Future generations will struggle to understand how a nation that claimed to love children could deliberately subject them to fear, isolation, sickness, & despair in the name of Donald Trump & the GOP…
Being a Brown child in Donald's Grand Ole Pedo [GOP] America is like being locked in a "Panic" room. A room lit by a fluorescent tube that sporadically flickers blue-ish flashes. An eerie electronic hum-crackle accompanies each strobe-flash.
A semi-darkened room with a very hangry, slavering, fast-approaching, now you see him/now you don't, Jeffrey Dahmer.
At the same time, Wagner blasts within said room: Occasionally, she hears Speaker Mike Johnson's voice as he timorously blurts out, "I don't know," over the "music." It's all Fascistically Loud.
Piped in through four massive, 4-foot-tall, chipping and peeling, fake-wood coated, late-'60s, Monitor Gold 15" Tannoy speakers — All of them rattling. Distorting cacophonically at one another from each corner with a small Brown child quaking in a bunny beanie, in the middle of Bovine Bovino's Hate-room.
While Mikey loudly and randomly squeaks out, "I don't know."
It's Kafka-esque. A Living Hell.
#VOTE #Send Jared to the Donbas, Ukraine #Send Don Jr., too
Every privately run housing facility, from prisons to nursing homes, sacrifices care to prioritize profit margin. Capitalism's dark heart is never more obvious. But what makes these concentration camps magnitudes worse is the racist philosophy that drives their mission.
The business administrator is the supervisor of the Director of Nursing in nursing homes. They are usually on six-month contracts that aren't renewed if they don’t meet the financial goals set by the owners. They rarely see the residents or deal with the families.
It might help if Democrat-hating Democratic leadership would turn their attention from undermining those to their left to focusing their attention and power on the fascists to their right. Failing that, they’re feeding a monster indifferent to the source of its nutrition.
I fight back tears as I read this essay. I trained as a teacher. I learned about the lifelong repercussions of early neglect, let alone deliberate abuse. I was born in the early 50s. I grew up in a country that mostly respected our First Amendment rights. I watched as republican administrations began the gradual attack on our own Constitution. When you want to be a dictator, you cannot allow the rights defined in our foundational First Amendment.
Mary Trump, in a recent interview on The Daily Beast, described that her Uncle Donold was creating a blackhole. His joy comes from degrading everyone.
Change that concept to TRump BEING a blackhole that sucks everyone and everything in and I would agree. He loves seeing a good beat-down---man, woman, or child. Any physical pain will do. He is a psychopath and a sadist that has surrounded himself by the same.
Thank you, Thom and Louise, for your service. Keep bringing us the LIGHT. See you in the streets.
Surely abuse of children is considered a crime against humanity and any an all perpetrators need to be indicted and sent to the Hague for adjudication of their crimes. If not held to account in legitimate judicial proceedings the final course of "justice" is that administered by the "People".
Thom and Louise, thank you again for this eye-opener and timely article. You continue to outdo yourself with the hard facts which most Americans are afraid to admit and consider.
I’ve long since come to the belief that 80+% of our citizens are either sleep walking or under mass hypnosis(as in NLP neuro-linguistic programming- see Steven Hassen’s “ The Cult of Trump, and his many current and archived articles, his Substack subscription is now free.
Louise’ daily song is superb. I think one should use earphones/pods to do justice to it-worthy of platinum and national radio. As usual, you provide all your sources (click on anything underlined)
Comments on Louise's songs are worth a thumbs up to add to yours. I don't know how she is doing it. Thy lyrics and the music almost daily will move me. I listen to a lot of music, and have been a radio host on a music program on public radio for many years. And these songs get us to where we need to be thinking and understanding the reality around us these days. Not much lollipops and roses, okay? Promoting them seems like a thing the program is not interested in doing, they are "bumpers" to use for coming back from a break. I appreciate that they will generally play the new one on for an extended play. But, I finally have figured out how to download them after I listen to it online all the way through. And I rename it with the title and date, from its no name file. You are correct. Earphones are the best way to listen.
"...so obscene that the psychopaths and monsters in the Trump administration are gleefully holding brown-skinned babies, toddlers, and young children in brutal, cold, fluorescent-lit-all-night cages for months at a time and longer."
Though I completely understand the outrage and sentiment of harm to ANY child, I must say that I find this sudden concern about "children in cages" rather profound. You see, the ORIGINAL brown skinned babies that were not only placed in cages, but kidnapped, beaten, raped and shackled had no fluorescent lights. In fact, they were not even human...they were "property" like a refrigerator, or a dog. I am a descendant of those children. Those children built the nation that the "brown-skinned babies" that European-Amerikans are so concerned about now flood into "seeking a better life." Those original caged and abused children's offspring's offspring continue to suffer to this very day; yet, I see no such outrage.
Yes, Thom. Once again you brilliantly described all aspects of child abuse. And I commend you for all the work that you and Louise did years ago to help abused children. Thank you. Thank you!
Excellent summary of the monstrous GOP. They scream to high heaven about protecting fetuses, which they call "unborn children". But once born, they - at best - turn a blind eye to the children's welfare. Republicans refuse to fund daycare, they cut SNAP benefits, Medicaid, school lunches, education, and any other program that promotes the health and welfare of children, all to save a few bucks. I don't even want to imagine the pain and suffering and death of millions of children around the world due to Republican cuts in USAID and other US assistance.
And if a child is not rich and White, he/she is in danger from the government. Hundreds of kids were ripped from their parents in the first tRump fiasco, never to be located again. Today they are imprisoned with their parents, so the parents can watch them suffer. And let's not forget that it is mostly Republicans who defend and even promote people like Epstein and Weinstein and other pedophiles and rapists.
Thom's description of the danger to children's intellectual and emotional development is illuminating. Why are some people always angry, violent, lacking in decent moral values, cruel, and unable to think rationally? So much has been documented about how their poor childhood experiences shaped their minds. Children in war zones will grow up despising with a passion the people who made their childhoods miserable and fearful. What Israel is doing to Palestinian and Persian and Arab children is destroying any chance of peace in the region for generations. What tRump is doing to children of color and even poor White children will show up in crime and poverty statistics for generations.
If Democrats ever get their act together, they should campaign on exposing the "Republican War on Children"
I am saddened by this edition of the Report. Because it is just what I am thinking and feeling nearly (no, absolutely) daily.
What will history say? Will the commentators on this era be echoed or contradicted by the outcome of the "monsters" and their cruel and selfish and treasonous deeds?
Using the term monsters, on the one hand is not helpful. But Hell, what else can we call these humans doing these things? Call it monstrous.
I don't know. I am just so weary. I have to retreat. I have to limit my time on this stuff or I am going to go downhill in my own health and ability to think.
One statement I have to respond to this newsletter, might be this:
Brutality is attractive to some.
Ugly as it is, why do so many things just get amplified and repeated?
Why do not more people intervene when they are seeing the cruelty being carried out?
Some are actually seeing the policies and the cruel acts as strength.
Of course, the lies that are said to completely cover up much of this is also an answer to how it will continue while we await an awakening of more citizens to jump in and helpt to stop this.
We need to be very serious abut rounding up every single person involved in these incarcerations, jailing them pending due process for violating human rights, false imprisonment, impersonating law enforcement officers, and endangering mental health. We could hold them in the very same detention facilities under the very same conditions.
I have a question about birthright citizenship. I'm a citizen because I was born here and my parents were citizens. But my parents were only citizens because they were born here and their parents were citizens. But their parents were only citizens because ... and so on. No one was ever naturalized. Is there a three-generation rule? A four-generation one?
Being a Brown child in Donald's Grand Ole Pedo [GOP] America is like being locked in a "Panic" room. A room lit by a fluorescent tube that sporadically flickers blue-ish flashes. An eerie electronic hum-crackle accompanies each strobe-flash.
A semi-darkened room with a very hangry, slavering, fast-approaching, now you see him/now you don't, Jeffrey Dahmer.
At the same time, Wagner blasts within said room: Occasionally, she hears Speaker Mike Johnson's voice as he timorously blurts out, "I don't know," over the "music." It's all Fascistically Loud.
Piped in through four massive, 4-foot-tall, chipping and peeling, fake-wood coated, late-'60s, Monitor Gold 15" Tannoy speakers — All of them rattling. Distorting cacophonically at one another from each corner with a small Brown child quaking in a bunny beanie, in the middle of Bovine Bovino's Hate-room.
While Mikey loudly and randomly squeaks out, "I don't know."
It's Kafka-esque. A Living Hell.
#VOTE #Send Jared to the Donbas, Ukraine #Send Don Jr., too
Orwell is more and more prophetic,and if so then the victor writes the history, so it is up to us to see to it that MAGAism is not the victor.
Every privately run housing facility, from prisons to nursing homes, sacrifices care to prioritize profit margin. Capitalism's dark heart is never more obvious. But what makes these concentration camps magnitudes worse is the racist philosophy that drives their mission.
The business administrator is the supervisor of the Director of Nursing in nursing homes. They are usually on six-month contracts that aren't renewed if they don’t meet the financial goals set by the owners. They rarely see the residents or deal with the families.
Especially in the increasingly monopolized private equity corporate monoliths that are taking over these institutions.
It might help if Democrat-hating Democratic leadership would turn their attention from undermining those to their left to focusing their attention and power on the fascists to their right. Failing that, they’re feeding a monster indifferent to the source of its nutrition.
I fight back tears as I read this essay. I trained as a teacher. I learned about the lifelong repercussions of early neglect, let alone deliberate abuse. I was born in the early 50s. I grew up in a country that mostly respected our First Amendment rights. I watched as republican administrations began the gradual attack on our own Constitution. When you want to be a dictator, you cannot allow the rights defined in our foundational First Amendment.
Cages seem to be a theme among the TRump regime.
Mary Trump, in a recent interview on The Daily Beast, described that her Uncle Donold was creating a blackhole. His joy comes from degrading everyone.
Change that concept to TRump BEING a blackhole that sucks everyone and everything in and I would agree. He loves seeing a good beat-down---man, woman, or child. Any physical pain will do. He is a psychopath and a sadist that has surrounded himself by the same.
Thank you, Thom and Louise, for your service. Keep bringing us the LIGHT. See you in the streets.
Surely abuse of children is considered a crime against humanity and any an all perpetrators need to be indicted and sent to the Hague for adjudication of their crimes. If not held to account in legitimate judicial proceedings the final course of "justice" is that administered by the "People".
Thom and Louise, thank you again for this eye-opener and timely article. You continue to outdo yourself with the hard facts which most Americans are afraid to admit and consider.
I’ve long since come to the belief that 80+% of our citizens are either sleep walking or under mass hypnosis(as in NLP neuro-linguistic programming- see Steven Hassen’s “ The Cult of Trump, and his many current and archived articles, his Substack subscription is now free.
Louise’ daily song is superb. I think one should use earphones/pods to do justice to it-worthy of platinum and national radio. As usual, you provide all your sources (click on anything underlined)
Comments on Louise's songs are worth a thumbs up to add to yours. I don't know how she is doing it. Thy lyrics and the music almost daily will move me. I listen to a lot of music, and have been a radio host on a music program on public radio for many years. And these songs get us to where we need to be thinking and understanding the reality around us these days. Not much lollipops and roses, okay? Promoting them seems like a thing the program is not interested in doing, they are "bumpers" to use for coming back from a break. I appreciate that they will generally play the new one on for an extended play. But, I finally have figured out how to download them after I listen to it online all the way through. And I rename it with the title and date, from its no name file. You are correct. Earphones are the best way to listen.
"...so obscene that the psychopaths and monsters in the Trump administration are gleefully holding brown-skinned babies, toddlers, and young children in brutal, cold, fluorescent-lit-all-night cages for months at a time and longer."
Though I completely understand the outrage and sentiment of harm to ANY child, I must say that I find this sudden concern about "children in cages" rather profound. You see, the ORIGINAL brown skinned babies that were not only placed in cages, but kidnapped, beaten, raped and shackled had no fluorescent lights. In fact, they were not even human...they were "property" like a refrigerator, or a dog. I am a descendant of those children. Those children built the nation that the "brown-skinned babies" that European-Amerikans are so concerned about now flood into "seeking a better life." Those original caged and abused children's offspring's offspring continue to suffer to this very day; yet, I see no such outrage.
Odd, that.
Yes, Thom. Once again you brilliantly described all aspects of child abuse. And I commend you for all the work that you and Louise did years ago to help abused children. Thank you. Thank you!
Excellent summary of the monstrous GOP. They scream to high heaven about protecting fetuses, which they call "unborn children". But once born, they - at best - turn a blind eye to the children's welfare. Republicans refuse to fund daycare, they cut SNAP benefits, Medicaid, school lunches, education, and any other program that promotes the health and welfare of children, all to save a few bucks. I don't even want to imagine the pain and suffering and death of millions of children around the world due to Republican cuts in USAID and other US assistance.
And if a child is not rich and White, he/she is in danger from the government. Hundreds of kids were ripped from their parents in the first tRump fiasco, never to be located again. Today they are imprisoned with their parents, so the parents can watch them suffer. And let's not forget that it is mostly Republicans who defend and even promote people like Epstein and Weinstein and other pedophiles and rapists.
Thom's description of the danger to children's intellectual and emotional development is illuminating. Why are some people always angry, violent, lacking in decent moral values, cruel, and unable to think rationally? So much has been documented about how their poor childhood experiences shaped their minds. Children in war zones will grow up despising with a passion the people who made their childhoods miserable and fearful. What Israel is doing to Palestinian and Persian and Arab children is destroying any chance of peace in the region for generations. What tRump is doing to children of color and even poor White children will show up in crime and poverty statistics for generations.
If Democrats ever get their act together, they should campaign on exposing the "Republican War on Children"
My "Like" is only a thank you to Thom for this essay describing the inhumanity of the tRumpian regime.
I am saddened by this edition of the Report. Because it is just what I am thinking and feeling nearly (no, absolutely) daily.
What will history say? Will the commentators on this era be echoed or contradicted by the outcome of the "monsters" and their cruel and selfish and treasonous deeds?
Using the term monsters, on the one hand is not helpful. But Hell, what else can we call these humans doing these things? Call it monstrous.
I don't know. I am just so weary. I have to retreat. I have to limit my time on this stuff or I am going to go downhill in my own health and ability to think.
One statement I have to respond to this newsletter, might be this:
Brutality is attractive to some.
Ugly as it is, why do so many things just get amplified and repeated?
Why do not more people intervene when they are seeing the cruelty being carried out?
Some are actually seeing the policies and the cruel acts as strength.
Of course, the lies that are said to completely cover up much of this is also an answer to how it will continue while we await an awakening of more citizens to jump in and helpt to stop this.
It's hard to even read about what we put these children through. Shame on us for letting it happen.
We need to be very serious abut rounding up every single person involved in these incarcerations, jailing them pending due process for violating human rights, false imprisonment, impersonating law enforcement officers, and endangering mental health. We could hold them in the very same detention facilities under the very same conditions.
I have a question about birthright citizenship. I'm a citizen because I was born here and my parents were citizens. But my parents were only citizens because they were born here and their parents were citizens. But their parents were only citizens because ... and so on. No one was ever naturalized. Is there a three-generation rule? A four-generation one?