You write as if there is still time to turn this around. As if elections will be free and fair, or like Russian elections, if and when Trump allows them. It has been greatly by reading your posts, which I truly admire, that I come to this recognition that we are well past the fork in the road; I’m a Minnesotan and Trump has “declared” war on Minnesota. No one can stop ICE’s abuses; not courts, not state or metro police, not
state Governors. If this is not Fascism, what on earth is?
Sorry if I repeat. All Trump moves are designed to distract our attention.
Take advantage of the situation. Trump is vulnerable.
Yesterday, Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina and a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said he would oppose the confirmation of all picks for the Fed, including the forthcoming chair nomination, until the legal matter is resolved. Feasible to get several House members to flip, issue by issue.
IMHO Epstein is primary.
The Obamacare issue brought several more Repubicans to support a Dem initiative.
On Thursday, the Senate voted to advance a bill that would stop the Trump administration from additional attacks on Venezuela without congressional approval. The vote was 52–47 with five Republicans joining all the Democrats to move the measure forward. Republicans killed a similar measure in November, but Trump’s enormously unpopular incursion into Venezuela and threats against Greenland prompted five Republicans to reassert congressional authority over military action. CNN called it “a notable rebuke of the president.”
The five Republicans voting for the bill were Susan Collins of Maine, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Todd Young of Indiana.
Immediately, Trump posted on social media that the five “should never be elected to office again.” By reasserting the power of Congress, he wrote, they were “attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America.”
Trump is in a pickle. Here is Baghdad By the Sea, at least one House MAGAT, my rep, opposes him on immigration. Many other House Republicans oppose him on the Epstein coverup. Others on the Obamacare issue. It's up to us to convince more to join them.
In Minnesota Congressional Republicans need to be pressured. We need to contact their donors. Local businesses. Local Holy Joes. Picket. Sit in.
The current Republican U.S. representatives for Minnesota are:
District 1: Brad Finstad (since August 12, 2022)
District 6: Tom Emmer (since January 3, 2015)
District 7: Michelle Fischbach (since January 3, 2021)
Abused children do not necessarily become abusers, but there is still a strong correlation. Also, it seems strange that these men who marry foreign-born women can be so anti-immigrant (Trump, Vance, and now Jonathan Ross). What is the psychology behind that?
I don't know for sure, but I suspect (aside from normal people who marry other people they fall in love with) that it is for domination. After all, a man may get a submissive woman who grew up in a culture where the male is in charge. For her part, the woman is happy to be in America but knows that if she "causes trouble" she could potentially be deported.
Are we part of "the broad left-wing network" JD mentioned?
In the same presser Vance claimed they were going to get to the bottom of it and prosecute "while they can". They are coming for independent media according to what Marc Ellias from Democracy Docket was saying this weekend.
I believe every word Thom has written. This is the crossroads moment the rest of the world is expecting us to show these psychopaths what we are made of. Speaking, marching, and supporting one another in solidarity is exactly how we do that.
The abuser analogy is so appropriate. Jon Ross kept his phone in one hand and his gun in the other, took a brief look at Renee to make sure she was dead, and casually walked away.
That's why we have been loud. Now is the time to get louder. See you in the streets.
On a higher note, here is an independent media YouTube post worth watching. Spend 5 minutes with Occupy Democrats and a message from a South Korean immigrant that has a history lesson about how protests matter. The piece is titled WATCH TRUMP'S LIES GET DESTROYED ON AIR:
One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, attacks on immigrants, families torn apart, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent. It is time for our communities to escalate as well.
2025 was a year of marches that showed our collective strength. And as the threats grow, our movement must evolve and escalate. Trump and his allies have already made clear that a second term would bring a deeper wave of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and violence than the first.
On January 20, we call on our communities to organize teams, call your neighbors and classmates, and turn your back and walk out on fascism. Host mutual aid planning meetings, organize public service, but walk out to block the normal routines of power, and make the stakes real. This is a protest and a promise. In the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable.
I am absolutely exhausted. I would continue to reply and complain in response to the hundreds of emails I get every day. But Why? Everybody seems to hate everybody else, other Americans and immigrants alike. Yet, virtually everyone I meet seem like nice folks, and potential friends. The leaders of pretty much every square inch of this earth want to either kill all the others, or at least want to impoverish anyone they can. I live a very happy life with my wonderful granddaughters and their 2 beautiful cats. I wish everyone was as happy and contented as I am. But as humans, we seem to pick out the most selfish, mean, and unpleasant people we can find to be the leaders we choose to follow, usually under heineous threats. They can and do punish any complainers who don't follow their specific demands.
I can't help but think the supposed tension between Trump and Putin, is made for public consumption, Kabuki theater. Trump doesn't see Greenland as a threat because of Russia, just another lame excuse, like that of narco terrorism he levied against Maduro, when the real reason,it seems is to reward Paul Singer, one of his benefactors which bought Citgo in November.
Citgo was the Venezuelan oil company, that had purpose built refineries in Lake Charles, LA that could handle the sulphuric sour crude pumped by Venezuela. It seems Exxon and Chevron, for whom the sanctions that drove middle class Venezuelans to migrate, aren't interested anymore in Venezuelan oil., there is so much better
Sweet or West Texas Intermediate are oils with low or no sulphur content, Sulfur content requires higher temperatures in cracking towers, were oil is cracked into different substrates ranging from
methane, propane, butane at the top, then to gasoline/naptha, then kerosene, then jet fuel, then at the bottom lubricant.. North slope oil is sulfuric, sour, but not as sour as Venezuelan.
Only purpose built refineries can handle Venezuelan oil, and they are expensive. There are some in the US along the Gulf Coast and in California, Marathon, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Valero, Philips 66 and Citgo. But they are expensive to operate and there is plenty of Brent, WTI, and other better oils available.
Forget about the oil, this is the real reason that Trump wants Greenland, it goes back to Musks Grandfather, run out of Canada, because of this: The Technocracy Movement
I watched Malcom Hance yesterday: https://substack.com/home/post/p-183696749 you should too. I found out why Trump is interested in Greenland, it isn't Trump but his handlers Musk, Thiel, Sachs and the tech bros.
It goes back to the Democracy Movement, founded by Musks grandfather Joshua Norman Halderman .Joshua Norman Haldeman was a prominent Canadian leader and organizer for the Technocracy movement in the 1930s and early 1940s, advocating for rule by scientists and engineers, but grew disillusioned, eventually moving to South Africa where he promoted similar ideas alongside racist views, becoming the maternal grandfather of Elon Musk and influencing some of his technological ambitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
It's a means to get us out of NATO, Putin's real nemesis, and Trump's tar baby.
The policies of Musk's grandpa and other Nazi assholes taken together are not the basis for anything that motivates Trump, who is transfixed as Krasnov. If Trump follows the Nazi example, it's because it worked, not because he's an idealogue.
I agree with itbeing a means to get us out of NATO, but events have more than one cause.
As regards the Technocracy Movement and the Techante of America. All you have to do is folllow the bouncing ball Daniel. It is obvious to even a blind man, but it isn't Krasnov and the NAZI example, that is Putin.
Here's the thing. Who was the biggest donor to Trump? Musk, Whose technocrats ran through the government robbing data and dismantling it? Musk?
Who founded the Technocracy Movement? Joshua Norman Haldeman.
Who was Joshua Norman Haldeman? Elon's maternal grandfather.
In what country was he a citizen of before he fled to South Africa? Canada
What is the ideology behind the Technocracy Movement? The ideology behind the original technocracy movement of the 1930s was the belief that society should be governed by technical experts (scientists and engineers) based on scientific principles and data, rather than by elected politicians or a price-based economy. The core goal was to maximize efficiency, eliminate waste, and ensure material abundance and stability for all citizens. Ruled by an elite determined by merit.
Don't you see DOGE?
Trump's ideology is "What beneifts me, and what slows me down or harms me" That is his ideology, and as such he is a perfect tool for the Technobros as well as Putin.
Feces comes out as constipated hard lumps and as watery diarrhea
There is more than one way to skin a cat. More than one way to get to the top of a mountain.
A chicken might cross a road because it is aimlessly wandering, to get to corn, or because it is being chased.
People buy things, like cars, because they like the shape, the color, the design, because it is efficient, because they were presented a bargain they couldn't refuse, because they need transportation and sometimes for all of the above.
You want Trump's motivations to be what you claim, because you are committed and can't back down.
I thought that Trump kidnapped Maduro for oil, and said so, but am now reconsidering, I was probably wrong, you said it was because of Marco Rubio and the Miami "mafia" of Cuban'os and Venezuelans, you too are wrong.
And you are partially correct about Trumps motivation to move on Greenland, but don't take what he claims at fact or face value.
He claims Russia s a threat, but he backs Putin by withholding military aid to Ukraine.
As concerns the viability of a Technate of America. Just look at what he has done, what he threatens tp dp. and more importantly who is financing him, and thus controlling him the Tech bros, the core of the Technate.
So long as Trump can satiate his ego, mitigate his inferiority complex, take revenge on people who don't worship him or who have stood up to him, he enables him to make billions and showers him with gifts, they can do anything they want.
He is a real estate developer, he has no ideology other than himself.
Russia used Krasnov by feeding his needs , exasperating his feaars and insecurities, then assuaging them.
Trump will turn on Putin, when Putin becomes an impediment,or is no longer useful just like he has turned on all others of his supporters.
I venture to say, that Trump has figured out that Putin is not the strong man he says he is, yes the presides over a terrorized and subjugated citizenry, but the Russian military is exposed as a Potemkin "village" and the economy as a charade.
Trump once thought that Putin was almost invincible, strong, but a tiny nation, with less resources and population has fought him to a standstill for three going on four years, is sure a disenchantment. Putin by attacking Ukraine has shown Russia to be a shell, a joke, not the strong, fearsome force that made the west tremble, and surely Trump can see that. Biden couldn't though.
Putin waved his impotent nuclear phallus, and Joe trembled in fear.
But it isn't just men. Look at the attractive women who happily serve in Trump's base camp, like the Attorney General and the SHS. They are as damaged as Trump and his multi-billion dollar cooperators. Selfish and mean have no gender limitations.
I have for many months referred to ICE as Trump's Gestapo - the force with the mission to enforce NAZI ideology and silence all criticism of the Reich. The Schutzstaffel police were more focused on the original mission of ICE before it turned into an army - execution of eugenic purity. In either case, Trump is fascism unleashed, and the GOP is enabling it to tear down American Democracy and build a global empire.
What is most disturbing is that the Democrats are letting it happen. Although Leavitt and other WH toadies refer to the Democrats as "radical socialist, communist leftist lunatics," there is nothing radical about the Democrats. The DNC expulsion of David Hogg for even suggesting primarying old legislators who have passed their prime is a great example of how the Silent Generation's Democrats embrace silence.
While they lack the power to legislate, they do have the power to tie up the administration in bureaucratic knots - to slow the train down. Right now, only judges in both parties are trying to do that. The protest parades are encouraging, but I fear that they are soon to be prey to a police riot - just what Trump wants to justify giving his high school dropout thug Gestapo free rein.
The GOP has long since demonstrated its dedication to democracy. Democratic “leadership” continues to demonstrate a preference for passive patience personified by geriatric practitioners. Money, as usual, rules both. With politicians on both sides compulsively revealing their derelict, corrupt, avaricious incompetence, one can only hope that We the People find a way to turn the current avalanche of abuses into an opportunity for re-birth.
Tom,are you for real? What kind of a stupid statement is that? The GOP believes in Democracy,what news source are you using " Fox" .My guess is,you would refute the idea that Trump is a " Nazi" Since you seem to have the solution,were you out in the streets yesterday protesting or did you have some lame excuse? Please give us a break.
I mostly agree with Thom and recent comments BUT... Trump is a Sociopath with some Psychopath (lack of empathy) tendencies. Sociopaths are born with a brain disability. Their frontal lobe is not fully connected to their hind brain. A quick wiki search will give you the basics and show that Trump demonstrates to a Tee sociopathic behavior. With this birth defect present in a child parental abuse can make the underlying pathology much worse. Most Sociopaths end up in some form of prison but Trump's money so far has allowed him to escape. A radiologist with quick brain scans and historic behavior information can make the above diagnosis. Trump's healthcare teams ongoing silence is pointing millions of people's future toward a really sad outcome. Of interest for Trump's supporters in this situation is that they are in great and ongoing risk for a very bad day for any miss step. Think Senator Josh Holey. One vote last week in the senate MAKEs Trump's poorly fuctioning brain to declare Holey should never ever hold elected office. Joshie is a bit ahead of the Dman as he has more than 4 years left on his Senate term. Could be he calculates that Trump will crash and burn in less time?
Domination, cruelty and control are what this country was founded on. As a spokesperson for US imperialism and white supremacy who idealizes our floundering fathers perhaps that escapes you. Democracies fall when injustice and inequality become buzzwords for the political expedients. you know, the type that would ignore genocide to make their side look morally superior and sustain paid subscriptions. Trump is just the monster that you Baron Frankensteins have created with your game of pretend, but more are awakening to the fact that for our two political parties and the ruling class that runs them to survive many more of us will have to perish.
This is the best post I've seen explaining all that we are up against. The role of the mega rich in supporting authoritarianism. The psychology of the power hungry who have no evidence of empathy. The test we are facing as things escalate. Are we able to organize an effective opposition or will we give up on democracy a little at a time until it's too late.
If democracies continue to come together and let know that Trump is finally going to face a unified bloc that will physically oppose his aggressive whims. NATO
Is functionally dead. Its members who
want to remain free need to act decisively and immediately, Apparently too many heads of state have forgotten the lessons of “Peace in Our Time”. That time peace took 6 years and 60,000,000 lives.
Thank you for your analysis today. A lot of Americans watch the fox propaganda and have been watching it for decades. They are firmly entrenched in the false stories going back to absurd lies about Hilary Clinton molesting children for example. It is this tremendous onslaught of fake news that has destroyed accountability. All these millions of people who believe propaganda are also racists, made it possible for trump to get elected twice. Another important piece is the huge election fraud. Kamala Harris should be our President today! Joe Biden had the best economy up and running. His good work has been severely undermined by the GOP propaganda machine.
All of it has been fractured by lies and by the criminal Supreme Court members who are compromised by monetary bribery. Let’s put a stop to this entire disaster.
You write as if there is still time to turn this around. As if elections will be free and fair, or like Russian elections, if and when Trump allows them. It has been greatly by reading your posts, which I truly admire, that I come to this recognition that we are well past the fork in the road; I’m a Minnesotan and Trump has “declared” war on Minnesota. No one can stop ICE’s abuses; not courts, not state or metro police, not
state Governors. If this is not Fascism, what on earth is?
This is full-on, dictionary, fascism. Minnesota is answering the call as did Renee.
Minneapolis is going to deal with Jon Ross if not this year, perhaps the next. Don't be surprised if you hear he's moved out of the country.
Step up where and when you can. Anyone who's been there loves that state (despite black fly season).
Sorry if I repeat. All Trump moves are designed to distract our attention.
Take advantage of the situation. Trump is vulnerable.
Yesterday, Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina and a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said he would oppose the confirmation of all picks for the Fed, including the forthcoming chair nomination, until the legal matter is resolved. Feasible to get several House members to flip, issue by issue.
IMHO Epstein is primary.
The Obamacare issue brought several more Repubicans to support a Dem initiative.
Tatiffs? Ukraine? Russian Sanctions.
Impeachment! https://www.removetheregime.com/
Removal coalition
We have an open window of opportunity.
If we can get three (3) Republicans, we can issue subpoenas, hold hearings.
Jerry Weiss scenario. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/
On Thursday, the Senate voted to advance a bill that would stop the Trump administration from additional attacks on Venezuela without congressional approval. The vote was 52–47 with five Republicans joining all the Democrats to move the measure forward. Republicans killed a similar measure in November, but Trump’s enormously unpopular incursion into Venezuela and threats against Greenland prompted five Republicans to reassert congressional authority over military action. CNN called it “a notable rebuke of the president.”
The five Republicans voting for the bill were Susan Collins of Maine, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Todd Young of Indiana.
Immediately, Trump posted on social media that the five “should never be elected to office again.” By reasserting the power of Congress, he wrote, they were “attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America.”
Trump is in a pickle. Here is Baghdad By the Sea, at least one House MAGAT, my rep, opposes him on immigration. Many other House Republicans oppose him on the Epstein coverup. Others on the Obamacare issue. It's up to us to convince more to join them.
In Minnesota Congressional Republicans need to be pressured. We need to contact their donors. Local businesses. Local Holy Joes. Picket. Sit in.
The current Republican U.S. representatives for Minnesota are:
District 1: Brad Finstad (since August 12, 2022)
District 6: Tom Emmer (since January 3, 2015)
District 7: Michelle Fischbach (since January 3, 2021)
District 8: Pete Stauber (since January 3, 2019)
Local Fox outlet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMSP-TV
alis,I hope we do not wait to deal with Ross. HOw can we track where he is? We cannot let the courts decide how to handle his situation.
Abused children do not necessarily become abusers, but there is still a strong correlation. Also, it seems strange that these men who marry foreign-born women can be so anti-immigrant (Trump, Vance, and now Jonathan Ross). What is the psychology behind that?
I don't know for sure, but I suspect (aside from normal people who marry other people they fall in love with) that it is for domination. After all, a man may get a submissive woman who grew up in a culture where the male is in charge. For her part, the woman is happy to be in America but knows that if she "causes trouble" she could potentially be deported.
How many tyrants did not come from abusive childhoods? Frankly society doesn’t give a Damn a bout. those kids until they do something horrible.
Are we part of "the broad left-wing network" JD mentioned?
In the same presser Vance claimed they were going to get to the bottom of it and prosecute "while they can". They are coming for independent media according to what Marc Ellias from Democracy Docket was saying this weekend.
I believe every word Thom has written. This is the crossroads moment the rest of the world is expecting us to show these psychopaths what we are made of. Speaking, marching, and supporting one another in solidarity is exactly how we do that.
The abuser analogy is so appropriate. Jon Ross kept his phone in one hand and his gun in the other, took a brief look at Renee to make sure she was dead, and casually walked away.
That's why we have been loud. Now is the time to get louder. See you in the streets.
The other subject Marc talked about was cynics.
On a higher note, here is an independent media YouTube post worth watching. Spend 5 minutes with Occupy Democrats and a message from a South Korean immigrant that has a history lesson about how protests matter. The piece is titled WATCH TRUMP'S LIES GET DESTROYED ON AIR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87D_wwatIGM
"Broad, left-wing movement" = everyone who isn't MAGA or completely submissive to Trump's orders.
Here's stuff that Thom should post. I am not a member but....
Got this fronm Kathleen Weber, who writes the As Time Goes By substack.
Please join the first step toward a general strike. The Women's March is calling on everyone to leave work at 2:00 PM on January 20.
SIGN UP or CREATE AN EVENT !!!
https://www.freeameri.ca/
FREE AMERICA WALKOUT
One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, attacks on immigrants, families torn apart, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent. It is time for our communities to escalate as well.
2025 was a year of marches that showed our collective strength. And as the threats grow, our movement must evolve and escalate. Trump and his allies have already made clear that a second term would bring a deeper wave of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and violence than the first.
On January 20, we call on our communities to organize teams, call your neighbors and classmates, and turn your back and walk out on fascism. Host mutual aid planning meetings, organize public service, but walk out to block the normal routines of power, and make the stakes real. This is a protest and a promise. In the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable.
★ We walk away from fascism. ★
★ We walk towards a Free America. ★
★ We fight for a future that belongs to us all. ★
★ Everybody in, nobody out. ★
★ Welcome to the Free America Walkout ★
I am absolutely exhausted. I would continue to reply and complain in response to the hundreds of emails I get every day. But Why? Everybody seems to hate everybody else, other Americans and immigrants alike. Yet, virtually everyone I meet seem like nice folks, and potential friends. The leaders of pretty much every square inch of this earth want to either kill all the others, or at least want to impoverish anyone they can. I live a very happy life with my wonderful granddaughters and their 2 beautiful cats. I wish everyone was as happy and contented as I am. But as humans, we seem to pick out the most selfish, mean, and unpleasant people we can find to be the leaders we choose to follow, usually under heineous threats. They can and do punish any complainers who don't follow their specific demands.
I can't help but think the supposed tension between Trump and Putin, is made for public consumption, Kabuki theater. Trump doesn't see Greenland as a threat because of Russia, just another lame excuse, like that of narco terrorism he levied against Maduro, when the real reason,it seems is to reward Paul Singer, one of his benefactors which bought Citgo in November.
Citgo was the Venezuelan oil company, that had purpose built refineries in Lake Charles, LA that could handle the sulphuric sour crude pumped by Venezuela. It seems Exxon and Chevron, for whom the sanctions that drove middle class Venezuelans to migrate, aren't interested anymore in Venezuelan oil., there is so much better
Sweet or West Texas Intermediate are oils with low or no sulphur content, Sulfur content requires higher temperatures in cracking towers, were oil is cracked into different substrates ranging from
methane, propane, butane at the top, then to gasoline/naptha, then kerosene, then jet fuel, then at the bottom lubricant.. North slope oil is sulfuric, sour, but not as sour as Venezuelan.
Only purpose built refineries can handle Venezuelan oil, and they are expensive. There are some in the US along the Gulf Coast and in California, Marathon, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Valero, Philips 66 and Citgo. But they are expensive to operate and there is plenty of Brent, WTI, and other better oils available.
Forget about the oil, this is the real reason that Trump wants Greenland, it goes back to Musks Grandfather, run out of Canada, because of this: The Technocracy Movement
I watched Malcom Hance yesterday: https://substack.com/home/post/p-183696749 you should too. I found out why Trump is interested in Greenland, it isn't Trump but his handlers Musk, Thiel, Sachs and the tech bros.
It goes back to the Democracy Movement, founded by Musks grandfather Joshua Norman Halderman .Joshua Norman Haldeman was a prominent Canadian leader and organizer for the Technocracy movement in the 1930s and early 1940s, advocating for rule by scientists and engineers, but grew disillusioned, eventually moving to South Africa where he promoted similar ideas alongside racist views, becoming the maternal grandfather of Elon Musk and influencing some of his technological ambitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
The goal is a Technate of America Map https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:34227574
Greenland and Canada as well as Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador (familiar?).
Greenland is of interest because it is where Praxis City is to be located: https://www.insidehook.com/internet/peter-thiel-praxis-next-great-city-greenland
It's a means to get us out of NATO, Putin's real nemesis, and Trump's tar baby.
The policies of Musk's grandpa and other Nazi assholes taken together are not the basis for anything that motivates Trump, who is transfixed as Krasnov. If Trump follows the Nazi example, it's because it worked, not because he's an idealogue.
I agree with itbeing a means to get us out of NATO, but events have more than one cause.
As regards the Technocracy Movement and the Techante of America. All you have to do is folllow the bouncing ball Daniel. It is obvious to even a blind man, but it isn't Krasnov and the NAZI example, that is Putin.
Here's the thing. Who was the biggest donor to Trump? Musk, Whose technocrats ran through the government robbing data and dismantling it? Musk?
Who founded the Technocracy Movement? Joshua Norman Haldeman.
Who was Joshua Norman Haldeman? Elon's maternal grandfather.
In what country was he a citizen of before he fled to South Africa? Canada
What is the ideology behind the Technocracy Movement? The ideology behind the original technocracy movement of the 1930s was the belief that society should be governed by technical experts (scientists and engineers) based on scientific principles and data, rather than by elected politicians or a price-based economy. The core goal was to maximize efficiency, eliminate waste, and ensure material abundance and stability for all citizens. Ruled by an elite determined by merit.
Don't you see DOGE?
Trump's ideology is "What beneifts me, and what slows me down or harms me" That is his ideology, and as such he is a perfect tool for the Technobros as well as Putin.
Feces comes out as constipated hard lumps and as watery diarrhea
There is more than one way to skin a cat. More than one way to get to the top of a mountain.
A chicken might cross a road because it is aimlessly wandering, to get to corn, or because it is being chased.
People buy things, like cars, because they like the shape, the color, the design, because it is efficient, because they were presented a bargain they couldn't refuse, because they need transportation and sometimes for all of the above.
You want Trump's motivations to be what you claim, because you are committed and can't back down.
I thought that Trump kidnapped Maduro for oil, and said so, but am now reconsidering, I was probably wrong, you said it was because of Marco Rubio and the Miami "mafia" of Cuban'os and Venezuelans, you too are wrong.
And you are partially correct about Trumps motivation to move on Greenland, but don't take what he claims at fact or face value.
He claims Russia s a threat, but he backs Putin by withholding military aid to Ukraine.
As concerns the viability of a Technate of America. Just look at what he has done, what he threatens tp dp. and more importantly who is financing him, and thus controlling him the Tech bros, the core of the Technate.
So long as Trump can satiate his ego, mitigate his inferiority complex, take revenge on people who don't worship him or who have stood up to him, he enables him to make billions and showers him with gifts, they can do anything they want.
He is a real estate developer, he has no ideology other than himself.
Russia used Krasnov by feeding his needs , exasperating his feaars and insecurities, then assuaging them.
Trump will turn on Putin, when Putin becomes an impediment,or is no longer useful just like he has turned on all others of his supporters.
I venture to say, that Trump has figured out that Putin is not the strong man he says he is, yes the presides over a terrorized and subjugated citizenry, but the Russian military is exposed as a Potemkin "village" and the economy as a charade.
Trump once thought that Putin was almost invincible, strong, but a tiny nation, with less resources and population has fought him to a standstill for three going on four years, is sure a disenchantment. Putin by attacking Ukraine has shown Russia to be a shell, a joke, not the strong, fearsome force that made the west tremble, and surely Trump can see that. Biden couldn't though.
Putin waved his impotent nuclear phallus, and Joe trembled in fear.
How is it that men who are deeply damaged psychopaths who never matured emotionally because of the psychological trauma of their childhoods
Become leaders of a country or a nation?
But it isn't just men. Look at the attractive women who happily serve in Trump's base camp, like the Attorney General and the SHS. They are as damaged as Trump and his multi-billion dollar cooperators. Selfish and mean have no gender limitations.
They're ruthless, clever, charismatic, and charming when they want to be.
I have for many months referred to ICE as Trump's Gestapo - the force with the mission to enforce NAZI ideology and silence all criticism of the Reich. The Schutzstaffel police were more focused on the original mission of ICE before it turned into an army - execution of eugenic purity. In either case, Trump is fascism unleashed, and the GOP is enabling it to tear down American Democracy and build a global empire.
What is most disturbing is that the Democrats are letting it happen. Although Leavitt and other WH toadies refer to the Democrats as "radical socialist, communist leftist lunatics," there is nothing radical about the Democrats. The DNC expulsion of David Hogg for even suggesting primarying old legislators who have passed their prime is a great example of how the Silent Generation's Democrats embrace silence.
While they lack the power to legislate, they do have the power to tie up the administration in bureaucratic knots - to slow the train down. Right now, only judges in both parties are trying to do that. The protest parades are encouraging, but I fear that they are soon to be prey to a police riot - just what Trump wants to justify giving his high school dropout thug Gestapo free rein.
How are we letting it happen?
BS.
The GOP has long since demonstrated its dedication to democracy. Democratic “leadership” continues to demonstrate a preference for passive patience personified by geriatric practitioners. Money, as usual, rules both. With politicians on both sides compulsively revealing their derelict, corrupt, avaricious incompetence, one can only hope that We the People find a way to turn the current avalanche of abuses into an opportunity for re-birth.
Gimme a break. The GOP hasn't had a dedication to democracy since Eisenhower.
Point taken. My sometimes compulsive magnanimity can be imprudent.
Tom,are you for real? What kind of a stupid statement is that? The GOP believes in Democracy,what news source are you using " Fox" .My guess is,you would refute the idea that Trump is a " Nazi" Since you seem to have the solution,were you out in the streets yesterday protesting or did you have some lame excuse? Please give us a break.
I guess sarcasm is easy to miss.
"These two men [trump and putin] are deeply damaged psychopaths who never matured emotionally because of the psychological trauma of their childhoods.
Add Hitler to the list.
Somebody please tell me how can an overly potent Supreme Court and an impotent Congress allow this to happen?
$$$$$, of course!
I mostly agree with Thom and recent comments BUT... Trump is a Sociopath with some Psychopath (lack of empathy) tendencies. Sociopaths are born with a brain disability. Their frontal lobe is not fully connected to their hind brain. A quick wiki search will give you the basics and show that Trump demonstrates to a Tee sociopathic behavior. With this birth defect present in a child parental abuse can make the underlying pathology much worse. Most Sociopaths end up in some form of prison but Trump's money so far has allowed him to escape. A radiologist with quick brain scans and historic behavior information can make the above diagnosis. Trump's healthcare teams ongoing silence is pointing millions of people's future toward a really sad outcome. Of interest for Trump's supporters in this situation is that they are in great and ongoing risk for a very bad day for any miss step. Think Senator Josh Holey. One vote last week in the senate MAKEs Trump's poorly fuctioning brain to declare Holey should never ever hold elected office. Joshie is a bit ahead of the Dman as he has more than 4 years left on his Senate term. Could be he calculates that Trump will crash and burn in less time?
Coward Hawley is my "representative." He's useless.
Take advantage of the situation.
A++
Thank you, Mr. Hartmann.
Imagine DJT's "malformed" personality . . .
For me it's:
- The cellar of a decrepit row house in Queens
- There's a cobwebbed, filthy, warped, and bowed wooden shelf
- Upon it sits a lab jar with a Commie Red Star painted on the side
- It's filled with formaldehyde, and the color is burnt umber
- A solid glass ball tops a concave-conical glass stopper
- A deformed fetus crouches upside down
- Like a half-filled basketball, it possesses a well-dented skull
- It has a third of a brain oozing out through empty eye sockets
- It's animated, squirms like a toad pieced by a sharp twig
- It's been twice elected POTUS
- It's got 3 goals: Money, Orgasms, and OPP [Other People's Pain]
- They call it Donald John the Destroyer of Americans and America for the Love of Putin.
Sir,great description.
Domination, cruelty and control are what this country was founded on. As a spokesperson for US imperialism and white supremacy who idealizes our floundering fathers perhaps that escapes you. Democracies fall when injustice and inequality become buzzwords for the political expedients. you know, the type that would ignore genocide to make their side look morally superior and sustain paid subscriptions. Trump is just the monster that you Baron Frankensteins have created with your game of pretend, but more are awakening to the fact that for our two political parties and the ruling class that runs them to survive many more of us will have to perish.
This is the best post I've seen explaining all that we are up against. The role of the mega rich in supporting authoritarianism. The psychology of the power hungry who have no evidence of empathy. The test we are facing as things escalate. Are we able to organize an effective opposition or will we give up on democracy a little at a time until it's too late.
I've been saying for decades that too much wealth in too few hands leads to what we're seeing right now. Money is power in tangible form.
Can we make Trump turn on Vance??
Let's just publicize that Vance is running for President! Make Trump fear his disciple...
I have been dreaming of course, but I think we have to all work together - I see the 2026 election as our moment of victory -
In the meantime, we must work to make Trump destroy himself so that he is too weak to create "Martial Law".
Remember her name: Renee Good; remember the murderers too - John Ross and his boss (es).
If democracies continue to come together and let know that Trump is finally going to face a unified bloc that will physically oppose his aggressive whims. NATO
Is functionally dead. Its members who
want to remain free need to act decisively and immediately, Apparently too many heads of state have forgotten the lessons of “Peace in Our Time”. That time peace took 6 years and 60,000,000 lives.
Those who do not….
Thank you for your analysis today. A lot of Americans watch the fox propaganda and have been watching it for decades. They are firmly entrenched in the false stories going back to absurd lies about Hilary Clinton molesting children for example. It is this tremendous onslaught of fake news that has destroyed accountability. All these millions of people who believe propaganda are also racists, made it possible for trump to get elected twice. Another important piece is the huge election fraud. Kamala Harris should be our President today! Joe Biden had the best economy up and running. His good work has been severely undermined by the GOP propaganda machine.
All of it has been fractured by lies and by the criminal Supreme Court members who are compromised by monetary bribery. Let’s put a stop to this entire disaster.