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Kathy Hughes's avatar

Trump is actually calling others what he is. A whole lot of Scott Adams (Dilbert) groupies are calling Democrats the same thinks and worse, but the reality is every Republican accusation is a confession.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

I had to look it up.

Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, is a prominent MAGA influencer and has been an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump since the 2016 election cycle.

Adams has frequently used his online platforms, including his YouTube show Real Coffee with Scott Adams, to voice his political opinions and support for the former president. His alignment with the MAGA movement and his increasingly controversial statements on social and political issues, particularly those concerning race, led to widespread condemnation and the cancellation of the Dilbert comic strip by hundreds of newspapers and its distributor in early 2023.

In late 2025, Adams publicly appealed to Donald Trump for help in accessing an experimental cancer drug, and Trump responded that he was "on it".

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Nov 25, 2025 — “My life expectancy is maybe this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer,” he said. Yahoo·Adam Downer.

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Scott Adams' (#87) current view on Trump? : r/samharris - Reddit

Dec 27, 2022 — Decoding the Gurus did a fantastic breakdown of Scott Adams and all of the dishonest rhetorical techniques he uses. He...

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

Scott Adams will one day regret his support for the most toxic person to ever serve as president.

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Mitzi Schwarz's avatar

In psychological terms, it’s called projection. We project our own belief systems onto others and to events around us, be they hyper-local or worldwide, and everything in between, to one extent or another. That is, until we learn to recognize that we have that inner reality, that belief system that shapes how we react and respond to everything. Until we have that realisation, it’s all but impossible to see anything or anyone around us objectively; we think that everything is “about us”, or is happening “to us”. Trump is so narcissistically wrapped up in himself that he’s unable to look at anything or anybody as anything other than an extension of his own highly warped and damaged self. If he’s calling people “scum”, that tells you what he thinks of himself. It would be much easier for me to feel compassion for him if he weren’t so capable and insistent on bringing down America and the world.

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

It definitely is, and the Republicans have made an art form of it.

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docrhw Weil's avatar

Unfortunately from what I saw substitute teaching for years in what was classified as a very good school district is that a lot of parents have abrogated learning and discipline to the teachers. And the teachers are overwhelmed by how many students they must manage, and how limited their control of the classrooms really is. And the pandemic certainly didn't help to raise a generation of disciplined and focused kids either.

Of course people have been worried about how kids grow up since the ancient Greeks thought writing would destroy oral traditions; dime novels, movies, radio, television, computer games, all have been blamed for "weakening" them. But throughout all this time we had certain commons of civility. Losing that, not to mention the generally poor teaching of civics, gives them poorer futures, not to mention our inability to have a long-term functioning democracy.

I will add that their attention spans seem to be shot. Fast paced games, instantly finding information (accurate or not) and quickly writing assignments online do not encourage sitting down and thinking out problems. If there is no patience, then everything becomes fleeting entertainment. So Trump's antics fit right into this, and many (by no means all) young adults will model their behavior on what they see, which isn't necessarily much better at home. (These days a lot seem to communicate by screaming.)

So if people have kids or grandchildren, they need to spend real time with them. Talk to them about what they are learning, and model good behavior. And help them think for themselves. But with most of the readers here I think that I’m preaching to the choir.

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Ron Gardner's avatar

Speaking of attention spans being shot, I think you might find the book "The Siren's Call" by Chris Hayes (msnbc host/podcaster/author) very interesting. It's about how our "attention" has become a commodity and a variety of tech giants are at war over how best to monetize our attention. Think about it. How much of your attention is diverted from human interactions, by the smart phone in your pocket, the computer you're on right now. How often to you see people walking without looking up from the device in their hand or look around a restaurant to see a table where everyone seated there is looking at a smart phone instead of each other. Have you seen children in classrooms fixated on a smart phone instead of the teacher? :) Seriously, I think you'd enjoy the book.

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David's avatar

Thanks Ron,great piece and glad you brought to our attention,what everyone should know.

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William Farrar's avatar

The ancient Greeks, though the founders of Democracy, were elitists, and thus authoritarians, with the elite running the government for their benefit and at the expense of the demos.

The elite, the elect, are hostile to public education, the more educated the people, especially with their ability to read and write, the more tenuous their rule.

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docrhw Weil's avatar

Exactly! Heinlein was right when he said the only crime in every place and every time was telling young people the truth.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

Of course, that's nutsy koo koo....

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William Farrar's avatar

?????

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Gordon Berry's avatar

The Lame Duck Felon is an insult to all lame ducks and all felons.

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William Farrar's avatar

Is he really a lame duck. Steve Bannon has said that they are working on keeping him in power, and that does not require an election. His is a regime not an administration, administrations are elected, regimes are forever until overturned.

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G2's avatar

I agree William. How might the regime try to fix midterms ... if we have them at all.

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Disgruntled Gardener's avatar

January 20 No Kings rally —everywhere. Bring everyone you know.🙏

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Clayton James Conway's avatar

All Krasnov wants is attention which is never bad according to business ideology. Infantile behavior is what we have come to expect from Repubs and what we have received. I wonder if the long term damage will be so great as to be sufficient to destroy the party.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

1. We wuz screwed.

2. The enemy is MAGA.

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James Costich's avatar

The class of 2026 has also experienced 10 yrs… since they were 7yrs old… of Democrats capitulation to authoritarian regime. Don’t forget that their indoctrination into mistaking brutality for strength includes that lack of opposition. The schoolyard bully knows what he is doing is awful and he escalated it until someone has the guts to stop him.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

More blame the victim crap.

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William Farrar's avatar

Victim? When you don't fight. When you vye for the same donor dollars as Republicans,, When you sideline real democrats, the fighters, like Bernie, Hogg, AOC, when you back conservatives like Joe Kennedy II, against real progressives, like Sen Markey of MA., when you won;t release the 2024 autopsy.

The Democratic party needs a shake up an overhaul, a new direction, otherwise they will continue to be a party of losers.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

King of crap.

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William Farrar's avatar

Yeh, be a blind loyalist, defend the indefensible and we will be under the thumb of a dictatorship forever.

The Democratic party as it stands now is not a victim, but an instrument of its own and our destruction.

This real life, not a sporting event, it is not rah rah rah for the home team.

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Sir Okie Doke's avatar

Donald is clearly mentally ill. And that tells us that 77.3 million Americans who voted for him are, to some degree, sick, too. The idiot in the WH is just the whitehead atop a mountain of pus.

The Ds need to focus on the public's mental health. Because 60% of the nation needs more than therapy, they need more than a pill. And we can neither kick them in the seat of their pants, nor can we whack them upside their addled pates. [Though we'd like to.]

What R cultists really need is: Serenity NOW !!! [Maybe a vat of Crown Royal?]

Go ahead and VOTE !!!

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William Farrar's avatar

When I first heard the term Trump Derangement Syndrome, I thought it was a synonym for MAGA, and I still do.

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Carole Backman's avatar

The R's who are the loyalists to trump/dumpty dumpty will be housed in one of the warehousesn dumpty is planning to use to house immigrants waiting for deportation and used as a treatment center to learn the Twelve Steps of Recovery. 98% of Society is addicted to one thing or another not just Alocohol and Drugs according to Anne-Wilson-Shaef 1987

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G.P. Baltimore's avatar

The idiot in charge doesn’t shock me as much as the fact that people in this country are still willing to follow this blatant grifter. He doesn’t now or ever did keep up the facade of a leader of the richest and most powerful country in the world.

He and his crew just saw a mark and sleazed in with a story of how we weren’t great any more and he would make us great again. Everyone at this point should understand he was bought and paid for by a group of individuals that are beyond ruthless.

This whole nightmare is sensationalistic craziness attempting to trigger the most base fears and emotions we as a people harbor in order to divide and pit one side against another.

The fact that this bunch in office is still there and has followers at all, or ever did is what’s really shocking. That we have not collectively and en masse risen up, to say no and impeach is also what’s shocking.

We need to ask ourselves why we need these essays in a closed area of subscription to be indignant, humiliated, and afraid for what lies ahead because of this false and contrived division to our Union?

It says a lot about our collective intelligence as a country but it also says a lot about our collective morality, too. It’s as if these followers are saying, “We know he’s a con artist and convicted criminal but let’s see what he can get us.”Is this our collective true colors as a people?

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

I think his following is overstated, over rated and over feared.

We've always had a resentlful underclass. I personally think the Russain/Krasnov psy ops operation was victorius in 2016 and 2024.

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MaryPat's avatar

Agree.

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Rick N's avatar

His vocabulary is shrinking as he declines. His has the perseverative ideation of someone with dementia lashing out with anger at his lost facility. Unfortunately, this anger and language has terrorist overtones.

Some of these recent screeds seem to have a polish that doesn’t completely fit with his thought processes when speaking. Is one of his minions, such as Cheung who can match Trump in written vitriol, polishing the more hateful post to hide the cognitive decline?

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Hal Brown's avatar

Once again Thom and I use AI to depict Trump in similar ways. Today I also used him as an evil Santa in "If only Trump would have taken a page from Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol' and be redeemed like Scrooge was on Christmas Eve night." here>>> https://halbrown.substack.com/p/if-only-trump-would-have-taken-a

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Ron Gardner's avatar

Yes, I do have a comment. With reference to the last words - " if we care about the country our children will inherit, we can’t let this moral vandalism to go unanswered."

Almost ever day for the past year, I've read that same thing or something very similar from dozens of pundits in print and broadcast, politicians at all levels from city to federal, and most of my friends on social media. And yet, he still sits in our White House, continuing his demented rants full of hate and anger. Every day.

Apparently, there is no mechanism for stopping him or surely it would've been stopped by now.

I'm 80 years old so I won't be around to see all the lingering effects of this monster's actions and the millions of people who support him. I will leave a letter of apology to my children and grandchildren for what my generation allowed to happen to this once great nation.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

You must be new.... Jerry Weiss scenario. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/

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Tom Halstead's avatar

The most alarming thing about POSOTUS is his appeal to the morbidly ignorant, the morbidly cynical, the morbidly derelict corporate media.

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Robert B. Elliott's avatar

Psycopathy is precisely the correct term here. We are dealing with a leader and almost everyone of his minions who are literally insane - not sane, not rational, not capable of the most fundamental human reasoning and emotion. The failure to focus on that fact and to continually treat Trump as a president rather than as a crazy lunatic who used subterfuge and smoke and mirrors to achieve power is his ticket. First of all, he is a pedophile, which is its own brand of insane. That is where attention should be focused now because that is the one thing his supporters on the right are willing to dump him over. The legal proof is not buried deeply, and a legal standard of proof is not necessary, once enough circumstantial and incriminating evidence of collusion with Epstein is established. The Epstein connection must be pounded and reinforced and repeated incessantly and must drown out any other topic or distraction. He raped under-age girls. It is a fact. Evidence is available and stories are very familiar. He is sick and he is unfit. Repeat after me; Trump is a child rapist. He belongs behind bars for that and dozens of other reasons. He is a grave danger to all of us and our Republic. Make a big beautiful sign and march every time you get a chance.

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Oregon Larry's avatar

Yes, I've been thinking/worrying for a while about, not just what it's doing to our kids which is terrible enough, but what the unholy example of hate and juvenile taunting is doing to our entire culture. I see daily on TV language that I would been sent to my room for growing up. We have become an "unserious people", unworthy of our former world leadership role.

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Tomonthebeach's avatar

As Prof. Paxton and other experts on fascism have pointed out, fascists have no interest in governing - only ruling. Trump's rage is focused on people who undermine his rule with laws passed to support governing. He is enraged because even as a deranged, senile old man, he senses that his rise to be the next Caesar is fading. Whenever your hand-picked sycophants are turning on you, it is a clear sign of failure.

Like his idol, Adolf, Trump's reaction is to go on the offensive. He is hastening the expansion of his concentration camps across America, supposedly necessary to house illegals for a few days until deportation. Trump and Noem are building ICE into his Gestapo, who are already turning on American citizens, and putting us in prison if need be, to shut us up. Even better, if citizens were not born here, revoke their citizenship and send them to gulags overseas.

One thing we need to keep in mind is that Trump is not the Masked Lone Hater. He was re-elected by half of America, and that suggests hatred is now an American norm. While the MAGA haters assert Christian nationalism, it has nothing to do with Christianity.

I live in the most Pro-Trump county in Florida, Brevard. As you drive through working-class neighborhoods with a pickup in every drive, you see thousands of dollars invested in huge inflated snowmen, Santa Clauses, elves, and all sorts of plastic statues and lights everywhere, as if there was a competition. One thing you seldom see anymore is a manger scene. Christ has been replaced by a fictional fat, bearded man in a red outfit invented over 100 years ago by a soft-drink company to proft off of Christ's birthday celebration. Tis the season to be spending, la-la-la-la la... so gimme more!

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

Once upon a time, I tried cases in red neck counties like Brevard.

With an individual voir dire, even bigoted red necks can be persuaded......

Never up, never in.

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Mariantoon's avatar

Thank you Thom Hartmann Team. I suggest we need to view felon 47 as a performer only. He has no interest in governing, no strategy or policy like a politician. IMO We must report on him differently while reminding each other that he is not Normal just deranged, unhinged. 47 only cares about being a "star" on camera and social media serving himself. He is marketing his brand per usual. Others in his cabinet like Stephen Miller, Russell Vought are active in pursuing their political evil project 2025 agenda. The central casting cabinet in felon 47's reality tv show. I'd like more reporting on them if possible. They are acting separately, as mechanism or demolition of government behind "the star of the show" I think it might be better if media focuses on each of these people in power. What's the deal with "little Marco" for example. We have some idea of the shapeshifter JD Vance. Hegseth probably still a drunk. The cabinet people are flawed, let's highlight them. I suggest if 47 is not in the spot light as "the star", it's like any reality show. He may do "you're fired" reality tv script. He doesn't need a reason except he wants the attention. I do think the only attention he doesn't want is his BFF criminal child rape history with Epstein. I guess because of his MAGA base. He has no shame or conscience. Behind closed doors he is yelling at Bondi and Blanche. DOJ slow drip drip "the files" Costing the American People $$. How 47 is torturing Mike Johnson to twist himself into all the lies needs to be highlighted. MTG is right about the speaker. Mike Johnson should be the evil face of Santa in 2025! IMO The pic you have for this post is satisfying 47's ego and his need for attention. He can't be shamed or moved to be good. As Mary Trump says, he can only see himself as GREAT. He is a NIHILIST she said. The last podcast of "Inside Trumps Head" was interesting about felon 47's evolution on tv. He now is the ruler of Fox. Hannity very useful and $$ rewarded. Rupert apparently hates 47 but unable to take him down and the Murdoch family is estranged . But 47 is what gives that network ratings. They need him. I hope independent media continues to grow in viewership and coverage to replace tv which is playing for a viewer of one. So much going on! Independent media and subscribers must force the ratings for this felon 47 reality tv show to plunge.

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