As Trump's inauguration gets closer, Democrats and members of the media have made it clear they're scared of getting caught in Trump's crosshairs. I break down Joe Scarborough, Justin Trudeau and other Democratic leaders who are capitulating to Donald Trump:
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It is time to move on, It is time to seek new leaders, new movements, form new organizations to resist the pain Trump is about to unleash on all Americans (Project 2025) except the wealthiest, and even they will suffer if they refuse to kiss his ass.
What is done is done. Some of the blame for Trump's victory is fairly placed on Joe Biden. But at this point, we are going nowhere with the endless focus on Biden. The people far more responsible for the dire future we face are the Republicans who sold their souls to the devil and the same goes for those in the media who did the same thing. Ultimately most of the blame rests on Americans who voted for Trump out of ignorance, greed, racism, and/or misogyny.
Who can we look to for inspiration and leadership in the formation of an effective resistance? What forms will that resistance take? When do we begin? Those are the important questions.
I agree Anthony . I hope that we begin soon. I am loking for a new group with ideas ..
I’m not a group. But I have an idea. We need to organize people running for school boards on a save democracy platform. I’m a former teacher who can educate people on this topic. We can make school boards our resistance once people understand how they’ve been duped with most school boards being puppets for self serving administrators. Our schools have stopped producing citizens for decades. That’s how we became stupid enough to elect him. Citizens can grab these boards once educated about this arena. They don’t need children in the schools to run plus they can run on end school shootings . See WhiteChalkCrime.com and EndTeacherAbuse.org for information. Anyone who wants to get this going can sign up at EndSchoolShootings.com and connect with me.
The rich just need to look at Putin's 'democracy' and see where the idea that might make right goes. Businessmen fall out of windows or 'commit suicide' in mysterious batches - or even end up in jail with their assets taken from them. Maybe they're allowed to leave Russia penniless instead.
THANK YOU, STEVE, for speaking the truth and not being intimidated. I agree: as Neville Chamberlain found out to his sorrow, attempts to appease a dictator only whet his appetite even more for the killing and destruction that dictator could wreak upon his citizens. Killing more people, arresting more "enemies," deporting more undocumented immigrants, will never be enough for the tyrant's appetite; he will have to find MORE ENEMIES, MORE journalists, MORE immigrants--the legal, documented ones this time--and more of his sycophants to destroy. Those who think they're safe will be shocked to discover that the orange turd's wrath will descent upon them if they don't do everything he commands. Go out and kill some Democrats on Fifth Avenue?? DONE. Give me your cute blonde daughter to rape?? DONE. Inform on your neighbors so they're dragged off to prison and execution?? DONE. Why does anyone think there will be an end to the turd's crimes, hatred, and rage so long as he lives and breathes?? There will not unless he is senile--and then his minions will command the deaths of those they hate. You think Steve Bannon or Stephen Miller would hesitate for a moment to order the deaths of thousands in the concentration camps to be built in Texas at the border?? I do not.
Sometimes I like to imagine that Trump defeated Biden in 2020. He would have mismanaged the economy and the world. Inflation would have given him the lowest ever popularity for a second term President. Mike Pence, nominated by Republicans, would have struggled mightily, as he could not distance himself from unpopular Trump without incurring the wrath of the small but feral MAGA base.
Gretchen Whitmer, with Roy Cooper as her VP, would have swept the battleground states and even defeated Pence in Indiana, Iowa, and Florida. We would be celebrating with smiles.
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Biden ran against Donald J Trump in 2024 on character, and he lost. Apparently the United States prefers a lying grifter who is a racist xenophobe, a homophobe, a misogynist, a serial philanderer, and a convicted felon. To equate Biden’s pardon of Hunter with the monstrous lifetime crime and immorality spree of Trump is a false equivalence. The American people who voted Trump’s very narrow 2024 victory will find out soon enough why some semblance of character and a conscience is better than none at all. In the meantime,thank goodness for independent voices like Steve’s who speak out against Trumpism and who will be a voice for reason in the coming months and years. The Democratic Party has better pull up its britches, get a new and effective DNC chair in place, ditch the hoary leadership and start a path forward for the Party and for the disaffected and disappointed voters who will get almost exactly the opposite of what Trump’s campaign promised. The midterms are coming, let’s get busy!
Joe and Jill Biden just could not give up the White House after a 50 year quest to get there! Yes, he did some good things in getting us through the pandemic and resuscitated the economy after Trump! He also invested in the decaying infrastructure and tried to give the green economy a boost. All of this good work was destroyed with his disastrous debate performance and as he wandered off the stage in Atlanta in a daze, it was Jill Biden who grabbed his hand and lied to him about his “performance”!
I thought VP Harris fought a valiant campaign but in the end was defeated by racism and misogyny.
Now, we are left with our democracy in the balance and we will soon know the patriots that will be strong enough to take on the Orange Fuhrer because the thing the Republicans do not realize is everyone is the enemy when you are the Fuherer!!!
Very well said.
Oh Lordy Steve. 700 days to go to the Midterms. Sounds like an eternity. 49 days to go 'till January 20th and I'm praying for a miracle. Any kind of miracle.
Kash Patel is insane. Fits right in doesnt he?! A "Rogues gallery of misfits" is putting it nicely.
I am not ready but I will fight with everything I have. I have a picture I sent to some MAGA people I know. It says "I will not be sad for the next 4 years; I will be insufferable." 😆 Lisa B. and I have some ideas we are working on for the opposition. We will sending them to you soon Steve. Another great Video BTW!!! Scary but thanks for all the warnings so we can prepare.
Yes I agree with you 95% . My frustration with Joe is beyond the beyond. He should have done a Harry Truman. Truman never let anyone go after his daughter Margaret. He was ready to punch people in the nose. All the while Joe was saying he wouldn't pardon his son I felt like screaming. He should have said He's my son I'm going to pardon him like it or not. I can't look at him or his wife ..Two bums who should have been ready to step aside for the second term. Let a younger generation take over. Nope he wouldn't . Now we have the psychopath . Joe and Mika have made me naseous for a long time, I'm not surprised .. He has been a bully and she is insufferable. .. The really bad thing is Trump is still going to hurt them no matter how much they bend the knee. In that respect I feel a little sorry for them. I don't agree about Trudeau .. He is doing what he thinks is right for Canada. Besides I like him.
I agree with you. And I also did not think there was anything wrong with what Trudeau did. He made a decision to talk to him in person and that is exactly what he did. Nothing wrong with that.
One of the reasons Trump terrified us with his predictions of what he was gonna do when he got elected was to scare people into submission. And he did it. My rage knows no end.
Same here.
He won by a small minority People dont realize how bad things are going to get
This American girl ain’t running! Thank you, Steve. 🙏🏻
What is happening right now in America is the classical left theorist's and/or revolutionary's wet dream regarding the requisites for overthrowing capitalism. This involves "increasing the contradictions" to create an inevitable revolutionary situation. Trump has made this necessary. Do enough patriotic Americans have the imagination, courage and love of life to galvanize into a massive nonviolent revolution against Trump's psycho-fascism? Can we measure up to our Eastern European brethren who overthrew the Soviets and Asian and Middle Eastern activists by the millions who toppled or came close to toppling authoritarian and morally barbaric regimes? If Martin Luther King, Jr. were still alive today, he would lead such a movement to success as the incarnated moral conscience of the American experiment in humanity and justice.
Give it a few months for the pain to start and the nation will be a big pile of kerosene doused kindling, ready for a leader to throw the match. I wonder how long it will take. Who it will be. And if we will suceed.
Of course, genuine patriots will succeed in stanching the Trump Republican Christo-fascist, theocratic crusade to revert America to the Dark Ages. Ultimately, we must control and lead ourselves to victory over Trump's fascist evil.
Does anyone see or know anything about the "resistence" Steve talks about that we need to have ready when things start crashing around most average Americans? Personally, I'm not counting on Dems, they have let me down. Unless they get someone in charge who can make things happen.
When tyrants take over in other countries millions march in protest. Im watching to see just how many protest in the march Jan 18th, 2025. Will Americans just lie down?
Something’s wrong with us. We’re complacent, we don’t believe the threats. we’re spoiled and that makes us stupid as F.
I guess things will have to get much worse, then. Sigh.
Trump/MAGA using Hunter Biden to get to Joe B was despicable, but so was Bidens' going back on his word, pardoning HB, and thus ceding the Dems hard won moral high ground. And if we are to get out of this horrorscape, it will be up to the 100+ million Americans who oppose Trump to lead the charge. A good way to start that effort is by making sure that our Senators know how irate and disgusted we will be if they capitulate and allow ANY of Trumps pathetic nominees to get confirmed.
100% IN. With you Steve.
Should this successfully accomplished coup ever be defeated, things will not just resort quickly back to normal. The country has been raped and ripped apart. The two things that, IMHO, made America the greatest nation were a free press and a strong, dependable structure of objective law. We have come to learn that a free press no longer exists. It was purchased surreptitiously to serve and mislead with a face painted to deceive. The law has been dethroned and made vacant from the top down to the bottom of society, where expectations of faithfully rendering objective justice is now perverted by money and social stature, without shame. Will a free press be reset, recreated? We saw the press destroyed with little to no resistance, no fight back by any entity, no money spent to establish new outlets to counter the culpable perverters. Fox came in and how many free press voices said wait a minute, this is not news? How stupid, how tragic it was for them to just slide over and accommodate the posers. The very institution of law itself contained in its existing coda the power to stop its infiltrating corruptions, the established written law was there but not lawyers willing to fight to stop it. Should we ever return to have a chance to resurrect these two facets that made America great, they must be held more honorable than before, must be held dearer than before.
Amen!!!
Excellent distillation of what is going on. Thank You.
I watched two videos (on YouTube) of conversations with economics professor Richard Wolff, one with Charlie Rose and the other with Bill Moyers. These were recoded years ago but seem to be relevant to today's times. As Wolff says, we need to know more about co-operative enterprises. Capitalist enterprises have faults that we need to understand better. Richard Wolff speaks to this. Also, how is it that TV programs like Charlie Rose and Bill Moyers are not available anymore like they used to be?
I’m with all this except for the Biden part. Biden didn’t need to stand on character so he could sacrifice his son again to Donald Trump and Kash Patel and the rest of the sick misfits who will populate the Trump “administration”.
Biden will be happy and so will all the mommies and daddies of the J6ers when El Trumpo pardons THEM to sing their “anthem” as they run up and down the streets as El Trumpo’s militia.
And the country said “we don’t want no standards” as they voted for El Trumpo again. So miss me with the outrage, media and Democrats. The Republicans didn’t have any standards to begin with, so miss me with THEM, too.
And now we’re all going to get it from El Trumpo.
Joe Biden deserves his family and his peace of mind. He worked his ass off for the American public and now he needs to leave office and enjoy the rest of his life without having El Trumpo shoved in his face every day.
None of us will be unscathed by the time El Trumpo is finished with us. If he ever is.
You are right as rain, Steve, both in this opinion and the one before this one!! If promises are to be treated as acts of relativism, then what will be the difference between the lie and the truth. Breaking a promise because the situation is different than when the promise was made breaks more than the promise. Just ask any kid, whose parent promised to come to their game or recital etc and couldn't because of some other "obligation" that came up, what that broken promise did.
A strange advantage everyone will have is that most all of Trump's evil deeds and those of his evil family (they are every bit a part of this attack on America) and his evil gang of thugs will be mostly in the open for all to see and tragically for most of us feel. The NEGATIVE impacts will be felt by a huge number of people and when that happens it will be important to blast the message everywhere just what was done, to whom, and how it is impacting those it is hurting! He, his family, and his gang of thugs are more than happy to hurt Americans and anyone who stands in their way. They are really a CRIME family. They are NOT about serving others - their ONLY goal is to serve themselves and take and give money and power to those that help them with their theft! Greed, power, money, control......and NOT one care who they hurt along the way. Men, women, children, the planet are in their crosshairs and they do NOT care..........(Keep ALL the receipts of the damage that is and will be done. And then when the reckoning comes, like it always does on earth or in an after life, "Time has got a little bill - get wise while yet you may, For the debt side's increasing in a most alarming way, The things you had no right to do, the things you should have done, They're all put down; it's up to you to pay for every one. So eat, drink be merry, have a good time if you will, But God help you when the time comes, and you Foot the bill" from The Reckoning by Robert Service.)
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/voices-are-needed-now?r=3m1bs
But I disagree completely about pardoning Hunter.
On which reason do you disagree? 1) because Joe said he would not pardon him, regardless or 2) Biden pardoned Hunter for reasoning as a father. Biden is not the first to pardon people who are related or criminals who have been charged and served time. Hunter is a private citizen, has done wrong but does not deserve prison when others in Trump’s rim have done worst and were granted a pardon. It is a slippery slope but Biden could not leave his only surviving son to languish in prison under Trump.
Agreed.
Lay off Joe. His explanation was more than reasonable. Hunter is paying for his crimes. He's just not being politically persecuted.
I’m not a fan of the idea of resisting because I don’t know if it accomplishes much. I’d rather spend my time trying to figure out why people voted as they did and supporting a New Democratic Party than can win elections locally, State, and Federal.
As Steve points out, there is something like half the country with $400 in the bank. Perhaps their unhappiness and anger from this is driving their voting. Here in North Carolina, I have seen communities with homes worth at least $800,000. Palatial. I can drive just ten miles and see literal shacks — and I mean falling apart shacks — and guess what: families are in them.
Unless we figure out a proactive intervention regarding the above, we will always have demagogues exploiting the above.