Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow are two of the best anchors on TV. Trump hates truth telling. Trump used the young man who thankfully survived brain cancer as a stunt hoping that people would think he has a heart and a soul. He has neither. I’m glad that Wallace had the guts to point out the hypocrisy.
Yes, it IS, & they especially want veterans to come & wear their uniforms if they can still fit in them. Here is the link to the YT video. Please share it to every sm site you use. You can also text or email it to friends, family, fellow veterans. We must get the word out asap. Please watch all the way through to the end to get all the info.
gonzoshark13@gmail.com is the email for veterans to send their short videos to as mentioned in Cliff’s videos here.
My letter to Sean at “It’s a Wrap”- Thanks for the heads up.
Dear Sean,
It is sad enough to see your opinion of Nicole Wallace, mostly because your opinion is deeply uninformed and petty. Nicole is a woman with incredible integrity who daily stands up for the American values, we are watching be trampled on by Donald Trump and his band of destructionist. Nicole is also hugely empathetic and a truth -teller. She has stood up for law enforcement, and in particular those wounded or who died because of the horrific actions of Donald Trumps, insurrection on January 6. She is an avid supporter of first responders and caring for them.
Your assertion that Nicole in someway disparaged the young man given a badge on the evening of Trumps speech, is not only off base, it’s a bald faced lie.
Nicole said that she wishes for the young man a long life of service as a policeman, and one that does not end like the tragedy that those who served to protect the capital on January 6, had to endure.
Since you’re a journalist, and you write such vile and untrue things about Nicole, and too, in a political light, just a way to disparage the other side, without facts and with the goal of hitting the other side, hard, that makes your words propaganda.
You can do better, I’m sure, but will you? I assure you that the folks for whom you are spreading these lies, will appreciate you only as long as you do so. Which begs the question, are you really a journalist?
When you dare to tell the truth, they will no longer need or want you. Perhaps that is not the best position to be in as a journalist, but you decide. When truth is but a pesky detail, in the way of a story, it is time to question your commitment to writing.
Marc, I appreciate your post but Hannity ain't a journalist. His shtick is bullshit commentary, not journalism. I'm glad we have Nicole Wallace but I want Edward R. Murrow back - right now.
The people living just to the west of me in shacks are not worth fighting for. They have been voting Republican for decades and now they proudly vote MAGA.
It is undeniable that trump is putin’s puppet and always has been since he started hanging out in Russia in the 80’s. He’s a complete asset. Hilary tried to warn us because she knew much more than any of us about who he was, his dealings in Moscow and other secrets. Most of us thought she was just talking about Russia’s interference in the election, but she wanted us to know what we are dealing with. Everything he is doing is damaging the United States to benefit Russia. All of his mob bullshit is the same crap that is done in dictatorships around the world to suppress opposition of any kind. Shouldn’t the democrats be asking Timothy Snyder and other experts like him what to do to fight this? We’re in the thick of it already.
The WH press secretary position has become a complete joke. Once revered as a career pinnacle for serious and talented practitioners, it's been reduced to an entry-level entertainment publicist.
I read anxiously every day with the fear that N Wallace and R Maddow with be trimmed by the ologorgic top floor at MSNBC. Can't imagine why Trump is all that pissed at dissembling-in- increments MSNBC, did he forget how Joe and Mika clobbered the ratings when they crawled down to his Florida castle to kiss his ring and his ass? Course, it is true that his functional narcissism demands 100% caving.
Steve, I happen to agree with you 95% of the time. Of the remaining 5%, 4% of the time I disagree completely, but there is that 1% where I do agree with you, but can’t help wondering about your double standard. Today’s post being a case in point, especially when you decide to scold the Democrats. Don’t get me wrong, the Democrats need to be chastised, however, Steve, where was your outrage, anger, and despair when Mitch McConnell spent 8 years obstructing everything the Obama administration proposed? Where was your pain and your sorrow when thanks to Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump was able to appoint and have confirmed, not one, not two, but three justices to the SCOTUS? I did not see or hear a lot from you when Mitch McConnell managed to stack the SCOTUS with Republicans. Just sayin’.
Kind of a waste of time to relitigate what wasn't done in 2015 or 2020 and Steve's supposed lack of outrage. How effective is it to try putting the toothpaste back in the tube? Steve started The Warning in May of 2022, so your false narrative of a "double standard" is some waste of time bullshit and not helpful. For the record, McConnell clearly helped Trump get two justices; Gorsuch and Coney Barrett. Gorsuch by refusing to allow Obama's nominee to get a hearing and then fast tracking RBG's replacement, Coney Barrett. Kavanaugh came mid term in 2018. So, yes, a total of three, but McConnell made two possible.
So, aren't there enough real, actual problems today without whining about someone NOT meeting your standards at some previous time. Where the hell does that get us? Same damn place we are, but with nonsensical and unhelpful distractions. Uh, just sayin'.
Well, Mike….what is Steve doing with a whole lot of his time? Relitigating what Biden, the DNC, Kamala, etc did wrong. I love Steve’s writing & videos, never miss a one; but maybe he should stop looking back, & instead look forward??
Thanks PJ. An understandable comment, but not the same thing. He's not relitigating what Biden did and didn't do, or Kamala for that matter for the sake of simply whining. Recognizing the epic failures by the candidates, their staff, and their messaging is 100% pertinent to learning from those mistakes and applying what was learned to improve D chances in the next elections in 2026 and more importantly, the next presidential election in 2028, assuming we have them.
The comments I'm responding to are complaining about what Steve didn't do in 2016 and 2020, 6 and 2 years respectively before he even had this platform. So, a colossal waste of time and complaining merely for the sake of complaining to meet some false narrative.
Certainly, you can see the difference? One is evaluating the reasons for the loss and using the historical context as a learning opportunity from the last election and the other is just whining in faux outrage because Steve didn't say X or Y before he had the platform to express those opinions - and even if he did, it changes absolutely nothing. Those two "stolen justices" are still on scotus. No matter what Steve does or says now about that, that simple fact will not change. The MAGA assholes do enough of the faux outrage; we can and should be better.
Some cliche about not learning from history is something something doomed to something something repeat it comes to mind. 🤔
Your last paragraph definitely applies to what we are going through now that so many people refuse to recognize from history & learn from it; & unfortunately that includes my only living sister, & almost all of my extended family.
As to Biden, I’m not sure our politicians & their aides, & PR specialists will learn the lessons of lying & covering up things, such as mental decline. The Republicans did it for St Ronnie when he was drifting into the fog of Alzheimer’s. It must be really difficult to tell the truth when one is so close to that kind of power. Apparently our Democrats didn’t learn anything from that.
I certainly do hope they will learn something from this horrendous fiasco, but judging from that gosh-awful ad they recently released, they haven’t learned a damned thing.
Thank you for your polite & well thought out response, but I’m still going to say that I’m getting really tired of the repetitive dragging of Biden.
I think most of us (perhaps not all) have accepted that Biden’s ego & the deception of those around him, was truly selfish & unpatriotic, & I’m sufficiently angry at all of them.
Here here and well stated! I agree that the repetitive dragging of Biden is tiresome. I understand the why of it, as do many of us, but at a given point, enough already. Personally, I'm more worried about the daily onslaught of attacks on our democracy, our Constitution, and who we are as a nation, both domestically and internationally. And the inability of the Democratic party to form any kind of cohesive effective strategy or message. Thank you, PJ.
Where was Steve’s outrage? What about half of the Dem Congress who got cold feet because of the undercurrent of racism? Where was Biden? I don’t remember his impassioned speech about the unfairness of Obama’s treatment?
Musk’s demotion is to have the Federal cabinet leader liable for future Federal employee firings. Musk has thousands of civil lawsuits coming his way for fired-employee damages. There is a fraud by Trump and Musk. Americans are being played. Illegal actions are not savings, they’re crap. We are being distracted by hundreds of line item veto “ex post facto” savings, all of which are illegal. We are being distracted by Federal employee firings, all of which are illegal. We are being distracted by thousands of cancellations of grants and contracts, all of which are illegal. The courts are intervening now. The Fraud on America: Trump, Musk, and Speaker Johnson are trying to ram through the tax cuts, before: • the courts cite them with civil contempt and levy huge financial penalties • the impact of their illegal actions are reversed, and their “savings” flip back to $0.00. I call for immediate full disclosures of what currently is in douchebag Musk’s DOGE bag of findings. He is hiding that at the moment since the courts have stifled his efforts. Let us make him certify his cost and pricing data, so that it comes under the Truth in Negotiations Act, now the Truthful Cost or Pricing Data Act (Title 41 U.S.C., Chapter 35). That must be required. I also call for Musk’s testimony under oath before Congress. I call for Musk to divulge the truth of what he found, after he deletes what the courts say he cannot do. He cannot fire. He cannot cancel a single contract or grant. He cannot impound funds. Johnson intends to use Musk’s currently bogus data in his CR bid. Crook. Spare me the BS braggadocio about saving billions and billions. Illegal actions are not savings, they’re crap. I don’t buy crap when we are talking about a $4.5 trillion tax cut. I say Trump and Musk’s ploy is all a fraud founded on a bag of smoke and mirrors, now a hidden accounting not corrected by current court edicts, and a “bury you in paper” con job. Let us see it. Empty the douchebag’s DOGE bag. Transparency now! Don’t let the douchebag hide it another day. We cannot shoot any line item down until the residual data is displayed. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/empty-doges-bag?r=3m1bs
Yes, it IS, & they especially want veterans to come & wear their uniforms if they can still fit in them. Here is the link to the YT video. Please share it to every sm site you use. You can also text or email it to friends, family, fellow veterans. We must get the word out asap. Please watch all the way through to the end to get all the info.
gonzoshark13@gmail.com is the email for veterans to send their short videos to as mentioned in Cliff’s videos here.
That Dem ad is ridiculous. Who’s going to come over to our side with that? That’s why you have to be careful in giving to PAC’s that text you asking for $ all the time. If they produce this crap, we’re wasting our money
Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow are two of the best anchors on TV. Trump hates truth telling. Trump used the young man who thankfully survived brain cancer as a stunt hoping that people would think he has a heart and a soul. He has neither. I’m glad that Wallace had the guts to point out the hypocrisy.
And she talked about it with such compassion. You could tell that as a mother, the scene made her cringe (as it did for me).
If anyone is a truth teller to give credit to it is Nicole and Rachel! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
When ttump an jd are triggered it means we are doing the right thing!!😊🌻🇺🇦
I remember when the trump family stole all the money from their childhood cancer charity.
Perhaps you can guess what I wish for Trump. Either that or his head explodes or Diet Coke does its thing.
Trump and President Musk doing a great job!
Stocks puking
Consumer confidence plunging
Crypto correcting
Grocery prices up
Inflation up
Wages down
Unemployment up
VA gutted
USAID gutted
Medicaid to be cut $880 billion
Medicare and Social Security to be cut as well.
Ukraine war still on
USA votes in UN with Russia, Iran and North Korea!
ICE arrests and detains a US citizen in NYC! (Ooops, sorry sir, you just weren't white enough)
Putin speaker thanks Trump and JD Chamberlain.
The good news? The Gulf of Mexico is now the Gulf of America. Yahoo!!
"Sick of winning?"
And to think………it’s only been 40 plus days since he took office.
Exhaustingly, it seems like 30 years have passed already.
Anybody miss the boring politics of the last Admin yet?
Thanks for this list that is the truth of this administration & what they think of as Making America Great Agsin. We are all living this nightmare
To all the brave Vets who voted for Trump thinking he would help you.
Sorry, but you're like the Muslim Americans who voted for Trump thinking he would help Palestinians in Gaza.
Suckers.
Anyone want your vote back?
https://apnews.com/article/veterans-affairs-cuts-doge-musk-trump-f587a6bc3db6a460e9c357592e165712
Well done! A visual you can’t argue with. All true! Look at this America who do you want leading this country.
Let’s get behind Cash Clay
Is the march for the 14-16 still on?
Yes, it IS, & they especially want veterans to come & wear their uniforms if they can still fit in them. Here is the link to the YT video. Please share it to every sm site you use. You can also text or email it to friends, family, fellow veterans. We must get the word out asap. Please watch all the way through to the end to get all the info.
gonzoshark13@gmail.com is the email for veterans to send their short videos to as mentioned in Cliff’s videos here.
https://youtu.be/GoNjoujY9Zg?si=uUSPOVEDCMq08IUu
https://youtu.be/PsvccIa3INk?si=hAMO1FWdcna4jI98
BRAVA, Nicolle! BRAVO, Steve for standing with her. We do, too. We are not afraid. We are incensed.
My letter to Sean at “It’s a Wrap”- Thanks for the heads up.
Dear Sean,
It is sad enough to see your opinion of Nicole Wallace, mostly because your opinion is deeply uninformed and petty. Nicole is a woman with incredible integrity who daily stands up for the American values, we are watching be trampled on by Donald Trump and his band of destructionist. Nicole is also hugely empathetic and a truth -teller. She has stood up for law enforcement, and in particular those wounded or who died because of the horrific actions of Donald Trumps, insurrection on January 6. She is an avid supporter of first responders and caring for them.
Your assertion that Nicole in someway disparaged the young man given a badge on the evening of Trumps speech, is not only off base, it’s a bald faced lie.
Nicole said that she wishes for the young man a long life of service as a policeman, and one that does not end like the tragedy that those who served to protect the capital on January 6, had to endure.
Since you’re a journalist, and you write such vile and untrue things about Nicole, and too, in a political light, just a way to disparage the other side, without facts and with the goal of hitting the other side, hard, that makes your words propaganda.
You can do better, I’m sure, but will you? I assure you that the folks for whom you are spreading these lies, will appreciate you only as long as you do so. Which begs the question, are you really a journalist?
When you dare to tell the truth, they will no longer need or want you. Perhaps that is not the best position to be in as a journalist, but you decide. When truth is but a pesky detail, in the way of a story, it is time to question your commitment to writing.
Very Sincerely,
Marc Blackwell
Wow! I wrote Sean too but your letter was far superior to mine. Thank you for taking the time.
Marc, I appreciate your post but Hannity ain't a journalist. His shtick is bullshit commentary, not journalism. I'm glad we have Nicole Wallace but I want Edward R. Murrow back - right now.
Thanks- it’s not Hannity- it’s a journalist from the publication Its a Wrap! , who came down on Nicole Wallace by lying about what she said-
AMEN!
Great response!
Some things are not worth fighting for.
The people living just to the west of me in shacks are not worth fighting for. They have been voting Republican for decades and now they proudly vote MAGA.
Enjoy your shacks. You deserve them.
It is undeniable that trump is putin’s puppet and always has been since he started hanging out in Russia in the 80’s. He’s a complete asset. Hilary tried to warn us because she knew much more than any of us about who he was, his dealings in Moscow and other secrets. Most of us thought she was just talking about Russia’s interference in the election, but she wanted us to know what we are dealing with. Everything he is doing is damaging the United States to benefit Russia. All of his mob bullshit is the same crap that is done in dictatorships around the world to suppress opposition of any kind. Shouldn’t the democrats be asking Timothy Snyder and other experts like him what to do to fight this? We’re in the thick of it already.
Thanks for your column, Steve. Another great history lesson that most people have no inkling of.
And thanks for the contact info for sniveling Sean Burch. I will email him my disgust.
The WH press secretary position has become a complete joke. Once revered as a career pinnacle for serious and talented practitioners, it's been reduced to an entry-level entertainment publicist.
I read anxiously every day with the fear that N Wallace and R Maddow with be trimmed by the ologorgic top floor at MSNBC. Can't imagine why Trump is all that pissed at dissembling-in- increments MSNBC, did he forget how Joe and Mika clobbered the ratings when they crawled down to his Florida castle to kiss his ring and his ass? Course, it is true that his functional narcissism demands 100% caving.
Steve, I happen to agree with you 95% of the time. Of the remaining 5%, 4% of the time I disagree completely, but there is that 1% where I do agree with you, but can’t help wondering about your double standard. Today’s post being a case in point, especially when you decide to scold the Democrats. Don’t get me wrong, the Democrats need to be chastised, however, Steve, where was your outrage, anger, and despair when Mitch McConnell spent 8 years obstructing everything the Obama administration proposed? Where was your pain and your sorrow when thanks to Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump was able to appoint and have confirmed, not one, not two, but three justices to the SCOTUS? I did not see or hear a lot from you when Mitch McConnell managed to stack the SCOTUS with Republicans. Just sayin’.
Kind of a waste of time to relitigate what wasn't done in 2015 or 2020 and Steve's supposed lack of outrage. How effective is it to try putting the toothpaste back in the tube? Steve started The Warning in May of 2022, so your false narrative of a "double standard" is some waste of time bullshit and not helpful. For the record, McConnell clearly helped Trump get two justices; Gorsuch and Coney Barrett. Gorsuch by refusing to allow Obama's nominee to get a hearing and then fast tracking RBG's replacement, Coney Barrett. Kavanaugh came mid term in 2018. So, yes, a total of three, but McConnell made two possible.
So, aren't there enough real, actual problems today without whining about someone NOT meeting your standards at some previous time. Where the hell does that get us? Same damn place we are, but with nonsensical and unhelpful distractions. Uh, just sayin'.
Well, Mike….what is Steve doing with a whole lot of his time? Relitigating what Biden, the DNC, Kamala, etc did wrong. I love Steve’s writing & videos, never miss a one; but maybe he should stop looking back, & instead look forward??
Thanks PJ. An understandable comment, but not the same thing. He's not relitigating what Biden did and didn't do, or Kamala for that matter for the sake of simply whining. Recognizing the epic failures by the candidates, their staff, and their messaging is 100% pertinent to learning from those mistakes and applying what was learned to improve D chances in the next elections in 2026 and more importantly, the next presidential election in 2028, assuming we have them.
The comments I'm responding to are complaining about what Steve didn't do in 2016 and 2020, 6 and 2 years respectively before he even had this platform. So, a colossal waste of time and complaining merely for the sake of complaining to meet some false narrative.
Certainly, you can see the difference? One is evaluating the reasons for the loss and using the historical context as a learning opportunity from the last election and the other is just whining in faux outrage because Steve didn't say X or Y before he had the platform to express those opinions - and even if he did, it changes absolutely nothing. Those two "stolen justices" are still on scotus. No matter what Steve does or says now about that, that simple fact will not change. The MAGA assholes do enough of the faux outrage; we can and should be better.
Some cliche about not learning from history is something something doomed to something something repeat it comes to mind. 🤔
Your last paragraph definitely applies to what we are going through now that so many people refuse to recognize from history & learn from it; & unfortunately that includes my only living sister, & almost all of my extended family.
As to Biden, I’m not sure our politicians & their aides, & PR specialists will learn the lessons of lying & covering up things, such as mental decline. The Republicans did it for St Ronnie when he was drifting into the fog of Alzheimer’s. It must be really difficult to tell the truth when one is so close to that kind of power. Apparently our Democrats didn’t learn anything from that.
I certainly do hope they will learn something from this horrendous fiasco, but judging from that gosh-awful ad they recently released, they haven’t learned a damned thing.
Thank you for your polite & well thought out response, but I’m still going to say that I’m getting really tired of the repetitive dragging of Biden.
I think most of us (perhaps not all) have accepted that Biden’s ego & the deception of those around him, was truly selfish & unpatriotic, & I’m sufficiently angry at all of them.
Here here and well stated! I agree that the repetitive dragging of Biden is tiresome. I understand the why of it, as do many of us, but at a given point, enough already. Personally, I'm more worried about the daily onslaught of attacks on our democracy, our Constitution, and who we are as a nation, both domestically and internationally. And the inability of the Democratic party to form any kind of cohesive effective strategy or message. Thank you, PJ.
Where was Steve’s outrage? What about half of the Dem Congress who got cold feet because of the undercurrent of racism? Where was Biden? I don’t remember his impassioned speech about the unfairness of Obama’s treatment?
Agreed. There is enough blame to go around.
Great column, as always. Thank you for speaking the truth to all the GOP lies and hypocrisy.
I would like to ask Leavett where does it say in the Bible it’s alright for people to lie
That ad was the worst thing I have ever seen! What the actual fuck? We are facing monsters. Somebody please help.
Musk’s demotion is to have the Federal cabinet leader liable for future Federal employee firings. Musk has thousands of civil lawsuits coming his way for fired-employee damages. There is a fraud by Trump and Musk. Americans are being played. Illegal actions are not savings, they’re crap. We are being distracted by hundreds of line item veto “ex post facto” savings, all of which are illegal. We are being distracted by Federal employee firings, all of which are illegal. We are being distracted by thousands of cancellations of grants and contracts, all of which are illegal. The courts are intervening now. The Fraud on America: Trump, Musk, and Speaker Johnson are trying to ram through the tax cuts, before: • the courts cite them with civil contempt and levy huge financial penalties • the impact of their illegal actions are reversed, and their “savings” flip back to $0.00. I call for immediate full disclosures of what currently is in douchebag Musk’s DOGE bag of findings. He is hiding that at the moment since the courts have stifled his efforts. Let us make him certify his cost and pricing data, so that it comes under the Truth in Negotiations Act, now the Truthful Cost or Pricing Data Act (Title 41 U.S.C., Chapter 35). That must be required. I also call for Musk’s testimony under oath before Congress. I call for Musk to divulge the truth of what he found, after he deletes what the courts say he cannot do. He cannot fire. He cannot cancel a single contract or grant. He cannot impound funds. Johnson intends to use Musk’s currently bogus data in his CR bid. Crook. Spare me the BS braggadocio about saving billions and billions. Illegal actions are not savings, they’re crap. I don’t buy crap when we are talking about a $4.5 trillion tax cut. I say Trump and Musk’s ploy is all a fraud founded on a bag of smoke and mirrors, now a hidden accounting not corrected by current court edicts, and a “bury you in paper” con job. Let us see it. Empty the douchebag’s DOGE bag. Transparency now! Don’t let the douchebag hide it another day. We cannot shoot any line item down until the residual data is displayed. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/empty-doges-bag?r=3m1bs
Let’s get behind Cash Clay
Is the march for the 14-16 still on?
Yes, it IS, & they especially want veterans to come & wear their uniforms if they can still fit in them. Here is the link to the YT video. Please share it to every sm site you use. You can also text or email it to friends, family, fellow veterans. We must get the word out asap. Please watch all the way through to the end to get all the info.
gonzoshark13@gmail.com is the email for veterans to send their short videos to as mentioned in Cliff’s videos here.
https://youtu.be/GoNjoujY9Zg?si=uUSPOVEDCMq08IUu
https://youtu.be/PsvccIa3INk?si=hAMO1FWdcna4jI98
Yes Carl, it is all a huge con job & distraction to justify them passing their tax cuts for billionaires & worse; attempting to make them PERMANENT.
We cannot allow that to happen
That Dem ad is ridiculous. Who’s going to come over to our side with that? That’s why you have to be careful in giving to PAC’s that text you asking for $ all the time. If they produce this crap, we’re wasting our money
Relax. Nothing to worry about. All those phony fightin’ moves are just AI, like Trump’s Gaza-Lago fantasy.
Wait. What did you say? Speak up! I can’t hear you.
It’s not??