Not that such a thing could be done, but there should be an impeachment of the entire Republican Party for treasonously putting party and personal wealth above the nation and the constitution, which they had sworn to defend.
I agree. The one thing he inaccurately mentioned was “his morality.” He has none. Trump is completely amoral and only concern with whatever interests him or that he wants at the moment.
NYT: “Revulsion and desire are two sides of the same coin, and it is clear that Trump covets the kind of unaccountable power Maduro enjoyed — to enrich his family and cronies, to intimidate political opponents, to muzzle the press, to flood the streets of his country with armed men who do his bidding.”
Kathy well said,he is not "human" and presents a graver danger to everyone with the backing of Religion, Wall Street,Supreme Court,and other pandering institutions.
He has the endorsement of a religious movement that is overtly politicized. There are those of us who are Christians who do not endorse Trump or Christian Nationalism because they don’t follow the same Jesus of the Gospels. We also believe in separation of church and state and the right to worship or not to worship.
Kathy,unfortunatley you represent a minority of Christians.If you look @ the 57% of Catholics, 37% of Jews,( the highest turnout since 1988 HW Bush) and of course 100% of White Christian Nationalists,religion elected Trump.
It is sad to think the because he was responsible for the Supreme Court appointments
that overturned Roe V Wade and made abortion illegal in so many states ,that they rewarded him,by electing him a second time,knowing full well how pro " nazi" he is.
So here it is. :Abortion has been overturned and in exchange we have a " Nazi" gov't. I do not think the tradeoff was worth it.
It's revolting that republicans are not compelled to get rid of him. I keep saying he'll end up nuking California to look 'strong,' because he doesn't understand how radiation works. in the meantime, re cutting off 'billions in childcare and other low-income funding to California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York,' and your new affiliation with chris Armitage (brilliant, btw), are you coming around on secession or blue states withholding federal taxes?
I think we need to seriously consider soft succession. Blue states of America should stop paying federal taxes, only state taxes. Why should we contribute to this lawless & criminal government that takes everything we built away (like climate control legislation & programs, SNAP etc programs, and funds secret thug police (ICE).
I don't agree with Thom that Democrats have been treating impeachment like a dirty word.
Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Michigan, introduced an impeachment resolution in April, citing a “sweeping abuse of power, flagrant violations of the Constitution, and acts of tyranny that undermine American democracy and threaten the rule of law.” He opted not to force a vote on it at the last minute, according to Politico.
Rep. Al Green, D.Tx, has also introduced multiple resolutions to impeach. The most recent one introduced on Dec. 10 was tabled by a 237-140 vote, including 23 Democrats who voted to table it.
If three Republicans come forward, Dems can use the same discharge perition device they used in Epstein. That could generate hearings.
Sabrina,not only should Blue States withhold Federal Taxes,but each and every democrat should say to there employer,take no more taxes out of my paycheck. Do not file tax returns unless you are owed money and if the amt owed is nominal,don't file. Why should our taxes be used to support a " Nazi" gov't?
Trump is pulling a Nick Reiner on our mother/father land . . . America.
Reposting a bit of DJT's legacy below.
Is he nuts? F**kin' AY !!!
A consortium of banks lent this crazy Lout $ 400,000,000 in 1988 to buy The Plaza in NYC.
4 years later, they foreclosed on him when he failed to pay even the interest.
3 years later, they sold it for 325 M.
7 years of interest lost.
75 M of principal gone, too.
The guy could not even run a profitable Atlantic City casino and make money without making it go belly-up.
He's a serial kiddie rapist, along with his child rapist twin: Jeff Epstein.
His gramps was a draft dodger (Germany) and a pimp (Alaska), so what do you expect? It's in his genes. Cowardice and (kiddie) whore-mongering.
He's an "A #1" Russian spy who's sold out America. [He loves the uneducated, the hateful morons, 77.3 million of whom reinstalled him.]
He's had people unalived.
He tore out handfuls of his 1st wife's hair.
He then violently raped her as a rabid ape hopped up on XANAX might.
He's planted his 1st wife under some untended golf-course weeds, for a tax break.
He groomed his daughter as a sicko pedo might. And publically Lusted after her.
Three of Donald's casino execs died mysteriously [as did his brutally raped wife]. The 3 died in a suspicious helicopter crash. The rotor came off, which never happens. He promptly blamed them for his Atlantic City failures.
According to multiple accounts — especially from former Trump Plaza president John O’Donnell — Donald Trump did later blame his Atlantic City casino problems on the executives who died in the 1989 helicopter crash, even though the crash happened months before the Taj Mahal opened and long after the core financial issues were already baked in.
NJ.com summarizes O’Donnell’s claim that Trump “routinely blamed deceased executives who had nothing to do with his woes.”
TrumpFile — which compiles historical reporting — states that Trump “later blames his financial struggles on their deaths, even though the casino opens over six months later.”
[What a complete nutty ass.]
But, HEY !!! He hates Blacks and Browns. Hates them so much that he's building an American gulag for them. Oh, yeah, he hates poor Whites, too. You're NEXT !!!
[As quiet as it's been kept . . . This Commie, this Red terrorist has "always" been nuts.]
Sir,great piece,you are 100% on target and what you have said should just be repeated every day,5 times a day to everyone who is concerned.
I just had lunch with a former neighbor,who is a Democrat,but who refuses to get involved in any rally,demonstration because he doesn't want to get his hands dirty. Refuses to call Trump what he Trump admits he is a " Nazi" ,thinking that the elections will make a difference.His 401 K is doing well,so why get to worked up about the horendous times we are having to endure. He is among the 67 million Democrats who refuse to get involved in the pushback against this collection of malignant cells.
Sir,sadly he would have would have said " wait until the next election" He is just a total advocate of doing nothing.Everything will work out,as we can see,everything is not working out. When he left" I yelled to him " Kevin get out in the streets" with no acknowledgement. Won't be seeing him again.
Sir Oke Doke, it's unusual but helicopter rotors to fail from time to time. It's generally found to be poor maintenance and inspections. Tied to Trump, though...
How do you know that about his first wife? I thought the court files were closed and he paid her to keep her mouth shut? I am not saying he did or didn’t commit those acts but how do you know?
As far as Nick Reiner is concerned I think the decision to not hospitalize him years ago is the crime not his disabling mental capacity.
A 1993 biography titled The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump quoted from Ivana Trump’s 1989 divorce deposition.
According to reporting summarized in The Independent, the book described the incident as a “violent assault” and stated that Ivana had used the word “rape” in the deposition.
As for the crimes? The analogy alludes to the tragic homicides.
The reason he has gone this far is because everyone is afraid of Trump, even Democratic leaders.
He gets away with murder because our Governors and mayors are afraid of him, oh they talk big, but it is all talk.. The mayor of Minneapolis instead of saying "get the fuck out" should have sent the police in to arrest the ICE agents, for breaking the law, So should Walz, Newsom,
By the time blue state governors get around to soft succession, it will be too late, if it already isn't.
Trump defies the Supreme Court, he defies in judicial order that he finds inconvenient, he has cowed the Pentagon and all of it's generals and flag officers, those that weren't already supporting his Christian, Nationalist agenda that is.
And his private army, ICE/CBP/HS/FBI the seed of a GESTAPO, and his Sturmabeitlung waiting in the shadows, standing back and standing by, waiting to be let loose on us.
The longer we dither, the harder or even impossible to extricate ourselves from this tyranny of the mad king and his army of morons.
Heard that Noem/ICE had Jonathan Ross out of the state an hour after. The Mayor of Minneapolis cannot unilaterally tell city police to arrest a specific individual.
Mayor Frey has said they are working on the legal aspects. No protocol was followed as is done in police shootings.
Sadly it also seems the ICE officers were yelling get out of the car and and some said leave at the same time. Happened with their other shootings too. Stupid chaos, just like everything they do.
So we have the name: Jonathan Ross. Can't wait to see details about him, his background, social media presence, education.
Here is AI overview
Jonathan Ross is an ICE deportation officer who fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026, during an immigration enforcement operation. The incident sparked national controversy, with federal officials defending the shooting as self-defense and local leaders/witnesses disputing that claim.
Neighbors mentioned that Ross had pro-Trump and "Don't Tread On Me" Gadsden flags at his home, information which was shared on social media platforms.
There is reporting that he was an ICE firearms instructor and has PTSD from an injury/ incident last year. If that's the case, why was he out on raids? That's flat out incompetence from Kosplay Kristi.
Good question, but tis obvious, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel for an excuse, a rationalization. Poor Jonathan Ross, he has PTSD from kidnapping Migrants, poor thing /s
Can you imagine how frightened she must have been when an ICE pig approaches her car with a rifle and a facemask,trys to force his way into her car. I think the time has arrived,when we say,enough is enough.Let the citizens of Minneaoplis get armed,get trained and see if they can inflict a little damage on ICE.
Sure, we should all get armed and trained, but it's too late for that; Trump already has his MAGAs, and perhaps, many military, illegal paramilitary groups and some military and law enforcement groups on his side.
Any attempt at this time to organize anti-Trump forces would be ruthlessly shattered - with no holds barred.
William,well said. How do we motivate the 67 million Democrats who have been AWOL. What will motivate them to do something. I guarantee that if 40 million people showed up to protest rather than 8 million,things would change.
If we are to do something soon, as we are a minority party, we need support from a few Congressional Republicans.
Without help from the talking heads -- we can't get more cooperation. On this site there are several people who actually discouraged our initiatives. I also think there were a hell of a lot more than 8 million who've been participating. The problem is that the protests need to go directly to Congress, and standing on a municiapl street corner where no media attention is generated is fruitless. I would have picketed every Fox news station, every Fox reporter, etc.
Please note that today, Trump is doing us a favor by threatening his fellow Republicans. A favor because it's reported. A favor because it shows THEM (and the public) that he is a dictator and a coward.
Daniel,I think to begin with,we should get every democrat in congress to stand together in a rally and say " enough is enough" No deviating from that message,no individual statements that deviate from that message. If there are Dems who don't stand for that message,blackball them,don't talk to them.
I have been to virtually every demonstration here in Cobb Cty,Georgia. Generally ages 40-85,85 % women.Where are the men? There are people in wheelchairs,people with canes,people who can barely walk.
The last "NO Kings"rallyhad about 8 million Nationwide,according to " Indivisible" ,what if that # is 40 million? We just to get all the lazy ,alway have an excuse Dems to do somethng.
Daniel,we can see how well Congress is functioning.After nearly 1 yr of absolute insanity,there has almost no successful pushback.Read my post,I am blaming the Dems who refuse to get involved,if you don't agree with that, you must be either one of those or you are living in an alternate universe.
Don't be obtuse Daniel, when you say "on this site there are several people who actually discourage our activities"
You don't mean several, you mean me.. your nemesis.
I don't discourage activities Daniel, to say so shows just how guileless you are.
What I have said and will say is that depending on the system, the institutions, the courts to bail us out,is a fools errand. Because Trump and Trumpism have taken them hostage.
What we need is positive action, resistance, boycotts,general strike. We know that one thing they listen to is their pocket book, the quarterly profit and earnings statement.
If nothing else the Jimmy Kimmel fiasco taught us that. Rather than rush to the courts, filing a suit, the people rose up and threatened the profitability of CBS, Sinclair and Nexstar.
What you propose and only what you propose is filling law suits and voting, as if the Republicans haven't jinxed the vote.
You cry "we wuz robbed", and surely we were, and we will be robbed even worse in 2026, yet you still seek relief through a corrupted process.
Maybe, just maybe if every voter that is fed up and tired of Trump actually bothered to turn out and vote, we could flip the government, I will do my part, but relying on the vote all by itself, will not produce results, and we have current history to prove that. don't we,
Meanwhile stop misrepresenting me and my position, even obliquely.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
PS I don't need google to copy and paste my comments.
Resent what?Who, you? Gimme a break, get off your ego. As you said to me not to long ago, you are too full of yourself. You act like you are the only one who knows anything, has a prefrontal cortex. has the ability to form their own opinions and think for themself
Actually you are more like the Pied Piper of Hamlin , getting people to follow you into the mountain.
Politicians are motivated by money and votes. Those Republicans who disagree or disapprove of Trump keep silent, because he threatens to primary them, and his base is motivated by fear, anger, angst, insecurity and will jump when he commands.
The Democratic party needs the same, but they are a big tent party, and inside the tent are a hundred factions demanding recognition and priority., they couldn't abandon their pet peeve, their personal project, and get organized if death were staring them in the face, and it is.
William,your last comment is so right. A bunch of pseudo intellectuals who can never,ever agree to a single message. And you are right death is more than staring them in the face,it is already here.
When push comes to shove, everybody in this nation (despite their oral or written denials) is afraid of Donald Trump, and justly so. He has shown no reluctance to act against any critics or political adversaries, so any one (or many) of us could be next on his list. So are any of us Democrats or Independents less to blame than Republican legislators, who, because of their positions, are a lot better target for Trump's revenge?
Other than Thom Hartmann and some substack subscriptions. I don't have an internet presence nor any social media, and I don't have a credit card either.
I can't say that I am scared of Trump, but I am apprehensive.
Yesterday, 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.”
They're still way behind, but it's encouraging (slightly) to see these Republicans see a crack of light - but probably not enough to make a difference; they, and all other Republican legislators have a long way to go.
The path forward is going to be painful with or without an impeachment unless there is a way to impeach Vance at the same time. We will be in new territory. The list for the Constitutional Crisis we are in just keeps growing. That presser the VP gave about the murder of Renee Good was jolting.
JD is having the time of his life. Imagine what he will do to our country while we try to recover from TRump. Death is just another tool to these Nazis. Live by the sword.....
Even so, we must do our moral duty and impeach TRump. It will be his legacy along with the death toll. See you in the streets.
There is no way to impeach until the new congress is sworn in, in Jan 2027, if we are lucky and the Republicans have not so effectively stolen the election with all of their schemes, scams and laws.
If Dem's win in November, then Mike Johnson won't be speaker, in fact he might not be speaker if the Dem's don't win, but we still have to win the Senate or otherwise any impeachment in the House is just a gesture. Remember Trump was impeached twice, but not removed by the Senate because there weren't enough votes.
Unless the Democrats gain complete control of Congress any talk of impeachment is just blowing hot air.
In the meantime, we need people that cah think out of the box. During WWII there was an underground that saved thousands of lives. I'm also wondering why the Hague has been silent. Surely, trump's crimes should have captured their attention. Murdering citizens in cold blood demands that NATO speak out. We helped save Europe during WWII.. It's their turn now or am I living on another planet?
Good point Eadie. The Hague would be the International Criminal Court
Cases come to the International Criminal Court (ICC) via three main routes: a referral from a State Party to the Rome Statute, a referral from the UN Security Council (which can include non-member states), or through the ICC Prosecutor's own initiative (proprio motu) after conducting a preliminary examination
The current Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is Karim A. A. Khan KC, a British barrister specializing in international criminal law
This means that some member of the Security Council, of which the U.S. has a veto, as does Russia and China, or the prosecutor who is a Brit, and subject to British political pressure, would have to conduct a preliminary investigation and file charges.
Now consider that the members of the EU, rush to D.C. to knock on the door of the offal Office, so they can fall on their knees and fellate Trump, do you think that any of them would conduct a preliminary investigation.
It gets worse. The EU is holding billions of Russian rubles, because of sanctions, and they are being held in the Hague, in Belgium and Belgium will not release the funds that the EU can use them to defend Ukraine, because Belgium is either afraid of Putin or Belgium is using the funds to prop up i'ts economy.
Wow! Does anyone have leverage over these people or the ability to put pressure on them? Europe certainly wants the democrats to succeed in Ukraine. They will need us if Putin invades NATO. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the US alone may not be able get rid of tRump. We need large protests, but that's not all we need. What happens in the US affects the world. It has to be a world wide effort.
Europe is under pressure from the fascist right. It seems the world is demanding fascism. And the press is complicit. You see fascism is a marriage of the state and corporations. In Fact America has always been fascist light, as corporations have untold influence in our government and economy through political contributions, and they outright own many politicians, they certainly did own the cabinets like Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Interior, any cabinet or commission that affected business interests.
That was the swamp. Who were appointed to these cabinets and commissions? Why the experts who knew something about the industry or function they were suppose to regulate, and who were these experts, why they were the CEO's and Lawyers from those very industries.
But I stray. France is under pressure from the Fascist National Rally which is gaining popularity, Germany from the Alternative for Deutchland and right wing allied parties. Slovakia, Hungary are already in the fascist (Putin) Camp, Poland for a while slipped away from the grasp of the PiS is the acronym for Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, which translates to the Law and Justice Party, a prominent right-wing, nationalist, and conservative political party that held power for several years before losing in the 2023 elections.
The current President of Poland is Karol Nawrocki, who assumed office on August 6, 2025. He won the 2025 presidential election as an independent candidate, endorsed by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party.
Key facts about President Karol Nawrocki:
He is a conservative and a staunch nationalist with a "soft-eurosceptic" stance, advocating for a strong national identity within the European Union. His positions include opposing illegal migration, promoting traditional values, and seeking World War II reparations from Germany.
Italy is led by a out and out fascist, Moldova and the Czech Republic are under threat.
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, which elected an out and out fascist Gert Wilders are under pressure from the right.
However in their case it is mainly because of immigration from Islamic countries, and the threat of a cultural shift, and Islamization.
Europe has a history of being under threat from Islam, which is, by the way,incompatible with western culture and democracy.
First stopped by Charles the hammer at Poitiers in 752 CE and then by John III Sobieski, at the gates of Vienna in 1683.
If you are female, and not a trad wife, you don't want to live under Islam, same for atheists and queers, well those two won't because they can't, and keep their head.
Trump has declared that he and he alone is emperor. He is America's Ruler. I have been saying for years that Fascists want to rule, not govern. Now Trump is saying to the world. He and his minions now assert that there are no limits, like international laws, that limit his authority. If he wants to annex Greenland, Venezuela, wherever, they are his for the taking.
What apparently does not scare the spineless GOP Congress whose greed for power is unlimited is that there are limits on Trump, Russia, N. Korea, and China all have nukes and armies. Thus, Trump's demented assertions of unlimited power are not only naive, but they risk global self-annihilation. That could happen well before Trump's highly-rigged November mid-term.
I've been talking about this since the late 90s. I was told that I was overreacting and hysterical. The trend toward this was unmistakable even back then.
If nothing important happens before that (improbable) election, then Mother Nature will take of things after a few more months or years of "Drill, Baby, Drill."
The Lame Duck Felon's "morality" is the same as that of his ex-bestie Jeffrey Epstein (whom he may have arranged his killing/suicide)..
Jonathan Ross is the officer who fatally opened fire on Renee Nicole Good, 37, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, the Minnesota Star Tribune first reported. Fox9 and The Intercept also identified the shooter as Ross.
"I am like the state: what is good for me is right".
This came out off the mouth of William Hickman - child kidnapper, murderer, dismemberer. This is the man Ayn Rand championed and the philosophy the R's championed for years. Those Wannabe MAGATS then are in charge now. Yes, the man was tried, convicted and executed - eventually. But JMJ (Jesus, Mary and Joseph) at what price was "justice" achieved.
Most normal Americans and people around the world with thinking brains wake up every morning cringing over what the latest news will bring of Trump's many transgressions. It's always something, always bad, always stupid.
The list of his worst crimes is too long to encapsulate in digestible bites: ending USAID, resulting in unfathomable deaths, mostly children; ending health care for millions of Americans, resulting in the incalculable deaths of even more children, the sick, and the poor; raining down bombs on country after country, killing hundreds if not thousands; appeasing the world's worst genocidal maniacs who are killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians; deregulating and subsidizing billionaire polluters who are poisoning the land we live on, the water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we eat, killing untold millions...
Do you detect a pattern?
Never mind his many "lesser" offenses, such as destroying our democracy, economy, education system, legal system, independent media, the military, and local law enforcement, or flooding our streets with his murderous masked thugs. Focus instead on what will kill millions and billions of people long into the future.
And that is Trump's deadly fixation on oil.
Human-caused climate destruction is the worst crisis humanity has ever faced. It spells the end of life on Earth.
So what is Trump doing about it? He is tenaciously ignoring reality and stubbornly trying to end the production of clean energy in America, reversing progress and reverting to the incessant burning of fossil fuels—a twentieth-century solution to a twenty-first-century problem—for the personal profits of petrobillionaires. It's the most foolish action this irredeemable madman could ever take, exhibiting utter nonsense in response to the world's most menacing emergency, especially for a president of such a powerful nation.
Keeping Venezuela's dirty oil in the ground is in the best interest of everyone on Earth, for the sake of future generations, and, yes, for the rapacious billionaire class too, even if they don't realize it. The same can be said of Saudi Arabia and every other oil-producing nation.
It's way past the time for the world's economies to transition to clean energy, to invest their billions in policies and programs that will save our environment and our lives. But Trump and his death cult are doing the exact opposite, setting the worst example for others to follow.
Hence, we must absolutely crush these evil bastards at the polls for the sake of our children and our children's children. There is simply no other choice.
The vast majority of this administration and much of Congress are bought and paid-for politicians. Trump is their spokesman and head huckster.
Most believe those in the shadows are followers. That’s just not true. This administration is governed by those billionaires, and now, trillionaires who put them in office and who extracted promises and threats coerced with power, money, and lack of moral compunction.
They all know this is their last roundup. If they don’t stay in, they’re headed for the trash bin.
Every single thing Trump does bears witness to a sick and depraved man who is bringing the world down into the toxic stew that is his brain. TRUMP IS HITLER for a new century. He must be stopped.
Not that such a thing could be done, but there should be an impeachment of the entire Republican Party for treasonously putting party and personal wealth above the nation and the constitution, which they had sworn to defend.
his current comments demand....prison for the rest of his miserable, vile and pathetic life.
I agree. The one thing he inaccurately mentioned was “his morality.” He has none. Trump is completely amoral and only concern with whatever interests him or that he wants at the moment.
NYT: “Revulsion and desire are two sides of the same coin, and it is clear that Trump covets the kind of unaccountable power Maduro enjoyed — to enrich his family and cronies, to intimidate political opponents, to muzzle the press, to flood the streets of his country with armed men who do his bidding.”
— Lydia Polgreen, Opinion columnist
It makes sense. Trump admires dictators and wants to be one himself.
Kathy well said,he is not "human" and presents a graver danger to everyone with the backing of Religion, Wall Street,Supreme Court,and other pandering institutions.
He isn’t human insofar as he lacks the conscience a normal person possesses. He doesn’t stop to consider the feelings of others, that’s certain.
He has the endorsement of a religious movement that is overtly politicized. There are those of us who are Christians who do not endorse Trump or Christian Nationalism because they don’t follow the same Jesus of the Gospels. We also believe in separation of church and state and the right to worship or not to worship.
Kathy,unfortunatley you represent a minority of Christians.If you look @ the 57% of Catholics, 37% of Jews,( the highest turnout since 1988 HW Bush) and of course 100% of White Christian Nationalists,religion elected Trump.
It is sad to think the because he was responsible for the Supreme Court appointments
that overturned Roe V Wade and made abortion illegal in so many states ,that they rewarded him,by electing him a second time,knowing full well how pro " nazi" he is.
So here it is. :Abortion has been overturned and in exchange we have a " Nazi" gov't. I do not think the tradeoff was worth it.
Neither do I.
It's revolting that republicans are not compelled to get rid of him. I keep saying he'll end up nuking California to look 'strong,' because he doesn't understand how radiation works. in the meantime, re cutting off 'billions in childcare and other low-income funding to California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York,' and your new affiliation with chris Armitage (brilliant, btw), are you coming around on secession or blue states withholding federal taxes?
I think we need to seriously consider soft succession. Blue states of America should stop paying federal taxes, only state taxes. Why should we contribute to this lawless & criminal government that takes everything we built away (like climate control legislation & programs, SNAP etc programs, and funds secret thug police (ICE).
Too s-l-o-w.
I don't agree with Thom that Democrats have been treating impeachment like a dirty word.
Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Michigan, introduced an impeachment resolution in April, citing a “sweeping abuse of power, flagrant violations of the Constitution, and acts of tyranny that undermine American democracy and threaten the rule of law.” He opted not to force a vote on it at the last minute, according to Politico.
Rep. Al Green, D.Tx, has also introduced multiple resolutions to impeach. The most recent one introduced on Dec. 10 was tabled by a 237-140 vote, including 23 Democrats who voted to table it.
If three Republicans come forward, Dems can use the same discharge perition device they used in Epstein. That could generate hearings.
Jessica Denson has been all over this issue since the election. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ekzB2cKTZ8
Sabrina,not only should Blue States withhold Federal Taxes,but each and every democrat should say to there employer,take no more taxes out of my paycheck. Do not file tax returns unless you are owed money and if the amt owed is nominal,don't file. Why should our taxes be used to support a " Nazi" gov't?
Rob Reiner's son acted on his "own morality."
Trump is pulling a Nick Reiner on our mother/father land . . . America.
Reposting a bit of DJT's legacy below.
Is he nuts? F**kin' AY !!!
A consortium of banks lent this crazy Lout $ 400,000,000 in 1988 to buy The Plaza in NYC.
4 years later, they foreclosed on him when he failed to pay even the interest.
3 years later, they sold it for 325 M.
7 years of interest lost.
75 M of principal gone, too.
The guy could not even run a profitable Atlantic City casino and make money without making it go belly-up.
He's a serial kiddie rapist, along with his child rapist twin: Jeff Epstein.
His gramps was a draft dodger (Germany) and a pimp (Alaska), so what do you expect? It's in his genes. Cowardice and (kiddie) whore-mongering.
He's an "A #1" Russian spy who's sold out America. [He loves the uneducated, the hateful morons, 77.3 million of whom reinstalled him.]
He's had people unalived.
He tore out handfuls of his 1st wife's hair.
He then violently raped her as a rabid ape hopped up on XANAX might.
He's planted his 1st wife under some untended golf-course weeds, for a tax break.
He groomed his daughter as a sicko pedo might. And publically Lusted after her.
Three of Donald's casino execs died mysteriously [as did his brutally raped wife]. The 3 died in a suspicious helicopter crash. The rotor came off, which never happens. He promptly blamed them for his Atlantic City failures.
According to multiple accounts — especially from former Trump Plaza president John O’Donnell — Donald Trump did later blame his Atlantic City casino problems on the executives who died in the 1989 helicopter crash, even though the crash happened months before the Taj Mahal opened and long after the core financial issues were already baked in.
NJ.com summarizes O’Donnell’s claim that Trump “routinely blamed deceased executives who had nothing to do with his woes.”
TrumpFile — which compiles historical reporting — states that Trump “later blames his financial struggles on their deaths, even though the casino opens over six months later.”
[What a complete nutty ass.]
But, HEY !!! He hates Blacks and Browns. Hates them so much that he's building an American gulag for them. Oh, yeah, he hates poor Whites, too. You're NEXT !!!
[As quiet as it's been kept . . . This Commie, this Red terrorist has "always" been nuts.]
SO? . . . Just VOTE, already !!!
Sir,great piece,you are 100% on target and what you have said should just be repeated every day,5 times a day to everyone who is concerned.
I just had lunch with a former neighbor,who is a Democrat,but who refuses to get involved in any rally,demonstration because he doesn't want to get his hands dirty. Refuses to call Trump what he Trump admits he is a " Nazi" ,thinking that the elections will make a difference.His 401 K is doing well,so why get to worked up about the horendous times we are having to endure. He is among the 67 million Democrats who refuse to get involved in the pushback against this collection of malignant cells.
Your ex-neighbor would've been comfortable in 1933 Germany.
Sir,sadly he would have would have said " wait until the next election" He is just a total advocate of doing nothing.Everything will work out,as we can see,everything is not working out. When he left" I yelled to him " Kevin get out in the streets" with no acknowledgement. Won't be seeing him again.
the only thing evil needs to succeed is for good people to do nothing
Thanks,another phrase that might stick is " Silence equals complicity"
Sir Oke Doke, it's unusual but helicopter rotors to fail from time to time. It's generally found to be poor maintenance and inspections. Tied to Trump, though...
When you are right, you're right. And you're right, RB.
I should've qualified it with "rarely."
All true. I lived through his time in AC.
How do you know that about his first wife? I thought the court files were closed and he paid her to keep her mouth shut? I am not saying he did or didn’t commit those acts but how do you know?
As far as Nick Reiner is concerned I think the decision to not hospitalize him years ago is the crime not his disabling mental capacity.
A 1993 biography titled The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump quoted from Ivana Trump’s 1989 divorce deposition.
According to reporting summarized in The Independent, the book described the incident as a “violent assault” and stated that Ivana had used the word “rape” in the deposition.
As for the crimes? The analogy alludes to the tragic homicides.
Thank you for the reference.
The reason he has gone this far is because everyone is afraid of Trump, even Democratic leaders.
He gets away with murder because our Governors and mayors are afraid of him, oh they talk big, but it is all talk.. The mayor of Minneapolis instead of saying "get the fuck out" should have sent the police in to arrest the ICE agents, for breaking the law, So should Walz, Newsom,
By the time blue state governors get around to soft succession, it will be too late, if it already isn't.
Trump defies the Supreme Court, he defies in judicial order that he finds inconvenient, he has cowed the Pentagon and all of it's generals and flag officers, those that weren't already supporting his Christian, Nationalist agenda that is.
And his private army, ICE/CBP/HS/FBI the seed of a GESTAPO, and his Sturmabeitlung waiting in the shadows, standing back and standing by, waiting to be let loose on us.
The longer we dither, the harder or even impossible to extricate ourselves from this tyranny of the mad king and his army of morons.
Heard that Noem/ICE had Jonathan Ross out of the state an hour after. The Mayor of Minneapolis cannot unilaterally tell city police to arrest a specific individual.
Mayor Frey has said they are working on the legal aspects. No protocol was followed as is done in police shootings.
Sadly it also seems the ICE officers were yelling get out of the car and and some said leave at the same time. Happened with their other shootings too. Stupid chaos, just like everything they do.
Renee Nicole Good was murdered.
So we have the name: Jonathan Ross. Can't wait to see details about him, his background, social media presence, education.
Here is AI overview
Jonathan Ross is an ICE deportation officer who fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026, during an immigration enforcement operation. The incident sparked national controversy, with federal officials defending the shooting as self-defense and local leaders/witnesses disputing that claim.
Neighbors mentioned that Ross had pro-Trump and "Don't Tread On Me" Gadsden flags at his home, information which was shared on social media platforms.
There is reporting that he was an ICE firearms instructor and has PTSD from an injury/ incident last year. If that's the case, why was he out on raids? That's flat out incompetence from Kosplay Kristi.
Good question, but tis obvious, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel for an excuse, a rationalization. Poor Jonathan Ross, he has PTSD from kidnapping Migrants, poor thing /s
William,I think you and I both know what should happen to Jonathan Ross.
Can you imagine how frightened she must have been when an ICE pig approaches her car with a rifle and a facemask,trys to force his way into her car. I think the time has arrived,when we say,enough is enough.Let the citizens of Minneaoplis get armed,get trained and see if they can inflict a little damage on ICE.
Sure, we should all get armed and trained, but it's too late for that; Trump already has his MAGAs, and perhaps, many military, illegal paramilitary groups and some military and law enforcement groups on his side.
Any attempt at this time to organize anti-Trump forces would be ruthlessly shattered - with no holds barred.
William,well said. How do we motivate the 67 million Democrats who have been AWOL. What will motivate them to do something. I guarantee that if 40 million people showed up to protest rather than 8 million,things would change.
If we are to do something soon, as we are a minority party, we need support from a few Congressional Republicans.
Without help from the talking heads -- we can't get more cooperation. On this site there are several people who actually discouraged our initiatives. I also think there were a hell of a lot more than 8 million who've been participating. The problem is that the protests need to go directly to Congress, and standing on a municiapl street corner where no media attention is generated is fruitless. I would have picketed every Fox news station, every Fox reporter, etc.
Please note that today, Trump is doing us a favor by threatening his fellow Republicans. A favor because it's reported. A favor because it shows THEM (and the public) that he is a dictator and a coward.
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Daniel,I think to begin with,we should get every democrat in congress to stand together in a rally and say " enough is enough" No deviating from that message,no individual statements that deviate from that message. If there are Dems who don't stand for that message,blackball them,don't talk to them.
I have been to virtually every demonstration here in Cobb Cty,Georgia. Generally ages 40-85,85 % women.Where are the men? There are people in wheelchairs,people with canes,people who can barely walk.
The last "NO Kings"rallyhad about 8 million Nationwide,according to " Indivisible" ,what if that # is 40 million? We just to get all the lazy ,alway have an excuse Dems to do somethng.
Apparently you don't know shit about how Congress works.
Democrats aren't the problem.
Daniel,we can see how well Congress is functioning.After nearly 1 yr of absolute insanity,there has almost no successful pushback.Read my post,I am blaming the Dems who refuse to get involved,if you don't agree with that, you must be either one of those or you are living in an alternate universe.
What the hell happened YESTERDAY to Trump in the Senate
What about the Obamacare House resolution?
Trumpepstein?
YOU DON"Y KNOW JACK SHIT ABOUT DEMS.
Don't be obtuse Daniel, when you say "on this site there are several people who actually discourage our activities"
You don't mean several, you mean me.. your nemesis.
I don't discourage activities Daniel, to say so shows just how guileless you are.
What I have said and will say is that depending on the system, the institutions, the courts to bail us out,is a fools errand. Because Trump and Trumpism have taken them hostage.
What we need is positive action, resistance, boycotts,general strike. We know that one thing they listen to is their pocket book, the quarterly profit and earnings statement.
If nothing else the Jimmy Kimmel fiasco taught us that. Rather than rush to the courts, filing a suit, the people rose up and threatened the profitability of CBS, Sinclair and Nexstar.
What you propose and only what you propose is filling law suits and voting, as if the Republicans haven't jinxed the vote.
You cry "we wuz robbed", and surely we were, and we will be robbed even worse in 2026, yet you still seek relief through a corrupted process.
Maybe, just maybe if every voter that is fed up and tired of Trump actually bothered to turn out and vote, we could flip the government, I will do my part, but relying on the vote all by itself, will not produce results, and we have current history to prove that. don't we,
Meanwhile stop misrepresenting me and my position, even obliquely.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
PS I don't need google to copy and paste my comments.
We can walk and chew gum at the same time. You are just a resentful moron.
Resent what?Who, you? Gimme a break, get off your ego. As you said to me not to long ago, you are too full of yourself. You act like you are the only one who knows anything, has a prefrontal cortex. has the ability to form their own opinions and think for themself
Actually you are more like the Pied Piper of Hamlin , getting people to follow you into the mountain.
Politicians are motivated by money and votes. Those Republicans who disagree or disapprove of Trump keep silent, because he threatens to primary them, and his base is motivated by fear, anger, angst, insecurity and will jump when he commands.
The Democratic party needs the same, but they are a big tent party, and inside the tent are a hundred factions demanding recognition and priority., they couldn't abandon their pet peeve, their personal project, and get organized if death were staring them in the face, and it is.
William,your last comment is so right. A bunch of pseudo intellectuals who can never,ever agree to a single message. And you are right death is more than staring them in the face,it is already here.
When push comes to shove, everybody in this nation (despite their oral or written denials) is afraid of Donald Trump, and justly so. He has shown no reluctance to act against any critics or political adversaries, so any one (or many) of us could be next on his list. So are any of us Democrats or Independents less to blame than Republican legislators, who, because of their positions, are a lot better target for Trump's revenge?
Other than Thom Hartmann and some substack subscriptions. I don't have an internet presence nor any social media, and I don't have a credit card either.
I can't say that I am scared of Trump, but I am apprehensive.
Those articles of impeachment look good to me. Send it, Democrats!
At least 2 Ds have submitted articles of impeachment according Wikipedia. Of course, buried by Johnson. Unless Rs get spines, NOTHING will happen.
If we can get three (3) Republicans, we can issue subpoenas, hold hearings.
Jerry Weiss scenario. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/
Yesterday, 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.”
They're still way behind, but it's encouraging (slightly) to see these Republicans see a crack of light - but probably not enough to make a difference; they, and all other Republican legislators have a long way to go.
The action is in the House. Epstein. Obamacare. Russian sanctions.
And now Venezuela.
MAGA Mike knows he's toast.
A lecture on morality from a psychopath?!
The path forward is going to be painful with or without an impeachment unless there is a way to impeach Vance at the same time. We will be in new territory. The list for the Constitutional Crisis we are in just keeps growing. That presser the VP gave about the murder of Renee Good was jolting.
JD is having the time of his life. Imagine what he will do to our country while we try to recover from TRump. Death is just another tool to these Nazis. Live by the sword.....
Even so, we must do our moral duty and impeach TRump. It will be his legacy along with the death toll. See you in the streets.
Unlikely to happen, but if both rump & vance were to be impeached & convicted, that would leave Mike Johnson in charge. Jeez..............
There is no way to impeach until the new congress is sworn in, in Jan 2027, if we are lucky and the Republicans have not so effectively stolen the election with all of their schemes, scams and laws.
If Dem's win in November, then Mike Johnson won't be speaker, in fact he might not be speaker if the Dem's don't win, but we still have to win the Senate or otherwise any impeachment in the House is just a gesture. Remember Trump was impeached twice, but not removed by the Senate because there weren't enough votes.
Unless the Democrats gain complete control of Congress any talk of impeachment is just blowing hot air.
ANYTHING can happen this year. Representatives quit, change parties and die. Santos was expelled.
We have to do what we can when we can do it. That includes efforts with the budget.
Agree,let's not spend time on something that is not going to happen. How about an offensive strategy that will actually work.?
In the meantime, we need people that cah think out of the box. During WWII there was an underground that saved thousands of lives. I'm also wondering why the Hague has been silent. Surely, trump's crimes should have captured their attention. Murdering citizens in cold blood demands that NATO speak out. We helped save Europe during WWII.. It's their turn now or am I living on another planet?
Good point Eadie. The Hague would be the International Criminal Court
Cases come to the International Criminal Court (ICC) via three main routes: a referral from a State Party to the Rome Statute, a referral from the UN Security Council (which can include non-member states), or through the ICC Prosecutor's own initiative (proprio motu) after conducting a preliminary examination
The current Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is Karim A. A. Khan KC, a British barrister specializing in international criminal law
This means that some member of the Security Council, of which the U.S. has a veto, as does Russia and China, or the prosecutor who is a Brit, and subject to British political pressure, would have to conduct a preliminary investigation and file charges.
Now consider that the members of the EU, rush to D.C. to knock on the door of the offal Office, so they can fall on their knees and fellate Trump, do you think that any of them would conduct a preliminary investigation.
It gets worse. The EU is holding billions of Russian rubles, because of sanctions, and they are being held in the Hague, in Belgium and Belgium will not release the funds that the EU can use them to defend Ukraine, because Belgium is either afraid of Putin or Belgium is using the funds to prop up i'ts economy.
Wow! Does anyone have leverage over these people or the ability to put pressure on them? Europe certainly wants the democrats to succeed in Ukraine. They will need us if Putin invades NATO. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the US alone may not be able get rid of tRump. We need large protests, but that's not all we need. What happens in the US affects the world. It has to be a world wide effort.
No Eadie, no one has leverage.
Europe is under pressure from the fascist right. It seems the world is demanding fascism. And the press is complicit. You see fascism is a marriage of the state and corporations. In Fact America has always been fascist light, as corporations have untold influence in our government and economy through political contributions, and they outright own many politicians, they certainly did own the cabinets like Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Interior, any cabinet or commission that affected business interests.
That was the swamp. Who were appointed to these cabinets and commissions? Why the experts who knew something about the industry or function they were suppose to regulate, and who were these experts, why they were the CEO's and Lawyers from those very industries.
But I stray. France is under pressure from the Fascist National Rally which is gaining popularity, Germany from the Alternative for Deutchland and right wing allied parties. Slovakia, Hungary are already in the fascist (Putin) Camp, Poland for a while slipped away from the grasp of the PiS is the acronym for Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, which translates to the Law and Justice Party, a prominent right-wing, nationalist, and conservative political party that held power for several years before losing in the 2023 elections.
The current President of Poland is Karol Nawrocki, who assumed office on August 6, 2025. He won the 2025 presidential election as an independent candidate, endorsed by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party.
Key facts about President Karol Nawrocki:
He is a conservative and a staunch nationalist with a "soft-eurosceptic" stance, advocating for a strong national identity within the European Union. His positions include opposing illegal migration, promoting traditional values, and seeking World War II reparations from Germany.
Italy is led by a out and out fascist, Moldova and the Czech Republic are under threat.
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, which elected an out and out fascist Gert Wilders are under pressure from the right.
However in their case it is mainly because of immigration from Islamic countries, and the threat of a cultural shift, and Islamization.
Europe has a history of being under threat from Islam, which is, by the way,incompatible with western culture and democracy.
First stopped by Charles the hammer at Poitiers in 752 CE and then by John III Sobieski, at the gates of Vienna in 1683.
If you are female, and not a trad wife, you don't want to live under Islam, same for atheists and queers, well those two won't because they can't, and keep their head.
Thank you, Tom🩵
Trump has declared that he and he alone is emperor. He is America's Ruler. I have been saying for years that Fascists want to rule, not govern. Now Trump is saying to the world. He and his minions now assert that there are no limits, like international laws, that limit his authority. If he wants to annex Greenland, Venezuela, wherever, they are his for the taking.
What apparently does not scare the spineless GOP Congress whose greed for power is unlimited is that there are limits on Trump, Russia, N. Korea, and China all have nukes and armies. Thus, Trump's demented assertions of unlimited power are not only naive, but they risk global self-annihilation. That could happen well before Trump's highly-rigged November mid-term.
I've been talking about this since the late 90s. I was told that I was overreacting and hysterical. The trend toward this was unmistakable even back then.
If nothing important happens before that (improbable) election, then Mother Nature will take of things after a few more months or years of "Drill, Baby, Drill."
The Lame Duck Felon's "morality" is the same as that of his ex-bestie Jeffrey Epstein (whom he may have arranged his killing/suicide)..
Jonathan Ross is the officer who fatally opened fire on Renee Nicole Good, 37, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, the Minnesota Star Tribune first reported. Fox9 and The Intercept also identified the shooter as Ross.
"I am like the state: what is good for me is right".
This came out off the mouth of William Hickman - child kidnapper, murderer, dismemberer. This is the man Ayn Rand championed and the philosophy the R's championed for years. Those Wannabe MAGATS then are in charge now. Yes, the man was tried, convicted and executed - eventually. But JMJ (Jesus, Mary and Joseph) at what price was "justice" achieved.
Most normal Americans and people around the world with thinking brains wake up every morning cringing over what the latest news will bring of Trump's many transgressions. It's always something, always bad, always stupid.
The list of his worst crimes is too long to encapsulate in digestible bites: ending USAID, resulting in unfathomable deaths, mostly children; ending health care for millions of Americans, resulting in the incalculable deaths of even more children, the sick, and the poor; raining down bombs on country after country, killing hundreds if not thousands; appeasing the world's worst genocidal maniacs who are killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians; deregulating and subsidizing billionaire polluters who are poisoning the land we live on, the water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we eat, killing untold millions...
Do you detect a pattern?
Never mind his many "lesser" offenses, such as destroying our democracy, economy, education system, legal system, independent media, the military, and local law enforcement, or flooding our streets with his murderous masked thugs. Focus instead on what will kill millions and billions of people long into the future.
And that is Trump's deadly fixation on oil.
Human-caused climate destruction is the worst crisis humanity has ever faced. It spells the end of life on Earth.
So what is Trump doing about it? He is tenaciously ignoring reality and stubbornly trying to end the production of clean energy in America, reversing progress and reverting to the incessant burning of fossil fuels—a twentieth-century solution to a twenty-first-century problem—for the personal profits of petrobillionaires. It's the most foolish action this irredeemable madman could ever take, exhibiting utter nonsense in response to the world's most menacing emergency, especially for a president of such a powerful nation.
Keeping Venezuela's dirty oil in the ground is in the best interest of everyone on Earth, for the sake of future generations, and, yes, for the rapacious billionaire class too, even if they don't realize it. The same can be said of Saudi Arabia and every other oil-producing nation.
It's way past the time for the world's economies to transition to clean energy, to invest their billions in policies and programs that will save our environment and our lives. But Trump and his death cult are doing the exact opposite, setting the worst example for others to follow.
Hence, we must absolutely crush these evil bastards at the polls for the sake of our children and our children's children. There is simply no other choice.
The vast majority of this administration and much of Congress are bought and paid-for politicians. Trump is their spokesman and head huckster.
Most believe those in the shadows are followers. That’s just not true. This administration is governed by those billionaires, and now, trillionaires who put them in office and who extracted promises and threats coerced with power, money, and lack of moral compunction.
They all know this is their last roundup. If they don’t stay in, they’re headed for the trash bin.
Well said.
"When does the greed stop?!"
Remove all private big money from our political system and implement public financing for campaigns.
"How much is too much?"
Put a cap on obsessive-compulsive wealth accumulation (a mental illness) and levy reasonable wealth taxes to fund responsible social programs.
Allow the over-the-top greedy billionaire class to realize their greatest fears.
Every single thing Trump does bears witness to a sick and depraved man who is bringing the world down into the toxic stew that is his brain. TRUMP IS HITLER for a new century. He must be stopped.
Yeah, Godwin's Law has been suspended until further notice.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
FIRE ICE.
He has no morality.