We are at the edge of the abyss. Yet, when I walk my dog in the park, and I look around at people playing pickle ball and talking about restaurants and vacations, I don’t get the sense of their feeling a looming threat or emergency, or even any anxiety. So I feel strange and out of place among my neighbors. Who is delusional here, them or me? I’m afraid it’s them. I’m afraid.
I have the same issue J.Felser. I live in a small Mountain community populated by mostly MAGA . I put my flag out upside down July 4th. I was concerned I’d be harassed. I saw a few cars slow down and stare but nothing happened. In have no friends or neighbors that seem even remotely concerned about all that is happening. I’m very scared as an older person and brokenhearted about our country
I’m in suburban fairly blue area in a blue state, but it feels apathetic and oblivious for the most part. Like everything is basically okay. And it’s far from that. I know people who don’t read the news because they get “too upset.” This is self-anesthesia.
The way I see it, the invasion of one state by another is a call to arms. I see an armed clash of National Guards. Also, the gerrymander fight is on. There is a new playbook. The old rules have been struck down by the Supreme Court. We need to change the gears here as fast as possible for deadly preemptive strikes. Newsom has moved out on this already. Who is next? Hochul. Where are you? Pritzker. What are you doing?
Steve, the stage is now set up for something awful to happen from the military by them being placed upon our streets unnecessarily to fight “crime”. The fuse has been lit by Trump and his minions and when it blows the reverence that is given to our men and women will be gone. It was Kent State and Vietnam the turned the people against the military, this time it will be the lawless leaders that turns Americans against them.
That’s what the goons love to spill blood it will happen and the goon at the top will give him (the goons) an award. It’s all ready now. Let’s say Pooty fills Moscow with hi little green men rifles and tanks would that tell you anything?
Your comment made me realize that the description and behavior of "Flight Killer," and his evil band of enablers, assistants, and sycophants, in Stephen King's novel, "A fairy Tale," (2022) describes Trump and his crew of misfits to a "T."
I wonder if that was the intent of Stephen King, who is out-spokenly and very strongly anti-Trump.
Now you have it my thoughts exactly, Miller is running this show now. A possibility is that he gets a hit man to take out JD Vance and runs for office so if wins against Mickey Mouse we’ll know it was rigged. Who likes that repulsive vile human or alien I’m not sure yet.
It would not surprise me if the MAGA candidate wins the Presidency in 2028. The Furies have been unleashed and cruelty rules. I’m a stranger in this land.
I fear that we might not have elections anymore, at least the type of elections that we are use to. Instead, they will be more like the kind of elections that Russia has. I also wonder, and I am afraid of, what will happen if Trump dies, during this term. We know very little about Vance, except that he is an A-hole, like Trump. If Trump does live through this term, will he manage to run again? Will Vance, or Miller, or Bannon, or Don Jr., or someone even worse take over? These are scary times indeed. I can't even forgive the people, who voted this orange A-hole back into office; and some of those people were my friends and family!
From what little I’ve heard, Vance believes some pretty dark things and has some very far out there, very rich men that have put him where he is to bring it all down. I know I sound fatalistic, but I’m pretty sure even when the OT kicks it, we’ll really have it even worse.
Time for people to opt out of the dictator's horror show. Refuse to cooperate, boycott all of their businesses that support them, and time for general strike. Support, any of our leaders who are fighting back. Get ready to protest. There needs to be more and larger ones. Another No Kings will come soon.
I say hit them where they hurt the most-in their pocket books and their profits! Trump loves money, almost more than he loves himself! What if the majority of Americans stop paying federal taxes! Stop paying the salaries of all these elected, and non-elected officials in Washington D C! That might put an end to all of this nonsense!
Stay home, do not work, go to school, shop for anything, or participate in any leisure activities. Either remain at home or protest. Have your own water in a thermos or insulated mug, stop buying their stupid bottled water: biggest con job ever.
Miller hysterical sociopath - propagandist, right hand man of thug sadist racist bully president. No executive held to account, insulated by a Supreme Court who has empowered the dictator who intends to overthrow our next election one way or another. We have a severely mentally ill, punitive racist potus fully supported by the bought, sold, and fearful republican party.
'Force and intimidation are not strategies we associate with American presidents. Those are not constitutional prerogatives assigned to the president. That is how dictators operate. That is how Trump operates. Let’s call it what it is. There is no reason to pretend that this isn’t happening.' Steve's right the 'world' feels it, damn it! Chicago does not want him or need him, it's said in every blue state.
This is how Trump's deranged sycophantic allies act, with total disregard for the Constitution and with not a shred of common sense or dignity:
A far-right MAGA congressional hopeful has posted an unhinged campaign ad in which she sets fire to the Quran with a flamethrower. Valentina Gomez, a Republican running for Texas’ 31st District in 2026, shared the extreme video on social media as part of her vow to “end Islam” in the Lone Star State, which has a Muslim population of roughly 1 percent.
“Your daughters will be raped and your sons beheaded, unless we stop Islam once and for all,” Gomez said before torching a copy of the holy book.
This dumbbell does not realize that Muslims believe in the same Old Testament God that Jews and Christians believe in. It is an Abrahamic religion. She wants a seat in the House and she'll probably get one.
"That is how Trump operates." He is a greedy, self-centered, megalomaniacal, and cruel "small man" on the inside who must act all knowing and all powerful to cover up his feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. For example:
A day after President Trump said he would remove Lisa Cook from her position on the Federal Reserve Board, her lawyer said on Tuesday that she would sue to challenge the dismissal, arguing that the president had “no authority” to order such a firing.
But Mr. Trump and his top advisers showed no signs of relenting. The administration continued to claim that Ms. Cook had engaged in mortgage fraud before she was confirmed as the first Black female member of the Fed board in 2022, necessitating the termination, even though she has not been charged or convicted of a crime.
The emerging legal clash threatened to compromise the independence and integrity of the nation’s central bank, a powerful institution at the heart of the economy whose responsibilities are to keep prices stable and the labor market strong. The Fed is supposed to be insulated from the pressures of politics, but Mr. Trump has unleashed an unprecedented string of attacks on its members, all in the hopes of getting them to lower interest rates. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/26/us/trump-news#trump-lisa-cook-firing-lawsuit
They complain about Biden being sick, but Trump is much sicker. No people don't want a dictator. I can't sleep at night worrying about my freedom, my Country.
“Donald Trump is asserting power he doesn't have. And everywhere, the American people mostly are yawning through the summer. But soon in a city near you, there's going to be a tank on the street, a man with a rifle, not over there, but here in a military uniform.”
“He's sending troops to a state near you. if he doesn't like who you elected
to lead your city or to lead your state. Anywhere there is black people or brown people where there's an immigrant, there's an opportunity for Donald Trump to tell his sick lies and have them peddled out on his propaganda networks across the country about things that are not true, have not been true, and have
never been true. And because of those lies that have strangled reality, we
stand on the edge of some of the most dangerous days in this country in 160
years.”
Not all Americans are yawning through the summer. All of this has been allowed to occur without the proper pushback and confrontation, from Americans who know how to coalesce the human, military, law enforcement, clandestine and financial resources from those who believe in this country, our Constitution and ideals. The former of these groups who can step up to craft strategic surgical solutions to deploy. And stop this madness now!
Cheeto: The Putin Ass Kisser, Dictator, Traitor, and National Security Risk
The Christian Nationalist Movement/Nazi/GOP told Americans what direction they wanted to take the country in 2024 in part through the widely publicized Project 2025 As Vance’s buddy Curtis Yarvin has said, “the country should get over its dictatorphobia”, Cheeto’s actions actually have gone well past the Cheeto moniker of simply dictator
With Cheeto’s obvious Putin ass kissing in Alaska the most recent insider reports from Lev Parnas indicate that it’s going to get a lot worse and establish Cheeto as a full blown traitor to the country….a 21st century Benedict Arnold Mainstream media(MSM) will never contextualize this but now Cheeto is not only ready to invite a international criminal to the States to watch to the FIFA World Cup but also willing to lift sanctions on Cheeto’s motherland Russia so it will make it easier to fight Ukraine
These kinds of deplorable, disgusting, and traitorous actions need to be called out for what they truly are Why aren’t we willing to call Cheeto who he is?? Cheeto’s a traitor to the country and the office POTUS itself has become a national security risk
Trump's physical deteriorzation, real enough, is more dangerous than may be presumed. Trump is a sociopath, or malignant narcissist (to use the new displasement term since sociopath was rendered void by a slew of CEO's who were determined to be sociopaths by valid clinical determination.) A salient trait of a sociopath is that they think they should enter anybody's mind and do all their thinking for them. Another is that he not only wants to win in every situation, he HAS to win, no matter the situation. Losing physical acumen to a sociopath is losing. If his physical condition declines, and it will, how will he react? Following Trump and his imperial audacious behavior, now influenced by mental deteriorzation, he will not go gentle into that good night. I hope his righties have enough sense to be ready to snatch away the nuke codes quickly.
We are at the edge of the abyss. Yet, when I walk my dog in the park, and I look around at people playing pickle ball and talking about restaurants and vacations, I don’t get the sense of their feeling a looming threat or emergency, or even any anxiety. So I feel strange and out of place among my neighbors. Who is delusional here, them or me? I’m afraid it’s them. I’m afraid.
I have the same issue J.Felser. I live in a small Mountain community populated by mostly MAGA . I put my flag out upside down July 4th. I was concerned I’d be harassed. I saw a few cars slow down and stare but nothing happened. In have no friends or neighbors that seem even remotely concerned about all that is happening. I’m very scared as an older person and brokenhearted about our country
I’m in suburban fairly blue area in a blue state, but it feels apathetic and oblivious for the most part. Like everything is basically okay. And it’s far from that. I know people who don’t read the news because they get “too upset.” This is self-anesthesia.
I think it’s also
Main stream media not reporting what is actually happening.
They are facilitating the ignorance.
The way I see it, the invasion of one state by another is a call to arms. I see an armed clash of National Guards. Also, the gerrymander fight is on. There is a new playbook. The old rules have been struck down by the Supreme Court. We need to change the gears here as fast as possible for deadly preemptive strikes. Newsom has moved out on this already. Who is next? Hochul. Where are you? Pritzker. What are you doing?
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/gerrymander-fight?r=3m1bs
They are not paying attention. Their freedoms are short lived.
As Joni Mitchell sang, you don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s gone.
🎶They paved the Rose Garden & put in patio 🎶🎶
👍🔥☹️
With you 💯 When I’m out in public I feel like screaming at all of them “what the Ef are you doing out here pretending it’s all business as usual”??
I think of the pod people in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
And authority without consent of the people.
The hatred of freedom is mindboggling. This is beyond even megalomania. Psychopathic dementia of the narcissistic kind.
Steve, the stage is now set up for something awful to happen from the military by them being placed upon our streets unnecessarily to fight “crime”. The fuse has been lit by Trump and his minions and when it blows the reverence that is given to our men and women will be gone. It was Kent State and Vietnam the turned the people against the military, this time it will be the lawless leaders that turns Americans against them.
That’s what the goons love to spill blood it will happen and the goon at the top will give him (the goons) an award. It’s all ready now. Let’s say Pooty fills Moscow with hi little green men rifles and tanks would that tell you anything?
Your comment made me realize that the description and behavior of "Flight Killer," and his evil band of enablers, assistants, and sycophants, in Stephen King's novel, "A fairy Tale," (2022) describes Trump and his crew of misfits to a "T."
I wonder if that was the intent of Stephen King, who is out-spokenly and very strongly anti-Trump.
Steven Miller is such a d1(k! And a dangerous one at that. At some point he will feel the karma that is his due.
Now you have it my thoughts exactly, Miller is running this show now. A possibility is that he gets a hit man to take out JD Vance and runs for office so if wins against Mickey Mouse we’ll know it was rigged. Who likes that repulsive vile human or alien I’m not sure yet.
I hope so.
It would not surprise me if the MAGA candidate wins the Presidency in 2028. The Furies have been unleashed and cruelty rules. I’m a stranger in this land.
I fear that we might not have elections anymore, at least the type of elections that we are use to. Instead, they will be more like the kind of elections that Russia has. I also wonder, and I am afraid of, what will happen if Trump dies, during this term. We know very little about Vance, except that he is an A-hole, like Trump. If Trump does live through this term, will he manage to run again? Will Vance, or Miller, or Bannon, or Don Jr., or someone even worse take over? These are scary times indeed. I can't even forgive the people, who voted this orange A-hole back into office; and some of those people were my friends and family!
From what little I’ve heard, Vance believes some pretty dark things and has some very far out there, very rich men that have put him where he is to bring it all down. I know I sound fatalistic, but I’m pretty sure even when the OT kicks it, we’ll really have it even worse.
It pisses me off that Steve is right about this country's collapse....
Time for people to opt out of the dictator's horror show. Refuse to cooperate, boycott all of their businesses that support them, and time for general strike. Support, any of our leaders who are fighting back. Get ready to protest. There needs to be more and larger ones. Another No Kings will come soon.
I say hit them where they hurt the most-in their pocket books and their profits! Trump loves money, almost more than he loves himself! What if the majority of Americans stop paying federal taxes! Stop paying the salaries of all these elected, and non-elected officials in Washington D C! That might put an end to all of this nonsense!
I’m with you. This would have to be organized by an established group.
5 DAY NATIONAL STRIKE
SEPT 16 - 20
blackout the system.com
Stay home, do not work, go to school, shop for anything, or participate in any leisure activities. Either remain at home or protest. Have your own water in a thermos or insulated mug, stop buying their stupid bottled water: biggest con job ever.
Miller hysterical sociopath - propagandist, right hand man of thug sadist racist bully president. No executive held to account, insulated by a Supreme Court who has empowered the dictator who intends to overthrow our next election one way or another. We have a severely mentally ill, punitive racist potus fully supported by the bought, sold, and fearful republican party.
A smart person does not have to say they are smart
'Force and intimidation are not strategies we associate with American presidents. Those are not constitutional prerogatives assigned to the president. That is how dictators operate. That is how Trump operates. Let’s call it what it is. There is no reason to pretend that this isn’t happening.' Steve's right the 'world' feels it, damn it! Chicago does not want him or need him, it's said in every blue state.
This is how Trump's deranged sycophantic allies act, with total disregard for the Constitution and with not a shred of common sense or dignity:
A far-right MAGA congressional hopeful has posted an unhinged campaign ad in which she sets fire to the Quran with a flamethrower. Valentina Gomez, a Republican running for Texas’ 31st District in 2026, shared the extreme video on social media as part of her vow to “end Islam” in the Lone Star State, which has a Muslim population of roughly 1 percent.
“Your daughters will be raped and your sons beheaded, unless we stop Islam once and for all,” Gomez said before torching a copy of the holy book.
“America is a Christian nation, so those terrorist Muslims can fuck off to any of the 57 Muslim nations. There is only one true God, and that is the God of Israel.” Gomez’s campaign ad dripped with violent rhetoric and hatred, and ended with a message declaring that she is “powered by Jesus Christ." https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-candidate-valentina-gomez-flamethrowers-the-quran-in-deranged-campaign-ad/
This dumbbell does not realize that Muslims believe in the same Old Testament God that Jews and Christians believe in. It is an Abrahamic religion. She wants a seat in the House and she'll probably get one.
"That is how Trump operates." He is a greedy, self-centered, megalomaniacal, and cruel "small man" on the inside who must act all knowing and all powerful to cover up his feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. For example:
A day after President Trump said he would remove Lisa Cook from her position on the Federal Reserve Board, her lawyer said on Tuesday that she would sue to challenge the dismissal, arguing that the president had “no authority” to order such a firing.
But Mr. Trump and his top advisers showed no signs of relenting. The administration continued to claim that Ms. Cook had engaged in mortgage fraud before she was confirmed as the first Black female member of the Fed board in 2022, necessitating the termination, even though she has not been charged or convicted of a crime.
The emerging legal clash threatened to compromise the independence and integrity of the nation’s central bank, a powerful institution at the heart of the economy whose responsibilities are to keep prices stable and the labor market strong. The Fed is supposed to be insulated from the pressures of politics, but Mr. Trump has unleashed an unprecedented string of attacks on its members, all in the hopes of getting them to lower interest rates. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/26/us/trump-news#trump-lisa-cook-firing-lawsuit
They complain about Biden being sick, but Trump is much sicker. No people don't want a dictator. I can't sleep at night worrying about my freedom, my Country.
“Donald Trump is asserting power he doesn't have. And everywhere, the American people mostly are yawning through the summer. But soon in a city near you, there's going to be a tank on the street, a man with a rifle, not over there, but here in a military uniform.”
“He's sending troops to a state near you. if he doesn't like who you elected
to lead your city or to lead your state. Anywhere there is black people or brown people where there's an immigrant, there's an opportunity for Donald Trump to tell his sick lies and have them peddled out on his propaganda networks across the country about things that are not true, have not been true, and have
never been true. And because of those lies that have strangled reality, we
stand on the edge of some of the most dangerous days in this country in 160
years.”
Not all Americans are yawning through the summer. All of this has been allowed to occur without the proper pushback and confrontation, from Americans who know how to coalesce the human, military, law enforcement, clandestine and financial resources from those who believe in this country, our Constitution and ideals. The former of these groups who can step up to craft strategic surgical solutions to deploy. And stop this madness now!
WHERE IS THE PUSHBACK TO THE LIES?
Cheeto: The Putin Ass Kisser, Dictator, Traitor, and National Security Risk
The Christian Nationalist Movement/Nazi/GOP told Americans what direction they wanted to take the country in 2024 in part through the widely publicized Project 2025 As Vance’s buddy Curtis Yarvin has said, “the country should get over its dictatorphobia”, Cheeto’s actions actually have gone well past the Cheeto moniker of simply dictator
With Cheeto’s obvious Putin ass kissing in Alaska the most recent insider reports from Lev Parnas indicate that it’s going to get a lot worse and establish Cheeto as a full blown traitor to the country….a 21st century Benedict Arnold Mainstream media(MSM) will never contextualize this but now Cheeto is not only ready to invite a international criminal to the States to watch to the FIFA World Cup but also willing to lift sanctions on Cheeto’s motherland Russia so it will make it easier to fight Ukraine
These kinds of deplorable, disgusting, and traitorous actions need to be called out for what they truly are Why aren’t we willing to call Cheeto who he is?? Cheeto’s a traitor to the country and the office POTUS itself has become a national security risk
Trump's physical deteriorzation, real enough, is more dangerous than may be presumed. Trump is a sociopath, or malignant narcissist (to use the new displasement term since sociopath was rendered void by a slew of CEO's who were determined to be sociopaths by valid clinical determination.) A salient trait of a sociopath is that they think they should enter anybody's mind and do all their thinking for them. Another is that he not only wants to win in every situation, he HAS to win, no matter the situation. Losing physical acumen to a sociopath is losing. If his physical condition declines, and it will, how will he react? Following Trump and his imperial audacious behavior, now influenced by mental deteriorzation, he will not go gentle into that good night. I hope his righties have enough sense to be ready to snatch away the nuke codes quickly.
You're right. We are collapsing.
If I won the big lotto I would buy Fox and turn it into a Truth Media Site.