Why in the hell are ANY DEMOCRATS voting for these god-awful cabinet picks?! Why aren't the Democrats throwing sand in the gears of everything that is happening. How do you get rid of Chuck Schumer?! No voice, no strategy, no outrage, just complacent, complicit idiots.
Trump was a stain on our country in 2020, yet here we are.. now with a bigger pile of shitbags creating mounds of chaos, threatening our constitution and democracy!. With the tragedy of last nights plane collision and Trump blaming Obama, Biden, DEI, and Buttigieg, Pete was the ONLY one who took a stand against Fotus saying:
“Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch,” Buttigieg said in a post on social platform X.
“President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.”
This is leadership!
What we need is more of this, not Schumer, the senator, who looks over his glasses like a professor and reads from a script.
Yes, WHERE is the national leadership? Tim Walz is the only one I've heard from and he is organizing Governors but seriously, that's it?!?!? Dems need to add a big spring to their step and stop being so flatfooted in their responses!
Where is the opposition is my question as well. If media will not show interest then maybe my fellow baby boomers and I have to get the protest signs out and start new protest songs.
Email! Email the DNC, they will soon be voting for a new chairperson! The DNC needs to hear how you feel, what you like and what you hate about the Democratic Party! If they don't hear from the voters, nothing will change!
After watching Tim Waltz, on Rachel Maddow's program, the other night, I emailed the DNC, suggesting that Waltz (not Harris) run for POTUS in 2026! He is a voice for the middle class and for middle America! I get tied of the politicians from the East and West coasts!
Email your senators and reps, no matter what party they belong to! They should be working for us, not against us! So email, write letters, sign petitions, call; just do it!
You and your readers, we are the opposition. All the people writing Substack doing podcasts writing letters to the editor. We are here. We are laser focused, and of course we need national leadership.
Why hasn't a group of progressive Congressional Democrats called a press conference and explained to the American public, as clearly as Steve Shmidt and others have, the horrible things that are happening...and that will become far worse?
I understand being scared out our wits by a Trump dictatorship but I think things will go better if we keep our wits about us. Excoriating Democrats is not helping!
If you’re not seeing the resistance, you are looking in the wrong places. Get out and find the protests and the petitions to sign and all the other forms of resistance that have made Trump back down on several of his crazy-ass executive orders.
Stop using your energy scapegoating Democrats! It won’t help and will eventually do damage.
Even the smallest opposition has been quelled. Our nation is finished, and no more opposition can begin to be born. It started in the 1600's here and was codified 1776 when our constitution said, in essence-- " all children should be taught to live as individuals, not as a collective." Here is the famous poem by Joh Donne, written in 1624, and it is a universal truth that is never taught here, It was, once, by both Jesus and Karl Marx, but their words are never followed to the end.
It is beyond description. What a horrible lie. They said the crash was caused by Democrats and DEI. He was implying that minorities are allowed to take jobs they are not adequately equipped to fulfill, airplane and helicopter pilots, for example.
Obviously, they must hold the same license and pass the same tests, checks, etc. that white male pilots must pass. Many Trump supporters believe every lie he spews from his foul mouth.
His goal is fascist to the core, stir up hate and division, present himself as the defender of the rights of superior (white male evangelical) people over the minorities poisoning the national bloodstream.
Is this ever going to end?
Some Democratic leaders(s) must call a press conference and explain the horrors he is imposing on us and the world. Invade Greenland!!! Impose heavy tariffs on Canada and Mexico!!!! Leave NATO and the UN!!! Appoint morons, drunks, and fools to head critical government agencies!!! Fire federal workers, skilled at their job and non-partisan and replace them with Trump stooges!!! Fire Inspectors General, opening the door to corruption and incompetence!!!
This isn't an isolated incident. From WAPO's 5 minutes fix today:
"Conservatives have repeatedly blamed DEI for major catastrophes. The Baltimore mayor, who is Black, faced racist attacks after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Elon Musk blamed the Los Angeles fires, one of the largest disasters in American history, on female firefighters and firefighters of color. Republicans blamed the collapse of a major bank in 2023 on diversity investment practices, explains The Washington Post’s Julian Mark, who has covered the intersection of diversity and business."
Just to be clear, although I agree they said DEI and the Democrats, DEI is more than "people of color". It's any of the "other" that trump and maga have spewed their hate toward, based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, and he specifically also mentioned, "mental disabilities" in his press conference. So, if only white alleged Christian able bodied of high intellect males were in every job in the military and the FAA and the airlines, and the insert whatever the fuck else, nothing bad would ever happen. The whole thing is disgusting.
And Trump using the military will get much worse with Hegseth at the helm at Defense…hopefully many of the folks in uniform have read some history and don’t want to repeat it….
Well, Steve, to your many talents you can add the abilities of a magician. You have written a column in these serious times that managed to lead some, too many, of your readership to come out strongly against ... Chuck Schumer! What? On the long list of those who are injuring our country - all those criminals let loose by Trump, add to them the co-conspirators in the House that actually aided and abetted the insurrectionists and have never been investigated, much less brought to justice, follow up with the oligarchs who are paying for the charade we are watching as the misfits are brought forward to be confirmed. I'll skip the of the press but mention, as those we must castigate most of all, the contemptible Republican Senators who are bereft of decency, patriotism, even common sense, because they know very well the disaster they are bringing about. So what does Steve Schmidt recommend? That Billionaires stop funding the Democratic Party. Not, which might make some sense, fund them at the same level as the band of Traitor-Oligarchs funds Trump's efforts, as they pour money into into his coffers. At least it might help make it an even fight. They could find a suitably malleable puppet from West Virginia that's willing to do anything and buy him a career in the Senate, as a Democrat.
Chuck Schumer who, for all his flaws is miles above every single Republican in the Senate in his support of our troops, and cares for the security of the country in the face of its enemies; he is for women's rights, for feeding the poor, on and on. I'm not a Democrat and don't even like him, but he is leading a group of Senators that will vote almost unanimously against the Trumpist trash who are campaigning to wreck the country once they are affirmed by the Senate. That's not a small matter. Or is it? What is our goal here? You have been asked repeatedly what the Senate can do to stop these despicable fakes from being confirmed. And your recommendation is that Billionaires should stop funding the Democratic Party. What the hell have you been drinking lately? Maybe you need a vacation.
Sadly..and quite possibly tragically...It is becoming obvious that the always in their own way Democrats are NOT up to this challenge. For them to be completely absent while Trump and co. lay waste to the Founders great creation is both delinquent and disgusting. A new third Party must be formed, one brick at a time. It may be a long process but rhat Party would give us a fresh, viable option and together with the anti- MAGA resistance that new Party would have a chance of successfully pushing back against Trumps takeover. ( Many of the resistance would ultimately wind up joining the new Party, giving it increased relevance.) With luck and determination there may yet be an escape hatch out of this rapidly sinking ship.
Why in the hell are ANY DEMOCRATS voting for these god-awful cabinet picks?! Why aren't the Democrats throwing sand in the gears of everything that is happening. How do you get rid of Chuck Schumer?! No voice, no strategy, no outrage, just complacent, complicit idiots.
Trump was a stain on our country in 2020, yet here we are.. now with a bigger pile of shitbags creating mounds of chaos, threatening our constitution and democracy!. With the tragedy of last nights plane collision and Trump blaming Obama, Biden, DEI, and Buttigieg, Pete was the ONLY one who took a stand against Fotus saying:
“Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch,” Buttigieg said in a post on social platform X.
“President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.”
This is leadership!
What we need is more of this, not Schumer, the senator, who looks over his glasses like a professor and reads from a script.
Yes, WHERE is the national leadership? Tim Walz is the only one I've heard from and he is organizing Governors but seriously, that's it?!?!? Dems need to add a big spring to their step and stop being so flatfooted in their responses!
Good question! I’m mad as hell and screaming … not watching any news for fear of a stroke or heart attack.
This is truly stunning!
Where is the opposition is my question as well. If media will not show interest then maybe my fellow baby boomers and I have to get the protest signs out and start new protest songs.
Email! Email the DNC, they will soon be voting for a new chairperson! The DNC needs to hear how you feel, what you like and what you hate about the Democratic Party! If they don't hear from the voters, nothing will change!
After watching Tim Waltz, on Rachel Maddow's program, the other night, I emailed the DNC, suggesting that Waltz (not Harris) run for POTUS in 2026! He is a voice for the middle class and for middle America! I get tied of the politicians from the East and West coasts!
Email your senators and reps, no matter what party they belong to! They should be working for us, not against us! So email, write letters, sign petitions, call; just do it!
You and your readers, we are the opposition. All the people writing Substack doing podcasts writing letters to the editor. We are here. We are laser focused, and of course we need national leadership.
Yes, we are the opposition
Why hasn't a group of progressive Congressional Democrats called a press conference and explained to the American public, as clearly as Steve Shmidt and others have, the horrible things that are happening...and that will become far worse?
We are way past where the buses run..Schumer out, Whitehouse in, gloves off!
Love Sen. Whitehouse!!!!!!!!
Yet another diatribe against Democrats!
I understand being scared out our wits by a Trump dictatorship but I think things will go better if we keep our wits about us. Excoriating Democrats is not helping!
If you’re not seeing the resistance, you are looking in the wrong places. Get out and find the protests and the petitions to sign and all the other forms of resistance that have made Trump back down on several of his crazy-ass executive orders.
Stop using your energy scapegoating Democrats! It won’t help and will eventually do damage.
Be the resistance you’re looking for.
"What do you think of the Democratic leadership?"
I look at them and I go "'What Democratic leadership?'"
Even the smallest opposition has been quelled. Our nation is finished, and no more opposition can begin to be born. It started in the 1600's here and was codified 1776 when our constitution said, in essence-- " all children should be taught to live as individuals, not as a collective." Here is the famous poem by Joh Donne, written in 1624, and it is a universal truth that is never taught here, It was, once, by both Jesus and Karl Marx, but their words are never followed to the end.
"No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
If I understand correctly what Trump, Vance, and Hegseth said about last night’s fatal aviation accident, people of color are to blame for it.
It is beyond description. What a horrible lie. They said the crash was caused by Democrats and DEI. He was implying that minorities are allowed to take jobs they are not adequately equipped to fulfill, airplane and helicopter pilots, for example.
Obviously, they must hold the same license and pass the same tests, checks, etc. that white male pilots must pass. Many Trump supporters believe every lie he spews from his foul mouth.
His goal is fascist to the core, stir up hate and division, present himself as the defender of the rights of superior (white male evangelical) people over the minorities poisoning the national bloodstream.
Is this ever going to end?
Some Democratic leaders(s) must call a press conference and explain the horrors he is imposing on us and the world. Invade Greenland!!! Impose heavy tariffs on Canada and Mexico!!!! Leave NATO and the UN!!! Appoint morons, drunks, and fools to head critical government agencies!!! Fire federal workers, skilled at their job and non-partisan and replace them with Trump stooges!!! Fire Inspectors General, opening the door to corruption and incompetence!!!
How much more before something gives?
This isn't an isolated incident. From WAPO's 5 minutes fix today:
"Conservatives have repeatedly blamed DEI for major catastrophes. The Baltimore mayor, who is Black, faced racist attacks after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Elon Musk blamed the Los Angeles fires, one of the largest disasters in American history, on female firefighters and firefighters of color. Republicans blamed the collapse of a major bank in 2023 on diversity investment practices, explains The Washington Post’s Julian Mark, who has covered the intersection of diversity and business."
Racism is the core to the MAGA agenda's. anything that happens will be blamed on the marginal!
Democratic leaders must call this out; but they won't, they are afraid!
Just to be clear, although I agree they said DEI and the Democrats, DEI is more than "people of color". It's any of the "other" that trump and maga have spewed their hate toward, based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, and he specifically also mentioned, "mental disabilities" in his press conference. So, if only white alleged Christian able bodied of high intellect males were in every job in the military and the FAA and the airlines, and the insert whatever the fuck else, nothing bad would ever happen. The whole thing is disgusting.
Please use your influence to convince Mark Milley to run for president, and to run for president now, not in 3 years.
May I remind everyone: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/15/1187530846/tuberville-senate-rules-abortion-military
Yep, I agree.
Here’s a start to the opposition
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5114602-democrats-emergency-meeting-trump-actions/
And Trump using the military will get much worse with Hegseth at the helm at Defense…hopefully many of the folks in uniform have read some history and don’t want to repeat it….
Well, Steve, to your many talents you can add the abilities of a magician. You have written a column in these serious times that managed to lead some, too many, of your readership to come out strongly against ... Chuck Schumer! What? On the long list of those who are injuring our country - all those criminals let loose by Trump, add to them the co-conspirators in the House that actually aided and abetted the insurrectionists and have never been investigated, much less brought to justice, follow up with the oligarchs who are paying for the charade we are watching as the misfits are brought forward to be confirmed. I'll skip the of the press but mention, as those we must castigate most of all, the contemptible Republican Senators who are bereft of decency, patriotism, even common sense, because they know very well the disaster they are bringing about. So what does Steve Schmidt recommend? That Billionaires stop funding the Democratic Party. Not, which might make some sense, fund them at the same level as the band of Traitor-Oligarchs funds Trump's efforts, as they pour money into into his coffers. At least it might help make it an even fight. They could find a suitably malleable puppet from West Virginia that's willing to do anything and buy him a career in the Senate, as a Democrat.
Chuck Schumer who, for all his flaws is miles above every single Republican in the Senate in his support of our troops, and cares for the security of the country in the face of its enemies; he is for women's rights, for feeding the poor, on and on. I'm not a Democrat and don't even like him, but he is leading a group of Senators that will vote almost unanimously against the Trumpist trash who are campaigning to wreck the country once they are affirmed by the Senate. That's not a small matter. Or is it? What is our goal here? You have been asked repeatedly what the Senate can do to stop these despicable fakes from being confirmed. And your recommendation is that Billionaires should stop funding the Democratic Party. What the hell have you been drinking lately? Maybe you need a vacation.
Sadly..and quite possibly tragically...It is becoming obvious that the always in their own way Democrats are NOT up to this challenge. For them to be completely absent while Trump and co. lay waste to the Founders great creation is both delinquent and disgusting. A new third Party must be formed, one brick at a time. It may be a long process but rhat Party would give us a fresh, viable option and together with the anti- MAGA resistance that new Party would have a chance of successfully pushing back against Trumps takeover. ( Many of the resistance would ultimately wind up joining the new Party, giving it increased relevance.) With luck and determination there may yet be an escape hatch out of this rapidly sinking ship.