So...a group of elitist, billionaire oligarchs...most especially Musk..used their vast resources to gaslight millions of regular, hardscrabble Americans and got those easily fooled, gullible dupes to support a horrid creature such as Trump to be our next president. And now, those poor, hard working folks are going to be the ones who suffer the most under the Musk/Trump Kleptocracy. Way to go, America.
Why do you say that Biden Administration will be remembered for nothing! That is BS
HERE is the beginning of some of his accomplishments:
Passed
the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package to increase investment in the national network of bridges and roads, airports, public transport and national broadband internet, as well as waterways and energy systems.
Helped get more than 500 million life-saving COVID-19 vaccinations in the arms of Americans through the American Rescue Plan.
Stopped a 30-year streak of federal inaction on gun violence by signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that created enhanced background checks, closed the “boyfriend” loophole and provided funds for youth mental health.
Made a $369 billion investment in climate change, the largest in American history,
History knows. He stopped the anti-vax (the President that did so little) from further damaging the economy from the Covid-19 then provided the stimuli to bring it back. No big deal to some but how about record after record high of the stock market. He will be remembered for setting the model for stopping any Pandemic then turning the damage to a win. Ukraine v Russia and Russia sucks and is a serial killer he could have gone on to finish them.
He did all that. But he will not be remembered for it a) because the Trump administration will dismantle as much of it as it can, b) because democrats are completely incapable of a PR campaign to let people know they did all that, c) American's have very short memories, d) what they will remember is he made it possible for a second Trump administration by not stepping aside soon enough for a democratic primary to take place. It is heartbreaking that he delivered so much to the American people they were not astute enough to realize it. And the heartbreak is just getting started.
He would have been remembered as one of the greats and his accomplishments will still resound, except he reneged on his promise to be a transitional leader and pass the torch. He set the stage then for a Trump reboot. And now we have it. 74 million voters demurred, but it wasn’t enough.
Your “Warning” makes me a nervous wreck! :) But I need to hear it and so do the rest of right thinking people (and perhaps the others—even if they won’t listen overtly—they’ve been brainwashed once, so let’s go for twice). I hear you—a year of hell (and more for sure) but a response. I recall his first reign—the government and our response was tepid. Pink pussycats??? I’m a “militant” feminist and to the left of Bernie, and I don’t do pink things. I’m also 79 and not dead yet! I’m ready to be heard—NOW, and we do not have the leadership to do that. I’d really like to hear what you I think about how we are going to “sandblast” the Dem party to change the landscape of leadership. (I do not believe in violence—“sandblast” is a metaphor)! Thanks Steve. You scare me to death, but you brighten my day!
I do not believe the Democratic party is flat on its back. Trump won by a thin margin and more people voted for Democrats to be Representatives and Senators than for Republicans. It is a result of our giving more weight to smaller states and extreme gerrymandering that has led a minority party to control both houses of Congress.
The Progressives in the party need to take over the party and they desperately need to learn how to EXPLAIN CLEARLY to average Americans how much better off they would be with Progressives in control.
Agree. Not flat on their backs. But the democrats are not long-term thinkers, strategists, planners, doers. Hindsight is easy, but it was not hard to see 40 years ago (50 or 60), at least in Gingrich's time, that the republicans had very long term goals and candidate types in mind (what we're seeing today and back in Reagan's time) and the strategies to execute them, including Fox News and 1,500 radio stations broadcasting 24/7 a billion megawatts of conservative propaganda across the swing states, and the clever establishing of a social media propaganda network from the get-go. And gradually but with geological grinding force they made America much more stupid and incurious, purposefully eroding quality self-inquiry education while promoting instinctive racism and bigotry. The Chinese and Japanese are successful long term thinkers, extrapolating out to a hundred years of more. And so are the Republicans - very successful as we see. The democrats are masters of short term thinking and astonishingly lack deep critical thinking and history-watching skills. Hopefully, the new crop of democratic leaders (the younger and young ones) have transformative moments of self-realization over this and are able to mobilize long term thinking and some kind of effective counters to republican fascist propaganda and the pandemic-like spread of rabid stupidity.
You hit the nail on the head. The new head of the DNC must organize a panel of technocrats to counter this propaganda. Developing a communications strategy to counter one embedded and evolving for over 40 years will not be easy, but it is essential for progress in America.
They do need to get better at explaining. But we are way past the part where they create good legislation, go out and explain it to people, and sit back and wait for adoration. Half the country will never hear their "explanations." They aren't listening anymore. R's are eating each other right now. But they will turn on the rest of us soon enough. D's will need to get smarter, faster and more ferocious. But to your point, Sherrod Brown is making some sense to me -- Get back to being the party for the working class in demonstrable ways. D's need to pick their fights with the R's and take it to them in ways that clearly prove who they are for. I'm not talkin' press conferences and commercials.
Though he lost his Ohio Senate seat to Trump's Bernie Moreno, Sherrod Brown could be the kind of man we need to save the party. His unassuming ordinary American appeal and strong support for the working class could play well in these troubled times.
My hope is that the schism in the upper ranks of MAGA will make it obvious to even the most brainwashed cultists that this is a movement by the richest 1000 Americans to exploit the rest of us.
I suggest that the opposition should focus on the stuff that will cut across the American people. Don't argue about culture and other issues that play into Trump's wheelhouse. Instead, the rise of a police state and the domestic use of the military along with the creation of detention centers will not sit well with most people. Perhaps not at first but once troops are going into schools and workplaces people will react.
Also, the failure of Trump's economic policies and rising inflation will hurt most people. Tie that to income inequality and the coterie of billionaires with whom Trump has surrounded himself.
The opposition has to stand for the lives of the average American. Fight for them. Fight for fairness. Fight for the ability to get ahead. Fight for the Constitution.
They were fine with all the filthy dirty things he says about people. Haiitians eating cats and dogs.. Trump is the nastiest person in the country .. All those maga voters are fine with all of his disgusting behavior. Guilty on 34 counts ... that is fine with them. No I don't think we can feel sorry for them and I don't think they will have learned anything no matter what he does. No matter how he mishandles the country I don't see them getting upset. It will be someone elses fault. As someone I was once friends with said, "He's her baby" . She wanted to firebomb the daily news.
I agree with Joyce? I don’t understand why you are totally discounting Biden’s accomplishments in gun safety, infrastructure and climate change. And he beat trump once.
Steve my observation is that these clowns are following the Blueprint of the French Revolution. First the storming of the Bastille and the Palace to exact revenge against the government. Then the madman Rose Pierre played by Trump sets up Guillotines for public executions of the enemy within. Napoleon played by Elon takes over, crowns himself Emperor and leads the country into wars of Aggression dooming the country with his insanity. Our Founders wrote the Constitution to avoid these kinds of crimes against humanity. Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country. Let’s Roll.
2025 will indeed be a momentous year as co-presidents Musk and Trump roll out their oligarch-centered plans for our country. But please, let’s not wait for a spark to ignite, let’s start now building a bonfire under the butts of our elected folks, letting them know what we expect from them. The time for stunned silence and mute acceptance is OVER.
Was not correcting you in anyway. I meant Make America Average Again, so agreeing with your sentiment. Whether a serious comment or not, your intention and my interpretation, is our own. Relax, FFS.
Have a high opinion of yourself? Duly noted. Being offended over someone basically acknowledging your sentiment is not philosophical by any definition anywhere. Was suggesting you relax instead of looking for reasons to be offended. Uh, Happy New Year, I guess.
I have no high opinion at all of myself, just what an human ought to have. In my case, I think have much less a high opinion of myself than average. Humans have. Most are glib. I have to write to know what I think.
Mike, I sincerely hope you have a new year filled with ataraxia (a high falutin" Greek word that expresses how we humans all ought to feel but never can). Under Fascism, now we. all will have to struggle to have Any of what that word means.
There's a misunderstanding, I had no idea what he was talking about, so I said he was a pedant to correct one obvious misspelling. of MAGA, (I never did use MAAA-I used the right acronym of MAGA) Anyway, it is a tempest in a tea pot... it matters not a whit, not at all, not at all. He is a good man, and I confess. I got miffed over nothing, Thank you, Lisa, for making Mike and I pen pals again, if he agrees;if only he will consent to sing this with me,::: "May Auld Acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind???"
So...a group of elitist, billionaire oligarchs...most especially Musk..used their vast resources to gaslight millions of regular, hardscrabble Americans and got those easily fooled, gullible dupes to support a horrid creature such as Trump to be our next president. And now, those poor, hard working folks are going to be the ones who suffer the most under the Musk/Trump Kleptocracy. Way to go, America.
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Don't forget Steve Bannon in that group.
Not really! Bannon is the architect!
Well said.
Why do you say that Biden Administration will be remembered for nothing! That is BS
HERE is the beginning of some of his accomplishments:
Passed
the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package to increase investment in the national network of bridges and roads, airports, public transport and national broadband internet, as well as waterways and energy systems.
Helped get more than 500 million life-saving COVID-19 vaccinations in the arms of Americans through the American Rescue Plan.
Stopped a 30-year streak of federal inaction on gun violence by signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that created enhanced background checks, closed the “boyfriend” loophole and provided funds for youth mental health.
Made a $369 billion investment in climate change, the largest in American history,
History knows. He stopped the anti-vax (the President that did so little) from further damaging the economy from the Covid-19 then provided the stimuli to bring it back. No big deal to some but how about record after record high of the stock market. He will be remembered for setting the model for stopping any Pandemic then turning the damage to a win. Ukraine v Russia and Russia sucks and is a serial killer he could have gone on to finish them.
He did all that. But he will not be remembered for it a) because the Trump administration will dismantle as much of it as it can, b) because democrats are completely incapable of a PR campaign to let people know they did all that, c) American's have very short memories, d) what they will remember is he made it possible for a second Trump administration by not stepping aside soon enough for a democratic primary to take place. It is heartbreaking that he delivered so much to the American people they were not astute enough to realize it. And the heartbreak is just getting started.
He would have been remembered as one of the greats and his accomplishments will still resound, except he reneged on his promise to be a transitional leader and pass the torch. He set the stage then for a Trump reboot. And now we have it. 74 million voters demurred, but it wasn’t enough.
Your “Warning” makes me a nervous wreck! :) But I need to hear it and so do the rest of right thinking people (and perhaps the others—even if they won’t listen overtly—they’ve been brainwashed once, so let’s go for twice). I hear you—a year of hell (and more for sure) but a response. I recall his first reign—the government and our response was tepid. Pink pussycats??? I’m a “militant” feminist and to the left of Bernie, and I don’t do pink things. I’m also 79 and not dead yet! I’m ready to be heard—NOW, and we do not have the leadership to do that. I’d really like to hear what you I think about how we are going to “sandblast” the Dem party to change the landscape of leadership. (I do not believe in violence—“sandblast” is a metaphor)! Thanks Steve. You scare me to death, but you brighten my day!
I do not believe the Democratic party is flat on its back. Trump won by a thin margin and more people voted for Democrats to be Representatives and Senators than for Republicans. It is a result of our giving more weight to smaller states and extreme gerrymandering that has led a minority party to control both houses of Congress.
The Progressives in the party need to take over the party and they desperately need to learn how to EXPLAIN CLEARLY to average Americans how much better off they would be with Progressives in control.
Agreed. Dems are not flat on their backs!
Agree. Not flat on their backs. But the democrats are not long-term thinkers, strategists, planners, doers. Hindsight is easy, but it was not hard to see 40 years ago (50 or 60), at least in Gingrich's time, that the republicans had very long term goals and candidate types in mind (what we're seeing today and back in Reagan's time) and the strategies to execute them, including Fox News and 1,500 radio stations broadcasting 24/7 a billion megawatts of conservative propaganda across the swing states, and the clever establishing of a social media propaganda network from the get-go. And gradually but with geological grinding force they made America much more stupid and incurious, purposefully eroding quality self-inquiry education while promoting instinctive racism and bigotry. The Chinese and Japanese are successful long term thinkers, extrapolating out to a hundred years of more. And so are the Republicans - very successful as we see. The democrats are masters of short term thinking and astonishingly lack deep critical thinking and history-watching skills. Hopefully, the new crop of democratic leaders (the younger and young ones) have transformative moments of self-realization over this and are able to mobilize long term thinking and some kind of effective counters to republican fascist propaganda and the pandemic-like spread of rabid stupidity.
You hit the nail on the head. The new head of the DNC must organize a panel of technocrats to counter this propaganda. Developing a communications strategy to counter one embedded and evolving for over 40 years will not be easy, but it is essential for progress in America.
They do need to get better at explaining. But we are way past the part where they create good legislation, go out and explain it to people, and sit back and wait for adoration. Half the country will never hear their "explanations." They aren't listening anymore. R's are eating each other right now. But they will turn on the rest of us soon enough. D's will need to get smarter, faster and more ferocious. But to your point, Sherrod Brown is making some sense to me -- Get back to being the party for the working class in demonstrable ways. D's need to pick their fights with the R's and take it to them in ways that clearly prove who they are for. I'm not talkin' press conferences and commercials.
Though he lost his Ohio Senate seat to Trump's Bernie Moreno, Sherrod Brown could be the kind of man we need to save the party. His unassuming ordinary American appeal and strong support for the working class could play well in these troubled times.
Exactly.
My hope is that the schism in the upper ranks of MAGA will make it obvious to even the most brainwashed cultists that this is a movement by the richest 1000 Americans to exploit the rest of us.
Mar-a-largo New Year's Eve (Star Wars Creature Cantina 1.5 min): https://www.starwars.com/video/creature-cantina (We know them so well by now!🤪)
How did you sneak this candid clip out of marodumpo?
Laura Loomer hopefully will soon post this on X since she was left out at marodumpo.
I suggest that the opposition should focus on the stuff that will cut across the American people. Don't argue about culture and other issues that play into Trump's wheelhouse. Instead, the rise of a police state and the domestic use of the military along with the creation of detention centers will not sit well with most people. Perhaps not at first but once troops are going into schools and workplaces people will react.
Also, the failure of Trump's economic policies and rising inflation will hurt most people. Tie that to income inequality and the coterie of billionaires with whom Trump has surrounded himself.
The opposition has to stand for the lives of the average American. Fight for them. Fight for fairness. Fight for the ability to get ahead. Fight for the Constitution.
That, and the return of terrible diseases and possibly a bird flu epidemic that will wipe out kids in school and other population segments.
The serfs voted for this.
They were fine with all the filthy dirty things he says about people. Haiitians eating cats and dogs.. Trump is the nastiest person in the country .. All those maga voters are fine with all of his disgusting behavior. Guilty on 34 counts ... that is fine with them. No I don't think we can feel sorry for them and I don't think they will have learned anything no matter what he does. No matter how he mishandles the country I don't see them getting upset. It will be someone elses fault. As someone I was once friends with said, "He's her baby" . She wanted to firebomb the daily news.
I cannot believe this is our reality. JFC! WTF is going on? WTF are we doing?
The tremendous amount of money & power driving politics and the media is killing us :-(
Carter’s funeral will be the turning point.
I agree with Joyce? I don’t understand why you are totally discounting Biden’s accomplishments in gun safety, infrastructure and climate change. And he beat trump once.
Steve my observation is that these clowns are following the Blueprint of the French Revolution. First the storming of the Bastille and the Palace to exact revenge against the government. Then the madman Rose Pierre played by Trump sets up Guillotines for public executions of the enemy within. Napoleon played by Elon takes over, crowns himself Emperor and leads the country into wars of Aggression dooming the country with his insanity. Our Founders wrote the Constitution to avoid these kinds of crimes against humanity. Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country. Let’s Roll.
2025 will indeed be a momentous year as co-presidents Musk and Trump roll out their oligarch-centered plans for our country. But please, let’s not wait for a spark to ignite, let’s start now building a bonfire under the butts of our elected folks, letting them know what we expect from them. The time for stunned silence and mute acceptance is OVER.
Very competitive bunch of aggressive guys! They will roll over old man Trump! Wait and see.
None have won campaigns, however, every issue will be a contest! Could be delightful to watch.
Heaps of money on the line! Sure hope our country, Constitution, and Democracy hold up!
The harmfulness of Nationalism like Steve Schmidt's is equal to MAGA's nationalism.
We are a country od billionaires and the poor, side by side' what is GREAT about that?
Tax the rich and share the wealth! Then and only then would be just average and decent; Not GREAT. Decent would be enough.
GREAT is hubristic term that all ancients knew leads to dictators and tyrants.
Our goal should be to be average.
Perhaps, but MAAA is apparently not as catchy or as manipulative as MAGA, whether in red or black. Sigh...
Only a pedant would correct an obvious misspelling, try to be be clever, and completely ignore the seriousness in a comment.
Was not correcting you in anyway. I meant Make America Average Again, so agreeing with your sentiment. Whether a serious comment or not, your intention and my interpretation, is our own. Relax, FFS.
Philosophical, not merely relaxed.
Have a high opinion of yourself? Duly noted. Being offended over someone basically acknowledging your sentiment is not philosophical by any definition anywhere. Was suggesting you relax instead of looking for reasons to be offended. Uh, Happy New Year, I guess.
"Uh", is like MAGA speech, BTW.
I have no high opinion at all of myself, just what an human ought to have. In my case, I think have much less a high opinion of myself than average. Humans have. Most are glib. I have to write to know what I think.
Mike, I sincerely hope you have a new year filled with ataraxia (a high falutin" Greek word that expresses how we humans all ought to feel but never can). Under Fascism, now we. all will have to struggle to have Any of what that word means.
Hi Tracy, That wasn't a 'clever' reply to your comment. It was an insightful response to the important topic you brought up here. Thanks :-)
There's a misunderstanding, I had no idea what he was talking about, so I said he was a pedant to correct one obvious misspelling. of MAGA, (I never did use MAAA-I used the right acronym of MAGA) Anyway, it is a tempest in a tea pot... it matters not a whit, not at all, not at all. He is a good man, and I confess. I got miffed over nothing, Thank you, Lisa, for making Mike and I pen pals again, if he agrees;if only he will consent to sing this with me,::: "May Auld Acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind???"
He meant that "Made America Average Again" would ring with the mass-cult the way Make America Great Again" does. I think that was it there :-)
AHA!!!! I didn't catch that! Ah's well now.
Yes, I fully believe Mike will sing that song. You are both good people!❤️✌️
We can stop them by uniting. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/marshal-then-arm-our-new-army?r=3m1bs