Does anyone know where someone might be able to place a bet, guessing the exact time Donald Trump will first fall asleep during his next appearance in criminal court? I’m asking for a friend. The sleepy Don can’t get through the day. It is long, after all.
MTG revealed her character when she chased Parkland survivor, David Hogg, through the streets. Berating him for having the audacity to first survive a school shooting, then to start a national conversation about gun violence, Hogg was a teenager at the time. Since then MTG has consistently been an embarrassment to the state of Georgia, the Republican Party, and the US Congress.
"Incandescently ignorant and intellectually addled" made my morning! Both a spot-on observation and pure poetry. Also, having read Timothy Snyder's books, it comes as no surprise that he is best-suited to serve as our guiding light in this time of terrible darkness. Kudos to both of you for exposing these things for what they are. Never stop telling the truth.
I agree with every word you said except one. MTG is NOT a Christian. To be a Christian, you have to believe that Jesus was the Son of God and therefore believe in His teachings of love, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion for ALL. Not just white Americans who believe exactly like you do to the detriment of everyone else in this country and in this world. And by the way, Jesus was a brown-skinned Arab Jewish man who would be absolutely shunned and hated by MAGAs if he physically walked among us today.
BTW, your pieces on your visits to the European concentration camps were so moving that it’s taken me this long to find the oxygen to thank you for them.
Timothy Snyder’s commentary is excellent. I read his work often, and today’s newsletter is more than poignant to a conversation I just had with an old friend I haven’t spoken to in about six or seven years. I literally just got off the phone with him.
That said, he’s a very smart, has an MBA from Northwestern, and worked as a CFO for mid sized technology companies for years.
And frankly, I was stunned by our conversation. He voted for Obama twice. Was a liberal his whole life, and now is on the Trump Train: first stop is St. Petersburg. Second stop is straight to hell!
He used to make fun of Tucker and MTG; now he gets them completely, and just laid into me about every thing Tim has said, about Russian and Chinese propaganda that has infiltrated our political system.
Ukraine is filled with Nazi’s and killing innocent Russian civilians in the Donetsk Region. Russia didn’t invade, they were rescuing Russian speaking Ukrainian’s that have been systematically murdered by their Nazi captives.
We’re sending money to Ukraine, while we have open borders. NATO is no longer necessary and is only be used as a cudgel to stifle Russia, so a new world order can emerge. He also thinks that the WHO is adding amendments to existing international treaties so they can control our healthcare, especially during a global pandemic. I told him all amended treaties have to be ratified by Congress, but he believes there are loopholes through the amendment process. HUH???
He even quoted Milton Friedman, who has stated in 1980 that “It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state.”
My point: Social Media and the right-wing ecosystem is alive and well; brainwashing even the intellectuals among us.
So be afraid, the “tin-foil” hat caucus of MTG, Gaetz, Comer, Jordan, and the rest of the GQP clown car is expanding rapidly to a town near you.
Personally, you can either laugh or cry, but currently, I’m all out of tears….:)
Steve, you are excellent at providing us the view down the road. It's such a game of three dimensional chess, and I appreciate you keeping us informed. My guess is that the Heritage Foundation or Koch or whoever is driving the MAGA cabal, sees that the polls on Ukraine and Trump slipping away. I see John Bolton, Bill Barr, Chris Sununu making a play (expecting to see Pompeo soon) to step into the void. It will be great to have Putin out of the picture, but having these radicals running things along with the Supreme Court in their hip pocket, is a concern.
The cancer that has been growing for the past several decades is mind boggling. Watching the John Bolton interview on MSNBC last week, then seeing the reverse turn of Bill Barr says that a major powershift is occurring, and that the Christian Nationalists are going to use Trump's trials to bump him out of the way. My guess is that Mike Johnson went down to Florida to deliver a message to Trump. And Nikki Haley is very quiet. (I have included my comment to two other Substacks, if this this looks familiar.)
"Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door, the bringer will find me home."
I love this quote by James Garfield and is it ever fitting for today.
I read somewhere last fall that election workers were quitting out of fear. At 75 I decided it was time for me to help, so I volunteered to become an election worker in my county. Step up folks, it's now or never, get involved in your local politics. No time like the present to save democracy.
Marjorie “Muscovite” Taylor Greene is clearly intellectually challenged (i.e.stupid), but she’s also a power hungry bully. She’s clearly intoxicated by the power she perceives has been granted to her by the Russian government’s primary American dupe and propaganda conduit, Donald Trump. So, now Muscovite Marge is operating like an “enforcer” in the House for Trump who’s using her to try to run the House using Mike Johnson as a “front” to mask the real House Speaker which is Donald Trump. This is fascist political terrorism in action. Everything is transactional. Everyone uses every one. All these fascists use each other in order to gain what they want more than anything else- power. Maybe Putin has offered Muscovite MTG a seat in the Russian Duma. She’d fit right in.
I’m a retired judge. I’ve always been humbled and impressed by how seriously jurors take their duties. It breaks my heart to see that individuals who want to do their civic duties are deterred (quite understandably) from serving as jurors because they fear for the safety of themselves and their family. This alone should be a wake up call to anyone even undecided about voting for the orange yam.
Great post Steve!! Frightening as hell but more motivation for me.
Always love hearing Dr. Snyder and am so thankful for him. The less I see of MTG the better. Grrrrr.
I think I have finally gotten through to my Mother re: the true evils facing us if DJT is re-elected. Although she swears she saw "recordings" on Fox of Biden taking Bribes. Not sure about that but it wouldn't surprise me if they manufactured something like that. I'll keep working on her. Right after J6 and all the hearings she was totally against him but she hasn't stopped watching Fox either.
Hope you can get some rest this weekend Steve!! ❤️🇺🇸💙
This woman is unstandable. I couldn’t listen to her voice or withstand her poster or look at her proudly ignorant face. Why is she in Congress? She is completely unfit, an embarrassment for the nation, and cringeworthy on the daily. I’m heartbroken for our nation. That someone so proudly stupid and filled with hate and coarseness is making decisions for our lives and the country.
Let’s not forget the Russian stooges in the Senate. Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and the rest of the Pro-Putin Caucus need to be investigated. Why has the MSM failed to take a hard look at pro-Putin people in the Senate snd the House? What are they afraid of?
I continue to try to fill the gaps of my ignorance of what on earth could make ANYONE listen to the likes of MJT. “Your” 😉 Sarah Palin was at least entertaining! Did you and/or Nicole write her first speech with that amazing line about the lipstick (on a pitbull was it?!). And that “I am not a witch” woman didn’t last long, an encouraging outcome. But this one, all these lame conspiracies, particularly pushing the memes of 3 of the most sadistic and inhumane countries in today’s world, well, that I can’t understand, though I’m told by people I trust that I must try.
You explain everything so incisively Steve. Can you please (again?) try to explain why 50% of voters believe her? Not since Orson Welles announced that the aliens 👽 were coming did so many innocents believe such tripe.
Meanwhile, here's a tidbit from Thom Hartmann. Very interesting.
"multiple press reports, verified by George Conway on X, suggest that when Trump falls asleep he also starts farting, and the smell is so bad that it’s a problem for his attorneys. Noel Casler has repeatedly said that when he worked with Trump on Celebrity Apprentice the billionaire (?) was wearing diapers that were often soiled and smelly, grossing out the NBC film crew. I’m reluctant to make fun of elderly people who are incontinent, but this is another way that the patina of “strongman” gets etched away from Trump because he has to sit in this courtroom all day every day of his trial and, if the reports are true, the smell is extraordinary. "
MTG revealed her character when she chased Parkland survivor, David Hogg, through the streets. Berating him for having the audacity to first survive a school shooting, then to start a national conversation about gun violence, Hogg was a teenager at the time. Since then MTG has consistently been an embarrassment to the state of Georgia, the Republican Party, and the US Congress.
Marjorie Greene is the most vile member of Congress I have ever witnessed in my life. Truly a loathsome and pathetic embarrassment to our country.
Wonderful and compelling quote from President Garfield, Steve. Candice Millard wrote a great book about him — Destiny of the Republic.
"Incandescently ignorant and intellectually addled" made my morning! Both a spot-on observation and pure poetry. Also, having read Timothy Snyder's books, it comes as no surprise that he is best-suited to serve as our guiding light in this time of terrible darkness. Kudos to both of you for exposing these things for what they are. Never stop telling the truth.
They have always been here - just hiding under a rock until trump made it OK to come out and be the belligerent Assholes that we all know + hate
I agree with every word you said except one. MTG is NOT a Christian. To be a Christian, you have to believe that Jesus was the Son of God and therefore believe in His teachings of love, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion for ALL. Not just white Americans who believe exactly like you do to the detriment of everyone else in this country and in this world. And by the way, Jesus was a brown-skinned Arab Jewish man who would be absolutely shunned and hated by MAGAs if he physically walked among us today.
BTW, your pieces on your visits to the European concentration camps were so moving that it’s taken me this long to find the oxygen to thank you for them.
Timothy Snyder’s commentary is excellent. I read his work often, and today’s newsletter is more than poignant to a conversation I just had with an old friend I haven’t spoken to in about six or seven years. I literally just got off the phone with him.
That said, he’s a very smart, has an MBA from Northwestern, and worked as a CFO for mid sized technology companies for years.
And frankly, I was stunned by our conversation. He voted for Obama twice. Was a liberal his whole life, and now is on the Trump Train: first stop is St. Petersburg. Second stop is straight to hell!
He used to make fun of Tucker and MTG; now he gets them completely, and just laid into me about every thing Tim has said, about Russian and Chinese propaganda that has infiltrated our political system.
Ukraine is filled with Nazi’s and killing innocent Russian civilians in the Donetsk Region. Russia didn’t invade, they were rescuing Russian speaking Ukrainian’s that have been systematically murdered by their Nazi captives.
We’re sending money to Ukraine, while we have open borders. NATO is no longer necessary and is only be used as a cudgel to stifle Russia, so a new world order can emerge. He also thinks that the WHO is adding amendments to existing international treaties so they can control our healthcare, especially during a global pandemic. I told him all amended treaties have to be ratified by Congress, but he believes there are loopholes through the amendment process. HUH???
He even quoted Milton Friedman, who has stated in 1980 that “It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state.”
My point: Social Media and the right-wing ecosystem is alive and well; brainwashing even the intellectuals among us.
So be afraid, the “tin-foil” hat caucus of MTG, Gaetz, Comer, Jordan, and the rest of the GQP clown car is expanding rapidly to a town near you.
Personally, you can either laugh or cry, but currently, I’m all out of tears….:)
Steve, you are excellent at providing us the view down the road. It's such a game of three dimensional chess, and I appreciate you keeping us informed. My guess is that the Heritage Foundation or Koch or whoever is driving the MAGA cabal, sees that the polls on Ukraine and Trump slipping away. I see John Bolton, Bill Barr, Chris Sununu making a play (expecting to see Pompeo soon) to step into the void. It will be great to have Putin out of the picture, but having these radicals running things along with the Supreme Court in their hip pocket, is a concern.
The cancer that has been growing for the past several decades is mind boggling. Watching the John Bolton interview on MSNBC last week, then seeing the reverse turn of Bill Barr says that a major powershift is occurring, and that the Christian Nationalists are going to use Trump's trials to bump him out of the way. My guess is that Mike Johnson went down to Florida to deliver a message to Trump. And Nikki Haley is very quiet. (I have included my comment to two other Substacks, if this this looks familiar.)
"Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door, the bringer will find me home."
I love this quote by James Garfield and is it ever fitting for today.
I read somewhere last fall that election workers were quitting out of fear. At 75 I decided it was time for me to help, so I volunteered to become an election worker in my county. Step up folks, it's now or never, get involved in your local politics. No time like the present to save democracy.
Marjorie “Muscovite” Taylor Greene is clearly intellectually challenged (i.e.stupid), but she’s also a power hungry bully. She’s clearly intoxicated by the power she perceives has been granted to her by the Russian government’s primary American dupe and propaganda conduit, Donald Trump. So, now Muscovite Marge is operating like an “enforcer” in the House for Trump who’s using her to try to run the House using Mike Johnson as a “front” to mask the real House Speaker which is Donald Trump. This is fascist political terrorism in action. Everything is transactional. Everyone uses every one. All these fascists use each other in order to gain what they want more than anything else- power. Maybe Putin has offered Muscovite MTG a seat in the Russian Duma. She’d fit right in.
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I’m a retired judge. I’ve always been humbled and impressed by how seriously jurors take their duties. It breaks my heart to see that individuals who want to do their civic duties are deterred (quite understandably) from serving as jurors because they fear for the safety of themselves and their family. This alone should be a wake up call to anyone even undecided about voting for the orange yam.
Great post Steve!! Frightening as hell but more motivation for me.
Always love hearing Dr. Snyder and am so thankful for him. The less I see of MTG the better. Grrrrr.
I think I have finally gotten through to my Mother re: the true evils facing us if DJT is re-elected. Although she swears she saw "recordings" on Fox of Biden taking Bribes. Not sure about that but it wouldn't surprise me if they manufactured something like that. I'll keep working on her. Right after J6 and all the hearings she was totally against him but she hasn't stopped watching Fox either.
Hope you can get some rest this weekend Steve!! ❤️🇺🇸💙
This woman is unstandable. I couldn’t listen to her voice or withstand her poster or look at her proudly ignorant face. Why is she in Congress? She is completely unfit, an embarrassment for the nation, and cringeworthy on the daily. I’m heartbroken for our nation. That someone so proudly stupid and filled with hate and coarseness is making decisions for our lives and the country.
Let’s not forget the Russian stooges in the Senate. Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and the rest of the Pro-Putin Caucus need to be investigated. Why has the MSM failed to take a hard look at pro-Putin people in the Senate snd the House? What are they afraid of?
I continue to try to fill the gaps of my ignorance of what on earth could make ANYONE listen to the likes of MJT. “Your” 😉 Sarah Palin was at least entertaining! Did you and/or Nicole write her first speech with that amazing line about the lipstick (on a pitbull was it?!). And that “I am not a witch” woman didn’t last long, an encouraging outcome. But this one, all these lame conspiracies, particularly pushing the memes of 3 of the most sadistic and inhumane countries in today’s world, well, that I can’t understand, though I’m told by people I trust that I must try.
You explain everything so incisively Steve. Can you please (again?) try to explain why 50% of voters believe her? Not since Orson Welles announced that the aliens 👽 were coming did so many innocents believe such tripe.
Snyder really took that idiot to school.
Meanwhile, here's a tidbit from Thom Hartmann. Very interesting.
"multiple press reports, verified by George Conway on X, suggest that when Trump falls asleep he also starts farting, and the smell is so bad that it’s a problem for his attorneys. Noel Casler has repeatedly said that when he worked with Trump on Celebrity Apprentice the billionaire (?) was wearing diapers that were often soiled and smelly, grossing out the NBC film crew. I’m reluctant to make fun of elderly people who are incontinent, but this is another way that the patina of “strongman” gets etched away from Trump because he has to sit in this courtroom all day every day of his trial and, if the reports are true, the smell is extraordinary. "
According to Casler, Trump's years of doing cocaine and Adderall has something to do with this condition. Check this out: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/18sa3cl/whats_going_on_with_trump_and_diaperssmells/
I guess we will find out for sure when the press is in the courtroom, beginning on Monday.