For the serfs who voted for this kleptocracy, I would like to tell them what a kleptocracy is. Kleptocracy is government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to steal government funds at the expense of the people. In our case a guy from South Africa has accessed our money and will be siphoning it off to his friends, with the consent of MAGA Senators and Representatives.
Caring in these times is simply not enough! We need action from those able to do so. Look in OH the NAZI’s marched with Nazi flags bon I -75. 100 black residents had the courage to confront them. They ran like cockroaches into a U - Haul Van that was waiting for them. We cannot allow them to intimidate us. The Dems going to the Department of Education allowed the little young bully to deny them entrance! WRONG. Neutralize the plant, use pepper spray, mace whatever, and go in. Allowing them to continue this bully BS is WRONG and pretty soon will be impossible to raise up against. Speeches, rallies all nice but they bring NO RESULTS!
Trump will tank the economy and stock market so his Billionaire Bros can pick up the remnants for pennies on the dollar. Everyone on here needs to be marching on Wednesday to their local government offices/capitols and protesting this moron and his fascist regime. We can not wait for Democratic leaders to save us. The PEOPLE have to mobilize.
Any other human who said and did the things Trump has done in the last two weeks would have been involuntarily committed. Yet, the leader of Mexico just laid down and is sending 10k troops to the border to prevent the trafficking of Fentanyl. Another show for MAGA fools. Now Trudeau.
While I believe he has what is likely normal signs of aging, his real defect is narcissism. What you see is chaos theory. The worst evil is underneath the surface, and by the time we uncover all of it, it will be too late. He is just the orange puppet that likes attention. The people pulling the strings are Musk, Miller, Bannon and others. Follow the $$$.
In addition to being a person that has lived an amoral, immoral life, trump also has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and is a psychopath. Add dementia to that mixture and he is one dangerous loon. he should be medicated and committed.
Please remember that under the 1798 Emergency Powers law, The Orange Idiot and NAZI Ketamine boy Elon can also confiscate all the monies in your bank accounts!!!
Trump has been open about his vile attack on America. He did it 4 years ago but wasn’t as sure as he is now for success. The Jan. 6 mini insurrection was a trial balloon. Who knows at what point it would have gone into full violent, murderous insurrection. There was violence, & murder but on an economy scale. The “Watchers” didn’t feel confident to throw down the sticks & flags & pull out the firearms to massacre the people cowering in the Capitol. Why? Who knows. Maybe it just didn’t feel energized enough-too many passive participants, not enough Proud Boy violence!
Now, four years later, things have changed. The disease called Trump has been given that shot of cash & power from Billionaires to go at it bare fisted with Elon Musk the conjoined idiot brother of Trump & the most corrupt, vile moronic group of cabinet candidates straight from the cuckoo’s Nest. With hundreds of federal judges and the majority of conservative SCOTUS, Trump can’t go right! He’s destroying our country, firing the FBI, DEVASTATING AGENCIES EVERYDAY to weaken us thoroughly. And who is complaining? The Public certainly is! But now we’ve truly found out who does not have a seat the country’s destiny table. Our vaunted, eunich politicians, supposedly representing us hold all the cards and they don’t give a sh*t anymore to try & mask their true colors. Trump should never have been elected the first time! He is abjectly unqualified to run anything except to run for his life when we the people wake up to his corruption, fraud, lies, narcisssim. You thought I was going to say some unknown characteristic or moral failure of Trump, that we didn’t know? NO WE KNOW HIM THOROUGHLY! He is a vile, immoral, moronic, power crazed arse. We knew that! Yet here he is President again! It will be different this time! Yes, he’ll leave no devious act undone. He’ll ramp up his lies, hate violence because he has a chunk of our country’s “finest” wealthy captains of industry backing him. They’re tired of playing tax games, fooling us into believing taxcuts were for us! No, the truth is we are the fodder, always have been. We’re the ones who struggle with 2% raises, too many work hours, poor health care. We fight the wars made up by the likes of the wealthy industrialists and their toady politicians who dip their beaks in the wealth industries of war, while we die, or come home broken, permanently disabled, affected for life while guess who looks for the next juicey war to start and/or drag out for decades.
It’s out on Broadway now! No mistaking. Now we the people must take action! There are no heroes, not super men or women just us. And, we have to show Trump and his gang of thugs that we won’t take it anymore! The BS of Tariffs, Panama, Canada, tax cuts, enemies and allies is just that BULLSHIT! It’s a grab bag of $$ billions for these horrific louts, & bag job for us!
Ohio – Statehouse at noon and at Willard Park at 4 p.m.
Oregon – State Capitol Building at noon
Pennsylvania—State Capitol Complex at 11 a.m., Williams S. Moorewood Federal Building in Pittsburgh at 11 a.m., and at City Hall in Philadelphia at noon
South Dakota – Downtown Federal Courthouse at 3 p.m.
Tennessee – State Capitol at 1:30 p.m.
Texas – State Capitol at 11 a.m. and at the San Jacinto Plaza at 4 p.m.
Vermont – State Capitol at noon
Washington – Tivoli Fountain North Lawn at 2:30 p.m.
Then Musk Gestapo is running wild. Who will stop them? Certainly not the Congress. They are no longer a functioning branch of government. Stormy days ahead, my friends.
When and where will the demonstration in NYS take place? I believe it will be noon in Albany, the capital of NYS; I know many people think the capital is NYC.
We should DEMAND he have a Mental Check up immediately! He is showing all the signs of DEMENTIA! This can not continue we have to save ourselves not a minute more because he is so very Dangerous and this is not how America works! He must be stopped why isn’t anyone doing anything? I do not want to live under a vicious Dictator who is hellbent on REVENGE! He’s behaving like a combination of Stalin, Paranoia and Hitler hate for anyone who isn’t pure White especially Jewish! That will be next no doubt when he’s done with Mexicans! What a hateful, hateful selfish man he is!
I hear you Steve... I called Schumers D.C. Office and left a message he needs to step down.
I called my congress woman .. Lois Frankel and screamed at the person that it is a slow rolling coup and where is she ? She needs to be out there screaming. Steve ranting about what is happening is one thing... what is the plan?Timothy Snyder had a really great piece the other day. He said that not only does Trump need to be impeached but so does Vance. He said Vance actually knows what the plan is and is behind it .. Yes I get it I am screaming about my party and losing my mind... but once again I would like to see you take on your own old party. .They are a bunch of criminals .. Please it would do my heart good to hear you rant about your former fellow republicans with the disgust you reserve for the democrats....Please !!!!!
Steve's party doesn't really exist any more, much to the country's shame. I remember it well and it didn't seem all that bad. Nixon gave us the EPA and others. The fault is with the Dems and yes Joe Biden. Sorry Gramps but tale is there for all to see. Get the autopsy out of the way and maybe the Dems can try to do SOMETHING !
Actually, Biden is ranked 13 among all Presidents. Reagan is right below him. I lived through Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes before Trump. I thought they were all horrible presidents, in different ways. Lots of scandals and criminality was brought forth plus wars, 9/11 etc. I live in facts and history has recorded them all.
Who is Gramps ? I guess you are a former Republican and don't feel the Republican party has any responsibility for what is happening.. .. Interesting Dennis ..
I'm a small c Communist but I grew up in a Republican family. If Gramps hadn't dithered about getting out of the race- like he promised- and the Dems could have conducted a full scale, full length primary campaign, I believe we could have found a candidate that would have beat Trump and we wouldn't be in this "situation" now. As a President, Biden did great for an old guy.
Biden was perhaps the most consequential president of our lifetimes. Sadlly, he stayed too long at the table. Sullied his legacy, and helped usher in a second trump kleptocracy. A damn shame.
No one could have beaten the Nazi-in-training because he was selling what people wanted — fascism. If a “better” candidate could have beaten him, so could a mediocre candidate. If you don’t want Fascism and cruelty, you have to vote for the opposition.
Sounds a little like the wisdom of hindsight. A "better" candidate meaning one better suited to gather votes from racist, homophobic, testosterone poisoned voter base. It wouldn't have taken a very large number to flip the results. How many voters admitted that they could never vote for a woman? Ok, so the Dems were really forced to run a black woman to save the campaign chest.
No, it’s not hindsight. I’ve ALWAYS worried that Fascism is Trump’s big appeal. I hoped we Dems could win, and, frankly, we had a damned fine candidate. The egg prices were always an excuse. (THAT is hindsight, BTW). The reason I know it’s an excuse is that no one appears to be screaming that Trump should be getting rid of all this Musk craziness and should, instead, fulfill his promise to lower egg prices. What, he can’t do it overnight? Well, then he lied to the American people, and his voters should be screaming about that. The fact that they’re quiet about Trump’s campaign lies, including that Project 2025 wasn’t part of his plans, shows that they want him, and not what he campaigned on.
This is the last paragraph of my Substack tomorrow: "With more than half the country that didn’t vote for Trump plus more and more of the people who supported him becoming disaffected from him, I’m watching for some moment when there’s a dramatic incident and virtually everyone turns on him. Law-abiders are at a disadvantage dealing with someone who has no regard for the law and has power, but I even wonder about a coup. Not a bloody one. Does acting lawfully and losing our country make sense? I’m just asking…"
The new dataset shows that US citizens comprised 80 percent of individuals caught with fentanyl during border crossings at ports of entry from 2019 to 2024.
Customs and Border Protection seizes 88 percent of drugs at ports of entry, not illegal crossing routes.
These are facts that the ignorant Right don’t know about and will never be able to. Instead of facts they have Fox….. Our education system is in the 💩er because no one wants to learn anymore, they just want fed the answers or just don’t care. Ask any of them where Panama is on a map…. good luck. I don’t say this to be mean, it is fact (I know….), look at the ranking of education in all of the Red states. Numbers don’t lie and clearly aligns with why have this mess today.
First, there would not be a fentanyl or opiod problem if it weren't for the f*cking Sackler family, Purdue Pharmaceuticals and their billionaire pharma buddies. They should be destitute and in prison, but thanks to America's two-tiered injustice system they are still free, living "the good life." Second, American citizens are responsible for BOTH the demand as drug users and supply, as drug mules. Read more at the NYT, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/28/world/americas/fentanyl-drug-smugglers-us.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
I’m down on this country because when I look at the 53 MAGA Senators, it is a seriously tragic state of things. It is difficult to say you want change when that large of a voting electorate is installing people like them, along with a majority of Governors. Marsha Blackburn just won re-election with 60 percent! Who are these people?????
Elon Musk has no right to our personal information, nor the funds which we have personally earned and have a complete right to receive. It is unforgivable that only you, Steve, and embarrassingly few others, are questioning the egregious conduct of Elon Musk and why the hell he is even in our country! Your description of our desolate situation is on target! It makes me sick!🤢
When you write to your Senators, or when you call them-for those who have D senators, also urge that they replace Schumer as leader. And for those who have D Senators who are approving any of 47s nominees, tell them to stop.
For the serfs who voted for this kleptocracy, I would like to tell them what a kleptocracy is. Kleptocracy is government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to steal government funds at the expense of the people. In our case a guy from South Africa has accessed our money and will be siphoning it off to his friends, with the consent of MAGA Senators and Representatives.
Citizen's United + Christian Nationalism= American fascism.
Yup
NO ONE is even attempting to stop him. This is the tragedy of our time. No one cares!
Everyone -- many-- care.
What Americans care about is cheap gas and cheap groceries. Givem’ that and they’ll give Trump the spoils.
And yet at the moment it looks like more expensive gas and more expensive groceries are on the horizon……
Caring in these times is simply not enough! We need action from those able to do so. Look in OH the NAZI’s marched with Nazi flags bon I -75. 100 black residents had the courage to confront them. They ran like cockroaches into a U - Haul Van that was waiting for them. We cannot allow them to intimidate us. The Dems going to the Department of Education allowed the little young bully to deny them entrance! WRONG. Neutralize the plant, use pepper spray, mace whatever, and go in. Allowing them to continue this bully BS is WRONG and pretty soon will be impossible to raise up against. Speeches, rallies all nice but they bring NO RESULTS!
Trump will tank the economy and stock market so his Billionaire Bros can pick up the remnants for pennies on the dollar. Everyone on here needs to be marching on Wednesday to their local government offices/capitols and protesting this moron and his fascist regime. We can not wait for Democratic leaders to save us. The PEOPLE have to mobilize.
Yes. True. let’s all look that truth squarely in the face
Any other human who said and did the things Trump has done in the last two weeks would have been involuntarily committed. Yet, the leader of Mexico just laid down and is sending 10k troops to the border to prevent the trafficking of Fentanyl. Another show for MAGA fools. Now Trudeau.
You are so right, he is definitely showing signs of DEMENTIA and they’re all ignoring it! It’s terrifying!
While I believe he has what is likely normal signs of aging, his real defect is narcissism. What you see is chaos theory. The worst evil is underneath the surface, and by the time we uncover all of it, it will be too late. He is just the orange puppet that likes attention. The people pulling the strings are Musk, Miller, Bannon and others. Follow the $$$.
In addition to being a person that has lived an amoral, immoral life, trump also has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and is a psychopath. Add dementia to that mixture and he is one dangerous loon. he should be medicated and committed.
Trump is horrible but an unelected, unauthorized South African is controlling our money!!!!
Narcissistic sociopathy is his affliction.
And Pvtin
Please remember that under the 1798 Emergency Powers law, The Orange Idiot and NAZI Ketamine boy Elon can also confiscate all the monies in your bank accounts!!!
Our Brand of Capitalism created Fascism
Trump has been open about his vile attack on America. He did it 4 years ago but wasn’t as sure as he is now for success. The Jan. 6 mini insurrection was a trial balloon. Who knows at what point it would have gone into full violent, murderous insurrection. There was violence, & murder but on an economy scale. The “Watchers” didn’t feel confident to throw down the sticks & flags & pull out the firearms to massacre the people cowering in the Capitol. Why? Who knows. Maybe it just didn’t feel energized enough-too many passive participants, not enough Proud Boy violence!
Now, four years later, things have changed. The disease called Trump has been given that shot of cash & power from Billionaires to go at it bare fisted with Elon Musk the conjoined idiot brother of Trump & the most corrupt, vile moronic group of cabinet candidates straight from the cuckoo’s Nest. With hundreds of federal judges and the majority of conservative SCOTUS, Trump can’t go right! He’s destroying our country, firing the FBI, DEVASTATING AGENCIES EVERYDAY to weaken us thoroughly. And who is complaining? The Public certainly is! But now we’ve truly found out who does not have a seat the country’s destiny table. Our vaunted, eunich politicians, supposedly representing us hold all the cards and they don’t give a sh*t anymore to try & mask their true colors. Trump should never have been elected the first time! He is abjectly unqualified to run anything except to run for his life when we the people wake up to his corruption, fraud, lies, narcisssim. You thought I was going to say some unknown characteristic or moral failure of Trump, that we didn’t know? NO WE KNOW HIM THOROUGHLY! He is a vile, immoral, moronic, power crazed arse. We knew that! Yet here he is President again! It will be different this time! Yes, he’ll leave no devious act undone. He’ll ramp up his lies, hate violence because he has a chunk of our country’s “finest” wealthy captains of industry backing him. They’re tired of playing tax games, fooling us into believing taxcuts were for us! No, the truth is we are the fodder, always have been. We’re the ones who struggle with 2% raises, too many work hours, poor health care. We fight the wars made up by the likes of the wealthy industrialists and their toady politicians who dip their beaks in the wealth industries of war, while we die, or come home broken, permanently disabled, affected for life while guess who looks for the next juicey war to start and/or drag out for decades.
It’s out on Broadway now! No mistaking. Now we the people must take action! There are no heroes, not super men or women just us. And, we have to show Trump and his gang of thugs that we won’t take it anymore! The BS of Tariffs, Panama, Canada, tax cuts, enemies and allies is just that BULLSHIT! It’s a grab bag of $$ billions for these horrific louts, & bag job for us!
Wednesday, Feb 5 - BE THERE
Arizona – State Capitol at noon
California – Capitol Building at noon
Colorado – Capitol Building at noon
Florida – Tampa City Hall at 3 p.m.
Georgia – Centennial Park at 2 p.m.
Idaho – Capitol steps at 11 a.m.
Illinois – Capitol Building at noon
Indiana - State Capitol Building at noon
Iowa – State Capitol at noon
Kansas – Capitol Building at 4 p.m.
Kentucky –Capitol Building at noon
Massachusetts – State House at noon
Michigan – State Capitol at noon
Minnesota – St. Paul Technical College at noon
Mississippi – State Capitol at noon
Missouri – Capitol Building at noon
Montana – State Capitol at noon
Nebraska – State Capitol at 4 p.m.
New Jersey – State house at noon
North Carolina – State Capitol Building at noon
Ohio – Statehouse at noon and at Willard Park at 4 p.m.
Oregon – State Capitol Building at noon
Pennsylvania—State Capitol Complex at 11 a.m., Williams S. Moorewood Federal Building in Pittsburgh at 11 a.m., and at City Hall in Philadelphia at noon
South Dakota – Downtown Federal Courthouse at 3 p.m.
Tennessee – State Capitol at 1:30 p.m.
Texas – State Capitol at 11 a.m. and at the San Jacinto Plaza at 4 p.m.
Vermont – State Capitol at noon
Washington – Tivoli Fountain North Lawn at 2:30 p.m.
Washington, D.C. – Capitol Building at 11 a.m.
Wisconsin – State Capitol at 11 a.m.
Then Musk Gestapo is running wild. Who will stop them? Certainly not the Congress. They are no longer a functioning branch of government. Stormy days ahead, my friends.
When and where will the demonstration in NYS take place? I believe it will be noon in Albany, the capital of NYS; I know many people think the capital is NYC.
We should DEMAND he have a Mental Check up immediately! He is showing all the signs of DEMENTIA! This can not continue we have to save ourselves not a minute more because he is so very Dangerous and this is not how America works! He must be stopped why isn’t anyone doing anything? I do not want to live under a vicious Dictator who is hellbent on REVENGE! He’s behaving like a combination of Stalin, Paranoia and Hitler hate for anyone who isn’t pure White especially Jewish! That will be next no doubt when he’s done with Mexicans! What a hateful, hateful selfish man he is!
I hear you Steve... I called Schumers D.C. Office and left a message he needs to step down.
I called my congress woman .. Lois Frankel and screamed at the person that it is a slow rolling coup and where is she ? She needs to be out there screaming. Steve ranting about what is happening is one thing... what is the plan?Timothy Snyder had a really great piece the other day. He said that not only does Trump need to be impeached but so does Vance. He said Vance actually knows what the plan is and is behind it .. Yes I get it I am screaming about my party and losing my mind... but once again I would like to see you take on your own old party. .They are a bunch of criminals .. Please it would do my heart good to hear you rant about your former fellow republicans with the disgust you reserve for the democrats....Please !!!!!
Steve's party doesn't really exist any more, much to the country's shame. I remember it well and it didn't seem all that bad. Nixon gave us the EPA and others. The fault is with the Dems and yes Joe Biden. Sorry Gramps but tale is there for all to see. Get the autopsy out of the way and maybe the Dems can try to do SOMETHING !
Actually, Biden is ranked 13 among all Presidents. Reagan is right below him. I lived through Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes before Trump. I thought they were all horrible presidents, in different ways. Lots of scandals and criminality was brought forth plus wars, 9/11 etc. I live in facts and history has recorded them all.
Who is Gramps ? I guess you are a former Republican and don't feel the Republican party has any responsibility for what is happening.. .. Interesting Dennis ..
I'm a small c Communist but I grew up in a Republican family. If Gramps hadn't dithered about getting out of the race- like he promised- and the Dems could have conducted a full scale, full length primary campaign, I believe we could have found a candidate that would have beat Trump and we wouldn't be in this "situation" now. As a President, Biden did great for an old guy.
Biden was perhaps the most consequential president of our lifetimes. Sadlly, he stayed too long at the table. Sullied his legacy, and helped usher in a second trump kleptocracy. A damn shame.
No one could have beaten the Nazi-in-training because he was selling what people wanted — fascism. If a “better” candidate could have beaten him, so could a mediocre candidate. If you don’t want Fascism and cruelty, you have to vote for the opposition.
Sounds a little like the wisdom of hindsight. A "better" candidate meaning one better suited to gather votes from racist, homophobic, testosterone poisoned voter base. It wouldn't have taken a very large number to flip the results. How many voters admitted that they could never vote for a woman? Ok, so the Dems were really forced to run a black woman to save the campaign chest.
No, it’s not hindsight. I’ve ALWAYS worried that Fascism is Trump’s big appeal. I hoped we Dems could win, and, frankly, we had a damned fine candidate. The egg prices were always an excuse. (THAT is hindsight, BTW). The reason I know it’s an excuse is that no one appears to be screaming that Trump should be getting rid of all this Musk craziness and should, instead, fulfill his promise to lower egg prices. What, he can’t do it overnight? Well, then he lied to the American people, and his voters should be screaming about that. The fact that they’re quiet about Trump’s campaign lies, including that Project 2025 wasn’t part of his plans, shows that they want him, and not what he campaigned on.
This is the last paragraph of my Substack tomorrow: "With more than half the country that didn’t vote for Trump plus more and more of the people who supported him becoming disaffected from him, I’m watching for some moment when there’s a dramatic incident and virtually everyone turns on him. Law-abiders are at a disadvantage dealing with someone who has no regard for the law and has power, but I even wonder about a coup. Not a bloody one. Does acting lawfully and losing our country make sense? I’m just asking…"
Does not make sense. But we’re not used to taking charge.
I thought most of the drug importing is done by American citizens?
From the CATO Institute, 08/08/2024 -
The new dataset shows that US citizens comprised 80 percent of individuals caught with fentanyl during border crossings at ports of entry from 2019 to 2024.
Customs and Border Protection seizes 88 percent of drugs at ports of entry, not illegal crossing routes.
For more information go to https://www.cato.org/blog/us-citizens-were-80-crossers-fentanyl-ports-entry-2019-2024
These are facts that the ignorant Right don’t know about and will never be able to. Instead of facts they have Fox….. Our education system is in the 💩er because no one wants to learn anymore, they just want fed the answers or just don’t care. Ask any of them where Panama is on a map…. good luck. I don’t say this to be mean, it is fact (I know….), look at the ranking of education in all of the Red states. Numbers don’t lie and clearly aligns with why have this mess today.
Thanks for the above onfo
No, American citizens are the buyers/users.
First, there would not be a fentanyl or opiod problem if it weren't for the f*cking Sackler family, Purdue Pharmaceuticals and their billionaire pharma buddies. They should be destitute and in prison, but thanks to America's two-tiered injustice system they are still free, living "the good life." Second, American citizens are responsible for BOTH the demand as drug users and supply, as drug mules. Read more at the NYT, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/28/world/americas/fentanyl-drug-smugglers-us.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
I’m down on this country because when I look at the 53 MAGA Senators, it is a seriously tragic state of things. It is difficult to say you want change when that large of a voting electorate is installing people like them, along with a majority of Governors. Marsha Blackburn just won re-election with 60 percent! Who are these people?????
They are the uninformed, misinformed, and uneducated. Just look at the red states and where their education systems rank - at the bottom.
Elon Musk has no right to our personal information, nor the funds which we have personally earned and have a complete right to receive. It is unforgivable that only you, Steve, and embarrassingly few others, are questioning the egregious conduct of Elon Musk and why the hell he is even in our country! Your description of our desolate situation is on target! It makes me sick!🤢
When you write to your Senators, or when you call them-for those who have D senators, also urge that they replace Schumer as leader. And for those who have D Senators who are approving any of 47s nominees, tell them to stop.
Solid advice! I too, have sent scathing letters to my senators & reps, including Schumer! More people need to write, write, write!!!
My son has showed me footage of huge demonstrations
in Europe, Germany I believe, against Trump/Musk. I have not heard anything here.