Trump is truly a fascist madman who believes that he is a god. People who fail to see this, after all that has happened, are the real problem that perpetuates this obsenity of a United States President.
He was taught to be a megalomaniacal fascist by his father and vicious anti-communist henchman and demonizer for Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn. He has spent his entire life trying to overcompensate for the fragile self-loathing induced by the dearth of love and attention from his absentee parents.
History doesn’t repeat itself. But, it rhymes. --- Mark Twain
American fascism will not look like 1930’s European fascism. This is partly the problem with our citizens and our elected officials. They can’t fathom the danger in the parallel history. It seems they don’t have the critical thinking skills to see the flashing beacon of an attack on our Republic.
Since Sept 11th the US has been losing ground to China. W Bush’s “ war on terror “ caused us to take our eye off the ball ( China ). 2020 and COVID was yet another example of the US slipping downward. We had to depend on China for our PPE and just about everything else. 2025 sees the US losing face among old allies and friends. Our championing of democracy and law and order as well as respect for all people is a sham. Every action our orange imbecile makes puts China on a higher level than us. His election was the best gift they ever received.
And, all of this was due to unrestrained greed. Allowing the rich to get richer. Allowing tax breaks for those that don’t need it. Allowing corporations to be people ( SCOTUS ruling : Citizens United v. FEC ) got us here. Giving the POTUS unrestrained power, thanks SCOTUS, set us on this plain where an American SS that’s called ICE can kill anyone they choose at anytime they choose.
Do we, the sentient, not MAGA, not the GOP - aka theAmerican Fascist Party, have the courage of the people of Lidice to lay down our lives? I pray we do…
Trump owns a functioning moral conscience and sensibility the way a psychiatric in-patient owns a healthy, normal functioning mental apparatus able to negotiate objective reality.
Your sentiment is on target, Lisa, but the doubtless imminent expiration of this psychopathic malignant narcissist and rapidly dementing monster will likely be the unpreventable result of self-induced 'natural' causes.
I wonder if he really meant to say ‘morality’ —- I keep reading/hearing ‘mortality’. Since he HAS no morals, we can understand only his DEMISE can change his mind. (imho) thx
The BBB will now allow ICE to hire 12,000 more agents. Their training has been reduced to 47 days from 5 months. “47” in honor of the orange turd. It will likely get worse with the additional untrained agents and several more blue cities under siege.
Will Schumer and Jeffries do more than call for investigations? How about the abolishment of ICE?
Rep. Hunt's reference to Minneapolis as a "cesspool of immigration" reflects Trump's own view that immigrants from "shithole countries" are poisoning the bloodstream of America. Trump went on to express dismay over the fact that we get so few immigrants from Norway. This begs the question, has Rep. Hunt looked in a mirror lately?
His comments about violence as caused more by leftists, critics of Trump, than Magats is belied by all evidence. Protests against Trump, No King Days for example, have been remarkably peaceful. Has Hunt ever looked at footage of 1/6, listened to Trump's speech encouraging the insurrection and attempts to change the results of a free and fair presidential election? Has he watched footage of ICE raids? read about the concentration camps being built to hold immigrants w/o due process; the extradition again, w/o due process, of kidnapped immigrants, some citizens, very few criminals, to the cruelest prisons around the world?
The cover-up of Nicole Good's murder is so obvious. The federal government is not allowing Minnesota state or local officials to investigate the death of Nicole Good at the hands of an ICE agent. Trump's DOJ and his bitch, AG Pam Bondi, will gather and analyze the evidence. However, is any one naive enough to believe that their investigation will be objective? They have already announced the agent did nothing wrong in shooting Nicole Good, whom they labeled, with no supporting evidence, a domestic terrorist. This is a woman with three children and no criminal background.
Rep. Seth Magaziner (D, RI) said this on the Meidas Touch; I think the combination of in-your face-corruption and rank stupidity will bring Trump and his band of not-so-merry men down, but it better be soon:
“Kristi Noem’s an idiot, right? Like, she went on TV before any of the facts were in. She made up this story on TV about ICE agents trying to dig their truck out of the snow or something, which was clearly false. Like she didn’t even realize that there was gonna be video of what happened when she went up and gave a false story.
“Everybody in the Trump administration lies, but she’s not even good at the lie, right? And we’ve seen that over and over again. So, you know, it would be ridiculous, it would be funny if it wasn’t so sad and tragic because actual people’s lives are being ruined and in some cases ended by the lawlessness of the administration.
“And, again, like, if they had just done what they said they would do and just focus on people with serious criminal records, no one would be complaining, but they can’t help themselves.”
Yes, she is an idiot. Remember, she is from the state where lies a mass grave containing the bodies of 400 men, women, and children who were murdered by the U.S. 7th Cavalry. It is a short day's drive from where I live and I have visited it many times.
It isn't South Dakota that is to blame; it's a beautiful state and I love going there. I live less than a mile from the Iowa/SoDak border so I go there often. I worked there until I retired. But South Dakota has it's own Lidice.
I have yet to speak to any resident of South Dakota who wishes Kristi Noem would come back home.
I want to know why the fuck his gestapo is in these cities in the first place. The states and cities don't WANT them there. They're a bunch of mall cops that dropped out of the police academy, and for god's sake if what you are doing is so noble, why the masks??
Norwegians no doubt remember and teach their students about the Quisling government during WWII. It's obvious the same is happening in the US so of course they're not willing to come. My grandfather was from Norway, he told us kids all about Quisling.
I think it would greatly help our cause if every time Steve wrote, in this case under a photo of the murdered Nicole Good, "This is what the Schumer Democrats voted to confirm," he noted that Democrats overwhelmingly voted against Trump's nominations while their GOP colleagues voted overwhelmingly for them, regardless, of how incompetent they were.
Please stop denigrating Democratic leaders without also emphasizing the vast majority of Democrats, led by men and women like Schiff, Newsom, Warren, Swalwell, Porter, Raskin, and Sanders who continue to risk their lives in the fight against the Nazification of America. They are our only hope for a peaceful end to MAGA tyranny.
Unfortunately we have the wrong Democrats in Leadership. I watched Hakeem Jeffries in The ACA debate. I was dumbfounded at how he said almost nothing useful in the debate.
More realistically and practically, it is time for a massive and sustained, creative nonviolent movement against this psycho-fascist, un-American Trump regime. Strategic nonviolence, deploying multiple methods of resistance and disobedience, has proven superior to violence in bringing about lasting, humane change in societies throughout history. Watch this film about the power of nonviolent action, replete with multiple examples of its success:
Steve, such extraordinary writing and analysis. Thank you!
I visited east Berlin in elementary school. My childhood memory of the experience was that the birds didn’t sing after crossing into that city and the sadness on people’s faces. My high school educated parents made sure we knew about this and took us to Dachau. It was an invaluable education. I couldn’t understand why everyone wasn’t still talking about it all the time in the US.
I’m trying not to have the look of the East German people in these days…to not give them the gift of despair…to fight. Thank you again!
We are dealing with a psychopathic regime-Kristi Noem should be impeached ASAP!! What a bloody shame that the country that was the bright shining city on the hill has been reduced to rubble-just like the east wing-so very sad
He has admitted to lying when he took the oath office. He has committed to following only what he thinks needs to followed. That’s the line. That’s the point of no return. Every member of Congress must make known they will not allow him to be President. Without a doubt, without any obfuscation, without any further elaboration, everyone in the national government apparatus must make clear: Trump must be removed from office ASAP.
We have our own local, closeted Nazis operating within the LAPD. When an estimated three-quarters of a million people turned out in LA on January 21, 2017, I saw the stunned, disbelieving faces of many officers—they looked and behaved like timid, pink-cheeked girl scouts. Such manifestations neuter even the feared declaration of an Insurrection Act. The people truly have the power.
I saw this coming for years. The continuous lying and gaslighting has become normalized and most Americans are now numb, just like many Germans were when Hitler took power
(I got so into the words that I forgot who had written it. Had it not been you (or another paid subscription I already have), I'd have subscribed for a year on the spot.)
Trump is truly a fascist madman who believes that he is a god. People who fail to see this, after all that has happened, are the real problem that perpetuates this obsenity of a United States President.
He was taught to be a megalomaniacal fascist by his father and vicious anti-communist henchman and demonizer for Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn. He has spent his entire life trying to overcompensate for the fragile self-loathing induced by the dearth of love and attention from his absentee parents.
Where are the planes? Where are the parachutes?
History doesn’t repeat itself. But, it rhymes. --- Mark Twain
American fascism will not look like 1930’s European fascism. This is partly the problem with our citizens and our elected officials. They can’t fathom the danger in the parallel history. It seems they don’t have the critical thinking skills to see the flashing beacon of an attack on our Republic.
Since Sept 11th the US has been losing ground to China. W Bush’s “ war on terror “ caused us to take our eye off the ball ( China ). 2020 and COVID was yet another example of the US slipping downward. We had to depend on China for our PPE and just about everything else. 2025 sees the US losing face among old allies and friends. Our championing of democracy and law and order as well as respect for all people is a sham. Every action our orange imbecile makes puts China on a higher level than us. His election was the best gift they ever received.
And, all of this was due to unrestrained greed. Allowing the rich to get richer. Allowing tax breaks for those that don’t need it. Allowing corporations to be people ( SCOTUS ruling : Citizens United v. FEC ) got us here. Giving the POTUS unrestrained power, thanks SCOTUS, set us on this plain where an American SS that’s called ICE can kill anyone they choose at anytime they choose.
Do we, the sentient, not MAGA, not the GOP - aka theAmerican Fascist Party, have the courage of the people of Lidice to lay down our lives? I pray we do…
Trump owns a functioning moral conscience and sensibility the way a psychiatric in-patient owns a healthy, normal functioning mental apparatus able to negotiate objective reality.
You are so right. I pray for his death every single day. 🙏
Your sentiment is on target, Lisa, but the doubtless imminent expiration of this psychopathic malignant narcissist and rapidly dementing monster will likely be the unpreventable result of self-induced 'natural' causes.
I wonder if he really meant to say ‘morality’ —- I keep reading/hearing ‘mortality’. Since he HAS no morals, we can understand only his DEMISE can change his mind. (imho) thx
What comes to mind repeatedly for me is - they just don't care. They say it a different way the next time.
The BBB will now allow ICE to hire 12,000 more agents. Their training has been reduced to 47 days from 5 months. “47” in honor of the orange turd. It will likely get worse with the additional untrained agents and several more blue cities under siege.
Will Schumer and Jeffries do more than call for investigations? How about the abolishment of ICE?
more like 47 seconds to learn a proper zig heil
Schumer and Jeffries are totally useless. Timid and nearly complicit due to their inherent weakness and fear.
Rep. Hunt's reference to Minneapolis as a "cesspool of immigration" reflects Trump's own view that immigrants from "shithole countries" are poisoning the bloodstream of America. Trump went on to express dismay over the fact that we get so few immigrants from Norway. This begs the question, has Rep. Hunt looked in a mirror lately?
His comments about violence as caused more by leftists, critics of Trump, than Magats is belied by all evidence. Protests against Trump, No King Days for example, have been remarkably peaceful. Has Hunt ever looked at footage of 1/6, listened to Trump's speech encouraging the insurrection and attempts to change the results of a free and fair presidential election? Has he watched footage of ICE raids? read about the concentration camps being built to hold immigrants w/o due process; the extradition again, w/o due process, of kidnapped immigrants, some citizens, very few criminals, to the cruelest prisons around the world?
Every MAGAT brings shame down on our country,
The cover-up of Nicole Good's murder is so obvious. The federal government is not allowing Minnesota state or local officials to investigate the death of Nicole Good at the hands of an ICE agent. Trump's DOJ and his bitch, AG Pam Bondi, will gather and analyze the evidence. However, is any one naive enough to believe that their investigation will be objective? They have already announced the agent did nothing wrong in shooting Nicole Good, whom they labeled, with no supporting evidence, a domestic terrorist. This is a woman with three children and no criminal background.
Rep. Seth Magaziner (D, RI) said this on the Meidas Touch; I think the combination of in-your face-corruption and rank stupidity will bring Trump and his band of not-so-merry men down, but it better be soon:
“Kristi Noem’s an idiot, right? Like, she went on TV before any of the facts were in. She made up this story on TV about ICE agents trying to dig their truck out of the snow or something, which was clearly false. Like she didn’t even realize that there was gonna be video of what happened when she went up and gave a false story.
“Everybody in the Trump administration lies, but she’s not even good at the lie, right? And we’ve seen that over and over again. So, you know, it would be ridiculous, it would be funny if it wasn’t so sad and tragic because actual people’s lives are being ruined and in some cases ended by the lawlessness of the administration.
“And, again, like, if they had just done what they said they would do and just focus on people with serious criminal records, no one would be complaining, but they can’t help themselves.”
“Kristi Noem’s an idiot, right?"
Yes, she is an idiot. Remember, she is from the state where lies a mass grave containing the bodies of 400 men, women, and children who were murdered by the U.S. 7th Cavalry. It is a short day's drive from where I live and I have visited it many times.
It isn't South Dakota that is to blame; it's a beautiful state and I love going there. I live less than a mile from the Iowa/SoDak border so I go there often. I worked there until I retired. But South Dakota has it's own Lidice.
I have yet to speak to any resident of South Dakota who wishes Kristi Noem would come back home.
I'm starting to think her dog committed suicide.
I want to know why the fuck his gestapo is in these cities in the first place. The states and cities don't WANT them there. They're a bunch of mall cops that dropped out of the police academy, and for god's sake if what you are doing is so noble, why the masks??
why the fuck would people from Norway or Sweden come to this shithole of a country?
Good question. My guess is Norwegians and Swedes agree with you.
I'm assuming those countries aren't run by a pathological liar, malignant narcissist who surrounds himself with a bunch of vile corrupt toadies.
Norwegians no doubt remember and teach their students about the Quisling government during WWII. It's obvious the same is happening in the US so of course they're not willing to come. My grandfather was from Norway, he told us kids all about Quisling.
Almost any country in the world looks better then here right now to me.
Now ICE is going to high schools. We cannot accept this.
It would doubtless be the first contact most of them have ever had with a high school!
true satire in the school of Kimmel etc
I think it would greatly help our cause if every time Steve wrote, in this case under a photo of the murdered Nicole Good, "This is what the Schumer Democrats voted to confirm," he noted that Democrats overwhelmingly voted against Trump's nominations while their GOP colleagues voted overwhelmingly for them, regardless, of how incompetent they were.
Please stop denigrating Democratic leaders without also emphasizing the vast majority of Democrats, led by men and women like Schiff, Newsom, Warren, Swalwell, Porter, Raskin, and Sanders who continue to risk their lives in the fight against the Nazification of America. They are our only hope for a peaceful end to MAGA tyranny.
Unfortunately we have the wrong Democrats in Leadership. I watched Hakeem Jeffries in The ACA debate. I was dumbfounded at how he said almost nothing useful in the debate.
Jeffries is a cipher. Totally useless
Don't forget Govenor Pritzker and Adam Kinzinger. I'm really thrilled Adam is coming to my city February 10th. Already have my ticket.
It's time for armed resistance. The Gestapo will continue to escalate thr violence and executions. They need to pay the price for it.
More realistically and practically, it is time for a massive and sustained, creative nonviolent movement against this psycho-fascist, un-American Trump regime. Strategic nonviolence, deploying multiple methods of resistance and disobedience, has proven superior to violence in bringing about lasting, humane change in societies throughout history. Watch this film about the power of nonviolent action, replete with multiple examples of its success:
"How to Start a Revolution"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7HVluzQ8uo
I can see the possibility of state NG troops under orders of Governors to protect their residents from ICE agents erupting into widespread violence.
America is quite likely headed for a mutiny and resulting clash within the military, if not ultimately a coup d'etat to restore democracy.
A very real possibility.
Steve, such extraordinary writing and analysis. Thank you!
I visited east Berlin in elementary school. My childhood memory of the experience was that the birds didn’t sing after crossing into that city and the sadness on people’s faces. My high school educated parents made sure we knew about this and took us to Dachau. It was an invaluable education. I couldn’t understand why everyone wasn’t still talking about it all the time in the US.
I’m trying not to have the look of the East German people in these days…to not give them the gift of despair…to fight. Thank you again!
We are dealing with a psychopathic regime-Kristi Noem should be impeached ASAP!! What a bloody shame that the country that was the bright shining city on the hill has been reduced to rubble-just like the east wing-so very sad
He has admitted to lying when he took the oath office. He has committed to following only what he thinks needs to followed. That’s the line. That’s the point of no return. Every member of Congress must make known they will not allow him to be President. Without a doubt, without any obfuscation, without any further elaboration, everyone in the national government apparatus must make clear: Trump must be removed from office ASAP.
We knew it was coming, and the turning point is here. This is full on fascism.
Where is the resistance? Is Congress dead? Democracy is dying in broad daylight.
I guess Wesley Hunt forget about the far right insurrection on January 6. Can’t have it both ways
Wesley Hundt is a disgrace, like Clarence Thomas. Just repeating the nonsense that Noempathy already said.
We have our own local, closeted Nazis operating within the LAPD. When an estimated three-quarters of a million people turned out in LA on January 21, 2017, I saw the stunned, disbelieving faces of many officers—they looked and behaved like timid, pink-cheeked girl scouts. Such manifestations neuter even the feared declaration of an Insurrection Act. The people truly have the power.
I saw this coming for years. The continuous lying and gaslighting has become normalized and most Americans are now numb, just like many Germans were when Hitler took power
Thank you, Steve.
This is what BookMarks are for.
(I got so into the words that I forgot who had written it. Had it not been you (or another paid subscription I already have), I'd have subscribed for a year on the spot.)