Trump’s white supremacist loyalists are rewriting history, erasing Black heroes, and purging diversity, and the politicians who stay silent are complicit in that treason…
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.
NYT: "The committee’s staff redacted victims’ names and any identifying information from the emails. Because the full set of documents has not been released, it was not clear whether the emails had been excerpted from larger conversations that might have provided fuller context."
The Emails come from the Epstein estate, not DOJ or from court docs.
The House is back to vote on the funding package. Jeffries says he'll hold the line. May lead to further negotiations.
Hopefully it'll be Epstein time. The most recent revelations involve money laudering allegations.
I keep posting. According to Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) Trumpepstein may cause an "Epstein bomb" causing over 100 Republican members to "jailbreak" from Trump.
Malcolm Nance was speaking on one of the progressive Sirius stations a few nights ago and said that this idea of 100 Republicans rebelling is not going to happen. I have found him to be a reliable source.
WE ONLY NEED one (1) to get subpoena power on Trumpepstein.
Every Dem in Congress, like Swalwell and Boyle know all of them up close and personal. I read Nance's stuff, read his books, watch his shows, and I (that's just me) know more House MAGATs than he does.
There is a special election in Tennessee that will be decided Nov 26, two weeks from now, if the Republican is elected, then that will give Mike Johnson an offset to Adelita Grijalva,l Look for delaying tactics to her swearing in.
I;ve had my hopes dashed before with Mueller and Jack Smith and with the E J Carroll case and he was convicted of felonies in New York, and even then the convictions were ignored.
Fool me one shame on your, fool me twice.. I can't be fooled again.
Charley Brown falls for Lucy's act, not me.
What is long needed is a full frontal attack, but so long as we have people like the infamous eight, we are doomed.
While I support the Marches and efforts of indivisible, I don't delude myself that any Republican is going to risk the Wrath of Khan, and bolt the party Especially when most of them share the white Christian nationalist mentality.
At some point, hopefully before it is too late, we are going to have to abandon this belief we can turn back he tide of dictatorship through democratic means.
Bombing boats in the ocean, invading cities, ripping down the W H to imprint himself on it as his personal property, re doing the Lincoln bedroom in his own image. I bet that is where he sleeps now. Suborning congress the law, ignoring SCOTUS if he doesn't like the ruling. Ignoring court decisions. Using Congress as a lap dog.
He is not going anywhere except on a gurney, and then a more malignant grise eminence will take charge
We are up to our neck in sewage and talking about pulling the plug on the drain, thinking it is still at our feet.
Somebody provide me with anactionable scenario in which we can still save ourselves, outside of a full blown general strike and national uprising.
And no the institutions won't save us, they are already drowned in the sludge.
Economic boycott -- if the businesses turn on Trump -- where did all the indentured slaves of business go -- things may change.
And: MGT is not so dumb! She has realized that Trump could not care if any of the lickspittles (don't you love that world!!) get re-elected. Why would he -- he defies everyone, every institution, every law, every shred of common decency...need I go on? Let's put aside Steve Bannon for a moment, and concentrate on pouring salt into the wound of all the "heartbroken" MAGA clan because of the Epstein files; the waiters who still need to pay taxes on their below minimum wages; the lower income and middle class white folks who are told that gas prices are $2 a gallon, a turkey fest is way cheaper, and the economy is booming as they wait on an unemployment line, or for their SNAP benefits. No one likes to be played for a fool. If more Republican congressman accept the fact that Trump will do nothing for them -- even if they have been loyal to a fault, we can force the cracks to open into a fault line. Maybe cause an earthquake/sea change. Speak up!!
I do not think, that liberals (leftists, Democrats, whatever they are called) understand the mentality and motivation of MAGA.
Economics , personal finance, is irrelevant and to the extent they are disadvantaged they blame in the libs.
That which motivates MAGA, the unifying force is hatred of the lib. The will suffer and endure anything so long as they think they are owning the lib.
I watch soybean farmers in Missouri on Frontline, whine about how they are going bankrut and will have to sell their farms, knowing that it was tariffs that were the cause, but they didn't blame Trump in fact one of them said, that Trump is pretty intelligent.
Rural America is more motivated by the culture war, hatred of libs, DEI, gay marriage, transfolk, than concerned about their pocket book.
The Nov 4 Democratic victory was in blue state,and even then conservative Puerto Ricans in Passiac county still voted for the Republican., as did the Seniors in Cape May and Ocean county.
Mississippi and Georgia had wins for minor public officials in the Democrat column, because the white voters weren't interested enough to turn out, that won't be situation in 2026
What fogs the vision of Democrats. Hope, taking small victories as a huge win? Wilfull self delusion.
Here is how I see it MAGA is 40% of the population, and they are fired up and turn out over 90%,
Approximately 45% of the population is Democrat, and are lukewarm voters.
For instance, Trump wants to do away with mail in ballots, because Democrats are the majority of mail in voters. Republicans more than Democrats, tend to show up and stand in line for voting. one of the reasons , I am sure, is that Democrats have to take time off from work, lose wages, and show up at districts that have a limited supply of voting machines, whereas with Republican districts it is in and out almost immediately.
That leaves 15% of the voters as independents, Green,Libertarian,and the rightward leaning independents will vote Republican, while idiots like the Greens will vote third party.
The problem with the Democratic party are the paid professional "Strategists". Since their income and social status, their access to people and power, depend on maintaining and protecting the status quo, that is what they do. In a word they are conservative, resistant to change.
Shorthand Robert. Too many words to describe the spectrum.
We use Right wing to describe everyone from the Reaganites, and Bucklyites and Friedmanites to the Chrsitian Nationalists, KKK, NAZIs
Like sex and autism their is a Kinsey like spectrum, but it is damn well difficult and confusing to identify where on the spectrum a person or persons sit.
J,the reason we are being fed all this disinformation about $2 gas,booming economy,is booming is because of CNBC,and Wall Street.Jim Kramer and the fucking commentators who are so weak,they used the term AI at least 80 times per day. We have to remember Wall Street loves Trump,the AI tech companies want to destroy millions of jobs and have no regulation which is exactly what Trump has promised.
For big business the major issue is tariffs. 4-5 Republican Senate members crossed over to vote with Dems to oppose Trump tarif authprity. SCOTUS has the case. Trump looks vulnerable.
From NYT Dealbook this morning.
"Businesses are growing more optimistic that a key component of President Trump’s trade war will be struck down by the Supreme Court, after a rough hearing for the administration last week.
"That has revived interest in the tariff refund trade, a long-shot gambit to cash in on some of those levies being nullified, Bernhard Warner reports.
"The stakes are huge: Some economists project that the administration could owe importers billions if the courts rule against the tariffs."
Could get some relief in through the side door, as soon as this afternoon.
We have a day of action planned Nov 18.
NYT this morning. “The end to this government shutdown does not solve their affordability problem,” said Amy Walter, the publisher and editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. “A deal that included an extension of the subsidies would actually have helped.”
That vulnerability is clear in the actions of Republicans from states like New Jersey and Virginia, which elected Democratic governors by large margins in last week’s off-year elections.
Representatives Jen Kiggans of Virginia and Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, two Republicans facing competitive races next year, recently sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson telling him that once the government was reopened, Republicans needed to “immediately turn our focus to the growing crisis of health care affordability and the looming expiration of the enhanced Affordable Care Act (A.C.A.) premium tax credits.”
Charlie Brown never learns and Lucy yanks the football. I am no Charlie Brown
Yes there are Republicans who are worried about the health care crisis, MGT is one. That is not the question or the subject.
The question, the subject of which you make a lot of noise is the Epstein files. So long as Trump has the veto pen, nothing associated with the ACA will get signed. The man is petty, as you know He would wage revenge on John McCain were he still alive.
Here is one for you, we don't have to wait for the Epstein files. posted in the NYT, from the Epstein Estate" Epstein email of Trump spending hours with an underage female
Enough already about the Epstein files, whatever they may divulge, for to Trump's MAGA, any (or all) of it would not be believed or even considered, and his political and /or wealth-dependent supporters would not dare to question or criticize any of his actions.
So I would like to think that your pessimism is overwrought, but since Trump is (for all practical purposes) now the law, I see no legal path of terminating his rule or influence. As Trump's adversaries (although he would consider us enemies,) we need to keep calling out, criticizing and demonstrating against his actions and policies - more loudly and vociferously than ever before,
Agreed with all. I agree, whatever is in the files, is not going to deter MAGA, nothing has nothing will. Trump is their avatar, their alter ego, their id. He is all of their anger, fear, hatred, animosity , bias manifested in the flesh and made legit.
Just like Catholics, go to confession, then mass, start afresh. Protestants fall on their knees, crawl up to the pulpit, beg forgiveness and claim to reborn, washed in the blood of the lamb
Ted Haggard a notorious anti gay preacher, was exposed having a Grindr account. When the Republican convention hits town, the calls to male escorts go crazy., the next morning they are all redeemed like Ted
Ted Haggard is currently the pastor of the non-denominational St. James Church in Colorado Springs, which he founded after his previous church, New Life, dissolved following his 2006 sex scandal
Bar in mind, that this is the only way Ted knows of earning a living.
Pervert TRump was involved with the teen pageants for nearly two decades, and it all overlaps with his Epstein days.
They trafficked the girls to get blackmail material. Used real estate to launder money for Russians. Opened their Deutsche Bank accounts the same day with the same banker. That banker died of suicide as well as another that turned over info on TRump to the FBI.
Epstein went on to traffic arms and security programs, I'm thinking that is what the BILLIONS transferred are going to be about.
If good-faith investigation into Mr Trump’s relationship with Mr Epstein results in the total evisceration of the Trump myth, I'm not going to waste any tears.
Still, let's remember the essentials. Hartmann's column, like an email published this morning by Rep Jamie "liberal and progressive and conservative" Raskin, isn't about powerful men taking advantage of vulnerable young women.
It's about knowing that we are up against the revanchist Confederacy. That pistol shot at Ford's Theater on 14 April 1865 still echoes . . . louder and louder.
This is bigger than any little coward presently occupying the White House.
Vince, WTF!!! You must not understand. This may be the window of opportunity we've needed. Every House Republican will have to state whether they support the victims or the preverts.
You and Jerry Weiss are right to decry the "vicious ostracism" too often displayed publicly by some of the more intense among us. No argument from me.
HOWEVER . . .
I do worry that once Mr Trump implodes in disgrace, Democrats will congratulate themselves on a job well, if not entirely honorably, done . . . and fail to attend to the continuing threat.
That threat is the subject of Mr Hartmann's column this morning. Even without Mr Trump, the Confederates will still be flying their flag and spreading lies and erasing historical memory.
Remember, Project 2025, according to Mr Trump, was written and published entirely without his knowledge.
Jesse Jackson is right. We need to keep our eyes on the prize.
If my reply this morning offended you, I apologize.
Daniel,my guess is that they all support the perverts,not the victims. They have no respect for those who advocate for egual rights,fairness toward others.That is not the "Nazi"model.
If we don't get them now, eventually the demographics will. Their desperation is showing. It really is pathetic.
The boo-ing at the football game is a good example. Only 25% of the NFL players are white. Turns out people don't like Psycho TRump and his pack of Nazis.
The most hopeful thing is inter-marriage and the bi-racial children. It is so beautiful to see them, some of my cousins included. Commercials to sell to only white guys are not gonna work.
The more they try to take away diversity, equity, and inclusion---the more young people are going to want it. They hate authority and liars. The cultural blend is well under way. Music, sports, and even politics have done that. Call the racist, misogynists, and homophobes out every chance you get. See you in the streets.
The stadium for the team formerly known as the Redskins is "JFK Stadium." That's Robert Kennedy, the elder. Trump demands that the name be changed to Donald J. Trump Stadium.
Can'r wait to see what the Secretary of Health has to say about that!
We have falsely assumed that “democracy” as an organizing principle is what Mr. Trump also espouses. So, I queried AI to count the number of times the president has used the word “democracy” in any of his speeches. Here is what AI returned: “in his most significant domestic policy speeches (State of the Union), the word “democracy” was used ONCE in four years.
AI concluded, “The analysis of his major prepared speeches confirms a clear and consistent pattern of VERY SPARSE USAGE” (my emphasis). Bottom line, as democracy goes, we may be talking past each other. The man is not wired to promote democratic principles.
He's truthful, has a wry sense of humor, and was a working lawyer in real estate and banking.
Gotta tell ya, I'm not mad at Jeffries, and he would be the first black Speaker of the House. He is a lawyer as well. NYU Law Review, magna cum laude, clerked, practiced.
This one burns with the kind of truth polite people avoid at dinner tables. You’re right, erasure isn’t nostalgia, it’s strategy. When history is rewritten, democracy isn’t just edited, it’s executed in slow motion while the guilty call it patriotism.
The legacy media is a lost cause, but the many Democrats in both houses of Congress, all of whom know how to find a camera and a microphone, could and should and must decry this blatant racism loudly and often. Their silence is tacit support for Repugnican depredations.
As Thom Hartmann has often remarked, it was conservative Nostra-dumbass Russell Kirk who warned his confreres that a growing middle class would only lead to social upheaval. Well, of course, because as working people become wealthier, they become empowered politically, and their concerns come to the surface. Racism, sexism, and warmongering wouldn't go down without a fight, but eventually law and justice, not violence, prevailed. Now, the GOP is determined to repeal the 1960's, their lost cause. When the GOP took over the racist vote in the 1960's, it was really the racist vote that took over the GOP.
This rewriting of our history is hateful, and very destructive to all Americans, but especially Americans of color. The very idea of removing a plaque honoring a Black American who gave his life to save a colleague, is repulsive. People in the Netherlands had been tending the grave of that brave American, and are shocked by this disgusting behavior.
JP,I think smart people throughout the world are disgusted by the " Nazi" takeover of American politics. The current " Nazis" running the Gov't have no respect for anyone who is different. We could have another civil war.
Let's talk about Linda McMahon WWE an "advocate for education and workforce development" currently destroying the Dept. of Education! Reject the "Lickspittles to white supremacy" Crawling out from under rocks for their own gain. I say "bury" them but never forget the evil. Anyone advocating for "school choice" is suspect to me. Shout out to Public Schools and stop the march toward private charter schools. Keep the curriculum core subjects with standards. Include DEI and factual history. Accepting our mistakes in history is hard. "Lickspittles" to white supremacy and christian nationalism will always look for the path. I have concern that generations to come will look back at the destruction of American Education and be pissed off!! We need to protect it. IMO Politicians need to be clear about their loyalties. Some new Dems running for office are not. Many RepubliCONS don't care. YIKES. They need to transparent.
First: Donald is demented. So some of us [the sickest/saddest] are following a pathetic clown into the tumbling vortex of illogic that passes for his mind. . . . Good friggin' luck following a kiddie rapist and an abuser/rapist of women into a 50-year mortgage, Venezuela, or anywhere, come to think of it.
Second: There are roughly 1.5 billion Indians and 1.4 billion Chinese. So, White Americans are going to chuck out [or kill?] 140,000,000 "others", leaving 192 million Whites. Makes a lotta sense to go it alone.
- Population count: 191,697,647 individuals who identify as White alone and not Hispanic/Latino
- Percentage of total U.S. population: 57.84%
Hence, 192 million US Whites against Planet Earth. The definition of Madness. All to appease the GOP's demented golden calf. One made of fool's gold, like that infernal escalator in his Dark Tower.
Simply put, the Republican Party is the Party of HATE. They generate political support by stirring the embers of personal hatreds and bigotries that are rooted not only in race, but ethnic background, socio-economic status, and religious convictions. Worse, MAGAs brazenly lie to voters to generate voter outrage - such as ridiculous claims that illegal immigrants are cannibalizing neighbors' family pets. Of course, these hatreds and bigotries are a direct anathema to Democracy. That explains the Democrats' unwillingness to conform 100% to party initiatives. It also explains how NYC elected a non-Christian Democrat as mayor in a landslide.
Senator Fetterman is, in my view, clear evidence that the Democrats have gone too far in their big-tenting. Any cohesive party would have kicked this DINO out of the party long ago. Somehow, the DNC cannot even bring itself to expel a traitor. The Democrat shutdown cave-in is yet more undeniable evidence that Democrats are not a cohesive party. However, we must keep in mind that expelling David Hogg for wanting to primary out-of-step geezers was evidence that change is needed - something the DNC seems to finally, begrudgingly, accept.
I am not suggesting that Democrats model themselves after the "power-at-all-costs" Republicans. That doctrine requires elevating RULE above morality and above GOVERNING for the people, as scholars have pointed out is the case in all fascist regimes. Nevertheless, Dems do need to get more unified.
19 Medals of Honor were awarded for the actions at Wounded Knee, which was part of a larger campaign that resulted in a total of 31 Medals of Honor being awarded. The awards for the Wounded Knee massacre were for the U.S. Army soldiers involved in the 1890 incident. These awards are controversial, and efforts have been made to have some rescinded due to the nature of the event.
Total Medals of Honor: 19 were awarded specifically for the event at Wounded Knee.
Total campaign: In total, 31 Medals of Honor were awarded for the entire 1890 campaign.
Controversy: The awards have been criticized for being given to soldiers who participated in the massacre of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children.
Review of awards: A review of these awards was ordered in 2024, and the decision was made in September 2025 to keep the awards, reports MPR News
Yesterday was Veteran's Day, i.e. Poppy Day, Armmistice Day.
I am probably the lone survivor from my units, 1966-67. It wasn't just combat that killed friend and/or foe, it was stuff like agent orange, PTSD, drug abuse, the residual effects.
The main benefit has been veterans' preference...which over the years was the subject of contention. Thank the Biden administration for the Honoring our PACT Act of 2022, which significantly expanded health care and benefits for toxic-exposed veterans, and the Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act of 2025, which bolstered support for caregivers. Also the Veterans COMPACT Act aimed to reduce veteran suicide by providing no-cost emergency stabilization care for veterans in acute suicidal crisis.
I have to say, the minute we became veterans, we became the targets of the Republican Party, seen as "takers". Fuck 'em all...the long and the short and the tall.
Hopefully MacAthur was wrong and we won't just fade away.
While Trumpism built a gilded architecture of erasure and dominance, too many voices debated whether it counted as “real conservatism.”
Thom Hartmann is right: the rewriting of American memory is how this new Confederate blueprint cements power. I wrote about how we wasted years arguing semantics while democracy was quietly redesigned from the inside.
Krasnov is busy pretending only his worldview counts. Hard to believe the haters think this is going to stand or why more push back has not occurred. Do haters really think when the time comes the outrage will be something they can contain? Deluded fools. The comeback will swing so hard that that is all they are going to see for decades to come. All the while tribunals will be busy putting ICE in jail where they belong. The comeback will be swift and strong for the rest of their lives. The day is coming sooner than they ever think if thinking was ever in their ability. Thank God from whom all Blessing flow.
And from the beginning, with the walk down the golden elevator, the media dared not utter the word “racist”. On occasion, through the years, anchors, and discussion groups on air have questioned whether the word applies to Trump…a rhetorical question, is it not?
And let us not overlook the clever intertwining of (stated anti-) antisemitism, with the (racist) fight against DEI. Divide and conquer, or at least distract. Stamped with the badge and legitimacy granted by a public support of Israel—which has always been conflated with supporting Jewish folks (as my Orthodox brethren swallowed whole, and unfortunately still do). All the while continuing to turn the clock back to the beginning, when white landholders could enslave a people considered and treated as subhuman. Our “glorious experiment” began with a similar “bait & switch” confusion of goals: a statement of democratic principles (“All men are created equal”) by the same founders who retained their slaves.
So, the re-branding of the groups, organizations, donors, et.al, who traffic in all forms of bigotry (choose your group du jour) has begun in earnest in both a subtle and insidious manner.
The bleaching of past Republican, right-wing, and/or conservative politics, and those who trade in antisemitism, along with a variety of fascist, authoritarian, and oppressive stands has begun. In our bizarre world of Annie-get-your-gun politics and discourse, anything you can do I can do better, it’s not me, it’s you, in a world now a fiction. It is obvious, we’re told, that it is left that espouses antisemitism! In supremely twisted logic, in alignment with the straight-faced explanation of why Trump has to stop funding our universities both because of (reverse) racism (“too much DEI”) and because antisemitism is out of control (credit to the tiki-torch bearers at Charlottesville, not-withstanding), as proven by college students using free speech in support of Palestinians besieged by war. Hey! These kids were supporting Hamas (though a few did), a terrorist group, and therefore we had to arrest, deport Muslim protestors.
Oh, a rift in the right. The protestations arising from the certification of Fuentes have never been so vocal and so twisted in rationale. Why, the Heritage Society even has an antisemitism task force. The supposed blowback from the lower echelon members of the Heritage Society, is the beginning of the concealing of what has always been part of the infrastructure, embedded within the firm support of Israel. And if it is the “newer/younger” adherents, can we cite Charlie Kirk, he of the “Great Replacement Theory” as having brought them into the fold?
With a newly renewed platform, Bill O’Reilly crawled out from under the rock where he was hiding, appearing on HBO to be feted by Bill Maher. He laid out this new history as easily as Trump has rewritten American history. O’Reilly tsk-tsked the idea that Republicans have ever shown even a hint of antisemitism and never will. Now their righteous job is to quell the antisemitism coming from the left, quipped Maher, as O’Reilly continued with his propaganda. Good people on both sides? Nope only on our side – and don’t call us Nazis!!
Fading into the background, disappearing like ink on old documents are the T-shirts emblazoned (not only with) Camp Auschwitz but “6 million is not enough” seen on rioters. Add Trump addressing Jewish donors with “we have a lot in common, we both like money”. “I thought shylock just meant a lender who charge a lot of interest”. Let us not forget Clarence Thomas strolling through his benefactor’s garden strewn with statues of Nazi officials from its high command, as he wipes away crumbs with linen napkins emblazoned with swastikas – not concerning. The list goes on, and on, on. It is endemic in our society, now rewarded in public discourse passing without comment, argument or correction.
Paul Krugman wrote a commentary titled “Are Hispanics the New Jews”, including the thought when racism comes for one group, we Jewish folks are next. With our special place as both powerful, rich, and the creators of anti-Christian evil, we have a unique place on the ladder of bigotry. It is therefore incumbent on us to stand up, speak out clearly. lead the charge.
After the assassination of Martin Luther King a journalist wrote an article asking the question “Who killed MLK”.
The answer was all of us – who didn’t speak up, challenge, refute. My friend, colleague, relative is really well-meaning, and a nice person…
In a world where journalists do not, or are prohibited from "speaking truth to power”, where media has been coopted by the need for profits and we hear no challenge to the intolerant inhumane society that is growing with every action, every statement, every ruling, every law ignored. Yes, we must fight for meaning!
After the Jan 6th riot and insurrection, one of the organizers spoke on camera: now we take it home – to the school boards, community boards, local elections. Abd so they did. We should take a clue from this (ironically, anti-democracy) grassroots campaigning. Speak to individuals, colleagues, classmates, and yes relatives. Try for what I call a “pause moment” when challenging a MAGA friend. One close friend, a science teacher & microbiologist, who read RFK’s conspiracy filled book, accepted the anti-vaccine stance. How will you feel, I asked, when your now 2-yr old grandson attends a pre-K class that contains 50% of children who have not been vaccinated for measles? Long pause…like Republican caught in the halls of Congress, by a reporter’s query. Perhaps the pause can grow into thoughts that meet the present ugliness that permeates all our lives
I have come to recognize that most of the otherwise seemingly rational, kind friends & colleagues who have embraced MAGA, do so because of identifying with Trump's open anger. Either (provoked) anger at those who have usurped their place in society, or the hand they have been dealt. My anti-vaccination friend has a chronically ill daughter who has been ill-treated, or not-treated, and therefore her anger is rooted in her travails with medicine.
Turn the anger at Trump and his unfulfilled promises – and appeal to their better selves – do you want to stand as a racist?
US Warship Ford is the distraction from the Epstein files. Watch trump declare "WAR" from Venezuela pushing back on all the murders trump is ordering his militia--oops, his military commit. Stuart Rhodes is eagerly frothing to get trmp's approval to begin making high ranking Democrats have "accidents" as soon as Martial Law is declared. There needs to be more Democrats in the HOUSE!!
BREAKING NEWS
Doug Mills/The New York Times
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.
NYT: "The committee’s staff redacted victims’ names and any identifying information from the emails. Because the full set of documents has not been released, it was not clear whether the emails had been excerpted from larger conversations that might have provided fuller context."
The Emails come from the Epstein estate, not DOJ or from court docs.
The House is back to vote on the funding package. Jeffries says he'll hold the line. May lead to further negotiations.
Hopefully it'll be Epstein time. The most recent revelations involve money laudering allegations.
Many Congressional Republicans privately admit Trump is nuts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNzVt7q0W5A
I keep posting. According to Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) Trumpepstein may cause an "Epstein bomb" causing over 100 Republican members to "jailbreak" from Trump.
Massive Congressional visits November 18.
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I think that if we play our cards right, many can be convinced by the election outcome to come forward.
Malcolm Nance was speaking on one of the progressive Sirius stations a few nights ago and said that this idea of 100 Republicans rebelling is not going to happen. I have found him to be a reliable source.
Those GOP colluders will be running like cockroaches if the Democrats can take the majority. Vote for Democracy.
If!
If we don't TRY, it's on US.
WE ONLY NEED one (1) to get subpoena power on Trumpepstein.
Every Dem in Congress, like Swalwell and Boyle know all of them up close and personal. I read Nance's stuff, read his books, watch his shows, and I (that's just me) know more House MAGATs than he does.
I've found he's a reliable source, too.
There is a special election in Tennessee that will be decided Nov 26, two weeks from now, if the Republican is elected, then that will give Mike Johnson an offset to Adelita Grijalva,l Look for delaying tactics to her swearing in.
I;ve had my hopes dashed before with Mueller and Jack Smith and with the E J Carroll case and he was convicted of felonies in New York, and even then the convictions were ignored.
Fool me one shame on your, fool me twice.. I can't be fooled again.
Charley Brown falls for Lucy's act, not me.
What is long needed is a full frontal attack, but so long as we have people like the infamous eight, we are doomed.
While I support the Marches and efforts of indivisible, I don't delude myself that any Republican is going to risk the Wrath of Khan, and bolt the party Especially when most of them share the white Christian nationalist mentality.
At some point, hopefully before it is too late, we are going to have to abandon this belief we can turn back he tide of dictatorship through democratic means.
Bombing boats in the ocean, invading cities, ripping down the W H to imprint himself on it as his personal property, re doing the Lincoln bedroom in his own image. I bet that is where he sleeps now. Suborning congress the law, ignoring SCOTUS if he doesn't like the ruling. Ignoring court decisions. Using Congress as a lap dog.
He is not going anywhere except on a gurney, and then a more malignant grise eminence will take charge
We are up to our neck in sewage and talking about pulling the plug on the drain, thinking it is still at our feet.
Somebody provide me with anactionable scenario in which we can still save ourselves, outside of a full blown general strike and national uprising.
And no the institutions won't save us, they are already drowned in the sludge.
Economic boycott -- if the businesses turn on Trump -- where did all the indentured slaves of business go -- things may change.
And: MGT is not so dumb! She has realized that Trump could not care if any of the lickspittles (don't you love that world!!) get re-elected. Why would he -- he defies everyone, every institution, every law, every shred of common decency...need I go on? Let's put aside Steve Bannon for a moment, and concentrate on pouring salt into the wound of all the "heartbroken" MAGA clan because of the Epstein files; the waiters who still need to pay taxes on their below minimum wages; the lower income and middle class white folks who are told that gas prices are $2 a gallon, a turkey fest is way cheaper, and the economy is booming as they wait on an unemployment line, or for their SNAP benefits. No one likes to be played for a fool. If more Republican congressman accept the fact that Trump will do nothing for them -- even if they have been loyal to a fault, we can force the cracks to open into a fault line. Maybe cause an earthquake/sea change. Speak up!!
I do not think, that liberals (leftists, Democrats, whatever they are called) understand the mentality and motivation of MAGA.
Economics , personal finance, is irrelevant and to the extent they are disadvantaged they blame in the libs.
That which motivates MAGA, the unifying force is hatred of the lib. The will suffer and endure anything so long as they think they are owning the lib.
I watch soybean farmers in Missouri on Frontline, whine about how they are going bankrut and will have to sell their farms, knowing that it was tariffs that were the cause, but they didn't blame Trump in fact one of them said, that Trump is pretty intelligent.
Rural America is more motivated by the culture war, hatred of libs, DEI, gay marriage, transfolk, than concerned about their pocket book.
The Nov 4 Democratic victory was in blue state,and even then conservative Puerto Ricans in Passiac county still voted for the Republican., as did the Seniors in Cape May and Ocean county.
Mississippi and Georgia had wins for minor public officials in the Democrat column, because the white voters weren't interested enough to turn out, that won't be situation in 2026
What fogs the vision of Democrats. Hope, taking small victories as a huge win? Wilfull self delusion.
Here is how I see it MAGA is 40% of the population, and they are fired up and turn out over 90%,
Approximately 45% of the population is Democrat, and are lukewarm voters.
For instance, Trump wants to do away with mail in ballots, because Democrats are the majority of mail in voters. Republicans more than Democrats, tend to show up and stand in line for voting. one of the reasons , I am sure, is that Democrats have to take time off from work, lose wages, and show up at districts that have a limited supply of voting machines, whereas with Republican districts it is in and out almost immediately.
That leaves 15% of the voters as independents, Green,Libertarian,and the rightward leaning independents will vote Republican, while idiots like the Greens will vote third party.
The problem with the Democratic party are the paid professional "Strategists". Since their income and social status, their access to people and power, depend on maintaining and protecting the status quo, that is what they do. In a word they are conservative, resistant to change.
Please oh please, William. Don't put leftists in the same corral as the liberals.
Shorthand Robert. Too many words to describe the spectrum.
We use Right wing to describe everyone from the Reaganites, and Bucklyites and Friedmanites to the Chrsitian Nationalists, KKK, NAZIs
Like sex and autism their is a Kinsey like spectrum, but it is damn well difficult and confusing to identify where on the spectrum a person or persons sit.
J,the reason we are being fed all this disinformation about $2 gas,booming economy,is booming is because of CNBC,and Wall Street.Jim Kramer and the fucking commentators who are so weak,they used the term AI at least 80 times per day. We have to remember Wall Street loves Trump,the AI tech companies want to destroy millions of jobs and have no regulation which is exactly what Trump has promised.
For big business the major issue is tariffs. 4-5 Republican Senate members crossed over to vote with Dems to oppose Trump tarif authprity. SCOTUS has the case. Trump looks vulnerable.
From NYT Dealbook this morning.
"Businesses are growing more optimistic that a key component of President Trump’s trade war will be struck down by the Supreme Court, after a rough hearing for the administration last week.
"That has revived interest in the tariff refund trade, a long-shot gambit to cash in on some of those levies being nullified, Bernhard Warner reports.
"The stakes are huge: Some economists project that the administration could owe importers billions if the courts rule against the tariffs."
Mr. Negative.
Could get some relief in through the side door, as soon as this afternoon.
We have a day of action planned Nov 18.
NYT this morning. “The end to this government shutdown does not solve their affordability problem,” said Amy Walter, the publisher and editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. “A deal that included an extension of the subsidies would actually have helped.”
That vulnerability is clear in the actions of Republicans from states like New Jersey and Virginia, which elected Democratic governors by large margins in last week’s off-year elections.
Representatives Jen Kiggans of Virginia and Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, two Republicans facing competitive races next year, recently sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson telling him that once the government was reopened, Republicans needed to “immediately turn our focus to the growing crisis of health care affordability and the looming expiration of the enhanced Affordable Care Act (A.C.A.) premium tax credits.”
Not negative Daniei realistic
Charlie Brown never learns and Lucy yanks the football. I am no Charlie Brown
Yes there are Republicans who are worried about the health care crisis, MGT is one. That is not the question or the subject.
The question, the subject of which you make a lot of noise is the Epstein files. So long as Trump has the veto pen, nothing associated with the ACA will get signed. The man is petty, as you know He would wage revenge on John McCain were he still alive.
Here is one for you, we don't have to wait for the Epstein files. posted in the NYT, from the Epstein Estate" Epstein email of Trump spending hours with an underage female
Let's see how that carries.
https://michaeldsellers.substack.com/p/breaking-dems-release-epstein-email
Enough already about the Epstein files, whatever they may divulge, for to Trump's MAGA, any (or all) of it would not be believed or even considered, and his political and /or wealth-dependent supporters would not dare to question or criticize any of his actions.
So I would like to think that your pessimism is overwrought, but since Trump is (for all practical purposes) now the law, I see no legal path of terminating his rule or influence. As Trump's adversaries (although he would consider us enemies,) we need to keep calling out, criticizing and demonstrating against his actions and policies - more loudly and vociferously than ever before,
Agreed with all. I agree, whatever is in the files, is not going to deter MAGA, nothing has nothing will. Trump is their avatar, their alter ego, their id. He is all of their anger, fear, hatred, animosity , bias manifested in the flesh and made legit.
Just like Catholics, go to confession, then mass, start afresh. Protestants fall on their knees, crawl up to the pulpit, beg forgiveness and claim to reborn, washed in the blood of the lamb
Ted Haggard a notorious anti gay preacher, was exposed having a Grindr account. When the Republican convention hits town, the calls to male escorts go crazy., the next morning they are all redeemed like Ted
Ted Haggard is currently the pastor of the non-denominational St. James Church in Colorado Springs, which he founded after his previous church, New Life, dissolved following his 2006 sex scandal
Bar in mind, that this is the only way Ted knows of earning a living.
Pervert TRump was involved with the teen pageants for nearly two decades, and it all overlaps with his Epstein days.
They trafficked the girls to get blackmail material. Used real estate to launder money for Russians. Opened their Deutsche Bank accounts the same day with the same banker. That banker died of suicide as well as another that turned over info on TRump to the FBI.
Epstein went on to traffic arms and security programs, I'm thinking that is what the BILLIONS transferred are going to be about.
https://michaeldsellers.substack.com/p/breaking-dems-release-epstein-email
Good one, William---it is all over YouTube channels with millions watching there.
Great. now watch Trump start a war or something as a distraction.
Daniel:
You're better than this! Focus, man!
If good-faith investigation into Mr Trump’s relationship with Mr Epstein results in the total evisceration of the Trump myth, I'm not going to waste any tears.
Still, let's remember the essentials. Hartmann's column, like an email published this morning by Rep Jamie "liberal and progressive and conservative" Raskin, isn't about powerful men taking advantage of vulnerable young women.
It's about knowing that we are up against the revanchist Confederacy. That pistol shot at Ford's Theater on 14 April 1865 still echoes . . . louder and louder.
This is bigger than any little coward presently occupying the White House.
\Vince S
Vince, WTF!!! You must not understand. This may be the window of opportunity we've needed. Every House Republican will have to state whether they support the victims or the preverts.
Check out the Jerry Weiss scenario. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/
Daniel:
You and Jerry Weiss are right to decry the "vicious ostracism" too often displayed publicly by some of the more intense among us. No argument from me.
HOWEVER . . .
I do worry that once Mr Trump implodes in disgrace, Democrats will congratulate themselves on a job well, if not entirely honorably, done . . . and fail to attend to the continuing threat.
That threat is the subject of Mr Hartmann's column this morning. Even without Mr Trump, the Confederates will still be flying their flag and spreading lies and erasing historical memory.
Remember, Project 2025, according to Mr Trump, was written and published entirely without his knowledge.
Jesse Jackson is right. We need to keep our eyes on the prize.
If my reply this morning offended you, I apologize.
\Vince S
Daniel,my guess is that they all support the perverts,not the victims. They have no respect for those who advocate for egual rights,fairness toward others.That is not the "Nazi"model.
Get 'em Thom!
If we don't get them now, eventually the demographics will. Their desperation is showing. It really is pathetic.
The boo-ing at the football game is a good example. Only 25% of the NFL players are white. Turns out people don't like Psycho TRump and his pack of Nazis.
The most hopeful thing is inter-marriage and the bi-racial children. It is so beautiful to see them, some of my cousins included. Commercials to sell to only white guys are not gonna work.
The more they try to take away diversity, equity, and inclusion---the more young people are going to want it. They hate authority and liars. The cultural blend is well under way. Music, sports, and even politics have done that. Call the racist, misogynists, and homophobes out every chance you get. See you in the streets.
The stadium for the team formerly known as the Redskins is "JFK Stadium." That's Robert Kennedy, the elder. Trump demands that the name be changed to Donald J. Trump Stadium.
Can'r wait to see what the Secretary of Health has to say about that!
Daniel,they are not going to do that.Trump is not going to have a library,Hitler has no library.
We have falsely assumed that “democracy” as an organizing principle is what Mr. Trump also espouses. So, I queried AI to count the number of times the president has used the word “democracy” in any of his speeches. Here is what AI returned: “in his most significant domestic policy speeches (State of the Union), the word “democracy” was used ONCE in four years.
AI concluded, “The analysis of his major prepared speeches confirms a clear and consistent pattern of VERY SPARSE USAGE” (my emphasis). Bottom line, as democracy goes, we may be talking past each other. The man is not wired to promote democratic principles.
Chris Murphy would be an excellent speaker! Make it so O Democratic party.
Can you please change that, Lynn? He would be Senate Minority Leader. I totally agree he is the best.
I'd elevate him to MAJORITY leader.
He's truthful, has a wry sense of humor, and was a working lawyer in real estate and banking.
Gotta tell ya, I'm not mad at Jeffries, and he would be the first black Speaker of the House. He is a lawyer as well. NYU Law Review, magna cum laude, clerked, practiced.
exactly:)
Whoops!
This one burns with the kind of truth polite people avoid at dinner tables. You’re right, erasure isn’t nostalgia, it’s strategy. When history is rewritten, democracy isn’t just edited, it’s executed in slow motion while the guilty call it patriotism.
The legacy media is a lost cause, but the many Democrats in both houses of Congress, all of whom know how to find a camera and a microphone, could and should and must decry this blatant racism loudly and often. Their silence is tacit support for Repugnican depredations.
Many Dem members do it...generally unreported
I recommend a hostile takeover.
As Thom Hartmann has often remarked, it was conservative Nostra-dumbass Russell Kirk who warned his confreres that a growing middle class would only lead to social upheaval. Well, of course, because as working people become wealthier, they become empowered politically, and their concerns come to the surface. Racism, sexism, and warmongering wouldn't go down without a fight, but eventually law and justice, not violence, prevailed. Now, the GOP is determined to repeal the 1960's, their lost cause. When the GOP took over the racist vote in the 1960's, it was really the racist vote that took over the GOP.
This rewriting of our history is hateful, and very destructive to all Americans, but especially Americans of color. The very idea of removing a plaque honoring a Black American who gave his life to save a colleague, is repulsive. People in the Netherlands had been tending the grave of that brave American, and are shocked by this disgusting behavior.
JP,I think smart people throughout the world are disgusted by the " Nazi" takeover of American politics. The current " Nazis" running the Gov't have no respect for anyone who is different. We could have another civil war.
Let's talk about Linda McMahon WWE an "advocate for education and workforce development" currently destroying the Dept. of Education! Reject the "Lickspittles to white supremacy" Crawling out from under rocks for their own gain. I say "bury" them but never forget the evil. Anyone advocating for "school choice" is suspect to me. Shout out to Public Schools and stop the march toward private charter schools. Keep the curriculum core subjects with standards. Include DEI and factual history. Accepting our mistakes in history is hard. "Lickspittles" to white supremacy and christian nationalism will always look for the path. I have concern that generations to come will look back at the destruction of American Education and be pissed off!! We need to protect it. IMO Politicians need to be clear about their loyalties. Some new Dems running for office are not. Many RepubliCONS don't care. YIKES. They need to transparent.
First: Donald is demented. So some of us [the sickest/saddest] are following a pathetic clown into the tumbling vortex of illogic that passes for his mind. . . . Good friggin' luck following a kiddie rapist and an abuser/rapist of women into a 50-year mortgage, Venezuela, or anywhere, come to think of it.
Second: There are roughly 1.5 billion Indians and 1.4 billion Chinese. So, White Americans are going to chuck out [or kill?] 140,000,000 "others", leaving 192 million Whites. Makes a lotta sense to go it alone.
- Population count: 191,697,647 individuals who identify as White alone and not Hispanic/Latino
- Percentage of total U.S. population: 57.84%
Hence, 192 million US Whites against Planet Earth. The definition of Madness. All to appease the GOP's demented golden calf. One made of fool's gold, like that infernal escalator in his Dark Tower.
Simply put, the Republican Party is the Party of HATE. They generate political support by stirring the embers of personal hatreds and bigotries that are rooted not only in race, but ethnic background, socio-economic status, and religious convictions. Worse, MAGAs brazenly lie to voters to generate voter outrage - such as ridiculous claims that illegal immigrants are cannibalizing neighbors' family pets. Of course, these hatreds and bigotries are a direct anathema to Democracy. That explains the Democrats' unwillingness to conform 100% to party initiatives. It also explains how NYC elected a non-Christian Democrat as mayor in a landslide.
Senator Fetterman is, in my view, clear evidence that the Democrats have gone too far in their big-tenting. Any cohesive party would have kicked this DINO out of the party long ago. Somehow, the DNC cannot even bring itself to expel a traitor. The Democrat shutdown cave-in is yet more undeniable evidence that Democrats are not a cohesive party. However, we must keep in mind that expelling David Hogg for wanting to primary out-of-step geezers was evidence that change is needed - something the DNC seems to finally, begrudgingly, accept.
I am not suggesting that Democrats model themselves after the "power-at-all-costs" Republicans. That doctrine requires elevating RULE above morality and above GOVERNING for the people, as scholars have pointed out is the case in all fascist regimes. Nevertheless, Dems do need to get more unified.
Tomonthebeach,great post. It is time the Dems get unified and go on the offensive,so far they have had a tepid response to the : Neo Nazi: takeover.
Another example
19 Medals of Honor were awarded for the actions at Wounded Knee, which was part of a larger campaign that resulted in a total of 31 Medals of Honor being awarded. The awards for the Wounded Knee massacre were for the U.S. Army soldiers involved in the 1890 incident. These awards are controversial, and efforts have been made to have some rescinded due to the nature of the event.
Total Medals of Honor: 19 were awarded specifically for the event at Wounded Knee.
Total campaign: In total, 31 Medals of Honor were awarded for the entire 1890 campaign.
Controversy: The awards have been criticized for being given to soldiers who participated in the massacre of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children.
Review of awards: A review of these awards was ordered in 2024, and the decision was made in September 2025 to keep the awards, reports MPR News
Yesterday was Veteran's Day, i.e. Poppy Day, Armmistice Day.
I am probably the lone survivor from my units, 1966-67. It wasn't just combat that killed friend and/or foe, it was stuff like agent orange, PTSD, drug abuse, the residual effects.
The main benefit has been veterans' preference...which over the years was the subject of contention. Thank the Biden administration for the Honoring our PACT Act of 2022, which significantly expanded health care and benefits for toxic-exposed veterans, and the Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act of 2025, which bolstered support for caregivers. Also the Veterans COMPACT Act aimed to reduce veteran suicide by providing no-cost emergency stabilization care for veterans in acute suicidal crisis.
I have to say, the minute we became veterans, we became the targets of the Republican Party, seen as "takers". Fuck 'em all...the long and the short and the tall.
Hopefully MacAthur was wrong and we won't just fade away.
Two House vets were on with Jon Stewart and thanked him for his work on PACT. Said it has really helped them, both were exposed.
While Trumpism built a gilded architecture of erasure and dominance, too many voices debated whether it counted as “real conservatism.”
Thom Hartmann is right: the rewriting of American memory is how this new Confederate blueprint cements power. I wrote about how we wasted years arguing semantics while democracy was quietly redesigned from the inside.
https://www.stewonthis.com/p/debating-conservatism-while-the-house
Bonus for paid subscribers: Ingraham’s surreal White House tour included.
Krasnov is busy pretending only his worldview counts. Hard to believe the haters think this is going to stand or why more push back has not occurred. Do haters really think when the time comes the outrage will be something they can contain? Deluded fools. The comeback will swing so hard that that is all they are going to see for decades to come. All the while tribunals will be busy putting ICE in jail where they belong. The comeback will be swift and strong for the rest of their lives. The day is coming sooner than they ever think if thinking was ever in their ability. Thank God from whom all Blessing flow.
And from the beginning, with the walk down the golden elevator, the media dared not utter the word “racist”. On occasion, through the years, anchors, and discussion groups on air have questioned whether the word applies to Trump…a rhetorical question, is it not?
And let us not overlook the clever intertwining of (stated anti-) antisemitism, with the (racist) fight against DEI. Divide and conquer, or at least distract. Stamped with the badge and legitimacy granted by a public support of Israel—which has always been conflated with supporting Jewish folks (as my Orthodox brethren swallowed whole, and unfortunately still do). All the while continuing to turn the clock back to the beginning, when white landholders could enslave a people considered and treated as subhuman. Our “glorious experiment” began with a similar “bait & switch” confusion of goals: a statement of democratic principles (“All men are created equal”) by the same founders who retained their slaves.
So, the re-branding of the groups, organizations, donors, et.al, who traffic in all forms of bigotry (choose your group du jour) has begun in earnest in both a subtle and insidious manner.
The bleaching of past Republican, right-wing, and/or conservative politics, and those who trade in antisemitism, along with a variety of fascist, authoritarian, and oppressive stands has begun. In our bizarre world of Annie-get-your-gun politics and discourse, anything you can do I can do better, it’s not me, it’s you, in a world now a fiction. It is obvious, we’re told, that it is left that espouses antisemitism! In supremely twisted logic, in alignment with the straight-faced explanation of why Trump has to stop funding our universities both because of (reverse) racism (“too much DEI”) and because antisemitism is out of control (credit to the tiki-torch bearers at Charlottesville, not-withstanding), as proven by college students using free speech in support of Palestinians besieged by war. Hey! These kids were supporting Hamas (though a few did), a terrorist group, and therefore we had to arrest, deport Muslim protestors.
Oh, a rift in the right. The protestations arising from the certification of Fuentes have never been so vocal and so twisted in rationale. Why, the Heritage Society even has an antisemitism task force. The supposed blowback from the lower echelon members of the Heritage Society, is the beginning of the concealing of what has always been part of the infrastructure, embedded within the firm support of Israel. And if it is the “newer/younger” adherents, can we cite Charlie Kirk, he of the “Great Replacement Theory” as having brought them into the fold?
With a newly renewed platform, Bill O’Reilly crawled out from under the rock where he was hiding, appearing on HBO to be feted by Bill Maher. He laid out this new history as easily as Trump has rewritten American history. O’Reilly tsk-tsked the idea that Republicans have ever shown even a hint of antisemitism and never will. Now their righteous job is to quell the antisemitism coming from the left, quipped Maher, as O’Reilly continued with his propaganda. Good people on both sides? Nope only on our side – and don’t call us Nazis!!
Fading into the background, disappearing like ink on old documents are the T-shirts emblazoned (not only with) Camp Auschwitz but “6 million is not enough” seen on rioters. Add Trump addressing Jewish donors with “we have a lot in common, we both like money”. “I thought shylock just meant a lender who charge a lot of interest”. Let us not forget Clarence Thomas strolling through his benefactor’s garden strewn with statues of Nazi officials from its high command, as he wipes away crumbs with linen napkins emblazoned with swastikas – not concerning. The list goes on, and on, on. It is endemic in our society, now rewarded in public discourse passing without comment, argument or correction.
Paul Krugman wrote a commentary titled “Are Hispanics the New Jews”, including the thought when racism comes for one group, we Jewish folks are next. With our special place as both powerful, rich, and the creators of anti-Christian evil, we have a unique place on the ladder of bigotry. It is therefore incumbent on us to stand up, speak out clearly. lead the charge.
After the assassination of Martin Luther King a journalist wrote an article asking the question “Who killed MLK”.
The answer was all of us – who didn’t speak up, challenge, refute. My friend, colleague, relative is really well-meaning, and a nice person…
In a world where journalists do not, or are prohibited from "speaking truth to power”, where media has been coopted by the need for profits and we hear no challenge to the intolerant inhumane society that is growing with every action, every statement, every ruling, every law ignored. Yes, we must fight for meaning!
After the Jan 6th riot and insurrection, one of the organizers spoke on camera: now we take it home – to the school boards, community boards, local elections. Abd so they did. We should take a clue from this (ironically, anti-democracy) grassroots campaigning. Speak to individuals, colleagues, classmates, and yes relatives. Try for what I call a “pause moment” when challenging a MAGA friend. One close friend, a science teacher & microbiologist, who read RFK’s conspiracy filled book, accepted the anti-vaccine stance. How will you feel, I asked, when your now 2-yr old grandson attends a pre-K class that contains 50% of children who have not been vaccinated for measles? Long pause…like Republican caught in the halls of Congress, by a reporter’s query. Perhaps the pause can grow into thoughts that meet the present ugliness that permeates all our lives
I have come to recognize that most of the otherwise seemingly rational, kind friends & colleagues who have embraced MAGA, do so because of identifying with Trump's open anger. Either (provoked) anger at those who have usurped their place in society, or the hand they have been dealt. My anti-vaccination friend has a chronically ill daughter who has been ill-treated, or not-treated, and therefore her anger is rooted in her travails with medicine.
Turn the anger at Trump and his unfulfilled promises – and appeal to their better selves – do you want to stand as a racist?
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High time to purge the white house from those radical uneducated ignorant fascist pieces of republican shit. The sooner the better
US Warship Ford is the distraction from the Epstein files. Watch trump declare "WAR" from Venezuela pushing back on all the murders trump is ordering his militia--oops, his military commit. Stuart Rhodes is eagerly frothing to get trmp's approval to begin making high ranking Democrats have "accidents" as soon as Martial Law is declared. There needs to be more Democrats in the HOUSE!!