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…
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
This might sound nuts (and I sorta think it is, so let's just assume it's a poetic metaphor), but real Evil with a capital E is afoot. So if we were to (metaphorically) act was if it were and fight with every last molecule of decency and strength we have to bring it down, what would that look like?
You have a couple of funny mistakes...where you changed how you were going to phrase something and didn't cut all of the previous phrasing. (Or this is AI using funny phrasing? I don't think so.)
1) "we gave them with" instead of "we gave them" or "we left them with".
"The second are the strongman politicians, who promise that only violence and an iron fist can “restore law and order.” I saw that in Kaliningrad, Russia in the 1990s when four Russian cops pulled our car over for speeding and then let us go when we gave them with a case of high-end chocolates..."
2) "showed the next that the" instead of "showed next that the" or "showed the".
Every one of these Republican presidents, in other words, showed the next that the price of crimes against our democracy was negligible.
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.
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.
Here, here! Prosecute!
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?
#WHY is The Donald Junior worth 300 million USD more in 20 months?
#WHY are 77,300,000 Americans dumb enough to support this loser, the KRIC?
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.
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.
47 and the GOP are like a nuclear armed runaway train. We must all WAKE UP VOTE BLUE 🗳
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.
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
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
A brilliant call to action!
This might sound nuts (and I sorta think it is, so let's just assume it's a poetic metaphor), but real Evil with a capital E is afoot. So if we were to (metaphorically) act was if it were and fight with every last molecule of decency and strength we have to bring it down, what would that look like?
Hi Thom,
You have a couple of funny mistakes...where you changed how you were going to phrase something and didn't cut all of the previous phrasing. (Or this is AI using funny phrasing? I don't think so.)
1) "we gave them with" instead of "we gave them" or "we left them with".
"The second are the strongman politicians, who promise that only violence and an iron fist can “restore law and order.” I saw that in Kaliningrad, Russia in the 1990s when four Russian cops pulled our car over for speeding and then let us go when we gave them with a case of high-end chocolates..."
2) "showed the next that the" instead of "showed next that the" or "showed the".
Every one of these Republican presidents, in other words, showed the next that the price of crimes against our democracy was negligible.