I wish we had an opposition leader we could follow, who could lead marches and peaceful protests. I wish somebody in the Democratic party would step out into the limelight and boldly give the middle finger to Donald Trump and the MAGA goons and say "we aren't afraid of you, you filthy traitors!" I would follow such a person.
I think I vaguely remember Bill Clinton? Barack Obama? Hilary? coming up with "quick response" teams to quickly and effectively counter the opposition. Anyone remember anything about this?
Yeah, I guess I should just join the "group" and go back to self-indulgent venting with everyone else. I'm sure I am the naive one, joining a group hoping we could, at least, generate some good ideas for approach or action. More savy people are saying, "It doesn't work that way," and I say, "Why not?" We have a base of over 75 million people. Why is it crazy to think great ideas aren't living within them? Is there no pathway on the left for those ideas to trickle up? Or am I just so far out of the loop to even know who to talk to, where to talk with them?
Lynda: I was thinking of a project consisting of 100 people living in the same congressional district. They would be volunteers, of course, who are willing to meet regularly for two years in groups of ten to discuss serious issues (but not politicians). There would be an over-story group consisting of ten people, one from each group. These reps would bring back to their groups news as to what the other groups are talking about. Volunteers would not necessarily be in the same political party. It's really good if people from different walks in life and different political parties talk to one another. The idea would be to approach issues without clinging to any political party's platform. They might not discover solutions to local, state, or national problems but trying to do so with respectfulness to one another's opinions they would at the very least have some kind of fellowship (in some cases a needed remedy for loneliness). Voting on motions would be disruptive. But voting on what they're going to have for the refreshments would be in order. Outside this project there's nothing to stop individuals from campaigning for political parties in primary elections. With 100 people in this project they could request consultative meetings with their local, state and federal officials to ask questions and (hopefully) get good answers.
Is it possible to go below "scraping the bottom of barrel"? It is not just right-wing faux "news" anchors who are insulting other countries, their leaders and citizens. MAGA jerks in Congress are joining the idiotic chorus. For example:
Freshman Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) had this to say, “I think that the people of Panama, I think that the people of Greenland, I think that the people of Canada, for that matter, should be honored that President Trump wants to bring these territories under the American fold.”
I can't take much more of Maga's insistent sabre-rattling, expansionist, dangerous BULLSHIT. When will this stop?
No thoughtful, educated population would want a felon and sexual offender who is a narcissistic megalomaniac as their head of state. What is wrong with these people?
Every country Trump threatens should tell him to go to hell. Dont negotiate, dont look for middle ground. Stand up to him. And dont expect any help from the American Congress. Toady Republicans and confused Democrats will not help.
And as to Watters, he is that smarmy jerk you knew in the sixth grade that needed to be slapped every so often just to disabuse him of his pretensions of intellectual cleverness.
There is a reason so many people promised to move to Canada if Trump won (whether they meant it or not). As you mentioned, Canada stands up for tolerance, freedom and equality. Those are the things that MAGA aims to squash.
Shame on Jesse Watters. Thank you for another excellent article.
I watched about 60 seconds of that clip until Jessy got to the part about, “let’s think of it as a merger”. I wouldn’t have been on there in the first place, but if I were I would have said, “fuck you Jessie we’re not for sale, merger, or anything thing else that comes out of that pea brain of yours and we will never be a part of your raciest country.”
I think everyone is caught “off guard” by the obnoxious bullying of fatass. It’s all performative bs and unless you are American you may not get it for the little it’s worth
Others are trying to respond with some decorum to a bombastic malignant sociopath whose followers (monkeys) mimic his set ups
I feel sorry for the international governing politicians who have to maintain the dignity of their positions as fatass acts like a pseudo mafia boss
No matter what they do they lose - that’s a fatass precondition - he has to wind up the dominator or else!!! Or else whaat really?? He’s a cowardly loser like all bullies
Ugh 4 years of this crap to go?
Just read great article in The New Republic regarding interview with Nicole hemmer historian of conservative movement and right wing media
Gives good perspective as to what we are now enduring from this ball-less “republican” party as a whole and how it evolved to the monkey schematic Steve so well recounts
We shouldn’t stand for it-let’s make a dramatic change in 2026 and bury these folks and their garbage
The French Canadians are the reason this Country even exists. I fear the next 4 years will be worse than I thought. I am in New Jersey and have already seen large tents selling Trump 2028 flags and shirts.
Every day Steve gifts us with a lesson in history, sorely missing from today's public conversation. Watching Jimmy Carter's funeral today, I couldn't help but contemplate the kind of ceremony Trump will plan for himself: MTG, Hulk Hogan & Roger Stone as eulogists, "YMCA," Kid Rock & the J6 choir blaring in the background, gold-plated mementos, the requisite professions of posthumous, groveling fealty, profanity-laced insults against all his enemies & persecutors? Could the contrast be any greater reflection of our decline, brought to the tipping point by this vile creature?
Yes, and did you see the look on his face throughout most of it? What an ass. Thank God he didn't speak because it would have soon become about himself. I kept thinking what a stark contrast between Jimmy Carter and T. I'm embarrassed for our nation.
You can bet your boots that not one former president of First Lady will show up for trump’s funeral. When Biden spoke and they showed trump and melanoma I thought they were going to walk out. I applaud Biden for making both of them uncomfortable during his eulogy.
As a Californian, it was one of my first thoughts. Having floated the idea several times, I've been told that to consider leaving is to relinquish control of the country and that it's premature to do so. I don't know if I agree, but it's academic.
Don't get stuck in the weeds. Many years ago Noam Chomsky called the Republican Party "the most dangerous political party IN THE WORLD." Trump is America's dictator, yes, and absolutely America's modern day Hitler. The GOP and the oligarchs have spent decades lying with massive propaganda to the citizenry to take their country, their freedom, and they have succeeded. What was destroying Jews for the Germans will be destroying immigrants for Americans. The sadistic, utterly ruthlessness of this administration can destroy the US. Can Americans wake up and fight back?
As an American I am appalled by the arrogance and ignorance of Jesse, a prime time host on the most-watched cable news channel in America, who is obviously way in over his head. The way he treated Premier Ford was insulting and inexcusable, And the way Ford kowtowed to Jesse was equally outrageous.
Among the stupidest questions ever asked is, "What's your problem with being absorbed by America?" Does Jesse not realize that every nation has its own culture, history, values, language(s), and government and that their citizens take pride in their homeland? Is he that ignorant? Are his viewers not upset by this and his foolish behavior and attitude?
By asserting it should be considered a "privilege" to be taken over by America and (jokingly?) suggesting it may have to be a "hostile take-over" he catered to Trump's saber-rattling expansionism.
He topped his idiocy off by saying he finds it "offensive" that Canadiand would object to being "absorbed" by America.
WE HAVE ARRIVED AT FULL IDIOCRACY IN GOVERMENT AND MEDIA!!!
Jesse Waters has two values that work for the Fox News Brainwashing network. Good looks and the ability to say anything. That interview for me as an American was embarrassing. Jesse Waters just like Trump adviser Steven Miller is high on pain killers half the time. The eyes never lie.
I wish we had an opposition leader we could follow, who could lead marches and peaceful protests. I wish somebody in the Democratic party would step out into the limelight and boldly give the middle finger to Donald Trump and the MAGA goons and say "we aren't afraid of you, you filthy traitors!" I would follow such a person.
Anyone know where Tim Walz is?
I think I vaguely remember Bill Clinton? Barack Obama? Hilary? coming up with "quick response" teams to quickly and effectively counter the opposition. Anyone remember anything about this?
The silence is deafening.
Yeah, I guess I should just join the "group" and go back to self-indulgent venting with everyone else. I'm sure I am the naive one, joining a group hoping we could, at least, generate some good ideas for approach or action. More savy people are saying, "It doesn't work that way," and I say, "Why not?" We have a base of over 75 million people. Why is it crazy to think great ideas aren't living within them? Is there no pathway on the left for those ideas to trickle up? Or am I just so far out of the loop to even know who to talk to, where to talk with them?
Lynda: I was thinking of a project consisting of 100 people living in the same congressional district. They would be volunteers, of course, who are willing to meet regularly for two years in groups of ten to discuss serious issues (but not politicians). There would be an over-story group consisting of ten people, one from each group. These reps would bring back to their groups news as to what the other groups are talking about. Volunteers would not necessarily be in the same political party. It's really good if people from different walks in life and different political parties talk to one another. The idea would be to approach issues without clinging to any political party's platform. They might not discover solutions to local, state, or national problems but trying to do so with respectfulness to one another's opinions they would at the very least have some kind of fellowship (in some cases a needed remedy for loneliness). Voting on motions would be disruptive. But voting on what they're going to have for the refreshments would be in order. Outside this project there's nothing to stop individuals from campaigning for political parties in primary elections. With 100 people in this project they could request consultative meetings with their local, state and federal officials to ask questions and (hopefully) get good answers.
America is disgraced. We have no finer friend than Canada. How low are we going to go?
Is it possible to go below "scraping the bottom of barrel"? It is not just right-wing faux "news" anchors who are insulting other countries, their leaders and citizens. MAGA jerks in Congress are joining the idiotic chorus. For example:
Freshman Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) had this to say, “I think that the people of Panama, I think that the people of Greenland, I think that the people of Canada, for that matter, should be honored that President Trump wants to bring these territories under the American fold.”
https://www.rawstory.com/brandon-gill-2670777812/
I can't take much more of Maga's insistent sabre-rattling, expansionist, dangerous BULLSHIT. When will this stop?
No thoughtful, educated population would want a felon and sexual offender who is a narcissistic megalomaniac as their head of state. What is wrong with these people?
gill seems to have met your challenge... and while brand new; no further training required.
Glad you watched that filth so we don’t have to.
Every country Trump threatens should tell him to go to hell. Dont negotiate, dont look for middle ground. Stand up to him. And dont expect any help from the American Congress. Toady Republicans and confused Democrats will not help.
And as to Watters, he is that smarmy jerk you knew in the sixth grade that needed to be slapped every so often just to disabuse him of his pretensions of intellectual cleverness.
I don't watch him (cuz I don't watch faux).... but somehow, somewhere I saw a clip of what Steve describes and I was MORE than appalled.
There is a reason so many people promised to move to Canada if Trump won (whether they meant it or not). As you mentioned, Canada stands up for tolerance, freedom and equality. Those are the things that MAGA aims to squash.
Shame on Jesse Watters. Thank you for another excellent article.
I watched about 60 seconds of that clip until Jessy got to the part about, “let’s think of it as a merger”. I wouldn’t have been on there in the first place, but if I were I would have said, “fuck you Jessie we’re not for sale, merger, or anything thing else that comes out of that pea brain of yours and we will never be a part of your raciest country.”
Yeah. That's the exact point where I felt like puking. So I did, and missed the rest.
I think everyone is caught “off guard” by the obnoxious bullying of fatass. It’s all performative bs and unless you are American you may not get it for the little it’s worth
Others are trying to respond with some decorum to a bombastic malignant sociopath whose followers (monkeys) mimic his set ups
I feel sorry for the international governing politicians who have to maintain the dignity of their positions as fatass acts like a pseudo mafia boss
No matter what they do they lose - that’s a fatass precondition - he has to wind up the dominator or else!!! Or else whaat really?? He’s a cowardly loser like all bullies
Ugh 4 years of this crap to go?
Just read great article in The New Republic regarding interview with Nicole hemmer historian of conservative movement and right wing media
Gives good perspective as to what we are now enduring from this ball-less “republican” party as a whole and how it evolved to the monkey schematic Steve so well recounts
We shouldn’t stand for it-let’s make a dramatic change in 2026 and bury these folks and their garbage
Canada has been at our side in every war since 1900! Leave Canada alone demented OAF (Orange Asinine Felon)!!!
The French Canadians are the reason this Country even exists. I fear the next 4 years will be worse than I thought. I am in New Jersey and have already seen large tents selling Trump 2028 flags and shirts.
What the hell is wrong with these people? They'll find out soon enough what they did in putting him back in office.
The demented OAF’s Big Mac with fries diet is catching up to him! Most likely he will not be alive in 2028!
It will get interesting when the serfs find out they voted for the elimination of their Medicaid and a doubling of their grocery bill.
Every day Steve gifts us with a lesson in history, sorely missing from today's public conversation. Watching Jimmy Carter's funeral today, I couldn't help but contemplate the kind of ceremony Trump will plan for himself: MTG, Hulk Hogan & Roger Stone as eulogists, "YMCA," Kid Rock & the J6 choir blaring in the background, gold-plated mementos, the requisite professions of posthumous, groveling fealty, profanity-laced insults against all his enemies & persecutors? Could the contrast be any greater reflection of our decline, brought to the tipping point by this vile creature?
Yes, and did you see the look on his face throughout most of it? What an ass. Thank God he didn't speak because it would have soon become about himself. I kept thinking what a stark contrast between Jimmy Carter and T. I'm embarrassed for our nation.
During Trump’s funeral? I’ll be toasting with Champagne! Bring it on!
You can bet your boots that not one former president of First Lady will show up for trump’s funeral. When Biden spoke and they showed trump and melanoma I thought they were going to walk out. I applaud Biden for making both of them uncomfortable during his eulogy.
And Biden appeared to be looking right at T when he spoke of things not so nice.
I thought he was also, and I’m glad you concur. 🙏
Carter and trump: two ends of a spectrum could NOT be any farther apart.
As many have said, if Canada becomes part of the US, where will I tell people I’m from while traveling abroad?
It's not impossible that some of our states will be asking to become part of Canada.
As a Californian, it was one of my first thoughts. Having floated the idea several times, I've been told that to consider leaving is to relinquish control of the country and that it's premature to do so. I don't know if I agree, but it's academic.
Don't get stuck in the weeds. Many years ago Noam Chomsky called the Republican Party "the most dangerous political party IN THE WORLD." Trump is America's dictator, yes, and absolutely America's modern day Hitler. The GOP and the oligarchs have spent decades lying with massive propaganda to the citizenry to take their country, their freedom, and they have succeeded. What was destroying Jews for the Germans will be destroying immigrants for Americans. The sadistic, utterly ruthlessness of this administration can destroy the US. Can Americans wake up and fight back?
As an American I am appalled by the arrogance and ignorance of Jesse, a prime time host on the most-watched cable news channel in America, who is obviously way in over his head. The way he treated Premier Ford was insulting and inexcusable, And the way Ford kowtowed to Jesse was equally outrageous.
Among the stupidest questions ever asked is, "What's your problem with being absorbed by America?" Does Jesse not realize that every nation has its own culture, history, values, language(s), and government and that their citizens take pride in their homeland? Is he that ignorant? Are his viewers not upset by this and his foolish behavior and attitude?
By asserting it should be considered a "privilege" to be taken over by America and (jokingly?) suggesting it may have to be a "hostile take-over" he catered to Trump's saber-rattling expansionism.
He topped his idiocy off by saying he finds it "offensive" that Canadiand would object to being "absorbed" by America.
WE HAVE ARRIVED AT FULL IDIOCRACY IN GOVERMENT AND MEDIA!!!
After listening to the fabulous eulogies for Jimmy Carter, many unintentionally pointed at
Trump, I am ignoring the filth that will be sworn in on the 20th. This is what voters wanted,
let them; I hope they are the ones who suffer the most.
Jesse Waters has two values that work for the Fox News Brainwashing network. Good looks and the ability to say anything. That interview for me as an American was embarrassing. Jesse Waters just like Trump adviser Steven Miller is high on pain killers half the time. The eyes never lie.
We have no need for the likes of Watters. He’s a bona fide blowhard in desperate need of relevancy.
Let’s do our own thing; play our game and succeed without the drag and distractions of pubescent brained narcissists.
It not likely they will ever grasp the complexities of anything beyond a ketchup packet found at McDonald’s.