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William Farrar's avatar

Check the behavior of Trump, check the behavior of his cabinet and staff. You all should be alarmed, because he and they have given us plenty of evidence that they are not going anywhere, elections or not.

Anyone with two neurons to rub together,would be cautious about their behavior, IF there were consequences.

Trump, his cabinet and staff act with full confidence that there will be no consequences for their behavior.

Trump has trashed the White House and DC, and the media while it murmurs a demurrment ,soto voce at that,, is too timid, too intimidated to vigorously denounce Trump and his debasement of the Capital of the United States which he is turning into a sideshow and replica of Berlin in 1938,and the scary part is this, he is treating Washington D.C as his own personal possession, and with effectively no push back or consequences.

Trump is not going anywhere. And that should scare the shit out of everyone, from the NYt, toMSNOW, and the public.

William Farrar's avatar

Further down than folks want to acknowledge. If the regime was overthrown tomorrow, there is no way to put Humpty Dumpty back together, all Cabinets, all funding, all institutional memory is gone. the damage he has done is so pervasive, that not even Hercules could clean out this stable.

The damage done has not been widely felt yet, but has been felt by those that lost insurance, jobs, federal benefits, contracts and glossed over, essentially ignored by the Trump supportive media.

America is on autopilot, and living off the accumulated fat. But like an automobile that started with a full gas tank, we will soon be running on empty.

The farmers, the evangelicals, the Hispanics, the blacks, the Muslim who voted for and supported Trump, did so primarily because of the social conservatism, the culture war, many are still cultists, what I fear is that they will blame the scapegoats. trans and "radical leftist terrorist antifa"

arshambow's avatar

Very true. I recently watched Ken Burns' The American Revolution, incredibly sad that after all that suffering and determination, this is what we are living through after 250 years.

Dianne Walter's avatar

They will and do blame our minority citizens and people. I wish they all could look into a magic mirror and see their hideous faces full of hate for real!

William Farrar's avatar

When the see Trump they ARE looking in a mirror

Feldman's avatar

Sounds 100% right on to me!

Karen Cavin's avatar

Remember that donold comes from a background of always project and act with confidence…the Power of Positive Thinking. He learned this in the church he attended with his family growing up in NY. This is how he operates, project confidence…always. That’s why he always finds a loophole to project success even when he is bankrupt.

William Farrar's avatar

Karen, a pet gripe. If you wish to inject something into a conversation, don't start off with "Remember". Just dive in with

Donald comes from a background.

You see I don't have to remember. I am well aware of Trump;s family History, if for no other reason I get his nieces, Mary Trump's daily newsletter.

Karen Cavin's avatar

Many people do not have a clue about the Trump family from the 60's, 70's 80's etc. I do know this background. His behavior stems from his father and Roy Cohn.

Tracey's avatar

My thoughts as well and it thoroughly pisses me off! If there are no consequences then why obey the law or a judges orders?

William Farrar's avatar

I feel the same way. The motto on the side of cop cars: To serve and protect,only begs the question; Who? Not you,not I,they see as criminals, to serve and protect the big wigs, that buy our politicians.

If you go back to the origins, back to medieval England,it was the job of the Sheriff to collect taxes and enforce the laws of the crown,and evict tenants. It is still the same job, but they give them busy work to justify paying them from taxpayers pocket.

No law enforcement has ever prevented a crime, they come into play after the fact.

alis's avatar

There are "insiders" and there are "outsiders" and that is all that pathetic people like Rogan care about. He just HAS to be invited to the party---that's his price for covering-up the crimes of the TRump Syndicate.

All we can say is keep digging, Joe. He and the rest of these disgusting people obviously have fooled very few. This should just make us LOUDER. What decent person would want to be "inside" the Epstein Class? See you in the street.

Paul's avatar

Thom, the thing that bugs me the most about this whole spectacle is that, we the taxpayers, paid for this? Why? didn't they pay for the whole damn thing themselves? It infuriates me that Trump thinks that he can foot the bill for anything he wants to without any oversight!! It is not his money, it is not his house, but somehow, somewhere, we have completely turned a blind eye to anything he wants to do. He tore down the beautiful East Wing and no one said anything. As far as it being "apolitical" that is a load of horseshit, if you attended by default you support this, you own it!! Jack Osborne tried to defend his attendance, saying Ozzy would have approved ... I don't think he would have. rockers are anti-establishment in general ... but I digress!! I am annoyed that he just keeps spending OUR money!!

Feldman's avatar

Why doesn't anyone pull the plug on all the tax dollar spending? How come Democrats weren't out there in front of the CAGE with their heads on fire? Because they are afraid or they are in on it.

Four Arrows's avatar

Finally someone speaking out on this! Thank you

G.P. Baltimore's avatar

We were once the richest country and most powerful country in the world. We’re now being systematically isolated and cut off from the rest of the world.

We are now the cash cow they are raping and draining dry. We WERE the richest country in the world.

These are criminals. I remember thinking during the housing/banking crisis how blatant the banking industry had become in their criminal endeavors. Back then that was a real shocker for me. No real coverup they just had a hiccup and carried on. It’s the rest of us who picked up the pieces paying through the nose for their little hiccup in judgment.

Now, the same people—new enterprises—are presently in our face with their thievery. Daring anyone to tell them, “no”. Daring for anyone to say “stop”.

Richard Kiefer's avatar

Many commenters are asking "why did we let him?" or "how can Trump do that?" Well, who or what is going to stop him, you or me, or any other of our Antifa brethren?The Trumpicans (illegally)own the government, lock, stock and barrel, and our few lower court victories are but a drop in the bucket. Let's keep talking and writing, and be sure to vote blue.

Gloria J. Maloney's avatar

I watched Joe Rogan for a while, but he is too vulgar, although he made sense concerning politics in the early days.

As for UFC, I think it should be banned for the same reason cock fighting is banned. It's inhumane. The participants are not sane and need societal protections for those who are a danger to themselves and others, just like Trump is.

Feldman's avatar

Joe Rofa is a vulgar man. Josh Hokit is a pig masquerading as a human. There's a reason this stuff is called "cock " fighting.

Tom Halstead's avatar

Again, “Idiocracy” is a documentary.

Ed Nuhfer's avatar

The sponsors represent the Epstein class mafia that seems to buy governments through AIPAC and its hidden affiliated PACs.

Protect the Vote's avatar

Nazi Republican Election Interference: The Stolen 2024 Midterm Election

A malignant narcissist will do anything to win, especially if it keeps him out of jail or another trial after indictment by the DOJ. Enter a Muskrat who says to Cheeto, “I can help”(bit.ly/3QRbKs7). Then Ashley St Clair an intelligent articulate MAGA supporter who becomes one of Muskrat’s surrogate mothers, sees postpartum the real Muskrat and decides to jump ship and tell all, particularly about the immoral MAGA crowd as well as how the Muskrat was technologically going to manipulate 2024(interview with Waj Ali bit.ly/4ozIGlg). Cheeto and the corrupt immoral Nazi machine gets behind the effort and viola! WE the People get the Nazi Republicans.

There are clear actions being taken to counter external election subversion(gerrymandering, prevent goon squads from polling locations, vigilante challenges, planning your vote, encouraging high voter turnout and more). But what about internal election subversion? What if someone is altering voting tabulations in real time? Does that negate external election subversion? I’d suggest yes.

Now there are many skeptics who disagree with all the circumstantial evidence that points to internal election subversion. The argument goes that they need concrete objective data in order to push back against a supposed election conspiracy. But the subjective gut feeling is there’s some rot in the 2024 election results and now in Republican primaries. There is so much circumstantial evidence to point to a crime having been or being committed. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

A ballot audit is not the same thing as a cyber forensic audit? What do WE have to lose except our democracy?