While the rest of the world spent their holidays opening presents with family, Donald Trump was posting online about taking over Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal.
Steve, I have followed you since Game Change. I subscribed to The Warning because you talk seriously about Trump’s threats to Canada. No other American media seems to grasp how easy it would be for the orange menace to try to take us over. So please keep talking about Canada. The threat is very real.
My comment has absolutely nothing to do with courage. The dumbass will make decisions that will affect everyone, regardless of who you voted for. Inept and unqualified people to head departments and agencies and the decisions they make will affect people; tariffs will affect all consumers, tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations will affect everyone; budget cuts will affect everyone. You can fight or resist all you want - I agree and support that - but if you live here, all the bold talk will not alter the reality of this fucking idiot and what he will do to this country and the people who live here. Easy reminder of an example from less than 5 years ago: mismanaging a global pandemic. That's what I'm referring to, not courage. Two completely different things. Or another: stealing 2 of his 3 nominations to SCOTUS that has absolutely made rulings that affect everyone. The court should be 5 - 4 us, not 6 - 3 them. Presidential immunity for crimes, anyone?
I believe Steve is right; resistance to Maga will be from the bottom up and it will begin when the pain he causes ordinary Americans becomes unbearable. Leaders will, no doubt, emerge from the ranks of those who understood, from the beginning, what this country has done to itself and the world by allowing Trump and his gang of TOTALLY unscrupulous colleagues to gain control of our government. Steve, I hope you are in the vanguard of those leaders.
Trump is a juvenile who is trolling the nation and the world to get the attention that his 12 year old mind so desperately seeks. It is incredible to consider that we are stuck with the idiotic SOB for 4 more years. Way to go America, way to go Biden(s), way to go Dems, etc. Geez.
And any Dem who was on the "Biden is 100 percent fit" train should be forced out of government. (Talk about bad judgment ). Schumer and Clyburn are at the top of that list.
I would take 100 Biden’s over 1 Trump anytime. Anyone who thinks the dems could
defeat the disgusting Trump cultural revolution, supported by SCOTUS, Elon Musk
and terrified billionaires, is mistaken in my opinion. Should Biden have stepped aside earlier, the damage, particularly with SCOTUS, Russia and Musk was in the works.
Please everyone, stop with “Monday morning quarterbacking” and focus on now.
All fair and appreciated, Deirdre. I'd suggest that at least some of the "Monday morning QBing" helps identify some of the issues that need to be addressed to more effectively move forward. Key word is some, definitely not all.
The billionaire “cabinet” along with the muskrat and Vivek the “mouth” cannot wait to take our social security and Medicare away. Remember, the Orange monster will kill Obamacare and his plan for American healthcare is a “concept”. The concept is let the United Healthcare snakes continue to demand huge premiums for insurance and then when you are sick, deny coverage! Now, that their CEO was murdered I am sure the rest of the healthcare CEOs have private armies to protect them from the wrath of the masses! The Orange Idiot wants to take away your social security and Medicare that in my case have paid into for over 56 years because the muskrat and Vivak the “mouth” want a huge tax cut! I don’t know why they want a huge tax cut because most are like Jeff “no balls” Bezos who pay no taxes now and neither does Amazon!!! The Washington Post ran an article yesterday of the poor people in New Castle, Pennsylvania who voted for Trump and are now worried that their SSI and Medicare is going away. One said that Trump had “promised” not to cut social security and Medicare and my response in a blog was how many LIES did Trump state in his first four years, over 40,000! The biggest lie was ironically stated the day my brother died of his HOAX virus on April 9, 2020 when the Orange Idiot urged Americans to pack the church pews for Easter 2020 because the virus was a HOAX! Just yesterday, the first American to possibly die from Avian flu is in critical condition in a California hospital and a genetic examination of the patients’ avian flu virus shows the virus is evolving to make it easier to transmit from human to human. AMERICA, DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THE ORANGE IDIOT AND THE INSANE RFK, JUNIOR CAN PROTECT AMERICA AGAINST A NEW AVIAN FLU PANDEMIC???
My question is who will Trump serve? His billionaire cronies - or his working class base? It seems that their interests collide.
And without his base, he’s nothing.
How long can the base live on lies & rallies?
Can he satisfy both factions? The super rich & powerful giving him million of dollars AND the working folks giving him their small donations & total devotion in the belief that he will solve all their problems?
I hear Steve’s warning, but I question his confidence that American populace is up to the task of resisting. One person who told the truth was Hillary Clinton when she used the term, “deplorables” for which she was crucified, and nobody defended her. Example that sticks in my mind is a voter coming out of 2024 voting asking, “What happened to Joe Biden? Did he drop out?” Reading levels and math skills? Fuggetaboutit! We’re too stupid to drive the Democracy bus.
Steve is smarter than I am. But I can’t see a future that gets better for many, many years. I’m 76 years old. In behalf of my boomer cohort, I apologize for the mess. I dunno. Maybe my parents were right: Rock’nRoll will rot your brain.
Well, his plans, actions, and statements very clearly prove he will serve his billionaire cronies. He no longer needs his base and never - never - cared about them. In several rallies prior to the election, he stated, "I don't care about you, I just need your vote." And the idiots still voted for him. There are not two masters.
Is Trump talking about Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada in order to distract us, keep us busy looking in that direction, so that we won’t see or pay too much attention to the taking and stealing? Huge tax cuts for the millionaires, billionaires, and corporations? But what’s really going on? What’s the con? The cable news networks sure as hell won’t tell us. What’s the real story?
Like many Americans, I cannot stomach cable or network news at the moment. I subscribe to trusted journalists’ substacks, I read the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, but listening to the news as I used to,with talking heads yammering at me, is more than I can bear at the moment. Once Musk/Trump are in office and the nuclear codes have been turned over, the focus will change and the resistance must begin. This may have been our last peaceful holiday season for some years, we should all savor it. Now is the time to start planning a robust midterm election, and to think about ousting some of the wrinkly old institutionalists who helped get us where we are today. We need a nimble, creative, honest, and energetic Democratic opposition to the horrible absurdity unfolding in plain sight.
Steve, the Coast Guard has a total of 4 ice breakers. The Polar Sea and the Healy are operational and performing missions. The Healy suffered a fire and is undergoing repairs. The Polar Sea is hangin in there, nearly 50 years old now. Her sister ship, the Polar Star will likely face decommissioning in the near future and is not in an operational status. The CG has purchased a commercial ice breaker that was used by the oil industry. It was built in 2012, and will go into service sometime in 2025/26. She will be stationed in Juneau, AK, and be commissioned "USCGC Storis". A brand new ice breaker is in the works as well. In a nutshell, the Coast Guard appropriation bills always fall short which complicates the ability to sustain a proper ice breaker fleet of 8 to 10 vessels. With climate change and northwest passage opening up, ice breakers are required in greater numbers if the US wants to stay relevant to arctic operations.......both the North and South poles. Please excuse my ramble.
While Rudy hawks a cup of joe, his and fellow MAGAs’ psycho-fascist cult leader and incurable malignant narcissist Donnie readies American democracy and its hapless people for a heaping bowl of oligarchic blow, a putative salve for all the grotesque pain he is about to unleash, project and transfer as psychological decompensation for the lifelong angst inflicted by absent, love-withholding parents.
Why wait? I encourage all to consider the historys of fascist dictators and their very similar methods of ungodly repression. Steve clearly has. Our fascist coup, now in place, will be harder to resist due to the great advancements of surveilance and other tech mechanisms, many in place and kept secret from the public for years now, the many years that this coup has been planned. Plentiful billionaires will massively support what ever it takes, though many individual will find it appalling, reacting to thbut cave to the like fearsvthatv There will be stasteful ang. army of watchers to support their tyrany, but still will need to sing in order to increasingly filch your money. Retributions will not be reported by the media, and they will be accordingly brutal. Here we can facilitate resistance by devising methods of communication. Study the methods of resistances that occured in the past. Google is already in the bag. They are spreading fear nonstop, Trump et al everyday, which is always the first step. Take advantage of that and let your fear inspire you, eliminate the many denials and cross fingered hope that miracles will happen. Stay quiet until you are strong.
. . . Above, " . . . though many individual will find it appalling, but react in fear like so many elected politicians, Right and Left, have consistently done. They must be suppored to lose their fear."
Lisa, I am convinced that if Joe Biden had kept his promise of being a one-term president and if he had stated the day after the disastrous debate in Atlanta when his wife had to take him by the hand because he did not know where to get off the stage, Harris could have eaked out a victory but it took Joe a month to believe his poll numbers where he was losing by 10 points to Trump? Harris made only two mistakes in my opinion; stating she could not think of anything she would do differently than Biden and not responding to the transgender commercials running nonstop in my battleground Arizona and other battleground states. 240,000 additional Democratic votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania and we would have had President Harris, but now the nightmare begins!!!
why do you not talk about the system we have that produces thousands of billionaires side by side with poor people who have to struggle to make ends meet every week?
You NEVER talk about it!
All you say is "We are the best country in the world"---OR--- "After this fascist leader crumbles, we will come out of it better than ever".
It is avoiding the problem, sir.
Please discuss what is wrong with our system of capitalism.
Are you so comfortable that you cannot see or feel others' pain?
Steve, I have followed you since Game Change. I subscribed to The Warning because you talk seriously about Trump’s threats to Canada. No other American media seems to grasp how easy it would be for the orange menace to try to take us over. So please keep talking about Canada. The threat is very real.
Trump has apparently appropriated the Canadian national anthem as his own, personal psycho-mantra: ‘Oh-can-I?-duh’.
Have you ever heard him try to sing the national anthem of his own country? He does not know the words, look it up it would be funny but it is sad.
Every American I know doesn't subscribe to the orange traitor's ideas. I, for one, will fight against him every step of the way. We love you, Canada.
Same. Followed him since Game Change. Steve is prescient.
Confirmation Hearings? For the MAGA Party, it is Rubber Stamp Hearings.
This is what Traditional Values Marsha Blackburn said about a child rapist:
“I would vote to confirm him because he is President Donald Trump’s pick.”
There is something terribly, terribly wrong with these t***p nominees - and those who voted for him again. Karma will be nuclear for them.
Unfortunately, those of us who didn't vote for him will be collateral damage in the upcoming chaos, and insanity, and viciousness.
Mike, not if I can help it. Courage...
My comment has absolutely nothing to do with courage. The dumbass will make decisions that will affect everyone, regardless of who you voted for. Inept and unqualified people to head departments and agencies and the decisions they make will affect people; tariffs will affect all consumers, tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations will affect everyone; budget cuts will affect everyone. You can fight or resist all you want - I agree and support that - but if you live here, all the bold talk will not alter the reality of this fucking idiot and what he will do to this country and the people who live here. Easy reminder of an example from less than 5 years ago: mismanaging a global pandemic. That's what I'm referring to, not courage. Two completely different things. Or another: stealing 2 of his 3 nominations to SCOTUS that has absolutely made rulings that affect everyone. The court should be 5 - 4 us, not 6 - 3 them. Presidential immunity for crimes, anyone?
Fair enough.
I believe Steve is right; resistance to Maga will be from the bottom up and it will begin when the pain he causes ordinary Americans becomes unbearable. Leaders will, no doubt, emerge from the ranks of those who understood, from the beginning, what this country has done to itself and the world by allowing Trump and his gang of TOTALLY unscrupulous colleagues to gain control of our government. Steve, I hope you are in the vanguard of those leaders.
Trump is a juvenile who is trolling the nation and the world to get the attention that his 12 year old mind so desperately seeks. It is incredible to consider that we are stuck with the idiotic SOB for 4 more years. Way to go America, way to go Biden(s), way to go Dems, etc. Geez.
And any Dem who was on the "Biden is 100 percent fit" train should be forced out of government. (Talk about bad judgment ). Schumer and Clyburn are at the top of that list.
I would take 100 Biden’s over 1 Trump anytime. Anyone who thinks the dems could
defeat the disgusting Trump cultural revolution, supported by SCOTUS, Elon Musk
and terrified billionaires, is mistaken in my opinion. Should Biden have stepped aside earlier, the damage, particularly with SCOTUS, Russia and Musk was in the works.
Please everyone, stop with “Monday morning quarterbacking” and focus on now.
All fair and appreciated, Deirdre. I'd suggest that at least some of the "Monday morning QBing" helps identify some of the issues that need to be addressed to more effectively move forward. Key word is some, definitely not all.
It’s not all the Dems fault. The media helped. Other factors are in play. I just hope this time we stand up to Trump and have the balls to say no.
Isn’t it funny how the isolationist who wanted nothing to do with any other country’s issues is now drooling like a Great Dane?
And always remember we, the American people, did this to ourselves. Not all of us, by a long shot, but we're getting the government we deserve.
Yes, theseTrump people are either idiots, greedy bast**ds, or a combination of both!
The greedy bast**ds are manipulating the idiots for profit and entertainment.
The billionaire “cabinet” along with the muskrat and Vivek the “mouth” cannot wait to take our social security and Medicare away. Remember, the Orange monster will kill Obamacare and his plan for American healthcare is a “concept”. The concept is let the United Healthcare snakes continue to demand huge premiums for insurance and then when you are sick, deny coverage! Now, that their CEO was murdered I am sure the rest of the healthcare CEOs have private armies to protect them from the wrath of the masses! The Orange Idiot wants to take away your social security and Medicare that in my case have paid into for over 56 years because the muskrat and Vivak the “mouth” want a huge tax cut! I don’t know why they want a huge tax cut because most are like Jeff “no balls” Bezos who pay no taxes now and neither does Amazon!!! The Washington Post ran an article yesterday of the poor people in New Castle, Pennsylvania who voted for Trump and are now worried that their SSI and Medicare is going away. One said that Trump had “promised” not to cut social security and Medicare and my response in a blog was how many LIES did Trump state in his first four years, over 40,000! The biggest lie was ironically stated the day my brother died of his HOAX virus on April 9, 2020 when the Orange Idiot urged Americans to pack the church pews for Easter 2020 because the virus was a HOAX! Just yesterday, the first American to possibly die from Avian flu is in critical condition in a California hospital and a genetic examination of the patients’ avian flu virus shows the virus is evolving to make it easier to transmit from human to human. AMERICA, DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THE ORANGE IDIOT AND THE INSANE RFK, JUNIOR CAN PROTECT AMERICA AGAINST A NEW AVIAN FLU PANDEMIC???
My question is who will Trump serve? His billionaire cronies - or his working class base? It seems that their interests collide.
And without his base, he’s nothing.
How long can the base live on lies & rallies?
Can he satisfy both factions? The super rich & powerful giving him million of dollars AND the working folks giving him their small donations & total devotion in the belief that he will solve all their problems?
Can he serve both Masters?
And then there’s Putin…
😵💫 happy new year y’all!
I hear Steve’s warning, but I question his confidence that American populace is up to the task of resisting. One person who told the truth was Hillary Clinton when she used the term, “deplorables” for which she was crucified, and nobody defended her. Example that sticks in my mind is a voter coming out of 2024 voting asking, “What happened to Joe Biden? Did he drop out?” Reading levels and math skills? Fuggetaboutit! We’re too stupid to drive the Democracy bus.
Steve is smarter than I am. But I can’t see a future that gets better for many, many years. I’m 76 years old. In behalf of my boomer cohort, I apologize for the mess. I dunno. Maybe my parents were right: Rock’nRoll will rot your brain.
Well, his plans, actions, and statements very clearly prove he will serve his billionaire cronies. He no longer needs his base and never - never - cared about them. In several rallies prior to the election, he stated, "I don't care about you, I just need your vote." And the idiots still voted for him. There are not two masters.
Yes. We are.
Is Trump talking about Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada in order to distract us, keep us busy looking in that direction, so that we won’t see or pay too much attention to the taking and stealing? Huge tax cuts for the millionaires, billionaires, and corporations? But what’s really going on? What’s the con? The cable news networks sure as hell won’t tell us. What’s the real story?
Like many Americans, I cannot stomach cable or network news at the moment. I subscribe to trusted journalists’ substacks, I read the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, but listening to the news as I used to,with talking heads yammering at me, is more than I can bear at the moment. Once Musk/Trump are in office and the nuclear codes have been turned over, the focus will change and the resistance must begin. This may have been our last peaceful holiday season for some years, we should all savor it. Now is the time to start planning a robust midterm election, and to think about ousting some of the wrinkly old institutionalists who helped get us where we are today. We need a nimble, creative, honest, and energetic Democratic opposition to the horrible absurdity unfolding in plain sight.
Steve, the Coast Guard has a total of 4 ice breakers. The Polar Sea and the Healy are operational and performing missions. The Healy suffered a fire and is undergoing repairs. The Polar Sea is hangin in there, nearly 50 years old now. Her sister ship, the Polar Star will likely face decommissioning in the near future and is not in an operational status. The CG has purchased a commercial ice breaker that was used by the oil industry. It was built in 2012, and will go into service sometime in 2025/26. She will be stationed in Juneau, AK, and be commissioned "USCGC Storis". A brand new ice breaker is in the works as well. In a nutshell, the Coast Guard appropriation bills always fall short which complicates the ability to sustain a proper ice breaker fleet of 8 to 10 vessels. With climate change and northwest passage opening up, ice breakers are required in greater numbers if the US wants to stay relevant to arctic operations.......both the North and South poles. Please excuse my ramble.
While Rudy hawks a cup of joe, his and fellow MAGAs’ psycho-fascist cult leader and incurable malignant narcissist Donnie readies American democracy and its hapless people for a heaping bowl of oligarchic blow, a putative salve for all the grotesque pain he is about to unleash, project and transfer as psychological decompensation for the lifelong angst inflicted by absent, love-withholding parents.
Why wait? I encourage all to consider the historys of fascist dictators and their very similar methods of ungodly repression. Steve clearly has. Our fascist coup, now in place, will be harder to resist due to the great advancements of surveilance and other tech mechanisms, many in place and kept secret from the public for years now, the many years that this coup has been planned. Plentiful billionaires will massively support what ever it takes, though many individual will find it appalling, reacting to thbut cave to the like fearsvthatv There will be stasteful ang. army of watchers to support their tyrany, but still will need to sing in order to increasingly filch your money. Retributions will not be reported by the media, and they will be accordingly brutal. Here we can facilitate resistance by devising methods of communication. Study the methods of resistances that occured in the past. Google is already in the bag. They are spreading fear nonstop, Trump et al everyday, which is always the first step. Take advantage of that and let your fear inspire you, eliminate the many denials and cross fingered hope that miracles will happen. Stay quiet until you are strong.
. . . Above, " . . . though many individual will find it appalling, but react in fear like so many elected politicians, Right and Left, have consistently done. They must be suppored to lose their fear."
Thank you, Gerald. By all means this is a fascist coup. We must prepare and resist.
I can already envision the imminent departure of the first volunteer force of anti-Trump, anti-oligarch Americans to help defend Greenland.
Powerful, Steve! RIGHT ON! Thank you,
p.s. I walk around feeling gut-punched by the deceit of the Biden campaign. Deep regret.
Lisa, I am convinced that if Joe Biden had kept his promise of being a one-term president and if he had stated the day after the disastrous debate in Atlanta when his wife had to take him by the hand because he did not know where to get off the stage, Harris could have eaked out a victory but it took Joe a month to believe his poll numbers where he was losing by 10 points to Trump? Harris made only two mistakes in my opinion; stating she could not think of anything she would do differently than Biden and not responding to the transgender commercials running nonstop in my battleground Arizona and other battleground states. 240,000 additional Democratic votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania and we would have had President Harris, but now the nightmare begins!!!
I 100% Agree. This is the biggest screw up I've seen in my life.
Sir-
why do you not talk about the system we have that produces thousands of billionaires side by side with poor people who have to struggle to make ends meet every week?
You NEVER talk about it!
All you say is "We are the best country in the world"---OR--- "After this fascist leader crumbles, we will come out of it better than ever".
It is avoiding the problem, sir.
Please discuss what is wrong with our system of capitalism.
Are you so comfortable that you cannot see or feel others' pain?
Thanks Steve.
I like the humor today. Seasons Greetings and let the unveiling begin.