Biden has 9 days to stand up. Trump is illigitimate and our country was attacked by Russian psyops. We just lost the cold war. It's an emergency. Channel Abe Lincoln.
Daniel and we know the problem with dictators like orban,Kim jong-un, erdogan, Putin, and the wannabe dictator Trump. once they have control of the government and the military there is no such thing as a peaceful transfer of power in the next election. Once in power they or their successor will remain in power until there's a major crisis that unseats them. it took World War II to get rid of Hitler. the people of Ukraine revolded to get rid of a trump-like president that was supported by Putin. Their Orange revolution forced the newly elected president to flee Ukraine to save his life. Putin, having failed a peaceful takeover, invaded Ukraine in an effort to take control of the country by force. Putin had a more favorable result in our country as he helped to elect Donald Trump. Putin knows that Donald Trump won't continue our support of Ukraine. That will open the door for a victory for Putin. Not only does he win Ukraine but he is the victor of the undeclared war against the USA. he is successful here without firing a shot. History has shown that Trump will do anything that Putin asks of him.
Who is the Superman that can save our country's democracy? He's not faster than a speeding bullet or more powerful than a locomotive. He said he was going to run for president to save the soul of the America. He took an oath to protect the Constitution against foreign and domestic terrorists. we are currently in a undeclared war by those that want to take over our country. Their goal is NOT to make America great again, but is to make America like Russia. BIDEN has Presidential Power and the authority to declare the Country is in a State of Emergency. He needs to stop the transition of power until Trump has been tried of all charges, even the ones the Supreme Court said he was immune of. That would mean the results of the 2024 presidential election are null and void. There would have to be another election in 2025 with legitimate candidates to determine the next president of the United States. The Constitution was written to prevent a convicted felon, insurrectionist, traitor, or rapist from holding the highest office in our nation. If we are not a country ruled by laws, then we're not a country. No person should be above the law and then electe to be elected president of our country. If this happens, Democracy will have died in America. Trump wants to be dictator so he can destroy our country'sdemocracy. BIDEN needs to act like a dictator to save our country's democracy!!
I am in complete agreement with your assertions. WHY, based on the facts about Trump that you outline, who is a threat to our constitution and nation, is Biden not declaring a state of emergency? Biden took an oath to protect the Constitution against foreign and domestic powers, so why is he not using it?
I hope Biden's inaction will not result in catastrophic events during Trump's reign in the next four years. I see parallels to the slow reaction by those aware of Biden's decline, which resulted in the farcical nomination of Kamala Harris without the party's preparation to hold a meeting to agree on a nominee. No nominee, however, would have beaten Trump late in the game. If the Nancy Pelosi's of Congress had done their due diligence, Biden would not have been allowed to run again. It was too little, too late.
The presidential scenario reminds me of the catastrophic fires burning in Los Angeles and other places. They are entirely preventable. Santa Ana winds come every year. Burning back growth is the only way to control fires, as they do in Colorado, and no such sustainable activity is reported in California. The effects of climate change have aided the fires, causing undergrowth to grow in ways that contribute to the fire's consumption. Diligence and vigilance can prevent the fires. None of which existed. Turning off power contributed to less access to water, cutting back on the fire department's funds, and hiring created a perfect storm, not unlike our current presidential debacle.
Carol, correct me if I'm wrong, however, I think it was Dr. James Hansen, guest on Lawrence O'Donnell show who would have a serious disagreement with you, regarding the reason for the Los Angeles fire. No amount of 'diligence and vigilance' would have prevented this fire. As I recall Hansen said the major reason for this tragedy was a lack of rain during the winter months. Until now, the winter rainfall was followed by the Santa Ana winds. This year the Los Angeles dry season extended into the winter months. In other words, the dry season overlapped with the Santa Ana winds, creating a firestorm the likes of which had never been seen before. No rain was a by product of climate change that Hansen had predicted as far back as 35 years ago.
Manafort, Flynn and sundry others were convicted for 2016 violations including FARA. Biden administration was asleep at the switch and let the statute of limitations run on the Mueller prosecutions. Trump pardoned several co-conspirators.
Yes, American politics is corrupt and dirty, but corruption and slime is hardly the home territory of just one of the two cartel parties. Jimmy Carter was the only influential Democrat with the courage to honestly state that we are an oligarchy and no longer a democracy. He applied that to our political system, not to just one party.
Wikipedia articles can be written, revised, and edited by anyone. For this reason it is not a credible reference. The Durham report is a different matter.
Hedges has a long, credible history as an investigative journalist. He apparently has the Durham 306 p. report as a source. Does Tom Hartmann? If so, will Tom explain this content? If he does, will he source his information?
"Durham’s 306-page report, sent to Congress by Attorney General Merrick Garland earlier this week, is even more excoriating. It concludes that the F.B.I. engaged in a witch hunt — code named Crossfire Hurricane — orchestrated by Hillary Clinton’s campaign that was aided and abetted by senior F.B.I. officials who loathed Trump.
The Clinton campaign provided bogus information to the F.B.I. about ties between Trump and Russia, including a charge made by Michael Sussmann and Marc Elias, the general counsel to the Clinton campaign, that there was a secret channel between the Trump Organization and the Russian Alfa Bank."
You must know they took it to trial== and lost. It turned out that Durham also failed to report another investigation performed by the Italian CIA that implicated Trump.
The bottom line is that Americans are as propagandized as Russians or anyone else. Daniel Solomon comes from a perspective that the US is somehow virtuous and these other countries are not, which is simply biased towards the window one is looking out of. Those who do not want to accept that Democrats are actively working against the public interest just as Republicans do will look for a scapegoat, in this case Putin, Russia, anti-war activists, progressives etc. Hedges is absolutely right in that Hartmann liberals are no different than Trump supporters. They have some sort of religious belief in monsters like Biden and Harris and anyone who bursts that bubble must be working for Putin or some other dictator who has minimal if any effect on American politics. It's time for the old guard, including the Bidens, Hartmanns and Daniel Solomons, to be replaced by those who are honest in diagnosing at treating our systemic issues in lieu of propping up those who are constantly wrong in their assessments and predictions. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/democracy-dies-in-darkness-but-we
Listening to White Rabbit last night made more sense than ever. Thanks for feeding our heads, Thom.
All roads lead to Putin. Panama must pay for supporting Ukraine---they just opened a new embassy. More Panama info is in an interview with Trump's enforcer,Tom Homan. He thinks they have the ability to close off the Darien Gap. This will only affect the poorest migrants, because the "coyotes" will make people pay more to bypass it.
Greenland is a juicy tidbit. Russia/Putin is going to try to control the Arctic seaways. Fossil fuel, metals, and rare earth minerals are being looked at.
It seems like the chief objective of billionaires is to buy or create a media blowtorch for themselves to stream out their vile virility and poison politics. The price we pay is not having any access to the truth. Media ownership must be dispersed among all the people it serves, not confined to a tiny coterie of sociopaths.
And this is why The Affordable Care Act was and is a ruse. There is absolutely no way to "regulate" investment companies whether they are disguised as health insurers or hospitals. The system is now an impossible maze of copays, coinsurance, in-network, out-of-network, covered and uncovered services, out-of-pocket maximums and so on. Obama used Lieberman as his excuse for being a milquetoast corporate coward just as Biden used Manchin as his "bad cop." The theatrics of it all are so cloying and frustrating that the only answer appears to be violent uprising. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/the-american-health-care-system-is
Really enjoy your"Best of the Rest"Thom. What a week, I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that a Convicted Felon, is about to be sworn in,as President of the United States of America,in less than ten days 😱 my Silver Lining is You,and All of the Progressive Journalist, who I'll continue to depend on for the Truth and the Facts. Thanks, Thom and will reStack ASAP 💯👍🇺🇸
Greenland has a major military facility to assist NATO in protecting Europe from foreign aggression such as Ukraine, and Poland, next in Putin's crosshairs
Panama has sanctions against Russian vessels
travelling through the Canal, Putin wants those sanctions lifted
Canada has territorial rights in Arctic oil/gas reserves
At the other end of that phone connection are an insurance lackey and the operatives of two cartel parties dedicated to keeping the insurance stock holders profitable and playing keepaway ball of universal healthcare from American citizens. The fate of Democratic Party operatives keeping California's universal healthcare bill from going to the floor because it had the votes to pass has taught nothing to those who give credibility to willing stooges for the Democratic Party.
Please give me more Democrat flagellation! I mean, we have to keep ignoring facts like you've presented - payoffs from the petro industry to Republicans - so we can beat up on the Democratic Party because it lacks the purity demanded of it! Please! We need more "both-sides-ism"!!! (As pissed as I am about the centrists' perversion of my Party, I'm even more pissed about the self-righteous crowd on the left who delight in pissing on the only real alternative we have to oligarchy. They just join the puppeteers in depressing the vote, like the unwitting fools they are. It's a disaster: See Civil War, Spain, 1936-39, when the Soviet ideologues made life miserable for the rest of the Loyalist Republicans.)
Jan 6 was a disgrace. Trump becomes Franco on steroids Jan 20 Has 100 executive orders ready to go. Has sworn to jail/bankrupt his political enemies. End of democracy.
Where does one begin? So much nightmarish insanity in one update it's hard to pin down any one particular thing. The common denominator I found in every post? Money. With the exception of the womb police, every post concerned some combination of billionaires, profits, political payoffs, kickbacks, tax avoidance and bribing vagrants. Love of money is indeed the root of all evil.
Thank, you Thom for the news of the week. We the Democratic Party have to get our act together to change a lot of these ridiculous things and nothing good for anybody especially women. Alexander Hamilton, right. Here we are, Thom. Love you and that wonderful mind and brain of yours. You are a puzzle. It takes thought and work to figure you out. Complicated, for sure. Glad I know you. I need to know what is happening in real truth from you, now that is not complicated just downright common sense. Love you.
Biden has 9 days to stand up. Trump is illigitimate and our country was attacked by Russian psyops. We just lost the cold war. It's an emergency. Channel Abe Lincoln.
Couldn't agree more.
Daniel and we know the problem with dictators like orban,Kim jong-un, erdogan, Putin, and the wannabe dictator Trump. once they have control of the government and the military there is no such thing as a peaceful transfer of power in the next election. Once in power they or their successor will remain in power until there's a major crisis that unseats them. it took World War II to get rid of Hitler. the people of Ukraine revolded to get rid of a trump-like president that was supported by Putin. Their Orange revolution forced the newly elected president to flee Ukraine to save his life. Putin, having failed a peaceful takeover, invaded Ukraine in an effort to take control of the country by force. Putin had a more favorable result in our country as he helped to elect Donald Trump. Putin knows that Donald Trump won't continue our support of Ukraine. That will open the door for a victory for Putin. Not only does he win Ukraine but he is the victor of the undeclared war against the USA. he is successful here without firing a shot. History has shown that Trump will do anything that Putin asks of him.
Who is the Superman that can save our country's democracy? He's not faster than a speeding bullet or more powerful than a locomotive. He said he was going to run for president to save the soul of the America. He took an oath to protect the Constitution against foreign and domestic terrorists. we are currently in a undeclared war by those that want to take over our country. Their goal is NOT to make America great again, but is to make America like Russia. BIDEN has Presidential Power and the authority to declare the Country is in a State of Emergency. He needs to stop the transition of power until Trump has been tried of all charges, even the ones the Supreme Court said he was immune of. That would mean the results of the 2024 presidential election are null and void. There would have to be another election in 2025 with legitimate candidates to determine the next president of the United States. The Constitution was written to prevent a convicted felon, insurrectionist, traitor, or rapist from holding the highest office in our nation. If we are not a country ruled by laws, then we're not a country. No person should be above the law and then electe to be elected president of our country. If this happens, Democracy will have died in America. Trump wants to be dictator so he can destroy our country'sdemocracy. BIDEN needs to act like a dictator to save our country's democracy!!
I am in complete agreement with your assertions. WHY, based on the facts about Trump that you outline, who is a threat to our constitution and nation, is Biden not declaring a state of emergency? Biden took an oath to protect the Constitution against foreign and domestic powers, so why is he not using it?
I hope Biden's inaction will not result in catastrophic events during Trump's reign in the next four years. I see parallels to the slow reaction by those aware of Biden's decline, which resulted in the farcical nomination of Kamala Harris without the party's preparation to hold a meeting to agree on a nominee. No nominee, however, would have beaten Trump late in the game. If the Nancy Pelosi's of Congress had done their due diligence, Biden would not have been allowed to run again. It was too little, too late.
The presidential scenario reminds me of the catastrophic fires burning in Los Angeles and other places. They are entirely preventable. Santa Ana winds come every year. Burning back growth is the only way to control fires, as they do in Colorado, and no such sustainable activity is reported in California. The effects of climate change have aided the fires, causing undergrowth to grow in ways that contribute to the fire's consumption. Diligence and vigilance can prevent the fires. None of which existed. Turning off power contributed to less access to water, cutting back on the fire department's funds, and hiring created a perfect storm, not unlike our current presidential debacle.
Carol, correct me if I'm wrong, however, I think it was Dr. James Hansen, guest on Lawrence O'Donnell show who would have a serious disagreement with you, regarding the reason for the Los Angeles fire. No amount of 'diligence and vigilance' would have prevented this fire. As I recall Hansen said the major reason for this tragedy was a lack of rain during the winter months. Until now, the winter rainfall was followed by the Santa Ana winds. This year the Los Angeles dry season extended into the winter months. In other words, the dry season overlapped with the Santa Ana winds, creating a firestorm the likes of which had never been seen before. No rain was a by product of climate change that Hansen had predicted as far back as 35 years ago.
Perhaps you should read some non-partisan perspective before you rekimdle the HUAC. https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/21/chris-hedges-why-russiagate-wont-go-away/
Speaking as Putin's agent? Or willing fool?
Parrot prattling planted partisan platitudes.
"Putin cost Hillary the presidency" remains based on appeal to authority.
Manafort, Flynn and sundry others were convicted for 2016 violations including FARA. Biden administration was asleep at the switch and let the statute of limitations run on the Mueller prosecutions. Trump pardoned several co-conspirators.
This time is much worse. Included election voiolations, voter supression and intimidation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2024_United_States_elections#:~:text=The%20Russian%20government%20has%20interfered,support%20for%20Ukraine%20aid%20and
Yes, American politics is corrupt and dirty, but corruption and slime is hardly the home territory of just one of the two cartel parties. Jimmy Carter was the only influential Democrat with the courage to honestly state that we are an oligarchy and no longer a democracy. He applied that to our political system, not to just one party.
Wikipedia articles can be written, revised, and edited by anyone. For this reason it is not a credible reference. The Durham report is a different matter.
YOU are not a credible reference. The Durham report was completely discredited.
You are advocating for channeling a dead president and talking about credibility. That pretty much sums it up.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/durham-report-fbi-trump-russia/674088/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35576-9 You do partisan politicking. I prefer science.
They were not aware that he LOST at trial. Was discredited.
Hedges has a long, credible history as an investigative journalist. He apparently has the Durham 306 p. report as a source. Does Tom Hartmann? If so, will Tom explain this content? If he does, will he source his information?
"Durham’s 306-page report, sent to Congress by Attorney General Merrick Garland earlier this week, is even more excoriating. It concludes that the F.B.I. engaged in a witch hunt — code named Crossfire Hurricane — orchestrated by Hillary Clinton’s campaign that was aided and abetted by senior F.B.I. officials who loathed Trump.
The Clinton campaign provided bogus information to the F.B.I. about ties between Trump and Russia, including a charge made by Michael Sussmann and Marc Elias, the general counsel to the Clinton campaign, that there was a secret channel between the Trump Organization and the Russian Alfa Bank."
You must know they took it to trial== and lost. It turned out that Durham also failed to report another investigation performed by the Italian CIA that implicated Trump.
The bottom line is that Americans are as propagandized as Russians or anyone else. Daniel Solomon comes from a perspective that the US is somehow virtuous and these other countries are not, which is simply biased towards the window one is looking out of. Those who do not want to accept that Democrats are actively working against the public interest just as Republicans do will look for a scapegoat, in this case Putin, Russia, anti-war activists, progressives etc. Hedges is absolutely right in that Hartmann liberals are no different than Trump supporters. They have some sort of religious belief in monsters like Biden and Harris and anyone who bursts that bubble must be working for Putin or some other dictator who has minimal if any effect on American politics. It's time for the old guard, including the Bidens, Hartmanns and Daniel Solomons, to be replaced by those who are honest in diagnosing at treating our systemic issues in lieu of propping up those who are constantly wrong in their assessments and predictions. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/democracy-dies-in-darkness-but-we
Putin is a war criminal.
Listening to White Rabbit last night made more sense than ever. Thanks for feeding our heads, Thom.
All roads lead to Putin. Panama must pay for supporting Ukraine---they just opened a new embassy. More Panama info is in an interview with Trump's enforcer,Tom Homan. He thinks they have the ability to close off the Darien Gap. This will only affect the poorest migrants, because the "coyotes" will make people pay more to bypass it.
Greenland is a juicy tidbit. Russia/Putin is going to try to control the Arctic seaways. Fossil fuel, metals, and rare earth minerals are being looked at.
The last verse of the song Grace Slick wrote:
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head
Nouns and verbs I have. Not sure if sharing them would be in my best interest.
Saturday Report by Hartmann is still the best weekly in the universe. Thanks.
“Is it fossil fuel billionaires or social media billionaires who are the greatest threat to the future of world peace and democracy?”
Um, in a word, “Yes.”
Add foreign totalitarianism.
It seems like the chief objective of billionaires is to buy or create a media blowtorch for themselves to stream out their vile virility and poison politics. The price we pay is not having any access to the truth. Media ownership must be dispersed among all the people it serves, not confined to a tiny coterie of sociopaths.
What if those billionaires are marks for BRIC?
RE: Trump's Scarlet "F." Worth noting that he has worn the Scarlet "A" for adultery since his first marriage.
And this is why The Affordable Care Act was and is a ruse. There is absolutely no way to "regulate" investment companies whether they are disguised as health insurers or hospitals. The system is now an impossible maze of copays, coinsurance, in-network, out-of-network, covered and uncovered services, out-of-pocket maximums and so on. Obama used Lieberman as his excuse for being a milquetoast corporate coward just as Biden used Manchin as his "bad cop." The theatrics of it all are so cloying and frustrating that the only answer appears to be violent uprising. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/the-american-health-care-system-is
Really enjoy your"Best of the Rest"Thom. What a week, I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that a Convicted Felon, is about to be sworn in,as President of the United States of America,in less than ten days 😱 my Silver Lining is You,and All of the Progressive Journalist, who I'll continue to depend on for the Truth and the Facts. Thanks, Thom and will reStack ASAP 💯👍🇺🇸
More of he is Putin's bitch
Greenland has a major military facility to assist NATO in protecting Europe from foreign aggression such as Ukraine, and Poland, next in Putin's crosshairs
Panama has sanctions against Russian vessels
travelling through the Canal, Putin wants those sanctions lifted
Canada has territorial rights in Arctic oil/gas reserves
and Putin wants those rights demolished
I'd really like to see a Biden Executive Order commanding the release of all the Jack Smith reports of the cases and evidence against Trump.
At the other end of that phone connection are an insurance lackey and the operatives of two cartel parties dedicated to keeping the insurance stock holders profitable and playing keepaway ball of universal healthcare from American citizens. The fate of Democratic Party operatives keeping California's universal healthcare bill from going to the floor because it had the votes to pass has taught nothing to those who give credibility to willing stooges for the Democratic Party.
Please give me more Democrat flagellation! I mean, we have to keep ignoring facts like you've presented - payoffs from the petro industry to Republicans - so we can beat up on the Democratic Party because it lacks the purity demanded of it! Please! We need more "both-sides-ism"!!! (As pissed as I am about the centrists' perversion of my Party, I'm even more pissed about the self-righteous crowd on the left who delight in pissing on the only real alternative we have to oligarchy. They just join the puppeteers in depressing the vote, like the unwitting fools they are. It's a disaster: See Civil War, Spain, 1936-39, when the Soviet ideologues made life miserable for the rest of the Loyalist Republicans.)
What is "the real alternative"?
Jan 6 was a disgrace. Trump becomes Franco on steroids Jan 20 Has 100 executive orders ready to go. Has sworn to jail/bankrupt his political enemies. End of democracy.
If Trump has an achilles heel, it is that he is illegitimate. He is either an agent or willing idiot for foreign interests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2024_United_States_elections#:~:text=The%20indictment%20revealed%20a%20key,and%20Benny%20Johnson%2C%20among%20others.
Either way, Biden can stand up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory
Why did the doctor take the call in the middle of an operation?
Where does one begin? So much nightmarish insanity in one update it's hard to pin down any one particular thing. The common denominator I found in every post? Money. With the exception of the womb police, every post concerned some combination of billionaires, profits, political payoffs, kickbacks, tax avoidance and bribing vagrants. Love of money is indeed the root of all evil.
Thank, you Thom for the news of the week. We the Democratic Party have to get our act together to change a lot of these ridiculous things and nothing good for anybody especially women. Alexander Hamilton, right. Here we are, Thom. Love you and that wonderful mind and brain of yours. You are a puzzle. It takes thought and work to figure you out. Complicated, for sure. Glad I know you. I need to know what is happening in real truth from you, now that is not complicated just downright common sense. Love you.