Trump and Vance are doing to the Haitians what Hitler did to the Jews: creating hate and, eventually, a reason to eliminate them from society. The difference here is that Vance has admitted to creating the story, yet millions believe his lies. Every elected official who chooses to remain silent is enabling this vile racist behavior. Maybe that's what the 'R' in their party designation signifies.
As Hannah Arendt explained, Hitler’s evil thrived not just on hatred but on the mass, collective banality of evil manifested in the Good Germans’ indifference to human depravity and genocide. The ‘Good MAGA Americans’ are ignorant of and indifferent to history’s greatest crimes.
We may not last as long as the Roman Republic. What caused that downfall? Economic problems, government corruption, private armies, and the rise of Julius Caesar as dictator.
Trump is a 78 year old, selfish, opportunistic, dimwitted, criminal clown who also has a sort of charm that helps him to win over certain people. Vance is an intelligent, cold-hearted, ruthless and driven 39 year old man who knows how to manipulate people to get what he wants and who cares nothing about the damage he leaves in his wake. As horrid of a creature as Trump is, Vance is ten times worse. He is also far more dangerous.
He should have lost to Tim Ryan. The people there who elected Vance are as brainless as the people in North Carolina who elected Mark Robinson. Truth be told.
You’re totally correct. And the people of AZ are the same. They elected Eli Crane and Paul Gosar. And are a hair’s breadth away from electing Kari Lake. It’s sickening all day long.
The fetid odor of Hitler’s Nazism hangs in the American air. It must be destroyed now before it enters Americans’ lungs, depletes their oxygen of freedom and renders our democracy a corpse.
Even his siblings hate him. One of his “contributions” was an attempt to prevent students from NAU from voting. I’ve actually met this guy. He is so obvi proud of how much he looks and acts like a Nazi.
How do people like that win elections? Well, I should be asking that question here, I suppose. Mark Robinson won by 300,000 votes. It was not even close.
It is saddening to me that my uncle of the US 3rd Army, who fought a terrible and deadly slog in Europe that included the liberation of Buchenwald, would find Nazi’s in the United States government.
What in the name of everything decent is wrong with the people who support(ed) JD Vance? Are human beings the most degenerate and evil species ever to have evolved on this earth? And the gullible who think we are created in the image of an all good and loving God are the ones most filled with hatred and contempt for their fellow humans.
Right on! Can you imagine anyone who is human listening to Vance and Trump spew nothing but hate and think: Wow, how inspirational!! those are my guys!????
We have some screwed up people in this nation. They should transport to Germany prior to WW11 to get a taste
of fascism, because they would know that is what is happening now.
The reality is that the republicans threw a ton of money to the tune of about $30 million at Vance's campaign and democrats ignored Ryan. They had a chance to flip the senate with Ryan and they skipped it.
I’m not in agreement about the money thing. If MAGA comes to North Carolina and all it takes is $30 million or more to give to Mark Robinson in order to win, then we are more of a goner as a country than I thought.
Steve, I just saw a segment by Alex Wagner, MSNBC. She interviewed a woman who is not willing to let her black son to go to high school because it is too unsafe. She feels the same about her younger child. She said KKK and Proud Boys aren’t even wearing their masks and they are emboldened. She says it is terrifying and like the 60’s. Are we going to allow the black and brown people of Springfield to be the scapegoats for what tfg and jd are trying to gin up? What can we do? Our elected congressional members better start talking up.
I am repeating a post from the Warning segment just before this one, "The Scripps News poll that should terrify us all." Thank you Steve, for pulling no punches in condemning Trump, Vance, and Maga:
Maga definitely wants to create an America in the image of the Third Reich, racism, xenophobia, concentration camps and dictatorship, the whole Kit and Kaboodle. My warning is to Americans who are willfully ignorant or refuse to accept the reality of Trump/Maga's plans. I am asking the unconcerned, the undecided, and the uninformed to wake up and see the horror that will befall them should a Trump administration win and begin to implement Project 2025 and even more heinous actions, from concentration camps and deportation for political enemies and undesirables, to an oligarchy making sure the likes of Elon Musk are the beneficiaries of government by and for the wealthiest, to a partnership with brutish dictators like Putin.
If you don't really understand how His Heinous -- doubling down all the increasing Heinousness -- still has so much support, remember that Donald Trump's party is the "alchemist of hate."
Our reptile brains are reactive and scared about existential crisis. We are terrified of death, as all beings are. But the death denial is killing us even more than death itself.
The news media "bleed and lead" keeps us stuck in this. it's sucking our reptile/amygdala brains, which hold more cranial desire for survival than our executive functions.
This is the key to Republican power, folks. This Dis-Ease leads us to drugs, guns, insanity. It's a 4/1 battle, folks, 4 being the insane survivalist nationalist shit vs. the alternative.
So in the end, it turns out that Republican/authoritarian views are lobotomizing all of us. This dinosaur brain -- a Tyrannosaurus -- fears death, and it works to curl unthinking brains into themselves. Violence works on more peaceful brains, especially if they have not been exposed to a wider universe.
And it is no wonder that Republicans -- like all authoritarians -- are very interested not only in fomenting fear, but also want to shut down critical thinking, beginning with shutting down public education.
Hi Bronwyn, I'm so glad you're talking about how our brains work in an understandable way- advocating for education and critical thinking skills; Democracy depends on it.
Have you seen "The Social Dilemma" on Netflix? It is about social-media algorithms. This documentary is a way for people to understand what you're talking about and our politics.
I have forwarded this to many like minded and not so “with it” people. Here it goes… hope it changes minds, but racism sticks hard to those who let it.
We live in a red area of a blue state. The Eastern Shore of Maryland. I can forgive, perhaps a bit, the local MAGA affection
for this bombastic duo: it’s like a pick up with
a V8 engine: of course it’s perfect in every way, why argue? It is the mega rich who live here
and support Trump that have my ire. Of course,,
it is like admitting one has a STD, so they are not
outspoken about their support but it comes out
in conversations during dinners, etc. i think because they do not have to be apart of a community of citizens, they do not believe they need to deal with real life issues. The government, to them, is a complete intrusion
of their perfect financial lives so why should they care about “others”, who they never have to deal with? That, for me is the problem: these
people are not citizens at all. They think are the
Donald Trump is the personification of human evil sustained by the severe mental illness of human psychopathy. President Biden should immediately invoke emergency powers -- under the rubric and sanction of the immunizing dispensation for ‘official acts’ recently conferred by the Supreme Court -- to thwart his imminent danger to the survival of the republic, allowing the Department of Justice to charge him with, inter alia, the suborning of wanton stochastic terrorist violence in the name of a race war against Vice-President Harris, her running mate Governor Tim Walz, government officials and the American people writ large. The time for such action is long overdue.
It would be great if the town would sue Vance and Trump for damages: costs of pay days for workers who had to evacuate, and the cost shut down and reopen facilities due to bomb threats, not to even mention the traumatic stress to the people brought on by the lies and threats.
Trump is a fool, a racist, and America’s greatest shame. He and his angry, deluded followers won’t go gently into the night, but they’ll be defeated. We the defenders of democracy and decency— and there are many millions of us of all stripes—will make sure of that. Don’t be scared and never back down.
In all of my years, I have never seen an elected politician attack women so vehemently and so often. It is like we are heading to an era where Racism and Misogyny rule. I did not see this coming, but it has arrived.
Great post! I heard tonight that 2 supermarkets in Springfield were closed because of bomb scares. I also heard and saw pictures of the proud boys and KKK and SF one blood group marching through town. I believe this is the beginning of the civil war and things will get worse as we get closer to the election. I also fear the manipulation of election officials in GA who are threatening not to certify. It is a shame that that sick orange asshole and his side kick can only win by lying and stoking violence and trying to manipulate the system. We will likely have a government shut down because the orange asshole wants to hold the US hostage. I hate to say this but I think it will get worse. I watched the Netflix series Hitler: Evil on Trial and it is a mirror of what’s happening. Thank god Taylor Swift and Billie Elish with their hundreds of millions supports have endorsed Kamala. They could change the election as millions of young people are registering. We are in a very dark time.
I am not worried about legitimately winning, especially with all the Genz’s and their moms from Taylor Swift and Billie Elish. I am concerned about the BS that will be stirred up by Trump snd co
I love ya Steve but you’re speaking to the choir. This is really bad and is working out better than they probably even planned. I am writing to all my legislators tonight.
What is happening is terrifying. Add to all this, the fake internet stories about Harris created by Russian bot farms -- which as Steve pointed out, people will believe. Because some people will believe anything.
Trump and Vance are doing to the Haitians what Hitler did to the Jews: creating hate and, eventually, a reason to eliminate them from society. The difference here is that Vance has admitted to creating the story, yet millions believe his lies. Every elected official who chooses to remain silent is enabling this vile racist behavior. Maybe that's what the 'R' in their party designation signifies.
As Hannah Arendt explained, Hitler’s evil thrived not just on hatred but on the mass, collective banality of evil manifested in the Good Germans’ indifference to human depravity and genocide. The ‘Good MAGA Americans’ are ignorant of and indifferent to history’s greatest crimes.
Just imagine what could have been if the immigration bill had passed. This situation is exactly what Trump wants
We may not last as long as the Roman Republic. What caused that downfall? Economic problems, government corruption, private armies, and the rise of Julius Caesar as dictator.
Well.
What once seemed inconceivable (American downfall), is now hiding in the bushes waiting for its moment.
And like the wolves in sheep's clothing, the downfall is cloaked in the guise of "making us great"
Et tu Brut-ay JD Vance as Brutus who sticks it to Wanna be Caesar in his back makes so much sense
“Snap the f@$k out of it!“
Great closing, Steve!
Trump is a 78 year old, selfish, opportunistic, dimwitted, criminal clown who also has a sort of charm that helps him to win over certain people. Vance is an intelligent, cold-hearted, ruthless and driven 39 year old man who knows how to manipulate people to get what he wants and who cares nothing about the damage he leaves in his wake. As horrid of a creature as Trump is, Vance is ten times worse. He is also far more dangerous.
We should remind ourselves that Ohio had a choice between J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan. They chose J.D. Vance.
He only won by 6 points. I wonder if enough Ohioans are feeling buyer's remorse to throw this clown out in 2028.
He should have lost to Tim Ryan. The people there who elected Vance are as brainless as the people in North Carolina who elected Mark Robinson. Truth be told.
You’re totally correct. And the people of AZ are the same. They elected Eli Crane and Paul Gosar. And are a hair’s breadth away from electing Kari Lake. It’s sickening all day long.
We Arizonans will NOT elect Fake Kari Lake as our next Senator!
Gosh, I had forgotten about that Nazi Gosar. Maybe it was good I had forgotten about him, if only for a little while.
I believe Paul Gosar has five or six siblings, all of whom condemn his politics and say he is mentally ill.
The fetid odor of Hitler’s Nazism hangs in the American air. It must be destroyed now before it enters Americans’ lungs, depletes their oxygen of freedom and renders our democracy a corpse.
Even his siblings hate him. One of his “contributions” was an attempt to prevent students from NAU from voting. I’ve actually met this guy. He is so obvi proud of how much he looks and acts like a Nazi.
How do people like that win elections? Well, I should be asking that question here, I suppose. Mark Robinson won by 300,000 votes. It was not even close.
It is saddening to me that my uncle of the US 3rd Army, who fought a terrible and deadly slog in Europe that included the liberation of Buchenwald, would find Nazi’s in the United States government.
C'mon, Springfield, whaddya say now?
What in the name of everything decent is wrong with the people who support(ed) JD Vance? Are human beings the most degenerate and evil species ever to have evolved on this earth? And the gullible who think we are created in the image of an all good and loving God are the ones most filled with hatred and contempt for their fellow humans.
Right on! Can you imagine anyone who is human listening to Vance and Trump spew nothing but hate and think: Wow, how inspirational!! those are my guys!????
We have some screwed up people in this nation. They should transport to Germany prior to WW11 to get a taste
of fascism, because they would know that is what is happening now.
The reality is that the republicans threw a ton of money to the tune of about $30 million at Vance's campaign and democrats ignored Ryan. They had a chance to flip the senate with Ryan and they skipped it.
I’m not in agreement about the money thing. If MAGA comes to North Carolina and all it takes is $30 million or more to give to Mark Robinson in order to win, then we are more of a goner as a country than I thought.
I should have said dems could have easily picked up another seat in the senate. They obviously did get a majority.
How did Springfield vote?
Springfield is located in Clark County, which went heavily in favor of Vance — 62 to 38.
Little did they know what was coming down the pike. Hope they are having buyers remorse
Steve, I just saw a segment by Alex Wagner, MSNBC. She interviewed a woman who is not willing to let her black son to go to high school because it is too unsafe. She feels the same about her younger child. She said KKK and Proud Boys aren’t even wearing their masks and they are emboldened. She says it is terrifying and like the 60’s. Are we going to allow the black and brown people of Springfield to be the scapegoats for what tfg and jd are trying to gin up? What can we do? Our elected congressional members better start talking up.
I am repeating a post from the Warning segment just before this one, "The Scripps News poll that should terrify us all." Thank you Steve, for pulling no punches in condemning Trump, Vance, and Maga:
Maga definitely wants to create an America in the image of the Third Reich, racism, xenophobia, concentration camps and dictatorship, the whole Kit and Kaboodle. My warning is to Americans who are willfully ignorant or refuse to accept the reality of Trump/Maga's plans. I am asking the unconcerned, the undecided, and the uninformed to wake up and see the horror that will befall them should a Trump administration win and begin to implement Project 2025 and even more heinous actions, from concentration camps and deportation for political enemies and undesirables, to an oligarchy making sure the likes of Elon Musk are the beneficiaries of government by and for the wealthiest, to a partnership with brutish dictators like Putin.
Steve and all here: please look at this from one of the greatest social scientists alive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AkpU97Mdms
If you don't really understand how His Heinous -- doubling down all the increasing Heinousness -- still has so much support, remember that Donald Trump's party is the "alchemist of hate."
Our reptile brains are reactive and scared about existential crisis. We are terrified of death, as all beings are. But the death denial is killing us even more than death itself.
The news media "bleed and lead" keeps us stuck in this. it's sucking our reptile/amygdala brains, which hold more cranial desire for survival than our executive functions.
This is the key to Republican power, folks. This Dis-Ease leads us to drugs, guns, insanity. It's a 4/1 battle, folks, 4 being the insane survivalist nationalist shit vs. the alternative.
So in the end, it turns out that Republican/authoritarian views are lobotomizing all of us. This dinosaur brain -- a Tyrannosaurus -- fears death, and it works to curl unthinking brains into themselves. Violence works on more peaceful brains, especially if they have not been exposed to a wider universe.
And it is no wonder that Republicans -- like all authoritarians -- are very interested not only in fomenting fear, but also want to shut down critical thinking, beginning with shutting down public education.
Hi Bronwyn, I'm so glad you're talking about how our brains work in an understandable way- advocating for education and critical thinking skills; Democracy depends on it.
Have you seen "The Social Dilemma" on Netflix? It is about social-media algorithms. This documentary is a way for people to understand what you're talking about and our politics.
Steve, we could listen to you all day. Thank you.
I have forwarded this to many like minded and not so “with it” people. Here it goes… hope it changes minds, but racism sticks hard to those who let it.
We live in a red area of a blue state. The Eastern Shore of Maryland. I can forgive, perhaps a bit, the local MAGA affection
for this bombastic duo: it’s like a pick up with
a V8 engine: of course it’s perfect in every way, why argue? It is the mega rich who live here
and support Trump that have my ire. Of course,,
it is like admitting one has a STD, so they are not
outspoken about their support but it comes out
in conversations during dinners, etc. i think because they do not have to be apart of a community of citizens, they do not believe they need to deal with real life issues. The government, to them, is a complete intrusion
of their perfect financial lives so why should they care about “others”, who they never have to deal with? That, for me is the problem: these
people are not citizens at all. They think are the
winners in a sick game of who owns the most.
Keep it up! My family adores your posts!!
Donald Trump is the personification of human evil sustained by the severe mental illness of human psychopathy. President Biden should immediately invoke emergency powers -- under the rubric and sanction of the immunizing dispensation for ‘official acts’ recently conferred by the Supreme Court -- to thwart his imminent danger to the survival of the republic, allowing the Department of Justice to charge him with, inter alia, the suborning of wanton stochastic terrorist violence in the name of a race war against Vice-President Harris, her running mate Governor Tim Walz, government officials and the American people writ large. The time for such action is long overdue.
It would be great if the town would sue Vance and Trump for damages: costs of pay days for workers who had to evacuate, and the cost shut down and reopen facilities due to bomb threats, not to even mention the traumatic stress to the people brought on by the lies and threats.
Trump is a fool, a racist, and America’s greatest shame. He and his angry, deluded followers won’t go gently into the night, but they’ll be defeated. We the defenders of democracy and decency— and there are many millions of us of all stripes—will make sure of that. Don’t be scared and never back down.
Another video of North Carolina’s Mark Robinson has just come out. This one is from 2022 at a church. I’m sure it won’t cost him MAGA votes.
Robinson said women don't need birth control because — as he gestured to his crotch for emphasis — they need to "get this under control" instead.
In all of my years, I have never seen an elected politician attack women so vehemently and so often. It is like we are heading to an era where Racism and Misogyny rule. I did not see this coming, but it has arrived.
He is probably used to grabbing his crotch while watching the porn he is addicted to.
Great post! I heard tonight that 2 supermarkets in Springfield were closed because of bomb scares. I also heard and saw pictures of the proud boys and KKK and SF one blood group marching through town. I believe this is the beginning of the civil war and things will get worse as we get closer to the election. I also fear the manipulation of election officials in GA who are threatening not to certify. It is a shame that that sick orange asshole and his side kick can only win by lying and stoking violence and trying to manipulate the system. We will likely have a government shut down because the orange asshole wants to hold the US hostage. I hate to say this but I think it will get worse. I watched the Netflix series Hitler: Evil on Trial and it is a mirror of what’s happening. Thank god Taylor Swift and Billie Elish with their hundreds of millions supports have endorsed Kamala. They could change the election as millions of young people are registering. We are in a very dark time.
We'll all work together and win this thing - Go Harris/Waltz!
I am not worried about legitimately winning, especially with all the Genz’s and their moms from Taylor Swift and Billie Elish. I am concerned about the BS that will be stirred up by Trump snd co
I love ya Steve but you’re speaking to the choir. This is really bad and is working out better than they probably even planned. I am writing to all my legislators tonight.
Liar gonna lie, just like he has done his entire accursed life.
What is happening is terrifying. Add to all this, the fake internet stories about Harris created by Russian bot farms -- which as Steve pointed out, people will believe. Because some people will believe anything.