Once a government convinces its people that what they saw with their own eyes never really happened, what’s left of democracy in that republic is already on life support…
God DAMN McConnell, Hawley, Cruz, Graham, and the other cowards who were terrified on Jan 6, were crying crocodile tears and moaning and groaning AND THEN VOTED NOT GUILTY at the trial. It's because of THEM that we're sliding into our version of the Third Reich. The biggest disaster of Jan 6 was that NONE of them were attacked, hurt, disabled by the rioters. If they were, POS would be sitting in a dark hole for the rest of his disgusting life.
AND I say the 4 years the Democratic Leadership could have shown the courage. Merrick "without merit" Garland should have been fired by Joe Biden! Jack Smith should have been on the case right away. How does the public know the answers? Those in power do. I'm pissed it will happen again, history Rhymes like Xplisset writes on Substack.
"Daniel, we just learned that the U.S. Senate could vote as soon as TOMORROW on reining in Trump’s unconstitutional and reckless military actions in Venezuela.
"I’m writing to you because your senators urgently need to hear from you today. Take action to tell Senator Rick Scott and Senator Ashley Moody – vote YES on S.J. Res. 98 to defend our lives, our Constitution, and our national interests."
And so I did.
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S.J. Res. 98 is a joint resolution from the 119th Congress (2025-2026) that proposes to direct the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela unless explicitly authorized by Congress.
Status and Details
Sponsor: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
Introduced: December 3, 2025
Latest Action: The resolution was read twice in the Senate and referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on December 3, 2025.
Status: It currently has the status of "Introduced". It has not been passed into law.
Key Provisions
S.J. Res. 98 would require the President to end the use of U.S. Armed Forces in hostilities in Venezuela unless authorized by Congress through a declaration of war or specific authorization. The resolution notes this does not affect the U.S. ability to defend itself from attack. More details are available in the full text of the resolution and on Congress.gov. It's important to note that a different S.J. Res. 98 from the 118th Congress dealt with a different matter.
It's maddening enough that Trump speaks in the absolute reverse of reality, when he does speak to reality at all. But what makes it even worse is when all his staffers and sycophantic supporters echo and amplify this same reversal of reality. Every day is upside-down day, and it's hard to deal with, when there's an avalanche of these lies in every sentence.
I grew up being told that as a kid George Washington admitted to his father that he chopped down the cherry tree because he could not tell a lie. I wonder what kids think nowadays when their president lies on a daily basis....
He or she couldn’t make Trump look honest. The power of the myth that persists is powerful as with all of us who credited Washington by the cherry tree story with not being able to lie.
Joseph Campbell tells us how the the power of the myth operates in eloquent prose.
I think even a Trump biographer could write his legacy to look like he was a strong leader therefore once again readers will need to find out for themselves whether or not the biography is true.
Exactly what I am doing now, comparing the pilgrims and puritan leaders biographical accounts ( and auto biographical) with historical accounts of what who they weee as leaders. My head is swimming with all the accounts.
In light of Venezuela, Greenland threats, and the WH Jan 6 propaganda, no Republican in Congress can deny that they represent a fascist regime that is actively tearing down our democracy- even if most MAGAs remain clueless and devoted to their Fuhrer. Senator Graham and Secty of State Rubio were salivating at our unprovoked declarations of intention to annex Greenland and Cuba next.
There is no denying what Trump said yesterday is true. If the Democrats take back the Congress this November, they will impeach him and his lawless rabble. So he is once again inciting his followers to violence, lying, cheating, and stealing to stay in power on the anniversary of Jan 6. That is why he is painting halos on his insurrectionist thugs - not to worry, I will pardon you again.
If voters do not take this threat to their cushy American lives, they can live out their lives with the same psychological burden that pre-War Germans had to live with the remainder of their lives - they sat back and let evil triumph over good by keeping a demented old madman in office.
The Jan 6 civil damage suits are still ongoing and have not been dismissed. They are currently pending before U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, with a primary focus on determining whether Trump is immune from the lawsuits based on claims his actions were part of his official presidential duties.
Multiple lawsuits filed by Democratic lawmakers and U.S. Capitol Police officers (including Officer James Blassingame, Officer Sidney Hemby, and others) have been consolidated into one case before Judge Mehta.
Immunity Issue: The central legal battle is over presidential immunity. Trump's lawyers argue his speech on January 6 was an "official" act and therefore protected from civil suit. The plaintiffs argue his actions were "unofficial" campaign-related efforts to remain in power.
Appellate Rulings: In prior rulings, both Judge Mehta and a federal appeals court rejected Trump's broad immunity claims, finding sufficient indication his speech was related to his re-election campaign, not his official duties. The appellate court, however, sent the case back to Judge Mehta for more fact-finding on the "official vs. unofficial act" distinction.
Fact-Finding Underway: For the past year, both sides have been collecting evidence and taking depositions to build their arguments on the nature of Trump's actions that day, including who funded and organized the rally where he spoke.
Recent Developments: With Trump having returned to the presidency in January 2025, his Justice Department has attempted to intervene in the cases, arguing the U.S. government, not Trump personally, should be the defendant if his actions are deemed official. Judge Mehta has scheduled arguments on this and other issues, with a goal to rule on the immunity question by the summer.
Officer Jeffrey Smith's Widow and Estate: A federal jury in June 2025 ordered David Walls-Kaufman, a man who assaulted Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith during the riot, to pay $500,000 in damages. The award includes punitive and compensatory damages to his widow, Erin Smith, and an additional amount to the officer's estate for pain and suffering. Officer Smith died by suicide nine days after the attack, and the lawsuit centered on the lasting harm caused by the assault.
Court-Ordered Restitution: Hundreds of rioters convicted in criminal cases were ordered to pay restitution for physical damages to the U.S. Capitol building and costs associated with police injuries. As of summer 2024, only about 15% of the nearly $3 million in estimated cleanup and repair costs had been paid by the offenders.
All these litigation successes, yet there he sits, acting like a dictator, with no restraints., and he is getting more outrageous and bold, every day that passes. He has not only told us and poven that the Constitution is a dead letter, but now he has thumbed his nose at the UN and is threatening to invade a NATO country, thus destroying NATO. There are no provisions in NATO for a situation when a member country attacks a member country. Putin is overjoyed with Krasnov, a worthwhile investment.
But not to worry, just a few more successful law suits and all will be set right again.
That is the problem I remember, I remember the stultifying 50's and 60's when women, gays and blacks and browns weren't even human. And for a short span of maybe 25 years, there was breathing room, until the forces of reaction found themselves angry and fearful, that they were no longer top dog in the pack and set about reclaiming power and control, and found just the avatar to do it.
Nothing lasts, success goes to the head, empires and kingdoms fall, but the problem is that there are the millions and generations that have to suffer before they do.
No Daniel, Forlorn hope is the enemy of survival. I am resigned to survival and to fighting, resistance. Not pretending that the law and institutions will save us, the proof is in your face,they won't because they are dead.
Toot your law suits all you want, but think Venezuela, think ICE, think concentration camps.
I am not a defeatist, I just don't believe, and for good reason (I have eyes, ears and a thinking brain),that the law and the institutions are going to save us, so we need action, resistance, boycott, withhold our energy and support. It is either that or an armed uprising,and I am no fool, that one we will lose.
I’m definitely not ready to give up hope for a new and honest administration, that is, if we get honest elections and results, and I do understand the observance of cycles in our human history.
In the end, it’s up to all of us, collectively. I also believe that’s a problem since our population is so diverse and at so many levels of understanding, interest in facts, and desire to learn from our past. In the end, how many of us are truly willing to stand up for what they believe in? How many have a vision of what they really want, other than immediate survival? I guess we’ll see.
I am just now coming to truly understand how diverse our population is.
For instance I am of the Silent Generation, I grew up with the boomers, as did Gen X, so there is overlap, but millennials or Gen Y and Z are a different world, the world that they inherited, does not resemble the world I, boomers or even Gen x inherited.
Nor are groups monolithic, I was gobsmacked to find out that very significant numbers of black and Hispanic men voted for Trump, given that the Republican party is full on racist and xenophobic and thinks Latino's and blacks are a social problem
I am more non plussed learning that Peter Thiel, Steve Bessent, and even JD Vance are gay or at least bisexual and are a force behind Trump and the Republican party, which is notoriously homophobic.
There is hope and there are expectations. I keep thinking of the girl who crawls into a 55 gal drum, the man that literally digs his own grave, the person who walks up the scaffold. If I am going to get killed, then they are going to have work for it, I'll be damned if I'll make their job easier.
As I said before hope is a drug, an anesthetic, and so long as you have hope, you will do nothing, and hope for a miracle or a savior.
Richard III lost his crown and his life on Bosworth field, because he hoped, depended upon Lord Stanley riding in to his rescue. He did not, he just kept his troops on the sidelines and let the scene play out.
Daniel,I enjoy the give and take you have with William,but I tend to think William has a point. Do you really think Trump listens to the courts. He has been thumbing his nose @ the lower courts for many months.
Pure surrendipity, my TV channel is set to Democracy Now, Ch 269, Dish.
I am looking at a woman hold a sign "Defend Democracy:It's time for a general strike".
Amen brother Ben, time to stoop pussying around with law suits that are overturned by appellate court or Supreme Court
I will say this much the "establishment" wants us to go to court, they want us to be law abiding citizens as they shackle leg and neck irons around us.
Why aren't they in jail? Oh, I forgot. There were white guys as part of that group, so they must have been forgiven by our white criminal President. What I asked weeks ago ... doesn't anyone remember how to spell ASSASSINATION yet?
Daniel,I think you know that these court ordered damages rarely if ever get paid. How about the victims @ Sandy Hook and their suit against Alex Jones from 2012.?
Do we really think the rioters on 1/6 will ever pay the balance of the $3 million dollars?
This published propaganda is something tangible that we can use to teach. The evidence will never be erased. This is not the Epstein Files that you can redact and hold back.
The truth was told on the Senate floor. The footage was shown around the world. The Psychopath and his Cult----what a sad sickening freak show they put on that day.
Respect and remembrance for all the protectors of January 6th. The rest of us know what a peaceful protest looks like. We are doing them regularly now. See you in the streets.
I agree that promoting this on the White House site as official American history as per our government is nothing short of heinous. The fix was in shortly after 1/6. I recall a walk my husband and I took with another couple in 2021. She is pro-Constitution, pro-democracy and pro-rule of law. He is MAGA (still seems to be). Frankly, I don't know how she can stand it, but in their personal lives and with his friends you won't find an apparently kinder, or more generous individual and it blows the mind that a man can treat others with decency and respect in daily life and condone sadistic MAGA cruelty, and to top that, his family hails from a South American country and he is dark skinned. Go figure. Anyway, she revealed that he had asked her if she "still believed J6 was an insurrection." The fix was in and fast. Now, they want to control the information environment to erase any accurate and truthful telling of J6.
You mean like the genocide in Gaza that you've ignored? That must have never happened. Or Biden's progressive dementia that was obvious in the 2020 debates? You told me that was a stutter. Or Putin's deathly illness a couple of years back? He didn't look too bad to me but you said he was at death's door. Or Hillary Clinton being a "brilliant" Secretary of State? Last I heard she was cackling over her illegal assassination of Gaddafi in Libya. I could go on but what's the use?
Honestly, you can leave the tired and overworked accusation that Biden was riddled with dementia and it was hidden from us. Just ask yourself how the nation fared under 4 years of his leadership when 2 of the years were stymied by a MAGA controlled Congress and we were trying to recover from both 4 years of Trump and Covid. If the Biden administration had sunk our nation further into turmoil, then you might have a basis to float your claim (which is a MAGA talking point drilled into us by the likes of Fox News). If our country was indeed placed on a road to recovery, to repairing MAGA damage both nationally and internationally, then I would suggest that this propaganda is irrelevant and likely damaging. An administration is not (believe it or not) singularly one person. We do not have a king or a dictator, as per our Constitution. A good leader appoints qualified, knowledgeable advisors and LISTENS to their advice. A good leader is as good as his/her advisors. Just take a gander at the incompetence in the Trump Cabinet. People with no expertise are deliberately appointed to their positions and the president seems to believe that he is able to make sound decisions on any area of expertise. If you fall for that, while rekindling the MAGA propaganda surrounding Biden, you are naive, at a minimum.
IMO Biden, who was a real whole person with empathy, installed brilliant people into cabinet positions. Except Garland as AG. felon 47 should not have been on the ballot!!
I would say anyone who could not see Biden's disorientation to person place or time culminating in a debate where he was unable to answer the bast majority of questions has a place in the delusional MAGA sphere. Here is a neoliberal news source, a major Biden supporter, that ultimately had to admit the reality of what was in front of our faces. https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/05/biden-original-sin-decline/682818/
Ah, the Putin shill shows his agenda again.Eh Boris
Gaza is so yesterday, Biden hasn't been president for a year
And you fool no one, you don't give a shit about Gaza, it is just a whipping boy, a tool for you to use. Putin is your real interest. Are you a volunteer shill, a paid shill or are you just an old Marxist who has, quite correctly, transferred his sentiments and loyalty the USSR to Putin.
Gaza is "so yesterday." That one is going to get plastered all over social media with your name on it. What a sick, grotesque individual you are, and you have no clue as to my involvement in activism about Gaza (which started two weeks after October 7th). Gaza is the intersectional issue of our day, but I don't think I'm the one who doesn't care about it. As a Jew who has heard derogatory statements about Palestinians all my life, I ahve had enough of their propaganda and your verbal abuse. It just proves what Thom Hartmann has become and the sociopaths he now appeals to. I would love to meet you in person some day and have a direct conversation, just to see what kind of monster would say "Gaza is so yesterday." I suppose the Red Scare is so today....
I don't care what is plastered all over socialmedia with my name on it. This genocide in Gaza thing is indeed so yesterday, and all you are doing is trying to milk it with progressives, because you know that they are soft targets and you cynically use Gaza to insinuate yourself into their psyche and turn it towards Putin and his objective.
If you think that I have belabored you with verbal abuse, just wait I haven't gotten started yet.
Anyway, I don't believe that you really care about Gaza, it is just a tool that you use to infiltrate minds and memes.
What you really care about is playing safety for Putin, and Gaza is just your tool.
And ‘they’ concerning my case, dragged dementia Joe to the church for Carolyn Kennedy Schlossberg’s daughter’s funeral making a media statement aimed at me with her image carrying her little granddaughter. Is Joe cognitively viable or is he only making an appearance to carry on his vendetta against me?
Don’t get me wrong, I too grieve for this family’s loss, as a mother, a woman and one who empathizes.
Thank you Carol for rational discourse. The monsters Thom has created are indeed a mirror image of the MAGA madness that fixates Americans are external threats so they ignore those that are right in front of their face. I believe they are using Joe or anyone popular with right-wing liberals to make certain their propaganda machine is not infiltrated by truth. As you probably know, like the Republican Party the Democratic Party and its loyalists have a vendetta against the truth.
I like this quote, because when Orwell wrote it, it was true.
Having a phone camera in your pocket that is connected to rest of the world has changed this. The 'controllers" generate AI slop, bots, and trolls to try to change perceptions. Too many people independently reporting and refusing to be controlled.
God DAMN McConnell, Hawley, Cruz, Graham, and the other cowards who were terrified on Jan 6, were crying crocodile tears and moaning and groaning AND THEN VOTED NOT GUILTY at the trial. It's because of THEM that we're sliding into our version of the Third Reich. The biggest disaster of Jan 6 was that NONE of them were attacked, hurt, disabled by the rioters. If they were, POS would be sitting in a dark hole for the rest of his disgusting life.
AND I say the 4 years the Democratic Leadership could have shown the courage. Merrick "without merit" Garland should have been fired by Joe Biden! Jack Smith should have been on the case right away. How does the public know the answers? Those in power do. I'm pissed it will happen again, history Rhymes like Xplisset writes on Substack.
From Common Cause to me.
"Daniel, we just learned that the U.S. Senate could vote as soon as TOMORROW on reining in Trump’s unconstitutional and reckless military actions in Venezuela.
"I’m writing to you because your senators urgently need to hear from you today. Take action to tell Senator Rick Scott and Senator Ashley Moody – vote YES on S.J. Res. 98 to defend our lives, our Constitution, and our national interests."
And so I did.
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S.J. Res. 98 is a joint resolution from the 119th Congress (2025-2026) that proposes to direct the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela unless explicitly authorized by Congress.
Status and Details
Sponsor: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
Introduced: December 3, 2025
Latest Action: The resolution was read twice in the Senate and referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on December 3, 2025.
Status: It currently has the status of "Introduced". It has not been passed into law.
Key Provisions
S.J. Res. 98 would require the President to end the use of U.S. Armed Forces in hostilities in Venezuela unless authorized by Congress through a declaration of war or specific authorization. The resolution notes this does not affect the U.S. ability to defend itself from attack. More details are available in the full text of the resolution and on Congress.gov. It's important to note that a different S.J. Res. 98 from the 118th Congress dealt with a different matter.
There's also potential votes in the House and Senate about extending ACA subsidies for 3 years.
Already. passed the House.
It's maddening enough that Trump speaks in the absolute reverse of reality, when he does speak to reality at all. But what makes it even worse is when all his staffers and sycophantic supporters echo and amplify this same reversal of reality. Every day is upside-down day, and it's hard to deal with, when there's an avalanche of these lies in every sentence.
I grew up being told that as a kid George Washington admitted to his father that he chopped down the cherry tree because he could not tell a lie. I wonder what kids think nowadays when their president lies on a daily basis....
Not a true story. Mason Locke Weams his biographer fabricated the story to make Washington look honest. Ah the power of myth.
I mean what and who they were as leaders.
Nonetheless that's what I grew up believing. I would love to see a trump biographer dare make up a story demonstrating his honest....
He or she couldn’t make Trump look honest. The power of the myth that persists is powerful as with all of us who credited Washington by the cherry tree story with not being able to lie.
Joseph Campbell tells us how the the power of the myth operates in eloquent prose.
I think even a Trump biographer could write his legacy to look like he was a strong leader therefore once again readers will need to find out for themselves whether or not the biography is true.
Exactly what I am doing now, comparing the pilgrims and puritan leaders biographical accounts ( and auto biographical) with historical accounts of what who they weee as leaders. My head is swimming with all the accounts.
In light of Venezuela, Greenland threats, and the WH Jan 6 propaganda, no Republican in Congress can deny that they represent a fascist regime that is actively tearing down our democracy- even if most MAGAs remain clueless and devoted to their Fuhrer. Senator Graham and Secty of State Rubio were salivating at our unprovoked declarations of intention to annex Greenland and Cuba next.
There is no denying what Trump said yesterday is true. If the Democrats take back the Congress this November, they will impeach him and his lawless rabble. So he is once again inciting his followers to violence, lying, cheating, and stealing to stay in power on the anniversary of Jan 6. That is why he is painting halos on his insurrectionist thugs - not to worry, I will pardon you again.
If voters do not take this threat to their cushy American lives, they can live out their lives with the same psychological burden that pre-War Germans had to live with the remainder of their lives - they sat back and let evil triumph over good by keeping a demented old madman in office.
With three (3) votes we can flip the House this week.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/republican-rep-doug-lamalfa-of-california-dies-reducing-gops-narrow-control-of-the-house-to-218-213
Alas, not enough to dump the Trump. But encouraging, nonetheless.
Enough to get started. With the subpoena power, hold hearings. With the power of the purse.....
Let's hope.
The Jan 6 civil damage suits are still ongoing and have not been dismissed. They are currently pending before U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, with a primary focus on determining whether Trump is immune from the lawsuits based on claims his actions were part of his official presidential duties.
Multiple lawsuits filed by Democratic lawmakers and U.S. Capitol Police officers (including Officer James Blassingame, Officer Sidney Hemby, and others) have been consolidated into one case before Judge Mehta.
Immunity Issue: The central legal battle is over presidential immunity. Trump's lawyers argue his speech on January 6 was an "official" act and therefore protected from civil suit. The plaintiffs argue his actions were "unofficial" campaign-related efforts to remain in power.
Appellate Rulings: In prior rulings, both Judge Mehta and a federal appeals court rejected Trump's broad immunity claims, finding sufficient indication his speech was related to his re-election campaign, not his official duties. The appellate court, however, sent the case back to Judge Mehta for more fact-finding on the "official vs. unofficial act" distinction.
Fact-Finding Underway: For the past year, both sides have been collecting evidence and taking depositions to build their arguments on the nature of Trump's actions that day, including who funded and organized the rally where he spoke.
Recent Developments: With Trump having returned to the presidency in January 2025, his Justice Department has attempted to intervene in the cases, arguing the U.S. government, not Trump personally, should be the defendant if his actions are deemed official. Judge Mehta has scheduled arguments on this and other issues, with a goal to rule on the immunity question by the summer.
Officer Jeffrey Smith's Widow and Estate: A federal jury in June 2025 ordered David Walls-Kaufman, a man who assaulted Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith during the riot, to pay $500,000 in damages. The award includes punitive and compensatory damages to his widow, Erin Smith, and an additional amount to the officer's estate for pain and suffering. Officer Smith died by suicide nine days after the attack, and the lawsuit centered on the lasting harm caused by the assault.
Court-Ordered Restitution: Hundreds of rioters convicted in criminal cases were ordered to pay restitution for physical damages to the U.S. Capitol building and costs associated with police injuries. As of summer 2024, only about 15% of the nearly $3 million in estimated cleanup and repair costs had been paid by the offenders.
All these litigation successes, yet there he sits, acting like a dictator, with no restraints., and he is getting more outrageous and bold, every day that passes. He has not only told us and poven that the Constitution is a dead letter, but now he has thumbed his nose at the UN and is threatening to invade a NATO country, thus destroying NATO. There are no provisions in NATO for a situation when a member country attacks a member country. Putin is overjoyed with Krasnov, a worthwhile investment.
But not to worry, just a few more successful law suits and all will be set right again.
...as soon as we find our country again, and remember what America used to be!
That is the problem I remember, I remember the stultifying 50's and 60's when women, gays and blacks and browns weren't even human. And for a short span of maybe 25 years, there was breathing room, until the forces of reaction found themselves angry and fearful, that they were no longer top dog in the pack and set about reclaiming power and control, and found just the avatar to do it.
Nothing lasts, success goes to the head, empires and kingdoms fall, but the problem is that there are the millions and generations that have to suffer before they do.
Life is a work in progress. You are resigned to defeat.
You are so00000 resentful.
No Daniel, Forlorn hope is the enemy of survival. I am resigned to survival and to fighting, resistance. Not pretending that the law and institutions will save us, the proof is in your face,they won't because they are dead.
Toot your law suits all you want, but think Venezuela, think ICE, think concentration camps.
I am not a defeatist, I just don't believe, and for good reason (I have eyes, ears and a thinking brain),that the law and the institutions are going to save us, so we need action, resistance, boycott, withhold our energy and support. It is either that or an armed uprising,and I am no fool, that one we will lose.
I’m definitely not ready to give up hope for a new and honest administration, that is, if we get honest elections and results, and I do understand the observance of cycles in our human history.
In the end, it’s up to all of us, collectively. I also believe that’s a problem since our population is so diverse and at so many levels of understanding, interest in facts, and desire to learn from our past. In the end, how many of us are truly willing to stand up for what they believe in? How many have a vision of what they really want, other than immediate survival? I guess we’ll see.
I am just now coming to truly understand how diverse our population is.
For instance I am of the Silent Generation, I grew up with the boomers, as did Gen X, so there is overlap, but millennials or Gen Y and Z are a different world, the world that they inherited, does not resemble the world I, boomers or even Gen x inherited.
Nor are groups monolithic, I was gobsmacked to find out that very significant numbers of black and Hispanic men voted for Trump, given that the Republican party is full on racist and xenophobic and thinks Latino's and blacks are a social problem
I am more non plussed learning that Peter Thiel, Steve Bessent, and even JD Vance are gay or at least bisexual and are a force behind Trump and the Republican party, which is notoriously homophobic.
There is hope and there are expectations. I keep thinking of the girl who crawls into a 55 gal drum, the man that literally digs his own grave, the person who walks up the scaffold. If I am going to get killed, then they are going to have work for it, I'll be damned if I'll make their job easier.
As I said before hope is a drug, an anesthetic, and so long as you have hope, you will do nothing, and hope for a miracle or a savior.
Richard III lost his crown and his life on Bosworth field, because he hoped, depended upon Lord Stanley riding in to his rescue. He did not, he just kept his troops on the sidelines and let the scene play out.
Daniel,I enjoy the give and take you have with William,but I tend to think William has a point. Do you really think Trump listens to the courts. He has been thumbing his nose @ the lower courts for many months.
Pure surrendipity, my TV channel is set to Democracy Now, Ch 269, Dish.
I am looking at a woman hold a sign "Defend Democracy:It's time for a general strike".
Amen brother Ben, time to stoop pussying around with law suits that are overturned by appellate court or Supreme Court
I will say this much the "establishment" wants us to go to court, they want us to be law abiding citizens as they shackle leg and neck irons around us.
William,so right. Thanks,I don't get Democracy now on Comcast.
Why aren't they in jail? Oh, I forgot. There were white guys as part of that group, so they must have been forgiven by our white criminal President. What I asked weeks ago ... doesn't anyone remember how to spell ASSASSINATION yet?
Daniel,I think you know that these court ordered damages rarely if ever get paid. How about the victims @ Sandy Hook and their suit against Alex Jones from 2012.?
Do we really think the rioters on 1/6 will ever pay the balance of the $3 million dollars?
That's bullshit.
History is no longer written by the victors.....
This published propaganda is something tangible that we can use to teach. The evidence will never be erased. This is not the Epstein Files that you can redact and hold back.
The truth was told on the Senate floor. The footage was shown around the world. The Psychopath and his Cult----what a sad sickening freak show they put on that day.
Respect and remembrance for all the protectors of January 6th. The rest of us know what a peaceful protest looks like. We are doing them regularly now. See you in the streets.
Dozens were convicted. More pled guilty.
The civil suits were delayed but....
Those convictions will not be supressed in civil suits.
Daniel,how many of those convicted were pardoned?
Still stand responsible for damages.
For real, thanks for making lemonade out of the lemon.
I don't think peaceful demonstrations are doing anything, what we need is a general strike.
I agree that promoting this on the White House site as official American history as per our government is nothing short of heinous. The fix was in shortly after 1/6. I recall a walk my husband and I took with another couple in 2021. She is pro-Constitution, pro-democracy and pro-rule of law. He is MAGA (still seems to be). Frankly, I don't know how she can stand it, but in their personal lives and with his friends you won't find an apparently kinder, or more generous individual and it blows the mind that a man can treat others with decency and respect in daily life and condone sadistic MAGA cruelty, and to top that, his family hails from a South American country and he is dark skinned. Go figure. Anyway, she revealed that he had asked her if she "still believed J6 was an insurrection." The fix was in and fast. Now, they want to control the information environment to erase any accurate and truthful telling of J6.
My concern, when will the insurrection come to substack?
It’s a Groucho Marx presidency. “Who you gonna believe Me or your lying eyes?”
You mean like the genocide in Gaza that you've ignored? That must have never happened. Or Biden's progressive dementia that was obvious in the 2020 debates? You told me that was a stutter. Or Putin's deathly illness a couple of years back? He didn't look too bad to me but you said he was at death's door. Or Hillary Clinton being a "brilliant" Secretary of State? Last I heard she was cackling over her illegal assassination of Gaddafi in Libya. I could go on but what's the use?
Honestly, you can leave the tired and overworked accusation that Biden was riddled with dementia and it was hidden from us. Just ask yourself how the nation fared under 4 years of his leadership when 2 of the years were stymied by a MAGA controlled Congress and we were trying to recover from both 4 years of Trump and Covid. If the Biden administration had sunk our nation further into turmoil, then you might have a basis to float your claim (which is a MAGA talking point drilled into us by the likes of Fox News). If our country was indeed placed on a road to recovery, to repairing MAGA damage both nationally and internationally, then I would suggest that this propaganda is irrelevant and likely damaging. An administration is not (believe it or not) singularly one person. We do not have a king or a dictator, as per our Constitution. A good leader appoints qualified, knowledgeable advisors and LISTENS to their advice. A good leader is as good as his/her advisors. Just take a gander at the incompetence in the Trump Cabinet. People with no expertise are deliberately appointed to their positions and the president seems to believe that he is able to make sound decisions on any area of expertise. If you fall for that, while rekindling the MAGA propaganda surrounding Biden, you are naive, at a minimum.
IMO Biden, who was a real whole person with empathy, installed brilliant people into cabinet positions. Except Garland as AG. felon 47 should not have been on the ballot!!
Like former Raytheon board member Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin who signed off on billions in contracts to his former employer?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/politics/biden-book-original-sin-age
https://apnews.com/article/biden-memory-age-special-counsel-report-doj-f4232bc8316e556ed467185b67c3e0a8
I would say anyone who could not see Biden's disorientation to person place or time culminating in a debate where he was unable to answer the bast majority of questions has a place in the delusional MAGA sphere. Here is a neoliberal news source, a major Biden supporter, that ultimately had to admit the reality of what was in front of our faces. https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/05/biden-original-sin-decline/682818/
Ah, the Putin shill shows his agenda again.Eh Boris
Gaza is so yesterday, Biden hasn't been president for a year
And you fool no one, you don't give a shit about Gaza, it is just a whipping boy, a tool for you to use. Putin is your real interest. Are you a volunteer shill, a paid shill or are you just an old Marxist who has, quite correctly, transferred his sentiments and loyalty the USSR to Putin.
Gaza is "so yesterday." That one is going to get plastered all over social media with your name on it. What a sick, grotesque individual you are, and you have no clue as to my involvement in activism about Gaza (which started two weeks after October 7th). Gaza is the intersectional issue of our day, but I don't think I'm the one who doesn't care about it. As a Jew who has heard derogatory statements about Palestinians all my life, I ahve had enough of their propaganda and your verbal abuse. It just proves what Thom Hartmann has become and the sociopaths he now appeals to. I would love to meet you in person some day and have a direct conversation, just to see what kind of monster would say "Gaza is so yesterday." I suppose the Red Scare is so today....
I don't care what is plastered all over socialmedia with my name on it. This genocide in Gaza thing is indeed so yesterday, and all you are doing is trying to milk it with progressives, because you know that they are soft targets and you cynically use Gaza to insinuate yourself into their psyche and turn it towards Putin and his objective.
If you think that I have belabored you with verbal abuse, just wait I haven't gotten started yet.
Anyway, I don't believe that you really care about Gaza, it is just a tool that you use to infiltrate minds and memes.
What you really care about is playing safety for Putin, and Gaza is just your tool.
And ‘they’ concerning my case, dragged dementia Joe to the church for Carolyn Kennedy Schlossberg’s daughter’s funeral making a media statement aimed at me with her image carrying her little granddaughter. Is Joe cognitively viable or is he only making an appearance to carry on his vendetta against me?
Don’t get me wrong, I too grieve for this family’s loss, as a mother, a woman and one who empathizes.
Gaza is not ‘so yesterday’ by any means.
Thank you Carol for rational discourse. The monsters Thom has created are indeed a mirror image of the MAGA madness that fixates Americans are external threats so they ignore those that are right in front of their face. I believe they are using Joe or anyone popular with right-wing liberals to make certain their propaganda machine is not infiltrated by truth. As you probably know, like the Republican Party the Democratic Party and its loyalists have a vendetta against the truth.
“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”
George Orwell, 1984
I like this quote, because when Orwell wrote it, it was true.
Having a phone camera in your pocket that is connected to rest of the world has changed this. The 'controllers" generate AI slop, bots, and trolls to try to change perceptions. Too many people independently reporting and refusing to be controlled.
1984 on steroids
The pigs in Animal Farm rewrote the rules on the barn wall whenever they needed to change the other animals' minds. Orwell saw this coming.
Thanks for making us aware of this!
The White House's website deserves a good cyberattack to correct its gaslighting of MAGA zealots. Just sayin'. (Not suggesting, though.)
Who is now "Public Enemy #1"?
We who do not worship the Don, are public enemies.
Oh hell no.
This is the first US administration ('regime' is oh so tempting) to take 1984 and Animal Farm as how-to manuals.