The forces that shaped him didn’t stay in the past: they grew with power, fueling the cruelty and chaos now hitting your wallet, your safety, and America’s place in the world…
Oh well, I guess we have to accept the fact that we are being led by a bunch of drunk frat boys with a real sicko at the helm and Congress allowing it to happen....
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Obviously, POSOTUS and a number of his toadies need to be prosecuted and punished for all of their many, many crimes. And we might regain a scintilla of lost world stature if we then present them, even in absentia, to The Hague.
The absurdity of essentially paying Iran to fight us was bound to happen when we are fighting not for freedom or justice, but to try to prop up our two biggest industries, oil and weapons. In the Middle East, those two industries can get in each other's way a lot.
The Ouroboros, an ancient symbol and entity depicting a serpent or dragon devouring its own tail.
From Heather this morning:
In a frantic attempt to lower oil prices, the administration on Friday lifted sanctions on Iranian oil currently at sea. Iranian oil has been sanctioned since 1979. The lifting of sanctions will enable Iran to sell about 140 million barrels of oil, worth about $14 billion, including to the United States and to China.
National security scholar Phil Gordon, who served as the White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf Region during the Obama administration, posted: “When Obama sent Iran $400m + $1.3bn in interest in 2016 Trump called it ‘insane’ and he and others spent a decade mocking the idea of ‘pallets of cash’ even though it was Iran’s own money, American prisoners were released, courts were likely to require the U.S. payment, and Iran had just agreed to significant and verified reductions and restrictions on its nuclear program for 15+ years.
“Now Trump is giving Iran up to ten times that amount of revenue—one of the most significant measures of sanctions relief provided to the Islamic Republic since its founding—in exchange for marginal and temporary relief from the big increase in oil prices his actions have caused, without any concessions from Tehran, and even as Iran continues to target the United States, its allies, and world oil supplies. No way to read as anything other than desperate recognition of the situation Trump’s own actions have created and the lack of available alternatives for dealing with it.”
On Meet the Press today, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said: “We’re gonna give Iran $14 billion to fund this war with the United States? We’re gonna give Russia billions of dollars to fund their war with Ukraine? We’re literally putting money into the pockets of the very nations that we are fighting right now. We’ve never seen this level of incompetence in war-making in this country’s history.”
We're fighting for oil, weapons, and the reserve currency status that allows the US to pay its bills with debt and keep taxes low for the wealthy elites. Iran had the gall to sell oil to China in yuans instead of dollars.
Are we seeing "spontaneous combustion" igniting the wrath and frustration of the people? Will March 28 be the new "ides of March" day for Trump and company to regret their misdeeds? Only millions of people in the streets will finally shake them up and motivate more of the people with power and influence to flex their muscles and use their power to apply the brakes. The radical reactionary conservatives used one man to terrorize the entire country. Taking him down will leave them flailing and demoralized. He must be the target and the focus of our attention right now. Epstein, illegal war, internal chaos, and interminable grift and graft have to be highlighted and kept front and center. The time to cut off the head of the snake is now. The followers will fold and fade without his constant agitation and prodding.
So, why is he still President?why is he never held accountable for his many crimes against the American people? Why is a pedophile a n felon with a trail of evidence still our president? Why is he still in office after declaring repeatedly that he is going to arrest and imprison Democrats? Why was he pardoned for trying to illegally overturn a fair election in January 2020 ? Page 2 follows …….
A concise summary of our state of affairs that is simply not tolerable so let's not tolerate it. Protect elections. Elect fighters who will 1) defend the Constitution and impeach or prosecute those who do not. 2) End the monopoly of US mass media (print, TV, radio, newspapers, social). 3)make it a federal fraud crime to use mass media to lie to the public for financial gain or political power; 4)allow state citizens to recall their federal officials who do not uphold the constitution and establish a process for localities to appt the House replacement and a statewide process to select a replacement Senator. 5) put federal limits on campaign contributions and eliminate super PACS. 6) require all federal officials to pass a standard test about our system of govt in order to take the oath of office. 7) impeach members of SCOTUS for failure to uphold our laws and constitution. IMO we will not get out of this governance nightmare without all of these changes. If we can change congress in the Midterms, we better move fast.
And now two Canadian pilots are dead because Trump and the Republicans won't fund the air traffic controllers, causing US airports and airspace to be unsafe.
And if I were a Republican, hearing from the President of the United States of America that he wants to imprison Democrats, I would be very concerned. If the Democratic Party members are not safe from attacks by this president, then none of us are safe from his attacks against the American people.
The problem with the truths you tell Thom is this: you make clear that the only solution to this grotesque creature, and probably a goodly number of those around him, is the final one. However that may happen. Not remotely what this country should require or likely can survive, certainly not in anything resembling the America we once were, or thought we were.
Yes, there is November. But that is a long way off, looking at how fast this narcissistic, insecure psychopath is breaking things. A lot of us have zero confidence that IF those elections happen, they will be enough to change things as much as is necessary. Which gets us back to my first paragraph. Full stop.
The GOP and the Supreme Court are 100% responsible for the rise of Trump, the voters should go after every Republican running for office and expose the list of destruction they have created. Of course Trump will steal the election again, as long as the stupid billionaires, oil barons and AIPAC keep giving him unlimited amounts of money and Fox News keeps cheering Trump on. The right wing is buying up the voting machines (I wonder why).
Like Elon Musk said to Tucker Carlson "hacking voting machines is easy". Trump said "Elon knows a lot about voting machines, that is why I won with a landslide".
I blame the weak democrats for the mess we are in, they had 4 years to discredit Trump,
They should have been much more aggressive and exposed his lies, nobody bragged about all Biden's achievements (including. Biden himself). Trump is a master at self promotion and millions of American admire that, they see it as strength.
Trump has overplayed his cards with Iran, he will try to backtrack at some point because he is a coward. Iran is not going to stop, they have lost so much already and know that they cannot trust Trump and Netanyahu. I am worried that this will restart ISIS and suicide bombings.
More than 150 American soldiers have already died since the start of the war (not 8). Our. military basis in the Middle East have been bombed by Iran. Trump has threatened to nuke Iran and North Korea in his first term. The Iranians knew he would come after them again.
Thom, in our lifetimes we have gone from a president whose motto was, "The buck stops here" to one who lives by the Bart Simpson defense, "I didn't do it". American may turn around when enough people have had it with this bunch.
But there are people who will always follow someone who gives them comfort, just as some battered people stay with their abusers. Yesterday I noted several videos by Lucas Bean that describe the psychology of the MAGA movement. This one is short and it seems like a solid picture of who will not be fooled by these thugs and liars. I recommend it. Understanding why we are immune opens the way to explaining those who are not. And perhaps from there a path to reach at least some of them:
BOOM !!! ....drops mic and walks off stage left.....
Thom Hartmann...you bring the truth like a heat seeking Tomahawk Missile....
Oh well, I guess we have to accept the fact that we are being led by a bunch of drunk frat boys with a real sicko at the helm and Congress allowing it to happen....
It's up to us to make them stop him.
No Kings 3.0 is happening nationwide this Saturday, March 28. There will be thousands of rallies across the country. Go here to find one near you. https://www.nokings.org/
If you’re in the DC area, join NOPE Neighbors to march across Memorial Bridge, past the Lincoln Memorial, and on to the Washington Monument. Sign up here to meet us at Memorial Circle near Arlington Cemetery at 10:00 a.m. To stay connected to NOPE during No Kings, and at other protests and vigils in the DMV, sign up for our Signal chat:
Obviously, POSOTUS and a number of his toadies need to be prosecuted and punished for all of their many, many crimes. And we might regain a scintilla of lost world stature if we then present them, even in absentia, to The Hague.
The absurdity of essentially paying Iran to fight us was bound to happen when we are fighting not for freedom or justice, but to try to prop up our two biggest industries, oil and weapons. In the Middle East, those two industries can get in each other's way a lot.
The Ouroboros, an ancient symbol and entity depicting a serpent or dragon devouring its own tail.
From Heather this morning:
In a frantic attempt to lower oil prices, the administration on Friday lifted sanctions on Iranian oil currently at sea. Iranian oil has been sanctioned since 1979. The lifting of sanctions will enable Iran to sell about 140 million barrels of oil, worth about $14 billion, including to the United States and to China.
National security scholar Phil Gordon, who served as the White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf Region during the Obama administration, posted: “When Obama sent Iran $400m + $1.3bn in interest in 2016 Trump called it ‘insane’ and he and others spent a decade mocking the idea of ‘pallets of cash’ even though it was Iran’s own money, American prisoners were released, courts were likely to require the U.S. payment, and Iran had just agreed to significant and verified reductions and restrictions on its nuclear program for 15+ years.
“Now Trump is giving Iran up to ten times that amount of revenue—one of the most significant measures of sanctions relief provided to the Islamic Republic since its founding—in exchange for marginal and temporary relief from the big increase in oil prices his actions have caused, without any concessions from Tehran, and even as Iran continues to target the United States, its allies, and world oil supplies. No way to read as anything other than desperate recognition of the situation Trump’s own actions have created and the lack of available alternatives for dealing with it.”
On Meet the Press today, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said: “We’re gonna give Iran $14 billion to fund this war with the United States? We’re gonna give Russia billions of dollars to fund their war with Ukraine? We’re literally putting money into the pockets of the very nations that we are fighting right now. We’ve never seen this level of incompetence in war-making in this country’s history.”
Trump must go, one way or another.
We're fighting for oil, weapons, and the reserve currency status that allows the US to pay its bills with debt and keep taxes low for the wealthy elites. Iran had the gall to sell oil to China in yuans instead of dollars.
Are we seeing "spontaneous combustion" igniting the wrath and frustration of the people? Will March 28 be the new "ides of March" day for Trump and company to regret their misdeeds? Only millions of people in the streets will finally shake them up and motivate more of the people with power and influence to flex their muscles and use their power to apply the brakes. The radical reactionary conservatives used one man to terrorize the entire country. Taking him down will leave them flailing and demoralized. He must be the target and the focus of our attention right now. Epstein, illegal war, internal chaos, and interminable grift and graft have to be highlighted and kept front and center. The time to cut off the head of the snake is now. The followers will fold and fade without his constant agitation and prodding.
So, why is he still President?why is he never held accountable for his many crimes against the American people? Why is a pedophile a n felon with a trail of evidence still our president? Why is he still in office after declaring repeatedly that he is going to arrest and imprison Democrats? Why was he pardoned for trying to illegally overturn a fair election in January 2020 ? Page 2 follows …….
Thank you!! Wish it were required reading!!
Thanks Thom.
A concise summary of our state of affairs that is simply not tolerable so let's not tolerate it. Protect elections. Elect fighters who will 1) defend the Constitution and impeach or prosecute those who do not. 2) End the monopoly of US mass media (print, TV, radio, newspapers, social). 3)make it a federal fraud crime to use mass media to lie to the public for financial gain or political power; 4)allow state citizens to recall their federal officials who do not uphold the constitution and establish a process for localities to appt the House replacement and a statewide process to select a replacement Senator. 5) put federal limits on campaign contributions and eliminate super PACS. 6) require all federal officials to pass a standard test about our system of govt in order to take the oath of office. 7) impeach members of SCOTUS for failure to uphold our laws and constitution. IMO we will not get out of this governance nightmare without all of these changes. If we can change congress in the Midterms, we better move fast.
And now two Canadian pilots are dead because Trump and the Republicans won't fund the air traffic controllers, causing US airports and airspace to be unsafe.
And if I were a Republican, hearing from the President of the United States of America that he wants to imprison Democrats, I would be very concerned. If the Democratic Party members are not safe from attacks by this president, then none of us are safe from his attacks against the American people.
The problem with the truths you tell Thom is this: you make clear that the only solution to this grotesque creature, and probably a goodly number of those around him, is the final one. However that may happen. Not remotely what this country should require or likely can survive, certainly not in anything resembling the America we once were, or thought we were.
Yes, there is November. But that is a long way off, looking at how fast this narcissistic, insecure psychopath is breaking things. A lot of us have zero confidence that IF those elections happen, they will be enough to change things as much as is necessary. Which gets us back to my first paragraph. Full stop.
The GOP and the Supreme Court are 100% responsible for the rise of Trump, the voters should go after every Republican running for office and expose the list of destruction they have created. Of course Trump will steal the election again, as long as the stupid billionaires, oil barons and AIPAC keep giving him unlimited amounts of money and Fox News keeps cheering Trump on. The right wing is buying up the voting machines (I wonder why).
Like Elon Musk said to Tucker Carlson "hacking voting machines is easy". Trump said "Elon knows a lot about voting machines, that is why I won with a landslide".
I blame the weak democrats for the mess we are in, they had 4 years to discredit Trump,
They should have been much more aggressive and exposed his lies, nobody bragged about all Biden's achievements (including. Biden himself). Trump is a master at self promotion and millions of American admire that, they see it as strength.
We need unity. BLAME REPUBLICANS. We are a minority party.
IMHO we wuz screwed.
Trump has overplayed his cards with Iran, he will try to backtrack at some point because he is a coward. Iran is not going to stop, they have lost so much already and know that they cannot trust Trump and Netanyahu. I am worried that this will restart ISIS and suicide bombings.
More than 150 American soldiers have already died since the start of the war (not 8). Our. military basis in the Middle East have been bombed by Iran. Trump has threatened to nuke Iran and North Korea in his first term. The Iranians knew he would come after them again.
Thom, in our lifetimes we have gone from a president whose motto was, "The buck stops here" to one who lives by the Bart Simpson defense, "I didn't do it". American may turn around when enough people have had it with this bunch.
But there are people who will always follow someone who gives them comfort, just as some battered people stay with their abusers. Yesterday I noted several videos by Lucas Bean that describe the psychology of the MAGA movement. This one is short and it seems like a solid picture of who will not be fooled by these thugs and liars. I recommend it. Understanding why we are immune opens the way to explaining those who are not. And perhaps from there a path to reach at least some of them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQXd7xYJ4JU
Antidote. The majic word is EPSTEIN.