now. He has no honor for life except his own.
Vance isn't even 40. It's obvious that people his age haven't learned anything about what happened and it to people as stupid as Vance, it is ancient and irrelevant history. It just does not have the same punch of horror that it does to Gen X and Baby boom folks.
I think deep down he knows damned well he is lying but he is sooooo desperate to be seen as someone important & powerful he (like far too many in DC) will do ANYTHING to achieve what he has so far, and to hang onto it. Pretty sure he gets "pep talks" and goes through "training / practice sessions" with his guru............ and then goes out and promptly blows it. What a embarrassment and total disgrace. If he were smart (.......) he'd resign and go practice law with integrity (now there's a wild concept).
Sad day when the American Vice president becomes an outsider to our ally.
I just finished reading a post, actually 17 in total by Gabrielius Landsbergis, former Foreign Minister of Lithuania. This was posted on X. His take on Munich, Trump, Putin and the future, options for Europe. Very interesting. Also read there will be an emergency EU meeting tomorrow in Paris. It appears they are understanding of what is to come.
Also, Trump posted this statement. “He who saves his country does not violate any law”.
It is a dark, very dark time. Stunning.
Summary of the 17 posts or the author’s “take” would have been helpful for those of us not on X.
US can no longer be relied upon as in the past. Trump & Putin will put together a take it or leave it “peace” deal. If not accepted, US pulls all support from Ukraine. Possibility of various actions leaving a big hole for China to sweep in. He believes China is just waiting.
That is a very simplistic answer. He is very thoughtful with his comments
VERY, VERY INTERESTING and VERY, VERY DISTURBING that White Supremacist Hegseth - Trump's pick for, and now our current, U.S. Secretary of Defense - INVITED White Supremacist, Racist, Scumbag, Antisemite, Neo-Nazi Jack Psobiec to accompany him on his trip to Europe.
MAGA = Morons Are Governing America.
too kind
Perhaps. But true nonetheless!
As we alienate our closest allies in broad daylight, and sell out Ukraine, we are quickly becoming a pariah, one to be reviled by the free world.
"Tuning out may offer a bit of a reprieve, but it leads to a dead end because, in the end, there is no escaping and no hiding from what is coming."
Excellent essay, Steve, as per usual.
My concern is that in these dark, dark days, tuning out could quite literally lead to a "dead end." History is replete with examples of slumbrous people failing to see the warning signs of their own doom. So it is eyes wide open and scanning the horizon. Especially since the world, not just this nation, is indeed "heating up." What Vance did in Europe amounts to diplomatic scorched earth. He destroyed in a matter of hours what it took centuries for Americans to build. And he has left our European allies vulnerable to Russian aggression, and the US, as well. Wherever did the Yanks go?
JD Vance’s Senate.gov page listed him as a former USMC public affairs officer. That was changed quietly when Stolen Valor was alleged against Tim Walz. Very quiet change. Sleaze makes very small squeaky sounds. No one noticed.
Steve, You keep referring to what’s coming. I believe you and I and your former colleagues at Lincoln believe it’s already arrived.
Joey Kaemofer