Steve, you spoke truth—but the hour demands even more.
This is not just corruption. It is the total inversion of moral order. The liars wear the robes of law. The thieves hold the keys to the treasury. The cowards sit in high office and call themselves leaders while children are dragged screaming from their mothers and a gilded tyrant accepts a foreign-bribed jet to the applause of his sycophants. And what do we do? We scroll. We shrug. We wait for someone else to fight.
But history does not wait. It judges. It watches in silence as good people excuse themselves with busyness, with politeness, with fear. This is the time to speak with the full weight of conscience. To reject appeasement, false balance, and every feeble rationalization that lets evil grow. The dream of America is not dead—but it is suffocating. And if we mean to save it, we must do more than whisper warnings. We must roar.
Getting EVERYONE who cares contacting their representatives and then onto the streets on June 14, the next national day of protest, is IMPERATIVE. And that must only be the beginning. It will take all of us...and the lame ass Dems in congress should join us, or step aside...but this challenge can and will be met. 50 million Americans can make a MAGA eviscerating statement.
The country has completely collapsed. The worst has happened. We didn’t remember the past so we let them repeat it. As long as we live in this lawless environment, we are ALL LAWLESS!!!!
To anyone who still supports Trump and his regime - your government is for sale to the highest bidder, which means that you and everything that you hold dear are for sale. And be sure that every single politician, from local council member to U.S. senator, who supports the Trump agenda is benefitting in one way or another from this unprecedented corruption.
I'll repeat a comment I posted on Tara Palmieri's Red Letter page yesterday. A pre-qualifier for any future Democratic nominee (if we get that far) is a pledge to aggressively prosecute the crimes against the Constitution and the people of the United States by this administration. No Jerry Ford pardons, and no Merrick Garland slow-walk investigations. That's what got us here, and IF we get past this monstrous mistake, we need to make certain it doesn't happen again.
Trump should have never been allowed to run in the first place! He’s always been a thug, white trash scumbag no surprise here! Republicans are at fault for this facism especially Mitch McConnell and all the sycophants.
The people that voted for him were ignorant and apparently still are!
I am getting tired of saying the same thing. The Biden administration accomplishments are a matter of record. Democrats did not allow their party to be infiltrated and ultimately taken over by Christian Nationalists, racists, bigots, grifters, liars, Russophiles, and autocrats. The GOP did that and they nominated Trump TWICE.
Politicians are inevitably ambitious people but among most Democrats that ambition is tempered by concern for the general population. This has never been true of the GOP. I believe Biden's inner circle certainly was, in part, motivated by the belief that Biden was the best candidate to run against Trump 1n 2020.
The cold eye toward Biden is necessary so some better order has chance to emerge after the current regime criminals are brought to justice. A return to Democratic ‘normal’ isn’t good enough.
"A return to Democratic ‘normal’ isn’t good enough."
Exactly. We need to start by offloading Chuck Schumer. Clear out that whole rat's nest of the old school Dems who are more interested in their own little fiefdoms than they are about serving the American people.
Mike, have you noticed, or maybe it's just on my news feeds, but there seems to be a recent plethora of videos of Schumer from the past when he would stand up in front of the Senate to stand up for the little guy. Or speaking at some obscure hearing, putting it to a witness before the committee. I think Schumer and his inner circle know his days are numbered, so he's doing a little personnel PR/media blitz to keep himself in power.
That would be the Republicans who were supposed to be concerned about the people not the scumbag King. What hypocrites! Give him that plane! Can you imagine what they would be doing if Biden or Obama had done any of this insanity???! 🤪
Anthony, it doesn't matter what his inner circle's motivation was; it was the majority of all the Reps and Dems who didn't want a rematch of Trump and Biden. Dems, inner circle or general voting public, do not get a pass on their decision to let Biden run the second time. Once was fine, twice not so much. The upper reaches of the democratic party apparatus ignored the majority of what the voting Dems wanted, which was a primary without Biden, not once but twice. There could have been another chance for a primary after Biden dropped out, but that was shut down by Clayburn and his pushing of Harris into the front of the pack.
You make a very good point; I don't disagree. In fact, I did not want Harris nominated without real primaries and an open convention. But, she was a solid candidate and I voted enthusiastically for her. Republicans put Trump in power a second time.
As M.L. Mencken said a hundred or so years ago .... "On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." Those people you refer to in your post have sent a moron to the White House, not once, but twice. That is tough to reconcile!
Betty, 8 million democrats did not participate on election day. These Dems came out in the primaries but did not participate in the final vote for president. That 8 million, IF they had come out, could have voted in Harris. Don't give the voting Dems a pass. Bided/Harris should not have been allowed to run. The majority of all Dems and Reps didn't want Trump OR Biden to have a rematch.
I loathe law enforcement these days and ask myself what kind of person chooses to join a law enforcement agency? Young toxic males who enjoy breaking people with impunity. During the decade of the 50s LAPD cops walked beats and wore uniforms and today, police are militarized and look like soldiers occupying neighborhoods. As for the face covers, they look like jihadists. It's all about manufacturing fear and federal law enforcement boys are the worst. And yes, they scare the shit out of me watching people snatched off the streets in broad daylight and there is no fighting back.
David, I like the cops. Most are good and fair. Don't get jaded by what the media wants you to see. There are bad ones no doubt, but get to know some, and you might get a different perspective. I for one, prefer having cops around as there are a lot of folks these days who want "liberty" without responsibility at the expense of their neighbor's life, liberty and happiness. Just sayin'.
I hear you. Growing up in Los Angeles I began to question the police during the Watts riots and traced the long arc of police behavior, eg Rodney King and corruption. I didn't suggest that all police are bad. We need police, I get it but I'm wary of the manner of today's policing. I'm not jaded, I'm informed. That they have been militarized that should scare anyone.
“What we are witnessing is not taking place in secret or behind closed doors, but in the open. The corruption is happening at a proverbial high noon in the middle of the square under a blazing sun and a million cameras.”
Agreed Steve, Trump’s superpower is his ability to commit his crimes in plain sight, so his flock and cheap snake oil enablers can easily downplay the grift, and justify his actions for even the most specious of arguments.
And this plane just speaks of the scale of this grift. Seriously, should we really be shocked? He’s run a failing media company (TMTG), that’s being propped up by the biggest billionaires and asset management funds in the country. He started a cyber grift that’s raked in billions in the last 100 days.
And now he’s accepting a $400 million plane from a country that harbors terrorists, while he and his minions continue to talk smack about Hunter’s laptop, and supposedly $6 million he took from China.
Talk about your Maria Antonette “let them eat cake” moment? Trump’s biggest supporters are farmers, who voted 7-10 for Trump. While Trump takes this new Boeing 747, his flock is going bankrupt, while China continues to buy crops, and soy from countries like Brazil. News flash, these trade deals aren’t coming back.
Bottom line, no one trusts us, they are humoring Trump while they make back room deals to decouple themselves as much as possible before our economy collapses.
That said, one thing is for certain, foreign investors and governments will not be supporting our debt into the future. Our Treasury market will never recover, and expect higher interest rates and hundreds of billions more to service our debt into the future. This will reduce our overall purchasing power and ability to fund infrastructure projects into the future, and deal with the effects of global warming (record costs for natural disasters). IMHO…:)
This is probably the most out there in your face grift he ever pulled off with a $400 million plane from a country of terrorists. Qatar and the Saudis. He is in the Arabs pocket now. They totally own him and our country. Forget Russia and China. Right now they are adding the gold touches to the plane like solid gold seatbelts... along with spying and listening and tracking devices, and booby traps in case he should he displease.them. There is no end to my disgust with him.
“'The first time, I had two things to do ‒ run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys,'” Trump said in the interview, published April 28. “'And the second time, I run the country and the world.'” This is what Trump said to Atlantic Magazine recently.
He is the ultimate megalomaniac and though the statement is untrue (I doubt Trump can run to the toilet fast enough to prevent messing himself), he thinks it is. Since he rules the world as the "annointed one," he can do no wrong and is entitled to whatever he wants.
The mess in his pants is not our concern, the mess he is making of the world is a concern to everyone. Actions must be taken to stop him. They must be spearheaded by the activist wing of the Democratic party, people like Raskin, AOC, Sanders, Warren, Murphy, Jayapal, Swalwell. Omar, Crockett et. al.
Remarkable and frightening that Trump continues to horrify and shock with his blatant corruption and lies, ten years after coming down his golden escalator. Either he’ll win or American Democracy will win. For now, I’m not optimistic that we can defeat Trump before incalculable damage is done…
Nothing will change until mainstream media is shut down completely except for weather and traffic reports. Nothing but lies and delusions infect every message Americans hear, from advertising to cable to the major networks. None of them consider what is best for our country.
I am afraid corporate media is not concerned with what’s best for society. They continue to behave as though this administration has any credibility left.
The answer is not to “shut down media completely.” Who would even do that? We still need media to report what is happening. So far, many are still doing that. And we need cameras to watch him in real time. Yes- they need to do better. But a democracy needs the media.
My wife was notified that she would need to transfer her data from the ssa.gov site to the new “more efficient” login.gov site Why would the government needs to do this?
Two reasons come to mind First as I saw in helping my wife that the transition from the old and new site was clearly not easy for the average American citizen who is not comfortable with computers There were at least 3 times where data got entered that appeared in credential boxes which had not been manually entered by the user As we went through the data fields in doing the transition twice the suffix box was automatically populated with incorrect information Unless a user recognized this erroneous;y populated field they would be continually stymied And now that SSA staff has been largely removed this will make a transition for many Americans extremely difficult if not impossible for some
The second reason is much more nefarious and addresses the question, why would the government need to do this transition? It seems that this is partly a way the Nazis can get hold of private American information, emails, addresses, phone numbers so they can have a database of Americans outside government to potentially use it in election interference
Steve, you spoke truth—but the hour demands even more.
This is not just corruption. It is the total inversion of moral order. The liars wear the robes of law. The thieves hold the keys to the treasury. The cowards sit in high office and call themselves leaders while children are dragged screaming from their mothers and a gilded tyrant accepts a foreign-bribed jet to the applause of his sycophants. And what do we do? We scroll. We shrug. We wait for someone else to fight.
But history does not wait. It judges. It watches in silence as good people excuse themselves with busyness, with politeness, with fear. This is the time to speak with the full weight of conscience. To reject appeasement, false balance, and every feeble rationalization that lets evil grow. The dream of America is not dead—but it is suffocating. And if we mean to save it, we must do more than whisper warnings. We must roar.
Getting EVERYONE who cares contacting their representatives and then onto the streets on June 14, the next national day of protest, is IMPERATIVE. And that must only be the beginning. It will take all of us...and the lame ass Dems in congress should join us, or step aside...but this challenge can and will be met. 50 million Americans can make a MAGA eviscerating statement.
The testosterone is running to freely, and the tough guys are strutting around. They need to shut it down, especially in folks like Christi Noam.
The country has completely collapsed. The worst has happened. We didn’t remember the past so we let them repeat it. As long as we live in this lawless environment, we are ALL LAWLESS!!!!
I think prolem #1 is what steve pointed out about Schumer and DC Dems. Somone needs to kick them in the butt into the appropriate actions.
Too late
To anyone who still supports Trump and his regime - your government is for sale to the highest bidder, which means that you and everything that you hold dear are for sale. And be sure that every single politician, from local council member to U.S. senator, who supports the Trump agenda is benefitting in one way or another from this unprecedented corruption.
I'll repeat a comment I posted on Tara Palmieri's Red Letter page yesterday. A pre-qualifier for any future Democratic nominee (if we get that far) is a pledge to aggressively prosecute the crimes against the Constitution and the people of the United States by this administration. No Jerry Ford pardons, and no Merrick Garland slow-walk investigations. That's what got us here, and IF we get past this monstrous mistake, we need to make certain it doesn't happen again.
I totally agree.
This is on his enablers, the republicans. They could do something to shut this down but sit on their hands and do nothing.
June 14 No Kings Day
Out in the streets.
We need to encourage everyone who was out on April 5 to pledge to get at least one new protester out on June 14. Our strength comes from our numbers.
'Repubs' are part of the team...why would they shut it down???
Go Reds!
Why bring Biden into this conversation?
Trump should have never been allowed to run in the first place! He’s always been a thug, white trash scumbag no surprise here! Republicans are at fault for this facism especially Mitch McConnell and all the sycophants.
The people that voted for him were ignorant and apparently still are!
I am getting tired of saying the same thing. The Biden administration accomplishments are a matter of record. Democrats did not allow their party to be infiltrated and ultimately taken over by Christian Nationalists, racists, bigots, grifters, liars, Russophiles, and autocrats. The GOP did that and they nominated Trump TWICE.
Politicians are inevitably ambitious people but among most Democrats that ambition is tempered by concern for the general population. This has never been true of the GOP. I believe Biden's inner circle certainly was, in part, motivated by the belief that Biden was the best candidate to run against Trump 1n 2020.
The cold eye toward Biden is necessary so some better order has chance to emerge after the current regime criminals are brought to justice. A return to Democratic ‘normal’ isn’t good enough.
I do not agree. I’d vote for a turd before I ever vote for a Republican and that would be NEVER!!!
"A return to Democratic ‘normal’ isn’t good enough."
Exactly. We need to start by offloading Chuck Schumer. Clear out that whole rat's nest of the old school Dems who are more interested in their own little fiefdoms than they are about serving the American people.
Mike, have you noticed, or maybe it's just on my news feeds, but there seems to be a recent plethora of videos of Schumer from the past when he would stand up in front of the Senate to stand up for the little guy. Or speaking at some obscure hearing, putting it to a witness before the committee. I think Schumer and his inner circle know his days are numbered, so he's doing a little personnel PR/media blitz to keep himself in power.
"I think Schumer and his inner circle know his days are numbered, so he's doing a little personnel PR/media blitz to keep himself in power."
That serves no one but himself. I hope the folks in New York see through that b.s.
That would be the Republicans who were supposed to be concerned about the people not the scumbag King. What hypocrites! Give him that plane! Can you imagine what they would be doing if Biden or Obama had done any of this insanity???! 🤪
Hear, hear
Anthony, it doesn't matter what his inner circle's motivation was; it was the majority of all the Reps and Dems who didn't want a rematch of Trump and Biden. Dems, inner circle or general voting public, do not get a pass on their decision to let Biden run the second time. Once was fine, twice not so much. The upper reaches of the democratic party apparatus ignored the majority of what the voting Dems wanted, which was a primary without Biden, not once but twice. There could have been another chance for a primary after Biden dropped out, but that was shut down by Clayburn and his pushing of Harris into the front of the pack.
You make a very good point; I don't disagree. In fact, I did not want Harris nominated without real primaries and an open convention. But, she was a solid candidate and I voted enthusiastically for her. Republicans put Trump in power a second time.
8 mill Dems not coming out to vote for Harris put Trump in power a second time.
As M.L. Mencken said a hundred or so years ago .... "On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." Those people you refer to in your post have sent a moron to the White House, not once, but twice. That is tough to reconcile!
Betty, 8 million democrats did not participate on election day. These Dems came out in the primaries but did not participate in the final vote for president. That 8 million, IF they had come out, could have voted in Harris. Don't give the voting Dems a pass. Bided/Harris should not have been allowed to run. The majority of all Dems and Reps didn't want Trump OR Biden to have a rematch.
I loathe law enforcement these days and ask myself what kind of person chooses to join a law enforcement agency? Young toxic males who enjoy breaking people with impunity. During the decade of the 50s LAPD cops walked beats and wore uniforms and today, police are militarized and look like soldiers occupying neighborhoods. As for the face covers, they look like jihadists. It's all about manufacturing fear and federal law enforcement boys are the worst. And yes, they scare the shit out of me watching people snatched off the streets in broad daylight and there is no fighting back.
David, I like the cops. Most are good and fair. Don't get jaded by what the media wants you to see. There are bad ones no doubt, but get to know some, and you might get a different perspective. I for one, prefer having cops around as there are a lot of folks these days who want "liberty" without responsibility at the expense of their neighbor's life, liberty and happiness. Just sayin'.
I hear you. Growing up in Los Angeles I began to question the police during the Watts riots and traced the long arc of police behavior, eg Rodney King and corruption. I didn't suggest that all police are bad. We need police, I get it but I'm wary of the manner of today's policing. I'm not jaded, I'm informed. That they have been militarized that should scare anyone.
Every time I see a picture of that abomination once known as the Oval Office, I get the dry heaves. See you later.
It’s so tasteless, when he’s gone we will need to melt it all and repurpose it to help feed the hungry.
“What we are witnessing is not taking place in secret or behind closed doors, but in the open. The corruption is happening at a proverbial high noon in the middle of the square under a blazing sun and a million cameras.”
Agreed Steve, Trump’s superpower is his ability to commit his crimes in plain sight, so his flock and cheap snake oil enablers can easily downplay the grift, and justify his actions for even the most specious of arguments.
And this plane just speaks of the scale of this grift. Seriously, should we really be shocked? He’s run a failing media company (TMTG), that’s being propped up by the biggest billionaires and asset management funds in the country. He started a cyber grift that’s raked in billions in the last 100 days.
And now he’s accepting a $400 million plane from a country that harbors terrorists, while he and his minions continue to talk smack about Hunter’s laptop, and supposedly $6 million he took from China.
Talk about your Maria Antonette “let them eat cake” moment? Trump’s biggest supporters are farmers, who voted 7-10 for Trump. While Trump takes this new Boeing 747, his flock is going bankrupt, while China continues to buy crops, and soy from countries like Brazil. News flash, these trade deals aren’t coming back.
Bottom line, no one trusts us, they are humoring Trump while they make back room deals to decouple themselves as much as possible before our economy collapses.
That said, one thing is for certain, foreign investors and governments will not be supporting our debt into the future. Our Treasury market will never recover, and expect higher interest rates and hundreds of billions more to service our debt into the future. This will reduce our overall purchasing power and ability to fund infrastructure projects into the future, and deal with the effects of global warming (record costs for natural disasters). IMHO…:)
Agreed Steve, Trump’s superpower is his ability to commit his crimes in plain sight..."
Apparently, he has another superpower. He seems to claim that he played a role in the choice of Pope Leo!
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This is probably the most out there in your face grift he ever pulled off with a $400 million plane from a country of terrorists. Qatar and the Saudis. He is in the Arabs pocket now. They totally own him and our country. Forget Russia and China. Right now they are adding the gold touches to the plane like solid gold seatbelts... along with spying and listening and tracking devices, and booby traps in case he should he displease.them. There is no end to my disgust with him.
Mine either which is why I think he should not be breathing!
Maybe Qatar will succeed where everything else has failed. Don't fuck with Arabs! 🛬
I didn't watch years of the TV show."Homeland" for nothing!.
I hope so!!!
“'The first time, I had two things to do ‒ run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys,'” Trump said in the interview, published April 28. “'And the second time, I run the country and the world.'” This is what Trump said to Atlantic Magazine recently.
He is the ultimate megalomaniac and though the statement is untrue (I doubt Trump can run to the toilet fast enough to prevent messing himself), he thinks it is. Since he rules the world as the "annointed one," he can do no wrong and is entitled to whatever he wants.
The mess in his pants is not our concern, the mess he is making of the world is a concern to everyone. Actions must be taken to stop him. They must be spearheaded by the activist wing of the Democratic party, people like Raskin, AOC, Sanders, Warren, Murphy, Jayapal, Swalwell. Omar, Crockett et. al.
Remarkable and frightening that Trump continues to horrify and shock with his blatant corruption and lies, ten years after coming down his golden escalator. Either he’ll win or American Democracy will win. For now, I’m not optimistic that we can defeat Trump before incalculable damage is done…
Nothing will change until mainstream media is shut down completely except for weather and traffic reports. Nothing but lies and delusions infect every message Americans hear, from advertising to cable to the major networks. None of them consider what is best for our country.
You sound like a Trump Republican. Thats what he wants.
I am afraid corporate media is not concerned with what’s best for society. They continue to behave as though this administration has any credibility left.
The answer is not to “shut down media completely.” Who would even do that? We still need media to report what is happening. So far, many are still doing that. And we need cameras to watch him in real time. Yes- they need to do better. But a democracy needs the media.
Utube, Substack, til tok its being done better all over the internet.
Nothing could be further from the truth—
Plumbing new depths in the abyss of corruption. (It’s a 747-8, not B.)
Social Security and Efficiency
My wife was notified that she would need to transfer her data from the ssa.gov site to the new “more efficient” login.gov site Why would the government needs to do this?
Two reasons come to mind First as I saw in helping my wife that the transition from the old and new site was clearly not easy for the average American citizen who is not comfortable with computers There were at least 3 times where data got entered that appeared in credential boxes which had not been manually entered by the user As we went through the data fields in doing the transition twice the suffix box was automatically populated with incorrect information Unless a user recognized this erroneous;y populated field they would be continually stymied And now that SSA staff has been largely removed this will make a transition for many Americans extremely difficult if not impossible for some
The second reason is much more nefarious and addresses the question, why would the government need to do this transition? It seems that this is partly a way the Nazis can get hold of private American information, emails, addresses, phone numbers so they can have a database of Americans outside government to potentially use it in election interference
Out with every single republican in office. There should be a completely new party as this GOP is completely fascist.
Well, why should Alito & Thomas get all the "nice things?" Who voted for them anyway? (SARCASM)