Native Americans in Minnesota are being swept up in ICE raids. We went full circle and are now back to decimating the people who lived here for centuries before any of the decimators arrived. A fitting epitaph for this country.
Schumer is becoming senile to believe that there's any things to talk about other than the complete e. Fascist takeover that's occurring right now. It's more important than cost, healthcare, any of it. Nothing will matter if they continue the way they're going. Chuck Schumer is becoming like many old men, not overtly decrepit but spiritually and intellectuality frozen. Time for younger men. By the way, I'm 76 and I am too old to lead this country. And my mind is still supple as opposed to many of the elderly men, bumbling around Capitol Hill embarrassing me as a Democrat.
Next to the collapse of our civil liberties and the installation of a fascist regime, the felonious suppression of the Epstein files is the most important thing. It's a moral calamity that we are suppressing this monstrosity that occurred in our country. We all know that Trump was intimately involved. Katie Johnson has testified to rape by Donald Trump. It's time to bring that out..
But Rosemary listen to Steve again! It is not Trump's fault, or the fault of Magats in Congress, or the Magat justices on SCOTUS! It's Schumer's fault! They did it, but he let them!
According to Steve, when Democrats talk about affordability, loss of programs ensuring adequate food, health care, and child care, they are wasting time. I guess it's Schumer's fault that R's in the House and Senate refused and continue to refuse the votes necessary to impeach and remove our tormentors.
He calls upon Schumer and Jeffries "to do something." But, he never says what. To his credit he did show how strongly three Democrats, including Gov. Walz, have spoken out against Trump and his Magat, Christian Nationalist policies.
WE MUST support Democrats and vote for the most anti-Trump/Maga Democrat in every primary. That is what we should be emphasizing. I also want more progressive Democratic leadership, but I believe Steve, a former Republican strategist who was instrumental in gaining confirmation for Alito in the Senate, still favors "old-fashioned Republican values" which got us where we are in the first place.
I emailed my democratic senator yesterday to let him know that I have emailed both Schumer and Jeffries, and the DNC several times, making comments and/or suggestions. All I get back are requests for donations! I informed my senator what I had emailed, with the hopes that maybe he would do something; but I am not holding my breath! At the end of my email, I reminded my senator that 2026 is an election year. I then listed the qualifications that I will be looking for in a Democratic candidate. If they want to keep their jobs, they must do better than they are doing now! Yes, the economy is something that every American citizens feels, and votes on. Yet, as crazy trump gets crazier and more bold, Democrats must stand up to what he is doing: with ICE attacking humans in general, as well as citizens; wanting to rule the world, while destroying NATO; distracting us from learning the truth about the Epstein files; distracting us from Ukraine; and possibly starting a new axis of evil-Russia, China, and America! Not to mention, regulating AI. Democrats must be passionate about keeping our democracy and the "rule of law". As I wrote to my senator, so far, I have not seen that passion from the Democrats in Washington DC!
Anthony-You must have forgotten that previously Schumer and others had the opportunity, especially prior to the approval of the current funding level and other issues about ICE to follow through on a government shut down. I believe this was fully supported by almost everyone who is part of the grass roots opposition. Schumer caved and declared he could not support the shutdown. Why would you state that the broad support on the only type of action which was immediately available to the opposition is not the same as calling on Schumer and Jeffries to do something. These votes on continuing resolutions are the only instances of leverage the opposition has had up to this point.
This will be my only response. Shutting the government down for longer than it had already been shut down would have had obvious and dire consequences. And one more time: place the blame where it belongs, on those who overtly support and enable Trump, the Republicans. We need to support Democrats, all of whom stand in opposition to Trump. Of course, we should give primary support to progressives who favor a social support network that I suspect Steve opposes, e.g. a single payer national health care system.
By "old-fashioned Republican values" I mean rugged individualism, unbridled capitalism and trickle down (supply-side economics), a weak federal government, the necessity of religion in one's life, and right-wing identity politics with men and women playing stereotypical roles.
You have agreed at some point that Schumer needs to be replaced, now you seem to have switched your position. Now you say "We need to support Democrats, all of whom stand in opposition to Trump", though I believe you cannot cite any evidence that Schumer opposes any Israeli government actions or objectives in GAZA or other territories it has occupied.
Steve can address what he might support if he cares to, though I do not think it matters what any particular section of the opposition would support at this point. We need the votes of all parts of the opposition no matter what policies each may wish to advance. AND that only matters if we ever obtain enough legislative clout. Your are also underestimating the difficulty ahead even if our opposition obtains majorities whether in the House or also obtain a thin majority in the Senate. Before that can occur, getting rid of this MAGA menace should be the priority, beginning with curtailing or defunding ICE.
I have to respond to an inaccuracy in your comment. I have not changed my mind about the need for more aggressive and progressive Democratic leadership. I simply believe this should be accomplished by voting for such Democrats in primaries; the leadership change would occur if and when they gain majorities. Steve's political views are important. If he does not see the path to ending Maga terror through electing progressive Democrats, what is his strategy?
Do you agree that if Jasmine Crockett were House Speaker and Elizabeth Warren Senate leader, we would be able to stop Trump in his tracks? That is why I would refrain from concentrating on attacking the current leadership and instead promote Democrats who are dedicated to creating a truly better America with the first step being to stop Project 2025.
I am unable to forecast what policy positions Steve might take. If he was to run and win a seat in the federal legislature I would then be interested. However, he does not seem inclined to seek such a position or to reside in Washington DC.
Please someone get Schumer to step aside so we can get someone else to lead us and the senate minority to a majority. It grieves me to see him speak and read his notes as if he is speaking to a classroom of first graders.
Chuck-e-Cheese reminds me of the German Catholic Center Party which on March 23, 1933, provided the needed votes in the Reichstag for the passage of the (Hitler Dictatorship) Enabling Act. In return, the Party got a promise to protect the parochial schools.
This is Ohio Judge Steve Dankof. Just wrote Appeasers Schumer and Jeffries and put forth US Grant’s choice : Patriots v Traitors? Time has long passed for Democrats to stand up. The hour is late and the storm darkens. Schumer and Jeffries: Step up or step back and let the leaders emerge …this isn’t about “affordability” - it’s about the survival of American Democracy.
Call Schumer == he must step aside. We need a Churchill not a Halifax or Chamberlain. Call your Senators tell them Schumer must go; no funding for ICE at all --
Schumer has to go. As much as he believes in Democrat’s issues he just doesn’t have the ability to be forceful enough for our side. He should be in Minnesota TODAY, but he’s not. Why? Maybe it’s too cold out there. Maybe he thinks he can finesse this. He can’t. Our leaders need balls and act like their hair is on fire. Do you get that from watching Schumer? Nope.
Yes, both Schumer and Jeffries should be in Minnesota, Maybe they don't know where Minnesota is, or that it even exists! Both Schumer and Jeffries are from New York! They have no clue what it is like to live in the Midwest, or the Southwest, or theWest. If the state was not one of the 13 colonies, and Florida, they hardly exist!
I have written to the DNC several times, asking them to consider putting term and age limits on their platforms! I have complained to the DNC about Schumer and Jeffries, who are as boring as unbuttered toast! I have complained about the inaction of the Democrats, ever since trump came down his escalator! But I am one person, the DNC needs to hear from millions and millions of Democrats! And even then, that may not budge them! I get so frustrated with "the system"!
You are right Steve, it is going to have be you, no one is doing it in the senate or congrress is doing anything to get this feckless leader. We agree with you, he is not the person for this moment. WE got to find a way to get him out of there, your Substack isn't reaching them the democrats, Schumer is a stubborn anus, he does not see himself as we do. Figure it out, it has to be you, having more high-end people on your megaphone site, warnings will not work go down in person!!!!!!!
Steve, I follow every comment you post and am grateful for the clarity and vision your essays provide. But can’t you please find something good to say about Schumer? A house divided cannot stand — and Lincoln didn’t coin that phrase of course. Let’s make common cause and fight Trumpism together, okay? We’ll win sooner.
Feckless does not even describe what the democratic leadership is!! There are no words😶I have been a democrat since the day I was born and an American but truth be told I embarrassed to be both!!!
I listened to you and Acosta today (1/16/26). What I have posted below, Steve, is an abbreviated version of a longer more fully developed argument I sent to you December 7 last. Did you ever get it? Please let me know at gideonse@midmaine.com. In the meantime, ponder this:
You stressed today the importance of bold Democratic leadership. Several times you used the word plan in a deep, reflective way.
That leadership has been stunningly ineffective, muling around in the aisles and under the desks in their respective houses of Congress. For two and a half years I have tried to reach them, implore them, demand that they do their leadership jobs to save the Republic. NADA!!! Three critical points follow.
#1. Is there ANY kind of a plan for victory this November? Why aren't they sharing it? (Obviously, because it doesn't exist!) The survival of the nation rests on Dems winning at least one house in that election, hopefully both houses. I've been a public policy analyst and advocate for sixty years. There is not one iota (for any MAGATS who might be reading this, that's a tiny little bit! \s) of evidence that one exists as any one, almost instantly, who reads the dozens of presumptuous pitches for Democratic funds each of us receives every single day, can't help but recognize. The disjointed natures of the daily dozens of pitches we get for funds every day are the best barometer that suggests the potential for disaster. I am convinced if we don't win one house (better? BOTH!) the Republic is lost. My Dem membership lapsed a year ago over the Democrats stunning unresponsiveness to the concerns I've seen and spoken to over the past 2.5 years; I will not send any more good money after bad (except to my local Maine county committee whose members I know and trust. . . )
#2. Who is developing NOW. not a year from now (!), the full array of just the right mix of blistering oversight hearings aimed at identifying how the Trump regime has revealed all the weaknesses in our republican structures and safeguards to assure the survival and improvement of the democratic Republic's second 250 years? Out of those oversight hearings respecting the dozens (!!) of major weaknesses revealed in this second Trump disaster will come the basis for the 2028 Presidential election and, assuming a Democratic victory, will be the policy soil in which the seeds for structural reform which, over time, will fix the many now visible weaknesses in the Republic.
#3. January, 2029, will launch the first of (by my estimate) a dozen years needing to be invested in restructuring the Republic across all three branches, independent agencies, and elections to fix the weaknesses plainly visible all about us. Clearly, the party is not doing this kind of thinking. It hasn't wanted to hear anything to that effect. And since at 90 I won't be around forever, all I can do now is push for it one more time.
After the last few days of non-stop focusing on the murder of Renee Good at the hands of ICE. being assaulted by the lies of Trump, and Noem, and Vance and the Gestapo-like behaviors of warrant-less assaults and searches, I need to pack this in.
Thanks to you for your bold comments today and for dragging this abbreviated comment out of me one more time. 5:18 PM 1/16/26
I don't give a shit about affordability, god dammit. I care about having to become a soldier to defend the Constitution. I don't care about energy prices. I care about the energy grid going offline for months at a time when civil society breaks down, among many other extreme privations. I don't give a shit about "kitchen table issues." I want government out of my bedroom and out of my god damned kitchen, too. If there's a civil war, I'm not going to shoot until MAGA has killed off the fucking congressional Democrats.
Good to see an accurate evaluation of Schumer and his incredible inertia and political sloth. Schumer and the leaders in the standing Democratic Party are only putting energy and effort to maintain the controlling interest in this current Biden-fronted cabal. People like AOC, Bernie, etc have long been trivialized not by Trump and MAGA but by especially Pelosi and her curly headed sic'em pit bulless from western central Florida. What is most interesting is that AOC and others, who represent the true core values of the party, are gaining big steam. Certainly the Trump crowd are watching with concern the rise of these true democrats, while they are laughing at Schumer and his lot, with appreciation sure for their political help, but always with their characteristic inextinguishable contempt.
Great video! If you haven’t already done so, please do one about the theft of the 2024 election and what we need to do to prevent the theft of the midterms. If you have already done so, please put the link here. The more it gets shared, the better.
That the Democrats did not demand a recount is but more proof of their weakness and fecklessness.
Hard evidence of election theft is still scarce at this point, but it is beginning to surface.
Meanwhile, DJT has spent nearly 3/4 of a century proving daily by his many other crimes and his lies that he is not to be trusted with anything ever. That alone should have us all demanding recounts and forensic examinations of every polling station in the country.
The 2024 election absolutely was stolen, by many different methods. According to Greg Palast, voter suppression alone did the job, but of course dump and company were taking no chances. The voting and counting machines were hacked. All you need is a modem, and these machines do have modems. We need to get that out in the open. If we don’t, there will be a blood red tsunami in Congress is November. Both houses.
People don’t like to discuss this because they immediately think of the crazy MAGAts in 2020 who accused us of cheating on no basis other than their deluded belief that because they love Trump so must everyone else. It is said that making us uncomfortable discussing cheating was part of Trump’s plan in 2020. I doubt he has the foresight for that, but evidently, someone on his team did.
We are not crazy. We who accuse Trump of stealing the election are dealing with someone who has been eating, sleeping, drinking and breathing crime since he was in his 20s, and flouting rules well back into his childhood. He is a 34 time convicted felon, who would likely have been convicted of quite a few other felonies, had his other three trials gone to court. On top of that, he has an extensive history of other types of criminal behavior, such as stiffing contractors and refusing to rent property to Black families.
That’s just some of his history prior to taking office last January. Think of the nearly uncountable crimes he has committed since then. And the lies. Is anyone even counting the lies anymore?
Over the course of most of his long life, day in and day out, week and week out, year in and year out, he has established a pattern that shows that he is not to be trusted on anything ever.
We now know, thanks to stormy Daniels, that he did in fact steal the 2016 election. We also know for a fact that he attempted to steal 2020.
Why would any sane person believe that he played fair in 2024?
All over Facebook, and here in Substack, I see people exhorting each other to vote in the midterms, as if voting on an easily hackable machine will be the solution. They complain about people who chose to stay home from the polls, when we know there was massive voter suppression in 2024.
People also complain about how we elected this monster.
They are wasting time. Barking up the wrong tree. We did not elect him.
If we continue to hang onto this blind spot, he and his minions will have a very easy time stealing Congress in 2026. Trump is already talking about Republicans breaking records.
Yes, he also talks about canceling the 2026 elections, but he is highly unlikely to do that. He is talking about it to distract us from whatever Musk and his buddies are doing to ensure the blood red tsunami.
Canceling the election would leave him either with the Congress we have now, or perhaps in some way, no congress at all. Neither of those options is as good as having solid red majorities in both houses. With red majorities, he can claim a mandate. He will have a rubber stamp on and even enthusiastic support for every horrible thing he wants to do.
He will be unstoppable. For the rest of our lives, we will be screwed. So will the next four or five generations.
Steve, I don’t watch many videos on Substack, preferring to read the written word, but I do watch yours, and this one I just shared to Facebook, something I've never done before. You have the perfect voice, cadence, and presentation to get this message across. In addition, your Republican background gives you credibility with moderates and old-school Republicans who actually care about our country.
Hard evidence of the theft of the 2024 election is starting to come out. Groups like electiontruthalliance.org and smartelections.us are gathering it and pushing for recounts.
We can’t wait for the midterms. We have to bring this regime down NOW. Your making a video on the stolen 2024 election, combined with our amplifying it through social media will go a long way toward ending this regime sooner.
Native Americans in Minnesota are being swept up in ICE raids. We went full circle and are now back to decimating the people who lived here for centuries before any of the decimators arrived. A fitting epitaph for this country.
This is nauseating. And now the Tangerine Tantrum has the native people of Greenland in his sights.
Schumer is becoming senile to believe that there's any things to talk about other than the complete e. Fascist takeover that's occurring right now. It's more important than cost, healthcare, any of it. Nothing will matter if they continue the way they're going. Chuck Schumer is becoming like many old men, not overtly decrepit but spiritually and intellectuality frozen. Time for younger men. By the way, I'm 76 and I am too old to lead this country. And my mind is still supple as opposed to many of the elderly men, bumbling around Capitol Hill embarrassing me as a Democrat.
Next to the collapse of our civil liberties and the installation of a fascist regime, the felonious suppression of the Epstein files is the most important thing. It's a moral calamity that we are suppressing this monstrosity that occurred in our country. We all know that Trump was intimately involved. Katie Johnson has testified to rape by Donald Trump. It's time to bring that out..
But Rosemary listen to Steve again! It is not Trump's fault, or the fault of Magats in Congress, or the Magat justices on SCOTUS! It's Schumer's fault! They did it, but he let them!
According to Steve, when Democrats talk about affordability, loss of programs ensuring adequate food, health care, and child care, they are wasting time. I guess it's Schumer's fault that R's in the House and Senate refused and continue to refuse the votes necessary to impeach and remove our tormentors.
He calls upon Schumer and Jeffries "to do something." But, he never says what. To his credit he did show how strongly three Democrats, including Gov. Walz, have spoken out against Trump and his Magat, Christian Nationalist policies.
WE MUST support Democrats and vote for the most anti-Trump/Maga Democrat in every primary. That is what we should be emphasizing. I also want more progressive Democratic leadership, but I believe Steve, a former Republican strategist who was instrumental in gaining confirmation for Alito in the Senate, still favors "old-fashioned Republican values" which got us where we are in the first place.
I emailed my democratic senator yesterday to let him know that I have emailed both Schumer and Jeffries, and the DNC several times, making comments and/or suggestions. All I get back are requests for donations! I informed my senator what I had emailed, with the hopes that maybe he would do something; but I am not holding my breath! At the end of my email, I reminded my senator that 2026 is an election year. I then listed the qualifications that I will be looking for in a Democratic candidate. If they want to keep their jobs, they must do better than they are doing now! Yes, the economy is something that every American citizens feels, and votes on. Yet, as crazy trump gets crazier and more bold, Democrats must stand up to what he is doing: with ICE attacking humans in general, as well as citizens; wanting to rule the world, while destroying NATO; distracting us from learning the truth about the Epstein files; distracting us from Ukraine; and possibly starting a new axis of evil-Russia, China, and America! Not to mention, regulating AI. Democrats must be passionate about keeping our democracy and the "rule of law". As I wrote to my senator, so far, I have not seen that passion from the Democrats in Washington DC!
Anthony-You must have forgotten that previously Schumer and others had the opportunity, especially prior to the approval of the current funding level and other issues about ICE to follow through on a government shut down. I believe this was fully supported by almost everyone who is part of the grass roots opposition. Schumer caved and declared he could not support the shutdown. Why would you state that the broad support on the only type of action which was immediately available to the opposition is not the same as calling on Schumer and Jeffries to do something. These votes on continuing resolutions are the only instances of leverage the opposition has had up to this point.
This will be my only response. Shutting the government down for longer than it had already been shut down would have had obvious and dire consequences. And one more time: place the blame where it belongs, on those who overtly support and enable Trump, the Republicans. We need to support Democrats, all of whom stand in opposition to Trump. Of course, we should give primary support to progressives who favor a social support network that I suspect Steve opposes, e.g. a single payer national health care system.
By "old-fashioned Republican values" I mean rugged individualism, unbridled capitalism and trickle down (supply-side economics), a weak federal government, the necessity of religion in one's life, and right-wing identity politics with men and women playing stereotypical roles.
You have agreed at some point that Schumer needs to be replaced, now you seem to have switched your position. Now you say "We need to support Democrats, all of whom stand in opposition to Trump", though I believe you cannot cite any evidence that Schumer opposes any Israeli government actions or objectives in GAZA or other territories it has occupied.
Steve can address what he might support if he cares to, though I do not think it matters what any particular section of the opposition would support at this point. We need the votes of all parts of the opposition no matter what policies each may wish to advance. AND that only matters if we ever obtain enough legislative clout. Your are also underestimating the difficulty ahead even if our opposition obtains majorities whether in the House or also obtain a thin majority in the Senate. Before that can occur, getting rid of this MAGA menace should be the priority, beginning with curtailing or defunding ICE.
I have to respond to an inaccuracy in your comment. I have not changed my mind about the need for more aggressive and progressive Democratic leadership. I simply believe this should be accomplished by voting for such Democrats in primaries; the leadership change would occur if and when they gain majorities. Steve's political views are important. If he does not see the path to ending Maga terror through electing progressive Democrats, what is his strategy?
Do you agree that if Jasmine Crockett were House Speaker and Elizabeth Warren Senate leader, we would be able to stop Trump in his tracks? That is why I would refrain from concentrating on attacking the current leadership and instead promote Democrats who are dedicated to creating a truly better America with the first step being to stop Project 2025.
I am unable to forecast what policy positions Steve might take. If he was to run and win a seat in the federal legislature I would then be interested. However, he does not seem inclined to seek such a position or to reside in Washington DC.
I agree with you Steve. Schumer doesn't get that we're burning to the fn ground?
Please someone get Schumer to step aside so we can get someone else to lead us and the senate minority to a majority. It grieves me to see him speak and read his notes as if he is speaking to a classroom of first graders.
Chuck-e-Cheese reminds me of the German Catholic Center Party which on March 23, 1933, provided the needed votes in the Reichstag for the passage of the (Hitler Dictatorship) Enabling Act. In return, the Party got a promise to protect the parochial schools.
This is Ohio Judge Steve Dankof. Just wrote Appeasers Schumer and Jeffries and put forth US Grant’s choice : Patriots v Traitors? Time has long passed for Democrats to stand up. The hour is late and the storm darkens. Schumer and Jeffries: Step up or step back and let the leaders emerge …this isn’t about “affordability” - it’s about the survival of American Democracy.
Sitting by the computer, waiting anxiously for a response from the New York Appeasement Brothers : Schumer and Jeffries…
Chuck, the Schmuck, is always off the mark.
I'm proud that Elissa Slotkin is my Senator.
I would vote for her, if she ran for POTUS! Trump doesn't scare her one bit!
How about a Slotkin/Crow ticket!
Call Schumer == he must step aside. We need a Churchill not a Halifax or Chamberlain. Call your Senators tell them Schumer must go; no funding for ICE at all --
Schumer has to go. As much as he believes in Democrat’s issues he just doesn’t have the ability to be forceful enough for our side. He should be in Minnesota TODAY, but he’s not. Why? Maybe it’s too cold out there. Maybe he thinks he can finesse this. He can’t. Our leaders need balls and act like their hair is on fire. Do you get that from watching Schumer? Nope.
Yes, both Schumer and Jeffries should be in Minnesota, Maybe they don't know where Minnesota is, or that it even exists! Both Schumer and Jeffries are from New York! They have no clue what it is like to live in the Midwest, or the Southwest, or theWest. If the state was not one of the 13 colonies, and Florida, they hardly exist!
I have written to the DNC several times, asking them to consider putting term and age limits on their platforms! I have complained to the DNC about Schumer and Jeffries, who are as boring as unbuttered toast! I have complained about the inaction of the Democrats, ever since trump came down his escalator! But I am one person, the DNC needs to hear from millions and millions of Democrats! And even then, that may not budge them! I get so frustrated with "the system"!
You are right Steve, it is going to have be you, no one is doing it in the senate or congrress is doing anything to get this feckless leader. We agree with you, he is not the person for this moment. WE got to find a way to get him out of there, your Substack isn't reaching them the democrats, Schumer is a stubborn anus, he does not see himself as we do. Figure it out, it has to be you, having more high-end people on your megaphone site, warnings will not work go down in person!!!!!!!
Steve, I follow every comment you post and am grateful for the clarity and vision your essays provide. But can’t you please find something good to say about Schumer? A house divided cannot stand — and Lincoln didn’t coin that phrase of course. Let’s make common cause and fight Trumpism together, okay? We’ll win sooner.
Feckless does not even describe what the democratic leadership is!! There are no words😶I have been a democrat since the day I was born and an American but truth be told I embarrassed to be both!!!
I listened to you and Acosta today (1/16/26). What I have posted below, Steve, is an abbreviated version of a longer more fully developed argument I sent to you December 7 last. Did you ever get it? Please let me know at gideonse@midmaine.com. In the meantime, ponder this:
You stressed today the importance of bold Democratic leadership. Several times you used the word plan in a deep, reflective way.
That leadership has been stunningly ineffective, muling around in the aisles and under the desks in their respective houses of Congress. For two and a half years I have tried to reach them, implore them, demand that they do their leadership jobs to save the Republic. NADA!!! Three critical points follow.
#1. Is there ANY kind of a plan for victory this November? Why aren't they sharing it? (Obviously, because it doesn't exist!) The survival of the nation rests on Dems winning at least one house in that election, hopefully both houses. I've been a public policy analyst and advocate for sixty years. There is not one iota (for any MAGATS who might be reading this, that's a tiny little bit! \s) of evidence that one exists as any one, almost instantly, who reads the dozens of presumptuous pitches for Democratic funds each of us receives every single day, can't help but recognize. The disjointed natures of the daily dozens of pitches we get for funds every day are the best barometer that suggests the potential for disaster. I am convinced if we don't win one house (better? BOTH!) the Republic is lost. My Dem membership lapsed a year ago over the Democrats stunning unresponsiveness to the concerns I've seen and spoken to over the past 2.5 years; I will not send any more good money after bad (except to my local Maine county committee whose members I know and trust. . . )
#2. Who is developing NOW. not a year from now (!), the full array of just the right mix of blistering oversight hearings aimed at identifying how the Trump regime has revealed all the weaknesses in our republican structures and safeguards to assure the survival and improvement of the democratic Republic's second 250 years? Out of those oversight hearings respecting the dozens (!!) of major weaknesses revealed in this second Trump disaster will come the basis for the 2028 Presidential election and, assuming a Democratic victory, will be the policy soil in which the seeds for structural reform which, over time, will fix the many now visible weaknesses in the Republic.
#3. January, 2029, will launch the first of (by my estimate) a dozen years needing to be invested in restructuring the Republic across all three branches, independent agencies, and elections to fix the weaknesses plainly visible all about us. Clearly, the party is not doing this kind of thinking. It hasn't wanted to hear anything to that effect. And since at 90 I won't be around forever, all I can do now is push for it one more time.
After the last few days of non-stop focusing on the murder of Renee Good at the hands of ICE. being assaulted by the lies of Trump, and Noem, and Vance and the Gestapo-like behaviors of warrant-less assaults and searches, I need to pack this in.
Thanks to you for your bold comments today and for dragging this abbreviated comment out of me one more time. 5:18 PM 1/16/26
I don't give a shit about affordability, god dammit. I care about having to become a soldier to defend the Constitution. I don't care about energy prices. I care about the energy grid going offline for months at a time when civil society breaks down, among many other extreme privations. I don't give a shit about "kitchen table issues." I want government out of my bedroom and out of my god damned kitchen, too. If there's a civil war, I'm not going to shoot until MAGA has killed off the fucking congressional Democrats.
Good to see an accurate evaluation of Schumer and his incredible inertia and political sloth. Schumer and the leaders in the standing Democratic Party are only putting energy and effort to maintain the controlling interest in this current Biden-fronted cabal. People like AOC, Bernie, etc have long been trivialized not by Trump and MAGA but by especially Pelosi and her curly headed sic'em pit bulless from western central Florida. What is most interesting is that AOC and others, who represent the true core values of the party, are gaining big steam. Certainly the Trump crowd are watching with concern the rise of these true democrats, while they are laughing at Schumer and his lot, with appreciation sure for their political help, but always with their characteristic inextinguishable contempt.
Great video! If you haven’t already done so, please do one about the theft of the 2024 election and what we need to do to prevent the theft of the midterms. If you have already done so, please put the link here. The more it gets shared, the better.
That the Democrats did not demand a recount is but more proof of their weakness and fecklessness.
Hard evidence of election theft is still scarce at this point, but it is beginning to surface.
Meanwhile, DJT has spent nearly 3/4 of a century proving daily by his many other crimes and his lies that he is not to be trusted with anything ever. That alone should have us all demanding recounts and forensic examinations of every polling station in the country.
The 2024 election absolutely was stolen, by many different methods. According to Greg Palast, voter suppression alone did the job, but of course dump and company were taking no chances. The voting and counting machines were hacked. All you need is a modem, and these machines do have modems. We need to get that out in the open. If we don’t, there will be a blood red tsunami in Congress is November. Both houses.
People don’t like to discuss this because they immediately think of the crazy MAGAts in 2020 who accused us of cheating on no basis other than their deluded belief that because they love Trump so must everyone else. It is said that making us uncomfortable discussing cheating was part of Trump’s plan in 2020. I doubt he has the foresight for that, but evidently, someone on his team did.
We are not crazy. We who accuse Trump of stealing the election are dealing with someone who has been eating, sleeping, drinking and breathing crime since he was in his 20s, and flouting rules well back into his childhood. He is a 34 time convicted felon, who would likely have been convicted of quite a few other felonies, had his other three trials gone to court. On top of that, he has an extensive history of other types of criminal behavior, such as stiffing contractors and refusing to rent property to Black families.
That’s just some of his history prior to taking office last January. Think of the nearly uncountable crimes he has committed since then. And the lies. Is anyone even counting the lies anymore?
Over the course of most of his long life, day in and day out, week and week out, year in and year out, he has established a pattern that shows that he is not to be trusted on anything ever.
We now know, thanks to stormy Daniels, that he did in fact steal the 2016 election. We also know for a fact that he attempted to steal 2020.
Why would any sane person believe that he played fair in 2024?
All over Facebook, and here in Substack, I see people exhorting each other to vote in the midterms, as if voting on an easily hackable machine will be the solution. They complain about people who chose to stay home from the polls, when we know there was massive voter suppression in 2024.
People also complain about how we elected this monster.
They are wasting time. Barking up the wrong tree. We did not elect him.
If we continue to hang onto this blind spot, he and his minions will have a very easy time stealing Congress in 2026. Trump is already talking about Republicans breaking records.
Yes, he also talks about canceling the 2026 elections, but he is highly unlikely to do that. He is talking about it to distract us from whatever Musk and his buddies are doing to ensure the blood red tsunami.
Canceling the election would leave him either with the Congress we have now, or perhaps in some way, no congress at all. Neither of those options is as good as having solid red majorities in both houses. With red majorities, he can claim a mandate. He will have a rubber stamp on and even enthusiastic support for every horrible thing he wants to do.
He will be unstoppable. For the rest of our lives, we will be screwed. So will the next four or five generations.
Steve, I don’t watch many videos on Substack, preferring to read the written word, but I do watch yours, and this one I just shared to Facebook, something I've never done before. You have the perfect voice, cadence, and presentation to get this message across. In addition, your Republican background gives you credibility with moderates and old-school Republicans who actually care about our country.
Hard evidence of the theft of the 2024 election is starting to come out. Groups like electiontruthalliance.org and smartelections.us are gathering it and pushing for recounts.
We can’t wait for the midterms. We have to bring this regime down NOW. Your making a video on the stolen 2024 election, combined with our amplifying it through social media will go a long way toward ending this regime sooner.