When one man turns prosecutors, tax collectors, billionaires, and elections into weapons of personal power, democracy itself becomes the next thing he owns…
It's a sad state of affairs when a country which was once arguably the "greatest in the world" is now in a league with Putin's Russia and Idi Amin's Uganda. And none of it was necessary; too many Americans were afraid of women, gays, and immigrants and ran to hide behind a demagogue who declared that "only I can fix this!" That comment should have raised a huge red flag right there. Yes, I do believe that his influence is finally starting to wane, but a wounded monster is even more dangerous than a healthy one.
TRY AS HE MAY (AND HE SURE AS HELL IS TRYING) TRUMP WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RIG THE MIDTERMS. THANK GOD THE DRAFTERS OF OUR CONSTITION GAVE POWER OVER ELECTIONS TO THE STATES. YET THE PRESENCE OF ARMED ICE AGENTS AT THE POLLS WILL SURELY HELP TRUMP SLANT THE VOTING IN HIS FAVOR. WE WILL NEVER BE FREE OF THIS CORRUPTION UNTIL TRUMP AND HIS BUDDIES ARE OUT OF OFFICE.
The GOP has already stolen Nixon v. Humphrey, Reagan v. Carter, Bush v. Gore. They tried hard in Trump v Biden with the help of Elon and his satellites and when that didn't work, stormed the capital with the help of the GOP reps in Congress. And if you read Kait Justice's Substack, you will see that Elon tried again in 2024 and succeeded in Trump v. Harris. Our constitution has been no help against the steals as the GOP states are complicit and SCOTUS is criminal in their weaponization of voter rolls and mail-in voting. The states are becoming powerless against this "fix". I fear the line from "We won't get fooled again" by The Who. "There'll be fighting in the streets..."
Read Greg Palast's articles on the "fixing" that is happening already and how hard it is, and with how much money it takes, to stop this steal. You will not be so certain of November after getting to know his work. Send him money if you can, as I have. and recommend his work to your friends. All hands on deck!
Trump stays uncontrolled because of a feckless GOP congress afraid of its own constituents. That said, those MAGA voters are more or less totally responsible for this. Easily seen from interviews with reputable journalists on tv and online and from round table discussions with them, show that the only thing they repeatedly care about is how Trump is affecting their bottom line whether that be at the grocery store or the gas pump. Even the soybean farmers who have lost most of their dependable markets in China to Brazil during Trump 1.0 and who are now facing the loss of what's left to Trump 2.0 tariffs won't consider voting differently. But they're thrilled the brown people are being eliminated under extremely harsh scenarios albeit not fast enough even though it leaves them without workers. Hmmm! When they do get up in arms, like military families watching their loved deployed ones being used badly, they simply yell louder, get their aircraft carriers relocated, and get on with the watching of FOX news bashing Ds. Problem solved! Yay Trump! Yelling about gas prices being too high gets them stolen Venezuelan oil with no concern about another country's sovereignty. Let's sink those cocaine fishing boats while we're at it. Yay Trump!
We are controlled by an ignorant group of extremely selfish, self-serving, self-centered narcissistic people who know nothing but me first, me only, me now. They are amazingly without empathy. In my opinion, they have totally lost any sense of our common humanity THESE are the people in charge of whether we lose our democracy.
And this is without even factoring in the evangelical religious right who are more interested in saving babies than the mothers who birth them, except to rant about how they are not producing enough babies to save. And finally, in all of this mess, one has to get all the oligarchs onto flights to Mars to let them start ruining another planet. How do we do this?
Mary,thanks for the post. Let us not forget that this is not all Trump's idea. He is the mouthpiece for big Tech( Apple,Amazon, Google,and especially Nvidia. They tell him what to say and he obeys. He is mindless,an intellect so far gone that he is on the brink of alzheimers.
The recent assault on hispanics is something we should all be paying attention to. Markwayne Mullin a right wing nazi from Oklahoma has decided that any and all brown skinned people should be deported,regardless of their status.Recent stats show only 4% have a criminal record.This is ethnic cleansing,very much like the Hitler regime and the ehthnic cleansing of Jews. However in the current case of ethnic cleansing,many Jews are supportive including Howard Lutnick,Stephen Miller and others.
The Nazi wing of the right wing of the oligarchy wants these people, as well as poor people, the handicapped, the middle class if they are not working for them, and eventually Jews and non-Christians completely disappeared from the US. They dream of a White Christian utopia, cleansed of undesireable riff-raff.
Unhealed ego never seeks public service. It seeks a larger room to reenact its grudges. Give that ego a government and suddenly prosecutors become personal attorneys, taxpayers become an expense account, and the Constitution becomes the terms-of-service agreement nobody expects him to read. A nation is not one man’s property, and democracy is not the Mar-a-Lago minibar. If Trump keeps taking whatever he wants, America needs to check him out and charge the damages.
I am waiting for homunculus John Roberts and his 5 lapsed-Catholic Pips to:
- Rule that finger-raping E. Jean Carroll inside Bergdorf's was a pre-presidential duty; as was ragging on his victim like the middle school bully he is.
Hey! He's prez, so neither his literal nor figurative sh*t stinks.
- Rule that paying Stormy hush money for a sad-mushroom bang while your wife's giving birth was a pre-presidential duty as well
- Rule that a New York civil court which found Trump liable for conduct that included insurance fraud was wrong because it's his duty to pre-presidentially steal from anyone.
In the major civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, the court found that Trump and the Trump Organization engaged in a decade‑long scheme involving:
inflated asset valuations
false financial statements
misleading lenders
misleading insurers
conspiracy to commit insurance fraud under New York Executive Law §63
Yes. He did all that. But it was his duty as a president-to-be, so he is immune, say John and the 5 Pips.
Can't you see? We are not worthy to kiss his boots. The same boots he kicks us in the teeth with.
I am also looking forward to Clarabell Thomas ruling that being Black is against the law in America.
Thank goodness for Brother Don, Brother John, and Brother Clarabell. Finest kind.
I'm more concerned about how this corrupt SCOTUS will rule on mail-in ballots. Trump/USPS/this administration does not have standing to appeal the injunction stopping the USPS on this issue -- Voting is run by the States, not the Feds, per the Constitution. But this corrupt SCOTUS has ignored the Constitution over and over and over again. And they consistently find the Party who is against Trump's illegality as lacking standing. So, what are they going to do this time? What technicality are they going to come up with to allow Trump/USPS to continue their illegal activity while avoiding a ruling on the merits?
Mutual masturbation of government and corporations, flag-waving state terror, crucifix-brandishing racist lunacy, and endless money for endless wars for profit and plunder--this is a far cry from what we were founded on, and I don't see the American people considered at all anywhere, as anything more than a burden, sacrificial lambs in sacrifice zones, and human ATMs for their wildest self-glorifying fantasies. Boy, are we lost!
The locus and progenitor of the burning greed that fuels the desire for domination and endless fascination of control over sex, money and revenge ought to be the subject of a painting in the style of Hieronymous Bosch ( sp?) I envision a huge, gaping wet maw of a blubbery mouth standing wide open under a pair of dead flat piggy eyes.
You cannot "own" democracy; you can only kill it - replace it with a fascist dictatorship. Both parties have enabled the erosion of our democracy. Republicans have just been more ruthless than the Democrats because Coup1 failed; the gloves are off in the hope of succeeding in Coup2 by sabotaging the entire federal bureaucracy - the military too - this time.
The felon in chief, SCOTUS, the morbidly rich, the MAGAtocracy and the MAGAtariat are going full speed to do more damage daily. I have become convinced, despite the heartening primary performances in many places, that they will sabotage November. To me, that will mean we are done all bets are off, and only one option will remain. If that looms, I will do all that I can to get our youngest child and grandson away before we destroy ourselves. I don't deserve better. I should have done more. Most people I know should have. We have let the greedy, the bigoted, the ignorant and the cruel take over.
We could have continued our slow path to progress in this country. Ten years ago, I think in large part to a brilliant, articulate, but too mainstream and eager to please black President, we decided to go in reverse. Now that is accelerating, and only shock treatment will stop that. We had all better be ready for November. If your vote is declined, you may need to "vote " in some other way. Just saying.
Surprise Surprise: Cheeto Supported Bankrupted LIV Golf
Spendthrift Cheeto’s vanity projects from the disastrous reflection pool and Kennedy Center undertakings to the destruction of the WH grounds from his moronic celebrations of 250y of the country’s history spell his life in a 2y span.
Cheeto has never really seen a budget that he liked, moving through cash like there’e no tomorrow. Using OPM(other people’s money) is a talent or art he’s developed over decades of abuse because there’s no accountability. He bounces around like a pinball pinging from one financial disaster to the next. Like mismanaging taxpayer $$$ now his close link with Saudi money supporting LIV golf sees that project going bankrupt.
The fascist Republican electorate said “hire a businessman” because he’ll straighten out these government spendthrifts who don’t know how to manage taxpayer $$$. But it was all a fascist ruse to gain power by duping part of the electorate gullible enough to believes these people who wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them. Just like Reagan’s lie about the “welfare queen” among all the other crap Republicans have been selling over the decades. Trickle down economics anyone?
So WE the People have to suffer through 2 more years of this Republican tomfoolery and watch as as Cheeto burns through OUR government since everything Cheeto touches turns to shit. Will he bankrupt our country next and turn the 21st century into the 1930’s and become Hoover incarnate?
The solution: Don’t vote for a Republican for the next 10 years.
Samuel Paparo, head of the US Pacific Command, speaking at a security conference in Malaysia, was talking about China creating false islands in the region where nothing stood before, and then claiming them and the waters around them as Chinese property:
"The distinction between law as a tool of order and law as a weapon of raw power is the defining fault line of our time."
Certainly applies to everthing and everyone in the tRump mafia organization without exception.
It's a sad state of affairs when a country which was once arguably the "greatest in the world" is now in a league with Putin's Russia and Idi Amin's Uganda. And none of it was necessary; too many Americans were afraid of women, gays, and immigrants and ran to hide behind a demagogue who declared that "only I can fix this!" That comment should have raised a huge red flag right there. Yes, I do believe that his influence is finally starting to wane, but a wounded monster is even more dangerous than a healthy one.
And a historical monster is less dangerous than a current one.
TRY AS HE MAY (AND HE SURE AS HELL IS TRYING) TRUMP WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RIG THE MIDTERMS. THANK GOD THE DRAFTERS OF OUR CONSTITION GAVE POWER OVER ELECTIONS TO THE STATES. YET THE PRESENCE OF ARMED ICE AGENTS AT THE POLLS WILL SURELY HELP TRUMP SLANT THE VOTING IN HIS FAVOR. WE WILL NEVER BE FREE OF THIS CORRUPTION UNTIL TRUMP AND HIS BUDDIES ARE OUT OF OFFICE.
The GOP has already stolen Nixon v. Humphrey, Reagan v. Carter, Bush v. Gore. They tried hard in Trump v Biden with the help of Elon and his satellites and when that didn't work, stormed the capital with the help of the GOP reps in Congress. And if you read Kait Justice's Substack, you will see that Elon tried again in 2024 and succeeded in Trump v. Harris. Our constitution has been no help against the steals as the GOP states are complicit and SCOTUS is criminal in their weaponization of voter rolls and mail-in voting. The states are becoming powerless against this "fix". I fear the line from "We won't get fooled again" by The Who. "There'll be fighting in the streets..."
Read Greg Palast's articles on the "fixing" that is happening already and how hard it is, and with how much money it takes, to stop this steal. You will not be so certain of November after getting to know his work. Send him money if you can, as I have. and recommend his work to your friends. All hands on deck!
Trump stays uncontrolled because of a feckless GOP congress afraid of its own constituents. That said, those MAGA voters are more or less totally responsible for this. Easily seen from interviews with reputable journalists on tv and online and from round table discussions with them, show that the only thing they repeatedly care about is how Trump is affecting their bottom line whether that be at the grocery store or the gas pump. Even the soybean farmers who have lost most of their dependable markets in China to Brazil during Trump 1.0 and who are now facing the loss of what's left to Trump 2.0 tariffs won't consider voting differently. But they're thrilled the brown people are being eliminated under extremely harsh scenarios albeit not fast enough even though it leaves them without workers. Hmmm! When they do get up in arms, like military families watching their loved deployed ones being used badly, they simply yell louder, get their aircraft carriers relocated, and get on with the watching of FOX news bashing Ds. Problem solved! Yay Trump! Yelling about gas prices being too high gets them stolen Venezuelan oil with no concern about another country's sovereignty. Let's sink those cocaine fishing boats while we're at it. Yay Trump!
We are controlled by an ignorant group of extremely selfish, self-serving, self-centered narcissistic people who know nothing but me first, me only, me now. They are amazingly without empathy. In my opinion, they have totally lost any sense of our common humanity THESE are the people in charge of whether we lose our democracy.
And this is without even factoring in the evangelical religious right who are more interested in saving babies than the mothers who birth them, except to rant about how they are not producing enough babies to save. And finally, in all of this mess, one has to get all the oligarchs onto flights to Mars to let them start ruining another planet. How do we do this?
Mary,thanks for the post. Let us not forget that this is not all Trump's idea. He is the mouthpiece for big Tech( Apple,Amazon, Google,and especially Nvidia. They tell him what to say and he obeys. He is mindless,an intellect so far gone that he is on the brink of alzheimers.
The recent assault on hispanics is something we should all be paying attention to. Markwayne Mullin a right wing nazi from Oklahoma has decided that any and all brown skinned people should be deported,regardless of their status.Recent stats show only 4% have a criminal record.This is ethnic cleansing,very much like the Hitler regime and the ehthnic cleansing of Jews. However in the current case of ethnic cleansing,many Jews are supportive including Howard Lutnick,Stephen Miller and others.
The Nazi wing of the right wing of the oligarchy wants these people, as well as poor people, the handicapped, the middle class if they are not working for them, and eventually Jews and non-Christians completely disappeared from the US. They dream of a White Christian utopia, cleansed of undesireable riff-raff.
imhumanru-great post.I'm going to break down into 4 bullet points and repeat as often as necessaary. Thank you.
Well said, Mary S.
Unhealed ego never seeks public service. It seeks a larger room to reenact its grudges. Give that ego a government and suddenly prosecutors become personal attorneys, taxpayers become an expense account, and the Constitution becomes the terms-of-service agreement nobody expects him to read. A nation is not one man’s property, and democracy is not the Mar-a-Lago minibar. If Trump keeps taking whatever he wants, America needs to check him out and charge the damages.
I am waiting for homunculus John Roberts and his 5 lapsed-Catholic Pips to:
- Rule that finger-raping E. Jean Carroll inside Bergdorf's was a pre-presidential duty; as was ragging on his victim like the middle school bully he is.
Hey! He's prez, so neither his literal nor figurative sh*t stinks.
- Rule that paying Stormy hush money for a sad-mushroom bang while your wife's giving birth was a pre-presidential duty as well
- Rule that a New York civil court which found Trump liable for conduct that included insurance fraud was wrong because it's his duty to pre-presidentially steal from anyone.
In the major civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, the court found that Trump and the Trump Organization engaged in a decade‑long scheme involving:
inflated asset valuations
false financial statements
misleading lenders
misleading insurers
conspiracy to commit insurance fraud under New York Executive Law §63
Yes. He did all that. But it was his duty as a president-to-be, so he is immune, say John and the 5 Pips.
Can't you see? We are not worthy to kiss his boots. The same boots he kicks us in the teeth with.
I am also looking forward to Clarabell Thomas ruling that being Black is against the law in America.
Thank goodness for Brother Don, Brother John, and Brother Clarabell. Finest kind.
#VOTE to end the R cuckoo's nest
#BLOCK Whiskey Pete's wife from the Pentagon
#SEND all the young Trumps to Bab al-Mandab
I'm more concerned about how this corrupt SCOTUS will rule on mail-in ballots. Trump/USPS/this administration does not have standing to appeal the injunction stopping the USPS on this issue -- Voting is run by the States, not the Feds, per the Constitution. But this corrupt SCOTUS has ignored the Constitution over and over and over again. And they consistently find the Party who is against Trump's illegality as lacking standing. So, what are they going to do this time? What technicality are they going to come up with to allow Trump/USPS to continue their illegal activity while avoiding a ruling on the merits?
Benjamin Nut-and-Yahoo is as good an example as any.
The United States of America is in the hands of despicably small people of all stripes, across the board. They must be replaced.
Mutual masturbation of government and corporations, flag-waving state terror, crucifix-brandishing racist lunacy, and endless money for endless wars for profit and plunder--this is a far cry from what we were founded on, and I don't see the American people considered at all anywhere, as anything more than a burden, sacrificial lambs in sacrifice zones, and human ATMs for their wildest self-glorifying fantasies. Boy, are we lost!
The locus and progenitor of the burning greed that fuels the desire for domination and endless fascination of control over sex, money and revenge ought to be the subject of a painting in the style of Hieronymous Bosch ( sp?) I envision a huge, gaping wet maw of a blubbery mouth standing wide open under a pair of dead flat piggy eyes.
You cannot "own" democracy; you can only kill it - replace it with a fascist dictatorship. Both parties have enabled the erosion of our democracy. Republicans have just been more ruthless than the Democrats because Coup1 failed; the gloves are off in the hope of succeeding in Coup2 by sabotaging the entire federal bureaucracy - the military too - this time.
The felon in chief, SCOTUS, the morbidly rich, the MAGAtocracy and the MAGAtariat are going full speed to do more damage daily. I have become convinced, despite the heartening primary performances in many places, that they will sabotage November. To me, that will mean we are done all bets are off, and only one option will remain. If that looms, I will do all that I can to get our youngest child and grandson away before we destroy ourselves. I don't deserve better. I should have done more. Most people I know should have. We have let the greedy, the bigoted, the ignorant and the cruel take over.
We could have continued our slow path to progress in this country. Ten years ago, I think in large part to a brilliant, articulate, but too mainstream and eager to please black President, we decided to go in reverse. Now that is accelerating, and only shock treatment will stop that. We had all better be ready for November. If your vote is declined, you may need to "vote " in some other way. Just saying.
ONE THING THAT DON the CON CANNOT RIG - MORTALITY
THE END IS NEAR FOR TRUMP AND PUTIN
Surprise Surprise: Cheeto Supported Bankrupted LIV Golf
Spendthrift Cheeto’s vanity projects from the disastrous reflection pool and Kennedy Center undertakings to the destruction of the WH grounds from his moronic celebrations of 250y of the country’s history spell his life in a 2y span.
Cheeto has never really seen a budget that he liked, moving through cash like there’e no tomorrow. Using OPM(other people’s money) is a talent or art he’s developed over decades of abuse because there’s no accountability. He bounces around like a pinball pinging from one financial disaster to the next. Like mismanaging taxpayer $$$ now his close link with Saudi money supporting LIV golf sees that project going bankrupt.
The fascist Republican electorate said “hire a businessman” because he’ll straighten out these government spendthrifts who don’t know how to manage taxpayer $$$. But it was all a fascist ruse to gain power by duping part of the electorate gullible enough to believes these people who wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them. Just like Reagan’s lie about the “welfare queen” among all the other crap Republicans have been selling over the decades. Trickle down economics anyone?
So WE the People have to suffer through 2 more years of this Republican tomfoolery and watch as as Cheeto burns through OUR government since everything Cheeto touches turns to shit. Will he bankrupt our country next and turn the 21st century into the 1930’s and become Hoover incarnate?
The solution: Don’t vote for a Republican for the next 10 years.
Samuel Paparo, head of the US Pacific Command, speaking at a security conference in Malaysia, was talking about China creating false islands in the region where nothing stood before, and then claiming them and the waters around them as Chinese property:
"The distinction between law as a tool of order and law as a weapon of raw power is the defining fault line of our time."
Certainly applies to everthing and everyone in the tRump mafia organization without exception.
And I thought I was the only one here with Acorn! Always good to binge Max, Layla, Connor, Jess, Astrid, et al. You two never cease to amaze me.