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Josh Abrams's avatar

Here’s another truth: Steve, your shining light on these cockroaches gives me oxygen.

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Steven G.'s avatar

Steve, you were polite and restrained on Velshi this past Saturday, yet to the point, which made the guest host and his other commentator squirm.

I can see now how your truth telling threatens the daylights out of corporate media and am so grateful for your relentless honest patriotism and sense of historical precedent!

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Steve Schmidt's avatar

Thank you, Steven.

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Joan F's avatar

I thought they seemed uncomfortable too with what Steve said. They are all so used to playing things safe and still politically correct? Geez, is that even a thing anymore to be politically correct. Sure seems like the MAGA crowd has pulled the band-aid off that phenomenon and has weaponized it instead to incite fear and corrupt everything good....Sometimes Steve's words make me catch my breath but it also makes me think and be involved in fighting back. I'm sick and disgusted with these little people who have become powerful because of their "littleness".

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Madelyn📎's avatar

Thank you Steve! I look forward to the day the truths you list and all “the truths” are in our history books✨

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Dick Montagne's avatar

I didn’t see it, maybe Steve has it posted somewhere I can watch it. 🙏

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Dick Montagne's avatar

Thank you Steve, I just watched it, I thought you were spot on. The clown in chief knows exactly what he did that the majority of this country would find abhorrent in the extreme, most of us can picture it clearly, the maggots are going to have a hard time with it, I guess they need to start looking for the rock they crawled out from under.

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Julianne's avatar

GREAT job, Steve!

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Steven G.'s avatar

YouTube?

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Elaine Seal's avatar

He had it embedded in one of his posts earlier this week or maybe Sunday.

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Anthony j. Santo's avatar

Another in-your-face event that far too many Americans refuse to recognize is that the STATE of ISRAEL, not the "JEWS," are committing an act of genocide in the Gaza strip.

Another suppressed story I heard on Morning Joe: When asked to meet with victims of Epstein's, Trump said they weren't worth the honor and it might hurt some of his friends. Trump does not care about the victims; they were unimportant, lesser people, and treating them as commodities made available (at a price) to the rich and powerful is just how things play out.

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Elliot Blinder's avatar

One of those rich guys he is protecting is himself. There is ample evidence he was Epstein’s partner in crime, both the sexual crimes and money- laundering.

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Anthony j. Santo's avatar

There is no doubt. As Trump told it, he and Epstein both loved beautiful women, especially on the younger side.

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William m Gaffney's avatar

Please be careful. It is not the entire state of Israel. It is Bibi and some of the extreme Orthodox

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Anthony j. Santo's avatar

There are many Israeli Jews who oppose the state of Israel's genocidal policies in Gaza; however, it is the policy of the Israeli state, just as it is the policy of the American government to kidnap people and put them in concentration camps or foreign prisons. We are Americans and we oppose MAGA policies and it is our responsiblity to do all we can, utilizing the rights our Constitutution guarantees us, to change those policies, just as Israeli Jews in opposition to Likkud are doing.

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David Selditz's avatar

Anthony, speaking as a Jew you hit the bullseye. It is the Israeli Government doing this, not Israeli Jews, the majority of which are in opposition to Netanyahu.

He's Israel's trump.

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William m Gaffney's avatar

Another point that David can amplify on. More so than any group of people I know the Jews will be in almost total solidarity over certain issues, especially an attack. You would be hard pressed to find many Jews who were opposed to the initial month or two

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Anthony j. Santo's avatar

Many Israeli Jews were killed and taken hostage when Hamas launched an attack on October 7, 2023. The attack, from Hamas' point of view, was a reaction to Israeli settlers' acts of violence and theft in the West Bank. Hamas is an extremist group which refuses to accept the reality of an Israeli state. On the other side are Zionist extremists who refuse to accept the legitimacy of a Palestinian state and demand that Israel acquire all of its biblical territory.

The only solution that holds even a hope for peace in the Middle East is the creation of a Palestinian state and international guarantees of the borders established for both states. Establishing the borders would be extremely difficult. I wonder if a grid could be created and borders set to reflect, as closely as possible, the results of plebiscites.

Maybe there is no solution and human nature (something we all share) is such that it will lead to our self-destruction.

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William m Gaffney's avatar

The biggest problem is the extremists in all three Abrahamic religions I don't even consider some of the white Christian Nationalists Christians At least with Islam and Judaism you can get to the extremist points of view with some very rigid interpretation Not so with the Christian Nationalists People who are fearful make rules

Most people have no idea Extreme Islamists have killed way more of their own

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William m Gaffney's avatar

Most westerners do not understand some of the Islamics, especially extremists, mind set. They do not have a fear of dying, and more importantly, respect “violent” power As Golda Meir said there will only be peace when they love their children more than they hate us

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SCA's avatar

This column should be on the front page of every newspaper in America

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Elaine Seal's avatar

1000 per cent!!

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John D.'s avatar

John McCain was so right about living long enough and you’ll see everything in America.

Yesterday I was reading about a push to repeal the 19th Amendment. There are candidates and donors who believe doing so will increase the number of red states and expand the power of MAGA.

For now, repeal is not likely, but what should be a concern is that there are people who advocate that running for office.

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Elaine Seal's avatar

Tell us what you really think, Steve😉 I will forever love your bluntness❤️

Keep the good faith and keep tellin' it like it is.

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Kim Nesvig's avatar

Elon should never use the word “truth”.

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M3333's avatar

Release all of the Epstein files! Read the names of the pedophiles in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and the first name on that list is Donald John Trump!!!

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Judith Hofeditz's avatar

I like a bit of truth with my morning coffee, good way to face the day clear-eyed about our beleaguered country. Thanks Steve as always for being ruthlessly honest.

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elliott oberman's avatar

Trump’s parents treated him as unlovable, and it makes sense.

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Jacquelyn Wolverton's avatar

Emotional abandonment at a very young age is the birth of a narcissist. He is certainly that on steroids.

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William m Gaffney's avatar

Emotional abandonment certainly doesn’t help narcissism but someone is born with it like any other mental illness

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Protect the Vote's avatar

SCOTUS Reform: A Major Issue In 2026

SCOTUS has become the judicial arm of the MAGA/Christian Nationalist movement having been orchestrated by the mega-funded Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation Now with full control of the court, it’s now time to “make hay” on the investments the Right has made over the last 30 years The McConnell Senate excuse to delay and then accelerate SCOTUS nominees has led to the desired result of an imbalanced court of today

Elie Mystal, judicial correspondent for the Nation, has since 2020 argued for a congressionally dictated court expansion(https://bit.ly/4b9YwhM) Arguments that it would lead to continued court expansion is okay with him since it would over time dilute the power of the court hence making it more effective Court watcher extraordinaire Mark Joseph Stern has recognized this judicial disaster and suggested that a 4 part congressional plan(https://bit.ly/4soC0rY) would help in judicial reform

But one thing is now clear SCOTUS reform in some form should take place and that should be one of the primary issues that Democratic candidates should be confronted with going into the 2026 midterms

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Joseph Felser's avatar

Steve, keep ‘em coming!

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Elizabeth George's avatar

I keep saying thank you and I keep meaning it. Your demonstration of journalistic courage in the face of what's going on in our country is one of the few hopeful signs that I cling to.

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

His family and associates have engaged in millions of dollars worth of graft, fraud and corruption. His sons, Uday and Qusay, and the daughter he has repeatedly sexualized, have made hundreds of millions of dollars illegitimately and illegally over 2025.

But, but what about Hunter’s laptop?

This was never about Hunter’s corruption or his laptop. In Trump’s first term, Kushner managed to secure a buyer for his 666 Fifth Avenue White Elephant in which his family was about to default on a $1.1 billion loan.

Qatar eventually bailed them out, a month after Trump appointed him Special Envoy to the Midde East, at a time when Qatar had major disputes with Saudi Arabia and the UAE and several other ME countries culminating in a blockade: Qatar Diplomatic Crises. Coincidence?

Then Kushner leaves office with $2 billion in Saudi money even after MbS’s own financial advisors warned against it? How serendipitous!

Bottom line, at some point, the masters of the tech universe decided they wanted a corrupt clown they could control as president.

Perhaps a sad, corrupt and depraved man easily manipulated and about to spend the rest of his life in prison. Until a miracle occurs; a year before the election, Trump gets a lot of help from the MSM (sane washing and whitewashing his weaknesses and record), all while SCOTUS literally slow rolls two criminal cases, and carves out an immunity clause in the constitution for the man. Huh???

Additionally, social media, which is completely dominated and owned by Trump supporters decide they are going to abandon all of their guardrails and allows disinformation and misinformation campaigns to run rampant on their sites in support of Trump.

And presto chango, suddenly Trump’s President again! Outstanding!

Make no mistake, the last election was neither free nor fair!

Lastly, and just remember, when Putin took power after Yeltsin decided to retire, it was Russia’s most powerful oligarchs who put Putin in his position; most of the original oligarchs were arrested, prosecuted, jailed, and after serving long prison sentences they were either expelled or killed, and relieved of most of their wealth and assets! IMHO..:)

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Larry Bushard's avatar

And we have about 12 months before Thiel tells Vance to 25A Dump on 1/21/2027, assuming the narcoleptic fart factory doesn’t melt down to the point that Putin can no longer hide his dementia before that date. If he can be kept semi-coherent until that date, the fascists will be able to “elect” Vance to two more terms, while maintaining the fiction that we have a functioning democracy until 2036.

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William m Gaffney's avatar

South American Shamans just predicted a major Trump health crisis for the coming year

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Thomas McGraw's avatar

‘Auf den Fuhrer hinarbeiten’ is the name of the game.

I do t know of a more concise way of putting this year.

At the stroke of midnight tomorrow, no walking any of this shit back.

It’s on them. All of them.

Ava I believe you’re correct: buckle up, ‘26 is gonna be something else altogether.

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