With 89 percent saying corruption is widespread, history shows what can follow when citizens stop believing their institutions will hold criminals and the powerful accountable…
Corporate money being our one true God, we need to have a wall of separation between this religion and our government. Only public funding of elections should be allowed. No more corporate lobbying. All communication by business with government officials must be on the record. No stock trading by public officials, and no accepting gifts or trips to sponsored events. Cut the cord of corporate corruption, and you restore trust in government as an instrument of the people.
Tom, I am now at the point where I feel an American Nuremberg will not be enough justice against these criminals. As they seek to destroy the rule of law, let them not be allowed to hide behind the law when brought to book. I say set up French Revolution-style tribunals for the lot of them with the implication for the highest-placed that Madame would like to meet them and that may well happen.
Before we even get to "Nuremberg", many think this coming January we will have to "remove" ex-speaker Johnson from his office where he may be refusing to seat the new Representatives. Perhaps we will have to hold our duly elected new Congress on the steps.
Everything they do is done badly. Trying to steal the mid-terms will backfire according to some in the prediction business. Fortune favors the bold. That's exactly what we will have to be. Good practice for the literal bulldozing in January of 2029.
There is little doubt in the minds of most Americans that Trump will do whatever he can to hold on to RULE. I say "rule" rather than "Government" because the latter is what elected officials are supposed to do - provide services to voters as prescribed in our Constitution and legislated laws and regulations. To ruthless billionaires, constitutions, laws, and regulations apply to the peasants. To them, they are just annoyances to be circumvented.
For inscrutable reasons, about a third of Americans still have not woken up to the widespread corruption of the MAGA government - their president especially. They seem to think that they are entitled to ignore their responsibility to fairly govern because they are rich. They also willingly accept lies as reality, perhaps because facing facts would invalidate their worldview and self-confidence. Hard to tell. But for the over 60% of voters who clearly see the corruption and are watching their investments and savings trickle up to those who do not need it, this November is a make-or-break vote.
There is a percentage of the public that is intellectually lazy and gullible. The very fact that TV advertising works is proof of that, look at the shit they hawk on TV and the crap that people buy, especially drugs.
There is a new ad which hawks it is as effective as a placebo, imagine that and idiots have no idea what a placebo is. "Oh it is a big word and that means it is good"
There is a percentage (about 35%) that are ideologically motivated, some call them the Trump Cult, he is not the cult, but only the current avatar of the cult. The cult is comprised of mediocre and mendacious people. Fearful and willfully ignorant, motivated by primal fears and needs
The two combined has been enough to win elections, and the real MFWIC's have think tanks and experts and have spend millions to manipulate them(and us)
We talk of the Broligarchy, oligarchies, but above them is a Globarchy, men so rich and powerful that they don't even need or use passports., they travel without wallets and don't have a license, because they only fly or pilot a plane for recreation and entertainment.
Add to that 35% motivated by fear ignorance and need: just pick one issue that most of them bitch about and pound on that issue night and day and any politician, whether their record is that of criminal behavior or or not, whether they can even speak in coherent sentences or not, as long as they have GOP backing with enough billionaires included who dump ad money to FOX and you can get elected.
What this public never seems to figure out is that with that backing comes so many promises to these billionaires and corporate controllers that no matter what they promise the population’s tax money wont go to the homeless or needy (who these 35% hate) but rather to the billionaire doing the ads through quid pro quo contacts and increased profits from things like deregulation. And, this seems to be just fine with this 35%.
Here is the 35% (or more) LBJ said: ""If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Only it isn't just race,I enlisted in Shreveport, LA in 1957, so I know something about not just the south, but rural America and lived under the roof of cabin, with my grandparents, in a shot gun cabin owned by my Southern Baptist preacher uncle.
These people are woefully and willfully ignorant, they are also entrenched in the mentality of what Augustus Caesar called, in his law, Pater Familia, in which the man is god king of his little domain , with absolute authority over wife and children.
All of this justified by the Bible (the Torah and Talmud for Jews and Qur'an for Muslims.
It has been brushed under the rug, but there was a very heavy Latino vote for Trump,and in fact Latino's are probably the majority of CBP and Ice. The one (and only) ICE agent that has been arrested is surnamed Castro.
Whyare Latino's so MAGA? Because they are cultural conservatives, that is male supremacists, and MAGA promises a testosterone paradise of machismo male domination.
And who is perceived to be a threat, liberals, trans and immigrants. These phuckwits would starve so long as they can "own a lib", they have a crushing and well deserved inferiority complex, bristling at terms like "fly over country",preferring self reference as "the heartland".
There European equivalent is taking over Europe, and just made a great gain in Germany, but there the cause is different. Immigrant domiates, but not for the same reason as in America.
Hispanic immigrants are misogynistic, homophobic, patriarchal Christians, but don't speak English, so an easy target.
In Europe the Immigrants swarm ashore by boat, also conservative and patriarchal, but are an unassimilable, exclusionary, and triumphalist ideology that is in competition with western culture.
Also,and this is important, there is a massive Russian propaganda campaign, which targets the right with their anti liberalism and the left with their peace at any price propaganda.
The wounds of WWII are as of yesterday in Europe as cities were flattened, people rounded up and shot, and nations occupied by a hostile and oppressive force.
America was spared all of that save for a shell from a Japanese submarine, and even though the American went through black out drills, (my ex wives,step father had a collection of black out shades in his basement). Not one bomb was dropped on the American population. (The fact that the Japanese had launched balloon bombs, that killed a family Oregon, was with held from the news, and not known until the 1970's or 1980's.
Our experience with war is limited to flag draped coffins and military funerals, not so in Europe, as a consequence there are more surrender monkeys in Europe than in America.
Paradoxically, the tendency towards being red than dead, is stronger in Eastern European countries, (exception is Ukraine, which suffered mightily under Russian rule)
How do we send this call to action to every Democrat in Congress? They must hold public trials of this administration, those in Congress who planned and enabled January 6th (Jim Jordan, etalia), ICE, donors, etc., imprison the guilty, and recover money from their criminal actions.
That might be a legitimate way to issue a $5000 check to every adult. /s
Democratic legislators are just as afraid of retribution (from MAGA, but not being primaried) as are Republicans, so it's going to be hard to find enough of them to expect any prosecutions. Besides, Trump's SCOTUS would just overturn any convictions.
I don't agree that there won't be enough Democratic legislators - especially if we voters join together to demand it.
And even if SCOTUS would overturn convictions, at least the public would know what they did, the criminals would be terrified of the public outing and have to spend money to hire legal representation, go through at least one trial, and hopefully, have to forfeit a bunch of illegally gained money.
Dare I say that this has been the underlying plan, all along.
Destroy trust in community led government and replace it with a Top Down "firm Hand" who will keep us all safe.
Is there anyone reading this who believes that the thousands of ICE agents this administration rushed to hire at ridiculously high starting salaries and bonuses are going to be "let go" after the border issues are "solved" (whatever that means)?
"Thanks guys, you can go, now."
I don't think so. They are poised to be permanent and loyal to "the boss" whomever that is that cuts his (and it will be a man) way to the top as DT passes.
And, as an aside, I think from what I am seeing that the powers that be behind the GOP machine are getting ready to jettison DT.
After the mid-terms I suspect... Even into early '27... They need DT's face and voice to jinn up the base, and, if necessary, lead "stop the steal" insurrections and law suits to salvage key seats in Congress.
Day 2, Jan 21, 2025 Trump pardoned drug kingpin Ross Ulbricht who conducted 213 million in drug transactions in Bitcoin to get around law enforcement. Also in 2025 Trump pardoned former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez convicted in 2024 of helping drug cartels move hundreds of tons of cocaine and taking millions in bribes from drug traffickers. He was serving a 45 year sentence in West Virginia. Trump flat out lies about wanting to protect the country from drug trafficking!!!
Also, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who harmed US National Security by allowing sanctioned crypto exchanges with Iran, Russian drug traffickers, Hamas militants and other criminals, was pardoned by Trump after funneling billions into Trump family’s World Liberty Financial. A “Pay for Play” scheme.
One of the main political ploys that the fascists use in manipulating the MSM(mainstream media) is victimhood As the saying goes “poor me, poor me, look how they persecute me/us”.
Sounds like it’s right out of the New Testament doesn’t it? It’s part of the Christian Nationalist movement of politicizing Christian teachings for their own benefit. Let’s be clear, victimhood has always been part of being a fascist since the 1980’s when they found that if they cried foul often enough that the American electorate would come around and say, “you poor thing, look what they’re doing to you/us”.
Now Cheeto routinely plays the victim card. They tried to assassinate me and/or Charlie Kirk without any introspection about “hmmm, maybe I stand for something people don’t like”. But in actuality it gave Cheeto and the fascists a chance to really play the victim(s). So when we see Cheeto becoming indignant for people questioning him it’s actually just a façade for victimhood, a well honed and perfected strategy that has taken years to deceive the American electorate as the fascists work to control the government.
WE the People are tired of these fascists/robber barons lying to us for their own personal gains through favorable tax structure to supporting their toxic data centers to annihilation of our democratic governmental system. Join Indivisible to lend your voice to create a unified movement against these billionaires.
Thank you, Thom. I have been saying this for quite a while. I add that:
- Trump, his Veep and Cabinet members (past and present) be arrested for Treason, for
attempting to overthrow the US Government and Constitution and for Conspiracy to do so.
- Also, his aides, from Stephen Miller and Russel Vogt to Karoline Leavitt
- Toss in Mike Johnson and the other sycophants in Congress
- Also the 6 corrupt Justices of the Supreme Court
- And those in the Heritage Foundation and other right wing think tanks that wrote
Project 25
- Add in the ICE and DHS agents who terrorized American cities and citizens
- Others as needed and discovered, including Elon Musk, Larry Ellison and other billionaires
- Steve Bannon and all the right wing media, big and small, that kow towed to Trump
- Confiscate the wealth of all such billionaires.
Hold them without bail as flight risks. Deliver some to the ICC as war criminals. For just desserts, send appropriate ones to those prisons in El Salvador and Sudan.
Sounds good, but who or what is going to do all of this stuff? Trump's allies have most of the guns, the law (perverted as it is,) and possibly the loyalty of the military and law enforcement.
Thom is telling it like it is. The country is facing a major problem. It is not Trump alone. The Republican members of congress were co-conspirators with Trump in his election fraud, and now they fear they, too, could be tried. Sadly, this could not have happened if amoral U.S. voters were not complicit, as well. Fortunately, the current pain inflicted by the administration may shock them back to their senses.
That Trump is a liar, and you can tell when he liess because his lips move, is an establlished and well know fact. What is distressing it that the Pentagon under Hegseth and his coterie of today generals and flag officers is also a lie machine.
For example: CentCom of Central Command, which is the command with jurisdiction over the Middle east. is lying about everything including the oil that is shipped through the Strait of Hormuz (SOH). CentCom told us that there was no damage from Iran, whereas CentCom has abandoned the Gulf and moved to MacDilll AFB, Florida.
Our troops and aircraft are now stationed in Israel and Jordan, Jordan not for long as they are within reach of Iranian missiles and drones.
And we have expended so much of our PAC2 and PAC 3 Patriot missiles, that we are now pulling them from Europe and Asia.
Meanwhile CentCom lies, then again all generals and flag officers who remained seated in the Quantico Auditorium after being insulted and debased by Trump and Hegseth, are not worth the trust that we, the people, have endowed them with, nor the salaries and pensions they receive.
Ass kissing careerists is generous, but too many of them have been infected with Dominionism in the service academies, especially the Air Force in Colorado Springs.
The same can be said for the pundits who protect corrupt and amoral politicians, like the pundits who don't even mention the Democrats' genocide and who alter history to justify reviving Red Scare McCarthyism. The bottom line Thom is that those of us who are not multi-millionaires or in with the in crowd have no one to protect us. The Democrats have worked against the interest of the majority of Americans ever since Bill Clinton, yet you and so many "progressive" pundits lionize Obama and Biden as heroes when Trump could have never ascended without their warmongering, privatization, austerity and mass surveillance. You have a megaphone and have failed to hold the powerful accountable, so what precisely are those of use without the megaphone supposed to do? We can organize, but organized labor, the main source of political movements, has been whittled away by deindustrialization. We can contact our representatives, but the majority of them are mealy-mouthed liars who will say anything to placate constituents while continuing to work for big money interests. Your protection of ruling class sociopaths like Nancy Pelosi, Obama and Hillary Clinton (to name a few) has contributed the the unaccountability that has made democracy irrelevant. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/democrats-your-kings-are-no-better
"On day one" presumably refers to the first day of the new term after the November 2026 elections. That is how I read it. I hope that was the intent. Waiting until the 2028 election for the investigations and prosecutions, if it takes place, is a non-starter in my opinion, whether or not there are Republicans on board.
Corporate money being our one true God, we need to have a wall of separation between this religion and our government. Only public funding of elections should be allowed. No more corporate lobbying. All communication by business with government officials must be on the record. No stock trading by public officials, and no accepting gifts or trips to sponsored events. Cut the cord of corporate corruption, and you restore trust in government as an instrument of the people.
Tom, I am now at the point where I feel an American Nuremberg will not be enough justice against these criminals. As they seek to destroy the rule of law, let them not be allowed to hide behind the law when brought to book. I say set up French Revolution-style tribunals for the lot of them with the implication for the highest-placed that Madame would like to meet them and that may well happen.
Before we even get to "Nuremberg", many think this coming January we will have to "remove" ex-speaker Johnson from his office where he may be refusing to seat the new Representatives. Perhaps we will have to hold our duly elected new Congress on the steps.
Everything they do is done badly. Trying to steal the mid-terms will backfire according to some in the prediction business. Fortune favors the bold. That's exactly what we will have to be. Good practice for the literal bulldozing in January of 2029.
There is little doubt in the minds of most Americans that Trump will do whatever he can to hold on to RULE. I say "rule" rather than "Government" because the latter is what elected officials are supposed to do - provide services to voters as prescribed in our Constitution and legislated laws and regulations. To ruthless billionaires, constitutions, laws, and regulations apply to the peasants. To them, they are just annoyances to be circumvented.
For inscrutable reasons, about a third of Americans still have not woken up to the widespread corruption of the MAGA government - their president especially. They seem to think that they are entitled to ignore their responsibility to fairly govern because they are rich. They also willingly accept lies as reality, perhaps because facing facts would invalidate their worldview and self-confidence. Hard to tell. But for the over 60% of voters who clearly see the corruption and are watching their investments and savings trickle up to those who do not need it, this November is a make-or-break vote.
There is a percentage of the public that is intellectually lazy and gullible. The very fact that TV advertising works is proof of that, look at the shit they hawk on TV and the crap that people buy, especially drugs.
There is a new ad which hawks it is as effective as a placebo, imagine that and idiots have no idea what a placebo is. "Oh it is a big word and that means it is good"
There is a percentage (about 35%) that are ideologically motivated, some call them the Trump Cult, he is not the cult, but only the current avatar of the cult. The cult is comprised of mediocre and mendacious people. Fearful and willfully ignorant, motivated by primal fears and needs
The two combined has been enough to win elections, and the real MFWIC's have think tanks and experts and have spend millions to manipulate them(and us)
We talk of the Broligarchy, oligarchies, but above them is a Globarchy, men so rich and powerful that they don't even need or use passports., they travel without wallets and don't have a license, because they only fly or pilot a plane for recreation and entertainment.
Add to that 35% motivated by fear ignorance and need: just pick one issue that most of them bitch about and pound on that issue night and day and any politician, whether their record is that of criminal behavior or or not, whether they can even speak in coherent sentences or not, as long as they have GOP backing with enough billionaires included who dump ad money to FOX and you can get elected.
What this public never seems to figure out is that with that backing comes so many promises to these billionaires and corporate controllers that no matter what they promise the population’s tax money wont go to the homeless or needy (who these 35% hate) but rather to the billionaire doing the ads through quid pro quo contacts and increased profits from things like deregulation. And, this seems to be just fine with this 35%.
Here is the 35% (or more) LBJ said: ""If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Only it isn't just race,I enlisted in Shreveport, LA in 1957, so I know something about not just the south, but rural America and lived under the roof of cabin, with my grandparents, in a shot gun cabin owned by my Southern Baptist preacher uncle.
These people are woefully and willfully ignorant, they are also entrenched in the mentality of what Augustus Caesar called, in his law, Pater Familia, in which the man is god king of his little domain , with absolute authority over wife and children.
All of this justified by the Bible (the Torah and Talmud for Jews and Qur'an for Muslims.
It has been brushed under the rug, but there was a very heavy Latino vote for Trump,and in fact Latino's are probably the majority of CBP and Ice. The one (and only) ICE agent that has been arrested is surnamed Castro.
Whyare Latino's so MAGA? Because they are cultural conservatives, that is male supremacists, and MAGA promises a testosterone paradise of machismo male domination.
And who is perceived to be a threat, liberals, trans and immigrants. These phuckwits would starve so long as they can "own a lib", they have a crushing and well deserved inferiority complex, bristling at terms like "fly over country",preferring self reference as "the heartland".
There European equivalent is taking over Europe, and just made a great gain in Germany, but there the cause is different. Immigrant domiates, but not for the same reason as in America.
Hispanic immigrants are misogynistic, homophobic, patriarchal Christians, but don't speak English, so an easy target.
In Europe the Immigrants swarm ashore by boat, also conservative and patriarchal, but are an unassimilable, exclusionary, and triumphalist ideology that is in competition with western culture.
Also,and this is important, there is a massive Russian propaganda campaign, which targets the right with their anti liberalism and the left with their peace at any price propaganda.
The wounds of WWII are as of yesterday in Europe as cities were flattened, people rounded up and shot, and nations occupied by a hostile and oppressive force.
America was spared all of that save for a shell from a Japanese submarine, and even though the American went through black out drills, (my ex wives,step father had a collection of black out shades in his basement). Not one bomb was dropped on the American population. (The fact that the Japanese had launched balloon bombs, that killed a family Oregon, was with held from the news, and not known until the 1970's or 1980's.
Our experience with war is limited to flag draped coffins and military funerals, not so in Europe, as a consequence there are more surrender monkeys in Europe than in America.
Paradoxically, the tendency towards being red than dead, is stronger in Eastern European countries, (exception is Ukraine, which suffered mightily under Russian rule)
The Ds are playing a football game; more or less, within the rules.
The Rs?
Utterly lawless.
They are running down the field, pigskin in one hand, a Colt .45 in the other.
Try to tackle them? . . . You are shot dead.
Rs are all Billy Cole in "The Last Boy Scout," and ultimately just as suicidal.
4 min video of Billy Cole's mayhem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJNNGdjJdtk
#VOTE to drain his wealth and lock him up, i.e., the Kiddie-Rapist-In-Chief [KRIC]
#WHO is Natalie Harp? Any kin to John Galt?
#HOW the F'g F is "The Donald" Junior worth $ 300 million USD more in only 20 months?
#WHY are 77,300,000 American Sheeple supporting this loser, this disgusting KRIC?
Here, here! Prosecute!
How do we send this call to action to every Democrat in Congress? They must hold public trials of this administration, those in Congress who planned and enabled January 6th (Jim Jordan, etalia), ICE, donors, etc., imprison the guilty, and recover money from their criminal actions.
That might be a legitimate way to issue a $5000 check to every adult. /s
Democratic legislators are just as afraid of retribution (from MAGA, but not being primaried) as are Republicans, so it's going to be hard to find enough of them to expect any prosecutions. Besides, Trump's SCOTUS would just overturn any convictions.
I don't agree that there won't be enough Democratic legislators - especially if we voters join together to demand it.
And even if SCOTUS would overturn convictions, at least the public would know what they did, the criminals would be terrified of the public outing and have to spend money to hire legal representation, go through at least one trial, and hopefully, have to forfeit a bunch of illegally gained money.
Well, I hope you're right (Correct, that is.)
LOL
Dare I say that this has been the underlying plan, all along.
Destroy trust in community led government and replace it with a Top Down "firm Hand" who will keep us all safe.
Is there anyone reading this who believes that the thousands of ICE agents this administration rushed to hire at ridiculously high starting salaries and bonuses are going to be "let go" after the border issues are "solved" (whatever that means)?
"Thanks guys, you can go, now."
I don't think so. They are poised to be permanent and loyal to "the boss" whomever that is that cuts his (and it will be a man) way to the top as DT passes.
And, as an aside, I think from what I am seeing that the powers that be behind the GOP machine are getting ready to jettison DT.
After the mid-terms I suspect... Even into early '27... They need DT's face and voice to jinn up the base, and, if necessary, lead "stop the steal" insurrections and law suits to salvage key seats in Congress.
DL
A brilliant call to action!
47 and the GOP are like a nuclear armed runaway train. We must all WAKE UP VOTE BLUE 🗳
Day 2, Jan 21, 2025 Trump pardoned drug kingpin Ross Ulbricht who conducted 213 million in drug transactions in Bitcoin to get around law enforcement. Also in 2025 Trump pardoned former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez convicted in 2024 of helping drug cartels move hundreds of tons of cocaine and taking millions in bribes from drug traffickers. He was serving a 45 year sentence in West Virginia. Trump flat out lies about wanting to protect the country from drug trafficking!!!
Also, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who harmed US National Security by allowing sanctioned crypto exchanges with Iran, Russian drug traffickers, Hamas militants and other criminals, was pardoned by Trump after funneling billions into Trump family’s World Liberty Financial. A “Pay for Play” scheme.
Flush Cheeto And His Fascist Allies: Victimhood
One of the main political ploys that the fascists use in manipulating the MSM(mainstream media) is victimhood As the saying goes “poor me, poor me, look how they persecute me/us”.
Sounds like it’s right out of the New Testament doesn’t it? It’s part of the Christian Nationalist movement of politicizing Christian teachings for their own benefit. Let’s be clear, victimhood has always been part of being a fascist since the 1980’s when they found that if they cried foul often enough that the American electorate would come around and say, “you poor thing, look what they’re doing to you/us”.
Now Cheeto routinely plays the victim card. They tried to assassinate me and/or Charlie Kirk without any introspection about “hmmm, maybe I stand for something people don’t like”. But in actuality it gave Cheeto and the fascists a chance to really play the victim(s). So when we see Cheeto becoming indignant for people questioning him it’s actually just a façade for victimhood, a well honed and perfected strategy that has taken years to deceive the American electorate as the fascists work to control the government.
WE the People are tired of these fascists/robber barons lying to us for their own personal gains through favorable tax structure to supporting their toxic data centers to annihilation of our democratic governmental system. Join Indivisible to lend your voice to create a unified movement against these billionaires.
Thank you, Thom. I have been saying this for quite a while. I add that:
- Trump, his Veep and Cabinet members (past and present) be arrested for Treason, for
attempting to overthrow the US Government and Constitution and for Conspiracy to do so.
- Also, his aides, from Stephen Miller and Russel Vogt to Karoline Leavitt
- Toss in Mike Johnson and the other sycophants in Congress
- Also the 6 corrupt Justices of the Supreme Court
- And those in the Heritage Foundation and other right wing think tanks that wrote
Project 25
- Add in the ICE and DHS agents who terrorized American cities and citizens
- Others as needed and discovered, including Elon Musk, Larry Ellison and other billionaires
- Steve Bannon and all the right wing media, big and small, that kow towed to Trump
- Confiscate the wealth of all such billionaires.
Hold them without bail as flight risks. Deliver some to the ICC as war criminals. For just desserts, send appropriate ones to those prisons in El Salvador and Sudan.
Take it from here, Thom.
Sounds good, but who or what is going to do all of this stuff? Trump's allies have most of the guns, the law (perverted as it is,) and possibly the loyalty of the military and law enforcement.
Thom is telling it like it is. The country is facing a major problem. It is not Trump alone. The Republican members of congress were co-conspirators with Trump in his election fraud, and now they fear they, too, could be tried. Sadly, this could not have happened if amoral U.S. voters were not complicit, as well. Fortunately, the current pain inflicted by the administration may shock them back to their senses.
That Trump is a liar, and you can tell when he liess because his lips move, is an establlished and well know fact. What is distressing it that the Pentagon under Hegseth and his coterie of today generals and flag officers is also a lie machine.
For example: CentCom of Central Command, which is the command with jurisdiction over the Middle east. is lying about everything including the oil that is shipped through the Strait of Hormuz (SOH). CentCom told us that there was no damage from Iran, whereas CentCom has abandoned the Gulf and moved to MacDilll AFB, Florida.
Our troops and aircraft are now stationed in Israel and Jordan, Jordan not for long as they are within reach of Iranian missiles and drones.
And we have expended so much of our PAC2 and PAC 3 Patriot missiles, that we are now pulling them from Europe and Asia.
Meanwhile CentCom lies, then again all generals and flag officers who remained seated in the Quantico Auditorium after being insulted and debased by Trump and Hegseth, are not worth the trust that we, the people, have endowed them with, nor the salaries and pensions they receive.
Ass kissing careerists is generous, but too many of them have been infected with Dominionism in the service academies, especially the Air Force in Colorado Springs.
A
The same can be said for the pundits who protect corrupt and amoral politicians, like the pundits who don't even mention the Democrats' genocide and who alter history to justify reviving Red Scare McCarthyism. The bottom line Thom is that those of us who are not multi-millionaires or in with the in crowd have no one to protect us. The Democrats have worked against the interest of the majority of Americans ever since Bill Clinton, yet you and so many "progressive" pundits lionize Obama and Biden as heroes when Trump could have never ascended without their warmongering, privatization, austerity and mass surveillance. You have a megaphone and have failed to hold the powerful accountable, so what precisely are those of use without the megaphone supposed to do? We can organize, but organized labor, the main source of political movements, has been whittled away by deindustrialization. We can contact our representatives, but the majority of them are mealy-mouthed liars who will say anything to placate constituents while continuing to work for big money interests. Your protection of ruling class sociopaths like Nancy Pelosi, Obama and Hillary Clinton (to name a few) has contributed the the unaccountability that has made democracy irrelevant. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/democrats-your-kings-are-no-better
There you go again, same old saw, Mr Russia is a Marxist wonderland, and Putin is Stalins heir.
You insist on using the old worn out phrase "red scare" that is an admission, that you consider Putin to be the heir of Stalin.
You are an ideological troglodyte, stuck in the past.
"On day one" presumably refers to the first day of the new term after the November 2026 elections. That is how I read it. I hope that was the intent. Waiting until the 2028 election for the investigations and prosecutions, if it takes place, is a non-starter in my opinion, whether or not there are Republicans on board.