Because Trump has the guns literally, the Department of Justice, the Supreme Court, the most important of the appellate courts, and the state and local police (right wing sympathizers and Constitutional Sheriff and Peace Officers Association, and finally control of the Armed Forces. Who is going to stop him?
Ohand there is the Federal Purse, if a state doesn't submit, he signs an executive order and withholds funds. He has the keys to the vault, and if there is one thing that can control humans, it is money.
Yet, there are those with none that survive. Truth is that we are civilized. Just like the Romano Celts who were once fierce warriors found themselves weak and defenseless when the Romans left Britain..
As a child I lived with my fathers parents in backwoods Arkansas, They raised and slaughtered their own hogs and chickens, drew water from a pump, grew their own veggies and cooked, heated with wood hewn by my grand father.
Such is beyond the ken and ability of the civilized.
Admittedly I am, in my years, soft and weak and also need money to survive, but is it enough to merely survive. To live another day, waiting to be hauled off to a concentration camp.
A choice we to make, to die on our feet, or to live on our knees.
Pulte used his position to dig out "dirt" on Trump's enemies. Evidently Tulsi didn't want to do that, so she stepped down and Trump is using Pulte for the same job, but this time digging into the national security data base..
Reports indicate that acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte directed staff at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to identify around 300 employees for potential termination. Those that are left will be loyalists eager to do the dirty work of digging into DNI files to identify targets.
The objective is the upcoming mid terms, he knows that the Republicans will lose the house in November and he is hell bent on making sure that doesn't happen.. The mid terms is our last chance to save the country and democracy.
Mark Warner is praying that Bill Pulte doesn’t screw things up too badly. WOW! That’s right up there with strongly worded letters, man. Meanwhile, POSOTUS is monarchically free to run around DC destroying things, write checks out of the national checkbook, start wars & give away the store to end them, ad. inf. Corporate Democrats confine themselves to limp protestations and campaigns that boldly announce “we’re not as bad as they are”. How compelling. Here’s a thought: How about less compromised Congress men & women band together with like minded governors and assemblies and mayors and council persons, etc., and completely undermine this whole “we’re in the minority” scam. You know, kinda act like a PARTY that has the courage of its claimed convictions. It’s past time to support the talk with action. The establishment has failed miserably while seeking to perpetuate the failure by undermining the most inspiring people in the family (see Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC, Mamdani, Platner, etc., etc.). I’ve no doubt Thom and Christopher Armitage and Mehdi Hasan and so many others stand ready to offer guidance superior to that provided by Faux Noise.
Thoughts and prayers go out to Premier Maloni upon finding out that she isn't a special friend of TRump. Some people just don't know a psychopath when they are working with them.
She gets 10 points for publicly calling him a liar and 100 points for sticking up for Ukraine too. Don't like her politics, but I love her country.
Our allies know we will be back with a president that is not rude, crude, and socially unacceptable. Eventually! It's gonna take some time. See you in the streets.
For oligarchs, science is useful for only two things--advancing their racist ideology (eugenics) or advancing their quest for unlimited wealth (AI). All other science is communism, and must be suppressed.
Look here, not there. The whole business of magic is distraction and even when you're trying not to be distracted it happens because you don't know what to look for.
Cheeto seems to be really good at it. A magician of sorts. Don't look at the Trump-Epstein files, look over here at the slush fund I'm creating. Don't look at inflation, monitor the Iran war I started. Don't look at election subversion/interference, look at the flawed MOU I just created. Chew on that distraction MSM. And WE fall for it all the time.
But there are intelligent, focused people among us who don't get distracted and stay on the task at hand. That task is trying to understand how Cheeto got into the White House for a second term when he was not a strong candidate. Excuses are made...Harris entered too late, the Nazi Republicans were really strong, the electorate believed his lies to stay out of jail.
But the compelling circumstantial evidence makes those who are focused and not distracted to come up with reasonable but not objectively provable to make skeptics squirm in their seats. So the arguments of election interference are headed off by some other Cheeto distraction.
But never mind the distractions or the arguments. The issue is how to protect the upcoming elections. Focus on spot or focused election cyber forensic audits dependent on scrutiny of election results. That's how WE the People avoid distraction.
As Republican Paul Weyrich announced in 1979: “I don’t want everyone to vote. Our (Republican) leverage increases as the voting populace goes down. We are not traditional conservatives, we are radicals who want to tear down the status quo!” Republicans have been gerrymandering and suppressing votes for decades.
As for Republicans crying “socialism”, perhaps they should examine the reelection campaign platform of Republican President Eisenhower in 1956. He supported unions. As for socialism, what do you call taxpayers subsidizing the oil industry and other industries? What do you call full time WallMart employees on public assistance because the multi-billionaire Walton family pays them so little? If Republicans really want to MAGA, we must go back to the policies, law enforcement (like anti-trust), regulations and tax codes that made it that way in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. FDR, Truman, Nixon, Ford and Carter weren’t “socialists”, nor are current Democrats. However, MAGA is looking more like fascists every day.
MAGA is all about getting rid of subject matter expertise…and the police. If you fire the traffic cops (or corrupt them), there will be no speeding tickets issued. No tickets must mean there isn’t a speeding problem. DOGE/Trump fired hosts of Inspectors General, whose job it was to police their agencies for waste, fraud and abuses. Investigations vanished, including many into Musk and his companies. Generals and Admirals “retired”. All these subject matter experts replaced by unqualified Trump loyalists. Think of a city where the police have been replaced by mob cronies. The crime statistics “go down”, because it isn’t stopped or reported. MAGA are also modern day Luddites. They don’t believe in science, economics, history….facts. Current mainstream media is a reflection of their censorship. ABC NBC CBS News don’t lie like FoxNews, Newsmax, OANN, etc. They edit and censor. They are very unlikely to broadcast any information that will make Republicans look bad, or Democrats look good. That is what Trump now proposes for any type of research. Let the unqualified right wing Trump loyalists decide what is “real.” Or as Trump’s Kellyanne Conway remarked in 2017….just more “alternative truth.”
As his attacks on the administration of the vote fail, he will become more desperate to hold onto power. There will be violence as we near the end. Governors of every State must prepare now for that certainty. Our state armies, the National Guard, must mobilize. They are our collective right to self-defense as described in the original Second Amendment (1791-2008). This "well regulated Militia" must be prepared to ward off violence perpetrated by our own military, by ICE, Border Patrol and the violent mobs that Trump will certainly summon to interfere with every element of the process.
There will be a time, coming soon, that all of the real Patriots, the true Americans will rise up and drive Donald Trump and his crew of Trumpers and talentless traitors out of office. Our fathers did not go to Europe and the Pacific to hand our country over to a spineless brat with a bad temper and a world full of politicians that hate his guts!
I was pissed yesterday with the Supreme Court. They made up for some of it in their dealings with Donald Trump.Aside from Mikey Johnson, I hope that no one is holding out for a win for the Republican party.The blubbering dinosaur is slipping farther
. out of touch everyday. Fight Iran but fight paint ina reflecting pool.
A little more on this "lace up your shoes" . A life long "excersist" I find that I'm having trouble with initiative.. a sign of depression. It's hard to get started. Watching my country slide into fascism, given that my father, as a WWII vet, and that I and two of my brothers spent military careers defending against it, is depressing. Did we waste our time?
Someone please explain “how” one party in power is allowed to grab election ballots and be the arbiters rooting out fraud in an election?
Because Trump has the guns literally, the Department of Justice, the Supreme Court, the most important of the appellate courts, and the state and local police (right wing sympathizers and Constitutional Sheriff and Peace Officers Association, and finally control of the Armed Forces. Who is going to stop him?
Ohand there is the Federal Purse, if a state doesn't submit, he signs an executive order and withholds funds. He has the keys to the vault, and if there is one thing that can control humans, it is money.
We must have enough money to survive.
Yet, there are those with none that survive. Truth is that we are civilized. Just like the Romano Celts who were once fierce warriors found themselves weak and defenseless when the Romans left Britain..
As a child I lived with my fathers parents in backwoods Arkansas, They raised and slaughtered their own hogs and chickens, drew water from a pump, grew their own veggies and cooked, heated with wood hewn by my grand father.
Such is beyond the ken and ability of the civilized.
Admittedly I am, in my years, soft and weak and also need money to survive, but is it enough to merely survive. To live another day, waiting to be hauled off to a concentration camp.
A choice we to make, to die on our feet, or to live on our knees.
Pulte used his position to dig out "dirt" on Trump's enemies. Evidently Tulsi didn't want to do that, so she stepped down and Trump is using Pulte for the same job, but this time digging into the national security data base..
Reports indicate that acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte directed staff at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to identify around 300 employees for potential termination. Those that are left will be loyalists eager to do the dirty work of digging into DNI files to identify targets.
The objective is the upcoming mid terms, he knows that the Republicans will lose the house in November and he is hell bent on making sure that doesn't happen.. The mid terms is our last chance to save the country and democracy.
Mark Warner is praying that Bill Pulte doesn’t screw things up too badly. WOW! That’s right up there with strongly worded letters, man. Meanwhile, POSOTUS is monarchically free to run around DC destroying things, write checks out of the national checkbook, start wars & give away the store to end them, ad. inf. Corporate Democrats confine themselves to limp protestations and campaigns that boldly announce “we’re not as bad as they are”. How compelling. Here’s a thought: How about less compromised Congress men & women band together with like minded governors and assemblies and mayors and council persons, etc., and completely undermine this whole “we’re in the minority” scam. You know, kinda act like a PARTY that has the courage of its claimed convictions. It’s past time to support the talk with action. The establishment has failed miserably while seeking to perpetuate the failure by undermining the most inspiring people in the family (see Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC, Mamdani, Platner, etc., etc.). I’ve no doubt Thom and Christopher Armitage and Mehdi Hasan and so many others stand ready to offer guidance superior to that provided by Faux Noise.
Thoughts and prayers go out to Premier Maloni upon finding out that she isn't a special friend of TRump. Some people just don't know a psychopath when they are working with them.
She gets 10 points for publicly calling him a liar and 100 points for sticking up for Ukraine too. Don't like her politics, but I love her country.
Our allies know we will be back with a president that is not rude, crude, and socially unacceptable. Eventually! It's gonna take some time. See you in the streets.
For oligarchs, science is useful for only two things--advancing their racist ideology (eugenics) or advancing their quest for unlimited wealth (AI). All other science is communism, and must be suppressed.
Succinct and well said Jeffrey.
Thank you Thom for this piece!
Cheeto's Game Of Distractions
Look here, not there. The whole business of magic is distraction and even when you're trying not to be distracted it happens because you don't know what to look for.
Cheeto seems to be really good at it. A magician of sorts. Don't look at the Trump-Epstein files, look over here at the slush fund I'm creating. Don't look at inflation, monitor the Iran war I started. Don't look at election subversion/interference, look at the flawed MOU I just created. Chew on that distraction MSM. And WE fall for it all the time.
But there are intelligent, focused people among us who don't get distracted and stay on the task at hand. That task is trying to understand how Cheeto got into the White House for a second term when he was not a strong candidate. Excuses are made...Harris entered too late, the Nazi Republicans were really strong, the electorate believed his lies to stay out of jail.
But the compelling circumstantial evidence makes those who are focused and not distracted to come up with reasonable but not objectively provable to make skeptics squirm in their seats. So the arguments of election interference are headed off by some other Cheeto distraction.
But never mind the distractions or the arguments. The issue is how to protect the upcoming elections. Focus on spot or focused election cyber forensic audits dependent on scrutiny of election results. That's how WE the People avoid distraction.
As Republican Paul Weyrich announced in 1979: “I don’t want everyone to vote. Our (Republican) leverage increases as the voting populace goes down. We are not traditional conservatives, we are radicals who want to tear down the status quo!” Republicans have been gerrymandering and suppressing votes for decades.
As for Republicans crying “socialism”, perhaps they should examine the reelection campaign platform of Republican President Eisenhower in 1956. He supported unions. As for socialism, what do you call taxpayers subsidizing the oil industry and other industries? What do you call full time WallMart employees on public assistance because the multi-billionaire Walton family pays them so little? If Republicans really want to MAGA, we must go back to the policies, law enforcement (like anti-trust), regulations and tax codes that made it that way in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. FDR, Truman, Nixon, Ford and Carter weren’t “socialists”, nor are current Democrats. However, MAGA is looking more like fascists every day.
MAGA is all about getting rid of subject matter expertise…and the police. If you fire the traffic cops (or corrupt them), there will be no speeding tickets issued. No tickets must mean there isn’t a speeding problem. DOGE/Trump fired hosts of Inspectors General, whose job it was to police their agencies for waste, fraud and abuses. Investigations vanished, including many into Musk and his companies. Generals and Admirals “retired”. All these subject matter experts replaced by unqualified Trump loyalists. Think of a city where the police have been replaced by mob cronies. The crime statistics “go down”, because it isn’t stopped or reported. MAGA are also modern day Luddites. They don’t believe in science, economics, history….facts. Current mainstream media is a reflection of their censorship. ABC NBC CBS News don’t lie like FoxNews, Newsmax, OANN, etc. They edit and censor. They are very unlikely to broadcast any information that will make Republicans look bad, or Democrats look good. That is what Trump now proposes for any type of research. Let the unqualified right wing Trump loyalists decide what is “real.” Or as Trump’s Kellyanne Conway remarked in 2017….just more “alternative truth.”
As his attacks on the administration of the vote fail, he will become more desperate to hold onto power. There will be violence as we near the end. Governors of every State must prepare now for that certainty. Our state armies, the National Guard, must mobilize. They are our collective right to self-defense as described in the original Second Amendment (1791-2008). This "well regulated Militia" must be prepared to ward off violence perpetrated by our own military, by ICE, Border Patrol and the violent mobs that Trump will certainly summon to interfere with every element of the process.
can you please check out and then inform readers of the existence of www.radicalLeft.site ?
HE WILL FALL.....HARD! And we will once again be free!
All we need was put in a song back in the early 60”s.I’ll give one hint…’Ha ha” If you guess it I will personally commend you!
There will be a time, coming soon, that all of the real Patriots, the true Americans will rise up and drive Donald Trump and his crew of Trumpers and talentless traitors out of office. Our fathers did not go to Europe and the Pacific to hand our country over to a spineless brat with a bad temper and a world full of politicians that hate his guts!
I was pissed yesterday with the Supreme Court. They made up for some of it in their dealings with Donald Trump.Aside from Mikey Johnson, I hope that no one is holding out for a win for the Republican party.The blubbering dinosaur is slipping farther
. out of touch everyday. Fight Iran but fight paint ina reflecting pool.
A little more on this "lace up your shoes" . A life long "excersist" I find that I'm having trouble with initiative.. a sign of depression. It's hard to get started. Watching my country slide into fascism, given that my father, as a WWII vet, and that I and two of my brothers spent military careers defending against it, is depressing. Did we waste our time?
Thanks, Thom!
And the corruption. Senator Murphy spoke to this on the Senate floor: https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-details-unprecedented-corruption-of-trump-white-house-over-the-last-500-days