Once again. I am curious as to how ICE knew that the couple it tackled in the parking lot of the school in Baltimore, knew that the couple would be there at that time, in that car and even what they looked like. Ifirst asked this question when they showed up on a fire line, in a remote section of the Olympic national forest in Washington State to arrest two firefighters.
They know where their targets are, and that is scary. We are being tracked
William,Palantir is the surveillance co. They just sent me an email,saying theyhoped I fully emptied my bladder when I went to the bathroom@ 9:30 eastern time.
While one side advances the steady erosion of democracy, the other side frets about any response that might smack of “overreach”. The latter’s politicians occasionally advance counter-measures, but always within the framework established by the fascists. The fascists march on while Democrats devote more attention to vilifying their most inspiring insurgents than to thwarting fascism. Voters have noticed. The future of American democracy hangs on a virtual revolution within the Democratic Party.
Tom,so well said. It is simply amazing that the corporate Democrats have sold out those of us who believed in the Democratic idea. There is little doubt they believe in AI and having AI stocks for the past yr has made many of them millionaires. Why fight against a"nazi" when your stock portfolio is doing well in a totally unregulated AI industry.
Every one of the AI executives has said "AI is going to eliminate millions of jobs and that is the intent of AI. Asked what will the unemployed do,they say "figure it out" .They have no empathy,no sympathy,no humanity, much like the " NazI"in the white house.I hope @some point americans wake up but I have been hoping that for 16 months and still very little pushback.
Thank you David. I am hoping for the same thing as you but admittedly, my hope is wearing thin as too many peoples' values are money, power and insatiable greed. We are morally bankrupt in this country and it all makes me heartsick as well as enraged. I'm going to be 80 soon and I'm getting very tired. I just don't have the energy I had in the 60's when I was so full of hope and actively protested against the Vietnam War as well as for civil rights and womens' rights. I'm feeling mad and sad every day. Never could I have imaged how far we have slid backwards. I'm glad Thom Hartmann is still here. Thanks for your presence as well David and Jean's.
If one can read, and if one can digest , and if one gives a shit about one’s own family, this written proof of being raped and pillaged by the fucking greedy fucks better help you stop calling on Pollyanna and get your blood to boil.
Oh and yes, YOU could demand this to be stopped. Read your history and get off your digital dildo( made by the billionaires) and think first about the planet that was gifted to you by (?)and remember…, even the planet can be (already has been) raped and torn apart by these same ugly, greedy, corrupt, do nothings.
They apparently do not have the same laws as you
Where is our combined rage, citizen of a dying, torn apart country? Look at the piles of dead humans coming in photos to you if you care enough not to have the murder repeated!
Yes Jean. Where IS our combined rage and why are we so incapable of learning from history and then making very different choices that would benefit all living beings? I am feeling disgust at our inability to evolve as a species. Well, nature will have the last word.
The one big, beautiful spectacle that we should have seen this week was covered up with the largest tarps the Republicans could find. Jim Acosta reported TRump's name was indeed removed from OUR John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Arts. By 3:30 AM, Acosta could see through a crack in the tarps that President Bone-Spur's name was gone. One small step for man.....
It is one big, cowardly act after another. Terrorizing school children here, bombing schoolgirls in Iran, refusing health care for young and the old, and all while vile Elon Musk corrupts our system to become the richest man on paper in the history of the world.
On health care, once you fight your way through the morass of your Advantage health care denial, THEIR "advantage" is also that THEY will tell you who they will or will not pay. Taking your choice away is what the fascist Republicans do for fun. I hope the Birthday Boy falls asleep in his cake and the paying "guests" enjoy the heat, bugs, and porta-potties. Some lightning bolts would be nice. See you in the streets.
Corruption that no country has ever seen. America is at the lowest point in history and even Caligula would be envious if he were alive today. My therapist shakes her head when I ask her how I can deal with it and simply tells me that it will not be solved politically at this point but can only be solved through a struggle and there is bound to be violence. I am in therapy because i cannot adjust to the cruelty and corruption that is on full display in a country that not long ago was lecturing everyone about their lack of human rights and support of regime corruption. We have fallen and I know that I as an individual cannot do anything about it but take her advice and try to reach some level of radical acceptance. I wonder why we are not in the streets every day, but it goes back to the level of comfort so many of us feel that life will go back to normal with the mid-term election. That is not going to happen because the Republicans will make sure the election is compromised and the Democrats will continue to field main-stream candidates that rely on corporate money. Our young people should be screaming and calling for change about how our political system has robbed them of a future. I only hope that someday they will rise up and create the change we so badly need, but in the meantime, I am trying to follow my therapists advise and adjust myself to the fact that we live in a country ruled by oligarchs and white supremacy.
For decades the Nazi Republicans have been hell bent on eliminating the federal government "social safety net" that many less fortunate Americans rely on. This net includes Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security with their hardcore belief that the federal government is not a "cookie jar" for welfare queens and that all programs such as the Postal Service, Social Security should be privatized so that taxpayer $$ should be used to line the pockets of companies wanting a “piece of the action”.
Meanwhile spendthrift Nazi Cheeto has put us in a $2B/d war, awarded all his Nazi cronies no bid contracts far surpassing what they are worth, trying to pull $$ out of the treasury for his own needs, rob Americans with a tax called tariffs, bankrupting farmers with trade policies, forcing Americans with 401K plans to pay a now trillionaire millions of "compensation" for his DOGE government work, while canceling USAID which was saving lives in Africa and giving tax breaks for billionaires as he bankrupts the country. And the Nazi Republicans are trying to normalize all of this corruption. Nothing to see here. Oh, and BTW, rig the elections on the lie of fraudulent voting so that the Nazi Republicans can stay in office forever.
But this is the Nazi Republican way. The see the federal government is not to serve WE the People which is the government but to serve the rich and powerful, making them wealthier and dictators forever....selfish and for self aggrandizement. So in the end, it's what you believe is the role of government. I just prefer the former which our Constitution mandates.
Thom , they really never reach the bottom these people. Make toddlers scream for their parents. This is so wrong. They don’t care, having no bottom and all. Thom!
Thank you Thom for your steadfast decades of commitment to the truth and for your humane, moral values. I just feel sick about how they are destroying our country and inflicting so much pain and suffering on all living beings including our Mother Earth. I have no more words except thank you for being you and being here.
A word about autism: those who feel it is an affliction are the ones who are so short-sighted and broken. I have worked with so, so many autistic kids, and so, so many of their caretaker educators. These short-sighted people have no idea how blessed we are to be in the company of kids with autism.
Once again. I am curious as to how ICE knew that the couple it tackled in the parking lot of the school in Baltimore, knew that the couple would be there at that time, in that car and even what they looked like. Ifirst asked this question when they showed up on a fire line, in a remote section of the Olympic national forest in Washington State to arrest two firefighters.
They know where their targets are, and that is scary. We are being tracked
William,Palantir is the surveillance co. They just sent me an email,saying theyhoped I fully emptied my bladder when I went to the bathroom@ 9:30 eastern time.
While one side advances the steady erosion of democracy, the other side frets about any response that might smack of “overreach”. The latter’s politicians occasionally advance counter-measures, but always within the framework established by the fascists. The fascists march on while Democrats devote more attention to vilifying their most inspiring insurgents than to thwarting fascism. Voters have noticed. The future of American democracy hangs on a virtual revolution within the Democratic Party.
Tom,so well said. It is simply amazing that the corporate Democrats have sold out those of us who believed in the Democratic idea. There is little doubt they believe in AI and having AI stocks for the past yr has made many of them millionaires. Why fight against a"nazi" when your stock portfolio is doing well in a totally unregulated AI industry.
Every one of the AI executives has said "AI is going to eliminate millions of jobs and that is the intent of AI. Asked what will the unemployed do,they say "figure it out" .They have no empathy,no sympathy,no humanity, much like the " NazI"in the white house.I hope @some point americans wake up but I have been hoping that for 16 months and still very little pushback.
Thank you David. I am hoping for the same thing as you but admittedly, my hope is wearing thin as too many peoples' values are money, power and insatiable greed. We are morally bankrupt in this country and it all makes me heartsick as well as enraged. I'm going to be 80 soon and I'm getting very tired. I just don't have the energy I had in the 60's when I was so full of hope and actively protested against the Vietnam War as well as for civil rights and womens' rights. I'm feeling mad and sad every day. Never could I have imaged how far we have slid backwards. I'm glad Thom Hartmann is still here. Thanks for your presence as well David and Jean's.
If one can read, and if one can digest , and if one gives a shit about one’s own family, this written proof of being raped and pillaged by the fucking greedy fucks better help you stop calling on Pollyanna and get your blood to boil.
Oh and yes, YOU could demand this to be stopped. Read your history and get off your digital dildo( made by the billionaires) and think first about the planet that was gifted to you by (?)and remember…, even the planet can be (already has been) raped and torn apart by these same ugly, greedy, corrupt, do nothings.
They apparently do not have the same laws as you
Where is our combined rage, citizen of a dying, torn apart country? Look at the piles of dead humans coming in photos to you if you care enough not to have the murder repeated!
Thank you Jean, worth repeating.
If only we put down our phones and pick up our history books.
Thank you David.
Yes Jean. Where IS our combined rage and why are we so incapable of learning from history and then making very different choices that would benefit all living beings? I am feeling disgust at our inability to evolve as a species. Well, nature will have the last word.
The one big, beautiful spectacle that we should have seen this week was covered up with the largest tarps the Republicans could find. Jim Acosta reported TRump's name was indeed removed from OUR John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Arts. By 3:30 AM, Acosta could see through a crack in the tarps that President Bone-Spur's name was gone. One small step for man.....
It is one big, cowardly act after another. Terrorizing school children here, bombing schoolgirls in Iran, refusing health care for young and the old, and all while vile Elon Musk corrupts our system to become the richest man on paper in the history of the world.
On health care, once you fight your way through the morass of your Advantage health care denial, THEIR "advantage" is also that THEY will tell you who they will or will not pay. Taking your choice away is what the fascist Republicans do for fun. I hope the Birthday Boy falls asleep in his cake and the paying "guests" enjoy the heat, bugs, and porta-potties. Some lightning bolts would be nice. See you in the streets.
Corruption that no country has ever seen. America is at the lowest point in history and even Caligula would be envious if he were alive today. My therapist shakes her head when I ask her how I can deal with it and simply tells me that it will not be solved politically at this point but can only be solved through a struggle and there is bound to be violence. I am in therapy because i cannot adjust to the cruelty and corruption that is on full display in a country that not long ago was lecturing everyone about their lack of human rights and support of regime corruption. We have fallen and I know that I as an individual cannot do anything about it but take her advice and try to reach some level of radical acceptance. I wonder why we are not in the streets every day, but it goes back to the level of comfort so many of us feel that life will go back to normal with the mid-term election. That is not going to happen because the Republicans will make sure the election is compromised and the Democrats will continue to field main-stream candidates that rely on corporate money. Our young people should be screaming and calling for change about how our political system has robbed them of a future. I only hope that someday they will rise up and create the change we so badly need, but in the meantime, I am trying to follow my therapists advise and adjust myself to the fact that we live in a country ruled by oligarchs and white supremacy.
It’s The Nazi Republican Way
For decades the Nazi Republicans have been hell bent on eliminating the federal government "social safety net" that many less fortunate Americans rely on. This net includes Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security with their hardcore belief that the federal government is not a "cookie jar" for welfare queens and that all programs such as the Postal Service, Social Security should be privatized so that taxpayer $$ should be used to line the pockets of companies wanting a “piece of the action”.
Meanwhile spendthrift Nazi Cheeto has put us in a $2B/d war, awarded all his Nazi cronies no bid contracts far surpassing what they are worth, trying to pull $$ out of the treasury for his own needs, rob Americans with a tax called tariffs, bankrupting farmers with trade policies, forcing Americans with 401K plans to pay a now trillionaire millions of "compensation" for his DOGE government work, while canceling USAID which was saving lives in Africa and giving tax breaks for billionaires as he bankrupts the country. And the Nazi Republicans are trying to normalize all of this corruption. Nothing to see here. Oh, and BTW, rig the elections on the lie of fraudulent voting so that the Nazi Republicans can stay in office forever.
But this is the Nazi Republican way. The see the federal government is not to serve WE the People which is the government but to serve the rich and powerful, making them wealthier and dictators forever....selfish and for self aggrandizement. So in the end, it's what you believe is the role of government. I just prefer the former which our Constitution mandates.
Thom , they really never reach the bottom these people. Make toddlers scream for their parents. This is so wrong. They don’t care, having no bottom and all. Thom!
Thank you Thom for your steadfast decades of commitment to the truth and for your humane, moral values. I just feel sick about how they are destroying our country and inflicting so much pain and suffering on all living beings including our Mother Earth. I have no more words except thank you for being you and being here.
A word about autism: those who feel it is an affliction are the ones who are so short-sighted and broken. I have worked with so, so many autistic kids, and so, so many of their caretaker educators. These short-sighted people have no idea how blessed we are to be in the company of kids with autism.